OCR Text |
Show AirlKKICAN FORK CITIZEN J ; ; - . : 1 j v ''iff 1..' 1 1 J-' v v ,11 I, 1 1 I .1 I II, - - - " News Review Events the Insull, Brought Back for 'TbVen Payments i W War" Debts Are Barred Compromise Silver Bill Being Formulated. Bv EDWARD W. PICKARD S A HURL INSULL, once the grand old uiao of public utilities, baa been brought baok boms to be tried for bla alleged alna after hla Ion . period of refuge, In foreign lands. Ilia "prison ship." the Exllona, arrived off Fort Hancock, N. J and Insull was taken off at open aea by the United States coast guard cotter Hudson, which landed him quickly. After an automobile ride to I'rlnceton Junction, tamuel Insull be was put aboard a aboard a train and transported swiftly to Chicago. His son. Sninuel Insull, Jr., bad Wen permitted to join him on the Ex Iloua and accompanied him on tbe trip west. Landing on American soil, Insull appeared to recover his old time confidence. con-fidence. To reporters he said: "1 son In A merles to make the moat Important light of. my life. I am fighting not only for freedom but for complete vindication. I have erred, but. my greatest erroi was In underestimating the effects of the financial panic on American securities, securi-ties, and particularly on the companies com-panies i was trying to build. i worked with all my energy to save these companies. I made mis takes but they were honest mis takes, They were errors in udg snent, but not dishonest msnlpu Is tlons. "Arbitrarily, had been Instruct ed to resign as bead of these companies com-panies whlcb I had built and which 1 bad tried to protect "1 was told that I was do longer needed. Tired from tbe fruitless struggles to save the investment of thousands of men and women, discouraged in my attempts to save the Investments of my friends snd associates as well as everything I -bad. I got out "No charges were brought sgnlnsl me until I bad been away for three months. My return at that time would have further complicated the problems of the reorganisation of the companies. "The whole story hss not yet been told. Too only know the charges of the prosecution. Not one word has been ottered In even feeble defense of me. And It must be obvious that there also is my side of the story. "When It is told In court my Judgment may be discredited but certainly my honesty will be vindicated." vindi-cated." D USSIA has been angered by a ruling of Attorney General Cummlngs snd there Is danger that all the plans for re-establishing trade wltn that country will go awry. Mr. Cummlngs was called on to determine what nations would be barred by the Johnson act from marketing their securities In this country or In sny wsy receiving financial assistance. This he did by snnounclng tbe sis foreign nntlons that are not in default to the United 8tates government on their obllga tlons. These are Finland. Great Jlrltaln, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Latvia Lat-via and Lithuania. Finland has met In full all Installments on Its war debt. The otliera have made token payments on recent Installments. Immediately after the attorney geueral's ruling was made public It was authoritatively stated In Washington that President Roosevelt Roose-velt had decided to accept no more token payments; therefore England and the others that have made such payments will fall Into the default class on June 15, when the next payments are due. Even Finland muy now default. If the nations proffer token payments they may be accepted by the treasury as "on account," but the nations will still be held In default and thus will he shut out under the new Johnson act from obtaining any government loans In the United States. The President will Inform congress, con-gress, it is reported, that he desires no legislation at this time with reelect re-elect to the debt question. Soviet Russia fell In the default Class because It Ignored obllga tlons of the preceding cmirlsl and Kerenisky governments. The czars sold .bonds totaling jXH.Otm.ooo. n America and the brief Kerensky re gime borrowed $187.JOUXK) from the United States trenbury. A IMING directly at the Amerl can Telephone and Telegraph company and the Western Uiilon company, both of which are said to have defied him, Itecorery Administrator Ad-ministrator Johnson made public a drastic code for the wire communication communi-cation Industry prepared by his own staff. Imposition of a -code Is regarded to all Intents the same as writing law for the Industry af feeted, equal In scope to the author lzallon for licensing Industry Nothing Noth-ing like It has been resorted to heretofore. ( ..; of Current World Over Trial, Defends Ilimself- In the telegraph case, with all but one minority group flatly opposed op-posed to any code, the NBA Is pro posing to change long-standing conditions con-ditions and alter the Internal economy econ-omy of tbe Industry on the groand that existing conditions burden commerce and reduce employment A date for bearings was set after which the President was to be asked to take action. Tbe code, If adopted, would deprive de-prive extensive Interests of financial finan-cial advantages amounting to many millions of dollars, the NRA authorities au-thorities declaring these are not fairly held. Among the things It would abolish are: Exclusive rights of tbe Western Union Telegraph company to something like 125,000,-000 125,000,-000 worth of business annually; use by many corporations of private wire circuits leased at figures alleged al-leged to be out of line with regular charges for the same volume of business, and free use of these circuits cir-cuits by clients of the lessees to the tune of millions of dollars worth of words each year. SOME sort of a compromise on silver legislation that will be acceptable ac-ceptable to both the White House and the silver bloc in congress Is likely to be worked out though Senator Sena-tor Borah, who wants outright re-monetixatlon re-monetixatlon of the white metal, thought the 'plan being prepared would not serve. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau Morgen-thau and eight sliver sli-ver senators held prolonged conferences, confer-ences, and all but from Idaho were fairly well satisfied. Senator King of Utah said he hoped for a bill which would nationalize silver bullion bul-lion and provide for the establishment establish-ment of a 25 per cent silver reserve for currency. Probably the meas ure will be mandatory as to policies poli-cies and permissive In leaving to the discretion of the President the means of carrying out those same policies. TO AVOID Impending defeat by the senate, the President withdrew with-drew from its consideration the names of two men he had appointed appoint-ed to office. One was Wlllard L. Thorp who had been made head of the Commerce department's bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. The senate's objection to Mr. Thorp, who has been serving as head of the commerce bureau pending action ac-tion on bis nomination, was based on the fact that he once registered as a Republican In a Massachusetts primary. The other withdrawal was of Rene A. Vlosca as United States attorney at-torney for the Eastern district of Louisiana. He was opposed by Senator Sen-ator Iluey P. Long. ANDREW W. MELLON, the venerable ven-erable and wealthy ex-secretary of the treasury and former ambassador to England, came ont on top In his latest contest with the Department of Justice. Jus-tice. The government govern-ment had accused him of evading his Income taxes and sought his Indictment Indict-ment by a federal grand Jury In Pitta-burgh. Pitta-burgh. However, the grand Jury refused re-fused to return a true bill, declaring A- w- Mellon the charges were without basis. The foreman of the Jury was William Wil-liam Beeson, a bank clerk. Among others on the Jury were five laborers, labor-ers, two farmers, two engineers, two mechanics, two clerks, one plumber, one carpenter, a lumber dealer, and a writer. Mr, Mellon said: "I am of course gratified that I have been exonerated exonerat-ed by a Jury of my fellow citizens. The fact that the grand Jury reached a sound conclusion, notwithstanding not-withstanding the unusual methods pursued In my case. Is proof of the good sense and fairness of the Americnn people." In previous statements Mr. Mellon Mel-lon had charged Attorney General ('ummlngs with playing politics "of the crudest sort," and had set forth at length his Innocence, asserting he had overpaid rather than evaded tils taxes. The finding of the Jury probably ended finally the HfTair, Mr. Cummlngs Cum-mlngs saying the government would not challenge the decision. It may also put an end to the not Infrequent Infre-quent attacks on Mr. Mellon in both liotlspf of Congress. A m IIlMI fl'lnR l)y t V may has come to an end, atxf tfy? routes are being taken over by commercial aviation as fast as the shoit term contracts are let. v "a f - 1 Secretary Morgenthau the gentleman - II MA DRASTIC reorganisation ef the NRA to give the federal government gov-ernment a permanent balance ef power between large and small Industries In-dustries was recommended In the majority report by the Darrow board, whlcb President Roosevelt, decided not to make public In its original form but -referred to three government agencies far preliminary prelimi-nary digesting. a the tfceory that the NRA has shown business Incapable of self-regulation, self-regulation, the 6-to-l majority report re-port proposes to scrap all the present pres-ent code authorities In fsvor of an entirely new set-up In which the federal government, big business and little business have equal voting vot-ing representation. Within tbe NRA Itself there Is growing feeling that It would be better to let up on the extension and enforcement of codes for small and miscellaneous Industries and reduce the NRA policy to co-operative control of hours and wages. Administrator Johnson doesn't like this, and It would also be opposed by the big Industries and organised labor. The President Is waiting. HOW the League of Nations proposes pro-poses to aid China was told In long report, made public by the Nanking government, covering the arrangement made by Dr. Ludwlg Rajchman, representative In China of the league. This plan. It Is supposed, sup-posed, led to Japan's recent statement state-ment of a policy demanding that other nations keep their hands off China. The document was politically political-ly Inocuous. being chiefly the recommendations rec-ommendations of technical advisers advis-ers for projects designed to attract at-tract foreign capital to China and consolidate it as an Independent nation. The list of advisers did not Include any Japanese. The chief . Interest In the report from the standpoint of the -United States, concerned the section devoted to cotton. It shows that China must purchase about $00,000,- 000 worth of raw cotton annually. A Chinese national military and communications commission has just left Shanghai for the United States by way of Europe. Its twenty-two members are Instructed to learn how China can acquire a mod ern war machine and methods of communication that are up to west ern standards. REPORTS from Cairo, Egypt, told somewhat hazily about fierce fighting that was going on In the Arabian peninsula where Ibn Sand, the fanatical king of Saudi Arabia, Ara-bia, was making J r . S! war on the ancient I -"J I k,n8dom of Yemen, I d'ternlned to con quer It. Already the Saudlan army, IjV I which is powerful C and equipped with VvVlV M all modern arms. Pvl'"""11 naa" captured the M:,1lil Yemeni seaport Ibn 8aod H o d e I d a, and It was advancing to attack 8ana, the capital. The war started with a border dispute. According to the conflicting stories reaching Cairo, both sides claimed victory. One report was that the Emir Felsal, heir of Ibn Sand, had overtaken and defeated the rear guard of the retreating Yemeni army. From Yemeni officials, however, came telegrams stating that their retreat had been halted and that the Saudlan army suffered a severe defeat In a 23 hour battle. Capture of SO armored cars, nine of them undamaged; 30 guns, snd 400 prisoners pris-oners was claimed by the premier ef Yeman, who wired that the Saudlan Sau-dlan casualties exceeded 2,000. Because of their nearby territories terri-tories In Asia and Africa, Great Britain, Italy, and France were watching the conflict with deep concern; and all had warshl.p at hand to protect their Interests. GREAT BRITAIN and Japan are on the verge of a big trade war. The British nave threatened to take strong action to protect their textile export Interest) against Increasing Japanese competition, although al-though the British government offl daily declares It will do everything to maintain amicable relations with Japan. The official position In Tokyo To-kyo Is that Japan can take care of herself, and there was every Indication In-dication that It would not yield to the British ultimatum that It must modify Its trade program and tactics. tac-tics. The British threat was that quotas would be Imposed on Japanese Japa-nese goods, but trade leaders In Tokyo said this would not hurt their couutry seriously, especlslly since Japan's Imports from the British Isles In V.m totaled 83.000. 000 yen or little more than was ex-ixirted ex-ixirted there. 8o.imi.O00 yen. Hence, they said, the Tokyo government would be able to make reprisals. Trade with the British dominions la considered far more Important and the Japanese are confident tbe dominions will not follow the mother country's lead especlslly Australia, which sold to Japan In 1H.TI four times Its purchases, and 'a nnda, which sold seven times as much as It bought I j RESIDENT It O ) S E V E I.T Is again a grandfather, for down In fc'ort Worth Texas, a daughter has been horn to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott El-liott Roosevelt; The linhr. -who" weighed six jmiiiimIs six ounces, has been named Ruth Chandler Roosevelt, 'C by Wi-itern Ntwippr Vntmm. Saluite 4 ' ? ,1V K ' " it 1 1 BMOItlAL day Is an occa alon of various aspects and it may be approached from many different psychological psy-chological angles Its most obvious significance, of course, la that of a time set apart for the cor ; porate and Institutional expression i of the nation's gratitude to Its fall en sons, of affection and appreciation apprecia-tion for their memory. But as the ! years pass the public concept ex-' ex-' pands to Include an Increasing num ber of others who have served their country's good until at last all dedicated, dedi-cated, generous and unselfish lives may be admitted to the roster of tboee commemoratively honored. A day of peace, It likewise prompts renewed thanksgiving for the security, harmony and freedom whlcb the dead have earned for the living. The heart conscious of the debt throbs with acknowledgment of the benefaction which they have bestowed, the blessing which they have conferred, and the mind, no U7tTuUl 1 1 It M M 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i Wreath of Flowers for the Dead Soldiers Sol-diers of France. less aware of the obligation, soberly faces the problem of preventing further armed strife, of banishing fratricidal confllct from the world. A du of patriotism, It challenges the attention for Its demand upon each citizen. Its Implied prescrlp tlon that each Individual career shall be of use snd value to the na tlonal welfare. Perhaps It Is In this regard that it has most compelling significance It summons the rank and file of the land to labor and live In obedience to the noblest of Ideals. It scorns Up service, claiming claim-ing Instead honest, sincere and unfaltering un-faltering dedication. No other date In the rnlendnr makes s more drastic dras-tic requisition upon the soul. Above all s day of consecration, a dny of prayer".' a day to pledge re newed allegiance. It gives oporto-nlty oporto-nlty for the Jxpresslon of brotherhood brother-hood and love for living and dead alike i i i a i i J CJn k A ft1 r 4 It h : f. V". .t ;i it i. - il u J i CEMETERIES both small ) and large will assembls groups of patriotic eld-sens eld-sens for the purpose of decorating the graves of those who fell In war. Brave veterans they were. Some fought with weap ons which today seem to us rather crude. The army rifle of the Twen: tleth century la an Immense improvement improve-ment over the gun of the Civil war. Rapid firing machine guns, poison gas, submarines, torpedoes and all the Implements of modern warfare were to them unknown. Like all the wars of history, the Civil war was fought by young men. The following table indicates the ages of the Unionist soldiers who fought In the Civil war: Fourteen years of age and under, 2,111; fifteen fif-teen years of age and under, 104,-987; 104,-987; sixteen years snd under, 231,-651 231,-651 ; seventeen years and under, 844.801 ; ; eighteen years and under. un-der. 1,151,4.18; twenty-one years and under. 2.139.987; twenty-five and over, 46,626; forty-four and over, 16,071. The total number of enlisted enlist-ed men wss 2.778,304, three-fourths of whom were under twenty-one years of age. "The power which hurled slavery from Its throne wss young men dreaming dreams by patriots' pa-triots' graves." We caunot think of Decoration day without the portrait of Abraham Abra-ham Lincoln presenting Itself vividly vivid-ly before us. What this country might have suffered without his leadership, only the Good Providence Provi-dence kuows. The purpose of the war, as Lincoln conceived It, was not to free the slaves, although that was a factor In the case; the principal prin-cipal reason for the war was to save the Union. The war of 1776 taught the world to know us; the Warf HI 2 taught us to know ourselves. The first won for us our Independence, Independ-ence, the latter our self-respect and solidarity. Plutarch writes: "The fortune of all good men Is that their virtue rlsrs in glory after their death, and that the envy whlcb any evil man may have conceived against them never survives the envious." 8o do we remember those whose supreme sacrifice has cemented Into one nation, na-tion, our United States of Amerlcs. All honor to their memory as we place the laurel wreath alike upon the graves of the khaki, the bine and the gray. C br Waattro Ntwiptpar Unloo. Old Muskets Used to Build Memorial f N GEORGETOWN, District of 1 Columbia, is a fence built of barrels of old muskets used In tbe War of 181Z It Is located at the northwest corner of Twenty-eighth and P streets. The United States government was too poor to recompense the citizens citi-zens of Georgetown for their special spe-cial services, so Invited them to help themselves to Iron and steel In the scrap heap st the navy yard. This fence Is one of the souvenirs ef the time. Rmembran cej) yge Howe About: Shaw Back to the Farms Heroes , J;i:'.r'.'. , Z' , BU y4ltWNU SOTla. "7 ' By ED HOWE BERNXBCirAWtaadiaBted his mind again about Communism. Commu-nism. In aa address to Oxford undergraduates, un-dergraduates, who thought they were Communists, he said: 'Ton don't know. what yon are talking about No single breath of tyranny la missing In Russia, It Is curried Into effect there on a gigantic cale." V ; Sbaw wanta to be a Communist, but la so Intelligent be cannot avoid seeing Its faults. When 'in Russia he made fun of the Communists to their faces. They were one day taking him to the races, and he aald to them: "I suppose you have arranged for all tbe horses to win, you believe so much in equality." Bow do some favorites get their start? Buddha la an old time foreign for-eign hero to whom millions say their prayers, yet tbe British encyclopedia ency-clopedia aaya no such person ever existed. I think we common people peo-ple pay too much attention to heroes; he-roes; none of them are as good or great as the shouting of followers would Indicate. I met a man recently who Uvea In a town of a thousand population In the South, where there are three negroes to one white. "We are getting get-ting along," be said, "becsuse we hate always lived simply; we have known how to produce our food, and are doing that now." . . . The same word comes from rural places everywhere. The rush to the towns has been stopped; the tide now Is the other wsy. Originally tbe first duty of the people was to feed themselves, and they did It They can do It again. The towns and cities cit-ies are most artificial, and are being be-ing hit hardest There have always been too many agents. Judges, colonels, colo-nels, generals. In the towns. I thank the Lord they are being starved Into going to work. Silerlus said, in his memoirs, that his favorites among his generals, neighbors and wives often annoyed him with acts snd words with which he found fault; but he recalled that his generals, neighbors, wives and special friends had cause for equal resentment at times against his conduct toward them. Men are so constructed (and women, of course, are cut In the same timber) they cannot entirely satisfy anyone. The little good in us all must be cultivated, and made as agreeable as possible. Any man of reasonable candor and Intelligence knows he is a wretched bundle of poor flesh always wearing out, and that a decent de-cent average In managing It Is all he can hope for; that to achieve this decent average Is success. "I have been occasionally proclaimed as wise," Silerlus adds, "but sra so weak I sra ashamed in my own presence, pres-ence, although I sincerely believe In exchanging civilities and such small assistance as I am able to offer, with those who are equally kindly disposed toward me." The Beer Bust Head punishes me very savagely. So does the bust head following a big dinner, but I rather enjoy the Road Bust Head. We have about ruined the country voting bonds for good roads, and stolen a good deal of the money so appropriated; but we have the roads. And fearful as I am of debt, and national bankruptcy, I And a little satisfaction In good roads when I am able to temporarily forget the future. Recently I motored 1,400 miles through country unfamiliar to me. Fine paved ronds every foot of the way. When able to forget the bond Interest constantly piling up, the threat of national bankruptcy, I was almost proud of my country again:, the Roa d Bust Head was almost e livable, No man Is willing to grant others tbe right he demands of himself, the right of choosing his own opinions opin-ions and amusements: George Jean Nathan once wrote of II. L. Mencken: Menck-en: "How can a man like Mencken waste hl time upon such Idiotic spectacles as political conventlonsT" And Mencken replied: "What keeps a man like Nathan In the theater, breathing bad air nightly, gaping at prancing Imbeciles, and sitting contentedly for hours with endsf At my home there are three flights of steps: two from the street, snd one to the porch. There Is much complaint about them from elderly friends who call. ... My excuse Is I built them when young, and my friends did not find them objectionable. objection-able. (I have lived In the same house 54 years.) It has been charged against me that I have peculiar notions. One of them Is that during times like the present It Is more Important to feed the hungry than It Is to buy memberships mem-berships for young men In the Y. M. ( A. I so told a solicitor today. No doubt he went away thinking 11) of me. . . . My next caller was a ragged old man with a wooden leg. The solicitor did better with me, he said I provided for his necessities for a week. BEVERLY HlLta7 inow is Just what I tj pers. ln fact alUkWl?- Well its Just as we!!,! passed the big Inherltu that gets you whea roi fc You used to could dUm, beat taxes, but not now, V taker dont go over jvtti carefully as the assessor accumulated assets, u4 before tbe undertaker. Tie on these big fortnna sn they pay as high aitotojj et what they lave. TUfcd expensive dying whta It money like that, and roi a em dropping off as cuuiw have been. They are always titt "Discouraging capital fan something." Well this k f discourage em from cutis; earth's mortal colli. Com, Its a good law. You hinU of It during your lltetlnit It over to tbe government can do some darn fool thlaj ao telling what, mabf lust as foolish as the chili deceased would. j What is It they Bar.Tti generation from a pick la putter, and one more troaif to a tramp." J This thing of finding a; tax Is becoming quite is You see when taxes Hi (who started em snyhovT. must have taken into us I taxes, one male and one fW did they multiply boantlti to guinea pigs, taxes si' been the most prolific of tt:' But with all their mulUpv' cllTlties, the politicluus' plied em. Most thin A ink a certain purpose, butkiutt( era! jot seeker might Juir' tbe trees or the spawned i and yon once get him ontiri A hflrfiarl Thapa la A ft. Into dry dock with him. tail off till you back the ship then clutch on again. Now as I started In to s? I was so rudely interrupted non oirtn control con-trol statistics. In those early days your tax was Just on the lands. They dld-ent dld-ent know there was ajythlng else they could tax, but as more men commenced coming Into the stately old legislative legis-lative halls, they each brought with em, In addition toil tobacco, and Jug of pure en each had a "Bill." A "Bill thats read, not listened then voted on. In atflrmitift bill dont pass. It wonttitol a couple of weeks to tl that will, in fast, it's mat. to think uo one that won'm Thar, 1u nnlv ODA AUCU , thing that must be the btcKJ everv bill, and that Is lsf hut voiir eves and think 4 Ayr th.n vml nnpn SID S your "Bill.'' Now if thatw thought of hascnt been UM last week, whv you and r win. So thats what we god fcnnHrnit it vm doWll the" in the Senate and r.uo In bI , They are Just thinking ' 1 11. v.,..,,,r film. P. many us uicni"n cigarette butts, or maby millionaire, but they t thinking every minute. SoJ what rou got hid awsy. those six hundred will and you will wake up in Inr .nrt roal 111 the Pl"" Poneress found it and ln tax on It. (t) dir. .If. .V.i mi-.' ci.u.n Days On September l!5. I"35' j ,i . u-oiitiicky i" UUII til Blllll" ,jf ers was presented to the i-l ... ...ii,e.4 Iftttire 01 inn imp" , . then In session at rlnJ Incr that Ihn be alio4 . with their slaves In tM J military district. !llclt( the .and between me and tho Scioto. The proi unanimously rejected A trary to the ordinance oi thla petition been r:,ntC ' , owners no doubt would W into this region n - hat slavery might hav mined In Ohio's const!"'"' d Hireo years later. m - LJ LJ J 'mo; iittti |