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Show IWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS 3ig Row Over Sale of Liquor on Vessels Controlled by the Shipping Board. airs un wets both angry Controversy May Hamper Ship Subsidy Sub-sidy Legislation European Experts Meet at The Hague Russia le Recalcitrant American Federation Federa-tion of Labor in Convention. By EDWARD W. PICKARD t(T IGGEST bootlegger in the world" D Is what they are calling Uncle Sam these days and Just because alcoholic al-coholic beverages are sold on passenger passen-ger vessels owned and controlled by the government, outside the three-mile limit. The storm of controversy, which has its center In Washington, Is amusing to the people generally, but It Is a mighty serious aflulr for Chairman Lasker and the other members of the United States shipping board, who are trying to compete with the passenger liners of other nations. And 'it Is likely to be equally serious for those who favor and are trying to pass ship subsidy legislation. ' Prohibition, ' like politics, makes strange bedfellows. United In the attack at-tack on Chairman Lasker's policy are the Anti-Saloon league, the dry leaders In congress, the Association Against Prohibition and such eminent wets as the men of the Busch family, brewers of St. Louis. The Busch men, indeed, started the row by letter? written meusure providing that subsidies shall not be paid to shipowners who sell liquor on American ships outside the three-mile limit. So long as Mr. Lasker Is able to maintain his position that an American Amer-ican ship Is not American territory after It passes the three mile limit-thousands limit-thousands of thirsty - and grateful Americans will patronize the shipping board vessels. If and when he Is driven from that position, the thirsty American travelers will transfer their patronage to s!ilp3 that fly some other (lag than the Sturs and Stripes. PltESIDKXT HARDING Is so Insistent In-sistent on the passage of the ship subsidy bill, which' has been re drafted by the house committee on merchant marine, that he has warned congress Us failure In this respect will certainly certain-ly lead him to call un Immediate extraordinary ex-traordinary session. The President has also let congress know that In his opinion the tariff Is the most Important matter before It, and that It should have undivided attention until It Is disposed of. Then, and not until then, he thinks the soldiers' bonus bill should be taken up. McCumher and other senators who are pushing the bonus legislation showed a disposition to disregard this advice from the White House and went ahead with plans for sidetracking the tariff In ftivor of the bonus this week. They believe the latter meusure can be put through without a long debate. FLAG DAY was observed generally throughout the country and among the celebrations was ona especially worthy of note. This was In historic Fort Mclienry where was unveiled the monument erected by congress to Francis Scott Key, author of the "Star Spangled Banner." The handsome shaft stands near the spot where flouted the Flag while Key was writing his Immortal lines. President Harding delivered a graceful dedicatory address. to be treated with contempt either by France or even the - United States, without whose economic co-operation the economics of the Russian state cannot be , re-established. By her famine relief America haa gained some sympathy In Russia, which she Is going to forfeit If she wishes to play the role of dictator toward Russia by forcing upon her such base demands. ''Despite her poverty, Russia will enter en-ter Into relations with 'foreign countries coun-tries only on the basis of mutual esteem." es-teem." What a strange Inversion of Ideas In that allusion to America and the famine relief! NECESSARILY the German reparations repara-tions question will Intrude Itself In the present conference, Hnd the friends of France are hoping thut she will present a definite plun In this regard. Germany bus paid the June Installment, but cynically says, as' to the sums duo In July and thereafter, "there Is no likelihood that we can pay them, and what are you going to do about It?" Austria Is attracting more sympathy than any other of the former enemy states, for obvious reasnr.3. Her rulers are calling for material aid, which they sny must be extended to save the country from bjlshe1sm. Already France has agreed to muke a large loan to Austria. CHILIS and Peru, through their representatives sent to Washington, Wash-ington, have spent a month In futile attempts to reach a basis for settlement of the Tacna-Arlcn dispute, and now they hove asked Secretary of State Hughes to help them. It Is understood that he will not act of-flciully of-flciully as a formal arbitrator, but In an Individual cnpnclty In the role of a conciliator. CUBA Is In a mess again, owing . to the deluy of President Zajae In carrying out the pledges made to General Oowder to rid the govern- while on a shipping board vessel on which drinks were sold, openly and at moderate prices. Their wall, of course, Is directed against a policy that prevents their brewing and selling beer while It permits the selling of German and English beer on government-owned ships. The Association Against Prohibition Insists that the Volstead act be enforced to the limit, In the hope and expectation that it will thus be proved so unpopular that It will he rescinded. Wayne B. Wheeler, counsel for the Ant!-8aloon leugue, reiterates the league's position concerning tbe three-mile limit, holding hold-ing that liquor cannot legally be sold on American vessels anywhere; but he says the Busch attack Is "simply an effort to discredit prohibition and create sentiment for the sale of beer," and he thinks the shipping bnord can take care of Itself. Prohibition Commissioner Com-missioner flames admits there haB been a difference of opinion us to , whether the Volstead act applies to vessels outside the three-mile limit. Thnt Is does not so apply Is held by counsel for the shipping board, according accord-ing to Mr. Lnsker, and he adds: "Both from the standpoint of legal right and from the standpoint of the life and security of our national merchant mer-chant murine the shipping hoard has permitted, and will continue to permit, the serving of liquor on Its ships, so long as foreign ships nre allowed to enter and depart from our shores exercising ex-ercising that privilege." IN CONGRESS the results of the controversy con-troversy may be more serious because, be-cause, as has been said already, the ship subsidy legislation Is likely to got mixed up In the tangle. Senator Willis of Ohio, Republican, and one of tbe most ardent dry leaders, said It was about time for the "prohibition navy" to turn It guns on tbe American merchant mer-chant murine, and thnt the ship subsidy sub-sidy bill about to come up offered an excellent and timely legislative vehicle 'or action to end the sale of liquor on 4ips operated by the government. Venator .lories of Washington, who It ' as arid a Senator Willis, but who Is a No chairman of Hie eonunerci committee. I'l:'.:" e!i.Vi:e!ic protest rgainst Hie ():io;:.'s .oj.o..,il. He ilv dared tb;it The probib'i ion is:m wouht 'cotnplc:,te serloi'dy lite ship" suhsld' lesrNlation and imp'-ril Its sucec- This is aNo tbe opinion of leading Democrats in the lower house, where fore tbey are gleefully getting ready V offer 'in dnien . th", .subsidy. ONCE more the European experts are gathered together to determine deter-mine the best method of dealing with Russia and accomplishing the regeneration re-generation of the nations suffering from the effects of the World war. This time they are at The Hague, and for the present no representatives of Russia and of Germany are admitted. When a plan has been settled on, the soviet government will be asked to send delegates to take part In pourparlers, pour-parlers, beginning June 20. First the attitudes of Great Britain and France must be harmonized. At present these are diametrically opposed. op-posed. The British want Europe to forget the war; to do away wIMi International Inter-national debts; to conciliate the vanquished van-quished states and make concessions to them; to Jolly soviet Russia; and generally to base the new Europe largely on economic Interests and compel com-pel the sinulier states to enter lto agreements accordingly. The French, as desirous as the British for peace and stable conditions, belltrve the war cannot be forgotten ; and that International Interna-tional obligations should be fulfilled as far as possible. They want the new order maintained by physical force and the alliances re-enforced and gradually extended to Includo all of Europe. As for Russia, they Insist, as they did at Genoa, that suitable guarantees must be supplied by the soviet government, and the memorandum memor-andum of May 11 withdrawn before official relations ure renewed.- , It Is probable that a proposal will be mnde to Russia thnt a commission be permitted to Investigate economic condition there. If tbey maintain their present attitude, this will likely be rejected. Tbe bolshevik leaders nre quite unyielding, asxerllng that their attitude at The Hague will be the ame as ar Genoa, and that Hie only possible concessions to foreign capital will bo on the basis of tbe recently onneted laws governing private property. Their publicity man. Karl Radek," said' the conference at The Hague would prove a hindrance rather than a hol;. i'tid continued : "If we rife not to consider tbe declarations dec-larations of Hoover and ll;"l'n'S and le Memorandum of I'ol'v are as empty 'ii-oaf. what tbey ask before the pourparlers pour-parlers with Russia N Russia's with-i with-i y of the memorandum of May 11 'n which the principal position f Hus via '. wus expressed. "The Russian' government Is not In suc(i H low position as to allow Itself ment of alleged graft The cabinet has resigned in order to aid the President Presi-dent In earryLpg.mt the .disjreu .reforms. .re-forms. Some meiilhers of the Cuban congress are talking of Impeaching Zayas, The American government Is watching developments closely, but It hopeful that Intervention under the terms of the Piatt amendment wll hot be necessary. . ' T;iE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LABOR, In session In Cincinnati, Cincin-nati, once more turned down the Idea of the "one big union" plan, which Gompers and his supporters have so far successfully combated. The Chicago Chi-cago Federation of Labor was leading In the effort to put over an amalgamation amalgama-tion of allied unions so that there would be only one union In each Industry. In-dustry. The delegates to the convention conven-tion decided f tint the whole force of the federation shall be directed toward the elimination of child labor In the United States, a crusade In which they will find few to oppose them outside of the southern states. They also adopted a resolution declaring that the ship subsidy bill should be condemned as Inimical to the public Interests and destructive to the nation's hopes and aspirations for sea power. In an address ad-dress to the convention Senator La-Follette La-Follette of Wisconsin made a warm attack at-tack on the Supreme court and some of Its recent decisions. He proposed an amendment to the Constitution denying de-nying the power of lower courts to set aside a federal law ns unconstitutional, unconstitu-tional, and providing for the nullification nullifica-tion of any such decision by the Supreme Su-preme court by re-enact ment of the statute. IRELAND'S dnll elections took place Friday, but at this writing no returns re-turns have been received. Tbe wind-up wind-up of the ejina!gn and tbe vigorous measures of tbe British soldiery served to quiet somewhat the 'warfare on the risicr border, but there were dally outrages In Belfast, Including an Incendiary In-cendiary fire that destroyed a large block of business houses. In London tbe constitution ef the Irish Free State, as revised, was mndf puhl'e. It pla'cs the relation between Ireland and the empire on the s.-tun basis as (';, inula and tbe other dominions. domin-ions. The Instrument Is quite up t' date, Including female suffrage", pro poltional representation and the re? erendum and Initiative. Free sdionli ami freedom of religion an prt"' fof.' . ' " --'-.-vv,r.v, - : |