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Show Review of Current Events the World Over QONGRESSMAN J. B. SHANNON'S house committee inquiring Into the Inroads of the government into business in competition with private concerns opened its hearings in Kansas City, his home town, and first received briefs from many organizations. AL W. Borders, in presenting the data assembled by the Federation of American has which Business, branches In 34 6tates and represents more than 100 Industries suffering from competition from government boards and bureaus financed by taxpayers money, set forth that bureaucracy has grown to such proportions that It threatens the existence of the present form of American govern- fsVus Lawrence Seaway Treaty Ready for Investigaton by Dictatorship Decreed for Prussia Great Railway Merger Plan. borah J e PUa n may , f ,n,e uit edtyf By EDWARD W. PICKARD throno have VITED STATES and Canada Jszned tbe treaty for construction Lawrence seaway, the great St. in the neighborhood of cost to is htfb the JSOO.Ot tO.OoO, but pact must be ratified by congress and the dominion parliament tment,, Jd with oth, I tfeec ere H rance (,. no intd.1 mal limit I from before becoming effecItatifleatiou is tive. probable but by no means certain. There jfl who I, are various parts of the treaty to which rea fo grave objections have been raised, notably iton(n mty Bj those relating to dl- of power to be vision assio 1 0. Herridgo de eloped, and with-raa- l ssed Taj. I of water from Lake Michigan I canal. These Property ,r the Chicago sanitary the pact will nd all other phases of 2 aocorj. I , investigated by a senate committee submitted! ailed by Senator I.orah of Idaho ion. 'he inquiry will not start until August The treaty, which bad been under loner f for eleven years, was ' author. J egotiation of State Stimsun Secretary by ion te and Minister ad oil K I r the United States I,y D. Ilerridge for Canada. tlliam ation to 3 terms the seaway is to be con ucted tinder the supervision of a e of tbe i,mniission to be known as the St. prior to j .awTence international rapids section 8 son hu Five members are to he uinmission rfcCtnley .ipointed by each country and the ink Fork is to be carried on free from handily I overmnental red tape and on a buslmth and J The commissioners will ess basis. will ot have the right to direct construe-omd late of the power plants to develop potatoes I ,200,000 horse power, although they these with the seaan awberry my. They can order deferred any s filed 1 rorks. When their job is done, they '7 in tie ease to exist as a commission. Wy vindston 'r I . 1 on. I Tbe iy afte ) pilot ot ital air- ling the I lis teconstruction Finance corporation In vhlch is to handle the huge fund. loing this he had to decide on succes-lor- s to Eugene Meyer, governor of the 'ederal reserve board, and Paul Des-;or- , farm loan commissioner, whose retirement as directors of the eorpor-ttlo- n was made mandatory by the measure. The corporation Itself decided to discard red tape to expedite loans From the $300,000,000 for state relief I hastllj 30 wild icb time steen a HOOVER signed the relief act but still had to complete plans for reorganization of the RESIDENT fat follow-- ibout i tbe bin-- destitution and $322,000,000 for pub the latter including $132, rw.noo which may be used to match state highway expenditures. More than two thirds of the $300,000,000 sf of tbe lie works, visiton I 31. The I be can-- sum will be nty six e wo- POLITICAL riots and murders In Prussia resulted in the establish- uld sii ment of a dictatorship for that German state and the declaration of martial law in F.erlin and the province of Rran-denbur- monlli ty applied for Immediately. sup- In three weeks more than a hundred persons had been killed and 1.200 wounded In the pree- I ; throughout That Germany faces revolution Is Hitler that "'in control the coming elec-on- s It will forcibly seize control of and arrest all So. gr,VPrument j cialist and Communist leaders. ng to an Amsterdam newspaper, on, urt von Schleicher, minister of f!fense- "'111 with Hitler, PI1Pra' it has been recognized fn. himor"6 time ls Panning to make eventually the actual ruler of oen in the flat threat by Saz party does not nt the reiehstag in - Germany. Aaisterdarn Journal also says CrWD 1rlnce Friedrich visite(1 the ex kaiser in iscuss P'sns for a det-i- t coup n er the clections- - The scheme la m v 'rm a.npw r n Prinre government with the s leader; to bring Wnto! m frm exile ,n 8 German warsh reS're the rpgime of house Gohenzollern. Hitler, the he,p but w,n not f,ar- thp government Form heimr bk ErrPS1 net. five - MUSE.I.NT mf?1113 shakp'llP S.tPrSf The othorJn'SUr Istor of Ke Ister of Jr"06; of In bis feigning by Italy com-Grani- ,llese was Dino of foreiRn affairs. ret nfni TN ONE of Its most Important decisions tbe Interstate commerce commission approved a plan for consolidation of all eastern railroads, except those of New England, into four Tbe plan will probgreat systems. ably be accepted by the lines concerned, though it does not suit them in certain respects. The four systems will he known as the New Vork Central, the Pennsylvania, the Baltimore & Ohio, and the Plate. The will embrace fiT.OOO miles of rill lines 300 roads, though many of them are already operated by the large trunk lines. The commissions ruling caused an Immediate reaction appro, uTing jubilation In railroad circles, which hailed the plan as the most helpful factor in that industry in 12 years. In fact, ns the report pointed out. the lending railroads have received virtually all that they have asked for In order to work out a new dan of economies. l Chesapeake & systems thus created Ohio-Nicke- Into action rather more than their rivals, the Republican campaign leaders at Chicago headquarters started the preliminary work for the election of 12 United States senators in the central states. The plans are under the direction of Jf y Senator L. J. Dickinson of Iowa, keynoter In the national conWe are govention. ing to concentrate on the senatorial fights, Where a he said. senator is stronger in Sen. Dickinson his state than the President, well expect him to carry the whole ticket, and vice versa. Senator Dickinson said the prohibition question would be the principal issue in many states, the people hav Ing to decide whether the Eighteenth amendment shall be repealed outright, as the Democrats desire, or replaced by another amendment giving congress control of the liquor traffic, the Republican solution. On August 11 President Hoover will he officially notified of his nomination and will deliver his speech of acceptance at the White House. He has decided not to make a western trip this summer, but will send Vice President Curtis to represent him at the opening of the Olympic games. GETTING Kocco, minMosconl, min-no- , - ,,r(,f' Ila,blno Giull-1education, and Giu- r having cruise, was back in Albany attending to business and laying out his campaign plans with National Chairman Farley. announced The latter gentleman the campaign would be run through the state organizations. There will be a campaign committee at the Roosevelt headquarters in New York, with but It will assist and the state organizations rather than attempt to direct them. Farley said. There will be only one national headquarters, located In New York. The money will be raised by a special committee not yet named Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming will again he at the head of the women's organization. Mrs. Roosevelt, who says she has always been a profound dry, has publicly declured her belief that the Eighteenth amendment has not worked successfully and should be repealed. of the Washington are rapidly leaving for their homes, takofing advantage of the free fares fered by the government, those who remained, especially the radicals, were threatening more trouble In the form of a picket White Ing of the A promise to House. do this if congress were not called in spe cial session to pay the bonus was made by Urban LeDoux (Mr. Zero"). Brig Gen. THOUGH Smedley D. members the in Butler, former marine, projected himself into the picture by giving the veterans a characteristically vigorous talk urging them to stay right there and praising their behavior. They are trying to get you to go borne, he said. "You ought to keep some one here ln the front line trenches. You have as much right to a lobby in Washington ns the United States Steel corporation. Don't take a step backward. Remember, as soon as you pull down the camp flag this Those of movement will evaporate. you who do go home, vote to kick h out of your enemies." ao GOsc AM oieC GR G0 BWR&MNl ment. roosevelt, Governor short vacation lection campaign encounters, which were mainly between Hitlers Nazis and the Communists. President Von Uindenburgh therefore issued the necessary emergency von Schleicher decree and Chancellor Von Papon became virtual dictator of Prussia, naming Mayor Franz Bracht of Essen as chief assistant. When Prussian Minister of the Interior Sev--I ering declared he would yield only to orce, the decree of martial law was issued Premier P.raun and Severing were removed from the Prussian mln-strOpen air political meetings hnd lready been forbidden the reich. seppe Bottai, minister of corporations. Mussolini, who already was minister of interior as well as premier, kept for himself the portfolios of foreign affairs and corporations. Franclsci, Jnng and Ercole were named to the other vacancies. Eleven undersecretaries also were displaced. Grandi was made ambassador to Great Britain. j) 1 A procession of merchants from Leavenworth testified that they were being driven to the wall by the competition from new government stores in the two federal penitentiaries and by the activities of the post exchange and book department at Fort Leavenworth. Efforts of the government to get into the cafe and restaurant business were attacked by the American Hotel association, with 6,000 member hotels. Live stock producers, commission men and bankers pictured the collapse of live stock Industry under withering dictatorship of the secretary of agriculture, and attacked the doings of the federal farm board. best tire, regardless of price, is a for it Take the publics. The public says Goodyears are best by a lead of 2 to 1 over any other tire. THE Dont take our word And here are prices that prove that the best costs no more. guaranteed Supertwist Cord tire marked with the Goodyear house flag and Goodyear name. Look them over, and ask yourself: "Why buy e tire when any no costs more? second-choic- FIRST-CHOIC- THOUGH the members of congress the recently ended session gave op a vast amount of time to political scheming, quarreling and useless talk, they actually did enact considerable legislation of moment, often under pressure from the Chief Executive. They passed a series of measures that began with the moratorium for intergovernmental debts, that includ ed the creation of the Reconstruction Finance corporation, and that ended with the passage of the $2,122,000,000 relief bill and the home loan bank bill with Its currency inflation provision. They put through a new revenue measure designed to raise more than a billion dollars in additional taxes, and an economy bill saving perhaps in government expendi$150,000,000 tures. They passed all the necessary department supply bills, but refused to make most of tbe promised economies in these. Two measures long advocated by Senator Norris were passed. These were the "lame duck" resolution to change the constitutional dates for the beginning of congress and the inauguration of the President, and bill relating to lathe bor disputes. The growing national discontent with prohibition was reflected in congress by two test votes in the house and several votes on the legalization of beer In the senate. On March 14, voting to bring the repeal resolution to the floor, the house cast 1S7 wet votes, the largest of its kind since prohibition, as agninst 227 dry ballots. Two weeks later a similar vote on the O'Conner Hull beer bill was 132 to 216. Senate wets pinned their hopes to various bills to legalize beer, and measures by Senators niram Bingham and Millard E. Tydings were offered as amendments to the tax bill, and in a final effort to gain modification and Increase federal revenues ns a rider to the home loan bank bill. The various attempts met failure. President Hoover vetoed only three important pieces of legislation. These were the bill extending veterans privileges to hitherto unthought of classes of former soldiers, and the first relief bill with Its federal loans to Individuals, and the bill to shear the President of his powers under the flexible provisions of the tariff act Smoot-Hawle- WHEREVER found former students of the University of Illinois the news of the death of Thomas Arkle Clark was read with mournful interest. For many years dean of men in that institution, he performed the difficult duties of his position with extraordinary skill and tact, and won for himself a high place ln the educational world. Among other deaths of the week was that of Jules J. Jusserand, who for many years was French ambassador to the United States and was one of the most popular of all the dip- lomats In Washington. Americans In Paris joined with the French ln pny-In- g a last tribute to him at the funeral services. Field Marshal Viscount Plumer, one of Great Britain's distinguished generals of the World war, and Indeed of previous wars, died In London and was interred in Westminster Abbey with great military pomp. Louis Maurer, who was the chief artist of the now famous Currier A Ives prints, died In New York at the age of one hundred years. He lived to see bis pictures, rather scorned at the time he made them, selling to connoisseurs at high prices. SIX-PUBS- Full Oversize Full Oversize Ford conference of the empire opened in Ottawa on Thursday with many of the emmost Eminent men ln attendance. Stanley Baldwin, lord president of the British council, leader of his delegation, said that this is the most Important conference in history for two reasons: pires First, Britain never before has been In a position to negotiate with a free hand from the electorate, and. second, never before was the trade of he world so depressed" I ( by Western Newspaper I'bion.) "? 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She observes all the known ceremonies for prevention of misfortune, such as saying "bread and butter when walking with a friend and the two are separated by passing on opposite sides of a lamp post. Whenever she Is unwise enough to remind the unkind fates that she has not had a cold ln a long time, she finds that It confuses them a little If she knocks on wood and it cripples their efforts at revenge. Recently stie presented a friend a rabbits foot for her protection, but it played her false. Shortly thereafter the friend was in an automobile accident, and had her scalp ripped open for quite a space. But did this disaster shake Eva's faith in efficacy of rabbit pedals? Not at all! She had two explanations ready in a moment One was that Inasmuch as she bad not killed the rabbit herself she could not be sure that it was the left hind foot. This is the only foot that has any real magic In It. but commercial dealers are not careful to ascertain the original location of the amputated foot The other explanation is that everybody has two contrary signs, and perhaps in this Instance the rabbits foot worked backwards. You Just cant trust magic not to reverse Itself for some ieopie. Take four leaf clovers. To the vast majority they bring good luck, but to little Eva they bring illness, disappointment and disaster, and she would sooner pick poison ivy than the treacherous clover. Then there are the terrible blnck cats, tbe sight of which is fraught with disaster for so many. With little Eva the omen reverses Itself. She is a cat worshiper and has raised dozens of black ones. She became before so used to their her that it established a sort of immunity. She discovered it once when a black cat saved her life. The animal ran across her path and she stooped to pet it Just before two automobiles crushed together and piled up on the sidewalk at the exact spot where she would have been passing If she hadnt stopped to pet the cat Our office hoy is not so lucky. The last time a black cat ran across his path he had four flat tires before the day was done. True, the tires werent so good anyway, but they would have held up very well If It hadnt been for the cat He has very bad luck with brooms, too. Every time he Is bit by one he gets arrested for something. Once when he was sweeping out ills father's store, he hit a friend playfully with the broom. "Oh, dont do that," the friend cried, "Ill be arrested !" And within 24 hours he was riding to Jail in the Black Marla for speeding. Little Eva says it Is a sure sign and that one reason she hates housework Is that brooms are such a menace. The vacuum cleaner criss-crossin- economic THE E PATHFINDER y In this country or a lifetime Every price buys Goodyear quality Biblical Fortress of Sichem Geographically Sichem was one of the most important points In Bales tine. Situated In the narrow mown tain pass between Mounts Uurizirn and Elial the high road of travel between the east and west it blocked the route from the Jordan valley to the coast plain and pro tected the coastal region from the Invasions of the nomadic hordes coming from the east. Its strategic function ls thus obvious. Sichem of fered a hold spectacle; with the horizontal lines of the walls, one superimposed upon the other; with the gigantic dimensions of Its stones, all concentrated In the elliptic city plnn, the fortress loomed in the landscape. Standing at Its side, the two natural bulwark. Mounts Garizim and Ebal. r of reinforced the Impression inability. I N on today one who stands at the fot t of these gigantic walls has the im-p- has helped to keep some of our best women out of JniL Eva thinks it would be a smart idea for ail policemen to carry a broom with which to hit obstreperous gangsters. Down ln the Island of Haiti they have a sweet little custom that Eva ls thinking of adopting. They make an effigy of their enemies which they torture with good effect. In order to make the torture effective they must gpt a piece of their enemy to paste on the effigy. A hair from bio bead, a paring from his toe nalL or even the dirt upon which he has spat la sufficient. The witch doctor then puts a curse on the image, and all that is necessary la to stick a pin in the effigy in the exact spot where you want the enemy to hurt. The only trouble Is that it doesn't work so When the Unitwell on Americans. ed States marines went to Huitl tba natives made countless effigies with which to torture the Intruders, who and guffawed loudly at the spectacle, never had a single pain. This would be posargue that the enemy must sessed of a lively belief in magic bela fore he could be discomfited, but It worth a trial. how much common senge people have, few of them ara free from some form of superstition. There are those who swoon if they sit down to a table that has thirteen round it Others can't walk under a ladder without falling in a fit, but beEva Is the only one I know who in balderdash of form In lieves every Even when tbe rabbit existence. befoot slips it has no effect on her vivid respect her or lief In charms for voodooism. Indianapolis News. No matter sense of being, as the Biblical peoown sight at ple wailed, "in our One ie Impressed grasshoppers. and by its sheer physical strength, of the fearful panic the understands Israelites as they listened In Karfesh Barnea to the reports which their from the Land spies brought back of Canaan. The builders of tihs fortification who were system were the Hlttltes, as known to have dwelt In Sichem 1300 B of Jacob, time the as early s C. (Cen. 84). |