Show 71 M its atao g ra I 1 A 41 7 k N ON 1 government center nt at Ue be nguet leitru where li tru lov in inor Io cooil will all conlu konduct ct the ile clalra ro ot of the philippine islands during the summer months 2 spanish engineers setting up barbed wire entanglements entangle ments in morocco 3 col mason bla blathers Matli ewa patrick nominated by the president to bo be chief of the army air service with rank ranis of major general NEWS MEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS conference on unemployment Is working rapidly to solve Us its big problem rail PAIL WEBS FOR A STRIKE Ajmo hamoc crata rats fighting against ratification of peace treaties frances stand on reduction of land armament lloyd george again invites ir irish ish to personal parley by EDWARD W PICKARD most important of last weeks events in the united states was the opening of the national conference on unemployment the social economists and captains of industry summoned to washington by president are not expected to work nork miracles or to find a way in which immediate and remunerative employment can be ba given all the millions of involuntary idle in the country but there Is reason to believe they can devise demise means for relieving the distressing situation in a general way the solution of the problem as aa the leaders in the conference see it Is a plan of cooper co operation cooperation atlon among employers and with governmental construction agencies to distribute te and Inc increase rense the volume of employment in slack sen seasons bensons sons among the broad phases of the problem as stated by secretary of commerce limner hoover fire are A determination of the vol volume ume and distribution of employment emergency measures to provide employment find and mitigate suffering that rony arise during the coming winter measures Alea which may aid in n restoring in commerce and employment to normal p immediately after the opening ses es olon nine subcommittees got busy and so rapidly did they work that the cm Terence reassembled reassemble friday a week earlier aban ban had been expected to consider a general emergency relief pro program grato at this oils writing tt it Is not possible to give ghe an outline of this program but some of its suggestions made by the lie manufacturers are as follows unite existing private and public to put through a constructive tive pro program gant for your lour community see bee aliat there Is a suitable eni employment exchange in your community assist private and public employers and labor organizations rattier rather than have any single civic or family welfare agency or combination of if agencies assume the full responsibility bring to the attention of public authorities thorit ties les specific recommendations for increasing volume of public work urge both printe anti and public employers to distribute labor by rotation in shifts of three days or more at a n time Per persuade sunde ench industry to absorb definite quotes of unemployed urge not only private niia and public employers but individual householders ond and property owners onera to make improvements prove ments repairs aad general sprucing fir of properties formulate standards and rules for temporary ein employment for those hose out of work ork il dealing ealing with rotation of shifts wages preference to resident family men etc see that decent sanitary accommodations for ho melesa ryn ijen are made and differentiate het iTeen resident and floating unemployed discourage migration of anem aloyed to t and from your community in opening the tl e conference president Harrt lug warned it that the administration would be opposed to any plan that involved a further drain on oil the treasury in tills he differs with the policy followed in england where of course the conditions tire are not the lie same baine the british government has been paying out mit many millions of dollars in unemployment insurance ad UIA there sevro BW to be growing worse lloyd george admits it Is appalling last enst week many coal mines in south wales were closed down and to add to the tha trouble the period for which the state subsidy ot of mine wages was granted expired frilay friday and the country faced the possibility of another great dilmers Ail dil ners strike our own strike ehret comes in the ballway work for days tho the votes of 0 the itlie i tali all union members have been coming in to headquarters headquarter iL the ques quei lion ion being whether there 4 ill il he be a walkout because of the wages established by tho the federal ral livov labor board lind the working agree ments and conditions decreed dec the vote of the lie brotherhood of 0 It hallway allway Tra trainmen lumen already has been counted nod and Is announced as being DC 00 I 1 pe per cent in favor of a strike the votes of the lie other brotherhoods brothe are being counted find and it Is taken for granted that they will solidly support tho the stand taken by the trainmen of course this does not mean that a strike Is a certainty for the final decision rests with tho the brotherhood officials and grievance committees many of the lire are very reluctant to issue the order that will tie up tho the count rys tr transportation facilities unexpected opposition sprang up to the ratification of the pence treaties with germany austria and hungary even with the lie senate committees reservation providing that americas re representation presen tation on the international commissions must be decreed by con ar gross ess the democrats decided to light the pacts to the end and it was reported that they were receiving the fictive support of former president wilson they prepare prepared a series herlea of reservations of their own with tho the ripp approval royal ot of the president the republican lenders leaders undertook to hurry up the lie ratification atlon by moans means of night sessions of the senate and mr lodge it was sald said told mr harding that enough votes were in sight whenever it camo caine to final fiction action it was stated that twenty democrats and three ile he publicans public ans favored flat rejection of the treaties tills this would not be enough to block ratification aaion and besides some nonie of them probably would accept the pacts with reservations designed to carry out the iden idea of closer participation in european affairs in the also there was much opposition to tho the treaties as they stand especially to the acknowledgment by germany of its guilt in starting stal ting the war they hold that the former laisers kaisers kai kal sers government and not germany wits was responsible for the conflict want worried germany more than treaties last week however was waa the fact that it was on the brink of a tremendous financial Inan cini panic cann bellor wirth announced the country would go bankrupt if it was forced to pay the next indemnity installment of a million in gold and the german money market promptly collapsed the value of tho the mark has fins fallen to A ridiculously low point find and for this the financial speculators ire are blamed the press denouncing thern them 6 as treasonable hyenas premier urland lina lias announced that lie he and the rest of the french dele gates to the conference on limitation of armani armament ent s nod par far east bast questions will sail for the united states on the steamer lafayette probably novena november 1 though in other matters the frenchmen may come with will opeti open minds on oil one point they will bring a fixed determination they will refuse to discuss the cie reduction of land armament unless they ore are fully fissured assured of the support of the allies in case case germany france the french now have an antny of about the he largest and lest best in the file world and they have hare no of reducing its size or effle lency balong as long OR n Ger germany molly remains the menace to france which they consider her to be it js Is arild that marshal foch Is likely to present to the conference the french reasons for opposing a reduction of land armament unless some new Is offered france in place of the provisions of the versailles treaty which america has declined 0 to o accept japans delegation to the conference Is to be headed by prince who if the lie feudal system had bad not been abolished in 1807 would now ho be the shogun or virtual a 0 anan lie ile la is the head of a great family faintly and Is considered japans Jip nn strongest man tills this week the members of tho the american delegation are conferring on the tha pol policies leles to bo be urged by then them it la Is known that they will stand firm for tho the practical anti and against the visionary and that they are agreed that comp complex disarmament Is 11 impractical at present but they believe that tin nn international agreement emont to restrict nad and reduce armament gradually cra dually may 11 mell ell bo be ren reached clied our delegates fire aro of the same mind as the lie president in holding eliat tho the proposal of tho the pacifists paci fists that the united states reduce armament even if tho the other nations itsuso r foolish the league of nations lind had it aare 11 up p over this last week the and french negates opposed a 11 resolution calling oil oft a fixed coin mission to make anke genera proposals for reduction lon of armament fl and lord robert cecil south aari ca declared it was vital fut tho the league and for pence peace that bo be done find and that great britain and france franca should either present their own proposals or cease obstructing fhe he pro projects acts put forward by orbett tin the resolution was wag adopted A commit tee named to submit an op ip lillon on the competence of the league to lo re rc vaso csc treaties na as was asked by bolivia in lie case of the peru bolivia fact found that the ns assembly cannot or of itself modify any treaty that 1 ben being 19 solely tie the com competence competed 1 e of tho lie contracting parties once more inore Pre premier niter lloyd george has fins sent lid ills last word to rebellious ireland and tills this time it ketly sound like the last DrI briefly triefly efly the alio premier tells tella do valeri i that the british gov ern ment though sincerely desirous of pence peace cannot enter into A confer conference enco on oil tho the basis of the irish leaders leader communications because despite do D valoras valeras personal assurance to tin the contrary it might involve tho the government in a recognition of irish arido independence pen dence which no british government can accord nevertheless tin the government feels that conference it Is tho the most practical way of accomplish ing reconciliation and settlement and therefore lloyd george extends to do da val valera era a fresh invitation to a conference in london on october ll it arthur GrI fIlth who will head bond tho the irish delo gutlon it if the conference Is held has hai declared the sinn feln tins hits nevet asked the lie british government to it aitio the independence of ireland as a a n preliminary to a conference conferences thill leads to to the bell belief ef that the sinn veto fela can now accept lloyd georgos georges ineita alon ton without stultifying itself the senate has received majority and minority reports froni from its committee on oil privileges and elections elect tona on the ford newberry senatorial election contest from michigan in two respects the reports agree that henry ford was not elected and that too much money was spent in the michigan primary on all other major issues they diverge the majority re port clears newberry new berry of nil all charges charge including corruption declares him tha duly elected senator and recommends recommend a that lie ho bo be seated the minority report signed by democrats finds new berry was wai elected by corrupt and illegal methods and recommends that ills ids sent seat be declared vacant plant final action by the senate may not bo be taken for several weeks there is little doubt as to what it will b be e meantime il in e it 1 t 1 li I 1 understood t in r to d mr newberry will not attend senate ses sessions lions the war department has made bif lie ile it iti plan for tho creation of 0 the organized reserve of tho the array army on a 0 that will bill permit the quick fulch mobilization of more than fighting men twenty seven infantry divisions of the reserves aro are provider provide 4 for numbering from the seventy to the one hundred and fourth thus thin preserving both in number and the th geographical location where each hinted the 10 16 wartime national army divisions the same territorial distribution trib ution as to armies ariates and army carpi areas la Is followed ns as in the regi regular ilai army organization find and the ho present structure of the flat national lonal guard the three arms arma of national land defense forces will be on tin nn identical bast basl with control decentralized from wash ington and all three in the 1111 hands rills of tho the coins coida area comma commanders nurL |