Show AA 0 Is A VAN drw aa I 1 jolin john huward alayne memorial gate tit t union college Y eliere centennial of 0 Ilon alonie ll onie le sweet home will be celebrated may 8 2 mrs kiln first coln women an lawyer in Ilu Itu manla manin addressing first congress of Ruma illan woman suffragists in bucharest 3 men ot of sixth battalion U S naval reserve getting an eagle boat ready tor for tho the spring cruise NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS president commits himself and administration to tho world court plan SEES NO SPLIT IN PARTY bitter reply by senator la follette chester concession complicates complicate the lausanne conference muo mua strengthens ms his position in italy wedding of duke of york dy by EDWARD W PICKARD 4 H HAVE AVE you made up your mind on the question of american Americ Rn membership in the world court do you believe the presidents dentle insistence on this issue will injure tho the chances of the republican party part in th next national election or help those of the democrats R tile the ndel lubko ev of Corti certain lill possibly timorous advisers fresl dent tills ims firmly committed himself and lila ills party so fur far nil as lie Is able to Aint american rIcan membership in world orld court tn in ills now new york address before tile the members of tile tho press lie he asserted that tills was in keeping with american ideals and further had been repeatedly advocated by the republican party in national conventions and by himself as ai that bartys candidate lie ile explained the plan clearly and without technicality and told how important tho the tribunal will wll be in the work w arlt of restoring europe to normal conditions tile the president insisted as he be has before that lie he has bas no intention of trying to inveigle his country into the league of nations on this topic he said laid in compliance with its pledges the new administration which came into power in march 1021 1921 deOnI definitely tely and decisively put aside all thought of tho the united states entering the league of nations it propose to enter now by the side aide door the back door or the cellar door I 1 time have no ly comment to offer on the league if it 1 Is serving tho the old world helpfully more power to it but lout it Is 13 not for us the senate has so declared the executive has so declared the people have so declared nothing could be more decisively stamped with finality concerning the tear fear of some of the republican leaders that tile the issue would split the iho party mr lind had this to say 1 I would not have it thought that I 1 hold tills question paramount to all others confronting our government I 1 do not hold ita it a menace to the unity of political party it Is not to he be classed ns as a party question but if anny party repeatedly advocating a world court Is to be retired by the suggestion of an effort to perform in accordance bilth its pledges pled gei it needs a new appraisal of its assets our problems nt at lionie home invariably call for first consideration our own house must be kept in order our own good fortune must be assured before we can be large contributors to world progress or measurably helpful to humanity Sena senators toris lodge Drand brandegee egee find and watson indiana are the most prominent of those who oppose the presidents program in the matter of the world court and the massachusetts roan man was selected to tell mr how dangerous it was to party unity senator mckenley of illinois arid and representative graham also of illinois candidate for house leoler ship announced they would support the president and it Is certain that many democrats wilt will do the same r COURSE ln la follette Is 0 OF against the world court plan and ifon alfone one believes what tile the wisconsin statesman lin says one must assume that larding Is either wilfully wilf illy and deceitful or Ingon celva bly stupid 1 this Is 12 a rather broad broa d 11 statement but bill what other oilier deduction can call be made from the lie assertions of la follette Follet tc given to tile press in washington lust last wednesday hero la Is a part of ills abts fulmination in its ita first aspect tills 19 1 a part of the cloverly cleverly conceived plan of tile the international a ter bankers to entangle the united states in n the affairs of europe so that lint american wealth american soldiers tin and american can be used to safeguard anti protect their now allnott wort liless investments in 1 the bonds currencies und enterprises of the tottering nations Ditt lons of europe this plan contemplates a n political sham battle in which the will support the of nations and tile administration will battle bravely for the world court in other words fw for the langtio in disguised and diluted form forin under tills Cuni ting plan the alie pro leneco democrats or the pro court jt I 1 anns win will the result will be the tile united states will vill bo be sly entangled tangled d in tile tie european clinos chaos in its be second end li the glorification ol of the world court Is tin an attempt to draw at 11 red herring across the alie ti trall all of the groat great domestic issues rind tills thus seek to save the administration and its supporting interests fram tile lie wrath of till an aroused find awakened people they biant american farmers I 1 to turn their eyes and their minds florl their own bankrupt farms to the devastated areas of I 1 europe and thus forget lint their present deplorable condition Is the work of phoso great mo interests which now control tile political and economic machinery of the untied united states ln ill Ful lettes view is said to ile be nil also 0 0 hint of senators johnson and borah find nil three of them are planning to trall trail utter after the president ili n ills speech making tour and present to the people their slue tile of at tile the argument PROSPECTS precognition rosar ROS Pr ats are bright for an early recognition of the obregon government of at Alex mexico teci by the united states ahil the resumption of relations A joint commission has been appointed to discuss nil all mutters matters in dispute and both governments are desirous that the negotiations be expedited mexican officials believe tile c conferences which will be held in mexico city will vill be ended in four or five weeks the american members of tile the commission are john barton payne of chicago and charles beecher lV warren arren former ambassador to japan DESPITE dateus the Covern governments ments legal steps the price ot of sugar continues to advance and the consumer Is advised to buy only in wall quantities from day to day in order not to fild the speculators the federal tariff commission denies that tho the tariff Is to blame tor for the rise in sugar prices but cordell hull clig Lirman of the democratic national committee disputes tills this conclusion says lie he the chief original underlying basis for the recent sky rocketing of sugar li Is the prohibitive tariff wall amounting nominally to 2 2 20 cents lait but in effect to cents to cents a pound against the world and ami tho the differential tariff in favor of cuba amounting noan nominally to cents but in effect to cents to 2 cents a pound mattica and american interests aare AMERICA art cutting a big figure in ili tile the lausanne pence conference w which was resumed last week underlying much of the discussion anti anil negotiation Is the great chester concession which the french In tinges es on concessions granted them by the old turkish government and which the british declare they will not recognize in so far as it may inay infringe jon the rights they claim in the oil region kt at the opening of the conference joseph 0 grew head of the american delegation of observers served notice that he and his colleagues would safeguard the legitimate national interests or of tile the united states and would uphold upheld tile the principle of equal commercial opportunity for or nil all nat nations lons naturally lie he made no specific mention of the chester cuni cession and up to tills this time it I 1 la Is said lie hns received no dinces from the state department regarding it nut bill in washington it wits understood that the government had bad carefully ln obligated he concession bai concluded it was not monopolistic in diameter character and consequently would instruct the american delegates nt at lausanne to aland up nil for the rights ot of admiral chaster and his fellow the british are arc inclined to support the french contentions tent ions lons in tile the matter and it may bp be the whole dispute will be referred ta to arbitrators franco france and turkey now have a mini imad on nt each oilier and be both il have ninde made threatening gestures in ili the way of military concentrations along the syrian frontier the turks ila however weyer say they to do not expect war anti an official statement from angora indicates they vill make inake enough concessions to insure peace boice at present they ore are assuming an unyielding attitude la in the conference LL THE world tills hns been 1 waiting ALL A J to see vi whether bether chancellor chancell 0 r cuno cullo would give into the lie demands of tile socialists cia lists and others and mahe 11 deal title offer on oil reparations reparation 9 it may lafty 10 he will havo have lone done so before tills Is rend for a few lays days tile germans were encouraged lu in their fight against the french in ili the by garbled reports of a speech by Arar marquis quis curzon indicating that england might intel intervene then they learned that curzon had meant just tile opposite and later he aso also nilde made it clear that great Ireat britain would not net act as nn an intermediary iry for tiny any offer from germany to france the berlin socialist press says tile industrial ma magnate vates by buying foreign exchange heavily on the berlin bourse I 1 have tile efforts of tile hie to maintain tile the mark nt at a stable level find cuno Is called on to investigate it Is believed believe hOlve however verl lie will vill tio do nothing because nn an inquiry might implicate him B BENITO MUSSOLINI Is prepa preparing ring to put into effect in italy some solee moro mon drastic reforms according to I 1 reports from home and Is likely to drive all non noli fascist members from its ills cabinet so that there shall be no effective opposition moreover lie proposed to the fo fascist s alst supreme council that oil all the fascist bo be embodied into a national militia ns as a reserve naval fore force e rind to tills this the council agreed the ellit ft thus becomes an army of men but no additional expenditure Is entailed because the new men enter the actual service only in an emergency in tills this way mussolini it would appear would hold the whip hand over all hla his opponents effected many economies since coming into power 11 premier mussolini lias has reduced the budget deficit for the fiscal year 1923 24 to three billion lire or less by discharging superfluous pe political employees and checking the waste of coal and sup aup plies piles lie he cut some lire from the huge loss on the operation ot of railways and he hopes to lease the state owned lines to private capital the italian lira it may be ba remarked Is now nov worth jorth a little less than 5 cents TURKS reparations and all other kinds of trouble were forgotten for a few days in london and the lie people deop I 1 e turned their attention to the marriage of the luke duke of york second son of king george and queen mary and lady elizabeth lyon lion daughter of 0 the thoen earl rl of strathmore the ceremony was performed in westminster abbey and the whole affair was stately and munificent magnificent our ambassador arid ills hla wife were ivere present in the abbey sir mr harvey being resplendent in full cour court it regalia including velvet knee breeches only seven other Anne americans ricans nil all newspaper men witnessed the tha wedding ceremony rALI CALI FORNIAS antl allen ian land d laws J were before the united states supreme court last week in ft a hearing to test their constitutionality attorney general webb presenting the states case was interrupted by questions from the bench what wo we want to know chief justice taft interjected Is what the japanese Japa neso tire are doing to which you take objection the white people refuse to assimo late with the japanese mr aebli replied gilld as ah the japanese line advances ya acs we retreat and we do not like to retreat when cowhen the japanese occupy land in our state exclude from it people who might become citizens IV wo e be hero our government goi emment state find and na ila tl a I 1 will III bo be best protected anti served avii BOH furj ads aro ar occupied hy by those w who i io have sympathy with will our institutions and crin can be compelled to CO contribute to tb its preservation ton i |