| Show ap vl j Z L 0 az Q X 2 S V ax I 1 scene during the great flood that mat swept over tulsa okla oil centea center of the southwest 2 berdn eye view of juneau where abere president harding will make his first stop in alaska 3 historic old tammany hall ball in new york which ts Is for sale NEWS EOS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS president harding starts on his tour through the west and to alaska WHEAT COUNCIL IS FORMED conference i arence on the industry however re rejects I 1 acts price fixing plan mount itna etna eruption ion wo works aka havoc in sadly frenca propose to make germans labor in ruhr B by EDWARD PICKARD R ANDREW anbrew MEIKLE DJOHN DR JOHN retiring from the presidency of amherst college atthe request of the trustees because brause they considered him too liberal dd declares clares our colleges should not be run by trustees because they are bushmen bu symen and do not know what Is going on of arnerich Ar america and democracy he has this to say america Is trying to be a democracy and america know how to be a democracy Ar america cant think in democratic terms america still thinks in terms of privilege and possession and position and social clique amer lea ica must learn to think in other terms than those and it has a long task what have you and your acquaintances quain to say to these statements PRESIDENT P RESIDENT HARDING has begun his journey of more than two months through the middle west and west to alaska and through the pan ama canal to porto rico already lie he has delivered in st sf louis his main address concerning american membership in the world court ne ile set forth at length the reasons why he favors such membership and has now left the matter to the decision of the american people who before deciding will have plenty of opportunity to hear or read tho the views of the opposition mr air harding could not be induced to abandon or be silent about hla his advocacy of the world court membership by those who feared eared it would cause a party split but it Is not likely that he will dwell on the subject in ills his future addresses ur mr harding still insists his trip Is in no sense a campaign tour in the interests of his bis on the continent he seeks to get in close touch with the people west of the mississippi sis sippi on paramount issues in alaska he desires to learn leam at first hand band what Js Is the matter with the government of the territory and why its development Is retarded in porto rico he probably will have to take a hand band in straightening out the administration of the island for already the new governor horace 31 towner Is being subjected to bitter attack for the alleged offense of favoring too markedly the faction that recently succeeded in ousting governor relly inelly mrs accompanies the presidential party and seems now to the bo in the best of health WHEAT marketon market marketing ln and wheat prices were discussed thoroughly etwo days last week by a targe large number of prominent men who met in national conference in chicago there were were governors among them and congressmen gims men farmers carmera tar mera railway men and grain traders the proposition of a minority group for the fixing of wheat prices wits was voted down and a plan was adopted for the organization of it 0 permanent national wheat council and a board of directors was named to carry out the work resolutions were adopted In dorsing operative cooperative co marketing the convention favored tie the lauon of wheat prices peces the lion noticing being made by the interstate corn com mer ce commission as to the reasonableness of 61 existing freight rates on grain and grain products was indorsed endorsed Indor sed increase of domestic consumption ot of wheat and wheat products was urged F fifteen een men front from various branches of industry and agriculture were named directors rectors dl among them are 0 I 1 U bradfute Drad tute fute head of the american farm bureau daniel A wallace minnesota Dub publisher lIsher and brother of tho the secretary of ct agriculture julius fleisch riel sch mann cincinnati president of the fleischmann yeast company alexander legge president of the international harvester company F edson white president of armour co find and 11 II E H byram president chicago milwaukee ast st paul railroad the rejected minority plan was that a grain corporation be formed supplied with money tym the united states treasury to buy all tile tike amerl can farmers wheat as soon as tho the price dropped to a 0 bushel Senit senator tor capper of kansas yas was one of tho the most vociferous of the he conferees as be expected and at the opening session he seized the opportunity port unity to denounce the chicago board of trade asserting that it has haa become the worlds greatest gambling place and fixes the alie price tor for the benefit of the speculator and against the producer and consumer he added in may 1022 a half balf dozen grain gamblers cleaned up something like in 24 hours which wits mote moro than all the farmers of kansas made put out of thelt their entire crop in 1922 1022 this will not be possible with the capper law in operation vice president john R mauff of the chicago board of trade hotly resented cappers charges denying them absolutely After afterward ivard lie said the boards directory would soon decide whether tho the kansas senator should not be sued for damages on account of defamation of character of the 1598 members of the board AMONG UONG the participants la in the wheat conference was gov J A ao preus of minnesota who had just the for united states senator to succeed the late knuta nelson ile he defeated eight rivals in the primary the farm er labor party nominated magnus johnson and the democh democrats ats named james A carley preus Is more of a practical politician than Is F rank frank B kellogg and may win where kellogg kell og 9 failed ills advent in the senate would not be vastly more pleasing to the conservatives serva tives than would be that of another farmer labor senator ra FROM 0 across the water the most sensational sat t to ional nal news of the week told of the terrific eruptions of mount etna vast volumes of molten lava flowed down tile the slopes of the sicilian volcano utterly destroying a number of towns and rendering homeless many thousands of persons for some days dais it was believed the larger towns of linguaglossa Lingua glossa and castiglione also were doomed but as the lava laa river flowed into the valley talley between beti iven them it was said by experts that they would be saved king victor Emmal emmanuel luel hurried to the scene of disaster to cheer up the sufferers and prom promise I 1 se them relief and premier mussolini later dropped all other business and also went to sicily united states ambassador child and hear admiral andrews arrived on the cruiser pittsburgh and we were rb greenl gree teI I with ft ath almost hy hysterical sterl gratitude for sicily well remembers what america did for her when messina was destroyed by an earthquake the forces of the red cross were in action promptly OS as always and there was plenty for them to do among the throngs of refugees most of whom were gathered in catania vesuvius also has become more active and the villages along the day bay of naples are badly frightened there have been severe earthquakes jn in siberia arnd south america as well as aa the frightfully destructive quakes in persia recorded a 1 week ago rind find mauna manna lon loa Ila walls tam famous ous volcano iino Is in eruption treated TIIE TIE cartoonist depicts france as seated upon the ruhr food supply and saying to the passive resistance germans german now work starve or fight and then asks which would prance france prefer the germans to do it appears that franco Is about to answer the question for dispatches from dusseldorf say any the french are preparing to confiscate and requisition a force of germans to operate all the ruhr valley industries ilie the output of which may be turned to the account of reparations germans who refuse to do this work will receive jail sentences up to IS 15 years and sabotage may be punished with death sentences on conviction by court martial passive resistance Is steadily weakening find and this I 1 Is a duo due in large measure to the food situation one of tho the german government orders already has been repealed and firms are now permitted to pay freight rates on food transported on lines operated by the french ono of the latest seizures by the french was that of tho the sugar factories nt frankenthal and neighboring villages this serious food situation Is affecting all of germany especially because of the further decline of the mark which Is rapidly approaching the worthlessness eneis of tho the russian ruble flour imports from the united plates tates at hamburg have stopped and importers there have lost heavily because buyers refuse to take shipments they ordered there Is a shortage of fish too and the german high seas fishing industry Is about to suspend because of labor and financial troubles insistence insistence by the turks that their count rys bonds be paid in turkish all paper money Is expected at title this writing to result in t the he break breaking lilg up of 0 the lie peace conference at lausanne this however does not mean resumption of warfare the negotiations will be carried on through tho the legations and it Is taken tor for granted a separate separate peace treaty will be signed by turkey and greece permitting demobilization in thrace the french who would be the main sufferers by the turkish plan of payment will not agree to it and presumably will have the lukewarm support of great britain and italy B civil war seems to be ba petering out though them the yellow guards of tho the peasantry have not yet glen given up the fight in sofia it is ns as seated that ft when hen the little entente meets to determine its policy toward bulgaria poland and rumania will de cl clarala arela cla reIn favor of the new regime taking the position that the revolution was purely an internal affair this attitude presumably will be due largely to the belief that tho the government will not make any alliance with bolshevists TIIU 1111 british through their r representatives senta tives in fit the house of commons are again fussing about conditions on ellis island asserting that at times as many ns as pers persons 0 as of various races are housed lik in the same name sleeping quarters and that english subjects are subjected to this indignity ellis island officials admit th the e truth of the charge but can see no wa way y of remedying the situation unless a gigantic building Is erected they say the policy Is to treat all alike but that the british seem to expect special consideration gi B OOZE news of the week was 1 1 rather slim the wisconsin senate killed the bill passed by the lower house honse repealing the states enforcement act the vote being 19 to 12 this had been expected the british liner Bere garla sailed balled from south an ampton ipton with a new plan to foil our prohibition regulations besides enough liquor in tier bar for the trip westward she had in her hold under quadruplicate british customs seal goal enough liquor for the voyage v home to be opened only after getting beyond ahe three mile limit it was argued that Thal this liquor technically was in a british bonded warehouse and a nd therefore not noi liable 0 to o alke laws of the united state so long as the seals were not broken lo in a united stat states es port american gov cov officials however said the would seize the liquor as soon as 08 vessel arrived P resident nES IDENT I 1 has as corn muted the sentences of 24 of IN hi 18 48 political prisoners still in ariso for conspiracy to obstruct the conduct of the war clemency Is denied thi th others because their offenses wen va in the extreme la in the worda of the attorney general b |
