Show T 0 ow A r 24 40 U 3 1 second public session ot of tho the permanent world court with first german judge lit at left count sarp foreign minister of 0 poland who ought fought a bloodless duet duel with fortner former president 3 general gener gouraud of prance france paying homage to tile tho colors of tile tho U S marine corps lit at quantico NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS britain offers to draft an allied reply to demany ge many and my may act alone A CONDEMNS RUHR occupation poincare still insists on complete submission and payment by berlin america disturbed by slump in wheat price france ratifies washington treaties by EDWARD W PICKARD y HOMAS R MARSHALL for T THOMAS mer vice president has writ ten to edward W bok donor of a prize for the best plan for avoiding wars suggesting i that the people who do the fight ing and pay the bills be permit ted to decide whether or not a war shall be waged of court course this Is an old idea but Is not the plan F 1 for uch such a a referendum worth considering W fth P FRANCE and italy are arc willing A great britain will mill assume tile the responsibility of preparing a reply for the allies to the latest latest german repa rat rations lons note lote the jo e 0 vernm tai alms botein y at at ille to pacification of europe and the re rec covely of the exhausted world we like our allies are determined hat germany shall ahall pay all sho she can but we feel that to seek to force her to pay pa in excess of her capacity la Is futile atlle we said the french occupation of the buhr would not bo be a financial success and it europe Is alarmed by the threatened total collapse of germany the recovery of the w world orld Is in danger peace Is at stake that briefly summarized Is tho the statement made to the house of comlin ong by premier baldwin and tp the house of lords by marquis curzon cu arzon last thursday afternoon it was made clear that great britain while earnestly desiring siring unified action by the allies would act alone alona it if that extreme course were necessary what the british proposals in the contemplated note will be Is not stated mr baldwin while admitting that the german proposals set forth in the recent note were unsatisfactory and insufficient Bulu clent declared they should not bo be ignored but should bo be examined and explored lie ile was ft as especially outspoken concerning tho the ruhr situation asserting that indefinite occupation by one country of 0 the territory of another in time of pence was ft as a rare and regrettable phenomenon an honorable end lor for which should be found as aa speedily as possible debate on the statement in the house of commons it wile was decided by tho the parliamentary leaders should be postponed until july 10 in order that the attitude of other countries toward the pronouncement might be learned during the discussion it Is expected the plan of tin an international commission of experts to determine germanys germanas Germ anys financial resources ns as suggested by secretary of state II Il will bo be brought forward foiw ard Pres pressure gure from business and labor practically forced the baldwin cabinet to take the course announced it has the warm support or of the labor party in parliament and of most of the influential fluent ial lat newspapers prance france will do in this crisis als WHAT Is problematical at this writing in the senate thursday premier coln care said eald 1 I am aa confident I 1 an am not worried it if england breaks away from us she will soon be back at our side germany will wait in vain aln tor for a single moment of weakness on our part france wll will finish what she has begun she ehe will continue until the collapse of german resistance resist anee we cannot accept any mediation between france and dermady Oer maDy italy it Is believed will ave its approval to the british plan and it way may be that the little entente and poland will back it up though fran france ce has hag been trying earnestly ca rusty to hold thim them to their aa adherence to her policies one correspondent spon dent says sas poland and ItU mania lino borrowed all they can from france and nd are now eager to get from under her control belgium Is not in a position to break away from I nance rance whatever may be her desires GERMANY ANY naturally sees in tile british statement a way out of some of her troubles but ns as yet let those troubles artro merely luereny growing greater last week tile entire nation was vas aroused by the boosting of the price of coal to about 5 a ton the highest in germanys germanas Germ anys history tile the radicals yelled 1 tiled that stinnes and tile the great coal barons were again deriving huge profits from Germ germans anys misery and the industrialists said that doubling the coal price meant doubling the prices of nil all manufactured products and closing the works when the people were unable to buy bui doctor hitherto the closest friend of stinnes denounced the efforts oan of a few industrial magnates to get hold of nil all the count rys resources and industries and to pron profiteer teer while went vent down to ruin we are dancing on a volcano and we stand on the threshold of a new revolution it we do not the differences between tile workingmen and industrialists now said herr tile tho berlin government announced that the prices of bread would be quadrupled because of the further decline cline of the mark whereupon a great throng ot of unemployed mainly metal workers marched to the open market in potsdam and demanded that tho the dealers sell at cost this being refused the mob wrecked tho the market one grocer raised the american flog flag and declared its his shop was american territory because he ft was as selling canned gooss goods fio from M chicago AST wednesday for the first time L LAST since the beginning of the world war in 1014 july wheat sold on the chicago board of trade for less than a dollar a bushel and coincidentally the millers reduced the price of hour flour to 0 a barrel the lowest since 1015 according to the chicago brokers tho the price depression which has been steadily progressive of late la is due primarily to overproduction everywhere and to a general readjustment of grain values toward prewar conditions in addition recent fears of heavy damage to wheat in tile the northwest from black rust have been dissipated with corresponding effect on prices another cause tor for the slump given ghen by tile the brokers is lack of speculation in the market due to tho the capper abot which requires a report ot of holdings to tho the government gilbert dusler market statistician for the american farm bureau declared that if september and december cheats go RS as low ns DS 05 cents a bushel it will mean a loss of to the american farmer fijn UR english cousins wore were considerably kj excited over the arrival at southampton of the leviathan on her first trip across since being rebuilt they refuse to admit in the face of facts that she Is the queen of all liners and they were especially sore because a good many members of her crew were believed to be deserters from british ships the police searched tho the leviathan for these culprits but found few it Is probably true however that more of them were among the vessels sailors and stewards for they are paid 75 per cent higher wages than on english ships and say they receive much better treatment among the leviathans Levi athans passengers was albert D laskar ansker former chairman of the shipping board and in london he was ono one of the guests at a dinner dinder given by the pilgrims he ha ex on that occasion that american ships do not sene liquor because president harding thought it would be inconsistent for america to be dry on land and wet at sea ile he said eald no greater hurt could happen to the american merchant marine marina than to seek to force foreigners to be dry somehow he added foreign vessels will and as I 1 believe should learn to serve liquor outside the three mile limit what we wish to do with our ships Is our business what you wish to do with your ships Is your business nobody alses int would be the gainers all around it if the coming congress would find a means to expedite legislation to clear up the present muddle mr laskers successor as head of the shipping board mr parley farley has announced formally that all board ves sels gels will continue to be d dry ry ns as no deviation from that policy Is contemplated but informally it t was given out that passengers could carry their own liquor aboard for the board will w not undertake to exercise police powers without opposition the ALMOST washington naval limitation treaty and the four power treaty were ratified by the french ben senate after having been approved by tile the chamber timber cl of deputies senator renald in the debate said ill the 0 n naval a val tr treaty e aty would not be burdensome to because she was as unable to afford more capital ships than the agreement allowed and the other classes of war craft were not affected ile he said that at washington proper account of F frances rances geographical situation was not taken but that the commission on foreign affairs accepts the tonnage lit t tributes trl tri buted to us because france wishes to devote her greatest efforts to the construction construct ton not of an offensive high seas fleet but of light units and submarines france also proposes to have as great an aar force as any other nation believing her greatest danger in the future from G germany ermany for instance will lie in aerial attack great britain too Is planning to build up an air force equal to any other and the government informed the commons that while it would be glad to participate in a conference looking to limitation in that direction there was no prospect of 0 any such conference while the affairs of europe remain so unsettled supervision of the G government anthracite industry to a degree that will insure corporate and individual responsibility to the public Is ree recommended om mended in a report of the federal coal commission government ownership of the mines Is opposed but the principle Is enunciated that coal Is as much a public necessity as gas street railway service or anything else that has been brought under public regulation complete publicity as to mining costs profits salaries wages and corporate relations Is called tor for axlie commission further recommends that in the event of a suspension of mining operations the president shall be authorized to take over the production of the mines and distribution of coal and to determine price wages and compensation to land find and mine owners this aroused the ire of samuel gompers who often can see only one side aide of such questions lie ile said the corn com mission by its recommendation would invoke the penalty of compulsory labor upon the miners but for the monopolistic owners of the coal mines the commission would provide a sla slap on tho the wrist a severe dose of publicity that would be only the ghost the merest shadow of a penalty any attempt to outlaw the right to stop work as a means of improving the condition of the working people of the united states Is doomed to fall such attempts have failed in the past and will be equally unsuccessful la in the future labor will never give up the right to fo strike as a last resort in the fight against wrong and oppression at the request of the coal commission the interstate commerce com commission MIS lias has ordered an investigation of the reasonableness of anthracite freight rates PRESIDENT RESIDENT HARDING after A pleasant voyage up the coast visited juneau and skagway Sk agay and passing through ley icy strait and cross sound proceeded to seward their itinerary then took them to F fairbanks terminus of the alaska railroad and it was tile the I 1 intention to go from thence to Ch chilina chitina Itina on the copper river and northwestern railroad overland last week swarmed with aeike ATLANTA elks who were attending the annual grand lodge convention and aad james jamea G of south dakota was elected grand exalted ruler and then some eight thousand elks paraded the streets with many floats and bands mitat THAT american dyes are now ande A in quantity and quality to supply all the count coun rys demands la Is the gratifying statement made diode by the federal tariff commission in this respect the report says saya tile the united states la is now DOW independent of the rest of the world conr domestic dyes are ae as pod good u those of germany before the war itne na the price to ti being r reduced steadily |