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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Senate Passes Patman Bonus Bill in Face of Presidential Presiden-tial Veto Amelia Earliart Makes Another Eitie Record Flight. u By EDWARD W. PICKARD C. Weitera Newspaper Union. BECAUSE the Patman Inflation bonui bill would be easier for the President to veto than the Vinton Vin-ton measure, some of the admlnls- t r a 1 1 o n senators Joined with the rat-man rat-man followers to put the former bill if ScsrSsJSl Rep. Patman 'A ''t'''k through the senate S&7Vvj by a vote of 65 to OJ. I'reviousiy, lur some devious reason, rea-son, the senators put aside the compromise com-promise measure offered of-fered by Pat Harrison's Har-rison's committee with the assurance that Mr. Roosevelt would sign It. That the President would veto the Patman bill was taken as a certainty cer-tainty and It was believed the Inflationists Infla-tionists could not gather enough votes to override the veto In the senate, though they had enough In the house. Rather surprisingly, Senator William Wil-liam O. McAdoo of California, a former secretary of the treasury, advocated the Patman bill, asserting assert-ing that It was "a mere conjecture" that the issue of $2,200,000,000 In nonlnterest hearing notes, or greenbacks, green-backs, would be Inflationary. "We have nothing in the United States today but greenbacks," he said. "Is your money redeemable in gold? Is It redeemable In sliver? No. It Is redeemable In nothing but the honor and good faith of the American people. "What constitutes Inflation Is a matter of conjecture. It Is also a mere conjecture that we must have a so-called specie basis. The best proof of that Is that, since going off gold, the dollar Is as sound as It ever was. "The issuance of $2,200,000,000 in new currency would affect the credit cred-it of the United States about as much as if I threw a shovelful of sand into the ocean and tried to stop the Incoming tide." Some friends of the mensure, after the President Indicated he would veto It, decided It might be better to amend It than to lose It entirely. They proposed to give the President the choice of several ways of paying the bonus certificates. T5 nw ' I Amelia Earhart Mrs. Putnam FROM Mexico City to the Metropolitan Metro-politan airport at Newark, N. J., nonstop, 2,100 miles In 14 hours and 22 minute. That Is the new record set up by Amelia Earhart In her red monoplane. Her husband, George Palmer Putnam, Put-nam, and more than 8,000 other enthusiastic en-thusiastic persons were at the airport air-port to welcome her, and she was almost mobbed by the throng. After her start from Mexico City, was not heard from nor reported seen for more than six hours. Her tourse took her straight east at first, over the mountain peaks between be-tween the Mexican capital and Tam-plco. Tam-plco. She was not seen at the oil port, nor was she reported by radio. Observers knew, however, that she expected to be above 10,000 feet as she crossed the shoreline shore-line out over the gulf of her COO mile hop over the water to New Orleans. Passing over New Orleans, she communicated by radio with the Department of Commerce station there, and then flew swiftly along the airways of American Air Lines and Eastern Air Lines. As she Swooped over Hoover airport, Washington, Wash-ington, Eugene Vidal, director of the air commerce bureau, radioed: "You have done a splendid Job, so come down." Rut Amelia replied, with thanks for the Invitation, that she was going on through. And that Is what she did. FOLLOWING a lively debate the bouse passed the omnibus banking bank-ing bill, which rewrites the federal reserve act so as to make a virtual central bank out of the reserve system, sys-tem, with power to manipulate monetary mon-etary policies for the purpose of promoting business stability. The final vote, after various amendments had been rejected, was 271 to 110. In the senate the mensure will be strongly combnttrd, with Senator Carter Glass leading the opposition. Glass wrote the banking bill during the Wilson administration, and be objects to having the system tampered tam-pered with by Federal Reserve Gov. Marriner S. Ecele. TWO billion dollars of the works relief fund were segregated for Immediate distribution by the works allotment division at Its first session. ses-sion. The uin was divided Into works classifications as provided by the winks relief net, these Inrlinl lug road construction, grade cross lug elimination, rural i t babilitntioii, rural electrification, low cost housing hous-ing and general construction. Allotments Al-lotments for specific projects were to be made later, a list of these contemplating expenditure of $100,-000,000 $100,-000,000 being submitted by Mr. I ekes as approved by the PWA and referred to Frnk Walker's division of applications and Information. sidjBiClteMjlij GEORGE N. PEEK. In his capacity capac-ity of advisor to the President on foreign trade, has Just male pub lie statistics that tend to show the United States is los Ing Its position as the world's chief creditor nation, and makes recommen dations that arc In accord with the growing trend against lnternotlon all rid In the admin-latiallflJl..Ji,nd admin-latiallflJl..Ji,nd In conflict with Socre-rnrv Socre-rnrv Hull's nroeram George N. Peek of ren)0vlng barr. ers to International trade by reciprocal recipro-cal trade agreements. Stating that whether or not this country still owes less to other nations na-tions than they owe to It appears to dejK-nd on the true value of defaulted de-faulted war debts. Mr. Peek recommends recom-mends these Immediate steps: "1. The Inauguration of a Mailed study of our direct Investments abroad and foreigners' direct Investments Invest-ments In the United States, to supplement sup-plement the studies now In progress of capita) movements. "2. A review of all national policies poli-cies based In whole or In part upon oar International creditor status." The proposal seems to lead toward to-ward high tariffs and a policy of allocating our foreign trade among other nations, as Is done by many of the European countries. Figures compiled by Mr. Peek Indicate In-dicate that the United States Is a net International creditor by $16.-897,000,000, $16.-897,000,000, but this Includes $10.-304.000,000, $10.-304.000,000, principal amount of war debts owed by foreign governments, and also foreign bonds held by private pri-vate Investors In the United States Invoiced at their face value, and a pre-depresslon estimate of the value of American branch factories abroad and other direct Investments in foreign for-eign countries. Mr. Peek strongly Infers that a re-estlmation of these "assets" will result In such a scaling down that this country will no long er be a creditor nation and need not a?t as such. By his recommendation for a review re-view of all our national policies based In whole or In part on our International In-ternational credit status, Mr. Peek unquestionably means that there will be no further validity to the argument that as a creditor nation we must open our markets to Imported Im-ported goods, and that Imports need be only sufficient to balance current exports, taking Into consideration such Invisible Items of International Internation-al trade as shipping services and tourist expenditures. , IN THE crash of a transport plane ' of Transcontinental Western Air near Atlanta, Mo.. Senator Bronson M. Cutting of, New Mexico and four other persons fell to their death. The pilot was unable to land at Kansas City because of a dense fog and his fuel gave out before he e o n 1 d reach an emergency landing field at Kirksvllle Besides Mr. Cut ting those killed were Miss Jeanne A. Hillias of Kansas City. Mrs. William Senator Cutting Kaplan of West os Angeles, and Harvey Bolton and. K. 11. Greeson, pilots, both of Kansas City. Eight passengers were seriously Injured. Bronson Cutting, a millionaire of an aristocratic family, was a radical radi-cal Republican and was one of the outstanding members of the senate. He supKrted Mr. Roosevelt for President In 11W2. but when he came up for re-election last fall be was not given the endorsement of the administration. THERE'S likely to be another hat In the Republican Presidential ring soon. Congressman Hamilton Fish, Jr., of New York, says he may be a candidate for the nomination. If the call came on a basis of party, Fish said, he, would not listen. Nor would he listen If It came from ttie Enst alone. He said be knew the people would want a young man for President one who Is libera) and yet reaffirms and defends the Constitution; a man who has the Interest of the farmers and the workers at heart. And that's Ji;nt nbont the kind of mail Mr. Klsli thinks he Is. The congressman U forty seven years old mid. Ilka "Ml? Roosevelt, Is a graduate of Harvard, lie believes the Republicans have better than a good chance to win the HO! election. GOLD medals or the National in stltute of Social Science were awarded io four American humanitarians humani-tarians at the Institute's annual dinner In New Yort, and no one will say they were not deserved. One was given Senator Carter Glass of Virginia "in recognition of distinguished services rendered to humanity as ope of the leaders In the planning and creation of the federal reserve banking system, as secretary of the treasury, as United States senator, and as one who, through a long life, consistently and unsparingly devoted his abilities and energies to public service." Dr. narvey Cushlng of Boston received re-ceived a medal for his "distinguished "distin-guished services rendered to humanity human-ity as a leader In surgery and social so-cial medicine." Dr. George E. Vincent was honored hon-ored for services "as professor of sociology, as president of the University Uni-versity of Minnesota, as president of the Rockefeller foundation, as president of the Chautauqua Institution, Insti-tution, as one of the leaders in the development of community chests In the United Stntes, and as an educator educa-tor whose life and addresses have been an Inspiration toward unselfish un-selfish public service." To Cornelius N. Bliss, former president of the Institute, was presented pre-sented a medal for his work "as a director Of the Julllard School of Music, as a director of the Metro politan Opera association, Inc., as a member of the central committee of the American Red Cross, as a governor of the New York hospital, as a director of the Mllbank Memorial Memo-rial fund, as a trustee of the Metropolitan Met-ropolitan Museum of Art, and as a member of the board of managers of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor." This comes as a pleasing Interlude Inter-lude in the midst of political squabbles, squab-bles, International bickerings, business busi-ness troubles, crimes and disasters. I King George ALL the vast British empire celebrated cele-brated the sliver Jubilee of King George V and Queen Mary the twenty fifth anniversary of t b e 1 r accession and for three months there will be a continuous series se-ries of fetes In the United Kingdom and all the domin Ions and dependencies. dependen-cies. London, of course, was the scene of the chief celebration on the opening day, and the metropolis was thronged with vis ltors. Hotels and rooming houses were overcrowded and the king or dered that Hyde Park be kept open so some of the overflow thousands could sleep there. There were seven state proce slons the first day. The first was that of the speaker of the housv of commons, dipt. Edward A Fltzroy, with five ancient gilded coaches; the second thnt of Prim. Minister Ramsay MacDonnld. with six coaches in which rode the d minion prime ministers. Then came a two-coach procession of Lord High Chancellor SanUey, and one of the lord mayor of London. Sir Stephen Kllllk. The fifth procession wastha' of the duke of York, from Rucking ham palace, two carriages with n captain's escort of the magnificently appareled royal horse guards He h:id with him. In addition to the duchess and their children, Princesses Cllz abetb and Margaret Rose, the duke and duchess of Kent. The prince of Wales, as heir to the throne, caoie sixth. He had with him a captain's escort of the Life Gnards and two carriages, In the first of which he rode with Queen Maud of Norway and his brother, the duke of Gloucester, like him, a bachelor. Finally, In the most gorgeous parade pa-rade of all, came George and Mary, and as their ornate coach, drawn by the famous grays, passed, the voices of all loyal Britishers rose In a roar of "God bless the king and queen." The rulers, accompanied by all the other notables, went to st Puul's cathedral to give public thanks to God. "Hie Blue and the Gran inlh Jjivouac of the Dead (9 A FFIRMING a decision of the Su preme court of the District of Columbia, the United Stales Su preme court held unconstitutional the railroad retirement act. ruling that nany of Its provisions are In valid. The act provided for a sys tern of old age pensions for all rail road workers. The decision was read by Justice Owen J. Roberts. It condemned many provisions of the law as "arbitrary." placing an undue burden on the railroads and having no relation to sa-fety and ef tlcleney In the operation of the rail ways. The act was passed by the Seventy-fourth congress Just before It closed, and had the tacit approval of the new administration, although President Roosevelt said he believed It would have to be perfected by amendment It set up a compulsory pension pin a IN THE name of 400.000 Knight of Columbus, Martin H. Carmody supreme knight of the order, hat sent to president Roosevelt a letter urging American diplomatic Inter ventlon on behalf of Catholics In Mexico, Ttm matter baa tn up in congress nt 'iirlous times but ipiite naturally the odndnlstratlon is Imi ltant about Interfering In what Mr Ico considers a domestic afT.ilr Monument to tke Unknown, CMi War Dead inArimqton uemetenj By ELMO 8COTT WATSON 'IIS Is the story of two men a Southerner and a Northerner. It Is also the story of the two poems they wrote. It is a tale that can well be Jold as May 30 approaches. For that date Is Memorial day. On February 11, 1820, a son was born to Kane O'Uara, an Irish political refugee, who was living la Danville In the Blue- grass region of Kentucky. The boy was named Theodore O'Hara and when the war with Mexico began he was a captain In the United States army. By the time tbe war had ended, he came back to the Bloegrass a major. There were other Kentncklans who came back also to rest In the soil of their native state. When they were burled at Frankfort, Major O'Uara, standing on a grassy hillside in the midst of a great crowd, recited a poem which he bad written in tribute to his fallen comrades. It was : THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards, with solemn round, The bivouac of the dead. No rumor of the foe's advance Now swells upon the wind; No troubled thought at midnight haunts Of loved ones left behind; No vision of the morrow's strife The warrior's dream alarms; No braying horn nor screaming fife At dawn shall call to arms. Their shivered swords are red with rust, Their plumed heads are bowed; Their haughty banner, trailed In dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud forms, by battle gashed, Are free from anguish now. The neighing troop, the flashing blade, The bugle's stirring blast. The charge, the dreadful, cannonade, The din and shout are past; Nor war's wild note, nor glory's peal Shall thrill with fierce delight Those breasts that nevermore may feel Tbe rapture of the fight Like the fierce northern hurricane That sweeps his great plateau, Flushed with the triumph yet to gain Came down the serried foe. Who beard the thunder of the fray Break o'er the field beneath, Knew well the watchword of that day Was "Victory or Death." l ong bad the doubtful conflict raged O'er all that stricken plain, Tor never fiercer fight had waged The vengeful blood of Spain; And still the storm of battle blew, Still swelled the gory tide; Not long, our stout old chieftain knew, Such odds Us strength could bide. Twas In that hour his. stern command Called to a martyr's grave The flower of his beloved land, Tbe nation's flag to save. By rivers of their fathers' gort Bis first-born laurels grew, And well he deemed tbe sons would pour Their lives for glory too. Full many a norther's breath has swept O'er Angostura's plain And long the pitying sky has wept Above the molderlng slain. The raven's scream, or eagle's flight, Or shepherd's pensive lay, A Ion awakes each sullen height That frowned o'er that dread fray. Sons of the Dark and Bloody Ground, Ye must not slumber there, Where stranger steps and tongues resound Along the heedless air. Your own proud land' heroic soli Shall be your fitter grave; She claims from War bis richest spoil The ashes of her brave. Thus 'neat h their parent turf they rest, Far from the gory field, fVorne to a Spartan mother's breast On many a bloody shield; The sunshine of their native sky Smiles, sadly on lliem here. X! i , ic a n J ; I $ m- m f Mk p i v fa J i . C? . , , -- -,41 1 - . odorcd oNv " OUarafe Tomb 1 r'l!v ,n 1849 and- as class i)()f nful f S-- orable poem at the commencement i f ti5 jf4:? ' When he read the newspaper m Francis Mile Tincn And kindred eyes and hearts watch by Tbe heroes' sepulcher. Rest on, embalmed and sainted dead, Dear as the blood ye gave. No Impious footstep here shall tread The herbage of your grave; Nor shall your glory be forgot While Fame her record keeps, Or Honor points the hallowed spot Where valor proudly sleeps. Yon marble minstrel's voiceless stone ' In deathless song shall tell When many a vanquished age bath flown, The story how ye felL , Nor wreck, nor change, nor winter's blight, Nor time's remorseless doom, Shall dim one ray of glory's light That gilds your deathless tomb. When In the spring of 18C1 the drums beean beating the long roll again, O'Hara cast his lot with the South. He served until' the end of the war, engaged In business at Columbus. Ga.. then retired to a plantation In Alabama where be died June 7, 18U7, in 1373 the Kentucky legislature voted an appropriation to brine the bodv of her soldier-poet back to the Bluegrass. Tbe next year they burled him with military honors In Commonwealth Com-monwealth cemetery In Frankfort He rests there beside his fellow soldiers for whom he wrote the poem that has become world-famous and which has been called "the perfect reaulem of four wars" Theodore O Hara's "The Bivouac of the Dead." "Perfect requiem of four wars" thoueh O'Hara's poem was, It remained for another to become more particularly associated with the Memorial day observance which grew out of tbe conflict of 1801-65. In 18G5, the women of Columbus. Ga.. decorated the graves of their war dead and tbe following January the members of the Ladles' Aid society mere ueciueu to perpetuate the custom. They picked upon April 26. 1806. as the date for thelr Memorlnl day celebration. So they held their memorial services In the cemetery on that date and decorated not only the graves of tbe Confederate war dead, but also those of some Union soldiers buried there. The next spring there appeared In a New York newspaper a brief paragraph which stated that "the women of Columbus, Miss, have shown themselves Impartial In their offerings mnde to (ho memory of Jho dead. They strewed ..flower alike on the graves of the Confederate and of the National soldiers." At that time a young man named Francis Miles Finch was practicing lasr in Ithaca, N. Y. Rom In 1827, he had been graduated Croiu Yale In 1849 and, as class poet, had del orable poem at the commencement When he read the newspaper action of the women in Co lumbal,!. Miles Finch, the lawyer, became K Finch, the poet, again, and in m peared In the Atlantic Monthly uMti THE BLUE AND THEE By the flow of (lie Inland rhw, Whence the fleets of Iron hal Where the blades of the gravfrfM Asleep are the ranks of the das Under the sod and the dew, . Waiting the Judgment day; Under the one, the l'lne, Under the other, the lray. These In the roblncs of glory, Those In the gloom of defeat, All with the battle-Mood sorr. In the dusk of eternity meetl Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment-day; Under the laurel, the Klue, Under the willow, the Gray. From the silence of sorrowful I The desolate mourners go, Lovingly laden with flowers Alike for the friend and the I Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment day; Under the roses, the l'.lue, Under the lilies, the Gray. So with an equal splendor, The morning sun-rays fall, With a' touch Impartially tend On the blossoms blooming MC Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the Judgment-day; Broldered with gold, the Blue, Mellowed with gold, the Gra So, when the Bummer calleth, On forest and field of grain. With an equal murmur fallets The cooling drip of the rain: Under the sod and the dew, . Waiting the Judgment day; Wet with the rain, Hie Blue, Wet with the rain, the Gray. . Sndlv. but not with unhraldlH The generous deed was dor I In the storm of the years 'i No braver battle was won. Under the sod and the de. Waiting the Judgment-day; Under the blossoms, the Blu Under tbe garlands, the GW err no iuure buuu - Or the winding rivers be ..- L-..t. - r forew aney oannu uur no. - - . When tbey laurel the gr"l Under the sod and the uew, Waiting the Judgment day. Love and tears for Hie Bl Tenra and love for the orij. This poem became lr,,tantlLS reprinted In hundreds of wn the land. It was set to uiuslei i i otic hymn. A famous ""'.j poetry calls It "a national tWJ In later years Fl.K'h became'') New York Court oi mi"- .in ,tpnn ' Cornell university, was l I 4....,na liiw illlt' 1 . . i...u n,..i- rnSlWP ID VSTZ ana nriu put !- iit-tt-ii lit np i in I' ¬ ll uni uiiin JurU i(.!lll't'r n not remember the fam neaily so well us It 1,1 imetlc meSHUL'P of n't"111 a nation and heal the ,v""m''i.(l Iliad""' |