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Show Thursday, May TAGE TWO News Review of Current 'Events the World Over f the federal gov DRASTIC reorganisation the give f ehmjent a permanent balance power between large and small Industries was recommended tn the majority report by ther Darrow board, which President Roosevelt decided not to make public In Its original form but referred to three Ilimself-Tokegovernment agencies for .prelimin Defends Instill, Brought Back for Trial, nary digesting. On tbe theory that the NRA has Payments on War Debts Arc Barred-Compr- omise shown business incapable of selfSilver Bill Being Formulated. regulation, the majority reto port proposes scrap all the present code authorities in favor of an By EDWARD W. PICKARD "in' which the entirely new set-ufederal government, big business In the telegraph case, with all and little business bare one the grand gAMUKL. INSULL, equal votof public atllltlea, hat but one minority group flatly op- ing representation. been brought back home to be tried posed to any code, the NRA la proWithin the NRA Itself there Is a confor hit alleged alna after hit long posing to change t feeling that It would-b- e growing tn ditions and alter the Internal econperiod of refuge to better let up on the extension foreign - lands. ilia omy of the Industry on the ground and enforcement of codes for small prison ah Ip," the that existing conditions ' burden and miscellaneous Industries and Kxllona, arrived off commerce and reduce employment. reduce the NRA policy to Fort Hancock, N. A date for hearings waa set, after control of hours and - wages. J and Inaull waa which the Iresldent waa to be Administrator Johnson doesn't like taken off at open asked to take action. this, and It would also be opposed tea bj the United The code. If adopted, would de- by the big Industries and organised States coat! guard prive extensive Interests of finanlabor. Tbe President is waiting. feat tar Hudson, cial advantages amounting to many which landed him mllllona of dollars, the NRA authe League of Nations proquickly. After an thorities declaring these are dot HOW to aid China was told In poses automoldle ride to fairly. held.. Among.ibe.thlngs.lt long report,' made public by th amnaJneull ,rinctton Junction,' would abolish are: Exclusive rights covering the be waa put aboard a train and of the Western Union Telegraph Nanking government, made by Dr. Ludwig arrangement transported swiftly to Chicago. Ills company to something like $25,000,-00- 0 Itajchman, representative In China of .non, Samuel Insult,. Jr had been worth of business annually ; use the league. Thla plan. It Is suppermitted to Join him on the Ex by many corporations of private posed, led to Japana recent stateIlona and accompanied him on the wire circuits leased at figure al- ment of a policy demanding that trip west leged to be out of line with regular other nations keep their hands off Landing on" American soil, Inaull charges for the same volume of China. The document was political appeared to recover his old time con-1 buslneas, and. free use of these cir- ly 1 nocuous, being chiefly the recfidence. To reporters be said: cuits by cllonts of the lessees to ommendations of technical advisam In America to make the most the tune of millions of dollars worth er for projects designed to atImportant light of my Ufa. 1 am of words each year. tract foreign capital to China and lighting not only, for freedom but consolidate It as an Independent I have for complete vindication. a aort of on nation. The list of advisers did not compromise erred, but my greatest error was In SOME legislation that will be ac- Include any Japanese. underestimating the effects of the ceptable to both the. White House The chief Interest tn the report, flnanrlal panic on American secorl-ties- , and the silver bloc in congress Is from the standpoint of the Unitcomand particularly on the likely to be worked ed States, concerned tbe section I build. to waa trying panics out, though Sena- devoted to cotton. It shows that "1 worked with all my energy to tor Borah, who China must purchase about $00,000,-00- 0 save these companies. I made mis wants outright reworth of raw cotton- qnnually. take bnt they were honest mla monetisation of the A Chinese national military and takes. They were errors In Judg communications commission has ment, but not dishonest manlpu thought the plan Just left Shanghai for the United latlona. being prepared States by way of Europe. , Its twenty-t"Arbitrarily, 1 had been Instruct would not serve. wo members are Instructed to ed to resign as head of these comof the learn how China can acquire a modSecretary panies which I bad built and which Treasury Morg?n-tha- u ern war machine and methods of I had tried to protect and eight sil- communication that are up to west"1 waa told that 1 waa no longer ver senators held ern standards. needed. Tired from the fruitless prolonged conferestruggles to save the Investments from Cairo, Egypt, nces, and all but of thousands of men and women, the gentleman from Idaho were REPORTS hazily about dlacoofaged tn my attempts to aave fairly well satisfied, Senator King fierce fighting that was going on In the Investments of my friends and of Utah said he hoped for a bill the Arabian peninsula where Ibn associates as well as everything 1 which would nationalise sliver Saud, the fanatical ' bad. 1 gbt out and provide for the establish' king of Saudi Ara"No charges were brought against ment of a 23 per cent silver reserve bia, was making me antll 1 had been away for three for currency. war on tbe ancient Probably the measmonths. My return at that time ure will be mandatory as to poll kingdom of Yemen, would have further complicated the cles and permissive In leaving to determined to conproblems of the reorganisation of the discretion of the President the quer It Already tbs companies. means of carrying out those same the Saudlan army, The whole atory haa not yet policies. which Is powerful You only know the . been told. and equipped with Not charges of tha prosecution. AVOID Impending defeat by all modern arms, V one word baa been uttered In even senate, the President withj had captured the u feeble defense of me. And It must drew from Its consideration the Yemeni seaport lbnSaud be obvious that there also Is my names of two men be had appoint Hod el da, and It aide of the story, ed to office. One was Willard L. was advancing to attack Sana, the . "When It Is told tn court, my Thorp who had been made head of capital. The war jtarted with a Judgment may be discredited but the Commerce department's bureau border dispute. certainly my honesty will be vlndl of foreign and domestic commerce. According to the conflicting cated." The senate's objection to Mr. Thorp, stories reaching Cairo, both sides who has been serving as head of claimed victory. One report was a the commerce bureau pending acbeen haa by angered RUSSIA Emir Felsat, heir of Ibn that the of Attorney .General tion on hls nomination, was bnsed had overtaken and defeated Saud, Cummings and there Is danger that on the fart that be once registered the rear guard of tbe .retreating nil the plana for as a Republican In a Massachusetts Yemeni army. trad wltn that country will go primary. From Yemeni officials, however, awry. Mr. Cummings waa called on The 'other withdrawal was of came telegrams slating that thetr to determine what nations would Rene A. Vtosca as United States at had been halted and that, retreat be barred by the Johnson act from torney for the Eastern district of Saudlan the army suffered a severe In this marketing their securities Louisiana. He was opposed by Sen- defeat In a battle. Capture couotry or In say way receiving ator Huey P. Long. nine of them 30 of armored cars, financial assistance. This he did by 30 guns, and 400 prl ; undamaged w. Mellon, the aanoundng the six foreign nation oners waa claimed by the premier that are not In default to the United and wealthy ex secref Yeman, who wired that the States government on their obllga tary of the treasury and former casualties exceeded 2.000. tlona. These are Finland. Great ambassador to England, came out Recause of their nearby terriBritain, Chechoslovakia, Italy, Lat on top In hls latest tories in Asia and Africa, Great via and IJthuanla. Finland has met contest with the Rrltaln, Italy, and 'France were In full all Installments on Its war Department of Justoken mode watching the conflict with deep have The . debt. others tice. The governand all had warships at concern recent Installments. on payments ment had accused to protect thetr Interests. hand him of evading hls Immediately after the attorney 4 general's ruling waa made public Income taxes and are GREAT BRITAIN ofanda Japantrade It was authoritatively stated In ought hls IndictMg verge Roosement by a federal Washington that President war. The British nave threatened velt had decided to accept no more grand jury In Iltt to take strong action to protect token payments; therefore England burgh. However, their textile export tnteresu against reand the others that have made such the' grand Jury A ... Increasing A Japanese competition, alpayments will fall Into the default fused to return a British government offA. the Mellon W. though class on June 15, when the next true bill, declaring do everything declares icially payments' are due. Even Finland the charges were without basis. with to amlcahlt relations maintain now The foreman of the Jury was WIl default If the nations may n Toofficial The position proffer token payments they may Ham lleeson, a bank clerk. Among Japan.Is care can take that kyo Japan be accepted by the treasury as on others on the Jury were five laborof herself, and there was every inaccount" but the nations will still ers, two fanners, two engineers, two dication that It would not yield to be held In default and thus will be mechanics, two clerks, one plumber, utttmatum that tt must the British one carpenter, a lumber dealer, anc , abut eut under the new Johnson act Its trade ' modify program and tacfrom obtaining any government a writer. tics. British The threat was that loans In the United States. Mr. Mellon said: I am of course on Japabe would Imposed quotas The President will inform con gratified that I hnve been exoneratnese goods, but trade leaders In gress, It Is reported, that he desires ed by a Jqry of my fellow citizens. Tokyo said this would not hurt ' no legislation at this time with re- The fact that the grand Jury their country seriously, especially reached a sound conclusion, notspect to the debt question. since Japan's Imports from the In fell the unusual Russia Soviet methods British Isles tn 1963 totaled 83,000.-00- 0 the default withstanding class because It Ignored obllga pursued In my case. Is proof o the yen or little more than was extlona of the preceding exariat and good sense and fairness of the ported there. 80,4)00,000 yen. Hence, Kerensky governments. The exars American people." they said, tbe Tokyo government told bonds totaling $.86,000,000 tn In previous statements Mr. Melwould be able to make reprisals. America and the brief Kerensky re lon had charged Attorney General Trade with the British dominions gime borrowed f 187,300,000 from the '"mp'omnr Lull ed B U t eTTreaYury. the crudest sort," and had set forth Japanese are confident at length hls Innocence, asserting and th the dominions will, not follow the had overpaid rather than evadec AIMING directly at the Ameri he mother countrys lead especially and Telegraph hls taxes. Australia. ' which sold to Jap&n-i- n' company,. and. the Western.. Union ,.Th. .finding jnL lb e .Jury probably purchases,-an- d company, both of which are said ended finally thfi affair, Mr. Cumwhich sold seven times a to - have defied him. Recovery Ad mings saying the government would Canada, much as It bought, i minlstrator Johnson made public not challenge the decision. It may drastic code 'for the wire commnni also put an end to the not infreR O O S E V E LT Is cations Industry prepared by his quent attacks on Mr. Mellon la both PRESIDENT a again grandfather, for down own staff. Imposition of a code bouses of congress. In Fort Worth Texas, a daughter Is regarded to all Intents the same has been born to Mr. and Mrs.. Elas writing law for the industry af mall flying by the army has liott Roosevelt, The baby, who AIR to an end, and the routes footed, equal In scope to the author six poinds six ounce, weighed lzatlon for licensing Industry. .Noth are being taken over by commercla has been named Ruth Chandler Ing like It has been reaorted to aviation as fast as the short term Roosevelt. heretofore. coutracts are let oldieir Dead .m k 1 V' p National Topics Interpreted by William Bruckait 6 t i e i (!k ) I , A I . s Ak - I - 1 " -- ' I '1 ( ARMORIAL day Is an occa slon of, various aspects and It may be approached from many different pay-chologtcal angles Its most obvious significance, of course, la that of a time A i r" 4 set apart for the corporate and Institutional expression of the nation's gratitude to Its fallen sons, of affection and appreciation for their memory. Rut as the years pass the public concept expands to Include an Increasing number of others who have served their country's good until at last all dedicated, generous and unselfish Uvea may be admitted to tbe roster of those commemoratlvely honored. A day of peace, It likewise prompts renewed thanksgiving for the security, harmony and freedom which the dead have earned for the living. The heart, conscious of the debt, throbs with acknowledgment of the benefaction which they have bestowed, the blessing which they have conferred, and the mind, no 231,-65- e three-fourth- e Sau-dla- n. v rvnm4irKiit - -- 1 ! 1 C br Warfare Kiipr Vnkoa. CEMETERIES both small and large will assemble groups of patriotic citizens for the purpose of decorating the graves of those who fell tn war. Rrave veterans they were. Some fought with weapons which today seem to ns rather Crude. The army rifle of the Twentieth century la an Immense Improvement over the gun of the Civil warr Rapid firing machine guns, poison gas, submarines, torpedoes and all the Implements of modern warfare were to them unknown. Like all the wars of history, tho Civil war was fought by young men. The following table Indicates the ages of the Unionist soldiers who fought In the Civil war: Fourteen years of tge and under, 2,111; fifteen years of tge and under, 1 sixteen years and under, ; seventeen years and noder, 844.5501 ; etghteeq year and under. 1.151.433 ; twenty-onyears and and under, 2,150,987; twenty-fiv- e and over, over, 40,626; forty-fou- r 16.07L The total number of enlists ed men was 2,778.304, of whom were under twenty-onThe power which years of sge. hurled slavery from Its throne was young men dreaming dreams by patriots graves." We cannot think of Decoration day without the portrait of Abraham Lincoln presenting Itself vividWhat this country ly before us. might have suffered without hls leadership, only the Good ProviThe purpose of the dence knows. war, as Lincoln conceived It, was not to free the slaves, although that was a factor In the case ; the principal reason for the war was to save the Union. The war of 1776 taught the world to know us; the War of 1812 taught us to know ourselves. The first won for us our Independand ence, the latter our solidarity. riutarch writes: "The fortune of all good men Is that their virtue rises In glory after their death, and that tbe envy which any evil man may have conceived against them never survives the envious." So do we remember those whose supreme sacrifice has cemented Into one nation. our United States of America. All honor to their memory as we place the laurel wreath alike upon the graves of the khaki, the btpe and the gray. O ky Waatarv Ntnnvw Dtlot, 104-98- . mm r -- a a aelf-respe- I ' . .A I ;k x ;iv v I V"" I. I'' 44e4MMeeeemol A fe ' y Wreath of Flowers for th Dead ldier of - . So- Franc. less aware of the obligation, soberly faces the problem of preventing further armed strife, of banishing fratricidal conflict from the world. A d of patriotism, It challenges the attention for Its demand upon hall be of use and value to the ns . Perhaps It Is It) this regard that. it has most compelling significance tt summons the rank and"flT..of.. the land tqlabcr g,q(l live to obedience to the noblest of claimIdeals. It scorn ing Instead honest, sincere and unfaltering dedication. No other date Id the calendar makes a more dras tic requisition , upon the soul Above all a' day of consecration, a dayjtf prayer, a, day to pledge re oewed allegiance. It gives oportu-nltfor the expression . of brother-hooand love' for Uvlng and dead alike e, y d i 7; 1 ' three-fourth- s 1 far-reachi- - Imp-- I 1 nos-the- each cltixen. Its Implied tlonal-welfare- ( I N r Andrew - Remembrah'ce bul-Ho- Yv, y SS TVfMMI white metal, lift seats occupied by who have no reason on eartQ Queer the house except by rY o' thelr partisans rt Politics .l0 the Dext con- the tremendous, landslide . that the emer- placed Mr. Roosevelt in tha on the ground gress House. Districts normally gency Is over and that President are more than likely critic sdmlnlstratlon hls Roosevelt end are continuing on a spending spree to continue to elect Democrat Just to afford deserving Democrats tha political accidents that J with pie from the government coun- ed many othera of the Test ter. The tlpoff as to the direction lty In tbe bouse are going tTj from which the stuck will come many home because they com, 3 arose the other day without attract- overwhelmingly Republican ing a great deal of attention. It munitles. The Republican came from Representative Snell of era are asserting they win pu New Tork, the Republican leader eighty or ninety sears from In the house, who opposed one of Democrats next November, creations be- can be po doubt that they wij. the newer brain-trucause he declared, unequivocally, some, but eighty or ninety u figure In anybody's language. the emergency Is over." After Mr.- - Eneli - had - made - th statement,'! Inquired of a number It seems to me that Repre of persona, astute In politics, what live Mark Wilcox of 'Florid they thought of this anomaly. Here won a rather Is s leader of the opposition party nal honor i Termer First declaring that the emergency Is first tcnn a Wins Honor ffo over, sod If that condition exists, . member of the leader of the opposition, by In- louse of representatives eel bj ference at least; has admitted that lng passage of the Whs legislation t credit for the job must be given the las come to- be known as the I find as Roosevelt administration. r niclpal bankruptcy MIL It lias well that the Democrats can hardly t thing like twenty years sh, I admit the correctness of the statefreshman" member of the boa, ment without admitting at the same e has sponsor time that there should be an end representatives of legislation of tut hi piece :pe Immediately to the countless erne scope that was passed and t ini gency agencies that the Roospv elt law. Plenty of new memben administration has set up. It seems Introduced nationwide 1st to me, therefore, that we are wit- effect, bnt bills, as far as my rest nessing one of the most ridiculous has disclosed, none has benJ situations that has ever occurred In ceaaful In tbe last twenty yets politics where peculiar things are Mr. Wilcox won memlterihi)1 to It smouuU rule. the Succinctly, the house by defeating- Mn. k this: each side actually Is contend- Bryan Owen, daughter of the (uj ing that the other U right William Jennlnga Bryan, tor Of course. It should be said, Democratic nomination In hit much water will flow under the trict where the nomination It bridge before the votes are counted tamount to an election. So hr In November; indeed, many changes given a baptism of fire befon V will have come before the congre ever reached the house Itself, slonal campaigns In the various A It I as said. Tbe measure, atatea get stirred up to a .white tlonal In scope and It probably heat but unless the course of bat- affect the financial status of 1 tle now Indicated Is altered, I pre- 2,500 communities which the dict the campaigners will have to calls taxing districts. This Bs do some fancy high rope walking. taxing districts Includes me It surely appears that getting ones palltlea, counties, boroughs own legs tangled up In those argulages, parishes, townships, and ments Is about tbe easiest thing In corporated taxing districts nri sight schools, gralnage. Irrigation, k Curious possibilities are offered sewer, paving, sanitary, port, I by the situation. For example, are other districts In which have been made In bomb the Democrats going to go out on the hustings and saying to their sold to pay for them. In ord mass meetings In effect that "we take advantage. of the provtsioe Rave not succeeded; we must keep the law, the taxing district the AAA and the NRA and oth declare itself to be Insolvent era? And, at the same time, are we unable to pay tbe Interest or ' going to hear from Republican dpal of tbe debt. The offlclu spellbinders that the Democrats the taxing district may petlth ilX have licked the depression and they federal court for the right must now put an end to their orgy range Its debt on a new basil of spending and running up bills tbe court must be shown tbi ,n which the taxpayers must meet"? In number least Neither side, of course, will say amount of holders of the bonds It In those words. Rut. If the argu- willing to agree to the terms ment goes ahead as It has started, compromise. If they do that will have to be the substance then the court may Issue a of their tale to the voters. There that will compel the re will have to be some very careful, bondholders to accept the e as well as very quick, thinking be- ment fore the campaign's end. One poWhat happens, of course, Is litical observer here suggested that the taxing district will be Mt this may turn out to be a most con replace the defaulted bonds fnalng campaign because of the fresh series, probably at 1 to anomaly that Is now presented by Interest rate. Tbe taxing Ur. Snell's declaration. gets out of the predicament ef amounts to bankruptcy, There Is considerable discussion bondholders get new and here as to how the ef- which are marketable vslut face Uke their feet may be If something will be paid, Just the Republicans cause tbe IsInterest for only extended privilege wIth Speculation ,trwa dent vigor, the years, but It is the general contention that the Democrats are standing that the communities j to acr0, trying to hold on to the extra Jobs cerned will be able and that they are continuing to settlements with their U b and spend taxpayers money for repay- much sooner than that, that also ment of political debts. There Is vlously hoped throughotf always something - sinister about financial conditions of that kind of thing. Whether the nation will make the Job I than easier charge Is right or wrong, many ranging the debts voters get auspicious when cam- a few years ago. ' paigners persist In taking about of raids on the federal treasury. They One of the obvious results always think of It in terms of theft lng the spotlight turned onto or of money from the local bank or dividual or l stores and not In the terms of poor an la Kidding litical maneuvering, although I con P,enty of the NRA ment fesa I can see little difference. It reopk always has happened that the polit- about IL Sometimes, howevot ical party In power has controllet talk develops Jibes and J3 the flow of pnblic moneys Into the oft times they are not pleas spots where the funds will do the the ardent advocates of a most good, politically, and when tlon to awallow. for Initaat either side kicks about that, til recently discussion of N& seems to me It la exactly like one been confined to serious aff chs!f taule calling another "longear." very often of a heated ' I wont even suggest that I can Lately, however. Jokes a guess what the ultimate effect of about NRA have been & these strange arguments Is going with greater frequency to be. Anyone who tries to predid are now a considerable the result at this time la Just being The latest, and ons ge, Lean .lilly. .,.The...bestJudgroent. best that I have hearcL D1' la that the results In the various lows: congressional districts are going to N.'R. A. me down to sleep, vary. The difference likely will be I pray Thee, Lord, ml dependent entirely upon how many " kwpr - mistake plain bonehead " state- If 1 should bust before I ments the various candidates make A. F. of U my plant in their attempts to follow arguI beard already that th ments and analyses laid down for ran Federation of Labor them by the national political com the reference to It in mlttees. My belief ts that there to be closely akin to nnf,v' will be plenty of them and there 2 whatever It U orf or tlce, ought to be, therefore, a conslder-aMhor Bays about those wbo amount of surprise when the Its General supporters: 1a votes are counted. not are yet a reactions It ts quite apparent to the Demo- record, although I know it u cratic lenders, and they say so. that the thing. a number of house seats, now held c by Warfare st - h. sr J I - TO by Democrats, will be turned :o the Republicans next fall. Ji The Republicans Washington. giving some Indications that they Intend to Qcnr&. fight for election long-standin- g ,1 17 Old Muskets Used - " to Build Memorial I N GEORGETOWN. District of 1 Columbia, Is a fence built of barrels oT old muskets nsed in the War of 1S12. It Is located ar the northwest corner of Twenty-eiand-atreeta. The United States government waa s too poor to recompense the of Georgetown for their apodal services, ao Invited, them to help themselvea to Iron and steel In the scrap heap at the navy yard. Thla fence Is one of the souvenirs of the time, ghth P cltl-ten- ( - e 141 j , |