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Show Tin: i'vvson niRQNin.K, News Review of Current Events the World Over -- i fi, pi 1: o r . e'r Ci I ei'ii ed pro'' v I), ry a Nc Committee Points Nerd of Protertinz Defense 4 to Nawapaer Hahnta NVK of Nor "U munitions coiiiiiilt do not have very high opinion of Amern un s!iipiei,Id rs and they tt. t !ee j atrong SENAIOR :e i -- i 1 la need- n them ed to from confusing pub-lneed tie' nix with their private pocketboo k a." Therefore tfie cone cult tee. In a preliminary report, ask that laws he enacted to do these - k- c thing: , Senator Nxa ,.r,.vl.nt ion" In bidding for navy conMruc-tln- n John. Z Prevent Amerhiin patent from yetting Into the hand of foreign power. 3. Limit profits (o 5 per rent of the total cost to the government. In rases where the government aa aiunea the rWIcs of the enterprise, or to 10 per reid where the govern-leri- t does not. 4. requiring the shipbuilder' "lobbyists" register with tlie and disclose their Income and expenditure. 1 he committee finds. In the mat ter of collusion, that there waa "telepathy" among shipyard olflclals ao that In bidding for many con- trails each concern was aide to It wanted at get the contract prnfll that ran a high ns ,",0 per rent. It say the navy has been at the mercy of the shipyards In preparing plans for w ir vessel and also In determining wlmt were fair price A series of bids are put before the navy," the repot t recites, "and the navy has to take the ln,v one and the taxpayer have to hope and pray that the low one Is somewhere within a few million dollars of being reasonable, tonsirueilon of naval vessels Is fleelared to he more costly In private yards than In government yards. While the evidence Is not all In." the report gays, "the Indications are that the private yards cost the gov eminent from one to two m.lllon dollar more per cruiser than the navy yards." The committee charges big lilje builders with breaking tip the Geneva naviil Unit tut Ion conference !u arid Immediately launching a price Increase eainpn'gn that made protlis of bo and 2.7 t and Bdit per cent on the cru.sern." M 111- -7 administration I J leaders, for a while In a frenry of anxiety to hitch the President' tax program to the resolution extending the so called "nuisance" ex Im' taxes, thus speeding It through the Washington legislative factory In four day, suddenly disKG I S I. A T 1 V II the-rle- claimed any Intention of such pro cedure, nud let the $00.000,(SI tax extension ride along unnppended. Congress will consider the new taxation program during early July. This program Is expected to produce seme $7 IO,(KKt,mv In new principally from Inheritance and gifr taxes. Increased taxes on the highest Income brackets, and corporation taxes graduated from 10 per cent to 17 per cent. The program has been hed tip as a sweetmeat to placate the sugar palate of Louisiana's Klngflsh. Aa wealth of J'iio.mxi.iioo ctually, shared among I'JO.lMO.niO Americana would amount to about $2 Nt a head -- all of which would he applied to a uldlc debt of 'joisi,. (XiO.OOO nod a budget of $S.otk),otkl,. OOO, anyway The net taxable worth of the 133 estates which paid taxes based on a valuation of JLPOriiMk) each n l'd'sl was Jl'k! (km issi. If the government had taxed these estates W) per cent, selling them entirely, the? would have been worth only J2 37 t head to the American population. If the government confix rated till Incomes of more than JI.OOO.lkM In llVkl. It would have taken an army of trucks loaded with small change to distribute It, for each American would get only 43 cent And the general opinion of administration leaders In the senate was that the taxes obtained from the rich might possh'y eliminate the iifeoss'tv of the "nuisance" taxes a 'ter another year. rOUTH twenty between sixteen and will be served nationwide Job hunt and further training of young men and women to hold Job a'ter they get thtm, through Pres!, lent Itoose-vclt'new "na'lona youth Itsotf an Ins'erod unfive for a almln-lstra'lon- der the works relief program by Jo'-ptie Poche, ass'spint secretary of the treasury, and Aubrey Williams, assistant to II irry I, Hopkins, work progress adtn'nl.x ills h tret or. The new organization will en jfloavor to; 1. Find employment In private Industry fur unemployed ymi'h. opport uriltli s. 3, Provide for a cnntlnnli.g at tendance at hgh aehool and college 4, Provide work relief project of designed to meet the need youth. The average payment for youths on relief work will he $1.7 a month; those going to hgh S' bool wool he given $i a month, and those at tending college $15 a month, "I have determined that we shall do something for the nation' unemployed youth," aald the President, "because we can 111 a Turd to lose the skill and energy nf these young men and women. They must have their chance In school, their turn as apprentices and their to for Jobs a ch.im-work anil eirn for themselves." The problem of what to do with the youth who finishes school, supposedly equipped to make Ids real start In life, arid finds what few Job there are are given to older and married min arid women, a well as the youth who Is unable to finish aehool because of poor circumstances, has been one of Die irmst d'aeotiraglng aspects of the entire The NY A will attempt depression. to remedy It by divisions get lip to work with private Industry and schools In each stale, coordinated by nntlou.il heudquarters In 1 IKK most Ptoplns, the new one In Alaska's Matanuskn valley has been reported a net of discontent; the illsllliiblonment apparently was manifest even quicker than usual Iri this case. Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin farm families who made up a large sharp of the recent expedition to begin life anew In ttie North Pacific territory drafted a list of grievances for the I' 111; trouble g'moter. Huger, e T Carr. M my of them said the protect was misrepresented, that the land Is poor and that bousing I not what they were led to believe It would he Neither are medical service, school facilities, ms, is d! bursed for planting, the ebmite ami price for groceries nm Ing up to advance word pi, t in s There Is considerable Joaloiisv ex Isleut over the distribution of farm land. Ami to top It all elT, the Ptoplans want government pay for the work they are doing to make new homes for their social ami economic rejavenat'on. Protests would get no sympathy unless he found tin in Justified, aald Kngene Carr. HUGH S. JOHNSON, once C'' IN ambitious to direct the public works program, tively a comparaam ill part of the President's new ' ' m A'i" o'.v Paris to 'a ' ' Anglo Herman ai.orl was re" ' iiout cons fi' log p.u'y and I run r did ('apuln F ' n No more sun have In trying to got 11 Imco to rob lilt to a compromise abowlog I'.nv m I In certain conoessloiis In Ah' return for the gnarantoe that there would lie do w ir vvlib ttie A'rben Mo-s- o ini rotuso,) to rnoiiari by. talk about It. Croat I.iitdn w s faced wlh two tern lining rt"i os; n g ,v To Infiaeiice ttie ernment to accede to Itab'in do mauds Iri t"fo or slmdy give up an let .he upparenMy lnovltnb'o war go on. The feeling In diplomatic ' ir, !os that Kngbiud would rather waive her protests tt an have It t'v wl'b-druof Na'oois from the w no-n- t was named to dreet I: 'cl Train and retrain for Indus trial, lei hn'eal and pro'e.lunal ein 2, ploy r to r tii f PICKARD By EDWARD W. Union. ti I' Pi'-mam! J'.-'i.- 'y e I r"ic'i i PI to' Min do t rli e w us a n w n , I cm o be t! it or- - a ' i'l "i of C' so, ir !y c ct pr, ei'o in v h in r- - !ri,.,i'."" t tb.n of (J, I ''on l on went iln C,i; v in c and JliM" id to I l.bn fi be sided with J riMi'-- Hi"l cm,. O" approve the manner In w !.! h U li C Weatcrn Ini' I.,- ait'-- n Ponds From Shijdjuildrrs Congress Divorces Tax. Rill From Nui-anr- e Tax-tlie-Kie- v , '! (,r Cii, $ (.noo.iHKi.ikX) s " Abyv-uda- estimated lues by Mr. to represent at peo(de, and he say congressmen have promised to support the hill. Outlining ttie provisions of ttie men sure, Mr. I)le snbl: First, It bar all Immigration of who do not pioneer Immigrant have relative In this country. Second, It makes mandatory deportation of 3,'oti,0H) aliens estimated of Illegal entry. "Third, It gives about 4o,(yiMV alien legally In tills country 12 month In width to become citizen or go home. "Fourth, all alien must secure Labor department permits to work and permits would tie Issued only when employers show they can't find I'm'ed State cltlon to do the J"h. "Flflh, It provides for gradual reunion of families not llkolv to lie come public dial go when the economic sitna'lon Improved " fi.Oun.OOO least l.'iO C'SITII'NS everywhere were urged (lener.il Cliiimimg to assist the federal government la "crai king down" on bucket simp x hi- h are swin- the piddle dling out of millions of dollars lie clared that a den chain I operating. Most of their victims am doctors, lawyois, professors and liu-- l- j ness men, lie said. We know the names of the said Mr. hut It Cummings, will take cooperation of both the public and legitim ite brokers to put them where they belong behind the . jL wmks relief schedule. As director of works relief In New bars." Most of the victims believe that York city, he will o ordinate the prothey have lost their money legltlmutely, he said, and nre a'rald of gram In that area With the famed complaining to federal Olivers befighting Javy deter- cause they are In debt after tliey minedly set. he re v ealed the four conditions under which be accepted the new Job; lie will get no pay, only $7',N for a year's expenses (lie got Ji'.ikk) a year for this purpose during most of his tlm as keeper of the ltlue I'.agle ) 11s Joh will end Octoln r unless he and the adminis1, tration ngree that It shall con tlmie. lie will devote a minimum of four diy a week to his ofihlal dutii's. An! he will consult with a Mayor Klorcllo II. I.a Guard far as possible, hut will be resign aiblo to 11 irry L. Hopkins alone. have been "lenned." Alb'K policy In a (bmiocricy a program conceived It Is a program by a government. of action which the people who earn tlndr living ns wage earners and those who employ them In must profit making en'erprises work out together." $o asserts Secretary of Labor Frances IVrklns In her annuel report to congress, and she set forth these six gpetl'le dc.t'os of the gov- if T I-- s U not this respect; 1. To do everything In Its power to establish minimum basic stml ards for labor, below wlich comKV YOKE'S Harlem and Its petition should not be permitted to kindred negro populations force standards of health, wage throughout the land resounded In and hours. 2. To further peaceful settlements Jubllntlon, with chicken an' ham In chery fryln' pao and Juniper of controversies and relieve labor Juice flowing freely, as Jie IawiIs, of the necessity of resorting to the first great brown hopeof pugilism strikes In order to secure equitable since Jack Johnson, established condition and the right to he heard S. Through legislation and fosterhimself a a real threat to the world's heavyweight boxing cham- ing cooperation between employers pionship. Showing ring generalship far beyond his brief professional experience, boxing ability conspicuous absence from the heavyby It since the days of weight rank Corbett, snd a wallop like the kick of a cotton belt mule, the dusky I Vt miter Ciu Prime Camera, Ital Ian human skyscraper, to ribbons for five round, knocking him down three t'mex In the s x;h, and was declared the winner hv technical knock out In a bout at tbe Yankee itndlutn. Ion!, former pollen gloves champion, will probably meet Parr and SclitrellTg lief.oe getting a crack at Champion Janie J. Pi.iddocks title tr-i- i . b to I h ! 'a pay-on- ernment In and workers to make every Job the best that the human m'nd can devise is to physical conditions, bu man relations and wages. 4. To encourage such organtzs tlon and development of wage earn ers a will give status ami stability to labor a a recognized Important group of citizens having a contribution to make to economic and p,v I.'Val thought and to the cultural life of tbe comi'!''ity. 5. To arrange that labor plat It part In the St idy and development of any future ecoiio-np.dicVs. t To encoura :e nu f i v ho In 'h tween la,'r and Improvement of prediction ant of development In heth philosophy of se governin' nt s tv a m ,! "li. Will It he A went there ie ndgiatlon whou rapidly that It tions and t lit- P 'v m.. .7 be the ii, m els" wlc vuhguitd ot a wil pop'. bee ttmt tin, tor;, so a hive stu'ehood amid v.in.p'ie wholi was on, e "ll -t i known u "N",v i: - ,u y" may tumor the man who bought It ti in I; by joining the s.st,r hood of slates un lor I, is name. W ill it be Iortii Kico, w ii oh already b is a pop illation more man time t.mib that of Hawaii I'- Sam Houston for F.ast Texas, and Texas. Another suggestion Is N.otli f,,r !,,g ti.if the s; oe of West Texas be called Panhandle. Tex ms who lad'ere that they have the right to .'nine i eir s i'o pp into five parts base that ght upon tbe ti riiis mider which Texas was annexed to t he I'nited States in Is la. At that mie s.m Houston president of the Ilepnh-In "f 'lex. is. Jones was se retary of st.ute ud 1m ic .m Z.mdt was the Texan charge Hilaires at Washington. Houston told Jones to wiite :in .unit a letter of Instructions on .. to in got i.ite the tr. aty of annexation with the ni'id States in,, i scut J. Pinekney Henderson "tig to help Yen Z.mdt handle t he matter witli 'lie A'lierhan secretary of state. This letter, kited Itbru.iix Jo, 1M4, emphasized two points not etnlii .tied in previous Instructions, the first of winch was tins- "The number of states into which the Territory of Texas shall be subdivided It is p.'esiim ilde that in t lie setth ments already made there , n suiheient population to consti tide olio state, according to the requirements o, tlie ederul Constitution, and that the remaining territory of tlie iip'ihlic is suliicienlly large to ut e liirie nine at a future period. "You will, tli'Tidore, provide In tlie treaty for ike alt mute etc.it ion of at least four status and tor padr adm:s,,in into the Union, so soon is the population of the respective territories shall he sotiu ient for that purpose and in the im ml me th.it territorial governments .shall he established and maintained as circumstances and tlie wants of tlie people residing in those limits u speciively mav render proper and necessary." Pr,- -, lent Tyler, In Ids message of Hecemtier, Ibtt. refits to this same matter. Urging the pionipt ami immediate annexation of Texas, be says: "I mine legislatures can best decide as to the number of stales which should tie formed "ut of tin- - ten itory, wl.eu the time arrives for deciding t h.it question.'' Hie "lull to provide for the annexation of lexas to the United States, and to restore the undent hunts f ,e Kepnldic," whUh was final passed, xiys among other things: "The said compact of cession ami annexation, when made as afores.il ;0 provide further for the future toimotion in so, territories of at least two cates, and if more than two, then four slates and ir more thin four then of six stales to he hereafter Into the United States of " 't aa llm ry t ,.,y, then living in retliernont hut n ' I, he for the pi cm leney, w mie a letter. 1,1 :m1 ng tbe fact that Texas , is ll, nil Cly to !, compos, j f states, and '1m' a'."l tii it on'y two of them would be slave iirul Ihrot nf 1. :n frw. In that fact lies the fallacy of the idea that .r,",'t tl divole Itself into five V'- T'liS ,!'"1 1,1 !m'" fr"m 8 ,lils1,trpretatlon e tbe ln t:'e resolution of congress tU'mxiug Texas by w hi, I, the M.ssonrl compro ,llP "'St l'nnih,ry of lex-ilexas claimed territory far Wi -- lix's, t I i n An-o- Holes w de and Hi nidi's long, win, h w is "!,,e known ns Vi J m's l.and or it in glit !,e Vim III roll," 'ilodlier I.inie Will, h his !n"i p oihkc foi ll 'i tple Mate" town ill ll,o Soiitliwt t. As ,i nutter of laid, sevu.ll vieli n'i..s bn foi m ng new states have been adv.uned dor ng li o 'si'! few mom lis even llio'igh tiny hive Ind lined veiv well lies far. Hie lnd ilia iegi-- i i teie pminpily s,pielelied the s Iggestimi ll, I .ike coiinfv se, ede from I loos'erdom and join ui'h I'", k ini! t to foi in ' ilii.in i ' won i',e ago as It' i ipit.il. No doubt, either K ip.d City, the thriving lit'ie niiinii Ip ilny which put Itself on the map in the days ot Ii esldi'iit Calvin Coolnlge, or historic old In idwootl would he glad to be the c.ipil il of "Absaroka," the folly ninth state which would hear u,e lull name of the Crow Indians. Kui n bbei Wvii., which is In the land of the ".'spa mw Hawk Ieople" ( Misarokas) inigtit ills pnle Hie i tanas of the lll.uk Hills eitns, even It M"t,t mu, Wyoming and Smith Ihikotu would to hand over slices of their teiritory toi u new sate which Is doubtful. d l,e latest suggestieu for the creation of a new state that of "1 exlahomu" came ittio'it vvht n an enterprising Oklahoma Citlan petitioned the .state legislature for such action, giving as his teus.m the rank discrimination by ptiient stales iigoliist the counties within the d m nbed umtore.N tiy those In olliolul authority. Cmn niet,t.iig on tills propos.il a Texas newspaper ii 'p.itdi to the New York Times said: 'In the past Stull proposals have originated in Texas, which Is so large and diver sued Hut some sc tions occasionally teel d,x inn .n.i'ed against politically. While tins pro posi' is more dearly defined than its pnde(es s 'tv. It is extiemcly doubtful if its fate win in vo happier. What sentiment might have o e,l y( irs ago for the division of Ti is has let g sn,e been dissipated, and with rogunl to tie ritk discrimination' against the raidiand'.e It Is indy neiessary to say that not mdy does i,"Virnv Allred come from one of the coontvs Cut wot. I, 'secede,' but the tour high ten In i e for governor of Texas last summer V'.te nil from the region covered by the pro F 'Mtl Moieover, both economic nml patriotic fortes r s.'t d. vision today. Modem means of rapid trims;,,, i int ion and eoimmmicudon are reducing even ttds vast frontier to a neighborhood. The approach of the Texas centennial serving to crystallize this unity, and It Is sign, (leant that some of the most enthusiastic manilesimions of pro centennial patriotism are coming trom the i.mhumlle, far removed from the slnmes ot Texas historical imrlod." One of the proposals to which he refers came about some five years ago when Vice 1iesid, at Gan. or, then a member of the house of re ire actuatin', made a speech In congress advoent Ing the division of Texas Into five states as a means of giving the lone Star state the r'pre sent ition in congress, especially in the Mu.av wliali (die feels she should have As for the names of these five stales. It is g an': g's'i'd that there should he but one C it the eeutinl (mitlon of the state which is n ox ih gu ited as Central Texas should bear IL I te shou! not embrace JUn Ant"i.i il a mil lor that reason line to bo trowu o;o s,n,td i ne A' him or I'avy Cro, k, tt Is s g l , 1 1 i , I te i 1 i - I I.V , I nd-ntte- W -- o. V .,.o K . free 'it ,,, W). M,'""tly c:,npd fr"'n Texas tho Co,IiT"mIse rme and n,p ,he ontcou,e of tlie War lie e' ''wereLriH'er6 -'- f U,,"ie '.I'',!" hose alnalV Tri.n'y Ibex have a s- lei MnVrV0 - "r of - . In ivm.m heel, - e- - s mimes xiggested are JefTers. n f,,r . ' Tf : , si! " !, W t,1U tlie memory past. If "Atls,,. '"ba" would look how ' ! T-'- s' ll V . from Progress ,nl" i.iv'iVrf'he y a m'Pnt rropual.vs l',n"'''nl'ha '"le h Thomas Jefferson Hack ln 1784 the new nation was cocaiilerkl tlie possibility of forming new states out of ti Mil Northwest Territory, won for the Americw Hag by George Rogers Clark during the new lutlon. In the Ordinance of 1784, which largely the work of Jefferson, provision wu made for 10 states and Jefferson, who was oat of tlie foremost classical scholars of his isj proposed these names for them: Silvan!, Mich ignnia, Chersonesus, Arsenistpia, Metropotamii lllinoia, Saratoga, Polypotamia, Peiisypia a Washington. A map published by John Fiuh (later famous tor his invention of a steamboat) in Ihiladelphi in 17So shows the boundaries of these proposed states, although bis spelling of some of ti names varies slightly from Jefferson's. The oe stale of Washington" Included a strip through the middle of Ohio from Lake Kr.e south to tit Ohio river. Saratoga comprised the lower ban of Indiana and Ohio, westward from the western draxt boundary line of Washington" to a line straight south from the eastern shore line Lake Michigan. Mesopotamia comprised the half of Indiana and Ohio with the saw eastern and western boundaries. UhcrsoDesi included all of the present lower peninsula Michigan and a small portion of tin present if fi per peninsula. Silvania included the rest of tlie upper peninsula, the upper third "f Mate of Wisconsin and a portion of the eas!ei tt part of Minnesota. Michigan!,! comprised th centra) third of Wisconsin and Arsenispi lower third. lllinoia would have taken in upper third of the present state of Illinois , over Into Indiana to the western boundary Includ Metropotamia. Polypotamia would have ed the central third of Illinois with the third eastern boundary and Pelisipia the lower na a triangular tract bounded by tlie Ohio sissippi rivers. Although Jefferson's reIor adopted. It was never put Into operation -eventually the old Northwest Territory di being divided up Into teB states into five Wisconsin, Michigan, IHinola, In and Ohio. other American history affords two or three new erect statM.hert instances of proposals to established commonwealth. At one tin18 was an efTort made to form a state name DI' quelmnna" from a part of Pennsylvania. the early days of the Republic tl eic was 8 ... posnl to diviile Virginia and make a s16 western part called YVestsylvauia." KveDtj' of course, the state was divided. Thai 1801 when Virginia seceded from the 'n'(Dft Joined the Confederacy while Ue western p5' s'ti'"'isP' 1 u -- tates Jv.ferson had Comfor 1 7. Gob I state D Ftnmda I dona Me Fred onset 1 ,,o had Polisy nia u" Piers ,m is on s "" :he Mr.pes. mips of I ! Hei J that tW At that time It was s', icw state should be called Ka'.J"1'' w t came into the Union in lsOJ it came Vligmia. e Wetrn Ntwspaptr Unon. a, ':si a: L iS |