Show news N aws review of current curr ent events the world over remarkable report on tile prohibition problem made by the wickersham Vic kersham commission J A lF farrell arrell says prosperity Is coming back by EDWARD W PICKARD N H drys nor wets can derive any w wholehearted whole h a I 1 heart eheart e hearted satisfaction from tile the report deport ortho of the wicker sharn sham law enforcement 4 commission w which it I 1 c 11 was ana handed to president hoover and by bilm transmitted to engross congress nor Is s it oncel vable that the commission itself enn george W have any great pride wickersham in tile tho bulky document tho the one wholly honest li member lember appears to bo be monte ionic lemann leinann of new or mans who refused to sign the majority report tile the other ten attached their names to it and gave out statements showing that no one of them agreed with its findings in their entirety this majority report Is against repeat of the hie eighteenth amendment and admitting that prohibition has not been enforced or observed recommends that it be given further trial with no an enlarged force of agents lie ite boval moval of tho the restrictions on the prescription of at medicinal liquor by physicians la Is advised if the dry amendment ts Is to be revised reused nt at nil all the cum mission Is agreed on oil certain phrase which would em empower loNer congress to deal with the liquor traille as it tees sees fit it modification of the Vol stend net act so as to permit tile the and eale of light wines and beer Is opposed rn in a separate report yle the plan for revision giving congress oie aie power to regulate or prohibit the manufacture and sale bale of liquor was set met forth in detail by henry W anderson of vir and it was signed by commas om anderson kenyon loesch Loes cli round pound mccormick McCorm and mackintosh statements of the individual commissioners miss loners ners appended to the general report showed that of the eleven members cut M six consider it hopeless to ei eat hect that prohibition can tie be made to prohibit two of tl ti ese six for former trier secretary of war newton D baker ot of ohio and prof monte alonto JJ al lemann of tulane university la nd advocate repeal of the he eighteenth amendment the other four of these arx mr anderson ada L comstock Co prel president dent of radcliffe college frank J loebell of chicago find and dean roscoe round pound of harvard law school favor immediate revision of till tho eighteenth amendment to confer tile the power of regulation on congress five of the members chairman george ceorge W wickersham united states judges william a kenyon J and william 1 I grubb and former chief justice ac K it mackin of tile tha washington supreme court stood out for a further trial judges kenyon mackintosh and me cormick said vint that it tile the further experiment peri ment failed they would favor faor budop adoption of the anderson And cison pluit of national regulation of liquor in transmitting tile the report to congress president ll llover ocier sald said lie he NUB aa in lic corti with its ts stand repeal of tile the dry amendment and fid ad deil 1 I do however see serious oil oh to and therefore must not be understood ns as the commissions iniss lons proposed revision of the he eighteenth amendment which la Is suggested by them for possible consideration nt at some future time it if tile continued effort at enforcement should not prove successful senator john J blaine ot wisconsin was MS quick to introduce a modification amendment on fin the general lines of the plan offered reil by commissioner anderson but conIni tg congressional to regulation of 0 liquor tr brattle attle like tile the anderson anderaon scheme Bc heine it would each stute state to decide whether it desires bill 11 or a government controlled liquor supply STANDING by lits colv conviction cletion that baw tile the funds of the red 1 cross crosa should be oil oh hy by private subscription I 1 prest r e 91 deit de it hoover hax hast named a committee of leading citizens to push the drive tor for fur for the then re ilef of the drought sufferers calvin calvin caal coolidge his coolidge sor hua hits accepted the honorary of 0 this body and at smith ld his opponent in 1028 is EL a vice president us as ore are john W V davis das democratic calida date tor for the presidency in 1124 uin gen john J pershing and ahel abel davis 0 04 chicago julin barton payne hendon the cited cross Is the active chairman of tile the committee in n letter to those invited to a serve erve ra on tho the I 1 committee tile tho president said that it la Is essential that we should ninin tain tile the sound american tradition anti and spirit ot of voluntary olun volun lury tury aid in such stich emergency und and nut not hint parit t alch which lins hits anade jur fiur cited deoss rsm the outstanding guard laa ian of our nur eale in tf atine me of disaster tle tile Amerle att any ny of such auch a relief problem has been through voluntary effort and for many years this effort has been centered in the american lied led cross created by the people themselves to act in just suc lucli emergencies tactics to in the 0 senate delayed tho the interior de parti pertinent nent bill to which had been appended tho the appropriation arr the ked cross for cor food but the measure was passed the senate also hail further relief plans the agriculture committee approved a measure to donate bushels of 0 fa furm rm board wheat to fc feed ea the alie h hungry the cost of tho the grain to be credited to tile the boards revolving revolting fund and d the appropriation committee added to a pending deficiency bill tor for immediate public improvements wet members of tile the house en engaged in a filibuster against prohibition enforcement appropriations attacking especially funds for or employment of informers for purchase of liquor evidence and for tapping the telephone te wares of suspected law violators 14 ROOT HO OT appeared before the LJ senate foreign relations and eloquently defended tho the protocols for american adherence to tile the world court which he negotiated negotiate ills arguments were forcible and ills replies to questions seemed adequate but his address did not appear to have much effect on senators borah moses mosea and johnson members of the tha committee and opponents of adhere ned eyen even with the senates rese reservations in the B BUSINESS united states la is now on the upgrade the peak of the finan caal depression was passed before the beginning of the year und and the prospects tor for r restored rec e z t 0 r e d industrial prosperity are good such at least Is the pinion opinion of juines james A larroll farrell president of J i A A parrel farrell t h e knifed states steel corporation as expressed in an address to the national can nars and tho the national wholesale grocers associations in joint convention la in chicago lie ile deprecated the suggestions of revision of inter allied war debts as a measure of relief and argea that we do the things alint we can let us cut down the volume of undigested talk that rarely helps but always hampers lie he said granting that unemployment la Is cou con ald alterable erable and thac the national in conic has been reduced the steel magnate contended it was essential for prosperity to main talu the purchasing power of tile the working classes adding it Is ray my deliberate judgment that a general generah reduction of wages in tills this country would set back tho the impending recovery by at least two tv o years ears the agricultural situation mr farroll described aa a most serious one nut but lie he said no lasting gain bill be made for agriculture by resort to quack no strums and annl unsound economics or of bread P sugar and other foodstuffs are bentig investigated on order of the senate by bit all agricultural kittee of wasch son sen ator arthur capper of oc kansas Is chair man senators wag tier ner of new york and brookhart Drook hart of iowa who were the authors of thereso resolution lutton call sen sek capper ing for foi tile lie inquiry first appeared be j tore fore the committee and explained their views and their reasons to for r thinking current ailees to bo be excessive afterwards representatives of the MS big bread baking companies companie sand and other tradesmen were called in to tell tile the aucta ducts na as they see them and to justify it f they could the maintenance of pres ent prices of bread in blew ew of the tow low price of heat N PRE SE 1 FISHS house committee on communist activities activity es hils has reported recommending strengthening tho the laws which would enable tile lie authorities to activities in the united states the russian soviet press heaps ridicule on the re port declaring it IA impudent and in solent and that it indicates tile tha fright of the bourgeoisie that the soviet re public will succeed in its industrialization plan soviet officials announce that hot rus kua sta sin Is about to reaume the dumping of grain on the world markets tier her supply largely exceeding the needs 0 of f the Itus kisslan people 11 N away from las vegas Is the K KEKI warning to holless a arkers who slick employment on an the boulder dam project given out hy laborthe labori the organ ot of baltro ad labor or organizations organisations the paper says bays i respite De the fact that contracts on tile the government overn ment project have not been awarded las begus tins been flooded lood cl with thouc thousands ands of af jobless and destitute men 11 hundreds 11 of 0 these unfortunate job seekers were dec deceived elved by reports circulated by unscrupulous employment agencies in the opinion of francis 1 I jones gen e arul r a I 1 director of the united states employment service capt robert SI griffin of the sal army at las vegas recently declared that las vegas hits has tile the long est bread line in the united states according to population more than jobless workers were given aid by the salvation army tn in one month captain reports the first contracts for boulder dam will w III not be awarded until march and men who insist on going there in search of 0 employ employment ment are advised by the united states employment service to be prepared to take care of them selves for at least four months PACIFISTS and ad 1 vacates of adequate national defense defens i c came a ra e together tn in t washington in tho the sixth national con ference on the c cause I 1 use und and cure of wit war r the big meeting was attended if by more than it COO delegates from 44 states and was held under the auspices of admiral mark ll it national britol bristol organizations whose aim lit in this respect Is to completo cona the demobilization of what they call the war machine one of the speakers on the program was rear admiral mark bristol chairman of 0 f the th e executive committee of tile the navy general board and ills his arguments for defense were ably seconded by admiral william V pratt chief of naval operations and edward edat ard P warner former assistant secretary of tho the navy in charge of aeronautics among the pacifist speakers were miss jane addams of the international league for pence peace and freedom and mrs airs carrie chapman catt catl from geneva say that D dispatches tile the central opium board of the league of nations was compelled by objections from representatives of prance france and Yugoslavia to Aci delete front from its report cristle criticism of the abnormal narcotics bonsu consumption emption in japan and france the inference being that drugs supposedly for medical purposes had escaped from regular channels and been made available to the illicit dope dealers the expurgated pur gated report read to the league council merely mentioned certain countries but at the same time unfolded to the council tile the fact that seizures of opium illicitly transported were now in tons where heretofore they bey t had been in junces tile the leggue league commission to study brianas Bri ands united states of europe scheme decided after a warm debate to invite russia turkey and iceland to participate ln la the ahr discussions of tile tho economic phase sot the plan when it Is taken up again probably next may VON UIN PAUL benhur g president 1 I ot of thil the german republic was the chief tig al ure in tile the tic celebration of the sixtieth anniversary ot of german unity aud and the eighty three year old warrior seemed almost as vigorous a attie atlie must have been oil ni january 18 1871 president von when as a lieutenant hindenburg lie ho stood in the hull hall of mirrors nt at versailles and heard bismarck proclaim the federated state of germany an empire tito ceremonies in berlin opened with 0 n solemn assembly ot of nil all members ot of the government in the belch stag where chancellor Bruening made an appeal for mutual understanding and repeated Bis Dis marcks pledge that the nation would seek wealth through peace not war then president von hindenburg attended a reunion in the berlin Sport where about former officers and soldiers gathered eving adopted a H plan for giving india dominion status the ali e round table conference In london adjourned with most of the delegates satisfied however the gandhi adherents in india are not at all pleased with the scheme and immediately began attacking attaching it in various ways national con congress kress newspapers denounce it ns as a system of camouflaged independence ind pen dence designed to pro e vide vado safeguards for great britain AnEl lEADED anti and wearing ordinary banary street clothes col charter A at lendbergh wen to a gathering ot of tin and diplomats in washington and received from the hands of ambassador claudel of 0 franco france the cross vf ut commander of the legion of flonor donor in presenting the cross ambassador claudel said anid the westward flight 0 coste coate and bellonte last september wit was a a success largely largel because lind bergh had bad mapped the atlantic course it was in recognition of this service to the two frenchmen as well as his own record making flight that the medal was awarded he said among those at the presentation were secretary adams senator mor row Lind berghs father in law ard ad Cha chairman irmah of the law en formell fo dij commit acin I 1 CU 1031 W wanew pap t union |