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Show News Review of Current Events the World Over Gandhi Tells Round-Table Conference India Must Have Self-Government Progress in ' . Plans for Relief. I By EDWARD W. PICKARD MAI7ATMA GANDHI, clad only In his loin cloth and a while robe, and constantly sipping gout's milk from a vacuum bottle, was the outstanding out-standing figure in the iwssyjj- rUn(-tal)!e confer- X i once on the status of '". A India which got tin- ' .. s A der way in St. tf& , 1 James' palace in V" ' London. On the open- Ing day he spoke no 'v ' j word, because It was " ;r ?7 ''Is weekly day of sl-j sl-j "' Y f lence, but In the eve-i eve-i 4 J ' nlng, his period of sl-t., sl-t., j lence having ended, he made this rather Gandhi pessimistic statement: "If our hopes and fears are weighed In the balance, I am afraid our fears will far outweigh our hopes. Hut It Is too early to make predictions. We ought to be able to say a week hence whether our hopes ultimately will overbalance our fears. At present everything Is In the lap of the gods." He had listened to llowery and hopeful hope-ful speeches by Lord Sankey, chairman chair-man of the federal structures committee, commit-tee, and several others, including Indian In-dian potentates, but he seemed bored and unimpressed. Next day, however, the mahatma was free to speak, and speak he did, letting the British know that the minimum mini-mum demand be, as authorized by the All-India nationalist congress, Is empowered em-powered to make Is undiluted self-government self-government for India. Fie wanted the British to let him know very soon whether this would be granted, and . was willing to let other minds work out the details. But If the answer was to be "No," he wished to return speedily to India and resume there his revolutionary movement. The queer looking little Hindu leader did not say this quite so bluntly as It Is written, but there was no mistaking his meaning, for he Is always un-nfrald un-nfrald to speak frankly. India, he said, was willing to remain re-main a partner In the British empire, em-pire, but that partnership must be such that It may be terminated at the will of either party. "If God wills," he said, "It will be a permanent partnership, but at the same time, the right to terminate the association will constitute a real test of the equality of position enjoyed by both partners. "There was a time when I was proud of being called a British subject, sub-ject, but many years ago I stopped calling myself a British subject. I would far rather be called a rebel than a subject, but 1 still aspire to be a citizen, not of an empire, but of a commonwealth In partnership. "Not a partnership superimposed by one nation upon another, but a partnership of mutual agreement In such a partnership India will be ready to share Great Britain's misfortunes, mis-fortunes, and if necessary, to fight side by side with Great Britain, not for exploitation of any race or any person, but conceivably for the good of the whole world." The dominance of the conservatives In both the present cabinet and the house of commons makes It likely that the opposition to India's demands will be stronger than when the round table first met last winter. The Tories have reiterated their position against those demands. It seemed certain that the debate would be long drawn out and probably at times acrimonious. The federal structures committee, Ignoring Gandhi's desire to have a decision on the general question of self rule first, went ahead with the working out of details. BANKERS, economists, ex-service men and many other groups are holding almost daily conferences to see what can be done about unemployment unemploy-ment and the recovery recov-ery of prosperity ' One of the important x 1 sessions was that of the American Legion labor conference In j Washington, and in tt 0 the chief address was . made by Maj. Gen v J-mes G. Harbord ) x- now president of the Radio Corporation of s xJjw. America. He told the " r? legion that the surest contribution It could Gen- Harbord. make toward the solution of the problem prob-lem would be to offer its services unreservedly un-reservedly to President Hoover, and continuing, he had some harsh words for those who advocate the demanding demand-ing of full payment of soldier bonuses. "I can't Imagine anything more ridiculous," he declared, "than your going to your Detroit convention with a program to relieve the country's unemployment un-employment and depression problems In one hand and a tin cup In the other. oth-er. You would be laughed out of the country." The prohibition issue was brought to the fore by M. II. McDonough, president presi-dent of the building trades department depart-ment of the American Federation of Labor, who told the conference that legalization of beer would do more to relieve unemployment than ail other relief measures combined. He said this would afford, within six months, employment for more than 1 ,000.000 persons, besides providing a market for farm produce. TWELVE eminent bankers, representing repre-senting as many federal reserve districts, were Mr. Hoover's guests at dinner and for two or three hours they set before the President the conditions con-ditions In their respective regions. It was said at the White House that each hanker had assured the President his district would he able to assume the unemployment relief burden tills winter without federal aid. The hankers were: Herbert K. Hulled Hul-led of Boston, U. II. Treman of Ithaca, Ith-aca, N. Y. ; Howard A. Loeb, Philadelphia; Phila-delphia; J. A. House, Cleveland; John Poole, Washington; John K. Ottley, Atlanta; Melvin A. Traylor, Chicago; Walter W. Smith, St. Louis; George II. Prince, St. Paul ; Walter S. Mc-Lucas, Mc-Lucas, Kansas City; Henry II.' Robinson, Robin-son, Los Angeles, and Walter Lichten-stein Lichten-stein of Chicago. IF DISTRESS during the coming winter can be relieved through the appointment and the labor of leading citizens on committees, It certainly will be relieved. Dl-l"Tr'i',n Dl-l"Tr'i',n rector Gilford has just i ,( "'-"1 named a large com-L com-L mittee of distinguished I J m e n a n d women : ' wnose duty 11 wi" be tftrfy N to mobilize national I f associations for the I s task. The chairman of ' this body is Dr. i xi Eliot Wadsworth of r Boston, who used to iniiSS-Sr A be an assistant sec- retary of the treasury Doctor and who is known for Wadsworth. h,3 exeeIlent pubiic service in connection with the Red Cross. He already Is busy at the headquarters in Washington. Doctor Wadsworth's fellow members Include: William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross; Matthew Sloan, president of the New York Edison company; Silas H. Strawn; president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States; Colonel Arthur Woods, of New York, who was chairman of Mr. Hoover's relief organization last year, and R. H. Alshton, Washington ; Martin H. Carmody, Grand Rapids, Mich. ; James C. Drain, Spokane, Wash. ; Dr. John W. Davis, Institute, W. Va. ; John E. Edgerton, Lebanon, Tenn. ; Dr. Lillian Gilbreath, Mont-clair, Mont-clair, N. J.; C. E. Grunskey, San Francisco, Calif. ; A. Johnson, Washington Wash-ington ; Alvan Macauley, Detroit, Mich.; John R. Mott. New York City; Rabbi A. H. Silver, Cleveland, Ohio; Mrs. John F. Sippel, Washington ; George Sloan, New York City ; Mrs. Robert E. Speer, New York City; L. J. Taber, Columbus, Onio; George E. Vincent. Greenwich, Conn., and William Wil-liam Allen White, Emporia, Kan. GEN. JOHN J. PERSHING went out to Lincoln, Neb., to spend his seventy-first birthday anniversary with his sister. Miss May Pershing, and his son, Warren. He planned to remain T3T there for three weeks, s" resting from his la- " 1 bors as head of the , a American monuments j? 1 commission which , have taken him on ex- $5 1 tensive travels. As -v. n ahtays when he Is in -- Lincoln, he declined r 3 to make any public k VWfe-Vj appearances or state- kAv...Eifcaa ments or even to give Interviews. But be Gen' P"shin3-chatted P"shin3-chatted every day with his old friends and thoroughly enjoyed his rest with its informality. One remark the general dropped was quoted by the press. "There's nothing vitally wrong with the country." coun-try." he said. "Anyone who says we're on the rocks doesn't know his country. We'll come out of It. The depression can't last." AVIATION news was a mixture of good and bad. Don Moyle and C. A. Allen, who started a flight from Tokyo across the Pacific and were missing for nine days, were found alive and safe on an island oft the coast of Kamchatka. Three passengers passen-gers and a pilot died when a plane fell into the sea at Oakland. Calif. ; and a navy plane carrying supplies to stricken Belize crashed, killing an of ficer and two enlisted men. Wreckage of a monoplane found near the Shetland Shet-land Islands was Identified as the plane In which Parker Cramer and Oliver Pacquette were trying to fly to Copenhagen. At this writing there Is no word of the fate of Body. Jo-haussen Jo-haussen and Viega who. flying from Portugal to New York, vanished off the Nova Scotia coast. ON ITS second reading In the house of commons the British government's govern-ment's economy bill, authorizing the use of orders in council to effect savings sav-ings of fooO.OOO.OOO in administrative expenditures, was approved by a vote of 310 to 253 a majority for the government gov-ernment of 57. The division came after a long dt-b:!te on proposals to reduce by 10 per cent the dole and salaries and costs of social devices. Prime Minister MacDonuld has ail-pointed ail-pointed a cabinet committee to investigate in-vestigate Great Britain's adverse trade balance, and many thin!; this means the government has decided to adopt a tariff policy. The London Daily Mail says there is a strung opinion In parliament that a general tariff of 'JO per cent on all classes of foreign Imports will ultimately be adopted without an electoral appeal to the country. The Laborite Herald, however, contends that a tariff cannot be imposed until the electorate has been consulted and hints that a general gen-eral election Is impending. One Immediate result of the wage cuts instituted by the government was a threat of mutiny among the navy men of the lower rating. The admiralty, ad-miralty, admitting there was serious "unrest." suspended the program of exercises of the Meet In the North sea ! and started an inquiry. j REAR ADMIRAL RICHARD E. L Byrd announced In Boston that He was planning another expedition to the South pole. He said that detailed preparations for this PT" trip already have ' been made, but that ' '' he was not ready to 1- i give out the plans yet . , because there is still s Vv 5 much scientific work : I s w ' to be done on the data j collected by the ; e 1 ' former expedition, t- i ! "As is my custom," vil be said, "there will im&a.&F-rifi.li De no public campaign , for the raising of Rear Admiral fundg fQr ms expe(1. Byrd- tion. In the past, friends of mine who are interested in the work have contributed the bulk of the money. In this particular case, they will contribute probably all of it." FOREIGN MINISTER JULIUS CUR-tius CUR-tius startled the League of Nations Na-tions and especially the French the other day by a speech In which he said that Germany was forced to demand de-mand an entire new deal on reparations repara-tions and also would not be satisfied with anything less than absolute parity par-ity in armaments, his remnrks concerning con-cerning the latter point being aimed directly at France, Poland and the little lit-tle entente. Later he found occasion at a journalists' luncheon to mollify the French, saying: "We are firmly decided to pursue collaboration between be-tween our two countries. It Is only In this way and with the aid of the league that we can hope to master the difficulties and reach the goal set by M. Briand in his moving and impressive im-pressive words the complete suppression sup-pression of war." Mexico, just admitted to the league, had expected to be given a seat In the council, but was disappointed. Panama Pan-ama and China were elected to the council to take the places of Venezuela Vene-zuela and Persia, respectively. There were reports In Geneva that the United Unit-ed States would be seriously displeased dis-pleased if Mexico were elevated to the council so soon, and that the "big shots" gave up the idea in order to keep President Hoover in good humor. hu-mor. LATE reports from Belize, British Honduras, are that the deaths resulting re-sulting from the hurricane that smashed that city may reach the shocking total of 1,400, or nearly one in ten of the entire population. Hundreds Hun-dreds of the victims were burned in huge pyres without attempt at identification, iden-tification, because of the danger of pestilence. Other hundreds were swept out to sea by the great tidal wave that accompanied the storm. Relief measures for the survivors were promptly carried out by the Honduran authorities, the American Red Cross, the Salvation Army, and the American naval forces in the vicinity. vi-cinity. SCARCELY 2,000 members of the once mighty Grand Army of the Republic were able to attend the annual an-nual encampment In Des Moines, the sixty-fifth and perhaps the last. They were tenderly cared for and many of them managed to march over at least a part of the route when the big parade was held, but in the main they were content to sit in arm chairs and exchange ex-change reminiscences. FINDING he could not complete his investigations in the Philippines in the time originally set, Secretary of War Patrick J. Hurley, put off for one week his depar-Hire depar-Hire for the United ""XNJ States and went on ?' vX -r ij with the work with r j refreshing thorough- J ness. Leaders of the 5e Filipinos who demand j"i . immediate independ- fc ence are not wholly S pleased with Mr. Hur- fttys- " J ley, seeming to be -sy convinced he will re- , j port against their nui..;.. cause. In the Island , Hure senate he was bitter- ly attacked by two senators, despite the pleas of Sergio Osmena, president pro tempore of the senate, that they reserve their criticisms. Mr. Hurley, far from being offended, said such incidents in-cidents gave him a clearer insight into conditions. Osmena and Manuel Roxas. speaker of the insular house, stated that plans had been made for the sending of an independence commission to Washing-tea Washing-tea this fall. The delegates will seek a roucd-tablt conference and may consent to a compromise settlement of the question. tffi by Western .W-wspatitii UdIoq.) |