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Show MEWS REVIEW OF CUP.RENTEVENTS American Bar Association Upholds Referendum on the 18th Amendment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD PROHIBITION laws and their enforcement en-forcement were to the fore at the opening session of the lifty-third annual an-nual meeting of the American Bar association as-sociation in Chicago. George V. Wick-ersham, Wick-ersham, chairman of the President's enforcement commission, was the chief speaker of the day, and naturally he spoke mainly on that topic; but what he said would give small consolation to the dripping wets of the country. "Good citizenship," said Mr. Wicker-sham, Wicker-sham, "must acquiesce in the law as it is, for the time being. A society which has" adopted the inventions and applied science of the last quarter of a century and has taken into its midst millions of aliens from every country in the world, must resort to legislation legisla-tion in order to regulate its life, preserve pre-serve order, and, so far as possible, suppress acts and habits injurious to its welfare. "That the individual and minority groups must accept and abide by the restraints so imposed is obvious. Otherwise Oth-erwise lawful government breaks down and we have anarchy. The remedy of those who object is to appeal to the same authority as that which enacts, for rescission or modification. There can be no individual right to elect what laws one will or will not obey." The commission, said its chairman, had opposed the Jones law and the Dyer act, believing "that a speedy prosecution of minor offenses and the Imposition of penalties having some relation to the character of the offense w:ould be more likely to induce respect for la than the creation of penalties so disproportioned to the gravity of the offense as to Induce resentment In reasonable minds." MORE exciting than ny speeches was the battle over an attempt by some of the members of the association asso-ciation to halt the referendum vote on the Eighteenth amendment. Secretary W. P. MacCracken, Jr., reported that the executive committee had rejected a petition to recall the postcards sent out for this vote. Judge James F. Ailshie of Idaho offered a resolution that the submitting of the question was not in accord with the objects and purpose of the association and contrary t,o its constitution and bylaws, by-laws, after the committee's report had been accepted. President Henry U. Sims sustained a point of order that the right of the executive committee to take such "action was specifically granted in the constitution and ruled that the action of the committee could not be retailed by the delegates. An appeal from this decision was voted down by a majority of about fifty to one. The convention also upheld the executive ex-ecutive committee in rejecting the report re-port of the American citizenship committee com-mittee which contained a bitter attack of the federal farm board, declaring its appointment was the first step toward to-ward state socialism and that this effort ef-fort to aid the farmers was foredoomed fore-doomed to failure. The section on criminal law and criminology also refused re-fused to adopt a report on "lawless enforcement of law" and ordered the committee to continue work for another anoth-er year. In Ids opening address President Sims asserted that constitutional liberty lib-erty In this country is In no danger whatever, "and that the visions of social so-cial strife supposed to be Impending are but plantasmagoria of morbid brains." The sessions of the association were attended by a number of distinguished distin-guished lawyers and Jurists from foreign for-eign countries, and many American notables were among the 2,000 delegates. dele-gates. GENEROUS rains fell over much of the corn and wheat belts, but they were too late to save the crops from ut least partial ruin, and the plans of the government and the states for relief of the farmers in the drought areas were not halted. President Pres-ident Hoover appointed a federal relief re-lief committee, headed by Secretary of Agriculture Hyde and Including Chairmen Alexander Legge of the federal fed-eral farm board; Paul Bestor, chairman chair-man of the federal farm loan board; Roy Young, chairman of the federal reserve board ; John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross; Under-secretary of the Treasury Ogden Og-den Mills; Henry M. Robinson, president presi-dent of the First National bank of Los Angeles, and R. H. Aishton of Evanston, III., president of the American Ameri-can Railway association. Governors of the various states reported re-ported to Washington that they were moving rapidly in the creaticn of their organizations. FIRST action of the federal committee com-mittee was to lay plans for financial finan-cial relief with the federal intermediate intermedi-ate credit bank system as the principal princi-pal unit. The plans called, first, for the creation of state and local credit corporations by bankers and business men through which farmers may obtain ob-tain seed and feed loans. The corporations corpor-ations will sign the notes over, to the credit banks, which will advance the capital obtained from the flotation of debentures on the investment market-Secretary market-Secretary Hyde estimated roughly that a maximum of $20,000,000 will be required of the credit banks, whatever what-ever more is needed coming from private pri-vate sources. Mr. Hyde announced that the Department De-partment of Agriculture will make available for seed loans approximately approximate-ly $S00,000 remaining from a $0,000,-000 $0,000,-000 appropriation provided by congress. con-gress. The use of this money, however, how-ever, Is limited to specified areas and will be distributed largely in Indiana, Ohio, Virginia, Missouri and Montana. John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross, said that his organization or-ganization has $5,000,000 available for emergency work and does not contemplate contem-plate an appeal to the public, at least until the fund Is exhausted. In order to furnish employment for farmers without livelihood as a result of- the drought, the Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture has made immediately available avail-able to the states S121,S57,000 in federal fed-eral aid road funds which ordinarily would not have been apportioned until January 1. This action was taken at the urgent request of President Hoover. The federal farm board announced the extension of $5,000,000 credit to the Inter-Mountain Live Stock Growers' Grow-ers' association, which will facilitate the shipping of live stock to pastures, INTEREST in aviation centered in CIdcago, where the national air races opened and toward which men and women contestants in the air derbies der-bies were racing from various parts of the country. Nearly every prominent promi-nent American aviator was there, and so were some of the best flyers of Europe. Eu-rope. A varied program of speed contests, con-tests, stunt flying, and other' exhibitions ex-hibitions was ofTered the Immense throng of spectators that flocked to , Chicago from all parts of the Union. Before the races began, the first national na-tional air conference was held for three days on the downtown campus of Northwestern university, with the nation's chief authorities on aeronautics aeronau-tics in attendance. The conference recommended the adoption by the states of federal laws regulating airports, air-ports, airplanes and air transportation, in order to secure uniformity. The states also were urged to authorize municipalities to purchase, maintain and police airports. The conference recommended the establishment of a comprehensive system sys-tem of national airways.- giving equal consideration to all sections without regard to population density, but giving giv-ing greatest consideration where topographical topo-graphical conditions are unfavorable to Hying. DALE JACKSON and Forest O'Brine, St. Louis endurance flyers, fly-ers, didn't stay In the air for a thousand thou-sand hours, as they threatened, but descended when they had established the new mark of 047 hours 28 minutes and 30 seconds. Their motor developed devel-oped trouble, forcing them to alight. GALLANT work by officers and crew nnd quick response to radio calls by other vessels saved the 317 persons aboard the British steamer Tahiti from death in the middle of the Pacific ocean. The vessel's port propeller pro-peller shaft carried away, tearing a hole In the ship and permitting water to flood the engine room and t- holds. She was kept afloat for a tb-"" by tie use of emergency pumps and wireless appeals for aid brought the Matson liner Ventura and the steamer Penybryn to the rescue. All aboard the Tahiti were transferred to the Ventura In safety, despite heavy seas. About half were disembarked at Pago-pago, Pago-pago, American Samoa, and the rest were taken to San Francisco. Many other vessels on the Pacific answered the radio SOS but their help was not needed. The Tahiti went to the bottom bot-tom soon after the passengerr mai crew left her. UNITED Spanish War Veterans held their thirty-second annual encampment en-campment in Philadelphia and had a fine time fighting over again the battles bat-tles in Cuba. The feature of the affair af-fair was the parade on "preparedness day." Edward S. Matthias, former judge of the Ohio Supreme court, was elected national commander, and New Orleaps was awarded next year's encampment. en-campment. PRESIDENT HOOVER has decided to go to Boston on October 6 to deliver an address before the American Ameri-can Legion. He will then take a special spe-cial train for the South and speak again next day at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary anniver-sary of the Battle of Kings Mountain. Though his vacation plans are still unsettled, un-settled, It may be that he will take a trip in October either to Mexico or on the Caribbean. Among the tasks now on his hands are the selection of the five members of the tariff commission com-mission and the completion of the 1932 budget. VTAN LEAR BLACK, wealthy pub- Usher of the Baltimore Sur and Evening Sun, was drowned at sea in the night, having evidently fallen fror his yacht Sabalo when it was steam j ing outside the outer New Y'ork bar- ' bor on the way to his summer home on the Chesapeake. When it was discovered dis-covered he was missing from the boat, the alarm was sent out and for two days vessels and airplanes and the navy dirigible Los Angeles searched for him, but in vain. Mr. Black, who was fifty-five years old, was an enthusiastic aviator, and in 1927 began a series of flights that took him around the world, all over Europe, to the Dutch East Indies and. to South America. y ! Other notables taken by death were ! Thomas B. Slick of Oklahoma City, known as the richest independent oil operator In the world: and Louis Bourgeois Bour-geois of Chicago, noted architect and sculptor. CHINESE press dispatches reported ' x the slaughter of 4.000 Communists by provincial troops in western Ki-nngsi Ki-nngsi province and the capture of 2.000 rifles. The Communists, however, how-ever, gained possession of Wusueh In Hupeh province, an Important Yangtze river port 25 miles above Kluklang. The terrified inhabitants of the town abandoned their property and fled. IF GERMANY asks the League of Nations next month for revision of the Versailles treaty in regard to Germany's Ger-many's frontier, France will put up a strenuous opposition. Herr Treviranus, German minister for the occupied regions, re-gions, recently made this demand in a speech, and soon thereafter the German Ger-man ambassador to Paris hustled back 'Jt to Berlin to warn bis government that w"' the Stresemann policy of conciliation was being jeopardized. It Is reported that the French, foreign for-eign oflice bluntly told the German envoy that France does not regard as acceptable proposals for revision of the Polish corridor. At the same time France is urging Poland to abandon .her belligerent attitude and to drop the tariffs In force along the borders of the corridor, preventing free passage pas-sage between Trussla and the rest of Germany. (f The name of Frank B. Kellogg, for- iner secretary of state, was presented to the League of Nations by the American group as candidate for ju-. tice of the World court. I ((c). 1930. Western Nowipaper Union.) y |