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Show NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS President Hoover's First Year Is Both Praised and Attacked. By EDWARD W. P1CKARD WHETHER Herbert Hoover's first year as President Is to be considered con-sidered successful depends largely on the political bias and economic convictions convic-tions of the one who does the consid- ering. The varying views on the mat- J ter were expressed in the senate by Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, speaking for the administration party, mid Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, speaking for the opposition. Senator Fess especially praised the E'resldent's elforts to combat business depression, saying: "I regard the handling of the economic forces that were playing toward disaster by the President as the most outstanding accomplishment ac-complishment in the history of the government of which I have any knowledge on economic lines." He said he was not entirely sure that It was possible to avoid the cycles In business in which a high business level is followed by a depression. "If it can be doue," continued the Ohio senator, sen-ator, "we have the leadership in the White House that will do it; for the President has been working on the problem eight years." In dealing with other features of the administration record during the year Senator Fess discussed farm relief, the tariff, the naval armament conference, confer-ence, oilier International questions, and prohibition. Senator Harrison said he wished to congratulate Senator Fess. "on his audacity and nerve in speaking explanations ex-planations of the TOisachievements of the administration during the last year." "If the failure to solve big problems Is an achievement, then this admln-' admln-' Istration for the last year Is a suc cess," said Senator Harrison. "If disgusting dis-gusting the farmers of the land Is an achievement, then this administration Is a success. If dissatisfying labor is an achievement, then this administration administra-tion Is a success. If Indecision upon the part of a President Is an achievement, achieve-ment, then President Hoover's first year Is a great success." UNEMPLOYMENT is of course one of the immediate concerns of the government and furnishes ammunition ammuni-tion for the opponents of the administration. adminis-tration. Secretary of Labor .lames J. Davis, following a cabinet meeting at which the Industrial situation was discussed, asserted that as a result of the President's Presi-dent's activities unemployment has been held to less than one-half that of previous financial crashes. Other administration ad-ministration leaders expressed confl. denee that unemployment would be materially relieved within the next few weeks through the federal agencies agen-cies called Into action by the President. Presi-dent. Scnntor Wagner of New York, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, has Introduced a bill for stabilisation stabili-sation of industry by construction of public works and the prevention of unemployment un-employment in periods of business depression, de-pression, and appropriating $1."i0.0(M),-000 $1."i0.0(M),-000 for those purposes. Secretary Davis opposes the metisutv. holding it Is nnneoessary and provides methods too cumbersome for Its use. OPPONENTS of our prohibition laws closed their case before the house Judiciary committee on Tuesday with the statements of a number of witnesses, the best known of whom were Brockenridge Long, former assistant as-sistant secretary of state, and Dr. Stewart Paton. psychiatrist of Johns Uopklns. Three women also took the stand, Mrs. Robert V. I.ovett of Boston, Bos-ton, Mrs. Cortlandt Nleoll of New York and Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pittsburgh. Mrs. I.ovett sounded the keynote of the testimony of all three with a declaration dec-laration that the antl-prohlhition women wom-en are seeking the same objectives as the dry women, namely, protection of children, a decrease in crime, and abolition of the commercialized liquor trntlic. "But wnai hav we today J" she demanded. de-manded. "Drunken children, crime on the Increase by leaps and bounds, and an illicit liquor traffic infinitely worse than the open saloon." Mrs. Miller struck out at the W. C. T. V., which, she asserted, Is corrupt-lug corrupt-lug legislative bodies with its political tactics. Next day the drys began the introduction intro-duction of testimony with the first of some fifty witnesses from all parts of the country and from all walks of life. They led off with Samuel Crowther, a writer who has been gathering information infor-mation on the liquor question for a magazine; Edward Keating, former congressman from Colorado; Dr. Daniel Dan-iel A. Poling, president of the World's Christian Endeavor union, and Henry M. Johnson, Louisville lawyer. Mr. ,Crowther said he had asked Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford to attend the hearing but they were unable un-able to do so. However, both sent tele-, grams warmly endorsing prohibition and the Eighteenth amendment. It is noteworthy that so far most of the drys emphasize especially the economic benefits the country has derived de-rived from prohibition, while most of the wets dwell particularly on the alleged al-leged break down of morals resulting from it. NOT at all to the surprise of those conversant with the grain trade, conditions in the grain market became such that the federal farm board found it necessary to modify its activities in bolstering up wheat prices through the Grain Stabilization corporation and the Farmers' National Grain corporation. corpora-tion. The change in policy, as announced hv Chairman Alexander Legge of the farm 'ooard, consists in abandonment of the arbitrary loan price basis es-' es-' tnblished by the board last fall. No more grain will be bought on that basis, Mr. Legge said, though loans will be made to co-operatives on the present crop until July 1. Prices for wheat during the week were unsettled nnd generally lower. Later Mr. Legge was quoted as declaring de-claring that a real embargo against shipping wheat from farms to terminal termi-nal markets will be put Into effect unless farmers hold their stocks until storage facilities become available. He said the board Is endeavoring to avoid such drastic measures during the present grain emergency, but that If railroads are unable to unload cars of grain at terminals an embargo would become Imperative. Officials of twenty-five grain and other farm commodity exchanges held a secret meeting In Chicago and gave out the word that sd far as they were concerned the verbal warfare with the farm board was ended. "We have decided to shut up and get back to business as best we can under the situation, despite what politicians poli-ticians and governmental spokesmen may say or do," said one of the Chl-cagoans Chl-cagoans who attended the conference. The general opinion of the meeting was reported to be that the grain trade was satisfied with the modified policy announced by the federal farm board, withdrawing the fixed prices for wheat being paid to co-operatives only. OECRFTARY OF STATE STIMSON 1 sprung a surprise on the world with a statement In London that the United States Is willing to reduce Its naval armament by more than 200.000 tons. If the fleets of the other naval powoVs are reduced accordingly. He said this In reply to reports that the naval conference was likely to result In an Incrojise instead of a reduction in the tonnage of the navies of the world, and said his plan seemed to be acceptable to America and Great Britain. Brit-ain. France was still holding up the proceedings pro-ceedings of the conference although Premier Tardieu obtained a good majority ma-jority In the chamher of deputies. The French continue to demand a tonnage of at least 700.000 tons. If they are given this, Italy demands the same total. But Great Britain's fixed policy pol-icy is to have a navy as large as those of any two continental powers, and to have 1,400.000 tons she must add 200,01X1 tons to the figure on which the agreement with the United States Is based. That in a nutshell Is the situation, thouch there are many complicating com-plicating side features. The subcommittee of the conference to which was referred Mr. Stimsnn's resolution on the limitation and "humanizing" "hu-manizing" of submarines reported It could do nothing until the French del egates resumed their part In the negotiations. nego-tiations. Premier Tardieu sent Brl-and, Brl-and, Dumesnil and others over to London Lon-don Thursday and went himself on Saturday, so there was a prospect f progress. TVfR- HOOVER'S commission to ln- - vesugaie conauious in ntuu in getting an earful several of them, Indeed. In-deed. Immediately after its arrival In Port-au-Prince some twelve hundred native women prayed in public for an end of American occupation and then paraded through the streets past the headquarters of the commission, voicing voic-ing an appeal for the "liberation" of Haiti. On succeeding days the commissioners com-missioners heard prominent Ieaderg of the Nationalists denounce Gen. John H. Russell, the American high commissioner, as virtually a dictator whose puppet is President Borno. They demand a free election of a president and one of them said : "If the council of state dares to elect a president on April 14 Instead of permitting per-mitting a popular election, United States machine guns will sink all Haitians Hai-tians In blood." They still want the United States to help them in the sanitary service, but insist all other American activities should be abolished. abol-ished. Some asked that the commission commis-sion supervise the election, but Chairman Chair-man .Forbes told them this was impossible. im-possible. The Dominican Republic has quieted down after the resignation of President Presi-dent Vasquez and the Installation of Gen. Rafael Urena, leader of the Insurgent In-surgent movement, as provisional head of the government. THURSDAY was denominated "International "In-ternational unemployment day" by the Moscow Communists and parades and other demonstrations by the unemployed un-employed were held In many cities In Europe and America. In some places there were bloody encounters with the police and in others there was no disorder dis-order worth mentioning. Among the activities of the Communists Com-munists should be recorded the instigation insti-gation and management of a rebellion of 14,000 high school pupils in Manila, They struck nominally because of alleged al-leged insults by a woman teacher, and the Reds incited them to sanguinary encounters with the police. ALFRED VON TIRPITZ, who was lord high admiral of the German navy during the World war and father fa-ther of his country's submarine warfare, war-fare, died in Ebenhausen of bronchitis bronchi-tis at the age of eighty-one years. Cablegrams from Japan told of the death in Kobe of Dr. Arthur T. Had-ley, Had-ley, president emeritus of Yale university. uni-versity. He succumbed to pneumonia at the age of seventy-three years. Doctor Doc-tor Hadley was educated In Yale and Berlin universities and Joined the faculty fac-ulty of his alma mater In 1879. Twenty Twen-ty years later he was elected to the presidency, retiring In 1021. He was considered one of the world's leading economists. Other deaths Included those of D. H. Lawrence, noted English novelist and poet, and Viscount Herbert Gladstone, Glad-stone, youngest son of William E. Gladstone. OIL, lumber and sugar combined In the senate last week and brought about a vote of 47 to S9 In favor of an Increase in the duty on Cuban sugar sug-ar from 1.75 to 2 cents per pound. Nine senators, most of whom are Interested In-terested in either oil or lumber, switched their votes, and the resulting combination smashed the Democratic-Radical Democratic-Radical Republican coalition that has has been having Its own way in formulating for-mulating the senate's tariff bill. During Dur-ing the exciting debate Senator Caraway Car-away and others charged that a deal had been entered Into, and there were warnings that the oil. lumber and sugar sug-ar trade would be made a campaign Issue. The hmise hill increased the rate on Cuban sugar to 2.4 cents per pound, so an Increase In this duty is virtually certain when the senate and house conferees fix up the final draft of the measure. JOHN NORTH WILLYS of Toledo, Ohio, automobile manufacturer. Is the new American ambassador to Poland, Po-land, nis name was submitted to Warsaw for approval, which it received, re-ceived, and the appointment was then announced by President Hoover. The senate had no objection to the selection. selec-tion. 1930. Western Newep&per Cnton.) |