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Show f A I v " CI 'Aj;W 1 Granite shaft unveiled nt Sand Point held, Seattle, as memorial to the around-the-worUI flight of the army aviators. 2 President Obregon leaving the cathedral In Mexico City after .Mexican independence day services which the American industrial mission attended. 3 George IX'wey Hay of Chicago receiving gold cup at radio world's fair In New York, as best radio announcer In the world. NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS Japan Wins Victory in the League of Nations Baseball Scandal. By CDWARD W. PICKARD JAPAN has, for the time being, put one over on the member nations of the League of Nations, and all the world is waiting, rather anxiously, to see what the result will he. It all turns on the matter of regulation of Immigration, which the Japanese will not admit is a purely Internal question ques-tion that each nation is entitled to determine without outside interference. interfer-ence. They refused to accept the league's proposed treaty of arbitration, arbitra-tion, security and disarmament until It had been amended to accord with their view on that point, and after a strenuous debate the committee in charge yielded to them and framed a so-called compromise which satisfied them. The "protocol for pacific settlement set-tlement of International disputes," as it Is officially known, was then submitted sub-mitted to the league assembly and accepted. ac-cepted. In the opinion of most Americans Amer-icans and of Australia, Canada and other British dominions, the league has overreached- itself by attempting to become not only an international arbitrator but an international lawmaker, law-maker, and the result Is more likely to be war than peace. Briefly stated, the amendments Insisted In-sisted upon and obtained by Count Adachi and his Japanese colleagues oblige the league to arbitrate the immigration im-migration question or any other question ques-tion of internal policy even aftei the world court has refused to have anything any-thing to dj with It. This, as one correspondent cor-respondent puts it, means that "Japan Is entitled to drag the United States into a long, dangerous dispute on. the race question before the world's nations, na-tions, even though the highest court of justice in existence has declared the question at issue is America's own business. No time limit is set for this operation, and if at any time during dur-ing this process the United States kicks over the traces and decides to handle its own probHms in its own way the league is obliged to punish it by the military power of 54 nations." If the United States should refuse to obey the league's orders, Japan could declare war on us and could count on the support of as many of the signatory nations as would honor their signatures' to the document. In the same case would be any other nation na-tion that has adopted legislative measures to check' Japanese Immigration. Immigra-tion. In the debates In Geneva the Japanese Jap-anese had the support of Greece and Italy quite understandably and of Belgium, whose reason for such a stand is not clear. The French and English representatives were so set on adoption of the protocol that they gladly accepted the compromise, which in fact was practically complete surrender sur-render to Count Adachi's demands. However, adoption of the protocol nt Geneva Is not binding until the document docu-ment has been ratified by the governments govern-ments of signatory powers, and the prospect now is that It will be rejected reject-ed by at least the British, Australian. New Zealand, South African and Canadian parliaments. Australia, which is determined to remain "white," Is especially concerned over the matter mat-ter and its press Is outspoken and bitter in comment. In the United States the consistent opponents of American membership In the league see further justification for their position. po-sition. Those who have advocated American membership are in the main noticeably silent. In one respect the discussions In the league worked out to the disadvantage disadvan-tage of the Japanese, for they were compelled to admit openly that they were considering the possibility of making war on the United States over the Immigration question. This might well result In the making of an agreement agree-ment by America, England and the British dominions for parallel action, co-operation and support. "CVVGI.AND'S labor government has ' run up against a crisis that is likely to bring about Its downfall. Some days ago Prime Minister Mac-Donald Mac-Donald announced that if the house of commons failed to ratify the treaties negotiated with soviet llus-sia llus-sia be would appeal to the country through a general election. He said that under the pacts Great Britain secured se-cured many valuable concessions and would orrfy guarantee, not make, a loan to Russia. Wednesday night the Liberal parliamentary party, on which the Laborites rely for their control of the house, met and gave notice to the government to abandon the Russian Rus-sian treaties or get out of office. When the autumn session of parliament parlia-ment opens on October 2S the Liberals will offer a motion rejecting the treaties on the ground that they threaten "to divert resources that are urgently needed for national and Imperial Im-perial development," and that they "contemplate that the British taxpayer tax-payer should be made liable for further fur-ther loans to the Russian state, raised by means of a guarantee by the British government, as a condition condi-tion upon which any part of the private pri-vate claims of certain British creditors cred-itors should be recognized or met by the soviet republic." The motion of repudiation will be supported by the Unionists. FOR the first time In ten years France has a balanced budget, and Finance Minister Clementel says the equilibrium between receipts and expenditures ex-penditures will be maintained, the policy pol-icy of raising loans to meet normal charges being abandoned. Assur: ance is given that none of the measures meas-ures proposed are such as to harm capital. Taxes will remain unchanged, un-changed, but they will be more thoroughly thor-oughly collected. Among the estimated estimat-ed receipts is S00,000,000 francs from Germany. FINANCE Minister Luther of Germany Ger-many has gone to London to sign the agreements in connection with the Dawes plan loan, which he said would be floated before the American elections elec-tions and put on the market nt 07 and bear 7 per cent interest. The British bankers informed him that unless Germany was prepared to let down the customs barriers against British trade she need not expect further credits there. Germany's Immediate worry Is a prospective wheat famine, for the crop has been full half destroyed In regions re-gions that were devastated by great storms. East Prussia, Westphalia and the Rhlneland suffered the most. Government Gov-ernment agents have been sent to the United States, Canada and Argentina to purchase grain. Not much can be obtained from Russia for the crops there also are short. The relch plans to put an import duty on grain, the money obtained to go to the farmers, many of whom are facing financial ruin. CHINA'S civil war goes along merrily mer-rily but neither side seems to have won any decisive advantage. On the , Shanghai front the fighting has been severe for several days and the defenders of the city -appear to he getting the worst of it. These Chekiang forces, however, though driven back, claim to have strengthened strength-ened their lines. Their troops In the Sungkiang area ore now commanded by Ma-liang, once a famous general and later a bandit chief. In northern China Wu and Chang have not yet engaged in a real battle. Just to complete the record about wars, it should be said that the Spanish Span-ish troops in Morocco, after relieving some of the garrisons that were be-selged be-selged by the Riff tribesmen, were again in difficulties because the Moors cut the Tetuan highroad and once more surrounded ZaUen where there Is now a Spanish force of 6.000. Also It Is reported that the Wahabis. the 1 fundamentalist fanatics of Islam, have captured Mecca from King Hussein's Hus-sein's Arabs. NEW YORK Giants and Washington Washing-ton Senators, having won respectively re-spectively the National and American league pennants, are playing the world's championship series. But on the eve of opening there came to light another sad scandal. Commissioner Commis-sioner Landis blacklisted two members mem-bers of the Giants, Outfielder Jimmy O'Connell and Coach Cozy Dolan, for attemping to bribe Shortstop Heinie Sand of the Philadelphia team to throw a game to New York so ns to make their victory In the National league more certain. Sand refused the $500 offered him and promptly informed Ills manager. O'Connell, called before Commissioner Landis, President Heydler of the National league and John McGraw, manager of the Giant.j, confessed and vainly tried to implicate three of his fellow players. play-ers. O'Connell was bought from the Pacific coast by the Giants in 1922 at a cost of $75,000 and had been much lionized in California. He says Coach Dolan suggested the bribery scheme-to scheme-to him, but where the .$500 came from is not yet' revealed. Dolan has been In professional baseball for 20 years. CHICAGO was host last week to-the to-the American Bankers' association, associa-tion, which wound up its final session with the installation of the new president, pres-ident, William E. Knox, head of the Bowery Savings bank of New York. Several of the financiers who addressed ad-dressed the convention made severe attacks on Senator LaFollette, terming term-ing him "the nation's chief liability" and "the archdemagogue." The Independent Inde-pendent candidate for the Presidency, indeed, found no defenders among the bankers, which is not surprising. SENATOR BROOKHART of Iowa, who Is running for re-election as a Republican, prepared his way to bolting the G. O. P, national ticket by a letter to Chairman Butler in which he demanded that Charles G. Dawes resign or be compelled to resign as candidate for the vice presidency. He declared Dawes had wrecked the campaign, cam-paign, especially in the Northwest, and that ho had organized a disloyal group the Minute Men of the Constitution Con-stitution to , conduct an illegal defense de-fense of the Constitution with the secret se-cret purpose of destroying the constitutional con-stitutional rights of union labor. He also held that the Dawes candidacy was an Insult to the co-operative movement in agriculture. Brookhart has long been in sympathy with the LaFollette policies. Neither Butler nor Dawes has replied to his demand at this writing. The "regular" Republicans Repub-licans in Iowa are wondering what to, do about Brookhart. He cannot be removed re-moved as the party nominee, but the state committee may decide to support sup-port Luther A. Brewer of Cedar Rapids, Rap-ids, an independent Republican candidate can-didate for the senatorshlp. Democrats of Rhode Island nominated nom-inated Gov. William S. Flynn for United States senator. Their platform plat-form denounces the Ku Klux klan and calls for modification of the Volstead act to permit the sale of light wines and beer. Similar planks are in the platforms . adopted by the Democrats of Vermont and New Jersey. REPORTS received by Secretary of the Treasury Mellon show that financial conditions In the agricultural sections of the Northwest have Improved Im-proved steadily under the operation of the $10,000,000 agricultural credit corporation which was formed by New-York New-York and Chicago bankers at the suggestion sug-gestion of President Coolidge. "Attention was first directed by the corporation to the banking situation, then in bad straits, and loans were made to some of the 230 banks to an aggregate amount of over $5,000,000." says the statement from the treasury. "Deposits In the banks aided were over $53,000,000. It Is difficult to estimate es-timate how many of these bsinkj would have been closed if the aid had not been given probably 70 per cent, and the effect of their closing would have embarrassed other hanks. "It Is safe to assume that by stopping stop-ping the excessive number of bank failures in the Northwest until the crop began to mature and the spirit of the people in this territory revived, the corporation safeg-.nrded at least $25,000,000 of the people's deposits. "The banking situation having so improved by the Increased prosperity in the territory, the corporation has now concentrated Its attention on farm diversification." |
