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Show 4 CURRENT EVENTS 1 1 1 1 : Told For Hoys uml (.irU 4 D ILK w u n I M'l it BREAKING B VORRIS w t.l INN, The situation In Asia. Minor, whifch, as you reniombor. threatAn-Ing threatAn-Ing to cause a jrreat war. grew teadily worse for several days, but toward the end of the week took a sudden turn which promises a sort of harmony for the time being, though It may not mean the end of trouble for eootJ. v MuStapha Cemal Pasha, the Turkish Turk-ish general, after heating the Greeks and driving them from Aslu Minor began musing toward Constantinople, former capital of the Turkish Empire Em-pire but under the allies since the world war In substance, Kemal jiald to the allies: 'I want foj- Turkey, all of Thrace aj far as the Marltsa rier. to(jeth r with the ltiea of Constantinople and Adrlanople If you do not give tliem to me. I shull come with my army and take them." France anil Ita'y seemed In fas-or ! of Riving to Kemal vb:it lie asked, bul Great Britain refused, bepan rufihlng sdips. troops, cannon nnd airships to rrslt Kemal. and there was every prospect of a fight. At the last moment, however, at a meeting: of the allies In Parts, the British partly consented to Kemal a t' rms. upon condition that troops be kept out of the territory where the Turks and tht ir neighbors are most likely to quarrel; that an allied al-lied army be permitted to remain at Galllpoll, In order to be sure that the ships of the world may at all times pass freely through the Dar danelles, anu mat iuri; s nris-llan nris-llan subjects l.e assured protection This agreement bar not ! n positively posi-tively closed but the prospefets are that it will be ronluded. It Is a postponement of trouble rather than a final settlement Still. It is better I than fresh war now. To understand the Turkish situation situa-tion you should find these places on your map Constantinople. Adrlanople. Adrlan-ople. Thrace. the Marliza River, Asia Minor and the Dardanelles. MAN LAW N TARIFF PASSED After more than a year of debate In congress, a new tariff bill has I been passed and signed by the president presi-dent The law went into effect September LM. The tariff is a schedule or list of duties or taxes placed on articles broupht Into our country (Imported). (Import-ed). Those who favor the new law think It will prevent countries abroad from flooding: the I'nlte.l States with cheaply produced Roods and underselling our own manufacturers manufac-turers and they estimate that it will bring; into our national treasury to pay government expenses, from $3.'.rt.000,000 to $400. 000,000 a year This law will be called the Tariff J Act of 1922 It Is called also tho i Fordney -McCumber tariff because Its authors were Representative Joseph W Pordney of Bdlchlgan and; Senator Porter J McCumber of North Dakota. It allows the president to change! duties or taxes from time to time. ! when conditions affecting them change. EtEGUIjATES TRADING IN GRAIN Another law signed by the president, presi-dent, which will not go Into effect until November 1, is called the, Grain Futures Act. It regulates the buying and selling sell-ing of wheal nnd other grain In our great exchanges, In Chicago. Minneapolis. Min-neapolis. Duluth Kansas City. Bt. J Iouis. Toledo Milwaukee, Ixs Angeles Ang-eles and Baltlmore- Tho law forbids those who trade In grain to use schemes plots or conspiracies to affect prices, or to j spread false reports that might affect af-fect them. The secretary of agriculture Ih ' Kiven power to oersee the opera -( tlon of R-raln exchanges and to make sure that nobody violates the! law. SOLDIERS' BONUS FAILS Another measure which congress! passed, but which did not become law. because the president refused , to sign It. was called by most peo-pig peo-pig the Soldiers" Honus Bill. Many persons have felt slnco the world war that the American sol-dltrs sol-dltrs who served In that struggle wero not sufficiently paid at tho Mme and It was to give them a fur- i ther allowance that the bill w In- j i tende.i u was too complicated to j explain lrf detail but this was Its general purpose To make such a law It Is ne.-easary that both houses of congress shall give majorities In favor of the bill' nnd thn that It shall h signed ty I ll)a president It the preni.int re- I fuses, the law still may be passed ; ovfr tho president's cto." as It is 'called, but to do this the two houses ot congress must both vote, tvvo-Ihirds tvvo-Ihirds or more of the members of each, for the bill. This bill did pass both houses of I congress and was vetoed" by the i president Then the house of representative rep-resentative voted. 2o$ to M. to pass It "over the president's veto." But the senate voted for the bill only 14 to 28. This was a majority, but not two-thirds So the ' bill was beaten. President Harding said he ?igrecd with the purpose of the bill. To give expression of a nation's gratitude to those who served in its defense In tho world war. " but he added that the plan, while it said that the soldiers sol-diers should be paid, did not provide the money to pay them. He also questioned the wisdom of placing on the country the additional taxes necessary to mak. the proposed pay- ' tnent |