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Show r CURRENT i EVENTS ; Simply Told For Boys and Girls. 1 HARDING PROGRAM OUTLINED. President Harding has let the country coun-try know he Is aware it Is dissatisfied. dissatis-fied. Needless to say. It ifl the last dec-1 tlon he Interprets thus. In an address at the opening of the regular December session of congress he outlined a program which politicians poli-ticians describe as platform, brought up to date from 1920. Summarised, he recommends: More aid to the farmers. End of the railroad labor board; a labor division of tho interstate commerce commission, with power to make both sides obey. Constitutional amendments stopping stop-ping child labor and limiting tj. free securities. Stricter Immigration laws. An effort to learn why. when prices producers receive arc low. those consumers con-sumers must pay often are very high I Adoption of a plan to draft, in time of need, all tho country's resources for defense. Further negotiations in the interest inter-est of international pence, I NO PLAN' FOB THIIUi PARTS'. The pre Merit's message is taken generallj ai in the nature of an ans- wer to the expressed views of the progressives who gained so much in congressional strength at the November Novem-ber election. The progressives already In the senate sen-ate have been giving the country .something of an Idea of the policies , they will advocate when the new congress con-gress convenes next March As yet , they lack numbers to undertake making mak-ing any of their plans effective, for this Is still the old congress, with the Republicans In an overwhelming ma- ! Jority. In tho new one, however, they will have the deciding votes between the two big partloe, and will bal position to narn terms to on or other, or both of tho larger grouS A convention of representative! what Is known as the labor DroS! slvo asd liberal ailment opens! I leveland early In ihe week bii was unofficially Mater) bv p;idlns; at this gatherlsg that it Is Idea to form a 'third party" yjf ian people have been loo'ktnm XFAV IRISH IIIT.IME I.ATJNoJf! The Irish Free state ha.s bees 3i filly laum hed. v i-,, Timoihy HeaK Hf' I'-ng fighter for home rule, sH j governor general. Bui between those who acceH measure or fr- .-.lr ,., which is K 'he same , Canada's, and thosaf1! demand romplote indopendenceH ti' t.. '.r.-: s. ypred 'n! strlfo still rages. 1m n hiih in t he Free W government have been assassinate1 Ub ns. i 1 n turn .i number r, f Republ captl ' ti. i . - sn.te have fj 1 '! h..t, among mm otabe it mm as Rory ()'Co3l who was r publican army eomma Th" . ii' Ions have lej to fjfc I on b cr..verntv,r. iJm lil ISircann, or r-,e state pal esp-.dall- by ih- ),ahor mL l.er who arouse tho Fn-c StatZ ' -mmMting "murder.1!, The feeling !''. v. a n lheJ0 oppoT e""' - of irl-.h is perhaps even dC Her than H r ha? boon betiE the I-an I Knrrll'h and there W prospect of peace at present. PROBLKMS OF' STRAITS. The map explains why Russia fl mueh interested In the "Tutl straltR ' 'Mi Every country nee, is nn outlaC tho sea m .-.Is It the ear 'roufl Hig as sh Is except when the yL ther's warm Russia has only one outlet and It's through these stnL She has seaports enough, re all so far north that In f ter th'y freeze up like CronK and Archangel ,.r, ! la.llvostolw! but the port of Odesso and otheriw Important, on tho Black sea. Those always are open, but tO,f from the Blark sea to the open qmf ' -..lo route Ls through the V foot-wide H "-pherus, th.- Sea of W the mil. -wide Dar.lanolleep the Mediterranean Jo That's the reason that Russlattj the Lausanne conference are W Ing so hard to f.r.-'-ont the "atrsjl fr..m being place,! und"r allied Ac trol. If they are. Husla win be IbJb position of a man with a huge & he - an visit .r lea" . about six moi out of every year, through onljTttj narrow lam and that under coi of somebody else. I SPS NOBODY, BUT-JB In tho Far East a notable evontjfl th surrender by Japan to Chinas th p. nin.cj' i Miantung, t rrlt i was taken from the Chlnesi Germany 2A years ngo, In puni ment for destruction of German! '. .el pp'i' rtj by the Boxers, and WV the Japanese, In turn. wrcstedfH Germans .luring th.- world war. J! However the transfer meattHj iilna o ust begin immediately tR tect it against bandits, of whOBV army his been threatening to ln as soon as the Japanese left.J Tie- Peking administration a doll typically oriental plan of hill 1000 of tin- ban. lit- to keep the otP out and paid the latter $100,CL keep oulot for the present. ThejjK, lo It or they may noL Japan undertook to furnlShijH'l to the Chines iirfenlers o.a threatened territory, but hasqH livi d thorn. Tie Ch.nese gen in charge say.s he doesn't mciS i cL.'.s.- th.- .1 ip n -e of bad faitha-that faitha-that rei. tions exist between thcmjB the bandits, nevertheless. |