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Show U CURRENT EVENTS simply Told For Boys and i.iris U r SltlPs STAY WET. Ships other than those belonging to the United States government Still aro paying no attention to Attorney General Gen-eral Daughcrty's decision that vessels are breaking tho law if they visit Amerjcan ports or coma inside three miles of the coast with liquor on j board even though they kept It loc ked up. Tho own1, rs ot foreign ships which I conn- to this country and of American Ameri-can .'hips that tio- government does I not own wanted Judge Hand of New York ii. say li- thought the attorney K'Mirr I :.s mlslik.-n and to forbid . pi-oiiii.it ion officers from Interfering with their vessels. However, Jude Hand refused saying he believed the attorney general was right. Then the shipowners asked the federal supreme su-preme court, which is the highest eourt In the I'nited States, to say th.nt Judcc Hand was mistaken too. Tho supremo court is taking a va-1 cation and probably will not hear the cuso until late In November Put in the meantime Secretary of, the Treasury Mellon, whose depart- J ment enforces tho law. says tho ships may stay wet. Before he does1 anything ho wants to know what tho sunn mo court thinks. I MIST OBEY hV The fact la the law Is hard to en-j force at sea. Foreign governments evidently mean to firht It. Some have laws'1 requiring li(juor on their vessels. Already the B&gllsb government has refused to let tli dry American thlp President Adams sail from Piy-, mouth without taking a .supply of brandy This never happened bc- fore; seemingly the English authorities authori-ties decided ; sh-.w they can make trouble too. If prohibition Is made ironclad; much shipping certainly Will stay awa from American ports. Muybe the continental rJnlted Stute-; won't care, but some of her island possessions posses-sions do. Porto llleo, tor Instance.1 sends her coffee to Europe on Spanish Span-ish vessels which also carry cargoes of rum. They will pive up tho coffee rather than the rum. x so Porto Rico fears her coffee marketv ruin. To K"t as mui h protection from other governments as thoy can, it i! likely many American ships will be, transferred to foreign flags. But ships the United States government gov-ernment owns cannot do this Tho Shipping Board, which manages them, says they will lose most ofi their passengers :t they must be dry, .Mi. others .stay wet. Having tried it. tho board knows. However. It is certain the supremo (court will disregard all this and be guided solely by the law. NEAR K VST PROBLEM WAITS. America, among other countries, is asked to Join in tho conference to ! settle matters in the Near East, where Greece Was beaten by tho . Turks she will acropt only unofficially, i but on that basis It is expected sho will have a representative; present, to mul.i- viiKgeitlons and to tell what Americana us onlookers, think ought to be done. Aside from hoping in a general I way that the agreement may insure , permanent peace, the United States 1 has two particular interests In the I Near East. For one thing. Turkey has natural , resources, especially oil, awaiting development de-velopment by foreign capital. Americans Amer-icans want a fair chance in thb field. Also, as a Christian country, the United states Ls concerned for the v. If u e of i 'hrivtj.ins, such as Armenians Arme-nians and Greeks, who live under Turkey's Mohammedan rule These Christian subjects of Turkey Tur-key unquestionably have suffered terribly. Tru it is said on good authority au-thority that they treat the Turks as cruelly, whenever they have a banco as the Turks, given an opportunity, oppor-tunity, treat them. However, this Is no reason for giving the Turks a free hand, now that the advantage Is theirs unless they are restrained. EN LAND'S POLITICAL JUMBLE England. wher Premier Eloyd I"., .rge was forced from first place In tho government, to be succeeded! Andrew Bonar Lv, only a week1 iKu. it- preparing Bireaay ior a national na-tional election to dooido who ro.illy Is trongcst. . Tho situation is very Jumbled. The iff parties, Liberals and Conscrva-tiyes, Conscrva-tiyes, both are split, even worse than the Republicans and Democrats are split here. Nobody can guess how rh y will divide when they come to vote; nobody knows Just who Is loader of either. The Iabor party H 4. .lid and pretty strong, but BJT no means in a majority Lloyd George talks of forming a central group pul this talk Is rather vague. It seems likely that no one partv will have a majority In tho next Parliament, Par-liament, so that the premier will have to form an alliance with ono or the others besides his own. This cannot but mean compromise and uncertainty, uncer-tainty, a most unfortunate thing at a time when the world's affairs call lor clean-cut policies on the great powers' pow-ers' part so urgently that a vacillating government Is. almost v.-orso than a really bad on.' which knows its own m Ind, I s 1S1 1 Rl LE IN it LLY. Italy has changed cabinets, too. in almost a revolutionary wa Premier Pacta and his fcHow-mln-istern had to roslgn, on demand of tho Fascist!. Three years ago Bonlta Mussolini, a Anion newspaper niun. became alarmed by the BolSheVlk movement " i. ii... no lonried trie FOSOlStl to oppose it. Genuine battles ocourred In many towns A good many live were lost. The PBJCJatl succeeded. Evidontlv their will in Italy ir u D satisfied with Pacta's polled, the; undertook what io described as "con : pasted action." broke Communion j tions between north, south and .-on tral Italy," and made themselves masters of some of the chief towns deposing tho authorities and aaeum-i aaeum-i ing control." This sounds considerably :iko revo-I revo-I lution, though It did not affeot the , King, or, at uny rate, has not yet P04bly t..-caue ho submitted, leaving leav-ing It to tho Fasclstl leader to form I a cablnot In the Facta mlnu:try-.s! pla However. Mussolini virtually Li oletator. Ho says h will destr-. :'.n K'-'wrnmeni ihu Fnsclstl dislike From all appeiranccs he Is able to , do SO, too. Before calling on Mussolini, tho king had offered tho premiership to Giovanni GioMtt! and Antonio feolan-dra, feolan-dra, both former prime minister but they declined tho post when, on investigating, they found they were not acceptable to ths FoscIbM or-I or-I ganlzatlon. |