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Show the increase toy letis and bounds, und on Illicit liquor trnfllc Infinitely worse than-, the open saloon.", . Mrs. Miller struck out at the V, C. T. V,, which, "she asserted, Is corrupt Ing leglslatfve bodies with Its political tactic. ' ' : '.; :;.-;,.r ."' ; - ..- ' . 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. Tliey led oft with Samuel Orowther, 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. Crowlher 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 NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENT EVENTS President Hoover't First Year Is Both Praised . , and Attacked. ; :" By EDWARD W. PICKARD , WHETHER Herbert Hoover's first year as President is to be considered con-sidered successful depends largely on flie political bias and economic convictions convic-tions of the one who does the considering. consid-ering. The varying views on the matter mat-ter were expressed In the senate by Senator Simeon D. Fesa of Ohio, speaking for the administration party, and Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Missis-sippi, speaking for the opposttloa , Senator Fess especially praised the President's efforts 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 tire 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 done," 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 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 ail to the surprise of those ' conversant' with the grain trade, conditions In the grain market became such that the federal farm board found It neccssnry to modify its activities In bolstering up wheat prices through the Grain Stabilization corporation and the Farmers' National Grain corpora-"tlon. corpora-"tlon. '' f.i. ''.'") ; , The change In policy, as announced ' by Chairman Alexander Legge of 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, 'other International questions, and prohibition. Senator Harrison said he wished to congratulate Senator Fess "on bis audacity and nerve in speaking explanations ex-planations of the mlsachievements of the administration during the ' last year." "If the failure to solve big problems is an achievement, then this administration admin-istration for the last year is a success," 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 imntedlate concerns, of the government and furnishes ammunition ammuni-tion for the opponents of the administration. adminis-tration. , Secretary of Labor James 3. Davls 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 confidence confi-dence hat unemployment would be materially relieved within the next farm board, consists in abandonment of the arbitrary loan price basis - tabllshed by the board last fall. No more grain will be bought on that basis," Mr. , Legge Said, though loans wUl be madi to co-operatives on the present crop until July 1. Prices for wheat during the week were unsettled and 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 endtvoring to avoid such drastic measures during the present grain emergency, but that ..... If railroads are nimble to unload cars of grain .at terminals nil , 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 so far as they were concerned .the verbal warfare with the farm board was ended. . ?We have decided to shut up and gef back to business as best we can under the situation, despite what politicians poli-ticians jRnd governmental spokesmen may say or do," said one of the Chi-cagoans Chi-cagoans who attended the conference. The general opinion of the meeting was reported to' be that the grain trade was satisfied wltlvthe modified ' policy announced by the federal farm board, withdrawing the ' flsed prices for wheat. being paid to co-operatives only. few. weeks through the federal agencies agen-cies called Into action by tho President Presi-dent . . . Senator Wagner of New lork, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, hns 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 $150,000,. 000 for these purposes. Secretary Davis opposes the measure, holding It is unnecessary and provides methods too cumbersome for its use.. OPPONENTS of our prohibition laws closed their case before the house Judiciary committee on Tuesday wltn the statements of a number of witnesses, the best known of whom were BrecUenridge Long, former assistant as-sistant secretary of state, and Dr. Stewart Paton, psychiatrist of Johns Hopkins. Three women also took the stand, Mrs. Robert W. Lovett of Boston, Bos-ton, Sirs. Cortlandt Nicoll of New York and Mrs. Carroll Miller of Pittsburgh. Mrs. Lovett sounded the keynote of the testimony of all three with a declaration dec-laration that the anti-prohlbltlon 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 traffic. ?' ,4 "But what have we today J she demanded. de-manded. ' Drunken children, crime on SECRETARY OF STATE STIMSON sprung a surprise on the-world with a statement Jn 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 powers are reduced accordingly. He said this In reply to reports that the naval conference was likely to result In an Increase 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. . . ' . , Frnnce was still holding up the proceedings pro-ceedings of the conference . although Premier Tardlon obtained a good majority ma-jority in the chamber of deptities. The French continue to demand a tonnage v 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 r navy as targe as those of any two continental powers, and to have 1,400,000 tons shw must add 200,000 tons to the figure on which the agreement with the United States Is bssed. That in a nutshell is the situation, thoofh there are many com- ,-. . plleating side features. " ' i : The subcommittee of the conference -to which was referred Mr. Sttmson's resolution on tlie limitation wid "lm-manlKlng" "lm-manlKlng" of submarines reported It could do nothliig until the HYench dol- Continued on back pngo , - : . ,J . ...NEWS REVIEW . . '-vfj Continued from front page r - ' - ;- . ' egntes resumed their part In the neg-o- " Nations: Premier vTardleu sent BrI- ; nml, Dumesnlt and others over to Loa- don Thursday and went himself on Saturday, so there was a prospect Of r progress. .. ; - ' r Ma. IIOOVRU'S" "commission to In- j vestisnte' conditions In Haiti Is Retting an earful several of them, In-' 4. deed. Immediately after Its arrival In : I'ort-au-rrlnce some twelve hundred ' native women prayed in public for an 'i end of American occupation and then J parailed through the streets past the headquarters of the commission,' voicing voic-ing au appeal for the "liberation" of Haiti. On Bucceedlng days the com- ' mlsslonerg heard prominent leaders of the Nationalists denounce Oen. ff, John H. Russell, the American high f commissioner, as virtually a dictator whoso puppet Is President Borno. i They demand a free election ef " , president and one of 'them said: "If ' I the council of state dares to elect a president on April 14 instead of per- 1 mining a popular election. United , States mnchlne guns will sink all Hal- tlans In blood." They still want the , ' United States to help them In the ' sanitary service, but insist all other American activities should be abol- : Ished. Some asked that the comrals-slon comrals-slon supervise the election, hot Chair- V ' 'i man Forbes told them this was lm- ; ':' possible. - The Dominican Republic has quieted - V, i down after the resignation of Presi-'' dent Vasquez and the Installation of Gen. Rafael Urena, leader of the lu-TM . , surgent movement, as provisional head of tho government ' : THURSDAY was denominated "hv , I ternatlonal unemployment day" by f the Moscow Communists and parades . . ' and other demonstrations by the nn- ' employed were held In many cities In I Europe and America, In some places there were bloody encounters with the police and In others there was no dis- ' ."' . order worth mentioning, . ,.. l. . Among the activities of the Coin. munlsts should be recorded the Instl- - . gatlon and management of a rebellion - - , of 14,000 high school pupils In ManA , P They struck nominally because of al leged Insults by a woman teacher, and the Reds Incited them to sanguinary ' encounters with the police.- - ALFRED VON TIRPITZ, who was " ' t lord high adm'frar 64be-0rnmn"---vl!5 l navy during the World war and father fa-ther of his country's submarine war. fare, died. In Ebenbausen of bronchitis bronchi-tis at theage of eighty-one years. Cablegrams from Japan told of the death in Hobe of Dr. Arthur T. Had-ley, Had-ley, president emeritus of Tale unl- "1 verslty. He sueeombed to pneumonia i at the age of seventy-three years. Doe-' . t tor Uadley was educated In Tale and Berlin universities and Joined the fac i ulty of his alma mater in 1879. Twen- j ty years Inter he was elected to the presidency, retiring In 1921. He was . considered one of the world's leading economists. . '., Other deaths included those of D. n. Lhwrence, noted -English novelist and" poet, and Visqoont Herbert Glad-stbne, Glad-stbne, youngest, son- of , William E. Gladstone. 7 VtL, lumber and sugar combined In . " the senate last"eek and brought about a vote Of 4T to 39 in favor of " w J- an' Increase In the datyon Cnban sug- ; , arvfrom 1.75 to 2 cents per pound. Nine Senators, mosf of- whom are Interested In-terested in either, oil or lumber; 5swltched their votes,, and the resulting combination smashed the Democratic- - ' Radical Republican coalition that has hes been having own way In formulating for-mulating the senate's tariff bin Dnr. ' , Ing the exclting.dobate Senator Car- . - ;. "away and others charged that a deal . a had been entered iifo, and there were warnings that the oil, lumber and sof-" :ar trade would be made a. campaign . Issue. -The -house bill '-increased the : . 3 " rate on Cuban sugar to 2.4 cents per 'J pound, So an Increase In this duty la :J virtually certain. when the senate and ' ' - ' house conferees fix up the final draft- . tt the measure'.,,, t,". ; ' -f JOHN NOQTH WILLTS of Toledo,' - . - I Ohio, automobile manufacturer, (s " r- i the new American ambassador to Po V land. His non'ie was submitted to ' 1 1 I Warsaw for approval, which It re- celved, an the appointment was then ' ' J announced by. President Hoover. The ' i senate. bad no objection to the selec- tlon. .' ' ... l , 9, n:o, Wwt.ra N.wspapcr Cnlon.) . I |