Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1925, Page 27

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MARCH 15, 1925—PART & o amined it elosely and found it to be | SSSSSSESS884880880880080400000800880888808888888888888888838888888888388383388841 3666660666566 0606006406000000005 94909060944 Current News Events Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience History. The League of Nations Council, meating in Geneva, tackled fts most delicate problemr last week and promptly disposed of it for a while #y postponing action until the meet- Ing next September. The question was the league's protocol, or agreement, Lo rrevent war by punishing the aggres- sor state. Upon Great Britain's ob- jection, volced by Sir Austen Cham- berlain, her foreign minister, the mat- ter was dropped for the time being. The protocol was defended by former Premler Briand of nce, who at- tended the disarmament conference held in Washington. and who declared he protocol was necessary because it would fill in the gaps now existing in the Leagué of Nations covenant He predicted that the United States would some day subscribe to the league doctrines and become a mem- her. Lord Chamberlain, in his ad- dress, while making it clear that Great Britain in no way opposed the principle of disarmament, was un- able to subseribe now to the protocol and she cited the objections of all ber dominions, with the exception of Treland The apparent failure of the league protocol at Geneva, and the limita- tlon of armament agreement it con- tained, found an interesting echo here n Washington, where there have been rumors lately to the effect that the U'nited States intends to call another limitation of armament council, pro- vided the European effort was un- successful President Coolidge has let it be known at the White House that he is in favor of such a move, but would not undertake it until the League of Nations' proposal had been tested. It has virtually received its test in the objections voiced by Great Britain, and forthcoming conferences between the President and Secrétary of State Kellogg may result in V again becoming the the principal nations of the | world in an effort to limit armament. In handing down his award last veek as arbitrator in the dispute be- tween Chile and Peru over the na- tionality of the provinces of Taena and Arica, President Coolidge ha jaken another step in settling one of the bitterest controversies which ex- ists in South America today. The dfs- | ute between the two countries, which several times has threatened to result in war, had its crigin when Chile seized the provinces during the war of the Pacific, 40 years ago. The aty which concluded this confiict stipulated, among other things, that the final disposition of the provinces should be settled by plebiscite. The vote was never held, however, al- though several attempts have been made by the two countries to arrange satisfactory terms for holding it. Chile has held out for the provisions of the treaty stipulating that a plebi- scite should settle the nationality of | the provinces. Peru, on the other hand, has held that a popular vote would be unfair, as the Peruvians, she claims, we intimidated by the irhabitants of the provin , Chileans question the President, as Il’l)lv‘ trator, had to decide, was whether the terms’ of the treaty still held—and | whether the plebi: e should deter-| mine the nationality of the provinces. | The decision w , to a certain degree, | favorable to Chile, as it provides for the plebiscite. The méthod of holding 1t will be left to a commisslon, com- posed of representatives of the United States, Chile and Peru. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen, China's first Pres- ident, and often referred to .as China's man of destin; died in Peking last week. His passing re- moved a leading figure in thejinter- pal struggles through which China Lias been passing since he established | the republic in 1912. When he was ampaigning for that republic the old Manchu dynasty fixed a price on his head of $200,000. In his declining vears he opposed the central govern- ment in Peking and headed the “Southern Government of China” at Canton. He had been working for a unified China until stricken with the iliness which cost him his 1fe. Dr. Walter Simons was designated as the acting President of Ger- many in a bill which passed the teichstag last week. Dr. Simons is bable candidate for the presi- y in the forthcoming German clections. He took the oath of of- fice on Thursday and promised in his short inaugural address to hand over the government unsullied to his successor. He promised an im- partial administration of its affairs. There and now five other ca didates in the field to succeed former | President Ebert. They are Ernst Thaelmann, transport worker and Communist; Otto Braun, former Prussian premier, Socialist; Dr. Wil- helm Marx, ex-chancellor and pres- ent Prussian premier, Center party: Dr. Wilhelm Hellpach, president of the Baben Free State, Democrat, and Dr. Karl Jarres, former minister of the interfor, joint candidate of the parties of the Right James E. Ferguson, former Gov- arnor of Texas, whose wife now holds the office from which he was im- pached seven vears ago, was vin- dicated last week when both houses 4f the Texas Legislature passed a bill grauting the governor legisla- tive amnesty Gov. Ferguson was impeached in 1317 on several counts, the principal charge against him being misapplication of public funds. The campaign of Mrs. Fer- guson for governor this year, and her election, was considered a moral vindication, and now the Legislature 128 cleared him legally. His enemies clajm that the Legislature's action is Ilegal, because the only way to vin- cate him is to submit the matter to the polls in the form of a constitu- tional amendment. His friends, however, claim that as the Legis ture impeached him, the Legislature ean reverse its action. One Congressman, Representative Tucker of Virginia, follows the prece- dent set by his grandfather in Con- gress 103 years ago and refuses to accept the increase in pay granted him through the legislative appro- priation bill. The increase amounts to $2,500 annually. He states his reasons on the ground that a Repre- sentative serving in the next House sheuld not accept the money, as he was elected to a position which pald 00, not $10,000. His grandfather, who declined on the same grounds in the Fourth Congress, never accepted and his pay has been held to his credit in the Treasury. Two new foreign Ambassadors reached Washington last week to take up their duties. Tsuneo Ma sudiara, who represents Japan, will be received by President Coolidge mnext week. Baron Ago von Maltzan of Germany presented his credentials on Thursday, at which time he ex- changed with the President the usual felicitations. With Ambassador Houghton, the new Ambassador to Great Britain, a guest at the White House where he has been telling President Coolldge and Secretary Kellogg about condi- tions in Germany, the diplomatic corps occupied part of last week’s spotlight. John W. Riddle, Ambassa- dor to Argentina, resigned and added another vacancy among the ambassa- | Judictary of Students. and to Mr. Riddle. Two names are prominently mentionel for the Berlin post—that of James Gould Schurman, now United States Minister to China, and Charles D. Hilles of New York. The President nominated last week Charles C. Eberhardt of Kansas to be Minister to Nicaragua and George T. Summerlin of Louistana to be Minis- ter te Honduras. Both men have been in the diplomatic service for some vears and their naminations were in the nature of promotions. Clearing its decks of the considera- tion of treaties by ratifving the Isle of Pines treaty and deciding to put off consideration of the World Court protocol and the Lausanne treaty until December, when it meots again, the specfal session of the Senate is drawing to a close, awaiting decision, to a large extent, of the Executive. When executive business is over the Senate must quit tor lack of work. The Isle of Pin. Treaty was ratified Friday by a vote of 63 to 14, after a two.day filibuster by Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, who spoke against it. Two reserva- tions were added to the treaty, one providing that. all past and future treaties between the United States and Cuba shall apply to the Isle of ®ines, and another providing that the inhabitants of the Isle of Pines shall be accorded “most favored” national privileges with the United States. Ratification of the treaty, which was grawn up more than 20 vears ago, and has reposed in a Senate pigeon hole ever since, was opposed strenously by the Chamber of Com- merce of the island, composed of | Americans who settled there after the clase of the Spanish-American War, |under assurance by the State Depart- ment, they claim, that the lsle of Pines was considered an American and not a Cuban possession. Their status has been in doubt ever since. Civics. A nip-and-tuck fight hetween the Executive and the Senate over the nomination of Charles Beecher War- ren for Attorney General has broken out in a manner which has few prece- ents. After the nomination had been favorably reported by the Senate committee, the Senate, by one vote, falled to confirm it. The President promptly returned the nomination the next day, against the advice of administration Senators, who declared it would not be ocon- firmed. Hastily referred to the judi- aary committes, It was unfavorably reported and again thrown into the Senate for open executive session dis- cussion with probabilities that it will g0 over until tomorrow for the final vote. On the first vote the Vice President, who is privileged to vote only in the case of a tle, was absent from the Senate. When administration leaders found thaf the vote would be oclose he was hastily summoned, but failed to arrive in time to break the tie— which was broken instead by a Demo- crat who changed his vote and regis- tered against confirmation. A controver: between Secretary Mellon of the Treasury and Senator James A. Couzens of Michigan broke out afresh last week with the report made public by the Senate committee which investigated the Internal Revenue Bureau and which was headed by Senator Couzens. The Te- port charged that the Government has lost rallions of dollars in taxes through its system of settling the amounts due in tazes from large corporations. The Treasury, in a series of statements, denied specific- ally the charges of the committee, and Senator Couzens found himself, in return, charged with owing the Government several millions in un- paid taxes. It was made plain by the Treasury that Its actions against Senator Couzens are in no way connected with his attack on the Treasury. The information which the Treasury is using to base its ciaim for taxes against Mr. Couzens was received from an “authoritative source,” which the Treasury declines to make pub- lic. Mr. Couzens charges the Treas- ury's action is in reprisal for his activities in conducting the investi- gation. President Coolidge last week nomi- nated Rear Admiral William A. Moftett as chief of the Bureau of Aeronautics, who succeeds himself in that post, as the Senate immediately confirmed the nomination. Thus the Navy, according to those who have followed the progress of naval avia- tion, is assured of four yvears more development of this branch of the service under the direction of a man who has made the Navy aviation what it is today. Meanwhile the Army, which has just lost its assist- ant chief of aviation, Gen. William Mitchell, is wondering when the President is going to nominate Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick new chief of its branch of aviation, to succeed himself. His term expires in Oc- tober. Congress will not be in ses- sion then. Some uncertainty has been expressed as to whether Gen Patrick will be re-appointed to his present position or whether the gen- eral staff will name somebody else. Science. The Amorican Congress on Internal Medicine inaugurated fts ninth annual clinjcal meeting here last Monday, and remained in convention for the re- mainder of the week. Thers wers few public sessions heid for discussions, the majority of the congress' time being taken up with eurgical clinies, at which the visiting physicians from all parts of the country witnessed operations at various hospitals. While there were many interesting surgical feats during the convention, one of them stands out particularly for the romantic touch given it when a doctor, knowing the danger, submitted himself as a patient for a serious and very delicate opera- tion at Garfleld Hospital. The opera- ticn consisted in removing a nerve cen- ter, ‘the improper functioning of which causes angina pectoris, a heart disease from which the doctor-patient suffered. The operation might have resulted in the death of the patient. It was pro- nounced successful. Another doctors’ convention—the Con- gress on Education of the American Medical Association—meeting in Chi- cago, developed some interesting facts. The high death rate from cancer, it was stated there, is largely due to superficial medical knowledge. This knowledge, said one speaker, is increasing tremen- dously, but the teaching of it is no more thorough than in 1895. Longer medical courses are necessary, he sald. Another doctor predicted that in the next 100 vears the *“expectancy of life” will be five-score. In 1777, he said, it was only 26 years. Now it is 58. A burial urn estimated by archeolo- §ista to be 2,000 years old, and eonu::. ing the ashes of a child, was uiearthed last week near Phoenix, Ariz. It is con- sidered one of the most valuable and rare relics of that period ever dis- covered. Every boy has read wierd tales the “flying Dutchman,” a pmnm?:f ship that sails the seas and sets brave sailormen ‘a-tremblin’ when they see it at night. Last week, however, word came of a Coast Guard cutter sent eut to find one “fying Dutchman,” described as a menace to navization in the form of a float- dorships. The President now has two of them to fill._He must appeint suc- cessors te Mr, Houghton in Germany, ing hull turned upside down. The cutter sighted the strange craft, ez- b 2 mass of sea weed, which, when cast upon the crest of a swell, was dimly lit by a phosphorescent glow and which appeared as the bottom 6f a floating hull. Thus may the tales of the “flying Dutchman” be relegated to the realms of other ex- ploded fairy tales. Aviation added another feather to its cap last week when, for the first time in history, two officers in sepa- rate airplanes flying several miles apart and 5000 feet above Wilbur Wright Field in Ohio talked to each other over radio. Both ships were provided with sending and receiving apparatus. They heard each other very plainly, they sald. Discovery of a new Egyptian tomb, believed to be the burial place of the Pharaoh who ruled before Cheaps, the builder of the pyramlds, will belittle in comparison the re- Inowned findings of the tomb 6f Tut- anhk-Amen, according to BEgyptelo- gists. The tomb is supposed to be several thousand years older than the latter and its contents may ré- veal information on a remote period in Egyptian history about which 1it tle is known. The tomb was dlscov ered by the Boston-Harvard expedi- tion deep in the rocks near the great pyramid at Giza. Economics. In private industry it has become a custom universally followed that when men are discharged from em ployment they shall receive “noticé in advance, designed to allow them to make preparations for seeking employment elsewhere. But Uncle Sam does not follow this rule. Sat- urday a week ago, without previous warning, about 175 printers and other classes of wage earners at the Gov- |ernment Printing Ofce were sum- marily dismissed, while a number of others were put on “furlough” With- out pay. The Public Printer defends his action with the statement that Congress failed to appropriate money enough to keep all his force em- [ploved. He was left with no alterna- tive, ha states, than to get rid of the men. The Typographical Union and other orgunizations interested in the employes have taken a prétést to President Coolidge. Many of the men discharged had been at work In the Printing Office for a score or more of years, and some of them would have been retired with pay in a few months. France neede four or five hillien francs to meet her intérnal obliga- tions in the financial crisis now ap- proaching and to restore the franc to normal, according to Louis Loucheur, French financial minister. The French treasury is now facing the maturity of something like 23,000.000,000 francs’ worth of securities in the coming vear. A foreign loan of the amount named above would, in the minister's opinfon, restore confidence and enable the treasury to meet its obligations, with a tidy sum left as a margin. Restoration of confidence is of prime importance, he said, and a foreign loan is now possible. An end to labor troubles through a redistribution of property owner- ship is seen by Thomas N. Carver, professor of political economy at Harvard, who addressed the Academy ot Political Science meeting in New York City last week. The speaker enumerated four chief phases of this movement—first, the increase of sav- ings deposits; second, the growth of industrial insurance; third, the in- crease in the number of employes who are becoming shareholders in corporations, and fourth, the de- velopment of labor banks. Art. The National Academy of Design plans a special exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art here next Fall as a celebration of the céntenary of the oldest and best known art or- ganization In America and as a demonstration of the value of a new exhibition program. In a statement last week from New York the Na- tional Academy set a goal of $6,000,- 000 as necessary for an educational- expansion program it plans to under- take. Part of the funds would be used for purchase of buildings and other equipment in New York and part to establish a fund to send abroad 25 students every year for study under expert teachers. Statuary Hall at the Capitol ad- mitted another historlo figure Thurs- day when a bronze statue of Gen Joseph Wheeler, famous Confederate and Spanish War veteran, was un- veiled by his granddaughter, Miss Julla Wheeler Harris, daughter of the Senator from Georgia. The statue was presented by the State of Ala- bama. Education. Arguments were begun last w before the United Scates Buprems Court on the right of a State to com- pel children to attend public schools The sult i defended in the presant case by the State of Oregon, the plaintiffs being several Catholle ore ganizations which have contended that thelr charters to conduct private or parochlal schools gives them a right to the use of their property. ;lmlcn cannot be taken away by the ate. CHARACTER BUILDING IS HIGH SCHOOL AIM Survey on Methods Used Is Pre- sented at Meeting of Hine's Faculty. A survey of character educati the Junior high school was presented o the principal, Harold Warner, at Tues- day's faculty meeting of the Hine Junior High School. The report stressed par- ticularly ways in which character build- ing elements might be taught positively and directly in addltion to the usual in- cidental character building work of the schaol. “Employment in the Field of Radio” was the subject of a recent talk to the students by Dr. J. H. Dellinger, chief of the radio labora- tory of the Bureau of Standards. In discussing _the vocational aspect ‘of radlo, Mr. Dellinger said that unusual salaries should not be expected in this line of work. Although the de- mand for workers had increased, he explained, the' number of workers available had grown to meet it. Selden M. Ely, supervising princl- pal of the fifth dtvision, recently ad- dressed the students upon “American deals” Miss Macntosh’s Dramatic Club has entertained the “Rookies’ Club” at its last two meetings. In “Neverthe- less,” a play by Stewart Walker, Katherine Hockersmith took the part of the girl, Wilbur Barrows the boy, Frederick Crismond was the burglar and Margaret Fowler gave the pro- logue. A monologue, “Lucile Gets Ready for a Party,” was gly Dorothy Curtiss, and a_play, “Mra. Brown's Visitors,” by Katherine Fol- mer, Dorothy Chandler, Ruth Woody and Lela Dyer. Friends and pupils of the school are donating books for the new school library. 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