Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1925, Page 27

Current News Events. Summary of Important National, Foreign and Local Affairs Specially Arranged for the Convenience of Students. History. With Paul Painleve, a former pre- mier of France and until Thursday resident of the French Chamber of Deputies, selected as the new French premier to succeed Herriot, ousted Jast week when he failed to secure a vote of confidence from the Senate, France continues to hold the spof light while the world watches to see her fortune under a new regime. M. Painleve accepted the task of forming a new cabinet and undertak- ing the tremendous responsibility which rests upon the shoulders of a French premier after the position had heen offered to former Premier Briand. M. Briand declined when he found that he could not expect the suppert of the Socialists, who, it is sald, fear- #d that under his leadership France would merely experience a continua- Hon of the policies advocated by M. Herriot. = His most important cablnet position mt present—that of finance mintster— will be filled by Joseph Caillaux, an- other ex-premier of France, who thus re-enters politics after having been convicted of treason during the war and who was only recently absolved and granted amnesty. M. Caillaux, upon his acceptance of the portfolio, immediately revealed that settlement of the foreign debt question would be one of his first steps. He will at first set about pro- viding a safe margin of cash for the French treasury, though how he in- tends to do it remains to be seen. Then he will take up the debt ques- tion, which he considers one of the #reatest obstacles to a complete finan- clal rehabilitation. Those who know his attitude on this question contend that while he is sure that France will repudiate none of her foreign obliga tions, he will proceed carefully and ex- actingly in determining not only the amount of the debts, but the terms under which they are to be paid. The new cabinet will control about the same majority in the Chamber of Deputies as the outgoing government, but it cannot count, it is said, upon the continued support of the Social- ists. This party has reserved the right to withdraw its support when 1t considers such a step necessary. Closely following an attempt to as- massinate King Boris of Bulgaria, as he was motoring through the country, revolutionists assassinated a Bulgar- ian general, and during his funeral services in the Cathedral of Svet Kral, at Sofia, an infernal machine exploded, killing 140 persons, among them 20 women and 10 children, a number of army officers and soldiers. The premier, Tzankoff, was slightly ‘wounded. Martial law was immediately pro- elaimed, and citizens enrolled and patroled the streets to maintain order. The King himself a few days pre- vious had a narrow escape. His death was prevented only by his quick wit and coolness in the face of danger. His chauffeur shot to death when bandits fired on the royal car from ambush, the King seized the wheel and started the car speeding away, .but the steering gear had broken and the car landed against a post. Seek- ing safety in a motor bus carrying mail, the King ook the steering wheel from the driver and piloted the bus down the road to safety. Returning with troops, the King found the ban- dits robbing the dead, fired on them, and wounded one while the others escaped. The contention of newspapers that they have a right to print the news was begun before the United States Supreme Court last week in two cases where newspapers which pub- lished income tax returns were being prosecuted by the Government. The newspapers maintained the right of free speech, while the Government declared that Congress, in making the lists of income taxpayers ‘‘open tp public inspection” did not mean that the newspapers should publish them, and that an existing statute barred such publication. The court will take the case under advisement. Organized labor in the United States won a victory in a far-reaching decision handed down last week by the United States Supreme Court in the so-called Kansas industrial court act, by which the State law compelled employers and employes to arbitrate their disputes. The Supreme Court held, broadly, that employers cannot keep their employes at wages and hours which make it im- possible for them to operate their businesses successfully, and, on the other hand, employes cannot be com- pelled to work if they do not like their wages and hours. Capital and labor, the court held, have equal rights to megotiate contracts—as the Constitu- tion gives freedom of contract to everybody—and neither can be com- pelled by law to submit te conditions regarded as burdensome. The decision was significant, in view of the efforts which have been made to put “anti-strike” clauses in some legis- lation. A subscription to raise a fund for the establishment of a birthplace me- morial to Woodrow Wilson closed last week with an oversubscription of $10,000 above the $100,000 originally sought. The memorial will be in Staunton, Va. The raflway coach in which Presi- dent Lincoln rode to Gettysburg to de- liver his famous address in 1864 has been found in the Western Maryland railroad yards in Baltimore. An or- ganization is hoping to have the car removed to Gettysburg and kept there as a historic memorial. The car, of wooden construction, is a combination passenger and baggage coach. It has a stove in the center. When Presi- dent Lincoln used it it was consid- ered a luxurious piece of railroad equipment. Augustus Lukeman, famous sculp- tor, has been chosen to succeed Gut- zon Borglum as sculptor in charge of carving the Stone Mountain Confed- evate memorial near Atlanta. He has promised to carry out the work begun by Mr. Borglum, who was relieved of his contract by the Memorial Associa- tion after a disagreement oyer the work, and will make only changes r quired in making his own work con- form to what has been done. Tearing ‘away from her moorings fn a heavy storm, the R-33, British Army dirigible, went on a wild flight jast week which carried her across the North Sea before her crew could zet her under ‘sufficient control to head back for England. Part of her bow was smashed in and other dam sge done which will be repaired. Offi- cers were loud in their praise of the crew which battl ‘or more than 24 hours to keep thalolg ship afloat in the air, and of the ship itself, which stood the tremendous strains of the violent storm without weakening. Dur- ing the trip—which recalled the run- away recently of the American dirig- ible ZR-3—a radio operator stuck to his post and kept up communication with the land. For the time being, at least, mere man must continue to hold office as minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary of Uncle Sam and the door seems shut at present to women who would enter the United States diplomatic service. This seems to be the result of the petition of M Lindsay L. Pafter- son, a Republican woman of North yCarolina, who sought the post of American - Minister to Siam. _Mrs. Patterson's application was indorsed by influential Repubiicans on the Sen- ate forelgn relations committes and also by both Democrats Senators from North Carolina. The State Depart- ment, however, has notified her that her application cannot be granted. On the 4th of July, 1894, only 31 years ago, a young field superin- tendent for a natural gas company in Kokomo, Ind., had a queer looking buggy, lacking tongues and shafts, towed out into the country. He got in, manipulated some levers and amid a cloud of smoke and a noise as of a gattling gun, drove his vehicle proudly back to town at the remark- able speed of 8 miles an hour. ' That, it is claimed, was the first automobile in America. Last week its inventor, Elwood Haynes, died at the age of 68. Paying the usual round of diplo- matic calls on the President and the Secretary of State and being enter- tained at official functions, President- elect Machado of Cuba visited Wash- ington last week. He was accom- panied by the Cuban secretary of state, Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, and a staff of Cuban officials. One of the incidents of his visit here was | a trip to Mount Vernon on the Presi- dent’s yacht, the Mayflower, where he laid a wreath on the tomb of George Washington. Army circles here have been in- terested in the sentence of two sol- diers in Honolulu by military courts- martial for their ~participation in Communistic activities. The sen- tences are for 40 years in one case and 26 years in the other. Both will be dishonorably discharged from the Army at the end of their prison servitude. Spreading radical propaganda in the Army, where service is veluntary, should be punished by dismissal and some im- prisonment, 1t is contended here, but the sentences imposed in Honolulu are considered too severe and it is considered likely that both will be reduced materially. John Singer Sargent, one of the best known portrait painters of recent times, died at his home near London last week. Born in Florence, Italy, in 1856, this son of a Boston ph sician became one of the greatest artists of his time. One of his best known portraits is that of Theodore Roosevelt. With the exception of a few, Visits to this country, Mr. Sar- nt passed the gr life in Europe. e Henry Ford, who operates an auto- mobile factory, a railroad, owns ships to transpert his product—owns coal mines and forests to furnish his raw material, embarked on a new project last week when the Maiden Dearborn, a commercial airplane, flew from Detroit to Hegewisch, Ill, carry- ing freight for the Ford Motor Co. ~Mr. Ford's latest experiment marks the opening of the first regu- larly operated commercial airplane line in this country. A statement from the Ford company said that :’::hz‘;)e::éfi;! would be built and put n on new o Db aiy lines to be The United States Naval Academy at Annapolis has secured an interest- ing relic in the American flag which was carried at the maintop of the | U. 8. S. Boston during the battle ,\‘l‘anua I‘fi}'_ It was presented by BO: officer who was on board the ves during the battle. e Civics. If the President of the United States is pewerless to make appointments in the Federal service without the advice and consent of the Senate, is he em- powered to remave his appointees without consulting the Senate? This interesting. question of the power of the Executive was argued in the United States Supreme Court last week in the case of Frank S. Mers, who was removed as postmaster by President Wilson in 1920. Senator George W. Pepper of Pennsylvania argued the case for Mr. Myers, con- tending that Congress has full power over 2ll Government offices, except those created by the Constitution. Solicitor General Beck aizued the case for the Government, contending that the President’s responsibility for faithful execution of the laws carries with it a right to remove from office the unfit. He contended, at the same time, that the “attack on the independence of the Executive” struck at a principle involving the “very foundation of our Government.” Geography. Up in fcy Greenland the natives de- scribe ruins of old Norse settiements about 100 miles inland from the coast. One of the features of the coming ex- pedition to the North Pole by Donald B. MacMillan will be a visit to and | study of these ruins. The explorers will push inland and look for the set- tlements, supposed to’have been estab- lished about 1100 A.D. Capt. Roald Amundsen, the Nor- wegian explorer, who also is planning a dash for the pole, makes the in- teresting observation that he will feel safer in an airplane over the North Pole than he does crossing a street in Oslo, Norway. Now on his way north, the explorer believes that he will find safe landing places for his planes in the Arctic regions. Economics. ‘Washington will have a population of 497,000 by July 1, which is a gain of 60,000 inhabitants in the last five years, according to preliminary esti- mates by the Census Bureau, which at the same time estimated that the pop- ulation of the United States, which was 105,700,000 in 1920, will reach 113,500,000 by July 1 of this year. Going into operation with remar! able smoothness, the new postal rats established by the last Congress to provide revenue increasing the wages of postal employes became ‘effect] last Wednesday. The first-class mail rates were not affected except in the case of, private mailing cards, includ- ing sotvenir post cards, where the rates were increased from 1 to 2 cents. Mexico and Canada supplied the United States labor market with its greatest number of immigrants be- tween July 1 of last vear and Febru- ary 1 of this year. The new immigra- tion law went into effect on the former date, and the National Industrial Conference Board of New York has made a study of immigration statis- tics during that time. The net in. crease in foreign population of the United States during the six months studied was 104,875, compared with 483,719 during the corresponding six months of the preceding year. The de-. crease shows the effectiveness of the new law in curbing immigration: Science. Anclent bronzes which through the years have become shapeless lumps of rust are being restored fo their form and beauty through treatment in the electrochemical laboratory of the Columbia University School of Mines. The process reverses the work of years, during which faint electrical currents operating for cen- turies surned the metal into rust. A stronger electrical current, of the op- posite polarity, changes the rust back into. the metal. - Some of the experiments show that the ancient Egyptians and Greeks coated their metal work with thin gold, a practice which is followed to- day. The experiments have already proved useful in exposing fakes. One bit of supposedly Japanese bronze, valued at $20,000, was subjected to the bath, which removed the ancient green coating and exposed a cast of type metal. A new wonder in the transfhittal of pictures by telephone, which offers wide possibilities, was revealed last week in New York, when an X-ray photograph of a human hand was transmitted by telephone wire from New York to Chicago in seven minutes. The experiment was made to show how this form of transmit- ting photographs by telephone may prove of value in medica! science. Music. Prohibition is usually blamed for most of the {lls from which this country is suffering, but here's a new one. Richard Strauss, famous com- poser, believes that Puritan influence is what hampers the development of American opera, and he declares the “opera is the very center of musical life.” “There is a marked difference between the level of artistic attain- ment reached in the concert halls of America and that reached on the operatic stage,” declared Dr. Strauss. “Due to Puritan influence, the opera is, in America, not the core of musical life, but rather something standing somewhat apart. This {s regrettable. American musical life can only reach its highest fruition it it is founded upon the opera.” A unique convention has been held here during the past week in this city of conventions. The World Fellowship Through Music convention has for its purpose the promotion of international harmony through man- kind's universal love of music. One of the features of the convention ‘was the rendition by the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Pa., of Bach's “B Minor Mass,” considered by many to be the masterpiece in music composition. At a meeting of the board of direc- tors, held Thursday, it was decided to increase the capacity of Kamp Kah- lert, on West River, Galloways, Md. | The sleeping porch on the senior cot- tage will be enlarged, making it pos- sible to accommodate 125 girls com- fortably. A permanent new wharf, extending out in the water 15 feet, will be built, thus permitting large boats to dock at the edge of the camp. Sixteen additional bath houses will be built, and improvements are now be- ing made in the water system, which will insure purification and a greater supply. It is planned to have all these improvements completed before Summer boarders arrive. In the meantime week end parties can be ar- ranged by applying at the adminis. tration building, 614 E street. Mrs. Harold E. Doyle is chairman of th Kamp Kahlert committee and Mis: Florence Dunlap is director of the camp. The Chapter Council, composed of representatives from 10 chapters of the Y. W. C. A., will hold its monthly meeting at 614 E street, tomorrow at 11a.m. Mrs. Ray Palmer Teele, chair- man of the council, will preside, The Princston Chapter of the Y. W. C. A. will hold its regular monthly meeting at the Elizabeth Somers resi- dence, 1104 M street, tomorrow. The meeting will follow a luncheon to be served at 1 o'clock. At the meeting of the Booklovers, Monday evening, 8 o'clock, at 1311 G street, Miss Alice Hutchins Drake will speak on the various influences that have been brought to bear on our lan- guage; why words mean what they mean; words we mispronounce and wards we rarely use. The concluding portion of the program will be divided into notable examples of striking phraseology-. Miss Lucy Helland ‘of the Premiere Club and Mrs. Mary C. Stough of the Amicitia Club are the delegates who will represent the Washington Y. M. C. A. at the Business and Profes- sional Women's Conference, held this week end at Harrisburg, Pa. Miss Marie L. Towle, secretary of the local department, will accompany the dele- gation. Miss Harriet Cunningham, national secretary for the Business and Professional Women, will make the closing address. A report on this conference will be made at the club meetings to be held Tuesday and Thursday evenings at the Administration Building, 614 E street, by the delegates. The Business Women's department is making plans for a rummage sale to be held in the near future to raise money to send a delegate to the business girls' conference at Silver Bay, N. Y. The committee is as fol- lows: Miss Winifred Staubley of the Wohelo Club, chairman: Miss Mabel Riley of the Tip Top Club, Mrs. Vioja ¥. Wilkinson of the All-Around Club fand Mrs. Margaret Langley of the Premiere Club. The Greek Club of the industrial department will hold a business meet- ing Thursday at 614 E strest. Miss Mary Lambodiki, president of the club, will preside. The industrial committes will hold this_month a luncheon meeting at 614 E street, Friday, 12:30 p.m. Mrs. Albert H. Putney, chairman of the committee will preside. The Bibliophilae Club of the reli- gious education department will pre- sent a comedy entitled “Those Hus- bands of Ours,” Friday, 8 p.m., 614 E street. The following girls will play the parts of “indignant wives™: Mrs. B. C. Downey, Mrs. C. F. New. man, Mrs. J. B. Carver, Miss K. Fout, Mrs. W. E. Peasley and Mrs. Oscar Huth, and Miss Sophie Huth will take the part of ‘“the one who has to laugh.” In the musical program following the comedy there will be a plano solo by Mrs. H. Weihe, vocal solos by Miss Frances Shea, Miss Frances Cole and Miss H. Barnes, recitations by Mrs. A. J. Thomas and violin solos by Miss Ivalee Newell. Camp Fire Girl The Ke Ko Wunne Van Camp Fire Group, Miss Carolyn Giles, guardian, met Friday evening at Wesley M. E. Church. The girls started their head- bands, being assisted by three girls from the Awiyeya Camp Fire Group. The Wa Wa Sa See Camp Fire Group, Mrs. L. H. Dewey, guardian. The girls are busy starting their head- bands and dresses and preparing to take the first rank, that of wood- gather. ‘The Sasagakwana Camp Fire Group, Mrs. F. L. Lewton, guardian. On Wed- nesday the girls took their annual Easter hike. This year they went to Mount Vernon. On Thursday evening the girls gave their mothers a party. ‘The Tatapoochen and Neechee Cnm*) Fire Groups, Miss Dorothea McDowell, guardian, had a sunrise hike and breakfast Thursday morning. Their breakfast was cooked at the fireplace at Sixteenth and Kennedy streets. The Awiyeya Camp Fire Group, Miss Mildred Louden, guardian, met Saturday evening at the home of its guardian. The supper was cooked by Katherine Hobson. 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