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NEWS REVIEW OF CURRENTEVENTS Lloyd George Defeats Attack of Asquith Coalition in Debate onjreland. on Miners’ Proposals fcr Settlement Laid Before Parliament}—Recent Events In Central Europe—Secretary Houston Tells Bankers Taxes Cannot Be Reduced. By EDWARD W. PICKARD. Herbert Asquith’s grand anti-govern-ment combination in England scored a complete failure ini its first attempt to overthrow Premier Lloyd George last week. Parliament:had assembled, and despite what must be considered the more pressing business of the coal miners’ strike, the opposition started in on the Irish question, calling for a public inquiry into the alleged atrocities of the police 1 and military in ’the Island. The motion was made in the names of Henderson and Adamson, labor party leaders; and Asquith and Sir Donald Maclean, leaders of the liberals, and the correspondents said it was supported by every party in the house of commons except the followers of Lloyd George. Nqtwitlutanding such a powerful coalition, after a long and heated debate the government forced the withdrawal of the motion by a vote of 346 to 79. Lord Robert Cecil, speaking for the motion, denounced ’ the administration in Ireland as one of the most disastrous and tactless things in the country's history, and declared that for the sake of the country’s good flame the government must clear itself of the charge of connivance in the reprisals. 'Mr. Asquith followed the same line of argument and described in detail the occurrences in I Balbriggan and other towns. _ Sir Hamar Greenwood, chief secretary for Ireland, set up the government’s defense! in a fiery speech. He declared the nets of the police were “deplorable but understandable” in View of the doings of the Irish murderers. Asserting that he, and no one , else, was the Ijead Os the Irish government, Sir Haniar said: “We are breaking Irish terror. It is being broken by the forces of the crown which are being condemned here today. I foresee at no distant date the end of the regime of assassination in Ireland now being carried on by the Irish ‘republican army* which has members in every village, “We are breaking the boycott on the police and we are breaking the refusal to carry troops or police on the railroads. I would rather see every Irish "'railroad shut down for a hundred years than yield one jot or tittle of our right to carry any one we please." It is the expressed opinion of certain American correspondents that the Asquith following in this matter, though heavily outvoted in the house of commons, represents the majority of the English.people and the most thoughtful section of the country, and that the members of the house cannot much longer ignore the feelings of their constituents. This opinion, however, cannot be accepted unreservedly in view of the bias displayed by these correspondents when dealing with Irish affairs. Efforts to avert the strike of British coal miners failed, and the men all quit work. Industrial and economic confusion set in at once, but as the week drew to a close the situation was not without its hopeful aspects. The government, the people generally and at least the leaders of the miners’ federation fully realized the gravity of the crisis and the threat of greater disaster to the country if the rail and transport workers should strike in sympathy with the miners. Prime Minister Lloyd George presented the matter to the house of commons Tuesday night in a speech that won hearty applause and that showed the govern-

CAMPAIGN OF THRIFT URGED. American Bankers* Association Listens to Report Concerning the Encouragement of Saving. Washington— A. three-year thrift campaign to reach every family in the country that has no bank account was proposed to the American Bankers’ Association by its committee on public and private thrift. As a part of the campaign, government officials would be called on to practice utmost

ment was leaving the door open for an early settlement of the trouble. He was preceded by William Brace, president elect jof the miners, who pleaded for permanent peace and made these proposals for settlement: First, grant of 2 shillings daily raise in pay, subject to review of the whole financial position of the mines at the end of the year. Second, establish district committees in all districts to deal with the question of increased output, comprising both miners and owners. Third, before December 31 establish a national wage board of the mining industry on principles to be agreed upon to settle all wage disputes. Fourth, establish a joint committee of miners and owners in the mines department to settle the question of shares of the product of the mines for the miners and owners and the state. The premier in response said: “If the miners accepted the government’s offer of an impartial tribunal to settle the two shillings a shift question, all arguments in support of their claim would bo Considered, but undoubtedly the settlement that would best meet the permanent well being of the nation would be a settlement which would promote increased output. “This would offer to the miners the inducement of a reward for their own labor and would certainly work to the enrichment of the nation by increasing the output of a product which is most essential to the proper conduct of foreign trade.” * Extremists in the federation urged that the men left in the mines to operate the pumps be withdrawn and the diggings allowed to fill with water, but the officers of the organization strong- ■> ly opposed this. The delegates of the railway men and transport workers decided that they would call a strike if promising negotiations were not under way by Saturday . Thus far there has not been a great deal of rioting in connection with the strike, though there were disorderly demonstrations . in London and in Walds, usually fostered by radicals who are believed to be in the pay of the (Russian Bolshevists. The most serious outbreak was in Whitehall, London, where a parade of the unemployed tried to break into Downing street and fought the police. Baron Wrangel, who is sustaining the full force of the Russian soviet attacks in southern Russia, met with a severe reverse in the region of Kakhovka bridgehead and his troops were thrown back into the Taurida behind the Dnieper river, which they still control. It was reported that Leon Trotzky himself was directing the movements of the Red army there. On other fronts Wrangel was successful and he was informed by many prisoners that the Red armies would not be able to go through another winter campaign, being without shoes, clothing and stores of food. Dispatches from Constantinople say the American Red Cross has given to General Wrangel about $2,000,000 worth of relief material and is sending him 500,000 tons of supplies a week. The reports that Makno, the guerrilla leader, had deserted Wrangel turn out to be false. On the other hand, Moscow admits that General Budenny, former cavalry leader of the Bolshevlki, has deserted the soviet cause and is operating against the government in the neighborhood of Kiev. Feeling that the League of Nations is not yet strong enough to insure their safety, and determined that the house of Hapsburg shall not be restored to the throne of Hungary, thqCzecho-Slo-vaks, Bohemians and Jugoslavs have entered into an agreement for mutual offense and defense, which is already known as the “little entente.” They assert their league is primarily peaceful and defensive, but admit they have made provisions for a military force if that is necessary. For some days it appeared as if the Jugo-Slav government had blocked the proposed peaceful discussion with Italy for the settlement of the Adriatic dispute. The Klagenfurt district of Carinthia had voted to remain a part of Austria and the Jugo-Slavs, refusing to recognize the plebiscite, ordered the Serbians to occupy the district. On Thursday they apparently recognized

econoipy so as to reduce the expenditures of the federal government. “The recent orgy of extravagance,” declared the committee’s report, “has Indicated clearly the..peed for more popular realization of the need for saving when and as the opportunity presents itself. The time, is at hand when thrift and saving will be regarded as not only possibilities, but actual necessities.” ’ ‘ Small savers are to be the chief source In financing the normal growth of commerce and Industry, the report

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their fnistake and promised to evacuate the territory. It was then announced that the representatives of the two countries would begin the negotiations at once. According to a Rome paper, if the Jugo-Slavs refuse to accept the Italian proposals Italy will resume her complete liberty of action. It is declared Italy will ask that the frontier be fixed along the crest of the Julian Alps and that independence be granted Fiume, which will have territorial contiguity with Italy, besides liberty of Zara and the possession of several islands along the coast. In reply to the identical British and French note regarding the^occupation of Vilna, the Polish government neither refuses nor agrees to completely disavow General Zellgouski’s action in entering the city, but urges a further inquiry and points out that Lithuania has hardly become a nation yet. The French government, it is said, rather sympathizes with Poland in the matter, because of her difficult situation. The king of Greece was still alive at this writing, but his condition was so serious that preparations for the succession were being made. In Athens it was understood that, if Alexander should die, the throne would be offered to his brother Paul, but with such conditions that he would not accept it. Then, presumably, it will be offered to a foreign prince, and if he refuse the republic will be proclaimed. Secretary of the Treasury Houston, in an address before the American Bankers’ association in Washington, gave the country warning that there is little chance that taxes will be reduced, because receipts from income and profits taxes are decreasing. In order to meet current bills, including interest on sinking fund charges, said the secretary, and also to retire the floating indebtedness and a considerable part of the Victory notes before the close of the fiscal year 1923, tax receipts must be kept up to the level of not less than $4,000,000,000 a year. Mr. Houston said that on the basis of present diminishing receipts the total for the fiscal year 1921 may not materially exceed that figure. There is little immediate prospect of the payment of the war debt of foreign’ nations, according to Mr. Houston, but he said he did not believe the people would receive with favor the proposition to cancel that debt, since they would have to pay taxes to meet the interest and redeem the principal of §19,000,000,000. Discussing the general credit situation, Mr. Houston said the farmers are “naturally disturbed and distressed," but are seeking relief “through measure's, some of which are not practicable, and others of which are suicidal.” The association’s thrift committee has planned a three year thrift campaign to reach every family in the country that has no bank account. “The recent orgy of extravagance,” declared the committee’s report, “has indicated very clearly the need for more popular realization of the need for saving when and as the opportunity presents itself. The time is at hand when thrift and saving will be regarded as not only possibilities, but actual necessities.” Small savers are to be the chief source in financing the normal growth of commerce and Industry, the report said, adding that present tax policies offer a serious check to Increased investment by holders of large wealth. The conduct of American affairs in Haiti has been the subject of much heated discussion, and charges of “indiscriminate killing” of natives by the marines, made in a report by Major General Barnett, former commandant of the corps, led Secretary Daniels to summon a court of inquiry. General Barnett now says the matter involves only a small portion of the marine corps on duty in Haiti, and that in general the marines have done their duty splendidly. Admiral Knapp, who has studied conditions in Haiti for Secretary Daniels, says American intervention in the island republic should continue for at least another generation. He admits that perhaps 3,000 natives have been killed in necessary operations since American occupation, but denies that any were killed deliberately or wantonly.

said, adding that present tax policies offer a serious check to increased investment by holders of large wealth. “Not only must the lesson be taught to the individual citizen and especially to the wage earner, who has not yet found a place to begin,’ said the report, ‘‘but our government officials must also be impressed with a similar idea because of their example to the citizens, and also because of Its demand upon the people’s savings.” >’ A crafty knave, needs no broker.

Happenings of the World Tersely Told Personal J. J. MacLaren of (Toronto and Rev. Arthur K. Brown of New York, prominent delegates to the World’s Sunday School convention, 'were received by the empress at Tokyo. * * * Prof. John A. Gray, for 45 years professor of mathematics in Muskingum college, and one of the best-known educators in Ohio, died suddenly at New Concord, O„ aged seventy-two years. •» • ■ Washington Approval of a proposal to organize a $190,000,000 corporation to finance the nation’s foreign trade was given by the American Bankers’ association, in convention at Washington. i Government expenditures of $4,000,I 000,000 during the next fiscal year were > forecast by Secretary Houston of the i Treasury department in a speech before the American Bankers’ associat tion at Washington. Prof. Irving Fisher’s plan to stab 11- ■ ize the dollar by diminishing or increasing the gold behind the dollar as prices fall or rise was adversely rei ported upon by the currency commls- ' sion of the' American Bankers associatioa- at Washington. The Supreme court at Washington refused to review the case of Charles B. Mundy, a banker of Chicago, codvlcted of embezzlement and sentenced to an indefinite penitentiary term. Bituminous coal production has reached the 12.000.000-ton weekly total, which the National Coal association at Washington recently declared was necessary to insure against any shortage of the winter supply. ** I ♦ American women paid $750,000,000 for rouge, lipsticks, powder and per- : fume during 1919, according to luxury tax returns at the treasury in M ash- , ington. Eighteen hundred’ and ninety-two delegates to the third Internationale at Baku, Azerbaijan, have disbanded after taking solemn oath upon a naked ’ sword to work night and day to over- ’ throw “capitalism” as they term the present governments of the world, it was announced officially at the State ’ department at Washington. i Domestic Mrs. E. D. Rutland, Ill.J ! was killed and her husband and Mrs.l ‘ H. T. Dwyer were probably fatally’ I injured when a touring car in which , they were riding was struck by a train near Streator, 111. * ♦ * ’ Ice closed the Yukon river at Dawi son Sunday, the earliest closing on record. Temperatures dropped to 10 degrees below zero. « ♦ ♦ , The four army airplanes which left Mineola, N. Y.. July 15 to establish, an > air route to Nome, Alaska, completed ’• their round trip, arriving from Erie, ‘ Pa. Twelve men were- taken in Chicago ’ by members of the bomb squad in raids on the headquarters of Chicago ’ Reds at 951 West Madison street and at other gathering places. • • • ’ Carl Lauer, a messenger for the , State Commercial and Savings bank, at Chicago, was held up and robbed of $20,000 in currency and $50,000 in ne- ‘ gotiable checks by three armed men. ’ Reports received by Mrs. Charles E. ’ Frankenthal, chairman of publicity of ‘ the Chicago Children’s Benefit league, ' indicated that more |han $77,000 was ' collected Monday by the taggers for the societies. ’* • • Four heavily armed unidentified bandits held up the Bank of Alameda 1 county at Alvarado, Cal., shot and ’ seriously wounded August H. May, ' president of the institution, and escaped with $50,000. 1 The body of David S. Paul, sixty, a Camden bank runner, who disappeared 3 October 5 with a satchel containing ‘ SIO,OOO in cash and $12,500 in checks, * was found in the woods 20 miles east of Mount Holly, N. J. i• • * i Ship building in the United States, - which led that of Great Britain by 1,i 931,000 gross tons early this year, has r fallen behind in the quarter that ended t September 30, by 1,950,000 gross tons, ) according to a New York dispatch. 1* « • * Frank Lermineaux, mayor of Gas i City, Ind., was sentenced to four 1 months in the Marlon county jail by r Judge A. E. Anderson at Indianapolis 5 for violation of an injunction order is- " su*J in the United States district ‘ court. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of » the Democratic nominee for vice presii, dent, has contributed SIOO to the . League of Nations fund of the Democratic national committee at New York. « « * 3 The women’s bureau of Democratic ■ headquarters at New York announced receipt of a pledge from Mrs. James 4 Cox, wife of the presidential candl- £ date, who agreed to contribute SI,OOO. * Escaping sewer gas caused an ex--8 plosion in a garage at Galesburg, BL * which resulted in the death of Charles ’ Fletcher. 5 ♦ * »' Two thousand eight hundred coal miners in the McAlester (Okla.) fleld . . are on “vacation" because of grievances over. wages.

Three attaches of the St. Anthony’s hospital in Oakland, Cal., died and a fourth is believed to be beyond recovery as a result. It is thought, of some sort of food poisoning. z • • • The 25-cent hair cut has reappeared jat Los Angeles, Cal. It had been at> sent for some time, while those costing 35 and 50 cents took its place. Its reappearance was noted only in a few shops. • • • L. B. Nagler, former assistant secretary of state at Madison, Wls., who ,was tried and convicted two years ago in the Federal court on charges of violation of the espionage act, has been granted a new trial. • ♦ • Fred Wementin, Jr., prominent business man and civic worker at Davenport, la., Jumped into the Mississippi river and was drowned. He escaped from his home, where he was under watch after a breakdown. * • « Elmer S. Malone. Springfield, BL, ah alleged automobile bandit, was sh<x through the heart and killed by Frits Stantz, depufy sheriff at Wakeeney, Kan. • • ♦ Evidence showing that bootlegging in Chicago, conducted by a powerful organization of high and low officials, perhaps even two congressmen, is in the hands of the federal authorities. Foreign Severe fighting continues along the Dnieper and northeastern front, in the vicinity of Nikopol. Leon Trotzky, Russian Bolshevik minister of war. is reported to be bringing up ten divisions of communist forces, says a Sebastopol dispatch. « * * A Rome dispatch says that Kiffis Victor Emmanuel has estimated his estate at 92,000.000 lire, which, at the present rate of exchange, amounts approximately to $3,500,000. ♦ ♦ » The motion for a public Irish inquiry was defeated in commons at London by 346 votes to 79. The implied vote of confidence in the Irish administration was loudly cheered. * ♦ * Three men were hauled out of their homes in' Tipperary and Roscommon and shot dead by the Black and Tan. The relatives of the murdered men were present when the shooting occurred, says a Dublin dispatch. • * • Sylvia Pankhurst, former wellknown leader of the militant suffragists, was arrested in London on a charge of having seditious literature in her possession. • « • A Brussels dispatch to the Libre Belgique says that Premier Delacroix has decided to resign with his ministry on King Albert’s return from Brazil. « • • After the defeat of soviet forces by General Wrangel’s army at Sinelnl- | kovo, two soviet regiments stationed in the village of Ribaskoe surrendered, I according to an official report from Sebastopol. * • « A Sebastopol dispatch says that 2,500 civil prisoners were massacred on orders from five different commissions during the last days of the occupation of Berdiansk, on the northern coast of the Sea of Azov. « * * A severe engagement occurred between Polish and Lithuanian troops Saturday night and early Sunday on the front between Vilna and Kovno, according to official dispatches from Kovno. • • « Returns from the Austrian elections for the national assembly show that the Christian socialists were victorious over the other parties by a slight majority, says a Vienna dispatch. • * * A Korean report issued at Shanghai declared that serious fighting had broken out between Japanese troops and Koreans in the Chien Tao district of Manchuria and added that 15 Japanese were killed. A large factory building collapsed at Afforl, Italy, an important industrial center near Milan, burying many workers. Eight bodies have been taken out of Extensive foreign cruises for both the Atlantic and Pacific fleets next summer were announced in a tentative Itinerary made public by the Navy department at Washington. • • • After October 31 there will be a scramble for about 2.000 mines, including gold and silver, upon which the owners, for one reason or another, have failed to pay assessments at Mexico City. • • • The volcano Popocatepetl, 26 miles west of Puebla, Mexico, is reported to be in eruption with much steam escaping and deep rumblings. There has been no damage, but the population Is preparing to flee. • * • The government intends to proceed with the Ireland bill, Andrew Bonar Law, the government leader, declared In answering a question in the house of commons at London. * * *, The Russian Bolshevlki have reoccupied Minsk, which, according to the Moscow official communique, the Poles have abandoned. • • * An explosion and fire in the TongChan coal mine In Chi-Li province killed upward of 400 Chinese laborers, according to a Peking dispatch. * * Sergeant Roche of the Irish constabulary, who went to Dublin to Identify a Sinn Feiner who was killed Thursday, was shot to death a few hours after his arrival. • • * Shrinkage in the value of farm products so far this season will result in American farmers receiving $2,500,000,000 less than they would -ba v e secured on the 1919 price basis, Secretary of Agriculture Meredith addressing the American Bankers’ association annual convention at Washington. ; —

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BRIEF INFORMATION The term “gas” was first used in chemistry in the sixteenth century. The earliest cannons were made of leather or wood, strengthened later on with bands of iron. Miss Lorena Shantz. the first policewoman of Kitchener. Ont., recently entered on her duties. Automobiles are found on onefourth of the farms in Ontario, and. half the homes are equipped with telephones.

False Hopes. “Why is the deaf man you brought here so anxious to go to a police court?” “Because somebody told him the magistrate there would give him a hearing.” A man doesn’t enjoy being laughed at by a crowd unless ne gets paid for it

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Kr L OWN CHILDREN AT BIRTH Viol of Tahiti Look Upon Attempt of One of Their Ortier to Raise Child as Sin. Lovers of laughter, song, music, flowers and birds, the Arioi of Tahiti killed their own children at birth, and looked upon the attempt of a member 9f their order to rear a child as a Bln. While religious causes were given for this by the leaders and, no believed in, the real cause, Frederick O’Brien tells in the Century, wa? a natural one whereby the species, t>C prevent over-population of the Sonth sea island, destroyed Its own. With perfect health and no enemies, the island would soon have had a hard time finding food. The Arioi were wandering minstrels, actors, priests and wonder workers to which belonged both men and women. The natives of Tahiti who have escaped the blight of civilization are living proofs that at one time the race was one of the most beautiful In the world’s history, while investigators declare tlfat arts and civilization were brought to a high plane hundreds of years ago. Lend a man grass seed and he will come around later and borrow your lawn mower. Some married women not only have the last word, but all the rest of the gei-tence.

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Paris’ “Queen of Beauty” for this year’s carnival was a typist only eighteen years of age. A wonderful collection of old copper tools and weapons has gathered ! from old mounds in Wisconsin. A natural curiosity of Japan is the “insect bell.” It is a black beetle which emits harmonious sounds like those of a little silver bell. Tips amounting to SSO a day are . said to have been received by a boy employed to open motorcar doors outside a big Paris restaurant.

Dark Horse. "I wish my future had a dark outlook.” “What makes you wish such a thing . as that?” “Because then I would be sure ol my winter coal.” Copenhagen has the largest inclosed deer park of any city in the world—about 4.200 acres.

AT LEAST IT’S NOT PROBABLE Judge Was Likely Dead Right Whet He Told the Elderly Lady Abcut His Gown. The judges of the Marion count; courts recently adopted and publisher, rules relating to formal openings of court sessions, requiring all personsin the courtroom at the time to stand. This and the other requirements aredesigned to , insure dignity and decorum. An elderly woman employed at the courthouse accosted one of the judges' in the corridors of the building anilcomplimented the b.ench on its attitude in conducting court. “In fact, judge,” she added, “I think all of you judges ought to do likesome of the big Eastern courts and wear gowns.” Without batting an eye the judae* replied: “I do wear a gown about onethird of the time.” “Why, I never saw you tn one,” thewoman said.. “And you never will,” gravely answered his honor as he proceeded tohis courtroom, chuckling to himself.— Indianapolis News. Between the deserving poor and thedeservedly poor there is a vast difference. There might be such things at* “voiceless yearnings,” but women seldom have them.