The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1919-10-24
Events That Concern the
Two Hemispheres
FOREIGN NEWS EPITOMlzED
Executive and Legislative Ac-
tivities at the Capitals
WASHINGTON


inequalities and COMMUNICATING or
CARNATIONS was authorized by Secre-
tary OF War Baker. Orders must be
placed locally and goods delivered to
consumers at the prices prevailing in
the retail stores.
Efforts to force an immediate issue,
labor's proposal that the steel strike
be arbitrated, failed in the Industrial
Conference. essil @
Samuel Gompers, president Of the
American Federation of Labor, is suf-
tering from nervous exhaustion.
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt has
been awarded the Distinguished Serv.
tse Medal. siH
Appointment of General March, chief
Of staff, and Major Generals Hunter
Liggett and Robert l.. Billiard to the
permanent rank of lieutenant general
In recognition of their services during
the war would be authorized under a
bill introduced by Chairman Wads-
worth, of the Senate Military Commit
tes.
American troops, which will form
part of the force to occupy the Prov
ince of Silesia, If such action is ordered
by the Supreme Council in Paris, will
sail this week from New York on the
transport President Grant.
A favorable report on resolution
extending for one year after the proc
lamation of peace wartime restrictions
on passports so as to keep radicals and
undesirable aliens out of the country
was ordered by the House Foreign Re-
lations Committee.
Secretary Glass recommended to
Congress an appropriation of 100000
900 to enable the Federal Board of
Vocational Training to carry out the
purposes of the vocational training act.
Julius Barnes, director of the United
States Grain Corporation, has asked
President Wilson to raise the export
and import embargoes on wheat, !,
Instructions that preparations be
made to distribute part of the Army's
reserve supply. of sugar to the public
were cancelled after Secretary ofWar
Baker had been advised by officers
that the present surplus in the hands
Of the department was sufficient for
only two and half months.
Americanization of foreigners should
through legislation, declared Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, chairman Of the Sem
ate Labor Committee, which returned
from an investigation of the steel
strike in the Pittsburgh district.
More than 1900 men Of the Marine
Corps serving in Haiti and San Do
mingo, who enlisted for the period of
the war, will be brought to the United
States aad demobilized before January
].
Some official action, either by Presi-
dent Wilson or the Cabinet, to avert
the threatened strike Of soft-coal min
ers November ] is to be expected, it
was said at the White House.
Medical officers killed in action meet
death accidentally, within the meaning
OF the Standard Accident Insurance
contracts, the Supreme Court in effect
held
Failure of Governors to call special
legislative sessions to ratify the Fed
eral woman suffrage amendment can
be met by initiating ratification
measure in states where the initiative
has been adopted Senator Gore, Of
Oklahoma, stated in an opinion sent
to Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
The House Military Committee ap-
proved the Senate bill giving Major
General z. H. Crowder the rank Of
Lieutenant General on his retirement,
In recognition "for conspicuous serv-
Ice in execution of the selective law"
The worlds supply of cattle, sheep
and swine is approximately what it
was at the outbreak of the European
War, according to report by the De-
partment of Agriculture.
The Senate Military Committee
voted unanimously to recommend an
additional appropriation of $15,O00,O0O
for army aircraft construction.
Organized labor's course in calling
strikes in American industry was de-
nounced in the Senate by Senator
Myers, Democrat, Montana.
The Greek delegation to the Inter
national Labor conference, opening in.
Washington, October 20, will start next
week for Washington.
Creation of a budget bureau under
supervision Of the President was pro
posed in a bill reported by the Special
House Committee appointed to inves-