The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1919-08-16
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WASHINGTON NEWS.


A national conference to cohsldef
all plans submitted to congress TOT
solution of the railroad problem Will
be held in Washington Oct under
the auspices of the Plumb 0rgahiza- /
ton bureau.
The permanent military policy re-
commended by the var Department.
involving under revised estimates Il .
standing peace army Of 57b,000, ana
universal military training for youths
- wears of age, would cost the couh- F..
try 100000 900 annually, General Pey- .
ton c. March, chief OF stall, Frluay
told the senate military subcommittee.
The senate Wednesday confirmed
the nomination of John Barton Payne .
of Illinois, Thomas A, Scott OF Con- !
necticut and Henry NJ. Robinson OF
California to be members Of the Unit
ed States shipping board
Secretary Lansing before the senate !
foreign relations committee NedneS- /
day expressed the opinion that the |
Shantung provision Of the peace treaty |
did not square with President Wilson's |
enunCiated principle of self-determna-
ton, but maintained that the treaty !
as a whole carried out substantially" |
the presidents fourteen points.
President Wilson Wednesday nomi- |
mated the following to be Texas post
masters: Ambrose B. Culbertson, |
Athens, Tex; Ben l. Conner, Bren-
ham; Eulala Smith, Burkburnett; Lii
lie Sanders, Jewett; Ada Rogers, Mi
ami; Alta Perkins, Aspermont; Cora !
L. Baker Buffalo; John Young, Itasca.
Two branches Of the federal gov
eminent executive and judicial, acted
Wednesday in efforts to bring about
a cut in the cost Of living. President |
Wilson decided to send a message |
to congress recommending further |
legislation to aid III reducing cost OF .
food, and department Of justice agents
were ordered to seek hoarders of |
necessaries and prifiteers. They are
to be prosecuted under the food con-
troll act
The league of nations and the Shan
tung settlement both came in for more |
bitter criticism Tuesday in the SEN
ates consideration of the treaty with .
Germany. At a public hearing of the
foreign relations committee issues of
the league controversy started dis
pute which bOrdered to an uprOar and !
in the senate chamber ar attack on
the Shantung provision by Senator
Watson, republican, of Indiana, deyel-
oped a series OF sharp exchanges.
General Pershing cabled the war de-
partment Tuesday that on July 81 a
total of 9S,497 troops were still over
seas.
STATE AND DOMESTIC NEWS.
Miss Annie Webb Blanton, state SUI
perintendent of public instruction, has
issued an appeal to school trustees,
county and town superintendent, fed
Grated clubs and parent-teacher asso-
Citations of Texas, asking that the
opening of the public schools be de-
ferred so the children may be used
to gather the bumper crops during
the acute labor shortage.
General William E. MickIe, chief of
staff, United Confederate Veterans,
has announced that the next confeder-
ate reunion will be held at Atlanta,
Ga, Oct. 7, and 10. The annual
meeting of the Confederate Southern
Memorial Association and the Sons of
Confederate Veterans will be held in
Atlanta on the same dates, General
Mickle announced.
Lieutenant W. II. Tillisch OF Filing
ton Field and E. L. DAWN Of the state
department Of agriculture were in
stantly Killed and their bodies burned
Thursday when an airplane in which
they were riding fell 100 feet at Eagle
Pass, Texas. The plane had been as
signed to the agricultural department
and had been used for searching out
cotton fields affected by the pink boil
worm in the infested zone area.
Governor Hobby Thursday vetoed
the items in the educational appro,
priation bill for teaching German in
the University of Texas. He also
eliminated $4,000 for a hospital at
the Blind asylum and $4,000 for an
addition to the laundry at the Deaf
and Dumb Institute. With these ex-
cepttons, the bill was approved and
it carries total of $S,237,337 for the
two years beginning Sept. !, 1919.