The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1920-02-13

granting credits Of s150,OOO,O00 for
Poland, Austria and Armenia to allie
viate conditions in those countries.
He says: "It is unthinkable to me
that we should withhold from those
people, who are in such mental and
physical distress, the assistance which
can be rendered by making available
on credit a small proportion of our
exportable surplus Of food which
would alleviate the situation"
Prospects of agreement in the SEN
ate on the peace treaty dwindled still
further last week. The bipartisan COM
mittee, unofficial, was looked to by the
more hopeful for a solution of the
tangle, but the chances were not good.
Article ten and the Monroe doctrine
clause were the sticking points. SEN
ator Hitchcock. peeyed by the contin-
ued delay, threatened to take the
whole matter before the senate in open
session, but later said he would not
do that until all hope of settlement
by private negotiation had failed. 9th
er senators said nothing would be
gained by throwing the treaty back
into the senate In the near future.
The president has promoted" Sec
retary of Agriculture Houston to sue
ceed Mr.. Glass as secretary of the
treasury, and has appointed Edwin I.
Meredith of Iowa to the place Mr..
Houston will vacate. The changes will
take effect as soon as Mr.. Glass is
sworn in as senator. The new sec
retary of agriculture is both practi-
cal farmer and business man. He is
the editor of Successful Farming and
before establishing that paper was
publisher Of the Farmers Tribune. He
Is president of the Associated Adver-
tising Clubs of the World, director
of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank
and was one Of the excess profits ad-
visers Of the treasury department APP
pointed in 1917. He has said that one
of his first undertakings as head of the
department Of agriculture will be to
try to work out some method of get
ting crops to market without too
much lost notion" There has been
evidence that Mr.. Houston was not
very popular with the farmers, and
the change is counted on by the lead
ers of the Democratic party to restore
good relations between the farmers
and the administration.
It was said in Washington that Sec
retary of the Interior Lane desires
to retire from the cabinet in the near
future. There has been no suggestion
as to his successor.
Three favorite sons dropped out OF
the race for the Republican presiden-
tial nomination last week. They were
Governors Goodrich of Indiana, Sproul
of Pennsylvania and Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts The managers of the
Wood, Lowden and Johnson booms re-
newed their activity in the chase for
delegates. The boom for Hoover,
though still restricted, gave indica-
tions of early expansion. In that con-
nection statement by Secretary Dan
iels to a graduating class in Philadel-
phia is interesting. Said he:
ST can tell you who the next presi-
dent is going to be. Do you want me
to tell you who he Is? don't know
whether he belongs TO my party or
yours. If he has one drop of reaction
ary blood he will not have chance OF
election. No old-fashioned politician
will do. He must be progressive and
meet the new conditions"
When reporters asked Secretary
Daniels whom he meant, he smiled.
Asked if the name of the man he had
in mind has been included among those
suggested as presidential candidates,
Mr.. Daniels replied: "We will not dis
cuss that"
The senate committee on, military
affairs voted, 10 to 5, to retain univer-
sal military training in the army re-
organization bill, and the measure was
formally reported to the senate by
Chairman Wadsworth. The bill was
changed by the committee so that 1t
provides for two training periods each
wear. and a youth eligible to training
Is permitted to select any one Of the
six periods Immediately following his
eighteenth birthday. Republican Lead
er Mondell in the house attacked uni
| versal military training, declaring it
would cost the government a billion
dollars the first year and $700, 0,O00,O 600
| a wear thereafter. Senator Wadsworth
in reporting his bill showed that Mon
dell's estimates of the cost were great
ly exaggerated.