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granting credits of $150,00O.000 for
Poland, Austria and Armenia to ulle-
yiate conditions in those countries.
He says: at 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 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 Conn
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-
ned 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
or senators said nothing would be
gained by throwing the treaty back
into The senate in The near future.
Tie president has 'promotel' Sec
rotary Of Agriculture Houston 10 sue
coed Mr.. Glass as secretary OF the
treasury, and has appointed Edwin /.
Meredith of Iowa to the place Mr..
Houston Will yacate. The changes will
take effect as soon as Mr. Glass is
sworn In as senator. The new sec
rotary of agriculture Is both a 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-
Using Clubs of the World, a director
of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank
and was one of the excess profits 06-
yisers 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 10 restore
good relations between the farmers
and the administration
1t was said in Washington that sec
rotary of the Interior Lane desires
to retire from the cabinet in the Z
future. There has been no suggestion
as to his successor.
Three favorite sons dropped out of
the race for the Republican preslden-
tial nomination last week. They were
Governors Goodrich of Indiana, Sprop'
of Pennsylvania and Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts The managers of til
Wood, Lowden end Johnson boons re
newed their activity in the chase for /
delegates. The boom for Hooye
though still restricted, gave indica
lions of early expansion In that co
HcCllOu Il Ny AoCNiCtoit
iels to a graduating class in Philae
phia is interesting. Said he:
81 can tell you VINO the next pres
dent is going 70 be. Do you want
to tell you who he is? l don't knp Z
whether he belongs To my party or
yours. If he has one drop of reaction
airy blood he will not have a 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 il the name of the man he had
in mind has been included among those
suggested as presidential candidates,
Mr.. Daniels replied: 1--WE win 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 i'll
provides for two training periods each |
year, 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-I
versal military training, declaring It'll
would cost the government a billion !
dollars the first year and 500. 0c0. 600 |
a year thereafter Senator Waslsworth |
in reporting his bill showed that Mon I
dellss estimates Of the cost were great |
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