Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1920-08-20

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territories allocated to other states
and because Jugo-Slavia did not re-
ceive Macedonia as she asked. The
United States did not sign the treaty
owing to President Wilson's objection
to the presence of the sultan in Con-
stantinople, the ALLEGATION Of Thrace
and Smyrna to Greece, and the Asia
Minor mandates.
The British parliament has passed
and the king has approved the new
Irish coercion bill. The debate in the
house of commons was bitter. Very
optimistic persons think the law will
restore order in Ireland.
Much interest and some excitement
were caused by the British govern
ment's course in dealing with the visit
of Archbishop Mannix of Australia,
the warm advocate of free Ireland,
who spent some weeks in the United
States. He intended to land in Ire
land, but government agents removed
him from the liner and put him ashore
at PenZance under technical arrest. He
proceeded to London. but his move
ments were restricted by orders. He
received invitations to address meet
ings in many places in England, Scot
land and Ireland. The treatment of
the archbishop looks, at this distance,
like a characteristic bit of British
%"muddling," but probably the govern
ment knew what it was about. To an
interviewer the churchman said what
he wanted was to see England get out
of Ireland, intimating that the latter
as an independent country would be
no more the enemy of Great Britain
that it is now.
Another big wage increase award
was made last week by the United
States railway labor board, the en-
ployees of the American Railway Elk
press company being the beneficiaries
this time. They were granted a fiat
increase of 16 cents anhour and the
total will amount to $50, 556,445 a
year. The heads of the four unions
affected appeared well satisfied with
the award.
The railway rate increase ran
against a snag in Illinois when the
state public utilities commission ruled
that the 2-cent passenger fare in the
state was restored by the passing Of
the wartime transportation act; de-
MED applications for increases to sc
cents per mile, for increased surcharges
on Pullman and parlor' a fares,
for increase of communication rates and
for increased milk rates; and denied
application for 40 per cent increase in
freight rates, granting a temporary
increase Of 80 1-3 per cent.
Franklin Roosevelt was formally
notified Monday of his nomination for
the vice presidency by the Democrats,
and two days later opened the Demo
cratic campaign in Chicago with a
speech in which he made a special
plea for the support of the old Bull
Moose element. Both in this address
and in his speech of acceptance he ex-
hibited a spirit of fair-mindedness
that won commentator. Governor
Cox began his speaking tour the latter
part of the week.
The front porch campaign plans for
Senator Harding have not been
changed, but the Republican leaders
will make extensive use of publicity"
news stories, advertising and the
movies. 1t was expected that Harding
would soon declare himself as to just
what kind of a League of Nations he
thinks would be acceptable to the
American people, for he does not wish
the nation to believe that because he
is against the Wilson league, he is
against any league.
The prohibition nominees, Watkins
and Colyin, both delivered their ac-
c%eptance speeches at Germantown, O.,
and plans were made to carry on a
vigorous campaign, largely by air
plane.
Charles Ponzi of Boston, whose sem
sational operations in international
postal coupons attracted the attention
of the authorities, anne to grief, at
least temporarily, when a state bank
examiner closed the Hanover Trust
company, through which he carried On
much Of his business, and he was ar
rested on a state larceny charge. The
same day the wizard" admitted he
had been an inmate Of prisons at At
lanta and in Canada. Ponzi has not
revealed the exact method by which
he madeNso much money for his clients
and himself in a few weeks. He as.
serts he can take car Of all bis nnan-
cial obligations.