Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-02-06

granting credits of $15O,OOOOOO for
Poland, Austria and Armenia to ale
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 small proportion of our
exportable surplus Of food which
would alleviate the situation"
Prospects Of agreement in the sem
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 Sem
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 T.
Meredith of Iowa to the place Mr..
Houston will vacate. The changes will
sworn in as senator. The new sec
retary of agriculture is both practi-
cal farmer and a 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, a director
| of the Chicago Federal Reserve bank
and was one of the excess profits adj
visers Of the treasury department ap-
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
/
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
Governors Goodrich of Indiana, Sproui
of Pennsylvania and Coolidge of Mas
sachusetts. The managers of the
Wood, Lowden and johnson booms re
newed their activity in the chase fol
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:
81 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 OF
yours. If he has one drop of reaction
ary blood he will not have chance o.
election. No old-fashioned politician
will do He must be progressive ant
meet the new conditions.
When reporters asked Secretar,
Daniels whom he meant, he smiled
Asked if the name of the man he hat
in mind has been included among thos'
suggested as presidential candidates
Mr.. Daniels replied: eve will not dis
cuss that"
The senate committee on mflitar.
affairs voted, 10 to 5, to retain univer
sal military training in the army re
organization bill, and the measure wa
formally reported to the senate b,
Chairman Wadsworth. The bill wa
changed by the committee so that
provides for two training periods eacl
year, and youth eligible to training
is permitted to select any one of tn,
six periods Immediately following hi
eighteenth birthday. Republican Lead
er Mondell in the house attacked uni
versal military training, declaring i
would cost the government a billiol
dollars the first year and $700.0O0,O ,OO
year thereafter. Senator Wadswortl
in reporting his bill showed that Mon
dell's estimates of the cost were great
ly exaggerated.