The Marietta journal. (Marietta, Ga.) 1918-1944, 1921-07-07

teclillS American interests, with an
additional section giving still further
| protection to the United States. Sim.
llar sections end the state of war with
Austria-Hungary. SO that squabble
| is settled.
Notwithstanding the impassioned
| protests Of many congressman and the
earnest arguments of many physicians.
the house last week passed. the So
called Willis-Campbell bill designed to
! forestall the execution of q regulation
providing for the prescription of beer
and light wines as medicine held by
| former Attorney General Palmer to
be within the law. The vote was 25O
to 93. The measure is now In the
hands of the senate, and Senator
Broussard Of Louisiana already has
delivered q red-hot speech against IT,
OF the appointment Of former Pres
ident Taft to be chief Justice Of the
Supreme court of the United States
there is little to be said that has not
| already been said in anticipation. Mr..
Taft's fitness for the high position is
unQuestioned and the selection will
meet with practically unanimous ap-
prevail
The railway labor board issued two
orders of importance last week. The
first extended to all big railways the
wage cut which went into effect on
July 1. The second abolished time
and-a-haif pay for all work over an
eight-hour day. and, with the exception
of this change, extended indefinitely
the operation of the national agree
ments which were to have terminated
last Friday. The overtime order is
not final, however. 1t was hoped that
the railroads and employees would
soon reach agreements relating to
rules and working conditions. Rail
union leaders to the number of more
than thousand met in Chicago to
decide whether the employees should
accept the wage cut and to try to
avert a tie-up in the country's trans
portaton facilities.
In the Chicago district it appeared
the efforts Of Judge Lands as arbi-
traitor would result in the ending of
the controversy that has tied up all
building operations for long time.
The carpenters were the last to yield.
There was rejoicing in England at
the news that the great strike of Brit
ish coal miners had been ended and
that the men would return to the
pits on July 4. The government
grants a subsidy of ten million pounds
to avert the hardships of the next
three months due to wage reductions.
By the terms of the settlement a new
wage basis will come into effect for
the next eighteen months whereby the
miners receive 20 per cent above the
pre-war scale Of wages, with an ad-
ditional share Of profits, which will
be regulated by the creation of ma
tional board and district boards. The
strike thus ended lasted "a days and
- COuSldtI6u lHC IAOSI IlJuA IOOo
land ever suffered, because it crippled
so many industries and affected all
classes Of the population.
LLOYD Georges effort to arrive at
friendly solution Of the Irish trouble
by inviting De Valera and an associ-
ate TO confer in London with him and
with Sir James Craig, premier Of Ul-
ster, appears to have failed as have
all other attempts to settle the row.
| Craig agreed to the conference, but De
| Valera has baked. At first the Irish
''prcsident" wrote to Lloyd George
temporizing letter, and invited Craig
| TO meet him in Dublin for an exchange
of views. Craig declined, and DE
| Valera wrote him: Mr.. Lloyd
Georges proposal, because of its i'm
plications, is impossible of acceptance
in its present form. Irish political
| differences should be adjusted and
can, believe, be adjusted on Irish
soil. 1t is obvious that in negotiating
peace with Great Britain the Irish del
egation ought not to be divided, but
should act as unit on some common
principle"
A London newspaper says the au-
thorities have discovered and frus-
trated a plot to murder the British
| cabinet ministers. 1t says the police
! are seeking three men sent to Lon
don to do the assassinating. They
! are q French medical student, an Irish