River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1921-11-03

army. as was also Maj. Gen. Joseph
T. Dickman. The brigadiers promoted
to fill these vacancies in the list of
major generals were Charles j.
Bailey and Samuel d. Sturgis, and
when he gave out these names. Secre-
tary of War Weeks made it known that
hereafter merit will be the test for
promotion to the rank OF origadier
general. Secretary Weeks, in letter
to General Wood, paid high tribute to
the latter's achievements. Il DE- not
consider" he wrote, that 1t is too
much to say that your efforts con-
tributed more to remedy our UMPIRE
paredness for war than those Of any
other individual, and for this your
country will give you credit long
after the circumstances which denied
you the privilege Of commanding In
battle the troops you trained are for
gotten"
In accordance with the recommends
lions of the conference on unempioy-
ment, President Harding issued a
public statement asking governors and
mayors throughout the country to
organize in each community ma
chinery for the correction of economic
conditions along the lines worked out
by the conference. Local cooperation,
he declared, is absolutely necessary
to success, and to give national CO.
ordination to the efforts for re-
| Mobilization, a central agency will be
maintained in Washington under the
auspices of the conference. Secretary
Hoover appointed as head OF this
| agency Col Arthur Woods, former
| police commissioner of New York.
Mr.. Harding believes that a large
| number of men now jobless would be
given employment If congress would
pass the railroads credit bill, which
would mean the payment of about half
billion dollars to the railroads.
Therefore he is urging that the meas
ure be adopted at this session.
William Howard Taft was sworn In
as chief justice of the Supreme Court
of the United States last Monday and
took his seat as the fall term of the
court opened. Two days later he took
off his gown and appeared before the
senate judiciary committee to advo-
cate enactment of law creating
eighteen additional federal judgeships.
The Volstead act, he said, has added
considerably to the congestion in the
federal courts, and he continued: Il
do not hesitate to say that / believe
violations of the prohibition law will
greatly increase before they begin to
grow fewer
Attorney General Daugherty, also
before the committee, disagreed with
this opinion, saying prohibition cases
have reached their peak and viola
lions will decrease, as the people want
| to see the law enforced and the ten
dency of state authorities to leave en-
forcement TO the government Is begin
ming to disappear. Mr.. Daugherty
| should know what he Is talking about,
| but the news columns of the daily
| papers 10 not bear out his assertion.
| Col. Charles R. Forbes, director of
| the federal veterans bureau, returned
to washington last week after an in
spection trip throughout the country,
| and at once made startling report
to President Harding. He asserted
| that of the 100000 disabled soldiers
| who are being given vocational edu-
| cation at the governments expense.
| 10000 are being EARNED out" to
sweatshops and mushroom institu-
tions created for the purpose Of get
| ting federal trainers and government
| money" Forbes declares the Chicago
situation is especially bad in this re-
spect and adds that 1t is nothing short
| of crime and slavery to put men in
some of the places they have been put.
He gave orders for the discontinuance
of training at certain schools and in
stitutions in Chicago. Chicagoans
interested in the vocational training
of ex-service men could not bring them
selves to believe the truth of Colonel
Forbes accusations. though admitting
there might be isolated cases Of ex-
ploitation.
In an authoritative" summary of
the programs the big powers are ex-
pected to bring to the conference on
Limitation of ornaments and Far
Eastern questions it is stated that
Great Britain, France and Italy will
try to make the cancellation of the
allied debts to the United States of
eleven billion dollars one Of the sub
jects to be discussed. OF course they
have not said this. but well informed
persons believe that is their desire