, 1921-10-13

army. as was also Mai. Gen. Joseph
Il. Dickman. The brigadiers promoted
to fill these vacancies in the list of
major generals were Charles j..
Bailey and Samuel ID. Sturgis, and
when he gave out these names, Secre-
tary of War Weeks made 1t known tina
hereafter merit will be the test for
promotion to the rank OF ~brigadier
general. Secretary Weeks, in Il letter
10 Genera Wood, paid high tribute to
the latter's achievements. Il do not
consider" he wrote, that it is too
much to say hat your efforts con-
tributed more to remedy our unpre-
paredness for war than those of any
other individual, and for this our
country will give you credit long
nfter the circumstances which denied
you the privilege Of commanding in
battle the troops you trained are for
gotten"
In accordance with the recommended
tions of the conference on unemploy-
ment, President Harding issued n
public statement asking governors and
mayors throughout h 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 he
given employment If congress would
pass the railroads credit bill. which
would mean the payment of about half
n billion dollars to the railroads.
Therefore he is urging that the meas
ure he adopted at this session.
William Howard Taft was sworn In
rs 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
NtIlNIt JuUltliiTN NulilIllllttt 10 ulNu-
cate enactment of n law creating
eighteen additional federal judgeshipS.
The Volstead act, he said. has added
considerably to the congestion in the
federal courts. and he continued: 81
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 win decrease. ms the people want
to see the law enforced and the EN-
dency of state authorities TO leave en-
forcement to the government Is begin
ming TO disappear. Mr.. Daughertv
should know what he Is talking about.
but the news columns of the daily
papers do not bear out his assertion.
Col. Charles II. Forbes. director of
the federal veterans bureau. returned
to Washington last week after an in
spectlnn trip throughout the country.
and nj once made n startling report
10 President Harding. He asserted
that Of the 100000 disabled soldiers
who are being given vocational edu-
cation at the governments expense.
10000 are being "farmed out" to
sweatshops and mushroom institu-
lions created for the purpose Of get
ting federal trainers and government
money" Forbes declares the Chicago
situation Is especially bad In this re-
snect and adds that II Is nothing short
Of crime and slavery to put men In
/ some Of the places they have been put.
He gave orders for the discontinunnce
Of trnlninc Mt certain schools and In.
situations IN Chicago. ChIcagoans
Interested in the vocational training
of ex,scrvice men could not bring them
selves to believe the truth OF Colonel
Forbes accusations. though admitting
there might be isolated eases OF ex-
ploitation.
In an authoritative" summary Of
the programs the big powers are ex-
pected Ia bring to the conference on
limitation of ornaments and Far
Eastern questions It Is stated that
Grent Britain. France and Italy viii
trv 10 make the cancellation ~ the
allied debts 10 the United States Of
eleven billion dollars one Of the sub
iec,s 10 he discussed. OF course they
have not said this. but well Informed
..... hatfova TINT fQ their desire