Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-06-23

to be treated with contempt either by
France or even the United States,
without whose economic cooperation
the economics of the Russian state
cannot be ~re-established. By her
famine relief America has gained some
sympathy in Russia, which she Is
going to forfeit if she wishes to play
the role Of dictator toward Russia by
forcing upon her such base demands.
Despite her poverty, Russia will en-
ter into relations with foreign coun-
tries only on the basis of mutual es-
teem."
What a strange inversion Of ideas
in that allusiOn to America and the
famine relief
NECESSARILY the German repara-
~ tons question will intrude itself
in the present conference, and the
friends of France are hoping that she
will present q definite plan in this
regard. Germany has paid the June
installment, but cynically says, as to
the sums due in July and thereafter
there Is no likelihood that we can
pay them, and what are you going to
do about it?"
Austria Is attracting more sympathy
than any other of the former enemy
states, for obvious reasons. Her rulers
are calling for material aid, which
they say must be extended to save
the country from bolshevism. Already
France has agreed to make a large
loan to Austria.
CHTLE and Peru, through their
~ representatives sent to Wash
ington, have spent a month in
futile attempts to reach a basis for
settlement of the Tacna-Arica dispute,
and now they have asked Secretary of
State Hughes to help them. 1t is
understood that he will o act Of
fcially as a formal arbitrator, but in
an individual capacity in the role of
a conciliator.
CUBA is in a mess again, owing
~ to the delay of President Zayas
in carrying out the pledges made to
General Crowder to rid the govern
ment of alleged graft. The cabinet
has resigned in order to aid the Presi-
dent in carrying out the desired re-
forms. Some members of the Cuban
congress are talking of Impending
Zayas. The American government is
watching developments closely, but is
hopeful that intervention under the
terms of the Plat amendment will
not be necessary.
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION
l. OF LABOR, in session in Cincin-
natl, once more turned down the idea
of the 'one big union plan, which
Gompers and his supporters have so
far successfully cOmbated. The Chi
cago Federation of Labor was leading
in the effort to put owe an amalgama-
ton of allied unions so that there
would be only one union in each in
dustry. The delegates to the conven-
tion decided that the whole force OF
the federation shall be directed toward
the elimination of child labor in the
United States, q crusade in which they
will find few to oppose them outside
of the southern states. They also
adopted a resolution declaring that the
ship subsidy bill should be condemned
as infmical to the public interests and
destructive to the nations hopes and
aspirations for sea power. In an ad.
dress to the convention Senator La.
Toilette of Wisconsin made q warm at.
tack on the Supreme court and some
of Its recent decisions. He proposed
an amendment to the Constitution de
nying h power of lower courts tc
set aside a federal law as %unconstitu
tional, and providing for the nullinca
ton of any such decision by the Su
preme court by re-enactment of the
statute.
, TRELAND'S dali elections tool pIac,
L Friday, but at this writing no re
!, turns have been received. The wind
up Of the campaign and the vlgorou.
measures of the British soldiery served
to quiet somewhat the warfare on tn,
Ulster border, but there were dali,
! outrages in Belfast, including an in
cendiary fire that destroyed a larg,
r block of business houses.
In London the constitution Of tn,
Irish Free State, as revised, was mad
j public. 1t places the relation between
Y Ireland and the empire on the sam
basis as Canada and the other domin
: ions. The instrument is quite up t
date, including female suffrage, pro
portional representation and the rel
erendum and Initiative. Free school
n and freedom Of religion are provide,
for.