The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1922-12-08

Other amendments would exclude
from receiving government aid con-
Germs operating ships for their own
benefit, except where they transported
cargoes Of other shippers; reduce from
1000 to 500 gross tons the MINIMUM
tonnage for sailing vessels eligible for
government aid, and eliminate the in
come tax credit to shipper equal to
per cent of amounts paid for the trans
portation of goods in American vessels.
In THE senate the Democrats staged
= determined and openly ayowed
filibuster to prevent the passage of
the Dyer anti-lynching bill, which was
passed by the house. Senator Under
wood, their leader, warned the Repub-
licans that all business, even the con-
firmation Of presidential appointments,
would be blocked until efforts to pass
the measure were abandoned.
I AMES COUZENS, now mayor of De-
- troit, is to be the new senator from
Michigan, succeeding Truman H. New
berry. He was appointed by Governor
Groesbeck on Wednesday and wired
his acceptance from New York, where
he had gone to spend Thanksgiving
day with his daughter. He, will take
his seat as soon as his Detroit affairs
Lk
said: "Mr. Couzens becomes senator
with not single string attached He
made no promises; exacted none"
Mr.. C0uzens, who was born in Ontario
fifty years ago, began active life as a
newsboy and between 1903 and 1916 he
acquired large fortune through asso-
citation with Henry Ford in the manu-
facture of automobiles. AS mayor of
Detroit he gained prominence by his
municipal railway venture.
r TNCLE SAM is getting exceedingly
~ annoyed by the prohibition en-
forcement question. Several recent
occurrences have '.got under his skim
President Harding's expressed opinion
that liquor would long be factor in
politics was so misinterpreted that he
felt the necessity Of letting the country
know he is and has been absolutely in
favor of enforcing the Eighteenth
amendment. Then came the orgy in
Philadelphia, following the Army
Navy football game, in which the vio-
lation of the law was fragrant. Now
the government has instructed federal
authorities everywhere to cooperate
closely with the prohibition enforce
ment agencies and the federal attor-
neys are told to push all pending IL
quor cases and, when proper, to urge
the imposition of, the heaviest penal
ties on conviction. Fifty new prohi-
bition agents were added to the force
in Philadelphia.
- peninsula on December l, accord
ing to her promise and after having
made large concessions to the Chinese
in the amount to be paid her. Next
day China took over Kiaochow. Using
tao at the same time became an open
port and the municipality is autono-
nous under Chinese sovereignty. China
will let the Japanese participate in
public enterprises in Tsingtao.
THE Italian chamber of deputies, by
L vote of 275 to 80, gave to Pre-
mier Mussolini full power to bring,
about economic reforms and carry out
a rehabilitation of italian finances. He
is, in fact, in the position of receiver
for a nearly bankrupt country. The
extent of his support by the people is
indicated by the fact that many labor
organizations have offered to work one
extra hour day for the benefit of the
government.
n OvERNOR SMALL of Illinois,.
" guided by the dissenting opinion
of Justice Carter of the state Supreme
court rather than by the opinion of
the rest of the court, has pardonel
William Bross Lloyd and Is of the
other Communists who had just been
put in the penitentiary and jail for
violation of the state espionage law,
Comment is unnecessary.
TN THE death of James r. Mann of
Chicago the nation has lost one OF
its best informed, most courageous and
most valuable congressman. He had
served in the lower house for 10 con-
secutive terms, or twenty-six years.
and was reelected last November. His
knowledge of legislation, pending and
past, was extraordinary and he was
absolutely Independent in his attitude
toward measures in congresa.