The Newark journal., 1922-03-23

| sooner? All of which lends emphasis ts the saying of the Man on the Street. We have all the real money in the world and for that very reason not a single real friend" Evidently the new funding commission to see what can be done about the eleven billions of allied debts is in for an adventure.
 DO YOU remember London Punchs D famous cartoon depicting a fam fly council of the British Lions rest less brood during the World war; We'll. the Union of South Afrcia is sure restless Last week saw the climax and suppression of the strike of miners which has held South Africa in is grip | for more than two months. It had all the hallmarks of an attempt at reyolu- tion. The strikers captured half dozen towns and nearly got posses sion of Johannesburg. Gen. Jan Chris | tian Shuts, the premier, proclaimed martial law. called out all the govern ment troops and took command in per l son. Censored reports show the killing of more than 1000 strikers, police and soldiers. Grenades, bombs, machine guns, airplanes and tanks figured in i the fighting; cities were bombarded; 1 thousands of strikers were captured. | It was real war for week. The South African Industrial federation then declared the strike off and denied complicity in the rebellion. This man l Shuts is a strong man. He has risen from a Dutch general in the Boer war | to one of the leading statesmen of the British commonwealth of nations, as he calls 1t. Many believe Shuts to be the logical successor to Lloyd George. NEW tangles mark the complicated i ' situation in India. The arrest of | Gandhi, leader of the non-co-operation- l ists, was followed by widespread pro- tests from all the Moslem world Then 1 Britain was startled by the unauthor- ized publication by F. s. Montagu, British secretary of state for India. of telegram from the India government 1 making demands for the restoration of l Turkey. This constitutes an appeal to the world by a subordinate British l government over the head of the i'm | perial government Lloyd George cen sured Mir. Mentagu and demanded his resignation. Mir. Montagu resigned, but talked back, putting Lloyd George and Curzon on the defensive. Lord l Derby was asked to take the secretary ship for India and declined. This, con- ing upon the failure of the unionists' meeting Tuesday to give Lloyd George a vote of confidence, has raised again the possibility of the resignation of the premier. His political enemies hold 1t
 impossible for him to retain the posi- 1 tion. Nevertheless, it has been an neunced that Lloyd George and Curzon will attend the Genoa conference April 10.
 D EVISION of the Republican sol AN dier bonus bill was finished Tues day by the ways and means committee. 1 which thereupon reported the measure to the house by a vote of 19 to ,. The program calls for prompt passage of the bill by the house. Report is that the senate will not accept the bill as It comes from the house and that long delay in the senate finance committee is inevitable. The bill provides cash bonuses only for veterans entitled to less than $50. Four options are given to others: an adjusted service certifi- cate, farm or home aid, land settle | afA
 TT LOOKS as If All Fools Day would be celebrated by a strike Of the coal miners. Secretary Of Labor Davis did not succeed last week In getting the operators and men for conference on new wage agreement. Neither side appears to care particularly whether or not the strike comes The only con- solation for the public lies in the preb- ability that some of the mining dis tricts will keep at work.
 Mary Garden. Chicaso's arbiter of grand opera, says that some of the
 high-priced stars must 6ll the house or
 take less pay or get out.
 Uncle Sam Is reported to be consid.
 ering the negotiation of treaties with Great Britain and Cuba to put an end to liquor smuggling into the United States.
 Radio experts are predicting that the presidential campaign of the future will be conducted by wireless tele- l phone. Whats that story about the l mayor who was elected because be | broke his leg and tks voters never saw l him7