Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-14
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Harding Program Outlined

- Harding Program Outlined
President Harding has let the
fountry know he is aware 1t is dis
hatisfied.
Needless to say. it is the last cleo
Zion he i~nterprets thus.
An an address at the opening of
bhe regular December session of
congress he outlined a program
which politicians describe as a plat
form, brought up to date from 1920.
Summarized, he recommends:
More aid to the farmers.
End of the Railroad Labor Board; |
d labor division of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, with power
to make both sides obey.
Constitutional amendments stop
ping child labor and limiting tax
free securities.
Stricter immigration laws.
Prohibition enforcement. :
An effort to learn why, when
prices producers receive are low,
those consumers must pay often are
very high.
Adoption of a plan to draft, in
time of need, all the country's re-
sources and defense.
Further negotiations in the inter-
ests of international peace.
No Plan for Third Party
The presidents message Is taken
generally as in the nature of an an
ewer to the expressed views of the
Progressives who gained SO much
In congressional strength at the No
fember election.
The Progressives already in senate
have been giving the country some-
lining of an idea of the policies they
will advocate when the new congress
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lack numbers to undertake making
kny of their plans effective, for this
h still the old congress-, with the Re-
publicans in an overwhelming ma
bority. In the new one. however.
they will have the deciding vote be-
Eween the two big parties, and will
be in a position to name terms to
bne, or the other. OF both of the
larger groups.
A convention Of representatives of
Rhat is known as the labor Progress
biye and liberal sentiment opened in
cleveland early In the week. but 1t
EYas unofficially stated by leading
Enen at the gathering that It Is not.
HE idea to form a third party"
which many people have been look
ing for.
New Irish Regim els Launched
4I6 4I1Sll LO0 6IoeO - OOSA
n.aIly launched, with Timothy Healy,
b 1ife-long fighter for home rule, as
first governor general.
But between those who accept this
measure Of freedom, which Is about
the same as Canada's. and those who
demand complete independence,
with the last tie to England severed,
bitter strife still RACES.
Z Several men high in the Free state
-------o~- hnxyoH hnnn 0dcaCSinafad
by Republicans.
In turn, a number of Republican
eaptives of the Free state have been
courtmartialed and shot, among
them as notable a man as Rory
G'Connor, who was Republican army
commander.
These executions have led to
Herce attacks on the government in
the Dali Eireann, or Free state par
aiament, especially by the labor
members, who accuse the Free state
authorities of committing murder"
The feeling between these oppos-
ing groups of Irish is perhaps even
headlier than it ever has been be-
tween the Irish and English, and
there is no prospect Of peace a
present.
Difficult Problems III the Straits
The mar explains why Russia IS
10 much interested in the
Every country needs an outlet to
the sea-needs it the year round,
Big as she is, except when the
weather's warm, Russia has only n
such outlet-and it's through THESE
straits. ,,t
thev're all far north that in winter
the freeze up-like Cronstadt and
~ArchangeI and Vladivostok-al put
the mort of Odessa and others less
important, on the Black Sea.
these are always open, but to get
from the Black Sea to the open
ocean the sole route is through the
2.OO0-foot-wide Bosporous, n sea
OF Marmora, the mlte-wloe Daro
nelles and the Mediterranean.
THAT'S the reason the Russians at
tba Lausanne conference are hght.
ing SO hard to prevent the straits
from being placed under allied con-
If they are, Russia will be in the
position of a man with a huge iaIni
he can visit or leave about SIX
months out OF every year tnroush
only n narrow lane-and tnat IN
Gar control of somebody else.
IT'S the hardest problem h Lau-
sanne conference has to soiVe.
Accuses Nobody-But
In the Far East a notapie event
;sgaa the surrender by Japan to
sshiua Of the peninsula of 6hantung,
terrftory which was taken from the
fyhinese by Germany twenty-four
years ago, in punishment 0 ae-
ktructfon OF German life and prop
erty by the Boxers, and which the
Japanese, in turn. wrested from Ger
MANY during the world a
However, the transfer means that
CHINA must begin Immediately to
smrotect it against bandits, OF whom
Nm army has been threatening to In
wade It as soon as the Japanese left.
The Picking administration adopted
she typically Oriental plan of hiring
1000 of the bandits to keep the
Tiers out and paid the latter $780,
mo to keep quiet for the present.
srhay may do it or they may not
Japan undertook to furnish arms
xor the Chinese defenders OF n
Threatened territory, but hasn't de,
s;vnred them. The Chinese general
IN charge says he doesn't mean 70
- - Rod faith HIT