Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-19

profit, then the government must
make a financial allowance to ship
owners sufficient to wipe out their
losses and leave them something
over to pay them for their trouble
in keeping vessels at sea.
Such an allowance Is what Presi-
dent Harding desires this country to
make, for u ships unquestionably
are running at a loss.
Many countries do subsidize their
merchant fieets--in some cases by
the payment to ship owners Of large
sums for carrying the overseas
mails. In countries like England,
where great numbers of people are
dependent directly upon business
which comes and goes in ships, 1t is
a policy which has strong public
support. But in the United States
there is a great population living
far inland which does not see how it
benefits by having vessels on distant
oceans and which opposes being
taxed to help the owners of these
vessels. 1t is argued. of course, that
inlanders do benefit directly, yet
there are many who cannot see 1t.
Consequently the ship subsidy bill
has numerous opponents and 1t is
uncertain whether 1t Will pass or not.
Supporters of the antiiy1ching
bill contend that lynchings occur SO
frequently in the United States be-
cause the lynchers seldom are pun
ished. And they seldom are punished
it is argued, because the people of
a community where q lynching &C.
ours are inclined to stick together"
that is to say, II all, or many, were
more or less implicated. naturally
they are not much inclined to punish
themselves.
So, instead of leaving the local
courts to deal with lynching cases.,
the bill proposes to have them dealt
with by the United States courts,
the judge and the court officials and
the jurors being citizens from places
perhaps at a considerable distance
from the place where a lynching oc-
Cured.
Not only is provision made for
furnishing the lynchers, but likewise
the local officials who ought to pre-
vent lynchings. if they can; and the
county where a lynching occurs is
required to pay heavy damages in
money to the victims heirs.
This bill, too, has much opposition
and its fate is uncertain.
Looks More Like Peace in East
Kemal Pasha and the allied pow
ers which interfered when the Turks
beat the Greeks have signed a peace
protocol.
A protocol is a memorandum on
which a treaty is to be based.
This protocol was agreed on at the
Mundania conference. The regular
peace meeting, to arrange a treaty.
probably will be held in November.
Trouble starts so easily in the
Near East that it never is safe to
say danger is over. This is especial
ly true since the Turks do not like
the protocol very well and continue
to trespass on the strip of land near
Constantinople which the English in
sist must remain neutral.
Still, the prospect for peace is rea-
sonably good now.
The protocol requires Greece to
surrender Thrace, as far as the
Martha river, to the allies, who, in
turn. will surrender it to the Turks.
All this Is to take a month. Even
then the Turks will be allowed to
send only a limited number of troops
into Thrace.
The final treaty undoubtedly will
give Thrace to Turkey permanently.
Also Constantinople.
The freedom of the straits, from
the Mediterranean to the Black Sea,
will be provided for, presumably