Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1922-12-08

Other amendments would exclude
from receiving government aid con-
Germs operating ships for their W
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 o
per cent of amounts paid for the rams
p~ortation of goods in American vessels.
TN THE senate the Democrats staged
4 a determined and openly avowed
flibuster 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-
flrmation Of presidential appointments,
would be blocked until efforts to pass
the measure were abandoned
JAMES COUZENS, o mayor OF De-
- troit, is to be the new senator from
Michigan, succeeding Truman n. 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 DON as his Detroit affairs
can be arranged. Governor Groesbeck
said: "Mr. Couzens becomes senator
with not a single string attached. He
made no promises; l exacted n
Mr.. Couzens, who was born in Ontario
fifty years ago, began active life as a
newsboy and between 1908 and 1916 he
acquired a 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 INCLE SAM is getting exceedingly
~ annoyed by the prohibition en-
forcement question Several recent
occurrence have "got under his skin"
President Harding's expressed opinion
that liquor would long be a 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.
Japan moved out Of the Shantung
y peninsula. on December 1, 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. Tsing-
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 a 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 H.
is, In fact, In the position Of receiver
for a nearly bankrupt country. Tht
extent Of his support by the people l
indicated by the fact that many Labor
organizations have offered to work on
extra hour a day for the benefit Of thu
government.
X OvERNOR SMALL of Illinois
" guided by the dissenting opinion
of Justice Carter of the state Suprem
court rather than by the opinion 0
the rest Of the court, has pardone
William Bross Lloyd and Is of tn
other Communists who had just bee
put in the penitentiary and Jail 70
violation of the state espionage Law
Comment Is unnecessary.
TN THE death of James r. Mann
ObIoc~N %ho no<ion hos Loot ono r