The Holly chieftain., 1922-03-30


succeeding e. 8. Montagu.
on an agreement made under the
armistice and that evasion was
mere technicality. Senator Underwood
agreed as to the technicaIity and then
said this In effect:
Nevertheless, payment rests In the
reparation commission. The supreme
war council-not to be confounded
with the supreme council of the League
Of Nations-was given charge of wind
ing up the war. We had representa-
tive on that supreme council until af-
ter the defeat Of the Versailles treaty.
That supreme council turned over to
the reparation commission the ad-
ministration of the funds to be col
lected from Germany to pay the troops
on the Rhine. The commission is now
handling these funds. The only way
we can get our share is to sit in at the
reparation table,"
Close observers in Washington say
that the Presidents informal utter
ances indicate that he would look
with favor upon the appointment by
congress Of an American representa-
tive on the allied reparatiOn com
mission. He will not propose 1t, but
he thinks congress should realize Its
necessity.
T LLOYD GEORGE has announced
~ that he will attend the Genoa con-
ference. Viscount Peel has accepted
the post Of secretary Of state for
India, after Lord Derby had declined
1t. So 1t looks as II the British cabi-
net crisis growing out of the indiscre-
tion and enforced resignation Of E.
8. Montagu is over. Back of 1t, how
ever, is condition of worldwide
interest-unrest and concerted action
in the Moslem world Of quarter Of q
billion fanatical religionists. What
the Moslems consider the Ill treatment
of Turkey since the World war has
bound them more closely together and
quickened their activities. They ap-
pear to be in touch the world over and
propaganda is everywhere. The de-
mand Of the Indian government for
the restoration Of Turkey is convinc-
ing evidence Of Moslem solidarity. The
sultan Of Turkey as caliph of Islam
is leader OF all Mohammedans.
UROPB is confronted by the
- danger Of devastating plague Of
typhus, according to the health depart
ment Of the League Of Nations. Ten
million emigrants bearing typhus
germs are bearing down on the west
| ern frontiers of Russia and no bar
rier European nations can erect will
stop this panic-stricken horde Of
peasants fleeing from famine and
death. Already the. Polish barrier has
been broken down; 100000 Russians
have swarmed into Eastern Galicia.
Everywhere the route Of the hordes
Is lined with unburied corpses. In
the famine districts they are dying
bury the dead. The league will at
tempt to establish sanitary Gordon.
Bayonets will be abandoned and an
attempt made to cleanse and cure
the millions.
MAINE furnished the first test of
lV1 strength in the congressional
elections. John E. Nelson, Republican,
defeated Ernest Mclean, Democrat, In
special election In the Third dis
trict The Republican victory was
in the face Of Democratic weather" !"
The Democrats cut down the majority,
however, In a district which is normal.
ly strongly Republican, basing their
campaign largely on the bonus and
treaty issues. Query: What does the
test Of strength show?
G TEFANSsON, the Arctic explorer,
- has planted the flag Of Great Bril-
tain on Wrangell island and claimed
1t for the British government Just
the same, in 1881 Capt. G. L. Hopper
of the Corwin and Lieut.. Robert NJ.
Berry of the Rodgers landed on Wran-
CELL island. erected an American flag,
took possession In the name of the
United States by right Of discovery
and left written record in cairn.
The island is important-if 1t Is i'm
portant-because of strategic domi-
nance of northeastern Siberis.
THE United States Supreme court
L has held valid the New York rent
law of 1920 curbing the rent hog.
The court held that the social emer-
gency caused by shortage Of dwell
ings warrants the use Of police power
by the state.
Anyone desiring to study modern
warfare should visit the trenches %
the border between Ulster and South
! Ireland.