Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1923-02-16

once again the wisdom of passing the
ship subsidy bill, placing on the legis-
lators the responsibility for continued
losses in the operation Of government
vessels in the event of their failure to
act on the measure. In a tone of des-
peration he pleaded with congress to
take definite action either for or
against the subsidy bill. The managers
of the filibuster that has prevented a
vote in the senate appeared unmoved
by the Presidents words.
CENATORS WADSWORTH, Borah,
Ashurst, Lenroot and others strove
in vain to stave in the "pork barrel" in
the army appropriation bill-the allot-
ment of $56,OO0,00O for rivers and har-
bors. The budget bureau had recon-
mended the sum of $27, 100000 and
there were various attempts, all in
vain, to have it cut down to this or
some other figure. Spencer, the new
senator from Missouri, was strong for
the pork" declaring that even the
$50, 900 was inadequate.
THE government is preparing for
L participation in the Pan-Amerfcan
conference that opens March % in
Santiago, Chile, and eight eminent gen.
tlemen have been named as our repre-
sentatives. The government, in re-
Spouse to a question from a South
American nation, has declared against
broadening the scope of the Pan-Amer-
lean union so as to include any nation
or group of nations not located within
the two American continents. The in
timation was that the League of Ma
lions might be willing to be represent
ed in the union. The administration
said it vas DESTROYS that there should
be cooperation between the Pan-Amer-
lean countries and the league or any
other agency that promised better in
ternational understandings, but that
official representation of the league at
the forthcoming conference did not ap-
pear to be in harmony with the pur-
poses for which the Pan-American
union was organized.
After two months of successful work
the Central American conference in
Washington came to an end last We'd
nesday. A treaty of peace and amity,
eleven conventions and three protocols
designed to bring about closer relations
were signed.
OUR little "army Of occupation"
~ from the Rhineland arrived safely
at Savannah and was given a bolster
Gus welcome. Sixty-three of the boys
brought with them German wives,
while five of them had Belgian spouses
and three proudly introduced French
wives.
THE house committee OF immigra-
Il ton has approved a bill revising
immigration quotas downward and in
Guiding a provision which would pro-
hibit the immigration of the japanese.
The measure apparently will cut the
number of aliens admissible in any one
year to 1S6,437, as against 358,S37; but
the number will be increased by the
operation of provisions designed to pre-
vent the division of families.
The senate passed a bill authorizing
admission into the United States of
Armenian refugees, with special pro-
vision for admitting up to $4,000 Ar
menian orphans under sixteen years of
age.
THE Ku Klux Khan must be chuc-
l. king in it's myriad threats over the
troubles that beset Tolerance, the
Chicago organ of the association or
ganized to combat the Khan. The pub
fishers and editors of the paper are
fighting among themselves, and now
several more or less prominent Chica-
goans have sued the publication for
large sums for alleged libel because
they were stated to be members of the
Khan or applicants for membership.
TWO serious mine disasters oc-
i Cured on Thursday. At Dawson,
n. NJ, an explosion entombed 122 min
ers, and it was feared nearly all of
them would perish. A blast in the
Cumberland mine on Vancouver is
land, B. c., killed Is men and injured
as many more. In both cases the ac-
tual cause of the explosion was IN
known.
ONE of Americas leading astrono-
~ mers, Edward e. Barnard of the
University of Chicago andfthe Yerkes
observatory, died last week at Will
liams Bay, Wis. His discovery of the
fifth satellite of Jupiter in 1892 brought
him international fame and recognition.