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The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

Coolidge camp decides 10 fight
Hiram Johnson in primaries.
Senator Borah prepares to demand
that France pay United States.
Progressives acquiesce in packing
of Senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee against world court.
Second life-sized figure of the h
raoh is removed from tomb OF King
Tutankhamen.
Eight indictments, Including charges
of embezzlement and forgery, found
against Governor McCray, of Indiana.
New York Appellate Division up
holds validity of law regulating ticket
spectators and sustains conviction in
case used as test.
Changes in New York Medical Prac
tees Act urged by State Health Com
missioner to GUST fake doctors and
quack practitioners.
Prohibition certain to be a very live
issue in the coming Congress, many
bills bearing en- enforcement to be
introduced.
Audubon Societies plan to buy 10O,-
600 acres in Louisiana as sanctuary
for wild fowl.
A National Tobacco Week Is now
being exploited to stimulate all
branches of the industry.
In the third riot in as many days in
Los Angeles Jail, caused by the pro
hibition of cigarette smoking among
female prisoners, four women prison
ers narrowly escaped death when they
were overcome by smoke from mat
tresses they set afire.
Erie and other railroads skew
greatly increased earnings.
Three New Orleans newspapermen
submitted themselves to truth serum"
and found themselves unable to an.
W falsely.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
NATIONS BUSINESS

Wall Street breads tax outlook,
says S. S. Fontains, in New York
World.
Business men fear radical pro-
posals by Congress.
New York Central asserts plan for
I'm Improvement Of freight lines is vital
need of New York city's future.
Merchant marine problem now goes
10 Congress.
Labor forms new bank in New York
20 aid aliens; other steps proposed to
assist immigrants.
Details of a $50, $50, 900 fve-year i'm
provement program mapped out by
the Great Northern Railway were
given by-George R. Martin, ~vice-presi:
dent of the road, at the grain rate
hearing before the Interstate Com
merce at Minneapolis.
Ebert H. Gary in plea for tax re-
duction opposes cancellation OF for
eign debts and soldier bonus.
Shipping Board problems discussed
by President Coolidge and Chairman
Farley.
Shipbuilders in New York report in
crease in number of American vessels
idle.
Great Northern and Chesapeake &
Ohio report large increase in October
incomes.
Recent heavy buying of pig iron
makes steel men hopeful for revival.
American lines agree to British pro-
posal that immigrants be registered
abroad to avert quota tangles In New
York
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
FOREIGN

Marx Cabinet officially begins to
function in Germany.
Sons of British Premier Baldwin
and J. Ramsay Macdonald, Labor
leader, speak from same platform In
London, former attacking his fathers
policies.
District Attorney Dodd announces
that identification of Joseph Diamond
as one of killers in Brooklyn subway
hold-up still stands.
Door again opened for American
participation in reparation nego;ia-
tons, Paris declares, as Reparation
Commission authorizes two commit
tees to investigate Reich's condition.
Yiscountess Morley died at her
home in Wimbledon, England.
Twelve-mile treaty draft returned
to London by Secretary Hughes with
recommendations and request for
swift action.
British hecklers grilling Winston
Churchill for his part in disastrous
Dardenelles campaign
A war compared with which the
world conflict of 1914 will seem trivial
Is presaged by munitions orders
placed by the British Government at
Glasgow, Tom Johnson, a Labor can
didate for Parliament, declared in a
speech in London.
Belgium will seek French consent
to partial withdrawal of troops from
the Ruhr.
Finds of Luxor e%xcavators swell
Tutankhamen relic collection at Cairo
Museum.
Italy's Cabinet Council decides
Mussolini's powers as dictator should
be continued.
American proposals for a Canadian
embargo IN rum smuggling received
coldly in Ottawa.
Political turmoil is forecast in
Great Britain unless present Tory
Government gets majority vote in
forthcoming general election.
Mrs. Enrico Caruso, formerly Miss
Dorothy Park Benjamin of New York,
and Captain Ernest Ingram, Of Lon
don, were married in Brompton Ora
tory, London.
Semi-official denial was given at
Rome to a statement in the news
papers to the effect that an agree
ment had been feached between Italy
and Jugo-Slavia regarding France.
Dr.. Heinrich F.. Albert. who as
President Ebert's request has been
endeavoring to form a German Min
istry, abandoned the effort because
" -. -t--4sgs4.-
Reichstag support for q Cabinet.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
GENERAL

Secretary Hughes outlines United
States foreign policy in speech be-
fore American Academy of POLITICAL
Science, Philadelphia.
Irene Castle, married to Major
Frederic Mclaughlin. Chicago polo
player and war veteran, off to China
on honeymoon.
Movement for stage censorship
threatened by John S. Sumner OF Vice
Society il play jury system does not
purify Broadway.
Reduction or cancellation of Euro.
pean war debts Irrational and pre-
posterous," Judge Gary says in New
York address.
Girl Scouts OF New York City will
MI 10000 Christmas stockings.
National Security Leage sees in Leo
Granoff, boy anarchist" an example
OF a widespread and growing menace.
National Civic Federation head
says American people should be thank
fuI for satisfactory condition of indus
trial situation.
Closing of a motion picture direc-
tors hall in a downtown Los Angeles
hotel at midnight, by a police order,
has caused the milton picture colony
to protest. The police commission
ruled that dancing must stop at that
hour.
Railroads oppose proposal to in
crease fund for equipment amortiza-
tion as too heavy a burden.
Coolidge expected 500 to announce
himself definitely as to acceptance OF
1924 nomination.
DR.. Wilhelm Marx to head German
compromise cabinet, made up of Cleri-
Gals, German Peoples party and Dem
ocrats.
A senatorial drive to reduce rail
road freight rates through an act Of
Congress will be made by a coalition
of farm bloc and progressive Senators
Is soon as the new session gets under
way.
Connecticut officials to revoke H.
ceuses of all diploma mill" doctors
Army will discard olive drab and
bronze buttons for tailored uniforms
and brass buttons.
Pan-American Petroleum Company
forms a subsidiary to develop the Cal
ifornia oil fields.
Senator Woodbridge N. Ferris de-
clared he viii boost legislation that
would absorb inheritances.
Senator Hiram Johnson declares for
bonus, tax cut, lower freight rates and
for definite foreign policy as he
launches his campaign for President
Ia Chicago.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
CENAToR HIRAM JOHNSON actu

CENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON actu-
- ally launched his pre-cOnyention
campaign last week in Chicago, where,
speaking at a dinner of real estate
men, he laid down his main planks. He
declared himself in favor of Il soldiers
bonus act because it was Il solemn
pledge which must be kept. He held
that if the computations of the Treas
ury department are correct, this need
not prevent the reduction of taxes adj
vocated by Secretary Mellon. Said he:
In round numbers 100000 are
paving taxes on incomes under $4,000.
Only 10000 pay on incomes exceeding
$4,000. BY reducing in the manner
that has been suggested the axe OF
these 100000 we would reduce the
governments revenue S140,000,00e.
There is, according to figures of the
secretary of the treasury, a surplus OF
$500, 100000. Upon the basis Of every
computation this surplus is sufficient to
Justify the tax reduction Immediately
to the 13,600,000 of our people most
needing it and to pay also the money
required under the adjusted compensa-
ton act.'
Lower freight rates, extension of CO.
operative marketing and development
of waterways were suggested by the
senator as aids to agriculture that
could be effected.
Coming to the subject of foreign rela-
..- 1a.I, ,al Bfa nnYaef
ZION to any policy that would commit
this country to 'undisclosed European
adventures" He alluded to the pro-
posal for Il reparations conference,
made by the national government, as
"a transparent subterfuge contrived by
gentlemen who, having VIGOROUSLY
tried and having VIGOROUSLY failed, to
get us into the politics of Europe d.
rectly through the League of Nations
now wish to get us into the politics OF
Europe through the indirect road of a
participation in European economic af-
fairs in a conference called by govern
ments and consisting of the appointees
of governments.
''There are alternative policies. The
one is Intervention in Europe to save
Europe and bring peace and order
an Intervention dictated by conferences
in which we are but n of many. The
other policy is our own, frankly and
openly avowed, doing Justice to all,
wrong to none, neither asking nor re-
ceiving benefits or profit, retaining our
independence of action u~ninfiuenced
by secret conference, undirected by Il
majority of foreigners; In short, an
| American policy"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Great Britain Is Disturbed by
Information That Germany
Is Aiming for War.
KEYNOTE SPEECH
BY EDWARD W. PIckARo

by EGFfHhD W TiSNHne
- REAT Britain is just realizing
" the truth of what France has
been asserting for months, namely,
that Germany is rapidly and sys-
tematically preparing for a war of
revenge. The British government,
press and public are viewing the situa-
ton with considerable alarm. Seem
ingly authentic reports state that
since October, 1922, three months be-
fore the occupation of the Ruhr, the
Germans have been recruiting, train
ing and rearming large numbers of
men far in excess of the stipulatiOns
Of the Versailles treaty. France is
Informed that Germany already has
enough cannon to equip from forty TO
sixty divisions, and that her factories
are working overtime turning out more
ornaments. For a long time the Ber-
lin government has kept the allies
from checking up on the strength of
the German forces, and the allied
military commission has been unable
te-fnnetton. A Reuters dispatch, says:
british officials, however, fee that
Germany is not able at present to arm
the large number of men she is train
Ing, in the event of mobilization, with
the necessary artillery, owing to the
French being in possession of her
principal Industrial and munitions
area in the Ruhr."
1t may we'll be that the rest of the
world will yet admit that the French
occupation of the Ruhr was wise,
expedient and justified.
1t has just been revealed that the
Germans on Jan. 10 arresteRa French
captain ten yards beyond the Swiss
German frontier on charges of espion-
age, and Berlin has determined to put
him on trial in Leipzig next January.
The French are arresting Germans as
hostages.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

Interest in Franklin never fades and
he touches the world today in many
practical ways.
Poor Richard remains in n form
which Philadelphians rarely think
about. His print shop, which was his
first. and greatest business, is still
alive, only many times bigger than lie
dreamed of making it.
That job Office, % about two cen
turtles old, has come down without a
break.
Franklin's printing office was a GO
ing concern before he started his news
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

TOR the time being the German gov
l eminent is in the hands of the vari-
Gus n~ationalistic parties, and the So
clalists and Communists are in eclipse.
President Ebert first gave the vacant
chancellorship to DR.. Heinrich Albert,
whom Americans remember as the OBJ
noXiOus chief of propaganda connected
with the German embassy in Washing
ton during the early years of the war.
II was evident he was to hold the place
only until Stresemann could return,
and he found it impossible to form a
ministry that would be acceptable.
Ebert tentatively decided to dissolve the
reichstag, but changed his mind and
appointed Adam Stegerwald chancellor.
This former premier of Prussia began
to get together a cabinet based on a
coalition Of all the right wing parties,
but he. too, failed, and the job was
given to DIR. Wilhelm Marx. leader Of
the Catholic party and national head
OF the Catholic School association.
DIR. Stresemann agreed to take the
portfolio Of foreign minister and the
new cabinet was to be backed by a
coalition of the Catholics, the German
Peoples party and the Bavarian Peo-
pies party, with the Socialists prom
Using benevolent neutrality.
1t was predicted that the new gov
eminent would follow rather closely
the foreign and finance policies of
Stresemann and would treat the Com
munists and Socialists with severity.
Already General Won Seeckt had Or
dered the Communist organizations in
Germany to disband. Longer hours of
work will be instituted and the indus
trial magnates will be helped to re-
open their plants in u%nOccupied Ger
many.
Berlin's Communists, under alleged
orders from Moscow, undertook to hold
"hunger Demonstrations in several
parts of the city, and eve tried TO
build barbados just back Of Kaiser
Williams old palace. The police at
tackled them in force, with tanks, ar
mored cars and machine guns, and
soon put them to rout.
Official announcement is made In
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
FRANKLIN'S OLD PRINT SHOP
Joo Plant Established About 200 Years
Ago, Is Still Running in
Philadelphia.

Franklin came from Boston to Phila-
delphia 200 years ago.
To commemorate that event an elab-
orately illustrated book has been is
sued. In it are about 20 pho
fographs Of paintings, statues, me-
dalli1ns and studies of the printer and
sage.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

paper. As a granddaughter he wa
a corker.
His almanac had n circulation Of TO-,
600 copies when the population of Phil
adelphia was only 12,000.-PhlladeJ.
phia Inquirer.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
The Mourning band. j.

The custom of wearing y black band
on the coat sleeve in token of mourn
ing came from England. 1t was in
troduced there for liyeried servants
whom 1t was not thought necessary to
fit out in black uniforms.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

TWO coast guard cutters shelled and
l. captured the schooner Tomako, one
of the most notorious of the rum-run-
ming vessels, off the New Jersey coast,
and in her hold was found William
Mccoy, called by the government
agents the run smuggling king" He
had pockets full of money and def
.antly asserted that he and the schooner
were within their rights, being taken
beyond the three-mile limit. The
Tomako was flying the British flag and
her seizure is condemned by the Lon
don press as Illegal, high-handed and
unjustitied and as having "6nly too
much in common with the fanaticism
and fury which have accompanied the
prohibition movement in the United
States"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

ILLINOIS Democrats are grooming a
L favorite son for whom they may cap
ture the state delegation against Al
Smith, McAdoo or any other candidate.
He Is Justice Floyd e. Thompson of
the state Supreme court, who is held
in high esteem. He is only thirty-six
years old. George e. Brennan, leader
of the Democratic party in Illinois,
says of Justice Thompson: HE is a
man of marked ability and high char
acter. His record is n remarkable one,
and his friends consider him presiden-
tial timber beyond a doubt. If Illinois
is to enter a native son in the presiden-
tial race, Justice Thompson is entitled
to serious consideration
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

I Up IN Ottawa a conference between
~ the United States and Canada was
held last week for the purpose of de-
yising means to stop the smuggling of
liquor from the Dominion into this
country. The details Of the meeting
were kept secret bat it was asserted
that the Canadian cabinet was in full
sympathy with the requests and pro-
posals of the United States. However,
some of the things suggested are so far
reaching that parliament will have to
deal with them. 1t is understood that
the United States is asking the refusal
by Canada of clearance papers to
liquor-laden vessels, the right of search
on the lakes, and extradltion of boot
leggers.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

TRANCE and her allies are disputing
L owe the disposition of the payments
to be made under the recent Franco
German industrial accord. The factory
and mine owners wish all payments in
kind and taxes collected to be applied
to the account of Germany with the
PREPARATIONS commission. The French
Insist that the net receipts shall be
handed to the commission only after
the costs of the forces of occupation
in the Ruhr have been deducted. The
British and Italians assert all pay
ments must go to the commission for
apportionment among the allies, and
they expected that A~merica~would take
the same view since she has been
promised 500, 600 for the cost of
the army of occupation at Coblenz.
Belgium, having demanded in vain
that Germany pay an indemnity for
the murder of a Belgian officer last
year, seized a lot of railway cars and
engines to make up the amount asked;
but Berlin had more important things
to worry about. 1t is said the Belgian
government hopes to take home most
of its occupation troops within a few
weeks.
In some parts of the Ruhr last week
there were what were called hunger
riots, but authentic reports from the
region snow there is no shortage of
food there to excuse them. Not only
are the crops~fn the Ruhr the best
since 1912, but food is being shipped
into the Ruhr at the rate of about a
thousand carloads a day. Figures COM
piled mainly from German statistics
show that Germany is the only country
in the world where food prices, as
figured OF n gold basis, are still lower
than before the war.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

Warsaw that the Polish government
has protested to Germany against the
return of the former crown prince and
also against the stopping of the activi-
ties of the allied military control COM
mission, asserting that Poland's secur-
ity is threatened.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12
CONGRESSMAN GEORGE H. TINK-
" HAM of Massachusetts, Republican

CONGRESSMAN GEORGE Fl. TINK-
" HAM of Massachusetts, Republican
and one of the most consistent foes
of the prohibition amendment and the
Volstead act, is ready to Introduce in
congress a resolution calling for an
investigation of the activities of the
Anti-Saloon league, especially in New
York and Missouri. In a statement is
sued by Mr.. Tinkham last week he
asserted that vast sums of money
have been used to influence public
opinion in various ways, now entirely
unsupported by the American people,
directly to control elections and ito
pay professional organizers and lob
byists."
He also said the Anti-Saloon league
and some of its state departments and
subsidiaries have Openly and fragrant
ly violated the national campaign con-
tributions law and the corrupt prac-
tees laws of several and certain of the
states.'
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1923-12-12

. REPRESENTATIVES. of anthracite
N consuming states met at Harris
burg, PA, n the call of Governor. Pin
chot, considered his plan for regulation
of the industry through a joint COM
mission to be formed under a compact
of the states, and adjourned without
action except to call on Pennsylvania
to start things By repeating it's coal
tax and passing remedial legislation.
Governor Silzer of New Jersey was the
severest critic of the Pinchot plan.
EDWIN z. MORROW, who retires
IL from the goyernorship of Ken
tucky in December, will then succeed
r. NJ. Barton on the railroad labor
board, serving as a member of the pub
lie group. Mr.. Morrow was offered the
place last spring but asked to be per-
mitted to serve out his term as gov
ernor, so Mr.. Barton was given a re-
cess appointment by President Harding.
FRANCE IS considerably exercised
L over the reported Italo-Spanish I'M
derstanding Sby which, 1t is supposed,
italy aims at supremacy In the Med
iterranean. A counter agreement be-
tween France and Greece is suggested,
and the attention Of the United States
is called to the alleged fact that Spain
is working for an influence over Latin
America that would be a virtual de-
fiance of the Monroe doctrine.
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-13

patronage of President Harding.
President Millerand Of France, and
other leading French and American
citizens, is being given to the citi-
zens of California. together With all
its art treasures. by Mr.. and Mrs.
Spreckels.
Among other works Of art, the
California Palace of the Legion o.
Honor will house; S~eventy-hve sculp.
lures of Rodin, gift Of Mrs. Alma de
Bretteyille Spreckels: four Goebelir
tapestries depicting the life of Jear
dare by Jean Paul Laurens, gift OF
the French government; Marshal
Joffre's sword and uniform worr
during the crucial days at the frs
Battle of the Marine. gift of Ma.
dame Joffre; 200 sculptures of Ar
thur Putnam; gift OF Mrs. Spreck-
els; collection of medals from Mon
naie. gift of French government
collection of Sevres, gift of tht
French government; so sculptures Q.
Rivire, gift of Mrs. Spreekels
eighty war medals depicting tbs
World War, by Pierre Roche. gif
of Mrs. spreckels; collections 0
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-13

made the supreme sacrifice on the
battle1elds of France in the World
War during the national conven-
ton of the American Legion here,
October 1919, according to an an
nonucement by Adolph Spreckels.
donor of the memorial.
Exhibition OF the works of art
donated by the French, Roumanian.
Serbian and Polish governments. and
various individuals, which Will form
a part of the permanent collection
to be housed in the memorial build
ing here, are being exhibited in the
historic Legion of Honor building on
the banks Of the Seine, Paris, June
5-July 5, before their removal to
San Francisco. The California Pal
ace of the Legion of Honor is a dup
lieate of the Paris building, and
official permission for its duplica-
ton was given by the French gov
eminent. Henri Guillaume, French
government architect at the Panama
Pacific International Exposition in
San Francisco in 1915 is the archi-
tect.
The memorial. donated under the
Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-07-13
goes of Illicit beverages.

cargoes of illicit beverages.
According to these operators, thii
Syndicate, or system as it is
termed, sells at prices which per-
nit the runner and American boot
Ieggers a comparatively small mar
gin of profit.
Thus, say these runners, the hugs
profits in the rum running business
across the Detroit river are a thing
of the past. Large profits. they main
tain, still are being taken in the Ii
quor smuggling traffic. but the busl-
ness has progressed and been sys-
tematized until only those who con-
troll the traffic and crack the WHIP
over the rum running fleets real
the golden harvests.
The free and easy ways of the
days shortly after prohibition became
effective, say the runners, are gone
System has come in, until now 1t is
impossible for a free lance runner
to obtain supplies on the Canadian
side unless he buys them from what
amounts, virtually, to a closed syn
dictate, according to these opera
tives.