The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1923-06-15

grounds and few have come forward to
question seriously the soundness of the
decision. But there are many Amer
leans who hope some other way can
be found to remedy the conditions, ex-
listing in numerous parochial and other
schools, against which the state laws
were directed.
CEORGES BARBOT, the French
" aviator who brought the Dewoi-
tine flivver plane over to show us how
cheaply we could fly, made flight
from Long Island to West Point and
back, without landing. Then he started
for Washington but on the day a storm
drove him close to ground, his motor
stopped and his little plane crashed
into a tree. The machine was not
seriously injured, but curios seeking
vandals stole so many parts that it
could not be repaired. Barbot promises
to bring two more fiivvers from France.
G HRINERS had a great week in
~ Washington, with magnificent pa
rades, receptions and other entertain
ments. President, Harding, himself
noble, had prominent part in the pro-
ceedings and delivered some addresses.
Conrad Victor Dykeman Of Brooklyn,
N. Y, was promoted to the Office of inn
perial potentate, and Kansas City was
selected for the convention of 1924.
a CCORDING to a report made pub
\ lie by the Treasury department.
only twenty-one persons admitted their
incomes for 1921 were more than a
million dollars. This is the smallest
number in that class since the federal
income tax was established. The num-
Der of incomes Of nearly every class
showed decline. Those in the class
of $4,000 to $1,OO0,OOO dropped from
1913 in 1920 to So in 1921. In all classes
above 100000 year the number de-
creased from 3,649 in 1920 to 1882 in
1921. The number Of personal returns
filed was 6,662,176, representing 6.2S
per cent of the population, and the per
capita net income reported was
$184.65. For the preceding year the.
proportion of the population filing re-
turns was $50 per cent, and the per
capita income reported was $223.S7.
n TINISTER GREW in Lausanne has
1V1 been busy with Ismet Pasha
,lroxx,;nr un tho paocn trnofv hntwpan
the United States and Turkey. The
pact contains the extraordinary pro-
vision that the Turkish government
shall collect customs duties ranging
from 10 to so per cent on the $5,O00,-
600 worth of food and other supplies
which the American people send an
nually to the destitute people of Tur-
key. The same provision appears in
the treaties with the allies, so Mr..
Grew had no ground for protest.
ELBERT 81. GARY'S arguments in
IL favor Of the 12-hour day in the
steel industry, in his report made to
and adopted by the American Iron and
Steel institute, are condemned as I'M
worthy and untenable in a statement
issued by representatives of fifty mil
lion Protestants, Roman Catholics and
Jews, comprising the Federal Council
of Churches. Says the statement:
"The report Of the steel committee
is definite rejection of the proposal
for the abolition of the long day. The
public demand in response to which
the committee was appointed is set
aside as a sentiment which was not
created or Endorsed by the workmen
themselves
"The testimony of competent inyes-
tigators, including eminent engineer
ing societies, is ignored, and the con-
clusion is put forth without supporting
data that the 12-hour day has not Of
itself been an injury to the employees.
physically, mentally, or morally
"This statement is made in face Of
the fact that the committee Of stock
holders Of the United States Steel cor
poration, appointed in 1912 to investi-
gate this matter, expressed the opinion
that a 12-hour day of labor, followed
continuously by any group of men for
any considerable number of years,
means decreasing of the efficiency
and lessening of vigor and vlrility.'"
THE Chinese cabinet resigned in
L body Wednesday and went to
Tientsin, leaving President Lii Yuan
hung alone in Picking to run the gov
eminent. The ministers issued a state
ment accusing the president of acting
unconstitutionally in the conduct of
public affairs, but their resignation is
believed really to be part of con-
spiracy to drive Ii from NJ -