Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1924-09-13

POLITICAL CAMPAIGNS are
expensive undertakings, the national
ommittees of the three political
iarties are now Finding out. Each
If them is hard up, and especially
he Progressives who have appealed
o the American Federation Of
4abor for assistance in garnering
contributions from trade unions
throughout the country The Re-
Iublicans and Democrats, of course,
re not nearly so broke, but they
viii have to do some close figuring
0 complete the campaign without
Mourning deficits.
PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER
iaynes stirred up a hornets nest
when he charged that the failure of
Washington judges to impose
efficiently heavy fines was chiefly
'esponsible for the difficulty en-
'ountered in enforcing the dry law
n the Capitol The Federal judges
10 whom Haynes referred were
quick to take offense, declaring that
he Commissioner was talking
through his hat. 1t is a fact, how
ever, that drunkenness in Wash
ngton, is increasing, though dis
agreement exists among officials as
o whom is to blame for conditions.
SECRETARY OF STATE Hughes
miles broadly and makes no reply
% the assertion of the Russian Soviet
Government that he is responsible
Tor the civil war in China.
american officials look upon this
md similar emenating from Moscow
as part of the propaganda of the
soviet against the United States and
is commercial interests in the Far
Cast. In this connection too, there
s some apprehension among of
icials here over the growing power
IF Russia in the Orient, particularly
n China, where Russian officers
ave been used in training some of
he troops now engaged in the
evolution at Shanghai.
WASHINGTON PREPARED a
magnificent reception for Lieutenant
Lowell Smith and Lieutenant Erik
Nelson, the American round-the-
world filters, but called it off at the
equest of the Secretary of War,
who desired that the Magellans of
the air, on the last leg of their
decentralization of the globe,
3hould be permitted to rest as much
rs possible instead of being subjected
to the rigours of public celebration.
The filters will stop in Washington,
Dayton, Chicago and Cheynenne on
their way to Seattle, where the flight
viii end
1T is UNFORTUNATE, in view
Of the splendid record that these
fliers have made in encircling the
globe that their feat must come
under the scrutiny of a Congression-
al investigation. Of course no one
blames the filters. They did what
they were told to do and did it well.
But the investigation which I'M
doubtedly will break in Congress,
will be for the purpose of determin-
ing why the flight was ordered by
the War Department, what was
accomplished. There are some who
feel that the flight proved nothing
except that flying around the world
is highly impractical proposition.
Naval officials point out that an
ordinary little destroyer can do it
quicker and cheaper than an
airplane.
WITH INDICATIONS that each
of the Presidential candidates will
receive a fair share of the popular
vote, two months hence, it is becom-
ing increasingly probable that there
viii be a deadlock in the Electoral
College What will happen after
that no one may with certainty
conjecture Some experts have
figured out that the United States
for at least twenty-four hours and
maybe longer, beginning at mid
night on March 8, 1925, may be With
out President 1t is lucky for the
country that it does not have the
habits of some of its Latin-American
neighbors, who, in such a con-
tingency would find the Government
seized by some military chief.