The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-04-04

assert the President already has $50
delegates in hand and $50 more in
sight, outside of contested states, and
that with this minimum total of 600
votes he is assured of nomination on
the first ballot In the Cleveland CON
vention.
Some Of the Coolidge leaders are
talking quietly Of the ACCESSIBILITY Of
nominating John Lewis, president Of
the United Mine Workers, for the vice
presidency. They believe this would
be good politics and would in meas
ure offset the influence of Samuel
Gompers, who each year comes nearer
to becoming Democrat Lewis Is
held in high esteem by all union labor
except the rabid radicals and by the
people Of the country generally. There
is good reason to believe that he
would accept the nomination.
TSEN million dollars was voted by
1 the house last week for the relief
Of hungry women and children in Ger
many. Only 81 members had the nerve
to vote against the measure, 240 vot-
ing for it. The bill stipulates that the
money is to be expended for food
stuffs in this country and the food Is
to be transported in shipping board
vessels. Wherever possible the sup
plies are to be bought through farm
ers' organizations. Since the house
repeatedly has been informed that
there is no real food shortage In Ger
many, only failure of proper dis
tribution, it must be admitted that
Representative Tucker of Virginia
had reason for his assertion that the
measure was designed to consolidate
the German vote.
TWO more monarchs have been de-
4 posed-King George of Greece and
the shah of Persia. In the former case
the Greek national assembly voted for
the deposing of the entire Giucks-
bourg dynasty and its exile. and in
favor of the establishing Of a repub-
lie, subject to the decision of the peo-
Pile in the coming plebiscite. George
is quoted as saying that he will not
abdicate because he believes the
Greeks want him and will vote to
keep him on the throne. In Persia the
assembly deposed the shah, who has
spent most of his time in Europe OF
late, but the republicans were for the
present outnumbered so the shah's
infant son was proclaimed ruler I'M
der regency.
MYTH all the pomp and splendid
wv ceremony that surrounds such
occasions, Archbishops Mundeleir of
Chicago and Hayes of New York were
elevated to the cardinalate by Pope
Plus XI. First came the secret con-
sistory, in which the pope proposed
the names of the two Americans to
the sacred college and the cardinals
formally acquiesced, after which the
new princes of the church were noti-
fed, appeared and delivered addresses.
Three days later, in public consistory,
the pope invested them with the pur-
pie cloaks and red birettas. Seated
on his scarlet draped throne, the holy
father delivered lonc eulogy Of
America in which he declared that
Americas miracle of charity saved
millions from starvation, just as the
entry of the United States into the
World war decided the fate of Europe
and the world"
CRovER CLEVELAND BERG
NJ DOLL, draft dodger and deserter,
is said to be on his way from Germany
to America, ready to serve his SEN
tence in order that the estate of his
family may be untangled. Maybe he
will be met by a reception committee
from the group Of half-baked student
pacifists of Northwestern university
who so gratefully listened to an anti
American lecture by youth who
served time in prison for refusing to
serve in the army. and then Kissed
the American flag and Its bearer. an
ex-service man. But the less said
about these young creatures the bet
ter, for they are untouched by denun-
citation and thrive on publicity.
AEEXICO'S revolution has almost
lV1 wholly collapsed. De Ia Huerta.
its leader, has fed the country aboard
a small vessel which may have been
sunk in a recent storm Nearly all the
other chieftains have run away or
surrendered, and the government
forces are proceeding to clean up in
Frontera, Chiapas and some other To-
calities where there are still bodies Of