The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1924-05-02

and communist leaders who preach
destruction of constitutional govern
ment, destruction even of human life"
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE Travelled
L to New York last week and spoke
at the annual luncheon Of the AssOci
ated Press. The more important of
his statements related directly to Eu.
ropean affairs. He said he hoped
France would accept the Dawes com.
mittee report and that American capt.
tai would join in the loan proposed
for Germany. He thought that thus
the reparations question might be
definitely settled, and promised that
he would then try to bring about an
other world conference on disarma-
ment to carry on the work begun by
the Washington conference and to
take up the codiflcation Of interna-
tional law with an attempt to estab-
lish the rules of warfare and to de-
termine the rights of neutrals. He
also indorsed the Harding proposal for
American adherence to the world
court.
The President touched on the desire
for profits and the quest for easy
money, revealed In current govern
ment Investigations, as symptomatic
of the morbid financial state Of mind
brought on by the war, and continued:
"From all of this sordidness the af-
fairs of government, Of course, suf-
fered. In some of it few public off,
GERS were guilty participants. But the
wonder is not that this was so much
or so many, rather that it has been
so little and so few.
1.-THE encouraging thing at present
is the evidence of well nigh COM
plete return to normal methods of ac-
ton, and sane public opinion. The
gravity of guilt of this kind is fully
realized and publicly reprehended.
There is an exceedingly healthy dis
position to uproot it altogether, and
administer punishment wherever com.
petent evidence of guilt can be pro-
duced. That am doing and propose
to continue"
ID EALIZING that economic relations
IN between Japan and America are
far more vital to the former than to
the latter, Japan's privy council is I'M
derstood to have Endorsed the govern
ment's conduct in the immigration ex-
clusion matter. That is, continued
protest against the American exclu.
sion act but no retaliation. The Japa-
nese were still hoping that President
Coolidge would veto the measure. and
this he was. asked to do by a great
mass meeting in Osaka. Ambassador
Hanihara, meanwhile, explained to
congress that the words grave conse.
quences" in his note were not meant
to convey anything in the nature of a
threat, but Representative johnson.
chairman of the house committee on
immigration, replied with statement
that the action of congress had been
assured before the note was written
and that therefore the passage of the
exclusion clause was not due to re-
sentiment against the ambassadors
language.
ID ECAUSE of his interference" in
~ the senate investigation of the in
ternal revenue bureau by suggesting
the employment of Francis Heney as
investigator, Governor Pinchot lost
the chance to sit in the Republican
national convention as delegate at
large from Pennsylvania. Representa-
tive Ware and others turned on him
for what they considered disloyalty
to the administration, and Ralph B,
Strassburger of Norrlstown defeated
the governor by a large majority.
Pinchot blamed the vets. Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Delaware all
elected delegates favorable to Cool
idge and seemingly his nomination is
an absolute certainty. Reports are
that he wants Frank Lowden of iii.
nois as his running mate, and, failing
that, wishes Lowden to be temporary
chairman and to deliver the keynote
speech. 1t is interesting to note that
the Democratic national committee is
considering the selection of a woman
as temporary chairman of the national
convention In New York.
A MONG the notable deaths of the
"A week were those of Nine. Eleo.
nora Duse, the famous italian ira
gedienne, who passed away in Pitts.
burgh after an attack of influenza, and
Marie Corelli, the popular English
novelist. Doctor Helfferich. former
minister of finance of Germany. was
one of the victims of railway wreck
in Switzerland.