Evening star., 1925-07-19
Current History.

| Secretary of State Kellogg explained
| in g. terse statement at Swampscott
last week the purpose of his hurried
visit to the President, upon which he
was accompanied by Undersecretary
| of State Crew. The statement declared
that he conferred with the President
upon the situation in China and the
| foreign debt. OF the former he said
, that the corner stone of this Govern
ment's policy toward China lies in the
serupulous observance of China S
rights, and the .insistence, on the other
hand, that China live up to her re-
sponsibilities under the Washington
| treaty.
| OF the debt situation the Secretary
declared that matters were progress.
| ing satisfactorily
! President Coolidge hopes that CON
ditions viii be such that conference
can be held in the near future on the
! question of eXtraterritorial rights in
| China. This conference would also
| take up the question of Chinese Gus
toms. The conferees would represent
! the nine nations which signed the
Washington treaty. The State Depart
ment has been in communication with
| the nations in regard to holding the
Fconference in Peking at an early date.
| French official circles, however. were
! represented in dispatches last week as
believing the time is not propitious
| for the holding Of such a conference.
| Abandonment of extraterritorial rights
! should come only after China has
| shown her ability to preserve order,
| something which she has so far
| failed to do.
| Those observing the week end holi-
4 1.,,~ IL L ...11
/ 2S by drowning, 10 from automobile
| accidents and 6 from the heat.
|
Floyd r. Harrison, a Government
employe, who rose from the ranks of
! the army of Uncle Sans workers in
| Washington, was last week appointed
| director of the War Finance Corpora.
ton. succeeding Frank w Mondell
| who resigned. Mr.. Harrison entered
the Department of Agriculture in 1906
as a messenger boy and served in va
! riouS offices. He was assistant to
| Eugene Meyer, jr., managing director
of the corporation, when he received
his appointment.
Nine. Caillaux. wife of the French
| Minister of Finance was severely in
! jured last week near Anglers, France
| when her automobile crashed into a
/ tree. She was on her way TO hear the
| results of a senatorial election in
which her husband was elected to the
| Senate. She probably will recover
! Nine. Caillaux received international
notice in 1914. when she shot and killed
CASTOR Calmette, an editor for his
| attacks on her husband. She was
! acquitted. Her husbands election to
| the Senate was considered his final
/ vindication of charges of treason, upon
which he was tried and convicted dur
/ ing the war. He was recently granted
amnesty by the Senate.
Great Britain has refused TO join
| France and Spain in their campaign
| against the Riffs, it was revealed last
week. when Austin Chamberlain, Brit.
| ish foreign secretary, replied TO a
question in the House of Commons
! Great Britain declined proposal from
! France and Spain, he explained. for
/ the cooperation of British naval forces
| in suppressing contrabrand traffic in
arms six miles out to sea from Tan
/ gier. The proposal would have ex-
! tended the territorial waters of Tan.
| gier from three to six miles and to
| this Great Britain would not agree
nor would she accept a proposal TO
! land troops. with lFrance and Spain,
| for the protection of Tangier. Mr.
! Chamberlain expressed the belief that
! such action would be useless as q
means of ending the revolt in Morocco
and might cause additional troubles.
The first week of the trial of John
! T. Scopes in Dayton Tenn, for viola
| ton of a State law prohibiting teach
! ing evolution in the public schools
ended with victories entirely with the
! prosecution. Three of the defense S
moves were fruitless. A motion by
J the defense to dismiss the indictment
| was overruled by the court. A motion
! by Clarence Darrow of defense counsel
! to eliminate the prayer al the opening
/ of the court was also denied by the
| court, and the main hopes of the de
| fense, which lay in their plan to intro.
| duce witnesses who would testify on
! the scientific theory of evolution, were
| dashed when the court sustained an
/ objection entered by the prosecution
| to such testimony. The judge agreed
| with the prosecution that the intro
/ duction of such testimony would be
| irrelevant. Defense ATTORNEYS were
/ frank in admitting that their hopes to
| win the case for young Scopes were
/ slim.
While France was celebrating one
| of her greatest holidays last week
! the anniversary of the Bastille which
/ COTGeSpOllOS with our FOurt6 or July
little group of city planners in Wash
| ington gathered at the tomb of Mai
| Pierre Charles L 'Enfant. who laid out
! the city of Washington, and paid
tribute to his memory. Maj. LEnfant
was buried on Green Hill Farm. near
| this city, shortly after his death. in
June, 1925. In 1909 his body was ex.
.humed and reinterred in Arlington.
Preparations are now going forward
| for the withdrawal of allied troops
| from the Ruhr district of Germany, in
| accordance with the agreement in
London which put into effect the
| Dawes reparations plan of 1924. The
| agreement will not be effective if Ger.
| many fails to carry out her obliga.
tions under the Dawes plan.
Scientific.
| The medical world awaits with in
| terest a forthcoming report by the
British Institute of Medical Research
on it's studies which, it is believed