The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-08-28

and the national wealth of Belgium is
$1,377 per capita. The conclusion is
drawn that Italy should receive pro-
portionately better terms.
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE spent near
ly week at Plymouth, VT, visit
ing his father and enjoying the only
real rest he has had since his vaca-
ton began. On Thursday he reluc-
family started back to Swampscott by
motor, stopping overnight at North
ampton, Mass, with Mrs. Elmira Good
hue, mother of Mrs. Coolidge. Friday
afternoon the President received Sen
ator Edge of New Jersey and State
Senator Whitney, the Republican
gubernatorial nominee.
ID ESIDES the matter of the Belgian
- debt agreement, the President had
one important conference while at Ply
mouth. It was about the proposed re-
duction Of federal taxes, and those
who talked it over with Mr.. Coolidge
were Secretary Mellon Senator Smoot,
chairman Of the finance committee,
and Representative Tillson of Con-
necticut, Republican floor leader of
the house. They assured him that be-
fore payments for this year are due
on March Is next, congress will have
made substantial reductions in fed
eral income taxes. No definite figure
could be proposed yet, because the
treasury surplus and amount of the
government budget are yet unknown,
but the belief was expressed that
cut of at least $3O0,OO0,OOO could be
made.
Both Senator Smoot and Representa-
tive Tillson favor cutting the maximum
surtax on incomes of $4,000 and
more from 40 per cent to 20 per cent,
or to Is per cent if conditions war
rant. They also favor making the
normal tax on incomes of $4,000 or
less per cent instead of 2; 3 per
cent instead Of 4 for incomes between
$4,000 and $1,000, and 5 instead Of 6
per cent on incomes over $4,000.
Mr.. Mellon feels that the financial
condition Of the government will per-
init Of reduction Of the surtaxes to
25 per cent, and the cutting down of
the normal taxes proportionately, with
the lowest normal reduction from 2 to
l per cent. He favors the federal gov
eminent abandoning the Inheritance
taxes, but remarked that he could not
attempt to say how far the general
tax reduction program could go.
MYTH two of its three navy planes
w out of commission and unusually
severe weather prevailing, the Mac
MILAN expedition has abandoned for
this year any exploration of the polar
sea by air. Instead the party will de-
vote its efforts to the exploring of
Morse ruins in Greenland and Labra-
dor and to survey of Baffin island
In sending word of his change of plans
to Washington by radio, Commander
navy flyers with him for their efforts
to overcome insurmountable obstacles
In flying over Ellesmere island these
aviators- traversed vast. stretch of
uncharted country and high mountain
ranges never before seen by man.
DRESUMABLY with the aid and sup
port of the Turks and the Egyptian
nationalities, the Senussi tribesmen in
North Africa have risen against the
Italian rule in Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
Led by Sheik Ahmed. they waylaid
and massacred a column Of italian
troops south of Benghazi and occupied
the main caravan route between Trip
oil and Egypt. The Senussi, great
body of austerely religious Mohamme-
dams are good fighters and are well
armed.
Marshal Petain has been sent to Mo-
rocco as supreme commander of the
French forces and is directing the Wig
orous offensive which is driving the
troops of Abd-el-Krim back northward
to the Atlas mountains. In the Ouez-
Fan region, where the French and
Spanish armies are cooperating,
wholesale submission of rebels is an
nounced Spain and France have
called off all peace negotiations with
the Rift chieftain as he failed to send
any representative to Melilla.
MAX MASON, professor of mathe-
AVA NAUTICAL physics in the University
of Wisconsin, has been elected presi-
dent of the University of Chicago to
succeed thq late DIR. Ernest De Witt
Burton. 1'he board OF trustees has
followed the recent example Of other
similar boards in selecting compare
lively yo6ng man, for Doctor Mason is