Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1925-07-03

work of a nature as serious as that
of debt conferences. Negotiations al
ready have been opened here for the
funding of the two billion dollar debt
of Italy. Belgium is to take similar
action next month, and it is the hope
of the Government that France,
Czechoslovakia, and other nations,
will follow suit.
THE Nicholas Longworth family,
recently added to by the arrival
of the infant Paulina, is now scat
tered about the world. Congressman
Longworth, who will be the Speaker
of the House in the 69th Congress is
in Paris studying European parlia-
mentary methods. Mrs. Longworth,
the forcer Princess Alice, is engaged
in moving into more commodiouU
quarters on Massachusetts Avenue,
while little Paulina is spending the
summer with her grandmother in
Cincinnati.
WORKMEN have descended upor
the White House, taking advant-
age of the absence of the President
and Mrs. Coolidge to make extensive
repairs. Fifty thousand dollars have
been appropriated by Congress for
this purpose. The whole Executive
Mansion will be torn up throughout
the summer, and this was one of the
reasons why the Presidential family
had to establish an auxiliary home at
Swampscott, Massachusetts,. The
President, by the way, pronounces it
SWamscut.
THE President has been invited to
review the great parade which
the Ku Klux Klan will stage down
Pennsylvania Avenue in August.
Klan officials pointed out that the
President reviewed the parade last
year of the Catholic Holy Name So
clety, and that there was no reason
why he should not do the same for
them. Under present plans, from
100000 to 100000 Klansmen, all in
white robes will take part in the
spectacle. The parade license issued
by the Metropolitan Police provides
however, that no masks be worn.
THE Coolidges have decided to re-
turn to the Pre-Rooseveltian
days, when there was no social sec
retary at the White House. Miss
Laura Harlan, the present secretary
will be retired this fall, and formal
social affairs henceforth will be un-
der the direction of the State Depart
ment. This change was based large
ly upon the Presidents policy OF cut
ting down expenses, wherever poss-
ible. Miss Harlan has received an an
nual salary of $4,000. The same
work will now be handled by $4,000
a year clerk in addition to his regu-
lar duties.
SOME criticism is being heard
~ among extreme drys to the new
Prohibition enforcement plan of the
Treasury. This scheme, drafted by
General L. C. Andrews, one of Sec
retary's Melons assistants, and ap-
proved by the President, will remove
control of enforcement from the Pro-
hibition Commissioner and will place
it directly under the Commissioner
of Internal Revenue. The country
will be divided into twenty-five en-
forcement districts, and present state
officials will be abolished beginning
August 1st. The drys claim that the
new plan will destroy cooperation
between the States and the Federal
Government, but the Administration
believes that it will be more efficient,
and less costly AS the plan goes in
to effect large number of federal
prohibition agents, supervisors, and
directors will lose their official heads.
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes is
said to be greatly displeased with
the change in policy, which takes
away nine-tenths of his authority,
and he is expected to resign.