The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-30

tween the United States and each of
the powers and said he saw no diff
Guilty in the way Of securing the as
sent of each signatory in this way.
Greece already has accepted the Amer
lean reservations.
ID ENITO MUSSOLINI and his Ro-
- man empire plans continue to ex-
cite and disturb the Old world. The
latest story is that Italy and Greece
have made a secret treaty directed
against Turkey and that If they are
able to carry out their plans Italy will
get a huge slice of southern Asia
Minor including the port of Selenti
and that Greece will recover Smyrna
and Constantinople and the cOntigu-
GUS territory. Jugo-Slavia is to be
given piece of Albania, all of which
country she wants. England's neu-
trality it is hoped can be obtained
through support Of her claims to
Mosul and promises to end the Fascist
agitation in India and the assistance
of France is to be the price of help
in the pacification of the Druses in
Syria
That there is something in this story
is indicated by the alarm manifested
by Turkey. She has been calling out
her classes of recruits for intensive
military training, and great military
maneuvers are to be held by President
Mustapha Kemal Pasha next month
in western Asia Minor. Extensive
fertilization against the Greeks along
the Thracian frontier Is reported.
Naturally Turkey is eagerly seeking
British support. It was said in Lon.
don that Sir Austen Chamberlain let
Angora know that if it wanted real
protection it must join the League Of
Nations as soon as possible. The An
CORA government Is divided. some lead
ers favoring the plan to yield to Eng
land ia the matter of Mosul. and others
urging that the support Of Russia be
accepted and the British defied. Kemal
is said to be of the latter party.
FEDERAL officers, bishops and other
l. clergymen, heads of reform Or
CARNATIONS and various other persons
followed one another in rapid success
sion before the senate committee to
tell of the benefits wrought by prohi-
bition and to decry the suggestion of
weakening the enforcement law.
United States District Attorney Ed
win A. Olson of Chicago was one of
the witnesses, and he at least sue
ceeded in arousing the anger of Chi
cago's officials. Making vigorous
charges of lax enforcement, of the
criminal laws in Chicago. he said it
was safer for man there to commit
daylight robbery with a gun than to
violate the Volstead act, and added
that that act has not yet had an honest
chance in Chicago and that prior to
1923 it had no chance whatever.
II do not know" he said. show
many stills are operating in Chicago,
but there are many. 1t is safe to as
sumo, however, that there is not still
of Importance in any police precinct
that is not known to the police in that
precinct and that 1t would not be a
very big job for 5000 policemen to pull
out by the roots every outlaw still in
Chicago In twenty-four hours"
He said the citizens of Chicago have
not intestinal fortitude enough to
provide themselves with the kind of
local government that will send MUIR
derers and robbers where they be-
long"
In fine frenzy of rage Mayor
Dever, accompanied by Chief of Police
Collins, started at once for Washing
ton and in the last hours of the hear
ing they told the senator's that Mr..
Olson was a prevaricator and, in eff
feet. was ''all wet" He asserted the
only men in Chicago who tried hon
estly to enforce the Volstead act were
Chief Collins and himself, and that
Mr. Olson never did act until they
forced him to do so.
DIR. ]. NJ. Doren, chief chemist for
General Andrews. presented figures to
show that District Attorney Buckner
of New York grossly exaggerated the
amount of industrial alcohol diverted
to Illegal uses. Father Curran of
Wilkesbarre contradicted the testi-
mony of Father Kasaczun concerning
conditions in the anthracite region
rho rtac Stolzla dpniod that 0ruonizad
labor was unit for modification of
the Volstead act. And S. L. Striv-
ings, representative Of the National
Grange, testified the farmers were for
strict enforcement, admitting under
cross-examination that they would be
opposed to repeal of section 20 which
permits farmers to make wine and
cider for their own use %heSc were