The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-02-19

restored. Other slashes made by the
senate may be abandoned in the con-
ference, for the reductions are far
below the margin of safety set by the
treasury officials.
Chairman Smoot told the senate its
action in repeating the automobile
passenger-car levy, involving loss of
$70OO0,000 In revenue, twill ruin the
BILL" while Senator Couzens (Rep,
Mich.) countered with the charge that
it was "a damnable outrage If you
take the taxes off dead millionaires
and not relieve these burdensome
feyies."
ECRETARY OF WAR DAVIS sus-
~ poets that officers Of the army air
service are using disloyal means in
their fight for the creation Of sepa-'
rate air corps, and he has ordered two
separate inquiries, one by Maj. Gen.
Mason M. Patrick, chief OF the air
service, and the other by Maj. Gen.
Eli A. Helmlick, the inspector general.
1t is charged that officers Of the air
service have been preparing and cir
culating letters asking all officers to
'get busy and fight now for sepa-
rate air service" and to appeal to
their congressman to vote for the
wainwright bill. Action on the part of
an army officer to influence legislation
by clandestine means is expressly for
hidden under general order %. 1t is
asserted by some that General Pat
rick himself will be involved in the
inquiry because Of his recent testi-
mony before the house military af-
fairs committee in favor of the Vain
right bill, and that committee in
Quired into the purposes of the inves-
tigation and the possibility that it
would result in gagging army wit
nesses called by congressional CON-
inittees.
Secretary Davis formally denounced
the separate service plan. and also
issued bulletin telling his concep-
tion of the duties of the air service.
1.-THE mission Of the air service Is to
assist the. ground forces to gain stra-
tegical and tactical successes by de-
stroying enemy aviation, attacking
enemy ground forces, and other enemy
detectives on land or sea, and in con-
junction with other agencies, to pro-
tect ground forces from hostile aerial
observation and attack" the bulletin
stated. I'm addition, it furnishes
aerial observation for information and
for artillery fire., and also provides
messenger service and transportation
for special personnel
N7HILE there has been no doubt
w concerning the attitude of the
Roman Catholic church toward COM
pulsory prohibition, that attitude was
formally stated for the first time last
week by william Cardinal O'Connell
of Boston, the church's ranking pre-
late in the United States. He de-
clares the Catholic church applauds
voluntary total abstinence and needs
no persuasion to fight against intern
perance, but that compulsory prohi-
bition in general is fatty opposed to
Holy Scripture and to Catholic tradi-
tion.'
Ale, wine and their like, the car
dinal holds, are not In themselves
evil. He stresses the fact that they
have their lawful uses, ranging from
the supreme honor paid to wine,
olon0 NTH hrood oc tho po,kt~w - A.
holy eucharist, to their original work
of moistening and enlivening the la
borer's rough fare"
1T has been made clear thousand
times" he adds, "that we will work
with our separated brethren as tenn
perance men, but not as the tools of
those whose confessed policy is world
wide prohibition by tnstallments."
Cardinal O'Connell called attention
to what he called an attempt by pro-
hibitionists ito entrap the pope by
begging him to give his moral sup
port to secure the observance of the
law of prohibition and added that
the ruse had failed badly.
Cardinal Mundelein Of Chicago de-
clined to discuss prohibition, holding
that 1t is a purely political issue. He
added: II have always found that
when the American people wanted
something hard enough they were
usually successful In getting 1t in the
end. If the American people do not
want prohibition or want 1t In
modified form, there is congress as
their servant, and If this congress will
not do their bidding, let them get an
other congress that WILL"