The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-10-15

the German army. General Won
Seeckt created the present army, 100,-
600 strong, every man a perfect sol
der, chosen from 100000 available
Under his plan, it is figured that when
the next war comes Germany will
have 100000 trained officers and
serEeant-majors.
The Prussian state government and
the ,Hohenzollerns have reached an
agreement on how much Prussia shall
pay the former royal family to relin-
quish it's claims on everything 1t left
behind. The former kaiser will get
100000 gold marks ($5,000,0O0) in
cash, 2SO,O0O acres Of land from his
former estates, and three castles, at
Schwes, Fuerrath, and Wildenbruch,
and the former crown prince gets Gels
castle in addition.
IN ICTATOR PILSUDSKI ended his
- dispute with the Polish parlia-
ment by accepting the resignation Of
the Bartel cabinet and himself taking
the post Of premier. His cabinet is
declared to be the strongest and best
that Poland has yet had. Besides the
premiership, Pi,sudski holds the war
portfolio. August Zaloski is again
minister of foreign affairs.
THE American Federation Of La
L Dor opened its annual convention
in Detroit, and incidentally got into
wrangle with the churches of that city.
President William Green had been in
vited to speak at Y. M. c. A. meet
ing and other labor leaders had been
asked to occupy ten Detroit pulpits,
but these invitations were withdrawn
at the instance of the board of COM
merce and the building trades asso-
citation, which charged that the aims
of the federation were not in harmony
with ideals Of American patriotism.
This was vigorously protested by the
federation. The federation voted to
organize the automobile industry.
60 SERIOUS have become the dep
~ radations of the European corn
borer In Ohio, Michigan and Indiana
that the national corn borer commit
tee was called to meet In Chicago for
the purpose of devising some plan to
check the advance of the pest toward
Illinois and Iowa. The insects are ad-
vancing westward at the rate of
twenty to twenty-five miles yearly.
Dean Curtis of the Iowa State Agri-
cultural college, who called the COM
mittee, says the borer is the most for
midable pest that ever has threatened,
the Midwest and that its invasion of
the great hog-raising states would be
a dire calamity, SINCE they cannot
substitute other crops for corn, as
Michigan and Ohio are doing.
VXTHILE Queen Marie of Rumania
w was buying beautiful gowns in
Paris, our government was laying plans
for her reception. The State department
announced that she would be met at
quarantine in New York on October
1S by Assistant Secretary of State J.
Butler Wright and taken to Washing
ton on special train. The next day
President and Mrs. Coolidge will give
a dinner in her honor. The story that
the, queen had accepted any contract
to appear in the movies in America
was formally denied by member of
her party.
DERSONS who followed with avidity
the tortuous course of the Stillman
divorce litigation-and their name is
legion-were interested to read that
James "Bud' Stillman. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. James Stillman, is engaged to
wed Miss Lena Wilson, an eighteen
year-old Scotch-Canadian girl who
was a servant in the Stillman house
in Canada, as were her two sisters
and a brother. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson
said they were highly pleased with
their daughters choice. The lad is a
student in Princeton university, so the
wedding will not take place until next
June. after his graduation.
TOR the purpose of promoting COM
- mercial aviation the airplane in
which Commander Byrd flew over the
North pole is making a tour of the
country in the course of which it will
visit about 40 cities. On the first leg
of the journey. from Washington to
New York, Byrd was at the controls,
but for the rest of the trip the pilot
will be Floyd Bennett, who made the
polar flight with Byrd. The expenses
of the expedition are being betrayed
by the Daniel Guggenheim fund, which
Is acting in cooperation with the De-
partment Of Commerce.