The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1926-04-09
NEWS REVIEW OF
CURRENT EVENTS
Worst March Blizzard in
Years Leaves Damage
in Its Trail.
BY EDWARD w. PIcKARD

BY EDWARD w. PickARD
MARCH went out leaving in its
Iva trail one of the most severe
March-end storms in years. Extend
ing from beyond the Rocky mountains
as far south as the Rio Grande and as
far east as New England, the blizzard
area included all regions except the
Atlantic and Pacific seaboards.
Dispatches from all points over the
Middle West told of loss of life and
crippled transportation caused by the
storm. Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, In
diana. and Missouri appeared to be
the hardest hit. Rail and highway
traffic was tied up at many points. At
Kewanee, Ill, hundreds of automobiles
were reported stalled in huge drifts
At Havana, ILL.,, passenger train was
held up by the heavy snowfall.
The situation in Wisconsin was no
better. Eleven inches of snow were
recorded in Milwaukee, with street
car and bus transportation blocked.
Points in Indiana reported one of the
worst March storms in history. Fort
Wayne and Indianapolis had transpor-
tation blocked. At Dubuque, Iowa,
the snow measured IS inches and 16
inches at Fort Madison. On the high
ways drifts of six feet were common.
Trains into Kansas City, Mo-, were
from 6 to IL hours late, while In adj
dition to the three Midland Valley
trains stalled near, Foraker, Okla, two
Rock Island passenger trains were i'm
bedded in drifts near Enid, Okla.
Other parts Of the country, notably
the Texas Panhandle, Louisiana, and
Mississippi. also were affected. In
southeastern Texas the storm reached
tornado proportions, caused four
deaths and property damage that is
expected to exceed $1,OOO,O0O. Near
Liberty, Texas, an -mile-an-hour gale
destroyed $50 oil derricks.
A DVOCATES of the lakes-to-gulf
4 a waterway gained a strategic vic
tory when the War department board
of engineers, in it's report on the i'm
provement of the Illinois river, recon-
mended the immediate construction of
nine-foot waterway with water d.
version from Lake Michigan of $3.50
cubic feet per second.
DESPITE the recurrent declines In
~ prices of stocks in Wall street,
President Coolidge and his cabinet in
surveying the situation throughout the
country find conditions satisfactory.
The country is prosperous and bust
ness good, according to the reports
made for the information of the Presi-
dent, and the prospect is that an even
greater business expansion is at hand
There is little unemployment, and In
dications are that everyone who is
willing to work at prevailing wages
can get work. There is still a dull
condition in the textile industry, but
that, in the opinion of the President.
is due to causes laid in postwar read
justments.
The President advises, however, an
adherence to a conservative and eau
tious policy on the part of private en-
terprlse and of the government itself.
There should be no departure from
the rules of economy and sound financ-
ing by either corporations or the gov
eminent, he advises.
With income tax receipts larger
even than anticipated, there is every
indication that business will go on ex-
panding. Probably the future revenue
will prove so much larger than was
expected that fears of deficit in the
next fiscal year will be dispelled. The
President, however, has given grave
consideration to the various items on
the legislative program of the house
on which his advice had been sought
by Representative Tilson (Rep., Comm
majority leader of that body. In re-
ply he pointed out to Mr.. Tilson that
congress had reduced taxes more rad
ically than the executive had thought
safe at the time. The revenue, there
fore, was reduced to such an extent
that 1t would barely cover expendi-
lures already authorized by law. Mr..
Coolidge advised Mr.. Tilson to pro-
coed carefully on all proposals involv-
ing an increased expenditure. The