Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1926-03-19

thrown 2.900 miles from Rugby TO
Houlton, Maine The wave length was
$40 meters. Only one conversation
can be conducted on the. same line
The achievement was the two-way con
versation.
While the American and British com
missioners were drawing up the treaty
of Client to end the war4of 1872 the
British sent secret expedition, sup
posedly invincible, withsthe purposeeef
capturing New Orleans after peace
had been declared and hanging onto
the whole Mississippi valley. In fact
Gen. Andrew Jackson most astonish.
ingly defeated the British fifteen days
after the signing of hestfeaty. @1'hu
first Atlantic cable was laid In 1885.
Now comes the radio telephone across
the Atlantic. Man is mastering tina
and distance. What next-Mars?
DREMIER ARISTIDE BRAND of
France has formed new cabinet
and is back in Geneva That is about
all that can be said definitely at this
writing of the muddle into which
weeks of diplomatic intrigue over the
enlargement of the council has
dumped the League of Nations.
The council, just the same, is in
vestigating the reservations made by
the United States senate concerning
Americas entry into the World court.
During private, semi-otficial session
I 1t appointed committee Of four Judi
ciaI experts for the work: Sir Cecil
Hurst Of Great Britain, NJ Froma-
geout of France, Sig. Belotti Of Italy,
and N. Sagimura Of Japan.
The committee is given free hand
to hold its meetings where 1t will. The
committee also is empowered by the
council to ask the World court for an
advisory opinion on the United States
reservations if deemed advisable, or
they may recommend to the league
council that 1t ask an advisory opinion
from The Hague.
DRESIDENT COOLIDGE has issued
a proclamation for the observance
of American Forest week, April 1924
1t was until last year called Forest
Protection week and its program was
in charge of the United States forest
service, with special emphasis on pro-
lection against fire. At a meeting in
Chicago the name was changed and
the scope enlarged to all phases Of the
complicated problem of American for
estry,
Frank o. Lowden, former governor
Of Illinois, was made permanent chair
man of directing committee Of repre-;
sentatives from over hundred organi-
zations., There are five vice chaIrmen:
Mrs. John D. Sherman, president of
the General Federation Of women's
clubs; Frank G. Wisner, president Of
the National Lumber Manufacturers
association; win dig, president of the
Izaak Walton League. w. B. Greeley,
United States forester; George D.
Pratt, president of the American For
estry association.
Local committees are now prepar-
ing programs with which they hope to
awaken the American people to the
menace of the forestry situation.
THE senate concluded a contro.
L versy which had been continued in
executive session on several different
days by approving, 4S to 20, the nomI-
nation of Charles W. Hunt of Iowa as
a member of the federal trade COM
mission. Mr.. Hunt had been serving
under recess appointment since the
expiration of his original term last
year. He has been considered the
dirt farmer" member of the commits
sion, having been named by President
Coolidge to fill out the unexpired Muir
dock term.
IMPROVEMENT in the condition Of
: Col. John G. Coolidge, father of the
President, was reported. DR.. Albert
W. Cram, the colonel's physician, said
the patient was very comfortable and
there was no immediate cause for
alarm. For several days Colonel Cool
idge, i'll for several months and with
his legs paralyzed by heart affection,
had had considerable pain, Doctor
Cram reported, and his appetite had
not been up TO standard. But seda-
tives helped to remove his discomfort
and the appetite improved President
Coolidge keeps in constant touch by
wire with his father or with the doc
tor. 1t is announced he is ready to
start for the bedside of his stricken
father at Plymouth, VT, the moment
be receives word of an alarming
change. A force of men are working
to keen the roads clear from, udio,v