The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1927-07-22

power to maintain that price which
other industries through their superior
organization now enjoy"
1.-THE federal farm board should be
able to empower organizations of farm
ers to take control of the surplus and
to distribute the cost of that operation
not only among the members of the
co-operatives but among all the pro-
ducers, whether they are members or
not"
HONOLULU is host, for two weeks.
L of the Institute of Pacific Rela-
lions, and 100 leading citizens of ten
nations bordering on the Pacific or
having especial interests in that ocean
are trying to arrive at an understand
ing of the causes of friction between
East and West. The conference is un
official and the discussions are frank
and open, with no germane topics for
| hidden.
Nearly so Americans are present, in
Guiding DR.. Ray Lyman Wilbur, presi.
dent of Stanford university and chair
man of the institute; Prof. James T.
Shotwell of Columbia university; Rob
| ert Dollar, president of the Dollar
Steamship company; Mrs. Carrie Chap
man Gait, lecturer of New York:
Stephen P. 'Duggan, director of the
Institute of International Education.
and Archbishop Edward ]. Hanna of
California.
EMULATING Oliver Cromwell, Mar
IL shall Pilsudsky has executed an.
! other coup d'etat in Poland by send
ing his soldiers into the senate and
ordering it to dissolve because it
i would not pass laws he considered nee.
essary without debating them. Pill
sudski had given democratic rule a
trial for about ten months but it
wasn't satisfactory to him so he has
resumed the absolute dictatorship.
PROHIBITION COMMISSIONER
L DORIAN held conference with his
district administrators in Washington
and warned them that honest physi
clans and retail druggists are not to
be harrasSed in the prescription or
sale of liquor for medicinal purposes.
Prohibition agents are not expected
| TO practice medicine or pharmacy in
the enforcement of the Volstead act
according to Commissioner DOran, who
continued that doctors and druggists.
- 10 Cos
sions, should be given an ample OPP
portunity to explain apparently irreg
Clar practices before they are sub
| jected to the expense of proceedings
to revoke their permits.
WHETHER the two 81 100000 libel
wv suits against Henry Ford will be
settled out of court as Il result of his
public retraction of and apology for
the anti-JewiSh articles in the Dear
writing, but Aaron Sapiro said he was
negotiating a settlement of his ac-
ton. In Washington there was mass
meeting of Jews called to consider
Ford's apology, and eloquent appeals
for it's acceptance in good faith were
made. But a majority of those pres
ent preferred to wait and see if FOrd'S
actions conform to his words. So the
resolution of acceptance was rejected
TOHN DREW'S death in San Fran
y cisco caused the nation to heave
sigh of regret, for the dean of the
American stage was universally be.
loved and respected. His entire life
had been given over to the work of
entertaining the public with clean. in
telligent and thoroughly artistic act
ing and he passed away "in the har-
ness" though he had reached the age
of tseventy-three years. Another
capable and popular actor, Gregory
Kelly, died in New York after several
months illness.