The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-02-03

Knights of Columbus. and on Wednes-
day he broke out in one of his Gus
tOmary TRADES against the Catholics.
He attributed the publication of the
discredited Hearst Mexican docu-
ments to Catholic conspiracy against
him, bringing in the name of Mrs.
Hearst asa member of that church.
When Senator Robinson Of Arkansas.
member of the committee that in
vestigated the documents. denied that
the Catholic church had anything to
do with them, Hefin in a rage de-
manded that Robinson be deposed as
minority leader. The debate between
these two Democrats then became ex-
tremely bitter and personal and was
listened to by the Republicans with
deep interest. Heflin took occasion
to warn his fellow Democrats against
nominating Gov. AL Smith for the
Presidency, asserting they should
"hang their heads in shame" at the
Smith candidacy. IF the Democrats
should nominate Smith for the Presi-
dency," he shouted, "the Republicans
can defeat him with anybody by from
100000 to 100000 votes. The
American people. knowing what the
Roman Catholic political machine is
doing. are not going to put him in the
White House just now. Any leader
in the South who supports AL Smith
! will never come back to this capitol"
Robinson said he had heard Heflin's
anti-Catholic speech d dozen times
during the last year and was sick and
tired Of It. He went on: ut is illus
trative how good man can go wrong
and how far wrong he can go and
what a fool he can make of himself
when he does GO wrong. The senator
from Alabama takes himself so seri-
ously that he thinks he can dictate to
the whole Democratic party"
The Democratic senators in caucus
later gave Robinson a vote of conf.
dence and support.
A PPEARlNG before the house ma
val committee, Admiral Hughes.
chief Of naval operations. said that If
the United States is to have a really
adequate feet 1t will have to spend a
billion dollars, rather than the $780,
100000 called for by the present con-
struction program He held It would
be necessary to add at least Is per
cent more ships to the present pro-
gram which calls for the completion
within the next eight years Of 25
cruisers. 35 submarines 9 destroyer
leaders and aircraft carriers.
Our battleships, the admiral assert
ed, are "woefully behind" those Of
Great Britain in gun power. range,
speed and effectiveness. and in reply
to questions he disputed the theory of
Admiral Sims that the battleship
would be displaced by the aircraft
carrier as the backbone Of the fleet in
the next war and that aircraft and
submarines would be dominant fac
tors
Word comes from Tendon that the
British government has further re-
duced its naval building program,
abandoning another cruiser. which
makes total Of three dropped since
the Geneva naval conference. The
saving win be about 27.5O0000
--aSS r~e
n REAT BRITAIN Is extremely
~ cautious in the matter of Sc
curity agreements. In a note to the
-,,hoo,,,,,,ittao IN ~ao,,rstv - tbo $50
paratory committee on disarmament
which meets In Geneva In February,
the government emphatically reasserts
its belief in localized agreements as
opposed to generallzed schemes.
The note points cut that the
strength Of an arbitration treaty de-
ponds entirely on the willingness of
the people to support decisions unfa-
vorable to themselves which creates
limits beyond which state cannot
go in accepting binding obligations to
arbitrate."
1t observes that the time is not ripe
for any general system of sanctions
for the enforcement of arbitration
treaties, and doubts that any nation
which is strong enough to use force
effectively would at present under.
take any SUCH general obligations to
use force against party to dispute
which refused to submit to arbitra-
ton.
TOR several weeks a Japanese dele
L cation headed by viscount Goto
has been % Moscow trying to negoti-
ate with the soviet government for
large colonization concessions in the
Amur valley of Siberia. Also, Baron
Tanaka. the Japanese premier, has
been moving for Russo-Japanese al
lance. Both these plans may fall