Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-16

banks president should be sympathetic
to it.
The selection of DR.. Luther as his
successor is generally welcomed. DR..
Luther played important parts in the
sterilization of the mark, In the insti-
tuition of the Dawes plan and In the
framing of the Locarno accords. He
has had very extensive political bust
ness and banking experience and has
been minister of finance. Finally, he is
conciliatory, and, whatever his virtues,
DR.. Schacht is not that. He claims
descent from the great reformer.
1t is to be hoped that our Congress
will promptly ratify the German Amer
lean debt agreement.
On March IL the ReichStag ratified,
though by very narrow margin, the
important German-PoliSh liquidation
pact"
HAITI-On March the investigat-
ing commission sent by President
Hoover to Haiti issued, with President
Hoover's approval the following state
ment to the press:
The Presidents commission has Sug-
gested that the various elements COM
posing the opposition to the present
Haitian government should organize a
selves and designate some neutral and
non-political candidate satisfactory also
to President Borno, and who should
then receive their votes and also be
elected regularly.
THE President thus chosen will call
a popular election at the earliest pos
sible date and present his resignation
to the new Legislature, so that it will
elect the President for the regular term
This plan has the approval of Presi-
dent Hoover, and has been accepted, in
principle, by both Haitian sides. Details
have to be worked out. The commits
sion has no candidate to present"
The procedure above suggested is said
to conform to the Haitian constitution
The abolition of the ONCE of American
high commissioner in Haiti seems q
possibility, and the negotiation of a
new treaty between the United States
and Haiti a probability. The commits
sioners, whose early popular reception
in Haiti was scarcely one Of enthusi-
astic approval, are now being acclaimed
wherever they go.
But latest reports show President
Borno making difficulties.
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UNITED STATES.-On March 8
william Howard Taft, former President
and former Chief Justice of the United
States Supreme Court, died at the age
of 70. He was unique among Ameri-
cans in that he had held both the
chief executive and the chief judicial
post in the country. He also rendered
notable service as Secretary of War
and governor general of the Philippines.
He was born in Cincinnati and grad
uated from Yale in the class of 1878
Few men have died so well beloved.
Supreme Court Justice Edward Terry
Sanford died suddenly on March 8 at
the age of "a. He had been on the
Supreme Court bench for seven years.
He was born in Tennessee and grad
uated from Harvard in the class
on March 10 the City of New York
and the Eleanor Boiling arrived in
Dunedin Harbor, New Zealand carrying
Admiral Byrd and his gallant company
of Al, escorted by many vessels which
had gone out to welcome them. From
Dunedin, which now boasts popula-
ton of $4,000, many an expedition has
set forth, questing toward the pole.
NAVAL, FERENCE.-ProgreSs OF
sorts in the Naval Conference-progress
in the Pickwickian or whatever sense
vo,I nlease-waS recorded on March ii
when the American delegation definitely
announced that the United States Gov
eminent would not participate In any
consultative pact as feature OF or IN
association with the proposed LONDON
naval treaty.
A NEW PLANET SWIMS INTO OUR
KEN.-The announcement Is mace OF