Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-04-18


E. e. Kennedy, Kankakee, ILL.,, Farm
ers Union; G. 3. Steward, Omaha,
Neb., Farmers West Central Grain CO.
operative; Oscar Slosser, Astoria, Ohio,
Ohio Farmers Grain and Supply as
ISOLATION; F. J. Wilmer, Rosalia,
Wash, president North Pacific Grain
Growers association, and w. ]. Kuhrt,
Minneapolis, Northwest Grain asso-
citation.
c. E. Huff, Salina, Kan, was elected
president; John Manley, Enid, OKLA,
vice president, and Lawrence FarlOw,
Bloomington, ILL.,, secretary.
NIAHATMA GANDHrS campaign
1N1 against the British government
in India was not going quite to his
liking, although the. movement was
spreading in various districts. The
trouble is that the English refralned
from martyrizing him personally.
Two of the ascetic leaders sons and
numerous others were arrested for
violating the government salt monop-
oily laws, and one of the sons was
promptly sentenced to prison. But
Gandhi, up the time of writing, had
not been taken into custody. An
noyed by the tactics of the British
authorities, who were Selling the il
licit salt the Nationalist were max
ing from sea water, Gandhi so far
abandoned his non-resistance policy
as to advise his followers to hang
onto the salt if possible. The Indian
women are taking an increasingly
prominent part in the passive resist
ance campaign.
TROUBLES for the Chinese Ma
L tionalist government are multiply
ing. Not only is there open warfare
between it and Gen. Yen Hsi-shan,
ruler of Shansi province, but now the
rapid growth of Communism in the
southern provinces is causing, great
alarm. Wealthy Cantonese merchants
and bankers are cooperating with the
government of Canton in raising a
fund and equipping Chinese Anti
Red army" which is to be trained by
foreign military tacticians.
DAS TAFFARI, who became CO.
IN ruler of Abyssinia in 1928, has
proclaimed himself emperor. This
action is the sequel of the crushing
defeat of revolving tribes, the killing
in battle of Ras Gugas Wall and the
death next day of the Empress Eau
ditu, wife of Ras Gugas.
CALVIN COOLIDGE has completed
" two sections of the 500-word his
tory of the United States which Is to
be inscribed on Mount Rushmore in
the Black Hills, and they have been
made public. They are as follows:
In the year of our Lord, 1776, the
people declared the eternal right to
seek happiness, self-government, and
the Divine duty to defend that right
at any sacrifice.
in 1887, assembled in convention,
they made a charter of perpetual
union of free people of sovereign
states, establishing government Of
limited powers, under an independent
President, congress, and court,
charged to provide securities for all
citizens in their enjoyment of liberty,
equality, and justice"
The other sections will deal with ex-
pansion of American territorial domin-
ion westward, the Louisiana purchase,
the admission of Texas, the admission
of California, the settlement of bound
airy questions with England and Oregon
and the cutting of the Panama canal.
NNE hundred years ago, on April
~ 10, 1880, eighty-one frontiers
men with a train of covered wagons
set out from st. Louis to blaze a trail
to and across the Rockies. So, on
Thursday of last week, another band
of men with ten covered wagons bor-
rowed from historical societies and
collectors started from the same place
on the route to Oregon. This was the
beginning of series of events ar
ranged to celebrate the Covered
Wagon centennial. There will be
festive gatherings all along the Ore
gon trail and the whole affair will last
until December 90 in accordance with
a proclamation by President Hoover.
LOG ISLAND, which during the
1 L war was the biggest ship yard in
the world, has been sold by the gov
eminent to Philadelphia and will be
transformed into the largest air-ma-
rine-rail terminus in the country. The
Quaker city pays Uncle Sam $780,
900 for a total area of GAG acres.
&c. 1880. Western Newspaper Union)