Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1930-02-28

TWO more days were given to the
L vets in the hearing on dry law
modification measures before the house
judiciary committee, and they took
full advantage of their opportunity.
A recess was then taken until the fol-
lowing week, when the drys were
to be heard. Representative Linthl-
cum of Maryland, generalissimo Of the
foes of prohibition, made the open
ing statement and then followed an
imposing list of witnesses. These in
cluded Capt. W. 81. Stayton, chair
man of the board of the Association
Against the Prohibition Amendment;
Henry B. Joy, Detroit millionaire and
former head of the Packard Motor
company; DR.. Samuel Harden Church,
Pittsburgh, president of Carnegie in
stitute; DIR. Charles Morris, New York
health officer; Col. Grayson NJ. P. Muir
ply, New York director of Bethlehem
Steel company; Benedict Crowell,
Cleveland, former assistant secretary
of war; DR.. L. w. Williams, New
York, head of the New York Academy
of Medicine, and Ralph NJ. Shaw, at
torney, of Chicago.
Senator Brookhart of Iowa announced
that unless the senate judiciary COM
mittee reported favorably one of the
two pending resolutions for a sweep
ing investigation of prohibition en-
forcement methods, he would carry
the fight to the senate floor ''If there
is corruption in the prohibition forces"
said he, we've got to know it and to
know who is to blame for it,
ORANGES cabinet crisis stopped up
the proceedings of the naval par
ley in London for the time being, since
the entire French delegation withdrew,
announcing il would not take part in
further discussions until new gov
eminent had been formed. The down.
fall of Premier Tardieu and his min
istry, which was due to its defeat on
an important tax measure, might con-
ceivably have marked effect on the
course of the negotiations in the par
ley. If the French Socialists and rad
icals, who are committed to reduction
of ornaments, consented to take part
in the new government, the demands
Of Premier Tardieu for a fleet of 724,-
600 tons might be greatly scaled down
so that the figures could be met by
Italy, and would not force the British
to repudiate the Hoover-MacDonald
bargain of last summer. In this lies
really the only hope that the confer
ence can arrive at a pact providing
for actual reduction of naval arma-
ments. Otherwise. all it can be ex-
pected to evolve will be treaty for
limitation, with possibly the mutual
security pact asked by France. 1t is
hardly to be expected that the United
States would enter into such Sc
curity treaty since that would involve
ENHANCEMENT in European affairs. In
deed, Senator Robinson told the Amer
lean correspondents the United States
wouldn't join in any pact requiring it
to employ armed forces to enforce
obligations assumed with other ma
TONS" The American delegation had
approved this statement in advance.
Dino Grandi gave out the formal
statement of Italy's naval policy and
requirements on Wednesday. Besides
reiterating the demand for parity with
any other continental power-mean-
ing France-he upheld the thesis that
naval needs are not absolute, as France
claims, but are relative, and declared
that no level of tonnage is too low
providing other countries reduce pro-
portionately.
COVIET Russia's war on God is
- causing lot of excitement in
many parts of the world and Chris
tian organizations, and individuals
are urging Intervention" though it
is difficult to see by what right any
other nation could interfere with what
so far is wholly domestic issue in
Russia. The campaign is being car
ried on vigorously by the Militant
Goddess league with apparently the
full support of the Soviet government,
and countless churches in many cities
and towns have been closed as places
of worship and converted to other
uses. The league bitterly resents the
protests in other countries and defes
and Whites Pope Plus who issued an
encyclical against prosecutions of
Christians in Russia" Sergius, who
was set up as the metropolitan of the
Orthodox Russian church to succeed
the late Patriarch Tikhon, and who
says he represents "some tens of mil
lions of faithful" is entirely subservi-
ent to the Soviet government, and in
an interview given to foreign CORE