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THE SPRINGFIELD NEWS
WORLD HAPPEIIitlGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
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With a pageant depicting the events
and ceremonies Incident to the taking
over of San Francisco by the United
States from Mexico in 184$. followed
by a civic and military parade, San
Francisco Saturday celebrated her
75th birthday anniversary.
High freight rates on livestock and
feed prevent producers from replenish
ing their ranches, and the price of
meat will be advanced to the consumer,
the board of railroad commissioners
said in a brief filed Wednesday with
the interstate commerce commission.
After putting through a rule calling
for a final vote on the tariff bill on
July 21, and limiting amendments
from the floor to hides, oil, cotton,
asphalt and dyes, the house held its
first night session Tuesday night in
order to accommodate the multitude
of members eager to discuss it.
Eamonn de Valera, the Irish repub
lican leader, and his colleagues are in
London for the purpose of discussing
with the British government the Irish
situation. According to present ar
rangements. De Valera will meet the
prime minister In the cabinet room in
Downing street Thursday morning.
Violation of the treaty between the
United States and Japan of April 5.
1911, is charged against a city ordin
ance in Seattle in a suit filed in su
perior court by It. Askura, proprietor
of a pawnshop, who contends that be
was refused a renewal of his license
and forced to go out of business solely
because he was a Japanese subject.
More than 2500 New York state em
ployes drew their last pay check from
the Btate Thursday. Their jobs have
been abolished under the programme
of economy and retrenchment adopted
by the legislature on the recommenda
tion of Governor Miller. The saving
effected by the abolition of these Jobs
will be close to 13,000,000 a year, it
was estimated.
Investigation of the operations of
the federal reserve board, the chamber
of commerce of the United States and
"the great trusts, such as the steel,
coal, credit and money trusts," was
asked of a joint congressional commis
sion Monday by C. S. Barrett, chair
man of the national board of farm
organizations and president of the na
tional farmers' union.
Harry G. Hawker, the first aviator
to assay a flight across the Atlantic
in an airplane, met a terrible death
Tuesday while flying over Dendon
field in London. The machine was
seen descending in flames, and Hawk
er's body was found 200 yards from
the spot where the airplane fell. It
was badly mutilated both by fire and
the fall. One foot was severed and
both legs were broken.
The annual naval appropriation bill
was signed late Tuesday by President
Harding. The bill carries approxi
mately $410,000,000 and its signing
ended the technical lapse of navy
funds which had existed since July 1,
when the fiscal year began. Under a
resolution which accompanied the bill
to the White House the appropriations
were made retroactive to July 1, to
cover technical deficits.
Employes of the American Railway
Express will receive a wage reduction
of 6 cents an hour, beginning August 1,
under a decision of the United States
railroad labor board Tuesday. The cut
will affect all employes of the com
pany except a few hundred shopmen,
about 60,000 workers, or 25 per cent
under the normal force being in the
express service at the present time.
No reduction of express rateB is con
templated at this time as a result of
the wage cut, express company officials
laid.
FOREIGN TRADE TAKES DROP
Slump Is About Evenly Divided IW-
twren Exports and Import.
Washington, D. C Americans for
eign trade fell oft more than $3,000.'
000,000 during the fiscal year ended
June SO, a summary of trade Issued
Monday by the department of com
coerce shows. The slump was about
evenly divided between exports and
Imports.
Exports for the year aggregated
$6,519,000,000, as compared with $8.
108,000,000 the year before, while im
ports amounted to $3,666,000,000, at
against $5,238,000,000 the previous
year. The trade balance In favor of
the United States for the year was
$2,852,000,000.
Exports In June totaled $340,000.
000. as against $329,000,000 in May
and $629,000,000 in June. 1920. while
Imports were $189,000,000, compared
with $204,000,000 in May and $552,
000.000 In June, 1920.
While lower than the total for the
previous year and the $7,000,000,000
total In 1919, exports for the last
fiscal year were greater than the
total of $5,919,000,000 In 1918 and
$6,290,000,000 In 1917.
Exports during the last year were
greater than In any year since 1917
with the exception of 1920.
Gold imports for the fiscal year
aggregated $646,000,000. compared
with $150,000,000 in the previous year,
while exports totaled $133,000,000. as
against $466,000,000.
For the month of June gold imports
aggregated $44,000,000, compared with
$25,000,000 In June a year ago, while
exports amounted to $773,000, against
$5,000,000 in June, 1920.
Silver exports for the fiscal year
aggregated $52,000,000, compared with
$179,000,000 in the previous year,
while imports amounted to $59,000,
000. as against $102,000,000 during the
fiscal year of 1920.
During June silver exports aggre
gated $1,000,000. compared with $4,
000,000 in June. 1920, while Imports
totaled $3,000,000, as against $6,000,
000. HOUSE OF COMMONS
CHEERS MOVE TO DISARM
London. Premier Lloyd George, In
a statement to the house of commons
Monday gave a full and frank explana
tion of the steps leading to the pro
posed conference for the discussion of
armaments. The first principle of the
British policy, he declared, was friend
ly co-operation with the UnltedeBtates.
"We are all convinced," said the
premier, "that upon this, more than
any single factor, depends the peace
and well-being of the world."
The Initiative of President Harding
with respect to an International con
ference on the limitation of arma
ments bad been received with the
utmost pleasure by Great Britain,
said Mr. Lloyd George, adding that he
spoke for the empire as a whole. The
house cheered this statement.
At the same time, he said, Great
Britain desired to maintain close
friendship and co-operation with
Japan, which harmonized the Influ
ences of the two great Asiatic powers
and constituted an essential safe
guard to the well-being of the British
empire and the peace of the east.
The "open door" in China was another
aim of the government, he added, to
gether with opportunity for peaceful
progress and development of the
Chinese.
Both Great Britain and Japan de
sire that the Anglo-Japanese agree
ment be brought into complete har
mony with the covenant of the league
of nations, continued the premier.
Notice to this effect had been given
to the league.
Triplets Swell Family.
Stockton, Cal. The wife of Nick
Coddy of this city gave birth Sunday
to two girls and a boy. One of the
girl babies weighed five pounds and
the other children 4Va pounds each.
The arrival of the triplets makes 17
children born to the Coddys, who are
of Syrian blood. This is the second
set of triplets to arrive In the family
and there have also been twins.
Judge Punishes Himself.
Jamestown, N. D. Records of the
police court here show that J. A.
Murphy, the magistrate, fined himself
on the charge be lodged against blra
Belf for driving his automobile on the
wrong side of the street to avoid an
accident. Murhpy was arrested by a
patrolman who though the magistrate
"was trying him out." He paid the fine.
IS
T
Bureaucrats Fear Anglo-Saxon
Domination.
SOME FAVOR HARDING
Battle for Rights at World Session la
Favored. Crisis Declared
at Hand.
Toklo. Japan Monday seemed to
be an empire divided on the great is
sues created by the summons of Pres
ident Harding to a conference on dis
armament and far eastern problems.
On one side, largely In the ranks of
the bureaucrats, there was fear ex
pressed that the proposed conference
would bo dominated by the Anglo
Saxons, and might result In strangling
Japan's political and economlo devel
opment In Asia.
On the other side there was ar
rayed a powerful liberal group which
was demanding that Japan enter Into
the deliberations fearlessly, submit
ting her wants resolutely, combating
for them with confidence and not op
posing just claims. Haggling and bick
ering, they Insisted, would ruin the
cause of Japan.
Both camps agreed that Japan was
facing a crisis, requiring tact and
breadth of vision. Muny members of
the privy council, according to the
well-Informed newspaer t'hugal Sho
gyo Shlmpo, were pessimistic about
the conference; they contended that
the proposal to diwuMB problems and
policies of the far east Indicated co
operation between the United States
and Great Britain In an attempt to
settle international questions favor
ably for them, an Indication of which
was to be seen In the altitude of the
English toward the AngloJapaneHe al
liance. The Invitation to China to join in
the conference. It was further urged,
was additional evidence In support of
the theory of a secret purpose on the
part of , the Anglo-Saxon nations In
calling the conference.
U. S. Pays Money to England
Watihlngton, D. C Despite Great
Britain's debt of $4,500,000,000 to this
country, payment of $32,688,352 has
been made by the American govern
ment Jo the BritlHh ministry of ship
ping in settlement of a claim agalnHt
the war department, treasury offi
cials admitted Saturday. The payment
was made, officials said, pursuant to
an opinion by Attorney General
Daugherty.
The Brit!nh claim was for transpor
tation service arising out of the war
with Germany, and the payment, it
was explained, constituted final set
tlement between the war department
and the British ministry of shipping
of all claims of either party against
the other for transportation service.
Secretary Mellon asked Mr. Daugh
erty for a ruling as to whether the
act of March 3, 1837, which requires
the secretary to withhold the payment
of any judgment against the United
States where the claimant Is Indebted
to this country In any manner, ap
plied to such a claim.
Mr. Daugherty held the act did not
apply, as It was not the practice of
sovereign nations to prosecute their
claims against one another In the
courts and obtain judgment, but ad
just such matters through diplomatic
channels.
Famine Grips 20,000,000
Berlin. Twenty million persons are
on the verge of starvation in the
drought-stricken sections of Russia,
subsisting mainly on moss, grass and
the bark of trees, according to the
Votisiache Zeltung, quoting informa
tion from "reliable Russian sources."
Refugees are reported to bo pour
ing Into Moscow and Petrograd by
thousands and to be fleeing hopelessly
In every direction.
The parched earth, it Is asserted, is
opening up great crevices and wells
and rivers are drying up. Many vil
lages are reported on fire. All cattle
In the stricken districts have been
slaughtered.
DIVIDED
AM
At to Immortality.
If I am wrong In thinking the hu
man soul Immortal, 1 am glad to bo
wrong; nor will I allow the mistake
which gives mo so much pleasure to
bo wrested from me long na I live.
But If when (lend, as soino Insignifi
cant philosophers think. I am to be
without Herniation, I am not afraid of
dead philosophers deriding my errors.
Again, If we aro not to bo Immortal,
It U nevertheless what a tnnn must
wish to have his life end at Its prop
er time. For nature puts a limit to
living at to everything else. Cicero
"On Old Age."
Egyptians First In Field.
The earliest objects that civilisation
possesses In the way of ancient pot
terr show that the Egyptians were
probably the first to use glases, but the
practice may have originated Inde
pendently wherever a knowledge of
early glaies were of the alkaline type,
which had to bo first fused Into a glass
before it could be applied to pottery.
Many Missing.
Every year no fewer than 30.000
persons are reported missing In Ixin
don alone. Some of them aro never
seen nor heard of again; others, after
weeks or months of absence, return
and take up the threads of their for
mer life as If they had never left It
Brooklyn Eagle.
Old Japanese Title.
Tycoon Is the title by which the
Shoguns of Japan were known to for
elgners since the signing of the treaty
In 1854 by Commodore Perry on bo
half of the United States and lyesada.
the shogun of Japan.
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No matter how black or threatening
tho outlook, keep working, keep vis
unllxtng your life dream, and soino un
expected way will surely open for Its
fulfillment. Tho abiding faith In a
power which will bring things out
right In the end, which will hnrmontto
dliw'ord, has always been strong In men
and women who have dono grout
things In the world. Orison Hwctt
M turd en, In Chicago Dally News.
Didn't Have the Price.
Returning home from the dentist's,
where he had gone to have a loose
tooth drawn, llttlo Raymond reported
as follows: 'jThe doctor told tne 'fore
ho began that If I cried or screamed
It would cost me a dollar, but If I wan
a good boy it would be only CO cents."
"Did you scream T" his mother aitked.
"How could I?" answered Ray; "you
only gave me 50 cents."
Quality Appreciated. f
As little Rose was walking along
the sidewalk with me, I asked her If
she would like to walk on tho elevated
curb. It seemed to be just the thing
she wanted to do, because she said to
me, "Oh, you are a good askcr." Chi
cago American.
But They're Scarce,
Our Idea of the right kind of girl
Is one who can dance well, but doen't
act as If the rest of humanity wero
merely her dance floor. Dallas News.
Unfortunate Oversight.
Jud Tunkbts says the man who used
to think it was cheaper to move than
pay rent has discovered that he reck
oned without his next landlord.
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