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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1921
Page
11
The program endorsed by President Harding outlines an emergency tariff bill limited to six months, an antidumping measure, and a shift to American valuation for duties. It aims to curb foreign imports, revive American industry, and set the stage for revenue law revision as Congress begins work.
Commissioner Oyster pledges to reduce crime in the District by boosting police efficiency. He will supervise police matters with aid from officials, urge a larger force and at least one more station house, and seek recommendations in the best interests of taxpayers and protection. Washington awaits stronger crime protection.
Citizens urge Congress to fund a proper institution for feeble minded children in Washington. They criticize past failures and press a concerted drive, urging district cooperation to obtain the needed appropriation and a state funded facility as a moral duty.
The new DC commissioners Rudolph and Oyster adopt a policy of cooperation and coordination to improve municipal services. They aim for a helpful efficient administration aligned with the national administration, stressing esprit de corps, public service, and practical results over speeches.
King Constantine orders three classes of the Greek reserve to attack nationalist forces, risking friction with Allied powers. London Paris and Rome face renewed pressure as the Near Eastern settlement continues to evolve. The Greek treasury’s strain and possible Allied intervention loom if victories fail or succeed reshaping the region.
A New York Tribune piece argues labor must stop dictating wartime terms and work with capital to rebuild a fair partnership. It highlights Coolidge urging balance and warns that deflation of war wages demands generosity, not triumph, for national welfare. It notes veterans and the new administration face hard policy questions about returning soldiers.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch notes potato growers in New Jersey persist in planting more despite prices that have fallen from 10 to 2 per barrel. It praises farmer optimism, hopes for a Chicago marketing plan to raise prices and reduce costs for consumers next year.
The San Francisco customs chief sells contraband whisky to druggists at about three dollars a gallon claiming medical prescription use only and no pilfering. Authorities have destroyed thousands of bottles and barrels of expensive liquor while druggists profit from cheap grades under physician prescriptions. It questions government policy of dumping twenty-year old liquor while permitting poor grade stock for medicine elsewhere.
Slow business closed shops and mila reduced railroad operation wage cuts strikes and unemployment are met with in every direction. The farmer is blamed while others gain leads to economic equality before prosperity returns. The farmer is urged to demand swift upheaval of the system.
The new Secretary of the Treasury seems to be feeling his way. He approves some politics of Secretary Houston and retains some department experts, but aims to use his office to curb national extravagance. If Mellon proves prudent, the country may gain a watchdog for Uncle Sam's pocketbook.
A non-navy figure, the Hon. James Boswell Talbot aged about 50, is invested as Lord Admiral of Malahide and adjoining seas. The Malahide estate halls and castle, tied to the Talbot line, hold Norman relics, portraits, and a treasure-filled interior including a Durer triptych once linked to Mary Queen of Scots. The piece notes lineage to the Earls of Shrewsbury and Talbot, and outlines succession and widow's residence at Auchinleck.
Belgrade on March 21 reports a cabinet reorganization headed by Premier Pachitch. Nikolai Pachitch remains foreign minister. new appointments include Marko Trifkevitz justice, M Drash kovics interior, Volizar Janko viteh communications, M Priblichoviteh education, Mikolai Cusounovitch agrarian reforms, Drs Kara Mehdmedovitch public health and Dr Nehmet Sabo commerce and industry, with two ministers Dr Sabo and Dr Mehdmedovitch noted as Muslims.
Paris government plans to end the petroleum monopoly with a bill for regulating imports. The measure places import control under commerce and industry, grants automatic permission, requires monthly stock declarations, and contemplates state created establishments to promote French petroleum production.
Rome March 24 The council of ministers decided that territories annexed to Italy by the treaty of St Germain shall elect 27 deputies. The Italian chamber will number 635 deputies. French use in parliament is allowed for Walden sian valleys representatives, though not presently claimed, raising questions about German or Slavic languages in future elections.
The Court of Claims holds a taxpayer may deduct all inheritance taxes from large income, a ruling tied to hundreds of estates. Solicitor General Frierson asked the Supreme Court to move hearings to April 11. The suit, led by Senator Oscar Underwood and other Woodward estate executors, notes Alabama returns paid $165,000 in income taxes.
Queen Marie of Roumania returned to Athens from northern Greece and declared she did not plot to dethrone King Constantine. She asked the Associated Press to refute the reports. She warned abdication could cause public discontent and possible disturbances.
President Harding will join the unveiling of the equestrian statue of Simon Bolivar in New York on April 19. The Venezuelan invitation was delivered by Minister Don Santos A Dominici, with Dr Esteban Gil Borges leading a Venezuelan delegation from Caracas to attend the ceremony.
Valuable historical relics of Joachim Murat king of Naples from 1808 to 1815 were stolen from the Renaissance museum in Bologna. Items include the grand collar of the Order of the Two Sicilies the grand cordon of the iron cross and a sword gifted by Napoleon. The artifacts belonged to Marquis Pepoli Murat’s grandson.
President Harding issued a recess appointment yesterday to Dwight Davis of Missouri as a member of the War Finance Corporation. Davis, a St. Louis resident, heads three major local firms the Security Building Company the State National Bank and the Mortgage Trust Company. He is a war veteran having served as a lieutenant colonel in the Fifth Missouri Cavalry.
Readings from agricultural voices across America indicate no broad acreage cuts, but a shift to diverse crops. Experts like William J Longrant and Henry G Osborn warn unemployment will ease as postwar industry reactivates, with dairy, hogs, chickens rising and markets stabilizing under normal conditions.
In Madrid on March 22 memory of the radi va Jeft meets with a few forming one antigovernment group Friends of Santa Alba. Mel Quiades Alvarez former minister of finance leads reforms and Alejandro Serro as rad leader in the chamber agree to energize an opposition campaign to what they call government obstruction. Reporters threaten to withhold coverage unless new information channels are provided after a cabinet meeting they gain admittance to the former minister residence but are kept from approving ministry members.
The Rockefeler foundation offers 43 million francs toward a 100 million-franc endowment for a new medical school complex at the University of Brussels. The gift supports education and health programs and funds a nurses training school in memory of Edith Cavell. Mme Lepage, Belgian Red Cross leader, and the Queen aided Belgium during wartime.
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