Current Events 
U. S. A. 
When the United States Senate approved the Four-Power Treaty, 
the first concrete result of the Washington Conference for the Limita¬ 
tion of Armaments was secured. The ratification of the treaty found 
the two irreconcilable groups still opposed because it brought the United 
States into formal association with other major powers for the preser- 
\ ation of peace in the Pacific, but the country was overwhelmingly 
in favor of this move toward world peace. CJ Diplomatic circles were 
stirred by the presentation to the Allies of a bill for $251,000,000 for 
Army of Occupation costs on the Rhine but after the first flurry had 
spent itself it vas found that it was merely as a matter of record that 
Secretary of State Hughes had declared Washingtonfs insistence 
that this bill should come as a first claim on German Reparations. 
Maryland is the first southern State to pass the bill of rights advo¬ 
cated by the National Women’s Party in nine States. The leaders 
of the party look upon the victory as of the utmost significance to 
woman’s advancement throughout the country. CJ The plan of 
Henry Ford for the introduction of five days a week as the work- 
ing period in all his factories is looked upon as revolutionary in indus¬ 
trial circles while the experiment is being watched with the greatest 
inteiest. Mr. Ford expects to give employment to thousands of more 
workers by his five-day plan. CJ Theatre owners, producers, actors 
and representative citizens in every vocation have combined with the 
New York authorities for the elevation of the stage and ridding it of 
undesirable productions in an effort to avoid a threatening censorship. 
CJ Samuel Gompers, President of the American Federation of Labor, 
endorsed the campaign of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation to raise 
$1,000,000 to endow the Wilson awards for distinguished public serv¬ 
ice. Among those recently enrolled as founders of the awards is Dr. 
William L. Ettinger, Superintendent of the Schools of New York. 
CJ Vice-President Coolidge, reviewing the work of the past year in 
national politics, described President Harding’s first year as an almost 
incredible improvement in Federal economy. He claims a reduction 
of the budget to somewhat less than $4,000,000,000 from a maximum 
of $5,500,000,000 and a prospective reduction for next year to about 
$3,500,000,000, accompanied by a cut of 60,000 persons in Federal 
personnel and some 85,000 in the army. CJ The Association Against 
Prohibition, formed some time ago for the purpose of electing mem¬ 
bers of Congress favorable to a liberalization of the Volstead Act has 
started a campaign in ten States. Stuyvesant Fish is chairman of the 
New York State division and enrolled in its membership are many 
well known names. 
