WIDE RANGE COVERED
BY PROGRAM OFFERED
FOR WOMEN’S LEAGUE
(By Associated Press)
RICHMOND, Va., Apr. 8.—The pro
posed program ol' work for the Na
tional League of Women Voters car
ries is one of iis pnncipal recom
uHnda'iv'Mjs t he outlawry of war
and its looition as .t legalized ins;I
tut ion. It will be su omitted to t ^
annual convention here April 16-22.
The tentative program, a compre
hensive outline covering all phases of
the league's activities, is now being
sent out for consideration and dis
cussion by state and local leagues.
It includes two new federal recom
mendations, the first being “support
of resolutions permitting United
States official representation in" the
disarmament conference when called
by the League of Nations.” The sec
ond calls for “support of measures
designed to make effective the Per
manent Court of International Jus
tice and providing for the codifica
tion of international law”; also meas
ures designed for the outlawry of
war and its abolition as a legalized
institution.
Appointment of women to posi-1
tions in the national, state and local
governments this year is supple
mented by the plea for their place
ment on commissions “and other
bodies having international represen
tation.”
While a holdover on the program
from last year urges ratification of
the child labor amendment, an addi
tion this year urges legislation to
bring state child labor laws up to a i
reasonable age, education and physi- j
cal standard.
The committee on education would
be given the task of urging “ade
quate financing of the federal de- ;
partment of education and of public !
schools in the District of Columbia, j
as well as federal aid to states un- j
tier the public school svstem re-!
search.
Another addition to the work of
this committee under the state leg
islative section is the plea for “equal
ization of the financial burden by
apportionment of state school funds,
according to community need, and
effort to maintain good educational
standards,” and “the equalization of
educational opportunity through qual
ified persons on the board of educa
tion.”
The measures outlined on the pro
gram of work for the committee on
the legal status of women range
from the removal of all common law
disabilities of married women, to a
plea that women voters be “ade
quately represented at all party con
ventions and on all partisan commit
tees and boards elected by the vot
ers.”
The development of Muscle
Shoals as a national asset thru legis
lation which will provide “wide and
economical distribution of electri
cal power,” is one of the chief claus
es on the program outlined for the
committee.
Gasoline and Tobacco
are Creap in Texarkana
(By Associated Press)
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. April 8.—
While other people of Arkansas pay
four cents on every package of cigar
ettes they smoke, four cents a gallon
on every gallon of gasoline and ten
cents a gallon on motor oil, the city
of Texarkana is “sitting pretty.”''
Texarkana, over on the southwest
ern border of Arkansas, with part of
the city in Texas and part in Arkan
sas does not have to pay only one
cent a gallon tax on gasoline. Even
the remainder of Miller county in
which the city is located, must pay
the tax.
The state of Texas does not levy
a tobacco tax, and levies only one
cent a gallon on gasoline, and as a
result when the tobacco and gasoline
laws were passed Texarkana was ex
empt as it was pointed out, the mer
chants on the Texas side of the town
would get all the trade. It was pro
vided, however, that whenever the
State of Texas adopted such tax laws
they also should apply to Texarkana.
Thus Texarkana, in Arkansas, is in
the unique position of having its tax
laws, insofar as gasoline and tobacco
are concerned, regulated entirely by
the laws of Texas.
Celluloidal Producers
Pursue Invasion of the
British Film Field
LONDON, April 7.—The moaning
and wringing of hands over the sad
state of British moving picture film
businesses waxes louder day by day.
Perhaps the public cares, but it
shows no inclination to cease crowd
ing into the hundreds of theatre at
which American films are run almost
exclusively year in and year out.
The British film makers cast many
an envious eye at Hollywood, and they
lift their voices, fervently hoping to
catch the ears of both government
and the people, and protest that even
England’s own dominions and colonies
are being Americanized by the subtle
propaganda contained in the cellu
loidal products of the studios of Cali
fornia and New York. Lest their ar
guments fall on deaf ears, trade, the
very life blood of the empire is brot
into play.
It would seem that trade has broken
itself of the habit of following the
flag; these days it follows the films.
There is a very active campaign on
to have the government slap a heavy
tax on foreign films, and help the tot
tering movie magnates of this coun
try until their business grows up and
becomes steady on its feet. The gov
ernment has so far kept silent upon
its intentions, if any, as regards the
movies.
Meanwhile dollar-laden magnates of
the movies breeze in from Broadway,
one after another and whizz around j
the British isles, building up defenses i
against competition from other movie !
sources and bolstering their English \
business. Some of them have even i
gone so far as to buy or build large j
theaters of their own in the precincts
of Piccadilly Circus.
Members of the Territorial legisla
ture are said to favor a personal
property tax on cannery machinery !
and boats, on account of the canners
fighting the case tax.
L. O. Gore, for the past four years
U. S. district attorney for the First
division with headquarters at Juneau
has resigned and will open law offices
at Ketchikan.
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SPOKANE,, Wn„ Apr. 7.—A bulldog
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a nervous young woman has been
found here by l)r. Bernard Johnson,
veterinarian. The pup had been strap
ped to an operating table and its muz
zle adjusted preparatory to an opera
tion. It fell into a perfect faint as
the veterinarian gathered up his tools.
SAYS SPIRITUALISM
IS WASTE OF TIME
LONDON, Apr. 7.—“Spiritualism is
one of those traps scattered over the
course of history and daily human
life which ultimately leads to people
wasting their time, and sometimes
far more and important things,” ac
cording to G. K. Chesterton.
“1 do 'not think anybody can tell
me anything said by any spirit or at
any seance that has the ring or
sharpness of one of the epigrams of
one of the great saints or theolo
gians.”
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