AMERICAN ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 15 February 1926, Page 3

AMERICAN ITEMS

[Australia & N.Z. Cable Association.] A STORM OF PROTEST. EXCLUSION OF A COUNTESS. NEW YORK, February 18. The exclusion of the Countess cf Catlicart lias raised n storm, of pintest from women in various sections i f the country. The headquarters of the National Women’s Party on Saturday petition'd Secretary Davis to admit the Countess and charged the immigration officials with discrimination, “ while admitting without question a man involved in a safe case. The party stands unqualifiedly for a single standard of morals.” A similar protest has been lodged In the New York League of Women Voters.

The Commissioner,'Mr Curran, nas summoned the Earl of Craven to ins office to question him and he would also investigate his record.

A COUNTESS’ ADMISSION. NEW YORK. Feb. 18. ‘‘Adultery is not a crime in England,” so said the Countess of C'alheart to reporters on Saturday at Ellis Island, where she is held pending the decision of the Secretary <4 bubo ur on her appeal from exclusion. ‘‘lf it wore,” slit; said, “all tile English nobility would be in gaol; and if England had the same entrance laws as America, I don’t think many American women would get in.” Commissioner Curran, who ordered the investigation on the ocea-i.n of ►- the admission of the Earl,of Craven, explained that the latter, as a married man, was not asked the same questions as were put to the Countess, who is n divorcee. WHEAT PROBLEM. A POOLING PROPOSAL. OTTAWA, Feb. IE The arrival at AVinnipeg of Messrs McDonald and Reesdale (Australian ■ delegates), en route to the AA'hcat Con4ference at Stanaul, Minnesota, has revived the discussion in AVinnipeg regarding the problems which the wheatproducers of the world face in their effort to secure stabilisation of the markets. ft is pointed out, on the basis of Air Hoover’s prediction, that within five years the United States will consume her own protluetiou of wheat and the world’s greatest wheat growers will lie Cunada, Australia and the Argentine and any effort of the former two to establish, a system for the regulation of wheat production into even channels of supply would, through economic weight, assure the adherence of the third country, y. Those, ill close touch with the wheat s markets favour plans based on the principles somewhat similar to the Stevenson rubber system. They insist that a world pool would not be created for the purpose of raising prices to exorbitant levels. They point out that ten years wheat at 125 or 150 cents per bushel is preferable to eight years wheat at two dollars iiiterhided with a year at ninety-five cents and a year at eighty-eight cents. I hey stress the fact that an even price tends to stability. . , Mr McDonald, commenting on the situation ns it concerns Australia and Canada said: “AA'e wish to prevent geUinir in opposition to one another and an organisation which will make J.. sure of the world markets. It is the desire of the promoters of this system v to lie able to feed grain to the markets of the world when it is demanded without a cut throat system of rompetition.* 9 Mr McDonald acknowledged tnat Canada’s pool system was better organised than Australia’s and intimated the desirableness that the Australian pool should supervise the greater portion of the supply of wheat. After attending the St. Paul Conference Mr McDonald intends to make an intensive study of the North American pool system.