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...floods, but in general a continuous flow. In countries like the Balkans it is a series of cloudbursts. In Porto Rico it is a geyser-spurting periodically. The recent Governor of Porto Rico, E. Mont Reily, left office under criticism, if not because of it. His successor, Horace M. Towner, had hardly come within range of the Porto Rican geyser before he began to be spattered with mud. Politicians in Porto Rico are divided into three parts. Of these, the Unionists are the dominant group. San Juan, the capital on the North coast, is their stronghold, and they favor Porto...
Hoping to pacify the island, the President and Secretary of War Weeks chose as Reily's successor Representative. Horace M. Towner of Iowa, Chairman of the House Insular Affairs Committee, who on arriving at his post was greeted with a tremendous ovation, " the greatest celebration that the island had ever witnessed...
...last long. Governor Towner chose a Cabinet composed principally, if not entirely, of Unionists. At once the Republicans began to storm as the Unionists had stormed previously. When Secretary Weeks went to the island recently he was forced to listen to three hours of wrangling among the local politicians before he could speak. No protesting delegations have yet arrived in Washington, but the Administration anticipates their coming...
...Juan. He offered his resignation, but the Committee cabled asking him to remain in office. Federal Judge Arthur F. Odlin, appointed by President Harding, has . threatened to resign. Reports from Washington indicate that the Administration considers the whole matter a bad business and will place no constraints on Governor Towner. The situation in Porto Rico is expected to add to the interest of President Harding's visit there on his return from Alaska via Panama in August...
...liberalism of the Supreme Court, much impugned when it nullified the District of Columbia minimum wage law for women, was apparently revived by two of its latest acts. One was to decline to consider the constitutionality of the Sheppard-Towner Bill for maternity welfare instruction. This disposes of the bill only temporarily, however, and it may again come before the Court. The other was to declare unconstitutional the forbidding of instruction in foreign languages in elementary schools, public, private or parochial...