Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 39, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 June 1927 — Page 3

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MOVIE STARS HELPLESS IN WAGE SLASH 9 Some Plan to Rebel Against Enforcement of Economy Program. 'flu United Press HOLLYWOOD, Cal., June 25. When the boss cuts wages there really isn’t very much the hired help can do about it but let him, most of Hollywood’s movie stars decided today. Others declared they would rebel openly if the salary cuts of from 10 to 25 per cent announced by the Motion Picture Producers Association were put into effect. The rebels’ however, were careful to specify that they wouldn’t be quoted directly in anything they had to say about the producers efforts ”to stabilize the motion picture industry.” Warner Brothers today was the only company that had asked players officially to accept lower salaries. “At that,” Monte Blue, one of the Warner celebrities said, “It seemed like the only thing to do under the Circumstances.” Stars of other companies, approached in a United Press canvass, fcaid they had not been asked to accept less money and that they did pot expect to be. Not Requested Yet M Billie Dove, Mary Astor, Richard Barthelmess and Milton Sills, all working under the banner of the First National, said they had not been requested to agree to lower salaries. First National officials, said however, that all employes jwould be subject to a 10 per cent cut, effective June 27. John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Norma IShearer and Renee Adoree, Metro-fDoldwyn-Mayer luminaries, refused ‘to be quoted. At the Paramount studio, where Vthe contemplated salary cuts were 'first announced, it was said conferences would be arranged next week with individual stars to dis- . puss lower wages. Pola Negri, Clara Bow, Bebe Spaniels and other high salaried •players are under contract with the Paramount organization. As far as the conferences go. Miss Daniels Bald, she wasn’t “worrying about them.” The economy program, except at Warner Brothers, so far has hit only the lesser employes of the various studios. All directors, scenario writers, technicians and publicists already have been given lower salary schedules at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount. BRITAIN CAN EXPECT MANY METHUSELAHS ■kverage Expectancy of Life Shows Rapid Increase Bu United Press LONDON, June 25.—Englishmen Will all be amateur Methuselzfhs a couple of centuries hence if the present rate of increase in life ex-pecL'-icy is kept up. According to the latest statistics compiled by the Registrar-General of Great Britain, the average expectation of life for males in England and Wales in the period 1910 to 1924, increased by eight years. This increase took place in spite of the immense losses in man-power the nation suffered during the great (war. The average expectancy of men in England today is 56.58 years for men and 60.47 for women. DRY ANSWERS GILLIOM fihumaker Denies Graft Charge Against His League. Declaring that all expenditures of, . the Indiana Anti-Saloon League are “open book,” Superintendent E. PS. Shumaker of the league denied Charges of f Attorney General • L. Gilliom that huge sums pre collected under “false pretense.” Gilliom contends that hirelings of lithe league collect money in churches >md are paid S2O a speech and that only Shumaker knows what becomes bf the funds. He said that business has been boomed by misrepresentation of his stand for modification K>f Indiana statutes to conform with he Volstead act and permit medipinal whisky. “Every cent is accounted for in the annual report,” Shumaker said. 'SOUTH TO HONOR RILEY {Tablet to Hoosier Poet Will Be Placed at Fletcher, N. C. Bu Times Special GREENFIELD, Ind., June 25. Mayor Stephen G. White of Greenfield has been invited to attend dedication of a bronze tablet to James Whitcomb Riley. Hoosier poet, at Fletcher, N. C., July 17. The Carolina town was home to Bill Nye. humorist, and friend of Riley, and the two had been together at Buck Shoals on the French Broal River, near the Calvary Episcopal Church yard in Fletcher, where the tablet Will be placed. Dr. Joe Shelby Riley, the poet’s cousin, is dtonor of the tablet. This is the first memorial in North Carolina to Riley, and one of two in the entire South. CHINESE TRADE MOUNTS Exports of America to Orient Gain Despite Disturbances Bu United Prcu WASHINGTON. June 25.—Despite Unsettled conditions and trade difficulties, exports to China during the quarter of the current year, ■amounting to $33,499,000 increased per cent over the same period in 1925. Imports from China were valued at $46,644,000 an increase of 11 per cent over last year. Exports to Japan in the same period increased 11 per cent to $75,919,000. *

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Exactly two hours and five minutes after Friday’s Times came from the press, Miss Lillian M. Gould, 1227 Park Ave., walked into the office of the Whoozit Editor and claimed her tickets for the Circle Theater. “Most opportune,” said Miss Gould. “We wanted to see ‘Resurrection’ and hear Max Fisher’s ‘Californians.’ This is just gorgeous.” Miss Gould’s picture appeared on

MUTINY BATTLE FOUGHTIN MINE Grim Story Told by Convicts Back in Cells. Bu United Press LANSING, Kan., June 25.—The grim story of a hand-to-hand battle at the bottom of a 720-foot mine shaft between 278 prisoners who were not in sympathy with the mutiny and the mutineers, was related by convicts in their cellhouses today. Driven by fear and hunger the men who were not in sympathy with mutiny, charged a barricade behind which they had been held prisoners. and after breaking through, assaulted the instigators of the muiny with handles, shovels and rocks. The battle beneath the ground continued back and forth and with each onslaught the mutineers lost ground. A call was made to the surface for help. On past the guards, the mutinous men were driven and with the guards as reinforcements the prisoners were within sight of the elevator cage. Here a threat was made by the mutineers to blow up the shaft with dynamite, but the rush was started again and the mutinous convicts were driven past the shaft. At one stage of the turmoil, the mutineers used acid in their fight and several men suffered slightburns from acid. After gaining control of the elevator, the mutinous men were overpowered and sent to the surface, where they were taken by guards and placed in their cells. Weakened by lack of food and exhausted from their fight, several of the imprisoned men collapsed when they reached the surface. Seven are recuperating in the prison hospital today. ASSAILS DIVORCE MILLS Bishop Denounces—Modem Morals, Unmarried Unions. Bn United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—After delivering a scathing denunciation of modern morals and manners in which he assailed the “divorce mills at Paris, Reno, and other cities,” and “sex experiments and unmarried unions,” Bishop William T. Manning sailed early today on the Majestic to preach at the 1.300 th anniversary of Yorkminster Cathedral in England. He attacked bitterly “a group in the church itself,” which had proposed open minded consideration of unmarried unions “with the use of birth control to guard against the coming of children.” MOVES ZOO INTO HOUSE Owner Fined When 34 Families in Building Revolt. Bn United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—Thirtyfour families in an east side apartment house have revolted because Edward Sauter moved all the animals, birds and fish from his pet store into his apartment. The Harlem court fined Sauter $lO for violating the sanitary code, and warned him to remove immediately his fifteen dags, ten cats, twenty canaries, fourteen pigeons and eighteen goldfish. Safe Crackers Get $6,200 Bu United Press PHI L A DELPHIA, June 25. Cracksmen forced their way into the office of the Frank Mark Construction Company here early today, blew the doors from two small safes and escaped with a pay roll of $6,200. The longest lease in the world is on two buildings in London. They an annual rental of 200 pounds. The next longest lease on record is 999 years.

the left of the WHOOZIT group in The Times Friday. “The Butter and Egg Man,” with Elliott Nugent and Vivian Tobin, played by the Stuart Walker Company at Keith’s, will be seen by: Miss Marie Lisby, 2818 Shriver Ave.; Miss Alberta Stanford, 215 E. Thirty-Sixth St., Apt. 4, and Miss Pliyilis Martin, Indiana University Training School for Nurses in W. Michigan St., the prize winners

Lindberghs of .the Past The past holds golden deeds of other Lindberghs Columbus, Stanley, Livingstone, Magellan, Leif Ericson—men who have dared the darkness to give the world great discoveries. The stories of these men and the bright pages of progress they have added to the book of human history are part of the illustrated strip, “The Book of Knowledge,” now being offered to you daily in The Times.

FEW JOBLESS LEFT British Unemployment Hits Low Point. LONDON, June 25.—Unemployment in Great Britain has touched the lowest point in seven years. When the unemployed-persons register on May 23 dropped down to 978.000 it passed just below the unemployment figure reached in December, 1920, in the temporary wave of postwar prosperity. How unemployment has been steadily declining is illustrated graphically by the unemployment figures commencing November, 1926 when the coal stoppage came to an end. November. 1926, 1,545,000; December, 1926, 1,351,000; March, 1927. 1,081.000; May 9, 1927, 998,300; May 23, 1927, 978,000. It is believed that the improvement will continue through June, but considerable increase in the number of unemployed is anticipated during July and August, decreasing again as Autumn advances. RADIO SHOW AT FAIR Dealers Will Have Exhibits In Manufacturers’ Building. An Indiana radio show will be one of the new features of the State Fair, Sept 3-10,, Secretary E. J. Barker announced today. Heretofore the radio show has been held later, but arrangements have been made with the Indianapolis dealers’ association to place exhibitions in the Manufacturers’ Building at the Fairgrounds and have the show in connection with the regular program.

Flagpole Perching May Become National Sport

Bu United Press NEW YORK, June 25.—Flagpole sitting, the newest and cleanest of all sports, is taking the country by storm. Flagpole sitters are springing up everywhere—at any rate in Newark, in Boston and in Denver—and the diversion threatens to supplant the black bottom unless the flagpole sitters, as they are now striving to do, manage to keejgjt on a strictly masculine basis. “A flagpole,” as Alvin (Shipwreck) Kelly put it soon after descending from his epic sit of twelve days, twelve hours and twelve minutes atop a Newark hotel, “is no place for a flapper.” Kelly, however, is a family man and apt to be stern on such subjects. Some of the younger flagpole sitters, notably Frank (Sparrow) Holl of Boston, believe it will only be a question of time before women take up the sport. Once They’re Curious “Look at Ederle,” he said. “Look at Suzanne Lenglen. Look at the Zitenfield twins. Just as soon as women become curious about the joys of flying from a flagpole, they’ll take it up.” a

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whose pictures appeared Thursday. Each day The Times will print a group of pictures snapped at random on Indianapolis streets—look for them—you may be among them. Two tickets to any performance of the Stuart Walker Company at Keith’s Theater or the Circle Theater, where Vincent Lopez and his Casa Lopez Orchestra appear all next week, are ready for those identifying themselves to the Whoozit Editor of The Times.

DAKOTA SOLONS VISIT COOLIDGE Extra Legislative Session to Convene on Lawn. Bu United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., June 25. On the stubby green lawn of the .summer White House, cupped in the sacred hills of the Indians, the Legislature and Senate of South Dakota will convene in extraordinary session today to pay respect to President Coolidge. State congress adjourned its special business session at Pierre, the capital, to come here by special train over the week-end and express the gratitude of the State that the President decided to spend his summer here. A delegation oMorty-one Senators and ninety House members is to be called into session in the strangest legislative chamber in which it ever convened. Rock hills rise all about in sort of bowl; fish jump in Squaw Creek, which winds through where their lobby ought to be; wild and tame beasts can stare from nearby crags at their austerity. Mr. Coolidge indicated that he might address the delegation. This was the only, major item on Mr. Coolidge’s week-end program. Governor General Leonard Wood left last night for Chicago after a conference with newspapermen in which he announced his intention of returning to his post at Manila in September. He will be sufficiently recovered from recent illnesses and injuries to resume his adminstrative duties there by that time, he said. The President expected to go again Sunday to the little white washed church at the side of the road in Hermosa to hear the second sermon of Ralph Lium, Minnesota theological student. TUP’ WON AFFECTIONS Eleven years ago Pup, a small, long-haired dog of no lineage and less social’ standing walked into the home of Mrs. Jemima Truckews, 75, of 715 W. New York St., a widow. She tried to get rid of him but could find no owner. Today, Pup has disappeared just as mysteriously as he had come. Mrs. Truckews has conducted a three-weeks search in vain and says she won’t give up until she finds him

This is the report of Holl’s opinion as passed around in City Hall park, where the most intense interest is taken in flagpole sitting by the habitues, who grab every edition of the paper fromXhe municipal receptacle boxes as fast as they are thrown there to keep the closest possible tab on flagpole sitting developments. All Hold Records Practically all the bench sitters in the park have held open air sitting records at one time or another, and they take the same extra keen interest in the sport that a Babe Ruth does in baseball. Elmer (Blind-Baggage) Emerson had hoped to break the park sitting record this year with an uninterrupted sit from April 15, when he returned from Miami, until Armistice day. But the mayor’s welcoming committee built a grandstand over him to welcome Lindbergh, and Emerson, whose sit was just beginning to attract attention, had to move to the postofflce side of the park. This was against the rules laid down by the park bench and flagpole sitters rules committee for establishing official records.

RAIL MEN TO FIGHT LONGER WORKING DAY Employers’ Idea Faces Opposition of 1,500,000 Workers. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, June 25.—The 1,500,000 railroad workers of the United States will “fight to a finish” any attempt to lengthen the basic hours of railraod work, representatives of the railroad brotherhoods said here today. A committee of railroad executives, following a suggestion by the Interstate Commerce Commission that they study means to stabilize employment, has recommended that railway labor working hours be increased to a basis of nine or ten hours a day in busy times. Hits Adamson Law They argue that such a policy would enable carriers to employ more uniform forces throughout the year, and would avoid the necessity of laying off men during dull seasons. The railroad workers see in the suggestion a possible coming attack on the Adamson law, their representatives said. “Not only would such a move represent a setback for labor's humanitarian program, but it would not benefit the roads themselves. There is plenty of flexibility in the pres- 1 ent hours of labor.

Think Joes Prevailed “Shopmen may be employed more than eight hours’ upon payment of time and a half and train crews, in emergencies, upon payment of specified overtime wages,” said a spokesman for the brotherhoods. “The executives’ committee in-1 eludes such hard boiled opponents of the unions as President Cole of the L. & N.. former President Rea of the Pennsylvania, and President Loree of the Delaware Hudson. We .believe that the views of these men ! must have won out over the views of such enlightened executives as President Willard of the B. & 0., who was chairman of the committee.”

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Automobiles reported stolen to police belong to: Charles B. Stoltz, 4918 E. New York St., Chevrolet, 504-719, from Market and Alabama Sts. Ilene Clay Alexander. Linden Hotel, Hudson, 529-844, from rear of hotel. Roosevelt Malone, 124 W. McCarty St., Ford, 576-093, from' Capitol Ave. and Merrill St. B. F. Mahoney. Elwood. Ind., Chevrolet, irom Delaware and Ohio Sts. Cager Roark. 822 Division St., Ford; 511-233, from Capitol Ave. and Georgia St. Francis M. Scott, R. R. O. Box 183, Chevrolet, 508-132, from Virginia Ave. and Washington St. A. M. Ball, 35 8. Colorado Ave., Ford, 577-566, from Ohio and New Jersey Sts. Mrs. C. B. Collins, 2816 N. Illinois St., Willys-Knight, 13-147, from in front of that address.

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Automobiles reported found by police belong to: F. O. Wolfe, 5009 E. Michigan St.. Chevrolet, found at 325 W. Ohio St. Julius Weisman, 237 Union St.. Ford, found at Hanna Ave. and Bluff Rd. GAN DEFEAT GANGER Coolidge’s Doctor Tells How to Stop Disease. Bu United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., June 25. Cancer can be eliminated if every susceptible person over 35 years of age will go to a doctor once annually for examination. Maj. James F. Coupal, personal physician to President Coolidge, told the Black Hills Medical Association here today. “We examine our checking hccounts once a month,” Coupal said. “Our health accounts rarely think of until we have overdrawn on them and nature sends us to a doctor. “Well credited authorities claim that from 30 to 60 per cent and higher of cancer is curable if diagnosis of this condition is made early. A periodic inspection of situations where we know cancer to be common is the only thing which can eliminate this human peril. “This means that when we come of cancer age, from 35 onward, we must go at least once a year for careful examination of this dangerous possibility.” ‘TALKINGEST’ MARINE Recruiting Sergeant at Ft. Wayne “Signs Up” Sixty-Nine. Bu Times Special / FT. WAYNE, Ind., June 25.—The “talkingest” marine in America is stationed here. Sergt. Earl Bostick, local marine recruiter, is credited with being the most successful marine recruiting reserves for the corps in the United States. Bostick has sixty-nine reserves “signed up” for the current period. Wins Prize With Name TERRE HAUTE. Ind., June 25. Lawrence Smith, Normal senior, won the prize for a name for the new lunch room to be opened in connection with the Normal’s cafeteria. He submitted the name, “Sycamore Sandwich Shop.”

Spells Her Way to Fame

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iNEA Service Washington Bureau) Thirteen-year-old Hulda Fornell couldn’t even say “Merry Christmas” in English when she arrived in America from Sweden on Christmas eve four years ago. But now she is the schoolgirl spelling champion of the State of Michigan. This charming picture of her was taken in Washington. where she took tenth place and won SSO in a national spelling bee. She left the race on the word “pivotal.”

Mildred Riddle Gets to See Lindy at Capital

Mildred Riddle of Valley Mills, Indiana spelling champion sent to the national spelling bee in Washington by The Times, has seen Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. The two met face to face at the United States Postofflce Department in Washington, late Friday. Mildred was with the other participants in the national spelling bee at the Capitol building, when word was received that Lindy was on his way to the postofflce to confer with government officials. Arrive Just in Time They- scurried into some busses and speeded to the postofflce. They got there just in time. The spellers grouped on the steps caught Lindy's eye as he passed into the building and he smiled at Mildred pnd her chums. Today the party of spellers will close their Washington stay with a busy program. This morning they were taken to Alexandria and Mt. Vernon, visiting Christ Church, Masonic Lodge and Carlyle House in Alexandria. Will Visit Arlington This afternoon the spellers were scheduled to visit historic Columbia Heights, passing through Rock PROMISED HIS NAME Mother Produces Letters Sent by Millionaire. Bu United Press NEW YORK. June 25 —Letters in which Yrsa de Constantinovich pleaded with Edwin Paterno, millionaire builder, to give his name to the baby she said was theirs read in Supreme Court before Justice Gibbs. Madame de Constantinovich Is suing to annul Patemo's second marriage, alleging that he had promised to marry her after he was divorced by his first wife and that she had lived with him as his common law wife because of that promise. “Dear Edwin.” began one of the letters, “for God’s sake give baby a name. Let me have peace* It would have been better if babytwas never born, but I don’t wish her death now. I swear, though, almost every minute I wish that I was dead.” Madame de Constantinovich came here as an immigrant and worked as a sales girl. She is said to be a Russian countess. DYSART DENIED PARDON Millionaire Land Owner Taken to Texas Prison. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. June 25.—Federal officers today were taking Dr. John Dysart, millionaire land owner, to El Paso, Texas, where he must serve a two-year sentence for using the mails to defraud. Dr. Dysart came to Washington seeking a pardon, pleading to the Justice Department for clemency. He was convicted on letters he wrote to thousands of persons throughout the country attemtping to colonize 65,000 acres of land he owned In Mexico. 211 in Legion Post Bu United Press AUBURN, Ind., June 25.—Dekalb Post No. 97, American Legion, has passed its membership quota of 210 members apportioned by State headquarters, by one f>oint. The membership is now 211. Editor-Flier Makes Progress Bu United Press .... CALCUTTA. June 25.—Van Lear Black, publisher of the Baltimore Sun, arrived here by airplane from Allahabad shortly after noon today. He left Allahabad at 7 a. m. The large gray wolf is becoming extinct in the cattle coutry. Twen-ty-eight were killed in Montana last year, eighW?n in Wyoming, and only about half that number in other western States.

Creek PaA, Georgetown, Ft. Meyer and Arlington national cemetery, where thousands of America's war dead sleep. They were also to see the tomb of the Unkmnvn Soldier and the national memorial amphitheater. The last thing on the program was to be a dinner tonight at the Hamilton Hotel. MARKET NEW MELON Cling Peaches Appear— Price of Corn on Cob Up. Anew variety of cantaloupe, Hale's perfection, was on sale at the city market today at 20 cents each. Standholders" claimed this to be the melon's first appearance in the city. White cling peaches were received, priced two pounds for 25 cents. Plums, which have been here about a week, sold at 25 cents a pound. Red blue and green Gage plums were available at this figure. The supply of homegrown strawberries is nearly exhausted. Those remaining, sold at 35 cents a quart. Alligator or avacado pears are scarce, selling at 50 cents each, i Both the round and long Georgia watermelons were sllO each. Corn, two ears for 25 cents, was higher. Gooseberries and red raspberries were 30 cents and black raspberries 20 cents a quart. California cherries were 60 cents a pound, pie cherries 25 cents a quart. Appricots sold at 25 cents and hothouse Kentucky wonder green beans, 35 cents a pound. NO HIGHWAY REPORT Branch Plans Bulletin for 1926 Record. Failure of the State Highway Department to appear in the 1926 State year book was because no report was submitted, according to statistical bureau employes of the State library, through which the year books are being distributed. Director John Williams of the highway department, stated today that a 1926 report is being prepared and will be published separately. “The year book leaves little room for a comprehensive report of the highway department," Williams explained. “There are many figures, maps and charts that should be included and we decided to take advantage of the law which permits seperate publication by the printing board with approval of the Governor.” The commission is to submit a report to the chief executive “on or before the first day of December each year,” and this may be published separately. The same section, however, says that a condensed report must be submitted for the year book. The year book law requires such a report from all departments. Wet, but Free Bu Times Special PERU, Ind., June 25.—Wet inside and out, an unidentified drunken man escaped police here by swimming the river at West City park. Charles Allison, companion of the fugitive, was captured and paid a fine. Plant to fee Dedicated Bu Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., June 25.—Ten thousand persons are expected here July 3 for the dedication of Plant No. 2, new distributor unit, of DelcoRemy Corporation. A program extending from 8 a. m. to 9 p. m. has been arranged. • A. f. ' V

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POINCARE STAND CREATES WORRY FOR DIPLOMATS Premier Charges Germany With Bad Faith in Settlement. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, June 25.—1s Premier Raymond Poincare of France going to prove another Napoleon 111 1 Is he trying to arouse French passions to war pitch and lead the country into another and this time perhaps fatal war with Germany in the hope of crushing this traditional enemy forever? “What does Poincare want?” the German foreign minister, Stresemann, exclaimed bitterly in the Reichstag this week, by way of answer to the French premier’s charges at Luneville Monday. “What does he want—the Ruhr or Locarno? He cannot have both." Stresemann was referring to Poincare's speech charging Germany with bad faith in carrying out postwar settlements. He intimated that Germany has not yet definitely given up Alsace and Lorraine; that she maintains a growing camouflaged army; that she intends to renege on future Dawes plans reparations payments; and so on. France Doesn't Forget Further h$ paraded all t' e suffering France had enM ’ I throughout the war and plainly’* told his hearers that he does not expect France to forget. To the contrary. So Stresemann asks “What does he want?” and in other chancellories of the world diplomats are r.sking pretty much the same question. And people are asking It. “What kind of a man is Poincare? Is he trying to stir up another war?" The answer is emphatically no. I have known Premier Poincara for fifteen y|ars and no man wants war less than he does. In fact, that is where the trouble lies—in the premier’s dread of another German Invasion. Raymond Poincare was bom In Lorraine. His boyhood was spent close to the German frontier, next to France's “lost provinces” taken in 1871 after the cataclysmic defeat of Napoleon 111, who had pushed unready France into war with Prussia. He grew up among historic battlefields, scenes of Ger- ’ man victories over a bleeding , France. Sees German Balk Bone of his bone and flesh of hl f flesh, his hatred and fear of many have become part of the man." Today he sees Germany growing strong again and showing signs of balking over the terms of the treaty of Versailles. He sees French population at a standstill—around 40,000.000. He sees Germany growing fast— 6o.ooo,ooo today, with an enormous crop of new babies every year. He sees France ruined by the war, head over heels in debt, with little chance of ever getting out. He sees Germany being let off as per the Dawes plan and believes she does not intend to pay even that. He hears peace talk going on in Europe, but he visualizes a secret army preparing for ‘der tag” again in Germany with ancSher invasion of France in mind. AM he is bitter. And afraid. Paradoxically enough. Premier Ponicare has for foreign minister none other than Aristide Brland. j "the man of Locarno.’ In France ; people call him that, "the man of LacamoS-the man of peace.” While j others call Poincare “the man of | the Ruhr—the man of war." Both Want Peace The fact of the matter Is, both want peace. They are simply seeking it in diametrically opposite directions. Poincare believes it can ■ only be preserved by keeping Ger/ many weak and France s'ron®. Briand believes the only way iyW agreement, such as that of LecAmo —by the cultivation of mutual understanding and friendship. Only France’s desperate circumstances make it possible for the two to be I in the same cabinet. Not only pos-1 sible, but necessary, for French! unity now is vital to nancial and ecenomic disaster. Poincare Is Bismarckian—though he'd murder anybody who told him so. Briand Is Wilsonian. Poincare is one of the ablest statesmen In Europe, but too cynical. He wouldn't tflist a small boy with an anviL Briand, also able, is more liberal and, at heart, even idealistic—though ten terms as premier of France have made him as as a ten-penny nail. Poincare is hard to like. He difficult to approach. He is cold. S private he talks in a very low ton 9 so low it is difficult sometimes tfl catch what he says. On the stump| he becomes a flaming torch. Super-1 flcially he appears almost colorless.! He made a colorless president—] principally, however, because of 1 constitutional and traditional limitations. But he is as stubborn as Clemenceau and Inside of him there seethes the volcanic lava of unquenchable, nationalistic passions. Briand Not Extremist Briand is warmer, easier to know. He is fond of a good story, even when the joke is on himself. Born in a mining district, reared in an atmosphere of sweat, and having begun his political career as a "red shirt waver and pamphleteer,” life has taught him much. He is no longer an extremist. Today these two vastly dlflerent men are the masters of France It will be interesting to see where they will lead the people, particularly since the heart of every Frenchman and woman carries the two conflicting passions—the bitter, disturbing hate-breeding memories of war together with the burning desire for a lasting peace.