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(Ernie Pyle, Page 11) N/ ASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Secretary of
State Hull, the hard-headed idealist, can |
pack up and return from Buenos Aires a happy man. He has been engaged there in business which, hy contrast with what statesmen in Europe are doing, shines like a good deed in a His 71 €0 again in a
naughty world. straight-forward methods teat
where devious and slippery methods have been traditional. Moreover, they have proved themselves against our own late swashbuckling, we're-the-boss attitude which made liked South.
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The Inter-American Conference | has completed its work, a monu- |
mental pile of some 69 agreements.
This probably is a record for paper |
work. These agreements concern chiefly organizations of machinery for preserving peace on the Western Hemisphere and for keeping American countries disentangled reign wars Secretary Hull wasn't ssful. Por instance, mpletely on the neutrality embargo agreeall considered, and particularly in view sentment in Argentina over our so-called estrictions, which operate to exclude certain products from the United States, Secretary the conference into remarkable unanimity. t important agreement probably is the rangement. All 21 republics are represtanding committee, any member of thority te bring up anything that any peaceful relations or menaces any epublic,
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trouble again. President with only the most casual effort gh constitutional motions in doing it. to be supplanted by a military Perhaps they will go through formality of moving the Vice PresiPresidential Palace. Even only a formality, Batista will make the of the United States less embarrassing if he assumes his dictatorship under the pretense of preserving constitutional forms The fact is that this government has daclared of Cuba. Under the Roosevelt Adminisaty was made with Cuba which abroPlatt amendment that had given us the privilege of interfering mm Cuban affairs. l'heoreticallv, we are out of Cuba. We would like be out of Cuba in reality also. Orderly government would make it possible for us to stay out. But disorder there—well, what do you think? Would we be able to stay out if Cuba went ‘into a civil war like Spain has done?
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BY ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
ASHINGTON, Wednesday—Yesterday afternoon and Betsy and their two children arrived. children settled down on the third floor, where are really running a separate household with a kitchen of its own. Luckily, most of them eat at the same time. It is very amusing to go up to the sun parlor at noon and see the babies in their carriages and the older ones sitting at the table with their proficient they are in table manners. Sistie and Buzzie informed me this morning that had been down to the Christmas tree and had examined every package but could not decide what was in them, which was fortunate considering that
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much of the joy in Christmas is in its surprises, in |
spite of Mr. Heywood Broun, who says that a Santa Claus who brought him things he had not requested was extremely unpopular in his youth. I will agree
that expressed desires, if possible, should be met, but |
it is fun to have some unexpected joy as well, This has been a busy day filled with official activfor the most part. 1 started off at 9:30 with
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the distribution of Christmas presents by the Central |
Union Mission of Washington, D. C., at the Capitol Theater At 11 as much of the family as I could corral were in my husband's office to help him wish office force and the Secret Service men atto him a merry Christmas and bid them for their brief holiday. A glass of milk for at 1:30 I spent a short time with the s of America at their Christmas party, and proceeded to Salvation Army headquarters for ebration
the entire
left there at 3 in order to be readv at 3:30 for “hristmas tree party at the White House which guards, the people who work on the chauffeurs and our house people With These families seem to grow and have in the neighborhood of 100 children
includes the grounas all their fami 1 think now At 5 o'clock all of us put on our hats and coats, including such grandchildren as are old enough, and drove the President
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PUBLIC LIBRARY PRESENTS— N the foreword to her novel, HONOURABLE ESTATE (Macmillan), Vera Brittain says, “I make no ipology for dealing in a novel with social theories and political beliefs . . . If large areas of human experience—political, economic, social, religious—are to be labeled inadmissible as subjects of fiction, then fiction is doomed as an organic art.” Which is fair enough warning that this is a serious novel. Miss Brittain pictures the social changes affecting the position of women during the period from 1890 to 1930, by telling the stories of three marriages: The
frustrated one of Thomas and Janet Rutherston; the ordinary one of Stephen and Jessie Alleyadene; and
the very modern one of the son and daughter of those | two couples, Denis Rutherston and Ruth Alleyndene. |
An emotional interlude is provided in the love affair of Ruth and a young American soldier in the war. = =v "
CCORDING to Daniel Clinton (Thomas Rourke, pseud), GOMEZ, TYRANT OF THE ANDES | illiterate mountaineer whose | shrewdness and unscrupulousness raised him from a | cattle-rustler to the dictatorship of Venezuela. He was |
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essentially a tribal chief and ran the state on that principle. A balanced budget meant money for him: so there was no deficit. When oil was discovered, he saw that the country benefited rather than the companies. There was no freedom and the tortures inflicted by his orders were worse than any conceived by his medieval prototypes. The people believed him a demon who could not die,
and for two days after his death they remained docile. |
Then they went mad. The old order was swept away; the Gomez tribe hurried for friendlier .
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1936
Entered at Postoffice,
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have been | stronghold of Latin diplomacy, |
us feared and dis- | from the Rio Grande on |
100 per | Argentina refused to |
goes something of far more historic |
of maintaining the integrity |
responsibility as a one-nation job. Other | this assertion |
atmosphere | in- | the intangibles often are more |
sooner | n had been looked for, against hard realities. | He | the |
if this is | situation |
CHINA TAKES ON NEW COURAGE |
Educators Urge Strong Resistance Against Japanese Demands |
BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS
Times Foreign Editor ASHINGTON, Dec. 24. —Regardless of the outcome of the kidnaping of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek by his second-in-command, “Young Marshal” Chang Hsueh-liang, grave difficulties with Japan lie ahead. The chief demands made of China's strong man hy his captor were war with Japan, a halt on China's gradual dismemberment, and expulsion of the Japanese from Manchuria, Jehol and North China. The “young marshal” is far from being alone in his opposition to Chiang's policy of mnonresistance to Japan. Leaders at Nanking, for the most part, are convinced war at this time would he fatal. China is not vet ready, materially, to challenge Japan on the field of battle. But a vast number, probably a majority, of educated Chinese are more and more demanding that Nanking make a stand and have it out with Nippon. Under the letterhead of Chinese Faculty Association” of Yenching University, at Peiping, the writer has received a copy of
a manifesto calling for just that.
The covering letter says: “In the midst of propaganda and counter-propaganda, of censorship and suppression, it is difficult if not impossible to know what is really going on in this part of the world, especially ror those at a distance.
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we NCLOSED we are sending vou a copy of a manifesto which was issued and signed hv more than 100 leading Chinese educators in this city, and which we hope will give you an accurate picture of the actual situation now existing in China and in the Far FEast-—a situation the gravity
of which adequately can not be
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appreciated by those looking at it from the outside.” “Humiliated and indignant,” says the manifesto, “we are faced with great uncertainly as to our fate. Since last autumn the situation has grown steadily worse, The setting up (by Japan) of the bogus regime in East Hopei (where Peiping and Tientsin are situated), the occupation of North Chahar, the invasion of Suiyuan and the occupation of Fengtai—these and other provoking events have happened thick and fast. “And yet they have drawn forth no effective protest from our government, nor have they caused our government to send any additional troops to reinforce the garrisons in those areas. If this is to continue we entertain grave fear that our whole country mav be surrendered to Japan whenever she chooses to exert another threat. “Negotiations are now being carried on between our government and that of Japan. The government has not made public the contents and proceedings of these negotiations. But, according to reports, Japan is once more exerting pressure by presenting five aggressive demands, the acceptance of which would be enough to destroy us as a free and indepen-
Our Town
BY ANTON SCHERRER
UT for Elmer Steffen, choirmaster of SS. Peter and Paul Cathedral, 1 wouldn't be
| able to tell vou that the Catholic Church has
| a “White List” of approved sacred music, | By implication, it also has a “Black List,” | and it may surprise you to learn that Ethel
i HE whole people realize that China can not successfully resist foreign aggressions without a united front and without unreserved faith in our government. It is just because of this great love for our government that... we are loath to see it betray the confidence placed in it, thus losing its position of prestige and leadership. “For the sake of internal peace and unification, and for the
emancipation of our nation, the government should resolutely regist any such demands...the unspeakable shame and disgrace of surrender must not be allowed to blot our history....” Professing to represent the will of the people, the educators submitted an eight-point program to the Nanking government. The program calls for open diplomacy with Japan, without yielding an
inch on territorial or administrative integrity. repudiation of any special position for Japan in
China; resistance to outside pres= sure; abolition of Japanese-fos-tered smuggling; the expedition of troops to menaced districts and the use of force wherever necessary.
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getting mixed up with the church.
The manifesto was suppressed, the Chinese assert, even by the Chinese press.
AUSTRIAN ROYAL ROMANCE THAT TRAGEDY ENDED INTRIGUES WALLIS
nurses, all of them trying to show how |
over to the middle of Lafayette Square, where | lights the community Christmas tree |
BY HELEN WORDEN Times Special Writer ARIS, Dec. 2¢.—Why did Wallis Simpson want to see “Mayerling,” the film story of the tragic love affair between Rudolf, Archduke of Russia, and Marie Vetsehera, who killed themselves Jan, 18, 1889, at an Austrian hunting lodge? “The story of Mayverling had a fascination for Wallis,” Mrs. Constance Coolidge told me here. “She tried again and again to see the picture. The last time she was in Paris with me we searched all the cinemas for it, but the film had always just been sent to another part of town.”
» ” 4 M® COOLIDGE, who has known Mrs. Simpson for several years, is a member of the so-called “exotic” set which the Archbishop of Canterbury has been panning. Successively she was married to the American diplomat, Ray Atherton, the French steeplechasing nobleman Count Pierre de Ju-
milhac and finally Eliot Rogers of Santa Barbara, Cal.
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an American. Mrs. Coolidge's present home is a beautiful blush pink and ivory apartment at 11 Rue Maspero in the fashionabie Sixteenth Arrondissement of Paris. She invited me to tea with her yesterday afternoon. Like all Wallis’ friends she is chic. “I have come in from the country so I haven't had time to change clothes,” she apologized. “I am still in tweeds.” Her soft woodbrown tweed suit harmonized with her smartly dressed brown hair and her brown suede sport shoes. Mrs. Coolidge owns a racing stable and runs her jumpers at fashionable Auteuil. And as some one said in describing her recently, ‘she prefers horses to husbands.” ”n ” » T can never be said that people in this “exotic clique” are not intelligent, Mrs, Coolidge is sophisticated and quick-witted. She is also loyal, which can not be said of every one in the English “exotic circle.”
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“I would have driven to Cannes with Wallis in a minute,” she said. “As a matter of fact I have been planning to go to Cannes to be with her Christmas. But Katherine and Herman Rogers say ‘come at your own risk,’ they have been so besieged with detectives and reporters.” Mrs. Coolidge had her share of the limelight when Mrs. Simpson first fled from London. “Word got around that Wallis was coming here,” she said. “I first heard of it when I looked out my window and saw an army of reporters and photographers at the door. I told them she had probably gone to Lady Mendl’s. “Poor Wallis! TI hope all this trouble hasn't hurt her spirit. She was so gay and laughing. She is really a very simple, outspoken person and the last woman in the world to be in this
jam. I am sure she has never had the least desire to be Queen of England. It was Edward who made an issue of it.”
Mrs. Simpson Reminds Barnes of Similar Case
BY DR. HARRY ELMER BARNES
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N= YORK, Dec. 24. — Mrs. Simpson may have missed
being Queen of England, but at least she has also avoided the unpleasantness attendant upon holding a position resented by many in English court circles and high society. One is reminded of the unhappy experience of “Queen” Caroline, the tragic consort of King George IV, This ease presents many interesting similiarities and contrasts with that of Edward VIII and Mrs. Simpson. George IV was the most gay and irresponsible monarch of modern England. In 1785 he violated the Royal Marriage Act of 1782 by marrying a Catholic, Mrs. Fitzher-
treated in brazen fashion. Ten years later he consented, while still Prince of Wales, to marry Princess Caroline of Bruns- | wick, on the condition that his| many and extensive debts would | be paid. Of all persons, George as- |
and indiscretions of his new wife, | and he abandoned her at the birth of a daughter about a year after their marriage. George contended that nobody in | the kingdom could force him to have her as Queen against his will, thus giving evidence of as much determination as Edward VIII, but with the reverse objective in mind.
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AROLINE retired to a country | estate in Blackheath and lived | there for many years. In 1814 she | returned to Brunswick and then spent several years traveling in southern Europe, much of the time in the company of an Italian gentleman, Signor Bergami. Secandalous reports were circulated about | her conduct, many of them insti- | gated by George and his friends. In 1820 Caroline decided to return to England and plead her cause. She had been infuriated because her name was left out of the Prayer Book when George ascended to the throne on Jan. 20, 1820. George offered her £50,000 to renounce all her claims to royalty, but she refused. She arrived in London on June 5 1820, amid ‘he plaudits of many friends, especially Whig enemies of the King. Since Caroline refused to fade out of the picture, the King took the initiative and Lord Liverpool introduced a bill into Parliament | to deprive her of her title and to | divorce her from the King. But | so much opposition developed that | the move was abandoned for fear that it might destroy the institu- | tion of kingship. Her friends cele | brated this temporary victory with | great enthusiasm. Caroline received a Parliamentary grant of £50,000.
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comfort and dignity. But she was determined to be crowned Queen. So she made “a frantic effort to have herself crowned with the King, and committed the fatal blunder of making an undignified attempt to force her way into Westminster Abbey on Coronation Day, July 19, 1821.”
This unseemly conduct alienated many who had hitherto taken the side of Caroline. They no longer supported her when George and his friends resumed their efforts to get rid of her. Caroline was crushed and died of a broken heart—and broken pride—on Aug. 7, less than a month after her husband had been crowned.
From this much, at least, Mrs. Simpson may have been saved.
To turn briefly to comment on the significance of Edward's forced abdication, it is too early to do any dogmatic predicting. Temporarily, the institution of kingship has been humiliated by the action of Baldwin and the church. But reaction | may set in. Edward has many | friends who resent such medieval- | ism. Intellectual England, led by | Shaw and Wells, is, on the whole, |
| against the silly opposition of the |
Tories and High Anglicans to the | King's choice of a wife. The latter have been exposed in all their antiquated medievalisin, with its moss and mold, But too much modernization might be dangerous for the very institution of kingship, which is it- | self one of the most obvious and palpable examples of medievalism | in English culture.
HEAVY SCALE TESTER
By Sciance Service WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 -—Scientists at the National Bureau of Standards here have come to the aid of state and local communities which are responsible for checking weights and measures. A new motor truck scale testing unit is soon to go on extended tour. It will check the performance of scales that measure loads up to 38,000 pounds,
KNOW YOUR INDIANAPOLIS
The Manufacturers’ Building and the Coliseum located in the State Fairground are two of the finest and best equipped fairground buildings in the United States. An attendance record was set when the American Bowling Congress convened in the Coliseum last
bert Nevin's “The Rosary” is on it. So are the “Medi the “Bercuese” from “Jocelyn,” “The Bells of St. Marys,” “In a Monastery Garden”
and a host of other secular tunes, all of which are in the don't-belong class. They're a1 in the discard, and they'll probably stay there as long as Director Steffen and, of course, Bishop Ritter have anything to say about it. Mr. Steffen has a good deal to say about it, because, besides being choirmaster. he is also leader of the Schola Cantorum and diocesan director of music. The Schola Cantorum was organized shortly after the issuance of the “Motu Proprio” (legislation on church music) bv Pope Pius X in 1903 and repree sents an earnest effort on the part of the church te restore liturgical music to the prominent place it once held. More specifically, it means the restoration of the Gregorian chant and the correction of abuses
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Mr. Steffen wants the opera to stav out of the church—not because he has anything against the opera, especially, but because he believes the opera has enough to do minding its own business without Mr. Steffen feels the same way about sentimental hvmns like “Good Night, Sweet Jesus” and the mazurka tune, “Mother Dearest, Mother Fairest,” for instance. Maudlin stuff, says Mr. Steffen. ” ” ”
Pretly Good Choir Boy R. STEFFEN became in liturgical music when he was a choir boy, which was just about the time Pius X got interested in the subject. He was a pretty good choir boy, because when he was 16 years old he got the chance to direct a mass service with several choirs and ore chestras. The precocious promise of the performance led Bishop Chartrand, a few years later, to send the boy to the St. Meinrad’s Abbey where, in associas tion with the Benedictine monks, he learned the secret of the Gregorian chant. It was a good hunch on the part of the bish PP. After visiting many liturgical centers in this country, Mr. Steffen went abroad to observe choral work, especially in the Brompton Oratory and the Vatican,
In his present capacity as diocesan director, Mr. Steffen, together with the Commission on Church Music, has about 150 churches, chapels, schools and seminaries to look after. But that's nothing, be cause during the World War he had 30,000 boys listed in his glee clubs, choruses and bands. You wouldn't suspect it. of course, but Mr. Steffens has time left on his hands.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to account for the dozen or so compositions he has to his credit. Some of them created a lot of talk, especially his “Missa Eucharistics” which had its premier right here in Indianapolis in 1032.
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HEN Howard D. McKinney, director of musie at Rutgers University, heard it, he said: “This is in keeping with the ideals of the Motu Proprio, and gives the music extra significance liturgically® It made Mr. Steffen feel mighty good. Mr, Steffen can hardly wait for tomorrow te
come, because, if the calendar clicks, tomorrow will be Christmas. Always an important dav, Christmas this year takes on special significance for Mr. Steffen, because for the first time in his career he's going to have everything in his new choir loft just the way he's wanted it all his life. Tt's going to be a great day for Director Steffen, Architect August Bohlen and Organ-Builder Pilcher, all of whom Joined forces to make a life-long dream come true,
(Mrs. Ferguson's column will appear in this space tomorrow as usual.)
Your Health
BY DR. MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor, Amer. Medical’ Assn. Journal URING the World War, trench mouth was coms mon among the troops in France. Nearly 20 years have passed since the United States entered the war. Today, the condition is found frequently among Americans. It no longer is called trench mouth, however, but is described as Vincent's infection, bes cause the organism which causes it first was dis covered by a French doctor named Vincent. In this condition, the membranes of the mouth are red, infected, and swollen, and sometimes are covered by a yellowish-grav material which is adherent, When this material is removed. a bleeding surface is revealed. The material will be found also in the spaces between the teeth, and, as a result, the gums bleed easily. There is a foul, putrescent odor assoe ciated with this material. Since the mouth and gums also are infected and irritated in cases of scurvy, diabetes. lead or bismuth poisoning, or occasionally in syphilis, the doctor must determine definitely that the condition is Vincent's infection, or Vincent's angina, before undertaking
| treatment.
The victim of this infection may spread it to other
people by kissing, or by contaminating eating utensils | and drinking cups. The disease sometimes is contracted
in the offices of careless or poorly trained dentists. To avoid it. one must take constant care of the mouth, teeth, and gums. The first signs are persistent bleeding of the gums and unpleasant odor. Whens
.ever these symptoms appear. consult a competent,
dentist at once, because control of the infection is
much easier in the early stages than when it has become chronic.
Incidentally, Vincent's infection, as well as other infections of the mouth, affects those with bad teeth and neglected mouths much more frequently than it does those who keep their mouths in a good, hygienie condition.
Regular, competent attention to the teeth and gums prevents such infections. Removal of deposits around the teeth and proper attention to the cavities and crevices make it difficult for the germs to grow around the teeth and in the gums.
It has been found that a drug called sodium pers borate has a definite effect in destroying the germs of Vincent's infection, and other mouth ailments. A victim of Vincent's infection, therefore, may use a preparation of perborate as a gargle or as a mouthe wash and, in addition. apply it frequently in proper concentration directly to the infected gums and tissue. The dentist or physician will treat the condition by direct application of proper medication, including
| mot only sodium perborate but also other antiseptics,
which are applied directly to the spaces between the teeth and held in contact with the infected areas so as to destroy the germs. There occasionally are severe cases which