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GRAND FORKS, British Columbia, Sept. 29.— . When the sect known as the Doukhobors left Russia . 40 years ago and came to Canada, they came not ' ‘only for religious freedom but for freedom of all kinds. All the Doukhabors wanted, you might say, was for Canads to give them land, complete liberty, all the advantages of a free country, and ‘all the’ things - that Canadian citizens have (plus exemption from military service)—without requiring anything of they in Fei: The Deushiobors were willing to pay taxes—but beyond | that they wanted nothing whatever to do with the Canada tha was mothering| them. «They would not take the oath of allegiance, would not become
Coadiati citizens, would not consider themselves sub-
ject to Canadian | law or custom, They would not send their children to school. They would not answer census questions. They would not register births or gleaths. They would’'nt have tors. / : ‘The result is that their 40-year history in Canada
has been an uneasy one, It has been a weird mixture
of extreme tolerance and violent tempers, on| both sides. ’
Canada Good to “Them
Canada really has been gaod to the Doukhobors, considering how: they have tried her patience. It even passed a law excusing any real member of the Doukhobor Commune from itary .service.. Not a Doukhobor served for- Canada in the World War. Violence in any form is against the fundamental creed of the Doukhobors. They won't eat meat because it has to be killed—consequently they have no chickens. ‘In the old days, they didn’t even have dogs. But they've ceased to observe their non-violence creed strictly. They have fist fights. They burn down their ‘houses and elevators in protest. They knock over tombstones in graveyards after a Doukhobor has been jailed for burying a desd relative without reporting it.
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It Seems to Me
NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—I knew Floyd well, and we had a lot of fun together. Now that Gibbons has died most of my memories of the man center around amusing things. That is natural enough, for he was a fabulous figure, At the top of his bent he was the best war correspondent I have ever known, but he could also turn second-class scenario writer when the impulse of immediate experience was lacking. Many times I have said that in my estimation Floyd’s account of the sinking of the Laconia was the best piece of straight narration done-in our time. There is no reason to change that now.
Out |of the Gibbons saga my mind we back to the story of “the Christmas wanderer.” Part of this I knew and part he told me. In France Floyd had a wife who was a large and beautiful Swedish sil from some ‘one of those Middle Western states they grow wheat. For reasons which escape oe we all called her: Izzie. They quarreled quite a “lot during the war, and I dg remember that Izzie was very jealous. When Gibbons was in-a hospital after having his eye scooped out by a German machine gun bullet Elsie Janis (America’s sweetheart) came to pay a call upon the wounded. Just as she started to sing a song at: the foot of Floyd's cot Izzie wandered in and said, “Who is this Womign?" There was a rumpus.
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*The Christmas Wanderer
When the war ended Izzie went home and Floyd remained in France. As foreign editor of the Chicago Tribune life for him continued to-become curi-. ouser and still more curio He was forever chartering yachts, hiring airplanes and buying herds of camels. After several years the management urged him to pay a visit to the home office. He landed in Chicago shortly before Christmas. . One of the execuiives arranged radio time for him. This was Floyd's
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| WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—One Senator, commenting on the self-denying (insulation provided in the new Neutrality Bill, said he would have to hang his head if he voted for it. | He said the'bill must have been drawn by a Caspar Milquetoast, and that it was cowardly fo relinquish all of our trade rights on the seas and make felons out of men who exercise their right under international law to trade with belligerents. It is too bad that a United States Senator, of all people, must suffer such shame. But after all, Senator, it’s a hard world and we have to make a choice. We have to decide whether one Senator shall hang / his head or whether several million American youths shpll stand ready with arms to rush over to Europe ‘and avenge American businessmen who get hit while enjoying their “right under international law” to trade with belligerents. y seem, the country is likely States Senator wandering That is not nearly as hard ‘to take as the sight of hundreds of flag-draped cof‘fins, laid out row on row in the pier sheds of New York, which was what it cost us to avenge our “rights “under international aw hetoe
to prefer seeing a United
Minor Changes v eeiled
Thus far debate over neutrality, or keep-out- of - war legislation, has been fortunately free from cheap political bluster about our “rights.” There has been an encouraging consideration for the larger rights and for the welfare of the country as a ‘whole. Most per-
sons have enough a sense to know that, in
My Day
NEW YORK, Thurtas—We drove over from Wilmington, Del, ading, Pa. yesterday after:noon, and because ® as very foggy the drive took us longer than we had expected. It'is pretty country and I love the old stone farmhouses, whitewashed looking so spic- and span. | It was too dark really to see Reading when we arrived, but we - made a stop at a hospital run by a group of Catholic Sisters, ‘to a World War veteran who ems to have made his long illness. not: only bearable to him1f, ‘but of value to many other ple. All he can do is to use : ioe and /his voige, but he postcards at Christmas and makes - money in - various other: Ways to b up a fund from which he helps fellow-sufferers. When I went in, three young men were calling on him and he 1old me they were members of a ‘boys’ club in which he was interested. They probably ‘contribute much to the pleasure of his existence, but 1 couldn’t help thinking that this man was furnishing ‘all of us with a valuable lesson in ‘the way to ‘take whatever ‘happens us in this world and turn Jt
visit, made us rather late in teaching the hotel. e were ready, however, in time , for the lecture, and! | think the time has come for
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. were a dour, unpleasant people.
experts. That section exempts American republics
' sent up from the audience, 50 we got off early enough
And most important, they’ ve learned to fight through the courts. They rail against local authorities trying to bring them under legal jurisdiction, but they've learned how to use the courts themselves. You might think from all this that the Doukhobors Yet just the opposite is true. They have a reputation for friendliness and courtesy. We stopped to talk to Doukhobors in stores, on the road, in their homes. Without exception they were . nice, friendly, smiling people. The Doukhbors are not, and never were, the screaming-and-jumping type of religious fanatics.
A Likeable People
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They say that anyone who works closely with them.
invariably goes over to their side. For instance teachers, after a.couple of years, are completely sympathetic with the Doukhobors’ desire not to register their births and deaths. The children do go to- school nowadays, and many of the young Doukhobors are high school graduates. Inevitably theyre becoming Canadianized. The youngsters, like youngsters everywhere, want to be modern and live and act as their naighbors do.
Their piousness, too, has relaxed. Probably half
‘the Doukhobors now smoke, or drink, or eat meat, or A triend :
swear—or all these things put together. Very few Doukhobors marry “outside.” of mine up here says that in his memory perhaps a dozen Doukhobor girls have married “outside,” some of them even in the: U, S. But he could recall only
one “outside” girl who had. married a Doukhobor|
man. Writers naturally like to pick out the most spectacular thing about a subject. And the most spectacular thing about the Doukhobors is their taking off their clothes. beyond its importance, and the impression given that they are nudists. That is not true. Nudism has no part whatever in their religion. This clothes-taking-off is just one of their many ways of heckling .the Canadian Government.
By Heywood Broun
first microphone experience. The rapid-fire technique
came later, pathos. “At the very beginning, Heywood,” he told me, “I announced, ‘This is Floyd Gibbons speaking. I am the Christmas wanderer.’ And then I went on to say, 'I have never had a home on Christmas day. Once I was in the French fortress a$ Verdun, Again I gpent the night in the British trenches at Ypres. Still another Christmas found me in the middle of the Sahara Desert with my camel caravan, And last year I was flying in a plane from London to Leningrad. Now I am returned to my native city, But again I am alone, forlorn, talking to you from this radio studio. .I have never known what it was to have a home Christmas day.® |
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Not for Him the Quiet Exit
And somewhere in Chicago a personable young woman named Izzie was idly playing with the dials when she turned in upon a well-remembered: voice and listened fascinated but with growing irritation. And when Floyd had finished .she exclaimed, “The Christmas wanderer indeed! Why, the big loafer, when he had a home he was never in it.” “But,” as Floyd told me, “except for Izzie it went swell. I got 525 letters from people I never heard of asking me to come around to their house for Christmas dinner. And it took two months to pry the pies and plum pudding out of the city room of the Chicago Tribune. But the Christmas wanderer died ‘at home in Cherry Valley, Pa., in his own bed and %n his own
On this occasion Gibbons played it for
farm. They. had tipped dm the black spot a couple]
of years ago. But in, spite of orders he lay with the radio going full blast and bringing in the war news. He was home in bed, but.the heart of the Christmas wanderer remained in the wheat field where the bullet plugged him. He was not a fellow who would have chosen for himself a quiet exit. And so it is just as well that even in Cherry Valley he went away with the roar of the guns coming faintly to the ears of one of America’s most inquiring reporters.
By Raymond Clapper
motlern wars; neutral rights will be stepped upon by both sides and cannot be exercised in full. Al Smith, who was never one to be pushed around, is strongly for the new bill. So is John W.' Davis, who has the lawyer’s natural tendency to be quibbling over “rights.” If they can accept this bill, which they do enthusiastically, and manage to hold up their heads, the rest of the country probably will be able to take the bill without losing self-respect. In some small details, the bill needs working over. For instarice, Section 2 (A), which forbids American vessels to carry passengers or materials to belligerents, makes an exception for Canada, but makes none for airplane traffic in the Western Hemisphere which at several points lands in British or French possessions. Pan-American Airways would be seriously dislocated in its passenger service if this provision were to be literally applied.
It’s Bound fo: Prncs !
Likewise Secfion 9, concerning the American republics, needs a slight change ia the opinion of some
from. operation of: the Neutrality Act except where an American republic is co-operating with a nonAmerican state. A holdover from the old law, that exception was originated by isolationists to discourage Latin American countries from participating in League of Nations sanctions. Such precautions are no longer necessary and continuation of the restrictive proviso might conceivably lead to complications whieh would not be in the interest of the United ates. Some other details may need tinkering to minimize dislocations ta shipping and foreign trade. But the fact might as well be faced that the legislation will pinch in spots. Some hardships will have to be endured for the larger good. The way of the neutral is" not easy—but it is a good deal easier" tian, that of the belligerent.
By Eleanor Roosevelt
‘me gratefully to acknowledge the fact that-people in this country are most considerate of their speakers. Years ago, it seems to me, there was considerably more moving about in hdlls during speeches.” Probably. the installation of the kind of public ‘address system which greets one on practically every platform, makes it possible for the whole audience ‘to hear any speaker. ' It is no strain, even for a woman, to talk, as it usually works better if you keep your Toles on its natural pitch. This is to me a great ree Even the photographers are kind and when 1 suggest that flashing bulbs after the first few minutes are a little .disconcerting to the audience, ‘they are most considerate. I always remember Ruth Bryan Rohde’s story of how a kitten playing on her stage, on one occasion, attracted all the attention from what she was saying. Flashing bulbs can nave much the same effect.
After the ‘lecture, there was ‘only ‘one question
to reach Harrisburg by midnight and get a fairly good night's sleep on the way to New York City.
Arrived this morning, several people greeted me at our apartment and the telephone. has been. ringing more or less steadily. Now I am off to see'an art exhibit, meet my aunt, Mrs. David Gray, and do a number of other things on
By Ernie Pyle
Hence this has been publicized |
‘Y’ NEARS GLOSE OF
Edwin Watson, President Roosevelt
“speech opening the special session,
Internation
By Charles A. Beard
Written for The Indianapolis Times.
law.” Now what
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! For example, belligerents do not any longer. Ambassador of the enemy bub provides safe conduct, for him on. his way back home. These are among the things regarded as well “settled” under international law. On the eve of the last world war, many rules for the conduct of international relations were re-
bers of the Indiana Retail Clothiers
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
The annual Y. M. C. A. member~ ship drive neared a close today, with a final report to be made at a Victory Banquet at 6 p. m. at the Y. M. C. A. A total of 378 new ahd renewal memberships were reported at yesterday’s luncheon, 372 short of ye goal of 1250. The Lightnin’ Creek ranch, directed by Edward Zink, continued to lead other divisions, reporting a total of 175. H. C. Atkins Sr., heading the 101 ranch, held second place with 105 members. Alex Taggart’s Wind River ranch took third place with 137 memberships. Other standings are: Rattlesnake Gulley ranch, Adolph Schmidt, boss, 137 memberships; Hurricane Canyon ranch, Roy Sahm, 120; Powder River ranch, A. C. Sinclair, 72, and Broncho Busters (Boys’) ranch, Charles Jones, 26. Miscellaneous : memberships not credited to any of the ranches brought the total to 878.
EVANS TO ADDRESS REPUBLICANS’ CLUB
William P. Evans, former Marion County prosecutor, will be the principal speaker at a W Township Republican Club meeting at 8 p. m. Oct. 6, celebrating the opening of the new clubrooms at 61st St. and College Ave. Committee chairmen for the event’ named by Wilbur Royse, general chairman, . include Richard Fields, ‘music; - Huston and George|' Arnold, special invitations; Mrs, Roy 'Stebbing, hostess; Mrs. Emily
puts plenty of emphasis on it, with
that thumb and forefinger. The President is picturcd after his historic
Neutrality—What Does It Mean?
al Law a
Jumble, Says Beard
EW YORK, Sept. 29.—Among the Slick phrases of the day: is “international law.” The other day, President Roosevelt, in discussing repeal ‘of the embargo on sale of munitions, declared that his objective is “a return to the principles of international
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does this mean? It is a ver-
itable jumble of claims, assertions, treaties, pledges and hot contentions. If it were definite, governments would not have to write endless notes about its meaning.
law is not law in the sense in
which we use the term “law” in our domestic affairs.
law is not written down in any law
books and no world court has the power to enforce The powerful nations of the earth are not : agreed as to what it provides. Many of them break fitterpretations of" this law ‘and: thelr § from those ports. To be lawful pledges under it. Where do we find this so-called suiternational law? In big books written by speeialists, in treaties made by_governments, in the judicial decisions of various courts on specific points, in the thousands. of notes which governments have written to one another during a period of two or three hundred years, and in the rec-
ords of acts done to one another by governments in peace “and war.
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N this jumble of theories and practices ony a few things are certain.
kill and eat their prisoners of war
When a war -breaks out, a belligerent does not shoot the
garded as well established and the United States operated on the theory that they would be obeyed by all belligerents. Among those rules were the following “principles” which have vital meaning today: 1. A belligerent may lawfully
Men’s Style Dictators 2 Convene in City Sunday
The men who dictate men’s styles and the men who sell them will meet here Sunday and Monday: for a look at the new fashions, The Claypool Hotel's seventh and eighth floors will be filled with the latest college and conservative cuts as the Men's Apparel Club of Indiana opens its semi-annual merchandise fair.
Guests will be memorganization. Now in its 30th year, the Men's
-| Apparel Club is composed ‘of In-
diana representatives of leading clothing and furnishing firms serving independent merchants. Nearly 100 firms will have exhibitions and representatives present. The retailers, who regularly convene with the salesmen, will select new stock]: and meet for informal round-ta-ble discussions.
Auxiliary There, Too
At the same time the women’s auxiliary of the Men’s Apparel Club will entertain wives of visiting merchants with a theater party, bridge and other games and a “fun night” on Sunday, and a president’s breakfast” on Monday morning. Mrs. Walter Kyle of Indianapolis heads the auxiliary group, and Mrs. Max Gross is hostess chairman. Guest speaker at the Retailers’ luncheon at the Claypool on Mon-
York. Mr. Sloman is vice president. and secretary of the trade magazine, Men's Apparel Reporter. : He formerly was affiliated with the Stein Bloch Co. and with Esquire and Apparel Arts magazines. He ‘|will discuss styles, trends and promotional efforts in a talk entitled “Looking at 1940.”
Local Men Officers
Other speakers will be Sam Freeman, vice president, and Joe Epstein, both of Indianapolis. ‘Men's Apparel Club officers are Sam Yaver, president; R. B. Wal-
Megef, second vice president, all of Indianapolis; C. O'Shea of Toledo, O., ‘third vice ‘president, and John A. Lanni, Enightstown,, secretary- treasurer. “Officers of ‘the: Retail Clothiers are Henry J. Bailey of Logansport, president; Mr. Freeman, vice
the Spur of the moment, which I will: tell, you, ‘about
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Engle, refreshments, and - Mrs. Paul | Talbot, delephones. 43
Knightstoyn, secretary-treasurer,
day will be Mark J. Sloman, New|
lace, first vice president, and Sol|
. Shown above as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met on neutrality legislation at the special session called by President Roosevelt are (left to right) Senators Hiram Johnson, William E, Borah,’ isola-
tionist leaders, and- Key Pittman,
Whatever it is he has to say to his White House Secretary. Gen. -
Conimities ‘ehairmah. -
Woodrow Wilson asked Congriss to declare’ war r. against Germany in 1917 on the ground that that sountry’s violation of intériational
law was “unendurable.”
. to. Germany,
- tically destroyed all
“blockade the ports of an enemy and stop all ‘ships bound to ‘or
8: blockade had to be “effective” . —that, is, enforced by: belligerent warships’ stationed near the ports of the ‘enemy blockaded. The ships of neutrals that tried to run the blockade , and ' were caught could be seized without violating any neutral rights. . . 2. Neutral ‘ships carrying war goods (contraband) to any belligerent could be seized without violating any neutral rights. 3. Neutral merchant ships carrying only goods :of peace (noncontraband) could be searched : but they could not be seized, or attacked ‘by any belligerent. on the high seas unless they re= sisted. 4. No merchant. hips of. neutrals or belligerents could be sunk for any reason without warning
HOWE HIGH TO GET MOVIE APPARATUS |
Members. of the Men's 400 Club of Howe ‘School will’ present compléte sound motion picture apparatus to the school in a formal ceremony. at 8 o'clock tonight. a The Club, of whi¢h Fred A. Daw-
fathers of students enrolled in the high school. Mr. Dawson will explain the origin and aims of the club. C. M. Sharp, school principal,- is to speak briefly. The movie machine will be unveiled by Mr. Dawson and Carl WW. Spiess, club treasurer. An educational film and a movie of Howe High School pupils in &ction will be shown following the ceremony.
TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE
1—Is- platinum heavier than lead? : * - 4 SL 2—What body of water borders Spain on the north? 3—What constitutes a perfect game in baseball? : 4—With what course should - sherbert be-served? . * 5—Where is the Susitna River? ‘6—What is the annual salary of members of the President's cabinet? 7—What is the: correct pronun-: ciation of the word hearth? ‘2 8 ® Answers, 1—Yes. ix 2—Bay of Biscay. * 3—One in which the pitcher allows no hits, no runs and no player reaches first base. * 4—With the meat course, or: ed separate as a dessert. ¥
- 5—Alaska, -6-$15,000, : T—Harth; not. Irth
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® x 8 wx HESE were among ‘the great rights ‘which the Government of the United States had often asserted’ under international law. Most other governments had rec-
. ognized them as binding. But after the last world war broke" out, the
warring powers on both sides violated most of these long. accepted rules of international law. Owing to the submarine menace ‘Great. Britain could not. make her
- blockade of German: ports “effec-
tive” by stationing’ warships in ‘nearby waters.. So .Great Britain declared a paper blockade, planted
mines in the waters near the Ger-
-man - ports, and seized . neutral ships bound to German: ports. Claiming that . conditions had changed, Great Britain increased the list of war goods (contraband)
Four Get Army
Reserve Posts
Times Special WASHINGTON, Sept. 20, — Four Indianapolis ‘men -have: ac-, ‘cepted: commissions in the Offi-
cers Reserve Corps of the United . States Army, the War Department
announced today. Their rank ‘and service is as follows: Pirst- Lieut. Henry T. Earhart, 402 N. Meridian: St. Corps; , First. Lieut. James A,
- Jackson, 201 -State House Annex, Signal ‘Corps; Second Lieut. Or-
ville L. Grimes, 1617 Kessler
Blvd., Air Corps;
Corps.
‘Yomldse. ‘a 3-cent stamp tar i
and -Second ‘Lieut. Ignatius A. Heckmiller, 417 ; 'N.. Gladstone Ave, Quartermaster : ! and 5 per cent, for refreshments.
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- which could be seized on the way until it included wheat, .corn: and nearly every imsportant article of commerce. Great Britain blocked = American come
- merce with other neutral coun
tries to prevent goods from reach -ing Germany indirectly and prac. | “American commerce with Germany, even in the goods of peace. * On her part; Germany resorted : to. measures equally contrary to | . old rules of international law. German submarines sank the merchant ships of the enemy and ‘of neutrals, . without warning and : ~without ‘making any- provisions
J for saving the lives: of crews and
passengers. - Germany sent. spies and wreckers into American fac tories to stir up trouble and de= troy lives ang Ropers,
'GAINST. these olations of international law, the United States protested vigorously to both belligerents. = Finally = President Wilson declared that German violation of ‘American rights under that law was unendurable and asked Congress for the power to make war in return. But after 'the United States en- _ tered the war, it acted with the Allies in clamping an iron control on the trade of all neutrals and through its agents urged various neutrals to join in the war on Gera= . many. Before the war had closed the United States and its associates in the war on: Germany and ' Austria-Hungary had “rationed” “the trade 'of nearly all neutrals - throughout the - world and laid down hard ‘and fast rules which neutrals had to follow. Now President Roosevelt talks
lightly about a return to interna-
tional law. What law? The rules that were supposed to be good before war-broke out in 1914? The . rules which the United States tried ‘to’ uphold ‘before it entered the ‘war? ‘Whose rules? British rules ‘followed during the war? German ‘rules? The rules followed by the United States after it entered the war? And who is to decide these vital questions? Are the President and ~the State ‘Department to decide them as they please and to deter:mine which rules are to be applied to Germany or the opposing bel‘ligerents? Or should Congress take ‘a hand in deciding these. matters? Unless everything under the fog oof ‘international law ‘is to be "turned over to the President, then Congress and the American people should have a say. On this point our;fate will turn:in peace or war,
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TOURIST SPENDING. ‘GOES UP IN INDIANA
Tourists spent. abo “about: 12 ‘miltion” dollars more in Indiana during 1033 ~ than the previous year, State Cone servation Director Virgil M. Sime mons estimated today. TEA Basing his figures on U. S. Travel
| Bureau ‘tabulations, Mr. Simmons
said’ tourists’ expenditures in Indie
lana last year were about $122, 093,« Medizal . 550.
“The report placed Indiana 12th
{among states in the amount of tours
ist: expenditures. A breakdown of the ‘travel dollar shows 58 per cent is spent for. transportation, 22 per cent for recreation, 10 per cent for food, 5 per cent for accommodations .
: Everyday Movies—By Wortman