The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 28, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 5 November 1931 — Page 7

News Review of Current Events the World Over Echoes of the Hoover-Laval Conference —Tremendous Victory of British Conservatives —Japan Doesn‘t Weaken in Manchurian Affair. » By EDWARD W. PICKARD

PREMIER LAVAL has sailed back home happy In the belief that his conversations wipr President Hoover accomplished a great deal toward

settling world problems. And Mr. Hoover and his aids presumably are equally satstied. ■ Others. in America and Europe, are doubtful. However, deductions from the rather vague statement issued! by the President and the premier are that the real achievements of thiY conference are . t he.se;

Senator Borah

Co-operation between the United States ntid France on t! • • • and financial remedies necessary to end worldwide depression ; recognition of the fact that Germany may find it necessary to cull for re-exan .nation of its capacity to pay reparations, as I provided l.y—the Y< a' J plan, iu i Oil ‘ of ’extension of the Hoover morat jrivm; maintenance of the gold standard and a stabilization of exchange rate* through the medium of international iiionetari conferesices, if n<‘ees- - 1 ; - lar. ? so far as, Frehch holders thereof are. mncerped. and an excellent un- ■ derstanding of the politlcnl problems w armament. Senator Borah’s projection of IdmBelf and his opinions into the dlacusaions will- be a subject of excited.] speculation for some time to cine. Whether or md he tr < d to t e Spotlight., be aiii:i "t stln Ct d» 'i ill doIng'just that when lie bluntly told the French correspondents that the Ver- | Failles peace treaty wadd l ave ' • ' e revised, especially’’Rt regard to the i*o. -'i •< orr,.; r at ■ t t.! <- . - mil <d Hungary., ami that the United States would not inter' into any security pact. '.in Inter conversations with M. | 1 S’ minister from !’»>!.iml. Mr. H-.’ i , s’u-\ < t o !i i - pr < 111 ou m • ■ > mltted eonsidenilde Ignorance i f con- | ditlotis in centra) Europe. M. I n.’ | treated- the. ehaifimin of the *Behate J committee on foreign relations with j poll t.no-« but the l;’r« t. -h m w-papers ; - MANY .Os the Berlin papers called : the parley in Washington afaß-j lire, but' German statesmen um>t!i< ial- | . iy expressed their satisfaction because I

l’r»*' <!< nt H.X> , er-3-i vised Europe It must get together and ar rive at a definite agreement, not only ©n , repar.itioi ‘but on w&r debts aS ■ Hv did n<4. It w :i- n> b self t<» France and Germany alone. It V. fears that the conn try ’might be placed at the mercy of

France if the Washington parleys f:n <<!‘ to n< ■ !iplSii a ■ «• ;"i< n had proved unwarranted, mid that the I problem*. nr. now before'!:nope ns a | whole. Berlin f ds that an interna I t . ti. ■ ?■' ; i ■ ■ sty Germany derived further-suti-'.ic-tloti from the xi-it to dteriin of I‘inn Grand!, fort y) nuiuMerl of .Italy. The Italian. • iptrj to German) iti tie ta-k ■> <•> < r<<-''litig Its present jrre.it d!!!!eu!i:<«. ’“tin.l the 1 ■ furthcoming trip of S ur or Grand! to .situation and w of < h many. . ■V' '■ ' : - Great Britain went t«» the p<dis ' mid gave the Nationalist ,X"'‘ nhent of Ramsay MacDonald a ti n- ( was almost wiped out so far as parliamentary menilHTship goes. and the <•,.. b are in ful! control. Though at thia writing ■ • g•• • a are not quite coibplete. it is known that every member of the cabinet is re-elected except Sir William Jowett. attorney general, who lost to another •Conservative candidate, and <’han<a4lor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden, who was not a candidate. The success of Prime Minister MacDonald himself at Seaham Harbor was In doubt for a time, but he won by a good majority. Among the Victors were lattly Nancy Astor and Vim Hint Borodale. son of Earl Beatty. tabor party leaders who went down in defeat Included Arthur Henderson. Ben Tillett, Ben Turner. John ClyneS and Margaret Bondfield. They and other pAmdiient taborites will be provided with seafes later through the resignation of members representing! .sure constituencies. Sir Oswald Mosley. wealthy leaded of the new party, was a poor third In his district. * The triumph of the Conservatives fg so tVemendoas that it may prove embarrassing and result in the downfall of Prime Minister MacDonald. '* The Tories have such a huge majority that they probably will take over the control of the government. In • that case it is exjiected they will undertake to pass protective tariff legislation, though Stanley Baldwin and other Conservative leaders have been rather noncommittal on that sub- » Ject. RADICAL Republican congressmen, eight In number, have served notice on the regular Republicans that , they will not co-operate *ith the latter in tie organisation of the new house udLess their demands for agricultural and unemployment relief are

given consideration. These La Follette followers, according to their newspaper in Madison, are to hold a meeting within a few weeks and have Invited the attendance of radical representatives from other states, namely: Philip D. Swing. California: E. H. Campbell. lowa ; Fiorello La Guardia. New York; James H. Sinclair. North Dakota; <>. B. Lovette. Tennessee, and Paul J. Kvale. Minnesota. Regular Republican members of the house will meet in Washington on November 30 to nominate a candidate for speaker. Those most prominently mentioned for the place now are Tilson of Connecticut and Snell <>f New .Y'ork. Other possibilities are RamBeyer of Jowa, Mapes and Mlchener of Michigan. Luce of Massachusetts and Hoch of Kansas. The .Democrats 1 comber 5. and it is assumed they will >. - „ . (,;:■!)> Ttvas.* DEMOCRATIC financial experts in the . s.-rate are pro; o-;;si: lie <rt atlonof '-a' $2,000,000,000 pool by the government for immediate redls-

? :-v » * gi, > JR fl Sen. Bulkley

new one. and suggested the federal-. I land banks. Hla idea is that the gwrer; "■ ■ ' should '! ■it b--n>’.< to 1"r the huge sum. believing that such an • issue would <lo a lot in drawing cur- ■ 5.. ? jtqr < Rasa of V rgini i. who is ■for e Democrats on ■ b:.i - iu.i"i r-. gave. tie Bnlkley I ators an* on the banking subcommlt- • tee now enca-e.) in drafting new- hg|lslatlan. They have declared their I ..j'f..tion to atty tampering with the. ! federal reserve system In the. effort ito ’t! at organization .to rediscount ( new paper to meet the emergency.. SUBSCRIPTION'S t<> the 1. :’f billion dollar privifte pool formed ac.'ordbeen coming in s<»‘ plentifully from ail parts of the country that its manhaters Informed the President it was I about to put the credit-extension plan into operation by helping batiks turn., their good but frozen assets into cash; for business purposes. Hopeful of I yant results from the plan, the administration hak dropped for the time being its contemplated action for strengthening railroad bonds. One reason for this is I lief of officials that n© such laoxe still are considering the interstate commerce comrnisso-n's pr-.’-o- ■! that they p<s»r revenue from spt tie rijte Increases to aid weaker roa js. * •' S< GIT wi;Y ('! XX’ Xi; HI HI EX' on 1 < r t-> Washington, reported p ' < t Hoover what he learned I In tie .Philippines, and immediately in his o - nion Independence for the . auees of. is'omimic stability, would lead to disaster. He knows, however, that a large group tn eongreus, per- : -1 -os' a ma jor >n each house, is j ready to vote for independence, so he i> gytt ng reidy jo offer a new ■ ! for the islands that, he topes will I head off auch legislation. Ti .s jmllcy provides for American cooperation In ! givir.g the Philippine* economic and I governmental Ktubility. the methods to i He presented in the l‘r-sident’s message at the opening of congress in her. lie wi-! >-» to fatter the vs-tablishm«-nt of efiieient self-g. vernnrvnt and to promote the development of foreign markets for the prmlucts of the islaml's. According to XVashington Information, the President has no intention of defeating ultimate in«lep«»ndence, for he realizes that the United States is pledged to grant this at the right time, and he hopes to speed the day of its attainment. ENGLAND'S troubles in Cyprus continued. although troops were hastily brought to. the island by plane from Egypt and warshijw were con-

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centrated there. The unrest was reported to be spreading to Malta. The Cypriote? want their island turned over to Greco and the Maltese ap patently seek union with Italy. The gov ernor of Cyprus. Str Ronald Storris. whose official residency, I r Nikosia was burned by the rioters, reported later that the situation in the is-

land's towns was easier except in Kyrenia, where mobs tried to tear down the British flag and hoist the flag of Greece. In some other places the natives fought the troops and burned customs buildings. The bishop of Kyrenia was among those arrested. It is not at all surprising to learn that the Third Internal iohale Is blamed for the outbreaks in Cyprus and the unrest In Malta. The colonial office tn London has known for some time that the fcommunists were working In those island* through the Brit-

counting of frozen ami other slow paper In the bands of banks. The plan was put forward by Senator Bnlkley of . Ohio, who called It a corollary of the Hoover emergency economic prograi' He urge ' that it should be. carried out through an established go v e r nun ent agem-y rather t! in a

Sir Ronald Storris

Uh branch of the League Against Imperialism. and it was discovered the other day that the Communists ha<> planned to blow up the immense naval and private stores of all in Cyprus. It was also learned that Maltese organizations have called on their merchants scattered throughout the Mediterranean to join in a boycott of British goods. ONE must admire the nerve and steady persistency of Japan even If her rights and motives are questionable. As the Manchurian affair stands now, the Japanese are ready to fight China if that is necessary to enforce their demands, though they profess only peaceful intentions; they have defied the League of Nati<mS, refusing to listen to the order of the league council that they withdraw their troops in Manchuria to the railway zone before November 18. when tite,council will reassemble; they commanded the Chinese government to repair at once a river bridge which was damaged by l>ombs from their own planes; and now they have sent. : through Foreign Minister Shidehara. “friendly warning” to the Soviet Russian government urging that Russian troop demonstrattons on the Manj chiirian-Siberian bonier be discontin- ; I 'ted. I’arm Shideiiara told Moscow he was deeply concerned over these milI itary movements and that ‘they were i causiug an unpo-asiint effect on botb' I Chinese and Japanese soldiers, t’hinese rep< rts to the Japanese con1 sul at Tsits’har indicate that between i 2P.800 and Russian troops are ‘ concentrated iu the vicinity of Po- - granltcbnaya. or Suifenho. north of Vladivostok, ami also west of Manchtili 011 another front. • The Nan! - . •mment has hv»pe.s that Russian pressure on • the Man- ' ttr-at hm ■ ‘er ' ■! »< a k on Jitpan, but realizes that China would be worse off if Russia should strengthen its grip along the Chinese ! I'-'-t.-rn railway at Chinese e\- o-i.se. I Japanese dispatches from Harbin s?id I the ■Russians had se.nt arms and ammunition to the Amur army of CbiI r.-'-e ami- Mongols that is supposed t‘o ! be aiming at establishing Amur as an ■ | Independent state. When the I, a? :e council meets Jap1 an will lay before It. as part of its . i tends Chimi has failed to respect. ' Tokyo refuses to consider the proj ]..>>.:! t<> refer these pa< ts to the Hague • ‘peace court, bolding there is no dis- ! 'i.-uity in tl- ir Inte-pretatioii. Gen. Shigeru Hnnjo. eommnmbTlnI CHI?f ,11 ' the .I itiane-o forces iu Man- - churiri, in an official statement dis- . any responsibiltt.v for the losses suffered by neutral foreign inB as a result Os the dispute With !. China in .'lanehuria. I . “Since the present complications ■are due to unlawful actions by the ! late government of Marsl-.al Chang : Hsueh-lians.” General Honjo declared, i “neither the Japanese army nor. the | Japanese government is responsible i for the losses, which is a matter for ■ readjustment between the interests concerned and Marshal Ciiang HsuehOVER in Jugoslavia they are going to have an Important elec- ; on and it may reisalt in the curbing of the royal pow-

i' er. Recently Peter Zivcovitch. lieutenant I "c.iieral of .the royal ! guard and a popular | figure in the country, ' became premier. Now I he h is been compelled j to rt'sigu his cpmmisi sion in the army to I conform to the king’s j. bidding that he place , | himself as a civilian at the head of the t government party list in the election. Some p<ditieal observers see

in the king’s action a Subtle move to deprive Zivcovitch of his great strength. ■ ; THERE Is now going on in Warsaw the greatest political trial in the history of Poland. The defendants are eleven men prominent in the country’s politics, and they are Charged with oHisi.iring t<> subvert by force the dictatorship of Marshal Pilsmls’u. For 14 months all of the accused have been prisoners in the military fortress at I’.rest-I.ltovsk, and thejr friends say they have b en sadly mistreated there. The trial, which it was expected would last two weeks, is being ijunducted under the old czarist cotie aad If the accused are found guilty they face sentences of one to ten tears In prison at hard labor. Seventy lawyers are defending them without* fee. Perhaps the most prominent of the defendants is Wincenty Witos, Xvlfto has been premier three times. • AL CAPONE, who was sentenced to eleven years in prison and finetl SSP.OiX> by Federal Judge Wilkerson in Chicago for income tax fraud, is to remain in the county jail there until the United Sta’e's Court of Appeals passes on his case. He hoped to be released on bail, but this the appeals court refuse*!, though it decreed that he should not be sent to Leavenworth immediately, as Judge Wilkerson preferred. Philip D’Andrea. Capone’s bodyguard during the trial, was sentenced to six months in jail by Judge Wilkerson on the charge of contempt of court. He was found to be carrying a revolver Into the courtroom, and the Judge considered him a part of the hoodlum organization that tried to intimidate the government’s witnesses.. PROMINENT men who passed away during the week Included Ronald W. Boyden, American member of the world court at The Hague; John M. Bowman, president of a great hotel corporation, and Charles A. Comiskey, owner of the Chicago American league baseball club. PRESIDENT GUGGIARI of Paraguay was forced out of office by outbreaks of his opponents, led by students, and the presidency was takes over by Vice President Navero. (©. IMI. Western Newspaper Union. V

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HELPFUL HUSBAND LARGELY A MYTH Little Gained by Letting Him “Tinker.” Men are supposed to be handy with the hammer and good at doing odd jobs round the house, but from what I hear from women who have them (husbands. I mean, not hammers). It’s a tradition lacking in truth. If a trusting wife asks her spouse to repair a chair leg or an electrical fixture it cannot be done until a suitable kit of expensive tools is bought. When the tools arrive he does not know how to use them. In the end the wife has to hire a workman, and instead of saving money she is out the price of the tools. One wife decided it was ridiculous to pay a carpenter to hang the porch swing when her husband and grown son were able-boded and reasonably Intelligent. The twain were willing to lend both brains and brawn, and started operations by tapping the porch roof to locate the joist. The ! sound told nothing to their untrained ears, so they bored eight experimental holes without even touching the secretive beam. Eventually the lady of the house sent for a carpenter who filled up the eight holes, ami hung the swing. One supuner this same father ami son tried to save the family budget by building a coal bin in the base j ment in which to hoard coal bought ■ ’ at low prices. Their Taney carpen ter work loosened the brick foundation so that the cellar leaketl all winter, and in the spring a brick mason repaired the damages at considerable expense. Then there’s the woman who hated to spend slofor an outside aerial for her new radio. She insiste«l that her husband conld save money by build Ing one. Accordingly he bought the necessary materia!. He crawled Under the edge of the house to ground the wire properly, and as he was a hefty brute he got stuck under the foundation, and pulled a Floyd Col- ; I Uns. Sympathetic neighbors dug j him out and lie went to bed to nurse his bruise-; while a hireling built the aerial. Instead of saving money he paid a doctor’s bill. The most interesting trait these helpless husbands show is their will•ingness to spend hours in inventing a Way to escape the work their wives assign to them.. This tendency has let! to most of our important household inventions. Os course it was a man who first* thought of washing, ironing, sweeping and beating eggs by electrical power. Probably his wife asked him tq help her one day

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when she was sick. As often as not bis Inventive powers lead him to grief Instead of success, as in the instance of the man too lazy to carry out his wife’s garbage pail. She kept the garbage in the rear by the garage door, and asked him to put It on the curb each Monday morning. Therefore when he backed the car out he would place the garbage can on the running board and stop at the curb long enough to park the can, thus saving at least a hundred feet o£ unnecessary can carrying. One morning he forgot to remove the garbage can from the running board, and never gave it a thought until he made a quick stop at a prominent traffic intersection. There was a fearful clatter on the left of the car. and he looked out in time to see his breakfast grapefruit peels rolling beneath a flossy limousine, not to mention coffee grounds and potato parings strewn all over the ■ scenery. This husband insists that he never recovered from the resultant inferiority complex, and his wife lost her garbage can which he couldn’t possibly stop to collect. The fond father who spent $2 for a bomb to amuse his children on the Fourth of July “meant when he put it on top of the grape arbor before he lit it. His idea was to remove it as far as possible from the bodies of his young hopefuls. It fell off and exploded in his wife’s favorite (lower bed. uprooting the pride of her life and undoing months of hard labor. . There are some women who can do more with a hairpin than the men of the family can accomplish with the most useful tools. The vaunted superiority of the male in all mechanical matters often falls flat when he is asked to tinker. Sometimes it’s safer to leave the head of the house behind the newspaper, and hire outsiders to take care of repairs. It's cheaper in the long run to pay one bill instead of several.—lndianapolis News. Special Guests Marcia L. of Mooresville was planning for a birthday party. Her mother had written out the invitations ami told the little girl that she {must tell her to whom she must, send them. “Now. Marcia,” she said, “think of your best friends, the one’s yop like best, and I’ll send them one of these little cards and they will come to your party.” Marcia studied quite awhile and finally said: - “Mother. I've decided to ask Santa Claus and Jesus to my party.”—lndianapolis News. Poor Time to Spring It Nurse —Have you told Mr. White he’s the father of twins? Maid—No; he’s shaving.

FIRST HIGHWAY OF STEEL IJM AMERICA Horse Railway in Massachu* setts Pioneer. It Is common historical knowledge that the first railroad in the United States was a horse railway in operation at the Quincy Granite works at Quincy, Mass., in 1526. During the next several years various measures were made to get railroading under way. A commission of the Massachusetts legislature reported in IS2B on the possibility of constructing a railway frpin Boston to New York and affirmed that “animal power is better adapted.” The record of the Massachusetts legislature in 1527 reveal that the project of a railroad from Boston to the Hudson river, was held up to ridicule by our solons on Beacon hill.* The idea Os a railroad across the hills in Worcester and Berkshire was too extravagant to deserve anything but to be laughed at. As late as 1533 a prominent man in Connecticut thanked God he lived in a hilly country where is was impossible to build tailroads. Despite early opposition, however, railroading soon began in earnest. In IS3O the subscription books of the Boston & Lowell railroad were opened and 370 shares of s‘>o par were subscribed for out of a total offering of 1,000 shares. The starting of the Lowell railroad caused a heavy slump in Middlesex canal stock. Close behind the Lowell railroad came the roads to Worcester and Providence. The first locomotive set J in motion in Boston was on the.BosI ton Worcester tracks in late March, 1834. Rails were laid out as far as Newton and the company delayed opening fdr traffic this completed section of the road only because it was compelled to await the arrival of the engine driver imported from England to take charge of the English built locomotive. In June, 1835. the railroad was completed.to Worcester. The formal opening took place. on Saturday. July 1. 1835. TJie railroads to Providence and Lowell had been opened a few days before the Worcester road, the former on the llth and the latter on the 27th day of June, 1535. The Boston & Worcester was Completed through to Albany in 1841 and the event was celebrated on December 27 of that year by the entire Boston city government going tn a body to Albany to Celebrate. They • had their junkets in those days. The Fitchburg road was opened to its western terminus during 1845. It

was in the same year that the Old Colony railroad opened through to Plymouth. Moreover Irene Castle McLaughlin, whose home_for homeless Chicago dogs recently burnt down, is a great lover of animals, and at a luncheon she told an animal story. “There was once a colored gentleman.” she began, “who had a dog named ’Moreover? “ ‘Queer name, that, for a dog,’ a white gentleman said. ‘Where did you get the name from, Junius?’ “ ‘Moreover am a Biblical name, sah,’ Junius, the owner of the dog, Explained. “‘Yes?’ said the gentleman. ‘How so?’ “ ‘Don’t you remember, sah,’ said the colored gentleman, ‘whar de good book says: “ ‘ “Moreover, the dog came and licked his wounds.” ’ ” Another Birth Rate Slumps Just as England was congratulating herself that babies were arriving faster than deaths were recorded, alarm was spread of another slump in birth rates. Th’s time it was cats. There has been such a decided decline in the feline birth rate that the cat world is facing a problem greater than ever -efore confronted. Nobody knows the cause, says Manager Bustede of the Kensington Kitten club show. Venerable Earth Geologists believe rain has fallen on earth for at least 1.500.000.000 years, Dr. William Bowie of the United States coast and geodetic survey. The oldest sedimentary rocks, estimated to be 1.500.000.000 years old. could not have been formed without running water to wash sediments from land surfaces, he says.—lndianapolis News. Police Shoot at Movie* Police of Berlin are being taught to shoot at running objects by pictures thrown on the screen by a motion picture projector. The scenes show humans, and animals racing across a small screen, and so hit them requires skill. The sharpshooters are required to make good scores at this practice vMbrk before they can join the regular squad. The Coward! Lawyer—l think 1 can get ybu a divorce, madam, for cruel and Inhuman treatment. Do you think your busband will fight the suit? Woman —Fight! Why. the little shrinip Is afraid to come‘into any room where I ami—Pathfinder. A man must get a thing before he can forget it.—Holmes.