The Syracuse Journal, Volume 24, Number 32, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 3 December 1931 — Page 7

News Review of Current Events the World Over Japanese Armies on Move Again League Council Stumbles —Raskob Irritates the Drys — National Political Gossip. By EDWARD W. PICKARD

xtEITIIER japan nor China was IN willing to accept the plan devised by the League of Nations council for an Inquiry into the Manchurian

situation, and the twelve members of that body made a further attempt to draw up a scheme that would please both sides, but without apparent success. 'The salient point of this latter plan was the sending of a "committee of study” to Manchuria, only Instead of having an express mandate for invest iitsting all of '» • I .... » Ik. •.

Gen. C. P. Summerall

China as well as Maixhuria. as the recent Japanese prpi>osst I provided,-the cutiimitiee would be instructed: to investigate Manchuria, and to include China if they think It advisable. As demanded b> : ’ •■ J:tp;in< -e. th»- e<>mniittee would have no power to investigate :n- ;> n • •veim-nts or to incrfere otherwise with the war, nor to Intervene in any direct negotiations between Tokyo and Nanking that might be. opened. 1 >r. Alfred s.-.e,-in an uncompromising communication to the council, told how China looked on this scheme. He said: ■An Inquiry without at" the same time providing for cessa- ■ tion of hostilities and the withdrawal, of Japanese forces becomes a mere device to condone and perpetuate for a snore or less Indefinite perc-1 the unjustifiable occupation of. China's territory by an ngi.-re-.sor who has already virtually attaiiud his tit object while these discussions have been going on; in the you will read ly :s >|U !•- impos--sible for me to consider the proposal in question until the basis above men- /. tinned has been adequately laid down.'’ When and if a committee of inquiry . Is named, its chairman may be 'Gen. Charles I’. Suhtriiera 11. former chief of staff of the United States army. He has been suggested for this place by ■ the Japanese and probably would be • . ■ 8 Manchurian problem was to .be sub- > . mitted to’ the-epum-i) by the Nanking gbv . rutheht, a. ■ «rding to I »r. ' V - - ton Koo, who has hist peen appointed Chinese foreign minister and assumed • his m-w du: es DOWN on the southern coast of Mahehurla; is • a small atrip .in which is situated the city of chin--chow, and that it still in the hands of

China • r was last w<-< k. I'-ut . h-tIT, the .hi’-a.inSe «!*•■>:•!«-<! to take over this area also, for Doctor Sze gave the Ivomic coutl ell ■ I ton tha I the troops of the mikado. were movip; south front Mukden in armored rar- with the ktterition <‘f crush Ing tie opposition in Chinchow; This «<•- ■ t i tl w as exp’a;lo-d by ■ the J . , se. on the

ground ti at their interests there were hr, !, .. e.| by bandits, but the Chinese rt. the activities of bandits there .. and elsewhere. in Manchuria are prpIII..:. -i by Japan !..• e\.tile.r in 1 ■/ ■ , : 1 ■ - n in the - .1.- :,et., It IS appa'l '-ur U-.i’ • the I . ■ '- by »■ n; - 1 Jiaiajiminister of war. are having the r •.-a nv. i.. I not permit I v " chur i. nor are itej afraid of exaa ■ I Soviet 'Kus inent t<» the point of forceful action j nhhoughalu . - .. Moscow that llu-.aii interests will tio't be en j dan gens!. I Seeming efforts "f the league coUn- | r!l In I’.iris to put on the I States the on us ’ settling the Si <> t ■-'Japanese-'.affair are not meeting with j Sttecess. There has Iverii t.’.ik t ore and in ■ h;: ,i si of iinok iig an i ononilc boycott of Japan if the ■ Tokyo government persists in refusing to keep the peace, am! our-government bed op this subject. • league is asking us to commit ourselves before i: makes tip its own nilml what it wants us to .he commit-. 'let! t tin oflicial in Washington’ declared*. “We’re not going to, do it.” ••\Vby should fourteen men who have signed an agreement to take a certain kind of action call on a fifteenth, who has not signed such an agreement, to say In advance what he will dot The responsibility rests on the fourteen who have agreed among themselves. Suppose that after the fifteenth man committed himself, the other fourteen decided to do something else? Where would the fifteenth be? “The use of an economic boycott is a device of the League of Nations. The members of the league agreed when they signed the covenant to use the boycott under certain circum- ■ stances. The United States never promised to do so.“ COMPLETION' of the Lakes to-the-Gulf waterway in 1932 Instead of tn May, 1983. with a view to assisting business; industry and employment, was asked of the federal governmentby the Mississippi Valley association nt its annual convention in St. Louis, fmatore Glenn and Lewis of Illinois and many others spoke in favor of speeding up the construction work, ami argued that the objections raised by the army engineers to a quick fin- i Ish —lee and possible floods —would not he considered valid If the waterway were a private enterprise instead w

of a government project. The association voted in favor of a federal bond issue to carry on the work rapidly. Senator Glenn recently urged upon President Hoover and Secretary of War Hurley the need of early completion of the work. and said he violated no confidence in declaring both of them were in favor of this course. HEARINGS by the senate lobby ccmmiitee w> re resumed in Washington. anti John Holland, , the com- • mittee’s chief investigator, told an Interestin': story of deals in sugar stock by two t’fiited States son of Indiana and Davis of Pennsylvania. Both of them. Holland said, bought stock of sugar companies operated by Bror G. Dahlberg of Chicago, giving their notes in payment, and later turned in the, stock for considers, able ; ..per profits, wh:.«-b ■ afterwards disappeared,/ tuber prominent men. he. said. als< bought Dahlberg stock and 10.-t. these including Al Smith. John J. Raskob and Senator Moses. Holland told the committee he could find mi «-v-dence that; Senator Davis . had lobbied for a high sugar tariff. I . 1!-.-rg .in Chicago denied t.’::it t!ier-> was anything utiusual or reprehensible in the transactions with Watson and I—v ar.d. also de- lared f.-. -e tie - (MM) to 1 ’avis. i cirri N<» up a fa vJ vorite occupation of John J. Raskob. the dynamic chairman of the Democratic national cotnmittee. 'His i

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ot er m liters of party poli< v. hut the liquor propositi' ll is the n one. ' ess to say. Mr Raskob himself ■ - : Wet, ■-I US he -ays; in. ■ ■-■■■•-■■ j ■eves the time has come 'Tor the Democratic I party to fa <• this is-ue squarely and t<> present t<> the people a deniilte plan under the policy of states' rights and local seif-government.” ■ The ,i - was a follow-up to presentation of the home-rule plan Tor liquor control last March to the mi- | ti' rial committee. lie evoked tlq»n a ! bitter outburst, particularly front, | southern leaders, many of whom felt j deliberate injection of the prohibition j issue Was a fine way to wreck the I party’s !'.* prosj ts. This time the drys again responded with strong pretests Tb.-ir board of stra*»'.*y, of wl.i. hE< w n I' ’ ■■■: MieIs t-\. ti’fvo secretary, issued a state- , tnent which said ‘‘wet millionaires” were hriiieing pressure to bear on both parties to make their platforms wet by th.re:'.:eii ; rg to withhold contributions j in the 1932 contest. ■ “Their i m is to shift the burden of i taxat ion froth themselves-to the pi'ople by restoring liquors to legal sale.” | it said. ‘This Kaskob poll of party contrlliut >rs plays utrnn money givers and exalts , them as' the real' party < \,.. tV Yorkers sjiw. In the Raskep qm-stionmi ‘re a delib- rate etfort to split the supp<,rt of Frankiln 1). Roose--I volt. W-l > Is still the leading contend,-r i t’ct'— d“-< - dciitial nominatioi'h SenJ T< ; *in, .s>-,' and Connally of Texas, tn- > terviewed in Washington, decried Ras'i I .cr.itic national committee I has been called to meet January 9. and I t' < matter undoubtedly, wm be a- nia- ■- of ti :<t it - <»■« <-n RKITIESENTATIVE GARNER ’of Texas, pro-pcctlvv of the e, partobk of a ‘diarmotivbreak fa.- • ” with. John F, Curry, chief- ' i n ■ f Tamit-any Hall, the other day and it is Mid persuaded him to nban d-n h ; s ph-.n to have a tn-'fh,«r of the : Tammany \lelegntion made fl<»or leader. ' The in:er party trace was completed e John .M< of Alabama withdrew from the race J for the floor leadership.. !mme-!sat« ; ly’ ■ ' thereafter Representative’Henry T. It.'ilney seventy-one year <>)d veteran from Illpublicly announced his candidacy and word w. nt down the line that he had the active supjs>rt of Representative Garner. Mr. Rainey claimed he already had been pledged 133 of the 217 Democratic votes. I‘emwratic control of the house was clinched by the election of R. M. Kleberg. Democrat. In the Fourteenth Texas district to succeed the late Harry M. Wnntbach who was the states only Republican congressman. PROGRESSIVE and indei>endent members of the house expect to wield control of its actions, and at the call of Representative LaGuardia of New York those in that category, both Republicans and Democrats, met Wednesday in Washington to make their plans and formulate their demands. The invitation to this conference, which was signed also by Ihtul J. Kvale of Minnesota, the lone Farm-er-Latvorite, said that even though the Democrats might elect the speaker, neither they nor the Republicans could hope for a working majority without . the aid of the independents. One of the demands of the progressives is liberalization of the house rules so that “boss control" may be eliminated.

Gen. Jiro Mmam'i'

latest achievement in ' that way is the -■■■ ■! ing out of a questionnaire to 88.550 contributers to the party campaign fund of 1928 get their views on whether the Democratic- nat hmnl convention should declare for resubmission of the prohibition issue to the people. They are asked what- the y

MEMBERS of the senate who are classed as progressive Republicans were reported to be organizing for opposition to the re-election of Senator George IL Moses of New Hampshire as president pro tempore of the senate. They are said to be actuated especially by Moses’ attack on them a year ago, when he dubbed them “sons of the wild jackass.” Nye of North Dakota. Norris of Nebraska and Couzens of Michigan were supposed to be leading the movement and it was believed they. Would support Senator Wesley L. Jones of Washington for the place held by Moses. The regular Republican leaders feared all this might result in allowing the Demo - crats to assume control of the senate as well as »f the house. THERE is an unfilled vacancy among federal Judgeships in the Chicago division of the eastern Illinois district. and George E. Q. John-

son. I'nlted States district attorney there, is strongly urged for the place by Senator ■Otis F. Glenn. Illinois. The appointment' of Mr. Johnson would be political in some w-ays. but it also would be approved as a reward for the excellent work he. has done in the line of prosecuting gangsters and grafting politicians for evasion of their , in-

come tuxes. Senator Glenn denied that he had. yet made any recommen- i datson to the President, but other’sup- ' porters of’Mr, Johnson were insistent should he appointed now, though he has three more years to serve of his second term as district attorney and Mr. Hoover, it was reported. wants him to finish his term. If Mr. Johnson is elevated to the bench, hts successor is likely to be Dwight H. Green who, though only thirty-four years old. has been one of -tlie district attorney’s most- efficient and valued assistants in the tion of tux dodgers, acting as solicitor for the revenue bureau. IF THE Democrats in senate and house follow the leadership of Senator Joseph I'. Robinson of Arkansag, their leader in the senate, they will oppose any increase in surtaxes and any great increase in any of the government levies, Robinson says such action by congress would “approach contion” and w’ould be likely to : prolong instead of relieve the depression. He -proposes instead a bond Senator. Robinson argues that taxes should be raided solely td obtain revenue and not for the purpose “of distributing wealth or reducing large fortunes.’’ He is opposed to a general sales tax. but would corisefit to a sales le\y on luxuries. He said in his statement: VThe most practical method to dl- . minis'i unemployjnent is to revive industry. Increase in taxation is a poor method, for overcoming depression. In other words, xvhile increases may be unayoidalde they cannot be expected' to contribute to the forces calculated ; to restore confidence and courage in I the sphere of investments and enter- | prises.” He added tliat while he recognized the -necessity of balancing tlie budget, he did not look for a great reduction “Everybody talks about economy, but no one applies it.” lie said. “You canriot expect a public building program which many seem to think desirable. without an increase of appropriations. The sunt total would be that the goverment will be fortunateI if it is not faced with ■ increased ap- ; I propriatiens. There is hot going to Be ' great reduction.” Though be is »»«• eighty-eijsht ears old. Gen. A. AV. Greely is still [ I Ae'y interested in the exploration ■' I of pplar regions, and he has just bt'en I

app'-inted vhainmih of | the national commit- i , tee "that . sponsors a I ' new- American expe- i j dition which will start i : for the Arctic next i I .lune to spend two i years on Ellesmere island, the northerni most land on the globe.. Uapt. Havel . M. Williams will be 1 comma nd e r of the party, at d Dr. 11. 15. Maris will be its scientific director, and

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the gray bearded leader of the illfated Grcely expedition of is helping t Itemmake their plans. They will have radios, aih’banes and modern . forts in exploring . the region Where General <3reely met with dis- ■ starved or froze to because.they I had no meaixs of letting civilization know of their plight. SOVIET. I'J’SSIA has abandoned the f:\e day uninterrupted week whlci. j was ad pied hist year for the purpose of- •••••din's: up production, and has substituted an uninterrupted week of six days. Working hours are reduced from G’a hours to C hours daily to compensate for the loss of time off. The new order applies to all enter-, prises and offices except those directly connected with serving the cultural and living needs of the people. SPEEDING toward Chicago with hundreds of entries for the International Live Stock show, a long special train was wrecked near Lexington. Mo., by spreading rails. Seven men were killed and others injured. Many fine horses known in the show ring* of the country were destroyed. The “million dollar train** was carrying the stock from the American Royal Live Stock show In Kansas City. among the deaths X * of the week were those of Dr. Sam Small of Atlanta, noted editor and evangelist; Louis Loucheur, former cabinet minister and once rated as the richest man in France; O. C. Simonds of Chicago, famous landscape architect and park designer, and Albert H. Harris, financial head of the New York Central, lines. (®. 1931. Western Newspaper Union.)

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WEAK MIND NOT A FACTOR IN CRIME Fallacy of Old Belief Has Been Proved. Intelligence comparisons conducted by Dr. L. D. Zeleny, professor of sociology at St. Cloud Teachers college, Minnesota, and affecting prisoners in state institutions and law-abiding citizens, blasted the popular theory that feeble-mindedness is a major factor in crime.- He compared intelligence tests of 61.099 criminals with those of 89.995 members of the United States draft army. Only 3.8 per cent of the prisoners who took the test, according to Doctor Zeleny, appeared to be feebleminded. This left 96.2 per cent of the criminals mentally able to adjust themselves to their social and economic environments. It followed. , therefore, that about 96 per cent of! the crime committed in this country i Is directly due to other factors than feeble-mindedness. In recent years It has become a popular belief that about 25 per cent of offenders are feeble-minded and do not know better than to commit crimes, said Doctor Zeleny. Meanwhile it also was the popular belief that only about 2 per cent of the rest of the population was similarly affected. As a matter of fact there is little difference between criminal and law-abiding persons i i when it comes to intelligence. ; There are some persons who insist on excusing all criminals from punishment on the ground that none of them know better than to follow careers of wrongdoing. The reasoning starts with the assumption that no individual would do wrong if he knew What was right. Or that if he knew the difTerence between right ami wrong he still was without sufficient intelligence and moral courage to.refrain from crime. Carried to an exk treme, one might apply this to every individual who failed of perfection in conduct toward his fellowman. and ♦hat would include the whole population of any country. If one considered some of the arch criminals in recent years one might ! readily agree with Doctor Zeleny. Take, for example, Al Capone. If one called him feeble-mi.nded and the gangster chieftain heard about it, some one would be put on ’Jm spot. Capone’s intelligence test ml doubt would compare favorably wi',i that of s many successful business men. He has wonderful powers of organization. lie is a good executive. He is a dominant personality. All these traits, highly developed, art employed in the wrong direction, igainst society, but not because of ; feeble-

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