The Syracuse Journal, Volume 29, Number 31, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 26 November 1936 — Page 6

News Review of Current Events the World Over Italy and Germany Recognize Insurgent Regime in Spain —Anti-Communist Pact Angers Russia —Tugwell Resigns—President on Unemployment. By EDWARD W. PICKARD 0 Western Newspaper Union.

X/fUSSOLINI and Hitler threw Europe into spasms of alarm by suddenly calling into session the ministerial councils of Italy and

Germany and causing them to recognize formally the Fascist government of Gen. Francisco Franco as the legal government of wartorn Spain. It was taken for granted that Austrit. and Hungary would follow suit. Maj. Ramon Franco, brother of the Spanish insurgent chieftain,

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had been in Rome and probably informed II Duce that the general, whose attacks on Madrid were meeting with unexpected resistance, might lose the war unless he were ~ given active support by the nations that sympathized with his cause. Mussolini and Hitler did not immediately announce that they would quit the international agreement for intervention in Spain, but it was believed they would soon be shipping munitions to Franco’s armies. They withdrew their diplomatic representatives from Madrid and arranged to send others to the rebel government. Great Britain and Russia were stunned by the action of the two dictators and cabinet meetings were hurriedly called. The British are determined not to be drawn into “ the Communist-Fascist conflict but they believe that Italy and Germany, especially the former, have designs in the Mediterranean that would peril Britain’s seaway to the Orient and are preparing to meet any such threat. Russia’s reaction was awaited breathlessly, and the soviet government was being provoked still further by the fact that General Franco declared a blockade of the port of Barcelona, capital of the almost independent province of Catalonia. This move certainly was made to stop the landing of munitions and food from Russia destined for the Spanish loyalist forces. England, France and other nations were greatly concerned over the blockade, for the port is largely used by their shipping. The Spanish rebels have created a strongly fortified port at Palma on the island of Mallorca that can be used as a base for bombardment of Barcelona from the sea. Blockading vessels may be supplied by Portugal, which warned neutral shipping to avoid the Barcelona port, though Lisbon had not yet formally recognized Franco’s government. An almost humorous note came from Geneva where League of Nations observers asserted that the Italo - German recognition of the Spanish insurgents violated Article 10 of the covenant which demands that league members respect “territorial integrity and the existing political independence of all members of the league." They seem to have forgotten how the league abandoned Manchuria to Japan and Ethiopia to Italy not so long ago. The Italian grand council, with Mussolini presiding, voted to support the Duce’s policies by giving him more airplanes, more guns, more warships and more men. It was frankly stated that the reason for this was the threatening international situation. Italian opinion was that if France joined Russia in aiding the formation of a radical Spanish government with its capital at Barcelona—in event that Madrid fell to the Fascists—there would be great danger of general war. /COMPLICATING the already complex European situation and directly threatening war is the alleged fact that Germany and Japan have united to fight the spread of communism, and that their pact is expected to be adhered to by Italy and perhaps various central European nations. This is of course directed mainly against soviet Russia, and Moscow is actively aware of the menace. It is understood that the agreement provides that Germany and Japan shall keep ’ strong military forces in East Prussia and Manchukuo respectively; that the two nations shall exchange military information and orders, and that in certain contingencies Germany shall supply Japan with war materials. An immediate source of friction between Germany and Russia is the arrest of 23 Germans in Moscow and Leningrad under charges of plotting to steal secret military information, t o wreck industrial plants and to kill government leaders. Berlin protested the arrests but the soviet officials replied that all formalities governing such cases had been observed and that several . of the prisoners had confessed their guilt The German propaganda ministry said the story of the GermanJapanese agreement, which came from Moscow, was a “periodic lie" which Ulis time was intended to sidetrack German protests against Um arrests. Children’s Death Rate Declines 25 Par Cent The mortality rate of the nation’s school children between the ages of five and fourteen years has dec lined twenty-five per cent in the last decade, according to a recent survey of Dr. J. F. Rogers, consultant in hygiene of ths United States Office of EdvcnHnn WaW of th Mt Hat-line is to gaftty campaigns against autanto-

TIAT sea level ship canal across Florida from the Atlantic to the Gulf, condemned by the army engineers’ board as not justified, started by the New Deal and stopped when congress refused to appropriate more funds, probably will now be pushed on to completion. The army engineers, having been asked by the President for a revisory report, have submitted one holding that the project would be justified “in the public interest"— an absolute reversal of opinion. The board also found that the canal would cost only $162,985,000, instead of $223,440,000, as estimated on December 30,1933, when material costs were substantially lower than they now are. So far the sum of $5,400,000 hks been spent on the project. Rexford guy tug w ell, known as the No. 1 braintruster, has resigned from his post as undersecretary of agriculture and

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resettlement administrator and accepte d the executive vice presidency of the American Molasses company, of which another braintruster, Charles W. Taussig, is president, and a third, A. A. Berle, Jr., is a director. In accepting the resignation the President wrote

to Mr. Tugwell: "Later on I fully expect to ask you to come back to render additional service." Mr. Tugwell will serve on a special committee of 38 just appointed by the President to study the farm tenancy problem. The new resettlement administrator is W. W. Alexander, who has been first assistant. John G. Winant, who resigned as head of the social security board to take part in the Presidential election campaign, has resumed that position at the urgent request of Mr. Roosevelt and is directing the big task of enrolling the future old age pensioners. CATLING from Charleston aboard °the cruiser Indianapolis for Buenos Aires and the Pan-American peace conference, President Roosevelt directed the release of a statement in which he announced that the government will continue to spend money on a work relief program until July 1, 1938 at least. It is estimated that congress will be asked to appropriate as much as $1,500,000,000 for relief in the next session. Although he professed himself gratified at the inroads upon unemployment by industry, the President commented upon the fact that private business has not yet absorbed vast masses of the unemployed and that millions of persons remain on the Works Progress administration pay roll and other governmental agencies. Mr. Roosevelt declared it was “widely known” that many of the largest industries will not hire workers over forty years of age. To a large extent, he charged, this policy is responsible for the relatively large number of older workers on relief. And industry must expand opportunities for the hiring of unskilled workers, he said. Thp mayors of the United States, in annual conference in Washington, were gratified by assurances from both Harold Ickes, head of the PWA, and Harry Hopkins, head of the WPA, that the administration will not cease its spending efforts to keep alive the emergency organizations intended to deal with the unemployment problem. "I am convinced,” 'lckes said, “that the PWA made a permanent agency of government. It will expire June 30 next. On that date, many projects will Dot be completed. Necessarily, a law should be passed giving time within which to complete the tasks already undertaken." Hopkins predicted the 1929 level of production would be reached next year. “Yet the end of our troubles seems a long way off,” he remarked. "There were about 1,800,000 unemployed even at the 1929 peak, but next year, with the same volume of production, carefully prepared estimates indicate that there will still be some 6Mi to 7 millions unemployed.” E*OR more than ten years the " American government has been building monuments of the World war on French and Belgian battlefields and memorial chapels in the eight American military cemeteries in France, Belgium and England. This work is now completed and the American Battle Monuments commission, of which General Pershing is chairman, recommends that the structures be dedicated next July, twenty years after America’s entry into the war. The approval of the President and congress is required. bile and other accidents. Increased protective measures against typhoid, matorto, pellagra, dysentery, rabies, smallpox and tetanus (lockjaw) have also aided in reducing mortality. Because of Amerira’a mixed population, the comparative death rate of school children to the United States and that in other countries is not altogether favorable. New £to^the b tead m X'Terith

REPRESENTATIVE RAYMOND J. CANNON of Wisconsin isn’t waiting for the “silly season” to >pen. In a fine democratic frenzy he has prepared and says he will introduce in congress a resolution, “asking the President to forbid our ambassadors and other representatives from participating in any official capacity in the coronation ceremonies and the marriage ceremony of the king of England." The resolution describes the coronation as "latent propaganda for monarchy,” and added that “it is improper for a free republic to participate in a ceremony of obsequious homage to an hereditary ruler." It may be stated that the matter of King Edward’s romance with Mrs. Wally Simpson is now discussed guardedly in the British press and with considerable heat by the nobility and churchmen of England. His majesty continues to see Wally frequently but has given no intimation to the world that he will marry her. Vs ME. ERNESTINE SCHUMANN--IVI HEINK, one of the greatest operatic and concert contraltos of the period, died in Hollywood, to the sorrow of the nation generally and especially of the men of the A. E. F. for whom she sang throughout the war. A German by birth, she loved intensely her adopted country of America. Her family was split asunder by the war, one of her sons being killed as a German soldier and another dying in action as a member of the American forces. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT’S re- * port to the senate committee of his campaign expenditures shows that the cost of his re-election to himself was exactly $670. Robert Jefferys, secretary of the committee, said he had not yet received a report from Gov. Alt M. T .andon, but understood that most of his expenses were borne by the Republican national committee. William Lemke, Union party presidential nominee, reported he spent $2,866 and received contributions totaling $5,753. The Prohibition party’s candidate for President, Dr. Leigh Colvin, listed expenditures of $1,106 and contributions of $1,131. FIRST of the big groups that aided in the re-election of President Roosevelt to call on him for their reward, the steel workers have asked that the Chief Executive recommend to the next congress the passage of legislation outlawing company unions and forbidding coercion of worker* by employe. George A. Patterson and Elmer J. Maloi, employee representatives of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel company, carried this request to the White House. The Carnegie - Illinois company has offered employees a 10 per cent wage increase on condition that workers sign an agreement to permit adjustment of wages to the cost of living. At his press conference President Roosevelt said living costs should not be permitted to op- = erate to curb wage increases. Furthermore, Secretary of Labor Perkins ruled informally that the employee representatives had no authority to sign such an agreement for their fellow employees. TN HIS first press conference since * the Presidential election Harry L. Hopkins, works progress administrator, asserted his belief that re-

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lief rolls this winter would be at the lowest point since the start of the depression. He estimated that 3,750,000 families and single persons would be receiving federal and local aid January 1, 1937, compared to a peak of 5,316,000 in January, 1935.

"I think," Hopkins said confidently, “that we will go into January of this year caring far 1,000,000 less cases than a year ago and a reduction of about 1,500,000 from 1935." The administrator’s attention was called to the fact that latest figures showed that 3,498,012 persons were employed the first two weeks of October, an increase of 29.020 over the preceding half month. He explained this by pointing out that the drouth in the Midwest added 32,831 destitute fanners to his WPA project list. EMPLOYER corporations were hit by a ruling of the National Labor Relations board ordering the dissolution of the “industrial council plan" of the International Harvester company at the plant in Fort Wayne. Ind. While the ruling dealt only with the Indiana plant, the board pointed out that the same plan also exists in the other 14 Harvester plants in the United States and Canada. It sets also for future decisions in regard to similar plans in other manufacturing plants throughout the country. A DOLF HITLER has torn up an- ** other clause of the Versailles treaty—the one that internationalized the German rivers and canals. He has announced that the reich has resumed sovereignty over all such waters. The treaty clause was designed partly to give Czechoslovakia free access to the sea, and that nation now has agreed with Belgium to protest formally against Germany's action. British Foreign Minister Eden rather mildly criticized Hitler's course. Backs Japan Expansion Reorganization of a society which is to be the only political party in Manrhykuo is in progress »mder Japatwee military sponsorship. The Kyowakai or voncord oociety is described by General Ueda of the Kwangtung Army as designed to secure peace and order as well as tha y»premacy of tile new state. mmt and the Kwantung Army will constitute "the supreme trinity,” he ■■

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MONTAGUE . . . . . I Relates What Came of Casting “Bread on the Waters” One of tile Men Made a Splint Out of the Spar An* Patched up the Flipper.

By JAMES J. MONTAGUE

ECAUSE they ain’t got legs an’ arms an’ whis--1 kers, an* religion, like people has," said the

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old sailor, "the idee has got around that fish ain’t got no feelin’s. Well, cold blooded fishes, like sharks and barracudas maybe ain’t. But whales is different. Whales is warm blooded, an’ if you treat ’em right, an’ they ever have a chance to do you a good turn they’ll do it. An’ the other way ’round, if you do them a dirty trick they’ll keep it in mind, just like elephants does, an* sooner or later they’re liable to even things up. "I ain’t sayin’ that they’ll always git back at you, for the sea is a big place, an* it’s just by accident that you meet up with a whale that you’ve had a acquaintance with before. But now an’ then it so happens that you fall foul of a whale you bumped into before, an* if he was hurt bad in the smash you got to look out. Os course nowadays ships have guns to shoot ’em with, but that’s only on whalin’ vessels. An’ even if a whale’s eyes is small, compared to the rest of him, he can see a long ways out of ’em, an’ recognize the people on her deck just like he had a glass to look at ’em through. “I seen a lot of whales, mean ones an’ sociable an’ pleasant mannered ones, but they was two of ’em specially that I remember now, on account of the way they behaved their selves. The first one was a mean one, though I don’t say he didn’t have cause to act the way he did. We was layin’ in a calm aown off the west coast of Mexico one time about forty years ago when this feller come along side an’ looked us over. There bein’, nothin’ to do till we got a breeze all of the crew that had anything to shoot with made a target out of him, just for the fun of seein’ him take quick dives when he saw the flash of a gun, an’ then, if he wasn’t hit, come up about a hundred fathom further out an’ sort of dare us to shoot him again. “‘Some of the men was dead shots, an* he got so many holes in his hulk that you’d think he couldn’t hold water. By an’ by he got sort of sick of it an’ decided to git out of range, but before he done so he cracked on all sail an* bore down on us till he got so close aboard that he could give the ship a good look over. Some of the men says that he dove under the stem an’ come up close aboard so he could read the vessel’s name, but I don’t believe that. Them brutes is just fish, an’ though they act like devils sometimes it would be stretchin’ things to say that they could put the letters of the alphabet together an* make words out of it. “Just the name this whale done a lot of rememberin’, for four years after that, when we was makin’ a v’yage down the coast of South America who should show up about two points off our weather beam but him. We had a new crew, includin’ officers, all except the bos’n, an’ though after I called his attention to the critter he tried to put the old man an* the mate on their guard they just laughed at him for being a fool superstitious sailor an’ kept right on their course. Well, nothin’ could have been expected to happen but what did happen. That whale waited till night to hide him, an’ then he must of swum out about a hundred fathom away from us so as to give him a good start an* headed for us. “They ain’t no ship Inuit that can stand a wallop from the bony head of a whale. Six or seven ribs was stove in as if they had been made of kindlin’ wood, and the sea begun to come aboard so fast that you could hear it pourin’ in like a river. "What did we do? What could we do? We just took to the boats, an* if we hadn’t of had the luck to be picked up by a merchant man, we’d have finished up like Jonah, although I hear tell that whales don’t eat people any more since them old fellers was keepin* logs. “An’ now here’s the other side of the picture. Quite a while after Few Bastiße Prisoners At the time of its capture on July 14, 1789, the Bastille was found to rrvntain only aeven prisoners, although the building had been steadily used as a prison during the reigns vtt ytv and O* JL4MIIS anJUp SLDu XVI. Music and hula dances are • feature of political campaigns in the Territory of Hawaii, unique in that

that I was aboard a ship that had one of these here humanitarians for a skipper. He wasn’t so humane to the men aboard, but he couldn’t bear to see anything hurt unless it was a sailor man, who to his way of thinkin’ don’t have no proper human feelin’s. One night there come an’ awful bump, an’ then a lot of others, like we was hoppin’ along over a reef, an’ the ship began to leak so fast that we could just about keep even by mannin* all the pumps. When it begun to get daylight, the men who was restin’ from their work below come on deck so they could get a sniff of somethin’ besides bilge water, an’ there, just off our beam was a whale with a busted flipper, tryin’ to make head against a wind that was blowin’ him toward the coast. "Well, nothin’ would do, after the old man found that about half the crew could keep the water out of her, but that four of us should go out an’ see what we could do for the poor critter. We took along some line an’ a spar, an’ one of the men made a splint out of the spar an’ patched up the flipper so the big fellow could use it pretty near as good as he done his good one. Os course he would of gone to port all the time an’ just kept runnin’ around in circles except for his tail. But he used that for a rudder, an’ the last we seen of him he was makin’ a passage to the sou’west, an’, the sea havin’ gone down he was doin’ pretty good. "Now here’s what happened afterward. Some people don’t believe it when I tell it to ’em, but there’s a lot of people who don’t believe it’s a sign of bad luck when you’re left heel itches. It’s only a sailorman that really understands the signs an’ omens that helps him to live out his days by the wamin’s they bring him. “We was stove up so bad that we had to put into Calloa to get new plankin’ an’ ribs put in, which took about three weeks. Then we laid our course for the Horn, an’ before we had been out two days there falls a flat ca’m, and there we laid, bobbin’ up an’ down on the slick swell, an’ driftin’ this way an’ that way with the tide, but not gettin* no place. It was one of them ca’ms that looks as if they will last forever, an’ to make matters worse some of the seams we thought was all tight begin to open. They wasn’t none of us, includin’ the captain that wasn’t pretty sartin’ we’d just stay there till she filled an* sunk with all on board an’ nobody left to tell what had happened. “But early the second mornin’ when it was my watch on deck I looked over the bows an’ seen somethin' black headed in for us. I thought at first it was a porpoise, but soon I see it was too big for a porpoise an’ could only be a whale. It kept right on headin’ in till I noticed it was swimmin’ a funny way, an’ then I give a yell, for it was the whale we had doctored up while we was headin’ down the coast. “At first I was scared it was goin’ to bump us because the splint had got out of gee an’ it was sore at us because we’d been so clumsy, but it slowed up when it got under the bows, cocked an eye up at me, an’ then just lazied along fast enough to keep up. “I knowed what it was doin’ then, an’ why. So I got out a cable, made a runnin’ bowline into it, an’ droppin’ it over the side slipped it over Mr. Whale’s head an’ made it taut behind his flippers. When he felt the strain, he give a lunge forward, an* soon he was towin’ us straight for port. He knowed his way too. for by six bells we was alongside the drydock ready to be | hauled out for repairs, an* the old 1 whale’s wake was a white line head-J ed for the deep sea. “Now that’ll show you that whalM is like folks. Some of us is xnM an’ some of us is kindly. Afl when I tell this yam to most they look at me funny an’ what I’ve been drinkin’.” • Bell Syndicate.—WNU Ser rice. I Fair Held by Xerxes Xerxes held a 180-day fair to show the power of his huge empire. Gsaivex, Concave Mimes Convex and concave minors were first popular in Sheraton’s day in Eighteenth century England. They were adorned with ornate gilt branches for candles, the ttoy lights being reflected many times in the depths of the mirrors. These decorations continued in favor for many Tfek Imwbi* Life The inrw* life may be impovermidst nf ritmrllv

Davi/O Tales From Vancouver Island; i “Cougar Smith.” IN THE TALL TIMBER. AFTER hearing all sorts of ' l thrilling stories about Cecil Smith, employed by the government of British Columbia to keep down vital statistics among the cougars of Vancouver island, I deliberately went upon his trail. It was like tracking a man-eating . Bengal-tiger; the nearer I got to I him, the more formidable he became until at last I visualized him as something between Tarzan the ( tree top tourist and Frank Buck who cleans out jungles with his naked hands. Well, nothing could be further from the truth, as I discovered when at last I found him seated on the veranda of his snug little cottage in the midst of his family, surrounded by an old fashioned garden, under the shade of whispering pines. For a certainty, he does not look the part of a varmint slayer, yet the number of cougars, deadliest enemies to the domestic live stock and deer of Vancouver island, that have fallen to his gun during the last 30 years, is well nigh beyond calculation. A milder mannered, gentler soul than “Cougar ( Smith” never strolled through a forest; or ran a marauding cougar to his doom. “Whenever the critters go too far slaying sheep, calves,, barnyard fowl and the like,” said he, “it is my business to do whatever cougar killing seems necessary. I am subject to call at any hour of the day or night, same as a doctor. A summons for me and the dogs means action. Oh, yes, it keeps us moving, but like the Royal Mounted who always get their man, we are expected to get our cougar. And do, knowing their habits. Really, my friend, in spite of the cougar’s marvelous intelligence, he hasn’t a chance.” Female of Species Deadly. What did “Cougar Smith” mean by intelligence? Would he mind giving me some particulars? “Glad to,” he said, somewhat relieved that I had shifted from him to his victims. “All the family from wild lions to alley cats have the best brains in the animal kingdom. The lynx, the leopard, the panther, the cougar, all possess reasoning power, particularly when called upon to protect their own. At least, so far as the female is concerned, that has been my observation. A cougar with a litter is harder to run down than one without. Her performances fare 1 uncanny, and she will deliberately sacrifice herself if in so doing she can save her young. When the cougar litters she becomes the head of the family, the male deferring to her superior wisdom. And so it remains until they get their growth and the family disbands, each for himself alone. A litter of three is the average. For the first few months they are kept under the eye of the mother, who holds herself responsible as the food purveyor, the male being occupied with feeding himself. Father Not Important. “Do you mean to say that the male cougar is not looked upon as a good provider?” “Yes and no. Any voluntary contribution is appreciated, but if he were to be removed altogether, the female would carry on without him and make no complaint. There is another peculiarity about the cougar mother: she is a gypsy. While the cubs are growing, she wanders from place to place, making an abode wherever the fancy takes possession of her. Nothing could be more systematic than the program under which the young are brought up. When the female decides that it is time to move, she goes on the trail, four, five or six miles from home, makes a kill and covers the carcass with a mound of leaves, rubble and turf. Without pausing even for refreshments she returns to her family, breaks up housekeeping and under cover of night, escorts the cubs and the male to the new home site, already stocked with provender.” Cougars Like Spring Lamb. “What is the preferential diet of a cougar?” “Spring lamb, and plentyofit. - Mature mutton too strong. see:? o l . p / p . * ■ ■ < ■•Of s||| in rejected the fearing the tion of their country by Slates. Panama then independence and made the treaßqW which resulted in the Canal. President and Preaeher Garfield was the only American President who also was a preacher.

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The Mark Stays Gossip is like mud thrown against a clean wall; it may not stick but it leaves a mark. Things that “cannot be done" are done within the following twenty years. Silence is the wisest argument of the ignorant man and the wise man can frequently use it to advantage. A girl’s no-hope chest is one that begins to accumulate inter-est-bearing bonds. If his wife is the best dressed woman at the party, a man thinks it’s worth it Destroying Accomplishments Can’t you see a splendid tree without thinking of the thrill of cutting it down? Apparently some can’t and the anticipation overcomes them. The life you lead writes its story on your face, but only the clever can read it. Loneliness is a misery that finally wears itself out. One can grow to prefer solitude. Noah never wrote a book on natural history when he had the best of opportunities. A boy changes his voice at the age of fifteen or sixteen, and he changes all his notions, too. We’ve Some Nice Oyster Growths, Lined on Rope The lunch-counter man had ambitions to better his station in life and secured employment in a fashionable jewelry store. His first customer was a woman who asked to be shown a lady’s wrist watch. The fellow bellowed lustily: “One Waterbury on a handcuff, female! Who’s next?” “I want a ring,” stated the second customer. “Engagement ring, platinum with a diamond about two carats.” “Coming up,” announced the salesman. “One tin shackle with a glass eye—two vegetables!” — Wall Street Journal. League Speeches Speeches are translated at the League of Nations meetings in Geneva through the use of a speech translator. Wires connected with a microphone in front of the speaker carry his voice to expert translators, each of whom can translate the language used into a second language. These interpreters speak into telephones connected with earphones on delegates* desks. By turning a knob they can hear the language they understand. Now Ease Neuritis Pains Fast

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