RED LITERATURE IS
UNDER CLOSE STUDY
Washington Examines Pa.
pers Urging Revolutions.
Washington.—Secret hooks and doc-
gments issued by Moscow which led
to the outlawing of the Communist
party in Canada and the sentencing
of eight Communist leaders to five
years' imprisonment in Kingston pen-
itentiary after which they are to be
deported, are being given much study
it the Capital.
Copies of the documents, which set
forth that the Third Communist In-!
ternational is now throwing empha-
Sis on “mass revolutionary actions,
strikes, and demonstrations,” have
come into circulation following an
address delivered a few weeks ago
before the Women's Patriotic confer-
ence here by Norman Sommerville of
Toronto, crown counsel of Canada,
The address was incorporated in the
Oongressional Record last month,
A Secret Brochure.
Among the mass of documentary
evidence at the trial in Canada last,
fall, before a jury composed almost
entirely of workingmen, the judgment
of which was upheld by the Court of
Appeals of Ontario in February, is a
brochure which was sent from Mos- |
cow secretly to Communists In 57 |
countries, Including the United |
States. It Is under the name of B.|
Vassiliev, a confiGential agent of the |
Third International, and it treats ex-
haustively the enlarged program for-
mulated by the Internat'onal. It Is a
hand guide to present-day tactics of
the Communists, and written in 1930,
it is Moscow's latest message In
tactics.
In great detail, the document deals |
with the methods for the illegal work
of the party, gives directions as to
secret codes, invisible inks, secret hid-
ing places, and secret messages. The
mew plan of operations calls upon
Communist parties to change thelr
methods and pace by “concentrating
on the problems of carrying out of
mass revolutionary actions of the pro-
letariat.” .
Demonstrations Advocated.
“The party apparatus,” it says, “i.
response to demands, should, In the
first place be fitted for the organiza.
tion of demonstrations, strikes and
other mass actions. Party leaders
who are not capable of organizing
demonstrations and strikes should be
replaced by others.
“All political campaigns shoula
sore and more have as their tasks
the revolutionary mobilization of the
broadest masses of the proletariat.
Communist parties of all countries
should make use of the discontent
which exists among employed and un-
employed workers, organize this dis.
content, carry the struggle to the
stage of mass political strikes, com-
bining them with mass demonstrations
~fights for the streets.
“The party apparatus should now
oe systematically overhauled from the
top to the bottom, especially In the
course of preparation and carrying
out of demonstrations and strikes,
“Last year (1929), In a number ox
<ountries Including America, Ger
mapy, and France, there were a num-
ber of great strikes which the Com-
munist parties prepared and led.”
The Moscow document urged the
formation of groups trained to pre
vent by violence any Interference by
the police.
Higher Education Now |
Big Business in East
Washington.—Higher education en- |
tered the big business field last year!
in New England, according to Infor |
mation supplied the Commerce depart. |
ment by the bureau of business re |
search of the Boston university,
During the last year 23, 818 stu
dents came to New England colleges,
universities and preparatory schools
from other parts of the country and |
abroad. These students spent a total
of $27.780,756, according to the sur- |
vey. Visiting relatives and returning
alumni spent another two or three
million dollars to swell the grand to-
tal to more than $30,000,000. |
The Boston university survey shows |
that the annual expenditure of stu.
dents enrolled in New England insti. |
tutions Is $1,128, and $1,026 outside
of New England.
Texas Supplies Sulphur |
Needs of United States
Austin—Texas for two years has
been the only part of the United |
States producing sulphur. As no im. |
ports of sulphur were made during
1981, the state's production supplied |
the entire country. {
The production, the United States
Department of Commerce reports, |
was 2128930 long tons. That is a |
decrease of 17 per cent from the
2,058,081 tons of the preceding year. |
The supply of sulphur came from |
six mines. {
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Travelers Ride Trains |
Free in Fiji Islands
Washington.— Train passengers ride
without paying fares in the Fiji is-
lands, the Commerce department has
been informed. There are no com-
mercial railways in the colony of Fiji.
By agreement between the government
and the Colonial Sugar Refining com-
pany, a limited, but regular, service
of passenger trains is operated from
Rarawal (Ba) to Kavangasau (Colo
West), a distance of approximately
90 miles, over the company's narrow
gauge light rallwav.
An explorer tells a story which he |
wishes you to believe is true. He
says he received a message from a
wealthy woman who was a stranger
to him, saying that under certain con-
ditions she was willing to contribute
to a proposed expedition, and asking
him to come to see her. As expedi-
tions always need financing, the ex:
plorer hastened to keep the appoint:
ment. The woman asked whether he
really was geing a considerable dis-
tance from civilization. He told her
he was. She then wanted to know
whether, if she made a substantial
coniribution, she could name an ad-
dition to the party. The explorer told
her it might be arranged and asked
for the name of the proposed mem-
her.
“It's my husband,” said the womar |
“If you keep him away a year, I
will subscribe $25,000, If you are |
way two years, I will double it.”
“l came away from there,” said the |
explorer. “I was afraid that if she |
raised the ante much more, I would
find myself guaranteeing that he
would be a permanent absentee.” |
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Senator George H. Moses says tha, |
the finest definition of the word “au. |
tobiography” ever given is “a United
States senator making a speech.”
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Every time | pass the corner oi
Fifth avenue and Forty-fourth street,
I think of the old Delmenico's. That
was a great place, with the room up- |
stairs where Charley Murphy used to
hold conferences with his politieal |
lieutenants, and the cafe downstairs
where you always were likely to find
some one you knew, The late Har
vey Hendricks, who gave so much
money to various scientific projects, |
had a house almost across the street.
He did not live there. He lived in
an apartment on Park avenue, but
there were a half dozen old servants
in the house and every once in so oft. |
en Mr. Hendricks would go there and |
eat dinner, just to keep them satis |
fied.
The lady of the house was looking |
over the morning paper and lingered |
over the sports pages. Finally she |
sald wistfully: |
“1 certainly would like to make |
some bets on the races.”
“My heavens, woman!” exclaimeao |
ser husband, “isn't the country in
oad enough shape now?”
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At first there were only apple sel:
ers, but now there are street venders
who offer almost every sort of re
freshment. As the traffic signal |
stopped the cars at a Fifth avenue |
corner, a man stepped up to a tax!
and spoke to the occupant.
“Buy a bar of chocolate, lady?” he
said.
“Certainly not,” sald his prospee
dve customer, severely. “I am diet- |
ing.”
Many New York «partment stores |
aow employ experts who give instruc |
tion and lecture on contract bridge. |
In most of these same stores, there |
are places where mother can check |
the baby while she takes a bridge |
course. {
Through the aisles of one store, ay |
<mployee dressed as an Italian girl |
rolls a little push-cart filled with
small bunches of flowers. She does
quite a business.
(®. 1933, Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service,
Restores Sight to Man
Blinded by Alcohol
Montreal.—An operation whereby |
che sight of a patient blinded by drink: |
ing poisoned alcohol was restored
without treatment of the eyes, is re
ported at the Montreal General hos
pital.
Dr. G. H. Mathewson performed .
mmbar puncture near the base of the
patient's spinal column and withdrew |
part of the spinal fluid once a day for
four days. After the second removal
the man could see and after the fourth |
his eyesight was normal. |
Rats Walk Tightrope,
Cheating Hungry Cats
Luray, Va.—Wire-walking rats are
adding to the strange things that are |
happening these days In the Old Do- |
minion. On the farm of Frank L.
Kontz, the rats travel on a wire
clothesline stretched between the
corn-crib and the smokehouse without
even a disdainful glance at hungry
cats waiting patiently below. When
two meet on the accommodating wire,
one rat retreats to the corn-crib to al-
low the other to pass.
Communistic Colony
on Crusoe’s Island
Valparaiso, Chile.—Two Ger-
mans, who were in the crew of
the German cruiser Dresden,
sunk off Juan Fernandez Islands
early in the World war by an
English squadron, plan to estab-
lish a communistic sort of col
ony with recrnits from all over
the world.
This has been revealed by a
former governess who was here
en route to the former abode of
Robinson Crusoe, where the mod-
ern Crusoes expect to live in
quiet, peace and happiness far
from the hurry and worry of life
elsewhere.
| smuagy,
| it comes.
Street Scene in Palma, Majorca Island.
(Frepared by National Geographic Soclety,
Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service.
FTER more than four cen-
A turies of government by Euro-
pean nations, the Balearic
islande, now Spanish-owned,
are seeking autonomy under tne pro-
visions of the new Spanish constitu-
| tion,
It is doubtful if there is in the
world’s geographic photograph album
a family group whose members show
as little family resemblance as do
| those of the Balearics. Majorca, the
big sister, so well known to the world,
sits in the center, full-grown and radi-
antly beautiful. Minorca, slight and
delicate, yet with a grace that sug-
gests a certain knowledge of the
world, sits at her side,
While Majorca is manifestly a
daughter of Spain, Minorca's features
and person partake of the north—a
strange mixture of English and pos-
sibly a little Dutch with the Spanish.
On the big sister's other hand, Iviza,
4 charming peasant in bright apron,
skirt and shawl, hung with barbaric
Jewelry, piques the interest of the
genealogist, for in her a different
strain, probably Arable, seems to pre-
dominate. She gazes out of the pic-
ture with level, quiet eyes that are a
bit mysterious and disconcerting. Her
face is unsmiling, even slightly
but still peculiarly attrac-
tive. At her feet Is Formentera Island,
one of the two babies, almost Iviza's
counterpart in face and dress,
It seems unkind to draw attention
| «0 Cabrera, the other baby, crouched
at Majorca's feet, for she Is a spare,
pathetic little figure, maltreated since
birth, In her plain face are to be
read the signs of misery.
Such are the sister islands, and thelr
description fits thelr people. The
islanders are the pleasaniest oi folk
to visit — simple-hearted, even-tem-
pered, sober-minded, honest, and
kindly.
The welcome accorded the traveler
in the Balearics differs according to
island. Majorca greets the stranger
with easy familiarity, for she has
known many tourists in the last few
years; Minorca with quiet grace: and
Iviza shyly; but the warmth of wel-
come is never In doubt. Ask a pass
er-by to indicate the direction to a
store or hotel; you will be escorted to
the door and bowed in, and generally
you must not offer anything more ma-
terial than thanks in return,
The ideal Balearic climate contrib-
ates enormously to the traveler's com-
fort, and, In contrast to what one
often experiences on the continent, it
is a gratifying surprise to find the
fondas, or inns, invariably clean and
their meals wholesome,
Mahon Has a Fine Harbor,
One of the outstanding features of
the Balearic group is the abundance
and excellence of its harbors. Mahon,
the principal city of Minorca, is an
example. One's ship picks its way
down a water lane, through pink and
gray shores capped with rolling green,
into what the Spanish government
plans to make one of the finest har-
bors in the Mediterranean,
Ever since Mago, the brother of
Hannibal, wintered in this harbor
(which still bears his name, Portus
Magonis, now corrupted to Mahon), it
has been famed as a refuge for ships,
and its usefulness will be greatly in-
creased when the Island of the Rats,
a small knob of rock in the center of
the basin, is removed.
The islanders tell proudly how in
1798 Lord Nelson, during the war with
France, came into Mahon with his
squadron, seized the mansion that
overlooked the port where his ships
rode, and installed the lovely Lady
Hamilton. But the town's historians
| smile rather sadly and admit that,
while history is replete with incidents
of Nelson's visit, it does not bear out
the story of Lady Hamilton.
And then Mahon! That {s the way
Suddenly, as the vessel
rounds a point, it bursts into view, a
quick splash of pink and white on the
hillside, tier after tier of quaint streets,
splendid in the sunshine,
Mahon sparkles, as does the whole
island. It is a maze of spotless up-
and-down-hill streets of shining dolls’
houses. From the steamer's deck the
town, terrace upon terrace of white
houses, with the spires of the Inevit
able churches dominating the mass, ap-
pears pure Spanish; but that is just
Mahon's little joke on the visitor, for
many of the houses show English fea-
tures peering from under their Span-
ish somhbreros,
This mixture of the English and
Spanish gives Mahon a character of
its own, which is shared by its people.
It is the women who refuses to ~on-
form. In continental Spain and in the |
other islands they take their places in
the fields with the men and the beasts
of burden. Not so with upstanding
Miss Minorca! She believes that
“woman's place Is in the home” or |
possibly, as a concession to the march
of the times, in the factory, but not in
the field, and there she refuses to go. |
Minorca Spurns Alpargatas.
Quite as remarkable, the alpargats, |
the rope-soled canvas sandal of Spain
and the rest of the Balearics, is prac-
tically extinct here, Whether it is
that Minorea, producing a large pro- |
portion of the fine shoes sold in Spain, |
excludes this humble footwear from a |
feeling of local pride, or whatever the
reason, the fact remains that Minorca |
wears shoes,
The Balearics are rich In relics,
from the days of the prehistoric Inhab-
itants of the Mediterranean countries |
on down to modern times. Castles,
| WHERE MEN WOULD BE
WITHOUT WOMEN
“Where would the men be, anyhow,
if it weren't for the women?” ask-
ed the vivacious Ruth. There was
a man or two in the audience, and
one of them shouted: “In the gardem,
of Eden!”
Representative Ruth Bryan Owen,
| Democrat, who is in the thick of a
| Eimary renomination contest in
| Flo was add a mee
[of women Si
| She was glorifying the achievements
‘of her sex in public life and subtly
| conveying the impression that when
all is said and done, it's women who
| have always cut ice in the world.
A symposium was beld in the.
public schools on the question, “Why
do children lie?” The most reveals
ing, the most deeply scientific an-
swer was: “In order to get along:
with adults.”
Tax On Bank Checks |
Beginning Tuesday, June 21st, a federal
tax of two cents will be placed on all checks
drawn on banks.
No stamps will be furnished, and the
amount of tax will be added to each check
by the bank on which it is drawn.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
| BELLEFONTE, PA.
churches, palaces, forts, and watch- | [UE
towers are seen so frequently that
they become almost matters of course. i
In Minorca there are still standing |
more than 200 of the talayots, taulas |
and naus—stone structures generally
supposed to have been used in connec
tion with prehistoric religious cere
monials and the burial of the dead—
and the cliffs and mountains are liter-
ally honeycombed with caves,
Within twenty minutes’ walk of Ma- |
hon there is a fairly well-preserved |
talayot, a truncated cone of huge |
stones, probably 40 feet in diameter & F!
and 25 feet In height, with a large &f
Surrounding the tal- |
taula near by.
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80 years In the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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ayot, and marking another age In Ue fi
Minorcan history, are the walls of a |=
fort built probably of the stones of
the talayot.
The surrounding fields are strewn |
with fragments of pottery from pre-
historic times on down through the |
Phoenician, Grecian, Roman and Ara- |
bie occupations, and the high stone
walls over which one scrambles to |
reach the charmed hilltop are capped
with other fragments
laboriously |
picked from the fields by the island §
farmers.
The deepest thrill for the visitor to. |
Minorca is to be found In its pre |
historic caves. A talayot, taula, or
nav is an awe-inspiring sight when | |
cone realizes what it stands for, but it |
has not the Instantaneous effect on
the Imagination made by one of those
cave homes of no one knows ow many
years ago.
The Cove Caves.
The Calas Covas, or Cove Caves,
comprise a group In one of the many
coves that indent the Minorcan shore, |
and certainly a better location from a
dramatic standpoint could not have
been selected by the cavemen. The
cove is a wild, winding gash in the
shore, descending sharply from the In-
terior tableland to the sea.
The approach to the caves Is alon, Ji
a narrow path hedged by a matted |j§
scrub growth and by fragments of the
cove walls, which during the ages J
have become dislodged and have fH}
crashed to the valley. At the water
level these walls are high, jagged, |
and precipitous; the sea beats and Ji
snaps at them and the place itself | Bj&
Wild deeds are plainly ' ji
indicated. Add, then, to all this the | HE
effect of some forty black apertures I
extending from the water line to the | gif
tops of the cliffs—all made by man |
when the human forehead was iower |
and human life more precarious than |
compels awe.
it is now,
It Is & meager imagination, Indeec, |
that does not immediately people the |
cove with small, active men, wide be-
tween the cheekbones and as agile as
monkeys. We can conjure up the pie-
ture and see them leaping among the
crags to their eerie homes, chatter- |
ing and bickering and certainly ready
to make it most unpleasant for for-
eign invaders such as ourselves.
Palma, the principal city of Ma-
Jorea, is snugly situated at the central
point of a magnificent horseshoe bay.
Like all other waters of these remark.
able islands, the Bay of Palma could
supply half the colors of an artist's
palette. The left-hand prong of the
horseshoe shore, as one steams toward
the city, was the scene of the first
fighting between Don Jaime I, the Con-
queror, and the defending Moors in
1229 A. D,, and it is on this prong that
Palma's fashionable tourist section
has sprung up, with stately Bellver
castle, built by Jaime II, overlooking it
from the top of a handsome wooded
hill.
Palma itself is a country village
of 100,000 people and of considerable
commercial importance,
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