SEEN
a
aréund the
NATIONAL
CAPITAL
Carter Field
Washington.—There is more desire on
the part of President and Secretary of
State Hull to co-operate with the
League of Nations in the sanctions
against Italy than has appeared on the
surface. Both regret exceedingly that
the neutrality law passed by congress
did not further. They wish that
the word “munitions” had been used
instead of “arms, ammunition and Im-
plements of war,” which phrase is so
narrow in Its strict definition that It
could not possibly be stretched to In.
clude oll, or copper, for example, with-
at the administration to
another upset In the courts,
this lack of legal au-
thority, the government has been bear-
Ing down hard on exporters and would-
be exporters of war materials, One of
the latest incidents is that the shipping
board bureau of the Department of
commerce-—survivar old ship-
ping board—warned a certain concern
about to ship a cargo of oll to Italy
that the proposed shipment was “dis-
approved.”
The excuse here was that the ship
and cargo would have to run the gaunt-
let of the League sanctions, and the
government had an Investment. It so
happened that the ship the would-be
exporter desired to use had been sub-
sidized.
As a matter of fact, the only risk
Involved Is that in the time elapsing
after the sallinz and before the ship
reached her Italian destination an
actual blockade of Italy might be de-
clared. For up to now there has
been no more than a hint of actual
blockade. No ships have been stopped
by British or French warships in the
Mediterranean. No threat has been
made that any will be.
£0
¥ i sti «
subjecting
jut despite
of the
Nevertheless, Insurance on
traversing the sea that Mussolini
claims the British now dominate, but
that the Italians ought tn, has jumped
tremendously. For example, an Amer
ican importing firm, which brings car-
gos of figs and dates from Persian
gulf ports, has been seriously consid.
ering sending this freight overland to
Atlantie or else around the
Cape of Good Hope,
Change World Cruises
Further,
ports,
most world-crulse
advertising visits to South Africa, and
have been eliminating the Mediter-
ranean entirely, although normally
most world tourists want particularly
to visit Italy and Greece and the Holy
Land.
So that the government, In this raise
of Insurance rates, which Is Inter
preted naturally enough as a danger
gignal, Is perfectly within its right in
seeking to restrain shipments. Yet
everybody knows that this Is not the
real reason at all, but merely an ex-
cuse, For the government could be
just as much protected in its Invest.
ment—through subsidy—in ships mak-
ing the journey through the “war zone”
as it Is from any other maritime dan-
ger.
Questioned about the situation, offi.
clals of the shipping bureau replied
blandly that the bureau “must conform
to administration policy.” That is the
real answer, although the Interesting
fact is that the policy has never heen
stated. It has merely been hinted,
The first hint came when the State
department, with no hint of publicity,
sought to restrain the Standard OU
from shipping oil to its Italian sub-
gidiary. The company made the thing
public by giving out Its answer.
Standard’s real point is also concealed,
It would be perfectly willing to stop
shipping oll to Italy If it were pro
tected by public action on the part of
this government against its Itallan sub-
sidiary.
Keen observers here figure the gov.
ernment will do something to restrain
copper shipments also, perhaps using
the same tactics,
Copying Wilson
President Roosevelt is taking a leaf
from the book of Woodrow Wilson in
talking over the shoulders of the diplo-
mats to the peoples of the world, The
President and his advisers know per
fectly well that there Is going to be no
curtailment of armaments at the dis
armament conference to be held In
London. It has been a long time since
there was the slightest hope of It
Hence the administration's objective
has been switched to the future, and
from the world's rulers to the world’s
peoples,
While there is considerable pessi-
mism about thisaccomplishing anything,
no one Is partienlarly disposed to erith
cize It publicly. Army and navy offi
cers have some bitter words about it
in private. They agree with the gen.
eral feeling that no one now living
will be here when the fruit is borne,
if ever. But they add that this propa.
ganda will also reach the taxpayers,
and through them the congress of the
United States,
Hence, they fear, the net result may
be to make no change whatever In the
armament spending of any other na.
tion, but to tend very directly to slow
down such spending by the United
Bates.
In particular. they point out that the
one nation which has given less heed
to world opinion than any other, for
some years, has been Japan. Naval
officers, especially, have always be-
inevitable,
anese are oppressed by
taxes to carry their armament load.
But there is not the slightest Indica-
tion that the Japanese people intend to
rise In their might and demand that
thelr government curtail its military
expenditures, On the contrary, all in.
dications are that the Japanese people
approve Nippon's militaristic course,
believe It to be essential to thelr fu-
ture, and are fiercely willing to make
any sacrifice for their country.
Military Rule in Japan
Even those most optimistic about
America’s contention that armament
cost should not be increased by any
nation concede this. What they hope
for Is a change of sentiment, perhaps
a year from now, perhaps later on,
The answer of the army and navy
to this is that if the opinions of the
Japanese did change, it would not make
any difference, It has been dem-
onstrated often, they Insist, that
the Japanese people belleve what they
are told, and are absolutely under the
thumb of the military oligarchy.
{OO
In this respect, in the American mill
tary view, they differ
two most military powers in
Europe—Germany and Italy. For the
present there is no one to oppose the
will of Hitler in Germany or Mussolini
in Italy. But no one knows what will
be the situation In either country ten
years from now. Or even one year
from now.
sharply from
of the
Italy and Germany are each dom-
inated for the time being by one strong
man. And no can a
prophecy as to what would happen after
that strong man passes from the stage.
one venture
There is nothing comparable to that
in Japan. In Nippon it Is a group of
high army and navy officers who dom-
inate, The death of any ten of them
makes no material difference In
general objective, The policy has been
adhered to for many It Is to
dominate China, and Japan a
world power. Ever since the Russo-
Japanese war it has been one forward
step after another, with an occasional
sidestep such as the abandonment of
Washington arma-
the
Years
make
ment conference.
The navy does not even feel that
the freedom of the Philippines lessens
the danger of war between the United
States and Japan.
Canadian Treaty
Down underneath all the clamor
against the Capadian reciprocity treaty,
expert detectors of popular sentiment
here belleve the country will approve
it. Further, they believe that
treaty is approved In
if the
Ottawas—which
which
came
Mae.
back
will be a
despite the majority by
Kenzie King so recently
power-the net effect
Roosevelt asset at the polls,
Should Ottawa reject the treaty, on
the other hand, feeling here is that
net effect will be injurious to the ad
ministration in the election next year.
This is based on a fundamental po-
Htical factor—human nature, Many
business men, economists and experts
in International trade have figu
if the reciprocity treaty
with Canada In the Taft administration
had gone into effect, the net effect
would have been beneficial. Bat no
politician who was active at ¥he time
doubts that it was a serious handicap
to Mr. Taft when he faced re-election,
Had the treaty gone into effect, it 1s
ressoned, and had the opposition to Mr.
Taft promised the country to abrogate
the treaty, then every one who was di-
rectly benefiting under the trea'y
would have been driven to Taft's de
fense, to protect their selfish interests,
But there was no possibility, as it
appeared when Taft was running for
re-election, that the treaty could be
revived. Hence there was no selfish
element to be driven to Taft's ald,
while all and sundry who thought they
would have been hurt by the treaty
were still resentful at what they
thought Taft had tried to do te them,
and were easily Inflamed against him.
This was especially effective In the
Northwest,
into
the
red that
negotinted
Lumber Interests Howl
This time the loudest onteries are
coming from the Pacific Northwest,
where the lumber interests think they
would be badly hurt by the treaty. Ap
plying the 1912 chapter to the present
situation, If the treaty Is rejected the
northwestern lumber Interests will in.
fluence a heavy vote against Roosevelt
next year for what he tried to do to
them. It Is not a question of big spe.
cinl interests affecting the electorate,
No one ever accused former Senator
Clarence C. Dill of Washington, repre
genting the big Interests. He worked
for a high lumber tariff because it
would benefit his state, and he figured
it
ment of the Washington voters are
i8 not the type to understand their
problems,
On the other hand, If the treaty Is
ratified by Canada, although the feel
ing In Washington and Oregon on
lumber, and perhaps in opstate New
York and Wisconsin on that million
and a half gallons of cream which may
be brought in at reduced duties, will
be no different, there will be offsets.
For example, the orange growers of
California, to say nothing of the pro-
ducers of other fruits, will want to
know if the opposing candidate pro
poses to abrogate the treaty-to take
away the advantage they will be enjoy-
ing under it,
Copyright =-WNU Service,
i
CENTRE HALL, PA.
OWNRIGHT war between the
Chinese armies of Dictator Chiang
Kal-shek and the Japanese appeared
almost certaln when the autonomy
movement In north
China was revived In
eastern Hopel and
Chahar provinces by
Yin Jukeng, the’ ad-
ministrative commis
and friend of
Japan, Leaders of
the rest of the region
were undecided on
their but Jap
began to
pour In by the train-
joad, Three thousand
of them with full war
Bd " #
gloner
course,
anese troops
©
Gen. Chiang
Kai-shek
garrison at Pel than
doubled. The raliway Junc
tion a few miles from Pelping was
seized, Colonel Takasashl, military at.
tache, asserting this was necessary be
cause the rolling stock was being
Wis more
11
of the Japanese forces.
officials sald the Na
was determined to
to force
south
In Nanking
tional government
meet with force any attemp®
autonomy territory
on the
ing reforms designed to stop the spread
movement, Chiang was hurry.
ing large bodies of troons to the north
ward.
port
Fu-chu,
defense of
of the
lord, Han
with
of the 8S ung war
him
invasion.
wooed
Wang
eign m
ernment,
cabinet,
by the Japanese,
premier and for
Nationalist gov.
resigned as president of the
He has fully recoverad
assiduously
Ching -wel,
*
nister of the
not
him.
RAZIL was
revolt, In the northern part of the
country. Latest advices sald the rebels
had control of the city of Natal and
of The
laid to the Communists and was
feved to be led by Luls Carlos Prestes,
Communist leader for all of South
America. It was sakl he
spread the movement all over Braz,
Argentina, Paraguay and Chile,
of Gen.
troops, army
Pernambuco.
command
the federal
Under
Rabelo,
navy
hurriedly sent
the rebellion,
and
northward to
Several days Inter a revolt hroke out
in Rio de
extraordl
cipal parti
tion
ry precautions
ipants there were the avia
foroes,
it and It was announced this outbreak
bad been suppressed.
pounced that
also had been crushed and
persons had been Killed In
days of fighting.
the four
HERE was terror throughout Ger
many when Hitler started what ap-
parently was to be another “purge”
Hundreds of persons were arrested and
taken to prison or concentration camps,
those taken including some minor off
cials of he Nazi party in Berlin. Many
others were known as Socialists. The
Association of Nationalistic Jews, com
posed of war veterans, was suppressed
and its leader Jailed.
IN OF Eup 20 had been set as the
date for a meeting of the League
of Nations sanctions committee to con
gider the impositon of an oll embargo
against Italy, but Pre.
miler Laval and Brit
ish Ambassador George
Russell Clerk, after a
conference in Parls,
recommended that the
session be indefinitely
postponed, and this ae
tion was taken, The
statesmen feared early
riously aggravate the
litical situation, and
gor thought If he Premier Laval
were given more time he might bring
about the conciliation of the Italo-Ethi
opian quarrel
There were good reasons for the un
iy told the world that the Imposition
of an oll embargo would mean war In
Europe, the warning being given
through his ambassador to France,
Vittorio Cerrutl, Furthermore, there
was doubt In London and Paris con
cerning the ablity of the United States
government to prevent the shipment of
oll to Italian ports. In Washington it
was reported that Ambassador Au
gusto Rosso had discussed the matter
with Secretary of State Hull, suggest
ing that attempts to choke off exports
and other com
not constitute
cotton
did
neutrality.
Empe.or Halle
nirplane flights to
in Ethie
so that
was
in the
dis Ababa announced that its
had driven the Itallan troops
from Gorahal, recapturing the town of
of oll, copper,
mercial articles
“orthodox
two
Selassie made
the fighting
thelr resistance to the invasion
measurably stiffened,
South, The ge
Gerlogubi by encireling movements,
hern sector, according
communique, a thousand Ital
Makale retreated 60
Losses on both sides
the nort -
lans occupying
miles to Adigra
were increasing,
THE
ECRETARY OF
the New Deslers and the big
corporations concerning steel
prices. Mr. Ickes sald
there was “prima facle
evidence of
in identical bids
Florida public
project. The PWA ad
said
companies
$IR5,000 each
between
steel
on a
ministrator
four
ding
bid
the
Jones &
and Kalman
bxidl
Carnegie,
Laughlin,
Bethlehem su
same that
identical bids on an ocean terminal
Morehead City, N, C., and the Tribor-
ough bridge in New York city.
There was fo foreign bidder on the
Miami
conirnct
Sec’y Ickes
ary }—were the
cern “that is farthest away and has to
is to spread prosperity around™
RESIDENT ROOSEVELT was
mighty busy at Warm Springs study.
ing the departmental estimates for the
of 193637. Representative
. Buchanan of Texas, chair
an of the house appropriations com-
took in first
ences and told the correspondents that
he would carry a budget of not more
E500, 000,000 in excess of estimats
part the
through the house by “a
of a fight.” Then Mr. Buchanan,
didn't appear to have White
House support for this stand, left sud-
denly for Washington, refusing to ex
departure; and the confer
revenues
devil
who
Morgenthau, Acting Buadget
of the appropriations committee,
The President told the press they
were making distinet progress in ar
ranging the federal finances, having
asiready cut the departmental estimates
by $400000000, He contradicted re.
ports that he was contemplating di.
vision of the Ickes PWA and the Hop-
kins WIA to ease the friction between
the two New Deal officials,
LEVEN American diplomats and
naval officers, selected by Secre
tary of State Hull, have sailed to rep
resent this country in the coming naval
conference in London,
At their head is Nor
man §. Davis, the
President's ambassa-
dor-at-large for Eu
rope, who participated
in the preliminary con-
versations last year.
Acting with bim will
be Undersecretary of
State William Phillips
and Admiral William
H. Stamdiey, chief of
paval operations. Ad. N-H. Davis
visers to the delegation will be Ray
Atherton, counselor of the American em
bassy in London, and E. H. Doomaun of
the State department,
Noel IH. Field of the division of west.
ern European affaires, who attended the
last naval conversations, and Samael
leber, secretary of the American lvga.
tion in Bern, Switzerland, will act as
technical assistants,
The navy's four technical experts
will be Capt. Royal E. Ingersol, Com
mander Rostoe BE. Schuirmann, |.ieut,
Arthur D, Ayraolt, and Lieut. J. I.
Fulton.
Divining Rod for Brain
Tumor Hunt Described
New York.—A new divining rod for
the human brain, which literally smells
out with the uncanniness of a fox:
hound the presence of brain tumors
that cannot be detected by the X.ray
ard also determines the tumor's size
and exact location, was described for
the first time at the New York Acad
*my of Medicine,
The new tumor “detector ™ halled
w eminent neurologists present as an
epoch making advance In the detection
and treatment of brain tumors, as well
ns opening up new avenues of ap
proach in the study of the functioning
of the human brain, was reported by
Dr. Charles A. Elsberg, neurologist of
the Neuralogienl Institute of New York.
one of the units of the Columbla-Pres
byterian medicd) center.
Doctor Elsherg made his report be
fore a joint meeting of the New York
Neurological soclety and the section of
nenvology paychiatry of the acad
omy of ne
OME Interesting views on current
problems :
Raymond Moley, former member of
the “brain trust,” told the Association
of Buying Officers in New York: "1
have sald many times that the whole
problem of government rellef and work
relief 1s a necessary temporary ex-
pedient: but it Is also a shaky and
dangerous one,
to recognize that work rellef in itself
is no curative, It is narcotic In its
effect”
Harry W. Nice, Republican governor
of Maryland, declared In Chicago that
America’s constitution is no more in
need of change than are the Ten Com-
mundments. The issue in the coming
election, he held, is that of free Insti.
tutions versus dictatorship.
Gen, Hugh 8. Johnson, former NRA
gdministrator, toid Milwaukee Hotari-
ans that the administration is proceed-
ing to the “left,” that 97 per cent of
the business men of the United States
against It the New
attitude toward the profit sys-
the
Johnson
texford Tugwell, Aubrey Wil
and Harry Hopkins, “The idea
{ dividing the nation’s wealth, as pro-
pe sed by
way out,” he sald.
{to he dor
are because of
Dealers’
As prime egfponents of
ernment’s present philosophy,
elted
llams
tem, gov.
these gentlemen, Is not the
“Rather, the thing
i Is to create wealth, with
persons working and each cre.
ating new wealth”
JAN AMERICAN Alrways opeped a
new chapter in the story of
when Its huge China Clipper
the first consignment of air
mail from Alameda,
Calif, to Manila, with
stops at Honolulu,
Midway islands, Wake
island, and Guam
Capt. Edwin C. Ma
sick, veteran chief pi-
lot of the company,
was in command of
the craft and was ald-
ed by a crew of six
wen. Fourteen passen-
gers started on the
Capt. Edwin flight and twelve were
C. Musick dropped off to relieve
the staffs at Midway and Wake. The
suam and Manila
i been flown heretofore.
After or two more flights to
nila the clipper will continue te
and operate on through sched.
gles thereafter.
The Phi ine Clipper,
Alrpays’
avi.
ation
"ta
not
one
stécond of
trans-'acific
*
Atlas const
prepar
and her crew began
ons for a flight to Manila be
December 6.
RUNO RICHARD HAUPTMANN'S
attorneys assert that some of the
Lindbergh ransom money has been
found in Massachusetts and that thelr
have discovered
pleces of evidence that are of
The
himself issued a state
Dr. John F.
y “make a full confession™
aiso
doomed man
calling on Condon
he knows concerning the kid-
g and murder of Lind-
son,
Colonel
n
bergh's little
(GeV ERRULS of the federal re
serve banks, in the bulletin of the
reserve board, have sounded a most
cheerful note concerning business con-
ditions. Summing up facts gathered
all over the country, they concluded
that the United States was undergoing
the most substantial economic recov-
ery since the depression gan, with
every sign pointing to its contipuance,
Business activity has been sdstained
for ten months near the high level It
reached the first of the year, the bul
letin sald. “in contrast to the course
of business in the three preceding
years when advances were not sus-
tained but were quickly followed by
declines.”
JR a long time it has been appar
ent that there would be a split in
the American Federation of Labor over
the issue of industrial unlonizm versus
craft unionism. That
split now has occurred,
and in the ranks of or
ganized labor there is
coming a great battle
between the two ele
ments. The matter was
precipitated by the res
ignation of John AL
lewis, head of the
United Mine Workers
of America, as vice
pregident of the fed.
eration. He Is the John L.
chief protagonist for Lewis
unit unionization of mass production of
industries, and his opponents, the craft
union advocates, are led by William
Petal Pillow or
Bag for Pajamas
By CRANDMOTHER CLARK
I'M SOLD
It always works
Just do what hospitals do, and the
doctors insist on. Use a good liguid
laxative, and sid Nature to restore
clocklike regularity without strain or
ill effect. .
A liquid can slways be taken in
gradually reduced doses. Reduced
dosage is the real secret of relief from
constipation.
Ask a doctor about this. Ask your
ist how very popular Dr. Cald-
well's Syrup Pepsin has become. It
gives the right kind of help, and right
amount of help. Taking a little less
each time, gives the bowels a chance
to act of their own accord, until they
are moving regularly and thoroughly
without anv help at all.
Dr. Caldwell’'s Syrup Pepsin con-
tains senna and cascara—both natural
laxatives that form no habit. The ac-
tion is gentle, but sure. It will relieve
any sluggishness or bilious condition
due to constipation without upset.
Failing of Mirror
Cant sed
OUrse yes
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Quick, Complete
Pleasant
ELIMINATION
Let's be frank. There's only one way for
your body to rid itself of ti
tors that cause acidity,
The latter have had a majority in the
late conventions of the federation, but
Lewis has a lot of followers and is
a determined fighter. He has set up
joined him Immediately.
came from a special assessment of $1
each on the 4000000 United
Workers this fall
to Lewis and those associated with
him,
Oid Age Due to Onions
Waukesha, Wis.—Dr, Margaret Oald
well, ninety years old, Wisconsin's
oldest woman physician, attributes her
long life to the fact that she never
has done any heavy housework and
has eaten “lots of onlons™
Thankful Skunk
Attleboro. Mass — Seemingly thankful
the skunk found with its head stuck In
a glass Jar, withheld its odiferous
weapon while Rev, John C, Vernon, re
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