a
Scheme—Italy Struggles
tions—President Talks
By EDWARD
Against Economic Sanc-
to Mayors About Taxes.
W. PICKARD
JArAx Suddenly learned that the
autonomy movement In the north-
ern provinces of China, fostered by
the Japanese army commanders, was
’ ry likely to prejudice her
case In the naval con-
ference soon to open
in London. There-
fore the army high
command in Tokyo
told its subordinates
on the continent to
“lay off,” and the am-
bitious schemes of
Maj. Gen. Kenji Dol.
hara came to naught,
: at least for the pres-
Kenji ent, That plotter, who
had become known as “the Lawrence
of China,” quietly departed from
Pelping and his early return was not
expected.
Thus,
years,
Doihara
first time In recent
militarists have
been checked, by the Tokyo govern-
ment, which Informed them that the
mission of the Japanese army in Man-
chukuo did not Include Intriguing for
&eparation of the Chinese provinces
and that it would not be permitted to
pass south of the great wall without
an imperial order,
Instead of the autonomy coup, the
Nanking government was told by the
Japanese authorities in China that it
must institute reforms in the northern
provinces, Akira Ariyoshl, Japanese
ambassador, had a long conference
with Dictator Chiang Kal-shek in Nan-
king, and told the press he had re
celved assurance that the Chinese gov-
ernment was adequately prepared to
cope with the situation in north China,
Ariyoshi sald he had also received as
surance that Nanking desired to con
tinue friendly relations with Japan.
for the
the Japanese
convinced that the autonomy
ment will not be revived at the first
opportunity,
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nual visit, and for three
work.
at Atlanta;
to deliver an address on
which probably will be an
for a permanent AAA,
ident
Ind. to accept an honorary degree and
make a brief address at Univer-
sity of Notre Dame. The acceptance
of this invitation
the
cent refusal
cerning the Catholic
Mexico.
persecutions
Fifty-two nations are united
imposition of sanctions
against Italy, which
became an outlaw na-
tion on November 18
by decree of the
League of Nations
Four league nations,
all unimportant, re
fused to participate.
They are Austria,
Hungary, Albania and
Paraguay. Indirect
support is given the
league by two non-
member nations, the
and Germany. Nearly all the world's
chief ports are closed to Italian goods,
and exports to Italy of arms, war ma-
terials and a long list of key products
has stopped. Loans and credits for
the Italian government, public bodies,
corporations and individuals are for
bidden.
Should this momentous action sue
ceed, it would seem that the end of
Benito Mussolini and the Fascist re.
gime In Italy Is in sight. Should it
fail, the League of Nations fails, the
British communications In the Mediter-
ranean would be threatened, and the
peace of the world would be menaced.
Standing steadfast against the sane.
tions, Premier Mussolini proclaimed
the day on which they wore estab
lished “a day of ignominy and In-
fquity,” as had been declared by the
Fascist grand council. The day was
made a holiday, flags flew from all
buildings and there were numerous an-
gry demonstrations against the mem-
ber nations of the league. The fron.
tiers of Italy and its ports were closed
to goods of those nations except for
certain necessities, Restrictions of
food, fuel and light were put in force.
It was announced In Rome that 100.
000 of the recently mobilized soldiers
would be given a furlough of three
months to ald Industrial and agricul
tural production.
There were new negotiations for
peace, fostered by the British and
French, and the Italian authorities
were deeply Interested but said the war
would not stop until Italy had posses
sion of a large strip of Ethiopia,
As for the Ethiopian war itself, Mus-
solini announced an Important change
in commanders. Gen. Emilio de Bono
was recalled with warm praise for hav.
“ing achieved his mission “under ex-
¥
ini
Gen. Badoglio
tremely difficult circumstances” and
was to be elevated to the rank of mar-
shal. Gen. Pletro Badoglio, chief of
staff, was appointed to succeed De
Bono as commander in chief of the in
vading armies,
Emperor Halle Selassie made two
alrplane trips to the fighting fronts,
visiting Harar and Diredawa and in.
specting his troops in the South. The
government at Addis Ababa denied
Italian claims that 2,000 Ethiopians
had been killed in a terrific battle with
Italian fliers. The communique sald:
“Information from the commander
of troops In the region of Makale states
the recent Intensive bombardment of
their positions by ten Italian planes
caused thirty deaths and slightly
wounded fifty, instead of the 2.000
killed as mentioned in the press com-
munique from Asmara."
OPE PIUS surprised the world by
naming twenty new cardinals, who
will be installed at a secret consistory
December 16 and a public one Decem-
ber 19. In the group are fifteen Ital
lans, two Frenchmen, one Argentine,
one Spaniard and one Czechoslovakian.
With these additions the sacred col
lege will have sixty-nine members, the
largest number in the history of the
church and only one short of the full
complement. The saéred college will
now be composed of thirty-nine Itallans
and thirty non-Italians.
The pope also named the Most Rev.
Joseph C. Plagens, recently auxiliary
bishop of Detroit, as bishop of the di
ocese of Marquette—Sanlt Ste. Marie,
Mich., and Most Rev. Gerald P. O'Hara
auxiliary bishop Philadelphia, as
bishop of the Savannah diocese.
of
ired mayors,
assem
ton to discuss the
called
work relief program, on the
said
up I
which he
grown
in 3
then announced
he plan
conference of cit
this
con
ned to eall
state officials lat
the winter for the pur.
Qe
pose of studying the
whole system of taza
tion which, he sald,
should be simplified.
Concerning the
ter of
relief,
| told the mayors:
“It is a question that yi
combat. My answer, and
yours will be same
ernments, is that we
to let people starve,
mat
Mayor La
Guardia
contin
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I am
for
not
Some people will
the city
do
works program will be substantially
carried out by the end of November,
Just as it was planned last spring.”
The mayors elected F, H. La Guardia
of New York president of their an-
{ of Chicago vice president, a position
| usually leading to the presidency the
La Guardia succeeds
| Daniel W. Hoan of Milwaukee.
The mayors recommended that the
social security act be amended to in-
| clude old age pensions for municipal
| employees and urged co-operation by
cities with the Department of Justice
| for the suppression of crime.
HAIRMAN HENRY P. FLETCHER
of the Republican national commit
{ tee issued a call for a8 meeting of the
16 to fix the time and place of the
party's national convention of 10368 and
to consider the apportionment of dele.
gates, It was reported that Chicago
was in the lead among the cities seek.
ing the convention.
Mr. Fletcher also announced the ap-
| pointment of a committee of sixteen
prominent industrialists and lawyers to
raise a big campaign fund. William
B. Bell of New York, president of the
American Cyanamid company, will be
chairman of the committee, and Charles
B. Goodspeed, assstant treasurer of the
Republican national committee, Chica
go lawyer, will be vice chairman, Many
of the members have never before par
ticipated actively in national polities,
AVID A. REED, former senator
from Pennsylvania, heretofore
considered a possibility for the Repub.
lican Presidential nomination, has
eliminated himself from the compet)
tion, explaining that he lacks “politi.
eal sex appeal” What that Is he
couldn't exactly define, but he sald:
“Roosevelt has it. But 1 discovered
last year that I didn’t. I'm not a ean-
didate for any public office.”
ESSE H. JONES, chairman of the
RFC, let it be known that the New
repay $15,600,000 which It borrowed
from the corporation. The loan, which
ANOTHER prominent figure of the
|
because he did not succeed in
pletely defeating the
Jellicoe, who entered the navy as a
cadet at thirteen years of age, had a
official publie life,
LANS to establish a three hun.
vard university this year, for the
awarding of large annual prize scholar-
ships to boys In each state of
Union, were announced by President
James B. Conant in a letter sent to
65,000 Harvard alumni. The fund will
also be wsed for the creation of plo-
neering professorships of an entirely
new type,
MERICAN business generally 1s
pleased with the terms of the new
=>
Washington—To observe strict neu-
simultaneously In Washington and Ot-
tawa. Farmers and the lumber men
of the northwest will not like it.
High tariff advocates In CONGress are
sure to attack the pact, but its terms
cannot be affected for three years,
even were congress to repeal the re-
ciprocal trade act under which Presi-
dent Roosevelt acted in negotiating the
agreement. It Is considered a trade
agreement rather than a formal treaty,
and goes into effect January 1 next.
Government officials, forescelng ad-
verse reaction In some quarters be.
cause of some of the sliced American
duties, sought to show the pact would
lead to greatly Increased trade and em-
ployment which would benefit the
country.
An analysis of the pact shows that
the United States grants concessions to
Canada on 70 major commodities, in-
cluding:
Tariff slash on four-year-old whisky
from $1 to 00 cents per fifth of a
gallon,
Reductions
quotas of
cents per
00 poun
in duties
beef cattle (from 3
pound on animals over
18); dairy cows (2% to 1%
cents) ; cream (56.6 cents to 35 cents
per gallon); or Irish seed po.
(75 45 cents per 1M
las fir and western
slock (50 per cent),
on specified
io 2
while
tatoes to
er and tim
cheddar
maple sugar, live
ut and some other
and
cheese,
ferro-man-
Hist
gnman-
sters,
certain 3 asbestos, artificial
abrasives and fertilizers,
A promise to maintain
10 per duty on
animals,
On the part of Canada the
are cut 180 commodit
the leading concessions being:
on (from 30 t 12
bushel) ; off season fresh vegetables
the free
'
on
Dew giv 41
gles, ath, |
irs, Cruce
the present
cent feedstuffs for
the daties
some of
on TOR,
Rede.
tions whent oH) cents
a
(50 per cent); veg
marketing season (35 per cent) : most
of farm machinery (30 per
cent) ; industrial machinery (35 to 20
per cent) ; mining and textile machin.
ery; radios (30 to 25 per cent): elec
refrigerators; tinplate mapufac
thies Imported In
classes
tric
motor vehicles; cotton fabrics,
furs, chemicals, silk fabrics, cotton
manufactures, electrical apparatus,
Also rai? cuts on oranges, grape
fruit, outs, fron and steel manufue
tures,
Place magazines and potatoes on the
free list
A pledge to grant the United States
on 767 articles, the lowest rates pald
by any non-British country.
A pledge to liberalize the system of
establishing srbitrary valuations oo
American products
A promise to keep raw colton on
the free list and to put tractors on
RIME MINISTER STANLEY BALD.
WIN and his Conservative gov
ernment party won an impressive vie
tory in the British parliamentary elec
ron tions, although the La.
borites succeeded Inde.
creasing the Conserva-
tive majority in the
house by about 60
sents. Baldwin him
tell was unopposed for
reelection, but Ram
say MacDonald, lord
president of the coun
ell and former prime
minister, was badly
defeated, as was his
Ramsay son, Maleolm, who has
MacDonald been minister of ecole
onles. The elder MacDonald left
the Labor party to form the na-
tional government, and the Labor
ites had been after his scalp ever
since. The government party will have
a majority of about 250 In the next
house of commons,
0 CANON of ethics was violated
trade with
Italy— trade with Ethiopia was never
Important--but to trade in other parts
of the world, The thought, apparent.
ly, 18 not to take too much advantage
of Italy's occupation with her war by
sneaking away a part of her lnterna-
tional trade!
The whole thing seems rather neb-
ulous, though also very high-minded.
But apparently it does not apply to
South America, Perhaps because
Washington has always regarded
southern American trade as belonging
to this country—not by divine right,
nor even by geography, but perhaps
because of some expected gratitude for
the Monroe Doctrine. Though
matter of fact that doctrine has been
resented rather than appreciated by
our Latin-American friends for many
years now, In fact, it began to cool
shortly after Washington forced
France to withdraw its support from
Maximilian, not long after the Amer
fcan Civil war,
850 the best minds interested In fur.
thering our international
several weeks ago to think about the
possibilities in South America, now
that Italy is very busy in Africa. In
fact, It was decided to have a new
head of the bureau of foreign and do-
mestic commerce, and that this
head should be some one capable of
taking advantage of this golden oppor-
tunity In South America.
As this Is written the name of this
new “sales manager” for Uncle Sam
has not been announced, but it has al-
ready been discovered by our consuls
from Panama down to Cape Horn that
Great Britain apparently had the same
idea. Whether it ocourred to the best
minds In Downing our
Brain Trusters thought it, or
whether, thought it,
into aclion
street before
having the
British went with.
out for a lot
and on the selection of a sultable per
gon not only not
closed iz not known. But the fact
in whispers, that
to It. And the
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merely
waiting
to direct it, is dis
is
3s
is sadly admitted,
Br
comment
the tish beat us
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is sadly added
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Not “Cricket
It Is rather Interesting that the off.
cial who disc
x oo}
he thought
writer, in discussing what
this country ought to do in observing
the it
loned the Britis
our trade all over the world at the ex
pense of the [Italian International
not “cricket” Which
a distinctly British ex-
pression, though widely used here
Just why it would not be “cricket”
to take advantage of Italy's preoccupa-
tion in some parts of the world, and
not in others, is not clear. In the De
partment of Commerce there is a cer.
tain theory about It. This is to the
general effect that Latin-American
ies, long before he men
5
4, sald that to expand
1s
trade would be
happens to be
States, and that therefore anything we
can do to cement it is justifiable at all
times, whether the nations from which
we {ake it are engaged In a war or
not, and whether we approve of that
war or not,
It may be that In London the ex.
porters and the government figure the
same way, on the theory that on sc.
count of Sir Francis Drake, or maybe
Bir Henry Morgan, Latin-American
trade naturally belongs to Britain, and
hence any means of taking it away
from some other nation is justified.
There is a widespread suspicion,
of Italy's foreign trade that she can
get her hands on. Even during the
World war, some State department un-
derlings recall, “business as usual”
which means get all you
quite a motto in the tight little Island,
Canadian Treaty
On the whole the administration ex-
pects to benefit enormously, at the next
election, by the effects of the Canadian
reciprocity treaty.
fications are legion, but, now that time
has been allowed for estimating its
economic consequences, let's take a
look at the political aspects, which
were very much In mind at the White
House, If not at the State department,
while the problems were being
weighed.
The worst lability to the adminis.
tration Is the dairy section, which will
let a much larger volume of Canad an
milk, cream, butter and cheese into
fered to defend gratis the constitu.
the lawyers’ committee is Justified In
preparing and disseminating “opinions
ence to the constitutionality of such
legislation.”
matures December 1, will be repald
out of the road's $25,000,000 cask bal
ance. The repayment will be the
largest ever received by the RFC from
a railroad. In return the RFC agreed
to extend until July 1, 1941, the re
maining $11,800000 which the New
York Central owes to it,
Bar association's committee on profes.
sional ethics and grievances, given In
response to a complaint made by ©.
N. Davie of Atlanta, Ga. The bar
committee emphasized that It ex.
pressed “no opinion as to the sound
ness of the conclusions reached by the
national lawyers’ committee.”
the dairy farmers of New England,
New York, Wisconsin and Minnesuta,
particularly, and all other dairy farm
Incidentally It was rather odd that
there was such a rush to sign the
treaty that the ceremonies almost
synchronized with those attendant
upon the delivery at the White House
of the 1200.pound Wisconsin cheese,
drawn by “Dunder and Blitzen” and
the rest In a Santa Claus sleigh.
Which, by the way, had been Intended
as a high light of National Cheese
week,
The dalry concessions to Canada are
much worse politically than the lum
ber section, although actually oppo:
nents of the lumber section were more
vocal. The reason ls that every do
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all the protection he can get from for
eign competition, Whereas the lum-
ber Industry is divded into
groups, with best opinion being to the
effect that the stronger group, as far
a8 voles are concerned, favors abolish-
ing all restrictions against Canadian
lumber and shingles,
Perhaps the best evidence is that the
group favoring no tariff on lumber won
every fight In congress until the very
last. Then the tariff group won, but
only by combining with the ofl, copper
and coal groups In a log rolling opera-
tion, which resulted in the imposition
of the so-called “excise” import taxes,
| that really are tariff schedules,
| Lumber Tariff
Actually interests favoring a
| higher tariff against Canadian lumber
| are not politically important, save in
the extreme Pacific Northwest, Mid.
| western lumber Interests, which might
| be supposed to be allied actually are
{| not, for the simple reason that in the
| days before they thought there would
| ever be a lumber tariff, they bought
| huge tracts of forest land in Canada!
the
Number one among the assets of the
| treaty, politically, is fruit. C
| willingness to our r
prunes, apricots, and raisins
| Just makes the difference between
{ good times and bad In highly impor-
tant areas in California. Incidentally,
the orange schedule appeases Florida,
overcoming—it is hoped-—her anger
against the administration for
Cuban reciprocity treaty, which let in
early frults and vegetables that com-
pete with Floridian products
Florida, of course. is not important
politically. Not certainly when a Pres.
is
never forget California!
take
peaches
the
idential election considered,
But Not be.
Cause she elected Woodrow Wilson in
1916. b
| are absolutely essential t
i hope, far outlined, ending
New Deal and retiring Franklin
Roosevelt from the White House,
Henry P. Fletcher can
th electoral votes to put a Repub.
{ lican In the White House—while AAA
| checks keep flowing-—without Califor.
being
ut because her 22 electoral votes
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Massachusetts Democrals are
ng that Henry Cabot Lodge, grands
| of the famous statesman
heart of
against Woodrow
the world™
Wilson
League of Nations, will be the G. O. I.
the
candidate for senator next year. They
are his that
| ready shaping individual politic
ft in with that picture.
Incidentally, they are not particular
iy happy about this situation. Despite
his youth, they are not discounting
young Lodge's ability as a vote get-
ter. On the contrary, they point out
that he has all the advantages of a
great name, and none of the liabilities,
The famous Massachusetts senator,
as & matter of fact, had sccumulated
: & jot of enemies before his death. In
his last race for the senate he barely
pulled through. At his last national
Republican convention, that at Cleve
land, far from being the dominating
figure he had been at such gatherings
for nearly a generation, he was rather
| obviously sidetracked. In fact, that
sidetracking led to animosities which
rose to plague William M. Butler. at
the time Republican national chalrmun
! and representative on the ground of
President Coolidge, when Butler later
ran for the senate against David L
Walsh,
None of these old feuds are belleved
| to linger on, however, by Democrats
#0 sure of t they are al
al plans
to
| interested in holding a senate seat, and
| some of them In winning that seat
| for themselves. They do not expect
| young Lodge to lose any Republican
votes on account of them,
| Democratic Fears
Moreover, Massachusetts has eight
Republican members of the house,
more than any other state at present
except Michigan, New Jersey, New
York and Pennsylvania, And more
than such historically Republican
states as California, IHinois and Ohlo!
So their fear Is that, with evidences
such as the Rhode Island election and
ing against him, may poll the full Re-
publican vote,
assure them. They point to the fact
that Curley was strong enough to nom-
inate his own candidate for mayor of
Worcester, over the sitting mayor, but
November 5,
All of which might point to the log:
fe that the Massachusetts Democrats
would be glad to let Senator Marcus
A. Coolidge have a renomination, es.
peelally as they could count on him to
contribute handsomely to a campaign
fund which might pull other candi
dates through, whether It saved him
or not. But human ambitions run con
trary to that notion,
Ever since It became fairly certaln
that Curley would seek renomination
and re-election as governor, passing up
the chance to come to the United
States senate, there have been light
ning rods put up by other Democrats.
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