her lasts Ever since Spain lost American colonies some 30-odd | years ago, riot, revolution and re- | bellion have been rife in the sunny | land. But because, in the past, these revolutions have been of little con- | sequence outside the borders of | Spain itself, other nations, even | those on the European continent, | have been justified in merely re- | maining aloof and letting matters | take their course until once more a Spanish government of one kind | or another is answering the "phones. | Aloofness often is only official as it is possible to do a neat little busi- ness in arms with both warring sides, unofficially. But with this newest and most serious of Spanish revolutions the | customary policy of laissez - faire | among her neighbors is one diffi- | cult, if not impossible, to maintain. For here in Spain is now the ulti- mate expression of a struggle that is now going on among the peoples of nearly every nation in Europe. | See Death Struggle This is not a civil war to deter- mine whether republic or monarchy shall be the form of government. Actually it does not involve the question of how the nation shall be | governed so much as who shall gov- | ern it. There is a death battle between what have come to be called in Europe, and are more and more frequently mentioned here in the United States, the Right and the tion of Spain. It was less than a decade after that when she lost her later came the first of a series of quelled. That was in 1909: in 1917 there was another unsuccessful re- volt. When the crisis after the World war came, the Spanish monarchy found itself unable to look after the welfare of its 23,000,000 subjects, who were finding it next to im- possible to make a living. An at- tempt was made to right conditions in 1921 when Primo de Rivera was set up by the Rightist factions as dictator. It didn't work. New Regime Fails Ten years later the republic was voted in and King Alfonso XIII was on his sudden way out. Spanish citi- All the ills of the old times were to be forgotten. But, alas, it didn’t work out that fore its inception by a serious gene- the military forces. There was the for lost. markets hopelessly and foreign Spanish farmers was supposed to rectify all of these living from it. land; farm - hands, the year, and wages, were of landless only half at meager steadily Small private industries wallowed Gen. Emilio Mola, Rebel Leader. Left. On the Right is Fascism: on | the left is Socialism. On the one | side are the monopolies, the bureau- crats and the big land owners: on | the other are the peasant farmers, | the small business men, union labor | and the proletariat. It may be truthfully said that | practically all Europe today is di- | vided into Rightest and Leftist fac- | tions. The sharp line of demarcation becomes more apparent with each | new heated political debate, with | each new spirited election. For that | reason every European eye is di- | rectly focused upon Spain. Deeply | concerned are France, whose new Leftist government has not yet proved the panacea it was heralded to be; Germany, which will find new cause to arm against ‘‘the | Reds" if the Left wins and a new victory over communism if the Right wins; Italy would welcome a strong Fascist neighbor, and ex- clusive of her subtler political in- terests, Great Britain must protect Gibraltar. While former revolutions in Spain have resulted in only qualified vie- tories or defeats, it is generally con- ceded that this one will be decisive. It may string along for many months, even years, but it will be a fight to a finish. Europe Watches Struggle Yet what is important about this civil war is not which government, Right or Left, emerges victorious, the choice of the majority of people. It is the fact that there is a serious fight. This is a bloody and cruel war. Homes, theaters, hospitals have become ammunition centers and barracks. Snipers spit death out of store windows, cannon wheels scar the surfaces of plains, the drone of bombers disturbs the calm of fabled Spanish skies. Right and Left have taken arms against each other. All Europe waiches. For years the continent has been a tinder box, awaiting a match to set it off. Crisis after erisis has been passed and another great war has been averted or post. poned, sometimes ever so narrowly, May not this develop into the next of these great crises? What will France do if Italy sends aid to the Fascists? What will Germany do if Red Russia interferes on the other side? The Spanish-American war may be arbitrarily taken as the real be. ginning of the political disintegra. losses, the taxpayers made them good, but when there were profits the stockholders got them all Win the republic came into be- ing there were countless and need- less bureaus eating the substance of large army, with many needlessly high-salaried officers noted for blun- dering and extravagant ‘‘colonial” adventures, was being kept. Unem- ployment, starvation wages and continued repression from the Right had concentrated the mass of poor industrial workers into a few large cities and had greatly increased their numbers. Expected Drastic Changes The people, rightly enough, ex- pected drastic changes from the Men of the Republic. The economic theory of the Rightists, nominally result of hopeless conflict of policy. The Right, bewildered by conflict- ing policy, between socialism one minute and Fascism the next, froze credits, paralyzed industry and agri- culture, and hired armed bands of men to annoy the Leftists and thus provoke the government. In the summer of 1932 it all came to a boil and the Right provoked a military revolt, but intervention of civilian troops on the part of the govern- ment quelled it. Economic conditions failed to im- prove. There were strikes, riots and demonstrations. The Left was still in a bad way. The peasants led an uprising in 1933. So severely was it put down, the government began to lose the loyalty of the peasants and kindred classes. When later that year the Socialists were lis se Women Marksmen Take Part. the power, there were ENTRE HALL, PA. —————— - — ne—— Tell the Bees In savage countries and in many country districts of England and the world over, the bees are held to be members of the household. A death in the family must always be “told to the Bees,''-—otherwise they will be offended and desert their hives, taking away with them the luck of the house. When a wedding occurs the bees expect their hives to be decorated with white ribbon or rosettes, When treated with this consideration the bees are supposed never to sting members of the household. Other superstitions about bees are that one should never shout at them, but tell them important news in whispers; one should not quarrel near a hive, lest the bees fight, too, and destroy one another. Nor will bees sting half-wits, even when disturbed.—Tit-Bits Magazine. Yellow Fever Germs In 1888, when people still thought that yellow fever germs flew or drifted about in the air, an epi- demic of this disease took place in Jacksonville, Florida. In the belief that the microbes could be killed by concussion, writes M. B. Jacksonville, Florida, in cannons were fired for several days in the prin- streets—to the delight and Amount of Rainbow Seen The amount of a rainbow seen at any time depends upon the height low. On high mountains or from i into the cabinet. This was nearly a quieted by the employment of the ernment. the Left, and to incite the proleta- riat further against the government of the Right. Accordingly the Left forced elec- ment from power. That was early The same old struggle has been going on ever since—the power has not yet definitely come to one side or the other to permit a continuity of hction. completely circular rainbows are observed. Lunar rainbows, formed by the light of the moon and ap- pearing as luminous arcs with very faint colors, are occasionally seen. “Coal Trees" “Coal trees,” trees that have re. turned them into coal, of nature's strangest are sights, in their normal position and as perfectly formed as the day they reached maturity, except that their trunks, branches and even their leaves have been converted into black, gleaming coal. — Col- lier's Weekly “Patient as a Camel” The popular idea that a camel is The Arabs have a motto “Patient as a camel,” for they know from experience that this animal never Weekly. A single act of unkind. ness or injury may be ignored, but ter end, will leave Spain at last com- completely Socialist. Americans Leave Spain The efficiency of the State depart- ment and the foreign service has government war. tian, the Schoellkopf. San Sebastian, Mr. Bowers was tak- en off by the cutter Cayuga and second in power in the republic and today represented by the rebelling Fascist generals, was that of re- pression, wage-reduction breaking up of labor unions, and concentra- tion camps for Jorged ngor—all She principles ascism. repu was to substitute higher wages, new and fairer distribution of land, gov- ernment control of industry, reset- tlement and rehabilitation projects and a security program. But the early republican govern- ment found itself torn between two loyalties. It attempted to steer a middle course, providing legislation only upon pressure from or Left and, naturally, leaving only a bassy on the vessel to cruise in Spanish waters so as to be of aid to Americans. At the outset the situation in the Spanish capital was serious, with firing in the streets. The United States embassy stocked all the food it could get and stored water venged one day. A camel bides his time. 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