ckard
America Backs Up League
[)ENOUNCING Japan as the ag-
gressor in the conflict in China
and accusing Tokyo of violating
both the nine-power treaty and the
Kellogg-Briand pact, the United
States government lined up with the
League of Nations.
Secretary of State Hull issued a
statement to this effect, asserting
that Japan's action in China was
inconsistent with the principles
that should govern the relationships
between nations and was contrary
to the provisions of the two treaties.
It was indicated that the United
States would participate in a con-
ference of the powers signatory to
the nine-power pact, which was
called for by the league.
Fifty member nations of the
league voted for the resolution
branding Japan as an invader and
treaty violator and warning of more
drastic action if Tokyo does not
mend its ways. China was assured
of the moral support of these pow-
ers, which agreed to take no action
that would weaken China's power of
resistance. Poland and Siam re-
frained from voting.
The Aga Khan, Indian prince who
is president of the league assembly,
sent messages to the signers of the
nine-power treaty and to Germany
and Russia, asking them to convene
immediately.
These events followed closely
upon President Roosevelt's startling
address at the dedication of a boule-
vard bridge in Chicago, which
turned out to be perhaps the most
important speech he ever has made.
Reiterating his determination to
keep America out of war, he said:
‘““The peace, the freedom, and the
security of 90 per cent of the popu-
lation of the world is being jeopard-
ized by the remaining 10 per cent
who are threatening a breakdown of
all international order and law.”
He continued: “The peace-loving
nations must make a concerted ef-
fort in opposition to those violations
of treaties and those ignorings of
archy from which there is no escape
through mere isolation or neutrality,
. We are determined to keep
out of war, yet we cannot insure
ourselves against the disastrous ef-
fects of war and the dangers of in-
volvement.”
Ren
Japan Still Defiant
N THE face of these warnings and
threats Japan was defiant. An
emergency meeting of the cabinet
was called, and spokesmen for the
foreign office and the navy declared
Tokyo's present ‘‘pacification’ pol-
icy in China would be continued.
““We cannot stay our hands out of
respect for a world opinion formed
on the basis of dispatches rewritten
by Chinese government officials,”
said a high naval official.
Great Britain's cabinet, studying
President Roosevelt's speech, was
anxious to learn just how far the
United States would go in support
of action taken against aggressor
nations. The British statesmen re-
membered how they themselves left
Secretary Stimson out on a limb
when he tried to stop Japan's sei-
zure of Manchuria; and they sus-
pect that the American people are
dead set against being drawn again
into foreign intrigues and quarrels.
Germany and Italy both felt that
Mr. Roosevelt's remarks were di-
rected against them as well as Ja-
pan, and were rather resentful and
skeptical. The Nazis recalled Pres-
ident Wilson's failure to pacify the
world, and Mussolini's newspaper
declared ‘““We fully understand and
justify Japanese efforts at expan-
sion.” France and loyalist Spain
warmly approved Mr. Roosevelt's
speech and Mr. Hull's announce-
ment,
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Chinese Check Invaders
R EPORTS from neutral observers
indicated that the stubborn re-
sistance of the Chinese had brought
the Japanese advance to a virtual
standstill both in the Shanghai area
and on the northern front. Where
the Chinese troops have withdrawn
they have occupied new and strong
systems of defenses. The progress
of the Japanese in North China has
been rapid but is now slowed up,
and the Chinese are ready to meet
them on the Yellow river.
Japan's plan to set up an autono-
mous republic comprising the five
northern provinces is revealed in the
Tokyo press. The capital is to be
Peiping under its old name of
Peking.
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Britain Prods Italy
(GREAT BRITAIN was deter-
mined that Italy should decide
promptly whether it would meet
witn her and France to discuss the
withdrawal of volunteers from the
civil war in Spain. Mussolini was
so informed after Prime Minister
Chamberlain and Foreign Minister
Eden had conferred with Charles
Corbin, French ambassador to Lon-
don. The Anglo-French attitude
was stiffened by President Roose-
velt's address and the league action
in the case of Japan, and England
F. D. R. DENOUNCES JAPAN
President Roosevelt delivering the
Chicago speech in which he branded
Japan as a treaty violator and lined
America up with the League of
Nations.
felt freer to concentrate on the Span-
ish question. There were hints of
‘decisive action’ unless Mussolini
responded satisfactorily.
We,
Special Session Likely
(CONGRESS probably
called into special
tween November 8 and
16. This was revealed by
Roosevelt just
his Hyde Park home.
that the lawmakers
will be
session be-
November
He indicated
would be
mental reorganization, and the cre-
ation of eight regional b to
plan a program for
sources.
Mr.
he has not abandoned his plans to
“reform’’ the federal courts, includ-
ing the Supreme court.
As for agricultural legislation, it
appears the administration will fa-
vor compulsory production control
ards
national
bacco.
speech in which Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace expounded his
ever normal granary scheme
New Yorkers.
come to farmers at the
involves high loan values and fre-
quent use of compulsory control.”
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Black Joined Klan: Quit
‘
s I later
joined.”
Thus Hugo
ree
resigned. I never
ciate Justice
of the Supreme
court, admitted
an immense radio
audience that
were true.
Black asserted that
since he quit
Klan he has had noth-
ing whatever to do
with it.
Hugo Black 4 in the
and in private life to back up his
from religious or race prejudices.
While he apparently repudiated the
principles of the Klan, he did not
explain why, on receiving a life
pass card after his election to the
senate, he said to a gathering of
Klansmen:
men who believe in the principles
that I have sought to advocate and
which are the principles of this or-
ganization.”
Black emphatically declared his
devotion to the principles of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
“When this statement is ended,”
he concluded, “my discussion of the
question is closed.”
There was a definite note of de-
fiance in Black’s address, but it is
fair to assume that the American
public was not satisfied with his ex-
planation. From all parts of the
country came renewed protests
against his presence on the Supreme
court bench, and various large asso-
ciations “‘resoluted” about it. Many
of the senators who voted to con-
firm his appointment because they
accepted the assertion of his friends
that he was not a Kluxer are re-
sentful at the deception practiced
on them-but what can they do
about it now?
When Justice Black took his seat,
the chamber of the Supreme court
was crowded to capacity. Albert
Levitt, an attorney, was on hand to
ask permission to file a suit seeking
to force Justice Black to show cause
why he should not be declared in-
eligible to sit. The court deferred
action on the request. Another mo-
tion to the same effect was filed by
Patrick H. Kelly, a Boston lawyer,
Favor for Anarchists
M ERCER G. JOHNSTON, of the
Rural Electrification adminis-
tration, led a delegation that ap-
peared before Secretary of Labor
Perkins and received her promise
to consider a petition to cancel the
deportation warrant of two anarch-
Ferrero of Oakland, Calif. Madame
Perkins already has
criminals and radicals on
ships.
ws Ween
Blow to the C.1.O.
TUNTRY of the C. 1. O.
power the administration of Pre.
the legislature,
the Liberals, is determined to keep
ers out of the province if he can do
so legally. The defeated Conserva-
tives, led by W. Earl Rowe, stood
for free and open labor affiliation.
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Rail Strike Averted
HERE will not be a nationwide
strike of railway workers. Such
a disaster was averted when the
five operating railroad brotherhoods
accepted an offer of the companies
of a flat raise of 44 cents a day.
They and the fifteen ‘‘non-operat-
ing" unions had demanded a 20 per
cent wage increase, The latter al-
ready had agreed to a raise of 40
cents a day.
For five weeks Dr. William M.
Leiserson, member of the national
mediation board, had been holding
daily conferences with representa-
tives of both sides.
In announcing the terms of the
agreement, Leiserson praised the
co-operation of both parties, saying
the manner in which they receded
from their original positions was the
biggest factor in the settlement.
H. A. Enochs of Philadelphia,
chairman of the carriers’ confer-
ence committee, estimated the in-
w—
A. F. of L. May Expel C.1.O.
HEN President William Green
opened the annual convention
of the American Federation of La-
bor in Denver, he was not able to
present an optimis-
tic picture of the fu-
The battle with John
L. Lewis and his C.
continues un-
and there
“dogfights’’
the unions
all over the country,
generally concern-
ing jurisdiction dis-
are
affiliation. WilliamGreen
If the report of the federation’s ex-
ecutive council is adopted, the C. L
O. unions will be finally ousted. The
council said in part:
“For two years we have pursued a
policy of toleration . . . All of this
has failed . . . Now the executive
council feels that the time has ar-
rived when the American Federa-
tion of Labor must meet the issue
in a clear-cut and positive way . . .
The issue which created the division
clear,
“In order to accomplish this pur-
pose the executive council recom-
mends that the convention confer
ity and power to revoke the charters
of the international unions holding
membership in the Committee for
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Windsor Coming to U. S.
duke of Windsor intends to take
studying housing and working con-
ditions in this country. This was
announced in Paris by the duke's
secretary, who said Edward and
his duchess would first go to Ger-
many for a similar survey there.
The duke’s interest in such mat-
Prince of Wales and during his brief
reign as king-emperor Edward was
notably concerned with the social
welfare of his subjects. On many
ditions of British workers.
ture with him. He resented the
close restrictions placed on his
movements and, it was rumored,
had threatened to return to Eng-
land.
American friends of the Windsors
think they may make their tempo-
rary home at “Wakefield manor,”
near Front Royal, Va., possibly ar-
riving there in November. The
manor is the estate of Mrs. George
Barnett, cousin of the duchess.
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Ed Howe Dies
ITH the passing of Ed Howe
of Atchison, Kan., the country
loses one of its best-known and best-
liked philosophical commentators
on current events. He was eighty-
four years old and died as he had
wished, in his sleep after a day's
work. The “Sage of Potato Hill”
founded the Atchison Globe in 1887
and retired 37 years later. There
after he busied himself with the
publication of ‘‘Howe's Monthly,’
which he called a “Journal of In
dignation and Education
Ask Me
Another
A Quiz With
Answers Offering
Information on
Various Subjects
1. Has there ever been an air-
plane flown around the world?
2. How long does it take to get
a telephone call through to London
from this country?
3. How many miles
marine cable are there?
4. What town is nearest the geo-
graphical center of the United
of sub-
5. What is pectin?
6. Why are some tin cans en-
ameled on the inside?
7. What is the population of the
earth?
8. How many hospitals are there
in the United States? Hotels?
9. What is the largest vote a
labor party ever cast in the United
10. Did the United States have
diplomatic relations with the Vati-
Answers
1. There has never
round-the-world airplane
globe at
either
girling the
circumference, along
of longitude,
2. It takes
3. The earth
more than
about
telephone wires and 5,000,000
miles of telegraph cables.
4. Lebanon, in Eastern Smith
county, Kan., is the nearest.
wall. In making jellies its pres-
6. Red fruits and
and foods with sulphur centent
discolor the can just as a cooked
egg discolors a silver spoon. The
stain is harmless but uninviting.
7. There are about 2,000,000,000
people on the earth, according to
the 1930 estimates of the Inter-
national Statistical institute.
8. There are 6,180 registered
hospitals in the United States.
There are approximately 29,000
hotels,
8. In 1892 a fusion of industrial
workers and farmers known as
the Populist party, and roughly
comparable to the Farmer-Labor
party of today, mustered 1,027,000
popular votes and 22 electoral
votes. The vote was about one-
tenth of the total vote cast.
10. Yes. At the commencement
! of the Civil war, John J. Stockton
| of New Jersey was minister resi-
dent at the Vatican.
Wise and Otherwise
Ow
Secret of success: Making hay
with the grass that grows under
other people's feet.
“What does a ‘better half mean?”
asks a reader. Usually just what she
says,
! Some people have tact. Others
{| ry to tell the truth,
| Hundreds of thousands of towels
and large quantities of soap are
stolen from railroad companies every
year. Quite a lot of people must
have noticed that cleanliness stands
higher than honesty in the list of
virtues,
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Love is blind, says the proverb. Is
that why one sees so many spectacles
on the beach?
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