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AR is on in east Africa. Mus-
solini’s troops in Eritrea invaded
Figo because, according to a note
. Ethiopian mobilization,
though this was not
Italians had crossed
the border and occu-
pied strategic positions
south of Mt. Mussa
Ali.
Baltingheta Heroui,
the Ethiopian foreign
minister, sent to the
4 league this message:
99 “A telegram received
Baltingheta (otoper 3 from Ras
Heroui Seyum, informs the
imperial government that Italian mil-
itary airplanes this morning bombard-
ed Aduwa and Adigrat, leaving many
victims among the civilian population,
including women and children, and de-
troying numerous ‘houses.
“A battle is at this moment taking
place in the province of Agame.
~ “These events, occurring on Ethi-
opian territory, constitute a violation
of the empire’s frontier, and a breach
of the covenant of the league, through
Italian aggression.”
~ A Reuters dispatch’ from Addis
Ababa said the Italian force advanc-
ing on Agame had been defeated, but
this report probably was false.
The Italians, moving south from the
"Asmara region, crossed the Mareb riv-
er frontier at widely separated points
and converged in heavy columns to-
~ ward Aduwa, the scene of the terrific
~ Italian defeat 39 years ago. Govern-
ment authorities in Rome at first de-
pied that Adua and Adigrat had been
bombed, but this action was reported
; by American correspondents with the
Jtalian army.
3% ‘Haile Selassie’s ‘order for general
mobilization was carried throughout
the empire by the ominous beating of
the war drums, and his eager warriors
: responded by the hundred thousand.
~ The emperor’s first war order was to
his chieftain, Ras Kabada, and three
other generals, to take 50,000 men to
Mt. Mussa Ali. The defense in the
~ North was entrusted to the Negradas
~ of Wollacho. It was estimated at Ad-
dis Ababa that the emperor could
~ count on the services of about 1,250,
000 fighting men, and the women also
are ready for active work in the con-
flict.
STMULTANEOUSLY with the open-
ing of hostilities in Ethiopia, Mus-
~ solini gave the signal for tremendous
mass gatherings of all Fascists in
Italy. Millions of Black Shirts in all
the cities dropped everything and as-
_ sembled to cheer for the Duce and his
‘African adventure. From the balcony
of the Venezia palace in Rome the
premier shouted the words that com-
mitted his nation to a policy that may
mean either victory or ruin. He reit-
erated his determination to seize ter-
ritory from Ethiopia but declared he
would do everything possible to pre-
~ vent the campaign from bringing on a
European war, But he warned the
League of Nations and all nations to
keep their hands off, saying:
“To sanctions of an economic char-
acter we reply with our discipline, our
sobriety, and our spirit of sacrifice.
To sanctions of a military character
we will reply with measures of mil-
jtary character. To acts of war we
will reply with acts of war.”
Summoned hastily to a meeting of
the league council in Geneva, the
statesmen of Europe found themselves
confronted by the fact that an unde-
~ clared war was being waged by a
league member against a league mem-
ber. Article XVI of the league cove-
nant provides for severe penalties for
such a war when the aggressor has
been determined. The sanctions range
through an economic and financial
boycott to final military penalties. Be-
fore going to Geneva, Anthony Eden
of Great Britain conferred with Pre-
~ mier Laval of France in Paris. He had
instructions to throw the full support
of his movement behind league efforts
~ to isolate or halt the conflict in Af-
rica. French officials believed that if
sanctions were applied by the league,
they would be only economic, which
would shut off loans and raw mate-
rials from Italy. The mobilization of
the British navy in the Mediterranean
and the Red sea continued with ac-
celerated speed.
IRM assurance that the United
States would not be drawn into a
foreign war was given by President
Roosevelt in his address at San Diego.
Ile soids
Italian Troops Invade Ethiopia and the War Begins—
Mussolini Warns Nations Not to Interfere—
Craig Made Chief of Staff.
By EDWARD W. PICKARD
© Western Newspaper Union.
“We not only earnestly desire peace
but we are moved by a stern deter-
mination to avoid those perils that will
endanger our peace with the world.
As President of the United States I
say to you most earnestly once more
that the people of America and the
government of those people intend and
expect to remain at peace with all the
world.”
In Washington Secretary of State
Hull made a strong plea for peace, de-
claring that economic recovery is be-
ing retarded by international political
uncertainty. He warned that world
political stability cannot be achieved
without a revival of world trade and
that war will block trade.
ULGARIAN conspirators formed an
elaborate plot to assassinate King
Boris III and seize control of the gov-
ernment, but they were foiled and
many persons were arrested.
Sources close to the government de-
clared an attack was to have been
made on the king as he appeared be-
fore his subjects to review a parade
in celebration of the anniversary of
his accession to the throne. March-
ing soldiers were to have been without
ammunition, and in the confusion fol-
lowing the attack the plotters hoped
to take control of the arsenal and pub-
lic buildings.
AJ. GEN. MALIN CRAIG, a vet-
eran of two wars and command-
ant of the war college, was appointed
chief of staff of the American army by
President Roosevelt.
He took office immedi-
ately, succeeding Gen.
Douglas MacArthur
who is on his way to
the Philippines to be
military adviser to the
new island common-
wealth. Craig is ad-
vanced to full general-
ship,
Born in St. Joseph,
Mo., in 1875, Craig was
graduated from West
Point in 1898.
Immediately afterward he saw serv-
ice in Cuba during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, and in June, 1900, participat-
ed in the China relief expedition made
necessary by the Boxer outhreak. Aft-
er service in various army posts in this
country, Craig, upon American en-
trance into the World war in 1917, was
assigned as chief of staff of the Forty-
first division and sailed with that out-
fit for France. y
Later he became chief of staff of
the First army corps, serving in that
position until the armistice was
signed.
Gen. Malin
Craig
REASURY report for three months
ending September 30 showed a first-
quarter deficit of $832,000,000. Th's
was 34 per cent greater than for the
corresponding period a year ago which
at that time was a record deficit. Ex-
penditures for the quarter amounted to
$1,830,000,000. This was an average
of about $20,000,000 a day.
The deficit occurred in spite of in-
creased taxes and other revenues in-
cident to improved business. Total
revenues for the three months were
$998,000,000 compared with $954,000,-
000 in the corresponding period of tha
preceding fiscal year,
OTATO control was the subject of
discussion at a hearing called by the
AAA in Washington, and officials,
farmers and consumers were given a
chance to say what ;
they thought about
the Warren act, which
provides for quotas
for potato growers.
with a prohibitive tax
on production in ex-
cess of quotas, and is
armored with jail pen-
alties for willful buy-
ers or sellers of boot-
leg potatoes.
This act was op-
posed by the New
Dealers, and Secre-
tary of Agriculture Wallace said at
the conference that he does not want
to enforce it and will do all in his
power to avoid enforcing it. He of-
fered several plans for voluntary meth-
ods which would reduce potato sur-
pluses and raise prices. He con-
tinued:
“Potato growers are in real trouble
and the AAA wants their judgment
on possible cures for potato problems.
Potato prices are about half of parity
and the AAA desires to get the full
benefit of the judgment of potato pro-
Secretary
Wallace
_neyer a user of weasel words, he never-
.wheel-horses can sit around in a room
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Washington.—Typical of the sort of
thing that has made the Republican
party in New York state, impotent
since the passing of Bill Barnes from
its leadership is the proposal of Charles
Dewey Hilles to throw the Empire
state delegation to Bertrand H. Snell.
Most Republicans agree that Snell
would make an excellent President.
He has force, character, and ability.
He stays put. He takes advice, but
without ever yielding one inch on deep
convictions, or yielding to temporary
expediency. Never a back slapper,
theless foaght his way yp through the
house of representatives, and won the
G. O. P. nomination for the speaker-
ship of that body against the whole
strength of the Hoover administration.
And his rather thin following since
1932 has never regretted its choice.
But the whole point is that no one,
least ofall Mr. Hilles, who proposes
to commit the New York delegation to
Snell, has the slightest idea that the
Republican convention will nominate
the able New York representative. The
whole purpose of giving this big dele-
gation to Snell is to hold it away
from Herbert Hoover, to hold it away
from Senator Borah—even to hold it
away from Colonel Knox—for the pur-
pose of permitting another smoke-filled
room nomination reminiscent of 1920.
It is good old Republican tradi-
tion—Democratic tradition, too, for
that matter—that a group of old party
and do much better in picking a candi-
date than can either the voters in
primaries or delegates in an untram-
meled convention. In fact, there is so
much history to back it up that there
seems to be some logie in the conten-
tion.
But it is a tradition which would not
have a chance this time if it were not
for one thing—fear that Herbert
Hoover will win the nomination by
pure force of lethargy. Hilles also
wants to head off Borah. He was dis-
tinctly annoyed at the recent poll of
county and other leaders by Robert
H. Lucas, which showed such surpris
ing strength for the Idaho senator.
It’s an Old Feud
when William Howard Taft was Presi-
dent, and Hilles was his secretary.
Borah has frequently remarked that
“Taft and Hilles wrecked the party.”
He still thinks so and Hilles knows it.
Hilles would not be consulted much if
Borah were in the White House. He
knows that, too.
Another phase of the situation is
that a great many New York Repub-
licans would prefer the nomination of
former Senator James W. Wadsworth,
now a member of the house. Wads-
worth, like Snell, has never equivo-
cated about the New Deal. When it
looked as though opposing Roosevelt's
program was little short of political
suicide, Wadsworth always backed
Snell in oppesing it, not just by his
vote, but by vigorous denunciation—in
sharp contrast with the number of other
Republicans who gracefully yielded to
the storm.
It so happens that neither one of
these outstanding New Yorkers is of
the boss type. Else the story of the
New York Republican fiasco in the last
15 years might be very different.
After the passing of Barnes, when
New York had a Republican gov-
ernor, Whitman, and two Republican
senators, Calder and Wadsworth, there
was a considerable G. O. P. faction
which wanted Wadsworth to be boss
in Barnes’ place. Another faction
backed Calder. Calder wanted the job.
Wadsworth didn’t. He didn’t want to
be bothered with it. But while Calder
went after it the stronger group, in-
cluding Snell, backed Wadsworth.
Which resulted in there being no Re-
publican boss in New York at all.
Woman suffrage and prohibition di-
vided the leaderless party. Calder was
defeated for re-election by Doctor
Copeland, and in 1926 Bob Wagner de-
feated Wadsworth. Then along came
Roosevelt and Farley to build up the
upstate Democratic organization in the
country sections, as Al Smith had al-
ready built it up in the cities.
And now there is a new complica-
tion. It looks as though a new schism
was about to divide the New York
Republicans,
Puzzling Prcblem
What substitute for AAA—farm ben-
efits and processing taxes—can the op-
position to the New Deal offer?
That problem is causing furrowed
brows among would-be candidates on
the Republican ticket against Frank-
lin D. Roosevelt next year. It is also
worrying the wheel-horses of the party
—those that are left—the men who
know they can never themselves carry
the standards, but who like tremen-
dously to feel that they are powers
behind the throne. Such men, for ex-
emple, as J. Henry Roraback of Con-
necticut—the last of the old bosses.
Such men as Dave Mulvane of Kansas
used to be.
Reliable reports from the farm belt
indicate that the Republicans must
have some substitute—something that
This feud goes back to the days |
to have a chance in that part of the
country. The reports are interesting
for another reason. They indicate
that it will not be difficult to enlist
the farmers against the New Deal if
they are convinced they will fare
just as well without it.
Apparently the farmers are not at
all satisfied that the system, which is
now paying them handsome benefits
in return for their crop restrictions, is
sound.
What most of the farmers would
really like would be to have all re-
strictions on production removed, and
then to have prices for all crops guar-
anteed by the government—prices that
would yield them what they regard as
a decent return for their labor and the
use of their land.
Appeal to Farmers
This sounds more uneconomic than
‘even the present scheme. But it would
appeal infinitely more to the farmers,
and, curiously enough, it is almost
precisely what was offered as a farm
plank by Former Gov. Frank O. Low-
den of Illinois, and which was so flatly
rejected by Coolidge, Hoover and Mel-
lon. In short it amounts to the export
debenture, with its equalization fee
provision. The only difference is that
the equalization fee part of the scheme
does not appeal much to the farmers.
If any particular crop were very large,
so that a heavy percentage of it had
to be sacrificed at a sharp loss on
export sales, then the equalization fee.)
might easily deprive the farmer of that
fair price he craves. .
But the farmer is a natural gam-
bler. He has to be. He gambles on
every crop he plants—against nature.
And up to now on the market price.
The farm benefits for not raising
crops are virtually the first sure thing
the farmers of the world have ever
had.
Perhaps because of the trace of
gambling which seems to be in every
human being, this is not the phase of
AAA which appeals most to him. Or
at least reports from all over the coun-
try indicate that it is not. He wants
to gamble against nature—against sur
pluses of his crop from other coun-
tries competing in the world market.
He wants the chance of an occasional
killing with fat prices on a big crop
on his land, even though that big price
can be occasioned only by crop fail-
ures elsewhere.
But while this is what he wants, he
is not going to give up the security he
now has for the first time in the his-
tory of mankind for the mere privilege
of gambling. And he will not vote that
way.
Want Longer Hours
“Why doesn’t the government work
us sixty hours a week and give us
enough to live on?”
That is the complaint of worker
after worker on the famous Passama-
quoddy tidal project, just outside East-
port, Maine, and close to beautiful
Campobello, where President Roose-
velt loved to vacation years ago.
“I work eight hours a day, five days
a week,” one worker told the writer.
“For that the government gives me $11
a week. TI have to pay $10 a week for
my board and room, so you see I have
to be pretty careful with that other
dollar.”
“It’s just crazy,” said a garage
worker, who was intently listening.
“The government ought to work these
fellows ten hours a day, and six days
a week. Then they would make some
money. They could buy things. Isn't
that what we are supposed to be need-
ing?
“Don’t talk to me about the men
needing the time off for recreation.
What do they do with their time off?
Two days—they have—and they lay
around the ends of the wharves and
bum cigarettes from us natives. You
see they can’t afford to buy their own.”
“But modern thuoght is that a man
ought not to work as long as sixty
hours a week,” suggested the writer.
“Say, mister, we used to work sixty
hours a week all the time, and we got
along just fine,” retorted the garage
worker.
“But the government wants to take
care of as many men needing work as
it can with the money it can afford
to spend,” persisted the writer, “Isnt
this the best way to do it?”
Anyway, More Money
“Well, maybe it would be better not
to work them sixty hours,” conceded
the garage man, “but certainly they
ought to get $25 a week. Why, mister,
lots of these chaps have wives. I
know a lot of them who have three
children. What do you think a man
can do for a wife and three children
on $11 a week?
“Cold weather is coming on, and
these fellows will have to buy a lot of
warm clothes. That dollar a week
over board money, for the single ones.
won’t go very far then.”
Eastport looks like a boom mining
town save for one thing—the money
isn’t jingling. Men walk around the
streets in machinaws.. High laced
boots, sweaters and heavy fur caps
give an Alaskan note to the picture.
But there are no gambling hells. Cheap
lunch rooms abound. They have to be
cheap. Nobody has the mony to suv-
port an expensive one. Which is also
the answer, of course, to the lack of
gambling hells,
Not all the men are bitter at Uncle
Sam. Some of them are pitifully
grateful to get work, even at $11 a
week, But mighty few of them under-
stand the economic ideas behind that
ght in congress last winter over the
“prevailing wage” amendment. They
do not realize the idea that this work
is just to provide employment until
private industry can absorb them—
that the last thing intended is to make
these jobs so attractive that men
would not leave them to take private
ducers concerning plans for increasing
their returns.”
will satisfy the farmers—if they are
employment, even of humble varieties.
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24
The Comical Male Customers Are Given to Bantering
Conversation With the Waitress.
LEAVE IT TO THE SISTERS
By GEORGE ADE
N FLORIDA, what they call a din-
I= de luxe at a night-blooming
noise factory may bring you a
check for $5. Anything around $5
is a bargain price for the hurry-up
repast served with dancing by the cus-
tomers and cavorting cuties in a “floor
show.” T'wo bits for the food and $4.75
for the smoke and the elbowing and
the alcoholic vapors. It may surprise
the spenders who frequent these noc-
turnal resorts to learn that a good din-
ner or supper is worth, at the market,
just 35 cents. That is the top. That is
the stabilized price, decreed by custom
and honored by long practice. It is not
preceded by cocktails or washed down
with that very expensive fluid known
as “giggle-water.” It is served by a
friendly waitress who expects no tip.
The women of the small towns have
learned the secret of making money by
serving food for practically nothing.
They cannot raise their prices because
the traffic couldn't bear the increase.
Oyster suppers used to come as low as
25 cents a head in the good old days
but now the patrons demand ‘‘courses”
and are critical of the Lill of fare and
take a lot of waiting on—all for 35
cents.
Women are the mortgage-lifters for
churches, clubs and all kinds of local
societies and helping-hand organiza-
tions. They have more enthusiasm than
the men and their team-work is better.
What is more, they get a lot of fun
out of mobilizing in a buzzing flock to
assemble their contributions and spread
the tables.
~ Mrs. A. is a natural born cake-maker
so she brings two cakes, one enriched
with figs and the other stuffed with
hickory nuts. Such cakes are practical-
ly unobtainable in the city and are
priceless samples of home-cooking but,
just the same, they go into the 35 cent
jackpot.
Mrs. B. is a sensational biscuit mak-
er, with a good degree of local renown.
Her job is to provide the light and
fluffy rolls.
Mrs. C. is the local queen in the
domain of “trimmings,” such as cot-
tage cheese, grape jelly and strawber-
ry preserves. She robs her own shelves
in order to make the party a success.
She has to be a liberal contributor in
order to keep up with the others and
head off any sly suggestion that she
has a strain of stepmother in her.
Mrs. D. is the prize coffee maker.
Mrs. E. is the supreme authority on
chicken and noodles. The F. girls know
how to get floral decorations for the
table. Mrs. G. has had long experience
in bossing waitresses. Mrs, H. is a de-
mon pie maker.
The ‘supper’ represents an assem-
bling of units, turned out by experts,
and the finished product lays over
what you get at filling stations and
lunch counters.
If you have a great crowd of peo-
ple to feed, the best thing you can do
is to make a deal with the sisters.
They will bring an army of waitresses
who would cost more, if you hired
them, than the total bill turned in by
the lady manager. The girls of all ages
Jove the flutter and hopping about and
genial hub-bub of an indoor celebra-
tion and waiting on the table, when it
is done as a labor of love, becomes an
adventure and a gay experience. The
comical male customers are given to
bantering conversation with the wait-
ress (known by her first name), and
she must talk back and be sure of
many a hearty guffaw, because every-
thing is at high tension and any kind
of wise crack is a welcome relief and
sure-fire hit. After it is all over the
girls count up what they have taken in
and put it in the treasury as “velvet.”
It’s a good thing they don’t charge for
their time and the physical toil and
the nervous energy.
Out at my place in the country we
have had some big parties, mostly for
city visitors. They want fried chick-
en. You cannot provide “springers,”
with an unlimited number of helpings
©—WNU Service.
at 35 cents a plate. For the chicken
and noodles or roast fowl you can work
in the venerable hens, but you cannot
cheat on the fried variety. The local
sisters whooped the fried chicken rate
to 50 cents years ago, then slid it up
to 75 cents and later on, finding that
the city trade was big-hearted, made
it a dollar a head. With a hundred mo-
torists on a reliability run, all arriving
‘at one time, the sisters began to handle
important money. On the day of the
noon-day feed for the Glidden tour
outfit the receipts were $350, which
represented the high mark. Much of
this amount was contributed by the
motorists who insisted that the dinner
was worth more than a dollar.
After many years experience with
city visitors and numerous conferences
with the women providers, I think I
have discovered the menu which will
always make a hit with the consumers.
The grand motif or theme song of
the production is fried chicken, taken
entirely apart and served hot and
moistly tender. No armor plate.
Mashed potatoes or new spuds with
their jackets on, hand in hand with
oodles and oodles and oodles of giblet
gravy.
Small, light fluffy rolls. No “sody bis-
cuit.”
For the second vegetable, corn on
the cob or fresh garden peas or tender
juvenile string beans, depending on the
season.
Fresh beets. Always in demand.
Overlooked by most caterers.
Fresh leaf lettuce “wilted” with hot
bacon juice and a little vinegar. Those
addicted to this old-fashioned salad
simply rave about it.
For dessert, ice cream and cake, or
pie a la mode. Cherry pie always makes
a ten-strike. That or “punkin” with a
top story of whipped cream.
It is surprising how many people
will take hot coffee if it is offered to
them.
Please take note that the preliminary
“fruit cocktail” is omitted. The vis-
itors want to fly at their fried chicken
as soon as the bell rings. This menu,
bordered with some jells and preserves,
may be repeated over and over, and
always goes big. Go right back to the
old sure-fire items and stick to them.
They cannot be served as a 35 cent
plate luncheon but they are what the
visitors take, if they can get them.
The sisters know how to fix them up.
When people come to the country
they want home-cooking and plenty of
it, regardless of hard times and de-
pression. The meals may be frugal
when company is absent but the sis-
ters never hold out on a bunch of ‘en-
thusiastic eaters.
Certain undertakings, such as the
feeding of a multitude, cannot be stage-
managed by the men. The women are
the ring-leaders in putting over ambi-
tious plans. We have hopped many a
social barrier since “Main Street” was
accepted as the real picture of a coun-
try town. Every village is now the
suburb of a metropolis and enjoys all
the privileges of the big town, except
the noise and the dust. The radio, the
moving picture and the high-powered
motor car have made Main Street the
tail end of a boulevard. It has changed
a lot since every villager was classed
as a yokel and his wife was a house-
hold slave.
This is an essay about the small-
town woman. She may have been a
down-trodden home body in the good
old days but now she is a gadabout
and a mixer. She is all hooked up with
“movements” and belongs to clubs and
believes in going places and ‘seeing
things. She has opinions and doesn’t
believe everything she hears on the
radio.
The ancient couplet ran:
Man works from fun to sun,
But woman’s work is never done.
It is my candid belief, after moving
back into a rural community, that wom-
en are the self-starters.
© George Ade.—WNU Service,
Se