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’■Z I • a Tfct BotwII Ptopl»8—Baniwtil a C, Thareday, Decfbcr 17, 1996 BRISBANE it THIS WEEK To Store Food in Mines President's Good Idea No Criticism for Germany Japan's Many Babies 1 While the President talks peace for all the Americas, England, locked in her ■ mall island, separated by nar row water, from European hatred, realizes that it would be hard to keep out of a big war. She might, some day, move her imperial headquarters from London to Montreal or Que- bec, as the French govern ment once moved from Paris to Bordeaux, and the Spanish govern ment recently from Madrid to Val encia. England wonders what her peo ple would eat if war should be forced upon her, with enemy sub marines and airplanes sinking her food ships. She is not self-support ing, and her newly organized “food plans department” will try to store away enough food to last at least a year. As a “cache” for the food, England is using worked-out coal mines, of which many, going down thousands of feet, should be safe from bombardment. ▲rtkar Brlakaa* The President’s trip to South Am erica proves to have been a most useful idea. Great crowds welcomed him in his brief stop at Rio de Janeiro, as he drove through the streets with the Brazilian President Getulio Vargas, bands playing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” The President will talk peape and business, at least as much busi ness as peace, and he will make friends for us all in South America. You may count that day rare on which Chancellor Hitler’s govern ment does nothing new and queer. Dramatic criticism and literary crit icisms are now forbidden in Ger many. Constructive criticism is of greatest value to actors and writers; the intelligent among them are grateful for it. The Ruler of the universe was his own critic, ‘‘and God saw every thing that He had made, and, be hold, it was very good.” All need criticism, the powerful need it more than others, and Hitler will have it when history is written. His min ister of propaganda cannot control that. The great contract bridge com petition ends and the Harold Van derbilt cup goes to four players called the Kaplan team; Phil Abram- sohn, Fred Kaplan, Harry Fishbein and Irving Epstein. Mr. Vanderbilt, on hand to present his cup, might telephone Chancellor Hitler that you do not have to be an “Aryan” to understand bridge. Business is picking up and that includes marriage, most important. Chicago university says 750,000 few er weddings have taken place dur ing the six depression years than would have occurred in normal times. Hence the loss of about one milkon new American babies that would have been born. Seven hun dred and fifty thousand young couples have missed, among them, more than three million years of marriage bliss. The tide turned in 1935 with 1,327,- 000 marriages, highest total in our history. China says she will risk war with Japan rather than let Japan take more of her territory. If that war comes it will illustrate the differ ence between a country prepared. Japan, and one unprepared and dis organized, China. Japan's unspoken answer to Chi na's war threat is her birth rate. Those millions of new babies must go somewhere. Sir Basil Zahiroff, called “mys tery man” and “richest on earth,” Of heart di«»ase at eighty six had for his motto, “Every man ha bis price. He dealt in munitions •nd he may have bought, as wef as helping to kill, many. Begir. ning poor, in Constantinople, Zi haroff climbed to the top in mone and intrigue. It matters little when you start, what matters is insidi the head. • XlM VkalwM Sreaiwi* la* WMUSwvwa. Tokyo reports for Japan the world's highest birth rate; 2,180,- 703 new Japanese babies arrived in 1935, more than in 1934 by 148,931. Japanese marriages are increas ing. divorces decreasing; the latter down to less than one in 1,000 mar riages. Japanese husbands and wives get along better than Ameri cans do. Mr. Green’s and Mr. Lewis’ union labor organizations indicate that their differences may be settled, which is good news. Organized labor should present a united front against 1 too-short pay and long hours. The prosperity of the nation de pends on how much the workers have to spend. News Review of Current Events the World Over King Edward Defies Cabinet, Clinging to Mrs, Simpson—* Garner Mixes in Bouse Leadership Battle— An i rlxxwi t Pif g*ww Agi Aiv*4ws A si si mao A r resiuem o duciiub riircs /luurcoo# By EDWARD W. PICKARD C> Western Newspaper Union. v mere 'rubber stamps* of the Presi dent. That accusation hurt the mem bers’ feelings sufficiently without rubbing it in by having the country get the notion that the duly elected Democratic members of the house are going to become the 'rubber stamps’ of the vice president, so that the Lone Star state may run both ends of the capitol to the. ex clusion of any participation by any of the other 47 states.” TkiflUaill/hoO^f Tales W Traditions PRANK 8. MAOIH SCOTT WAISOfC Edward VUI C ONFRONTED with the opposi tion of his cabinet, the high clergy, the leaders of both the Con servative and the Labor parties and goodness knows how many of the ordi nary people of his empire, Kipg Ed ward VIII insists on continuing his inti macy with Mrs. Wally Simpson, pre sumably with the in tention of marrying her. And 'Tie does not intend to abdi cate in order to cling to the American di vorcee. Defying the disapproval of his advisers, the bachelor monarch proposes to test his constitutional right to wed the woman of his choice —provided she consents. Such, at this writing, is the status of what has become a genuine crisis for the British empire, highly in teresting to all the world. The cab inet discussed the affair at length and sent Prime Minister Baldwin to remonstrate with the king, but the statesman got nowhere with the self-willed ruler, and next day told the house of commons he was not yet ready to make a statement. Edward called together his close friends, including his brother the duke of York who would succeed him if he abdicated, and considered the next move in the serious situa tion. This might be the resigna tion of the cabinet and the refusal of party leaders to form another government. Some of the English statesmen, like Sir Archibald Sin clair, Liberal, or David Lloyd George or Winston Churchill, might undertake the task at the request of the king, but probably none of them could command the necessary majority in the house. It is sug gested that Edward might attempt to follow the example of Charles I, who set up a government without a parliament. The British press st last has aban doned the self-imposed silence con cerning the king’s course but most of them declared their opposition or their regret. Public opinion will probably have a great deal to do with solving the problem. The Church of England will not have Mrs. Simpson as King Ed ward’s wife at any price, the Church Times, its organ, declared, lining up militantly behind Baldwin and the cabinet. Mrs. Simpson and her two previous husbands have been divorced and upon that the church takes its stand, was the Church Times' position. It is reported on good authority that King Edward is negotiating the sale of his Canadian ”EP” ranch to Lincoln Ellsworth, the American explorer. VicePresident Garner CALLED back to Washington be- ^ cause he is acting President during the absence of Mr. Roose velt, Vice President Gamer prompt ly involved himself in the battle for the house leadership that is being waged by the supporters of John J. O’Connor of New York, chair man of the rules c o m m i 11 ee, and Sam Rayburn of Texas, chairman of the interstate com merce committee. Mr. Garner put him self behind his fel low Texan, declaring: “I am for Rayburn 200 per cent. He is the best equipped man for the job and I will do all I can to further his can didacy.” O’Connor’s friends and other rep resentatives who had been neutral were astounded and angered by what they considered an unwarrant ed intrusion by the vice president into a house contest. John D. Din- gell of Michigan voiced this senti ment when he said: “The distin guished vice president has a big enough job on his hands as pre siding officer of the senate without interfering with the organization of the house with which he hae no con nection whatsoever. “The Democratic members of the house in the last congress were com pelled to go through a campaign un der the untrue accusations from the Republican enemy that they were A CCORDING to the New York 4* Daily News, Former President Herbert Hoover may become an ex patriate. The newspaper quoted Mr. Hoover “intimates here and in Washington” that he had virtually decided to take up indefinite resi dence in England as did Col. Charles Lindbergh more than a year ago. Recalling that Mr. Hoover had sel dom lived in the United States after his graduation from Stanford uni versity until the war years, the Daily News said that some of the happiest years of his life had been spent in London, which was head quarters for his mining enterprises in all parts of the world. :: ' M • ' 'EJ President Roosevelt B RITAIN’S house of lords killed Lord Ponsonby’s “mercy death” bill by a vote of 35 to 14. It would have allowed a doctor to end the life of a patient suffering from an incurable and painful disease. The measure fell before the attack of churchmen, who opposed it on reli gious and moral grounds, and of doc tors, who felt that tne responsibil ity was too great to be assumed by their profession. The archbishop of Canterbury made no objection to the bill on re ligious grounds, but said: “It is bet ter to leave this difficult and deli cate matter in the hands of the med ical profession rather than drag it into the open and regulate it by le gal procedure.’’ A S THE cruiser Indianapolis and its convoy, the Chester, entered the harbor of Buenos Aires, a salute to President Roosevelt boomed from the guns of eleven warships, ten squad rons of airplanes wheeled overhead, and thousands of cheering - citizens crowded the water front. Argentinians generally approve of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies and he wa» welcomed to their capital as “a great benevolent dicta tor." They had planned to five him an elaborata reception, but it was toned down somewhat at his request. President Justo, who already had greeted the distinguished guest by wireless, met him at the dock and accompanied him to the American embassy. Then Mr. Roosevelt, Secretary of State Hull and members of the American delegation to tha peace conference made a formal call at the govern ment house. Next day, after a ride about tha city. President Roosevelt attended the extraordinary session in the leg islative palace to open tha Pan- American peace conference which he initiated. A formal dinner for him at the government house and a reception for all conference del egates followed. The event of the third day was a luncheon at the American embassy in honor of President and Mrs. Justo. Then Mr. Roosevelt embarked and started on the return trip, with a brief stop at Montevideo, capital of Uruguay. In his eloquent address before the peace conference Mr. Roosevelt set forth his program for banishing war from the Americas and erecting economic barriers against war else where in the world. The first task in achieving this, he said, is “making war in our midst im possible,” and the second step is to insure the continuance of de mocracy in the western hemisphere as the best guarantee of peace. He warned the “war mad” nations bent on conquest that the American re publics “stand shoulder to shoulder” in readiness to “consult togethei for our mutual safety and our mu tual good.” THE LADY CANDIDATE 'PVER hear of Mrs. Belva Lock- wood of New York? She was the woman who was twice a candi date for the president/ of the Unit ed States on the Equal Suffrage ticket. That she was defeated on both occasions is be3ide the point. The record shows that she was per haps the most stalwart of the early-day advocates of “^mancipa tion” in all its forms for* the love lier sex. And she accomplished most for them. In 1882, two years before her likenesses were seen on presiden tial banners, Mrs. Lockwood ob tained the admission of women to the Supreme Court of the United States. It was the culmination of a five-year battle, launched at the Suffrage convention in Lincoln hall, Washington, in 1877. Mrs. Lockwood was a practicing attorney herself. For three years she had been empowered to ap pear before the Supreme Court of the District but was barred from the United States body by lack of precedent. She established the precedent. But it required a fol low • up campaign of briefs, speeches and bills to obtain the de sired end. The speech of Mrs. Lockwood at the 1877 convention was convincing to her hearers. Contrary to cur rent recollections of the mascu line type of woman who first de manded political equality, she is described in a convention report as entirely feminine. As an ex ample: Mrs. Lockwcod wore a vel vet dress and train. Mrs. Lockwood was a candidate in 1888 as well as in 1884. She was active in public life almost to the day of her death in 1917, when eighty-seven years old. After wom en were allowed before the United States Supreme Court she cham pioned the right of Negro lawyers to appear there. Then she shoul dered legal cudgels for the Indi ans. went as a peace commission er to Europe, engaged in a score of other worthwhile activities. /GERMANY’S cabinet, with Hitler ^ presiding, promulgated a num ber of startling edicts for the fur therance of the Goering four-year plan of rehabilitation of the reich Most important of these is the “eco nomic sabotage” law, decreeing death for Germans who “unscrup ulously” hoard wealth abroad and “damage the German economy.” This is directed against violators of recent injunctions which put with in reach of the government between 1,500,000,000 and 2,000,000,000 marks ($600,000,000 to $800,000,000) which could be converted into foreign cur rencies should the necessity arise. Another law orders the incorpora tion of every German boy and girl, without exception, in the Hitler youth movement, for physical, spir itual and moral training. The “youth leader of the German ' reich,” Baldur von Schirach, was made responsible directly to Hitlei and given the rank of a supreme Nazi authority. O EFORTS to the senate cam- ^ paign funds committee show that John D. Rockefeller, Jr., gave $70,000 to Republican campaign funds, while Democratic organiza tions received $50,000 from Mrs. James R. H. Cromwell, formerly Doris Duke, the tobacco heiress. The committee said it hoped to trace the source of most of the $13,- 000,000 spent by scores of political organizations in the last campaign, as a basis for legislative recommen dations to the President and coo- BALLOTS OF HATE T HE presence this year of a na tionally known newspaper pub lisher on the ticket of a major politi cal party has excited interest in the part newspaper men have tak en as candidates in the past. One of them who was very ac tive was Horace Greeley of New York Tribune fame, a candidate of the “Liberal Republicans’* and en dorsed by the Democrats to oppose the reflection of Grant in 1H72 Greeley was made a presidential candidate by a reform group of Republicans which had found its nucleus in Missouri with the elec tion of one of its leaders as gover nor and later held a national con- vertion at CincinnaL. The Cincinnati convention ex pected its candidate and platform to be accepted by the Democratic organization, sadly broken up by the disenfranchisement of south erners in the wake of the Civil mar. So everyone was amazed when Greeley was named presidential candidate. During the war. Greeley, a chronic sufferer from nervous dis orders. had been erratic in his editorial positions, shifted them frequently—always with the belief that he was expressing what most people wanted. While the South was still under arms, he had declared with great passion that the war should not end while slavery existed, yet pe titioned Lincoln to appoint him commissioner to arrange a peace. The result of all this was that he was threatened throughout the South and thoroughly hated there. Yet after the war he signed the bail bond of Jefferson Davis. When the Democrats met A Bal timore a little more than two months after Greeley’s nomination they adopted the Greeley ticKet be cause they felt it their only means of opposing Grant. A small group, it is true, broke away from the main body of Dem ocrats, held a second convention in September at Louisville and placed a third ticket in the field. Grant didn’t fuss around with the election. He won overwhelmingly. It was the first time since the Civ il war that all the states voted and Grant carried all but six of them, getting 272 electoral votes. The states Grant didn’t win— Missouri, Maryland, Georgia, Ken tucky, Tennessee and Texas, were fairly representative of the terri tory which hated Greeley But Greeley died before the results were known. These states would have given him 66 votes had he lived. O Western Ns«spap«r Union. Explains Lightning Why certain trees are more apt to be struck by lightning is explained by Dr. W. J. Humphreys in the Kan sas City Star. “In general, the trees most likely to be struck are those that have either an extensive root system like the locust, or deep tap-roots like the pine, and this for the very obvious reason that they are the best grounded and therefore, on the whole, offer the leant electri cal resistance.” Decorating for Christmas— t _____ ♦ Some Handsome Window and Room Ornaments That Are Inexpensive \A7 HILE windows may have been decorated for Christmas before now, the arrangements in doors seldom are .nade until the day before the holiday. The fresh ness of the beauty is wanted with out any diminution. If the novelty has worn off, some of the zest of Christmas is lost. This is so true that many homemakers refuse- to have windows trimmed more than a day or so prior to Christmas. If you happen to be among this latter group, let me suggest that you take sprays of a tree that is misshapen - and so very cheap and make a splashing bow of red crepe paper for each and hang one in every front window downstairs. Or have one in each downstairs win dow that is discernible from the street. Ornamenting the Spray. You can dot the spray with holly berries, or whatever you have in addition to the grfeen. Or you can dip popped corn in red stain or dye, and touch the kernels with glue and secure them to the sprays. These notes of red, with their irregular shapes, are intrigu ing, sometimes being mistaken for berries and sometimes for flow erets. Bank the Mantelpiece. Bank the mantelpiece over the fireplace where the stockings are hung, using sprays of the green intermingled with holly, mistletoe, pine cones, bayberries, or silvered or other metal painted motifs such as acorns, fine twigs with many fronds, etc. When everything is fixed to your fancy twine a string of wee colored Christmas tree Good Deeds LJOW far that little candle * * throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, ’twere aU alike Aa if we had them not. —William Shakespeare. Gentle Ways DUT curb thou the high spirit in thy breast. For gentle ways are beat. —Homer. electric lights through the greens. These will look ornamental by day and have a glamor when lighted during the evening. Christmas Greens FiH Baskets. Baskets filled with greens and dotted with th^e novelty units lend notes of appropriate Christmas decoration. Any mar baskets will do for this purpose. There gen erally are some about a house, but if not, metal paint or green stain some of the little market baskets such as strawberries, brussels sprouts or tomatoes come in. Make a rope or lengths of paper braid for the handles, painted or stained to match the basket. If a length of picture wire has bee., wound with the strands of paper rope and braid, these handles will keep their shape when ends have been thrust inside the baskets close to their opposite sides. The handles can be wired or glued to tha baskets. Bouquets. Bouquets >f Christmas greens in vases can be put in rooms other than the living room and dining room, and give then beauty of Christmas about the house. Be sure to use vases and bowls that have broad standards, lest the un even weight of the greens tips them over. © Bell Syndicate.—WNU Servicn. 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