La Grande evening observer., April 27, 1927, Image 7

General News
MtWt I Want Ado
VOLUME XXV.
NERVOUS EUROPE
FEARS CONFLICT
Wave of Preparedness Is'
Sweeping over Powers I
Across the Atlantic
ly .Joseph Slmrkcy
(il'JNKV'A. Apr. 27,
(Al") Kor
main' yeara tliti world haa
been
hearini; about the psychic MHvchlc
Villi and psychic that without per
haps really Knowing what It means.
Hut at all events It seems clear that
a psychic .wave of war prepared
ness has hit Europe. . -
Europe Is nervous. It has been
borne back and forth on a wave of
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- Iti-lutiuus strain,.,!
1 et it (jinnee acrosa the Kuruiicnn
""""" 'Pmnm why the wave Is
i , . "eiauons between (heat
, llrltuln uiul Humid arc frankly ail
milled hero t0 h had. There la un
a moat dally alleKnlin that the mo-
vn-i in mo real fui-w
cxlHtlni; civil i ,m 1
.Peclally behind the unll-forelt-n
movement there
Travelers from the French III
vlora tell of rumors picked up
there thai Italy has not bandoned
nopo or some day regaining the
I J' rench province of Snvole and that
1 little misumlei'KtandinKs between
France and Italy (though the
I J,''''"eh deny this) have actually
I led the French to reinforce mirri
jons near the Italian frontier and
I Induced them to hold maneuvers of
alio Mediterranean fleet not far
from the coast of Itulv.
Ilrifu.li 1-rctiiirliiL-
Oreat Uritaln's cruiser strength
has mounted rapidly tu a point i
,v,nere many Americans, who swear I
I by lirltish friendship, ask why!
.American naval strength is ullowcil
to drop so low comparatively. '
I Kven little Switzerland, whose I
I neutrality is guaranteed by tho
ureal puwers. is pausing through a
kind of feverish epoch of propared
1 ness.
I Itussia's western neighbors, es
llieclally the small states, are flilgot
l.lng and .wondering whelher their
I real Interests should make llieni 1
I turn to the West and stick faith
fully by the League of Nations or
i whether they should make ar-
ratiKeinents with Kussla to assuro
their own security.
And Italy's recent complaints
that Jugoslavia seems tu have de
signs over Albania, together with
the violent press polemics which
ensued, contributed their bit to the
formation of the- psychic war
clouds hovering over Kurope and
more particularly in the ltalkans.
Despite the unfavorable political
situation, representatives of gov
ernments have been meeting at tho
league of nations to take the pre
liminary steps for the drawing up
of treaties for the limitation or re
duction of world armaments. Nev
er, it Is said here, has u prelim
inary conference opened under such
unhappy circumstances.
Sllll .last a Wave
Hut the psychic wave has pot
yet developed Into a typhoon. Homo
say it may, and probably will,
break into foam upon tho .troubled
shores of Europe, to prove to 'The
world that, after all,-, hoituus pre
paredness does not necessarily
mean sanguinary war.
. . Europe Is divided up Into many
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countries, all with their ambitions,
their prouent economic and finun
oial difficulties, their luipen and
their fears for thos unoortaln fu
ture. Jf u man, wore to Mtaud on
the bankH of tho Mississippi river
and Imaytue for a inomont that the
United States is divided Into 4S
Koperato ' soverelKH slatow,. carh
with confllctinr,' prubleiuM and am
bItionJ, KpeakinK different lun
Kuayes, ho would liavo Homo, con
cetion of tho political situation In
Europe. . '.--j i ' ,
Mecauso Irish women, and jury
duty . irksomo a hill is pending to
exempt them, . , ,
LA GRANDE. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 1927.
Invitation To Write To Federal
Radio Board Brings Many Replies
'. WASHINGTON, Apr. 27 (Al') , Invitation will ever bo repeated;
When the federal radio commia- i tho response lias been so generous
slon organized, it issued a general that it Is slid doubtful whether any
invitation to all persons interested j olfico business other than tho
In radio in the United Stated to ' oponlnR- of tho replies will bu ac
, , , , , - , complislied about tho commission
communicate by letior such facts, for som(, Um0 r .
or fancies as seemed desirable, : ; In Myria(ISi , tll0 ' rud0 : funs
' H is not likely that partlqular Braspcd their pens' or leaped to
t
rot
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NT TtlfJO. 1IKIJO OF THIS IJ.-ITTI.K f Hie .lapall Sen.
omcd nnolhcr hvwt lo his rnunlrv l-ccenllj ".jle a
(.en. I'liihci'ln .Nolillc, 1 1 ii I In it who built I In- Nnr!i,'inl
Hew across Hie 1101II1 pole
r
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hkiiMi.m:stv. yn:i;v m.miv i' KXii,Axi, m
ii!r mi cmiviiM nt hit K.vnl Academy cxposillon in May.
Kiiluii J Jink, lm waliitcU Hrtralt uf Ulng ticofgo. I I
IN THE U. S.
, I0.V. an I' I itnrUrii Jlnreiiii
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.111. null 1 .find tin '1 lmc f
BERRY CROPS TO
BE BIG, FORECAST
Government Experts Ex
pect Plentiful Yields
Over the Nation
HlniwlieiTloH Hhoulil bo iltutfti)
thlK yeur, KovvrnmctuL ciup oxpuitH
purtori Tntm pracliciilly all HtiiteH
rnlHlai; tliiw fruit for tho inurltot,
TlieMO luerciiHOM riniKP from ono
qtiat'lor tu unp-fitlh mure than Iat
yonr'H ucroanoH. ...
Vuwv tlnum un inutty Hti-aMhiM'-i'Ioh
huve been Hhlppod DtrutiRh
l II Wli r-,...M..if,.l .,!!, tU.., tl
last NfUHftll. !
Tho cunimcrolal Ktrawliorry-pro-ducliiff
roKloiiH are dlvlclrj into
Tour NeiMloiiK. nncurilinu to tlio
ttim of tlio riiiotiiiiK of tho liorrlos.
Mar Host liorritH tMiino from fivo
KtaloH a lunj,' tho !ulf, and osll
matoa tor thltt your'.s orop hIiow
lypewrllors. The let lorn to tho
commission hefran trickling In u
tow score a day. and then swelled
to an unbroken, constant tide, and
for ten days huvo avorUKed more 1
, than 1,000 separato communica
tions tor each 24 hours. A special
lorco has been unsigned to ussort
and digest them, nnd io stack' up
tho drawings that eomo atoiifr with
Ibo scripts. Tho radio fan runs
very much to diagrams, bocnuso
words are weak when pushed to
tho laskjof defining tint hugo and
alintract fldeas thai permeate thu
radio world.
In tho rough classification so far
attempted, two general types of re
sponse have been made out. One
includes tho letterH from llHtenors
ln, who want 1o say emphatically
that they like certain stations. The
other Includes tho letters from tho
same kind of persons who want to
suy exactly tho reverse, imually In
most positive fashion. ThiH sort
of letter, being In essence a vote,
goes Into u count, nnd tho findings
may rise up and smite a broad
caster hero and there.
As to the balance, their varlely
I is Infinite. The engineering fel
low with the tiruwing board and
tho time clock ban set himself nt
the tnnlc of gratuitously allocating
all tho wave lengths ; and hour
limes among the 71ili operating sta
tions, with the idea of giving all
a chance and satisfying everybody.
Thu enthusiast with tlio new ills
covory as to apparatus and tho re
former who wants to organize tho
I radio programs have set to reason
ing with tho commission through
XUu. luallau 1 -
It will take some weeks to get
the first Informal', digest of cor
respondence prepared, and then
tho commissioners intend to study
it. carefully. Hut it. will not nsk.
for any more general correspond
ence. CongrcMs didn't approprlalo
money to handle u job llko that.
JK5 (Si
I.oulHluna , may have 30,000,000
(Itiartn: Alalfamu, it, 000, QUO; Klori
ilu, G.&00.U00, uiul Texan and MIh
slKsippi toKcthor expect moro than
3.OU0.00O, . - . v -
Tlio vcotul early producing boo
tlon t'oinpiiHt'H h! mat oh, tho In
toriuediuto rt'Kion ton Htaies inut
tho la to uoodon kovoii. Alt the
important early and nild-eicuwu
slulos, crop official Kay, aro ex
pouliiitr a houvy cittp ot Htruwbwr-
liOH.
U. S. Grant Born
In Ohio Hundred
Five Years Ago
An ejection won through a war
record .but an administration of
eight years held through a firm
peace policy was the actovement
of IMysHcs Simpson (J rant, . Civil
War general. , .
Tho liith president waa bom at
1'olnt lMcusunt, Ohio, April 27,
iS22, and died July 2'A, !Sfr, near
Saratoga, N, Y. Trained at West
1'olnt, ho was a natural choice for
leader of the Union troops. After
his succesMt ul campaigns under
Lincoln his popularity gained for
Grant unanimous nomination on
the first bullot at the republican
convention of 180. Ills adminis
tration, 1808-1877, wuh concerned
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with reconstruction, fivith the prob-.
lem of bringing peace to tile coun
try and adjusting by arbitration
und peaceful methods difficulties
with foreign powers. . f
The luth amendment, grunting
euuiil suffrage "without regard to
previous condition of jmrvttude"
was passed In 1806,.-and Grant
urged the enforcement act which
enabled ooxjrens to mako laws
guaranteeing tho 14th and l&tu
anieDdmf ot. The Alabama claims
against Ureal lirltain worn nettled ,
in the Treaty of Washington, 187 U
During Grant's administration
tho balance of trade was changed
from 1130,000,000 against to 91.10.
000,000 In favor of tho United
Statra. -mnesty was granted in
1878 to all but 350 of tho most
conspicuous confederate leaders.
America's first tranrfcoutlneulal
railroad ,an Important link In tho
cohesion of. tho warworn country,
was completed under Trosidont
Grant.
The characteristic of oackllng
after laying an cgf is onft handed
down from the Jungle chickens.
Tlio hen, after stealing away to
lay her egg, cackled to attract tho
attention or the rest of tho flock,
that had wandered out of eight.
Tho city of Boulder, Colorado,
in order to ussuro Its future water
supply, lies purchased the Arapa
hoe -Glacier. ,