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Thursday, Dccenil»er 13, 1934 TIMES. WILLAMINA. OBEGON News Review of Current Events the World Over Davis Warns Japan Against Scrapping Naval T r e a ty - Peaceful Agreement for Saar Plebiscite— Moley and Richberg to Industrialists. By E D W A R D W. P I C K A R D £ by W e s te rn ORMAN U. DAVIS, American i u - bassador-at-large and our chief N representative in the naval limitation conversations that have been going ou I d Loudon, has given plain warning to Ja pan that If that na tlon InslsU on scrap ping the Washington naval treaty, security wilt be endangered, susplrion created and the world forced Into a costly naval con structlon race. Mr. Pavla waa addressing the American Oorre- N. H. Oavls spondents' association In London, but his words were meant for all the world to hear, and as his speech was the first comprehensive statement of the American position since the opening of the conversations. It was regarded as of the greatest im portance. He also announced, for the first time, that President Roosevelt has projmsed “a substantial all-around re duction In naval armaments." Mr. Davis said that, since no agrees ment for armament reduction has been reached, the United States advocates the continuance of the Washington and London treaties with their assurance of "equality of security." Asserting that the Washington i«act put an end to a ruinous naval race and established “a sound basis for peace in the Pacific and the Far East." he continued: ••Only by maintenance of the system of equality of security, with propor tionate reductions downward of naval strength If possible, can there be main tained the substantial foundation for security and peace which has thus been laid. "Abandonment now of the principles involved would lead to conditions of Insecurity, of international suspicion, and of costly competition, with no real advantage to any nation." Unofficially, It Is said that when Ja pan gives formal nothe that she is de nouncing the Washington treaty, prob ably on December 20, the United States will Immediately withdraw from the discussions in London. Officials in Washington consider that to continue the conversations would be tantamount to acqulscence to Japan’s demand for modification of the ratios on which the treaty Is based. No mare than any other nation does the United States wish to see the re viral of the race I d naval construction, but the government will not tolerate the decline of our nary to a subordi nate place. Recent utterances of cab Inet members sod of congressmen who especially have to do with naval affairs make this plain. I d his annual report to the President. Secretary of the Navy Swanson says that although the United States may reduce its naval strength proportion ately with other powers. It Is Imper ative that a navy second to none be maintained. He wants also of the dangerous shortage of personnel I d the navy, saying that "ships are valueless unless manned by adequate crews of trained, experienced officers and men." U n to n ler’s government would raise no objec tions to the plan. All this was in effect a victory for the policies of Col. Geoffrey G. Knox, the league commissioner of the Saar, for he has long advocated the crea tlon of an International police force for the territory. Delegates of Italy and Chechoslo vakia declared their countries would send troops, and Maxim Litvinov, Soviet foreign commissar, said he be lleved Russia would be willing to sup ply a part of the league force. Organised labor was soundly berated hy C. I - Barilo, president of the Na ttonal Association of Manufacturers. He said Its contribution to national recovery had been “the moat wide spread Inauguration of strlkea. co erclon. Intimidation, and violence that the United States has ever seen, as evidenced by strikes In Minneapolis. Cleveland, textile Industrie», and the general strike at San Francisco." Rardo pledged the united opposition of the National Association of Mnnu facturera to the efforts of the Ameri can Federation of Labor to obtain through congress legislation Imposing a SO-hour week ou Industry, or any other effort to "fix a rigid and arbi trary work week for all Industry." Industry^ platform for recovery, which was proposed at a meeting of the national Industrial council, urging return to the gold standard, a balanced budget, and other orthodox economic measures, waa adopted. ORD ' -A l]"lb 1 ? ! / ' - R ID D E LL, who during the L World war was Lloyd George's chief Unison officer, with the press of the world, is dead tn London. He gained fame and great wealth as a newspaper publisher As a reward for his war work Riddell was made a peer In 1918. His voice over the telephone carried the first news to England of the signing of the Versailles treaty For some time after the war be continued to be a friend and confidant of Lloyd George. I-ater there were political dlf Terences, but while the close liaison ceased the two men never ceased to be friends. Lord Riddell leaves no heir and the title expires with him. Wadding Procession In Rural Rumania. Prepared hy N ational O eonraphlo Society, W nahlngton. U. C .- W S U S ervice rope whose peasants usually drees In native costume. The Rumanian peasant Is lovable. Always gracious, courteous, and good- natured, he Is Industrious, yet some what Inefficient, lie works hard tn his fields and forest, but always In a prim itive manner, using the crude tools of hla forefathers. Many residents of Bucharest spend their summers In Predeal, st the top of the Carpathian Pass, on the boun dary line between the “Old Kingdom” and Transylvaula. During their holi days they have many opportunities to observe the ancient methods of work followed by the peasants. One Is particularly Impressed wllh the native manner of washing clothes. The laundress builds a fire In the yard beneath a large Iron pot. In which she puts the clothes to bolt Then, In a large wooden trough hewn from a log, she rubs and washes the garments with her hands, without even the aid of a washboard. Next, she wrings out the heavy linen with her own hands Back-brenklng work It Is. hut the clothes emerge spotlessly white. Gypsies Are Numerous In the Danube Delta country, during the spring and summer, many gypsy camps are found. The gypsies carve out of wood huge water troughs all variety and manner of cooking uten sils washing equipment etc. With their wild animal eyes acragglj black locks wretchedly dirty, and clad In rags gypsies are a proof of tbs disillusion ment of reality. Who has not conjured up some gay, romantic picture of gypsy life from afar? Yet how distressing when one meets It at close quarters! But gypsy music is beautiful. Almost at every street corner In Bucharest one encoun ters an urchin with his violin, ready to play for a few lei. Winters In Bucharest are bitterly cold. Often one la distressed to sen gypsy boys half naked and shivering, begging nt the street corners The delta country covers a tremen dous area spreading between the three branches of the Danube. Mi»st Impor tant of Danube channels Is the Sullna, which carries most cf the river traffic coining down from fnr-off Germany. Austria, Hungary, Jugoslavia, and Cze choslovakia. On the Danube's banks are two Im portant [torts Gnlatl and Bralln, which receive vessels of ocean draft. Prin cipal exports are wheat, corn, barley, lumber and some oil. N R U M ANIA, east and west are so Interwoven that It la difficult to determine where one leave« off and the other begins. ment because they feared the under 8<>n>e historians attribute the strange standing between those two nations blending of the Orient and the Occi would be extended to Include Great dent within the Rumanian borders to Britain and Italy. The foreign office countless Invasions. Each Invader, hinted that in that case Polands re whether Roman, Hun, or Turk, left lations with Russia might be made his strong Imprint on the nature of closer. Poland resents being left out in the cold, for she is determined ro ERGEI KIROV, one of the most the people. Though Faris may be France. be recognized as one of the great pow prominent members of the Russian ers. and to play her part In the stabil Communist party's political bureau, Bucharest Is hardly Rumania. Thia isation of peace in Europe. waa assassinated In l-enlngrad. and as capital has almost nothing in common with the country. It Is a gay. cosmo be was a dost asso R ES ID EN T ROOSEVELT returned date of Stalin his politan city, often. If not aptly, called from Warm Springs to his recondi death was the occa the Little Faris of the Balkans. Its streets are crowded with smartly tioned executive offices In Washington sion of public mourn dressed women, officers resplendent In with the greater part of his winter ing. The government program completed. It will be pre announced that the their colorful uniforms and gold braid, sented to congress In bis animal mes assassin waa I-eonId nnd men and women of the foreign col sage on January 3. The major Items Nlcolieff and that he onles. who contrast strikingly with peasants In nntlve dresses and gypsies have to do with expansion of the pub “was sent by the ene lie works administration to provide mies of the working In rags and tatters. Its restaurants work relief, revision of the NRA and class." But It appears and coffee houses, always famous for the AAA. extension of power develop t h e r e Is something good food, are abuzz with the latest ments, aortal security Insurance and low more to the event political rumors ami gossip. The opening. In the autumn, of par Sergei Kirov cost housing, and the paring down of than a mere murder. the budget A disiwteh from Warsaw said ten Red liament by the king Is a brilliant event. army officers had been executed as the For several blocks and for hours the EMBERS of the Mid-Continent Re result of a plot to assassinate all palace guards In their bright uniforms, high patent lenther Jack boots, shin clamation association, represent Soviet leaders at the same time. ing 19 states, met In Chicago and per The Moscow government denied thia Ing helmets with white horsehair fected plans for a soil erosion and story, but at the same time It was put plumes, stand smartly at attention until flood control program, to cost ting under arrest scores of White the members of parliament, the diplo matic corjia, the army generals, and 000. which the association will recom Guards, enemies of.thg Soviet regime, mend to the federal government with accusing them of "terroristic action." the king have pasaett The great moments are the arrival a request for a survey to determine Its They were tried by a military colle practicability. The plan, which was gium of the Supreme court and sixty- and the departure of the king. In an Footmen In satin develo|>ed by A. B. Hulll of Chicago, six of them. Including one woman, were open landcau. Involves the construction of canals and found guilty and Immediately executed. breeches, long coats of brocade, nnd three-cornered hats, and a ferocious dams over an area extending from The names of those executed were northern North Dakota through Texas officially announced. Among them ap coachman cracking hla whip at six to control flood waters originating on parently were none of the leaders who milk white or coal-binrk stallions, on whose backs ride postilions In bright the eastern slopes of the Rocky moun had figured prominently with the red hunting costumes, add to the strik tains. White armies during the civil warfare Ing medieval picture. following the Bolshevist revolution. N TERESTING statements were made Nor were there any names of men Slelghrlds In Bucharest to the American Congress of Indus who have had national prominence It la fun In winter to hire an open try in New York b j two of the Presl alelgh Jrawn by horses bedecked with subsequently In Russia. 1 dent’s closest advisers, Raymond Moley The executions were carried out bells and red ribbons, and driven hy a and Donald Richberg. while Kirov’s body was l»elng cremat coachman in a high fur cariulu director of the nation ed. He was given a state funeral and (cachoula), a tall astrakhan cap. long » al emergency counclL his ashes were placed In the Com velvet toat, and wide girdle of metal. r W Professor Moley de munists' There are still a few coachmen llv Valhalla beside the wall of clared there la no the Kremlin where rest the remains Ing In Bucharest who belong to a cu workable substitute of Lenin. John Reed and other heroes rious alien sect called Scopltl, now at for the present cap most extinct The men were allowed of the Red revolution. italistic economic sys to marry, but at the birth of the first /% - 1 tern. •‘Basically," he child they were made sterile. One ENTRAL, western and northern ’C f c * " ' said, “the New Deal sees thpm often driving open car sections of Honduras were devns I was an effort to save rlages. They are fat and their skin tated by a series of earthquake shocks "JT, capitalism and. by la like yellow parchment spreading the range continuing through two days. The ex The wide avenue leading up to the tent of the disaster Is unknown at this Donald of opportunity under Arc de Triomplie, past a pretty little writing for all communication systems Richberg it, to enable the aver were crippled, but It was reported nice course and the golf links of the age man to regain a measure of cod that at least three towns of consider Country club. Is a miniature sugges trol over the conditions under which able size. Copas. Cabanas and Santa tion of the Chamita Elysees In the llE government of Jugoslavia has he lived. It seemed to me in 1933, as It French capital. Many stately palaces Rita, were nearly destroyed. decided to expel all the 27.000 Hun seems to me now. that this effort to nnd homes line Its streets. Rumania garians now living in that country, save capitalism was wise and just. has gone modern In her new houses R ESID EN T MUSTAPHA KEMAL “By no stretch of the imagination rhe process will be gradual but re and apartments. of Turkey has become the Idol of lentless. Already more than 2,000 have could the vote of November. 1932. have There Is much music other than In all the women of hla nation, for. after the cafes. Bucharest boasts of rnthei been Interpreted as a mandate for the t>een deported and more are being sent »way daily. Hungary called the action abandonment of the capitalistic system. giving them such social rights as j good opera during the winter and a »f Jugoslavia to the attention of the Finally, even had there been aucb a emancipation from the harem, he has really fine symphonv orchestra plays mandate, there was and Is no work given them political rights. At hla in modern music. The Notional temple League of Nations. able substitute for our present system.” stance the national assembly unani Is well patronized and plays by Ru Moley expressed much optimism re mously decided that any Turkish wom manian and foreign authors are given. [ } EACEFUL solution of the Saar garding business. He told the Indus an more than thirty years old Is eligi Once ornate, the building Is now shab ‘ plebiscite problem seemed assured trialists, In effect, that they need have ble to election to the chamber of depu by, although an air of fnded elegance rhen the council of the League of Na- no fear of any radical change in the ties, and that all women over twenty- still pervades the place. ions unanimously and gladly adopted present economic and social order, that two years of age can vote In the na The parliament buildings and the he report of the Saar committee em industry was needed to stimulate trade, tional elections. Thousands of women Rumanian Orthodox church stand on todying the Franco -German agreement bring about recovery, and that In the telegraphed their “deepest gratitude" the summit of the only hill In Bucha or payment for the mines in case the last analysis It would be the business to Kemal. rest Bucharest Is a city of churches -egion votes to return to the reich. men who would distribute the wealth From everywhere can be seen rising beading up to this settlement were two of the nation. USINESS leaders of the country the rounded domes of the Rumanian innouncements of utmost importance. Mr. Richberg admitted the NRA hao who are members of the Chamber Orthodox church. The people are re First, Foreign Minister Pierre Laval not achieved all its aims in its effort of Commerce of the United States de llglous, but matter-of-fact about It. De if France promised that French troops to bring about Industrial self-govern mand a reform of the government’s spite the Slavic Influence, there Is no would make no attempt to enter the ment, but Insisted that Its fundamental budgetary methods. Through a refer mysticism here. Religion Is simply Saar territory before or during the principles must be preserved in perma endum they have given approval to a part of everyday life. The church vote on January 13. “1 desire to an nent legislation for codes of fair com Is like a protective father, and they thirteen proposals to this end. nounce.” said he “that France will not petition. One step recommended was “a more respond with simple faith. He warned the manufacturers that participate in any international force active centralized administrative con Among the Peasants. which It may be found necessary to the permanent law must be written tn trol of expenditures." Thia would be Around Bucharest the country Is not send into the Saar. We cannot par co-operation with labor and consumers, obtained by “broadening the execu unlike the agricultural state of Kan ticipate in such a force because Ger as well as private business and gov ernment, so that there should be nei tlve allotroeut system of funds so as sas. Here Is a tremendous wheat nnd many cannot participate.” to Include all expenditures, ordinary corn region. Visitors enjoy going Then CapL Anthony Eden, British ther work-consumer regimentation by and emergency, and strengthening it through the villages In this fertile dis lord privy seal, told the council that business nor business regimentation by so as to avoid the necessity of defici trict. Crazy little Rube Goldberg government Great Britain would contribute troops to houses, whose white-washed walls are He hinted that If employers consent ency appropriations." the proposed International force, pro Thia recommendation for broader painted tn soft paste) shades nnd dec vided Chancellor H itler of Germany ed to legal restriction In return for In control by the administrative branch orated with borders of flowers or an creased power under the codes, organ were willing that such an army should of the government also suggested that Itnals, present an amusingly shaky as be sent Into the territory. When Ber ised labor would be called upon to do “when feasible" expenditure« be re pect along the street«. Rumania Is one likewise In submitting to legislative lin was Informed of this, a foreign duced below appropriations. of the few countries now left In Eu control. office spokesman announced that H it ISPATCHES from Warsaw said D the Poles were aniased and alarmed by the Franco-German agree S P r M I C r P B I Valcov Is Interesting. Valcov, Rdmanla, Is more Russian than Russia. The men all wear full beards and are dressed In long velvet coats buttoned very smartly up the front, while the women In their full skirts nnd heads covered with bright scarfs, make a gay picture. Children are everywhere chewing suqflower seeds, the Russian substitute for gum and peanuts. Valcov Is like a tiny Venice, with Its canals serving ns main thoroughfares through the town. Both In the fisher men's houses nnd In the market places, the traveler always finds at least one lovely Ikon. Entering first an Immense storage building, one sees where the fish are cleaned, sorted, packed In Ice for ship ment to Bucharest and other consum ing centers, nnd smoked or salted for export. There Is a great variety of salt-nnd-fresh water fish. Including some strange Danublan species. At the bnck of the storage house Is a deep cave topped by nn earthen niouqd. where hundreds of tons of Ice, cut from the river and canals tn winter, are stored against the summer hent Crossing the main canal by an arched wooden bridge, which recalls ihe Rialto, the traveler arrives at the Inrge open m arket Here the fisher men bring their dally catch to be sold under the supervision of the state fish eries. They go out In groups of five or six to each sturdy boat made water tight and blackened by tar. The boats set out In time to reach the fishing grounds by daylight; the fishermen say they ninst catch the wary sturgeon while she Is still asleep.
