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
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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
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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.