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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 27, 1930 LANGUAGE ROW I CROWS SERIOUS I Belgian Unity Celebration Is Clouded by Disagreement Reports Indicate By EDWARD TJtAUS Associated Press Correspondent GHENT. Belgium. (AP) At the very moment when Belgium Is I preparing to celebrate the first. centenary of Its political Indepea 1 dene by a doable International fair at Antwerp and Liege, the capitals of the Flemish and vval- " loon prorinces. the language Ques tion las come to the foreground with a dangerous acuteness. Both Trench and Flemish are . recognised by the Belgian consti tution as 'national' languages. French was nationalized irnen the Belgian prorinces separated from The Netherlands fn 1839 be cause the Flemish language iras used by the then Dutch "oppres sors. It was adopted, especially by the Intelligentsia who always - considered French the language of the "smart" or "educated" peo ple In opposition to the Flemish dialects used by the peasants and artisans. In the course of years, this led to a social split among the Flem ings themselres and It may thns rightly be said that the linguistic Question was originally a social problem. The Flemish extremists, in fact. are not waging war on the French language as such, but "betrayed by the gorernlng classes of the Flemish population" as they say, "who favored the French language rather than their own." they ask recognition of their native lan guage in all official departments as well as In the army and In the schools, from the primary grades up through the nnlTersities. They want Flemish to be the only offi cial language in all French pro- Tineas. Oaring the war. readily sup ported by the German occupiers who were prompt to discover the political possibilities of the lan guage dispute, the Flemish ex- tremist leaders made a definite bid in behalf of their "disregard ed rights." Under the guidance of the Germans, these, extremists set up an independent government called the "Council of Flanders." and they might hare gone farther and proclaimed a Free Flanders, republic or kingdom, had not the armistice stopped short this "sep aratist movement." The responsible extremist lead era led for their lires, either to Germany or to Holland and all of them .wsre subsequently con demned, either to death or to life sentences by the Belgian govern ment after the war. , Still, the linguistic Question re mained unsolved. It was taken up again, about three years ago, by other Flemish leaders whose loyalty to Belgium was mnehal lenged. They obtained, in behalf of most of the "traitors" n polit ical amnesty of which some-of them availed themselves to start afresh a campaign on behalf of an "independent" Flanders. These extremists succeeded in winning eleven seats from the loyalist Flemings in the parlia mentary elections, and their group, headed by Mr. Tos and sup ported by the only communist in the House of Deputies, has brought about a rather serious po litical situation. Th moderate Flemings under the leadership of Burgomaster Van Lauwelaert of Antwerp, are trying to persuade the govern ment to take the wind out of the extremists' satis by conceding their main claim, which is the complete Fleminglzation of Ghent university, which they consider as the Walloon stronghold. But, most of the , enlightened Flemings, supported by the whole French speaking part of the pop ulation, are opposed to such a change in this center of Latin cul ture . They have offered instead to create an entirely new eianUsh university, either at Antwerp -or Ghent, In order to meet the wish es of the Flemish leaders And make it possible for those who wish to do so, to- follow the com plete courses of a university in the Flemish language. All exist ing universities in Belgium Brussels, Louvain, Liege, .and Ghent are French Institutions. To this proposal, however, the French leaders object, for reasons of sentiment and prestige.' This gives the linguistic qtiesttea its I political, touch, as the right nas centered upon transformation of the university ot Ghent and the special technical schools annexed to it, into an exclusive Flemish institution. The Flemish extremists threat en to interfere by diarort rations, obstruction tnTTevenr more drastic means, with this year's celebration of Belgium's independence, un less Ghent university is handd over to them unconditionally. RUINS OF FACTORY WHERE TEN PERISHED . 1 m s - ' -. J -, . '- t , 1 i L 1 J - J . i it - ' - r -3k. I V s 7 Jforkera, reporters. and fin officials fnspectlmg the rains of the Pennsylvania Fireworks Com pany factory at Devon. Pa-, after ll waa ruiaed t by,explosion that i took tofl of ten Uvea. Over eighty were Injured b the disaster. Blasts vera sward over thirtr miles awav. 10,000 Wild Horses Are Ranging Southeastern Oregon Asserts Official inDTiEinixi piminc IIUIllI lUIfiL. ULUUUU Dr. W. H. Lytle. state veterin arian, said that Oregon has at least 10.6 do wild horses with nearly all of them In the south eastern section of the state. Lytle said that the actual wild- horse eensus of the western states will sever be taken and that only es timates can bo made. The most satisfactory way to make an estimate, he said, ts to count the wild horses seen la known areas in various districts, then determine the average num ber per flouare mile, multiplying this by the grating area, Lytle explained. The method, while considered the most nearly ac curate. It obviously liablo to er ror in counting stealthy and tim id animals. California officials in this man ner estimated about 7.0 8 deer in the 8tajdlaus National forest. but when it became necessary to kill these animals five years ago because of hoof and mouth dis ease there proved to bo more than Z6.O0O. This is likely to be true of the wild horses. It is believed. however, that there are at least 10,te wild horses in southeast ern Oregon, li.OwO in northern Nevada, , in Washington, ,- Qua in Idaho and 12,90t in Mon tana. There is a arowina demand. Ly tle aaid, that worthless wild horses ho disposed of, since they eat or destroy much of the fine grass in the western states. It is estimated that one horse oats one and one fourth times 'as much grass as a cow and six times as much as sheep. Because they can go much farther to water than either sheet or cattle they eat the trass away froht those ani mals, ordinarily the grass would be used as cured winter feed when snow water would bo available. Some atoexmen hare suggested bombing airplanes bo used to get rid. of the horses is certain dis tricts particularly the Tuacorora mountains In Nevada where tt Is almost impossible to get ithem otherwise. Their Idea, Irowever, is not actually to slaughter tho ani mals by bombs but to frighten them out of the mountains and Into country where they can bo killed by more humane methods or told to horse meat exracerns. The demand for horses by moat concerns Is ouch that they doubt less would buy the animals should it prove possible to round them1 up.' In event of the round up for this purpose the animals would help for, four days to give anyone opportunity to prove ownership. If ownership was not proven the Money would be paid by the pur chasers to the persons rounding' them up. It was hoped by the Oregon range stockmen that denrino In fection would bo diagnosed in some ot Oregon's wild horses so they would be ordered killed. But v far all blood test samples sub mitted by officials to Washington hare been free from the infection. Dourine a social disease preva lent among animals. Wo guarantee satisfactory car rier service. If your paper is not delivered early nnd correctly, phone 609. IV BATTLE FIRES AMHERST. Mass. (AP) Ar tificial clouds may now be used to reduce forest fire hazards. The experts of the Northeastern Forest Experiment station, with headouartere at Massachusetts Agricultural college here, bar found that any reduction in etrn ahiae intensity -reduces the fire hazard and by using cloth screens of various thicknesses artificial degrees of cloudiness ean be pro duced. Paul W. Stfckel of the United States forest service, attached to the station, has been conducting experiments at the Harvard for est at Petersham. Tests made ih white pine duff tho needles and litter on the ground In a white nine forest showed that the rate at which the duff dries xut is dependent on annshine intensity.- Measurements made of the moisture content, solar radiation Intensity and relative humidity of the various stations showed that fully exposed duff was consist ently drier than that of the shad ed areas and the degree of hazard under the cloudiest area was least. For predicting tire) hazards, Mr.. sucnei explained that by sum marizing the average cloudiness since the last rainfall a better de termination of its effect on the re duction of fire hazard was possible. These studies: also Indicated thai role played by ground vegetation in reducing the danger from fire and the Importance of getting cut over lands etothed with erowth as early aa possible. HI nnrmrn DtU ip IlkbliDl By BOilY MS GENEVA (AP) Use of the family allowance , system in France and Belgium has sub stantially increased the birth rate among workers . receiving - this aid, the International Labor Office has found. Nearly five million workers are affected in these two countries. Under the scheme, supplementary wages are paid to fathers, I the amount being graded" according to the number of children. - The plan came into being In almost ell of Europe immediately after the war. it was regarded In some countries as a temporary ' expedient to prevent serious pri . vaslon during reconstntetton. - In Central Europe the system declined id Importance when con ditions became more stable, but is still retained for civil - service . - employees and coal miners In France nnd Belgium the system has developed steadily. The plan' has been widely, die- enssssr in Great Britain nnd has teen Adopted for certain classes of -workers in New Sealaad and -Australia. is- -. , . . 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Known as the "Grand Desseln (Great Project), its authors de scribed It as "Laws and statutes calculated to cement the union of all th members and -to main tain amongst them, order once established, mntual assurances and reciprocity as regards rellg- Kn and polities, for the liberty of commerce. Europe was to be divided Into fifteen principal states, each to send representatives to a council in some central city, bat not a capital There the delegates were to be "constantly assembled as a. senate to deliberate on affairs as they arose, to occupy themselres with discussing different Inter ests, to pacify quarrels, to throw light upon and oversee the cirri, political and religious affairs of Europe, whether in tern ad or for eign." The decisions of this council were to have "the foree of Irrev ocable and unchangeable decrees as being considered to emanate tnm the united authority, of all he sovereigns." The first task In bringing about this mueh to be desired state of things, was to be a war on Aus tria, tor only when that kingdom had been split up. It was expected, would general peace prevail. Queen Elizabeth of England was in favor ot the plan. Sully, Henry IV's minister, wrote from London: X found her keenly occupied, with the meang of .bringing this plan to success . . . and she ap peared to me not to doubt that the plan could be carried through, successfully, hut she, wished, however, it could be done with out recourse to arms in the first place. The assassin's knife was the end ot Henry's life and his pro ject. The seed had been sown, how- GIVEN ACADEMIC HONORS j ' o 5!fH N!!afh J- FlK,jJ!ianr (center). With the two distinguished guests of the university upon whom were ,!5 J??1actIlnsi action ean award. M. Paul dandol (left), French Ambassador to the United States, received an honorary degree in recognition of his diplomatic attain ments. Maestro Arture Toseanini (right) was honored with a degree In recognition of his nigh attainments In the realm of music Be Is n wotid-iamed symphony orchestra conductor ever, and in 1653 the scholars and diplomats ot Europe were dis-! cussing a scheme put forward by another' Frenchman, Emeric Cruce, which was really only a slight modification of the Great Project but extended it to Asia. Grace makes a criticism ot hts own plan which has a very mod ern, ring about it: "Suppose that peace Is signed today, nnd that tt is published to the whole world, how do we know that posterity will ratify the arti cles!" Cruce foreshadowed a sys tem of reprisals so that the ma jority of opinion should prevail. Charles, Duke of Lorraine, In 1688, again tackled the problem. He proposed a council of 1 3 mem bers, meeting once a week. Each of the 13 countries who were to own Europe was to maintain a member at this council for at least n Tear ,-; America first neeamo promin ent In the endeavor to heln En rope travel the paths f peace in Kit, when William Penn ? con tributed an "Essay Toward the European Dyet, Parliament or Estates." His International as sembly was to bo composed ot St members, and their voting power was to.be calculated on ths es timated yearly value of the sev eral sovereign -countries. The kind-hearted Quaker felt aura that an effective get-together plan would unite Europe in brotherly love and banish cruel war. Abb st. Pierr. a French priest, in 1740, proposed a union of kings of Europe. "That sover eign who shall take np arms be fore the union has declared war shall be declared an enemy of the union .and it shall make war on him until he be disarmed is his way of dealing with n ruler who refuses to abide by common rules. The council was to have 24 members and sit in a specially created town to be known as the "City of Peace." Jean Jacques Rousseau, whoso teachings did so much to bring about . the French Revolution, contributed a not very convincing essay on th "Union of the United States of Europe." As in most ot bis writings, the innate goodness of man was to work the miracle of peace. Immanuel Kant, th great Ger man philosopher, at the age of 71 brought forward a plan for a "Permanent Congress of Nations." He foresaw the republican form ot government in every state as the main hope of salvation and peace for the United States of turope. Oakand" "Pontiac" CaMplete Service Authorized Fisher Body Service Station All body repairs and aeniee taken care of by experienced men trained for thia work at Fisher Body School, Oakland California. Duco Painting, Glass Re placement, Fender and Body Repair, Seat Covers and Up holstering. Mechanical Repair. Wood - Wheaton Motor Co. 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