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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4. 1939.
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Balcony Scene Staged in Two Acts RUSSIA REPORTS
Granite State Heading Down
Road of Government Serf
dom Says Big Business.
Concord, N. H., Dec. 4 (JP)
The nation's first application of
big business bookkeeping to
public affairs was described to
day at showing that the Granite
state was heading down the
road of government serfdom
"unless the present trend" in
her economy was checked.
In a report to a commission
studying the state's financial
picture, Author-Journalist Sam
uel Crowther said use of a bal
ance sheet and income account
had shown that in a year (1936)
the state's people became col
lectively poorer, business and
government operated at a loss,
and incomes were distributed
downward.
National Import Seen
Crowther was chairman of
the executive committee of a
state commission authorized by
the legislature, and financed by
contributions from nearly a
dozen corporations and several
individuals.
Declaring many of the results
of the study are "of national
importance," Crowther reported:
"There is no evidence that
the people of New Hampshire
desire socialization, but it seems
evident that, unless the present
trend is checked, we shall have
an economy depending largely
on government ... in which
most certainly onlv a few will
govern and the others will be!
serfs of the state.
"The reply to this trend is not
further government aid to busi
ness and agriculture, for such
aid can only accelerate the so
cializing pace. The only aid
that can check the trend must
be in the direction of freeing
private enterprise from the bur
dens which prevent it from
functioning a, a profit. That is
a plain matter of bookkeeping."
Effects Revealed
The oouble-entry bookkeep
ing approach to the state's prob
lems, he said, had already:
1. Made plain the effect of
government deficits on the peo
ple. (While the federal govern
ment, In 1936, spent $13,352,000
more than it collected in the
state, New Hampshire's share
of the federal tlcbt was estimat
ed in the report at $127,000,000,
or an estimated Increase of
$18,000,000 over 1035.)
2. Disclosed that indirect or
"hidden" taxes amount to at
least 10.8 cents in every dollar
spent by consumers, and direct
taxes to 7.1 cents, a total of
17.9 cents.
3. Brought out that while
the pcople'had saved $13,761,
000, their savings were out
weighed by a net loss of $17,
730,000 by business (including
agriculture), banking and gov
ernment making the people
"poorer by $3,089,000 as a rc
suit of the year's operations."
4. Disclosed the need of ex
amining "the impact of federal
taxes and financing" and of ex
amining social services "in the
light of the ability of the people
to produce enough to furnish
those services in addition to
maintaining their standards of
living."
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Society's Romeo-and-Juliet drama reached the balcony scene in two acts (No. I, left) when
"Romeo" George Lowlher stood outside the Herrick summer home at Wainscolt, L. I., call
ing "Eileen, Eileen". Enter detective, growling: "Move on, you." Later, "Juliet" Eileen Her
rick appeared, (act 2, right) to chat with newsmen from her balcony. Eileen's parents ab
ject to Lowlher'i courtship.
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Navy Has Captured Strate
gic Islands in Gulf of Fin
land Is Soviet Claim.
Mademoiselle of War Song
Eager to Return to Front
By Richard D. McMillan
British United Press Correspondent.
Somewhere In France, Dec. 4. (U.R) I talked today with
"Mademoiselle from Armentieres," now a grandmother who looks
older than her 49 years,
Time has not dealt kindly
with the sprightly brunette I
knew as Marie Lecoq, more
than 20 years ago, when, as a
cafe waitress, she inspired the
greatest of all soldiers' songs of
the World war.
Marie is old now and her
slight body was wracked by
violent coughs the result of
German gas in the great war
as we talked.
Many farm boys make extra
money by trapping, says the
New York State College of Ag
riculture and Home Economics.
Spirit Still Burns
But the spirit that burned so
brightly in petite Marie Lecoq,
the spirit which enabled her to
slap a British general and get
away with it. the spirit which
made her a toast of thousands of
British and American soldiers,
still burns brightly.
The Germans still have an
enemy in "Mademoiselle from
Armentieres," and she is going
back to the front, somehow, to
be near the soldiers she loves.
"Mademoiselle" today is Ma
dame Marecau and her face is
lined with care but she is going
back to Armcntirrcs to be near
her grandson and her grand
daughter and to those "so dear
Tommies, for I love them all."
We chatted in a cafe village
well behind the lines where she
now lives and Miric told me
again how she inspired the fam
ous war song.
Village Shelled
When the world conflict start
ed in 1914 Marie's sweetheart
went to the front and Marie ob
tained work In the Cafe de la
Paix, in the Hue de la Gnre, at
Armentieres.
It was a quiet job. she re
called, until the Tommies came.
And then, in October, 1914.
the Germans broke through and
advanced to within a few miles
of Armentieres.
They began shelling the vil-
CRY ROMAN STUDENTS
BEFORE RED EMBASSY
lage and on Oct. 13 the Cafe
de la Laix was hit.
"But we took our chances)
with the soldiers and we lived i
through it," Grandmother Marie j
said today as she traced little i
patterns on the top of a cafe
table.
Mornings, before the cafe
opened, Marie sold newspapers
to the British troops, and once
got into an argument over
money which caused her to be
taken before a general.
Slapped General
The general made "some re
mark" which Marjc didn't like
and she slapped his face.
"I told him I was a soldier,
too," she said, smiling as she re
called the incident.
Sergeant "Red" Owlands, said
now to be the manager of a
cinema in London, was in Ar
mentieres at the time and like
everybody else heard of the
slapping incident. He was or
ganizing concerts for British
troops and wanted a topical
song.
The original verses of "Made
moiselle from Armentieres"
were written within an hour.
"And it was a very nice song
as it was first written," Grand
mother Marie explained. "But
I've heard," she added modestly.
that some unauthorized ver
sions came along later.
Auto Kills Pedestrian
Roseburg, Dec. 4. (A') Theo
(lore Trulscn, 70, Roseburg, was
killed Saturday night by an aut-
omoniio driven by H. D. Stokes,
St. Louis, Mo., sheriff's deputy
Clifford Thornton reported.
mormon said an examination
showed the elderly man had
walked into the path of the vehicle.
Rome, Dec. 4. (fP) Grena
diers and carabinieri guarded
the Soviet Russian embassy to
day as a throng of students
marched on it to demonstrate
against the Soviet Union.
The students gathered first in
front of the Finnish legation,
where they cheered Finland. It
was the second such demonstra
tion in three days.
Uniformed fascists shouted
anti-Bolshevist slogans in front
of the Soviet embassy for a half
hour before marching to the
Finnish legation for sympathetic
manifestations.
A crowd of about 1,000 be
fore the Finnish lcKation today
cheered Finland and booed Rus
sia.
After the minister's third ap
pearance the youths moved oft
in the direction of the Russian
embassy, shouting "Long live
Finland!" and "Down with Rus
sia, Stalin, Bolshevism!"
By Witt Hancock
Moscow, Dec. 4. OP) Russia
reported today her army was
advancing both in the north and
south against the Finns and her
navy was making sweeping at
tacks in the Baltic and had cap
tured a group of strategic Fin
nish islands in the Gulf of Fin
land. Simultaneously the press at
home denied she intended to
convert Finland into a depen
dent country and attacked "the
democracies, naming Great Bri
tain, France and the ' United
States.
Distrust Eliminated
Pravda, community party or
gan, said editorially the mutual
assistance treaty signed Satur
day between Russia and a communist-led
"people's" regime
"eliminates forever the causes
of mutual distrust and lays the
foundation for a firm and in
destructible friendship." ,
It added: '
"It would be unnecessary to
prove that none of the demo
cratic' powers, let us say Bri
tain, France or the United
States, had ever agreed to sign
a similar pact with such a small
and weak country as Finland.
"Any of the 'democratic'
countries would have preferred
to use their strong armies for
occupation of Finnish territory
and for the conversion of Fin
land into a dependent country.
"The Soviet Union only used
its military power not for the
occupation and enslavery of
Finland but for strengthening
the independence of Finland."
"Glorious" Operation
On the conflict itself the "bat
tlefront" correspondent of the
government newspaper Izvestia
reported:
"The glorious sailors and
artillerists have fulfilled their
duty, having not let a single en
emy bullet fall upon holy Soviet
land or in the streets of Lenin
grad." A Pravda dispatch indicated
a heavy battle near Kronstadt,
Russian naval base, but said
Soviet ships, airplanes and the
army "routed the Finns and the
English who dared to attack our
shores."
There was no elaboration of
the allegation "the English"
took part.
Pravda further told its read
ers: "The Red army goes to Fin
land to help the Finnish peo
ple and its people s government
in their struggle against Messrs.
Tanner and Mannerheim (For
eign Minister Vaino Tanner and
defense chief Field Marshal
Baron Gustaf Mannerheim of
the Helsinki government).
Acts By Invitation
"It acts in Finland on the
invitation of the people's gov
ernment of Finland. It will leave
Finland without delay as soon
as the people's government of
Finland finds it necessary."
The Soviet navy's advances
in the Gulf of Finland were re
ported in an official commun
ique. Units of the Baltic fleet, after
"successful battles," captured
the Gulf of Finland islands of
Suursaari (Hogland), Seiskari.
Lavansaari and Tytaersaari, ac
cording to a communique from
the staff of the Leningrad mili
tary area covering operations of
yesterday.
The communique used the
phrase "small and big" in list
ing Tytaersaari, which would
indicate a smaller Island nearby
bearing the name Pien-Tytaer-
saari also was occupied.
The island group lies along
Russia's line of communication
through the Gulf of Finland into
the Baltic, the nearest of the
group, Seiskari being about 45
miles west of the Soviet Un
ions' island naval base, Kron
stadt. The Leningrad staff com
munique also reported contin
ued advances into Finland,
along her middle eastern border,
and in the Karelian isthmus
north of Leningrad advances
to points 18 to 28 miles within
Finland.
Of operations against the
northern tip of Finland, the
communique merely reported a
"continued advance" in pursuit
of retreating Finnish troops."
"In view of bad weather no
aerial operations took place"
the communique said.
THWEST HOP.
LAYS FOUNDATION
FOR UNITED FRONT
Leaders Adopt Plan For Co
operation Among Nation
al Convention Delegates;
Spokane, Dec. 4. (IP) Re
publican leaders of the north
west, determined to present a
united front when candidates
and platforms are talked in
1940, scattered to their homes
in five states today to tell the
party's faithful how the union
was to be accomplished.
More than 200, here from
Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Ore
gon and Washington, closed a
two-day regional party confer
ence yesterday with the adop
tion of a plan for cooperation
among their national conven
tion delegates.
The plan was this:
The delegates, when elected,
were to meet and make a chair
man and secretary. These lead
ers then would confer with the
Idaho national committeeman
on a northwestern program to
be nurtureu at the convention.
Hit Park Creation
The five-sta'te union of dele
gates will find two regional
matters already decided upon.
The conference, from county
chairmen to national committee
men and women, struck unani
mously at park creation and
treaty writing by the federal
government and hinted at a
labor policy.
N. C. Balbridge of Parma, for
mer governor of Idaho and head
of the conference resolutions
committee, said a rule-of-meet-ing
against controversial sub
jects was all that kept his group
from offering a resolution "ex
pressing a hope for labor
peace."
A four-point resolution rec
ommended that the reciprocal
trade treaty act of 1934 "be not
renewed" when it expired next
June; that present treaties be
terminated "at the earliest pos
sible moment"; that the power
to regulate imports be returned
to congress, and that future im
port duties should equalize the
difference between domestic
and foreign production costs.
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REBEL PRINCESS
London, Dec. 4. (P) King
George VI today ordered two
weeks of court mourning for
Princess Louise, Duchess of
Argyll, 91-year old "rebel prin
cess of the British royal fam
ily, who died yesterday.
The eldest of three surviving
children of Queen Victoria and
a great-aunt of King George VI,
she was called the "rebel prin
cess" because she defied Strict
royal conventions of her time.
She was the first English
princess whose marriage to a
commoner was sanctioned since
the rule of Henry VII, which
ended in 1509. She married the
Marquess of Lome, later the
Ninth Duke of Argyll, in 1871.
He died in 1914.
Ten pounds of starch can b
obtained from a bushel of sweet
potatoes which have a fairly
high starch content.
The Morning AfterTaking
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Chicago, Dec. 4. (IP) A sil-1
ver award in the name of Presi-1
dent Roosevelt and a . $300 1
scholarship from the national j
committee of boys' and girls' j
club work were presented yes- j
terday to Robert Summers, 18,
of New Berlin, 111., and Dorothy j
L. Lippert, 19, of Bertha, Minn., 1
as they were proclaimed the
1939 4-H achievement champ- j
ions.
Two first alternates and two
second alternates were also
named as the national 4-H club
congress. Second alternates in
cluded Jacqueline Morton of
Cottage Grove, Ore.
The first to distinguish be
tween sensory and motor nerves
was Erasistraus, a great phy
sician of the Third Century,
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