The Owosso times., 1922-04-07

al. The Illinois mines cannot be Op-
Grated by pickup labor because of .
state law which requires that no coal
digger may be employed unless he can
show at least two years experience
under ground. What Governor Allen
and the Industrial court will do in
Kansas is arOusing general interest.
If the promises of the union heads
are kept, there will be no violence in
connection with the strike. Nor will
the mines suffer physically, for enough
men will be permitted to stay in them
to keep them from being flooded and
otherwise damaged.
NJ IKOLAI LENIN, premier Of soviet
L Russia, is again dead, according
TO reports, but, as on previous occa-
sions, it is believed that the rumor is
greatly exaggerated" Probably 1t is
true that he is quite i'll, and it is not
likely that he will be able to attend
the Genoa conference. However, the
soviet delegates to that confab are
luXuriously on their way to Italy by
way Of Riga and Berlin, rejoicing in
the fact that at last their government
is to have measure of recognition
from the capitalistic and bourgeois
governments they hate so intensely.
They are hopeful of obtaining finan-
cial and commercial assistance for the
task of definitely establishing the
communist regime in Russia, but Lenin
recently declared communism there
had reached the limit Of yielding to
capitalism and was now in a position
again to advance. But he told the
communists they must cease their
dreaming and get to work.
DREMIER LLOYD GEORGES pol
Icy concerning the Genoa confer
ence was to be submitted to the house
Of commons this week for approval or
rejection, and on the result depends
his retention of office. Moreover, it
was said that the small majority that
was assured him on vote Of conf
dence would not satisfy him. Unless
he was given majority of at least
300, asserted his friends, he would re-
sign. The resolution prepared for the
house to act upon read:
Resolved, That this house ap-
proves the resolutions passed by the
supreme council at Cannes as a basis
for the Genoa conference and will sup
port his majesty's government In en-
deavOring to give effect to them"
Already Mr.. Lloyd George had quiet
ed the opposition in his cabinet by the
assurance that he does not intend an
immediate or unconditional recogni-
tion of the soviet government of Rus
sia.
a PPRECIATING the dangerous
a state Of angry unrest throughout
the Mohammedan world, the failure Of
the Greeks to defeat the Kemalists In
Asia Minor and other conditions, the
allies Near East conference In Paris
decided that the Turkish empire
should be restored, with restrictions.
According to the plan adopted, the
Turks obtain Constantinople, a sOver-
eighty throughout Asia Minor, includ-
ing Smyrna and Thrace with RodOsto.
The Greeks retain Adrianople and a
buffer corridor reaching to the Black
sea, fencing off the Bulgarians from
the Turks. Abandonment of the inter-
allied regime Of the Golden Horn and
the restoration Of the sultan's power
Is safeguarded through the British in
sistence that Gallipoli be left to the
Greeks, Dardanelles demilitarized and
the allied military inspectors oversee
the razing of all Notifications.
While the Greeks are not at all sat
isfied with this arrangement, all fac
tions except the Venizelists are sup
porting the Gounaris cabinet In ac-
cepting it. The Turks, however, are
far from pleased and have not yet
agreed to the proposals. Nor have
they accepted the recommendation of
the allied foreign ministers for a set
Element Of their differences with the
Greeks. For this latter the French
are blamed by British officials. They
are warning the Greeks much as did
Lord Byron long ago when he wrote:
-" Turkish force and Latin fraud
Would break your shield. however
broad"