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The New York herald., 1922-08-03

Special Cable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1922. by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau.
London. Aug. 2.
The London newspapers this morning
are divided, as might be expected, in
their opinion on the note of the Earl
of Balfour advocating the cancellation
of'interallied debts. The Times trembles
as to its effect on America. and the
Morning Post castigates the Govern
ment as usual. The Wee Free Liberal
NeWs is glad that France has been
brought face to face with facts. but the
Westminster Gdsette, likewise Wee
Free organ. says that the Government
has chosen the wrong method to get
the desired results from America.
The Express says the public will sup
port the Governments move as whole
and adds that il Is unfair that Great
Britain should be asked to pay 5 per
cent. when America can finance her own
needs with 21a per cent. Even the
pro-Government Chronicle, while laud-
ing The Earl of Balfour's note declaring
1t only asks Europe to pay Great Brit
ain five shillings on the pound while
Great Britain pays America 90 ques-
tions whether an ideal settlement can
be reached without America.
The Times says: while the note is
states it amounts to an indirect inti-
nation that If the United States won't
cancel our debt we must require our
European debtors to pay amounts equiv
alent to that debt and we will be unable
| to deal as generously as we might wish
with Germany, In effect. therefore, the
note is aimed quite as much at Ameri-
can public opinion as at opinion in Eu-
rope. Whether the policy 1t suggests
proves in practice sound or unsound,
wise or unwise, must in large measure
depend on the effect produced in Amer
lea. Our Paris message shows that the
reports that the note was about to be
issued caused dismay."
1 The Express. which is now engaged in
a bitter circulation struggle with Lord
Northcliffes Mail and the Government
Chronicle. says: 'As far as a mora
torium on the payment of German repa-
rations lis concerned, France already en-
| joys a moratorium at British hands,
since she pays no interest on her debt TO
US. That we will pay the United States
in full. of course is beyond all question.
But another question arises in con-
nection with the payment. The Amer
fcan Government proposes to fund the
debt over a period of twenty-five years
| with per cent. interest paid by Great
| Britain. This does not seem a fair finan-
cial proposition from our standpoint
The United States can raise money for
her own internal purposes and credit
at 2ia per cent. and there seems nc
reason why the funded British debt
should be charged interest at a double
rate
The Gazette declares that America
once more has been made the arbiter OF
| the economic fortunes of Europe. and
adds Very likely the necessity for \
universal cancellation of all forms OF
international Indebtedness is as plain 10
L Washington as to ourselves. but the
Washington Government has the Amer
lean public to consider"
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
BRITAIN TO USE DEBT
AS CLUB ON FRANCE
Continued from First Page.

German competition, political agents re- |
port that the bulk of the electors upon |
whose opinion Mr. Lloyd Georges power |
rests are not thinking so much about |
that as about the five ehillings pound |
income tax which they are forced to pay
The discomfort over the high taxation
and the propaganda asking what the
new land acquired as the result of the
war-Mesopotamia and Palestine. for
instance--cost the Government were
proving such pressing political factors
that Mr.. Lloyd Georges most astute
political advisers insisted that he must
make q gesture toward saving the tax
payers money
AS far as Premier Poincare is con-
cerned Downing Street reads the entire
tenor of his policy as seeking to secure
further cash for France. 1T is feared
that he might come TO London and try
to substitute British for German cash,
which Great Britain is now convinced
Germany cannot supply. Hence the re-
minder that as far as supplying cash 70
France is concerned Great Britain
would like to see the color of little
of the money France owes Great Britain.
In discussing this phase Oh the Situd-
| tion well informed official told THE
| NEW YORK HERALD correspondent to-
night that this ought to be read as an
agreement with the United States ather
than as differing with her. This official
| says that the Cabinet fully appreciates
the fact that America will not come to
Europe's aid unit the dog fight' poll
cies are abandoned here.
There is no intention OF seeking or
| asking the cancellation of the debt to
1 America, but rather an intention Of re-.
minding the continental nations, par
| ticularly France. that as long as Eu-
I ropean finance rests on astronomical
! figures there is little chance Of Amer
| lea coming in to give relief and aid
The. newspapers generally give great
prominence to dispatches from Washing
ton quoting statements of Senators Nc
Cumber Watson and Hitchcock against
cancellation of debts. The usually in
| spired Pail M1u Gazette says that 1T
is felt in London official circles that
the progress in the conversations of they
Premiers in London next week Will beS
considerably assisted by the publication
of the British note. The note is re-
garded as a strong reaffirmation OF our
intention TO meet Americas request for
payment. which in no way conveys the
suggestion that we are desirous. for
America to cancel or remit any portion
OF our Indebtedness"
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

don consequently must be confined, the
French say. to the consideration OF such
immediate questions as financial control
and the possibility OF direct payments
from German state mines and forests 10
the Allies.
Some newspapers like the sLtberte de-
clare tonight that the note9renders the
conference absolutely useless If not dan
gerous. and that the note justifes inde-
pendent action by France
The Temps says that the British at
titude' simply obliges France more than
ever to recover from Germany the money
which the British demand OF her, 5ad-
hitting that it would be, on the United
States that the fentire burden OF the
British Moposition would fall. IT adds
that TO arouse such generosity on the
part Of America the British had better
first give an example OF generosity
themselves, and says the British note
furnishes no example of such generosity
The Journal des Debdts regrets that
fhe British appeal to the United States
for debt cancellation should have been
rlade just before the approaching cleo
tons. when, 1t says, the party in power
does not possess full liberty of move
ment Ii declares the appeal makes inn
Iossible any settlement of the repara-
tons question, as the British cannot de-
rland sacrifices fromx France at mo-
rent whom they are Invoking the atti-
iude OF the United States as an excuse
for not making sacrifices themselves.
The more acute political writer's read
in the note the intention Of Lloyd George
10 have a powerful weapon in his hands
with which to meet Poincare next Mon
day when the French Premier is ex
pected to propose a policy entirely
counter to that favored in Downing
street
In semi-official quarters the note Is
regarded as trial balloon, with tha
intent to place the responsibility for
solution of the debt question souarely
upon the shoulders OF the United States.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03


was expressed that this issue would not
be decided prior TO the discussion be-
tween Premier Lloyd George = and
Premier Poincare In London.
"Doctoring on symptoms is useless
and senseless," was the opinion ex-
pressed to-day by DIR. Hermes, discuss
ing Germany's financial ills. lie said
that only by a moratorium and an in
ternational loan could Germany coordi-
nate her chaotic currency and balance
her budget.
big stick policies are bad medicine
to cure economic ailments" the Minister
addedy
DR.. Hermes asserted that the fall in
the mark. with its rNnous effects. was
an urgent warning. y was his opinion
that 1t was impossible to think that
efforts were being made to drive Ger
manys economic structure into collapse.
since owing TO her normal economic
connections with various people the con-
sequences would be incalculable.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

Special cable to THE NEW York HEaALD.
copDri6Jlt, fsea. oy THE New< York HERALD.
New York Herald Bnrean.
st8 ~ Berlin, Aug. 2.
The German Government will not
admit that the note sent by Premier
Roincare Of France relative to the pay
ment OF f2.00o.000 on account OF pre-
war civil debts incurred by German
nationals dealing with the citizens of
the allied countries. partdkes of the ma
ture OF an ultimatum, and probably will
make no response to the threat Of sane
tions being enforced. Moreover the
Government IL not trying to check the
decline OF the mark.
The Germans regard the abruptness OF
NJ. Poincare's demands as due less to
French anxiety over Germany's. next
payment than to NJ. Poincare's desire
to create political situation such that
the French can point to Germany's fall
ure to fulfill her obligations in order to
induce Mr.. Lloyd George to approve more
vigorous action on the part Of all the
Allies against the former enemy. It is
believed that in return the French would
leave the British with a free hand in
the Near East
Berlin Points to Marks Fall. :.
In official quarters 1t is felt that the
material depreciation of the mark jusu-
fies Germany In seeking a revision OF
her reparations and other payments to
the Allies, and that 'Germany's position
Is legal In refusing to submit to the
French ultimatum because III lacks the
approval of the combined Allies. The di-
vergence of view in France and Great
Britain relative to reparations is noted
and Berlin will make no concessions un-
less confronted with united demand by
all the Allies.
1t is unlikely, therefore. that Ger
many will change its stand before the
Lloyd George Poincare conference In
London. The spectacular fall of the
mark, which in two days has dropped
nearly as far as in the last two years,
is symptomatic Of Germany's precari-
Gus financial position. Until the late
crisis. slumps of the mark were con-
trolled. largely within. Germany. Some
times the banks and the manufacturers
contributed to the depreciation. when
the costs of production threatened to
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
FRANCE HOLDS DEBT NOTE
MEANS PREPARATIONS STAND
Sees No Hope of Settlement and Refuses to Put Blame
On United States Cites Britain's Territorial
Gains in War;

Special Cable 10 THE NEw YonK HERALD.
Copyright, 1879, bv THE NEW YoRK HERALp.
New York Herald Bureau.
Paris, Aug. e.J
The purpose of the Earl OF Balfour's
note on inter-allied debts has had an
almost catastrophe effect upon the
Continent. Apparently no inkling OF its
argument had reached the continental
capitals in advance and to-day the eff
feet was instantaneously TO cause gem
eral depression and dismay.
There is now no chance in the opinion
OF the French of any general settle
ment coming out of the proposed Lon
don conference such hoped for alllevi-
alton seems to have been postponed for
many months by the British note. Mean
while the danger grows OF Germany and
Austria rushing to a new debacle at an
even swifter pace than In the past.
Until the note came French states
men had nursed the hope that the Brit
ish were prepared In the London CONVEX
sations 10 separate the Continental and
the American debt question and to dis
cuss partial or complete cancellation of
French indebtedness. as an example to
the United States. in return for a re-
duction in the indemnity demands made
of Germany. On this basis. Poincare
was ready to negotiate.
To-day 1t was strongly and emphatic
ally asserted at the French Foreign
Once that the Balfour note made it
impossible for France to consider at
London any alteration In the present
total demanded of Germany
nor anything but the briefest German
While the British may seek TO put
all this on the shoulders Of the United
States the French do not and are point
ing out that the Balfour note utterly ig-
nores the tremendous territorial and
inundated benefits which the British de-
rived from the war, compared not only
with the devastated countries but also
with America. The discussion at Lon
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Know Nothing OF Mora torium.

BERLIN. Aug. (Associated Press) -
While Chancellor Wirth and DR.. An
dreas Hermes. Minister OF Finance. to-
day discussed reparations and clearing
payments with the chiefs Of the Minis
tries of Finance and Economies, In Of
ficial quarters 1t was denied that there
was any definite information concerning
a moratorium for Germany Tho belief
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
MOSCOW DENIES VODKA SALE.

LONDON, Aug. 2.-The Russian trade
delegation stated to-day 1t had been
authorized to say that the recent report
from Moscow that the Soviet Govern
ment was preparing 10 authorize the sale
of vodka was IN pure invention"
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
GERMANY TO IGNORE
POINCARE'S THREATS
Won't Admit His Demand for
Paying Pre-War Debts in
Ultimatum.
LACKS ALLIED SANCTION
Government Makes No Effort
to Check Continual Fall
~sof Mark.Sg
LACKS ALLIED SANCTION

Special Gable to THE NEW York HRRALD.
coptri6jlt, 1872, by THE sNrw< YORK HERALD.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
BERLIN-MosCow IN ONE FLIGHT

Moscow, Ang "a Junkers airplane.
piotcd by Herr Cote. accompanied by
mechanic and one passenger. yester-
Gay completed the first nonstop flight
from Berlin to Moscow. distance OF
1880 miles. The journey occupied &c
hours and 40 minutes at an average
speed Of 10 miles an hour.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
LONDON FEARS u. S.
REACTION TO NOTE
Press DiUided on Its Wisdom
and AUait Results.

Special Cable to THE NEW York HERALD.
Copyright, 1899. by THE New York HERALD.
New York Herald Bureau,
London. AuC, 2.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03

force prices above the level Of outside
markets.
The Government through imitation also
furthered depreciation, but IL had
safety valve. In the cIsis last year the
Reichsbank, by dumping foreign curreh-
cies into the home market. was enapieo
70 avoid an abrupt break in exchange.
But during the slump which set " ABOUT
the middle OF last month the helchs-
bank,s efforts proved ineffective. in spite
OF the fact that hundreds OF millions OF
gold marks were spent. In the last two
crises, particularly, the latest. hasty safes
by holders Of marks abroad sent the
mark lower in New York than in Berlin
at first.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
Business Hit Hard.

The Reichsbank is now not dumping
foreign currency in any futile eHort ~
check the decline. Business menSauihi.
that they are overwhelmed The slump
OF the mark is bound to cause discon-
certing complications In purchases Oh
material and new wage demands.
Already three~of the largest manutac-
turers, among them the Krupps and
Hugo SHINES. have placed several large
short time loans in Holland recently.
They calculated that the mark would
remain about 500 TO the dollar, and are
now embarrassed by the thought or
prospective repayment. Although large
firms have momentarily foreign credits
sufficient to weather the storm. many
smaller concerns are going into bank
ruptcy. The same situation confronts
those firms which sold short.
There Is some talk of closing the
Stock Exchange temporarily to stop
SPECULATION. 1t Is suggested that a
course similar to that taken by Vienna.
which closed the exchange market to-
Cay, would be the wise one TO pursue
but the Government has not acted.
1t Is significant that the Government
is buying no foreign exchange, ordi-
narily necessary TO meet reparation
payments and also that indications all
roint 10 the belief that Chancellor Wirth
has decided to take a stand against
further payments in gold to the Allies
until both q moratorium and loan are
granted.
The New York herald., 1922-08-03
ITALIAN GETS 80 YEARS
FOR MURDER OF KABER
Confesses in NatiUe Land He
Killed CleUeland Man.

cAMpoBAsso. Italy, Aug 2 (Asso-
ciated Press) .--venturino di Scenzo.
convicted Of the murder of Daniel
Kaber. the Cleveland publisher. was
condemned to-day TO thirty years i'm
prisonment at hard labor. He confessed
killing Kaber. but exhibited great con-
fusion in trying to remember the par
ticulArs.
Crown Prosecutor NPilolli asked the
court to apply the extreme punishment
to the defendant, who by committing the
crime abroad. he declared, prejudiced
foreigners against the good name of
thousands OF his honest compatriots
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Aug. 2.-Vittorio
al Scenzo, known here as Vittorio Pts
selli, is the third person to be con-
victed Of participation In the murder of.
Daniel Kaber. the invalid publisher. in
the Kaber home on the night Of July Is,
1919.
He was named as the actual slayer by
Salvatore Gala. now serving life SEN
tence in the Ohio Penitentiry for the
part he played in the murder plot. Mrs.
Catherine Kaber widow OF the slain
man, is serving a life sentence In the
Marysville (Ohio) Reformatory, having
been convicted after sensational trial
OF planning the stabbing to death Of her
husband.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02
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Mrs. J. w. Fay returned to her
home Friday, from Rigby, after visit
ing at the home of her daughter for
few days.
Glenn Mcdonald has returned from
California, where he attended school
during the winter He will spend the
summer at the home OF his mother.
Miss Edna Fay left Friday for Rig
by to visit for an indefinite time with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. Sam Kirk left for Smithfield,
Utah, Friday, where she will remain
for the summer at the home of her
mother.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Arvish visited
with Mr.. and Mrs. Addie Tressel on
Sunday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Johnson
were entertained at lunch Wednesday
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. w.
Fay. Mr.. and Mrs. Johnson are leav-
ing for the hills to remain this sum-
NOR.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil Terrell and
daughters, visited with Mr.. and Mrs
Ben Arvish, Tuesday evening.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02

months. Surely nothing is more i'm
portant, nothing more clearly points
to the necessity of the government
commanding space in the newspapers
to educate the people, especially in
the rural districts, in matters affect
ing the public health. The anti-pro-
hibitionists have held as their trump
card of opposition to enforcement of
the Volstead act and the fact that
drug addicts have increased as drunk
ards have decreased. With the drug
addict cure and habit-forming drugs
under government control, prohibition
will have a fair chance to demon
strate its beneficial effect on the hu-
man race, at least as applied to Am
erica. DR.. Copeland is practical
man in every sense of the word, and
of educational work by the govern
ment municipal state and nation
alike Not more than a week ago DIR.
Copeland made the fiat assertion that
measles could be absolutely wiped out
of America forever in forty-eight
hours if all cases were properly $50
lated. The only reason this disease
has not already been killed forever
is that the people do not understand
how easy 1t is to master. 1t is fair
assertion that If the government
would educate the people in matters
medical that the death rate in the
United States could be lowered at
least ten per cent This should ar
rest the attention of our Congress-
men, even from the standpoint of eco
nomic saving, If not from its human
itarian angle, and it may when a num-
Der Of our national legislators take a
sufficient time off from rolling the
pork barrel to think of the people
they are supposed to serve. We will
get some action.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02

A dancing party was given in the
Second Ward Amusement Hall Mon
day evening in honor Of Mr.. and Mrs.
P. L. Polk, who left Thursday by mo-
tor for California, where they xpect
to make their home, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. G. Proctor, who expect to spend
the summer in Portland. The hall
was beautifully decorated with lilacs.
Music was furnished by Barriers Or
chestra and dancing was enjoyed until
a late hour, when the guests W ere
welcomed at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Clark and very delicious re-
freshments were served. Those pres
ent were: Mr.. and Mrs. j. T. Carruth.
DR.. and Mrs. w. w. Beck, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Stone, Mr.. and Mrs. E. l..
Egli, Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Clarke, Mr..
and Mrs. F. M. Fisher, Judge and Mrs.
J. H. Andersen, DR.. and Mrs. r. o.
Young, Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Davis,
Mr.. and Mrs. James Johnston, Mr..
and Mrs. Mark Farmer of Firth, Mr..
and Mrs. R. L. Osborn, Mrs. Elmo
Moore and A. Weston.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02
FARM WANTED-Wanted to hear
from owner of farm for sale, for
fall delivery. Give lowest price. L.
Jones, Box 81, Olney, Ill. 81 1t I'D
"Why SouthpaWs."

The word "southpaw," used fire.
Quently in the course of references to
baseball games, is bit Of slang which
which has crept into the language dur
Ing the last few years-a cOlloquialism
which has behind it rather more of a
logical pedigree than most slang words
can claim.
That the batter may not have to
face the rays of the setting sun at
any time Of the year, baseball dia-
mond is usually laid out so that the
batters box faces due east. The
pitcher, therefore, faces westward,
while his right hand is toward the
north and his left hand Is toward the
south. AS the majority Of pitchers
are right-handed, it was only natural
that an exception to this rule shoul d
be singled out for a certain specific
title-and the name "sOuthpaw" was
adopted on account of the usual
points Of the compass in connection
with the diamond itself The eccep
tricities of Rube, Waddell and Other
'.s.sonthpaws.. have, ',aasde the name
synonymous Witllv'erlTtic, so far as
baseball language is concerned,
though there is no medical support for
the theory that left-handed persons
are more peculiar than those who use
their right hands.
The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-06-02
BOSTON GIVES Us
A NEW SENSATION.

Versed in forest lore and determin-
has nothing on the modern flapper
and her male companion, we hear
that a young Boston couple propose
to make a dash into the woods Of
Maine without food or clothing and
there dwell for period of six weeks
wrestling their sustenance from Mo-
Their Earth. Boston has given to the
world many thrill from the day of
the famous tea party to this year of
our Lord, but this latest demonstra-
ton of the unique caps the climax.
Still, the experiment may not be with
out its value. If the young couple
the young wife is twenty-three :.nd
her husband twenty seven-manage
to get along in their battle with ma
ture, it may bring them greater
spirit of contentment in that it may
teach them how little they really need
in this world and make them more
| pliable to the eXactionS of the shoe
trust, which has pinched the toes OF
New England and the pOcketboOks OF
the whole nation for a good many
years. The spot chosen for the ex-
pertinent is one uninhabited by man
though reports have it as infested
with wild beasts, and of course by the
terrifying mosquito, which may prove
the greatest obstacle to be overcome
When all is said and done, however
it would be more important if some
one could demonstrate how young
couple can live in civilized surround
ing on a modest wage and raise q
healthy American family without
turning the young wife into drudge
and the young husband into slavish
sycophant dashed into obedience and
Slapped of all initiative because OF
dread Of the future and the possible
loss of a Job.