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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
TOURISTS
TURNING To
CANES
shopkeepers in French Capt.
tai Have 5eWiIdering Assert
.aents for Male Visitors
- ALICE LANGELIER,
international News Service

PARIS, Sept s.-If every woman
ElAat comes to Paris buys a hat, 1t
IL just as true that her husband
first purchase Is a cane.
Paris shopkeepers are we'll aware
OF the fact and this year have
more than doubled their displays
Of fine and curious walking sticks,
even putting them in gay arrays
along the sidewalks before their
little shops. There are canes for
every taste, dark ones and light
ones. heavy and medium-weight.
dressy and sporty ones for the
races.
Malacca is the favor1te wood,
pale and glossy in mellow tones,
sometimes plain and sometimes
mottled. AS it is often too expen-
siye for the younger set there are
canes with the real Malacca only
two-thirds Of the length and the
remainder in imitation. Curved
handles are the most favored. Very
handsome ones come with ivory
tops and chased silver bands. Curl
Gus ends come in the shape Of
ones particular pet, be it horse
or q hound.
For more formal wear, there are
straight sticks of snakewood with
Q knob Of malachite or onyx. SINH
lar to the handle Of q golf stick.
Ebony and dark woods that look
like It, are practical because they
are smart for any and every occa.
sion. These canes are usually
straight with only knob to finish
OF and whether 1t be q simple
finish with q silver band or q dar-
Ing gold head, all depends on the
taste of the gentleman-chooser, and
perhaps the pocket-book as well.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
BOSTON RUM PRICES DROP
AS SUPPLY FLOODS CITY

BOSTON, Sept. 9.-With the Hub
flooded with liquor, prices Of
booze" have taken q downward
trend. Large quantities Of liquor
are being landed in Boston and
ether strategic shore points from
fleet of eight rum.running
schooners now off the Massachu-
sets coast
In spite Of the constant night
and day watch the rum-runners
have evolved a means Of transport
ing hundreds of cases of contra
band to Boston In a weeks time.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
MAN AFTER "GAS" SHOT
For REFRESHMENT THEE

PORT JEFFERSON, L. l., Sept
8.-A man who gave his name as
Joseph Winkowslxi, Brooklyn, is in
Doctor fingers Hospital, Patchogue,
suffering from a gunshot wound.
It was inflicted, according to the
police, by Henry Gesser, proprietor
of a gasoline station and refresh.
ment stand on the Port jefferson.
Riverhead State highway, near
Shoreham..
According to Winkowski, he went
to the stand for aid when his auto.
mobile broke down. When he
knocked on the closed door it was
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
MAN, So, ACCUSED or
BURNING WIFE TO DEATH

ELIZABETH, N. T., Sept. 81
Accused Of causing the death OF his
wife by igniting her clothing after
the garments had been soaked In
kerosine Anthony CIRCUITS, fifty.
eight, was held without bail on q
charge OF murder.
According to the police, CIRCUITS
came home intoxicated after being
out all night and engaged in an
alteration with his wife, during
which she attempted to start q fire
in the kitchen stove by pouring
Kerosene on to the coal.
CIRCUITS pushed her. police say,
causing her to fall and spill the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
COUPLE BIND SELVES
THEN LEAP OFF CLIFF

FIUME, Sept. AT Castel.
muschio on the island of Vaglia,
near Fiume, a young man and a
girl threw themselves from high
rock into the water beneath. Be
fore they accomplished their fatal
act, they tied themselves together
with strong cord.
When their bodies were recov-
cred. nothing was found which
could identity them, but the hat,
the nicktie and the collar Of the
young man bore the marks OF shop
keepers Of Trieste.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
Goes to Jail, Not Altar

IIAGERsToWN, Sept. 7.Ralph
johnson, age nineteen, who was
to be married has been sentenced
to ST. Mary's Industrial School by
Justice Bower until he Is twenty
one years old. He was charged
with being intoxicated and incor-
rlgible. Before taken to jail he got
permission from Sheriff Duffey TO
talk to his fiancee over the tele-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08
Reward Tor Missing wife

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. Stony
Rich, of Trenton, offered 500 here
to the person who would help him
find his wife, Jeanette, who left
home July 20. He told police that
he had been working hard ever
since she went away to get enough
money for q reward.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08

opened, he said, and q gun was
leveled at him. It was fired a sec
ond later. Gesser, charged with the
shooting, told the police that he
mistook Winkowslxi for one OF the
thieves who have been preying on
refreshment stands in the vicinity.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1925-09-08

keroeene on her clothing, wnereupon
IA set her afire and stood idly by
while his stepsorI, John Zalinalxi,
eighteen, endeavored vainly to beat
out the flames.
Evening star., 1925-07-12

veterans claims and avoided the.
costly process and the Inconvenience
that otherwise would have resulted
under the old system. Each account
Is now balanced and closed when the
check goes from the Veterans Bureau
TO the individual service man. I'm
DER the old system the audit would
not have commenced until six months
after the check was delivered In ref
erence TO the adjusted service certjf.
cate there would have been no audit
until six months after the issuance OF,
check thereon-that is. after the
death Of the veteran or 20 wears ana
SIX months after the issuance of rhc
certificate.
The net result is that the Trea asri,,..
knows today exactly what the obIi
cations of the Government are to Tho
service men, whereas under the ola
system the Treasury never wouId
nave known. The old system wo1Ild
nave caused incalculahle cost to tho
government and trouble for practicsl.-
~ every bank in the country which
might have made loans CIp to 90 ner
cent OF their value) on these Govern
ment certificates.
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many or with both to take action with
one or the other If peace is assailed on
the Rhine. France may do the same
with Poland on the Vistula, with
Czechoslovakia on the Elbe, with Bel
gium on the Scheldt.
The covenant made it d moral duty
for all member nations to go to the aid
of one assailed: the protocol made it
a legal duty; the present proposal
would make it permissive right The
covenant and the protocol merged all
alliances in one common league. The
present scheme would recognize the
right OF nations to make separate alli-
ances. but would permit only defen-
sive alliances, which to become effec-
tive must have the formal declara-
ton of the league itself.
l should make it clear that the evo.
luton which l am discussing has not
taken definite form; that 1t is rather
the consequence of British policy, as
British policy has fallen into accord
with French and Is now seeking to ar
rive at adjustment with Germany and
promote adjustment between Germany
and France, than the consequence of
any direct formulation. But 1 cannot
escape the conclusion that this eyolu
ton was always inevitable, Is logical
and Will ultimately arrive at some
useful conclusion.
So far the fatal weakness of the
league has lain in the fact that it has
been based upon assumption which
did violence to facts which are funda-
mental. Thus no nation will sur
render its right to control its own
policies, no nation will consent to dele
gate to any international body any
form of control over it's military and
naval forces which would permit their
use at the will of such body, no ma
ton will undertake indefinite respon-
sibilities for the preservation of from
tiers which do not concern it or
treaties which do not affect 1t.
On the other hand, no nation can
lightly risk the consequences of an
adverse decision by a body which in
some measure might speak for the
moral sense of mankind. Thus, II the
League of Nations cannot preserve
peace, prevent war, punish aggressors
directly, the Importance of it's power
to decide upon the action of any ma
ton, to characterize as aggression any
specific act, to release forces otherwise
unavailable can hardly be exaggerated
as a deterrent.
Six years of experience have dem
strated that the League of Nations
cannot be a superstate, an interna-
tional police force. or a substitute for
separate alliances. What remains to
be seen is the possibility of develop
ment as moral rather than a physi-
cal force.
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Reds and the Pinks, the wild men and
the less wild: the latter headed by
Tang Shao vi, unfortunately, how
ever. Tang Shao vi, though a very
able man, has an unsavory reputation
for tergiverSation. Mr.. c. c. WI. son
of that delightful person, the late WI
Ting Fang, would be a better leader.
United States of America.-All
Dayton, all Tennessee, all Ameri-
lea Is aSoE over the Scopes trial
now. on. The prospect is held out by
a certain person of a campaign look
ing to amendment of the Constitution
of the United States so as to forbid
the teaching of evolution
Representatives of anthracite min
ers and operators convened in At.
lantic City on the 9th TO discuss an
agreement to supersede the present
anthracite agreement
speaking for the operators, Samuel
ID. Warriner announced rejection by
the latter of the miners demands for
a wage increase of 10 per cent For
contract miners and S1-a-day men and
Tor the check off" he declared that
in face of increased competition from
other fuels (oil, gas, coke, bituminous
coaD and from electricity, main
tenance of the present wage scales
would be possible through Increased
productivity per worker and reduction
of labor costs. To raise the price of
anthracite is altogether impracticable
he asserted, and the margin of profit
tc the operators two or three com.
panies excepted) cannot bear further
reduction. He stated that the average
of the annual earnings of anthracite
employees is upward of $4,000, more
than 500 above the average for all
industries. He proposed arbitration
OF the points in dispute.
Speaking for the miners, John L,
Lewis rejected arbitration He cited
the records showing 1000 miners
killed and 10000 crippled within the
past two years. For service SO
perilous a generous wage is clearly
indicated, he said
The American bald eagle, or bird
OF freedom, is almost extinct. AS a
matter of fact, it isn't bald The adult
bird appears so at a distance because
of it's white head. So that which is
called freedom is sometimes illusorv.
Note.-The Ecuador government
has been overthrown by a military
coup. Another little setback for the
millennium)
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of Serbia, which would have been ex-
pressed in a treaty with a league reg
iStration, came into force. Then the
Russian mobilization would have been
legal and the German declaration OF
war based on that mobilization illegal.
France and Britain would have been
legally entitled by virtue of their
treaties to support Russia, and the
German responsibility for the war
made clear.
With this evolution the league loses
much of its grandioSe but illusor,
character. II is no longer Mr.. VIII
sons association of nations, with their
resources pooled and ear-marked for
defense of peace. 1t has no direct re-
Ia tiOn to peace or war-it cannot pre-
vent the one nor conserve the other
1t is a court which decides, but, once
it's decision has been uttered, then it
is left for the nations which are con-
cerned to give force to the decision, as
they choose, which means in practice
as their interests dictate
Compromise in Ideas.
Here. then, is a striking compromise
between AnglO-SaXon and continental
European conceptions, both concep-
tions being based upon fundamental
conditions and traditions The Cont.
nent wanted a league which was no
more than a military alliance, and
which, in the nature of things, would
be an alliance to preserve a status quo
which was created by a victory and
imposed by the force of the victors.
and in nOwise accepted by the van
qulshed as Just. The Anglo Saxon
world wanted voluntary free-will as
sociation of all nations with force left
out and the conscience of the peoples
left to be the determining factor. 1t
wanted no alliances, and it refused to
lend its military, naval or financial re-
sources to the preservation of any
physical arrangement, thus, in fact.
Surrendering the control of these re.
sources to the superstate which would
be created.
Inc present arrangement has recog-
nlZed the vital portions of each point
of view. 1t deprives the league of all
authority to command the military or
naval resources of any nation to main.
tain peace, even If it regards peace as
wantonly menaced. 1t leaves it with
nothing but the right and the duty to
decide what nation or nations have
violated their contracts and thus i'm.
periled peace.
Great Britain, for example. because
she regards the Rhine frontier as of
vital Importance to her, may enter
into any form of agreement she may
care to make with France, with Ger
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1
! IL toward stability and peaceful
settlement that Europe has
made since Versailles. The western
| security pact, now under discussion,
| if it comes off, will be Europes sec
ond and even more important step
| toward peace. More important be-
causb, important as it was to end
the reparations dispute which led
to the Ruhr occupation and unsettled
the whole continent, nobody supposes
that the Dawes scheme represents a
final accounting between Germany and
her creditors.
But the exorcism of that fear which
for two generations has kept practi-
cally all the 20-year.old young men of
Europe in arms in peace, as in war,
would be the most important move
conceivable toward ultimate disarma-
ment. And without disarmament
most economic authorities agree that
the Old World must steadily decline
until it crashes.
The western security pact has been
conceived to take from Germany the
fear of invasion by France, from
France the fear of invasion by Ger
many. If 1t does these two things,
whatever else 1t may fail to do, 1t
must prove a landmark in world his
tory.
NdilS Tor Sacr1nceS.
1t is yet too early to analyze the
German offer and the French reply
and attempt to figure out what, if
any, pact will emerge from these ten
tattves. The diplomats must bargain
and haggle for months before we
know that. There must be a confer
ence. probably in London. but, al
ways if and provided Great Britain
makes herself party to 1t, do not
find much doubt that the western pact
will become reality. Great sacri-
fees. from the nationalist viewpoint,
will be demanded from both France
and Germany.
Germany must renounce all hope of
regaining her lost territories in the
west, and those personally conducted
tours which ascend hills in Baden to
gaze upon the spires of Strasbourg
Cathedral can no longer be assured
by their guides that the day, is com.
ing when Germany will reconuuer AL.
SAGE. France must abandon that tena-
ciously held war aim, possession of
the left bank of the Rhine.
But whatever heart burnings are
caused by the pact in Paris and Ber-
lin, and they will be many, one fact
now seems crystal clear-the great
mass of Frenchmen and Germans are
determined that neither they nor their
sons shall fight each other if IL can be
avoided
People Demand Peace.
Therefore the vast majority of
Frenchmen and Germans will insist
that their governments accent an en-
gagement under which Great Britain
guarantees one country against inva-
sion by the other. That is the fun
damental reason why, SO far as France
and Germany are concerned, the pact
must succeed, however many red her
rings are drawn across the trail and
with whatever skill government prop
agandists seek, as they are seeking
in the interested countries, to misrep-
resent the purposes and conditions un-
der which Great Britain is to fulfill
her role.
The outlook would then be most
cheerful, were not a struggle over
the pact pending in the British EN-
pire. The main lines of that coming
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Continued from First PageJ
uniess the component parts of the 4.
BRITISH Empire can be drawn closer
together there is danger that thev
may 1all apart entirely. I have been
asked seriously by intelligent Eng
hshInen II there is any strong senti-
a4ent IN the United States in favor.
Oh the annexation of Canada When
tel them that l know of no such
sentiment at all. they seem to find If ,
hard to understand why such a SEN
ument does not exist ApparentIy
they think it logically should exist
both in the United States and Canada.
mention this TO illustrate what
seems to me to be a lurking-under-
the-Surface fear among Englishneu
that the empire is in danger Of
breaking up. don't think they fear.
the danger is an imminent one bur
L think 1t turks in the back of their
mtnds-a sort of nightmare to trou
bic their dreams
One of the difficulties seems to be ,
that the British cannot get away
from the conviction that their inter
ests lie primarily with the continent
of Europe, that they are a part OF
Europe and as such cannot escape
from involvement with its tangled
problems, whereas the Dominions
have no such sense of European af
hliation and more and more are find +
ing interests elsewhere. Already this
divergence of interests is affecting
the policies of the British govern
ment, witness scrapping of the
Geneva protocol largely because the
British dominions objected to its jap
anese coloring, and it is an interest
ing speculation as to what the even
tual effect will be. l have heard 1t
predicted here that the day is not
distant when representatives of the
dominion governments will sit in at
Westminster and help determine
British imperial and foreign policy.
but that is for the future to deter
mine.
So we get back to the simile that
Great Britain is much in the condf-
ton of a mother who sees her chill
dren growing up and disposed to 20
their separate ways. And there is a
disposition to look upon the United
States a good deal as the son-in-la1y ;
or daughter-in-law who weans the
children away.
Copyright. 1e25l
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controversy are already clear. It will
be of vital Importance for France and
Germany, of great import to all the
rest of the world. There can be no
western security pact without Great
Britain. Britain is the only force ca
pable of guaranteeing France against
Germany and Germany against
France. since both these nations know
that British Intervention for or
against must prove decisive in the
probable absence of other powerful
belligerents.
If Great Britain withdraws from the
pact, or makes such~ conditions as
to render 1t worthless as a guarantee
of the Rhine, then it will collapse, or
prove of little value. There is a pos
Sibility that the Baldwin cabinet has
bitten off more than it can chew, and
that public opinion here and in the
Dominions will destroy the pact by
Withholding the British guarantee.
The world will remember for cen
turies how Woodrow Wilson signed a
peace treaty in Paris and committed
the United States to a joint Ango-
American guarantee to France against
German aggresston--and what hap
pened to that treaty and what to that
guarantee pact in Washington. On a
less dramatic and sensational scale, a
repetition of the Wilson tragedy may
be staged shortly in London, with
Baldwin and Chamberlain for it's vic
Tins.
Great Britain stands officially COM
mitted TO nothing. Foreign Secretary
Chamberlain has agreed with BRAND
on the terms of the French reply to
the German security proposals. He
has informed France and Germany
that the British government Is willing
neP0ti1fn ND ha
which the cabinet intends to proceed
are fairly clear. The government
view is that peace in Europe Is neces-
sary for British interests, that Euro.
pean unrest means continued economic
decline in this country. The Labor
government tried to commit Britain
to the League of Nations disarma-
ment protocol. without success.
Protocol Always Downed.
The election here, which downed
Labor. did not destroy the protocol.
1t was clear from the start to any un-
preJudiced observer that the British
public would have none of commit
mentS so vast and all.embracing. The
use of the British fleet to force sane
dons against offenders anywhere in
the world at the behest of the League
or Nations, the practical guarantee by
liiIS tOuHlIy VI llulu ana unjust
frontiers in eastern Europe, which
most people think must be revised by
force or otherwise-these were re-
sponsibilities at which most English
men. when they understood them.
distinctly SHE'D.
The Tory government feels, | think
rightly, that 1t is going to the extreme
limit Of what public opinion will stand
in proposing to guarantee the present
Rhine frontier by arms. In doing so.
Chamberlain will make clear that no
other territorial commitments which
would involve this country in a Eu-
ropean war are in contemplation. He
also will be able to show that under
the Versailles treaty and the cove
nant of the league 1t would be diff.
cult, or impossible, for the empire TO
keep out of war should hostilities
break out again between France and
Germany.
Dominions Not Consulted.
All these points, however, based
upon covenant and treaty, though
strong juridically, are not understood