Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-11
PROPOSED LEAGUE
MAY HELP EUROPE
BRAND Suggestion of Unity in
Trade, Considered by
Other Nations.

Other Nations.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.
Special Dispatch to The star.
NEW YORK, September IA
Geneva hotel: Aristide BRAND, Gustav
Stresemann, Arthur Henderson, Ed
ward Benes at lunch. 80 were IL otner
foreign ministers and two other prime
ministers, representing as many
European countries.
Then the statesmen of the 26 other
nations listened to'the eloquent BRAND
of France outline very briefly his plan
for a United States of Europe"
Aristide BRAND Is human-Very nu-
man. He has a well developed sense
of news and knows the value OF pubic
ity;; .... n..r and some
cheese, we laid the little cornerstone %
a European federation; dtscreetly, pc
tween a pear and some cheese--which
doesn't, you know, diminish at all tne
Importance of the event" SAID the
French premier. o
The subject intrigues. Here are AGO..
900 900 people, living in 80 separate ana
distinct national compartments, eacn
working furiously to build its own ma
tional life. How? BY raising tarln
wall high enough to keep out the gooos
of every other country, while at the
same time attempting to sell goods TO
every other country.
The idea is not new. Every nation
works largely on that plan. Ihe
United States Is no exception.
Can a federation of Europe be made
effective without alternating national
sovereignty in some degree at leaSts
Aristide BRAND. the optimist. believes II
can. Gustave Stresemann, the practlcal
German, doubts 1t. Arthur Henderson,
the Englishman, interested IN labor,
isn't concerned about that. He sees It's
value in forcing better social Legislation
for the masters-Such conventions as
the eight-hour day.
DR.. Stresemann suggested that "a uni
form money and uniform postage stamp
we're within the realm Of possibility.
"A more prosperous Europe VIII nelp
not hurt-the rest of the world.
Not a voice was raised against the
ideal, but William Graham, president OF
the British Board of Trade, makes the
most practical suggestions.
Cd Let the European countries agree
for a period of years not TO raise the
tariff walls above the present levels.
90 Then during this time study seri-
ously how to further reduce tariff walls
and expand the national trade OF ma
tions.
The next meeting, to be called by the
French premier in two or three months,
should mark another milestone IN Eu-
ropes returning power.
John Ringing. by his purchase of the
American Circus Corporation, has ful-
filled a life ambition TO become the
greatest Snowman in history-greater
even than P. T. Barnum-for this cor
poration now owns the Sells-Floto cir
Gus. the Hagenbeck animal show and
the three shows known as the John
Robinson, the Sparks and the Al q.
Barnes.
Not only does he become the first
Snowman in the world, but he becomes
a very large employer of labor. The
Ringing Bros. -Barnum & Bailey circus
employs about 1000 people. With this
new purchase John Ringing adds to his
staff about twice as many more persons
as he has at present. For the total en-
ployes in the new organization VIII be
in the neighborhood of 5000.
Ringing Bros. began their careers
five brothers-Charles, AL, Otto, ALI T.
| and John, who has always been the
leader. Today John alone remains.
The father of the Showmen was q
harness maker in the little Wisconsin
town, and was kept busy supporting a
| family of eight children.
1t was in the late 70s that John, with
S130 in his pocket, walked to Abel
mans five miles away, through one OF
- Ts,4ka iV1n
| his first performance. The four brothers
| followed next day.
The first year was hit-and-miss af-
| fair-tough. NO money, no credit, no
| friends-no town boosters.
But the next year. touring the North
west, was better. They netted $300-or
| $50 each. In Minneapolis, they each in
vested $40 in new outfits, and returned
| to Baraboo with new suits and silk hats.
| The town took a day OF to celebrate
the return of the heroes.
The next year saw the one-ring tent
show. The brothers themselves were
| actors. John was a singer and clown.
| He was not so heavy then as he is
today.
They prospered. In 1906. Barnum &
Bailey circus was purchased for $4l0, 900
and merged.
AS the years rolled on. the brothers
died. Now John only remains. And in
| stead of the clown of 40 years ago, we
see instead kindly quiet man in the
| late COS, shrewd, successful-but ever on
| the lookout for the novel, the unusual,
| the spectacular.
John Ringing, in his field, has no
more worlds to conquer.
Corn belt farmers in America should
| be interested in this Prof. A. M. Bus
well of Illinois, speaking before the
American Chemical Society at Mime
apolis, made this extraordinary state
ment about corn stalks:
"A farmer could produce enough gas
| to supply all the needs of family OF
| four or five from tank of corn stalks
eight feet in diameter and eight feet
deep, connected to the household drain
and acting as a digesting tank for the
household wastes"
This professor, whose statements are
being followed very widely by farmers
In the corn belt, goes further. An
average Iowa corn section having q
diameter of about eight miles can pro-
duce enough corn stalks to supply the
usual gas consumption of city Of
| 10000 population, figured at a daily
rate of about Is cubic feet per capita.
For q ton of corn stalks will yield from
10, 0Ob to 10000 cubic feet of gas
The difficulty about using corn stalk.
| for paper making has been the trouble
in getting rid of the pith in the stalk
| Under this new process the corn stall
| pith itself Is turned into gas, thereby
making the original corn stalks more
valuable for paper making.
Public utility operators of power
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