Evening star., 1929-12-15

/ payment of interest and principal Of
the public debt.
The big items Of appropriation Of the
| new budget are as follows: For the
Veterans Bureau, $3.50, ,755 900; fol
the Navy Department, $500 1892 .526;
for the War Department, $466, 6,626,3 ,3S2
| for the reduction of the principal OF
the public debt, $685. 1924 900. --
ON December martial law was de-
! clared by Brig. Gen. John H. Russell
! our high commissioner in Haiti, at Port
au Prince and Cape Haitien, in view
of disorders incident to student and
labor unrest.
On the 7th, 500 Marines were en-
barked at Norfolk for Haiti to reinforce
| our small force of 700 Marines there
and a cruiser was dispatched to Haiti
from Galveston.
The same day news arrived of an at
| tack on a Marine patrol in the out
skirts OF the City of Aux Cages by a
band Of 1900 Haitians from the interior
in which Haitians were killed and 20
wounded and l Marine was wounded.
The attackers had no firearms. but
were armed with clubs, machetes and
stones. It would seem that the 20
Marines made every effort to avoid
firing, but were at last constrained to
do so.
On the same day. again, the President
sent special message to Congress on
the Haitian situation. 1t will be re-
called that in his annual message of
December 3 the President stated that
| he would ask Congress to assent to
dispatch by him of a special commits
sion to Haiti to explore the obscure
situation with a view to q more definite
| policy than our present one. He now
requested Congress to authorize the inn
mediate dispatch Of such a commission
and to appropriate $4,000 for the
| purpose.
It would appear that the trouble be-
gan with a silly threat at an agricul-
tural school; that other schools struck
sympathetically, and that agitatorS oi
the familiar bouquet took advantage oi
the powWow to foment disturbances
throughout the country against the ad'
miniStration.
There are said to be about 800 Amer
ican civilians in Haiti. There is ma
tive constabulary of about 1000, Of
f1cered by Americans.
On December g. by direction Of Pres
ident Hoover our diplomatic representa-
tives at Bern signed on behalf of oul
Government the statues of the Perma,
nent Court of International Justice. II
remains for our Senate to ratify.
On December IL the House, 239 tC
100, ratified the plan for funding the
debt of the French to our Government
already ratified by the French Parlia-
ment.
DR.. ISidore S. Falk, professor o.
bacteriology at the University OF Chi
cago, announces that he has isolated the
germ of influenza.
4 X
THE JENNINGS ARE COMING
The Jennings are maSSing In the
mountains Of Norway, Sweden and Lap
land for another migration; In effect
mass suicide. Suddenly they Will move
toward the sea, slowly, usually by night
practically in q straight line, across
rivers and lakes, for the sea. They are
incredibly fecund; when the subsistence
level reaches a certain depth, of they
go. Strange enough, but perhaps still
more strange is the fact that the other
animals of the region through which
the trek is to be made are anticipa-
lively aware thereof. BY what instinct
or what fantastic service of informa-
tion?" Anyway, certain 1t Is that the
natural enemies of the Lemmings-the
hawks bears, wolves, foxes, WeaselS
etc.-will pe on hand to waylay the
line of march. Despite the hideouS
slaughter, a numerous remnant at last
reach their goal and unhesitatingly
plunge into the waves. A little Strug-
Cling a little wrigglinE of weary limbs
and the planet Is rid of some millions
Of life units 1t cannot feed. Perhaps