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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
$6,812,856 ESTATE LEFT

Charles A.. Weyerhaeuser Wills
Widow 800, 900 Annual Income.
LITTLE FALLS, Mimi, January 2s
R).-Charies A. Weyerhaeuser, lumber
magnate, who died last Friday while
on q world cruise, left an estate Of So
1856, his will revealed today.
The widow will receive a life income
of 100000 a year The remainder of
the estate goes to q SON, Carl A., and q
daughter. Mrs. Sarah Maude Rosen-
berry, Yankton, S. ID.
Evening star., 1931-05-31
Americans Aid Foch Hospital in Paris,
Devoted to Ills of the Middle Class

PARIS.-With q large number Of
Americans among the subscribers and
patrons, and with Americans also
among the members of the preliminary
committee whose labors created the
organization, the Marshal Foch Hos
pital is being built at Suresnes, in the
suburbs of Paris. The characteristic of
this hospital is that 1t is intended for
the middle class. which has been the
outstanding victim of the war in France.
Today the middle class, at moments
of grave illness, is faced with tragic
choice between medical charity and
financial disaster. The Foch Foundation
now comes to the rescue of this class
of patient by building hospital of 800
private rooms, where the cost Of hos
pitalization will be 81 a day, including
medical attention and food. Surgical
operations will be performed at q very
low charge. Foreigners of moderate
means will be provided for in beds en-
dowed by their respective colonies in
Paris.
Many middle class families in France
invested all their money either in
French government bonds or in such
foreign issues as Russians. Those who
held Russian bonds have virtually lost
all Those who invested In French
bonds prior to the stabiliZation of the
franc have lest four-fifths of their
revenue. When the man or woman OF
the middle class falls sick it means
financial disaster. whatever is done. for
the public hospitals demand payment
from those who have means, however
Evening star., 1931-05-31
Labor From Porto Rico
Seen as Aid to Hawaii

HONOLULU, Hawaii.-Possibility that
Filipino immigration to Hawaii will be
closed by act of Congress has moved
sugar men of this territory to consider
again the project of importing Porto
Ricans.
Many years ago the sugar planters
brought to the islands for field labor a
considerable number of Porto Ricans.
The experiment is regarded as only
moderately successful. Many of the
immigrants were not of the agricultural
class at all, having been recruited from
citiss and towns.
Most of them did not stay long at
plantation work, but drifted to Honolulu
or other towns. Following this, the
planters turned to other Sources-Spain
and Portugal, Manchuria (for Rus
sians); finally, the Philippines.
This was after laborers from Japan
were eliminated through the gentle
mems agreement" of 1908 between the
United States and the japanese gov
eminent. But the increasing agita-
ton to bar Filipinos from the United
States has created apprehension here
lest this source of labor, which has
proved excellent, should be closed.
Hence the reconsideration Of Porto
Rico as a. reservoir.
Importation of Porto Ricans, 1t Is
commented, would aid Porto Rico by
tightening It's unemployment problem,
at the same time helping Hawaii In
getting the necessary field labor.
Evening star., 1931-05-31

had aspired to be dictator of France
But his great opportunity came when
ne was appointed governor general of
1ndo-Chlra in 1897. He remained in
that post for six years and proved to
oe. f1rst-rate administrator. bringing
about many reforms in the colony.
He also has remarkable record of
solid public service. AS Senator, min
ister, chairman of the Budget Commits
son. president of the Chamber of
Deputies and later of the Senate. he
has been a stalwart figure, defending
sound finance and the national honor.
In the holocaust of the World War he
gave four sons to the republic-ard
this explains why he shiugs his shoul-
ders with a certain bitterness when
people try to represent him as war
man."
Il have suffered from war" he said
to me on the eve of the election
More than any one in the world,
in my soul Why should I not hate
war with my soul and my hearth"
Fight Wars Horrors.
Whenever l hear of war, go to the
churchyard and kneel down before the
graves of my four sons. This is suf-
f1cient-for me to swear that as far as
am concerned. never, never again shall
we see the horrors We have seem"
And the first thing he did on the day
after his election was to go to these
four graves and remain silent there for
long time. You may be sure that
he repeated his oath there and swore
that never. never again"
France, during her long. agitated his
tory, may have had more brilliant chiefs
OF state, but she has not had any who
could be called more honest. unselfish,
more austere. saw him leave Ver-
sailles Palace, where he had been
elected, escorted by squadron of
cavalry. I saw him pass by the gi-
gantic equestrian statue of Louis XIV,
which stands in the middle of the
courtyard. And it seemed to me that
the great king had on his bronze lips
no smile of pity for the little apprentice
BOY from Montmartre shop who was
passing near him. For this former ap-
prentice boy symbolizes two qualities
upon which France sets the highest
prtce-work and honesty.
Evening star., 1931-05-31
England's 5-Year Plan


Time and Tide power and influence in
the weekly review field. Barry called
young, forward-l looking men into con-
ference on a policy for the regeneration
of England. And so the plan was draft
ed and launched in a 16-page supple
ment, and all sorts of well knowns
studied it and number whose names
carry weight approved it.
Faces Big Task.
30 much for the birth pangs of the
now famous Plan. Seeking to bring
every national activity into organic re-
lationShip, 1t Is almost as comprehensive,
in its way, as Stalin's plan. It does not
presuppoSe changes in human nature
but it does demand the elimination of
the dead hand of wasted capital, of
hereditary management, of traditional
trade unionism. of the parasitic middle
man, of the overconservative consumer
and Of the purely restrictive Official" A
large order.
The Plan makers have eyed such con-
temporary phenomena as the Canadian
wheat pool the German reorganization
the Russian f1ve-year plan and the
United States Farm Board. and have
sought to apply sundry lessons they
perceive there to the plan for Britain
Large-scale buying. for instance, would
replace erratic small-scale buying, and
new giant organisms would arise
organized on the lines of public utilities
and merging all existing competing
groups of industry, transport and COM
merce. Workers and consumers would
be represented in the new bodies.
Strong government action would be
needed at first TO cut through opposi-
ton, reconcile conflicting interests
force reluctant hands. kick standbacks
out of the way, bring about the neces-
sary groupings and generally see the
transition stage through while the in
dustrial court. arbitrating all disputes
and agreements to limit profits, was be-
ing established. This presupposes the
sidetracking of Parliament.
The new groupings made, however
and every industry transformed into a
self-governing unit under a council
table to settle all its purely domestic
aftairs). the industries would govern
themselves without state interference
The councils TO look after these self
governing units in each case would be
responsible 'a) to the industrial court
Tor all matters disputed and tbJ to the
national planning commission SO far as
orderly development in harmony with
otner industries and national and inter-
national needs is concerned.
These two key bodies-the national
planning commission and the industrial
court-would remain as independent of
political tampering as the present iu
dietary and the Bank of England: the
commission, like the Bank of England
today. would work in free collabora ton
with the government of the day.
1t is true that the planners would
insure the self-goyernment of industry
Continued on Fourth Page)
Evening star., 1931-05-31

nounced from the chair were as follows
Votes cast, 897. Absolute majority,
449. Have obtained: Doumer, 442:
BRAND, 401; miscellaneous, 81. The
second ballot, an hour later, increased
Doumer's majority to 504 votes-more
than enough to elect him-while Pierre
Marraud former minister of public in
struction, obtained 334.
But BRAND had quit the palace and
the race as we'll He seemed broken,
tired. His face had lost its color, his
eyes their usual flash. He did not look
up when spoken to, and hurried away.
How was it that BRAND, Frances
greatest statesman, had been beaten?
Certainly not because of his foreign or
international policy, which nearly every
one in the Senate as well as the Cham
ber heartily indorses. But undoubtly
because he was openly supported by the
Socialists, because 1t was Leon Blum,
Socialist leader, who had been the first
to launch his candidacy, because, above
all, the majority in the two houses have
hatred and fear of Socialism. 1t
was not q fight between pacif1sm and
nationalism. It was straight fight be-
tween socialism and anti-socialism on
the grounds of international politics
And anti-socialism won in the face of
all expectations.
Son Of Railroad Worker.
Moreover, Paul Doumer-who, de-
spite his "a years and his white
beard, has kept dapper figure and an
alert minds q popular man IN France.
Evening star., 1931-05-31
BY C. PATRICK THOMPSON.

HROUGH the mist and fume Of
the giant economic storm IN
which England founders dis
Il tant light has been sighted
which some think marks safe
harborage at last-provided the sorely
tried ship can make 1t through the in
tervening gales, cross currents, con-
fused Swells and heavy seas.
On the chart the light is shown as
marking the entrance to Five-Year-
Plan Port, gateway to the strange new
land Of planned economics Zone Of the
basic principles may observe, OF Com
munism according to Karl Mark.
A touch of fantasy in this metaphor.
It is deliberate. Here you have, Seri-
ously advanced and seriously discussed
in all parties and among the leaders of
big business and finance, Stupendous
plan to reconstruct the British eco
nomic system from top to bottom, and
along with it the national life and Brit
aims relation to her colonies and pos
sessions and the rest OF the world. How
ever you look at this proposition, 1t is
fantastic. And yet something possibly
much-may come of 1t. Considerable
elements of the nation, and especially
the younger generation, are thinking in
this direction.
A nutshell history of the birth of the
Plan has significance, since the birth
processes are symptomatic OF the
stresses and strains that are going on
today within the British body polite
under the pressure of a world struggle
for markets in which the island folk ap-
pear to be losing out.
George Pinckard and his American
wife acquired the Saturday Review and
put in Gerald Barry. critic and man of
letters, to edit it, For five years this
weekly review ran along placidly, barely
ruffiing the surface of contemporary
opinion.
BeaverbrOOk Starts Crusade.
Then Lord Beaverbrook, left on the
outside OF politics on the death of his
intimate friend, Bonar Law, and having
further failed to get any satisfaction
out of racing, yachting and other con-
yentional distractions of the leiSured
rich in England, conceived the idea of
regenerating England and her empire.
at the same time giving himself some
thing real and big and vital to live for
so he started his crusade designed either
to force the great Conservative party to
adopt the policy of high protection for
England and imperial economic unity or
else to smash that party and on its
ruins build a new one with the aforesaid
policy as its raison detre.
Beaverbrook presently was joined by
Lord Rothermere. who controls the big
gest engine of publicity in the island
and is probably England's richest man.
But the two were really sister act by
sisters who never meteor Rothermere
has a feud with Baldwin, while Beaver
brook has no personal animosities;
Evening star., 1931-05-31

Beaverbrook concentrates on the con-
ception of England raised again to pros
perity on the tidal wave of business
boom engendered by an empire organ
lied and protected after the manner of
the federalized States of North America,
while Rothermere. who has strong
Fascist leaningS, agitates for the strong
hand in India and the revision of the
Treaty of Trianon in favor of Hungary
the latter move calculated TO bore the
British people but TO please Mussolini,
Rothermere's hero.
Opposition Is Bitter
The champions of the menaced Con-
servative party. along with a host of
high-minded independents who resent
ed what they conceived to be an at
tempt by press lords to usurp the func-
tions of government, and horde of
personal enemies of Rothermere and
Beaverbrook girded their loins for a
battle and struck back with fists. ell
bows. teeth and knees; and in private
social life you came across plentiful
evidence of the heat and extent of the
general engagement.
In the midst of a critical by-election
in which the Beaverbrook faction had
an independent candidate fighting the
Evening star., 1931-05-31

small. while the fees of the private
clinics are high.
The Foch Hospital will provide for
the sick, but there is nothing to provide
for the aged, so far as the new poor"
are concerned There are homes for
the aged among the laboring classes,
where no fees are charged. There also
are homes for the aged with modest
means. where small annual payment
is made. but the waiting list is so long
that from to Is years elapse between
application and admission Today. in
the matter of such homes in Paris,
there are $500 names on the waiting
lists for total accommodation Of 3,033.
In view Of this situation, Paris Is
considering a scheme for the creation
of 2.100 more beds. The cost would be
$4,000,0 900, distributed over a period Of
IA years. In the meantime. the new
poor" will not be able to claim what is
currently described as "the right to
grow old"
tCopyrisht. 1917
Evening star., 1931-05-31

His story sounds like romance. He
is of modest origin, the son of rail-
road worker His father died the very
day the child came into the world. and
his mother took him to Paris. where
she started a small haberdashery shop
in old Montmartre. At the age Of IL
the boy had to earn his living He
became an apprentice to a manufac-
/, turer of medals, with a salary of $40
a month, and worked 10 hours day.
His salary helped his mother and sister
balance the familys meager budget.
One day young Doumer thought, 81
would like to study and earn more" D."
Every night thereafter, when his daily
labor in the medal shop had been fin
ished, he read scientific works by the
light of a candle. Sometimes he would
fall asleep over his books with q wicked
pain in his head. Then his mother or
his sister would put a moist handker-
chief on his forehead, and the little
apprentice boy would 60 bravely to work
again.
He worked SO hard that at Is he
won his degree. At 18 he was ap-
pointed assistant master in small
school at Remiremont, in Lorraine.
His dream had materialized. He had
become somebody! Now he could earn
more and more.
Defeated Boulanger.
Doumer. entered politics in 1887. and
wss elected Deputy for the Department
of the Aisne being gratified at beating
the famous Gen. Boulanger, who once
Evening star., 1931-05-31

official Conservative candidate ito the
delight Of the Labor party, Beaver
brook received an unexpected ally in
the Saturday Review. The adhesion
Of this highbrow weekly. reaching cir
Gle OF intellectuals contemptuous of the
big calculations and their stunts, pleased
Beaverbrook nightly.
1t appeared, however, that the Satur-
day Review had come over TO Beaver
brook on the initiative of it's proprietor.
over the head of its editor: and when
Gerald Barry walked out with key men,
bers OF the staff he received general ap-
probation. while the proprietor's action
was generally condemned
Beaverbrook rushed aids from his Ex-
press Offices TO help Pinckard get his
journal out. But the rally round Barry
and his little band was tremendous.
j. j. Astor, Lord Astor's brother and the
financial power behind the Times
| tstrongly for Baldwin as against Beav-
erbrook) and Samuel Courtland the
millionaire artificial silk manufacturer,
! Immediately provided Barry with funds
| to start new review
Thus appeared the Week End Review.
new weekly which now shares with
the old esta blished Progressive Con-
| servative Spectator and the non-party
Evening star., 1931-05-31

From the Cincinnati Times-S.ar.
A former Mexican President has be-
come voice teacher: which is still an.
other hazardous occupation.
Evening star., 1931-05-31
Thunder Is All. Though.

From the Akron Beacon Journal
It's queer policy that protects
American business in other lands and
gives it thunder here at home.
Evening star., 1931-05-31
BY STEPHANE LAUZANNE.

A RISTIDE BRAND, who has been
~ IL times premier OF France,
"A once said to his friends: Don't
4 \ oblige me to be premier thir-
teenth time: it would bring
Evening star., 1931-05-31

Continued on Fourth Page. }
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-05
SIGNAL CORPS OFFICIALS ARE
 VISITING HERE
Capt. H. ]. Adams and Charles Murphy Are
 Making Inspection

Capt. H. J. Adams Assistant Off, ficer in Charge of the U nj t e d States Military Cable and Radio System in Alaska, with headquar- ters at Seattle, and Charles Mur- phy Superintendent of Communi- cations, arrived in Juneau yester- day afternoon aboard the cableship Dellwood, from Anchorage They are making an inspection regarding possible changes in the radio sys- tem here and the addition of more equipment and probably new sta- ton to handle the business de- veloping from the change from cable to radio.
 MT. Murphy said the Anchorage station is rapidly progressing but installation of new equipment has not been completed yek He further stated that a fast and efficient service is promised when all radio is used for communication between Seattle and Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-05
A World Court Opinion.
Cincinnati EnquirerD

After lengthy hearings, the Permanent Court or International Justice decided that the proposed GUS toms union of Germany and Austria was 1ncom- patble with Austrias promise in treaty of 1922 not to impair it's independence. The decision is not important for it's subject matter since the Ger man and Austrian delegates at Geneva withdrew the plan in the face of French opposition before the Court acted
 But as a measure of the usefulness of the Court, the decision is interesting Eight Judges voted against the validity of the customs union, and seven in favor of it. The eight were from Latin countries except Poland an ally of France The seven in- cuded the United States China Japan, England, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.
 Enthusiastically, there is evidence here of Judges voting in terms of the interests of their nations. If we rule out the Judges whose own governments were closely interested in the controversy that is Germany, France, Poland and Rumania, the decision would have been favorable to the customs union, instead of unfavorable.
 This cannot fail to be something of blow to the prestige of the World Court But assuming that approximate justice is better than hard-fised na- tional force and that International Court is desirable, the need is clearly for active American participation. This at least would lend greater impartiality to the Court and a greater weight to it's decisions
 Our Supreme Court frequently has handed down decisions by five -to-four vote, with Jus political prejudices. But that occurrence suggests, not the desrability Of ablishing the Court, but the need for strengthening its personnel and protecting its independence from outside pressure.
 The administration of justice, whether national or international is a slow and cumbrous develop ment and it must be aided by constructive effort, despite occasional decisions that are dscouraging
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-05
SIR THOMAS LIPTON-SPORTSM
 EXTRAORDINARY.

No man in modern times has been more richly endowed with the fine qualities of sportsmanship than Sir Thomas Upton, the great English yachting enthusiast, whose sudden death last week came as astounding shock to the whole world, and particular y to Americans who have come to know and admire him to a degree not surpassed in history so far as any of alien nationality is concerned. In a period extending 32 years from the close of the nineteenth century his name became house. hold word in the United States largely through his repeated efforts to win the famous Americas Cup, emblematc of yachting supremacy in the English speaking world
 Five times he sent his ships the turbulent waters of the Atlantic Ocean in his quest of that prize. Five times he his dreams of victory shattered And his sixth drive for the trophy was already in the making, only to be frustrated by death
 In the last few years, the feeling of Americans for this Irish baronet came to be more than admira tion-it was very closely akin to sincere affection. Nor was this founded on the tremendous fortune he expended on his five ventlres-said to be some s10,ooocoO. It wasn't in the sheer gameness he ex- hbited in losing which was so dear to his heart There was more to his sportsmanship than courage in defeat great that In his char acter there a blending of courage, patience, gracousness, a refusal to seek an alibi that might have becouded the sportsmanship of his opponents,
 
 countless friends who spoke to him, heard or saw him. M
 As an evidence of this sentiment just after his latest Shamrock had lost to the American defender Of the Americas Cup, last year, thousands con- tributed voluntarily to the purchase of a loving cup that was presented to Sir Thomas in New York. To no other sportsman visiting shores from other lands has such testimonial of affection been given. And there many who regretted that his entry had not the that he might have received the real instead of consolation cup
 His going will leave void in international yacht ing circles At present there is one in sight to take up the burden of contest for the Americas Cup that he bore alone since his first entry into the field in 1899. And than that. there is no one in the field who can step into the niche left vacant in the ranks of sportsmen who play the game for the love of it, rather than for personal glory other material gain.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-10-05
Adopting American Methods.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Cincinnati EnquirefD
 England is urging study for business. This ac- tiyiy is called a national need It is recommended that attitude similar to the American be adopted. Something must be done to stimulate ability to worthy profitable and interesting The United States in this respect is held up as an important and worthy example The best men and women should be developed men and women inspired with the highest ideals of service Courses to teach understanding of selling British goods abroad are recommended for the schools The pick of the tions manhood is needed "in the conduct of bus- ized and competitive every day.
 This may be regarded evidence of stirring of the traditional British spirit of conservatism In the United States long have recognized the value and importance of commerce for men and women of ability and character This con- templates the inclusion of every branch and de- partment of trade and commerce in scientific de- velopment To this end and women representatives taught mechanics, arithmetic, English and other languages, geography and history, necessary science In other words, to know their business, from the ground up-and above and be- yond all, to know daily life.
 We do not disregard diplomacy statistics, courtesy or character stress descriptive economy and adjust specifications
 Britain is discovering that she is living in new era of the worlds history. She could do worse thing than to copy American business standards practices and ideals.