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Hitler has several times recently asked
for restoration of German possession
without the formality of a plebiscite.
And he has also. while publicly repudi-
ating any German plan to recover
.Alslce- Lorraine. described the question
of the Saar as the sole point of differ
ence between the French and German
people. But the French have resolutely
declined any proposal for suppressing
the plebiscite and arrangements for
holding it are currently being made at
Geneva. arrangements in which the
Germans have refused to take part since
they withdrew from the League.
Meantime the Nazis have undertaken
within the Saar a campaign OF terror
ism which has lately led to an appeal
to the League. The objective OF this
campaign is to terrify the population
troll, not only by threatening violence to
those who oppose this program, if and
when the land is German soil again. but
also by seizing them personally if they
venture on to German territory. Actu-
ally the Nazis are following in the Sarre
precisely the same tactics which they
adopted in the case of Austria. And
that campaign of terrorism has already
brought them into conflict with the
administration in the Saar. which is
under League direction
Sarre in Strategic Place.
Now, it is plain that if. either through
an unfavorable vote or a postponement
of the plebiscite, the Saar should fail
to 60 back to Germany next year the
blow to the prestige of the Nazis would
be heavy. They have already been de-
feated, at least temporarily. in their
Austrian adventure and have been
forced to recognize that there is no
present chance for them to realize their
dream Of Austro- German union. A fresh
defeat in the Saar would therefore be
unwelcome in the extreme.
On the other hard France has every
conceivable economic reason for desiring
to see things stay as they are in the
Saar And beyond the economic are
the strategic reasons. for geographically
the Saar is sort of glacis in front Of
the new system of frontier defenses,
which cover the east of France. Under
present conditions, therefore, on the
outbreak of war with Germany, French
troops could promptly overrun the Saar
ana us V1Cal coal LllIlcS WOulQ NC
brought within the French system OF
defenses and the battle begun on Ger
man soil.
Since both for economic and military
reasons the Saar Is so important to
France. it is plain that the French will
not permit the Germans to win the
plebiscite by terrorism. They might even
insist that an election held under ex-
isting conditions would be void. In a
word, German tactics are today giving
the French not only chance to win
the plebiscite-that is to see the exist
ing order sustained by the votes Of the
residents of this region-but also q
ground for contesting the election II
the Germans should win.
If the people of the Saar vote to
remain under League control, then, OF
course, the Germans will contest the de-
cision. If the people vote to 60 back to
Germany, the French may similarly cry
fraud and insist upon postponement Of
the RESTORATION Of German control
Evening star., 1934-01-28

force of family influence be sufficient to
counteract this militaristic poisoning?
That is a question for the future to
answer.
Certainly one must admit that the
organization is tremendous-al the
more SO because 1t is handled by a
powerful modern state. No doubt
Fascist Italy shows the biggest attempt
at state education of youth that history
has witnessed since the earliest times.
I say the biggest attempt, because the
nation which, like Sparta, formerly used
a similar system did not have the great
ness or complexity of modern state.
That is why the experiment tried by
Fascism in the educational field is worth
watching. Many foreigners believe that
far-reaching results may be obtained; ;
some predict that they will be of inter-
national importance.
But at the same time, how many
reasons are there not for skepticism and
doubt! One might give an endless list
Of the gestures. ideas, organizations
created by the Fascist state which seem
formidable. but which. II examined more
thoroughly, one feels are just as artificial
as they are spectacular.
Family Strongest Institution.
WlIOlls w WLldl lIlc dS-
cist state has created one finds the
strongest, the truest of all Italian insti-
tutions-the family. In this sphere of
social life there are neither documents.
statistics nor publications; but every
thing leads one to believe that the &C
ton of the family will provide. in Italy.
an infinitely stronger opposition against
the collectivization of youth than in
Germany or Russia.
The further one goes back into our
tragic history the more one notes that
Italians all keep the same character
istics throughout the centuries.
Neither regimes nor the deepest moral
and social crises have altered in any
way the essence of our race: the will
of dignity in personal intercourse. ex-
cluding all servility and even all i'm
portance Of hereditary rank The
Italian workers may, in their own
country and abroad, suffer exploitation
and misery. but in their hearts they do
not demean themselves.
The Italian masses feel. confusedly
perhaps. but deeply. that all this ma
Evening star., 1934-01-28

youth "non-contaminated by ideas Of
discord and unruliness," as I read in a
recent Official report. But every one
knows that such words mean prac-
tically: A youth which hears but one
sound and one program. youth which
Is used to not thinking
The ideal Of Fascism Is to instill into
the whole of Italian youth a collective
sense of life. Enrolled in the same
camp, wearing the same uniform. obey
ing the same orders and the same
creed, adolescents live and work in
common. From his cradle the little
Italian is considered in terms of his
function in the state.
This is great happening in the
psychology of modern peoples. Italian
youth is trained and educated to see
nothing but the life of the state. This
was true also in ancient Rome. Indeed,
the whole juvenile organization of
Fascism corresponds in appearance to
the framework of the ancient Roman
army. Fascist education as whole
boasts. briefly. to be able to produce
young generations having an increased
sense of the ancient Roman virtues Of
order, discipline, courage, heroism.
Fascist Efforts Greatest
Therefore it is in the matter of mill
tary training that the Fascist organ
ization makes the greatest efforts.
These efforts are not restricted to the
cod teaching of wretched corporalesque
principles" They consist in exalting
the will to fight together with, for
that matter. the strictest sense of
hierarchy. This, translated into prac-
tice, means that every Sunday the edu-
cational staff, in uniform, seconds and
aids the Fascist officers in giving the
younger generations their army train
ing.
For the Fascist celebration at the end
OF last October-one of the features of
Fascism Is to organize spectacular
events-one even saw this: The ma
chine gun fighting men. grouped in
units, officially and solemly handing over
their machine guns TO the juvenile
fascios, so as to endow with their own
weapons the machine gun nests of the
fighting juvenile fascios" What a
beautiful thought, these juvenile ma
chine gun nests!
Will all this work? On will the secret
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tionalism" with which their present
leaders are trying to put them to sleep
and intoXicate them-as in other Euro
pean countries. for that matter-is but
a formula which denies the very history
Of our nations, and Is but the lazy de-
fense Of people who cannot look ahead
For what, in fact. ails Europe? The
bounds Of Europe today are too strait
for its economic and intellectual poten-
tialities. In the midst of so much
hatred and SO many hazards this as
sertion may appear optimistic. And
yet. has the big change not come about
under our very eyes? Thirty years age
one could be English. French or Italian
-" Nowadays one cannot. Those very
writer's who furnish the gospels of ma
tionalistic hatreds would be desperate il
their books we're not read. translated
commented on beyond their frontiers
Our needs, intellectual and economic
run over our frontiers; German prob
lens, Italian problems become Euro
pean problems.
Time Important Factor.
Before this novel fact one has a
right to wonder whether agitations fol
formulas of hatred which can be cata-
logued after the color of shirts are not
somewhat like the growing violence OF
bombardmentS on a front several miles
long during the war; the terrifying but
glad announcement Of imminent re-
treat
1t may be. certainly, that the crisi:
will be too long for our lives to wltnes;
the end of it But for those of us
who have neither ambitions nor ha-
treds it is JOY enough to feel that the
future will vindicate the ideals tc
which We were true.
At the dawn of this future. I. an
Italian. feel with certainty that the
Italian soul will be Of the readiest tc
merge itself with the new life. 1t will
show also how Italian it has remained
not in words but in its deep essence
which was that of our loftiest minds
from Dante to Mazzini. and of our
simplest and limpidest natures. from
Francis of Assist to the peasants in
arms who. in 1917, in the face of inva-
sion fought and died in the hope that
their children might see a world less
cruel and less stupid.
Evening star., 1934-01-28
Friction Between France and Reich
Threatening in Saar as Vote Nears

If German sovereignty we're restored
and were followed by a wholesale perse-
cution of the residents known or sus-
pected to have been French sympa-
thizers. French intervention might con-
ceivably be provoked.
The Saar Basin thus seems almost
certain to become during the next II or
Is months the gage of battle between
the French and Germans. OF itself the
region is small. having population OF
slightly more than three-quarters OF
million and an area of 1888 miles. But
in this diminutive free state nearly
20 900 900 tons of coal are produced
annually. almost half as much as in all
France, and this coal is as vital detail
in French economy as the Saar market
is an important detail in the prosperity
OF Alsace- Lorraine.
AS I said at the start the RESPONSE
bility for the existence of a Saar ques-
ton today must rest squarely on the
shoulders OF Hitler g. Co. And the
same Is true in the case Of the present
Austrian affairs Before Hitler came the
people of Austria were Overwhelmingly
| favorable to union with Germany, just
as the people of the Saar were united
in their desire to return to German
rule. But in Austria the Nazis played
into the hands of Italy and the little
entente, who oppose Austro German
union, and in the Saar they have put
valuable cards in French hands.
The fact that the Germans have quit
the League obviously handicaps them
now. when the plans for holding the
plebiscite are being made. Their alb
sence also deprives them Of voice
when the appeals against the NaA ter
rorism are being carried to Geneva.
And there is no mistaking the fact that
the representatives Of the League in the
Saar are both apprehensive and aroused
over Nazi performances. There have
been many incidents Of q disturbing
character and more seem inevitable.
Danger Of Embodiment.
That the population Of the Saar Ba-
sin is not only wholly German but also
UP to very recent times eager to revert
to German sovereignty is beyond chal-
lenge. That even now, wholly aside
from the effects of the terroristic CAM
paign Of the Nazis, the majority might
decide for the German allegiance Is at
least possible. But it Is also similarly
possible that the Nazi policy at home
may have produced q change N the
sentiments of the Saar.
The trouble Is that there Is now no
real way Of settling the matter II the
actual vote should be close. Both sides
would then cry fraud. France and Ger
many would be directly embroiled and
even If actual hostilities did not result
Immediately the dispute would con-
stitute another insuperable obstacle to
Franco German understanding. Hitherto
the differences between the countries
at least on the territorial side-have
been over questions which affected
France only indirectly. questions such
as that of the Polish Corridor, Upper
Silesia and Austro-G German union.
In the Saar. however, France and
Germany come directly into collision
and it Is impossible to ignore the fact
that. until the Saar issue Is settled In
fashion satisfactory to both, 1t must
constitute q grave danger to tranquility
now and an obvious threat to future
(copyright. 1o34.)
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
K. OF E. PARTY FOR
CHRISTMAS FUND

At committee meeting of the lee
turer's staff and officers of Father
Butler Council No. 968, Knights of
Columbus, held at the K. of c. hall,
plans were furthered for the charity
card party and dance to be given by
the council at the Fenmont Center,
Friday evening, November 16.
Proceeds from the affair will be
used to defray the cost of the annual
Kiddies' Christmas party given by the
organization for poor children, and to
replenish the charity division of the
K. of C. treasury.
Edward D. Willer, K. of G. lecturer,
will be general chairman of the party
and dance. Other committee chairmen
are: George Smith, dance; j. Earl
Gray, card party; Frank DieMar, spe-
cial features. Ed Smith, treasurer of
the affair, and George Braegger and
Edwin VonDerHaar, secretaries.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
CIVIL SERVICE
EXAMINATIONS

The United States Civil Service
Commission has announced open COM
petitive examinations as follows:
Automatic ga addressograph oper-
ator, $1,440; FL and F-2 addesso-
graph operator, $1,260; graphotype
operator, $1,260 year, departmental
service. Closing date, November 23
1884.
Junior financial statistician, $4,000
a year, securities and exchange CON-
mission. Closing date, November 26
1884.
Steel plate engraver (picture and
vignette), 1920 day and $500 an
hour for overtime, Bureau of Engrav-
ing and Printing. Closing date, No
vember 20, 1884.
Assistant engineman, steam-elec-
trio, S1,680 year, departmental serv-
ice. Some vacancies to be filled al
$1,860 a year. Closing date, Novem-
ber 26, 1884.
Junior parasitologist, $4,000 year
Bureau of Animal Industry, Depart
ment of Agriculture. Closing date
November 26, 1884.
Assistant foreman, brush factory
(solid back, staple-set brushes), $1,86(
a year, Leavenworth Penitentiary
Closing date, November 80, 1884.
Full information may be obtained
from Stanley B. Kimble, secretary OF
the United States Civil Service BoarC
of Examiners, at the Hamilton post
office.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
ACCIDENTS LESS
in SEPTEMBER

Of the 12,508 injury and occupation
al disease claims filed with the Ohio
industrial commission in September,
148 were filed by Butler county work
ers.
Of the Butler county total one was
fatal, one caused permanent disability,
80 caused over seven days of lost time,
"a caused seven days or less lost time,
and 1872 were medical cases causing no
time loss. Butler county's time loss
for the month was 1,473 days.
Ohio's total claims filed for Septem-
Der were 1919 less than in the pre-
ceding month, and 254 under the rec
ord for September last year. Accident
severity in Ohio was correpsondingly
reduced, the rs fatalities listed being
% less than the August total and 19
under September, 1888.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
DR.. Smith ELECTED
LEGION HEAD

At the meeting of Frank Durwln
Post No. 1873, American Legion, held
last Friday night at the Legion home,
no the New London pike, DR.. William
E. Smith was elected commander, sue
ceeding DR.. Hugh J. Baker. Other Of
ficers elected were as follows:
Herbert Getz, vice commander; 0.
R. Lesser, adjutant; Carlisle Law,
treasurre; Richard Braun, Howard
Warren, E. E. Mccormick, Carl Keller
and Constand Brugman, executive
committee members; Darrell Wilson
and Jonathan McElhaney, color-bear-
ers; Fred Krahenbuhl, sergeant-at-
arms; Roy Lentz, memorial trustee,
and Sam Carr, historian.
DR.. Smith and the newly-elected
officers will be installed Sunday, No
vember II, at the Armistice Day BAN
quet at the Legion Home, under the
direction of Jack Hendrickson, of Gin
cinnati, district commander.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09

night, at Jeff's Garden. All other
events of the observance will be held
on Sunday. These include memorial
services, luncheon, parade and foot
ball game.
The memorial services will take
place Sunday at Greenwood at II
o'clock a. m. and will be conducted by
the officers of the Frank Durwin Post.
The luncheon will be at the Legion
clubhouse at 1890 p. m. At 1:30 the
big parade will form on the west side
and will march over Main street, High
street, and to the fairgrounds, where
a football game will be played.
Announcement is made that Rev.
William P. O'Connor, now pastor of
Deer Park Catholic Church, Hamilton
county, and former national chaplain
Of the American Legion, will lead the
memorial services at Greenwood, and
will he the principal speaker at the
MONDAY luncheon at the Legion club
house.
Reverend O'Connor, during the war,
was a first lieutenant chaplain, serving
as chaplain with the One Hundred and
Thirty sixth Field Artillery until
April II, 1919. He was overseas with
his regiment and saw action in the
Aisne- Marne, Oise-Aisne, MeuseAr-
gonne and defensive sector at Bacca-
rat. He served as national chaplain
of the American Legion under Nation
al Commander Alvin Owsley during
1922-1923.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09

granted. Mr.. Heenan will return to
the strike area as soon as he deems
further intervention likely to do any
good.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
LABOR
To Investigate Civil Liber-
ties Union

New York City (ILNS)-William
Green, president Of the American
Federation of Labor, has accepted the
American Civil Liberties Unions in
vitation to investigate the charge that
the A. G. L. u. is communist-controll-
ed. The union had invited examina-
tion in protesting against allegations
in Mr.. Green's report to the president
on communist activity that the A.
C. l.. U. was a "subversive" organi-
zation.
Green wired Harry F. Ward, chair
man of the A. c. L. u, as follows:
"I assure you I do not wish to do the
American Civil Liberties Union and
the men associated with it an injus-
tice. / hold many members of the
Civil Liberties Union in high esteem
and high regard. For this reason will
make inquiry suggested in your tele
gram"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
The Right to Work
By EDWIN MARKHAM


Ma Ma OF the
To ask life the VOLTS hold in his
quick of lies
1t is the slender rib the bone.
ask labor, a of delight
to
hands,
They like patience sea
sands.
a labor, and his right O labor
Not all strange that right the
destroy;
making of bones,
will stand at the last of things the of crumbd
thrones.
Copyight by
duedwth his
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
EMERGENCY RESOLUTION No. 1878

Approving an amendatory agreement submitted
by the United States of America, amending
the Loan Agreement dated February l, 1894,
and amended March 81, 1884, between the
City of Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, and
the United States of America, under the pro-
visions of the National Industrial Recovery
Act, to defray the expenses of reconstructing,
extending, enIarging, improving and repair
ing the Waterworks of the City of Hamilton,
Ohio, for supplying water to the corporation
and the inhabitants thereof, P.W.A. Docket
No. 1438, and authorizing and directing the
City Manager to execute said amendatory
agreement with the United States of
America.
WHEREAS. The United States of America
has submitted an Amendatory Agreement
amending the Loan Agreement dated as of
February /, 1884, and amended March 21, 1884,
between the City of Hamilton, Butler County,
Ohio, and the United States of America, under
the provisions of the National Industrial Re-
covery Act, and pertaining to the reconstruct
ing, extending, charging, improving and re-
pairing of the waterworks of the City of
Hamilton, Ohio, for supplying water to the
corporation and the inhabitants thereof, P.W.A.
Docket No. 1888; and
WHEREAS, Said Amendatory Agreement is
now on file in Council and
WHEREAS, The subject matter contained
herein constitutes an emergency in that it pro-
vides for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, property, health and safety of the
citizens of Hamilton; the reason for said
emergency is the immediate necessity to con-
tinue work said project in order to provide
necessary work for the unemployed in accord
ance with the purpose and spirit of the N 1.
r. A.
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the
Council of the City of Hamilton, Ohio:
SECTION +: That the Amendatory Agree
ment amending the Loan Agreement dated
February /, 1884, and amended March 81, 1884,
between the City of Hamilton, Butler County,
Ohio and the United States of America per-
tanning to a grant and loan to the City of
Hamilton, Ohio. by the United States of Amer
lea for reconstructing, extending, enlarging.
improving and repairing the waterworks of the
City of Hamilton, Ohio, for supplying water
to the corporation and the inhabitants thereof,
known P.W A. Docket No. 1888, now on file
with Council, be and the same is hereby ap-
proved and adopted.
SECTION II That the City Manager be
and he is hereby authorized and directed to
States of America the following Amendatory
City of Hamilton, Ohio:
AMENDATORY AGREEMENT dated as
1884, between the
CITY OF HAMILTON, BUTLER COUN-
TY, OHIO, and the UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.
WHEREAS, A Loan Agreement (therein and
herein called the "Agreement''), dated as OF
February L. 1884, executed by and between
the City of Hamilton, Butler County, Ohio, and
the United States of America (P.W.A Docket
No. 1889. and
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1934-11-09
WOMEN OF MOOSE
PLAN PARTIES

Hamilton Chapter No. 28, Women Of
the Moose, are planning for two par
ties. One, Thanksgiving party to be
given after the next meeting, Novem-
Der Is, and a card party to be given
at the Moose home, Friday evening,
November 16.
The following members were named
a committee to have charge of the card
party: Mrs. Anna Getz, chairman;
Clara Booker, Nettie Sponner, Mrs