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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-07-16
GENEVA MEETING HERE

The International Geneva AS
ISOLATION will meet in Washington
in July, 1910, the Greater National
Capital Committee announced yes
terdaV.
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Spanish Veterans
Outing Tomorrow

Tomorrow, the anniversary OF
the day the Spaniards hauled
down their flag at Santiago, the
Districts United Spanish Ameri-
can War Veterans will hold an
outing at Marshall Hall. The
First District of Columbia Volun-
teerS took part in the Santiago en-
gagement. There will be athletic
events during the morning and
afternoon, and dancing abroad the
$50 p. m. boat.
b SOCIALISTS TO MEET
Y The Socialist Labor Party will
hold its bimonthly educational
meeting tonight at 8 o'clock at the
Annapolis Hotel.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-16
Your Health
BY DIR. MORRIS FIsHBEIN-

GENERALLY, the presence of white blood cells in
~ your veins is assurance against infection and
disease For these cells fight the germs that invade
your body.
But there is a condition in which there are too
many white blood cells, and that in itself Is extreme
y dangerous. That condition is called leukemia.
The white blood cells manufactured in the
marrow of the bones and in the Emphatic tissue,
like the Spleen the tonsls the appendix, and similar
organs. Those cells that made in the bore mar
row differ from the ones made in other places.
The cells that are made in the bones have the job
of fighting infection. Whenever germs invade the
body these white blood cells accumulate They are
found in large numbers in the pus or in the matter
that comes out of infected wounds or bos.
WE are not quite about the functions of the
w white blood cells that formed elsewhere in
the body Probably they concerned with the way
in which the body ressts poisons of various kinds.
There are a number of diseases in which the
white cells are involved. Sometimes they do not
grow properly so that immature cells produced.
In such cases the lymph gland and spleen begin
to enlarge and so many immature white cells appear
in the blood that they crowd the red blood cells out
of the bone The patient gets weak and sick
and anenlia develops.
The result is the disease called leukemia, which
means white blood When the blood of a person with
le,emia is allowed to settle many white cells are
present that thick whitish layer forms over the
heavier red blood cells
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Times Books

Europe will give America 10 or Is more wears of
- freedom from general war of new econop,ic
coHapSe we shall probably be able to reform o,r
economic structure sufficiently to avert disaster IF
II ooeSn reform will be delayed full generation
ana by that time it won't make much difference
WHeClef we reform or not, because it will be too late
This is the pleasant little warning contained in
our Lords and Masters" by that ANONYMOUS writer
VINO calls himself "the Unofficial Observer" (Simon
& Schuster $500
Reform generation hence he saws will he too
late Tor the simple that by that time our de-
Ginning birth rate will definitely have shifted world
performance to the Orient
Europe Is rushing toward catastrophe; if we can
SET our mouse in order before the deluge we'll and
good. II not our descendants will see the world
taking orders from Asia
L IS this authors idea that some 25 men rifle
l. the world today. He includes in this list of world
rulers such statesmen Roosevelt Baldwin Hitler
Stain and Mussoni; such private citizens as Rookie.
teller Morgan, Schacht, Deterding and Norman.
spiritual leaders such Pope Plus XI and Gandhi:
and mlltarlsts like Voroshilov and Blomberg
So, in his book, he sets out to examine all of
them and the nations and forces which thew repre-
sent.
His book is stimulating, but 1t is weakened by
ms 1ondness tor saying things in a striking way
winch, II l am any judge, leads them into many
woefu inaccuracies.
However, you'll find it interesting even if YOU
will need to keep a salt-shaker handy (By Bruce
Catton)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-16
Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ

TIME establishment of National Research Coun-
l. Gil fellowships has proved one of the most i'm
portant items in the advancement OF American
science
These fellowships are sometimes referred to as
electorate fellowsnips since they awarded to
candidates who have already obtained their Phi. D.
degrees.
More than decade ago, leaders of American
science recognized bad situation. There
scholarships to help brilliant student through his
undergraduate days. There scholarships and
fellowShipS to aid him in continuing his studies and
researches until he had obtained his NJ. A and Phi.
D. degrees
But from that point on, he was expected to
make his own way In many cases this meant in
terrupting program of ul-time research at the
very moment when interruption was most unfortu-
nate.
Accordingly, some is years ago, the National
Research FellowShips were established with funds
furnished by the Rockefeller Foundation. So far,
a total Of S3,615.37978 have been expended.
TINE four awards made under the American
l. Chemical Society for works in pure chemistry,
established by DR.. A. G. Langmuir few years ago,
won by past fellows of the council, Dr. Isaiah
Bowman, chairman of the council and president Of
Johns Hopkins University points out.
Repeatedly the outstanding in science
found TO have held National Research fellowships'
DR.. Bowman says I'm the Judgment of many lead
ing physicists and chemists the brilliant advances
in chemistry made in the United States during the
past decade and perhaps more strikngly in
physics, have been largely due to the opportunity
given to superior young men to pursue advanced
work in the post-doctoral period.
During the last year, the National Research Coun-
Gil has supported a total of So fellows at a cost
OF s22l ,92773. For the coming academic year. the
council has appointed only 60 fellows because of
Stricted funds.
Another important activity of the council is the
awarding o. so-called grants aid" These funds
also come from the Rockefeller Foundation. They
are granted by the council support or aid research
work which is already under way Their purpose is
10 assist sma-scale projects if important which 9TH
erwise would suffer from the lack of technical as
sistance instruments. or field work.
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Sometimes they number as high
as $4,000.
EVEN though Emperor Halle
- Selassie has made great eff
forts 10 stop slavery among his
people, he throws all traffic into
a hopeless tangle in Adds Ababa
when he goes out anywhere.
For his retainers straggle be-
hind his royal equipage for miles.
And this is SO even when he rides
in his American automobile. His
speed is kept down so his slaves
can keep up.
But though this ancient prac-
tice of trading humans for money
still fourishes in Ethiopia, Selas-
sic promised in 1882 that he would
free all the 100000 slaves in his
country within Is years-and the
promise was delivered to the
League of Nations and to the
Anti-Slavery Society's commits
sion which went to the country to
study conditions.
Actually the slaves are on
par with the beasts of the field.
They have no rights and they
must work from dawn to dusk.
Their raises, who own them, treat
them according to humor. Some
day the ras may be in filthy
humor and many slaves may re-
greet the day. Other times he
may treat them with great be-
nevolence.
Slaves have no recourse to the
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Only One Interpretation

DUT in the New York Herald Tribune the other
~ day saw a saying from the mouth of Jeffer-
son. submitted by David Vents, and it seemed to
me that here at least was quotation subject onlv
TO one Interpretation. Instead, in brief compass
Thomas Jefferson wrote the complete answer to the
red-baiters and their twin brothers, the proponents
Of loyalty oaths
Jefferson explaining the aims of the Uni
Verslty Of Virginia to friend, and he said:
This institution will be based upon the ilmitable
freedom OF the human mind For here we are not
afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead nor to
tolerate error long is left free to COM
bat it
Those brave words, and if we assume as is
our privilege, that he really meant them, then we
have right to say that Thomas Jefferson would
have fought loyalty oaths for teachers with great
bitterness. He would have scorned the attacks of
any red-batng politician publisher upon his uni
versity.
Copyright. 1885,
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THE majority OF these worthless
- besport big boards, little
boards, bushy boards, scraggly
boards or neat boards. Their pay
averages around $40 a month
but these diplomatic dignitaries
have their own slaves, if you
please!
If the gardener discovers that
an unmannerly and rowing goat
has left his trademark during the
night on the legations front lawn,
he may be seen summoning one
of his slaves to clean up things.
Such labors are not worthy of a
high class Ethiopian gardener!
When a visiting ras comes to
town, he is usually straddling a
donkey. Added to his weight
and often the ras is fat and
plump-are all kinds of rich trap
pings of bright colors.
The only compensation the
luckless and bowlegged mule gets
is the fact that at least he can
share some of the shade of a
gaudy umbrella that is held over
his masters head upon all occa-
sions.
But behind this visiting poten-
tate, shambling with tireless gait,
comes small army of slaves,
bare of foot, but equipped with
rifle or sword. And the bigger the
ras in general Importance, the
bigger the army of slaves behind.
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Literary Notes

George JOEL of Covici-Friede, has taken on the
additional Job of handling publicity for the newly
organized Heritage Press which is entering the pub
fishing business Nov. with series OF de luxe edi-
tons OF the classics to sell for IS copy
The first books to be issued will be David Cop
per1eld, illustrated by John Austen; The Song of
Songs, illustrated and Illuminated by Valent An
gelo; The Scarlet Letter" with illustrations by W.
A. Dwlggins, The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet"
illustrated by Sylvan Salvage "A Shropshire Lad"
decorated with 30 pictures by Edward A. Wilson,
and Manon Lescaut" illustrated by Pierre BriSsaud.
The Survey Of Persian Art" which oxford Uni
verslty Press will publish. is nearing completion and
a prospectus is now available to those wishing to
consider subscribing. The Survey" of which the
number of copies available is strictly limited will
consist of five Volumes containing approximately
TOO pages of letterpress. upward of 200 plates in
color. 1900 plates in monochrome and many text
illustrations and in the fifth volume photography.
The price of the ordinary edition is $3.50 and Of the
deluxe edition s210
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courts, for they have no standing.
One reason why Ras Tafari's
proclamation decreeing the hber-s
alton of slaves gains little head
way is that the judges and the
local raises have tacit under
standings, which simply nullify
the imperial order.
COME Europeans who have
~ studied slave conditions in
Abyssinia return to report the
slaves are contented and as long
as their bosses feed and house
them, they are satisfied to work
his farms, his fields and patrol his
herds.
That is sophistry, for the Abys-
sinian slave has no alternative.
He began his life of slavery when
so young that he can not remem-
Der whence he came.
Maybe some have vague recol-
lections of great forests, tall trees
and huts-but that's all. If they
fled, they wouldn't know where to
go.
Freedom is out of the question.
He has a synthetic freedom, which,
so long as he acknowledges a
master, permits him to wander
through the villages and forests
on his masters property.
TOMORROW-Hunting Slaves.
Copyright. 1885. Telegraph Press.
HARRISBURG Pa
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Trembling Editorial Workers

GO much excellent material comes into the press
~ through these volunteer contributors that any,
body who works on an editorial page, or near it,
must tremble for the security of his Job. 1t has
been demonstrated that an excellent column can be
mace up largely of contributed material and think
1t might be possible to have an editorial page COM
posed wholly of the material sent in by letter
writer's 1t would not however, be to my se-interest
to make any such suggestion.
nope the ladies and the gentlemen who come
forward with the words of wisdom from this great
one or another quote their dead heroes correctly l
am IN no position to check up on them
Thomas Jefferson seems to be the favorite of
most contributors. The of Monticello appears to
grow IN public esteem. But, as in the case of the
scriptures his words used by both right and
lett wing partisans to prove their points.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-16
In Europe It's Different

THE American citizen is free to roam anywhere
II within his country from state to state without
a passport and subject to only the normal suspicion
which strangers arouse in some places.
traveller preparing to visit Europe is impressed
with the simplicity and freedom of travel in the
United States. There are many countries IN Europe
with consuates scattered all the Island of Man
haitian.
The Russian consulate is the most luxurious It
occupies gorgeous mansion on 5th-av. The Rus
slams charge S11 for admission to their country but
they demand, in addition deposit of SIS a day
first class or So day second class to cover the ex
penses of the visitor in Russia
The prices of visas range from nothing at the
japanese consulate to $1737 at the Rumanian Great
Britain charges $40 Hungary $434 Austria So
France 1884 Spain ST 3d. Poland 81 O5 and Germany
SO cents. Lthuania charges dime
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were mainly Arabs seeking bust
ness for foreign markets.
TINE traders made huge sums
- of money. 1t attracted more
and more traders. The business
fairly doomed. The demand soon
exceeded the supply, so slave trad
ers began raiding neighboring
countries to fill their orders.
And it grew to be so appalling
the cruelties practiced became
such that official representations
were made to the emperors of
Ethiopia by foreign governments.
AS late as 1890 Great Britain
protested to Halle Selassie after
a sudden and vicious raid by slave
traders across the borders of
Kenya left a trail of dead, dying
and wounded.
Emperor Theodore was the first
Negus Negusti to realize the in
humanity of this traffic. He, the
first of the enlightened rulers of
Abyssinia, tried to clamp down
the lid.
But he might just as we'll have
thrust his fingers into the Blue
Nile in the hope of hating it's
flow, for all the effect his orders
had.
Slave trading had fastened it.
self, barnacle-like, to the Ethi-
opian scheme of daily life, and it
would take more than a few Or
ders to stop it.
THEODORE'S efforts were
L. followed by those of the
great Menelik II, and Menelik
had this advantage: under his
reign, the nation had become one
unit, the chiefs, or raises, being
ansWerable to him.
Thus where Theodore had to
work in patches here and there,
Menelik could tackle the problem
on national basis and expect
support from the chiefs and get it.
Today, of nations 100000
people, 100000 are actually
slaves. 1t is estimated that about
one out of every four persons in
Adds Ababa is slave. Not nice
situation to contemplate.
But Ras Tafari has succeeded in
getting laws passed which now
make it capital offense to i'm
port new slaves. 1t has put
something of a stopper to the
business, but the i'll effect it has
had is to turn the slave traffic of
Abyssinia to bootleg channels.
If you know the right boot
logger in Ethiopia, you can quite
easily get a nice new slave any
time you need one. Profits are
still to be made in the running of
''black ivory" and so long as prof
its remain in any business there
always will be humans who will
go after the profits. irrespective of
laws or galloWs, guillotines or cleo
trio chairs.
Everybody worthwhile and even
halfway worthwhile in Ethiopia
has at least one slave. Usually the
slaves number in double figures.
There are Ethiopians employed
at the United States legation in
Adds Ababa-most important
fellows they are, too-chauffeurs
gardeners, scrubwomen, doormen,
flag raisers, Wallets, f1unkeys in
ordinary and extraordinary.
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made to turn back the stays
among this tide. and many ragged
males were arrested as Migrants
The women and children were not
molested. Eventually, the effort
to restrict or sift immigration
was abandoned.
Floridas restriction amounted
to nothing more than an unof-
fetal proclamation by the Gov
ernor, who is politician Of the
familiar type and an immigrant
or carpet-bagger himself, hailing
from Brooklyn. The Governor
was in favor of halting undesir-
able immigrants at the Georgia
line. The test of deSira hilitv was
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countries. thus Emperor
Selassie has read many
times the history of slavery
in the United States.
He is we'll aware that mass
emancipation is utterly out of
the question in his country. If
you ask him why-he will point to
the history books and recount to
you the tale of the chaos and the
horrors which followed Americas
attempt to do that very thing.
Kidding Ethiopia of the slaves,
he says, must be a slow, but
steady job. Each slave freed, must
be provided with a job to step
into so he won't become a bandit,
or charge on the country.
TN this he is using merely COM
u mon sense. Trying to eradicate
slavery from Ethiopia is like try
ing to abolish hot-dog stands from
the roadside of the great American
landscape. But SelasSie neverthe-
less has made inroads into this
nefarious and inhuman traffic.
And he keeps at it, month after
month.
His reasoning on this is sound,
too. And it shows he can look
into the future as well as the
present.
Some day, he unused a decade
ago, when he first came into alb
solute power, some great powerful
nation of Europe will use the
prevalence of slavery in Ethiopia
as an excuse to invade it's terri
tory rich in farm lands and min
erals. The obvious thing to do
was to remove the cause for the
excuse.
How sound was his reasoning
may be understood when one
reads the daily blasts from the
dictator OF Rome-the keynote of
WHICH is always.
Italy will bring civilization and
culture to Ethiopia"
Thus the very thing that Selas-
sic has feared has come to pass.
Ethiopia's slave trading is the Of
fetal excuse for the Italian in
vasion.
THE slave trade of Ethiopia
l. traces its origin back into
the wars of the long, dim past.
The first slaves were prisoners of
war Those wretches who were
unable to buy back their freedom,
or pay the ransom, were made to
serve their conquerors.
To thousands of human beings
this meant life sentence, few
having the ghost of chance of
ever finding enough money to
gain their freedom. Few escaped.
Wild animals made short work of
them-or other tribes slew them.
So, many slaves remained slaves
until their last breath. But at
least they were allowed to marry.
Many children were born. And
these continued as slaves.
Their children's children re-
manned slaves, too. And as Ethio-
pia was always warning, so their
prisoners increased in great num-
berS.
The cost of slaves began to so
up. Important personages, whose
community standing was rated by
the number of slaves and retain
ers they possessed, were ap-
preached by slave traders. These
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RUT of all hings-all the problems he has had to face
he has found his greatest difficulty in trying to abolish
slavery.
And he has found just about tough job as three
successive Republican governments of the United States
discovered the tough job to dry up America with
prohibition.
Selassie is not dumb. Far from it. He is widely
read man. Upon the booksheves of his palace you will
find virtually fction-but mostly volumes dealing with
social and economic problems of the worlds leading
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A Test of BackLUurdness

BELGIUM, Switzerland and Italy waive the visa
- but Italy probably will demand it now that the
country is at war. Certain consulaes also REQUIRE
from one to three passport photographs and the
more backward the nation the more laborious the
1ormalty OF obtaining the simple chop of rubber
stamp authorizing the tourist to present himself at
some border station some weeks hence and try to
get in.
In this country an Ohio wishing to go to
LIMOS may hop into his dashing motor car aim
II Gown the road and tear across the state of In
olana to Illinois without the slightest formatv But
IN Europe with enemies planted cheek to cheek and
friends separated by hostile stretches. they want TO
know details about the proposed visit Indiana"
wants to know who the father and mother of
the person wishing to Indiana" into perfidious
Illinois,, which is inhabited by low barbarians and
winch rlghtfully belongs to Indiana" ANYWAY ac-
cording to all fair historians
AND the illinois" people, despising the vile and
brutal boosters" and Suspectng them of plot to
oVerrun their country almost any minute want to
De sure that the visitor is not "Hoosier' spv or
agltator coming in to undermine the state of Hi
noiS' - ~
IL IS all strange almost unbelievable state Of
AFFAIRS 10 any one who is accustomed to the free
ana easy style OF travel in the United States Not
even IN the late Fascist state of Louisiana under
tne dictator were outlanders from New York mr.
Alapama required to show passports and give evil
oeice Cnat tney were innocent of political intentions
copyright 1885, by United Feature Syndicate Incl
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Eunough
BY
WESIbR00K

CALIFORNIA and Florida are the only states in
~ the American Union which have attempted to
restrict interstate immigration IN California about
year ago, with winter coming on and with Upton
Sinclair running for Governor a platform which
promised parsnips for poetry. there sudden
rush of immigration which considered undesr-
able. Most of these people had little no money.
and most of them made for the southern or sunny.
half of the state to escape the cold. Efforts
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simple. If family of Americans cattered up to the
immigration station outside Jacksonville pulsat-
ing f1lvver without money they undesirable.
They would be turned around and headed back to-
ward the cold country. while gamblers and hoodums
sailed swiftly by on the trains and planes to estab-
lish the winter quarters of the underworld in Miami
usual.
Nothing came of this effort, either, and although
the same plan is being proposed again this year
there will be no serious effort to enforce it.
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as deal particularly with the men
who made the Constitution, the
men who administered it, and the
men who interpreted it.
l will pledge myself to do the
required reading in the next two
months. 1t might not even be ask
ing too much to insist that candi-
jates for national Office should died.
icate themselves to approximately
The same kind of preparation. Quite
a few boners in regard to American
history have been pulled by men in
high places.
Such knowledge of American
history as / possess has been
plp9npd almost ep+iral1y from tho