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Evening star., 1935-10-27

miss the actions going on behind the
scenes. Their fondness for simple eX-
plantations in which the battle is be-
tween good and evil also leads them
to accept the present European crisis
at British valuation. All the Ameri-
can correspondents in Rome, all those
in touch with European realities. con-
tinue to report that Mussolini cannot
and will not yield. but these warnings
fall on deaf ears because of the more
pleasing forecasts set forth in the
propaganda emerging from Geneva
and London.
Whether the crisis is to end in war
or peace will not be clear now until
after the British election. Perhaps
the Baldwin government has not yet
made up its own mind. Possibly the
expression of public opinion evoked
by the campaign will prove the de-
cisive detail. But before the vote IS
counted Baldwin cannot modify his
present uncompromising stand with
out losing the election and, after
ward. his government may be COM
mitted too deeply to draw back even
if he would. That is the danger and
it is a very real danger.
The tragic truth, moreover, is that
there isn't any real basis for compro-
mise. To give Mussolini the irreduc-
ible minimum, which he must have,
would be to sacrifice every principle
to which the League is now committed
by its present stand. Ethiopia, the
victim of an unprovoked and un-
mistakable aggression, has appealed
to Geneva. If the League, in response
to that appeal, permits Mussolini to
profit by his course and to acquire
Ethiopian territory then all moral
values disappear. Old-fashioned di-
plomacy could make such compro-
misses because it was concerned solely
with peace and not with justice. But
if the League stoops to expediency, 1t
becomes morally bankrupt.
That is what makes Geneva such an
admirable instrument of British ma
tional policy today. The Italians have
broken the law, the League Is the
means of Furnishing the offender. The
British, for imperial and electoral
reasons as eager to punish the present
culprit as they were unready to punish
Japan in the similar Manchurian
aggression, are in the admirable sit
uation of exploiting the machinery of
Geneva in the service of King and
country. But British procedure SO far
has deprived the League of all SEM
blance of preventive usefulness and
turned it into a punitive implement
pure and simple.
Meantime Mussolini is ION the
spot Plainly he now expects that
the British will make war upon him,
for that is what he told ex-senator
Allen. There is nothing left for him
to do but wait. And, once sanctions,
whether economic or military really
interfere with his Ethiopian enter
prise, then there is nothing left for
him to do but declare war on England
and go down fighting. His back is
to the WALL. He failed to foresee the
line Britain would follow and now,
like the Kaiser, he may be called upon
pay for his blunder by losing his
place and Fascist Italy may be
smashed as was imperial Germany.
(copyrisht, 1880
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stopped eating up his munitions at
profitable. A million dollar run of
luck" recently all but broke the bank
"a bank that heretofore was regarded
as impregnable.
Last, but not least. the contribu-
tions of wealthy Greco o-Americans and
Anglo Greeks. which assisted the Veni-
zelists literally in the past. have dried
up with the deepening depression.
Marina Favored in Britain.
A cousin of George. the Duchess Of
Kent, formerly Princess Marina Of
Greece, is in favor with the British
court. 1t is rumored that If George
fails to make the grade i. e., if the
Greeks are dissatisfied with him the
Duke of Kent may get the job. Since
Marina is the mother of the only male
child in direct line for the British
throne it is doubtful if the Duke of
Kent could be lured from England.
But he is not like his elder brother,
the Prince of Wales, who is reported
to look with disdain on the imminent
necessity of ascending the British
throne Princes of royal blood usually
change their minds. Carol of Ru-
mania, Georges brother r-in-law, tossed
away the crown with smile and then
intrigued until he got it back. George
himself spurned the purple when it
was placed on his unwilling shoulders
in 1922, and now he is ready to risk
his life to wear it. He is like his
father in this respect.
Republicans Sitting Back.
While the Republicans aren't say
ing much in public as the plebiscite
nears, it is doubtful If they will be
Influenced by the overtures of the
royalists and accept permanently the
re-establishment of the monarchy.
Sporadic riots have occurred all over
Greece during the last few weeks and
the provinces are said to be still in
ignorance, officially. of the disbanding
of Parliament and the shelving of
President Zaimis and Premier Tsal-
daris.
The opposition newspapers. about
half the 20 dailies published in
Athens, have been suspended or CEN
sored. The republican leaders. Peri
cles Rhallys, former minister of in
terror, and George Papandrieu, are
watched closely, and the prisons are
full of suspected revolutionists. Two
hundred army officers are in exile,
Gen. Kondylis' offer to pardon any
who swear fealty to the monarchy has
had no effect. The threat of war in
the Mediterranean alone is the great
est deterrent to the republicans, who
do not wish to provide an opportunity
for the Fascists to annex a few more
Greek islands while the nation is torn
by civil war. Furthermore, the anti
royalists know that they can repeat
what they have done before-get rid
of the King at some future, and more
opportune date.
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1935-10-27
Demands of Farmers
Features Election

COPENHAGEN (P).-Denmark will
proceed to a general election on Oc-
tober %, to name a new lower house
In Parliament, with the problems and
demands of the Danish farmer one Of
the chief questions of the day.
The action of Prime Minister M.
Stauning in dissolving the lower house
and forcing q new election, has been
accepted as direct challenge to farm
er extremists who want further de-
valuation of the Danish krone.
The new farmer movement has in
dicated its stubborn resistance to
present government policy through the
recent peasant march" to Copen-
hagen and through announced plans
for a "valuta strike" to force devalu-
alton.
In disSolving the lower house the
prime minister is regarded by observ.
ers as playing for time and public
opinion. It is considered unlikely that
the new elections will greatly change
existing governmental alignments.
1t is in the farmer, who has suf-
fered severe financial loss during re-
cent years, especially in exports Of
dairy products to Great Britain, that
Denmark has an increasing political
confusion.
The farmer extremists now insist
on a devaluation of the krone to 80
to the pound, as compared with 22.40
krone to the pound at present, in or
der to receive more In krone for their
exports to Great Britain.
Government parties. seeking new
trade treaties, and trying to foster do
mestic industry as compensation for
blocked export markets in agriculture.
are vigorously opposed to further de-
valuation which would hamper i'm
ports of raw materials.
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European Situation Complicated
By British Election Next Month

entirely possible that he and his aSso-
ciates have made up their minds that
Fascist Italy and its dictator do con-
stitHte threat to the security of the
British Empire and must be smashed.
II that case. assured of the over
whelming support of the whole coun-
try, he can go forward to the crushing
of Italy. Even If he wants to avert
war. however, his task is going to be
10 fold more difficult after the next
election than before.
What the American audience must
perceive. however, is that the present
use of the League of Nations by both
the Tory and Labor parties in Great
Britain has nothing whatever to do
with peace. If the Labor party should
win the next election outright or be
able with the Liberals TO form coali-
ton cabinet, war would be inescap-
able. because both parties are now
convinced that there can be no safety
for Liberalism or trade unionism any
where in the world until Fascism Is
crushed. And in destroying Fascism
in Italy, they believe they will have
taken long step toward smashing it
in Germany.
War Made Inevitable
So far the Tory government has
taken a stand at Geneva which, If
persisted in, makes war inevitable. Up
to the present hour Great Britain has,
too, been able to drag France after
her because. although French reluc-
tance is patent, French concern for
her own security has held her back
from any open dispute with the Brit
ish. Protest against British intransi-
gence is, however, becoming steadily
more impressive in the French press.
1t was to satisfy this growing demand
for conciliation along with coercion
that Laval suggested the recall of the
British fleet. But to this suggestion
London responded by the maneuvers
off the Egyptian coast.
If, in the interests of imperial Sc
curity. the Tory government is now
resolved to overthrow Mussolini and
smash FaScism in the peninsula, 1t is
in an admirable position to accom-
p1lSll IIlCcC CIlQo. 61Sd1lloI IL ouSC dI1u
his regime the opposition in Great
Britain is more violent than the party
in power. In embarking upon the
Ethiopian campaign Mussolini has
outraged the pacifist sentiment every
where. And, in using the League of
Nations as its instrument, British i'm
perialism has enlisted in its own sup
port the champions of the League at
home and abroad and particularly in
this country.
Even assuming that Baldwin still
means to stop short of war, this be-
comes daily more difficult because it
involves the sacrifice of Geneva and
the alienation of the huge number
of those who participated in the peace
plebiScite. To 60 on now, on the
other hand-although continuance in
sures war-will dividc the opposition
at home and further enlist backing
from the League champions on this
side of the Atlantic. But it involves
using Geneva for purposes of coercion
and not of conciliation and as a means
of precipitating and not preventing
conflict.
Americans with their eyes fixed
upon the drama ct Geneva naturally
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Malta untenable by air attack, to close
the Mediterranean to British shipping
by her cruisers and submarines and,
finally, to invade Egypt from Libya.
simultaneously the military prepara-
tions for the Ethiopian campaign
began to take on proportions which
had been unforeseen in London and,
which, in the light of the threats now
coming from Rome, excited unmistak-
able apprehension among the tories.
Influenced alike by imperial and
elec oral considerations, therefore,
Baldwin sent Eden to Rome in August
to warn Mussolini that he must not
go on with his war, frontier changes,
a moderate increase of territory. this
London was willing to consent to, but
the war must not come off. 1t was no
longer possible for MuSsolini to draw
back-he had gone too far, aroused too
great hopes in Italy and sent too many
troops to Africa to retreat now. Thus
he rejected Eden's proposals and de-
clined to bow to the far more impress
sive warning of Sir Samuel Hoare in
Geneva.
Thereupon the British government
sent the fleet to the Mediterranean
and ostentatiously put Gibraltar,
Malta and Egypt on war footing.
Thenceforth the situation became
critical. Under the direct menace of
military and naval coercion, II Duce
could not retreat without committing
suicide. His own fortunes and those
of the Fascist regime must topple in
such case. The modern Caesar would
be disclosed as no more than a bark
ing dog bound to come to heel when
London whistled But the British
government could not draw back be-
cause over its head was suspended the
electoral threat implicit in the H.
100000 votes of the peace plebiscite.
Labor Party Trapped
That is the contemporary situation
and it must now endure at least until
after the election. Meantime the
British Labor party, fully aware of
the trap into which it has fallen, while
shouting that the forthcoming cam
paign is "snap" and stunt" affair,
finds itself without real issue. AS
he stole Ramsay Macdonald and most
of the more important leaders of the
Labor party four years ago. Baldwin
has now stripped Labor of its best
issue and at the same time again
thrown it into confusion by bringing
about the resignation of Lansbury,
Ponsonby and CrippS.
In all human probability, therefore,
Labor will lose the election. On the
other han, it is bound to charge that
the present uncompromising attitude
of the Tory government toward Italy
is a mere electoral dodge and it will
seek to force the Tories to go on record
to an extent which will make any
later willingness to compromise ap-
pear a plain betrayal of principle.
Baldwin may we'll come out of the
contemporary election with his hands
as completely tied as were those Of
Lloyd George in 1918. And If he does,
then an Anglo-Italian war is inevi-
table because Mussolini's hands are
also tied.
Now 1t may also be that Baldwin
does not want to compromise. It Is
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COnvicts Win Debate,
UphOlding Courts

SAN QUENTIN, Calf. tP.-Well,
anyway. the opposition had more ex-
perience.
Bobby Grayson, Stanford's all
America fullback, and Keith Top
ping, who shines at end, took the af-
firmative side in debating with three
San Quentin convicts the proposition,
Resolved, That Congress should be
empowered to overrule decision OF
the Supreme Court by a two-thirds
vote"
The convicts argued nightly In
favor of the power of the courts and
won.
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A WEEK from today, unless the
" cards are stacked. another Eu-
~ ropean King will have staged
a comeback. Former King
George II of Greece, already once
deposed son of the twice-dethroned
Constantine, will replace the English
derby which has covered his royal head
the last IL years with the slightly
tarnished diadem of his forefathers
and return triumphantly to Athens.
The stage is set History, during
the last few months, has repeated it
Evening star., 1935-10-27
BY MARK SULLIVAN.

n E UGH, very much, Of what the
M Republicans will do next year,
Iv including their choice Of a
fa IN,
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through an otherwise lonely
Christmas already have arrived,
and are being held until called for.
The foreign mail, which has to
go through the customs depart
ment, has increased in the last
year, since a customs office was
established here, Mr.. Cox says.
And your cousins in Berlin or
London can't fool you about how
much they paid for your gift.
For the value of it is stamped on
the outside of the package.
There's foreign mail from al
most every country, but there
hasn't been a single package so
far from Ethiopia.
Air mail service has speeded I'D
the Christmas gifts across coun-
try, and patrons still are aston
lshed to know they can mail a
package one night and have it ar
rive in a far-off state the next
day.
one woman, reading about the
new clipper service, brought in a
package which she wanted to mail
to the Philippine Islands.
I want to send it by, the new
clipper service she said. what
will be the postage?"
Advised that the cost was S1.5O
an ounce, and that her package
would take $76 postage, she
changed her mind. She's going to
send it as a Valentine.
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College Group
to Hold Ninth
Dinner Dance

Contribution of the Notre Dame
Club of indianapolis to Yuletide &C
tivities is the ninth annual dinner
dance to be held Saturday at the
indianapolis Athletic Club.
Robert Moynahan, general chair
man, announces that music is to be
by Ayars Lamar and his orchestra.
Mr.. Moynahan has chosen the fol-
lowing committees: Tickets, John
O'Connor, chairman, Lee WEIGH,
James Recap, Thomas Bulger, John
O'Connell; music, George Sauter.
chaiyman. Harold Miller, Thomas
Gillespie, John McMahan; arrange
ments, Francis Deery, chairman,
Charles Brown, William Barton,
Frank Lauck; reception, Patrick
Fisher, chairman, George Smith,
Thomas Fitzgerald, Frank Habig;
publicity, Clyde Bowers, chairman,
James Carson, Richard Pfeiffer,
John Kirsch, Frank Pitmann;
patrons and patronesses, co-chair-
man, Edward Sweeney and Robert
LANCER and Charles Brown, Edward
Kilrain, Robert Maley.
indianapolis Club officers are
Michael O'Conner, president: John
Ford, vice president; James Carson.
secretary; Thomas Fitzgerald,
treasurer, and James Recap, fresh
man vice president.
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JOBS DAUGHTERS
TO INSTALL HEADS

Miss Mildred Hasseld is to be in
stalled as honored queen of Job S
Daughters, Bethel l, at public serv-
ices in Castle Hall at 8 Friday.
Other officers to be installed are
Mary Margaret Love, senior
princess; June Billiter, Junior prin-
cess; Mary Ellen Billiter, guide;
Juanita Caldwell marshall.
Among appointed officers to be
installed are Elva Mae Jones, chap
lain; Lorraine Boyden, recorder;
Ninetta Kram, treasurer; Hortense
Herman, librarian; Alva Jean Cor
don, pianist; jeanette Rogers, first
messenger; La Won Beamer, Sec
ond messengers; Ruth Billiter, third
messenger; Mary Jane Quillin,
fourth messenger; Rose Ellen Gray,
fifth messenger; Daisy Mae Jones,
senior custodian; Lucy King, junior
custodian; Elizabeth Berry, inner
guard, and Ellen Byers, outer
guard.
Installing officer is to be Miss
Beulah Hopping She is to be as
sisted by Miss Regina Koch, guide;
Miss Virginia James, marshal; Edna
May Needler chaplain; Mrs. Ruth
Leonard, recorder, and Miss Mar
jorie Ferrel, pianist.
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Times Special

Times Special
CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. "a. - In a
candle light ceremony in the Thorn
dyke Hilton Chapel of the Univer-
sity of Chicago today marriage
vows were exchanged by Miss Ber-
nice Ramona Williamson, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Luther Milton Will
hanson, Berkeley, Cal, and john
Malcolm Ellis, Indianapolis, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert c. Ellis, Indian
apolis.
Silver leaves and white candles
decorated the chancel for the cere,
mony, read in the presence of i'm
mediate families and few friends.
Guests from Indianapolis includ-
ed Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. H. j.
Harris, sister of the bridegroom, and
Mr.. Harris. and John H. Daily, best
man at the ceremony.
Reception Follows Ceremony
Reception at the Shorthand on the
shores Of Lake Michigan followed
the ceremony. Chrysanthemums
from California centered the we'd
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Personals

Mrs. Charles Eichholtz is to leave
| tomorrow to visit her brother, Harry
Peckmann, and Mrs. Peckmann in
Altadena, Cal.
Miss Mary Riley, who has been
painting in Mexico for three
months, stopped off yesterday on
her way to her home in Washing
ton to visit Miss Ethel NJ. Moore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Cunning
have come from Boston and their
son, Harold Jr., has come from
classes at Cornell University to
spend the holidays in the city.
Miss Elizabeth Ann Elder, daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas A.
Elder, is spending the holidays at
Monticello College, Godfrey, Ill,
with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs John Moriarty and
children, Patrick and Anne, are
spending Christmas with relatives in
Ripley, Tenn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde E. Titus. 736
Middle-dr, Woodruff Place, are to
have as their holiday guests Mr.
and Mrs. Nicholas j. Demerath, New
York. Mrs. Demerath formerly was
Miss Helen Louise Titus. Norman
Essex Titus has returned from De
Paw University TO spend the hoii-
days with his parents.
Miss Norma Jay has left for White
Sulphur Springs. W. Va, where she
is to be the holiday guest of L. H.
Higenbotham, United States naval
officer
Mrs. Harry Scott is expecting Mrs.
George Trow, Toronto, Canada, for
the holidays.
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Californian Becomes Bride of
City Man i'm Chicago Cere,1on,

ding table, laid with a white satin
cloth and lighted by tapers.
The matron of honor. Mrs. c.
Mccormick Wilson II. Chicago and
Berkeley, appeared in a wine shade
dress with matching accessories
which she wore with a half garland
of gardenias.
Both Mrs. Williamson and Mrs.
Ellis wore orchid corsageS with their
gowns.
The bride, given in marriage by
Mr.. Wilson. was gowned in a blue
wool dress trimmed with gray Per-
sian lamb She wore a matching
hat and gray accessories. Her cor
sage was of white orchids and lilies
of the valley.
The bride attended the Univer-
sity of Oregon and is now attend
ing the University of Chicago. Mr..
Ellis attended Purdue and is a grad
uate of Butler University. He is
memoer of Sigma Chi Fraternity.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ellis are to make
their home at 540l Ellis-av, Chicago.
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Blame Yourself If Your Holiday Mail
Goes AStray Says the Postman

mas greeting cards never reached
their destination through the In
dianapolis postofflce last year, but
found their way to the waste
paper containers. That was be-
cause they had insufficient postage
on them, and were unsealed. This
year there are not SO many, but
large box on Mr.. CoX'S desk
rapidly is becoming filled. He
wants to save them to check on
how many were improperly
stamped this year, in comparison
to last,
'Of course, if they were sealed,
we would give directory service on
them. That is, we would write the
person to whom they are adj
dressed, telling him that postage
is due, and when he forwarded
that, would send the mail on"
One department of the postof-
flee is busy now, doing just that
with packages and letters. An
other is busy checking through the
city directory, putting correct ad-
dresses on letters and packages.
When every one else in this de-
partment has had a chance at
getting mail to its proper destina-
ton, it is turned over to Harry S.
Lane, who has been in this de-
partment more than 80 years. If
you live in indianapolis, Mr.. Lane
probably knows where. And if he
doesn't, no one else in the post
Office has much hopes of locating
you.
The general delivery department
is. a busy place at this season.
Transients who come to Indian
apolis near. the holidays, and re-
ceive their mail at the general
delivery windows, are not forgot
ten by their friends and families.
Packages to help them get
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Clubs to Greet
New Year With
Dinner Dances

Athenaeum and Maennercho1
members are receiving announce
ments of the clubs proposed New
Years Eve celebrations.
Dinners are to be served at 9 at
the Athenaeum and music for dane
ing is to begin at TO- A floor show
and group singing is to be on the
entertainment program
From 7 to 9 dinner is to be served
at the indianapolis Maennerchor
Walter ReuleauX's Bohemians are to
play for dancing. The entertain
ment committee has issued invita-
tons to active members, who may
bring guests.
Frank M. Cox and Franz Bin
ringer are co-chairmen of the
party.
Fir trees are to decorate the ball
room where colored balloons are to
float through the air. Wreaths,
holly and smilaX are to festoon the
walls.
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Juniors Pick
Monday for
Formal Fete
Meridian Hills Younger
Set Is to Take Part
in Holiday Party.

Sons and daughters of members
of the Meridian Hills Country Club
are to participate in the round OF
holiday celebrations with a formal
junior dance from to II Monday
night.
The committee arranging the
event includes Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Holmes, Dr. and Mrs. Willis D.
Catch, Mr.. and Mrs. John H Mes
sick and Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Lilly
The junior committee includes
Misses Jean Rau, Lucille Jameson
and Martha Jane Baker.
A lighted Christmas tree is to be
in one corner of the living room.
Some of the parties are to have
dinner at the club before dancing
to music of Van Miller'S orchestra.
Members and their guests are to
attend formal dinner bridge party
Saturday at the clubhouse as a con-
cluSion to the clubs 1885 activities.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph L. Flood and
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Langsenkamp
are chairmen. Dinner is to be
served at Z.