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Evening star., 1935-12-17
Premier Says Pact Was Drawn to
Prevent European War.

ITelHIeT says L dCL was DioNh w
Prevent European War.
(Copyright. 1885. by the Associated Press)
PARIS, December 1.-THE Cham
ber of Deputies, by vote of 3o6 to
242, assured Premier Laval today Of
its confidence in his program to settle
the Ethiopian war.
Earlier the premier had dared the
Chamber to overthrow his government,
declaring he refused Ito go to Geneva
under humiliating conditions"
He called for the showdown after
he had made long defense Of his
reasons for assisting in the formula
ton of the now famous Franco-Brit-
ish plan for peace between Italy and
Ethiopia.
He told the deputies he had fol-
lowed the British lead in last ef-
fort" to prevent war in Europe and
asked that the Chamber postpone dis
cussion of the plan until the League
of Nations had acted on it. He Sug-
gested the discussion be December u.
Socialists, however, called for dis
cussion December 20.
AT Geneva" Laval declared. 81 will
follow only the policy I outlined this
morning. If you consider it danger
GUS. do not wait until December 81"
Pact Last Effort"
He had told the chamber he and
British Foreign Secretary Sir Samuel
Hoare agreed on their proposals for
settlement as last effort" Applica-
ton of an oil-coal-iron-steel embargo
gainst Italy-an additional war PEN
atty, discussion of which the Anglo
French peace plan interrupted
threatened, he said, to lead to war"
In a spirited defense of his &C
ton in advancing the peace pro-
posals as basis for settlement, de-
nounced by critics as a reward to
Italy for its declared aggression on
Ethiopia, the premier declared:
Article XVI of the League cove
nant (providing for sanctions) could
have engaged in war. Believe me
that I weighed the meaning Of my
acts"
1T is up to Geneva and others to
do what they see fit" the premier as
serted, throwing the issue to the
League of Nations Council, which
considers the proposals tomorrow.
Defending himself against charge
that he acted outside the League,
Laval asserted he spoke I'm the name
of a country which respects its under
takings."
He insisted he and the British
foreign secretary were qualified to act
as they did since they were "in ac-
cord with the League"
Evening star., 1935-12-17
FASCISTS DRIVEN BACK.
Officers Killed in Retreat in North,
Rome RepOrts.


ROME, December II (P).-The long
awaited general battle in Northern
Ethiopia, toward which the Italian and
Ethiopian Armies have been maneu-
vering for weeks, appeared to be under
way today, with the first engagement
resulting in an advance by the Ethio-
plans.
The italian government announced
that italian troops had retired before
an attack of about 5000 Ethiopians
on the northern front.
The communique stated:
Notable enemy forces estimated at
5000 armed men attacked our ad-
vance observation posts on the TAX
kaze River near the ford of Mai
Timchet "Our Eritrean troops. after
having put up a bitter resistance,
Withdrew to Dembguina Pass.
Tanks, Planes Called Out.
"At the same time, another group
of Ethiopian warriors crossed the
river valley, making a fanking
movement in the region Of Scire, the
population of which has submitted
to us.
"The enemy maneuver resulted In
a battle that now is in progress and
in which, on our side, air forces and
detachments of tanks are taking an
active part.
"In the first engagement, four Of
ficers and nine national soldiers were
killed and three officers were
wounded.
"The losses among the Eritreans
were several dozen dead and wounded.
1.-THE enemy losses are not de-
termined, but they were considerable. /"
BRITISH RETREAT SEEN.
Evening star., 1935-12-17

CONTINUED From First Page)
League affairs, had announced that
stand last week, and it was stated
he probably would not change his
position.
The cabinet leaders, however, pre-
pared their defense of the plan to be
presented in Thursdays Commons
debate. The Evening Star asserted
Baldwin would declare that sanctions
against Italy, and even the League
itself, had failed.
Evening star., 1935-12-17

John H. Hanna, president OF
the Capital Transit Co., shown at
the Public Utilities Commissions
hearing, where an avalanche Of
complaints about both rail and
bus service fell around him.
2-William NICK. Clayton, chair
man of the Public Utilities Com
mittee of the Federation of Citi-
zens' Associations, who is taking
an active part in the hearings.
Clayton is demanding improved
service.
3-James L. Martin. executive
secretary of the commission, in
PRODUCING in evidence 333 written
protests against the transportation
service. Star Staff Photos.
Evening star., 1935-12-17
Plan Is Condemned.

Plan Is Condemned.
Condemnation of the peace plan
came from the National Council Of
Labor, which adopted a resolution
denouncing ANY form of settlement
which awards territory or political
or economic advantages to an aggres-
sor at the expense of victim"
Laval was sanguine on the question
OF his participation in the peace
parleys. II accepted the ideas of
Great Britain" he related, ION whose
understanding with France depends
Our safety"
Those proposals, he related, repre-
sented the limit of Franco British
efforts to settle the war. Leftist
deputies shouted insults at him, the
right wing and part of the center
Rpplauded.
Meanwhile diplomatic sources said
italian Ambassador Vittorio Cerruti
had brought Laval demands for
further concessions in Ethiopia for
Premier Mussolini. II Duce was re-
ported to be asking the right to build
q railroad swinging west of Adds
Ababa and joining Italy's East African
colonies of Eritrea and Somaliland.
These sources added Italy also wants
the colonization zone in Southern
Ethiopia, suggested in the original
plan, extended to include a triangle
adjoining the Sudan.
Council Meets Tomorrow.
The Importance of today's British
cabinet meeting was heightened in
light of Thursdays scheduled barrage
of questions directed at the govern
ment in the House of Commons and
tomorroWs meeting of the League of
Nations Council, which will review the
Franco-British peace proposals.
Informed sources indicated the
Government will pledge continued
support to League collective security
and application Of sanctions against
Italy if the peace plan collapses.
Thoroughly informed sources at
Rome said they believed Premier
Mussolini was certain to accept the
Franco-British peace plan, with res
ervations
These reservations, it was said,
would place on France and Great
Britain the burden of showing that
Italian commercial activities in the
projected zone of influence had not
been pre-empted by native or foreign
interests.
Men high in the Fascist party said
the Italian Army could take whatever
1t desired and would resent being
turned back by an incomplete diplo-
matte settlement.
These charters said the Franco
Evening star., 1935-12-17
Woman, go, Prefers Jail.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, December IT
R).-Leona Skalsky, so, sentenced to
serve 80 days in Jail or to pay $100
fine yesterday for shoplifting, choose
jail.
'At my age" she commented later,
IT couldn't earn $l00 any easier
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SOMETHING LEARNED

" MOVING full we'll that another Lusitania Incl
M dent might drag us into another foreign war,
the American people generally have applauded Presi-
dent Roosevelts proclamation warning citizens not to
travel on any vessel which flies the flag of a bel
lgerent power.
This attitude contrasts markedly with the emo
tona DellicoSity which greeted proposal of the
policy during the World War, and suggests that we
either learned something from having fingers
burned or that neutrality moves today are much
better timed than they two decades ago-per-
haps more the latter than the former.
In January, 1916 the Gore NcLernore resolution
was introduced declaring it to be the sense of Con-
gress that Americans should not travel on armed
beigerent vessels. This resolution was greeted with
thunders Of abuse from breast-beating champions
of freedom of the seas" What was our Navy for
anyway, if not to protect peripateUic Americans in
their right to travel anywhere they pleased in any
manner they pleased. The resolution was over
whelmingly voted down, opposed even by the neu-
tray minded Woodrow Wilson.
1t is important to remember that January, 1916
was IS months after the outbreak of the World War
eight months after the sinking of the British Cunard
lines Lustana, and Is months prior to entrance
into Europe's Public opinion being rapidly
whipped up to war pitch.
Today although fearing that the Italo- Ethiopian
conflict may spread to Europe and eventually en-
danger our own peace, American public opinion for
the most part is Unconditional and dominated by an
intense desire to stay out any war that is not our
own, regardless of the cost. How long this will be
true only time and events can determine But while
1t remains true, the Roosevelt Administration should
lose no time in completing and popularzing pro-
gram of positive neutrality.
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POLITICAL POTATOES

IF the potato control law were at all enforceable
~ it might serve to demonstrate how far the AAA
principle could be extended without creating more
problems than it solves.
The AAA was conceived in an attempt to right
the economic wrongs which our protective tariff
policy had inflicted upon four basic American crops
cotton, wheat, tobacco and corn-hogs. They were
once big export crops. But our tariffs which choked
off imports also choked off exports, leaving those
crops burdened with prce-depressing SURPRISES.
BY applying the tariff principle inversely the
AAA succeeded meaSurably in boosting the prices
of those crops and the profits of those who raised
them. 1t succeeded so well that growers of crops
not in the eXporsurplus category speedily pettoned
Congress for the medicine. Politics being what
it is in this Notwithstanding by pressure
groups-the AAA dollhouse was extended by law to
include sugar cane, sugar beets rice, peanuts and
finally potatoes
1t is useless here, we believe, to argue in eco
nomc terms that what has proved a temporary rem
edy for the export surplus affections of the basic
crops would necessarily prove good medicine for
crops that are in the economic dumps for entirely
different 1t is useless because the argument
now raging around the potato control enforcement
issue is political rather than economic.
Secretary Henry Wallace, being leader in the
Roosevelt Administration would like to forget the
law not only because he knows it is unenforceable
but also because he knows that any attempt to en-
force it would make the AAA ridiculous and give
the Republicans a popular issue.
Republican leaders know this, too and they hope
the secretary will be forced to act against his bet
ter judgment If a serious attempt is made to en-
force the law good Republican strategy would be to
see to it that the back yards of Republican city
jewellers throughout the country are plowed up to
produce bootleg potatoes aplenty to lven up next
years presidential campaign
BY comparison, the late prohibition experiment
would be made to sane.
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TUESDAY. OCTOBER 8. 1885.
RECOMMENDING LOYALTY

THE American Federation of Labor in convention,
Il has been asked by its executive council to
amend its constitution to bar from Office or inau-
ence, Communists and others seeking violent over
throw OF government, and to suspend unions in
which these radical elements are represented.
On the face Of it, this seems to be highly patrio-
tic policy. But, analysed, it represents what might
prove grave danger to any minority labor element
Why? For the simple reason that the final author
lty TO define what is Communist would rest with
the powers that be in the A. F. of L.
Human nature being what it is, it isn't difficult
to convince yourself that those who are against you
are dangerous radicals bent on violent overthrow"
even though the overthrow might be directed at the
powers that be rather than at the government. So
it does not take stretch of the imagination to
visualize situation under which the "ins" to per-
petuate themselves in office might classify all "outs"
as Communists and by that simple process stay in
Power to eXpel your enemy under definition of
your making and through use of a rule that you
yourself have set up may easily lead to tyranny in
any organization
We sympathi2e with the A. F. of L. leaders in
their hatred for Communism and all that Dictator
ship government stands for, but we can't classify
this part Of the executive committees program as
either labor craftsmanship or democracy.
tt proposal is piece with such other attempts
to regiment loyalty the Dorgan teachers loyalty
oath in Massachusetts, and other similar suppress
sive endeavors.
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A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
BY Mrs. Walter Ferguson -

+ there's BOY in your family you've probably
been approached already on the subject of Christ
mas presents Perhaps you keep list OF such re-
quests for reference and consult it before you begin
shopping. If SO, I'd like to suggest book for it:
0ky-Hlgh the Story of Aviation" just published
IN an enlarged edition by Little Brown g. Co.
Everybody knows how hard it is to find the right
sort OF book for the impatient youngser in the house
and yet would Christmas be Christmas without
new book? 1t must hold his attention and appeal
to his imagination by emphasizing adventure Be-
cause it traces the history of mans most daring en-
deavor-aviation-"Sk High" does that.
1t is, as you see the story of a dream; glorious
once hopeless dream which in your child's time
has come true
Nothing in the annals of the race has been so
stirring as the conquest of the air. 1t is true that
electricity, the moving picture the radio are magical
things, but they have not been long alive in mortal
imagination. Primitive peoples could not even con-
Jure up an idea of such benefits. But ever since
the beginning of his existence, man has longed to
fly Watching the birds above him he has specu-
lated about initiating them.
More than all, this book reminds Won very forcibv
that the line marking the difference between YES
terdayS fool and todays hero is very thin In this
generation we cheer what past generations laughed
to scorn. Without the first funny attempts made by
those queer fellows in earlier days, the Wright
brothers. Lindbergh and Wiley Post might have
gone forever unsung. The following ironic note in
the books dedication pokes gentle fun at SNUG folk:
TO the memory of those persistent gentlemen who.
since the recorded history Of flight began were al
ways quick to assert that it could not be done
IN the hope that this story Of courage and sacri-
fce may make them turn, now and then uneasilv
in their graves
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-10-08
GOVERNMENT COSTS MONEY

Government is to be with us increasingly, Clar-
ence Manon, Indiana National Emergency Council
director, said in a recent address at the convention
of the Indiana Municipal League.
The director pointed out that the public demands
more roads more educational facilities and that a
vast field Of governmental activity barely touched
as yet lies in forests, water power and minerals
All Of this should interest the average citizen
deeply. Average citizen is the source of what it
takes TO carry this increased governmental &C
tiyity-tax money
Unless every dollar of tax money buys full value,
this government development quite conceivably can
reach proportions where the average citizen will find
it difficult, if not impossible to pay the bill
The citizen is the employer of those who spend
tax money Election time is hiring time, and tax
payers who want efficiency in government must do
some serious thinking, and in the future about
those who aspire to Office
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Urges MiddIe-of-Road' POLICY

BY E. ]. Meeman
When the early Christians con-
templated the evils that had
come to the Roman world from
sensuality, and experienced the
joys that came from a spiritual
life, many became ascetics, be-
lieving all bodily enjoyments evil,
and giving them up. 1t was many
centuries before the Christian
world recovered from this idea,
and learned that wholesome
bodily enjoyments are not incon-
sistent with Christian ideals.
Today similar misconception
is gaining Roadway in the world.
Some people, seeing the damage
that has been done by greed, and
seeing how much can be accom-
plished without the profit incen-
tive, have become Communists,
and declare that the ownership
OF property is all wrong and must
be given up.
This idea, unless displaced by a
sounder conception of property.
will Go harm, even as the ascetic
idea did.
If individual ownership of prop
erty were entirely abolished, there
would be loss of human dignity.
Instead of having money in our
pocket to buy what we please in
goods and services when and
where we please, we should be-
come a world of misunderstanding
at ticket windows. Instead of
negotiating in a friendly way
with merchants on a basis of
equality, we should be at the
mercy OF rude petty bureaucrats.
Those who have been common
soldiers in the Army in war time.
or on relief during depression,
know how annoying, and some
times how humiliating, such a sys-
tenn is.
But there are consequences of
far greater importance than an
noyance or humiliation. There is
reason to believe that without in
dlVidual ownership of property
there would be no individual lib
erty. We should become slaves
of the state. Where we now SUI
Ter from the acts of property's
men who love money too much,
we should suffer from the acts of
propertyless men who loved power
too much and got a kick out of
lordlng it over us. We should have
no property of our own and not
many rights and opinions of our
own, either.
Let us have a nation in which
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green envy the solid black surplus shown in the Re-
publican accounts.
Presidential Reflection Campaign Manager James
Aloysius Farley studies with purple perplexity how
to keep the voters from thinking toe much about
the crimson tide Of Arabic numerals flowing daily
from the Treasury Departments comptometers.
But in spite Of all this Mr.. Farley apparently has
not gone color blind and has not turned pessmist
In Chicago, Mr.. Farley announces that the SO
Democratic national convention will be held in
whichever city makes the highest bid.
If any city bids enough to wipe out the whole
s417OO0 deficit OF the Democratic National Com
mittee, we will know that prosperity has indeed
rounded the corner.
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POWER-DRUNK DICTATORS
CARE NOTHING FOR GRIEF

By Subscriber
Humanity is standing in the verge
OF disaster beause of the greed of
the makers of death dealing instru-
ments and power drunk dictators.
They care nothing for the grief of
the mother who has watched over
and cared for her son from baby
hood to manhood. He is torn from
his loved ones and sent out to muir
der or be murdered. He is told he
is a hero and other things that will
boost his ego. Such rot!
War is made for the purpose of
stirring hatred among members of
the working class so that they will
forget for the moment the misery
and starvation saddled on them by
The owning, ruling class.
AS long as the worker is too lazy
to think for himself and do things
for himself, he will remain where
he is.
Labor should realize it is time to
unite and GUST these tyrants by the
power of the vote. Socialism points
the way to a cooperative common
wealth which can abolish war and
starvation and gain peace and Sc
curity for humanity. Until we
Danish war and misery we are not
fully civilized.
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WOULD SHARE EXPERIENCE
AS WELL AS WORK, WEALTH
BY III. l.. S.

BY III. L.. ).
So far This depression has cost 27O
billion dollars. Since the depression
is over and prosperity has returned
according to our Pollyanna politi-
clans and some boys of the fourth
estate, may suggest that, as an
experiment, we now permit those on
relief work and the dole to exchange
jobs for six months with those who
have had jobs all during the de-
preston? The depression would be
over then for a new group for at
least six months. We have talked Of
sharing the wealth and sharing the
work, so now why not share the ex-
perience?
When enough new faces from the
ranks Of stuffed shirts appear at the
relief stations for the work relief
dole, we can say they are all equal
before the law. So far, we have
fixed a scarcity economy for those
who produce goods. Let's start at
the top and try this scarcity econ
omy on those who forced it on the
relief victims.
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every one shall own a comfortable
amount of property and no one
snail own an excessive amount.
Every man should not only have
a vote; he should own a part of
his country. Only where property
is widely held is power distributed.
We are far from that ideal to-
day. Most Americans do not own
any property to speak of. Mil
lions are on relief; millions live
from hand TO mouth; millions are
in debt. Many who had been
thrifty lost all because the COM
panleS in which they had invested
their money were plundered by
financial racketeers.
A Communist agitator destroys
property only in theory. an insult
destroys private property in fact.
Many sharecroppers on planta-
tons, miners in mining camps,
workers in mill villages, owned
body and soul by the corporations
they are working for, dependent
on the company Store-theSe en-
JOY none of the blessings of the
system of private property we are
supposed to have. They could be
no worse off under a Communist
system. Yet young Mr.. Wander
bllt, who was married the other
day, starts out in life with $780,
100000.
Our task it to make private
property a fact in America in
stead Of a pious wish. Undoubt-
edly that is the sincere intention
of President Roosevelt. Yet he
has been allowed to take only q
few short steps toward that goal.
BY his bank deposit guaranty
act, by his securities act, by his
holding company act, he has made
invested savings much safer. BY
his Federal housing act, by meas
ureS for farmers and labor, many
will no doubt become property
owners who were propertyless be-
fore. This he has done without
making any one poor who was
rich.
Those who think that the re-
cent Congress was too radical
see danger in the wrong direc-
ton. The question is: Shall We
allow things to drift until prop
ertyless millions, with no stake in
the present system, overthrow
private ownership? Or shall we
make this nation of property
owners in fact as it has been only
in theory?
Let statesmen, undeceived either
by alien European theories or ma
tive American illusions, give the
answer.
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is derived from the Latin word
luna" Ghe noon, and CORE
spending words n French, Span
ish, Portuguese and Italian are
similarly derived The derivation
thus embodies the old belief that
persons mentally afflicted were
affected by moon changes.
Q-Who is the chairman of the
United States Employees Com
pensation Commission? What is
his politics and when does his
term expire?
Airs. Jewel w. Swofford, the
chairman, is a Democrat. Her
term expires March IA, 1889.
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Questions and Answers

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Q-Is it true that the moon af-
fectS the minds of human beings?
A-The popular notion that the
moon affects the mind, causing
periodic insanity, has no founda-
ton in fact. The term "lunatic"