White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1935-07-11
HIGH LIGHTS
of
THE NEWS

THIS WEEK, the Spokesman initi-
ates new feature, column OF para
graphs to be devoted to worldwide and
local news. It will be our endeavor to
comment on, analyze or interpret a
few of the multitude of events occur
ring each week before they have passed
to their rightful places in the history
books or into the oblivion of the past.
AS time marches on, our horizons
become broader and broader. Formerly,
occurrences outside our own locality
had little significance or interest for
us. BY the time we learned Of events
at distant points, they had become
history instead of news.
Today, the daily newspapers and
the radio bring us the news within u
few minutes of the time an event has
taken place, while the magazines are
not much slower in bringing us their
Interpretation of the event. Our hori-
IONS today are not the mountains or
rivers which form the natural boun-
diaries of our locality, but tomorrow.
They are no longer measured in space
but in time.
We shall not attempt to give our
readers the inside information on ma
tion-wide or worldwide events, nor to
forecast future events, but to comment
on or interpret events which are Of in
terest to our readers or which may
have future significance to them.
If we are able to increase the inter
est and news-worthiness of the Spokes-
man, we shall have accomplished our
only purpose.
MARS HAS AGAIN stolen the spot
light. This time Italy, one of the ma
jor world powers, and Ethiopia-or
Abyssinia--, a small Negro kingdom,
are the probable antagonists. Since
December a. Italy has been making
threatening gestures an
apology for an incident which is as
yet uninvestigated. Ethiopia counters
by threatening to combat to the last
man any armed invasion.
Reasons for Italys desire for war are
entirely debatable. Some authorities
point out that Ethiopia offers vast
field Of fabulous natural resources;
others that since Ethiopia is bounded
on both the north and south by italian
colonies, the conquest of that Kingdom
would give Italy large territory for
colonization; and others have yet more
reasons.
Probable results of a war between
these nations are alike entirely de-
batable. On paper Ethiopia has a
much larger force, consisting of the
most Warlike natives in the world. The
terrain is distinctly to the disadvan-
tage of the Italian troops. However,
Italy seems determined to conquer
Ethiopia, and to avenge it's defeat at
the hands Of the Abyssinians in 1896.
Since the fighting, if there is to be
any, cannot begin before about the
first of September-the end of the
rainy season-there is still time for
many unforeseen developments
POLITICS, preceding the 1886 cleo
lions, take on further developments
with the formation of a third party
the American Commonwealth Political
Federation-at convention in Chica-
go Saturday Its platform will be based
on production for use and a sharing
of the wealth.
Formation of this party is signal
for other third party movements to
materialize. A spokesman of the far
nerlabor party says that Huey Long
will be it's candidate for president.
Down in Louisiana, while his legis-
lature is passing laws as he dictates,
Long brands President Roosevelt as a
liar and a faker"; and up in New
York, Senator Borah is mentioned as
a possible Republican candidate for
president
Even though the 1896 election is
still fourteen months away, the public
will soon be deluged with rumors and
conjectures as to who will oppose
Roosevelt.