The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, August 23, 1929, Page 12

THE BI (NEA Service Writer) Washington, Auc. — Every dist this country seems to have more ae . ihe VOune plate Te more foreign affairs. The first tew jsn't our show and it would be em- months of the Hoover administration ing if we had to take sides be- have found enough of them on the the British and the other pow- + griddie to call for frequent confer-|crs involved. Our official attitude ts enees between President Hoover and ions are a purely Euro- Sceretary of State Stimson though the Allied na- But as far as your correspondent m with debt payments can learn, we have very little to worry s, First Secretary Edmund | | | Philip nd? 5 payments about. In so far as the international of our embassy in Paris situation is concerned, Uncle Sam has been acting as unoffictal observer hasn't been getting his fect wet. at The Hague and has kept the State Negotiations with E nd over Department thor hly informed. disarmament, carried on Premier ‘The French debt issue is settled for | Ramsay MacDonald, President Ho ent by the ratification of the | Secretary Stimson and Ambassa n-Berenger agreement, though | Dawes ever since Dawes reached Lon- again to raise its head. don, appear to be progres: favor- ave been made since the ably. Perhaps owing to the firm debt was funded at the sum of four policy of secrecy maintained by both |billion dollars. Thanks to ratifica- governments, available reports of tion, the French did not have to pay their progress have aiternated be- a ate $400,000,000 owed for war tween hot and cold. But lately these which would otherwise have reports have been all to the good come due on August 1, but is now in- there is every reason to belicve t cluded in the four billions. The debt the announced determination of both is to be paid in 62 annual install- Hoover and MacDonald to reduce ments, with no interest until 1930, one armaments is going to bear fruii per cent interest for the next 10 without any undue hitches or un- yei two per cent for the next 10 necessary procrastination. and on up to three and a half per Parity Seems Closer jcent from 1965 to 1987. ‘The present prospect is that there} We have not been involved in the will be a further reduction in size |Russo-Chinese peace negotiations at and in numbers of capital ships or !Manchuli, recently broken off. Our first-line battleships and that the|part ended when Stimson invoked ates |the Kellogg treaty and urged the two and England will be brought r er |nations to get together for peace in- to parity. We have already halted |stead of war. The negotiations have our cruiser program and it been direct and the State Depart- } England will reduce hers and tha ment has not been in close touch with * will not plan on complete replacement developments. | as her existing cruisers reach the age We're Still in China } | Stimson recently decided that it 5 too early to grant China's re- ‘st for abandonment of American | which France, Japan and Ita are extraterritorial rights in her territory. / being kept advised of the progress A recent note told the Chinese very | negotiations, but it is assumed that politely that we didn't believe she | they are let in on any concrete de- had quite met the conditions under velopments. For there is now some which we would give up extraterri- talk of a formal disarmament con-|toriality, but that we would consider | ference, as carly as December, of the the matter again whenever she did. five naval powers participatory to the |The next move is thus up to the Chi- mn arms conference, whose! nese. mext scheduled conference was for, A score or more representations 2881. This conference probably would have been made by as many foreign be held in London and it will be thor- nations regarding provisions of our oughly discussed in advance if Mac-| proposed new tariff law. On these Donald adheres to his reported inten: the State Department has been act- ; tion of visiting Hoovershere in Octo- ing only as a transmitting agent, for- | ber. warding all such protests to the Sen- | Qur government is keeping well out ate finance committee. | GOING PLACES AND SEEING THINGS Chicago.—Maybe most of the!operatic experiments have produced fangsters were up in the hills on’such a modernistic piece as “The , their vacations when I hit town, for Light of St. Agnes.” That it gives + all seemed quiet along this particular' the theatre a bigger hand than - western front. That its population is Such gents of the netherlands as ing ahead, That its art- 4 I was allowed to look upon are not rt galleries will challenge 4 unfamiliar figures about New Yor! it’s American and of 1} They are tho suaver upper st + who may been seen at ringside tab} + of the costlier Broadway supper sclf. It s you to study its man- ) clubs when the winter sports are un-/ners and customs and to find there- 4 der way. And if you can believe my, in a reflection of all that is various- 7 informants, most of them came from|ly hectic and fine in the national Brooklyn. picture, eee oe cruiser fleets of the United imit. The State Department T anhattan is, land s ent unto it- off on an i The more genteel Chicagoans were! Its politics are, of course, its pol- \ engaged in convincing me that,/itics. And no politics have heen / gangs or no gangs, Chicago is soon stranger or more involved. This, + to be the largest and wealthiest city} they will tell you, is a transient in America. | phase. , E Not even the Los Angeles booster ean do much more than rival the ar-| i attered, it will point out. Its dent Chicagoan. Calling upon some} own face Al Capone, they add ex-San Franciscans I was amazed to| with indulgent smiles, is a regal find them completely wooed away.|sort of person in the smarter sports They would have nothing of Man-|of Florida, whereas Chicago would hattan; they would be content to pay|never take him half so seriously. 8 visit to their old west coast town iehosuahd . —but Chicago held their loyalty. Its river and lake fronts are stu- woe dies in shipping methods. Quaint Meanwhile Chicago builds fabu-|river boats ply ahout among bright its gangsters have geograph- j lous park spots and civic centers; tints its waterways with flowers and trees and shrubs and stunning arch- itecture and spans its lake front and shining lake liners. The aspect lof the market place, with all its ra- diating rails, is vastly impressive. For scattered all about are the agri- with’ boulevards. jcultural zones which supply the na- It boasts a greater artistic daring | tion. than Manhattan, Its good folk re-; Manhattan h its suburbs and mind you that it was a gent from|s ies, but Chicago has _ Chicago who made the skyscraper) the soil of its neighbor. The sea] what it is today and that a group|cr and ranger for hundreds and even ' of Chicago architects designed the; thousands of miles about speak of last word in modern cloud touchers.|Chicago as the shopper speaks of It reminds you that Chicago has|her favorite store. an opera company unique in the} Manhattan to them is, of course, _ Music world and tosses its publjc}a national playground; but Chicago} » moneys lavishly into the enterprise.|is their market basket. That it stole Mary Garden, for in-| GILBERT SWAN. | Stance, from New York. That its | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Ine.) HORSES TO SCHOOL | f{ .London.—Two of the carriage horses YOUR ij Fecently presented to the king and’ gun ef Bngme.cocat «xd ss’ CHILDREN ip must bg ri gue and take bd ee Jessons fore they are allowed in i ; processions. They are “schooled” | & lve Roberts Barkem Fiding school of Buckingham j OPS by NEA Servicetine in the midst of clamor and similar to that created by bands | A tired child will do all sorts of ¢rowds during public demonstra- {things that he'd never dream of do- ing when he's fresh and rested. Tired nerves are responsible. A wise teacher knows this and makes allowance for the restlessness and fussing that goes on during the - last quarter of the afternoon session. Wise mothers know it, too, and watch for the signs. 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