Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, December 20, 1923, Page 12

onenes ote enihat sn cama eet wats cy moe m™m PAGE TWELVE NTER WHEAT: GHEAGE {5 CUT). DOWN NATION Over 40,000,000 Acres Planted, Says U.S. Crop Report. WASHINGTO —Winter wheat Was sown 000 acres,,or 12 the revised which was 4) condition of the 1 was 88.0 pe compared with in 1921 and age, the dep: said ‘The area sown to rye 1s 4,377,000 acres which is 15.1 per cent less than the revi area sown la fall, which was 5 000 acres. The condition of the crop on December 1 was 89.9 per cent of a normal compared with 84.3 a year ago, 92.2 in 1921 and $9.9 the ten year aver age. Tho area sown m year avor- ent of agriculture to winter wheat and the condi of the crop on December 1 in the principal pro- @ucing states includes Pennsylvania, 1,240,000 acres and condition 92; Illinois, 2,000 and 88; Nebraska, 3,104,000 and 91; Kan gas, 10,081,0 nd 84; Washington 550,000 1 Oregon, $96,0 and OPE REVIEWS WORLD EVENTS (Continued from Page One- ed, “unfortunately have not changed for the better.” Ho recalled that the letter he ad @ressed to Cardinal Gasparri, papal secretary of relative to re leving the calan 1 of centra Europe, was ha py results but he sa remained to be done be terness and all kinds were inc with the approach Cardinal Gasparr appealed for help to the nuncios of credited countries having an abundance of wheat, and the pope said he trusted this appeal might bear results suf ficient to relieve the suffering. The pontiff expressed gratifica- tion over the abundance of help. re- ceived from all sides and gave thanks for the efforts put forth to save from death many unfortunate people in central Hurope and the Near East. Turning to Russia he voiced anx- fety for the life of Archbishop Zep- Na! “who still suffers in fetters in his prison,” but against these rea- sons for sorrow there were to be put reasons for rejoicing, such as the holding of the Eucharistic congress. es in Paris and Geneva, the honors rendered in the sixth centenary of St. Thomas Aquinas, the commen oration of St. Josaphat, and finally the visit » Rome of the §S ish sovereigns “who d g their entire sojourn in this eternal city, both in our presence and before the Ro- noblest testi- nd thelr devo ostolic s¢ man people, gave the mony of their fait to the in the loy. » the church ognize them Pope Pius conc Qddressing the card “We an co to you the good news tha questions of Ireland, which is so dear to your heart, are happily approaching settlement, W have comforting assurance of this in the recent pastoral letter of Card. inal Logue, while the latter news confirms { ROME, Dec. 20.—(By the Assocl. aed Press)—Pope Pius XI, at a sec ret consistory lay created two Italian cardinal They are Evariste Laclai, papal aud and Monsig ner Aurelio Gal‘i, director general of the vat! useum, WAR BUDGETS OF 22 NATIONS ~ ARE SLASHED RY Woop has just 1 tics fr 1 uers on the at budgets up current fisca! 5 2 FE EE GEE EEE of status of thi to the armami end of the ow that as a mat st 22 nations not ased thelr arma ter of fa only have not incr ments budgets during the past two years, but have actually brought about reductions. England ces the best showing as her 1921-22 armament budgets of 202,000,900 pounds have been brought down to 132,000,000 pounds for -4 period. rance has also made a most se fous reduction in arm: tt 5 France’s national defense expendi-| ture in 1 6,998,000,000 francs, | while the national defense t ' voted for 1923 is only 5,37 00 fran In ‘Holland the total defense ex penditure has fallen from 119,000,000 Morins in 192% to 105,000,000 florins 4n-1924, a tained “‘politicals’ died before the hunger strike was called off, but within a day of the announcement jot the alleged “agreement” tx tween Repbulicans and Free Staters, ih) “INNA CHRISTIE” WILL | BARNEY GOOGLE’ PLAY AT THE AMERICA In all the history of motion pic- s. no mightier scene ever has been screened than the “crux” scene “Anna Christie,” Thomas « H. ‘s latest picture offering, which will be shown at the America The- atre starting Saturday. Adapted from Eugene O'Neill's successful stage play, the scene has been filmed with even more daring than mark ed the stage offering. It portrays a girl, deserted in childhood by her father, who thinks he is helping her by sending her far from the tn- fluence of the sea which he fears, trapped into a eoafession of the Nfe into which her father’s spurn ng of responsibility forced he When she tells her father, thinks her a lovely Madonna, and her sweetheart, who has fallen in love with her “because she ‘is the first decent woman he ever has known,” just what she haw been, the scene works up to a dramatic fury almost unbearable in its intensity. Blanch Sweet, George Murion and William Russell are the actors in the | powerful sequence. This is a First National release. } who The sensational forest fire scenes in “Sears of Jealousy,” which closes ut the Iris today, Thomas H. Inc thrilling drama of the old and south, comes at the climax of th tory when one of the “Cajan” hill/ men has been arrested, charged with | the murder of a revenue officer. His brothers, in revenge for his arrest, set fire to the forest whjch surrounds the cabin in which he is held. A mob which has gath. to lynch the hated hill man is the crackling blaze and “Cajar with the help of a girl, makes his escape only to dis. cover that the fire has circled them and that they are entrapped in a ring of flames. win Lioyd’s. you be the lucky one at HUNGER STRIKES IN ERIN DISCOURAGED 1923, by United Press.)] of CHAPTER IL DUBLIN, Dec. 20.—(United Press) —The collapse of the Republican “hunger strike” policy, as inau- gurated by political prisoners in Irish jails, has further strengthened the hands of the Free State govern- ment, and in well-informed circles is regarded as marking the end of internal troubles in southern Ire- land (as differentiated from the in- tractable minority in northern Ire- land—or Ulster). The Free State government al- lowed the Republicans to suggest that the hunger strike policy had been called off as a result of nego- tations between the Republicans and Free Staters, but the fact was that as soon as the Free State gov- nment allowed it to be known that any prisoner who wished io starve himself to death could do so, without hope of publicity or na- tional martyrdom, the hunger strike collapsed. Called Off Strike. Two prisoners of some (Copyright, up 7,000 de- the. number of hunger strikers dropped to 200. The refusal of Bishop Cohalan of Cork to allow a church funeral to one of these le- ceased hunger strikers proved the final straw, and hunger striking as a means of martyrdom became at a discount, | Bishop Cohalan, and one othr | Roman Catholic clergy, declared that hunger striking was virtually cide and that the would-be martyr not entitled to the last com forts of religious rites; further, that was the Republicans’ campaign against the Free State had been responsible for untold misery and destruction, and that the originators or sup rs of this policy were not en titled to individual or national sym pathy Supported Clergy. The “Black Women" and extreme Republicans raged against “ thi church dictum, but the main body | of Jrish opinion support the | clergy. Frankly, Ireland was tired | tions, 24 SKEEZIX, HERE'S SOMETHING “OUARS OF JEALOUSY” = = CLOES AT THE IRIS. | GRANOMA BROUGHT YOU FROM THE COUNTRY. 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WE GOTTA KEEP UNDER. .COVER Tilt We GET NO, HONEY. 1 THINK You'D> BETTER KEEP z : THEM APART JUST ae fg ER 5 , 69 LONG 2% You Ee NICE To 7 KITTIES! “Os ee see Irish government and parliament, the average Irishman failed to see a further reason for Irish martyr- Fighting obviously actuated by the very am- ‘The reason is not far to seek./ bitions for which they were fight- scare Beet Grinding Young men, without war experi-| ing, decided to treat such “heroism” .- 1, who felt it h ic t dasc , ” sana "the countryside: in. mrmoret a2 mere “monkey treks." they very] Campaign At naturally decided to call it off. | u Sheridan Ends cars, armed with rifles and machine ] ' The case of the women who, stl:1 | | SHERIDAN, Wyo., Dec. 20.—The | the time the factory finishes making guns, and ready to tackle experi- enced British war veterans, or who | embittered by memories of bereave- ments, perhaps injustices, under 1923 beet grinding campaign of the] sugar on Christmas day it was do- Holly Sugar Corporation plant here, clared. —— took an almost childish delight Jn British rule, is pitiable, and only whose territory extends from Har- din, Montana to Clearmont, Wyom ing has closed. Approximately 65,000 tons of sugar beets were harvested this year, company of- ficlals sald, which is about 25,000 tons in excess of any previous har vest record here. A new high pro- duction record also will be made by A hunger strike in a British jail was one thing, but a hunger strike iy an Irish jail against the reguia- tions of an Irish elective authority was quite a different matter. Tho naman may be “contrary” at ®, but he fs essentially hard- take long to find out that there ied and the Republican extrem-| was nothing heroic about ambush- ists killed their own cause by too} ing their own neighbors and village frequent demands on popular sym-| friends—friends, despite the fact pathy. that they thought the Irish Free State was a really responsible na- tional government. ambushing such veterans, did not the hand of the Great Reaper will still their opposition to any form of Irish government which does not conform to the ideals for which their dear ones fought. -But ‘Young | Ireland” has no further use for | revolution against the government of their own elected representatives. 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