Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1922, Page 4

ALLIED NEAR EAST TENSION GRITIGAL * Anglo-French Split Over : Turk Policy Appears to Widen. BRITISH FAVOR GREEKS| English Troops May Be With- drawn So Athens’ Army Can Push Advance on Constantinople. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. By Cable 10 The Star and Chicago Daily News. Copyright, 1922, CONSTANTINOPLE, August 14— *“Our position here may be compared to that of a man sitting on a barrel 6f powder with a lighted cigar,” was the way in which a high allied official described the rituation in the near east today. For the time being sJevervthing is perfectly calm. The { Grecks and allies have withdrawn their advanced guards a sufficient distance from cach other to avoid clashes. while continuing to front, do not tility. Constantinop! but the poiice the nationalists, though the Ismid reinforce signs of hos- show itself is very quiet. discover daily new stores of rifies, hand-grenades and other munitions hidden in secluded parts of the Turkisa and Greek quar- ters of the city. Natives belleve that solution of the cris s is near at hand Tut they do mot think that a peace- ful settlement is po:sible. The Mus- feumans are preparing to assist the nationalists _the best way they cam, while the Greeks arc preparing to help the Grecian army as soon as it succeeds in Ciossing the frontier. Peace Hopes Shattered. Tn the meantime the allies are try- “ing to get the velligerents together ~ to discuss peace terms. Toward the end of last week great optimism pre- vailed when it was reported that the Greeks and Turks would accept the latest suggestion and meet either on | the Island of Rhodes or in Venice, but hopes were shattered when it became known on Saturday that the national- fsts were unwilling to give up a single condition of their demand, which may be summarized thus: “Full economic and political inde- Pendence for Turkey within _her | cthnographic limits extending from Dr. Bernard Christie of Suffern Tuxedo, N went to Chicago to witness the pageant exposition there, and was a spectator at the parade preceding the opening of the exposition. He stood on Michigan venue watching the floats go by, and an automobile exhibit, with six beauties in it. attractcd him. Immediately after the procession, he sought a d_a short time later, before atherine E. Rhinehart, 1215 Wavel The doctor felt o thankful to the pageant, which gave Betty Kay One of the girls tosscd Dr. Christie a rose and threw a introduction 000 people, was married to nd nue, Chicago, better known him the opportunity to meet hin prexcnt wife, that he had the ceremony performed in public. Photo of i d FRENCH DECLARE HOME PAPERS STIR UP TROUBLE WITH ALLIES Largely as the result of complaints by Frenchmen that the world mis- understands them and that their motives are always unjustly im- pugned, the Parisian weekly L'Opin- ion has undertaken an elaborate in- quiry into the status of the French dally press and its responsibility for recent unfortunate controversies be- tween France and its allies or friends. The editors and directors of all the leading Paris, as well as provincial, papers have been invited to say| frankly whether they are satisfied ! with their present moral positions ! and their_part in molding public | opinfon. Their answers have been' appearing in L'Opinion and certainly the discussion has been most illumi- nating and candid. Few editors pretend that they are ! papers to offer to foreign correspond- ents resident in Paris? Mighty lit- tle. We no longer conduct syste- matic inquiries and there are points upon which we are incapable of an- swering questions of vital importance repeatedly put to us—for example, by Americans. Thus we have been ed to state what Frenchmen pay in local taxes; who has taken the trouble to give an answer? And who has attempted to present a picture of the situation in the liberated re- gions? If we speak of these it is to eulogize the mi in harge of them.” Emile Bure, editor of L'Edair, writes that the public now prefers journals of information to journals of opinion, because it does not beileve the latter are sincere. And yet the tuture, he thinks, belongs to journals of opinion, whose duty it is to assimi- late and interpret facts. Mr. Bure says: “The first section to reform is and forcing propaganda upon {t. Bome allege that the public will not pay the price of & good paper, hence subsidies are unavoidable, and he who subsi- dizes will control policy. Even for- elgn governments, or foreign cliques, subsidize French papers. One edito states categorically that only two papers in P.ris—one a soclalist, the other a royalist—are self-supporting and able to represent faithfully their readers and their political schools. The remedies proposed are rather indefinite, but all agree that France more correspondents abroad, more and better news agen- cles (independent of British or Ameri. can agencies), and more organs of a mixed type of information and opin- ion, on the Anglo-Saxon model, dedi- cated to the task of gulding and edu- cating public opinion. It is sorrow- fully admitted that the French public is “the least intelligent, politically, in Europe,” and the parliament does lit- tle to inform the public. “The public, in the words of one journalist, oscil- lutes between excitement and indif- ference to national and international problems, while many of the party organs appeal to the basest passions and prejudices of the populace and make the path of sober statesmanship the more thorny and difficult. It 18 a healthy sign that so many French editors and journalists recog- nize the fact, and the danger, of a parochial or ' provincial policy. that leads to isolation and misunderstand- ing. Closer relations between France and the world must be based on fuller and freer intellectual intercourse. GELFAND’S MAYONNAISE tl o 3-0z. Jar 12¢ | 25¢ BUTTER Large Jar SANITARY Mrs. Coolidge in Auto Collision; Escapes Injury PORTLAND, Ore- Jon, August 14.— An automobile oc- cupled by Mrs. Cal- vin Coolidge, wife of the Vice Presi- dent, struck another achine at the in- rsection of Broad- way and Larabee trests ‘here last night. No . one was injured, The accident was veported to the po- lice by WallaceMc- driver -of occupled MRS, COOLIDUE. Coolidge. Nothing Left. From the Japan Advertiser. Judge—Have you anything to offer he court before sentence is vassed n you? Prisoner—No, your honor: mv law- ver took my last dollar. FACTORY HAND BURNED ~T0 DEATH IN EXPLOSION pecial Dispateh to The Star. FREDERICK, Md, August 14— ‘Willlam Wetzel, twenty-five, an em- ploye of the Union. Bridge cement plant, was accidentally burned. to death Saturday afternoon in the coal house at the plant. While the build- ing was not entirely destroyed, Wetzel was trapped and perished before he could be rescued. 1t 15 said a motor in the coal house exploded and Wetzel, who was a short distance away, hurried to the bulld- ing. Upon entering, the building two or three other motbrs exploded and the interior caught'fire, cutting off the workman's escape. — e 49 FUGITIVES SURRENDER Wanted in Connection With Fatal Fight at West Virginia Mine. WELLSBURG, W. Va, August 14. —Forty-nine men wanted by the Brooke county authorities in connec- tion with the fatal fight at the Clif- ton mine in Cliftonville, near here, July 17, today surrendered to the Ponnsylvania authorities at Avella, Pa., and were brought to Wellsburg by a Getachment of state police just | ar the grand jury be gation of the battle. NIT OCERY gan its investi Specials This Week SOUTHERN FARM CENSUS. 48 Per Cent of Whites and 56 Per Cent of Negroes Rural. The total farm population of the south on January 1, 1920, was 18,827,- $34, based on the last census, the Department of Commerce announced today. Of this number 11,730,848 were white persons, 5,044.489 were negroes and 62,497 were’ persons of other | races. ! The statement showed that the fig- | ures included the states of Delaware. | Maryland, District of Columbie and | West Virginia besides the states con- | sidered strictly southern. | The white farm population of the south n 1920 constituted 48.6 per cent | of the total white population of that section and the negro farm population | formed 56.6 per cent of the total| southern negro population. The negro farm population exceeded the white farm population in two states, South Carolina énd Mississippi, | but the largest negro farm population wae shown from Georgia, 757,206, The air s so clear in the arctic regions thsk conversation can be car- ried on easily, and without telephone apparatus, by persons two miles apart. The ancients believed that the opal shared the charm of every stone of which it reflected the color, but when it was stolen the thief became in- visible, and was never caught. D’Annunzio, chances Poet Soldier, Is Badly Injured by Fall By the Associated Press GARDONE RIVIERA. Italy, August 14.—Gabriele d"Annunzio, Italy's noted soldier-poet. was seriously injured in the head by a tall yesterday in the garden of his villa here. For some time A foliowing the ac- *ident his condi- tion gave rise to onsiderable anx- iety. Medical re- ports today wera more _reassurt at his docto 7 declined to Boress a definite opinfon on his for recover: A N T Oh! “How old are you, Buddy?" : Six years.' “And what are you thinking of be- D'ANNUNZIO. z | cor | BLUE RIBBON MAYONNAISE 3-0z. Jar 12¢ 8-0z. Jar 30c SANITARY EGGS Mesopotamia to the Aegean sea and |at all pleased with the conditions and | that of foreign news. as far west as the Bulgarian border.” | prospects of the French press. Nearly | It hardly exists toda In the V-».n.! The seriousness of the situation {all of the contributors indict that|ing journals. foreign news is ltmited ! lies mainly in the fact that the Brit- | prees or charge what foreigners have (to a few dispatches plus some politi- nd_French near eastern policies {only vaguely hinted at—venality, | cal articles. But it is the life of the | The British are accused, par- | gross commercialism, subserviency | foreigner as a whole that we need to| w4 e A fresh creamery product. Carton of KRIS PEANUT BUTTER]9¢ One Pound in Tin Pail, Per Pail.......................... v since the speech made re- cently by Prime Minister Lloyd George. of following a pro-Greek pol- fcy, though it is understood that the British representatives here have been instructed to try to preserve the balance of power between the belligerents and make efforts to con- clude a peace giving satisfaction to both parties. as neither is able to claim a complete victory. For those acquainted with near eastern pol cies it is evident that these instruc- tions are very vague, as it is impos- sible to satisfy both belligerents at the same time. French Favor Turks. The French follow a more definite policy. This is based on the belief that peace can be restored in the near east only by accepting all the Turkish territorial claims. It is thought that the present intractable Turkish atti- tude is mainly due to this policy. It is_ persistently reported that in case of a breach between France and Great Britain tie British will with- draw their troops. thus enabling the Greeks to advance on Const#htinopie. | From a well informed Turkish source | it is learned that an understanding | has been reached between the Turks | and French for such an eventuality. The Turks will be allowed to mobilize three divisions in Constantinople and vicinity to reinforce the French army | in opposing the Greek advance. It is asserted that a_loan of francs (about $1.630.000) granted to the Constantinople govern- ment and according to the same source of information the Turkish | general staff now is working over- time to have everything prepared for immediate mobilization. No official confirmation of the report can be obtained. but the activity of the Turks in the last few weeks in- dicates that they are preparing for any eventualit RAINS HIT HARVEST. European Condition May Cause Heavy U. S. Demand. Rains having held back the grain harvest of Europe during July, a heavy demand is anticipated for American cereal exports from some | sections. according to a survey of | the foodstuffs situation abroad issued ! today the Department of merce. Reliable estimates, the. department reported. plated the yield for the Greek harvest at 28 per cent below Jast vear and the Ttalian yield at 20 per cent under last season. Owing to diminished production and the rapid ! increase in population. exceptionally heavy imports of grain are antici- pated, the department said. { The new grain crop of Germany | was officially estimated at 15 to 2 than- last year, Spain and the Tunis wheat t but 30 per cent of last year" Thrashing returns in southern France revealed better returns than ex-, at om- pected. Rumania, however, the department stated. should be in a position to ex-‘ port 1.500.000 tons of grain during the coming vear, while the estimates of the Polish government indicate a possible increase of grain production this season of 1.716.000 tons. Gl‘lifll imports into England during the past year increased heavily. but, the'de- partment said, were accounted for principally by the heavier re-exports to Germany and Russla. | SCOBEY INSPECTS MINTS. Director at Seattle Assay Office on Way to San Francisco. F. E. Scobey. director of the mint, is in Seattle today on his tour of in- spection of the assay offices and mints of the west. ‘The tour, which is expected to oc- | cupy the director until some time in; September, will take him to the mint at San Francisco and aseay offices at | Seattle, Boise, Idaho; Deasdwood, D.: Helena, Mont.; Carson City, Ne and Salt Lake City. TEST LOW LIVING COSJ. Girl Students Expend Less Than 50 Cents a Day Each. STATE COLLEGE, Pa., August 14.— That it is possible for six persons to subsist—and even grow fat—on an average of less than 50 cents a day for each has been demonstrated at the summer session of the Penns; | a State College, it was announced today. z Five girl summer students and an instructor, residing in the college's model practice house while studying sclentific hcuse management, reduced the fifty-cent average sét by the last winter’s students to 43 cents a day for ::glh Q'ehr-o By m:n [!:ran: vegetables. the summer students cuf “costs to 16 a meal. : - of -three thousand to waterproof {of the contributors to the symposium: | to the government or to certain in- dustrial cliques. or both; lack of ef- ficiency. absence of principle or con- sistency and painful scarcity of in-| formation of value. ! The French press, it {8 sald by most | of the editors, has absolutely no in- fluence abroad; it is not read out- ' side of France, and there is no re-| France has been promised journals of | It is not re-|information, but that none has yet| spect for its opinions. garded as independent or representn- | tive—and that, in point of fact, it has | none of those qualities. { - p— jreauracy dictates the so-calle To this some of the contributors : dispatches, and where this is not the | add that the French press cannot! hope for influence or consideration | abroad. since it does not command any confidence at home. Devotion to a given paper is a thing of the past; one reads all sorts of papers and one no longer regrets the disappearance of a journal that one's family has taken for years. All the papers are scrappy, superficial. ill-informed and chaotic. There is neither an adequate chronicle of the day's important news nor an intelligent, careful interpreta- tion of the events briefly recorded. To quote a few specimen utterances ' Andre Tardieu, editor of L'Echo| National (Clemenceau’s former or- gan), writes: “It is unfortunately true that the French press does not | pass the frontier. It has no direct| influence on the foreign reade neither do we seek to inform him indirectly. What have the French know—artistic, literary, scientific and economic life. These several doniains are mutually interdependent and the public cannot be well informed on one unless it is kept abreast of de-| velopments in the others.” Daniel Halevy, editor of Cahiers Verts, writes that for forty come into being, for thé government dominates the press and the news agencies, and freedom is gon news case big industry does the same thing. Let the financial interests, cries Mr. Halevy. give us gratuitous newsp; pers: the public would know that the papers are worth nothing. Several of the contributors to the symposium refer to British and American papers, but only to warn France against Imitation of them. The French public, it is said, does not want superabundance; it wants well edited, well classified, well con- densed news, with lucid and honest editori=ls in'their own place to ex- plain the news. As to why the French press is what Some say that! it 1s, opinions differ. the profession of journalism has ceased to exist in France, and that| everybody writes for the daily paper —politicians, men of letters, men of affairs—all except properly trained| Jjournalists. 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