Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1929, Page 5

HOOVER LEARNS | Listens Quietly and Finds { | America Has Friend in ’ Tropic Republic. | | BY REX COLLIER, | Staft Correspondent of The Star., | Note—~Greater light and clearer | perspective on Herbert Hoover's trip | to South America, in which untold | diplomatic advantages were recorded | Jor the United States, are to be | gained from the interesting Story written by Rer Collier, The Star’s own representative on the trip, which began January 20. The story, with all its intimate details, will continue in The Star until completed. | XV, | President-elect Hoover had said the | object of the good-will tour was to “listen and learn.” He had found Nicaragua a most ex- cellent place in which to do one’s listen- | ing and learning. Just what his re- | actions had been as a result of the! knowledge he had gained was a matter | for conjecture. himself. Other members of the good-will party, left Nicaragua with a number of quite | definite impressions fixed in minds. ‘The impressions were spontaneous ones, possible of T vision upon more deliberate inquiry: but since they became the prine topic of conv 1o Costa Rica. they are given for what ey are worth. Sandino Finds No Aid. He kept counsel with" their | Pirst, it was apparent that the tend- | ency to set up Sandino as a martyr of liberalism in Latin America was meeting with no sympathy among the Jeading Liberals of his own country, ®hose hero he aspired to be. Second, the furore over American in- tervention must have originated else- where than in the country directly eoncerned. i Third, the Conservatives and the Lib- erals in' Nicaragua were not separated so much by differences of political opinfon as by barriers of pride and tradition. Fourth, Nicaragua was eager to co- operate in the construction by the United States of an interoceanic canal through its territory. The responsible officials of both rties in Nicaragua with whom the mericans talked were in complete agreement in the estimate that Gen. Sandino, by _his “unreasonable” actions, had placed himself in the outlaw class. He represented no accredited political clique. outside of the small group of supporters he had gathered tbout him. Recalls Walker Filibuster. ‘The Liberals, with whose party San- @ino formerly was affiliated, explained that while the bandit leader may have | been inspired by high motives at the outset of his political career, he had become nothing more than a filibuster of the type made famous in Central America by that picturesque adven- turer, Willlam Walker. of Nashville, Tenn. Walker, it will be recalled, was the audacious soldier of fortune who, three quarters of a century ago, de- scended on Nicaragua with a band of 58 armed “Yankees” and started -the revolutionary vogue in the young re- public. Before his bloody forays ended before a firing squad in Honduras he had succeeded in proclaiming himself President of Nicaragua. The compari- son between Sandino and Walker ap- plies only to their military operations. To the Conservatives Sandino was a dangerous enemy of society, whose erimes warranted his consignment to a fate no better than that meted out to the American filibuster. As for Nicaragu attitude tovard American intervention, the outright in- dorsement of Uncle Sam’s intervention policies by the leaders of the opposing parties, substantiated by views of other Nicaraguans—important and unimpor- tant—seemed to indicate that Nicara- gua, far from resenting invasion, would be prompt to oppose withdrawal of the ‘ historic luncheon on the quarterdeck. THE TINDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, ’ NICARAGUANS HONOR PRESIDENT-ELECT SRR ol Sl Ta b wiing FROM NEARAGIA President-elect Hoover escorts President Diaz of Nicaragua to the gangway of the U. S. S. Maryland, following the without Marine protection. | We are organizing, under the guidance of Marine officers, an efficient National al | Guard of our own, but the force is vet v rsation during the jump | too small and too inexperienced to han- | of Walker and his nondesrript army of | dle the situation. By all means, keep | your Marines here until our own Guard can furnish as with protection against such elements as those led by Gen. Sandino.” The Marines themselves, although tired of Nicaraguan service and impa- tient to get back to the States, admitted their continued presence was desired by the Nicaraguan people, with whom., they | said, they were on the best of terms. “You see.” said one of the Marine officers, “we have been down here so long that it wouldn't look right if all of us were recalled. We sent a force here during the 1912 revolution. and | continued to keep a legation guward of | taking. under private and public. Ameri- | 100 men here for 13 years thereafter.|can and European auspices. | These had scarcely been withdrawn | advanced step had been the drawing | when the Sacasa trouble came on and our men were sent here again. Now it looks as though we must stay here until the next election is held, mavbe longer.” Inquiry by members of the party had developed the suggestion that Nica- ragua’s political squabbles have their | generations have divided families and | { groups of families in the republic. The | origin in bitter blood feuds that for feuds were precipitated by racihl prej- udice and pride, rather than by politi- cal issues, under this theory. Politics Hereditary. “A man is a Liberal or Conservative in Nicaragua because his father and his grandfather and his other antece- dents were of that party—not because he has any particular preference for the platforms of either of the opposing parties,” one observer of Nicaraguan politics declared. “These feuds of the Cordillera may be likened to those of the old Kentucky | mountaineers. The ill-feeling has been | handed down from generation to gen- | eration. and has flamed up now and | then in $he form of rebellions and revo- | lutions. * It may take another genera- tion or two to eliminate from Nicara- guan polities the feudal aspects that have been the cause for so much blood- | shed in the past.” | The visit to Nicaragua, finally con- | vinced the American of the urgent nec- | essity for construction of the long-dis- cussed interoceanic canal across the Nicaraguan isthmus. It was empha- | sized during the good-will visit that the | project is more than justified by the congestion of commerce at the Panama Canal. | United States paid Nicaragua | 3,000,000 for the rights to such a canal, | along the general direction of the San |Juan River and Lake Nicaragua, and {some preliminary surveys were made. e have not yet become settled enough lb?she realized it would boost her trade.| necessarily | leave us | enhance her property values and make for_national stability. | | The people of Nicaragua had been talking about “the canal” since the days filibusters, and before. The Tennessee | adventurer himseif had played a part in the failure of one of the early at- tempts to construct the canal. In 1856, | after he had fought his way to the post | of commander-in-chief of the Nicara- guan army, he confiscated unscrupu- | lously the property and contracts held by the Pacific & Atlantic Shipway Co., | organized by Cornelius Vanderbilt for| the purpose of digging a canal across | the isthmus. and assumed charge of the | project—without any idea of complet- ing it. | | Numerous other efforts had been made | | in subsequent, years to revive the under- The most | | up of a treaty in 1913 under which the | United States acquired perpetual rights to the canal enterprise, with permission to erect a naval base on the Gulf of | | Fonseca, Pacific terminus of the canal. | ‘ Needed for Defense. ! | It was impressed upon members of | | the mission that a second “big ditch” | across Central America was not alone a growing necessity of commerce, but a much-needed auxiliary to America’s | machinery of National defense. A | mishap to the Panama Canal would |leave no channel of communication be- | tween the Atlantic and Pacific fleets | except by way of the Horn. This was | | not a comforting prospect. As an engineer the idea of a second canal through Central America must | have had a special appeal to the Amer- | ican President-elect. Had he had time | he might have succumbed to the en- | gineer’s natural inclination to investi- gate the physical and technical phases | of the problem—which are multitudi- nous, but not incapable of solution. | Alice Edmonds, More important, even than the tech- nical problems, were the international | “rnmmcnclons. The San Juan River |forms a boundary between Nicaragua | |and Costa Rica, and Costa Rica had | rights that must be respected. { It was expected the visit to Costa | Rica would give the party at least an informal insight into that nation’s af besides affording an opportunity to look into other interesting questions affects ing pan-American relations. Members of the mission had not for- gotten that it was a Costa Rican who | had asked the League of Nations to | “interpret” the Monroe Doctrine some | months before. Accordingly, it w: terest that the good-will mission looked | forward to the call about to be made titude toward the Nicaraguan Canal— g with unusual in- | OPERA TO BE GIVEN Libretto Written by Rector of Church of Our Savior. Cast Is Announced. A comic opera, “Therese or the Lady of More-Unique,” will be presented for the first time Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings at the parish house of the Church of Our Savior, Sixteenth and Irving streets northeast. ‘The libretto was written by the rector of the church, Rev. Edmund H. Stevens, and the music composed by Robert G. Barrow. The scene is laid in a pirate’s citadel. ‘The leading tenor role will be sung by David Martin, and the title role by Aline McDaniel. Other leading_parts will be sung by Harry Hauser, Fergu- son Gemeny and Elizabeth Birckhead In the cast will appear also Jack McKnight, Henry Hartung, Raymond Ferguson, jr.; Alton Boswell, Christopher Zepp, John Perry, Charles Merrilat, William_Hoffer, Louis Plowman, David Perry, Graham Robey, Ernest McIntyre, | Jean Molster, Emma Bocwell, Grace Stevens, Doris Zabel, Elizabeth Perry. Virginia Trullinger, Botty Stevens, Katherine Souder, Lois Van Wagenen, Margaret Chaney, Carolyn Stevens, Ruth Sartain and Marjorie McIntyre. The costumes have be¢ designed by Miss Jean McCann, the dances are being staged by Miss Trullinger, the music will be furnished by Miss Rached Niedomanski, Mrs. Rhea Mclntyre, organist and Miss Margueritte Harbers. Graham Robey is stage manager, and Mrs. Edmund Stevens is chairman of the business committee. See Unequaled Inaugural Parade from this D. €, FEBRUARY 3, SENATE IS GVEN SCHOOL PROGRAM | Five-Year Building Plan In- troduced in Bill by Capper. | The Board of Education’s second five- year school-building program was brought to the attention of Congress | | yesterday, when Chairman Capper of the Senate District committee intro- | duced a bl to carry it into effect, and had it referred to his committee for study. 1t is estimated by school officials that approximately $5,000,000 remains to be expended under the original five-year | program, and that the additional build- |ings and grounds contemplated under this new program would aggregate approximately $6.000,000. ‘This would make a total of '$11,000,000, | and school authorities point out that if { this amount should be allowed by Con- | gress within a five-year period the | annual allotments would be just about | the same as the average appropriated annually thus far under the original program. It is understood to be the purpose of the school heads, if this program is authorized by Congress, to proceed first to complete the unmet projects under the first program, except where it | might be found that some item in the | new program has become more urgent, than some proposed building in the original group. The Capper bill outlines the detailed list of buildings and grounds to be |(‘0\'E‘I‘l‘d by the second program, all of | which were made public in December, when the school board approved the measure. : Senator Capper has been one of the leading advocates in Congress of ade- quate school facilities for the children of Washington, and when he heard that the school board was preparing a second five-year program, he wrote te officials of the board asking that the draft be submitted to him. CUBAN SCHOOLS GAIN. National Bureau Reports 10 Per Cent of Population Enrolled. HAVANA, February 2 (#).—School attendance in Cuba has reached 10 per cent of the total population, on the basis of figures published by the Na- tional Bureau of Statistics today. The report shows that 389,229 chil- dren are receiving instruction in public and private schools. The normal schools have an enrollment of 3,384, | and the Arts and Crafts School of Ha- | vana has 2,532. Tro(;ps Patrol Guadalajara. MEXICO CITY, February 2 (#)— Troops are patroling Guadalajara to preserve order because three self-styled State Legislatures are in session there, said a dispatch to the newspaper El| Universal today. Each of the lawmak- ing bodies claims that it was chosen by the voters in the recent elections in the | State of Jalisco. All three assembled | | yesterday, but none has been recognized | by the federal government. | the Viewpoint 1920--PART 1. KEYES FACES NEW TRIAL FOR BRIBERY | Second Charge Looms as State Nears End of First Court Action. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 2—An- other bribery trial faced former Dis- trict Attorney Asa Keyes today as the State neared the end of its first criminal action against the veteran prosecutor. ‘While closing arguments were being delivered in the bribery trial of Keyes, xa Rosenberg and Ben Getzoff, the State was assembling evidence for a bribery-conspiracy case against Keyes and A. I Lasker. District Attorney Burton Fitts said | this second action would follow im- mediately after the present jury had re- turned a verdict. ‘The new charges involve the alleged bribery of Keyes by Lasker in an em- bezzlement case. Lasker, former head of a detunct filnance corporation, paid Keyes to dismiss the case, the State alleges. In the first action Rosenberg is ac- cused of having escaped fraud charges in the trial of the promoters of the defunct Julian Petroleum Corporation by paying Keyes $125.000. Getzoff was alleged to have been the “go-between.” Lasker was convicled last week on grand theft charges resulting from the collapse of his corporation, and besides the trial with Keyes he also faces an- other grand theft action. An unidentified woman, excitedly ex- claiming, ou are the man who stole my money,” attempted to attack Rosen- berg as court was adjourned over the week end. The woman, apparently hysterical, screamed and shook her fist at Rosen- berg as he left the courtroom. The scene occurred as Presiding Judge E. I. Butler ended the special session. Defense Attorney Jud Rush had just begun his closing arguments for Keyes, following the completion of the State’s first closing arguments by Chief Prosecutor Stewart, Stewart asked the jury to “forget Keyes' 25 years of service to the county and send him to the penitentiary.” Wales Off for Hunts, LONDON, Februa 2 (P~ Prince of Wales left London this morm. | ing for Melton-Mowbray to hunt with the Quorn hounds. 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