Evening Star Newspaper, July 29, 1929, Page 5

CUTTING HITS BAN ONCERMAN' BODK New Mexi€o Senator Assails Customs Authority to Pass on Literature. The action of the Bureau of Customs in banning an unexpurgated English translation of “All Quiet on the West- ern Front” led Senator M. Cutting, New Mexico, to declare in a statement made public today that section 305 of the tariff act, under which the transla- tion was denied entry, is “irrational, unsound and un-American. Such a provision, Senator Cutting asserted, which permits the exclusion from the United States of “many of the most famous works of ancient and modern literature, on the ground that they might in some mysterious way prove detrimental to American morals,” should not remain in the statute books. Upholds Value of Work. i | By the Associated Press. The god of war maintained his threat | to the Far East during the past week, {but suffered a serious check in the | West. Russia and China continued to wave swords at each other across the Manchurian-Siberian frontier. Greater tension was felt in Moscow after ob- servers thought the strain had been | much relaxed. The Western World furnished a coun- | terweight to the pugnaciiy of the Ori- ent in new steps toward naval disarm- ament, taken on the same day in Lon- | don and Washington, The Russian press | | reported numerous cases of “atrociti | practiced by White Guards and Ch upon Russian eitizens in the Chinese Eastern Railway zone. Soldiers, sailors |and workers throughout the Soviet | | Union responded to these reports by de- | | manding swift reprisals. ‘They were particularly biiter against the White | Guards. | Harbin reports, on the Chinese side, promised better things. Chinese offi- [ cials seemed to think the Manchurians | |had acted too hastily in sewzing the | |1ailway. They were inclined to blame | |Lu Yung-Huan, Chinese president of the road, for exceeding his authority in | evicting Russian officials. \ Russia has consistently maintained | that the status quo must be renewed on | He pointed out that the American !the railway before she would consent edition of “All Quiet on the Western | to negotiations. There have been un- Front,” the work of a German veteran, | official talks at Chang-Chun, Manchu- omits some of “the most vigorous and | ris, along general peace lines. 55 s d that “the cus- bl il [ Hoover-MacDonald Pledges. toms officers have denied our people the right to read the complete version.” | Great Britain and the United States, | He described the book as “an intensely | nrough President Hoover and Premier Ramsay MacDonald, gave definiie | moving and accurate portrayal of the | pledges of a sincere desire for naval lives of soldiers in_the trenches.” “The exclusion of this work is on & | gisarmament by the chief naval powers | per with previous action by the cus-|of the world. toms service in excluding Voltaire's | " Both nations postponed units of their | ‘Candide’ on the prefense that s | naval building programs on the ver: oscen the Senator said. |day on which the Kellogg-Briand re particular absurdity has been recanted, | nunciation of war pact became ef- | but not in time to save us from the | fective. | ridicule of the civilized world. | *“Japan, without making definite post- “Section 305 has no place in a tariff. | ponement of any of her units, indicated but_the American public has tolerated |her approval of the Anglo-American it for many years because until re- |attitude. cently it was enforced with compara- | Statesmen all over the world united tive common sense. Now the Bureau |in tribute to the Kellogg pact, which, of Customs has prepared a blacklist in the opinion of Japanese Foreign Min- which excludes from the United States |ister Shidehara, gave proof of its many of t™s most famous works of an- | strength before officially going into ef- cient and modern literature, on fhe | fect by its influence for peace on Russo- ground that they might in some mys- Chinese relations. terious way prove detrimental to Amer- | The French Parliament brought to | jean morals. The Federal courts have |an end years of toilsome negotiation: invarfably backed up the bureau in its | by finally approving France's debt set THE EVEXIN OUTSTANDING EVENTS IN WORLD HISTORY coming conference on reparations. All the interested powers agreed on The Hague as the seat of that confer- ence, which is to assemble August 6, Pope Plus IX, amid scenes of solem- nity and splendor, made the first emergence from the Vatican of any Pope since papal loss of temporal power | in 1870. The voluntary “prisoner” of the Vatican blessed 200,000 people in St. Peter’s Square, which has become Vatican territory since passage of the Ttalo-Vatican accords. The defense of the republic law in Germany, under which Willlam Hohen- zollern was formerly forbidden to tread German soil, expired. It passed, how- ever, without making it any easier for the former Kailser to return to Ger- many and without bringing any expres- sion of his desire to do so. e, REACHES BEDSIDE. Daughter of Victor L. Berger Ar- rives From England to See Parent. MILWAUKEE, Wis, July 20 (P).— Mrs. Jan Edelman, daughter of Vic L. Berger, reached her father's bedside G STAR, MRS. CABLE DIVORCES HUSBAND IN PARIS Wife of First Secretary of U. S. Embassy at Berlin Awarded Decree. WASHINGTO By the Associated Press. PARIS, July 20.—The French courts | today granted a divorce to Mrs. Jeanne | | Marle Scott Cable from Philander American embassy at Berlin, formerly of Buenos Aires. Her petition alleged indifference. Mrs, Cable is the daughter of George | Isham Scott. She was married to Ca- ble in New York in 1919 after a career as a war nurse, with citation in orders by Marshal Petain of France. Two other American wives also were given divorces. Mrs, | Hall was separated legally from Henry Emma_ Hadfleld | N, D. .C. MONDAY, from the Racquet Club of that eity. were married at St. Church, New York, in May, 1927. RUBY KEELER IS FORCED TO QUIT ‘SHOW GIRL’ ROLE Dorothy Stone Will Suceceed Jol- son’s Wife, Whose' Iliriess Causes Retirement. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 20.—Ruby Keeler, Dathrop Cable, first secretary of the | yite of Al Jolson, forced by illness to retire from her stellar role in “Show | Girl,” will be succeeded by Dorothy Stone. arrives | She is studying the part en route. ance. Her | Hall, whom she married in 1903. | Virginia MacPDowell Clark Rush of last night after a hurried trip from | England to learn that his condition was | improved. Mr. Berger, former Social- ist Representative and publisher of the Milwaukee Leader, has been in a eriti- cal condition since he was struck by a street car July 16. “Mr. Berger has made satisfactory progress during the last 24 hours,” said Dr, A. J. Patek. “The fever which has irritated him and caused him to be restless has somewhat subsided.” Copious rains have relieved Arought conditions in parts of Australia. Be Pfroud Your Home Have Furniture you'll be proud to show your friends. On our easy CREDIT PLAN you too can afford to buy the BEST. would necessitate an operation. RIDGEWAY 4 FOR CANTELOUPES 23¢ These Are Large Size and Uniformly Ripe HOME-GROWN SUGAR CORN preposterous ruling. Cites Danger of Bill. “The tariff bill which has just passed the Housze extends section 305 to take in seditious and insurrectionary as well as obscene literature,” he said. “If this amendment should be interpreted in the same spirit as the original section it will exclude all advanced political thought or, in fact, any opinions which do not happen to coincide with those of the customs inspectors.” “To decide what an intelligent adult may read with impunity is a task for A superman, and supermen are not apt | to be found in the poorly paid posi- tion of literary advisor to the Bureau of Customs,” Cutting said. “In the long run the American people can be trusted to take care of their own moral and spiritual welfare, without the aid of any bureaucratic guardians.” By what magic have they 'earned taken hundreds of smart Summer and Autumn Foot- wear Creations and further reduced them for their Final Clearance, ARE ALL THE LOVELIEST WOMEN CONGREGATING HERE? | tiements_with England and America | In the Chamber of Deputies the fight was bitter over unconditional ratifica- tion of the Mellon-Berenger accord, the povernment winning by the narrow margin of eight votes. 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