Evening Star Newspaper, June 26, 1930, Page 4

A4 CHANGE N ONROE DOETRNEIS READY U. S. About to Announce New Policy Disclaiming Interven- tion in Local Matters. * BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Domestic politieal preoccupations like the teriff, the ncval treaty, veterans', legislation and other congressional and administration ills have caused sight to be lost of the “new Monroe Doctrine " sbout to be formally prociaimed. The proclamation will take the form of long- prepared identic State Department Notes to Latin American governments Its basic content and purpose is o dis- claim, on the part of the United States, the right to intervene in the purely lo- cal affairs of the sister reppublics of | Central and South America. In a nut- ehell, the “new” Monroeism is depicted to Latin American governments as a doctrine which Uncle Sam aims at Eu- rope and not at the countries of the Western Hemisphere. . Although this far-reaching declara- tion of present-day American policy goes forth under the imprimatur of the Hoover administration, it originat- ed with the Cpolidge administration. Prank B. Kellogg, who s Secretary of State until March, 9, directly instigated it. It was put into textusl| form by J. Reuben Clark, Kellogg Undersecretary of State, and designed | for the enlightenment of the foreign | relations committee of the Senate. The Kellogg-Clark presentation was part | and parcel of the Secretary of State's case for the anti-war pact bearing his name, Notes Were Withheld. Kellogg_transmitted the notes' con- taining the “new” doctrine to Latin American governments just before he left the State Department a year ago.| But our envoys at the respective Cen- | tral and South American capitals were directed to withhold the submission of | the notes until further orders. Secre- | tary Stimson is about to instruct thefr | delivery. As far as its exact purport has be- | come known in Washington, the Kel- logg Clark reading of the Monroe doc- trine differs sharply from the celebrated “Roosevelt corollary.” In 1904 “T. R.” sent a message to Congress which, in effect, argued the right of the United Btates to intervene in Latin countries virtually whenever the Washington gov- ernment deemed intervention justifi>d. All subsequent “invasions” of Cuba, Mexico, -Haiti, Nicaragua and other | Latin lands have been more or less | Justified on the basis of the Roosevelt corollary. Our present slucidation of the rights Monroeism confers on us breaks with that conception. It also seems to turn down the theery enunci- ated by President Coolidge, in the midst of his term that the “flag” follows the “person” of every American citizen in Latin America and the interests of that persons—a view which caused consider- able excitement and perturbation on | both sides of the Isthr.us of Panama. Assurances Given by Hoover. President Hoover is understood to Bave informed all the Latin-American statesmen he encountered during his pre-inaugural good-will tour that a new deal” in the United States’ Latth- American program would be ushered in with his administration. Assurances on this score were also given, this writer | Jearns, when the presidents-elect of Mexico, Colombia and Brazil in turn come to Washington. The policy of rushing Marines to_danger points in the other Americas has never appealed to Hoover. In his Armistice day ad- dress in 1929, the President signalled that use of the “devil dogs” for debt- collecting missions and the like would vanish, as far as the Hoover adminis- tration could operate to that end. In substance, the memorandum pre- THE EVENIN SCOUT CAMPERS LEAVE FOR NATURAL BRIDGE These members of Boy Scout Troop 17, who won high honors in competition with Scouts here last May, left today for Natural Bridge, Va., where they will take part in a regional review. Tom Blair, Henry Bowles and Edward Duffy Rear: Myron Smith, Charles Bi. executive; Ridgely Parsons and Bud Hammerlund. pared by Mr. Clark—now apparently to | become the Monroe Doctrine of today— | holds that the 107-year-old keynote American foreign policy relates exclu- sively to relations between the United | States and Europe. Clark promulgates | the view that the doctrine does not ap- | ply at all to purely inter-American re- Iattons nor essay to lay down any rules governing relations among the States of the Western Hemisphere. It is long step toward meeting the Latin| view that the Monroe Doctrine should be a “multi-lateral” affair, in which | all the Americas are concerned, insteati | 7 of a “uni-lateral” proposition, in which, | Eight members of Troop 17, Boy as far as the Western world is con- Scouts of America, who, as a team, won gerned, only the United States has an | high honors in competition with Scout The expectation is that when the | camporees in Northwest Washington in smew:, doctrine is officially brought to |May and again in council-wide finals on e attention of the Latin American | June 7, left the Capital today for Nat- governments, there will be ample evi- |y " pLacy uo SOP AT RORY T Rk dence that it has put our relations ticipate in & regional review mde uj SCOUTS TO TAKE PART IN REGIONAL REVIEW Eight Youths Leave Capital for Natural Bridge, Where 1,000 Will Gather. with the 20 sister republics on a differ- ent and altogether gratifying plane. (Copyrisht, 1830 of crack contingents from four States. The youths are under the direction of Maj. James S. Hawley, scoutmaster. Their troop, which is conducted by the Western Presbyterian Church, won the honor of representing the District at the review, which is to be attended by | about a thcusand Scouts. The team member will be at the en- campment through June 30. They are, COURT GIVES EXTENSION Hebron Airport Sale Petition Must Be Answered July 7. s Special Dispatch to The Star. | Charles Blair, Ridgeley Parsons, Bud SALISBURY, Md., June asl_Jud,e;Hammerlund. Henry Bowles, Myron Joseph L. Bailey granted an extension | SMith and Edward Dufty. in which counsel for Charles Alexander ST Da Gosta may fle an answer to the| Alleged Liquor Taken. petition of Charles Bayer, jr., seeking | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star court approval for sale of the Hebron| BLADENSBURG, Md., June 26. Airport. Time for filing answer expired | Fred McAleer of Washington was ar- today, but is now continued until July 7. | rested by Prince Georges County Police- man Nichols on the Defense Highway Counsel for Da Costa informed the | court their client was away from home | yesterday on a charge of illegal trans- portation of 10 boxes of liquor. Mc- and they were unable to secure neces- Aleer, who was stopped near Decatur sary information from him. The young Phil hian, recently married, is re- | Heights, was released on bond by Jus- | tice of Peace O'Neal. to be on & honeymoon trip. MEN'S WEAR | My SEMI-ANNUAL Hammers, Tom Blair, | G STAR Left to right, front: Bill Hammers, air, E. L. Mattice, assistant to the Scout | —Star Staff Photo. | | SURVEY OFFICES OPENED Headquarters for Page County En- | gineer Established at Luray. | Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va., June 26.—Offices have | been opened in the Laurance Hotel din- |ing room for a corps of workers who | will make ownership maps of the 60,- | 000 acres of land in the park area in | Page County. Maps have already been ]made in several of the counties, but it is not known thdt the same informa- ton will be required here. Supervisor S. H. Marsh will arrive in a few days |to outline definitely the work to be done | F. T. Amiss of Luray and W. N Sloan of North Carolina, engineers em- | ployed by the State commission, are in |charge of the work and already have gathered much material. They expect |to be joined in a week by & number of other workers, who will help to fill in | the data. || GENERAL @ ELECTRIC ALL-STEEL REFRIGERATOR 525 Down < tions. $10 Per Month CLEARANCE We are making changes in the merchan ng policies of our Clot hing Department next season. This necessitates the immediate disposal of evety garment in our present stock. 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CHICAGO, June 26.—Prince Iyesato | Tokugawa, president of the House of | Peers of the Japanese Parliament, told the Rotary international convention to- | day that “Japan’s foremost aspiration | today is cultivate the arts of peace,” and that “Japan needs a navy adequate only to defend her own corner of the Pacific.” | To deliver his talk before Rotary's 17,000 delegates, the Prince took a one- day stopover out of & six-month trip | which will take him to a number of | important sessions, including that of the League of Nations at Geneva, His position as head of the parliament and son of the last 8hogun—his father led | the warrior clan that ruled Japan for | centuries—makes him today one of the | empire’s leaders. | Economics Chlef Aim. | “‘Japan’s absorbing thought,” he told | the Rotarians, “is to put her financial and economic structure upon firmer foundations, curtalling expenditure and Seeking markets overseas for her manu- facturing and products. It is self-evi- dent that this end can be attained only | by a policy of peace, good-will and | friendliness. As a natural corollary, she is in favor of any proposal which looks toward the advancement of interna- tional peace. “Like liberty, peace demands ‘eternal vigilance' as its price. To the goal of peace there can be no short cut. It is in this light we welcome the naval treaty of London, & result of three months’ hard work by the delegates of the five powers concerned. .We consider the London treaty a remarkable con- tribution toward disarmament, toward the peace of the world. “And as for Japan, the navy she needs is a navy adequate only for de- fense—to defend her own corner of the Pacific and not to carry any offensive campaign in distani waters. We desire peace. We cherish no territorial ambi- ‘We have no intention to impose any national policy upon any of our neighbors, People Depend on Sea. “Only I want you to remember that we are a people of the sea. The sea is our security. To the sea we look for food and other essential supplies. Upon the sea depends our national existence, our national life. Our country is but a cluster of small islands, exceedingly small, devoid, As you are aware, of raw materials essential to human existence and to industry. A few weeks' blockade would starve us all ané would bring our factories and shops to a standstill | | JUNE 26, 1930. HAIR-RAISING AFRICAN EPISODES| CALMLY TOLD BY MRS. AKELEY | Fourth Expedition of Ex-' plorer’s Widow Leads Into Pygmy Region. | | | | Plans Arother Trip for Fur- ther Study of Jungle Races. Special Dispatch to The Star. NEW YORK, June 26.—It seemed incredible that this woman of middle years and gentle manner, so feminine in a soft-toned dinner gown, as she | sat there on & pent house terrace high above the lights of Manhattan, could have had the hard and savage and perilous adventures thus calmly and casually related. ‘That chilling face-to-face with death when hér ammunition failed as the buffalo herd charged her, the rough, | cruel hardships and privations of travel in the Belglan Kongo, the insane pygmy who sought to kill her, the steaming heat, the streaming rains, the constant hazard of life among these African tribes, the loneliness. And especially the loneliness! For Mrs. Delia J. Akeley had gone single-handed into the dark wilderness, | 4 solitary white woman with only black | boys as burden bearers. But if, as she | admitted before she started on this lat- | est adventure, she was to have and did | have moments of fear, knew it. The expedition just completed was Mrs. Akeley’s fourth into Central Africa. This time it was not a hunt for big game. It was a hunt for little men, the forest pygmies, strange, shy crea- tures, about whom there is so much to be learned. Will Reproduce Villages. Mrs. Akeley wanted to study them | and their customs, their games and | their dress, if one could call it that, | and most of what she went out for sh accomplished. She has returned ‘with hundreds of photographs, with native tools and ornaments and weapons, lnd‘ with the material for pygmy viliages, | which she will set up for the Brooklyn | Museum. But there is much she stil wants to do. | “I am going back,” she said. “But this time not alone. TI'll have com-| | us to do.” | Mrs. Akeley, who was the first wife of the late Carl Akeley, explorer and naturalist, spent five months in the| pygmy country. She had planned to| stay longer, but cons , torrential | rains made this inadvisable. She struck | into the pygmy region from Arabi. A| & chair borne by natives, took her to a tribe known as the Mangebetus, who are savages of normal stature and oves | encounter ‘ with the buffalo. MRS. DELIA J. AKELEY. lords of the pygmies. The Sultan of the Mangebetus sent his men into the forest to bring the pygmies in, but they were a_disappointment. For they were sophisticated little fellows who had posed frequently for the motion pie- tures, and were ready to dash here and there at the white man's call. So, Mrs. Akeley returned to Arabi and then started out once more, this time by motor car, which carried her deep into the pygmy country. When forests edging the roadw Mrs. Ake- ley would give up her car and go in afier them, camping for days until she had made friends with them and could study them in detail. It was during one of these periods of encampment that Mrs. Akeley had her She was out shooting herself a dinner. She buffalo came crashing down upon her in response. Saved by Tree. “They are little devils, those buffalo,” temarked Mrs. Akeley. “I was in a tight place. I set myself behind a tree and aimed at the leader of the rush. My ammynition was dead, No good. I was helfless. “The tree saved me. The buffalo ent charging by on either side of it. divided them and saved me. " It tion? I found that it was 20 years old. It came from New York. And I am going to see about that.” Mrs. Akeley's lips tightened. ‘The crazed native who tried to kill her was a_boy. “About 10 years old, perhaps,” Mrs, Akeley explained. “For days he had | day's journey, made by Mrs. Akeley in | followed me, everywhere, Always point- ing at me in a curious way. he tried to knife me. Apd then I turned just in The 4 | panions, scientists. There is much for | pufalo swept on past. That ammunic KING OPENSALTING INTTS 1.000TH YEAR |Parliament of Iceland Began in 930—Americans See Ceremonies. | By the Associated Press | THINGVELLIR, Iceland, June 26.— | Christian, King of Iceland, today opened | the 1930 session of the Icelandis Althing at the very spot where. 1,000 years ago, this oldest Parliament in the world first | was convened. | " King Christian stood upon a huge rock in the middle of the Plain of Thingvalla, where, Grim Goatbeard, the lawgiver, in analent days, recited from | memory’ the entire code of the Ice- landic law. The ceremonies today were simple as of old, so simple as to obtain an almost religious aspect. ‘The broad plain, bounded on the | south by a great lake, on the north by rugged, snow-capped mountains, on the east and west by two great fissures of | volcanic formation cut before the dawn | of history, was cotted with many thou- | sands of people who had come from far | corners of the earth. Included in the vast throng of vis- itors were many Americans whose birth | or ancestry was Icelandic. They watched | with keen pleasure the unfolding of the | impressive jubilee celebration. ‘The Icelandic Parliament, or Althing, they never | pygmies were seen slipping through the |18 now held in Reykjavik. The Althing | 1s reckoned to have been established in 930. A universal eode of law for the Icelandic Republic was then accepted. At the time the Northern peoples did {not write down their laws but mem- orized them and had them rehearsed in public at their “Things? or assem- blies. The exact wording of the first | code of laws of the Icelandic Republic | fired at a buck, but a herd of killer |is not known, for it was not until 1117 that Icelandic laws began to be recorded in writing. fndinn: Population Gains. INDIANAPOLIS, June 36 (#).—Un- official tabulation of - official figures provided by census takers completed today showed the population in In- diana to be 3227522 That is an in- |crease of 207,132 over 1920, Sixty | counties—in _each instance rural— showed decreases when compared with the population 10 years ago, while 32 |showed” increnses. Sir Robert Borden Reaches 76. | OTTAWA, June 26 (By the Canadian ;Preu;.-can-d 's wartime prime min- | Ister. Sir Robert Borden, today cele= brated his seventy-sixth birthday ane | niversary in good health. He resigned the premiership and the Conservative | leadership 10 years ago, on account of time to save my life i th TTMIONITOR TOP that mabkes this record possible! The Menitor sealed from dust, moisture sealed from everything that causes trouble, worry and oxpense. The Monitor Tep is your assurance of effic Top—yon willrecagmine it in an instant by its attrective medern design. 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