Evening Star Newspaper, January 3, 1932, Page 31

EUROPE IS BITTER IN ECONOMIC WAR Nations in “State of Siege.” United Front Urged Against U. S. BY G. H. ARCHAMBAULT. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, January 2—Each day the communique is issued: “Much activity | all along the front.” For Europe is at war. It is economic war and it is being waged very bitterly. For the moment everybody 15 fighting everybody else, b are loom.ng up, all aimed agains United States, with the objecy eit f reducing or suspending war _debts. | There is much talk here of a Franco- | British alliance with this purpose in| view. | Meanwhile, just as {n 1914, frontiers | sre closed, foreigners are under suspi- cion, people are hoarding gold and vic- | tuals, there is much talk of reprisals and of offensives, and the spirit of the fighters is being sustained by many a patriotic slogan. Many Casualties Seen. ‘There are casualties, of course, mostly in the form of unemployed workers and | of bankrupt businesses. Britain has some 2,000,000 men idle, Germany some 5.503,000; the Prench official statistics show fewer, but they are alleged to err on the conservative sid~ Capitalists are lcsing much on their investments, titled women are selling in shops, every class of society is com- «pelled to restrict. At the very bot of the ladder, men, dren are starving. But every *“We must fight to a finish Yet in their heart of hearts all Euro- ans hope that the conference at ausanne, called for January 20, may present an opportunity for the con- clusion of an armisti for although outwardly every one swears to fight to the bitter end, inwardly every one yearns for & truce. It is feared, however, that present signs are scarcely favorable, It is suggested in divers quarters that operations be extended to America, to which Europe would present & united front in the matter of debts, but this does not at this time imply a cessa‘ion of individual hostilities. The parallel with 1914 holds good in other respecta Whereas in the World | War all rules of tactics seemed nullificd, | 50 today in the economic war all laws | of supply and demand seem suspended. | None can tell what repercussions any defensive measure may have. Each | nation is discovering that in this par- ticular kind of warfare any action it takes may work to its own detriment as well as to that of the other side. Duties Bring Retaliation. Because Britain sets a prohibitive tariff on cut flowers from France, French horticulturists find the home | market inadequate to absorb their | produce, even at reductions of 75 per | cent in price. So Prance tells Italy | that she cannot allow cut flowers to | be imported from the other side of the Alps, Italy resorts to reprisals against some other French product and at the same time wonders what Jugoslav or | Austrian commodity she can exclude. Bo the struggle goes on, each step lead- ing to another, until the countries of Europe appear likely to be forced to subsist on what they themselyes pro- duce. ‘This week has seen retaliation pro- eceeding apace, with Great Britain plac- ing special duties on French fruit and vegetables, with French bakers along the Belgian border objecting to the im- portation of bread cheaper than they can bake, with Switzerland excluding French cheese and with Spain insisting | on fairer treatment of har exports. At the new year France had a glut | of fruit and poultry originally intended | for the British market. This meant | that. everybody was able to afford a | New Year dinner, but that those who grow the fruit and raise the poultry will soon be bankrupt. “Buy British!” says the British, to which the French retort “Buy French!” and the Italians “Buy Italian!” Becauss | Britain abandoned the gold standurdw 7,000 Polish workérs 'at Kattowitz had | no Christmas dinner. Some steel mills | there were working on’ Russiah orders, | payment to be made in sterling. | Turkey Also in Race, i As the pound fell, the Polish' concern | denounced the contract. But German | steel mills at Dusseldorf are Working | on Turkish orders, payment to be mace | in Prench francs. Simultaneously Turkey is campaigning against coffee | and tea, as they mean 84,000,000 a year | going into foreign pockets. Turkey does not export much, but if she bars coffee and tea she must expect some of her goods to be barred elsewhere in | retaliation. What the end of it all will be none can tell today. But is is safe to prophesy that even ths winners will | not win mueh. Yet it is less than 12 | months ago that glowing pictures were being painted of pan-Europe! (Copyright, 1832) BANDITS KILL DEAF MAN Store Keeper Fails to Understand “Hands Up” Command. ‘ | MARION, Ohio, Jaruary 2 (#).— | Failing to héar a tommand to hold up his hands, Ereen G. Miller, 73, was shot and killed by two bandits, who | sought to rob his grocery store at the willage of de Cliff, near here, last night. | Edward Schmidt, who was in the Ktore, said one of the colored men car- | ried ‘@ pistol. Schmidt held up his hands, but Miller partially deaf, did | not hear the command and started to | walk to the rear of the store. He was | ghot five times in the back and died in- stantly. The bandits fled. ‘ Student Killed in Collision. | HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. January 2 ().—Harry Branning, 22, years old, of Overbrook, Pa., was killed, and his companion, Miss Mary Lee Korns, was injured yesterday in a collision of au- | tomebiles near here. The girl was taken | to a hospital zuffering from internal | injuries. oth are students in a Florida | college. il Hair Fell Out and Was Alwags Dry Healed by Cuticura *“Some time ago I was suffering with dandrufi. My scalp itched and burned and every place I would scratch there would be a little sore eruption. My hair began falling out and was always dry. You could see dandruff on my clothes after eombing or brushing my hair and I could not part my bair without showing this mask of dandruff. “I started paing Cuticura Soap and Ointment and after using twe cakes of Cuticura Soap and two and. & half boxes of Cuticura Ointment (Signed) Miss Berdia Ann Lee, 2308 Florence St., Savannah, Ga. Clear the pores of impurities by daily use of Cuticura Soap, with touches of Cuticura Ointment as needed to soothe and heal. Cuticura Talcum is fragrant and refreshing, an ideal toilet powder for every member of the family. STUDENTS WANT MEMBER ON ARMS DELEGATION Volunteer Movement Urged to De- mand Representation at Ge- By the Associated Press BUFFALO, Ralph Harlow, formerly Y. M. | secretary in the Near East and now professor in Smith College, Northamp: ton, Mass., yesterday asked members of the’ student volunteer movement, meet; ing here, to urge the appointment by President Hoover of a student “to rep- . THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, resent student life and thought” at the INJURIES ARE FATAL Conference on Disarmament at Geneva next month. “You are the ones that are going lives,” :otz'::m{&urycuvm Former Newspaper Correspondent young or immature to go over the top in the first line of battl “If you can make w | not to have a right to stop war?” The delegates voted on his proposal, but the results of the balloting were not to be announced until later today. plan, as proposedozz Harlow, wouldtull Talmadge for each of the 2,000 delegates to return | oo v Y | fo his college and send & talegram to | s cPondent of the New York Evening President Hoover urging him to appoint a student representative to the Geneva |died yesterday in Trenton, N. J, of in- Conference. neva Conference. N. 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