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EDITORIAL SECTION he Sunday Star, Part 2--8 Pages WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 15, 1933. Special Articles DIPLOMACY IN DOLDRUMS WAITING ON U. S. POLICY Action on World Affairs at Standstill, Due to Complete Discrediting of Hoover Abroad. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. ARIS.—Internaticnal affairs, as fa: a5 any sort cf consiructive | action is concerned, are sinking more and more deeply into the diplomatic doldrums, This situation is due to the !mrreb sion created in all foreign chancellories that American policy is paralyzed until March 4. Alleged disagreements be- tween President Hoover and President- elect Roosevelt over foreign policy have completely discredited President Hoover abroad. now is “Wait for Roosevelt.” Freed thus temporarily from Ameri- ean diplomatic pressure of any sort, the Japanese eppar to be chout to annex_Jehol Province t» Manchuiun, the British have per:uadsd Soutb Africa to quit the gold rtanderd end join the steriing bloc, and Frence has | abandoned any pr intention of | paving or even discussing its defaulted December war debt installment to the | Urited States. In the Far Eastern discussion reopen- ing Monday. in Geneva, the British and French representatives, who are re- luctant to oppose Japan in any way, are expected to have an easy time of it. At the disarmament _conference scheduled to resume work January 23, nothing, it is said, can now be ac- complished. U. 8. Views Discounted. Experts indeed are meeting at Geneva to prepare the world econcmic confer- ence, but as the American experts seem to- have admitted privately that their mandate is wholly from President Hoover. and no, at, all from. President- elect Roosevelt, their infuence ap- parently is being discounted. American embassies are marking time. Negotlations which were under way for various commercial treaties have stopped short. At the same time, various Americans elaiming to be “intimate friends” or ;&xg-u Tepresentatives” of President- Roosevelt are going about Europe having confidential talks with foreign e St e o pr o1 gai rom these talks is that President-elect Roosevelt Wwould bitterly resent any further an: negotiations with President | Hoover, because he himself wants to view the ‘world through entirely new eyes when he takes office. | Just as the Republicans in 1920 re- | pudiated and reversed, as far as pos-| sible, the late President Woodrow Wil- son's !oreolg: policies, so, it is intimated, the Democrats, intend now to_repudiate | The watchword everywhere [ | i that the December |and reverse President Hoove. policies. The entire American diplomatic serv- ice, it is averred, is to be thoroughly overhauled and reorganized along Dem- | ocratic party lines. Anything like con- tinuity in foreign policy, or the idea | that American interests under one ad- | ministration can hardly differ essen- )tlllly from American interests under forelgn another, is described as abhorrent to the Democratic leaders. It is noteworthy that nothing Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt has been quoted as saying publicly thus far bears out any of these impressions, which are being : y to foreign chanc: g the incomin~ Presi- dsnt apozars to heva o i recent] th> Berin r at Yet the “confidential rgent:” done their work and in various Euro- pean quarters something, like a miracle is expected beginning Mhrch 4. Lack- ing definite information, some countries seem fondly convinced that President- elect Roosevelt is going to regard their particular viewpoints more sympathet- lcally than did President Hoover. This is particularly true of France, whose leaders have .always imagined that they had in President Hoover a dangerous and deeply prejudiced ad- versary. But President-elect Roosevelt, they are being told, likes France and will in no respect hold it against France war debt install- ment has been defaulted. The prestige of American instituticns has been still further damaged abroad by the recent Senate debates between William E. Borah of Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee, and Hiram Johnson of Cali- fornia on the war debt controversy, in which complete disagreement was man- ifested regarding even actual facts. Another painful situation seems to impend as a result of a dispatch in yesterday's London Times, wherein President Hoover is quoted as challeng- ing former French Premier Pierre Laval's interpretations cf the Hoover- Laval conversations in Washington, in October, 1931, and as accusing France, with “dismaying frankness,” of heading a European war debt cabal against the | United States and also of “hiding under Great Britain's skirts.” Thus, in an atmosphere of helpless- ness, uncertainty, recrimination and perhaps exaggerated expectation, the world impatiently awaits the magical date—March 4. (Copyright. 1933.) Canadian Trade Turns Empirewards, But Remains BY JAMES MONTAGNES. trade toward empire countries, - a to statistics compiled since the eonference - took Ine bu;:u Ottawa "t.:-lf more her sister. dominions since the conference, #nd she is alsa selling somewhat more in those markats, but Canada still remains Uncle Sem’s best customer just &s the United States is still the Dominion's chief client. There has been no sudden swing in Canadian trade from the United States to the countries of the British Empire. Tar- iffs and empire preferences have not stopped the flow of merchandise across the world’s only undefended interna- tional iTy. ‘The swing of trade toward empire eounties is not altogether due to the arrangements made at the Imperial Conference. It has been growing slowly during the past few years, following high tariff walls set up by both the United States and Canada. It is in a Iarge measure due also to preferences given imports from foreign countries ‘which use Canadian ports ard Canadian shipping. Where formerly much of the imports destined for -Canada were shipped via United States ports, there to be reshipped to Canada, direct shipping has cut down the figures of imports from the United States. Simi- larly exports are now traveling more through Canadian ports than formerly, and with the recent ruling of the British government that wheat must be shipped direct from Canada to the United Kingdom to gain the empire preference made at the _conference, Buffalo' and other Great Lakes ports on the United States side will lose much business which showed as exports to the United States in Canada’s trade ledgers. New Shipping Service. Direct shipping of Canadian imports end exports was strengthened recently with the opening of a Canada-East Indies shipping service. That this serv- ice is important is shown fn the fact that practcally all canned pineapples #old in Canada today come from Aus- Aralia or the Strait Settlements, while formerly the bulk of the pineapples came from Hawailan canneries. The on _expects to build up a big trade in the East Indies with this di- t shipping service, especially in rub- icing countries, since rubber will now be shipped direct to Canada, | practically all rubber formerly coming Best U. S. Customer from these countries through the United 3 month since the Imperial Con: ference has seen an increase in im. ports from Great Brit'an and empire countries, while exports to those coun- tries has also increased. Wheat has been the principal export, while imports include such commodities as coal which used to be brought practically exclu- sively from the United States. Now British codl is becoming popular in Canada, an increase of 50 per cent being shown for 1932 over the pre- vious year. British flour mills are re- ported to be using the highest per- centage of Canadian hard wheat in their flour in years. In addition to the treaties made at Ottawa, preliminary trade treaties were made betwen Canada and New Zea- land and Australia, and the results of these treaties is shown in greater trade | between these dominions. Canadian exports to Australia were nearly doubled this year. At the same time Australia amended its tariffs following the con- ference, lowering them considerably, in some cases as much as 10 per cent, to empire countries. Trend Expected to Grow. While only a short time has elapsed since the conference took place, this slight trend in trade toward the em- pire may grow as the eflects of the treaties become more apparent. And while on the surface United States fac- tories appear to be the losers, a large slice of the trade which begun to flow | between emrh'e countries consists of | goods manufactured in Canada by the branch plants of American industries. The number of these plants has grown greatly in the past few years not only in Canada but also in the United King- dom. An example of this is the auto- mobile business, the exports of which to British Empire countries is practi- cally entirely carried out from Canadian branch plants, or those in England, One of the interesting exports from Canada to Great Britian which has increased enormously since British pref- erential tariffs were instituted by Eng- land is that of tobacco. Formerly the bulk of the tobacco imported in Eng- lapd was from the United States. The tobacco exports of Canada have nearly doubled in the past year as a result of the Imperial tariffs, and it is re- ported that manufacturers in England consider the Canadian tobacco nearly as good as that from Virginia or the two Carolinas. French Royalist Leader Assails Cocktail as Poisonous PARIS —“Cocktallosis” will be a| Tecognized disease in the pathology of | the immediate future, according Leon Daudet, French Royalist leader, who was a physician before he took up literature and politics. “I consider cocktails,” Daudet says, “to be frightful polsons, equal if not superior in their harmful effect to morphine and cocaine. The medical world is turning its zattention to this question. A new pathological coktailosis, is on its way.” Daudet conslders the abuse of alcohol es belonging to the same category of phenomena as the drug habit. Leaving aside the numerous cases in which drugs are resorted to as a relief from in such chronic diseases as cancer and uremia drugs most often are taken s & release from boredom or depres- sion, which in many people develops into an acute morbid fear of death, he says. Cocktall Drinking Rises. ‘The spread of cocktail drinking in fecent years has been enormous. ‘The insidiousness of the cocktail re- gides not only in its high alcoholic con- tent dissimulated under a pleasant Savor, but still more in the social pres- tige which it has attained. It has be- come an universal custom to drink cocktalls whenever people gather of occasion, and puts the stamp of ap- dangerous vice. to | to have this sovereign type, | Drink cess in the form of wine, Daudet thinls. “We French,” he says, “are fortunate remedy for our ills and worries. Wine is the tonic par excellence, and entirely inoffensive When taken in moderation. It prolongs life, as may be proved by countless statistics of longevity in wine-growing regions. It is invaluable to the aged as death. Prohibiting wine because it con- tains alcohol is madness. Sees U. S. Awakening. “The United States is beginning to tion promoted the consumption of all sorts of noxious beverages, but it has created a new form of banditry. It is & case of the remedy being worse than the disease, and it is astonishing that a country with so many eminent doctors and hyglenists should have persisted so long in this error.” (Copyright. . “Tech” Currency. From the Pasadena Post. Money proposed by technocracy would be valid only during the year of issue. To see a man trying to pay a bill with it in December would be interesting. SR SRR TR Satisfied. From the Chicago Daly News. Mr. Insull cap discover cadent in modern Greek » 1932) a means of driving off the obsession of | realize this. Not only has total prohibi- | Which Road to Recovery? Higher Wages or Lower >—More Productién or Cut?>—What Will Start Uprising ? —Drawn for The Bunday Star by J. Scott Williams. points out that “only once in the his- tory of this country has there been & business revival which did not start with an upturn in the bond market. This exceptifon was in 1915, when Eu- ropean war crders speeded up the wheels of industry. It is the use of bank credit and of personal savings that furnishes the starter for business when BY GEORGE W. GRAY. LEADING _economist _recently pointed out that since 1790 20 depressicns in the United States have cured themselves—but, he added, the present depression is not likely to prove to be automatically self-curing. We shall have to do some- thing about it. Already various measures have been banks totaling $500,000,000—idle money tried. There have becen Government loans to private business, price stabili- s BRI NRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT policies unemployment relief, ade | HANDICAPPED BY STATES work,” “share-the-job” programs. In each case some sagging group has been helped temporarily, but debts grow ever Inadequate Statutes and Attitude That Anti-Narcotic Act Is Federal Business Offer Obstacles. it is stalld on the dead center of ot only is there the $1,500,000,000 of - cash, but tial bank bond credit totaling other lies idle. | had sufficient confidence in Dr. Friday cites that member banks|to invest. of the Federal Reserve System alone have excess deposits in the 12 Reserve the national budget,” said Lionel D. Ede, the well known economist of Wall Street. “Today securities of the United States are piled up in the banks. Peo- ple are afraid to invest, because capital does not see any profitable safe place in which to put its funds. Therefore, the first thing to do is to put our finan- cial house in order. Balancing the Fed- eral budget, and so remove a major ob- stacle to the free flow of labor and capital.” Budget Will Be Balanced. No economically sane person doubts that the budget must and will be bal- anced. The government that refuses to balance its budget will grow sicker and sicker. But the thing cannot be done without inflicting incalculable hardships that must almost certainly nick sti]l deeper the buying power of the masses. Salaries of Federal em- ployes will have to be cut by hundreds of millions of dollars—and industry and trade will feel the curtailment of this buying power| Taxes will have to be in- creased by hundreds of millions of dol- lars—and the people who pay those taxes will have that much less to spend in the stores.’ But a revival in business consequent upon the restoration of con- fidence might quickly offset these re- sults by providing additional employ- ment, earnings and purchasing power. Dr. A. W. Taylor, dean of the Grad- uate School of Business Administration of New York University, posed this as a fundamental: “We have got to get the price of consumers’ goods on & basis comparable with that of purchasing power. The cost of living dropped approximately 25 per cent between r, 1929, and October, 1932, but purchasing power dropped 50 per cent.” If the cost of lving can be sliced down another 25 per cent, ' obviously the result will be as though purchasing power had been increased by the same amount. But how to do it? “I am willing to make & prediction,” continued Dean Taylor, “that part of 1933’s program will be a Iiquidation of the capital structure of business to- gether with a further reduction of the hourly wage of labor. If properly articulated, a reduction of the hourly wage should bring about a reduction in prjces. ‘The worker’s dollar then will y' more goods, therefore the lower wages should mean little or no re- duetion in purchasing power. “A liquidation of capital, too, seems inevitable. A company that is bonded for, let us say, $3,000,000 may be stag- gering under an unbearable interest burden.. Cutting its indebtedness to $2,- 000,000 would not reduce its. plant; it would have the same number of ma- chines, the same production capacity, but it would have less debt to pay interest on. A good deal of the reor- ganization should be by the process of giving bondholders a proprietary inter- est in exchange for their bonds. That leaves them a chance to recover their investment when business improves. “If the capitalist contributes by giving up his interest, and the worker by accepting a lower wage per hour, I think we can look to the establish- ment of some sort of equilibrium be- tween prices and purchasing power— and when that occurs the upswing ought to be on its way.” larger, agricultural surpluses pile high- !r‘.‘!dlz factories continue idle, while the American army of the unemployed has increased to nearly three times the num- ber of our men in arms in 1918, Some fundamental and far-reaching adjust- ment is vitally needed—and many be- lieve that 1933 is the year in which the remedy must be adopted and applied, Our economic malady has been diag- nosed by Dr. Irving Fisher as “primarily too much debt and too little money and credit—the ‘debt disease’ and the ‘money disease.’ " Its most conspicuous symptom is the shrunken pocketbook, or, in the econ- omist’s more elegant term, “shrunken purchasing power.” The shrinkage to | date amounts to about 50 per cent of | normal, though in the case of certain | groups it is far greater. The farmers of the United States, for example, received during 1932 an income that was only about 27 per cent of their 1929 income. And the more than 10,000,000 unem- ployed have dropped out of the buying ranks almost altogether. 45 Billions Lost. Roughly the annual national 1ncome; with which our people do their buying | was about 90 billions of dollars before | the slump, and it is about 45 billions of dollars now. This shrinkage is many times the loss of our foreign trade, It is nearly four times the total of the war | debts owing the United States. All cther items in the deflation are minor beside this huge loss of some 45 billions from the purchasing power of the American public. It is not only that our purchasing power has shrunk about half, but some of the purchasing power that remains has gone into hiding. Fear of the fu- ture has caused owners to tuck away in safe-deposit boxes, in mattresses, stockings and other individual reposi- tories some $1,500,000,000 of the cur- rency that is supposed to be in_circu- lation in the United States. If this money were put to use in buying se- curities, in buying goods and services, its circulation would start a spiral of demand that would grow into a widen- ing circle of purchasing that would lift us out of the slump—so says one group of economists, Perhaps the most direct and novel proposal to get at these idle funds is that suggested by Roger Babson, the statisticlan and forecaster of business. He sees as the immediate cure for our economic ills & broad program of ad- vertising and selling. “If you will make me the employ- ment Mussolini of this country,” an- nounces Mr. Babson, “I agree to or- ganize and train an army of men and women now unemployed to present a Nation-wide educational campaign to create a legitimate demand for goods. Give me a small portion of the money which public officials today are spend- ing upon charity and let me use this money in giving a group of the un- employed supervised promotional work and the demand for goods will imme- diately return. Then industry will call back its unemployed, and before long business will be back to normal Salesmen of Prosperity. ‘Whether a group of salesmen would be able to overcome the caution and lack of confidence which have locked up these cash reserves is a question. They would have to be salesmen of prosperity quite as much as salesmen of the particular commodity they were BY HARRY J. ANSLINGER, Commisisoner of Narcotics. NACTMENT of the Harrison nar- cotic law dealt a paralyzing blow to the illicit drug trafic, and since that time the United States Government has fought apprehend these menaces to the com- munity well-being. The police, ever ac- tive, are stirred to greater activity. The | man-hunt is on. | No one suggests that this is anything |but a State problem. The person who Iwouxd suggest that the Federal authori- ties be called upon to come into the State and catch this hold-up man would be_ridiculous. But in the same community, the in- sidious, despicable drug peddler, carry- ing on his nefarious work of uniawfully taking away not only the property, but the peace of mind, the morals, the E constantly to eliminate the evil entirely through eflective international control of the production of drugs. But while | the Government has been cutting the roots of this vicious traffic, its suppres- sion in this country has been tremen- dously handicapped by conflicting and inadequate State laws. There also has' health of the citizens and undermining been a tendency on the part of mostthe general welfare of the community— States to let the Federal Government|what of him? Ah, that is different. In take the full responsibility of enforcing | spite of the fact that the sole right to the anti-narcotic laws, all of which | punish such criminals, under certain has created an absurd situation, provid- | circumstances, lies only within the po- ing loop holes through which the drug ' lice power of the State; despite the fact peddler easily slips. And it is the|that it was never contemplated that peddler, this species of human vermin, | such activities should be dealt with by preying on the weakness of his fellow | the National Government, enforcement men, who must be crushed out in the |officers as well as legislators in a num- final solution of this grave problem. |ber of States have decided that “Uncle Dot Apilias, Dijiue. Sam” is the proper person to cope with this particular menace to the com- The laws in many States were passed | munity. before the enactment of any Federal' This illogical attitude has not only statute and were designed primarily to | prevented the passage of adequate laws eradicate the evils of opium smoking |Which would be of inestimable benefit and opium dens. They have proved in- |to the State’s own citizens, but has re- effectual in combating the illegal traf- | sulted, in a number of States, in an al- fic in the more fashionable drugs that|most complete failure to enforce the has sprung up since. After the Govern- | laws already on their statute books. ment acted, some States did pass laws| The dockets of the Federal courts covering other narcotics, but so little |have necessarily become flooded with knowledge of the problem was possessed | cases of a minor character which should by the drafters that a hodge-podge of | have been handled in the State courts, laws was the result. Ill-advised 'as|but which were not thus handled either most of them were, however, there was | from lack of adequate laws or for rea- a genuine effort on the part of most|sons put forth solely because the duties States to enforce them to the limit until | and responsibilities appear burdensome, 1914, when the Harrison act became |expensive or distasteful, resulting in a effective. Then came the tendency to slowing up of the prompt and orderly shift the responsibility to the Federal | process of justice in major cases. Government. And what is the result of this delay- The primary purpose of the Harri- | ing of trials in the Federal courts? In son act Was o create and protect reve- many lnswnges, if a plea ot‘l nold z;:my nues for the United States, although |is entered, the case is continue om the act has been construed by the Su- | term to term because of the congestion, preme Court as having a moral purpose | and is finally dismissed on account of lalso. It was contemplated that the |the unavailability of witnesses or thes States would accept and discharge the unknown whereabouts of the defendant. responsibility of investigating, detecting | If the defendant does plead guilty, he and preventing or punishing the local |is often accorded so much conslderation retail illicit traffic conducted by the that a fine or a short sentence is im- ordinary peddler, and the institutional ?Med and he immediately resumes his cure and treatment of drug addicts. | il egal activities. This, however, did not prove to be the Yet in the States where the laws are case. Notwithstanding the limited power of the Federal Government, State | sonably rigid, the defen Offcers immediately became iimbued | cases would “have been ith the erroneous impression tha problem of preventing the abuse of nar- | fense, and, where guilt is cotic drugs was exclusively that of the |immediately sentenced tothe National Government, and that. the | prison. Federal law alone, enforced of course by Federal agencies only, would repre- sent all the control necessary over the illicit drug_traffic. This attitude on the part of the States has resulted in an anomalous situation. The public prints from day to day bring news of a number of Tllustrations Cited. ‘To cite a few illustrations of this absurd situation, which also reveal how myhlthturmdupomwnm s In New Ham , the fllicit posses- mrt: only an offense banks that have been robbed by an or- ganized gang; details of kidna) of gambling rackets; and con- cerning the operations of a lone bandit who has held up s number citizens. What is the B or gt Tepresent! 3 elndeefl,mfheu is a serious qu&n;n whether anything constructive ane - manent can be done until public con- fidence is restored. Many belleve that s this confidence must manifest itself securities In an article B e Rt Sty Davia Pridey sion of narcotics when intent to sell exists, which usu- cannot e Ee-hdmluhl be In N 3 sale of felony; morphine 5 only & In South Carolins, the sale of cocaine W only s anoy, 2ale of | < WAR THREATS BREWING "~ IN ‘DALMATIAN DISPUTE Danger of Inflaming Another General Conflict Is Seen in Albano-Italian Tariff Union Project. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. ARGELY because of more spec- tacular events in Asia, Europe’s latest little war scare has arouse] only passing interest in the nited States. Yet it has been & genuine war scare and it continues a source of continent-wide apprehension. The immediate occasion of the scare, of course, has been the project for an Albano-Italian Tariff Union. Back of this lies the havoc recently wrought upon Venetian lions by Slav patriots in the Dalmatian area. But behind all lies the rivalry of Latin and Slav at the head of the Adriatic. On the surface the proposal for an Albano-Italian Tariff Union must re- call memories of that ill-starred pro- ject for Austro-German association, the signal for the dramatic and adis- astrous explosion of the Summer of 1931 which ended by convulsing all Europe. In the eyes of the scuthern Slavs the new proposal is as menacing as was the old in the minds of the Czechoslovakia. And since the French are allies of both, the repercussions in Paris have been identical. Practically, of course, while a tariff union between Austria and Germany had justification alike in economic circumstances and racial affinities, a similar association between Italy and Albania is without other than political explanation. For the trade between the two countries is negligible and ethnic relationship is non-existent. In Italian eyes, Albatia is no more than a base for Italian political activity in the Balkans, And in all other eyes an Albano-Italian association would be remlms,o‘vfz of that now subsisting be- tween Manchukuo and Japan, Historically the Albanian state owes its existence to the fact that in 1913, at the close of the first Balkan War, while Italy and Austria were unable to agree about anything else, they both were eager to prevent Serbla from acquiring an outlet to the sea. Serbia and Bul- garia in advance of the Turkish War had divided the Ottoman territory in Europe. Macedonia fell to Bulgaria, Northern Albania to Serbia, Southern Albania to_Greece. But Austria and Italy both had designs upon all of the east coast of the Adriatic from Cattaro to Arta and successfully barred the di- vision by creating an independent Albania. Other Turning Chosen. In the World War Italy enlisted against Austria with the specific assur- ance from the allies that she should have not only Trieste and Istria but also Dalmatia and a free hand in Al- bania. Only Flume was withheld as a rt for the Bouthern Slavs, How to restore confidence? “Balance | 4.xnn, Belgrade and Rome in the main have been bad ever since the march on Rome. And this situation was even- tually accentuated by the treaty of mu- tual defense between the Slavs and the French. Henceforth the Italians found themselves “encircled” by French in- fluence. Meantime, as Prench influence in the Danubian area gradually gathered the Little Entente into its sphere, the Italians as & result found all their am- bitions to play a great role in Southeast Europe blocked. They establish a very friendly relation with about a revision of the peace treaties The Italians are as resolved to acquire Dalmatia as the Germans are to recove the Corridor. And the fact that the French have supported the status qua both cn the Vistula and the Adriatic has been resented with equal violence in Germany and in Italy. At Locarno the Germans indicated their willingness to accept the loss of Alsace-Lorraine as rmanent. Yet since Locarno they have more than once made clear that enduring Franco- German reconcilation and co-operation were only to be assured provided the French would abandon their defense of Polish territorial integrity. And in re- cent days it is reported the Italians have offered to recognize French posi- tion in northern Africa as permanent provided Prance would similarly recog- nize the Adriatic as an Italian sphere of interest. ‘The difficulty in both cases, as the French perceive, arises from the fact that the nations now in possession of the Corridor and Dalmatia, namely the Poles and the southern Slavs, would fight rather than agree to revision. Thus French assent to treaty revision would mean no more than clearing the way for new war, Moreover, as Austro- German tarif union would have spelled the isolation and almost com- plete encirclement of Czechoslovakia, Albano-Italian union would bring Italy within striking distance of Macedonia and in position to join hands with the Bulgarians. were able to| Eur Hungary during the long prepondefance | fair. of Count Bethlen at Budapest. They were occasionally able to make head against French influence at Bucharest. But in the end all their hopes were wrecked and their resentment was equally bitter against the Serbs and the French. Meantime things have gone far from well within the new Yugoslav state. The same resentment of the Serb which was felt again:t the Prussian in South Germany after 1870 has followed the creation of a southern Slav unity. Croat aspirations for autonomy have been roughly repressed. There have been assassinations, conspiracies and grave unrest. Obviously, Croat re- sistance to the Serb has supplied oppor- tunity for Italian agitaticn. On the other hand, Croat hatred and distrust of Italy has been the single restraining influence upon Croat separatist designs in the same period. Take Same Determination. For Fascist Itfl& the rise of a strong southern Slav stafe has been as great a deception as the similar rise of a strong Pcland for post-war Germany. Rome and Berlin have accordingly taken pre- cisely the same determination to bring point, all the old Austrian land between the Italian frontiers of 1914 and 1919, And their resolution is fortified by the fact that in this border district live up- wards of three-quarters of a million Slavs whose lot under Italian rule since the war has been far from happy. Granted that at the moment a new 'war growing out of the Adriatic dispute | is possible, although highly unlikely, re~ cent events have been and remain dis- turbing because they indicate how far off is any possibility of peaceful read- justment in Europe. Like the Polish Corridor, the region at the head of the Adriatic is the scene of dispute between peoples and races whose present pur- poses and policies are irreconcilable, Given the bonds that bind the - pals to other nations, were actual colli- sion to take place, it is hard to see how another general war could be avoided. (Copyright, 1933.) Film Memoirs in Modern Library Draw Literary Fire in England LONDON.—If the Duke of Suther- land is right, the library shelf of the future will ' have to accommodate memoirs in celluloid, “movie” records of the lives of the great and the near- great. For in a prophesying moment, when speaking as president of _the Institute of Amateur Photographers here, he suggested that the memoir of the future would take the form of a film. “A photographic record is much more graphic to look back on than anything written in the past,” he as- serted. “A cinematograph record of a man’s life will be ly more interesting.” But the duke’s countrymen are not all captivated with such a prospect, or ready to acknowledge the superior in- terest of the film record over the writ- ten and printed one. for instance, that from t. standpoint the lives of many great men are drab affairs indeed. Rulers, states- men, politiclans and big game hunters or explorers might, it is contended, pro- vide highly entertaining diversions h the &m memoir medium, but It is argued, | P! he pictorial of men and women of rare at- it equal to the present-day spirit of sacrifice shown by film stars and small town mayors. (Copyrigh Hawaiians Are Puzzled By Proposed Wet Laws HONOLUL Hawail.—Residents of Hawali are 1 at sea” as to how the projected “wet” legislation in Con- gress will affect these islands. The status of Hawail as a territory instead of a State makes it fairly certain that legislation placing on the States the responsibility for regulating the new lized liquor traffic will not be ap- in toto to Hawail. If precedent is followed, the Federal Government will have much more to say about the control of the liquor traffic in the islands than in the States. Preparing to make beer while the congressional sun shines on such activ- ity, one of the big ice and cold storage 1932.) or cnmpanugreere is planning to organize 'wery. Other interests are (Copyright, 1933.) New York's Submergence. From the Pasadens Post. declare it tp be New York is to be a mile under