New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 12, 1924, Page 29

WAR LORDS FORCE FARMERS 10 PAY Tillers of the Soll Are Over- bardened With Taxes Paotingfu, Chihll, China, Dec. 12, — That the Chiness farmer, al- ready taxed to the limit of his abifity to pay, 18 to be called upon to bear the burden of the present punative expedition, s the conclu- slon foreed upon anyone who ana- Iyzes the present situation in North China, Closed schools suggest that educational funds are being di- verted; income from rallroads is being selzed, and even taxes for flood relief are being “borrowed” to swell the war coffers, but it is plainly to be seen that the farmers, who constitute three-fourths of the population, will be made to provide the bulk of the necessary revenues. No income tax, for example, hus City Items “Pyralin” Ivory in sets and single pleces. Burritt Gift Shop.~—advt, Michael Daunis, on December 10, recovered pudgment of $376.31 and costs amounting to $35.20 against Peter Pllkonis, and the latter's store at 79 Beaver street will be sold, while real estate in Berlin has been attached. Roche & Cabelus acted for the plaintift, Zygmont Milewskl, through Nair & Nair, has sued Willlam Begruzik for $75 damages to recover a gro- cery bill of $40. Constable George A. Btark has attached wages in the hands of the Stanley Works. The writ 1s returnable the fifth Monday of December. BETTER SERVICE FOR . INDIANS AIM OF AGENT Report Asks Congress For: Funds For Board of Commissioners’ Operations been devised by the warlords to compel private tortunes to contri- bute, and it ‘s notable that the patriotism of the private citizen does not prompt him’to support the cause of the central government. The warlords are, therefore, driven | to invention, and they invent one more atrocity. | As always, by the closing of mar- | kets, interruption of communica- | tions and pillaging by soldiers, the farmer 18 the sufferer, This year his crops havegbeen rulned. He has heen hoping for a little relief from the government, perhaps a job on a dyke financed by the flood relief surtaxes. But the taxes go for the | war, and the farmer, when he |a‘| least able to do so, is asked to sup- port it as never before. | The warlord’s first move was a ' gentle one. He proposed to buy | erops, but for these he set his own figure which was about half the market price. As the crops came | in slowly at this flgure each county | was asked through its officials to produce a certain.amount, Military pressure on the official, officlal | pressure on the farmer, and the trick was done. | The warlord needed carts, thou-| sands of them. There were muni- tions to be hauled many miles oyer | trainless country. He turned to the | farmer, A telegrari to the civil of- ficial and the oificial assessed the county accordirg to its population, anywhere from 100 to 800 carts. i county ‘magistrate In turn as- « -sad each village, according to ize. one 1o six carts. Nut the carts wers.to have ani-| mals and the animals drivers. All| this was in the military order, but| no half price nor half wage was of- | fercd here, The carts, animals and carters were to be produced in any yay that wonld cauge expense to the | warlords. So each village held a meeting to decide how to meet the demands. A favorite method with the village elders was to offer a given sum for volunteers. The actual sum paid in some villages is known to have been $200 to Induce a “volunteer” to go to the frout with a cart and two animals, and it was cloarly understood that if cart, ani- mals or driver falled to return the village assumed no responsibility. The cost to each village pf its cav outfits is usually shared proportion- ately by the villagers on the basis of acreage owned. But the warlord still is in need, He wants servants at the front to carry his ammunition and other equip- ment, to cook his food and to load and unlosd trains, to bury the dead 2nd’ to perform other menial labors, The number of coolies demanded was about equal to the number of carters. To the eredit of the mili- tarists it is said that counties badly hit by the floods have been partially exempted, but the total number of carts demanded from the province of Chihll, with its 128 counties, was approximately 25,000, Tn addition it {s reported that a contribution of $10.000,000 in hard sliver dollars has been demanded of Chihl province. DEFEND DR. BAST Amerfcan Mcthodists Rallying To Ald of Their Fellow Worker Ac- cused fn Denmark. Copenhagen, Dec. 12.-—American Methodists are rallying to the sup- port of Bishop Anton Bast, under arrest here on charges in connection with the disposition of funds collect- ed for charity. Messages 8xpreasing confidence in the blshop and promis- ing cooperation have been received from Bishop Willlam Anderson an® Dr. F. M. North, corresponding sec- retary of the board of foreign mis- slons of the Methodist. Epiec opal church. Another communication, sent in the name of the Scandina- vian elergymen in the United States, sald: “Stand with you to the last, can we assist you in any way?" Dr. North is quoted as previously declaring that Bishop Bast's ac- counts were satistactory in every re- spect, especlally with regard to a sum of $6,000 granted to the Jeru- salem church of Copenhagen and $16,000 to the central mission Denmark. Dr. Bast's arrest had the effect of somewhat reducing Danish charity glfts to the central mission, but yes- terday 5,000 kroner were received and the leaders of the mission ex- press confidence that the charity | funds will not be seriously curtalled. KIDNAPPED! BEAUTIFUL SOCIETY GIRLS DISAPPEAR INTO THE NET Police Commissioner Richard E, Enright of New York City colves mystery COMING SOON CAF.TOL THLATER Washington, Dee. 1 Yrepre- cedented activity amd distinct pro- gress {n all phases of federal super- vision of the affairs of the govern- ment’s Indlan wards were cited In the Board of Indian Commissioners’ annual report today, which asked of Congress sufficlent funds to carry on the 1ntemxped Indlan service op- erations. In a review of t] settlement of important Indian atters which had been the subject of agitation and controversy for years, the board expressed gratification for the Sny- der act which conferred United | States citizenship upom all non-citi- zen Indians, numbering some 125,- 00. “We are of the opinion,” the re- port continued, “that the formal merging of the Indian psople into| the citizenry of the country is a| distince challenge to Jhe govern- | ment to intensify its Indian " ce | actlvities in order to hasten the day | effort. when all supervised Indiane may | safely pass from under supervision | by becomjng the unrestricted own- | crs of their property, and the equals, | in all respects, of all other Ameri- can citizens. | Ameng recommendations contain- | ed in the report are the granting of | more authority for superintendents of Indian reservations in matters| which are purely local; the| strengthening of the field matron | servfce in the Indian burean, and| the continuation of the rampafgn‘ agalnst trachoma and tuberculosis | whith the Indian service now 1s| ucting. cong i $0. AFRICAN PLANS. | | moric efforts of the late thirtie: Report is That Entire Bechuanaland May Be Included in Union of Soutp. \rica, Jnha}rfinfifiurg Union of So. Africa, | Dec. 12.—Developments toward in- | corporating the whole of Bechuana- | land protectorate into the Union of South Afrlca are imminent, the Johanneshurg Star is informed. A definite move in this direction it says will be one of the first matters to engage thc attention of the as- sembly at its coming session. . Premier Hertzog is sald to have told deputation from the pro- tectorate which recently waited upon him that he thought the time had arrived to consider the incorpora- tion of Bechuanaland and also Swaziland into the union, and that | he would obtain the British govern- ment’'s views on the subject, Bechua and protectorate has been within the British s since 1885 compriges about 27 square miles and had a population at the time of the 1921 census of 152,983 including 1 Europeans Swaziland lies Mt the southeast corner of the Transvaal and is ad- ministered by the high commission- er for South Africa. It covers 6, 678 square mi 1d the 1921 cen- Furopez a which yhere om 2,200 were DEBT AGRULMENTS Two New Policies Affecting British and Polish Finances. Warsaw, Dec. 12—Two agreements regnlating the payment of Poland's debt to Great Britain have heen con- in London after months of negotiations conducted by the Polish Minister, M. Skirmunt, and a special lelegate from the nee ministry, M. Wojtkiew Under the arr to information reaching her, 000 will be paid by Poland within 15 years in repayment of relief credits. The rate of interest will be dimi 5 per t, and the un- terest for the preceding yuars 1 to the total debt. of Poland 1o elnded according ment, sh- ed from 6 to paid will b Other Britain, lotys (at be funded gations amounting ut $1 ERROR SCHOLARSHIPS Which Bencfited Targe Fand Compfnies By Mistake Cr tain's parts of fon by t tur ial Notice | of a, Christmas t 151 ec ters Mai Members ars requested to bring their articles to the club rooms, 166 Main street tonight at 7:30.—advt a | Englieh was an acquired dialect with GETYSBURG WAS PREPARED SPEECH §o Says Prolessor Who Has Studied Lincoln's English Urbana, 111, Dec. 12.—Contrary to any general bellef that Lincoln's Gettysburg address was either un. prepared or a hastily prepared ef- fort, it was a result of careful thought and much work, according to Prof. Daniel Kilham Dodge, of tha Univereity of Illinole. He {s con- vinced, after years of research work, that Lincoln's success in writing and speakmy wua the result of constant effort and that standard Egglish to the Civil War president was ap ac- quired dialect, “It has often been assumed that Lincoln, like Goldsmith, was a mas- ter of English style by the grace of God and without speclal effort on his part,” Professor Dodge declared. “Nothing could be farther from the truth, for we have abundant evi- dence, both internal and external, that Lincoln's success in writing and speaking, as in the practice of the law, was the result of constant “Just as he made thorough pre-| paration of his law cases, studying| his opponent’s side as carefully as his own, never depending upon the| inspiration of the moment, s0 he bestowed Infinite pains upon the preparation of his spceches, gener-| ally writing them out in full and committing them to memory. He summed up his practice as a lawyer in these words of advice to a law student: ‘Work, work, work, that is| the main thing.' | “When he preparation, as with the ehort speeches on the journey to Wash- ington in 1861 or the response to a| serenade the evening before the de- | livery of the Gettyshurg address, the | result was anything but successful, Unlike Seward, he had mot the| tongue of a ready speaker and with characteristic seif-criticism he real-| ilzed this defect himself, This nega- tive characteristic was undoubtedly due in part to the fact that standard him and therefore he lacked the spontaneity in its use of one to the manner born. “But this defect also had its ad- vantages and it is to a great cxtent| responsible for his later complete mastery of the spoken word. It con- tributes to making Lincoln a pro- greasive artist, advancing step by step from the crude ‘Communication’ of 1832, through the rather sopho- and carly forties and the more restrained epeeches of the fifties, to the mark of high literary ion of the Coop- Institution address, the two in- augurals and the Gettysburg' ad-| dress.” | | CULTURE AND COMMERCE Berlin, Dee. 11.— The German- Spanish society has decided to ex- tend its functions to include fur- therance of commercial relations be- tween the two countries. Hitherto the society was concerned only with cultural matters. Beaths e e Benjamin §. Clark Mre, 8. A Alderman of avenue has reeeived word death of her cousin, Benjamin 8. | Clark at Windsor. Mr. Clark has several cousins In this city and was well known logally. ~ The funeral | will be held from his late home in | Windsor at I o'clock Sunday after- | { Overhill | of the| Mrs. Mary Riley Word was received today by Mr. and Mrs. John H. Dillon of West et, of the death of Mrs. Mary ley, at her home in Long Island New York. The death 1 yeste Mre, Riley was formerly ident of this city curred yesterday, Mrs. Riley in business for a numher of Besides her husband vived by a brother, John Ferguson, and two slisters of New York | The funeral will be hell Monday morning at 9:30 o'clock from thr in Long Island City, Burial | a re she {s sur- Lo unerals Daniel Higging eral of Daniel Higgins wil} toniorrow morning, 9 at §t. Mary's churc} Ta- he in 8t. Mary's N'n’—‘ CARD OF THANKS to thank our 1 neighbors for the Kind- s and sympathy shown us during | t ivement in the death aughter and sister, itiful floral offerings wish to t Lock bas Mohawk Athletic ins Dye and Tool nd the §t. Rocco We wish many | r here especially Corbin C squad, & F. C m Workers society. Signed: M 0220 and Family 'Joseph A, Haffey Funeral Direetor Phone 1625-2. opposite St. M Chureh. Residence, 17 Sammer St.—1625-3. ——es——— —_— PLANT BULBS NOW FROM F. H. Bollerers Posy Shop and Mrs Michael Car- dld speak without| _ D —— | Wall Street Briefs Initfal quarterly dividends of $2 a share on the cluss A common stock of the Continental Baking corpora. tion and $2 a share on the preferred, were declared today. The Missouri Pacific has ordered 35 Mikado engines of 166 tons each and 10 15-ton Pacifica from the, American Locomotive Co. and § lo- comotives from the Baldwin Loco. motive Co. Louisville & Nashville which bought 16 engines a week ago trom the American Locomotive has eight additional 162 ton Mikados. New York, Dec. 12.—The Albany & Susquehanna rallroad has de- clared an extra dividend of $2 a share payable January 10 to steck of record December 2 Pig fron prices at Cleveland have heen adyanced 50 cents a ton to New offarings today were led by an issue of $15,000,000 Fisher Body Corporation 5 per cent serlal gold notes at prices to yield 4.25 to | per cent, maturing in one to fou |vears. The proceeds wiil be used In retiring $17,500,000 of the outsfand- ing 6 per cent serial gold notes dated I'ebruary 1, 1923, The American Telephons & Tele- graph company's expansion program for 1925 involves an outlay of $265,- 100,000, Stocks of zinc decreased 11,540 tons in November, the largest reduc- tion in any month since May, 1822. Shipments of $54,173 tons also were the largest for any month in the Dhistory of the industry, except dur- ing the war period. The engagement of Miss Alexa Stirling, former women'’s golf chain- plon, has been announced at her home in Atlanta, Ga. The lucky i35 is Dr. Wilbert Green Frazier of . . « AT e A Business in Sofia Is Heavily Taxed Sofla, Deec. 12.—Bulgaria, like oher countries in Europe, is pay! off war reparations and obligations, and or hedula time. A resident of Sofia, in the pub- STONING OF ATHLETES South America Sub- ' the money to do this was obtalneds | He turned to his books and revea Jected to Rough Treatment by | .4 tax bil follows: 1914, 371 leva; 1920 5,300 leva; 1022, 10,200, and in 1923, 33,400, same increase is applied to (ind if business in Bulgaria. the Spectators Buenos Air tine and newspay have been severely lecturing spee- tators at foothall games for their lack of sportsmanship in the treat- ment of visiting teams from oth‘r‘ countries. Throwing bottles and | stones at the opposing players, jeer- calliing them and theor are not calculated to enhance internatioal friendship, they point out, and some editors in both countries favor the discontin- uance of international contests on account of the ill-feeiing they arouse. The discussion was provoked by occurrences at recent games be- | tween the Uruguayan Olympic team and the Argentine ele in Monte- video and Buenos Aires 1 ively. Stones are reported to have bheen thrown at the Argentina goal keep- er in Montevideo, Buenos Alres the visiting Uruguayan fans walked off the field shortly before the end of the game, ciaiming the ill-treatment recelv by their players from the Ar tine crowd was responsible for their failure to win. The Uruguayan resentment was further aroused when the boat on which they red to Monte- video was bombarded by lumps of coal when it | | Boy Babies Number More Among Older Mothers Drosden, Germany, Dec. 12.— the sex of by Doctor ho has made of epecial studles. He fo t mothers up to gave birth to just as many s. With th thers be- to ild is asserted or of this city tals topic et a e d 100 g cause of the pheno- of the sudden increase of oys born as compared to girls th of culture P! ADS FOR YOUR WANTS ?he Buds A;é Blooming In Our Ca Washington is like a great rose bush abloom with al buds, now that the coming-out season is on. 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