New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 26, 1928, Page 12

VAL N ANDORA Odest and Most Isolated Re- public in World Washington, D. C., Oct. 26.—An- dorra, oldest and most isolated re- public in the world will be developed by a syndicate of French and Ger-| man financiers, according to cable dispatches. A bulletin from the Washington, D. C. headquarters of the National Geographic society tells how this tiny state, cut off from the influences of neighboring peoples by towering Pyrences ranges has, for centuries, resisted modern innovations. “The Andorrans are not much changed from the smart, stolid peasants to whom Charlemagne granted self-government in the eleventh century,” the bulletin con- tinues, Live in Bleak Land “Their somber little republic is dwarfed by the mighty mountains surrounding it, and the peasantry reflect the bleakness of the country- side In their mode of living and ar- chitecture, Their houses are built of native stone topped by over- handing black slate roofs. 1In the contrast to the Spanish balconies of wrought iron and gay colors, the Andorran houses have balconies of plain, unpainted, wood. “Andorra’'s greatest length is twenty-five miles. It has almost 6,000 inhabitants, and the popula- tion has not fluctuated 200 people in the last 600 years. Despite a healthful climate, the Andorrans are of poor physique. Inter-marriage for centuries has weakened their original hardiness. Moreover, their life is exceedingly rigorous, In apite of his taciturnity, visitors find the Andorran a courteous and gentle host. “The people of Andorra call their country ‘Los Valles’ They are po- litically independent, although they are under the protection of the Bishop of Soe d'Urgel on the Span- ish side of the frontier, and the president of France who, as suc- cessor to Henry IV, is prince of An- dorra. provincial dialect of Spain, harsher than Castilian. Politician's Paradise “There are six cantons in the re- public, eachreptesented in the coun- cil. The Casa del Vall, meeting place of the council, dates from 1588. Not only do the council wmembers meet in Case del Vall, they Also eat there, sleep there and lodge their mules in the stables beneath the council chambers. Andorra is & paradise for politicians in more ways than one. Its twenty-four congressmen are convoked four times a year, they sit for only two days and, more often than not, there ‘are mot emough political questions 10 be discussed to Keep them busy for that period. Smuggling Is a Virtue “Smuegling in Andorra is not a vice. It is a virtue—if the guards can be eluded. The tobacco grown in the little state is smuggled into France and sold at a good profit. ® defense attorneys for Jose De Leon They speak Catalan, a| sligg Ly the French and Spanish customs officers of late ycars has; practically stopped the chief source of revenue. Lack of money is now Andorra’'s main cause for worry. “The project fostered by the group of French and Germans is the building of a casino at Laseacaldes. Railways from Barcelona, in S8pain, | and Toulouse, in France, make it easy of access. Andorra Has Farmer President “The president of Andorra, who is a farmer on other than state | occasiona, occupies what ia perhaps the one pretentious mansion now to | be found there. An idea of what| | constitutes a national issue in the, principality may be garnered from | the fact that a civil war once threat- | ened over a proposal to substitute! | the violin and cornet for the mu- | sette and tambourine, which usual- {1y formed the orchestration at fete | dancing.” i 'Toral Trial Will ‘ Start in November City, Oct. 26.—A—The Mexico | Toral and Mother Supcrior Concep- cion, it 1s expected, will deliver their conclusions to the court on Saturday and the trial will probably begin in November. | 1t is intimated that the defense will maintain that Toral assassinated president elect Obregon under the linfluence of a mystic exaltation and prompted by an irresistible obses- sion.” The attorneys will contend that the Mother Ruperior had noth- ing to do with the assassination, em- h phasizing Toral's own testimony to ! | that effect. Expulsi?firom Exchange | | Made From Rostrum New York, Oct. 26 (UP)—Henry | R. Monroe yesterday- was expelled | from membership in the New York Stock Exchange, according to an an- ! nouncement made from the rostrum | of the exchange, A charge and spe- cification was prefered under section 2 of article 17 of the constitution of the exchange, The governing committee voted the expulsion. | Monroe purchased his seat February 14, 1924, JAPAN-CHINA IN AGREEMENT Tokio, Oct. 26 (UP)—Japan and | China have agreed in principle on friendly settlement of all points in ! dispute between them, a dispatch to the Nippon Dempo from Nanking ! said today. The dispatch said Dr. C. T. Wang. | nationalist forcign minister, includ: ing settlement of the Teinan upris: ing, in which Japanese were Killed. | Revision of the China-Japan com- | mercial treaty also was at issue. Yada returned to Shanghai to await approval of the Japanese govern- ment of the settlement. \New Face i Powder Popular |MELLO-GLO s a wonderful mnew | |shade—youth color. 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Of a grand total of over 2,700,000 votes tabulated this week Hoover has 1,717.041 and 8mith polls 971.- , & ratio of approximately 63 to With the returns announced as nearly complete from all sections of the country Hoover is ahead in every state with the exception of Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Caroliry, which Smith is car- ple reserves, 5 Though th: republican candidate has a plurality in Alabama and Ar- kansas, his margin is so scant that The Literary Digest classes the out- come in both states as doubtful. The Vote in Texas Texas, which nas the largest elec- toral vote of alt the southern states, is for Hoover by 51,269 to 34,683 votes in this “post-card election.” Florida shows a return of 17,247 to 9,162, or almost 2 to 1, for the republican nominee and the demo- cratic strongholds of North Caro- lina and Virginia evidence striking pluralities for Hoover. The republican candidate is ob- taining & majority of his strength from the democratic ranks in all ten states of the south with the ex- ception of Virginia and North Caro- lina, where most of his votes are shown to be from his own party. The border states of Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Tennessee BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1928 ' . { . pluralities for Hoover, In Okla- homa, he has a lead over his oppon- ent of 2% to 1. Hoover in Northwest In the northweéstern states of Wis- consin, Minnesofa, and North and South Dakota, which are classed as “doubtful” by many political au- thotities, The Literary Digest poll shows Hoover leading by odds as high as 2% to 1. In the La Follette-Progressive center of Wisconsin, with returns from Milwaukee included, the re- publicans are polling 31,841 votes to the democrats’ 22,071, * In Maine, where a republican gov- ernor was elected by a 3 to 1 majol ity in September of this year, Hoov- er is receiving 15,264 votes to Smith's 5,361, Governor 8mith's home state ot New York gives him 183,420 to Hoover's 215,548 which figures are stated to be inclusive of New York city. New Jersey, considered as one of the battle grounds of the current campaign, gives Hoover a lead in this week’s returns of 55,296 to 20,- 816, Smith Far Ahead In a separate section of the poll in which the entire electorate: ot sevral large cities is being polled Smith has a decided advantage in New York city with 139,020 votes to Hoover's 103.847 while Hoover leads in Chicago by 98,363 to 70,769 and in Philadelphia by 69,494 to 47,17. The analysis ot “how the same voters voted in 1924 indicates that the democratic standard bearer is now receiving almost 62 per cent of his support from his own party whereas in the earlier returns more than one-half of his votes were from former republicans. Over three-fourths of the Hoover ballots are from 1924 republicans and 23 per cent are switching to him from his rival party. Of the ¢35.868 voting in this 1928 Literary Digest poll who state that they did not vote in the last presi- dential election, 39 per cent record that they will vote republican this year and 38 per cent mark their ballots for the democratic candidate. Democratic Views “Several democratic editors,” The T are each returning - ‘comfortable i Literarp Digest states. editorially, “fing cause for optimism im the fact that the poll of four years ago, while amazipgly accurate in totals, showed a deviation from the popu- lar vote of several states as regis- tered in the actual election. “The Digest itself is acting as a mere recorder of opinion, seeking and presenting facts in that spirit of non-partisanship, of honest desire to get at all sides of a complex question, which this periodical has made peculiariy its own. “It presents its figures, vouches for the honesty and carefuiness with which the poll was taken, and leaves its readers to - draw their own conclusions.” Final Warning The editor of The Literary Digest issues a caution ‘in his columns to reinterpret the figures in case there 1s an eleventh hour ahift of political sentiment, “If there should be evidence,” he writes, “of a whotesale shift from camp to camp this year, readers should takey it inte account and modify thelr reckoning® from our poll figures accordingly. “While we know of fio shift of that character, it is only natural that many voters who marked the straw ballots for one candidate may change their minds and vote for the other, which would throw the fore- cast just that much out of line. 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