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THE 8 FAPrLE star @ ® PAGE 79 How the Leasue’s Bio Stick Stopped a Balkan War FE-SAWING UP ya BROADWAY Meighan and His Wife at First-Night Performance ERATOR HE MIGHT BE IRISH COP Charlie Chaplin Happy in Chorus Girl’s Company BY JAMES W. DEAN - HE OLD WAR-TORN WORLD has swung into a new epoch at those of little faith are asking what the authority of the League x oa last, and a new chapter in human history has begun, say expe- would have come to if, instead of disarmed Bulgaria and exhausted the belligerents had been Powers of the first order. The an- wer is the treaties of Locarno.” rienced editorial observers as they see two Balkan belligerents Greece, actually stop a war at the command of the League of Nations. It i taken, too, as a heartening sequel to the peace-pledge of Locarno On the oth er hand, there is a note of skepticism sounded in some when a word of command from the League can quench a flaming fuse quarters of America. in the Washington Post we read: of conflict in that ever-menacing powder-magazine of tangled racial “The spectacle of the League of Nations shutting its eyes and ears to hates and fierce national rivalries. the Moroccan and Syrian wars, while forbidding Greece and Bulgaria to fight, is a striking illumination of the fact that the League is merely ‘or instance The New York World declares that “today, for the first time within ; 4 : A math Nate y . ; t x ‘ a machine for manipulation of European affairs by the Great the memory of man, the great Western Powers have stood united on Dawaray? : a Balkan question, and for the first time when they commanded peace 7! I it Digest thi hey ber 7th 7 is Hil . the Balkans obeyed. 1e Literary Dige 1is week, the November 7th number, is liber ally devoted to a comprehensive review of the uprising in the Balkans. It shows what caused it, where the fighting took place, and how and why hostilities ceased so abruptly. By means of translation from the newspapers of the affected countries in the Balkans, one is able to ob- tain a “close-up” of how the peoples of these nations view a security pact against war. These articles are copiously illustrated with car- toons and a map. The importance of the ultimatum which the League of Nations issued to Greece and Bulgaria can searcely be exaggerated, says the New York Times, which welcomes it as evidence that “we are living in a new epoch” in which hereafter “the advance of strong and enlight- ened nations may be achieved without the maiming and slaughter of the nations’ best and bravest.” And, continues the Times: “Today young ct JAMES W. DEAN Ominous Spider Is _ Found by Scientist Prophets and Proofs of Prosperity in America HE BELIEF IN PROSPERITY which sustains the present boom al History seum of Natu National City Bank, New York—and Chambers of Commerce through- BUREAU OF | in Wall Street seems to be shared by practically every authori- ty in the business and financial world. Sir Robert Horne, a fre- out the country, are equally optimistic. But all these prosperity prophecies need tempering with sobriety, MISSING _ | RELATIVES | § The Star tnvites itn renders to nse thie Aepartment as an aid in finding missing erlatives or friends, ‘The department is to help in reuniting those whe have been insists the Newark News, which remarks: “Just what this ballyhoo over long-continued prosperity is all about may be as uncertain as the meaning of Florida’s real-estate boom.” As an offset, it reminds us of statements that we have too many coal-mines and too many miners, too many textile mills and textile workers, and, with all this, agitation from big employers to let in more workers: So, “all these things in- troduce a note of sobriety to tone down the exaltations of the Fords and Mitchells.” quent visitor here, leaves our shores declaring that he has never be- fore seen “the real prosperity there is today in every form of finance, industry, and trade,” a prosperity not confined to the wealthy, but ex- tending to everyone, and with nothing in sight that can stop it. 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