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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-02-02, Page 3A -X Re volutionary Plots and Wars Kindled in Cafe Imperial Political Conspirators and Exiles of Eastern Europe Gather at Vienna’s Rendezvous, Long Famous as Inter­ national Barometer for Balkan Conditions * Youth in Gamble With Death To Win Career on African Coast Quinine Is Price of Life for White Colonists Who Work Beach; Where One Success Many Others Face Years of Broken Health in Homeland on I We Must All Agree Brother of Benito Mussolini Opens Campaign for Clean News Clean Papers, Clean Minds Rome,—A noteworthy article has appeared lu Popoio d'ltaiu, written by its editor, Arnaldo Mussolonl, the Luce's brother. After pointing out th* changes effected in the Italian press In the last two years, the writer com­ plains that many Fascist papers con­ tinue to devote several .columns, of their restricted space to long accounts of crimes and sensational stories which are contrary to the ideas which every journal professes to uphold, “It is time," Signor Mussolini says, “that this practice should be abandon, ed, even if the omission of such stories reduces the circulation of somo papers. The space which is now devoted to stories of crimes, suicides, etc., could better be used by articles containing instructive, clean new*, which tends to elevate the moral level of all classes of society." This article has been reproduced In several Roman newspapers, which ex­ press their unqualified approval of ths campaign of Popolo d'ltalia. .-Incidentally, the Editor of this page has followed this plan conscientious­ ly. Murder and sudden death, when associated with the criminally Insane only deserves space on the pages of medical treatises, not in newspaper* for general consumption. After all, who gets "the kick" out of sensational news of this character!1 Just keep your eyes open and watch who it is that usually pours over It is the mentally the old maids of who whisper “hush TROUBLE'S HOME I Office when they heard of the impend­ ing journey of the heir to the throne, Archduke Frqncls Ferdinand, to JBso- nla. The warning was notjiqeded, and the assassination of the archducal couple in Sarajevo gave the signal for the most sanguinary war in the his­ tory of the world. The trouble with the Imperial is that one cannot rely on its stories. Many a plot or revolu­ tion predicted as an unavoidable cer­ tainty did not come off. In a certain percentage of cases there may have been a hitch in the last moment, but others have been freely invented. By H. A. Diez Vienna.—A week ago a, certain Pros- hev, native of Macedonia, was sen­ tenced to throe years and a halt in jail by a Vienne so court because he fired pistol shots at another Mace­ donian, seriously wounding the lat­ ter’s housekeeper. About a year ago a young woman, Mencia Carnlciu, also of Macedonian extraction, shot and killed the Macedonian leader, Tudor Panlzza, in a box of the Burg­ theatre during a performance of ’Peer Gyht” because, she said, Paniz- zu was a traitor to the national cause of the Bulgarians In Macedonia. Some Emigrants and political refugees al- while ago a Bulgarian emissary shot i ways dream of unexpected turns like- down a former Bulgaria]), minister in j ly to Improve ^thelr situation, - ' ” ' ‘ , Called “Omniscient” Cafe Half jokingly and half in earnest, ’people call the Imperial the “omnis­ cient cafe,” None of the other politi­ cal cafes has gained the same univer­ sal reputation. But the funniest story of post-war p’olltics In Viennese cafes is told of the Casa Piccola, in the Marlahilierstrasse,' and although it zounds queer it is vouched for as true. When the Soviets seized the Ukraine the governments of West Ukraine and :East Ukraine removed to Vienna and 'settled down in the respective lega- Prague for similar reasons, and in the Balkans there hardly passes a week without political murder. Trains are blown up, bombing plots revealed and the world is told that ‘this or that Macedonian committee or political faction is waging war against another faction or against tho Serbs or Greeks. The intricacies of this guerrilla warfare aro not easy to un­ derstand, nor would they much mat­ ter to the outside world, if it were not an established fact, that shots in tho Balkans sometimes kindle wars. . ocuici In the Macedonian districts of the ’ tions> Balkan peninsula live 1,000,000 Bulga-: rians under Greek and Serbian rule ‘ .and foreign rule in these regions is •tantamount to the worst forms of sup­ pression. Just at present the revolu­ tionary Macedonian committee dis­ plays a lively* bombing and band ac­ tion in Jugoslavia and Greece because It regards the peaceful rapprochement of Jugoslavia and Bulgaria as a dan­ ger to the national aspirations of the unredeemed Bulgarians in Macedonia. By disturbing this pacification move­ ment the Macedonians or, rather, one party of the Macedonians, hope to gain a respite until the time is ripe dor their liberation. Long a Balkan Rendezvous. For decades Vienna has been an* Im-, portant rendezvous for Balkanites, •--------- ------------- -- ------ mostly emigrants, whom the mael-1 or vice versa to raise small loans. Or ■strom of politics hurled into exile. And the true home of the Easterner, living room, office and debating club all in one, is the cafe. Many a cafe in Vienna could reveal dramatic stories if the mute walls would speak. —--------- - Among these political gathering because they had accepted jobs as places in which plots and wars are office clerks, and the Minister of Fin- discussed is the Cafe Imperial, on the ance failed to turn up because ho had «««cr In Fhn •nciLnHal 'hiiHrUno* ! nnanril n nflnHv qfnro wTHIa tha 'T’rnrla j They took over some funds and made an additional income by the sale of passports and visas. Everybody who could not obtain a regular- pass­ port or visa used to travel with ■Ukrainian documents. Another source of income was the printing of stamps, , whcih were bought by stamp dealers and collectors. But when after a whilo the Ukrainian passports lost their validity and nobody cared any longer for the stamps the funds of the '■ exiled governments melted, away and they ha dto give up their offices and settled down in the Casa Piccola at two big tables. There they presided from 2 to 6 every “afternoon, and the Foreign Min­ ister of one government would call on tho Minister ot Finance of the other I there .would be lengthy debates ot both governments over urgent prob­ lems, how to get new funds for the treasuries and the Cabinet members. This Eort of thing went on until the prime ministers could no longer come, “LOST PIONEERS OF AVIATION” is the title of this mass work to be cast in bronze, upon which Victor Frisch of New York is puttng the finishing touches. It will be placed either in New York or In Detroit next spring. HELL’S PLAYGROUND the burning sun, in wind, is a different white men and wo- wltlijn the armor of Accra Beach is a Bight for all devo­ tees of tropical romance and African adventure. Working there, month af­ ter month, under the hot monsoon matter. In West Africa men can live only their daily quinine. Every one wears the strained look that is the price of life in the tropics. I talked to an Eng­ lish public school boy checking cargo alongside the surfboats on Accra Beach. There was no pink bloom on his cheeks. His face was sallow, and lined with illness and worry. "People In England think that we live easily on the coast—that the doc­ tors have wiped out all disease,” he told me wearily, pushing back his heavy helmet. “That idea hurts us out here—it’s all wrong. We certain­ ly are not overpaid, and our home leave every few years is not a luxury —it Is death to stay much longer. Some men don't stick it for a year.” He told me the facte for the benefit of those who feel the lure of this coast that a novelist once called “Hell’s Playground." “Beachmaster” la First Job. The newcomer to a trading firm any­ where in West Africa usually finds himself at work as a “beachmaster,” He goes down to the beach at six o’clock in the morning, and his boy follows him soon afterward with breakfast Cold eggs and ,bacon in a very hot shed. 4 His main duty is to check cargo as the surfboats come in from the freighters in the roadstead. He must have a quick eye for break­ ages and shortages —for the ingenuity of the thief is more Oriental than Afri­ can. Dozens of natives arrive during the day with palm kernels. Some of them carry petrol tins and calabashes of palm oil. The ‘‘beachmaster" must see everything weighed out and mea­ sured. He must supervise the labor- be Kaerntnerring, in the palatial building of the hotel of the same name. Here moot since time immemorial the cor­ respondents of foreign papers, exiled politicians from Bulgaria and other Balkan states and, since the World War, emigrants from Hungary and Chechoslovakia who dare not return home. Bolshevist Russians and others that are against, the Soviet regime, a motley crowd congregating on neutral • ground. Fantastic stories circulate in the Cafe Imperial, but if one learns to dis­ criminate one can also get valuable information now and then, for hidden threads lead from here to official chan­ celleries and conspiring circles alike. When last spring many people be- lived that an Albanian war was near at hand the war odds in the Imperial stood at zero, a sur'e sign against en­ tanglements. The complement of the Imperial would not be complete with­ out Albanians, and they knew better. It is a good omen for the maintenance of peace in Southeastern Europe that the barometer of the Imperial has pointed at peace for many months, but at the same time this makes the place less interesting for the moment, for tho great days of the cafe are those when something is happening. It need not necessarily be war; scan­ dals liko the bogus francs swindle in Hungary also are discounted at a high rate and throw big waves. ■Cafe Sensitive to Politics. The -ups and downs of the Imperial depend entirely on the political weath­ er. When something is on, let us say a government overturned or an impor­ tant Balkan leader assassinated, the event is sure to be reflected on the guests. Either there turns up a new man, who has just been sentenced to death and sips liis black coffee' placid; ly, for in„tho Imperial ho is safe, or there comes somebody who is chased by maffia somewhere, and his appear­ ance Is less reassuring, for much more dangerous than governmental death sentences are the unofficial ones of secret committees, whoso execution­ ers may turn up when tho victim, least expects them. ’ Since tho World War the Oafe Im­ perial has extended its sphere of ac­ tivities, but prior to 1914 its domain ■was tho Balkans. Tho headwaiter still recounts a ghastly experielicevffio had in 1903, He used to serve some Sorbian guests who looked Very peace­ ful and were most obliging. When one day they told him smilingly that there would be bloodshed in the “konak” of Belgrade, as the royal castle of the Serbian capital is called, he took it as a bad joke. But. he al* most fainted when, looking into the morning papers two days later, ho found the report of tho assassination of King Alexander Obrenovitch and Queen Draga. The Balkan war in 1912 was no surbrise tot the habitue* of the Imperial. In Juno, 1&14, friends from th* Iw jpgrial warned the Austrian y*r*l£t)i opened a candy store, while the Trade Minister had found that ft was better to work as a chauffeur than to sit in council not knowing who would pay for the black coffee. So this romantic chapter ended and the Casa Piccola ceased to bo a factor in international politics. Faster and Faster What is the safe speed at which to drive an automobilo? The answer is the same as the answer to most ques­ tions: It depends. Mr. Paul S. Hoffman, vice-president of the Studebaker ’Corporation, -pre­ dicts that within a few years all speed limit laws and ordinances will have disappeared. Michigan has no speed law and punishes only what is called ‘reckless driving.” There is muth to be said for this course, but how are wo ever going to establish standards of “recklessness" when it is already impossible for a motorcycle cop and a car-driving citizen to agree on a mat­ ter of simple arithmetic? Mr. Hoffmann goes a little too fast for us when he says that day after to­ morrow automoobiles will be “expect­ ed” to go at a rate of sixty-five miles an hour. -“We are living in a rapid age,” he adds, “and must keep going more rapidly all the time.” Why? In spite of the. increase of automobile speeds, people still miss trains, are late for lunch, lie in bed after the alarm clock has gone off and tell long stories during business hours. The rapid age has given us more time to loaf and rest from the. weariness of trying to bo rapid. And that’s about all. A quiet evening at home nowadays is the one when the radio battery is away being charged. Will Rogers Praises Chicago’s Handling of Crooks ~ To the Editor of the Now York Times: .Garrett, Ind,—Just passed through Chicago to-day. Wanted to go up and see my old friend Mayor Thomp­ son, but had had English breakfast, tea for luncheon and was afraid he would smell it on my breath. You can kid about Chicago and Its crooks, but they have the Smartest way of handling their crooks of any city. They get the rival gangs to kill off each other and all the police have to do is just referee and count up the bodies. They won’t have a crook in Chicago unless 'he will' agree’ to shoot at another crook. So viva Chicago! . Yours unhit, WILL ROGERS. Where Stray Overcoats Go “Hank” Dudley, social secretary for the Omaha Post of the American Le- gion, said to a gathering consisting ers bagging kernels and pouring oil i of Mr. Isaacson and myself: "It’s won­ derful what' the railroads have done for this country.” ‘But the reason I like them bestest,” he added, "is because they give us the unclaimed overcoats that are left on the trains. See, here are forty of them, and they are going to keep a lot of poor fellows—at least forty poor fellows—warm." This is the end of the story—except that if you have an unclaimed over­ coat that you wish anywhere and can’t bring it to the legion office, 'leave it on the trains running into Omaha.—Omaha World-Herald. into “casks. Always he must have ah eye in the back of his head for the in­ coming surfboats. At noon, if he Is fortunate, he may stagger up to the mess for lunch. With equally good luck able to rest for an hour, tho cocoa season is on, are many ships in the bay, he may not get to the mess at all. A sandwich in the shed, which has by now become intolerably hot, will have to satisfy him. Leisurely “chop” during the" day is a rare experience, for the “first .timer” in West,Africa., Work goes on unceasingly until 8 in the evening—often later. The beach-master’s head aches, his eyes I are tired and dazzled in the blinding sun glare. No tennis at Bundown for him. Just time for a hasty shower before dinner. Sunday Is often the most feverishly busy day of the week. So much vital work has to be done that the conscientious man dare evbn go down with malaria untii fever forces him. Salaries Paid for Hard Work. In return for this unpleasant life the young man learning to be a West Coast trader may expect a salary of ?125 a month, possibly a little more, At the end of two years he will re­ ceive four months’ leave on half pay. If he is Invalided home before his con­ tract has expired he is almost certain to lose hl3 job. If he works hard for two years he may be lucky enough to secure an eighteen months’ contract for the next spell of duty, and a high­ er salary. A well educated young man, ambitious and with the essential physical endurance, will be making more at the end of five years than he would receive after twenty years in England. Or he may still be selling cotton print to hot and odorous humanity behind the counter in the store. A career in West Africa is a gamble. You back your character and your body against the most insidious cli­ mate in the world. The agents and supervisors,' with their ?5,000-a-year salaries and their trips to England eveiy nine or twelve months, are the men, who have won. The losers, some of them, are dragging themselves along slum pavements . in English towns. I doubt whether any land in the world breaks men more surely and completely than “the Coast.” he may But when when there not the who it is I dvery detail? undeveloped, both sexes, stuff” behind their hands, and those “just a bit quoor." Quick justice and punishing judg­ ment with due publicity given the penalties should act* as a doterrant to* % the wave of unbalanced acts that ap­ pear to be upon us, but Mussolini’s brother is right—Clean up the press, and stop giving front-page position to the Mellors and tho Hickmans—-fath­ er give them the lash and lots of it Man to Study What Wild Beasts Think About and How They Talk Investigator to Go “Trapping” With Phonograph and Catch Jungle “RemarksOk Records—Seeks to Found Study Center in. -Bush .............. ... ,..,,,,.--- Turks Now Have Pork Provided By the State The New Government of Angora Thus Sets Aside Another Old Law of Islam Having got rid of the dervishes and legislated hei' citizens out of many Moslem practices, republican Turkey, whose Constitution declares that Is­ lam is the! State religion, has gone into the pork industry, the Government having previously taken over the liquor monopoly from a Polish syndi- 1 cate. J Both pork and liquor were pro­ scribed by'Mohammed when he found­ ed his religion in the seventh century A.D., based as it was upon what he knew of Judaism find Christianity.] The taboo against pork Mohammed took from the Jews. But bow many of Turkey’s great Sultans were wine­ bibbers? Pork, however, is a post­ republican comestible on Turkish tables. As for the State religion being that of Islam, the President, Mustapha Kemal, whose title of Ghazi or Con- querer to-day spells “Father of the Country” to Turkish school children, has declared that Islam will not be allowed to interfere 4n any way with the development of Turkey along ad­ vanced lYestern lines. Moreover, the deserted mosques in large cities may po.ssibly be turned into School build­ ings, of which there is a shortage. To-day Turks eat ham and bacon and' drink liquor manufactured and sold by the Government. At present these pork products are imported from the Balkan States. But Adana and other places in Anatolia have herds of wild pigs which ruin the farmers* grain crops. These pigs have, as in India and other Oriental countries Where pork is taboo, steadily increas­ ed through the centuries. -Hence a pork factory is to be started at Adana which will cure the wild pigs, shot by hunters, into ham and bacon for dom­ estic use and export. Tho farmers’ pest will thus provide sport as well as profit. While the raising of pigs as a commercial product is too much to be expected at present by Anatolian farmers newly emancipated from the' bonds of their religion, yet it Is not unlikely in the future, when the wild herds of pigs are reduced. , As yet the Anatolian retains a strong orthodox strain in his remote sectors. He has been reluctantly caught up into the breathless whirl­ wind of progress legislated from An­ gora. While Turks in Constantinople restaurants eat their ham and bacon and pork with relish, and wash it down with beer and light wines, the Anatolian is content to bring up the rearguard of progress In Turkey. Cape Town—W. D. Hubbard, Ameri­ can author and natural scientist, formerly connected with the zoos of New York and Boston, has returned to the African bush- with the object of exploding more fallacies about wild animals. With him are his wife, their son, and their baby girl. The j party also Includes T" ”” ’ Man of New York, a secretary, and a cinematographer and assistant. “This time we are going to study animals to try and find out what they are thinking about and how they talk to each other,” said Mr. Hubbard. In his outfit he has a gramophone recording machine for preserving animal noises. Going to Take Beasts Alive and Study “So many myths about African ani­ mals have recently been exploded that we think there will be a rich i field for this kind of research. "During our last stay in. Northern Rhodesia, for instance, we yoked buf­ faloes to a wagon and drove them * about. I believe that every wild anl-I mal in Africa is harmless unless first provoked by man, 1 am going to catch .young lions, buffaloes and ante­ lope, specimens of every possible type, and watch them grow up.” It has olwayaL been maintained that the African elephant cannot be trained to work liko the Indian ele­ phant. The Belgians have recently established an elephant training school at Apl, in’ the Congo, with good results. Mr. Hubbard is going to see whether the same thing can­ not bo dona in Northern Rhodesia, During his last he captured H. R. Highness Loves His Canadian Home Chinked log cabin that F'/i rambling, comfortable buildings of the “K.P.” Ranch. At the right tile old WdS th* orlscinal ranch, house, carefully oresorvod. ■- s|,' 1 ''I ’‘'A—\I/'s ‘if ---------- 0-------— Four Roast Swans “Roast Sygnet”, was served jrith all the picturesque ceremonies of the Middle Ages at a feast of the Vint­ ners’ Company in London”; and the Prince of Wales was among the guests. Six musicians in blue sergo coats, peaked capB and white ducka. preceded the of four roast Blue serge trousers are young elephants* aha that Chil­ dren could ride on them and play' with. them. Seeks Comparing of Notes Mr. Hubbard belongs to many learn­ ed societies, including the Zoological Society of London. After his last visit to Africa ho published a book Miss Elizabeth'entitled “Wild Animals,” dealing with his research work in a popular way. The present expedition will probably result in a more advanced work. "It is my ambition to establish a large station In the African bush,” said Mr. Hubbard; “some place to which all scientific parties could go and compare notes is badly needed. At present if I wish to compare re-, suits with other research workers, I have to write to them and send a few pickled specimens. There ought to be a laboratory in the heart of the Rhodesian big game country where I natural scientists could work to­ gether for the benefit of tropical pro­ gress.” | Mr. Hubbard’s headquarters for the next 18 months will be at Choma, which he considers to be one of the finest spots in Africa for his work. ----------O------- -- Sjweet Marital Interchange A young man with his wife were on their way to a football game in their car proceeding by inches in the dense traffic. Finally they came within sight of the field just as the game was start­ ing. “I wish,” the wife said smiling­ ly, "that, I had our piano here.’’ “And why,” asked tho husband roguishly, “do you wish you had our piano here?” ’Because,” giggled the wife, "I left our tickets to the game on top of it.”—R. II. L.’« "Line-Book"). -----------«--------— Airplane manufacturers hope to get motorcar makers interested in their industry that they may Impart to It somo of the stimulus they Injected into tho automotive business wheii fringing it up to where it Is to-day. No doubt they hope thus to bring sky high prices down to earth. , ----------------------- A movement has been started provide a reservation for gorillas West Africa. Late dispatches indi­ cate that United States marines aro attempting to do Something like that for guerillas tn Nicaragua. to in ceremoonious entrance swans. coats and white duck enough to cause sus­ picion that these are degenerate days; one doubts whether Richard the Lion Hearted, when he introduced the an­ cestors of the Thames River ,s warts into England, crer wbre or even- knew whafr-blue serge coats and white duck trousers were. But the poverty of modern life comes in mention of ferpr roast swans. Four indeed! When the Archbishop of York entertained in 1374 he served a mightier meal. We will not ex­ haust the menu, but, in poultry alone, he served. “Four hundred swaunes, 2,000 geese, 1,000 capons, 400 plovers, 100 dozen quayles, 1,000 egrittes, 200 dozen ot the fowls called rees, 104 peacocks, 4,000 malardes and teals, 204 cranes, 2,000 chychens, 4,000 pigeons, 400 •heron shawes, 200 fessauntes, 500 partridges, 400 woodcocks, 100 cur­ lews.” The King of England still retains a theoretical ownership of the island’s swans; the Companies of Dyers and Vintners stll maintain swaneries oa the Thames and on the Fleet; swan­ uppers catch some of them with crooks each year, and a lieutenant colonel of the British army Is still tho royal swan warden. But if four swans make a feast, the appetite that was once the glory of the Saxon race is fallen low indeed. ---------$--------- Competent. She was applying for a situation m confidential clerk and typist, and tho employer turned upon her a rapid fire of questions. 'Talk Slang?” “No, Bir." "Know how to spell ’cat* and 'dog* correctly?” “Yes, sir.” “Use tho telephone every other minute?” "No, sir." Ho was thinking o£ something elm to ask hot when sho took a hand Im the matter, and put a few queries: “Pace the floor when you’re dictat­ ing?” "Why—er—no*” ho gasped In aston­ ishment. “Slam things about when business is bad?” "No.” "Think you know enough about grammar and punctuation to appreci­ ate a good typist when you got one?" “I think so,” "Want me to go to work or Is your time worth so little that—** Ho interrupted her enthusiastically by saying: ’’Kindly hang up your things and let’s got nt these letters” The following, quoted in the Now My dear, remarked Braggs*, who had just finished reading a book on “The Wonders of Nature,” this is a re- rue mowum, uuu^u *«.» «« markable work. Nature la marvel* ’ Yorker, may hot be particularly good lous! Stupendous! When I road, a poetry, It does contain a particularly book like this it makes me .think how good sentiment, however: puerile, how insignificant 1* man. The Golden Rule, the Golden Utile, Huh! said his wife. A woman doesn’t ’ Oh, that’s the rtile for me) have to wade - through tlv* hundred i Were this tho law for all th* world* pages to discover that.-■i I How happy we shouW be.™Anpn.