HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1928-03-08, Page 3Red Goes to Russia
Comes Back Cured
The Patriot Old Power For New Ship
Boarsr Once “Firebrand of
Java,” Renounces Com-
munism and and All
• Its Works
The conservative press of Rolland
Is rejoicing In the repudiation of com
munism by the Dutch engineer Boars,
known at the time of his expulsion
from the Dutch East Indies last Sep-
tember, as. “the firebrand of Java,"
where he had been the head of the
subversive Soviet movement.
After-Rig expulsion he went to Rus
sia in order to learn at first hand the
political and social principles he had
been advocating. This visit, judged
from the, .point of view of a long ar-,
tide he has written for the Nieuwe
Rotterdamsche Courant of Rotterdam,
has resultediin his entire loss of faith
In communism. - 1 x .
He says hq considers It his duty on
his relum tb Holland to advise the
population of the Dutch East Indies,
whom he himself had directed along
the path of communism, to retrace
their steps, Ills survey of the con
ditions In Russia has brought him to
the following conclusions:
“Wages are very low. In 1927 they
never ^went higher for the proleta
rians ‘’than’ $310 for the year. Al
though the-ruble is rated'at 50 cents
it should be borne in mind that its
purchasing power is only 44 per cent,
of that, or of what it was before the
war.
As jiigher employees and skilled
workmen earn much more than 5310
a year -the wage of the unskilled Is
constantly shrinking, as the amount
of money’ in circulation is carefully
limited, in Order to give a flctious
value to the ruble abroad," .
I-Ie-.found that the Soviet Govern
ment was able to do little .for educa
tion and the care of the sick, despite
all the flno slogans. As in capitalistic
countries all available money is first
of all spent on the army, and .further,
on the-enormous bureaucratic' appar
atus.
“In 1927,” he says, “the •expenditure
for the Department of Education, Na
tional Hygiene and other cultural re
quirements in the whole of the Soviet
Union amounted to 254,000,000 rubles,
that for the other administrative pur
poses about 700,000,000 and for mili
tary ^purposes 645,000,000; that is 40.
per cent, for ‘militarism’ and 15 per
cent.’ for the cultural needs of the
population. All this is, of course, the
result of low production. The ex
chequer is empty, so that it Is impos
sible . to indulge in greater expendi
ture.*.. .
‘The Incomes of farmers are very
small. Nine-tenths of them have in
comes of 25 rubies per month. Only
one-tenth earn more than that.t
“Even the casual visitor must no
tice that the great masses of the
large cities are miserably poor. The
shabby clothing, the old repaired fur
niture,- the accumulations of .dirt can
not possibly be kept concealed, Their
statps. in regard to comfort, even of
health, Is much lower than it was in
1913. Anybody can see that.
“In 1927 there were 2,000,000 unem
ployed in Russia out of a total In
dustrial population of nearly 13,000,-
000.-
Briton Pictures
Next- War’s Horrors
General Swinton, Inventor of
Tank, Prophesies Scrap
ping of All Peace
Treaties
Oxford—Despite the Washington
conference, poisonous gases will be
used in the next great war, accord
ing to the prediction of General E. D.
Swinton, inventor of the tank, made
in a recent address. The whole pic
ture of "future wars, drawn by the
man who invented tho new horror of
,„the last one, was such as to make his
. audience shudder. e-'
“When the next great struggle
comes," he said, “tho belligerent na
tions will not have any samples re
garding treaties. They will consid
er them mere scraps of paper and
enter the war without even a formal
declaration of hostilities. In so far
as the last war was to end war, it
was a failure, and the attitude of the
world to-day is not In favor of world
peace.”
In . such circumstances General
Swinton did not feel that England,
should acquiesce in any further dis
armament. The war of the \ future
would be between people and people,
not army and army, and it would ac
tually be safer for the fighting men
than civilians, he said. There would
be-no mercy to women and children,
but this would help to shorten the
period of conflict. From this view
point he considered tho protests
against the sinking of the Lusitania
which brought the .United States into
the war and he bombing of London
from the air Were Illogical.
The next war would mean the em
ployment of disease germs-, airplances
without aviators1 sowifig pestilence,
and chemicals to destroy crops. Field
warfare would be carried on in
chines impervious to gas
.chine-gun bullets.
and
ma
ma-
Housewife—’"Don’t bring
more of that horrid milk,
lively blue!" Milkman—“It
hiult, lady. It’s thes-i v*ng dull even
jugs as makes the cows depressed/*
any
posh
me
It’s
ain’t our
By John Galsworthy
The other day I was told a* true
story, which I remember vaguely
hearing or reading about, during the
war, but which is worth re-telling for
those who missed it, for It has certain
valuable ironic implications and a
sort of grandeur, It concerns-one of
thp$e beings who, when they spy up-
on us, are known by that word of
three letters, as. offensive as any in
the language, and when they spy for
us are dignified by the expression
"Secret Servlco" and looked on as
heroes of at least second water.
You will recollect that when the
war broke out, the fifteen hundred
persons engaged, in supplying Ger
many with information, mainly tri
vial and mostly erroneous, concern-
• ing our condition and arrangements,
were all known by the authorities,
and were put out of action at a single
swoop. From that moment there was
not one discovered case of espionage
by spies already resident in this coun
try when war was declared. There
were, however, a few and, I am told,
unimportant discovered cases of es
pionage by persons 1 who developed
the practice, or camo into this coun
try for the purpose during >h.e war.
This story concerns one of the latter.
In August, 1914, there was living in
America a business man of German
birth and American citizenship, called
w—let us say, for it was not his name—•
.Lichtfelder, who had once been an
officer in the German Army, a man of
about fifty, of square, and still mili
tary' appearance, with rather short
stiff hair, a straight back to his head,
and a patriotic conscience too strong
for his-American citizenship. It was
not long then before an American
called Lichtfelder at the German
headquarters of his old regiment, of
fering his services.
"No,’ they said to him, “you are no
longer a young and active man, and
you.are an American citizen. Wo are
very disappointed with our Secret
.Servlco in England; something seems
to have gonewrong. You can bo of
much greater cervice to the Father-
land if, having learned our codes, you
will go to England as "an American
citizen, and send us all the informa
tion you can acquire.’’
Liclitfeld’s soul Was with* his old
regiment; but, being a patriot, he con
sented. During the next two months
he made himself acquainted with all
the tricks of his new trade, took ship
again at Genoa, and reappeared as
lightfleld in the United States. Soon
after this he sailed for Liverpool, well
stocked with" business addresses ahd
samples, and supplied with his legiti
mate American passport in hi3 own
American name. -
, He spent the first day of his “Sec
ret" Service" .wandering about the
docks of a , town which, .in his View-—
if . not in that of other people—was a
naval station of importance; he also
noted’ carefully the half? militarized
appearance of the khaki figures in
the streets; and in the evening he
penned a business^ letter to a gentle
man in Rotterdam,’ between the lines
of which, devoted to the more enlight
ened forms of—shall we say? plumb,
ing, he wrote down in Invisible Ink
all he had seen—such and such ships
arrived or about to sail; such and
such "khaki” drilling or wandering
about the streets;,, all of which had
importance in his view, It not in fact.
He ended with the words; ‘Morgens
Dublin Ll.chtfelder,” and posted the
letter.
I\Tow, unfortunately for .this poor
but simple patriot, there was a young
lady In the General Post Office who
was spending her days In opening all
letters with suspected foreign ad
dresses, and submitting them to the
test of invisible ink. To her joy—
for she was woary at the dearth of
that useful commodity—between the
lines of this commercial screed, which
purported to be concerned with the
refinements of plumbing, out sprang
the guilty ink. To a certain Depart
ment were telephoned the Incautious
“Morgens Dublin Lichtfelder." Now,
no alien in those days was suffered to
leave for Ireland, save through a bot
tle-neck at Holyhead. To the bottle
neck then went the message: “Did
. man called Lichtfelder travel yester-
day to Dublin?’3' The answer came
quickly: “American called lightfleld
went Dublin yesterday, returned last
nightt, is now on train for Euston." At
Euston our patriot, after precisely
three days of secret-service, was ar
rested, and lodged wherever they
were then lodged.
“I am," he said, “an American citi
zen called Lightfield.”
“That/ said the British Cabinet, not
' without disagreement, “makes a dif
ference. You shall bo* tried by or
dinary process of Law, and defended
by Counsel chosen by the American
Embassy, at oUr expense, instead of
by Court-martial."
Speedily—for in those days the
Law’s delays were short—the Ameri
can citizen called Lightfleld, alias
Lichtfelder, was put on his trial, for
supplying information to the enemy;
and for throe days at the Govern
ment’s expense, a certain eminent
Counsel gave the utmost of his wits
to preparing his defense. But a cer
tain great Advocate, whose business
It was to prosecute, had given the ut
most of his wits to considering with
what question he should often his
cross-examination,
known how important
question; and there had
an inspiration. *
“Mt. Lichtfeldor," he
regarding that upright figure
dock, “toll me: Have you not been an
officer in the Gorman Army ?"
since ft is well
is the first
come to him
said,fixedly
In the
A STEAM DRIVEN DIRIGIBLE
Capt, Thomas B. Slate, designer and builder, with model of “City of Glen
dale.” Note peculiar propeller which sucks air in and thus overcomes air
resistance in travel, * • ' ?
The hands o fthe American citizen
went to his sides, and his figure stif
fened., For hours he had been telling
the Court how- entirely concerned he
; was with business, giving’ his refer
ences, showing his samples, explain
ing that—as for the lines in invisible
ink in that letter, which he admitted
’ sending—well, it was simply that he
had met a Dutch journalist-on board
the ship coming out, who had said
to him: “You know, we can get no
news at all, we neutrals—rdo send us
something—not, of course, harmful to
England, but something -we can say”
And he had sent it. Was it harmful?
It was nothing but trifles he had sent.
And now, at that first question, he
was standing suddenly a little more
erect, and—silent. And the great Ad
vocate said:
"I won’t press you now, -Mr. Licht
felder; we will go on to other mat
ters. Bat I should like you to think
that question over, because it Is not
only the first question that I ask you
—it will also be the last."
And the Court adjourned, the cross-
examination not yet over, with that
question not yet asked again.
In the early morning of the follow
ing day, when the warder went to the
cell of Lichtfelder, there, by his muf
fler dangled his body from the grat
ing. Beneath the dead feet the cell
Bible had been kicked away; but
since, with the stretching of the muf
fler, those feet had still been able to
rest on the ground, the patriot had
drawn them up, until he was choked
to death. He had waited until the
dawn, for on the cell slate was writ
ten this:
“I am a soldier with rank I do not
desire to mention. ... I have had a
fair trial of the United Kingdom. I
am not dying as a spy/ but as a sol
dier My fate I stood as a man, but
I can’t be a liar and perjure myself.
.... What I have done I have done
for my country I shall express my
thanks, and may the Lord bless you
all.”
And from the ten lawyers—eight
English and two American—who,
with me, heard the story told, there
came, as it were, one murmur: “Jolly
finee!”
And so it was!
Mr. Galsworthy has announced that
hfs compensation for this article will
be contributed to the Save the Child
ren Fund in London.—N.Y. Herald-
Tribune.
Dear Old Soul (visiting her very
sick brother)—“I’ve had a very nice
letter from Emily. She says she’s so
sorry sihe ain’t able to come and see
you, but she hopes to be able to come
to the funeral."
Defends Britain’s
Rt. Hon, W. C. Bridgeman
* Discusses Naval Program
of England
has cut "armaments
i ■ ; ■ ——
Asserts Britain Has Done Her
Share Toward Dis
armament
London.—Right Hon. W. C. Bridge
man, First Lord of the Admiralty,
speaking before the Constituttional
Club, declared that Great Britain’s
submarine policy is exactly the same
as that stated at Washington In 1921.
“We. should be very glad," he said,
“if submarines could be abolished al
together, but the weak and smaller
countries regard submarines as their
only weapon, and we have to take
them into consideration as well."
The First Lord attacked his politi
cal opponents for what he termed
“the large mass of misrepresentation
about British naval and disarmament
policies which Is being propagatfed
about the country to make party capi
tal and discredit the Government."
He asserted that Great Britain had
done her share toward disarmament,
and added: “We are prepared to go
further, if the other countries will do
the same. I do not, however, think
that a weak British navy would con
tribute to tho peace of the world."
“I want to explode the suggestion,”
said Mr. Bridgeman, 7‘lhat wo started
the new competition In building large
cruisers. The accusation is false. It
was other countries who started to
build large battleships.
“Sir Herbert Samuel (formerly
Home Secretary) has been telling the
country that the Conservative party
mishandled tho Geneva conference.
Any fool can say that."
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Canada’s Stand of Douglas
Fir
A recent survey of the forest re
sources of British Columbia showed a
total stand of approximately 76,000,-
000,000_ feet board measure of Douglas
fir. While all of this is not at pres
ent commercially accessible, a large
proportion Is ’within reasonable dis
tance of water and rail transporta
tion. About 80 per cent, of It Is
situated on ancouver Island and the
adjacent malnlVand.
League’s Covenant
Only Path to Peace
■' Lord Cecil Waras
Dept, of Health
Issues Timely Book
ICo-operating With Canadian
Social Hygiene Council to
Stamp Out Serious -
Menace
The Lace Currins
JiK.t o the Bascom ?amllywas sib
ting down to breakfast the bell rang,
Rapa Bascom remarked with a. groan
as he got up, that things were always
happening to delay their meals. The
family waited until he came back
with a large bundle, The hblldreit
wanted him to open it immediately*
but Mamma Bascom said no, that
they would finish their breakfast firsts
because if they dldn’£ they might pot
Dav for Action Dawns as the
World Tires of Talk, He De
clares; Sees War Pacts
in Defense
Alliances
London—A blunt warning that the
world is getting Impatient and that ,rr HI... ______
tho time has come for deeds and not 1 diagnosis and treatment of venereal - great ceremony li, -LLmcu LLi
words was Issued In “The Observer" j diseases, which is being Issued by the • a set of pink silk lace curtains recently by Viscount Cecil of Chel-; Federal Department of Health and’ ' vlLllvu /
wood, in an article soberly estimating, will be sent to every doctor in the clasping her hands^ln ecstasy
the possible results of Monday’s meet-. Dominion. j.........................’ f
ing at Geneva of the Committee on) r _" “ ‘.
Arbitration and Securilr/ of tho Lea-’ Hygiene Council
gue of Nations Preparatory Commls- i
sion for a disarmament conference.
Admitting that nothing like a general
agreement for security beyond that
contained in the Covenant of the __
League is very practicable, "Viscount treatise available dealing with this hammer, i_' L_ _
Cecil, who formerly was among the type 0£ disease, is expected to attract. dance of agony he kicked one of the
most prominent among the British almost world-wide attention among; tottery legs off the table and broke
delegates in the League’s disarmament members of the medical profession, j th® plaster off the wall when he threw
work, now limits his hopes to “clarify- (
ing the terms of tb-e Covenant."
“Already a kind of catalogue
been drawn up,” ho writes, “< "
measures for the prevention of warlln
suggested under Article XI, ranging
from the^ withdrawal of diplomatic re- possession of the most modern and ; dingy and worn/ she complained, “we
j accurate information regarding the • , a new
I means of coping with this scourge
NEW DEPARTURE
Ottawa, Ont.—Between two i
three years’ study la represented inj
IT _ __ _____
and gQt back to their meal.
j After the dishes were hurriedly
Y.11? _th®i washed the package was opened with
........ - turned out to b»
"Well/’ exclaimed Mamma Bascom,
, —rv-o ... “aren’t
| they just too beautltful for words J
Compiled by the Canadian Social We’ll put them up In the living room,"
Ry-’": Cunder the super- she went on, after a pause, “and we
vision of Its national medical com-’can put the calico curtains that are
mitteo, it is a compendium of the. there now In Father’s room.” most recent scientific Information on I This plan was duly carried out that
the subject and, since it is generally: afternoon, with only one mishap,
considered as the most up-to-date Papa Bascom hit his thumb with the
, and during the following
- i Tho policy of the Federal Depart? hammer, He was very pleased
I ment In supplying It to every prac-i^^ labors, however, when ha
bas tiging physician throughout the Do-!®L)od off and viewed tho gorgeous
of the minion also marks- a new departure curtains. But immediately Mamma
..i health methods. It not only j Bascom saw a flavz.
means that overy doctor will be put I nev®r realized the couch was so
presentatives by all the members of.
the League from the capital of a pow-
“ a. cement
, that further Information on methods
j of treatment may be expected from
} time’ to time, ai these, are brought
to light,.
These diseases, as a class, are by
far the most deadly with which
science has to battle. Directly and
Indirectly, they are the cause of more
death and suffering Wan tuberculosis
or any single type of disease. To
some extent, this has been due, in the
i past, to a general tendency to avoid
mention of them and, from a peculiar
sense of false modesty, to let them
run their course without drawing
public attention to their highly fatal
results and the terrific injury they
(have been doing to the race as a
Vfhole.
As a result, -for instance, they have
been allowed to continue from genera
tion to generation causing blindness,
deafness and feeble-mindedness un
til they had imposed .a huge econ
omic burden on the world. It was
discovered, for example, that 80 per
pent,
could be
ence of
eases-.
Of recent years, however, Canada
has been setting an. example to the
rest of-the world,, ln Its, .methods of
striking at this Worst of all disease
killers. " . . . '
When the Federal Government, for
the fisrt time, co-operated with the
provinces In public health efforts, It
was In a campaign to control venereal
diseases. Since that time, clinics
(have been established from coast to
coast and Canadian public health au
thorities have made enormous strides.
There has been a very noticeable and
very natable reduction in the ravages
of this disease throughout the Do
minion.
Coupled with the clinical metihods
of combatting It, there has been an
intensive campaign, carried on by the
Canadian Social Hygiene Council.
Now this further effort, by which
medical men throughout Canada are
being supplied with the most scienti
fic data known is a further example
of the progressive methods by which
Canada has been endeavoring to sup
press the venereal disease menace.
to a League of Nations naval and
aerial1 demonstration against the
same power."
Viscount Cecil thinks .that there is
prospect of an agreement on the.
financial assistance to be ’offered by
League members to a country threat
ened with aggression. He warns,
however, that, while mutual nofi.-
aggression treaties on the Locarno
model strengthen and forty the cov
enant, otheT treaties’ providing for
mutual defense In case of attack by a 1
third party are apt to drift into mu
tual treaties- of- alliance on the old
model.
The chief hope, however, Lord Cecil
now eeems to find in the compuslry
establishment of arbitration .agree
ments—somewhat reminiscent in
basic theory at least of the Bqyan
treaties. He insists- that if all1 dis
putes between nations were submit
ted to arbitration security against
war would be reasonably complete.
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Yukon’s Healthful Climate
The climate of the Yukon Territory,
Canada, Is characterized by extremes
In temperature and a very -moderate
precipitation. There is no more de
lightful climate than that which pre
vails from May 1 to October 1. The
continuous light for tie whole twenty-
four hours, during the period from the
middle of May to the first week in
August, although anticipated, is a
source of delight and wonder to the
visitor. While the winters are long
and cold, on account of the absence
of high winds and the dryness of the
atmosphere, the low temperatures are
borne with less discomfort than
other parts not so favored.
In
Canadian Rockies
The Canadian Rocky mountains
consist geologically of the upturned
edges of the strata underlying the
Central Plain of North America.
“Nurse: “He seems to be wander
ing In his mind.’ Patient's Wife:
"Oh, well, he can’t stray far!"
“What do the three balls in front
of a pawn shop mean?” “Two to
one you won’t get it back"
, “ADAMSON’S ADVENTURES”—By O. Jacobson.
Removing An Obstacle.
of blindness among infants
traced directly to the pres-
tliese hitherto (hidden dis-
The Electric Rat
Electrical rat racing for terrier
dogs is London’t newest sport, and it
is to be started at the Stadium Club,
High Holbom, shortly.
The following letter, sent to mem
bers by Mr- Fred Howard, managing
director of the club, explains how the
sport Is to be carried on:
“This is a preliminary notice of a
new end very interesting feature of
the club’® activities which will be in
troduced to members in February.
“Having regal'd to the widespread
interest evinced in greyhound racing
the management have perfected ar
rangements for providing terrier dog
racing in the club itself,
“The dogs will race after an elec
trically controlled rat on a track
which will be removable and will,
therefore, not interfere in any way
with the normal business of the club.
“Thera will be three days’ racing
each week, and £ix races on each even
ing, with first and second prizes for
tho owners of the dogs placed in that
order.
“A British electrical Pari-Mutuel
will bo used in conjunction with the
faces, this being tho first machine of
its kind to be seen in Europe.”
The master of the house was hun
gry at breakfast, aud swallowed a
good part of his bacon before he had
tasted IL Then ho took time to pro
test violently to his wife against the
flavor Ox the food* His wife offered
ny Oology, Ut *or the maid.
When the latter
tress asked a question thftv^.Tas “tue
calculated to soothe het hu'dbauu.
“Maggio/ she inquired, serenely,
'what did you do with the bacon we
poisoned for the rats?”
r one before tho
Ladies’ Aid meets here next week."
Pj—»: Bascom groaned, agreed, and
went to look for his check book. Two
days later a pew sofa shone pink and
resplendent against the dingy yellow
of the wallpaper. The table had been
mended, but Mrs, Bascom had her eya
on a beautiful pink tea-table at tho
R, M. Smith Corporation, Blakeville’s
only furniture store. This she per
suaded Papa Bascom to buy, along
with a rug that had some pink in it.
Things went along smoothly for a
week or so, and then Mama caused a
great sigh .from Papa by calling his
attention to the dent in the plaster,
where his hammer had hit. In due
time the woodwork was painted and
the walls mended and repapered, and
Papa sighed again as he felt of his
deflated pocketbook. Now the living
room was something for Mrs. Bascom
to be proud of. She invited all her
friends and had tea on the pink tea- ,
table in the pink livingroom.
A few months later, Mrs. Bascom
and the children left for New York on
a visit to Aunt Elisa. Papa said to
thank_ Aunt Elisa for the beautiful
curtains, and this Mamma enthusias
tically did,' telling her how they had
had the room done over. This nearly
choked Aunt Elisa, and Mamma Bas
com didn’t know why she was chok
ing.
During her visit there was a sale In
one of New York’s biggest department
stores, and Mamma Bascom was there
with Sonny and the baby, strolling
around looking for a bargain. Ono
counter was crowded with people, so
that she could not see what was for
sale. .She gradually worked her way
through the crowd to the counter, and
then she stood there frozen with hor
ror!
pink
same
sign:
The counter was piled high with
silk lace curtains exactly the
as hers, and over them was a
“Fibre Silk Curtains, 98c."
Poorly Paid
Cecile Sorel Averages $51.70
Weekly at Comedie
Francaise
Paris—Cecile Sorel, world famous
star of the Comedte Francaise, gets
$51.76 a week. True, she played
only thirty times last yeaT, so she
drew $89.60 a performance.
From those figures the salaries of
actors and actresses, nationally
known; scale down to $13 a week for
women who play important parts and
$15 for Andre Luguet, the most pdor-
ly paid for the men who have big
roles.
Such is the pay for sixty-six titular
members of the noted company of
this government subsidized theatre
founded by Mollere, which Is sup
posed to maintain the high classic
standards and traditions of tho
French play.
Tho higher the pay the less often
the players act, and In their idle
time they ate allowed to appear in
tho provinces and at private perfor
mances to round out their pocket
books. Sorel, In particular, has
made a fortune by playing abroad
and brought back a round sum from
her American tour.
Members average two performance*
a week, tho hard-working ones ap
pearing every night while a number
play only once a week.
Sorel and five others get about the
same salary, reached after almost a
lifetime of successful work. The five
others average $49 a performance.
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Myra: “What did you do when
Tony kissed you?" Myrtle: “Well,
when I wanted to scream, I couldn’t,
and when I could I didn’t want to-!"
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Here Is a new dog story:—A trades
man owns a dog which he has trained
to carry his letters from tho door to
the bedroom. The other morning th#
dog arrived with throe letters, one nt
which had been chowed to a pulp. The
man nervously opened the two, and
found they contained cheques. What
had tho other contained? The poor
man had a groat fright until he found
' corner of tho destroy^ letter ln~
taet'VB -’ore 1118
Tax. jprltatd?r^‘*