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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1928-02-02, Page 7Rt vlululionaxy Plots and Wars Kindled in Cafe Imperial lPolitical Conspirators and Exiles of Eastern Europe Gather at Viennas Rendex'vous, Lon Famous as Inter- national Barometer Ear Balkan Conditions TROUBLE'S HOME ' ' 13y H. A. Vies 1 oflli:e when they -heard of the e impend- Vienna,—A week ago a certain Pros.' Ing journey ot the heir to'tho throne. :hev, native of Macedonia, was on. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, to Beo• tensed to three years and a half in nit. . The warning was not heeded, ,jail by a Vienne ee court because be and the a'gsagsination of the arehducal ' fired pistol shots at another Mace: couple in Sarajevo gave the signal for 'denten, Horiously wounding the let• the most sangnlnary war .in, the Ill's- ter's housekeeper,. About a year ago .tory of the world. The trouble with "a young woman, Mende. Carniciu, also °the Imperial is'•that one cannot rely' -of Macedonian extraction, shot and on Us stories! Many e plot pr rev°oiu .killed the Macedonian leader, Tudor tion predicted as an unavoictalxie ver-, .Paufzza, in,, a • box of the. Burg• Minty did not come off. Igla'certain theatre durjug .e performance of Percentage of cases there may, have "Peer Gynt" because, elle said, Pante.. been.a bitch in the Met moment, but :za was a traitor to the national cause others have been freely invented: -of' the Bulgarial}s in Macedonia, Some Emigrants and political refugees at. while "ago a Bulgarian emissary eliotiwaye dream of unexpected turns like - blown a former Bulgarian minister in I ly to improve their' Situation. Prague for similar reaeone, ,and in Called "Omniscient" Cafp tithe Balke;ns there hardly passes' a 1 Half jokingly and half in earnest, "week without 'political murder. people call the Imperial the "minis - Trains are bidwn up, bombing plots tient cafe." None of the other point - revealed and the r orle : Is told that eel cafes has gained the saine„univ,er this or .that Macedeoian committee or sal reputation. But the funniest story ei seal faction th wain war against o r politics Viennese cafes n waging P post=wa P -another faction or against the. Serbs is `told of . the Casa Piccola, in the -or Greeks, Theintricacies of till Marialullersteasse, ,and although • it guerrilla 'Irarfal•e aro ,not easy to un- 'Pounds 2ueer it is vot ched'for as•t rue. .dei'stand, icor would they much mat- 'When the Soylets: seized the Ukraine ter -to the outside wiirld, if it were not the governments of West Ukraine and; ..an •estithlislhed• fact that 'slides in the bast Ukraine removed to Vienna and Balkans sometiinesi kindle wars. .1 settled down In the respective lega- In the Macedonian districts of the , tions, .Balkan peninsula Eire 1,000,000 Bulge-�. They took over 'soma funds and Haus 'under, Greek and Serbian rule 'made an additional income by the sale ,:anti foreign rule in these regions is of passports and visas. Everybody. 'tantamount to the worst forms 01 suis- who could not obtain -a regular pass- ' .pression.: Just at ovesent the revolu port or visa used to travel with tionaiy Macedonian; committee die- Ukrainian documents. Another source plays a lively bombing and band ac " income was the printing of stamps, in Jugoslavia and Greece because w i 'wre'bought b • stam dealers: tion g •v,llch, o3, P -.lt regards the peaceful rapprochement nee' collectors. But when after a -of Jugoslavia and. Bulgaria as a .dan- while the Ukrainian Iiassports' lost -ger to the national aspirations oe the their' validity and nobody cared any ` -nnredeemod Bulgarians in Macedonia. longer for the stamps the funds of the 73' 'disturbing this pacification move•• exiled governments melted away and. anent the Macedonians or, rather,. cue they ha'dto give up their offices and. :party pt tllo Macedonians; chops to settled clown -in the Casa Piccola -at 'gain a respite until the time es tine big tables. :for ,their liberation. 1 :-ion7 a Balkan ;.ndelvels.everyrY afternoon, andthe Foreign Mit- , , There ignMin-There they presided from 2' to 0 For decades Vienna has been an im- , ister of oue government would call on ;portant rendezvous for Balkanites etho.Minister et Finance of the other mostly emigrants, whom the meet- or vice yersaa to raise small loans. Cr esteem of politics hurled into exile,. ' there would bo 'lengthy debates of -And the true home of the Easterner, I both governments over urgent prob. :living room, office and debating club i lems, how to get new funds for the all in one, is the cafe. Many a cafe treasuries' and the„Cabinet members. in Vienna ,could reveal. dramatic This sort of thing went on until the 'stories if the mute Walls 'Weide 'speak. prime ministers could no longer co'tne,' .Among these political gathering because they had accepted jobs as places in which plots and wars are l office clerks, and the Minister of Fin- 'discus0d'd Is the Cafe Imperial, do the once failed to turn up because he had .Kaerntuorring, in the palatial building,' opened a candy store, while the Trade of the hotel of -the same name, Here Minister had found that it was better meet since time immemorial the col- to work as a chauffeur titan to sit in a other ' the black -coffee. So this romantic :respondents of foreign papers, exiled council not knowing who would pas oliticians from Bul assn and o�hcr fol• Youth in 'amble With Death i We Must All A ; To Wax Career on f> * .aa Coast Brother 41f Benito 11(hlssollisl Opens Campaign for dean News Quinine is Price of Life for White Colonists Who Work On. BCac,ti-l; Where One Succeds Many Others Face Year;, of Broken Health in 'Homeland HELL'S PLAYGROUND Accra Beach is a sight for all devo• With equally good luck he clay be tees of tropical romance and African able to rest for an hpur,-. Put when adventure. Working there, month af- the eocoa season is on, when there ter Mentis, under the btirzu'rtg sun, in are many Ships to the bay, he may not. the 'hot monsoon wind, ie a different 'get to the mess at all. A sandwich in matter. the shed, which• has by now become In .West Africa white men and wo- intolerably hot, will have to"satiety j men; can live only within the armor of him, Leisurely "chop" during the day their daily quinine, Every one Vl'elil'a is a rare exporieuce for tiler"first the strained look that le the price of timer" 1u. West Africa. life in the tropics. I talked to au Eng- Work gees on unceasingly until 8 llsh public school boy checking cargo in the evening—often later. The; alongsido the surfboats on Accra beach -master's Tread aches, bis eyed Bead:. There was uo „pink bloom on are tired and,dazzled in the blinding his ;decker His face was sallow, and sun glare, No tennis at sundown tor lined with illness and worry. him, Just .time for a' hasty shower ” 'eople in England think that we 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 not even go down with malaria until the foyer 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 $126 a month, possibly a little more, At the end. of two years he will re- ceive four months' leave on half pay. I1 he is invalided home before his con. tract has expired he is almost certain to lose his 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 Aiden is a gamble, live easily on the coast—that the doc- tors have wiped out all disease," he tom mo 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. Seine men don't stick it for a year." He told me the facts for the benefit of those who feel the lure of this coast that a novelist once called "Hell's Playground." "Beachmastor" la First Job. The newcomer to a. trading firm any- where 'In West Africa usually ends himself !at work .as s "beaohmaster." 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. His mala duty .is to cheek cargo as the surlboate'come in from the freighters in the roadstead. •"'LOST PIONEERS OF AVIATION" , He must have a'quick eye for ..break i ages and shortages -for the ingenuity N the title of this eg the tint i t to be cast in bronze, upon which. Victor aroma N o of the thief is more Oriental than Afrl New pork is roitng the rn gs,hing touches. It will be placed either in New can: York or in Detroit next spring, Dozens of natives arrive during the You back your character and your Will Rogers Praises Chicago's Handling of Crooks To the Editor of the New 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 unbit, WILL ROGERS. Where Stray Overcoats Go palm oil. The "beachmaster" must "Hank" Dudley, social secretary for see everything weighed out and Mea - the Omaha Post of the American Le- cured. He must supervise the labor- gion, said to , a gathering consisting_ ere bagging kernels and pourtng oil Mr. Isaacson and myself: "It's won into casks. Always he must have an of M . 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. day with palm kernels. Some of them body against the most insidious' ell - carry petrol. tins and calabashes of `mate in the world. The agents and supervisors, with their' $6,000 -a -year Salaries and their trips to ,England every, 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 'Rhe Coast." derfui what the railroads have done for this country:' 'But the reason I like -them besteat," he added, "is because they give us the unclaimed overcoats that are left, on the trains. See, here ate forty 0f 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 to leave anywhere and can't bring it to the legion office,_ leave it 'on the trains running into Omaha.—Omaha World -Herald. p Balkan states and, since the World chapterendedand the Casa Piccola 'War, emigrants from Hungary and ceased to be a factor in international rv, - $ E-�� A; Have Pork g f i, 1^ k 'Czechoslovakia, who - darn not return �politics. . home. Bolshevist Russians and others that are against the Soviet regime, a 'motley crowd congregating. on neutral FaSte' and Faster ground. What isi the safe speed at which to Fantastic stories circulate in the drive an automobile? The answer is Cape Imperial,' but if ono learns to die- the same as the answer to most quos - criminate ono can also get valuable tions:It depeude. ' information now and then, for hidden threads lead from here to official' chaft- celleries and conspiring circles alike. When last spring many people be - lived that an Albanian war was near at hand 'the war bids in the Imperial stood at zero,• a sure sign against en- tanglernonts. 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 do 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 the great days of the cafe are those when something- is happening. It need not necessarily be a war; scan- dals like the bogus francs swindle in Hungary also aro discounted at g. 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 overtlurued or en 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 his black: coffee placid- ly, for' in the Imperial he is safe, or. there comes somebody who is chased by manta some ere, and his appear - ace is hese real wring, for much more dangerous than. " overnmental death sentences are the unofficial ones of secret committees, whose execution- ers may turn up when the victim least expects then, Since the World War the, Cafe Im- perial has extended its sphere of-ac- ,tivities, but prior to 131.4 its domain was, the Balkans, The 'headwaiter still recounts a ghastly experience' he had in 1003.. He used to serve some Serbian guests Who looked very peace- ful and were most' obliging. When nee day they told him smilingly that ' theta would :ho bloodshed ,in the. "konalc" 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, he found the report of the assassination of King Alexander ObreuovitCh and Queen Drage. The Balkan war in 1912 was no surprise for the habitues of the Imperiai. 1n June, 1914, friends from the Im- perial warned tate ,A.ag .Asti 14,1111.a Mr. Paul S. Hoffman, vice-president Provided y the State The New Government. of Angora Thus Sets Aside Another Old Law of Islam Having got rid of thedervishes and and drink liquor manufactured and legislated her citizens out of many sold by the Government: At present of the Studebaker Corporation, pre MoslemP ractices,-'republican. Turkey, these pork: products are imported from dicts that within a few years all speed limit laws and ordinances will have diem peered Michigan has no speed law and punishes only what is -called 'redleiess driving." There is ,much to liquor monol>oly from a Polish synth - be said for this course, but how are q wo over goingr-to, establish standards cate. of "recklessness" when it is already Both pork and liquor were. pro - impossible for a motorcycle cop an'd, a scribed by Mohammed when he found - car -driving citizen to agree on a mat- ed his religion in the seventh century ter .of 'simple arithmetic? A.D., based as it was -upon what he Mr. Hoffmann goes a' little too' fast knew of Judaism and Christianity. for us when he says that day after to- b against pork Mohammed morrow automobiles will be "expect- ed" to go et a' rate of 6icty-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 tis more ,time to loaf and rest from the weariness of trying to be rapid, And that's.about all. A quiet ,eveningat home nprvadaya is the one when the radio battery is whose Constitution declares that Is -' /other Balkan'' States. But Adana heeds lam ieethe State religion, has gene into other places in Anatolia have 'the pork industry, the;,Government of wild pigs which ruin the farmers' having previously taken over the 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. The -farmers' pest will thus provide snort as well as profit. While the raising ,,pigs as a commercial product is too much to away being charged. Man to Study What Wild Beasts `Think About and How They Talk Clean Papers, Cleiln Mind home. --,t noteworthy article heal appeared in Pepelc d'italla, written by its ranter, Arnaldo Siuesolpnl, the Duce's brother, After pointing out the changes offeetod to the Italian prase in the last two yeah•s, the writer colli- pietas that Many T'ascist papers'cop- tinite to devote several columns .0 their restrt` ed apace to long account, of crimes, and sensutional etei+,los Which are contrary to the ideas Which evory1ournal professes to uphold, ;, • "It is time," Signor Mussolini says, "thatethis practice Should ,be abandon- ed,/ even if the omission , of such stories reduces. the olrculatlon' of som0 prepare. The space which 18 nor• devoted to'storlee of crimes, midden, etc., could better be used by articles containing instructive," clean• news, which tends to elevate the moral level of all elapses of soolety.' • This article has been reproduced in several Roman newspapers, which eia press their unqualified approval of the campaign of, Popole d'Italia. •llrfcidentally, the Editor of this page has followed this plan conscientious- ly, Murder and sudden death, when associated with the criminally Inane only deserves space on the pages:at medical treatises, not in newspapers for general cgnsumption. After all, who gets "the kick" out of sensational news ot this`characterd' Just keep your eyes open and watch who it is that .usually pours over every detail? It, le the mentally undeveloped, the old maids' of both sexes, who whisper "hush stuff" behind their hands, and those "just a bit queer." Quick justice and puntshing 'pude'. went with due publicity 'given the penalties should act as a deterrent to., the wave of unbalanced aots that ap- pear to be Upon us, put Mussolini's brother' is right—Clean up the prase, and stop giving front-page, position to the Mellors and the Hickman—rath- er give them the lash and lots of it. . Four Roast Swans "Roast Sygnet" was served with 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 serge coats, peaked caps and white ducko - preceded the ceremoonious entrance ° of four roast swans. Blue serge coats and white duck trousers are enough to cause sus- picion that these are degenerate days; ono `doubts whether Richard the. Lion Hearted, when lie introduced the ane costars of the Thames River swans into England, over wore or even knew whet blue serge coats and white duck trousers worn. But the poverty. et modern life comes in: mention of four roast swans. Four indeed! When Rio Archbishop of York entertained in 1374 ho served a mightier moat. We will, not ex- haust x haust the menu, but, in poultry alone, he served. 'Tour hundred swamies, 2,000 geese, 1,000 'capons, 400 plovers, 100 dozen The present expedition wilt prabably quayles, 1,000 egrlttes, 200, dozen' of result to a more advanced work. , the fowls called rees, 104 peacocks, "It is my ambition to establish a 4,000 malardes_,9,nd teals, 204 cranes, large station in the African bush," 2,000,chychens, 4,000 pigeons,' .400 400 said Mr. Hubbard; "some plaoe to heron shawes, 200 fessauntes, which all scientific parties oould go 'partridges, 400 woodcocks, 100 cur- and ur and compare notes is badly 'needed. laws;' still retains a At present if T wish to compare re-. The King of England sults with other research workers, I theoretical ownership of the island's have to write to them and send a few swans; the Companies of Dyers and , ns There ought to be Vintners stil maintain swaneries on pickled specime ug in the heart of the ,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 Ain the royal swan warden. But it four ewarls make a feast, the appetite that was cine the glory of the 'Saxon race Is fallen low indeed. Investigator to Go "Trapping" With Phonograph and Catch Jungle "Remarks" on Records—Seeks to Found Study • Center in Bush- Cape ush Cape' Town—W. D. Hubbard, Ameri- young elephants and'found that uhil- can author_and natural soleutist, dren could ride on diem and play formerly connected with the zoos of with them. New. York and Boston,' has returned ' Seeks Comparing of Notes to the A,triean bush with the object Mr. Hubbard belongs to many learn - of exploding' More fallacies about wild ed societies, including the'Zoological animals. With him are his wife, Society of Loudon. After his 'last their son, and their baby girl. The visit to Africa he published a book party also includes Misa Elizabeth entitled "Wild Ahimals," dealing with . Man of New York, a secretary, and his research work in a popular way. 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 eaoh other," said Mr. Hubbard. In his outfit he has. a gramophone recording madrine for •,preserving animal noises. Going to Take Seeds Alive and Study "So many myths about African ani- mals have recently been exploded that we -think there will be a rich Rhodesian big game country where field for •this kind of research. Rhodes scientists con work to - "During our last. stay in Northern gether for the benefit of tropical pro - The taboo agauis hit h i of pro—Rhodesia, for instance, we yoked be- ef grass: ,. from the Jews. But how wine- falces to a wagon and drove them headquarters for the took sss Hubbards q e4 Turkey's great Sultans. were wine- ex acted atpresent byAnatolian'about. I' believe that every wild ani -inert 18 menthe will be at Cr the republic Pork, comestiblehowever, is a post- be P , mai in Africa is harmless unless firtot which he considers to be one of the republican on Turkish farmers newly emancipated from the provoked by man. i am gong finest spots in Africa for his work. tables, catch young lions, buffaloes and ante - As for the State religion being that lope, Sweet Marital Interrina� ige A young man with. his wife were on their way to .a football game in their car proceeding by inches, in the dense baffle. Finally they came within sight bonds of thdtr religion, yet it is not unlikely in the future, when the wild herds of- pigs aro reduced. specimens of every possible type, and watch them grow np." , It has alwaya been . malntalnod ,,that.. the African elephant cannot be trained to work liko the ,Indian, ele- phant. The Belgians have recently established an elephant training of the field lust as the game was start - 86°01 at Apt, in the Congo, wlf mg "I wish," the wife said smiling good menthe Mr. Hubbard is going ly, "that I had qui piano here." "And to see whether the same thing can• why," asked the husband roguishly;' not be done in Northern Rhodesia' "do you wish you had our piano During hie last v-isit he captured here?" 'Because,' giggled the wile, "I left our tickets to the game on top of Islam ,• the President, Mustapha As yet the Anatolian retains a Kemal, whose -title 'of Ghazi or Con- g dstrop orthodox strain in his remote uerer to -ay spells father of rhe 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 el Country" to Turkish school children, has declared that; Islam will not bo allowed to interfere, in any way with the development of Turkey along ad- vanced Western tines. Moreover, the deserted mosques.' in large cities may possjbly be turned into school' build- ings, of which there is a shortage. To -day Turks eatham and bacon rearguard of progress in Turkey, - H. R. Highness Loves His Canadian Home The rambling, comfortable buildinks Of the "HP:' Ranch. At the right the old chinked to ' wag the .orlgiaal ragoh house, carefully preserved, i . cabin that of It"—R. H. L.'s "Line -Book"). Airplane manufacturers hope Meek motorcar makers Sntereisted in their industry that they may impart to it some of the stimulus they injected into the automotive business when bringing it up to where it is to -day, No doubt they hope thus to bring sky high prices down to earth, Competent. She, was app1Ing for a situation al conic dential clerk and typist, and the employer turned upon, her a rapid Ora. of questions. 'Talk Slang?" "No, sir." .and 'd "Know how to spell 'cat'a os' correctly?" "Yes, sir." "pee the telephone every other minute?" "No, sir." He was thinking ofso mething else to to ask her when she ok a Band la .the matter, and ie put a w quoriost "Pace the. floor when you're decent. ing?" "Why--er—no,' he gaspedin anion- ishment, "Slam things about is bad?" A movement has been started to provide a reservation Tor gorillas in West Africa. Late dispatches Indi- cate that United States marbles are• attempting: to dosomething like that for guerillas in Nicaragua. --g Rty dear, remarked Ilraggs, who had just finished reacting a book cat "The Wonders ot Nature," thea is a re- markable work. Nature is marvel-. lime! Stupeudents! When I toad a book liko this it makes me drink how puerile, how insignlncant is man. HUM said Its wise, A woman doesn't have to wade throng,' Ave iutndrod pages 19 discover that. --i ' when business ONo ,1 "Think you know enough about grammar and punctuation to appreci- ate a good typist when you get one4" "I think sol" "Want me to go to wore or is your time worth so little that—" He interrupted her enthusiastically, by sayings "Kindly hang up . your thingo and let's get at these letters" The following, , quoted in the Now Yorker, may not be particularly' good poetry. It does contain a parttcniar33 good sentiment, howeeort The Golden Rule, the Golden Rule, Oh, that's the rase for me; iwere this the law for all the world, Ikow happy we phonal be.—A12011,