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The Huron Expositor, 1932-05-27, Page 64 he South Seas bou rules the king-' f the Fiji island group, rads over 38-5 square islands. Her subjects human beings. 'seen Salote wants to count k. 9?l1,0cts she does not send census 7�1t ee sound of the t the entirTS. At e epopulation line treets of their respective vil- �� s ' And they, are counted then 'and, there. They are counted every three months, and woe .to the village Queen Salote is not a mere orna- thatshows a decline in its population. 7nenii. 'Her services were recently recognized by King George, who placed her in the company of many distinguished British ladies by con- ferring upon her the title, "Dame Commander of the British Empire." This is a British honor, which is only bestowed on British women who have served the crown in one capac- telling them that your government ity or other. Although Queen Salote• owes as many golden crowns as there are pebbles on the south shore of this island. That shows there is something wrong with your govern- ment. - "Look at my domain., We have a surplus in our treasury. We have absolutely no national debt and we have no poverty." "Have you no sex problems in your kingdom?" I asked her majesty. "The only sex problem we have in my domain is to marry and raise children.. If a husband and wife cannot get along they take their complaint to the local chief. T' have enacted a law to guide these chiefs. At the first complaint, both husband and "wife, regardless of who -•is the guilty party, get five stokes ' of the rod. Then they must go home. Af- ter they hi{vle eased their scores, they think the matter over. The next time they are tempted to quarrel, they think of the ten strokes that 4 ,yoti would realise what an a tue>;lai structure is rnouhted on them, 9 always considered America a••na.,. tion made un; of barbarians in, what you call, eivilizied costumes, 1 saisr your moving pictures, and I was mortified. I cannot understand how American rulers permit these condi- tions. My government has made.'pov- erty impossible. We do • not allow anybody to become poor. Neither do we allow anyone to become rieh and arrogant:" - It was 'very hard not.. to smile at the remarks of a queen who had twenty-six thousand odd subjects. I kept a straight face and tried to look serious in the presence of her gigantic majesty. I think she sensed it. She right away quoted facts in proof of her claim. "Well," she continued, "Germany is bankrupt, England has just bal- anced her budget, but the Americans are short. We here do not deal with figures like you do. I had to explain your indebtedness to my subjects by + aJ!,I+rr... is the sole sovereign in her kingdom, and her word is law, she is a volun- tary ally of His Majesty, King George. Her • great-great-grandfater. King George Tubou I., was a fighter and philosopher as 'well. A fighter be- cause he wrested control of the is- lands from' a half-dozen warring chiefs and turned it from a lot of disorganized and uncivilized islands into a neat, compact little kingdom. with a flag, coat -of -arms, constitu- tion, parlianrent, state church, taste for sardines and English breakfast tea and tate most luxurious palace eve- er seen, in the islands. He proved his status as a philosopher !by -chang- ing from .cannibal to Christian—de- ciding, no doubt, that it was easier to be a Christian than to eat one. At. any rate, it was more profitable, for as Christians the Tubou family has attained more power in eighty-five years of Hongan domination than in centuries before. would be due to them on a second King George II. did not need to co plaint. I believe in the ancient fight for his rights, but he made up hilosophy in these matters that for it in other ways. Had he lived P h n there is a quarrel in the lam - in America he might have been known I - as a "hot sport," for he was fond of ily oth sides must have contributed the galloping ponies and raced his ! t0 i fidelity is punishable by death. famous string of blooded horse; 1, As to as I rule these islands hu,- thr•oughout Australasia. ,Despite' bands st obey their wives. In the • these diversions he had plenty of • PURELY VEGETABLE atimulato. our aver, get rid of poisons egad I'm' two* Your APPETITE Sold everywhere i» 25c and 75c red pkgs. R'S IMPIL1S►. tions, as ;!. J. C. 'Mlartyn .,Ooiats ' ortt, ia• The New. York Times, he has un„ ua, sal powers, which mayor may not hays been contemplaited when ills Thrid• Republic was constituted. A�otha,sa clOes, for instance, are peri: sonans aceredited to him, Ile may also, in conjunction with the cabinet, form ' a secret treaty with a foreign power, provided that this t$ eaty does nti'tainvolve any !budgetary ex- penditure. This was the authority for the secret treaty between France acid Russia. When war is declared it is the president who issues the proelamation, but it is the legislature which .passes the declaration. But if war is threatened, it is the presi- dent who must take the necessary steps for safeguarding the nation. This he 'does by decree on the advice of the cabinet. •So we see that on almost eivery occasion he is hampered from independent action by the cabinet, This moved President Casi- mir Perier on one occasion to say; "The president can in due form place • his signature beside that of another, if he. is asked to do •so; but otherwise, except in the case of resignation, his signature would only serve the purpose of an autograph collection . . . ' Among all the powers which seem to be attributed to him, there is only one that the president- of the Republic can exer- cise freely and personally—the presi- dency of national ceremonies." secret of prosperity in my domain." "If tourists knew of your• domain and its excellent Iaws, you would have a number of visitors,.'^ I sug- gested. Her majesty does not want tourists to visit hsr island. If they do visit it, they must do so one at a time. Ev- en then, the lucky one 'would not be permitted to stay more than two weeks. Queen Salote hassimattr composed of 50 canoes. Two months ago she and a number of other neighboring island rulers hada disarmament con- ference to limit building of war canoes. Nine rulers met and, in. ex- actly six hours, signed the agreement. .a, he queen, and she. rules time to rule Tonga wisely, and to make profitable diplomatic egnnec- her house, and he must obey without. of i question. His function is in the field, tions. Ile was a great admirerhe 'Great Britain, so much so, in fact, or on the sea when es is occupied wo- `that in 190.0 he voluntarily placed his' with his fishing ventures. If the the kingdom under a British protectorate! man chooses to work outside in field ,ththe en she must obey herhusband. and when, a few months later, his - ' ••• . daughter was born he ordered hes "We punish the villagers if they brought up like an English royal' show a decline in their popUeation, princess. but there is a'punishment for couples Queen Salote has no use for Am- if they have more than ten children. erica and the Americans. She told It is public policy not to encourasra, me this in plain English, which „she- couples to have more than ten,, be - learned in a New Zealand finishing ! cause under my law every boy, on school. And she is a "finished" queen! reaching the age -of 18, is given six from her head to •her ankles. She is . acres of crown -owned lend. If each. six feet eight inches tall, and she4.family increased its population too weighs 350 pounds. Although she ; rapidly, then we would eet• have crown wears fashionable dress and dons her land .to parcel out. 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It is not the more or less permanent head of the state who is entrusted with supreme au- thority but the lesser minister who may be tossed into private life by a hostile vote in the Chamber of Depu- ties. The other day France elected the fourteenth, president of the Third Republic in the person of Albert Brun. Only five presidents have serv- ed the full term, one of the reasons being that when ni.en become presi- dents they are usually well stricken in years. Five resigned before their terms were completed, one was elect- ed for a second term and two were' assassinated. President Jules Grevy was given the„ unprecedented hono: -of re-election, but was forced out a short time after his' second term had begun. Sadi Carnot was assassinat- ed like President Doumer. Felix Faure died in circumstances that pro- duced a national scandal whose rev- erberations have not wholly ceased. Millerand was removed from office. His removal was brought about because' he took a view that the possibilities and even responsibilities of his office demanded 'that. he be more active politically than had been the' custom of former presidents. In general, the theory is that the position of the .president.•is like that of the King of England who reigns but does not govern, and who, according to Bagehot, exercises, his chief . function by warning or en- couraging his ministers. Of course, it depends a great deal on• the per- sonality of • the reigning sovereign or the president. We know how great an influence was exerted by Queen Victoria, some of it in matters which, constitutionally, were not her concern. But when Millerand be- came president, he conceived himself to .be in power as head of the national bloc. He announced that he disapproved of the tradition that kept the president above politics. and declared that his regard ..for the national compelled him to become active. Several times he overstepped the line laid down by precedent, but apparently with popular approval. In 1923 he made a political speech favoring his particular bloc, which, however, was defeated in the subse- quent election. lBllerriot was called upon to form a ministry but made his acceptance conditional upon the president's resignation. Millerand retorted by calling upon Francois Marshal. He formed a rninistry ibut was defeated in the assembly and forced to resign. Millerand, loudly protesting, was obliged to accompany his protege in- to private life. This example proves! that the French people really do de- sire their president to. remain aloof frorii politics, although he is ex- pected to exert an important influ- ence upon his ministry, hand is far ° from being a political eunich. He has a salary of about $100,000 a year, but this is insufficient for the de- mands made uponhis purse, which are mostly social. He has at his disposal two magnificent palaces, but has not as much time to enjoy them as the British prime ministers have the country home at Chequers. The president is obliged to be a hard 'Worker, even if much of his work is routine and formal. Ie has to pre- side at all cabinet meetings where matters of policy are concerned, and this would seem to suggest that he should have something to do with the policy of the government. That Dreaded Time of Life Mrs. Brockhank Tells Why She Recommends Dr. W'alliame Pink Pills to Women of 40 to 50. Color and Appetite Returned Perhaps his most important pre- rogative is that of dissolving the Chamber of Deputies. This he can only do with the consent of the Senate. The power was placed in his hands to prevent the usurpation of authority by the lower ,chamber. But in effect this function would be almost impossible to discharge. One Of the curious laws by which he is fettered is that every official signa- ture of the president of France must be accompanied by the signature of a member of the cabinet. That is to say, if he wished to dissolve the Chamber he would have to secure the consent of a member 'of the government, who would thus be signing his own death warrant with that of his associates. In France as in England, if a minister differs from his colleagues he resigns. Therefore, a cabinet minister who would be willing to dissolve the Chamber would already have relinquished his power to place his signature beside that of the president. Only in ex- traordinary, circumstances, therefore, is it possible for the •president of Pranee to perform the most impert- ant act of which he is capable under the constitution. 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One= part of the !mutual pledge 'having (been violated the other part collapsed autotmiatically. • Mr. de Valera as it, devout, and! even puri- tanical, 'Catholic, is well aware that the Coronation oath was " iPtered in 1941 to avoid giving offence to his fellow Catholics. For centuries the- oaths -taken by sovereigns, •mem'bers of Parliament, members of the Prissy Council and other necessary oath takers were. ecclesiastical in purpose. Their !Hain idea was to show- abhorrence of the mass, the,.,;invocation of saints and other practices held to be idola- trous and superstitious by the' !Church of England. A little more than a century ago, or in 1829 to be exact, the Catholic Emancipation Act was passed. Before that time the oath rade it impossible for a Roman Catholic, even if elected, to take his seat in Parliament. -But now Daniel O'Connell was elected and his hope and expectation were that he would be the first man of his religion for centuries to' sit-" in the House of !Cone -none.. He was defrauded of this! amibition by a particularly knavish trick, for the Catholic Emaneipation Act restricted the taking of the new oath to those elected after the passing •of it. 0"Connell's election had come first., so when he presented' himself, at the table of the Hoose and demanded that the new oath„shouldbe admin- istered to him, he was refused. The Speaker offered him the old oath, but on the motion of Broug- ham he was allowed to speak at the bar in his own justification. He. then asked to see the old oath and it was handed him. The . House waited 4areathlessly while he read it. Then he. said, "I cannot take it. Part of it 3 know to be false; an- other part I believe•rto be untrue." The House deeided that a new election must be held in Clare and &Connell was again returned, this time without opposition. , But his airdbition to be the first Catholic for generations to sit in the House- was ousewasfrustrated, because in the mean- time the Earl of Surrey, eldest son of the Duke of Norfolk, was returned for the pocketborough of Horsham, took the new oath and was seated. The liberator soon followed 'him, since his re-election qualified him for adinittance after taking the modified oath. But the oath still contained an expression which, while acceptable alike to 'Catholics and Protestants, still served as a barrier against the Jews. -That was the declaration, "Upon the true faith of a. Christian." Baron Lionel Nathan de Rothschild was elected as a Liberal for the City of London in 1847, but for three years did not attempt to take his seat, sitting :below the Bar which is technically' outside the 'House. • The Commons passed' a bill reproving the objectionable term but the Lords re- sisted. So de Rothschild asked to be sworn on the old Testament, and with his head covered, according to Jewish rite. .This was granted but the objectionable words remained, and when he came to • them he stopped and said that as they were not 'binding on his conscience he' could not utter them. So he re- turned to his place below the bar, and it was not until 12 years after his first election that the oath was amended so that he could (become an accepted memberof the Rouse.. The next time thequestion q estion of the oath became critical was in 1880, When Ohailes Bradlaugh, an atheist, was elected from Northampton. -He ob- jected to the , words, "So help ane God," and some of the moat dis- graceful scenes in parliamentary his- tory were enacted before Bradlaugh, the idol of his constituents and one of the imlost 'vital personalities in England, was permitted in 18,80 to take his seat. lasesualla Haw had made a tentative, agreement with the 'International Telephone and Tele- graph Company for a loan of $11,- 000,000, in return for which he would pledge a majority of the stock of the L. M. Ericsson Telephone Com- pany. Whether he had actually re, ceived the 'money or was negotiating for it, the writer is not aware. But in any event the Morgan people in the United States' were interested in the deal and they asked an audit of the company's assets. This was made by Price, Waterhouse and Co:, a Lon- don firm which forwarded to the house of 'Morgan a startling report. It ape peered that the bash reserves of, the company had been taken by Kreu- ger, their place being taken by European government bonds. When !confronted with this fact he retorted that the bonds were worth just 125 per cent. ,of what they were listed , at in his statement. . Morgan retorted grimly that whatever they were actually' • worth the fact re- mained that they could be bought at 'that time for fifty per cent. of the value Kreuger had placed on them. This ended Kreuger, so far as the United. States was concerned;• and the distrust bred of the investigation led to the demand that he should pay the $4,000,000 debt about to fall due to Lee, Higginson. Hie did not have the $4,000,000. Still less - did he have the $115,436,000 he owed Swedish bankers. The evening after his unpleasant interview with ' the NLorgans he went to his Park Avenue pent house and confessed to friends that his head was cracking. This was actually the first defeat in his career. It was the first time that he had been unable to get the money he required. More important• still it was the. first time that a great 'bank- ing house had secured 'proofs'b'f his "perfidy. It was the 'beginning of the end for Kreuger. He returned to Paris and a short time later took his life We remember reading a couple of years ago an article by the re- doubtable Isaac F.'M'arcossan about Kiieuge'i• in .the Saturday Evening Post. He was there accepted as one of the most important men in the world, the European who controlled more wealth than any other. He seemed then to be at the -very peak of his powers. He was head ofl the match monopoly of the world. Not only did he control the manufacture and sale of most of the matches made anywhere, but , in return for government monopolies he was pay- ing millions of dollars: Many gov- ernrnents found it useful to make a monopoly of matich sales just; .as other governments make a monopoly of liquor sales as a convenient form of taxation. They gave Kreuger the monopoly and he paid the taxes, re- couping himself from the match us- ers. The match industry led him in- to other businesses, and it is said that when he finally came to the,end of the road he controlled no- fewer than 400 corporations, independent and interlocking. Of the soundness of his position before the coming of the depression there never was any doubt, but a scrutiny of his affairs might show- that howthat even then there was the same re - at as the his car Kreuger, Match King, Was Colossal 'Swindler Ivar Eireuger has been compared with John Law whose 'Mississippi Bubble was the gaudiest financial swindle. of the Eighteenth Century. It it not yet known just how rotten -were the various companies and se- curities upon which he reared the tremendous edifice which seemed as strong as the Bank of England. It' has been discovered that many of the bonds which he had deposited or of- fered as security were forgeries. It is said that the losses borne by Amer- ican investors alone reaches a quar- ter of a billion dollars. In Sweden thousands of men who' a few months ago considered themselves well to do ase ready for the 'bread line; and there are many others scattered through Europe,to whom the collapse of Kreuger brings ruin. It is stag- gering to think that a man like Kreu- ger, who had control ..of wealth esti- mated at a billion dollars; should have been laid low because he did net have immediately to hand the $4,000,- 000 owed to Lee, Higginson and Co., oI Boston, which had been farmed out to four American banks. -The sum would'h,ave been merely chicken feed to Kreuger three years earlier. But- when utwhen the demand was made he did not have it, and he knew that the game was up. • Like other great magnates, Kreu- ger was hit hard - by the fin- ancial depression. The greater his holdings and investments, the great- er was the -strain upon them, and so complicated were his machinations that a sudden wrench upon one link might snap the chain and bring de- struction to all his enterprises. He doyou need WE CAN SUPPLY ANY STYLE CARBON LEAF CARBON BACK BEFORE PLACING YOUR ORDER PHONE US FOR PRICES Look—. The Maple Leaf The Silgn. „ of uality Books" THE HURON EXPOSITOR Seaforth, Ontario. Phone 41 kind of swindling which was hi source in the past two years. must sti e rk the averagepers ers most remarkable feature of eer, or at least his more recent car- eer, was that nobody thought of ques- tioning any statement he made until the 'Morgans became inquisitive over the International Telephone and Tele- graph loan. Bankers seemedto think it no more necessary to make an aud- it of his books than would the secre- tary of one of Mr. Morgan's dabs before cashing a 850 cheque for him, or than a scrupulous hostess would make sure to look up the pedigree of the Prince of Wales before decid- ing that he was -an eligible guest. He was Kreuger, who it now turns out forged with his own hands $100,- 000,000 worth of bonds. To say that he chose suicide rather than disgrace for the loss of his riches is to tell the insignificant half of the story. He committed suicide rather than face the, prospect of spending the rest of his life in a penitentiary. Oath of Allegiance Again Causes Trouble If the old injunction "Swear • not at all," had been literally o'beped by nations which profess Christianity, a good deal of trouble' would have been saved the world. President de Valera had brought to the front again the question of the oath ' of alleg- iance,- in consegquence of which the relations of Ireland may be plunged. back into the old unhappy state that existed before the setting hp of the Free State. He had said that while. he took the oath on entering the Dail he did so with the public ea - planation that it was meaningless; and he now argues that the agree- ment to°"snake the oath part of the treaty between England and Ireland was valueless since it was made un- der duress. To this we might reply that the duress was upon both sides. Failure to sign the treaty wonted have caused a renewal of Civil war in Ireland, and this would have been as repugnant to the feelings orf Eng- lishmen as Irishmen. De Valera ap- parently is not - tolerant enoti h.,, to take the attiture of Henry IV of France, who said, "Paris is well worth a !mass." ' Peacee to him, is not well worth an oath to which he ha's said he attaches little signifi- cance. -- In any event, whatever the signi- ,ficance of the oath of allegiance, it RiB-ROLL ROOFING. Colored orplain. For houses, ban. sheds, garages. Council) Standard or "Acorn" quality, Easy and quick to lay, permanent, proof againat fire. Free estimates gladly sent. Send• measurements. - Makers of Preston Steel Trust. Barns, Gaal- vanized Tanks Barn Door .Fiardty re. Preston -Led-RIed Nails„. Double Meeh Metal Lattlk. Ventilators,.Roh.NFold, Garage I, ors. 4U kincleSheet Metal Building Material' Eastern irrotineto rrnite d Guelph St.t . Preston.Ont. Factories at Monitteal and Toronto . nus pone was receiving a very large in- come from his various illicit enter- prises, and that he was making a tax return on only a fraction of his in- come. The difficulty was to prove it. But a beginning was made by trying to pierce the oufer fortifications of the 'Capone stronghold, by detaching 'from him one by one the guards who stood between him and the law, the so-called fall guys, the underlings who would glibly perjure themselves at a nod from their ,overlord; the lieutenant who, if the worst came to the worst, •would take the well known rap. This, it is to, be remembered, was a Washington campaign, and not a Chicago campaign,- and it was from Washington that the detectives were sent who were active in the war upon Capone. It did not take thetii long to lay Ralph Capone, Al's 'brother, by the heels for income tax evasions. He was, of course, small fry, and had taken na such extra- ordinary precautions as the big shot. Frank Nitti and Jack Guzick were other lieutenants against whom the government made out cases and put away for short terms. In the mean- time scores of operatives were out on Capone's back trail They went to hundreds of places where he had visited, getting details of his ex- penditure. One or two are believed to have become members of his gang. They were not interested in 'his kill- ings, nor his brothels, nor his gambling rooms. They were merely interested in the income he derived from all sources. They ingratiated themselves :with beer sellers and pick- ed' up hints as to the amounts they had paid. Al or his agents, Dry ag-•- ents in the same cause, and not in the cause of prohibition, raided speak- easies, securing further information. At the same time, a corps of ac- countants was trying to trace his financial operations. This- was ex- tremely difficult. Capone kept no bank books. He wrote no cheques. He did not collect his graft• in per- son, He was the general of an °under- world army who did not soil his own hands with blood or loot. Neverthe- less a number of' bank accounts was disclosed in names that were various but similar. The- idea was that they • were Capone's. -A stronger clue was provided by an examination of the books of the Western Union Tele- graph 'Corn-pany. These showed that when Capone was at Miami, Guzick had wired him large sums of money. A raid in 1925 which had proved Ca- • pone the owner of a Cicero - •house, and had been conveniently forgotten, - was recalled. The- ostensible keeper of this resort had admitted that the profits in three years had amounted to more than $600,000. This had gone to Capone. The United States Government could find no evidence that be had paid taxes .on it. Capone by this time was well aware that the hounds of justice were hot on his trail. He knew that they could prove something against him. So in ,1930 Lawrence P. Mat- tingly, his Washington attorney...Iliad written to the Internal Revenue De- partment admitting that his client's income over a six year period was $266,000, and offering to pay taxes on this assessment. -With these pieces of evidence in his hands Johnson asked for and obtained an indietr anent against !Capone. There was a general understanding -that he would" enter a plea of guilty, pay a large fine -and submit to a short term of imprisonment. If he had had sense enough to remain silent this is what would have happened. But he could not suppress his exultation. The press published the news, and the next day in court Judge Wilkerson, who had been a party to the undertaking, was forced to repudiate it in noble, hollow words of virtue. •Capone's plea of guilty was withdrawn and. he faced a jury. He was found guilty on the evidence of a hundred witnesses. In ethe course of the trial the fast em- erged that in the years from 1924 to 1929 he had a net income of at least $1,039,65.4, and conceivably 'five times as much. •• Cheating Uncle Sam Fatal For Capone Truth may or may not he stranger than fiction but it . is undoubtedly slower. Long before the tactics em- ployed successfully against Al Ca- pone were in operation, or rather were known to be in operation, we read a novel in which the plan was worked out against an imaginary Chi- cago hoodlum who had hitherto de- fied the law It mray have been a coincidence, but we prefer to believe that the lawyers must, have been reading the novel. Now that Capone is finally in a federal penitentiary, where he will remain for a few years, it is interesting and somewhat path- etic, to note the steps the Government found it necessary to take against the gangster; We probably do Mr: Ca- pone no injustice when we say that he has committed and planned mur- ders, robberies, tortures, .blackmail and aimost'every other major crime known to law. But he was convicted of none of these.felonies. He was, as a matter of fact, convicted of what millions of self-respecting Americans! —and ,other'' Citizens for that matter —do as a Matta; of course. He failed to make proper ilxorhe tax returns. His offence, in other words, was an artificial one, and it is open to ques- tion whether, as a matter of morals, it is indeed a crime. At worst; -it is a erirne comparable with smuggling. Through !bribery, terrorism and politfeal influence, Capone had so entrenched himself in Chicago that the ordinary courts, and the ordin- ary processes of law, were powerless against him. He could have remain- ed the underworld ruler until his death had it not been for the plan devised by George E. 9. Johnson, a 'United States District Attorney, or as we prefer to believe, adapted by Mr. Johnson from the novelist. Ile started with the knowledge that Ca - GLI ai "I want a revolver—for my Imo - band." "'Did your husband say what make of revolver?" "No, but I don't think that matters. He don't even know I'm going to shoot him." WHEr1 In TOR onTo YOU WILL ENJOY OUR•SERVICE IF YOU PREFER A QUIET WELL CONDUCTED MEDIUM SIZED HOTEL. TRY IT NEXT TIME YOU ARE al TORONTO. Cheerful, comfortable rooms Tasty food, Restful surroundings PLENTY of CURB PARKING SPACE GARAGE ONE MINUTE WALK Single 51.50 to $3.00 Rates Double $3.00 to :5.00 HOTEL WAVERLEY Spading Avenue and College Sbaal Deluxe Tax! 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