IRELAND ^ L ■ LI uhj .' \ I, ^There was a demonstration today outside Humber Ten Downing | Street. A large crowd was shouting, "Hurray for Dev; well done De4l" meaning Eamon deValera, Prime Minister of Ireland. The occasion ij&s the formal signing of that treaty between John Bull and what Bernard Shaw called "his other island," There really was plenty of occasion for cheers. The signing of that treaty, which was done in private, brought the end of six years of bloodless but destructive antagonism. The terms of the treaty have not been published, but there Ts pretty reliable information as to what they a^re. For—onertfalng-. they -mean -pros pe r i ty ^for Ireland. For , since the~d4rspnte iaended. nr-*; he tariff war is at an end, Ireland now has axTiah*aarkat the rich market of England and Scotl^ricl for her dairy- and livestock^yln fact, Ireland becomes by this stroke of the pen, John Bull's principal larder. gives de Valera back the so-called treaty ports^ He in turn undertakes to fortify them and guarantees positively never to let Ireland-be used as a basis for attack li upon England. | . A _ AT.BAMIA These are high fest days in the mountain city of Tirana, the capital of Albania. Thousands of visitors are streaming in from all quarters. Some of them come in magnificent limousines, others in buses, or on horseback, some afoot. Mussolini1a Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, and Duke lergano, came by airplane. But all alike came for one purpose, to celebrate the wedding of King Zog to a Hungarian Countess. The Countess Geraldine Apponyi of that ancient Magyar family so renowned in the history of the ^ a. country, will be the~fIr-at^Romgn Catholic queen in ^tfaa=hiwI was the f test of three festive days. That old mountain city offered a colorful sight, with the Moslem peasants in their native costumes mingling with Christians in their modern store clothes, in the public squares PARIS How the wheel does turn in the politics of Europel it not only turns, it seems to wabble all over the road. A few weeks ago, France appeared to be isolated but for that dubious alliance with a 11 I I purge-torn Russia. John Bull had apparently turned hsr down ^ A * 5 har-~£la t-after '-the- imaemonial-o uatoa -of-~Per£±diou e -Albion^T od ay everything again is palsy—walsy between France and her neighbor across the Channel. That^sword“fehat-cemeS-under-the,;=At4aiit±c^ visit of War Minister More-Belisha to Premier Daladier. The British War Secretary talked not only with Daladier but with the head of the French General Staff. That means, as Daladier reported to his Cabinet, the coordination, between French and British military policies, particularly armament and aviation. One important point the French and British war chiefs i discussed was the purchase of airplanes in the United States. Both i countries are feverishly anxious to catch ub in the air force race 1 with Hitler. The Nazis at present,^ave an air fleet treble that of Great Britain. What*s more, th<y have numerous airplane factories, far more numerous than those of their potential enemies. -hVicv will have to come to ffc France and Britain want to catch up. the states with open Pocketfc0°^S ‘ T^^ries gfinanold^f^So5r-se^by* representing both c # BERLIN FOLLOV; PARIS Anew -threat to-the world’speaee eomee Trom-^epmanyH 7Tm While wef ve been talking warships, the Nazis have been building them. That’s a report that comes not from Berlin but from Washington. It was released^by the Navy Department. Months ago Germany launched a naval building program bigger even than President Roosevelt’s program which is now still being discussed % by the Senate, Ship for ship, the new German vessels would equal any in the world. The - war -threetening--N&zia -are building fifty-one warships^. Th&s* includ^ five new super-dreadnoughts, two nineteen thousand ton aircraft carriers, three heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, twelve destroyers and twenty-five submarines. Sfascfefc®- almost twice Eresldeyrt navy expansion program. /v. x hitler The moiaentous topic in European foreign offices today was j the new' Czech crisis. It is generally estimated as another example of Hitler*s sense of timing. Though the voice was Eenleints, the hands that pulled the strings were Hitler* s. New and more drastic demands for autonomy by the Sudeten Germans^) This comes just at a time when Europe was breathing easier because of the Angl-Italian treaty which seemed to lessen the prestige of Hitler. The bold Nazi threat uttered at Prague brings the Fuenrer into the limelight. And it occurs just a few days before Hitler*s visit to Mussolini. PRAGUE In Czechoslovakia, itself, the first consequence of Henlein’s threat was outbreak of violence against the Jews,w*w reported from the town “ "Wt- ‘&£L jsl S' of Theusing^ That**' not far from Marienbad, mm famous watering A place once visited by many rich Americans. The outbreak started in the Town Council* The councillors resigned in a body efetfaate-owa A A accord^osThwy started a march through the streets, a torchlight parade# and' were Joined by threw, hundred Sudeten Germans. A ^ A cordon of gendarmes who threatened to fire on them put the parade to flight. But as soon as the police had been recalled, the demonstrators formed another mob in the streets, smashed the windows until police reenforcements arrived from Prague and arrested several windows It wasn't rioters, that the tumult was: , REFUGEE A body that has been meeting ihphieago has an idea for solving the problem of political refugees in Europe them in Palestine. That1 s the idea that was urged upon President Roosevelt today by the National Conference for Palestine. And they add, let an international committee be organized to attend to it. Specifically, their suggestion is, send a hundred thousand refugees to Palestine every year for the-next five years. Palestine they say, can easily absorb that number. -reu. GIBBO-1 Ovsi in Japan a^i Ainsrican citizen has been held. 'Qpisoner for several days by the Japanese military authorities. Today our ambassador to Tokyo asked the Japanese Government for information. This American citizen, Melvin Gibbon, is an aviator. He was seized by the Mikado’s politcal police - taken from a British ship, the EMPRESS OF ASIA, while on his way home, via Vancouver. The reports are that the American flyer has bean given the third degree and tney say a Japanese third degree is a triple third decree. The whole thins; is involved in mystery. Hence the ambassadorial questioning today. : TRADE It»s an ironic fact that with all the reports of hard times at home. Uncle Sam's foreign trade is thriving. For the first three months of this year, we sold^three hundred and twenty million more than^we bought from other countries. Our dollars' i* exports were more than eight hundred and twenty-seven millions, I imports five hundred and seven millions. What's more, our exports were far more than they were for the same period last year. riMfim EMffROURCES A1 Freden of the Collier Corporation calls my attention to a rather powerful article from the LONDON SPHERE* It might be entitled, TTAs Otnej. s See Us.fT This famous London magazine points out what immense gigantic strides the United States has made during the past century, reminds us that we operate sixty per cent of the worldfs telephone and telegraph facilities, thirty-three per cent of the world7s railroads, produce seventy per cent of the world7s oil, etc,, etc. We own eighty per cent of the motor cars on earth, have half of the world7 s monetary metal,and two-thirds of mankind7 s total banking resources. Then it goes on to say that the purchasing power of the people of the United States is greater than that of the entire population, the five hundred million people who live in Europe, and greater than the entire population of Asia, one billion Asiatics. id then i_frsssays: "Resp'S^sible leadei'^hip which p^inot bulging economy into assured desl^jtute of capacity. But\)ompous statesman solemnly declare that ’W j methods by ough\to be abandon^!, must be DOST BOWL Here*s good cheer for the Inhabitants of the great American dust bowl. Those vast drought-smitten regions are not hopelessly ruined. .Scientists have been making investigations for the Carnegie Institutes' And they have come to the conclusion that those huge stretches of land can be used permanently for wheat and other kinds of dry farming. The only condition would be to keep the sheep and cattle out. us Dr. E. E. Free brings^this information in the WEEK*S SCIENCE. There's one roup of people who won't care for the latest presidential message tne ^nvernment jot holders* for Mr* Roosevelt's message is sweeping in its scope. Hd would not only eliminate the tax exemptions from government Ponds which means federal, state, county and city. He would also do away with the privilege enjoyed by people who hold government jobs - federal and local. They constitute quite a sizeable number; since it has been figured out that one in every ten of us is some sort of a govennment job holder, about thirteen million people. Mr. Roosevelt's message points out that the Sixteenth Amendment as approved in nineteen Thirteen, authorized the taxation of all incomes. And he adds: "It was the courts, who construed it differently, the courts who read the policy of immunity MESSAGE - 2 from income taxation into that SixteentiiAmendment." And he points ^created,. out that "Today it has^maraitm^/a vast reservoir of tax exempt securities in the hands of the identical persons who equitably should not be relieved of taxes on their income.,l And he points out further: "This reservoir now constitutes a serious menace to the fiscal systems of both the states and the nation." hJ&— It didn’t take long for favorable reactions to this A message to make themselves heard. Even the Republicans in Congress uttered cautious words of 9 approval. Some of the conservatives doubted whether it could be done in this session. But the enthusiasts are in favor of pushing it through right away. Well, the big burst of intellectual sport is over here at Rockefeller Center. The National Championship Chess Tournament —— in fact two of them, one for the men and the other for the women. Yes, the ladies play the high brow game — and exceedingly well, although they are not up in the top class, of the greatest. Among the men the American title was retained by the former child projigy Samuel Reshevsky. He played through the sixteen tournament games without losing one — ten wins and six draws. His foremost rival, Reuben Fine, played only ^^v^ draws^ byi but^ he lost one game. Among the champion* is Miss May Karff of Boston. /V Last summer she played among the international chess masters at Stockholm. Now she Is the American Womens Champion. How expertly she played Is shown by her score not a game lost and only one draw. She’s good#i no about il£. lunatic There was a strange episode in a Massachusetts courtroom today, A seventy-eight year old man was charged with the killing cf four other men. Inmates of the Tewksbury State Infirmary. The Jury *sm found him not guilty ^y reason of insanity. The judge asked the old man if he had anything to say. "I*d like to speak to the District Attorney,said the prisoner. As the prosecutor stepped up to the dock, the seventy-eight year old killer said: "If it*8 all the s^me to you, I'd like to ^aacesynas. to the electric fihair." The court was unable to comply with this strange request and instead committed him to an issssM asylum for the rest of his natural life COOGAft Tne case of Jackie Coogan and his Ma today enters the bioad field of comedy. Over the weekend, the country was edified tolearn that Mrs. Coogan Bernstein ax had retained a public relations counsellor - not to put too fine a point on it — a press agent — a West Coast Freddy Benham. He*s to present her side of the squabble to the public. Thereupon Son Jackie uttered the plaintive wish: i '1 hope she isn*t paying himout of my money." ■Today the curtain falls on this act of comedy. The public relations counsellor has quit. Says he didn't get the cooperation from Mrs. Coogan Bernstein that he needed. He made, for instance, appointments for reporters to interview Jackie Coogan's Mama. The reporters phoned her. Mrs. Coogan Bernstein promtply replied: "Don’t come to me for ary interviews." So now there's one public relations counsellor at liberty. "Mrs* Coogan Bernstein, he says "is listening to the lawyers rathern than to me." And he adds that he himself is charging h it off to experience, so Jackie needn't worry about the money padi to him as he hasn't received nickel mtlnx from Mrs. Coogan or her second husband, Mr. Bernstein So he say s . PlAMO cf Folks the easterly end of Long Island Sound witnessed a novel sight. On the storm tossed waters of the Sound they saw a gentleman sailingThe craft he was navigating was a small grand piano rigged like a sloop^— <aAlJp, He had been trying to move that piano to his summer home at Goat Point. He'wafc doing the moving in two row boats, two legs of the piano in one boat, the third in the other. When they got near a dangerous reef, a rip tide caught them and they were in difficulties. So the owner of the piano raised the cover and tried to navigate this improvised flotilla with the lid of the piano as a sail and one oar as a rudder. Night overtook them *£■ likewise a gale of wind. The owner of the piano started sending up flares in the hope of getting help from Uncle Sam's Coast Guard. But nobody saw the flares and so the whole expedition, piano, boats and three hardy mariners, were stranged on the rocks of a reef. There will»'be neither -getnov^ A dog show was going on in Missouri, and the principal Judge was considering the airdale terriers. He was examining one in particular, with the idea of giving it the first prize. As he bent over to look more closely, the airdale aussie'-and bit that judge in the ear* P.S* The airdale did not get the first prize.