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Show I UTAH LEHI FREE PRESS. LEHL ITALY REALIZES DREAM OF EMPIRE But From Where Will the Capital Come to Develop Ethiopia's Resources? And Will Italians Colonize Country? Un-exploit- No Curtailment in Q 1 ms urop j ed By WILLIAM C. UTLEY war, slid the people are largely uoiuad-!the annexation of Ethiopia In Italy, the Dark Continent In nature. now consists entirely of "colonies" of the European Colonization It Difficult. with the single exception of Liberia, a tiny negro reMussolini claimed a double purp'-'-- In bis conquest of the ancient kingdou; public on the Atlantic coast near the equator and just south for his overcrowd of Abyssina of the Sahara desert. ed iieople to expand, and ti e ohta u Africa covers 12,CXX),000 square miles and is the home of 150.000,-00- 0 ,4 people. For four hundred years the continent has been a colonial terof a half Much of swords the dozen the nations. sliced pie up by ritorial holdings in it are in the hands of three minor nations which are hardly in a position to defend their holdings against the countries c WITH riu which In the past few decade have a- erted their power more BUbstantially. These three powers are Spain, Portugal and Belgium. Tliey rule over 1,850,000 iquare miles of Africa and among their colonial subject are her colonial empire, and will have persons under the Italian flag. With the new conquest, the population of her African colonies rises from .5 persons to the square mile to 10.5 persons to the square mile. She now controls nearly 1,'(;7,(KX square miles of Africa, wltii a jiopulation of l.l.ttTiO.OiM) persons. lielgium's territory, while it is large, consists almost entirely of equatorial Jungle, which is not at the present very valuable. What its worth will be when and If t lie Jungle of the Belgian Congo Is ever cleared, Is unknown. There are not many people able to exist in these JCO.IXiO square miles, the Iteing about ten ersons to the square mile, with a total of !l..Vi4.IHM. Spain's Share Spartely Settled. gatlnred another people. With her new colony, which Mussolini says will be developed In it fullest extent Immediately, Italy now has possession of Libya, a vast xt retch of country directly aerons the Mediterranean In a southerly direct Inn from the mother country; Krltrea, along the southern end of the ICed sea; Ethiopia, which Includes the headwaters of the which Mile, and Italian Soimililaud. lies along the Indian ocean and borders Kthlopla on the xutitli. lO.miO.MiO .1 'i Itfht to "Life-Line.- " become an empire, that Victor Kinaiiu.1! Is no longer merely a king, but un emperor. The only barrier that separates the two major sections of tills vat colonial Sudan. Is the Anglo F.gyptian Italy la now firmly entrenched alone both sides of the Mediterranean and t the southern mouth of the Hod sea, becoming whnt Is probably the doin- e aauii M i on torcb . ii '.jtljdsdii L4 torch into the it to the . xipu-latio- n FUnkt Britain' This means that Italy has her f mi j) It 4 . Recent picture of the defeated Em Kven more sparse is the population of Portugal's several African colonies, chief among which are Angola, bordering the Atlantic coast to the south of peror Haile Selassie. ment of raw materials fur Italian Industrlcs. But Italian people are apparently not so willing to become colonists In an unpleasant and uncom-- ; fortnble land. In F.rltrea, which has been Italian now for 5(1 years, there are only about V) colonists. - the Ilelglan Congo, and Mozambique along the Indian ocean on the mainland opposite Madagascar. The Portuguese territory embraces a little less ran was. j flash l ji killing Of the goose that lays the I .i the doc en egg. thouprb Further, he knows that If this dear of uiea is wrong n tne corporation! .Si stain one device or another are ab't (iiastef weather the storm it will just ta cause they are able to work out I tere wer way or another to pass the tax o the consumer anyhow. Few sec w beside t are more familiar, for instance, jilt such the actual operations of the tort of profits during the World war, anl the period Immediately following, fou saidlevy was Intended to get back yon f.M of the gains of the profit! : Strang As It turned out, it forced the nlti door t consumer to pay more for everyttiitt .me the SE EN and HEARD V around the NATIONAL CAPITAL By Carter Field The entire Ognden area, with the provinces of llorun and Hale, so completely FAMOUS WASHIM6T0N CORRESPONDENT conquered by the forces of General Gruzi-ani- . are of little or no value, being principally desert. He has not yet moved into be greater than the tax the bureau of Washington's long arWashington. the rich agricultural regions of the Arussi of tax lawyers, the men who fight internal revenue is seeking unjustly to ray is scheduled be that to plateau, although force them to pay. to keep taxpayers from being forced his next step. Which amounts, in effect, to a disCotton and other forms of agricul- to pay what the bureau of internal revm bad bi The Alternative fature are considered possible In Ogaden, enue insists upon taking, almost re- crimination against the little and In iiped by vor of the big. Hence Senator Im Follette is d but only If extensive and expensive Ir- gardless of the law and the precedent, m by I serious when he says that congress; rigation is provided. That is true of have been booked almost solidly from La Follette's Plan op In .is either accept his boosting in tax most of the regions which Italy has now on. In many Instances their servThe the about most thing amazing of be small Incomes or compelled conquered in Ethiopia they must, if ices are to start with the passage i nMotis senate's fumbling around on the tax to tax food. Especially a: tually they are to be of much value, be de- the present tax bill. :Jcastlt In bill is that the one man, who down the that also Follette knows prt Incidentally they are advising clients bis heart comes closest to veloped by tremendous outlays of capagreeing measure, even If changed so as tc aid that ital, and fresh capital Is a commodity to postpone any move toward reorgan- with all the Roosevelt "Aboard Is the doctrines, reIn which Italy Is lacking to a disturbization. Numerous incidents where tually produce the revenue the t: 38 bad c one who Is fighting for a tax plan which ury says It must have, still falls ing degree, especially since her trade organizations, mergers or other forms is tslkin has been pinched by the sanctions of change in the corporate structure probably would be the most disastrous far short of balancing the bin Mttered to the New Deal in November. inci There must be a tremendous placed upon her by members of the were desired have been put off until This Is Senator Robert M. LaFollette In taxes after election in order to after the passage of the tax bill. League of Nations. beginning of Wisconsin. His proposal, which Is There has been some romantic gosthe government taking in as n Dependence on the tax lawyers strikes began w so concern much at White the sip of vast oil deposits In Ethiopia, es- some of these very lawyers as rather causing money as It pays- out. A it th House and among the brain trusters, ki In senator the but Of course every other Ogaden district, pecially amusing at the moment. Two of the i'BSOOt these have been largely denied by the most successful told this correspondent Is to boost Income tax levies on Inditoo, but most of them are this, i and o facts. What mineral resources are that they could not make out the fog viduals getting less than ?."0,000 a year, fining their remarks to other sub :s tier reall down the to the and line, way present will be found for the larger giest idea of what many of the proSenator La Follette isr euJ I w duce the present exemptions so that Certainly is In the Dannkil the who to senator country Deal part visions mean. J lit to millions of additional persons would be only northeast, but even these are uncerabout the need for gri But at present no one has the slightwhispering .sob an to income taxes, and all revenue, and honestly looking abof pay tain. There Is some salt, which Italy est idea what the tax bill will be like obliged door t mined during the war at a cost all when it becomes law. The senate is those now paying a small income tax determine from what sources it 4 t lady w to would have more. pay out of proportion to its value In peace I obtained. working on it. That's all anyone knows. "it a d LaFollette is fer this proposal for be times. the without How fur they will go in making the exception Almost nil yon two reasons. He wants the governtors going along with the adminit Italy Must Aid Colonist. meaning of any given section cle-i- is ment to keep on inking in revdoii: enough are simply The Important part of Ethiopia Is another. of th enue to be able to keep on with its tion on the bill All of which piles on top of one of know the present s " tlie central plateau, whose population social reform, farm relief, and other chore. They Ml money nef the will not raise ture Is the traditional enemy of the tribes the most annoying problems business Bid lie Progressive believes policies, that that! on the outskirts below. Here it is that has to contend with the attitude of this is Manv of them privately agree weren the only way to bring in enough bill Is apt to do a great deal of hi Mussolini plans to put most of bis the internal revenue legal department, sig! money. He knows, and so do practifell vote Munu n senntnr who will colonists. The country Is agricultural- headed by Robert II. Jackson. s and t! cally all the senators only many of a is he friends Is It anil measure best illustrated by a remark of them would is telling the climate, while It is not ly rich been not think of it it will result in steering the ordi; pleasant to white people by any means, Judge Morris A. Soper, of the Circuit publicly that the bill as admitting abrok the passed by business evele in the direction of is at least livable. While the plateau Court of Appeals at Baltimore. A case house will here's not produce the expected violent ups and downs, with b may be said to be conquered, it is not was being heard where the complaining revenue. And he knows also that if encoif p! fin booms nnd worse depressions, yet entirely occupied by Italian armies, company saiil that the board of tax Its rates were so boosted Hanoi it lhat would, in good the Oojjain and Shoa being still unoc- npnenls paid no attention to the de lng reckless spending the result would be a rather ween I in cisions ot the Supreme Court of the cupied. and forcing strict economies but nevertheless effective WNU Service. Copyrtglit. 'If the colonization of the plateau Is United States on certain questions. to be successful, the colonists must be Anoiner justice on the Circuit court e qtaa commented n this statement in n brief given a great deal of aid by the mothAfraid as filed by a Washington tax lawyer. er country. The fact that the colof nists will start from scratch will be a ab- -B the Courts boon to Italian Industry, for the de Ignore st drop "II m." he began. "We knew the mand for heavy goods for the building Kesoa board tax of of a new nation should give millions appeals did not pay any ' 1 Plena , R I T. more work. It Is believed that the attention to the rulings by this court, colonists will be able to raise cereals but we did f 't know it was also ignorand live stock, finding a market for ing decisions of the Supreme court." them In Italy and selling them for "Maybe." said .Im'ge Soper, dryly, prices which will be higher than the "they have been reading the Harvard Law Review." world market for the same goods. Every lawyer In Washington knows One of the principal problems facing thnt there Is violent disagreement hi the neiv Ethiopian emperor and his viceroy. General Badoglio. is what to iLt with fwlicy between the lawyers of the de' : 1 'terro: the natives. It is hardly possible that they partment of Justice and those f the , i. can be driven from the land; they cer- uurciui or imernai revenue As penile. tainly will not be allowed to compete with out in a recent d'pat.di, Jackson's po' the colonists on equal terms, for they will is to litigate, mt to be able to work for fur smaller compensa-tiim- . ley One important case recently was de-- ; the Italians being unable to comprir elded against the government. I.aw-- ! with their law standard of living. The situation will be much the same as that JW Wbo had several different cases & -which the Japanese peasants found in atprecisely or, all fours so far as they could see. were frankly informed that tempting to colonize Manchuria. With the exception or some little the government would not appeal, hut platinum nnd gold, the mineral re- mat tt would net regard tin sources of Ethiopia are largely a fable. a precedent ! Which amounted, as Washington tax The wealth. If any, which It will add to Italy will have to be worked out of lawyers see It. to a concession by the the land In hard Italian sweat and bureau of internal revenue that If they with the capitalization of hundreds of had taken the case in question up to millions of dollars. Italy hasn't got the Supreme court the government will lose again. Nevertheless, despite thu the hundreds of millions. As a matter of fact, the war of con- obvious belief on their part, they would quest up to the capture of Addis Ababa not compromise existing rases of a simand the flight of Emperor llaile Selas- ilar nature. The insisted upon m .k. sie had cost the Italians approximately lng every claimant fight In the courts. This is line business for the tax law$000,000,000, or more than 100 times what the United States paid Russia for yers. It makes big fees theni. For It Is the big corporations thnt Alaska. The cost of pacifying the counfight try will bring the war bill over the bil- their cases through and do not haviMo co. inmn .Ml ui.lt hurts theni lion dollar mark. th- I ,;'-t"Policemen, and policemen on foot, are shown st.ilmg M B'lt she has now fulfilled what Mus- expense. cut ine little fellows with precisely oeamen on the North river water front in ' t solini says has been the dream of I s. eniy second street wm. ,o nof fee t),.U ouiui-nnu puiciiru , iu Fascism for 15 years. Italy has become Minion . ... nt'w i ni int. , llll rhllia TV, n 4i...t' ,iuitori7.C an empire. It sounds big. And It the game jilsMlh-- the candle. ,;,,0 ' """PS. emerged victorbow -- . "I . Kl'. . .nd fifty earns II Puce Invaluable plaudits from pa. The expense io tlvm o" ipj...,. onsti.iteis uuimn """tin uuiuumoerea iwo were . hauled lietween I''i,i( off t, th fight'ng I'g. r..,;.'.u l.mnni.i iiiun-his people. " uciu urresi. n ui u"" r .i - ocn i ," ir ernin ait ; ' lis. t'nloa. 6 W nrn Vlrjjinin predvl" VMe .."gel is 1 '"t-j- r ... :r pro-Ne- iiwmi JUH0 f Italian Planes in an Air Raid Near Addis Ababa. Inatlng factor along the life-lin- e of Britain's empire. Britain, with her prestige falling part because of the total ineffectual-It- y than 800,000 square miles, with n little over 7,000,000 Inhabitants, or about nine to the square mile. Spain's 140,000 square miles of African territory, chiefly In Morocco and on the Atlantic seaboard west of the Sahara, are inhabited by only about 1X10,000 persons, or 0.5 to the square of her campaign In the League of Nations to stop the Italian course of empire, and the utter failure of her fleet to bluff II Duce Into backing down, now finds herself In a most em- mile. barrassing position. The popular conception that colonies Not only has she nufferrd greet loss of in Africa offer the European colonizing she but nations an outlet for their excess popularespect in the eyes of the world, has ceased to dmninate the route to India tions has been proved more or h'ss false. through the Suet carwl. Her line of col- With all the colonization and empire onies which stretch from Cairo to the building of 400 years, only one person in Cape of Good Hope are no longer flanked 50 on the African continent Unlnv is by a nation without sufficient power to white. There are in all only about 3.000,-00whiles. worry anybody, but by the colonies of a nation which is not only powerful in AfIt Is also doubtful that the hark rica but in Europe itself. And the source Continent and Its people present any of much of the irrigation of great market for goods manufactured Egyptian lands is now in the hands of a Kitrope. Natives, largely of a prim- power which is at present hostile. Of the African colonies Britain's are, however, undoubtedly the best. of the continent More than Is covered by the Sahara desert, and L (K1 3 1 ik there is another large desert, the Kalahari, In the South. The average density of the population In Africa Is about twelve tS a square mile, as compared with about forty to a square mile In the United States. The density of population of the British colonies Is everywhere above the average for the continent, while the possessions of every other power have an average density below the continental average. France ! Biggest Holder. France and Orent Britain now share s of Africa. equally about The remainder Is divided tip between Italy, Belgium, Spain and Portugal. It Is France who Is the largest holder of territory In Africa. She has the Island of Madagascar In the Indian !ilm'ilii ocean oft the southeast African coast, Morocco, Alglert and Tunis. But since Pietro Badoglio, Italy's new viceroy o much of her holdings Include desert cf Ethiopia, surveys the, lay of the land she virtually owns the Sahara her 4,212,000 square miles of territory land as an aide points it out to him. have an average population of only ltlve character, require little of the Sine souls to the square mile. Her manufactured goods of civilization. It number colonial subjects African may be possible that with continued In all. about 88,500,000 development this market will be built Britain's colonies are the home of ap- up. But such development takes an proximately 65,000.000 persons. Including enormous amount of capital. Egypt, these colonies cover 3.925,000 That Is the one big disappointment square miles, making the population about 16 to the square mile. The Hritish to Italy In her conquest of Ethiopia. toionies, which stretch the full length of The land, exclusive of the central plaAfrica on the eastern side of the conti- teau. 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