Show f qmpetitors joif Markets JMps T UFH I' oR SSlJnl By OERVILLE EEACHE One of the Foremost Journalists of France fCopyrieht 1928 Consolidated Press Association) DARIS Jan 28—As the first month of the new year draws I to an end official statistics and bank reports furnish ma terial for a general survey of - the world economic situation I The year 1927 was character-ized by a tendency toward lower prices cheaper money and a general slowing down of industrial production together with an InBut crease in bank reserves which ordithese phenomena narily accompany periods of depression have produced neither panic nor crisis although considerable uncertainties hang over the horizon The United States has been particularly concerned with the economic distribution and acquisition The British reof raw stuffs strictions on rubber production during the Stephenson plan continue to worry the automobile industry and In a similar way the struggle between the Standard Oil and the "Dutch Shell group threatens a veritable catastrophe In the petroleum industry if it continues OIL SITUATION ' of Since the disappearance soviet oil on the world market there are seventy million extra barrels to reckon with which came Just as the Seminole field alone was beginning to supply four times the total of Russian This production not only drives prices down to the 1913 level but launches a price war in various markets Stand-- : ard Oil has invaded the British market through its subsidiary Vacuum Oil which obtained permission to construct reservoirs at Bombay and also is forging ahead in China It is quite likely that Standard OilwUlw4twifitis true that the fight would cost the Dutch Shell Bur mas combination over $120 0 a year while costing Standard But it is not Oil only $4000000 desirable that this struggle last too long for the losses would go on piling tip Stabilization of the petroleum Industry depends large ly on control and restriction of American production over-producti- ANTI-FREN- CH POLICY NOTED IN NEWSPAPER Old Game of Using Weak Nation As Pawn Still Played By WILLIAM BIRD (Copyright 1928 Consolidated Press Association) PARIS Jan 28 — Certain impe rialistic elements in Great Britain are casting serious obstacles in the h understand way of an ng on which Foreign Minister Brl and has set his heart and to which Dictator Mussolini has lent a not unwilling ear The s visit to Rome of Foreign Minister TItulescu of Rumania is made the occasion in the London Daily Mail for a hint that Italy is weaning Rumania away from the French and setting up "an entirely new orientation of Balkan powers with the suggestion that Italy will henceforth take France's place in Rumania's sympathies Italo-Frenc- 1 DANGEROUS SUGGESTION No more dangerous suggestion could jwell be made at this time Although it Is partly true that Ru mania and France have not been so close together since the death of Premier Jon el Bratiano never I to France and has been ndebted RumanJjnjjjetayJj thelessv' striving in' the past few years to negotiate new loans in France which iundoubtedly will be granted as soon as the Rumanian government' majces a serious attempt to pay the interest and sinking fund charges on the old ones Italy— unless aided by Great Britain —is certainly not in a 'po sition to finance Rumania and therefore any advances in that di MORE would only be interpreted also rection Moreover as a deliberate attempt to retard threatens the coal industry as well the progress of European peace as the copper industry: as a result dangerous inherence of the Colorado discoveries and inference Another dangerous Arizona new the developments Jin Is Doubtless copper Willi benefit by which arises from this campaign an at is there that apparently the progress of electrification tempt to persuade Rumania that throughout the world and the Italy is ready to back Rumania's creation of a general cable com of Bessarabia against possession pany which can regulate produc the assumption that France will fa tlon and stabilize the market But vor restititution of that territory the Bamd i not true of other met to Rusfeia Certainly many French als such as lead sliver and tin men rfegret Rumania's unwieldly which never again will see the expansion fearing that Bessarabia enormous demands of the past will prove a bone of contention in Only a resumption of world ac the future but the French governtivity offering new marneis can ment has steadfastly insisted on which respect' for treaties land will cer cure this consolida and tainly not risk raising such a mo through mergers new froa tions threatens to continue in mentous question as creasing in all industrial coun tier between Russia and Rumania The impression here Is that the tries CONFERENCE Daily - Mail as leader of the Brit HAVANA ish imperialist press has simply Customs agreements are pro started another disrupting cam posed as a way out The Pan paign on the continent which it did American congress at Havana ha3 a few months ago in proposing en devoted much time to this phase larglng the Hungarian frontiers as far as America is concerned with the dual purpose of fostering Geneva last year made notable division among the continental progress in a conference on re- powers and influencing the British straints on "commerce This week elections i President Goodenough of Barclay's j The paper indeed has not yet bank pointed out that Germany chosen" the party it will support would be the principal gainer by and apparently raised the issue for the creation of a free market the purpose of forcing both Con within Europe and that it was servatlve and Liberal parties to h stand preferable for England to concen- take an trate on developing the empire The old game of using weak Meanwhile British trade is losing powers as pawns in promoting more and more ground in the do discord and friction between the minions and especially in India great powers of the continent apIt is apparent to whoever stud parently is not outworn - But con ies the j situation that the only fidence exists in Paris that M Bri-an- d and Foreign Minister Stresse- great undeveloped market extends to the Persian xnann of Germany will succeed in from the Baltic we must outwitting this latest move or later gulf Sooner take to heart the words of Charles H Smith'' vice president CO-ED'S STYLE WAS chamber of the Russian-America- n declares that of commerce who CRAMPED IN 1734 Russia whether soviet or not is ' capable of vast economic and fi (By NEA Service) nanclal development Mass— Pity if CAMBRIDGE of A D you will the poor co-e- d 1734 Records found here re Indicate she was a much FRENCH FEMINIST cently Wit- "beruled" young woman THREATENS ACTION nesseth: "Rules of conduct for young PARIS-Holyoke: (By The Associated ladies of Mount "Students must not read the Press) — Militant campaigning to Atlantic Monthly Shakespeare sret votes for women is envisaged as possible by Madame Macelle Scott Robinson Crusoe and other Kraertier-Bac- h a feminist leader immoral works 'They must not associate with "We have been quiet-angood bo far" she says "but I am not gentlemen except returned mis or agents of benevolent sure that some day we will not be sionaries r societies compelled to prove our energy by at a each day mile "Walk least violence to kindle" "Be a able wash fire What the women need com potatoes !:: repeat the multiplica merited one of her opponents Is "a tion' and it least two-thirman to lead them for the girls of thetable i shorter catechism don't take each other very se "She shall not devote more than one hour a day to miscellaneous rlously" More humor than fear was reading The Boston r Record aroused by this woman lawyer's Missionary Herald remarks Suffrage however is be Rise and Progress and Doddrige's washing- lieved by the women to be getting ton's Farewell Address are reconi' nearer and nearer The chamber mended for light reading" n1&a of deputies repeatedly has passed Wttothr rir nn thai ( were obeyed is another the bill story 00-00- OVER-PRODUCTIO- N over-producti- over-producti- £ anti-Frenc- v — ( d y ds 1— B SUNDAY MORNING JANUARY 29 1928 OGDEN CITY UTAH Cosgrave Is an Irish Fighter Who Doesn t Look the Part! if h Once Awaited Death With de Valera Now His Bitter Enemy By GENE COH2T Jan 28— Once there were two Irishmen — hut this once their names were not Pat MEW YORK z w m and Mike It was about twelve years ago and they were waiting in their Dublin cells for guards to enter and lead them before the firing squad For being Irish rebels they had taken part in the historic Easter week uprising from which came the greatly changed Ireland Both had been sentenced to die And as they waited they could hear the crack of rifles dully ech oed from outside the prison Walls Each shot told them some com rade was nayinsr for his rebellion withhis life They had no idea when their turn might come It so happened that their turn never came for executions suddenly were halted by order of the British FRIENDS THEX FOES NOW They left the prison free men again ready to carry on their flight They congratulated each other on escaping And they lived to become the bitterest of political foes One was a mild looking little man in his late thirties: a grocer's son by name William T Cosgrave He is the same William T Cos-grawho arrived on our shores as president ' of the Irish Free State with guns booming his welfrock-coate- d come and! committeemen bowing him In The other was Eamonn de Val era the lean gaunt man who once headed the Irish government for his littlejhour and is fighting to head it afaln He also Is in America havifig arrived several weeks ago amidst the usual quiet that marks the greeting of an "ex" TWIST OF FATE So today by one of those pecu liar twistings of Fate's threads two men who might have died in a common cause live in complete and uncompromising opposition And so also they go about Amer ica but a few days ahead or behind each other to spread their arguments over soil that is neutral a son until It happens to support v of Erin In a word President Cosgrave heads and upholds the Free State idei and Is politely accepted by the British government De Valera km J and particularly opposes the Irish parliamentary oath of allegiance to King George President Cosgrave stressed in interviews as he arrived In the XJ his presence here has noth Sthat ing to do with de Valera' s presence He has come he has said feeling the necessity to express his to a nation that has gratitude done so much for his people ln- - yyyy': England Ignores Plunkett's Speech Predicting' Strife By A Q GARDINER England's Greatest Liberal Editor (Copyrights 1928 Consolidated Press Association) 23 —Rear Admiral Plunkett's speech LONDON Jan between the United States and Great Briain has received little comment in the British press The general dis position is to regard the affair in the light of a mere irresponsible outburst for borne consumption in the interests of big navy propaganda t- GERMANY HAS ISSUE LIVELY ON CATHOLICS Center Party Cheated of Law Regarding School on f 1 I m ' t V s 5 Instruction I z- f&K - 2 A 8 it ? v riottir left to rl&Tht are Xlmouiy smioar irichmon in hMi ints thMn t in tii Irish minister to the Ul S Desmond Fitzgerald Irish minister of defense William T Cosgrave aspresithe of President Cosgrave They were photographed dent of Ireland At the right is a close-n- p New arrived in (York: presidential party In appearance he is a cross be eluding the floating of a healthy tourage go speechmaking over the tween an actor s version or bid loan land Never was there a group ney Carton in "The Tale of Two BUT THEY SAY— which so little suggested the Cities" and Chauncey Olcott twen De Valera who expects to be a sturdy' fighter Yet Cosgrave and ty years ago He might be a rak future contender is paid to be rais- the two ministers who accompany ish Irish vaudeville actor or a as much fight as traveling minstrel He is the Intel ing money here to pack his cause him have shown d with a title of lectual type He likes to talk about and campaign And' the whisper- any burly ing chorus will tell you President "fighting Irishman" James Joyce or the dramatist farther purpose MILD PLEASANT Cosgrave has the O'Casey or the Gaelic language of keeping de Valerk from getting He was a poet long before he of blue mildest has the Cosgrave the money Even if such a purpose eyes a "fire eater v He was writ was most and the pleasantest is jever mentioned-!- at least pub-licl- y timid and verses when the Easter revolt His head ing of appearances — his very presence is taken into the bloody ring He him tossed a like at an cocks saucy angle Valera until the by inany to be a bit ofj propaganda bird's- or it thrusts w forward aimed directly at the other ana came tnen aisagreea as is split He some twist the Cosgrive support- quiick peculiar new the government fajoining as various at retort the ers! will tell you that de Valera bled Irishmen His personality duplicates ' that is quiet simple hask't a chance antf eyen: were the ofj manner YefcHefrom history of President Cosgrave— he too present regime overthrown the he: can be firm as stone his and ideal- looks like anything but the gradu seed planted will carry on and the istic as ' ate of a political school well any dreamer de Valerists must lose1 His "Man Friday" on this par- versed in the art of powder and d At least 4n View of the ticular trip is Desmond Fitzgerald bullets sticks and stones But be the situation thus staged Irish minister of defense who has fore you draw any hasty conclu Investi in America is dramatic been shot at so often that a tar- sions from appearances Meanwhile Cosgrave! and his en get wins his immediate sympathies gate! I - o si'' red-hea- j ithi-aJiorts4-Ji- - ea Con-fidejntlal- ly back-gropn- j Bobbed Hair Only Thing to Save the World Oriental Women Must Gain Freedom to Cut Alarming Birth Rate By ALLENE SUMNER NEA Service Writer Ross' sociological researchHe dis g wife cusses the EARLY ENDS JOB HER "The normal woman is emanci pated from her job of family rear ing by the time she is 42't he says prospect "She then has a of life This prospect looks pretty hard if she doesn't know what to do with it after her family's grown "It is significant' to note though that during good times women are not found in industry thereby proving that It is only economic necessity which sends them there In 1920 for instance terminating a very prosperous decade there were only 2000000 women dustry instead of the 11000000 ex pected from former statistics Two million working women out of a total of 30000000 wives in this country doesn't look as if women were leaving the home in great droves "Women have learned that this Job business is' no fun Don't be fooled by the rosy' stories of the pin money girls' who say they want to work Most wives don't" wage-earnin- Jan 27 — MADISON Wisconsin hair will and must save the world This is the startling edict of a serious man of letters and science Edward Alsworth Ross professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin who takes the bobbed hair controversy out of the beauty parlor realm and makes it symbolize the welfare the future of the 25-ye- w j Km- whole world The professor reasons it out like W Si ''f''i(-i-- this' Bobbed hair is still the Oriental symbol of woman's emancipation It takes as much courage to have bobbed hair in China and Japan and India as to leave the purdah or harem and dare get a job ar in-ln- AN INFERIOR POSITION V' iy "Sixty per cent of all humanity Oriental lives under philosophy" says Dr Ross "This philosophy mm teaches the utter superiority of the — male that women are only tools for man's convenience and pleas ure ana that it is every woman s religious obligation to bear at least one child a year "So fixed is this belief among Orientals that even college women educated abroad return to their mfe kf own land to bear as many children as their sisters in the coolie clas3 "The result JLs a menace to the whole (world which faces a very near future with 'standing room only' and not even that for every human born Into the world "The Orient absorbs our toxins and serums and vaccines The death rate has fallen tremendous ly The practice of throwing unwanted babies to the crocodiles or If this Japanese girl a typical woman of the Orient' can be Inexposing them to perish has been duced to adopt of haircut shown in the sketches at the left the stopped by our 'civilized influ all will bo well with style the world according to Prof Edward A Koss ences of the "University of Wisconsin who is shown in the inset TOO MANY BTRTHS "But while nobody is dying rela ental overflow to flood us They worthy persons from the consestew in their pwn Juice tively speaking the same hundreds must quences of their misfortunes phil?We should keep on sending of thousands are being born and is saving the unworthy anthropy them our science both to save life them there Is no room for of their incomperesults from ' the life but until they "And as j the Orient becomes and to prevent to In all prebalance misconduct learned! how the and have tency Ocmore more and populated the cident with Its religious code of death rate and birth rate in a way vious stages of society fools and consideration to women and no more civilized than j by the practice weaklings disappeared early: but more babies than they want with of infanticide they must bear the now they are not only kept alive but are assisted to maintain homes its 15 per cent practicing birth burden of their owi folly alone" i in which they can raise children TOO control is falling far behind OUR RATE HIGH protec"We have influenced the death Nor is it only the Oriental birth The poor enjoy as much well-toas the tion disease against rate but not the birth rate" Ross Our Dr rate that worries dOi Dr Ross presents these birth own is high- since says he it is rate figures to prove his point The only necessary fori each family to "The cutting in two of the death American-birtrate is about 24 to produce 31 chlldrejn for the popu rate makes it needless to maintain every 1000 in England and France latlon to remain constant But not the old birth rate It is 18 Italy's Is 29 and the only are those 31 Children not be"But family limitation is pracOrient's is 50 to 60 per thousand ing produced! by "the better class-es- ticed mainly by the successful the and those with a high but a much higher rate is be"The only hope for the world is for our theory j of the emancipa ing produced by "the unfit" standard of living for their children tion of woman — short hair short WEAKLINGS SHELTERED and weaklings are skirts jobs no more babies than 'The dull the shiftless the im'Tncapables she can care for — to sweep the Or being so sheltered and cared for" provident the brutal continue to lent" says Dr Ross "Until it does he says "that they ?are able to rear breed at the old rate" we simply cannot permit the Ori their progeny Besides saving Woman headlnes much of Dr II Admiral Jt'iunkett is relegated to the same category as Mayor Thompson of Chicago who is regarded as a sort of playboy of the western world full of sound and iury out signirying notmng &x- -' travagances of this crude kind so far from aggravating bitter feel-Ing- s here tend to dissolve them in laughter Farce is not the medium of international crises - ' 1 ed seekr cor1MClsilHdndenc : : :::-'j'X-:-y-- ve I sirx' jtJ -- silk-hatt- 1 Jfr:: ' M f j - A- far-sight- ed SHAKESPEARE PLAY IN MODERN DRESS LONDON — (By The Associated Press) — Macbeth is to be modern ized by Sir Barry Jackson just as Hamlet was Sir Barry is alsopreparing to put "Taming of the Shrew" into modern garb e dramatic critics are ex e cited So are costumers who have thrived for generations on equipping isnakespearian pro ductions with gloomy trappings of the sort the j immortal Bard's play er s are supposed to have worn at the Old Globe theatre Half the dramatic criticism of conventional Shakespearian produc tion has been confined to comment on whether the wardrobe and the scenery were in keeping with the traditions of Keene "I hope In time we shall be able to get audiences to understand Shakespeare so thoroughly that they will take the plays dressed In any sort of costume Then we shall be able to talk about the plays rather than the way we are producing them" said Sir Barry "Of course modern dress is just a phase we must go through to get rid of the false hair and draperies and an artificial Shakespearian technique of acting" Old-tim- old-tim- GUST AV STOLPER German Editor and Economist 192S Consolidated ( Copyright Press Association ) BERLIN Jan 2S— The coali tion government In Germany is in The coming serious difficulties elections cast : their shadows h fore but it al' becomes apparent that differences within tho gov ernment parties are growing steadily sharper When the JLathor cabinet was overthrown " it was the Catholic center : that movf1 to the right and compelled inclusion of the Gti man - national tats in tho gov eniavmtv At the same time the ceuter remained in the coalition with the Socialists and Democrats in the Prussian" cabinet The motives for that policy have never been quite clear It did not please the center party's leftwlng even at that time and former Chancellor Wlrth got into sharp conflict with his own party over it But the center's chief aim was to secure a new school law favor ing confessional schools and thus assuring the Catholic clergy a cer tain influence on the education of Catholic children Now it becomes apparent that It will be difficult to pass such a law even with the existing coalition For the German peoples' party belongs to this coalition and it harbors strong liberal traditions that are opposed to the confessional school law Hence discussions of the bill proceed slowly and it becomes daily more doubtful whether this reichstag will settle It By DR Noted - - ! STRONGER OPPOSITION But the more the left wing of the center party sees itself cheated of the price which it expected from its alliance with the right the stronger grows the opposition within ' the party against a reacFormer Premier tionary course Stegerwald of Prussia has astonishingly enough assumed leadership of the ' opposition He is the leader of the Christian labor unions and hitherto always has been regarded as a friend In close with the right There was recently a sensational exchange of letters between Herr $tegerwald and his colleague Chancellor Marx in which Stegerwald assailed the government's policy' regarding civil servants Now he has resumed the attack more sharply in the press He declares the battle within the center party is only beginning Many persons he says entered the party last year who at heart are out of sympathy wtih it and use it only as a springboard for the furtherance of their personal careers" Herr Stegerwald declares extraordinarily high sumsare appropriated for Ruhr industry but none are available for exigent social purposes Small pensioners and invalids have been tleft in the lurch but a couple of hundred millions have been appropriated for civil servants though the poorest paid : among them earns twice as much as a German workman In the tenth year of the German republic asserts Herr Stegerwald the former masters have secured control of Germany and the laboring class Is in opposition This Is sharp language from Herr Stegerwald and what It means for Germany is apparent when it is recalled that a govenment Is possible neither in the reich nor la Prussia without the center party which hitherto has been supported by the Catholic church and is regarded as impregnable Whether the center's right or left wing pevails will detemine whether Germany gets a government with or against the left The rebellion against Chancellor Marx Is the result of the radicalizing of the labor masses in the Ruhr who constitute the majority of the center party's electors This radicalising became apparent - in the threatened iron strike and now appears again in the coal Industry where dark clouds ar blowing up The wage contract for the end of March has been de- - j -- -- CHILLY" FEELING The writer's impression is that more chilly feeling is aroused here by such deliverances as President Coolldge's complacent declaration that America's charity embraces the earth" than by Admiral g nonsense Plunkett's The fact Is that whatever irrin tations exist in relations the idea of war between the two countries is universally regarded as moonshine and the public is entirely reconciled to any policy of naval extension which America decides on as a matter outside the orbit of British Infire-eatin- Anglo-America- - terest : - Whatever England's share of responsibility for the failure of the ' Geneva conference it did not represent any disposition on the part of v the country to regard America as a potential enemy The naval staff may have had such a consideration in mind Probably it is the duty of the admiralty to envisage the most remote possibilities But the effect of the Geneva conference has been to bring the public face to face wfthHheQuestlon of war and no student of English public opinion can doubt the remarkable emphasis with which the current of that opinion has turned against the bare idea ' of entering Into naval competition with America GREAT RESOURCES Frankly of course we could not do it for the resources of America are so overwhelming as to make the challenge unthinkable This practical consideration was a chief factor in the movement dlscernable In the public mind but at the bottom the Idea of a collision with America is in stinctively ruled out as unthink able outrage of civilization In no quarter is there apparent either alarm or resentment at the stupendous building program contemplated by America Common consent on the subject Is that America must have its own big navy flutter in order to discover the futility of it It is not the pressure of America' in the naval field but in the economic field that is causing disquiet Admiral Plunkett said war was the Inevitable sequel of America crowding out rival nations in business and while we deny the inevitability or even the likelihood of such a consequence we are very sensible of America's economic and financial It is not America's naval construction which causes alarm but America's policy of subsidizing regardless of consequences a vast merchant marine competif tion with England SHIP OWNERS COMPLAIN British ship owners have never before had to face a wholly uneconomic competition founded not on legitimate earnings but on capacity to draw on the limitless purse of a whole continent The chief cause of the ship owners complaint is the difficulty of arriving at a business understanding with their rivals who relying on limitless resources can dlsrer economic considerations gard which govern ordinary businessi ' competitors On this subject of the supremacy of America Reginald McKen-n- a former chancellor of the exchequer and now president of the London Midland bank made a rer markable speech to bank share holders Tuesday in which he said the "American dollar had superceded gold as the standard of the world's currency America's unprecedented control of the world's gold supply he declared had enabled her to pursue a policy of conscious regulation of credit which made the value of gold conform to the value of the dollar Instead of vice versa Mr" McKen-n- a frankly confessed he could see no visible end of this servitude of the world to America A s 1 pver-lord-shl- p - r-- - nounced by the workmen and they demand higher wages and sorter hours The worst thing is that the must take place during the election campaign and hence the leaders must consider the competition of the radical parties above all of the communists and hence are not free in their de- cislons |