PROPHET MISSES
ECLIPSE: DIES IN
DISAPPOINTMENT
HACKENSACK, March 5—Andrew
Jackson do Voe, SO years old. nation
ally known amateur weather prophet,
died today in his home of heart di
sease, disappointment because of fail
ure to realize one of his greatest am
bitions.
For years he had been looking for
ward to viewing the eclipse of the
sun, but when the great solar specta
cle came he was too ill to behold it.
For more than a quarter of century,
de Voe had earned several thousand
dollars a year by providing copyright
ed forecasts to patent medicine com
panies issuing yearly almanacs.
He also prepared weather predic
tions for farmers, cotton brokers and
speculators who applied for his servic
es.
De Voe is said to have won his rep
utation by his prediction of the bliz
zard of 1SS8 that buried New York
City dee]' in snow. He is reported to
have forseen that event by two or
three weeks.
li was too bad to disappoint those
who wanted the world to come to
an end.
LABOR IN SWEDEN FOLLOWS
ALONG CONSERVATIVE LINES
STOCKHOLM, Mar. 3.—Sweden is
a stronghold of labor in politics, the
percentage of voters enrolled under
the labor banner being larger than
in any other country, according to
figures brought out here by Social
Demograten, the government organ,
and vouched for by the secretariat
of the Socialist Labor Internationale.
On the other hand, the relative in
significance of the Communist organi
zations, when measured by the test
of the ballot box, is revealed by the
same statistics.
In the Swedish Riksdag the Social
Democratic Party, which forms the
principal backing of the present gov
ernment, has a membership of 104
out of a total of 230 deputies, or 45.2
per cent, the highest in any country.
The Communist representatives num
ber only four, with one independent.
The Social-Democratic vote in the
last election was 725.814, or 41.1 per
cent of the total, while the Com
munist was but 65,283, or 3.7 per
cent. Consequently there would seem
to be every prospect that in Sweden
the labor movement will continue
to follow Hjalmar Brantings’ funda
mental principal to remain evolu
tionary within legal bounds, rather
than resort to revolutionary tac
tics.
It seems difficult to get the right
dope on the opium traffic.
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NEW YORK, Mar. 3.—When they
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the fold by spring.
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BRITAIN IS FACING
SERIOUS PROBLEM
IN BENGAL REVOLT
HOME RULE AGITATION IN THE
COUNTRY OF 300.000.000 PEOPLE
IS CAUSING GREAT BRITAIN
SOME ALARM
POLICE HOLD 100 NATIONALISTS
Arrests On Charges of Criminal Con
spiracy Shows a Revolution
Was Contemplated
LONDON, Mar. 4.—The arrest cm
upwards of 100 extremist National
ist leaders in Bengal charged with
criminal conspiracy under the new
Indian ordinance emphasize the
complexity as well as the magni
tude of a problem whose solution
involves the political, social and
economic well-being of 300,000,000
human beings in a country larger
than the rest of the European con
tinent with Russia eliminated.
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one of those controversies in whicn
the truth probably lies somewher*
between the two extremes of opin
ion which one hears reflected in tile
capital of the British Empire. Bu
in no shade of opinion is there dis
covered a disposition' to minimize
the import of what is going on in
the far away dominion.
Object Is Home Rule.
In order to understand the dis
patches out of India these days, it
is well to remember that Indian
Nationalists, however much they
differ, all call themselves “Swara
jists.” The word “Swaraj,” literal
ly meaning “self-rule,” has come to
denominate a heterogeneous crowd,
including those who still use it in
the meaning in which it was first
employed by Mahatma Gandhi him
self—the rule of the higher soi.'
over the lower.
Later “Swaraj” was given a po
litical sense and now for som ■
years has been synonomous with
“Home Rule.” Its evolution lias
many points in common with that
of Sinn Fein in Ireland. The Ben
galese Nationalists, then, who just
now are feeling the heavy hand oi
Lord Reading’s government, are all
Swarajists, or Home Rulers; but
they have broken completely with
Gandhi, whose policy of non-co
operation they declare is wholly in
adequate to a realization of Indian
aspirations. Their leader is C. R.
Das.
“The present Government of In
dia Act was passed as a traditional
measure to continue in force while
India sets her house in order as a
preliminary to the grant of larger
powers of self-determination by the
Imperial Government. All of which
is reminiscent of the Home Rule
struggle in Ireland and somewhat
akin to America’s own problem in
Philippines with the difference that
there are some 7,000,000 human be
ings in the islands over against 300,
000,000 in India.
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