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SOVIET RECOGNITION
'“Upon what meat doth this our
Caeser fed that he has grown so
great?” might be asked of the Soviet
government as it cockily express con
fidence that it will be recognized by
the United States before the end of
the present year.
Moscow dispatches say the Soviet
officials are daily becoming more
sanguine of recognition. The Soviet
charge d'affaires in London says he is
audacious enough to prophesy that the
United States will extend recognition
before the end of 1025—“not because
i have received information from pri
vate sources,” he adds, “but because
the prevailing international situation
brought about by the recognition of
the Soviet government by France,
Japan, Italy and other countries will
compel her to recognize us too.”
Without any private sources of in
formation at this end of the wire it
may be prophesied with equal convic
tion that he is wrong.
But whether he is right or wrong, it
is clear that the government of Mos
cow’ are out to win American recogni
tion. The communists in control are
especially bitter toward Secretary
Hughes. No doubt they think, or hope,
that his retirement in March will lead
to a reversal of American policy in
its dealings with Russia. Yet Presi
dent Coolidge has distinctly and em
phatically declared that America will
never co-operate with Russia uhtil
her debts to the United States are rec
ognized, and American property con
fiscated by the Red government is re
stored.
The Reds are constantly dangling
before Americans the morsel of "con
cessions.” It was concessions that
Japan wanted when it recognized
Russia. Concessions were the moving
reason for recognition by other coun
tries. But the stark hoax of it all is
that these dangled concessions have
proved a myth. In the first place
trade with Russia, of which much has
said by persons who favor recogni
tion, never has been a vital factor in
our foreign relations. Even during
the czarist regime before Russia was
wrecked economically, it wras not five
per cent of our commerce. Since the
Reds came into control various con
cessions have been granted, but the
Soviets tied so many strings to them
that they were given up in disgust.
It is a common saying in Europe that ]
the nation that has refused to recog
nize the Soviets is assured of greater
benefits than one that has. for conces
sions are used only as bait for suck
ers.
If the United States has been war
ranted in its policy of non-recognition
that justification still stands for the
Moscow communists have not altered
their foreign policy one jot or tittle.
The refuse to recognize obligations,
not only those of the czarist govern
ment, but those signed since the revo
lution, nor have they made any pre
tence of redressing the wrongs done
to American citizens by the revolu
tionists who openly seized their prop
erty without compensation.
ERA OF OPPRESSION
HELPS ESTHONIA TO
PLACATE MINORITIES
REVAL, Feb. 27.—Warm tribute
to the tenacity, patriotism and “will
to law and order’’ which inspired the
Esthonian people to build a state in
such a short time, Esthonia has had
but four years of pears, was paid
by M. Avenol, deputy general-secre
tary of the League of Nations, who
hs just left Reval at the head of a
special economical committee which
visited Esthonia in behalf of the
League.
M. Avenol also praised the meth
ods that enabled Esthonia, without
foreign assistance of credits to put
her financial house in established or
der and to pass through the serious
crisis of 1923 unscathed. Esthonia,
he said had adapted the age-old ad
age “Help thyself, the Providence will
help thee,” into “Help thyself, then
the great financiers of the world will
also be willing to help.”
An interesting glmipse of Esthon
ian aims and ideals is given in an in
terview with Karl Pusta, the foreign
minister. “Having ourselves lived
so long under the oppression of for
i eign rule, it has been easy for us to
| fal lin with the principles laid down
j by the late President Wilson as to
! the minorities living in our country,”
| the minister said. “Of our own free
: will we have embodied in our consti
| tution various safeguards for the mi
Jnorities; they have even the right
to speak their own languages in par
liament, and German and Rusisan
deputies have already availed them
selves of the privilege.”
Bandits Rob Passengers
On New York Central Ry.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (AP)-Two ban
| dits boarded a New York Central &
! Western Railroad Express yesterday
at Toledo, rode unobtrusively all day
in the smoking car and day coach, and
as the train approached Chicago, held
up the passengers in the sleeping cars
obtaining money and gems valued at
$10,000. The bandits alighted at Gary
and disappeared.
Judge Dalton ot' Seattle took a
lengthy judicial swallow of cider of
fered in evidence, said it was O. K.
and released Mrs. Emma Crocker who
was charged with selling it. He also
scored the officer who rarested her.
A monster cake, nine feet high and
j weighing a ton was baked for the
I wedding of Algela Genna and Miss
Lucille Spignola in Chicago, at which
2,000 guests were present.
OLD FLOATING D^YDOCK COMES UP
LOPSIDED”
UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, N. Y.
S. S. Catherine in the West India Mail service is seen in a tloating dry
dock at the Virgin Isles, which gave way recently and nearly wrecked the
steamer.
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MAH JONG FORSAKEN
BY GIRLS FOR POLO
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 27.—Mali
Jongg is to be given the skids into
the limbo with tiddledy winks, and
other one-time snappy pastimes, ac
cording to an edict issued here by
the country club debutantes who are
taking up the new polo lad with all
the enthusiasm registered a year or
so ago when the Chinese game came
in vogue.
Mary Smith, who last year daintily
lingered Mali Jongg tiles over a tea
table, today spends her afternoons
astride a fiery polo pony, practicing
with her team which will compete in
a Southern California league.
In fact, the new fad has been re
ceived so ardently in the younger so
ciety set, that several teams have al
ready been organized. Recently a
team of fast poloists from Beverly
Hills, comprised solely of girls, de
feated a team organized in Holly
wood. According to the team cap
tains, this is the first contest between
women’s polo teams ever played in
the country.
While waiting in a railroad station
at Okaton, S. D., Mrs. J. V. Jorgen
son gave birth to twins.
PLAIN LANGUAGE USED
IN GUIDE TO MANNERS
THREE CENTURIES AGO
LIVERPOOL, Feb. 27.—Letters and
other documents dealing with man
ners and customs of daily life in the
17th century which came to light re
cently tend to show that it was cus
tomary in those days for “persons
of quality” to have sets of their own
knives and forks which they took
with them when invited out. These
papers were of particular interest
just at this time to collectors of an
tiques in connection with an addition
made recently to the Britisn Museum.
This was the earlies hall-marked
table fork known, engraved with the
crest of Manners and Montagu, 1632.
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About the same time a silver‘spoon I
of identical hall-mark and crest was
taken to Haddon Hall.
Mention of such a set is made in
the will of Mrs. Katherine Rigeway,
dated May 9, 1627, which was among
the documents destroyed by fire
some time ago at the Four Courts,
Dublin. The will says:
“I bequeath to the Right Honorable
the Lord Chancellor my little seller
of chrystal bottles item. I give and
bequeath to my Ladye of Elye my
guilt spoone with the forks and pen
knife suitable to it.” Mrs. Rigeway
was widow of George Rigeway, sec
retary of the Irish Council, and the
Lord Chancellor was Adam Loftus,
Lord Loftus of Ely.
Books on etiquette and table man
ners were far from being the preroga
tive of the Victorian age, it is re
vealed, as in 1663 there was publish
ed in London a book entitled “The
Accomplished Lady’s Rich Closet of
Rarities,” in which the following
rules are laid down:
“A gentlewoman, being at table
abroad or at home must observe to
keep her body straighte, and lean
not by any means upon her elbows—
or by ravenous gesture discover a
voracious appetite. Talke not wher
you have meate in your mouth; and
do not smack like a pig—nor eat th*
speenemeat so hot that tears stanc
in your eyes.
“It is very uncourtlv to drink sc
large a draught that your breath i
almost gone, and you are forced to
blow strongly to recover yourself
Throwing down your liquor as into
a funnel is an action fitter for a
juggler than a gentlewoman. In can
ing at your own table distribute til*'
best pieces first, and it will appeal
j very decent and comely to use e.
i fork, so touch no meat without it.
Reference to the fork was of par
ticular interest to the museum au
thorities, for those present-day in
despensable instruments had not the'
been long introduced, it appears.
Forks were first imported iron
Italy, and their use in England a
the time was considered pedantic and
laughable. One writer of the time
speaks of a silver fork as “being used
of late by some of our spruce gal
lants” which did not tend to make th*
fork popular at all among certai:
sets.
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