Globe-Gazette from Mason City, Iowa • Page 19

FOUR MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 5 1936 COUNTESS SAYS WORLD'S TEMPO IS SIGN OF RUIN Daughter of Count Tolstoy Sees Civilization Soon Crumbling. HADDAM, close to the soil in an ordinary Connecticut farmhouse in Haddam. with the teeming Highway to the shore running close to her door, lives the Countess Alexandra Tolstoy, daughter of the great literary figure. Count Leo Tolstoy. Busily engaged in keeping chicK- cns, two cows, and a tiny vegetable garden, the countess is far away from the rush and turmoil of the world she once knew and slightly removed from the modern world which she denounces in no uncertain terms.

It is difficult to believe that this in her detatched existence has known the luxurious life of European nobility, the giddy whirl of the Russian Imperial Court, and later, swallowed up in the maelstrom of a changing Russia, the wrechedness and squalor of strife, pestilence and dungeons. Not Bitter Woman. Perhaps mis daughter and secretary of the great Russian literary master should be bitter and disillusioned. But to a visitor she completely dissolves any preconceived notion of any such attitude. The countess is deeply en- Crossed with life, and it is suspect eel that the throe year interlude of quiet which she has spent in the Connecticut hills has begun to pall.

She would like to be in where the fighting is thickest, grappling against social evils. Speaking of the confusion and flight of this age, the countess ofiers this warning: "People are no longer living for ideals. They are not even living for each other. They build dirigibles and fly from Germany to the United States faster than they ever did before. But why do they want to go so fast? They want comfort.

They want pleasure. And that is all people seem to care about. No civilization ever lived very long like this. You remember the civilization of Rome and Babylon? It will happen again." Denounces Soviet System. Upon mention of the soviet union the countess 1 face grows stern and the humor in her eyes dies as she asserts: "It won't last." The appareru success of the five-year plan, she dismisses with a shrug, saying, "The experiment has only seemed to succeed.

Economically it has. But the family and religion are still in the balance. Even now there a trend toward the reinstatement of the family. And although there are only standing in Russia "at Christmas and Easter it is impossible to keep the people £iom them," The countess describes her fatn- or as a religious anarchist, adding "this statement of mine astonishes most Americans." The countess' views, although somewhat modified, parallel his, in that she believes the necessity for law is diminished in proportion to the strength of religious faith. "Morals and religious standards have given place to a persona', all people care about." the countess wearily argues.

That she herself is deeply religious is felt rather than known. Quits A. F. of L. David DubinsUy, president of the International Ladies Garment Workers union, one of the Committee for Industrial Organization's affiliates, has resigned from the executive council of the American Federation of Labor and as vice president.

His action came ou the eve of the suspension date of the 10 rebel unions which banded together to support the C. I. O-, headed by John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers. Lewis resigned from the A.

F- of L. council last December. CHURCHES THROUGHOUT FAVOR FHA PLAN for This Type of Work Totals $779,561 in 1 1 Months. WASHINGTON, D. the 11- month period from August 1935 through June 1936.

1,353 churches have taken advantage of the modernization credit plan of the federal housing administration. These notes totaled 5779,561. Of this number 70.9 per cent were for structural alterations and repairs, with the remaining 29.1 per cent going for the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment. The majority of these notes were in the classification which includes loans for less than $2,000. The average loan was for $564, which i above the average note for most properties in this classifica- ticn.

Under amendments to the national housing act passed recently, cturches have become eligible for loans above 52,000. Since that time loans in this latter class totaling S20.038 have been granted. On the basis of this 11-month estimate, it is believed that approximately 51,200,000 has been insured in church loans by the federal housing administration. Pockets of 90 Police Chiefs in Europe Are Picked at Convention SARAJEVO, Ninety of Europe's most famous police chiefs and ace detectives, attending an international police conference here, were robbed by a pickpocket. The detectives went out to buy presents in Sarajevo Oriental market.

They stuffed the small ar- in their pockets and returned to the hotel. Then came the discovery. Nearly every man's pocket had been picked. The hotel manager was Void, He rushed to the telephone to call the police. He had barely asked for: the number when Dr.

B. Vide-1 vitch, a Sarajevo lawyer and former deputy appeared with a sack containing the stolen goods. Dr Vidovitch had successfully "pulled the legs" of the pick of the world's police forces. He had h'red a convicted pickpocket to follow the detectives and roo them. Advice of Dean for Students Supplanted by New N.W.

System EVANSTON, 111., be no more calls for erring students to report to the dean of men or women at Northwestern university. A new board of personnel administration has been established to take over functions of the deans' office and other counseling' activities. The board will consist of 11 members. Increased emphasis on the necessity of expanding the activities of the university beyond the class- looni was cited by President Wai- tor Dill Scott as 'the prime move behind the change. "The primary function of a college training, away and beyond that of imparting a certain amount of factual knowledge," he said, "is that of producing- changes in the behavior and thinking of students.

"Every -hour of the week, within class and without, should contribute to this underlying purpose. To that end progressive universities everywhere are increasing their facilities to provide for the individual needs of students in the problems arising outside of the classroom. i Bishop Enthroned at Site of Beauty Shop LONDON, Dr. Neville Lovett was enthroned Bishop of Salisbury he donned his robes in a beauty parlor. In doing this, he conformed to ar.cient tradition.

In 1220, Bishop Poore the first bishop of New Sarum assumed his vestments on this spot, the site of which is now occupied by a woman's hairdressing shop. Business was suspendea at the ghop while Dr. Lovett donned his robes before the ceremony. Beuo Rents Up. RENO, divorce capital of the world is suffenng a severe housing shortage.

A canvass real estate dealers revealed that only two vacant houses and a like number of apartments were available. Rents have risen more than 10 per cent. Soviet Agrees 10 Buy Products from Japan MOSCOW, the terms of its agreement with Japan for sale of the Sino-Eastern railroad, a large part of the purchase price to be paid in goods, the Soviet government has placed in Japan orders for products wort'a 70,000,000 yen. This represents 75 per cent of the amount to be taken in kind. Building 1 materials, vegetable oils, tea, metals, textiles and electric motors account for a large part of the order.

Drought Kills Game Fish in Nebraska VALENTINE, Thousands of game fish died in Nebraska's sandhill lakes during the 1936 drought because of low water levels, Frank B. O'Connell, secretary of the state game, forestation and parks commission, said. "The situation," he said, "was far worse than during the 1934 drought." There is one way you can help Mason City Labor to a secure and steady job. It is by buying goods made in Mason City. There is one way you can help make sure of your own and your community's prosperity.

It is by buying goods made in Mason City. It should be your patriotic duty to insist on such goods whenever and wherever, possible. MASON CITY'S TRIBUTE Local Firms Pause Monday, The wheels of industry in Mason City and the entire nation pause as the worker is honored on Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7. Mason City, together with other cities in the United States, pauses in its business Monday to honor the man who makes its existence possible the man whose never-ceasing effort is the fuel that drives that nation onward and upward the worker.

Today, in thousands of cottages and homes, on green country roads and Montgomery Ward 102-4-6 South Federal Avc. C. L. Pine Loan Co. Loans up to $300 The Crane Company Plumbing Supplies Jacob E.

Decker Sons Thomas Machine Co. Complete Repair Service Mason City Tent Awning Co. We Rent Tents Highway Oil Company One-Stop Super Service "On the Square for 15 Years" Bey's Purity Bakery Bakers of Purity Bread Huxtable Drug Co. "North Iowa's Largest Drug Stock" S. R.

ChevroSet Co. "North Iowa's Leading Automobile Dealer" Foisom Auto Company See and Drive the New Graham John Gallagher, Inc. Pontiac Sales and Service Henkel Concrete Supply Co. 9th Street S. E.

Phone 2626 Sears Roebuck Co. The Laborer's Friend Star Wallpaper Paint Co. North Iowa's Largest- Stock and Lowest Prices Decker Brothers "Everything for Sport" Farmers Mutual Insurance Association J. L. Stevens, Secretary Capital Tobacco Corporation Distributors of Grain Belt Bear Jewel Motors, Inc.

DeSoto-Plymouth Safes and Service AAason City Baking Co Bakers of Diamond Bread Hugh Davey Son Contractors Mason City Millwork Co. "Everything of Wood for Home, Store and Office" American Crystal Sugar Co. Soda Grill Quality Food 16 South Federal Ave..