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PAGE FIFTEEN THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS AND TIMES: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1934. THREE SHOT IN RHODE ISLAND TEXTILE STRIKE RIOT Nebraska Girl, Deal, Dumb and Blind, Is Admitted to Perkins Institution Legal Steps to Collect Foreign Debts (By Frederic J. Raskin) WASHINGTON, D. Sept. 13.

It seems likely that pressure will be brought to bear to induce President Roosevelt to set in motion the special machinery created by act of Congress to assist American creditors of foreign nations and citizens in collecting sums due them on account of defaulted bonds. Periodically, there is a movement in this direction and almost always one immediately after a Congressional election. At least, promises to aid in the collection of foreign acounts frequently figure in campaigns. ested, did not believe it feasible for the paper to sponsor the campaign. The night he made that decision.

1 Dorley was unable to sleep. It seemed i to him that he was ignoring an op- portunity to release a child from a I mental prison in which she was con- fined. He got out of bed, wrote an appeal in longhand, and was in the editorial I office of the Worfd-Herald with it in I the morning to launch a campaign, starting it with a personal contribu-j tion of $100. Children Helped The children of Nebraska became I interested in the campaign, sponsor-i ing plays and baseball games, holding cookie and candy sales for Helen's benefit. Nebraska merchants provided a wardrobe sufficient for her entire school year.

The railroad and Pullman companies co-operated by providing free transportation from Nebraska to Boston. And while all this was going on, little Helen happily played with dolls that were almost as big as herself, or with mechanical toys which she can take apart and put together with her I deft, sensitive fingers. It is her fingers chubby and tanned by the Nebraska sun that will be of greatest assistance in releasing her from the mental prison she is now in. Instinctively she has learned to used her hands to identify things, Mrs. Shepherd says.

She is particularly fond of her sev-! en-months'-old brother and by placing her fingers on his stomach she can i tell whether or not he is crying. If his stomach is throbbing she knows I that he is crying and immediately goes to fetch her mother. I When Mrs. Shepherd visited the Siefert home a short time before they left Nebraska, Helen tore her stock- ings. She immediately got a needle i and thread and mended it in a fairly neat fashion.

She has often helped her mother with dishwashing. Although her older brother and Sts- tcr are fond "of her, they have a ten- i deney to be impatient, so Helen, sens-I ing this, has played by herself for the most part, contenting herself with an old doll or with playing with her baby brother, She very quickly learned to like Mrs. Shenherd, and appears to be exceedingly fond of Miss Hoshor, her 1 teacher. Miss Hoshor, who attended BOSTON, Sept. 13.

Helen Siefert went to school yesterday. The millions of other 7 -year-old girls who did the same thing planned for it with pleasure or distaste, but Helen didn't know about going to school; there was no way of telling her about it she is deaf, dumb and blind, says the Boston Herald. At the school the Perkins Institution for the Blind. Watertown she will learn for the first time how to receive communications and how to talk so that she may tell others of her wants or her experiences. The little girl, who arrived in Boston Sunday with Mrs.

Viola B. Shepherd, school superintendent of Mor- rill county, Nebraska, and Miss Margaret Hoshor. her teacher, was a normal, healthy child when she was born in Minatsre, Neb. When she was 2 years old, however, she and her elder brother, Elmer, became ill with what was at first diagnosed as pneumonia. Both children were put in a hospital at Saginaw.

where it was found they had spinal meningitis. After three months in the hospital Helen was taken home by her mother who said she was "all skin and bones" and seemed unusually listless. Although she gained weight Mrs. Seifert realized that there was something abnormal about her little daughter. An examination disclosed that she could not hear nor could she see.

Surgical Efforts Fan Four operations were performed on her eyes by an Omaha surgeon, and. although he will not say that there is any hrpe that Helen will ever see again, there is the possibility that the removal of a cataract from her right eye may enable her one day to see a little. Her brother, who is now 8 years old. lost the sight of one eye as a result of the illness. There are two other children, both younger than Helen, in the family.

The father, a beet laborer, a year ago appealed to Mrs. Shepherd to do something about the education of his triply-handicapped daughter. Neither the school for the deaf nor the school for the blind in Nebraska felt itself equipped to teach Helen. The director of the Perkins Institution for the Blind, although interested in the case, pointed out that this institution is for New England children. but ad.ed that if Mrs.

Shepherd would send a teacher to take care of Helen and to study methods of teaching the child would be admitted to the school for one year. The only other condition was that the teacher must agree to give the next eight years of her life to teaching the little girl and to establishing: in Omaha a department in the school for the blind to take care of the children who are doubly handicapped. The fees for both teacher and child, including tuition and room and board, for the school year would be S600 Mr. Siefert could not provide that money, nor was there any way that fhe state of Nebraska could provide it without an act of the Legislature and that body dees not meet until next January. Appealed for Funds Mrs.

Shepherd, convinced that little Helen was a bright child, appealed to philanthropists in the state for with which to finance Helen's education for one year, only to have the one person who agreed to give the money die suddenly without having made provision for the gift. Appeals to many prominent persons were unavailing. Finally Mrs. Shepherd, spurred on by Mr. Siefert's pleas that his daugh- ter be educated, wrote to the Omaha World-Herald asking that newspaper to sponsor a dollar campaign to raise the necessary funds.

Henry Dorley, president of the paper, although inter- foreign province, he stands a somewhat poorer chance. If he obtains a judgment against a ruling State, he stands no chance at all. In the first place, most sovereign States may not be sued without their consent. More important a sovereign State can make its own rules about when and how it will pay or whether it will pay. So it seems that the President has been wise in not setting any official body the task of attempting to collect debts due Americans by foreigners, whether governments or individuals.

Last December private interests organized the Foreign Bondholders' Protective Council and it has been hinted that the President may have indirectly suggested that this would prove a better method. At any rate it appears that anything which is done along; this line will be done through at least semi-private channel, thus keeping the whole vexed question as far as possible from international politics. Three persons were shot and 20 overcome by tear gas at Saylesville, R. when sheriff's deputies used shot guns and state troopers used dozens of tear gas bombs to quell an outbreak In which more than 600 textile strikers and sympathizers tried to rush a "deadline" previously established. State troopers are shown firing tear gas as they retreat before a band of strikers.

Stones and bricks hurled at officers may be seen in the street. (Associated Press Photo) When one realizes how very much trouble private citizens have encoun Midland College and the Kearney College in Nebraska, has been a teacher in the rural ungraded schools of Morrill county for seven years. She is enthusiastic over the opportunity that has been provided her to study at Perkins and to return next year to establish the new department at the school for the blind in ed was of the finest material. She finds silk of special pleasure to her sensitive fingers. She is a pleasing child, happy, obedient, unusually bright and intelligent.

It is difficult to detect home- wli.lmim in her, but Mrs. Shepherd feels sure that she misses her father, for she to most Anxious to be taken into the arms of any man who might have hands that are In repose, Helen looks like a normal child a tow-headed 7-year-old girl who hugs a doll, or smooths her ging-I ham dress down prettily when she senses company in the room with I her. She takes a great deal of interest ill her clothes. When Mrs. Shepherd tcck her to a department store to pur-chare a dress for the trip.

Helen In- Eisi-ed on feeling each dress, and fi-; nally selected, the ones she wanted and in each case the dress she select The machinery exists. It wis built by Congress and only the hand of the President has prevented Its functioning. In May. 1933, Congress passed the law which created the Corporation of Foreign Security Holders, but Ui ere was a sort of Joker in the measure. It provided that the Corporation should not begin to function untU the President decided that the public interest required such functioning.

To date the President apparently has not felt that the public interest would be served. The measure was sponsored by 8enator Johnson of California. That Senator has been one of the most earnest advocate of collection in full of the war debt's of the Allies to the United States and, certainly, these debts could be brought under the purview of the Corporation of foreign Security Holders. However. It seems that, as these debts are of a political nature, the Corporation might be able to do more good through the handling of private or semi-pri- rite Indebtedness.

Edgar Turlington, a distinguished international lawyer of the national capital, takes the view, widely shared, that the President would prejudice the interests of American creditors of foreign governments and corporations by setting the machinery of the Johnson Act in motion. He points out that if the United States Government et lip a Corporation to seelc collection of foreign obligations of any sort, foreign governments could not escape acceptance of the action as governmental. As soon as financial negotiations enter that realm. they take on a political color and lese something of their commercial character. This might be all very well for debut between nations such as the debts owed by the Allies to the United States.

But Americans who have bought Peruvian bonds or the bonds of the City of Paris or Dres- den or public utlUty bonds of Hungarian corporations do not want to see the obligations regarded as political; they want them held in the purely commercial realm where the chance or collection is better. An Old, Old Story It is an extraordinary circumstance that the bigger the debtor, the harder It Is to collect. Thus, if a man is owed money by a small municipality and gets a judgment in court, he stands a pretty good chance of collecting the judgment. If he obtains a Judgment against one of the States of the United States or against a the Ship were three score livinp, writhing centipedes and boa constrictors. His collection was nide on a five-day stay in port-au-Prince.

Nebraska City. At that time she will 1 have at least two pupils for there is a. little boy in that state who is also 1 triply-handicapped N. E. TO HAVE BEST POTATO CROP IN YEARS BOSTON, Sept.

13. (VP) New England will have a bumper potato crop i this year, eiprht million bushels above the average, in the opinion or Govern merit exports based on conditions; 1 prevailing September 1. although the potato crop for the nation as a whole remains well below the i 1927-1931 five-year figures. A survey made public yesterday by i C. n.

Stevens, agricultural statistician tered in collecting what is owed them by governments, it is something of a wonder that anyone ever lends to any government. It is an old, old story. So old that there has, for about a century, been a British foreign bondholders' protective association which seeks sometimes with success to collect sums owed British subjects on account of defaulted foreign bonds, this association attempts to collect some of the millions on which several of the States of the American Union defaulted in pre-Civil War- days, Scores of American local governments now are in default. In all probability, this and other foreign associations will bring actions against the United States Government itself for its default on its bonds consisting: in refusal to live up to the contract to pay in gold. There is a French association, a Spanish association, one in Germany, and one in Holland, and citizens of other nations have affiliated in international joint committees in an effort to collect debts due from foreigners.

The necessity for such bodies suggests that nations are not very sound entities to lend money to. Financial Tribulations of Mexico One of the most fascinating histories of international debt concerns Mexico. Between 1824 and 1825 Mexico was in default and there began a long series cf negotiations. In 1861, Great Britain, Prance, and Spain were either engaged in or threatening armed intervention to compel payment. Under the French Emperor of Mexico.

Of the New England crop reporting I service of the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture, gave a present outlook for a 58.475,000-bushel potato crop this year as compared I with a harvest of 50.165.000 bushels last year and a five-year average of I 50.005.000 bushels. This indicates an Increase of 17 per cent above last year and the five-year average. In Maine the outlook is for 590.000 bushels, over 11 per cent more than the crop expected a month ago, I 18 per cent greater than the crop harvested last year and 15 per cent i larger than the five-year average. For the United States a total of 337.141,000 bushels is now ex-I pected. as comoared with 327.251.000 bushels a month ago and 320.353.000 harvested last year.

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