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THE BOSTON GLOBE TUESDAY. DECEMBER 5. 1939 16 EIjc postern Iot jc Published by GLOBS NEWSPAPER COMPANY 241 Washington St Boston, Maw. (Established March 4. 1872.

Evening edition first Issued March 7. 1878. Sunday edition first Iwued Oct. 14. 1877.) WALTER Lippmann Queen Victoria's 91-Year-Old Daughter What People; Talk About Littert From thi Editor Mail TUESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1939 SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dal! Sindtr Per er The Defense of Finland Per Ho.

49 Mo. .53 6.50 9.00 Princess First of Royal Blood in 350 Years to Marry a Commoner York city and all New England ex-cent Northern Maine JO Elsewhere In U. S. and .80 To Imagine or Not To the Editor One letter writer begs Uncle Dudley to tell more about literary characters to whom he refers. But please, dear Uncle Dudley, not too much explanation! Some of us still like something left to the imagination.

Uncle Dudley as is is all right. Swampscott AN ADMIRER. 6.00 8j0 6 00 9 60 JO .70 Chinese Tragedy To the Editor For two and half years Japan has cruelly bombed and slaughtered innocent Chinese and la still doing it Of course this Is made possible by American scrap hr-munitions, oil and high-test gas. Yet when Russia threatens or bombs Fin. land, not even the size of one of Chinas provinces.

It la considered such BIG NEWS that it gets frord reenT page headlines. We are 100 percent (Please do not eend cash. Use money orders or checks.) BACK NUMBERS (Per Copy) Daily Sunday 5c 15c 10c 20c 25c SOc Out of Print Under three months old Three to months old Six to nine months old Nine months to one year More than one year old Soviets and U. The popularity of Finland with the people of the United States is based on very substantial reasons. Alone of all the European nations in debt to the Treasury at Washington, Finland has been paying in full instalments as they fell due.

In addition, the people are known for industry and high-mindedness. When Finns settle in this country, they make splendid citizens. Now that they are suffering from outrageous and cruel aggression by the Soviets, it is understandable that a great wave of sympathy should go out from the people of this country. From a number of prominent voices the demand has come for breaking off diplomatic relations between our Government and that of Russia in order to express the feelings of Americans. This gives a very serious turn to the whole affair.

Breaking relations is usually the last step taken before a declaration of war. The United States has not broken relations with Germany, although there is no American Ambassador in Berlin at present, which is sufficient to indicate American displeasure at what the Nazis have done in Poland. The United States is not willing to go to war with Russia over Finland. This country must not make or accept quarrels, save when its own vital interests are in danger. The attack on Finland is horrible, but it is not an attack on the United States.

i- Walk on the Left in sympathy with Finland. 1 write to ask you to please not shors HE question Is whether the neutrals of the world, the United States Included, can and should help the Finns, or whether they should abandon them to destruction, dojng no more than to express in words their horror and their indignation. This is a question which cannot be evaded but has to be faced and answered. If the question is faced candidly, The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republica-tion of special dispatches herein are also reserved.

Chinas tragedies to a small parj; graph on a back page, or not at all-Malden. A CHINESE FRIEND. To the Editor The large toll of deaths of pedestrians raises the question as to whether there is not a rather simple means of reducing such accidents as occur on through highways. In certa of the routes through New York state one notices every little while a small metal sign engraved: WALK ON THE LEFT AND MEET THE TRAFFIC. When I joined the Appalachian Mountain Club in 1911 one of the first rules of hiking to be learned was to ALWAYS WALK ON THE LEFT of a highway.

In my many years of membership of APPY I have never, in the millions of miles walked by the members, heard of an automobile killing a hiker. Why not try it out in Globe Mans Daily Story Cartoonist Art Young in his autobiography relate one about P. T. Barnums "happy family in the New York museum, including a lion, a lamb, a boa constrictor, a wolf, and other assorted creatures. And do they always get along peacefully like this? Barnum was asked by a visiting bishop.

Ch, yes, sai'd Barnum, except that we have to renew the lamb once in a while. it will appear. I believe, that it is more dangerous to abandon the Finns than to help them, that it is more imprudent to stand by and let them be destroyed than it Nj. Dies Method To the Editor Mrs. Roosevelt seems to have the Dies Committea on the spot.

She has volunteered to testify in behalf of the National Youth Congress and the committee, thriving on hearsay and illegal evil donee is not anxious for her testi. mony, as it will be harmful to th cause of intolerance and bigotry. The Dies Committee has conducted its inquiry In a distinctly un-American and unintelligent manner. The motivating force behind this Inquiry to embarrass the Administration, and to stigmatize all who would see this country develop an economic democracy as well as political democracy. The names of outstanding men and women have been thrown ruthlessly to the wolfs of bigotry and prejudice.

The work which this committe pretends to be doing would be don much more efficiently and less expensively by the Department of Justice. JOHN PERKINS. Boston. 4, SANFORD E. THOMPSON.

Boston. is to organize diplomatic support and take practical measures now to stop the advance of Soviet Russia. For if Stalin conquers Finland, immediately thereafter Sweden and Norway will be in as great danger as was Finland a month ago. Let us not forget that the naval and aerial Luxury To the Editor It is the law of life (and of history!) that a nation that is not strong enough to maintain its attack on Finland is being conducted ffidendencV aTainst enemies from the Esthonian bases which must fall under the governance of a xbJ Vr. 0 stronger nation.

The small Baltic Stalin acquired in October. If Finland falls, Stalin will acquire bases Statea been pro-Ger. man (as also is Sweden) and have from which he can dominate Stock- depended German Bombings in Asia on mili-holm absolutely, and he will have I tary support against huge Russia, a land frontier with Norway which whose provinces they once were. Hard to Believe Senator Norris, the only member of the Congress whose party is listed as Independent, believes it would be a sad mistake for the President to announce his intentions for or against another term. The desire of the Senator from Nebraska is in sharp conflict with that of many persons prominent in the Democratic party and of a large number of Republican leaders.

If Mr. Roosevelt should make plain his position, they would know more nearly where they stand. As long as he remains silent, they are uncertain. The situation is not without close parallels. When the first whole term of the first Roosevelt was in its last lap, speculation was rife as to whether he wanted another.

To be sure, he had made a contrary announcement to the country and had been throwing his influence in favor of Secretary Taft, but people did not credit these manifestations. The case of Mr. Coolidge was similar. I do not choose to run in 1928 did not check the talk. Delegates stopped at the White House qn the way to the Kansas City convention, where Mr.

Hoover was nominated, to find out whether President Coolidge really wanted another term. It would seem that a President who desires to retain some influence is in a stronger position if the country is not sure he desires to retire. In addition, a great many people will not believe it, no matter what he says. These small states could never stand alone. As soon as Hitler made his bargain with Stalin, the Baltic States were doomed (perhaps Sweden also!) for their "Protector (Germany) had abruptly and callously thrown them to Russia, by withdrawing the German The choice is to save Finland now, sympathy and military backing they or to be confronted in the near! had always (until Aug.

26th, 1939), brings him within reach of a port on the Atlantic Ocean. Just as the fall of Austria made I Czecho-Slovakia indefensible, so the fall of Finland would make the whole of Scandinavia indefensible. To the Editor In two and a hall years Japan has carried out th most horrible bombing campaiga over the whole of China. When get excited over the bombings in Europe let us remember this vastly more terrible air warfare of th Japanese. It is high octane gas from the U.

S. that has made Japeni ruthless air bombings of China possible. Shall we sit smugly by and condemn Europe when on Nov. 22 the largest shipment of aviation gasoline in two years left San Pedro, Calif. Another huge shipment 1 to go to Japan in December! L.

W. future with a Bolshevik empire which can be liquidated only at an incalculable cost. been able to count upon. Independence (as history clearly shows) is a luxury that only strong races can obtain. Boston.

VERA SAXON. THE LATE PRINCESS LOUISE The conquests of the Communists, like the conquests of the Nazis, are radically different from the ordinary military occupation of a foreign country. As we have seen in Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and in both halves of Poland, these conquerors do not merely occupy the territory of their victims; they deliberately exterminate the leaders of the vanquished nation. When they take possession of a country, they systematically kill, imprison and exile the political, economic, intellectual and religious leaders in order to deprive the peasants and workers and small merchants of any organized leadership around which they can rally. This has been the Nazi and Communist program in Poland.

It i the Communist program in Finland, and after Finland, unless Sweden surrenders and becomes a vassal, it will be the program in the rest of Scandinavia. These revolutionary imperialists do not merely attack states; they strike at the actual men who are the natural leaders of the nations they conquer. They strike at. these men because by exterminating these men they hope to make it impossible for the mass of the people to resist and to rise again. definite ideas about the rearing of children.

She was all against the repressive regimentation of children which Victorianism implies. I know a good deal about it, because I suffered from it, she remarked. Half a dozen Princes of the Hohenzollern family sought Louises hand in marriage, but she rejected them on principle and was the first of Englands Princesses in 350 years to pick a husband outside the stiff-necked royal circle. He was John Campbell, a ducal heir, and there was popular rejoicing in their marriage in 1871. Louise carried her democracy even into the brand of cigarettes she preferred.

A decade ago while in attendance at a regimental concert where smoking was permitted she was offered a cigarette with apologies for the cheapness of the brand. Nonsense! said Louise. I always smoke gaspers (which is the term in England for low-cost, high-powered cigarettes). Louise was the sixth of the nine children of Trince Albert and Victoria, Surviving are the Duke of Connaught, 89, and Princess Beatrice, 82, whose own daughter is Victoria Eugenia, former Queen of Spain. By EDWIN F.

COLLINS A Victorian who never was victimized by Victorianism Princess Louise, the Duchess of Argyll, sixth daugh of Englands Queen who stamped her name uponan era, and one of Victorias three last-remaining children died Sunday in Londons old Kensington Palace, in her 91st year. From her girlhood until the infirmities of age (principally bronchitis) overwhelmed her, the Princess was a vivacious personality, in proof of which there is a grist of anecdotes about her at home, and in Canada while her husband was its Governor General. Typical of them is one of her visit to Bermuda in the 80s. Out walking one hot afternoon, she stopped at a Negros house to ask for a glass of water. The woman of the house was at the moment ironing one of her husbands shirts.

The Princess finished the ironing of the shirt while the Negress got the water and the shirt has since been preserved as a family heirloom. Princess Louise exercised this human touch even from those times of her younger days when, after her fathers death, she became proud, despotic Victorias constant companion. Louise rebelled against the conventionalities of her position, and dodged and escaped them whenever she could. Louise insisted upon studying art, an unheard-of interest for one to the royal purple born. She developed a real talent in sculpture and water-coloring.

One of her best creations was the marble statue of her mother which stands today in Kensington Gardens. Childless herself, Louise yet had the resistance is in Finland and the time to organize it is now. It can be done, I believe, but it canont be done merely by uttering indignant words, and by making a sentimental gesture like breaking off diplomatic relations and then standing by helplessly while Finland and Scandinavia are overrun. Instead of tweaking off diplomatic relations, we should, use our diplomatic position actively to make plainer and plainer to the government in Moscow, and its partner in Berlin, that we are not abandoning the Finns. To break off relations with Russia this moment is not to help the Finns but to abandon them.

We should remain in Moscow not because approve of the regime but because we have things to say that we mean to have Moscow hear. And to make it plain that what we say is not mere words, we should, if the Congressional leaders in this country will give it their approval, declare that the Neutrality act will not be applied against Finland or any other Scandinavian state. For surely it would be an unthinkable humiliation to the American people to reward Finland for the payment of her debts by denying her credit in this hour of Finlands direst need. Not only should we decline to apply the provisions of the Neutrality act which would shut off credit to Finland, but we should go further: we should not only remit the December payment on the Finnish debt, but we should make available to Finland as an initial credit a sum equal to what she has already paid on the debt Nor is that all. We should facilitate and give priority to Finland, and to Sweden if the Swedes wish it, on any munitions of war that can be obtained here and used for the defense of Scandinavia.

We should not only refuse to sell bombers I a Russia, but we should make it as practicable as possible for Finland to obtain bombers. this will give us in order to giv Finland active diplomatic support We should consult, I believe, with Italy as the only neutral great Power in Europe, and find out whether it is possible for Italy tad the United States to work together for the support of the northern neu-trals against the incursion of Rui-sian Bolshevism. Moreover, th Finns have appealed to the League. We should follow the precedent set by Mr. Hoover in the Man-churian affair and send a sentative to the meeting.

The object of this diplomatic action should be to rally the neutrals who are indirectly menaced, to encourage them to unite and to give them the diplomatic and economic backing of Italy and th United States. This Is a policy of diplomatic and economic intervention for th purpose of stopping, before It goei any further, the Communist aggression against the democracies of northern Europe. It involves risk and trouble. The only question it whether the risks and the trouble will be smaller if we act energetically now than if we wait until Finland has fallen, and the horror we are now witnessing moves westward over Sweden and Norway. The risks of acting now are much less, it seems to me, than the riski of inaction which allows Bolshevism to get itself established la Scandinavia.

For I take it that the American people are realizing that this sort of thing has got to be stopped somewhere, and that they realize how it would augment the power of Communism throughout the world, not only in Europe and in the Orient, but in this hemisphere as well If Stalin can overrun the northern democracies and prove that the moral indignation of the free nations when put to the test, counts for nothing whatsoever. That will break the spirit of all who would like to resist him, and encourage very many others, including perhaps our neighbor across the Pacific, to enter into a partnership with him. (Boston Globe-N. Y. Herald Tribune.) SUMMONS TO THE DODO If any development incidental to the present turmoil of war in Europe were calculated to dramatize the topsy-turveyness of affairs today on that continent, it is the appeal of Finland to the League of Nations against Russias aggression.

During several months past indeed, since the notorious affair at Munich, when the League was roundly snubbed by the Great Powers almost nothing has been heard of this organization, upon which countless millions once builded hopes. It is high irony that at the time of Munich Soviet Russia alone appealed for League action against Hitler. In fact, M. Litvinov, who had not yet been hustled into exterior darkness by his boss at Moscow, protested at the top of his lungs against Anglo-French refusal to use League machinery. His irritation was easy to understand.

He had fetched a corps of experts from the Soviet Union with him to Geneva to participate in the restoration of order and the curbing of Nazi Germany. He and they were left to cool their heels by fhe brisk diplomats of London and Paris, who made no bones of their intention to eliminate Russia from Europe by the simple device of ignoring her entirely. Presumably, London and Paris did not then grasp the fact that Honest Joe, the bank robber was beginning to wobble on his policy of collective security a point on which both have since been enlightened. Certain it is that Russias change in policy dates from Munich, even though Litvinov was not dismissed till nearly eight months later, and Moscow did not come into the open with her present policy of unabashed power politics last August. The status of the League and its relationship to recent European history thus loom as more important, historically, than many imagine.

Munich, of course, completed the devastation begun at the League center during the Ethiopian fiasco. By the time the present Allied-German war began in Poland, not a statesman was left to honor the League, even in reminiscence. Invocation of the League by Finland, against Russia, thus sets matters a bit further toward fantasy. The coincidence that the Russian Ambassador at London is next in line to preside at the Council meeting on Saturday adds another bizarre touch. But-the cream of the jest if a jest is permitted in such grim matters is that the League happens today to find itself facing severe frowns from its host.

Switzerland, like all small neutrals in Europe, is endeavoring sleeplessly to preserve neutrality. In furtherance of that aim, the Swiss Government wrung from the League Secretariat, prior to the present war, a pledge that the League will abjure questions which might annoy an major belligerent. It is difficult to see how this pledge can be kept, since the eminently sound and just demands of the Finns assuredly draw sharp issue against one conspicuous member of the gang presently embroiled in the European imperialists Thieves Fair. Will Switzerland forbid the session? If not, who will go? And if they go, what will they attempt? The proper reply to the last question, if it is reached, would seem to be: To generate more fog. Germany, Japan and Italy are out.

Russia looms as a possible bolter on the theory that it is always better to avoid encounter with the sheriff, even when he has only one arm. The League, insofar as reality clothes this episode, is dead as a Dodo; and its slick assassins in all camps are too busy to intone funeral orations. Berlin and Moscow find; their time, during military lulls, taken up with discourses on their new blueprints for remaking the world. London and Paris, carefully abstaining from such dangerous precision as blueprints (for that would involve painful exactitude about such problems as India), compete nevertheless with tall talk about The New Europe, European Federation, and Utopia to Come. In view of the records of all these parties, the innocent bystander would do well to reserve his verdict and look to his watch.

For, as Josh Billings used to say, Arter all, aint them the same fellers we saw oncet afore? UNCLE DUDLEY. QUESTION BOX So the problem today is not like the problem of liberating Belgium in the other war; once a country is conquered by these present-day imperialists, it must expect an absolutely ruthless purge of the patriots who, because they have experience and capacity for leadership, can bring about a resurrection of the nation. That is why a failure to prevent the conquest of Scandinavia will mean that, the eventual liberation of Scandinavia would be enormously difficult. If it is an interest of mankind that these free, honest and innocent northern peoples should survive, then the place to organize Vatican Library Globe Reader, Roxbury Proper credentials are nc essary for admission to the Vatican Library in Rome, which though not a public library is used by many students. Officials of the Boston Public Library state that so far as they know, there are no fees charged for research when done by the researcher himself.

Correspondence should be addressed to Mr. Anselmo M. Albar-dea, Reverefdo Trefetto, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Citta del Vati-cano, Rome, Italy. The World at Its Worst New Hampshire Dollar The report of the wealth and income of the people of the State of New Hampshire is an imposing document. For it uniqueness is claimed by the Legislative committee charged with the investigation.

It is, however, reminiscent of undertakings of a somewhat similar nature made in North Carolina and Wisconsin. The New Hampshire project sought to apply double entry bookkeeping to the combined business, banking, governmental and personal activities of the people of the entire state. The net conclusion is that in .1936 there was a deficiency in the economy of $3,989,000. Among the interesting items is an estimate that the dollar of a New Hampshire resident paid 10.8 cents in indirect taxes and 7.1 in direct taxes, a total of 17.9 cents. When the full report is analyzed by outside economists, their view of what has been attempted may be illuminating.

The endeavor seems to have been thorough and honest. It may result in greater understanding of public and private finance. EDITORIAL POINTS President Roosevelt, Senator Vandenberg and Walter Lippmann all agree that next years national conventions should be pushed along to late in the Summer or early in the Fall. And who is anybody else, that he should be consulted? Can those Russian soldiers being parachuted into Finland haul their sheets aft if they find themselves drifting down into a lake? Penobscot Bay clam diggers protest because a new law forbids all but Islesbororians to dig on Islesboro flats; they say thousands of bushels are being wasted. Just what happens to a clam if he isnt dug? Are you beginning to try to think of a way to forget those teeny-weeny dividends in your tax return, and thus to save 20 cents? Providence, trying out the blue and the orange food stamps, may remember Mark Twains car-conductor song, A pink trip slip for an eight-cent fare, punch in the presence of the passenjaire.

Headline says, Pickpockets and Sluggers Active Over Week-End. Added to the traffic, this makes Sunday more than ever a fine day to spend at home. The Duchess of Newcastle must have had a disagreeable family. On their tomb in Westminster Abbey is graven, All the brothers were valiant, and all the sisters virtuous. Theyve even got the children doing it: a 13-year-old English boy has invented a new-type aerial bomb, which may be used to kill other kids.

Thirty-eight percent of Dr. Gallups guinea pigs think propaganda got us into the last war. And what percent, do you think, now know propaganda when they see it? In a technicolor talkie of a rose garden, the Swiss now spray rose perfume through the theatre, making the movie, of course, a smellie. Five quart Jars of mincemeat left over from Thanksgiving. Lets see: a pint to a pie; a pie every other day alls well for awhile.

When and if the South Shore trains begin running, good bridge players will again earn their gasoline money, going to town. You can say this for the League of Nations it rarely misses a members funeral. If you in any way resemble a deer, keep out of Massachusetts woods this week. Wonder if Mrs. In-again Out-again Judd was a Finnegan before marriage.

Remember when men wore red elastic sleeve garters? I Everybodys got laryngitis but the bores. By Gluyas Williams Having shown thatwe are not I dealing in righteous words alone, we should then use the influence Refugee Lawyers has had considerable commercial experience. lie will atudy la Columbia University Dr. PETER GOSWYN FRANCK. 25.

the fon of a professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin and grandson of famous German painter, lie gtudied aw In Berlin, Bail and Paris, and la the author of a monograph on monopoly. He will atudy at the University of California. DR. PAUL KUO EN MOELLER. S3, ta another graduate tn law of the University of Vienna.

He was counsel for the Austrian movie company Mondial a case Involving an attempt to break the contract of th tr" Austrian fshirley" Temple with Mondial Company, He will atuav -11- oi Chicago, spevli the University mg tn copy light law. tn copyili lain S3 author of a Ha was a pop DR. HEINZ SCHWE? study on labor law. ular teacher tn Germany Maris came to power, and I gllt regaining h' 1 Prague, and again Prague, and tn arrested. After dom he fled had to nee was absorbed studies at Tulan Orleans.

to when t'recho-hlosah He will pmsua hia Utuveiaity. Jw Fellowships for study in Amerl- can law schools have been awarded to eight European lawyers by the American committee for the Re-I education of Refugee Lawyers, John w. Davis of New York, chairman. Those to whom the fellowships I were awarded, of various political and religious affiliations, have had brilliant careers in Cermany, Austria or Czecho-Slovakia. They were unable to follow their professions in the Uniteu States, however, because of the differences between American and European law.

The fellowships will enable the men to obtain a grounding In American law at various universities. Prof. Edmund M. Morgan of liar- vard Law School headed the selection committee which chose the eight refugee lawyers from a large list of candidates. Two other Harvard professors, C.

J. Friedrich of the government department and Livingston Hall of the law school, served on the committee W'hose other member were Ernest G. Lor-enzen of Yale Law School, Dean Ignatius M. Elkinson of Fordham Law School and David Riesman Jr. of University of Buffalo Law School.

The winners of the fellowships are: DR. GERHARD FRIEDRICH KRASSA. I 31.1 a member of a distinguished Vienns family. H6 la a graduate In Uw ot the University of Y'lenna and DR. F'RANZ HAUSER.

ST. who studied at the University of Vienna, and Prv (iced In that city for seven yr' ills specially ta the law 4 nou11 and city planning. DR. ERNST ERAENKEL, 40. law in the Unfveisity of Franv.

t-am Main, was counsel the Metal Trade Woi ken largest labor unipn In Germany Crank Until 1953 Union, the ermany. and was Influential in the development of collective bargaining practices, is the author of a book ahoitly to PI Published by the Oxford Press entitled Law In National Socialist Germany. S8. begs In Berlin. DR.

WILLIAM J. D1CKMAN. his legal caieer aa a judge Thru 1 alter he had a large International law practice, being counsel tor the Flench Government In renai alioil mailers growing out of the Treaty Versailles. He will atudy at tha University of Pennsylvania. HOMBURGER.

S4. DR. ADOLI graduate Vienna an tn law of the University pj rd also practiced onr of international clients. Ha th University oi BuJalo. ye ha If will Study.