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E, SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929 ~ i By RODNEY DUTCHER {peace ideal Nevertheless, Russia t (NEA Service Writer) cla to be a government of the w and farmers and unalterably Washington, Aug. 3—Probably for ten oa ive Wak, WO EOE the first time ever, the Communists, | sccepts those cl s at face value one the Socialists and the Capitalists—as | finds that history's most radical ex- shey call everyone cise—ar agreed periment in popular government pro- on _the same thing. ced a government which led all The Communist government of Rus- | the rest in renouncing war as an in- sia, the Socialist government of Eng- strument of national polic and and our own government m: Voied for Pac mM common ground when it comes to| In Premier Ramsay MacDonald's reducing armaments. ‘The Soviets! peace efforts the British people may zot nowhere at all when they pro-! be said to be getting just about what posed complete world-wide disarma- they voted for. British postwar con- ment to the League of Nations con-/ ditions have been bad enough to ferees at Geneva, but the an ni suse a political revolution. MacDon- enjoy the sight of the rest of F ifist 10 or 12 years world stepping in that direction led or lists by President Hoover and Premicr Iways had a Ramsay MacDonald. ¢ policy, So when British Russia does not enter into the pic- e MacDonald and his party ture so much except for her initia- hey were well aware that tion of the complete disarmam zovernment probably would idea, which caused the other 4 lengths on behalf of world tions to laugh or scold to hide iey knew that peace was im- embarrassment, and her par nt on Anglo-Ameri- recent demonstration that thin i that likely to be different. This der stration came out of her row China. ment A Good Cause for War Al s In the old days China's railway seiz ed directly from the people. It ure would have been good for a war liappened that the voters were willing any old time. But Russia, instead of | to elect a Quaker and a man who con- going to war, agreed to be peaceful | sidered war to be so much waste. Hoo- and to that extent at least confirmed nh utterances, however, the sincerity of her disarmament pro- acked as too militaristic by posals. What made Russia's pacifism e peace advocates. But Hoover look so good was that she announced as president is a product of democ- to the world her respect for the Kel- and here he is proposing arm- logg peace treaty before Secretary of | ament reduction, calling off work on State Stimson or anyone publicly re- | new cruisers, demanding reduction of minded her of her adherence. military expenditures and feeding all The many recent developments fav- | kinds of tidbits to the peace dove. orable to the world peace ideal may be War Leaders Are Out taken by historians as proof that All the old war governments are popular government, or democracy, is long since gone. At home the Dem- @ strong deterrent to war. erats haven't been able to climb Russia's war sufferings made pos- back in. In Russia they have the sible the Bolshevik revolt which upset antithesis of the Caz: government. govern- eri we moves are not in- the Czarist government. The soldiers,! In England Lloyd George, the war- just. decided | time premier, commands only a small that they weren't goinr have any minority and MacDonald, the p: ist, more of that war and when the Sov- is on top of the heap. Germany's war fet Union was established one of its | lords strongest tenets was that war was < instrument of the capitalist class which invariably brought suffering to the masses and hence ought to be| abolished. Since that time Russia has been distrusting the rest of the almost looks as if peace were world because of its attempts to in- proving to be good politics. ‘There vade and destroy her and the rest of | is little chance that the American the world has been distrusting Rus- people will ever turn against Hoover Sia because of her propaganda for because he has grabbed a peace han- Tevolutions everywhere else. nd stepped out at the head of All of which hasn't helped the world | the parade. are gone, and Austria's. Italy a new type of government. In co the peaceful Briand, hero of no and originator of the Kel- treaty, has been premier again GOING PLACESP RSEEING THINGS} San_ Francisco—San Francisco's | Fr world-famous Chinatown has, like s Gaul, divided itself into three parts. | In Spofford Alley, the Chinatown- i thet-was still live In Waverly Place, Chinatown wa- vers between the old and the new In Grant Avenue, where China town once wi has grown up aia strange hybrid, which has somethin: of China, something of America, €omething of Coney Island and a great deal that is as conglomerate as the tourists that throng it. ee & In Spofford Alley, when night ha fallen, all of the mystery and eerie Suggestion lingers. Dark doorways! 2 lead into darker passageways and into| When. upon the brow of the Jack- the den-like cubby-holes = which | S00 Street, hill, small army of breathe of the sinister. To be sure, | Chinese nowsh attack you with the imagination leads the way, and | “Wuxtry! Wustry!"— upon arriving at candle-lit destina-| When. at such a spot you see the tions one is likely to come upon two| indolent peddiers of lichee nuts leave quiet looking Orientals playing at| their stand and patter over to buy a dominoes. Chinese paper— Here is a place where the in When your ears hear a Chinese tion wants to believe the wor: headline called off in the most rau- ‘wants to discover hop dens and melo- | CUS Newsboy tones— dramatic scenes; all the influences of | Well. you're likely to realize, as 1 cheap novels, read in childhood, and | at the district’ has changed moving pictures seen in adolescence, | § come leaping out of the darknes: For Grant Avenue, then, has “gone the police guard sees you through. native.” Tt has been Americanized to And memory tells you of strange | the Nth degree. Its store fronts have things that have happened, and which | been furbeiowed and gargoyled into a instinct tells you can happen again, Concy-Island idea of what a And here in Spofford Alley, thc Chinatown should be. The windows lights are diffused by huge ornate are decorated for the quick tourist Nowhere can one find such ‘rade. The architecture and the bright inhospitable impersonality. Often the | lights ity and quick » upon whose secret lives you in the chop intrude, do not so much as flatter resorts have risen to greet the you with an upward glance. It is| V the Chinatown that was—the China-, But, praise be, there is still Spof- town that has been interpreted only | ford Alley, with blinking lights and by the Occidental minds, which can | ceric suggestion. The Chinatown that Mever quite orient themselves to the , Was, still is—but you have to look for scenes and the people. Vit. “ * * m a balcony above come the ceching tunes of a Chinese musi- n. At a counter sits an old fellow king figures on lottery tickets. The fronts have not yet been af- fected by the inroads of modern arch- lecture. This is the Grant Avenue ago—a conglomer- 1 herb shops, of h the tourists have , of little stores whose windows are decorated with dried ll, with a sug- lights pressaging { GILBERT SWAN. In Waverly Place, the strect widens. | (Copyright, 1929, NEA Service, Inc.) f seat | very presence, does she sense the fact } | that she herself is the most potent. | factor that will ever influence his ex- | This is her opportunity—her golden hour. If she has time to give it any Cie Barton —*ttention at all—and I believe that if realized how important it is, she (GiB by MEA Servicaina would manage to spare time—she ean , the formative pre-school | 4° ¢verything in the world toward Bog Riel relation Pilg 24 child | Planting good impulses and curbing my , She must be his world. undesirable ones. An older child develops and learns| _Not_by petting! Not by scolding! by his contacts with other people. His| No. The first leads to mother fix- are had in school, or with | ation. Result; 2 spoiled, selfish baby! of his own age out of The cecond iS even worse: it will make {him unhappy and cause inferiority mother of the older child still | complex. certain fraction of Be Teaching Generosity ion with her is} Then what? Well, for one thing it Re oceeiee is Be cepalent time to teach fie Soe 0 | erosity. She can teach him to give » but she knows | thin: ¥ most her She can encourage him to help her little duties tn every w: “f Service! | THE GUMPS—AND I CAN PROVE IT a IE SES ne Start th nh ar meee ST . JHE MAN WAS EATING NIS LUNCH = jG FISH LEAPE WE HEARD A STORY THE OTHER DAY FOR (T= AND THE BOAT ea ni Ee ed ABOUT A MAN — WHO WAS ATTACKE! 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