Evening Star Newspaper, May 13, 1923, Page 1

WEATHER. Clearing and cooler today; tomor row fair. Temperature for twenty-two hours ended at 10 p.m. last ni; ¥9.9; lowest, 62.2. Full report on page 5. ght: Highest, No. 946.—No. 28,867. REDS MEET BRITISH “WARTHREAT" WITH | DEFIANT ATTITUDE Vast Crowds Cheer State- ment That Army Is Ready for Long Conflict. SUGGEST CONFERENCE TO SETTLE DISPUTES Meet England's Protest of Fish- Boat Seizure With Offer of Parley. MOSCOW, May 12.—M the soviet foreign minister, dressed in the uniform of member of t red ny; and wearing a red decoration the chief speaker at a great reeting held in a theater here today "The theater was crowded to the doors, while in the streets thousands who had taken part in a demonstration listened to speakers from motor trucks and balconies, all of whom made reference to what they termed the war threat against Russia in the British note; in the assassination of Vorovsky at Lausanne and in other Tecent rnational developments. Referring to Vorovsky, M. t- cherin said: “This Is a sympton of the general Buropean situation. The di- responsibility rests with Swiss government, which took mno preven- asures, while the moral re-| is on England, . who originally invited the on to Lausanne.’ Tchitcherin Calls Note Inwolent. Regarding the British note. w he characterized as insolent, Tc rin said grams that Br ready In the White sea; perhaps by now they have opened hostilities against our ships. “The note contains false facts and messages improperly deciphered. bu the chief point must be considered tern question. We must reply and firmly. Russia will not back a single step before the ands; we therefore offer a eon- nce. We are ready to discuss the losses sustained by British citizens . but we will render a hill to gland for all those Engiand shot| ring the intervention in the north.| We desire peace, and do not want a break, but we will wait until the enemy attacks us." Trotsky Speaks. The foreign minister was followed | by War Minister Trotsky, who told | the cheering throng that Russia wanted peace, but the red army was| ready if necessary. “If war comes, it will be a long one; it will delay the bullding np of our country for many Years; but the red army, which wants peace, will carry out its duty until the end.” He suggested that perhaps inore than note writing was going or in the horder states, while the border osphere was thickening. These states would be the first to feel the brunt if war came. Leo Kameneff, the acting .premier and president of the Moscow soviet, paid tribute to Vorovsky. The bullet | which killed him, he said, was direct- ed not only against Vorovsky, hut against the soviet government, the communist party and the entire jabor | movement. “We swear to take revenge,” he de- lared. “Let our enemies think what they like, but they will not frighten us by bullets or notes. We will con- tinue our liberation of the east and the west.” M. Bucharin, head of the left wing ©f the soviet central committee, in mnore belligerent tone, said that the| capitalist powers constituted a bar- barous civillzation. “We are telling them to go to hell” he shouted; “we weill not sell our proletariat even if they send more warships.” The meeting adopted a resolution %o send a letter to J. Ramsay Mec- Donald, leader of the labor opposi- tion In the house of commons, de- claring that Russia would not yield to an ultimatum, but was ready to ©ome to an agreement if England was to Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, head of the league of nations rellef in Russla, esking him to use his influence ®gainst a break and possible war. ‘The ruble dropped sharply toda; particularly in private trading. Some Btabilization in trading set in later. SUGGESTS CONFERENCE, 1By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, May 12-~The note from soviet Russia in reply to the British yrotest against the selzure of the trawler James Johnson was given out in textual form today by the Rosta News Agency's London office. The note, which is slgned by Maxim itvinoff, assistant soviet commissar Yor foreign affairs, maintains that MRussia has a legal right to establish the twelve-mile zone of territorial vaters, which the trawler was alleged to have violated. It asserts that Great Britain herself recognizes wones exceeding three miles and de- wlares that the principle of wider limits 1s gaining ground in inter- ational practice. In summing up, the mnote Insists that Russia 15 In no wise infringing tnternational law by adopting the twelve-mile limit, but that she will 10t refuse to join in a conference of all tho Interested states to draft in- ternational regulations binding upon all. 8he is also willing to discuss the subject with Great Britain peace- sully, but will consider any demand Entered as second-class matter post office Washington, D. C. he Sunty Star, WASHINGTON, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1923.—NI Noisy Plane Dips Apology, After Notice By Radio 1f George Washington could have returned to his home yesterday he would have turned up just in time to witness an unusual demonstra- tlon of scientific progress, unusual even to his countrymen of the twentieth century. The exhibition involved a moisy airplane soaring above Mount Vernon, a meeting of members of the Mount Vernon Assoclation beneath and the sending of a mes- sage by radio to the afrplane, which resulted in the pllot grace- fully dipping his ship in apology for disturbing the conference, and leaving the scene. It happened this way: Annoyed by the rumbling motor, & member of the association notifled the War | France | and Navy departmeénts by tele- phone of the situation. The air service brought its radio appara- tus into play, “picked up" the pilot of the offending craft. gave him- the orders, and within fifteen minutes from the beginning of the first telephone conversation the alrplane had left the vicinity. necessary BANDITS STILL HOLD 16 CAPTIVE DESPITE [ | | i Peking Now Faces Added Penalties for Failure to Protect Foreigners. —1In the Shantung { hills back of Linching are, according | to 1atest availabls information. four- teen men and two women—foreigners —together with unknown number of Chinese, who have been held al- nost a week by Chin2se bandits, who aided the Shanghai-Peking Sunday morning and kidnaped passengers, Here in Peking a federal govern- ment, admitt=dly almost powerless in the face of brigandage throughout the provinces, has been striving to meet demands of diplomatic representa- tives of the powers for the r:lease of their nationals, but so far without result express the Tltimatam Expires. Tonight at 12 oclock the ultimatum of the diplomats to the Peking gov- ernment expired and the bandits still From now until they are freed Pek- ing. with its empty treasury. faces an increasing indemnity and added penal- ties for Its failure to protect the for- eign>rs. One man died in the bandit raid on the night express at Suchow. He was Joseph Rathman, a British subject of Rumanlan parentage, and a reckon- ing still is to come on that score. Upward of thirty other foreigners were dragged from their berths and marched off into the hills In thin nightclothes when the express struck the right of way that had been torn up by the marauders. Five Americans Held. Two of these are American Army officers—Majs. Roland Pinger and Robert Allen of Manila; other Ameri- cans are J. B. Powell, published of Shanghai; Leon Friedman and Lee Solomon, business man of Shanghai. And Washington has declared that for their lives and safety the Chinese government must answer. Chevaller Musso, ag Italian of Shanghal, is another held, and Italy has satisfaction to demand from Peking. At least one Frenchman, Emile Monsberger, is a captive, and France has made representations to the cen- tral administration. Manuel Verea and his twife, Mexicans, also are among those who are walting their release. A number of the prisoners have in-law of John D. Rockefeller, jr., are holding many of their captives. | | | escaped or have been released. These [ who included Miss Lucy Aldrich, sister-|pounds, WLLARD SEORES KNOGKOUT N TITH fore 65,000—Firpo Victor Over McAuliffe. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, May 3 of the prize ring. Luis Angel Firpo. pride of the Argentine, and Jess Wi lard, Kansas man mountain, tonight as ch: throne occupied byg Jack after scoring knockout victories the two main bouts of the milk fur carnival before a crowd of nearly —Two in 1 [Kansan Defeats Johnson Be-| city block “From Press to Home Within the Hour’ The Star’s cairier system covers every and the regular edition is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. NETY-EIGHT PAGES. FIVE CENTS. Stabbed by Playmate, Boy, 10, Fadlls Dead at Mother’s Feet Heart of Child Guest at His Party During Childish Fight. Tragedy stalked in the midst of a|friends could intervene, ar merry taffy pull last night and as a | almost over. The end actually came result two Mount Rainier families are | ten minutes later when the anguished grieving—one the death of a little mother saw her little boy run into the son and the other because their boy | yard of his home, to fall dead at is the confessed slayer of his play-| her feet. Before another hour had mate. | elapsed the other mother by accident The unfortunate victim was Joseph | met the body of her son’s victim at E. Dewhurst, ten-year-old son of Mr. Casualty Hospital and learned of the and Mrs. James E. Dewhurst, of 3534 | tragedy from an unsuspecting phy- Mount Rainier Lad, 9, Hurls Scissors Into it was| TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—40 Pages. General News—Local, National, Foreign. Army and Navy News—Page 18. World War Veterans—Page 19. The Civillan Army—Page 21. Spanish War Veterans—Page 22 Trade Union Activities—Page 22. Radio News and Gossip—Page 23. Schools and Colleges—Page 24. Financial News—Pages 30 and 31. Classified Advertisements—Pages 32 to PART TWO—I8 Pages. Editorials and Editorlal Features. Washington and Other Society. Parent.Teacher Activities—Page 15. S| Notes of Arts and Artists—Page 16. Community Centers—Page 16. Boy Scouts—Page 16. stood out | Girls and Their Affairs—Page 17. lengers for the fistic ! Fraternities—Page 17. Dempsey | D. A. R. Avtivities—Page 18. Aviation Activities—Page 18. PART THREE—I12 Pages. i 70,000 at the Yankee stadium, the|Amusements—Theaters and the Photo- in New York Firpo demonstrated once more he is one of the most terrific hitters in recent years by knocking out Jack McAuliffe, 2d, of Detroit, in the third round. Willard proved himself the master of his young Iowa antagonist, Floyd Johnson, and was awarded a technlcal knockout after eleven rounds of the most spectacular bat- tling on the card. Milk Fund riched. The milk fund received nearly $300,- 000. The pugilists who derived the greatest benefit were Willard, former world champlon, and Firpo. Tex Rick- ard, who promoted the bouts, 63,000 and the gate recelpts $390,000. Including holders of complimentary tickets, more than 65,000 persons saw the performance. Willard got perhaps the greatest ovation when he stepped into the ring. reception when he stalked solemnly from the ring after his victory, Firpo Wins Easl| Firpo's quick victory over MecAul iffe, a highly touted westerner, who wilted in the second round and col- lapsed in the third under the South American’s barrage of rights and lefts, was the most decisive bit of ring work of the afternoon, but the triumph of the forty-year-old Wil- Jard over a youngster half his age in a hammer-and-tongs ctruggle from start to finish, way the high ®pot of the show. : Willard fought coolly and cautious- 1y against Johnson's plucky attack, and in the end his tremendous ad- vantages In height, weight and reach were the undoing of his opponent, was outwelghed firty-three Johnson stood up under a terrific who, after a heart-breaking journey | battering from the fifth round to the into the mountains, was turned loose | end. d left to make her own w 5 yeady to megitiate, and also a letter| == 0 make her own way back.|and ninth rounds, he was saved by Three times, in the fifta, eighth (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) The Louise Flower Shop, 1301 Connecticut avenue, from which the pungent odor of sweet smell- ing flowers pours into the win- dows of the Britlsh embassy when the wind blows right, last night was short $50 worth of its best “Mothers' day” carnations, while one of its clerks, Joseph S. Ever- ett, displayed a large bump on his forehead. The shop lost the carnations because a peddler ran oft with the flowers without stop- ping at the cashier’s window and Everett got the “marker” when he jumped in range of the thief's fist. Business was brisk in the flower shop yesterday afternoon when two men entered, {dentified them- selves as carnation peddlers for “Mothers’ day" only and each or- dered $5 worth of the flowers. Miss Louise M. Daugherty, the proprietor, wrapped them neatly in tissue paper and the men de- (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) PEDDLER STEALS MOTHERS’ DAY FLOWERS, STRIKES CLERK, FLEES glven him were not the ones origl- nally selected. Miss Daugherty refused his request. The tone of his voice increased with the call- ber of his language. The pro- prietor demanded that he leave, and he did, after seizing a vase of carnations valued at $50 and de- livering a hard blow at Everett's face, which missed the mark and struck his forehead. Into the machine the man leap- ed, stepped on the accelerator and whizzed around Dupont circle, outdistancing a policeman in his flight. The man who accompanied the flower bandlt remained In the shop until a policeman took him to the third precinct station, and was registered as Harold Barnes Foulkrod of 1441 Pennsylvania avenue southeast. He 1is being held pending a thorough investi- gation of the eplsode. He sald he an- | nounced that the paid attendance was | Firpo got almost as great a| only met his partner yesterday morning and knew nothing about him. Early this morning the other peddler, giving his name as Louis Barynack and his address as 1004 C parted and entered an automobile parked near the curb. Several minutes later they re- turned. One of them voeiferously that she renounce her rights as an x:frln‘emenl of her sovereignty and Andependences, l turned, clalming that th\l fowerg street southwest, was arrested and locked up at No. 3 on & charge of assault and Jarcenyy demanded that his money be re- / | greatest fight crowd ever assembled | | i piay. il-Bett"—Page 4. Music in Washington—Page 5. Around the City—Page 5. Motors and Motoring—Pages 6 to 10. Reviews of New Books—Page 10. Boys and Girls' Page—Page 11. PART FOUR—1 Pages. Pink Sports Section, PART FIVE—8 Pages. Magazine Section—Features and Fiction. | ROTOGRAVURE—I2 Pages. World Events in Pictures. COMIC SECTION—1 Pages. Mutt and Jeff; Reg'lar Fellers; Betty; Mr. and Mrs. BOASTED OF SHARE IN WAL ST. BLAST Russian, Held for Murder, Says He Hired Death Wagon, Testified. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 12.—The Wall street bomb explosion was recalled again tonight, when police arrested Noah Lerner, twenty-three, an elec- trician, on a charge of homicide in connection with the disaster which killed more than thirty persons, Sep- tember 16, 1920. Lerner is charged with having hired the wagon that carried the ex- plosives to Wall street, the police announced. The information that brought his arrest was sald to have been given to the district attorney by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dovle of Baton Rouge, La. They returned recently from a Kuzbas colony in Russia, charged represented to them by its New York agents. Several officers of the Kuzbas were indicted on the strength of their accusations. Boasted of Actien. Lerner was a resident of the Kuz- bas colony in Russia to which the Doyles and their two children were sent from New York, it was sald, and they were reported to have told the district attorney that he = boasted openly of his part in the Wall street tragedy. The district attorney said the Doyles told him that while they were in Russia they were forcd to take two boarders into their home, one of whom they said was Lerner. “I am the man who hired the little red wagon that exploded in Wall straet,” they said he told them. Lerner, it was said, slipped into the United States on the Homeric, which arrived on May 3, last, despite the vigilance of detectives both here and in various Europ*an ports, neither his salling nor his arrival having been discovered. ! | | | { i 1 where they | saimon's three-year-ol they had found conditions |esqiv won the }g’meen ontirely different from what had been | o preakness at Piml {Reduced Tax Rate Possible | William. = | ings, the remaining fourth represent- {Ing Increases 0. REALTY SHOWS SAM0000 GAN From New Assessment Total of $750,000,000. The new 1 real estate, tive July 1 approximatels P. night. The known early in June. This will be, in round numbers, .000,000 greater than the present full-value assessment of $727,000,000 and will form the basis of taxation for the next fiscal vear. Value of New Buil . becomes ‘effec- reach a total of 000.000, Assessor Richards predicted last exact figures will be| ings. This Is by far the greatest {ncrease in the value of taxable property ever made {n the District. The assessor estimated that about three-fourths of the Increase represents new bufld- in the valuations on old property. | Mr. Richanls has prepared a chart| whica refutes the statement heard | from time to time that real estate| assessments in Washington do not! represent true values. | The assessor gathered detalls on | sales of property in the down-| town business sectlon during the past three years and found, he says, that | those properties sold for a total of 350,841,000, while they were assessed at a total of $53408,000. Attitude on Building Costs. In the case of new dwellings In the outlying sectlons, the District does not assess them at the high sale prices made necessary by soarlng building costs. The unusual increass in the total asscssment of all real estate may make possible some reduction for the new fiscal year In the existing tax rate of $1.30 per $100 of assessed value. VIGIL WINS $22,000 PREAKNESS STAKE W. J. Saimon’s Colt Beats General Thatcher in Drive; Rialto Third. BALTIMORE, Md, May 12.—W. J. d colt Vigil th renewal of ico this after- noon; General Thatcher, the Nevada stock farms entry, was second, by a length, and Rialto, the Whitney- Greentree entry, beat his stablemate, Chickvale, for the show money, by half a length. The time for the mile and one-eighth was 1.53 3-5. The stake netted the winner $52,000. Zev, Sally's Alley, Barbary Bush, Better Luck, Blanc Seing, Goshawk, Tall Timber, Hobgoblin.and Martin- gale, also ran. Golden Rule did not start. Vigil, coupled with R. T. Wilson's Tall Timber, paid $11 to win; $6 for place and $8.70 to show. The price on General Thatcher was $6 and $4.20 and Rialto, $2.90. Delayed at Post, There was a long delay at the post caused by the bad behavior of Martingale. The Cosden horse broke through the barrier and ran away an eighth of a mile. The field finally was sent off to a good start. Gos- hawk, breaking from the outside, rushed into the lead, and with Tall Timber and Martingale rounded the 35th street, just across the District line in Maryland. He was stabbed to death with a pair of scissors by Wood- row Wilson Smith, nine years old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John M. Smith of 3425 35th street. Memories of circus knife throwers. a minute's tussel and two flashes of cruel s before horror-stricken BODIES OF AIRMEN, LONG LOST, FOUND IN BURNED PLANE fornia Mountains Believed Marshall and Webber. By the Associnted Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif. 12—Two May | | bodtes. supposed to be those of Col. Francis Marshall, formerly on the aff of the chief of cavalry, and Lieut. Charles Webber, aviator, who disap- | peared while fiying from San Diego | toward Tucson. Ariz, December 1022, were found today in the Cuva- maca Mountains. Ae soon as the report reached this city, Maj. He Arnold, commanding Rockwell Field, from which Col. Mar- shall and Lieut. Webber departed, or- ganized a party to visit the scene and try to identify the bodies and the machine, in whose wreckage the bodles were those of Col. Marshall and Lieut. Webber. The machine had been burned and nothing was left of the two men but the skeletons. Finding of the bodies was reported to this city this eevning by George W. McCaln, a cattleman, whose range |15 In the Cuyamaca Mountains. McCain said he was cut with one of hiz cattlemen on the mountain, which is called the South Peak of the Cuyamaca range, pratcically at the summit of the mountains between Diego county and Impertal Val- hen he came across the wrecked San ley, W plane [TALY AND BRITAIN SCORE CUNO OFFER Replies of Both Express Sur- prise No Better Pro- posal Was Made. Dy Cable to The Star. PARIS, May 12.—The texts of the British and Itallan replies to Berlin's reparations proposals were delivered at the French forelgn office tonight. The two documents differ in some re- spects, although both notify Germany that her offer is not acceptable. The British reply cxpressed sur- prise that Chancellor Cuno was not willing to submit reasonable sugges- tions for a settlement. Premier Mussolini goes a bit farther, asserting that he is “stupefied” at the terms of the Germany offer. Both governments, in their replles, reveal that they had urged Germany previous to the launching of her much discussed note, to make offers which could be discussed as a basis for new negotiations. Their surprise is that Germany did not more exactly follow their suggestions. Though the officlal wording of the British and Itallan documents will not be available until they have been de- livered at Berlin, which probably will be late tomorrow, the general sense of both replies may be summed up thu Marquis Curzon, replying for Great Britain, refers to his speech in par- liament five days before Chancellor Cuno sent his proposals to all the al- lies and the United States. He does not conceal the fact that hehad hoped his speech would induce Berlin to make reasonable offers. The British foreign secretary then expresses his surprise that Germany launched such {nacceptable proposals, inacceptable both a8 regards the figures offered and the lack of substantial guaran- tees stipulated. SPECIAL MAIL RUSHED. RENO, Nev., May 12—The special mail pouch in transit from Honolulu to Washington arrived here on Southern Paclfic train No. 20, at & o'clock this morning and was trans- Charred Skeletons in Cali-| | stcian. Dewhurst, Wilson Smith, broth- er Samuel and several playmates had gathered at Wilson’s home for a taffy | pull. Mrs. early in the afternoon a nephew placed in Casualty Hos- pital. The boys had free run of the « Column 4.) Smith went away tinued on Page 'Sugar Boycott | Every Monday By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, May 12.—Mayor Hylan issued a proclamation to- day urging the public to observe Monday of each week as “sugar- less Monday” until the price of sugar has been reduced within reason. Proprietors of restaurants, hotels and other places of refreshment were asked to induce their patrons to forego the use of sugar on the specified day. PROPOSES 12-MILE LINIT IN RUM WAR Sterling Says Old Law Per- mits Search This Dis- tance From Shore. i Congress will be asked to extend the right of the United States gov- ernment to search vessels for alco- holic liquor to twelve miles from tho coast, Senator Sterling of South Da- kota sald last night. He predicted that legislation would be offered to strengthen the hands of ths govern- ment in the prevention of liguor into the United States. “I believe" said Senator Sterling. ‘that the United Statss should have the right to visit and search vessels for liquor within a 1limit of twelve miles from the shore. It should have this right to protect the country the better from the illegal Importa- tion of liquor. The presant three- | mile limit is too short 2 distance for the most effective handllng of the situation which has developed, Gue to the smuggling in of liquor. Poin | | to Ol Law. have i no doubt this country has a right to establish a twelve-mile iimit. Thers will be op- position from some who will dcelare that a three-mile limit has heen sanc tioned by international law. Bu- it must be remembered that thera Is a law on the statute “ooks of this that years of the republic, which author- izes & twelve-mile limit for the en- forcement of the customs laws, and that i{s a law today. Under it om- cials may visit and search vessels for the better enforcement of the customs laws within twelve miles of the shore. “Probably there will be opposition on the part of some foreign nations to extending the right of visit and search for liquor to the twelve-mile limit, but T am confident that eventu- ally they will see the justice of the proposal—that the United States has a right to protect its citizens from the fmportation of liquor which has been banned by an amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Even If some nation 1s bent upon de- nying the right of the United States to take such action in the enforce- ment of the law, I believe the United States should not back down.” Range of Cannon. The three-mile limit, it was pointed out, was fixed In the old days on the theory that a cannon placed on shore would shoot three miles out to sea— that a country might be expected to claim jurisdiction over an area which it could protect. Today, however, the great guns of the Army and Navy |will carry six times that distance, and under the same theory, Senator Sterl- ing maintains, it is only right that the United States should claim juris- diction over a greater area when it the country. Senator Sterling' was chairman of the Senate Jjudiciary subcommittee which handled the Volstead prohibi- tion act and the so-called anti-beer act. PIRATES TURN TO SUGAR. New York’s Rum Thieves Seeking High-Priced Loot. NEW YORK, May 12.—River pirates, to assist in having | Asked by Hylan| uzgling | country now, enacted In the earliest | comes to protecting the citizens of | Authorities had been lookigg for[first turn and opened up a gap. ferred to the cockpit of Pilot Mouton's | formerly engaged in stealing rum, Lerner since the Doyles returned from | Down the back stretch Goshawk led, the Kuzbas colony and told their |put was joined at the half-mile pole story immediately upon their arrival. |by General Thatcher. Goshawk was After a long search Lerner was lo- |done at the top of the stretch, and cated at Bensonhurst, & well-to-do |the field closed up as it began the T {Continued on Fage B, Coumn o . section of BrookiBe it N airplane, leaving by air at 6:30. The[now are concentrating on sugar pouch was to be transferred to the | since the price jumped. plane of Pilot Unger at Elko, Nev. | The harbor police today reported and was to be placed on Southern |looting of large quantities from Pacific train Na. 2 at Ogden at 1:35 | lighters in the East and Hudson this afternoomy Tivern & VANDERLIP URGES TAKING PACT POWER FRON PRESIDENTS Proposes Elected Council of 25 With Full Power to Make Treaties. | FINANCIER ADDRESSES CHURCH SESSION HERE Would Take International Affairs From President and icing as archafe and ir machinery by w States handles { Frank former pe- the United its foreign relations, nderlip of New York, t of the National City Iress yesterday at the | City Club before general conven- tion N Jerusalem (th | Swedenborgian Church in America) ad- vocated a constitutional change which would take the treaty-making power out bf the hands of the President, the Secretary of State, and the Senate, and place it in a “counc!l of forefgn re- lations™ to be elected by the people. he council suggested by Mr. Van- deriip would consist of twenty-five members, at least one-half to spend their time abroad. M vderlip would have the members elected for at least ten years, s0 as to give continuity to the American forelgn policy. He feels that this lack of continuity is one great fault of the present system. | Scores Present System. The existing system handling foreign relations, Mr. Vanderlip said, fails utterly to express popular opin- fon. No President, he asserted, was ever elected because of his knowledge of foreign affairs, and the same ruls applied to the Semate. Mr. Vanderlip asserted that the great need of the world today was moral leadership. He took the churches of the country to task for their failure in this direction. He de- nounced also the selfishness and the egotism of tha “100 per cent Amer- lican” who has little or no good will toward other peoples He hailed the world court, as ad- vocated by President Harding, as a move in the right direotion. “And yet” he sald, “although can be counted hardly as & step for- ward, it has encountered the most widespread opposition. We hear again the old ory of ‘national sov elgnty’ Nothing must be done to interfers with ‘national sovereignty.’ We must have none of international justice, international morality, if it | interferes with our ‘national sover- | eignty 1t Concept of Morality. Mr. Vanderlip’s subject was “The Moral Obligation of Nations”” He | was introduced by the Rev. Willlam 1. Worcesterter of Cambridge, Mass., president of the general convention of the New Jerusalem. Mr. Vander- {lip confessed himself & “theological | illiterate.” His own concept of ! morality, however, he said, was that |a thing which does harm, either to {one's self or to others, is immoral, | whereas a thing which is not harm- | ful is not immoral. “1 belleve,” Mr. Vanderlip con- | tinued, “that we are on the threshold ! of a profound advance in ethics and | that this advance is going to be one | of the good results of the war. What high hopes we had of what might | come out of the war, and how piti- | fully little actually came out of itl Perhaps in an economic way we learned something of the significance | of the thrift and of the value of in- | vestments. New springs of capital | unquestionably have flowed from the education of the war. May Be Worth Cost. “But there is a profoundly greater thing still to come. 1t hasn’t come yet, but when it does it may prove |to be worth all the cost in blood, treasure and sacrifice. It is a quick- ening of Interest in International moral obligations. “The world has too long been guid- ed by the theory of the sovereignty of nations; that any nation might do anything that seemed for the best interest of its nationals. But all that has got to pass. There are no signs of it as yet, but there is beginning to be doubt of the correctness of that theory. ““Fhe chaos in Europe today s not a chaos directly resulting from the devastation of the war itself. Great as was that destruction, Europe and | the world, with our modern facilities | of reproduction, could readily have recovered from the physical damage of the war. The chaos of Europe today s more the direct result of | the peace and the passions that the war and the peace engendered. We have to deal today with the most intense hatreds that ever ruled the peoples of the world—the greatest blindnesses, the greatest prejudices. Harmful acts—and therefore im. moral acts—have grown out of thess passions and hatreds and prejudices To account for the terrible state of affairs which exists today we must go deeper than the material damage of war, deeper than the deplorable loss of life, deeper than the vast eco- nomio waste of war and get into what Is really a spiritual question, Scores Propaganda, “There is a commandment that wa shall not bear false witness against a nelghbor. 1t is an important com- mandment for us to keep; great harm follows its violation. Yet we do not recognize that bearing false witness by one nation against another natlon (Contlnued on Page 2, Colutp_B.r