Evening Star Newspaper, April 27, 1924, Page 43

EVERYDAY RELIGION By RT. REV. JAMES Bishop of OUR BELIEFS, ATTHEW, viiiad, hast belleved, thee b popular has the sub- ion become today that it discussed in the drawing und counting room, but on the street in the eclub. Iven the secular press gives it a foremost place in the: colu the daily paper and pulpit a of the niceties of creedal engages the interest of are unrelated to the speeches of our public n are full of quotutions from the le, even nard Sh: , hitherto ustic and eritical of things religious becomes defender the th. With reverence we ay that Je- #us Christ is the most discussed per- lity today, and more and more is made to His teachings and il Talking reeently to an outstanding Juurnalist, he remarked that the pop- ularity of religion was such that the pre itd not afford to ignore it Turning to Great Teacher. our pres- 1 exper- ‘As thou S0 be it dome of rel is net only oo and scussion cxpression who The «Lureh a of may n npe The very ent situation uncertainty of the widespre that have been made with method another, have forced world to tury to the t Teach- of Nazareth In connection with is tendeney we a ronted with question: “How closely is our re- us Lelies fuith. related to mmon things. the practical . tions of ev life’ Most of 2% have been brought up to regard re- Jizion as something that was con rned largely if not wholly with the ure, a plan of salvation that be- «omes’ operative when this life is Most of the teaching of the has tended to confirm this im- In a word, the relation of ligion to life here, to those things have to do with evervday af- irs. our problems, our social and in- vidual practice: our conduct, has t ¥ detined to us’ We ccall the old dictum: “You can’ ix business and religion.” which is i1y another way of saying that re- Sigion takes no cognizance of our « mmon concerns. Sought to Better World, Is this so as we have it from Christ? Did He come for the sole yurpose of giving us vision of the Possibility of life bevond the grave? Did He show no interest in the ~vorld and furnish us no solutions for 215 many problems or with that which #hould make life here and now bet- 1er. more wholesome and more satis Iying? We believe it is not wide of the mark to say that His great con- ©ern was to make this present world & fitter place in which to live. Fur- thermore, we believe He laid down principles of life that are vitally znd immediately related to our largest happiness and health. In ail His contacts He sought to lift men and women to new lovels whereon They might live their life with greater goy and satisfaction. In the incident from which our text is taken He was dealing with a soldler who had come to seek His zid in behalf of a sick servant. This oldier had little knowledge concern- fug the real purpose of Jeus sments anc or re 1 s we 3 3 3 . Farmers Given By the McNary-Haugen Bill (Continued from First Page.) dex comprises also agricultural com- The all-commodity index was about 163 (on the ten- prewar basis). If the lower- icultural products were to this level, the *‘all-commod- price would become, say. 174. ing and wages at once “‘all-commodity” index 180. Then under the deficient agricultural prices to be rajsed from 163 up to 180. each step forward kicks the further ahead. effe will be that increased of other manufactures—and prices—will curtail our exports agricultural goods. will draw us large imports over the tariff 1. and will create great unemploy ment g and then domestic con- 1mption of agricultural produce will Tell greatly. Fully 20 per cent of our bl sent consumption of animal prod- 1ts depend upon full employment. We would be lucky if we escaped panic. The farmer always worst of the bargain under - condition for his credit dries wp and the co ption of his prod- e dimin il the Thus The ot Lixplains Support of Rill. ie Englund, professor economies in the Kans iral College, s for the amount of the MceNary-Haugen bill has found in the failure of many rople to understand what ¥rederic F tait ench economist, ealled the difference in industrial coclety between that which is scen and that which is unscen As a source of present-day 3 omic fallacies.” says Prof. Englund, *ihis failure to e more than the mmediate and most obvious side of # problem is probably second in im- yortance only to the demagoguge's diesire to prey upon the prejudices of of agricul- s State expla- support an nat which sained n i eco- Business Adjusting Itself | For Election-Year Storms BY HARDEN €O Industry beginning to set house in order against the uncertain- ties of an election year. Straws in 1he wind show the direction of falling commodity yrices, a somewhat reduced volume of activity, a hand-to-mouth buying policy, a shrinkage, for the moment, in security values, and a greater de- gree of caution in planning for the Tutur: X What Congress will do and how the election will g the fate of tax re- duction and the unmeasured strength of the so-called radicals in politics; Germany’s attitude toward the Dawes proposal und the crop prospects of our own farmers: possible wage demands znd the abllity of the consumer to absorb the huge production schedules planned for 1924—these and other Jess related factors appear to be under ihe microscope as business lingers on the threshold of a minor post-war yeadjustment period. Scout Tax Redaction. Of these factors, tax reduction per- s ranks first. Some of the great- combinations of capital are in- nod to doubt today the likelihood ©f uny tax reduction this year. “Thought has not crystallized to the yoint of giving reasons in support of 1his doubt, but the doubt is there. Some of the leaders call it a “hunch.” On the stock eschange security yalues have dropped, on an average, ten points from the high level ©f a few months back. Stocks have 12 € | its the current to be in | E. FREEMAN, D. D. Washington. try, ne had a very practical request | to make of Him, a request that con- | | cerned his own domestic affairs. The | | response of Jesus was immediate and generous. He would come directly to answer in person the summons. Declining the generous tender of a personal visit the soldier aroused | the admiration of Christ to such an | extent that He declared He had not found “so great faith, no not in Israel” His answer given to the soldier was, “As thou hast_believed, 50 be it done unto thee.” Note that the only demand He made was be- lef in His power. The measure of | faith should determinc the measure |of His exercised power. What the | | soldier believed ~concerning Him | |should determine the efficacy and ef- | ficiency of His response, 1 Canst Thou Belleve? This marked all His methods in dealing with men and women: it was always: “Cangt thou believe? When sick woman pressed through the | crowd to touch the border of His robe, even though the throng surged round about Him, He knew that her touch differed from all the rest, and | Ho perceived that the touch of faith had drawn virtue from Him. Only | of one place was it said that “He could there do no mighty work. b= { cause of their unbeljef. They closed their minds to His appeal, they re- | fused Him a hearing and of their | city with its large opportunities, He declared, “Thou that hast been ox- | | alted to heaven shall be thrust down to hell.” This city represents the | tragedy of a closed mind. its people knew not the time of their visita- a stand today confronted with the | smme old question that relates to be- | lief and its relation to life. We have certainiy beld our religious beliefs | yery lightly, we have relegated them to & place of unimportance. Our age, with its conception of values, has | presscd ite religious convictions | the very outer rim of its conscio | ness. and while it has highly regard- | ed Christ. it has given scant heed to His demands. S modern society as at all conge And vet there is a widespread, y universal, feeling that the hope of | our civilization resides in a revival of religious belief. Whither Are We Tending? Whither are we tending if not in | the direction of a vital and vitalizing | religious fuith? The relation that | Belict bears to life is clearly demon- | strable, indeed. it is the determining factor in the scheme of things. It touches immediately and intimatel our most practical concer it has | more to do with our happiness and ou security than we have ever | dreamed. True, our beliefs may take different forms of expression. but the central fact of them all is the su- | preme pel Chr Well did | some one Jod may have other words for other worids. but for this world the word of God is Christ” His unfailing demand nst thou lieve? *“As thou hast believed, 5o he | it done unto thee”” Here all concep- | tions focus, here all our roads find | their common center; here, out of ail our confusions and controversies, we | find our unity. ¢ ¢ ¢ There is an irre- sistible power about Him that mak Him persist_cven in the face of our | negations and cold indifference. Like | His confused disciples of old we are forced to cry out: “Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou alons hast the words of eternal life.” (Copyright. 1924.) False Hope | | [ ns; | | the people. The obvious side of the | problem, to the proponents of the price-fixing plan is that the prices of farm products are low, and that the adoption of their proposal would cause prices to ri The ‘unseen,’ or less obvious side, is that the adop- tion of the proposed plan would re- | sult in more tares. higher cost of | living, higher prices of commodities | the farmer must buy, artificial stimu- | lus of agricultural production, the | bringing of poor land into use, class antagonism and_cventual r of | the law and serious depression and | suffering in asriculture following the | inevitable removal of the artificial stimulus of a guaranteed price. In | short, the proposed remedy would be worse than the disease which it is| gned to cure.” Working Out Own Salvation. | A stock argument in support of | the MeNary-Haugen bill is to demand | that its opponents offer something in | its place. A good many well in-| formed men believe that the answer | to this is, “Let the farmer alvne, and | he will work out his own salvation One man who appears to take that| view of the situation is Dr. W. | Jardine, president of the Kansas State Agricultural College. Here is what | he has to say about “This legislation would defeat movement, now well under v, solve farm problems by production to demand anced farming and other efforts at veif help. The ifcentive for co- operative marketing is to secure bet- | ter prices for the farmers chiefly | tirough reduced costs of distribution. | The MecNary-Haugen bill, in effect; | would reduce this incentive and | jeopardize the co-operative move- ment—farmers would turn to legisla- tive remedies instead of scif help." To fall back on the proposition that the farmer should be permited fo work out his own salvation may und harsh and eruel, but it is much less harsh and erucl than to delude him with false hopes and lead him o following a will-'o-the-wisp to his own éventual ruin, the to adjusting | better bal- | shrunk, in market value, not less than 5.000,000,000 within litile more than | & monith. " 'Wall street is in a bearish mood_and further decreases are ex- pected. A remarkable sitnation which has not been satisfactorily explained here lies in the fact that, while wages are holding firm, prices of commodities have dropped, on the average, an esti- mated 5 per cent or more since the middle of February, Industrial stat- isticians, basing their figures on government and private research, | claim an average wage advance dur- ing the past twelve months amount- ing to about 10 per cent. There is a rule that business, out of bitter experience, has come to ap- ply at such an outlook as the present. That rule, to put it in four words, is “Keep your assets liquid.” The pres- ent depression in security values is ascribed to the application of that rule. As stock prices fall, bank deposits here are mounting. ‘Wall street ap- parently is liquidating some of the assets which it regards as slow sales in time of readjustment, and the movement, it is believed, is carrying the whole list downward. To_the liquid asset policy, also, is | attributed the moderate decrease in business activity as measured, for instance, by the falling off in freight traffic. Few buyers are stocking up ton a falling market and the policy of cautious purchasing is being felt, | to some extent, in curtailment, here and there, in manufacturing and other lines. Nobody, however, expects a major readjustment. Business generally is expected to continue good, although further shrinkage in its volume Is looked for. Py S THE SUNDAY 'STAR The Story the Week Has Told BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a briet the most fmportant news of the world for the seven days ended April 26: summary of ‘The British E: re.—On April 23, with much circumstance and pomp, King George opened the British exhibition in Wembley Park, about nine miles northwest of Victoria station, Lon- don. The area of the exhibition grounds is four times that devoted to the San Francisco exposition. There are fifteen miles of streets. The object is, by exhibiting the entire em- pire in little, by & compendious ocular display of its resources, to suggest what may be ac- complished by closer intraimperial co-opera- tion. % Not only is the empire of today presented in miniature with marvelous wealth and fidelity of detail (villages, for example, of India, Africa, the South Scas, etc., reproduced to the ife), but the history of the empire’s develop- ment is vividly portrayed. No doubt the con- servatives are hoping that the exhibition will boost the -~ause of “imperial preference” and that it will so touch the pride of the labor chiefs, who now control the empire, that de- spite their pacific vows, they will be loath to risk the loss of that splendid heritage by neg- lect of the imperial defenses. To children, the most important item yof the exhibition is’ Queen Mary’s dollhouse. You might say that it is one of the wonders of the world, 5o cxquisite und complete it is in its appoingments. 1t includes a great Lilliputian wine cellar case. This feature has made the British prohibitionists, who, if less numerous, are not less zealous than our own, piping hot. They have protested, but in vain. It will alon be worth the trip to London to watch the children inspecting the dollhouse. The day 0f opening was St. George's day, tne birthday of Dngland’s patron saint, likewise the anniversary of Shakespearc's death and of the glorious affair of Zebrugge. Marie Corelli, the British novelist and em- phatically one of the “best sellers” of her time, died the other day at Stratford-on-Avon. Her father was Italian, her mother Scotch. Irishwomen are subject to jury service on WASHINGTON, 1. He was, no doubt, one of the most romantic figures in literary history. He impressed the imagination of his century almost as much as did Napoleon. No man has hated tyrsnny more flercely; none has lashed cant and hypocrisy more wittily. As a poet his Immortality is se- cure, “Don Juan' alone would suffice for that. And the glamour of his puissant personality is scarcely less potent than it was a century ago * % x ¥ T Spais.—Owing to the meagerness and con- fiicting character of reports from Spain, it continues impossible to estimate the situation there. Some reports allege multitudinous evi- dences of dissatisfaction with the regime of the military directorate; in especial, a grea: heightening of separatist agitation in Cata- lonia. On the other hand, the dictator, Primo De Rivera, recently broadcast by radlo an “apology” for his administration, in which he minimized the disaffection as the work of only a few madcontents, The mass of the people, he asserted, were satisfled. Conditions were mark edly improvin; the problems of economic: education, administration of justice, etc., b ing vigorously worked out. The Morocean situ- ation of good promise: a drive into the in- terlor at point to be launched. The country would remain under military law until politi- cal graft had completely been eliminated, ad- minsitration thoroughly purged of taint. “This” he frankly concluded, “will take some time.” In the dictator's manifesto on his as- sumption of power it was to take three months, We live and Jearn. “It is to wait and see,” not without a certain uneasiness. * % * One Tiears that the French gov- ion of *® Germany. ernment notified the reparagions commi its acceptance of ‘the Dawes plan, but only provisionally, and in a general way. It is thought that it proposes to give its full sent only to a plan elaborated (on the basi to be sure, of the Dawes plan) to its satisf tion in respect of all necessary detall and rid of all ambiguitics; to which plan must be at- tached as part thereof copies of German legis- lative measures enacted or proposed in order RYSTVIN 2, PART 2. | April 22 was the bicentenary of the birth of Immanuel Kant, greatest of German philoso- phers. It is interesting to note thot his grand- father was a Scotchman who emigrated to Koenigsberg. He was of a feeble constitution, about five feet tall, and his chest almost con cave: but by pursuing a Spartan regime h managed to live to eighty. He was a cham- pion of freedom and an apostle of universal peace; but on rational grounds only, for he was lacking in sentiment and entirely devoid of sentimentality. e appears to have had only one little weakness. He.never traveled more than forty miles from Koenigsberg; but was wont to frequent the houses of two English merchants for the pleasure he took in listening to the varns of sea captains. Among his cotemporaries were Goethe, Schil- ler, Fichte, Stein, Beethoven. Some contrast to the Germany of today. There is Einstein to Lo gurc: but he ik by origin a Swiss Jew, United States of Amerlea—The immigra- tion bill is still in conference. On April 17 Mr. Hanihara, the Japanesc ambassador at Wash- ington, wrote Secretary Hughes deprecating the Senate’s interpretation of his note of early April and protesting that the idea of a “veiled threat” had never cntered his mind. Replying to Mr. Hanthara Mr. Hughes stated that he “was quite sure that it was far from" (Mr. Hanihara's) “thought to express or imply any threat.” The general merits of the question aside, there seems to be strong ground for the conten- tion that enactment of the bill with the “ex- clusion” clause would dangerously strengthen the causc of militarism and oligarchism in Japan against the new spirit of democracy and anti-militaris just when that spirit seemed at point to acquire definite ascendency, Never the rosc without the thor it scems. On April 23 the bonus bill with its grant of twent insurance policies was pasecd by the Senate. 67 to 17. The bill as received from the Housc was not much amended by the . One amendment. however, of con- ble importance. Tt chang commencement of issuance of adjusted com- rtificates from January 1 to July |or five precisely the same terms as scem it, théy discover that they olved to Lelp the names of women who don’t jury duty be struck from_the jury lists Speaking for the bill, Kevin O’ pressed the opinion that the woman juror was not a howling success, whereupon a dastard member shot out the villlanous question: “Is Deeply jembarc rassed, Mr. O'Higgins replied that he would'nt like to answer that question in “public. the woman voter a success? Mr. O'Higgins, how could you? Like Maj. Martin, commander plane squadron in the attempt to circumvolate the zlobe, that gallant Briton, Squadron Leader MacLaren, who, with two companions, ismaking ar attempt, flying eastward, in a Vick- had his mishaps was compelled amphibian, has ta Vecehita, in Ttaly, hc by a an_Italian naval port. He had to land on the Is Cairo for Bagdad, about a fortn cdule. Arrived at Phari Dsong, Gen mander of the “expedition to ISverest,” was struck down with ordered back by doctors to I lioped that he will recover in t the command, which meantime Lieut. Col undoubted, but the ality will be missed, and Gurkha porters April 13 was the Byron at Mi a blackguard tle. He is generally expiated his crim while activel independence soldier’s end, pecially by sntenary in others of true but was stricken Irishmen . that, having cried for the moon und got don't like green cheese. The men, of course, are gallantly re- ‘em_out of their scrape. A bill is before the Dail Ilireann, which proposes that olent storm to drop to the vessel gave him o tow wait for a new engine. On April 7 ght behind his scale feeling. Norton. The latter's competence is gencral's bouyant perse who adore him. of the death of longhi. In some respects he Wi t herofc met- allowed to have sufficient! s and follies by his deatl] Iy engaged in the cause of Greek He had proposed to himself for its realization. It It ceptance by the Pre: sanctions” and the French gagement by the othe co-operate with it sanctions” (to agreement) or, alternatively, want to do Higginz e depende that the French gove a_condition precedent Oh, in’ a treaty German will _require with it gainst tively Ties, tn co-Belg ot our air- possible. Thus roughl tricd to present the the most competent may be talsified in prove less I'he situation com serman U A Nationalist v Create a quite ter; and sim nents of Poincare velopments have about the maneaveri where and into Corfu he left sea, nd of he Bruce. malari; No the Tibetan April 24, Dr. rain wreek in mveteraie of rulillment. He had the Dawes plan. Du chancellor and In the latter role ne inflation. He wa to Germans Jown wits be precisely in case of German non-fulfillment will require from those gu ernments consent in sct t_action in such of the Rubr, that the British cgression, £t terms, to continuance of the Frar- n military occupation of the an occupation to be made views of the r i observers xacting th: , indeed, wnd French elections early in new face of things in tha a victory '3 Karl Helfferich. the nent and probably Switzerland the ecretary s thought also that ac- ) government of the completed plan inust presuppose scttlement of certain collateral issues; chiefly, the issues of securfty. government will r allied governments to in_enforcement of certain 1t is' thought that require an en- defined in the mark. The terms to French in- ples case. It is thought nment_will require, as of military _evacuation covernment join guarantec alterns al- th, the of nutual or. of i Irench casu doubt Hussetn's consent Ruhr- as “invisible” as com: ories ot The ki Iraris, wh ey Balian Iutely clear, Tho! event; the French may 1 as indicated above rather in the air pend- might quar- of the abpc ntoward de- tittle know und discussions behind tory in Germany ment sugge definitely a 1w most the ablest of the Ger ¥ con was killed in a ter expeeted vas the One h treaty kofi of bul gainst policy war he was vice [ the treasury initiated the policy able man but a cur of have el sfugees in fia by that of Labor has.a plurality conn government, vosed honor. isit ves eclor to the varmly den ars toward Communists son was, apparently, that afte there would be a Democratic President and that the former cash option prior to July 1. * Miseellaneous—A woman is minister of ed- ucation in the new Labor government of Den- tatus of this government resem- the British labor government. but not a majority of It can carry on only volence of one of the other e ho ce of anti-French agitation eported: as many asx two hundred ualties in ent petty actions. No tion is to be traced with King surantion the caliphate and a° coneomitnat eflicrescence of Arab racial pride the great Italian actress the other day at the age oF of course, one of the ation wnd queen of Rumania are still in they w e welcomed magnificent- d intended to visit Rome, but the for reasons not abso- advised postponement of the pro- Thercupon the anish govern- te a like postponement of their to Madrid. This Spanish be- ertion. confidently . that in forcign pol- following Mussolini's lead. A ian treaty on the lines of the weluded Franco-Czechoslovak treaty with ple zaria has all B Leen sure that Premier Zan adopted a counciliatory opposition clements except ‘s relations with Bel- considerably sed since pped in jail some 600 Macedonian Bulgaria’ wio were making trouble raiding into Macedonia. Real Workers in the National C BY HERBERT COREY. AALL boys are usually taught by their mothers to walk around bugs strolling on brick walks. “Don't squash!” is mother’s motto. But mother Is wrong. Worse than that. she is mid-McKinley. Bugs should be squashed At any rate, that is the kick I g0 from a talk with Dr. L. O. Howard, chief of the United States bureau of entomology, and perhaps the fore- most entomologist in the world. Bugs appeared in a new light. Instead of being mere annoyances they are one of mankind’s most dangerous enemies. In two years the loss occasioned the American farmer through bugs would equal France’s debt to the United States. If that loss could be stopped. 2 fifteen years it would pay off our war costs. Two vyears saving the loss through bugs would settle the bill for our splurge in shipbuilding. Two years would pay the bonus bill. For the bugs cost the farmer two billion dollars a year. That the worst of it. Dugs probably costing us a little more t us now more other people in isn't are ch year. They ¢ than they cost an the world. Bugs are more suceessful in their fight against man in the United States-than anywhere else in the world. All the natural and arti- ficial advantages are on their side. The battle here is unlike the struggle against bugs anywhere else. If that sort of thing kecps on—shades of arithmetical progression—what will become of us? “We'll win" says Dr. “We're winning mow. Only rapidly as we would like.” This was a comparatively bugless country when the Puritans came. O, | there were wasps and cootles and tarantulas and ants and spiders, of course, to name but a few of the four hundred thousand different sorts of bugs that make up the bug census of the world. But they were fnnocent so far as man Was con- cerned. They went their way and the Indian went his way. They did no harm because there was no harm they could do. Howard. not as Foreign Bug a Guaman. The the firstcomers began to tear down the forests and break up the ground and the bugs began multiply- ing. That sort of thing is made to order for them. Think of it! The American climate is perfection, from an insect's point of view. Long, hot summers and comparatively short winters. Ploughed land offers them chances for home-making that forest country does not. An ordinary soph- omore bug at the beginning of a sea- son is a doddering old grandpap by the time the season is half way through. But at first the bugs were all of the home-grown sorts. Then we began to have unrestricted immigration of European bugs. There is such a thing as the “balance of na- ture.” Over in Europe they were held in check by climatic conditions, intensive cultivation, other bugs and various things that were not present in America. Consquently no Euro- pean country suffers greatly from in- sect pests.. The European bug con- American | verted American liberty into license |as soon as he got here. Ile became an insect gunman. Ile multiplied faster than could Blind Bill. the mathematical prodigy, and there were none of nature's police to check his illicit activities. There are perhaps a hundred insects n the United States that sre danger- us economically, and almost every one of them was imported. They came in on ships. sacks of seeds, blankets, fruit, inventors, everrthing. They are still coming, although we now have a strict quarantine against bad bugs. It is, of course, difficult of en- forcoment. Here's an instance. Ta- Hawaiian Cnited of bugs hipped to Hawali is full products are States. | That made little difference so long as the chief port of entry was San Franclsco. There the shipping dis- ltrict is as bare of vegetation as the back of a watch, and the entomolo- {gists did not worry. Now Los An- { geles ts opening a port of entry which |is surrounded by some of the finest fruit and vegetable lands in the world, coming right down to the wa- |ter's cage. The welcome sign is hanging out for bugs. No doubt Dr. Howard will work out a checkmate French Bar to th (Continued from First Page.) ways threatening peaceful relationships of nations, be removed. Poincare, knowing England's willing- ness to compromise to a given point. is utilizing his opportunities and pressing for two proposals turned down by pre- vious British premiers and already dented by MacDonald. Poincare wants cancellation of debts made contingent upon the reparations settlement. He Iikewise seeks to jockey the British gov- ernment into pledging military and naval aid to France in case Germany defaults in future agreements. Poincare insists that some such guarantee only can com- pensate France for giving up her present economic and financial grip upon the Ruhr. Poincare goes further, and says that unless there be some such pledge France will not limit her movements, nor will she give up her grip upon the industrial and economic resources of the Ruhr so essential to Germany's recovery and payment as recognized by the Dawes financial experts. Military Pact Unlikely. But England has déclined to consider the cancellation of debts in the fashion the French have proposed, curtailing as it would to an infinitesimal degree Eng- land’s participation in reparations pay- ments and permitting France to seize the lion's share. Though Lloyd George during the peace conference in Paris promised the French a working offensive and military agreement should Germany prove obstreperous, this promise never has been fulfilled by England, as it al- ways has been a British policy to dis- dain advanced commitments involving the wse of the armed forces of the na- tion. Furthermore, frankiy, England dis- wali is an American possession, and | eventually, but right now the situa- tion isn't £5 good. “Tos many bugs.” s the old proverb | soes, “spoil the income tax.” | When Dr. Howard began his against the insects the omly place one could find an cntomologist was in the dictionary The world knew them as bug-hunters, and hug-hunt- ers, it is notorious, are persons with acks In their heads you could put two fingers in. When he was gradu- lated from Cornell and epted {invitation to go ¢n the stafl of the bureau of entomology. instead of be- coming a physician and surgeon, his | grandmother was saddened. “Leland.” €aid she, “is a nice bo; |1t is too bad that he took up such | trifting busines | The Agriculture Department did Inot amount to much then. President | Lineoln had made his milkman the |head of the first agricultural bureau, |which was then under another de- |partment. Then the present red brick building waos crected by an architect lwho wanted to show just I con- temptible a building could be made. By and by a chicf entomologist was selected because he could draw beau- tiful pictures of bugs. He did not ](me' upon mere intimate relations fight with the insect world. Five thousand Dawes Plan : May Lead to Isolation | trusts such agreement. for the English | | fecl the French are provocative in their | relations with Germany, and as a result of this might stir strifc in which Eng- might be wholly distasteful politically an | land would become involved, though it | jdoliars & year covered all costs of the {bureau then. Now the annual appro- |priations are $2.000,000, and of the 500 |employes, 400 are trained scientists. The reason why is that the entomo- zists have made good. They are not bug-hunters any more. So late fifteen years ago, when Dr. Howard was scouting through Hun- xary for more and better bugs, the Hungarians refused to admit I‘h ir chief entomologist—one of the foremost in the world—was a scien- jtist. Yet the Hungarians were an | enlightened people. Many a quaint |auip was pullea by our consressmen in those days at the expense of the |huf:-hunwrs. That humor was, per- haps, the most costly fun ever lib- crated to a laughter-loving public |Most of the bad bugs got into this | country during the fourteen vears in | which Congress was cachinating in- | stead of appropriating. Now Dr. Howard has five investigating stations scattered through the country. He hopes to have a great many mere eventually. One of these days he hopes to have stations abroad, where the bugs may Le examined on their native heaths, togcther with the smaller bugs that | bite "em. He has one on the Riviera |now on a sort of temporary plan. seventy- | The frontier of defensc against bugs | ! must be far-flung, because we are in more danger from bugs than any other nation. He could not have ac- complished what he has had it not bLeen for the fine co-operation be- tween international entomologists. No sooner does one man find out the =ort of bug that can be relicd on to | call to order another sort of bug than he passes on the word. Is Leader of Anti-Bug Army. Howard has the name of being an that | All he asks is results. | WHAT IS BY ROGER W. BABSON. W Y HAT is this “something” which we all desire and are striving so hard to at- tain? The answer again is Truc Happiness. This is the real goal. Every one who does not con- sider himself happy envies the “suc- cesstul” man or woman. There may be cases where parents themselves have given up the struggle; but they | still are envious of others, and they all have hopes for thelr children. All want to be happy and all want heir children to succeed and be | happy. | Success means diftdrent things to differenet people and different groups | of people. They day laborer who is | employed by others hopes for the day when be can be boss and have a man | working for him. The woman with | motherly instincts looks forward to a family of healthy and good children as her idea of success. Many a young girl is said to be successful when she “lands” a successful man for her hus- band. So it goes. nature is the same in us all. simply precipitates in various forms as different chemicals ure applied. | As coal tar can be changed into any one of a hundred colors, so human | nature expresses itself in a hundred |different ways. It is all the same hu- {man nature whether it be in rich or | noor, men or women, white or black. | Al are seeking their own port of cucce 1 Where Motives Come From. Newspaper men travel extensively {and spend large sums of money ! studyring localities and conditions The results of such travel und study | |lead conclusively to this same opin- Judge, jury and criminal are eking what cach bclieves success. Of course, they differ in i | their definition of success and their | of is However, that goal. | means it. | cach | This eller in every trade. It is true of | the candidate and the voter in every election. It is true of the boosters | 2nd the knockers in every town. | man nature is the same in us all | All strive for success. Many of u | lowever, differ in what we call |cess” and in our understanding of | what is the best means of acquir- | ing it. | You ask, “If success is our common | oal, why do not our public schools | teach the best way of acquiring it?" ‘Tlxv answer ir that real success is most intimately bound up with mio- tive. and motive is determined by ligion. A person cannot be trul. | successful _ without right motiv | purposes and ambitions, which qua ties are splely the products of reli- gion. By religion is not meant theol- ory creeds, but rather a belief in a Divine Being as a guide, in prayer us u power, and in service as a goal. Suecesstul Criminals? | To a burglar success means to make & big haul without detection. He succeed in making the haul and securing striving_ for may | mot be found out, but he is not truly | uccessful because he was directed the wrong mot: To a certain busir man success may mean to make as m 'h money as possible, no matter whom he may injure in the process. He may succeed in | up millions, but he is not truly sue- ul Lecause he has been directed - the wrong motive. The man who made far less money. but has ducted his business with the mo. of service is the more truly suc- cessful man. 1 To a politician success may mean o obtain a high office where he can | |have popularity and to use his office {to aggrandise himself and his politi- 1 friends. He may succeed in se- | curing the deslred office, but he is not | truly successful because he is di- rected by a motive of selfishness | rather than by a spirit of service. A humble public servant in a country }town who is conscientiously serving the people is far more successful be- cause he is actuated by the spirit of rvice At the Threshold of Life. Young people who read these arti- cles must not think they are written only for these who have acquired wealth, power or reputation. On the | contrary, they are written primarily for those who have not yet reached { that place in life. Those young men |who are “trying to make the mar |together with their ambitious wives, |are the ones for whom I am writing. They are the ones who need to real- ize the facts govePhing true succes: » many youns people are like a s aptain s ting out on a trip with- out any sailing papers or cliarts. The |captain may have a well built and fust ship; he may have a well trained crow, and he himself may be a skilful | navigator: but if he does not know for what port he is destined, his fast rip, fine crew and personal skill are of no avail. Yet this is just the {uation with many voung people who graduate from school or college to- day. They have not been taught many of the e ntials of life. The: e ambitious, but they do not know jjust what port they are secking. They see almost every one clse striv. |ing to get money and they naturally |follow the crowd. belifeving money and success arc Synoaymous, {not knowing that most rich men inever tried to be ric Accidental Millions. Most rich men simply accomplished mething worth while, and |riches came to them. They developed an idea: they performed a needed service; they manufactured or dis- |tributed something that people appre- |ciated, and their business grew by leaps and bounds. The trouble toda Here again hurnl]h H ti is | is true ot the buver and the | Hu- | piling | that | the | and otherwise. So it may be seen there | ¢asy boss. Including D. is little chance of English guarantees unless there be a ‘sudden right-about- face, and British governments never have been prone to so completely aban- don well traveled pathways of foreign poliey. As a result, it would appear that the Dawes proposals are in for rough sledding before the machinery toward economic and financial restoration of the continent can get into movement. A compromise solution will have to be reached if the French and British viewpoints are reconciled to the point of permitting allied unity of action in so far as Germany is concerned. Notwithstanding a keen desire on the part of all to hasten action, it would appear that political expe- diency again is mounting the saddle and will ride hard. Unless there be some agreement in the immediate future between Premiers Poincare, MacDonald and Theunis of Belgium, the powers most interested, but little, if anything, ever will be accomplished. It is & question of how far each will give and take. But one thing is cer- tain: Should Polncare stand firm and wreck the chances of economic and political accord among the allies there will be new alignments, and France will become isolated. This fear already has been voiced by fo mer Premier Briand. Poincare yet may be forced into line after the French elections are over and he has nulled the effectiveness of the shafts of his political enemies. He gives his men all the help he can and all the freedom of action they desire. Then it is up to them to show goods. He has translated or written $00 books and pamphlets on insects and belongs to and has been honored by every ome of the great national entomological organi- zations. He is a quick, fluent, lucid talker, never at a loss for a word, because he is never at a loss for a fact. Friendly, kindly, busy and businesslike. He is the general of the army against insects. Like the head of any great modern organiza- tion, he has mo time to waste, but plenty of time to be pleasant. His men teach American farmers how to fight against their insect pests. Better and more thorough cultivation—such as is the rule in | Europe—would be a great help. But that is out of the question over our great wheat and corn and cotton farms. They advocate all the new methods of dusting and poisoning. But the situation will probablv be saved by the importation of tke in- sect enemies of insects. “Not all bugs are bad,” says Dr. Howard. “Some are benevolent. At any rate, the bureau is saving the American farmer half a billlon dollars a year now. Maybe, in time, half the annual loss of $2,000,000,000 may be saved. That is about all that can be hoped for. Halyou squashed your Lug today? A point in Tenleytown on upper Wisconsin avenue near the District line is placed as the highest point in the District of Columbia by the sur- vey in its latest rearrangement of existing heights and depths. This point, according to the survey, is 420 feet above sea level, while the lowest point in the District of Columbia is the surface of the Potomac river— placed at sea level. The boundaries of the District of Columbla extend to the high-water mark on the Virginia shore of the Potomac. The approximate mean elevation of most of the territory within the Dis- trict of Columbia is placed at 150 feet above sea level by the survey, from a mathematical average taken from contour maps. Delaware and Louis- jana alone of all the states have a lower average elevation than the District of Columbia within the conti- nental boundaries of the United States, The average point in Dela- ware rests but 60 feet above sea level, while the highest point in the tiny ctate is in Newcastle county, reaching 410 feet above the level of the ocean. Louisiana's highest point is but 400 feet above sea level, while the mean average of the state’s extent of land is but 100 feet above the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Maryland's highest point is Back- bone mountain, in _Garrett sounty, towering 2,340 feet int6 the air, while the tallest peak in Virginia is Mount Rogers, in Grayson-Smyth county, reaching 5,719 feet into the blue. Mount Everest, the earth's tallest mountain, credited in early researches with reaching 29,002 feet into the sky ifrom the bask of the Himalaya range SUCCESS? The Fundamentals of Success [ with some of these men is not taat they lack the right spirit, but that | they become =0 engrossed with their business that they build machins larger than they arc able to handl It Is as much a pleasure to drive 4 business as it is to drive 4 horse or an automobile. However, when the business gets demanding that it drives the man, then it becomes a burden rather than a pleasure. Too many business men—both large and smail—are in this position today. The world calls them successful, but they are not successful. Logic But 10 Per Ce In an entire business life, sixty per cent of all we do is the result of in- stinet, inheritance and environment and 20 per cent is the result of re- ligion. The other 10 per cent is given to the forming of habits and is called reason or intellect. The accompanying table summarizes these fundamentals Instinct 60 per cent 1. Integrity Drecision and perseverance. Purpose and courtesy, Health and industry. Cleanliness and general pearanc Good niture humor. Religion 30 per cent $. Intelligen and judgment. nindedness and ap and sense of for: Ability operat 1. Initiative Imagination Aggres Reason 10 per cent 5. Concentration and rol of emotions 5 and judgmen!. t in_one’s work racter of friends rai considerations to organize and co originalit: from twen age—deter- religion vears of |mines usually the amount lwhich is to enter a |man's religion really detcrmines | habits. His habits of doing business {and of living really determine wheth ler or not he is 10 bo truly successtu! |These habits arc formed during youti |1argely before the ame of thirty-five {Motives and desires give the direc- tion to our habits. Hence the great portance of being thoroughly in | spired with the right motives and de- sires that we may “get headed in the | right direction.” Motives and desires | do'even more than direct habits. Thes determine the port which is to be ou’ | goal of sucees Chart Your Life. Never sail without carefully pre pared sailing papers. Stop now and chart your life. Determine the port vou are really desirous of reaching. and then chart the best way of reach- ing it. Analyze yourself and honestly admit the direction you want to be successful, and vour friends want to help vou succeed. However, ¥you want real success, not counterfeit success, Therefore study to get clear understanding of what this rea! success is. This is not a reference t any Sunday school variety, but rather to real, satiefying success, the kind that active red-blooded he-men real- they stop to think. This s 15 happiness. If You njoy a truly successful life ad a truly happy life th, power and popularity are not indications of true success, becaus: they of themselves do not cause hap- pin but there is such a thing as ccess and this is synonymous h happiness iranted this, then lct us chart our lives so that what we do will: Perform a needed service and the world a better place in ch to live, ) Make ourselve others, €0 far as we and stronger physically. (3) Frec ourselves and others, as much as possibic, from worry, carc and mental stress, These threc rules should be our | sailing orders. Whether selecting u | school. business, wife or home twe should lkeep these definite ends in view. and _also an, healthie: Stick to Your Course! We make our investments hire our employes (or select our em- | pioyer it we work for others) snd | our associates with these | three rules in Constantly keep }in mind that are sailing for the iport of true su and happiness Let us not be put off our course by nptations. Other ports may ten: | porarily seem more attractive, and |other ships may be headed in what | seem to be pleasanter directions, but [Tet us kcep our port clearly and con- stantly in mind. This is the way to form busi habits which are truly | worth s which will de- clare r 1t is these hab- its whi | ful men At a great meeting of cmployment | managers th ion was once | raised as to wi the most con- picuous defect evident in men and {women applying for positions. Thelr | unanimous conclusion was their lack |of ‘a fixed purposc or definite goal in ilire. T sald to_be true of all |ages and all classes. It was the one outstanding diffieulty with most per- sous examincd this group and their assistants. When one considers that these men lad charge of the cmployment for the greatest industrial concerns of | America, the importance of this con- {elusion is impressi Said_omne of | these men: “The test obStacle to success with which most applicants contend is their lack of any definite goal comes from worthwhile goal and This is an ag —both in character and should choose keeping on of specialis in occupation. Copyright, 19 First’ pul with Mass.) Fleming H. Revell Com ished in this newspaper by Babson Institote, Babson Highest and Lowest Points, C., Are Revealed in Indo-China, is even higher than this figure. ount Iiverest towers, snow-clad and forbidding, its highest ranges untrodden by the foot of man, 129,141 feet above sea level, accord- ing to research corrections made within the last few days by the Geo- logical Survey. Mount Everest could be placed up- side down in the deepest depth of ocean and there would still remain nearly 3,000 feet between the down- |turned peak of the mountain and the ocean's deepest bed. The survey has Jjust announced that the greatest {ocean depth yet found is 32,113 feet, {near the Island of Mindanao in'the Philippine group. Mount Whitney in _Inyo-Tulare | count, alif.. towering 14,501 feet above the Pucific ocean, is the highest point within the boundari of the continental United States outside of Alaska. Wash- ington state, with Mount Rainier's eleva- tion of 14,408 feet, has a close rival to the California giant. The tallest peak on the North American continent Mount McKin- ley, in McKinley National Park, Alaska, reaching 20,300 feet into the blue Alaskan sk Other high peaks in the United States are Mount Elbert in Colorado, on the ridge of the Rock- fes, with its elevation of 14,420 feet. second only to Mount Whitney: the Bast Peak in Nevada, with an eleva- tion of 13,145; Kings Peak in Utah, placed at 13,495: nnet Peak, in Wyoming, with an elevation of 13,785, and Granite Peak, in Montana, with an_elevation of 12,850, The eastern Appalachian rang: | thousands of years older, geologically. than the rugged Rockies of the west, tower no such imposing distances skyward as do their younger brothers of the west. \