Evening Star Newspaper, June 15, 1924, Page 55

EVERYDAY RELIGION By RT. REV.JAMES Bishop of LOST OPPORTUNITY. T. MATTHEW, xxiii3% “O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them which are sent unto thee, ! how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen Eathereth her chickens under wings, and ye would not!” Some one has said that the above words, pronounced by Jesus, are the saddest He ever uttered. With patri- otic fidelity He regarded the capital of His nation with utter devotion. He knew its history, its traditions, its mighty record of achievements.” To Him its temple was the enduring symbol of a nation’s faith. Beyond all else He loved its people. The pas- sion of Christ was for men, and of Him it was said, “He knew what was in man” Once only in His brief ca- reer, in the streets of Jerusalem He bad been received with the loud ac- elaim of the people as the royal suc- cessor and lineal descendant of the House of David. To a casual ob- sorver it might have seemed that He had come at length to the place of sovereign power. It was but an ephemeral outburst. Of Peculiar Significance. ‘The popularity of Jesus in Jerusa- lem was short lived. Notwithstand- ing all this, He could not forget the distinction of Jerusalem, nor the un- developed and unacknowledged po- tentialities of its people. No city of distinction in the world's history has had the opportunity afforded this one, but the prophet was “without honor in his own country” and was con- demned and ultimately crucified by His own people. In view of all this, the lament of Jesus over Jerusalem, with its disclosure of vearning love. takes on a peculiar significance. He reckoned with its ignorance and its failure to see its day of large op- portunity. “Hadst thou but known the things which belong unto thy peace!”—what awful significance in the words. Closely following them we have the indictment and con- demnation, “Behold, thy house is left unto thee desolate.” ~Certainly no sadder or more awesome declaration was ever made concerning any city— ancient or modern. The failure of Jerusalem to rightly interpret Jesus is one of the tragedies of time. In the judgment of its scholars and teachers He was an interloper if not a revolutionist. His teachings seemed to strike at the very roots of exist- ing systems, and doubtless they did. Little did the citizens of this proud city vision the influence of this re- jected Master upon future ages and future civilizations. Jerusalem is the eity of a lost opportunity. “Of all sad words of tongue or pen. Tbe saddest are these—'It might bave been.’ " It is a striking fact writ large upon the page of history that re- jpeatedly great teachers and prophets " Budget Bureau Is Striking U. S. Expense At Useless ntinued from First Page. One feature of the new budget prooe- @ure that is attracting attention not only in this country but throughout the world is the custom of holding semi- annual meetings of the personnel in Washington who are directly con- cerned with estimating for and the obligating and expending of govern- ment funds. The next business meet- ing of the government is to be held June 30 Following that business and President Coolidge's announce- ment, work will begin on the esti- mates for 1926, which the law require will be submitted to Congress the first week in December, when Con- gress Is due back. Let's consider some actual figures showing how the budget bureau op- ‘erates: The various departments and establishments had estimated that they expected to withdraw from the Treasury and would expend for the twelve months from July 1. 1923, to June 30, 1924, a total of $3,668,000,000. The estimated receipts from all sources totaled only $3,638,000,000— showing an expected deficit of $30,- 600,000. For that total of estimated expenditures the money had been ap- propriated and was available. They could spend it. The only restriction thereon was such control as the Presi- dent would be able to impose through the bureau of the budget. President Harding at the business meeting on June 18, just before he started for Alaska, stated very de- ecidedly that not only would there be no deficit in 1924, but that after set- (ting aside the $512,000,000 to be ap- plied during the year to the reduc- tion of the public debt all other ex- penditures, including interest on the public debt, must be kept withim $3,- 000,000,000. This meant a reduction in their spending program of $156,000,- 000, A new estimate of expenditures for the year, under this policy, on Novem- ber 30 totaled only $3,565,000,000—a reduction of $103,000,000 from the original estimates. A further reduc- tion of $53,000,000 had to be made if the policy of President Harding, which is now the policy of President Coolidge, is to be shown on June 30, as having been carried out. The reduction in expenditure, coup- led with unexpectedly large revenue receipts, has converted the $30,000,000 possible deficiency estimated at the June 18 meeting a year ago into a promised surplus of $329,000,000 as estimated on November 30. While the spur of a threatened deficit has been removed, there has been mo re- laxing of the pressure for savings. The federal personnel have had it impressed upon them that there can be no higher service at this time than to cut down and keep down federal expenditures. There is only one reason for econ- omy in the public service, and that is reduction in taxation. President Coolidge was able to recommend a program of tax reduction because ex- penditures had been reduced through the sacrifices of the executive depart- ments, Note these figures: The total receipts last year were $4,007,000,000 and we ended the year with @ surplus of $309,000,000. The total estimated receipts for next year, 1925, amount to only $3,693,000,- 000. Although receipts under 'the present system of taxation would be reduced below the receipts of 1923 by $314,000,000, the surplus estimated for next year has advanced from the $309,000,000 left over from last year o $395,000,000. Despite the fact that there has been a progressive falling off in revenues, there has been a pro- gressive increase in the estimated surplus, which could only be effected by a reduction in expenditures more than offsetting the reduction in re ceipts. Now, meeting referring back to the saving * &r $53,000,000 that had to be made this year by order of President Hard. ing, #t would seem to the casual tax. payer that 4s should be a simple E. FREEMAN, D. D, Washington. have been rejected in one age only to be extolled and canonized in another. As a matter of fact most of the men and women who have been lifted to the place of sainthood were in their own generation like the Master. “despised and rejected of men. has remained for subsequent periods to recognize their true worth and to give them their due and proper place as_benefactors of the rac In every sphers of life's experience there come now and again to one and all of us periods of peculiar oppor- tunity, the recognition and appro- priation of which inures to our last- ing benefit. Shakespeare declared: ““Thers iz & tide in the affairs of men ieh, , leads on to for- How frequently in life we have demonstrations of this. Some of us “in the bright lexicon of youth” feel within us the thrill of Some great impulse calling us to a life of real service, and for the while we feel the urgency of the call, but in an evil hour where adverse influences pre- vail, our ears become dull to it, the opportunity passes and our subse- quent life witnesses to the tragedy of a lost opportunity. Evidences of this are about us every day. The tragic lament of men and “women who are conscious of life's miscarriage, the result of fail- ure to see and seize opportunity at the right time, is witnessed on every hand. In no sphere of being is this condition more profoundly tragic than in the case of those who have denied to themselves the joy and sat- isfaction of a great spiritual experi- ence. Like the ancient city of Jerusalem, they failed in the days of their opportunity. The hardening in- fluences of life, its bitter disappoint- ments, its unsettling misfortunes or possibly its heart-breaking sorrows have seemed to atrophy the finer sen- sibilities and to silence the aspira- tions of the soul. Of some the words are true: “T spake unto thee in (hy prosperi But thou saidst, ‘I will not bea Standing one day before the gate leading into that part of Rome known as the “Ghetto” we saw the words inscribed over its archway, “All day long have I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and gainsaying peo- ple.” It was the old, old cry that has proceeded from the lips of many prophets who have yearned to Iift mankind up to higher levels of think- ing and living. In a very large sense we believe the present is a day of new opportunity. The vearning for the spiritual manifests itself in many ways. Men and women are asking for something that material posses- sions cannot give, The satisfaction of the soul's hunger is imperatively demanded. Substitutes for the eternal truths enunciated by Jesus Christ are purveyed on every hand, and yet. men are not satisfied, nor will they be until they come to recognize the majesty and beautiy of the life and teachings of Him who lovingly and longingly yearned over the city of a lost opportunity. (Copyright by Current News Features. Inc.) matter out of the estimated expendi- ture of $3.563,000,000. but let's make an analysis of some of the factors that make up that big total. We find $940,000,000 for interest on the pub- lic debt, which cannot be modified $512,000,000 for reduction of the pub- lic debt, required under the provisions of the cumulative sinking fund act and other enactments which cannot be modified, as well as by orders of President Harding; $688,000,000 is for the veterans of the three wars and dependents of four, which will not be touched for purposes of econom: and there are many more millions not subject to administrative control. Deducting these large amounts, there is only about $1,500,000,000 that could be attacked by the budget bureau with the most trenchant weapons—co-op- eration and co-ordination—a team- work which means economy. Take just a quick and brief glance at the savings through co-ordination: A permanent conference on printing effected a total reduction in 1923 as against 1922 of $260,000. The federal liquidation board is just closing the most collossal selling effort in his- tory, disposing of surplus property valued at $3,691,002,762, for which $1,- 282,492,909 has been received; supplies valued at $357,614,823 have been transferred between federal agencies, with a saving of about $100,000,000 to the government. The federal specifications board has issued 133 standard specifications, one of which, for a specific kind of var- nish, is saving the Navy Department alone $90,000 a yvear. Area co-ordi- nators from September 1, 1921, to No- vember 30 last effected savings amounting to $1,518,000. Space is lacking for a detailed sum- mary of these economies. Through the operation of the chief co-ordi- nator, the eight co-ordinating boards, the seven area co-ordinators, and the eighty-four federal business assocla- tions, there has been developed through the federal service a most helpful and encouraging spirit of co- operation and teamwork that is re- sulting not only in saving of funds and supplies but in greater efficiency. This has proved to be one of the most. fruitful agencies in the reduction of government costs. In the business me-iing a year ago President Harding, discussing the ex- scutive policy regarding estimates for 1925, ordered that, exclusive of the public debt and postal service items, a drastic reduction should be made of $125,000,000 below what had been appropriated for the current fiscal vear. It meant that for 1925 there should be appropriated $537,000,000 less than was appropriated in 1922. This program was indorsed and adopt- ed by President Coolidge. The bureau of the budget, after carefully consid- ering more than 5,000 items, recom- mended for 1925 estimates totaling $1,645,000,000, which was $318,000,000 less than the amounts asked by the departments and $55,000,000 less than the President’s maximum. The total estimates submitted, in- cluding the public debt items, but omitting the postal service, practical- Iy self-supporting, amounted to $3,- 018,000,000. Before pre-budget days the original estimates would have been submitted to Congress carrying an additional $318,000,000, and the President would,not have been able to recommend a program of tax re- duction, The estimates of receipts for 1925, as prepared by the bureau of the bud- ®et, total $3,693,000,000. The estimat- ed expenditures as prepared by the bureau of the budget total $3,298,000- 000 which is $267,000,000 le: an the estimated expenditures for the cur- rent fiscal year. The effort of the budget bureau, acting under the direction of the President, is to make such cuts in the expenditure program as will per- mit a balanced budget, whatever the egislation may be to reduce taxes or -additional expenditures—with no r&ort to additional taxation. BY HERBERT COREY. JME people criticize us,” said Dr. William A. Taylor, with perfect content, ‘be- cause they say our organi- sation s too loose. It is not framed on the military plan. We have no leftenants and majors and generals her. Comment seemed a little difficult. “I do not believe that a man en- gaged in research work can be han- dled on the military plan,” he con- tinued, “if you wish to get the best out of him. He must feel his soul is his own. He must be permitted to go at his job independently in the way that best suits him. My part is to keep all working together in har- mony. Now and then I give advice.” A multitude of scientists engaged on various parts of the same general task often find their orbits overlap- ping a trifle. The average scientist is distinctly a one-idead man, His particular work is the most impor- tant thing in the universe, and he re- sents the touching of any part of it by any other man, no matter how clear the other man may read his title. But in the bureau of plant industry they work as a team. When orbits touch they intermesh instead of interlock. “We study,” said Dr. Taylor, drop- ping genially into alliteration, “the Pests and practices of plant produc- tion.” That, when you come to think of it, is something of an assignment. There are about 2,000 employes of the bureau, of whom one-third are scientists whose headquarters are in Washington, but who may spend any- where from one yemr to tem in the B s e et e times climatic and other comditions compel a man to stay years in the fleld before a general average can be discovered on which definite state- ments may be based regarding a certain plant. Case of Egyptian Cotton. ‘There is the case of the Egyptian cotton, for example. Our Sea Island cotton was always the finest in the world, but the output was limited. “So we sent men to the Imperial Valley,” said Dr. Taylor, “where con- ditions approximated those of the ir- rigated lands of Egypt, to study the possibility of acclimatizing the Egyptian cotton.” In time two or three varieties were produced which equaled or bettered the original. These were cut down to one. Then the bureau of plant industry found itself compelled to ex- tend the scope of its operations. Onme farmer could not successfully raise the new cotton, because the cotton of his neighbors would come over and hybridize it. In the end the bu- reau secured the consent of the Im- perial Valley raisers to embark on a scheme of community growing. in which all raised the same cotton. It was 5o successful that the same community plan is now being tried in the older cotton districts. Aus- tralia is planning a great new cotton industry and has taken this particu- lar leaf out of the American book. The same thing happened with dates in the Coachella Valley. The bureau's scouts in Arabia discovered a particularly fine variety of date and brought it to the United States, although dates have never before been raised here. They were experi- mented with until date raising be- came a certainty. Farmers were in- [ DR. WILLIAM A. TAYLOR. duced to grow dates. Then they were instructed in the methods of ripen- ing, curing, packing and finally marketing, the bureau helping to cre- ate a market for them. Now it is at work on the dasheen, which is a sort of a superpotato which is grown in the semi-tropics. Florida and Louisi- ana farmers can raise dasheen, but the market is limited. So the bureau is inducing hotel men to take an in- terest in a vegetable that is described as even more valuable than our fine old spud. A new agricultural indus- try is in process of creation. Dr. Taylor is a slender, kindly, gray-haired, gentle-spoken man with 2 handsome, aquiline face and a griz- sled mustache. He came naturally by his liking for plants and trees, for when he was a boy his father's health broke under the burden of his duties as a Congregational minister, and he bought a forest farm in Michigan. That was the year of the Chicago fire, and although that had nothing to do with it, by a coincidence the Michigan lake front pine forests were swept by a destructive fire. “It was a pity,” said he, “but it made the task of clearing that farm easier.” He helped grub and plow and burn and fence that farm. His father set out an orchard, and the boy grew in- terested in it. Therefore he went to the Michigan Agricaltural College, the first of its sort in the United States, to learn more about farming and trees. All the students Wwere poor and self-supporting. It was ac- cepted that the boys must teach country school between times if they were to pay their way through col- lege, and the long vacation was set in the middle of the winter, when was in 1891, He spent years in the fleld, promotion followed, and in the end he became the chief of not the least important bureau in the gov- ernment service. His hope is in some measure to take up the slack in agriculture. If the farmer could be freed from the pest of tree and plant diseases and know how to get the very most out of his land, and learn in advance what crops he should plant against the world need, the farmer’s problem would be infinitely ecasier. ‘“We are working toward that end,” said he. “We are very far from it of course, but we are mov- ing on > Co-operative methods of growing and marketing are among Dr. Tay- lor's interests. It is a part of his task to investigate the insects that carry diseases to plants, just as ty- phoid carriers spread that fever among human beings. His men have learned that the white pine blister, which threatened to destroy the white pine which one of these days will make abandoned New England farms into small gold mines, can only oper- ate if it stops midway on a current or gooseberry bush. So that a barred zone is being established about the forests in which no currant or goose- berry bushes are allowed to live. At Work em a New Wheat. In the same way the black stem wheat rust can only propagate through the help of the barberry bushes. The barberry is being blocked out through ten or twelve western states. The bureau is at work on a new wheat. It can be profitably grown here, but it has not yet been shown whether it will work up into the right sort of flour for the sort of bread we Americans like to eat. That sort of little black currant we used to find in plum puddings and nowhere else has been brought over from the Greek Archipelago, and in a little while we will grow our own. Half a dozen scouts are always in foreign fields, looking for new and useful plants and the methods of raising and ripening and marketing them. It was Dr. Rock, a bureau man, who found the chaulmoogra tree in the hinterland of Siam and Bur- mah. No other white man had ever seen it. The tree is being acclimated now through our semi-tropic coun- try, for the chaulmoogra oil is a spe- cific against leprosy. The task in which Dr. Taylor is chiefly interested at the moment is the discovery of a rubber plant which can be produced in the United States or adjacent lands, and which will free us from the tyr- anny of today’s producers. Farmer Getting Better. “Think what might happen if a bug were to spring up out of no- ‘where and which would destroy the present rubber plantations,” said he. “Experience has shown that it takes vears to conquer such an enemy. What would we do without rubber for our automobile tires and our scien- tific machines, not to speak of other uses? Germany discovered during the war that rubber is an absolute neces- sity today. But there are between one and two hundred rubber-produc- country schools most do flourish. ‘We all worked our way through, said Dr. Taylor, “and we were all the better for it.” Entrance into the Department of Agriculture followed as a matter of course, although the department was a feeble thing in those days. That ing plants and trees. Maybe we will find ameng them the one we want Incidentally, Dr. Taylor has a Coue formula: “Every day in every wav,” he says, “the farmer is getting better and bet- ter. He thinks nowadays instead of using gramdpap's formula. He read: When I was a boy he just sweated. The Story the Week Has Told BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended June 14: * * x ¥ The British Emipire.—The coming debate in the British Commons on the mew housing bill promises to be exciting. It is rumored that the gov- ernment will make the vote thereon one of confidence. The government's housing program is stupendous. It contemplates an expenditure of several billion dollars for construction, to be spread over fifteen years, of two and a quarter million houses. The cost would be defrayed part from general, part from local taxation. The Clydeside hats are in the ring. But the gentlemen of the Clyde are not without proper grounds of dis- satisfaction. Whereas in some other industries unemployment has fallen practically to “normal,” if the min- ister of labor is correct in his sta- tistics, the percentage of unemployed in shipbuilding is 34, in marine engi- neering 22, in shipping 21, and these are the Industries by which, mostly, the Clydeside lives. The project of a Calais-Dover tun- nel is being revived. But for blind refusal of sanction by the British anthorities, it might have been real- ized many years ago, and it is con- ceivable that its realization might have averted the world war. A French and a British company are ready to start work simultaneously boring in either direction. No serious engineering difficulties "are appre- hended. The tunnel would go through a thick chalk stratum, comparatively soft and impervious to water. It is estimated that it would be completed within six years and cost the equivalent of about $360,000,000. Length, about twenty-four miles. The empire settlement act which went into operation in June, 1932, has not _accomplished much. The object of that act is to promote emigration from the British Isles to the outlying commonwealths and colonies of the empire. Four million pounds might have been expended to date out of appropriations pursuant o the act, only £400,000 has been to aid in the emigration and establish- ment in their new homes of only 47,500 persons. The area of the British empire is about 13,250,000 square miles and its population about 450,000,000. The war added 2,000,000 square miles, with a population of about 20,000,000. Big things are afoot in British Africa. A confederation of Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar is projected, to constitute a dominion. A peculiarity of a great part of this region is that, though it lies under the equator, it seems (one should speak cautiously) adapted to settlement by whites. At least, it is more suitable for such séttiement than any other equatorial region on the globe. The time is not far distant when Rhodesia will be a dominion. Alberta, Canada. has gone wet again after an arid period of eight years, but the. government is the liquor vender. * k% % Framee—On June 1 M. Millerand resigned as President of France. Several left leaders in succession having refused to accept the premier- ship from Millerand, M. Francois- Marsal of Poincare's late cabinet agreed to form a cabinet of the right, which should present itself to parlia- ment with a message from the presi- dent inviting debate on the propriety of compulsion of the president to resign through the refusal of the majority of parliament to form a government on the president’s invita- tion or to accept any premier designated by him. M. Francois-Marsal and his col- leagues duly presented themselves with the message. It charged that the effort to force the president's resignation was actuated solely by political motives and declared that success thereof would seriously prejudice the stitution. “By stipulating” (so reads the message) “that the president of the republic is responsible to the pariiament only in the case of high treason, the constitution willed that for the national interest of stability and continuity the presidential power should be kept sheltered from fluctua- tions. If it were henceforth to be understood that the arbitrary action of the majority could oblige the president of the republic to retire for political motives, the president would be no more than a toy in the parties' hands. Dangerous counselors in partisan interest are trying to see that the new legislature begin with a revolutionary act.” In asking the chamber for a vote on the message, M. Francois-Marsal pointed out that approval thereof would imply the decision that it was the constitutional duty of the ma- jority (I e., the Left) to accept the president’s invitation to form a gov- ernment. The Left (i. e, the Left proper, not_including the Commun- ists) refused to discuss the message, but a flery exchange ensued between Millerand champlons and the Com- munist leaders. One of the former charged that the attack on Millerand originated at Moscow, in revenge for Millerand’s saving of Poland from the Muscovites in 1920. M. Cachin, the Communist chief, retorted with the most violent reflections on _the politi- cal and personal character of Miller- and. “This language is intolerable,” gasped M. Painleve, president of the chamber, whereupon the Communists sang “The Internationale.” One after another Millerand spakesmen chal- lenged M. Herriot, the Left chief, to debate the constitutional issue, taunt- ing him with cowardice, but he main- tained silence. In the end, Miller- and's plea was turned down by the chamber, and the Left attitude—really a strike against the president—ap- proved by a vote of 329 to 214. Al- ready the Senate had taken similar action, though with strictly decorous procedure, by a vote of 154 to 144. There was nothing left for the presi- dent to do but resign unless he should ropose to act the d r. P The eatlemen of the Left, as every one knows, claim to be saviors of the constitution in that Millerand vio- lated the spirit thereof when, in the course of the recent election cam- paign, he expressed a hope that the Right would win, presidential im- partiality as between parties being prescresptive. Disinterested _crit- ics, however, seem fairly agreed that the copstitution has been harder hit by these “saviors” than by M. Miller- and’s indiscretion. They declare that M. Millerand was sufficiently dis- ciplined by the election returns. In a statement to the public M. Millerand says: “This is a dangerous precedent which makes the presidency of the republic the plaything of electoral fights and tears from the comstitution the only element of stability and con- tinuity it contains. Against the above it might be pointed out that of eleven French presidents, four, including Millerand, have resigned because of conflicts tability of the con-| with parliament, and that the Repub- lican regime has suffered no fatal lesson in consequence. The French have their own way of doing things. On June 13 M. Doumergue, presi- dent of the Senate, was elected Pres- ident of France by Chamber and Senate in joint session at the Ver- sailles Palace. M. Doumergue is of the moderate Left. He has invited M. Herriot to form a cabinet and Herriot has consented. It is under- stood that, though M. Doumergue in- clines slightly to the Left on domestic issues, his attitude on reparations and German disarmament is scarcely less firm (though more soft-spoken) than that of the Nationalists. M. Painleve was the candidate of the Chamber Left. M. Doumergue was elected by Nationalist votes and his victory was a_bitter blow to the Chamber Left. * It is interesting to note that he is the first Protestant dent. Peletier D'Oisy, the flier, in Tokio on June 9. * x % ¥ Turkey—It is reported that the Angora government has repudiated the famous “decree of Muharrem” (L e. of the 28th of Muharrem, De- cember 20, 1881), in which imperial decree gave validity to certain ar- rangements for the administration of the exterior public debt of Turkey and the’ protection of the foreign creditors. The decree of Muharrem ‘was considerably modified by the an- nex decree of 1903. If the report is correct really the Turks are going pretty far. The Grand National Assembly of Turkey has abolished the law enact- ed by it not so long ago prohibiting alcoholic beverage. It was found to increase the consumption of vile liquors and the drinking and smok- ing of hashish. Mustapha Kemal, ac- cording to report, concluded that the best method towards achieving the results to be desired is that of edu- cation and regulation rather than that of prohibition. s * K Kk United States of Ameriea—In my last summary I stated that the But- ler Navy bill, providing for construc- tion of eight scout cruisers and six river gunboats and for important modernization of six battleships, was passed by the Senate. It was not, being one of the victims of the final filibuster. The deficiency bill, carry- ing $132,000,000 for financing the bonus and $62,000,000 for reclamation and other emergency purposes, and the bill carrying $165,000,000 for highways were likewise victims. On June 7 the President vetoed the postal salary increase bill, carrying an additional annual appropriation of approximately $68,000,000. “‘Govern- ment_extravagance must stop,” said the President in his message of transmittal On Thursday three officers and forty-five men were killed and twelve men were injured in an explosion on board the battleship Mississippi in the course of target practice off San Pedro, Cali that is, all but four of the crews of the fourteen-inoh guns in a three-gun turret. The cause of the accident has yet to be determined. Hopping off from Shanghai on June 17, our world fiyers reached Amoy that evening. The next day they flew to Hongkong. On the 10th they reached Hal (French Indo-China), and on the 11th Turane (Indo-China). At Turane a new motor for Smith's plane was discovered te be arrived necessary and a wireless message Was sent to an American destroyer at Salgon (Inda-China) to fetch one in storage for the fiyers at that town. George S. Baker has given $5,000,- 000 for endowment of the Harvard graduate sohool of business adminis- tration. A little passe, but important. The Republicans have nominated Calvin Coolidge for President and Charles G. Dewes for Vice President. * ¥ % % Miscellancsus.—The Kingand Queen of Italy are paying a retumn visit to the King and Queen of Spain. The Jubaland (Africa) controversy between the British and Italian gov- ernments has been settled satisfac- torily to both, but the precise details of the settlement are unknown to me. Zita, ex-Empress of Austria-Hun- gary, 18 in distress again. She simply can’t live on less than $5,000 per month, and that amount is not forth- coming in doles from King Alphonso and her other friends. The Hun- garian government, despite its finan- cial straits, should be able to do something for the unhappy lady. Dispatches indicate that the Al- banfan insurgents have captured Ti- rana, the Albanian capital; that the members of the provisional govern- ment have fled. and that the insur- gents (who call themselves “Nation- alists”) are proceeding quietly enough to the formation of a govern- ment. It is reported (if true it is very good news) that through the mediation of Senior De La Barra, one time Mexican ambassador at Wash- ington, agreement between Bulgaria and Greece has been reached as to a commercial outlet for Bulgaria to the Aegean through Greek territory. According to _the report Bulgaria is to nave privileges at the port of Kavalla similar to those of Jugo- slavia at Saloniki, access to Kavaila to be by a corridor under the super- vision of the league of nations. Sir Arthur Evans, to whose mag- nificent work we owe the best part of our knowledge of the Minoan age, has made new finds on the site of the Palace of Cnossus, in Crete, sald to equal any previous ones: over by a petrified alluvial deposit. The very important trea e, meermneed ty between cabi; It is a coalition cabinet, drawn from three ' parties—the Kenseikal, the Seiyukai and the Kakushin Club. The foreign minister is Baron Shidehars, A inderstood to be Aenaininston n lors o and und friendly to this SR Show me a child who does not a Kitten or a puppy, and I awil} shos ;:u Ll;e“:;rl:::l‘thy p:‘oducl of un- tural ng, writes K. Peeples in the Nature l'l|n.be'l.h To study animals with cildren fros seven to eleven or twelve years of age is as sure a road to happiness as taking them to the circus. Often that is 2 good way to begin. But even after a circus, beginners in ani- mal study should commence with a domestic rather than a wild animal, because of ease im ebservation and the possibllities fer fmtimacy, If for ne nther reasom. Pioneering for Government Experts Seek Rubber Fields Industries’ Indepelidcnoe in Americas and Philippines. BY BEN McKELWAY. UTTING the'r way through uncharted forests and navi- #ating in native canoes rivers where few white men have gone before, experts of the Depart- ments of Agriculture and Commerce have completed the pioneer work of making the United States, the world's largest consumer of rubber, inde- pendent of foreign nations for its supply. Incidentally, they have fur- nished information whioh may lead to & new era of development in por- tions of South and Central America and create additional markets for American trade. Not long ago the American rubber industry woke up with a start and found the bugaboo of a foreign mo- nopoly staring it in the face. The presence of the monopoly was noth- ing new, but the American rubber i dustry had been so busy keeping its wheels turning that as long as raw supplies were available there was nothing to worry about. But when Great Britain enacted certain re- striction laws in 1922, limiting pro- duction and tending to'increase prices of raw rubber, American manufac- turers had thrust upon them the ne- cessity for creating their own sources of supply. The step seemed neces- sary, not so much to meet a problem of the present, but one of the future. Great Britain’s Comtrel. Here was the situation. Ninety- five per cent OT the world's rubber i8 grown in the far east. Seventy-seven per cent of the total area under rub- ber is controlled by Great Britain. American capital invested in the east is estimated —at only $32,000,000, against the $489,000,000 for Great Britain, $130,000,000 for Holland, $40,- 000,000 for Japan, $27.000,000 for France and Belgium and $47,000.000 for other European countries. The Department of Commerce investiga- tors estimated that the operation of the British restriction laws would reduce the aggregate potential pro- duction for this year, 1925 and 1926 by upward of 200,000 tons, while ru ber planted by the native population and old areas on European estates are expected to show declining yields. Consuming more rubber than any of them. the United States is dependent upon' foreign growers for its supply. The Department of Commerce ask- ed and received from Congress an ap- propriation for an investigation of what might be done to make the United States independent of foreign countries for certain raw products which are now controlled by foreign monopolies, and the rubber investiga- tion was one of them. It has about been compieted. Now Up to Rabber Industry. The Department of Commerce is now ready to turn over its findinss to the rubber industry, and that will come near concluding the govern- ment’s interest in the case. The ques- tion will be put up to the rubber in- dustry, which must deoide its future course’ alone. If the Department of Commerce _investigation convinces the rubber industry that it may develop its own sources of supply profitably, the result will be interesting. The investigators found that the Philippines and parts of Central and growing rubber, while the areas they’ pgavide are virtually unlimited in r extent. The investigators men-T on other countries, such as Malaya., Sumatra and Indo-China, but they seem to emphasize more the advan- tages of the Philippines and Central” and South America. The Philippines have always suffered the handicap of being in the typhoon area and pre- vious reports on growing rubber there have painted dismal pictures of- the rubber plantation which might- be destroved In the course of a few minutes by the work of a typhoon. Labor conditions there also have beert held to be poor, but the present in- vestigation showed that nature was more favorable to growing rubber in. . the Philippines than man and the. law he makes. The typhoons may be discounted, the investigators found but the laws which restrict the ac- quisition of land for rubber planta. tions to 2,500 acres by a company or an individual are considered too much® of a handicap. Interest in Tropieal Americn. The most interesting resuits of ho investigation are found in the poten- tialities presented by the fact thar most favorable conditions for grow ing rubber plantations are found i tropical America, where the aggre- gate area of desirable land is suf- ficient to rival the present cultivated area in the east. Taxes on these lands it was found, are either very low or non-existent, while the land tenurs conditions were found generally f vorable, varying, of course, in the different countries. The investigators found that the attitude of the vari ous republics of Central and South America was extremely cordial, thes reports state, and government of- ficials were anxious to.make condi tions as favorable as possible for large enterprises. In cases where the. existing laws appeared to igipede d velopment there were intimations that the laws could be changed to meet special conditions. The countries visited In _tropical America were Guatemala, Salvador? Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama. Co< lombia and Ecuador and the Amazon region, which took in Bolivia, Peru the disputed area between Colombia and Ecuador, the three Brazilian states, Amazonas, Matto Grosso and Para, and the Acre territory of Brazil, In some of the American countries investigated. labor is scarce. Labor would have to be imported before plantations could be started, and the, attitude of the governments concerned must be taken into consideration. Transportation a Problem. While the South American coun- tries dre in a strong strategic posi- tion from the standpoint of transpor- tation to the United States. many of the areas are inaccessible now. Means of transportation inland would have to_be found. Rubber plantations do not grow in_ a day. They take five or six years tn mature, initial investment would be heavy and the realization of profits, slow. o While the Department of Commerce?® has ‘pointed the way, the rubber in- dustry must follow its own course. What it will be, where the invest- ment will be centered, are questions 1o be answered by the industries’ own investigators. But the Department of Commerce has shown the possibili- South America are ideal, as far as the soil and climate are concerned, for ties of an extensive and new field fof " American enterprise. ’ Class Consciousness in U. S. Held Menace to Country The menace to this country of thinking and legislating along class lines and the waste of propiganda are emphasized by William J. Graham, recently a representative in Con- STess, now judge of the court of cus- toms appeals, and Representative John Q Tilson of Conmnecticut. In his valedictory to Congress Rep- resentative Graham, who at the open- ing of the present Congress was put forward as a candidate for House leader, warned his colieagues as fol- lows: “T have come to view with appre- hension and alarm a tendency that is prevalent throughout this country, and that is the tendency of the peo- ple of the country to think along class lines and to seek in this forum class legislation of all kinds and on all subjects. “If there is anything the country ought to beware of and if there is anything this House in its future de- liberations ought to beware of it is that tendency, which is not the fault of the members of this House or of the body at the other end of the Capitol, but is the fault of the people themseives in thinking along class lines. Menace to the Comntry. “It is a menace to the country, and I hope it is one that will in time be obliterated by reason of the general consciousness of the people that, after all, the function of this body is to act for the people generally and to have mass consciousness instead of class consciousness, which many of those who send us here would have us assume.” That stemming the tide of propa- ganda would be a mighty conserva- tion measure was argued by Rep- resentative Tilson, who said that “unless a halt is called in the rapid depletion of our timber supply or steps taken to replace our disappear- ing forests, it requires no prophetic vision to see the day when America will r;-.lell!ble China and India in this regard” Fie ‘called “the plague of printed propaganda” the ‘‘one most wilful, wicked and wanton waste of perfect- 1y good timber.” In arguing that genuine, unpreju- diced public opinion is the life and strongest bulwark of free govern- ment, but the manufactured article is a_dangerous substitute, especially when emanating from sordid self-in- terest, “and many there be who are deceived thereb Representative Tilson said: “If there is anywhere 2 more use- less, senseless waste of ink and paper, to say hothing of time and vital en- ergy, than the present method now in full swing of propagandizing Con- gress, then I am not cognizant of it. Most members of Congress, like most other people. need to be informed, and, as a rule, they are desirous of being informed: but if thére were for- ty-eight hours in the day instead of twenty-four, no mortal man could possibly read a tithe of the so-called information now being _deposited daily in the bulging wastebaskets of senators and representatives. Lest something of value be overlooked, it is necessary to have a secretary at least remove the envelope or Wrapper and make a superficial exammation. Even this takes time that might be employed in usefal service. Many People Misled. «“Nor is the more bulky printed matter the only form of foolish prop- aganda. Many ‘well meaning people are misled into signing silly form fetters, and some are led so far as to perform the senseless task of labor- fously copying what some interested party has placed in their hands with the request that they copy, sign and send to Washington. They do mot Tealize that when a member of Con- gress has received several hundred Sommunications in exactly the same Janguage he will suspect that the jdentical same inspiration has prob. ably not come to so many persons Simultaneously. In fact, the expe- Tlenced member of Congress can us- ually guess quite promptly the-exact source of the inspiration, and as a rule knows that the real source is not altogether free from the taint of self- interest. ¥ “Nothing is more acceptable or, in fact, more helpful to a member of Congress who desires to serve the best interests of the people effect- ively than to receive communications from his constituents. I mean their to which he has given thought oughts not to be taken into consideration. People ought to give more thought to matters of government, and when they do their ideas are not only er- titled to respect, but they should prove helpful. It is worse than wast-~ ed energy, however, to transmit the; stale ideas of some one else Who is perhaps selfishly interested, and it makes no_ difference whether those ideas are in a form letter, printed, or copled, or more or less cleverly re hashed in order to conceal the origin Berlin Raid Reveals . Hypocrisy of Moscow’ The raiding of the Russian trader commission's quarters in Berlin by, the police and the arrest of 700 listed as employes discloses some sigmifi- cant facts worth American considera- tion. On this list of alleged trade missionaries were found many Ger- man communists who have been fo- menting red disturbances. In the' mission's quarters were found arms” and propagandist literature of the red international Thus we have a very neat demon- stration of the hypocrisy of the Mos- cow government's absurd claim that it is not responmsible for the inter- nationl revolutionary operations of the communist international. The denial was absurd, a palpable, quibble; but our pinks and our ad-. vocates of recognition for trade have affected to believe it. The Berlin raid shows the soviet government acting. as an agent for the international which it, in fact, controls morall: and financially. Americans who think our refusal to recognize the soviet regime i pedantic, illogical or impractical are invited to ponder the disclosures of the Berlin raid. There are no ad- vantages from recognition in the wiy of business with a busted and demo-, ralized country which would offset the nuisance which certainly would result from allowing Moscow to plant agencies of bolshevik mischief, throughout the country under the disguise of diplomatic and consular forms and under the protection of diplomatic immunities.—Chicago Dally Tribune. Marie Corelli Read : In Palaces and Cabins It cannot be said that a light of literatare went out with the passing of Marie Corelli, but it will be im- possible for the historian who essays to describe the literary taste of her generation to ignore the author of' “The Romance of Two Worlds.” Her appeal was not to the intellectual elite, and yet she was one of the fa- vorite novelists of Queen Victoria was found fascinating by the exquis ite Elizabeth of Austria, was read by the elegant Alexandra of England This royal favor denotes nothing as to the artistry of her work, but it signifies the remarkable catholicity of her appeal. Her melodramatic quality, the weird touch of mystery,. Tere ehough to have placed her name. among the “best sellers.” But her vogue has been due in large measure to the l‘;mtnllam which permeates. ber novels. e queen in the castle and the’ peasant in the cabin are alike in a unger for impressions of the life beyond. Miss Corelll ministered to! this desire to penetrate the veil. Whatever the critics may think or, 4y, they cannot deny her the distinc-’ tion that few among the greater ar:’ tists have shared, of numbering her followers from the man with the hoe to the woman with the tiara and th erown.—New York Evening World. - —— 5 To attract the custom of the for-, eigner Japanese tradesmen often pui" up signs in what they consider to be" idiomatic English. Such signs cons. tain amusing mistakes. One of th funniest is that exhibited by a Japa- nexe baker in Tokio: it read own communications. There is no one so humble that his ideas on matters \. Kashinuru, Biggest Loafer { Tokio.”