Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 13

FRENCH RELIGIOUS QUESTION RESUMED Age-0ld Fight Has Many Traditions of Odd Combina- tions With Politics. BY ANDRE By Radlo te The Star, PARIS, February 7.—France's old religious quarrels have been revived. Although the abolition of the em- bassy to the Vatican was voted by the Chamber of Deputies on Friday as a matter of principle, and not as a result of a violent conflict as it was under Premier Combes twenty years ago, nevertheless, millions of French- men who are not active Catholics re- gret it as a symptom of internal diyision. There is no use denying that France and the United States have great difficulty {n understanding each other on many points. They had many sharp diplomatic differences after the American Revolutionary War and after the complete victory of 1918, similar difficuities arose. Is the question of religion misun- derstood? On his various trips to America, the writer met many emi- nent prelates like Cardinal Gibbons, Archibishop Ireland and Bishop O'Connell, now Cardinal O'Connell, who watched France's religious struggles with pained surprise. Yet the origin of these struggles goes back to the Capetain kings and Americans today can know little of the, underlying problem. Of course, the whole aspect of these struggles has changed many times during the centuries. Our so-called separation act. {s only 20 years old, but long before that the church had ceased to have any real connectiun with civil and secular affairs. But politics and religion were closely in- termingled, now as allics and now as enemies, but never independent cf each other, with the result that even today’ every movement of the political pendulum has its effect upon reli- glous affairs. The affair of the Vatican embassy is enlightening. The embassy was established four vears ago when the moderate counsels prevailed in Pare liament. It is being abolished be- cause the left Cartel has the ma- Jority. Such oscillations, considering that the matter Is more diplomatic than religious, are absurd and un- justifiable. But such is the fact, and it follows one of the oldest traditions in French politics. Americans cannot understand why this tradition survices, because, al- though they have had their religious troubles, they have got rid of them. Whereas, today, ail the religions in America fall under the common law, there have been less peaceful days. George Washington had to defend the Catholics against the persecution of the intolerant. One recalls the anti- Catholic disturbances of 1834 and 1343 and the violent practices of the Know Nothing party. No trace of these quarrels remains today and as Theo- dore Roosevelt said, there is no re- ligious question in America. Unfortunately there:is a religious Qquestion in France and the last week's events are only an incident therein. The present problem of the Vatican embassy goes back to 1920, when the Left parties stirred up the conserva- tive majority to demand of Premier Clemenceau the re-establishment of the embassy as the price of his elec- tion to the presidency. Premier Clemenceau, who detests bargaining, refused to'promise, but continued to negotiate with Cardinal Mercier con- cerning the form in which future re- lations between France and the Vati- can should be carried on. Thus, all the parties deserted M. Clemenceau for M. Deschanel. The embassy was re-established anyhow, but the Left was glad to get rid of M. Clemenceau at that price and was willing to wait until the next election for its revenge. It gets it today, and abolishes the em- bassy, while the Right at last real- izes that it was duped. That illus- tration shows how politics and re- ligion get tangled in France. True, the ‘Senate still has to pass on the abolition of the embassy. Premier Herriot himself recognizes the neces- ity of keeping some representative at the Vatican on account of the special religious legislation affecting Alsace- Lorraine, and this may influence the Senate vote. But however it comes out, the de- plorable fact is that this entirely non- political institution has been juggled for purely political objects, resulting in a harmful and needless division in France's internal life. i 1925.) TARDIEU. TWOBIG PROBLEMS FACED BY TORIES Geneva Protocol and Navy Budget Demands Threaten Trouble in Britain. BY A. G. GARDINER. By Radio to The Star. LONDON, February 7.—The new Tory government faces the music next Tuesday when Parliament resurhes its sittings. Two main problems await solution. What will Foreign Minister Austen Chamberlain do. with regard to the Geneva protocol? Wil Chancellor Winston Churchill yield to the ad- miralty? A flerce battle is raging &propos the new demands of the navy. These demands threaten to ralse naval ex- penditure for the coming year to the neighborhood of $350,000,000, twice the expenditure for the navy before the war. In addition, the air expenditure is expected to y increased. In the meantime the public clamor for a decrease In taxation is Insistent. Churchill in Dilem: Mr. Churchill is on the horns of a dilemma. AS head of the admiralty he was a most princely spen but as head of the treasury all his éner- gies are directed at economy. ~But he finds the role of poacher much easler than his new role of gamekeeper. It the demands of the admiraity are conceded, all prospect for reduc- ing the popular budget with a re- duction of taxation disappears as the possibility of effecting savings in other departments is negligible. Will Mr. Churchill syrrender or will the cabinet support him against the admiralty? The decision of the cabinet to build the naval base at Sinzapore gives a clue to its at- titude and if it supports the ad- miralty, Mr. Churchill's only weapon is _resignation. But Mr. Churchill is unlikely to invite a repetition of the tragedy of his father in the same circumstances 20 yedrs ago. Randolph Churchill refused to concede the demands of the admiralty and resigned. He fell irrevocably. Surrender In Forecast. Mr. Churchill has courage but he still has too many enemies in the Con- servative party to risk resignation where his father failed. Hence he probably will choose the other horn of the dllemma by surrendering to the admiralty and producing a dis- appointing budget.. - Mr. Chamberlain’s problem is equal- Iy difficult. There is no enthusiasm for the protocol anywhere, but it is recognized that blunt rejection prob- ably would have disastrous effects in France and lead to the fall of Premier Herriot, whose. recent speech is. re- garded as a gesture of appeal to Eng- land to save his position. No party in England desires to see the return of Poincarism in France, which would blot out the new vista opened up by adoption of the Dawes | scheme, and the general expectation is that an effort will be made to re- duce the protocol to some palatable shape. (Copyright, 1925.) - e Training of school children in leather working in trade schools of Egypt has caused substantial strides in the leather-working industries of that country in recent years. A Good Golf Score best obtained under balmy skies. Write wus for booklet, train schedules, and how to get there. S. E. Burgess, D. P. A. 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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO SMITHSONIAN REPORT ON POWER IS FALSE, CANADIAN DECLARES Sir Adam Beck Claims Wyer Document Misstates Hydro-Electric Situation in Outario for Benefit* of Corporate Interests and May Have Been ‘Inspired.’ Sir Adam Beck, chairman of the hydro-electric power commission of Ontario, yestérday made! public a statement scathingly denouncing “misstatements and misrepresenta- tions derogatory to the commission,” contained in a report published re- cently by the Smithsonian Institution under authorship of Samuel 8 Wyer, associate in mine: technology. The statement, issued in the form of @ printed pamphlet, declares that Mr. Wyer, in comparing electric service in America under the private owner- ship system and in Ontario under the public service system, “published Statements so0 Inaccurate that they cannot possibly be justified,” and in- timates that Mr. Wyer's report was “inspired by corporate interests.” Difference in Rates. Sir, Adara states that “Mr. Wyer is chiefly®concerned with trying to ex- Plain why, notwithstanding the al- leged superiority of the United States system, the ‘electric rates, and partic- ularly the residential rates, are so much lower in Ontario than in the United States.” Among the claims of Mr. Wyer that .‘.he distinguished Canadian avers are ‘quite without foundation” are: ‘His assertion that Ontario’s public- Iy-owned _electrical utilites are free from taxation. His charge that Ontario’ domestic consumers are supplied at rates be- low cost, partly at the expenss of industrial consumers, ery serious charge that $15,000,000 of the cost of poyer has not been Included in the rates to consumers, thereby creating a deficit to be borne elther by the taxpayers through the provincial treasury or by future Ontario power consurmers.” The pamphlet asserts that “there are, in addition, & numbér of other gross errors in Mr. Wyer's report which show & carsless handling of data and a disregard of truth, but those under review in this discussion are more than sufficient to show that none of Mr. Wyer's statements on this subject are worthy of credence or regard.” Charges Prejudice in Report. “It is almost beyond comprehension that an institution llke the Smith- sonian, with such an honorable record, could have its executive head so in- fluenced as to indorse and publish a report such as Mr. Wyer's—a report Indeed which for prejudice and puerile superficlality leaves nothing to be de- sired,” Sir Adam states. “If United States public funds can be made avallable for such purposes as those for which they have been used by Mr. Wyer, with the concur- rence of his chief, Dr. Walcott—it is trusted,. however, not with the full knowledge and concurrence of the honorable board of regents of the Smithsonian Institution—there exists a condition of affairs respecting which the public at large in both the United States and t Dominfon of Canada should take full cognizance. “Such a condition simply resolves itself into this: That public funds placed In trusteeship of a federal government can be employed in an attempt to injure the co-operative efforts of people of another nation to avall themselves at the least pos- sible cost of the benefits resulting from the development of a great natural resource which has become so Necessary to the domestic, {ndustrial d general yconomic life of the peo- of this ‘continen ‘At the least, Dr. Waloott Is guilty of unpardonable negligence in per- mitting such ®n unworthyl attack upon a great and eminently success- ful public undertaking to be issued in the name of the Smithsonian Institution. and furthermors, he can have no ground of eithey justification or ex- cuse for giving, as he has so directly done, his approvad to his subordinate’s gross misrepresentations.” Dr. Walcott iz out of the city, it was stated at his office i the Smith- sonian Institution yesterday. He has not taken any officiz] cognisance of Sir Adam Beck's statement so far as is known at his office. Commissioned in 0. R. C. Commissions In the Officers’ Re- serve Corps of the Army have been issued by the War' Department to 1d A. Parsons, 2721 Connecticut avenue, as a second Ilteutenant of In- fantry; to Philip R. Winebrener, Frederick, Md., as a first lieutenant of infantry; to Willlam L. Humphrey, jr., Bluemont, V; a first lieuten- ray, Plkesville, M Kreh, Frederick, M second lleu- tenants of infantry. D. C, FEBRUARY (CANDY AN LS SPOUSE AND SELF Shooting Follows Cross Charge of Infidelity—Man Was Viealthy. By the Associuted Press. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., February 7.—Manuel V. Garraton, a wealthy candy manufacturer, shot and mor- tally wounded his wife, Ernestine, 28, tonight, and then turned the pistol on himselt, dying instantly. Mrs. Garraton dled in a hospital. The tragedy occurred fn Garraton's candy store, which was crowded. Police sald Mrs. Garraton, who re- turned from a trip to New Orleans a week ago, tonight accused her hus- band of having been friendly with women during her absence. He, it is sald, retaliated, naming a man. The controversy took place in & back room in the store bullding. 5ald they heard Garraton t an end to this, to you and then two shots. Garraton was head of the New Or- leans Candy Co., which operates two Atlantic City stores. Sleep Called Unnecessary. Martinetti, a celebrated Futurist in Italy, h renewed the argument as to whether sleep Is essential to human life. He maintains it is not, aithough there is no evidence that he| does not indulge himse. his opinion real progre .|and banish sleep. He declares that a sleepless life will ultimately be the only joyous one. ADAM A. WESCHLER & SON, Auctioneers Salvage Sale OF THE ENTIRE P. J. Nee Company Stock OF HIGH-GRADE FURNITURE BY PUBLIC AUCTION At Weschler’s, 920 Pa. Ave. N.W. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12th, 1925 Commencing 10 A.M. 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