Evening Star Newspaper, February 8, 1925, Page 39

Everyday Religion Not a Talk BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREE.\MN, D. D, ARE WE CONSISTENT? ELIGION is becoming more and more the dominant thought of thinking peo- De of the day.” This statement was made to me by the editor of one of the leading trade papers of the country. He went on to say, “It {s a very rare thing for iy business gathering, to be held without the dominant note of re- ligion.” Quoting the American Bank- ers’ Association, he says, “a resolu- tion was recently adopted to the ef- fect -that the supreme need of the world today is moral and spiritual re- generation. In consonance with the above it is Interesting to noterthat the American Tron and Steel Iastitute, a very pow- erful business « ganization, has em- Phasized the importance of religion through the study of the Bible as one of the most imperative things to be considered today. Only a little o vear ago. at a meeting of the International Adver- tising Clubs of the World, held In At- lantie C 7 formal speeches were made, urging the consideration of the relation between religion and siness. The editor of the paper above quoted says that his editorials on re- lizion in a trade journal have called forth more commendation than any- thing else he has written. 114 It is interesting to hear these ob servations at a time when so much i being said and heard about the ma- terialistic tendencies of the age. Speaking some time ago to one of the foremost railroad presidents of country about the higher ethical ndards "in business, he declared that in the 50 vears of his observ tion he had witnessed changes indi eating a finer moral and ethical ideal, and that out of his broad experience he would say that no single incident more thoroughly distinguished the period of his observation than this one. While business is making marked progress along ethical and spiritual lines it would e interesting to dis- cover whether a like progress is be- ing indicated in our domestic and so- cial life. hose of us who are mature cun recall conditions under which we lived as children, and to many of us th e vacred memories that clus ter about those early experienc We may eall them conventions, home diseiplines or whateve they certainly affected in a salutatory way our conduct and gave definite form to our characters. It would be American Scientists Called To Fight Sugar Field Pests BY HENRY L. SWEINHART. ow As whispe; vour e many th lumps, please?’ waiter gently that query into it has never oc- you, perhaps, that the “mosaic disease” or the “leaf hop- * or the “root mealy bug,” which re attacking the sweet green sugar cane in many of the Cuban fields may some day force a reduction in the number of lumps of sugar which you will be allowed per cup, or at any rate make the sweetening a trifle more ex- pensive. That is, unless science, which is now out with its microscope and its scal- pel to waylay and wallop the unwary “leaf hopper” and “root mealy bug,” et al.—meaning “and their allies™ overtakes and overcomes the afore- said enemiecs before their ravages ex- tend very Science is already on the way. It has started out to save the world's s crop, which now totals almost 100 tons a year. Of this amount Cuba supplied last year a little more than 4,000,000 tons. How much damage al- ready has been done by the disease: and fnsect pests which had entered many of the Cuban cane fields is not known, but the plantation and mill owners were beginning to be alarmed and they realized that enormous loss- es caused by decreased yields would have run into the millions if the de- vouring enemies were not checked. £ Wealth of Sugar Industry. On account of the rapid growth which has been made by the sugar in- dustry in recent years and the im- mense sums of money which are in- vested in the business, not only in this country, but in Cuba and else- where, it was essential that a prompt and vigorous effort be made to pre- vent great losses, economically and tfinancially, in this field. In addition to - Cuban capital invested, it is esti- nated that something like $750,000,- 000 of American money is invested in sugar properties in the island re- public. It is a far cry from %he day when sugar was a curiosity and as such pre- sented to royalty; and from the later era of the world’s history when it was used by Arabian doctors in the medi- cines thi prescribed, and the still later date when it was a luxury, to the present day when “Pleas pass the sugar” a daily phrase in the humblest worker’s home. Sugar is one of the luxuries of a bygone day which have become necessi s of the present. Something of the immensity of the industry also is gathered from the fact that one of the larger sugar companies —not the largest—in Cuba owns or controls nearly 300,000 acres of land; owns and operates 144 miles of narrow- gauge, and 1 miles of stapdard-gauge railroad connecting the factory with the company’'s dock, and that the cquipment of the railroad includes among other things 29 locomotives, 600 cane cars, 163 flat cars and 25 tank cars; nd that this one factory alome can turn out nearly 10,000 short tons of ane daily. United States Scientist in Charge. As a result of the work being under- taken by the scientists to save the Cuban sugar crop, and perhaps the future cane crops also in some other parts of the world, it is expected that many millions of pounds will be added annually to the sugar supply of the world and that millions of dollars will Le saved to the plantation and mill owners. As results, at least some of the results of these investigations will probably be published, sugar growers in other parts of the world whose crops | may be threatened by the ‘“mosaic” or by any of the other diseases and insect and root pests which will be studied in Cuba, will be in position to benefit therefrom. Study of the Cuban cane production and disease question will be in charge ) cf Dr. William A. Orton, a_former efiicial of the United States Depart- ~ent of Agriculture, and now scien- fific director of the Tropical Plant Jiesearch Foundation, recently organ- jzed under the auspices of the Na- tional Research Council. Dr. Orton is now in Cuba, where he will remain intil about March 1 to establish a central office in the island and to confer with field workers already there in regird to various phases of the problem. study of c bugs and ne diseases and of ects which attack plant, there will be soil surves ing stations for the study o varietics and of disease-free test- cane stocks we please, but | In connection with the | the | tion and governorship and the subse- | ond on_Theology, But Upon Life and Right Living. Bishop of Washington. | an anomalous thing if we discovered that we were growing stronger in all commercfal relations in our spiritual and religious convictions, and dis- closing no like development in our domestic and soclal life. Such a con- dition would be fraught with grave perils and would issue in a situation too serious to be contemplated. In this connection there have been some startling things said recently from educational centers. The idea that somehow the schools, especially the private ones, should do the work of character-building which the homes neglect, is repellent to school mas- ters and mistresses. Too frequently fathers and mothers abdicate their vesponsibility as the moral and re- ligious leaders of their children and seek to impose upon others this ob- ligation. Such a method will not work, nor should it. If home life is to keep pace with the idealism of business life, as is illustrated in such great clubs as Rotary, Kimanis and many others, it will have to speedily adjust itself to meet the needs of the hour. One of recently the most suggest produced indicates tion in our home life that means exaggerated. It s and daughter, wholly indifferent to home ties and affections, each going his or her way without moral or eth- ical standards, and utterly independ- ent of any expressed judgment of father or mother. The author may have exaggerated somewhat the sit- uation, necvertheless it is indicative of conditions that are by no means rare. : We cannot bufld the moral char- acter of our life from the top dowa, but from the bottom up. Finer stand- ards in business, lower standards in home, will issue ultimately in con- fusion worse confounded. President Coolidge says, “the strength of a na- tion is the strength of its religious convictions.” Tt is about time we began to consider more carefully and seriously our individual responsiblii- ities as parents and leaders. It has Dbeen repeatedly said that the excesses among our young people are trace- able to unassuméd obligations or careless examples of fathers and | mothers. The church itself, with its { weekly services, is impotent without | the co-operation of the home. Fathers | who refuse to assume their just re- |ligious obligations cam hardly exact | them from their children. Let us set | >ur house in order and in so doing | stabilize the Nation, the State and | | society in general. | | (« 19 plays pyright. | and the setting out of plantation trial | plots. | So infinitesimal is the virus which | causes the most conspicuous of the | Cuban sugar-cane diseases, known as | the “mosaic disease.” that it has| Inever been seen even under the micro- | scope. It is so fine that it penetrates even a porcelain filter. It is this dead ¢ little germ which the scientists ill endeavor to locate, discover where it comes from and how it is spread, and the means to eradicate it. It is probably carried from plant to plant by some of the fnsects which get a rich living from the green sugar fields of Cuba. This and the associated work will not be the task of a day: it is esti- mated that it will require at least five years to complete all the work which is contemplated. The work is | |described officially as “an investiga- |tion of sugar cane productlon prob- |lems in Cuba, with particular em- | phasis placed upon mosaic disease, |root diseases and insect pests; the |breeding and testing for disease r sistance of new cane varieties and |soil fertility problems.” It was felt at the outset that it would not be | worth while to attempt such a work unless it could be made thorough. On that account a long-time program has | been mapped out. Most of the work | will be done in the field in Cuba, with some laboratory work in the United States. Beet Sugar Production Growing. While Cuba is frequently referred to as the “world's sugar bowl’ the | amount of beet sugar being grown in | the United States, amounting to only | 41,000 tons in 1898, {s increasing. Last | year it reached 884,000 short tons, as compared with 700,000 tons the vear before, which was an increase of 209,000 over the previous year. About | one-fourth of the sugar used in the | United States is of domestic produc- tion, an equal quantity being from the insular possessions, Hawaii, Porto | Rico and the Philippines, and the other half being from foreign coun- tries, with Cuba furnishing the bulk. Of the domestic supply about three- fourths is of the beet-sugar varlety. Owing to increased consumption of the “refined sweetness” there has been |no great change in recent years in the relative importance of this coun- try's different sources of supply, as shown by Department of Commerce statistics. 3 The United States is the first among the sugar-using nations of the world, consuming one-fourth of the total product, at an average rate of about 100 pounds per capita annually. The Jnited States and its insular posses- sions last year produced almost 11 per cent of the sugar grown in the world’) The per capita consumption of sugar lin the United States has increased from 80 pounds before the World War to the above figure. Cuba now fur- nishes to the United Stat¥s more than twice the amount of sugar it did be- fore the war. If one with the strength of Atlas were asked to “pass the sugar,” he probably would 1ift up the Island of Cuba and say: “Help your- self” | | | (Copyright, 1925.) . Wants to Outlaw The “Parsonic” Voice An outspoken attack on the “par- sonic” voice was made by St. John Ervine, the dramatist and novelist, at | the Glasgow musical festival. “The parsonic voice,” he sald, “ought to be punishable by law. Clergymen using the unnatural whin- ing ‘miserable-ssinner’ tone should be | ui 2; ocked and compelled to listen for Sasis to professional elocutionists ter Abbey, commenting on Mr. Er- vine's remarks, sald: “I quite agree doing their worst with the recitation ‘We Are Seven. Archdeacon Charfes of Westmins- { {with the spirit, of the criticism. The parsonic voice ought to be punish- able. It is artificlal and character- {less, and when the lessons are read lin such a voice the words lose all | their beauty and meaning.” Cost of Revolution Final accounts submitted to the | Hungarian National Assembly show i acr THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FEBRUARY 8, 1925—PART 9 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 February 7: UNITED STATES OF AMERICA— The postal pay ‘and rate bill passed by the Senate and transmitted by that body to the House, was rejected by the latter on the ground that it con- travenes that section of the Constitu- tion which prescribes that “all bills for ralsing revenue shall originate in the House” The House is about to consider a bill of its own. The nomination of Attorney General Stone to be associate justice of the Supreme Court has been confirmed by the Senate. By an amendment to the naval ap- propriation bill just passed by the House, “the President is requested to invite the governments with which the United States has diplomatic relations to zend representatives to a conference to-be held in the city of Washington, which shall be charged with the duty of formulating and entering into a general international agreement by which armaments for war, either upon land or upon sea, shall be effectually reduced and limited in the interest of the neace of the world and the relief of all nations from the burdens of in- ordinate and unnecessary expenditures for the provision of armaments and the preparations for war.” On February 4 Senator Hiram John- son of California fired the first shot in the attack on the Paris agreement of January 14, which was signed on be- half of ‘the United States by Ambassa- dors Kellogg and Herrick and Col. James A. Logan, and which provides for distribution of German reparations payments, including certain shares to the United States. The Muscles Shoals legislation is now in the hands of a conference of House and Senate representativ The period remaining to the Senate for accomplishment of the immense work before' It grows “small by de- grees and beautifully less.” The child labor amendment is, in effect, dead, 13 nays to 2 yeas to date. The delation of the United States withdrew from the International opium conference on February 6, be- cause they could not bring the repre- sentatives of the opiwm-producing countries to accept the American views concerning control of the pro- duction and distribution of raw opium. There was no difference of views among the confereces as to de- siderata, the difference was as to| methods of realizing said desiderata. | It is to be hoped that we have a Byron among us (I am thinking of fazeppa,” which moves with such terrific speed) to immortalize that splendid dash of the “huskies” and “mushers” from Nenana to Nome with | the diphtheria antitoxin. All proved heroic, dogs and men, but the out- standing hero was the the “husky” Balto of Siberian breed, already fa- mous as leader of the winning, team | in the Mose Sweepstakes of 1915 and as leader of the team which carried Amundsen North to Point Barrow when he proposed to fly across the pole. It was the last lap, and Gunnar Kasson, the Norwegian musher, was blinded by the whirling snow and could not see the trail. He gave Balto his head, and Balto *came 0ss.] hundred and fifty miles in five and a half days, in a raging blizzard, is the record of that relay | Shaw Gives Advice As to Russ Future “It is quite possible that the Soviet government will flnally get better terms, both in commercial and guar- anteed loans, from the present con- servative government than the late labor government dared offer it,” says George Bernard Shaw in a letter to the Moscow Izvestia. The letter was written in reply to a request for a pronouncement on the Russian question. The Soviet government, he says would do well to dissociate it- | self from the Third International. “From the point of view of Eng- lish Socialists, the members of the | Third International do not Know even the beginning of their business as Soclalists; and the proposition that | the world should take its orders from | a handful of Russlan novices, who seem to have gained' their knowledge of modern Socialism by sitting over the drawing-room stove and reading the pamphlets of the Liberal Revo- lutionists of 1845-70, makes even Lord Curzon and Winston Churchill seem extreme modernists in com- parison.” Where Socialism was a living force Karl Marx had been left far behind, and Mr. Zino- viev's attempt to carry on the Marx- ian tradition in the hope that he and his cronies were establishing “an iron organization” was making Rus- sian communism ridiculous. The Russian writings which made the most favorable impression in England, he said, were those of Trotsky, but even he had allowed himself to speak of H. G. Wells with contempt, which showed that he had not read the “Outline of History” and realized what an enormous advance on “Das Kapital” that work repre- sented. “Mr. Zinovieff and his Third Inter- national did not intend to wreck an English general election in the’ capi- talist interest, but this is precisely what they did by their inopportune | literary romancing, which it suits our governing classes very well to pretend to take seriously. If that sort of thing continues, and the Soviet government pretends to take seriously, or, worse still, does actu- ally take it seriously, then all hobe of solidarity between Soclalists in the West and East of Europe will fade out; and we must g0 OUr own Way in England without more regard to the policy of Moscow than Moscow has for the policy of Madagascar.” Foreigners in France Required to Register In accordence with Article T of the; decree of October 25 last, all foreign- ers over 15 vears of age who intend to remain in France more than 15 days must apply, within 48 hours of their arrival, to the police station or the town hall of their place of resi- | dence in order to obtain an identity card. This regulation is not to be stringently enforced in regard to for- eign tourists, who may apply for the card through the proprietor of their hotel or boarding house, or through the family with whom they may be staying, provided the police are eatis- fled that such proprietor or family is competent to receive an accurate dec- laration. i European Railways. Most European states own and operate their railroads. And, witl the possible exception of Switzerland, where the rates are sc high that passengers ride third class and sit on bare wooden benches, every one of them has a railway deficit. The absurdity of a train made up of third- class, wooden-bench coaches and one that Count Michael Karolyi's revolu- quent bo'shevist regime cost Hun- [ gary no less than §,525,000,000 crowns | lin the currency of 1919, or over $300,- 000,000, (usually empty) mixed first and sec- class coach with soft seats is| spparent. State owned and operated | reads cannot be Kept out of politic: and politically opefated roads are not efficiently operated. race against death. Hats off o men and dogs, and in particular to good old Balto. Roy Chapman Andrews is about to resume his notable work of explora- tion in Mongolla, under the auspices of the American Museum of Natural History. He will use five passenger cars and two trucks of special con- struction, besides a great camel car- avan. The main objects of the new expedition are anthropologlical. George W. Cable, author of “Old Creole Days,” “The Grandissimes” and “Madame Delphine,” is dead at the age of 80. ok ok K The British Empire.—One hears that the new British admiralty pro- gram calls for eight cruisers of 10,- 000 tons each. Mr. Asquith’s full title as earl to be Earl of Oxford and Asquith. The end of Mahatma Gandhi's re- cent 21-day fast by way of vicarious penance for the misbehavior of his followers and in the hope of thereby conciliating divine assistance to his effort at reconciling Hindu and Mos- lem, was marked by a harmony meeting inslde his lfttle bungalow near Delhi, attended by many prom- inent Hindu and Moslem leaders. Out- side some 40,000 persons were as- sembled. * ok ok k The Spanish Zome of Morocco.— Poor old Ralsuli, the Moroccan chief and ally of Spain, was captured the other day by that enterprising young Riffian, Abd-Fl-Krim, and those of his tribesmen who had not already done 80 thereupon transferred their alle- glance to the RIff chief. The tribes- men, formerly of Raisuli’s following, are, 1 belleve, Arabis of Arabicized Berbers, while the Rifenos are Ber- bers of the purest and the dourest. A considerable part of the former had long since abandoned Ralsuli to join the holy war . against Spain, but Raisuli, though doubtless fretting agalnst the oath binding him to Spain (or at least estopping him from action against Spain), remained true thereto. The once so haughty old man is bedridden with palsy and is content to acknowledge Abd-El- Krim as his suzerain. Reports have it that Abd-El-Krim is whooping it up. Sad news for Gen. Primo de Rivera, the Spanish dictator, who re- cently returned to Madrid from Mo- rocco after what he conceived to bhe satisfactory completion of his arduous task of withdrawal of the Spanish| troops to a fe line. * % o i Rio de Oro.—A revolt is reported of the tribesmen (nomad Arabs and Berbers) in the Spanish protectorate of Rio de Oro, a narrow tract on the | West coast of Africa between Mo- rocco on the north and Cape Blanco| in the south. The area of the pro-| tectorate is about 70,000 =quare miles. | As early as 1509 Spain claimed pos-| session of the coast line, on which certain Spanish trading posts, the| chief of which was on the Peninsula | of Rio de Oro, had been established, | and vaguely extended the claim to| the hinterland. | ever, did she extend her government | (exercised through the adelantado of the Canaries) over the hinterland, and | not until 1912 were the present| boundaries of the protectorate fixed. The fishing in the neighboring sea is particularly good. The Portuguese, who discovered, in the middle of the fifteenth century, the estuary between the peninsuia now known (like the estuary and the protectorate) as Rlo de Qoro and the mainland, mistook it for a river, and, the natives bringing them some gold dust, they called it Rio de Ouro (Gold River). The region is not, in fact, auriferous. * X ok Kk Germany. —As 1 predicted last week, the Soclalist, von Braun, elect- ed by the Prussian diet to succeed himself as Prussian chancellor, could not make a go of it with his new cab- inet of Socialists, Centrists and Dem- ocrats, and therefore resigned on | February 2 The situation in the diet 1s an almost perfect impasse, and dissolution is expected. The heirs of Hugo Stinnes have ac- quired the holdings in Austria of Camille Castiglione (chiefly iron works), thus becoming the leading industrial magnates in Austria, 1t is reported that the Hamburg- American Line has ordered 10 rotor cargo ships for the Oriental service. A fuel saving of 60 per cent ix hoped for. Chinn.—The business in Kiangsu province is over, and Lu Yung Hsiang, Anfuite and adherent of Chang Tso- Lin, has won out completely. A conference of 146 leaders of sun- dry groups and interests in China is taking place at Peking, at the sum- mons of the provisional government Sun - Yat-sen, erstwhile president of the Canton Republic, is reported to be mortally ill at Peking. * % ¥ ¥ Bechuanaland—Good news from Taungs in British Bechuanaland, South Africa. Prof. Raymend Dart, a distinguished anthropologist, has dis- covered there a skull to the one-time possessor of which he gives the ele- gant name Australopithecus Africa- mus of Taungs. The reader doubtless knows that British and American anthropologists are mostly agreed that three genera of the human family (Hominidae) have definitely been identificd—the ex- tinct Pithecanthropus or Javan ape- man, the extinct Ecanthropus (Dawn- man, Pilt-down-man or Galley-Hill- man) and Genus Homo. A good many respectable anthropologists think that a fossil tooth found in Nebraska not long ago represents another genus of the human family, to which they have gi n the name of Hesperopithe- cus Haroldcookii (Harold Cook being the discoverer) allow the magnificent cleims for the Nebraska tooth as established anc admit Hesperopithecus Haroldcook among the Hominidal genera. Now for Australopithecus Africanus of Taungs. The Nebraska tooth was found in an upper Pliocene bed (the Pliocene period founded about 550,000 vears ago), and the Taungs skull was found in a'deposit that is either low er Plicene or Miocene (still older), therefore the man of the Taungs skull Not until 1885, how- | preceded by one knows not what many | imitating the government of like @ape, very much nearer man than any other ape, living or extinct, dis- covered to date. 1t Prof. Dart's claims are established, his @iscovery will further buttress the view (long generally discredited) that Darwin was right after all in his theory that Africa was the cradle of the human family as well as of the anthropold apes. The reader will recall in this con- nection the discovery in 1921, in a cave in Broken Hill, northern Rhode- sia, of a human skeleton widely thought to represent a distinct spe- cies of Genus Homo (older than the extinct Homo Heldelbergensis, the oldest species of that genus previ- ously identified, the other identified being the extinct Homo Neanderthal ensis and Homo Sapiens, il., us). * K ok % Micellaneous—Ca p t. Roald Amundsen has at last obtained the money required for his proposed flight over the North Pole, delaved through lack thereof, and has started The French Chamber has voted, 315 to 250, suppression of the French embassy at the Vatican, but has also voted maintenance at the Vatican of a charge d'affaires to represent Al- sace and Lorraine. Pastel blue and pale periwinkle will predominate among the colors of the Summer season, says Parls. Austria is suffering from deflation pains and the most gloomy reports have been reaching us from -once-so- gay Vienna. But Dr. Zimmerman the League of Nations commissioner for Austria, has just submitted to the league council a fairly reassuring re- port of conditions. The chances seem to be about even that little new Austria will be made a going con- cern, The Ttalian Senate has repected the Italian government's proposal of a considerable reducuon of the Italian army. According to the data cited in’committeé, the largest of the Iu- ropean armies number as follows: Russia, 600,000; French, 450,000; Pol- ish, 250,000; Spanish, 210,000; Italian, 200,000. v It seems unlikely that the expul- sion from Constantinople by the Turk- ish government of the Greek ecu- menical patriarch will have serious consequences, though some Greek hot-heads clamor for war. Appar- ently (though one should not be sure) |portea Let us patriotically | the Turkish government's action was |high-handed, uncalled for and provoc ative. But apparently Turkey i technically justified under the Lau- sanne treaty terms. That is, the de- patriarch was exchangeable under the treaty. Another patriarch may be installed not so exchangeable ix-Premier Zaghlul Pasha of Egypt, head of the Nationalists ex- | tremists of that country, was defeat- ed the other day in the primary elec- tions for a new Parliament. He stated in advance (and perhaps cor- rectly) that his election was assured unless the government of his succes- sor, Ziwar Pasha, should tamper with the ballot boxes. It is not unlikely that the Ziwar government, exactly Zaghlul, thousands of years the owner of the | did just that. Nebraska tooth. Senor Alessandri has been sum- Australopithecus, according to Prof.| moned home from Rome by the new Dart, does not represent a Homini- dal genus. but he had nearly arrived. ch resulted fro ume office as government wh the | recent coup to r 3 resi- The country Is part of the Sahara,|he could not talk, but he was almost |dent of Chile, and is about to obey the nearly waterless and with few oases, | wherefore the population is sparse there. He was not an ape-like man, | summons. We await light on the such as Pithecanthropus, but a man- |curious Chilean situation. The Peril in a Snub BY IDA M. TARBEL HE most agitated man I met in| the recent presidential cam- paign was one who saw a life- long and almost realized am- bition Worever ruined by the election of a certain candidate. It took but little acumen on the part of a disin- terested observer to know that this aspirant would never be President of the United States, but my interlocu- tor’s fears had destroyed his political sense. That is the way fear operates. It was the reason the man gave for the fate hanging over him that interested me. Ten years before, he | said—he was an engagingly frank | person—he had deliberately snubbed the candidate for no other reason than tWat he “didn’t like his man- ners.” The snub had been adminis- tered in the presence of others and had been felt by the victim. And here was the victim on top—soon to have the power, and my man believed he would have the will, to ruin his ambition. What a fool he had been—and what a ced! He seemed to be getting for the first time in his life a glimpse of what it is to be a gentleman! * ok X % His experfence is not so unusual. There are many of s called to face the fact that snubs are unpleasant birds which often come home to roost. You frequently find them perching on humiliated heads as you read history. | Here is a story of one such historical find—unearthed 20 or more years ago when I was looking for somebody who had been on one side or the other of a famous trial in which Abraham Lincoln first met Edwin M. Stanton. Stanton was a “great man.” both in his own estimation and in that of his profession. Lincoln was “great” neither to himself nor anybody else, and Stanton, the known, succeeded in making Lincoln, the unknown, feel that there was a deep gulf both pro- fessionally and socially between them. Young lawyers—and others—even if their instincts are gentle and hu- mane, are quick to take their cue from their superiors, and to be gentle or brutal, hamane or inhumane, as are their leaders. * X kX In the legal battery to which Mr. Stanton and Mr. Lincoln belonged in that trial was a young legal special- ist in patents—the case hung on the validity of certain patents. It wasa fine thing for him to be associated with Edwin M. Stanton — it might mean much to him in the future. He wanted to make the most of it. The three were at the same hotel, and as it happened started out the first day at the same moment for the court. Lincoln was never what we call a “well groomed” man. His clothes, although they were always neat and of good material, “hung” on him. Stanton and his young asso- ciate were models of good tailoring. The straw that broke their backs, however, was that Lincoln appeared with an umbrella—large, green, un- rolled, and he held it in the middle! Stanton looked him over, and de- liberately turning his back started alone out of the hotel. The young associate did the same—a rude and unfriendly act to one of the biggest, friendliest souls on earth, and it was the beginning of several days of sim- ilar snubbing. ’ * % kK Stanton lived to make amends. The young man never had the chance, though he learned and made humble confession of his mistake. He did not learn it well' enough, however, to aveld a repetition. trying a case in a small county seat. The hotel was overcrowded, and the keeper could not give him a room alone tut,” he told him, I can give He's from Cleveland— ew York State lawyers Buffalo. His name is Grover Cleveland!” Mr. Cleveland came in just then. He was dusty and grimy from a long drive. I don't think he carried a green um- brella, but he naturally looked unkempt. The same man who once refused to walk down the street with Abraham Lincoln because he carried an awkward umbrella now refused to occupy the same room with Grover Cleveland, who a few vears later was to be President of the United State: He told me the story himself—a kind of penance, it seemed to me. He is dead and gone, but even when living made no stipulation I should not repeat his confession. The full ugliness of snubbing your fellow man is thrown into relief by such an incident. But the snub is not as shameful as that to awake you to your manners it should take the embarrassment of finding your | victim at the top of the ladder, so- clally and professionally, from which you once tried to kick him, and the fear that he may now return the kick. (Coprright, 1923.) Hungarians Worried By Ex-Empress Zita The activities of the Austrian ex- Empress Zita are attracting, a ®ood deal of attention in Central Europe, and appear to be causing anxiety to the Hungarian royalists, among others. At present the ex-Empress is living at Lequeitio, near Balboa, in Spain, but there are persistent rumors that she is endeavoring to return to Hun- gary. Her 12-year-old son, the ex- Archduke Franz Joseph Otto, is put forward as claimant to the Hunga- rian throne. The Hungarian royalists, however, have no sort of desire for the restora- tion of the old dual monarchy, em- bracing both Hungary and Austria, and they have been made very uneasy by the publicatlon of a letter which the ex-Empress wrote to the Bishop of Funchal. In this letter she makes reference to the future “emperor” and speaks of herself as regent, allusions which are held to prove her aspiration to re-establish the Hapsburgs in Austria and Hungary alike. In this she is believed to be strongly supported by her aunt, the ex-Archduchess Maria Theresa, who is popularly supposed to have engi- neered her mafriage to the ex- Emperor Karl. Countess Schmissing- Kerssenbrock, daughter of a former officer in the Austrian army and now governess do the late Emperor’s chil- dren at Lequeitio, is another party to the scheme. e Bolsheviks in Berlin. Politically, even Berlin, whose gov- ernment recognized the union of soviets years ago, feels that a bolshevik is a dangerous fellow. Socially—well, one gets good food at the soviet embassy. where every celebration means the opening of a new tub of caviar of a kind no ome outside of Russia can buy. At these Twenty or twenty-five vears later— he, too, was “great” now in hls spe- elalty—he was in New York State receptions German aristocrats mingle with flannel-shirted workmen and foreign. diplomats. ou a bed in a room with one of our | Coal’s Use Is Key To Good Business Almost 5,000,000 more tons of coal were estimated to have been mined in December than in November, 1924. The estimated production for Novem- ber totaled 48,251,000 tons, as com- pared with a total of 53,085,000 tons scember. December production vided 7.235,000 tons of anthra- cite and 45,850,000 tons of bituminous. Notwithstanding the fact that more coal was produced in December than in the previous month, stocks in the hands of industry diminished by about 12 per cent, it being esti- mated there were 50,458,000 tons in the hands of industries on January 1, 19 This compares with 57,376, 000 tons on hand December 1, 1924 The total consumption of coal by in- dustries and for heating was esti mated at 42,700,000 tons, of this, more than two and a quarter million tons is believed to have been used in do- mestic heating, etc. The remainder, 40,500,000, was consumed in industry. _This figure would have been much higher, it is believed, had not many industries closed for three davs at Christmas on acount of its falling on Thursday. The coal figures, there- fcre, signify that there was a real business improvement in December over November, although it must also be taken into consideration that No- vember, normally a short month, had five Sundays, the Thanksgiving day holiday and several minor religious holidays, whereas, December had only four Sundays and the Christmas holidays. More coke was manufactured December than in any month since April, 1924, and export business at Baltimore almost doubled its Novem- ber figure in December. o New Busy Bee Theory Boon to the Lazy Man in All the lazy men of the world ought to unite and do something tip-top for Frank Balfour Browne. a lecturer of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. Mr. Browne has done them a distinct service by ad- vancing the claim that the busy bee is not busy because he is an indus- trious chap, but is busy because he cannot help it. Nature made him that way, and he is simply obeying the impulses that nature made in- herent to him. What a sweet plece of news for the lazy man! No more can outside scorn touch him—he is armored. He is not slothful because of any lack of ambition, but merely because na- ture fashioned him in that mold. Nor can the busy bee be linked to him by any scheme of comparison. Their orbits are as wide apart as the poles. For one thing, Mr. Browne sets down the bee as “so awfully stupid.” No lazy man wili admit that he is stupid. He'll even spend energy to deny it. The bee won't bother. He'll just go on industri- ously making honey as though no sclentist had ever bothered to study him and assassinate his character.— Jersey City Journal. Flout Equal Rights. Frenchwomen do not desire equal political rights with men. They have enough to do with housekeeping and bringing up children and do not want their lives burdened with political meetings. So at least said three of the foremost women, leaders of the feminist movement in France—the Duchess @Uzes, Mme. Andre Corthys and Mme. Colette—at the meeting of the France-America committee, which aims at developing friendly relations :n:’lween the citizens of the two coun- rics, -— Posgibly the news about Means, Forbes and Thompson may not con- tribute greatly to the equanimity of Mr. \w News-Courter, to make the necessary arrangements. | Folly and the UST how dull and dishonest are the people? I am one of them and have often thought of the question. T was talking lately with a man who has extensive medical and scientific knowledge. So far as I am able to judge, he has very little of the prejudice usuall attaching to a practicing physi nee he has never practiced, but has always been | student and teacher. He sayvs men of his class have made long investi- gation of certain beliefs and prac- | tices of the people, with a view of | discovering how much foundation | there is in them., He spoke of a certain system of | healing which has millions of ad-| herents, and declared that, so far as his scientific associates can discove there is no sound base for a single claim made by the followers of the And what is more, any one easily demonstrate that these | ms are untrue. Yet for many years millions people have heen followers of doctrine and devoted much time enthusiasm to it Continuing his talk, the gentle- man said the same thing is true of | a large proportion of popular belief: they are not true, and their untruth may be easily demonstrated by an one. He further declared that ai- most any fairly intelligent man may | work out for himself a system of| living that will pay him better, in health and morals, t n any of the 0ld systems taught for centuries of the | and | I asked him why devoted to fallaci they are not actually devoted to fal- lacie: but that leaders whip them into line. Let 4 book agent, the man said, go into any family 1 expre surprise that it does not own a hook of the kind he represents and mem- bers of the family will be apelogetic If a powerful evangelist will go to| a dance hall almost anywhere, he can make most of those present stand up when he asks them if they be-| lieve in the religion of their mothers. | If a man claims he has discovered remedy for uman ill, it a shame to deny a man opporturn to do good “All fallacies,” said man, “originate in propaganda, and the object of 11 propaganda is profit for its originators Ppeople do not believe in fallacy except they are whipped inte it For thousands of years the of life h. n as apparent nose on a face. Wh these facts disputed the violen manner common to the human race The answer is, because of argun of statesmen, kings, soldiers—the g tlemen who take up collections and us for unnecessary ceremoni Why do writers. ecclesiastics, ploiters of every kind, ake clalty of complimenting the pe Because it is the poor who give them power. Who believe most firmly in | temples, in foolish revolution? Is it | not the poor? | If the masse; facts of life as will gain the prosperity long ored for; it will come from a reduc. tion of unnecessary and foolish taxes, for which there is no excuse except the avarice of clever leaders, the people are so ie replied that ty the as will accept the pla they know the i The ordinary man may know the | elemental facts, of life as well as Voltaire; all he need do to get along (Continued from First Page.) ! ntual | rue of which is a fatal menace to ev peace, must be through the Lea Nations and under the forms of the new protocol. This would, in fact amount to a real organization ef| Europe against war and for the maintenance of peace and would per- mit the smaller states, neutrals of the last war, which have every rea- son to wish to prevent a new con- flict, to exercise their influence ef- fectively. It would replace the French guaran- tee of the present situation of Europe, a guarantee which, as I have tried to make clear, is a crowning affront to Germany and at the same time an| inadequate barrier, by a sort of col lective guarantee of an organized rope not allied against Germany, but united in the common purpose to re- sist any attack upon the peace of rope coming from 1y direction. would, in some measure, thrust rope between France and German would permit the evacuation of the Rhine, once the responsibilities of the member states under the protocol and for its defense were established Viewpoint of England. One of the chief difficulties, how- ever, would be that it would infallibly open breach between the Britis and their dominions, none of which are any more willing than the United States to undertake KEuropean r sponsibilities. But, on the other hand, Great Britain itself is in Europe, ha lost the advantage of isolation which it once enjoyed before the day of aircraft and submarines and must inevitably suffer from any new Eur: pean conflagration. nd the danger of such a conflagration, while Franco- German relations remain what they are, is patent to every thoughtful Englishman. ‘What is also plain is that the situ- ation now existing cannot continue long in its present state. It must grow-much worse or begin to improve, and it is almost impossible to believe now that improven.ent can be had while France and uermany are left to face each other without other in- fluence intervening. If the situation does continue, nations will almost in- evitably begin to take partners for the conflict, which all will feel if capable, and the effort to organize peace in Europe will be replaced by the task of preparing for the new | war. The problem of French security has been viewed too closely as a problem of French security exclusively. It is, in reality, as the French have seen from the outset, the problem of Eu- ropean security and the matter of the integrity and independence of a num- ber of states liberated by the recent war. The British, on the other hand, while conceding the right of France to demand security for hérself, have viewed with extreme irritation the French ‘policy of insuring that se- curity by alliances binding them in return to defend the frontiers of other states in Europe. Basis of Protocol. At Geneva, last year, the continent took the French view of the whole matter and definitely ruled that any discussion of disarmament must come after the regulation of that of secur- ity. And the protocol was drafted as the basis of security. But the fate of the protocol depends upon the Brit- ish decision, and it is hard to see any sign now of any immediate British ratification of that document. On the other hand the Brtish are now face to Pface with the fact that the French will not quit the Rhine or consent to Jthe -abandonment. of the Cologne | the | witn |1 jand Howe About Masses; A Prevaricating Wife; Some Old Fallacies. BY E. W. HOWE. “The Sage of Potato Hill.” better is to starve his fals apply the facts and ¢ leaders to death. R Who does not know where a man | comes from, and where he goes? Who s unable to correctly analyze the s of life as they present them- selves from cradle to grave? For thousands of years writing men have been declaring they are the only real thinkers. Preachers declare they have larger hearts than others. Men who have served soldiers claim they are -the only patriots. Labor union leaders say they are the on men who believe in justice. States men declare they alone know what laws should be adopted. All this is propaganda; an insult 1 the real men who do the world wor I wonder that the as tamely as they do. real men subm As T fr: n man quently In no All my by we confess, T an nse am I a lovel life I have bee humiliated en chiding me for telling tories.” Whereve I go, I find a liarman telling of seeing a_thousand wild ducks, and his wife shying, “O, James, James! There wer. not over 20U Therefore, I greatl enjoved this bright spot. A man a his wife were calling on me in Miar Fla.- We talking of a recent big sale of real estate. The wife said igent’s comm was $30,000 And her husband, real estate expert said: “O, Susan, Susan! It was onl 51 d were ssion d liable of the vir L abused more th Don't enjoy a bad habit ker, but do not enjoy smoking ere is a tobacco smell about smoker 1 dislike, and I have it. I not. it particularly when I remove my clothes at night. Smoking isn't good for and 1 would like to quit f but am so saturated with tobacco that I cannot—at least, T do not. Men bad habits remind me of that f a fox which lost its tall in and advised short tails to et notion that you will Ian inveterate me, the best of ti literaty not chil them. In have imagery o trace of tru ulous liars, bt were the an- among classical lish that need ¥ ail cient awriting we moderr ridi I have been able to read wve been surrounded with have yet to find one that en- satisfies " me. G. Wells' “Outline of History comes mnearest to being a complete book. and would have been one, had not Mr. Wells ran in too many opin- ions of his own I want to k he men of an not care what a pard i conclusion of century; I do ar man thinks. f books sell- worth space can show ng for $20 and up in a library Usually the preface of a book tells you all You wish to know about it. My greatest need is good books. There are millions of books but only one in a thousand of value. (Copyright, 1925.) nat Believes Best Hope for Peace Is Found in Geneva Protocol brid Nominally Britain has three choices She can stay out altogether, but, have said, this does not save he from the probability of being involved in another European war, which. in event, would wreck her markets purther prostrate her industry She can take the French alllance, with a careful exclusion of other com- mitments, or she can accept the pro- tocol and share in a reorganization of Europe on the basis of the League of Nations. Each of the three pos bilities is fraught with manifest dan- gers; none insures a certain solution. But, failing all se, Britain might be condemned to sit passively by, while Europe drifts into another war, only to be involved as she was before Meantime it would be idle to at- tempt to blink the fact that event rather than men and circumstan rather than designs are steadil bringing Franco-German relations t the point where they constitute a su- preme menace to ultimate peace and an finsuperable obstacle to present organization of Europe. (Copyrigt, 19 matter of any Higher Gas Price In U. S. Expected (Continued from First Page.) degree. Their cconomic profoundly changed. “The spectacular rise and fall of the Wortham pool is almost without precedent in an industry in which cyclonic changes are taken as a matter of coarse. For the week end- svember 29, this field averaged barrels per day; for the weelk ending January 17, 153,800 barreis per da and for the eek ending January 31, it had fallen to § barrels per day “For three competition advanced month: of 1o tion hax decline in season. “Whether this precedent will be followed this year will be determined by the relationship of supply to the demand. The advance in prices will imulate drilling for ofl. No one can forecast what luck the oil pro- ducer will have in drilling these new wells. But after everything is said and done, the prices of crude oil amd gasoline during the coming consum- ing season will largely be determined by the good or bad luck of the thou- sands of producers who will be stim- ulated in activity. (Copyright, 1025.) tuation has vears in succession in the oil industry has prices during the Winter that during the period consumption. — Overproduc- resulted with consequent prices during the ensuin Buying Art Works. It is not surprising that an occa- sional protest appears against the sales of English works of art to Americans when it is realized how many of the treasures of ‘the Old World find their way. across the At- lantic. During the last two years the | sales of works of art to American purchasers in London have reached the huge sum of $10,000,600 annually. It is a compliment to American tastc in art that the demand seems to be increéasing, and it is usually an Amer- ican bidder who has the last word before the fall of the hammer.