Evening Star Newspaper, March 1, 1925, Page 43

Everyday Religion Not a, Talk BY RIGHT REV. JAMES on_ Theology, But Upon Life and Right Living. E. FREEMA Bishop of Washington. Religion St. John, vii.23. “T have made a man every whit wholp.” ¢ d Health. O our religious convictions or what we commonly call our religious faith have any direct bearing upen our physical dition2" This question has been asked with large insistence during recent years. Coue, the distinguished Frenchman, bases his theory of health upon the ancient word, “As a_man thinketh in his heart, so is he.” Other modern cults stress the relation that relig- jous belief bears to the things of health. Many volumes have been written bearing upon this important matter, and some, 1 think, have large merlt. When we trace the question to the teachings of Jesus, it clearly evident that He taught that what a man believed affected not only his mental, but his physical life. A very considerable portion of His ministry was spent in healing the bodies of men and women. In the in- cident from which our text He was dealing with who suffered a physical impairment for a long period. The man in question had lain by a pool that, by tradition, had misaculous powers. Legend had t that periodically an angel stirred e surface of the waters and that whoever stepped first into the pool at these recurring periods was made whole. Sceing the pathetic situation of the man, Jesus had healed him, 1nd in doing so had incurred the bite ter criticism of the religious leaders, * one of the wherein He reckoned with m In practically every instance His supreme t s, as He ad- dressed the one afl Canst thou belfeve?” Or again, “As thou ha lieved, so be it done unto thee." fact that we now and again meet ith instances of those who through long years have suffered from physical malady, and this in the face of a strong faith, is not sufficient evi- dence that religious belief has no re- ation to physical health. Our obser- vatlon and our personal experience ead us to believe that a consistent life of faith in the supremacy and power of Jesus Christ bears mightily upon mental and physical life, as, in- deed, it bears upon life's’ whole dtil- tude and outlook Many of us were brought up to think of religion as a philosophy that was unrelated to the more practical and immediate concerns of life. Tt was not uncommon for us to hear in back seems ¥ % instances physical It is only con- | is taken | had | some | our youth that our religious faith was a thing that had to do with some remote and unknown future. We were not taught to think of it in terms of the present, nor in its ap- plication to our immediate needs. The world has grown saner in this re- spect and today we are learning that the religion that was preached by Christ is related to the common, every-day problems with which men have to do. This is strikingly fllus- trated in what is commonly called the “social implications of the Gos pel.” To believe that somehow, Low ever we may explain it or in whats ever form of creed we may seek to express it, that what we commonly hold of faith is related to our physi- cal well-being is of vital importance. To believe in the supremacy and sov- creignty of Christ, to accept His great promises at their face value, to attempt to shape our lives according to His precepts, however frequently | we may fail, means to lend to every aspect of life's experience a sense of security and quiet and peace. 36 43 repeatedly implied that sin was the deflection of life from its normal course: that behind its mis- | fortune, the disappointments and fail- ures resided evil propensities un- | checked and uncontrolled. We do not have to make extemsive observation to have confirmation of this. It is a | safe maxim that “whatsoever a man | soweth that shall he also reap.” | The laws of health come to be | known to us largely through experi- ence. We rccognize with gratitude the large and eficient 'worth of medi- cine and surgery, and we would not displace them, but we would add to them that which serves to aid their beneficent service, namely, a faith that gives confidence and assurance. We are both physical and spiritual, and the two are vitally and essen- tially related. We all seck The freer step, the fuller hreath, The wide horizon's grander view, The sense of life that knows no death, The life that maketh all things new. Here is a wholesome creed for each one of us: “I believe that the discovery of my spiritual nature makes me kin with Christ. “I believe that to be in tune with the infinite and amenable to divine laws that govern and regulate my conduct affects for good my physical well-being. » “I believe that a living, vitalizing faith means a better body and a healthier mind. I beligve that Jesus Christ is the God of mY health, the renewer of my \fe and the Saviour of my soul.” \ (Copyright, 1925.) Jesus Shows How Coolidge Program Would Benefit Wheat Farmers BY ARTHUR CAPPER, Leader of the Farm Bloc. 1f other evidence of the timeliness of the President's recommendation to Congress urging legislation con- formable to the suggestions of the commission of experts appointed to study farm economies and to recommend scler marketing measures were lack- ng, recent spectacular developments \ the Chicago wheat pit would am- ply supply it. As a result of a few days’ speculative operations, the price of wheat soared to an altitude estab- lishing the highest peace-time price for the staple in half a century At once arose a loud “I-told-you- s0” chorus, declaring the need for careful overhauliing of the machin- ery of farm marketing to be a myth, and pleturing the wheat farmer as a Croesus gorged with the golden har- vest of $2 wheat. That is not a true plcture. Slight Benefit to Farmers. According to the Kansas Depart- ment of Agriculture, the time wheat soared to $2 in Chicago there was but a scant 25,000,000 bushels of the States’ total crop of 155,000,00 bushels vet in the hands of the far- mer, and that largely his seed. The Chicago Post adds testi- mony that tells the true story. In six days, says the Post, sales of speculative bushels equaled the en- tire American crop of real wheat, and the supply of wheat actually in the market was sold five times over. This did not profit the grower, and it may mean that the consumer must pay a higher price for his loaf of bread. Here Is graphic evidence of some ot the reasons for the wide price spread between producer and con- sumer. The President's farm pro- syam proposes more nearly to close this spread by setting up a pro- ducor's market organization that will Move for Great (Continued from First Page.) board of regents composed of the President of the United States, Presi- dent of the Senate, Speaker of the House of Representatives and the ohairman of the Senate committee on aducation and labor and the chairman of the Houce committee on education. This board of regents would be em- powered to select a director general of the conservatory and a board of di- rectors, consisting of 15 members holding office for five year of three expiring each year. Under the provisions of the Fletcher bill $50,000 would be appropriated for use at the time of enactment of the bill in formulating detailed plans, a report on which should be made within six months. With the details all prepared, a drive would be made by those back- ing the proposition for gifts by pri- vate citizens to provide a large en- dowment sum, sufficient to provide for the free tuition of 500 pupils. When this sum should be raised, Congress would be asked to provide buildings for the comservatory, and from that point on it should be self-sustaining. Other Branches to Follow. It is believed that 1,000 pupils would be taken care of at the conservatory to be located in this city, half of whom should be paying students. When further gifts should reach a total to warrant it, branches of the conservatory would be established in other cities well situated to best serve the greatest number. The training of band officers for the Army and Navy has been found prac- ticable at the miniature conservatories in this city conducted by the two service departments. The oldest of the bands, the Marine Band, through tradition and years of training, is ac- cepted generally throughout the coun- try as one of the leading musical or- ganizations in America from the point of view of artistry. If this success has been attained by the training re- cefved here, supporters of the plan for a conservatory ask why similar success could not be attained in every line of music. Struggling along for a number of vears with growing success, the Washington Opera Co. has risen to the point where its performances and store of | . the terms | cut out wastes, lost motion and gamblers’ harvests The price of wheat improved last Autumn. The economic reason for this was a shortage in the world’s wheat crop. As a result of this improved | price, the best the grower has obtained since “deflation”, and forced liquidation, | of farm obligations had sand-bagged the | farmer’s markets, sales of real wheat |from the thresher to the elevator prac- tically doubled like sales the year be- fore. Market figures show that by Novem- ber 1, last year, farmers had sold 310,- 000,000 bushels, while on November 1, 1923, wheat sales were but 190,000,000 bushels, Losses Through Early Selling. This may have resulted from pres- sures of debt, or the lure of dollar wheat or it may have been in some measure due to the fable that dollar wheat was but Republican campaign strategy and that after election the market would collapse. In any event, the wheat farmer sold by far the greater portion | of his last year's wheat before Novem- ber 1, and received between a dollar and ja dollar and a quarter for it. To be | sure this price and an unprecedentedly large per acre yield made the crop profitable, but legitimate market in- creases, due to pressure of world de- mand, during the 60 days between No- vember 1 and the new vear, were such that the wheat farmer, according to Julius Barnes, merchant exporter, lost Just about $400,000,000 by early selling. That is to say legitimate increases in price would have profited the farmer that sum had he put his wheat on the market in such quantities as the mar- ket demanded between threshing sea- son and the end of the year, rather than dunmping it before the first of November. The President's farm pro- gram contemplates a marketing system that will permit such orderly market- ing. (Copyright, 1925.) Musie Center In Capital Is Gaining Support especially that of “Faust” this season are of a high order. They have won the pledge from Otto H. Kahn, one of the most generous patrons of music in the United States, of sup- port for the Washington company. ! Auditoriums Provided. The huge new Auditorium, seating 6,000 people, offers ample opportunity | for performance, not only of opera, but of concert and organ recital. Mrs. Frances Shurtleff Coolidge has given to the United States $60,000 for the construction of a specially de- signed hall for the playing of cham- ber music, which is to be built at the Library of Congress. This delightful form of music has failed to occupy its proper place in the music of the United States, as suitable auditoriums have been lacking. The proposed curriculum of the con- servatory would include not only train- ing in music, but also in such refated subjects as foreign languages, history and literature as might be essential to the proper development of the musician. In this phase of the work, the problems would be greatly simplified, for in this city are numer- ous universities which at the start or permanently, as the regents might decide, could take care of this portion of the training. Chances for Self-Help. Opportunities’ for students to sup- port themselves while working could be found here and this fact, connected with the free tuition proposed for talented musicians who might fail to develop their talent without financial aid, would give to the ‘country hundreds of artists who might never take up their studies otherwise. Back of the plan are the American Federation of Musicians, National Council of Women, American Federa- tion of Labor, Pen Women of America, the Rotary Club, Federation of Women's Clubs and numerous smaller organizations. The weight of thelr support to- gother with the growing realization of the need of a national conserva- tory which would protect the student from the faker and fraud and would provide at low cost, the best of train- ing, is believed by Senator Fletcher to assure that favorable action will be taken in the mext Congress on | this proposal. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., Picking of President Ebert’s Successor Badly Complicated Problem for Germany BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN. HO will be the next presi- dent of Germany? Herr Friedrich Ebert, even before his illness, had declared he would not be a candi- date. Contrary to the constitution, he had been elected, not by popular vote but by Parliament, in which his party, the Soclal Democrats, who were eligible to hold cabinet offices cven under the imperial German govern- ment, were predominant, Ebert held office for six vears on this questionable basis. During the last three it was apparent that he did not have the slightest chance of being. re-elected by the people. It is futile to attempt today to draw a balance sheet on Ebert's administral tion. His most ardent admirers cannot gainsay the fact that he was responsible for Germany’s greatest mistakes: First, denial of military defeat; second, too gentle treatment of the Hohenzollerns and what they call “their property”; third, restora- tion of old military powers, and fourth, the reparations strike and pas- sive resistance in the Ruhr, which cost Germany enough to pay off all her debts without ruining the cur- rency in the bargain. Herr Ebert, desplte his corpulence a sory fellow, was liked by Wilhelm when he was kaiser, and Ebert en- deavored to save the monarchy from the people’s wrath. He rémained the pét of the Natlonalists until two years ago, for they thought a man who repressed strikes, gave Gen. von Seeckt a free hand, and endowed him- self, as president, with prerogatives which no kaiser ever enjoyed, was the best possible makeskift until the monarchy could be restored. They only lost confidence in him when he, because of his party's illusionment, felt constrained fuse to call the Monarchists to power even after they had won the election. It is impossible yet to tell whom the Nationalists will put in Ebert’s place at the next election, which must be held before Summer. Gen. von Hindenburg is too old and too tar- nished. Admiral von Tirpitz also is too gray-haired, and he never was popular. Admiral Scheer 1is mot BY HENRY W. BU HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important events of the world for the seven days ended February 28: * K k¥ The British Empire.—King George of England is recovering from a severe attack of influenza. ~When convalescence has sufficiently pro- gressed, he will start off on a Medi- terranean crulse of several weeks The Prince of Wales will embark for his delayed South African-South American tour on March 29. The British Board of Trade has jssued some interesting regulations to govern investigations for deter- mining the application of relief un- der the safeguarding of industries policy. Any industry applying for tariff benefits must show that it is being efficiently conducted and that the conferring of such benefits would not injure some other cqually deserving industry. Furthermore, such benefits will be accorded for only a named limited period. And finally no official investigator shall be “a person whose interest may be materialy affected by any action which may be taken.” This is not exactly protectionism, run mad. Lord Blanesburgh has sueceeded Lord Bradbury as British member of the reparations commission. 3 Dispatches tell us that the new British submarine X-1 has a surface speed of 37 knots. The total strength of the British regular army, all ranks, is 215,000. The strength of the territorial re- serves is 447,000. * ok ok K Sweden.—Hjalmar Branting, three times Socialist premier of Sweden, is dead at the age of 65, a man of note- able ability and lofty character, per- haps the most distinguished Socialist of his time, a _doughty champion of the League of Natlons. He rendered a great service to the allied cause during the great war, by creating a popular pro-apply senti- ment in Sweden as against the pro- German tendency among the aristo- crats. Like so many popular leaders, he was of aristocratic birth. He re- ceived the Noble peace prize. It is sald that only his personal influence has prevented a definite split be- tween the conservative and radical elements of the Swedish Social Demo- cratic party, and that, now he is dead, break up of that party in the near future is most probable. Mos- cow will rejoice in his death and order a Te Lenin. * oK K K France.—The Franco-Russian con- versations are a reproduction of the Russo-British _conversations in the days of the British Labor govern- ment, so you want your money back? say the Moscovites. “Forget it, dear friends. That's not our idea at'all, Au contraire, as you would say, What we want is loans, and lots of rem.” ~ The French are not pleased seeing that something like the equivalent of $5,000,000,000 of hard-earned #rench money has been sunk in Russia. Nor are the French pleased to learn that Zinoviev has sent 1,500,000 francs to Morocco to assist in ‘releasing the Moroccan proletariat from French bondage.” According to report the British government has made a kindly offer to France and Italy. Previously the British government had proposed to collect annually from Germany and Britain’s allled debtors enough to cover its annual war debt payment to the Urited States, the less recelved from Germany, the more the allied debtors would have to pay and vice Versa. The new British proposal is roughly as follows: That France pay an- nually to Britain a small percentage (about 7 per cent) of her share of the receipts from Germany plus & emall fixed sum (about £5,000,000), Italy to make staller payments to Britain, proportioned to her smaller debt, her smaller share of receipts from Ger- many and her smaller capacity of payment. Should Germany pay the minimum contemplated under the Dawes program, -Britain’s share of German payments, plus payments as per above from France and Italy, should-cover Britain’s annual install- ment of debt to the United States. Should German payments in any year fall short of the prescribed minimum, the allies would not be required to make good the deficit. Should Ger- man payments exceed the prescribed minimum, the excess would be cred- ited to the allied debtors. The above, of course, is only a rough summary of the rough press reports of the profound dis- | to re- | GEN. VON SE Who, according to Maximilian Harden, will be bl MARCH -1, JCKT, to dictate the tenure, if not the selection, of President Ebert's successor. known well enough, tures celebrating victories. despite his lec- his own Skagerrak Doubtless the clever Nationalists will hesitate to provoke antagonism both at home and abroad by selecting an unmistakable mifitarist. ting into effect of the proposal would immensely increase British Interest in German fulfillment e 0 Germany.—President Ebert of Ger- many is dead from peritonitis, fol- lowing an operation for appendicitis. The League of Black, Red and Gold (the colors of the German republic), which is said to have 3,000,000 mem- The oft-suggested candldacy of the former crown prince would certainly be a blunder, and the suggestion of Capt. Eckener, who took the Zeppelin R-3 to America, is a joke. Prince von Buelow would have the best bers and which is the answer of the adherents of the republic and the Weimar constitution to the sundry bellicose and more or less belligerent monarchist organizations, held its first anniversary celebration, a mon- ster one at Magdeburg, the other day. The report of the Inter-allied Mili- tary Control Commissien in Germany declares that the most valuable in- formation obtained by the commis- The Extravagance of Women BY IDA M. TARBELL. HAVE long believed the general accusation of natural extrava- gance brought against women was fallaclous. So far as my acquaintance with the members of the sex goes they seem to me naturally thrifty; but how is one to get documents to sustaln a theory S0 contrary to popular opinion? I never had any of account fail into my hands until the other day there came along the results of a questionnatre which Dr. Lorine Pruette —a serious and lively-minded student of her sex—has recently been making. She has been prying into the minds of some 375 high school girls, trying to find out what they wanted—mar- riage or a career. The questions had been about what you would ex- pect in such an undertaking. “If you could choose anything in the world, what would you most like to be?” “Why do you want this,?" etc., etc. PR Now, among her questions was one as to the daydreams of thess young ladies. “Sometimes when you are sitting before the fire, with nothing to do, or are doing work with your hands which does not occupy your mind, your thoughts wander far away and you make up wonderful romances and storfes about yourself. You dream of things which perhaps might never happen but which you would enjoy having happen. _Probably every girl in the world has these dreams in which she is the heroine and has wonderful things happen to her. - Write down Ir the space below and on the back of this paper all that | you can remember of one of these daydreams. How long ago did you have this dream?” Of course, the answers to this ques- tion were just what any woman who remembers her youth would expect them to be. But that is not the point here. The poiat here is the modesty of the set which the majority built for the life drama in_ which they were to play leading lady. It was simple, homelike, restrained. It is quite evident that the girls were thinking of thelr hearts’ desires and that these desires were fot primarily material. What most of them wanted was @ cottage, not a palace. They wanted something simple, white, cheerful— not something vast, gorgeous, compli- cated. There were a few mansions but many cottages. There was a general desire for activity, little for indolence. * K ¥ X T do not begin to say that there was not an occasional fantastic creation, something that you might properly cail extravagant. 1 should say that the young lady who dreamed of being a great opera singer, to whom the manager came one night and raised her salary from $2,000,000 to $2,000,000,000 a month, was an ex- travagant dreamer. And I should say that the young woman who wanted to be a movie actress and dreamed that she had “a harem, in- cluding Adolphe Menjou, Dick Barthelmess, Ralph Graves, and a million other wonderful men,” could properly be said to be extravagant. I suspect them, however, of a desire com- mon enough to youth when held up and asked to disciose to the world its precious inner self—a desire to hood- wink, to lead the questioner into a blind tratl | That this simplicity of taste in the majority of these girls is fairly general in women the country over is corroborat- ed by the observations of any one who travels much about these States keeping his eyes open. For example, .in the last 20 years there has been an extraordi- nary change of ideas among well-to-de people about what fs desirable in s British proposal. Obviously the put- [home. Back in the 70s and $0s and %0s the class which T have in mind, when they came to the point of building. put up a huge structure—big reception rooms, wide halls, bedrooms in which one lost himself, with spaces set aside for all sorts of unnecessary purposes. Throughout the prosperous Middle West cities where this kind of building raged for many years these great houses are being turned into clubs, dressmaking establishments, eales houses. And those who build think primarily not of size, but of convenience, livabieness, beauty. It is woman's natural good sense assert- ing itself. She wants something that she can make what she calls homelike. * K ok ok But If there is something in what I am saying, what is at the bottom of woman's reputation for extrava- gant spending? One faoct explaining it in part is that the sex as a whole is tagged because everywhere there are a certaln number of its members who are extravagant, and, though in a town of 10,000 women there will probably not be over 100 that deserve the characterization, this 100 is so much more conspicuous than the 9,900 that the whole mass s accused. That is the inadequate way we gen- eralize about all sorts of things. Take a city of 2,000,000 people, in which a dozen new crimes are de- scribed each morning at length on the front page of its newspapers, and the country soon calls it a criminal city, forgetful of the fact that it has hundreds of thousands of citizens who work faithfully all day, love and serve their families and friends, and 80 to bed regularly at 10 o'clock. A generalization to be worth any- thing must consider all the facts, not the few that fall under the eye in a hasty glance at the newspaper or the exhibits which one sees as he walks down the street. Even undeniable feminine extrava- gance does not prove that the exhib- itor has not a natural vein of thrifti- ness in “her. She probably has, but other veins have swamped it for the time being. A woman {s strongly imitative—like all human beings, whatever the sex. She does as others do, but, while multitudes of women dress, keep house, entertain imita- tively, they do it on a strict budget. There will always be a few, however, in whom imitation is so dominating 2 quality that they lose the sense of proportion, spend extravagantly, and they stand out because they are ex- ceptions. * % k% And then, too, a wWoman operates under nature's strict orders to preen, to decorate herself, in order to at- tract the male. It is a factor in her business. It is not to be wondered at that apong women, driven as they are by natural necessity, there should be those whose preening and deco- rating are out of proportion. But a still stronger factor than either of these is the pressure that a oertain type of men bring upon the women whom they love to outdo the wives and daughters of other men who are their rivals. The display their women make aids their worldly ambitions. They wish their women to shine, want to be proud of them. It Is frequently a generous, although hardly a noble, impulse. Take all the exhibits of women's extravagance that the country yields, pile them together and welgh them in the balance with the exhibits of her thriftiness, and they amount to but little. But that little is a glit- tering thing outshining the heavier weight. Attention is centered on it, because it is pretty geherally thought to be foolish and reprehensible. The unfairness is In tagging womankind— which, taken as a whole, is careful, saving, self-sacrificing—as a spend- thrift and waster. Lotay (Copyright, 1925.) 1925—PART 2. chance of election, but he probably is t0o old, being 77. What is really needed is a genuine Monarchist who s not yet known prominently as such, and who 'is ac- ceptable to the Catholic Center party. It is hoped that such a man will be found in the ranks of the south Ger- man nobility. The name might be Count Toerring or Count Lerchenfeld. At any rate, it is great luck for the republic that the Monarchists lack at the moment any outstanding figure. The Republicans have no such figure, for the Center Catholics and Soclal Democrats and Democrats could not unite today on any one name. Such a man as the historian, Meinecke, or the electrical magnate, Slemens, could not get a majority; Herr Marx, that much touted Catholic Democrat, who was chancellor a few months ago and who now is striving to create a Prussian cabinet, is pushed forward in vain. He is too clumsy, especially in his choice of aides, and even the support of his own party in Rhenish Westphalia, his home, now is doubtful. Besides, he fis co-author with Ebert of the Ruhr industrial indemnity, which is criticized among the electorate as a crime against the state. Thus, no likely candidate yvet ap- pears. The decision lies with party intrigues, noi with an honest desire to choose a man who would dignify Germany by his uprightness and nobility. The result will again de- pend on the Center party, backed by the Vatican, and possibly will not be of great importance abroad. Two things at least are certain Nobody can be elected who has given reason for severe censure, eved under the empire, since July, 1914, and the new president, whether of the Right or the Left, as the Bolshevik Zinoviev recently said of Ebert, cannot remain in office a day longer than Gen. von Seeckt wishes. Perhaps these two facts will ex- plain why the German public today is much more interested in the six- day races, the Barmat scandal, women’s evening dress and bobbed hair than it is in the presidential elections, (Copyright, 1935.) The Story the Week Has Told ! slon was obtained through pacifist workmen in factories where war ma terfal was being turned out and through other pacifists, especially students in the universities, as. to forbidden military training activities. * x *x % United States of America.—Con- gress has passed the postal pay and rate bill. It provides for about $60,000,000 additional annual revenue against an additional annual expen- diture of about $65,000,000—that i commencing January 1, 1926. For the present calendar year it provides for only $40,000,000 “additional revenue against additional expenditure of $68,000,000. Maj. Gen. James Harrison Wilson U. 8. A, retired, is dead at the age of 87. He was the last to survive of the corps commanders in the Unlon Army during the Civil War. He was one of the most brilllant cavalry leaders in the war. He is said to have planned the Vicksburg cam- palgn. Perhaps thé pinnacle of his achievement was his defeat of For- rest and capture of Selma, Ga., in October, 1864. He was then 27. Senator Medill McCormick of Illi- nols iz dead. In an address to a national con- ference on inheritance and estate taxation at Washington the other day the President mado some interesting observations which supplement com- ments made by him on signing the revenue act of 1924. By that act the highest bracket of Federal estate tax was ralsed from 25 to 40 per cent. “When,” said the President, “the inheritance taxes levied by the States are added to this, a substantial con- fiscation of capital may result. I do not belleve that the Government should seek social legisiation in the gulse of taxation. We should ap- proach the questions directly where the arguments for and against the proposed legislation may be clearly presented and universally understood. If we are to adopt socialism, it should be presented to the people of this country as socialism and not un- der the guise of a law to collect reve- nue.” It 1s, of course, a great question that calls for just the sort of discus- slon which was the object of the conference. As a matter of fact, Prof. Seligman pointed out, our Fed- eral estate tax ylelds not more than an annual $125,000,000—only about 5% per cent of the amount yielded by the income tax. In Great Britain, with its very high income tax, the percentage is 173%. Should the field of inheritance taxation under peace conditions be left entirely to the States, as was our policy prior to the great war? Or to avoid multiple tax- ation, through conflicts of State juris- diction, should the States be ejected from the field, the Federal Govern- ment to levy a comprehensive inheri- tance tax and divide the yield with the States? Or what should be the remedy for the present unsatisfac- tory situation? Certainly, as the President sald, the arguments this way and that should be presented to the public 80 clearly that all may understand, whence automatically, if our theory of democracy is correct, the right solution should emerge, It is proposed to abolish the under- graduate department of Johns Hop- kins and have the university devote itself solely to graduate study and research. It is proposed aiso \o es- tablish at the university a Page School of International Relations, so named in memory of Walter Hines Page, for the study of methods look- ing to the prevention of war and the promotion of kindly relations among nations, for the creation of “a sci- ence of peace.” * ok ok ok Miscellaneous.—M. Raymond Poin- care has issued a completely convinc- ing defenso of King Alfonso of Spain against certaln charges violently urged in Ibanez's book, “Alfonso XIIT Unmasked,” the gist of which charges is that during the great war King Alfonso plgyed the part of a German SspYy. The Itallan government has de- manded that the Egyptian govern- ment turn over to it at once the famous little oasis of Jarabub as properly a part of Cyrenaica. The Milner-Scialoja agreement calls for settlement of the Cyrenaican-Egyp- tian frontier by negotiation. There has been negotiation, but not agreement. Communist agitation and violence in Bulgaria (noqxouhz fomented from Moscow) appear to be increasing, but the dispatches do not furnish sum- clent data for a confident estimate of the situation. Kurds in eastern Turkey have re- volted and proclaimed a son of Abd Ul Hamid, King of Kurdistan. The Armenians having been eliminated, Howe About Writing and Acting; Success Easier Than |, Failure; The Cure-All ldea. BY E. W. HOWE, “The Scge af Potato Hill.” EOPLE love to enumerate the Great Outrages. But not much can be done with them. I can enumerate a dozen for which there is no remedy whatever; the only thing we can do is to make them less outrageous. e A man writes me about an old maid school teacher he knows who lives with her mother and two para- site sisters. These are always grum- bling about the school teacher, say- ing she is “stingy” and does not pro- vide for them as she should, although she devotes her entire income to them. I confess the statement surprises me. I can understand the mother and two parasite sisters wanting more money to spend, but I cannot understand their finding fault with a sister who supports them by means of hard work. Under such circumstances I should think the mother and sisters would grumble at the husband and father who left them poor, and great- Iy admire the sister who does so much for them % & % In a certain town a wife walked up to her husband on the streets and shot him in the back, killing him in- stantly. The police took the pistol away from her. Now that she has been freed by a jury, she is Gemand- ing that the pistol be returned to her: also that there be less delay in pay ing the husband’s life insurance to her. She was acquitted on her own testimony. The neighbors had never heard of any of the dreadful things she testified to. EEE T once wrote a book called “Succe Easier Than Failure.” It has long been out of print, but I received a 800d many letters asking for it. One man has a copy and has asked per- mission to have an, edition printed, as he wishes to give away several hun- dred. The questioh is always coming up: “What do you mean by the statement that success is easier than failure?” And I can only reply: Precisely what the statement implies —that success is easler than failure. I have often illustrated my meaning with this simple illustration: A fair- 1y industrious, honest and useful man will find ife a task, and meet with many rebuffs and discouragements, but, In the end, lives an easier and more agreeable life than the idler, who is always in trouble with the po- lice and with his neighbors because of.bad habits. Trouble dogs the foot- steps of every man, rich or poor, and it is his first business to get rid of as much of it as possible. All I contend is that a man who lives a fairly de- cent life gets rid of more natural trouble than the tramp is able to do. When rheumatism twinges appear he is better able to find such relief as there is in rheumatism than the tramp sleeping out in the flelds oq a wet night. When the decent min gets down finally he will be more comfortable than the tramp, who is sent to a poorhouse. There is a good idea bgck of poorhouses, but they are all dreadful; their inmates are not much better off, in many cases, than alley cats. A child is born into the world and has his life to live. He can live it more agreeably in every way and attain sufficient success by pursuing the decent rather than the indecent course. By a successful man 1 do not mean a rich man, but one of the decent average, able to hold a job or manage a business, with sufficient intelligence to Insure respect. There is no doubt that such a man lives an eacier and more agreeable life than the man who makes a failure because of idleness, dissipation and .unfair- ness. e The Cure-All A new magazine has ol- comed because it departs from old standards, and smashes a good many literary idols. But it has made one mistake; it defends drugs and declares Henry Ford is an ignoramus because he be- lieves enlightened physicians are abandoning them. It is not the ignorant who denounce drugs. Hundreds of the most in- telligent men in the medical pro- fession have gone so far as {o sas every dose of medicine is a mistake A long time.ago Benjamin Frank- 1in, admittedly a wise man, wrote: “Beware of young doctors. It is young doctors who belleva most in drugs and surgical operations and commercialize the medical pro- fession. This new magazine has been im- posed on by a young doctor; no old and intelligent one would have ad- vised it to say what it has said ir the interest of drugs I do not say medical men are not valuable, or that an intelligent medi- cal man should not be called in case of serfous illness. A mechanic wio has worked long on automobile knows most about them, of course Likewise, when a man's physica machinery not functioning prop erly, he should see a dependabl medical man. Usually the remedy is simple; occasionally a major opera- tion is necessary sionally a drug intelligently administered may hely There should not be fewer doctor. but more Intelligent and honest ones Too many give unnccessary medicine and perform unnecessary operations, precisely as a bad automobile mechanic, given free rein on an ex- pensive machine, may ruin ft. Beyond question people are taking too many and_depending too much on them. It is th 1 idea that is harming us most Riligion is her cure-all. It i oftered a remedy just before a man is hanged. To say that a man so bad he is hanged will go stralght to Paradise if he repeats certain formulas is as foolish as taking med!- cine through the stomach for an in- growing toenail; a remedy I have known a doctor to administer. This Henry Ford, denounced as an ignoramus, is actually a man of un- usual intelligence. Ho has lately built a hospital in his home town with regulations so sensible that they should be universally adopted A capable medical board in charge of the institution, and one of his rules is this: No outside docto may send a patient to the hospital and perform an operation without the consent of the medical board. And this consent is given only when members of the board, admittedly ex perts, decide an operation is advis- able. This will be accepted distant future real advance in medical science. Doctors in any town will tell You of cruel, bungling, unnecessary surgical operations and fees charged for them that are out- rageous. 1 personally know of this case: young doctor operated on a womar for tumor. She had no tum healthy child This would have been impossible in Henry Ford's hospital, or any cther Vil in the mot he removed a operated by his plan. (Copyright, 1825.) British See No Cause for Fear In Present Conditions in Europe (Continued from First Page.) of time. And it views both proba- bilities without undue alarm. In fact, it sees them as inescapable conse- quences of obvious facts. It looks to the collapse of Bolshevism in the end; it hopes that In Germany there will be a similar decline of ag- gressive nationalism. Beyond all else it hopes to avoid, both for itself and for France, the adoption of poli- cles which may glve fresh impetus to two vigorous national reintegra- tions, which it accepts as foreor- dained. As to the rest of Europe the Brit- ish view is less precise and British Interest less general. There is the same conviction that much of the frontler drawing in the Danublan region 1s wholly provisional and tem- porary; that, for example, revisions in favor of Hungary are almost as. sured, but it does not feel that these need threaten the general peace of the Continent unless they are com- bined with the unsettled problems of Russia and Germany. But, again, you must perceive the characteristic working of the British mind, its fundamental quarrel with the protocol, as calculated to freeze the existing frontlers in the east of Europe and leave no possible method of revision save that of war, while committing Britain and all member nations of the league in advance to make war to oppose all revisions. Which, after all, is not only a very human state of mind, but recalls with surprising exactitude the American objection to the covenant of the league in the first instance. Explosions Held Possible. As to Ttaly—and Spain as well—the British recognize the enduring possi- bility of explosions which may have very grave domestic consequences, but they do not regard either situation as carry- ing any menace to the general situation. Whether Mussolini will fall or be able to effect a transition from a revolutionary to a constitutional status is a matter —_— and Mur being a necessity to the Kurds, they have gone after the Turks. Some will have it that the leaders of the movement alm at nothing less than restoration of the sultanate and the caliphate. From Athens comes the report that the Angora government has sud- denly developed a conciliatory tem- per regarding the question of the ecumentcal patriarch, which Athens ascribes to the embafrassment caused that government by the Kurdish movement. According to the Jewish Telegraph Agency a force of 10,000 Wahhabites has invaded Transjordania and is marching on Amman. Transjordania is under British mandate. Its ruler, with title of governor, is Emir Abdullah, son of Husein, ex-king of Hejaz and ex- caliph. The Chinese government has paid over to forelgn powers $300,000 to indemnify victims of the Lincheng bandit outrage of 1923. Poor Hsuan Tung, the 19-year-old former em- peror of China, is now under Japa- nese protection in the Japanese con- cession in Tientsin. It is said that he proposes to go to Japan. One hopes that the new government has taken order to protect the violet Forbidden City from spoliation. The Russo-Japanese treaty has been ratified by the proper authori- tles and ratifications were exchanged at Peking on February 26. for speculation. Mussolini, on the whole. has a very bad press in England, and has never been regarded as favorably as in America. But, to use an old phrase, any Italian disturbance seems in London to be sure to be “localized,” and there fore not of present importance so far as the general Buropean problem is con- cerned ; it renders Italy perhaps negligi- ble, but not in any sense a menace. In sum, all British preoccupation is over the Franco-German situation and the eventual Russian problem. Appre- hension as to Germany is limited to the fear that some Nationalist explosion will at one moment sweep the German situa- tion and upset the present peaceful French regime and temper. For a junker restoration would infallibly close the likelithood of French retirement from the Rhine, put Poincare and Millerand in control in France and lead, mot to French evacuation, but perhaps to French advance, to prevent which Brit- ain would be powerless, even assuming that she were minded to intervene. But I should not exaggerato the appreher sion. Such a German event is not gen- erally feared or even largely dis- cussed. It is, if I may say it, rather the one large element of present un- certainty, the single fact which meas- urably tends to provoke discount of an otherwise favorable outlook in Europe. Look to Deminions. One word more as to British con- ceptions. Underlying all else in Brit- ish desire to promote tranquillity in Burope is the double desire and nece. sity to restore economic prosperitys within Britain and to leave British hands clear for the consolidation of the vast imperial structure which is the British empire. By comparison with this latter consideration, Europa. is, after all, a minor, if annoying, de- tail. It is not to Europe but to the dominions that the British are look- ing for the future; they are acutely conscious of the fact that proximity, to Europe compels them to be in- terested in European affairs, but that commitments within Europe and ex- hausting _responsibi may have an evil effect imper that the real consolidation of their vast empire de- pends in no small degree upon their ability to live peacefully in Europa and to escape new calls upon the blood and treasure of their dominions in continental Europe. And the sum total of all British policy now is to persuade France and Germany to accept as final the west-, érn decisions of the treaty of Ver- sailles, to get France to accept & British guarantee of western security in return for a prompt evacuation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland, with the Sarre, at the same time resign- ing her role as guarantor of the present status quo in the east; to persuade Germany to resign claims to Alsace-Lorraine and purposes of & war of revenge in return for present evacuation of the Rhineland and eventual revision of the treaties af- fecting her eastern frontiers. Add to this the British desire to prevent the adoption by the league of the protocol in its present form which would prevent revision of the eastern treaties both as they affect Germany and Russia and thus trans form it into an alliance of the old allied and succession states, insuring a counteralliance of Germany, Rus- sia and Hungary, and instead to pro- vide machinery fo* ultimate peaceful revision of these treaties in the direction the Brtish regard as in- evitable, and I think you have a fair pioture of the British view at the present hour. (Copyright, 192