Evening Star Newspaper, March 22, 1925, Page 43

Everyday Not a Talk on Theology Religion But Upon Life and Right Living. BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Bishop of “As Liule St. Matthew, 18.3: Teept ye come as little children.ye shall not enter into the Kingdom of Heaven.” Children.” Alexander he describes a company men who out the magician Cagliostro, demandini of him the ecret elixir of vouth. The old magie shes it and it works wonders. ukles are cffaced, with- ered eh removed, eves light up with a new fire and the old are voung again. The tragie climax of the story is that, notwithstanding their i renewal, they began grow old again Not time. N a story by Dumas n of ol to & can stay the ravages of All down the centuries men e been seeking to discover that which would renew life and restore its vouth. pay any price if only the infirmitie of ‘age might be displaced and the vigor and enthuslasm of their younsg manhood restored. If the man of science, whoever he might could discover that which would give fresh zest and rtenewal those who are worn in the stru iife, the path way to d e thronged with a men and women willing price for his secrot. he to Iec of any his home multitude to ¥ o As a matter und of fact, the covered and undiscoverable. 1 the present time, no teacher or philosopher, no scientist or scholar has discovered the formula. and the only volce that has ever spoken with assurance concerning 1ife's renewal is that of the great Master Himself. An anclent prophet had declared that | hey that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall run and not bo weary, they shall walk and not fain Jesus Chirist came t en as the bringer of good news, the exponent of a s of life that gave promise of rejuvenation and re ment. When n pproached gecking for that 1 inearnated His principles, He ed a little child to Him and said: “Except ve become as tle children, yve shall not enter into Kingdom of Heaven (He did not seek frace the marks | of age nor by subtle process re- | store to withered eheeks the bloom of youth. What He did seek was to give men a new element of hope. fresh objective and the assurance that life ultimately was reach its su- | preme fulfi secret is esh- | Him, t e been willing to | | cussions Washington. His own supreme power. This, He maintained, required the simple trust ith that lent to childhood its chief charm and adornment. * %ok ¥ In the exercise of His beneficent | ministry He repeatedly asked the | question, “Canst thou belleve? and | added, “All things are possible to | him that belteveth.” His plan did not | contemplate long and labored study of some abstruse philosophy. It de- manded bellef in His sovereignty and obedience to His will and complete trust in His high purpose. The faith | that a child has in the good will of his father was the ideal that He set for those who would follow Him. | Those who have literally experi- | enced a new hope and the thrilling inspiration of His life and teaching | have been those who have vielded to | His system and with unfailing con- fidence reposed their faith in His high purpose concerning them. To such, age mduns nothing and life's incre inz burdens and sorrows find their | solution in the outworking of His dtv plan. Those whom we have known, even among the most in tual. have found their deepest com. fort and satisfaction in yielding their wills to Hfim, with the assurance that | out af the tangled. confused scheme | of things His mighty purposes were working themselves out. It was Tennyson who said: ours, we know mot why, ours to make them Thine. ® ok kK Each recurring age has witnessed discussions and debates concerning the relative merits of the church’s doctrines. Fundamentalists and mod- ernists have ever occupied the field, |and while they have contended for | their respective points of view, con- | fusion and sometimes disorder have attended the discussions. There are those who today are disturbed and distressed by the contentions and dis- of the doctors of law. Tn the face of all this, life's problems still_demand for their solution that which Jesus Christ gave to the world. It is still true, no matter what our conceits of learning or our human reasoning may suggest, that the un- wavering faith of the child in the supreme thing that enables us to lay hold of those great promises that lend fresh zest and enthusiasm to life, re- store its confidence and rejuvenate it. The renewal we seek for and with- out which Iife grows dull and stale proceeds from Him who made child- hood the supreme ideal of Christian o witis & bur wills a ment. Al this He condi- tioned upen 1 acceptance of I teaching and unqualiied faith character. (Copsright, 1 Women Worth Talking To? BY IDA M. OUNT TOLSTOL invited to locture in the United States andiences largely of n for had always before refus Reld three thir Usoless ng te ~ing 1 that he S highly f « playing cards and | coutd Kare- | profoundest studies | Woman's nature that we have, had W& never talked with the Aunas and their sisters! Rut it “Anna Tolstoi a attacks in his u widesp nd flourishing American activity. Talking en is a business in this country, listening by women is an c occupation. Ts it all foolishness, Tolstoi declares? Are women worth talking to? 1f they are not. sooner or 1 the hottom is going to drop out of a big national industry, for to vday the major part of the speak: of the ry depend on women for their And these speakers run into many hundreds—men, wom- | en—usually colle often of more or less professional achieve- ment—giving the bulk of their time and strength to talking. They train for the work and enroll themselves for the practice with agencies estab- lished for the purpose of handling them, and their clienteles are built up like those in other professions. * % % a is. people, = As for the women, they are organ- tzed locally and nationally to lis There is hardly a community small 1o have a group of organized listeners—a woman's club—a branch of this or that The highest ips s to “have talk.” If they are it must be the ce “society” or mbition ¢ somebody come to rich and exclusiv lebrity of the hou: whether that be author, painter, poli- an or visiting foreigner. In the ars since the war it has been_ the and women's el from “New to San ncisco have strained their resources to “bring on” men and women who have hardly made a speech in their lives, to talk to them —often In a voice that could not be heard heyond the fifth row—of things fn which they were little interested or concerned, because the owner of the voice was a famous foreigner— somebody. it was such groups of women who two years azo pald “Margot” As- Guith thousand dollars night for a subtly disdainful talk, which most of them detested without know- Ang quite why. It was a pity, for they wented so much to be enthu- siustic over her and so many of them did not dare confess they wers not! But It Is not the famous who do most of the talking. The women can- not often afford them. The groups usually are lstening to local speak ors—men and women who travel district—a State—in the Interest of causes, of education, of various forms of propagauda, organizing, exhort- ing, raising funds. * x x last, York The big corporations take a hand in catering to their eagerness to ls- | ten, and through the Middle West | particularly you will run—into elab- | orate free lectures with moving pie- | tures and music panying them —really sound. sparkiing, useful, talk | and to the com- | muni and shrewd corporation, intent on ¢ ng folks 1o the point where they will buy more of their goods! The smallest town does not escape them. Getting up | ‘meetings for these peripatetic advo- cates of everything under the sun seems to be the specialty of a few women. They have a talent for it and have to exerecise it, so that speak- ers arriving on even short notice find audiences waiting for them. * ¥ % % the larger 100,000—the When one comes to towns, 25,000, 50,000 to listening groups multiply—a dozen a day at the least, as one can See from the club column or page of the daily paper; and then there are always numbers of women who make it a matter of pride to hear as many dif- ferent speakers as the day permits. They hurry from one group of listen- ing women to another—less concern- ed about the subject than the famo of the name of the speaker. Music overlaps politics; mysticism, domestic sconomy—a bewlldering hodge-podge if 1deas they must carry home at fodEn | women anywhere in the country, TARBELL. Tf all audlences of women like them, Count Tolstol right—talking to women foolishness. Indeed, be a hardened cynic, n foes to endure —their hurried were would be | would be a speaker must interested only their blinking eyes. fAutterings—their | rather pitiful efforts to find enough | of what it is all about to be able to say a word of appreciation to him, without mixing m up with the speaker who went before or the one that comes after. But while this class brings disrepute on our hordes of listening women, they are really but a fraction of the great whole. That whole Iy essen- tially sound in its determination to be talked to. It is made up of women who have neither time, money nor op- Portunity to listen often to speaking. They are in the main women busy with affairs of their own. When they €0 to a lecture they go In the hope of getting something they think worth while What do they hope to get? They seek relief from a life crowded h " personal responsibilities and | often hard labor—their job to which they are devoted usually, but which nevertheless is always in danger of sing savor because of the same- ness and isolation. A new person te look at—a new voice to hear—a new thought or an unusual presentation of an old one, comes as a refreshment to women whose duties hold them close to the house or desk; and to the same set of people. The speaker is justified if he does nothing more than bring a little sense of something different to the women who are bearing the brunt 08 the battle keeping society steady and growing. And the women who listen are justi- fied if it glves them anything of the change they have learned to look on as a tonic to the depressing effect of too much sameness on their tempers and their spirits. * ko % But it is not merely change they seek, it is contact with the outside world—something which brings them a little closer to what they read about, hear about, admire, envy per- haps, doing and thinking. They want to “keep In touch,” they say; feel that they are not “out of things.” Often they bring in a speaker because “he talked in the city,” just as they put in traffic regulations that may be a nuisance, not a convenience, because “that is the way they do in the city.’ The world must not escape them. It isn’t foolish to talk to women who are intent on keeping a grip on a fly- ing world, although you may think you see methods by which they might do it more effectually. One cannot face a group of listening out- side of the purely social and exclusive groups, without seeing in at least a few faces a profound searching for something more than they are getting from life. The young women carry a direct and often a scornful challenge in their eyes—What can you tell me, caught here in this dull corner of the world? The older carry the question, but there is courage, endurance and often humor in their eves. You sense how | much they have learned and are hum- ble before their brave acceptance of | tife. The speaker who can give such women the faintest spur to more courage. fresh seeking, is not in a lish business. 0. ‘Tolstoi was only right—hardly that. Talking to some women is foolish—so is talking to some men—but there is a great mass who are listening because of the needed change it glves their day, because they want to keep pace with the world's quick changes and, most important, because a few of them seek guidance. They know they are head- ed for something—they are not quite sure what—can the apeaker ive;them a lift? Such women are worth talking to —worth even Count Tolstol's time. Nobody is too good for them. ‘We must not forget that women are in a state of transition—revaluing all things. The most hopeful thing about the present stage is that they are s0 willing to be talked to. You can one-tenth How the Backbones of Statesmen Become Weakened by “Temptations of Washington” BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. HARLES BEECHER WAR- REN'S case has passed into political history, but an inci- dent of the Senate debate over it is not closed. It Is the inci- dent rajsed by Senator Borah in his now famous speech against Warren, in which the Idahoan charged th: “if there 1s any atmosphere in God's world that weakens a man's backbone, it is the atmosphere of Washington.” Borah added that “it is much easier in Washington to ‘go along’ than it is to disagree” He declared that “the diluting process” (in breaking a man's backbone) “Is constant and drastic.” This writer took occasion, during the closing hours of the Senate ses- sion, to sound opinfon &s to the merit of Borah's accusations. Hardly a Sen- ator was encountered who was mnot ready to admit thelr general truth. Many asserted that the “pressure” is often so strong that it is almost a miracle that it is ever resisted. A summary of views expressed indicates that the “backbone-breaking atmos- phere” consists of three primary ele- ments. 1. The tremendous prestige at- taching to the persons and the ad- ministration of the President who happens Lo be in office, The “clubby” spirit of the United States Senate, which makes Senators reluctant o oppose broth- er Senators. 3 The “soclal lobby,” sented by wives of men official position. Senators discussed the varlous de- grees of “insidiousness” of these “backbone-breaking” elements {n the order above mentioned. The power and popularity of the President are the factors said to “dilute” political independence most often and most ef- fectively. e holds the existence of thousands of people in the palm of his executive hands. He is not an auto- crat, but these thousands of men and women, whom he can obliterate politi- cally and socially with the stroke of a pen, comport themselves as if he | were an autocrat. They are not only subservient themselves, but inclined to fiy at the throat of anybody who is not subservient. They are actuated by motives of self-preservation. Many of them, having power of their own, though not equal to that of the Presi- dent, are disposed to use it ruthlessly against peopls who will not “go along,” but who dare to “disagree.” What Senators mean Is that this repre- in high 'ov ‘fi\% Ye'l;g‘ HARMING W MusTN'T FORGET MY DINNER PARTY AD 77 BY THE WAYMY, LITTLE BULIS To BE. IR, MY c?.nsfivs"r“{- uLD NoT ol D s MeasvkE ONE - may belong—makes it unfashionable, uncomfortable and unsafe to run counter to what comes from the White House in the shape of a policy a program or & nomination. Filled, as it always is, with men and women who are in Washington because they are politically affiliated with the party in office, the natural atmosphere of the Capital is always Strongly pro- administration. Its psychological ef- fect is to make nearly everybody pro- administration. Members of Congress are incessant- 1y badgered by job-seeking constitu- ents of high and low degree. They system of extreme loyalty to the BY HENRY W. B HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended March 21: The British Empire—King George, leaving kngland on March 18 for a cruise of several weeks in the Mediterrancan. commissioned a council to act for him during his ab- sence from the realm, as follows: Prince Henry, the Archbishop of Can- terbury, the lord chancellor and the prime minister. Prince Henry is the third son of his majesty. The Prince of Wales is about to leave for South Africa, and Prince George is hunting in eastern Africa. The Marquis Curzon is dead. Recent bye-elections to fill vacan- cies in the Irish Dall Eirreann caused by resignations of Nationalist members resulted In the return of seven government candidates and two Republicans. President Cosgrave be- lieves that if the method of voting in accordance with the proportional representation system (the system in use in the Free State) had been better understood no Republicans would have been elected. * % % Franee—In protest against the ac- tion of the French government in es- tablishing the “interdenominational system in government schools at Col- mar in Alsace the Archbishop of Strasbourg, with the approval of the Alsatian deputies, ordered a three-day strike, to_commenca March 16, of all Roman Catholic school children in Alsace. The government thereupon {ssued a circular inviting the parents' atten- tion to a law which prescribes penal- ties for parents who keep their chil- dren away from school. Apparently the response on the 16th to the bishop's order was about 80 per cent in the country districts and villages, but much less in the large towns. Officlal reports state that most of the strikers were back at their desks on the 18th. There is a general feeling that Premier Herriot has been bullied by his extremist supports into a very unfortunate policy in respect of the delicate religious problems in the re- covered provinces. ‘Herriot has humor and tact, but his wild men forbid him to exercise them. He will regret that he did not by such exer- cise risk fall from office should this policy, coupled with a certain falling off from the prosperity enjoved un- der German rule (however, attribut- able to the Germans that falling off) weaken the loyalty of the Alsatians and Lorrainers to the republie and perhaps even cause some of them to glance wistfully across the Rhine. My understanding is that under the “interdenominational” system, the government does not provide relig- fous instruction, but Impartially al- lows it to be given in the school bulldings by the several creeds in such manner as not to interfere with the secular instruction. On March 20 a speech to the cham. ber by Herriot on the government's policy toward the Roman Catholic Church resulted in a free-for-all fight, perhaps the most turbulent eplsode in the chamber's history. Stated In a large way, the policy is that of maintaining the seculariza- tion of the state. To that end the embaesy to the vatican has been dropped (by withholding appropria- tion for its maintenance), the govern- ment is taking steps to extend to the recovered provinces operation of the law of congregations (the law pre- scribing extirpation of the religious orders from France) and of the legis- lation prescribing secularization of the schools, and the government has announced its intention strictly to enforce the legislation above men- tioned throughout the rest of France. During the war members of the orders returned to France in large numbers and played a valliant part; with the natural consequence that en- forcement of the law of congrega- tlons has been allowed to lapse. The situation (which T have pre- viously noted in detail) presented a tavorable opportunity to the church authorities and the religious con- N. * depend on them in the long run—the big mass, at least—to find who is worth listening to, just as speakers find the groups it is foolish to talk to. More and more the question is going to be mot, Are women worth talking to?, but, is the speaker worth listening t02 2 servatives for reviving controversy on the grand scale of the “Roman question.” a controversy which has raged furiously for many months. Kvery Sunday has seen demonstra- tions (mostly in the form of proces- sions, with appropriate banners, un- oz -#gainst tha may want to oppose the President on government's policy, and the other day appeared the already famous cardinal’s letter. In his speech to the chamber, Herriot characterized the demc tions and the cardinal's manifes aimed against the Republican & ment (in some instances, he as: there were direct incitements t bellion), against the the relations of church and state. ‘against the spirit of modern * One passage of the manifesto, ed the premier, In an appeal on behalf of the church to the bankers and capitalists—and then the row began. Herriot received a vote of confidence, * % ok ok Ttaly.—Mussolini intervened in the big strike In Lombardy when it had run 10 days, “persuading” the em- ployers to grant the greater part of the wage Increase demanded by the workers. This was satisfactory to the Fascist trade unionists, but not to ail Socialist trade unionists. Thereupon the Fascist trade unionista said to the Soclalists who remained out “What is good enough for us is good | enough for you Go back to work instanter or we'll make you.” await news of the resuits of this de- lightful pronunciamento. Apparently the Fascisti are not making good their threats The Itallan Camera reopened on March 9. The Fascist and Commu- nist deputies have been mixing it with a vengeance. * ¥ ok * Greece.—Tt i estimated that in consequence of the influx from Asia Minor, the population of Athens has increased from 300,000 to 700,000, The total number of refugces re- ceived into Greece is about one mil- lion and a half, of whom more than a million arrived totally destitute and without resources, The International Refugee Setlement, commission of the league, is doing superb work, but still greater praige s due to the Greeks themselves whose magnanimous spirit and buoyant energy in dealing with the terrific eefuges problem should g0 far to rehabllitate Greece in the world's esteem. The refugee commission is building cottages at an average cost of the equivalent of $250. Countries Must Understand Others’ Domestic Problems BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD, Former Ambassador to Italy. The conflagration of the World War not only resulted In cries of “Fire! Fire!” while it was in progress, but it has left a zealous and well intentioned group still crying “Fire! Fire!” or ““Water! Water!” over its cold ashes. The idea that war may be abolished and the problems of international re- lationships solved by slogans, catch- words, phrases and the overnight plans made by some grammar school student has the disadvantage of lead- ing mankind up blind alleys, diverting energy from more successful methods and by its failure leaving humanity in a fog of synicism. If it has had value, the value of this first degree has been the emphasis on the neces- sity of taking the second degree. The second degree is now coming Into its own. It fs the fact-finding step; it is the insistence that idealism shall be built upon reality, which has found its concrete expression in the foundation of schools for the study of international relationship and in the awakening demand of the people for something more than the incanta- tions of self-appointed medicine men of peace. Something more is necessary. It will not be sufficient to confine study to the field of foreign relationship. No one who has not had intimate ex- perience with diplomatic problems in action can fully realize the great need for the third degree; to wit, in- ternational understanding of domestic governmental and political problems upon which foreign relations, and sometimes even the causes cf war, are based. For instance, it s common to find luws regulating | the | We | STAR., WASHINGTON, D. C President—no matter to what party he | some | with ¢ MARCH 22 portant oce | on & cabinet nomi on- ple. ation like Warren's. | They feel it their duty to do so. But alorg comes Mr. Constituent—impos tant personage “back home,” old litieul friend, good fellow—and asks a faver that simply can’t be refused The Senator or Representative goes to the White House. He gets the favor. He puts himself under an obli- gation to the President. He is tied up. He nacrifices his independence on the altas of a friendship. That sort of thing is happening every day. 1t 1s & species of the “diluting proce: to which Borah refers Senators freely personal concede that the | =hy “finest club in the world,” which is 1 told last week how an automobile party of students of the American School of Archeology at Athens was held up by brigands in southern Epirus and one of the party was shot. He has died of his wounds, * % % % With customary astutene: oscow made capital out of Sun Yat Sen's death. Zinoviev cabled to the Kuo Ming Tang (Chinese radical) leaders his regrets and his assurance of continued support from the Third International. A manifesto was issued from the headquarters of the Third Interna- tional calling on the other workers of the world to co-operate with the Chinese workers to foil the wicked plans of the imperialists and capi- talists to enslave the Chinese masses. The Canton or South China Repub- Tic, of which Sun was president, still | subsists, though still engaged in war n. Chen Kwang-Ming A bitter conflict has been in process for some time in Hunan Provinee between two rival chieftains. Hunan is not without importan Tts area is 8,400 square miles. Its population 000,000, Tts chief products are tea, hemp, cotton. rice, paper, tobacco and al. The whole southeastern part (more than 20,000 square miles) is one coal field (part anthracite, part bituminous). It is a most beautiful country. China. * % % of last week * Peru.—Dispatches which declared both Peruvians and Chileans to he satisfied with Presi- dent Coolidge’s Tacna-Arica award, were incorrect as to the Peruvians. It is reported that violent anti-Ame ican demonstrations have taken pla at Lima, Callao and elsewhere. A Lima mob demolished the coat of arms of the United States embass and the President of Peru has sent @ message formally approved by both houses of the Peruvian Congress to President Coolidge, declaring that the latter improperly favored Chile in his award. The latter item, how- ever, is not consistent with other re- ports. As to the demonstrations, they should cause neither surprise nor alarm to the philosophic pbserver. The Peruvians will probably calm o down and acquiesce in the award. * ok K K United States of America,—On March 16 the Senate, by a vote of 46 Furopean statesmen the idea that our Federal Government has complete juris- diction over our States, and instances are not wanting of situations which have become grave and might sometimes lead to conflict because of the failure of for- eigners to understand our domestic structure. For many years much of the relation- ship between Japan and the United States has depended upon our under- standing of the Internal political situa- tion in Japan itself. This was because a well balanced conflict was going on within Japan between an awakening liberalism on the one hand and a group which, according to some minds, is mili taristic and exercises a. “Prussianizing’ influence. Any sound policy of dealing with Japan would have included & care- ful regard for placing our influence on the right side of the scales. But it was with utter ignorance or utter neglect of this factor that Congress dealt with Japanese immigration. Today the build- ing of peace between France and Ger- many depends almost wholly upon the recognition of each country that any ex- treme action by one serves to take politi- cal control in the other out of the hands of liberalism and place it in the hands of the wrong kind of nationalists. Only when we are willing to under- stand many of the home problems of foreign government have we taken the third degree in international affairs. EE s No Irish Divorces. The Irish Free State government appears to have set its face against providing facilities for divorce. If a | Copi motion which it has tabled for early consideration in the Dail is accepted there will be no divorce laws for the -amesg those ywho think of themselves as | 26 countles, ¥ 1925—PART 2 what the United States Senate has often been called, breeds political back- bonelesaness of the worst sort. Thére are only 96 Senators. They are thrown into intimate contact for six years. They become a close corporation and as “pally” as a college fraternity. They call one another by their first names. Political rancors ceaseyat the cloakroom threshold. They are con- stantly seeking mutual favors, and grant them. Obligations are under- taken because they cannot be escaped. When they are incurred political in- dependence takes wings. There's no such thing as “going back” on a pledge to a fellow-member of “the finest club in the world.” It simply isn’t done. But it is the famed Washington “so- clal lobby" that Senators call the prin- cipal pitfall. Into that trap, they acknowledge, many a well intentioned statesman has tumbled, never again to regain the political freedom which fond constituents think he possesses. The “social lobby™ never cleared for action with o intensive skill as on the occasion of the Newberry affair in 1922, Mrs. Newberry was an accom- plished and popular hostess. She was a lavish entertainer, and placed scores of fnfluentfal men, and women under personal obligations to her. These were organized almost solidly on Sen- ator Newberry's behalf when the con- test to unseat him was under way. Senator Kenyon, the Towa Progressive leader, made excorlating reference to the “social lobby” iIn his great speech against Newberry in the Senate, Washington ts full of extraordinarily clever women. Tt is notorlous that many of them play thelr social hand to the limit. Sometimes they are re- Jentless in the pursuit of a goal. Some- times they are subtle, sometimes quite obvious. “Climbers” are their com- monest vietims. 0Old congresslonal hands come to learn their ways and neans, and, onee bitten, are twlce Rut it is never easy to resist the lures that lie in the soclal path. Our Natlonal Capital, of course, is no exception to the rule. Every world capital has a “social lobby.” Old-time diplomacy considered it one of its most fmportant and legitimate ad- juncts. Bismarck boasted that he achleved more triumphs across the dinner table, by clever use of clever women, than by any of the stereotyped methods of diplomacy. It is influ- ences like these that Borah of Idaho Tad fn mind when he described and deplored “the atmosphere of Wash- tngton.” (Copyright. 1925.) cond time rejected the nomination of Charles B. Warren to Attorney General of the United On March 17 the President John Garibaldi Sargent for and the nomination was unanin ¥ approved by the Senate the same day Mr. argent is 65 years of age, a country lawyer of dlow, Vit (not far from the Coolldge home at Plymouth), an old friend of Coolidge and the Presi- dent, an enthusiastic fisherman, a £ood shot and something of a natur- alist Befors submitting Mr. Sargent's name to the Senale, the President had informed Mr. Warren by letter that he proposed to offer’him a re- cess appointment as Attorney Gen- eral, but Mr. Warren ended the em- barrassing episode by replying that he would not accept such an offer. s of this letter were issued for publication before the nomination of Mr. Sargent. On March 17 tho President nomi- nated Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, Minister to China, to be Ambassador to Germany. The nomination was con- firmed by the Senate the same d. The special session of the ended on March 18. On March 18 a tornado, starting in the Ozark hills of Missouri, swept across northeastern Missouri. south- ern Illinpis and southern Indiana and down into Kentucky and Tennes- see, practically wiping out several towns, wreaking terrible havoc in many others, killing about 800 per- sons, injuring about 3,000 others and rendering 15,000 homeless. It was, one is told, the most destructive ter- nado of record. Its path was in parts about a mile wide, elsewhers it nar- rowed to feet. Illinois was far the worst sufferer, nearly 700 dead and ,000 inqured. The same day a fire destroyed the Breakers Hotel, the Palm Beach Ho- tel and several smaller buildings at Palm Beach. Unable to pay its debts. the Chi- cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Rafl- road has been placed in the hands of receivers. In 1924 the system earned only 2.75 per cent on ifs capital in- vestment. Senate * % %k Miscellaneous. — The _thirty-third session of the Council of the League of Nations ended on May 14. Back in the Spanish zone of Mo- rocco, directing operations, Gen. Primo de Rivera, president of the Spanish military directorate, declares that within 12 months there will be peace between Spain and the tribes- men. He is “satisfied that the resis- tance of the enemy is breaking down.” It may be breaking down and then again it may not. Lithuania is indignant at the desig- nation by the vatican of the Arch- bishop of Vilna as having jurlsdic- tion over Polish religious territory, & sort of recognition, as they see it, of the Polish claim to Vilna. A part of the Lithuanian press has, In conse- quence, been clamoring for the ex- pulsion of the papal emissary from Kovno. On Friday reports reached us of another clash between Polish and Lithuanian frontier guards, and the alarmists were all agog. Yesterday we learned that through the good of- fices of Mr. Chamberlain and M. Her- riot the business had been smoothed over. At the request of the league coun- cil the World Court will meet in special session on April 14 to declde the dispute between Poland and Danzig. The immediate issue fs fan- tastic enough, but back of the quar- rel about the mail boxes are Issues of profound importance. According’to a dispatch from Ber- lin, Communist papers in Russia ad- mit that more than 700,000 children in southern Russia are starving. The reports concerning the Kurdish insurrection that reach us are con- flicting. On March 18 a fire swept a district of Tokio being rebuilt after the great earthquake and its ensuing fire, de- stroying 1,700 bulldings, rendering nearly 9,000 persons homeless and in- juring nearly 100. At last Capt. Roald Amundsen’s air- planes, especially constructed in Italy for his proposed flight from Spitz- bergen over the North Pole to Alaska, are paid for and in his possession’ They are about to leave Leghorn by Howe About Men and Mice; Manners for Old Fellows; Feminine Ideals. BYE. W “The Sage of ONCE heard a mother say, when her son left home to make his own way: “Robert, remember the {deals T have taught you.” It sounded rather nice; but H. G. Wells declares that women, particu- larly American women, ruin their men with false {deals. Women are protected from the worst squabbles that go on in life, and therefore get as many false notions as do literary men or public speakers, notoriously bad philosophers. * x o ox Young girls were once almost uni- versally pretty: a young girl not good- lookiug was rare. But lately they trim themselves up in such a ridicu- lous manner and act in such a ridicu- lous way that a good many of them are not worth a second glance. * ok K % We grumble at newspapers’ news, but in the end it is reasonably relia. ble and fair. Mistakes are made In a desire to get news to readers early, but these are finally corrected. Take the case of the greatest news item in history Russia. The facts about Russia as printed are now ac- ocpted as true. And what a story it is! There has been nothing like it since the dawn of history. It is a story of great suffering, great weak- ness, great brutality, but the moral of it will prove of value forever. Here are men who have put into effect every false plan of human better- ment; not one is missing The wreck of the upper classes has heen com- plete, but it has not meant the slight- est degree of improvement for the lower. In the city of Moscow there are 226,000 government employes, and only 114,000 industrial workers, 5,000 of whom are out of work Similar items of blg condemnation are so nu- | merous in Russia that a column might be filled with them. Russia is £0 wretched, so poor, so hungry, that the world has ceased to condemn, and only pities. a * % x % This year 1 see a good deal of two grandmothers and a rather sn t spinster, as they frequently call at my house: not to me, but my woman folks. As they sit about and talk I nots they are trving to re- form me in the delicate way nice women have of teaching. The bet- terment of the werld, they belleve, can only come about through the bet- terment of men. The conversation is not directed to me, but I usually find Iam in It. Sometimes Adelaide, m niece, makes a remark that startle. me; it indi es that 1 have been »sely associated with her 15 ars and do not know her. I have long been thinking of her as a good In- dian who wouldn't send a man to the stake, but sometimes she has a touch of savagery toward the men that causes ma to shiver. This Spring I am in_town, and every week see a vaudeville perform- ance. The other night a man was telling about a terrible woman he knew. She was always getting mar- ried, and always hard on her hus- bands. She couldn't get along with- out a man, it seemed, and as soon as she got a new one began punishing him in ways so cunning that it was said there was no new punishment possible; she had thought of every- thing. But her critics were m taken:; ona day they found her down at the river pouring water on a drowning man. * Women as generally take an inter- | . HOWE, Potato Hill.” est in salads as they do In weddings. Occasionally there {s a man who claims ability to create a part larly good salad, but I think hs does it to stand well with the ladie * kK % A man I know things, so he invents astonished. likes marvelous them, and * * * There is no doubt that nature tended man should live on the earth Nor {s there doubt that food was pravided for him Nature as certainly necessary supplics men must have while growing to maturity as it pro- vided wood or metal for his coffin. Nature is as anxious to keep ma ! going to a proper it is to supply nourishment for plants. Ob. serve how cunning nature is in_ dis | tributing seeds of various kinds; birds and ins and the winds distributs them How carefully blest subjects! for plants and man, best of fts creatu The starvation laziness when it provided the age as ure feeds it hun oes not do muct and less f na It hear about folly is not B di the ms s fall. Vo 1o “Let “build A great many alrpla the good gentlemen | culty in finding a remedy. cernment,” the chines that will not fall” * % % | One of the best of the Janua | magazines contained a strong plea for | simple common sense. It was o fair, ®0 reasonable, s fntelligent, so fm- | portant, that T stirred with en- thusiasm. While in this frame of I continued to read in the same and ras a strong pl for every form rad | and nonsens: Forme : printed to repres | mina publication ross of Her \rRans t the differen - were al ing th becoma fanatical i Lately ed independent,” and arc fanatical or | sides of questions. 1 .one writs | makes out by elaborats argun | that Jondon lies « of New York, and in the same {ssue another writer contends that the true direction is west, what has accomplished? There should not be two opinions as to the direction of London from New [ York. For exp send London | passengers west w should be sent east results i unnece ary trouble and The disagreeahle | the old fello { That who is as A man approaching from ot | 51 S suppo ast bee en they m expense t man in who 1 most - | considerable { old age, will k good de: | with others. but the other secking compan order th may eay disagreeable things feel. They think this is critic is really bad manne hen r his m are con ep aw and remembe kind they to | _The man in the wrong | twist nis explanat | teresting shapes. ‘l.m. s0 much pace, is able ns into s a that righ and is a suspicion brutal. 1t women, but rougt e caug Peace Is Declared Germany’s Chief Desire After Wide Sfirve_y (Continued from First Page.) cient sanity on both sides of the Rhine ultimately to reach, not recon- cillation, but a modus vivendi Two fears, two appreh two dis- trusts, capable of indefinite exploita tion by the evil-minded politically in two countries, stand in the way any real peace. Such impre. purpose of th on as I have of new German govern- ment is net. It seeks to bring about a situation in which it shall be abie to confront its own people with the certainty of allied evacuation of Ger- | man lands within the periods fixed by the treaty of Versailles. It must have that, or peace, fulfillment of the Dawes plan, everything else, is im- possible. Beyond that it aims at livable relations with France, and with unmistakable cagerness at re- comclliation alike between the Ger- mans and the English and the G mans and the Americans. It undertakes within its limits to carry out the disarmament provisions, to meet the new complaints of the allies, but it quite frankly admits that it will not be able to arrive at 100 per cent fulfillment. There will always be enough of a margin to make a technical case against Ger- many, if the desire I3 to make a case, because no government can sufficiently control the army to enforce the last degree of obedience without arousing a storm which would be dangerous. Disarmed in Oficial View. The official view Is that Germany 1= disarmed practically up to the pos- sible; that sho is absolutely helpless; that her helplessness will remain for years to come, and that this fact is appreciated by all allied experts. The conclusion is that the disarmament question has been raised, not in good faith, but because France and Britain are not vet agreed over the matter of security for France. And the Ger- mans argue that it is not just or fair that their territory should be occu- pled, contrary to the treaty, because the United States rejected the treaty of guarantee to France, and Britain did the same. A direct British guarantes to France would arouse German diffi- cultles, because it would be inter- preted as a new-alllance against Ger- many, but a British declaration to defend the status quo against any aggresston, German or French, would be, I think, almost welcomed now in Germany, for at the moment at least all German thoughts are directed at the release of the Rhineland from forelgn occupation. And when they have got back the Rhine and get rid of allied armies and allled control of their own arma- ments, will the Germans rush to the preparation of a new war of revenge and conquest? There is the ques- tion—how to answer it? The truth seems to me to be that if that is the case, then there is an end of all hope. But, by contrast, if there is any hope in the situation, it must lle in the direction of removing those causes of German passion which make a new struggle inescapable. Germany Badly Punished. All that defeat, misery, agony, do- mestic turmoll and forelgn isolation can do to make war hideous to the German mind has been done. The Ger- man may belleve himself the victim of foreign aggression, he may reject with all conviction the idea of war guilt, but he cannot escape the all-essential fact that war has meant for him a misery which lies outside his own racial experience since the Thirty Years’ War, and has deprived him. of of | the | practically ng which ma life possible, at least during 10 fright- ful years. new punish- fvation, upon add to mear ht convince pe was quite emies of th des him, or to hi b in < own present »f war e dange to be thit you him that all hope of non-existent, that his e war were resolved having disarmed him, be destroyed. seen too mu let him h of the misery of war on the other side of the old battle lines to betome sentimental over the German sufferings. The de astated areas of France and Belgiur are memories which survive in my mind even now in a German world where 1 am finding every courtesy and obtaining ev facility, official and unofficial. But the fact of the suffering impresses me; it impresses me immensaly; it means that the war. the meaning of war, has been brought home with Inescapable force to every erman, There is no illusion, no faintest glamour, no concealment was the most terrible thing in t human experience of all the men women and children who lived through it, and the time of strain lasted not four years and & half, as in allied countries, but practically 10 here. T have B Points of Similarity. Now you must believe one of two things: "Either the German is funda- mentally and totally unlike all other peoples, of a mentality which has no resemblance to ours, or, despite cor- tain differences, the German is, after all, like other human beings, al- fected by the same things, suscep- tible to the same pains, capable of learning the same lessons, anxious (o ;ape hunger, cold, privation, just as others are. The war took from the most everything he deprived him of nearly all of the things, big and little, which counted In his ‘life, and it left him impover- ished, isolated, shaken mentally and morally. You don’'t have to be in Berlin long to realize t His re- covery has begun, and physically must inevitably continue. His vitality is unmistakable. To imagine that the German now or ever will plead gullty of moral gullt for the war is, I am sure, out of the question; to Imagine that he will secretly acknowledge such guilt is, too, unbelievable. To believe that he will accept the decision of the war, provided that the contract as written at Versailles and at London, so far as western Europe is concerned, is now maintained, seems to me humanly pos- sible—but on the terms of an evacua- tion of German territory and future treatment as an equal. A year ago, after visiting London, Paris and Geneva and talking with statesmen and people from many other countries, T wrote that, in my judgment, outside of Germany, which I had not visited and could not speak of, I had the impression that Europe was in a new mood, and that there was a dominating sense of general desire for peace. I have now the same impression as to Germany, so far as Berlin Is indicative. 1 do not believe, despite the presence of ex- ceptions, that the German people are militaristic or revengeful. I do not bolieve that their leaders are secretly preparing a new war or less honestly eager for peace than those of France and England—and T mean peace, not a truce. In fact, I think that in Gers many also the war is over. Coppiighlo dbdbd L Wi rman al believed In; it