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Everyday Religion RESURRECTION POWER. BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Bishop of ¥ ashington. HAT T may the power know Him and of His resur- rection—Phil, IIL10. From the beginning of His ministry to the end, Jesus taught men that He had come into the world that they might have nd have it more abundantly. 1f there are any two words that were on His lips move than others, they ere these, “light" und “life.” He de- clared Himself to be the “Light of the World,” and again he sald: “Ye will not come unto Me that ye may have life.” His most intimate friend, St. John, declared concerning Him that “in Him was life, and the life was the light of men.” It is strange that the centuries wore on men came more and more to associate Jesus with the things of death and of life beyond. Tt has largely been reserved for our own time to discover the true meaning of the life of this Master Man and to realize that it was His nhigh purpose to bring to the world not only a larger conception of life in the future, but a larger concep- tlon of life in the present. It is only as we relate Him more and more to the life of the present world that we make clear to our vision the true pur- pose and the high aim of His min- fstry. It is perfectly true that Jesus the revealer of life beyond the grave, and that He said, “Because I ve Ye shall live als but it is equally true that He the revealer of life's finer values here and now. That the Apostle Paul had this con- ception is quite evident. Indeed, he| would go so far, in making real to his consciousness the meaning of his Master's’ life, that he would actually seek to enter into the “fellowship His sufferings,” that through fel- Jowship in His sufferings he might experience the and power of His | resurrection (14 * ok ok ok Every Easter very properly, think of the ssage it concerns those whom “we have loved and lost awhile.” All our hymns—yes, all our other sym bolisms—and the flowers that we ring into our sanctuaries are sug- sestive of resurrection power as re- lated to life after death. What we need in this great world of ours to- day is a vitalizing resurrectjon power a power of renewal that Is present and operative here and now. Some one has : “Man is an eternal becoming,” and again, that “he is not so much a fact as a possibility.’ we naturally, and Saster | to man In terms of His future power that we have neglected to interpret | Him in terms of His present power. He is life's renewer here and now. His spirit in the world is the spirit of cternal youth; it is the rejuvenating power that constantly transforms men’s lives. In fine, the Easter message must mean infinitely more to us if we realize Christ’s high purpose in His world. We need and want now, in our everyday life, In every form of that life, the resurrection power of st. As a matter of fact, we must have it the world today is groping, groping for some new form of legder- <hip, for some new inspiration to larger and better things. It is tired of many of its old world systems, it is restless, discontented, distracted; increasingly it becomes evident that the power of a living Christ {mparts to man his hope and his assurance. S We believe Jesus to be “the Resur- rection and the Life”; we believe Him to be the revealer of immortality and the only one who has spoken to man authoritatively. But we also believ that His imparted resurrection power may be consciously realized now and here. Toward the close of his strange and chequered life Napoleon, on St. | Helena, came gradually to understand both the magnitude and the majesty of the life of Jesus. As he approached the end of his own meteoric career he came to realize that his power and, indeed, the power of all men like him, however great, was incon- sequential compared with the sover- cign power of Christ. Speaking to one of his former marshals, he bade him compare the influence of the world’s great men with that which proceeded from the Man of Nazareth; he called attention to the ephemeral | character of all forms of human en- terprise and to the methods of their achievement. Turning to Christ, he declared that He had drawn the world to Him solely by the power of His love. At last Christ had become real to the dving emperor. This world of ours has gone through its awful Gethsemane of suffering, and it still realizes the bitterness of its griefs and disappointments. How shall it be renewed? Yes, how shall it be resurrected? Surely by experi- encing ancw the resurrection power of Him whose triumph on Easter day focuses the world’s vision and compels its reverent interest and de- votion. We have so long interpreted Christ WHAT IS THE (Copyright, 1925.) MATTER WITH OUR SCHOOLS? By Drew (Continued from First Page.) from his work, absorbed in his busi- | He gives little attention to his | They have their own in- terests. No wonder Shat boys come hers who, when @&d#ked for their father's opinlon on wertain subjects, reply that they “have no idea what dad thinks,” or else that “they don't give a damn what ded thinks.” T be- lieve that lack of home life is the root cause of much of youth's trou- bles today. Q. How can we get modern youth to think? A. That question demands a dis- sertation for any adequate answer, but T will tell You what we are try- ing to do at Dartmouth. We have come to the conclusion that different men require entirely different influences to start thelir mental processes. Some can’ be argued Into it, some have to be se- duced into thinking, some can be ex- asperated into thinking, while in other cases, it requires a process of mental blasting. Consequently, the college undertakers to utilize all these various methods. Each instruc- tor has his own approach to the un- dergraduate mind. Meanwhile, the college courses are designed to be mind-stretchers, and we have come to the belief, in our own work, that the fact that a course could be more com- pletely absorbed by a man in his senior vear, is not necessarily an argument that he should not be chal- lenged to do what he can with it in his freshman vear. It is for this rea- son that we have placed such courses as evolutlon, with its discussion of sclentific hypotheses, and citizenship, with its discussion of moot questions, in the freshman vear. Many of the undergraduates can absorb only a emall proportion of what these courses aro about at the time they take them, but the influence remains upon them to the benefit of all of the rest of the courses which they take. ness. children. Youth Always in Revolt. Another procedure which is a part of the general policy, is the theory of the college that undergraduates would batter hear different soclal theories presented by their professional expo- nents than to hear about them second- hand through prejudiced commenta- tors There widespread delusion that the undergraduate 1s so eredulous and unsophisticated a mem- Lar of the human race that he is go- b to believe anything which is told \im. Tlence arises the concern of those who fear the appearance on col- lege platforms of the exponents of un- orthodox theories, Much fs made of the frequent as- mertion that the youth of today is rebellious and in revolt, but T cannot discover when this has not been so, and the chronicles of any college are full of data indicating that the under- graduates at all times have either covertly or openly rebelled agains orinions Imposed upon them. Tt seems to me only common sense that opinions should not be imposed, but that access to data should be offered and that men should be given the opportunity of forming their own opinions An amusing s a college illustration could be derived from the fact that for de- cades practically all teachers of eco- nomics in New England colleges, taught the theory of protection to be wrong, and of free trade to be right, while during that same period, as near as I can discover, the propor tion of free traders to protectionists among the graduates hardly varied. The Materialistic Tendency. Do you find most students look- ourses which will earn the biggest incomes after graduation? A. As freshmen yes. But after the first year they get a broader view of life. However, I admit that American vouth is following a materialistic vath. This is especially true in the Jarge universities of the West and in Q. ing for Pearson. the most popular course in college. Every one took economics in order to Jearn how to make money. Today, at Dartmouth, English and soclology are both more popular. This is a good sign. To me a college should give a bov a liberal background rather than teach him a specialized trade. Q. What is the cause of this ma- terialistic tendency? A. Parents, as much as anything. Most parents have hammered it into their children’s heads that they must get out and make a living. I think that the parents are more to blame for the present plight of youth than any other single factor. I recall one man who complained to me that T was ruining his son. T asked what he wanted me to do with him, and the reply was: “Let him come out just as good a Democrat as when he entered, and just as good a Presbyterian, and an abler busi- ness man than I am.” Didn't Want Boy to Grow. In other words, this father wanted his boy to remain unchanged. He didn’t want his boy to grow. He was content that he should be an exact replica of the old man. He didn't realize that throughout history the most discouraging periods of human stagnation have been when men quit thinking—when we refused to chang But the world has never stood stil], and probably never will. So we might as well get used to changes, and it should be the place of the edu- cated man to analyze the good and the bad in the old and the new and select the best in both. We can teach our boys most any- thing. We can teach them to put thelr entire faith In war, and that they must prepare to fight France. And in 50 years they will fight France. That's what Germany did. Or we can give them a vision of the leadership they can give to this anging and faltering old world, and in 50 years they will be leading it. Tokio to Hold Delayed Fete to Honor Rulers Tokio will be en fete for two days—May 10 and 11—in celebration of the silver wedding of the emperor and the empress. Actually the silver wedding day, marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the imperial nuptials, was Novem- ber 1, 1923, but at that time, with the country in great confusion be- cause of the earthquake two months before, no proper public observance was possible. For the general public there will be open-air theatricals, band con- certs, lantern processfons, free movies and street illuminations. After the ceremonies at the palace and the im- perial banquet the household depart- ment plans to present cups and cash presents to men and women of 30 vears or more, to those who have shown conspicuous traits of filial piety, conjugal devotion and faith- ulness in the service of their ma ters. About 35,000 old people, it is estimated, will be remembered in this way. Medieval Miracle Play Is Presented in Church A medieval miracle play, “The Dance of Death,” composed in Lubeck in the 16th century, but with modern re- finements of expressionistic stage technic, has been given in Berlin by the Holtorf troupe of amateur actors, from Holstein. A stage was erected In the Kloster Kirche, one of Berlin’s oldest churches. The actors were almost all young and from the so called “youth movement.” One by one the personages, the Monk, the Nun, the Mother, the Child and the Old Man, appeared and told their several storles, and one by one they were drawn into the circle of danc- ing death and led away. The spec- tators sat in the church pews. Often in former days miracle plays were given in churches, but a spec- tacle of this kind in a church was ‘e Bastern technical schools. It used to be that econpmics was new to modern Berlin and attracted many spectetors aud much atlention. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, APRIL 12, 1925—PART 2. BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following 1s a brief sum- mary of the most fmportant news of the world for the seven days ended April 11: The British Empire.—The main ob- Ject 'n{ Sir James Craig, the premier of Ulster, in dissolving the Ulster Parllament and holding general elec- tlons was to ascertain the sentiment of the people of Ulster regarding the Ulster government's attitude toward the commission which, pursuant to the London treaty, which createA the Irish Free State, is dellmiting the bound- arles between Ulster and the Free State. The Ulster government has re- fused to recognize the legality of the commission. The result of the elec- tions just held was a disappointment to SIr James. The new Parliament will comprise 33 supporters of the government and a miscellaneous op- prosition of 19, as compared with 40 government supporters in the old Parliament and an opposition of 12, It is possible, however, that the re- sults should not be construed as dis- approval of the government's attitude toward the commission. The claim little address in the management of its election campaign. There was a very little open mani- festation of hostility agalnst Lord Balfour during his visit to Palestine, partly, perhaps, because of efficient police arrangements, but at Damascus in Syria (French mandate), whither he went from Palestine on a pleasure Jaunt, the Arabs demonstrated vio- lently against him, showing how widespread is Arab resentment on ac- count of the Zionist enterprise, On the ninth and again on the tenth Damascus rioters, enroute to the hotet where Lord Balfour was stop- ping, clashed with Syrian police and French Algerian troops, with result of several killed and a gaod many in- jured. Lord Balfour discreetly cut short his visit and left the country. Steaming southward- in the R pulse, the Prince of Wales disem- barks at the chief port of one Brit- ish possession after another—Bat- hurst in Bambia, Freetown in Sierra Leone, ete.; everywhere greeted with fantastic enthusiasm by the natives. British territory in Afric (whether in absolute possession or under man- date) comprises about four million square miles, or a third of the con- tinent. The French holding is five and a quarter million square miles, ipcluding, however, 2,000,000 square miles of Saharan desert. * % k% France.—On April 7 the Herriot government submitted to the chamber its anxlously awaited fiscal and finan- cial proposals, the main items of which may be digested as follows: 1—The legal limit of note circula- tion of the Bank of France to be raised from 41,000,000,000 to 45.000,- 000,000 (paper) francs, and the legal 1imit of advances from the bank to the government to be raised from to 26 billion francs. (It would appear that these Increases are primarily re- quired to straighten out the hank’s accounts and for redemption of gov- ernment bonds falling due, not pri- marily, as M. Clementel seemed to Are Ended BY HENRY L. SWEINHART. EXICO is entering upon a great period of reconstruction and business development, in the opinion of F. Suastegui, who has just arrived here as the first commercial attache from Mexico to the United States. Revolutionary days are over in his country, he as- serted, because the causes of revolution there have been ellminated. With the major problems of the coun- try settled, the era of reconstruction is now under way: its results already are beginning to manifest themselves: and Mr. Suastegui intends to bufld up com- merclal relations between the two cou: tries by revealing to the American bus ness man the “facts’ in regard to Mexico, both as a source of natural re- sources and as a growing market for articles manufactured here. The new commercial attache, who before coming to Washington was com- mercial agent of Mexico on the Pacific Coast, is setting about his new task energetically, and Is enthusiastic in the belief that it is only necessary to make known the real opportunities which pre- sent themselves in order to have busi- ness men in the United States take ad- vantage of them. Must Overcome Distrust. Mr. Suastegul realizes that he has to overcome a certain distrust in some quarters against things Mexican, due in large part, he says, to “a campaign of misrepresentation”; and so he has come fortified by accurate and rellable figures and facts of all kinds as to what Mexico has to offer in a com- mercial and industrial way. “The revolutions in Mexico,” Mr. Suastegui sald, “owed their origin to unsatisfactory economic conditions, the same as similar movements in all countries since history can record time. The revolutionary perfod is over because the causes for it have been eliminated; and with the constructive policy, equitable regulations enacted and a strong and enlightened man in charge of the government, an era of full de- velopment is now beginning, with prom- ises of a bright and busy future. “Peace prevails in the country and reconstruction is well under way. The present generation in Mexico 1s fast tunities. The resources of Mexico are enormous; and this may be summarized essential requirements which make a great industrial, agricultural and min- ing country, namely, vast natural wealth, enormous undeveloped re- sources, abundant products and raw materials for industrial enterprises, and plentiful labor at very low cost. From the viewpoint of the investor very few countries can rival Mexico in natural resources and untouched opportunities.” Mexico an Market. Mr. Suastegul, who will conduct his work through the embassy and through his contacts with the 50 or more Mexi- can consuls scattered in all parts of the United States, believes that American importers can’ be educated to see that many products which they now pu chase from the Far East and from other distant countries can be procured more readily and to better advantage from a neighboring American republic. In the majority of cases, he polnted out, it would mean both “shorter hauls and lower costs.” There would be no competition with the United States or with producers here, Mr. Suastegul explained, because a majority of the articles which Mexico could supply in much larger quantities than at present do not grow in this country, while others would come in at a time of year when similar fruits and vegétables had not yet ripened here. Among products for which the commercial attache belleves a larger market can be bullt up here are the following: Coffec, beans, chicle, ba- nauns,-candellla was, cocodnuts, Ubersy awakening to a realization of its oppor- | by stating that she possesses the two | is heard that the government showed | | intimate in the speech which led to his resignation as minister of finance, to satisfy commerclal exigencles, though partly for the latter purpose It has been disclosed in this connec- tion that the Bank of France has ex- ceeded by 3,130,000,000 francs its legal 1imit of advances to the state, the lat- ter in order to redemption of se- curities falling due, and further. that this illegal procedure began in Jan- uary, slnce when the weekly state- ments of the Bank of France have been manipulated so as to conceal the real state of affairs. A correct state- ment was rendered on April 9.) 2—A forced loan Is proposed of 10 per cent of the cupital wealthy of the country, to bear 3 per cent interest Inasmuch as under the proposal the government would accept In subscrip- tion Outstanding government secur- ities, it is seen that such a loan would substantially be equivalent to a con- solidation loan, existing securities bearing 6 or 7 per cent interest belng converted in perpetual bonds at 3 per cent. The proposa) provides that subscriptions may be paid In install- ments spread ower five years. On a fairly optimistic estimate, the plan working smoothly, the yield from such a loan might be somewhere about 40,000,000,000 francs. It was at once seen that the govern- ment could not long survive the dis- closure of the illegal procedure of the bank of France and (much more dam- aging) the concealment of that proced- ure. On April 10 the premier was in- terpellated in the Senate concerning that business, and after a fierce debate a motion of censure was carried, 156 to 134, whereupon the government re- signed. M. Francois Marsal, Poincare’s finance minister, led the attack on the govern- ment, and Poincare concluded It in his most devastating style. It Is under- stood that M. Francols Marsal was coached for the occasion by M. Mil- lerand, who had just joined the Senate, having defeated the rival candidate, 3 to 1. M. Francois Marsal ascribed the mis- fortunes of Herriot primarily to the hostile attitude of his government toward “the producers and the middle classes,” the which resulted in lack of public confidence, the which, in turn, re- sulted In a flight of capital, a fall of state securities and unwillingness to renew the latter on thelr falling due. M. Herriot ascribed his woes in part to inheritance of difficultias from the preceding government, and in part to a conspiracy of his enemles to undermine confidence in his government. His gov- ernment was compelled to meet matur- ing loans contracted by previous gov- | ernments, and could not, like preceding by | government, solve the difficulty raising new loans because the lending resources of France had been exhausted by those governments. If he had re- sorted to illegal expedients and had temporarily concealed them, he had so acted for the good of the country. No one, I think, really questions the honorableness of M. Herrlot's motives, but I think it a falr statement of the matter to say that the world quite agrees with the French Senate,that he has been very ill advised in his methods. He would be in a much better position today had his government fallen in Jan- ua MEXICO IS GOING AHEAD, NEW ATTACHE ASSERTS F. Suastegui Plans to Promote Commer- cial Relations Here—Says Revolutions in His Country. garbanzos, giycerin, graphite, rubber, cedar, oak, mahogany, hides and skins, honey, Kapoc, manganese ores, oysters, pearls, pineapples, rice, shell fish, sugar, tanning barks, tomatoes and vegetables, turpentine and vanilla beans. Inciden- tally, as he stated, Mexico is the orig- inai home of the vanilla bean, which leads the world in quality, selling at a minimum of $10 per pound, while the same product from other countries aver- ages $4 per pound.” Fleld for Exporter and Thvestor. As to “business opportunities” in Mexico, Mr. Suastegui called attention to “the great natural market which Mexico offers to the American exporter.” In this connection he sald: ‘‘Responsi- ble firms in Mexico are honor buyers, and even in times of depression and difficult conditions they have met their obligations. Many of the losses sus- tained during the revolutionary perfod were due more to indiscriminate selling and lack of ordinary care in selecting their tradé connections than to the po- litical situation which at mno time affected ail sections of the country. Conditions are now ripe for an increase in transactions, and firms placing their wares in the Mexican fleld will bulld up a substantial business for the future.” Mexico welcomes capital with open arms, declared Mr. Suastegui. ““We want it, we need it, and all we ask in exchange is fairness and just dealing. The unscrupulous promoter and the un- prepared dreamer have done more harm to Mexico by creating prejudice in the minds of the real business men than all of our political disturbances.” As to what pioneering can do in Mexico, he called attention to the fact that in 1911 the oil industry was so small that the total production amounted only to 12,652,708 barrels, whereas now it averages 171,000,000 barrels annually. The Mexicali Valley's large cotton crop, he added, dates from the last few years; the great Cananea copper mines in Sonora were only a possibility 30 years ago: the great rice crop in the Yaqui Valley has been built up in the past few years from a negligible pro- duction to 20,000 tons; the banana plantations in southern Mexico are also the creation of recent years, and simi- larly through a list of other products Seriously at Work. “All this shows what pioneering can do in Mexico,” sald Mr. Suastegul, “and that what we need s men of capy ital and enterprise to famillarize them- selves with the enormous undeveloped resources of our country, so that they can_intelligently contribute to its de- velopment, benefiting Mexico and them- selves thereby.” Mexico is seriously at work, the peo- ple everywhere realize it and the re- construction period through which the nation is now passing will soon result in the establishment of solid economic conditions, in the opinion of Mr. Suastegul, and In the upbuilding of con- stantly increasing, business relations with the United States and the other nations of the world. (Copsright, 1925.) Sunday School Pupils Range in Age Up to 94 Cinderford Baptist Sunday school, Forest of Dean, England, boasts of several pupils who, it is claimed, beat any record yet published. “Out of 800 scholars,” writes one of the teachers, “we have about 50 between the ages of 60 and 94. Mr. Brobyn, our oldest male member, attends Sunday school from a lodging house. Mrs. Mary Morris, our oldest woman, is aged 84. She has walked in *he Sunday school treat for 63 years without missing ue yoar" The sequel, presumably a government of the Centre or general elections. Per- haps we may say that happily at last the atmosphere has been cleared. What- ever may hitherto have been the psy- chological justification for withholding from the French public the awful ex- tent of the government's fiscal embar- rassments, it's all out now. The new government must take the bull by the horns, and a very formidable beast it is. A solution must be found, if lel offensive, not less drastic, than M. Her- riot's “forced loan. The world will watch with intense Interest the coming developments in France and the reaction to them, which will find expression in the German election. * ok ok ¥ Germany.—Not Dr. Jarres but the redoubtable Field Marshal von Hin- denburg is the candidate of the Right for the presidency. Hindenburg's candidacy has formal- 1y been indorsed by the Nationalists, the People's party, the Bavarian Peo- ple's party, the Economic party, the Hanoverfans and the Land Leaguers. Representatives of these parties in the Relchstag number 202, as against the 232 representatives of the parties of the “Welmar Coalition” (Socialists, Centrists and Democrats). No doubt Hindenburg will also get the votes of the National Soclalists (the Ludendorft crowd), whose repre- sentatives in the Reichstag number 14, as Ludendorff has declured for him. It is an interesting specula- tlon whether communists (45 seats in the Relchstag) will, as the Weimar Coalitlon are fairly sanguine, throw their votes largely to Marx. There is a rumor that, just to make trou- ble, they will vote for Hindenburg, but this seems too fantastic. So that's that, and a very spicy development to be sure. The issue is as clear-cut as any political issue could be. Hindenburg, whose pres- tige as a great soldier and an honest man is thoroughly deserved, is a hard man to beat. He is 78 vears old. The report that Stresemann threat- ened, should Hindenburg be nomi- nated, to o over to the enemy, tak- ing with him a considerable part of the People’s party, should, in view of Stresemann's record, be recelved with a grain_of salt, though the argument attributed to him, that vie- tory of Hindenburg would mean all the fat in the fire again in respect of. foreign relations, is a compelling one. Official reports show 540,000 unem- ployed In Germany at the end of March, as against 593,000 at the end |of February. 2is wox Russia.—The new Russian minister of war says that the red army is not big enough. sald to be 562,000. What Soviet Armenia needs most is irrigation. The first irrigating canal in the country, some 40 miles long, was opened the other day No more concessions in the Baku oil field to foreigners, {. e, to any one not a citizen of one of the re- publics federated under the aegis of Moscow, says the premier of the Transcaucasian Federation. He claims that production in that fleld is now 60 per cent of prewar normal and ITH the Federal prison population at the highest ] point on record, and hun- dreds of other offenders serving sentences in State institutions for infractions of the Federal statutes, the Government has entered actively into its long-pro- jected prison-expansion plans, with two objects ultimately in mind. First, to make its convicts self- supporting, and, second, to reclaim where possible, - re-establishing the prisoners as useful members of | ctety | To begin with, an industrial re- formatory, exclusively for women. is to he established in Alderson, W. Va., and placed in operation July 1. Prison for First Offenders. A similar establishment is planned for male first offenders, ages of 17 and 30, where conviction in crimes of lesser magnitude. Leavenwortld Is to have a shoe shop former to be ready in the late Fall. In Atlanta, where a duck cloth mill already is operated, it is hoped eventually to add an firon foundry, but legislation will be required to provide for diversified industries first. Such legislation would permit of expansion at both Leavenworth and Atlanta, and also at McNeil Island, Washington, the third of the Go ernment’s prisons, which, like Leav- enworth, is now without any indus- try. . Survey Now Being Made. Luther C. White. newly appointed superintendent of prisons, is engaged in a survey of their industrial possi- Dilities, and it is expected the data that is accumulating will be used as a basis for recommendations to be made to the next Congress. In Atlanta, where the population is approximately 3,000, only about @ quarter of the men are employed in the duck mill. To work the men in shifts would destroy efficiency, consequently others are out of luck, as are all the prisoners at shopless Leavenworth and McNell Island. Then, at~each of the establish- ments, there will always be a certaln number of the inmates required on the prison farm and for other duties at the institution, and wno thus are barred from participating in any profit-sharing work. 1In order to put all on an equal basis, it is proposed that the bonus earned by the indus- trial workers be lumped, then di tributed pro rata to all Inmates. " Declareda Only Solution. At first glance, this might seem un- fair, but it is pointed out that there ‘would be little chance for shirking, the men attending to that feature themselves, and it is added that it ap- pears as the only solution to care adequately for those prisoners who, through no fault of their own, are barred from remunerative labor. An effective illustration is at Leav- enworth, where the Government contracted to spend $99,115 for recon- structing a bridge aeross the Mis- souri River to a reservation of 940 acres of bottom land, which, it is ex- pected, will be opened up for prison farming. Convict labor will be em- ployed throughout, and, if the pro- jected development is carried through, a large force of prisoners will al- ways be required there. Bonuses at Atlanta, where the mill supplies all the duck for Government activities, such as mail bags for the Post Office Department and materlal for the Navy, are declared profitable for the Government as well as the men. Earnigs of Prisoners. The prisoners participating earn about $2.25 a week, and no inmate is under less than one year's sentence, a5 all Federgl penalties of less than a Its present sirength is| between the | and a broom and brush factory, the| The Story the Week Has Told that experience of the forelgn conces- slonaire has not commended the type He speaks of the Barnsdal Co. with espectal disapproval. * o ¥ * United States of America.—On April 7 the airplane carrier Saratoga was launched at the yard of the New York Shipbullding Corporation, Cam- den, N. J. Pursuant to the Washington treaty, she has been converted from one of the partially completed battle cruisers of the 1916 naval-building program. She is in every way tho finest alrplane carrfer in the world and will soon have a sister ship in the Lexington. Her length is 883 feet, her beam 105 feet, her speed is expected to be be- tween 33 and 34 knots. Fully equip- ped she will carry 40 combat planes and 32 bombing planes. The British are suspending construction in this category of craft, pending further study and experiment. John Van Antwerp MucMurray, As- sistant Secretary of State, in charge of Far Eastern affairs, has been ap- pointed Minister to China. In the recent intercollegiate fenc- ing tournament Yale won the team champlonship with epee and saber, and the Navy the team champlonship with the folls. Wolf of Yale won the Individual saber championship, Stubbs of the Navy the indlividual champlonship with the foils and Ap- plebaum of Pennsylvanla became the individua¥ epee champlon. o o * Miscellaneous.—The Belgian cab- inet, headed by Premiec Theunis, re- signed on April and on the same day general elections were held in Belgium. The Socialists made con- siderable gains at the expense of the Liberals and the Catholics. In the new chamber the seats are distri- buted as follows: iocialists, 79; Catholics, 78: Liberals, 22; others, % In the Senate the distribution is: Catholics, 71; Soclalists, 59; Liberals, 3 In his tenth monthly report as com- missioner general of League of Na- tions for Hungary, Mr. Jeremiah Smith declares that Hungarian fiscal and financial reconstruction proceeds swimmingly. More bloody clashes Fasoists and anti-Fascists Communists) in various towns. Reports concerning the Kurdish in- surrection are meager, but that it is a very serious business is a proper Inference from the fact that Angora has ordered general mobilization President Coolidge has replied to the memorial submitted by the Peru- vian defense commissien to his award as arbitrator in the Tacna Arica dis- pute. In effect; he dismisses the representations and recommenda- tions of the memorial as warrant. “In general,” says the Prosident, “the award makes the most arhple provision for the consideration by the plebiscitary commission of all Guestions involving the qualifications of voters and the preventicn of fraud with a view to insuring to every qualified elector the right to vote. The Peruvian memorial gives assur- ance that Peru “will not fail to carry out the award rendered.” between (chiefly Italian PRISON REFORM TACKLED ON LARGE SCALE BY U. S. Expansion of Facilities for Paid Work and Special Handling of Women and Youths Planned. year's duration are served out in State prisons. In 1924, the production was valued at $1,356,036.74, and the bonuses to- taled $52,613.50. Just how this money is needed 1s shown by the fact that when a Federal prisoner is discharg- ed, the law provides that he get only $5 in cash, & $12 suit of clothes, and a ticket to his home or place of con- viction. There Is no provision even for evercoats. Whatever industries are established however, will be devoted solely to turning out supplies used in Govern- ment or State institutions or depart- ments, nothing going on the open mar ket, it Is said A site containing 202 acres donated for the women's institution at Alderson, and its acceptance recom- mended by a commission composed of Attorney General Stone, Secretary of the Interior Work and Secretary Labor Davis. To this will be added 300 acres, adjoining, to be purchased for $48,000. and an advisory board will recommend the nature of the industries to be established there. Personnel of Board. This board s composed of Dr. Mary B. Harrie, formerly in charge of the workhouse for women at Blackwell Is- land, New York, and more recentl secretary of the International Asso ciation of Policewomen here, who has been named superintendent at Alderson; Mrs. Catherine Filene Dodd and Miss Julla K. Jaffry, both of Washington, and two other members still to be chosen. Dope, by the way, is responsible for 40 to 60 per cent of the women": case, according to Mrs. Mabel W. Willebrandt, Assistant Attorney General, who explained that the prisoners either were addicts or were brought in for trafficking in_drugs. The former will be treated at the Alderson Prison, which will be the first ever founded by the Government for women, who heretofore have gone to State institutions. Preliminary arrangements at Alder- son will' provide for the care of 200 inmates and the first expenditure Is to be $1,081,400. When completed, it will be a 500-inmate Institution, at a total cost of $2,114,600. The institution for males is expected to be located at some abandoned World ‘War cantonment and a commission con- sisting of the Secretaries of War and Interior and the Attorney General has been instructed to choose a site. The Government has been greatly concerned over the problem of Youthful first offenders, for, In the cases of those under 18 years of age, it has been necessary to find a place of in- carceration In some State establish- ment, while others could only be herded into the regular Federal prisons, where they were forced into contact with hardened criminals. Figures from the National Training School for Boys here show that from 75 to 80 per cent of the first offenders become useful citizens when returning to outside life, this being considered a fair indication of what may be expected as plans outlined are developed. Pyjamas for Street Wear? Newspapers in Buenos Aires are seriously debating the propriety of the adoption by men of pyjama coats for street wear during hot weather. Frequently In Summer the burning winds from the pampas make the city unbearable. Gentlemen of the old school bravely stick to heavy dark clothing - right through the torrid weeks. ‘Ducks” or “pahn beaches” are scorned as foreign. Men of the tradesman class, and particularly taxicab drivers, have begun to com- promise by wearing pyjamas, and the custom threatens to become general. The pyjamas are, many of them, of bLright and varied colors without | was | of | Howe “The Sage of HE platform of the conserva- tives is wisest, most humane, most intelligent. They ana- Iyze the human record as carefully and fairly as scientists analyze the earth, and base their claims on the known rec- ord. If a Doc Cook appears and claims he has made a great discovery in hu- man betterment, conservatives ask him to prove it. It he cannot, he is discredited. The conservatives contend that there is a true method of advance- ment. This they recommend, and is- sue warning against others. The no- tion preached so much today that conservatives offer a program reek- ing with dishonesty is the most cruel of the long list of false charges made against honest rmen The unwise, unfalr, foolish, must have excuse for fallure. However unworthy a man may be, he will not admit he is wrong; so he criticizes those doing somewhere Rear as ‘well as men should do. * * X X 1 know a man who wa from his wife for seven Finally they concluded to remarry and finleh out their lives together. They were remarried on the 21st of July. On the morning of the 22d of July she jaw e h and by noon they were quarreling as much as ever. That evening she left his bed and board again, and hasn't been buck since. There are terrible pos- sibilities in this love the moving pic- tures make so much of. * ok k% In the old days writers used much delicacy In criticism of the people. “Let us reason together,” they said Lately they are more brutal. Writers say “You fools, what's the matter with you? Here I have been telling you for years, and you pay no atten- tion. I'm becoming tired trying to save you. Next thing I'll do I'll put you in jail divorced months. o Fugitive sentence be generally admired enough to do good; it * T should is not be done think 7 must who declared his town had I once knew a man that a newspaper o “hounded him for years! and who carried a pistol with a view of shoot- Ing the editor. Being interested in newspaper work, I looked up the case and found that the accused newspaper had almost never men- tioned the man, and never discredit- ably. The editor's offending was that he had not freely given his space to | praise the man. There was actualiy no reason why the editor should have done this, as the man was of small importance, and did nothing to legi imately atiract the attention of re- porters. Most newspaper hatreds are like this: Editors are hated becaus they do not print more free notice: Newspapers appear day after day, and when a citizen observes that he is not mentioned he becomes resent- ful. He decides that he is as good, or better, than many of those who are mentioned and pralsed, and, in many cases, begins carrying a pistol to use on the editor, and declares he is be- ing “hounded”” A town I am familiar with has one of the fairest, most en- terprising and most useful newsp: vers I know; yet there is more clamor in that town for a new paper than in any other I know. i When you are not getting along very well, behave a little better than you have been behaving, and a way BYE. W. About Delicate Criticism—Old Men’s Meanness—The Whist Slouch. HOWE, Potato Hill.” The ambition of the fundamental Ists, it has lately been stated, is to keep the hell fires burning. Occa- sionally you meet a bright man who is not only learned in the law, but in lterature. T heard such a one state lately that W. J. Bryan's cry that he 18 not related to the ape is ridiculous since sclence proves that man is older than the ape. Perhaps you have noted that Mr. Bryan has become a real es tate barker in Miami, Fla. T latel: heard a responsible man say that Mr Bryan gets $15,000 for his services during the Winter season of two three months. Will all those influ enced by his eloquence make a profit on the lots they buy? Or will some of them lose? xxx Are old men meaner or wiser? own impression is that it is a case ¢ being worn out. Here are a lot people crowding to buy tickets to a show. The old man is not in the mob; he goes around it, because he has seen the show. Not only that, he has Dbeen behind the curtain, and seen th machinery with which the illusions are produced. Every old man knows much of value. His comments may be too long; discount a good many of his opinions, owing to meanness, but he has had so many doses of ham and eggs that he knows very well wh they amount to. He has had certal: experiences you cannot discount; the: happened, over and over again, and are of value. My * % % & In one of the magazines a writer lately asked this question: “Is hon- estly possibly?” Absolute honesty js not, but a very good imitation is Honesty is the one human thing the people can make progress and profit with. Tt is not possible for us ordi- nary humans to be geniuses, but w« can be honest in sufficient degree to be respected and successful in life Working at honesty Is like working in a rich mine which always pays The same writer also asks: “What honesty?” It is obeying those rules of life, experience has proven most profitable. It is the difference be tween civilization and savagery. Pec ple everywhere admire honest: therefore be honest and popular. £Eir A chaplain ih a prison said lately | would do most of us good to spend six {months in strict confinement, subjec | to discipline and plain fare. Many stances are cited of prisoners wh | entered as invalids and came out | robust men. It is a sad commentar: |on this liberty we are so fond of. * % * % In the end only heroes; only good { become popular. e good men becom- measures final We need indigation in this countr | but our indignation is too often um {fair. we are fndignant about man: | things we should cheer. Be indignant certainly, but be sure you are on the right side Have you not observed are pretty generally ag: stories printed in the g0 nowhere without plaint against them * % Intelligence might prevail more generally than it does did not intel ligent men grant too much to ignor- ance. Find me a man of real intel- ligence who does not concede too much to the ignorant mob and 11! find the needle you lost in the hay stack that men st the lov magazines? hearing com- out will usually present itself. ‘ontinued from First Page.) which éan mean 1 over Europe. Rhine indefinitely, endless disturban Meantime, Benes going out to save his protocol bY indirection. He attempted to arrive at general security by one central grand pact. Now he s going to try to get the same point step by step. by means of single arbritration pacts between nation and nation, until all are mutually bound when they can be brought together {in one grand pact. which will be the old protocol. But at bottom lies the fundamental principle thai the | boundaries of Burope are made, and cannot be remade without new wars, nd that the talk of guaranteeing some and changing others leads to war, not to peace. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Jugoslavia, Belglum, Greece, Italy and France all gained territory by the last war; all feel in some measure threatencd in the possession of it and all have therefore a clear reason for opposing the idea of any reconstruc- tion of the map of Europe. Most of | by treaties of alliance and defense, which insure co-opera- tion not alone in war but in peace. Therefore, it is patent how little real chance there is of any successful operation to bring about a limited re- vision of the map of Europe in Poland or elsewhere. Precisely the thing which has just been attempted and failed was under- taken by Lloyd George in the famous Genoa conference of 1922, and it failed for the same reason, namely, that the central European states, standing with France, blocked the Lioyd George move. Lloyd George was all for remaking the frontiers of Rumania and Czecho- slovakia as well as Poland, Mr. Cham- or indirectly modest plan, but in principle equally obnoxious to all of the succession states. He has encountered the same fatal op- position. French View Unshaken. Tt is perfectly simple to understand why the British are unwilling to con- cern themselves with Polish or Czecho frontiers, but anxious to get Franco- German questlons settled, but the un- derlying difficulty fs that France holds the view that war is just as dangerous to her if it comes on the Vistula as the Rhine, and that war would come on the Vistula if Germany undertook to change Polish frontiers by force. Moreover, France, supported by the other Euro- pean nations with similar views, - op- poses a block which British diplomacy can neither break down nor wear down. Favor German Expansion. England is willing Germany should expand south and east, if she will accept the western situation. France belleves that a Germany which resumes tie process of expansion at the expense of other states will ultimately be danger- ous to her in the west, and recalls poignantly the fact that Prussian at- tacks upon Denmark and Austria in the Jast century were the prelude to the at- tack upon France of 1870. The center and east of' Europe, in which Britain is willlng to have Germany expand, has therefore a decided and perhaps compre- hensible inclination to the French thesis. And, as T have said, the middle of Europe has a strong man in Mr. Benes, who has a firm position at home, a con- solidated backing in the little entente which he created, a certainty of com- munity of interest in the main issue with Poland, and it was Mr. Benes even more than Mr. Herriot who really gave the negatlve answer to Mr, Chamber- these nations are also united directly | berlain has championed a ‘much more | (Copyright. 1925.) Prague Presents Solid Front To Diplomacy of the British lain when he came to Paris and Geneys bearing a British indorsement of the Gergnan proposal along with the veto of the protocol All of which explains why Prague is. in additi to having fascinations of its own, an exceptionally interesting capi- tal. politically speaking, at the present hour, for it is, in a sense, the headquar ters of that European pol which now in conflict with the narrower west ern policy of the British government And. for the second time, the Genoa com ference being the first, it is Mr. Benes | who has really blocked an ambitious R.nlnh ttempt to organize peace ‘!:lzl‘flpfl by obtaining a guarantes from | Germany in the west in return for per mission for Germany to expand in the east and south at the expense of Poland Czechoslovakia and by the annexatior of Austria. Mave Own Viewpoint. Moreover, T find myself highly re warded for a briet stay in® Poland and Prague, because one is able fron these positions to perceive that there is in addition to the British, French and German purposes and situations which are fairly familiar to Ameri- sans, a European point of view, a combination of policles and interest< of smaller states, having still a very large aggregate population and very real military and political influences This European point of view is fact that has to be reckoned with and to ignore it is to make fatal miscalculations. So far in the pas five years the French have been far more successful in their foreign poli- cy than the British because thes have taken intelligent interest in this Buropean state of mind, while the British have ignored it, misun- derstood it or fatally underestimated its importance. The present episode is, T believe, a final example of the importance of the Buropean point of view. Germany. the instance af Fngland, has made proposals for s guarantee pact in the west, but with certain very clear reservations as to the east. As a result all the east ern states. but Polund and Czecho- slovakia in particular, have been moved to action and have found comprehending hearers in Paris. Now, success or failure for the whole British effort at security de- pends on the extent to which Ger- many can be persuaded to extend it from west to cast. And the key of the lock remains in Prague and the decigion will have to conform to Bu- ropean as well as western require- ments. of “(Copyright, 1925.) ———— ——e Theaters in Copenhagen Have Suffered This Year In Copenhagen this year the theater season has been very bad. There haye been very few successes and most of the directors have lost money. There is only a small amount of cash among the people and the majority of the population are saving rigidly. They spend money for only the most neces- sary purposes. A very famous the- ater, the Betty Nansen, owned and directed by one of the best Danish actresses, will have to close soon be- cause the owner cannot carry on for lack of money. Her friends have started a public collection in an ef- fort to save the theater, but are not expected to succeed. Betty Nansen is known in America, where she was connected with a film company years ago. She played at that time in an dbsen drama.