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Everyday Religion Not a Talk on Theology, Living. But Upon Life and Right BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Bishop of “The Authority of Christ.” St. Matthew, v.21,22 by them of old time, “It but I was said say unto was sald of Jesus that spake as never man spake.” This is conspicuously true when we compare Him and His teachings with the other great religious teacher Dr. Gordon refers to the “originality of Jesus,” his contention being that He is utterly unique when compared with the founders of the world's ) religious systems. His af- firmations~ concerning Himself are conspicuous in the brief'annal of His life. In such sentences as the fol- lowing He gives expression to His supreme authority: “I am the way, truth, and the life”; again, “I am light of the world) no man com- unto the Kather but by Me” “I am the resurrection and the Repeatedly He aks with and slute authority, as say All power is given in Heaven and in earth.” * * ¥ the law of Moses to the beat- des of Christ is an infinite reach. Hyde, the distinguished former yresident of Bowdoin, wrote an illu- minating book entitled, “From BEpi- in which he makes ference between the s and those of the great moralists and philosophers. Some time ago a Turkish scholar submitted a striking comparison be- tween the teachings of Christianity and those of Islam. He found the teachings of Christ transcendently superior to those of his own religious | leaders, but he contended that the| followers of Jesus had widely depart- ed from the precepts of their knowledged Master. He said consider Mussulmans generally far more religious than inasmuch as they practice scientiously the teaching proshet. 1 feel that n_ tthical point « nitely inferior to There no truistic in “He th sp He to Me abs From a9 to be Christians more con- of their teaching, from view, to be in that " of Christ teaching thoroughly its character, and which, literally applied, would exercise so direct and bene- | Auence on the human race the teaching of Christ. There religious teacher whose moral | standard, in regard to the duties of | toward each other in this world, His eri f it could be cial an i striking ism of supremacy to follow article is a stern who acknowledge | of Christ, and yet His precepts. Today those | | understooa. Washington. which we have to do is being re- examined, So far as our religious systems are concerned, we are being asked to give “a reason for the hope that is fn us”” Tt is not enough that one shall say that he is a member of this or that Christian organiza- tion. The world is demanding, in the language of a practical early Chris- tian, “Show me thy faith by th works.” The Master Himself on one occasion asked the pertinent ques- tion, “Why cail ye Me Lord, lord, and do not the things which T say?” We have made a fetish of systems we have unduly accentuated metk ods and organizations; we have given altogether too much consideration to precedents and traditions. Some one suggestively says that we need less study about Christ and more study of Christ. * ok % % The four Gospels that contain the body of His teaching are tie briefest chronicles of a great life of which we have knowiedge. While there is embodied in them the profoundest of truths, the great principles that Christ enunciated are, in the main, easily understood. It is entirely pos: | sible’ for one to be an avowed, and | even devout, member of a Christian organization and vet fail of bting a disciple of Christ. To square our | philosophy of life as well as our daily | habits with what He clearly defined 1s indispensable to Christian charac- ter transcends all else. Fortunately for the world today there is a uni- versal tendency tw study more crit- the express teaching of the There is probably at present and deeper study of His life |and words than the world has wit- nessed for generations. It is alway: most costly in the end to follow cherished conceits than to hew to the more difficult lines that proceed from the ome authoritative source upon which our institutions are builded. The more men’s vision is focussed upon the person of Christ and the more consistently His way of life is pursued, the more closely do we find ourselves irres drawn | together in an increasing spirit of fellowship. Obviously, thefe is need | for interpretation of the mird A wide to men are, in_the main, easy to be If He prayed for the unity of His church and if He gave as the second great command, “Thot shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, it is reasonably certain that the divi- sions in His church run counter to His express will and purpose. We are confronted today with the ques- tion which Pilate asked, “What then shall T do with Jesus, which is called there is a new tive teaching s a demand for authorita- | Every system with Christ?” (Copyright, 1 Latin Presidents-Elect Aid Better Relationships With U. S. BY HENEY L. ORE SWEINHART. than usual significance | is attached to the visit to| the United States of Gen.| Gerardo Machado, President of the Cuba, who is to Le inaugur s Chief Executive of the island republic on May 20. In the first place, he. is the third President-elect of Latin American country who, between the date of his elaction and the date of his inaugura- tion, has been the guest of the United States within the past year. Two others also have been here within the past few years. st November Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, whe in July been chosen President of Mexico, accorded the honors due his position as he passed through this country on his way back from Kurope. Only few months previously Gen. Horacio | Vasquez, President-elect of the Domin- fcan Republic, paid a visit to the United States. In the early days of the Harding Administration the Pres- ident-elect of Colombia, Gen. Pedro Nel Ospina, was here, and several vears previously the chosen President of Brazil, Dr. Epitacio Pessoa. Marks Close Relations. the second pl the visit of Machado is believed to mark not only the close relations, commercial and otherwise, between the United States and Cuba, but also the increas- friendly relations between this ntry and all the other republies of She Western hemisphere. So frequent | 1ve these visits become that a prece- dent almost has been established. In the official mind no doubt exists as to the beneficial effect of the friend- 1y international contacts which are thus established. The opportunity is afforded, it is pointed out, for the v ing chief executive to meet the Presi- dent of the United States and other prominent officials and through infor- mal conversation ascertain their views on some of the larger phases of prob- | lems affecting the two countries At the same time the visiting offi- cial always leaves behind a kindly memory of himself and a friendly recollection of the country which he represents. This, it is believed, means much to the continuing good relations bhetween the two nations. Apparently seneficial results have followed from Il the five visits of Presidents-elect rom Latin Americ; to the United States within the past few years. In Gen Cuba’s Close Posi On account relations . of the peculiarly which always have existed | hetween the United States and the Republic of Cuba—the geographical roximity, the large commercial trans- ctions and the fact that ‘there were wo periods of American military oc <upation of the island after the free- dom from Spain—the pre-inaugural | visit of Gen. Machado is viewed as of | ecial significance. With the politi- Al situation in Cuba more settled at he present time apparently than it 15 been for ye past, and with all | wought of threatened American inter- vention—always a bugbear to the Cu- hans—almost forgotten, it is stated that no_political importance attaches to the Machado “call” on President Coolidge and on Secretary of State Kellogg #nd other officials of this Government. Nevertheless, it some political gain piished and that Gen. Machado will zo back to Havana strengthened in more ways than one—in the first place by knowing “at first hand” something of the mind of the President of the United States and those associated with him in the handling of foreign affairs: and in the second place by be- ing better able to handle his end -of the problems which arise between the two countries. What Visitors Have Said. 1t is interesting to note what some of the visiting Presidents-elect from the varjous Latin American countries have said and done on the occasions of the reception. Dr. Pessoa, who had been sent by his government as a delegate to the Paris peace confer- ence and who was chosen President while he was in Europe, returned to ¢Brazil by way of the United States, nrriving here in June, 1919. In speak- «mz at a dinner in his hopor at the Pan-American Union, after referring "The close relations which have lose ‘ is believed some will be accom- | which | pelled by accumulated energy United had on the entrance of into the World d in part: the monstrous scourge ared from the face of the lized world, and that nations, im- in the making up of lost time, are to resume their old life of peace and toil, Brazil will rejoice in continuingeto develop more and more the relations of every kind which bind her to the United States, and to strive for this end will be one of the fondest endeavors of my government.” Ospina Voices Gratitude. Gen. Ospina of Colembia, whose term of office will not expire until next year, in expressing appreciation for the reception he received in the United States, sai “1 am deeply grateful for the attentions which have been bestowed upon me in Washington. I feel that these were for Colombia, and not for me personally. 1 do not de- serve them, but my country does de- serve them.” Since the return of Gen. Ospina to South America much has been done to wipe out the feeling which had ex- isted in Colombia ever since the be- ginning of the present century over the loss of Panama. The financial and economic condition of Colombia has been improved largely through the assistance of a financial commission from the United States, and, due to the friendly effor of this Govern- ment, diplomatic relations were re- cently established between Colombia and Panama, they have negotiated a boundary convention and are now negotiating a treaty of amity and commerce. The President-elect of the Dominican Republic, Gen. Vasquez, when he was here less than a year ago, expressed his appreciation of what the United States had done to place his govern- ment and country in a good economic and financial position. Conditions in that country under his administra- tion have been continuing, according to reports, to show improvement. _Gen. Calles, President-elect of Mex- ico, met with a very hearty reception on the occasion of his journey through the United States last November. He expressed himself as having found President Coolidge very friendly and svmpathetic, and it is believed that the satisfactory progress which is be- ing made in the settiement of all out- standing differences between the United States and Mexico may be at- the States War | tributed, in part at least, to the meet- ing here }:1( the two chief exi and to the “personal contact established. (Copyright, 1925.) ———— President Will Not Be Quoted by Press (Continued from First Page.) own interests and in the interest of the President. They hold that the President is entitled to anonymity, and that any procedure that destroys it would be prejudicial to public weifare, They are certain the existing rule of indirect quotation makes for better news than if they were required to depend on *canned,” or mimeograph- ed, presidential utterances as actually delivered. It is the position taken by this last- named group of correspondents that Mr. Coolidge has adopted as his own. Things at the White House will go on without change, as far as news is con. cerned. Correspondents who attend the press conferences will have, as before, ‘to do their best to interpret the President faithfully, but quote only “a White House spokesman.” If fail in the attempt, it will bej They will be sub- misfortune, Ject, as heretofore, to official denials, whenever these are necessary or useful. | (Copyright, 1925.) To Save Crusader’s Tomb. An appeal has been addressed by Sir Ronald Storrs, governor of Jeru- salem, to the governor of the Chan- nel Islands for funds to safeguard the only remaining crusader's tomb in Jerusalem. The tomb is that of Phil Daubeny, formerly governor of the Chanel Islands. Daubeny went to the holy land in 1222 and died there in 1236, BECH . S of | | Jesus, but the cardinal truths He gave | than | woman was essentially a home person. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., APRIL 19, 1925—PART 2. U BY DREW PEARSO California’s foremost educa- to Secretary of the Navy Wil- Leland Stanford University, and out here in California folks probably talk more of “Ray Lyman” than they do of “Curtis Dywight.” I came to California to interview President Wilbur because he had won considerable renown modern youth in facing the ‘intricate problems of this age of jazz and hip flasks, He is a tall, angular West- erner, with a free and \easy manner of making his visitor feel at home. T set down his replies in the frank and sincere manner that he gave them to me. * ¥ k ¥ Youth Changes with World. Q. Dr. Wilbur, what is the cause of the tremendous change which has come over modern youth? Youth has changed because the has changed. We should not worry so much over what ails our vouth as we should worry over what ails our civilization. We have moved aster in these last 150 vears than the entire world has moved in the last 150,000. 1 can make t even | stronger. In the last 40 years we | have moved faster than all mankind has moved in previous hundreds. We live in a rapidly changing world with slow-moving schools and colleges. So, no wonder youth has changed. Yet it has suffered no more than adult life. Most of us have cast aside our old creeds and dogmas, and it is natural that youth_should do the same. Fun- damentally, vouth has not changed except for the better. It has dis- carded some of our old conventions, but still clings to the best in the old civilization and is creating better standards in the new. I know what I am talking about, for I am con- stantly referring moral problems back to our students for solution, and 1 never fail to strike good, solid bed- rock. It works in our student govern- ment and also in our honor system. ko % Greater Change Q. How has young women? A. It has affected them far more it has men. Before the war Women. this change affected Millions of women all oyer the coun try spent most of their lives in their homes. Now they have suddenly be- come ambulatory. Within a decade the motion picture, the radio and the marvelous - distribution of the daily press have brought the four corners of the earth to the woman's home. And what does not come to her she £oes out o get in her automobile. She has suddenly become a woman of the world. Q. Are you worried about the fu ture of our womenhood? A. No. Women are better able to adjust themselves than men. Change the status of men as suddenly and there might be serious consequences. When I see a woman, as I did the other day, going off to Australia after knowing a man for five months to face a new country and a new family his wife, then I am sure that womankind can adjust itself to any new condition. Women are great gambler Talk about men being gamblers! Women are the greatest gamblers with life in the world. * ok ok K Greatest University Problem. Q. What is the greatest problem confronting the American university A. Our leisure. That is true not only of the university but of the whole range of American life. We BY HENRY W. BUNN, HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended April 18: United States of America—John Singer Sargent died in London on April 15, at the age of 69. The son of a Boston physician, he spent the greater part of his life in England, but he remained American in citi zenship and sympathies. He is in- deed one of our chief glories. Whist- ler, Sargent and St. Gaudens are a sufficient answer fo the frequent charge that we are a nation of Philistines, incapable of artist produc- tion in the higher kinds. Though distinguished in more than one genre (as the decorations for the Beston Library and the military pic- ture “gassed” of such poignant power, bear witness) it is by his portraits that Sargent has achieved immortality, being already.recognized as an “old’ master.” Until the ice age the question will be hotly debated whether he was simply a realist of uncanny or rather (at least in many instances) a satirist. Whatever the truth of that matter, it required some courage to sit for him. for he revealed as by a kind of spiritual x-ray pro- cess the essential characteristics of his sitte No artist in our day,” say Mr. Dooley, “has succeeded o well in showin’ up the maneness of th’ people he has mugged.” The Fords have established a pri- vate air freight service between their plants at Detroit and Chicago. Maiden Dearborn, a metal plane, with a freight capacity of 2,000 pounds, in- augurated the service on April 13 by a round trip flight. Ere long the Ford plants at Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Joseph, St. Paul and Tron Mountain, Mich., will be linked to- gether by extension of this service, if it proves a success. One hears that the Fords are furiously experimenting in the hope of evolving an “air Lizzie.” * ¥ %k *x France—On April 11, President Doumergue invited Paul Painleve, president of the Chamber of Deputies, to form a government. Painleve's political credo is about the same as that of Herriot. In trying to form a cabinet he essaved two things in chief: One, to obtain guarantees from the unified Socialists which would consolidate his position in the Cham- ber and insure him against those pe- cullar embarrassments which made Herriot’s life hideous; the other to achieve understandings which would give him assurance of conversion of the small majority hostile to Herriot in the Senate into a small majority friendly to himself. The position of the unified Socialists in the Chamber is peculiar. They number only 108 in the Chamber total of 584. They are not even the most numerous element of the Left bloc, being outnumbered by the Radical Socialists, Herriot's party. But they are numerous enough to make their adhesion necessary to a Left govern- ment. The complexion of the Radical Soclalist party resembles that of the Moderate iing of the British Labor party; the unified Socialists, on the other hand, are genuine, rip-snorting Soclulists, with a program which in- cludes nationalization o industries, etc. AY LYMAN WILBUR is one of tors. Besides being big brother bur, Dr. Wilbur is president of as a guide to RAY LYMAN WILBUR . S. May Be Greatest Civilization - Or Colossal Blunder, Says Educator have been blessed with more wealth and we have invented more labor- saving devices than any other coun- try in the world, and consequently we have suddenly acquired so much leisure we don’t know what to do with it. Some of us spend it at the moving picture shows. In the old days we spent it on the woodpile and our sewing. Of these three the woodpile and the sewing machine did us more good. Some people spend all of their leisure chasing a little white ball around the golf cours Many of them are merely trying to cool off— cool off from the swelter of making money. They want to forget about it. They have spent their lives mak ing money, and now that they have it they don't know what to do with it or themselves. T s A Chewing-Gum Civilization. 1 maintain that no great American civilization will ever result until we spend our leisure at something more cultural than golf and the movies. ‘We have got to get awa from our materialistic goal in life. we are a chewing-gum civilization. ‘We might as well admit the fact base-ball, chewing-gum, poker-bluff, hit-and-run civilization. So far as we have made something of a mess of culture, we have been in too much of a hurry. We have gutted our forests, stripped our mines, cre- ated an ugliness around our factories that beggars description, and now we find there is nothing in it. 3 tory the Week Has Told Herriot, the unified Socialists refused to participate in his government and thus share responsibility. In other words, they had him at’their mercy. By threatening withdrawal of the support, they forced him to take a more radical line than he wished to take. These tactics aroused resent- ment in the Senate, which, being mod erately Left, was naturally kindly dis posed toward Herriot, and recognition that Herriot was not his own master greatly weakened general confidence in his government. Painleve tried to obtain from the leaders of the unified Socialists assurance of participation of their party in his proposed govern- ment. They promised to summon a meeting of their national committee to consider the matter, but meantime investigation had convinced Painleve that he could not conciliate the re- quired support in the Senate, and on the 12th.he reported to the president inability to form a government. Briand, whose following of national radicals rather resemble the British Liberals, had agreed to serve under Painleve as foreign minister. The President then turned to Briand. Briand proposed a government on practically the same ostensible basis as that proposed by Painleve; but the real difference would he great. Briand is far less sympathetic with the views of the Unified Socialists than is Painleve. On April 14 the national committee of the Unified Socialists met and not only unanimously re- fused to participate in a Briand gov- ernment, but also declined even to pledge a conditional voting support in the Chamber. Therefore Briand in turn notified President Doumergue of his inability to form a government. So Painleve was turned down in the Senate and Briand in the Chamber. (t may be assumed that Briand did obtain or couid have obtained assur- ances of the required support in the Senate.) Many thought that, rebutted by the Unified Socialists, would attempt to form a Center bloc. 1t is to be supposed that he explored that alternative and either discovered that the Left bloc could not, at least for the nonce, be disrupted (that is, that he could not win over the Radical Socialists) or decided that an effort to form a Center government would be premature. At any rate, on the 14th the Presi- dent turned once more to Painleve, who again essayed the task, and on the 17th reported success. M. Caillaux, minister of justice. Well, one rather expected that. But Briand accepting to serve as foreign minister in a cabinet including Cail- laux-—that is a trifia staggering. The character and record of Caillaux are outside my brief. He sundoubtedly possesses considerable financial talent and it appears that he does not ap- prove the extreme financial program of the Unified Socialists. But whether his association with the government might not have subtly disastrous con- sequerices (for example, to the rela- tions between Britain and, France), mote than offsetting any benefits from his financial sagacity, i an intriguing question. What will the upper houss have to say to him? Did Painleve obtain satisfactory assurances on that head before tendering him the port- folio? The question is particularly pertinent in view of the fact that the Unified Socialists refused to partici- pate in the government, though prom ising the same so-called support they save Herriot. . Op the-ldth both -houses ot Rarlisr ’ At present | Briand | This all comes down to the fact that there never was a goed man whose relation to happiness depended upon. the amount of money he had. Yet that seems our chief aim in life. And when we get it we don't know what to do with it, except to golf. Q. 1s the college to blame for this materialistic standard of culture? A. In part. The college has gone with the tide; or, rather, it is like the man I once passed while driving an empty car, and whom I invited to ride. He declined, saying: “I ain’l in no hurry; T ain't going nowher It is true that college graduates have gone to swell the ranks of bond | salesmen rather than the doctors and | lawye But that is partly to the | blame. Business houses are keen | enough to know where to pick men | with brains, and also because the pro- fessions can absorb only a limited | number of men. This tendency is| changing. | 1 % Modern Literature by Q. What can the help create this new ture? A. Develop a college man with a erent standard than that of meas- uring his success by the size of his imcome tax: develop a love of beauty and art and architecture and music. Much of our present so-called cul- tural education is based upon fairy tales and legends and the antics of unpleasant gods and goddesses. Tt is about as genuine as Santa Claus. * Quacks. colleges do to American cul- |0 recognize its value. | ferent Much of our modern literature is ment voted authority for increase of the note circulation of the Bank of France from forty-one billion to forty- five billign francs, and for increase of the limit of advances from the bank to the government from twenty-two to twenty-six billion francs. So that bridge is crossed. * * kAR Germany.—In a speech on the 17th Dr. Marx, the candidate of the Weimar coalition for President of Ger- many, declared himself for annexa- tion of Austria to the Reich and seemed to demand that a security compact between France and Ger- many should be conditioned on France’s consent to such annexation, whether by way of a clause in the treaty or in some other form. In publication of the names of the candidates for Presidert the name of the Communist candidate is followed by the designation “stevedore.” By enterting the political arena, Marshal Hindenburg has exposed him: self to attacks on his military rec- ord, hitherto recognized as sacred. Off goes another halo. P Bulgaria.—The incredible and in- describable political mess in Bulgaria —the very Balkanizatioh of Balkan- ism—grows messier day by day and in every way. At the bottom of all is the eternal Macedonian question, a question of which very few persons in the world have any real understanding, least of all those most concerned—the Mac- edonians, the Bulgarians, the Serbs and the Greeks. Since (and more or less evolving therefrom) the assassina- tion last August of that picturesque brigand Todor Alexandroff there have been about 40 political assassinations in Bulgaria. But it is quite impossi- ble to distinguish the roles in that connection being played separately or in combination by sundry groups— Macedonian “Nationalists™ (or auton omists), Macedonian ‘“Federationists,” Communists, Agrarians, etc. Through the reek and the gloom one glimpses from time to time the fine Muscovite hand. There seems little doubt that the Macedonian “Federalists” -are in cahoot with Moscow, as the Com- munists, of course, are, and in all probability the left wing of the Agrarians. On March 13 a defense of the state act was promulgated, in- tended to end the terror and deal effectively with the plots against the state, 8 On April 14 Gen. Gheorghieff, who had figured promin2ntly in the move- ment to overthrow Stamboulisky and who was a military commissioner to enforce the act just mentioned, was assassinated, and the same day the royal automobile, containing ~King Boris and several attendants and companions, was attacked from am- bush by six men. The King behaved with an admirable coolness perhaps equal to that of his suite, several of whom were killed or wounded fighting. He escaped unhurt. The precise ob- ject proposed in the murder of the king was this or that, nobody knows. Some say his death was to be the signal for a general revolutionary uprising. \ On April 16 a funeral service fo the murdered Gen. Gheorghieff was being held in the Old Cathedral in Sofia, attended by the cabinet, most of the members of Parliament and many - other nolables, - written by literary quacks who prey upon the passions and prejudices of folk for their fees. - Instead of this superficial surface culture based upon prejudice and emo- tion, we can create a culture based upon intelligence. That is something the world has never been able to achieve. If it had, we should have abolished war. We know that war is the greatest source of woe and misery, vet we have accepted it as practically inevitable, simply because we let our passion replace common sense. In time of national excitement we let race prejudice and mob emotion get the upper hand. We can succeed in abolishing war only by the blunt, consistent use of iritelligent thinking. In other words, we can buy national safety with our brains rather than th™ our arms. That's one place where the college man can lead. S Need Is Religion. Q. Is there need of more religion in the colleges to attain (}\15 culture? Religion of the" old-fashioned sort, which is what we usually mean when we talk of religion. Religion in the past has been the greatest stabi- lizing force in the history of humanity, and it can serve even more in the fu- ture after it has passed through an evolutionary change. The active mind is no longer satisfied with phrases and creeds. We need a new basis for a moral code, Q. What do you basic moral code? A. Just one thing, and that is the old thing without religious authority as a necessary part of it; that one man shall contribute to the happiness and welfare of another and shall not contribute to the pai misfortune or trouble of others. We shall follow this code in the future, not pecause of any dictate from the church, but sim- ply because we are intelligent enough sll/ggest as a new I think that denominations are los- ing out in the colleges. Probably dif- church denominations will al- ways exist, because some people fit best in certain groups, just as certain students fit in certain fraternities. But our new spiritual and cuitural re- vival is going to be broader than any one denomination. * K % % Will We Follow Rome? Q. Do u see any signs of this cultural change coming soon? Yes. Among my friends I have ed a tendency to think of the next generation instead of milking the cows dry, and of thinking of some- thing besides dividends payable Jan-| uary 1, on the dot. Our country has the possibility of becoming the greatest civilization in the world or the most colossal blunder. We are rich in natural resources be- yond compare, and we have developed labor-saving machinery until we are replete with leisure. There remains culture. We have read of the great empires of Rome and Charlemagne. Spain and the other nations have had their day. We see England in her prime, and now may come our time. If history gives us leadership, shall we hold it for a few paltry decades and follow England in a brief strut-across life's stage with Russia, the Orient and Africa in our wake? Or shall we, by a new spiritual re- vival, retain the moral and cultural leadership of the world? The college man can prabably tip the balance which will keep the pegdulum from | i swinging on #s return darkness and night. course to Next Sunday—Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern University, prophesies a religious revival in the colleges. fernal machine exploded in the build- ing, pretty thoroughly wrecking it, killing about 150 persons and seriously injuring a great many more. The machine was not skillfully placed with reference to the more important in- tended victims or the proportion of notables killed might have been greater« All of the ministers, how ever, were wounded, one of them mortally, and of the 2,000 persons at the service very few entirely escaped injury. Martial law has been proclaimed for all Bulgaria. The government points to- Moscow as the fount of trouble. * ok x The Arctic.—Capt. Roald Amundsen, with his chief associate, the American Lincoln Ellsworth and with his two Italian-built metal planes of special design, has arrived at King's Bay, Spitzbergen, whence it is proposed that the two planes (Amundsen pilot- ing one and Ellsworth the other) take off for the North Pole, 690 miles dis- tant, about the end of May or the beginning of June. After a few hours of observation at the pole the planes are to return to Spitzbergen, being fueled for somewhat over 1,600 miles. What further is proposed has not been revealed. Presumably, if it is found feasible, fuel and other sup- plies will be carried to the pole in several trips and deposited ther then, the pole as base, the ‘“unex- plored region” towards Alaska" will be explored. Concelvably, flight to Alaska -will be attempted. Amundsen and Ellsworth have gal- lant rivals in Grettir Algarsson, a British Columbian, and Flight Lieut. Humphries of Britain.* These young gentlemen are about to leave Liver- pool for the Artic on a little ship called the Iceland. They will proceed via Spitzbergen and establish a base as far north as possible, whence, taking off in a little blimp, they will try to “beat Amundsen to it.” Among their companions on the Ice- land are Comdr. Worsley, Shackle- ton’s sailing master on the Endurance and the quest the same who won immortal renown by his voyage of 700 miles in an open boat through Arctic seas from Elephant Island to South Georgla to get help for his com- rades on Elephant Island; also “Scout Marr” another assoclate of Shackle. ton’s. One could wish to be of that company. Notice hereafter of the important arctic expedition to be headed by the redoubtaple Donald B. MacMillan, which will start out from Wiscasse! Me., about June 15, 4. * ¥ % ¥ Miscellancous.—There are still §8,- 000 wounded soldiers in British hos- pitals. Sir Arthur Salter, the league finan- cial expert, visiting Greece recently declared himself amazed by the evi- dence of “economic elasticity. It is reported that Sheik Said, leader of the Kurdish insurrectien, has been captured by Angora government forces. The shelk is a swell, claim- ing lineal descent from the great Saladin. ¥ o1 ) Hsuan Tung, the youthful ex-Em- peror of China, now under Japanese protection at Tientsin, says he would like to come to the United States to complete his education. He's a nice young man, and one hopes it may Howe About Stone Mountain—Edbert Smotts—Noble Work. BY ED HOWE, 3 HE poor abusing the well-to- do: Wives and husbands abus- ing_each other; Smployes abusing employ- ers; Business men abusing rivals Candidates abusing each other: 1t is all the unreliable stuff preached by the Soviets—the Communists, the Soclalists. ¥ Don’t imagine Sovietism is preached only in politics: it is a factor in every thing. The man in the wrong in any argument adopts the best excuse he can think up hurriedly. When in an argument with a rival, you may think you have right to exaggerate; to accept bad things about him on_insufficient evidence. You haven't. Many excuse themselves with the statement that self-preservation is the first law of nature. Tt is: but telling a lie isn’t the best self-preservation; The best way to favor to tell the truth, and be * ¥ * % Every one likes the Literature of Protest. And every protestant is un- reliable: he protests too much: con- ditions are never as bad in_anything as he says they are. ... Protest is like sentiment: it is always overdone. . . . Protestants should at least be truthful and reasonable, but rarely are. £ aixe For a good many years I have heard of a Great Work of Art to be ac plished on Stone Mountain, near At lanta, Georgia; Eight years ago, happening to in Atlanta, I was taken to St Mountain by, boasting citizens, and told of the wonderful thing to be done there; The mountain was to be changed into a battie scene on a huge scale, faithfully depicting all the heroes of the Southern Confederacy. Ever since the “item" has been in the newspapers and magazines; a week has not passed without some reference to this new evidence of greatness regularly accomplished by Americans, to the shame of other parts of the world. A recent row in the Stene Moun tain Association brings out the hu miliating fact that all this big talk has been brag. Although a great deal of money has been collected and spent and many enthusiastic meet ings held. ‘The Great Man who was to carve the battle scene seems to have done nothing save give interviews to porters and deliver addresses before art assoclations. A recent newspaper article declares nothing has been done in actual carv ing except half a face on the mountain side, although from the noise made and the long time the hullaboo has been going on I had imagined the artist had carved entire armies. Half our American things are ac- complished in the Stone Mountain plan: the great things we do are in (001 deal of the future. Private enterprise accom- | 21d has plishes results, but committee work i largely boasting in presence of news paper reporters. How we have bragged planes. Lately a daylight-to-dark flight w planned from Michigan to Florida Great crowds gathered in Michigan in the morning to see the planes depart, and speeches were made boast of the greatness of Americans. about air- In _the afternoon crowds gathered | ™ the fiyers. | Bent and practical man who is grow in Florida to welcome ‘While waiting, speeches were made telling of our greatness. * % % ¥ In a day or two some of the flyers arrived in Florida with tales of hard luck. And the man in charge of the ex- pedition said his planes were all owned by the government, fit for anything: that the others were so much junk. And think of the billions we have spent on airplanes; of our boas from daylight to dark bath for every passenger! In all our public affairs the evitable investigation reveals another Stone Mountain. You will recall the Teapot Dome port scandal, originally one of our proud- est boasts: we intended to store oil.] points, is and be prepared to wipe out other nations in the wars we were prepar ing for; But all ‘we got out of it actually | was another humiliating Stone Moun tain. &k % An old form of expre cartoonists is “The Circle. ion used by An accused | om- | 5 | | | that man man did it."” third and says, “He did it.” on occasionally admit you should. thoughts. enough. confessed for a tions is not ployes a earnings. capable in other respects are so that their services command fabulous prices. million a ye and other his services. are than employers who spend their Wir | ters in the South and their Summers abroad so stitutions salary and commission that | ger | this | profitable “The Sage of Potato Hill. is represented as pointing to a head of him and saving, “He The second manspoints to until the is that circle completed I did it * % An old saying is “A penny for yc "~ The offer is not high Some thoughts would not ¥ million dollars k% e * I don’t know; T merely have notions A new idea in big business institu only to pay valuable en big salary, but a bonus on Men willing to work One man is said to receive a r, in addition to a bonu employ8r are bidding for Really capable employes making more m these davs Really valuable employes are e that many of our biggest ir are now owned then When Henry Ford dies, who wil manage the Ford works? The best man on the job, and he will get will st opportunities e b you. The real country come to employves institutions _built up b hard workers, dead and gone * * The original suggestion of public extravagance from which uffer came originally from public we fare workers who profited by the e Seen in a foreign publication: *I ou have trouble with servants, vid of your wife T once knew 2 man very bad habits who was accused of an indi cretion of which he happened not to be guilty. * * * And how he enjove proving he was not guilty! He ha never before been innocent, and en joyed the opportunity to the utt most. * * * We are all a good deal th way. * * * And I : x worst offens h: out. We all comy but gossip is mercif it does not kno inclined m grateful th not ain e hee I am to believe | Rockefeller will in time beco popular, for the reason that w wishes to do good he does it with own money and without botheri others No one has contributed the Rockefeller + penny Foundation excep Mr. Rockefeller hi and in hu. man history there is no record of an equally useful i tion. And he has bothered no one, Andrew Carnegie did with his Carnegie 1 The most troubles is t Smotts money become a sance as a do-good found an Egbert Egbert Smotts motts Band. —the city, thousand dollars 1self raries. ne man 1 ie tremendous ade a towr nui ints to et and suggestior | s that | ligion, progress in a few years we would be sending | This passenger airships across the ocean| speeches he has he with room and | ing he in- | character. ters people for I think Egber as comes i owr money. and let others ¢ 1in their y. This is the plan of a very intelli ing in popularity so rapidly that I ar of opinion he has the right idea I shall never be satisfied Antil I give John D. Rockefeller something a watch, a loving cup, or other smal thing I can afford, but which will ex press appreciation % % % Every American has the is particularly An American, voted to ed noti devoted to noble wor he says I Atio! otis more than the burden and the read done since he can remen tries to be equal to the He does not stop to real that this stuff is fed him for a purpose by demagogues, to cause him to sup foolishly extr it thing: * * % The American. with all his 1 good deal of a dunce believes his sentimental strongest poi It weakest vs de has been ber; he He hi hi gush actually The labor unions, the church the women, need regulation we must administer, however much it shocks s to admit it (Copyright. 192 the Bell Syndicate. In Shall America Arm for War Or Join Hands With World? (Continued from First Page.) for these conditions can be found and applied quickly are as much mistaken as those who think that it can never be found. Scientific—that is to say. thinking—men have long since located the germ of the disease; they are slowly, with many set-backs, evolving a serum for a very gradual and possi bly partial eradication of it.. There are still many cases of vellow fever in the world; but no sane putes the value of the efforts made to minimize it. The first step towards rapid progress will be taken when we all admit the fact, whether or not, that the world is an associa- tion of states having common inter- ests which can be guided and ‘con- trolled only by common and concerted action—and govern our own action accordingly. This world association existed long before the one at Geneva; the existing League of Nations merely recognizes a fact that can no longer be denied. Some politicians may still deny it; but every farmer ¥ @ san, every man throughout the world who works with hand or brain to pro- duce anything that is in excess and | his neighbor’'s needs, feels or knows the fact. The great problems of the world which affect many states—and the closer the association is made by in- creasing means of communication the greater the number of states that will be affected by every problem—can never be settled, even partially. cept in one or the other of two ways; by war, as heretofore. or by peaceful concerted action. The formal asso- clation at Geneya was solely for the purpose of making this action possi- ble. It may not have the proper form for the purpose. If so, then some other form is the proper one. But the idea being once up can never be downed. Suppose that it would ulti- mately fail; then the very ones who denounce it, not because they do not believe in the thing but disbelieve in the form, will seize the opportunity to construct a new one on lines suit- able to themselves. * The people of America will be the last to desert the idea. Cites Possible Development. “And if we were to follow in mind this reorganization of the association at Geneva vaguely demanded by so many of us, it is probable that the old and the new one would be soon found to.be developing on converging lines. it yould probably. at frst be an asso- rti- | man_dis- | | formal we like it | ciation for talk and discussion. an i ternational exchange of ideas. Bu men cannot talk in an associatic very long and develop mnew ideas without soon wanting to carry some of them into effect. Then would be gin the slow addition of new rules and grants of power to give effect to ideas. How long would it be before American ideas, especially those which are becoming world ideas, would be in to appear in the newly form venant? How long would it ¥ before there would appear some provision for arbitration? And when it became evident to us that arbitration proceeds like a mixed commission of a court of equity apply ing the principles of abstract justice and a court of law applying statutory law, how long would it be before our common-sense would demand the separation of these functions, as in our own domestic procedure, and the creation of a court to apply accepted international law? “Those who would be responsib for this new association would at first find themselves confronted by the same difficulties that have confronted the .present one. One or more im portant states, without which it could not be successful, would decline ad. herence as they decline to adhere to the present one. Sooner or later its full suceess will be found to depend on the one thing to give full success to the present one—universal, loyal adherence. And sooner or later ths is what will come to the one or the other. “Then and only then can there be a realization of the idea with which the whole world is saturated, ‘the maintenance of general peace with a reduction of the excessive armaments which weigh upon all nations of the world.” " Prohibition Campaign In Sao Paulo Planned Another effort is being made to inaugurate a prohibition campaign in the staté of Sao Paulo and cause it to spread elsewhere throughout Brazil. The publicity is to be con- ducted by one of the most important Brazillan newspapers, O Estado de Sao Paulo, an anti-government organ which was suppressed during the reyolution last -July,