Evening Star Newspaper, June 7, 1925, Page 37

EDITORIAL PAGE : EDITORIAL SECTION NATIONAL PROBLEMS @rb Q %unaw %_qu SPECIAL FEATURES WASHINGTO MORNING, JUN 2 _* ' . BRITAIN PUT IN AWKWARD Mystery Surrounds Number of Laws in U.S., 5/ ACE BY SECURITY PACT But Milling of the Titanic Grist Continues Cannot Give France Direct Guarantee 1924, have 10,640 mections.” Gos. Hammill of of Aid in Case of War and Offend lowa declares with respect “There are 14,027 sections, as shown by the Part 2—16 Pages i 'U. S. DEMAND ON DEBTS _ HELD TIMELY AND JUST Generosity and Fair Dealing, Sans Gouging of Europe, Are Cited e st i HORT time ago this correspondent HIGHLIGHTS OF by Senator Capper. BY ARTHUR CAPPER. Tnited States Senator from Kansas and Mem- her of Foreign Relations Committee. ASHINGTON'S suggestion to the European nations | YS! which owe us $£8,000,000, 000 of defaulted war debt | that the hour has come for a definite understanding about payment is timely and just. During these seven vears of de- fault the American taxpaver has Paid $1.500,000,000 in interest on these | debts because his Government had pledged the credit and honor its citizens as sureties that the interest and principal of these war bonds would be paid U. S. Government Patien The American Government has been patient and considerate with the debtor nations. They have heen ziven ample time 1o come forward and arrange for a settlement Great Britain. Poland. Lithuania Aand Hunzary have acknowledged their indebtedness and have entered into definite commitments for eventu ally squarinz their accounts. The terms were zenerous. But other debtor nations, France. | Ttalv. Belgium. (zechoslovakia. Es. thonia, Greece, Jugoslavia. Latvia and Rumania. have made no settlement. As security for their obligation the American Government has only their word pledzed at a time when the re. fusal of their appeals for assistance would have brought them ruin and Adefeat Both here and abroad a propaganda for wiping out these debts by cancel- lation persists. That propaganda has | no official sanction in this country, and the sooner Kuropean govern- ments come to a clear understanding | of this fact the sooner the only ad justment possible in honor will be effected The Washingion Government can not sanction cancellation without re pudiation of its pledge to its citizens. The Washington Government urged the people to buy Liberty bonds, and war securities. 1t pledged its credi for the repayment of these loans. Out of the proceeds of these loans the Washington Government advanced | the gates of Paris, when his Zeppelins war credits to the allies. The allies Ppledged repayvment American taxpayers of this unjust burden. How absurd is the picture of Uncle Sam as a shylock demanding his ary. Sntirely in keeping with the usages of war, the European allies demanded lof the defeated powers reparations sufficient in part at least to indemnify the victors for the momentary cost of their participation in the war. But Uncle Sam, with a generosity unparal- leled in history, paid his own share of the war's cost and refused to take any of the spoils. And now that the American Gov- ernment, out of consideration for its | taxpayers who paid for America’s share of the war and who gave bounteously to every appeal for war relief in Europe, insists upon the funding of war debts justly due, the intimation that Uncle Sam Is trying | to extort a profit from his former allies, indicates ingratitude if not bad taith. Spoils Not Shared by U. 8. | America refused any share in the reparations from Germany and took no territory as a fee of victo, England received 1,607,053 square | miles of conquered territory, occupied by 35 millians of people and enriched with some of the most valuable na tural resources in the world. Liovd eorge reported to the British Parlla ment that “the outstanding feature of | the peace treaty is that it puts the| | British Empire at the highest that it has ever reached in regard to| territorial and world influence.’ France acquired 402,392 square | miles of territory, people by 4,000,000 | industrious folk. France sained vast | coal deposits in the Saar, conserva- tively worth $500,000,000. France re won Alsace-Lorraine, a treasure house of natural resources. 1 Furthermore, it is estimated by the | Institute of Economics that prior to the acceptance of the Dawes plan Germany had paid the victors in cash | and in kind $6.500,000,000. However, it is not a question of what any nation obtained as its share of the fruits of victory. But that inj an hour when hope of victory was re motest, when the enemy thundered menaced lLondon. when his gray le | zions swarmed like devouring locusts, | point | wrote to the governor of ever: in the Union requesting information as to the number of State laws in effect in his jurisdiction. Almost unanimously, the answers came back: “We don't know." The question was asked the mavors of the 30 largest cities in the country. The answer was the same. A search of the Federal records likewise disclosed that there is no information avall- able s to the number of, Federal laws now in effect. % Thus came the truth. No living man can state the number sof laws which the Amer- ican people are put under penalty to observe. No man, no group of men. know 1 per cent of the law on our statute books. The human mind ean't grasp it. The =pan of life is short even to read the law—all of it. Given Impossible Task. Lawmakers of the United States thus have given the American people an impossible task. Conspicuous is the man who can live 24 hours without breaking the law. Your correspondent persisied. He asked the governors of 3% States whose Legiskhtures met this'year for information as to the num- ber of laws passed in 1 That information. fresh and readily obtain- able, was courteousiy ziven. It was checked with similar information gathered by the National Industrial Council. The totals were run up The ficures show that 11888 new State laws haye been enacted this vear, with more vet to come These laws were the zrist of 36,330 bills and resolutions introduced since January 1 in 38 Legislatures With this information. a search was under taken for the State law harvest of other vears. At the Legislative Reference Library in Washington—the Federal Government' ficial aid to members of Congress—Raymond Manning, a specialist in legislation, had com- piled State enactments of the preceding eight vears, or from 1917 to 1924, inclusive. The laws for 1924 however, were not fully cov- ered. Mr. Manning's figures disclose the total number of State laws enacted during those eight years as 71,125, an average of nearly 9,000 o year isive. century an accurate estimate can be made. tionably a minimum of 250,000 State laws were effective before the count began. that basis, no fewer than 500,000 State law an average of little more than 10,000 for each the 48 bizg States—are in effect today, minus the laws repealed by subsequent en- Actment < H. Blan, Secretary of State of Alabama, advises that “the new revised statutes Alabamia, which became effective August THE “RAIN OF LAW™ 12,000 new State laws thus far in 1925, 30,000 new city ordinances since Janu- ary 1. 500,000 active State laws on our hook 5,000.000 city ordinances in operation. 10,000 operative Federal laws on.top of all. 200,000 lawmakers donstantly grinding out more. Y Each Federal law costs $30.000 to pasa. Fach State law costs $1.200. City ordinances—i cents to $500. No man lives long enough to read the lais he must obey. The mayors of 50 leading cities. The governors of j8 States. The archives of the Federal Govern- ment. We don’t knew how wmany laws we must enforee 2 We can only guess as to the laws in effect Too much law is threatening to upset business. Too many new tar laws. A policeman in our town should know 000 laws. Information compiled by the New York State Library index of legislation covered similar enactments from 1300 to 1908, The total number of new State laws passed during those nine vears was 87,193, an average of nearly 10.000 a vear Thus. during 15 vears of the 23 which have elapsed sipee the dawn of the twentieth cen- tury,cour State Legislatures have passed 170.- Jaws. That much is known and verified. At that rate State Legislatures have pas nearly 230,000 laws since 1899, or within the past quarter of a century Prior to the beginning of the twentieth no records are available upon which Unques- Who Is to Blame for Huge Death Toll, code of 1924, but it is impossible 6 tell the exact number of sections—some chapters em- bodying many subsections—without Situation In Minnesota. Clifford 1. Hilton, attorney general of Min- nesota, says: “I cannot advise as to the exact number of the State of the General 1923 contain Minnesota. Minnesota for several of these sections were found in one act of the Legislature. private secretary Sorlie of North Dakota, answers the inquiry “It would be purely work, and your guess is just as good as ours.” In Pennsylvania, “it would require an endless amount of research ber of laws now the Legislative Reference Library “Hampshire bits of statutory Han.pshirs." From Tllinois vate secretary sible to make a speeific statement number of laws, but that the revised statutes word from Arizona advises actyal number of laws on the statute hooks And so it goes all the way through the | “Laws of the 48 States in z says William M. Bullitt in the Journal of the American Bar Association, “fill 3,576 volumes 1,592,000 pages.” All in all, there are hardly less than 500,000 State laws now in effect. of them are not Federal laws applying to citizens of all Below them. as will be shown in subsequent installments of this series, 5.000,000 county and city Liberty-loving more than ordinances Americans 5 500,000 legal “don (s (Continued on Fourth Page.) German People. BY FRANK H 1ONDS. ‘m..m Bl 1914 hes swere Bonnd ke N the present European situation |fight on the side of France if Gers the rule of ne nation is at once |Many attacked France, hut they fes more important and more absorb. | fused up to the last minute 1o accapt, ng than the British and. it is fafr | legal obligation to do what was a to add, none is more perplexingly | Self-evident necessity difficult. Despite the fact that it was Today the British believe that a Germany and not Britain which |Siraight-out guarantee to France opened the discussion of the security | Would be a provocation to Germany and guarantee pacts, there is no mis- [ And they do not desire to challenze apprehension in Iurope as to the|Germany or provoke her. It is not credit for originating the scheme. It |because of any sentimental feeling for is Berlin which speaks, but it is Brit-| France that Britain must stand with ish policy which is disclosed in the |her against Germ.ny in case of war; spoken work and it is in London |it is for the most material of all | rather than in Paris or, for that mat- | SOns—that of self-défense. What | ter. Berlin, that applause is most gen- British desire o do there is to guz lieead tee, not France against German | What, then. lies back of the pres. @ State of fact in the west of Europe ent British advocacy of security pacts | Which is essential 1o their se- and particularly of a security pact be- curity. W they desire to ¢ tween France and Germany’ The single fact that the British perceive |the belief that Britain will fight Ger that In case of another war between |many for French reasons or svmpa- France and Germany. not only would thies. That is why the direct guaran- Britain have to participate, but she tee hangs fire would have to participate on the . it b French side. In other words. British e LB O statesmanship starts with the once familiar axiom' that the Low ¢ tries, to which are now adde channel coast of France. ar | stmategic frontiers of Britain iiself Thus, after considerable posi-wi wandering the British have come | squarely back to the tradition of Rrit ish gforeizn policy. But they have come hack with difficulty and not with regret. When the war was over the | British conceived the plan of making Anglo-American co-operation, which had existed during the struggle. n only permanent but the basis of the foreign policy of Britain and the zuar zntee of the peace of the world. Using the league of Nations as the device by which this co-operation could be made effective, the British hoped 1o I 3 create a machine which In British.| British want, naturally the Germans ~an hands would insure peace ' Will seek compensation, assuming that cause with these peoples would be | they t t lodged adequate power to prevent |10 be I And it t that i is the creation in the German mind In reality, what the British many will accept: or. ta put it more 11y, they anxious t Ger many fo concede as permanent that state of facts which the British re- quo as it affects France, Belgium and Holland on the one hand and Ger- many on the other. If Germany guarantees French and Relgian se curity, then Britain can do likewise without affronting German pride or awakening German suspicion 1f Germany, however, is to ha brought the western frontiers hbors, which means to resign a m 10 Alsace- Lorraine and Eupen and Malmedy-- that is, if Germany is to do what the there is a bargair Dragged Into War. last amalysis io. try “ihese Many Englishmen beliey frontiers is (o bring | tieve that Britain was d with Erit the last great struggle by reason So the German says, in effe [ ommitments and agreements With will guarantee the wesiern frontiers, France and with Russia. Most I will resign Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen lishmen hoped that the close of and Malmedy, but I ask in return the war would see their nation freed from | evacuation of all the other lands in | all necessities such as had constrained the west occupied by allied troops For gthe Washinzton Government |bounties or doles -but as loans. it to make the triple entente in the | that the Ruhr. the Rhineland and the . L now tf sunction cancellation of these | Had L'nele Sam been # Shylock, then | o vears which preceded the struggle. In | Sarr shall be returned to me at least default it d 1o it citizens. and {pound of flesh. But no. The simple i Bt ‘;‘"”‘7' it Mtales ahs coul :1"»' 0f ver Snd wethens &L to charge these citizens with the cost |word of the desperately heset appli | ,\]:1;\[\‘\‘::‘ Ahe Unlted Btates ahe could | tfe sooner. for it we gef the scurity of that defanh jeants was sufficient. The loans were | i The honds must be paid If the made as they were applied for. And | By DREW PEARSON | e e s e A R o e e e R S - Burapess bbbl i o e s S e i | s N 5 19 wroug over 30 per cent of the time.! This plan shipwrecked when we re Dawes plan— what nse is longer acen 2 n nerous s have been 0 is to blame for the half . eclined not pay, the American taxpayers must | granted to the debtors wheo have set 1.‘mnl'“' |)e(l:1;‘e klmm r‘n.hm HOW TO PROTECT THE PEDESTRIAN And .'h';' is ;'"" ;" the r'uor;< for our tire i,'v";n v;»v ~ww‘:;" 'mi a d n Ny A bav. That's onz 't o ik i 2 o 0 e B ry tion o s traffc to jo League t for a perior 0 far there is nn line af ohjaction business. Fregident Coolldge so um | After seven vears of delay and evasion dents last vear. and how In two-thirds of all motor accidents the pedestrian suffers. This | |eom poonr o Rl o oiTieripnt vean i) U Thev | (noF il When Hhe qoektion ot de 7 educe | iy is time fo unders W can we prev repetitio . ; ; G O ‘governmisht. s the Prasidnt|henr . o D D cmmnninsiwith i B e R e | |t e esinntivel fuct | “Well, it cut down accidents by hoped. thev believed. that with the curitv is sertled, then the question nf will_spare no effort to relieve the - (Copsright. 1975.) O Whether the pedestrian more than the motorist is to hlame is not | |40 per cent during the first week and | passing of the immediate domestic po- | accupation is less important. although — That question, which President speeded un traffic 33 per cent. The | litical conflict raised over the league the French are by no means e Coolidge calls one of the most im latter item was the one that pleased|and centering about Mr. Wilson we point of conceding that the program | portant confronting the American says he is. Morgan A. Collins, chief of the Chicago police, says he is the business men. Not all of them ! would come to Geneva and that the which I have sketched satisfies the . . . SClence, Pl'ylng IntO Dlsease jeity. T took to. two natlonally promi not were for it at first, but I believe the | Wise course was to await our arrival. conditions of security 5 ke . Col . 2 ¢ s Fuzh stay? oothing ay for our coming nent traffic experts, Morgan A ! But the hlame is not so important as the remedy, and in the ac- new system has come to sta smoothing the way for our m s, Wi Wl i Miondie ose | these loans were made —not as gifts or | an established fact. Capt. Heath traffic commissioner of Los Anogeles, oy | lins, chief of the Chicago police, and T reminded Capt. Heath that one or #nd avoiding definite actions withir Causes Curta o Dano-er { Capt. Cleveland Heath, trafic com.| | companying interviews both men offer valuable contributions to the e Eaate cme‘; had tried to compel | the league which might prevent this |- e breaking potnt 2 D) > | missioner of Los Angeles. ] solutions of the most difficult problem confronting the American city. | | people to cross streets at regulited | It was not until Ramsay MacDonald hen the German s o St | Gen. Butler, “Police Czar” of Phila- | intervals and in ceriain specified | came to power that the hope of Amer | guarantee my eastern frontiers. I will { delphia. had previously told me that|, e the mest importent part|“Step” and “Ge™ algn.projects over|DISS and that the experiment had|ican partnership waned. but the accept the loss of Alsace-Lorraine s BY VERNON KELLOGG. \than’ these structural distinctions | the Police were chisfly to blame for|brakes See the fhett TRCERCBEN | LiP" Dewalk, and with every|Iailed Because the courts held it to| was clear to British statesmen (SSL1 | final, but the separation of Dansir Those physicians who have tue|Which show a difference in suscepti. | our natlonal traffic disaster, and after| o ention.” change of the signal a bell rings, | ;. HERGDRE Of - REENCRALL B F et neidbne in BIOFope- tH| faver . Morecics. & dent ol alse Bk truly scientlfic type of mind, and w®o [Pility to various diseases. It these|explaining Gen. Butlers v “Do you favor a system of pedes.|warning pedestrians to make sure| "oyl onforcement of the s »| Ruhr occupation, the German inflation | the denial of the right to unite Aus- approach their cases in w spirit of in. |latter differences happen also to be|asked these (wo police trian traffle regulation such as used |that the signal permits them to pro-|, “The enforcement of ihe syatem.” (T O TR G/ o ation demanded | (rin with the (err ot e quiry, are waking up (o an old idea |MOre or less identical with racial| Whether they agreed with him in Los Angeles ceed. Should a pedestrian fall <o| oo (l%¢ ‘(he people and the af.|action. 1t was then that MacDonald | cinded. I will agree not (o change Tow heing given a new development. |Structural differences,othen we shall| They did not agree with Butler and | “No, our sidewalks are too con-|obey the signal, he is called back by | Pheration ©f the people and the dijCrom: Hlld "na™With Herriot | these eastern froniiers by war. but 1 Tt 15 the idea of the specific relation. |have in them a basis for recognizing | they did not sgree wilh each other. |gented. But this condition is grad-|the policeman just as if he were a |DiOMACY OF the police force. You | oined in the framing of the protocol. | shall never accept ther ) ship between the human constitution |& relationship between race and dis-| Capt. Collins of Chicago placed the! ,ajly taking care of itself. Busi-|careless driver. 1 know, because 1| _ = . f‘"“ 0)"3_' arrests you | B L ver. in that Geneva session for e cept e ¢ T and disease. ease that may prove imporiant 1o|blame upon lax judges and reckless | ey s moving up toward the north|tested out the los Angeles (raffic Dnn\ed |p“ ci: Seiois ww}‘" the first time there was disclosed the | Briton to | " “m ”‘“ .“.h e F -”;r:);. ‘,'\" “Viewed from this aspect,’ an [take into account in matters of im.| drivers, while Capt. Heath showed ghore. A city is like a glass of [rules on more than one occasion. Beolntel O Infike o stesls ulcas | iiion (0ib0 Abead WIhGUL ATSHSE | Ho Tis tacihe Gom 1 eminent medical mar has recently |migration regulation, etc. figures gathered in Los Angeles 10| \ater. If you add water to it, drop| Almost every blg city in the coun- | JUSUIUely mecessaly. A wave of the | FIRG NG TG CHCTOL cerved that B o 10 etatineaiio Seies toiacat ald. lisease coases to be an entits | These structural differences are con | prove thal the pedestrian was chiefly b\ rop, after & vertain point it will | try is waiching the Los Angeles ex- | T TemInds o ihouEhClams | v Hadiohs WUl ot QletHen 018 | Sectart frontiord in reiuri for per in itself, a thing. as it were, added 1o Stitutional. But constitution includes. | at tault. However, their methods of ryn over. In the same way, when |periment, and when | arrived me,-e"’f""-“!‘ f:;(. l-"""‘”"m other pedes Bosmpne inig g o el fl“' 3 ..,lu SR seuiia o nes or carried by man. and becomes, of course, others matiers than those | handling accidenis and trafic form | people become so crowded that it is|the system had had time to receive | (rains vidiewle him. On the whole, | FBSEE, S el e PAREE s it T dntas rather. the inevitable expression of |Of general body structure alone. It! valuable coniribution to the discus- noi comfortable or profitable for them | fair trial \‘;;n' orce handled the situation vers g ém: - Bagat - this he finds conflict between unique individualitvg includes physiology and even psychol- |sion of this all-important question, #nd |ty live in a city, they flow out to the | e g diplomaticaliy and 1 don't believe over i Relected: the Frenchman b uspicion and an adverse specific force of en- 0BY. A fundamenial study of the hu-! I set down their opiniuns us given | edges ecord to Prove Claim |20 S_-rlk:esls were made. e L AR e A el o o .,‘.“;‘m»l, i vironment." man constitution involves a careful ! 1o me. “Chicago at present is so crowded | “Besides several local CONAIIONS | who meorented o tho iy BroUchers | o in rejectad the protocol for va- but the frontiers und security of Po- Not only scientificallv-minded phy-|attention to the heredity of an indi it Hisvac A in the Loop that I am in favor of {which made our traffic problem in-| o iherte b Getcolnds Of Per- | ous causes, In the main analagous |land and the nations of the litile en- sicfans. but students of human bi |Vidual, to the balance or unbalance of oltins 1y aras abolishing all parking in that section.” | sufferable.” sald the traffic commis. | hot the o 10 Corermined to test | o S easons which explained the tente are precisely those which Ger eclogy. especially students of heridity, | his ductless gland secretions. and als .pt. Collins is & member of Her-| “Do you think that pedestrian tun-|gioner in reply to my question as to| " on® (1 Jast analysis 14 the | American rejection of the covenani. many. advertises her purpese io are turninz their attention this mat- |10 _the envirenmental conditions and bert Hoover's National Committee on|nels will reduce automobile acci-|ihe reason for Los Angeles’ experi |jau he enforced I ~"k'd‘"""‘ the | The people of the dominions most em- | change, indeed seeks 10 purchase p fer. They find that there is a spe |Influences in face of which he has de | Highway Safety, and helped to frame [dents?” 1 put my last guestion to|ment, “we have concluded that traffic e phatically refused to see themselves |mission to change cific relationship between general veloped. All these things help deter- iz set of national automobile Taws | Capt. Colilns accidents are more the fanit of the Difficult to Enforce. committed to maintain a status que! .The Briton does not care a.tup bodily makeup and a predisposition to|mine human constitution. So an ef-| which eventually may apply uniform- “No, not unless they can be built | pedestrian than the driver. o Z i}l over Burope. Australia was not|penny-hapenny who has the Polish certain types of diseace. Such chac.|fort to find out what relation consti-| v in svery State. Even more im-|so that people do not have to walk | “Our record of deaths for last vear| | A™ mot sure. Tt has never heen | ¥’ BICL FUini T pantiers of Poland | corridor or Upper Silesia, or whether scteristics as stature, the shape of the |tution has to disease leads in turn to| portant has been his experience with|down and then up. People abso-|reads something like this: carried to the higher courts. The | WCE TS TNt} one of Rumania. | Austria jolns the Reich or stays oute head, the proportions of the sk-!mn.'eflorls to find out what relation hered- | yrafic in Chicago, a city whose in-|lutely will not zo to any extra ex “49 killed while crossing between offenders we arrested were simply re- And the British people .themselves. side, merslv as an ahetract question etc., may seem to have nothing to do [ity, gland secretions and environment}adequate elevated and lack of sub-|ertion. They will risk their lives|intersections; leased on $5 bail and all of them have | | on mature-consideration. were ap- | More than that. if granting German With the causes of disease, but the re-|have to the determination of constl-{wavs has forced it to rely very largely | first.” s . forgotten about their personal liherty | V103 1w the extent to which the pro- | wishes in this direction would insure ti s sertheless {tution. The study of this relation be-| upo i 28 s 25 killed while crossing care- | scruples and have preferred to lose : > L WOl ‘nal Intionship s there. neverineles |tution. The study of this rel e-| upon the automobile. ~This fact has Unique Experiment. Yy their $5 than fight the thine ont. g | toc0l would commit them. permanence and peace in the regions Fven those structural differences | 1w ons sease may | made Chicago’s narrow streets at the =4 e i e o = t. So t ol . done to which Bri “is concerned, the among men that have been looked on | therefore develop into one of the most | noon hour brobably the most erowded | g"l’e:""l‘n L e \m e il rehilapiay g doi] e 2;‘;050':‘;“:";;“;";1;*" - o e '?ffi';.'fi?‘,.f’.fil"?:"f;'l'm"‘ g e ,V.Rr.ff-“-“\»p"p—an'- SR as marks for distinguishing one important studies in the whole realm | j T S view . 3 L e ne eve that the g Sl == ce rejection | Jis! Aot ok SAitdinie e hranch of the human from another | of human hiology "’,”"_' T capt. Collins of the|traffic commissioner of that city. 4 killed because confused while | Cleveland rule has no teerh Tl s ol poc | olman doce ot putithe (hings e seem to have less real significance - (Copyright. 1925, | BELH pt 2 Coping | Capt. Heath is one of the men re- | crossing. However. we contend that the olicy. If you read the ot 18 going stupendous total to which out motor | (uoiCikle for the inauguration and| “Note that all of these were pedec | teeth in a law is the least important | CONStitute a policy. e e g SiEech iy St Germauy 8 Eulos accidents mounted every vear and|gccess of Los Angeles’ system of pe-[trians. Now here is the record of |point. The most important thing is | Peeehes; the comments, the apinionsftake the corridor anvwayv, that what ops 9 . | asked him if he thought the police | Gestrian trafic control which exists|deaths caused by drivers: The Spirit behind the wonant thing 18| of British statesmen expressed in the | ever any one may say about self-de- Seeg Pa(‘lfl(' S Future Hlstorv were chiefly to blame for this because | iy no other city. Other cities haye at- | “21 killed due to speeding: cause of our crime wave and our|PRSt vear or two, you will be struck | termination. a nation of 65.000,000 S , 7 of their failure to arrest speeders. |iempied fo regulate pedestrians At 1 killed due to intoxication; ok ‘of Dpohibitisnientasesment:. Mhiol 10z he. Cons ot e or teoa e | ECBle. 18 not golng to submit per S > % ol o 3 o " ; = - ng tha v of isola manently to the state of affairs cre- ou are right about the speeders.” | certain streets with indifferent suc 18 killed due to cutting in ahead; |public gives no co-operation. In Los When guns mounted on |ated by the corridor. . . . » he replied immediately. “They are|cess, but no other city has ever “9 killed due to violations of right:| angeles we deliberately impossible. ‘hen Being Written in the Schools i = ey, My o 2 i 2 S0 o Rnptel ¢ BBty o i impesibe. W, guns mownled o | sisq by 0 o iy igen . [ Wrong about the poiice. There is no|such a complete system of regulating | “While it s always difficult to[press and radio campatgn weeks in|London, when Dunkirk and Boulogne | writers vou will see that thev are 5 = Wee in ‘arresting speeders unless we | the paseage of people as If they were |ascertain whether the driver or the|advance of the traflic change. so that | "IEht be used as submarine bases and | not a little indignant with Poland, SR it : £ |can get convictions, and when a|vehicles. pedesirian is to blame our study of |the people were ready for it | the whole Belgian and French coasts|with Czechoslovakia, with France BY DAVID STARR JORDAN. |can schools and universities has been | jojjceman takes an offender into| In the California inetropolis alseveral years' accidents leads us 10| “The police can't buck public| 5 B¢ starting point for air raids, it {for insisting upon maintaining a state The decisive factor in the next dec. | D¢ of the ®rongest elements in de-| \5urt politics very often creep in and opinlon: they have to hel 1d 1 {15 plain that Hritain can neither risk | of affairs which will perpetuate (er he | veloping and keeping alive the good o= 3 o p mold It. Al.' \ar with France nor permit any |man discontent, provoke future dis Hde or two may turn on the willing: | felations etween' the two colintried, | LLEEC 18 m0 sentence. The Judges are 99 policeman who gets the crowd against | g ong nation, having conquered |cord and, not Impossibly, lead Bane of the Went to. lot the Hast sot | wAIch: In] spife’ of “temporary: mist] 'm0t to Plame than the police Wa Of the “Plum-seekel‘ :‘:"g ""',:fih",,"m‘\'."l,’nf" s street, | LIONE. 10 establish Msélf at these|war, in which Britain will agaih [be | understandings, still persist. In Ames Easy-Going Judges. y o s as el Tet ‘:‘ol‘;’sfis'.eh:::polmt‘. involved as she was In the last, not the pace for its own changes. [underst =L : ints.” e . % Japan has her . internal troubles, as| =2 the Japauene BREIENES (werh rep The frontlers of. France and Bel-| hecause of the issue involved. but be . b < “Let me give you an example. For . . . los Angeles. In a fire or in an! e geographic « s . ave i e T R o et o et of el o s St A Growing Hard in Washinglom |t e s a% D s g 2o, 0, S, Lo G e e s bhas them. The change from feudalism | (ime” i0" contact with them soon 5 We Waged a campaign against t o) methods They have to. But the| o of Britain. But it follows then o to democracy is no licht task. No na-|joarned 1o appreciate their good quali- | Speeding. The morning the campaign 3 suecess of our traffic experiment has!yuar Rritain is not merely interested | France Thinks of Self. tion has reached perfection in govern-|jeq o & And on their return they OPened there was a noticeable de . f been due chiefly to the firm but|; "ine maintenance of these frontiers. | TBul the Frenchman is in rather a meni nor come anywhere near it|priioq even mere effective inferpret. | €ease in aceldents. During the BY W. P. CRESSON, [in the diplomatic and consular serv- | courteous treatment of our men.” | i1 IRERERRC O LS QPR Gitterent position. By and large 1 do Government by the people demands|gig of America to their own people, | month before ihe campaign we had [sehool of Foreign Servicee, Georgstown | ices have every reason to congrat-| “Did vou have to double your traffic | iterested in French poliey. For, no | not think he cares more for the skin intelligence of the people. and fhe |1y would be a cheap investment it each | Killed 58 people. During the Arat Thiversits. ulate themselves on the prospect of |squad? metter whethér. French policy be|of the Pole or the Czech than ihe most_important husiness of AnY ma-|country would Arrange to send. as|month of the campaign we killed only | yih every change of administra- A really “businessiike reorgantzation How Public Was Trained. | pacific_or provecative, British secu-| Enzlishman. He ic thinking of his tion is education, for the future of the | many of their young * * * to study |26 People. But the campaign was] i he i il G SIS Rnes AT S i | Hty will be equally menaced if France own security just as the Briton i nation is written in the schools of to- | in the other, Kven if the cost should | Punctured by the courts. Thev were tion the quacking of the lame < | This, after all, is only a belated re-| “Only the first week. We had two | gets into war with Germa No | But he reasons that if Germany mu day. A nation should not be judged |yun into millions, if would be a cheap | too lenient. Gradually the news leak- |who flock to Washington is always turn to the state of affairs obtaining |men at each street intersection until|matter whether Gernfany or France |tilates Poland, annexes Anstria, er by the prozress it has made, but by |insurance against the dangers of mis- | ed out that the courts weren't backing 1o, 4est around the portals of the|When trained diplomats like Frank- | the people got broken in. Now we|js the aggressor in the first instance, |circles Czechoslovakia, which hag a the direction in which it i= gOINg. | understanding.” | the police and the accidents began to| S0e=% SRR RE PO oy {lin John Quincy Adams and Monroe |have only one man and on some|Britain cannot permit a vietorious large German minoriti anvwayv. Ger From year to year the progress made | HTel Taratase problem in| mount again. The judges are lax and | DePar 5 - |settled the traditions that have since | corners we have none at all. And it |Germany to reach the channel. And 'many will become the dominant ha- by Japan is amazing. One of the wavs | , 108 30/Ca o0 NERUALE PS50 ia public opinion. for these hungry ,volunteers, the|guided our contacts abroad. is surprising how law-observnig people 'Germany cannot defeat France in war tion on the continent, and what then in which it is is clearly shown is in |3 "¢ gy merent races and aifferent cul- “Who is directly to blame for motor | Coolidge program has made the old | The democratization of the old dip- |are when there is no policeman within | without becoming master of the!would hinder her from again trying the advance of education. There are | e °f QFEVCRE TAeeE 800 O 0. not | accidents,” T asked, “the driver or the [game “of shaking the tree for for- lomatic service, which has been as.|blocks.” channel ports, just as she cannot suc. | to get to the Channel now eight well-equipped national uni-| oiif) °cor Along together. Differences | Pedestrian?” eign plums” a thankless job. sured by merging its personnel with | I asked Capt. Heath f} this was due | cessfully invade France, save through! I think vou see the thing fairly versities where 20 years ago there Was | i thus arise furnish leverage ‘for | ‘“The driver—75 per cent of the| Under the terms of the Rogers|that of the already highly efficient to the law-abiding habit of Los|Belgium. sucecinetly if you say that the Briton one. Besides these, there are a half | jemagogues, and in California a “Jap- | time. And two-thirds of our accidents bill, passed by Congress during its | consular service, is an outstanding | Angeles citizens or to their ignorance sees in the eastern frontiers of Ger dozen institutions on private founda- | o CiF AT 2% ises to haunt each |are due lo speed. ~Speed is the chief |lasi session, it is clearly indicated |feature of this plan. One more step, |that the police were “absent. He British Awkwardly Placed. |many ¢ a provocation to Germany, tion fairly deserving the name of uni-| congressional election. Except for its|¢ause of accidents in any city and in |that the new American foreign serv-|however, is urgently needed to place | replied: ! Thus the British are rather awk.|Which will lead to war, while the versity. = iod of iricubation f o | fact any place. Chicago has very few |ice is based on the principle of get- | American officials upon an equal foot- To both, T think. T am not over-|wardly placed. They are, il i | Frenchman sees in the mainte; Japan is permeated by scholars and | Shorer Perlod of Hneubalon I ena%|accidents in our congested business |ting results abroad. Secretary Kel-|ing with those of other countries. optimiatic about community. 0-0per. | dmaer b Tecoming vietimy ot French | ot strong and independent atates’s business men who have already a fair | jgoyst. 3 districts _because traffic moves so|logg even appears ready to consider| fThe picture that Uncle Sam pre- | tion, or rather I wasn't until after’policy, if that policy should be ag. @5 Poland and Czechoslovakia and in comprehension of our purposes and| The present condition represents a |#lowly. It is in the outskirts and at |recent legislation as a mandate 10|gents to the world in’the person of | We started this new system. -Now.k'm | gressive: in a sense (hey are com- | (he Prohibition of Austrian inoorpo- ways. Especially influential 2mong | “maximum of irritation with a mini- intersections that the death tolls [choose only trained men for the more | his envoy is too often that of a man | (remendously optimistic. I am going | mitted to support France, right or Fation in Germany, guarantees of his these are the students educated in|mum of effectiveness.” It will in one up.” actlve positions in our foreign fleld. | without an official home. Until the |to Set up some of these pedestridn |wrong. Thus pateflly It becomes a | OWD Security more real than any America and England. These men, | ar or another be rationalied. Time| “How do you suggest cutting down |Such strategic business outposts as|United States representatives abread | trafic signals at dangerous places out{matter of the first importance for the |GEran promise, which he still com- each thoroughly loyal to his aima |is the great solvent of present prob-|speed”” 1 asked. China and Hungary have both been|are endowed with permanent embassy, | on the edge of the town, where there | British to exercise sufficient influence | PATes 10 that which did not protect inater, are prominent as teachers, ad- | lems. And contact between races pre.| ‘There are ihree solutions, to my |assigned to officials of long experi-|legation and consular buiidings the |Will be no police to watch them and|upon French policy to prevent war. | Bel§ium in 1914 and became the im- iministrators and engineers, and wholly | sents no insoluble difficulties—none | mind, and ali of them are necessary.|ence. In Central America “forelgn|maximum of efficiency sought by the | where they will be -operatéd night|And in reality it becomes the mission WCital “Diece of paper.” adverse to the militarist ideals“which | which time and a mutual desire to be | FiTst, a sirict and rigid adherence to | service regulars” one of them a for-|reorganized foreign service is stili un- |and day.” of Britain to keep the peace between| The Englishman believes hat it rule certain operations in Japan. It|reasonable and fair cannot remove. a 20-mile speed limit; second, @ more |mer consul, have been’ selected as|attained. It is an axiom of the new | - “Do you advocate pedestrian tun-|France and German | you attempt to restrain Germany on is not often that these men have| In most regards the Japanese are thorough examination of all drivers, | Ministers, respectively, to Honduras|‘business diplomacy’ that national |nels 1o prevent accidents?” I asked.| Now, the simple way—the way fav- |2}l sides it will presently explode and placed in the politics of Tokio, for|like other civilized peoples. They have | and, finally, the testing of brakes. Ijand Nicaragui Rumania goes to a |prestige means increased internation- Cventually we must come to them. {ored by the French and by certain & He€W war will result. The French they are liable to be affected with/come into the Eurcpean world out of |am strong for the law they have ln’man outside the organized service,ial trade. The fly-by-night establish- | We have one on a busy school corner | Englishmen—would be 1o give France Mt believes that if you let Germany “dangerous doctrines” from the stand- | centuries of isolation, and while the | Massachusetts. They have an instru-|but Dr. Culbertson’s appointment is|ments maintained by American con- | which cost us $10,000 but if one child {and Belgium w straight British guar- E'0W o sll sides save the west she point of the “elder statesmen” But |details of their racial experience differ | ment called the decelermeter, by |beyond criticism, because of his long | suls and diplomatists in some of the [is saved from death that tunnel is|antee. Germany would then be on Wil presently become so stroug that with each new generation this be- widely the fundamental traits do not | which they measure the number of [experience as adviser to the Tariff | world’s capitals (often largely paid for | more than paid for. Moreover, we [notice that an attack upon France NC1DINg can stop her on the west comes 3 “voung men’s world,” and the range far from our own. In Japan, ds|feet a car travels hefore the brakes | Commission: The situation may be |by. the.incumbent himseif) are a dis- [used to.-keep & policeman there all!would mean a war with Great Britain, | 3ide. oo, Bul the misfortune of the same life currents low through Japan | elsewhere. elaborate stimulus from bring it to a . stop. Massachusetis|summed up as follows: grace to a Nation which must now |day, which expense is now .saved.|But this would, in so bald a form, con- | }snglishman lies In the fact that, no as through America and Kurope. Says |above ls'necessary to generale an im-| highway inspectors can stop a car| Under present conditions tha Amer- acknowledge Itself to he the richest | We shall probably vote $50,000 to dig |stitute an alliance with France and [Matier what happens, if France holds Dr. Payson ). Treat: “The constant|pnise toward ‘‘war for $ar's sake.” any place. put on this instrument and lean business organizations which |in the world. five more of these against Germany, which iz precisely | 10 _her course and Germany does s stream of Japanese students to Ameri- (Copyright, 1525.) try out the brakes. After all. the were behind ll’fgmuch-neadEddllnIu. (Copyright, 1098. . (Copyright, 1025.) the thing that the British wish to- (Continued on Fourth Page)