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Everyday Not a Talk on Theology, Religion But Upon Life and Right Living. BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. D., Bishop of Washington. SINGLENESS OF PURPOSE. EHEMIAH, 6.3—"I am doing a great work, so that I can- not come down; why should the work cease, whilst I leave it and come down to you?" “There shall be no Alps."” the proud word of Napoleon as he led his conquering troops over the tor- tuous passes of the lofty mountains. “Today we sailed westward,” wrote the intrepid Columbus in his log as This was over uncharted seas he guided his frail craft to an undiscovered conti- nent. “I propose to fight it out along these lines if it takes all Summer was the statement of Grant when terms for a suggested armistice were prop It is easy to get a thousand men to undertake some remunerative work. It is sometimes difficult to induce a score of them to continue it to a suc- cessful end. The freshman classes that enter our high schools and uni- versities are large and promising. A comparatively small proportion push on to the senior grade. The distrac- tions of pleasure or the appeal of re- Munerative occupation seems irresist- ible and compelling. * ok ¥ K Those who receive the prizes on the day of graduation are few in number, and of them- it may be said that “they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.” It takes courage, fortitude and perseverance to resist the allurements that call us away from the thing we have in hand. The reason why we have so few ex- perts among us is because it costly thing to acquire great ciency It was Michael Angelo, the incom- parable artist, who, to an inquirer who asked him if bja Jong labors did not a profi exhaust him, sald: “Art is a jealous mistress; she demands the ~whole man.” On the lofty scaffold in the Sistine Chapel he lay upon his back for long hours throughout the day, producing pictures that have been the admiration and wonder of the world. He would seem to say, in the language of our text, “I am doing a great work, so that' I canmot come down; why should the work cease whilst 1 leave it and come down to you?” * % % % While he was engaged upon hi great work, “In Memorium,” Tenny- son so concentrated himself that he came at length to produce one of the greatest poems on immortality the world contains. His biographer tells us of his protracted periods of silence and reflection. No appeal of the world, no call of things material, could draw him from his contempla: tion of those things that are hidden from the eye of the careless and in- different. He was too busy in con- templation of the truth that the “things that are seen are temporal, but the things that are not seen are eternal” He would not come down to the commonplace. John Knox shut out the rud® world and in the quiet of his lonely study he came to understand more fully the purposes and plans of God. Not the blandishments of the Queen nor the applause or favors of the world could distract his vision or impair or inter- rupt his unbroken periods of reflec- tion. From his simple home near the sheep market he would only come down that he might, as a prophet of God, declare His truths to the people. o The sublimest expression of single- ness of purpose which the world con- tains is to be found in the story of the man of Nazareth. From child- hood He declared: “I must be about My s business.” In three short of active ministry and service He revealed to men a loftier and nobler purpose than they had ever known and invested them with Brief were His words, and power to attain it. life, few were His movements, was His restricted words and deeds and had such magnetic power that all men acclaim Him the mightiest among the mighty, the holiest among the holy, the supremest expression of the power and love of God. To believe that the work we do we must do, to feel its importance, to re- fuse to leave it for some trifling call, to brook no interference or interrup: tion, gives to work itself dignity and to the worker power. I have no part in the mighty art, What flowers in the dreamer’s breast: But I know the joy of a workman's heart In doing his hittle best! 1 boast my role in the world My share in creation, to For Tdo as well as a_worker can, The task that is mine to do. 1925.) great plan— (Copy U. S. Taxpayers Must Pay Huge Sum for Legislative Grist (Continued from First Page.) ed and the indicator is shy of 130,000 new laws by only a few hundreds. Joyously, too, are functioning more 4han 3,000° county boards. Like the other municipalities, the counties pas a great many local laws. Figure them, however, at only one new law each month and the half-vear's output runs to nearly 20,000. Add that total to the 130,000 already run up. The result shows that we are blessed during the first six months of 1925 with not less than 150,000 new local laws. What does it mean? It means, on the average, 25,000 new laws a month, One thousand new laws every work- ing day of the year. In reality, the number is greater. The big chance is that the total num- ber of new laws is double our con- servative estimate. Few boards of aldermen are content with passing | only one new law a month. And what county board would feel that it had earned its salt, even though its serv- ices were without salary, if it passed only one mesaly law every 30 days? Information kindly placed at this correspondent’s disposal by the mayors of 50 representative cities of more than 30,000 population attests the conservatism of the estimate. As the entire_list of new laws enacted by these 50 cities is too long to reproduce in full here, 15 typical cities have been selected. Some enacted many new local laws, some were sparing to nig- gard with'legislation. The record shows that these cities enacted the following new laws be. tween January and April of the cur- rent year, both months included Chicago, 49; Boston, ; Baltimore, 80; Newark, N. J., 83; Kansas City, Mo., 600; Denver, 104; Louisvile, 113; Akron, Ohio, 253; Syracuse, N. Y., 4; Birmingham, Ala., 15; Providence, R. I, 14; Grand Rapids, Mich., 11; Worcester, Mass., 5; Springfield, Mass., 12; Dayton, Ohio, 140. The total number of new local laws passed by these 15 cities during the an average of mnearly 100 for each city. The law mills in those localities were slowing down a bit during the first one-third of the current year. Here are figures, covering the same showing local laws passed in 1924 Chicago 345 Boston 10 Baltimore 23 165 2,000 214 Louisville 473 Akron, Ohio . 893 Syracuse, N. Y. 3 Birmingham, Ala. . 72 Providence, R. I... . 64 Grand Rapids, Mich. < 430 Worcester, Mass. .. : 5 Springfield, Mass. . 23 Dayton, Ohio .. . 3824 The total of this column of figures is 4,853. In both cases, it should be noted, the returns are official. They come from the mayor or city clerk In the 15 cities named above the laws were made by 324 men and women, an average of nearly 22 for each city. Some of the cities have as few as 5 lawmakers, some as many as 50. A few communities managed to worry along with virtu- ally to new legislation; others enacted an average of several new laws daily. City lawmakers of the 15 com- munities received total salaries of $439,500. Their compensation ranged from nothing at all in a few cases to $5,000 a year in the case of Chicago. Excluding Chicago, with a lawmak- ers' pay roll running to more than $250,000 a year, the remalning 14 cities expended, on the average, slightly more than $1,000 a month apiece in salaries to thelr city fathers, New laws, of course, must be enacted to meet changing conditlons. Judging the changing process by the record above, Americans appear to be, far and away, the most restless people in the world. (This is the second of a seriss of articles first four mont 1,489, on “The Rain_of Law.” The third will ap- ‘pear ‘in the Editorial Section of The Star next Sunday.) Farmer Is Good Business Man, Initiative and Thrift Reveal BY ARTHUR CAPPER, Republican Senator From Kansas. When Secretary Jardine expresses his bellef that from now on “the suc- cess of farmers will hinge in the main on their own individual and collective effart,” he is right. The heroic effort of farmers to put their own house in order in the last five years has been one of the classical developments in American economic and soctal life. The farmer Is by na- ture an individualist, and he 100ks to himself for help first. All he has ever asked is equality for agriculture. By cutting costs, changing production systems—there has been a tremen- dous growth of diversified farming in recent yvears—and studying market demands, he has done much to meet modern conditions—those of 1925. And in the last few months, in the more favored sections, he has made much progress in paying off old loans. There are wheat growing communi-| tles in central Kansas that have elim- inated per cent of the “floating” debt—not mortgages — accumulated during the lean years. Other neigh- borhoods have not done so well, espe- clally in places where cattle-raising is a2 leading industry, but in all cases a large part of the profits, if any, on last season’s work have been used to reduce old accounts. As a result of his intelligent efforts, the farmer has gone a long way toward the beacon light of prosperity. And he has shown vision in mer- chandising, by his efforts in working with neighbors toward better methods of selling. Co-operative marketing is making tremendous strides in the United States; nearly $3,000,000,000 worth of products were handled in that way last year. I know that fail- ures have occurred in this field and In other cases maybe the ventures have not been more than an ordinary suc- cess, but don't we find such examples in all lines of American business? There is nothing destructive in what the farmers are doing in this line. It 1s the best possible co-operation With city business, which is interested in having agriulture develop as high a buying power as possible. City men are looking to the rural market today on me at a recent meeting of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce which I attended. The folks there showed they understand that this co- operative effort is one which will eliminate waste in marketing, put ef- ficiency where there has been inef- ficiency and thus promote the inter- ests of both the producer and the city consumer. American Claims Against Mexico (Continued from First Page.) it is explained. The agent appointed by the Government for that purpose will then take care of the preparation of the memorial and all other docu- ments required; but owing to the fact that it takes considerable time to gather all the evidence and prepare the individual memorials, claimants are urged to act promptly. In fact, if they do not act within the prescribed time they will “be forever barred.” A recent notice from the State Department stated in part: “The attention of claimants is especially invited to the fact that unless these claims against Mexico are filed before the commission hav- ing jurisdiction thereof and within the time provided in the respective conventions, they will be forever barred. Claimants are, therefore, urged to present their claims to the Department of State without delay. At the organization meeting of the General Claims Commission, held in this city on August 30, 1924, former Secretary of State Hughes made this significant _utterance: “Once more there is indicated in this hemisphere the determination to find appropriate and peaceful solutions of interna- tional questions. * * * The con- vention under which you are organ- izing as a commission is a docu- ment in every line of which breathes the spirit of justice. Here is no desire to obtain any unfair advan- tage on the part of either govern- ment, no suggestion of any motive save to promote our friendly rela- as they never did before and they have a more hopeful understanding of the sltuation, This Wa§ impressed tions by’ the frank recognition of mutual obligations impartially de- leimineds” et N THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 14, 1925—PART .2. Huge Cities Are Not Doomed, But Will Grow Greater With Right Traffic Rules, Is Claim BY DREW PEARSON. HE American city is not doomed, as Henry Ford would have us believe, but is just coming into its cwn. In sixty years New York will have a population of 25,000,000. This statement was glven me by Dr. John A. Harriss, special deputy traffic commissioner of New York City and one of the most competent authorities on traffic and city plan- ning in this country. Dr. Harriss went on to explain that city growth depended almost entirely upon wise handling of the city’s most important problem—traffic. He also predicted that Wall Street’s unfavor- able location off the chief lanes of trafic would eventually cause the transfer of the world’s money market and turn the Woolworth Building and other skyscrapers into warehouses. For elght vears Dr. Harriss has been unraveling the traffic tangle in the largest and most traffic-ridden city in the world, and his word on such problems usually goes unchal- lenged. He is the originator of the traffic signal tower. People laughed at the idea at first. But Dr. Harriss per- sisted. Finally he got his towers set up on Fifth avenue for a trial After one month opinjon was di- vided as to their usefulness. A num- ber of city officials wanted them re- moved. But Dr. Harriss insisted that the towers should remain for a sec ond month, and they have been there ever since. I had been commissioned to in- vestigate the causes and remedies for motor accidents and traffic congestion in the leading cities of the country, and after talking with the police chiefs in Chicago, Philadelphia and Los Angeles, I went to Dr. Harriss and asked his solution of the traffic problem. “There .are two immediate solu- tions,” replied Dr. Harriss. “Ex- press streets and municipal parking places. Speedy Trafic Not Dangerous. “These two solutions are relatively simple, and the express street is al- ready in existence on Fifth avenue, New York, and Michigan avenue, Chicago. The idea behind the ex- press_street is llke the idea behind the Ford automobile factory—keep things moving. If, for instance, your traffic is moving at the rate of only ten miles an hour, about 1,000 cars can pass a given point in an hour. But if you increase the rate of speed to thirty miles an hour, 3,000 cars can pass the given point inyan hour. “Traffic is much like water. It flows in the easfest channels. Therefore, enough trafic would naturally flow into the swift and easy express streets to relieve the congested cross streets in the shopping and business dis- tricts.” ‘Would not accidents increase if cars were allowed to travel at thirty miles an hour through the heart of the_city?” I asked. “Not if this express traffic is prop- erly regulated. In other words, it must be stopped at regular two-minute intervals to allow cross traffic to pass. At the most congested crossings I would place traffic gates exactly like those used at rallroad crossings. This would prevent pedestrians from cross- ing. It is a mistake to think that speedy traffic is dangerous so long as it is properly controlled. As a matter CITY OF THE FUTURE. Dr. John A. Harriss, Traffic Commissioner of New York City and Originator of the Signal Towers, Predicts Triple-Decked Streets in the Big Cities of the Future. - Drawing prepared by Harvey W. Corbett. of fact, speeding up traffic is the chief solution to the problem.” After reminding Dr. Harriss that Chief Collins of Chicago was in favor of abolishing all parking in the busi- ness sections of his city and that Phil- adelphia was actually going to put such a ruling into effect, I asked him whether or not he was in favor of abolishing parking. “No,” was his immediate and posi- tive answer. “That is an extremely foolish proposal., It would sour a great mass of the public and add to the congestion of the streets. If a man has no place to park, he simply cruises. He swings around and around the block until he picks up his passenger, his friend or his employer. In other words, he adds to the num- ber of machines using the streets. Dig Parking Cellars. “When I came back from Europe last year I found that the courts were being swamped with 9,000 summonses a day issued to drivers for parking their machines longer than 20 min- utes. The first thing I did was to in crease the parking time to one hour. There were three reasons for th change. First, the courts couldn't handle that number of summonse: Even more important, the police were creating enemies at the rate of 30,- 000 every month. That sort of thing can’t go on foreve: ‘We are getting COOLIDGE’S TRIP WEST GAINED HIM POPULARITY President Intent Upon Getting Best Thought on How to Deal With Farm Situation in Next Congress. BY 0. MESSENGER. Reports percolating in from the West Indicate that President Coolidge made a ten-strike for himself and his party in his recent foray into that section. If President Coolidge him- self would express his own opinion of the result of his trip he probably would not deny the soft impeachment. The President enhanced his personal popularity beyond a doubt and at the same time gained, by contact at first hand with Republican leaders in that region, a slant upon a leading ques- tion—the condition of and an outlook for the agricultural interests—which will be of value to him in shaping his course for the future with re- spect to agricultural questions. He is sald to be convinced that there is no practical reason for ex- pecting that the radical proposals for farm relief can be pushed by the radicals with any hope of success in the next Congress. He found, it is sald, a sharp contrast between the conditions in the agricultural West and in the wage earners and indus- trial workers of the East. Advantage With East. The main_difference between the two classes is found in the purchas- ing power of the dollar for the wage earners of the East and the farmers of the West, with advantage in favor of the KEast. The advantage is thought to be at present in favor of the industrialists, which accounts for what amount of dissatisfaction there is among the agriculturists. The President is described-as being intent upon getting this Summer the best thought of the West as to how the next Congress ought to deal with the farm situation. During the Sum- mer he will talk with leading prac- tical farmers and Republican poli- ticians, who will discuss both sides of the question. Two members of the cabinet, the Secretary of Agri- culture, Mr. Jardine, and the Secre- tary of Commerce, Mr. Hoover, will make a series of speeches in the wheat belt and will give study to the needs of the producers, later recommending to the President the best method to help the farmers. President Coolidge's attention was drawn to the threat now being made by; certain members of Congress to break down the protective tariff on farm products. The threat is made that some memberswof Congress from the Middle West will unite with the Democrats to reduce tariff schedules to Democratic standards. The farm- ers are claiming that the increased tariff on wheat is not proving effec- tice, because it protects only those producing hard wheat against a sim- flar Canadian product, but does not help the majority of farmers. Complain of Tariff. The crux of the complaint of the farmers against the protective tariff is in their claim that the tariff actual- ly works against the farmers, because it keeps up the high price of every- thing the farmer buys from the East- ern manufacturers, while restricted immigration also permits labor to maintain a_higher wage scale. It is not believed conceivable by politicians that President Ccolidge will lend him- self to any pricefixing system as a means of artificially raising the price of the product of the agriculturdl class, and his counselors must pre- sent to him some other means of bene- fit to the farmers than such a policy. To many thoughtful Republicans the a more or less selfish program in this struggle between the producers and the manufacturers, and he will not lend himself to either side to the mark- ed disadvantage of the other. Presi- dent Coolidge is thoroughly convinced of the benefits to the country at large of a protective tariff as a policy of government, but he has a deep inter- est also in the condition of the farm- ers, and will undertake to find a solu- tion of the problem to the best inter- est of both the agricultural and the in- dustrial producers. The President is said to get much satisfaction from the conviction re- celved on his Western trip of mate- rial abatement in radical sentiment in the West. He found evidences of this trend of public opinion in the region he visited and in the neighboring sec- tions, from which he received reports to Republicans with whom he talked. Radicallsm Waning. At the beginning of the last presi- dential campaign and increasingly throughout its course, disturbing re- ports were brought to the President’s attention of the alleged magnitude and extent of radicalism in the West. The President did not get into a panic over these alarmist reports and neither did Chairman Butler of the Republican national committee, and some of the far-seeing leaders in the party. Their conservatism was borne out by the figures on election day. The situation in this regard has bet- tered consistently since the election and {s described as being today fur- ther improved. Thoughtful voters are said to be appreclating more and more the con- servative course of the administration that was retained in power in that election and to give President Coolidge credit for it. The Republican leaders are of opinifon that the condition of affairs at present augurs well for the success of Republicans in the next congressional elections and the con- tinuation of Republican policies by keeping the party in Congress in power for another two years, at least, after 1926. Republican leaders at Washington and in the administration are watch- ing with intent interest the signs of the effect of President Coolidge’s trip to the, West in its bearing upon the prospects for the future. They realize, they say, that party welfare depends largely upon the personality of Presi- dent Coolidge and that the main capital of candidates for election to the Senate and House after 1926 is vested in the leadership of President Coolidge and his maintaining of his hold upon the voters at large. Viking Ship to Come. In honor of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the American Declaration of Inde- pendence, which will be celebrated in Philadelphia on July 4, 1926, Norway will send over another Viking ship, the same as was done at the time of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893. Norwegians are always glad to show their admiration for the great Ameri- can republic. The sending of this new ship is in the hands of a committee of Norwegians and Norwegian-Ameri- cans. The ship will be a replica of the famous Gogstad ship in Oslo and will be named the Leif Eriksqn. The route across the Atlantic will be the one followed by the vikings in early away from that old theory that the policeman’s job is to force the law down our throats, and beginning to realize that law enforcement really depends uporr that slow-moving, in- coherent, but in-the-long-run-right mass of people called the public. If a majority of the public chooses to oppose the police, the latter are pow- erless, “In the third place, the city has just as great an obligation to pro- vide places for parking as it has to provide streets to drive on. That is why I favor the installation of mu- nicipal parking places. In big cities these would have to be underground cellars dug.beneath the streets. These are going to come into existence quicker than most people realize.” After telling Dr. Harriss of an in- terview Henry Ford had once given me, in which he had predicted the doom of the big city, and reminding him of a recent speech in which Pres. ident Coolidge had expressed some doubt as to whether the disadvantages of the big city were not greater than its advantages, I asked this author- ity on city planning whether he also considered the big city to be doomed. “On the contrary,” he replied, “the big city is just coming into its own. The future will find our cities growing bigger and bigger, and I predict that within 60 years New York will have population of about 25,000,000 peopl- “Let me add, ho one cond SOUTH AMERICA GREAT FIELD, DECLARES JONES United States Must Look to It for Com- mercial Developm Writing About Trip. BY SENATOR WESLEY L. JONES, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Author of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920. The slogan, “See America First,” has always appealed to me. We have many wonderful and interesting things in this country that should delight the lover of nature. Our mountains and rivers and plains and forests, our na- tional parks, grand canyons, petrified forests, beautiful lakes and splendid roads are hard to surpass, and for those who may be interested in an- clent things there are found in the deserts of the Southwest the ruins and evidences of a clvilization ekist- ing long before King Tut ruled his Egyptian dominions. A knowledge of our own wonders should help one to enjoy those of other lands. Cuba, Canada and Mexico are the only for- eign lands I have visited, and these only in a slight way, but I think I have been In every State and Terri- tory in the United States except Ver- mont, and I have looked into that. When Congress adjoutned Mrs. Jones and 1 thought we were justified in taking a few weeks off to see some other countries and people. Europe, of course, has its attractions, but some-{ how South America made a greater appeal to me. Possibly I am wrong about it, but I thought that what I might be able to see of Europe would not be so different from our own country and people. Europe has the development of the centuries. It is of the past more than the future. South America seemed to me to be different. Its destiny is linked more with ours. Its development is in its infancy. Our methods are more mod- ern and should appeal to them. We ought to come close together. They may learn from us better how to work out their future than from those more of the past. We need them, too, just as much as they need us. ‘Wanted More Knowledge. ‘We had a hazy sort of a notion of its people, what its cities were like and something of its possibilities, but we wanted more definite knowledge. I hoped the information we might get | would be of some aid in promoting | trade and intercourse between our peo- ple and its people to the mutual bene- fit of all. I thought we ghould look to South America as one of the greatest fields for our future commercial de- velopment, and that shipping facill- ties between the two continents are of vital importance. So we decided to go to South America and to go in one of our ships. No more vital problem confronts our people than the shipping problem. To solve it we need above all else to get the shipping mind. Foreign trade pro- motes our prosperity. It must be car- ried on largely in ships. Americans should favor American ships just as » man favors his own. Americans sailing the seas should go in Ameri- can ships if they are available. We should be glad to suit ourselves to their date of sailing rather than to take a foreign ship. American mer- chants should insist that their goads go in American ships and American buyers should insist that their pur- chases be carried in our ships. We should be willing to suffer inconven- ience or delay to natronizing ships under a foreign flag. When we are ready to do this we will have the yroblem of an American merchant ma- rine very largely solved. |low, so that merchants would double tion. Big cities will get bigger only if they provide for the free and easy) flow of traffic. “What made citles in the first place?” Dr. Harriss asked, and then proceeded to answer his own question “Convenience. It was convenient for people to get together in cities and do business. When it becomes incon- venient for them to stay in that city they go some place else. “Convenience depends upon easy access to other people and other parts of the city. In other words, conveni- ence depends upon traffic. That's why I have always said that traffic condi- tions can make or break a city. “For instance, poor traffic condi- tions in downtown New York have moved business uptown, and poor traffic conditions will eventually trans- form the skyscrapers of lower Broad- way into warehouses. Even the Wool- worth Building will be abandoned for office use. 'If it had not been for the heavy investments of the banking in. terests in bulldings around Wall street, the Stock Exchange would have been moved up around the Grand Central terminal long ago. I think it will move eventually.” “What will be the reason for this transfer?” I asked, a little bewildered by this prediction. Drain East River. “Traffic, or, in other words, the in convenience of getting down to Wall street. Most of the people who work down there live uptown or in the suburbs. They come in via the and Central Station or from the north, and it would be far more convenient for them to have offices in the district around the Grand Central. That wiil be New York’'s great business center in the future. I predicted this long ago, and if you have noticed how the apartment houses are being replaced by office buildings north of Grand Cen- tral, you will realize that my predic tion is already being fulfilled. “How will New York's streets han- dle the 25,000,000 population of the future?” I asked. In reply Dr. Harriss pulled a large sketch map out of his desk and ex- plained to me an idea he had worked out with the advice of expert engi- neers for damming and draining the Fast River. This would leave a grear open cavity between Brooklyn and Manhattan, which he planned to fill with express subway lines. Over the subways he planned a great concrete roof, on which four express and local boulévards would handle the automo- bile and pedestrian traffic of the new city. : This main artery of traftic, with adequate cross streets, would give the city quick and easy transportaticon and supply the means for an expansion to a population of 25,000,000, “The most crowded streets of the city will eventually be triple-decked, with a subway below, slow-moving commercial traffic on the street level and express traffic above. I have long advocated this for xth avenue. In such store windows, one above and one be- or triple their disp: space. The chief handicap would be the fact that some second stories are higher or lower than others. However, the big cities, especially those like Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago, whoss cen- tral streets are rather narrow, will probably adopt the triple-decked street in the not far distant future. (Copyright. 1925.) ent, Says Senator, Pan-America, one of the four sister ships maintaining bi-weekly service between New York and Buenos Aires. They are 21,000-ton ships, making 171 knots, or over 20 miles an hour, without forcing. They are wonder- fully steady hoats, although we had no rough seas or rough water to test them. The ship's officers say th have little rough water on this run. Much of the time, sitting in the cabins, one could hardly tell that the boat was in motion. We made no stop between New | York and Rio de Janeiro, and for 12 days the boat sailed along at a rate of 400 miles a day without stopping. We saw no land for about nine days, when we rounded the ex- treme eastern point of Brazil and started to the southwest. _We crossed the equator about the eighth day out from New York. The evening before one of the crew, dressed as King Neptune, climbed over the prow of the ship in the glare of the searchlight about 9 o'clock, and delivered his message, warning all landlubbers to be pres- ent, properly garbed, at a certain hour the next day. Those of us who had never crossed the equator had been advised from time to time that we would have to be initiated into the’ order of King Neptune. A typewritten notice was sent to each landlubber advising him to ap- pear at the hour named dressed in his bathing suit. That looked omi- nous but we all did it. Those who had crossed the equator had elected one of their number to represent King Neptune and the others were dressed in most fantastic fashion. 4 solemn procession, led by the bana, escorted King Neptune to his place. The prosecutor appeared and charges were made against varipus alleged culprits and they were allowed to plead. Whether the plea was gullty or not guilty, each was declared [ Comprehensive Survey of States and BY HENRY seven days ended June 13: * ok ok ok United States’ of America.—That was an _exceedingly happy speech that the President made on June 8 the Minnesota State fair grounds for the centen: celebration of the fir: organized emigration from Norway to the United States. On July 4, 1825, sails from Wiscasset, Me., this week Unfortunately, unless there is news of Amundsen before the expedition reaches its base at Etah, Greenland, the grand aims of the expedition must be subordinated to search for Amund n. Of these grand aims notice here. ter. The trial of John T. Scopes, high school teacher of Dayton, Tenn., charged with violating a Tennessee State law which forbids the teaching of evolution in public schools or col leges of that State, will begin on July 10 at Dayton. Mr. Scopes will have eminent counsel, gratis, including Clarence Darrow and Bainbridge Colby. All the world and his wife will be there, panting te hear the -verdict which should end the controversy which has vexed humanity so long But Mr. Bernard Shaw and Prof. Henry Fairfield Osborn had best stay away. Mr. Shaw has been saying some perfectly awful things about Mr. Bryan, and Prof. Osborn declares that it isn’t Mr. Scopes, but Mr. | Bryan, who is facing trial. Thirteen daylight bank robberies in Indiana within a few weeks; it is not | surprising that the Indiana bankers | are irritated. Convening at Indianapo olis on the 11th, they planned vigi- lante committees, the members to be paid by the bankers and to be sworn in as deputy sheriffs. One had been led to believe that the millenium had arrived in Indiana, and one is grie to_be disllusioned It is estimated that more than a quarter of a million persons slept in the New York city parks each night of the hot spell. Their behavior was perfect; no arrests and no damage. All Springfield, Mass., turned out on June 7 to welcome home Howard Robbins, in (Dutch) with victory aged 13, flushed the third annual national marble-shooting tournament at Atlantic City. Among the func- tions in honor of the hero were an official reception by the mayor and city council; a daylight parade and a torchlight parade. Moreover, a fund is being raised to send Dutch to college. Springfield did well. It does not appear from the annals of Spring- field that any other son has brought her Kudos in comparable sort. There is Samuel Bowles, to be sure, but | what is eminence in journalism to pre-eminence at marbles One of Dutch’s most redoubsable antagonists was Miss Marie Lawley, whose magnificent bearing in the fray went far to justify the nineteenth amendment. e . Caillaux is proceeding y h his plans for the fiscal and financial rehabilitation of France. The finance committee of the Cham- ber has fully approved his budget proposals, including his bill which calls for taxation to the tune of 1,500,000,000 francs, in addition to the taxation provided for in M. Clementel’s budget for the fiscal year, 1925, so as really and truly to balance the budget “and no mistake” this time. Much against the grain, the Socialists of the Chamber haue been brought by M. Caillaux to accept the Senate’s drastic loppings of items in M. Clementel’s budget, which con- templated expenditures for social amelioration. Caillaux insists that every budgetary item of expenditure shall be covered by taxation, with some margin for error or emergencies. He made bold (though no friend of Britain) to cite British budgetary methods as exemplary. He declared (in contradiction to rumors alleging that he intended to ask for a very large note increase) that he was earnestly studying how to avoid any increase whatever of note circulation. * x X X The Moroccan War.—T stated a| fortnight ago the basis of apparently trustworthy dispatches that the French had withdrawn from all their fixed positions of the Wergha River, except two strong forts. The d patches erred. The business of with- drawing the blockhouse detachments and simultaneously destroying the blockhouses and any connecied works which might be useful to the enem has been going on during the past two weeks. Apparently it is now com- pleted or nearing completion. It has been nasty work, the enemy attacking vigorously, even capturing and tem- porarily holding some blockhouses and harassing the retreating columns. Though severely punished in every encounter, the brave tribesmen keep a high stomach. All the French arms have been served superbly, the air- men in particular doing yeoman serv- ice; but the defensive role imposed by political considerations is better, ex hausting and entirely inconclusive. Premier Painleve has gone to Moroc co (partly by airplane) to confer with Marshal Lyautey. It is understood that Abd-el-Krim has repulsed over- tures looking to negotiation. Marshal Lyautey has asked for 150 more air- planes. * k Kk % Germany.—The world w: ably excited the other day announcement that the most im- portant Berlin banks had pooled a credit of 40,000,000 gold marks for the Stinnes interest. It is a reason- able inference that the banks per- s consider- guilty and King Neptune fixed the penalty. Senator de!s ofr. They were lenient with Mrs. Jones and me, and, out of consideration for what they professed to think I had done for the merchant marine, they subjected us to no punishment, but told us to keep up the good work. Others did not get off so easily. Many of them were picked up and placed on a long table, a big paint brush was dipped into lather and thelr faces and heads covered. This was taken off with a dull razor-like blade about a foot long. Cold water was poyred down their backs. Something that looked like soap was put in their mouths; eggs were broken on their heads and then they were thrown into the tank. There was nothing danger- %us, cbr:.;g! (;r Ea{nfixl done, however. verybody took it in good spirif ha;:l‘n sglendid time, & P rs. Jones and I prize very highly our certificate, which reads Sfo!igws): NEPTUNUS REX. To ALL Pish affluent or indigent and other dwellers of the vasty deep. GREETING: We, Neptunus Rex, exalted Potentate of the Deep Sea, do certify and proclaim that Senator Wesley L. Jones, aboard the good ship Pan America, on April 5, 1925, was duly initiated into the mysferies of the Order of the Trident, instructed as to the sign of the Lobscouse and the formed this service in the fear that crash of that monstrous combine, embracing every sort of investment under the sun, would wreak wide spread disaster. One hears that the Stinnes peonle propose 10 deflate with a vengeanc , shedding all except gilt- edie holdlngs, No doubt with the as- sistance vouchsafed they can dp this without disastrous losses. Consider- able losses, however, would seem in- evitable; to which prospect the heartless world, including Germany, seems cold. Old Hugo, vou see, is reputed to have been chief of war profiteers, a reputation apparently deserved. * ok kX Jtaly.—On June 7 Rome celebrated with great magnificence the twenty- fifth anniversary of the accession of Victor Emanuel III to the Italian throne. The most striking element of the popular parade, which followed a splendid military review, was a band of 50 Garibaldi veterans in their red shirts; very old men, with little hold of life, but much of proud romantic memories. One hundred thousagd subjects in groups representative of all parts of the realm filed past the King and his family, who were on a balcony of the Quirinal Palace. The atmosphere was one of loyalty, of patriotism and of that authentic gavety of which the Italians are so uniquely capable. Fas- cism was out of the picture for that day—no black shirts—but the favorite password of the Brotherhood of the Salt Horse, and is, therefore, hereby Story Week Has Told of sorts seized the sloop Restaurationen, 45 tons (the | the movies. Mayflower was of 180 tons), sailea|for its wine, its vases, ir from Norway for New York, where|and its temple of Hera ( she arrived 14 weeks later. About a |M0st splendid fanecs million Norweglans have since emi- [ Whereof there remains j grated to this country. umn) and as the birthp: The MacMillan Arctic expedition fi';j"'~(""'llf" enjoys a s ch by thel g Latest Events in United Abroad. W. BUNN HE following s & brief sum-|ands, brothers, fiying from pursuit 5 mary of the most important °"h the C '»okh mainland, ed the other day with a small fc g fo news of the world for the |(heéTeland wt oo s There they by and ated cr little army m; deliv in not is w probz lus and his kind. The Greek ~ cahin h Michalakopoulos, which took October 6, has re M lakopo is head servative wi the party. o prized I ded flice o ed the cor Rey China.—The still jusf foreign a seemed oratory pror and efforts to to deprive Japanese of Chinese efforts (no have been n of shippir The co: up for 1 trial ma of some criminal the re verdicts ha The court w volunte: situation iness ition during t have conf anda, a pe pread t to terre st success trade is prett of Chinese and Ci 10 1 activities i ent missioners nal z a deputa from Pek nd the municipal gove ternatjonal settlement Chinese, inve sit repre is ation The detachme and marines i been somewhat reinfor o number of fore stead has bee s importance 2 the Japane: cided on United St and Ital tional Chine: Sh deci! (not obvious) full co vesse gha it siderat of the Activities Sha reported from 1 K Fu Ch violence exce Tsi Nan n s done to a Han Kau there w Rioters by : shops, (rc anese sho tacking the volunteer corps. I dequate, the constrained to Result: Eight ric wounded. The question What is the tru incidents? M burly that small nants might e centers of pop of unrest and the ¢ cident to a great dustrial, social & toms of natio tion may there is to justi voung Ct e For example sanizat itself the Shar ai Patriot sociation, manifestoes denouncing th tors as venal tools of M ow hemselve: ing n « declaring that tF e discredit! the natlonalist movement by givir it a vicious anti gn turn A group of th most distinguished men of young China, fc er Premier ‘Wang Chung Hui (mem r of the inner temple), Wellington Koo, and others, circularize the country, en- joining at the ast suspension of agitation, pending report hy the mixed commission at Shanghai. The provi ent at Pe king broae ippeal, and otherwise acts sensibly. The business at ¢ n is of a quite different complexion, less important than the matters & discussed, a civil broi chron! confusion only a little worse confounded than usual Of this tragic comic situation I pro pose to treat next week. Miscellaneous.—The Soviet authort ties are reported to be cavorting ir joy over developments in the Balkans, Morocco and China. Trotsky declare that the Shanghai movement is “fuil of the Moscow spirit He is glad to bestow the honorable name of F vik upon the Shanghai workmen and udents Eight Egyptians cha d with the murder last Fall of Lee Stack, sirdar of Bgypt, have been condemned to death. When the sentence was pr nounced, they made a frightful scene. The council of the T tions met at Geneva on June § June 11, adjourned to September 4 It does not appear that it accon plished much business of prime ir portance. Widows in Tatters Ask Husbands® Unpaid Wage Clad in tattered garments and most of them carrying babies in their arms, 200 widows marched to the offices of China's provisional executive, Tuan Chi-jui, and demanded the unpaid wages of their soldier husbands, who vere killed during the fighting last Autumn. Several of the women carried ban- ners with inscriptions setting forth their case, and when the provisional president’s guard tried to stem the influx at the gate to the executive offices the paraders used with telling effect the long bamboo poles to which the banners were attachec their stand that tune was “Giovanezza.” * k k¥ Tuan Chi-ju etary finally appeared to truce and to suggest that a small delegation be chosen to s the marchers’ fevances. women quickly named four representatives, who were received by the provisional execu tive's son and were promised that the government would take immediate