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EDITORIAL PAGE NATIONAL PROBLEMS SPECIAL FEATUPES __Part 2—16 Pages COOLIDGE VIEWS AROUSE | IRE OF FARM RADICALS Reaction to Chicago Speech Strengthens Hands of Advocates of McNary Haugen Plan. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WII RESIDENT COOLID! Thes “nay ram- he present session. ity in Coolidge in i£y into 1928. Unless M. i signal | e meantime evolves ways and lv failed to satisfy the ugrlimeans. of propltiating fur- sentiment, 1 interests s repre-ing observer could leave Chicago with-| swnted by the recent conven-|out feeling that his stock In the agri uon of the American Iarmjcyltural community faces a falling. eau Federation at Chic His | rather than a rising, market. address to the convention on Decem-| “yjore than one lender confessed to ber 7, which this writer heard and | inis writer that Arthur Capper is to- the effects of which were then an Jore logicsl “farm candidate’ alvzed, has left the farmers not only ident on the next Republican unsatiSfied. but more uggrieved than | ticket than Calvin Coolldge. Mr. Cap cyer. They were In hopes that M. | per hus been in receptive mood on the Coolldge would meet agriculture White House proposition for several least half way. elther with regard to|years. He Is a loval administration some pricemproving system or with [ man, ‘but his friends do not belleve he xegard to the tariff. would dodge agricultural indorsement The President’s inability to hold out | in 1928, If it were voiced in convinclng e to agriculture in either of those [ terms. ' That be could murshal anti ent the Farm Bureau Fed-| Coolidge sentiment in the Midwest wtlon conventionites home in sullen|and and West today cannot = be o0d. It was registered in their final | doubted in llght of recent develop T ~ e el m ol i homp- | ments at Chicago, e 00 ek o Prcident ot the| “One of the sighificant teatures of ompson is an out- | Mr. Thompson's defeat of éh, B:;: ary-Havgen” man. Hle fs | tute for the Turm Bureau Federation - e sresidency was that a coa of Mic D O e | Nesterm, Northwestern and Southern sresident Cool ‘ded the deadlock on the Thompson de. | eighth ballot. Hitherto u combination reated for the crship of the Farm [of Fastern and Southern votes hus Federation the more conservative . |sufficed to overcome the ore radica E. Bradfute. president of the organi. | Sroups at annual federation elections. | zation for the past three terms. The backbone of the federatio i sists of farm representatives from Gave Capper Ovation. Indiana, Iowa and lllinois. In these In their displeasure with Mr. Cool- B idze’s Chicago three Sfates s called “MeNary-Hau- S rEercr e b that from Northwestern and a5 The head of the farm ioe in Con. | Dixie States, to put in office a man sas. The head of the farm bloc in Con. g gress carried the convention b who is definitely committed to fight in his address at its annual banquet, | the Coolldge administration on major Capper did not go anywhere near “the | argicultural lssues. whole hog” In advocating Government | Party Leaders Anxious. i o D OB | Republican party leaders make no, s et "D | erort to dlsgulse their anxlety over yosed that particular proposition. BUt [ v’ 1’ peing called in Washington what he sald, and what the farmers [ ¥hat 18 being cefied fn VASRREON | ed—and what they did not think | gneg to mere remorse over the Cool- | sident Coolldge did—was to pledie | jqg. gamintstration’s attitude on agriculture some concrete support in | 185 | AGEIMSURLONR @R N 0 fight for er price conditions. | PRISIKE eEarded The | “e““";," i ‘;'c‘l"r‘" l"‘,":‘;’r l‘tr":‘!""‘_’:‘.)dmlnlslrx\!mn (v[v[;:nnd 3 v-Hau- | were miles apart In thef 8 or| T D what the protective tarift does for the | SUel when the late Henry C. tarmer. Coolidge told the Chicago | 0 ocretary of Agriculture and convention that the existing tariff sys- [ 500 PR oy Jegtslation. Tt is tem is & boon for agriculture. Capper | poneved that the President today, a8 #aid that agriculture at present doesn't | qnen. commands more than enough begin to cnjoy the “protection” that|support in Congress to frustrate M industry, finance, labor and the Tail- | Nury Havgen" bills in whatever gulse | roads get from Uncle Sam. offered. ; Having listened to Mr. Coolidge on| But the dissatisfied farmers have g December 7 with respectful courtesy, | certain “auxillaries” in their discon- the Farm Bureau convention falriy |tent. They are found in the irrigation Tose at Mr. Capper 35 hours later.iand reclamation areas of the West Carmers who've heard the Kansan and Northwest. Mr. Cooldge's re-| make agricultural speeches for 12| fusal, in support of Secretary Work, | vears sald he never reached suchito carry out ambitious development | heights of persuasiveness. He did |projects has embittered the affected not promise agriculturn the moon. |regions. They voted heavily for Cool- He only asserted that it was entitled | idge and Dawes in 1924, fearing the | to a lot more of the moon than it 13| La Follette peril if they did anything now getting, and pledged his whole- | else. But in the sections which grow arted aid in seelng that it is ob- |wheat, corn and cattle, and in the sec- atned. Capper, in the linguage of |tions 'which want more reclamation he theatrical profession, “stole the|and irrigation projects carrie . Show &t Chicago, Ho was strong | there &y now widespread disappoint’ with the farming community before. |ment with Coolldge polictes. He made himselt absolutely solid with | _Disappointment puts it mildly, if it by his sympathetic talk to the fed- |the aftermath of the Chicago furm oo e i’ { convention s « criterion. Indignation | describes it more accurately. Until Far-Reaching Political Effect. Tie ope ja !length, | und {eame for anything you please. | EDITORIAL SECTION he Swndlay Stad WASHINGTON DECEMBER 13, 1925. HI3 changes in my own attitude to religlon have followed gen- erally and in a condensed form | the broader movements of | thought during the past cen- as brought up in a coun- and my father wus| low churchman of the old school. In those years T believed in hell as firmly as I belleved in God, or the wis dom of my own parents. I was, in| short, a fair representatlve of the| average churchgoer of the early and | mid Victorian period. | The first breath of doubt crossed my | mind when 1 was just 21, and so| strong a breath was it th: in a| | single evening I came over, as it were, | into the skepticism of the later part of the nineteenth century begotten by the works of Darwin, Huxley and| Tyndall. I reached, tqo, the same| climax of abselute materialism; and | then, ltke so many others, entered on | another phase of reaction as a result | reading Haeckel's “Riddle of the | Universe,” in which matter was so triumphantly proved to possess all the potentialities hitherto attributed | to God that it really made little differ- ence whether one believed in the God ©of matter or a material God. * ok o*x % The further stages that mark the | subtler movements of thought cannot be followed in an article of this| They include the examination | rejection of the phenomena of | spirituallsm, so far as the evidence ! for actual messages from the dead 18 concerned: the opposition to modern | occultist thought In that it omits an essenial to development by too great a concentration on the and, last. u tendencey to find in recent selence jstrong support for the purely myvs- tical attitude—Inasmuch ther our researches the constitution of matter the more | we find it becoming resclved Into an aspect of “force” which is merely a i as the fur-| ok ok % ! But though we may enlarge our | conception of God to any extent for- saking that early notion of Him as a | kind of jealous patrfarch and judge, | raordinarily quick-tempered where s own rules ure concerned, und as. suming Him as the essential spirit | of the whole universe—we, the in bit of this one small planet,| are compelled by the accident of our | present conditfon to concider ‘“reli. | glon” from the point of view of its | e pressed into| " D. C., - SUNDAY MORNING, J. D. BERESFORD. influence on our day-to-day existence. Now, whatever may be our concep- tion of life after death—whether, in- deed, we belleve in it or not—th whole experience of mankind seem: to show that the true practice of re- liglon enforces before all else an ele- ment of self-denial. In all forms of the Christian religion this element is found in temptation of t has bee deflned 1 In the Hindu Buddhism and occultism generally the necessity for clf-dental as a means to self-develop ment s pushed to isceti- cism. But even in the most primitive of savage cults we find this us root principle of denylng our: thing that we desire This, then, is what I have come to lieve in as the meaning of religion such; the element of fuith as means to the practice of seif-restraint, since this is the common factor of all creeds Ives some- | From this it will b disapprov tnferred that 1 principle of [ axrd the sevond all ompartson dmirable rule of life ever u to the world; but 1 have never seen that cthic practiced the members of any Christian com- Society News CUT IN EUROPEAN ARMIES - MY RELIGION: WHAT IT MEANS TO ME . ARTICLE VI g BY J. D. BERESFORD , Playwright, Author of “The Mountains of the Moon.” W munity with which I have been as- socated. Moreover, the dogmas of the churches appear to me to bo }ul(nrly at varlance with the spirit of Christ. To take the most obvious of in Christ's teaching for the doctrine {that a man shall find salvation only | v follo ar articles of |J {o followlog the yanfloular aithles of Lol ceniioee Aol b e | Botain { belief adopted by one particular sect jor division of the Christian Church. The clearest statement that Christ made in this connectfon was: ‘“He | that believeth in Me shall not perish. | And I choose to accept that at once in its simplest and widest significance; not as implying he that belleves in an lendless rigmarolo of senseless ordl nances and ritual orfginality imposed priests for their own purposes; 1t as he that believes in the divine princlple in himself and all mankind. It we could, indeed, accept that cingle faith as the basis of a great | world religion, all our controverstes | would be blown away, and the whole lifo of man would have to be reor- anized. No matter in what creed I | was educated, if I believe in this DI vine principle in myself and act al | way it T so believed, I should be | compelled to load religious” life. | To do anything loss would be to deny | nations, {my faith and relinquish the hope of, lies in the elimination of arms in the | { eternal life. But at the pres: on this one sim enormous responsibilities self-discip] age of and need necessitates « a distant supe 1 we must present biting instant. | rind, should cting un- worthily | cowaraly, | be would indeed recrucify that Christ which is stlll seeking to in- carnate ftself in all humanity. | Thic, then, in concluston, is wh |religlon mesns to me—the beltef | that God seeks tn express Himesel? in | )t by e slavish adherence to | wome trifling form of worship, but by Lie practice of & principle wh incorporated by Christ in the words crant act would then all true religious prac- Covyright. 1825.) U. S. IDEA OF BEING PRACTICAL DEPLORED BY NOTED CHEMIST | these emotions are calmed it can s.uf‘e‘i Schoes of the Chicago convention 1y be foreshadowed that storms willl ui'lld;:’esenfly be resounded through |confront the G. O. P. everywhere in the halls of Congress. The political | the great open spaces. echoes are likely to last far beyond | (Copyright. 1825.) : THREE STEPS PROPOSED BY CHILD’ TO CHECK RISING TIDE OF CRIME! Dr. Hendrick Supports Hoover in Warning That | Much Is Lost in Scientific Research for Only Useful Facts. BY DR. ELLWO0OD HENDRICK, Curator. Chandler Chemical Muscum, ideas ever passing trom the realm of theory over Into practice. We are EW GERMAN ATTITUDE SHOWN BY SIGNING OF LOCARNO TREATY Much Credit Due Hindenburg for His Stand, Gen. Allen Holds—Russia Expected to Be Next to Join League of Nations. : BY GEN. HENRY T. ALLEN, Who Commanded the American Army oa ] tude of this former faithful fol |of the Kaiser. This near-octogenarian many examples, 1 can find no warrant | 1 i jstrong champions of t { . selfish, cruel, | | a denlal of our great faith, and {and the i juble to rearm, ar evo- | equality on le creed with the | the armies of their conqueror {the appraisal of these necessities. | moreover, i where—that is, BESET BY MANY OBSTACLES Political Circumstances That Show No Sign of Early Change May Forestall Far-Reaching Adjustment. BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. S was to be expected, one of the first consequences of the Lo-| carno adjustment has been a! renewal of the discussion of prospective disarmament. The | oo o League of Nations, through the com-| ““yL""NC rerance, Germany mittee appointed to consider the sub. % | bound to" come forward with the t, has begun the organization of an | oot o O TURRRE S and France, both ir population to Germa should be re duced to the German 1 that on the basis of popu should be reduced bLelow the strengti fixed for German armies by the treat of Versallles. But, even if she w: jon the of equity to T | rope: sth, sb would still be onutclassed, pv reason of the Ing n." colonfes and no , the would have n nce the French and bl e, the Ger be shifted ted to increase ing llke eq of 300,000 and a colonfal army whic 1s likely presently to bo equ: strong and now numbers near 000. “A similar disproportion ext between the German army and the British colonial and home forces an ability that the United States and even | the possibllity that Russia will be| asked to participate have been em-| phasized Admitting, however, that the mo- ment {s more propitlous than any ince the close of the war for dis- cusslons of what should be described as limitation rather than abolition of rmaments, it remains patent that very grave obstacles lio in the patl way of any far-reaching adjustment |70 the question in any short time.|pue % o This, of course, applies more particu-| = ot irly to land rather than to naval et rmaments, for, measureahl has been a limitation of the As it stands no the precise tion is this: The sm: Europe which were r, together with nations which a4s a consequence of compelied remain an de a re- er ality tak e colontal estab But {f t ques we should see aments in_prac have n forces to with the British ing cogniz: lishments of hot should a e erence the treaties of pi disarmed, constitute very drastic limi- the neutral because security for them upp! Ger tive pop | manpow view. tation of armuments, take the hands of the larger neighbors, the | Russian Factor Large. defeated nations because, not being| Look to the third they can arrive at|the Russian element, throuch the reduction of facto: Protection Big Question. [Rroctih On the other hand, the problem, ' geemed esse: far as affects the victorious | give as th xceedingly complicated. It hole variety of We 11 fre t so questions and cc at the outset, th ole problem perc problem! nts. Nations will 1 in proportion to to be their nec gravest difficulty will lle In present tions. they concet aintaining There are, however, three divisions | ne in which we m ify the prob- Russtan end speakin planation of the maintenan: armies is to be found in the tion of the relation of these three ele- | ments to the se But the | difficulty ag: | no matter f tack great s evitable, it is he preser > let the divisions, There are at the large celonial namely, garding moment | enens states in Britain «nd Fran find themselves T strength to tot hopeless to oppo: peace or war. Consequences Exaggerated. it must be patent that t difficultie: tary res malntaining army of alona 2. in but 155,000, has in 000 troops, of which are British. France, while moment maintaining 421,000 rope, has in all of her colonies 000 soldiers, of whom only 40,000 are | French. When you consider the nun: ber of troops the British have to m atn in other colonles, in the Sudan, | n Mesopotamia, {n Nigeria and else- | ndtive troop: patent that the sum total of Br: {roops and native troops under Brit-|the fightin sh command will pass half & million. | preclude hus, 71,000 |3 at ‘the |t Eu-fe =1a German attack ees and Ger proof of thi the reducti trans pledges. in the length of lated into best that fact Lo Reduction at Home Doubted. trec i Columbla University. rich in practice, but in regard to the| the Rhine. e Recogni tration on Real ‘ —Mr. Child deserves a large Mafegfi the ‘credit ror the organized eports now being made to curb our na- tlonal crime scave! His recent mation- 1oide {nvestigntion of crime conditions canught the attention of the entire coun- fry and rexiited in the recent formation of the National Crime Comiission, whic) %25 announced and hegun @ ronsiructive Drogram for lessening the evil.) BY RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD, Former Ambassador to Italy. The erime statistics of the United States have two distinctions; the first is that there are not adequaté and uni- form statistics on crime and the second is that such statistics are not needed 0 convince any one with eyes and ears that our violent crime tide, in a country escelling any other civilized Jand in lawlessness, is steadily rising. Frederick T. Hoffman, who hasi many vears of experience in estimates and statistics of homicide M the United States, sa that this year without = doubt e are putting up with ot least eleven thousand cases of killings_involving criminal responsi- bility. We are the subjact for ridicule abroad not only because we are o long on laws and so short on enforce- ment, but because we shoot up persons on the streets and shed blood indoors, because we then escape arrest or wear, ‘sut the courts or slip through tech: Ateal loopholes or plead insanity or peculiarities, or abnormality of our alands. We are simply killing. Well may we look with wide-eyed mstonishment upon the pearance of fmost utter disregard for human life. ‘trikes, racial conflicts. feuds, such as hat at Herrin: prohibition officers ‘hasing bip flasks, boys robbing tills husband nd wives—crazed by the unchecked flow of mind-maddening bootleg lguor, cover the pages of our newspapers with tales of wild and vio- lent aleath. Mere murder is no longer news. Tive, six or seven times a day in some of our cities like Chbicago or New York some victim flops over with gun, knife, bludgeon or poison. Penalty Less Than Deserved. Prodably first of all becauss the eriminal mind, intelligent or not, un- vonsclously counts the costs of vio- Jence and in the back of that mind 12"the knowledge that as a natlon we ! fafl to punish for homicide with either e rtainty or severity. It is asserted | that less than one gullty killer out Ofl every 100 even pa the nmximl_xvn‘ yenalty: that probably not a_third | pay any penalty at all My own in vestigation has revealed the causes for | E They ¢ archaie police systems | wnd lack of «« operation between s(:\\f' and state, city -A!\\J day when the I\UleOhIl"‘furn S| % wway and when identification of (:‘lllb feis is still dificult and gun-toting re- Inains one of the scandals of our rest- Joes arab life. They are ancient slow et practices, the loophole-finding *Criminal lawyer and the gibberings of fredical experts. They are the lax Miscipline and training of weakened merican home life and the failure to on of National Disgrace, Better Detection and More Severe Punishment and Concen- : | normal laws against assaults on per- | the old embassy by fire, following the Menace Urged. punich as an example of youth. They | are the revblts encouraged by degen- ! erate literature and by bad movies, ! agalnst family, religious and State au- thority. They are undesirable fmmk | grants, but even more the first genera tion children of foreign born. These are some of the principal, causes behind our wretched record of | homicide and of violence, feebly pun- ished. But they apply to all forms of our crime, to the unchecked vicious ! impulse as well as to the highly or-| ganized and skillfully managed boot- | leg, blackmall, warehouse robbery, jewelry hold-up, and other well de- fined professional criminal rings. Prescribes Three Courses. To effect a cure—to clean up Amer- | fca—we need primarily three medi- cines. TFirst, recognition that crime is our national disgrace. Society should punish crime primarily not to reform the criminal, but to save those who have not yet committed crime and do it by putting a price tag on crime. Every locality should organize to in- vestigate and clean its own house. | Secondly, we need some national | agency like the new National Crime Commission to assist local organiza- tions. This should be done by giving information, by stimulating interest and by making uniform systems of sta- tistics, by obtaining better methods of apprehending and punishing and by encouraging such co-operation be- tween States and localities that criml- nals cannot ‘hop out.” Thirdly, we need to realize that if the cholce must come between the sonal safety, property, peace and order and on the other hand the laws whic regulate personal conduct —the goose- step laws—we must first enforce the laws against violent crime. So much of that is simply killing. (Cenvright, 19 U. S. Embassy in Tokio Reasonably Assured There seems now to be a reasonable prospect of an American embassy in Tokio. Harold Magonigle, an architect from New Jersey. has arrived in Tokio. He will await the coming of Anthonin Raymond of the firm of Raymond & Sykes, who have been retained by the State Department to assist in the drawing of plans for a new embassy. which is to cost about £1,260,000. Since the destruction of earthquake of 1923, the Japanese gov- ernment, as an appreclation of the prompt American relief sent to Tokio, has given the United States for an embassy ground one of the finest sites in the capital. It is immediately. be-. hind the old embassy site, but on a much higher level. Both sites will be used, the upper for the embassy build- ing and residence and the lower for the office and secretaries’ residences. |cent New York “address to the en- 3 igxneers, said that “‘instead of leading |INg to the world's store of knowledge i and | Without this qualification his state- {may throw some light on this. { {llumination on the fundamental | often blinds us to what is present and | tions—from the public. When Secretary Hoover, in his re-| all other countries in the advancement of fundamental sclentific knowledge, | the United States occuples a position | far in the rear of the majority of Eu- |t ropean nations,” he uttered a profound true statement. Note, please, that he sald “the advancement of amental sclentific knowledge d that he did not refer to applied sclence, in which we are taking a leading part. ment migh well be challenged; but he made the qualification himself, and with it we are bound to admit that he was right. Pure’ sclence may mnot properly be likened to looking for a needle in a haystack. The better analogy would be to looking, with eyes just as keen, to discover what there is in the hay- stack. The seeker may or may not| find & needle; he may find an old bone ! and he may find a_priceless jewel; | it is all the same to him, for it is his | | business to dlscover what 15 there. | He must have the scientific passion for discovery, which the New York World in a recent cditorial called the divine lunacy. It is his primitive curi- osity, unspotled and child-ltke, that discovers the unexpected things. The ty7To 18 utterly useless in reseach; he | has neither the understanding, the sclentific habit of thought nor the technique. Useful Things Only, Sought. We have only lifted the lid of the vast undiscovered continents of science as yet; but so long as we are looking for specific, useful things, we are likely to miss those that are ap- parently useless now, but which may have undreamed-of value later on. An old legend of a Cambridge don He offéred a toast “to Pure Mathematics, which never can be of any use.” Buf pure mathematics in its higher realms, as developed right there in mbridge, proved the very means of our present na- | ture of matter. We have made an idol of being prac- tical in this country, and the idol available. It was the not-yet-useful things of pure sclence that Mr. Hoover was calling for; the product of the man of theory. The engineering pro- fesslons will sooner or later test them out—after they get them. The point is to bring these ideas into being. Pure research is not idle guessing. The only possible start is from the level of vervy high scholarship and clear understanding of what is already known. During the war the Naval Advisory Board appealed to the public for ideas as to how the whereabouts of submarines might be determined, and they received over 10,000 sugges- ot one was of any use. But when a group of leading physicists was brought to- gether the problem was soon solved. They had never thought of locating submarines {n their studies of sound | waves. But with their “useless in- formation” and ‘“theoretical _stuff” that nobody could resolve into dollars, they soived the problem. There is no fixed boundary line be- tween, purs and applied sclence; in- deed, thers is a constant stream of fundamental work that does not measure values but keeps always add- we are not actlve enough Hoover was right; we need to feed our engineertng, medical and other utili- arlan professions, with more light from research In pure science. Donors of educational trusts often miss the point. Men of pure rescarch are rare bird but we have them. The desire of their hearts is not wealth: it is discovery. Secretar; eign Minister Stresemann and Ch: | cellor Luther, : “oreign Min- isters Briand and Chamberlain, In signing the Locarno pact. the world | 15 equally indebted to President Hin | denburg for his constancy s public, thus assuring herence to pact | perhaps few mples of fealt, devotion to country in the annals of ! Listory that surpass the noble atti- {ROOSEVELT IS HIGHLY REVERED | IN MANY SECTIONS OF COUNTRY Gov. Allen Says He Was Most Lovable in World War Period, When He Became Just a “Great American” to Every One, (NOTE—TAs discussion in Washington of ihe site for the notional memorial to Theodore "Hoosevel: makes timely and interesting his_appreciation and. rem: niscence from Gov. Allen, an old friend and stanch supporter.) BY HENRY J. ALLE Former Governor of Kansas. During the World War I visited for an hour with the King of Italy. His first inquiry was about Col. Roose- veit ana most ot the hour was taken up by the King in comment on Col. Roosevelt. When I told him that Col. Roosevelt had once said that the King of Ttaly was one of the two monarchs who could carry his own ward he was highly complimented when I told him ‘what arrying the ward” meant. When' I left his majesty said to me, “Tell Col. Roosevelt when yon see him that I am raising my boys so that they may some day be president of Italy.” ‘That was long before the shadow of Mussolini uppeared, his boys are still young. When Col. Roosevelt returned from the African hunt and the Furopean trip he soon let us know: that he was not really for dignified retirement. He was still vitally concerned in the policies which he had turned over to his successor and again fie hecame a subject of Intense worry to Old Guard Republicans. Time has eliminated the rancor of the Chicago convention of 1912. The batchet that was dug up in those tumultuous days was buried in the days of the World War. As one of the men intimately associated with the events of the Chicago convention I belleve it is only fair to Col. Roos velt's memory to correct one widely circulated statement which followed the Chicago convention—namely, that Col. Roosevelt had refused to allow the nomination of Gov. Hadley of Mis- | souri at the hands of the Old Guard and the participation of the Roose- velt followers. There are only two things tHe mat- ter with that statement. One is that the Old Guard did not, with President Taft's consent, ever offer the nomi- nation to Col. Roosevelt. The other is that Col. Roosevelt never.forbade his followers the privilege of going behind Gov. Hadley. -In a very dis- tinct and well remembered statement \ but | {0 a group on next to the thie convention Col. Roosevelt at any time you feel that Go ley can lead you better than I can or that he may be nominated where I cannot be nominated, then I shall | be very glad to give my hearted support to Gov. Hadley.” And then he added, “The only thing I shall require is that before they nominate Gov. Hadley or any one else in this convention they shall purge the roll | of its stolen delegates.” |, The Roosevelt I love to contemplate, however, is the Roosevelt of the World | courage and his statesmanship made of the country. hour made us forget the titles with ‘\wmuh we had expressed his great- ne tion as a soldier, explorer, great gov- ernor, great President, and {of him only as a “great American. No American in all our history has possessed more angles than Col. Roosevelt possessed. In New York they call him “our Roosevelt,” but in the Western city in which I live in Kansas we have namea & beautiful avenue and our larges. schoolhouse after him. I know one Western city that has named a municipal bathing pool after him. His name has been given to everything, from bears to rivers, and given with a deep sense of apprecia- lllon of his great services to America and to the world. Fire Ruins Russ Timber. Ravages of R sources by fire a can hardl, be calculated. In three months last Summer 11,000 fires were reported in the portion of the union within the boundaries of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. | The forests destroyed covered an area of more htan 1,370 square miles. ‘These great, forests are practically un- guarded and onee a fire starts little can be done to check its course until it either burns itself out or nature intervenes, sia’s vast timber re- While unstinted praise is due to For- | vhole- | | War period, when his strength, his | him the leader of the mass thought | The sfncerity and | the whole-heartedness of him at that | We lost interest in his reputa- thought | e 50 great that they was a devoted subject to his sovereign over a long soldier life. He was an :un\ illing candidate, elected largely by a sentimental vote, to the discomfiture | of many who felt that his royalist past | forbade a loya) republican future. ‘With this background he has never- theless seen fit to fice his rela- ¢ with his former master to the e of the country and the repub. . n so doing he has performed potent part for republicanism and { largely advanced tr- cause of world | | veace. |~ In spite of the attacks on the con- stitutionality of the Locarno agree- ments and the claims that thereby the German Parliament becomes a mere organ of the league and that | the question of war and peace, vested in the Reichstag by the Weimer con- stitutlon, is transferred to another in- stitution, the Relchstag decided to confirm the initialing done at the little | Swiss town. The vote 300 to 174 The efforts of the ultra-Nationalists, headed by Ludendorff, and of the scarcely less radical heads, such as Count Westarp, to defeat the peace ts by pressure on the marshal resident were unavaling. Hindenburg remained adamant to Nationalist and Soclalist pressure | from the extreme left. | Germany will now enter the league {as a_member of the council and will hare with other powers in the direc {tion of league activities. By virtue of | this act of Germany we may expect | to see a change in the Soviet mind in ithe near future that will permit { Russia to follow the example of Ger- | many into the league. Assuredly the i obstacles to this step are not greater | than those overcome by the German administration. Although the elements of the ex- treme left in Germany joined with the extreme right in opposing con- firmation of the pacts, it is noteworthy that the executive committee of the { Sociulist and Labor International, in session In London, November 4 and 5, stated that it considered the “treaties of Locarno us a first step toward the acification of Europe.” Ratification { by the various interested parliaments is thus assurec. | | and toward a moral European restora. tion as a result of Locarno is the evacuation of the Cologne bridgehead now taking place, and France's deci- slon to reduce materially her Rhine forces. These are truly historical mo- { ments not only for France and Ger- | many but for Europe. Domestic politics often take prec- edence over national welfare and vet oftener over international weal; but the new era in Europe will doubtless direct the attention of our country in a broader way to its world responsi- bility. Our financial participation in helping restore the ravages of war | necessarily increases our political in- terest in the assisted countrles. These new sltuations and the strong impulse | of moral leadership suggest that our representation in major world activ- | ities henceforth be on an official par- |ity with that of other sovereign states. S X French Financial Question. From the Buffalo Evening News. Among other financial problems: Does France pay her premiers by the Job or by the day? | ’ President | The first direct steps toward peace | { swould reduce their colonial! establish- jand Egypt jcould be sent to Europe, and thus! As to the British troops m: in"the British Isles—that 1, 000, the old expeditiona y—it is | patent that no considerable reduc-| tion IS to be expected. The s is not much larger than own small army. It represents the mini- |, . mum compatible with the existence | of any organized force. It is, indeed, the irreducible minimum thix stde of 11 SR real and complete disarman hich | g i uri is out of the question for the present. | some, DEF, SECUrity | On the Prench-side a very larze | ver 60.000.000 inha eduction of the hoine or metropoli- il tan army is already in progress. Un- lke the British Army, the French | 0 Army 1s based upon conscription, not | Flish @ yoluntary enlistment. ~Thus the’ size | SCHiDtion. of the army is fixed by the length| One must £ of eyt Defomeiticl war dwhen| SUNSHKE inchlontitn hoolintary o5 I'rance a ree-year service law = - e o = r ‘.‘ o 0o liealarguE HONUY BT enoliman un | SRt ol 255 GRtntig ATl ARl dor arme Atlerithe war theipericd {FOWTE, Dank of & standingiarmy, was cut in half and she has mow | e lightly more than 400,000. But a new | {rainied reserves. while Franc eduction to one vear 15 authorized and | IMore than 4.000.000. But Germ will faHortly “bring thelt metropolitani| WD Hax bro war tralied masses army down to_about 300,000, or ap-|leCIMe too old to e proximately twice the size of the simi. | SChiption i forbidden her. wil lar. British home ar pexfil0 000 san 2 All things considered, this 300000 | small number of men who huve served represents for France the irreducible |for the perled of enlistment with the ninimum also. short of real disarma- | 1% @MY Assuming, then, that Ger HRL 66 e g of the. velus | JUT TEOR T permenently, Tiva wp io taly systems A5 laug as Frames re | h° Sriament sectlons of the tresty tains conscription—that fs, theisysten | O/ INSZR €5 Sh0, WORId slwavs con michiitratns; sl cliisens™one year is| ONY 2 Ciosrmod state in the midet ik minhuam period for such training, | ¢, STRCT BXope. Just oo long » Thus at the outset it is clear that bot | "°7 Nelghbors emplo; i France and Dritain have arrived or | Will Regain Freedom. are arriving at a voluntary limitation of course, this will no which pretty closely approximates the | enamr i a conree’ dp s mill 1o EOsaIEis many will recover her full freed Colonial Case Differs. It lsdfoh\;: to l':e !mpo:k!l\ia (; & pose disarmament upon her, as it has = . : H of simflar restrictions upon France R e oo orians it 5, iothe: (aillanced hava) Conueral are | the French. What actually exists is e oore oty e n™TC | the problen: as to whether Turops i require more, rather than . less, |EOIDE to disarm down to German levels strength. With India steadily trouble:) O Germany is going presently to re some, with Mesopotamia, Palestine | 21T Up to the level of her neighbo; actually menacing, the (O to put the thing specifica 1;_ either British are not likely to consent to|Germany's nelghbors will have t any diminution of * native forces, |landon conscription or Germany wil trained by British officers ang!(n the end readopt it and no one witl strengthened by British units, forces | 00 &Ble fo provent it. = which in India alone count 232,000, or | ¢ 15 fab. T think, to zo further almost as much as the whole French ANd say that all real limitatlon o colonial establishment. France, with |Armaments in Europe awaits some col Svria and Morocco In eruption, {8 in | l°ctive agreement to ahandon con i gatiot Sato ; | seription. But no such agreement is Tet, turning now to the European |Possible untll Russia ceases to be a aspect of the question, it Is plain at Menace to the berder atates untt Brivian moved. troops from. Tngia 1| Which existed “substantially 28 ihe Flanders and the French from all their | €080 of the last century and before African _colonles to. France. In case |the complete divislon of Europo int of a supreme crisis in Europe, the |rival alliances. larger part of the French and much | German Intention Clear. of the British colonial establishment | oot Fe R T i 3 v ay, in effect Twook b the actual strength of both the Brit-| RSl 815 8s o "the acsamptior ish and the Jrench troops in Europe (., #%. (S90FER, 08 1O At must be reckoned on the basis of | (IAF So= TR There, Rad fo B O all of the Buropean plus more than (b, NFGTMATE G, TN n RrATC half at least of the colonial forces. |cieo {s armed. Sixty-five million G. Germany Relatively Weak. mans are at the mercy of 30,000.( Now for Germany, which is re- man Poles or less than half stricted to an army of 100,000 raised | CZechoslovaks. Even Belguim has : by enlistment and with conscription ent of 100, treaties whi in the wesf Germany, ants, would ses 100,000 soldier: t, too, emphasize the wi | standing army a3 great as is allowed e and can mobilize half a millio: f?;:m:f"”h;;,,::;l:rfle.;g ],f,;’.';,':‘; g:oops at will, while I am forbidde clear proportions when it means that |to have any trained troops suve my Germany is henceforth to exist with a | derisory little army. T am a grea military establishment of 100,000 fac. Power with the means of defense of ing France with a metropolitan force (Continued on Fiftcenth Page)