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COUNTRY ON THRESHOLD OF NEW INDUSTRIAL ERA Million Workers Ten Thousand Today—That Is Result of Davis™ Conciliation-Policy. BY WALTER R. NEW e industrial McCALLUM in find that to counsel sivike or behind them strong, steady hand of a policy of the Government they come our way. \We never inject policles into @ situation foreibly. prefer to come 1o us. ' then the strategic position leing s t to mediate.” A5 ter of fact, the Labor partment although it wields Lat firml strong cpinion in broad controversy volving the public interest. has oy enforce its awards only »f persuusion, lacked by the power of nient. repe ire_administration. tion service”—the wh the department 1 industrial rela uile hand at work, them, ready the wan m There entively new force in 1l life. the ramifics spreading fnto the working relations strike or len di S 1ctur a has arisen relations of his felle ployer industr them wolonged vhose onom = re of his enting 1 nplove conference m the side of the al disputes and lite Persuasion the adven Rule into re How past the ignated offi of Labior o " . repre o Its very o itions ion result 5 - with the Nation behi three vears can i industrial history nths, The pres the anthracite an o wise bright situation, even thougl e today 43 small and strikes the only mas ot d it Contented Workers “Contented greatest wvorker is ‘These workers stitute in indu: ing that dustry the words offered tar nd the mew era industrial relations. friction is as wearing abor B s widely scattered La Department Never hefore ally stepped in betw 1 employe ide that applies il Even though resorted to in mar cen man and employe: 1ded period of years. the person: erpolation of a coercive force rep esenting the United States Govern ment is only a de the bast three vears Invokes Golden Rule. whole idea is summed in words of Secretary Davis. a firm iever in the literal applicati t Golden Rule to business to personal rela plains it this way don’t get vwhere with militant ideas when hey have divergent views on how < or industry is to be ope much wages are to be long they will have to work They must co-operate, and the best Vo get the cooperation we want d they want is the principle of the s - em and employe. basic applies to one applies ~qually to the other.” Mr. Davis speaks metaphorically pplying his mind to the present an hracite strike and his words fo the general industrial situation in a threat ened strike, when he says “We can not settle a strike when the wave- honse is filled.” Tor from other hat the country h before greatest liabilit by Government 1 employer the message that a to_one must apply nediation has disputes be over an ex has of the glove in “Human hanical ness are They oil is chine lubrication This easin « 1in widly coming to see Know that just as necessary to the actusl mechanical is moral, mental and sp of and it " is gratifyinz to 1 to the department for the harmon and are comix ever larger The r up abundance in this service. The desire of the alw to secure not only tlement, but a permanent on Th ciliation servicr the tary dies the ul | controversies battle line industrial travel om pl to place, ever a danzer spot gospel of the golden rule. How well they have succeeded | shown their record for thres y s. the a te end of the work on a They spread ity in Seer. vaid. o1 w into This side toy is What in Strikers Decrease In September, 1 industries | textile sources it appears |bituminous is satisfied with an. | wages and racite substitutes: that anthracite is | ot strike durin not one of the Nation's prime necessi. | 1010 Septem Ties."and that the shoe of The anthra. |Strikes were seitled at about e te shoetigeihasinot vetipinchad |time—eariy_in the Fall of 16 At the beginning of the anthracite | Secretary i strike 70 per cent of the Nation's an. (dent Harding hracite requirements for the Winter |ficials had been filled. Broadly, the shoe does {8PPlied since. not pinch. and will not pinch in a na- rional way. And for this reason, “the warehouss being filled.” public de mand has not settled the coal strike. |[0% ! Pays to Go Slowly. | In his long and varied experiences |o: Railway shop mine working conditions, and other cabinet Vinter of that year. A million men out in 1922, few thousand out today—less W ut. De- gently hand of public i n. standing with nd with their opponents, is the guilding usually our We For we of no pe - than the mailed fist of is conciliatory, Its power urgency the Govern- | senting the thought of the name, branch oper- the = another the discontented the the human machinery the human friction is note that many employers are learning this in extenuation of his silk tion. Wise men in busi- this, in niz- *h they find in great- Government service is a fair set-! < diplomatic sgents of the con- headed personally by Labor—for he han-| larger far-flung every the Nation, wher GpPears, to spread is of- That is how the doctrine is working Mr. Davis hopes this golden era n personal contact with employer and |in industrial relations will apread and employe. urging his text until that far day iess until its impress now hroughout the land and a upon busi- spreads new era continue |dustrial controversies. The dawns heralding a complete cessation of in-| millen- has actually been begun in industrial {nium has not arrived. and when it relations, Mr. Davis ha arrive the conciliation 0 slo “Quiet fur 5 pressure from within and with- |ence, but until it does come Mr. does the trick,” he says. “When |believes his policy is best. business, big and little: when men on [tell the story. found it pays observal dces Da e service on, | will have no further reason for exi The results Europe Faces Hard Struggle to Regain Prestige Lost Through U. S. Supremacy from First Page) way has the burden American sho Meantime payment now and oinz on, there iy resentments cism of the United and our i Lurope. such li to din Were likeli- elations period of here economic ad then there is e Franco-German into long hargaining is paten such @ new he reached, hood that q enter atatic n in Fra Aomestic poli bound to fill long time ince nor Germans parliaine with any , and the muitiplicity jed to g neither country \ regime but pe mentary tme while the process are bound and much is to 5 fluence and popularity as still continue. ish and disappe: vican feeling in ute any act sclose itself h we may ha which will and act alike. 1 Germany and 1n Jtaly cal problems and crises the newspapers for come. In neither has the isting iment ~tem in all think isac Lages. ' < the existing any present at parlia anifestl in Italy has given there are signs ry whit us to deal with this question, which European, i own way. Nor there any prospect o mod But | long { not 4 is_academic me, because question time to sin srship. . unrest which are ev as disturbin, Russia remains the n upon the Europe again one ust longer @ The border mpending Rusal lations between have grown enormous ar. Europe hus of makir Jishevist regime and cgime has pretty definitely realiz ts failure as a center for promoting evolution in other countries | of the | inforce policies within Europe. | topie of conversation so recent vears, namely “the nex safely be rele oa no portent L states 1 feur any ck and the re. + and Poland tte the abandoned any upon the holshevist to come. Hav of at last past ¥ the nd, hought peoples have n the system to organize internationaily of peace which will @ the papular sentiment hat it ig, and while it will make international able and domestic un. To he sure, divclose thdmselves i and there are lik Facts Are Exagcerated. There has been ai ulous exagzexatiol diate possibilities of 1 nevertheless the trade of the western world is ste: the Russian ma be- oming increasingly valuable even fo the United States. Little by litile and with no apparent change. Russia is self again to the western worid and the dangerous isolation is coming to an end. A veal invasion of Foviet Russia is beginning and may go far in a_feu but it political nox Ty. “To sum. then, seems coming ves more upon ulties and 10! ce dures lations perity will tion mous the 1 trade. Russia i i but h nd states. but cerned the. bevond the the warnings wuarrels of in teresting questions now ternational. but domestic. ! struggle of peoples are not v other. but with the appalling of so far as are totally dialogues of politicians and national presses. Burope are not milit Europe in to concentrate mote domestic political international _eco- No nation is think- war and no nation is pro- policies which make war inevitable drawing ~th of continental states, is wholly and with that drawing to- goes inevitably w common vonsciousness of the American creditor and a common desire to lir1it and reduce American influenc I"or the moment the debt settle- suents with the United States will stand and it is wholly probable that ® French settlement vill be made @nring the year. Yet I venture the yrediction that beture 10 years have 1 the debt settlements, with ible exception of the British. appeared and along with em the last vestige of reparations, neeivably in 1935 Britain will stiil paying us cash under the Bald- n-Mellon agreement certainty vo other Europe will he * doing this, nor will Germany be pay reparations to any oue of its former foes. And if the Eritish ontinue N il pri- muarily he ent | shoulders leged to served occupy at_anc pelitical, financial and These reorzan | European | cial systems. i u | sequences which nore or escape, all the recent past. On Threshhold of New Era. renaissance, of industrial, perhaps political reorganization. to American financial to Amer marnently premacy, ‘ ustrial primac; e Al this will far couperation > been to more than a mil- {lion men were on strike in three great workers, employes and anthracite and dissatisfied with were <o during the Summer and well The railway and coal Davis, working with Presi- | learned well the lesson he has The textile strike hung |on longer, but was settled in the early only a| than | THE SUNDAY T | Out in 1922—L.ess Than| post froy). + heard, the past, AR, WASHINGTON, D. (., DECEMBER 27, 1925—PART 2. The Story the Week Has Told BY HENRY W. BU HE following is a brief sum- mary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended Decem- e—On December ssed, 239 approving the ac- British representa. tives at Geneva of the leagne council's award concerning Mosul. But prior to the vote the Labor members walked out in a body. in protest against closure of debute on the resolution. A 21 the House of t6 4, a resolution ceptance by the struggle is expected in February when | the vernment presents to Parlia. mwent for ratitication the new with Irak, which it i8 preparing. On December Parliament Jjourned to I'hruary 2 It is estimated that there are 16 or whites” in the Union of South thout 10 per cent of the total white population The Rizht Hon. Edward Wood, who is to suceeed Lord Reading as Viceroy of Indix, was. one must presume, se- eted tor that supremely important only after the most prayerfct ideration. His experience in the scrvice of the state has not been very extensive or varied, but it has been sufficient, one hears, surely to mark Lim out for great things. Ile is 43 years old. heir to the splendid vis county of Halifax, immensely rich in lis own right, an athlete and remark ably handsome G fine thing for a vice les: ant. he is 4 gradu ate of Eton and Christ Church, Ox ford, fellow of All Souls” and author of life of John Keble. He I have something of a n 1t so, he should be at home in India. His grandfather was o famous viceroy of India Ttaly. holig ore adjourning the Italian Camera bill providing that any Italian sub ject who, while living abroad, com- mits any act leading to disturbs Italy or damaging to the presti he Ttalian nation, shall be punisha loss of citizenship and, in a ave case, confiscation of property It also passed a bill relating to the premier, greatly increasing his pre rogatives: also the first of a series of bills looking to the political veor ganization . largely on an o Cupational and embodying rec- ommendat the Great Pascista Council, Italy's with a lire 14 During the first a total of 1 from Italy. countries chiefly France Mu has declared for tho ough zation of Ttalian educ huppened in Octobe 1 says he, “was not only a change in the government, but a real political and social revolution. which in all proba will leave nothing of that which constituted the regime.” over the passed 1 budget the first vear surplt budget 1924-1925 ended surplus since six 19 ited months ¢ .000 Italians emig: including 119,000 to Continent Greece.— The new marble lib: the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has just heen com- | | | | !aying in resista s of 417,000,000 | other | Lurope, old | rleted. Tt stands on Mount Lycabet- | tus and commands one of the most superb views In the world. Tt is| called the Gennadeion. in honor of J. Joannes Gennadius, the distin- Zuished Greek statesman and scholar, who presented to the school his mag- nificent collection of books and manu- scripte. W. Stuart Thompson of New York 15 the architect and the Carnegie Corporation the donor of the bullding, | which cost $275,000. They say that to | duplicate it in the United States | would cost $1,650,000. The exquisite | marble came from Naxes, that island of the Cyclades where Theseus de- serted Ariadne and Bacchus found ner. Athens is now the largest city on the Meditervanean. At the end of the | war of independence it was a village of 1,500 inhabitants; as late as 1834 the ‘population was only 5,000, In | 1920 the combined population of Athens und Peirucus was 300,000, Now it is estimated as 1,300.000. By contrnst, Constantinople, which be- fore the war boasted 2,000,000 inhab- ftants, has fallen to 560.000. Turllsh civil | also, divorce hushand. Tt warriage obligatory and ding voluntary. Di- iy be obtained through ision of a court of laws. “Serious incompatibility” a sum- | cient ground. Turks are The 18 pol i new amy; £ th code by mere civil 1= roting, fig even 1o the order from | Angora that hats shall replace fezzes. Men have died for worse causes. One | can imagine the zrim amusement of the shade of Carlyle The crowning joke of the matter is that, as Mus. | tapha Kemal pointed out the other day. the fez is of Greek origin. urkey d Russia, left out in cold. have consoled each other by making a dual treaty. Some are pleased to call it an anti-Locarno and anti-league pact 1t ms to me that the love which finds expre in the treaty is quite platonic that the instrument is of little that the instrument Nittl icance hevond showing that the ers feel Jonely and unhappy the sign signif- pow- at Britain has wade an nt with Ibn wid, Sultan of e press accounts thereof satisfuctory The fron- n Nefd and Transjordania, n Nejd and Irak and between and Transjordania are defined. important port Akabah goes ania Great Britain s Hejaz in foreig 1 ol Sulta: the capital Nejdi. gives the Sultan the equiva- 1.000.000 for development The of Riad Britain lent of his arm: It is an old story proposes to summon congress, with a_ view tion of a Pan-Islamic machinery for control of the holy places and (so I suppose) of the cariva Conceivably, a Pan under the protectorate Sejil is contemplatd information that Ibn Sand | a Pan-Islamic to the institu- wait | f erest the ng pact DAWES PLAN, SUCCESSFUL. GREAT |GIVES Vl’l‘AL R LESSON ON INFLATION PERILS Another Result Is Elimination of Exercise of Na. tional Hatreds—Re-establishing Hope in Hearts of People—Railroad Success Under Sy BY FRED I. KENT. urope.n nternutional Chamber of Commerce The first year's operation of the Davees plan, as evidenced in the re- | port of S. Parker Gilbert, the agent of | repudiation later be i a 5 el eriti- States in Europe, n are BEu- olitical form | menace, but rela- e with Euro- increasingly . Burope is going 1s is any far-reaching ation of the existing situation, for a there is uropean country which | is even remotely thinking of war or of armies or navies to re- The familiar in war in | cated to for a very long time | veached this frame reacted their governments and leaders, aders have at last under: a n. endure re- i : collisiens between policies of is con- unlizely to go of statesmen, the n- reality the most absprbingly in- mass difficulties and burdens which the | war and post-war ers laid upon their We in America are privi- something of a re- witness the amazing | spectacle of Buropean reorganization | #na of the reconstruction of various zations v o very far, they may have con- | outstanding circumstance in the cone we can neither ig: but at all events it i1l not hie possible to interpret them | 1 terms which have served through Unless every sign fails, Europe is on the edge of a very great period of social and It < by no means resigned ftself per- su- an economic and i nor has it accept- ed as permanent its loss of power and influence in Asia or in Arrii;a. A sense e e o confiet hik 16d toa | thelr rivals, Tather all Europeans ars | considerable,. if still more or less vis- | ionary. notion of European co-opera- for reparation payments. has not only been wholly Successful, but it sets forth clearly certain truths that are most important for the world understand. First. it tells the story of the diffh culties that a pepole must meet fol lowing inflation before they can re- turn a comfortable and normal way of living. That is to say. the losses and suffering that attend ab normal inflation do not end immedi- ately upon stabilization of a currency {but” before they can be ameliorated { reconstructive | how | necessitate a period of a strenuous effort. during which many of the weak must fall. who sow progressive inflation reap the whirlwind with a vengeance. The next important lesson carried in_the report is that shown by the difference in cconomic development in Germany with difficult political forces uncontrolled, and with those same forces controiled and rendered harmless. A Germany which was al- most torn asunder by political bick- erings, with huge taxation futile to meet budget expenditures, and where every day to the large mass of its people was bronght to a sudden halt by the in- troduction of the Dawes plan. The financial structure was almost immediately readjusted, so that gov- ernment 1ncome began to exceed budget requirements, and confidence was so completely restored that the whole nation was able to enter into a new life and meet. with growing suc- cess, the problems that inevitably fol- Jow such a period of economic chaos as prevailed before the Dawes plan was put in force. Together with this development the dangers which are inherent where political . blocs exist were brought to light through the immediate expression in some political circles of a desire 1o expend the budget surplus instead of con- serving it for the benefit of the peo. jat and s=o enabling all the relies from taxation that is possible under such conditions as prevail. Another important lesson that is stantly being told and retold. as in the making, but without | br & to make any lasting impres. | Public notice that oncoming college much it will forecast. Yet no American in recent months can have had contact with Europeans of various nationalities without perceiving to what a surpris ing degree the consciousness of a common European state of mind and set of interests was discoverable. That the further development of this com- mon consciousness may easily be the ing yvears is at least possible, particu- larly In vlew of the extent to which readjustment of economic relations is likely to extend. With respect to the United States, Europe has regained its sanity; it no longer expects our voluntary assist- ance, it no longer desires our inter- | sail for a’ vention or leadership. illusion which existed in Paris in 19189 has disappeared. Our prosperity con- existence was a problem | ever be political | c Y < outside of the field of reasonable | in determining questions that directl: ' nd | Those | { neans | | 1 | | Princeton tem. | on upon the public mind. lies in the fact that when the German railroads were taken out from under govern- ment operation and put into corpor- ate form, a deficit in their manage- ment was immediately turned into a surplus, and they were fully able to meet thelr proportion of the repara- tion payments which came due dur ing the year. Strange as it m m. almost in the same breath t men note such an occurrence recognize it as being inevitable, they will advocate the extension of government in some other form. but contrary to the very principle whose existence they admit greatest lesson all is car ried in the difference in the German picture before and after the inaugu- | ration of the Dawes plan, which came about because of the elimination of the exercise of national hatreds. This not only resulted in re-establishing hope in the hearts of the people, but | it meant the beginning of the actual | dving down of such hatreds with all the benefits that their dissipation | to humanity as the world| moves forward. (Copyright | 19 n |1 Here, to be sure, is some interest. ing recent news: but it is not suffi- nt. Ali, who became King of the Hejaz in October, 1924, and who, al- most since he mounted the throne, bas been besieged in Jidda, the port of Mecca, by the Sultan of Neid, threw up the sponge the other da: { surrendering Jidda (all that remained | {to him of his kingdom) and abdlcat- | ing the crown. Before abdicating he “formed a national government.” whatever that may mean. One notes with interest, as throwing light on the Sultan’s imperial aims, that he has broken with the Iman of Yemen, with whom he had sedulously cultivated friendly relations, It would appe: that the Sultan was temporiz- ing, that he broke with the iman as s00n as he felt strong enough to do so, and that he proposes that the Waha bite empire shall include the entire Arabian Peninsula, e reglons under Eritish from Kuwait, in. the clock-wise around to Aden. It seem that Alf pected h from the im: but didn’t get it * m.—Rami VI, who mounted the amese throne in 1510, is dead, and en - succeeded by He was, like his two prede i enlightened ruler, and un “influence,” him Siam continued its rather re. | narkable progress of recent patriotism, he organized er Corps” for adults, and Scout organization (of which he ngsters. In 1920 latter organization numbered 00. The late monarch was, indeed, little “cracked” ahout his Boy Scout requiring Lis nobles to contribute so heavily to the movement that they were compelled to vetrench on their harems. e greatly encouraged ath- letics, especially foot ball. He brought the opium traflic under strict regula He patroni the Re ntifle education. the theater and ture. e himsell translated Romeo J nd “The Mer he Amese decades. Cross, and Ve United States of Any A & m a On Tues ess Look to Junu administration’s (prepaved by wry Jardine) co-operative market has been introduced in ate. The MeNary- on bill, which to the 1 offered to the new debt ssion is on The Jugo. wward of $30 The annual report of the the In ended June ¥ Year 't any too cheerful | Mr. Work r islation by ith tining L view public to do- destruc suntry with rat itinues that the ronted soon will be imber famine i of consumptic H amation policy con- the of timber is for > slow’" rec revolved in 20 been contem revolve in 10 EA HOULD INDOR hough that Dr. ¢ CADMAN, D., D. PARK L. ¥ An examination « why the United States should join the World Court is of primary ir portance. Advocated by America's leaders, there are strong presump- tions in favor of the action urged The late President Harding recom- mended our joining on cer fully worded reservations. and Pres dent Coolidge urged hi< suggestions on the Senate. The personal respon sibility of two United States Presi dents is. therefore. Lehind International lawyers standirg, such as Secretary Kellogg, former Secretary Huches. former Secretary of State Slihu Root, George W. Wickersham and a great host of other lawyers also recommend membership. Fo the expert knowledse and train cd foresight of statesmen and legal luminaries is added the support of all the important national organizi- tions, such as the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the United States Chamber of Commerce, the large majority at the recent col legiate conference at Princeton, many D. of high of State of State COLLEGE ]'OUTH DEMAND VOICE IN SHAPING DESTI NY OF WORLD Princeton Conference Served Public Notice by World Court Indorsement They Will Take a Hand in Future Policies. BY HERBERT S. HOUSTON, Member of the American Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce. Something new and of real sig- nificance has just happened in the student world of America. “The new papers showed that they instantly grasped that fact in their reports of the first collegiate conference on po- itical and world affairs, held at Of course, there was defi- nite news interest in so overwhelm- ng a vote as 244 to 6 in favor of he United States joining the World Court, but the conference had a much ader meaning than that. It was youth was to have a voice in de- ciding questions of national and in- ternational concern, as well as a voice y affect students. ! Fifteen round tables were conduct- ed. as part of the conference, on mat- | ters relating to the World Court; they | were 15 creative centers of knowledge | and vision. It was my privilege to| conduct the one on “The Relation of | the World Court to World Economic ! Prosperity,” o my opinfon, at least, | is based on firsthand contact. No! one could feel the eager interest of | those alert young minds without | realizing the way America is headed | in the generation just ahead. For weal or woe, youth waved a salute of respectful appreciation to Wash- ington’s farewell address and spread voyage over the seven seas. The American | That meaning of the Princeton con- ference was writ so large that no one could miss seeing and under- tinues to dazzle and impress, our re- | standing. sources are still a basis for financial calculations, but we are no longer personally popular or politically in- fluentlal. At most we are only finan- cially important. Fhropean nations no longer think to enlist us against tending to unite to recover what has been lost our entrance into Eu- ropean affaivs. (W opyiiaht, 19250 Another meaning of this highly sig- | nificant conference was shown in the | blissful ignorance in which it dwelt | on all matters of partisan politics. | In all the round table discussions and | general sessions as_well the words “Republican” or ‘‘Democrat” were not so much as mentioned. All looked at foreign relations simply as Ameri- cans and they did it as naturally ws ey breathed air of bright December days. So it caun be stated, without any need of prophecy, that foreign policy in the future is to be distinctly national, and not partisan. Still a third large meaning that loomed on the horizon of this hopeful conference was indicated in its free- dom from racial prejudice. Twenty or more of the delegates were negroes and their status was established by the color of their minds rather than of their skins. Indeed. one of them, 2 young woman, was made a member of the governing committee of the National Students’ Conference that was formed at the last session. Only one protest was made to this action and that was a feeble one. It this conference follows the course laid down at Princeton it is destined to become America’s crystal ball, for in it America will be able to read her future. Amplifying Apparatus Does Its Work Too Well In the British House of Lords the amplifying apparatus recently install- ed to improve audition has done its work too well. The lords had some amusing moments when Parliament opened this week. Every one in the chamber could hear plainly every whisper uttered by any member or visitor. An extraordinary barrage of sibilant confidences flooded the room. The rustling of papers came through like the rattle of a machine gun, and when a noble peer demonstratively | slapped his fist on a dispatch box the ; noise was_ like that of a bomb ex- plosion. But what could least be borne was the sudden end of all cross- bench whispering, muttered contradic- tions and pleasantly caustic under- tones. They were not undertones by the time the amplifiers go them. They were shouts. Consequently the House of Lords Is going back to pre- radio days of muttered silences. cept the coastal | Persian Guif, | | his younger late | He points out | the vital reasons | ain_care- | the pro- | years. “Alaska.” says he, “Is rapidly | becoming a lost provin Without | the inspiration of self-government or freedom of local initlative, opportunity | for expansion has been curtailed by bureau officials made hesitant by lim: tation of authorit 8 ““The maxtmum white population of 75,000 has sunk to 20,000 The suggestion that all the Go ernment’s activities in Alaska be merged into one department should have the imnfediate consideration of | Congress.” i ! The New England States are vigor | ously planning co-operation in more | eflicient " industrial methods (chiefly, verhaps, harnessing of waterpower), | with a view to combating more suc- cessfully the growing competition from | the South and West. New England still has more than half the spindles | {in the United States: she still lesds the country in inventive genius. She should be more self-supporting in 1 spect of food. | The grand annual pancake-eating | contest held at Groton, S. on December 6, and was won by P. €. Myers, who consumed 43 flapjacks. Just to show how e ! Mr. Myers, after downing jauntily tossed ofl & ring and half of bologna | w. | 6-inch | i - Doumer, the new French | nister, s moving most His fiscal prégram has not | vet been presented (o the Chamber | tinance commission | Apparently, Abd El Krim is making | lovertures toward peace. It is reported that seven vears there have fmore deaths than births To be sure, the city increased by but that chiefly in the past been 9,921 in Berlin population of the | .000 during that | through immi the rural dis-| | i | was from The 1926 Ludget exhibits & surpi buds, of (zechoslovakis $450,000. It} since the ate. Czecho- has greatly months. surp! nce improved within recent Li Ching Li | ernor of CLili P @ month's struggle he Ly the forces of Feng on December 24 and he refugee the Jupunese of Tie: 1. Possession i great adva communicati Tientsin has Apparently overthrown Kue Sung plete mast In award! Linstein the oth Sherington, presiden { Rovul Society, declar | ersiwhile theor re| |a 1a | passed | motion no »vince, overthrown Yu Hstang is now a concession Tientsin is i Railroad Peking and ved s is Manchu 1% the Cople tage to Fe m e been Chany re Lin has| lieutenant, | gain com: | his medal to Charles e British that the ¥ Was now theory had., he said, three crucial tests—the ¢ the perfhelion of the planet | Mere the deflection o light and { the red shift of the spectral lines. If the claims made by Dr. W. Blair Bell, professor at the ! University Liverpool. for his treatment of ¢ cer by injection of @ preparation re justified it is to rejoice. Bell decl: t of about 200 ¢ | 0st of them thought hope! i by his method about elieved 1o be cured SONS WHY U. s. SE WORLD COURT tiv Dr. ises t now Parker Cadman, Prominent Churchman, De. clares Tribunal Approved by Famed Statesmen Cites Factors Americans hould Bear in Mind. ocal chambers of commerce. both Re- | ! publican and Democratic: the General Federation of Women's Clubs and res of other organizations and ase emblies, What what it which shoul oy 21l Americans. | It is a permanent court. mot wbitration board, and is always rez |10 deal xvith cases on the basis aw 1l the princip of equity | Prompt consideratio all disputes < assured. Moreover ourt. established hy iction of 48 states fifference hetweer a league court The league did leed. prepare the protocol definine the nature and duties of the court. bu this action did not create it. There are members of the league who are not members of the court, and +a tions not members of the league can become members of the coust That it is not a private caucus s proved by the fact that members of neither the league nor the court can bring their cases to it for judicial settlement. ~The judges ave, more. ' over, not selected as representing na- tions or governments, bu: entirely on their personal qualitications as u ht, experienced anl tional lawyers. the court actually is g doinz are the factors | be clearly borne in mind a | an it | a world court and i i | - Wwise interna- The method of select- ing them (the bi-cameral electora) board, system embodying a prinei- !\le first devised in the United States in the Congress) insures that the| | rights and interests of states both small and great 1 be carefully | guarded. Although the World Cou settling, on the basis of law between sovereizn states—-a thing |never done before except by the | United State Supreme Court—it has no means of enforcing its judgments and depends entirely on (he moral support of public opinfon. Difficult Disputes Settled. The court already has settled sev eral difficult disputes—e. g., between France and Great Britain: between Germany and Poland—but a possible ; miscarriage of justice is aveided when {a state declines to appear to plead its case by the court refusing to han. dle the case. An example of this oc- curred recently when Russia (a non. member) refused to be represented and the case was dropped—so for- ever removing the fear that this body was a tribunal and not a court of opinion. As political questions are not han- dled, but only matters Involving rec- ognized principles of international jus- tice, and because of the valuable { moral support it would give to the { world—hope of forever putting to an end appeals or threat of appeals to the sword—America’s joining would only be the fulfilling of the ideas and ideals which her leaders have advo- cated for many decades. By giving her support to the only practicable procedure for establishing and devel- oping real interndtional law America lends its prestige in favor of law, or- der, justice, peace and disarmament. Unless the nations learn to settle all disputes by methods of peace, the menace of war becomes more certain and more terrible. To turn back would be a reversal of our earlier history, a repudiation of our idealism and a disgrace to our fair name. (Copyright. 1925.) t is now ! disputes Stirred by the remark of Mrs. Al- derton, the first woman mayor of Col- chester, England, who complained that the only rags she ever wore were the rags-that comprised the mayoral robe. the town council has voted an appropriation for a new mayor’'s robe to replace the zurinent that has been in use for 30 ) ears. | He was one of the pioneers who £ | hein, | the { of his prope | property has been taken fr | with INDIAN DEMANDS LIBERTY FOR HIS FELLOW RED MEN Declares Bureau Here Must Be Reor- T ganized and Charees Constant Bad Faith. BY JOHN MERICA has cmancipated her colored sons. She has fought two wars to free the vassals of Spain in the Antilles and the submerged peoples of Europe. ow 1t is Ume for her to free her Indians.” Bdward Rogers, a descendant of the mous Chippews tribe, u graduate of Carlisle and University of Minneso and now a dist uished lawyer of that State, made this stat ent to e, “las the averaze American paused to think whut the Indian reservation means? It means that, the United States opens her opportunt FLY %3 {lies to every nation on the globe and welcomes milli from other lands, including the Indlans of South Ame ica, her own red men she savage children. Why? In order to keep a_horde of office holders In jobs ip the Indian Bureau Father Was White. Rogers' father was a white ns an. nd His f ik great When known are the games My ed the State of mother was a mem distinguished families the Chippewa tribe of Indians in college he was nati 1 as a foot ball star Man trophies he has won in athietic and contests, attorney of Ca largest co has held vears. elected the Indian population of the county neeligile. A few vears ago he was barely defeated for Minnesota. Mr proud of his Indiun blood has w e a close study of the Indian ques- tion for ma vears nd known a leader among his people. I went to him for the facts on the Indian., For many years eminent scholars and public men rave alike denounced the treatment of the Ind Ly his governmen A Political Question Would vou tell me more about Indian problem, 1 continued A. It begins and ends in the Indian Bureau at Washington and the reser- vation system, which is its method of perpetuating its existence for political job’ hunters and office seekers. Our opposition to that bureau intense. deep-rooted and well founded. Created for the laudable purpose of promoting welfare of the Indian that he might be absorbed into the body po- itic of the Nation. it has the day of its creation obstructed the progress,of the Indian. despoiled him rty. crushed and stifled in- tiative and ambition and been an i strument of oppression. The condi- tions confronting tne Indian under In- dian Burean control have beconie in. tolerable, wn e the Indian s with the Chip- 1 permeated deceived treaties, the as. in one instance be- ipparent bribery. We ve been deceived in the e ution of ties Minnesota. s County, one in Minnesot continuously white people He 11 ties state of the people ing obtained by 1 Scraps of Papei Every treaty made by ment of the United States own tribe has, without a tion, been regarded paper by Government e Govern- with my single excep: 1 serap of m us and we have not even been allowed to go into ¢ to obtain justice. Govern- ment agents have connived with pow- erful lumber interes t btain our uluable timber linds guaranteed to us by solemn treaties and we have been powerless (o secure any redress The situation has become so bad that the State of Minnesota has appointed @ commission to negotiate with the Government for the transfer of the Indians and their property to State control. %o as to effect a speedy eman- cipation of my people. An Alien Institution. per cent of the children have been educated by the of Minnesota and yet the 1 posed to be us Indian funds to educate us, It is costing the of the United States $13.000.000 annually main- tain this Indian Bu 3 #t Washin, ton. There are less than 163.000 sou native born Americans. under its jurisdiction » look after the prop. and affairs of this small number of people the hureau maintains a force greater than th maintained by the great State Department, which de- partment deals with eve kind of world activity There are 00 em- ple of the Indian Rureau. while the State Department has less than 4,000 Under the Department of Labor there are only 2,744 employes. Yet this department has one bureau, the Pureau of Immigration, which deals 500.000_aliens every year. The Bureau of Naturalization has made citizens out of 15,000,000 aliens during the time the Indian Bureau has been ssiduously keeping the American Indian in corrals like cattle. Hon. Clyde Kelley, Congressman from. Penns; i aid truer words t Ninety my tribe taxpavers Indian Bu of 5 S n treats as' At present he is county | of thel Imost from | |when he exclaimed forcefully in speech in the House on January 1924: “The Indian Bureau is an alie thing in Amerlcan government. 1 is . bureaucracy that has grown i sidiously like a cancer, through fi own sinfster lust for power. It ha multiplied employes and expenses to grering total. It has repressed* protests with an iron hand, violat the constitutional rights of men wh only crime was an_honest desire t help people in bondage It h: robbed the Indians of industrial right Ly chaining them to reservation where they cannot choose their ow occupation or engage in productive indust It has robbed them of edt 1 rights which belong every being God ever made, that becoming through development that it is possible for him to becom The burezu is slaying the life of people and burying the hope of a racs The Indian Bureau today is the man of the sea, 90 vears old, and st riding on the Indian's I It w teach the Indian obedience to land hand out plenty of advice | do everytt the Indian 1 off his back Cause of Conditi nditio ngton the S Nations in The Goverr | ment will never consent to yvour beirn defrauded. but rights.” The {ated in 183 {of the Gover to enlarge became a white po of the by the Indian ar bureau speedily { means of despoiling e In an of h property. The administration of the {treaties with the Indians was in the hands of the bureau. and in no stance were they ver honorably |served. This is a sweeping arraiz ment, but it s a nevertheless the greatest injustice i that the Indizn has never been able to life [finger of effective protest against t robbery. He. as a ward of the Gover ment, cant compel the bureau to ac * count to him. He can't remove L guardian for ineff or the diss 1 of his es fcally closed to him Solution of il What is the solution of this evil The application of the principles of common honesty and fair dealinz The Indian, though cunning in war.r «ys open and above board | his business transactions. The Indian | estate must be governed by the wa principles that govern the white man property. The Indian Bureau must | < tail to its head nt officials mus Legislation must 15 the Indian to go int over what has beer taken n. The Indian is afraid of the white man’s court. Fina every Indian child who has arrive: at legal age and who has received u common school education should emancipated from control by the hu reau. Why should an Indian chili® who has sat side by side with the =" white child in the public schools and;~ graduated with honor be held afte aching majority a ward of th ation and denied control of his 1" her property? All competent India should be immediately freed. Do t and in a few vears we will have r Indian problem, no Indian Bureau and the people ‘of the United State<™" will be saved millions annually taxes Q. Tlas cently? A. demned 5 tae It wi n How Pr Q A arise nite 1 verted it into icient and compe: appointed passed allow court and this condition arisen e President Cleveland co the policy, and during his - eight vears in the White House re.a. moved more Indian agents and ac complished more reforms than anst® of his predecessors or SUCCeSSOTS. When Cleveland went out of office hi<s reforms were epeedily undone. Brig... Gen. R. H. Pratt, who spent much of his life among the Indians and in the ™ Indian service, never ceased demn the system. Senators Robert M. La Folleite, W. H. King and Tar Harrison, Norman Hapgond, FHor le Kelley and many other d hed ericuns have condemned the system. The Indian is capabie of holding hi- own with the rest of our people. Ser :A: Charles Curtis, now majority leader of the Senate, was born a m ber of the Kaw Tribe of Indians. Re resentative William H. Hastings, or of the Democ fc leaders in the House. is a member of the Cheroke: Tribe. Ex-Senator Moses 1. Clapp of~ Minnesota is of Sioux Indian blood Ex-Senator Robert Owen is a membe. of the Cherokee Tribe. Men of Indiar blood have in the past held many his positions in our Government. o llere Mr. Rogers rose and walked v and down. He turned to me and said “The red man's great chiefs are dead The tomahawk was sheathed long ago « | They were conquered by the white jman, but on the basis of honorable" negotiations. Those terms have bhee:® These people are practically-« | violated. In bondage. Let them go in peace, (Copyright. 1975.) to con Ve ho MY RELIGION BY ISRAEL ZINGWILL. (Continued from First Page.) dren™ still seems 1o me to express a final truth Who armed us with the righteous meting-rod By which our trust in heavenly love grows dim® The fact that you and T despair of God 1s common &z im ! P Wells and Shaw are modern Man- ichaeans, but possibly the last word | remains with the bold utterance of Isafah: “I create good and I create evil; I am the Lord.” But even this view of religion cannot blind us to the fact that life remains a tragi-comic mystery and that a God without a sense of humor—as T was before Dean Inge in saying—would be to that ex- tent our inferior. I agree with the hero of “The Next Religion” in his doctrine of “One world at a time,” and in his view that if we fail to turn our planet into a paradise, no power out- side us will do it. I do not share the megalomaniac view of my friends Maeterlinck, Shaw or Wells that we shall ever be able to steer our planet through space. As for Einstein's view of space, whether true or not, I regard it as “relatively” unimportant, even if true. A future life is unthinkable, but not therefore impossible, and there are not a few people I should love to see again or atone to, though it seems pointless if they are transmogrified beyond rec- ognition. As for the idea of “back to Methuselah,” although human life is extending, that can at least alter only the values. At 600 I feel I should have the same old frailties as I find in myself at 60. But if by science or otherwise we hive the right to prolong life, we have ound for hope and trust in | | | also the right to end it. War cann have a monopoly of the right to ki Peace must also have its lethal rights —under rigid safeguards, of course. ™ But agonized incurables must be re lieved of their agony. - In the famous conversation between: George Eliot and F. W. H. Myers (who. though the founder of the Psychical Society, has failed deplor ably to communicate with his follow ers). that great but now somewhat olr: scured Victorian authoress held forth duty as allsuflicient for the spiritual |life. T would rather phrase it that ou: suiding stars in the darkness of the infinite spaces should be not only” | duty, but loving kindness, pity ana:" courage. I have always regretted that M, Bennett annexed the title “The Great, . Adventure” to an {nsignificant play,.. bacause that is the only phrase for { the life of the universe and our own (Copyright. 102, French Naturalization Process to Be Simpler e Steps toward the simplification of the long and costly process of natural ization of forelgners in France have' been taken by Charles Lambert, a aep- uty for the Rhone. M. Lambert haa drafted a bill providing that French citizenship be granted, within a period*” not exceeding six months, to every<! applicant who produces satisfactory certificates of character and freedon | from disease. He proposes to reduce the fee of 1,276 francs to 100 francs for persons having more than two s children and for those who volunteered for service in the French army during the World War. The bill provides also'* that foreigners may be naturalized after 3 years of residence in France instead ‘of 10 years as at present and that the option which enables’! a person born in France of foreigni! parents to retain his father's nation ity in the year following his major-, iy be abolished. *