Evening Star Newspaper, March 28, 1926, Page 47

SAFETY PARAMOUNT AIM | OF GREAT AUTO PARLEY Hoover Conference’s Adoption of Un form Tralfic Code Based on Aim to Conserve Human Life. | J i | | | THE SUNDAY BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. FTER hanging fire for more than two years and a half, the treaty to regulate general relations between the United States and Turkey, signed at Lausanne, Switzerland, August 6, 1923, is to be brought up soon in the United States Senate STAR, WASHINGTON, D. would have such a treaty include the setting aside of several thousand square miles for the use of the Armenian people, hundreds of thou- sands of whom are now refugees in Greece, in Syria, in Russia and other countries. Kk Ok When war between the allied nations and C., MARC 2 H 28, 1926—PART Bitter Contesf Looms in the U. S. Senate Over Ratification of Treaty With Turkey religious worship of Americans in Turkey and vice versa: “Upon complying with the local laws and regulations, they shall enjoy complete liberty of conscience and worship and shall have free access to the courts of justice of the country, as well as for the prosecution and for the defense of thelr rights, in all degrees of jurisdiction HINDENBURG WINS TRUST 3 OF GERMANS IN REPUBLIC Plebiscite on Confiscation of Royal Domains Will Reveal Overwhelm- ing Vote of Confidence. BY WILLIAM ULLMAN, rules and regulations, and should be for_ratification. Turkey came to an end the treaty of Sevres BY FREDERIC ILE. 5 ¥ ” Alitomobile The Star punished by fidzqun'(e fines for failure the ratification, if the treaty be ratified, will re-established peace. In that treaty, and in the established Dby 'law. ; R RIC WILLIAM WILE. | dling clothes some of the leaders o | to do se.” | not be accomplished without a fight. Opposi- reaty of Versallles, Armenia \\l-ns r;-cog;adlml (h::e!{urlhex paragraph of this section de- ERMANY'S forthcoming pleb- l.ahe (.|Id ‘i“m hlu«dm’- hr‘vycou_-]d it 'Y as the paramount issue | Attention is g the consid- | tion, which has been largely responsible for the a8 an independent state. The late President ¢igfus: ’ J iscite on confiscation of the | Secretly they prayed for its coilapse ¢5 b barne 10 malpein theimnes | oo e e sonen| = " HloHg Ablay ¥ eUNIVEN e the failure to pro. Wilson was dedignated to delimit the boun- Moreover, they shall not be deprived of theis Proverties of former wuling| A nobleman who had social relations m ~ L . for pdaie! pritection Yoy fdhries oC"Avpionin) wiien s difputs sree over DIGSERY Without diie procses of Jaw. ; B e & crneiod ut et a republican was almost ost-a W Opponents of ratification of the treaty see in ington to disclose an over.! cized by his own set. Hindenbur; regulations to facili movement rence on Street and HIighway | ones, Safety which completed its sessions in | that hington during the past week | again hy Secretar ert Hoover t the nd execution of ordi- | yy fts various committees to the e | ‘de.vlrian as well as to the motorist. | t was | The conference recognized that the| zed at the National| pedestrian's rights are fundamental | nd adequate . | given to those using the streets minus | of Com-| machines if the problem of high cus: safety is to be dealt with fairly hand Oon t be| felt on evel protection m way | and | Christian and racial minorities in Turkey and the harsh treatment accorded the Armenians by the Turks. the other hand, the supporters of the treaty, including many of the American mis- sionaries and teachers in Turkey and Ameri- cans there engaged in business, are urging rati- fication on the ground that with the re-estab- them, and President Wilson set the boundaries. In the days when it was actively proposed that the United States become a member of the League of Nations, and President Wilson was engaged in his campaign to bring that about, he recommended to Congress that the United States assume the mandate over Ar- menia, and see that the independence of the new state was not imposed upon. But that was , it a fallure to include any provision guaran- teeing protection for American missionary schools, hospitals and other institutions in Turkey. What has been done, however, is to accept the promise of such protection for these American institutions in Turkey as accorded to the British, Irench and others, set forth in separate notes signed by the Turkish delega- whelming sentiment in favor of the republic. The monarchist-militarist ele- ment is certain to put forth a her- culean effort on behalf of dethroned kings, grand dukes and princes. But the best opinion here, American as well as German, is that the people will show by their ballots that crowned has changed all that. Ile has mad the republic “salonfachig” (fashiona ble). He has shown the skeptics that not only is it not so monstrous an institution as they believed it t« be, but that it probably is the reich's salvation. Keeps Reich Intact. woad problems of safe pplied 10 | o, v, lishment of relations between the two govern- T S o he [Expanttion of LamEMbwian jeont] T aED: e pomlitians “houid he. ameliorated, even ° 48 far as the proposal went. The United States tion. Senator Borah made public along with the | heads in Germany have been deprived | . : ol zested centers, leading engineers, men Pedestrian Treated Fairly. | for the Armenians, and business should be im. 4id not enter the league, fafled to ratify the text of the treaty letters setting forth such an of thejr royal rights once for all. A | Count Bernstorfl vecently totd o o aiiete. nulmblive eayierts Thierefdee, ‘while the conferencefdl| | nroved.batwesn the Urited States ann Murkey,: (eaty;of “Versallies. iand did riok sestiine ;the | &ITSHESIant paneinf betwean It Caslie and | Competent wuthority puts the repui. | high American official that one of the oMdlals: Ittorested ¢ oot 168 s AMAIRIY tosara vehini | For Jfuht yeers there: Have Reor na. Wigio. . (ARdMie (Gyer Armenia. g Mr. Grew, i lican strength in the Fatherland today | FeAsSons a monarchy it i & that vis gathered here fo lar problems, those of the pedestrian | mitio welntiol o Baiwaen the Tnitaa (RpEees 0 Within a few years came war again in Asia- ] * Kk ok % at 80 as compared to 20 for monarch- | Probably out of the giiestion °8 T4/ atic relations n States and \finor with the Turks rising against the The Turkish delegation at Lausanne also ism. Three vears ago, the percentage | it e‘;“z‘;};‘) («‘f“;‘!":‘,e‘}:“,}"q‘;"l‘he"“,‘;‘a,;‘" i preak-up of th h as < . nably th t detailed confer- me | were fully discussed, and. in the opin- Turkey. This_countr; broke off such relations Greeks and the Armenians. The Greeks were signed two other declarations, relative to the probably was 60 for the republic and hould be If a Hohenzollern cace ever held on the subject of traffic | i St . g r i ) it such rel o euor el on AD e HTear DRI lon o any *’;1‘;!{,‘;“.‘%3’::2}1,»,;"f;, during the World War, when Turkey was the griven out and thousands upon thousands of - judicial administration and to the employment |40 for the monarchy. Republican stock | today. i Bl e hice i he i estIES | A Ol It E o v et ally of Germany and Austria, although the Xienians were killed. Turkey again assumed in the service of the Turkish sanitary adminis- has risen mainly on account of Presi. | come ruler, South Germany would se A0 6 Ghx biing Hoihe ths S astiinbiRE | Fmands Andlihosbnatts or At iwes United States never declared wat against Tur- control over the Armenian tervitory, When tration of several Buropean specialists. These | dent von Hindenburg's administration cede and probably set up a Kingdoin of work being accomplished as a re- | never lacking. | “)“3- l“'l“"F d‘_ B g . mvalp. peace was made and a treaty drawn up between declarations have a duration of five years each. Americans recently in Germany, | in Bavaria with former Crown ‘,4”“"‘ ult of the Hoover conferences, the| There wa Jaklk o o) through her diplomatic and consular officers. Tyrkey and the Kuropean nations, also at The first of these declarations reasserted the who had access to some of the inner. | Rupprecht on the throne. If South e o o looks after the interests of Turkey in the [ ausanne, all mention of the Armenian nation fact that the government of Turkey is in a | most monarchicl circles, have come|Germany should succeed Jn makin: one of its rovalties ruler, North Ge: lite ¢ enormous degree of intensive | the part of any delegates to the con- United States. The United States is represented was omitted. Armenia had again become Turk- position to insure to foreigners before the Turk- home with stories thut deep-laid con crete plots to re-establish the throne | many would Lolt and establish a real invest tion resorted to and the o T S orcem 1 ) 'k i D Nltn e S tinaland lnersriac ] ;1;“']‘,;‘:}“‘";;3‘{’I:‘,"lfl";“;g"qugj;kf‘:’; o at Conslantinpplel by tusar Admiral Mark I. e soil, and the Armenians, except for a few ish courts all the safeguards of a good fudicial ny. A i o 1 to this question, one which lead- | ing authorities in all localities. It l';’; R et ‘l‘« o hmm"“q k“““ 5 thousands, had been exterminated or driven system and to provide, therefore, in the full are under way. They concern the per- | of its own with a Hohenzoller ] s O | e . s riave ieieie Silotan aches, incl g Sheldon L. gyf. excicini of its soverelsnty and’ without: any gon of younrg Wilhelm of |throned. -~ o asrecd is of firstrank national sig- | a model law, but unless one have ade- PR * k% * kind of forelan interference. The Turkist gov Hohenzollern; the youngest son of the | There is till o “Sar pafte R 1€, nificance. | quate enforcement faclities that law | k ok K ok T L o R DR SO 9 ern‘menh it was x’ald. is nevertheless disposed former l?l’ul\l\'n l’l_"mlve. \\'li‘lh_oln'y will be | many r;;‘l[z: "";"“n’u:‘i} s "l‘( 'Z“‘fn“w‘ However. an attempt will be made | {s absolutely useless. With this point Senator William E. Borah, chairman of the (1o United States and Turkey does away with 2 s e ;;u;y;; - orden s b, Tt seem ever. One wing of the war party here fo indicate what the conference |n view, and summarizing the views — Senate foreign relations committee. will lead (h¢ go-called “tapitulations,” the right of extra- ~ (he progress of manners and civilization. e e v "t | represented by the extremist National set out to accomplish, what it did and | of the conference and the enforcement | the fight for ratification of the Lausanne treaty teritoriality claimed by the United States in mlfl"pu"fpoé fraines d:d‘;'r‘ml ’I‘ur‘):‘ol\ra“\;'e‘”" former Kaiser or Crown Prince to|ist group, would like to fight for the what are its expectations for the fu-| committee on the toplc, the drafting | in the Senate, The treaty has, of course. the 1o pagt along with other civilized nations in take into its service European legal counselors ascend another throne. But the mon- | restoration of Alsace-Lorraine agail ture. | committes reported as follows. This| support of the administration. If wus negotiated connection with Turkey. Under these capitula: elected from a list prepared by the Permanent I o I it e ith ha hat wing bittery resents Uniform Code Sought. { report, by the way, was unanimously | by Joseph C. Grew, at present Undersecretary jons, an American citizen who was charged Court of Tnternational Justics of The Tague tion that Prince Wilhelm might h: the Locarno pact, whereby German: The present meeting was an out- | 2dopted. It Is pointed out that: | of State but at this time United States Mit \ith committing a crime in Turkey was tried from among jurists nationals of countries & chance to become “hereditary rule s ambi to recover the cromth ot two previous vonferences, | , . State laws should prescribe a uni-{ ister to Switzerland, and Ismet Pasha, minister pefore American consular officers instead of which did not take part in the World War. of a constitutional German monarchy. | “lost provine There is a “‘wa O e S O coratary | form system of enforcement to be ap- of foreign affairs Dr. Riza Nour Bey, minister jcin: haled into a Turkish court, or before & These legal counselors were to serve under The young man’s mother, the former " which doubtless includes both homvery ‘The. motive underlying ail | Pled in part by the State courts and | of sanitary affairs, and soclal welfure. and Has- ryriish ruler. Nor were American citizens the minister of justice of Turkey. Crown Princess Cecelie, i3 said in par- | republicans and monarchists in Ger Dhroniias 10 draft & uniform cogo of | administrative ~machinery, and, in{ san Bey, former minister of national economy. ynrown into Turkish prison Obé Oadse G TNis, dEcIRration stated ticular to cherish that ambition for | many. That is the element that hank J&wet which, If enacted by the indl.| Part. by the local authorities. ‘The| all representing the government o the Grand ‘The United States in giving up these extra- R AR of or. GiYeTisds: TeIGERS o0y bail him. | ers to wipe out the “Danzig corridor. Vidual Nould give to the| Necessary speclal traffic control and| National Assembly of Turkey. territorial rights has done no more than the shall always be ordered, unless such provisional bl Mhives’ Weats: Howce Which separates East Prussia fron United as a whole a traffic | trafic police should be provided and When the treaty was ordered favorably re- other nations which formerly claimed and exer. release entails danger to the public safety or s Y b . | West Prussia. The same element scheme standardized in basic principle | the regular police should participate ported to the Senate Senator Swanson of Vir- cised them. Great Britain, France, Italy and impedes the investigation of the case.” The monarchist-militarist clique is | ¢y 60 ¢! TeCen e on Poland. Some and for the most part uniform in its | in traflc enforcement. —Provision ginia, ranking Democratic member of the com- all the other nations which before the World THe gscond’ dsclaration. sets’ forth’ Turkey's making the utmost capital out of ex-| qoinay “reamers envisage the day conception of execution. The confer- | Should be made for prompt and thor- mittee, voted in opposition. Senator King of War exercised these rights abandoned them purpose to employ for a five-year period three isting economic conditions in Ger-| jon 5 united German-Russian com rce which completed its sessions at [ QUEh collection of evidence and in- Ttah, another Democrat, is strongly opposed to in the treaty which they, too, negotiated with Kuropean specialists as counselors of sanitary | Many, and particularly of the irk-| Jiielt S Uit be brought about to the United States Chamber of Com. | yeStigation of accl@ents: for speclal ratification, and will do his utmost to prevent ‘Turkey at Lausanne, and which was signed gdministration from a list of six prepared in | some burdens imposed by the Dawes| gogyoy independent Poland. merce Building last week witnessed | traffic courts or speclal traffic ses favorable action by the Senate. Senatgr King just before that with the United States. agreement by the health committee of the | reparations plan. To date, under the| SO0 Lo hymber of former Russian the culmination of a variety of en.|Sions of general courts, and traffic visited Turkey, Syria and neighboring ferritory In the opinion of Senator Borah, such capitu- League of Nations and by the International { adrinistration of the young Ameri-| O 5 0" LT amped out on German deavors. 5 violation bureaus with a schedule of during the last congressional recess and made lations are a thing of the past, and Turkey, as Bureau of Public Health. | can finamcter, 8. Parker Giibery, st |IO7AItIcS Sre SRS O (e Cobure “The report of the committee on uni-| Penalties for disposing of minor in-| a study of conditions there. He is convinced, an independent government, could scarcely be That part of the treaty relating to customs , Berlin, the Germans have lived UD|oy re the former King Ferdinand of formity of laws and regulations, Gen, | [Tactions, so as to give the courts| he eays, that this country should not ratify expected to continue them. duties would permit Turkey to give special | to their Dawes plan requirements in| B igaria is also in exile. One-time i i * ¥ Ok ok privileges to those countries which were for- | letter and spirit. But three Years|c ... royalties foregather periodi athan William MacChesney more time to deal adequately more serious cases; with uniform perma- the treaty. More particularly is he aroused, he over the treatment accorded the Ar- The terms of the treaty of Lausanne, while merly part of the Ottoman empire before the calls for an hence, when the plan the Russian-Bulgar with ally vresident of the American Bar - e = ciation. chairman, dopted witn | nent records of all convictions of traf- menians by the Turks, people who for many generally known. were not made public offi- other contiguous nations, At the same time, the | nual German payments of 2.500.000.000 | 4rcimers at Cobure. and one of their - for | fic violations and accidents, suspen:l centuries have been Christians. cially in this caquntry until last week, when United States s retained in its right to give | gold marks for a long period, a thf-” vorite delusions is that some day S e B TP ST Senator King's purpose in fighting the Lau. under the instructions of the foreign relations ‘preferential duties to Cuba and to the Philip- | ferent situation will Dbe at hand |y and Russian grand dukes, em nizations vithin those jurisdic. | icenses and refusals to grant licenses, <anne treaty is to force the negotiation of a new committee Senator Borah sought and obtained pines and other possessions. { Already even Germans loyal to the |SErRRm A00 HERAE fces ‘Who were tions. Several important changes were | 2Nd €xchange of detailed information treaty, which would guarantee protection to the leave of the Senate to make the treaty Accompanying the general treaty is an ex i plan foreshadow that the provision |Perors. KIBEE At BLICESM be abls Tnade in the original draft of the et | between jurisdictions as to suspen-| the minorities in Turkish territory and assure public. tradition treaty which the Senate is asked to | for another inquiry into German|FS ol Tio i combination an as presented by the committee to the | S1onS and revocation of licenses and| them freedom of worship. Furthermore, he Article 11T of the treaty has this to say about ratify also. “capacity to pay” will have to be|t0 SR & ToC ent power and glory e, but in the main | cOnYictions for serious trafiic offenses. | i invoked and liberally interpreted. Tf|" : the latter body saw fit to leave the Would Force Respect. | it is not, the opportunity for trouble Two Claim to Be Czar. draft intact. It was recognized by the| «The court and the police through and crisis will arise without QueS-| gy Grand Duke Cyril of Russii .’mn's_renr‘e that the committee on uni- vigorous enforcement and evenhand- tion. heads the Russian monarchist group formity of la\\_'sx and regulations had [ eq treatment of offenders should in- Hindenburg celebrates tl_u» flY‘f‘ ;‘L';) on German soil, He calls himseif the =iven exhaustive study to the ques-| still in the public respect for the traf- niversary of his preshl"nf.\r o T man who is czar. But the former ion in hand: that it had heard the|fic Jaws and regulations. 2 rope and the rest of the WUt | pussian generalissimo, Grand Duke reports of a wide variety of interests, “Public opinion should be organized trembled when the old fi»lfi m'z(\;:“_] Nicholas Nicolajevitch, who is sojourn that «.~<‘:";:f"x'{‘"‘°‘}{m(i_ra1 sroups and | in support of enfocement through a took office. !‘Bxu_t £:‘ Tnunow (acknowl|ing on French soil, contests tha that s a result its findings were com- | representative citizens’ committee in edged. virtually on all heatft. “URiclatm. 8% g otely e, soundly accurate | each locality, forming part of an or- : 5 i he has been an agreeable PP The plebiscite on former Germa and based upon the foremost thought | ganized effort of all elements in the ! BY HENRY W. BUNN. vice rovalty from TLord Reading, |received a vote of confidence. 233 to| hearings shall be held by a subcom- | ment to those who expected that a| o.or gomains will be watched i of the Nation Coiminity interesten n ateet -and | 3 3 2 ief _| who, on April 3, will have com-|141 3 | mittee on various bills proposing mod- | Hiindenburg_ presidency at * Berlinjoory capital of the world with deep Every Phase Coyered highway accident reduction.” i HE following is a brief sum- | 508, % ears us viceroy. It| The following observations by |ification. etc, of existing prohibition j meant gradual restoration of theliniorest. As far as Washington is con ¥ A f y | mary of the most important | heing the custom to appoint peers | Luther seem to me of particular sig- | legislation. | mailed-fist regime. -The generalissimo | soneq ™ {he result is not feared hed World War| s o idan diplomatie authorities, who | Significant in the above paragraphs | of the report are several factors, but | of Germany's vanquisi “The point is to develop has made no Locarno has be- The House judiciary committee has voted, 14 to 6, in favor of impeach- nificance the interim title Locarno further. to the viceroyalty, of Lord Irwin wa Nowhere was the intensive character news of the world for the concessions 10,0 iy ¢lgse touch with developments bestowed on M armies of the conference's work better ex-|two ly { v s 27 i emplified than I the report of this| Piret of all, e alil ke moten thar s | seven days ended March 27: | Q8 Lard o et o e Viscounty | come the corner stone of our policy.| ment of Federal Judge George W.|his former monarchistmilitary Cro-fiy Germany, are convinced the repul committee. The entire subject is taken | vision is made for the free exchange | The British Empire.—Sir | of Halifax. It is commonly said that | In the Rhineland we see develop- | English of the eastern district of | pjes. On patriotic occasions Hinden-fjc i pere to stay. The present gen up from end to end. There is not a| of violation data between various | Austen Chamberlain’s conduct of | the retirlng viceroy saved India for|ments to our advantage which would | Illinois. |‘,“r: dons uniform and medals, and|eration, especially its vounger el phase of traffic regulation not covered | jurisdictions. 'The efficacy. of sueh | affairs at Geneva was formally ap- | the British Empire. That is. per-|not be except for the Locarno set| =The Senate has confirmed, ©2 to 25 | once in a while makes a_soldierly | yents, <trongly republican. The in this report. It is, in most respects, |a tem in hunting down persistent | proved by the Commons, 325 to 136, | haps, rather exaggerative praise, but | tlement. We must not withdraw our| the President's appointment of | yiterance that stirs some of the pre- | glder generation, where monarchial precisely what the conference st out | law-breakers Is readily apparent, and | after a not too brilliant debate. in | jt is fact that the British hold on|application for membership in the| Thomas F. Woodlock as a member of | yar fervor. But he remains incor- | gentiment still lingers to a large ex to formulate—a model law. the point is one which has found, and | which that conduct was assalled by | India was imperiled when Lord |league, for such withdrawal would|the Interstate Commerce Commission. | rigibly loyal to his oath to the 're-|tent, is passing away, and with it the The general public certainly is not | will continue to find, a very great|Lloyd George and Ramsay MacDon | Reading relieved Lord Chelmsford, | be equivalent to declaring German | By 10 to 1 the Senate committee on ! yuhlican constitution. traditional faith in Kkaisers, grand aware of the great time and effort | number of ardent supporters. ald and justified by Premier Bald- [and that he handled the situation | policy to be against Locarno. To- | privileges and elections has voted to | \hen the republic was in its swad- |dukes and thrones. spent In working out what may seem | Another point to which notice i ¢in and Sir Austen himself. with extraordinary address. carno must represent for us a po-| recommend to the Senate unseating | s * % K X | litical accomplished fact. It is self-| of Senator Brookhart of Iowa, “Pro- ir Austen stressed the point that the Locarno accords were not weak- | ened, but, rather, strengthened. b¥ | has hoped to place a loan of the| “hat happened at Geneva, and MT.| equivalent of $150,000,000 through | Baldwin did the same i;- \llfls Xta e | certain Britlsh lau,l American bank: | and happy wav. e latter truly| ars to be used for stabilizing e | Aberved ihat he had never known | Belgian currency. _Understanding : Wworse abuse heaped on a man than | from the finance minister that the alling for a referendum on the ques- Uint heaped on the forelgn secretary | joan was assured. the Belglan Par.|tion wheiher the holdings of the ctions of the British | jament proceeded to pass a law with | members of the former ruling families to be matters of routine detail. That | these matters become more than ques- tions of routine detail w pplied to | more than 18,000,000 gasoline-powered | vehicles is often overlooked. In its report the committee on mity of- laws stated that 1ail lights should be used hereafter, | tnserting the word “red” in brackets directed is that referring to handed treatment” of offenders. It was brought out at the confer- ence sessions that in some instances | political chicanery is resorted to in | order to release traffic violators from | the toil of the law and the point was was made, obviously with the right completely on its side, that such prac- evident that we are justified in de- manding further advantages from Locarno. The entire military océu- pation is incompatible with Locarno.” Twelve and a half milllon names | have been subscribed to a petition | gressive” Republican, anrd seating in his place Daniel W. Steck, Democrat Mr. Brookhart's opponent in the 192 election. The House census committee has voted, 13 to 4, to pigeonhole all pend- ing bills looking to reapportionment of seats in the House to accord with the 1920 census. It has also declared ; Belgium.—The Belgian government | | Wide Open Door of Divorce CourtsinU. S. ‘Blamed for Breaking of Marriage Vows | BY BISHOP WILLIAM T. MANNING | bevond this. _Statistics show. for ex | OF NEW YORK. ample, in Ohio 1 divorce for every in Texas 1 to 8.9, in Micl to indicate that inasmuch as so many | tice not only weakens the law but|by certain se lights of the latter color now are in e ke S put tion with the Geneva | O tering - provisions which it|of Germany shall be completely ex-|against the reporting of any reappor- 5 marriage: use {hey shnnla e Allonablo for thel s Lot Rty & maliecigr] i T o adequate. But when | propriated. Under the Weimar con.| tionment bill prior to 193 P wo! Many questions are asked me about | igan 1 to 5.8, in Oregon 1 to 2.6, while present. The thought of the commit- | Delegates rose to their feet and| The Commons evidently under-|ine law had been passed the bankers :titutlon only 4.000.000 signatures to| years after the-next census. The com- a strict divorce law. Here are two |in Nevada the statistics show 1,000 tee was, however, that new vehicles | declarcd with 8 considerably st stood that Sir Austen had been em- | Grew back, agreeing to fund only | such a petition are required to make | mittee's action has caused some in-|(nat are typical: Does a strict di- | Jivorces to 900 marriages. should be equipped with the yellow |of vehemence that petty politicians | barrassed by certain nuances of the | 109,000,000 and insisting on condi- | it _obligatory to hold the referendum; | dignation. 2 = Plainly this threatens the very ex tail lights and that as many motorists| and. el Ty Joitctans | O otion for which he was not Te- | tions and guarantees far more strin. | obligatory, that is, unless the meas | If the Lausanne treaty with Turkey | 00 e luw tend to the increase of Im- |istence of the family as an institu as possible should change over. | {0 keep their hands off such auestiona | sponsible (or, if so at all only in @ | gent than those of the law. |re" contemplated by the petition 1 |is not ratified by the Semate in this |morality” It does mot. The stateijon. It is destroying the meaning « This provision at first was accented. | of ey entomas off such questions | N ana venial degree) and which | ¢ "Parliament proceeded to say | forthwith enacted by the Reichstag. | session it will lapse. {ments that it does so are without [pnaiisaze and is making it only and then rejected alter considerable | oreairs e Caorcoment, and it was| BNOT 870 at liberty to disclose. and | very uncomplimentary things about| The referendum fs void if half of| Fora second time within a month {foundation. This is shown by the €X- | temporary arrangement, to be ter discussion. particularly by the Mich-| the “even-handed" justice spoken of | concluded that he had acted honor: he finance minister; hence a cab-| the qualified Yotes are not casf | there was & tremendous collapse the | perience of South Carolina. where di-|pjinated at the whim of either parts igan delegation, which sted that|is essential to the’ ultimate success| bly and (though perhaps without the | jnet crisis, whereof the outcome ap * ok x ok | other day of securities on the New |vorce is not granted for any cause. ¢, jt. How can a home exist if it is passage of such an act would result | in the prosecution of practical traffie | inspiration that could have Deen|pears o be still in doubt. It seems| gy AU e York Stock Ixchange. and of Canada, where the divorce 1aw | ynderstood that it may be dissolved spread confusion and cause| problems. E wished) intelligently. that a foreign loan recently offered| t8W="todax. Ute seventh anni- | Cypt. Wilkins, leader of the expedi- | is a strict one. cear 1916 Can- | anv time on the most trivial grounds of the birth of Fascismo. is|tion under the auspices of the De-|ada had only while the |any often merely because those wh le inconvenience to millions npon millions of car owners. It wili he borne in mind that before reach ing the floor of the conference this, question had been given the most| detailed study by the committee, and that that group had expended a great amount of time and energy on that point. The question then reached the whole conference, where it came up for further discussion. Subject Ts Reopened. Not daunted by passage of the act| with the yellow light clause intact, the Michigan delegation renewed its efforts, and on the last day of the conference Secretary Hoover announe- A ment comprehensive traffic program, to cated by the conference. “In each city there shou official traffic commission, a representative of the ci department. Full Program Advanced. include, other things, these items, was advo-| such officials as the chief of police, city engineer, fire chief, engineer of the city plan commission, represent- ative of the public authority super- vising city transit and transportation, a- member of the city council, and This commissign should | be a permanent body having the serv- ices of an engineering staff in charge | 0 the gloomy predictions so rife { only the other day have been Talsi- fled. Chamberlain, Briand, Skrzynski, Luther and Stresemann were to fall, each with a sickening thud, in con- sequence of Geneva. None has fallen, nor seems in danger of falling, by reason of Geneva. Briand may fall again within a few days, but it he does it will be for other reasons. The British government has ap- proved the report of the Royal Com- mission on the coal'mining industry. Last week Lord Irwin set sail for take over the improve. among 1d be ani including 's legal esting, all of them of vital importance ed that the subject hi - Al e subiect ad been veovened. | of “a trained traffic engineer and) before the meeting. :Age limits, regis- mittee composed of Government ex.|ShoUld prepare a comprehensive traf- | tration, lights, signs, safety 7-0“05- perts. lighting leaders and others | fic plan, make and keep up to date | were taken up in the greatest detall. a trafic survey and technically interested frame detailed consideration. This will in- dicate, perhaps, the full thought given by the conference to matters which, while of the most vital importance to the public and motoring public, are mometimes passed over as of little real moment. A brief summary is given here- with to show what the conference agreed to in the matter of uniform laws and regulations, and upon what cround it is now standing in that respect: “Uniform vehicle codeé. including (1) a uniform motor vehicle registration and certificate of title act, a uni-y form vehicle operators and chauffeurs’ Jicense act and (3) uniform act regu- lating the operation of vehicles on highways, should be enacted by each | of the States and the District of Co-!% lumbia. The uniform vehicle code |lerénce and by should be supplemented by State ad- ministrative regulations, which should, | cribed- so far as practicable, be developed \ a uniform basis through co-oper- ative action of the associations of officials concerned, particularly the State highwa officials and motor ehicle comm: ioners, together with Joint committees, including otheér pub- lic officials, and representative of utomobile clubs, scientific organiza- tions and commercial and other bodies concerned. for still more necessary modifications in t conference is a_highly impor thoroughly scientific basis. ing extent, equipped bureau, outlined a of traffic, the promulgation nances and regulations and the hands of men and wome: {ally equipped for the work. previous o New Advance Noted. Another rather new and important advance is indicate ‘To provide metropolitan areas, which Pedestrian Curb Sought. ~“In view of the fact that fatal col- isions of motor vehicles with pedes- ns, already amounting to 60 per cent of the total number of traffic accidents, are increasing at a rate out suburban communities, or in in other traffic fatalities, the educa-|burban communities added. tion and regulation of pedestrians as|velopments warrant, an official metro- politan authority should be created to control physical growth, and to pro- ide for proper traffic facilities within well as drivers should be given greater attention than at present. Pedestrians and motorists should be 2 considerate attitude toward one an. (large population centers.” other. It goes almost without sa “In cities pede: ans should be in- | they should he eliminated safety zones and crossing places, and, where there is congestion, only with the traffic. Motorists should he required to accord pedestrians safe | nd dignified use of such safety zones and crossing places. Pedestrians, as well as motor vehicle ogeratol shewrdd be required to vbey the U nounce their proximity. The high, lights of the c have been given. nd. perhaps. questions of recommend a ordinance er regulations or recommend from time to time any ing ordinance or regulations.” The point developed here by the The subject of traffic is now on a work is being eliminated to an increas- Provisions for a In line with the most advanced-traffic | adopted into eftect. and safety thinking. The regulation tion of safety questions are now in for the task, well grounded and basic- this development—as brought out so| j graphically by the present Hoover con- {much of the recent progress can be as- following recommendation as shown in the drafting committee’s summary: unified consideration and treatment of traffic problems i more than one city or a city and po- litically independent suburbs, it will | be generally necessary to depend upon an enlargement of the unofficial traffic |committee of the central by adding proper representatives of important of two large cities in a single metro- politan area, to form a joint traffice of proportion o the rate of increase | committee with representatives of su- the. conference took a most determined structed. urged and required to keep |stand on the question of grade cross- within the boundaries of designated |ings. The conference was as one that to cross possible and that where they existed adequate signs and notices should an- A hundred, a thou- of them Important, all of ihem inter- So were numberless other topics. Paves Way for Uniformity. h cist- s way for uniform action in the 48 States of the Union. A keynote was sounded during the last hours of the Session by Gov. John G. Winant of New Hampshire, who appealed to the delegations representing the govern- ors of more than 40 States to take the initiative in carrying the resolutions tant one. Guess- well bove, are It was plain to close observers at the conference that delegates will fight tooth and nail to place the recom- mendations before their State Legis: altures and to have the meetings’ views placed upon the statute books. Tt was also plain that many minor details will not be concurred in by the various States, but there is no rea- sonable doubt that every State gov- erning body will be in accord with the principles outlined and will press their adoption. Closing the conference—which may {be correctly declared monumental in almost every respect — Secretary Hoover made these remarks: “We have manifestly a minimum of 20,000,000 people—over onesixth of our population—directly driving ! these vehicles, Probably another 10,000,000 people drive from time to time. All human beings are of unequal capacity and unequal character. We have not alone to consider the engi- of ordi- prosecu- n trained It is to nes—that markedly ed in the include position of this great discovery in transportation, but.we have a multi- tude of human problems to consider in connection with their drivers. “I believe these conferences have had a most profound effect in advanc- ing the public view, developing scien- tific thought and the gradual advance- ment of the problem toward solution. Our work is not completed with ‘the formulation of results of investiga- tions of common conclusions, at which we have arrived. We must secure their acecptance that they may be put_into action. the case When de- ying that wherever bate—that we are engaged in estab- lishing new organizations, but rather that we should establishsco-operation onference | between organizations of different lo- calities and the solution of the multi- detail, a1l | tude of complexities with which we are confronted.” to both motorist and pedestrian, came | The conference now has paved the | ! neering problems involved by the im- [ “Now. again, it has not been our ! purpose—nor has it developed in de-| in New York was not a success. and the underwriters, in consequence, are | shy. PR | France.—The Chamber Finance | Commission is considering the fiscal| proposals of M. Peret, the new | finance minister. The call is for a| voluntary subscription to care for the | short-term obligations maturing in May, for a poll tax and for increase | of ihe commercial turnover tax from 1.3 to 2 per cent. It is reported that the commission has approved the poll tax (which is really an addition to the income tax), but has turned down the more important proposal to increase the turnover tax. | The commission, true to form, is playing the devil with the situation as of yore, and one awaits the out come with trepidation. The franc fell to 3.42 on the New York I | change on Friday, equaling the pre- vious low point in March, 1924, when the fall was checked by the| Morgan credit of $100,000,000. The, French balance of foreign trade con- tinues unfavorable and increasing- ly_so. Y French and German representa- | tives continue, despite so many in-| terruptions and so many snags, to | pursue negotiations looking to a gen- eral Franco-German, commercial agreement. | Tvery one will recall how Alain Gerhault, the yachtsman and tennis player, arrived in New York last year, having made the voyage from France in a little yawl. Though it was evident that he had come through by a haiv only, he resolved to push on around the world. From New York he proceeded south and through the Panama Canal into the Pacific. Something over two months' ago he left the Gakipagos Islands, | headed for Tahiti. His Parils friends had about given him up for lost| when, on March 22, they received a| | cable message announcing his arrival | |at Tahiti after a most tempestuous | | vovage. There’s a sportsman for | you. "It would seem that AbdelKrim, | the RIff chieftain, has been making overtures of peace to Irance and I Spain, but of an indefinite sort. The | dispatches leave us fduessing as to | the sort of reception these overtures have had. The French Nationalists | are for the French government’s turn- ing a deaf ear fo any communication from Abd-el-Krim other than one conveying his acceptance of the defi- nite terms offered him some months ago by France and Spain. The Druse revolt against the French authorities in Syria continues on an important scale, but Henri de Jouvenel, the French high commis- | sioner for Syria, declares himself | confident that it will .be completely suppressed before the end of April. There are said to be 30,000 troops | under the French colors in Syria, | mostly Algerians, Moroceans, Tunisi ans and Senegalese. * ok kK Germany.—Luther and Stresemann. returning from Geneva, justified themselves hefore the Reichstag and being celebrated throughout Italy. The | troit Aviation Society, which was to Matteotti trial ended on Wednesday | huve attempted @ flight over the Pole. with the acquittal of two of the a cused and the sentencing of three to imprisonment of five years, eleven months and twenty days each. -As the recent political amnesty decree remits as the gentlemen found guilty have already spent a year and nine months in prison awaiting trial, they have be- fore them only two-and-a-half months of prison life. They were found guilty of kidnaping and of “unintentipnal Perhaps the less said of the epfsode thus ended the better. * ¥ % X Rumania.—The domestic situation of Rumania, including the dynastic situation, is in a phase of high crisis. 1‘lack the space required to a lucid xposition of that situation, so com- plicated and so bizarre. “Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown,” always true, is particularly true in these, our days of a royal headpiece that falls sufficiently to take account of the spirit of the age; and of that sort seems to be the head- piece of King Ferdinand of Rumania. Since the great war the population of Bucharest has increased from 400,000 to about a million. EEE China.—Tientsin was evacuated on March 22 by the Kuominchun forces and occupled by forces of Gen. Chang Tsung Chang, Tuchun of Shantung, and Gen. Liching Ling. These gen- tlemen_are supporters of Chang Tso Lin. Tt will be recalled that some months ago Gen. Li was ousted from the Tuchunship of Chili Province by Gen. Feng Yu Hslang. One hears that the Kuominchun forces driven from Tientsin fled precipitately to Peking, and that an army of Chang Tso Lin, having defeated other Kuo- | minchun forces, is moving southwest | from Manchuria upon Peking. Apparently the Kuominchun will make an effort to hold Peking. Chang’s fleet of transports and con- voying warships, which figured in the recent Taku episode, has proceeded up the Pel Ho to Tientsin, and has landed its cargo of warriors, Chinese and “white” Russians. Thus it would seem that literal enforcement by the five protocol powers of the terms of the 1901 protocol has operated very partially in favor of a faction in op- position to the (more or less) estab- lished central government. One awaits further advices on this head. A significant detail of the Taku- episode is that Chang's copvoy cap- tured a Russian vessel from Vladi- vostok loaded with war material for the Kuominchun. ® koK % United States of America.—The debt settlement with Italy is before the Senate. Senator Smoot sounded the opening blast in its favor on Thurs- day. The Senate judiciary committee has voted (only one member dissenting) that for 12 days, commencing April §, starting from Point Barrow, has had the worst Juck. One of his big. three- motor planes was destroyed when the | Fora Airplane Laboratory, at Dear- | born, was burned down in January: four years of the above sentence, and, | on March 18 his single-ergine ship was badly smashed in landing at Fairbanks, and on the 19th his other three-engine machine was badly in- Jjured in landing at Fairbanks. ERE Miscellaneous.—The old conflict be- tween the central government of Spain and the separatists, or . Sinn Feiners, or whatever may be their | most proper designation, of Catalonia Madrid ha of arrests grows ever more acute. recently made a number in that connection. Admiral Kondourietis has resigned as provisional President of Greece. Prosecutions have begun under the decree issued by Dictator Pangalos of Greece that women’s skirts shall descend at least as low as 14 inches from the ground. On Friday the Japanese Diet was adjourned by imperial edict after a most tempestuous session. Premier Wakatsuki is about to reorganize his cabinet. The governments of Chile and Peru | have accepted our Governmeng’s offer of good offices toward settlement of the Tacna-Arica dispute. Apparently the preparations for a plebiscite registration, etc., are to go forward against the possibility that the mediation plan will not mature. Ear Found. Delicate Fatigue Barometer Nobody has proposed an S-hour day or a 48-hour week for weary ears—so far, Nevertheless, ears do suffer from fatigue, and when they are tired they don’t work so efficient- ly, according to experiments being conducted at the University of Wis- consin by Drs. G. A. Goldsmith, L. Luenzman, L. Sammons and B. W. Zimmerman. Using as their apparatus a watch mounted on a moving carriage, they confirmed a belief that keenness of hearing is less at night and at the end of the week. Mental -work -always causes a de- crease in keenness of hearing, the scientists find. Severe. exercise has the same effect, Moderate exercises may sharpen hearing, but this de- pends upon the amount of exercise and the condition of the subject. The ears are a rather delicate ba- rometer of physical fitness, the tests indicate. Diminished power of hear- ing may give warning of approaching bodily or mental fatigue some hours before the individual is aware of any change in his condition. - Nearly twice as many American sewing machines were placed in homes of .C'olombia last vear than in 1924. United States had 11 no evidence that the mora Ipeople of Canada are unfavo {fected by their divorce laws. | Another question often asked {this: Is not cruel cent sufferers? It is not. That legis- lation is most truly merciful and kind which secures the highest good of so- |ciety as a whole. Jesus Christ was {the most kind and merciful teacher who ever stood on this earth. He tells {us that for the good of all, marriage must be held sacred and says: “Those {whom God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.” Constantly we see in the newspa- | pers notices of divorces obtained in Paris or elsewhere by those whose names are well known among us and who seem to have forgotten their duty to God, to society and to their coun- try. In not a few cases the real rea- son for the divorce is the desire to marry some one else. In many in- stances the mew alliance is not only in mind but is definitely arranged be- fore the divorce is obtained., The moral degredation of such a situation needs no comment. We have now reached the point at !mhich there is in the United States ¢ divorce %o every 7 marriages. It & growing steadily worse, and in many of our States it has gone far is a strict divorce law a and unjust thing to many inno- i | entered into this sacred relation hav. | become hored, or because one of thei wishes to form an alliance with a new partner? Homes cannot be bullt anc | cannot endure on such a foundation as that, and & nation cannot endure unless it preserves the sacredness and stability of the home. ‘The wide open door of the divoree court is itself the greatest cause ol the increase of divorce. If divoree were hard to obtain. as it is in Canadn great numbers of those who ngw rur to the courts for trivial or serious |réasons would find that they could overcome these difficulties and live their lives together happily. I have been in the ministry more than yeags, in close touch with people of every kind in five different States from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic and from my own experience 4 an certain that the great majority of those who mnow seek the divoree courts would find it possible, if they knew they must do so, to live happy married lives. We need an aroused public senti ment and we must all help to create this; we need better laws and we must all. work for these; we need more teaching as to the meaning and re sponsibility of marriage, but most of all we need the deepening of re ligion among our people. (Copyricht, 1 The procedure of adopting a baby, generally regarded as a huge and un- certain gamble with the future, can be put on a sclertific basis. How this is already being done in connee- tion with Connecticut child welfare agencies is reported by Arnold Gesell, director of the Psycloclinic at Yale University, who has written a bulletin on the subject for the Chil- dren's Bureau of the Department of Labor. Hasty and impulsive adoption of babies on the gorunds of appealing ways or curly hair is all wrong, ac- cording to this report. The child- less couple or the lonely woman wish- ing to adopt a baby can start out with more chance of success by learning something about the baby’s health, mentality and personality. Dr. Gesell urges that in all cases of adoption there should be an ex- haustive inquiry into the health of the child. And he adds that it is no less desirable to have made a psychological estimate, which “‘will define in a general way capacity and developmental outlook.” In addition to these pre-adoption inquiries, he sug- gests that there should be a proba- tionary period of a full year, with follow-up examinations, %o the esti- mates may be revised, if necessary, and so the compatibility of the child and his foster parents may be put to ‘a practical test. | Uncertain Gamble of Chil(.l~ Adoption_ ! Now Has Been Put on Scientific Basi Dr. Gesell believes that dependent children who are likely to be boarded out or adopted should be diagnosed by clinical experts, and every effort made to place them where they will be most likely to grow un mormaliy The orphan child who promises to be a mental giant, according to thix theory, should be placed with foster parents who, will understand and de veiop his talents. Questions now used by the Yale Psychoclinic in the official report of mental examinations of dependent children include the following: “What is the child's inteliigence” {Superior? Normal? Dull normal?” Inferior? Feeble-minded? “Educatipnal outlook: child _probably complete school? High school? College? Or should he have special class work? Vocational training? “Would the child be likely to do well if placed in a family home? If s0, would you recommend an ordinary | hkome or a superior home?” Dr. Gesell says that infancy fs in many respects an ideal period for adoption. But he adds that safe guarding adoptions in every possible way is an urgent social need. Could the Raising of edible cels has been start ed in a lake made for the purpsose in Zealand, a Danish island. grammar