Evening Star Newspaper, February 12, 1928, Page 43

CONGRESS MAY SETTLE ALIEN PROPERTY CLAIMS Senate Expected to Act Soon on Bill Providing for Machinery to Solv German-American Problem. BY J. A. O'LEARY. HE settlement of American claims against Germany and the return 000.000 is to be immediately available. The forcgoing liems make a total of | $138,000.000 that would be available shortly after the enactment of the of alien property taken over by | ho qing bill. The Senate committee this country, comprising one of the most comvlicated problems that grew out of the World War. scems likely to ba disposed of at this session of Congress. The House has passed the bill provid- ing the machmnery for an orderly solu- | tion of these war claims and the Senate is about to begin consideration of the moasure. Senate leaders believe action will be had at a comparatively early date. which would remove from the logisiative calendar a quostion that has boen pending for a number of vears, The House also prssed this bill in the fast Congress. but it bacame impossible points out that the payments from |Germany on Account of the costs of |the Army of Occupation will continue {to come Into the Treasury aside from {this fund for the settlement of other | claims. In explaining its action in amending the House bill so as to provide also for the settlement of Austrian and Hun- | garian claims in this saie bill, the: S {ate finance committee explained that the awards against Austria will not ex- ceed $3,000.000 and the awards against ungary not more than $1,000,000. “The alien property custodian,” the committec continued, “has slig] htly more to get it before the Senate in the clos- | than $12,000,000 of property .%.mng ing weeks of the preceding session and | to Austrian nationals and less than it fell by the wayside. This vear. how- | 1,000,000 belonging to Hungarian na- ever, it comes before the Senate fully tionals. The government of Austria four months before adiournment and at | has proposed that she be permitted to @ time when the condition of the Senate deposit & sum_sufficient to pay the calendar is such that its consideration ' claims against her of American na- to a final conclusion is possible. Although the measure is ons of intri- cate financial ealculations and adjust- ments. the principal steps it would acromplish may be summarized as Tollnws Al awards af American resu'ting from death or per #s determined bv the Miv~d Claims Commission. would b> vaid in There are 384 su~h cas~s which. with interest to Jeanuary 1. 1928. amount to £4.091,066. Terms of Proposal. Awards of American nationals that do not exceed $100.000 would be paid | in full. The awards in this class decided | by the claims commission aggregate 2238 and involve $29.037.496 | The claims commission has passed | upon 162 other American claims that | exceed $100.000. and under the pend- ing legislation $100.000 would be paid on each of these awards, after the for- eign claims have been paid, the balance to be prorated later. | Of the property of German nationais atill held by the alien property cust dian. 80 per cent would be returned im- mediately. and 20 per cent, estimated at about $£40.000.000. would be retained | temporarily, as security toward the pay- ment of Am-erican claims. In reporting the House bill a few days ago the Sen- ate finance committec inserted an amendment making immediatelv avail- eble $40.000.000 of the funds held by the alien property custodian for the pavment of American claims. The claims of German nationals #gainst this country on account of the nationals mal injury. taking over of ships, patents and radio | stations during the war would be ad- fusted bv an arbiter to be appointed by | the President and 50 per cent of such | claims would be paid at the outset and the remainder vitimately. €l2es shall not exceed $100.000,000. The Senate committee has added an- | other amendment to the House bill per- mitting the alien property custodian to return all property of Anstrian or Hungarian nationals, provided there is placed in the United States Treasury an emount sufficient to cover the awards ©f Americans against Austria and Hun- gary Would Extent Limit. fun. | t | It is stipu- | lated. however, that the awards in this | tionals, and that upon such deposit the | property belonging to her nationals held | by the alien property custodian be re- turned to them. Although a formal proposition has not been made by Hun- gary, it is understood informally that she will orovide far the pavment in full of the awards against her.” Policy Declaration Eliminated. ‘The only section of the House bill eliminated by the Senate paragraph contain- policy regarding the payment of the various classes of claims. The Senate group felt that the present situation is unprecedented and that it is not possible to predict what future situations may be. “It is the opinion of the committee,” said the report, “that the terms of the present bill are a sufficient indi- cation of the policies of Congress to be applied to the present situation Future situations, if any, must be dealt with as occasion demands. Of course, the committee is in unanimous accord with the proposition that pri- vate property of enemy nationals may not bs confiscated, and will not be confiscated. by the United States for the payment of the debts of th> enemv government. The United States has always recognized. and dcubtless a'- ways will recognize, the sanctilv of an enemy national, we have always steadfastly insisted upon according private propertv full protection in the event of war. We have no reason to as- sume that this policy will be departed from in future. Neverthrless, your com- mittee did not believe that any good would be accomplished by the declara- m{-" of policy contained in the House The payment of the awards to th» | United States on fits own behalf is postponed under the measure until after the private claims have been met Becaus® of the various amendment: made by the Senate committee. the bill will have-to go to conference if. as scems likely, the Senate passes it. At | this early stage of the session the con- “ ferees would have ample time in which to work out conflicting sections. | SR ! Snail Called Enemy { Of Fresh Water Fish Still another Senate amendment | Seeks to provide, insofar as Congress | e:'n do g for An{:cne‘n citizens whose claims have not been passed uj by | emendment requests the President w0 enter into negotiations with the Ger- man government with a view to extend- in2 the time within which claims can be filed until July 1 1928 If such an egreement can be negotiated those claims would be paid in the same man- ner as awards already made. Senator Emoot of Utah. chairman of the finance committee, is hopeful of having the Senate vote on the bill in the near future. “It is my opinion.” said Senator Smoot. “that the bill as reported by the committee. and I am sure that it is also the opinion of members of the commit- opposition have been removed and that ;: Yiould pass the Senate without de- As a measure of protection to cred- 1tors of thos> whose property is held by the alien property custodian the Senate committee added an amendment mak- ing property in the possession of the cutodian subject to attachment. Since the United States was not a party to the treaty of Versailles, some agency had to be established to adjust |{rom the nest one at a time. But by | American claims, Por this purpose the Mixed Claims Commission was set up in 1922, consisting of one commissioner from each country and an umpire se- lected by agreement between the two governments. For six years this com- mission has been engaged in the in-| tricate task of determining the value of these claims. The agreement by which the commission was created contained no provision for the payment of the #wards. however. and that is the prob- lem dealt with in the pending legisla- tion, Paris Conference Claims, When the Paris conference was held several years ago W determine upon a | aivision of the payments U be made by Germany under the Dawes reparations plan, the United States was represent- ed and had two classes of claims 0 be considered. ‘The committee report on the pending bill explains that the first of these claims was for the payment o this Government of the costs of the American, Army of Occupation, and weoond, payment of claims due Ameri- can ciUzns under the awards made by the Mixed Claims Commission Under s sgreement made in Janu- #ry 1925 the report explains, the United States is recelving us reimburse- ment {or the Army of Occupetion sp- proximately 813000000 annuslly. ‘The commitee points oul, therefore, that te Army oosts are pot iuvolved In the pending mettiement legislstion The Parls syreement further pro- vided thst the United States should yeoelve, a2 payment on the awards of the Cluims Commission, 2% per cent of the receipte fiom Genmany under the Drves snnuities. svailahle for distribu- tion through the Separations Commis slon. This percentage will amount W ©iut 810,900,000 u yeur 1n reporting \he penas it e House and Benste commitiees estimmted Lhat i B0 olher method s provided for the payment of e swards of the Mized Claims Commission, ap Vronimately B0 years would e re nuired before ) Uie awirds, including e of the United Btates are paid Clalms Could Be Bettled Under this bill, which le expected tn beunne Jaw i the near future, ms mins would be settied Smmedistely 8ia payments expedived on tie olhers Feyment of claims s W be mude from & special depuall weount s be sab Up i e Trewsury. The funde o this woeount would come from Wi following wirces Whe 20 per cent of German propery tempunerily retiied by Uie uiin prop- ety customien, estimeted sl $40.000,- 006, the Germsn share of wn unal- bwwted Interest fund, spproximately 25,000,000, payments receved from Germany under Vw Parie sgreemen which will emount Ui $24000,000 by Beptember of 1l yeur sud coninue W Come Wt Ahe sule of 810700006 wn wiusily Uierestter Ui wppropriation e made U cover U Cleims of Ger men netlonels for e ship r-mna Nl J80l e, Vuwsid which $0, g seutiement UNDAY The Story of Civilization Note-—In the fwen of his “Story lished next third, installment " to be pub: Dr. Durant will' tell The Messianic Hope. of Mohamns THE STORY OF JESUS. N the sixth year of the Christian era an insurrection broke out in the northern provinces of Judea, led by Judas the Galilean. Quiri- nus, the Roman governor, had ordered a census, to ferret out all tax evaders: and the Jews, accustomed to a theoracy, and considering all civil power as a usurpation and all taxation as robbery, gathered together their re- maining weapons, and fought once more to free themselves from the yoke of Rome. oppressed the ancient pride of Judea. Everywhere in the land Greek and Ro- man custcms, dress and speech flour- ished: and pagan idols. athletic games and bacchanalian festivals desecrated temples and streets made sacred in the memory of the Jews by their imme- morial struggle for liberty. And in every home was poverty; not the wonted and bearable poverty of the open fields and the friendly stars, when men peacefully followed the flocks and lived with them their quiet life, but a new and cruel thing, the poverty of the huddled city mob, the dirt and stench of almost homeless crowds, -the mean and bitter penury of slaves who could remember their ancient freedom. kK * 4 Periodically this helpless proleiariat | of Judea’s cities bore the terror of Ro- | man armies and slave-raiding Roman | gonerals. Fifty years before the birth of Christ 50.000 Jews were sold into slav- ery: doubtless this was one of the grim | storjes that He read when He pored over books in His youth. While He lived as a carpenter’s son at Nazareth, an en- tire town nearby was sacked by the Romans and every man inhabitant sold to the Simon Legrees of distant Italy. Jerusalem, like Antioch, Athens, Alex- andria, Carthage and Rome itself, was feeling, as only Egypt had felt before, the widened cleavage between poor and rich, and each rebellion against Rome was tinged with a soclal revolt that aimed at domestic tyrants, too. Every city seethed with sedition. ‘The uprising of Judas the Galilean was put down: but the Jews have never really bren conquered and have never really surrencered. The expecta- tion of deliverance grew strong>r as persecution increased: it could not be that God would let a people bear such contumely end cuffering; soon He would send them a mighty leader who would overturn and punish their enemies and bring freedom and ing faith the prophecy of Micah, v.2, that out of Bethlehem “shall come forth a governor who shall be shepherd of my people Isfael”: the Book of Enoch, written at this time, comforted them with the description of a great {last judgment, in which the poor | would be taken into heaven and the |vich_thrust down into hell: the Book of Danicl filled the suffering heart with 2 vision of “the Son of Man" who would lead the Jews into a “King- dom of Heaven.” As the Babylonian | captivity had raised up the prophets, {80 the tvrannv of Rome and wealth | gave birth to Christianity. | It was during these years of turmoil It was not merely the taxation that| justice to Judea. Men read with cling- | Ths humble snall has been in- | dicted as one of the criminals whose ac- tivities have interfered with the peace and welfare and the family life of fresh water fishes, Ichthyologists gen- | erally have been unable to explain why so0 few of the hundreds of thousands of | BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a brief summary of the most important news of eggs laid by each female among the fresh water fish ever reach maturity. In a life history study of the long- eared sunfish carried on at the Indiana University Blological Station at Winona Lake, Ind., observations were made each day of the troubles of a vigilant male to guard his nest, with its precious eggs. Ear, who is rather long on pug- nacity, had very little trouble with the |larger fish. They had their lesson ' gered in a persistent swarm and darted {into the nest every time the warrior's | attention was diverted, but their activi- | ties were more of a nuisance than a | vital menace. ‘The greatest difficulty the harassed | father sunfish had was the insidious ad- ce of the tank corps of snails. The | sunfish could not kill the snails because of their protective shells, but had to them up and carry them away the time he was transporting one half !a dozen rs would crawl in among | the eggs and eat their fill. | Several thousand eggs and a few |snalls were put in a bucket overnight. lln the morning all the eggs had dis- |appeared, and an examination of the snails' stomachs did not leave even a | sclentific doubt as to where they had gone, Al ir Experts Oppose “Publicity” Flights ___{Continued from First Page.) ample room aboard for obtaining sleep and comtorts that have been denied the pioneer fiyers. Before long-distance ocean flying | becomes 8 paying proposition, it is | agreed by students of the question that | safety must be offered beyond a reason- | able “doubt, and then comfort, and, ! finally Juxury. It is for ihis plane that ! enthusiasts are labor- Would Experiment. ‘They would rather call a dead halt on all ocean fiying for the next two| years and spend the time over the drafting bourd and in the factory creating . craft infinitely superior Lo the Bpirit of BL louls At the mo- ment weronmuticul engineers see no im- medinte prospect for “glant plancs with many engines” carrylng passengers at the rate of 100 & load ucross the AL- lantic or Pacific. ‘Todsy's knowledge of ! aeronsutical engineering cannot gusr- antee such a plane, but the selentists are willing W sdmit that “somebody some diny will butld such a plane " © There 1 another school of thought I mt work on w plan whereby a plane will not be forced W leave these shoren [for a forelgn port with only n genernl | knowledge of weather conditions n midocean | Fiyers over America’s trungconinent irways w1e given wewther nformatic | every tew miles, s to Therefore, I is mrgued, & transallantic pessenger | plane. cannot be eapected . luke "o | from Europe with only & general knowl- | edge of the wenther whead One solutum of the problem of sup- plying formation at regulnr intervals Luliendy has & possibility o the “sen L drome” system, developed by B R Avmstrong, an engineer of Wilminglon, [Del His present plan calls for estal [Dehiment of elght “landing field anchored W the ocenn ot 400-mile intervale, hewhiibng 400 miles off e {Amerscun const wnd ending the same awtence Gff the Biitish or Prench Consle Constant communication would | exiet bwtween w plane and the next sewdrome. giving & westher service [t the eMciency of the present trun [ eontinental system “Whe plan I8 1ot regarded as fantastlc by aeronsullcsl authoriigs, who have indorecd 1 e the only w)ution known W date tor ssfe Lransocfanic Nying. ) the world for the seven days ended February 11: R The British Empire.—On February 7 the Westminster Parliament was re- opened with the usual magnificent cere- mony, the King proceeding from Buck- ingham Palace to the House of Lords in the state coach drawn by eight bay | horses with postilions. As he alights at the Lords the royal salute of 41 guns begins to sound off from St. James Park. In the speech from the throne the King announced that his government was carefully considering the draft of a new Anglo-American treaty of arbi- tration submitted to it by U United States Government, uj de the Root Irtlly of 1908. The draft is said very closely to resemble the Franco- American treaty signed on February 6. The King promiscd legislation before the_end of the session providing for equalization of women with men in re- spect of the franchise. Impatient wom- en demonstrated at Buckingham Pal- was on his way to the House of Lords Since the general elections of 1924 to Labor and two to the Liberals, and gained one seat from the Liberals On February 1, James McNeill, for five years past high commissioner of the Irish Free State In London, was installed as governor general of the Pree State. Apparently the appointment is pleasing to everybody. Mr. McNeill 1s & man of culture, varied experience, distinction, social grace and wit fs a Cambridge graduate. For 25 ye trative talent, He was sent on missions to the East Indles and the Fijl Islands Returning home, he threw himself with zeal into the Bin Fein movement He was one of the drafters of the con- stitution of the Free State, His work as commissioner in London was most | helpful to his country’s trade. | he “statutory commission,” headed by the great 8ir John Simon, appoint- ed by the Westminister Parllament to Investigate the workings of the Dyarchy system in Indla, report and recom- mend, arrived in Bombay on February 3. Report of their tvil In India was the occaston for hostile demonstrations in Bombay, Calcutta, Madras and else- | where. 8ir John at once Insued o mani- festo as follows: "We shall make our business without delay to remove the misapprenensions of what the com- mission has set out to do certainty regarding the proposes 1o employ. et and become betler wequ with the actual situation, we fntend to make a statement ahout our proposed procedure which should leave no ground for the suspiclons which unfortunately have arisen " e popular suspiclon and misappre- henslon seem to be confined to the Hindus and have been wroused by viclous and mendaclous propaganda of | agitators. Indeed the commissloners were met by friendly deputations of Mohsmmedans and “Untouchables The demonstration in Madras was espe- | esnlly violent, the police helng forced to fire on the mob, wWith the result of one killed and many wounded. . i Appurently in y 2 In the French . reply W the speech of Dr Blressemun in Lhe Kelchstag demand- g wilied evacuntion of the Thinclund, Rriund hinted Ut France might agree t evacunte should Germany find o way w commerciulie the bonds of German satlways and Industiles now held 1o the scoount of the wllied creditors 1 A total capital sum of $4,000 000,000 (ol mortygage bonds, 205 billions on German vallwiys, 10 billions o G i ndusteies ), e wnnual chi thene bonds Lo Lhe aecount of repiia Hons s 6240,000.000 16 per cent fiter e, | conl sinking fund), No doiint e honds wie to be oom merciulized, Amerien musk furnish ihe chiel market and the consent of our Government e enterpiisg of (el ace and at the Cenotaph as the King | the government has lost eight seats, six | 5 lary session of he was in the Indian civil service, ex- | committee of the Kuomintang has at | American arbitr hibiting very extraordinary adminis- | Jast been briefly held in Shanghat, 25wt Washington, to supersede the Root STAR, “WASHINGTON, and the epparent victory of paganism | over Jewish faith and rites that a | strange sect of devotees apoeared in | Palestine, who called _themselves Essenes. They wer2 the Franciscans | of Judea, protesting against the heart- !less_pleasures of the rich, and adopting a life of puritanic simplicity and almost monestic seciusion. They became a | distinctives order, marked off ~with girdle and white robe. They con- demned city life, trade, slavery, com- | petition and wealth; they healed the | | sick with herbs and took no payment; | | they practiced a communitv of goods. | | and ate supper together dally as a re- | | liglous feast. Their tradition and their | spirit paséed down into the Carpenter's Son. * ok ok K | At first it seemed to the Jews that their Savior had come in the person | of John, whom posterity would call the | Baptist. © His father Zacharias. wel- coming his birth, predicted that he would lead the revolution against | Rome. And when John, grown to be 30, came out’into the pubiic places | and called upon every man to be | spiritually reborn through the symbol of immersion many hundreds followed him. Surely this strange and holy man | was the Messiah, the Redeemer who | would bring salvation to Israel. “Now.” | says Josephus, “when many came in | | crowds about him, for they were greatly | moved by hearing his words. Herod. | who feared lest the great influence | John had over the people might put it into his power and inclination to raise a rebellion (for they seemed ready to | do‘anything he should advise), thought | it best, by putting him to death, to | prevent any mischief he might cause and not bring himself into difficulties | by sparing a man who might make him | | repent of it when it should be too late " Every one knows the rest of John's tragic story. for Oscar Wilde, drawn irresiztibly to this tale of blood. has told in a silvery stream of volupluous poetry how Salome, dancing for Herod, ' | | | flotation must be presupposed. Shquld‘ they be sold, the procceds would fall | as capital sums into the treasuries of | the allled governments, affording great | easement to the latter. Besides the $240,000 000 above mentioned, the Ger- | mans are required to pay in the “nor- mal Dawes year” a transport tax | totaling $72,300,000 (from the rail-| roads) and a budget contributon of | $312,500,000; total, $625,000,000. No doubt such a consummation would expedite French debt settlements with Britain and the United States. Some are even bold to opine that | | ¥rance might be able to get easier | |terms than the Berenger ohes should | !she agree to turn over her share o{l | the $4,000.000,000 (approximately $2.- | 1000,000,000) to us in one fell swoop. | | These same gentry see in Briand's ut- | | terances a sure indication that our | Government has notified its approval of offering the bonds on the American | markets. ~ Obvlously it would be & | whooping enterprise | Briand's speech above referred to | concluded significantly as follows: “I believe that thls problem of peace | | £hould be linked up with that of repara- tions, and I hope that the year 1928 | will not close without a settlement of | | the grave question as a whole and in| & manner which will consolidate all | hopes of general peace.” Apropos of the recent exchanges be- | tween Stresemann and Briand, one re- | | ealls the famous remark of Gen. Dawes {that {f the allies had not been on the | Rhine Germany would not have accept- | ed the Dawes plan, * o China.—The long-delayed fourth plen- the central executive | Jof its 36 members being present, |Gen. Chang Kai-8hek presiding. Tl general announced his program. He b | |opposed 1o allowing the Natlonaltst | | movement to be dominated by peasant |and Iabor elements as undfr the Han- | Ikow regime He would deal drastically | with “armed Inbor forces and agricul- tural unfons.” He would conclliate the support_of the merchant class. He I {not anti-forelgn. He would promote education, “especially rural education and sclentific studles directed toward reconstruction During the perlod of C control,” sald he, "the Kuomintang policy was one of destruction. The peo- ple were used as tools In n class srug- gle and misled by various fallaclous and | mmunist RBY BRUCE HE firat public man | ever interviewed w John A. Johnson, son of a poor widow, who made his way T up from dire paverty to hecome Minnesota's youngest governor, | He spoke of a man, whose name | have long since forgot ten. “That man loansd me hooks, when | w king in & country drug etol aid the governor, “He anco: 1o read; ha paid my subscription at the library. To him, more than any other, | owe whatever (. Hecently | ran across this tence in a life of Lincoln: “Abraham Linceln attended wchool 0 India His firet toacher was Andrew Crawford, socond a man named yi his third was Asel W, A man named Bweenay. Was he & good teacher? Did he it with young Abicaham in front of the fire at night and talk? Did he suspect at all the power ot “Let Him Who Is Without Sin Among You Cast the First Stone.” D. 0. FEBKUARY 12,/ 1928—PART 2., asked as her reward the head of John, who had refused her love. And now, the great forerunncr be- ing dead, Jewish hopes, blighted avain, ought some other embodiment and resting place. Who was this pale and handsom» youth who had stood in the Jordan under John's baptizing hand and had seemed to himself to ne a great saint, His dark eyes burning with | zeal to serve His people and lighted with | the vision of God's kingdom come upon the earth? Did not legend say that the holy old man Simeon, when he had scen this lad as an infant brought to the temple for circumcision, had pronounced over Him these prophetic words that were to be a song of parting for many centuries, “Now let thy serv- ant depart, O Lord, according to Thy word, in peace; for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation, which Thou hast +tB¢ prepared before the facg of all peoples; | a light for revelation to the Gentiles. and the glory of thy people Israel”? | Perhaps it was through this gentle | voice that God weuld speak the glad | tidings of justice and liberty and peace | to all men of good will. | ok ok % The Beloved Teacher. Let us tell the tale again; it is the greatest story ever told, and surely the world will never tire of it Is it only legend. or did Jesus really exist? It is a legitimate doubt, as the | passionate skepticlsm of Brandes has ! shown; and the mist of myth that has | gathered about the name of Christ has provoked truth-lovers occasionally to an extreme reaction in which everything is denfed. Legonds grew up about St. Francis, too, and about Alexander, even before they died: nonetheless, presum- ably. these men existed. Doubtless the myths have distorted the man, but what figure in history has not been warped with inevitable romance? We may b: content with the conclusions of Klaus- ner, the great Jewish scholar, who has vindicated the historicity of Jesus: and | we may say with the skeptical Renan | theories. In order ‘< place the party on a firm foundation this policy of destruc- tion must be changed to one of con- struction, and the class struggle must | | | times ov | call, an angry bitterness crept into His BY WILL DURANT, Ph. D., Author of “The Story of Philosophy.” that “the faith, the enthusiasm, the constancy of the first Christian genera- tion is not explicable except by suppos- ing at the origin of the whole movement a man of surpassing greatness.” \ Nevertheless the picture is obscure, and every age of history and of indi- vidual growth remolds it in the image of Its ideal; Jesus has forfeited his per- sonality to become all things to all men. And these pages, too, will not o much gnlm & man as mirror another prflu-‘ ice. We sce Him first as a student: it is not unnatural that a lad with all the eager intellect of Jewlsh youth should at the age of 12 puzzle the doctors with questioning. Perhaps He loved books a little more than the harsh realities of the world, and pored over them so0 long that the picture of God's kingdom be- | came more real to Him than the im- | perfect things attested by His eyes and ears. He seems to have read the Book of Enoch with especial care, and often in the days of His mission Me used its language word for word. And many and over again He read the great prophets, and trembled at the call He heard Isaiah’s words: “The pirit of the Lord is upon me, because He hath anointed me to preach glad tidings to the r; He hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliver- ance to captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to set free them that are wounded " It is the eternal dream of the noblest men. * & ok ok So we sce Him, 20 years later, stand- ing on the shores of Gallilee, tolling His vision to a little group of fish-rmen or of simple men and women from the children heard Him gladly. He must have been an attractive figure, goi lot bearing, infinitely tender in every | touch, beautiful of face with the char- acterfstic brilliance of the Jewish eye. His slim figure was ennobled with the seriousness of His mission; He smiled upon the simple pleasures of the peo- ple, but He seldom laughed. Later, when the world seemed obdurate to His speech, ana the awful doctrine of hell mingled strangely with the gospel of love. He had not the calm wisdom of Greek sage, but the Puritan zeal hose Hebrew prophets whose line He raised to its zenith. He scemed to have shared most of the theology of His time cxcept that He lifted the conception of God from the barbaric despotism of Yahveh to the sublime beneficence of the Heavenly NEW CONDEMNATION LAW ASKED BY FEDERAL AGENCY Proposed chislatiofi Would Expedite Acquisition of Land for United States Buildings and Parks. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. ITH milllons of dollars of property to be acquired here by the Federal Government, !lace there for a place for their chil- dren. It was in a thickly built-up part of th2 northeast. but finally a good sized lot was located. The Government azents and the owners could reach no and probably a great deal of it by condemnation because of the inability of the owners and the Government representatives to reach an agreement as to what is a fair pri one Federal agency, the National Capi tal Park and Planning Commission. 1s fostering a new condemnation law. The measure now is pending in both houses of Congress, having been intro- duced in the upper House by Senator Capper. and in the lower House by Representative Zihlman, both chairmen of the District committees of their re- spective bodies, and both members of the park and planning commission, where it really came to life. agreement for purchase, so the Gove ernment instituted condemnation pro- ceedings. Building Was Started. While the Government was acting th> owners were busy. They hastened plans for an apartment house and even let contracts for the material, some of | which was hauled to the site. Where- upon the Government conceded its de- feat and withdrew the proceedings. as it would have been assessed the amount rqual to the losses of the owners on their canccled contracts and the ma- terfal delivered. Another notable case was that in ; Branch, east and north of the The measure was born as a result | Pin Y of the difficulties encountered by the | so-calied Tiger Bridge on Sixteentn park and planning commission in at- et. Here the land was destroyed for tempting to obtain lands for park and park purposes by repeated dumping on playground projects, and in addition e site which all but closed up the to being designed to speed up condemna- | valley there, and made it useless except imed at | as a means of getting under the bridge tion proceedings here also is a ta so-called “ring” which, officials allege, exists here to urge owners whose lands is sought for governmental nrojects to force it into condemnation {rather than sell outright, because the | experience has been that a better price 115 cbtaincd by this method through | towns along the lake: and cven the!ihe ability to put so-called experts on tice hall | the stand to testify as to its value. On the other hand, there is the feeling in some circles that the Government's funds are unlimited, and immediately it makes known its desire to acquire | certain property the value goes up ma- terially. Step to Conserve Funds. | As representatives of the taxpayer: | as a whole, the ‘Government ag-nts a. | and are not disposed to let the Govern- ment pay an exorbitant price simply because it is the Government. The proposed law, which, as now | written, does not apply to condemna- tions of property for use of the munici- pal government, makes a radical change lowed in the local courts at present. but it is believed that if enacted it will Father. He believed in a personal devil, and interpreted sickness as possession by a demon; or was He in the use of | these ideas merely a mast-r of symbol | and allegory? It is probable that He | cured many men and women of certain | g, nervous diseases; His very presence was a tonic; at His optimistic call self-con- fidence revived, and His gentle touch was like a healing in ointment on wounded flesh and nerves. That sug- gestion was the medium of most of these cures is indicated by His comparative failure in Nazareth, whose people knew Him familiarly. and looked upon Him simply as the carpenter’s son. (“And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief.”) Perhaps He felt, like Spinoza. that the first teacher of a religion must resort to wonder- working as the only way to make large masses of people attend and under- stand. To lead multitudes one must (Continued on Fifth Page) | The Story the Week Has Told Frank L. Smith of Illinois. whose claim to a seat in the United States | Senate has twice been disallowed by that body, first on appointive creden- result in the saving of thousands of { dollars to the Government and thz tax- | payers, although perhaps it will take away some money from property own- ers and the so-called “ring” which ors the condemnation of the prop- erty rather than the private sale under the present system. On the other hand. there is a branch of the legal profession 1 which believes that the proposed change is so radical that if passed condemna- tions sought to be made under it will be challenged all through the legal channels until it finally, years hence, reaches a decision in the United States Supreme Court. where it would go. in- volving, as it does, a very important Federal question. The District Commissioners, acting on the recommendation of the corpora- tion counsel. have expressed their op- position to the measure, and do not want municipal projects included with- |in the provisions of the measure. | Their opposition is bas>d solely on the | belief that some of the provisions of { the new measure are of doubtful legal- 1 1ty, a test of which will result in long | delay. | | Budget 0. K. Necessary. in the condemnation procedure as fol- | | and into Rock Creek Park. | The proposed law is designed to cor- rect all these evils, so-called. In ad- on to providing for a special court, he measure makes it mandatory that condemnation proceedings be given the right of way. It provides that the jus- w the property, and that | he shall conduct the case and make the award, unless either party to the procecdings requ a jury, when & jury of three chall be impaneled, but the law provides that no one engaged in the real tate business thall te eligibl business of one so engaged is so direct Iy dependent upon high values and ine creasing prices that such person, ale merely trying to buy at a fair price | though absolutely honest, cannot avoid such bias as would afTect suitability The jury ! in a reasonable time after the evidence is in, and would not be permitted to adjourn for a long period. as is the | case under the present system. Assessor Could Be Witness. The proposed new law would make the District assessor or his assistant & competent witness. Now the assessor cannot testify, because he has no direct knowledge of the property and. it is pointed out. in many instances the as- sessments are not a fair guide a3 to the real value of the property. Accord- ing to persons versed in legal affairs, it 1s diffcult to see how, after the pas- sage of the law, the assessor would be automatically qualified. unless he sub- mitted to examination on the witness stand as to his particular knowledge of the value of the property in the general territory in which the condemnation is being sougijt. Ax?o!hl‘r &ra(un of the bill provides that nothing shall be allowed for ime provements on the property made after the filing of the condemnation proceed- ings, and. on the other hand, deduc- tion shall be made from the award for damages done by the cutting of trees, grading and other things which detrac$ from its value for the use intended. This is one of the features which, it is expected, would take cases filed under the new law into a long run in the courts. According to these familia? with the law, there is a very jealously guarded section of the Constitution of the United States which says that prop- The measure has not yet received erty cannot be taken for public use i the approval of the Burcau of the without just compensation. It belongs | Budget, which Is necessary because of to the owner until the Government the provision in it for the appointment | takes it and pays for it. and therefore, of an additional judge to the Supreme it is argued. how can the Governme! Court of the District of Columbia, make the owner stand a loss of any Whose duty it would be to handle con- kind just because he did something to demnation cases, and who would be- keep the Government from wanting it? tials and afterwards on elective cre- dentials (in both cases on the ground that he had accepted improper contri- butions toward the expenses of his primary campaign for the senatol | has resigned as Senator-elect. United States—It will be recalled | jadola of INlinols.” says Col. Smith that last Autumn Hugh R. Wilson, our | j,, q public statement, “desire to admit Minister to Switzerland. attended a8 | (hat they must elect their Senators sub- be replaced by mutual help and co- operation.” Apparently the committee | embodied in resolutions the substance | of the general's program. * ook | the representative of our Government | joct to the veto power of the Scnate, a conference at Geneva of representa- | jhey gught to have the opportunity to tives of 20 countrles; that on Novem- | o press that desire. On the other hand. ber 8 the representatives of 19 coun-|f the Republicans of Illinois first. and tries signed a convention for the abo- | the whole people later, want to uphold lition of prohibitions and restrictions | yheir inherent rights as citizens and the on exportation and importation. bul|pghe of this commonwealth as a sov- that our representative refused o SIBN | orejgn State, my re-nomination and re- for the reason, it would seem. that the | alection will be their answer. It is conference declared itself opposed 10 | pocause T belleve a great principle is “excessive export or import duties.” | jnyolved that T have resigned and am and that he construed this declaration | sooking re-election, as a whack at our tariff. But this| Immediately on Col. Smith's resig- declaration was not part of the con- | pation, Gov. Len Small appointed him vention. so our State Department the | Sepator pending senatorial elections other day instructed Mr_ Wilson to I | precumably his new appointive crcden- the latter, but with certain reservations | jals will be rejected by the Senate attached to his signature, one of which | United States sendtorfal primaries will stipulates that, so far as the United | pe held jn Iliinois April 0. and States {8 concerned. the convention tions to the senatorlal seat In questior “affects neither the tarl fIsystems nor | will take place in November the treaty-making methods of the par-| The Senate resolves, 56 to 26. against ticipating _countries, nor the MeAsures | the propriety of a third presidential taken to ensure the application mlnmr'., term for any citizen. ncluding _measures o counteract | Radio telephone service between the dumping, bountles, subsidies. unfalt | ynited State as bee Methods or acts on forelgn trade, un- ' estublished. EVACenRaplubec dervaluation or discrimination.” | R On February 6 the 150th anniversary | The League of Nations.—The League the signing of the Franco-American | o¢ g - o e o e ren T auch | 0f Nations has “busy ' davs ahead = ‘The committee on arbitration and se- momentous cons haiion l.liv':“""".‘"l':‘afruru_v (subsidiary to the preparatory WL (TeAsy. Was SIEN! u}nsymnnu-m commission) 1s to meet on February 20 ely to arbitration treaty of 1908, which lapses |y PWIRY A0 And i Tkely Lo contine on wllxr\m‘r.v 27[ v lnlw" new l"".{;‘l"‘fl‘.“ | we are represented on the commisston. ahodies formal definite recognition by | (& G0 el + i France of the Monroe Doctiine, mat-| b &7 a“‘l'“l":";:""r":;;f‘ :::::'-:1“'.m 4 s falling under that doctrine beR | commpssion and has an - “observer” on | among the matters specifically excluded | o "committee. The committee of ex- from the treaty's field of arbitration | e Questions Involving the position of | [ d France as n signatory of the covenant | W has reconvened for n spell of vig- M ions are also ex. | Orous work. The committee on coms | ;?l'mlllrlg I:l.lm«!'\'vl::{lts‘ln\\l-‘l‘:lzhl snceivably | Munications and transit will soon meet | MY draw some fire 1y our Senate. The | WIth the particular object of consider- | o treaty i considsved an improve- | N8 the recommendations submitted by | ent on (he Root treaty in respect of | (e conference of press experts held last Gt Jear “upm-x| the League auspices: and gy o day direct cable serviee | (Ne finhnclal committee (perhaps the G A \,:‘_:‘k e Paris s e | most_important of all the committees) | sugurated by the Western Union Tele- will convene before the month's end for | wraph Co special study of the problems of League | ald toward settlement of the refugees | {0 Qreece and Bulgaria and of fiscal | and finunctal rehabilitation of Portugal | and Bulgarin n .. i Notes, -Prof. H. A Lorentz of the University of Leyden, of tmmortal con- neetion with the electron theory and the revelutlon of “relativity,” ts dead. His exploration of the atom was one | of the supreme adventurss The long discusston in_ the French chamber on the genera! French fiscal and Ananclal situation ended on Feb- ruary #. with a vote of confidence i the government, 370 to 131 As usunl when the tncome tax s for the firat time introduced I a European country levying of the new Hpanish ineome 1A I8 sncountering opposition In Barcelona 70 per cent of the workers went on atrike ‘The admirable oivil uard was on the alert and the strike has onded. The Jugoslav cablnet restgned Feb. ruray 8 and the King has lovited M Haditeh, head of the Oroatlan Peasant Party, to form a government. ‘The umu\m-hly of this party in the 8Skup- tehing ts 130 1w total of 314 1o I\i"? T oditoh wan In prison, ohavged with Digh treason. Owlng to a squabble over tond butlding poliey the (ireek cabluet, headed by Premler Zutimes, vealgned on Fewuwry & On February T Zalimes formed & now eabinet of simtlay eom- plexton, save that, appavently, the Re- bublican Unton, which s headed by I'ulmulh'lnluu I not vepresented Tha dapanese eloction cnmpalgn (the coming elections will furnish (e st (ial of complete manhood suftvage n Japan) s proceeding Vigoroualy, and eports age to be oredited, lttle victously, BARTON, that w, gaunt fram; anyway? Jus gotten millions. What a countless army they the unknowns of histor the Sweeneys! Who was the owner of the Garden of Gethsemane, whe Jdesus of Nazareth loved to re. tire for peace and rest? Some rich man of friendly interest and open heart, some Sweeney, Who was the mother of Boo- ratea? paid teacher taught What overworked ceuntry dac- tor tended Joan of Arc? Bweeneya-—all 8w B0 interwoven are the th of human lite that no single cantact ia trivial, I our most casual moments we entertain i around the humblest of the influsnces that tauch otarnity, warld will never knaw aur hut it cannat do withaut Wa carcy on, we Bwesneys, " hidden in that tall, ? Who was Sweeney, one of the for: | ‘ [19: perts appointed to codify international | /& | vear's come an expert if the procedure out- iined in the bill is camrg out. " Under the present system in practics here, when the Governmenv exerciss jts right of eminent domain, condemnation proceedings are tuted in the District Supreme Court. A panel of freeholders is summoned. ou' of which three are selected, to form a condemnation jury. They may bo real estate operators. i Y and organizes. views the proj then begins the taking of testimony | without the presence of a judgs It does not have to meet and continue to meet untll it finally decides on th- award, but sometimes adjourns for weeks at a time. Some of this delay Is due to arguments of counsel on points of law involved, and on which the jurymen are not competent to pass not being trained in the law. When they reach such a snag as this, | they have to wait until they can got A decisfon from one of the justices | then another meeting for more testi- mony, and then they may become in- velved mn more law, with a similar re- sult and all the while the days, weeks and months are passing. The proceed- ing. when it reaches the justice, also | has to take its turn with hundreds of other cases pending before the local Justices and meets similar delays. While all this delay is going on there | is the possibility that the owner might | have done something to the land which would make it useless to the Govern- ment for the purpose for which it was | condemned, and this applies particu- larly to lands wanted for park and plavaround purposes It has \up;u-m-d Very reeently the Park and Planning Commission sought a plavground in the northeast section of the city, after many pressing appeals from the popu- 7 Was Healthiest Worke The healthiest yvear in history was 1927 Ounly 84 deaths for every 1,000 persons ts the record for a group of insured wage-workers that numbers one-seventh of the total population of the United States and Canada h If the death rate of 1926 had pre- | vatled, 8,808 persons among the tnsured £roup now living would have died. and 1F the rest of the population tmproved it health as much, some 30,000 lives were saved. If the death rate of 16 Years ago, 1911, had not been reduced J3 per cent (o the present fgure. last death list would have num- bered 72570 more among the sured wroup. These facts are shown by the sta- thtles of the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Oo. reportng the mortality of its ndustrial policy holders, which has been found o refect the trends of the whale population, The outstanding health fact of T w the Mr drop In the tuberculosis mortality, the vate of 833 per 100,000 representing a decrease of 48 per cent from the previous minimum of deaths flom (he great white plagie Recent surveys have shown ghat this reduction applies o all parwe of e country varal and urban, colored and white and extends to all seoupations and branches of fndustry. Thiee of the diseases of childhood measles scarlet fover and whooping cough had enconragingly low death vates, while influensa and preumonia reavhed unespocted low tecords Never exeept I the years Immediately ol lowing the big fluensa epldomics of | 1018 and 1010 has (hete beon as big A dvop I the number of deaths | these e dreaded plagaes. To counterbalanee thess gratitving rosulls, the tall of cancer was higher than ever betore and that of diabetes rematued the same as last year i spie oF the Ineveasing wse of tnsuling BOWELEY, 18 00 grewws G dianing the desires to peq insti- The jury meets perty and |y as it usual This « Cites New York Law. The new law even xl\:s the Govern- the right to seize the property ime iately and pay the owner three- fourths of its assessed value, the re- matnder to be paid. with interest, when the jury decides what the total amount should be. Authority is given in the law for the right of appeal to the Dis- trict Court of Appeals. with the right in that tribunal to review not only the ly does in other cases, but the facts. and even gives it authority to reduce or enlarge the amount of the verdict of the jury without sending it back to the lower court for retrial or change consistent with any decision it might make. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant. 3d. executive officer of the Park and Planning Com- mission, pointed out that New York has such a law and that it had worked suc- cessfully there, and in few instances only have jury trials been asked either by the government or the property owner. However, it might be pointed out that ihe condemnations there are under the State constitution and mnot under the Federal Constitution But the offictals only want something done which will make it possible for them 15 carry out their duty of provid- parks and playgrounds at a reason- ble cost, it was pointed out. They have before them now numerous in- stances of efforts to purchase private sale at what they considered a fair price, but for which the owners are asking two and sometimes three times this supposed reasonable value. They have only limited funds to expend and they are prohidited from going higher than 25 per cent above the assessed value of the land. When owners seek more than this amount it is impossible to continue negotiations. » . . Year in History, Records Show conclusion that insulin is ineffective. ticlans declare that the average { dlabetics at death has mcreased. and that without insultn the diabetes th rate would undoubtedly run even her than it now is The automodile continued its guilty ole I 1927 as principal cause of fata) scctdents AlMOSE As many we carners” children lost thetr lves t 192%, It was poinisd out, fram automobile accidents as from measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough combined. white the number of Motor car fatalities as & Wwhole was double that of 10 years sen Three Leaders of Old Hungary Still Alive Hungary had three outstinding men mopublic Lfe when the World War troke out- Stephen Trsea, Count Juliue Andrassy and Count Albert Apponyt Tz was shot at the chwe of the war, Count Apponyt ts still active i palitis eal lite, alihough he does nob entirely | Approve of the present government. He I n leglimist and thinks Prince Ot should o placed on the Hungarian thane Ouunt Andrassy has Just ves | tred from polities because he disagrees | Wih the government. His election 10 Parliament was anhulled because be GId oL Feeaive enough votes 1o campty PWith the Jaw. He Will not run aggin antil e olections are seeret W e COURTEY An well as i the citles. As the Presenl government has at lvast fow MOEe vears oF power and Count An diasay I getting alug I yeals he MIERE Dot Tve 10 run i an opein elee- Han Count APPRORYE s Rbo aging. s hat atter Tisa the 1wo other ol g Ares o Hinggtian polities are W (W& Veine Al disapienting.