Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1928, Page 37

BUDGET VETO OF PARK FUND THREATENS PLAN Available Land in and Virginia May Lack of Federal Aid. BY WILLIAM J. WHEATLEY. of working up the machine: for de- most beautiful world out of divisions—ths vland and angements had for the s of the the District of nd and Virginia. the 142t has reported Government's part Ctne an o mn those rich have cou extension S This eloping this vast broad scheme. etween the the exe- ree gover down a b the provision funds means that > park land in the g operations. It er as some of the here has been lost v to purchase it on e ector 2 ed equally two States to be | alled metropolitan rks agreed upon bv ions charged with Nationai ure, at its last idence of good faith < int £100.000 wholl 10 be spent in Mont- | nce George T park purpose: divided equally between these two coun- This fund is to be spent in co- on with the Federal Park and rge ich 2 special tax lev: and 1o be spent by the Mary- | 2l Capital Park and Plan- n without regard to the ution. e passage of this legis- ns a delay in the develop- Federal areas. in the metro- istricts. While the Federal | lanning Commission has ear for the purchase of park lands and amended organic act gives it the hority to extend its that this fund comes whollv | of the poricets of the District of | lumbia ‘taxpavers. The planning eommission early in history laid €own the poli has strictly achered to. not to spend any of this money across the District borders for | rezson that it is District tax- | ev. and it was considered table to take it and buv lands e metropolitan area in further- 'proposals to develop | 1s desirable to hold this land for park THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €. FEBRUARY 19, 1928—PART 2. | | District, Maryland Be Lost Through 1 ance of its plans to extend the Federal park system into them. Another very important reason is that | the amount is so small compared to th> price and the quantity of land which | should be purchased that all land which chould be acquired here canuot be bought. ~Much of it alrcady has been rendered useless for park purposes, al- | though included in the early plans. It| has been repeatedly pointed out by the | planners that unless the fund was ma- | terfally increased it could not be ex- pected that the necessary lands could b~ purchased before they were used for building purposes. The organic act au- | thorizes the appropriation of an amount | equa! to 1 cent for each inhabitant of the continental United States. But the | {ull amount allowed by the act has| never been appropriated by Congaress. ‘The fear that the lands might quickly become unavailable, and in an effort to get them rapidly and set them aside | before th> builders had gotten in their | work led to the proposal for a loan from | the Federal Treasury of $10.000.000. | This, it was proposed. should be used | for the immediate purchase of the land, | and then it could be paid back by the annual appropriation of $600.000. or by al other amount which Congress. in its” wisdom, might appropria: This | also. it was argued. would leave to pos- | terity, who would get the most eny ment out of the purchases, the d shouldering some of the debt While the authorization of the $200.- | garkene swirl 000 propos:d in the rejected bill might interfere with the immediate economy measures of the Federal Gov- ernment. nevertheless. it was poi out. it would in reality be a very big economy move. The provision of |h~'i money now, it was added. would make | it possible to purchase virgin lands in | now undeveloped sections, but line of advancing population, and at| very low prices compared to what the Government will have to pay in later vears, when the density of population has actually reached the arcas laid | down by the planners for development. | In the original plans were included the watersheds in the metropolitan area. and preserve them. as Rock Creek and the Anacostia | River have been preserved within the | District. However, since these prelim- | inary plans were developed, and the | proposal accepted that the Fsderal Gov- ernment aid in the development of ths metropolitan areas. Lieut. Col. U. S. Grant, 3d. executive officer of the Na- tional Capital Park and Planning Com- | mission. has made the proposal t | the Federal Government. in lieu of | spending its proportion of the money | on projects here and there in the metropolitan area. undertake one great development. The Potomac River gorge batween Chain Bridge at the District of Columbia boundary line and a point above Great Falls was proposed. as it purposes, according to the city planners They are so strongly in favor of a and ¥ great park project in this wild and ' U Mchammed seventeen beautiful section that they have entored vigorous objections before the Feaeral Power Commission against applications pending for preliminary permits to build a great power project there. Construc- tion of a power project there, it was pointed out by the planners, would have doubtful economic value, and would forever destroy the value of the sec- tion for a great national park. wherein is located one of the most beauiiful attractions that can be found in clcse proximity to any capital of the world— | the Greats Falls of the Potomac. The planning commission also has taken the stand that if it was finally determined to turn the Falls into a power development project that it by all means should be done by a public, rather than a private agency. Bu delay in the provision of the funds. i was concluded. may even result in the passing of the value of the territory for park purposes. X Budget Estimates Call for Greater Economy to A - gs in personnel only form cf economy. There ber cases, ranging from a in the Bureau of Plant newad of purchasing a new pring and ser {or a laboratory. as repaired with material at 0 a saving of $1.500,000 a year v Depar: 4 by making wors of the e year {ore. Corps of the e foliowinz savings afwer re- clothing. | ¢ s report © Commis g ation e tormed bty ot of Sdicn [ iti~ G- a +4 “rywidy 3 " ¥ cmplo e wors Ly ot o line tha Glher | - llow 000.000 Cut ! Gen. Lord. he has had a hard job that calls for unremitting toil. But instead of looking at it in that light, he has made a game of it. organized his Wood- pecker Club, his Correspondence Club, his Two Per Cent Club and his cam- paigns to ve paper clips. The re- markable thing about it is that it works, From such a propaganda as he has directed the Government saved more than $19.000,000 last year But along with this drive to save, save and save some more, which nec =arily must continue year in and year out if it amounts to anything. there might be established at the Budget Bureau a new position. The duty of its incumbent would consist in exam- ining more closely the applications for admission into the Two Per Cent Club. And if he found an applicant who. to save his country a thousand dollars and have his name emblazmned on the roll of honor, cut off the head of some faithful old war horse to substitute therefor younger and cheaper material, he should blackball this applicant and throw him into outer darkness. Economy is a great thing, but human kind is even greater | | . “Magic Stones™ Lure Thousands in Hawaii Two “magic stones” at the town of Wahiawa, about 20 miles from Hono- | lulu, have suddenly become a center for § tention, ceremonies and efforts W se- | cure rellef from suffering. ‘These stones | relics of earlier days in Hawall when | the natives attributed magic powers of ling W them —are now visited owds of other than the Hawal | race In fact, Orlentals are now in the malority among the men, vomen and ehlldren who go to the stones, making offerings of money; flowers and food and go through various ritualistic ob- servances legends center about the stones tale describing the larger the two an the Hawallan god Lono firs Some “old-timers” insist Uit both stones sre feminine ers of royal blood who were turned (6 stone nales and incense burn about the Imost night and day ecently Bave gone at night, doing whose meaning hidden sental mysticism League of Nations Has Dog on Pay Roll n ot in The Lesgue of Natlons hos a dog on pay 1ol Loulou, a fine Germin hepherd, has thus been honoted be- ause of his mhibty 1o guard the big wane of the league Loulou has been o the pay 1ol for some Vme bning al- Jowed abaout 88 & month for subsistence But ihe dog really proved his worth ring the recent Sacco-Vanmenl ot whiess Wi mob Uizew stones Uirough the irary windows and b nearly all Ui windows s the large glass room Fnown as Ui golafieh bowl - When Ui mo esders were breaking down e rear entrance of the gualn ballding with e Jntention of reducing 3 in fire Lou Lo appesred on Ve soene UL Uie tho Jimen Tl ol dia 0ot mind e watehmen and was pusling o b gob 0w acton. The place wa sromptly cleared and the moh wiie {of Germany 11y for their torrid chme of | of flo in the ' of thewr camel-ha; a caravan. and yet be | sophic pace and th char countryside for th | driving_clever barga {ev ery | pendence, preferring | went to the bar. | Jordships when he de {owed much when | tonal held [ and Hussia Vark long enough fur the police Wl The Story of Civilization wenty-fourth installment Note —Tn ¢ A staliment of Story Dishod vost S of Cha:leman Fant il tell 1 medieval state. nd the MOHAMMED. In the Desert. EANWHILE, in the East, an- © religion was being born. Look at Arabia on the map. It is the great head of a rhioce with its lower at Aden and its nasa A vast irregular triangle. desert and one-cighth stone, with here and there, on the western coast near the | Red Sea. cities strugeling to maintain, (hemselves against the sand. Toward | the north Aleppo and D: cus: to- ward the south Medina, where Moham- med won his first warriors, and still fa = ther south Mecea, center and goal of the Mohammedan world Which of us would think that the length of this peninsuia is almost 1.500 miles, and i great facing the Ind Ocean. : that all the arca and might be doubled and vet not equal the size of tnis Arabia Deserta: this Arabia Pe- traca (stony). and this Arebia Felix — this happy Arabia of the fertile .&r\!|'}\ Over this inhospitable expanse Se- | mitic nomads have wandered for 10 000 years of history and for countless years lost now from human memory. You may sce them today, these Bedouins 1 and these merchants, se_handsome sheikhs and flying warriors. all mounted on he b love. They clothe themselves. X. 100 warm- after foid . cover- hiding face and hardc an d. But so they have learned the sun cek with | | | | robe: ing thel o protect themsels and dirt. playing the world. * Bedouins beside the move in and out tents. how calmly they follow their herd of goats, whose milk sustains them until they can rob eath this philo- majestic calm what passions lie and what reads Not so long ago these m killed without qua Look at these road: how quietly th en were of little u services which a few buried many of their female childrea alive, congratulated themselves when daughter died, looked upon the rth of a girl as a visitation from God in punishment for their sins. The married the survivors off at the age of ven or eight, four or five «if they could) to one man, and when a father died. his son inherited his wives as an unavoidable portion of the paternal property. Sfldom have women been so beautiful and so scorned. In the cities merchants ruled. ex- g the sparse pro the e of shop and ten d nursing ery town and in a jealous inde- the perils of trade e of peaceful ir who sang befo came proudly T hundred tribal within the tribe civil strife was a rou- little hoards tribe lived their ar to the prc The bards e | tif _not benevolent) |, myths. MOHAMMED tine thing: every man might stir up at any moment a war of clan against clan to vindicate the honor of his women or his beard, and the decision of a magistrate seldom satis practitioners of the ready scimitar. Death had no terrors worse than desert life. Not cven their religion could give them unity. Every tribe had i*s idols and fetiches: and where all agreed to worship the omnipotent and ubiquitous sun, it was with different ceremonies and Rigid taboos restrained them direction. and evel night their souls with terror of the jinns or genii that hovered in the air, incalculably ready to help or to de- stroy. Even the stones of the desert seemed holy called Kaaba, at Mecca, was surely the embodiment of a god, and pious Arabs came from far places in patient pil- grimage to press their lips upon this sacred rock. Long before Mohammed spoke Mecca had become the holy city of the Arab tribes. PR jealously in ev filled ‘Mohammed. The prophet was born there in 570 AD. and both his parents were distin- guished. Abdallah, his father, “was the most beautiful and modest of the Arabian vouth, and in the first night when he consummated his marriage with Amina, of the noble race of Zah- rites, 200 virgins are said to have ex- pired ot jealousy and despair.” (Gib- bon.) Nevertheiess, Abdallah died two months Perhaps it was the shock of this be- reavement that worked through Amina’s flesh to make her child compact of nerves and sensitivity. another (as some would have it) in that long list of geniuses who suffered from epilepsy On the other hand, holy legends tell how Amina's travail was utterly free ATTACKING fied these | above all, the great stone | before the birth of his son.| BY WILL DURANT, Ph. D, Author of “The Story of Philosophy.” | visitation, but this inconvenience ~as | remedied by the rule. divinely revealed, at every utterance abrogated any | contradictory utterance made before. | As Mohammed could neither read nor write, he required an amanuensis to take down his inspirations. The ama- nuensis lost his faith when he observed | that he was permitted to write down | whatever he chose, concluding that it | he, not Mohammed, that was in- | spired. ‘The prophet, however, confirm- | ~d the supernatural quality of his an- nouncements by emitting tho-m mostly | from the midst of semi-epileptic fits. ‘He fell to the ground.” runs one de- iption, “Hke an inebriate, or one | overcome by sleep, and in the coldest | day his forehead would be bedewed | with large drops of perspiration. Even his she-camel. if he chanced to be in- spired while mounted on her. would be affected by a wild exciteme: down and rising up. now planting her | legs rigidly. then throwing them a',mrl\l as if they would b> parted from her." Sometimes the prophet would interrupt a meal to fall into a trance and an- nounce a new Sura, then he would fin- | izh his dinner. The substance of his revelation was the unity (as against the trinity) of God, and the trinity (as against the unity) of God's prophets. The thou- sand gods and spirits worshiped by the Arabs, said Mohammed, had no real | existence—there was but one god. Allah. . This great god had bcen revealed to | mankind through three holy men— first Moses and then Christ and then, ightly superior to these two. Moham- med, in whom the promise of the | Paraclete. or Holy Ghost, was at last fulfilled. and the Divine wisdom was embodied on the carth. Seme belicved him and others laugh- ed. The aged visionary Waraka hailed him as the ‘anointed. but his uncle, ! Abu Taleb. who had brought him up. rejected him as an imj er or a fool ‘The great family or clan of the Koreish, whose piety was nourished by tne profits which they derived from pil- grimages to the Kaaba. resolved upon Mohammed's death as the due of the ancient gods: thev swore that each group in the clan should sink a dazger into his heart. to divide the guilt of his blood and baffie the vengeance of his followers. MECCA. from pain: only the earth suffered. con- | vulsing itself into earthquakes, uplift- ing vast seas and otherwise recording its appreciation of Mchammed's birth. When the lad was 6 his mother died. and Mohammed was brought up b; s uncles. They taught him sound | business principles, and at the age of 25 he married the rich widow Khadija, who had lived 40 years on the earth; ! wisdom is good, with an inheritance. For 15 vears thereafter he led a quiet and comfortable life as a prosperous " merchant, buving cheap and selling | dear, and winning the respect of all | his fellow men. At the age of 40 he | was a well established man. happy in | having no history: the world had not | yet heard of him, and no one thought it ever would But then one day he disappeared { from home and Khadija found him lost | in meditation in a cave to the north of | | Mecca. He had had visions, he said, in which angels appearcd and an nounced to him: “La Illaha illa Allah. Mohammed rasul Allah” (There is no | god but Allah, and Mohammed is his | prophet). Khadija doubted whether it |was an angel or a demon that had whispered to her husband this an- nunciation. To testrthe matter she sat the inspired Mohammed upon her knee and the prophet reported that the an- gelic presence still remained. but when she began to remove her garments the heavenly visitor fled. and Khadija cried. “Reioice! for by the Lord it is an angel, and no devil.” * ok ox ¥ From that time on the prophet ex: | perienced ever more frequent revela- tions from above. each time an angel came and dictated one of the Suras that were to make the Koran—that marvelous wedding of Isaiah. Baker Eddy and Brigham Young Sometimes the angel would say the op- posite of what he had said in an earlier * % x % Mohammed, hearing of the plot. es- .caped in the night. passing disguised through the enemies that watched his door. For three days he lived in a cave near the city. fed with food secret- Iy brought by the loval members of his family. ~ The Koreish hunted him w the eagerness of theological animals: they came to the very entrance of his cave. but left it unsearched because of a spider’'s web just formed over the opening. deceiving them into believing it empty. When they had gone Mo- hammed emerged. and fled to the north until he came to Medina. From this hegira, or flight (6 the good Mo- | hammedan dates the years and the centuries. At Medina he stirred up his friends to join him in a holy band that shot protect him and spread the new reve! tion. “But if we are killed in vour service” they asked. “what will be ou reward?" Paradise.” replied Mo- hammed. Very soon his cohorts grew: and when the Koreish sent out from (Continued on Fifth Pags, The Story the Week Has Told BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is a bri»f summary of the news of the world for the seven days ended February 18 The British Empire.—Herbert Henry Asquith, first 1 of Oxford and Asquith, is dcad at 76. Of the many great liberal statesmen of Britain he was one of the very greatest; his political career was one of the most momentous in British history. the most momentous, perhaps, since that of the vcunger Pitt At Dallioll, the young Asquith left a shining name, profoundly impressing the mighty Jowett him ‘Thence he 3 He entered Parlia- ment in 1883, where he remaied con- tinuously until 1918. He first achieved in 1892 (at the mature age of 40), when he became home secretary the new Liberal ministry of Gladstone His great administrative capacity and courage at once cvidenced themselves and his resolve to demolish the obstruc- tive power of the lords. Me innovated by appointment of women as factory inspectors and by opening Trafalgar Square to labor demonstrations. He coined a memorable phrase and gave a broad hint to their ed the govern- ment 1o be “plowing the sands efforts to push a Liberal policy in face of the prerogatives of the Upper House But the Liberal defeat of 1895 into “the wilderness” Respecting the Boer war he adhered to Lord Rosebery as a Liberal imperial- ist. In fine, he was a thorough paced but discreet Liberal in domestic policy, an tmperialist after the best tradition in regard of imperial concerns and for- eign relations. He was Chamberlain’s chief opponent in the latter’s “tarff reform” crusade of 190 reform” in our “elephantine” sense) | the grand champion of Cobdenism and free trade “orthodoxy' ~IL was @ 1ghty logomachy in which Mr. Asquith did not come off second best. It was, of course, that on Str Henry Campbell- Bannerman’s accession to power in D cember, 1905, he should become chan- of the exchequer, and equally, of that on Sir Henry’s resignation + of ill-health, in 1908, he should become premier for 11 years. His achievement of the office, his long retention of the offic were due to sheer merit; a fact or 1 assuring import to believers in democ- racy. He had no specious qualities He curried favor in no quarter weorned the arts of publicity. He wi distinguished by & certain Periclean aloofness, it ultimately proved his bane but the wonder and the chief proof of his greatness) s that 3t did not SoOner B0 Operat ‘The grand achievement of Asquith prior o the war was the Parlament #ot of 1011, passed I the teeth of the most determined pnd viclous opposition which ook from the Lords all power in vespect of money bills und provided it wny other bl passed 1n tiree suc- ¢ sesslons by the Commons should become law without the Lords’ ansent That aet was Hightly desciibed by As- quith himself as “a Jandmark in polit- Jeal development” His fame regil 1o turther monument conduct of the mizhty struggle terized by vigor, resolution aicin wil Ve high manship i extraordy age of the measure clenred tor the Trish home tule bill, which en vaged Asquith’s chiet energles thence forward until the war OF Uils eplrode W A5 cnough o kay that Asquith ex Babited ol least as much wisdom i re spect of the vesed problen predecessor, Uit the business wic helved by the Greal W and it the bappy solution ultimately attalned Bowever insensibly, o Ui forbesrance, consideratene wnd good will shown' by Mr Asquith ot Vi U The CORUOVErsy Look eavy Ul ol Bl sevagenatinn energics, and b entercd bis il phisse much battc srutred with's Cmanner of dealing b vespect of BOUsh entrance into U war will always be a matter of debit 1005 wrged by some Uil s superstates s @ Chadhism, supeoior te conven seruple, night, by Boitain betines. i the side of Fiano have sverted the present whereas Asquith wited untl Ger b aemiaied his Jeat sciuple by w pint a n 1t Y de pistienes wist Wi 1 violat nt him | He committing | the neutrality of Luxembourg and Belgium. But it is very doubtful that even a Chatham eould have per- suaded the cabinet and party of Asquith to agree to such prior commitments. and it cannot be proved that he lacked the Olympian quality. In general, how- ever, the most delicate scrupulousness is imputed to him for honor and glory. But did Asquith prove a competent war premier? Did he display the re- quired cnergy, knowledge, address, prompt decision, etc.? This, too. will always be matter of debate. In a series of speeches in 1914, of immortal elo- quence, he undertook to educate the nation as to the objects of the war. He reorganized the cabinet on a coali- tion bas He created the ministry of munitions, with Lloyd George at its head. In face of determined opposi- tion, he established compulsory service. | He did much toward allied économic co- operation, toward preparing the ground for centralized allled military control But the opposition was multitudinousl: vocal and violent: whatever his achieve: ments they did not suffice, he lacked initiative, ‘they clamored. Some are for saying that he was the victim of & cabal; that the ensuing conduct of aflairs was not superior to his: that as in the ficld of domestic reform, Lloyd George bullt on his foundations, reaped where he had sown. Others are sure that it was well for Britain that he should relinquish the control to a younger, more vigorous man. At any rate, the failure of the Somme operations in 1916 fortified the opposi- tion. and it may be that grief at the death in action of his eldest son, of whom the very hopes were rightly ent educed the premier's efficiency. In December, 1926, he igned, to be succeeded by | Lloyd Geory My feellng is that it is doubtful that another would have grap- pled more successfully than did Mr Asquith with the extraordinary difficul- ties of the year 1914-1916. Of his de- clining _d; It 1S not necessary 1o speak. He retired to the House of Lords as Lord Oxford and Asquith in 1924, Whatever our conclusion as to Mr. Asquith’s competency as WAar premier, He continued premier | BY BRUC gentleman who was enjoying a brief vacation in Ber- muda received this tel- egram from his offic “Everything quiet here; ter stay another week.” Within an hour he was on the boat bound for home. “If they had wired me that they were in trouble, | might have told them to use their best judgment, and stayed on,” he taid in explanation. “But when everything's quiet—that's the only time | worr John M. Patterson, who found ed the National Cash Register Co., operated on the same prin- ciple. He was amazingly cool in times of distre But when busin was prosperous, and orders ralling in, and everybody feit like taking things easy— then look out. “It's the sunny day that brings out the adde he would say; and that rem was invariably the signal for a general shake-up. His only fear was compla- cency, which is the lazy hab't of taking things for granted. Nothing but death can be taken for granted. If you want an impressive reminder of that truth, go down to the river in New York and ses the ferry hoats rotting at their docks. Only a few years ago the ferries were the gilt-edged investment VIGOROUS bet- oy g R T ———— the has left an imperishable name, has stiil to sound London. Rumor has | if only by reason of the Parliament act. it that American bankers have shown He was one of the very greatest parlia- | themselves cold to him. mentarians of all time, almost Glad- | tone's equal in luminous handling of tistics; lucid, cogent, attractive in debate. of a disinterested patriotism and an integrity of character above all |cavil: magnanimous, constant, self- ,controlled; a Plutarchian man Trouble piles on trouble, obstruction on obstruction, for the “Statutory Com- mission” headed by Sir John Simon, re- v arrived in India to study the ngs of the Dryarchy system. Moderate Hindu groups have joined the Hindu Extremists in refusing co- operation with the committee. Gandhi, {too, has resumed his war-paint and is bustling himself to make the boycott of the commission complete. Fortunatel! | however. for the commission, Gandhi's {health is low. . 0 France.—There will be a return to ‘romanticism” in__Parisian Spring gowns. Bodices will be quaint, and | “skirts, long. billowy and wide, will pro- vide a surface for the most gorgeous decorative designs.” We particularly fancy one of Drecoll's designs (Agnes, we aver, can show nothing to compare), namely, asturtiums on a brown back- ! ground with brown fox collar and a robe of draped nasturtium yellow with draped belt and a side train of flowered chiffon” Drecoll, moreover, shows (enterprise in using flowered moire for !evening coats. *r e Rumania.—It is averred by the knowing that a grand atm of Nicholas | Titulescu, the Rumanian foreign min- ister. In his tour, now in proce ! capitals of the great powers, is to ob- * x oz % China.—Chang Kai Shek. head the Nanking or Nationalist governme: is at Kaifeng in Honan Province, present headquarters of Marshal Feng Yu Hsiang. commander of the Ki chun, conferring with that hero, his ally for the present. view to a new drive against Pel We are told that the hearty assistar of Yen Hsi Shan, “Model Governor of Shansi province. has been pledged to such a movement. Yen is said to dispose of 100,000 warriors: Feng of 50.000; Chang of 150.000. Feng would push along the line of the Peking H kow Railroad: Chang's forces along that of the Tientsin-Pukow Ratlroad. Chan would be generalissimo. Bu an insufliciency of war mate: supplies from Russia. Moreover is much question as to the loyalt the military elements at Wuh: Canton; the which, should they disioyal, would constitute a terrible threat from the rear. Reports of recent north are obscure. Feng boasts o . but his chief opponent, Mar Sun Chuan Feng. claims victo: same engagements. Which is the har one may not say. Chang Chung Cha Tuchun of Shantun of the military picture for the Thomas W Lamont re fighting in { from Japan after a visit of som of the | there. declares that his exter servations have convinced Japan entertains no imperfalistic signs regarding China. Everything’s Quiet | tain a foreign loan for his government | Apparently he did not succeed in Rome |or Paris. ~ Arriving n Berlin, he found ! Dr. Stresemann, the right man to see, | flown to the Riviera; so he has betaken | himself thither. The quidnuncs say he [ will_try to persuade the doctor to per- | suade ‘his colleagues to consent to re- {demption of the marks left in Ru- {mania by the German army of occu- | pation. That would help a lot. He Walsh of Montana moved 1 & resolution proposing investis a special committee of five S electric and gas compantes {u 8 power and light in interstate business, no their activities methods in commerce of trade and comme monopoly, or constitt Ythe Federal anti- t | amendment _was moved | George of Georgta proposi; | investigation be referred the Fed- eral Trade Commission. The amend- ment was carried against the most vio- lent opposition. and the resolution as | amended was passed on February 15, ! . w - ce or to A viola laws by Senator that the BARTON, of the most conservative New Yorkers. Bank presidents put the funds of widows and orphans into them. For rely Now York and Brooklyn would stand there on either side of the river forever, and people must get acros Nothing could happen to the ferries. But the bridges happened, and then the tunn, Immediately after the war | was asking MHenry Ford for his views about the busin 1 The | committee on Par Pan-American Congress T American Union has approved and will submit to the full Pan-Amerfean Congress the text of a treaty providing for reorganization of the unmion on & formal basis Dr Pueyrredon, chairman of the Argentine delegation, found no support i the | committee for his insistence that the preamble of the treaty cont denouncing economic barrie tween the participating stat resigned both as head of the Argentine {delegation to the congress and s futurs. | | the Tagection. ot s proe | don't know.' he said. “No- | | g ail the argentine delegates have body knows. Bt | can tell you | [unented themselves fro meongress this—it will be different. Only | | proceedings since and including the one thing s sure in this world, date of the committee’s action above and that s change.” mentioned. ‘There is 1 reason to Jhen wiaisymen e ing SR e e e 3 conference and = b O gy 1o A the proper authorities of all the nations themselves in a mood of al NOW participating in the unton except expectancy and who manage to Argentina. - As (0 Argentina the matter ght more than half the se. I8 of course, doubtful but we are sot are the on who do the things and make the biggest money. But the world goes hard with those who have no desire except to keep every: thing qu N “Why alter things®" one of the French courtiers demanded petulantly. “We are very com fortable.” A few woeks late fortable mind suftered a consid erable jar. The French Revalu tion started, and they chopped ot his head. [T tie government 18 1ot svmpathy with the stand taken by Dr Pueyrredon He i we are informed. about to ofter himselt for the Argentine presidency In connection with Dy Proposal, My Hughes made perhaps the shrewdest of (he many ahrewd speeches made by him at (he congress cluding as follows cultural work, our co-operation en those Itnes where we feel we have a com munity of fterest, wWhere we yealies that good can be accomplished. and let WA ROt destioy the unton by attempiing (o make 1t A vt commisston, o A o his com- M OUL Tespective AUtholty as Nt tates.” piging A tndegien ¢ i protest | what vaguely advised that the Argen- | Puevrredon's | “Let us continue our | AN commission. for the puipase of tine | CONFLICT IN INDIA HELD LIKELY; BRITISH FACE TEST Numerous Princes Confronted With Problem of Revenue as Their Subjects Emigrate to Other Parts of Country. BY MICHAEL PYM. | HE further political reforms of 1929, to which the native politi- cians of India look forward with complete confidence, are bound to become involved ith a complication which is being blandly ig- nored by every one concerncd. The mad policy of attempting to graf: Western political ideals and systems upon an ancient and conservative Ori- ental people, which had its inception in the weakness of a viceroy, the almost treasonable folly of a secretary of state H ed and the ra‘e of are large. Gross 1901 were 506 pee being equ s and a crore sitting | and the urgent pressure of an American Senator, who took up the question o. Indian self-government from the remots depths of Idaho in 1917, cannot fail tc |intensify and probably 1l bring to a | head the vexatious problem of the na- ive states. | India has more than 700 states. Morr | than 300 of them are major political | entities, having direct trea | ‘vith the Britich government. cratic rulers who rate gun sal | zover one-third of the vast area of Ind; {and have an aggregate population of | about 75,000,000 Princes Are Anomalies. Even Abyssinia, the remoie and fero- ciously independent Kingdom of Preste John, occasionally is disquieted h pressure of the o princes of India reign amid th { turbed feudalism of the fourteen | of non-interference secure upon their thrones would be had time and the world stood still for six centuries. The British policy. with like gesture, has preserved a cient prerequisites of the states and al the same time has kept peace among them. preventing the petty wars whict in the ancient days consumed th and wealth of the principalities Strange anomalies these Indian princes e, stranger in some respec eir anachronistic established s which has its roots deep in tr ous belief of the people. The: by inheritance bu Their 4ivine, but personal. th being ine reward of in some humbler incarnat; With the whols ish empire protecting them Di though unobtrusiv and their right the throne firmlv implanted in t souls of their subjects and themselves, these princes have a firm foundation in- deed in the life of India. Personally th ibut because of their prominence t variations are the m still. H of the Western world v polo for relaxation: son elephants against tige: I tain armies. rule tyranni ep their wome: Their courts are riddled w trigue. It is to this medieval sef Indian prince returns from {at Oxford or Cambridge. 1 interlude and however be t influence of his Western education first, 1t is small wonder tha: he yields eventually and es life as he finds it. is 1id Watch Demagogues. | Nothing in all their existence tends to | make them sympathetic toward i na n of British India. T is likely to be a man of low sre is to cringe in on is gro not be pre- the presence And the princes. already resiive cause of inner conflict between Wi n education and Eastern en 1d_because of the encroach the Indian government. are not & welcome the prospect of extend: power of these demagogt is room for doul t as to the iden the Indian states ex: do nents were signed origin: t others by British governors or generals. aken over the British govern !but whether at th trea! of India. mught not be regarded as supersed over economic siranglehoid Isnorant as mative po the pri acute enough rovive advantage of their econom d at & safe personal dis d Emigration Problem. fashion ado ments of h India e good £ atter have administrators. Rulers of = Phone Operator Gets 20 Days for Bribe states alw between omew hat n the 1t now becor ¢ 3 1 from the Rrowth of emigra British India This emigration makes Imperative (o increase the s Mie inorder that 1t may pay {which will make 3 moorder o deve | Which will give ltvelib subjects comparable sained 4n British In I is the s native prince now, rath: baran. who is demand for s state and | drains made upon | British India Por capita taxation and i the states s approv e thoush the subjects of lers wm ger of Britah India peral gove native prinee Until 1917 tecognized. and the without complamt. The politiclans of ) the legislative assemdly. however. only have failed to reduce these RENCY levies, but have increased t on the pretext that they protect the - fant industries of In With the possible e textile industry, any such ndia are so embeyo ceptible Sueh industties as do ex not to be found 1w the native st which are largely agiic STALES. OF COUTSE. consine ceor L) e | | Mot shipped to them w bond u | chaser of such arbicles pavs the duty R India, & tan which beneit 0ot at all and mothe g ; which he has no che Lavge Amounts Tuvalved These States are tndependent of Wy B India Thelr treaty relations ave divectly with the Rittiah government S The alleglance of thelr ruler ts to the | 8O Britlsh GUWR. They MAMTAI e ova Ras about AD