Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1929, Page 31

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO DO HERRIOT, FRANCE’S FIERY DEBATE LEADER, RETURNS Always a Storm Center in Politics of Nation, He Again Is Back at Old Post in Chamber BY WILLIAM LEON SMYSER. FTER the tragic-comic manner of French politics, it has taken a broken nose, brought about by a stonemason's Lammer concealed in a bouquet, to free Edouard Herriot from the comparative obscurity of a small ministerial post and to give him once again the oppor- tunity of basking in the limelight. Her- ot is the Houdini of French statesmen =10 one can bottle' him up. In a man of Herriot’s stamp, with temperamental urge to dominate and his physical need for action, any position other than that of leader pro- duces spleen. He is not of the stuff from which subordinates are made. Powerfully l_l[r:flt, he domlg:.tfis' Tmy g. great square eu- tonio, literally a battering ram, is the awe and anxiety of political foes. His hair bristles. In France he stands for the strenu- ous life. Whether this strenuosity is innate, born in his bulk, or whether it s a sort of complex protest against his possible love of that leisure and bonne which most Americans seek in 1t 8 impertinent to ask. The Tact is T'enfant terrible, the exists—he .}glt:dm, the little Roosevelt of the Republic. Oppases Most of Predecessors. If it haa not been for the dramati- cally broken nose, there would have been some other smash, some other Tupture, which must have liberated him & coalition ministry to take his les Deputies, Now again direct debate. His heavy, finely molded voice Wwill ring out with its accustomed ora- !oflul&umrm And he will busy him- self with every political pie, with every literary ple, and with every mud pie that cuisines. ago I first met | othe: at the height of his war against the falling to re-establish a peace Germany. He was opposing nearly every great politician his prede- Since then, until these last keep him knew .group of youths stej forward osten- 2 |01y to lay foral brin e 2 §es E b ted Lyon « .+ With his pipe. And the pipe is his only witness on the long nights which e passes twice a week on the expresses between his own city and the capital. he reads books. “1 read Andre Gide, and Paul Valery, and Marcel Proust—these and the younger men, Giraudoux and Paul Mo~ rand and their contemporaries. I have o time and no excuse to read except when I am on the train. So I take them with me there. I must keep abreast of things! Why else be a min- ister of public instruction?” Always the humor, always the quiet drony, always, too, a slight regret! Al- ‘though this man did not, like Roosevelt, embark upon the strenuous life as a way toward strength, he has of late found health elusive . . . when rest was denied while the spleen of repressed activity possessed him. Although sched- ules may exist for his subordinates, they never exist for him. Sleep—"“that its up the raveled sieeve of care”— weems the last of possibilities. “When does he sleep?” I asked one ©f my friends in the ministry. My friend is a poet, and irreverent. “Never,” he said. “And yet, at any 3 . Come in, just for fun, next Now, on Wednesday, if he has been theld over by his duties in Lyon, Her- viot is accustomed to return to Paris. On the appointed day I found myself, with a numerous company, before the sninisterial sanctum. “Monsieur le Ministre dort!” Takes a Peep at Herriot. ‘The young lady who had brought for ‘correction the proofs of his excellency’s Jatest book stifled a sigh of regret. This much heralded study of Beethoven was already behind the publisher's schedule ‘because the author had made special trips into Germany in order to consult documents. Several other callers stalked out in & huff, but my friend in the ministry whispered: “Come along in and take a peep at his excellency!” Even though asleep, the minister seemed to dominate the magnificent room, with its ordered papers in mar- shal contrast to its Bourbon grandeur. “Tl fait dodo! He has a feeling for - his role. Before he can be minister of p Trance he has to sieep off Lyon! I P errpose he does the same down there-in of Deputies. the sticks. C'est assez drole! He is the power of France, the French peasant, asleep against a gobelin tapestry instead of some ancestral quilt!” And these are the two concepts of Herriot held in France. The first, an actor, a man of clay; the other, a genius—the writer, statesman, hero. The real Herriot is both. He is the typical French politiclan, peasant in origin, with all the solidity and com- mon sense of the land behind him, opportunist and bourgeois in his poli- tics, yet calling himself a radical be- cause, like Doumergue and Briand, and even the aristocrat Callaux, he has found that nominal radicalism is the quickest way to the top. Perhaps where the other statesmen are more suave he more energetic. Among French politicians he is conspicuous for the whole-hearted, strenuous, “Americaine” manner in which he plays any part to the full. Always Center of Things. Somehow Herriot is always the center of things, however innocently. ‘The scene of the broken nose will go down with many another Herriot epi- sode as a classic of French politics. Unfortunately for the sensation seek- ers, it was not Herriot’s own nose that was broken, but the nose of a statued statesman, Emile Combes, whom he was apostrophizing. To all intents and pur- poses it might have been Herriot's. For a man of Herriot’s ingenuity a portfolio in public instruction is rich wtih dynamic possibilities. In the Third Republique the question of the church in education has proved a broncho harder “to bust” than Roosevelt’s trust issue. Emile Combes first put through legislation banishing the church from the schools. Like the Volstead act, this to enforce. Herriot's party has tried to tighten Combes’ original acts, while 3 even united with Herriot in the “Union Nationale,” have tried to loosen them. The issue smoldered for weeks, but when Herriot got up in the tiny public square at Pons to eulogize the memory of bes it broke out flercely, and in the ensuing scandal be- came s0 hot that the coalition ministry dissolved. Science Honors Him. Now, when Herriot speaks there is an impressive silence. There are perhaps 10 other orators in Europe who are his equal. He was born with a good voice, His job, when he became a professor, was teaching elocution. Today, in the prime of life, he can make his voice dramatic enough to hold the rabble whom politicians must address, or mel- low and winning enough to charm a mob. Herriot relies neither upon the big-stick, clenched-fist methods of Roosevelt nor upon the sword rattling of Wilhelm. He uses his voice. At P?:s. when becl::mbennhl?:d his lreech memoyy of Combes, the quiet little town becarae a political arena. A sibly tributes about the statue. One of them, hoisted by the others, ] born not 1 "Tr0) thf.'" lar from yes, on ‘upper eine, that region which Jeanne d’Arc delivered from the English. From such a storied country he came down mmmtmmmmm ntil rise to international prestige his ca- reer centered, not in Paris, but in Lyon. Prepared Since Childhood. 4 4 of & nostril. So small are the eyes and so ponderous the cheeks that one is grateful for these furtive evidences of humor. How impenetrable they are, these smiles and these twinkles! What a perfect face for a politician! More Than Mask. Author of “Modern Industrial Consolidation.” T IS no news that American living l standards are rapidly being revised upward is, however, very incom- pletely known to many people, even to statisticians, for the real facts are The fact of the matter seems to be that the American family is rapidly changing from a one-earner standard to accounts in large degree for the re- markable family purchasing power which is being shown today in practice; statement that the number of two-car owners has increased 1,000 per cent in the last 10 years to a total of about y. Not that this multiple-earner living standard a new phenomenon in America. Before the days of more rigid earner families. We still, alas, have plenty of instances of youngsters put to work too early! Generally incident with child labor lation is now keeping young people at school to & degree never attained before, even to colleges and schools. This very factor, indeed, is one of the creative motive forces which have produced the two- former decades, but wife and moths labor, in business and the pm(unnn!lr, is the maker of the modern high stand- BY J. GEORGE FREDERICK, upward. How they are being revised hidden behind the statistics. & two-earner standard, and this is what for instance, the fairly authenticated 3,000,000 toda; child labor laws we had seven and eight however, the increase in pros) ty‘::-' the point of completely swamping our earner standard. Not child labor, as in ards of living and is supplying part of BY HENRY W. BUNN. HE following is & brief summary of the most important news of the world for the seven days ended February 16. GREAT BRITAIN.—On February 9 King George was taken in a al t| and therefore eliminated: . “Lady Windermere's Fan” was written for her. Her stage career was creditable, as from the crudest begin- nings she developed a technique of some distinction. * K K ok GERMANY.—The international com- mittee of experts appointed to determine a new total of the German reparations debt and to draw out & scheme for its liquidation, assembled at Paris on February 11 You might say, however, that the ings began with a luncheon to delegates on the 9th, given by Emile Moreau, governor of the Bank of France. I give a summary of the fare, with feelings unutterable: Herrlot's whimsical visage served for much more than a mask. It is the true expression of one side of his being * * * the boyish Herriot, occupied with the pursuit of hobbies and of letters. Even Herrlot's hobbles bear real burdens. Years ago he took a voyage of explora- tion across the Atlantic and discovered America. When he returned he wrote & book about it. America, or, more exactly, American ideas, became one of his passions. He put Yankee methods El organization into the routine of yon. He took a motto. It is contained in the titles of the three books which first brought him prominence in political lit- erature: Agir, Vouloir and Creer—Act! Will! Create! So thoroughly has he absorbed this doctrine that he permits book, or no artistic passion without jot- ting down its record. He goes off to play in Normandy and suddenly comes back to publish “Dans la Foret Nor- mande.” He visits a Beethoven festi- val in Vienna and returns to write a book about the composer. After years of antiquarian interest he gets together his notes on the Renaissance in South- ern France. Even uis literary flirta- tions are sublimated into biographies, Some years ago France had the spec- tacle of her first minister publishing a romantic, well documented but some- what impertinent life of Mme. Recamier, drawing her portrait in words as well as ever did Ingres or Mme. Lebrun in their pigments. Versatility Is Traced. Herriot's versatility in literature, his humor and even his touch of so-called “radicalism,” all have their roots in L'Ecole Normale Superieure. This fa- mous school is probably the most stren- uous in the world. It welds tutoring and lecturing together by a sort of West Point esprit de corps which is utterly lacking in any other part of the Latin Quarter. There Herriot learned to have a sense of the clique, the special coterle, to which, as an elect, he belonged. Thus came his first feeling for party—a feelis strong enough to subordinate even his strong and straining will to govern. It was the routine of L'Ecole Normale himself no vacation without writing a | & Opysters, with Chablis 1831. Lobsters, with devine additaments. Venison, with an 1881 Bordeaux. An unnamed bird, with Clos Vougest 1921, "ll\spuu\u salad, with Chateau Yeuem Ice cream, with a noble champagne. Gosnae: Napcioos. 186" (10 ealled leon 80 - though the poor dean was then at St. Helena). For the chef of the Bank of France it was the supreme hour. Once more, one’s feelings are unutterable. And there will be dinners. Surely the French claims will not be denied. As every one expected, Owen D. Young was elected chairman of the committee, and he leading spirit of the old Dawes com- mittee. ‘Tuesday to Friday, inclusive, was de- voted to exposition of the German position by the German del:gate-in- chief, Hjalmar Schacht, president of the Reichsbank, whose so admirable handling of the Reichsbank since its reorganization has made him one of the .| of the Cat the financial sinews to keep the young at school or at college. Some time ago Chester T. Crowell, a well known writer, analyzed the impos- sible financial situation which is created when a father, operating his family on a one-earner standard of living, tries to educate a brood of children. He proved in figures that in order to send his three or four children to college an average father would need to strap himself to the wheel practically until old age, liv- ing in next-to-impossible economy to accumulate the thousands of dollars required for his children’s college expenses, Mr. Crowell was merely making the Po\nt that we have too optimistic an idea of a college education for every- body—a point on which great educators " There were, ho f im ere were, however, far deeper im- plications in Mr. Crowell's pelrref— utable arithmetic. It made clear the doom of the one-earner standard of living in America and with it the doom The following extracts from a trans- lation of the official summary of the concordat are especially interesting: “A clause states that if the Holy See requests if, either in any single case or as a general rule, the Iialian govern- ment will see to the punishment in its ry of crimes committed in the Vatican City. Similarly, the Holy See will deliver to Italy persons who have taken refuge on vatican territory accused of acts which are held criminal by the laws of both states. “The Holy See considers that with the agreements signed it mll&llu an- tees necessary to provide with due lib- erty and inde] nce the spiritual government of diocese of Rome and tholic Church in Italy, and the whole world; declares the Roman ques- tion definitely and lrnvouhl% settled ; and recog- nizes the Kingdom of Italy under the dynasty of the House of Savoy, with Sate, Tialy on St3 side Tecopalses i . Italy on state of the Vatican City under the , | sovereignity of the supreme pontiff. “The teaching of religion becomes ;| compulsory not only in the elementary in the schools, but also secondary schools, “The financial convention established that the Holy See, as a definite settle- ment of all its financial relations with Italy in consequence of the fall of tem- poral power, accepts 750,000,000 lire cash and 1,000,000 lire in Italian state consols at 5 per cent. This sum is in- ferior to what Italy would have paid if the Holy See had accepted the al- of the old idea of home, wife and fam- ily. It long has been clear to sociolo- gists that in America (despite senti- mental political oratory) the individual is the unit, not the family. In an eco- nomic age, economics shapes even the family, and what we are now seeing is the clear determination of women, ever practical minded, to lift the family standard of living by means of a two- earner system whenever at all feasible or possible. A year or two ago an anonymous father, writing in the Atlantic Month. 1y, described “the revolt of the middl aged father” from the burden of sup- porting his offspring at college, and without quoting figures he presented the same picture as did Mr. Crowell. The truth is, however, that the fathers have not revolted, but the mothers and wives have bolted the one-earner standard. ‘Twenty-three per cent of the women working in_cities of 25,000 to 100,000 and about 33 1-3 per cent in the large lowance granted by the law of . antees of May 13, 1871.” Lot * k¥ % RUSSIA.—Trotsky seems to have been definitely located at Constantinople, having arrived there on a Russian steamship on February 12 with his wife and two children. He was, at the in- sistence of the Turkish authorities, taken to the Soviet consulate, where he is guarded by Russian soldiers, the ‘Turkish government being unwilling to assume responsibility for his safety, in view of the fact that there are some 2,000 white Russian refugees in Con- stantinople who do not love grotsky. ‘Whether he will remain in Turkey or adorn some other scene is a matter of speculation. * ok k% THE EUROPEAN WINTER.—It is doubtful if modern Europe ever knew such a Winter for intense cold and bliz- zards. February 11 and 12 were the worst days to date. London had the coldest weather of 20 years and the upcountry was buried in drifts, all highway trafic being sus- pended. ‘The Isle of Man was com- pletely blanketed, and the farther Hebrides were entirely cut off from the mainland, the trawlers hugging shelter ‘lnd ";m mall steamer unable to make ts trip. Denmark got it hard—ferry service across the Great and Little Belts aban- doned, a very limited boat service be- tween Elsinore and Sweden maintained only through vigorous effort of ice Ask Any Successful Man BY BRUCE BARTON. SHOULD like to have this carved on my tombstone: Here lies a man who forgive him for year after year thrift to hi aged several million people to save money.” We are not a thrifty people, as compared with other nations. Belgium before the war was a “country without Of France's 10,000,000 France, and half of them little ones—less than $4. But only one in ten of us have savings accounts. The rest of He had outstanding figures of the last lustrum, On Friday evening the committee re- cessed to Monday. * K k¥ ITALY.—We are told that the text of the concordat between the Holy See and the Italian government, signed on Feb- ruary 11, will not be made public until it is presented to the new Chamber of Deputies for ratification in April. An interesting restoration to the papal jurisdiction under the concordat is that of the famous papal villa at the little of Castel. Gandolfq, about 12 miles from Rome, on Lake Albano, near Lake Nemi; an estate fa- mous of old as a Summer residence of the popes. To it is now added the ad- Joining villa Barberini with its beauti- ful groves and large mediaeval stone palace. The law of guarantees of 1871 provided for retention by the pope of the villa at Castel Gandolfo under the quasi-jurisdiction allowed him by that l"l;ic ll:uc“ mfin law of guarantees, as is su mtly known, was repudiated b) Plus IX hru u:llceeuon.w Y ‘The name of the new papal state is the Vatican City, not, as stated by me ~last- week,” the ‘Vatioan State, When the company for which he worked was reorganized ten years ago, the president said to him: “Have you a thousand dollars?” A thousand doll put into business ten years ago would ning a competence for his widow today. But the “good fellow” did not have it. He had never learned to save. And now we are raising a fund to buy his daughter a piano, so tl We rode in his automobile. “Do you know how | paid for m dollars a week, my wife took two of it every week and put it into the savings bank, where we couldn’t touch it. When | w-; I'm forty-seven years I've never had a big lary, as you know; but | could retire tomorrow, if | wanted to, and have more than t lars a week in di the money I've I don’t know mak a man face the world with much confidence knowledge that he had made himself independent of it." There you have them side by side—the “good fellow” and the “wise fellow.” All of us belong in one class or the other. Which class are you in? “If you want to know whether 1 tell you, nything that simple and infallible. Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You ma t think it, but you will | ou live. The seed of success is not in you” There is not a single man, woman or child in America who cannot save some money, if he ot out determinedly “Ah,” you object. “How can You do not know my circumstances.” No, | do not. But i stances dictate your not written for you. not succeed, anyway. not count. “Circumstances!” Napoleon. | nces.” You will You do exclaimed make cireum- (Copyright, 1929.) Living Standards Change Women Who Work After Marriage New Economic Force in Nation—Create New Home Standard cities are married, according to the Na- tional Industrial Conference Board. And this in spite of the fact that in her latest official report Miss Mary Anderson, director of the Woman’s Bu- reau of the United States Department of bor, declares that married woman workers face much prejudice and many injustices, with periodic against permitting married women to work at all. Bhe gives one reason for the rapid shift to the two-earner standard when he says that many married women are now going to work because the wages of large numbers of skilled and unskilled workers are below the health and de- cency standard when there is only one earner to a family. So the percentage of married woman workers is constantly increasing. Young women are saying to their flances—even making it a condition of contract—that they want to continue to work after marriage, at least for a period of time. They are pleading that they be per- mitted to help make the start of mar- ried life less economically difficult. Psychological Langers. Fraught with psychological dangers as this is, because of the lessening of man'’s traditional sense of economic responsi oility, young women are bravely choosing this way as the practical modern solu- tion of the grave difficulty which young men experience today in reaching an economic status satisfactory for marry- ing at a time close enough to their natu- ral mating period. Each decade the age of young men's economic maturity seems to separate itself more widely (Continued on Fifth Page.) breakers, much dependence on airplanes for mail and medical supplies. The Zuider Zee was frozen over. At Landshut, in German Stlesia, 49 degrees Fahrenheit below zero was re- corded, the coldest since 1690. “With a loud detonation the Wilhelm Bridge at Breslau cracked an inch wide across its entire breadth.” The Rhine at Lorelei Rock was frozen over hard, a rare occurence. Only the most power- ful steamers were able to force their way to Hamburg through the floes. All over the Reich work was held up. Czechoslovakia, Hi ry and the Balkans were held in like icy grip and buried under snow. are rife, rative, but with some ‘wolves pas- sengers and remote {: and vil- lages in Al , Rumania and else- where. In Silesia and ‘Czechoslovakia F“ diggers were compelled to use lynamite. The Danube places was frozen 4 feet deep or more. Of course train services were widely held up, scores of craft stuck in the ice and schools closed; the hospitals crowded, deaths and lesser freezings numerous. To make matters worse, the influenza has been raging starkly over the conti- nent and the British Isles. * K ok ok CHINA.—On February 11 our Senate ratified the treaty between the United States Government and the Nationalist government of China, signed at Peking on July 25, 1928, by J. V. A. Mac- Murray, American Minister, at Peking, for our Government. and T. V. Soong, minister of finance, for the Chinese Na- tionalist government. It was the first treaty entered into by the Nationalist government, and has had, so to speak, @& numerous offspring. The text is as mlfln: ke provisions which appear in treaties hitherto concluded lnldwlen force between the United States of America and China relating to rates of duty on imports and exports of merchandise, drawbacks, transit dues and tonnage dues in China, shall be annulled and become inoperative, and the principle of complete national tariff autonomy shall apply, subject, however, to the "e;mdltlon that each of “ul.n h con- acting rrt.lu shall enjoy ter- ritories of the other with respect to the above specified and any related matters treatment in no way discriminatory as compared with the treatment accorded to any other country. “The nationals of neither of the high contracting les shall be compelled under any pretext whatever to pa; within the territories of the other party any duties, internal charges or taxes upon their importations and exporta- tions other or higher than those paid by nationals of the country or by nl-‘ tionals of any other country. “The above provisions shall become effective on January 1, 1929, provided that the exchange of ratifications here- inafter {mmded shall have taken place l'ry tha ft:.m onherw!se.mnt a date four mon!f subsequent such ex- change of ratifications.” * K K % UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.— On Feb 13 the President signed the cruiser bill. Willlam M. Jardine of Kansas, Secre- tary of Agriculture, will not be a mem- ber of Mr. Hoover's cabinet, having |yt accepted a position as counsel for the lP:deX’lted Fruit & Vegetable Growers, c. Melville E. Stone, general manager of the Associated Press from 1893 to 1921, dled on February 15 in his eighty- first year. A career of very great value. Bids are about to be invited by the , authorized by the Con- gress 1928 and to be completed by 1932 at a cost not to exceed $4,500,000. highway is to follow the shore of the Potomac some 15 idge through Hunt to Mount Vernon. Construction | ki D.| On the i ish delegation on its return home be- NE of the most serious obstacles to the progress of international aeronautics today is the lack of an international code pro- viding for the recognition in all nations of airworthiness certificates {L;;‘ aircraft originating in other coun- es. Not only is the lack of llrg]ln! reci- procity between nations working ‘a se- rious injury to airplane manufacturers all over the world, but it is breeding hard feelings between nations. The seriousness of the problem was recog- nized by the delegates to the recent International Civil Aeronautics Con- ference in Washington, but owing to the nature of that conference, it was im- possible to do anything about the mat- ter except informally. ‘The entire reciprocity question was discussed by officials of the Department of Commerce with members of the British delegation to the conference both during and subsequent to the con- ference proper. As a result the Brit- gan negotiations with the home govern- ment which it is hoped may lead to the framing of some sort of agreement, Owing to the lack of an airplane air- worthiness agreement among the na- tions, the United States air commerce act today forbids the flying of any for- eign-built aircraft in interstate com- merce in this country, with the single exception of planes built in Canada and exported to this country under nadian airworthiness certificate for ex- port. No European plane legally may carry passengers or baggage for hire in the United States and no foreign-built plane may be licensed for use in this country. United States Held to Blame.' ‘Thus, while foreign-built aircraft may not be used profitably and, since they may not be licensed, they may not be flfi‘tn legally by any licensed American pilot. There is a reciprocal agreement in effect between lhev United States and Canada. Aircraft manufactured in this country, which bear t of censed Canadian ‘planes and vice versa. The lack of an international agree- ment may be attributed in large part to the United States. The International Convention for Air Navigation outlined at the end of the war an agreement among the allied countries, under which one country would recognize the air- worthiness of aircraft built in other countries. The United States failed to ratify this agreement and since has formed its own code of airworthiness rfinremcnu. which, in many respects, differ from those of other nations. Canada, while being a signatory state of the international convention, has a working agreement with this country by which there is a mutual recognition of airworthiness certificates of the two countries. G. J. Desbarats, deputy minister of national defense of Canada, has taken a leading part in the attempt to bring about an adjustment of the aircraft INTERNATIONAL PLANE TESTING CODE Lack of Pact Governing Airworthiness Held Serious Obstacle to Progress of Aeronautics in World. IS URGED Eritain . to what constitutes “road- worthiness” in an automobile. “For example,” he explains, “our idea of road worthiness is a car so solidly built that it is 10 years out of date be- fore its owner is justified in putting it on the scrap heap. The American idea of road worthiness is a car which puts up a marvelous performance and is so cheap that the owner can afford to scrap it at the end of four or five years — though, as a matter of fact, there are plenty of American cars at 10 years old or more still doing good service. So there is always a possibility that in our desire for absolute air- worthiness we may be asking too much, though personally one does not think so. ‘The various nations at present, Mr. Grey points out, rely on their scientists tress calculations, which decide the size and strength standards of various parts. So long as we depend on theoretical calculations, he holds, or until all nations agree to use the same method of calculation, there does not seem to be any hopeLal arriving at in- ternational agreemen “So far as the trouble between our- selves and the United States is con- cerned,” he continues, “apparently there is no argument about the Te- quired by the stress-merchants employ-~ ed by the Department of Commerce, which does the same work in the States enormous e: tion the tively small number of the employed by the merce, there is no possibility of inspect- ing n&tll“ol their airplanes while it is t. be brought into this country, they may | P¢in€ Doubtful of Airworthiness. “That being so, naturally we are little bit doubtful about granting air- worthiness certificates I&‘Al:\erhn afr- reciprocity differences. “With the increase in aviation now experienced in all countries,” he said, “it is daim.l;‘l:“]:lm&- mm clm:lrl agreemen reac countries interested in aviation. '%fi is particularly noticeable in a country situated as is Canada, where, nlr-ho\lfl: operating neces- numbers of from different “Canada imports aircraft from Great S o lermany, ant CAITY - worthiness certificates issued the countries of origin. are based on different requirements, and as a result some has arisen. It is very desirable that these imported aircraft and aircraft should be built to rds as ga dn: countries. forcefully dealt with in England 3 G. Grey, one of the foremost Bflflg aeronautical authorities. “Does anybody happen to know that the United States is at war with Great Britain?” he opened a recent article on the problem. “There are ity of crazy ple who tell us we are going to have a war with America and there are others who, for their own foul ends, would like to see us at war, and do their best to foster a hostile spirit on both sides of the Atlantic. Pel one does not believe that we shall ever again fight the people of the United States, either on land or sea or in the alr or under the sea. But we do, at the | present moment, seem to be fighting them in hot air. And it is all over a little matter of airworthiness certifi- ites. cates. “We refuse to recognize American air- craft as airworthy on the strength of their holding certificates of airworthi- ness from their own Department of Civil Aviation, which is a sub-depart. ment of the United States Department of Commerce. As reciprocity cuts both ways, quite naturally the authorities of the United States refuse to our machines as airworthy, although they hold certificates of airworthiness from our air ministry. “When one looks at the subject sanely, why on earth should any other country admit that our machines are airworthy when we refuse to admit that theirs are?” Mr. Grey touches upon the necessity for some acce] international defini- tion of the term “airworthy,” pointing as an illustration to the difference of opinion in the United States and Great which still stands, commanding a glori- ous view of the river and the Capital. Nellle Custis, Washington's adopted daughter, was born there. Perhaps it wi]l not be amiss to remind the reader that the Mount Vernon estate comprises about 8,000 acres and that the mansion comprises 19 rooms and is administered by the Mount Vernon Ladles’ Association of the Union. It was built in 1743 by Laurence Washington, fi'filhfim say that it him wh:um-kflAquum plane. “If we are to trade in other going allowed to trade here. And take their own risks when their own judgment of airworthiness pass as merely alrworthy aircraft engines which are not up to our hest standard. FEER L s g The matter of airworthiness has been | certifical k%3S rsonally [ Mexico U. Aims to Cut Student Doctor List Antonio Castro Leal, rector of the National University of Mexico, will take . action promised because statistics show that 50 per cent of the medical men of the republic reside in Mexico City, while in other parts of Mexico there is a dearth of efficlent physicians and In the capital, hnnverwlhm numbar of young and struggling doc- situat tors a serious tion, and those without nncufix are having a In Personal attention to each student. Senor Castro Leal is planning a most rigid entrance examination to limit the number of students. Will Open Fuel Mines By Felling Big Forest The municipal forest of Bitterfield, Germany, the city in which are situated the largest lignite mines in the world, must soon be felled, for it stands above Tich veins of the valuable fuel, which is half-brother of George, and was the latter’s home from 1747 to 1799. Amrdh‘:i‘w a report submitted to Mayor Walker by the president of the board of taxes and assessments of New York City, the taxable wealth of that city rose by ll‘.flll.Mi.fll in 1928. * x % OTES. — Auguste Henri Ponsot, French high commissioner for \ has decided to prorogue for the third time the Syrian Constituent Assembly beuuuuor lfilhdmtumumz attitude. insists on uding in the proposed new constitutional articles hl; effect repudiative of France's position as man- datory power. )luxlelm"l:‘c at their famous old tricks again. 10 the On February traveling was and two cars were LA fireman was killed, but no one else was clals and essmen_ on revious Urge National Forest On Alaska Ice Bluffs The ice bluffs of Kotzebue Sound, near the Bering Straits, just within the Arc- tic Circle, are one of the world’s won- e slic & national pe e the site a nal ‘The bluffs train in which President Portes Gil was| The slate made use of in this dynamited; the engine | is almost entirely from dlled or even injured. There way a :’flr!hn‘t'l .fl'wm'u considerable party of nwmg:nt offi- | is the