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OBREGON LIVES AGAIN IN MEXICO REVOLUTION Nation’s Apparently Sound Peace Hopes Dashed By Strife Laid to “Avengers” of Senora Leader. BY GASTON NERVAL, Authorits on Latin American Afairs. EXICO once more is suffering the effects of that revolu- tionary “fever” which for many yvears has been thr main obstacle to her progress and Prosperity. Again, political passion and tent of the political stability in Mexico. | The Diaz dictatorial regime having been done away with, the violent com- petition for supremacy greatly has re- tarded the natural progress of Mexico. | | Today her government bonds are sold | At 10 per cent of their face value. One- fourth of her population has emigrated to the United States in search of bet- THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTOXN, D. C. MARCH 24 Mellon’s Influence on U. S. His Early Training Has Had Large Bearing Upon His Life as Banker and Secretary of Treasury the ardent ambition of her people have | ter living and working conditions and | brought civil war upon the republic. | capital is denied for the development of Hardly had Mexico escaped from the her natural resources. From 50,000 eonflicts provoked by the assassination | that was the American population in | of President-elect Obregon, than a new Mexico in 1910, this number has dimin- | serious uprising envelops the republic | ished to 5,000 in 1929, and of the 10,000 | in a state of internal disorder. As has | Americans residing in Mexico City there a:m the caze on Lse\tvpaal occasions in remain but 2,000, | e past, Mexico is today adding an- . " other eventful chapter 1o her revoln- e 1 tionary history. | _Once more the United States is aiding 1 Unfortunately, this is coming to pass Mexico to maintain a stable govern- e at a time when relative peace and ment. Not in a direct manner or ac- | iy tranquillity more or less permanent en- tively. for Mr. Hoover has declared on foved by Mexico during the past months humerous occasions his policies are op- | Peemed to augur the termination of Posed to any attempt at intervention in evolutionary movements and an era (he internal affairs of foreign nations, ¢ settled conditions and prosperity. | but indirectly, which may accomplish The manner in which a general | far better results than first thought. 1 Erisis was averted as a result of Obre- | gon's assassination nearly a year ago | and the energetic policies adopted by the government to preserve internal prace at such a critical moment made th close observers of Mexican affairs rejoice at the thought that the tragic | days of internal strifes were at an end. | “False” Optimism Shattered. It appeared as though the southern Fepublic was beginning to realize the disastrous results of this intense drama of continuous revolts, It seemed that Mexico was about to join the ranks of | stable and strong nations of the world | to_which she really belongs. | False optimism! The “big sister” of | the Latin’ American republics again is| suffering the same internal malady | which has been impoverishing her economic life for the last quarter of a! century. The rest of the world is fol- | lowing with interest the violent scenes ©f this.new chapter of the great Mexi- can_tragedy. | This time, as in previous occasions, the revolution is headed by a group of | ambitious revolutionary leaders, whose only objective is the control of the central power. To attain this end, they | mre taking advantage of existing con-, ditions 'and unique circumstances— | availing themselves, for instance, of ! the present religious controversy and | of disagreements long pending between the church and the state to gain in-| fluence of Catholic elements to the cause of the revolution. And although | the Catholics have refrained until now Srom direct participation in the move- ment, at least they see with favor the | opening of the churches to the public | in the cities occupied by insurgent | forces, and this action no doubt will | gain not only the moral but the ma- | terial ~support of the millions of Catholics living in Mexico. | Take Advantage of Strife. | They likewise take advantage of the divisions and personal rivalries which | the death of Obregon caused among his | own adherents, and proclaim themselves | the “avengers” of the famous Sonora | chieftain. They accuse President Portes | How? By authorizing the sale of | arms and munitions to the Mexican | federal government and by imposing an embargo on all arms destined for revo- | lutionary purposes, which has been in | effect for some time with Mexico and the Central American republics. This | fact alone has quite a bearing on_the ultimate result of the revolution. Well provided with arms, munitions and | airplanes, the loyal forces have an enor- mous advantage over their enemies. By prohibiting the sale of srmaments and provisions to the rebels it greatly ham- pers their operations and dims their hopes of success. That the United States is very much concerned in the stability of the go.-rnment of her neighbor country cannot be denied. Thus revolutionary movements or internal disorders there are looked upon with disfavor by this | country. for the consequences brought about by & sudden change in govern- | ments, are well known. Bond Holders Alarmed. Holders of Mexican securities are ex- tremely alarmed with the present re- | volt, for they realize that it will delay, whatever the result might be, the settl ment of the Mexican debt. The revolu- tion of 1924 headed by De la Huerta, although unsuccessful, was used as a justification by the Mexican govern- ment to postpone the payment of in- terest on her obligations, alleging that the government expended $30,000,000 to crush the uprising. Should the present revolution succeed, it would become necessary to agree upon a new system of negotiations, thereby discarding what already has been ac- complished. ¥ Even though the revolutionary leaders, in case of their ultimate victory, should promise to be more agreeable to the de- mands of the United States, the triumph would awaken new ambitions in the Mexican politicians and generals, with a perspective highly dangerous to Uncle Sam and likely to result in future complications. Market Value Is High. Mexico's value as a commercial | market to the United States may be | measured by her importation from this BY ANNE HARD. ERE is the great and modest man whose birthday is cele- brated on the 24th of March. Many a candle symbolical of | cach of the years of his many | accomplishments might be lit today. Only he would not permit it. He would not permit it partly be: ‘ cause of that genuine modesty of his. | but also for another reason. For tnere | are three sure-fire ways of annoying Mr. Mellon. Let him hear you call hhn] the greatest Secretary of the Treasury | since Alexander Hamilton. Let him hear you make some refcrence to his great wealth, Let him hear you allude to his age. | Make any one of ‘these errors and| then watch for the result in your| heaver. Slowly a bright pink floods | upward over his finely chiseled face. His large blue eyes look off into space. And there is a sort of gentl present. One of Washington's more brash and violent statesmen made such a blunder once. It was after dinner, Hanging upon the wall was a_certain painting by one of the great old mas ters whose purchase Mr. Mellon Ww: considering. “I used to be like that,” the voluble statesman remarked. “I used to think it'd be swell to have persons hear I'd paid $100,000 for a picture.” 1 The painting he was looking at was | valued at many times that figure and some of those who knew Mr. Mellani realized at that moment that the rea-| son why he would finally decide not to keep it was in part because he utterly | shrank from having it heralded abroad | that he had purchased so famous and so expensive a picture. | Gives Credit to Others. | ‘This modesty of Mr. Mellon’s is some- | thing much more profound and search- | ing than that of the mere ‘“shyness” | with which he is sometimes credited. | From it there branches as from the | tree of his being his almost anxious I e O T { oo R SECRETARY MELLON. —Underwood Photos. silence | h men who have worked for him in Wash- ington unite to admire this quality in him, in the details of his administra- tion as Secretary of the Treasury. And he has himself illustrated it from time to time in his public specches. However often Republican oratory bhas ly celebrated the achievements of is administration in connection with the operation of the Federal Reserve Board, he has on several occasions pub- | gotten the wall and sought another way | out. His birthday almost coinciding in, date with his third term as Secretary of | the Treasury, Mr. Mellon might well be willing to let'us count his candles, draw | interesting historic analogies and al- lude to his business successes. For it should be a matter of just pride to any man to be so superbly in command of his intellectual faculties, so 1929 PART 2. | i lon has influenced in a peculiar degree the history of his time. | One of the interesting slants in Mr. | | Mellon's character is his contiuuing af- | | fection for Pittsburgh, the city he helped | | to make, the city which helped 0 make | | him. There today is the great marble | | temple of the Mellon bank. Instde, in & | w | place of houor, stands the iron statue of | genjamin Franklin which once stood | over the old bank. Even as & boy he lived In a banker's | worid. Dropping in to his father's bank | | v nelp take down the shulters on the | | wuy 1o school. dropping in after school | vo sit in the cage, he knew of his own | snowledge the eflects of the first epoch- | uikng bapking uct of 1864, as he was | mer to adminster the provisions of the eyually important act creating the Fed- | erui Reserve. { It was in those early banking days | | m Pittsburgh that one of Mr. Mello | greatest friendships began. It developed out of a common interest in what was | 10 become the most important tendency | in American industrial development, | and it continued in what was to become licly called attention to the fact that | physically adequate for further accom- the passage of the act itself was the ' plishment, at any age. If his hesitant accomplishment of a Democratic ad- ' manner be disarming, Mr. Mellon's ap- ministration, | parent frailty of body is deceiving. Such acknowledgments are very rave | His is a frame and face modeled with among men holding public office of a!the delicacy of distinction, not of in- | political nature and are _therefors validism. And if once our country was worthy of remark. Such acknowledg- | in need of the young Hamilton, with his ments in another man might have imagination and daring, it was later sprung from a sense of abstract justice. | equally in need of the mature Meilon, In Mr. Mellon they are a part of his al- | with his solidity of judgment, his pa- most shrinking modesty. They are a| tience. part also of a certain uncompromising | Moreover, in the acquisition of those honesty. | riches, Mr. Mellon had lived through— For there is nothing abstract about | more, had been a part of—the financial him. There is nothing vaguely imagina- and" industtial making of America. | tive or philosophical. He flourishes not | whose history bulks as large as that in the abstract but in the tangible. His | starred with the names of military gen- personality is & problem in geometry— | erals, the economic history made by not in higher mathematics. | Frick, Rockefeller, Carnegie and the Dislikes Useless Discussion. jiecee Mr. Mellon enjoys useless discussion Has Influenced History. as lictle as he might enjoy biting at an | Out of that past, through those de- unfrayable obstacle. If a stone wall | veloping days, working alongside of | Mr. Mellon’s most important secondary | interest—his discriminating collecting | of paintings. A young man named Frick was inter- ested in a new coke process. He came to the Mellons for financial assistance. | He got it. Mr. Mellon and his brothers were among the first American bankers to appreciate the soundness of what is sometimes called industrial banking. “the integration of industry.” The first is the financing by a bank of new processes or resources to enable them to get established on their own. The second is the development within a | single industry of all the facilities to turn raw material into finished pro- ducts. Mr. Mellon from the first be- lieved in both systems. The Mellon Washington knows must now be believed to be not an_entirely different Mellon from _the - Pittsburgh young banker of that day. Careful con- - | int ins. |and the importance of what he calis |t be Put info SH ar meticulous desire to give complete | blocks his exit, long before his opponents | them and beyond nearly all of them credit to others. | have ceased to discharge their ammuni- | into the present, and of them the sole Gil and ex-President Calles of being | country. which amounts to 64.1 per cent | traitors to the Obregonista cause and |per capita. More than lwo'trgerds of | :::rlldma:lel:nofimnsthle trm- the precarious | the comn]mdtties ?onsumed by the Mexi- country. can people are of American origin. As However, these avengers of Oen.f compared with other Latin Afnerlr.m Obregon advocate in their revolutionary | countries, she stands seventh, excelled election of a President to a mde”rr;-‘ | Haiti. Mexico's purchasing power as a be prohibited—two principles laid whole, including the United States and by Obregon. s Furopean countries, based on the con- Mexican revolutions lack as much of | SUmption of foreign products, is but :fl::‘mm "dm“ are filled with contra. ;1.2! &e'r lc‘:pr.m X ltier p;l‘:ch;:;‘n[ ons and aberrations. | power qui ow, but, on the er The present revolutionary movement | DANd. the United 'States stands with ?‘.‘a""“:‘.’i’,‘ organized by influential | ;n.rrdklyt-ny competition in the Mexican leaders of bregon et. Jong txerieace SimiIat politicar aq. | , €T low percentage of importation ventures have combined a definite and | LeS in that she is an industrial nation. eflgfim course not followed in previ‘onus lfl}ll:emp!ouru:u A &l;tliusme; and b’"’" rebellious at of transportation and communi- e b: u‘d @pu for which they soon ‘fl'z's?."i 'hf."; m’-?y o}ihfl countries in The imerica. To this may be added Dreparations” werpt Fhich ll necessary | 3leo that the necessaries of life of the January Jast and the sumultaneity of | Sera6, A1°%Icen are excoedingly mod- prisings in Sonora and Vera {est. And, further, that within the ;1!5! wd u‘:s ‘15 hzyd”r:h internal disorders | arranged. For this reason _ | Dave nis] e country’s pur- ness must be attri e S buted to the Mexiean | g i = !o& as the government is facing| _Auccustomed to “U. S. A.” Mark. l'evol?x 4 m: sht:ongest and best organized What favors more the American manufacturer is that'the Mexicans, be- Obregon’s Break Plays Part. retofore. gflt::! of theg' proximity to the United Tis origin may be traced, sccoroing | es and the latter’s control over her to information cma ating from Mexico, l‘;‘“flket' ‘:l“ie “”w:lne accustomed to o a break between thy | buying articles “‘made in U. 8. A™ A b s oy e Obregon and New York paper has made the remark Seyonil' okl Although Obregon is | that if, for instance, a certain soap of i Possible participation, still | American manufacture enjoys good de- = me is carried on like a battle cry. | mand in Mexico it becomes quite diffi ® Was a true leader and as such left [cult for any European competitor many admirers and friends, who upon |0 introduce a different kind on the his death have become fanatics of his | market, even though it might be of su- memory.” His assassination caused a Perior quality, . profound feeling among his most inti- | The future of Mexico as a commer- mate friends, who already saw him in | ¢ial market for American products de- power and giving them high public | PeNds upon the political and economic .,me.h,, ]ggndligo‘:uto( the nelghbaring republic. When Obregon was by {1t al rue that upon these depends death his adherents opentr arouis | the increase or diminution of the Mexi- Morones, the labor leader, as being re- | “5y Purchasing power. sponsible for the regrettable incident, | noroe fer conai paiging these eco- They based their accusation in the well | known rivalry between the two political men then existing, notwithstanding their past alliance and good friendship which | had brought them together. | Morones was accused of having been | nomic ties existing between the United States and Mexico. it must not be for- gotten that it would be absurd to even think, what already has been stated by a certain newspaper, that the Mexicans should allow this country to develop for | them a course of political action or in- the instigator, “the brains tehind” the | terfere directly in the int : ’ 1y ernal af- assassination. Later the Obregonistas | fairs of the Southern republic. reproached President Calles for keeping | 3 Morones in office, even after he had re- | _ Mexico's Problems Her Own. signed his post in the cabinet and left | Regardless of her misfortunes, faults the city of Mexico. This action no | 2nd political complications, Mexico is an doubt gave rise to their enmity for |independent state and a_sovereignty. ORI ‘and o thelr iplan for Yebellion. |t A# €Ul it Mhyolves fipon) bas DA iot 2 upon her neighbors to look after her Adherents of Same Party at War. {oun political problems, difficult as the So it happens that Portes Gil and |task might be. Calles, former lieutenants of Obregon,] The Latin Americans shall always see are now combating a revolution mainly ' with gratification that a powerful and | composed of Obregon followers. Not ' civilized Nation like the United States ! only is this a war between the sons of | thould lend her hand to the neighbor- | the same country, but also between the ,ing republics and aid them in the so- adherents of the same party. Of course, | lution of their most pressing problems Jater, factiens of the opposing paity | Without compromising their sovereign- joined the uprising because they saw | lies. but never would they consent, at in the movement a great mope for their | I¢ast Without protesting. to any attempt Sbition: of Power, | which might affect their independence, The Mexican situation is being fol- | Integrity and freedom of action. lowed with much concern by the United ' . States. The fact that a change in gov- | ernment might. affect the vast nter- | LLondon May Lose Famous Old House ests and the diplomatic relations of ; both nations is sufficient cause for this | country to feel somewhat alarmed and | - “uneasy respecting the present course of events south of the Rio Grande. Either by coincidence (or by premed- itated ection of the rebels) the revolu- tion broke out the very same day that President Hoover took the seat of the Government. ‘Thus, Mr. Hoover's first task is that =ame old Mexican problem which has been confronting the United States since 1822, when Mexico became an independent state. Problem of All Administrations. ‘For about a century the United States | London fs in danger of losing still | ! another of her famous old mansions. |1t negotiations for the sale of Lans- downe house succeed there is little i doubt that this stately Adam house will ! be demolished like its neighbor, Devon- shire house, to make way for a huge Iblock of buildings containing apart- ments, restaurant and hotel. | Lansdowne house, which, with its | gardens, ~ covers the "south side of Berkeley Square, is at present in the | occupation of H. Gordon Selfridge, who secured it furnished from the late Lord BY HENRY W. BUNN. The following is a brief summary of | the most important news of the world | for the seven days ended March 23: { A A GREAT BRITAIN.—During the com- ing fiscal year the British royal air| squadrons, including 12 cadre or auxil- iary squadrons. A new British flying boat base has been established at Basra. It is now | expected that the two new airships, R-100 and R-101 (the greatest airships | in the world, each with gas capacity of | over 5,000,000 cubic feet), will make‘ their first flying trials by June at latest. The retail price of gasoline in Great Britain is now 39 cents per gallon, | whereas a year ago it was only 26.| Meantime, the government has imposed | a tax of 8 cents per gallon, and row | the recently formed ofl combine has | added 5 more. Against the latter a howl of protest has arisen ail over the | kingdom. The “baby car” industry, one | of the most successful of all British | industries, is likely to be hard hit. f ‘There is a strong move afoot to raise | the compulsory school age term from 14 to 16, partly on obviously general | grounds and partly (as advocated by' the Melchett-Turner joint committee | representing capitalism and trades unionism) to relieve unemployment. * Kk % FRANCE.—Ferdinand Foch, marsha! of France, died on March 19, at the age of 77. He was far and away the most notable figure of the Great War, and | indeed ranks with the supreme captains of all time—with Alexander the Great, | Hannibal, Caesar, Marlborough and Napoleon—being of the very few who | have indubitably possessed that rarest | species of genius, the genius military. | Perhaps his most striking illustration | of that gift was at the first Battle of the Marne, when, just as to others tho | day seemed irretrievably lost, he divined ! a weak spot in the German line, drove | for it and through it, and reversed ln‘ the allies’ favor the course of the war. It is that inexplicable touch of divina- | tion at supreme crises, when everything | conspires to prevent clear decisions. | that stamps the authentic military | genius. It was upon the occasion men- | tioned above that Marshal Foch uttered | the famous words: | “Pressed on my right, with my center | broken, I am aitacking with my left. | My situation is excellent.” i The operations which followed upon the too-long-delayed appointment, in | March, 1918, of Marshal Foch as gen- | eralissimo of the allied and associated forces, were, of course, on a scale of | unprecedented grandeur. The fact that | | gestions from Field Marshal Haig does not detract from the credit due’ to| | Marshal Foch: au contraire. We may not say that Foch was the | | greatest of captains; but we must say| | that he conceived the grandest of mili- | tary plans and that it was executed, with complete success. It is beyond | question that th> German armies could | have been annihilated. The world will | remember no less the clemency of Foch, and, among ‘the influences making for a genuine Franco-German | pacification, the remembrance of this} clemency is not negligible. In person, Marshal Foch was the | one to enter into public office, Mr, Mel- | servatism, that foundation for public | confidence and steadier of public credit. 3 RECOVERY OF ILL RUSSIA IS FORESE EN BY EMIGRE {Envisions the “White, Blue, Red” Flag Which Is to Be the Symbol of His Regenerated Country. Note-Dr. Leonid Strakhovsky is a | member of the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and himseli a Russian emigre. ‘The som of & Russian governor he fought agaiuzt the Bolsheriks. was wounded. imprisoned and finally escaped from his nalive land to toke up educa- tiomal pursuits in other lands. BY DR. LEONID STRAKHOVSKY. 1 STAR-LIT sky over the dark | grim-looking = Kremlin. The towers of Ivan the Terrible kee| i a silent watch. Inside the heav 1 walls there ssems 40 b2 no life | The churches and cathedrals are closed. | The large palace and numerous old | buildings bear not a single ilght. And | lik> a Ted mocking tongue high in the tar-lit sky in a stream of beams from powerful lamps—Hoats a blood-red flag. | That is how the heart of Russia looks | today. But I Imagine that one day will | come ‘when glory to God will be sung in the numerous churches and cathe- drals, when the whole Kremlin will be | just one mass of light and joy and high | in the star-lit sky a new flag—a symbol | of a regenerated country—will unwind proudly its colors: White, blue, red I firmly believe that such a day will come, a day when freedom in Ru will not merely mean a word which fa'ls into cblivion so that it might svon be lost for the Russian language. but when it will be, together with the three- colored banner, the embodiment of that ideal for the realization of which Russia as striving for more than & eentury. | And that day will witness the union of the best that the Russian people ever had and that is spread all over the world wherever there are Russian exiles. Those that have suffered during ali » interminable years the martyrdom of intellect and soul in Russia and thos= who suffered perhaps more through being exiled than through the mater ial hardships of life abroad will find at last their common cause which lies in the freedom of their country. Thus united after years of misunderstanding. after years of mistrust, during which vears the only link between them was their common pain and suffering. Ru: sian people will start rebuilding that magnificent structure which is called by the sweet name of Russia and now les in ruin. Soul of Russia Attacked. This union will come, because Wwe | have not been estranged enough to be | indifferent, because we cherish equally our land, which is our love, our very !life. And our sorrow of being awey from our country is as deep as the sol | row of those who witness {heir country Yes. | standing the building of factories and | mills, of roads and railway lines, the { present rulers of Russia have ruined | her because they have attacked the soul of Russia. With their materialism | and rationalism they have put the hu- man being on a level with an animal or |a machine: they have taken away the | aim of humanity to better itself in try- |ing to better the immediate surround- ings of man. And we feel here the | rising of that small but powerful force { which is the spirit of a nation that in | the end no human ruler has ever been able to stamp down for too long. Many a skeptical reader will think that I am id-alizing the circumstances. | notwith- | |gone a dangerous arbitrary length in | over his entire strength to Wu Pel Men who have worked with him and | tion in defending it he. will have for- | tonnage entering. During 1928 it over- | tang Congress now in session at Nan-|der Nanking, governor of the Peking | her spirit. 'mcll: gn!fiver% n’ndt Rntt?rdln: xlx:J tgm. king were th:mL x‘l’cke‘d bl:l_v the central and finally just nosed oul ndon. | government insf of ing delegated The 1928 figures (approximate) for the {' eapnous five leading ports of the world are as represent. War between the Wuhan follows: New York, 39,000,000 tons; | group and Nanking seems imminent Hamburg. 21,500,000; London, 21,300,- and minor clashes are reported. The 000; Rotterdam, 20,500,000; Antwerp, |sinister report arrives that force is to be increased from 75 to 82 | figure was 14,000,000; that for 1919 Was | himself from the congress, has resigned | provinces. 1,500,000. ‘The population of Hamburg as minister of war, and it is feared S increasing at a terrific pace. It NOW | {hat he proposes to join Wuhan. In Chang, who is attempting to recover his b el {old tuchunate, is making headway CHINA—I{, as the dispatches assert, | Portentously, and the indication is that the present situation in China has ! Chefoo will soon fall to him. In the never been surpassed for chaos even in great Province of Szechwan Gen. Yang that country, it is sufficiently unsettled. | Sen maintains his independence and it Certainly the Nanking government has is rumored that he proposes to lhgln attempting to establish the central au- | this long time in eclipse but perhaps thority, in asserting the unitary as|the ablest of Chinese commanders, for a against the federative principle. It is!drive down the Yangtsze. There is ru- said that & considerable majority of the mor of a coalition to include Gen. Yen members of the third national Kuomin- ' Hsi Shan (Tuchun of Shansi and, un- This Hoary-Headed Falsehood Has Lived Long Enough BY BRUCE BARTON. We need to get two things it was only about 800,000. | HERE are a few hoary- headed falsehoods that have lived too long. One of them is this T “Ninety-five per cent of the men who go into busin firmly in mind about American es: st: In a country growing as fast as this, the earning power of money is very great. Your the plan embodied very important sug- | T;M out to you that ou begin i money regularly, systematically, you will at 50 hav income from your now have from your salary. In other words, any man in America who will set himself doggedly at it can acquire a competence. Ard this country fail.” | have heard speakers get that off at dinners with pon gravity; | have seen and aghin in maga success and failure in this try, and has proved conclus that the s i Ninety-five per cent of the men who enter business do not fail; and of those who do fail a good many start over again, pay up their debts and die successful. We have fallen into the habit of talking about success as if it were something exceptional. is not the exception—it is the rule | am continually amazed by the mediocre men—men of one idea, men who bore you to death if you have to talk with them half an hour—who win out. Five years ago a group of us used to wag our heads sadly about the fate of poor Horton. He was buried alive in a great corporation. To be sure, we did not think he deserved much of the world; he had no genius. only a dogged sort of loyalty. The other day | received an engraved notice that Horton had been made general manager of his concern. I picked up the latest copy of Business in America is expanding so fast that any man who will take the trouble to equip himself, and who will work determinedly, can win a fair measure of success. Luck, you ask? “t there are lucky id Charles M. Schwab. “I have made it a rule of my life to surround myself with lucky men; to have no other kind of positions of importance that | control.” But when you come to ask Charles M. Schwab what he means by luck, you will discover from his own career that he means, first, hard work; second an unshakable conviction th he deserves to be lucky and is going to be lucky. men have the without the conviction. Get that conviction today. Get it firmly implanted in your mind that in this country a majority of the men your age, Yes. work (Continued on Fifth Page.) The Story the Week Has Told rea), Chang Hsueh Liang, Tuchun of Manchuria, super and Chang |infamy. Rumors hurtle terrifically in all directions. Late dispatches indicate that fighting S Marshal | of some importance is going on along | cen 20,000,000. Hamburg's highest pre-war Feng Yu Hsiang. who has absented the borders of Hunan‘ Al;‘d Kmnzs‘l\hm The reader will recall that | some weeks ago Gen. Lu Ti Ping, the | governor of Hunan province, appointed | approaches 2,000,000, whereas in 1905 | shantung the infamous Chang Tsung | by the Nanking government, was, after some fighting, ejected by Gen. Yeh Chi, | who was backed by the Wuhan Kiangsu |group and usurped the governorship or | | Tuchunship of Hunan. Nanking is sup- | porting Lu Ti Ping in the effort to re- | cover his position, and Wuhan is rein- | forcing Yeh Chi.' Hence the fighting, | which, according to the dispatches, is | going In favor of Yeh Chi. | F. W. Maze, an Englishman, former- |ly commissioner of custams at Shang- hai, has been appointed inspector gen- eral of Chinese customs, in succession to A. H. F. Edwardes, who, in February, | 1927, sueceeded Sir France Anglen, who | had been ousted by Chang Tso Lin. The inspectorate general is being moved ‘(mm Peking to Nanking. Mr. Edwardes | could never quite adapt himself to the | new order of things in China, while | ostentatiously friendly toward it. Mr. | Edwardes steadily protested that by |reason of the changes really efficient | management of thé customs administra- tion had become impossible. Mr. Maze has been in the customs service for over a quarter of a century. There seems little doubt that the Nanking govern- | ment contemplates elimination, at no | distant date, of foreign control from the customs administration. It will be re- called that such control was instituted about 60 vears ago. at the instance of the imperial Manchu government, its function of safeguarding the foreign debts secured on the cusioms being in- | cldental. | * ok K X UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.— Gov. Henry S. Johnston of Oklahonia has been found “guilty” by the State Senate court of impeachment on the charge of “general incompetency” and has been removed from office. Im- peachment of the governor is an old, old story in Oklahoma. The late Congress deserves gratitude for its legislation insuring preservation |of the forests in the Yosemite National Park, and for the enlargement of that {park’ to include some especially fine istands of the sugar pine; also for the !act creating the Teton National Park in | South Dakota, and for the migratory game refuge act. With proper adminis- tration, there should be no further dev- astation of the forests in any of the national parks. It is expected that air mail service between the United States and Brazil via the Antilles will be installed with- | | Mr. Maze has shown himself somewhat | that I am far away from realities of | life. But I am not and I will prove it. | One has only to look into the past of the Russian nation to find how par- ticularly patient the Russian people are. In the darkest hours of its history when | everything seemed to be lost forever, | Russia has always found an issue in | appealing to her own spirit. Thus dur- ing the three centuries of the Mongol | danination Russia did not. surrender | Yes, damage was done, because at the {hour 'of lberation from the Tartars from the arenas they are supposed to | Tsung Chang, that Celestial flower of |Russia did not step in the path of fre | dom_indicated to her by her broa ! minded princes and wealthy merchants | of Kiev and Novogorod during the first turies of Russia’s cultural and civi- d life, when those centers of the | Russian nation were true representa- |tives_of that wide “Republica Chris- | tiana” of Europe formed by all Chr tian rulers and their people. Instead. | Russia, thankful to the overthrowal of the Tartars' rule, gave freely into the clever scheme of the Moscow tsars and lost her freedom for more centuries to | come. But her spirit remained intact. Her energy was not wasted, because ! under the cover of patience it accumu- lated new forces that remained latent. | but mevertheless efficient. And then came a new test. During the most troubled times of | the end of the sixteenth century, when foes from every land and of every creed | gripped Russia at her heart and domi- { nated her by installing themselves in one of Russia’s most venerated sané- tuaries—Moscow's Kremlin—the people |of Russia found force and energy 1o | lead their country on the road to sal- | vation. The Struggle of East and West. At this time Russia started gradually |to come back to her natural road of | | progress. She abandoned one by one the inheritances of Asiatic rule and | turned more and more toward the West in order to regain her former po- | ition in the family of European na- | tions. And then came the bolshevik | revolution and plunged Russia back into | Asia. Thus all through Russian his- {tory we can see how violent and cruel was and is in Russia the struggle be- tween East and West. And up till late we have always witnessed the victory of forces of order if not always of freedom. | the victor of West over East. This will | 1also happen now, but we miust be ready to help Russia to recover, in order that ol dlenacesied s it S bl | and commenting on the project under | consideration by the committee of an | international bank, which should haule | German_reparations payments. |~ Though the communique contains no ! such hint, it is plausibly enough rumor- | led that the project contemplates that | the bank should function as & medium | for transmission of war debt payments !to the United States. Obviously such an arrangement would make for con- venience, though no doubt “the idea would be abandoned should Washington | | frown upon it (though we could scarce- {ly refuse payments so tendered). H It is obvious how -such a bank of | | temporary and limited function might | levolve into & permanent planetary in- | stitution, co-ordinating and protecting all the exchanges. We are told that | ! !in a few months. In its third annual| \ir Owen Young, the grand advocate Ireport the Federal Oil Conservation | of toue To e eject, lias: ‘vesy' minch i Board emphasizes the obvious fact that | jn mind the evolution suggested. There we are cxhausting our petroleum re- | i5 yothing novel in the idea of an in- sources at a dangerous rate. Our best' ternational bank of the larger function | petroleum experts figure that our oil it has occurred to everybody, just as reserves are only 18 per cent of those | -gerial navies” were imagined long be- of the world. | fore Langley. But its realization seemed In 1928 in New York State about | indefinitely of the future. Should it be 12,500 persons were killed and more than | realized by way of the evolution sug- 99,000 persons were injured in auto- | gested, should the international bank {mobile “accidents.” About 300 children | (o deal with German reparations pay- {were killed and nearly 12,000 were in- | ments be so framed as to make its evo- jured while playing in the streets. Says | lution easy, almost certain, into a! |the official report: “Practically all of | permanent international bank of plane- not only order but also freedom would be restored. Therefore let us see what can the 3000000 of Russian emigres do to help their country. Of course, it is evident that no mili- tary intervention is possible and besides I affirm that there is not a single state or even a single statesman at present who would contemplate such a disas- trous issue. We have but to look in the nearest past to find that the move- ment of anti-bolshevik forces gathered in the white armies failed principally because they were supported by foreign powers. The presence of foreign {roops on Russian soil exalted Rus- ian patriotism and I know of many rases when former officers of the im- perial al offered voluntarily their services to the bolshevik government, because they felt that the Russian rev- alution, as bad as it was, still repre- sented an internal phase of Russian life and that foreigners had nothing to do with it. should not mix into it. Thus a patriotism had arisen that has helped the bolsheviks to win the civil war. Therefore, changes in present Russia can come only from the inside, led by persons who are constantly in touch with the Russian people. We, emigres residing abroad, will be able to do nothing in changing the state of gov- ernment in Russia. But we shall be invaluable when the work of reconstruc- tion begins. Then we shall bring into the common chest the fruit of our ex- perience, of our knowledge, of our skill, acquired abroad among nations from which we could learn many things and did actuaily learn. But to be able to do so we must keep our national face, we musi preserve that what makes us a distinct race and a distinct nation And for that purpose we must be helped by generous nations which must un- derstand that in the end it will mean much more for them than & mere ac- quisition of so many new citizens. This particular country can do much for us. even much more than it has done so long. I know that the tradi- tional and very vital policy of the United States has been and is to assimilate newcomers, to be a sort of “melting pot,” where out of represantatives of all countries a new and powerful nation is | being created. But I firmly believe that in this particular case of Russian emigres it might be wise for this great republic to look deeper into the question end to discover the importance for the future of both United States and Rus- sia of preserving a nation now in exile from complete denationalization. Natural Allies. One can see clearly what a great advantage it would be for Americans to have in future Russia a considerable number of peopie who, acquainted with their ways of doing and thinking, would sponsor & closer understanding between those two countries, which have so much in common, which are natural al- lies in the field of progress of humanity land in the field of political co-opera- \tion. For this last reason I have but | to mention the problem of the Pacific, in which American interests are grow- ing bigger and faster every day, and in which a friendly support of Russia would be quite invaluable. Therefore, I think that in helping Russian emigres to teach their children to know their country, their national institutions, liter- ature, arts and their feith, America | would play a magnificent and generous | role, which will not be devoid of great | importance for herself. But on the whole the question of denationalization in this country is not so acute as it is in Europe, because the bulk of Russian emigres is found across | the ocean. There, mostly on the Bal- kans, in Czechoslovakia and France, {we find a greater need for Russian edu- cation than over here. And it is only through education in Russian schools that the vital problem of preserving a national character to the Russian | emigration can be solved. ‘In this field Americans have already done very much. Some well organized and pow- erfully financed institutions in this country have given the Russian youth means to accomplish their education in American and European universities and I know that I express their thought in saying here that they are eternally grateful to their benefactors. But the sltuation of children who go to primary. secondary and high schools is disas- trous, and it is there that help is | urgently needed, because it is at this age that the mind and intellect is formed. It is not an exaggeration to say that in present conditions all those children—the rising generation—are in- evitably and irrevocably lost to Russia. And I ask you. can a civilized world look at these happenings calmly without moving & finger for help? Or is this vorld blind and cannot see the ad- \‘an’u}'ges that such a help would bring to_it? The political future of Russia i8 in the hands of her own people, flesh and blood of her soil, and it is of little importance what form of government will replace the Soviet tyranny as soon as it gives the desired freedom to all people. The old hope of restoration is dead. anyhow, and this we know. And in all that no foreign power can have anvthing to do. But the future rela- tions of Russia with foreign lands, the understanding that is necessary to create international friendship, the bringing of Russia into the common cause of humanity, is entirely in the hands of those people who kindheart- edly have opened their lands to Rus- sian emigres but who do not do any- thing to help them to remain Russians. We went into exile to preserve that what we believed was most valuable in us—our national spirit—and now was find with horror that we are unable to preserve it in our children. This thought tortures us more than that .of being exiled, away from our land, from our life, unable to return under the penalty of death—what is even worse, under that of menial and spiritual death in seclusion or in deportation in Siberia, or on the Solovetsky Island, in the midst of that ferocious White Sea off the coast of all civilization, Humanity’s Future at Stake. It is necessary that help should come, because the future of Western civiliza- tion, nay, more—the future of human- ity—is at stake and we firmly believe that our cry of distress will not be a cry in the wildern We are united & great common cause—Dby the love of our country—we are a nation, even if we are now in exile, and we want to remain faithfil to our traditions, to our great humani- tarian teachers as represented by our writers, by our musicians. our artists. But we feel that we are lost amidst for- eign though friendly people, that the altraction of everyday's life and its necessities for our young generation is too great and that we need a helping hand to pull us through those weary years. If among ourselves there are people who did not learn anything ang did not forget anything., they are not the future builders of Russia, because it is only those who would come back to e s vored to aid Mexico in divorc- e herselr T a trade paper yesterday. On the who have less brains than you, | ilhe accidents could have been avolded tary function, Mr. Young would re- our land with an open mind and an ing herself from Internal anarchy by |Lansdowne eight years ago. recognizing one way or the other thei It is a typical specimen of the stability of constituted governments. | domestic architecture of Robert Adam, The problem has passed from one a ‘\Ahn, with his brother, buiit the Adelphi, ministration to another. |and was erected in the middle of the Porfirio Diaz ruled Mexico with an | eighteenth century. iron hand for a period of 30 years and Lansdowne house is famous for its made of the country one of the strongest | political associations. In its classic and resourceful nations in the conti- | drawing room the old Whig coterie used nent, to meet early in the lost century, and frailest of the great commanders. was of very kindly and modest, though dignified, demeanor. He was a most religious man. Of all the great com- | manders he was the most profoundly learned in his profession: carried & weight of learning that would have sunk an ordinary man into pedantry. It is matter of profound regret that He | ! | indeed, he | cover was the name of a poor stick | used to know. We wondered, when he mar- d. how he could ever find a job that would pay him enough to support a wife. That was six or Yesterday ful men If you believe that you are going to be one of that majority, if you money and work, you will win. years Don't tell me that you won't. in this trade but | jor minimized if the driver had not been {driving his car at a high rate of speed.” A committee of jurists appointed by | the Council of the League of Nations to ‘draw up terms under which our Govern- ment might adhere to the World Court has adopted a draft protocol which is sald to correspond almost exactly to the “formula” proposed by Elihu Root. quire no further monument: immor- would be assured him. | * koK x | NOTES—The dismal effects of the | terrible Winter on the economy of the European Continent are being recorded in reports of industry and trade, espe- | cially in those from Germany. i Little news reaches us of how mat- | | tality of fame intellect full of valuable experience that can and will help Russia to recover. This is an S O S to the civilized world and in the first place to this great coun- try. Our symbol—the Russian three- colored banner—is our rally. We call everybody to give us a hand and we have faith, faith in the human race, faith in the human heart of nations. ago. | have never met you: have met a good many self-made rich men. And, without knewing you at all, | tell you confidently that you have more brains than some of (Copyright, 1929 The only absolutely authentic infor- | ters are going in the kingdom of the|The three colors of Russia—white, blue mation of importance that we have to gerbs, Croats and Slovenes under the | and red—are expressive. White has date respecting the proceedings of the new dictatorship of the King. Let usibeen, red is now, let biue come and international experts comittee which, sit- | hope that the adage “No news is good | restore our country. This blue is the ting at Paris, is working with a view to | news” applies in this case. | heavenly color of the sky. It is also !revision of the Dawes plan, is in the | The Mexican insurrection is practical- | the color of fidelity and faiti; fidelity form of a communique issued by that 'y over: another dismal chapter in Mex-|to those who are our friends, faith in body on March 9, presenting in outline ican history has been written, the future, - . Her industries were splendid, her | | in recent vears it was the scene of im- | Marshal Foch did not live to complete foreign credit well established and the | railroad system one of the three most | portant conferences of the Unionist | the memoirs on which he was at work. The erutest figure of our time has extensive in the world. Indeed, Mexico's | party. i future seemed assured. However, after | Thomas Moore, the Trish poet, Syd- | passe the Diaz regime was overthrown, and |ney Smith, Lord Macauley and Mme. * ok ox % excepting the 30 years which he re-|de Stael are among the notabilities who| GERMANY.—The port of the free mained in power, an average of one|use to be met there at parties in the ' city of Hamburg is now the second President every year has been the ex-'old days. port in the world in respect of maritime paper | found a full-length pic- ture of him, seated in his | mahogany-trimmsd office. He | has been made his company's ’