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(Continued FProm First Page.) Selyes—iry to persuade .themselves— that, by acts of the human will, the lot ©of man can be ameliorated. ‘They do not &j ve of concentra- tion of wealth in the hands of a few; the scandal of insolent lux- Neve:fl!h- ",lt ’:e:mn to ‘:e coun alling_ into she b';l.l: not yet completel ad to China. So much so that at moment when I am writing on the tion—or, | progress of -civilization I am compelled will follow quite naturally. I have simpltfied the matter to an extreme degree 30 as clearly to demon- strate the trends of thought. As a mat- ter of fact, realists and Utopians ap- proach each other more closely than | the-brief survey I have just given might | lead one to suppose. There is hardly a realist who the advantage of | an equitable distribution of wealth. "There is hardly a Utoplan who does not recognize the benefits to be derived from development of production. Every one—all _men of enlightenment—will indorse; I am sure, the vigorous words of Jaures, appealing for advent of societies working together in harmony in the place of the existing an! istic societies. The one and the other differ only in the means employed. Weak Spot Is Located. But here is the weak spot. Utoplons, like realists, fall into a common error, ‘Whatever they may say, their chief pre- occupation is material well-being. The progress of civilization is to most | of them a question of the alimentary canal. Now I hear the loud protests of my imaginary interlocutors. They only see, | they say, a greater affiuence in life in order to spread culture, to dignify their | fellow men, to bring them closer to-| to admit. that a large section of the , in close proximity to Western , 1is infested with a leprosy like that which ate away the provinces forming the boundary of the Roman empire long before the final fall of the Caesars. s Is, then, the prophecy made both by Herbert Spencer and Renan, predicting a period of “return to barbarism,” on the point of being fulfilled? Imaginary peril, one will think! I hold quite an opposite opinion, I maintain that the danger foreseen by the 'English sociologist and by the French philosopher is by no ‘means hypothetical. I maintain that our civilization is fragile and that the evo- lution, exclusively toward the develop- ment of material well being at which Utopians as well as Realists aim, con- tributes to jeopardize its existence. How are we to look upon such eventualities? The man in the street will wonder. Our civilization is much more firmly anchored than those which ave perished in the past. It is an- hored by science. Cites Cause of Anxiety, Science? This is precisely the cause of my anxiety. Listen to me! It is a eommonplace topic to remark on the transformation being brought about in the world by science in less than a century. It is but right to ad- mit that science, even in the most re- ther. nDo they really think that the path they follow will bring them to the and! that they have in view? Do they not| perceive that there is a danger in di- | recting the mind solely toward an ame- | lioration of existence? How, later on, | will they dispel from the mass psy- | chol that fixed preoccupation which | they have instilled into it to the ex-| clusion of all else? | 1 will justify my fears by a glance about us, and invite my readers to do the same. Sees U. S. Adopting Realism. A great country, the United States of America, adopts realism. Eager for immediate results, she makes up for slow scientific by organization. Organization of industry! Organization of labor! She nationalizes—I include in the word the whole ut of techni- " ovaduces —this . beyond e to? produces—t te—a level of material civilization hl! r than ours. This is certainly not a negligible uhhvem::tit 'l,h:t- : Jittle disposed to underra - ht the wish that ‘borrow ly 3 ot working class, resulting mnuu‘cmre not only of products, but also of men. Position Is Outlined. Let me make myself clear. telligent application of craftsman- i raises th? ‘workma Indefinite n. of the same gesture in the mfimmmm It mak an sutomal w:o(uummunnymd no longer earners the day when™they were re- duced to play the part of animals, Mechanieal Man Is Result. & But—they would not have to work L '{'hflr wages would be infi- nitely greater! Every ome of them would have a motor car, would enjoy, 8t leisure, the charms of the cinema, etc. ‘This trivial -muu‘; oul eight hours of brutalizing application to mulchhlnz or lever and deprived of al intellectual food will be, or will become, | the very force of circumstances me- nical men. ‘What would be the consequences? It al! somewhat risky to_attempt to Iift the veil on the future. I am going, however, to commit myself to a forecast. | I foresee that the workmen will for a time be content to eat hay out of a gilded manger. They will let themselves drift down the slippery slope of torpid- ity. They will drag with them the man- agers, who—having now only to control a submissive, characterless mob that is incapable of resistance and protest— I be engulfed in the general sioth and E::onnu. A civilization of monotony | d torpidity will arise * * * aciv- flization pulled with a string. If I may | be allowed to employ an image, rural ndscapes will be leveled and give way | an immense kitchen garden; and I’ $hould not care—any more than does a | eertain English politician—to live in sm | closure of pumpkins and tugnlg::’ far | way from the ravines where there is | danger of falling no doubt, far from the 'kets where there is a risk of lacerat- | one's hands, but where one enjoys | e delight of the unexpected a struggling against obstacles. Influence of Environment. T reassure myself, and I reassure ritish statesman, ad that impking of pumpkins would some day be felt by others. It is in the nature of man to be content long with a life destitute of action. 0se leading such a life or ‘condemned | o do so will inevitably revolt. And here | it is that my fears take definite shape. | . Men manufactured in series, whose of | the | the N change will thus Jead the automatons to hurl civilization, pulled with s string, into one of ‘ataclysms of which a lamentable spec- :csuumn;pruenu«wumme t. Now. instead of forecasting the future, ¥ope a young, nt nation, refusing 1o I‘Vey due crlg‘lt to time, overdrives jproduction and seeks to extract an ex- ten;'v: = it from realism, so similarly 1 id be completel; I maintain should, ted c-nn"r'.‘u chief and started 1 | lord mote times, has always been the chief factor in the material progress of hu- manity. And this great role science is destined to play indefinitely. Uto- pians and Realists equally rely .upon it —and with reason. But are they fully alive to the perils it conceals? Science is at least as ready to destroy. as to create, cels in intensifying the horror of tragic conflicts. Tomorrow it will re- veal secrets to man a thousand times more terrible than those already dis- closed to him and which, but yester- day, he put to such terrible use. Thus, unless are all. on our guard, not only will civilization cease to exist, but also humanity itself; ‘which would be developed only to realize the ancient myth—the fable of the god who de- vours his own children, Let it not be argued that this dan- ger has existed at all times. No doubt Stantly throughoit The. pesming con stantly cen~ turles. There is nd comparison, how- ever, between the successive inven- tions of the catapult, )powder, the arquebuse, musket and the terrifying commenced—he but commenced—to steal from the sky. Science must contribute solely for the (Continued Prom Third Page.) practical politics, at least in the life- time of the present party chiefs. MacDonald reviles the Liberals—and 50 does Baldwin. Both deglare that they will have nothi wouldn’t touch either of them with a barge pole. (But he might, if he got a good offer.) S Baldwin put an end to the uncer- tainties by toring signed London house to teplace No. 10 street, Ramsay MacDonali colleagues to Hampstead es cabinet making. Choices Inspire Confidence. Glance at his choices and you will see why the Stock Exchange is steady. He $3-year-od bachelor Jadgs who presided -year: wl over the 1919 coal commission and who declared in favor of nationalization, and made him lord high chancellor. He got William Allen Jowitt, the leading K. C. d, & $200,000-a-year man, who won' his seat as a Liberal, to come to the Socialist party, and made attorney general (a defection:from the first of many to come). J. H. Thomas, & bit of Tory, he made privy seal. Omas Was an en- gine driver and rose to the head of the Rallwaymen's Union. He is a great diner-out, numbers crowds of big. in- dustrialists among his friends, has made a lot of money on the Stock Exchange, h's because if he did not he would be branded bourgeoisie and lose much of his influence, and is genial, wary and wiley, and as acute as they make 'em. ‘The Reds and Pinks thought they were going to have at least one foot- hold on the inner circle, in the control of the police through the home secre- taryship, but the Conservative list went steadily on. Lord Thomson, the tall, distinguished son of & major general 4and himself a general, was made sec- retary of state for air; J. R. Clynes. as moderate as Ramsay MacDonald him- self, an Irish laborer's son, who spent 6 cents a week on candies while learn- ing words out of a dictionary as a child worker' in a cotton mill, is the secretary of state for home affairs; Lord Parmoor, the famous parlia- mentary and ecclesiastical lawyer and vicar general o the Provinces of Can- terbury and York- and attorney gen- eral to the Prince of Wales, is the lord president of the council, which means the ‘government leader in the House of Lords; Sidney Webb, who is England's most _industrious sociol 't tacticlan celebrated for his “A Constitution for the Socialist Commonwealth of Great Britain,” is the secretary of state for dominion affairs and the coloriies and the leader of the co-operative mo: ment. A, V. Alexander, a former Bap- tist ‘lay preacher who fought through the war from start to finish,” is in charge of Britain's navy department. Sir Philip in Treasury. Sir Philip Snowden was put into the treasury—a grim, clenched, orthodox intellectual with too good & brain to subscribe to any of the wild financial notions of the Reds and Pinks of the party whose schemes he periodically rips up and ridicules at party con- ferences. For foreign secretary Ramsay chose Arthur Henderson, who shows a large expanse of white collar and cuff, and Who has the manner of a Baptist min- ister and the a rance of an Ameri- (Lloyd George into his wartime cabinet as minister of education and labor adviser and sent him to Russia to try to make a deal with Kerensky.) Margaret Bondfield became the min- ister of health. She is an old estab- lished labor leade? who has been Lloyd George's ranks which may be | Hkes' champagne and cigars, drops his | and Fablan and author, and who is | pacific progress of the remedy. “Science without a means the death of the soul,” Rabelais, pembracing in these few words a truth 'which a further aphorism will complete: for the salvation of humanity conscience (the word includes all classes of moral- #y) must advance in step with seience. Now what disturbs me—as, I '"'m 1t does all wno seriously reflect on questions—is that there has been no simultaneous development between sci- ence, which during the last hundred to| and especially the last 50 has ad ’ m’ne:.. and advanced with gigantic morality. which has remained at a standstill if it has not even retrograded. Should we be at this marking | time or this recoll? iturally the | curiosity of our- fellowmen has been awakened by the extraordinary inven- tions of modern times. The mind has | been enthralled by the applications—I | do not’ say, by the laws—of science. These have obsessed and do obsess the common . intelligence which has more :and ‘more abandoned imaginative specu- lations. Line Up of Utopians and Realists. ‘Then, ‘when there should have been a reaction, Utopians and realists have fallen into step. Chanting hymns, the one in glorification of production, the other in favor of a better distribution of wealth; ascribing all progress of civilization to.the betterment of ma-| terial well being. they have bowed man down to the earth instead of directing his eyes heavenward. ‘We have arrived at a pass when an English writer, “speaking truthtully, could say: “The very existence of man depends upon his power again to dis- cover a common rule of spiritual life.” The expression which I seized upon does not, needless to say, imply the in- troduction of a new Credo. It is only 4 moral law. Since the dawn of historic times man has not added 4 line to the account of his virtues. The French thinker, Remy de Gourmont, has given expression to this in stating the law of intellectual constancy. But here on earth everything: wears away. Beliefs are dissolved and cor- rupted the more readily as merchants do not:cease, and no doubt never will cease, to invade the temple. Periodic Renovations Necessary. Great renovations are periodically necessary. Periodically “a common ryle of spiritual life” must again be discov- ered; that is to say. (let us not play with words!)—new justifications ‘must be given to old virtues. By vividly depicting the menaces of death which brood over humanity, by inviting our fellow beings to save. them~ selves, there is a chance of resuscitating =-quite apart from all rites—the sub- stance of the gospel of gentleness charity preached on the mount as also in_any case synonymous. If these disinterested persons to whom I have often appealed would cease to |::gle their throats with words about 1l onward march of civilization, if they relegate to the second rank, real ism, Utopianism and material well being and devote' themselves to this lofty doc. trine, I am eonvinced that their efforts hw&ula be crowned with success. Noth- more gratifying -to be furnished with ne'w motives for re- turning or remaining faithful to an- clent virtues. / in 1921; a small, neat.woman of 60, with apple cheeks and sharp, gray eyes; keen, able and firmly convinced that the Labor party -has a religious basis and is a practical expression of the Christian spirit in politics. Having in these and other ways strengthened himself on the Right, Mac- Donald declared himself in favor of “the- quiet development of industry, ."uh . pel:eful mind and confidence home and abroad,” and prepa; function. iy Left Wing Is Problem. And now he has started to function. :’ll' he':tn job will be’.é‘f: keep his g disciplined A ehaekmthnzhewulnwbetwdg hurry things and frighten the country, For he is playing for time. He can do the election, which most evmlpetenet n:: lern:‘:lmn‘l is two years off—barr: accidents of a revol wing. - a It of the Left 3 is not easy. The Labor two written - a constitution an d‘:l::'l:::'E that its parliamentary leaders carry out the orders of the party executive :ll:l.‘nklm;le!! ;.r‘ethe‘muv:i ‘whenever it 3 e executive presses rule—and it did_with st s o party fortunes in 1924—it means that the country wil the House & : not be isage, but furtive party caucus outside, ml?:yh":: MMI; :;‘vde r;r:: htenlclhm:n control the ent, no nvemment", post. oS R executives wanted mmd":ml:lnh‘ul!t;&r him, but he g for them. Hon more is likely to be heard of mu'?::i’ As for the policy of the party, bat un- loyment by a more vigorous - opment of policy at home sos t‘.’:?t}e dominions, to adhere to free trade and move away from the protective tariff, and, in general, to do everything pos- | ble “to free the economic list from being dominated by the motive of profit-making. (There, in ' that last aim, your get the Socialist nose shaken up ' in the program cocktail the new government is offering the nation.) It I.ITE)IB‘ to be an exciting Parlia- ment, The feminine element alone gives | promise of fireworks. The Torles have | three woman members—Lady Astor, | thin, feverish, active, disliked by many | of her party for her prohibition views |and aggressiveness; the Duchess of | Atholl, a tall, serene, capable adminis- | trator, who makes few speeches; the | Countess of Iveagh, the best speake: |among the women in the last Parlia | ment and the wife of the millionaire | Earl of Iveagh, the chief proprietor of England’s biggest brewery. All" these women succeeded in constituencies ‘held by their husbands, before accession to the peerage carried th;lmen !zlth; House of ;;mu legan Lloyd George, 27, pretty, pe- Hte and persuasive, was. the.only. Lio- eral woman to get in out of 25 who contested seats; and Eleanor Rathbone, feminist and sociologist and champion of the women in the sex war now on | in the medical world, was the solita: | woman independent who was elee?ez Nine Soclalist Women. ‘The Sodlalists have nine women: Margaret Bondfleld, the first woman cabinet minister; Susan Lawrence, a Newnham College graduate, a statis- | ticlan and the ablest woman in the last Parliament: Ellen Wilkinson, a former school teacher and trade union organi- zer, red-haired, vivacigus and known as ““Miss Perky”; Jenny Lee, 24, youngest of the woman members,the daughter of 2 Wol miner, fluent, but cheeky; Miss E. Picton-Turberville, member of uffragette of the old type, lean an cent, not a mixer, in:politics from a sense of duty, but preferring walks with - her 9 Marlon Phillips, an economist and doc- tor of science, a whole-time worker for the Socialist party for the last 20 years and its chief woman ol'lslnllel'; Dr. Ethel Bentham, another old-estabiished Socialist, a practicing doctor of medi- cine and lunacy expert; Mary Hamil- ton, MacDonald’s blographer, a Newn- ham College graduate and the daughter of a Scotch professor of logic, able and A m-annum’:i jamas -on the Lido | Boat "ehe Wi d | George still holds that door. the dogmas of Epictetus—a ~teaching | and he ruled by | d . according to | ren (Continued From Third Page.) the elements it may involve carefully examined. Determination then is made whether the taxpayer has.understated T che axpayer has overpaid. s Serund o0 , & Te is allowed. fl“h! has underpaid, “"'""'é’e is ‘nuneued againsi 2 must be paid. The taxpayer, of course, can seek a judicial determination if he contests the ruling .of the 3 Audit and review of taxpayers' re- turns have resulted in the assessment of $4,000,000,000 in back taxes and in the payment of $975,000,000 in refunds in the past 12 years. Refunds have constituted only 213 :per cent of the $40,000,000,000 internal revenue taxes collected in that period. Most of the refunds have related to the excess profits tax years of 1917 to 1921, in- clusive. - Examination of the revenue laws reveals the many situations and many provisions which can be met only through refunds, for ours is a revenue- collecting system compelling immediate payment and subsequent determination of questions at issue, with the refund- ing of taxes illegally assessed or col- lected as an integral ‘principle of the system. ‘Taxpayeérs serve their own best in- terests by being k with the Govern- ment Federal tax matters. They lessen their own burdens, save time and expense and at the same time aid the Government by providing full and accurate information in tax returns. “All - essential facts should be set cut with accuracy in the taxpayers' re- turn,” Mr. Blair said. “Transactions should be made so clear by supporting schedules and explanations that the ex- amining - officer will understand -th causes of deductions and the explana. tions of entries made. If large amounts are deducted for bad _debis, veling losst so languld in satin and pearls in her box at the opera and so'cute in frilled beach, realized t she was ing to earn that reputation for herself, and thought it|disaster. politic to don a dark sweater and skirt when she went up ‘campaigning among her working men ‘women. It is an earnest little. crowd, even .| spots. and with a notable weight of brains and character and a full experience in pub- lic work. Would Change System. Meantime, what of the future? Yloyd He holds the balance of power with his little band wants “a proportional repre- sentation - measure put h., Under proportional. representation his Dgn\'ty would . number 140 - instead of it being one. of the curious anomalies of the :;mm elecw’nl ;ylum fluthl}; designed for democracy, anti-democratic. Every Liberal in_this Parliament, instance, r?ruenu 92,000 -electos every Tory. 34,000, every Socialist 30,- 000. The Liberals polled s fourth of the electorate and won only 10 cent. of the seats. The Socialists ve 30 more members in Parliament than the Tories and yet the Torles polled 500,000 more votes. But even if Lioyd George can make a deal with MacDonald to put an elec- toral reform measure through, it may not do the Liberals any good. He put around 560 men in the fieid in this election and financed them. from his famous: treasure - chest—and 500 were rejected. There is no earthly reason to suppose that he will do better in any future election on any issue that can possibly arise. And he mzy do worse. His party seems destiued to crumble under the final blow of some major issue, -One will go over to the Socialists and strengthen its moderate orthodox elements, and the other wing will find its home in the Conservative party, less because it is in sympathy with the Con- servatives' doctrines than because it thinks anything is ‘better than Social- “mgmm' Saive. clemment 1 the rty of P ive el party of Right. 3 i o ‘Then England will be back to the two-party system to which she has al- Ways been accustomed. . And that does not look like a.bull point for the So- there seems to be the -Socialist for i hat! way—the nac the national genius sily in those placid cur- tional spirit an loes not run ADVERTISEMENT. e- | many instances enable the the the tempts Taxpayer of U. S. Honestly Deals : With Uncle Sam in His Returns from sale or excha: of y or contribiitions without further explana- tion, then correspondence or a field ex- amination must ensue to see whether or not those deductions are justified. Accurate leipl":n-mx of theu‘ nl;er:: save time e “ins “ihe bureau 10 close a case promptly on the return itself without further investigation. “Many cases before the Board of Tax Appeals and the courts which are ulti- mately decided in the le?lycrl favor would have been so deeided by the revenue agent in the taxpayer's own district if the taxpdyer had given him all the facts and information which he um:uwly gave to the board or the “The requirement of the revenue act that taxpayers keep books which re-! flect their true income has been worth more to the average taxpeyer than he has paid in taxes, leaving out of con- sideration all other benefits he receives from the Government. i “Prior to the income tax law and, unfortunately, in some instances, since its enactment, some businesses have been run in a slipshod way. ““The owners, though honest, have kept no accurate records. Consider the case of a man who equi] & manu- facturing plant and embarked upon business. ~ He thought he was selling his goods at a profit. He failed to take into .account depreciation of ma- chinery,” equipment and buildings. He negl his inventories and set up no reserve for bad debts. His books, as kept, indicated that his business was profitable. But in time he found that his obsolete machinery had to be re- placed, that his buildings had to be re- paired or rebuilt. For these pu it was necessary to raise a large amount | of cash. - He then tried to collect his accounts. He found they were of little | value, He tried to seli his stock on hand. He found that it was out of date. Instead of having a profitable and successful business he realized that he was a bankrupt. Proper records | would have shown this man his true cond“.lm:l' In. time to save him from (Copyright, 1929.) Italian Teachers’ Pay Low After Raise Italy has raised the pay of its school teachers as well as all other classes of public_employes, but the new salaried are verivnmodest as compared with those prevafling in the United States—even when allowance is made for the differ- ences in living costs and standards. A young elementary school teacher with- out dependents will receive about $310 & year for the first few years of his pro- fessional Iife—10 months’ service being exacted during the year. If the instruc- tor has dependents, he may receive as much as a year extra to fulfill his obligations. After five years he is en- u:::c to a I:l“”' and during subsequent ui n riods he may graduall: Tise {o the maximum Anmual Seiars.of $600 or $650. Of course, if he quaiifies by examination for an administrative golt. his salary is higher. Likewise, if e finds & place in the communal schools of a city such as Rome or Mi- lan, his pay will be considerably higher. The rates quoted are for teachers in schools directly dependent upon the na- tional !nvemmenb—n very large num- ber in Italy. A Horse Caravan Trips Lure Britons to Road | Possibly as a revolt against the dev- astating motor car, many Londoners are discovering the delights of the horse caravan once more. This is the time of year when caravans, are bought. Many people, defeated in their at- hour of London, have solved the diffi- | culty by buying horse caravans and renting & small plot of ground. The caravan will be kept there as a bunga. low during the Summer, when they are able to get away only for week ends or an occasional day. When, however, the time comes for their Summer holiday, a horse will be requisitioned and off . People do not realize what large areas in the South, if the right direction is | chosen, ‘can still be traversed without | using the main or new arterial roads. 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His followers buried his treasure with him in the fashion of the d,':f;' but they made sure that the dead chieftain’s repose would not be disturbed either by avenging enemies or covetous treasure hunters. They diverted the course of the River Busento and buried Alaric far below the river bed. Then they restored the river to its channel. For security’s sake they put to death every one of the prisoners who had helped bury Alaric, and marched on. ‘The grave has never been discovered, though Alaric died 1,500 years ago. Legend has it that the grave is nea the confluences of the Crati and the Busento Rivers at Cosenza. When I saw this spot it was mostly a dry gravel bed with a narrow stream at which the vil- lage women washed their clothes. Dur- ing the rainy season it is a large river. Its secret holds the same fascination for Calabria that the Nemi galleys hold for Romans. Will Mussolini divert the Bu- sento and look for Alaric’s treasure when he has finished draining Nem! for Ca- "{ull'l ships, sunk long before Alaric died? Jesuit Lecturer Pleads To Save Erin’s Beauty Father Gannon, well known Irish Jesuit, lecturing in Galway, made a strong protest against the prevailing tendency, inspired by prospects of im- mediate profit, to deface the natural beauiies of the country. In propor- the landscape suffered. What- ever were its faults, the old landlord | yrelang any class, he pointed out, loved the beauty | tyechiaqe 1s a of the land and, regardiess of a per- | verted outiook on national affairs, loved Ireland if the le only kept quiet. ‘Those owners who had fled to England since the change of government were dying of broken hearts and would come back if they could. To preserve the scenic beauty of the land they had planted trees, which in the main have been cut down in the wars and after- ward, leaving wilderness and desolation. 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