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EDITORTAT SECTION Che Swundwy Star., Part 2—-8 Pages MARK OF AUTO IN 1900 Association Figures - Now in Operation—Forecast of 25,000, 000 Aircraft in 1958 ' BY MARK SULLIVAN. OF the multitude of influences just now are the airplane and the dirigible, twin agencies of within the circles where airplanes and dirigibles are promoted and manu= by automobile now is. They k, in short, the airplane will duplicate the taken place before the eyes of millions of persons not yet middle aged. a statistician of the American Auto- mobile Association, who pointed out a active service in America this year, 1929, 18 8,064. As it happens, this is almost years the number of automobiles has become roughly 25,000,000. The point question—will there be, 29 years from now, 1n 1958, as many as 25,000,000 air- of riding in an automobile? A Negative Answer. defy prediction. They jeer not at human credulousness, but at incredu- doubt if there was one human being who believed the number would ever tion in writing, it would be interesting to dig the document up. ness men built factories in that expec- tation. (Though I doubt if any banker factory; if any banker did, his name also ought to be resurrected for per- Show 8,064 Planes Is a Vital Question. | | ‘What will be the status of farming as an occupation, relative to other oc- cupations? Will farming grow in im- portance or decrease? To put the last question in a con- crete form, will the present strong drift of young people from the farm to the city continue or be arrested? | Theodore Roosevelt 20 years ago said | that “no growth of wealth can make up for any loss in either the number | le.r u:.s"chnncur of the farming popu- Practically all of us agree to that sentiment. But do we really mean it? | If we mean it, why have we not ar- rested the causes of the loss of farm | population? { Rocsevelt had unlimited courage. He belleved what he said about keeping farmers on the farm. If some one had told him how to achieve that result he would have fought to bring it about Plainly, Roosevelt did not know and apparently no one told him. The flow of farmers away from the soil was just | getting under way when Roosevelt, then President, uttered the words quoted above. Since then the drift has gone on steadily and in increasing numbers. | Search for Cure. 1If Roosevelt could not know the cure, | possibly somebody now, with 20 years'| of experlence to look back upon, can | know. Who can undertake to say what | |is the thing which, if done in 1907, | would have kept on the farm several million people who have since left it? | The momentum is still under way. The subject was dealt with last week by the venerable secretary of the Na- | tional Education Association, J. W. Crabtree, in a speech _he made at a country school near Elmwood, Nebr., where Mr. Crabtree had been a teacher | 46 years ago. The address was one of the most appealing treatments of the farm problem that have recently come before the present writer. Mr. Crabtree, citing the Federal de- partment as his authority, said that in Towa right now an average of 200 boys and girls in each county ve the country for the city every year. He made further the point that be- tween the presidency of Theodore Roose- velt and that of Herbert Hoover the total national income increased from about $30,000,000,000 annually to about $90,000,000,000. Then Mr. Crabtree making America a different world the most conspicuous travel by air, and of faster travel than man has known before. Many persons factured take it for granted that travel by air will become as common as travel record the automobile has already made—a record incredible if it had not ‘The assumption about the future of the airplane was fortified last week by parallel deemed by him to be signifi- cant. The number of airplanes in exactly the number of automobiles that were in America in the year 1900. In 29 of this comparison is a question of an implied prediction in the form of a planes? Will the experience of riding in an airplane become as familiar as that One would hesitate to answer “No." | ‘The usual course of new wonders is to lousness. In the year 1900, when there were 8,000 automobiles in America, I become 25,000,000. If there was such a person, and if he ever put his expecta- There were men who believed the automobiles would increase; many busi- in 1900 was willing to loan thoney to anything so fantastic as an automobiie petuation.) But the men who built automobile factories looked forward, as | a rule, to a mere luxury business and to nothing like what has come to be. If | there was a man in America in 1900, | whether automobile manufacturer, sci- entist or crazy prophet, who believed | America would ever have as many as | 1,000,000 automobiles his name ought | to be sought out and the National Auto- | mobile Chamber of Commerce should erect a monument to his faith. | Predictions that airplane development will parallel the automobile are subject | to at least one historical qualification. | ‘To say the number of airplanes today | equals the number of automobiles in 1900 sounds impressive, and is impres- sive. But there is an important distinc- tion in the rate of development. Auto- | mobiles reached 8,000 within seven years of the time the first one was seen in America. And it has taken 26 years for the first airplane (flown by the Wright brothers, December 17, 1903) to grow to 8,000. The Old Is Displaced. Belief in ow”doubt of the ultimate immensity of any innovation is largely a matter of temperament. The news grows rather by its own momentum than through belief in it on the part of any individuals. Because of this the changes that innovations bring to civil- ization are largely unplanned and un- directed. The old is displaced before we realize it. These displacements of the old—old objects as well as old ways and old standards—are going on about us with furious rapidity. And the ultimate Tesults, whatever they are to be, are seemingly inevitable. An old object, such as a horse and buggy, or a one- room country schoolhouse, is familiar to those who grew up with them, and continues to be taken for granted by them. Presently it disappears and ex- ists only in the memories of the aging. The younger generation regards the thing as in the same class with candles or bows and arrows. Apparently the one-room country echoolhouse is as doomed as the cov- ered wagon. In a few communities ef- forts are made to hold on to it. In Lancaster County, Pa., last week, school began in Ephrata Township. It opened in a new school of the type now rapidly becoming familiar, a “consolidated” school, one building for the entire dis- trict. The innovation is resisted by some parents and 40 pupils who on the ogenlng day duly appeared at their abandoned one-room school, played about for a while and went home. It was pathetically like' birds hovering about a destroyed nest. ‘Will Go to Court. ‘The parents, according to the Phila- delphia L~dger, will go to court about it. However this one case turns out, the one-room country school as an in- stitution seems doomed in every part of the country. It was an institution for farmers and is being overwhelmed in the revolution through which the farm is going because of many reasors. ‘The passing of the one-room school, of course, does not necessarily imply deca on the farms and is not caused by tnat. The consolidated school is more compatible with improved farm conditions than with worse. The dis- placement of the one-room school is most directly traceable to good roads and to busses which can gather up the pupils over a wide area. ‘What i$ here written does not aim to make generalization, either optimistic or pessimistic, about the meaning of these changes, their effect on American civilization or on the individuals in- volved. All that is intended is to call attention’ to something dramatic going on before our eyes. It is a pity to miss the quality of it, just because it happens in our own time. Books will be ten one day about the one-room school and its disappearance and future readers will know it was romantic. - , when it was in its prime and familiar to all, the one-room district school has been the subject of as many poems, songs and mellow in books as -ry topic the present writer can rec: Farming an Tssue. Among changes under way before our “ eyes is one in farming. The change goes to the very heart of that oecu?l- tion. are many books about it and speeches innumerable. A good many of 3 have 1 to in Co been the iter of this article. Nearly are well meant, but most of them are unconvineing. o > . Is there any one able to predict what will be the condition of American farm- 20 years from now? ‘consid lmlfltlo way of big business, m”;f: roduction? Or shall Wwe continue to “Elve e farm as we now know it? ‘What will be the state of the owner- | other users of electricity away from the asked pertinently, “Who receives this 200 per cent increase in income?” His well justified implication was that agri- culture gets very little of it. ‘There is a counter movement l’t“sl: not necessarily a movement from city to farm—it is, however, a movement from big cities to smaller ones. The country will be hearing a good deal | about it shortly. Certain large electric companies have concluded that they have about reached the limit of large and profitable ex- pansion in big cities. They think their more advantageous opportunity for ex- pansion in the future is in the smaller cities and villages. They are about to stimulate a mavement of factories and big cities to the smaller ones. That may help the farmer by bring- ing & market for his products closer to his door. It may help him also by pro- viding a market for his labor during such time as he is not busy on the | farm. AR Third-Class Tourist Unpopular in London London shopkeepers are not enthu- siastic about the popularity of the “third- class tourist returns” from New York. Contrary to popular belief, only a small roportion of American visitors to Eng- and spend much money. Today with the most inclusive travel schemes ar- ranged in New York, only a few of the tourist population from the States ar- rive in England unchaperoned by travel agency guides and couriers. All their expenses in most cases are paid before they start—food, hotels, fares, prices of admission, and even tips. Europe, that is, London, Paris and Stratford-on- Avon, can be done for $500 or there- | abouts, and the visitor who takes ad- | vanitage of the cheap travel agencles has no, personal expenses apart from tobacco and post cards. According to the manager of a well known American bank in London, hundreds of Americans ive with no more than $5 or $10 to spend. Many shopkeepers say that Americans are the worst of all foreign customers, insisting oh seeing every- thing in stock, but buying little. If that is so it must only balance the ac- count, for all the most expensive hotels now are crowded by Americans who buy at the most expensive shops with- out inquiring about prices. It is a ques- tion, too, if many English tourists now visiting America on the one-class ships spend much money there. Ban on Car Parking Vexes Londoners London theatergoers who have been in the habit of leaving their cars in Golden Square and other mnear-by parking places are fuming over the new regulation forbidding cars removed from a parking place to be returned within an hour. ~As two hours is the maximum time that cars may stay in any parking place, theater folk have been in the habit of returning between the acts, and, after driving away for a short distance, bringing the cars back to park again. It usually happened, however, that another ear was waiting to slip into the vacated space, and the displaced auto had, therefore, to Le driven about the square or street until another vacancy could be found. Under the new regulation this practice ends, for an hour must elapse before a car can park again in the same place. The only thing the motorist can now do is to make an arrangement with a friend to change over parking places at a given time, but there will still be no guaranty that either of them will find the va- cancy untenanted when they arrive. Curses Still Feared By Native Hawaiians || wed in Hawail by an on the statute boo“kz'. " or “praying to | of farms? I they become larger, be owned by corporations and AVIATION NOW EQUALING | Here’s What Some Outstanding Minds Among World Statesmen Think of the Future BY ARISTIDE BRIAND, Premfer of Pranss. After the last war—and France knows by ex- perience what it costs, for she has seen the bloodshed and misery of her people on her own soil—I think I can venture to say that, more than any other, my country abhors war and loves peace. In spite of certain prop- sganda, statements made with interested motives and deliberately false, the world can never have believed France to be a country hos- tile to peace. She has de- fended the world’s freedom, and as soon as the safety of that freedom is a certainty she is ready to lay down her arms. The time is not far dis- tant when statesmen will be able to place ‘an insuperable obstacle in front of those who still nourish the un- healthy conception of plunging the world into ‘We owe this consum- the barbaric welter of war. mation to those who fell. Each of the countries that fought side by side contains a torhb illumined by = halo of glory. Avistide Briand \ BY SENATOR W. E. BORAH. Chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Poreign ‘The nation which will the next shock of war, people are contented oyal and physically morally fit. If I should express an opinion as to the most in- obstacles world peace and to general I would name, firstly, the huge pub- surmountable world _security, lic debts covering every tion of the globe, with their external exactions from the people; secondly. the stantly increasing tax dens, which undermine destroy the - physical moral (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) Germany Pushes Ahead | Despite Burdens of War She Is Forging Swiftly to Front in Industrial and Business World BY HENRY ALBERT PHILLIPS, ' Author of “Meet the Germans” and Other Books. ATCH the Germans! That is the summary of my findings l after having lived in Ger- | many and among the Ger-| mans for more than a year. Do I think that they are to be feared? Yes, I do, if you mean they are to be feared in thelr role as a competitor. ! There was never a more formidable | tompetitor than Germany is today. | Neme nearly any fleld—outside military | and naval activity—that you like. | The things that I saw in Germany | more than two years ago, already con- | celved and being fabricated, are begin- | ning to crash their way through the air and the waters and stun the com- | mercial world today—and tomorrow. | The greater wonder is not the !hln'n‘ of themselves, but the will and power to attempt and actually produce them in so brief a period after the Germans were uneompromisingly defeated and | every promise of supremacy and v-ln! ambition, together with their glittering | empire, wiped off the face of the earth, leaving a huge debt facing the genera- | tions to come. | Practically everything went by the board—except the Germans themselves. Intrinsically the German is unchanged today from what he was in 1914, In that year Germany set out to win the war, with what hty effort and energy any adult could tell you if be chose. 1 heard the war talked of incessantly in every other country except Germany. There I usually had to mention it first myself. “Oh, the war?” they would say, with a little sigh,. “Yes, we lost the war, but we are going to win the peace!” And they belleve it, just as they once believed they %ould win that other struggle. The point is that they are too busy to think about the war. The German nation is—like the average German who has come over to America—a hardworking breed by train- ing and disposition, inclination and am- bition. But there is a factor that is more _significant - still—the Germans work together, pull together, more than the people of any other nation. They are one big family. All of the prosaic dullness and respectable happiness that mark the bourgeois family life are char- acteristic of the one big family. Every German believes that Germany can win whatever she undertakes. some day will win—it is their destiny! But they are content to work and wait, if need be, until tomorrow. or the day after tomorrow. They plant their for- their llb;une:igu:ey m; lor good of th‘:‘ir chfldrm': grandchil y hard day’s work with they owe it to the claiming the heri- otut&mdt:{mndm [ ‘Holy Roman 5 Holy Roman pire imbedded itself in German in the form of a su- wenship. GERMANY LOST THE WAR, BUT HUMMING NOW IN A DETERMINE! come, will be the nation which is economically strong and financially sound—the nation whose well-being of those upon whom a government must rely in time of attack: thirdly—which is stating the Jast proposition in another form—the building up of vast bureaucracies, put- ting upon the people the expense of unnecessary offices and wasteful officials, thus destroying the initiative and self-reliance essential to good citi- Relations. be best prepared to meet should &bat misfortune and and ultimately World Wi The first to the ground provide su na- not yet bees con- bur- and and nish troops reinforced Senator Borah. forces and Navy will will cut off BY FIELD MARSHAL VON LUDENDORFF, Two great war problems are at present en- | grossing the attention of the world. Two wars are discerned as imminent by the same secrct powers behind states as previously discerned and ar. dertake to discuss problems theoretically. directed against Russia on nities of exploitation for the ‘world's loan capital and has knowledge the supremacy of the Roman Church. manian, Polish, Lithuanian. Latvian, Esthonian and Fin- march ‘into Russia an e Pelpus marshes by Frenc: taries, -while the English .ope! Gulfs of Pinland and in the Far East, and Japan WASHINGTON, D. C., SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 8, 1929. Is New World War Possible? TO FRANCE Syria and Palestine Pamous German Soldier. precipitated the 1 can only un- these relates to & war that it does not fcient opportu- n brought to ac- Ru- will, it is alleged. north of th German volun- Von Ludendorff. rate in the Black Sea and in the Russia’s intercourse with the outside HER WHEELS OF INDUSTRY ARE D DRIVE TO “WIN THE PEACE.” —From a Painting, by Heinrich Kley. an eternally militaristic rule and rulers, they had not thought it possible to live and carry on_one’s being without arms. Every youth had done ti in the war machine. Then the empire crashed, and the allies stripped them of the greatest millstone about their necks—as well as about those of all modern na- tions—huge -armies and navies, their equipment and upkee] Germany saw her opportunity and seized it. The moment she was obliged to shelve her war business she formidable strength and en- into other channels. All during Ger TP took the Bl ‘True, a e bill— among others—for the armies of occu- tion. But even in this she was add- Em.( to the credit side of her new ac- ‘and has manifested | banded f ld - | the North armies and navies in a world protest- ing peace? What ‘are the 1929 arma- ment budgets of her three leadini rivals? * France, $407,000,000! England, $551,000,000! The United States, $684,- 000,000! Germany's reparations bill will about equal these sums annually; but some- thing must be credited to her account for the millions of non-producing soldiers and sailors of her competitors who are being fed, clothed and salaried fi‘\“tm treadmills of the “fighting ma- chines. Being rid of these vast incumbrances ing toda: economic is givi y an advantage over her world competitors. It makes it possible to launch such and titanic ocean carriers as ercial sea power. Curiously, the outstanding Germany’s industry and tional Europa, which are re-establishing Ger: manys cam { example of s in 4 with her steel ly during the bom up the World War, no less closely and vitally than ny her- gelf. Since the federation of the em- Bismarck, steel had come to (conunu;fl on Page 4, Column 4. Lloyd's Bremen and | = sighi he | Frfation 1 greed L bitions and the carrier of German com- merce; Krupp's was the mainstay of German wealth and its invincible weapon of protection. When the grand crash came in 1918 and Germany went down to defeat, it carried its mighty steel engine and brilliant steel god with it. To all ap- pearances it was the spectacular end of a brilliant play. But now, more than 10 years later, | we must add a denouement, a fourth | act, even though it may seem like an | afticlimax. For at no period during | its dramatic history is the career of the | Krupp Works more spectacular than | it has been since the capitulation of | Germany. | And so T shall proceed to answer the oft-asked question, “What has become | of the Krupp Works, where they used to | make Germany’s mighty ordnance?” | According to the terms of the Ver- sailles treaty, all plants and machinery | and tools that had been—or possibly | might be in the future—used in the production of war materials must be destroyed. ‘Thus in the Krupp Works the allied engineers found themselves face to face with a peace task that seemed as great as, if not greater than, any they had known in war. Five square miles of steel lay in front of them. Huge cannon and smaller guns, rifles and gun carriages, howitzers and ‘mortars, grenades and shells, ar- mor plate and equipment. Acres upon acres of it, munitions in mountains, | | countless in' number, the hardest sub- | stance known to man—all had to be de- | stroyed, broken up, melted down, | No less than 2,000 machines weigh- ing 12,000 tons, 40 furnaces and instal- lations and 600,000 tools all fell prey | to destruction. Besides, 7,000 machines | had to be dispersed—and removed else- where. The set-up value of this de- stroved property amounted to consid- erably more than $100,000,000. For nearly four years. the pile-drivers used in cracking and breaking the larger forms and masses of steel could be heard crashing and crunching through the steel dreams of German militarism. So that was the ignominious end of the matchless Krupp Steel Munitions ‘Works at Essen. The shell of the huge Krupp plant remained—seemingly without a raison d'etre. ‘The plant did not remain empty and, impotent for long. What followed is a remarkable example and testimony of the ingenuity and energy of the Ger- man people in their determination and :ofll, not only to continue to exist, but Surpass. tar st ey opposed. 1o avor, some op) yher on—Ger- 3 sprang up here, built with German fore- and thoroughness. Euro- kets ht, and boug™t al figures, to learn later that their and profits had been realized at the expense of ‘their own industries which the low-) German goods had almost put out of business. 8o it was that Germany won the first skirmish of the great peace battle BY FRANK H. SIMONDS. HE disturbances in Palestine have served to call attention again to the difficulties that have beset the World War in that corner o: the Mediterranean where, at the Peace Conference, rivalries were most intense. Mesopotamia, Syria and Palestine have proved costly experiments in post-war imperialism. Nor is it conceivable that any material advantage will in the future repay the two nations holding mandates in this region. At Paris, the British were eager to keep all of Syria, Palestine and Mes>- potamia under one control, vested, nomi- nally at least, in that Emir Feisal who hieved fame as the associate of Col. Lawrence during the war. The British had promised the Arabs that there should be one Arab state including Damascus, Jerusalem and Bagdad. But they Jso made a treaty with the French, assigning to them considerably more territory than is now included in the Syrian mandate. The French were anxious to acquire Syria because, from the days of the Crusades, French influence had been exerted in this region and France had been the protector of the very consider- Christian populations there. The British were eager to consolidate their position in the Near East by adding to Egypt, which they had annexed through the form of a protectorate, and by hold- ing all the other territories covering their communications with India. Struggle Over Syria. After a long struggle at Paris, the British were compelled to assent to the French possession of Syria. As a conse- quence, the Arabs were estranged and there followed a long period of costly trouble in Mesopotamia, And in ad- dition there were disputes with the ‘Turks, who claimed the region about Mosul, believed to contain vast oil de- posits. Once or twice the Mosul ques- tion threatened to precipitate hostilities between the British and the Turks. Meantime, the French came immedi- ately to conflict with the Turks about the Gulf of Alexandretta and were in the end compelled to evacuate the region about\ Adana. Thereafter the French were less troubled by the Turks but increasingly involved in endless trouble in Syria, because of the mixed populations and the indomitable spirt of the Druses. In the end the French had to fight something like a war with destruction of Damascus and the ap- proximate extermination of the Druses. ‘The British in Palestine were faced from the start with the fact that up. wards of five-sixths of the inhabitanis of the Holy Land were Arabs—and thus Mohammedans; that for them, as well as the Jews, Jerusalem was a sacred city, and that they are hostile to any proj- ect to create a Jewish state. On the other hand, the British had been pledged by Lord Balfour to establish a Jewish national home in Palestine. ‘There has been smoldering trouble during a number of years. A many Jews have settled in Palestine; a certain tural lished. But the Jews have remained relatively small minority. Their de. velopment has been bitterly resented by the Arabs and religious animosities have served to inflame grudges that have ma- terial origins. Egyptian Situation Bad. Meantime the British situation in Egypt has gone from bad to worse. The protectorate had to be abandoned. Egyptian nationalism has steadily in- creased, and only the other day the Labor government was constrained to recall Lord Lloyd, the British repre- sentative, and to propose a new settle- ment that envisages the removal of British troops from Cairo and Alexan- dria, the concentration of the garrisons at the Suez Canal and a further recog- nition of Egyptian independence, in- | cluding permission to join the League of Nations. As far as Palestine and Syria are con- cerned, the British and French are equally sick of their jobs. But there is no easy way out for either country. MANDATES PROVE COSTLY AND BRITAIN Likely to Be Scene of Everlasting Warfare, but No Way Out Is Seen. In Syria a Prench withdrawal would be a signal for battles between the Vl::gl races and religions, which would al st certainly lead to the extermination of the Christian populations. In Palestine the British and the French 8ince_gyitish retreat would doom the Jews and Christians alike. But to stay means in both cases enduring expense and con- stant danger. In addition, Mussolini has unmistak- ably had his eye upon both Egypt and Syria, and neither the British nor the French could tolerate the creation of a great Italian colonial establishment at the eastern end of the Mediterranean. For the French it would be an almost total loss of prestige; for the British a menace to all their Eastern empire. In the case of Palestine the British could have played the Arab game, as Lawrence desired, and included Pales- tine within the empire of Feisal. Any such course, however, would certainly have earned the lasting resentment of all the Jewish groups in the world, and it would also have constituted an open breach of faith. Now, having taken the Jewish end of the problem, they are committed to the difficult and enduring task of protecting a relatively small minority, which will always be more or less in danger. Might Have Been United States. It is interesting to recall that at Paris the European states allied against Ger- many had all agreed upon an American mandate for the larger portion of Asia Minor, including Armenia. Both Wilson and House had more or less consented to such an arrangement. Had the pro- am gone through, we should then ave been saddled in the case of the Armenians with precisely the difficul- ties which now beset the British in re- spect of the Jews. It is a little difficult to see how this Palestine affair can justify the asser- tion made in London and echoed in the American press that it discloses anew the need of the British for a larger navy than that of the United States. Palestine is practically without a har- bor, although Jaffa is used in weather. The chief line of communica- tions is the railway coming up from Egypt. The navy could not be used to blockade, for the problem is not one of blockading a coast, but of rescuing and defending populations far inland. As the modern warship is not available as & transport, the main task of moving troops will have to be performed by passenger steamers, and such craft will | obviously need no protection from at- these Druses, which led to the partial | tack. Tough Job Well Done. ‘The British havi a tough job in Palestine and it is a ter of common agreement that they have performed it exceedingly well. The development of the country has been steady and, de- spite minor disturbances, order has been maintained. But' the task is comph- cated by the fact that trouble in the Holy Land may have awkward reper- cussions in Mesopotamia. And neither British finance nor British public opin- ion is in any mood to fight & colonial war. ._Labor is obviously out of luck in be- ing brought ‘e t0 face with a prob- lem in imperialism early in its history. And it is further embarrassing as any considerable expense may involve dis- | aster fer the very ambitious program by i which Labor hopes to reduce unemploy- ment. This crisis, too, will obviously afford more than a little malicious amusement both to the French and the Italians; the French because they have not yet forgotten the bitter denuncia- | tions of their Syrian policy, coming largely from Labor; the Italians be- cause Britain blocks them in the East where they would build a colonial estate. One may imagine, too, that both the Turks and the Bolshevists are watching events closely. For the Turks there is always the hope of recovering the ter- ritories lost in the last war. For the | Russians there is the possibility of ex- ploiting one more native revolt as they have not failed to do already in Moroc- co, China and Turkey. And, obviously, for Britain and for the Labor govern- ment the exasperating thing is that the | whole affair is without profit—sheer waste and a sure source of danger. (opyright. 1929.) | | Colorado’s Grand Canyon to Disappear In Million Years, Says Harvard Geologist LOS . ANGELES.—People who have never viewed the wonders of the Grand Canyon of Colorado are urged to do so without delay. For Dr. William Morris Davis, emeritus professor of geology of Harvard University, in a Summer ses- sion lecture at the University of Cali- fornia,.at Los Angeles, declares that the Grand Canyon is di pe idly that it will be only a few more million years until the deep chasm will have entirely vanished, together with the high plateau for a hundred or so miles on either side of it. ‘The Boulder Dam will not be to blame for this vast effacement of one | of the true wonders of the world. Dr. Davis did not even mention the Boulder Dam in his lecture. Geologists say, however, that the Boulder Dam might delay for a year or two the destruction of this wonderful specimen of nature's handiwork. But this cannot be foretold with any degree of accuracy for another several thousand years. Fifth of Great Canyons. Moreover, Dr. Davis stated that the present Grand Canyon is the fifth won- der of the kind constructed by the forces of nature in that general neighborhood. ‘The other four have all been destroyed by the same forces of nature, and the fifth, how at about the zenith of its glory, is doomed to go the way of its four predecessors. In his illustrated lecture upon the subject, “The Lessons of the Colorado, |Or a Glimpse Through the Corridors of Time” Dr. Davis said that geology was sometimes referred to as “the science of lm‘lrzldn?:zzan.';mh‘;;,n he declared it re- qui e ation for a geologist to read the history of the Grand Can- yon and to form the opinion that it was the fifth instead of the first Grand Canyon. ‘The method of destruction of this canyon, as well as that of its predeces- sors, is quite easy to determine, he stated, but some features of the forma- tion remain a mystery. In his explana- tion he said® in part: “Crack” Theory Wrong. “The Grand Canyon of the Colorado ring so rap-| of the river, cutting away continually through thousands of millions of years, that has caused it. The ‘V’ shape we now see is largely the work of erosion. The action of the elements on those sturdy walls is gradually flattening them out. The river cannot cut much deeper, for it will approach sea level, but the work of erosion will go on until those plateaus now rearing in many places fo a height of 5,000 feet will disappear for 1,000 miles on either side of the river. Plateaus Are Mystery. “It is an enormous task thus far ac- complished over a period of many mil- lions of years. But really. it is only a beginning. “I refer to this vast period of time required to build and destroy the canyon as a ‘cycle of eroism.’ There is evi- dence to support the theory that five such cycles have passed during the life of the world. Judging by the past, we can allow our imagination much lati- tude in guessing the future duration of the world.” The throwing up of the high plateau is the mystery unsolved by geologists, stated Dr. Davis. After.the plateau iy once thrown up, the river cuts the can- yon. Then, joined by the forces of erosion, it away the entire platesu, Five such plateaus have been build he stated, and four of them have dis= The fifth is now becoming the elements. Source of Money Disputed in Alsace appeared. the prey of It has often been rumored in France that the funds used by the Alsatian au- tonomists for anti-French propagansa were provided by Cerman nationalist organizations, but the autonomists in- dignantly denied the charge. Now an autonomist named Dumser, former di- Volkstimme, admits in a recently pub- lished pamphlet that the autonomists' money came from Germany. Dumser says that he himself journeyed several times to Switzerland and Germany, and brought bark to Strassbourg