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pressed it to his heart and blessed it as “the crown of human rewards.” And as he sat there in the palace of Pizarro, Jooking across the sea to the United States, greater and more shining dreams possessed him. Colombia, Peru and Bolivia—these countries would he unite in a firm confederation, and might it not be that Chili and the Argentine could be induced to see the value of union? Cuba and Jamaica—they must be freed—and what of Mexico? Even as he dreamed of liberty in the room where once Pizarro planned autocracy, news came that brought him back to earth. Ven- ezuela and Granada were at each other’s throats and’ Ecuador rioted in a fury of factionalism. With Colombia, love of his heart, tottering on the verge of disintegration, Bolivar put aside the presidency of Peru, gave the people his blessing, and sailed in September, 1826, never to return, However arrogantly traitors rebelled and blustered in his absence, not one ever dared meet Bolivar in a duel of eyes. Once again in Bogota, the Liberator whipped trouble-makers into silence as though they had been schoolboys, and proceeding to Venezuela with scarce a bodyguard, lashed Paez and his wild plainsmen into servile obedience. Then follcwed grinding months devoted to the restoration of order, the establishment of civil government, the weari- some details of finance and administration, yet not all his iron will and fiery energy could hold together a union that had in itself no co- hesion. First Sucre arrived, a fugitive from the grati- tude of Bolivia. Then, in 1828, came word that Peru, equally grateful, was cursing Bolivar as a despot, and sending troops to wage war against Colombia for the possession of the Ecuadorian seaboard. Wearily, but indomitably, the Liber- ator reached for the sword he had never thought to use again, and as once more he plunged down from Bogota on the terrible march to Quito, in his heart must have been the despair of Sisyphus—rolling rocks up hill only to have them fall back on him. The bare fact of the Liberator’s presence chilled the rebels of Popayan, and by the time he reached Quito in March, 1829, gallant Sucre bad whipped the Peruvians -in two decisive THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, L. C, JULY 20, 1930. it addresses before each battle were war songs. When he burst into one of his inspiring chants dying men came to life. battles, forcing them to sign a treaty of peace that defined boundaries. Even this good news had no power to lift Bolivar's black depression. Eighteen of his forty-six years had been scar- red by every conceivable hardship, and now heart-break added to the drain of physical exhaustion. FROM all quarters came word of revolt, led by men he had loved and honored, and every wind bore the curses of a strange and insensate hatred. Without strength, he fell victim to a wasting fever, and when he finally returned to Bogota in January, 1830, for the opening of congress, he was a dead man but mro— ] for his great, burning eyes. And as he sat ringed about with faces that hid treachery under fawning, news arrived that Ecuador had seceded, and messengers brought word tha$ Paez had declared the independernce of Venee zuela, threatening Bolivar with death if he dared return. Once he would have gone to Caracas alone, and brought the ignorant plainsman to his knees, but now a sense of vast futility weighed him down. What was the use? Had there ever been use? San Martin and O’Higgins, stoned from the Chile that they had freed, were now in exile. Sucre, that chevalier sans reproche, had been driven from Bolivia in an outburst of obscene hatred. Colombia begged him to accept a fifth term as President, for no plotter yet possessed suffie cient strength to seize the office, but all tha§ Bolivar wanted now was to be away from lies, treachery and ingratitude. Rejecting honors grown empty and distasteful, he left the capital; and alone, friendless, went down to Cartagena to the rest of a rented hut. o Of the great fortune that had been bkis, nothing remained; all had been offered up on the altar of liberty. Walking heights far above corruption, no unciean cent had soiled his fingers during the years he had administered the finances of five countries; above material considerations as above dishonor, he had re- fused to accept a salary, either as President or commander-in-chief, and he had steadfastly re- jected the millions voted him by Colombia and Peru. The sale of some family silver gave him & few hundreds, and in lonelir ss and poverty he watched scurvy politiciai.: tear at the foundations of government. Venezuela, Ecuador and Peru buried his name under vile epithets and, as if fate meant to spare him nothing, Sucre, loved as a brother, was done to death by assassins. With a cry that tore his throat, Bolivar bowed his graying head, and begged for the end. On December 17, 1830—old and broken at 47-—his prayer was granted. “I have ploughed the sea.” These were his last words. (Copyright, 1930.) & There Will Be a United States of Europe Within the Next Ten Years Continued from Third Page But European people realize that no nation can live alone and, also, that they are so dependent upon each other's goods and good will that some form of union must eventually take place. ’ “The verbal outbreaks and storms which occur in Europe from time to time may best be described as growing pains. Europe is rap- jdly growing into a new and unaccustomed frame of mind and a new and unaccustomed relationship. “The people are determined to have peace; but nothing can be more natural than that such a process of growth be accompanied by those expressions and emotions which in the case of the individual are déscribed as growing “Everybody lost the war ahd nobody won it. This fact is generally accepied, and the men of light and leading do not propose to have another war to lose. They realize perfectly well that in the traditional racial, religious, lin- guistic, economic and political frictions and antagonisms of Eastern and Southeastern Eu- rope there are seeds of many difficulties. But they do not propose to have another world- wide conflagration set going by another pistol shot at ‘Sarajevo or by any bomb thrown by a casual disturber of the peace. “They are increasingly confident that the League of Nations, which month by month, and almost day by day, exerts steady pressure for the improvement of these difficult situa- tions, will be able, by its conduct and prestige, to deal with concrete questions of this kind as they may arise. “Very few overlook, or even deny, the mis- takes made at Versailles in 1919, but all are of one mind in looking forward to the remedying of those mistakes as time goes on by consulta- tion, by conference and by peaceful adjust- ment.” “Is the fact that the naval limitation treaty makes each nation stronger than its enemies in home waters but weak in foreign waters the reason for its peace value?” ““This is of secondary importance. The main fact is that the nations have renounced war as an instrument of national policy, and that any one nation which attempts to violate that pledge will find itself surrounded by several nations anxious to preserve the peace—and that situation will compel the offender to be- have. “THE people have had enough and willi not stand for any more punishment; that is the underlying fact that makes for peace. On the whole, the judgment in Europe is that while the findings of the Naval Conference in London fall far short of what public opinion everywhere had expected or would have gladly sustained, yet these findings are a helpful be- ginning and should be heartily supported. “The opposition to them which has developed on the part of the admirals and the. interested militaristic elements in London and Washing- ton has increased the feeling that the findings themselves were distinctly helpful and ought quickly to be translated into fixed public policy. “The public has no longer any patience with the professional militaristic talk about guns, tons, aircraft or gas when these are to be used to spread death and destruction over the world under the pretext of protecting somebody or finding some form of security.” “How does Russia affect the situation?” “In rmany, where they have accurate in- formation, it is generally believed that 1930-1 will decide the future of the Soviet. If it comes through this period, the bolshevist government Wwiil have established itself securely with the beginnings of an industrial system; if it fails economically, the government will collapse,” t6) rigbs, Hurope realide that' the Savifig 1h7the cost of armament and armed forces is of great assistance to Germany in her struggle to get on her feet?” “Yes, that fact is generally realized. Ger- many is in the position of a man of 40 who has good health but has lost all his money and must start again from scratch. “Germany lost its capital during the war, but it also wiped out its domestic debt. It is facing the future just as did our Western pioneers two and three generations ago. Every- where in Germany the motto seems to be: Let the dead past bury its dead. They are neither complaining nor downcast but are hard at work trying to win back their leadership in business and in the sphere of the intellect. “For the last 10 years the civilized world has been marching, now consciously, now uncon- sciously, toward the happy goal of world peace. League of Nations the era of consulta- found an organ of expression, and in of Locarno the signatory powers have upon the peaceful settlement of their tional differences, whether these be of ding or have newly arisen. Finally, in of Paris the world has renounced war an instrument of national policy. “Hereafter we are to write notes, to confer together and to consult and leave off fighting and preparing to fight battles. Those ener- gies, those efforts, those vast expenditures which have heretofore gone into preparations for war and into the conduct of war are now to be turned toward multiplying the happiness of the great mass of the people in every land. “Better schools and systems of education, better conditions of labor, larger remuneration for the wage-earner, better protection of the B g HHH 335%25 public heatlh, better housing for the masses\ of people, better roads and other means of com- munication, Better libraries and museums, and, in general everywhere, a raising of the level of life and its conditions. “The world is rich enough for all this if it keeps its pledged word to renounce war as an * instrument of national policy. “This twentieth-century world abounds in problems that will tax the highest capacity of men to solvk. Some of these are human prob- lems. Some are industrial problems, some are economic problems, some are financial, some religious and some political problems, “The point upon which to insist is that they can never be solved by hate, by conflict or by force. These problems may be suppressed in one of those ways, but they cannot so be solved. If they are to be solved they mmist be solved in a spirit of kindly co-operation, of friendly association and of consultation with the fixed purpose of doing justice and establishing liberty among men. These are the true and lasting foundations of peace. “THE peace of the world cannot rest with any permanence upon any theory of domination by force, whether that domination be military or economic, racial or religious; for such domination is always a temptation to its disturbance or overthrow. “Peace can only rest secure upon a liberal, enlightened and convinced public opinion. That public opinion, having itself brought about the renunciation of war as a national policy, will now proceed to build, for its own expression and its own satisfaction, institutions that will regu- late and guide the contacts and relations of men organized in nations. This will be a sub- stitute for those suspicions and fears and dis- plays which have been so common in years gone by. “Fortunate it is that the constructive states- manship of Europe has its mind fixed upon the solution of this problem. The deeply lamented and sincerely mourned Dr. Stresemann under- stood it all and was ready to be a leader in marching to a new goal. We have a Briand in France, a Curtius in Germany and a Masaryk and a Benes in Czechoslovakia, and others of large outlook and fine imagination who are animated by the same spirit. “It cannot be long before this splendid ideal, “Helping Hortense”—dA Back-Stage Story “Yes.” Suddenly she reached cut and caught Continued from Seventeenth Page ped back in her chair again. She knew her face had whitened, for the boy came toward her. What Hortense replied to her husband she could only vaguely surmise, for the next moment there was a distinct knock on the door and Ben Wilcox inquired, “Hey, Annesley, is that you?” MARCARE'I‘ tried to answer, but her lips did not move. The boy, now puzzled, baffied, a trifie suspicious, stared at her. There was a rattle of the door knob, the sound of a scuffie, then the door opened and Wilcox in his shirt sleeves, his flesh oozing over his collar, stood framed on the jamb. He was grinning benignly, holding his wife by one slim arm. “Wanted to know you ever since you signed up with my wife,” he chuckled, “but somehow I never turned the trick. Wonder if the old gal's jealous and afraid I might fall for you?” “Wife!™ gasped the boy, his eyes wide and fastened on the face of Hortense, who was try- ing to shield herself behind her corpulent mate. “Oh,” exclaimed Ben, seeing the stranger for the first time, “didn’t know you had company— ‘scuse me. Right again, Hortense. Shouldn't have butted in. Hortense usually is right.” He backed out ungracefully, drawing the Hvid-faced star with him, and closed the door with a slam. Boy and gir]l stood silent. Then he spoke: “I thought you said her—manager.” 'U:fid‘i'; |‘r|a1."' 11 :u_w!mi tarl his coat sleeve. “Don’'t feel so terribly—it’s lots better you should learn just what she is before—you married her—then afterward—she isn’t worth suffering for—really——" His lips twisted in a pathetic smile. “Where —how did you get In on this?” Her cheeks flamed. “It was rotten—but—I have to work and—and—if I hadn’t I'd have lost my job.” Silence again, He withdrew his hold of her clinging fingers. Crossed to the bed, and lifting his coat and hat turned to her. “Still hungry?” he asked, squaring broad shoulders. “Why—why, yes,” she flashed. . “Come on then, we’ll see if there isn’t a decent beanery open some place. I'm about starved.” Margaret found the expected two weeks' notice on her box the next morning. Hortense smiled wisely, shrugged silken shoulders, and left the girl alone until the last day of the engagement. Then she walked into Margaret’s room un- announced and gave a throaty, sarcastic laugh. “It isn’'t so nice to be without a job, is it? Next time you want to pull a trick like that make sure you pull it on some ene who hasn't been around much!” She drawled her words carelessly. “What are you going to do now?” “Look after the job you gave me.” “The job I gave you? But you're fired!” “Not the theatrical job. The other ome.” Margaret's eyes and lips laughed together softly. “You told me to keep Jimmy interested until you got there, and since you didn't arrive, 1 Sy sa¥s that makes the job—permpanent ¥ (Copyright, 1930.) the attainment of which would mean so much for the economic prosperity and satisfaction of the peoples affected by it, will find its way to shape the policies of governments. This ideal is one of the intangibles that rule the %orid.” (Copyright, 1930.) The Millionaire Kid. Continued from Fifteenth Page sound pictures now—there’s got to be innovas tion, experimenting and ideas. “There never was any doubt in my mind about ‘All Quiet.’ I remember one day. some of them came to me and said that it was all tragedy—that every one died—even the hero, On the face of it, this did seem something rather radical—letting even the chief chare acter get killed. Well, after all, every one dies, It seemed to me to be all a matter of how the picture showed them dying. “That's the way it goes. The Broadway theater where it’s showing has a waiting list of thousands. Theyll all tell you what the public wants. And half the time they’re ‘wrong and half the time they're right. What we all want is novelty. They want to see and hear something different. And it’s generally the case that, novelty or no novelty, when you can move them deeply, whether by tragedy or mere pathos, you've got them. They like to laugh and they like to cry.” e WELL, after all, Junior Laemmle can afford to gamble. He has an independent fore tune of several millions left him by his mother, The fortune building Universal City was founded largely on those turn-over features which appeared as program attractions in mxshnds of small theaters throughout the Then, as every one knows, the sound pictures flip-flopped the map of Hollywood. Scores of the little theaters that had been the best cash customers for the old program couldn’t afford to buy the new noise machines. More and mory the little fellow had to shut up because of acoutic trouble or inability to rig up his house, Universal’'s chief source of revenue went slide ing. There had to be a turnover in policy. Into this situation a boy of 22 was projectedy with such responsibility as few of the oldeg executives could have successfully survived. And he's put it over—sport shoes, sport suity crepe tie and all, he's put it over! « Lesson in Animal Disase, SEEING is believing, so the Department of Agriculture has launched a new exhibit to convince the skeptical farmer that there is a possibility of tubercular infection in his farm stock which on the surface seem thoroughly healthy. 3 In order to prove their point, the agricultural experts have prepared a 14-foot panel which is 5 feet high and ¢ feet deep. Floodlights play= ing on the front of the exhibit show life-size pictures of a cow, a hog and a hen, apparently plump and healthy. After members of the audience have had ample time to acquaint themselves with the fine points of the animals pictured, the front lights are suddenly turned off and lights to the rear are turned on, with the effect of an X-ray, disclosing the vital organs of the animals and the hen. The latter views show the tubercular lesions in 'the form of nodules attached to the organs. The effect of the demonstration is to convince the farmer that when the tuberculin test indicates presence of the disease, the disease is there, no smetter (JRow - Bealiizy sthe gnimal: may, appear the surface.