Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1931, Page 5

N Y IR ot i s R o + oot THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. (. SATURD:MZ, ,OVL. ! BER 14, 1931, RITCHIE PLEA ASKS | _——— : FORLES POLTS ‘. G« Cult in Talk and More Action 72N Are Urged—Governor Hits DWAR D O : I O P Debt Camouflage. B g e —The Christmas Store < 2o s NEW YORK, November u—uu' t-1k and more action is a policy Gov. Albert C. Ritchie of Maryland believes £merica needs. " He decried, in a speech at the dinner | of the Academy of Political Science | last night, what he km::d“‘umouflue end political maneuvering.” He' urged open and frak dealing foreign problems. H> ‘expressed the opinion that Ameri- cans do not wish to become in Europe's politics,” adding: “But_we are not abandoning our tra- dil 1 sound policy of political isola- tion if we move forward to a policy of essential economic co-operation. “The Kellogg pact is an authentic and de tic_expression of co-opera- tive impulse, The general moratorium and our banking consortiums have cer- tainly had the approval of this demo- cratic nation. “All that democracy needs ask now 1 t further he'p b2 cpen and col tive: that it appraise rightly the t to which our own prosperity and peace may be affected by the peace and prosperity of Europe, and that whatever steps are taken be guided in our, interests by sound economics and not by self-serving politics.” Too Little Action, He Says. Alanson B. Houghton, former Am- bassador to Germany and president of | the academy, pralded.m . o Oo'v'thchle spoke, part, as fol- “We may take some comfort from the thought that this is not the first erisis this old world of ours has faced | and survived. What confronts us seems | to me as much a state of chaos as a| crigis—s chaos of fears, lmx;;‘)\exlne:i Her‘e i e » . uncertainties and demoralization. If | We could all once get our feet on the t t S s e Bt ou receive jus e desire our morale, this crisis would be over has its best intelligence been . \ » =z seitmmz el Christmas shopping enjoyable— doctors at the . Too ma and experts. Too much diag. migm ws ] successful—as you want it to be. “It is my conviction that never be- fore’ was faith in democracy so well as now, in this very crisis, and that democracy alone offers the one ln& only medium through which the ‘world can find fulfillment—the one route by which it can and will find 85 Jay out of the present morass. How helpful to be able to choose from such large varieties of the R Wil dud world's best gift wares—to have your selections attractively wrapped e s i toie Dot ortess | or boxed as gifts, if you request—to find that the things that belong O s o e hdee. 008 | together, for greater ease of selection, are together—Dress Accessories 3028 nave no fear of the new order of || on t}'ne First Floor, Men’s Gifts in The Men's Store (Second Floor), Chil- B e e dren’s Gifts on the Fourth Floor, Home Gifts on the Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Floors. lomaey. < conférences of bankers and econ- How pleasant and helpful to the better accomplishment of buying gifts, the omists, for in this crisis the more au- . 4 thentic elements of a functioning de- | to shop where there are such wide, roomy aisles—an abundance of are economic, rather than po- | S . . e maiuts wihotell ue, T natural light—where there is courteous and helpful service—where e, that we can never collect our | t‘ |6 h' h 3 . B s i o ey e | here are igh-speed elevators, with express .elevator service—where put our house in order, so as to re- | 'h : '1‘ F s "parmens b oods and.service ere is a Tea Room and Fountain Room where you may be refreshed andy terms, at least, of wor : | with the best foods—where there are comfortable, modern Rest and solved until & more unrestricted and | Retiring Rooms—where your gifts will be dispatched to any part of the trade ‘among . . and the channel of normal | continental United States, free of charge, Erovided the cost is not dis- ey, xtls charet, o : lem - oy o g B of | proportionate to the amount of your purchase—where there is a large, tions and debts and of gold stand- as these are, well-equipped U. S. Post Office—where messenger, taxi and other serv- Camentiage BNHaat. ices are quickly available. : “It may be that the greatest service | could do for the world is to settle permanently the status of in- eriiend) Wlgsions s2d e s || . Things to do at once— mé‘? 2"&"' on the Vln.flnd 1 . Jm%’ifi.:{mr::::w: :’:t‘ P?rcel Post your gifts for distant lands. o tne devs due us by Gifts to be engraved or marked should be ordered now to allow suffi- e reparations due by Ger. cient time for this work.. .,.::e. fi%@:fi"fi:fi Chc[p;iet z';ur geeaszr::i fircelm'g cangf) from our great assortments of the o7 and Leaidy dows oF or- port lomestic subjects. s I Al obiatns Orders for printed and monogrammed stationery should be placed im- of cancellation, the latter 4 Germany out and let the ai- mediately. out and transfer the it of the = (4 3 . s 1 s Teprsenied ::2..‘}:0' : tor Unusual gifts and foreign merchandise that cannot be duplicated in time s e e o for Christmas, should be selected immediately. people. No government seems o and et i the Americen stiould téel that to forego the But 33 More Shopping Days Before the ills of the world and would Cmote s ovn uimats welare, Christmas—and The Christmas Store o R L R i dy Mond hel Should not be asked 1o do this on al- is ready Monday to help you prepare S e R S R e for the h iest + 1 b Sn mational advantege and that bur- € happiest, mos enjoya |e. and den of proof should be fully met. Here e st ook 10’ souni - most worthwhile Christmas you have ever had. H h Eo 2233k o of international hatreds, prejudices and misunderstandings can yield. “I¢ 18 true that political democracy will often yleld to the defects of its virtues and to the limitations of poor old human nature. does succumb to the blind passi mob and sometimes follows the charla- tan and the fool. It can make a cult of inefliclency or Babbitry, or be in- tolerant and hysterical. Faith Expressed in Deeds, *Perhaps there is a sort of economic determin| or rhythm of history that shapes events in spite of all our plan- E and directing, so that all we can <0 little more than keep clean and unobstructed the channel in which the fiver of life must flow, for flow it must, And in this world crisis, I won- der whether w; lzould r;nthsee our problem more in terms of humanity, or st least of life and living, and there is not & misplaced on or an over-valuation of and self-seeking aspects nd a forgetting of those dwfit elements and forces which in the analysis are spiritual. “I democracy means what I have said, constructive help is to be found in a more living and spiritual faith in 4. A faith that expresses itself in instead of words. “Perhaps this world crisl8 would wvanish if we could see it more in the m‘tkz framework of a common ity. Perhaps it would vanish o e emphasis were placed on those forces which are implicit in racy. Perhaps a little more of the e of love and for- ce and neighborliness would be ' mooe usetul Lh: “ul the [:’l‘lr{x and planning of our ers, our diplomats, ‘our .conferees and our sons of Mars Perhaps then it would to say again with God is in His heaven with the world.”