The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-12


 portant men privately discuss what, if anything, they can do.
 The conference is like a gathering of surgeons around the bedside of a dying man.
 Shall we operate? How shall we operate7 Will he survive a major operation? will he live if we don't operate"
 Such are the question at Genoa. The patient is Europe, the head doctor Is Lloyd George. The principal diseased spots are Russia and Germany. There are a dozen others.
 The Episcopal church suggests boil ing down the Ten Commandments for the sake of brevity. They seem well boiled down already. But everything, no matter how condensed. can be condensed still more. For real brew ity you might get along with two commandments:
 First commandment: Be just
 Second commandment: Don't be 2 fool
 The just man would not commit murder or steal. Nobody but a fool would envy his neighbours wife or commit crimes that would make him suffer. The just man would honor his father and mother. remembering what he owes them. No man unless 1xa of God in vain, for whatever his own belief he would not insult tho belief of others.
 Only fool would fall to rest on the Sabbath day. The Episcopal authorities suggest shortening the last commandment to: Thou shalt not eovet."
 In the space saved by condensation they might add few words on the difference between covetousness and ambition. Don't covet your neigh bor's OK but have enough ambition to go out and get an OK of your own.
 Mir. HillQuit, socialist leader of New
 
 York state. one of the most able. a really educated man, forgets history when he advocates taking over the government and substituting workers for professional politicians"
 Professional politicians arc bad enough but workers" would be worse. They know it. Nobody knows better than Mir Hiilquit that every career requires training. also that for everything worth while you re- ouire trained minds back of you. MT. Hillouit is a successful lawyer rep resenting the greatest coal selling concern, because his ancestors in Rus sia and elsewhere have been thinking for two or three thousand years.
 You can't learn to think in one generation or in three. Many work ers nave great abiiity undeyeioped- sut generally speaking, the man that is capable of running nation soon gets out of being a workman, he moves up into the capitalistic class.
 big worldwide diamond corner, is born. Fifty-five per cent of all dia- mond production is united in one trust, to regulate sales and stabilize prices" which means holding back diamonds to keep up the price.
 In that diamond woodpile there is an American parsonage and his name Is Thomas F. Ryan. Years ago. when nobody else thought of it, he bought from the king of Belgium, in his African territories, diamond hunting rights to the tune of thousands or square miles. Thence he has been shipping diamonds for years. recently by flying machine.
 Tobacco men will tell you that Mir. Ryan probably "got his" in the diamond corner. They remember when he vert into tobacco, moderate ly and diffidently, with little trust of his own and came out well re- warded. William c. whitney used to gay that Ryan would be the richest man in the world. Later Ryan said that Davison, of Morgan & Co. would be a very rich man. But Davison. for the moment. Is out of 1t and Ryan is still forming diamond corners"
 What is in a name? A new church generally known as MT. Rockefeller's church" is open on Park avenue, New York city. If Europeans read that yesterday the first sermon was preached by man named Little Wolf" they would say How interest ing that native Indian should preach in the church of the worlds richest man." He wasn't a native Indian. The preachers name was Dr. Woelfkin. That means Little Wolf" in German.
 Mr. Rockefeller. Jr, talking to his Bible class in the new home. told the syoung men his father had sue ceeded because he had attended to "one thing at time" That is good thing for young people to remember. One thing at time means many things in due time.
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