The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-04-30

. be disagreeable. and often, to make you what you are, we have to do dis agreeable things. So we feel, to make the world better, we must do disagreeable things, and enter the arena of politics. It's well described as an arena, and there's many a stout old pagan in it; yet in we must Eo. Now, you'll be saying this sounds rice and upliftingi but we must ges to practical politics. Let's see, what is practical politics?
 We know what's not practical war l hope we've learned that les son. What is it that the world mos. needs in practical way to do? Work. Whats the most practical way to start work? Trade.
 Establishing confidence-first con hdence between capital and labor, then confidence in your government, then confidence in other nations. The Washington conference. eo-operation and confidence are the watchw ords of progress. The employer, we know. must realize that he's dealing with a human being and the worker must realize that the employer has got some quality which he needs and lacks otherwise the scales might be weighted the other way These seem to be the essential facts which capi- tai and labor should not forget.
 Essentials Forgotten in Russia
 They were forgotten in Russia. With dire results. The fault. though began with the employer in Russia Don't let us forget that Then, after getting capital and labor together, we must get trade. The only solution for unemployment is employment. for the work lose ic +1, world no big nation can get work for all unless it trades with all. The best way to trade with all countries Is to know all countries, and thats Were the press, you gentlemen. coma out the best in all coun- tries.
 Tt is for the press to unite coun- tries for trade and prosperity and peace. Governments depend for thetr views of foreign countries upon their ambassadors Ambassadors get to know foreign government. Foreign correspondents are unofficial am hassadors- The press can supplement official channels of communication by telling the people of each country not only about the government. bus about the people. They can get ina news and spread it quickly. They can get it to the man in the street.
 Know many of the American foreign correspondents. And 1 have heard frequently about the others They are most able men, a credit to the American press They are trust worthy That is the opinion formed by the people who know in England l am glad to be able to repeat this opinion here today.
 White aud Yellow Press
 IT the press wants to unite coun- tries. it can. If 1t wants to disunite them' 1t can. But the press Is just like a person in this. If some one tells you constantly of another's shortcomings and faults. you begin sooner or later to avoid that person. So it is with the press If it gives us accurate. fair news, we can judge Tor ouselves whether it's white press or yellow.
 We must be deeply grateful for the Washington conference. and we must pray deeply for the Genoa con ference. I believe the whole world longs for peace. But we never get anything in this world and we eer- tainly never get to Heaven without striving for it.
 America wants peace America started the Leageu of Nations. All Europe looks to America, not for large armies, not even for food, but for great moral lead Lead us to- ward peace Help usl Help usl Don't Just look on our faults-help Us to the betterl' Gentlemen, if we knew the better way-let us see to 1t that we take itl
 "Once more l beg of you to remem- Der your power If your motto could be to unite the world, send no thought which would not bless or cheer, pu- rify or heal-then We should, as the soldiers say, get on with the peace""
 Lord AstOr's Two Big Decisions
 President Moves called upon Lord Astor, who said that the two great est decisions of his life were when he chose his wife and when he again chose her to take his place in the House of Commons as representative of Plymouth. When Lord Astor touch- ed upon the probability of leaving the House of Commons, Lady Astor in bantering spirit called: Hear! Hear"
 'No man is responsible for his kinsfolk, but every man is respon sible for his wife" said Lord Astor. The first great decision in my life was my choice of wife. I decided
 
 when my father died and l had to give up my representation of the big constituency at Plymouth. I had the opportunity of choosing my success sor, and on that second time I de- cided rightly"
 Lord Astor's extemporaneous re- marks were interrupted by Lady As tors Hear Hear," when he thought of relinquishing his seat in the House of Lords. and added:
 "I find it difficult to make my blood red again, it has become so blue"
 Turning to discussion of world problems, Lord Astor said:
 There still remains fear after the war, and perhaps some hate. We must eliminate suspicion. We are finding We cannot limit the new world to any one continent-and we need the help and outlook which em- anate from the new world
 Not m Apple, hut ''NViid Peach"
 In introducing Lady Astor. Presi- dent Moves of the The Associated Press remarked that it was not the apple which caused the trouble in Eden, but wild peach" Retort- ing to this sally, Lady Astor said that she had been called wild since she left home. but never a peach" since she came back.
 "Readers of newspapers, said Mir. Moves, and it may be that some are here present today-have within the last week or so read of a reopening of an old and painful scandal that involves all men, and that the stray ing from the straight and narrow path of our common Adam was again perhaps unnecessarily dragged into public view.
 "I may parenthetically remark that in these days of racial hatred Adam is the only common ancestor and Mesopotamia, the reputed site of the Garden of Eden, the only mother country that may be claimed
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