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Evening star., 1924-03-23

tions which have been considered de-
sirable. if not essential, for the Office
For he is of the koreish or tribe OF
the prophet, he is an independent rul-
est places of Is1am-Mecca and Me-
dina. But by his fait accompli he
may fatally have antagonized the
rest of Islam, and created another
SchiSm.
! At any rate there is again an Arab
caliph. of sorts. for the first time
since 1917. 1t should be remarked that
| in the history of Islam a plurality of
CaliphS has been the rule rather than
the exception, and this too in the
/ great days. Obviously d supreme
Caliphate is not necessary to the
spiritual health of Islam. An ele-
caliphate question by that prime
scoundrel, Abdul Hamid. in further
| ance Of his political pan-Islamic pro-
gram.
China-ReIations between Pekins
and Moscow are exceedingly strained,
the Chinese government having re-
| fused to ratify an agreement between
the two govrnments signed by Dr.
Wang, its representative; an agree
ment intended to be preliminary to
a definitive treaty and to form the
| basis thereof. The Chinese govern
ment was particularly dissatisfied
I with clauses of the agreement relat-
| ing to Mongolia; from which coun-
try the Chinese insist, and quite
properly, that the Russians remove
themselves. The Russian envoy hav-
! ing behaved with characteristic
! muscovite insolence, the Chinese
government ordered him to leave
Peking.
x x X x
United States Of America-On
March Is, the House passed the bonus
| bill, $50 to 54. The nomination of
| Justice Wilbur of California to be
Secretary of the Navy has been con-
f1rmed.
The four Douglas world cruisers
| with eight Army flyers aboard, left
Santa Monica, Calf, for Seattle. on
toons at Seattle, whence they hop off
| on April 1.
On March 20 Charles William Eliot,
| president-emeritus of Harvard was
ninety years old. The whole world
sent congratulations and the Harvard
authorities announced gifts to the
university totaling $780, 900 in honor
! of the occasion. The magnificent old
| man spoke for half an hour at a
meeting in Sanders Theater. which
+, tice Taft as the representative of
President Coolidge, and later he
spoke for another half hour to the
| undergraduates assembled in Harvard
yard. All will agree with Justice
Taft's statement, that "he has WELD
ed greater power with the Intelligent
democracy of his country than any
other unofficial citizen of his time"
X :, x ::
MiscclInneous-On March IA the
, league of nations council did record
days work. In addition to other
matters, it heard and approved the
report embodying proposals for a
settlement of the Memel question,
submitted by the commission ap-
pointed by itself, and by Mr..
Norman H. Davis; it persuaded
representatives of Germany and
Poland to accept, on behalf of their
respective governments, arbitration
Evening star., 1924-03-23

service" says Rear Admiral f. C.
Billiard. captain n-commandant that
its honor has never been smirched
No man of the service has ever been
bought. The record doesn't show
that any has ever been scared"
The reason why the coast guard
has not been as active as might
be desired in blockading the RUNNERS
is two-fold. In the first place, its
first and most important duty is to
save life and property. It's twenty
sea- going ships are scattered along
both our shore lines. The motto of
the service is Always ready" 4
cutter may reach port after a cruise
TO find orders awaiting it. II turns
about and stcams out to sea. Its
coal bunkers are built high and wide
to provide for precisely that sort of
a call. Plenty of food and water is
always in store.
IF the emergency is an immediate
one, Il coast guard ship is expected
TO get under way in twenty minutes" :"
said Admiral Billiard. Steam is al
ways kept up. If the captain has
ssNtAN A4NAiA' ~ Ntt MS dlHllt ana cam
not get back in time the first officer
takes the ship"
Duties Numerous and Dangerous.
In the ice season the coast guard
cutters patrol the berg lanes. Coast
Suardsmen marry and bury and hang
and feed the the Alaskan Indians.
The proposed round-the- flight
would not have been possible except
that the coast guard records dis
played the only places on the Aleu-
tian Islands where the Army fliers
Evening star., 1924-03-23
WHAT is SUCCESS?
N-The Biggest Thing in the World
Continued from First Page.)

Continued from First Page.)
period Of activity prior the the war
which was followed by the dullness
Of 1914. Next came the war boom
and the postwar boom, which were
follow ed by the reaction of 1920.
In your minds eye picture this chart
reaching back into the days of the
still backward into the days of the
Revolutionary war. Crossing to the
old world as the scene Of activities
carry the chart still further back
to the Biblical days, when the seven
fat years followed the seven lean
years.
Here is d simple illustration of
what the law of action and reaction
means to every reader. The following
letter was written by a young man
in New York city to his folks in
Maine. 1t was dated January, 1908,
during the business depression:
! Dear Mother: l haven't entirely lost
heart won't ever do that-but there
seems mighty little chance of my
! making a success here. l am work.
ing harder than / ever did in my life
trying to get work. l have an
y
paper. | have called on everybody
the cenSuS-taller called on, and also
few more that / bet he missed. l
guess I'm no good. But cheer up. one
name on file. whatever that means.
Write often.
With lots of love TO everybody.
ALEC"
That letter may sound familiar to
some mothers and fathers. Perhaps
you have had such letters from your
own sons. You can read between the
| lines, and you know what that boy
was up against. You can see him,
can't you. worn down by the toughest
job in the world-which is hunting a
job-footsore, heartsick. about down
and out, but still putting on q cheer
full face so as not to worry the folks.
Preventing Human Heartbreaks.
What would it have meant to this
boy if his mother could have written
to him the real facts? Suppose she
had pointed out to him that the rea-
son work was so hard to find was
not because he was mo good" not
because the country had gone to the
dogs, not because a young man had
no chance to succeed, not because
there was no room at the bottom
but just because of a temporary
movement of this fundamental law.
Then she could have explained that if
he would de patient the working TO
the law would later help him as it
thus handicapped him.
The man who wrote this letter has
today a wife and family and a good
business. Today he is looked upon as
successful. But he said as he ex-
hibited this letter which his mother
had saved: 1T makes me smile a lit
tie now, but 1 hope never to come
nearer death than when I sat down
that night to write home! l can't
help thinking what lot Of real suf-
fering in this world would be saved
if people only understood the cause
of 1T. if they only realized it was
merely swing in business condi-
tions and would soon be over"
Temptation of High Wages.
Here is another letter that may in
terest readers who like letters be-
cause they are real human documents
and not the expression Of dry theo-
ries. This letter was written by a
young lady:
October Is, 1919.
My Dear.Mr. Babson: Please don't
think ! have not enjoyed my work
with the Babson Statistical Organi-
zation. 1t has been most congenial,
and I hope / have been useful. /
-
Evening star., 1924-03-23
Nationaii>ts Arc Feared.

The present government in Ger
many. though a coalition affair. pev-
ertheless is dominated by leaders
inimical to the cause Of the mon
archist nationalists. who have seized
upon every pretext in recent years
to further their cause in Germany.
Further capitulation to the allies.
though such capitulatio means the
restoration of Germanic industrial
and financial power. peace and order,
tionalist hands and the cause OF
democratic government in Germany
would be set back for decade
This contingency is not desired by
the socialists and more liberal elc-
ments. As consequence. any ction
on the part of the Berlin regime has
been the subject of close scrutiny at all
times in order that the nationalist
attacks may be checked in the born
ing.
The campaign between the various
German parties evidently is to be Il
pltter one. The whole nation is
split into many political groups but
the natlonaIists and communists are
declared to be the two strongest
camps at the moment. each bent
upon Wooing support from the mod
crates, the conservative socialist and
'atitolIC eleInenIS. 1t is believed he
nstionalists will put up a terrific
light for control of the next reichs
Tag or a predominant section OF il.
In order that the nationalist view
polft always must be consulted This
Is not desired by either the con-
servatlVes or radical socialists for
lne reason that in nationalist control
already is suspected attemnted re-
turn TO that old order which led to
Germanys catastrophe position
Needless TO say. should the Dawes
financial plan be adopted now and
the nationalists with their far-1ung
pledges of resistance to the allies
gam controi. then it would rot be
worth the paper it is printed unon
owing to pending elections FIN
rope sees necessity of the millions
anni snuii'ea ASIDE for political expedi-
ency, and as long as such a STATE of
afalrs is permitted to exist. condi-
tlons IN Europe never will improve
except through long suffering and
t1lbuIatlon. economically, sociaIiv
and financially a"s
Evening star., 1924-03-23

Note that this letter is dated Cr-
tober, 1919. What was happening il.
October, 1919" Business was boom
ing. Everybody was employed. Every
body was getting big wages and
salaries. 1t was hard to get help.
Business organizations were scouting
around trying to get each others
employees. just as a certain company
attracted this girl away from the
Babson offices. She was valuable
girl. and we should have liked to
raise her pay and meet this other
offer if we could have done so in
fairness to the rest of the organiza
ton. AS this was impossible. the
only thing to do was TO accept her
resi- gnation, at the same time strong
ly advising her against leaving. The
advice, however, was not accepted.
Results of Business Depression.
What happened? For a month or
so everything went merrily as mar
riage bell. Then, about the middle
of 1920, the storm broke. Business
began to slide down hill. Business
organizations retrenchcd. Employees
were discharged right and left. The
particular company which had lured
away the girl by the bait of a fancy
salary turned right around and dis
cha rged her. She felt that she had
failed. She was completely dis
couraged.
Instead of urging her to take the
should have explained to her this
fundamental law ANY parents who
permit their children to Quit a secuT.
job just on the brink of a business
depression not only deserves to lose
such financial help as the children
may be contributing. but they de
serve to lose also their childrens
confidence and respect. Ambitions
for our boys and girls are justified.
OF course, we want them to succeed.
But don't let love blind our eyes to
q fundamental law of success.
Law That Makes or Breaks Us.
Let not our ambition for success be
a blind ambition. In times of de
preston teach confidence and hope.
courage and enterprise. But in times
of great prosperity teach steadiness.
prudence, caution, vigilance and
service.
Some of the worlds best and great
est men have frankly said that much
of their success they owe to lessons
learned at their mothers knee and
to the counsels of a wise father. Oh,
if all those lessons and counseis
might include instruction about the
fundamental law of action and reac-
tion! What priceless legacy and in
heritance it is for a boy and girl TO
go into the world with a clear under
standing of how the world works,
how fundamental law operates, how
il makes us or breaks us according
as we shape our course to profit by
it's power or vainly try to stem its
overwhelming tides. AS Shak espeare
said: There is tide in the affairs
of men which, taken at the flood,
leads on to fortune" The time to
catch this tide is at the bottom OF
the long swing upward
Evening star., 1924-03-23

reason for now sending you this let
ter reSigning my position is because |
have been offered a place in the -
company, and they offer a very much
larger salary than / am getting here
PERSONALITY even the higher pay would
not influence me TO make the change
put with others partly dependent
upon my earnings | really feel this
is a serious consideration.
Il shall always be greatly interest
ed in your work and that of the or
ganlZation, in which l leave many
friends. l thank you for all that you
have done for me.
"Sincerelv yours
Evening star., 1924-03-23
India Should Stay in Empire.
But Have Home Rule-Gandb;

CONTINUED from First Page)
have ventured to place before India
the ancient law of elf-sacrifice-the
obedience to the strength of the
spirit.
BY non-violence / do not mean
cowardice. I do believe that where
there is only d choice between cow
ardice and violence i would advise
violence. But I believe that forgive
ness adorns a soldier. And SO I am
not pleading for India to practice
non-violence because she is weak. but
because she is conscious of her power
and strength. The itishis. who dis
covered the law of non-violence, were
greater geniGses than Newton. Hav-
ing themselves known the use of
arms, they realized their uselessness
and taught a weary world that it's
salvation lay not through violence,
but through non-violence.
Therefore the mahatma con
Guided. II respectfully invite Amer
leans to study carefully the Indian
national movement and they will
therein find an effective substitute
for war"
Before his Imprisonment Mr.. Can
dhi was a most severe critic of mod
ern civilization, and L asked if his
views had suffered any change
They remain unchanged" was
his quiet answer my opinion of
modern civilization is that it is
worship of materialism, resulting in
the exploitation of the weak by the
strong. American wealth has be-
come the standard. The United
States is the envy of all the other
nations. Meanwhile moral growth
has become stunted and progress
measured in pounds, shillings and
pence.
Homeland OF Gods.
This land of ours. we are told,
was once the abode of the gods. But
il is not possible to conceive of gods
inhabiting a land which is made
hideous by the smoke and din of mill
chimneys and factories, and whose
Evening star., 1924-03-23

Copyright, 1923, Fleming II. Revell Com
pany. First published in this newspaper by
arrsntemeat with Babson Institute. Bah
sen Park. Msss.l
Evening star., 1924-03-23
DAWES PLAN is FACING
SHIPPING OF POLITICIANS
Dangers Beset Any Reparations Settle.
ment by Virtue of Europe's Prone
ness to Procrastinate.

OF the financier's program-one Gs-
signed to hasten the day of settled
order in Europe-Paris. London and
Berlin are filled with outcroppings of
misgiving. The French suspect the
Germans and believe that Germany
never will consent to the proposals
deemed essential to eventual payment
of reparations. Likewise the French
are continuing their insiStenca that
the French and Belgian troopS re-
main in the Ruhr and Rhineland uE-
til Germany has paid. a highly dam
gerous proceeding if equanimity be
maintained in the occupied regions
during the period of payment. The
atmosphere is filled with hypothetical
conjecturing all designed to create
an era of SkepticiSm about the time
the report of the committee will be
handed over to the reparations COM
mission for final action. Though
many attempts have been made to in
fuence the financial experts and many
of these have failed, il is expected
that the politicians of various coun-
tries will center their Big Berthas'
upon the reparationS commission and.
If failing to gain desired ends there.
ments.
Hard Days still Remain.
1t is a question whether or not in
the final analysis individual politi-
clans and groups of politicians will
dare stand in the way of a concerted
demand of the people that there be
quick and early settlement of vcXa-
tious problems. However. there arc
many weeks yet to elapse before any
settlement can be reached. and. in
the meantime, when the findings of
the experts become known. they will
be subject of vigorous propaganda
for and against in various countries
of Europe. How well this will sue
ceed remains for time to solve. but it
must be taken for granted that the
agreement is imperiled during tne pc
riod of procrastination.
Elections will be held in both
France and Germany during early
May and il cannot be expected that
either Poincare or the present Ger
man regime will take serious chances
of reputation until il has been def
nitely determined whether they or
sympathetic groups are to obtain fur
ther tenure of position.
Even should Germany consent to
all of the directions of the financial
experts and the reparations commits
sion. there is doubt that France
would permit adoption until after the
French elections. And il is hardly
TO be expected that the present Ger
man government will sign any agree
ment that might create political cap
ital for the enemy with possible loss
of elections.
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CONTINUED from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-03-23
By WILL r. KENNEDY.

to supply very Sc
r rious omissions in the Con-
L stitution WHICH might leave
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15
Agricultural Teachers Of F44{7
County Confer With Extension
Service Over Fall Program

~, v -. So
The first Of a series, of meetings
which will be held throughout the
coming year between members of
the local staff Of the Agricultural
Extension Service and the agricul-
tural teachers of the high schools
was held in the Agrieultural iEx-
tension Service office in Ell Cen
tro, Friday afternoon. Present at
this meeting were, Professor F. T..
Griffin, chief of the division of
agricultural education .of the Uni
yersity of California; y George r.
Momyer, principal of the Holtville
high School; AZ. w. Muse, farm
mechanics teacher of the Holtville
high school; @. G. Triplett, agri.
cultural teacher of the Ell Centre
high school; s. G. Oyler, agricul-
tural teacher of the, rCalexico high
SCHOOL, Leslie Beatty, foreman. of
the University Of California Expe-
riment Station at Meloland and
Farm Adv;sor Ghrthwaite, Miss
orpha Miller Ray Ellis and vern
DeTar. #
The purpose of this meeting was
ito get better understanding and
cooperation Between these agencies.
Professor +. 4. Griffin pointed out
that the greatest success in agri-
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15
PAGE THREE

corporation, No. 200 -Enickerboeker
Bldg, Los Angeles, California.
Huntington Park Theatre Com
pany, corporation, No. 200 Knick.
erbocker Bldg, Los Angeles, Cali
fotnia.
Taft Theatre Company, corpo.
raticn, No. 200 Knickerbocker
Bldg, Los Angeles, California.
G. l.. Lankiey, Incs corporation,
No. 200 Knickerbocker Bldg Los
Angeles, California.
Claude Leroy Langley, No. 24ll
Ocean Front, Santa Monica, Cah-
fornia.
| WITNESS my hand this 18th day
| of August, 1924.
(Signed)
CLAUDE LEROY LANGLEY
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15
English Player
!. New State Champ

DEL MONTE, Cal, Sept. 10
Captain. A. Bullock Webster of Del
monte ind Sunningdale, England, is
the amateur golf. champion of Cali
fornia by virtue of his win over
Rudolph Wilhelm of Portland, Ore,
on the Pebble Beach course yester-
day.
Webster overwhelmed the Port
lander on the greens and won the
title Z to 5.
Superior knowledge of the course
and the green's gave the British
golfer the victory. A sudden storm
of rain that swept the links during
the day affected his game but little
while Wilhelm went to pieces. Web
ster was four up at the end o.
the first 18.
Mrs. Joseph Mayo of Del Mon
te won the women's championship
with win over Mrs. f. s. Hardin
one up over the Del Monte course
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15
ANNUAL MEET
OF CHAMBERS TO
BE ON COAST

r The second annual conference of
the western division of. the Cham
Der of Commerce Of the United
States will be held in Los Angeles,
December 2 and 3, according to the
report received this morning from
the San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce by the local chamber.
Paul Shoup, vice president Of the
Southern Pacific railroad and act
ing vice president of the Chamber
of Commerce of the United States,
will preside in the absence of Henry
M. Robinson of Los Angeles who
will be IN Europe at the time as q
member of the Dawes reparations
commission.
In the tentative program already
outlined, one of the big issues for
discussion will be the waste in gov
,ernment and business. Other topics
that will have a prominent part ON
the conference program will be:
The business of farming, the ship
ping problem of the Pacific coast
and reforestation.
Many members of the eastern and
southern chamber as well as local
chambers, have signified their inten
tion of being in attendance at the
conference. The committee III
charge of the conference are en-
deavoring to make this one of the
biggest events in the history of the
National Chamber of Commerce.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15
Consumption Of
Coffee Gaining
in United States

America drinks 40 per cent more
coffee than it did twelve years ago,
according to reliable figures just
made public by the foodstuffs divi-
sion of the United States bureau
of foreign and domestic commerce.
Despite this amazing gain, how
ever, the coffee drinking palm does
not belong to this country. Four
European countries exceed it in per
capita consumption. Denmark leads
with 1871 pounds per person; Swe-
den is second with 1914 pounds;
Holland, third with 14.7 pounds and
Norway, fourth with 14.3s pounds.
Then comes the United States with
an official government consumption
of 12.47 pounds per capita.
Nor is an increase of forty per
cent in coffee consumption giving
America record for the world to
shoot at. Italy and France have
eclipsed the feat of this country
during the past twelve years by
fifty-six per cent and fifty-two
per cent, respectively.
In the 1913 crop year, there was
retained for consumption in the
United States 858,919,058 pounds
valued at $118, ,309,911. In 1924
(the crop year which ran from July
l, 1928 to June 80, 1920 there
was retained for consumption here
! / 1895, ,364,211 pounds, valued a
| S2ol .039. .l42.
Imperial Valley press., 1924-09-15

cultural Teaching had been in cases
where the agricultural teachers
spend par. of their time in the
high school and part of their time
in training the boys and girls of
the seventh and eighth grades Of
primary schools in their high school
districts and also some time work
ing among the adults. He pointed
out that it might be advisable to
limit club work to the grammar
schools, whereas great success has
followed the organization of jun
ior farm bureaus as medium
throughout which high school boys
and girls could carry on their ac-
tivities. ~
Discuss I. v. Program
Considerable time was devoted
to a discussion of the agricultural
extension service program of work
in the county anu how the high
school agricultural teachers could
cooperate in carrying on this pro-
gram.
Greater use of the University
Experiment Station by the high
school pupils under the leadership
of the agricultural teachers played
an important part in the delibera-
tions, and arrangements were made
for general meeting of all high
school agricultural teachers WIN
their pupils in the agricultural
classes at the Experiment Station
next Friday, September 10 at 1:30
|p. m. At this time Mr.. Beatty,
foreman of the station, will show
the classes over the station ex-
planning the great number of i'm
portant experiments that are be-
ing conducted and devoting the
major portion of the time to lee
turing on the summer green manure
crop experiment that is being con-
Quoted.
The next meeting of the agri-
cultural teachers with the extension
service will be held Saturday, Oc-
tober IL at 9 O'Clock a. m. at the
extension service office.