Evening star., 1924-08-04

weekly who announces in his edi-
torial salutatory that he has come
to stay"
The director of the foreign de-
partment of the London Times says
that unless some way be found TO
peaceful readjustment of the re-
lations of the peoples. the world will
be plunged into deadly racial con-
ffict He pointed to the unrest in
India seeking independence, and to
the yellow peril everywhere. Yet
what remedy has he brought?
There is TO be a lecture by Sir
Arthur Salter, director of the eco
nomic and finance section of the
other notableS of the Orient and Oc-
cident, and a speech by representa-
tive of j. p. Morgan & Co, en-
tightening the scholars as to how to
make international loans.
This Institute of Politics is not
SO academic" as was the Academy
of International Law which met at
The Hague last December. There
the addresses were all in French. Not
all the speakers were fluent in the
official language" and certain it is
that not all the hearers comprehend
ed moiety of what was said.
There were in attendance $50 peo-
included g Chinese, Mexicans, Siam
ese, 5 Japanese, Is Americans. IS
Cezhoslovakians and II each of French
and Germans. The academy decided
that requiring all to speak ''an unknown
tongue" was not success, and in fu-
ture sessions will rely upon interpre-
ters.
1 do not know what is the of
fetal language of the Berkshire Babel.
but whether the foreigners speak
iah To-, 1r4
tation, only the mountain echoes
swallow up their words, and the In
stitute of Politics is charged with
being as self-restrictive as was either
Babel or the Academy of Internation-
al Law. Its words of wisdom are
sachusetts and the masses and classes
not only in darkest Africa, but even
within radio spheres of influence in
| the States" are beyond the pale
| X X
There are scholars, hid in the
beautiful and fertile valley, which is
threaded by silvery streams. sur
rounded by the lofty ranges of the
Taghoonic and Green Mountains.
Graylock lifting its hoary summit
above every peak in the common
wealth. But the practical politi-
cians-where are they? Is Brother
|
been in touch? The scholars are in
"a state of mind" which is glorious,
| but is that Boston? Is it radically
Washington, where real politics -four
| ish?
The sedate doctors of law, accus-
| toned to the cloister of their Ii
| braries or court chambers-do they
| know that "it pays to advertise? 1t
seems direful that the institute meets
| about it's round table, while all
| American adver tising experts are
dining in the Elysee. The Williams
College pearls of wisdom may be as
! innocuous as the golden spoons of
the French palace after the table ts
deserted. If ever there was a tina
| when academic wisdom should be
! shared fer the enlightenment OF
| practical" statesmen, surely that oc-
casion is now in the Institute of Pol
| itics. There, amidst the unechoing
| hills, they are discussing the intrica-
| cies of the Dawes plan, but will their
| conclusions reach London, where are
men who perhaps do not know any
thing but the practical" actually
handling the plan practically?
The institute tells of reviving Eu-
the American Constitution with rad
ical amendments and other major
operations while the people" are
| asleep in the anesthetic. Are Amer
| leans provincial in magnifying the
| November electoral college in pref
erence to the August Institute of
Politics? Which contains the most
| INT of politics-the academic insti-
tute. or the practical electoral col
| lese?
tc0pyisss. 1884 ~ r.a, v. cor4ass