Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-18

Washington has just listened to the
concluding lecture of the most re-
markable series of discussions of
Russia in Revolution" vet heard in
this country. They were conducted
by the Rev. Edmund a. Walsh, :. j.,
Phi. D.. director OF the School of For
eign Service at Georgetown Univer-
sity. DIR. Walsh is irrevocably of
opinion that 'insurmountable bar
riers" prevent the recognition of the
Soviet government by the United
States. He speaks from no hearsay
or academic viewpoint. For two
years this brilliant young priest was
on the firing line of Herbert Hoover S
famine relief service in Russia. DR..
Walsh is firmly convinced that the
contempt for law, municipal and in
ternational, which inspires the Com
munist regime at Moscow, even if
them hopelessly from the family of
civilized nations. In his powerful
summary of previous lectures. DR..
Walsh narrated the bitter experiences
which Germany, Italy, Great Britain,
France and Japan, which have recog-
nized Soviet Russia, have since had
with 1t. Red propaganda, he declares.
follows recognition, as day the night.
Americas foresight" Walsh asserts,
sight of Europe and Asia"
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Scrap iron is not Henry Ford's
only interest in the invertebrate
American merchant marine. He has
become, according to DR.. julius Klein
of the Bureau of Foreign and Do
nestle Commerce, almost the lead
ing exporter of manufactured prod
ucts in America, If not in the world.
1t will not be long before shipment
of Ford products overseas reaches
the staggering total of 100000 "A
year. These are mostly automobiles
parts sent abroad for assembling into
cars or tractors at Ford factories in
other countries. There is hardly a
single American industrial concern
that approaches such volume of ex-
port, and none anywhere else on earth
that approXimates it. DIR. Klein has
lust returned from Detroit. where he
went to baptize the new Export Club
organized there. He found Ford
amazingly well posted on economics
and politics of overseas trade. The
motor king now uses his own fleet
of airplanes for passenger and freight
traffic between Detroit and Chicago.
Some day, Klein is certain, Ford will
transport motor parts overseas in
airships.
X X X
Gen. Nelson A Miles family tradi-
lions will be perpetuated by a gallant
soldier son, Maj. Sherman Miles,
United States Army, now military
attache at the American High Com
mission in the Near East, with head
quarters at Constantinople. Maj.
Miles is of military stock on both
sides, for his mother was a Sherman
of Ohio, after whom he was named.
A West Pointer and still young, Maj.
Miles is recognized as one Of the
thinkers and scholars of our Army.
He has written brilliantly on problems
a soldiers eyes. One day the major,
who Is a giant, called at the Carnegie
Peace Endowment to consult books
interested in peace?" asked the lady
librarian. II belong to the most i'm
portant peace society in existence
said Miles, smiling. The librarian
surveyed his six-feet- -four of khaki,
his decorations bedecked bosom, his
seven league boots and spurs, and,
having recovered consciousness, in
quired: What is the name of your
peace society,"" Maj. Miles rejoined:
1.-THE United States Army"
X X x
Congress will be the final arbiter,
| but the World War Debt-funding Com
mission will be the negotiator-in-chief
of debt dealings with France and the
rest of Europe when the dealings cease
| TO be conversational and become con.
Lcrote, When the commission was