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Evening star., 1925-12-03
PLAN HARD FIGHT
ON WORLD COURT
Borah and Slender Band of
Followers Believe They Can
Overcome Majority.
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Although now admittedly in a mi
nority that threatens their defeat,
senatorial opponents of the World
Court have by no means thrown up
the sponge. They declare. on the con
trary, that they have only begun to
fight They need 33 votcs--one more
than one-third of the Senate-to de
feat the Coolidge administration on
the court issue. At present, the anti
court party counts but il certain sup
porters Republicans. 5 Democrats
and ! Farm Laborite. They need IA
more votes TO accomplish their pur-
pose. Four Republicans now catalogued
as doubtful" tMesSrs. Watson, SChall
McMaster and Norbeck) are counted
as strong possibilities by the court op-
ponents. Ii they are captured. the
opposition will require another 15
votes. These, 1t is hoped. may be won
over by the power of argument and
eloquence with which Capitol Hill two
weeks hence will be drenched. Sena.
tors Borah. Moses and Johnson. for
the Republicans, and Senator Reed of
Missouri, for the Democrats are the
four horSemen who are mainly relied
upon to ride the World Court to de-
feat.
Members Of Opposition.
The battalion of death" which is
about to take the field a second time
on an issue interviewer with the
League Of Nations. consists OF the
following 10 Republicans: Rorah.
Brookhart, Frazier, Howell, Johnson,
La Toilette. Moses. Norris. Nve and
Wadsworth; Of the following 3 Demo
Gratis: Dill. Reed (Missourn and Rlease,
and OF Farm Labor's lone sentinel.
Shipstead of Minnesota. This phalanX
nf ie hI' c
dimensions at the outset OF the fight.
They recall in accents Of stout heart
that when the other battalion Of
death" took up the gage Of battle in
the league fight Of 1920 it numbered
only 16. Yet by resortinG to every
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country are on the threshold OF one
of the bitterest senatorial contests in
recent history. A couple of months
will show whether the Vermont farm
boy or the Idaho rough rider Is to
prevail.
Copyright 1897
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BISHOP LAUDS DANCING.

Correspondence of the Associated Press.
ABERDEEN. Scotland, November
15.-Dancing is just as necessary for
healthy human life as sunlight is for
flowers, is the belief of DR.. +. L..
Deane, Bishop of Aberdeen and Ork
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He regrets, however, that modern
dancing tends to thrust aside some
of the most beautiful dancing that we
have inherited from the past"
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parliamentary ruse, public agitation
and oratorical artifice at their COM
mand. they eventually manufactured
enough additional votes to reject the
treaty Of Versailles and keep America
out of the league.
Borah and his fellow. matadors will
have their uphill struggle on the
league constantly before them between
now and the date in 1925 when a vote
on the World Court is finally taken.
His friends know that Borah is max
ing ready to give the most Demos
thenian account Of himself yet
achieved since he entered the Senate
is years ago. 1t is the kind Of a
scrap he likes. He has been girding
himself for 1t for the past nine months.
He enters upon it. of course. conSid-
erably more strongly fortified than
when he was combating the league
five years ago as mere soldier in
Lodges ranks. He Is now in the sad
die in which Lodge rode-chairman
OF the foreign relations committee OF
the Senate. He will buck the league
not merely as Borah, but in that high
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Country dances" he said, 'have
behind them that intangible, indefin-
able. yet living force-the force OF
national sentiment and patriotism"
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Power Of President.

Except that so many Republican
Senators aspire to succeed themselves
in 1926. Borah and his friends believe
they would easily win the court con
test. They frankly fear that Presi-
dent Coolidge. whose heart is now set
on taking America into the court
under proper reservations, will apply
the la sh" relentlessly to that end upon
hesitant candidates for reelection.
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which begets boundless hatred, than
by a German purpose to make new
war.
In the end this conflict of forces,
this collision of tendencies, may result
in a triumph of reaction, restora-
tfon of monarchy, a return OF aggres-
sive militarism, the possibility can
not be blinked. But just as surely 1t
may not One of the most absorb
ingly interesting dramas in modern
political history, the most interesting
by all odds on the world stage of the
moment, is taking place here, but one
has the sense of seeing the first act,
not the last, of lacking any present
basis for estimating how the last act
will turn out.
In the end 1 am bound to say that
it seems to me the fate of the repub-
lie will depend upon its ability to Sc
cure the evacuation of German ter
ritory and in some measure at least
gain for Germany that treatment
which a numerically great people will
infallibly demand as they become
more and more conscious of the
restoration of their own physical
strength. And this is, after all, only
another way of saying that the allies,
that France and Britain will, finally,
have to make up their minds whether
to take certain risks with respect of a
restored Germany or run the other
risk incident to the latter, but inevi-
table recovery of a Germany which
will not be either republican or in
any sense peaceful.
Copyright, 192o.)
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Destroying to Employ
BY DA NJ. TARBELL.

spite of the building boom, yet been
able TO make up for what that nights
destruction cost them
According to this argument Europe
ought to be rolling in wealth at this
| moment. She certainly has DESTROYED
| enough in the last few years-thou-
sands upon thousands of buildings of
all sorts. And what was allowed to
stand have fallen into sad condition
because OF lack of repairs. Why,
then, is she not made rich by the
| amount of work that there is for her
| to do and that she is doing?
You cannot have your cake and eat
! 1t, too. You destroy a chimney, you
destroy a house, and you have taken
something of accumulated value out
of the world. Hasty building and
nasty replacing in America is not the
cause of prosperity, as my editorial
| friend argues. 1t is one of the bane-
full effects of the prosperity, which
comes from what sometimes seems
limitless natural wealth combined
with almost limitless brain and mus
cular energy in developing it. Never
before in the world was there SO
much of what men need and want
| or imagine they want-made in such
short periods of time. We have made
| machines to make things in guam
| titles 5oo-a thousand or more times
| as great as a man once could make
them-shoes, cotton, cloth, building
| materials, for example.
| X 4 X
1t is not strange that this amazing
| prosperity goes to peoples heads or
that it should drive out of their minds
many other considerations that go
| into the making of really stable and
continued wealth. One of it's baneful
| effects is the limitations 1t puts on
| the Imagination. Once men get 1t
| into their heads, like my editorial
| friend, that tearing down and re-
| building are the means of keeping
people at work, they are very apt to
| feel that this operation can go on
over and over again in the same place.
That is, they forget that there are
spaces beyond to be developed. Is
not the really fine thing to build
solidly and move on into new and
unbroken spots when more room for
| factories, more houses for homes are
needed? This theory that prosperity
| lies in tearing down every 20 years
shuts the mind to the enormous ad-
| vantage-and profits-in spreading
out.
Building and tearing down and re-
| building in one place is at least part
ly cause of that hateful and sorrow
| full thing we call ngestion-crowd-
| ing people into one district where
| they live unhappy, unhealthy, irritat-
ed lives. 1t Is bad for them, and 1t
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Everyday Religion
BY RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, ID. D.,
Bishop Of Washington.
Not Talk on Theology, But Upon Life
and Right Living.

people some of the time and some of
the people all of the time, but you
can't fool all of the people all of the
time"
We are being frequently reminded
in recent years of defects in our edu-
cational system. Many, too many,
of our youths know a little about
many things, but not much about
anything. When it COMES to the fine
things of character, those things that
make us what we really are, the test
is more severe. There came under
my observation some time ago young
person who seemingly was possessed
of all the refinements that careful
education and culture could guaran-
tee, and coupled with this was per-
sonal charm. l gave the person in
question an opportunity to recover
ground that had been lost and to
overcome mistakes that had been
made. All went we'll for a while,
but presently old defects in the sub
structure disclosed weaknesses, with
consequent failure. The foundations
of character are evidently not rem
dered secure through processes of
culture and education, however care
fully these may be cultivated.
:; x x
When the work of fife is made
manifest, of what sort it is, we in
evitably find that the things that
endure have to do with character.
We are learning today as we never
have before that deep religious con-
victions constitute the footing stones
of character. The method of the
Master was to deal with thesAdeep,
fundamental things of life. His con-
demnation of the religionists of His
time was directed against their
superficial methods. "Ye make clean
the outside" was his word of Scorn.
In every place we are finding today
conspicuous weaknesses, and when we
trace them to their source we dis
cover that they rise out of defects
of character To come to the full
ness or to the latter end of life with
knowledge that our work Is to be made
manifest, to be classified according to
its quality and worth and it's ca
pacity to stand, is a serious reflection.
To know that somehow the character
we build, whether it achieves large
rewards or small, is so well and
thoroughly constructed that 1t will
stand the final test of a discrimi-
mating and righteous judgment is to
attain life's highest and deepest sat
isfaction. 1t is well to keep in mind
as we do the days work that Every
mans work shall be made manifest,
of what sort 1t is
Copyright, 1921
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control was too slow to be corrected
on the swift-moving target
critics of the airplane were out
spoken in their praise of the demon
stration given at all times during the
tests by the Army air pilots. The
machines arose from Langley Field in
the face of a wind officially measured
at the time at 80 miles velocity That
stunt alone. it was said, could not
have been successfully accomplished
several years ago. The air exhibition
was spectacular
The pursuit and combat planes pre-
ceded the big bombers in a simulated
attack on warship silhouette. They
swooped down through the air on
| dangerous angles of descent, opened
machine guns on the target and let
loose veritable hailstorm of 25-
pound demolition or personnel bombs
Just as swiftly as they came on their
downward course, with motors cut
out, they banked upward and away.
nylng zigzagged and with quick
changes In elevation, making in every
respect much more difficult targets
for ground guns than did the targets
which the bombers towed on steady
courses at right angles to the guns
and within ranges averaging about
5000 feet for the three-inch rifles
Since the guns failed to score
single actual hit on the targets, it is a
conservative estimate that the casual
ties TO the air forces during the Lang
ley Field exercises would have been
minor indeed.
Planes Beat SearchIiShts.
The airplanes scored another clean
cut victory over the anti i-aircraft de-
| lenses Of the fort in the night prob
| lem. That was to have been a demon
stration of anti-a aircraft fire and
searchlight illumination of aircraft
as they flew over the fort on a theo-
retical bombing mission. 1t turned
out to be an illumination of the fort
from the air, the planes dropping
binding flares, throwing the figures
on the ground, as well as the guns
and the walls of the fortification, into
a strong relief picture, visible to the
aviators and for the moment binding
to the ground troops. Suffice 1t to
say that none of the airplanes which
participated in this phase of the tests
was found by the searchlight oper7
ators until the lights carried by the
aircraft had been flashed on to show
their whereabouts.
In this problem, however, the
S6arCnllRnlS uSeu were OF nOOer1l ue-
velopment, equipped to throw a beam
10000 feet into the air. They were
assisted by sound-detecting devices.
designed to register the range and
direction of the airplane. 1t was a
clear, starlight night, the sort when
searchlights work to the best advan-
tage and the aeroplanes should be the
easier spotted. The lights were
planted along a circular line, laid
doWn well hay0nd the fOrtidCafiOn
itself for the purpose Of illuminating
the aircraft with their beams and
making targets Of them for the guns
before the ships got over the fort or
in a position to bomb it. The ma
chimes got into bombing positions
directly over the main Notifications
apparently with little. if any, danger
from the searchlights 'or the ground
defenSeS.
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under IL, 100000 are girl WIDOWS,
forbidden to remarry. This at least
is certain: The outcasts would not
benefit by abolition of the British
Raj.
PaIestine.-Service of the America
Palestine line was inaugurated on
March IL by the sailing from New
York of the steamship President Ar
thur
There was tremendous demon
stration at the pier foot Of West
Houston street,, as we'll there might
be, for, Jacob S. Strahi, president
of the line, observed, This event
marks the appearance for the first
, time in more than 1000 years of the
flag of Judea on the high seas"
Most of the passengers are tourists.
good many are going to witness
the dedication of the new Hebrew
University.
Chile and Peru-The most impor-
tant features of the award rendered
by President Coolidge as arbitrator
of the Tacna-Arica dispute are as fol-
lows:
The general question of possession
is to be determined by a plebiscite,
as provided by the treaty of Ancon.
The essential conditions to govern
the plebiscite are laid down Ga COM
mission, to consist of one Chilean, one
Peruvian and a president to be named
by the President of the United States
will frame detailed regulations and
supervise their execution).
The northern or Tarato boundary
of Tacna is fixed as per Peruvian
claims.
The question of the southern
boundary of africa is referred to a
commission.
1t is reported that both Peru and
Chile are perfectly satisfied with the
award. The aforetime Peruvian prov
| inces OF Tacna and africa have, since
| the war of 1888 ended disastrously
for Peru, been in the possession OF
Chile as departments of the Chilean
province of Tacna
The treaty of Ancon provided that
Chile should govern and exploit the
| territory for 10 years, at the end OF
which time future possession should
be determined by a plebiscite. But
the Peruvian and Chilean govern
ments could not agree on the condi-
tfons to govern the plebiscite, hence
postponement thereof to this day. II
is to be hoped that the famous con-
| troversy is now at a point to be con
| signed to eternal rest The area OF
| the territory in question is e25C
| square miles, it's population about
$4,000. 1t is desert country, with few
| oases, tortured by intense heat anC
! by frequent earthquakes; but valua
| Bile because of it's rich deposits OF
nitrate of soda and minerals as yet
but little exploited.
| Il
United States of Amer.ca.-Or
March 13, by vote of So to IA, the
| Senate ratified the Isle of Pines
treaty. BY this treaty the United
States relinquishes in favor of the
Republic of Cuba all claim of title
to the Isle of Pines in consideration
of grants of coaling and naval sta
| tions in the Island of Cuba, hereto.
fore made to the United States. The
treaty had been pending before the
Senate for 90 years.
The Lausanne treaty with Turkey
| has been recommitted to The foreign
| relations committee of the Senate.
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II CST we destroy TO employ :!
M One of my favorite editorial
IVY writers (you would not
know him, unfortunately,
since his journal is a small
special trade paper, going only to
those interested, but in which, be-
cause they tell of those things of
which they know something, one
generally gets excellent good sense)
well, this favorite editorial writer
of mine has been talking nonsense
kind of nonsense that takes hold.
He has been defending the Ameri-
can habit of building and tearing
down, propounding the theory that
this is the way to keep men at work.
A talk with a friend just returned
from Europe started them off.
In Europe" the friend told him,
what they build endures. Here moth
ing lasts 20 years"
And that" he tells his friend in his
editorial, sis the reason Europe has
so many people unemployed. We tear
down every 20 years, therefore every
man is kept busy. Let them do the
same thing and then they will be kept
busy, and be as prosperous as our
selves.
"I have seen it work. 1 have seen
destruction bring building boom.
It was in Houston in 1915, when the
hurricane came and leyeled 1900
chimneys, and carried off all the
roofs and blew out all the windows
and leveled hundreds and hundreds
of buildings. There was not tele-
phone nor an electric light nor a tele-
graph connection left. But the next
morning everybody woke up and went
to work. Men who had had nothing
to do for weeks were employed at
higher wages than they had ever
earned The whole building trade
prospered as never before"
x x X X
To be sure the building trades did
prosper after the Houston hurricane
so they. did after the San Francisco
earthquake. But how about the own
ers of the chimneys? And the own
ers of the electric light plant? How
about the period of enforced idleness
for all sorts of activities-shops, fac
tories, mills? How about the activ-
tiles destroyed that never have re-
vived? One class of workers, and
only one, were thriving on the de-
structicn.
And if my editor friend would ex-
anime into the records of Houston he
would find many a man who is still
making up for what that period OF
destruction cost him. He might find,
too, that of those carpenters
and electricians, who for months had
all that they could do, at wages high
er than they had ever before received,
had lost their homes and have not, in
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The Story the Week Has Told

Miscellaneous-Dr. Walter Symons
has been elected by the German
Reichstag acting president of the
reich. He is head of the Leipsic Fed
eral Court. He was foreign minister
when Germany signed the Versailles
treaty, and as foreign minister he
headed the German delegations at the
Spa conference in 1920 and the Lon
don conference in the Spring of 1921.
The new German Ambassador to
the United States, Baron Ago Won
2altzan, has presented his creden-
tials.
A big strike of metal workers is on
in Lombardy, Italy: the first big
strike since the Fascist seized the
power. 1t was begun by Fascist trade
unionists, and Socialist trade union
| lists have followed suit. This is very
| interesting.
The new Jugoslav Skupshtina, or
Parliament, is in session. 1t is claim
ing that, though the Pashitch combi-
nation, with its unitary program, has
| a majority of IL in a total of 315, l.
$500 votes were cast for opposition
| candidates; who favor federal sys-
| tenn, as against 100000 for the gov
| ernment or Pashitch candidates The
opposition charge that the govern
| ment achieved victory by terrorist
| methods.
Turkey and Greece has accepted the
decision of the World Court interpret
ing the Lausanne convention for the
compulsory exchange of population.
A rather startling rival OF brigand-
| age Is taking place in Greece. The
| other day an automobile party OF
| four students of the American School
Of Archaeology at Athens (including
| two women) and one Erfton were
| held up near Arta (southern Epirus)
by brigands and one of the American
| men was shot, though not fatally.
! After being robbed the party were
| allowed to proceed.
Sun Vat Sen died of cancer al
| Peking on March II.
| Roy Scott Anderson, the American
who negotiated the release of the
victims of the Lincheng bandit out
rage in 1923. died at Peking on the
18th He was the son of an Ameri-
| can missionary to China, was borr
| in China and lived there most of his
| life, engaged in business of impor-
tance. He was a general of the rev.
olutionaries, an intrepid and inter
| esting man.
| Director John F Hayford of the
| Northwestern University College OF
| Engineering died of heart disease the
| other day shortly after his determi-
| ndtlOn OF the equatorial anu pOldi
diameters of the earth had been &C
cepted by the International Geodeti'
and Physical Union. He found thu
equatorial diameter to be 1927 miles
and the polar diameter, 1900 miles
| So the earth, as Newton inferred from
the fact that 1t is revolving body
is slightly fattened sphere, but th'
flattening isn't much.
| DR.. Francis G. Bease OF the Noun
Wilson Observatory of the Carnegie
Institute of Washington has deter
mined the diameter of the star Mir;
| of the Constellation of the Whale
| showing that Mira and not Betel
geuse, as previously supposed, is thu
second largest known star, Antare'
| Constellation Scorpio) being tn,
largest. Mira was discovered by Fab
ricius in 1896. It varies two hundred
fold in brightness in an eleven-montl
period. Its light, moving at the rate o
! $4,000 miles a second, takes 16I
years TO reach the earth.
Evening star., 1925-03-15
French Students
Going to Work

Living on herring has gone out of
style in the students quarter of Paris.
In the first place, the price of herring
Is far higher than it user to be. In
the second place, spurred by American
example, the students of Paris are
giving up the venerable idea that to
do manual labor for a living Is low
and dishonorable. The demand for
intellectual work--book reviewing,
translating, copying-is so great in
Paris that there is not enough to
go around. The students must fall
back upon Jobs as walters, errand
boys or valets-or go without food.
Until recently, French students OBJ
jected to surrendering the tradition
that their years at the university
were a long holiday, during which
they must live and be treated as
gentlemen" Lately, however. they
have been urged by their professors
to pattern their conduct after that of
many American college students
work their way through college"
and achieve successful and honorable
oareeyA
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Kansas Editor Lauds Coolidge
Program for Its Workability

But something will have been ac-
complished, something badly needed.
Given peace and the economy-which
Coolidge may easily bring us-and
the world then will be ready for the
next stage of it's forward journey.
The weary liberal. who at the present
seems to be molting, then may come
down off the perch and take charge
of yearning world.
1t is the business of the liberal, who
has no great following just now. to
do one of two things-convince the
world that the liberal program is
right, which seems rather difficult in
view of the conservative state of the
human heart, or help this sincere.
honest, courageous conservative in
the White House to realize his rather
uninspiring but certainly Immediately
necessary vision. For what Coolidge
asks can be done. And what is more,
it should be done.