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Evening star., 1925-06-28
RED HAND OF MOSCOW
FELT ALL OVER WORLD

defects. is still the first line Of de-
fense of American principles.
In these circumstances can it be
believed that any man in his senses
would palter with the situation? All
the great powerS-England,G Germany.
Italy, France and Japan-have burnt
their fingers at this mephitic flame
and each has seen too late the folly
of having recognized the Soviet gov
ernment. Only the United States
with prudence and foresight
amounting to clairvoyance, has re-
sisted this advance.
We knew instinctively the peril OF
Communist penetration and 1t is not
to be believed that any Senator, how
ever sincere and courageous, can
move the Government from it's con.
f1rmed position of wise action. To
yield now would be to Join our mad
ness to others folly.
1t is idle to invent the myth OF
the good and gentle bolshevist. Let
the sentimentaliSts consider this re.
cent utterance Of one of the greatest
men of the day, Mr.. Masaryk, presi
dent of the republic of Czechoslovakia
"In time of revolution and of war,
human life becomes valueless. In
this respect the bolsheviki are on
the lowest plane. l have seen with
my own eyes the misdeeds of the
bolshevist revolutionists. A savage
brutality, which turned into bestiality,
had free sway there. What stirred
me most in these outrageous acts was
the utter futility of the large number
Of victims sacrificed
Cherchez les Soviets,
Evening star., 1925-06-28
BY HARVEY w. WILEY,
Former Chief of the Federal Bureau
of Chemistry.

1t has been nearly 20 years since
the food and drugs law went into
effect and during all except a few
months Of the first year of it's en-
frocement it has been hampered more
or less by. illegal and unwise restric-
tions.
The pronenesS of people to forget
is most Enthusiastically illustrated
by the apparent lack of interest at
the present time in the failure to
rigidly enforce this act, intended to
protect the health and pocketbooks
of our people against danger and loss.
The paralysis of the food law has last
ed so long it is something like one
suffering from chronic paralysis. The
clot on the brain has become encysted,
and no one expects the patient ever
to get well. This is characteristic Of
the attitude of the public press and
the people at large on the present dis
abled condition of the food and drugs
act administration.
1t is my ambition before I leave
this world to see all the illegal restric-
tions which have been put around the
enforcement of the law removed. 1t
is simple proposition. Congress pre-
scribed certain methods of carrying
the law into effect. Among these
there were duties prescribed to the
Bureau of Chemistry, over which
presided at the time the law went into
effect, the first Of January, 1907. The
Evening star., 1925-06-28

the official hierarchy of Japan, a
crown member of the House of Peers,
twice a member of the House of Com
mons, four times minister Of foreign
affairs, leader of the Kenseikai party
formed by the late Prince katsura
and for many years Japanese Am
bassador to London. where the late
King Edward decorated him with the
knight commandership of the Order of
ST. Michael and st. George.
1t was a pleasure to study the man
and his personality as he smoked and
talked. He has the forehead of a
thinker. His hair is cut rather short
and is gray about the temples. He
has a small gray moustache; other
wise his face is smooth. His black
eyebrows are silvering at the ends.
His eyes are dark, serene. reflective,
friendly and frequently humorous. He
often smiles, sometimes chuckles and
never makes a gesture of the hands.
If he has troubles or anxieties he does
not show them; there is no rift in his
composure. Some idea of his nature
may be gained from his affectionate
esteem of Lord Grey of Fallodon,
whom he regards as statesman of
surprising sanity and good will.
Wants Peace With America.
1T puzzles me that Japan's peaceful
disposition should be questioned by
any one." said the viscount. I'VE en-
joyed an unbroken peace of three cen.
turies. It's matchless blessing, there
fore. we know. We know how it fur.
theirs science and art, how it elevates
the soul of a people. how 1t promotes
their individual and social welfare and
what impetus it gives to the progress
of ordered freedom. War is fatal to
ordered freedom. This fact Japan un.
derstands, and Japan loves ordered
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Pure Food Law Is Hampered
By Restrictions, Says DIR. Wiley

prescribed duty Of the Bureau of
Chemistry was to examine samples Of
foods and drugs for the purpose of
ascertaining if they were adulterated
or misbranded. This function carrot
possibly be taken away from the Du-
reau except by act of Congress.
Those engaged in adulterating foods
and drugs, however, thought they saw
a means not of repeating the law, but
of multiplying. With the collaboration
of high officials of the Government,
they devised methods by means Of
which the activities of the Bureau of
Chemistry were almost paralyzed.
If permission to use bodies of doubt
full wholesomeness Is recalled and the
Bureau Of Chemistry thus permitted
to resume its function, ALI of those
using these bodies may be called be-
fore the Federal courts to justify their
action. This Is all that the law con-
templates. When Federal courts act
upon these matters, unless appeal be
taken, their decisions are final.
What 1 want to do just now is to
get such an interest created in this
country looking to the restoring of
the law to the activities which Con-
gress intended it should engage in
that the competent officials of the
Department Of Agriculture may be
led by the facts Of the case and by a
sense of duty to the public to cancel
all orders, decisions, regulations and
everything Of this kind which, under
the present conditions prevent, the full
and complete enforcement of the act
itself.
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Distrust of Grain Markets
General, Capper Asserts

in options and Short selling, that
will be enforced and observed. 1t
may be, as he suggests, that such
arbitrary rules as have recently been
adopted in the cotton and coffee ex-
changes limiting the fluctuations
permitted on any one day will have
desirable effect. But if option
dealing and wide speculation by 9TH
ers than persons engaged in the le-
gitimate marketing or conditioning
of grain cannot be controlled, then
the danger that boards of trade face
is abolishment of such kinds of spec
ulation.
What 1 would say to the boards of
which purport to conduct a grain
market in which demand and supply
determine values Is that If private
associations permitted by law to con-
duct a market place for a whole ma
tons food supply confess that they
are helpless to prevent manipula-
ton on a gigantic scale and running
over periods of months, it is as GER.
tain as the rising Of tomorrow's sun
that regulation will be taken out of
their hands.
dependent on the grain market. but
the grain growers would prefer to
see boards of trade do their own
regulating and house cleaning. They
will not wait Indefinitely upon them,
however, to do SO. In the meantime
it is up to the associations that con.
duct the markets to win back public
faith in them. If the evils univer.
sally acknowledged are not remedied
from the inside, then they must be
remedied, If possible, by law.
Evening star., 1925-06-28

great powers Immediately concerned,
namely. Britain, France and Ger
many, are in more reasonable
frame of mind than at any previous
time since 1914. The election of Hin
denburg was unfortunate, because 1t
renewed French apprehensions; the
recent allied note to Germany in the
matter of disarmament was blunder.
because it not only wounded German
susceptibilities, but it also revived
German suspicion that the allies
meant to stay permanently on the
Rhine.
Agreement Necessary.
Nevertheless, the hopeful circum-
stance is that all three governments
really desire some kind of understand
ing. and the majority Of the people in
each of the three nations perceive
that some form of agreement is the
only escape from bad situation,
bound to grow steadily worse. Euro
pean publics are weary, disillusioned.
certainly bitter: but the gravest dan
ger to peace today does not come
from the desire of any people to pur-
sue ends which are only to be realized
by a new war, but rather from the
still patent conviction that peace is,
after all, unattainable.
1t is three months to the September
meeting Of the League of Nations. II
Germany is to join the league, it is at
that meeting that she would naturally
be admitted. The French and Belgian
occupation Of the Ruhr should. under
the London agreement, be terminated
in August and the British evacuation
Of the Cologne sector might easily fol-
low on the heels Of the Ruhr retire
ment. Certainly not a little effort
will be made to present an Anglo
Franco-German agreement to the Ge-
neva assembly. In any event, it must
be, clear that the next three months
have an importance for Europe hard
ly equaled by any since the close of
the Paris conference.
And the confident British assertion
that If the guaranty pact can be put
through, Europe can look forward to
a generation of peace, hardly seems
excessive. The real dangers now lie,
first, in some nationalistic folly in
Germany, and. secondly, in some sim
liar expression in France, where 1t is
plain a domestic political change is at
hand-a change which seems bound
to bring more conservative and ext
gent influences into control. The dis
appearance of the Luther-Stresemann
cabinet in Germany or of BRAND in
France might easily prove as great a
temporary disaster as the fall of Mac
Donald last year, which postponed and
complicated negotiations gravely.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-06-28
u. S. ECONOMIC RELATION
TO LATIN AMERICA DEFINED

quarters to look upon the extension
OF American investments in Latin
America as form of imperialism
carrying with it the menace of dom
ination in those countries. 1t is a
matter of very real importance that
public opinion should not be misled
with reference to this matter. If
there is one lesson to be drawn from
the history of American investments
in Latin America Ii is that there is
constantly decreasing rather than
an increasing tendency on the part
or American companies to interfere
in local affairs or to concern them.
selves with local politics.
Our American companies have
learned the lessons that aloofness
from local politics is the policy which
In the long run best subserves their
interests. An important factor in this
advance has been an increasing ap-
probation Of the Importance of cul-
company asset.
This picture Of the rapidly expand.
ing influence of the United States,
Characteristic Of every section OF
Latin America, Is q matter which
challenges the earnest consideration
of every thoughtful citizen. The
question Of the use that we are going
to make Of this power is one that con.
stantly presses itself upon the travel.
er in Latin America and is also in the
minds OF Latin American peoples.
"Temptations" Cited.
Are we going to succumb to the
same temptations that have brought
ruin to other powerful nations, or, are
we going to use this great power in
the interest of international justice
and fair dealing? Let us not for a
moment delude ourselves with the
thought that we enjoy any special
immunity in this respect There Is
every reason to suppose-yes, there
is almost a certainty-that with each
year this influence will increase. The
situation carries with it not only
heavy responsibilities, but the neces.
sity for constant and increasing vigi.
lance to avoid that abuse Of power
which has preceded the decline of
| every great nation which history has
hitherto recorded.
We must have sufficient faith in the
self control, in the basic idealism and
in the spirit Of service Of the peopIe
of the United States to believe that
we will avoid the pitfalls that have
wrought the ruin Of other powerful
nations. But 1t Is equally certain
that in order to avoid them we must
not permit ourselves to be lulled to
sleep either by an exaggeration OF our
national superiority, or by any false
notions OF our national superiority.
Eternal vigilance, combined with the
deterDlination to make real and
effective the high purposes upon
which American democracy rests.
will be the only effective and per.
mament safeguard.
Evening star., 1925-06-28
By DIR. l.. S. ROWE
Director General of the Pan.American
Union

" HE outstanding impression Of
the traveller in Latin America
is the fundamental change
Il that has taken place in our
economic relation to those
countries. Briefly stated. we have ad-
vanced from the period of "adven-
ture" to the period of permanent
investment" This means a far more
profound change than appears on the
surface. Latin America is no longer
the happy hunting ground of the con-
cession hunter, but has become a
great field for permanent investment,
investment that means progress and
prosperity to the countries affected
This new investment era has brought
with it new type of American resi-
dent in Latin America; men who are
identifying themselves with the life
and thought of the countries with
which they have thrown in their lot;
men who are taking part in the work
Of the communities in which they live
and who are making themselves fac
tors In the larger life of these com.
munities.
There is also profound change in
the policy of the American companies
operating in Latin America. They
are not only mindful of the social
welfare of the great masses of labor
ers employed by them, but are plac-
ing them on new and higher plane
of industrial efficiency
There is today tendency in some
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Everyday Religion
Not ialk on Theology, But Upon Life and Right
Living.
BY RIGHT REV J4MES E. FREEMAN, D. d.,
Bishop Of Washington

and understandings as He goes to
Nazareth, where He had been brought
up. We have no doubt that His re-
turn to His home town had a definite
design and purpose. We are bound to
believe that from His brief visit He
gained refreshment and inspiration for
the mighty tasks that lay before him
X X X
How few of us there are today who
maintain unbroken contact with the
associations and environment of early
life. Our age is characterized by a
migratory tendency. Most of us might
very properly have on our escutcheon
the legend, Here fiave we no con-
tinuing city
Broken contacts have a tendency
to promote and encourage broken
habits. The late Chief Justice Fuller
made it a practice to return periodi-
cally to the scenes and associations of
his childhood and youth. He gained
from these pilgrimages both refresh
ment and inspiration. He lived over
again the scenes and associations that
nodded and shaped his career in the
plastic period of youth. He felt again
the fine impulses that proceeded from
an environment made sacred by the
memories of those who were nearest
and dearest to him in life.
stand ye in the way and see and
ask for the old paths" is a call that
we need to hear and heed frequently.
Some one has suggestively said con-
cerning our hectic age that the streets
are full of men and women running
about carrying their souls in their
satchels." 1t were we'll for us in our
hurried life, living as most of us do
in cities, to spend small portion of
our vacation period in places and amid
scenes that bring back the homely
but exceedingly wholesome ways of
earlier days. We would have a larger
and perhaps a better understanding of
religion if like Jesus of Nazareth we
could go betides to the place where
we have been brought up
Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-06-28
BY ARTHUR CAPPER.
United States Senator From Kansas.

I am satisfied that there has never
been a time when there was as gen.
eral diStruSt of grain markets, and
] may say of live stock markets, as at
this moment. | was surprised re-
Gently in Chicago to learn that many
of the leading grain men on the Chi.
cago Board of Trade are also dis
turbed. not so much by public criti-
cism of the Board of Trade, to which
they are accustomed. but by the ac-
ton of the market itself. Such ruin
Gus swings from day to day as made
the sensational wheat market last
Winter and this Spring alarmed even
veteran traders.
At the same time these grain deal
ers and spectators, l believe,
haven't the slightest conception OF
the feeling out in the agricultural
country. The live stock industry and
the grain farmers have little faith
left in their markets. They do not
regard the market in which they sell
and which determines the price they
receive for their laborS in producing
food as real market at ala market
place in which demand and supply de-
termine values from day to day.
The effect of this loss of confidence
is to shake the producers confidence
in his own plans. Many persons, in
QiSCuSSlnS the runaway gram Illdi net
this year, have remarked that it did
not seriously affect the farmer, who
had already marketed his grain The
farmer however, is not relieved from
his anxiety over markets by this cir
cumStanca, for he has no assurance
that such irregular and violent
fluctuations will always occur when
he Is out of the market. Moreover,
this is not merely a question of the
farmer While few farmers We're
Immediately affected by the peculiar
antics of the grain market last Win
ter and Spring, all miilers were af-
fectcS,, as well as dealers in grain.
In fact, the legitimate grain business
was entirely up in the air and was at
the mercy of a few great spectators
whose manipulations on one side and
the other dominated the entire grain
business of the world for a period of
months.
Secretary Jardine has invited the
boards of trade to cooperate with
the Department of Agriculture in es-
xablishing rules of trading, especially
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Palaces of High Chinese
Are Sold for Small Sums

Hard times and the rising cost of
living are having q mournful effect
upon survivors of the late imperial
house of China.
Princely mansions and royal Manchu
heirlooms are freely being offered on
the market with only mild response.
Owing to financial pressure, Prince
Tsai Tao, uncle of the boy ex-emperor.
Hsuan TunG. has disposed of his
palace and extensive grounds in the
north city to foreigner for sum
reported as S150,0gO Eex-about $50.
600 in American money. That price
is re:..i:.1 :,ably low.
Prince Tsai Hsun. another uncle of
the deposed young monarch, has sold
bis residence to a foreigner, and sew
eral other palaces are to be had from
Manchu princes who either need the
money or are afraid that radical
change in the government may bring
about the confisc2 ton OF their prop
critics.
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Equality Is Seen as Only Basis
For Effecting Security Pact

Continued from First PageD
a witness and a depository than as a
principal. it is not necessary to take
II very seriously. 1t is a gesture:
doubt if it even represents solid
German hope, but at the very least it
does attract Il measure of American
attention to a German proposal. Thus,
even if the american role be out of
the question. Germany must hope to
get a little added publicity of favor
able sort for a project which is beyond
any question designed to aid in re-
habilitatinG Germany in the eyes of
the allied world.
Freedom Is Sought.
In the long negotiation which must
follow the German answer to French
1nterrogationS, the whole German ef-
fort, as the chancellor indicated in d
recent significant speech, will be di-
rected toward achieving freedom from
every sort of restraint incident to the
treaty of Versailles and undoubtedly
the Germans will endeavor to obtain.
not merely the evacuation of the
Cologne zone. following that of the
Ruhr, which should take place in
August, but also the allied retire
ment from the other two zones where,
diIuCi lIlS llCcilS. lic ehiiiC' diC q
thorized to stay until 1880 and 1885.
They will also endeavor to have the
French resign the plebiscite in the
Saar Basin, thus insuring the re-
turn of this district to Germany, be-
yond any question.
Beyond these specific advantages
Germany will seek to remove as far
as possible all chance of any new oc-
cupation. For the moment the DOM
mating thought in all German minds
is to get the armies of occupation out
and insure themselves against any
return. At the same time the Ger
man government is certain to disclose
very stiff inSiStence upon being
treated not as defeated nation, but
as a great power. Any effort to put
the present negotiation upon the
basis of previous conferences, any at
tempt to treat Germany other than as
an equal would certainly lead in
stantly to difficulties. On the other
hand, the Germans are so obviously
eager to free their own territory that
they are not at all likely to repulse
the French note despite the protests
which filled the German press in the
first days following its publication.
Bearing in mind all the many OBJ
stacles and recalling all the previous
failures, it still seems to me that the
chance of achieving something useful
is greater than at any time since the
war and that the peoples of the three
Evening star., 1925-06-28
Kato Says Japan Has Room for Own People;
Wants Only the Friendship of America

Editors note.-Jdpdn has no
policy of aggression in the Pacific;
she coDets no American posses
Sions: tChile grieved by the An,eri-
can exclusion ldE she EnotUs thot
her citizens are needed at home
and hopes that the sting of dis
crimindtion may be remoDed by
conference; her lohole foreign pol
icy is to striUe for continued peace.
These are fen of the points
that ViscOunt Kato, premier of
Japan. EN- phdsized in the follo,Cing
rery notable intcrrieao tOfth Ed
ardrd Price Bell. representative of
The Star aud the Chicago Ddilu
Ne1rS, notC in the Orient to deter
mine the future outlook for peace
in the Pacific. Already this article
has received recognition in Ameri-
can high official circles as an impor-
tdnt contribution to international
good understanding. 1t is q con-
tinudtion of the series of remark
able interviews Mr.. Bell has had
aCith the dctiue heads of the 900
crnments Of the 6orld.