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Daily Kennebec journal., 1925-06-30

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the use of the Hoffman steam Sys-
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the fabric, besides destroying all
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Tel 13-M.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
AMERICAN SCIENTISTS TO ENTER
GREAT ICECAP OF GREENLAND
Expedition Being Organized to Study Weather Sc
crets in Vast Unknown Region-Party Will
Start Next July for Far North.

An expedition to penetrate into the
interior of the great ice sheet cover
ing Greenland and learn the secrets of
the weather in that area is being or
ganized this Winter by Prof. w. II.
Hobbs of the University OF Michigan,
an authority on glaciers and geology.
Equipped with airplanes for pre-
liminary exploratory work, with radio
apparatus adequate to maintain con-
slant communication with the outside
world. and with scientific instruments
to record meteorological data and OBJ
serve the movements of the great
Greenland glaciers, the party to be
headed by Prof. Hobbs will start for
the far northern Danish island CONT
nent of Greenland in July of next
year.
One of its objects will be the estab-
lishment of Il weather observing sta
tion on the great plateau of ice some
$50 miles inland. and 5000 to 1000
feet above sea level. Never before
has this been accomplished. Prof.
Hobbs plans to maintain an observing
staff at this station for a year in or
der to give to the meterologists of the
Evening star., 1925-11-08
BY FRANCIS III. SISSON,
Vice President. Guaranty Trust Co
of New York.

The role of investor In foreign Sc
curities is still comparatively new
one for the American capitalist. We
have been international bankers only
In a commercial, not in an invest
ment, sense. Conditions in the United
States in the past were such that the
domestic market readily and urgently
absorbed the great bulk of American
capital and there was no need to look
abroad for opportunities for It's profit
able use.
Possessed Of enormous undeveloped
resources Of fertile soil, mineral de-
posits and timber, with great areas to
be furnished with transportation facili-
ties, and with innumerable rapidly
growing communities requiring more
and more public utility services, there
was ample demand at home for the
accumulated savings of our people.
With a great continent Of its own to
exploit, the United States devoted
itself primarily to that task and left
to European capitalists the profitable
field of foreign investment.
Furthermore, there was no great
investing class in America, such as
existed in Europe, which was cur
rently and actively interested in for
eign securities and had the habit Of
placing its capital in them as a natural
and customary thing to do.
A change has taken place, however
since the war, due in large degree to
the Liberty loan campaigns, and also
to the extraordinary prosperity in this
country, as we'll as to our great ac-
cumulation of gold. low interest rates
and plethora of money. This change
Is reflected in the fact that at the be-
ginning of this year there were listed
and dealt in on the New York Stock
Exchange foreign securities originally
offered, from 1914 to January 1, 1925,
of the aggregate par value of ST.
S69 641,564 (the latest official figures
available). And from January l, 1920.
to October 1, 1925, total of $4,022.-
12S0OO in foreign securities were
fioated in the United States, of which
s3.750,79 900 was for new capital and
| $271 1896, 900 was for refunding pur-
poses.
At the end Of the last fiscal year,
June 80, 1925, the Department Of
Commerce estimated that the total of
our foreign investments, exclusive of
| the amount owed to the Government
Of the United States by foreign gov
ernments, approximated $500 900, 900.
In this connection. 1t is interesting
Evening star., 1925-11-08

world information about the behavior
of the weather in that part of the
world which seems to be the plaC Ce
where storms either are born or die
The data to be radioed to civilization
are expected to aid materially In the
making Of the daily weather forecasts
in Canada and the United States.
The expedition will be under the
auspices Of the University of Mich,
igan, where DIR. Hobbs is professor
of geology. Several American gov
ernmental bureaus interested in the
scientific problems of the Arctic have
promised active participation in the
expedition, and the expedition also will
cooperate informally with DR.. Lange
Koch. leader of the Danish govern.
ment's scientific party, which will
take the field at Scoresby Sound on
the east coast of Greenland in July
1926, at about the same time that
Prof. Hobbs party is establishing its
base nearly directly opposite on the
west coast of Holstensborg, just be
low the Arctic Circle. DR.. Koch
who has had long training and ex.
perience in explorations in Greenland
will trek directly across the continent
of Greenland from east to west, max
ing scientific observations during the
two months journey. Previous to
this he plans to map and investigate
the geological features of the un
known portion of the west Greenland
coast.
Will Use Sounding Balloons.
Regular exploration of the WIND
currents and temperatures of the
upper air will be feature of the
routine observations at the two sta
tions to be established by Prof
Hobbs. Large rubber sounding bal
looms will be used for this purpose
Since the inland station on the ice
sheet will be over a mile high above
the sea, and the coast station off the
edge Of the glacial ice will be over a
half-mile high, it is expected that the
balloons will succeed in probing and
revealing the weather secrets Of un
usually high attitudes.
At least two airplanes with pilots
and mechanics will be a part of the
expedition and the rest of the party
is now in the process of organization
Radio communication on short wave
length will be provided between the
two stations as well as with the
United States.
Evening star., 1925-11-08
NATIONS OF EUROPE LOSING HOLD
THROUGH FIGHTING EACH OTHER
Downfall of Imperialism i'm Handwriting on Wall
Best of Their Breed Has Been Killed OFF,
Says David Starr Jordan.

and much Of both. The control by
Europe or America of the backward
nations must be relaxed. The white
mans burden" is bound to be shifted.
For this several causes are evident.
The nations of Europe have lost
prestige by their suicidal destruction
of one another. They have lost their
power, their people have lost heart,
and in a large degree have lost
character. They have killed off one
another'S best, never to be restored.
Breeding from second best or still
lower is the last and most killing
cause of the downfall of any nation.
Send forth the best ye breed" and
the stock has never been, can never
be, kept up.
Europe Losing Hold.
Men see, with Lincoln, that mo
people is good enough to govern
another against its will" No doubt
Europe can handle Asia or Africa
better than the people who swarm
in these regions. But most races
prefer self-rule to good government.
ing to care for itself Asia and Africa
are showing her the door. The roads
all lead outward.
Senator Phelan quotes from good
lady in Dublin: THANK God, the
British are out of Ireland and we
can now fight in peace" 1t is the
growing will of all the backward
tribes to see Europe out of the way.
so that they can fight in peace"
And whether or not, we welcome the
shifting of the white mans burden" !"
the handwriting on the wall in 1926
is Just as clear as 1t was in 1918.
(Copyright. 1o26A
Evening star., 1925-11-08
INVESTING IN FOREIGN LOANS
is STILL NEW ROLE FOR AMERICA
Money That Was Developing the Resources of This
Country Now Going Abroad to Bring Out
Natural Wealth Over There.

to note that for the first six months
of 1925 exports from the United States
to Germany were almost double those
for the first half of 1924. Moreover,
in the earlier period less than is per
cent of the total German imports were
from the United States, and this year
they were almost % per cent. The
increase Is said to be due to the ease
with which the Germans have obtained
credit in the United States. Trade
and credit are closely interviewer.
With our great productive capacity
there should be little doubt of our
ability to make loans. provided the
other parties tor the transactions can
show the necessary ability and will
ingness to pay. The negotiations at
Locarno give hope of a better state Of
affairs in Europe. Any recovery on
that continent should lead to a greater
demand for not only our products, but
the raw materials of Asia and the
countries of the Southern Hemisphere.
Such demands, in turn, increase the
need for capital for the development of
resources of those countries.
(Copyright 1o25)
Evening star., 1925-11-08
BY DAVID STARR JORDANl

In France, in 1913, the present
writer heard an explanation by q
leading London banker Of the rea-
son why no British bank would lend
money to the governments of France,
Germany or Austria. I'VE can read
the handwriting on the WALL" he
said. "and 1t spells repudiation. The
people Of these countries will say,
I'VE know that we have received
all this money and that we have
spent 1t on armies and navies. We
know that we ought to pay it back
and with interest, but we cannot.
We must live and we cannot, if we
pay"
This was before the World War,
when the total of Europe's national
debt was about one-tenth what it is
at present and before our own Ma
ton had loaned to Europe without
security a sum equal to all the gold
coinage of the world.
Downfall Of Imperialism.
And now, however we may regard
the results of the war, the sole reality
In the diplomacy of Europe is repudi-
alton; Its necessity and the methods
by which, in whole or in part, it
can be most respectfully accom-
plished. When nations are on 1.-The
race for the abyss" Qa course yers
Pabime, as my French friend, Prud-
homme styled it in 1919, 1t is easy
to read the handwriting on the wall.
1t will not be erased for a lifetime.
Another writing on the wall today
Is clearly rising. It spells the down.
fall of Imperialism. More explicitly
1t reads: All roads In Asia and
Africa lead outward for good or evil
Evening star., 1925-11-08
Earn Living by Combing
Paris for Lost Articles

In Paris has developed recently a
new profession, that of finders of
lost property"
Several men who dislike working in
close rooms for small remunerations
have formed an association, and from
early morning till sunset they wander
through the streets looking carefully
at the sidewalks and under the tables
and chairs of the many open-air cafes.
If they find an object of value they
wait for day or two to see whether
the loser offers a reward through the
newspapers. If this does not happen
they take the finds to the police sta
ton, which pays them 10 per cent of
the estimated value of the objects
found, either when the loser comes to
claim 1t, or after a. year, when 1t is
sold at auction as unclaimed property,
Evening star., 1925-11-08
10000 Acres May Be
Saved by Veterans in Italy

Land reclamation work, with which
Italy has given employment to hun
dreds of war veterans, Is beginning to
approach completion. In all. $4,000
acres have been set aside for this pur-
pose, some of the land being the gift
of the King to the men who should ac-
complish it's reclamation. More than
S3,000,000 has been granted for the
work. Hitherto some Of the districts
have been malarious and virtually TN
inhabitable.
Although Italy has vast tracts of
such lands which are not only useless
but positively dangerous to health, 1t
it still disputed whether it is economi-
cally feasible to reclaim them. In
other words, 1t is believed by some
that the produce of the reclaimed lands
will not be sufficient to pay off the
amounts Of money expended on them.
Evening star., 1925-11-08

the background of our lives, taking
it's place among the dead, beautiful
things whose inspiration IS past-the
mythology of Greece, the pictured
worship Of the Egyptians.
* x
It IS scarcely our fault. 1t is q
matter often. when one contemplates
the simple, joyous lives of past gen.
erations, for deep and bitter regret
that the whole-hearted, unquestioning
faith with which they accepted the
priest-expounded explanations of the
problems Of the universe, has. in a
large measure, become IMPOSSIBLE to
the dwellers in this bustling world of
ours-impossible whatever effort of
will or brain we devote toward its
rena
Evening star., 1925-11-08
War on HI. C.. L. Subsidies.

That much trumpeted campaign of
the German government against the
high cost of living has come down to
sporadic application of the so-called
usury laws. Recently the Reichstag
voted a law which proclaimed high
profits usury. Now police squads visit
the various shops and examine the
books. If the net profits are more
than Is per cent the owner is fined
heavily. Curiously enough. it has been
all but proved that not the retailers
but the producers and wholesalers
are responsible for the high prices.
Evening star., 1925-11-08

With It has passed without the
shadow Of doubt much Of the spirit
uality of our lives, our art has become
distorted and uninspired. and even our
national existence has felt the need
Of that flame of idealism which gave
it color and force. The materialist
today has come into his own. Yet
the greatest skeptic has to admit that
there is implanted In us, from some
unknown source, together with our
other inherent proclivities, certain
aspirations toward a world morality,
the cultivation of which brings us a
measure of content and happiness
which we can gain by no other means.
My religion is the religion Of the
man in the street-an attitude of, l
hope, reverent ignorance as regards
the great unsolved problems of life
and death, but desire as one looks
upward in vain. to pass through ones
day-by-day life believing that in ones
own fellow creatures there must be
a spark of that divinity which else
where eludes us, an inclination al
ways to accept the most charitable
view of a fellow creatures misdoings,
to believe the best of every one with
whom one is brought into contact,
and to help, so far as one can, those
who are confronted with graver
problems Of life than we ourselves
are called upon to meet.
There seems to be no other religion
left today for the thinking man
but to worship the unknown God
through his fellows, fulfilling thereby
a primitive and inherent instinct. We
are few Of us heroes, we all have our
weaknesses, but It is always possible
In yielding TO them to sacrifice as
little as may be the happiness Of
others. Tho struggle to keep our
place in life is forced upon us, but
we may fight for our own hand and
still retain a measure of consideration
for those whose interests clash with
our own.
We are fundamentally selfish by
the logic of necessity, forced into an
attitude of representation by the
laws Of life. Still, at the cost Of a
little thought, we can carry on the
fight without undue hurt to others,
with some blending, indeed, of altru-
istic effort. If the shadows of the
great abyss reveal to us nothing
of what may lie beneath their
terrifying embrace, the best prep
aration for the inevitable end, in
the absence of that rare gift of abso-
lutte faith, would seem to be the con-
viction. earned by continual effort,
that the happiness of ones fellow
creatures had been rather added to
than marred by ones passage
through life.
fCopyriCht 1921
Evening star., 1925-11-08

day 1t really seems as though in fu-
ture ages, not far removed from our
own, all established forms of worship
would die of sheer inanition.
1t is the penalty which we are pay
ing for a larger measure of intellec-
tual comprehension, for greater in
roads into the mysterious world Of
science, that with all such develop
ments the primitive faith Of men in
God grows fainter and fainter. Cen
turies ago religion was an easy thing
Man believed what he felt and what
he was taught. Nowadays, when the
utilitarianism Of more mechanical
world has destroyed, to a large ex-
tent, the earlier and sweeter forms of
apprehension born of faith and senti-
ment, religion as expressed by any
definite formulae is sinking fast into
Evening star., 1925-11-08

7 T is a curious feature Of our So
cial and conversational life that
the one subject which Is of su-
= preme and vital Importance to
every human being is the least often
discussed-our thoughts and feelings
concerning the hereafter and the
shaping Of our lives in accordance
with our theories or convictions. 1t
| seems, indeed. as though the whole
world of men, as well as women, were
afflicted with a curious shyness when
the subject of religion is even indi-
rectly alluded to.
In these days Of bridge and NAH
jong. universal dancing and freer in
tercourse between the sexes, the habi-
tude of conversation between men at
their clubs and other meeting places
has naturally enough declined.
X X
Yet there are always friendships,
and with friendship an exchange Of
views upon all the vital matters OF
life. These continue to some extent,
vet It is a curious fact that If the
conversation between any little COM
pany of intellectuals should wander
from sport or literature or art to the
graver question OF a possible here
after. even the most brilliant takers
become tongue-tied. there are self
conscious gaps in the flow Of speech
and there is a universal air of relief
when, as usually happens before long,
the subject is changed.
Youth is sometimes bolder, and de-
liberately seeks elucidation Of the one
ageless, impenetrable mystery, but
among the middle-aged and elderly
there exists almost cult of silence
concerning those problems where
science has failed us and which faith
in the mystic teachings Of the spirit
ual leaders of the world can alone
solve. From the earliest dawn of in
telligence we walk through life. wheth-
er our way lies through the pleasure
gardens or across the ragged places,
along the edge of a mysterious and
yawning abyss into whose unfathom-
able depths we know that some day
or other we must commit ourselves.
There are times-timeS. as a rule,
of solitary thought-during which we
strain our eyes looking downward,
but for the most part we accept our
destiny with a curious mixture of
fatalism and an ostrich-like capacity
for burying our heads i'll the affairs
Of the world until the last moment.
Without any hope or fear of the
hereafter we should logically become
a world Of lunatics, yet all those
forms of faith and belief which from
the earliest days of history have pro-
duced a countless procession of saints
and heroes have grown fainter
throughout the generations, until to-
Evening star., 1925-11-08
HUGE RAILROAD CLAIMS
AGAINST L. S. ADJUSTED
Enormously Complex Problems Grow
ing Out of Federal Operations Solved.
Administration Work at End.

have taken. To their liberal disposi-
tion is, of course, due a large meas
ure of credit for this series of set
Elements. l believe the accomplish
ment thus effected marks new
epoch in relations between the Gov
ernment and the carriers, an epoch in
which we will see constantly better
understanding and improved relation
ships. Because / strongly feel that
you have contributed to making this
possible I extend my heartiest felici-
tations"
Evening star., 1925-11-08
By G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The United States Railroad Admin
,istration, its work accomplished. will
cease to exist about the first of the new
year. if present plans are carried out.
James c. Davis, director general, haV'
Ing handled successfully the Govern
ment claims aggregating more than
81 900 900 900, will step out of office.
The affairs of the Railroad Admins
E'ation still remaining to be adjusted
they are minor matters-will be turned
over to the Treasury Department.
Probably the organization which has
handled these matters so successfully
will be transferred in part to the Treas
ury Department TO put on the maj
touches.
The Railroad Administration stlll
holds about S134, 100000 of railroad
paper growing out of general settle
ments and capital expenditures Tor
the roads by the Government during
the period of Government operation.
The Treasury Department, under an
other section of the transportation
act, holds paper of the roads aggreeat-
ing S1S4 000. .000, resulting from loans
made by the Government To the ROADS
under section 2lO of the law. II Is
deemed entirely proper that the hnai
dIsposition Of these obligations OF the
railroads to the Government ShaH De
handled by one department-the treas
Evening star., 1925-11-08

Both France and Germany are fun
damentally conservative countries so
far as economic issues are concerned,
although in both countries there is
much more effective radicalism than
in the United States. Germany prob
ably is more conservative than France.
but has, nevertheless, under the en-
pire, gone a good deal further than
France in adopting many socialistic
ideas. Moreover, in estimating the
German state of mind, one has to
bear in mind that If Germany did eS-
cape a really disastrous revolution in
1918, it was only by narrow margin
CONTINUED on Third Page.l
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
sootlegger Asks for Convoy.

ST PAUL, Mimi, Dec. 1S.-Police
were appealed to by Woodworking
bootlegger for protection. Morris
Goldberg told officers hi-jackers re-
lieved him of $4,000 worth of holiday
liquor near his home.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
Grubich Wears a Poster
and Pickets His Shop to
Tell Workers of Strike
BY A Worker Correspondent

NEW YORK, ( Dec. 1S.-For four
years Abraham Grubich, tailor and a
member of Local No. 2 of the Anal
gamated Clothing Workers Union,
worked for the firm of Herman & Her
man of n Stanton Street, this city.
Last week Grsibich's bosses dis
covered that theygcould take the work
that Grubich was doing and send it
to small tailor shop around the
corner where the work would be done
cheaper. Grubich noticed that from
day to day the amount OF work given
him was dwindling and eight days ago
he was fired. The result is that he Is
on strike and is every day out in front
of his former employers shop with a
card on his back explaining to the
people who pass that he is on strike
Grubich is very confident that he will
win out soon. Eet
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1925-12-20
STUDENTS Will
POLL PARENTS
ON MILITARISM
College Undergraduates
Against Training
BY SYLVAN A. PoLLAK.
Especial to The Daily Worker)

NEW YORK CITY, Dec. is. - The
latest development in the anti-military
training struggle Of the students of
the College Of the City of New York,
who recently by an overwhelming
vote placed themselves on record as
opposed to its continuance, is a ref
erendum of the 5000 parents Of the
undergraduates, which is being con-
Quoted by the Students Council to OBJ
tain their opinion on the matter. The
vote of the faculty of the college was
IS to 16, in favor of the compulsory
course in military science.
President of the college, Mezes, said
that so far as the faculty is concerned
the refusal to accede to the students
demand is final and the matter will
now go to the board of trustees for
final action.
President Frederick Kraut, of the
Student Council, said that as soon as
the vote of the parents was complet-
ed, the results would be tabulated
and presented to the faculty.