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Evening star., 1925-03-08
The Story the Week Has Told

recommended by President Harding
and President Coolidge.
DR.. Beebe and his associates of the
Deep Sea Oceanographic expedition
of the New York Geological Society,
aboard the Arcturus, are already in
the Sargasso Sea, having by rare
good luck discovered 1t within three
weeks xof leaving New York.
In his speech to the new Senate
upon the occasion of his inaugura
tion as Vice President, Gen. Dawes in
timated in an energetic manner,
not void of suspicion of acerbity, his
opinion that the Senate rules of pro-
cedure should be revised in the In
terest Of expediting the public busi-
ness. The next day, March 5, Senator
Underwood submitted to the Senate
a resolution proposing a proper limit
to debates, and the end of the prac-
tice of the fllibuster by that body.
Sic transit gloria - that is, If the reso-
luton is adopted.
Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt
will start in April for a scientific
hunting expedition In the Pamirs and
Chinese Turkestan, under the aus
pices Of the Field Museum of Chicago.
They hope to bring back specimens of
the Dzeren (also known as the goi-
tered antelope, the Chinese antelope
and the yellow goat) Of the Markhor
Ga wild goat) the Yardand stag, the
Than Shan ibex and long-haired
tiger, and other rare and Interesting
creatures. 1t will be no Sunday school
picnic.
The British Empire-EXplaining to
the Commons recently the air policy
of the British government, Sir Samuel
Hoare, the air minister, made the fol-
lowing observations: There Is no
use now in going into technical dis
cussions as to whether such and such
a number of bombs could sink
battleship. The central and undert-
able fact is that an air force today,
passing in few moments over
trenches and armies and channels and
fleets, could penetrate into the very
heart of this country, and whether or
no material damage might be 1nnict-
ed could make life well nigh un-
| endurable for popular living. mainly
in the large cities. We intend to
build up a system Of defense which
will make 1t not worth while for any
hostile power to attack us in the air"
He referred to the efficient record
Of the air force assigned to Irak.. In
the previous IL months eight. air
squadrons, four infantry battalions
and a few armored cars had main
tained order in that turbulent country
during an especially turbulent phase
| without the loss of a single Briton.
I'VE are gradually introducing new
types of machines" said he. mot
m achines to win records, but the
kind of types which will give us
I more manageable machines than any
one else has"
The February summary of British
/ trade issued by the American Cham
Der Of Commerce in London contains
| the following interesting items:
Wage difficulties threatened in the
three key industries, mining, egineer-
| ing, railways; number of registered
unemployed greater by $4,000 on
January 1, 1925. than on January 1,
| 1924, the total being 100000; only 80
per cent of the berths in the shipyards
| In use; depression in the coal market,
| the cotton and wool industries.
| The All-India Committee of Hindus
and MoslemB which began work in
January on a program for Hindu
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Moslem cooperation, Dissolved March
l with nothing accomplished. Sadly,
Gandhi admits that cooperation is
impossible at present owing to mutual
suspicious.
viIhjalmur Stefansson tells Of seeing
a goodiy number Of Australian aborig-
ines, or "Blackfellows,'' as they are
called by the Australians Of European
stock, absolutely in puris naturalibus,
precisely as nature made 'enI.
Most curious Of peoples, those aborig-
inal "Blackfellows." And what is more
curious, they are not the real aborig-
ines OF Australia, nor are they rightly
called "Blackfellows." The ethnologists
are fairly agreed on the following Aus
tralia was once only peopled by Papauns
(negroids). At period so long ago
that no slightest tradition thereof is pre-
served, Dravidians of India, lie. dark
white" Caucasians. were forced by pres
sure from the north to cross to Ceyion.
Ceylon being thus overcrowded, many
of them took to boats and sailed or drift
ed to Australia. In the course Of the
rolling centuries their descendants part
ly killed off the Papauns, partly alb
to take to boats and RATS and cross
Bass Strait to Tasmania, where about
1000 Of their descendants we're living
when the British, in 1902, made their
first settlement in Tasmania.
I The Dravidian invaders of Australia
were in a primitive condition, which is
not surprising, but 1t is truly surprising
that their descendants made scarcely
one single advance in civilization down
to the foundation Of the first british
colony In Australia in 1888. -.
The British found them (and so are
many to this day. nude, with no
knowledge whatever of agriculture,
with no domesticated animals except
the "dingo" Ga cur brought from
India), and with no houses except
the rudest temporary shelters, Their
food consisted of game. seeds roots,
grubs and reptiles. They went. in
strong for many disgusting and hor-
rible practices. They had no sexual
morality iand were complete Hars.
They were about as low as low could
be. Yet 1t appears that they are very
smiable, physically rather fine and
mentally by no means contemptible.
Their bush sense is uncanny, perhaps
more remarkable than that Of the
American Indian at his best =
The sheep and cattle ranchers found
them efficient and trustworthy. The
great A. r.. Wallace declared them to
be really of Caucasian type'-that
is. suppose, predominantly Caucasic.
with some negroid crossing. Why the
absolute lack Of development since
immemorial time? There are perhaps
$4,000 of them left, as against an es-
timated 10000 in 1888.
Presumably the remnant will ulti-
mately. be absorbed by their light
white" Caucasian cousins.
= \ 4
Frances-The French budget for
1925 assigns S,400. 100000 francs to re-
construction OF the devastated re-
gion. including German deliveries in
kind. valued at 200.000,000 francs.
The French assert correctly that their
budget of ,o00.000.000 francs repre-
sents much heavier tax burden, than
does our Federal budget, but of
course, they have not our heavy bur-
den of State, municipal. etc, taxa
| ton. 80
Our information on the matter is a
J little vague, but apparently the Ger
man government has proposed IA
Evening star., 1925-03-08
BY HENRY w. BUM.

TINE following is brief sum-
mary OF the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended March z:
United States Of Amerfca.-On March
Calvin Coolidge was inducted as
President to succeed himself, and the
Sixty-eighth Congress passed away.
The Presidents inaugural speech
was a notable utterance, its most
striking features being its advocacy
of adhesion by us to the Permanent
Court of International Justice. a
sharp rebuke to Republican insur-
gency within Congress, an interpre-
tation of the popular mandate at the
November elections and a very lucid,
brief statement of the Presidents
outstanding policy Of economy in
public expenditure, with reduction
and reform of taxation.
THE collection" observed the Pres
ident very happily and justly, "of any
taxes which are not absolutely re-
quired, which do not beyond reasona-
Bile doubt contribute to the public
welfare, Is only a species of legalized
larceny" The following passage
seems to me especially deserving of
quotation: This administration has
come into power with very clear
and definite mandate from the peo-
pie. The expression of the popular
will in favor of maintaining our
cons stitutional guarantees was over
whelming and decisive, There was
a manifestation of such faith in the
integrity of the courts that we can
consider that issue relieved for some
of public ownership of railroads and
certain electric utilities met with un-
mistakable defeat. The people de-
clared that they wanted their rights
to have, not political, but judicial,
determination. and their independence
and freedom continued and supported
by having the ownership and con-
troll Of their property, not in the
Government, but in their own hands.
AS they always do when they have
a fair chance, the people demon
strated that they are sound and are
determined to have q sound Govern
ment."
The President signed the postal pay
and rate bill on February %. On
March 4 he signed with extreme re-
luctance, 1T is said) the Legislative
appropriation bill, with its amend
ment providing for increase of the
salaries of members of Congress, Cab
met members, the Vice President and
the Speaker of the House.
OF the legislative proposals which
failed of consummation by the late
Congress the following were the most
important: The Muscle Shoals leas-
ing bill, the McFadden branch bank
ing bill, sundry farm relief bills, the
public buildings bill. carrying an ap-
preparation of $150.000 ,000; the gov
ernmental reorganization bill, amend
| ment. of the transportation act, the
bin proposing purchase by the Fed
era1 Government of the Cape Cod
canal; the bill for the settlement of
| the century-old French spoliation
| claims, ratification of the Turkish
treaty and the Isle of Pines treaty,
| and the proposals of adhesion to the
World Court.
On March 8, the House passed, 301
to %, q resolution advocating our
adhesion to the protocol establishing
] the World Court. with the reservations
Evening star., 1925-03-08
AMERICAS FINANCIAL ALLIANCES
BY GEORGE E. ROBERTS
Vice President, The National City Bank New York

The wonderful development of the
United States in the last 100 years
was made possible by European in
vestments. They supplied the capital
to pay the labor for doing the work.
Our present capacity to produce cap
ital has resulted from those invest
ments.
European capital came here be-
cause conditions made this the part
of the world in which increased sup
plies. OF capital would produce the
largest results. The benefits to Eu-
rope were greater than If the cap
ital had been invested there. because
greater supplies of natural wealth
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Franco British German Belgian
treaty guaranteeing the present Ger
man frontiers on the west and sane
tioning the reference to arbitration
of issues relating to Germanys east
ern frontiers.
If the Information is correct the
German move is q clever one. In
return for a guarantee of her own
frontiers, France is invited to dish
her allies. Poland and Czechoslovakia, for
obviously the stipulation respecting
the eastern frontiers contemplates re-
opening the Silesian question and the
Danzig corridor question and the
question Of the German -Czechoslovak
frontier. The Germans can count on
British interest in such proposals and
they know how desperately the
French crave a British guarantee of
their frontiers. But 1t seems extreme
tray their Polish and Czechslovakia
allies.
x Y X x
Germany-President Friedrich Ebert
died of perftonftis on February % and
the republic has lost very honest
and stalwart servant The funeral
ceremonies at Berlin were most i'm
pressive. If certain reports are cor
rect, hundreds OF spectators sue
cumbed to hysteria as the cortege
passed, shrieking and tainting. The
body was inferred at Heidelberg.
where Ebert was born. the SON of a
tailor, and where, in his youth, he fol-
lowed the trade Of saddler. Election for
a new President will be held March 20.
The German paper mark will be de-
prtved Of official existence on June S.
Its present value is four trilIions to
the dollar.
\ x X
Miscellaneous-A suicide wave in
Vienna is reported, ITO suicides or
attempts at suicide, in February.
The Polish government has con-
tracted with French company for
construction of port at Gdingen, on
the Baltic, west of Danzig.
Some reports indicate that the Kurdish
revolt against the Angora gov
ernment, led by Sheik Said, is peter
ing out. Other reports indicate the
contrary. one OF the latter states that
eight divisions, two-fifths Of the
turkish standing army, are in the
field against the Insurgents.
1t is reported that troops loyal to
Sun Yat Sen have finished Off Gen.
Chen Kwang Ming.
According to that delightful person,
NJ. karakhan. Soviet Ambassador to
China, IAN indescribable Joy swept
over Japan" when the news of rati-
flcation of the Russo-Japanese treaty
was published In that country. Russia
is making great plans for economic
cooperation with Japan.
The Egyptian government will not
send the holy carpet to Mecca this
year and warns Egyptian subjects
that pilgrimage to. the holy places
this year will be a risky thing.
Conditions in Chile are by no mean,
satisfactory. The restoration OF
A1essandrf to the presidency is not
universally acquiesced in. Reports
state that the government has de-
clared a state Of siege In the three
most important provinces and en-
forces rigid censorship.
President Coolidge has presented to
the Chilean and Peruvian govern
ments his award respecting the
Tacna-Arioa question referred to him
by these governments for arbitration.
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were thus made available. The loans
gave this country the means to i'm
mediately increase its purchases in
Europe, and eventually created a
great permanent market for Euro
pean goods.
British Loans Doubled.
New capital fiotations in the
United States in 1924 on behalf of
foreign countries and corporations
aggregated about double the amount
of such issues in Great Britain on
behalf Of other countries. including
the British dominions. The figures
are about $1,000, 900, 900 and $500, ,O0O,-
900, respectively, refunding issues ex-
cluded.
Before the war. London was far in
the lead as a market for international
financing, and the United States
scarcely figured in the business at
all. The reason was that the couu-
try was still undergoing develop
ment at a rate beyond it's own abil-
ity to finance, and was itself the
leading borrower in London. Cap
ital was cheaper there than here and
other countries did not come here
for 1t.
1t is not certain that the war has
diminished the lending power of
Great Britain. The productive ca
pacity of its industries probably is
greater than ever, although the de-
moralization of world trade has tenn
porariIy affected it's earnings. On
the other hand. Great Britain parted
with most of it's American securities
during the war, and incurred a debt
of over $4,000, 100000 to this country,
against which 1T holds the obligations
of its allies for more than double
that amount, but has said that 1t
would settle with them for enough
to pay the United States.
Growing Need for Capital.
The total capital f1otations in Lon
don last year were about the same in
amount as in pre-war years, but the
worlds needs were very much
greater because for 10 years borrow
ings for constructive purposes had
been below normal, and large loans
were needed in Europe for the re-
habilitation of monetary systems and
for purchases in the United States
Hence the European fiotations here.
About one-half of the foreign loans
In this country were for countries
outside of Europe, one-third for
Canada and South America, $751;
100000 for Japan, the latter made
necessary by the earthquake.
The United States today needs
restoration OF the purchasing power
Of Europe, as in former years,
Europe needed the development Of
America. 1t will bring the worlds
industrial organization back into ball
ance, and these loans are not only
doing this. but Immediately increas-
ing European purchases of our prod
ucts. Thus far they have been con-
structive loans. en1arging the produc-
tive powers of the borrowing coun-
tries, and tending to restore pros
perity of the world. We have the
resources to do it and who will say
that under existing conditions we
should not do it?
Copyright, 1925.3
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Religion VS.. Jazz
A Rabbits View

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certain groups in the Nation had had
enough of it; before they had ex-
hausted their hatreds, their antag-
onisms and their prejudices.
What did these singers of hate do?
They transferred their bitterness to
foreigners living in America Since
there were not enough foreigners
upon whom to exhaust their pent-up
volumes of hatred, they devised
groups of foreigners. Such groups
are the Roman Catholics, the Jews
and the negroes. Ku Klux Klanism
is nothing more than the blundering
attempt to. find an outlet for those
energies of hatred which war re-
leases.
As to Non-Nordic Races.
It crops out again in this agitation
against non-Nordic races. Some one
might be wicked enough to ask the
Nordic expert what would become of
our vaunted civilization today If all
the Mediterranean races contributed
TO the world were blotted out or cam
celed. The most immediate result
would be the destruction of all the
temples reared to the honor and glory
OF child OF Asia Minor, son of the
Mediterranean race, whose name was
Jesus of Nazareth.
Q. Can you give any further evil
dences of our moral decline?
A. Two more. First, the failure of
the child labor amendment, which Is
defeated not because America has
seen any great light on the Constitu-
tion, but because Americas genuine
and tender concern for the child has
been washed away in rivers of eight
eenth amendment gin.
FafthIess to World.
Finally, America is unconcerned
with international affairs. l don't be-
lieve the American people are quite
as hopeless as the State Department.
1 believe the American people are
really concerned with something more
important than the payment of the
allied debts. But we have ceased as a
nation deeply to care for the thing
that might constitute our crowning
achievement-the inauguration of
world peace. / am not thinking of the
rejection of the League of Nations.
for that is only a token of the thing
I lament. ! am thinking of the moral
decline that moves most Americans
to say about Europe, I'VE are
through"
AS result of this policy, we are the
most hated country in the world to-
DAY.
Q. What are we going to do about
A. Diagnose the case and then doc
tor It.
This moral decline is no incurable
disease.
Q. But have you a remedy?
A. There viii be no remedy, no
healing, until we get into American
life two things which we have not.
One is education worthy of the name.
The other Is religion. The right kind
of education will help all of us to see
what America needs for its moral and
spiritual recreation. Religion alone
can fill us with the resolve to move
forward out of the depths into which
we have lapsed unto the heights
which America may occupy again!
Evening star., 1925-03-08
Thinks Erickson
Touched Virginia

Students of the sagas are devoting
a great deal of attention to the
theories advanced by the late M. M
Mjelde regarding the explorations of
Left Ericksso Mjelde died recently
after a journey to America aboard a
freight steamer on which he tested
out through astronomical and geo.
graphical observations his belief that
Ericksson's "Vineland" was on the
mainland of America--what is now
the Virginia coast. This new inter-
probation Of the cabalistic reckoning
in the saga upset an older Norwegian
theory, advanced by Prof. Gustav
Storm, that 'Vineland' was the coast
of what is now Nova Scotia. 1t would
explain Left Ericksson's insistence
upon the fact that the climate In
"Vineland" was remarkably mild, and
that grapes grew wild.
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o.
Y IFE. has a dual obligation. To
recognize this fact means to
give it both symmetry and
IL poise. Jesus was not a fanatic
demanding that men should
wholly abandon the world in order
that they might serve God. He recog-
nized and acknowledged the COM
mon obligations that devolve upon
men in a world whose claims are
persistent When He prayed for His
disciples His petition was, Not that
Thou shouldst take them out of the
world. but keep them from the evil"
In fine. He recognized that mans
obligations Godward and manward
are essentially related; his attitude
toward the one would determine his
attitude toward the other. In the
instance of the text they had chal-
lenged His judgment concerning the
paying of tribute, and had asked Him
the question. rs II lawful to give
tribute unto Caesar, or not? Taking
the tribute money, He asked as He
pointed to it, Whose is this image
and superscription?" They answered,
Caesars" To which He responded,
Render therefore unto Caesar the
things which are Caesars. and unto
God the things that are Gods" Once
again His enemies were put to con-
fusion, for they had failed to en-
barrass Him.
There have been those who have
held that the Christian religion was
designed to wholly separate those
who held it from the things of the
world. Once a Christian; their obliga-
tions to men ceased. They became
citizens of another world. Repeatedly
this misconception has led men to
wholly separate themselves from all
human contacts that thereby they
might the more fully and completely
engage in what they believed TO be
their Christian duty. Doubtless, there
have been those who have been great
ly profited by life of separation
from the things of the world. While
living apart from men they have pro-
duced beautiful literature and art;
thus they have enriched their fellows,
and the world is better for their hav-
ing lived.
Life. to most of US, is much more
real and intense because we are COM
PEELED to live in close contact with
one another and to wrestle with
mighty problems that engage our
deepest interest. Christianity, as a
system of life, is not designed to take
us away from men and things, but to
make us more discriminating and
charitable in our judgments, and
more generous in our service to meet
the needs that lie about US every
where.
I: X x x
The world needs the church and the
church needs the world. To keep the
windows of the soul open Godward
does not imply to close them man.
ward. More and more we must take
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The Christians Obligation.

Ndtthet1 GGii21: "Render therefore
unto Caesar the things trhich are CGe
sGr's. and unto God the things that are
Gods"
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Evening star., 1925-03-08

TIME following is a brief sum-
mary OF the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended March z: