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Evening star., 1925-02-15

1t is estimated that the population
was more than doubled between 1906
and 1891. It is now about 100000
After an inspection of the Sudan ir
1909 Sir Edwin Gorst said: IT do no,
suppose that there is any part Of the
world in which the mass Of the popu.
Iation have fewer unsatisfed wants
Experts say that with irrigation
more than quarter of the Sudan
would be cultivatible. At present
only about two and q half million
acres are cultivated.
The Mahara1ah of Nepal has an
nounced that slavery in Nepal would
be gradually abolished in the near
future. the slave owners to be in
demnified. There are now about 50,-
600 slaves and about 10000 slave
owners in Nepal, whereof. tho total
population is about Ave and one-hal1
millions. One-sixth of the worlds
sheep are in Australia.
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The Kingdom Of the Serbs, Croats
and Slovenes.-In the general cleo
tions the other day in the Kingdom
Of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
the bloc, headed by Premier Pa chitch
which favors a unitary system for the
kingdom, won bare majority OF
seats In the new Parliament. In view
Of the conditions of the election CAM
paign (the difficulties placed by
Pachitch In the way Of the opposi-
tion) 1T is doubtful IL a majority
of the people of the country favor a
unitary as against a federal system
Not a single Communist won a seat
and the Socialists lost heavily.
ChIna.-The Berlin Lokal AnZeiger
claims to have dependable informa.
tion to the effect that a secret an.
mex to the recently signed Russo
Japanese treaty contemplates at the
least that China's destiny shall be
determined by Japan and Russia In
cooperation, to the absolute exclu-
sion of all other powers. According
to the German newspaper. the most
important provisions of the compact
are as follows:
Should tho United States, Great
Britain or France undertake military
operations against the Peking gov
ernment the latter would have at it's
disposal 100000 Russian troops.
Japan to assist Russia in making
Vladivostok a hrst-class naval base
and to construct for Russia a num-
Der Of craft sufficient to make the
latter formidable as naval power.
In return, Japan to be conceded full
possession of the island Sakhalin,
guaranteeing, however. to supply the
oil needs of the Russian Navy.
Japanese and Russian officers in
equal numbers to train the Chinese
Army. Of peace strength of 10000
men. China to be required to pur-
chase from Japan 75 per cent. from
Russia 25 per cent of the arms, mu-
nitions and equipment required for
the Chinese Army.
With regard to the above, this
writer is a native of Missouri, but
the item is interesting and philo-
sophic-candor and appreciation of
human incorrigibility require recog-
milton of the possibility. If not the
probability, of its truth. The situation
in China is so questionable" as to
justify a very generously receptive
mental attitude there anent.
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Leptis Reconsideration now
going on under the direction OF an
Italian archeologist on the site of
Leptis Magma is restoring to the
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Howe About
The Nature Of Woman; Bank Robbers and
Borrowers; Oppressors of the Poor.
BY E. ". HOWE.
"The Sage of Potato HiH.'

, "All men are liars, and I am no
more certain about myself than am
about you"
Continuing, Mr.. White says: ;
HE has done more good, under.
protest that he was doing evil, and
deserved more credit, than any other
man in the. country When he goes
to Heaven there will be big row
at the gate; he will be met there
by a. long list of his misdeeds which
he has lied about; he never did themz
He is SO dead set on proving there
Is no nobility in the world that he
has kidded himself into a belief in
his own meanness. st. Peter Will
have to yell at Ed, and will have to-
call in the neighbors to prove that
old Ed Howe was not the kind Of
man he pretended to be; instead Of
which he was much better" -
do not know where the notion
comes from that I have contended-
there is no nobility in the world. L.
sincerely believe in much more thar
most others. The trouble probably
is contend the good in the world
Is found among the common people,
and not among the professional good
gentlemen. :
Ny offending seems to be that b
contend 1t is better in every way to,
and the world than it is to make
a lot of foolish pretenses. I have
never knowingly opposed any honest
reform, or written slightingly of a..
really good man or woman. The sub
5ect of my tiresome preaching is the
importance Of charity, usefulness.
true progress, kindness, efficiencyp
fairness. temperance.
But when men make these things
| professional as an excuse for taxing
the poor I look upon such profess
sionalism as cruel and damaging to
the real goodness which is a natural
| part of human life.
Further along Mr.. White says of
| me:
ITO get an oppressor of the poor
| to dine at his board gives Ed more
| joy than to take a city"
"Oppressors of the poor" is term
he uses in his literary work, and
| frequently it is used to designate
very worthy men. Probably John D.
Rockefeller, the most useful man the
world has ever known, is the chief
of those Mr.. White refers to as "op-
| pressors Of the poor"
Ny connection with Mr. Rockefeller
| is this: / once wrote an appr recia ii on
| of the good the man has accom-.
plished. did not send him a.
| marked copy, or endeavor in any
other way to call his attention to it
But somehow he saw it and wrote e
me a letter. This is the extent of
| our acquaintance.
at my board. and I have no more
bition to find such a guest than L
have to take a city.
fCopyright 1921
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in the mills had so changed; We were
only thankful that it was so. And it
explains something else-the pres
sure that the boys Of the town are
making for books to read, technical
schools to go to. They are seeing
what we had not realized, that they
must know more than their fathers
did If they are to make good in the
steel mill. They must know some
thing of mechanics, of electricity, Of
mathematics.
SO we are glad in Our Town. It Is
long step, so we feel, away from
those things that have tormented us,
though we took good care not to let
the investigating outsider sec our
trouble. We thought it could not be
helped. Shoveling coal, for instance,
has always seemed to US one of the
ugly, unacceptable facts Of the uni
verse. 1t had to be done, always
would have to be done, somebody
must do 1t, and somehow we felt as
II God in His eternal wisdom had Gre
ated class At only to do that; that
is. we argued as the old STAKEHOLDER
did, that the negro was created for
the express purpose of working in
cotton and sugar cane fields, and that
to free him was to fly In the face Of
his Creator.
OF course We never put it badly
like that, but we explained to our
selves the ugly facts we did not like
in some such way. And now we find
that the greatest OF steel and iron
men are telling US that they cannot
afford men to shovel coal.
Well. II it can be done away with
here, can 1t not be done away with
In nf ;x
be done away with everywhere in
time? 1t certainly has come to be
true in Our Town that we cannot af-
ford to use men In brutal tasks, that
Wo are debeutalisinG eur labor,
AoUzxisAf 1aaR.l
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Il.
The British Empire.-The British
Parliament reassembled on the 10th.
A good deal of excitement was
caused by the appearance of Miss Ell
len Wilkinson, Labor NJ. p, in q fow-
ing gown Of green taffeta.
An earldom is to be bestowed on
Field Marshal Lord Allenby in recog-
milton Of his brilliant performances In
the great war and his very valuable
| services as British high commissioner
In Egypt since the war
Egyptian rule in the territory
known as the Anglo Egyptian Sudan.
from the conquest thereof by the re-
doubtable Mehemet Ali until the NAH
dist episode (1Ss1-1s9S), was dis
gracefully oppressive and inefficient.
That nightmare episode Of the NAH
di was ended by Kitchener at ON
durman in 1898 and was succeeded
(by an agreement between the Brit
ish and Egyptian governments,
signed in January, 1sss) by the So
called Anglo Egyptian condominium,
which has continued to this day.
Nominally the sovereignty is
equally shared by Great Britain and
Egypt. actually it has been exercised
by Great Britain alone through the
governor general. who by the agree
ment, though nominally appointed by
the ruler Of Egypt, must have been
nominated by the British government.
All power is centered in the COVER
nor general. The mudirs, or governors
Of provinces (mudirias), are Britons,
and indeed all the important admin
istrative officials are Britons Except
for sprinkling Of other Euro
peans), most of them military off,
GERS, though the administration Is
essentially civil That territory Of
over million square miles is admins
tered by about 110 Britons, and 1t
has been administered with supreme
efficiency. The British achievement in
Egypt from 1882 to 1922 Gin which last
year Britain renounced the protecto-
rate) was sufficiently remarkable.
Egypt raised from a condition Of in
solvency. poverty, insecurity Of life
and PROPERTY. and oppression of the
fellaheen by the most rascally and
rapacious set Of land holders and Off
cials the world has ever known-raised
to q condition of complete sofvency
(treasury bonds at par) and OF al
most perfect security to life and prop
erty-a condition. too, under which
the Egyptian peasantry for the first
time in history enjoyed justice. easy
well-being and sense OF personal
importance, the cOltiVataOle area
trebled and the population doubled
(from seven to fourteen millions) in
consequence of the great British
riverine constructions.
But If the British achievement in
Egypt was remarkable. that in the
Sudan has been even more SO. To il
lustrate: Between 1899 and 1909 the
revenue yield increased eightfold, de-
spite reduction in taxation, which, in
cidentally, is very light.
The increase of prosperity thus in
dicated was chiefly accomplished by
bringing more land under cultivation
through improvement of the water
supply, by creation of new industries
and by improving means Of communi-
cation The railway from Port Sudan
to Khartum and thence via Seminar to
Ell Obeid, in Kordofan, has been tre-
mendous boon.
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SERVICE-NOT SELF.

st. John, xv:13-"Greater love hath
no man than this. that man may
lay down his life for his friends"
~ NE day last Summer, at
( tracted by a great crowd
that was reverently looking
~ down at space set apart
in Westminster Abbey, saw
a tablet that bore the above signifl-
cant words. 1t was the last resting
place Of England's unknown soldier.
But a few days before I had seen in
Paris, under the Arc de Triomphe, a
similar grave that represented to
France the valiant chivalry of her
noble sons. On the heights of Ar
linEton, facing the Capital, we have
laid away our unknown soldier, and
today his tomb has become as a
shrine, visited by thousands. month
by month. Each Of the nations has
thus perpetuated its sense of devotion
and loyalty to those who in a great
world war made the supreme sacrifice.
X II X X
AS one stands by the grave Of his
unknown soldier and reflects upon the
cost and sacrifice which war entails,
he feels an increasing desire to sub
stitute for the arbitrament Of arms
saner and more Christian methods of
effecting and preserving the world
peace. This high resolve does not di-
minish our affection for those who in
great crises have defended a cause
they believed to be just and holy.
There are other fields of endeavor
than that Of the battlefield that call
for and demand all that Is chivalrous
and noble in our natures. There are
conditions in our corporate life that
urgently demand the best we have to
give. There are fields of service that
call for self sacrifice and the conse-
grafton of our finest gifts of head and
heart.
The graves Of our unknown SOL
diers, IL they are to mean anything to
us, must furnish new inspiration to a
life of selfiess endeavor in behalf of
those who in the worlds stern battles
have met with misfortune or defeat.
We live in a world where problems
and difficulties beset US on every
hand, and we grow strong and virile
only as we seek to solve and over
come them. The great Master Of men
In one of His finest utterances de-
ciared that He that loseth his life
shall find it," Throughout His min
istry His every thought was given to
those who had experienced misfor-
tune or disappointment Every teach
Ing that fell from His lips suggested
n better way and higher purpose for
life. The highest approximation of
Evening star., 1925-02-15
District Obtains Model Law
Governing Supply of Milk

been the danger that some Of the
present dealers might go out of busi-
ness and new interests might not con-
tinue along the policy Of quality now
pursued.
The new law stands as a protection
for the future. 1t removes a possible
source Of friction between farmer and
dealer, for now strictly enforced reg
ulations will be required by law and
not by the dealer buying the milk.
No miraculous change will take
place in the milk. 1t is excellent now.
But over in the office of DR.. Fowler q
good bit of the worry will pass away,
for now he and his inspectors will
have back of them stringent regula-
tions that will remove the danger of
any shift in attitude on the part of
the producers, either farmer or dealer.
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Continued from First Page.)
for the list This bulletin was pre-
oared monthly, and showed the score
for the current and the two preced-
Ing months.
Many Scores High.
Briefly the way the system worked
was that the public, finding that 1t
was receiving a poor milk from one
dairy, could refer to the list and
shift to a dealer producing a better
quality. The dealer with the poor
milk would he forced to find out
wherein his milk was below that OF
the rival concerns and rectify the
condition. If he had done all in his
power in his plant he would be forced
to go back to the farmer and insist
on a cleaner supply and supply
richer in fats and other solids.
That this system has worked ad-
mirably in the past is attested by
the various bulletins issued which
show some of the dealers scoring well
above 90 some reaching even above
95. AS certified milk, that produced
under the most exacting conditions
and necessarily far more costly
scores s9.5: milk produced under
such conditions as to score 95 is of
excellent quality.
A tribute is due to the dealers here
that they have seen fit to keep up the
competition to produce such good
supply. Their efforts have neeessi-
tated a considerable financial outlay.
They could have, no doubt, come to
some agreement among themselves,
as to what they would and would not
do, but instead The majority, through
a feeling of pride and rivalry, have
probably done about as much as Is
possible to make the supply pure.
Future Is Protected.
However, the need of law requir-
ing the tuberculin test was essential,
as were the regulations applying to
spections and so on, for some deal
svAave not been as energetic as they
AT have been. There has always
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FrancO.Cerman United.

German officials are unable to con-
firm the report of the Petit Parisien
Berlin correspondent that DR.. Luther,
the chancellor, intends to propose to
antee pact.
They state, however. that such a
proposal is by no means impossible,
and recall that a similar suggestion
was made by the Cuno government,
but was rejected by M. Poincare on
the pretext that the German proposal
referred only to the German western
front, whereas M. Poincare wanted
the eastern or Polish front to be in
cluded in the guarantee.
A mutual military pact between
France and Germany is a favorite
theme of DR.. Stresemann, the foreign
minister.
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A become older, I think 1 be-
~ come meaner. Certainly you
"A remember character in fic-
4 a tion called Old Scrooge, sup
posed to be a villain. Well,
l like him, and think very little of
Tiny Tim, famous boy angel l
dislike the Christmas story in which
these two appear I dislike that other
famous story in which the writer de-
clares: Yes. Virginia, there is a
Santa Claus"
read the other day Of the death Of
a bachelor, and when his will was
opened. nearly all his kind received
beauests. 1t isn't that way in our
family: when one Of our kin dies the
rest Of us are assessed.
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of wasting time? / believe 1t is
reading the average love" story.
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I suppose white and black women
are more or less alike. Therefore the
habits Of old Hannah, the black
woman who works for US, interest
me. l have noticed that when the
milk tickets are exhausted, she calls
my attention to the fact with a sort
of glee: she likes to see me spend my
money. She evidently thinks all men
part with their money reluctantly,
and enjoys seeing my misery. A new
milk ticket costs 81; a new icebook
costs $5.75. / always note old Han
nah enjoys the icebook incident much
more than she does the two-dollar
item. 3D..
X *
Lately bankers are organizing to
defeat those bold men who appear
money in sight be showed into sacks.
But have bankers organized to de-
feat those men who borrow money
and never pay it back? Money loaned
to unsafe borrowers is as completely
lost as money carried off by burglars.
X x x X
Unusual thing seen in reading: THE
daily and hourly progress of madness
and folly and wickedness will at least
make fine narrative in history" But
probably the people of the future will
have SO many follies Of their own
that they will not care greatly for
ours in 2025.
x * X
I credit William Allen White with
one of the wisest and wittiest say
ings of recent years, and 1 happen
to be the subject of 1t. The sentence
that seems to me to be unusual is
this: -., ..- ..
ED Howe refuses to. love his
neighbor as himself because he knows
the truth about himself and suspects
the same truth about his neighbor"
I wish I had thought of that first;
it aptly states the fact. But 1 have
said it in another way. I once wrote:
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Debrutalizing Labor

| ~ UR Town lives by its fac
tories and mills. We make
a great variety of things
~ structural steel and very
proud, indeed. we are Of it,
for We take the ore fresh from the
mines and put it through all its
PAGES up to the time 1t comes out
the skeleton Of a car, a bridge, a
| skyscraper. But we do other things
too, even bottle pickles and knit
stockings!
For many. many years these have
been our tasks. There are men and
women in Our Town who can re.
member long before such a thing as
steel was known in these United
States, when our only iron works
were little forges where horseshoes,
nails and now and then a pair OF
andirons were hammered out, and
when all the pickles and stockings we
had were those that the women
| bottled and knit. That is, you see
we have history, we have tradi-
tions, we have veterans. Why
down in our steel mill there are q
couple of men who worked under
that greatest leader of steel men
Capt. Billy Jones-worked under him
from the day that in 1875 he took
In steel-making at Braddock, Pa
These men will tell you that it was
Capt. Jones that made the Carnegie
fortune. They labored and struggled
under him until the day they saw
him burned to death In q flood oi
molten metal.
| X y \ X
Oh, we have great traditions o.
men and their struggles, and we ar,
so close to it all and have been fol
SO many years that we have scan,
patience with those who come in from
outside-who never having LIVED
with mills and factories cannot, sc
We believe, possibly love and under.
| stand them. They go away to tell
the world what intolerable places
| they are. We never have liked that
though it Is true, we have had to
admit, that there are many thing:
about us that are quite as terrible
as the outsider declared-perhaps even
| more terrible-things they not know
ing the insides Of US thoroughly can.
not possibly see any more than they
can thoroughly understand what they
do see.
We have had to admit that 1t took
an enormous amount OF sheer brute
labor to do our work: Lifting beyond
strength, shoveling materials that
filled lungs and head with deadly
dust, working in fumes that para
lyzed, stocking in heat that sent men
staggering to the air, felled them in
faints. We have known all Of that
and It has turned us sick at heart
that the great industries by which
Our Town lived should demand this
awful toll of human beings.
-
1t is because we have. felt this SO
deeply-though we have resented
outsiders talking about it-that we
are so exultant over a change that
Is coming in our works. It has been
coming SO long and so gradually that
We have hardly realized 1t, and we
have not noticed that our critics
generally have seen it, or, If they
have they have 50 disliked to modify
their stories that they have kept
quiet about 1t. The truth Is that the
working places in Our Town are busy
themselves.
The other day they asked US dowp
to see a new plant started. We had
heard about it-they called it "a
mechanical plant, but that meant
nothing until we saw 1t. And then
it meant transformation, revolution,
for here there was no man shovelinB,
lifting, wheeling, stocking beyond his
strength. There were tremendous
Evening star., 1925-02-15
Youths Able to Dance
Paid Highly in Paris

More than 80 young men in Paris
are earning $1,000 a year by acting
as professional dancing partners in
the cabarets, says the New York Her
aid (Paris edition).
Two years ago a young Engiishman
arrived from London with nothing
but a suit of evening clothes and a
pair OF nimble feet. Last year his
earnings were more than $4,000.
The fees which women pay vary
from $3.50 to $50, but some profess
siona1 dancers have received as much
as 5000 for a single dance.
The record is held by South Amer
lean woman, who paid $3.50 for one
dance
Evening star., 1925-02-15
Socialist Bakery Fails.

The Austrian Social Democrats. who
10 years ago, founded the Hannm ~
Bakery In Vienna, to destroy what
they called the capitalist monopoIyY ,
OF bread production, now see them.
selves compelled to sell the establish
ment, being unable to compete WITH
capitalism any longer This bakeryf
was exclusively owned by the Social.
list party until after the war, when
40 per cent of the shares were so,da
to Herr Bosel to repay debts to Dutch 2
bankers.
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Numbered Phone Girls.

-
Telephone subscribers in Paris, whe.
nave formed an association to pro-.
tect tneir interests, have suggested
to the administration that the Girl
who answers subscribers call.
should mention her number when re-
plying. Instead of the usual IT am
listening it is suggested that the
formula should be mo. lis Iisten-
ing" This would help the subscriber,
in the event Of q complaint being,
necessary.
Evening star., 1925-02-15
Vatican and Argentina.

Following the Argentine govern
ment's acceptance of the resignation
Of the Archbishop Of Buenos Aires, 1t
IL stated the Argentine government
has informed the Holy See that the
present nuncio and his secretary ~
not personae grataa.
Evening star., 1925-02-15
Nothing Constructive.

From the Toledo Blade.
Many people are so busy telling the
world what is wrong with It they
haven't time to improve it,
Evening star., 1925-02-15

BY HENRY w. BUM.
HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended February
IA.
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st. John, xv:13-"Greater love hath
no man than this. that man may
lay down his life for his friends"
Evening star., 1925-02-15

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