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Evening star., 1925-07-19

Of justice, suspect the French of
wishing to obtain all of Morocco, re-
sent the French influence in Tangier
and also feel that the French are now
paying for their failure to support the
Spanish when Spain was making her
terrible fight against Abd-el-Krim.
Some compromise will doubtless be
reached in due time and the French
will cross the frontier and slowly but
surely dispose of Abd-el- -Krim. For
the moment 1t is just conceivable that
a truce and a peace might be ar
ranged, but 1t would only be transi-
tory. The French went all through
this experience with ABIDE -Krim In
the first half of the last century
But, as far as one can now see,
France is in for long, costly and
troublesome campaign, in which she
is bound to have awkward moments
and not impossible occasional disas-
ters, all of which happened in her
Algerian experience.
May Hurt Domestic Politics.
This Moroccan affair may, too, have
evil effects upon French domestic poll.
tics and will add new burdens on the
financial side. The only thing which
Is certain is the ultimate result, for
aside from the narrower questions Of
Morocco, all French establishment III
North Africa, in Tunis as we'll as AL
geria, would be compromised II France
retired from Morocco.
But, while the Riff foray unques-
tionably excites enthusiasm in all
Moslem lands, and while. in addition.
there is little question that the Rus
sian Reds are doing what they can
to encourage and exploit the affair,
Add l-krim is neither a new fanatic
nor a Soviet. He Is no more than a
successful partisan leader, no mere
uneducated native, to be sure. but to
be reckoned among the pirates of
High Barbaree" rather than as the
hero of any new national or religious
explosion.
In the last analysis France Is hav-
ing an experience which, as 1 have
said, recalls much British history in
India and she is dealing with native
tribes who recall much which Is IA
miliar to every reader of Kipling. The
essential difference is that while Brit
ain cannot in the nature Of things
conquer and police the wilds of the
vast frontiers Of her Indian dominion.
France and Spain, in the end
will abolish the menace now existing
in the wholly restricted acea between
the mouth Of the Muluya River and
the Tancier peninsula.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-07-19
The Story the Week Has Told

In chicken sarcoma. likewise In sar-
coma of mice, and again in sarcoma
Of rats.
1t did not follow that the same agent
or closely kindred agents operated In
the several cases. The several sorts
of sarcoma showed great specific diff
ferences. Still less did it follow at
all that an external organism was
causative agent in human cancer.
But such inferences were highly plaus-
ible. All, If only our microscopes
were better. Enter J. E. Barnard,
halter; he experiments with artificial
light ultra violet rays, etc.. He pro
duces a camera microscope which
makes visible Though only, as 1t were,
by the shadow Of It's shade), the little
sneak in each case, showing that IN
human cancerous tissue, as well as In
the several sarcomas of chickens, mice
and rats, an external organism Is
present, whatever he might be doing
But are these little fellows OF the
same family? For the several sar-
comas differ so much" At this point
DIR. Gye or DIR. Russell takes mental
leap and, landing, answers: Yes, and
here's the proof" For convenience let
us call the external agent "snike.
Gye or Russell now makes prepara-
ton from human cancerous tissue ana
tnjects 1t into a healthy chicken; no
harm done. He next makes prepaSa-
ton from a chicken sarcoma, eiirni-
mating therefrom Mr.. Snike and sub
stituting for him another Mr.. Snike
from a human cancerous tissue. He
injects this preparation into healthy
chicken. A typical chicken sarcoma de-
velops. We've got you Mr.. Ubiqut-
tous Snike. 1t Is evident that In each
several instance of cancerous sarcoma
you are operating in conjunction with
a specific chemical factor. Wen now
go for operating in conjunction with
q specific chemical factor. Wen now
go for that factor. but first well ex-
pose you to the world" The accounts
OF the matter to date are little
vague, but I take 1t the gist Is given
above.
OF the several investigators Mr..
Barnard intrigues us most. He Is a
London Knox or Dunlap, who for
80 years has partially neglected his
toppers and panamas In order to In
dulge a mad passion for experiment
with microscopes. The expression
mad as a halter" will acquire a quite
new and peculiar meaning If. as
seems likely" the world should be
found to owe to this halter decisive
advance toward conquest Of one of its
chleT SCOUrSeS. VI course II 10, VI
would be. for we should restrain our
Joy pending irrefutable proof. 1t is
one thing to isolate and observe the
cancer germ. Quite another to deal
effectively with him. Koch discovered
the tubercle bacillus in 1882, the
world still awaits an effective serum
for tuberculosis.
y = "
Notes.-The King of Italy has in
vited Mussolini to be his guest for
a few days, so that the much burden
ed premier may enjoy a complete
rest The invitation is without prece-
dent, and some see a good deal OF
significance in 1t.
Strike riots, alleged to be of Com
munist complexion. in nitrate works
near Antofagasta and elsewhere in
Chile are reported. Both troops and
rioters $50 of the latter were killed
in the course Of their suppression, be-
sides many wounded.
Evening star., 1925-07-19
BY HENRY w. BUM.

" OLLOWING Is brief summary
- of the most important news Of
the world for the seven days
i ended July IS. Two of the
items. excluded in their fresh
ness because of the lack Of space, are,
though now little faded as news, in
serted because of their continuing sig
nificance:
The British Empire.-By the death
at Oxford of Alfred Denis Cooley, Eng
land has lost a most accomplished
delightful personality. One might
say that Cooley received the torch
from Charles Stuart Calverley. Let
us hope that he passed 1t on into
worthy hands. Cooley is best known
on this side of the water by his
Fifth Book of the Odes Of Horace"
and his translation of Herodotus in the
Loeb Library"
As I have remarked before, the Sc
lection of Sir George Lloyd as Brit
ish high commissioner in Egypt to
succeed Field Marshal Lord Allenby
was a peculiarly happy one. Sir
George was greatly esteemed by Lord
Kitchener and was, / believe, asso-
ciated with the latter in the organiza-
ton of the British intelligence service
in the East. He has been a mighty
Asia Minor, Mesopotamia and Arabia
His knowledge of Oriental languages.
and especially of the Arabian dialects.
Is said to rival that of Sir Richard
Burton. He was associated with Col
Lawrence in the organization and
leadership of the wild Arab tribesmen
in the World War. His name will
forever be identified with one of the
most stupendous and beneficent of
crir iro ~ nft ha
at Sukkur on the Indus, which was
pushed to completion by him as gov
ernor of the presidency of Bombay.
Iloyds Dam, larger than the Aswan
Dam on the Nile, through the five
canals which 1t feeds is reclaiming a
formerly barren region of 10000, 900
acres. Sir Georges experience of
riverine constructions and irrigation
problems will serve him we'll in rela-
tion to the Nile.
Field Marshal Lord Plumer, the new
British high commissioner in Palestine.
is said to be the most imperturba BILE
of living men. No one, apparently, has
ever seen him without his monocle in
stu. Cyclonic moments he has had,
effective as the charge Of brigades, but
the monocle was not disturbed. A man
to hold by, all agree.
England NAV have to tighten up a
Dlt-perndpS gOOd Dlt--ln Egypt and
Palestine, and the right men have been
chosen for the little operation, should
it be found necessary.
On June % 3 OF the II climbers
of the Mount Logan expedition reached
the summit of Mount Logan, in Can
ada. the highest elevation. except the
pinnacle Of Mount Mckinley, in Alaska
(450 feet higher). on the North Ameri-
can continent. The expedition, under
the auspices of the Canadian Alpine
Club, was headed by Capt. Mccarthy,
one time of Summit. n. j., now a
rancher of British Columbia, and one
of the victorious three. A handsome
and well managed performance.
They had a little political landslide
in Nova Scotia the other day that
probably Is record for political land
slides. Forty Conservatives and three
Liberals were elected to a new legisla-
Evening star., 1925-07-19
MENACE OF CHINA is DUE.
TO IGNORANCE OF LAND
Western Powers Err in Ordering Ori.
entail Affairs as They Would Their
Own, Ireland Holds.

has enough intelligence to be amazed
by anything.
The overwhelming mass of the
Chinese are today absolutely indiffer.
ent to nine-tenths of all the things
which foreigners think they ought to
be deeply moved by. Whatever IN
rest we now observe in China Is due
ultimately to our misguided efforts to
prevent a Chinaman from being
Chinese.
Devoted to Tranquility.
The republican agitation is case
In point. It is anti-Manchu and anti.
foreign far more than it is anti-mon-
archial. Within any time with which
we need reckon 1t can have no other
effect than to rouse to irresponsible
excitement a people who are devoted
above all things to regularized tran
quillity.
The Chinese ask no more Of their
own officials or Of foreign officials than
that they will take their toll of the
Chinaman. according to the rules Of
officialsqueeze or OF business-squeeze
and then leave him alone to live his
own life his own way.
One of the most scholarly OF living
Chinamen-a man of the old school, a
lIIcliu anu clOSc dSSoCidlo Ol LII f1unB
Chang and Of Wu Ting Fang-said to
me in Peking in 1922, speaking of the
American-trainedC Chinese republicans:
THE trouble is that those bright
young fellows know a great deal about
America and nothing about China. -
That is the trouble with most of us;
and 1t may prove to be the detenator
which alone makes dynamite danger
GUS, by converting a harmless yellow
substance into a violent explosive.
Copyright. 1929
Evening star., 1925-07-19
TURNOVER OF TEACHERS
THINS EDUCATORS RANKS
Nationwide Campaign Urged to Make
Competent Talent Into Field.

value than making the service In
the public schools attract the compe-
tent talent of the nation. The pres
ent annual turnover varies at from
so to 68 per cent per annum. Polltl-
cal influence Is the curse or the
schools. The boss wants power. lie
holds the club Of dismissal over the
efficient and inefficient alike. The
competent has no encouragement.
Appointment and retention of teach
ers in most of American cities is
buiwark of the evil system of spoils
and party tyranny. Professional
growth under 1t is retarded. New
York, New Jersey. Maryland and Cal
ifornia, where tenure is in force, are
building a profession of teaching to
which it Is an honor to belong. our
calling in most communities has not
the security of the common workman.
We are playing with education, not
taking it seriously. We have been
boasting of our superiority over the
nations of the Old World. There are
10 European countries in which the
percentage Of illiteracy is less than In
ours. In every one the teacher Is
assured of continuous employment
from year to year unless proved In
competent or otherwise unit
Better Field Elsewhere.
Good men who think on public
problems are asking, why don't more
of the best men go into teachfng?"
A prominent periodical is offering lib
eral prizes for essays on the subject.
There's no riddle for a sphinx here.
The worthwhile man who wants TO
give his fellows the greatest service
of which he is capable must have
reasonable assurance that his Serv-
ice will be regarded as worth conttnu-
ing. If he goes to work for an ordi-
nary firm, or even for a private
school, he knows from the record OF
thousands Of cases that he can make
himself practically indispensable to
the owner If he examines into the
regard for teachers in an ordinary un-
protected school system-most or
them are unprotected-he sees that no
one is regarded as Indispensable. On
the contrary, the sound of teachers
dropping from their positions makes
from the middle of May to the last
of June a continuous patter from
Maine to New Mexico.
1t takes time, it costs money to
train a teacher. There must be as
surance to the worker submitting to
the hard work essential to learning
this business that 1t is worth while.
Stabilize the public schools! Make
their service high class. Lure high
class workers into the service and
then protect them
Copyright. 1925.l
Evening star., 1925-07-19

Continued from First Page)
trated perhaps a hundred thousand
troops, even this force is inadequate to
maintain a solid front in the noun
tains and over $50 miles from WeZZan
TO Taxa and 1t is physically impossible
TO prevent native groups from slipping
through the Gordon.
The capture of FeZ, WeZzan, Fez or
Taxa remains unlikely, but by no
means impossible, although the cap
tors would certainly be driven out
promptly when the French concen-
tration had been made, but, on the 9TH
er hand, the French have no chance of
achieving a decision as long as the
Riffs can find sanctuary within the
Spanish border and for the present
Summer and Autumn little can be ac-
complished because of the heat. Ultt-
mately the French will have to go
and get Abd-el-Krim, frontier or no
frontier. Meantime their situation in
Morocco will become more and more
difficult as time passes and they are
unable to subdue their foe, and the up
rising OF the tribes of the French area
may spread to the central mountains
and compel new reinforcements to
cover the plains behind Casablanca.
What has gravely complicated the
situation has been the fact that the
French political power has rested In
the hands of a Radical Socialist COM
bination, in which the Socialists have
been the dominating partners and
they have strenuously opposed the
Moroccan campaign, while the more
radical Communist members OF the
French Parliament have openly en-
couraged Riffian hostility. Moreover,
no French government would dare
send French conscripts to fight in the
Moroccan mountains and the opera
tions have to be conducted NANNY
with native troops.
Recently NJ. Painleve, after his re-
turn from sensational atrplane
swoop to Rabat to confer with Mar
shal Lyautey. has succeeded in get
ting the support of vast majority in
the Chamber and his hands are thus
free to push operations. His hrst
step. too. has been to send a new mil
ttary commander, Gen. Naulin, who
had a distinguished. If subordinate,
record in the World War. Gen. Man
gin. who would have been the indicat-
ed commander for such an enterprise.
unfortunately died recently, thus re.
moving the most distinguished OF
French colonial soldiers. the man who
made the BLACK Army"
Seek Spanish Help.
At the same time the French gov
ernment has been carrying on nego-
tiations in Madrid looking to JOINT
Franco-Spanish operations. But,
while there has been agreement on
certain points, it is not quite clear
that Spain is ready TO permit French
troops to cross the Spanish border,
1or fha Snanish not without a. degree
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minister by Chang Tso Lin In 1929
was one of the chief reasons asserted
by Wu Pei Flu for his attack on
Chang in the Spring of that year.
Wu denouncing Liang Shih vi as a
pro Japanese reactionary of the
blackest. But all that is changed
now. japan is a disinterested friend
of China. At any rate, whatever else
may be thought of Liang Shih VI. he
is a financter of the very first ability.
The above details may be discov-
cred in the sequel to have some i'm
portance. The Chinese situation, of
which no doubt the reader is n little
weary, may be dismissed for this
week with the observation that the
powers seem to be moving cautiously
toward action in fuifillment of their
Washington conference commitments
toward China.
United States of America.-The
representatives of anthracite miners
and operators in conference at At
lantic City are discussing their diff
ferences in very leisurely manner
A spokesman for the operators poo
poohs Mr.. Lewis huge yearly total of
crippled miners. 10000. This figure.
he says, includes petty accidents. such
as a speck of coal dust in the eye,
finger scratch, etc. A miners
champion retorts, charging exaggera-
| ton by the operators on other heads
and SO on. The sweltering public
shivers a moment, apprehensive.
The forecast of the crop reporting
| board of the Department Of Agricul-
ture for the wheat crop of 1925 is
t661 900, 900 bushels. the smallest yield
| since 1917. and less by $4,000. 900
bushels than that of 1924. too small,
thinks the board, to admit Of much
or any export therefrom. II is the
| Winter wheat that has been so hard
smitten. The promise OF Spring wheat
| is good, but 1t is consoling to remem-
| Der that the departments prediction
| last June for the 1924 crop was 693,-
600, 900 bushels, whereas the yield was
S72, ,000,0 ,000 The total value of our
exports from the 1924 crop is a record
| one.
The monthly record of the MetropoIi-
| tan Life Insurance Co. for March
shows an increase in the number of
81 per cent over the number in
| March, 1924.
Cancer-The most important news
! item of the week is to the effect that
certain members OF tne BRUSH Ma
| tional Institute of Medical Research,
| in chief. J. E. Barnard, DIR. w. E.
Gye and DIR. G.. Russell, have isolated
and have observed under the micro
scope an organism which they believe
| to be the infectious (externaD agent
| in cancer.
AS early az 1912, DIR. Peyton Rous
! of the Rockefeller Institute tentative
| ly announced the theory, based on
experiments by him, that the trans
| mitting factor in chicken sarcoma was
an ultra microscopic organism. By
| injection of a ffltrate from chicken
sarcoma he had induced that disease
in healthy chickeus. Later. by SINH
| lar methods, he transmitted mouse
| and rat sarcoma to healthy mice and
rats, thus broadening his theory.
| The British investigators started
from assumption of the correctness OF
| DIR. Rous' theory, namely, that an ex-
ternal organism is a causative agent
Evening star., 1925-07-19
BY WILLIAM McANDREW,

TT oW do you account for the
fact that while railroads.
banks and industrial con-
4 Il Germs are encouraging by
stock shares and other de-
vices persistence of their employe,
the number of school boards opposing
2. permanent employment for teachers
is in the majority?
This was one of the vital questions
taken up by the National Education
Association in its big meeting at In
dianaDolis.
The Commonwealth in which the
convention was held, Indiana, at
tempted through legislative action
this year to provide tenure of posi-
ton for public school employees, but
without success Its neighboring
State, Ohio, is notoriously unable to
secure steady employment for teach
ers. Illinois is weak In such pro-
vision.
What is the reason? What is the
cure? Teaching Is public service and
therefore political. The democratic
idea of rotation in Office suffuses the
ordinary school board and cheapens
the educational service. THE right
TO hire and fire" appeals to the cheap
love of power which curses repub-
lican government. 1t outweighs, If
II uOeS IlOl iliDIi VI
the fact that frequent changing of
workers in so essentially a continu
Gus and steady process as education
is the cause of enormous waste.
Problem Is Pressing.
The short-term contract system,
with its facility for dropping teach
ers on rumor or on personal prejudice,
is one of the most potent preventives
Of preparation for the service. Who is
going to undergo the expense of +Er1e
and money to prepare as If for life
work. when he knows that the gossip
of busybodies or the dislike mani
tested by a prominent citizen, or Of
a board members wife, is going to
terminate employment in one short
year?
At indianapolis there met a COM
mittee of 100 on tenure. Fred Hun
ter, superintendent of schools, Oak
land, Calf, the chairman, read the
report. It insisted upon nation
wide campaign to insure the children
in the schools the kind of continuous,
loyal service which managers of COM
mercial concerns are getting in their
organizations. He urged us a slogan
for the campaign, For the children
of America" mo problem before the
country" said Hunter, 'is more
charged with progressive. patriotic
Evening star., 1925-07-19

tive assembly. whereas in the recently
defunct assembly there were 40 Liber-
ais and Conservatives. Moreover, the
new Conservative maJority Is the first
in Nova Scotia since 1882. In the On
tario elections Of 1928 also there was
a striking Though not SO striking) re-
versal in favor of the Conservatives.
1t is, therefore, expected that If Do
minion general elections are held, as
proposed, in the near future the Con-
servatives will replace the Liberals In
power at Ottawa. The extreme char
acter of the reversal in Nova Scotia is
generally attributed to wrath Of the
people because of the failure of the
government to end the prolonged
strike of the United Mine Workers In
the Cape Breton colliery district. An
other grievance was the doubling of
the budget within the past three years.
France.-The 1925 budget balanced
at approximately 33 ,000, 900, 900 francs)
has been passed by substantial 9lajori-
ties in both houses of Parliament .(421
to 150 In the Chamber), and on the
18th Parliament adjourned. The So
cialists voted against the budget. The
Left bloc Is of the past. Caillaux has
been elected. almost unanimously, a
member of the French Senate.
After all. Gen. Naulin Is not to be
supreme military commander in Mo-
rocco. The great Marshal Petain is
on his way to assume that role. He
is to be heavily reinforced. Rumor
has 1t that parts of the classes of
1922 and 1928 are to be modified.
An agreement on Franco-Spanish po-
liticai collaboration with respect to
Morocco has been signed. / note here
merely by way of memorandum (for
the subject is frightfully conplicated)
that the preposterous international
regime of the Tangier zone ian epitome
Of all the difficulties in the way of in.
ternational cooperation, seems to be
fatal bar to complete political and
military Franco-Spanish collaboration
with respect to the Riff problem.
Ax
China.-On July Chinese soldiers
forced their way into the English
Presbyterian Mission in a town about
so miles up country from Swatow.
Kwang- Tung Province, and beat and
cut with knives three missionaries,
including two women. The mission
aries escaped to Swatow. Swatow
continues to be a dangerous spot.
The strike of Chinese employees of
British and Japanese persist, as also
the embargo on supply of food to
British and Japanese. The situation
is tragic-comically complicated by
the fact that rival military COM
manders are contesting in a casual
way the domination of the city.
On or about July 6, melted by agi-
tators. the 10000 Chinese miners at
the British owned Peking syndicate
coal mines in Honan Province struck.
cutting off light. water and food from
the British staff. After five days at
the pumps. the latter fed to Peking
The dispatches have not reported any
incidents of especial Importance con-
nected with the anti-foreign agitation
since the above.
Chang Tso Lin is at Tientsin, hav-
ing changed his mind about going
home to Mukden. 1t is reported that
he has advised Tuan Chi Jul. the
provisional President, to take Liang
Shih VI for prime minister. This is
the man whose installation as prime
Evening star., 1925-07-19
RICHARD WASHBURN CHILD.

The monkey who put his hand
into the narrow-mouth jar and tried
to take out all the nuts his hand
would hold found that he could not
withdraw his fist without pain and
without letting go a good deal of the
prize to which he felt entitled.
Sometimes, no doubt, those who go
to law are entitled to all their claim.
But the experience often is a painful
one and usually a considerable part
of the prize is dropped in the form
of wasted time, costs and fees. Fur.
thermore, when the courts are so over
crowded that their business Is months
and years behind, prospective litigants
who withdraw are rendering the COM
munity a real public service.
The way out is through arbitra-
ton.
Probably the foremost obstacle in
the path of making this practice a
Nationwide and even an international
commercial, industrial and political
custom is the assurance in most hu-
man hearts and minds that they are
100 per cent right. Although each
of us knows plenty Of instances when
we have been 100 per cent right we
find 1t difficult to cite any case when
any one else has been 100 per cent
right. The truth is that justice sell