Evening star., 1925-10-18

sick man. When he was taken back
to partial favor by the triumvirate
of Stain, Zineviev and kaminev, five
months ago, he was at his own re-
quest assigned to the economic front.
He had contended that the failure of
the Soviet economic system was not
due to inherent defects thereof. but
to lack of energy, honesty and tech
nical efficiency in its operation. He
was told to "go to it, and prove his
contention. His marvellous energy
has achieved remarkable results in de-
tail. but of course he essayed task
impossible in the large.
Perhaps once again Trotsky's i'll
ness is political. perhaps he is banish-
ed as the chief obstruction to a con.
templated policy of Increasing COM
promise with the mammon of un
righteousness.
China.-Dispatches tell of furious
fighting, some so miles from Canton,
between the forces Of the Red Canton
government and those of Gen. Chen
Kwang Ming. Gen. Chen Kwang Ming
is a man of very liberal views, but
anti-Red. Other recent developments,
military and naval, of most fantastic
character, will be dealt with when the
dispatches have thrown a little more
light on them.
United States of America.-John w.
| Weeks has resigned as Secretary of
War and is succeeded by the Assistant
Secretary, Dwight r. Davis, who for
many months past has, because of
Mr.. Weeks illness, performed the
| duties of Secretary. Mr.. Davis is the
donor of the Davis Cup, most famous
of tennis trophies.
An agreement to cover funding of
the debt of the Czechoslovakian gov
ernment to ours has been signed. 1t
follows closely the precedent of the
American British debt agreement. The
capital of the Czechoslovak debt is
Sis, ,000.0 as of June Is, 1925.
| A notable resolution passed by the
convention of the American Fedora.
! ton of Labor, sitting for its second
| week in Atlantic City, denounces all
wage reductions, and citing the find
| ings of an investigation under the
auspices of the Federated American
Engineering Societies covering i'm
portant industries, that waste in pro-
duction is so per cent, attributable to
management, and only rs per cent to
| fault of labor. urges on management
vigorous efforts to eliminate waste.
, Social inequality, industrial instabil'
| ity and injustice must increase unless
| the workers get real wages. The
purchasing power of their wages
coupled with a continuing reduction in
the number of hours making up the
working day. are progressive in pro
portion to mans increasing power OF
production"
No doubt the increasing power
contemplated is that to come from
labor saving machinery.
| The convention voted complete in
| dorsement and sympathy" to the
| strike of the anthracite miners.
| The statements submitted the other
day to the Air Board by Postmaster
General New and Secretary Of Com
merce Hoover are most interesting
and illuminating. Mr.. New pointed
out that the Post Office Department
established its air mail service in
order to demonstrate the practicability
! of commercial aviation and so induce
private agencies to build planes which
| should transport mail as do the rail
roads and water carriers. The sue
cess of the departments venture is
sufficiently proved by the results OF
! it's recent bids for private conduct OF
air mail routes.
| The two statements should go far tC
arouse public advocacy Of the Wins
civil aviation in the Department OF
Commerce, which should render serv
ices to commercial aviation analogous