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Evening star., 1925-08-09
Italy Is Confronted With Serious
Problems in National Existence

Of Japan is that they accept condi-
us but means for them enduring de-
pendence upon the will and interests
of ourselves.
Presents Other Cases.
What Count Cippico, speaking for
Italy but presenting the case OF sew
eral other great peoples also, indi-
Gates with devastating clarity is that
all talk of permanent peace is idle
and even dangerous in it's effect while
there exists vast inequalities between
great peoples, while present condi-
tions at one time spell prosperity for
certain races and continuing misery
for others, while political independence
is accompanied by economic servitude.
He says by obvious inference not that
Italy is preparing to upset existing
conditions by war, but that Italy can
never accept those conditions, and
permanent peace depends upon find
ing pacific method for altering them.
For centuries without number the
races of mankind have fought to es.
cape the political domination of other
races; liberty has seemed compre-
hended in the independence of the
several tribes of mankind without ap-
proximately natural frontiers, but the
last war demonstrated with appalling
clarity what the postwar history has
also emphasized, namely, that nations
may have political independence
within natural frontiers and vet be
economically utterly dependent upon
the will and interest of other nations.
Count Cippico's warning lies in the
simple statement that nations will
just as certainly fight against eco
nomic as political servitude, and the
way to peace must be through some
solution of this problem, a solution
for which quite patiently neither the
League of Nations nor any other in
ternational organization has as yet
even formulated any visible solution.
Security for France is the Rhine
guarantee, for Britain the control of
the sea, but for Italy it is assured
access on equal terms with other ma
tions to the raw materials of the world
and equal certainty of free egress
and ingress to her own waters through
the seas in which she must forever
live. There is the italian case.
Copyright. 1925)
Evening star., 1925-08-09
Chinese Customs Raise
Problem for Churches

One of the most important problems
facing the Christian church in China
is that of finding a bridge between
Christian beliefs and Chinese customs
which run counter to one another.
This question received much discus
sion at the conference of the National
Christian Council of China in Shang-
hal and as a result a committee has
been formed to discuss several points
Of urgency and Importance of Chris
tianity in this country. Principal
among these is to find way to con-
serve the best and most characteristic
elements in Chinese civilization in
order to find way by which Chinese
Christians may commemorate and
show respect to their ancestors. The
present system of ancestor worship
does not fit in with Christian beliefs
and little headway can be made in
Christian work while the conflict ex-
lists. Another point Is the influence of
Confucianism. The committee was
instructed to study the Christian con-
ceptions of God and the Copfucian
conceptions of Heaven in order to find
the points of difference and agree
ment
Evening star., 1925-08-09
OVER OIL SCANDAL
ONLY IRRTTATES THE PUBLIC
PEOPLE Will Not Be Satisfied Until Guilty Have Been
Punished or 1t Has Been Shown There Was
No Guilt in Transactions.

oil reserve which he got in the bar
gain he made with the Interior De
partment, it seemed somehow wrong.
That is, Mr.. Doheney's statement did
not close the case.
Nor has the decision in the Wyoming
courts that the Teapot Dome lease
to the Mammoth Oil Company was
untainted ended the matter. What
the decision does emphasize is that
the Government had not had an op-
portunity to complete it's evidence.
II recalls that at least two of its
chief witnesses have taken up resi-
denee in foreign parts apparently 10
escape telling what they know about
the Fall-Sinclair- Stewart, etc, opera
tion-two living abroad and not TO
be captured and one finding business
in Mexico until the trial was over!
These late exhibits in the oil scan
dal are irritants to the public mind.
They settle into it like stings in
human flesh. fostering into suspicion
and bitterness. The oil scandal will
endure until it is cleared up so that It
reads right" That does not mean
until II is proved that there were
bribery and conspiracy in the case,
but it does mean until it is proved
that there was neither-if such was
the fact.
The business of the Government is
to keep at this case until it can give
us truthful story of what happened.
Nothing else will put an end to the
political unrest and discouragement
the thing breeds.
tCopyright 1887
Evening star., 1925-08-09

IN IT OSCOW has been in direct
- nN communication with the
wi coal miners of this coun-
try, seeking to disrupt the
union, endeavoring to stir
up class war between the miners and
the operators. and in general trying to
spread the Communist doctrine of the
third internationale."
That statement came from John l..
Lewis, president OF the United Mine
Workers, who more than any other
man in America knows the mind of the
American working man and his at
titude toward radical doctrines.
l. had come to ask Mr.. Lewis
whether the Communist doctrine was
making as much headway among the
workers of the United States as it's
Moscow originators claimed. Boil
shevist propaganda, I reminded him,
was especially rampant here immedi-
ately after the war. Had 1t subsidized,
or was Secretary of State Kellogg
justified in warning the public, as he
did in his Minnesota speech, against
the Communist propaganda which
was being secretly spread throughout
the United States? Mr.. Lewis. 1
knew, would give a fair and unbiased
reply.
Secretary Kellogg Right.
Secretary Kellogg was speaking
strictly from the text" the big miner
replied quickly. mo man in this
country, and no organization in this
country know more about Commu.
nistic intrigue than Kellogg and the
Department of State. That depart
ment has It's fingers on the pulse of
radical activity in this country,
perhaps even better than the Depart
ment of Justice, and 1t knows what
a
over here from Russia.
THE United Mine Workers once CO.
operated with the State Department
in making an investigation of Com
munist propaganda, and I believe,
that Secretary Kellogg was not exag-
gerating.
Moscow has a most uncanny sys-
tenn Of spreading Its doctrines over
here" Mr.. Lewis continued. The
other morning every miner in Scran-
ton woke up to find one of these
circulars stuck under his door. Here,
read one OF them. You'll find it's
pure Bolshevik propaganda, aiming
To upset the union. Must have been
distributed in the night by some one
within our ranks who had our men,
bership list.
Voted to Join Reds.
I'VE had another instance of Mos
cows intrigue some time ago, when
the coal miners UP in Nova Scotia
actually voted to join the Red
Union"
Was this a majority vote?" I
asked.
Yes, majority vote Of the union.
When we found out about 1t we
notified them that II they insisted
upon belonging to the Red Union
they could get out of the United
Mine Workers, and so they backed
away from Moscow and stuck with
u.s."
Evening star., 1925-08-09

manufactured goods so high that he
can't sell abroad. Which Is a very Sc
rious thing when you remember that
the British export S5 per cent of their
manufactured goods, while we export
| only Is per cent.
English Labor SIackers.
1.-The big thing that Britain is up
against is her semi-socialistic system
of paying off labor. If I go down in
an English pit and l am rather am
bilious and want to earn q little more
than the other fellow 1 turn out per-
haps two tons more than my neigh
Dor in the next shaft. Then the next
Monday the foreman calls me in and
tells me that in the future my rate
will be one shilling and half per ton,
instead Of two shillings per ton. That
is because England operates under a
minimum wage law, by which an en-
ployer Is required to pay minimum
wage and no more. / have demon
strated my ability to earn more than
this, and therefore I am paid at a
lower rate, so that I won't exceed the
minimum. In other words. my eff
cheney and energy are penaliZed.
Never again do 1 speed up. I am con-
tent with the minimum wage. That's
one reason England produces less than
one ton OF coal per man per day.
while an American miner produces
four tons plus perfday.
Another factor which limits Eng
lish production is the dole. I talked
with a young fellow In Scotland who
was earning nineteen shillings per
| week in the mines. His cousin. who
was not working, received fifteen
| shillings a week from the govern
ment. In other words, the man who
worked was getting one dollar a week
| more than the man who didn't work.
At any rate, what's the use of work
| ing?
I'VE have demonstrated in this
| country that our union men, under
| the system of pay prevailing through.
| out most of the country, are more
efficient than the non-union men. The
records of the inspector of mines In
| the State of West Virginia show that
| it takes three non-union day mep to
| perform what two union day men can
| do
The War Against Change.
why does England retain this an.
| tiquated system?" / asked my final
| question.
II can best answer that by tell.
| ing you a story. My wife and ]
were doing London under the tute.
lage of an English guide and as we
gaZed at an old three-story building
ence in his voice:
That's the 'Orse Guards bar
racks. sir"
Yes, 1 see. but why don't they
! tear it DOWN."
"'Oh, sir! You don't understand.
| That's the 'Orse Guards barracks.
| sir
Yes. you told me that. But why
| don't they tear it down and put up
a modern building in it's placer
oh. sirI You don't understand.
| In the old days Kitchener and all
! them used to come riding out of
| there.
"'Well, Kitchener doesn't use it
| any more. We'd get rid of an eye
sore like that in the United States.
"'Oh, sir! You don't understand
| sir
The British are the same way with
their mining methods" concluded
! John l.. Lewis. They have a won
derful capacity for resisting change" +"
Evening star., 1925-08-09
HUGE WASTE OF U. S. RESOURCES.
MAN AND MATERIAL, L,HITBYEXPERT

man power which goes into the pro-
duction of harmful or useless things
opium, super-luXuries, war. adulter-
ated goods, quackery of all kinds
There are at least 5000 900 persons SO
engaged in America.
Huge Waste Normal"
The house builder represents the
excess man power required to produce
necessities and comforts because the
technical arts-the best way of doing
the job-are not made use of. Failure
to use scientific management, excess
plant capacity, cross hauling, high
distribution costs, city congestion, and,
above all, failure to coordinate ma
tional production to national require
ments-all combine to force the TAX
ing of two steps where one would suf-
flee. The studies of Mr.. Hoover's en-.
gineers and others give us ground for
supposing that at least 100000 work
ers count for nothing because science
is not utilized.
The forest destroyer represents the
waste of natural resources. In lum-
ber, coal, oil, soils, minerals. a CONT
nent has been gutted, and for every
ton reclaimed a ton or more has been
needleSsly thrown away.
And so what is madness and folly
for four men on desert island is
normal business -as-usual in a great
industrial society considered as a
whole. This is the challenge of
tCopyright 1921
Evening star., 1925-08-09
OUTPUT OF MOTOR CARS
TO SMASH ALL RECORDS
for First Six Months Indi-
Gates 100000 Mark Will Be
Passed This Year.

that the general acceptance of the
idea is erroneous.
Among the 17,700,000 registrations
of 1924 were hundreds of thousands
perhaps millions, of Implications. In
nearly every State there is a new
registration every time a second hand
car is bought. In the case of that
particular car, whose license plates
must be turned in and which must
be equipped with new plates because
of the change of ownership, there IS
a doubling of registration. If a car
is sold three times during the year
as thousands are, 1t appears three
times in the registration figure.
Because of this practice the esti
mate of number of cars in actual
use has been upset. In Washington,
for instance, ii was estimated last
year that 100, 900 cars were in use.
The basis for the estimate was the
number of registrations. After the
gasoline tax had failed by many thou
sands to yield what it was thought
it would yield, there was a checkup
and the estimate number of cars in
actual use was put at about three
fourths of registrations, or $4,000.
In the case of Washington, how
ever, the situation was further com
plicated by the fact that prior to
the aQOptlOn OF the gasoline TAX tnere
was no reciprocity between the Dis
trict and Maryland, thus compelling
the use of District registration by
many residents Of nearby Maryland.
Replacing Worn-Out Cars.
Most of the new cars, manufacturers
assert, are replacing worn-out vehicles,
which are growing faster now, to the
junkpile than ever before. The bones
of perhaps 100000 automobiles viii
grace the motor graveyard this year.
Their lives, originally estimated at
an average Of 5 years. have been
spun out, for the most part, to an
attenuated old age which has sur
'prised even their makers. Seven years,
1t is believed now, is perhaps more
nearly the average lifetime of the
ordinary car given ordinary care.
Nearly 100000 motor cars and
trucks were produced in the United
States during the banner year of 1928.
Last year, due to the general slow
down of business during late Spring
and. Summer, production slumped
to slightly less than 3,500,000 cars
and trucks. This year. with output
blowing great guns, production is bid
ding strong to pass the 1000, 600 total.
About ! 200, 900 of this total, II is estt-
mated will go to new owners, the
remainder representing replacemt nts.
Evening star., 1925-08-09
Skeletons of Giants
Are Found i'm Mexico

One of the most interesting of re
cent discoveries in Mexico is that re-
ported by prospecting miners operat
ing a new gold and silver mining
district in the state of Chihuahua.
According to one of the engineers,
who has reached Mexico City from the
Sierra Madra Range of Mountains
where the operations are being car
ried on, there have been discovered
several human skeletons measuring
from 10 to II feet in length. They
were all found in one cave, being quite
intact The average length of the feet
was from Is to 20 inches. The an
thropological department of the Mexi-
can government is planning to send a
commission to investigate the discov-
cries. The investigation is expected to
clear up the origin of the wonderful
Indians of the State of Chihuahua.
The skeletons were all found in "a
sitting posture, shoulders bent for
ward and arms resting on upraised,
knees. l
Evening star., 1925-08-09
RECENT INCIDENTS In WAR OF SOVIETS
TO MAKE TROUBLE FOR REST OF WORLD

The well known charge that
Russia is determined to sovietize
the world is again becoming i'm
portant. 1t is charged that the
present plan is to work with
discontented elements in all Sec
tions of the world of whatever
sort. Here is a list of recent
evidences:
|. Four locals of the Interna-
tional Garment Workers i'll New
York suspended because of Com
munistic activities, July, 1925.
2. Communist workers make
demonstration in New York on
. behalf of Chinese revolutionists.
3. Communists burn ancient
Chateau Randan in France in
what French authorities declare
is part OF plan to destroy all
historic buildings.
4. Chicago Reds riot at anti
Soviet meeting, March 16.
5. o. L. Smith, attorney gen.
eral of Michigan, says he has
evidence in his possession Of
Soviet intrigues there.
E. Chinese revolution attrib-
uted to Russian Soviet intrigue.
Evening star., 1925-08-09
''Pinafore" Jazz Banned.

Holders of the rights of the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas have forbidden
Vincent Lopez, American dance band
leader. to Jazz" the music of pima
fore" Lopez, in playing the famous
old operetta at the Apollo Theater in
London, syncopated some of its songs
and English indignation, as soon as
this Dissertation" received publicity,
ran high. Now If Mr.. Lopez wants to
give Sullivan a touch Of the blues he
must do II from jail.
Evening star., 1925-08-09
Head of the United Mine Workers Tells
OF Bolshevist Propaganda in the i. S.

Note: This is the first OF three ar
ticles dealing with radical activities
in the United States. Drew Pearson
L. Lewis. John Spargo and Edward
+. Hurley liberal labor leader. a
liberal social student and liberal
business mRn-on this timely subject.
The second article will be published
next Sunday
Evening star., 1925-08-09

Communist rising throughout Italy, January to 8, 1925
J. Wheay speech in English Parliament,
lence free workers.
g. British cabinet fears Japanese and Sovets pact
dominate the Orient.
Drew Pearson asked John L. Lewis about radicalm
and he replied that Moscow working
His views in the accompanying interview
Evening star., 1925-08-09
1923 Record Broken.

Up to the present year, 1929 pro-
duction stood as the record. 1t no
longer stands, so far as the first six
months of the year are concerned,
and with its going has gone the old
way Of merchandising the motor car
That way was coupled up with a sort
of undertaking system whereby the
seller waited for the buyer to come
into his shop and make a purchase.
Today the seller and his hired men are
going after new business.
They spend little time IN the show
room and ONCE, whereas a few years
ago they were to be found there at
almost any hour. An intensive drive
for new business carries them out al
most into the class Of the canvasser.
Coupled with the new spirit of hus-
Ting for business have been improved
design and features Of what the man
ufacturer has to sell and-probably
of equal standing in the eyes of pur-
chasers-fairly general and sharp
price reductions.
AS a result Of this combination,
next New Year day probably will in
ventory nearly 10000. 900 motor car
registrations, as compared with about
I7,700,O00 January l, last. That
should not be taken to mean, how
ever, that there will be that number
of automobiles in actual use. 1t has
been generally accepted in that light
in the past, but authorities point out
Evening star., 1925-08-09
BY STUART CHASE.

Note: Mr.. Chase has served on
the Federal Trade Commission and
under Secretary Hoover. For the
past 10 years he has made an in
tensive study of preventable waste
in American industry. The result
of this study will be published in
book form this Fall.
Jules Verne once wrote a story
which he called the Mysterious Is
land" 1t was about four men aban-
doned on a desolate spot of land on
the Pacific. Unlike Robinson Crusoe
they had no wrecked vessel to draw
supplies from: they landed with their
bare hands. But they were going to
grow things, animals, minerals-the
immemorial background Of human
life. And in the brain of the engineer
who led the party there was science.
With their bare hands they set to
work. 1t was a desperate struggle,
but step by step they forced back
cold, hunger and desolation, and in
the end transformed their island into
a pleasant home which yielded food,
shelter, clothing. comforts.
Thus Verne has showed us in minia-
ture the problem which all society
faces. has always faced. In the COM
plexity Of modern civilization, with it's
specialization, It's accent on dollar
symbols, we tend to lose sight of these
stark realities upon which our social
life Is founded, and without which we
could but sink to the level of the
brute.
To meet the demands of the Mys-
terious Island every member of the
shipwrecked crew put his shoulder to
the wheel. On each mans labor the
survival Of the group depended. But
suppose that one had spent his days in
sleeping on the beach, one gave all
his energy to making mud pies, one
built house on the plain by bringing
stones from the top of a mountain,
while the last. in his haste to clear a
field. burnt Off all the timber on the
island
Evening star., 1925-08-09

PUIHt 10 I1t prtSETlt year tS-
tablishing a new record. A stream Of
motor cars more than 4 900 miles in
length poured out of American fac
tories during the first six months of
the current year, and preliminary
figures for July point to the estab-
lishment Of a new record for output
during the first month Of the second
half Of the year.
The record of passenger car produc-
ton during the first six months of
the past three years, as gathered by
the Department Of Commerce, reads
aS fol
Evening star., 1925-08-09
Find Real Parallel.

-Four madmen! Yes, mad enough
when seen in miniature. But in our
great society these are precisely the
things which untold millions of us
are constantly doing. These mad acts
typify the four great channels of in
dustrial waste.
The sleeper represents the man
power which on any given working
day is doing nothing-by virtue of un-
employment, strikes, preventable &C.
cidents and diseases. the idle rich and
the hobo. There are on the average
about 100000 such out of 10000, 900
potential workers in America A
The mud piemaker represents TIE
Evening star., 1925-08-09
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

A UTOMOBILE production during
- ~ 1925 has swept higher than
~ the highest mark ever record
4 \ ed before, and all indications
Evening star., 1925-08-09
BY DREW PEARSON.

IN II OSCOW has been in direct
- NN communication with the
wi coal miners of this coun-
~ i try, seeking to disrupt the
Evening star., 1925-08-09
T BY HENRY l.. SWEINHART.

NE instance where the United
States Government almost
literally is turning the swords
of war into the plowshares
of naaNa DC ~ tha Doea 80 N
Evening star., 1925-08-09

Miscellaneous.-The Belgian Debt
Funding Commission has arrived in
There Was not great DEAL Of
Evening star., 1925-08-09
BY HENRY w. BUM.

. HE following is a brief sum-
mary Of the most important
news Of the world for the
seven days ended August 8:
The Winslow mail., 1925-08-14
Toots From The
Round House
By Charles Erickson

Well. the roundhouse still stands
in a circular position and the eight
hour shifts prove to be o. K, but
other than that l haven't much to
announce.
The day shift P. P. fireman, Will
liam Lockwood, has saved up
enough Jack" to suspend work, so
has gone to Laguna and Albu-
ouerque for two weeks vacation.
Antonio Saracino is doing Willie's
work and Lynn Camp is welding a
wicked scoop shovel as his assist
ant
Smoke one on me, fellers, " burst
out Leroy Smithers the first of the
week. while handing out cigars and
announcing the arrival of little
nine-pound cowboy"
Having heard about what a gil
gantic hole the Grand Canyon is,
three japanese boys, S. G. Nomoto,
H. Imamura, and S. R. Nomoto
have left the job for a few days to
view this one of the seven wonders
of the world and also look the
The Winslow mail., 1925-08-14

Fred Kie, car repairman, is back
at work after being idle for three
weeks because of a mashed finger.
For the last week the local store
department has had Mr.. Tom Bren-
nan checking things up as auditor
from the Los Angeles offices.
The Coast Lines supervisor of
fabrication, Charles Searle, was a
roundhouse visitor last Wednesday.
G. H. Myers, accompanied by his
little granddaughter, Ruth Blevins,
motored out to Leupp and spent the
day as guests of Mr. Greeley. Mr..
Myers says the visit was enjoyed
very much, as a real chicken dinner
isn't an every day diet.
AS representative of the local
boilermakers, L. S. Baker leaves for
San Bernardino today to attend the
crafts convention Saturday.
The regular monthly apprentice
board meeting was held Wednes-
day and many credits and discred-
its were interesting discussions.