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Evening star., 1925-03-15

! 4. Much of the language of the
protocol is obscure.
In conclusion, Mr. Chamberlain pro-
| posed reconsideration of Lord Robert
Cecirs scheme of regional pacts un-
der the auspices of the league, a
scheme shelved in 1923 owing to op-
| position by the smaller nations.
''Since the general provisions Of the
covenant cannot be stffened with
advantage and since the extreme
cases with which the league may
have to deal will probably affect GER
| tain nations or groups of nations
more nearly than others, his majes-
| tvs government concludes that the
| best way of dealing with the situa-
/ tion is with the cooperation of the
| league to supplement the covenant
| by making special arrangements in
| order to meet special needs.
THAT these arrangements should be
| purely defensive in character, that
they should be framed in the spirit
| of the covenant, working in close
harmony with the league and under
| its guidance, is manifest, and, in the
opinion of his majesty's government,
| these objects can best be obtained
| by knitting together the nations most
| Immediately concerned. and whose
differences might lead to a renewal of
strife, by means of treaties framed
with the sole object of maintaining
as between. themselves unbroken
| peace.
within it's limits no quicker rem
edy for our present ills can easily be
| found, nor any surer safeguard
against future calamities."
One proposed regional pact, at any
rate, is not to be. The recently made
German proposals (referred to in my
| last summary have been rejected by
France as prejudicing the German
Polish and German n-CZechoslovak
frontier arrangements-inde as COM
| promising all the frontier arrangements
of the Versailles treaty.
So the protocol of arbitration and
security" is dead: for it seems out OF
the question that it can be revised
| acceptably to Britain and the idea
that it will be adopted by all or part
! of, the other league members inde-
pendently of Britain seems absurd.
| But as for the Franco-German
frontier I'VE should worry" says M.
BRAND, who with his usual astute-
ness seizes this psychological mo-
ment to invite attention to certain
| clauses of the Versailles treaty which
provide for demilitarization of a
Rhine belt and declare that aggres-
! sion by Germany on this belt would
l constitute a casus belli for all the
allies. "Volan' says NJ BRAND.
VOLTA! There you are. gentlemen.
After all. the poor old treaty, so much
| obfuscated and derided, contains a
4 large part of what is necessary to
| our salvation"
The British Empire.-GeneraI cleo
| tions are to be held in Ulster in the
| near future.
Prime Minister Baldwin of Great
Britain recently made a graceful
gesture for friendly relations with
| the Labor party and has shown
| clearly that he does not propose to
make an overbearing or vengeful use
of his considerable majority in the
| Commons.
OF the 22o.ooo.ooo people OF India
of the Hindu religion, $4,000. 900 are
outcasts, 100000 are girl wives un-
| der the age of 10. including 100000
Evening star., 1925-03-15
New Senate Rules
BY ARTHUR CAPPER,
Senator From Kansas.

Vice President Dawes plain spoken
arraignment of rules that hamstring
legisla tive procedure in the Senate
reiterates a growing conviction of
many members and voices a general
belief that the paraphernalia and
modus operandi of legislation is due
for extensive repairs and renewals.
When these rules were formulated
the business of national legislation
was relatively simple. Providing
revenues, parceling out appropr1a-
tions and providing means of national
defense were virtually its sole tasks.
There were then fewer people In the
Nation than are now crowded in
few of our larger cities.
But population increased. New en-
pires were added to the original Ma
tional Domain. Science and inven-
ton and commercial genius wrought
miracles of progress. Living and So
cial relationships grew more and
more complex and intricate. With
these the tasks Of legislation grew
more complex and technical. But the
modus operandi of legislation re-
mained fixed. AS a result the seven
labors of Hercules are but holiday
pastimes compared with the chore of
trying to break through Legislative
Jam" It's like trying to defect the
flood of Niagara through a garden
hose.
For example: A bathing beach for
Washington engrosses Senate genius
for debate for two hours, and but a
scant half hour is given to consider
alton and passage of two of the larg-
est annual appropriation bills, inyolv-
ing the spending of millions.
The public observes these absurdf-
ties. 1t sees in the jam behind the
talk that tTickles over the rules dam
such proposals as the World Court OF
Justice, the proposal to reorganize
departments of Government in the in
terest of economy, agricultural and
transportation legislation, Muscle
Shoals and the like.
At once 1t is flashed over the coun-
try that there's "filibuster' on.
But such "jams" are not invariably
the result of a concerted ''flibusteT'
plot. The failure of the recent ses-
sion to enact any legislation other
than supply bills was not the result
of an organized, dilatory filibuster. 1t
was the result of an involuntary fill
buster forced by the existing rules.
The legislative machine is high
powered affair. Well organized. In
dustrious. or proper motives and a
patriotic desire to serve the welfare
of the country. But it's weird con-
trivances are such that the greater
| the stress, the more the power is ap-
piled, the tighter clamp the brakes,
| Undoubtedly ii needs to be towed
| into the shop and overhauled and
| equipped with forward speed at
tachmenth
Evening star., 1925-03-15

Is bad for society. Men and women
who are thus crowded are not only
feverish In body, but hectic in temper
as human beings must be who have
no quiet place in which to sleep and
never have enough fresh air
An intelligent Englishwoman who
has been travelling up and down our
country said recently that If all the
world had American food to eat, in
the quantities in which 1t Is put be-
fore us, Bolshevism would disappear
That is, 1t is people on short rations
which are restless. They threaten
revolt, as who would not If he went
hungry and saw no other way to
satisfy his hunger but to change the
running of the world? You get the
same dissatisfaction, the same desire
to change things in overcrowded dis
tricts, with lack of air and elbow
space. without gardens and quiet.
People who never in the world would
hate anybody hate all the world, and
particularly the government under
which they exist, when deprived OF
air and space.
Luckily for US, there are those who
see this side of the matter and .when
they need to grow take their facto-
>
there is land for the children to play
for the women to raise flowers, for
the men to dig. Nothing is more
hearteninG in all the country than a
modern factory, set down far outside
the city limits, with gay. well plan
ned, well built, industrial village in
it's neighborhood. Here you have no
destroying to employ, but spreading
and it does the work.
This mania for tearing down and
building higher creates terrible in
difference TO beautiful things in our
great cities. There is New York.
anything, she boasts. She can de-
stroy and replace without feeling it.
At the same time New York doesn't
feel herself rich enough to save a
work simply because of it's beauty.
She is about to tear down one of the
gayest, gladdest pieces of architecture
in this or any country, a building
perfectly fitted to be a peoples play
house, because she wants to build
something bigger on the site, some
thing that will make money for
somebody.
New York City thinks she cannot
afford to keep Madison Square Gar
den as a place of pleasure for her
people, a thing for the country to look
at when it comes a-visiting. She is
wrong. She cannot afford to destroy
the beautiful thing-simply because IL
is beautiful and adaptable. 1t is rare
that both beauty and joyfulness are
achieved in any work of art and they
are far more precious than even a
hundred stories all rented out al
whacking prices,
1t is because of these limitations
in this too common notion that there
Is something beneflcent in tearing
down and replacing that 1 protest
against the theory and am grieved
when hear it defended by those from
whom / am accustomed to hearfne
good and sound economic doctrine.
Copyright, 1929
Evening star., 1925-03-15
BY HENRY w. BUM.

BY HENRY w. BUM.
i" HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended March IA:
The League Council, Etc. - The
League Council met at Geneva on
March 9 for an important session. On
the 18th Austen Chamberlain, Brit
ish secretary of state for foreign af-
fairs and president of the council,
made a notable speech announcing
rejection by his government OF the
protocol of arbitration and security
and giving the reasons therefor.
NJ BRAND made an eloquent and
ironic speech answering the British
objections and defending the protocol.
Dr. Benes of czechoslovakia pro-
posed that the protocol be referred
to the next league assembly, to which
the council agreed.
The main reasons for rejection pre-
sented by Mr.. Chamberlain are as
follows:
L. The British government is cold
to the principle of compulsory arbi-
tration, as already shown in connec-
ton with the World Court. 1t takes
particular exception to the provisions
of the protocol which contemplate
weakening of those reservations in
Clause XIV of the covenant which
were designed to prevent interfer-
ence by the league in matters of do
mestic jurisdiction. This objection
would alone suffice for rejection by
the British government, because of
the attitude of the outlying COM
monw ealths of the empire.
?. The protocol. if adopted, would
unduly increase the responsibilities
already undertaken by states that are
members of the league. THE fresh
emphasis laid upon sanctions, the new
occasions discovered for their en-
ployment and the elaboration of mill
tary procedure insensibly suggest the
idea that the vital business of the
league is not so much to promote
friendly cooperation and reasoned
harmony in the management of in
ternational affairs as to preserve
peace by organizing war, and 1t may
be war on the largest scale"
8. The above line of argument is
perhaps just a thought sophistical
but the following objection is most
certainly a cogent one: 1T is most
unwise to add to the liabilities al
READY incurred WlIHUul ldklHS SlOCh
of the degree to which the machinery
Of the covenant has already been
weakened by non n-membership of GER
tain great states" (Mr. Chamberlain,
of course, is glancing chiefly at the
United States, Germany and Russia.
Economic sanctions, If simultane-
ously directed by all the world against
state which is not itself economic
ally self-sufticing, would be a weapon
of incalculable power"
This, or something not very diff
ferent' from this, was the weapon
originally devised by the authors OF
the covenant. But all this is changed
by the mere existence of powerful
economic communities outside the
limits of the league. 1t might force
trade into unaccustomed channels,
but it could hardly stop it, and,
though the offending state would no
doubt suffer, there is no presumption
that it would be crushed, or even that
il would suffer most"
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Charge Anti-Aircraft Trials
Were Spoiled by Economy

Continued from First PageD
the shells now being used and the
erratic.
Lack Modern Planes
Just how this development will
compare with the progress of air
power, however, still is as uncertain
as il was before the tests were
held. Air service officers say they
are restricted in their operations by
lack of modern machines.
Gen. Mitchell pointed out to the
observers who visited Langley Field
on their trip to Fort Monroe that,
with the exception of the IL ma
chimes which happened to be visit
ing Langley at that time, all the
others were "but junk" They were
wartime products. Many of them
had been rebuilt, repaired and re
conditioned in a way that kept them
serviceable, he said. but did not COM
pare with modern craft.
Just as the anti-aircraft guns are
being made more effective, so are
the airplanes being developed. The
new types of aircraft give a greater
cruising radius, an increased speed OF
flight more flexible air maneuver
ability and more protection from hos
tile opponents,-eithe on the ground
or in the air. Also they can be oper-
ated at times when weather condi-
tions would force the older types to
keep on the ground. Their carrying
capacity, measured in terms of bombs
personnel, fuel or other load factors
have been stepped up.
Arm en- Are Confident.
So, the Air Service experts say, let
the anti-aircraft ground defenses
have their new guns. Give us ma
chimes to fly which are as modern as
their guns, and we have no more to
fear from gunfire than we do now
with the ships we are using.
The question of relative values
therefore, appears likely to keep its
present interest as gunfire gains in
efficiency and the airplane gains pro-
portionately in speed, bombing and
machine-gun accuracy and can be
lifted to higher attitudes. The race
can be continued between the two
services-anti-a i-aireraft and aviation
until the maximum possibilities of
each are found. But as far as experts
of the two departments can foresee
the final heat Of the race will end
with the ground gun and the aero
plane each in about the same valua-
tion 1t now rates.
It was the expressed opinion OF
both Army and Navy ordnance ex-
perts, as stated after the three-inch
gun tests against the airplane-towed
targets, that little could be expected
from a battery Of two guns of the
1918 model and fed with wartime
shrapnel in that demonstratioR The
slow rate of fire was as unimpressive
as was the accuracy of fire. Some
thought the machines passed so
swiftly, with the targets flying at the
end of steel cables 1900 feet long,
that the fire-control devices of the
battery could not be kept up. 1t was
plain to the spectators that the ma
jority of the bursts were in the rear
of the target, and the failure of the
guns to correct that detection
strengthened the opinion that the fire
Evening star., 1925-03-15

" HE test of the value of thing
we say or do is in its capacity
to endure. However careless
i ly we may do the work We
have in hand, there is nat
ural feeling within each one of us
that we want it to last. From early
days on until the latest hour we are
building against the future. The
thing that gives to us a sense of Sc
curity is the knowledge that the
foundations upon which we build our
superstructure are well and securely
laid.
Recently 1 was watching the
masons building the great National
Cathedral in Washington. and as L
saw them placing one stone upon an
other two queries came to mind. The
first was, "Will the foundations
carry the weight as the building rises
to its great height?" The second
was, IF the foundations are secure,
how long will such a building last"
The first question was really the more
important, for without security in
the foundations it would be easy to
determine the strength and perma
nenCe of the superstructure. If we
would build high, we must build deep.
] recall that Westminster Abbey, the
shrine of Great Britain, has stood
through some 500 years, and its walls
seem to indicate that they will stand
indefinitely.
X x !: X
When we signally fail in life we
find almost inevitably that it is the
result of defective construction.
There was Carelessness or indifference
somewhere. We put too great a
weight upon our foundations and
they were not able to stand the
strain. Many a business fails because
of too great expansion, based upon
mlscalCulation or wrong conception
of what constitutes efficiency. Many
a. man comes to a place of honor and
large responsibility, only to discover
his weakness and incapacity- He
could fill with reasonable satisfaction
a smaller place. He is embarrassed
and incapable in the larger one.
Sooner or later every mans work
shall be made manifest, of what sort
it is" Under happy or fortuitous cir
cumstances, supported by the genius
of others, he may, as the world says,
get by" for a time, but ultimately he
experiences disillusionment and fail
ure. Lincoln had this in mind when
he said, You can fool all of the
Evening star., 1925-03-15
BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE.

President Coolidge's first inaugural
address is a model of sanity and
clarity: He knows exactly what he
desires to say, says it briefly, clearly,
forcefully and then quits. His theme
Is simple. He stands for just two
things-economy and peace. He has
no well thought out scheme for the
betterment of humanity outside of
these two means. Reduce taxes and
keep out of war is the Coolidge
panacea for all the Ills to which the
country is heir.
The Coolidge plan has one thing to
commend it. 1t is simple and work
able. If he cares to apply himself
faithfully to the job he can get it
done.
When 1t is done he will have no
utopia. The strong will keep on
depressing the weak; justice will be
IS remote as it ever has been
Evening star., 1925-03-15
The Permanent in Life.

Corinthians, Sf3: "EVery man S
tnorlc shall be made manifest, Of tchdt
sort ii is"
Evening star., 1925-03-15
German Republics Fate Hangs
= By Thin Thread, Says Expert

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Continued from First Paxe.)
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tissues. And this increased supply
of new, rich blood destroys J1e
germs taat cause the pain.
Swelling and stifnesspassawavs
the acairg stops. Get tits COM
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Evening star., 1925-03-08
MINUTE MESSAGES FOR MOTORISTS
"set n Good Example"

Set n Good
by of
Auton Association.)
looking
them.
wh imators
will
do
In wilt
the for it,
the
In
Every one who with
be over a excellent opportunity
is the oneo
Evening star., 1925-03-08

follows: Adequate traffic police
force, through boulevards, education
in schools, severe punishment of
reckless drivers, study of facts of
local traffic
For the decrease in accidents, Mr..
Graham says credit is due the 800
and more newspapers which are maxi
ing this issue. their special interest,
and are keeping records of traffic fa-
talities and their causes. Nor should
one forget. the splendid work of our
police departments. the State high
way officials. tho safety councils, the
automobile clubs, health departments
and other local and national bodies
which are working for better opera
tion os traffic"
Evening star., 1925-03-08

leaving the spark only three-quarters
advanced and by retarding it too
much and too suddenly when the mo-
tor knocked.
Mental Attitude Wrong.
Another mistake you made was in
operating the hand throttle. You
opened this fairly wide long before
the engine could comfortably consume
the amount of gas offered it. Then,
while you We're busy telling yourself
that the car would surely climb in
high, the lever gradually slid back
to a halfway position. When the
motors speed was such that IL could
digest all the gas you originally gave
it the throttle had closed somewhat,
and the necessary amount Of gas
wasn't available. You thought the
motor was failing because your men,
tai attitude wasn't right, whereas it
lost speed because you were not at
tending to the job of giving it all the
gas IL needed.
when you found it was slowing
down you directed all your attention
to choking it with gas, not for fear
the car wouldn't do as you wanted 1t
to! but because you didn't know that
plying the brakes. You should have
paid more attention to steering away
from the holes in the road and you
should have aimed to keep the car on
the crown of the roadway. Bouncing
rear wheels are a source of power
loss. And when you keep the car too
far to the side of the road you in
crease the grade when YOU later try
to bring it back to the crown.
no hnt nf
ply your psychology sensibly to the
job Of hill climbing. Yau merely
tried to be optimistic, whereas, if you
would try to know more about han
ding the car skillfully on a hill, your
confidence in the motor would be
natural, not artificial"
Smith was waving his handk erchief
when / concluded. He is just wise
enough to know that admitting de-
feat often means learning some point
that will help one win out in the
long run.
Next Week-The Daily Dozen.
(lnpvri~bt
Evening star., 1925-03-08
TEN BIC CITIES CUT
MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
First Definite Results of Pre-
vention Drive Are Shown
in Safer Streets.

Traffic accidents in January, 1925,
the 10 largest cities in the United
States were 90 per cent lower than
the total for the corresponding Pc
riod a year ago, indicating the first
definite results of the agitation for
safer streets and highways fnaugu-
rated here with the national safety
Hoover.
THAT z of our 10 largest cities
have registered marked reductions
in their traffic toll records is the
most encouraging news in highway
history" said George NJ. Graham.
chairman of the safety committee of
the National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce. For the first time in the
history of the safety movement traf-
fic accidents are being lowered. Here
is proof that constant effort toward
safety eventually gets results.
Signs of Hope Noted.
There are many signs Of hope in
the totals for the complete year 1924.
Fatalities were held to a 5h per
cent increase over. 1923, compared
with the 171s per cent growth In We
hicle registrations. There might be
small comfort in this alone, but for
the fact that many cities showed an
actual numerical decrease for the
entire year. Twenty-nine out OF the
sixty-eight cities having more than
10000 population achieved reduc-
tions in 1924
Fatalities in Washington last year
numbered 80, as compared with 81
for 1928. The total fatalities in 1924
for the Nation were 1885, compared
with 16,452 in 1923.
This terrible toll is a call for con-
tinued action" Mr.. Graham said. 1T
gives no room for relaxing or con.
graduation. But the start of 1926.
and many other factors in the past
year, give a note of courage and
hope. While the total of traffic ca
tastrophes remains a cause for unre-
mitting effort, IL Is important to note
that relative to the problem the
situation is coming under better con-
troll every year"
Smaller Towns Tagging.
An analysis of the occurrence of ac-
cidents indicates that the big cities
are handling their traffic problem
more effectively than the smaller
communities. The rate of increase In
traffic accidents in cities OF more
than 100,0 900 population was 3 per
cent. while the rate in cities under
$4,000 was IS per cent.
Mr.. Graham cites the chief angles
of approach to the traffic problem as
Evening star., 1925-03-08

An excessively soft tire not only
wastes gas because it occasions a
drag on the engine, but because 1t
actually decreases the circumference
of the wheel, tire included. The true
diameter of the tire is lessened
through being f1atter, and this natur-
ally lessons the circumference. The
wheel and tire must revolve more
times per mile.
Evening star., 1925-03-08
WARNS OF "KNOCKING."
Folly to Hammer Parts Of Auto
That Fail.

Realizing that it is folly to hammer
parts of an automobile that refuses to
budge, there is no reason to be puz-
Zled If you do not seem to be making
headway by pulling or pushing by
hand. Try using a lever. Get a stout
stick about three feet long and place
1t in such a position that by pushing
or pulling on its end you can exert a
powerful force at the desired point.
This force. being gradual and cumu-
latfve, cannot present any of the dan
gers incident to pounding with a
hammer.