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Evening star., 1925-03-01

do the best work There are thouz
sands of quiet. unadvertised Christian
pastors today who are doing more
work outside their pulpits than some
of the rest of us do in them. but that
doesn't get on the front pages. We
can't compel people to be religious,
though a man might as we'll sit on a
fence out in the country and try to
whistle Latin and Greek as to acquire
religion without exposing himself to it.
Q. Are we in a moral slump?
A. If you believe what the papers
tell you. Personally, I believe that
the golden rule was never in wider
practice in all our history and that the
church, despite criticism, is quietly and
steadily leading the moral life of this
country.
The great national pastime today is
church batting. When crime and the
atricals and internationalism and all
the bizarre events which fame across
that fiimsy pulp we call the press
run low. you turn on us. Criticism
is always easier than constructive
help. and you take the line of least
resistance. What right have you pen
and-ink Napoleons to talk about re-
ligion? You care nothing for morals
only for good copy.
Labor Too Busy for God.
Q. Why have workingmen deserted
the church?
A. Because they are too busy
thinking about the wages they can
squeeze out of the other fellow. Labor
has cot to get over thinking solely of
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Scientists Now Think Garden of Eden
Probably Was Located in South Africa

rock which had been blasted out of
a cliff l examined pieces of the rock,
and found that the cast of a brain in
one piece exactly fitted a cast in an
other piece in which fossil bones and
part of a jaw were visible.
After cleaning the rock, the out
line of a. face and skeleton appeared.
Then I carefully Clipped the rock
until the complete skull was found.
1t took month to clear the fossilized
bone from the rock, but the result has
provided a more complete skull than
anything ever found in this class of
remains"
There is now general desire
among South African scientists to
keep the Taungs skull in that coun-
try. TOO many of our treasures have
been sent to the British Museum"
said Prof. Dart. This particular
treasure ought to be retained, as it
would increase South Africa's status
in the scientific world.
"One thing this discovery should
emphasize is the need for endowing
research work in South Africa" Prof.
Dart added.
He is an Australian, and has been
in South Africa only few months
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Is Religion Losing Out to Jazz?

yet, and until it does. I say. why
cut down Brooklyn Bridge If it's the
only one we've got?"
Labor is always looking for short
cuts. But whenever we take a short
cut we get into trouble. Our chief
fanlt is that we're always in hurry.
And Gods not. That's the diff"
What Would Christ Do.
@. Would we listen to Christ If He
should appear today?
A. Would Christ, If He appeared
today, preach what He did 1000 years
ago? Times have changed. We live
in an age of factories and railroads
and crowded cities. Christ travelled
from Palestine to Egypt many nights
on donkey. We make 1t overnight
on a sleeper. We cannot predict what
He would say today any more than
can go to Chicago and announce:
This is what Mr.. Pearson would say,
were he here tonight" / prefer to let
Mr.. Pearson and Christ speak for
themselves.
These 1000 years since Christ have
built the foundation upon which re-
ligion rests today, and l should not
discard those years of religious ex-
per'ence and return to the original
gospel.
Religion Changed. Not Killed.
O. Has DUR present industrial age
| killed religion?
A. 1t has changed religion. Bacl
| in the days when we lived wholly BY
| agriculture. man battled against thu
| forces of nature-climate, crops, tn,
| forest-and thus man conceived of tn.
| Deity as residing in the stars or ii
| certain animals or in images. Since
| then we have grown. We can nov
| overcome most of the forces of nature
and the battle is with ourselves. Ou
of mans struggle with himself
emerges a finer, stronger, more mora
| soul.
| Religion today is not confined Il
| the worship of the Deity, but to thu
clean and upright in character anc
human relations.
Q. Do you believe that prohibition
is undermining our regard for law?
| A. / do not believe in compulston
but some of it is necessary. Prohibi
| ton is like censorship. 1t is mora
crutch for weak minds. Force neveI
| won anything. We all agree to tina
| in theory, but when. it comes dowl
to brass tacks, we don't always prac
tice It,
| have to stand for prohibition
| though 1 wish it were not necessary
| because / believe prohibition to b
better than the old system. The ol'
saloons. which the liquor men refuses
! to abolish or improve. were the caus
| of prohibition. The liquor mel
brought prohibition upon themselves
and the liquor men of yesterday ar
| she bootleggers of today
| Copyright. 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-01

1t was approved by the Senate on
roll call on amendment to postal sal
ary bill offered by Senator Walsh
(Massachusetts) in January, 1925, by
a vote of u to 3. 1t was approved by
Borah Senate committee on campaign
expenditures. AS part of the confer
ence report on the postal salary bill
1T was approved almost unanimously
by both House and Senate
The corrupt practices legislation is
concerned with two principal PROPOSE
tions:
First, it regulates the election of
Representatives, Senators, delegates
and resident commissioners by pre-
scribing that they shall not expend
more than the amount permitted by
the laws Of their respective States; or,
If such States do not fix by laws the
amount, candidate for Senator may
spend from $4,000 to $4,000, and a
Congressman, Delegate and resident
commissioner may spend $4,000 to
So 900, depending upon the votes cast at
the last general election, as the act pro-
vides that a candidate may spend an
| amount equal to the amount obtained by
multiplying cents by the total number
| of votes cast at the last general cleo
ton for all candidates for the Office
which the candidate seeks.
Other Expenses Allowed.
In addition thereto. unless there is
! State restriction, the candidate NAV
pay for his necessary travelling ex-
penses, postage, writing, etc, as pro-
vided in the present law, excepting
that the cost for the use of billboards
and newspapers is included in the
limitation.
A candidate must file, not less than
| 10 nor more than 10 DAYS before. and
also not more than 80 days after. the
date on which the election Is held. a
| complete statement of receipts and
expenditures. The act does not seek
| to regulate nominatio of candidates
at primaries or conventions
The second principals proposition is
| publicity OF receipts and expenditures
of political committees. A political
committee" is defined to include "any
| committee, association or organiza-
| tion which accepts contributions or
makes expenditures for the purpose
| of influencing or attempting to infiu-
ence the election of candidates or
| presidential and vice presidential
elections Q) in two or more States,
| or (2) whether or not in more than
| one State If such committee, associa-
| tion or organization (other than a
| tee of a political party) is a branch
or subsidiary Of national commit
| tee, association or organization"
Reports Required.
| All political committees are re-
| qufred to make four reports every
year-that is. between the 1st and
10th of March, June and September
| in each year, and also on the first
| day of January, the latter covering
the preceding year, and two addi-
| tional reports every year a general
| election is held at which candidates
are elected in two or more States
namely, between the 10th and 18th
and also on the fifth day, covering all
| contributions made and all expendf-
lures made for any purpose .whatso-
ever.
/ The act thus requires full publicity
as to all money raised and expended
| in the election or President, Vice
President. Senator'S and Represents
tiveA
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Scientists in South Africa are uani-
nous in declaring that the now IA
nous Taungs (Bechuanaland) skull,
one of the missing links in the ape
to-man chain, definitely proves that
South Africa, and not Mesopotamia,
was the real cradle of mankind
The question now on everybody S
lips is, Was the Garden of Eden in
Africa?
Prof. Raymond Dart Of the Wit
watersrand University, who made the
discovery, said in an interview:
Apes were only able to exist in
the seclusion of the tropical forest.
But this anthropoid or man whose
skull we have found was sufficiently
intelligent to liveNoutside the jungle.
1t represents a more intelligent type
than any modern ape, and probably
lived on small shrubs, fruits and
roots.
1T could also use missiles as
weapons for offense or defense, be-
cause 1t was more erect than the
modern ape and better able to rely on
its feet for walking and on its hands
for handling things
The skull was found in a slab Of
Evening star., 1925-03-01
MOVE FOR GREAT MUSIC
CENTER HERE IS GROWING
of National Conservatory
in Capital Winning Support in Congress.
Proposals. Economically Sound.

leaving jazz out of consid GRAFTON,
have been composed largely of songs
or instrumental music in which
pronounced melody has stood out, aid
ing the non musical in finding their
way along unaccustomed paths. A
generous sprtnkling of the classics
has failed to bear out the fears of
boresomeness that their very names
aroused before the days of radio.
Though they haven't realized 1t, grad
ually thousands who never cared for
music before are being educated into
liking compositions Of a high char
acter.
Then, too, the radio vocalist, for
example, uses English in singing and
his thousands of listeners can fol-
low the import of the song. rather
than to sit back and try to guess
what 1t is all about"
The success of the radio has lent
the weight of practical experience to
the arguments of those who believe
that America is ready for an Ameri-
can school of music. The hackers of
the Fletcher bill are firm in their con-
viction that a success even beyond
their hopes will be realized If a great
conservatory is established here, which
will instruct in all branches of music
from performance to composition.
Their plan is to have a general
Evening star., 1925-03-01
BY DREW PEARSON.

w HEN interviewed, DIR. Cad
N man was in the study of
" " his Central Congregational
Church, at Brooklyn, ex-
tremely busy smoking a
large cigar, putting on his ministerial
| robes and presenting large stack of
books to his deacons with pointed in
structions as to how carefully they
were to be read. He did all of these
things very WELL except the cigar. 1t
went out
DIR. Cadman had Just received word
of his election by a referendum of
10000 ministers to a place among
Americas % greatest living preachers,
but he didn't seem much concerned
about 1t. He Is also president of the
Federal Council of Churches.
A few minutes before he was ready
to go into his pulpit, DR.. Cadman fin-
ished with his deacons, his cigar and
his gown. and sat down TO be inter-
viewed. He didn't bat an eyelash at
the volley of questions, but fired back
his answers in a deep voice and with
an English accent.
He is a product of the English coal
gathered in the cloistered quiet of a
theological seminary. He began life
as boy of 10 in an English coal mine
The foundations of his education were
laid in the intervals of grinding toll
as miner over period of 10 years.
DIR. Cadman Answers.
Q. Has the church Jagged in moral
leadership?
A. The church body can move no
faster than its members. When you
herd sheep, the pace is set not by the
leaders, but by the stragglers. So 1t
is with us. We have to wait for the
lame. the halt and the blind. But
despite the heterogeneous and con-
glomerate mass which makes up
Professionalism we are doing things to-
day that we should never have thought
Of doing yesterday. Take the Fedora
ton of Protestant Churches, of which
l am president. Some pastors L know
would have tainted at the suggestion
of it % years ago.
Q. Why don't more people go to
church?
A. The preachers who draw the
crowds are not always tie. men who
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Y WILLIAM ENGLISH wALLING

BY WILLIAM ENGLISH "ALLIN 0.
HE peasants of Russia are the
people of Russia There are
120.000,000 of them and they
will decide the fate of the
! country.
The peasants have never accepted
Soviet rule, except under compulsion.
They have revolted against it in thou
sands of cases, they have fought
against it, and when they could they
have voted against it. They have been
executed, imprisoned and exiled in
enormous numbers. They have re-
fused to pay taxes or to plant grain
for the Soviets to expropffate-thus
striking not only at the food supply
of the Soviet enemy, but at the eco
nomic foundation of the whole Soviet
system.
Gravity of Peasant Menace.
In the comparatively good crop
years, 1923 and 1924, the Soviets con-
scfously made the export of grain
from this starving and agriculturally
backward country the basis of their
economic policy. This monstrous
policy of maintaining the dictator
ship of an international sect at the
cost of millions OF Russian lives has
brought peasant discomfort to q new
pitch and the Bolshevists openly rec
ognize 1t. Since the famous new
economic policy" of 1921, graciously
allowing-as a concession to the
peasants strictly limited amount
of petty private trading, they have
publicly and fully admitted the
gravity of the peasant menace. Their
explicit statements show they have
tried to- meet it without giving the
peasant any voice in the government
and without leaving him a larger
part of the products of his labor.
These concessions have not made
much of a hit with the peasants.
Last December. In the first stage OF
the Soviet national election" the peas
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Is the Russian Peasant Waking?

ants elected an anti-communist majority
so Overwhelmingly that the Soviet die
tatorS took the extraordinary step or
postponing the national Congress from
January to April, and President Kalinin
explained that new elections must be
held everywhere where elections turned
out badly and gave undesirable results" +"
Censorship CoIored News.
BY January the Soviets were beaten
also in the villages, and decided on an
other strategic retreat" They decided
benignly to allow the peasants to fill the
petty village offices they had failed to
occupy with Communists. But so COM
plete is the control of the Moscow censor
over all American news bearing a Rus
sian date line that they were able to
publish many columns describing this
grudging compliment to the efficacy
(within narrow limits) of the peasants
passive resistance as a general extension
Of suffrage.
This propaganda went on for 80 days
until Zinovieff himself one Of the Soviet
triufnvirate, showed up its falsity, and
brought 1t to a sudden conclusion by de-
claring that to construe the So-called
electoral reform as meaning democracy
for the peasants was ridiculous, that "as
long as the bolshevist party. Leniniem
and the real dictatorship of the pro-
letariat exist the party will stand above
the government"
The peasants are winning-slowly and
at the price of horrible suffering-while
Russia continues to degenerate and the
world continues to suffer from Moscow s
underground warfare against all other
governments. The peasants are winning,
and they could not fail to win. But it
may be a long and tough struggle. Let
US be on guard as to what Moscow says
about it. If we want to understand what
is going on In Russia-and great events
seem to be brewing, especially in the
agricultural sections-we must learn to
see through the Moscow censorship.
Copyright, 1921
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Editors Note: This is the third
article in a series on the question
rs Religion Losing Out to jazz"
Mr.. Pearson has put this question
to four of Americas leading
churchmen, who have consented to
take the witness stand and submit
to being grilled upon the RESPONSE
bility and position of the church
in the so-called moral slump.
Today he presents the answers of
DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, said to be
the most eloquent divine in this
country. AS head of the Federal
Council of Churches he is qualified
to speak for them.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
AUGHED at somewhat, treated
mainly with indifference, the
movement to establish in the
Dfctr;ct of Cniun1hio , Oroaf


movement to establish in the
L. District of Columbia great
national conservatory of music
is gaining impetus and even now
what may prove to be the first steps
in this effort to make America in
dependent of Europe in music have
been taken.
The movement is no idle. visionary
dream. 1t has back of it the indorse-
ment of considerably more than TO-
coo, 900 voters. A bill in the Senate,
Fletcher of Florida, while tagging
somewhat, has been delayed largely,
according to Senator Fletcher, be-
cause conflicting ideas on just what
form the proposed conservatory gov
erning board should take.
Throughout Congress Senator
Fletcher has found a considerable
amount of interest in the proposal
and although nothing can be accom-
plished in the present session, a con-
certed drive will be made for action
when the new Congress convenes.
Spend $15,OOO,OOO Annually.
Back of the movement lies not only
national pride, but great economic
reasons why America should train its
musicians at home. 1t is estimated
annually go to Europe for training.
Their expenses amount to some $1,000
a year each, making total of $751;
900, 900, roughly, which is taken out
of the country for purposes that
nigh as we'll be accomplished here.
other huge sums. are lost to Amer
lea from enormous salaries paid to
foreign artists who are cloaked with
q robe of superexcellence in the popu-
lar mind because of the almost un-
challenged belief that nothing Amer
lea can produce musically can COM
pete with that from abroad. This Is
largely responsible for the use OF
foreign names by American singers
for William Roberts, tenor, has no
lure to a public stepped in the belief
that he could not possibly compare
with "Guilliame Roberto, the great
Italian tenor"
Trip to Europe Turns Trick.
A typical illustration of this atti-
tude upon the part of the American
public is found in the case of a well
known Washington composer. Grad
uated in music from Oberlin, after
some later training, he advertised for
a position. His responses were few
and unattractive and he decided to
go over to Europe to Wolf and
Draesecke and take up advanced
work in composition. Returning, he
again advertised for a position as in
structor in music and cited his studies
abroad. He received in response a
great number of fine offers, although
he admitted later, so far as fnstruc-
tion work was concerned he was little
better off for his years abroad.
The value Of music, both from a
point of view Of pleasure and amuse-
ment and the standpoint of physical
we'll being, are too well known to be
in need of further amplification
There is only the need of a thorough
understanding of the lack of proper
support of music by the general pub
lie and the necessity of awak ening a
more widespread appreciation OF
music.
Radio programs have gone a long
ways toward developing a. love OF
music among people who formerly
could not have been dragged to Z
concert. Most of these programs
Evening star., 1925-03-01
CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT
REVISION FINALLY WON
Change Comes as Amendment to Postal
Pay Bill After Four-Year Fight.
Now Up to President

ENERAL revision of the va
rious laws relating to cor
Y rupt practices in Federal
elections is provided for
after four years of persist
ent effort by an amendment to the
postal pay bill.
This legislation was made neces-
sary by (a) the amendment providing
for the direct election of Senators,
Obj the decision Of the Supreme Court
of the United Statse in the Newberry
case, holding that the law seeking to
regulate primary election of Senator'S
was unconstitutional, and (c) the en-
franchisement of women, doubling
the vote and increasing the cost of
campaigning.
Walsh Cal BILE Bill.
The amendment under Title III of
the postal salary bill is essentially
the Walsh Cable bill. Representative
John l. Gable of Ohio began working
on this problem Immediately the de-
cision in the Newberry case was made
known. He introduced the bill in the
Sixty-seventh Congress and later in
the Sixty-eighth Congress. 1t was
reported out favorably by the COM
mittee on elections of President, Vice
President and Representatives in Con-
gress, of which Mr.. Cable is a MEM
Der. 1t was approved by the President
in his veto message of June z, 1924.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
THIS is THE ACE OF THE GOLDEN RULE"

DR. Russell H. Conwell says
morals are in a worse state
today than at any time in his
long life.
Cardinal Hayes says wom-
en- are yielding ground in the
onslaughts of irreligion.
A. c. Bedford, president
Standard Oil Co., says the
churches are responsible for
the crime waves.
DIR. S. Parkes Cadman
says:
There is. no moral slump;
People are better today
than ever before;
The Golden Rule was never
more widely practiced;
Laboring men are too busy
trying to squeeze more out
of their employers to think
about God.
Evening star., 1925-03-01
Believe Recovery sure.

BY and large, then, one can see
that British public opinion of the
informed and of the official sort ac-
cepts the recovery of Germany and
of Russia to something like their
pre-war stature as only a question
lContinued on Third Page
Evening star., 1925-03-01

w Y HEN interviewed. DR.. Cad
man was in the study of
wv his Central Congregational
Church. at Brooklyn, ex-
Evening star., 1925-03-01

Continued on Third Page.)
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-02
THE STORY OF
JOSEPH CITY
By M. J. CLOSSEY
In The Earth

The present day agricultural
achievements in the territory sur
rounding Joseph City, Arizona, are
better appreciated when one under
stands something of the history
and frontier life of the sturdy pion-
GERS who immigrated there from
southern Utah, in the spring Of
1876, for the purpose of establish
ing a Mormon settlement on the
banks of the Little Colorado River
in Navajo county, Arizona.
The original name of this COM
munity was Allen, changed two
years later to st. Joseph and still
later to Joseph City.
First, for protection against at
tacks from Navajo Indians, a rock
defense fort, twelve rods square
and ten feet high, with bastions at
each corner, was built. Immedi-
ately after a permanent camp was
established. Happily there was no
molestation and in time the fort
was abandoned. In order that these
hardy pioneers might cultivate
needed crops the Little Colorado
was harnessed to furnish irrigation.
A plan of the first dam hastily
was drawn and accepted at com
meeting. Location deter
mined upon and work started at a
point five miles up the river direct
The Winslow mail., 1925-10-02

away. Flour got very scarce, $100
was paid for single sack. Those
that could not purchase it substi-
tuted wheat ground in a coffee mill.
AS soon as possible a small -four
mill was imported and established
on the Little Colorado river amid
great rejoicing.
An insufficient number of milk
COWS had been included in the orig
inal caravan, however, a Mexican
family living in the vicinity of Hol-
brook, eleven miles east of Joseph
City, made a business of catching
wild range cows, tanning and SELL
ing them to those of the Mormon
ranchers who could afford to pur-
chase. Fortunately the price was
low because the source of supply
was unlimited.
The old Atlantic and Pacific rail
way, now Santa Fe Main line, was
built through Navajo county in 1880.
A small station was established at
Joseph City. An outstanding fea-