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citation for talk and discussion. an in
ternational exchange of ideas. But
men cannot talk in an association
very long and develop new ideas
without soon wanting to carry some
of them into effect. Then would be
gin the slow addition of new rules
and grants of power to give effect to
ideas. How long would it be before
American ideas, especially those which
are becoming world ideas, would be-
gin to appear in the newly forming
covenant? How long would it be
before there would appear some
formal provision for arbitration?
And when it became evident to us
that arbitration proceeds like a mixed
commission of a court of equity apply
ing the principles of abstract justice
and a court of law applying statutory
law, how long would it be before our
common-sense would demand the
separation of these functions, as in
our own domestic procedure. and tine
creation of a court to apply accepted
international law?
Those who would be responsible
for this new association would at first
find themselves confronted by the
same difficulties that have confronted
the present one. One or more i'm
portant states, without which it could
not be successful would decline ad-
herence as they decline to adhere to
the present one. Sooner or later it's
full success will be found to depend
on the one thing TO give full success
to the present one-universal, loyal
adherence. And sooner or later that
is what will come to the one or the
other.
'Then and only then can there be
realization of the idea with which
H. l,.z1. ,AaYW- R.1.l L
maintenance of general peace with a
reduction of the excessive armaments
which weigh upon all nations of the
world >"
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The Authority of Christ.


St. Matthew, V.aI,s2 "It toas said
oy them of old time, but / say unto
you"
7 T was said of Jesus that "He
spake as never man spake." This
is conspicuously true when we
Il compare Him and His teachings
with the other great religious
teachers. DIR. Gordon refers to the
Originality of Jesus" his contention
being that He is utterly unique when
compared with the founders of the
worlds religious systems. His af-
tirmations concerning Himself are
conspicuous in the brief annal of His
life. In such sentences as the fol-
lowing he gives expression to His
supreme authority: Il am the way
the truth, and the life; again, "I am
the light of the world% no man com
eth unto the Father but by Me-; ;
again. II am the resurrection and the
life Repeatedly He speaks with
finality and absolute authority. as
when He says, "All power is given
unto Me in Heaven and in earth"
K x
From the law of Moses to the beat
itudes of Christ is an infinite reach.
DR.. Hyde, the distinguished former
president of Bowdoin, wrote an illu-
mInatlng book entitled, From Epi-
Gurus to Christ in which he makes
clear the vast difference between the
teachings of Jesus and those of the
great moralists and philosophers.
Some time ago Turkish scholar
submitted striking comparison be-
tween the teachings of Christianity
and those of Islam. He found the
teachings of Christ transcendently
superior to those of his own religious
leaders, but he contended that the
followers of Jesus had widely depart
ed from the precepts of their ac-
knoWledged Master. He said: Il
consider Mussulmans generally to be
far more religious than Christians,
inasmuch as they practice more con-
scieTtiously the teaching of their
proNhet. l feel that teaching. from
an ethical point of view, to be in
f1nitely inferior to, that of Christ
There is no teaching so thoroughly
altruistic in its character, and which,
If II could be literally applied. would,
] believe, exercise so direct and bene-
fetal an influence on the human race
as the teaching of Christ. There is
no religious teacher whose moral
standard, in regard to the duties of
men toward each other in this world
was so lofty"
criticism of those who acknowledge
the supremacy of Christ, and yet
fail to follow His precepts. Today
there is new demand for authorita-
tive teaching. Every system with
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ment voted authority for increase of
the note circulation of the Bank of
France from forty-one billion 10 forty
five billion francs, and for increase of
the limit of advances from the bank
to the government from twenty-five
to twenty-six billion francs.
So that bridge is crossed.
Germany.-In speech on the 18th
DR.. Marx, the candidate of the
Weimar coalition for President of Ger.
many, declared himself for annexa-
ton of Austria to the Reich and
seemed to demand that a security
compact between France and Ger
many should be conditioned on
Frances consent to such annexation,
whether by way of a clause in the
treaty or in some other form.
In publication of the names of the
candidates for President the name of
the Communist candidate is followed
by the designation "stevedore
BY enterting the political arena,
Marshal Hindenburg has exposed him
self to attacks on his military rec
ord, hitherto recognized as sacred. Off
goes another halo.
x x x x
Bulgaria.-The incredible and in
describable political mess in Bulgaria
the very Balkanization of Balkan
ism-grows messier day by day and
in every way.
AT the bottom of all is the eternal
Macedonian question, a question of
which very few persons in the world
have any real understanding, least of
all those most commemorative Mac
edonlanS, the Bulgarians, the Serbs
and the Greeks. Since (and more or
less evolving therefrom) the assassina-
ton last August of that picturesque
brlgand Todor AleXandroff there have
been about 40 political assassinations
In Bulgaria. But it is quite impossi-
BILE to distinguish the roles in that
connection being played separately or
In combination by sundry groups
Macedonian "NationaliStS" Tor auton-
omists), Macedonian "Federationists, -
Communists, Agrarians, etc. Through
the reek and the gloom one glimpses
from time to time the fine Muscovite
hand. There seems little doubt that
the Macedonian "Federalists" are in
! cahoot with Moscow, as the Com
munists, of course, are, and in all
probability the left wing of the
Agrarians. On March 13 defense of
the state act was promulgated, in
tended to end the terror and deal
effectively with the plots against the
state.
On April IA Gen. Gheorghieff, who
had figured prominently in the move
ment to overthrow Stamboulisky and
who was a military commissioner to
enforce the act just mentioned, was
| assassinated, and the same day the
royal automobile, containing King
Boris and several attendants and
companions, was attacked from am
bush by six men. The King behaved
with an admirable GOODNESS perhaps
equal to that of his suite, several of
whom were killed or wounded fighting.
He escaped unhurt. The precise OBJ
| ject proposed in the murder of the
king was this or that, nobody knows.
Some say his death was to be the
signal for general revolutionary
uprising.
On April 16 a funeral service for
| the murdered Gen. Gheorghieff was
being held i'll the Old Cathedral in
| Sofia, attended by the cabinet, mo st
of the members of Parliament and
| many other notabless when an in
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fernal machine exploded in the build
ing, pretty thoroughly wrecking 1t,
killing about $50 persons and seriously
inJuring a great many more. The
machine was not skillfully placed with
reference to the more important in
tended victims or the proportion of
notables killed might have been
greater. All of the ministers, how
ever, were wounded, one of them
mortally, and of the 1000 persons at
the service very few entirely escaped
injury.
Martial law has been proclaimed
for all Bulgaria. The government
points to- Moscow as the fount of
trouble.
The Arctic.-Capt. Roald Amundsen,
with his chief associate, the American
Lincoln Ellsworth and with his two
Italian-built metal planes of special
design, has arrived at Kings Bay
SpitZbergen, whence Ii is proposed
that the two planes (Amundsen pilot
ing one and Ellsworth the other) take
off for the North Pole, $50 miles dis
tant, about the end of May or the
beginning of June. After a. few
hours of observation at the pole the
planes are to return to Spitzbergen.
being fueled for somewhat over 500
miles. What further is proposed has
not been revealed. Presumably, e il
is found feasible, fuel and other sun.
plies will be carried to the pole in
several trips and deposited there;
, then, the pole as base, the "unex-
piored region" towards Alaska will
be explored Conceivably, fight to
Alaska will be attempted.
Amundsen and Ellsworth have gal
liant rivals in Grettir Algarsson. a
British Columbian, and Flight Lieut..
Humphries of Britain These Young
gentlemen are about to leave Liver
pool for the Artic on a little ship
called the Iceland. They will proceed
via Spitzbergen and establish u base
as far north as possible. whence,
taking off in little blimp. they will
try to beat Amundsen to it,"
Among their companions on the Ice
land are Comdr. Worsley, Shackle-
tons safling master on the Endurance
and the quest the same who won
immortal renown by his VOYAGE of
700 miles in an open boat through
Arctic seas from Elephant Island to
South Georgia TO get help for his COM
rades on Elephant Island; also Scout
Mari" another associate of Shackle.
tons. One could wish to be of that
Notice hereafter of the important
| arctic expedition to be headed by the
| redoubtable Donald b. Macmillan.
which will start out from Wiscasset.
Me-, about June Is.
+
Miscellancous.-Ther are still 5s,-
600 wounded soldiers in British hos.
pitals.
| Sir Arthur Salter, the league finan-
cial expert, visiting Greece recently
| declared himself amazed by the evil
dence of economic elasticity"
1t is reported that Sheik Said, leader
| of the Kurdish insurrectien, has been
| captured by Angora government
| forces. The sheik is a swell, claim
ing lineal descent from the great
| Saladin.
Hsuan Tung, the youthful ex-Em-
peror of China, now under Japanese
protection at Tientsin, says he would
! like to come to the United States
| to complete his education. He's a
| nice young man, and one hopes II may
! be arranged.
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have been blessed with more wealth
and we have invented more labor
saving devices than any other coun-
try in the world, and consequently
we have suddenly acquired so much
leisure we don't know what to do with
it.
Some of us spend it at the moving
picture shows. In the old days we
spent it on the woodpile and our
sewing. OF these three the woodpile
and the sewing machine did us more
good.
Some people spend all of their
leisure chasing a little white ball
around the golf course. Many of
them are merely trying to cool off
cool off from the sweiter of making
money. They want to forget about
it. They have spent their lives MAX
ing money. and now that they have it
they don't know what to do with it
or themselves
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which we have to do is being re-
examined. So far as our religious
systems are concerned, we are being
asked to give "a reason for the hope
that is in US" 1t is not enough that
one shall say that he is a member
of this or that Christian organiZa
tion. The world is demanding, in the
language Of a practical early Chris
tian. SHOW me thy faith by thy
works" The Master Himself on one
occasion asked the pertinent ques
tion. "Why call ye Me Lord, lord, and
do not the things which 1 say?"
We have made a fetish of systems;
we have unduly accentuated meth
DDS and organizations; we have given
altogether too much consideration to
precedents and traditions. Some one
suggestively says that we need less
study about Christ and more study of
Christ.
The four Gospels that contain the
body of His teaching are the briefest
chronicles of great life of which
we have knowledge. While there is
embodied in them the profoundest of
truths, the great principles that
Christ enunciated are in the main,
easily understood. 1t is entirely pos
sible for one to be an avowed, and
even devout, member of a Christian
organization and yet fail of being
disciple of Christ. To square our
philosophy of life as well as our daily
habits with what He clearly defined
as indispensable to Christian charac-
ter tranScends all else. Fortunately
for the world today there is a uni
versal tendency ia study more crit
icaIly the express teaching of the
Master There is probably at present
a wider and deeper study of His life
and words than the world has wit
messed for generations. 1t is always
most costly in the end to follow
cherished conceits than to hew to
the more difficult lines that proceed
from the one authoritative source
upon which our institutions are
builded. The more mems vision is
focused upon the person of Christ
and the more consistently His way of
life is pursued, the more closely do
we find ourselves irresiStibly drawn
together in an increasing spirit of
fellowship. Obviously, there is need
for Interpretation of the mind of
Jesus, but the cardinal truths He gave
to men are, in the main, easy to be
understood. If He prayed for the
unity of His church and if He gave
as the second great command. Thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
it is reasonably certain that the divi-
sionS in His church run counter to
His express will and purpose. We
are confronted today with the ques-
tion which PLATE asked. What then
shall I do with Jesus, which is called
ChriSt?'
Copyright, 1925
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This all comes down to the fact that
there never was a good man whose
relation to happiness depended upon
the amount of money he had. Yet
that seems our chief aim in life. And
when we get it we don't know what
to do with it, except to golf.
q. Is the college to blame for this
materialistic standard of culture?
A. In part. The college has gone
with the tide; or, rather, it is like the
man l once passed while driving an
empty car, and whom invited to ride
He declined, saying:
Il aint in no hurry; I amt going
nowhere
1t is true that college graduates
have gone to swell the ranks of bond
statesmen rather than the doctors and
lawyers. But that is partly to the
blame. Business houses are keen
enough to know where to pick men
with brains. and also because the pro-
fessions can absorb only a limited
number of men. This tendency is
changing.
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A Chewing Gum Civilization.

/ maintain that no great American
civilization will ever result until we
spend our leisure at something more
cultural than golf and the movies.
We have got to get away from our
materialistic goal in life. At present
we are a chewing-g gum civilization.
We might as we'll admit the fact-a
baseball, chewing gum, poker bluff
hit-and-run civilization.
So far as we have made something
of a mess of culture, we have been in
too much of a hurry. We have gutted
our forests, stripped our mines. Gre
ated an ugliness around our factories
that beggars description, and now we
find there is nothing in it.
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own interests and in the interest of
the President. They hold that the
President is entitled to anonymity, and
that any procedure that DESTROYS IT
would be prejudicial to public welfare.
They are certain the existing rule of
indirect quotation makes for better
news than if they were required to
depend on canned" or mimeograph-
ed. presidential utterances as actually
delivered.
1t is the position taken by this last
named group of correspondents that
Mr.. Coolidge has adopted as his own.
Things at the White House will go on
without change, as far as news is con-
cerned. Correspondents who attend
the press conferences will have, as
before, to do their best to interpret
the President faithfully, but quote
only "a White House spokesman" If
they fail in the attempt, it will be
their misfortune. They will be sub
ject, as heretofore, to official denials,
whenever these are necessary or
useful.
Copyright 1925)
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United States of America-John
Singer Sargent died in London on
April Is, at the age of 69. The son
of a Boston physician, he spent the
greater part of his life in England,
but he remained American in citi-
zenship and sympathies. He is in
deed one of our chief glories. Whist
Ter, Sargent and st. Gaudens are a
sufficient answer to the frequent
charge that we are nation of
Philistines, incapable of artist produc-
ton in the higher kinds.
Though distinguished in more than
one genre (as the decorations for the
ture ''gassed" of such poignant
power, bear witness) it is by his
portraits that Sargent has achieved
immortality, being alreadyrecognized
as an "old master" Until the ice
age the question will be hot1y debated
whether he was simply a realist of
uncanny or rather lat least in many
instances) satirist. Whatever the
truth of that matter, it required some
courage to sit for him, for he revealed
as by a kind of spiritual x-ray pro-
cess the essential characteristics of
his sitter. mo artist in our day."
say Mr.. Dooley, has succeeded so
well in shown up the maneness of
tn people he has mugged."
The Fords have established pri-
Vate air freight service between their
plants at Detroit and Chicago. Maiden
Dearborn, a metal plane, with a
freight capacity of 1000 pounds, in
augurated the service on April 10
by a round trip fight. Ere long the
Ford plants AT Detroit, Chicago, st.
Louis, st. Joseph, st. Paul and Iron
Mountain, Mich, will be linked to-
gether by extension of this service,
if it proves a success.
One hears that the Fords are
furiously experimenting in the hope
of evolving an "air Lizzie"
X X x
France.-On April II, President
Doumergue invited Paul Painleve,
president of the Chamber of Deputies.
to form government. Painleve's
political credo is about the same as
that of Herriot. In trying to form a
cabinet he essayed two things in
chief: One, to obtain guarantees from
the unified Socialists which would
consolidate his position in the Cham
ber and insure him against those pc
culiar embarrassments which made
Herriot's life hideous; the other to
achieve understandings which would
give him assurance of conversion of
the small majority hostile to Herriot
in the Senate into a small majority
friendly to himself.
The position of the unified Socialists
in the Chamber is peculiar. They
number only los in the Chamber total
of 5S4. They are not even the most
numerous element of the Left bloc,
being outnumbered by the Radical
Socialists, Herriot's party. But they
are numerous enough to make their
adhesion necessary to a Left govern
ment. The complexion of the Radical
Socialist party resembles that of the
Moderate wing of the British Labor
party; the unified Socialists, on the
other hand, are genuine, rip-snorting
Socialists, with a program which in
cludes naturalization OF industries.
etc. -
MhiIe engaging their
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Modern Literature by Quacks.

Q. What can the colleges do to
help create this new American cul-
ture?
a. Develop a college man with a
different standard than that of meas
uring his success by the size of his
income tax; develop a love of beauty
and art and architecture and music.
Much of our present so-called cuI-
tural education is based upon fairy
tales and legends and the antics of
unpleasant gods and goddesses. 1t
is about as genuine as Santa Claus.
Much of our modern literature is
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Latin Presidents-Elect Aid
Better Relationships With Z. S.

which the entrance of the United
States into the World War had on
Brazil. he said in part:
, Now that the mOnStrOuS Scourge
has disappeared from the face of the
civilized world, and that nations, inn
PEELED by accumulated energy in the
making up of lost time, are to resume
their old life of peace and toll, Brazil
will rejoice in continuing ito develop
more and more the relations of every
kind which bind her to the United
States, and to strive for this end will
be one of the fondest endeavors of my
government"
Ospina Voices Gratitude.
Gen. Ospina of Colombia, whose term
of Office will not expire until next
year, in expressing appreciation for
the reception he received in the United
States, said: Il am deeply grateful
for the attentions which have been
bestowed upon me in Washington. /
feel that these were for Colombia, and
not for me personally. 1 do not de-
serve them, but my country does de-
serve them"
Since the return of Gen. Ospina to
South America much has been done
to wipe out the feeling which had eX-
listed in Colombia ever since the be-
ginning of the present century over
the loss of Panama. The financial and
economic condition of Colombia has
been improved largely through the
assistance of a financial commission
from the United States, and, due to
the friendly efforts of this Govern
ment, diplomatic relations were re-
Gently established between Colombia
and Panama, they have negotiated a
boundary convention and are now
negotiating treaty of amity and
commerce.
The President elect of the Dominican
Republic, Gen. Vasquez, when he was
his appreciation of what the United
states had done to place his govern
ment and country in good economic
and financial position. Conditions in
that country under his administra-
ton have been continuing, according
to reports, to show improvement.
Gen. Gales, President elect of Mex
leo, met with very hearty reception
on the occasion of his journey through
the United States last November. He
expressed himself as having found
President Coolidge very friendly and
sympathetic, and it is believed that
the satisfactory progress which is be-
ing made in the settlement of all out
standing differences between the
United States and Mexico NAV be at
trlbuted, in part at least, to the meet
ing here of the two chief executives
ana TO the personal contact" thus
established.
Copyright. 1925.)
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Will We Follow Rome?

q. Do you see any signs of this
cultural change coming soon?
A. Yes. Among my friends / have
noticed tendency to think of the
next generation instead of milking the
cows dry, and of thinking of some
thing besides dividends payable Jan
uary !, on the dot.
Our country has the possibility of
becoming the greatest civilization in
the world or the most colossal blunder
We are rich in natural resources be-
yond compare, and we have developed
labor saving machinery until we are
replete with leisure. There remains
culture.
We have read of the great empires
of Rome and Charlemagne. Spain and
the other nations have had their day.
We see England in her prime, and
now may come our time. If history
gives us leadership, shall we hold it
for few paltry decades and follow
England in a brief strut across life's
stage with Russia, the Orient and
Africa in our wake?
Or shall we, by a new spiritual re-
vival, retain the moral and cultural
leadership of the world? The college
man can probably tip the balance
which will keep the pendulum from
swinging on its return course to
darkness and night
Next Sunday-Walter Dill Scott,
president of Northwestern University,
prophesies religious revival i'm the
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To Save Crusaders Tomb.

An appeal has been addressed by
Sir Ronald Storrs, governor of Jeru-
salem, to the governor of the Chan
mel Islands for funds to safeguard the
only remaining crusaders tomb in
Jerusalem The tomb is that of Philip
Daubeny, formerly governor of the
Chanel Islands. Daubeny went to the
holy land in 1922 and died there in
1896.