Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
The Story the Week Has Told

THE result of the vote is generally
regarded with satisfaction by we'll
wishers of the German republic out
side of Germany. TWo-fifths of the
electorate have clearly demonstrated
detestation of monarchy, and there
must be enough other millions thereof
who are no less anti-monarchical, but
who don't like the notion of out and
out contiscation, even in the case of
the princes, to make a safe Majority
of German voters opposed to monar-
chical restoration.
The defeat Of the confiscative pro-
posal does not mean that the princess
will keep all the vast properties
claimed by them. A compromise meas
ure is now being holly debated in the
ReichstaE. 1t seems probable that they
will in the end be allowed to keep
only a modest proportion of those
properties.
1slam.-A curious story comes to us
from Mecca. The Egyptian holy
carpet was being carried through the
town. escorted by body of Egyptian
troops. the while an Egyptian band
in the procession discoursed music
Now music is anatheua to the
Wahabis. and a mob of those dourest
fundamentalists of Islam attacked the
procession. Thereupon the Egyptian
troops opened fire, killing 25 of those
children of the desert.
The disturbance was only ended by
the arrival on the scene of 1bn Saud
himself-Ibn Saud, Sultan of Neid.
head of the Wahabis, newly self
crowned King of Hejaz and self-ap-
pointed protector of the holy places
and of the Hal. or Pilgrimage. Ibn
Saud interviewed to save the Egyp-
tianS. though they had violated his
hospitality. having promised that the
band would be silent while on Hejazi
soil.
AS one suspected, in summoning
Pan-Islamic Congress at Mecca, Ibn
Saud had in view something even
more important than the announced
purpose of establishing a an-Islamic
machinery for administration of the
holy places and superintendent of
the Hal. or Pilgrimage. thereto. The
khilafat committee of India has sub
mitted to the congress a proposal
which contemplates a Khilafat League
of the 240,000.000 or so Moslems in the
world, a good deal like the League Of
Nations. Apparently it is proposed
the league council. a yearly assembly
corresponding to the league assembly
and a permanent secretariat. There
would, moreover, be q president, of
whose proposed prerogGt,ves and mode
OF appointment one awaits further in
formation. Presumably, Mecca would
be the capital of the league.
The above may we'll be far and
away the most important news item
of recent days.
: United States of America.-The
Haugen farm relief bill was defeated
in the Senate on Thursday, as to SO.
The coalition of certain Western Re-
publicans and certain Southern Demo.
Gratis cracked at the crisis, when sew
eral Southerners bolted it. Twenty
three Republicans, fifteen Democrats
and one Farmer-Labor member voted
for the bill; twenty-four Republicans
and twenty-one Democrats, against it.
The President has signed the Navy
air act. which authorizes expenditure
of $50 100000 over five years. The
act provides for appointment of an
Assistant Secretary of the Navy to
supervise naval aviation and for the
construction of 1000 planes of several
types and of two dirigibles of twice
the size of the unfortunate Shenan-
doah. 1t contemplates that 1000
serviceable planes shall always be on
hand for the Navy.
DR.. John Rowland, professor Of
pediatrics in the Johns Hopkins Medi.
cal School and perhaps the greatest
authority in the world on ricketts,"
is dead at So.
On Friday Robert C'Bobby') Jones
won the British open golf champion
ship against doughty field. He is
the first amateur to win that title
in 20 years, and the first American
amateur to win it, the only other
amateurs who ever won it being John
Ball and Harold Hilton. He was i'm.
mediately followed by Watrous,
Hagen and Won Elm {the last two
ted, all Americans. Then came the
veteran Abe Mitchell. first of the
British.
For the sixth successive year. Yale
beat Harvard in the annual race on
the Thames. winning by 21a lengths
in record upstream time.
The density of population Of Porto
Rico is said to be 400 per square
miles; too large for well-being.
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MiscellaneOus.-It is impossible to
evoke from the dispatches a clear pic.
tufe of developments in Poland dur
ing the past week. The Diet met on
Wednesday and, after violent debate
on the constitutional changes pro-
posed by Pilsudski and reference
thereof to a special committee, ad-
journed. Apparently the Socialists, of
old ardent supporters of Pilsudski,
have turned against him. There is
much. laAoS unxest -