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Evening star., 1926-05-09
WOMEN OPPOSE JURY SERVICE,
UNDERHILL ASSERTS In HOUSE
Massachusetts Representative Says Bill Has Only
Slight Backing by Theorists, But 1t Gets
Listed on Calendar.

lating certain things that they do not
regulate in a similar fashion in the
North. That is why / ask whether
colored people sit on juries in the Dis
trict"
Yes, they do" volunteered Repre-
sentative Blanton of Texas, another
opponent of the bill I'VE had a man
testify before our committee that he
was adiudged insane and that three
of the jury were colored men and one
of them was asleep all of the time
during the hearings"
Opposed in Massachusetts.
"In Massachusetts this question has
been a controversial subject before
the Legislature for two or three
years" Mr.. Underhll continued. "One
of the woman members. of the Mas
sachusetts Legislature, Miss Sylvia
Donaldson. has taken the floor at
every session when the bill has come
up for action and has spoken against
1t In one of the finest speeches that
have ever listened to or read. She is
a woman who has had large expert
ence and she has been active in pub
lie work. She is the only woman in
Massachusetts who has served as
Speaker Of the House throughout the
whole session. Through her efforts
and arguments she has succeeded in
defeating this bill in Massachusetts,
and I wish that she stood now in my
place and could give to this body her
reasons for opposing such bill"
Mr.. Blanton then pointed out that
"the distinguished colleague of the
gentleman from Massachusetts, Mrs.
Rogers, is against this bill and voted
against it when it was under con-
sideration before"
Most Of the good women of Wash
ington are not in favor of this bill, g"
the Texan added, with the exception
of few theorists and few propa-
gandists. The rank and file of women
in Washington are not wanting any
jury service"
Evening star., 1926-05-09
Sentiment Behind FascismO Seen
As Forecast of Its Endurance

The second conclusion is less OBJ
vious. Most Americans. disgusted with
the apparent incapacity of parlia
mentary governments, like the French
and the pre-Fascisti Italian, still dis
turbed over the menace of bolshevism
and impressed by the solid achieve
ment of the Mussolini regime which
respects property and does allegiance
to all our own economic conceptions.
have given unreserved approval tn
Fascismo and have made of Mussolini.
after a fashion, something of ma
tional hero.
In Europe on the other hand. where
of necessity the Italian phenomenon is
more closely studied. the reaction is
less clear. Many countries perceive
with real envy how much Mussolini
has achieved in the way of national
reconstruction, in the abolition of de-
structive domestic anarchy. Two
doubts, however, remain in all minds.
In the first place, the violence of the
method is naturally disturbing. Every
capital in Europe today contains
Italian exiles. men of light and learn
ing, of liberal ideas. and their presence
and their experiences have value in
forming opinion.
But even this doubt is less impor-
tant than that which is comprehended
in the interrogation all Europe is max
ing: WHITTIER is Mussolini going??'
1t is perceived that he has galvanized
the Italian nation. that he has filed
masses with explosive nationalism.
that he has reused the spirit Of the
people to q sense of nationality and
race, and all Europe is not only puz-
zled but profoundly disturbed as TO
how Mussolini is now to find express
sion for the passion he has reused:
Can he escape ultimate international
conflict, can he continue to maintain
national patriotism at it's present fever
heat without finding some foreign field
in which to give it room to work. to
satisfy itself?
1t is to the discussion of this second
doubt that l shall devote my next
article, dwelling alike upon the Italian
aspect and upon the impressions
gathered I'm travelling all around the
periphery of Italy, in Britain. France,
Switzerland. Austria and Hungary.
where the Italian question is naturally
dominating all others, so far as
foreign affairs are concerned.
Copyright. 1885,
Evening star., 1926-05-09
BY BISHOP WILLIAM T. MANNING.

There is nothing wrong whatever in
a game of tennis, or golf, or base ball
on Sunday, provided that we do not
let this take the place of our religious
duties. John Keble. the author OF
"The Christian Year" one of the tru-
est saints of modern days, made it a
rule TO play cricket himself with his
choir boys on Sunday afternoons
after the service to show that he saw
nothing wrong in such recreation and
pleasure.
We need to get away from the Puri-
tan idea of Sunday and back to the
idea of it held by the church as a
whole since New Testament days. The
idea of the Christian Sunday is well
expressed in the words of the familiar
hymn,
day of rest and gladness.
day of JOY and light
A day of joy and light certainly does
not mean a day of needless restric.
tions and artifcially created gloom.
Worship must hold first place on
Sunday and, if wisely ordered land ii
the sermons are not too long), ought
to be one of our highest pleasures, but
wholesome games and recreationS may
have their right place also.
| think we need to speak out quite
clearly on TINS matter Tor the sake OF
our young people, so that their minds
ard conSciences may be relieved from
thinking they are doing wrong in en-
joying such rccreations, and that they
may know that the church is in sym
pathy with all that is good in human
life.
With regard to commercial liZed
forms of sport and amusement on Sun
day, the case is different; the objec.
ton to these is that they cause a
large number OF people to work on
Sunday instead of letting the day be,
as it should be. as far as possible, a
Evening star., 1926-05-09

the tribes inhabiting the 5000 islands
and speaking the 81 dialects which
they do, are a superior people: that
it is q shame to not give them inde-
pendence at once.
An example of this was a. ship
builder from Belfast, Ireland, who
spent q few days in Manila on a
round-the-world ship, and on his de-
parture gave Filipino daily news
paper n vehement interview holding
the United States up to scorn for
denying these people their liberty.
He and other casual visitors who
may have been similarly impressed did
not know that in the mountains across
Manila Bay, visible from the Manila
Hotel on a clear day, there dwell the
Negritos, the little dwarf black people,
with kinky hair and other evidence of
African origin, who run at the ap-
proach of man; who live in the savage
state they have followed since the
islands were first inhabited.
They are oblivious of the Moham-
medan Moros, a million of them inhab-
, iting the rich and undeveloped Island
of Mindanao, as large as the State of
Indiana, the deadly enemies of the
Filipinos; who within a half year
seized hated Filipino school teacher,
killed him after torture and then held
procession with his head on pole
at the front of it.
Barbarity Goes Even Deeper.
Or Of the pagan Bagobas, inhabiting
southern islands, who practice human
sacrifice. Not long ago q cry arose
among the BagObas for relief from a
drought. A human sacrifice was de-
manded. Their high priest selected a
crippled boy of 57-they always choose
defective-and put him to death.
And the rain came.
A dispute arose about the payment
to the parents of the boy and the
high priest was arrested. During the
trial he was asked to indicate by
counting out matches the times he
had practiced human sacrifice. He
picked out SO matches. He was sen.
fenced to 20 years, but on his promise
to abandon human sacrifice the sen
tence was remitted and he returned
I to his pagan tribe in the hills.
tCopyright. 1926. by the Kansas City start
Evening star., 1926-05-09
BY HENRY w. BUM.

tn HE following is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
i seven days ended May 8:
Great Rritain.-At midnight
April 30-May l all the coal miners
of Great Britain went on strike. AT
midnight May "a a sympathetic
general strike went into effect by
order of the General Council of the
Trades Union Congress. Actually
however, only 1,405.000 Gn addition
to the 100000 miners already on
strike) have been called out, as fol
lows: Four hundred and seventy
thousand railway men, 100000 build
ers, 100000 transport workers, $4,000
seamen, 10000 printers. 100000 iron
workers, $4,000 electricians.
The total, then, of those on strike
is 2.525. 900: but their walk-out in
volved the throwing out of work of
about an equal number of non-union
workers, who thereby became recip-
tents of doles, to the/ grief of the
treasury. 1t is rumored that the two
million or so union workers still at
work will soon be called out.
Negotiations between the cabinet
and the General Council of the
Trades Union Congress continued
until about midnight May 2-3. despite
that on the afternoon of the 1st the
threat of a general strike was MADE
public. The accounts of what hap
pened at these negotiations are con-
fused and contradictory, but it seems
to me a fair statement of the matter
that the threat of a general strike
was launched as bluff, that this
bluff was called and that the strike
iy,n tfnl r,1Ixy fv~nt hn iT1ln
necessity of "save face") followed, to
the CONSERVATION of the more con
servative labor leaders, such as Mac
Donald, Thomas and Henderson.
On May 3 Prime Minister Baldwin
issued the following statement: The
government believes that no solution
of the difficulties of the coal industry
which is both practicable and honor
able to all concerned can be reached
except by sincere acceptance of the
coal commissions report.
I'm the expression acceptance of
the report are included both reor-
ganization of the coal industry, which
should be put in hand Immediately,
and pending the result of the reor-
ganiZation being attained such in
terim adjustment of wages or hours
of work as will make it economically
possible to carry on the industry in
the meantime.
IF the miners or trades union com
mittee on their behalf were prepared
to say plainly that they accept this
proposal the government would be
ready TO resume negotiations and con
tinue the subsidy for Il fortnight.
But since the negotiations which
have taken place between the min
listers and members of the Trades
Union Congress it has come to the
knowledge of the government not
only that specific instructions have
been sent under the authority of the
executive of the trade unions repre-
sented at the conference convened by
the council of the Trades Union Con
gress asking their members in sew
eral of the most vital industries of
the country to carry out general
strike on Tuesday next, but that overt
acts have already taken place, in
Guiding gross interference with the
freedom of the press.
Evening star., 1926-05-09
BISHOP MANNING O. KS SPORTS
ON SUNDAY, BUT AFTER WORSHIP
Says Sabbath Should Be Day of Joy and Light and
Not One of Needless and Artifciay
Created Gloom.

day Of rest and freedom for all. We
ought not TO make other people work
on Sunday for our amusement.
AS to the question of sport on Sun
day morning, | will only repeat that it
is our duty on Sunday to give the first
and chief place to worship. If we
keep this principle in mind we shall
have no difficulty In Judging what it
is right for us to do. If we do not
give God the chief place on Sunday
we shall not be likely to give Him any
very real place at all. 1t is not in my
judgment a proper observance of Sun
day to put worship off in a corner and
give practically the whole day to rec.
reation and amusement On Sunday
worship should stand first and sport
should be secondary. Our attendance
at worship on Sunday morning stands
for the fact that we wish to give God
the central place in our lives and the
central place on Sunday which be-
longs to Him.
Would Grant Freedom.
With this principle recognized, we
can have great freedom for our sports
and amusements in their right place
and proportion. Holding fast to the
central principle, let us give our young
people all proper freedom on this day.
Let us make thelr worship as Deautl-
full and vital and helpful to them as it
ought to be. Let us make Sunday for
them. and for ourselves, a day TO
which we look forward eagerly, a day
of human happiness and gladness. a
day of rest and freedom from business
affairs. day on which we find our
keenest and highest pleasure in public
worship.
The reason | feel such special salts
faction in the Sports Bay in the Ca
thedral of st. John the Divine is that
1t will stand for the fact that religion
must be in touch with the whole of
life and with all that is human.
1t gives me great happiness that the
sportsmen of America have under
taken to erect this bay so that in the
greatest religious edifice in America
and one of the greatest in the world
there shall stand this noble and beau
tiful expression of the fact that the
church does not frown on sport, but
recognizes it's important place in life,
encourages it and rejoices in 1t.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-05-09

Continued from First PageT
which prevails. You have the sense
of a nation which is going through a
brief or an extended period of utter
national exhaustion and depression.
In Italy, by contrast, the impression
is of youth, of enthusiasm, of energy.
Admit as one must that there Is an in
finite amount of the theatrical, of the
absurd, of the ridiculous. All the flag
raising and parades and singing and
black shirts, all the students. girls and
bows, with their banners and their
carttail speeches. The very Roman
salute of the Fascist, the raising of
the left hand half way between the
horizontal and the perpendicular, these
and g. thousand and one other circum-
stances all suggest at once the comic
opera and the Central American
method.
Meaning i'm Enthusiasm.
Yet, underneath all this. one must
conclude that these people mean some
thing, that they mean it together.
that thousands and thousands of
them have a common idea, a common
aspiration. which they are expressing
in this rather childish and immature
fashion.
Paris, London, Berlin. Vienna, in
all of these cities the same WEAKNESS,
the same absence of enthusiasm, of
excitement, of political animation is
discoverable.
In Italy, on the other hand. there
is a totally different sense. Instead of
the shadows of the past, there seems
to be the rather dazzling sunshine of
brilliant future in all eyes. It Is an
extraordinary state. l cannot describe
it with any measure of accuracy. be-
cause it is far more an impression
than a set of clear circumstances. 1t
is mixture of youth, energy, fever,
bombast, enthusiasm.
There are. l think, two conclusions
that one must draw from the present
stage of Fascismo. 1t is patiently not
merely man. The notion that the
fall of Mussolini would end the dicta-
torship and that things would relapse
into the old order, the idea which is
prevalent in Europe, seems, TO me un-
founded. The truth is that already
Fascismo has destroyed too much Of
what preceded to permit relapse.
Evening star., 1926-05-09
Chinese COOlie Poses
As ''Morphine Injector

There are many ways of making a
living in China, but coolie brought
a new one to light at the Interna-
tional Mixed Court when he told the
foreign assessor that he was by pro-
fession a morphine injector He
brought one Of his patients, an
elderly Chinese, to court with him
to prove his assertion.
The patient testified that he had
received nine injections and when he
Dared his body the court discovered
that is was covered with punctures.
The professional injector was SEN
fenced to month in Jail and his pro-
fessional Instruments were confis.
Gated.
Evening star., 1926-05-09
Peasants MOOnshine
Cause of Dishonesty

Vodka and samogon, the peasants
moonshine, are the chief cause of en-
beZzlements, according to extensive
data which a Novosibirsk correspond
ent says cover all Siberia. Gambling,
chiefly lotto. comes next. and women
who like presents are third. The re-
port covers 1900 cases. State under
takings were the losers in 40 per cent
of the cases, co-operatives in 20 per
cent, trade unions in per cent and
other organizations in 13 per cent.
The death penalty, which is provided
for embezzlement, is frequently en-
forced. especially if government
employe is convicted. A new inter-
probation of the code provides that the
seriousness of the crime be in proper
ton to the organizations capital, a
small peculation from a small concern
evoking the extreme penalty. Com
munists are held more rigidly to ac-
count than are non-party members.
Evening star., 1926-05-09
Mormonism Reported
Dwindling in Norway

Before the World War Mormons sue
ceeded in gaining many adherentS in
Norway, chiefly among very young
women and elderly spinsters. Those
who did not go to Utah remained at
home in small congregations. AS a
result of a vigorous campaign
against Mormonism, the congrega-
tions dwindled to insignificance dur
ing the war Now only. seven such
congregations, numbering 500 mem
bers, are left. To recover the Mormon
losses, 100 missionaries from Utah are
coming by permission to start work
in Norway.
Evening star., 1926-05-09

"Such action involved challenge
| to the constitutional rights and
| freedom of the nation. The govern
ment, therefore, before it can continue
the negotiations must require from
the Trades Union Congress both a re-
pudiation of the actions referred to
that have already taken place and
an immediate unconditional withdraw
! al of the instructions for q general
strike"
Mr.. Thomas told the Commons in
a striking and, no doubt, sincere
speech that the aim of the general
strike was purely industrial, but the
governments reply was, in substance,
that, whatever the aim, the inevitable
effects of a general strike are political
and revolutionary, that success of
the general strike would desperately
jeopardiZe the constitution and demo
cratic government.
1 lack space for detail of the epi-
sode to date, the most important in
dustrial struggle since the dawn of
the industrial age. AS yet there has
been no symptom of weakening on
either side. There has been a certain
amount of violence, but no use of
firearms, and not one death by Vlo-
| lence. A report. however, just re-
ceived might seem to have sinister
significance; to wit, that the council
of the Trades Union Congress has re-
versed the humane policy announced
by it at the beginning of the strike,
namely that the unions should assist
in distribution of food and sanitary
supplies.
Effect was given to the emergency
powers act by royal proclamation and
very drastic regulations issued pursu-
ant thereto have been sanctioned by
Parliament. The emergency organi-
zation which Lord Hardinge, Viscount
Jellicoe and others have been develop
ing since 1920 against just such
crisis as the present one is rendering
yeomen service. There seems to be
pretty general feeling that however
the present general strike may have
been blundered into. the challenge Of
Il general strike was destined to be
made sooner or later. and that it We're
as well that the issue should be fought
now as later. II is probable that be-
fore the general strike was declared
majority sympathy was with the
miners. There seems no doubt that
now the government is ardently sup
ported by the vast majority of the
nation.
France.-On May the French
franc was quoted at 3.0912 on the
New York Stock Exchange and the
Belgian franc (which has declined
| rapidly Of late III sympathy with the
French france at 2.92l2, Continuance
Of the decline of the French franc is
attributed. no doubt in large part cor
rectly, to indirect effects from the
British strike.
The negotiations between represent
atives of France and Spain, on the
one part, and of Add el-krim on the
other have been broken off, and war
resumed.
NJ. Steeg, the French resident gen
eral in Morocco in succession to
| Marshal Lyauty. who has labored
very energetically for peace. is bit
terly disappointed man.
X x X X
Spain.-On April three Spanish
airplanes hoped off from Madrid
pointed for Manila. On April II the
Evening star., 1926-05-09
China's Child Workers
Organized Into Union

A unique labor union has been
formed in China by representatives of
the juvenile workers in Shanghai
mills. About 20 representatives We're
present and were addressed by an
old-time labor hand at one of the
Japanese-owned cotton mills. Reso-
buttons We're adopted calling the union
.nto existence and providing for the
collection of 20 cents a month from
each juvenile member. 1t was de-
cided to press for reduction of work
ing hours for minors from IL hours
to hours day, and to work for
increased pay and for schools which
the youngsters may attend after their
work day.
Evening star., 1926-05-09

ntdi EHipIlO I<Ot III MdfIld.
The culture of the Philippines CEN
ters in Manila, and it is most fire.
quently encountered at the Manila
Hotel. which, incidentally, is one of
the experiments in state ownership,
being a subsidiary of the state-oWned
railway system. There the visitor
from other parts of the world comes
in contact with the flower of Filipino
life. But it is not at the Manila Hotel
or in Manila that you find the real
Filipino, the pure Malay, who consti-
tutes more than 80 per cent of the
population of the archipelago. He is
sequestered in the little nipa hut far
from sight OF this man Judge d. r.
Williams, for 20 years a resident of
the Philippines, said in his book on
the islands problem:
THE voice of this silent multitude
poor, ignorant, helpless, credulous, eX-
plotted and enslaved throughout all
their history, subservient to those in
authority or whom they regard as SUI
periorS, and whose welfare and Secu-
rity were an unconSidered item until
American occupation-findS no express
sion in the native press or the politi-
cal forum. They have been, and in
larger measure still are, simply in
struments in the hands of the educated
and wealthy few
The politicos, recognizing the oppor-
tunity for independence propaganda,
see to it that visitors meet only worthy
representatives of their people. Usually
the stranger goes away with the i'm.
preston that the whole population al
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-14
RED CROSS WORKERS TO
COVER CITY in A DRIVE
THAT OPENS ON FRIDAY

The tenth apnual drive for enroii,
ment in the American Red Cross IS
to be held in Douglas, Friday ano
Saturday, it was announced Saturday
by d. c. ONeil, chairman of the
Douglas chapter of the organization.
More than 100000 adults and 81
200, 900 junior members, are now on
the rolls of the American Red Cross
end it is hoped that the coming MEM
bership drive which IS to be of ma
tional scope will add materially TO
the number enrolled.
"A perusal of the daily papers will
give an idea of the work being
carried on throughout the year by
the national organization. In any
time of disaster or tragedy the Rec:
Cross organization is one of the firsr
agencies to offer relief. Hundreds o.
thousands of dollars were spent by
the Red Cross in relief work in the
Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-14
Legion Members Nominate
Officers at Meeting Friday

J. A. Weiss was nominated for the
office of post commander of the Fred
l1ilburn post of the American legion
at a meeting held Friday evening
at the Moose nall for the purpose OF
ncminating officers for the coming
term.
Only one man was nominated roi
each of the post offices with the ex-
ception of the executive committee
comprising five members, for which
seven names We're put up for election.
The following legionaires We're
nominated for office: j. A. Weiss,
post commander; Charles Cunningham,
first vice president; Lieut.. w. ii
Mckee, second wee president; Myer
Stolaroff, finance officer; A. w. Col.
ton, chaplain; r. N Foster, sergean,
at arms; H. L. Humes, post historian;
executive committee, j. D. Cooper,
Lieut. A. T. Wilson. c. u. Hinton,
Walter Ross, Joe Cohen, Carol Stone
and Russell Mills
Election Of the officers will be
held at meeting of the legion,
December 10.