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Turkish Today Only Legend-There Was Time When Was
Truly Formdabe-Turey Is Now Republic Governing Spaey
Populated Territory of Poor Peasants"

government Of the day but I hail with
unfeigned satisfaction the courage dis
played by Mr.. Amery in his conduct
Of the Mosul discussions at Genera.
Had he faltered, the British Empire
would have become the mock and de-
rision Of all its foes and the despair
Of all its friends throughout the world.
The East would have believed the
fable that Britain is done" And II
would, at no distant date, cost US far
more TO reestablisb our lost prestige
in the Orient than it is likely to cost
us to maintain It in Mesopotamia. /
wish the Colonial secretary all luck in
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Work in Zoo No Sinecure

in the reptile house. The old head
keeper, Tyrrell, suffered snake bite
which nearly cost him his life. He
refused scientific injections, but kept
walking and drinking whiskey for
hours until the old-fashioned remedy
pulled him through.
The strangest zoo attack was made
by a giraffe over a ten-foot barrier.
He missed the keeper, but dented deep
ly a stout wooden posi-, and the mark
has today a special glass protection
and an inscription giving the facts.
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LONDON, Jan. 2-(By CABLE
The League of Nations has been
considering . problem Of absorbing
interest-whether a land once govern.
ed from Babylon and from Ninevah
and at that time one of the great
powers Of the world, rich, prosperous,
tbrongins with an industrious popula-
ZION, maintaining great armies and
danling state-ehould now be bluffed
back into the savagery in which it
had been plunged for centuries.
The league has made its decision
and the next-and possibly the last
word Is with the British Empire.
POWER VS.. BLUFF.
When does power degenerate into
bluff? AL human authority passes
inperceptibly from the one TO the
other and history depends upon the
date Of the discovery Of the change
BY those who are anxious and ready
10 take advantage of il.
THE TURKISH MYTH.
The Bolshevik revolution In Russia
was the result Of such a discovery.
Parliamentary government in Italy
was another instance. What will be
the next7 Wise old statesmen once
went 90 far as TO say that the whole
If our social order was based on
bluff.
But the most incomprehensible
bluff Of today is the legend Of Turk
ism military power. There was a time
when it was truly formidable; when
Turkish armies marched triumphantly
across half Europe and were only ar
rested at the gates of Vienna; when
Turkish fleets swept the Eastern
Mediterranean and when they con-
Quoted their piratical enterprises even
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yd George Is Convinced Turkey Is Bufng in Mosu Affair

Cbanak, when he put up with def
ances and insolences committed within
few yards Of his entertainments
without firing a rifle shot. They are
hopeful that the Tory government Of
today will run away from the menaces
OF Angora with the same CELEBRITY as
their predecessors bolted In 1923.
II the government vacillates, Irak,
once the famed nursery Of civilization,
viii inevitably be sucked back into the
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Bryans Memoirs Clear Up Puzzing Dmba Incident in Wa
How Wilson and Bryan Discussed Dry
Dinners Before the Commoner Took Office

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gram saying in substance that the
Lusitania note was mot meant in
earnest and was only sent as a sop to
public opinion"
CABLES CORRECTION.
/ Immediately sent for Ambassador
Dumba and told him Of the word l
had received from the ambassador in
Berlin. He expressed great surprise
that such a misconstruction could
have been placed upon his language
and assured me that he had used no
words that could by any reasonable
Interpretation convey any such
thought.
/ had him cable the German gov
eminent Immediately correcting any
such misconstruction. The reader can
see whether my words were objection
able and yet this is the one incident
of my administration that unscrupu-
lous enemies have employed when
they wanted to discredit my work.
OFTEN CORRECTED.
The first that / recall appeared in
the New York Times soon after my
resignation. 1 at once gave out an
interview correcting it. After that l
corrected it from time to time. the
most prominent occasion being at
Lake Mohonk at a meeting over
which ex-President Taft presided.
1t was a peace meeting at which a
delegate before my arrival made a
reference to the Dumba incident, mis-
representing it, along the lines de-
scribed above. ] made the correction
then that 1 make now and that /
have made innumerable times since.
] am glad to have an opportunity to
put the correction in the form Of a
permanent record.
A year or two later some newspa-
per correspondent in writing a book
on his experiences in Germany re-
ferred to this incident and gave the
usual hostile Interpretation. brought
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CHASTITY CHALLENGE.

ana child.
CHASTITY CHALLENGE.
There would be something Of enter
tainment in the spectacle Of this
vretched torso Of once potent mill
tary empire hurting defiance at all the
powers Of Europe, great and small,
were it not for the CHASTITY grimness
Of It's challenge. Danton said that
when the monarchs Of Europe threat
ened the French republic, the people
flung at their feet the head of the king.
Turkey, as a gage Of battle, filings at
the feet Of civilization murdered men,
mutilated children, outraged women.
And yet Liberals, nurtured in the
Gladstonian tradition, plead in wit
ing and speech that a friendly hand
should be extended to this incorrigible
monster and that now that he has kill
ed off all his Christians from the
Bosphorus to the Caspian, he should
be given Mosul as fresh hunting
ground.
Surely the fact that the head Of the
detested Coalition government was
true to the noblest tradition OF his
party in reference TO the brutalities Of
the Turk and his incapicity for gov
eminent is no reason why Liberals now
should throw over the whole Of these
traditions. Men who do so are mere
perTerts Of faction. All their judg-
ments are morbid and there is no
health in them.
NEW LEAGUE" PROPOSED
How amused America must be at
the Turkish proposal that there should
be another League Of Nations set up
as a rival to the GeneYan society of
nations.
This is TO be "a true League Of Ma
tons" and is to be composed Of all
the great nations who have no conf
dence in the existing League-Russis,
Turkey, the United States Of America.
The directors Of the new league will be
Zinovieff, Mustapha Renal and Presi-
dent Coolidge! What colossal impu-
dencei
i am not supporter Of the British
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"The ambassador first expressed
appreciation of your letter to the car
and then asked me to say TO you that
he would be pleased to give you any
assistance he could in the negotiation
with Germany. He said he knew that
Germany had no desire for war. but
on the contrary, was anxious to main
tain friendly relations with the
United States and asked whether If
assurances were given for the future
it would not be possible to arbitrate
the question so far as past transac-
tons are concerned.
81 told him / would not feel au
thorized to discuss the subject with
out first getting your views. but sug-
gested that he might say to the Ger
man government that he felt sure
there was no desire for war in this
country and that we expected Ger
many to answer the note in the same
spirit of friendship which prompted
ours.
REFUSES ASSURANCES.
''Hc then suggested it might make
it easier for Germany if she could,
in her reply, say that she expected US
TO insist In the same spirit upon
freedom of trade with the neutrals. i
pointed out to him that such an ex-
preston in the answer might embar-
rass us and also make it more diff
cult to deal with the allies along that
line and that I thought Germany
ought to assume that we would live
up to the position taken in our an
swer to the Orders in Council.
"He asked whether we could give
any confidential assurances of that
kind and l told him it ought not to
be necessary and suggested to him
that if Germany desired to justify, be-
fore her own people, her acceptance Of
the doctrine set forth in our note sine
could publish her views in a state
ment-not to us but to the German
people, and say that she took it for
granted that we would maintain the
position taken in that statement and
would insist upon our right to trade
with neutrals.
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Il told him if this statement was
made to the German people instead Of
to US it would not require any answer
from us and would not embarrass us,
but If her answer contained any ex-
preston of opinion as to how We
would deal with Great Britain it
would seemingly link the two cases
together and put us in the attitude of
acting at Germany's suggestion in
stead Of acting upon our own in
itiative and for the protection of our
own interests, and it might also be
construed as a sort of trade whereby
we would settle an account with Ger
many by opening an account with the
allies.
NATIONS KEPT SEPARATE.
HE saw the force Of the objection.
l emphasized the two points-first,
that it was important that Germany
should answer in the same spirit in
which we had addressed her; and sec
ond, that there should be no attempt
cd connection between our dealings
with Germany and our dealings with
Britain.
HE asked whether we could not
refuse clearance to ships that carried
explosives and ammunition. He said
that in Germany passenger trains
were not allowed to carry explosives
and that the regulation was made for
the protection Of the lives of passen-
gers; ne suggested We might, on the
same ground, refuse to allow ship
owners to carry explosives on passen-
ger boats. / told him that Germany
was, of course, at liberty to make any
suggestions that she thought proper in
her reply, but that we could not con-
slider these suggestions in advance.
MAKES NO PROMISES.
II think the call of the ambassador
was rather significant, especially as ]
learned from Willard that he had re-
ceived some Of the same suggestions
from Won Bernstorff. / believe that it
would have a splendid effect IL our
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States, Austrian Ambassa-
dor Dumba took over the
representation of Germany.
While the second note was being
prepared, Ambassador Dumba called
at the department and submitted sew
eral requests, which / answered &C.
cording to report of the conversation
which viii be found at the close of
this chapter, this interview being re-
ported to the President as / did all
other interviews of Importance.
The President returned the inter
view with his approval.
In the course of the conversation a
question was asked and answered
which gave rise to the misrepresenta-
ton to which reference is made. The
question was SO common place that it
seemed trivial and the answer being
the same that was being given in all
the newspapers, did not impress me
as Of any importance.
ANSWER is MISREAD.
he asked why we treated the Ger
mans offense in sinking the Lusi-
tania so differently from the offense
Of which Great Britain was guilty.
I answered at once because the
American people cannot regard the
holding up Of merchandise by Great
Britain in the same light that they re-
gard the taking Of human life by the
sinking of the Lusitania."
There was hardly a prominent
newspaper that had not brought out
this distinction with greater or less
clesrness. 1t never occurred to me
that the language used could be mis-
understood or misinterpreted; in fact,
the matter was SO trivial that it was
not included in the report which COW
cred the questions and answers which
seemed to me important. Berlin in
forming us that Minister Zimmerman
had reported to Ambassador Gerard
that Ambassador Dumba sent a tele-
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the matter to the attention of the
President and through Secretary Tu'
multy, he gave out the following de-
NAL:
THE WHITE HOUSE,
Washington.
December IL. 1917.
"My dear Mr.. Bryan:
Il have brought your letter OF Dc
cember Sth, to the attention OF the
President, who is perfectly willing
that you should say as from him that
Mr.. Ackerman's statements. or rather,
his implications, are entirely false. Oh
course, the President did not request
or desire your resignation, and your
resignation had no connection what
ever with the so-called Dumba incl
dent.
Sincerely yours,
~. P. TUMULTY.
Secretary to the President.
It need hardly be added that the
President could have done no less
than to demand my resignation If l
had been guilty of the offcnse charged.
To have permitted such an offense to
20 without punishment would have
been as much reflection upon the
President as upon myself.
REPORT 10 WILSON.
The fact that the President was i'm
mediately informed Of the misinterpre-
tation and the fact that the misintcr-
probation was Immediately corrected
removed any misunderstanding and
therefore made it impossible for the
misinterpretation to have had any in
fluencc whatever upon Germany's &C
ton.
Following is the report to President
Wilson of the conversation with Am
bassador Dumba.
MAY II, 1915.
"My dear Mr.. President:
"As you will not return until Wed
nesday morning, 1 think ought to
let you know at once of a conversa-
ton which I had this morning with
Ambassador Dumba, Of Austria. 1
am therefore, sending this By special
messenger.
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quagmire Of barbarism from which the
great war rescued 1t.
The immediate peril is that the Turk
will be encouraged by the campaign in
the British press to carry his bluff so
far that guns alone could give it an
answer.
(Signed.)
DAVID LLOYD GEORGE.
Copyright, 1925, By United Features
Syndicate, Inc.)
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Misconception of Statement Is Given
as Explanation of Embarrass-
ing Affair.
By WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN

by Syndicate
In andG prohtel
NOTE:Mr. Bryan at the time of his death had not
pecd the story of his Washington aud Secretary of
State during the first Wilson administration He had ho1u
avitten for his memoirs of of the
povfdn incidents of this part of his To of the most
ked about of these "The DnnbG Incident and "The Grape
Tie Incident related here Mr. Bryan had avten them
(" HE most maliciousy misrepresented of my expert
ences in the State Department what is known
as The Dumba Incident. After the German am
assador had been withdrawn at the request of the United
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MOSUL is NECESSARY.

without Mosul, Irak would be I'M
tenable. 1t Is the granary OF 1rak,
and prosperous Bsgdad could be
neither defended nor supported without
this province. What the oil POSSIBLE
ties OF Mosul may be no one can tell
with any confidence until they have
been thoroughly prospected. No COM
bination, European or American, will
spend any money on sinking wells so
long as the government Of the country
is in doubt.
As soon as that essential condition
Of development Is settled, capital will
be forthcoming. Under the mandate,
the nationals of all countries alike will
be equally welcome to experiment and
to exploit any success that may be-
fall their enterprise. Those who know
best this land Of ancient renown are
the firmest believers in its prospects.
There is no doubt that irrigation would
achieve for Mesopotnmia what 1t has
already accomplished for its ancient
rival, Egypt. There it has produced n
surplus Of cotton and corn from which
the industrial countries OF Europe
draw material for their mills and sus-
tenance for their operatives.
BELIEVES STAND BLUFF"
The latest news confirms my impress
sion that the Turkish attitude Is bluff.
At Angora, it is reported that the
Turkish leaders are barking back to
the action Of General Harrington over
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man, destroyed its irrigation works
and reduced these rich plains to a
desert. But fertilizing waters still
flow through the wilderness and the
soil is as rich as ever in Its produc-
tive capacity.
The capital to rebuild the shattered
dams will soon be forthcoming, when
there is a settled government with a
British warrant for its stability.
The Times Of Mesopotamia has a
significant comment on the Mosul de-
cision Of the League Of Nations: 1--WE
now know where we are and financial
schemes on lines hitherto forbidden by
fears as to the future can now be
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his negotiation with the government Of
Irak for a treaty that will constitute
a basis for a new mandate.
TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY.
There has been too much shilly-
shallying over this problem, hence the
hesitation which capital has hitherto
displayed in risking its fortunes in
the development of this land of in
finite possibilities.
Once upon a time, the valleys Of the
Euphrates and the Tigris were fertile
enough to sustain one Of the largest
and most opulent and most powerful
empires in the world. A series of de-
vastating conquests, Tartar and Otto
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man It's armies and navies as the whole
population Of Turkey, man, woman
and child.
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A'seees
dor Dumba took the
Evening star., 1926-09-07
EVERYMAN'S
INVESTMENTS
Second-Grade Railroad Bonds.
BY GEORGE T. HUGHES.

Roughly. railroad bonds fall into
two general classes. those that are
50 we'll secured b. property value and
so we'll protected by earnings that
they fluctuate in market price only
with the current charge for money.
These are the old line seasoned issues
largely bought by banks, financial in
stitutions and trustees. In the pres
ent market they sell 10 return around
Az per cent on the investment The
other group consists of the obligations
of roads which have only lately re
gained the earning power they en-
ioyed before the war. This includes
also some carriers whose prosperity
has never been comparable to what
il is today.
1t is in this second list that private
investors for the past year or go have
been chiefly interested The Yields
ohtainabie have ranged from 5ia to
si2 per cent. the higher rate for the
most part on bonds which are only
a contingent charge on earnings. That
is TO say bonds on which the direc-
tors are not required to order pay
mentS unless earnings are sufficient.
There have been large appreciationS
in market price for bonds of this type
as earnings have shown consistent
gains and as confidence in the general
railroad outlook has gained ground.
Now IT is automatic that these
higher Welding railroad bonds ought
not to he bought by those unwilling
to keep more or less in touch with
the earnings of the roads concerned
Market quotations will he sensitive to
changes IN the outlook for these prop
critics hut this is not sufficient guide
for the investor. He ought not 90
wait for the altered situation to he
reflected in the market price. He
should satisfy himself that the margin
OF safety continues adequate.
ON tins condition there is no rea
son why the bond-buyer with sufficient
resources TO diversity his holdings
should not take proportion Of these
second-grade railroad obligatio
thereby bringing up the average re-
turn on his securities. Barring poll.
tical interference the outlook for the
railroads as whole has not been
better IN many Years.
Evening star., 1926-09-07
SALES BY u. S. SHOW
GENERAL INCREASES
Europe Only Area in World Re.
ccrding Decline-South Amer
lea Big Customer

Every part Of the world shared in
increa sed use Of American goods. with
the single exception of Europe during
the fiscal year ended June 30 DR.. Ju-
Illus Klein. director of the Bureau OF
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. has
found in a special survey.
The increase has been progressive
over a period of four years. and the
United States now is selling more
than twice as much to South America
as in 1922; more than two and one
half times as much in OCeania. which
includes most Of the Pacific territory.
and nearly twice as much in Africa.
Our exports to our neighbors on
the north and south. Canada and
Cuba. showed marked growth during
the past four years. DIR. Klein said.
Apart from China and Japan. where
the United States Is fully holding its
own, exports to the countries Of the
Asiatic Far East show quite as re-
Evening star., 1926-09-07

Power consumed in manufacture
places the business tenth in all the
industries of the Nation
The cement manufacturers are by
no means depending on the building
program for disposal Of their output
for the remainder Of 1925. Approx
mately IS per cent of All the cement
used in America is consumed by
small towns twhcre building permits
are not reouiredD and on farms.
This year the industry will
use approximately $500. 600 900 cubic
feet of gas and $500 900 bar
rels Of fuel oil. Over 10000 900
sacks Of cotton or jute are now in
use and requirements will require a
strip Of cloth 80 inches wide and
so. 900 miles long. In the last year
paper sacks used consumed 33 .O00. 900
pounds of paper. About $1,000. 900
miles Of wire were used to tie the
sacks. Az miles nf betting were worn
out and $4,000 900 pounds of iubri.
CantS were used.
Evening star., 1926-09-07
MOLINE IMPLEMENT FIRM
SUES DEERE & COMPANY
Slander and Violation of Clayton
Antitrust Law Charged in
Two Legal Actions.

BY the Associated Press.
MOLINE. September THE Moline
Implement Co of this city. successor
to the Moline Plow Co.. has filed two
suits at Kansas City. Mo-, seeking
damages Of $500. 900 from Deere & Co.
also of Moline. The suits charge
Deere & Co. with violation of the Clay
ton antitrust law and with slander.
The companies have been trade rivals
for so years.
Deere & Co. it is alleged in $780,
600 suit filed in Federal Court. entered
into contracts with it's dealers by
which they were required to agree not
TO handle Moline Implement products.
This proviso. it is charged. lessened
competition and tended to create a
monopoly. and. it is alleged, is in vio-
lation of the Clayton act.
The other suit for $4,000 filed in
the State courts Of Missouri asks
damages on the allegation that Deere
& 20. dealers or officials circulated
statements among the trade rejecting
upon tho financial condition of the
Moline implement Go. and the quality
OF it's produrtS