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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.

Financial and business circles
throughout Europe and in America
are watching the fluctuations of the
French franc with ever increasing
interest and wondering why the
French government does not take
measures calculated to end the finan-
cial crisis.
The trouble is that the more one
studies the situation, the more COM
plicated it appears. and finding a
solution is easier said than done. The
essential difficulty is that France is
overwhelmed with interior debts. not
to mention foreign debts. This piling
up of debts naturally began during the
war which, with all men modified
and 10 departments invaded, could
only be financed by loans. Further
loans were necessary during the two
years of adjustment after the war.
Finally, still other enormous loans
were fioated for the purpose of re-
constructing devastated regions. At
last the country's interior credit be-
came so exhausted that it was posi-
BILE to borrow money only for short
terms at high rates of interest.
Resorted to Imitation.
Now. for about a year, even short
term loans have been unproductive of
new money. Hence the government
has been compelled to resort to infla-
ton. The national debt now is well
over 900, 900 900, 900 francs. Interest
payments on this sum are so large
that they consume about IS per cent
of the national revenue.
In order to pay this interest and at
the same time cover the country's or
binary running expenses, taxes nave
been voted at the highest possible
rate. There is an impression abroad
that the French people are insufficient
I, ly taxed. The contrary is really the
case. They are overtaXed. They are
taxed so heavily that there Is revolt
everywhere against tax paying. Many
people. if they paid in full the taxes
due. would be ruined. Therefore, they
resort to every device to dodge the
tax collectors. Despite the widespread
tax lodging, however, sum equiva.
lent to 20 per cent OF the national
revenue Is being collected, and no DIS
interested economist with whom the
writer has talked believes it possible
| TO increase taxes, or even to collect
the existing taxes fully.
IYniustly high taxes, combined with
the fall Of the franc, due to imitation,
has provoked a. flight Of capital to
other countries where the currency is
more stable. In order to prevent the
! flight of capital and tax-dodging the
government has resorted to petty re-
strictions of every sort, the results OF
| which are merely fresh evasions.
A Cycle of Circumstances.
The flight of capital has accumulated
| the fall of the franc. The fall Of the
franc has caused a rapid increase in
prices at home, with the result that
even a theoretical balancing Of the
| budget is continually disorganized.
! Then come more taxes, then more
| evasions, then new increases in the
cost Of living. Meanwhile. fuctuetion
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
FRANCE DECLARED HELPLESS
UNDER PYRAMID OF DEBTS
Flight of Capital, Accentuating Fall of Franc and
Combined With Heavy Taxes, Creates Situation
Apparently Hopeless of Solution.

Of the franc has attracted interna-
tional spectators, whose operations
increase the etil.
Financial instability has brought
political instability and political in
stability increases financial instability.
Thus runs the vicious circle.
What is to be done?
The budget now is nearly, If not
quite, balanced. But no surplus is
available for debt amortization. and
none for the repayment of foreign
loans. Moreover. about 80 billions or
francs in short.term loans keep peri
odically falling due, and while some
are renewed others are not, and the
only way to reimburse them is to
print the bank notes. This floating
debt might be consolidated by for
eign loan, but there is no money to
pay the interest on further loans.
Furthermore. American and English
bankers refuse to make further loans
until the debt agreements have been
ratified and certain other conditions
fulfilled.
Governments Solution.
The governments solution seems to
be to check the rise in interior prices
by artificial price-f1xing and import
and export restrictions. by sudden In
terventions on the exchange markets.
by optimistic statements calculated to
restore confidence and cause renewal
of short.term bond subscriptions and
the repatriation of flown capital.
Few observers believe such A pro-
gram can be effective. Indeed. so vast
are the country's debts. 80 heavy the
existing taxes and so urgent the bud
getary and treasury needs tnat II Is
difficult to say what really would be
effective.
Copyright. 1926.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Paying a dollar to reach into a
grab-bag at a charity bazaar and
drawing forth a penny bauble may
give one a feeling of virtuous exal-
tation. but the sentiment threatens
to turn slightly sour, however worthy
the cause. if the next donor gets a
So prize for his effort.
Understanding such situations. 1t is
comparatively easy then to grasp
something of what has been agitating
the Senate this week In the debate
over the bill to authorize appropria-
tions of S165. 100000 for Federal aid
for highways in the next two wears.
The measure had passed the House
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
By ROBERT STERLING YARD,
Secretary National Parks Association.

This Nation is accustomed to select
with very great care and elaboration
the pictures to be hung in our Ma
tional Gallery of Scenic Masterpieces
in order<that there shall be few to re-
greet in later years as unworthy of this
famous collection. 1t needed Is years
to make Rocky Mountain National
Park, and 33 years before everybody
was satisfied with the inclusions in
the Grand Canyon National Park.
Two or three years ago Congress
created Bryce Canyon. gorgeous
Utah valley. national park condi-
tional upon the Government acquiring
certain lands. These lands have not
been acquired. and Bryce Canyon re-
mains the national monument it was
before the national park bill was
passed. Probably it will remain SO
for many years. Perhaps 1t will never
become a national park. SO with the
Shenandoah. Great Smokes and
Mammoth Cave areas which Congress
conditionally created national parks
in May. Until the conditions named
in the acts have been fulfilled, they
are not national parks. Shouting
time for their local promoters may
not come for several years.
Must Get Good Title.
The promoters of Shenandoah first
must search titles of hundreds Of pri-
vate properties aggregating 400 square
miles, then buy the properties, and
finally present them in one CONSOLE
dated area to the Government; and to
do this they must first raise a great
deal more money than they now have
subscribed. Conditions confronting
the other proposed parks are similar.
Few national parks have required
less than four or five years to select
and define and for the people of the
country to approve. Even now, the
expert National Park Service. after
eight years of study, is asking Con.
gress to recognize the boundaries of
national parks created i'm the very
early days before much was known of
the wilderness included. Building the
National Parks System is serious bust
ness requiring years of experience
and study.
That is why one of these proposed
eastern national park bills places the
National Parks System in critical
danger.
Cites High Speed Action
The Mammoth Gave National Park
bill was introduced on April Is and
was signed on May %, less than six
weeks after. without the approval OF
the Secretary of the Interior and the
director of the National Park Service.
In fact, neither had even seer
Mammoth Cave. Secretary Work
wrote to the public lands committee
of both houses offering to send the
National Park Service to examine il
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
BY SIMEON p. TESS.
Senator from Ohio.

"A summary prepared by Senator Fess
OF a speech he delivered last week in the
Senate.D
I\here are methods by which
genuine economic relief can
be given to the farmer. In
Il the past few Congresses %
measures have been enacted
looking toward farm reliefS But this
Dawes NcNary- Haugen plan will bring
ruin instead. The theory Is that the
farmer shall pay an assessment which
shall be devoted to bidding up domes-
tic prices of corn, hogs, wheat, cattle
and cotton to some fixed level above
world prices and dumping the sur
plus" abroad at loss.
All these commodities have a sur
plus over the domestic demand, the
average annual exports amounting TO
about 81 500 900. 900. The idea is that
the farmer will gain because the
ma jor part of his product is sold at
home and a minor part abroad. Re-
gardless of the pleasant sounding
theory. it is disastrously unavoidable
for the following reasons:
Given Power to Tax.
First-7Under the bills proposed the
farmers are to select board, which
the President is compelled to accept,
which will be endowed with $780, 00,.
600 or $500. 000, 900 working capital by
the Federal Governments: ard totally
unrestrained powers to contract with
congratulations millers, meat
packers and exporters-to buy at
prices which this Federal board, at its
own discretion, is to determine and
sell abroad at any loss they deter
mine, the loss to be made good by
tax they alone assess. The place
where this tax, or equalization fee. !"
comes from is uncertain. 1t purports
to he levied on the farmer. but, as it
is to he collected from the professor,
1t will probably be passed on to the
consumer Such unlimited powers
have never been delegated in all his
tory to- any industry, and, il constitu-
tional, is a precedent which will
sooner or later be claimed by coal,
steel and a host of other industries.
1t is in my view entirely unconstitu.
tonal, and for this reason the whole
scheme will prove only political blk
of the farmers.
Second. 1t means a, bureaucracy on
unpara lleled scale buying and selling
commodities. Our exports OF the
products enumerated are 1900 ,000,-
600 per annum. 1t is proposed that
the export of this surplus at a loss
shall be contracted out by this Gov
eminent agency to thousands of mill
. ers. packers and exporters who are
to buy and sell the raw material or
manufactured products abroad. More
over, to bid up the hold-up prices on
the domestic market some buying and
selling must be done for domestic ac-
count because the products are sea-
sonal and prices must be held up on
domestic supplies pending exports.
The total volume of buying and sell
ing will far exceed $500, 100000 1t
is the most gigantic entry of the
Government into business ever con-
templated in peace-or even in war.
1t will he accompanied by tyranny
over the farmer by fraud, politics and
corruption.
Government Price.Fixing.
Third. This is price fixing because
this Government agency must deter
mine what price it will uphold on
the domestic market and what price
IL will sell at abroad. The law says
1t must buy and sell at fair and
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
PERIL OF MOHAMMEDAN WAR
ON CHRISTIAN RACES MINIMIZED
Natural Resources and Inventive Genius of West
Held Adequate, If Maintained on Present
Basis.

petitions. France is now paying a
huge bill for more deep-seated war in
Morocco and Syria; England hesitates
at Mosul, and the members of Parlia-
ment keep the government on the
griddle about 1t. British expeditions
into the Anglo.Egyptian Sudan have
rolled up a pretty bill in years past.
If the policy of marginal control is
embarrassing at times. it has at least
a contrasting advantage-the desert
dweler is bound by his environment
to the soil on which he lives and the
menace of his invasions is no longer
a subject of practical international
politics.
DOWNRIGHT 1921
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13

"a summary prepared by Senator Fess
or speech he delivered last week i'll the
SenateD
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-13
Government Price.Fixing.

Third. This Is price-fixing because
this Government agency must deter
mine what price it will uphold on
the domestic market and what price
il will sell at abroad. The law says
1t must buy and sell at fair and
Evening star., 1926-10-23
BY REV. HUGH T. STEVENSON.
JOSHUA. ISRAEL'S NEW
LEADER.
Numbers. xxvii.18-20, Joshua,
i1-9

Golden Text.-Be strong and
Of good courage For
Jehovah thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest.-
Joshua, i.9.
Evening star., 1926-10-23
CHURCHMEN PLAN
TOATTEND SYNOD
Episcopal CIergymen From
Capital to Represent
Diocesan Work.

Rev. George W. Dow. Rev. u. Wei
lington Curran and Comdr. G. T.
Jewell. all having offlces at Diocesan
House. 1929 X street. WILL be among
the representatives of the diocese Of
Washington attending the ninth synod
Of the province Of Washington. which
will be held In Bethlehem. october 81
to %.
These delegates represent activities
Of the diocese under the respective
heads of social service, the church's
mission and religious education. These
three departments will be considered
at the synod during sessions each last
ing half q day. Each of the three
subjects will be presented separately
at the dinner to be given In the Hotel
Bethlehem Wednesday evening. with
Right Rev. William G. Brown, Bishop
of Virginia. as toastmaster.
Announce Discussions.
Rev. r. Bland Mitchell. secretary OF
the field department of the Natfona
Council, will present 1.-The Progress OF
the Church's Program; Right Rev
X. f. l.. Strider. Bishop Coadjutor OF
West Virginia and president OF the
Provincial Commission on Religious
Education, will speak on Religious
Education. the Inalienable Heritage
of the American Child" Rev. liar
rison w. Foreman. secretary for
rural work, National Council. New
York, will tell of Rural Conditions.
The social service program will be
gin with conferences Tuesday MORN
ing and afternoon as follows: II am.
"Children's Guidacne Clinics" BY
DR.. Earl r. Bond. superintendent NJ
mental hygiene and nervous diseases
PENNSYLVANIA Hospital, Philadelphia
1.-THE Work of the Church Missions o,
Help" by Mrs. John NJ. Glenn. New
York City, national president. 80
pm, Rural Work." Rev. FredericL
w. Goodwin, Warsaw. Va.
Thursday morning the Provincia! !!
Comission on Social Service viii pre-
sent 1.-THE Church's Relation 10 Its
Dependent Children" II. w. Hopkirk.
New York City, of the Children's Wei
fare League of America: Church In
stitutions for Children" Miss Doro
thea z. Coe. New York City, secretarv
for church institutions. department of
Christian social service of the Ma
tional Council.
Church Leaders to Speak.
other important addresses will be
the sermon by Rev. DR.. Floyd W.
Toml1ins at pm. Tuesday. addresses
by Right Rev. John Gardner Murray.
presiding bishop of the Episcopal
Church, and by Rev. DR.. w. Russell
Bowie, rector of Grace Church, New
York, at the mass meeting Tuesday
| evening. and the address by Prof.
A. II. Onderdonk of st. James School,
Hagerstown, Md, on as the Church
Boarding School Worth While?' at
noon Wednesday.
The womens organizations Of the
Episcopal Church will hold conven-
tions during the sessions of the
synod. Mrs. William ID. Hurd, presi
| dent of the Woman's Auxiliary in the
| diocese of Washington, will speak on
Program and Publicity for the Won
ans Auxiliary at the auxiliary con
ference Wednesday morning. Confer
ences will also be held by the Daugii-
ters of the King, Girls Friendly so
ciety, Church Periodical Club. Church
Mission of Help and the Guild of 81
BarnabaS for Nurses.
Evening star., 1926-10-23
Church TRAINING
SCHOOL TO OPEN
Five Congregations to Co.
operate in Chevy Chase
Institution This Year.

The Chevy Chase International
Standard Training School will con-
vene for its second-year session the
evening of November 1 at the Chevy
Chase Presbyterian Church.
This year there will be five churches
cooperating in the management OF
the school, as follows: Wesley Metho-
dist Episcopal, Chevy Chase Presby-
terrain, First Methodist Of Chevy
Chase. Md; Bethesda Presbyterian
and Chevy Chase Baptist.
Credit certificates, leading to a
diploma, will be awarded for each unit
satisfactorily completed, and such
credits or diplomas are accepted by
the leading denominations as stand
ard. The courses to be offered are:
THE Principles Of Teaching" "In.
PRODUCTION to the New Testament"
PRIMARY Materials and Methods. -
The sessions convene at 1880 every
Monday evening, beginning November
l. for six weeks. with the second
semester of six weeks beginning Jan
uary 3.
The leaders of the school invite
those from any church to enroll. Rev.
f. c. Reynolds. pastor of tha Wesley
Methodist Church. is president of the
local council.
Evening star., 1926-10-23
VERMONT AVE. PASTOR
breaches AT ANNAPOLIS
Rev. Earle Wilhey's Annual Naval
Academy Sermon Set
for TomorroW

Rev. Earle Whitley, pastor of Yer
mont Avenue Christian Church, will
preach his annual sermon at the Ma
val Academy, at Annapolis, tomorrow
upon invitation of the academy chap
lain. In his absence, Rev. Preston
A. Cave, general secretary of the Dis
ciples Churches in Maryland. Della
ware and the District of Columbia,
will preach.
AT a recent meeting of board Of Of
ficers Of the church, Green II. Hack
worth was reelected chairman of the
board. Other officers chosen were:
Vice chairman, a. G. Williams; secre-
tary, II. c. Faul; financial secretary,
Frank Soper; treasurer, Huston E.
Davisson. Chairmen of committees
are as follows: Worship, w. T. Edding-
field; finance, II. c. Faul: property. H.
p. Miller; music, II. S. Shepard; mis-
sions, Mrs. w. p. Sterns; visitation,
J. w. Robbins; publicity, Earl Tag
CART: social, r. A. Voorus; ushers. Dr.
c. c. Galloway; auditing, T. c. Nc.
Connell Delegates to Disciples Union,
n. a. Brumback and Mrs. r. c. Nc
Connen.
AS the result Of a three month con-
test, the church schools will enter
tain the Ballston, Va, church school
next Friday evening.
Evening star., 1926-10-23
CHURCHES TO UNITE.
IN MASS MEETING
New York Pastor to Speak at
Session in Eighth Street
Temple Tomorrow.

All the sixth union meeting tomor-
row afternoon at the Eighth Street
Temple, Eighth and l streets, under
the auspices Of the Washington Fed
Grafton of Churches, the special
preacher will be DIR. A. Edwin Keig-
win, minister Of the West End Pres,
byterian Church of New York City,
who will speak on 1.-THE Frontier Of
Certainty" DR.. z. B. Phillips, rector
Of the Church Of the Epiphany, will
preside.
DR. Keigwin will also preach at the
evening service of the First Congre-
gational Church. held at s o'clock in
the Eighth Street Temple. when his
theme will be The Live-MyOwn-
Life Illusion"
DIR. Jason Noble Pierce's subject
for the morning service of the church,
held in the Metropolitan >Theater, will
be inspired Living"
Sunday school meets at the Metro
politan Theater at $780,. except for the
primary department, which meets at
10 o'clock at 27 Grant place.
The Senior Society of Christian
Endeavor and Young Peoples So.
ciety of Christian Endeavor hold
their Sunday evening services at $50
O'Clock at the Eighth Street Temple,
and q Grant place, respectively.
Evening star., 1926-10-23

The writer had some things to re-
late tosthe people, and he put them in
this drama of Jonah.
Did the whale swallow Jonah? I
doubt whether Jonah ever heard the
story. The writer of the story prob
ably did not dream that any one would
think it true. The readers of the
story did not worry about it, until in
recent centuries the 1.-TWO plus two
people began to insist upon a new in
depreciation of the scriptures. They
made the story of Jonah and the
whale a test of faith. They condemn
ed those who denied it.
Liberalism has always laid its
heavy curse upon the church. Reli-
gion was born in the soul of free men,
the expression of their longing to
reach God, but there has always been
some one at hand to write down the
words Of those free men, to make out
of their words a creed, to force upon
those words a binding authority, and
to demand that all who come after
shall fall down and worship the words
which are written.
Read the story of Jonah for what
it is, the story of a poor sort of
prophet who is commanded to preach
his message to a foreign people. The
Dl lOpilSl uiIil lIhc 1OISlBI II6TS ana re-
fused to go. In fact, he turned around
and went the other way, with most
disastrous results. He had q rather
sitting experience with the great fish,
and when he finally emerged, he was
chastened but unconvinced. To be
sure he delivered the message to the
foreign city. Ninevah. and then went
out and sulked under a tree. He had
prophesied doom, but Ninevah mend
ed its ways and God forgave. This
angered Jonah and he said, 1T is bet
ter for me to die than to live" His
prophetic reputation was endangered
and he was willing to have some thou
sands OF people destroyed rather than
suffer loss in personal prestige. But
the writer depicted a good God who
preferred to save children "Who knew
not their right hand from their left"
rather than please one disgruntled
prophet.
How idle to argue about the whale.
The story is drama, Il parable and
should be read rs such. No one argues
about the story Of the good Samari-
tan. OF Dives and Lazarus, of the
prodigal son or about Ezekiel's vision
of the valley of dry bones.
Read the story for what it Is. It is
a good story. packed fun with truth.
Don't allow the literalists to spoil the
story for you or your children. A
sense of hun1or Is good, even in reli.
giOn.
(CopyriCht 1oo6)
Evening star., 1926-10-23
CONTINUES BALKAN TALKS
Rev. Dr.. Charles Wood Will Preach
on Spolato Tomorrow.

Continuing his series of Sunday
evening sermons on the general sub
ject, The Tragic Story of Chris
tian civilization in Dalmatia and the
Balkans" Rev. DIR. Charles Wood
viii have as his special subject to-
morrow night at the Church of the
Covenant. "Spolato. the Palace Of
The Imperial Prosecutor, Splendor
and Wretchedness." DR.. Wood will
preach at the IL o'clock service
on The Supremacy Of Spiritual
Forces" In addition to caring for
children between the ages of = and
e.. til" Light Bearers and Junior En-
deavor Society Will alternate. begin
ul@h tomorrow morning at II o'clock,
aud provide suitable programs for
the boys and girls between the ages
# and -. alliance With God"
viii be Dr Woods subject at the
Thursday night service The three
adult classes of the Sunday school
meet at @:45 o'clock, with Miss Mabel
Thurston teaching the Everyeirls.
Judge w. j.. Norris the All Corners
and pr. Charles Thom the Bible
class for men and women.