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Evening star., 1926-02-07

When / was in the senior class of
the university all my intimate friends
came under the influence of an ex-
traordinary japanese teacher and were
baptized. lie did not believe in church
and was preaching alone. However,
| could not accept his theory of sin.
| was left alone by all my friends.
My friends said. and l sadly accepted
the fact then, that l lacked a religious
temperament. 1t took more than ten
years after l left the university before
| gradually began to see what II was
all about.
\ dominant note of an Oriental mind
is that il is intuitive. 1t leaps right
into the heart of thing and does not
reason it out. We believe in that cli-
macteric leap which comes once in life.
| once felt that l made that leap.
There | felt that / knocked against
something. To me that is ones reli-
gion. That is empirical and defies ex-
PLANTATION. You feel that you have
got an anchor.
:: =
1t may shock the decent people of
the West. but / honestly believe that
a name does not matter. ! have con-
sistently refused to be labeled. / never
look at people through their labels.
| am of one mind with Lord Morley
when he said, 1T does not matter
what truth you believe in: but it does
matter whether you truly believe in it
or not" 1t is particularly true in a
Evening star., 1926-02-07

|HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended February s:
Great Britain. - Parliament
was reopened on Tuesday with the
usual magnificence, except that, be
cause Of the recent death OF AleNan-
dr;l, the Women'S gowns were OF sober
hue. The government VIII propose
legislation under the following headS:
(a) A scheme for supplying electric
power at cheap rates throughout
Great Britain: (b) Il bill providing Tor
retrenchments in administration; tc) an
agricultural measure proposing gener-
Gus credits for farmers-this in oppo-
sition to Lfoyd Georges scheme for
NATURALIZATION of the land: Id hous-
ing legislation: (e) probably. and most
important of all, drastic legislation Tor
the coal-mining industry.
The government is more hrmlE en-
trenched than ever. conservatives
have been successful in recent bye
elections.
A conference will soon take place IN
London of representatives Of the gov
ernments Of Great Britain, France,
Germany, Italy and Belgium to con-
slider the question of equalization of
hours of labor throughout that group
of countries. The proposal is British
and-contemplates removal of the com
petitive disadvantage Of British in
dl1strv because of the shorter british
working day.
According to "provisiona1' figures
the birth rate of England and Wales
during 1925 was the lowest on the
planet-namely, 1873 per thousand, as
against Russia's 46.2 and Frances
1877 and the British birth rate of PAL
in 1918. The marriage rate is about
the same as before the war.
Spain.-On January 81 Comdr. Fran
co and two companions, in an ltallan-
huilt seaplane, landed on Pernambuco
Harbor, Brazil, having negotiated the
first complete flight from Europe to
South America. They took off from
Palos, Spain (Whence Columbus sailed
on his first voyage to America), ana
made the flight in four hops; Palos to
Grand Canary Island, thence to Sac
Thiago Island, in the Cape Verde
group; thence to the Island of Fernan-
do de Noronha. about $50 miles from
Pernambuco; thence to Pernanbuco.
The take-off from Palos (after elabor-
ate ceremonies and amid enthusiastic
demonstrations was on January 22.
There were delays at Grand Canary
and Sac Thiago Islands because OF
the weather, but there was only one
mechanical mishap. That, however,
but for skill and courage, might have
resulted disastrously. Landing was
made after dusk on the 30th in rough
seas of Fernando de Noronha. The
next morning the rear propeller was
discovered to be damaged. But off
1.-THE gallant fellows hoped. About
half way to Pernambuco the damaged
propeller failed to function, but they
managed to carry through with only
the front propeller in action.
The program of the aviators calls
for flight south to Rio de Janeiro and
thence on to Buenos Aires; then, a
turn about north to the United States,
and, finally, return to Spain: either via
Labrador, Greenland, Iceland, etc, or
via the Azores. (The hop to Rio was
made without incident on February A.
The supra Atlantic flight was a
handsome feat, but more important
than the flight itself, so creditable to
Spanish aviation, is it's symbolic i'm
Evening star., 1926-02-07
The Story the Week Has Told

port. The prime object thereof was
to give publicity, in the best sense of
that word, to Il movement very in
teresting, very splendid in conception.
Spain renascent (such at any rate is
the claim would fain restore and make
stronger than of old the spiritual
and Intellectual communion between
herself and her daughters of America.
X !: :. =
Gernany.-On January 80 the Brit
iSh evacuated the Cologne zone of oc-
cupation. German sovereignty being
now completely restored therein.
1t is understood that Germany will
tomorrow apply Internationally for
admission to the League of Nations.
The Nationalist efforts to prevent
application or at least to have con-
ditions attached thereto, which might
be expected to render it unacceptable,
have been defeated more decisively
than one had allowed ones self to
hope.
Germany had a favorable trade bal
ance for December, 1925, of $4,000, 900
marks. The balance for the year 1925
was, however, unfavOrable TO the tune
of about 4.311 million marks, i'm
ports totaling 13.149, 100000 marks in
value, exports S.S3S millions. Prior
to the war Germany regularly had
an unfavorable balance. Qt was 672
million marks in 1919. But this was
more than offset by invisible exports.
Owing largely to the ReichSbank' S
hard-headed policy of discouraging for
eign loans for the present the influx
of foreign money into Germany has
mostly ceased. This makes the de-
fation pangs more painful, but the
of In hnl
The number of German unemployed
increased during the first half of Jan
uary from 1 .497 900 to 1852 900.
X x x
China.-Little from China of late,
which is most eXasperating, since one
feels sure there are things doing there
spicy, fantastical, celestial, proper
to our antipOdes every way consid-
cred. Why can't we have more news
of the most interesting country, in
many ways the most interesting peo-
pie, on the planet?
But here at last is promising item,
telling briefly of brisk fighting be-
tween forces of Wu Pei-fu on the
one part, and the southern Kuomin-
chun CNational Peoples Army on the
other, the latter headed by the tuchun
of Honan Province. Wu Pei-fu's war
riors are said to include many de-
serters from the Honan tuchun's
army.
x x x *
Japan.-I noted last week the death
of Viscount Kato, premier of Japan
and leader of the kenSeikai party; in
many ways a very notable man.
Prince Regent IIirohito has appointed
Reijiro Wakat Suki premier ad in
terim; a man scarcely less notable
than Kato. He was KatoS minister
of home affairs and he succeeds kato
as head of the Kenseikai party. 1t is
generally thought that he Will be in
vited to form new cabinet. He is a
master of finance and jurisprudence;
one Of the greatest athletes in Japan;
and is said to be, unlike Kato, very
cordially disposed toward the United
States.
x X X
United States of America.-A de
.nand has been submitted, or is soor
20 be submitted, by conductors anC
trainmen on all the railroads of the
I country for restoration of the wage
Evening star., 1926-02-07
British Trains Safe.

1t is something of a tribute to
British mechanical efficiency that
only one person was killed in a British
railway accident in 1925. Statistics
just published thus indicate the safety
of travel in Britain. There We're no
ma jor and only seven minor train
accidents, only a few injured persons,
and only one dead. Yet this record
is not as good as in some former
years In the last eight years in
England there have been only three
fatal railway accidents.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
View Voiced by Opponents.

The National Association of Manu-
facturerS, which comprises appro&i-
mately 5000 manufacturers groups.
contends that the measure is loosely
drawn and does not afford adequate
protection of the public interest in uu-
interrupted railroad transportation
service"
They would have strikes barred
specifically as Illegal while investiga
tionS of disputes are in progress, and
also hit the plan for doing away with
the Labor Board which contains repre-
sentatives of the public and destroying
the curb on wage agreements.
This has been met with the reply
that the new measure makes it a
duty" on employer and employe to
use every means to maintain peaceful
relations, and that failure to do so
likely could ,result in the conspiracy
act being invoked against either to
protect the public; that no public body
can interfere in wage agreements, and
the further assertion that any changes
will be fought bitterly on the floors
of Congress.
Those behind the bill declare force
never has proved successful in indus
trial relations. and that with mana ge-
ment and worker uniting for the first
time on a creation of their own, a
studied effort has been made to get
away from harsh, controversial lam
guage, and draw up legislation in
which moral obligation would be the
paramount factor, and which could in
time be developed in more perfect
form, thus setting up a code under
which force would be attempted only
after all other means had failed.
Evening star., 1926-02-07

not yet been entirely satisfactory, DR..
Bunyea said
Another germ too small for the mi
croscope to disclose with ordinary
light rays is the one that causes the
foot -and-mouth disease and which
recently has been made the subject
of intensive investigation. This dis
ease infects cloven-footed animals
and is very contagious. The United
States Bureau of Animal Industry
has a commission investigating this
subject in Europe. The bureau op-
poses the importation of any foreign
viruses to this country, even for sci
entific study, in fear of their spread
ing, and prefers to study them where
the diseases occur.
Hog cholera, which once nearly an
initiated the swine industry in many
parts of the country, also is due TO a
virus of the extremely small kind.
The actual organism is still unknown.
although a serum with protective
power has been in use for years.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Little Real Change.

Now, despite the advent OF the
"spirit of Locarno," there has been
little real change in the European
situation. There are still fundamen-
tai interests for each country which
are contrary to those of another.
These inevitably will come to the sur
face when the arms conference meets,
just as they must always come to the
surface when Europe assemblies any
where. And the supreme effort of
each country will be to enlist Ameri-
can aid against rival by the cham
ponship of some American prin-
ciple which, accidentally happens
Evening star., 1926-02-07

Only s of the nearly 40 men who
have served Great Britain as prime
ministers can be said to have had any
other profession than that of politics.
OF these, two We're soldiers. one n
novelist, one a business man, while
four followed the law. Nine or ten
achieved some distinction in litera-
ture, apart from politics, and half "A
dozen were notable on the turf or in
the hunting field.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Other Features Outlined.

Additional latitude is allowed the
roads and employees in this connection,
too, for If some other form of handling
relations is desired, they are free TO
choose it.
Finally, the President would he en-
powered to establish a board of five
members. to be known as the board
of mediation. which would function in
case of deadlocks, either upon request
or by Intervention. and use its best
efforts to bring about a settlement be-
tween the disputantS.
When unable to effect an adjust
ment, two other avenues would be
open to this board. 1t could request
that the dispute be submitted to arbi-
tration. and if this was rejected. it
would. inform the President, who could
choose an emergency investigation
commission to so into the matter at
issue.
If both sides agreed to arbitration,
however the finding of the arbi-
traitors would be final and binding,
and would be formally entered as Fed
eral court orders to give them effect
If the President was forced, on the
other hand. to convene an investigat-
ing body-and this action would only
be taken where there was possibility
Evening star., 1926-02-07
What the Bill Provides.

It imposes as a duty" on carrier
and employe Ito exert every reason
able effort to make and maintain
agreements concerning rates of pay.
rules and working conditions. and to
settle all disputes. whether arising out
of the application of such agreements
or otherwise, in order To avoid any
interruption to commerce or the opera
ton of any carrier
AS next step equi-partisan boards
of adjustment would be created from
both sides to pass on grievances and
interpret controversial points in agree
ments. These Quasi-judicial boards,
instead of being chosen locally, could.
if desired. be drawn from a group of
roads. the idea behind this being that
broader policies would prevail in the
handling of disputes by getting ad-
juSterS who likely would incline more
to impartiality than men right on the
ground. and at least indirectly inter
ested in the matter at issue. Their
decisions would be binding.
Evening star., 1926-02-07
Subject to Senate Approval.

The five men named by the Presi-
dent for the board OF mediation
would be subject 10 Senate approval
and would be paid S12,0 900 yearly. as
against the $4,000 for the nine labor
board members, who are drawn i'll
equal numbers from the railroads.
the public.
Inc headquarters would be in Wash
ingtOn. and the terms seven years.
with the exception, that Of the first
board chosen two would sit for three
years, two for five and one for seven.
thus making a rotating membership
possible
The WatsonParker bill is the out
growth Of two years of conference be
tween committee of railroad presi-
dents, headed by Gen. w. W. After
| bury of the Pennsylvania system. and
group Of rail union leaders, repre-
senting all lines of the industry. under
the leadership of ID. e. Robertson
president OF the brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen and Enginemen
Wide differences of opinion have had
to be reconciled, and While the spon-
SOrS admit the measure is noe perfect.
they contend it is the greatest step
toward lasting peace that has ever
been conceived.
The only fight raised against the
pact thus far is that of the manufac-
turing interests Of the country, who
have appealed both TO President Cool
idge and to Congress for revision Of
the Inea sure
Evening star., 1926-02-07

United States of America.-A de
nand has been submitted, or is soor
o be submitted. by conductors anc
rainmen on all the railroads of the
country for restoration of the wage
Evening star., 1926-02-07
By HENRY w. BUM.

following is q brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
i seven days ended February s:
Great Britain. - Parliament
Evening star., 1926-02-07

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1926-02-07
RAIL OPERATORS AND WORKERS
SEEK UNINTERRUPTED SERVICE
Principal Transportation Companies and Their En-
ployes Join in Supporting Measure in Congress
to Keep the Trains Running During Disputes

of an interruption to transportation
1t would report it's conclusions within
80 days after its creation and for 80
days after that report a strike would
be precluded, according to the trainers
of the bill. who thus interpret a clause
which sets out that during this period
no change, except by agreement.
shall be made by the parties to the
controversy in the conditions out Of
which the dispute arose" This com
mission is not empowered to subpoena
witnesses or documents.
The findings Of the investigation
commission would be published. and
while this would constitute the extent
or It's authority, it is argued that the
knowledge that the public would he
informed where the culpability rested
in case of trouble would be a deterrent
to any disputant to take action that
would inevitably lead to a strike. This
IS the same right invested in the
Labor Board
IN putting this duty of deciding the
right and wrong of n labor controversy
on an agency called into being for
that specific purpose rather than lrr
the regularly established board of me-
diation handle the situation, however,
the hackers of the measure say that
mistake has been ayerted that was
made when the Labor Board, as a gov
ernmental agency, undertook to pass
on the merits Of disputes and created
enemies every time a decision was rem
dered, whether against employers or
employees. and thus destroyed its use
| fulneSs as mediatory power. It was
tins antaEoniSm that led to the court
| fight on the board
On the other hand. il is pointed out.
when the disputants agree to arbitrate.
| they enter into the arrangement well
knowing that they Will be bound by
law to abide by the decision.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
bRANDSTEDT HEADS
CLUB FEDERATION
Governor of Cosmopolitan
Organizations in D. c. and
Border States.

Paul +. Brandstedt, president of
the Washington Cosmopolitan Club.
has been appointed temporary dis
trict governor in charge of CoSmo-
politan organizations in the District
of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia,
1t was announced at meeting of
the orga nization at the Lee House
last night.
A conference of the Norfolk, Balti-
more and Washington clubs will be
held here in the near future under
the craftsmanship of Brandstedt. The
following members We're nominated
to represent the local club at the
gathering: Philip Buettner, regional
director of the Cosmopolitan clubs;
Michael HeiSter. Michael Doyle. Rob
ert Simpson and p. NJ. Bailey.
The annual ladies' night will be
held at Rauscher's February II. \
committee was named to plan the
arrangements, including James T..
Collitiower. George Lucke, Edward
Rule, 7. +. Gordon, Michael Doyle,
Bartram Lennon, Walter Gawler,
Michael Schaeffer, Ernest Herrell, Pat
Davis and Samuel Zirkin.
MI = Sylvia Altman. ll-year-old
pianist who has attracted considera-
BILE attention through her ability. en-
tertained the club with piano selec-
dons. In addition her capabilities as
a musician. and at only II years OF
age, Miss Altman will graduate from
high school this year. Others who
provided entertainment were: Ralph
Goldsmith. member of the club: Ma
than Bachrach and Mrs. LeonaCd
SchleSS.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
ANNUAL STAMP EXHIBIT
WILL OPEN FEBRUARY |
Second Show of Washing gton Phi
latelic Society to Continue for
.cwo Weeks.

The Sc 'rd annual exhibition OF
postal Stasl0S by members of the
Washington Philatelic Society, includ
ing rare ST inps from all parts OF the
world viii hc held at the Public
Library F'.,fruary l to IA. Wednesday
evenings cIeepted.
The exI hitors include A. +. Cor
ham, air nail stamps, first trip air
mail covers, United States; first day OF
issue COY ars. United States, and a
frame, wtlich will be non-competitive
Other exl .bits are:
Azores Hungarian occupations. NJ
s. Petty Argentina. Brazil. Japan, F.
J. Duha mel; pre-cancels, w. l. Plant
3-cent e. cen cancellations. +. j. Plant
Chile ,nd Ireland, w \. Johnson
Madagascar. b. II. Howard; Norway
and Sweden; Y. Weirgang, Antigua,
Ascension Islands, Barbuda, kuwait
New Guinea, New Hebrides, Northern
Rodesia, Turks and Caicos Islands
Norris H. Sanborne; Belgium, United
States and foreign mail stamps. +,
Kelly: Canada and Great Britain,
United States rarities and British Col
onfes. w. n. Sahm; United States en-
vaopes, and Austria, f. S. Gichner.
The committee on exhibition in
rsudes W. NJ. Mckelvey, chairman; w.
y. Sahm, p. :. Warren, Y. Weirsang,
Norris Sanborne, J. +. Duhamel. ". r.
McKenney, A. +. Gorham. {. H.
Vaughn, NJ. :. Petty, y. It. Coumbe
and Fl. J. Seebold.
Evening star., 1926-01-29

Nll-day and all-night parking privt
leceS will be assumed by nearly 200
automobiles which will he placed at
Nineteenth street and New York ave
nue. northwest today and tomorrow
to remain there throughout next week.
Nor will parking lights be displayed
on this great array of cars.
The District traffic regulations will
not be ignored, however. since these
motors will be placed in the Washing.
ton Auditorium, where the annual au-
tomobile show will open at 7.30 O'Clock
tomorrow night.
Moving of the latest models of 80
makes of automobiles will be started
this morning, and by tomorrow the
Auditorium will have been trans
formed into the city'S largest show
room, where motor ears, large and
small, open and closed, modest and
luxurious in appointments, will be
placed side by side for the careful in
spection and comparison of admirers
of automotive progress.
This halfmillion-d dollar display. said
to surpaSS any similar exhibit ever
held in the National Capital, is being
arranged to present in a comprehen-
Sive yet compressed manner the no.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
ALFRED BEST TUGMAN
IS DEAD AT AGE OF 64
Had Been Extensive Traveller and
Formerly Conducted School
of Languages Here.

Alfred Best Tugman. 81 years old.
a resident of this city for the last 80
years, died at his residence. s Iowa
circle, yesterday after a long illness.
For several years Mr.. Tugman con-
Quoted a school of languages here.
Born in London, England, Mr.. Tug
man spent his early life in Spain and
Portugal and later Travelled EXTENSIVE
ly In countries of Europe, Africa and
South America. He was a member of
the expedition sent out by King Leo
pold of Belgium to settle the Congo
in 1882.
Mr.. Tugman had vast knowledge
of romance languages. which enabled
him to act frequently as an inter-
prefer and translator.
He Is survived by his widow. three
sons, John Leslie Tugman of Cali
fornia; Alfred Best Tugman jr., and
Evening star., 1926-01-29
Half Million Display of Autos Opens
Tomorrow Evening at Auditorium

table strides which have been made
by the worlds first industry, whose
1925 production reached the total OF
So, 900, ,000, 900.
Accessories. which supply added
comforts of motoring, from automat-
ically closing a radiator shutter in
cold weather to absorbing the bumps
of a rough road, also will be displayed
The show cars will be driven to
the auditorium and there will be tow
ed in through an entrance especially
ont in the rear.
The Auditorium will hum with ac-
tivity today and tomorrow, with deco
rating and placing of cars in progress.
The building is beng fitted up with all
the efficient planning of a modern
business establishment. A specially
Installed telephone system will be
placed on both the auditorium and
exhibition hall floors to equip eXhib-
itors with every facility they could
have i'll their own showrooms. There
Will be telephone exchange fed by
SIX trunk lines and manned by spe-
"lal corps of operators. 1t will he
connected with the exhibition booths
ma entirely separate from the Audi
forum phone system.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
ASKS U. S. MARKET BODY.
Beck Introduces Bill Designed to
Aid Farmers.

Incorporation Of United States
Agricultural cooperative Marketing
Association is proposed in a bill in
troduced in the House yesterday by
Representative Beck. Republican. of
Wisconsin.
The organization would be without
capital stock and would be controlled
by the producers of crops The
Treasury would advance the associa-
ton $4,000 900, to be repaid within
10 years. The association would dis
pose of crops and otherwise aid the
farmers,
Evening star., 1926-01-29

Edgar Arthur Tugman Of this city,
and two daughters, Mrs. III. r. Mac.
Nair Of Los Angeles and Miss Gwen
dolen Tugman of Philadelphia
Funeral services will be conducted
at the residence tomorrow afternoon
at O'Clock. Rev. Thomas NVorthing-
ton Cooke and Rev. II. Priestly Brock
or the Church of the Ascension will
ofhciate. 1nterment will be in Ivy Hill
Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
Evening star., 1926-01-29
Anti.Drug Bill Offered.
" tho Associated Press.

By tho Associated Press.
Stricter enforcement of the Fed
eral law against unauthorized sales
of narcotics is the purpose of bill
introduced yesterday by Representa-
tive Kindred, Democrat. New York.
The measure would provide a Fed
eral fund sufficient to allot $4,000 a
tribute a like amount. The money
would be used for investigation and
enforcement. The bill also would di-
rect a wider educational program.