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BY SIR PHILIP GIBBS

disciples Of Joanna Southcote with the assur-
ance that when her boxes are opened by the
bishops all will be well with the world ..
X X X
But vastly more numerous than all these
strange sects and secret searchers behind the
veil of mystery masses of men and women
who. without fanaticism or superstition and
with no more than a wistful yearning. are try
ing to find some faith or code which will give
uplifting purpose in life, a straight road to
follow. goal ahead, an inner flame of happi-
ness on their way. Not easy to find with so
much confused thought about. much de-
structive criticism. Happy are those who go to
some old church with simple hearts and no
doubts.
A good deal of our political unrest is due
to the desire Of the human heart to be caught
up by some tremendous interest outside the
little drudgeries Of the daily round, and to be-
come absorbed In some new effort to attain
the ideals OF human happiness. Socialism, even
Communism, in its psychological aspects is
not merely an economic theory. They are both
substitutes for revealed religion. although the
Russian blend of Communism is antiChrstian
and declares that any form OF religion Is the
opium Of the people" But 1t has its own
priests. fanatics and inquisitors 1t has estab
lished q tyranny of intolerance and dogma to
deny which is death.
X \
The soul of the people is distressed by many
false prophets. confused by multitude OF
counseors. and has no fixed faith or purpose
such as united it in selfdefense-and exalted
it to great heights of sacrifice beyond the
range of individual selfishness-in time of war
Now in time of peace it seeks to find some
thing to replace that spiritual intensity, and
cannot find it in the naggng quarres of petty
politics. in a round of pleasure, or in the
squalor and poverty Of back streets in their
conditions.
To me. there comes the conviction more and
that the happiness for which we all seek
is to be found in smpfcation of life. We
must get back to simplicity in material condi-
tons and social habits, avoiding. as far as pos
sibe, all those complications of modern life
which torture nerves and waste our ener-
gies.
Life would be endurable but for its pleas
ures." said French philosopher. 1t would be
endurable and good If could get back closer
to the earth and sky. limit desires to love
and beauty, the elementary needs of the body,
and liberty for the mind and soul. With
of humor, little courage. a smiling toll
erance and faith in God life would not
be too bad even in poverty and hardship. Per
haps after all, that is the ideal state for which
the world is searching with a thousand theories.
But how attain the simple life in
this industrial and Skeptical and nervous age,
when the very vibrations of the air proclaim
a hopeless conflict of ideals through the head
phones loud speaker?
Simplicity is the hardest thing of all when
the soul of the people is being bawled at by
every cheapjack in Vanity Fair.
Copyright. 1920
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High Standards for Public Parks of u. S.
Demanded by Organizations and People

Of an annual meeting, may confidently
be accepted as the representative bust
ness sentiment Of the country
Earlier in the same month the Con-
servation Council Of Chicago, which
consists Of delegates from 46 organ
izations representing such wide diver
gence of personality as the Izaak Wal
ton League, the Chicago Federation Of
Women's Clubs and the staid Chicago
Club, also discussed national parks at
an annual meeting. Its resolution
follows:
1.-THE Conservation Council of Chi
cago sees the national parks system
as a national institution of untold
importance to the education as we'll as
to the health, recreation and spiritual
inspiration of the American people.
ut should be conceived, not merely
as q better system of Fairgrounds in
a nation and age Of Fairgrounds, but
also as our superuniversity of nature,
in which nature herself, in her Hottest
manifestations of unique scenery and
primitive life, Is the supreme teacher"
From the Atlantic to the Pacific the
institutional view Of the national
parks system has aroused, in that ap-
parently sudden way that long-dor-
mant public thinking often does, a
lively enthusiasm.
One Of the earliest public outcrop-
pings of this feeling occurred last Oc-
tober when Secretary Work announced
his purpose Of advancing education
with recreation in national parks ad-
ministration. Until very recently rec
reation was conceived the sole purpose
Of national parks. but now the rapid
growth Of State parks and recrea.
tional facilities in national forests per-
mits the system to assume its greater
status.
Secretary Hoover expressed much
the same idea at a public dinner in
December in these words: my own
thought is that the national parks
the parks within the responsibility of
the Federal Government-should be
those Of outstanding scientific and
spiritual appeal; those that are unique
in their stimulation and inspiration"
tCopyrisht 1885,
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WYE all searching separately and
~ secretly for the ideal state of hap
wv piness-and It's all very difficult!
This nation Of ours ia crowded

WYE are all searching separately and
~ secretly for the ideal state of hap
" " piness-and It's all very difficult!
This nation of ours ia crowded
with human souls craving for some
sure spiritual guidance, for some new and GER
tain faith, for some inner light revealing the
meaning and purpose of life.
1t was rather pitiful after the war to see
the feverish way in which the men who had
escaped and the women who had agonized be-
hind laughing masks of courage tried to find
the happiness which peace had promised.
For time there orgy of pleasure
making. One lived to the music Of jazz
band. Youth danced all over Europe, even in
, the countries stricken with ruin and starva-
ton and disease.
In London night clubs sprang up and flour.
tshed for people who were determined to be
gay" until exhaustion brought uneasy sleep.
Theaters. movies every kind Of entertain
ment were thronged by those Unsuitable for
pleasure. And yet somehow they were all
bored. Over and over again l heard them
whisper to each other at these shows I'm
bored stiff Good heavens, what rot
this Isl.
1t was disease OF the soul this devastating
sense of boredom which had followed the nerve
strain Of war time. All this socalled gayety
was unsatisfying, and by degrees intoerable.
There purpose in it, no meaning, no
joy.
Even now. after that time of fever, the
ton, as whole has not found itself again, or
become content with the humdrum drudgeries
of life. One sees in all classes a restessness
of mood which did not belong to our character
a people before the war 1t has affected the
younger generation to whom the is hardly
a memory.
They, too, get very bored if there is nothing
doing in the way of excitement Nobody is
content to keep still. They are all rushing
around In motor cars, which some Of them
can't afford motor cycles with a girl
in silk stockings on the "fiapper bracket
They resentful of life, embittered If
their weeks wage, pocket money from their
parents. is not enough to provide ncessant
entertainment In their spare hours. The
movies are no longer a luxury, but neces
sity Of life The wireless apparatus is installed
above the chimney pots in order to bring comic
songs into the parlor and jazz music to break
the deadly spell Of an evening at home.
X X X
Yet there is ideal state of happiness In
all this. They still restless and discomfort
ed: they think that If only they had more
money and more pleasure they might be per-
fecty happy, but somehow the theory doesn't
work
One may that by the unconceaed bore
dom Of rich folk who seek their pleasure on the
Riviera, gamble at the tables in Monte Carlo
drive about in Rolls Royce cars. What unhap
piness one sees in some of those faces. What
disillusion with life. Even they have not at
tanned the ideal happiness with all their money
The truth Is that the people of nation
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have been at least two crises that con
tained the immediate prospects of an
other World War. And it is even said
that at one time just after the great
war, Is small wars were being waged
simultaneously.
Warnings of Big Disaster.
These little struggles are warnings
Of greater one to come, precisely as
the small wars and war scarces Of the
years between 1900 and 1914 were
warnings of the first World War.
There were farsighted thinkers then
who saw what was coming. There
are such thinkers today.
They were not needed then, and
they are not being needed now. These
modern prophets Of future war are
not irresponsible scaremongers. On
the contrary, they are DISTINGUISHED
ligion-men like Dean Inge, Count
Coudenhove, kalergi, and Prof. Soddy
the Oxford chemist who won the No
bel prize. Nothing is more striking
than the unanimity with which DO
litica1 opponents who differ on al
other subjects agree on this one
Mussolini, francesca Nitti. Auster
Chamberlain and Ramsay Macdonald
The fact that small wars are still
occurring on an average or four Oh
five a year and that 1t is still pos
sible to predict another great wa,
after the close Of the greatest ant
most disastrous war in history is II
itself a very alarming fact. 1t shows
that humanity has learned very little
1t is clear evidence that the cause:
of war have not been uprooted
Underlying War Causes.
/ What are these causes? Volumes
might be written on them, and vol
umeS have been written.
But the underlying causes of wal
can be summarized in a very few
words. Most Of the nations of the
modern world, are seeking to expand
driven either by the pressure Of thei,
populations or by that combination o.
industrial, political and military mo
tives which we call imperialism.
The earth is not big enough for al
the nations to expand at once. and 81
collisions are bound to occur unit
some peaceful means Of dividing 1t /:
invented. Such were the forces tina
produced the great war. Such are the
forces that produce the small wars to
day.
tcopyrtsht. -1e2eA
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THORNY PROBLEMS SEEN In PATH
OF DISARMAMENT CONFERENCE
Preliminary Discussions at Geneva Held to Show
Need of Publicity Campaigns in
Interested Nations.

undertaking, and in consequence must
be a great deterrent. particularly to
It's border states. in their desires to
conform to reductions. Likewise
should the United States decline to
cooperate with the other states in
the general security and reduction
plans that may be envisaged, by SIM
ply remaining neutral. our citizens
would be at liberty to manufacture
and sell ammunitions of war to other
nations in war as we'll as in peace.
The indeterminate attitude of the
United States toward obligations that
must be assumed if a just measure
of reduction in ornaments is ever to
be attained, and Russia's refusal to
cooperate now or later suggest some
of the difficulties that are to be met
The questions submitted by the
foreign minister of CZechoslovakia, DR..
Benes, to the preparatory commits
sion reveal in a yet more marked
measure the discussions that are out
lined and the almost impossible COM
promises that must be made before
a solution of the problem can be OBJ
tanned.
Questions to Be Answered.
What are ornaments. may they be
distinguished as offensive and de-
fensive, by what standards is it posi-
BILE to measure the ornaments of one
country against those of another coun-
try, can civil and military aircraft be
distinguished for purposes of disarma-
ment, shall commercial fleets be con-
sidered in naval ornaments, what
shall be the status of reserve forces,
and shall disarmament be regional or
general? These queries are only a
few of those that are arising, but they
are sufficient to show the almost in
surmountable obstacles that present
themselves.
The subcommittee have been as
signed their respective subjects which
will require investigation and study
over period of two or three months
before reports can be made to the
preparatory commission. Viscount
Cecil Dis probably conservative in stat
ing that the general disarmament con-
ference could not be convened before
the end of next year. In the mean
time, there must be an educational
campaign set in motion in all the coun-
tries in order that public opinion may
not only fully appraise the economic
and human value of a reduction Of
ornaments, but also that each coun-
try may learn that it must make con-
cessions In order to secure that boon.
To say that our country with only
one regular soldier to each one thou.
sand population is practically dis.
armed makes but a wan appeal to the
smaller states. some of which are
maintaining that war potentiality
must be given consideration in any
general plan of reduction.
Again the importance of security
will come to. the front as it did in the
Geneva protocol of 1924 and as it did
in the Locarno pacts. The United
States also will be called upon to
make concessions if it's undoubted will
to reduction of ornaments is. to be
realized.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04
BY JOHN BAKELESS.
Editor and Author.

The war to end war was failure.
And new war, greater and more
terrible than that which so nearly
destroyed civilization between 1914
and 1918, is Il distinct probability.
Fortunately. there are several
elements in the international situa-
ton which just at present act as
brakes upon war. But these are at
best temporary, while the causes
permanent.
1t is, therefore, high time for
serious thought on the part of the
every day citizen, who will have to
fight the next war, see his family
suffer in it, and later pay for it in
taxation. The old plan of leaving
foreign affairs to diplomats and poll
ticians was tried before 1914. The re-
suits do not encourage us to try that
plan again.
The man in the street had abunda mt
warning of what was coming long
before the World War broke out, but
he refused to believe the plain signs
of the times. From 1878 until 1914
there was only four years when the
world was at peace. From 1900 to
1914 there were only three years when
there was not distinct danger of a
full sized European war.
War Horrors Predicted.
The events of the World War, its
weapons, the general alignment of the
European powers, the invasion of Bel
GUM, the Use of aircraft in war, and
even the details of trench warfare
had all been predicted not in obscure
technical journals, but in popular
books, magazines and newspapers.
The danger of war and it's disastrous
results had also been described in
detail and with substantial accuracy.
But in spite of these warnings, the
World War came as a rude surprise,
and this was especially true in
America, for removed from the quar-
rels and struggles of a distant
Europe.
Today. eight years after the armi-
stice, we are living amid conditions
essentially like those before the war.
There has not been a single peace
: ful 3kar since the peace treaty was
EguedS Instead, there has been fight
ing iMk Russia. China. Poland. the Balk-
ans, A&ica. and Asia Minor. There
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-04
BY GEN. HENRY r. ALLEN,

Commander of the American Army on the
Rhine.
In the domain of international rela-
tons there are few measures that
have been so consistently espOused by
recent administrations of both parties
of our country and SO generally APP
proved by public sentiment as the re-
duction of ornaments. 1t was. there
fore. entirely logical that President
Coolidge should send a delegation to
the Preparatory Disarmament Com
mission. Indeed. his message to Con
gress in January emphasizing dis
armament and limitation of arma-
ment" as 1.-The general policy" of this
Government was the essence of Hugh
S. Gibson's official statement at &C.
neva, as prepared in the Office of the
Secretary of State.
But the difficulties connected with
the subject are so many and so COM
plicated that much patience must be
exercised during the long period of
study and preparation before the real
conference can make a beginning. 1t
Is hoped that the United States will
not only participate in all this work.
but will cooperate in whatever plans.
approved by other states of the world,
promise success.
Russia has thus far declined to par
ticipate in any degree in this world
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BY ROBERT STERLING YARD.

Secretary National Parks Association.
The hasty creation for political cam.
paign purposes OF a national park.
which the National Park Service had
not even seen and the Secretary of
the Interior declined to recommend,
stands in sharp contrast with present
day discussion throughout the coun-
try concerning the national park sys-
tenn as a unique national institution.
The maintenance of it's standards
and the need to differentiate national
parks sharply from State parks, whose
purpose is wholly recreational, have
: recently become one Of the live SUBJ
jects of the day.
1t happened that. on the very day
| that political expediency dealt this
hard blow at national idealism in Con-
Commerce passed the following resolu-
ton:
1.-THE Chamber Of Commerce Of the
United States has earlier expressed its
interest in the creation of national
parks. 1t believes the primary re-
sponsibility of the Federal Govern
ment in the establishment or mainte-
nance of national parks is to preserve
I those features Of our landscape where,
| In sufficiently large areas. the scenery
| Is so unusually beautiful and is SO
characteristic of its kind, and where,
| consequently it has so great an edu.
cetional or other value that it may
be considered heritage Of the whole
Nation rather than a recreational IA
cility for the Inhabitants Of adjacent
territory. The primary responsibility
for supplying recreational facilities
for the people of States and munich.
palities lies with the States and mum.
cipalities themselves"
Composed Of conservative business
organizations in every State Of the
Nation, the United States Chamber of
Commerce Is necessarily the most con
sentative Of all. Its utterances on ma.
tional and business policy, having
! passed the test Of submission to all its
member cha1nbsrs by mail and the fire
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Irish Like Cock Fights.

Cock fighting. though illegal in Ire
land, is still popular sport. and often
succeeds in evading the vigilance of
the police. The fights take place in
remote districts and motor cars full of
spectators swarm out from the CITY.
When the police hear Of it they break
up the assembly. Recently when they
interrupted match near Dublin the
spectators were found to include a
clergyman. a senator and Q member
Of the BAIL
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w Y HY is the American work
n inSman the highest paid in
NV the world? Why is it that
when the Chinese coolie is
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WAR TO END WAR HELD FAILURE.
WITH PEACE NOW ENDANGERED

have been at least two crises that con.
tained the immediate prospects of an
other World War. And it is even said
that at one time just after the great
war, 25 small wars were being waged
simultaneously.
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for 1924. the second the value for
1925. and the third the ranking OF
the State for 1926:
Alabama, $225, s9S 900 to 1918, $751;
900, ranking 21st; Colorado. $121,-
S62 900 to $146, 745 900, ranking 29th;
Indiana, 1857. 100, 900 to s252.144, 900,
ranking 18th; Kentucky. $219. APO, 900
to $195 525 900. ranking 2Srd: Mary
land. $50. 7s5,oOO to SIS ,1S1. 900, rank
ing 35th; Minnesota, $421,4SS.00 to
1882 ,107 900, ranking 9Th; Nebraska.
1910, ALB. 900 to $316. $4,000, ranking
18th; New Mexico, $39 1882, 900 to $751;
1872, 900, ranking 44th; Ohio, 1915. $780,
900 to- sS11, $4,000 ranking 18th;
Oklahoma. $401, 2S3.000 to 1913. 059.-
900, ranking 10th; Oregon, 1885,
900 to 1902, 183. 900. ranking S4th;
Pennsylvania, 1912 ,043. 900 to $780,
$50, 900, ranking 13thn Tennessee,
s219,924,000 to $197.719UO0, ranking
22nd; Washington $3.50. $40, 900 to
Sill, 67S, 900, ranking 26th.
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HEAVY GRAIN
CROPS BRING
LESS MONEY
Wut Farmers Make Profit
From Less Livestock
in 1925.
Times . TasIAtinEggt4ns Bars..sss g. !;


WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.-Farm-
ers raised big grain crops in 1926.
but lost money on them. They had
less livestock than in 1924, but made
money on it, according to the De-
partment of Agriculture's Grip sur
vey for the year.
Gross value of all crops for the
year was approximately $9,615, 000,-
600, against $10,062, 10000 in 1924,
loss of about $447, 100000.
The bumper corn crop Of 2,900,-
5S1 900 bushels was the biggest
money-loser. It was worth $780,
$4,000, against $2,27O, 564, 900 for the
crop Of 1924, although the latter was
600, 000,0 900 bushels less, or nearly 20
Nper cent
Potatoes Worth More
On the other hand, an extremely
short crop Of potatoes was worth
nearly two and one-half times as
much to the farmers as last years
normal crop. The crop was 100000
900 bushels less, but was worth
$605, GOO, 900, compared with only
$3.50. 1000, 900 in 1894.
This gives an inkling OF what
ultimate curtailment on the farms
might mean," the Department Of
Agriculture suggests.
a Cotton turned out one Of the
argest crops ever produced, but It's
aeotal farm value was $1.62S, 600. coo,
slightly under last year. A small
crop of winter wheat was worth
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BI.IZZARD STRIKES HOME

Coughs and colds are a natural
sequence to an unexpected blizzard
and should be treated promptly to
offset complications. Foley's Honey
and Tar Compound is a pleasant
and effective remedy for coughs and
colds. Keep bottle on hand for
an emergency. ''The children and
1 had colds and the first dose of
Foley's Honey and Tar helped us
right away" writes Mrs. Mather.
Redwood, Ohio. Foley's Honey and
Tar is a good cough remedy for the
Observation-Disclosures.
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~
more Per bushel than last year, but
tbs total crop was not worth as
much Spring wheat was worth
more.
All other grain crops except rice
showed a decrease In value. the
largest decrease being that Of oats,
which was worth $155, 100000 less
than last year.
Gross Value Less
The gross farm value OF all grains
is IA per cent below 1924, the re-
port said. Farm products, it was
said. have purchasing power per
unit of about eighty-seven, COM
pared with 100 in 19O9-1914
The 1925 pig crop was the shortest
In FIVE years, representing 100000
fewer pigs than in 1924. Cattle de-
creased in the East but remained
about stationary in number in the
Far West, and sheep increased in
number.
Texas led all States in the value
Of farm crops, but lost over $780,
100000 compared with last year,
the figures being $799. 100000 this
year against $9O7 900. 900 last year.
Iowa, second State, also lost, the
figures being $477,000,000 against
s533. 100000. California third State,
gained greatly, the figures being
$469, 100000 against $415, 100000. )
Figures Given
Following are the figures for GER
tain selected other States, the first
figure being the value of all crops
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Figures Given

Following are the figures for GER
tain selected other States. the first
figure being the value of all crops
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FAMILY SHARED DRINKS

LONDON--A small boy recently
admitted to a local hospital he was
weak and near death from hunger.
He was one OF a family Of twelve
and his fathers wages amounted to
about $40 week. When the nurse
gave the boy cup Of warm milk he
asked appealingly: How far down
can I drink?"
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