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BY HENRY w. BUM.

"HE following is a brief sum-
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended october q:
The British Empire.-Mr. Bald
wins proposal of a compromise De-
tween the method of national agree
ment (Which the miners WANT ana
that of district agreements (Which
the owners wantt in the coal mining
industry was without Recommended
ton referred by the miners executive
committee TO the delegates confer
ence of the miners, and by that body
was likewise without recommendation
referred to a vote by the whole oooy
of the miners The result of the
voting will not be known untll InufS'
day Of this week.
The drifting back to work of the
miners on the basis of local agree
ments continues at acceleratlng
speed. Suppose the vote to favor the
compromise, and suppose (as many
eXpecU most of the miners back at
work on the basis Of local agreements
before the government could take &C
ton pursuant to that vote, and sup
pose the owners still dead-set against
the compromise. would the govern
ment act to impose 1t on the owners!
1t appears to be the majority opln-
ion in England, and it Is this writer's
opinion, that such an out-and-out vic
tory for the owners would entail ultl-
mately disastrous consequences to
them and would indeed be a tragedy
for the commonwealth. A present
compromise with guarantees to the
miners based on clear-cut program
of reconstruction, such guarantees
offsetting concessions by the miners
forced by regrettable necessity; that,
in the general view, is the arrange
ment to be desired.
The miners chief is trying to check
the movement back to The mines, SO
that. should the miners vote prove
favorable to Mr.. Baldwin's compro-
mise, he may not be confronted with
an embarrassing fait accompli.
BY use Of foreign coal, a little sup
plemented by the meager domestic
production, a good deal of work is
being carried on in the lighter
branches of the steel industry, but
most of the great furnaces are idle.
The continental iron and steel and
coal producers are not displaying al
truism in face of the British necessity
Of foreign purchases.
No doubt after the international
economic conference has completed its
work all that will be changed.
Dean Inge's book, entitled Eng
land" which was published stimuli
taneously in New York and London
on Monday. gave a jolt to sterling
because of its gloomy forecast OF the
future of Britain and the empire;
probably 2 unique distinction for
book. eveI though the jolt was not a
very heavy one.
Mr.. Timothy A. Smiddy, Minister
from the Irish Free State to the United
States, returns here from a, visit home
with rosy accounts of economic condi-
tions in the Free State, in rather
marked contrast to other statements
which reach us. He declares that the
Free State is decidedly making good
and is going about the work of indus
trial and agricultural development
with high spirit and with splendid
hope" She does not need capital, he
asserts. though she does require in
dustrial leadership. Her national
debt. which is only about $4,000, 600,
is lower, relatively believe, than that
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quence of the war, Germany, which
lost the war. has stable currency
and a stable industrial situation. She
has. all things considered, although
defeated i'll the conflict. been the
first to win clear of the demoralizing
consequences Of the war. What
France did after 1870 Germany has
now done after 1914-1S, and to my mind
the mental restoration is at least as
impressive as the material.
AS a world factor republican and
peaceful Germany promises to be at
least as potent as imperial and military
Germany was before the war This is
unmiStakable. She is neither sub
dued nor permanently arrested. but
she is peaceful, she is republican,, and
she is readjusted. She, first among
the great powers. has got her eco
nomic, financial and industrial ma
chine readjusted. She lost the war,
hut she has won the postwar race
to normalcy handily. In word she
has staged the most complete come
back" 50 far seen on this side of the
Atlantic.
1905
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BY GEN. j. G. HARTFORD.

What is wrong with the average
American voter? He not only does
not attend the primaries but he does
not go to the polls on election day.
Only SO per cent of the qualified vote
of the United States can be depended
upon to turn out for elections. Is 1t
surprising that governmental business
thus gets into the hands of those VINO
make a profession of it?
The effect of this indifference on the
body polite is augmented by the fact
that the average American voter.
keen as he may be. about ordinary
business matters, is carried away oy
a fine line Of political talk and accepts
without investigation what the politi-
cal leaders tell him. Absorbed in his
own business, his unfamliarity with
political theory inclines him to look
on legislation as a remedy for all ex-
listing political ills. His first instinct
in such matters is to demand a law.
With the statute on the books he con-
siders his duty done, not being par
ticularly concerned with its execution.
Quotes French Phrase.
Those who had much dealing with
our French allies during the war will
remember the familiar phrase. "C'est
ecrit" ct is writtem That was the
excuse for anything which a French-
man did not wish to change. The
bridge was built when the blueprints
were finished. We are not very diff.
ferent from that In our attitude to-
ward political issues. We. think law
can do anything Many earnest
Americans believed that the eighteenth
amendment, once passed. would not
only bar liquor from our borders bN
would cure the thirsty of desiring it,.
Tennessee passes a law against teach
ing evolution and expects by it to
paralyze the trend of thought and
kill the desire for knowledge. Others
want a uniform law for divorce, ex-
pecting the very complex relationship
of marriage to be solved by it.
Pass a law and the average voter
expects 1t not only to regulate human
conduct but to change human nature.
1t is no wonder that with this atti-
tude of the voter our 40 law fac
tories are working overtime.
Furthermore, the average American
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of any other country. Her budget bal
ances. and she is coping with her farm
problem by means Of sane leglsla'
ton" He omits mention, however, OF
the very serious problem presented by
the fact that immigration continues,
and at a somewhat increasing rate, to
draw away a considerable part OF the
flower of the Free States young man
hood and womanhood.
y y y
France and Germany.-Whether OF
no development pursuant to the
Thoiry program docking to politics
economic accord between France and
Germany has received a serious set
back from Stresemann's speech to Ger
man students at Geneva importing
German innocence in respect OF the
origin Of the war time only can tell.
I am inclined to think not. Po1ncare
replied by way Of a speech to veterans
at ST. Germain; but though SUM
GENTLY stern, the speech contained
one conciliatory passage which had a
happy "resound" in Germany, as fol-
lows:
when the Central Empires turned
loose on the world a cataclysm with
out precedent, you did not blame all
Germans without distinction. You did
not blame all the officers and all the
soldiers of the opposing army for the
barbarisms committed in our invaded
towns. What. you can never forget
is-that the war was by order of the
imperial general staff conducted with
pitiless cruelty"
In other words, comments the Ger
man press, Poincare now. for the first
time, exonerates a large part or the
German people from "war-gullt.
Poincare went on to appeal to the
new Germany to openly disaVoW the
crimes of the old regime. To this
German journal replied, not unhappl
ly: For the first time Poincare Is
ready to shake hands with new Ger
many, provided she openly disavows
certain practices of old Germany. In
answer we submit that there could
not be a more categorical disavoWal OF
monarchistic Germany than the over
throw of the monarchy and the draft
ing Of the Weimar constitution, which
created the German Republic"
Perhaps France and Germany VIII
be content to let 1t go at that and pro
coed with the Thoiry program.
Are we to call the contamination
of the iron and steel trust, which
includes the producers of Germany
France, Belgium ana huXemDurs''the
first fruits of Thoiry? The agreement
covers prices, production and foreign
sales of a large variety of products
the foreign markets being distributed
on the basis of productive capacity
The advantages contemplated are, In
chief avoidance of overproduction,
assurance of markets and better
prices. On the other hand, labor
seems to regard the trust with cold
and dubitating eye, likewise, presum'
ably, competitors. 1t may be a very
important development, not only to
ward Franco German accord, but to
gaze further, toward that economic
union of Europe which some see nc
very long way ahead.
\ x
Italy.-On Thursday at Mussolni's
request tSir Austen being on cruise
in the Mediterranean a conference
took place on board the italian gov
eminent yacht Guiana between Mus.
soltni and Sir Austen Chamberlain. the
British foreign secretary, which, OF
course, has set no end of tongues
a-wagging.
A new alignment of the European
powers? An Italo-British accord tc
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SEES Z. s. FOREVER ALOOF
FROM LEAGUE OF NATIONS
London Editor, However. Cites Great
Deeds Performed by America in
International Cooperation.

There have been other forms Of
American cooperation. America
poured oil and wine into the wounds
CT bleeding Europe without grudging
and without stint. Never has there
been more splendid charity in the his
tory Of the world than that which
flowed out from this continent on the
morrow of a war to a stricken cont.
nent in the East.
American Money Helps.
In addition. the American dollar 10
flowing to Europe in such volume
that If 1t were conveyed in the form
Of metal symbols l suppose that the
gether would sink beneath the weight
Of it. And where the American dollar
goes the American diplomat must fols
low. For that service we are pro
foundly grateful. If we have to build
up the old waste places it is far bet
ter that that process should be car
ried on on a basis of business than
on A basis Of charity.
But the Capitol and the White
House must do their part If we are
to see created in the world those con-
ditions of political stability which viii
enable nations to express themselves,
10 GedIlZe JHeIE pOSSlDllllltS, W NV.
in a word. the kind of life which IA
lived amid such satisfaction and
prosperity by the United States.
Other Avenues Suggested.
I venture to suggest the possibility
Of opening up in thought still furthee
avenues of specifically interGoveIn-
mental Co-Opera ton. | do not pin my
faith ever. in thought to any existing
agency. 1t may he that we shall do
better to strike out new roads and TO
find better methods Of expression
than any which exist, but I believe
those better methods are necessary.
AS an Englishman. may l appeal
to America to join with us in striving
on to finish the work that we are in
not in isolation, but in harmony with
the nations of the world-but so far
as the United States and Great
Britain are concerned. nation with ma
ton. people with people, and ! still
venture to hope. government with
government.
rlN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-03
WARNS AMERICA
OF DEBT SITUATION DANGER.

the subtle or distant meanings of po-
litical relations and gallop over the
PROSTATE misery of the weak as
though they must be always weak
BE we safe, we treat philOsophiCally,
patronizingly or with unconscious
brutality the dangers of others. Re-
we rich. the poverty and misery Of
the poor may induce little senti.
mental charity, but never such rec
ognition Of the interdependence Of
human relations as would lead to real
sacrifice for the sake of modifying
dangerous inequalities Yet no truth
is more abundantly proved than the
instability Of material strength. safe
ty and wealth. Nothing is surer than
the pride and urwislom OF n people
In their day Of prosperity prepares
the way for their downfall.
Writers for American magazines
are busy writing delightful articles.
to soothe our national conscience. in =,
which 1t is shown that France can
easily pay for ALL IL she WILL and
that Europe is trying with Machiavel-
liam cunning to unload 1.-The entirea
cost of the war on the United States" -.
1t is all beautifully done. but has the
hidden weakness that it is not so, and
that every one who has studied tho
O.
is in much the same situation Ger.
many found herself in 1923-perhaps
in worse situation. 1t was then In
sisted that Germany could pay an in
demnity. which every economist knew.
to be impossible. We all Joined in the
chorus "She Could If She Would
Then common sense interviewed and
the Dawes plan" recognized facts.
The internal debt Of France plus her
debts to Great Britain and the United
States are. in view of her other handi.A
caps. absolutely beyond the power OF
France to pay-they are fantastic. =,
New Moral Burden. .,
Then the suggestion that Europe
Is unloading the cost of the war on
us Is laughable. The war cost Eng.
land and France alone more than
$50, 000. 900, 900 outside of their debt
to us. 1t also left In both countries
enormous economic arrangements.
II we were to entirely forgive the war
debts. our balance sheet would show
a net United States debt OF about
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-10-03
BY CARL f. MILLIkEN,
Former Governor of Maine.

Leisure in America is no longer
the reward Of wealth. 1t is the priv
ilege Of all. Forty-four-h weeks.
numerous holidays, vacations and
week end freedom have provided all
classes in America with moments Of
spare time.
Were these periods Of leisure to
mean so much time for idleness there
might we'll be cause for concern
among those who follow the socio-
logical development Of the race, but,
fortunately, the happy. hopeful and
ever-youthful psychology Of America
has directed these periods of rest into
so many periods Of rejuvenating
recreations AS a nation we play
hard. lust as a result that the harder
we play the better we work.
Psychologists tell us. in technical
terms, that relaxation from the high
tension life Of today is essential. III
people are not provided with bene-
ficisI entertainment. we are informed.
there will be irritability, abnormal
fatigue and possibly anti-soc1al out
breaks.
Leisure Aids Progress.
A cursory survey of history clearly
indicates to us that those nations
which have had the most leisure have
advanced farthest; and that those ma
tons which have thwarted men in
their desire for leisure's gifts have
remained behind or have plunged
themselves into social disorders.
Leisure. in this day. means more
than relief from strain. A man or
woman goes to a playground and ex-
ercises his body or to theater or
a base ball game and finds himself
taken completely out Of himself. Were
these rewards to add only color and
sweetness and beauty to- lie they
would justify themselves. But they
don't; they add more. For what
man does in his leisure hours shapes,
to a large extent, his personality, his
health and his entire outlook.
His health is improved, for one
thing. and he keeps himself physically
fit. At the same time his mind is
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AMERICAS LEISURE is RATED
REAL BOON TO ADVANCEMENT
No Longer Regarded as Reward of Wealth, Spare
Hours Afford Enrichment of Cultural and Recre.
ational Life, Says Carl E. Milliken.

being stimulated and he is learning
certain moral values from play which
come in no other way. He is learn.
ing to play, not for himself altogether,
but for the team, for the race. He
is forced to see clearly, think quickly
and to cooperate willingly.
Opportunity to Advance.
For centuries men sought some
form Of entertainment which all might
enjoy alike. It remained for our gen.
Grafton to produce the requisite IA
cilities. Today with 90,000,000 people
in this country going to moving pic
lures each week, with countless
Fairgrounds and recreation centers
throughout the country providing out
door entertainment for the masses.
with good roads that allow for auto
MODELLING, leisure moments are being
cared for in adequate fashion. And
the man who thinks with his automo-
bile or who plays tennis is not dis
turbed by the fears that he is not
making proper use Of his leisure.
The large group which has given
leadership to the recreation move
ment sees in leisure today an oppor-
tunity for advancement Of the race.
At last the way Is opening for an
enrichment Of the cultural and recrea-
tional life Of the nation.
Copyright 1880
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Cern>@anys Comeback" Phenomenal,
Cult OF Wa: RELOCATED, Observer Finds

Continued from First Pagel
Britain struggling with the coal
strike. Business in Germany deplores
both economic or fiscal facts because
they contribute TO the general chaos
of Europe and postpone reorganiz1-
ton. But the German, knowing he
lost the war, sees that the victorious
allies won little or nothing; that there
was no victory, that the war was d
general disaster. a common defeat
and this strengthens his growing pref
udice against war as a method
The passionate hatred of the French
man has passed. the outSpoken de
nunciation of the Polish settlement has
modified. The German has abandoned
AlSaCe- LorraiNe and expects in time
70 get back Danzig and the corridor.
but he is not excited now about the
question. He is working. despite
high degree of unemployment; he Is
eating. the sun shines again. there
are flowers in his garden. the chaos
is giving way to rather German cos
mos. He may not he satisfied, but he
Is not DISCONTINUED.
New Germany in Making.
A great. new. strong Germany is
IN process OF coming back. 1t has
passed through an almost incredible
series of experiences. ii has lost It's
fortune. its outlying possessions, its
prestige 1t almost lost its confidence
in itself but not quite. and that II
has regained. 1t is working back
with an efficiency which is almost
deadly, with a determination which
Is amazingly in contrast with French
and British exhibitions
This new Germany is not. in my
judgment, dangerous to the world be
cause at a given moment II may
revert to militariSm or Imperialism.
I believe il is dangerous rather be-
cause il has profoundly absorbed the
lesson of the last struggle that war
ts not the way TO success in an indus
trial age 1t has resigned the military
for the economic and industrial
weapon. East and South il is sur
rounded by wrecks Of empires and by
still Chao:.:: <az- o. ~ fragments. 1t
is not re w>ns its <|Htary machine.
but II is cost emphatiCally restoring
its economic machine with the genius
Of the race which made the military
machine once potent.
The new Germany is. | believe. the
most completely consolidated state in
Europe. that state which has most
fully liquidated the war and achieved
not merely political nut social read
justment. II has nothing 10 fear from
any domestic civil disorder. il has no
crushing domestic debt. it has no more
reason TO dread foreign aggression.
It has lost much. but il has lost
neither its health. nor its brains; II
is poorer, but il is certainly wiser.
Stages Fine Come Back.
Moreover. while France is still para
lived by the problem Of the franc,
which is q consequence of the war;
while Britain is still torn by the in
6Ustxtal strife which tSagainA-co nses
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BY H. WILSON HARRIS.

One of the Editors of the London Daily News
%HE nations on the continent or
Europe are almost at one In
deciding to base their inter
national cooperation on one
particular and chosen instru-
ment. This Is no question OF lndl-
vidual views. The government OF
Great Britain is pledged to base its
foreign policy on the League of Ma
lions; the government of France Is
equally pledged; and now the govern
ment of Germany is similarly pledged;
and so far as signature of the cove
nant goes, Italy is pledged likewise.
If there has been any similar dec
laration of policy on the part of the
government of the United States IT
has escaped my notice.
In any case. it is my profound con-
viction that those who direct the for
tunes of the League of Nations would
do wisely to frame their plans and
shape their policy on the aSSump-
ton that the United States will not
at any date find a place in their ranks.
If events prove otherwise. then they
will face the non-fullfilment of their
predictions with fortitude. If, on the
other hand, the forecast is well justi-
fed, then there is always d certain
Satisfaction IN accuracy.
Where Credit Is Due.
Yet hook at the long list of the
great deeds America has set to her
credit under the head of internation-
al cooperation.
1t was undoubtedly Secretary
Hughes speech at New Haven. Conn.
which set moving those forces which
eliminated eventually in the prep
aration and application Of the Dawes
report. 1t was, l think I am right
in saying, largely a speech by Sena
tor Borah that led to the holding of
the Arms Conference at Washington
And one need merely mention the
work done in Europe and for Europe
by men like Gen. Dawes and Mr.
Owen Young and Mr.. Parker Gilbert
in connection with the Dawes report
by Mr. jeremiah Smith at Budapest
and by many other eminent Amer1
cans whose services to Europe and
to the world it is a pleasure and q
privilege to recognize.
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BY PIERREPONT r. MOVES.

Former Member or RhlneIdnO commission.
The present attitude of the Ameri-
can public toward world affairs. an
attitude first stimulated by oppOr-
tunist politicians and then perpetual
ed by our unusual material prosperity.
has recently registered its high-water
mark in the exhibit of Grass "broncho-
Americanism' reported by the Ameri-
can newspapers. A worthy United
States Senator returning from Europe.
arises to suggest that America sub
ject France to an economic boycott
until such time as she signs the debt
agreement. True, the Senator pune
lures his own proposition in the next
sentence by saying that European
nations cannot possibly pay unless
we take down our tariff wall.
1t has long been recognized by econ
omists that in times of great prosper
ity conditions are being created for
future financial storms. and history
shows that the principle holds good
in political, social and other human
affairs. During such periods vox
populi tunes itself to pride and over
confidence. Wisdom, Self-restraint and
justice are lost in fog of selfish op-
timism.
Be we strong, we shut our eyes to
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recent events to show how much bet
ter is the present than the past In
season and out the Communist doc
trines are taught, and no one is al
lowed to forget that the revolution
has been ushered in. Propaganda is
everywhere apparent, on the table
ware in the dining cars, on the walls
OF all public and most private build
ings, in the newspapers, over which
there is absolute censorship; in the
schools, Of course, in public gather
ings. In Communism the Russian is
made to live, move and have his be-
ing. so far as the ruling powers can
control present and future, they do
not recognize a possibility that any
other form of political administration
can obtain a foothold. Yet in Lenin's
new economic policy and subsequent
acts of government it is obvious that
the Soviets must provide a working
system Of control that will satisfy the
peasants and gradually restore a de-
gree of commercial freedom that will
enable Russia TO junction,
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Moreover while France is still para
lived by the problem OF the franc.
which Is a consequence of the war;
while Britain is still torn by the In
6Ustxtal strife which st6ragainA-cou