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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
BRITISH EMPIRES FUTURE ROLE :.
FORESEEN In OPTIMISTIC LIGHT
Adaptability to Changing World Conditions Held
Proven by Larger individuality Conceded .>
to DominiOns at Recent Conference

| its operation by single dominions'
could be reconciled with the diplomatic
unity of the empire.
Take again the treaty-making rights
of individual dominions already exer-.
cised by Canada with the United
States. One might, at first, be in
clined to think that such a power
would be of a disruptive character.
The report considers 1t fully and in
terprets 1t in a manner which Sufti,.
GENTLY safeguards the diplomatic in
tegrity of the empire whilst fully
admitting the absolute freedom OF fits
component self-governing parts.
1t has been thought wise in this
article to speak rather more of the,
political results of the conference than
its economic work owing 10 the funda
mental Importance of interimperial
relations. But IL must be remembered
that this was only one of many sub
jects considered. Even II we had not
the bonds Of common sentiment and
tradition, which indisSOlubly weld the
empire together. we should still flnd
a powerful motive for imperial unity
In enlightened SELF interest. In short
this imperial conference, like its
predecessors. must be considered az
a severely practical affair. e.
All other empires. so far as the
writer's memory for historical paral
lels serves him, were constructed on
preordained lines. and consequently
persisted from inability to adapt them.
selves to changing environment. But
this British Empire. on the contrary
like nearly everything else English
has refused the limitations of written
fnrv1Nr1lOn I'D xr~iI1 fhnrnRNN-e vE,v~
by easy adaptation and natural
growth.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
AUTOIST is BEGINNING
TO DEMAND BETTER LAWS
United Drivers Are Backing Bills in
AZ Legislatures Which Would
Equalize Traffic Burdens.

liability for property damage inflicted
at public parking spaces.
Such legislation, It Is believed, Will
encourage stricter control over these
outdoor garages and place them on a
better basis. With the public streets
more largely given over to moving
traffic in the congested centers any
control extended to the parking
grounds should be strictly In the pa.
| irons favor.
Legislation demanding that all po-
! lice officers or persons participating
| in the control OF traffic, either on high
way or street, be uniformed probably
will be brought to the attention OF the
| various State Legislatures during the
| coming sessions. Many complications
have resulted from drivers not know
| ing the ununiformed person enjoyed
| police powers, and accidents have re
suited from drivers mistaking persons
in citizen garb for unauthorized indi
viduals with a penchant for playing
| the role OF traffic officer.
Slow Driving Opposed.
| Tho slow-moving vehicle will be the
| object OF considerable legislative &C
| tivtty upon the recommendation OF
| the average motorist. Already cars
| are barred from some localities II they
| OF more than IL miles an hour, but
new legislation will be sought to deal
with drivers whose cars can travel
| fast but who choose to daily along al
| speeds that block the highway.
| The motorlst simply Is out TO get
a square deal. He Is not convinced
in spite of all the agitation to the
| contrary, that he is a lawless individ-
ual who needs curbing on every side
| Some Of the regulations that have
been passed with this thought I'm the
minds Of the law makers he is deter
/, mined to overturn as discriminatory.
| In asking a square deal the motorist
seeks it not alone from the legisla-
lures. He wants 1t to include pedes-
TRANS and his fellow motorists as well
One of the arbitrary decisions that he
resents is that which reserves the def.
initiOn for traffic" for the motorist
alone. Traffic" he maintains, includes
everything in motion on the street and
highway.
Idea Held Discriminatory.
This is recognized in many OF the
more progressive centers. Others,
| however, continue to reserve It for
motordom and give the pedestrian the
greatest leeway. This leeway. the
uIIfcI OSCIdIcS, ~ WIldI SelS lilo pc
destrian into unfortunate juxtaposi-
| ton with automobiles too often. 1t is
discriminatory, he holds. in that 1t
puts the burden Of proof in such mis-
haps upon the car owner. which IS
contrary to the theory of justice as
held in America.
Motordom realizes It has become a
mighty force. 1t is aroused to the con-
viction that 1t must nave q voice in
its legislative needs and concerns.
| Once granted this voice, it Is pre-
pared to say it will cooperate more
readily in enforcement. because the
regulations by which II must abide
will be free from many of the seem
ingly arbitrary and discriminatory pro-
visions that now abound in the varI-
Gus traffic codes throughout the coun-
try.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

Director. British Library of Information

Director. British Library of Information.
The report by the recent British
Imperial Conference on interimperial
relations has been variously heralded
as the first sign of the breakup of
the empire, the beginning Of an en-
tirely new epoch in empire relations,
the charter of the British dominions
and even, in some Of the anti-govern-
ment organs in Great Britain itself, as
doing nothing at all but substituting a
comma in the title of the sovereign.
None of these interpretations is
correct. The fact cannot be too fully
emphasized that the report is essen
TALLY Qualification and Interpretation
of already existing relations. The
process in other countries would have
been reversed. There principles would
have first been laid down infinitely
and practice would have followed upon
the lines laid out for 1t. But here we
have the well known British legal
maxim that principles are evolved
from practice. Practices established
in multitude of ways in interdomin-
ion relation are given definition.
AS a concrete example. take the
establishment of diplomatic represen-
tation by individual dominions at
foreign capitals. There was, of course,
no precedent for this even a few
years ago, but in theory it was we'll
recognized that the dominions pos
sessed this right in their capacity as
ef-governing communities.
Now however, that the Irish Free
State and Canada have actually ap-
pointed ministers to Washington, the
matter is removed from the realm of
theory to actually. The time, there
fore, has arrived to consider the ma
ture Of the right and to indicate how
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
u. S. Strength in Cruisers No Concern
To Britain or Japan, Says Observer

limitation should be based upon
present strength. not upon capacity to
expand.
In this direction we are handicapped
by the arguments which we pressed
against both the French and Italians
I'm the Washington conference. There
we insisted that they must accept as
q permanent ratio the strength which
they then had. Now all four nations
Britain, Japan, France and Italy, may
not impossibly turn the argument
against us.
But in any event It must be clear
that neither the European states nor
Japan are much interested in the.
present issue. 1t is purely and simply
question Of saving the money OF
American taxpayers. Such economy
would be at their expense Il it I'm.
volved lowering their naval strength
below the minimum necessary FOR
their defense. And in any event
there is no incentive to agree, be,
cause, no matter how many cruisers
we build, we shall not use them
against these countries and they
know 1t.
And If we try to have a conference,
since we want something, since We.
cannot get 1t without the consent OF
other countries, we shall have t1
bargain for it and pay for it--and
our ~ayment will have to be outside
Of any naval area, for our Navy is
not an international menace and
therefore not an international prob.
lem. 1t troubles a whole lot of old.
admirals and young flag lieutenantS
In the British admiralty, it offers a
wonderful field for technical discus
sion. but 1t is domestic. not foreign.
in Its significance.
Copyright. 1877
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Servant Girl Problem
Arises to Vex Vienna

Vienna also has its servant girl
problem. They are fewer by 10000
than before the war, when there were
more than 100000 servants. Much of
the loss is due to the wiping out of
Vienna's middle class by the war and
imitation. Many people ascribe 1t to
the progressive city tax, which makes
it almost prohibitive to have more
than one servant, although servants
themselves do not command more
than from So to $40 per month
For one female servant there is no
tax; for two female servants the tax
is about 81. For three the tax is $50:
for four, $3.50; for five, SEAS; for six,
nearly $400, and for nine over 81 900.
If there is one male servant the tax
begins with $14, and climbs quickly
to ST. 600 for nine maids and one chauf-
feur.
If there are two male servants, the
tax starts with 500. and is $4,000
for nine maids and two male servants.
And for those well off enough to af-
ford 10 maids and four male servants.
the tax is $4.400. Hence a large mum
Der of servants out of employment.
swelling Nienna's large army Of I'M
employed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

and away the greatest name in Amer
lean science; he is, indeed, one OF the
princes of first rank in science. The
debt Of applied science to his mighty
congratulations in the field of pure
science Is simply incalculable.
The steel magnates and others
whose fortunes are largely traceable
to that imperial mind, should mark
their gratitude by presenting an en-
downment to Yale with which Gibbs
life was so completely identified. Yale
should not consider the world lost be-
cause of her temporary loss of foot
ball supremacy. After all, Yales
glory is less beholden to achievement
in bowl or stadium than to such men
as Ell Whitney, Samuel F. B. Morse,
and Willard Gibbs in science; Kent in
the law, Gilman and White In educa-
ton and Fenimore Cooper in literature
By the way, this Is the hundreth year
since the publication of THE Last of
the Mohicans," and an immense debt
OF gratitude is owing the man who
has preserved forever the smell and
feel of the primeval forest in that
most beautiful country of the Six
Nations. Clearly a worthy memorial
to Fenimore Cooper indicated"
X x X
NOtes.-U. F. A, Germany's and
Europe's greatest film concern. is
having hard financial Shedding, de-
spite backing by the Deutsche Bank
and a loan from the Paramount Co. of
81, 100000. A too exuberant expan.
sion. it would seem.
One hears with pleasure that the
elements of friction between the
Czechs and Slovaks of Czechoslo-
vakia are being smoothed away. The
government of CZechoSloVakia is
agrarian.
Answering an appeal from a certain
region Of Italy to be made a province,
Mussolini declares that he won't make
any more new provinces before 1882;
but then, says he, "I'll reward those
regions that have shown themselves
laborous, disciplined and prolific"
l propose for next week a survey
of Chinese developments of the pre-
V1ouS six weeks or so. The world is
now anxiously watching the situa-
ton at Hankow, which Is of an ex-
IRENE tenseness as regards the for
e1gn residents, especially the British.
1t is to be presumed that the safety
OF American residents in Hankow and
Wuchang is fairly insured by our
naval contingent.
group OF American capitalists is
undertaking to make the cultivation
of sisal leading industry in Haiti.
Economic conditions in Venezuela
are reported to be remarkably pros
porous.
1t Is rumored that Brazil will SOON
seek to float a loan of the equivalent
of 500, 900 on either the New York
or the London market to aid toward
sterilization.
The 1925 output of rayon was
1856, 900 900 pounds, or about twice that
of silk. The United States led with
81, 800, 900 pounds. After us came
Italy, with 10000, 900; Great Britain,
with 28,000.000; Germany, with a.
100, 900; France, with 14,4000, 900; Bel
GUM, with 100000.
The 1926 world output is estimated
at 245, 900, 900 pounds. Rayon is made
of almost pure cellulose, whereof the
most popular source is woodpulp, be-
cause of its cheapness. Cotton, how
ever, is a better source. The thread
of rayon made from cotton fiber is
rs per cent stronger than that made
from wood pulp; moreover, cotton is
almost free of resin.
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you might we'll think that at last
every leaf in the world was about
to go.
X X X
But this is the fact: The leaves
that stayed longest, that we had learn
ed to associate with stability, those
are the leaves that fall before the new
leaves appear.
In the social order Is it not our
seemingly most strongly established
things that are beginning to fiutter
down? Are not the most solidly es-
sential services the ones that are now
most under doom? Certainly, as any
one who focuses his vision only on the
passing things will tell you. 1t Is the
collapse of the most dominant methods
and institutions that alarms most peo-
pie. Well; it need not alarm any one.
When the leaves of the strongest tree
fall, Spring is here. If you will widen
your field of vision you will soon see
other things springing up to take the
place of that which is passing.
So you have a choice. You can sit
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
BY WILLIAM ULLMAN.

n ORE legislation never has
M been an attractive picture to
uH the too often overregulated
4 4 automobile owner, but In
backing record breaking
number of bills for Introduction In AZ
Legislatures this year, he is pursuing
q new course. He will seek the sort of
legislation he wants.
This is the first time, perhaps, that
the American car owner has demand
ed wholesale legislation in his own be-
half. Heretofore legislation along au-
tomotive lines has been initiated by
legislators themselves. more or less
with a view to regulating the motor
list, often regardless of whether such
regulation was justiflable.
Acting through hundreds Of strong
automobile clubs and their national
affiliations, approximately 100000
car owners Will seek various forms of
protection in the interest of better
motoring, and 1t is believed that the
result will so startle the rank and file
Of motorists that there will be a new
interest In mass action by car owners
and further opportunities to rescind
bad laws and substitute sensible ones.
Uniformity Is Sought.
There are a. number of ends which
portant of all. he desires uniformity
Of traffic regulations, warning and
safety signs. He recognizes the i'm.
portance of exceptions to any rule of
uniformity in order to take care of
local conditions. He faVorS q certain
amount of competition between cities
in an effort to improve uniform regu-
lations, but wants definite assurance
that any changes are improvements.
- nIA
lines already have been given the mo-
torist through the action of the Hoover
conference on street and highway
safety. Absolutely perfect results are
not hoped for, but number of infiu-
entail organizations and individuals
are pledged to urge uniformity, and
with the united backing of car owners
undoubtedly much will be accomplish
ed in this line.
One of the important detectives of
the motorist is legislation to prevent
cheating in Oil. For years motorists
have suspected numerous evils in the
| marketing of inferior grades of lubri-
cants. but 1t remained for a New York
investigator to prove that the chances
Of getting bad oil at some filling sta
tions were surprisingly great. One Of
the leading State automobile associa-
tions already is committed in favor of
law requiring that all oil stations
post a placard naming the brand of oil
and gasoline they sell.
Would Protect Parkers.
An unusual demand of the motor car
owner and user, but one which has
grown out of natural conditions, Is
some assurance that open-air parking
can be INDUCED without too great a
| risk. Property damage has become
quite @ feature of this short-time ga
raging a Ia nature with great many
| irresponsible proprietors operating
| these parking grounds. Just as there
are laws preventing repairers from
charging more than $50 for repair
| work unless the car owner specifically
agrees to it when ordering the work,
so is it proposed to pass a law to fix
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Continued from First Page)

Continued from First Page)
ton to salient and pertinent facts.
For countries arm and maintain mill
tary and naval establishments with an
eye single to the real dangers which
are in front of them.
The question Of communications for
the British is very real. The possible
dangers from French or italian sub
marine warfare, both in the Channel
and in the Mediterranean. are very
great. They could not be met by an
inadequate cruiser fleet, and reduc-
ton of that fleet to avoid the possible
expansion of the American would be
sheer folly. 1t would be just as SEN
sible as reducing cruiser strength to
suit the situation with relation to the
man in the moon.
Whether the United States needs q
cruiser feet equal to the British is an
other question. 1t is a purely ma
tional problem which must be faced
on the basis Of the problems Of ma
tional defense and national interest.
The money which would be required
is wisely spent If the dangers which
are incident to weakness In this
branch are great. But the fleet will,
in the end. have to be built, If at all.
on the basis of national interest and
the expense cannot be avoided by any
effort to obtain limitations in other
fleets.
One Way to Accord.
It is true that limitation could
probably be obtained based upon the
British and Japanese estimate of
their own present and prospective
needs. Competition could be avoided
in this way. But 1t is open to Ques-
ton whether both the British and the
Japanese would not suggest that real
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Auto Sales i'm French
North Africa Growing

French North Africa is becoming a
considerable market for automobiles
and agricultural machinery and Inn
plements. Already the grain produc.
ton in Algeria, Tunic and Morocco is
such that they can deservedly be
called the granary of France, and the
colonial group is making big efforts
to develop other valuable natural re.
sources, including phosphates, ores,
cork and eSparto grass.
But industrial life in these three
countries is still in its infancy and
hence they make big customers for
the manufactured products OF foreign
countries. During 1925 Algeria alone
imported 1,483 vehicles. valued at more
than $2000,000. The imports in
French North Africa from the United
States in that year amounted to 1877
000,0 francs (the franc is now
around 80 10 the dollar, of which Co..
000,0 900 francs represented mineral
OIL
The exports from the three colonies
reached co, 900 900 francs. The Ameri.
can trade. though rather small, yet Is
on the increase every year.
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the Autumn. Then came the rains,
and the other trees let go their leaves:
not so the oak; only q few did he let
fall. Then came the winds, and the
branches Of the other trees were left
ragged; but the oak held most of his
LEAKAGE. Then came the frost, and all
the trees were stripped clean and bare
of leaves: but the oak leaves shriveled
bit and took on the tone of old cor
dovan leather, but for the most part
chung to the parent boughs.
They are a cheering sight in Winter,
those shriveled leaves that defied the
frosts of Autumn; they are a cheering
sight as they defy the Winters snow
and blast. Then Winter begins to
wane, and Spring is a promise in the
air, and green things begin to appear;
but still the oak holds tenaciously to
last years foliage. "A little later and
the leaves begin to fall-in Spring. If
you had not looked around upon the
earth to see what else was happen
ing there, if you did not know what
compromising work was being DONE
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The Story the Week Has Told

the Hapsburg archdukes and 16 high
dignitaries of state, all holding office
for life, except the dignitaries OF
state, who were eX-officio members.
The new House will have 240 mem
bers in six categories. The first cate
| CORY will number about 38 and will
| include representatives elected by the
former hereditary noble members and
| those Hapsburg archdukes who have
resided Ave years in Hungary, own
land in Hungary, speak and write
Hungarian and are of age. (Of such
Hapsburgs there are only four
namely, Frederick and his son, AL
brecht, and Joseph and his son
| Franz.
The second category will consist OF
about 80 members elected for five
year terms by city and rural councils
The claim of a democratic character
for this category lat any rate, as re
| CARDS the near future) is not taker
too seriously, as few Of the councils
have been reconstructed by elections
since the war.
| The third category, numbering 30
will consist of representatives OF the
Roman Catholic Church and two
Protestant churches and two repre-
sentatives of the Jewish faith.
The fourth category will be com
posed of a dozen or so high digni
| taries Of State, including senior Judges
| the attorney general, the commander
in chief Of the army and president
of the national bank (all ex-otf1clo
members).
The members of the fifth category
40 in number, will be elected by
sundry bodies such as the chambers
of agriculture and commerce, the
stock exchange, the universities. the
academies of science and the arts
| etc. Half the seats of the category
will be refilled every five years.
The~sixth category will be mace uI
| Of a maximum Of 40 members desig'
mated for life by the head Of the
state Regent Horthy) on NOMINATION
J of the government.
The powers of the new upper house
| will be limited much as are those OF
| the British House of Lords.
| The reconstruction is seen to be
move in the democratic direction, but,
like every move made under the guild
ance of Count Bethlen and Admiral
Horthy, a very cautious one. Premier
Bethlen has not yielded to the clamor
| for extension of the secret ballot to
the rural constituencies. "Democ
racy," says he, docs not fall like
a ripe plum into the lap of the peo'
ple.'' He would postpone such extern.
sion until the political education OF
the peasantry has progressed consid
erably beyond it's present stage. 1t
remains to see what really is the tenn
per of Count Bethlen. whose tenure OF
power seems secure for a good time
ahead Is he for gradual evolution
| toward genuine democracy or is he at
heart a reactionary?
X X X X
Australia.-The commonwealth gov
eminent of Australia Is about to take
over from the State of Western Aus
tralia all of that state north of the
twenty-sixth parallel of south latitude
G.e., almost half the state) and to add
1t to the Northern Territory, which has
an area of about $4,000 square miles
and g. population of about 1000 whites
and 10000 aborigines.
Western Australia has been unable
to find the money to develop hel
northern half. whence a SEPARATES
sentiment In that half finding expires
sion In a secession league. The ares