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its determination to so change the British con-
stitution as to saddle the empire for good with
junker control, permanent ascendancy of
the uniform wearing and stiff1y conservative
classes.
That was too much even for its own party
supporters, and its proposals are in state of
withdrawal and concession, but the original
scheme fair warning OF the real spirit
guiding the British government at the present
time. The present British government is, in
fact, doing its best to revive the role of the
defeated Hohcnzollern Imperialism, and if it can
hold the empire in its present course it will
certainly steer the British people toward
struggle and fate that may repeat the German
experience. And this it is able to do in spite
of the national temperament and the high ira
ditions of the English, because of the capacity
and shortsghtedness of the politicians who
have contrivcd to impose themselves upon the
main masses of liberal thought.
That is the most momentous fact in world
affairs at the present time. The paralysis of
English liberalism carries with it the paralysis
OF progress throughout the world.
The elemental necessity before that moiety
Of the English people which forms the nucleus
Of the British empire, if it is to go on playing
its proper part in the shaping OF human destiny,
is to get rid of Mr. Baldwins government and
all its works as speedily as possible. 1t has to
do this for its own sake and for the sake Of
the worlds future. 1t has to shake itself clear
of this imperiast mlitarism which is alien to
its nature. 1t is an obligation.
But when the English people turns to the
Liberal and Labor politicians who should be
transatng its manifest will into achieved fact,
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an Englishman' and 1t is our claim that we
would rather be trusted than exalted among the
people of the earth
Whatever the diplomatic situation may have
been, the great mass OF the English folk in the
New World, as in the Old, believed that they
were fighting aggressive nlonarchistic militarsm
in the great war and preparing the way for a
peace without uniforms. They hated Germany
more for her goose step than for the threat of
her feet. The seed of that rather wted but
still living plant the League of Nations, was
sown by the practical liberalism Of the English
mind on both sides of the Atlantic and could
never have existed but for the faith of the
English in reasonable dealing. The faith of our
people launched that experiment and to them
alone the world look for the mental courage
to face its disappointments and accumulate and
organize the resolution needed for the next
thrust and experiment in the same direction.
X X
Liberalism of thought and restrained stead
fastness in act have been the collaboration Of
the English people i'll human affairs during the
last two centuries. None of us claim any pre-
posterous superiorites over other peoples; and
most OF us can admit inferiorites without a
qualm. The French, for example, are certainly
more direct and clear headed than we are and
the Germans more thorough. We lack the ami
nation of the Levantine and the mental richness
of the Slav.
We have curiously atmospheric quality in
our thought; we not rapid with our problems
and we are apt to middle about with perplexities
and betray lack of haste and see-all, which
exasperates observers. At the present time, and
indeed since 1917, we have been making a bad
showing. 1t is time we woke up to what we are
not doing A time may come when we shall
discover that the world has not waited for the
English.
For 10 years the English speaking thinking
people of the United States and of the British
empire, for I cannot separate them in these
matters, have on the whole been disposed toward
some settlement of the worlds affairs that would
insure permanent peace.
do not believe that there would have been
even League of Nations without the initiative
OF the English on both sides Of the Atlantic and
/ believe that the welcome and acquie scence OF
the other nations OF the world in that project
was due to their belief I'm the word of the Eng
lishmen, to their belief that the great section of
mankind we English constitute and control
would see the vast promises of President Wilson
through to a working reality They thought
that there was that much moral force in the
world and that the Engish-spea king masses
embodied it and meant it.
believe enough in the quality of my own
people to be persuaded they were right
believe that on November II, 1918, the world
was within sight of broad permanent settle
ment of its political affairs that would have
ended war, that the war to end war had been
fought and won; that the will to end war was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
DAWES PLAN APPARENTLY MEETS
PROBLEM OF COLLECTING DEBTS
Subsequent Payments by Germany Will Depend on
Balance of Trade, However-Forecast of
Future Settlements Is Impossible

the event of the foreign situation be-
ing temporarily unfavorable TO trans.
fers collections should be allowed to
accumulate in the Reichsbank or
might he employed in the German
money market. until such accumula-
tions had reached the sum Of 5000, 900 .
900 reichsmarks. Thereafter, tax levies
for reparations should be reduced to
such an extent as only to cover cur
rent transfers and maintain the fund
at this sum.
In view Of these provisions. it is
hardly in order TO say Of the plan, as is
being said in some comments, that it
is in danger Of breaking down. p"
Whatever the outcome, the plan will
have functioned just as it was design.
ed to do, in determining to what ex-
tent reparation payments are practical
BILE and the means by which they may
be accomplished.
Copyright. 1927
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humble characters to be exhibit
ed in this way.
Yet ! make no apology. | Sc.
lected them because they were
humble, because by their pride
(smile at it if you willy they
clothed their work, and them
selves, with dignity, which makes
them fit companions for the best.
The seeds Of genius were in
them; they were brothers to
Michelangeio and Caruso and
Lincoln and st. Paul.
For humble and unknown az
they were, they looked on the
work Of their hands as God look
ed at creation when He called
it good" They had the first
element Of divinity-an upstand-
ing pride in the job.
BY that wholesome pride
America has attained business
leadership; for every American
who is worth his salt believes
that where he lives is Gods
country, and that his particular
business is the best and most
important in the world.
When this piece is printed !
shall tear it out and send it to
a certain man who has been
very unfortunate. Other mon
seem to have luck in finding good
concerns to work for, but not he.
One Of the companies that en-
ployed him was made up Of
old fosies who never give a
young chap a chance. Another
was so big that he was lost in it,
while a third was just a little
concern that any one could see
would never amount to much.
The enthusiasm of Rothschild's
chiropodist and our lowIy steam
filter would be an enigma to
him. Something serious has been
the matter with every job he
ever held.
1871
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eminent would release educational progress,
check armament, relieve the world from the fear
OF adventures against Russia and China sustained
more or less furtivey by Britain, break the ugly
association with Mussolini, show living regard
for free speech and private freedom and reassure
the forces of peace and civilization in France,
Germany, Poland and Hungary.
Either should do. The general desire is for
one or the other and the question which the
politicians pose is which? Both the Liberal and
the Labor party tricksters have in turn, cheated
the country out OF proportional representation,
which would have relieved much of this present
difficulty. 1t is too late to go into that issue now
The primary concern of intelligent Englishmen
now is to get rid OF this Baldwin Junker minis
try, which is unpaatable to intelligent finan-
cial and business men, with some understanding
OF the necessary cosmopolitanism of modern
Liberal minded Labor.
How is this to be done?
1t seems to me that the occasion would be
best met by the formation of series of new
local political organizations, beside and indie
pendent OF the local officials of the Liberal and
Labor parties What is needed is the organza-
ton OF block OF voters who will vote primarily
against the government and only secondary
for either Liberal Labor. The sensible thing
seems to be to vote in each constituency for
whichever of those two political parties secured
the largest vote against the Conservative at the
preceding contest, irrespective of all their btfer-
ing against each other. One would vote Liberal
here or one would vote Labor there in order not
to waste ones vote. In that way the govern
ment could be reduced to minority and probably
small minority in the House of Commons and
whatever else happened there would be an arrest
of the threatened Observation-Disclosures" of
British policy and the British empire.
x X *
do not know what supplies of non bipartisan
political energy available in Great Britain at
the present time. Certain papers, the Express
group and Mr.. Garvins Sunday Observer, for
example, seem to care about as much for party
loyalty as l do, and probably, at bottom,
quite OF my mind about stopping the reactionary
DRIFT They are conducted by men of ina gination
with size OF the greatness OF our people; others
are mere party organs, in which not merely
the leading articles but the arrangements and
display of news calculated to favor one or
other of the contending parties
But even among the readers of these biased
papers there must be growing multitude impa-
tlent with the extraordinary way in which Great
Britain at present bellies itself and endangers the
outlook OF mankind. 1t needs but crystalzing
touch to give that impatience form and drec-
tIon We want "WakeUp- England" movement
IN Great Britain and not only in Great Britain
but for all the English throughout the earth. We
want mood and form of politics that will save
our destinies from our politicians while there are
still great things to be saved.
Copyright. 1927. by the New Times Co. Translation
rights reserved.)
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disposition OF President Wilson to make world
peace the monopoly of the Democratic party
and the consequent estrangement of the Repub-
lican ma jority. His obsession by the idea of the
sovereignty of nationality" and his ncapacity
to think out what he meant by a nationality, his
diplomatic incompetence and intellectual and
moral seclusion have been set out plainly in
huge literature of criticism, and so have the
disgusts, resentments and ftfulness of the Amer
lean people it realized that it's will for peace
was thwarted and sought to shift the blame
from its own political institutions. | will not
enlarge upon that tangled story here.
But the record of the failure of the British
will for peace is history that has not been so
plainly told. 1t is worth while getting down to
its elements. 1t is story OF Illustration by
politicians. even more striking than the Amer
lean parallel.
Now, as always, there is a manifest majority
of voters in Great Britain the left side il
public affairs; the spirit Of the British peoples
is now, as it has been generally for century,
liberal, compromising, tolerant and anxious for
a fair deal between nation and class and class,
and yet at the present time the British govern
ment is not simply aloof, like the American,
from world direction, it is tie leading force max
ing for social reaction, nationahsm armament
and war everywhere in the world today.
1t is delaying the operation OF world labor
legislation at Geneva it has pursued narrowly
nationalist tariff policy and blocked the economic
conference; it has played a retrograoe role in
the disarmament farce; it is celebrating a me-
chanical army; it has ruptured the effort of its
predecessors to achieve a working understand
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-07
The Something Is Himself
BY BRUCE BARTON.

TROM a distant city some
- one sent me a newspaper
| clipping which told Of the
- death of a humble man.
He had spent his life in an OBJ
scure job, nothing much to be
proud Of, you would say. But of
one thing he was very proud.
He boasted about it all his life,
and the city newspapers report
ed it when he died.
He was one of the men who
helped Install steam heat in the
White House.
Perhaps you will smile when
you read that. If SO, here is a
chance for a broad grin. The
greatest figure in the financial
world Of his time was Baron
RothsehiId. Most Of the govern
rents Of Europe were his debt
ors more or less, and with his
powerful brothers ne once pre-
vented war by agreeing that they
would lend money to neither
side.
Many people were proud to
be in his confidence or service,
but none more so land here is
where you laush) than the Chi
ropodist who took care of the
baron's feet. As he worked away
at his mental task he would talk
to himself after this fashion:
"Thou now hast in thy hands
the foot of the man who holds
the whole world in his hands;
thou art a man Of consequence.
If thou cuttest a little. too sharp.
iy into the sole, he will be an
noyed and cut the greatest kings
worse than ever"
With such reflections this
simple soul ministered to his
pride in his work.
admit that this stea mfitter
and this ehiropodist are very
fCocyri..
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it finds crew of active and ingenious second
rate and thirdrate men engaged in petty feuds
and divided into two bitterly contentious camps,
without shadow OF principle to distinguish
them. 1t is extraordinary how hard it is to
separate Liberal from Labor party men except
by the fact that they are separated. Of many
Of these people, l who live fairly close to it all
do not know the party associations from day
to day. Of so-and-so or so-and-so / ask, HAS
he gone or has he come back?'-it is
subtle little question of quality and much
question of postal address, There seem rather
more lawyers in the Liberal party and many
more glorihed trade union officials in the Labor
party, but man like Comdr. Kenworthy, for
example, can go from party to the other
or back again with as little change of nature as
performing sea lion hopping to and fro through
hoop.
In power the Labor politicians have shown
themselves mere snobs, socially ignorant rather
than virtuous, and pathetically anxious to assure
the world that there is no danger from Social
ism in our time" They are Liberals in red ties
who have to cater for the earnestness of the
young supporter.
On the Liberal side. wary, alert figures like
Sir John Simon and Sir Herbert Samuel dodge
and posture about with manifest effort to look
like the sort OF commanding, attractive and in
spring personalities the English are supposed to
trust and adore-those two are the most pronli-
nent of whole host of commonplace careerists
of no personal significance at all-and Mr.
Lloyd George tries an infnitude of perplexing
poses to catch the unfying spirit as it fits
uncertainty he her
might very we'll catch the unifying spirit if only
the unifying spirit could be sure that it had
caught him. But there is no outstanding figure
at all to hold and reassure both factions. There
might be in Philip Snowden were he physically
a stronger man.
That is the situation. One by-election follows
another. Each time the government vote shrnks
to smaller proportion of the total; sometimes a
Liberal scrapes him, sometimes Labor man,
and sometimes the Conservative keeps his seat
with close upon two-thirds of the poll against
hun. But in general election the mutual ami
moslties of these wrangline factions rise to
malice that prefers government victory to the
success of the kindred competitors
1t is just as likely that the next election will
leave the existing government in power. posi-
Dihty fraught with disaster to the whole world,
as that either of these opposition gangs will
scramble to greater total than the Tories.
NOW to the great mass of English peopIe
these party fcuds and chickering's between Liberal
and Labor are matter of entire insignifcance.
Nobody believes that the Labor party has the
courage or capacity to carry through anv extern
sive socialzing operations, and nobody believes
that Liberal government would carry out
policy very different from that of a Labor gov
eminent But either Liberal or Labor gov
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ing with Russia and
has done much to
check and disorganize
the first hopeful at
tempt to create some
thing better than a
brieand government in
China.
y X Y X
1t is the friendly
and helpful associate
Of the Fascist tyranny
in Italy, a temporary
success of Nationalist
violence that sustains
and encourages t h c
most militant and ag-
gressive elements in
French, German, Span
ish, Polish and Hun
garian affairs. 1t is
doing its best to break
the political representa-
ton of the British trade
unions; it has arrested
all educational progress,
and in the Cave pro-
posals for the recon-
struction of the
House of Lords it
has frankly displayed
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Expert on Petroleum
Studies Sea Bottom

A long look ahead in the oil indus.
try is being taken by DR.. Parker d.
Trask. research associate Of the
American Petroleum Institute. Back.
ed by grant from the John D..
| Rockefeller fund of the institute, he
is sampling sea bottom muds and
sands in order to throw new light on
the question of the origin of pc.
troleum.
DIR. Trask's attention was turned to
the sea bottom by the fact, long
known to biologists, that the sup
posed source of beds Of most OF the
present day oil fields are marine in
origin. Though these were laid down
many millions of years ago, they
must have had at least the raw ma.
terials of oil scattered through them
then, which was later concentrated in
the pools now being drained.
Samples OF sea bottom mud and
sands were taken from shoal waters
in two regions, off the coasts Of south.
ern California and of North Carolina,
and their oil-producing capacity de-
termined by distillation, by burning
out everything combustible and by
other chemical and physical methods.
'All types of sediment. from clay to
sand, upon distillation produced OIL"
DR.. Trask reports. THE yield was
low and in general varied in amount
with the degree of fineness OF the
sediments, ranging from a maximum
Of 81 gallons per ton in a clay-silt to
almost nothing in O sand This maxi
mum yield of 81 gallons per ton is
but or 10 per cent the amount oh.
tanned from the better grades Of oil
shale, which run from 30 to so or
even more gallons per ton"
The work so far carried on Is re.
garded merely as preliminary recon
Nuisance, to he followed by more ex.
haustive research both in the field
and in the laboratorys
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AMERICANS FLOCK TO FOREIGN
SHORES AS TRAVEL FEES VANISH
knowledge Gained in World War and Better Steam.
ship Facilities Given as Causes of Increased
Exodus From United States.

visitors with the same erstwhile reg.
ularity that it, was wont to do.
These countries have entered into
an agreement whereby visas have
| been waived: Honduras, Liberia.
Liechtenstein. Nicaragua, Siam, Pan.
anna. Switzerland and Belgium. These
nations have waived the fees: Al.
bania. Costa Rica. Denmark, Estonia.
Finland, Germany. Guatemala. Ice.
land, Japan. Mexico. Persia, Saliva.
dor and Sweden. A reduction Of
ices from the quondam popular figure
or $40 has been made by Austria.
which charges 81 for a regular and
20 cents for person passing through
the country; Bulgaria, which charges
81; Spain, which charges 10 pesetas.
or S1.5O; Jugoslavia, which taxes the
traveller 90 cents, 81 or 81, depending
on the nature of the visa. and Chile.
~. Honduras does not REQUIRE a
passport.
Fees of Other Nations.
Argentina charges So, Bolivia, $3.50;
Brazil, $3.50; China, 81; Colombia, 81:
Cuoa requires neither passport nor
visa. CzechOslovakia charges $40. the
Tree city of Danzig requires neither
passport nor visa, and this is also
ecuador charges So and Egypt $40,
france requires $40 and a transit fee
Tor tourists passing through the coun-
try or 81; Great Britain charges $40
and Greece levies a like sum, except
where tourists travel in groups, when
81 is the fee: Haiti does not require a
passport. Hungary charges $40. "a
does Italy and Lithuania; the Luxem-
burg tax is 81 and Monaco requires
nfc. h.
put there Is no visa required for
transit during a visit of less than
eight days; Norway charges $40. but
Paraguay requires neither passport
nor visa; Peru levies SIS and Poland
$40; Portugal charges $3.50 and $3.50.
on the nature OF the trip;
Rumania charges so. but Uruguay
demands neither passport nor visa,
while VeneZuela's tax is 81.
Reductions have been entered into
through agreements negotiated with
the various countries under power OF
the act of February %, 1925. These
agreements are made with countries
that extend similar privileges to citi.
zens of the United States, but do not
n brace immigrants. President Cool.
dge, by an executive order issued May
l5, 1925. authorized the Secretary
If State to conclude agreements on
his subject by an exchange of notes.
How successful this has been can be
ranged from the number Of countries
hat have either waived visas or visa
ees or lowered the fees.
Correspondence between the United
Kingdom and the United States bear.
ng on the subject of reduction of
fees. has recently been pub.
ished at London. This attempt to cut
he $40 fee with Great Britain has
allied to bear fruit. Great Britain
axes the position that the immigrant
hould also enjoy any benefit in r..
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