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is almost double that i'm 1923, that
Of tobacco 20 per cent higher. There
are 16.491 breweries in Germany and
all are working full blast.
Il u u X
Rumania.-So death has again in.
teryened dramatically in Rumanian
affairs. On Thursday Ion Bratianu,
premier. and in effect dictator of Ru-
mania, died suddenly from blood in
fection ensuing upon a throat opera
ton. The cabinet having of course
presented their designations to the
regency council, the latter invited
VintiIa Bratianu, brother of Ion and
finance minister in the late cabinet,
to form a government. He at once
did SO, the new cabinet being the
same as the old, except for a new
finance minister and his own shift
from the finance ministry to the pre-
miership.
Almost any sort of development
from the new situation is imaginable.
Ion Bratianu, who died at 63, was no
doubt one of the most remarkable
personalities Of his time.
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China.-The Chinese situation has
been a good deal simplified through
the Nanking government. Apparently
the Hankow, or Wuhan, government
I: is now definitely Of the past. On
the other hand. control of Canton
once more by extremists of the Han
kow complexion is threatened. Ac-
| counts Of the fighting north of the
YangtZe leave us much to seek. The
general indicat ton, however, is of sue
| cess of Chang Tso-Lin and his great
allies against the northward drive
| from Marking and against the in.
effable hypocrite and betrayer, FenS
Yu Hsiang, the christian general"
E. who is, presumably. allied for the
nonce with Nanking. The rumor per-
sists that Chang Tso.Lin has resolved
! to mount the dragon throne and that
his days and nights are being pleas
antly spent in rehearsal for the i'm.
perial role.
X u II *
| United States of America.-The air.
plane carrier Saratoga, which went
| into commission on November 16, is
| by wide margin the greatest vessel
of her type in the world. Her dis.
placement is $4,000 tons, her maxi.
mum speed about 34.5 knots, her carry
J ing capacity 80 planes of sundry types,
her cost $40.000,00 She was built
at the South Camden shipyards: her
sister, the Lexington, is nearing COM
pletion at Fore River.
| More than $50 airports of landing
fields of permanent character have
been constructed in the United
| States. and q cities or towns are
planning for municipal airports.
| The net earnings available for divi.
dends and surplus) of the General Mo-
tors Corporation for the first nine
months of 1927 totaled $193,75S,3O2, a
| figure almost equal to that for the
whole of last year. record year.
| We are told that the deposits OF
the "a leading New York banks In
creased from $4,000. $50, 900 to S7.772.-
1000 in the 10 years, 1917-1926. AT
the end of 1916 the capital of these
"a banks totaled 65,000,O00: at the
end of 1926 1t had reached $S5S,700,'
900. The year 1927 promises to prove
a record year.
Mr.. Longworth Is quoted as con-
lsidering the most important problems
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! ern planes for business travel. Man,
airplane clubs have been formed and
private flying for sport and pleasure
has developed rapidly in the past l:
months. Thousa nds of private owners
soon will fly for pleasure in up-tO-date
modern. inherently stable aircraft Al
a reasonable cost. 1t is difficult to an
ticipate the extent to which this class
of flying will grow.
1T might be said" states Clarence
NJ. Young, director of aeronautics
that the present civil demand repre-
sents but the initial production of a
new industry. Civil aeronautics has
in the main, been operating on war
surplus. The demand for modern
planes, the diminution of war supply
and the applicatio of Federal inspec.
ton combined with the widespread
acceptance of the airplane in business
promise an increase of which any es-
innate must be but a guess"
1000 Pilots Licensed.
The number of pilots which have
been licensed to date by the Depart
ment of Commerce now exceeds 1000.
Hundreds of applications are still
pending and only half the total mum.
Der of airmen in the country have
applied for license to operate planes
in interstate travel.
Government participation has
brought very definite and compre-
henSive service to the industry. as
the safe and continued development
of all classes of operations depends
largely on the airworthiness of the
planes used. the competency of pilots
the establishment and maintenance of
properly equipped airways. the en-
forcement of standard air traffic rules
and adequate dissemination of infor-
nation concerning facilities on air.
ways and at airports.
The air commerce act, approved by
President Coolidge MAY 20, 1926.
provided comprehensively for the
promotion and regulation of air trans.
porta ton. Air regulations were finally
adopted and made effective on Decem.
ber 81, 1926. There was no precedent
for such regulations and drafting
them was complicated problem.
They provide in detail for the inspec-
ton. registration and licensing of
aircraft, the examination and licensing
of pilots and mechanics. the identified
tion Of all aircraft not licensed, and
they set up air traffic rules
Because of the pressure of work in
examining and licensing aircraft and
their personnel. the aeronautics
branch of the Department of Com.
merce has been unable to keep pace
this year with it's work on the
examination and rating of airports
and landing facilities Mai. Young.
the director of aeronautics, reports
that the number of these has grown
beyond any reasonable anticipation
and that this phase of the Commerce
Departments inspection work must
be given attention during the coming
year.
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but there is reason to fear that the
decomposition errs on the side of
optimism. Since September 8 the Ger
mans have made the most of the op-
portunity offered, furiously busting
themselves to Supplant us in the
French markets.
The Left would like to eject Poin.
care before the coming parliamentary
elections (they must be held not later
than next May) so as to be in control
of the governmental machinery dur
ing those elections. But those gentle.
men are sagacious enough to fear that
election of Poincare might be at once
followed by new debacle of the franc,
and that, they are aware, would mean
debacle of the Left at the elections.
So, much against the grain, they are
curbing their wild horses.
Poincare will wage the coming cam.
paign on the argument that continu-
ing welfare of the franc and the coun.
try is dependent op return of a parlia-
ment that may b@counted on to sup
port his policies. The Left orators will,
of course, minimize the results achiev.
ed by Poincare.
On October 25 France celebrated the
one-hundredth anniversary of the
birth of Marcelin Berthelot, the chem.
list and statesman, one of the princes
of science. That extraordinary man,
Raymond Poincare, finds time to write
a memorial, which discloses in the
memorialist a profound knowledge
of chemistry.
The French military authorities do
not accept the German thesis that
the LocarnO accord furnished COM
plete, absolutely reliable, sempiternal
lsrtra rfnfn of ,,.tf Tl1nyy
are constructing an elaborate new
system of fortifications and fortified
lines over against the German from
tier. based on the experience of the
Great War. TO be sure, the treaty
of Versailles provided for "demili-
tarized" Rhineland zone, but very
senSibly the French do not take that
provision seriously. Parliament has
destined 7,000.O00,000 (paper) francs
| to the work, which is well in train;
but one suspects that the total cost
will considerably exceed that figure
The science of adaptation of defensive
dispositions to the terrain was i'm
mensely developed in the late
| latest (not the las) word of the
science. Still more notably developed
| In the Great War was the science OF
| communications and elaborate pro
vision is made for strategic railways
and motor roads. telephone and tele-
| graph circuits, etc.
| \; *
Germany.-The Winter session OF
the Reichstag opened on Tuesday. 1t
Is widely thought that general cleo
tions will be held not later than May
or June next. Few would deny that
the present Reichstag long since
ceased to be genuinely representative
of public opinion. There are several
! issues on which the Marx coalition
government might come a cropper-
such as the budget and clerical con-
troll in the schools. Recent local elec-
tions indicate leftward tendency.
In 1913, 80 per 100000 of the Ger
man population emigrated; in 1926
1903 per 100000 (65.000 in alD. The
highest years emigration since the
war Q2S,000) was that of 1923 dur
ing the height of imitation.
! The per capita consumption of beer
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NOnl1lueu from FlrSL Idse.b
before he bought it, that its condition
would warrant it's use with safety.
1t is the belief of Bay State officials
that the condition of any automobile
not altogether the make, as many sup
pose-is an excellent indication of
what type of driver it's owner may be.
Bad brakes. inefficient steering, sput
tering. futile power plant mean at
least a slovenly, careless. if not always
Il reckless, driver. in the opinion of
many safety advocates, and the inter-
est of the majority is held to Justify
the elimination of both car and driver
from the highway. {.
Massachusetts is achieving this
through her compulsory insurance law
where every other State has failed
through less far-reaching legislation.
though with no less expense of time,
study and energy.
The great body of Massachusetts mo.
torists are learning that it definitely is
up to them whether they shall pay
more or less for their compulsory au-
tomobile liability insurance. and in
this ever-broadening knowledge safety
proponents see an effect upon the acci
dent situation of tremendous moment.
Upon their capacity to prove them
selves good or bad drivers depends the
experience of the underwriters who
provide them with insurance policies.
If this experience is favorable. rates
go down; otherwise they go up. The
motorist definitely pays as he drives.
Herein. say Bay State officials. lies
an aspect of safety in the statute
that its opponents do not like to see
brought into the light, SO they try to
hide 1t under IA barrage of propaganda,
which states that accidents have in,
creased because financial responsible
ity has been transferred from the in.
dividual to the insurance company.
State May Fix Rates.
How in the name of logic can re.
sponsibilty be transferred? they ask.
The insurance company may pay the
| bill for the individual accident. but
eventually it collects the loss from the
| policyhOldcr In the form of higher
premiums if the accident total justifies
an increase.
The State may fix the rates and
supervise the writing of compulsory
liability insurance in Massachusetts.
| but the insurer has complete conf
dence that this regulation never will
reach the stage where private enter
prise is penalzed.
AS the great body Of motor car
owners recognizes that the reckless
and careless are costing every one
money, there will be a decidedly whole.
some effect upon the whole safety
situation, because the careful driver
will be disposed to cooperate with
those agencies which are trying to end
the reckless motorists reign of terror
This. in the main, is the perspective
of Massachusetts officialdom on the
safety aspects of the compulsory In
surance law. With facts and figures
that are complete. up to date and oper
to any one who cares to study them
they challenge those who declare the
law a menace to safety to prove theii
allegations, even though safety was
not purpose of the law.
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PRACTICAL SYNTHETIC RUBBER
FAR In FUTURE, SLOSSON SAYS
Price of Production Seen Blow to Claims of German
Chemical Trust-Previous Reports
Are Recalled.

In this crystalline structure of the nat
ural rubber. revealed only recently by
the X-ray. lies the secret of it's useful
ness. its incompatible elasticity and
resiliency. Rubber is easy to stretch.
but hard to break
Hitherto none of the artificial rub.
bers have the peculiar cellular struc-
ture of the natural and therefore none
has equaled its ''stretchability." The
rubber made by the Germans during
the war was found satisfactory for
hard rubber articles but not for soft.
If now this difficulty has been over.
come as we'll as the high price of pro-
| duction, the future of synthetic rub
ber is assured.
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frequently into the streets; and slaves
brought water in jars from the near
est well or spring. The jars them
selves might be beautifully painted
and turned, and the excellently carved
furniture contrasted with the bare
walls and the dirt or pebble floor.
This description (Which we have
taken from Breasted) is hardly in
keeping with our old romantic concep-
ton Of Greek life. But we must remem-
ber that the Greeks hardly used their
homes except as dormitories; their
time was spent for the most part in
the market-place. on the road. or on
the athletic field; always under the
sky. and always garbed in the loose
toga that could in moment be cast
aside for games.
The philosophers complained that
the Greeks gave so much of their
time to athletics--to running, discus
throwing, wrestling, boxing, and so
forth; but it was just this lively COM
bination Of thought and play, of mind
and body, that gave Athenian life its
characteristic beauty and verve See
these young men playing hockey.
naked. in the British museum; of
course, they are not live Englishmen,
but sculptured Greeks. When, every
four years, the cities of Greece sent
their finest youths to contest in the
OLYMPIC games, it was a bond of
union and amity among the states and
a source Of healthy rivalry; and when
great poets like Pindar honored the
victor with immortal song, it SYM
bolized admirably the Greek devo-
ton to the sound body as basis of
the sound mind. Socrates was strong
at 20, and could drink without fear
and without reproach; Plato was an
athlete, and lived to so years; AEschy-
lus the dramatist, wished to be re-
membered as a warrior, and Sophocles
was chosen as the finest OF Greek
youth to lead. unclad, the process
sion that welcomed the heroes Of
Salamis.
PericIes.
It was over this varied life that
Pericles ruled. with occasional inter-
ruptions, for more than 80 years a6O-
429 3. c.. Democracy had gone so far
now that almost every office was
filled by lot or rOte, and ability hao
no more chance than incompetence
to achieve political supremacy. But
there was one position which the
Greeks dared not leave to chance;
it was the office of strategos-com'
mander-in.ch chief of the army and navy,
and more important for Pericles' pur'
poses) controller of the treasury. Grad
ually, because this place was the refuge
of ambition and leadership. its incum'
bents became the dominant figures
in Athenian political life 1t is one
Of the remarkable phenomena in the
history of government that Pericies
persuaded the fickle Athenians to re-
elect him. year after year. for nearly
a generation. to this apex OF respon-
sibility and power.
If we may believe Plutarch, 1t was
philosophy that turned Pericles from
a politician clever in keeping ONCE
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and more extravagant over the army.
navy and air services. The blend
might. indeed, be better than either
party; faults might cancel out. And
since l am convinced that people like
Sir Herbert Samuel and Mr.. Mac
Donald are incurable, set upon their
party follies, l am obliged-we are
obliged-to cast about for other figures
upon which we may concentrate our
enthusiasm and to whom we may
look for some sort of leadership be-
yond mere party strategy in the ap-
preaching struggle.
Ones mind turns to Lloyd George
He is a seasoned coalitionist and he
is plainly disposed toward another
coalition. He has made alluring
gestures toward the Left. but an un-
usual hesitation to return them is
apparent. Plainly. Labor, though it
may work with him, will not put itself
under him.
And that applies not merely to the
party-obsessed Labor people. We all
like Mr.. Lloyd George, but at times
he wells his solid worth beneath an
agility and fleXibility that leave us
uneasy. / do not know if we can look
to him to play a secondary role in a
combination. 1t would necessarily be
a very considerable role. And, after
all, he is technically a Liberal. and
the majority of the anti-government
mass is Labor. The headship of any
combination for the preservation of
ir1 t1N -,
the majority. The leader should be a
Labor man. This also excludes Lord
Cecil, with his traditional attitude
toward church and land. from the
formal leadership. So one turns to
the Labor party and looks for a coali-
ton just there.
/ consider Henderson, Thomas,
Clynes, all surely ministers in coali-
tion. but none of them quite what we
require as figurehead. Then I come
to Snowden and stop; there. believe,
Is the man who can lead the British
empire under a coalition government
back to sanity. security and the serv.
ice of peace. There Is a certain quail
ity Of greatness about SnOwden which
Is not very widely distributed in our
political world today. 1 suppose that
among statesmen. politicians and pub
lie servants Of all types and parties
Philip Snowden is more generally re-
spected and would be more willingly
trusted than any other cotemporary.
He is a man whose public character.
quite as much as his private char.
acter, Is without spot or blemish. He
is a man of real capacity and great
personal force. He is the man we
want, and do not see why we. the
growing multitudes of British people
who want to get rid of this dangerous
Evening star., 1927-11-27
The Story of Civilization

Note--In the twelfth instalment of his
Story of Civilization" to be published next
Sunday. DR.. Durant will tell of Aeschylns
and the Greek drama.
Evening star., 1927-11-27
The Gods of Greece.

What was this religion that chal-
lenged Anaxagoras. exiled Protagoras
and Aristotle, threatened Aspasia and
poisoned Socrates?
1t had begun, Ike most religions
of the ancient world, in the worship
Of spirits In trees and stars and
beasts and the plants of the field.
Strange magic rites and charming
myths had grown out Of this simple
animism. So the earth made fertile by
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Compulsory Liability
Insurance Aids Safety

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1927-11-27
BY HENRY w. BUM.

following is a brief sum
mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended Novem-
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NSpdSId,
The spots on the sun of Greek
civilization were the slavery of the
workers and the seclusion Of women.
From the time of Homer the status
of women had risen no higher. and
had perhaps sunk a little lower; in
every rank the wives were domestic
Evening star., 1927-11-27
ATHENS.

Ny the time the war was over,
y Athens had already rebuilt its
\ homes and renewed the uneven
y tenor of it's busy life. I'm
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Wedding of Christmas
Week Of Special Interest.

pretty wedding will take place
this afternoon at 4 O'Clock. in Sacred
Heart Church. when Miss Mary An
Eeia ODonnen, daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. William ]. 0'Donnell becomes the
h'1de Of DR.. John ]. Lynch Of this
city son of MIR. John Lynch OF Con
necticut. The Rev. Joseph Kennedy
cousin Of the bride. Will otiiCiate.
The decorations in the church are
IN Keeping With the season, and as the
Cuests~are assembling and during the
ceremony Miss Mary Louise sullivan
oryanist Of the church. will play q
program of sacred music. Miss Haze
Arth viii sing several solos.
The bride will he given in marriage
by her father and Will wear gown
If ivory satin trimmed With lace and
designed along houffant lines, Her Vel
$ of Limerick lace and she Will carry
bouquet of white roses and lilies al
the valley.
Miss Katherine O'Donneu will he
maid Of honor for her sister, woarlne
a gown Of corn-Colored taffeta SIR
trimmed with fusia. a hat to masch
the trimming on the gown, and she
VIII carry yellow roses.
The other attendants will he Miss
Louise Horton. Miss Mary keane
Mrs. Justice Gibson and Miss Claire
O'Donnen, sister of the bride. They
viii wear taffeta gowns made IN hout,
tant style. with black velvet hat, ana
viii carry bridesmaid roses.
DR.. Thomas O'Brien Of New York
will be the best man. and the ushefs
selected are Dr. Robert T.. Mora n
DR., John Mcdonnell. Dr.. Edward
O'Erien and Mir. James Moran.
- 1se4- xNF hYfGF
VIII wear a gown OF transparent vel
Vet and gold cloth.
Following the ceremony reception
for the wedding party will he held al
the home of the brides parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lynch will leave later
in the day for a wedding trip, ms
bride wearing a gown ot brown anC
gold with wrap and hat 10 CORE
spnnd.
The bride is graduate of Immacu
hate Seminary and DIR. Lynch SFadoi'
ated from Georgetown Medical School
The marriage of Miss Alice EsSa
rnond Dickev. daughter of Mr.. anC
Mrs. Raymond r. nickey. To Mr.. L.
Austin Thompson. son of Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Thompson Of Yonkers
" Y. took place yesterday, at noon
in the home of the brides parents
Zoe kilhourne place. the Rev. James
= Shera Montgomery. chaplain OF the
House OF Representatives. officiating
The bride wore a tan chiffon velve'
afternoon gown. with. accessories t
correspond and a shoulder corsage oil
yellow roses.
Mrs. James T. Bergman was tbs
nnatron of honor. wearing light blue
MORE afternoon gown and corsa &c
bouquet Of Sweetheart roses.
Mr.. Reynolds LAWYER of Yonker:
was the best man.
Following the ceremony an informa
wedding breakfast for the immediate
families and few friends was giver
IN the small ballroom of the Hoie
Roosevelt
Mrs. Dickey. mother 81 the bride
we're a French blue georsette crepe
and Mrs. Thompson was in a darkei
hiBe crep.e satin gown.
Mr. and Mrs. Thompson will make
their home in New York City. The
bride is a graduate Of Swarthmors
College. and the bridegroom was grad
uafed from Columbia University.
Among the out-of-fown guests was
Mr. Granville f. Dickey Of Chicago
brother Of the bride.