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The Story the Week Has Told

ment replies: "You insult us. To be
sure, completely informed by the
spirit of Locarno we speak more in
sorrow than In anger; but considera
ton for the dignity and amour propre
of our people forbids us to allow the
inspection proposed"
So there you are. The Rhineland
occupational forces are not reduced.
Development pursuant to Locarno and
Thoiry remains at the halt.
Italy.-On May 30. Col. de Pinedo
arrived at Horta, Island of Fayal lone
of the Azores), on board an Italian
steamer which had his hydroplane.
only slightly damaged in tow. 1t will
be recalled that on the twenty-third,
the commander hoped off from Tire
passy, Newfoundland, bound for Flores
in the Azores. But violent head winds
reduced his speed to so miles an hour.
so that when about 200 miles from his
destination he found his gasoline
nearly exhausted. Sighting a Portu.
guese schooner, he alighted near her
and was taken in tow. A great gale
blew up and the schooner could not
make Flores. For three days the
machine continued in her tow when
the Italian steamer Superga relieved
her. Proceeding very slowly to avoid
injury to the delicate amphibian craft,
at last the Superga got her safely into
the harbor of Horta.
Il X X
Egypt.-Another crisis or near.crisis
occasioned by the proposal Of the
Nationalist majority in the Egyptian
L ,,1f R@ he
Egyptian military establishment, to
free it completely of British control
(even abolishing the sirdarship) and
dhough this grand purpose is con-
cealed) to use the enlarged army as
the instrument for realizing the pro-
gram of the majority Nationalist Tor
WafO party. But the British govern.
ment cannot hear to any such thing.
1--WE must" says Sir Austen Chamber
lain to the Commons, Insist upon the
maintenance of safeguards which past
experience has shown to be effective;
the safeguards, namely, specified in
the reservations" attached to British
acknowledgment of Egyptian indie
pendence in 1922-including mainte-
nance of British garrison in Cairo
to insure the rights of foreigners
dncluding BritishD in Egypt and eff.
cheney Of British communications
through Egypt to the Sudan and
maintenance of British detachments
on the Suez Canal to safeguard that
supremely important link in British
world communications. Now Zaghloul
Pasha, the Nationalist chief. is EEK
ceeding again." Two battleships lust
ordered to Alexandria and one to Port
Said lend emphasis to a note in that
sense dispatched to the Egyptian
government.
X X X *
NOtes.-On June 2. Thomas Hardy
was 81 years old. 1t is pleasant to
note that our dull planet NAV still
boast at least one surviving literary
genius of the first order.
l postpone to next week comment
on the important new developments
in the Chinese situation; for the pres.
ent merely remarking that the North.
ern warriors are again emphatically
on the run and that the treaty powers
are briskly taking order looking to
the protection of their nationals north
of the Yellow River. Tientsin to he
second Shanghai in that connection.
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mary of the most important
news of the world for the
seven days ended June 4:
* X x
United States.--That was a moving
,aech which Mr. Hoover made by
ado TO the people of the United
States on May %. The handling of
the flood situation is the most eX-
traord:nary exhibition of modern eff
cheney to date, unless we except the
handling of the relief problem in
Europe under Mr.. Hoover's direction.
The episode immensely enhances Mr..
Hoover's reputation; it reflects the
greatest credit on the Red Cross and
other participating organizations and
it furnishes tlattering testimony to
the stoutneSS and kindness OF heart,
the resourcefulness, the courage and
the good temper of the American COM
munity in general. Perhaps the value
of centralized control is best Illus
trated by the fact that, though there
was a serious loss of life in the con-
fusion of the week preceding the CEN
tralization initiated by President
Coolidge" the loss of life directly re-
sulting from the flood in the five fol
lowing weeks totaled less than SIX
now quote the most remarka BILE
passage of the speech: mo one could
anticipate that the universal rainfall
in the Midwest would swell a score OF
rivers into simultaneous flood and
pour so unprecedented a burden upon
the great leveed trough of the Mis-
siSSippi as to overStrain the strength
of its protective works.
But once it's portentous character
was realized, with the command OF
modern engineering knowledge of the
flow of streams and the movement of
great floods, by the use Of all our mod
ern mechanical equipment, we have
been able to do something we never
heretofore attempted in the history Of
floods. By establishment of a net of
communications by telegraph, tele-
phone and radio with all segments of
our organization and over all parts
of the danger area, we have been able
instantly a great break came in the
levees to throw out an advance warn
ing to the people below. We have
been able to coordinate systems of
motor trucks and automobiles and
railway cars to transport many of the
people, their animals and their be-
longings, to places of safety in ad-
vance of arrival of the water.
1--WE have been able to provide
fleets of river steamers and barges,
with thousands of motor boats. to
comb the flooded territory for those
on housetops or high spots and to
transport them to safety. We have
had an airplane service inspecting
the flooded territory twice daily to re-
port any evidence of life and distress.
With our communication system we
have been able to instantly transmit
news of these cases of distress and to
secure the prompt dispatch Of boats
in relief.
''It is modern mechanical invention
modified to save human life. But
these inventions and machines are
only of use in the hands of real men.
And / cannot fail to dwell a minute
in appreciation of the strong men who
have conducted all these services.
Theirs has been no S-hour.day-many
man and crew have been in con-
tinuous action for 20 hours. The un-
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Battle Over Recognition of Russia
To Be Resumed When Congress Meets

wide interests in China, particularly
Great Britain. For their own pur-
poses the Soviet in Moscow has aided
the Nationalist movement in China,
hoping in the end to control it. "China
for the Chinese" the slogan of the
Nationalist movement, fell on fertile
ground, met the approval of many
Chinese and foreigners who are not
friendly to Communism. The struggle
in China today Is whether the reds
shall in the end control this move.
ment.
Activities Are Revealed
Then came revelations of bolshevist
activities in China, when Marshal
Chang Tso-Lin, in the, north of China,
sent police into the diplomatic section
in Picking and seized a number of
documents in the Russian legation
there. They consisted, among other
things, of instructions from the Third
international. These instructions, ac-
cording to dispatches from Picking, di.
rected that efforts be made to stir up
feeling among the Chinese over the
Hankow concession incident, where
American and British forces were used
to protect the lives of the foreigners
and some Chinese lives were lost.
They directed also that propaganda be
spread to indicate that the resistance
of the European powers to the world
revolution is on the wane. They d.
rected further that the Chinese
masses be melted to anti-foreign acts.
1t is not strange that the British
government, with vast interests in the
Far East and with it's sovereignty over
India to be maintained, should have
been stirred over the incident and the
efforts of the Soviet government to
reach out through China to spread
the so-called world revolution. Then
came the raid in London recently,
which revealed further efforts of the
Communists to incite the British
themselves to the overthrow of the
present form of government. Appar.
emily 1t was the last straw so far as
the British governments recognition
OF the Soviet government was con-
cerned.
Here in the United States, where
the people generally are interested in
their own activities, where money is
plentiful and more evenly distributed
than in many Of the European ma.
tions, 1t Is not difficult to smile at
Communist propaganda and efforts of
small groups to undermine the govern.
ment. The work, however, continues.
The Workers party is constantly cir
culating reports that war storm is
about to break on the Pacific or the
Baltic, which in the end will engulf
the United States along with the rest
Of the world. 1t attacks the policies
Of the United States Government in
Nicaragua, Mexico and China, insist.
ing, in terms fantastic, that army
mobilization is going on here to the
ragua. Mexico. China and, of course,
Russia.
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Islanders to Use Owls
In War on Rodents

Inhabitants of Lord Howe Island,
one OF the Society Islands located
south of Australia, are awaiting a
shipment of owls. which recently de.
parted from San Diego, Calf. to be
used in stamping out a rat pest on
the island. Attempts made by the is.
landers to combat the rats by use of
cats have proved unsuccessful and
owls now are being called into service.
Lord Howe Island has a population
of Ill persons. whose chief occupa.
ton is the production of palm seeds.
II is believed that the rats arrived
on incoming vessels. They have been
depicting the stocks of seeds. which
constitute the wealth of the isla nders
and since their arrival the rats have
multiplied so rapidly that they threat.
en- the industry. The owls which com.
pose the shipment are notorious no.
dent feeders, subsisting almost entire.
ly on food of this kind.
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known currents and distractions of
flood country make it dangerous at
all times. These men have shown a
kindness, a gayety, courage, that
has lifted the spirit of the whole flood
valley. They are the kind of men
that make great peoples.
'The United States Engineer Corps,
the United States Coast Guard. the
United States naval contingent of
boats and airplanes, the United States
lighthouse service, come from the
Government. But we have also had
great equipment and many men from
the railroads and industries. We
have had organized groups of boat
men, of cowboys, from the American
Legion, from the National Guard and
from local communities.
IT would be remiss if did not en-
phasize the service given under our
direction and without charge by the
railways, the Missouri Pacific, the
Illinois Central, the Texas Pacific, the
Gulf lines, the Southern Pacific, the
Rock Island. Not only have they
transported all our goods free, trans
ported our refugees out and home
free, given us thousands of box cars
for temporary shelter, but beyond all
and officials have drawn trains over
hundreds of miles of flooded and dan.
gerous tracks that these services
might be performed. The great indus
tries, like the Standard Oil. have oper-
ated their steamers and barges free
for weeks"
Up to May % over $4,000 persons
had been received into Red Cross
refugee camps and over 100000 more
had received rations , outside the
camps. mo one has gone hungry, no
one has gone unclothed, no one has
gone unprotected from the ravages of
disease"
1--WE cannot" said Mr.. Hoover,
hope to make good all the losses of
these people, but we can and must
put them safely on the road to self
support. And we have not been idle
in preparation for the period of recon-
struction. Upon my recommendation
the governor of each of the three
States, Louisiana, Arkansas and
Mississippi, has created a State re-
construction commission under lead
ing citizens. Jointly with these State
commissions we have co-operated with
the bankers of each of these States
to organize special finance corpora.
ton through which loans may be
made on liberal terms to those who
still have the substance of credit, but
who cannot be carried by the local
banks and merchants, for these are
themselves also large losers.
"A large part of the function of
cultivating the crops would normally
be carried on credit, but the volume
of credit has been impaired, and it is
to remedy this deficiency that these
loan corporations have been created
in each of the three States, each with
half million dollars of capital sub
scribed by their own citizens"
In this connection Mr.. Hoover ap.
peals to 1.-The industrial and financial
institutions of the North to reinforce
the credit resources of the South" an
appeal to which, one feels quite sure
there will be magnificent response.
The Red Cross fund as interpret
is to be applied by way of clear gift,
outside of credits mentioned above.
II estimate" continued Mr.. Hoover.
that the expenditure of our Govern.
ment departments today amounts to
s., 000. 900 and the railroads, industries
and utilities, acting under our direc.
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Ostriches Slain Fast.

Reports from South Africa indicate
that from 400 to 500 ostriches are
being slaughtered daily in the Cudt-
shoorn district, the principal center of
the ostrich feather industry, due to
the high cost of feed for the birds
and the lack of a market for ostrich
feathers. The slump in the world de.
mand has smade the birds practically
valueless and the Cooperative So.
ciety, through which the farmers are
required by law to dispose of their
feathers, Is unable. financially, to take
up this years crop.
This society now holds practically
all of last years crop and is said to
be in serious straits as it makes ad.
vances to farmers against feathers
deposited. In 1923 there were 4,S84
pounds Of ostrich Feathers exported,
while last year the exports totaled
14l 800 pounds.
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BY ROBERT UNDERWOOD
JOHNSON.

Attention has been called to the fact
that the list of the students who have
lately committed suicide does not in.
clude single athlete. The wholesome
influence of outdoor sport cannot be
denied and far overbalances the mani
fest excuses which attend it. Indeed,
the sane body Is so necessary to the
highest exercise of the sane mind that
1t might be well to have as require
ment of matriculation a fair measure
of physical activity. The chief defect
Of college sport is that it is to so
large an extent represented by the
bleachers rather than by the diamond.
Who shall say that compulsory base
ball would not increase the intellectual
rating Of our colleges?
The problem of rightly directing the
Imagination and emotions of the young
is one of great difficulty and impor.
lance. 1t has been said that the
imagination of a boy is healthy and
the imagination of a man is healthy
but that between the two ages lies a
borderland Of peril.
The mind is all alive. the personal.
ity is at it's most intense and most
venturesome, and the problems and
uncertainties of the future challenge
the bravest soul with doubt and fear
At such time the young man needs
every stabilizing influence-the love
and sympathy of his parents, the
counterbalance of interests outside his
brooding self. the steadying force of
the ideal.
Poetry Awakens Imagination.
1t is at this point that poetry may
be of the greatest service. If as
boy he has been admitted into the
wonderland of the imagination, awak-
ened to the music of beautiful verse
made acquainted with the best of
the great thinkers in song, the life
of the young man will have caught
something of the rhythm and reality
of the true, as opposed to the fac
tual," world.
He will be ready for the revela-
ton that life is greater than mere
living. He need not have understood
every line he has read--that would
stifle both the imagination and the
ambition. But he would have con-
ception of the magnitude and beauty
of the world and know that he exists
for it as well as it for him.
AS a parents assistant" nothing
compares with the aid to be had
from well chosen poetry. At its
best it carries on from age to age
the beauty of the world. Though
some of it is trivial. or morbid, on
the whole it is the inspiring prin-
ciple of joy. the embodiment of the
hope and optimism that make life
worth living.
The pessimism of current specula-
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HOLDS ECONOMIC COOPERATION
is NEEDED BETWEEN NATIONS
DIR. Honorio Pueyrredon, Argentine Ambassador,
Discusses One-Sided Development of Trade Be.
tween u. S. and Countries of Latin America.

lished by the United States in 1922
imports from Argentina were balanced
with exports from the United States.
Alter the inauguration of that sys.
tenn we find in 1925 imports from Ar.
gentina reaching $50 200, 900 and ex.
ports from this country to Argentina
rising the same year to $14S, zoo, 900.
If we consider that the United States.
on account of it's population-ten
times greater than ours-has natural.
ly correspondingly greater capacity
for consumption. it will be realized
that the lack of equilibrium is too
pronounced.
Play Important Role.
1t might be said that commercial
relations between countries do not de.
pend solely upon imports and exports
OF commodities, because the invest
ments Of capital also play an I'M
portant role. But, however that NAV
be, these factors will not prevent the
gradual decline of trade whose lack
or balance does not arise from nat.
ural causes.
Already there are to be noted some
symptoms in that direction. The ex.
ports to the Argentine which had been
gaining year after year and which
from 1924 to 1925 increased q per
cent. last year experienced the begin
ming of decline in the percentage of
annual increase.
With his honest frankness, Secretary
Hoover warns the world that ma.
tfonalistic monopolies of raw materials
can set up malignant currents of in.
ternational i'll Will"
Favored Nation Clause.
Some European powers, as well as
the United States, have proclaimed
the principle of the unconditional
clause OF the most favored nation.
But 1t is necessary that there should
exist between countries the possibility
of applying the old Roman proverb.
DO ut deS" Il give that YOU NAV
give). Otherwise the clause would be
beneficial only to the industrial coun-
try.
In my opinion. the stability and the
growth of commercial relations, es-
peclally between a manufacturing
country and one that has not vet
reached that stage, can result only
from system that we may call eco
nomic cooperation, which tends
toward facilitating and stimulating
the increase of acquisitive capacity.
No doubt each country must be the
exclusive judge of what system best
protects it's own interests and best
satisfies the patriotic egoism that i'm
pels people. but there is no question
that if we look to the ultimate advan-
tages we must combine egoism and
altruism into a workable fusion.
1 am confident that the horizon of
the relations between this country and
my own will expand because, besides
the many material advantages of a
reciprocal nature, there exists a spiri-
tual element that brings our two peo-
pies together. 1t Is for that reason
that the Argentine values so highly
the qualities of the Americans.
Copyright. 1927
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Continued from First Page)

On the other hand, there are or.
CARNATIONS in this country which
make it their business to be constant.
ly on the watch for anything that
looks like red propaganda or a move
ment toward Communism which in.
sist that in these days of quiet the
reds are boring from within" with
deadly intent They say that there
is a well defined plan in this country
to create the impression that there is
no Communism in the United States
At the same time they insist that the
facts indicate quite the contrary
While the actual number Of members
of the Communist party may be small,
the followers of the movement are
legion" 1t is pointed out that to
join the Communist party and become
a dueSpaying member is no simple
matter; that it requires at least six
months and three distinct steps to be-
come a paying member.
Strong Group Formed.
The first step requires that the neo-
phite be recommended by at least one
well known Communist. Then he
must take a certain course of study.
After that has been completed he must
be recommended by at least two well
known Communists for a second
course of study. When that step has
been completed the applicant for men,
bership must be recommended by three
we'll known Communists and under
take further course of study. Nearly
all Of the dues-paying members of the
party, it is said, are active workers.
and most of them are on the pay roll.
The result is to form a strongly cen.
tralized group in this country.
The Communists work through the
Third International in their interna.
tional relations. The charge has been
frequently made and not disproved
that the Soviet government In Russia
is directly interlocking with the Third
International, and that the revolu.
tionary propaganda and movements Of
the Third International are in reality
the propaganda and movements of the
bolshevist leaders in Russia. The
late Senator Lodge, while chairman
of the Senate foreign relations com.
mittee, not long before his death de.
livered in the Senate an exhaustive
analysis of the situation, linking up
the leaders Of the Soviet government
with the kew men Of the Third Inter-
national The Workers party Com.
munist gets it's orders in this country
from the Third International. and. IL
the analysis of Senator Lodge and
others is correct, from the Soviet gov
eminent of Russia.
Charges have been made and sub
stantiated that the Russian Com
munists have taken leading part in
fomenting the war in China. Through
China, the Russian Communists have,
it is charged, undertaken to attack
the foreign governments who have
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VALUE OF ATHLETICS SHOWN
In LISTS OF STUDENT SUICIDES
Outdoor Sports Urged to Keep Body and Mind Bal
anced and Poetry, Rhythm and Music Advo.
Gated to Awaken Imaginations of Children.

ton may find it's medium in sensa =
tional novels and treatises, but it
finds small expression in poetry. The
seamy-side biography of the present
day that exposes the weakness of it's
subject fails to account for his sue
cess on lines of his higher inspira-
ton. But nothing can impair the
beauty of great poetry. 1t is the
food of the SOUL
One cannot too soon attune child
to the rhythm and music of the best
verse, and thus put him in the way
of happiness, contentment and sere-
nifty. Fortunately, it is easy to find
in the collections the most fascinat-
ing and the noblest that has been
written.
DOWNRIGHT 1921
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German Movies Small.

According TO figures recently pub.
lished in Germany there were 1923
motion picture theaters in that coun-
try at the end of 1926. OF these ONLY
SO had a seating capacity of more
than 1000 persons, while more than
half had a seating capacity Of only
800,
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BY DIR. HONORIO PUEYRREDON.

~"Soou0i Aiohi 'he aieehtiHe Republic.
One of the latest bulletins of the
Department Of Commerce states that
the extraordinary gain in our trade
with Latin American countries is much
more marked in exports than in i'm
ports. Exports were almost three
times as great in 1925 as the average
for the five years before the war. The
relative increase of exports is still
more marked in the case of South
America considered alone, and partic-
uiarly of the Argentine Republic,
which is the principal South Ameri.
can customer of the United States"
The truth of this statement is dem.
onstrated by statistics. They show
that prior to the tariff system estab.
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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 June 4:
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ART In ALLITS BRANCHES
FLOURISHES In CAPITAL
City Is Seen as Holding Outstanding
Place in Education, Literature,
Architecture and History.

w VAS HING TON epitomizes
culture - CLEANED through
W. the ages and nurtured in
it's highest and hrnadest