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She lives in his home and eats
and is clothed by means Of
money which his brain provides,
but she has no interest in his
success, no care whatever except
to do the minimum of work.
1.-THE real trouble with the
world today is moral trouble"
said thoughtful man recently.
"A large proportion of it's peo-
pie have lost all conception of
what it means to render an ade-
quate service in return for the
wages they are paid"
He is a generous man. On al
most any sort of question his
sympathies are likely to be with
labor, and so are mine. am
glad that men work shorter
hours than they used to, and in
certain instances ! think the
hours should be even shorter. |
am glad they are. paid higher
wages and hope they may earn
still more.
But there are times when my
sympathy goes out to those in
whose behalf no voice is ever
raised-to the executives Of the
world, whose hours are limited
only by the limit Of their physi-
cal and mental endurance, who
carry not merely the load Of
their own work, but the heart.
breaking load of carelessness
and stolid indifference In so
many of the folks whom they
employ.
Perhaps the most successful
executive in history was that
centurion of the Bible:
"For | am a man under au-
thority, having soldiers under
me-" he said. "And say to the
man go, and he goeth, and to
another, come, and he eometh,
and to my servant, do this, and
he ydoeth it."
Marvellous man!
The modern executive also
says &C.," and too often the,
man who should have gone will
appear a day or two later and
! explain, ~ didn't understand
what you meant" He says
Come" and at the appointed
time his telephone rings and a
voice speaks saying: ~ over.
slept and will be there In about
three quarters of an hour
fp1Tl ee a.ee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

A RRINAL in this country o.
~ Montagu c. Norman governor
"A of the Bank of England. re
4 a wives interest in the purpose
of American and British
nnance, government and private, Il
cooperate in the sterilization OF
Europe. Mr.. Norman. through his
annual visits to the United States and
through his periodical contact with
the leaders of American finance, like
Secretary Mellon and Gov. Strong OF
the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, when these officials are abroad
maintains practically unbroken rela,
tons with Uncle Sans great money
machine. The keynote of the move
ment in progress was recently struck
by Secretary Mellon In advocating
the prompt rechartering of the Fed
eral Reserve Banks, Mr.. Mellon said:
In the plans for the sterilization
or the rest of Europe, the participa-
ton of the Federal Reserve Banks is
aqually necessary" The Secretary of
. the Treasury added that the plans
which are now taking shape through
out the world look far ahead. For
this reason, it is important that no
element of uncertainty should be in
Jected into the situation, such as
would come from a delay in extending
the charters of the Federal Reserve
Banks
Bedrock of Structure.
The Federal Reserve Banks, with
the Bank of England, are to be the
bedrock of the new financial struc-
ture, even though the credits they
extend for stabilizing purposes may
never be actually used. Great Britain
itself has never used the 5000 600. 900
gold credit granted it by the New
York Federal Reserve Bank in April,
1928, nor the 100000 900 credit
which the bank esta blished with J.
p. Morgan q Co, about the same
time.
Though not directly responsible for
John Bulls striking achievement in
restoring the pound sterling to old.
time parity with the dollar within
seven years after the armistice, the
American gold credits were an unde-
niably strong factor in normalizing
the British gold standard Similar ar
rangements for stabilizing the French
franc tnow worth less than 4 cents
in American money! and the Italian
Ira Quoted at about Az cents have
been in intermittent progress for
many months. Gov. Strong of the
New York Federal Reserve Bank,
Undersecretary Winston of the United
States Treasury and Gov. Norman of
the Bank of England were in protract-
ed conference on the subject in Eu-
rope last year.
Americas readiness to join Great
Britain in establishing a gold credit
for France. for sterilization purposes,
will depend very largely on whether
the French. Parliament ratifies the
Mellon Berenger debt settlement of
1926. This contingency is one of the
strong arguments now being used at
Paris by those who urge ratification
at the earliest possible moment.
New Plan Seen.
The coincidence of the visits to the
United States of the Bank of Eng.
land executive and S. Parker Gilbert
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY BORIS A. BAKHMETEFF,

Last Russian Ambassador TO the United
States.
What is the meaning and the es-
sence of Soviet diplomacy? In an
swering this question one has to bear
in mind the fundamental feature un-
DERIVING all and every phase of Soviet
activity. The whole Russian situa-
ton is struggle between abstract
theory and life; between the dictates
of the fanatical dogma and the ext
gencies of economies; the demand for
practical order of things.
In theory Communism aspires to
revolution, to forcible upheaval of
government and social order. World
revolution, as proclaimed by Lenin,
remains the great purpose. The Com
munist Internationale continues to he
the instrument, with only slight de.
partures in methods of procedure.
But the world stands unchanpe
and the Soviets have to face this prac-
teal situation. They are forced to
bear responsibility Of government and
TO deal with the masses of Russia n
people who care nothing about Com.
naunism and ardently wish to return
to the usual procedures of life, Man
ufacturing and trade mean money.
industrial organization, cooperation
with the outside world Therefore,
the endeavor of Communist diplomacy
to establish relations with capitalistic
nations. to gain recognition, to oh.
tain credits and loans. Hence decla-
rations of peaceful intentions, assur.
ances of good faith. All this in the
same breath with supporting the
strikers in England. with encouraging
Asiatic revolt, assisting every sub.
versive movement throughout the
world.
Seemingly, there is a fundamental
inconsistency between an endeavor To
establish friendly relations with an
established order which one aVows
openly TO destroy This contradiction
however, reflects an existing reality
the co-existence in the present world
of the two self-eXcluding principles
on one side popular government with
fndividualistic economies; on the other
side Communism, the mortal foe OF
democracy. So both lines of Soviet
activity, the revolutionary and the
practical, continue to unfold side by
side. II is like Or. Jekyll and Mr.
HYDE personified in government torn
between irreconciliable aims.
A Europe pacified and reconciled is
the greatest obstacle to world revolu
ton. Therefore, the bitter attitude
of the Soviet toward the League, the
heht against Locarno and any other
stem leading to a settlement. Revolu
ton is best helped by keeping Europe
divided. Therein the meaning OF the
so-called Rapallo treaty between tho
Soviet and Germany. On the Soviet
side Rapallo was an attempt to CAPT
taIize Germanys humiliation and de
snair. to associate her destinies with
those of Communist Russia. On the
GeY-n1an side there was expectation OF
easv access to the riches of Russia
evnectations. by the way. which die
NOT naterialize and led to disillusion
mea1t, lust as other nations have real
lied the futility of any hope OF get
ting immediate practical results IRON
raprrochement with Moscow.
Locarno, the new spirit between
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Canal and the tremendous increase
in its traffic. has been another blow
at the Midwest. Cheap water trans
portation has brought the East and
West coasts relatively close to-
gether, while higher freight rates
have moved the coasts farther away
from the interior, leaving it high and
dry except for the farmers tears
Both conditions operate not only
to raise the cost of out bound prod
ucts, but add to the cost of inbound
goods The results have been far
reaching. Mr.. Hoover's Department
of Commerce has found that various
classes of industry have moved to
the seaboards; agriculture has be-
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come mentally and physically de-
pressed and the separation of agri-
culture and industry has reacted un-
favorably upon both. a present-day
evil has been accentuated In the con-
centration of industry and popula-
ton in the rural communities.
And here is where the develop
ment of the st. Lawrence, or some
other Lakes to the-sea route, at
tains it's importance. The Panama
Canal cannot be closed. Railroad
rates cannot be reduCed-at least not
without a terrific uproar and pos
sibly accompanying economic ills. But
the opening of a deep-sea waterway
from the Great Lakes to the ocean
offers substantial rate reductions
and advantages, enabling the Mid
west again TO compete successfully
in the markets of the world. To
visualize the reduction in terms of
cents. a waterway to the sea through
the St. Lawrence River would per-
NIT the farmer to send his grain
from Duluth or Chicago to Liverpool
from to 11.2 cents per bushel, as
compared with the present cheapest
combination of rates Of 17.6 cents per
bushel. The saving effected would
be from 36.4 to 54.5 per cent of the
lowest possible combination of rates
by rail and water.
There is nothing particularly new in
setting forth the fact that tremendous
advantages would result from making
the Great Lakes available to the com
erce-carrying ships of the world.
That has been apparent for many
years. But for the first time the adj
vantages and the disadvantages of the
various routes proposed between the
Great Lakes and the sea have become
availab through the work of the
United States st. Lawrence Commits
sion. An even more lengthy and far
reaching discussion is contained in a
report soon to be made public by the
Department of Commerce.
Briefly, three routes have been pro-
posed.
The first provides for reconstruc-
ton of the existing canal connecting
Lake Ontario with the Hudson River
at Albany-part of the New York
Barge Canal-and utilizing the new
Welland Canal, now being built by the
Canadian government, connecting
Lake Ontario and Lake Erie.
The second is an "All American"
canal. which would include the Lake
Ontario-Hudson River project, but
which contemplates, in addition, an
other canal on American soil dupli-
eating the Welland Canal.
The third is the utilization of the
st. Lawrence in conjunction with
Canada.
X X X X
The second, or all-American canal
proposal. may be disposed of with the
statement that its only advantage is
the creation of an emotion, sometimes
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''And He COeth''
BY BRUCE BARTON

~ EVERAL years ago, when |
had just been promoted to
my first real job, ! called
- on a business friend of
mine. He is a wise and expert
enced handler Of men; asked
him what suggestions he could
make about executive response
bility.
"You are about to make the
great discovery" he said. within
a week or two you will know
why il is that executives grow
gray and die before their time.
You will have learned the bitter
truth that there are no efficient
people in the world"
am still very far from ad-
uniting that he was right, but |
know we'll enough what he
meant. Every man knows who
has ever been responsible for a
piece of work, or had to- meet
pay roll.
Recently another friend of
mine built a house. The money
to build il represented diNcult
period Of saving on the part of
himself and his wife; it meant
overtime work and self denial
and extra effort in behalf of a
long cherished dream.
One day when the work was
we'll along, he visited it, and saw
a workman climbing a ladder to
the roof with a little bunch Of
shingles in his hands.
Look here" the foreman
cried, "can't you carry a whole
bunch Of shineIes?"
The workman, regarded him
suIIenly.
"a suppose I could" he an
swered, "if wanted to bull the
job"
BY "buIi the job" he meant
"do an honest days work"
At 10 o'clock one morning I
met still another man in his
office in New York. He was
munehing sandwich and gulp-
inc a cup Of coffee which his
secretary had brought in to him.
"a had to. work late last night"
he said, "and meet very early
appointment this morning. My
wife asked our maid to have
breakfast a half hour early, so
that | might have a bite and still
be here in time.
"When | came down to break
fast, the maid was still in bed"
tCouyris
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BY BEN McKELWAY.
7 n ADDITION to swimming the
English Channel, knocking the
heavyweight champion of the

TN ADDITION to swimming the
English Channel, knocking the
heavyweight champion of the
l. world through the ropes or re-
framing from becoming involved
in the latest base ball scandals, there
are few other ways to create imme-
date and prolonged applause in this
country. One is to advocate relief
for the farmer. Another is to demand
with some heat that the American
flag be kept flying on the Seven Seas.
It is not at all necessary to know
or TO say what the farmer should be
relieved from or how TO relieve him.
Nor must one be able to name the
Seven Seas. The chief requirement
is an ability to blat and to blaw until
the resulting blah is accepted by the
unthinking multitude as sound stun.
BY the time the thinking few have
labeled it unsound and uneconomic
obfuscation the campaign is over and
the votes have been counted and
somebody has been fooled again.
One may imagine, therefore, the
far-fiung constituency which will rally
in support of a plan which has among
it's many aims not only relief for the
farmer and the strengthening of the
merchant marine. but which is found
ed on economic facts and arrived at
through economic necessity. Such
plan is that advocated by the United
States St. Lawrence Commission,
which, through its chairman, Herbert
Hoover, within the last two weeks has
placed its report In the hands of the
President. The report favors the de-
velopment OF a shipway from the
Great Lakes to the sea by utilization
of the st. Lawrence River through
cooperative agreement with Canada.
1t Is the outcome of many years of
discussion. investigation and engi-
neering research. And it provides the
administration with another ace card
which lies back to back" with the ace
in the hole recently supplied by the
versatile Mr. Hoover through his ad-
vocacy of national program for pro-
gressive development of the inland
waterways of this country.
For many years now the country
has been warming to the proposal
that the Great Lakes and their vast
extent of pros arous inland territory
he opened to the ships of the sea that
carry the commerce of the world.
But it is only In the last few years
since the World War, in fact--that
the country has been brought face to
face with the necessity for such a
step. The World War dislocated many
things, and one of them which is still
out of joint is the Midwest. The dis
tortion right now is evidenced chiefly
by the loud and incessant cries of an
guish from the farmers. They have
been crying for relief so steadily that
the children of the present generation
probably will grow to early manhood
under the impression that the word
farmer" is a synonym for Armenian,
and will always picture him as starv-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
II. s. AND ENGLAND UNITED
ON WORLDS FINANCES
Arrival of Bank of England Governor
Taken to ForeshadOw Stabi-
liZatiOn Plan.

| the young American agent general for
reparations at Berlin. suggests the
| possibility that some new plan for
American British financial assistance
| to Germany may be In process OF
| evolvement. There were reports that
| DR.. Hjalmar Schact. president of the
Reichsbank. was headed for New
York and Washington at this time.
but neither German nor American au-
thorities are aware that the German
finance chieftain plans a visit here.
The sum and substance of all this
is that the United States and Great
Britain, the only two really impor-
tant money powers in the world with
normaliZed currencies and ample re-
sources of their own, are marching
shoulder to shoulder more closely
than ever for the purpose of put
ting the international financial house
In order.
Gov. Norman's recurring sojourns
in this country invariably result in
renewal of rumors that the Bank of
England is seeking to engineer a re-
vision of the British debt settlement
with the American Treasury Gov.
Norman himself. along with Stanley
Baldwin. now premier of Britain, was
leading factor in the settlement
four years ago this month.
The British regard the debt business
with America a burdensome, but a
closed, incident. Their responsible
spokesman insist. in and out of sea
son, that John Bull will never ask
Uncle Sam for revision, reduction. can
collation. or anything else. That
doesn't mean that if the United States
some magnanimous day should come
along and volunteer a revision in one
guise or another, Britain would turn
a deaf ear.
Would Pay in Full.
But she proclaims that it's a. far
cry between any asking for that sort
of thing and her natural readiness to
exhibit "receptivity" If what she never
would ask for comes along in the shape
OF an American proffer. Sentiment in
Great Britain, despite periodical can
collation. eruptions in the United
States. is pretty unanimous that the
United States expects to be paid in
full.
The British treasury is now paying
the United States about $3.50. 600 900
year. Semi-annually the British
account to us for interest payments
OF S67 100000, making total of $134,.
100000 year in interest charges
alone. The last half-yearly install.
ment was paid at Washington on
December Is, together with the an
nual installment on principal, amount
ing to $25, 600. 900.
These heavy exactions, every Briton
acknowledges, are difficult to meet.
They are responsible in large degree
for the high income tax the British
people must pay. But these anxieties
long since faded out of the calcula-
tons OF the British government The
latter's energies, as far as America is
concerned, are wholly directed toward
Joining hands with this country in
improving Europe's war-shattered
financial system. That is why the
governor of the Bank of England is
again in the United States and stretch.
ing his legs under the same mahogany
with Mr.. Mellon and the other moguls
of American finance.
fCopyright. 1927
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ing. A large part of the farmers
worries is a raise in freight rates
which requires them to pay an in
crease of from to Il cents bushel
to send grain to the world markets.
The foreign farmers, however, pro-
duce close to ocean ports and pay but
little more than they did before the
war to send their grain to market
Shipping rates by water are substan.
TALLY at prewar levels. The price the
farmer receives in the foreign markets
for his grain Is a large factor in deter
mining the return upon his whole
crop.
X X X X
At the same time the Panama
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AIRCRAFT HONORS FOR NATION
REST WITH AMERICAN PEOPLE
Public Urged TO Put It's Desires in Writing if 1t
Wants Records in Sky Brought
Back From Abroad

purposes, however. much money must
Navy can allocate any of its funds
for this type of work without specific
authorization. The Navy cannot pull
out of its. present appropriations a
sum sufficient to build three new rae
ing planes and three new engines to
go over to Italy and bring back the
Schneider Cup without congressional
permission. For to do so would mean
the loss of fighting, observation,
scouting and bombing craft. The
same applies to the Army
The Army, former holders of the
long distance and duration records
and quite naturally interested in re-
covering these honors. is unable to
develop planes to surpass the mighty
Continued on Fourteenth Page)
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Lying Mirrors" Fool
Americans on Clothes

American women who have been
wondering why that creation they
bought in Paris fails to give them the
svelte silhouette they regarded In the
looking glass on the Rue de la Paix,
will be interested to learn that they
nave been the victims Of hoax.
The French used lying mirrors,
No longer can 1t be said that the mir
ror tells the truth. A glass factory
exists in the north of England whose
speciality is mirrors for fashion
salons. They are slightly convex and
they elongate the figure.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
By HERBERT MYRICK.
Editor New England Homestead.

The completion of the deeper water
way for almost the entire length OF
the Ohio River. which may be finished
n 1927 after years of continuous w@st
by the Federal Government, me&M4
that inland transport by water is I;I'as
a magnificent reality. Development
of the deep waterway from the Lakes
to the Gulf is further along than
most people realize.
After seven years of surveys and
agitation, the United States and
Canada are practically agreed upon
the ST. Lawrence project. whereby
ocean ships drawing up to 25 feet may
navigate into and out of the Great
Lakes. Formalities between the two
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY FRANK II. SIMONDS.

tn HE continuation of the quarrel
between Congress and the Pres.
ident over the question of a
Il large, increase of the American
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U. S. Domestic Question.

The fact that the United States
must either accept a very great in
feriority in cruisers or else embark
upon a large program of naval ex-
pansion is a domestic problem which.
does not interest any European ma.
ton. The fact that a successful con.
ference would advantage the Coolidge
administration is a reason why every
European nation would, other things
being equal, stay away from It, In
view of the debt policy of the present
administration.
Europe is not interested in our
Navy. Europe is no longer expectant
or DESTROYS that we return to Europe.
The possibility that we might have
TO spend millions in new ships leaves
Europe cold because the ships do not
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At the same time the Panama
The Indianapolis times., 1927-01-27
Postponed the Wedding

Dear Martha Lee: l went steadily with
a girl for over a year. We were engaged
weeks before the wedding, che told ne
she would never love anybody else but
broke OFF the wedding for the present
She said she might marry ME later.
comfortably. | had furnished 4 cottage
rings the furniture. but not my girl.
| had constented to wait while for
her, but after these months / am nearly
have tried to see her but she won't see
or talk to me. Tell me how I can win
her back C. 8
I really believe you have lost out
in this case, c. S., and If you are
wise, you'll be a good enough sport
to lose gracefully. You might write
one more letter though and tell her
In a straight forward manly way,
that you feel under no obligation
to keep your promise to wait for
her unless you hear from her within
the next few days.
don't think you will hear, how
ever, as think she plainly indicates
that her love (such as it was) Is
dead. Sell the rings, furniture and
your equity in the house. Keeping
them, holds you TO the pain of your
romance. Right now, it may seem
to you that this is a tragedy and
will darken your whole life, but 1t
won't and some day you'll meet a
girl who will care truly for you.