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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-15
SAYS CATHEDRALS
ERECTED ON FAITH
Artist Holds Peasants Used
Little Art in Building
Great Edifices.

The great cathedrals of Europe were
built by peasants who had a fervent
faith rather than a knowledge of
drawing, architecture and sculpture
as those arts are known today, de-
clared Leon Dabo. New York artist
and mural painter. in a lecture on
1.-The Art of Beuron" at the May
flower Hotel last night, when a recep-
ton was given in honor of Right Rev.
Raphael Waller, Archabbot of theBen-
cdictine Monastery at Beuron, Ger
many.
NO mathematics ever built a
church" declared Mr.. Dabo, land the
art of those simple people who built
the great church masterpieces was
born of an intimate knowledge of God,
the Blessed Virgin and the saints
theirs was living faith.
Holds Beauty Essential.
Mr. Dabo declared that churches
should be made as beautiful as it is
possible TO make them. contending
that they are museums to which men
go for spiritual uplift, and that, sur
rounded with beauty for the time
spent within such structures, a greater
spirit of religion can be obtained, for
religion is spiritual and art is
spiritual" True beauty need cost no
more than rubbish" the speaker said,
for it costs no more for the plaster in
the statues of unbeautiful line than
those of lovely design. OF art, Mr..
Dabo said, there is no bad az there
is no good art. If there is not beauty,
there is no art for art itself is
beauty"
The faith by which the early arti-
sans built their cathedrals, Mr. Dabo
said, is found today in the monastery
at Beuron, where monks labor at
paintings, sculpture, music and litera-
lure, 50 that their art has permeated
Europe and is gradually spreading
through this country. Showing slides
of examples of the Beuronic art, Mr.
Dabo declared that it is peculiar
combination Of the Egyptian, Pom
peiian and Greek, and that while it is
intensely modern, it is also centuries
old"
Monks Work on Display.
An exhibition of the work done by
the monks at Beuron is open today at
the Mayfiower Hotel, and included in
the collection are several old master
pieces The Beuronic art was founded
by Pater DeSideriuS LEM, who be-
came a monk in gratitude for a com
mission he received to do a chapel
given to the monastery by a German
princess. Father LEM is still living,
and is So years old.
Archa abbot Waller is touring the
United States in an attempt to spread
the knowledge of the art done, in his
monastery. His visit to Washington
and last nights reception in his honor
is under the auspices of the Washing
ton Beuron art committee, of which
Admiral William S. Benson is active
chairman Admiral Benson presided
last night.
The Archabbot IS accompied on his
tour of the United States by one of
the Beuronic fathers, who will give "a
recital of Beuronic organ music at one
of the Washington Catholic churches
during the week.
The German Ambassador, Baron
Ago Won Nathan, and members of the
German legation were among the
guests at the reception.
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The Story the Week Has Told

I the Moro province, which, before 1916,
was satisfactorily governed by Ameri-
cans, but was abolished by the Jones
act, the Moro area, pursuant to the
act, being split up into several
provinces and subjected to Filipino
| rule. Seeing that the Moros were
| too much for the Spaniards, that they
| were never, in any sense, subject to
the F'ilipinos, but rather took good
deal of toll of the latter by way OF
slaves and plumber, and that when
we made peace with them in 1903 we
promised that they should not be sub
ject to the Filipinos, it is not surpris-
ing that the Moros should find the
present situation intolerable; j. e., vir-
tual Filipino rule over them (under
whatever camouflage of proportional
Moro representation. Above all, do
they detest the Filipino constabulary
among them. The Bacon bill would
place the reconstructed province I'M
der an American governor subject to
| the American governor general at
| Manila and assisted by a Legislative
body composed mostly of Moros part
| ly, / take it, of Americans).
The indication is that this Congress
will not act upon the Tinkham reso-
! luton, which calls on the President
to invite the great powers to a con-
ference at The Hague for the codifi-
cation of international law.
/ avoid particular notice OF three
matters of great Importance: Our re-
lations with Mexico, our dealings with
Nicaragua and the cruiser contro-
versy. In each case to present the
facts lucidly would require more
space than 1 have at command. and
discussion of the significance of the
facts is in each case a highly con-
troversial business proper to the edi-
torial page. / merely point to these
matters as of striking interest and
Importance. In particular, as the
year opens, shall we watch the de-
velopment of Mexican policy. The
cruiser controversy threatens to have
us all by the ears, a problem of many
angles.
The following item is a trif1e be-
lated: The alien property bill for set
tlement of the claims of American
nationals against the German govern
ment arising out of the World War
was passed by the House on Deem
Der 1S, 279 to Sc, and went to the
Senate. 1t is q compromise, and pro-
vides in chief "for the immediate pay
ment in full of the allowed claims
of American nationals against Ger
many not i'll excess of 100000, and
for payment in full, but in install
ments of the remainder of such al
lowed claims" and for immediate
return Of 80 per cent of the German
property held by the alien property
custodian and the eventual return of
the remainder"
Under the joint auspices of the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and the National Industrial Confer
ence Board. commission is to make
an exhaustive study of the entire
farm problem. 1.-THE commission"
says Mr.. Magnus w. Alexander.
president of the national conference
board, represents on the part of its
sponsors, an experiment in the pos
sibilities of constructive cooperation
between business and agricultural in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

It was apparent at the time of the
contamination of the Dawes plan that
its success would depend upon the
voluntary whole-heartedness with
which the German Government sup
ported it. This support is especially
worthy of commentator in view of
the fact that there has been very
strong party in Germany opposed to
it's operation. There has also been a
very strong propaganda, either lnten-
tional or unintentional, throughout
the world endeavoring to demonstrate
that the obligations of the plan were
an impossible hardship on Germany.
1t Is fortunate, therefore, that the
previous reports of the agent general
for reparations, as well as the report
Just issued, demonstrate from the
economic point of view that the obli-
cations imposed upon Germany are
reasonable and possible.
If we stop to examine the figures
we will see that the payments re-
quired under the Dawes plan, even
when they have reached their maxi
mum, represent only approximately
SO, or ordinary interest, upon the
generally accepted amount of fifty
billion gold francs which may be ex-
pected from Germany on reparations
The whole question of
what these ultimate payments must
be is left for future consideration on
the part of the Preparations Commits
sion. The Dawes plan will have full
filed its purpose it it stabilizes the
OF Germany on q gold
basis. and re-establishes its economic
life.
The success OF the plan so far is
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West" Mr. MacCracken says, have
poor rail connections and generally
poor rail service. With the airplane
all waits for connecting trains can be
eliminated. Just the other day 1 was
in Omaha and had luncheon with the
city council, addressing them on their
proposed new airport. / was due in
Mason City, Iowa, that night to ad-
dress an organization there. Fast
trains make the distance in eight
hours. / made it in two, Wig the air.
And that night / spoke in Mason CITY
comfortably and without hurrying.
That's just one example, which could
be multiplied many times. The smaller
towns need the plane for connecting
service. passenger, mail and express
Although 1t costs the Government 50
a pound to transport mail by air be-
tween New York and Chicago, 1t costs
much less to send a man over longer
distance, such as the 589-mile stretch
between Los Angeles and Salt Lake
City. The Western Air Express has
set up a, charge of $50 one way be-
tween these two points. Air transport
costs won't be cut down until more
individuals take to the air.
Use i'm Event of War.
Back of all this development of air
craft-much of it In the future-Sec-
rotary Hoover, Mr.. McCracken's chief,
sees a vision that alarmists have be-
walled overcome in the rush OF air
development The pilots and planes
developed in the economic stress of
competitive air services will be invalu-
able adjuncts to the military in time
of war. in Mr.. Hoover's opinion, and
will relieve much of the thought that
this Nation is powerless in the air,
a prey to any nation thought more
favored So fast has been the develop
ment of aircraft that Mr.. Hoover pre-
diets 10000 miles of commercially OPP
Grated airwayS by July !, with the
Government out of the air transport
business within six months after bids
are opened by the Post Office Depart
ment for commercial operation Of the
air mail.
Already new lines are projected
one of them a New York-to-B irmtng
ham route through Washington, con-
Meeting the Capital with the trans
continental terminus at Hadley Field,
New York. incidentally, Washington,
Mr.. McCracken says, is badly in need
of municipality owned and operated
airport and is one of the few cities
in the country which has not seen the
light in this direction.
So the Government at one and the
same time is getting out of the air
business and getting into 1t far deeper
than ever before. The upshot of it all,
the Commerce Department and its
heads confidently believe. will be re-
newed American confidence in the
ships of the air-not man-made jug
gernaut, but an irreplaceable economic
asset, with speed it's selling point and
dependability its resale argument.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Germany Commended for Support Given
Dawes Plan, Despite Strong Opposition

distinctly encouraging and we can
look to the next year with every pos
sible assurance. The question of
transfers will come up for some con-
Sideration doubtless during the wear
but probably will not become critical
IL at all, until next year and MIR.
Gilbert is not apprehensive. The two
latter years of the plan, however, will
require the further restoration of
business conditions in Europe and
Russia in order to provide an export
market for Germany as the founda-
ton for reparations payments on
principal account Of a really impor-
tant character; these manifestly will
require German overseas or EXPORT
business to provide the SURPRISES.
1t will become increasingly impor-
tant to consider the Dawes plan now
in connection with the trade barriers
which exist in Europe and the neces.
sary development Of the new sections
OF the world for business expansion.
1t is encouraging to observe that the
ablest thought in the world, political
inoustrlai ana academic, Is giving of
its best to the problem.
The Dawes plan is fulfilling every
thing that could possibly have been
expected of 1t. Cooperation seems
evident by which it may complete its
work, and by SO doing lay the
for a normal progressive
restoration of the economic life OF
Europe. This will pave the way for
the final chapter in the reparation
drama, which will be the determine
ton by the PREPARATION Commission
or the amount of German reparations
payments and the time and method OF
their collection.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Gasoline of Future to Match ColOrs
of Cars and Will Be Plentiful AS Well

colors. Although there are still many
specifications that require gasoline to
be waterwhite, the automotive CYL
inder that transforms "gas" into miles
has no preference for any particular
shade or tint. In fact, color means
nothing to the motor. It does, how
ever, mean something to the distiller,
for he often tries to doctor up his
gasoline to get rid of all trace of
color and as a result loses some of
the anti-knock properties.
ut lis happy sign to motor over
the country and see not only yellow,
but pink, red, blue and green as well
as water-white gasoline in the visible
bowls" DR.. Egloff said. 1.-THE motor
is no stickler for style. 1t will operate
as well with the yellow as with the
water white, blue, pink. or even red
gasoline. Perhaps some day the
motorist will suit the color of the
gasoline to the car he uses.
mot only should the public get
used to all sorts of colors in gasoline
but to all sorts of odors as WELL" DIR.
Egloff continued. 1.-THE cracking
process has given motor fuel new
smells as we'll as new colors, and to
remove them Is useless waste OF
labor as well as material
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02
Uncle Sam Makes Air Travel Safer

| mercial routes by a mode of trans
portation as sure As the railroad OF
the automobile.
Uncle Sam is getting out of the air
business-and getting into it at the
same time. BY the latter part of 1927
every vestige of the air services, out
side of the military, controlled by the
Government will have passed into
the hands of private business. And
while the Government is getting out
of the air transportation industry, on
which the Post Office Department has
spent many millions of dollars and
many valuable lives, the same Gov
eminent will move into jurisdiction
over the operations of the corpora
tions which take over the carrying Of
the mails and all craft which take
to wings.
Linking Up Big Cities.
within two years no two i'm
portant cities in the United States
will be more than "a hours apart by
mail, except possibly those in the ex-
IRENE Northeast and Southwest.
Faster planes, improved propellers
and engine equipment and speeding
I'D all along the line will accomplish
this result"
William p. MacCracken Is speak
ing, the new car of the air arm under
Secretary Hoover, who brought the
fighting young siX-foot attorney
from Chicago last Summer to plunge
into the maelstorm of air regulation.
The rules which became effective
Yesterday bear the MacCracken
stamp. Thoroughness, care In draft
ing and due regard for all parties
concerned are their outstanding char
acteristics.
First of ALL" Mr.. MacCracken
says, "our rules OF the air will serve
to bring to the people of the United
States the story that the airplane ana
the lighter-than-air craft is not still
in the experimental stage and is not
the man.killer pictured in the popular
Imagination. Second, they should
tend to minimize accidents. The
United States Government is taking
air regulation seriously. With reason
able regulations and their enforce
ment the air can be made safe"
This 37-year- old Chicagoan. notwith-
standing his relative youth, has a
record of achievement in jurispru-
dence in the West. He also has the
vision which sees fast passenger
planes travelling from New York to
San Francisco In one jump, not In the
immediate future, perhaps, but de-
velopment certain to come. He sees
a network of anyways, patroled and
inspected by the Government. lit up
at night, fairy blaze of lights. But.
further than this, he sees great fleets
Of air transports carrying the COM
merce Of the nation between great
centers of population.
Fast Express Service.
Even though passenger Transports
ton by fast planes will move hand in
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hand with the commercial utilization
of airplanes over the newly charted
and extended air routes under the
new rules, Mr.. MacCracken sees mail
and express service as the backbone
of the American commercial air sys-
tenn. The fast passenger service will
come in it's proper time, he says, just
as railroads developed their crack
trains. to meet first limited need
ane one not commercially profitable.
until today these crack speedsters of
the rails travel from New York to
Chicago in several sections so
crowded are they with business execu-
t1veS to whom time is money and the
loss Of time the loss of money.
Probably the railroads themselves
will enter the passenger plane field,
with the aerial carriers serving as
adjunctS to the slower train services.
For, even today, the roads are talking
of Establishing auxiliary airplane
routes near their rail routes to hasten
the dispatch of mails. and fast express.
In the lighter-than-air craft, such as
dirigible balloons, the air chief sees
the need for long-haul passenger traf-
f1c filled. And the length of the haul
in itself must be the determining fac
tor. Short-haul passenger traffic
won't do. 1t wouldn't pay, for ter.
mini are expensive and the overhead
Of an air line is tremendous.
The business man in New York
couldn't send an air mail letter to
San Francisco for few cents If
Uncle Sam hadn't thought and plan
ned and sat up nights scheming how
to cut down expense, while his man
piloted planes hurtled through the
inky blackness Of night over noun
tains and rivers. through snow and
fog, daring death every second to get
his mail through on time.
Needs Business Support
The business man must get behind
the air mail If 1t Is to cost him less,
and must use it more, or it may be-
come quite an expensive proposition,
for every letter sent by air mail cuts
down that ever-pressing overhead.
It's good, and it's valuable, Mr.. Mac
Cracker says, citing the experience
of a San Francisco business man who
sent a valuable letter by air mail to
Chicago, which made him a sum in
the neighborhood of $500, while his
slower competitors relied on the
trains. 1t couldn't be telegraphed, and
1t had to get to Chicago at once, and
ito hire a plane would have cost him
much more than $780," Again Mr..
MacCracken speaks on his favOrite
topic, the economic value of air trans
portation; the cold dollars and cents
worth of time to business and in
dustry.
While passenger traffic will follow
the we'll established transcontinenta1
routes between large cities, a great
use for the plane will be found be-
tween communities which have poor
rail service.
MANY little towns in the Middle
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terests toward finding the best solu-
ton of a great national problem, that,
in my judgment, cannot otherwise be
adequately dealt with
Mr.. Alexander states that the total
income of the farmers, though they
constitute one-third of the population,
has fallen to only 10 per cent of the
total national income.
Our 1926 export trade, especially
that with Europe, showed consider
able Improvement during the third
quarter of the year.
Our exports of finished products
during the first nine months Of the
year constituted nearly As per cent of
our total exports. In that period we
exported 231.247 automotive vehicles
having value of $16S, 692 900, and
96.643 bushels of wheat, valued at
$142, 900.
Rubber continues our leading i'm
port, with raw silk, coffee, sugar and
newsprint following in that order.
Is practical television" within the
not so distant future forecast by the
protector devised by DR.. E. F. w. AL
exanderson, consulting engineer of the
General Electric Co. and the Radio
Corporation of America? Some saw
yes; some no. DIR. Alexanderson has in
his laboratory accomplished radio
transmission of a single photograph
within two minutes, but to enjoy NOV
ing pictures by radio, or, being in
New York, not only to talk with
Gwendolyn at Cairo, but to see Gwen
dolyn and be seen by her as you two
converse. transmission reception and
reproduction must be accomplished
Within one-siXteenth Of a secondhand
were still long way from that.
NOtes.-On December IS representa-
tives of the German and Italian gov
ernments signed a treaty of friend
ship and arbitration
At last the Kingdom of the Serbs.
Greats and Slovenes has a. cabinet
Ouzounovitch again (his fifth cabinet
since ApriD, with the old Serbian
Radical Croatian Peasant coalition,
the important Slovenian party headed
by DIR. korosetZ, refusing to collabo-
rate.
The new Lithuanian government is
going strong, in especial making life
hideOuS for Communists and Jews
and purging the Memel administra-
ton of all Germans.
Finland has a new labor cabinet
which includes woman who before
she entered politics was a domestic
servant.
The new Japanese era which began
with Hirohito's ascent of the throne
is named "the Era of Showa" ZEN
lightened peace).
1t is estimated that the total value
of the investments of Americans in
Mexico is about $1,000 900 900.
Honduras is going in for sericulture.
One hears with pleasure that eco
nomically things are booming in Co.
lombia, especially as to the coffee in
dustry.
A reason among others for post
ponement of the disarmament confer.
ence was Japan's attitude. On &C.
count of the Chinese situation. the
Russian attitude and Russia's non.
participation in Geneva affairs, japan
proposed reservations to the scope of
the conference which, if accepted.
would fatally limit it's usefulness.
The observable region of space "
according to the measurements of DIR.
Edwin Hubble Of the Mount Wilson
Observatory. has a radius of 40 .OOO.-
600 light years, a single light year.
be 1t observed. being more than
$4,000 times the distance of the earth
from the sun.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-02

ing the Turkish ardor for arbitrament
by arms.
A Communist movement of some
Importance is in process in the union
of South Africa, headed by a black OF
considerable ability who was educated
by the missionaries at Livingstone
College.
Hungary.-Final returns of the re-
cent Hungarian general elections
show that the opposition will total
only 80 in the Hungarian House OF
Commons as against 2l3 government
supporters. The opposition will be
proportionately even weaker in the
Senate 1t is unnecessary to point out
that the results do not truly repre-
sent political sentiment in Hungary.
They were insured by the prepos-
terously unfair character of the elec-
toral machinery and the very efficient
handling thereof by Premier Beth
len. One hundred and ninety-nine
seats were filled by open voting,
whereof 1872 were won by the govern
ment, 1870 being uncontested by the
opposition.
A good many. not without reason,
Hold that the government majorities
are too large for it's best interests.
BuIgaria.-On December % an inter
national loan of about SIS 10000 was
fioated under the auspices of the
League of Nations for the benefit of
the government of Bulgaria. 1t is
called a settlement loan" because a
large part of the proceeds is to be ap-
piled presumably under League aus
FsV, Af4 re M a "
thousands 100000 estimated of the
Bulgarian stock who, In consequence
Of the Balkan shake-ups of recent
years, have fed to the Bulgarian
kingdom and are in distress.
The object then, of the loan is SIM
liar to that of the larger Greek refugee
loan of several years ago. About
81, SOC, 900 of the bulgarian bonds was
offered in New York. Ample reve-
nues have been specifically hypothe-
Gated for the service Of the bonds.
A praiseworthy business.
Greece.-One wishes, but in vain,
for news of development in Greece;
of how the coalition cabinet fares.
That cabinet embraces, besides fine
old Zaimes, the premier (premier for
the sixth time). six Republican and
six Royalists, four Of them former
premiers.
Michalakopoulos Is minister Of for.
eign affairs, Tsaldares Of the interior,
Kafandaris of finance. Papanastasion
of agriculture, Gen. Metaxes of COM
munications. Reorganization Of the
army so as to divorce it from politics
is announced as main feature Of
policy. The constitution of 1926 is to
be slightly amended and then ratified.
In due course, the Senate and Cham
Der will jointly elect a council of
state and president
X X X X
United States of America.-A bill
introduced in Congress by Repre-
sentative Bacon IAN old bill amended
to meet objections) would reconstitute