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Central Europe Slowly Recovering
From Demoraling Effects of World War

The great number Of illegitimate chill
dren has necessitated broad viewpoint
as to their status. There is no discrim-
ination made either in schools or in
private life. Where paternity is estab-
lished the father must support the
child. Very little trouble is encoun-
tered on this score, for the father Is
usually Just as proud of his offspring as
though legally bound by marriage.
Probably he would have married any
way if economic conditions had per-
mitted. There are 1000, 900 women to
about $4,000 men in Vienna, and this
has doubtless something to do with the
attitude toward the relations between
the sexes.
Living Conditions Bad.
Most of the divorces in Central Eu-
rope are laid to the distressing eco
nomic conditions which have forced
families to shift for themselves. Dur
ing the last 10 years there have been
$4,000 divorces in Austria, more than
half of them in Vienna. Crowded
quarters did not make living together
easy, especially If the mother-in-law
was present. The majority Of the Gen.
trail European peoples are Catholics,
so that divorce is difficult and marry
ing again is a very complicated affair
There are many who do not know but
what they are bigamists. Indeed every
seventh marriage in Vienna is made
under the dispensation clause. One
ruling on the dispensation marriage Is
that at is not Illegal, but does not
carry legal rights and Is materially and
legally invalid"
In reality there is no distinction be-
| tween first and second marriages except
materially. Nor is there a distinction
! between man and wife, and man and
the woman living with him, except ma
terially. One Judge said he could not
make distinction between legal wife
and woman living with man In 9
common household. It depends upon
| the wishes Of both, their intentions and
the attitude they assume.
Crime is Diminishing.
During 1927 there were in Vienna
| 2,473 requests for dispensation mar.
i riages, and 2,319 were granted. Still
! $4,000 children were confirmed in the
| Catholic Church in Vienna, last year
| so that it would be mistake to thinl
the people are becoming less religious
When economic conditions become
better Central Europe win be on as
| high q moral plane as before the war
| perhaps higher. Even now there arr
| fewer crimes Of violence In Contra
European cities than In American cities
i =
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BY BRUCE BARTON.

Even with the higher animals
the young are dependent on the
mother for only a few days or
weeks or months. They come
quickly to self reliance; they
are ready almost Immediately to
feed themselves.
For man alone Nature reserved
infancy. And infancy created
motherhood.
For years the child is depend
ent upon it's mother absolutely.
II is weak, helpless, unable to
feed itself, unable to walk, an
easy victim TO a single hours
neglect.
Out of it's helplessness, I'M
selfishness was born into WON.
ans heart; out of its pain grew
sympathy; out Of it's long years
Of weakness came patience and
self-sacrificing devotion.
Women, bending over the
cradles Of their young, learned
these virtues first: Little by
little, they have passed them on
to men. And the WORLDS progress
10 measured by the slow record
Of their growth in the world-the
growth of a patience and I'M
selfishness and devotion and
love.
Unless each new generation Of
women gathered these golden
virtues all over again at the
cradles Of their young, the world
would soon forget.
The weakness Of infancy 10 the
source of all social progress.
"of such is the kingdom Of
Heaven"
We men in business get to
thinking Of ourselves as i'm.
portant in the scheme of things;
but we are not. Hartman dies,
and the trains on his railroads
stop for five minutes and then
rush on again. We men can be
killed by millions, and the ranks
close up and move forward. The
world cannot be permanently
damaged, so long as IL has iss
mothers.
what does France need
nost?" they asked Napoleon.
Mothers" WAS his reply.
"All that am ! owe to my
mother" Lincoln said q hundred
times.
And what was true Of Lincoln
IS true in large degree Of every
other good man in the world.
Fortunate are those men who
know Il.
], 1921
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VIENNA-The war shook the moral
fiber of Central Europe, there is no
doubt of that. But the fundamental
structure has not been altered. Changes
did not 60 to the very foundation, and
with the return of normal conditions
the old ideas of morality are triumph
ing. There are even evidences that the
people of Central Europe are today not
as liberal regarding morals as they were
before the war.
All peoples of Central Europe are
very natural and their ideas of moral
ity and immortality might not coincide
with, let us say, American views. An
American might be greatly shocked
should he or she visit one of the bath
ing beaches on the Danube or the Mol
dau in the height of the season. A
man who wears an upper part to his
bathing suit Is thought to be out of
place: he is not conforming to custom.
And the Viennese never heard of such
a thing as policeman measuring girls
bathing suits to see that they covered
the right amount of limb. There is
even an orchestra on the shore of the
river and people dance in these abbre-
Waited costumes They even sit around
In beach cafes and restaurants with no
thought of improperly.
Economies Affect Morals.
If the number of illegitimate children
Is any measure Of laxity in morals
then 1t Is interesting to note that about
IL per cent Of the children In Prague
are nlegitimate, and the percentage Is
close to IS in Vienna. It Is not fair to
consider these figures without also keep
ing in mind the economic conditions
Central Europe suffered very much dur
ing the war, and the dismembermeni
Of the old empire has caused many re.
adjustments. There are thousands Of
unemployed, and it Is safe to say that
the great majority Of the people are
eking out ain existence. It Is hard t.
think of marriage under such condi.
lions. And If the young people d.
marry, where are they going to liyei
It Is all but impossible to find dwell
ing. Thousands of married couples hys
with their parents, often many In ont
room. It Is well known that even younl
married couples cannot meet each othel
alone except on the streets or in thu
parks. But houses of III repute are no
tolerated. From Rumania to Berlin
segregated districts have been abolished
Indeed, moral reform in this respec
has swept all over Central Europe
Houses known to have existed for t1re,
centuries have been closed.
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Wilson vetoed the budget system

Wilson vetoed the budget system
measure.
Good has been fighter in more than
one campaign. But this was to be, up
to that time, his hardest.
In order to promote the establish
ment Of the budget system, after VIII
sons veto, 1t was necessary to amend
the rules of the House. This Good
helped to bring about. The rules were
changed and subsequently the budget
was established, with Good as its au-
thor in the House and Medill McCor-
mick of Illinois its author and man.
ager in the Senate.
Showed Attitude During War.
Under the new system that Is now
in operation the old numerous competi-
tive appropriations committees were
consolidated into one unified general
appropriations committee of IS men,
bers. Good was named chairman of 1t.
In a greater degree than when he was
studying certain restricted sections OF
Army appropriations Good came into
broader contact with the whole area Of
Government expenditures for the War
Department.
It was during the war itself that
Good demonstrated his attitude toward
national defense and toward our SOL
diers, and, at the same time, demon
strated another aspect of his own char
acter.
When the national defense act was
introduced Good made fight on the
floor, against the bitterest opposition,
to put teeth into that measure. The
principles he then enunciated, and the
series of amendments he then intro
duced, were to be proved. two years
later. to have been so. thoroughly pro-
phetic that they now have become q
recognized and accepted part of our
current thinking upon national defense.
While many of his colleagues were
wrangling over details Good saw
| Continued on Sixth Page
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which conduct no controversy is pos
sible. It was heroic and efficient.
There has been much solemn debate
of late In Parliament over the drift OF
the rural population to the town. 1t
had become serious even before the
war, and since 1t has been accelerated
alarmingly.
The situation is worse in the SOUTH
west, especially in the departments of
Dordogne, Gers, Lot-et- Garonne, Tarn-
et-Garonne and Lot, but it is bad
enough through the south. Eighty
years ago IS per cent of the population
of France were agriculturists; now the
percentage is so. Between 1900 and
1928 the cultivated area was reduced
from 6,875,000 hectares to SITS, 900.
France has ceased to be self-supporting
in respect to food. The effects of the
decline Of the countryside and the in
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"HIS 4th of March which inaugu-
rated President Hoover and in
stalled the new cabinet marked
4 also the twentieth anniversary
of the first coming to Washing
ton of James w. Good. He came then
as a member of Congress. He returns
now as Secretary of War.
Within the IL years Of his previous
residence In Washington, from 1909 to
1921, he rose from the position Of a
private in the congressional ranks to
the importance position of chairman OF
the appropriations committee.
When he resigned in 1921 to go into
the private practice Of law in Chicago
he had amply demonstrated those per-
sonal interests and qualifications which
make his appointment to his new post
another demonstration of President
Hoover's capacity for fitting the man
to the expected deed. Few men have
ever entered the cabinet of a President
with greater previous knowledge Of the
department they were to administer.
Two Facts Prove Merit.
In order to substantiate that state
ment we have only to glance at two
facts. One is general and one is spe-
cifc. The general fact Is that seldom
can a man step out Of private life di-
rectly into bureaucratic Washington
with so acute knowledge of its ways
as even the ordinarily lively Congress
man. He gains that knowledge from
his daily intercourse with the de-
partments in the process Of looking
after his constituents interests IN those
various Offices.
The specific fact is that Mr.. Good
was far more than an ordinarily lively
Congressman. Further, an mte-
grail part of his eminent work in Con-
gress concerned the working Of the War
Department, and his pet measure at
the outbreak of the war was also one
which concerned every common soldier
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creasing urbanization and industrializa-
ton are manifold-social, economic and
political. Also land not least impor-
tant) clinical, for the abandoned farms
are being bought UP cheaply and OPP
Grated by Italians, Spaniards and other
aliens. OF course. the downward drift
is a planetary phenomenon, but it
probably presents a more serious prob
lem in France than In any other coun-
try and to one who savors history more
poignant.
4
GERMANY March 20 a kind Of
crisis was reached in the proceedings of
the international experts committee,
which, sitting at Paris, is attempting a
definite settlement of the problem of
German reparations. Quite naturally
the German delegates (of whom DR..
Schacht, head of the Reichsbank, Is
chief have been maneuvering with a
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31

A LADY asks me whether |
" am in favor Of woman
n suffrage. :. 49,. i,
am in. favor of mothers.
Having been a voter for q
number Of years, and something
Of a student Of politics, am
under no illusions about the
ballot.
II is q very clumsy weapon.
Politics aceompIishes a minimum
of progress with a maximum Of
expense and noise. There are
many other avenues Of influence
more quiet, more pleasant, and
far more effective.
But If the mothers Of America
believe that the ballot will help
E them to widen their influence; it
suffrage will extend the atmos-
phere of politics into the home;
if the ballot will help women to
make the working conditions of
girls better, enable them to lead
happier, bigger lives, and found
finer homes-then ! am for suf-
frage now and forever.
Il is an interesting thing to
remember that the whole process
Of evolution has been devoted to
one single accompIishment-the
DEVELOPMENT of q mother.
Nature began with the pro-
tozoa, the simplest form of life;
then she made the worms; then
the mollusks; then the anphibia;
then the reptiles; then the birds;
and last Of all, what?
The mammals, as science
calls them--the mother.
Having made the mothers,
Nature has never made anything
since. She considered her task
complete.
All up through the various
stages of life she had struggled
gradually toward motherhood.
In the lower stages there is no
motherhood, because there is no
infancy. With the ephemeridae
the moment Of birth 10 also the
moment Of death; they are born,
live and die all in a single in
slant. Not much chance for
motherhood there.
The land-crab marches down
from her mountain home to the
seashore once year, lays her
eggs in the sand, and marches
up again. There are Feminists,
by the way, who contend that
the land -erab has the right
idea--that motherhood ought to
be only an incident in the wona-
ans life, as II is in the land.
crabs life.)
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- HOULD Uncle Sam make his pres
ent canal in Panama larger or
should he dig second "big ditch"
~ across the Central American
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BY HENRY w. BUM

BY HENRY W. bUNN'
. HE following Is brief summary
of the most important news OF
the world for the seven Gays
ended March 80.
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GAIN the wheels of Government
are starting over the rough road
4 toward farm relief. The fourth
4 Congress and the third admins
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FaFM bOaEu EmpnaSIeu.
Mr.. Hooyer's st. Louis utterances ac-
cented the Importance of the proposed
Federal farm board. He said:
We propose this board should have
power to determine the facts, the causes,
the remedies which should be applied to
each and every one Of the multitude of
problems which we mass under the gen.
eral term the agricultural problem
This program" Mr.. Hoover added,
further provides that the board shall
have broad authority to act and be
authorized to assist In the further de-
velopment of cooperative marketing;
that 1t shall assist In the development
Continued on Fourth Pags.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-19
NOTRE DAME STAR
DEFEATS WILLIAMS
Beats Canadian a Half Yard.
Two World Marks Broken
in New York Games.
BY HERBERf w. BARKER,

n YEws YORK, February ia
heavily muscled foot ball star
VI has come out of the Middle
l. West to beat Percy Williams,
Vancouver Sprinter, at his own
game.
Jack Elder, halfback on the last Notre
Dame foot ball team, furnished the
track season with sensation last night
when he conquered Williams in
60-yard dash at the annual New York
A. G. games in Madison Square Garden.
1t was the first defeat of Williams
career The double Olympic Spring
Champion up to last night, had met
the greatest sprinters in the world at
varying distances and always with the
same success. During his present Amer
lean invasion the Vancouver youth had
downed all the leading Eastern SprinterS,
including Karl Wildermuth of George
town, Jimmy Quinn of the New York
A. c., and Jimmy Daley of Holy Cross.
What is more, he had trimmed Elder
decisively in the Meadowbrook games at
Philadelphia last week.
Runs Perfect Race.
But Elder was not to be denied last
night. He was off to perfect start,
sped down the straightaway like an
express train and had just enough left
to stand off close Williams closing burst
OF speed Williams was slow off his
mark, as usual, but his famous kick"
near the finish failed by half a yard to
nip the flying Elder The time, 62s
seconds, failed by Is second to equal
the worlds record. John Fitzpatrick,
another Canadian was third, a step or
two ahead of Quinn and Bob Wiese of
the New York A. G.
The games developed two new world
records and an amazing pole vault of
IA feet by Fred Sturdy of Yale.
Weems Baskin, now competing for
the New York A. c., shaved a fifth of
a second off the indoor mark for the
60-yard high hurdles, clearing the four
barriers in Z 2-5 seconds In one of the
trial heats. He was beaten in the finals
by clubmate, Carl Ring, in Z As sec
onds.
A Newark prep school relay team
shaded the interscholastic record for
the mile, which was turned in $3.50 2-5.
second faster than the former mark
set by the same school in Philadelphia
two years ago.
Sturdy Vault IA Feet.
Sturdy, who was forced to take a back
seat in competition last year because
Yale's best pole vaulter happened to be
one Savin Carr, came within an inch
of his famous former teammates indoor
world record of IA feet inch. Sturdy
needed his 14-foot performance to nose
out Victor Pickard of the University
of Pittsburgh, who competed for Canada
III the last Olympics. Pickard cleared
IL feet 10 inches Sturdy failed In three
attempts to break Cars record with
the stick set at IA feet ~ inches.
Paavo Nurmi turned in the fastest
two miles of the season to beat
mediocre handicap field. The Firms
time was 9:l5 Us, far behind his world
record of 1858 LIS set in, the same games
four years ago.
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Wisconsin Quint Wins to Lead
AS Illinois Defeats Michigan

By the Associated Press
~ HICAGO, February ia new
giant killer has appeared in the
Western Conference basket bali
" race, and as a result Wiscon-
sin today held the upper hand
with an undisputed leadership.
Northwestern played the role Of the
giant killer last week, dimming the
titular hopes of Michigan and Purdue in
a spectacular manner. But last night
the Wildcats failed in their attempt to
bowl over Wisconsin, and Illinois
stepped out with the big bludgeon to
tumble Michigan's team into tie for
second place with Purdue, which
downed Indiana, its traditional rival, in
an easy fashion at Lafayette.
In turning back Northwestern's high
powered offense, 81 to %, Wisconsin
shifted its style of attack from Coach
Meanwells famous criss-cross to long
pass game that had the tired Wildcats
completely baffled.
While Wisconsin was making sure of
holding a share of the leadership. Illi-
nois knocked off Michigan, 81 to "a, in
an overtime game. Michigan found it's
fast-stepping offense tied up with the
Illini's slow breaking style Of play, but
rallied near the end to force the game
into an overtime session. The score at
the end Of the regular playing time was
20-all, but In the five-minute extra
period both teams opened up for the
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longest period Of sustained scoring Of
the game.
The Disappointing Hoosiers from In
diana were no match for Stretch"
Murphy and his gang from Purdue
after the first half. Purdue won, 80 to
16, after holding 13-to-10 advantage
at the halfway mark.
Wisconsin's victory placed the Bad
gers at the top with seven wins in
eight starts. The defeat of Michigan,
the second in less than week, showed
the wolverines back to tie with Pur-
due for second place with six victories
and two defeats.
Iowa lost chance to remain in the
running when Minnesota won It's first
game Of the season, 81 to 20. The
Iowans, who had previously lost only
two games in seven starts, had expected
TO have an easy time with the Gophers,
who had been holding down the cellar
with Chicago.
Ohio State pulled itself up in the
conference race to tie Tor fourth place
with five wins and three defeats by
handing Chicago its ninth conference
defeat, 35 to 81. The Maroons made
a bid for victory early in the second
half. but they could not stave of a
last-minute rally by the Buckeyes.
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KAPPA ALPHA, SIGMA NJ
IN FIRST COURT FINAL

COLLEGE PARK, Md, February 10.
Kappa Alpha quint squeezed out a
1915 win over Delta Sigma Phi in a
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Made in Grid Code BY National Foot Ball Rules Committee

Virginia track meet Saturday in Char
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Frank Hawkins and Vincent Fitzsim-
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dash. Richard Toole will compete in
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Coach Smith Is handicapped by a
small squad and limited facilities