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| 1t was not until Edward I assembled
the first complete Parliament in 1895
that the Great Council became an Up
per Chamber, with commoners from
the countries and towns composing the
Lower House.
With one or two brief interruptions
under reactionaries, the dual chamber
system, inaugurated by Edward six GEN.
turtles ago, has survived into the age
Of jazz and airplanes.
Unluckily the onrush of democracy
and industrialism and the decay OF
the old aristocratic species have robbed
the lords Of their strongest claim to
act as hereditary legislators. In the
old DAYS they were the leader of the
pack-in physique. intelligence, cunning
and rescurces-superior to the common
atty. They had no need to persuade
a crowd in order to achieve political
place and power; they we're born into
both.
One finds them in the middle Of the
seventeenth century, the peers, lords
and barons of this realme," declaring
and protesting against late reasonable
proceedings and tyrannous usurpations
If some Of the Commons House; hear
ing Charges delivered at the Lords
barre from the Commons of high treason
against three earls, four lords and
others; examining -four men concern
ing the great Oneale being landed in
Ireland, having commission under the
crate seal of England to kill and STAY
the English in that kingdome and
afterward to come into England against
the Professionals here"
Very busy. jealous, hot-blooded, jeal-
GUS. watchful, high and grim they
were: and when a lord heaved himself
DIP from his crimson leather bench in
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made a complete evacuation. Dissap-
pointment of two hopes evidently took
the heart out of the rebels: of help
from Feng Yu Hsiang, and from Cam
ton, respectively. Feng did not turn
traitor, and that part OF the forces at
Canton well-affected to Marking, sprang
a coup which stifled the plans Of the
disaffected part. There Is possibility
that the rebels will concentrate their
remaining strength In Human Province
and there fight on.
Col. Max Bauer, former member of
German general staff, compelled to fly
Germany because Of prominent parti-
cipation in the Kapp "putsch' of 1920,
is military adviser to Chang Kai Shek.
and the apparently admirable strategy
of Changts recent operations is prob
ably ascribed to Col. Bauer's advice.
The other day the Marking govern
ment fioated a Rehabilitation loan.'
It Is now being used to defray the costs
Of the new civil war. 1.-THE best-laid
plans o'mice and men gang aft a. gley."
With the formal recognition, on. De-
cember 20, 1928, by Marshal Chang
Hsueh LANG, super Tuchun Of Man.
churia, of the three principles" Of Sun
Vat Sen, and the simultaneous official
hosting of the Nationalist nag through
out Manchuria, the 81 provinces of
China were formally reunited-this ap-
proximately is years after the definite
outbreak of the revolution which over
threw the Manchus.
Yet the reunion is still far from &C.
tuai. Manchuria is still practically
autonomous, and the same Is true of
the great provinces of Szechwan Kwei-
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that formidable assembly men listened
and things were liable to happen.
Pepys uncoyers a peep hole on them
In the year 1866: The Duke Of Buck
ingham the writes digged his elbow
rudely against the Marquis Of Dorchester
and the marquis as rudely showed the
duke. The Duke OF Buckingham asked
whether he was uneasy, and the mar
quis replied yes, and that he durGt not
do this anywhere else. The duke replied
that he could, and that he was better
man than himself Lord Dorchester .ex-
claimed that he lied, and upon this the
Duke Of Buckingham struck his hat OF,
and took him by the periwig and pulled
it aside and held him. My Lord Cham
berlain and others interposed. and both
were ordered to the tower"
Scenes like this happen only in the
Commons these days. Manners have
improved in the upper chamber, but at
blood has thinned. There still are
robust bearers Of ancient titles, thanks
usually to an ancestor who married out
side his order and so brought in a
much-needed strain Of vigorous blood,
but there are also many tenth trans
mitters Of a foolish face"
The House of Lords today has 1877
members, or 122 above the Commons.
When the peeresses in their own right
are added. there viii be 800, which win
make the upper chamber larger by 200
than the Commons. and almost twice
as large as any other legislative assem-
bly, in the civilized world.
Hundred Years Change.
A hundred years ago. when peers
were not made so easily--the lords
being jealous of new admissions to their
order-there were only &c., The in
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crease has taken place chiefly under
Liberal ministries, who. In their anxiety
for strong representation in the still
dominant upper chamber (and also to
satisfy rich supporters who wanted
titles In exchange for services and con-
tributions to the party funds between
1880 and 1915 created no less than 304
peers, against the 2l0 made by the
Tories.
Lord Salisbury, head Of the Cecil
family lin which today the ennobled
Earl Of Balfour Is the star turn made
90 in this long reign. and the two old
Liberal patriarchs, Gladstone and As
quith, made So and So, respectively
while they held, as preniers, the power
OF patronage. II all these newly created
titles had survived the House of Lords
today would be nearly thousand
strong.
But numbers here do not mean al
that they appear to mean, for most OF
the peers are abSentees, and the bust
ness OF the House Is carried on by be.
tween Sc and 10 Lords, experts in
finance, law, administration, foreign af-
fairs and ecclesiastical matters. who
take their legislative duties seriously:
and OF these number are law lords
who hold only life peerages to enable
them to sit and hear pleadings in this
court of last appeal.
Even when the Lords debated the
question OF their own reform last De-
cember-without arriving at any con-
clusion--the hereditary peerage re-
manned so Indifferent that only so
members Of the House were present to
vote.
The Lords work three days a week
during the parliamentary session. The
Continued on Fifth pare1
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The Lesson of a Failure
BY BRUCE BARTON.

il ought to understand navisa-
tion and sea fighting, and know
nothing of either. have no one
Of these essential qualifications.
] have no acquaintance among
the officers !, who are to serve
under me. Were ! competent
otherwise, | should have to act
in --the dark by the opinion of
others, and cannot tell to
whom may trust. The Adelan-1
tado Of CASTLE would do better
than /. Our Lord would help
him, for he is good Christian
and has fought in naval battles.
II you send me, depend upon II,
shall have 4 bad account to
render of, my trust.
Think Of Philip u appointing
4 man to command his feet
who would write q letter like
thatI
How could such i commander
expect 10000 men to have any
faith in him, when he had abso-
lutely none In himself?
Yet the headstrons King did
/. send him; and the result was
one Of the most monumental
disasters Of history.
Men fail for many reasons.
Some because they oyerreach
themselvss-hecause they have
too much self confidence.
But theirs u another kind Of
failure that Is far worse--the
failure Of those who, as Goethe
says, make no mistakes, be-
cause they never wish to do
anything worth doing
For goodness sake, make
mistakes.
II you are going to fail 1t all.
let II be because you believe too
much IN yourself.
That, 1t least, II 4 mans way
10 fail.
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- o YOU want TO do some
reading that will be in
tensely interesting as
0 we'll as profitable? Read
the story Of some Of the great
failures Of the world. Find out
what caused them.
have recently been reading
the story Of colossal failure
the defeat Of the Spanish
Armada, az told BY the historian
Froude.
The Armada was the greatest
fleet the medieval world had
ever seen. II consisted Of 100
ships, and carried more than
V 10000 sailors and soldiers.
Ii was fitted out BY Philip u
Of Spain to conquer England,
and was meant 80 overwhelni All
resistance by ito size. u mounted
more than $500 guns.
Vet this magnificent fleet, the
niphtiest IN the world, was met
by 4 little feet under Lord
Howard and deeisively defeated.
Why?
Because The Spanish were not
60 brave as the English? No.
Because their guns were in
ferior7 Not at all.
The Spanish Armada failed
Because its commander had no
faith IN himself. Read this letter,
which ne wrote ID the King whsn
he was notified Of his appoint
rnent:
NY health i bad ths wrcte),
and from my small experiences Of
the water know that ! am al
ways seaSick. have no money
which can spare. fAs = matter
Of fact, he was the richest noble
man IN SPAIN The expedition
il. on such ! seaIs and the cbiset
of II Is 81 such hiph innportance,
that the person II the hssd 81
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BY HENRY w. BUNN.

fThe following is brief summary OF
| the most important news Of the world
for the seven days ended April 81.
THE BRITISH EMPEROR April
the Imperial Always, Ltd, carried It's
one hundred thousandth passenger on
the London-Paris air route. IT makes
the Justly proud claim that since It's
Inauguration in 1924. no fare-paying
passenger has been injured.
The air mail-passenger route, Lon
don to Karachi, India, was formally
opened on March 30. Service is to be
weekly in each direction. "Argosy"
machines ttri-motored biplanes) ply
between London and Basic. Switzerland.
At Basic twe're going East transfer Is
made to the night railroad express to
Genoa. From Genoa tri-motored fy-
ing boats of the Calcutta type sail,
with stops at Naples and Athens to
Alexandria, Egypt. There transfer is
made to tri-motored land planes Of
the Hercules" type, which complete
the journey, with stops at GAIA, Bag
dad and Basra.
Alexandria will be reached from
London in four days, GAIA in four and
one-half, Bagdad in five and orle-half,
Basra in six and Karachi in seven and
one-nah. The planes win be In con-
slant wireless touch with ground sta
lions. Sir Hubert wilkins lis making
active inquiries into the possibility OF
making q submarine trip across the
Arctic Sea."
| 4 4 ~
sPATN.-Again Primo De Rivera
nrenier and in effect dictator of Spain,
announces that he expects to continue
the present regime until q new con-
stitutional machinery constructed by
| the National {constituent) Assembly now
at work thereon shall have been def
nitely installed He expects the
| National Assembly to complete its work
| BY 1881.
Madrid University, closed by the gov
| eminent because of the diSorderly con-
duct (by way of protest against con-
| tinuance of the present regime) OF a
considerable part of its student body,
win not be reopened this year, but It's
students will be allowed to take exam
| nations at other universities. The stu
dent episode appears to be closed. The
| dictator showed his customary humor-
Gus good sense and clemency In dealing
with it.
Oficers Of the artillery corps, dis
| banded because Of the recent mutiny
| therein, are allowed to present applica-
| tons for reinstatement In the army.
and no doubt De Rivera will exhibit
characteristic magnanimity In consider
| Ing such applications. n.
SPANS two great expOsitiOns will
open In May; the Seville iIbero- Ameri-
| CAM on May I, the Barcelona (Inter-
nationall on May Is. One should miss
neither.
| ****
GERMANY. The German NATIONAL
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corresponding months of 1928 by per
cent.
There were 1882 miles Of airways
In operation in the United States on
March 80. OF the daily flying mileage,
80 ,216 miles are flown In the air mail
services, and 1880 in passenger car
rying and other services.
The Department of Commerce eSti-
mates the population Of the city OF
Greater New York at approximately
six millions as Of July /, 1928, and the
population Of other cities above mil
lion as follows approximate figures)
Chicago, 3,150,000; Philadelphia, g.
o0O, 900; Detroit. 100000; Cleveland.
1000, 600.
NOTES-What a fantastic spectacle
Of purely modern quality, that OF the
struggle between General Motors and
the Ford Co., for automotive supremacy
In Europe.
It is estimated that the cost of the
Transsaharan Railway, to connect
French North with French West Africa,
would be between $80,000,000 and
$l2D. 00o, 900.
Mgr. Ignaz seipel has resigned as
chancellor Of the Austrian Republic
The main reason for the reslgnatiOm .
probably to be found In increasing criti-
cism of the ascendency, or alleged as
tendency, Of clerical interests in the
monsignor's political scheme Of things
Mgr. Seipel became chancellor In 1922
IN 1924 he resigned, but resumed the
ONCE tn 1927. His government was q
coalition one, embracing representation
Of the Pan-G German, Agrarian and
Christian Socialist parties. He Is 9
member Of the last named party. which
has not hit it on perfectly with the
Pan-G Germans.
Casimir Bartel has resigned as pre-
n1ier Of Poland. and complete re-
casting Of the Polish government Is In
prospect.
The Russian Soviet government boasts
q favorable surplus Of foreign trade for
the first i've months Of the current
Russian fiscal year in the sum Of u.s.
100000 rubles (about $l2,500, 000) as
against an unfayoFable balance Of 81
100000 rubles for the corresponding
period Of the previous fiscal year. on
the other hand, there Is q serious short
age Of foodstuffs In Moscow. There Il
q connection between the two.
The League Preparatory Disarmament
Commission assemblies once more 81
Geneva en- April Is.
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Paris Forbids Parking
to Relieve Traffic Jam

Parking Is Paris is no morei This
may mean nothing to the pedestrian
except q vote OF thanks-but to the mo-
torist here It ends an epoch.
One Of the things which made driving
a car here entrancingly simple or mad
deningly complicated depending on the
point OF view-was the regulation by
which motorist might park his auto
mobile almost anywhere In Paris for rs
long as he hked-even, say, on boule-
wards like Champs Elysees or jammed
infernos like Rue Cambon.
But, aiasi Police Commissioner Chi
appe has said the end. Now Paris is
to abolish promiscuous parking In the
manner Of our cities. The reason? The
intolerahle trafac Jams.
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Sardinia Is Proving
Fertile Cotton Land

Cotton can be grown IN Sardinia, the
Italian ministry Of national economy
has just proved by experiments which
1t considers encouraging The yield on
arid land selected for the experiment
was about three quintalS of cotton per
acre. As Italy is engaged in program
Of raising everything possible within its
borders IN order to decrease the amount
of imports from abroad, 1t Is implied
that further attention will be given 70
the raising Of cotton, or which Italy Is
D heavy buyer "a nletic Quintal u
about 22o pounqs2
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hereditary peerage of England
is fighting in the last ditch.
The Liberals and Conservatives of
the dominant Lower Chamber, recog-
nizing that the hereditary principle In
the Legislature is as obsolete as. the
theory of the divine right of kings and
cannot be defended in the country, want
to reconstitute the weak hereditary
chamber as a strong Senate wholly
or mainly filled with elected and life
peers.
On the other hand the Labor Social
lists, who have ambitious schemes for
Matchmaking the banks, industry and
land, and don't want conservative
Senate blocking their schemes, plan to
turn the Upper Chamber into q mere
memento of England's feudal past, like
the Tower of London and Traitors
Gate.
The lords are annoyed. They have
held their house for over. 700 years.
Yesterday, proud and masterful, they
were changing dynasties. impeaching
princes, filling the great Offices of state,
using the Commons as a training ground
for the son and heir against the time
when he would sit In the Lords. and us
ing their veto ruthlessly to obstruct and
delay all the great measures OF reform
desired by progressive Lower Cham
Der.
Older Than Parliament.
Besides. their assembly is an older In
stitution than Parliament proper. The
ancient Great Council Of England was
.o~.v,c-nd ~ ha rar,c hiShors and nhkOtg
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BY c. PATRICK THOMPSON.
. ESIEGED in their last gilded and
. upholstered stronghold by the
peeresses on the one hand and
. the politicians on the other, the
hereditary peerage Of England
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Continued on Fifth Page.)
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Older Than Parliament.

Besides. their assembly is an older In
stitution than Parliament proper The
ancient Great Council Of England was
composed Of barons, bishops and abbots.
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Hundred Years Chang.

A hundred years ago. when peers
were not made so easily--the lords
being jealous Of new admissions to their
order-there were only &c., The in
The Washington times., 1929-04-27
I FIREMEN STAGE
!. FIRST ANNUAL
.--
BANQUET

az HYATTSVILLE, April 27.--The
first annual banquet of the Prince
Georges County Volunteer Fire
mems Association was staged in
wonderful style last night at the
Masonic hall here. Speeches, music,
various entertainment and bounti-
s.ful spread, served by the Ruth
Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star,
were the highlights of a most enjoy
able evening. Approximately $50
guests were served.
William H. Anglin, president OF
the Keystone Publishing Company,
of Hyattsville, was the toastmaster
The invocation was pronounced by
the Rev. Clyde Brown, OF the
Pinkney Memorial Church, and
{ Robert E. Mahoney, president of the
county firemen's association, made
d short speech of greeting to the
guests of the firemen.
Senator Caraway Speaks
George Finger, past president of
the organization spoke on, why
We're Here and T. w. Venemann.
president, outlined the work and
aims of the association.
The principal addresses of the
evening were delivered by Senator
: II. H. Caraway and Representative
Stephen w. Gambrill.
Other addresses were made by
State Senator Lansdale G. Sasscer
Y and Dr. II. T. Willis, mayor OF
Hyattsville.
~ Among the entertainment features,
The Spanish dance of Miss Olga
Lofgren and the dance OF Miss
Mildred Bargagni were warmly re-
ceived. There Was an enjoyable re-
citation by Maurice Jarvis and some
splendid musical numbers by the
Capitol Heights orchestra.
s... Committee on Arrangements F.
3. The committee on arrangements
was composed of George Finger,
II chairman; Robert E. Mahoney. I. w.
+syenemann, Noble F. Rushe, T. w.
Scott and V. A. Simmel.
In addition to the fayetteville COM
I, ,pany, member companies of the
q county firemen's organization are:
Cottage City, Mt. RSainier, Brentwood,
Capitol Heights, Riverdale, Seat
!. Pleasant, BIadensburg, Laurel ],
BranchvilIe, College Park, Riverdale
Heights, Berwyn Heights, Great
capitol Heights. Boulevard Heights,
zGlendale and Bowie.
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Hotels and Resorts
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Elks Anniversary Sermon
to Be Preached Tomorrow

The anniversary sermon of Co
lumbia Lodge. No. S5. I. B. p. O. E.,
will be heard tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at the Metropolitan Baptist
Church, 1900 block r st. n. w. It
viii be delivered by the Rev. E. c..
Smith, pastor of the church. Charles
Robinson will be master of cere-
monies. Edward Turner is chair
man of the committee in charge.
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NINE. GAINNER

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NINE. HART, 7o7 TIH PEH,STsF NJ; :. "
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chance to see her. She will tell you of
your enemies. friends, false or true; love,
courtship, marriages and divorces: TO gain
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7TH AND X STREETS NORTHWEST,
THE HOME.
Apt. 20-3 rooms and bath,
$4,000.
Apt. b1--5 rooms and bath,
$67 so.
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sALEsMEN

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work: experience. references furnished. APP
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way. Gambrill p o.. Nd.
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600.
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Two rooms. kit. bath All modern )
eonveniences with elec. & gas furnished.
real bargain. Apply on premises be.
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