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The Ibero-American Exposition.

At Seville, a day or two ago, King
Alfonso XIII formally opened the long
prepared and eagerly awaited Ibero-
American Exposition. 1t is pretentious
and, according to all advance accounts
available, magnificent exhibition Of the
artistic and industrial Importance of
modern Spain.
AS a special mark of esteem for this
country, the United States was the only
country in the world, apart from the
closely related Latin republics Of Gen.
trail and South America, which was In
vited to join with Spain in the Seville
Exposition. The Washington Govern
ment, with the approval of Congress,
has erected splendid American pavilion
there and placed in charge of it a rep
resentative commission headed by for
mer Gov. Thomas E. Campbell Of
Arizona.
The. Ibero-American Exposition Is in
tended, like another affair Of the same
general character-the International
Exposition at Barcelona, which will
swing open its doors this week-to show
the world that both the Andalusian and
the Catalonian suns nowadays beat
down upon a Spain which is keeping
lively step with the. march of progress.
Both exhibitions are meant to supply
graphic illustration that Spain, like her
sister countries in both hemisphsres, is
a twentieth century nation, by no
means stripped Of the cultural tradi-
tions which adhere to the land Of the
grandees, but able and anxious to play
an effective role in this economic age.
It is graceful compliment which
King Alfonso and his people pay us, in
linking the United States at Seville
with the Latin countries which once
formed the Spanish empire in the West
ern Hemisphere. The exposition was
conceived as a filial monument to that
glorious past and as an expression Of
SPANS confidence that. despite the alb
sence of any political tie, the silken
bond of enduring sentiment yet unites
her to lands and race which once
owed allegiance to Madrid.
To the development of that ideal,
and to any practical blessings in the
way Of trade expansion which may flow
from it, the United States has no
manner Of digestion. Ibero-American
friendship is natural fabric. The Sc
vile Exposition is designated to strength
en- it. The lively desire Of the Ameri-
can people Is that every aspiration
which Spain and Latin America pin
upon it will be richly realized.
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discrimination against them, for while
the statute Is general its application Is
practically confined to Cuba.
Since the issue has been alive, in the
last six years, 1t has caused rather hard
feelings. In 1925 American postal off,
Gals negotiated with Cuba temporary
parcel post convention, by which at
parcel rates packages Weighing a maxi
mum Of IL pounds we're EXCHANGED be-
tween the two countries at reduced
rates. The agreement was that an eff
fort would be made to repeal the old
cigar limitation. A bill for that pur-
pose was reported favorably, but failed
to reach action in the House because
Congress adjourned soon thereafter
Cuba extended the temporary conven-
ton another year.
Terminated Plan in 1928.
No action having been taken by
Congress, Cuba terminated the parcel
post convention in March last year.
During the last ID months packages
mailed to Cuba have been carried at
letter rates, with a maximum weight of
pounds ounces permitted.
Several hundred of the more than
1000 firms which had developed a
mail-order business with Cuba have
been cut off from this trade In the
last year because of the weight limi-
tation and such business as has been
transacted by mail has been at a much
higher cost because Of application Of
the letter rates.
Meanwhile, European firms have
stepped into the breach and have in
creased their mail business with Cuba
materially, according to the records of
the Cuban postal service showing
parcel transactions with foreign coun-
tries.
Consumers on Side Lines.
The great body of cigar consumers
stand on the side lines while those
most keenly interested in the mail
arrangements with Cuba prepare for
a struggle over these Is words in the
new tariff bill which carry a burden
of millions Of dollars of trade and of
good will. The domestic
tobacco interests clearly intend to ap-
peal to the Senate should they lose
their case in the House. :, ,~t
lCopyEight, 1929
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Arctic Exploration.

The Graf Zeppelin is to make three
trips over the top of the world next
Spring in an international, cooperative
polar exploration project.
These expeditions will differ In one
essential respect from all those which
have preceded them into the frozen
north. The Arctic fogs no longer
veil imagination stirring mysteries. One
after another the possibilities for SEN
sational discoveries have been elimi-
mated.
The North Pole, so long the goal of
international competition, is no longer
an objective. If the Graf Zeppelin hap
pens to cross this geometrical point at
the top of the world, the scientists on
board will regard it merely as part of
the days routine. 1t already has been
reached four times.
Within the past five years the myth
of an undiscovered continent has been
exploded thoroughly by Mcmillan, Byrd,
Amundsen and Wilkins. There are only
vast ice fields, broken by occasional
small islands between the northern
coast of North America and the Pole.
The world will no longer be thrilled by
fantastic pictures Of lost race dwell
ing In sheltered valleys Of the boreal
continent.
The Arctic henceforth will be a
dreary, prosaic place. What, then, re-
mains? Everything, says DR.. Fridtjof
Nansen. veteran explorer, who will be in
command of the expeditions next Spring
All that has gone before was merely
preliminary to the real work which re-
mains to be done. Franklin, Frobisher,
Davis. Baf1n. Ross, Kane, De Long, Hall,
Peary, Byrd, wilkins and the rest were
the trail blazers. Their task was to de-
stroy the illusions-to push forward into
the roseate mirages and find only the
everlasting stretches of ice.
They have enabled their successors to
study the real problems afforded by the
Arctic. This will be the purpose of the
expeditions next Spring and, 1t is likely,
of similar expeditions for generations to
come. This inhospitable area Of the
earth's surface contains factors which
affect vitality the rest of the world. More
accurate weather forecasting, for in
stance, requires much more detailed
knowledge of meteorological conditions
over all of the Arctic Ocean and Green
land. There are numerous other prob
lens which can be solved only with ma
terial bound up in the Arctic ice.
Past generations have prepared the
field. The new explorers are going forth
to reap the harvest of knowledge.
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ton to the British stars who have won
the trophy more often than himself.
Harry Vardon has his name on the
cup six times and also James Braid has
captured the trophy six times.
"They are still up on me-" was
Hagen's comment, but am coming
back again." The American gave the
British due praise for their victory in
the Ryder Cup team competition, adj
mitting frankly that the Americans
had been we'll beaten.
Hagen's success will be popular one
because of the great golf he played
under adverse weather conditions and
because of his ability to brace and come
from behind. In the end his score was
six strokes less than his nearest COM
petitor, an almost unheard of lead in
British or American open tournament.
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Debenture Fight May Reverse
Political Situation i'm House

cordingly the debenture plan. as sub
stitute for the tariff, and as an equiva-
lent for it, was necessary. Mr.. Garner,
on the other hand. is a protectioniSt
and debenturist with apparently equal
enthusiasm.
with his blessing, the new tariff bill
HOSTS the duty on tomatoes frem one
half of one cent pound to three cents
a pound-a raise of 500 per cent. That
Is on natural" tomatoes. The duty on
prepared" or preserved" tomatoes is
lifted from is per cent to Is per cent
ad valorem.
It happens now that we export as
well as import tomatoes and other vege-
tables In prepared" and preserved"
forms. In 1927, for instance, we ex-
ported 100000 pounds of canned vege-
tables.
Mr.. Garner accordingly is out for the
tomato conquest of the world. First,
he will keep out the West Indies and
Bahaman and Mexican tomato by
means of the new tariff duty. Next he
will lead the American tomato on to
fresh or prepared triumphs in foreign
party by paying an export bounty on
every pound of canned tomatoes that
is willing to seek a purchase abroad
Thus by combining the import tariff
system and the export debenture sys-
tenn, Mr.. Garner will cause the Ameri-
can tomato to enjoy a monopoly at home
and a spreading area of dominance on
the tables of the whole foreign world
Program Held Audacious.
This program is one of audacious and
dazzling attractiveness and will accumu-
late numerous followers. Contrariwise,
the followers Of old-fashioned Demo-
cratic doctrine, like Representative Hull
of Tennessee, who shrink from all arti-
fetal governmental barriers to trade or
subsidies to trade, will have great diff
Guilty in accommodating themselves to
philosophy which combines the barrier
of the tariff and the subsidy of the
export debenture into one stupendous
whole.
The next consequence at this moment
seems likely to be that the export de-
benture plan in the House will add a
great many columns to deep Democratic
debate.
(Copyright, 1927
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EVERYDAY RELIGION
BY THE RIGHT REV. JAMES E. FREEMAN, D. d., IL. D,
Bishop of Washington

Sunday school has done much, and
must continue to do so, goes without
saying, but it is a wholly inadequate
preparation for the stern battle of life.
Precept and example in the home are
worth more than precept and example
in any other place. There are strong
men and women today whose religious
impulses were born and stimulated at
the family altar. They caught their
first real vision of the meaning of re-
ligion in its relation to life from the
lips of high-minded, consecrated fathers
and mothers. The practice of grace at
meat they came to regard as the con-
sistent recognition of Him who IS the
giver of every good and perfect gift.
In fine, they came to associate the
wholesome things of home life with the
deep principles Of religion. What they
received when minds and hearts were
plastic and receptive has become fixed
In the more definite convictions that
have served to strengthen and stabilize
them. in .rleating the eXigencies ana
emergencies of their more mature life.
Such men and women constitute our
greatest asset and security in days OF
stress and storm, they are the prepared
ones.
A goddess home, a home that lacks
reverence and respect for sacred things,
is a menace to the community In Wnlcn
1t is placed. No amount of so called
culture, or prosperity, or refinement of
environment can serve as substitute
far that which develops and enriches
character and breeds in our youth the
spirit of reverence for things that are
holy. We cannot effect moral worth
through legal processes. Laws may re-
strain, they do not produce moral char
acter. We may trace much of our
present dereliction as people, together
with our disrespect for and disregard
of laws, to our moral supineness, the
direct product of our indifference to the
nigh claims of religion. Laws without
ideals are imperative. If we could in
duce parents to recognize more fully
their moral obligations to their children
we would relieve our legislative bodies
of an excess of law making and our
courts of their overloaded calendars
The ancient word still holds true.
go and when he is old he will not de-
part from It,"
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NFemher NJ the Associated press
Mothers DaY.

In 1914 President Wilson signed a
Joint resolution of Congress setting
aside the. second Sunday in May as
Mothers day and in accordance with
the resolution issued a proclamation
calling on the Nation so to observe it.
Since then there have been no con-
greSsional joint resolutions and no
Presidential proclamations, but the date
has come to be generally observed The
observance is due in part to the activ-
tiles of those interested commercially
in seeing to it that mothers throughout
the land are adequately remembered.
and in part to a relatively small group
of citizens who have endeavored to at
tach a really significant and senti-
mental meaning to the day.
A great deal of the to-do over
Mothers day Is unworthy of serious
thought. The day merely becomes an
other day, no more important than
Eat an Apple day. Mother is ungener-
ously pictured as sitting in the corner
by the fireSide, smiling through a tear
but Frightening at the prospect Of a
box Of candy, bouquet of flowers CT a
long telegram, appropriately worded for
the occasion. There is a great deal of
sentimental gush unfair to Mother.
But part of the day, at least here in
Washington is given over to tributes
and a symbolism that are full of mean
ing. There is no spectacle quite so
touching, as the figure of some lonely
mother In Arlington with flowers for
grave. And one must go far to find
any group more worthy Of high honor
than the mothers who wear the gold
star, and whose memories Of other
Mothers days not SO long ago are re-
called by the exercises at Arlington.
It is unfortunate that commercialism
has almost succeeded in destroying the
high purpose which led to the original
observance of Mothers day. But 1t can
never take away the dignity and sweet
ness of the name. And as for the
candy and flowers why. Mothers likes
to get them.
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Clause on Cuba Cigars
May Cause Tariff Row
BY HARDEN COLFAX.

Out of the confusion of tongues
which have been shouting for attention
since the new tariff bill made its ap-
pearance there Is heard one note, lit
tie needed as yet, that promises to at
tract considerable attention before the
posed measure there Is 16-word sub
section designed to improve relations of
comfy and commerce with Cuba.
This two-line part of the bill would
repeal section 1904 of the Revised
Statutes under which, since 1866, i'm
portations Of cigars have been restrict
ed to packages Of not less than 5000
cigars each.
It is because of the existence of this
old law that the United States has no
parcel post agreement with the island
republic. for the Cubans have come to
accept this prohibition as a direct dis
elimination against them, especially
since the subject has been brought d1-
at least five different occasions in the
last half dozen through committee hear
irgs on bills to effect repeal and through
recommendations from the President
that such repeal be made by Congress.
DispIeases on Sugar Rate.
This new tariff bill with one hand
displeases Cuba by proposing sub
stantial increase in the sugar duty, but
with the other hand extends an offer
ing of good will toward the island
through the proposal to repeal this OBJ
noxious cigar limitation law.
Because of the jor interest in the
question of rates proposed in the new
tariff bill, little thus far has been heard
of this cigar clause, but it may be as
sumed without the slightest effort to
stretch the imagination that there will
be considerable noise over 1t before
long. The fact is that the cigar manu-
facturers of the United States are most
vigorously opposed to repeal of this an
Gent statute and they are backed by
the labor unions and merchants in that
field.
The line of battle over this section of
the tariff bill will find on the side of
the Cubans more than a thousand
American business firms interested in
exporting to the islands by parcel post,
plus export association and individual
together with the support
Of the Post ONCE Department and the
of Commerce. Rather i'm
posing strength will be displayed by
some $4,000 domestic cigar manufac-
turers, $4,000 cigarmakers, 10000 job
bers and 100000 merchants who retail
cigars.
Mail Business Feared.
American cigar interests fear that If
the old limitation is removed, Cuba will
develop a dircct-by-mail business with
American smokers and thereby take
away some of their business. The con-
trary argument has been advanced that
direct mail trade in cigars always will
be a negligible factor of the business.
CubanS have appeared less interested
In the possibilities of promoting mail
business In cigars than in removal of
what they have come to regard as a
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A letter from the head Of one of the
great organizations of women in the
country has the following striking
sentence: I'm my opinion, no other
pie today is of more vital importance
than that Of religious training in the
home" In the course of her sug-
gestive letter she speaks of the cult
vation of 1.-THE soul of the home" We
believe that the concern felt by this
woman is widely shared by many. The
pressure of life today, its swift cur
rents; its colorful and we'll nigh ire
sistible appeals and its larg1r freedom,
all conspire to make more difficult than
ever the consideration CT those things
that constitute the foundation OF
character building. Some one face
tiously observes that we are running
about with our souls in our satchels."
Even those of us who seek TO main
tain the old habits of devotional prac-
tice and the setting apart OF definite
times for quiet and reflection are find
ing it difficult to do so. The calls OF
modern life are so clamorous and per-
sistent that they seem to shut out those
quieter voices that can be heard only
by the inner ear of the soul. More and
more we are being confronted with the
question as to the economy and wisdom
Of our present course.
we are ali dSIGGu CIldI CNuCoeAoAA Az
designed to At our children for the
strenuous battle of life. We are all
agreed that the age that lies ahead will
make increasing demands upon them.
In our better hours we maintain that
education without adequate training in
those things that contribute to moral
character is of little worth. 1t would
be difficult to find a father or mother
who would venture to maintain that
the only requisite for fitness is the
training of brain and hand. We all be-
lieve that religious training OF some
kind is indispensable and that without
it chaos lies ahead. We once depended
solely upon the organized agencies OF
the church for such training; we felt
that a brief hour in the Sunday school
constituted all that our children needed
to give them right outlook upon life
and to fix in them their moral and
ethical ideals. We sent our children to
the Sunday school for spiritual instruc-
ton, as we sent them to the day school
for their mental development. That the
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Gang Warfare in Chicago.

There is nothing Of less consequence
to the Nation at large than the muir
der, no. matter how brutal, Of three
Chicago gangsters. But the murder is
important to the extent that 1t writes
another chapter In the red history Of
Chicago,s gang warfare since prohibi-
ton. That history, yet unfinished, is a
fearsome commentary on the impotence
of law and order once the underworld
gets the upper hand.
From 1920 to 1928 John Torrio, q
product of the old Five Points gang Of
New York, ruled the liquor trafac and
commercialized vice Of Chicago undis-
puted. But the profits were SO enormous
that his throne was threatened by the
jealousy Of his own princelings. One Of
these, Dion O'Banion, controlling the
North Side gang, an offshoot of Torrio'S
one big gang, grew careless in his talk
and threatened the king. One Novem-
Der day in 1924 three men entered his
florist shop, for as a side line he was
a florist and dwelt among flowers. One
of the men shook his hand, while an
other pumped bullets into him and he
was killed. The war was under way.
In January, 1925, Torrio, descending
from his guarded automobile, was filled
full of slugs from sawed-of shotguns.
"Cauterize it," he cried to the doctors,
pointing to his wounds. He knew that
gangsters poisoned their bullets. He did
not die, but on his recovery fed. He is
believed to be in Italy today.
Hymie Weiss and Bugs Moran sue
ceeded O'Banion as leaders of the North
Side. In August, 1926, an attempt was
made to kill one of their neutenants. It
failed. Alphonso Capone had succeeded
Torrio, and in September an attempt
was made on his life. In october Weiss,
with four companions, got out of an au-
tomobile in front CT O'Banion's old
florist shop. A burst Of machine-gun
fire from a Second-story window on the
other side Of the street greeted them.
Weiss fell dead with ten bullets In his
body. One of his companions was also
killed and the other three wounded.
Reprisal followed reprisal. Gangsters,
on one side or the other, were shot
down. On last st. Valentines day seven
members of Bugs" Morans gang were
lined up in garage and moved down
with machine-gun bullets. With a
naivete peculiar to Chicago the police
and the newspapers frankly spoke their
belief that the massacre was done by
members Of Capone's gang. But Capone,
fat, greasy, opulent, wearing diamonds
and spending his Winters at Miami,
boasting that since the war he has
fooled away some seven million dol
lars, was not even questioned. In
answer to wires from the Chicago po-
lice requesting his presence, he said he
could not stand the rigors of Chicago
climate in Winter. But one of his
lieutenants, Albert Anselmi, was in
dicted in connection with the massacre
and was free on fifty thousand
dollars bond. Fifty thousand dollars Is
pin money among Chicago gangsters
On Wednesday the bodies of Anselmi
and John Scalisi, another Of Capone':
lieutenants, were found in the tonneau
of 4 stolen automobile, together with
hat of another gangster.
In June. 1925. Scalisi and Anselml
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.

New Year in May.
Farewell, my dear! Farewell, my dear!
You were generous old year.
But once again the robin sings
To greet the filmy blossomings.
So time will glide with naughty stride
To humble all our simple pride,
And as the violetS draw near
We say again, Farewell, my dearl"
The wintry day, with bright display
Brought many a moment light and
gay
Yet Maytime brings the true New Year,
And so we say, Farewell, my dearl"
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Orators are said to have inserted,
with confident expectancy, Laughter"
as well as applause" In manuscripts
Of their speeches. The applause re-
mains. The sense of humor is not so
assertive
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Having regulated theater-hour trafnc
in New York. Commissioner whalen
might give some helpful advice as to
the shows which elude the motors and
take to the railroads.
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There seems to be no real cause for
Sinclair to worry about the photogra-
pliers, who are politely willing to go to
Jail without being sent for.
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Discussion might be simplifed If
Hindenburg should decide to assert
himself as the real President Of Ger
many.
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The rum runner reverts to the days
Of Capt. Kidd, who def1ed laws and
sacrificed those who served him.
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The President of Germany is an old
man. Any efficiency expert would have
pensioned him years ago.
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The Young plan to regulate indebted
ness is already beginning to look a little
old for It's age.
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A smoke screen is necessarily re-
garded as an evidence of evil that seeks
ways Of darkness.
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Fogs interfere with aviation. The
weather forecast again comes into i'm
portant significance.
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Relief.

Are you in favor of farm relief"
II ami" declared Senator Sorghum.
Il want to see the day when a farmer
can go to a diplomatic dinner with
string necktie and his pants tucked
into his boots"