Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05

| shows the splendid political behavior
that Colombia is showing congratula-
! tons are in order.
PEACE MAKERS.
| A group of American Indians of the
/ Yaqui tribe are on their way to Mex
! leo to induce their Mexican brothers to
/ suspend their mercileSs war against the
/ white man.
/ An Associated Press dispatch from
/ GilaymaS announces that a delegation
| Of American Yaquis is marching to the
1 Bacatete Mountains to meet the chiefs
! of the Mexican YaQuis who were ex-
! PEELED from the State of Sonora by the
! Mexican authorities as a consequence
! of the Vicam rebellion four years ago.
( Since the time of their exile the MeXi-
! can Yaquis have been engaged in con-
| slant warfare with The white men who
/ dare to approach their refuge. Occa-
1 sionally they emerge from 1t to raid
/ small Mexican villages in that region.
To end this useless struggle their
American brothers will now try to in
| fiuence the Yaquis across the border to
| put down their arms and return peace
| fully to the valleys, where they will
! be permitted to resume their farming
activities.
! These American indians are keeping
pace with the times. They seem to
/ have heard OF the conciliatory efforts
| and Of the songs OF peace that all
| nations on earth are singing nowadays.
/ Perhaps they have heard of Mr.. Will
/ sons Ia points, of Mr.. Kellogg'S renun-
| citation of war of those respectable gen.
/ tlemen who sit in Geneva, year in and
| year out, to preserve world peace. Per-
| hapS they have heard of NJ. Brands
united Europe, of the Locarno pactS
and of the disarmament conferences
| Maybe they have even heard of the
| Franco-Italian naval agreement and
! of the Gandhi peace with John Bull.
| Probably impressed by these human
! itarian endeaVorS to insure peace and
! good will among men," they, too, felt
| obliged to do their bit, and started on
! their march to calm the bellicose ardor
| Of their warning Mexican brothers Ger
! tainly the Yaquis cannot have heard
! that in spite of the Wilson's, the KEEL
| loggS, the BRANDS, the world Is as close
/ to exploding into war today as ever 1t
was before those idealistS were born.
! They must not have heard that nations
! have now the greatest armies and the
/ largest navtes they ever had. They
! certainly have not yet heard that the
! Franco-Italian accord has been fol-
! lowed by German-Austrian pact,
which is giving painful headaches to
! peace lovers on the other side OF the
! Atlantic.
THOSE MONUMENTS.
Not long ago decree issued by the
military junta then governing Bolivia
condemned the hattering of living po-
! ltical chieftains by the naming Of
streets, public buildings or geographic
| cal divisions for them, no matter how
eminent their service to the country
might appear to be. The same decree
| prohibited government employees from
! entertaining their superiors or organ
| izing public manifestations in honor OF
high officials of the administration.
These measures as I said at the
/ time in commenting upon the Bolivian
/ decree, were intended to put stop to
! certain practices almost traditional In
Latin American political life.
Until then it had been considered
but natural that political adherentS
should propose the naming of streets,
avenues or plazas for the chief execu-
tives, the ministers of state and the
! political leaders in power, and that the
| citizens thus honored should accept
such interested flattery. have already
| mentioned the case Of the deposed
| President Leguia, who held the record
| in this respect; for there were not only
/ Leguld SlTeGLS anu ICBuld 1NCRAuCS AAA
! Lima and all over Peru before the
downfall of his 11-year regime, but
| theaters, parks, public buildings, schools
| and sporting fields were named after
! the Peruvian dictator. Leguia had gone
! even further to impress upon his peo-
| pie his self-made popularity and his
! greatness" by having monuments 70
| himself erected throughout the coun-
! try and gold medals coined showing
! his portrait bust, together with that OF
Bolivar the George washington OF
| South America.
When the decree of the Bolivian an-
! thorities came out 1t was easily real
| lied that it was meant to stop this SELF
! characterization and flattering of gov
! eminent officials, which had thereto
! fore been another "old Spanish custom"
on the southern part of the continent.
That 1t has succeeded in setting an
! example for statesmen in other Latin
| American republics Is shown by the
press announcement that the former
| chief executive of Central American
state has just refused to give his con-
| sent to the erection of statue to him
self In the capital of the country which
he governed with unusual tact until q
few weeks ago.
Former President Romero BoSque Of
Ell Salvador has asked its promoters to
give I'D the project OF a monument to
himself, the idea of which had arisen
from the gratitude OF the Salvadorian
people for his honest administration
and the liberal and orderly way in
which he presided over the recent cleo
lions, reported to have been the freest