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the largest scale borrowing venture ever
set on foot. all upon the assurance from
our most respectable leaders, public and
private, that this was sure to re-create
a basis Of world confidence and bring
ABOUT an increase of world trade by
several hundred per cent, ouG of which
all wartime and postwar obligations
would be easily liquidated.
This borrowing was all based appar-
emily upon calculations that our Treas
ury policies regarding the European
government debts to our Government
would work out harmoniously and con-
structively. All the private borrowing
seemed to rest upon an involved net
work OF public agreements. The final
debtor, of course, was cleverly assumed
TO be Germany. And in the Spring of
1919 our Secretary Of State, with at
least the absence Of objection of his
chief, II not his acquiescence, had SOL
emily joined with his colleagues of all
the victorious powers, in the So-called
Peace Conference at Paris, to hold Ger
many solely and exclusively responsible
for all the damage on land, on sea and
below or above suffered by the citizens
OF the victorious powers. So We had
our share in the first of the agreements
which gave rise to the inverted pyramid
OF borrowing, even though the treaty of
Versailles was not ratified by the
Senate.
I need but mention the subsequent
agreements. the Dawes Committee and
the Young Committee, the experts, near
experts and other gatherings. We have
had the more or less direct participa-
ton of Washington and New York au-
thorities, now surreptitious, now overt.
1t has been said we were in them I'M
offlcially, but financially they have in
volved us In them all. Upon them all
has rested the structure Of borrowings
which have so demoralized security
markets with an orgy of speculation
and the creation Of sea of indebted
ness both domestic and international,
unequal to anything the world has ever
experienced.
I emphasize this aspect of our in
volvement in the present state of the
world for two reasons. Firstly. there is
a tendency in many quarters to lay the
blame for cur domestic crisis here in
America upon world conditions, and
secondly. there Is the practical question
Of what we are going to do about it.
How much can American people be held
cfficially responsible for the results of
acts done by unofficial commissions and
to what extent has official acquiescence
or lack OF protective measures resulted
in placing responsibility upon us as a
government and as a people? To what
extent are the American people, through
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Loses Battle, Begins a War

The poor boy from the somber Scotch
village: the years of privation there and
OF grinding poverty in London; the
tragic ending to a romantic love story:
the war years, when the pacif1St was
treated as a moral leper by all his fellow
countrymen, and then, the apotheosis-
prime minister of a national cabinet,
the leader of the leaders of all parties
by the express request OF majesty itself!
Scenes to Be Dramatic.
After all. there have been few great
plays with a more dramatic ending.
The political curtain to the Macdonald
epic lacks nothing as a climax. And.
when the national cabinet ends. IT, as
Shaw says, 1t is to be Viscount Lossie-
mouth, the House of Lords will have
one member who looks and acts like a
peer of the realm. He will be lonely
figure, perhaps, and there viii be sense
of tragedy in his isolation. But there
will be a dramatic touch in every mo-
ment of it.
How Lloyd George must envy Mac
Donald this final act In his career, the
penultimate crisis! With all his ability
as an actor, and it was far from in
considerable, Lloyd George was unable
to arrive at MacDonald's artistic
Il6lkIJS. nc, LOO, Ills patty
he, too, sacrificed almost as copiously
as the Labor leader, but the gifts Of
the Welshman were different from those
of the Scotchman. He was tight-rope
walker who eventually fell but the
fall of a tight-rope walker is only a
blunder; Macdonald by contrast is nm
actor. and his fall was tragedy itself
And the end Of that final act Is not
yet We shall see Macdonald in the
movies from one end of this earth to
another for some weeks still. perhaps
for months. His sacrifice will grow
not diminish his publicity value will
increase, not lessen, and beyond there
is the perspective of the ragged bare
foot boy of the Scotch cabin translated
into Macdonald, Baron Lossiemouth.
fCoov,J1ht i02t
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Republican army have no direct repre-
sentation in Parliament. They are de-
barred from nominating candidates by
the law passed in 1927 making it
obligatory on all candidates to make
an affidavit that If they are elected
they will swear the oath and take their
seats. While that law stands they are
definitely cut from participation In
elections by the nomination of candi-
dates. The next election will there
fore be fought on the basis of the ex-
isting parties.
Majority Is Unlikely.
With proportional representation in
operation 1t is unlikely that any party
will get a clear majority in the next
Dali. If an election took place with
public feeling as 1t is at present, the
position of the two main parties would
probably be reversed, and the Labor
and other groups would be able to
decide whether Mr.. Cosgrave or Mr..
de Valera should be President.
II it depended on the Labor group
they would almost certainly give Mr..
de Valera a chance to see what he
could do as the head of a government.
Not that there Is great friendship be-
tween the leaders of Fianna Fail and
Labor. On the contrary. they have
been drifting farther and farther away
from each other in recent months. But
the Labor leaders realize that so long
as Cumann ma Gnaedheal and Fianna
Fail, two sections of the former Sim
Fem party, face each other as the two
main parties in Parliament-with Mr..
Cosgrave in power and Mr.. de Valera
in opposition-there is little likelihood
of the growth of the minor parties;
whereas a change of government might
lead to new groupings in which Labor
would get its chance Of securing a
much larger representation.
While some members OF the govern
ment are believed to be strongly In
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Shipstead's Forum Speech

acts OF Congress, willing to make these
unofficial practices official? To what
extent are the American people again
willing to assume the payment of losses
suffered through financial ventures in
European politics? We shall learn IL
and when the subject of cancellation
of war debts comes before the Congress.
Must Lay Out Program.
As to the first point. I believe 1t will
be rather difficult TO get the American
people to accept the theory that they
can be turned upside down overnight
by foreign disasters after they have
been told for 10 years that they were
basklng in the everlasting sun of pros
perity behind an unbreakable wall of
protection, guided by men whose saga
cious eye had read the future not alone
of this generation, but also of the
nothing could affect them; that their
standards of living were too high, our
public and private financial systems
we're such that we could weather any
storm from without AS to our domes-
tic problems, / cannot in this conclud-
ing moment do more than say that the
Federal Government has certain para
mount duties to our own people and our
own national interests. When these
have been surveyed and the practical
program capable of carrying out these
duties has been agreed upon and put
into effect, we must then live up to our
responsibility to the rest of the world.
We have pursued certain policies
within our country in the last Is years
that have had a great deal more TO do
with the cause of the depression here
than most of our people realize or many
are willing to admit These problems
should be probed and explored. 1t is
all very we'll to be imbued with mis-
sionary spirit and an impulse to give
moral leadership to the world. / am 30
old fashioned that believe that leader
ship. like charity, should begin at home.
I am more and more confirmed in the
opinion that We can best serve the
world by putting our own house in
order.
The need for doing so Is urgent and
should not be further delayed. A policy
Of drift and inaction can only lead to
further chaos. The longer we postpone
action. the nearer We approach the 1882
elections. The nearer We approach cleo
tons. the more We use the colored
glasses of partisan politics. Let us for
get party politics and the coming cleo
tons and cooperate, not to see that
nothing is done but to cooperate in
seeing to it that something be done. In
that spirit I venture to respectfully say
that Congress ought to be called into
extraordinary session at the earliest pos
sible date.
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tor Arthur R. Robinson of Indiana,
Senator Tasker L. Oddie Of Nevada.
Representative Cassius c. Doweu OF
Iowa, and Representative Willard Glib
son of Vermont, all of them with mem
bers of their families.
These visitors steadfastly refused to
be committed on their stand as to lnde-
pendence and got around the issue nice
ly by setting out to "see the Philippines
first" -,
Representative Gibson did express
himself on one thing. He SAID ne was
strictly against abolishing or restricting
Filiniro immigration to the United
states so long as the islands remain
under the American flag. Senator Cd
die was more interested in the interna-
tional silver question than IN indie
pendence. and was rather impatient TO
depart for China. where he wished to
conduct Investigations. The whole
pnrtv departed without adding anything
Significant to the situation.
During their absence the Army trans
port Grant brought Senator Harry b.
Halves of Missouri, with his wife and
daughter and secretary. Senator Ros-
coe Patterson of Missouri, with his wife
and son. and Representative Tom Yon
of Florida, with his wife and daughter.
Senator Halves said that "if the Fill
pinos are united, determined and per-
sistent, in my Judgment independence
will be granted" and gave numerous
addresses openly urging another mis-
sion to the United States.
Filipinos Cheer His Views.
enthusiastic audience cheered him
until they wept. University professors
prepared long and profound briefs stat
ing the Filipino cause. Independence
resolutions commenced to pour in by
mail and by messenger from town coun-
ellis. from social organizations, from
university student bodies. and; the food
Continued until Senator Halves departed
six weeks later with 26 pieces of bag
gage.
Other members of the party were less
outspoken. Representative Yon came
out openly for independence, but re-
Trained from anything that could be
remotely interpreted as independence
propaganda He left after a few days
in the Philippines, being in Ill health
on his arrival. Senator Patterson was
unwilling to commit himself definitely
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last two years in power. Viewed col
lectively, these years have been no more
than a moving picture. procession OF
crises and conferences. They begin
with the leap across the Atlantic, the
Journey to the Rapidan with all the
cameras in the universe clicking and
the newspapers of the world following
breathlesSly. Then there is the great
moment when, at the opening OF the
Naval Conference. Macdonald leads the
King to the waiting throne, the eyes
Of mankind again on the picture.
There are the critical moments in
the conference when the heart Of Mac
Donald almost visibly bleedS for the
world, but hope rises triumphant above
the temporary disappointment in the
final scene There is the Indian Con-
ference. with Macdonald again in the
chair. the fate of the British Empire
at stake. Comes the financial crisis In
Germany and London Conference and
Ramsay again in the chair, the planet
once more concentrating its attention
on the occupant Of the chair.
This last conference fails. too-all his
conferences fail. gloriouSly-but hard
upon the failure Macdonald swoops
dramatically down upon Berlin in an
airplane, bearing the benediction of
Britain to the Bruening cabinet.
And now the last scene: British credit
collapsing as all credit collapses when
revolutions are in the making: the result
of two years of socialistic endeavor are
being translated into the market value
of the pound sterling. King George and
Ramsay Macdonald are revealed in
close conference and then-the supreme
dramatic touch-"St. George for Eng
land and down with the dragon Of
deficit"
1t all hangs together, this picture
You see what Ever of the Daily Herald
meant when he called Macdonald the
greatest British actor since Garrick
Nor should one forget the background:
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Will Ireland Change Pilots?

favor of an immediate appeal to the
country. the majority of the govern
ment party would prefer that the
Parliament run its course until the
five years have expired in September,
1882, or even that it's life should be
prolonged by special legislation until
1888, should an election in Euchar-
istic Congress year be considered I'M
desirable.
Political Truce Expected.
An election in the near future can
not be ruled out as an impossibility.
1t is, however, unlikely Present in
dications are that there will be a short
session of the Dali next year, followed
by political truce until after the
Eucharistic Congress, and then a gen.
eral election in the Autumn.
II the government obtained a year S
moratorium for its obligations to the
British government under the flnan-
cial settlement of 1925, Ernest Blythe,
vice president and minister for finance,
would have $30,000,000 to play with
next year and would be able to pro-
duce a budget which might carry his
party into power with a safe majority.
Mr.. Blythe, has deprecated Mr.. de Va
lera's method of approach to the
moratorium issue, but that does not
preclude the possibility that he as min
lister for finance may be engaged in
negotiations for the inclusion OF Ire
land in the agreement regarding inter-
governmental debts AS the Free
States annual payments to the British
treasury are relatively more to Ireland
than the reparation payments are to
Germany. a remission even for a year
would be so important that 1t might
influence the whole situation in Ire
land, political as we'll as economic
The absence Of information as to the
attitude of the government on this
question is another element which
makes prediction doubtful Either
way. the coming IL months should be
Of intense interest.
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Lost TassO Portrait
Is Found by Lawyer

ROME, Italy-The only portrait of
Torquato Tasso Italy's greatest poet Of
the sixteenth century, which was actu-
ally painted from life, has again come
to light after being lost for many years.
This portrait was painted by the Ro-
man Federico zuccaro in 1894, when
the 5O-year-old Tasso was quite evil
IDENTIFY insane.
It shows the great genius to have
been bald, with bright eyes, which indi-
cate nearsightedness, q large aqulline
nose, a strong mouth and well-kept
beard, which became gray at the tip.
A Bergamese lawyer, Locatelli Milesi,
which eventually will probably be in
trusted TO some government-controlled
museum. Apparently the portrait was
lost" simply because of the failure Of
the owner TO identify 1t as that OF
TaSsA
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Visits of American Congressman
Crystalize Filipino Self-Rule Views

on the question and passed only a short
time in the islands. Since returning
to the United States he has stated that
immediate independence would be too
harmful to impose on the Philippines
at present.
Gen. Francis lie J. Parker, chief of
the Bureau of Insular Affairs, arrived
on the same transport with the others.
He quickly identified himself with the
administration in the Philippines and
has been travelling extensively and in
vestigating ever since without saying
ANYTHING in public
Senator Kew Pittman of Nevada ar
rived while Senator Halves was here.
He had been up on the China coast in
vestigating the silver market and wished
to see something of the Philippines be-
lore going home. He contented him
self with analysing the Philippine sit
uation as he saw it from a Washington
point of view. He did indorse Senator
Halves contention that it was desir-
able to end the uncertainty that marks
Phllippine-American relations.
Halves Remains Six Weeks.
Senator Halves stayed out his full six
weeks, travelling widely, speaking occa-
sionally before university stu d e
bodies, commercial organizations iden-
tined with the Philippine cause and be-
fore large audiences gathered at pro-
vincial towns for a political turnout in
honor of Senator Halves, the cham
pion of the Filipino people"
The American community of Manila
was solidly against him and expressed
resentment at the stirring up of the in
dependence question.
The independence sentiment had
reached heights not felt since the Wood
regime. There was a stir over a sug-
gest!on from Halves that foreign news
correspondents were conducting an or
ganized campaign of propaganda
against the independence cause, and
one correspondent was bitterly attacked
in the opposition press.
The Manila Daily Bulletin was an
object of furious Filipino criticism be-
cause 1t printed an estimate of the
crowd attending the famous Manila in
dependence parade at 10000 persons
Other estimates ran as high as 400, 900
The Bulletins figures were taken as a
deliberate attempt to minimize the i'm
portance Of the parade. The Filipino
attitude reached its climax after the
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FATHER ACTS TO HAVE
ELOPEMENT ANNULLED
Marriage of Anne v. Branson and
Alfred Warthen Is Re-
vealed.

The elopsment of Miss Anne v.
Branson. l7-year-old daughter of Bruce
S. Branson, roofing contractor Of 1907
Ingomar street Chevy Chase, and Al
fred Warthen, 20, of Kensington, Md.
was disclosed yesterday when the brides
father announced he was considering
plans to have the marriage annulled.
Warthen and Miss BranSon eloped
to Hagerstown, Md, last Tuesday. were
married at / o'clock that afternoon
and returned Immediately to Washing
ton The bride has since been living
with hsr parents, and Warthen, clerk
in the Kenwood Market. Bethesda, ct
his home in Kensington.
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Disabled American
Veterans

A meeting under the auspices of the
District of Columbia Department of
the Disabled American Veterans was
held in the Board Room of the District
Building last Wednesday to discuss I'M
employment among the disabled. Ralph
N. Wiener, commander of Federal Chap
ter, presided but most of the evening
was taken up by National Comdr
E. G. Babcock He explained the ma
tional campaign of coordination of
the efforts of the United States Veter-
ans Administration, the United States
Department of Labor and the Disabled
American Veterans to mobilize all Fed
eral, State, county, municipal and civic
agencies to place in work more than
IS, 900 compensate men who are en-
playable, but unemployed Following
his regular talk Comdr. Babcock
answered questions for nearly two
hours.
On special invitation officials of all
the other service organizations of the
different wars attended the meeting
and were introduced.
Comdr Babcock, at the invita-
ton of Walter S. Clifford, chairman of
I
a conference with him on Thursday ct
the Commerce Building The Disabled
American Veterans furnished Mr.. Gift
ford with complete statistics that have
resulted from about 100000 ques-
tonnaires that have gone to dis
abled men throughout the country and
showed more than IS, 900 men in phys
ical condition which permits them to
work, but who have been unable to find
jobs 1t is planned for Mr.. Clifford
and Comdr Babcock to hold another
conference in the near future.
Ace Rasmussen Chapter met Thurs
day evening at the Soldiers, Sailors
and Marines Club, Eleventh and L
streets. Joe Ashe, commander, an
nounced that at the next meeting 1t
was expected the Disabled American
Veterans in this city would show an
actual membership of more than 1000.
Adjt Hendrick reported that week
before last the 900 mark was passed.
Comdr. Babcock led party of
washington members to Baltimore on
Friday night to attend a meeting of
the Baltimore Chapter which he adj
dressed. as we'll as prominent officials
in the Veterans administration in the
Maryland city. Several groups of dis
abled in Maryland have been petition
ing for charters and while in Baltimore
Comdr. Babcock took up with officials
there the matter of extension of the
organization in that State.
In the near. future Comdr Babcock
expects to visit Richmond to address a
Joint meeting of the officials of the
various Virginia chapters Of the or
ganization.
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More About Our Schools.

element Of getting off to school
which may mean taking the fodder
i to nursery school, helping grandma
register for the radio course in
Spanish deciding on senior electives or
having brothers teeth examined the
Public Library calls attention to the
following books:
These New Schools.
NEW LEAvEN. BY Stanwood Cobb.
Day. 1880. IK.C632n.
A discussion of the basic principles
underlying progressive education writ
ten in keeping with the spirit Of pio-
neering schools.
THE TEACHER IN THE NEW
SCHOOL. BY M. P. Porter. World
1880. IP.P83.
"A unique account of how a progress
gether and description of results Sc
cured in actual classroom practice"
THE CHILD-CENTERED SCHOOL.
BY H. o. Rug and Ann ShumaGe.
World. 1928 IPR34.
Schools that are different in atmos-
phere, housing and furniture; different
in the roles they assign to pupil and
teacher initiative.
What They Say.
THE AMERICAN ROAD TO Gull
TURE. By G. 5. Counts. Day.
1880. IK83C83.
"A widely read provocative review Of
, the American Dublic's attitude toward
its schools. Challenges blind faith in
our mechanically effective school sys-
tenn" and holds that the road" is
| neither straight nor clear, but is
blocked by blind chance and irrational
forces. A kindly critique, honest and
courageous, and a valuable statement
OF some fundamental purposes which
have been overlooked"
UNIVERSITIES: AMERICAN, ENG
L1SH, GERMAN. BY Abraham
FleXner oxford University Press.
1890. IX.F64.
"A sensational but constructive criti-
ciSm OF American colleges. marred by
some inaccuracies and oyerstatementS.
Its chief theses are that real culture is
getting little attention and that athlet-
les, extension Summer schools. cor
respondence courses, and all sorts of
vocational training with dollars-as-the-
goal for the mob. are absorbing chief
attention and funds and masquerading
as true education"
Movements Under Discussion.
TEACHING THE BRIGHT PUPIL
BY Fay Adams and Walker Brown
Holt 1880. IZg Adi2.
The problem of making school work
interesting and profitable for the brigh.
pupil
WHY STOP LEARNING. BY Dorothy
Garfield. Harcourt 1927. ILCl64w.
diverting history Of adult education
together with something Of its aims and
methods.
NURSERY SCHOOL PROCEDURE. BY
y. G. Foster and NJ. L. Madison.
Appleton. 1929. IKH.F81n.
New schools for the youngest gener-
alton.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICE FOR
SCHOOL PROBLEMS. BY G. H.
Hildreth. World 1880 lKI.H 543.
Tests and measurements in Their re-
lation to the exceptional child the
child in need of vocational and educa-
tional guidance and the child in need
of remedial work
EDUCATION ON THE AIR. BY In
Stitute for Education by Radio.
Ohio State University Press. 1880
1PR INT.
Education by radio. activities at home
and abroad, what the radio is doing in
elementary and secondary schools, and
adult education and the radio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06

In the near. future Comdr. gBabcock
expects to visit Richmond to address a
JOINT meeting of the officials of the
various Virginia chapters OF the or
ganization.
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Pvt. Pedro G. Villalon has been or
dered transferred from the reserve to
the active list of Company A, 12lst
Engineers.