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ically irresistible. even - finally - in
France itself That expectation is
held here privately, but firmly, by gov
ernmental economic authorities who
concern themselves most especially
with world finance.
But when PREPARATIONS get thus ir-
resistibly reduced by the necessities OF
the worldwide capitalistic investment
system the allied powers inevitably will
ton, as follows:
I'm further reference to the commu-
nicationS between the United States
Government and European governments
10 years ago in 1881 regarding a post
ponement of reparationS in connection
with a corresponding poStponement of
the debts OF European governments to
the United States Government. We
have sorrow in informing the United
States Government that the financial
condition of Germany, which has
gravely impaired its political stability
threatening clouds of possible storms
of Bolshevism, now renders it neces-
sary to diminish German PREPARATIONS by
so per cert and to notify the United
States Government, in accordance with
the precedent of 1891, that a CORE
spending reduction in the debts of
European governments TO the United
States Government will be sought"
**%*
Our Government will then entirely
truthfully deny that it ever admitted
any actual enduring connection be-
tween reparations and debts; but, pre-
clsely as at present, it will make con-
cessions to the allied powers for the
purpose OF helping Germany Just as
soon as the Germans show themselves
likely to fail in meeting their obliga-
tons to American private investors.
This process, in the view of the most
far-slghted economic specialists here,
is beyond the personal control of any
President 1t lies in the very nature
OF private economic investment develop
ment on the modern worldwide scale
The present President is thought by
these specialists to be wholly sincere
in repudiating all personal thought of
any permanent diminution of allied
debts to the United States Treasury.
They think at the same time that Sena-
tor johnson Of California Is entirely
accurate, from the economic point Of
view, in anticipating such a diminution
as direct coming consequence of ex-
isting trends.
With the lowering of American
Treasury income from foreign sources,
the raising of further income tax reve-
nue. on behalf Of the Treasury from
American sources will become an in
slant political problem. The dominant
argument will be that American bust
ness can better afford to pay more
taxes at home than to lose the income
from its colossal investments abroad.
That will most certainly oe q new
American era.
Copyright, 1917
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Oh. mical Warfare in Racketeerng

New York police are starting war on
recketeers who have been mulcting
various business interests of great sums
of money. One of the most pernicious
rackets is that on the quilt manutac-
turers. who number upwards of seventy
in that city. The favorite weapon OF
attack by the racketeers against the
uuilt makers has been squirt gun, ana
a man has now been arrested as the
wielder of this strange implement OF Of
tense. The method employed has been
tn stick the nozzle of the squirt gun
through a keyhole or a letter nap IN
a door of the factory and project into
the wareroom or workshop stream OF
new synthetic chemical which, accord
ing to one report, combines the scents
of a Chinese fishing village on hot
august afternoon and of burning
rubber factory" The evaporation oil
this chemical causes an almost asphyxi-
eting gas. which persists for days and
penetrates all absorbent materials such
as those used in the manufacture OF
UIilts. so that they are virtually ruined.
The odor even makes its way through
thick paper boxes into the stuff con-
tanned in them Said one manutac-
tlrer In respect to this horrible reagent;
1--WE have tried to fight it with mustard
Cad aA6pnia, We have drowned the
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place in antiseptics, we have burned
incense and sandalwood, We have had
the place knee deep in perfumes
nothing does any good. Even to-
day, more than two weeks after the
event, when we open a box OF any
thing, we are driven out Of the place
If we close the windows for a few min
utes because of the rain We have to rush
out gasping for air"
The man who handled the squirt gun
and drenched with nauseous and de-
structive gas the premises OF the quilt
manufacturer who refused to pay
heavily for protection" ard whose
workers refused to pay twenty per cent
of their wages, is. of course, only the
agent of the real racketeer. The latter
is the man the police are after. They
hope that the fellow now held will give
information that will lead to the break
ing up of the racket. AS a rule, how
ever, these gangster subordinates say
nothing, yield nothing. They know
that II they "squeal" they will be put
on the spot, as the phrase goes.
Police Commissioner Mulrooney is
training squad of picked men for spe-
ciai duty in the pursuit of the rack
eteers. They are to cooperate with
the business men and perhaps, it Is
intimated, they will do as recently did
Federal agents who ran down the Ca
pone gang, and join the rackets in or
der to get on the inside. They will, OF
course, be taking their lives in their
hands, but that is the risk that police
men run nowadays in line of duty
whether in uniform or otherwise.
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being distinct and entirely free from
the humping noise which so fire.
qeuntly in the Bell telephone makes
the drums of the ear ring for moment
or two.
'rhe utility of the telephone causes
j. 70 be a profitable subject Ior the
study OF inventors, and it was to be ex-
pected that marked Improvements would
be made. The only dif1culty in the way
of chespening its use Is not i'm the in
vention or its cost, but in the fact that
competition between two or more lines
cannot exist without depriving the APP
pliance of considerable of its value to
patrons. One telephone company con-
meets all subscribers, while several COM
panies might divide the business up,
among them so that half the time the
connection desired could not be made"
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Seven Billion Dollars Richer.

It has been computed that no less
than seven billion dollars have been
added to the security wealth of the
American people during the past week,
as a result of the stock market advance
which ensued upon President Hoovers
announcement Of a plan for the relief
OF the foreign governments. That is to
say, the prices quoted on the ex-
chal.ge, multiplied by the number OF
outstanding shares in the corporations
and enterprises the securities of which
are dealt in on exchange, yield fig-
ure seven billion dollars larger than
before the announcement This, how
ever, is only paper yaluation," de-
cidedly fiuctuating figure. There is
actually no more wealth now than there
was a week ago, only a larger rating
of the marketable evidences Of wealth.
The most valuable result of the re-
action induced by the Presidents an
nouncement of a plan to effect a years
moratorium on international debts is
the spread of better feeling regarding
the return of prosperity to the country,
the revival of business and the re-em-
ployment Of the people. Optimism
respecting the stock quotations is Of
itself not a helpful feeling. But opti-
mism regarding the restoration Of nor
NAL business activity is factor in the
return of good times"
1t has been accepted for some time
that fundamental and enduring pros
perity will not return to this country
until better times prevail in other lands.
The debt moratorium proposal has been
regarded here as designed to ease the
economic rather than the political con-
ditions in Europe. Probably Wall Street
did not stop to differentiate when the
moratorium reaction" set in a week
ago yesterday. Perhaps what happened
was that everybody felt that any
change would be for the better, for
Europe as we'll as for the United States.
At any rate, the reaction came and
it persisted against occasional spells
of profit taking, and at the end of a
week and day the general level of
prices was up an average of more than
ten points for all stocks, and the week
closed with a buying mood prevailing.
The man in the street, especially the
man who is out of a job, will do no
figuring on stock averages or market
levels, but will want to know what
this change signifies for him, whether
it means restoration of his salary
to the point from which it was cut,
or the restoration of his job. He has
no stocks. Perhaps he had some and
lost them in the great slump. He has
no money with which to buy stocks,
even If he were not market shy.
There is no means of telling how far
the public" has got into the market
in the course Of this recent reaction.
The volume of sales has been large,
on one of the days during the past
week going beyond the hve-million
mark. That fact suggests that the
non professionals scattered throughout
the country have been buying for the
rise" The hope is that they will not
multiply in a speculative stampede.
There is no economic health in such
movements and activities. A rush Of
the ticker beyond the point of real
value quotations, the point OF earning
value Immediately or surely prospective,
would be an invitation to repeated
disaster.
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STRANGE VOICES
by THE RIGHT REV. LANES Z. FREEMAN, d. D, LII. D,
Bishop of Washington.

no essential place, and the responsibility
for the nurture and upbringing OF the
children Of the home lays no precise
obligation upon parenthood. Marriage
Is only an experiment, and to be so re-
garded. AS for the Sanctity of the home,
it Is an iridescent dream.
Like strange voices are heard today
challenging the prophecies and de-
cencies of social life. They hold that
there are no restraints to be recognized
in social intercourse, and that for the
dignity and decency of other less plastic
periods we may enjoy a liberty and
license that no longer restricts, and that
disregardS all amenities and proprietieS.
To them the Victorian period Is
anathema, its uses and customs are but
the vestiges of an obsolete and aban-
doned practice. For the youth they adj
vocate "self-expreSsion," a self-expres-
sion that places no restraint upon In
diligence and gives free rein To the pas
sions. The order and decorun OF So
elal usage, usage that promotes re-
tlnement in word and act, to their
thinking Is quite foreign to the exercise
OF their freedom.
Yet another strange voice, and q con-
spicuous one, Is heard pronouncing that
religious faith and practice have no es-
senttal place in our modern, care-fTee
Tue. All moral ana ethical systems are
without authority, and the disciplines
advocated by the great Master can have
no controlling force in the world of
today. One Of these voices declares that
the acids Of modernity have eaten into
our faith"
We submit that 1t takes q discrimi-
mating ear to detect the speciouS and
fallacious elements in the voices that
are speaking to us today. Charlatanism
liz almost becoming an art, and in our
search for that which Is strikingly new
and "up-to-date" we are frequently
listening to voices that would take from
us those indispensable things that make
for cur security and peace We cannot
but believe that presently we shall wit
ness reaction from all these tendencies
that are designed, not only to unsettle
our faith, but to rob US Of those things
that are essential TO wholesome and
SatisfaetoFU LIVING
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SHOOTING STARS.
BY PHILANDER JOHNSON.


Machinery.
An engine has a bell to ring,
A whistle, too, to blow;
Their noises never do a thing
To make the engine go.
They're only useful now and then
To make some loiterer heed
A proper sense of danger when
The engine wants to speed.
And yet some people 60 so far
In liking boisterous fun,
They think the bell and whistle are
What makes the engine run.
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Failures of Justice Through Delays.

Numerous causes are attributed to
the delays in the American courts which
effect the failure of justice in this eoun-
try. Crowded calendars, slow trials, the
undue protraction and duplication Of
testimony, and. in the case OF convic-
ton in criminal cases, appeals, re-
versals, repeated trials and renewed ap-
peals, all are factors in this lamentable
condition. Joab H. Bantcn, who for
seven years was district attorney for
New York County, writing in The
Panel" bi-monthly periodical devoted
to the exchange of views of public off,
Gals and citizens in the effort to pre-
vent crime and secure the true admin
istration of justice" published by the
Association of Grand Jurors of New
York, points to factor contributive to
delay which, while it may not occur
SO frequently in other jurisdictions, is q
sinister element in the metropolitan
area. Urging that the justices of the
appellate division Of the Supreme Court
should be given power to formulate rules
for each court in their department, he
says:
One cause Of delay in the criminal
courts is that there is no limitation
upon the number of cases that may be
held for a given lawyer. For period
during my term of office as district at
! torney, single attorney represented the
defendants in ten per cent of the in
dictments pending. At that time some
400 indictments we're awaiting trial. 1t
requires about rs indictments assigned
, to a part of general sessions to keep
that part busy 1t is easy to see that
this one attorney could block the effec-
tive administration of Justice in the
court of general sessions. In the SUI
preme court the rules provide that nc
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Tert: "They kno,D not the votce O

Tert: "They know not the Uotce of
strangers. st. John, rs.
In the many descriptive titles that
Jesus used concerning Himself, that of
THE Good Shepherd" is enc Of the
most appealing. 1t presents an intimate
picture OF the relation He bears to His
flock. In the course Of 1t He makes clear
the control the shepherd has over his
sheep by reason of his close relation
with them, and the control he exercises
by reason of his accepted authority.
Over against this He sets the failure of
those who are alien to the flock, whose
strange and unfamiliar voice the sheep
refuse to heed ~ stranger will they
not follow, for they know not the voice
Of strangers, Is His declaration
What He says is suggestive of the ex-
perience that Is common to all of us.
Every period is characterized by true
shepherds and false. Voices of one kind
and another vociferously contend for a
recognition of their theories and their
claims for adherence to their pronounce
ments. The voices of strange shepherds
have been conspicuous the world over in
recent years. 1t may be that the Great
War gave them freshened opportunity
to purvey their specious and dubious
theories. Mr.. Lincoln once said, You
can fool all of the people some Of the
time, and some of the people all Of the
time, but you cannot fool all of the
people all of the tinne," which implies
that sooner or later we come to distin-
guish between that which is true and
that which is false.
Strange voices are heard today that
bear upon many questions and many
situations The voices of those who
would change the whols character OF
our domestic life are voiuble and in
Sistent. They tell US that domestic
felicity and all the disciplines and prac-
tees of home life that secure its in
tegrity, are quite unnecessary and too
restrictive. They contend that marital
obligations are to be lightly esteemed
and that for convenience these ties are
to be made aud broken according to the
caprice of those who assume them Ac-
cOrdinR to their standard chastity has
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This is the time of year when the
newspapers are full of pictures of grad
uating classes from various nurses
schools, the members of which all look
like perfect peaches; also the time
when q man wonders why, when he
gets sick, he never by any chance
draws one Of them.
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A dispatch from England tells how
a complete suit of all-wool clothes was
manufactured in four hours from the
time the fleece was growing on the
Sleeps backs. Many have had suits
that might easily have been similar
record-breakers, but for the fact that
the wool ingredient was somewhat
doubtful.
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A rare ant, one that holds and Utilities
slaves, first found in the District thirty
five years ago and since then never
seen, has just been rediscovered. The
trouble probably was that the scientists
did not know where to search. They
should have followed every possible
picnic party.
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saint Elizabeths Hospital Alumnae
Hold Reunion" ran a recent headline.
Such an item of news would be likely
to puzzle most Washingtonians until
they discovered by the date line that
the story referred to a Massachusetts
institution.
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Admiral Byrd will 60 to Mount Desert
Island following the close of his lecture
tour. The daring and popular seaman
will doubtless have no troubles there
with, frigidity, but many a Summer
resident in that section has found the
ice even thicker than Byrd found it at
the Poles.
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DiSintereStedness.

Are you sure that your career has
been distinguished by unselhshness?"
II am" replied Senator Sorghum.
1--WE worried myself into brain-fag over
the people in Europe, not one Of whom
could come out and vote for me even If
I offered to pay his expenses"
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1t is getting so that it is hard to
arouse any concern over prospective
British cabinet crises. Some day the
ministry will get bumped off and every
body will be taken by surprise despite
the long anticipation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

Washington base ball fans are be-
coming adept mathematicians in figur-
ing the relative percentages Of the
Senators and the Athletics as those two
teams battle for supremacy at short
range.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

No one can really blame the profit
takers who from time to time halt
the advance in stock prices. They have
ha,, long, long fast and little sus-
tene1ce is coming to them.
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Now it is Death Valley Scotty" who
is trying to crash the publicity gate
with an attempt to break the trans.
continental flying record. He must do
something to get back on the wires.
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All other States and Canada,
Sfember of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively ebtitled
patches credited to it or not Otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein. All rights of publication OF
special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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Woe of Summer Travel.

Since daylight saving hit the earth
I've used my mind for all I'm worth;
Yet strive and study as I may.
cannot tell the time of day.
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There might be something in a name,
at that Notice how often the Butler
boys-Nicholas Murray and Smedley D.
make the front page.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

Jud Tunkins says motion pictures ap-
peal to him because the audience is not
expected to applaud and call the actors
out to spoil the effect of q good scene.
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reparations and the bitterness Of Ma
tionalist attacks on BRAND and Hoover
are based on the perception Of this fact.
But opinion here is solid that the viz
tue of the Hoover scheme is TO provide
the time and opportunity for drastic re-
vision of war debts and reparations set
Elements. without this the situation at
the end will inevitably be worse than 1t
is now.
Most Liberal and Labor opinion IA
vors cancellation of debts and tarlns
as the only complete cure for the
worlds ailments, but it Is assumed that
this heroic policy is unattainable as
yet, though it is agreed that II the ef-
feet of the present move on world con-
ditions Is favorable, a holder measure
will be possible. 1t is agreed that the
feeling of confidence created by Hoo
ver's action should be directed prompt
ly TO devising constructive policy "a
meet the situation at the end OF the
years moratorium. and emphasis Is !aio
on the remarkable evidence furnished
this week Of the power Of collaboration
by London and washington.
y X X X
The suggestion is made in many
quarters that the question OF cancella-
ton Of intergovernmental debts be
linked up with the question OF disarna-
ment, which, in view Of the Geneva
conference next February, is now APP
preaching q critical stage. Hoover's
past inSistence on disarmament rs q
condition of concession in regard &c
debts Is recalled and the view is taken
that the new turn in events In Americs
makes cancellation conditional on dis
avn aVnent n Dractical DOlioy Such &
policy, having the backing Of the
United States, Britain, Germany anc
Italy, would not only prepare for thu
end of the moratorium year, but woulc
secure the success of the disarmament
conference, the prospect OF which al
present is unfavorable. The only alter
native constructive action along these
lines is the restoration at the end Of
the moratorium of the French policy
which, triumphant ever since the war
has reduced Europe to the present
crisis, which President Hoover'S actor
has now temporarily averteds
CCopvrishty 1salA @mA -
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Concentration.

Josh says he's going to be an avia-
tor"
Maybe it'll be good for him." re-
piled Farmer Corntossel. Aviation is
one thing that1l make boy keep his
mind on his work for hours at a
stretch"
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Professor Needs Learning.

From the Dallas journal.
Columbia professor wants to make
marriage more difhcult. Does the man
think It Is easy nsw2
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-06-28

Pennsylvania has chosen the ruffed
grouse as her official State bird. For
Illinois capon is suggested.
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Pleasing Prospect.

Pleasing Prospect.
From the Uniontown, Pa, Morning Herald.
California is tearing down 100000
road signs and eventually it may be
possible to see America first.
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Business On Its Way.
From the Des Moines Tribune-capital.
Somebody had better install a repair
shop at the North Pole before the
Nautilus arrives.
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Minds and Speeches.

Minds and Speeches.
We honor men of frankness great.
We are rejoiced to find
The man who does not hesitate
In speaking Of his mind.
Yet thoughtfulnesS should still prepare
Each utterance that we seek.
We prize the man who shows due care
In Winding of his speech.