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in 1927. He put up a brass tablet,
taking possession OF. them for the King
of England, and remaining everything
with what Commodore Perry caustically
called "the proverbial modesty of Eng
lish surveyors" The main island he
named Peel, after the British prime
minister. Here, three years later, came
the Yankees, Nathaniel Savory and
Alden Chaplin, and several adventures
of European extraction, bringing ma
tive and half-caste women from the
Sandwich Islands.
Wife Betrayed Him.
Savory amassed several thousand dol
lars by replenishing the Yankee whaler-
men who regularly called during the
following years, but his pretty young
Kanaka wife save away the secret of
the cache to visiting young buccaneer,
who robbed the frugal Yankee of both
treasure and wife. pillaged the islands
and sailed of. Later Savory took to
wife the half-Portuguese widow of
fellow settler and by her had 10 chill
dren whom he patriotically named
George Washington, Quincy Adams,
Gamaliel Bradford and similar names.
Nathaniel Savory was not a black
sheep cast of by his Puritan New Eng
land family; on the contrary, he had
remarkably frequent communications
with them through the captains of
whaling vessels as long as this Yankee
industry lasted. The islands must be
healthy, for he lived to be 80, and
many of the islanders enjoyed great age
without doctors, preachers or tax col
lectors. For perfect anarchy, re-
markably little violence existed. The
of the neighboring islands
seem to have pertained, little attention
being paid to conventional marriage,
but women becoming naturally fixtures
in the household of one man or another
and recognized and honored as such.
Fish, sea turtles, wild pigs, berries
and breadfruit, corn and yams made up
the diet of the settlers. They worked
leisurely, but from daylight to dark.
They built boats and developed skill to
avoid drowning in the treacherous cur
rents around the islands. They adopted
Pacific islanders and Orientals into
their Utopia without trace of caste.
No responsibility was felt, apparently,
by the settlers for education of the
young, and by the time of the arrival
of the Japanese annexation ship only
one ancient inhabitant. named Webb,
could read. His chief function was to
read the burial service when required
from a diplapidated prayer book.
Only two or three homicides and one
real clan fight broke the placidity of
the islanders in 80 years, and these were
engaged by newcomers rather than the
original inhabitants. The clan fight
between the Robinsons and Portuguese
family resulted in wiping out the former
save for two girls of 10. baby and
kanaka nurse. These worked their way
Evening star., 1933-02-26

The Constitution, as we all know, di-
vided the executive and the legislative
into coordinate departments, but it
omits to say which shall do the CO.
ordinating That is the first and in
escapable question to be met in every
administration. A President-elect finds
himself. the day after election, pitted
against the leaders of his party, in Con-
gress and out, in more or less disguised
struggle for supremacy. If he does not
succeed in getting the upper hand early
in the first legislative session of his
term, all the four-year voyage of his ad-
ministration is bound in shadows and
miSeries.
Country Backs President.
The country will always back Pres
ident against Congress if only he will
stand up in the open and fight. This
is from no mere fondnesS for one-man
power, but because the people instinc-
lively perceive their only chance for a
national leadership, under our system,
is staked on him, for he alone looks
to them all as his constituents, he alone
is chosen by the whole national cleo
torate and he alone can be held ac-
countable to it.
A Congress divided into two houses,
with 96 Senators elected by 48 States
and 435 Representatives of that many
districts. obviously can neither exer-
else a leadership that is responsive to
the whole Nation nor coordinate the
Government. Whenever a President
fails to grasp and hold the initiative,
we have either chaos of wrangling
between the two ends of Pennsylvania
avenue, or an invisible, irresponsible
cloak room Government for special IN
terests.
This is the never ending duel the
Constitution left to be fought out be-
tween the White House and the Cap
itol. But. while We look to the Presi-
dent to lead. we have not chosen a
really established national leader to the
presidency since Jefferson. Because the
people whose business is politics nat
urally prefer to nominate man who
can be led, who will go along, half our
Presidents have been carefully picked
political mediocrities, and the White
House has been overshadowed in more
than tWo-thirds of the 80 presidencies.
There have been three 20-year stretches
when it was not the real power house
Of the Government-1809-29 1841-61,
1865-85
Leaders Were Surprises.
The only commanding figures in the
White House in a century were all
surprise packages in the lottery of
politics. The relatively unknown Lin
coin was nominated over Seward on the
supposition that he was the lesser man.
Evening star., 1933-02-26
SENSOCRACY
BY BRUCE BARTON.
yE Americans are hot-and-cold people
We elect President and are enthusiast

Y yE Americans hot-and-cold people.
M We elect President and enthusiastic about
Y him-for about six months. We create hero-as,
for instance, Admiral Dewey-but before the poor
him fiat We derous with Joy when Babe Ruth knocks
home and boo him when he strikes out
with with movements and words
There psychoanaysis That was the key to every
plexes and inibons flock of scrbbers. proceeded to
rewre all biography and to us that great men were
not great at ALL They just Inhibited beings whose
mothers had spoken harshy to them in childhood whose
love life had caused them to be thwarted.
There Coueism For couple of weeks we were all
every day in every way getting better and better.
There was chlropractlc there was proMotlon, theTe
Communism Periods of social unrest are especially
fertile The hard times of the COS produced
bimetallism: And now we have technocracy
Each OF these long words represents kernel of truth
democracy,
as follows:
Machines are doing and more of work which
results in leisure for everybody and complete leisure
unemployment for This the goal toward which
mankind been striving through the ages the Garden
of Eden unemployment 100 cent and that Garden
assumed to represent the ideal of human existence
unemployment. it will represent temporary
suffering the of people who want work and
compelled to shift into other kinds of work In cases
let's be frank about tit will represent loang the
people We say they lacking in ambition but you
and bitten by the workgerm, absolutely
that they less happy?
Gradually the situation will work itself out. Those of
who want to work will work fewer hours. Those who
little for work will work little and be aided to
degree by society
already had little period of excite
ment about it; tired of and ready for the
sensation.
Underneath we essentially conservative people.
is common sensocracy. In the long run it prevails.
Copyright. 193PJ
Evening star., 1933-02-26
BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER.
BY Gable to The Star

BY Gable to The Star
HARIS. February 25.-The rapid
- re-entry of the United States
into the international arena is
i improving the general atmos-
phere.
President-elect Roosevelt's reported
idea that the United States. Great Brit
Gin and France must stand together to
pfnserve peace both in the Far East
snd in Europe, and to form a nucleus
for the economic restoration Of the
world, is making big impression.
If any powers were speculating on the
complete breakdown of the worlds peace
machinery, owing to bad feeling among
the United States, Great Britain and
France over various important problems,
such powers now will be extremely eau
tious.
Just how President-elect Roosevelt.
even before his inauguration, has been
able to exert his strong influence over
international affairs is not yet clear, yet
he seems to have done so.
Japanese Crisis Met.
The first important step was his re-
affirmation of the so-called Stimson
policies respecting the Far Eastern crl-
sis. This killed once for all the rumors
that Japan and its friends were spread
ing that President-elect Roosevelt in
tended to reverse" President Hoover'S
policies.
The result was the rapid stiffening OF
the League of Nations attitude in the
defense of its covenant under the
leadership Of Great Britain and France
and in a full private accord seemingly
with the United States.
The second was Presldent-elect
Roosevelt's recognition that the war
debt controversy forms merely part o!
the worlds economic and flnanclal
problems and perhaps at that not the
most important part. His conVerSa-
tions first with the British and then
with the French Ambassador seem 10
have given both Great Britain and
France the feeling that, while view
points still perhaps differ, there is
genuine good will all around which, In
the end, will lead to constructive solu-
tions.
His cabinet appointments have been
well received abroad as indicating his
determination to practice sound f1nan-
cial politics. His appointment of Nor
man H. Davis apparently as sort OF
Ambassador at large to carry on the
American efforts at the Disarmament
Conference and to help prepare the
World Economic Conference has been
widely remarked.
Davis is recognized as one of the best
Informed Americans in foreign affairs.
He is a personal friend of most of Eu-
ropes leading statesmen today and
skillful and experienced negotiator.
Delays Held Unlikely.
This is taken to mean that no time
will be wasted when he returns to Eu-
rope for the final phase of the D1sarm-
ament Conference in March and April.
The idea of French British Amer
lean combined effort for peace ana
Evening star., 1933-02-26
Japan's Pacific Stronghold

to the hinder side of the island and
subsisted for IL months on shellfish and
berries. finally being rescued by pass
ing captain, who promptly married the
young heroine, Charlotte.
Perry wrote up a municipal charter
for the islands, which was promptly
forgotten after his visit. In 1874 re-
ports about Peel Island given in the
Royal Asiatic Society. Yokohama Chap
ter, stimulated the japanese to send
vessel to proclaim formal annexation.
It sailed on Sunday. The aroused
British authorities, handicapped by the
Lords day. got vessel Of the British
Navy under way on Monday, with the
consul general aboard. The two ships
raced across the 900 miles Of ocean, but
the Japanese. piloted by an Irishman,
arrived a day ahead. They summoned
the astounding population and read to
them in Japanese English the declara-
ton of annexation. Then the Japanese
officials went down to the shore and
tremendously welcomed the chagrined
Englishmen to their island"
Aliens Kept Out.
Peel Island is Chichijima-"Mothe
Island"-now. The little islands all
about are Father" Sister" Nephew"
Niece" ETC.
Twice month little vessel makes
trip from Japans capital, but no aliens
are taken on board. In 1927 two sons
CT the original settlers survived and they
still dressed in Western style and re-
ferred to New England as home" al
though their daughters were as native
to the kimono as any daughter of Nip
pom. Their grandchildren go to the
Japanese school and bow daily before
the picture of the Mikado and several
have made journeys to Japan to express
their loyalty to her Emperor. The Eng
lish language held on while in little
church planted by the Anglican Mission
in the COS. but that has now become
Japanese Christian church.
The good old times when any one
could catch the sea turtles of the har-
Dor are gone. A Japanese monopoly
has exclusive rights to them. The 1000
inhabitants that have superseded the
80 to go offspring of the first settlers
today work for wages on Japan's naval
base and their wives weave palm leaf
baskets, which are sold by Japanese
monopoly in the markets Of America
and Europe.
To most Japanese the Ogasawara
Islands bear no further connotation
than the giant bats with bodies as big
as chickens and wing spread Of 3
feet which bear this label in the I'M
perial Museum of Toxic. But to the
present masters of Jananese destiny
they mean a base for sea power which
history has strangely taken from the
hands of other nations and placed In
their own. Use of that base may de-
termine whether or not Japan keeps the
great inundated area and her dom1.
nance oyef the entire East Pacific.
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Continued From First Page)
realities by an analysis Of recent his
tory. Should we judge it by its sue
cess or failure in suppressing the strug-
gle in Manchuria? Or should we take
longer view and demand of 1t the
program under which contesting ma
tions may ultimately work out COM
promise measures which will secure
justice for both?
In any case, an informed public
opinion should be slow to accept the
superficial judgment that a political in
stitution is functioning we'll only when
it is securing immediate and complete
acceptance of its authority. Political
organizations never become exactly
what their founders intended them to be.
Thrown as they are into the current of
history, they respond to the tests OF
reality and develop their useful func-
tionS almost like a living thing. This
has been true of the institutions of the
national state from the thirteenth CEN
tury down 1t undoubtedly will be
equally true of the institutions so re-
ccne,c' founded for the international
community
Neither the League - the World
Court Is likely as yet in final I'm.
1Ue STUDY OF international conference
and international arbitration undoubt-
edly will reveal many potentialities not
yet discovered. But the study of these
historic instruments should be as much
part of the educational system of
today as the study Of the national
state.
To enlarge the field of civics so that
II includes the international community
+ is the surest way to secure a sane. well
balanced judgment as to the place OF
any nation in it. To rid the world
of war we must have confidence in the
institutions which are to be substituted
for it. This confidence cannot come
unless we are familiar with the way in
which international conferences should
be run and international justice should
be organized This means not only
education in the schools, but that kind
of adult education that comes from the
actual conduct Of public affairs. II
would be hypocrisy indeed if a nation
refused to play its part in the interna-
tional community and yet presented il
as the ultimate political ideal Prac-
tice and theory must go hand in hano
and education must not only prepare
for the world of tomorrow. bat dea
with the facts as they are today. The
proposal, therefore, for securing bet
ter understanding of international dis
putes carries us long way toward the
actual realization of the community Of
nations. -
Evening star., 1933-02-26

market" unconsciously they expressed
in phrase deeply significant change
in the American way of looking at gov
ernment. This new national psychology
was reflected by President Hoover when
"the Coolidge market" collapsed. Mr..
Coolidge himself, if still in the White
House, might have stood aside, in strict
accordance with the old philosophy.
But Mr.. Hoover at once accepted the
responsibility of leadership.
Now Mr.. Roosevelt is making ready
to take over the command and with his
own plan of campaign against the de-
preston. Whether the President-elect
will prove adequate to the task is, of
course. question. But far more i'm
portant question is whether the Gov
ernment itself is capable of meeting
the novel demands made upon it. The
new administration should and can put
its own political house in order. and
that in itself would help the. situation
nightly. But can it put our economic
house in order?
Here is a new test of our govern
mental institutions. They were not built
for the economic and social purposes
that we have been trying for 40 years
to make them serve, and trying without
marked success. Unless we understand
that we are subjecting our Government
to an unaccustomed strain, we may set
our hopes too high, at the risk of falling
into an impatient reaction against the
fundamental principles of political
democracy and call for Mussolini-or
Stain.
We had better make a mental reSer-
vation. for we are engaged in doubt
full experiment.
Engaged in Spadework.
In daily conferences with politicians
and the press, and with representatives
of economic and social groups, the
President-elect is engaged in the spade
work on the foundation of his leader
ship. And leadership is the hardest and
the highest test that he faces.
The presidency is no desk Job. There
have been great Presidents who were
Indifferent nistrators-notably JEFF
ferson and Lincoln-but none who was
not good politician. That is the first
and supreme qualification for success.
A President does not win or lose sit
ting down in the presidential chair. but
only on the box of the coach of state
There have been great men who have
been little Presidents, like the Adamses
and Madison, because they lacked the
political art of getting teamwork out of
the refractory horses the Constitution
has hitched together. That was the
fortunate gift of the few historic men
in the line. notably of Washington. JEFF
ferson, Jackson, Lincoln. Cleveland,
Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson.
Evening star., 1933-02-26
HOPEFUL EUROPE AWAITS
ROOSEVELT PEACE PLAN
Reported Purpose of Uniting With France
and Britain Already Has Had
Marked Effect on Nations.

economic recovery has been particu-
larly we'll received in France, where it
has been slmmering ever since the end
Of the World War. Frances first essen
tial is considered as close friendly rela-
tions with Great Britain. Such rela-
tions now are believed to exist.
1t Is noteworthy that, whether in the
Far East, in the war debts. in disarm-
ament or in the Central European
arms smuggling affair. France and
Great Britain are at present openly
cooperating.
But 1t is thought here that good
Anglo American relations are essential
to the worlds stability and France
would view with alarm any serious
divergences which might arise between
Washington and London. The pros
pect, therefore, that Great Britain and
the United States may soon find COM
mon grounds for an economic under
standing is gratifying to Paris.
1t is thought that. when the other
powers become convinced that Great
Britain, France and the United States
are all equally interested and serious
in their determination to maintain
peace and make constructive economic
plans, many will soon rally around the
nucleus thus formed.
IIo1y, II IL lliOuelll. Will De one OF
the first to show desire to cooperate.
Germany might soon follow suit and
even Russia and Japan might eventually
find it to their best interest to work
with the others to get the world going
again.
Vital Problems Faced.
Some of the concrete problems Amer
ican diplomacy will be obliged to face
in the near future are thought to be:
l. How to form and maintain a
world front for peace and justice in
the Orient and ultimately perhaps for
international cooperation in develop
ing China.
2. How to cooperate with the
League of Nations in such a way as to
render consultation natural and easy in
case a new crisis should develop in
other parts of the world
3. How to bring the Disarmament
Conference to a speedy and successful
conclusion.
T. How, with Great Britain's help, to
re-eStablish good relations between
France and Italy and thus complete the
London naval treaty
s. When and how to resume relations
with Russia.
g. How to apply the principle of
reciprocity in a series of new commercial
treaties.
T. How to find a fair solution of the
controversy between France and the
United States on the one hand and
Great Britain on the other regarding
the gold standard.
8. How to reach an equitable war
debt solution, thereby insuring ratifica
ton of the Lausanne reparations agree
ment.
g. How to make certain in advance
that the World Economic Conference,
once summoned, will speedily succeed.
Copyright. 1933)
Evening star., 1933-02-26
Crisis Emphasizes Need
For Moral Disarmament

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1933-02-26
BY JAMES MORGAN.

7 T is a commonplace of political
speechnaking to say of every Presi-
dent in turn that he is struggling
1 beneath a burden heavier than any
Evening star., 1933-02-26
Foreign Words Confuse
Italians; Plan Change

ROME, Italy.-A movement Is under
way here to eliminate foreign words
from the Italian vocabulary and sub
stitute Italian forms for them. A
newspaper has even opened a contest
for the best italian words to replace
so common French and English ex-
pressions.
1t is true that many English words
are used in Italian. but an American
would have difficulty. IN recognizing
them by ear because they are pro-
nounced as though they were Italian.
A few of the most common, with
their Italian recommendations are:
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-01-02
DE Zl||[]|ZZ1Zl|ZZZ[ FLED

American wealth. as of 1880, was
430,00O,O00,OOO, compared with
$362,000,G00,00O the year before,
the decline being due to deprecia-
ton of values. In 1925, it is esti-
mated. national wealth was also
62,000,000,0O0.
Many economists believe that
the problem of what to do about
domestic indebtedness is the en-
tire problem of the economic
slump. At 5 per cent, the annual
interest payment on the estimated
$147,000,000,000 of debt is ST.
330,330,330 billions alone. This
burden comes at a time when the
dollar is about twice as "expen-
sive" in terms of commodities as
in the midst of the preceding
boom, and when current assets
have so deprecated, along with
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WcI&c1H MlNRDER5itki S.! -

! put 1t over and we needed every
man Of them. 1t wasn't q pretty
scene" vt
IL suppose he killed Buntyf' :.
"He laughed about Uttered e
me-for caring about q fat old dog
suppose. He was a maniac, Binn
Yes. he went out that night ana
prowled about" 49,.
..SUFFERED from insomnia An.
- other thing forgot WheH
we met in the city at the omNg
early in the week he spoke Of tt.
said he always slept badly in hotels
IL was just an allusion and | forkoa
all about IT, Added to this blaEins'
heat-this sort of spell Away
strikes European as direct from
hell-he was probably all keyed 40
from at least two and perhaps thres
or four nights without sleep. The
first night he went out and roarned
around--and Bunty suffered fof'tt
You can imagine she'd be right on:
the Job with an unknown prowiini
about after midnight, poor spunky
little cuss! Then the next Night
, after tile row at the club and the
dance he came back to that hot
room-it was the worst night Of all
you know-and knew he hadn't .
chance in the world to sleep. 90
he Just made himself comfortable
in the chair and probably sat there
brooding over the quarrel and the
insult he endured from Cousin
Amos"
"And the door went rork.rork
rork-" g"
His window was parallel with
that door and he could hear II
louder than anyone else"
She sighed. "Well-Tom-ws do
1t. Thank heaven It's over!". :. .
But by a very narrow maFgln,s
he added soberly. THE chance 70
mark Of Statlander and my i'm
preston Of the shirt front" y
Speaking OF Mr.. Statlander--a
Linda's impish grin was. In GEmA
ment, as dauntless as ever. "You'N
not very complimentary about yota
senior. are you, darling?" 'iP'9
well, he is an old fool. Hsi
made more trouble. unnecessary
trouble" =
Have you talked It over with
him?" :., - :
Lord. yes. We've all hashed
and re-hashed. After you pulled TIE
faint-don't be peeyish. honey. you
had plenty of provocation and 40
body blamed you!-ShaughnssSey
turned you over to Rosie and hit
called up mother. and the two g.
them bundled you of. Meanwhile
our Irish friend had the timl u
his young life-a grand yarn to;tel
and an audience that was pop-1ye1
with excitement. When ! got bat1
-dog.tired. dishevelled and sltl
with worry about you-they allsfeH
on me like wolves to hear the snl
of the story" 50
/ (To Be Concluded)