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cannon sounded on the western front,
we have been fighting desperately to
abolish III will and misunderstanding,
to establish reign of reason; and
today we know we have failed. Geneva
has become a nerve center. and
nerve disease, a political locomotor
ataxia has seized its unhealthy body
and 1t trembles from head to foot.
1t is a dismal, terrifying prospect.
In 1918 there rose spontaneously from
the throats of millions the cry. Never
again!' We were determined that
men should never again be called
upon to suffer as they suffered
through those four years. Does man
so readily forget, as Nature forgets?
Unscarred Fields.
For Nature forgets, swiftly, COM
pletely. An experience of recent weeks
has alarmed me. I motored toward
Verdun from Chateau Thierry, that
corner of foreign field that is for
ever American" to pharaphrase a
famous line of Rupert Brookes; and
as I drew near to that solemn scene
where million men laid down their
lives in a bitter, frenzied fame
wrapped struggle that made the world
wonder at the indomitable spirit of
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man, it seemed to me that the hushed
earth would show its scars. l motored
along q road which had been called
"the Way to He'll" For six months 1t
had been lacerated by fncessant she'll
fire. and its adjacent fields had been
piled 10 deep with unburied bodies.
Twice there had been a hull In the
battle while the adversaries had Gre
mated the mounds Of corpses that
hampered their martial activities.
One might expect that fields which
had seen such episodes Of mans
frenzy would bear the scar of those
days But along the Way to He'll Sum-
mer now smiled; young trees we're in
green leaf; the new corn bent to the
breeze, and my car ghded over a
smooth macadam road, from which I
viewed the pleasing contours Of the
hills and the deep peace Of lush val
leys and meadows where the villages
nestled.
Shocked a little by Natures in
difference, by her swift recovery from
agony, by the cheerful, vivid color of
the Summery land. thought that in
Verdun old scars of the battles would
keep some memory of that ancient
agony. But no! A new, or well re-
stored city met my eyes. There were
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Despair of Arabs Dangerous Factor
In Palestine's Explosive Situation

JERUSALEM, Palestine.-One OF
the most dangerous factors In the ex-
plosive situation here today is the
Arab state OF mind. Confronted by
the overwhelming power OF the two
world empires which oppose him-the
British and the Jewish--the Arab is
filled with black despair.
In the words of leaders like Aunt
Bey Abdul Hadi and Janal Efendi
Husseini, the Arabs feel that there is
only one thing left for them to do, In
a last desperate attempt to save them
selves from being engulfed-to die
fighting.
The Arab is outmatched In every
phase Of the struggle here except In
willingness to shed blood. His enemies
have iinmeasurably more money, bet
ter training In farming and business,
greater skill in politics and deadlier
weapons-including more effective
propaganda-at their disposal.
Believe Death Is Fixed.
The Moslem attitude toward death
plays an important part in creating
the Arab state of mind. Seventy per
cent of the Arabs of Palestine are
Moslems and a large proportion of
them firmly believe that the instant
of their death has been fixed from the
day of their birth.
When the moment ordained for
their death comes these Arabs believe
they win die, no matter where they
are or what they are doing, whether
sitting in a cafe smoking a hubble
bubble pipe or fighting British Tommies
at the Damascus gate. And until
that moment comes the Arabs are
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BY GASTON NERvAL.

. ISTURBED by recurring peri
DDS of political unrest and
1 burdened by her share Of the
- world depression. Peru's
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Horde of Young Hobos
Again Invades Moscow

MOSCOW, U. S. S. R.-Once more
Summer has brought to Moscow
hordes OF tiny tatterdemalions, the
little homeless trsmps who have con-
stituted such picturesque and un-
wholesome problem TO Russia ever
since the revolution.
Travelling in groups of two or three,
sometimes in bands of a dozen, these
orphans of the social storm which
has been sweeping over the country
during the last II years. beg and
steal their way about riding through
the countryside on the brakebeams
of trains or tramping from one city
to another.
The freshest influx is due partly TO
the good weather, which tempts many
waits to fee the institutions where
the Soviet tries 10 handle them, and
partly to the recurrence of food short
ages in various parts of the country
side Many of the children are "on
the road" because their parents died
ir the famine last year or. in Some
cases, because they were left behind
when their elders were sent into exile,
Others are simply foot-looSe Young
sters who have got the gypsy lust
from passing bands of other tramp
children.
A few years ago the government
stated that the number of homeless
waits" had been reduced to 5000; to-
day there must be many times that
number. The only manner in which
the government can hope to stem the
food will be to stabilize the food sit
ustion in the countryside. from
which most of the children come. and
10 improve living conditions in the
/ cities so that children may ind home
( life less irksome What will become
Of these present child tramps wher
4 they grow TO maturity, with a back
/ ground Of thievery. mendicity and
| immortality. Is beyond the inagins-
/ ton of the worst pessimist.
tConvrfrh4 fQSA
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A Busted Bolt.

From the Kansas City Star
In Pennsylvania last week bolt Of
lightning struck a jug of moonshine
whisky sitting under tree. The shock
was terrific. but nothing has been
heard Of the lightning since.
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Cottage" Etc.
w YHEN. few days ago, ! stood
at the top of that great
wv fight of stone steps which
leads to the immense mon
1lrnent erected nv the
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Money and Greatness.

From the Chicago Tribune.
II it isn't money that makes a man
great. why do you never see people
lift their hats to a go-getter whose
roll Is gomez
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Sibley OF Minnesota were making their home
here. Many viii recall this three-story brick
building best as the one occupied for a num-
ber of years by Fritz Reuter-, who specialized in
"Old Rye and Bourbon Whistles" and served
delightful meals.
Besides Mrs. Peyton's boarding house, there
was similar establishment in the DR.. Van
Patten Building, on the northwest corner OF
John Marshall place and G street, where
Representative Charles M. Conrad stopped
when attending Congress, and In the same
block to the north was Mrs. Whitwells board
ing house, where Senator John Davis Of
Massachusetts, and Senator w. L. Dayton Of
New Jersey resided in 1850, having as fellow
boarders Representatives George Ashmund,
James q. Duncan and Joseph Gunnell Of
Massachusetts, and George G. King Of RHODE
Island DR.. Van Patten, for whom the Van
Patten Building was named was one Of WASH
ington's early dental surgeons. He had his
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Office on the north side of Pennsylvania
avenue between Sixth and Seventh streets,
and probably made his home there.
On the east side of the street, between Penn
sylvania avenue and c, were the boarding
houses Of Mrs wallingsford, DR.. j. Green (who
was also a homeopathic physician), Mrs.
Mcdaniel and Joseph Williams, cabinet
maker. Senator w. K. Sebastian Of Arkansas
and Representative William s. Ashe Of North
Carolina stopped at Mrs. Wallingsford's; to DR..
Green's went Senator J. r. Underwood of Ken
lucky and Representative Thomas L. Cling
man Of North Carolina. Others were Robert
w. Johnson Arkansas: James Meacham, YER
mont; Finis e. Mclean, Kentucky, and Jacob
Thompson, Mississippi. Representatives Daniel
Breck, James L. johnson and John B. Thomp-
son of Kentucky, Charles M. Conrad Of
Louisiana, Grin Fowler of Massachusetts, and
John Otis Of Maine boarded with Mrs.
Mcdaniel, and Representative Humphrey
Marshall Of Kentucky resided with Joseph
Williams.
OF course. there were other people living in
this street prior to the Civil War; many Of
whom the writer has no knowlege. But he
does know that DR.. Cornelius Boyle had his
residence on the west side, between the Avenue
and G street, and had, as near neigh5ors, Solon
jenkins, jr., artist; Mrs. Julia Davis, Arthur
Daymucdyk, II. H. Dent, attorney; B. Free.
waiter; A. H. vancoble Thomas L. Blanchard,
at the northeast corner of this thoroughfare
and street lived G. c. Grammer, who was
president Of the Patriotic Bank, then at Sew
enth and D streets northwest. The cashier was
G. Bestor, and the directors were William A
Bradley, E. Lindsey, J. Purdy, S. Blagden, w.
J. Mcdonald d. Saunders, J. F. Caldwell, J.
Angerman, shoemaker; John Angram, same;
s. M. Baker, painter: William L. Boak, boarding
house, and Daniel Campbell, saddler.
THE Grammer residence, or Hyman Hill, MS
J 1t has been called, was one of the oldest
buildings standing in John Marshall place
when 1t was decided to clear this area for
municipal structures. Before it was removed
the writer went through it from bottom to top.
and after taking picture Of the Metropolitan
Church from one Of its attic windows retraced
his steps from top to bottom. The old building
really retained evidences of having once been
Q mansion.
OF its early history there is seemingly con-
flict of opinion. One worthy writer says 1t was
built by Daniel c. Brent Assistant Secretary OF
State, who leased it to John Quincy Adams in
1917, when he became Secretary of State. An
other gentleman, of known ability, agrees with
this statement in general, but places the maa-
sion one block to the west, on the corner
of Sixth and streets.
John Quincy Adams, although appointed
Secretary of State by Monroe on March S, 1917,
did not enter upon his duties until September
% Of that year, with plenty Of time, however.
to leave the property in question before the
expiration Of the year.
In 1921 he purchased the Cults residence
ut 1888 and 1885 r street northwest, where he
resided until he entered the White House in
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IN THE opposite or northwest corner Of
~ this thoroughfare-where the Ford Build
ing stands-was once Mrs. Peyton's boarding
house, where John G. Calhoun, Henry Clay,
Robert Y. Hayne, Henry A. Wise and Henry
Wilson resided During the Sos Senator H. 8.
Foote Of Mississippi Representative Richard I.
Bowie Of Maryland and Delegate Henry II.
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by q monk, who was engaged 20 years in its
execution"
The chances are that the tattooed man, the
woman snake charmer, the fat man and the
midgets, and all the side-show freaks Of that
period, also appeared at this hall when 1t was
not otherwise occupied. Joseph Shillington,
who advertised his stationery and bookselling
establishment on the front Of the outside
cover Of the 1860 City Directory occupied the
street floor Of this corner for many years,
before and after this date.
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render offers a good illustration Of
the difference between a narrow and
short-sighted attitude on the part Of
business and a sound, constructive at
titude. On the one hand, particular
business concerns may expect and de-
mand that the bureau should perform
particular private services for them
in the way Of assistance In obtain
ing contracts, promoting sales and
the like. Obviously such services
could not in any case be rendered to
more than limited number Of con-
Germs, with the result that these
would be favored at the expense Of
others. Obviously the bureau can
not in the public interest ha oper-
ated as a sales agency or advertising
service for private concerns. On the
other hand, there are perfectly legiti-
mate service functions which the
bureau can perform for business gen.
orally. 1t can supply information
from abroad for the benefit of all
American business concerns which
could otherwise be obtained only by
the larger corporations at their own
expense. 1t can make and publish
through its access to a wide range
of information economic analyses Of
a practical character which can serve
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as a guide to intelligent merchan-
dising and production policy. These
are the service functions which have
been mapped out for it by Secretary
Roper.
But the Bureau Of Foreign and
Domestic Commerce, If It Is to dis
charge the duties imposed upon 1t by
law, must perform more than merely
service functions. Just as the Depart
ment of Agriculture in fostering and
promoting agriculture conducts in
vestigations and make studies de-
signed to improve agricultural tech
nique and the economic relations in
which agriculture is interested, so
II the Bureau Of Foreign and Domes.
tic Commerce is to perform its statu-
tory task of developing manufacturing
and marketing, 1t must necessarily
conduct studies designed to improve
the economic relationships Of busi-
ness and industry. This Is no aca-
demic task. 1t is a task which goes
to the heart of our present industrial
situation and bears upon the most
pressing issues of public policy. 1t
seems clear that If business policies
are to be shaped with view to pre-
venting the recurrence Of great de-
pressions like that through which We
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business, agriculture and the field Of
labor will have to be corelative and
complimentary, they will have to
work hand-in-hand rather than by
the method of compulsion or COZ
ercion. If this Is true, the habit Of
cooperation and consultation between
government and the industrial ele-
ments with which it is going, to work
will have to be established and
fostered, and the logical contact
point for such consultation between
government and business is in the
Department Of Commerce. The scope
and degree Of this consultation and
cooperation will necessarily vary
with time an6 circumstance, but in
one form or another 1t must be
established and maintained. Par
ticularly is this true If the depart
ment hopes, as have suggested, to
make its contribution to the process
of educating the business community
to broader and sounder view Of the
nature of the economic process and
of the part which business must
play therein. Equally is 1t so II
the department and government are
to have in their studies and recon-
mendations the benefit Of the best
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have Just passed, this result cannot
be effected solely or mainly by gov
ernmental action, but must largely
be worked out through the effort Of
business itself applying more fore
sight Ind better understanding to its
problems. Government can do more
to promte this result by policy OF
education than by q policy OF CO.
ercion. In this task Of education the
bureau which Is primarily charged
with fostering commerce and industry
cannot shirk its part, but should
properly have q leading share In
making available to business the
results of the best analysis and study
upon which sound business policy
can be built. For such work, expert
intelligence and experience Of the
highest order in the analysis of busi-
ness conditions is indispensable.
Must Work Hand In Hand.
There is one final way in which the
bureau can contribute to the per
formance of its statutory task Of pro-
noting manufacturing and commerce.
1t Is my belief that If we are to
mold our future economic course by
the method Of evolution rather than
revolution the task of government
and the task Of private initiative in
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the operatives who process them into
the finished product as well as those
who guide the process, obtain the
funds, and oversee the distribution
of the output. Labor and agriculture
have, therefore, a perfectly proper
claim to be considered elements Of in
dustry and as such they come within
the benefits of the commission i'm
posed upon the Secretary of Com
merce to foster, promote. and develop
the manufacturing industries of the
United States" But that commission
also includes, as does the commission
of no other Government official, the
duty of understanding and insuring
that due weight shall be given to the
interests represented by the business
element In industry.
The business men of this country
have, I submit, for many years been
their own worst enemies. ! believe
that a recognition of this is coming
to be general among business men
themselves. They are entitled, as the
group Immediately charged with the
planning and directing of our indus
trial enterprise, to be consulted and
represented in the formulation OF. ma
tional policy. The only ground which
can be alleged for minimizing their
participation in the formulation OF
national policy is the charge that
hitherto they have individually and
as groups been shortsighted and SELF
ish and unmindful of other interests
in the claims which they have made
upon the Government. There Is no
doubt much truth in this charge.
Our business men may not have been
any more selfish or any more short
sighted than any one else would have
been in their place, but the position
which they occupy in the community
is such that their shortsightedness
and narrowness of objective have too
frequently entailed unfortunate con-
sequences. Each business group has
too often sought what seemed an i'm
mediate advantage without consider
ing the effect upon the national pros
perity. This has been particularly
evident, for example, in the mad
scramble for tariff favors which has
gone on for so long and the total
effect of which over period of years
has been largely to decrease our
foreign trade with the result, among
others, of paralyzing the purchasing
power Of our agricultural population
and thereby diminishing the market
for the very industries which sought
and obtained tariff protection. To be
sure business has by no means been
the Only element in our national life
which has sought special favors, but
its pursuit of such favors has been
more conspicuous and effective and
down to the present has had a larger
influence on our national economy
than has been true in the case Of
other self-seeking interests.
Render Service to Business.
The nature of the services which
business expects of the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce and
which the bureau is in a position to
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to promote the interests Of agriculture
and labor without regard to the inter-
ests OF commerce and industry. Each
department is simply focal point de-
signed to insure that the interest with
which it is charged will be given due
weight in the formulation of govern
mental policy and in the proper bal
ance of the national economy.
Business Men Own Enemy.
What We today call business repre-
sents an integral element in any
scheme of economic organization-in
any system for the production and
distribution of goods. 1t represents
the element of management. direction,
and policy formation in productive en-
terprise and in the field of distribu-
tion. This element canont be dis
pensed with under any system. OF
course, it obviously does not consti-
tute the whole of industry. since an
industry in the larger sense includes
the producers of its raw materials and
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~~@S ASSeS'
Census Bureau Of Great Value.
The second largest unit housed in
the Commerce Building is the Census
Bureau, which may be described as
a great inventory of the Nation con-
stantly taking stock and keeping a
record OF our national position, not
merely in the field of population sta
tistics, but also in the fields of busi-
ness, agriculture and finance. With
out such a permanent agency for
stock-taking no great enterprise, least
OF all an enterprise of such magnitude
as the Government of the United
States, can know how to chart its
course with intelligence and fore
sight. The recent depression with its
emphasis upon the need for national
action to meet national problems was
disclosed as never before the value
OF the activities of the Census Bureau,
both from an economic and a social
standpoint, and the need for sound
and detailed statistics has during the
past year and half imposed an ever
increasing volume Of emergency work
upon the Census Bureau, which has
given employment to many hundreds
OF persons temporarily out of work.
Among the other interesting units
housed In the great building on lower
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Whites Through With
Hotcha Dance, Report

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES folk
have become ashamed of themselv-
es and are going to disport them
selves more circumspectly upon
dance floors If the word Of Leo
Kehl, president of the Chicago As
ISOLATION Of Dancing Masters has
any face value. Mr.. Kehi spoke
this week at the annual conven-
ton which 400 white dancing tea
cheers are attending.
Four new dances, according to
him, are to be introduced this fall:
the Ranchero, South American
innovation; the Shakespeare Strut;
the Streamline Fox Trot and the
Knee Action Dip-all of which
sound very scientific. They are
supposed to be clean and Mr..
Kehrs GROUP is going in for that
sort of dancing. They are going
to turn the people from gin struts
to soda-pop waltzes.
We're through with that fast
wiggling melted by Negro bands. :"
he asserted. "Our new dances
have no ''hotcha" trends. They
are clean, and they are graceful. :"
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Texts To Remember

1. Everyone that exalteth him
self shall be humbled; and he that
humbleth himself shall be exalted.
Luke 14:11.
2. Ye are they that justify them
selves in the sight of men: but God
knowest your hearts: for that
which is exalted among men is an
abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 1915.
8. Think we that those Galileans
were sinners above all others, be-
cause they have suffered? I tell
you, Nayj but except We repent. Ye
shall in like manner perish. Luke
1872, 3.
4. If they hear not Moses and
the prophets: neither will they be
persuaded, if one rose from the
dead. Luke 1881.
5. They bind heavy burdens and
lay them on mems shoulders: but,
they themselves viii not move it
with their finger. Luke 11:46.
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knights are cordially welcome. L.
]. Conway. G. C., ZOE 22nd Ave. N,
EAST es59; g. E. spearman. K R.
s.. 1884 18th Ave. N. W.. SU. 1858.
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White MethOdists Refuse To
Call Off jim Grow Meeting

BALTIMORE, Md. = Baltimore
Methodists refused to repudiate
their stand for Jim crow practices
at the sesqulcentennia1 celebration
which begins Wednesday when
urged to do 50 BY an inter-racial
group, Monday.
About thirty-flve white MEM
bers Of the committee sponsoring
the celebration were present in the
First Methodist Church House.
when a group Of young people,
sleaded by Miss Juanita jackson,
aslked that a luncheon at the Lord
Baltimore Hotel be called off be-
catse eolored people win not be
Pc. nitted to attend.
Six Minutes Given
The committee was virtually e.
jected by the Rev. Edward L. Wat
son, white, who was acting as the
presiding officer, and ruled that
protestants be given only six min
utes in which to state their case.
The Rev. C. H. Richmond, white,
told the meeting that the Metho-
dist Youth Council, which met in
Chicago this summer, had gone on
record as opposing segregation at
the celebration
He spoke for three minutes and
was followed by Miss jackson who
made her plea as vice president of
the National Methodist Youth