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brains of diplomacy were so much
inclined to patronize.
The ambassador now cabled his
own hopes that:
you can force England (by
threatening an arms embargo) to
permit foOdStuffs and raw ma
terial to enter Germany, in which
case proposed blockade will be
withdrawn, and in all probability
I can arrange that no further
reference will be made to the
question of export of arms and
ammunition.
THUS stirred, the department
Il ordered Page Con Feb. 16) to
work for an agreement not to
withhold foodstuffs, at least, from
the German civil population.
But all that this produced was
Mr.. Pages announcement-clearly
more in sorrow for the depart
ment's ignorance than in anger
against it-that Il do not see a
ray of hope for any agreement
between Germany and England
whereby England will permit food
to enter Germany under any con-
dition." This was received in
Washington on the evening of
Feb. 20.
An hour later the State Depart
ment dispatched to Great Britain
and to Germany it's own official
suggestion of a compromise. 1t
was plainly useless to wait upon
Mr.. Page.
Briefly, we proposed that all
foodstuffs imported from the
United States be distributed in
Germany to the civil population
alone by an American agency
similar to the Belgian Relief.
Great Britain would agree not to
interfere with such shipments.
Germany would abandon the use
of submarines against merchant
vessels except by the normal proc
eSs of visit and search. Both sides
would refrain from the indiscrimi-
nate sowing of mines and the mis-
use of neutral flags.
Naturally it came to nothing.
TN London, of course, Col. House
i was as diligent as usual, and
the new issue did give him an
opportunity of reviving his project
of a trip to Germany.
The British now had their own
blockade established and had little
reason to fear any rashness on the
part Of the Colonel.
Sir Edward agreed that perhaps
the time had come for House to
visit Germany and thus authorized
the peace emissary set forth
again, in the second week of
March, upon his altruistic travels.
In Berlin they we're telling Col.
House that if peace was really
what the United States wanted
the quickest way to get it would
be to embargo munitions exports.
The colonel thought the idea
the sheerest nonsense" and went
on with his negotiations. He
dropped the seed about the free
dom of the seas on receptive
ground, but as to peace the scales
were at last falling from his eyes.
1t was not peace for which the
fighting peoples yearned; it was
peace with victory-and that was
a different matter.
March % the liner Falaba, out
ward bound to West Africa with
147 passengers and tons of ammu-
milton, was tOrpedOed off the
Sicily Isles. One hundred and
four lives were lost, among them
that of Mr.. Leon Thrasher, an
American citizen.
AL the irritation over the Britt
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man militarism to be responsible
for the war, everything was easy.
Deity they sought to draw him
into committing the United
States to such specific terms of
peace as would represent a set
Element not only lust" but also
satisfactory from the practical
viewpoint of the Entente.
Unhappily, it was in the midst
of all these sympathetic felicitieS
that Mr.. Gerard's urgent sugges-
tionS arrived.
TINE moment had come to
Il strike hard-if it was peace
that the colonel was trying to
negotiate. But the colonel had
been too skillfully swathed by
this time in the British view
point.
What he actually did was to
show these communications to
Sir Edward. They must, Sir Ed
ward instantly declared, be taken
up with the prime minister. AS
quith solemnly combined with
Grey in rejecting the very idea
of any such terms as those limited
at by Berlin; both men strongly
advised the colonel against max
ing a visit to Germany-until
Germany had suffered a few
severe military reverses!
And House, dutifully bowling to
this eminent opinion, informed
his principal in the White House
of his objections against going on
to Berlin.
President Wilson rather abrupt
ly awoke, and there came a sharp
cable:
IF an impression we're to be
created in Berlin that you were
to come only when the British
government thought it an oppor-
tune time to come, you might be
regarded when you reach there
as their spokesman rather than
mine"
1t was obvious, but the amateur
diplomat failed to see the unwis-
dom of placing American policy
at the command of Downing
Street, and the only result was a
long letter Con Feb. 23) warning
the President that the Germans
were trying to use him.
For the rest, nothing could be
done at the moment. If Sir Ed
ward knew of this letter, as he
doubtless did, he must have per-
mitted himself a quiet smile at
the ease with which Col. House
had once again been rendered
harmless.
TN the meanwhile the peace
Il question had got badly entan-
gled in the more immediate issue
of the submarine war. The Sec
rotary of State was "incredulous"
and thought the Germans were
merely bluft1ng, but Ambassador
Gerard in Berlin did not.
While pressing for peace with
one hand he was pressing with
the other for some kind of work
able compromise of the trade and
submarine questions that would
preserve the United States from
the inducements now cleartly
threatening.
For Mr.. Gerard. as even House
presently had to admit, was diff
ferent from some of our repre-
sentatives. inasmuch as his point
Of view is wholly American" and
indeed one can not fail to be
struck by the extent to which
every suggestion for some kind
OF reSolLte and practical action
seemed to originate with this po-
litical appointee, whom our great
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to direct trade of any kind with
the Central Powers.
TT is easy to see in retrospect
i that the situation had reached
a point at which it could only be
dealt with as whole and on
terms OF the broadcast statesman
ship.
President Wilson's hand lay
strangely lax upon the controls;
for the President had largely con-
flded his foreign policy to the
management of Col House.
From Berlin Mr.. Gerard had
been doing his best. On Feb. II
he cabled:
ut is my conviction . that if
a reasonable peace proposition
we're offered Germany very many
men of influence would be inclined
to use their efforts to induce Ger
many to accept the proposition. :.
If peace does not come Immediate
ly new and protracted phase of
the war will commence. 1t
will be fatal to hesitate or wait
a moment; success is dependent
on immediate action"
Mr.. Gerard saw clearly that with
the military advantage lying
everywhere with the German
armies any practicable peace pro-
posal must at most represent
draw. If it was peace which Wash
ington wanted, it could only get it
by forcing both sides to cry quits.
The Ambassador wanted action.
What he got was Mr. Wilson's
instruction to refer everything to
Col House, who had been fully
instructed and commissioned" to
act lin all these matters"
Indeed, Mr.. Gerard had already
done so. Germany will make no
peace proposals." he had written
the colonel in London, but I am
sure if a reasonable peace is pro-
posed now "a matter of days, even
hours it would be accepted"
And to Washington he cabled
urgently: Yours about Col. House
received. Favorable moment is
passing; but if House could bring
secret, reasonable" offer to
Berlin he thought it would be &C
cepted.
The offer must represent reai-
ties, however; the Allies could get
the evacuation of Belgium, Ger
ard thought, but no indemnity,
and would have to pay in colonial
territory and perhaps in cash for
the evacuation of northern
France.
EOR days the colonel had been
Il buSily negotiating" in the
highest circles in London. He
had been lunching on terms of
the happiest intimacy with Grey
or dropping in at the foreign
minister's house in EccleSton
Square to discuss nature, soil
tude, Wordsworth" before getting
down to the business of diplo-
macy. He had been quietly seeing
all the best people.
The Allies could not rudely re-
pei the successive peace often
siveS" from the United States.
Their problem was to retain our
sympathy. and develop us as po-
tential military support, for their
own nationalistic war aims, many
of which they dared not even
avow.
They had to do so, moreover,
while actively suppressing our
commercial rights. Our interest
in peace and humanity, however,
was their one great means for
solving this difficult problem, and
when Col. House began by con-
vincing them that he held Ger
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EWEnouh
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

THESE be anxious days for the undergrads and
Il old grads of Knox College of CialeSburg, ILL.,.
more Familiarity known Old SiwaSh, the typical
fresh-water American school and the alma mater
OF the mythical Ole Skjarsen, who the Paul
Bunyan of American football. Ole Skjarsen
the invention of the late George Fitch the author
"a Knox alumnuS
Like Itchy Guck. the legendary Eskimo SWIM
mer who never swan the ENGLISH Channel because
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SlWash has to do with the remarkable string of 81
consecutive defeats achieved by the varsity teams in
the 1our-year period ended last November. This
gave Knox tie with Hobart College of Geneva
n Y, whose gridiron heroes made record of 81
defeats unmarried by either victory or tie during
a tour-year stretch ended several years ago
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fair to say that among those groups of students who
are avid for education who make desperate sacrifices
in order TO go to college, there is very high pro-
portion of Jews. And it not only cruel but
silly TO close or limit in any way the enrolment of
those who go to college with the greatest enthusiasm
for the things which a college is supposed to give.
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Science at the Source

7 AM Of course, quite ready to admit that certain
Il universities must pick and choose among their
applicants There colleges which simply do not
possess the physical capacity to take in all corners.
But if there to be curailment the only fair meth
cd is to base selection upon competitive exsmina
tons.
On the whole, that is the general theory followed
by such national institutions of learning West
Point and Annapolis admitting the fact that
in these training schools physical fitness is also
proper sphere affecting choice But, as far as 1
know nFither West Point nor Annapolis goes beyond
the simple figures Of medical and mental
ination.
Perhaps the crueest injustice of all is the quota
system which aff1icts many of medical schools
and is also beginning to raise its ugly head in law
schools we'll Let's be sensible and realistic about
this.
When anybody goes to doctor he wants the best
informed and the most capable man he can find.
When you sick the last thing you are interested
in is the rcgon of the practitioner whe attends you.
Indeed of under painful symptoms may
grow little weary of own religious faith if any,
The Full and Final AnSUer
IERE again. 1 have no disposition to generalze.
L The fact that many of the most eminent medi-
cal men in all the countries of the world Jewish
men does not necessarily prove that non-JewS in
general less adept in learning the of healing.
The good doctor is man who has learned to look
facts in the face, to go beyond prejudice bunch and
guess He goes to the laboratory for eXactitude in
his finding But his springs of information are
poisoned at the source if his medical school
goes upon the wholly unscientifc theory that re-
giOus belief makes one man fundamentally better
than another You can't prove that in any test tube.
And when condemn the fragrant forays of
Hitler against a single group in Germany should
be reminded that record is not perfect.
Even things stand we have a right to criticize the
German regime with the utmost ardor.
But l think that protest will carry even
greater weight when we have seduously striven to
remove the beam from our own eye.
We no isn't
enough to say We'll. after ALL such prejudice as
exists in America merely extends to few summer
hotels. some apartment houses certain clubs, some
jobs and maybe quite number of colleges"
That is pretty poisonous list of prejudiceS. On
such foundation another Nazi regime could be
built And certainly the very best answer that
America can make Adolf Hitler is to watch and
observe the things he does and then turn sharply
and walk rapidly possible in precisely the oppo
site direction.
Copyright 1885,
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William Jennings Bryan, Amer
lean Secretary of State, who re-
signed in protest against a beIli-
cOse policy, and Geft) Sir Edward
Grey British Foreign Minister,
whose skillful diplomacy helped
bring the United States into the
struggle.
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II Seems hM
BY
Haywood BRO(N

ONE challenge fung out BY the Hitler partisans
~ deserves a fuller answer than Americans
have given as yet When protest comes from here
against the cruel and stupid anti-Semtism Of Nazi
Germany defenders of der Fuehrer are fond of say
ing. Well. how about yourselves? Is there no
prejudice in the United States?"
Now. that can be answered partly by saying that
the German drive against Jewish citizens is fos-
tered and fomented BY the government itself. No
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ON March Ambassadors
~ Spring Rice and Jusserand
presented at the State Depart
ment two notes verbales. fatty
prohibiting all further neutral
trade either to or from the Ger
man Empire.
The offshore blockade of Ger
many, which the Allies had for so
long been prevented from an
nouncing by the fact that an
off-Shore blockade was illegal, had
now been decreed. 1t frankly pro-
hibited the importation of all
goods - contraband, conditional
contraband and free list alike
while it also prohibited exports
from Germany, something which
the contraband rules in theory
could not touch.
That the new measure was a
violation. of international law and
a denial of established neutral
rights the Allies were forced to
admit; they justified ii only as
legitimate reprisal against Ger
many's prior violation in the dec
laratiOn of the submarine war.
The American government was
once more. of course. vociferously
TO protest; equally, of course, the
protests were 10 be unavailing,
and from this TIME onward the
United States was to lose all rights
Evening star., 1935-06-29
CHURCHES UNITE
SUMMER SERIES
Congregational, UNIVERSAL
ist and Unitarian Pro-
uram Announced.

For the seventh year. Mount Pleas
ant Congregational Church. the Uni
versalist National Memorial Church
and All Souls (Unitarian) Church
are co-operat ting during the Summer
months in a series o. union services.
This series viii be inaugurated in
All Souls Church tomorrow at IL
o'clock, with Or. Ulysses G. B. Pierce
In the pulpit. He will take for his
subject The East Gate" Three addi-
tional services VIII be held IN All
Souls Church. I1ev. Robert S. Miller,
minister OF the Church of Our Father,
Lancaster, Pa. will pIeach July 2:
Rev. Ralph E. Bailey. formerly Of
Omaha, Nebr., and more recently
minister Of the First Parish. Com
bridge, Mass. July IA, and DR..
Thomas H. Saunders Of Houston, Tex,
July 81. The thee following services
will be held in the Mount Pleasant
Congregational Church and the con-
cluding group Of four services, begin
ming August I8. in the UniveIsalist
National Memorial Church.
Miss Josephine Ross and Keith
Bilman are attending the conference
for Unitarian Young people at Star
Island. Portsmouth,, N. H. Others
who will attend later meetings are
Mr.. and Mrs. R. S Williams. ir.; Mrs.
p. E. Evans. Miss Jean Evans, Miss
Louise Bebb and Ken: Bebb.
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EVIDENCE GUILD OPENS
MIDWEEK EXERCISES
Director o'Connor, Francis Bar
rett and Charles Ferry to Ad-
dress Session Wednesday.

In addition to its three Sunday
meetings held in the public parks Of
Washington, the Catholic Evidence
Guild has opened a mid-week pitch
on Wednesday evenings from to 9
O'Clock, in Judiciary Park. July 3 it
will be under the direction of John J.
OConnor of Georgetown University,
with Francis Barrett and Charles
Ferry also speaking.
Sunday pitches at Judiciary Park
will be from to 5 o'clock and from
7:30 to $50 o'clock. Tomorrow after
noon the chairman will be Edward
Heffron, with M. Barrett, A. Collins
and Mrs. Linda M. O'Hara assisting
him. The chairman at night will be
Mr. Foster. with Philip Hannah, w.
Collins and w. Daily also speaking.
Sunday meeting at Franklin Park
will be from 7:30 until $50 o'clock.
John G. Bowen will be the chairman
and D. Ginchereau, P. Guertin and
Eugene Hoffman will be the other
speakers.
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DR.. JAMES H. TAYLOR
SELECTS TWO TOPICS
"Reasons for Our Hope and
Some Parallels Of the King
dom" Announced,

At the Central Presbyterian Church
the pastor, DR.. James H. Taylor, will
preach tomorrow morning on Rea-
sons for Our Hope" and at night on
Some Parallels of the Kingdom"
The intermediate Poys and Girls
Conference will be held at MssSanetta
Springs. Va. beginning Monday and
continuing for week. The repre-
sentatives from this church will be
Scott Ebrite, Walter Guthrie and Rex
Walton Lauck. This conference is
under the auspices OF the Synod of
Virginia Of the Presbyterian Church.
The Vacation Bibie School will con-
tinue the daily sessions through next
week. The courses IN the school in
Chlde Bible study, memory work,
missions, music and handwork OF va
rious kinds. The school meets IN the
Sunday school building each morning
at $50.
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TWO COMMUNION
SERVICES PLANNED
Luther Place Memorial
Christian Endeavor
Society Elects.

Luther Place Memorial Church will
celebrate two communion services to-
morrow morning, $50 and II. At
the IL o'clock service Remember
Jesus Christ" will be the theme of
the communion meditation, by DIR.
Carl C. Rasmussen. The choir will
render appropriate music at both
services.
The Christian Endeavor Society
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Murl Larkin; first vice presi-
dent, Miss Margaret Wenger; second
vice president, Miss Ruth Blackburn;
recording secretary, Miss Geraldine
Thornton: corresponding secretary
Miss Nadine Thomas, and treasurer,
Clayton WornSon.
The Church Council will meet We'd
nesday at 8 pm. at the parsonage.
1441 Kennedy street.
The choir at a recent meeting elect
ed the following officers: President
Harry Zwoyer; vice president, Miss
Myrtle Eidsaa; secretary, George
Christensen; treasurer, Miss Verna
Ritchie; librarian. Miss Theresa Ham,
melman.
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Christian Endeavor

Approximately $50 Of the District
Of Columbia Christian Endeavor
Union will be present next Tuesday
at the opening Of the thirty fifth in
ternational Christian Endeavor con-
vention at Philadelphia. DIR. Polling,
president OF the Worlds Christian
Endeavor Union, will deliver the key
note address. DR.. o. F. Blackwelder,
pastor Of the Lutheran Church OF the
Reformation, and Senator Borah will
be among the speakers.
Following parade at $50 pm. Sat-
urday, Kansas and the District Of
Columbia delegations will join in q
banquet at Springers Arcade Res
taurant.
The final meeting of the Philadel-
phia delegation will be held tonight at
the Wallace Memorial United Presby-
terian Church. The winner of the
song contest will be announced.
Virginia State Union will hold q
banquet, in connection with their
convention, at the Mayfiower Hotel
tonight. Tomorrow afternoon at the
First Baptist Church Of Clarendon
Va, the closing session will be held.
Those delegates who are going to
Philadelphia by train are reminded
that the Pennsylvania Railroad train
the Senator, leaving Tuesday at II
am, has been designated as the off,
cial train. Tickets should be obtained
before that time from T. D. Tuft
city ticket agent, Pennsylvania Rail
road, 6l3 Fourteenth street.
The intermediate C. E. will meet
July II at the United Brethren Church
Under leadership of Leigh Peterson
Earl Stevenson, Thyra Edmonds. Mar
garet Hammond and Sam Rolls the
Calvary Baptist Young Peoples C. Z
is reorganizing. During the Sum-
mer months they will make a study
Of the lives Of the disciples. The first
one. Thomas. will be discussed TO-
morrow evening under Leigh Peter
son.
Wallace Memorial U. p. Church
Union will have q joint meeting to-
morrow. Hillman Harris will leac
and DR.. Darrell C. Grain will speak
Following the church service the group
will 60 to the home of their pastor
DR.. c. Z. Hawthorne. for sing"
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St. Lakes Episcopal.

Holy communion tomorrow at am.
Morning prayer and sermon by Rev. j.
z. Elliott. rector. at IL, when the
financial effort will be climaxed by the
offering Of the proceeds. These ef-
forts, conducted simultaneously among
the men and women OF the church,
have had as their purpose the raising
Of certain extra special funds aside
from the regular offerings for the re-
tirement of certain obligations and 10
under write the church operating
budget during the usual Summer
slack.
The large choir, directed by Louis
N. Brown, organist, will render its last
service before suspending for its Sum-
mer vacation. 1t is expected the choir
will resume its service In September
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CHILDREN'S PROGRAM
PLANNED AT TAKOMA
World Crusade Services to Be
Held Tomorrow Night in
Baptist Church.

A children's world crusade program
will be presented tomorrow night ct
7:45 o'clock at the Takoma Park
Baptist Church. under the direction
Of Mrs. C. M. Fisher. Norma Aaron
will preside
The scripture lesson will be given by
Marjorie Carter. Jean Fisher will
offer PRAYER and Marie Pittinger will
sing. Mrs. H. s. Rappleye will make
a gift presentation Welcome to the
World Wide Guild will be given by
Gale Miller. Betty Bogart. Marie Pit
finger and Brenda Morcock. Mai.
Seth C. Dildine will give a welcome
TO the Royal Ambassadors and the
pastor, Rev. w. E. LARue, will present
diplomas. The evening services for
the rest Of the Summer will be
omitted.
At II am. DR.. LaRue will preach
on The Second Coming of Christ" d"
with a sermonette for children on
Human Nature"
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SUBJECT
TO Be LONELINESS
Dr.. W. Angie Smith to
Preach at Mount Vernon
Place NJ. {. Church.

DIR. w. Angie Smith, pastor of
Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church
South. having returned to the city
after a brief absence, will preach to-
morrow morning on The Loneliness
Of Life" Special services have been
planned for the evening, when the
pastor has as his topic Pact or Fac
tor" The knights Of Pythiss will be
special guests, holding the memorial
and divine service Of that order.
The A. B. Pugh Mems Bible Glass
will meet at $50 am. r. Chester
Smith, president Of the class, extends
an invitation to those not afiliated
with other mems classes to attend.
The Board Of Christian Education
will meet at 7:30 Tuesday evening.
The Departmental Council will be
held at 7:45 and the Church School
Council will convene at S:IS pm.
The Finance Committee will meet
at 7:30 Wednesday evening and
meeting Of the Board OF Stewards at
SPIN.
A night meeting will be held at the
church Wednesday Mrs. Purcell
Storey, pastors assistant, and Circle
No. will be in charge of the devo-
tional and missionary program.
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Healing Services.

The Summer schedule OF services
OF Christian healing at the Church Of
st. Stephen and the Incarnation will
be held as follows: During July, Rev.
Clyde Brown will conduct weekly
services each Tuesday. The first, third
and fifth being in the morning at
1890 and the second and fourth in
the evening at O'Clock. In August
the St. Stephens Prayer Circle will
meet on the 5th and 10th at pm.
Those interested in the healing work
are invited to attend these meetings
This group studies life adjustment and
spiritual healing and prays for the
sick.