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Evening star., 1937-01-10
MORAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL
BENEFITS SEEN NINPARLEY
Dawn of Truly New Era in Pan American
Relations Achieved at BuenOs Aires
in Spite of Criticism.

economic, political and social aspects
of pan-Americanism. 1t is true that,
so far, they have been discouragingly
slow in doing it, but that should not
be invoked to discredit the one at
Buenos Aires, which had definite
purpose in view and was. moreover,
called to order under widely different
circumstances.
The purpose Of the Buenos Aires
parley was to coordinate and improve
the machinery for the preservation
of international peace in the Ameri-
can continent. Has that been done?
The mere enumeration OF the new
instruments for joint consultation in
case Of war or threat of war. COM
mon neutrality policy in American
conflicts. a common opposition to in
tervention in domestic affairs and
mutual assistance in the event Of nom
American aggression should suffice to
answer that question. Each one is
definite step forward and merits sepa-
rate and detailed consideration in
subsequent articles.
Some Shortcomings.
In order, however, to complete the
picture, let us, before analyzing the
accomplishments. point out the short
comings. The Buenos Aires parley
did, Of course, have some shortcom-
ings, but they were not, as we stressed
last week, the failure to line up Latin
America behind the United States
neutrality policy toward European
wars. or the failure to establish an
economic union, or the failure to set
up continental league of nations, or
the failure to do many other things
which the members of the conference
themselves never expected of it. The
only shortcomings which can be at
tributed to the Buenos Aires meeting
are those which fell within its sphere
of action, those which it could have
possibly avoided, not those which were
far beyond its own limitations.
Among such, and because of the
grave and constant menace it repre-
sents, must be mentioned in first place
the inability of the Buenos Aires con-
ference to press for a definite solu-
ton of the Chaco controversy, which
only recently cost the lives Of over a
hundred thousand Bolivians and Par
aguayans In a bitter three-year
armed struggle. The self-interest and
responsibility in the attainment OF
that solution of any international Or
ganization which is trying to establish
the peace of the American continent
on solid bases is only too obvious. AS
long as this major conflict between
two of the American nations is al
lowed to remain unsettled, the whole
peace machinery so laboriously being
built in the New World is threatened
with destruction.
A regrettable omission was the elm
ination of a very important feature OF
the treaty for consultation, namely.
the United States suggestion of a
permanent committee made Up of the
foreign ministers Of the signatory
countries, to render more effective
and immediate the purposes Of the
treaty.
The failure to consider and discuss
the Mexican peace code, leaving It's
study to the regular Pan-American
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Tension Is Eased in Europe as Nations
Put Faith i'm Armaments to Keep Peace

junta by Germany and Italy Is seen
to have been the worst kind Of blum
der-a dud shell that, in failing to
explode, has discredited its authors.
Further, there is observable less
flamboyant mood both in Germany
and Italy. The economic position Of
both countries is severely strained and
the gravity of the food position in
Germany, however lamentable in it
self, Is taken as an evidence that any,
thing like provocative action from
that quarter in the immediate future
is unlikely.
Eden Clears Situation.
And relations with Italy have un-
dergone a marked change since Mr..
Eden's firm declaration in re2a:
the freedom of the Mediterranean and
the integrity of the Spanish realm,
in which the future of Majorca is so
deeply involved. This declaration has
been so emphatically indorsed by
France, whose Mediterranean interests
are as great as those of Britain or
Italy. that the sky is felt to be much
clearer in that vital quarter and an
accommodation with Mussolini is well
advanced
But by far the most important fac
tor in the more hopeful outlook is the
increased security which is felt as the
result of the rearmament scheme now
in progress. That scheme is being
carried out with the practical unan-
unity Of all parties in the state, for
the opposition of Labor Is so half
hearted as to be negligible. This solid
natural front in the presence of real
danger has restored confidence, and
as with every day the defensive posi-
ton of the country is strengthened
public anxiety diminisheS, and the
authority of Britain in the cause Of
European peace is visibly enhanced.
And in the background of the mind
looms another potent influence for
that cause. In spite of its detachment
from the political affairs Of Europe,
the moral weight of America in those
affairs is overwhelming. How that
weight will be exercised rests with the
President, fresh from his victory at
the polls and from his task of con-
solidating internal peace on the Amer
ican continent. But that it will be
exercised is assumed as one Of the
dominant potentialities in the events
Of the momentous year on which we
have embarked.
| tCopyrisht. 1s31J
Evening star., 1937-01-10
BY GASTON NERVAL.

S IN everything else. there are
n two extreme views in judging
II the merits Of the Pan-Ameri-
4 \ can Peace Conference recently
held at Buenos Aires. One is that
of the incurable optimists who look
at things specifically and either ig-
more, or profess to ignore, the subjec-
tion of politics to the hard realities
of economics. They seem to think
that, overnight, all the problems and
ills of inter- american relations have
been eliminated. to leave only a blissful
atmosphere of goodwill and co-opera-
tion in which nothing will ever again
disrupt the mutual respect and COM
mon assistance the American repub-
lies have pledged one another.
The other, that Of the pessimists
who refuse to let facts interfere with
their professional skepticism and for
the sake of it are willing to minimize
accomplishments and grossly exag-
gerate shortcomings, is that the con-
ference, not having obtained all the
impossible things which the former
group claims it has, was a dismal
failure.
Somewhere between these two ex-
treme views lies the reasonable and
common-sense attitude as to the
meaning and results of the Buenos
Aires conference. The fault, as We
said before, was in expecting too much.
If certain imaginative persons had not
indulged, even before the conference
convened, in fanciful predictions of
the arrival of the pan-American mil
lenium, the so-called realistic" critics
would not be able now to speak of
visionary failures. And, by the way,
realism which deals in absolutes Is
not realism at all.
Confusion Of Suggestions.
Although the intention was sound
to avoid the suspicion Of dictation
from Neutrality-suspicious. the fact
that the foreign. Offices Of all the
American republics were invited to
contribute whatever suggestions they
had in mind to the original agenda
of the conference, had something to
do with that confusion of purposes.
With characteristic. Latin idealism,
some of the Southern statesmen came
out with all sorts of ambitious projects,
ranging all the way from close GUS
toms unions to an air-tight confedera-
ton of American states. When, nat
urally enough, some Of these we'll
meaning, but, under present circum-
stances, utterly utopian proposals were
shelved at Buenos Aires, the "realists,"
though they themselves never had be-
lieved in such day-dreams, were given
food for their criticism of the confer
ence's fruits.
Such criticism, as we'll as the child
ish self-satisfac ction of the extremists
on the other end, are easily explained
away, however, by judging the achieve
ments of the Buenos Aires parley In
the light Of what was really expected
of it. The very name of the as
sembly, the Pan-American Conference
for the Maintenance Of Peace, limited
its scope. There are other periodical
international conferences Of American
states intended to deal with various
Evening star., 1937-01-10
BY A. G. GARDINER.

6nRldnu y GLedtESI bAbcA dA SNaNoAs
Y ONDON.-There is always a
tendency to be sanguine at the
openingi of a new year. Ger
IL tainly there is noticeable rise
in the barometer of public feeling
since the dramatic weeks before
Christmas. It may in part be due to
the reaction from the strain and emo
ton Of those weeks and the sense OF
recovered stability in the institutions
Of the country. But think it is due
also to some s!ackening in the tension
Of the European situation.
That situation is still grave and in
calculable, and the view that the new
year on which we have embarked will
20 far to decide the issue of peace or
war is commonplace in political cir
cles. But certain considerations are
emerging into prominence that en-
courage a more cheerful tempo.
No Nation Wants War.
The first of these is the success OF
the sanitary Gordon that has been
drawn around the Spanish volcano.
Success may seem to be an excessive
epithet to use in that connection. 1t
Is notorious that the non-intervention
agreement has been largely an i'm
posture It has been violated in fact,
II not in form. by Germany and Italy,
by Russia and by France. If the ac-
tions of Italy have been most flagrant
and have come most nearly to blowing
the agreement to the winds, those of
the rest have been sufficiently palpable
to have wrecked the facade If there
had been a disposition in any quarter
to wreck it. But there has not been.
That in itself Is significant Of the
temper of Europe.
No great nation wants war. All
fear war. And the value of the nom
intervention agreement is that it has
revealed this fact nakedly to all the
principals concerned. In revealing 1t,
it has preserved the peace of Europe,
isolated the Spanish tragedy and
given a working model of how future
emergencies may be controlled.
There Is feeling, too, that events
in Spain itself have relieved the sit
uation. The prolonged resistance OF
Madrid has cooled the ardor Of the
Fascist powers in sympathy with the
rebels, and, in the light Of that re-
sistance and all that it implies, the
hasty recognition Of the Franco
Evening star., 1937-01-10
Texas May Drill Oil
From Its HIGHWAYS

AUSTIN, Tex. R).-Texas will drill
oil millions from its highways If q
State legislator has his way.
Senator Joe L. Hill estimated the
State could gain from 100000 to
$5,000,000 yearly by empowering the
Board of Mineral Development to
lease State highway rights of way for
oil and gas development
Hill said the wells would not de-
stroy highway beauty or add trafic
hazards.
THE entire equipment can be
placed in cellars" he said. This has
been done In many instances and
beautiful grass lawns cover q number
Of producing wells In this State"
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w YE HAVE had Mr.. Roosevelt's
M message on the state OF the
w Union. And we have had
Evening star., 1937-01-10
TYPICAL MARKET SCENE
IN INDIA.
BY F, YEATS-BROWN.

Author of THE Lives OF q Bengal
Lancer" Etc
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always to satisfy, bu1 rather deny and
cruelty them to teach them to keep
thei1 proper place: "They that are of
Christ Jesus have o.,cified the flesh
with the passions and tie luSts there
c."
A Positive Cure.
That Paul's remedy brought effcc-
tive cure was evident in the changed
lives Of many Corinthians who had
once been drunkards with all the
attendant inmoralitias, for he says
'Such were some of you but We were
washed, but we were sanctified but
We were justified in the name of the
Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit
of our God" They overcanle the filthy
works of the flesh by yielding them
selves to the Spirit of God and Civ
ing him a chance to bear in their lives
the fruit of the Spirit: Love, joy
peace long suffering, kindness, good
ness, faithfulness, meekness, self-con-
troll" They externinated noxious
weeds by raising good things instead.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-29
CHAPTER 39

1T BECAME quite customary
for Tim, returning to The Wilder
ness at half past or 6, to be ac-
costed by Adams in the familiar
style which, because it had now
become quite natural and carried
no hint of defiance, was more
subtly insulting than ever. Hurry
up with your tea, Kennedy" he
would say. Il want a game Of
something or other"
Sometimes they would play a two
handed poker, but as Tim was
able to hold his own in this field,
they generally adjourned to the
billiard room. There the procedure
was almost invariable; Adams
would fix the money stake, give
half the game as handicap, go
slow until Tim looked like win
ming, then take control and run
out. Once he overreached himself
and Tim won the game, but Adams
demanded another on the basis of
double or quits, and Tim had to
be content with the negative salts
faction of not actually having lost
any money.
He had to put up with all this,
and a great deal more-Adams
helping himself to his whiskey, or
lounging in armchairs in any room
he fancied, or taking the morning
paper before Tim had a chance to
look at it, or turning on the wire
less when the Whim seized him, or
Whistling and shouting about the
corridors, or boisterously playing
about with the housemaid on the
stairs. He made free of Tins
property as he chose.
/ One Sunday afternoon after
lunch Tim, who had been intend
ing to drive to Brighton, found
his car was missing. He learned
from the boy that "Mr. Adams and
a gentleman" had taken it. Tim
still had some shreds of self
respect left. "Oh, yes, of course,
I forgot" he said to the boy. ct
told Adams he could take it yes
terday." It was one Of Adams
lpublic-house cronies, no doubt, as
Adams himself did not drive.
The car had not returned by the
time Tim went to bed that night,
and next morning he found it in
a dreadful condition-splashed all
over with. mud, a bent mudguard,
and a dent in the radiator. You
might at least have asked me if
you wanted the car" he ventured
to protest when he saw Adams.
Sorry, must have slipped my
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BY DIR. ALVIN e. BELL

BY DIR. ALVIN e. BELL
(The International Uniform Lesson
on the above topic is the quarterly
temperance lesson and is based on
Rom. 1924; l Cor 6:9-1; Gal. 5:16-24,
the Golden Text being Gal. SIS,
walk in the Spirit, and we shall not
fulfill the lust Of the flesh.")
THE DRINK problem is by no
means a modern problem as may be
seen in Faults references to it in this
lesson at Rome, Corinth and Galatia.
Such modern devices as the auto
mobile and industrial machinery may
give added physical hazards 70 it, but
in it's moral and spiritual perils there
is little change from age to age.
Its Attendant Ills.
The attendant social evils of intern
perance should lie seriously consider
ed by any who are inclined to view
lightly the problem of intemperance,
for Paul puts it in decidedly bad COM
pany: "Revelling and drunkenness,
chambering and wantonness, strife
and jealousy (Prof. Moffatt's trans
lation says "revelry, bouts, drinking,
debauchery, sensuality, quarrelling,
jealously") Again Paul puts drunk
enness in this company in his letter
to Corinth as translated by Prof. Moi
fatt: make no mistake about it;
neither the immoral nor idoloters nor
adulterers nor catomites nor the lust
full nor the drunken nor the abusive
nor robbers will inherit the realm Of
Cod" If drunkenness opens the door
to the incoming of such filthy litter
as are here enumerated we should
beware of indulging any appetite
which may fasten upon us habit at
tended bv SO many offensive and de-
structive vices.
Paul's remedy for these social evils
was positive, Constructive and for
native rather than negative destruc-
tive and reformatory. He would pre-
vent evil i3y implanting good, put off
evil by putting on good: "The night
is far spent, and the day is at hand;
LET us therefore cast off the works of
darkness, and let US put on the arraor
of light. Put we on the Lord Jesus
Christ, and make not provision for
the flesh, to fulfill the lusts thereof"
Turn on the light and it will take
care of the darkness. Il say, Walk
by the Spirit, and We shall not fulfill
the lust of the flesh" We are not to
follow the path of least resistance.
doing the things suggested by our
Tbasest impulses, but fight against
these baser inclinations. we are not
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Contrasts Noted
In Women's Group
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NNOIiIluC0u ~rOu1 ( age CH0J
the sharp contrast in which they
stood to one another.
No two were alike in appearance,
in delivery, in tone OF voice, or in
thought. Yet all are Democrats and
all, ostensibly at least, will work to-
gether for the party's success.
The takers were Mrs. w. B. Muir
ply, North Cardinals State vice chair
man; Mrs. T. 1nlas E. McAllister, of
M chigan, dir tor of the woman's di-
vision, Democratic National Commit
tee; Mrs. Mae Thompson Evans a
North Carolinian, and Mrs. McAllis-
ters assistant; U. S. Senator Josiah
w. Bailey, Governor Clyde R. Hoey,
Congressman Frank Hancock, now a
candidate for the Senate seat of Rob
ert r. Reynolds.
Mrs. McAllister tyrified unqualified
endorsement of the New Deal and all
its works. She praised the wage and
hour bill, which has the backing of
President Roosevelt and proclaimed
that the only way opponents of the
Administration can win is by "pro-
paganda."
Senator Bailey's address was in gen
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memory" was the grinning reply
"Anu :. :..-,.:.t nave cleaned 1t,
Tim added. Look at the state
you've left it in" Adams shook
his head. mot my job any long
err" he said. whats a garage
for, anyway"
It seems that streak Of sad
ism. ALWAYS latent in the man, had
been brought to full flower by lack
of occupation. Adams became
even more vicious in his persecu-
ton of Tim, let pass no opportu-
nifty of causing him humiliation
and chagrin.
It was not long before he be-
came aware Of his victims degen-
Grafton; the matter gave him
something to think about, and he
started on new line. He came
into the dining room one morning
as Tim was fiddling with his
breakfast, and sat down at the
table.
Look here, my lad" he said.
"It's time had a word with you.
What d'you think you've been
playing at lately?"
Tim assumed the mask Of stoical
Indifference with which he always
faced Adams these days.
what are you talking about ?"
he asked.
"Just look at yourself!" ex-
claimed Adams Indignantly. Posi-
lively blear-eyed! Your hair wants
cutting, and your mustache hasn't
been trimmed for a week. You've
got egg on your shirt, and I don't
believe you've washed your neck
this morning. You certainly
haven't shaved. What are your
patients going to think Of you?"
That's my business" Tim NUT
tered.
Its my business, too, Ken
nedy, and don't you make any mis-
take about that. Do you think
people are going to a dentist who
can't even keep himself clean?
You'll lose your practice if you
don't pull yourself together pretty
sharp, and then where shall I be?
Understand, this has got to stop,
and no mistake about it. You're
on the booze too, aren't you?"
""You ought to know the symp-
TOMS"
II don't want any lip from you,
my boy. What you need is a
nursemaid. l see ! shall have to
take you in hand myself. Well
start right away. What times
your first appointment 2"
Half past g."
well, you've got about 20 min.
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DEAD RECK0NIN G(!!.::!:
copYcr BY BRUCE HAMILTON
BY BRUCE HAMILTON

utes. Finish your breakfast, run
upstairs, wash and shave yourself
properly, and change your shirt.
And you're to go to the BARRIERS
this evening. 1 think that'll do
for the present"
From that moment Adams as
sumed an almost complete physi-
cal dominion over his former en-
ployer. He took an evident relish
in his self-appointed task of keep
ing Tim up to the mark, and he
contrived to execute it in as bru-
tai and humiliating way as pos
sible.
Every morning, before Tim was
allowed to have his breakfast, a
kind Of inspection took place. The
unhappy dentist was made to
stand up, and his clothes, his
shoes, his hair, his teeth, his
fingernails, were all examined.
with the hostile and exigent
scrutiny of a martinez on the
parade ground.
Tins apathy was not proof
against the modification of this
daily Calvary. He began to take
grip on himself in sheer self
defense. At the end of a week he
was almost as spruce as of old.
but by this time Adams had Just
warmed up to the fun of the game,
and he did not relax his vigilance.
He even evolved another means
of turning the knife in the wound.
With the same virtuous aim Of
making Tim into a good citizen
again, he deprived him of his chief
source of consolation. He caused
all the alcoholic drink in the house
to be placed in the dining room
sideboard, and took charge of the
key.
The William and Mary and
other houses in town were put out
Of bounds, Tim was made to report
at certain fixed hours, when his
person was searched for CONTRA
band liquors. In mitigation,
Adams doled out modest ration
at dinnertime, and sometimes, per-
haps when his usual victory at bill
lizards made him feel magnani-
nous, he conceded nightcap.
Certainly this tyranny did Tim
a certain amount of good. When
away from Adams he was affected
by the suggestion of decent and
respectable appearance; at times
he felt almost like his old self.
Some of his confidence returned.
Possibly Adams was building
more than he knew.
ITO Re Continuedl
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Potomac Flood Receding
AS Cold Wave Comes I'm

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into the automobile taking him tc
the Forsyth city, Mr.. Coan said he
did not at that moment have any
statement at all to make.
He thereupon proceeded to express
his great qualification" at the MI
merous expressions of confidence he
has received from many of his friends
and at the urgings Of many that he
stand for the Senate.
IS am seriously con lido ing the
NATTER he added, "But I have no
announcement to make today and do
not know when / will make one"
Of course there is the possibility
that Mr.. Coan is not allowing to pass
unembraced an opportunity to bask
in the sun of publicity. He may not
have any serious intention of tossing
his hat into the senatorial ring but
his whole manner and Geneanor was
that of q youngstsr OH tho bank Of
a creek in early spring. lie would like
the best in the world to jump in, but
is afraid the waters q bit too cod for
comfort
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Coan Might Enter
Race Al Any Time

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profiteering, hold down prices, equal
lie the burdens of war and assure a
united front behind the lines.
"The American Legion sponsors IT.
The War Department favors it. The
military affairs committees of both
houses Xxx x are Goth behind it.
What we need today is law with
teeth in it with stringent penalties
for violation to become effective up
on the declaration of war that will at
tack the two evils Of initiation and
excess profits and minimize the pos
sibilities of their ruinous effects"
'sNow is the very time to enact pro-
per legislation" he continued. I'm
time of war hysteria and haste may
warp our judgment. Today we can be
calm and deliberate and give reason
and logic full control
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gahela and Allegheny, probably z..,,,
reach a crest of ~ fee at noo "ould
Lhey predicted The fist 0ctobor
nigh waters in the city's history T n.y.
baby would overflow sections ~ I'.o
lying streets and flood cellars WV wv,
river front homes. 'nu
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yesterday to ward off threatening
waters.
Across the river at Fidgely, w. Va,
at least $50 residents were prepared
to return to their homes they left
last night when flood waters swept
into them For the night they sought
shelter in a school house and several
highland residences.
At Hancock, Md, several miles
downstream, State police reopened a
t,ridge that had been closed yesterday
when they expected the town to be
isolated by flood waters. Normal traf-
fic was resumed.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1937-10-29

eral a plea for tolerance" within
the party.
eff I differ with others in the party,
they ought not to try to throw me
out, or l will try to throw them out,
and the Republican will vim