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FOUR ' ' '.'.r THE MORNING STAR; WILMINGTON, N. C.i .WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921., max thk nl llMT nAII.T 1ST NORTH 'CAROLIXA" P.hH.hed livery Moralag tke Yer Pr MINGTOVKSTAU COJ1PAWY. 1 UmjWM Srrt-Wilmiiitm. North ;CoIIm . ' Entered at the Postofflce at Wilmington, N. C, at Second Class Matter. - Editorial Buslnes Office TclhoAeai ;i. - ........ ?o- ...... ....No. 61 s l lis ciiiiTi6if "rates by cJLkbi&A One lear Blxiilonths .. Thrfee Months On Mouth . KA feUUSCfUPTlOltf RAWS BY MAIL -Poatfttfe Prepaid -Daily only One ar I00 BiXfMoiithi ., 2.60 Three llSnths .........'........'1.25 On Month .45 Daily an4 1 Sunday 1.71 .0 iubaferiptiotos Not Accented for Sunday Only Edition klSMBKR OF ASSOCJA'fElJ PRKS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the,ue for , publication of all news credited to-it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tne local news published Herein- All rights of ?re-pub-Uca(ld of special dispatches herein are also reserted. . . . ; ': FOREIGN ADVERTISING OFFICES Utlanta: Candler Building. J. B. KEOUOH Hiyr r k Boston , eM?,, - 225 Flf ta Ave. 21 Devonshire Peoples' Gas Bid. BRYANT. GRIFFITH BRUNSON. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1921. Two Fine Causes i The two causes which were yesterday presented for the co-operative interest of the Rotary Club deserve the community's warm and, generous sup port The Y. M. C. A. and the Hospital are both - agencies Incalculably significant and ' beneficial. The work ol the former Is perhaps better known, ' because it is more closely in touch with the cur rents of our common life. The service which it renders s palpable. It builds and rebuilds men and boys in a fashion and under conditions which strike the public eye. Its claim is therefore the more easily enforced. It asks for so little that it should meet with the moBt eager responsiveness, By the very nature of its work, by the fact that Its performance is partly technical and certainly largely removed from the wayfarer's Interest, the 'Hospital has greater difficulty in setting forth its requirements, no less valid than those of the Y. M. C. A., no less fraught with profound values for the community. And yet, though it is asking for ten times the amount sought by the other in stitution, It should find in the public heart and the public purse a no less hearty recognition of 'its manifest needs. The Hospital has grown from' a small beginning to its present large proportions through the. beneficence of individuals and not .through public furids. As a matter of fact, the amounts received from the city and the county have not been sufficient to cover the actual cost of taking care of the indigent poor. This loss has contributed to the deficit' which stares the direc- ' tors in the face: To pay its indebtedness of thirty "thousand dollars, to build an adequate and attrac tive nurses home, to provide-enlargements in ' keeping with hospital' and medical progress, the people of Wilmington are now called upon to sub scribe a hundred thousand dollars. The Hospital authorities v realize that a period of business de. pression is not a good time for raising funds for Buch ah object. But they are confronted with, an emergency, and they; feel that -the community, as, a whole should help them carry the burden. -V . The Star has no doubt that our people of '.this; city will recognize this obligation; We havoo doubt that, in spite of hard times Wilmington will answer this summons even to thd point of self-;; sacrifice.. For this is the cause of the stricken and" helplessKvthis i ,the cry of the bitterly unfortu-, nate.; This is arming ourselves against the rav ages 'of disease. ;;This Is the task of healing and purging and making strong. To such an appeal, Wilmingion must surely' make the-response of the ready hahd and' the comforting heart. o - - . ,iThe International Silk Show That1 "the most beautiful industrial exposition ever., attempted" is being held "in New York this week id Evidence of this country's great strides in the production' and consumption of silk. In farty fiviyers, thevUnited Stated ias gone from $1,000, 000 to ,$450,000,000 In; its Importations of the ex quisite; material. It is therefore id a position to offer an. exhibit of "five thousand years of silk his tory. ;,At this .exposition there may be seen every thing"' front ancient objects to mbdern motion pic-, uws making ital the romance of silk. ' n One can not but wonder what' those bold travel . Irs who ss5aght :tnS East ik the West and were dis ippbinted would say about this triumphant dis play in.a land. far. f rom ,the . India they hoped to see. A close industrial relationship between East and .Weatis the result of the demand for silk, pro duced and prepared in the Orient for the great mills of the Occident Because of this fact, Great ;BritainV Japan and China are represented at the . exhibition by commissions, thus helping to weave Jnto,the international bond a strand of silk r? . - -o " Democratic Best Minds" t- Dehiocrats re-Orgaiilzing ; their party ought to .ask7" "UK " ittrdiflefs opinion . touching, the "best Winds'! witiilh their ranks..- Jfe has already given ' . some -'intimation 'of th sort of bemocrats he con siders thuB tntellectuaily "equipped. He has se . lecled'to ' confer with nini' aboit 4 substitute t6r the league Mr. Bryan, Senator ' Reed, and ex-am- . bassadon Gerard, a trinity, consisting of two men who during the last campaign did nothing for the IHnjo.cratii ; ticket, ajjd onewhp is not known to havoverwOrked- himself sfor it. t r 4 HsisSxyliii ealls.upon Mr,:,Hardlng, Mr. Harding', call; upon Mr. , Bryan Thus l Florida, is made ,. "sunbien Jhus Mn.Bryaa Is designated the leader " Pf thi oppositiott. partyv OthAt avail are all these flings tt Mr Harding ion the jgcore of his in capacto to select a. cabinet? Hehag been devoting .hlmVilf 'to'the task ot providing for the leaderless pemderais , a - shining vhea4 ; and' an" ;incorriglble fronts? Standing before the . shrine of - Gamaliel, tet ilkood Democrats join Iq the1 hymn. "GenUe Shepherd, tell, m.where., ; - Foch and Lloyd George v Maurice Leon-, writing itt the1 Review (of Reviews; ' discredits. a dispatch . appearing, recently .in a metropolitan paper to the effect that Lloyd George shies ? at jVevery communication received,:, from ; France signed ,.FoChi" This . he conceives, to j be German propaganda, because n March, 1918, when the enemy's star seemed again in the ascendant, ,tt. was - the English -Premier who -made possible -Allied unity; of cdmma'nd under Foch.iv -k. 4V More water passeth by the mill than wots the "miller of tioyd "" George," however" higfi may be : his: opinion of the, Marshal's military talent, has uhquesUOiIablyrbeen made restive ;by F6chfs .pai : ticipation in the diplomatic tests which have been going ' on -between England and France. At the ; recent meeting of the Supreme Council, the ex Generalissimo is said to have become affronted by Lloyd George's off-hand manner and caustic utter ances. . Thus, spme proposals submitted by Foch touching the enforcement of the treaty were char acterized' .'as$'soldier diplomacy. At a certain stage in -the proceedings, the Premier exclaimed, "I see, that the Marshall is not only an illustrious soldier, but he has vast ideas bh the political situ ation in general." The story goes that he later apologized for the outburst, saying that he was very nervous. But it has been known for some timfe that what he calls "military meddling" has been rubbing Lloyd George the wrong way. At . several of the ' conferences, ' it has "been evident that Foch's insistence upon extreme measures in bringing Germany to a fulfillment of the exact terms of the Versailles treaty has been anything but welcome to Lloyd George. Thelatter, under the pressure of public opinion at home, has moved far away from the sternness which marked his attitude prior to his election late in 1918. 11 He. is now for modification of the drastic com mitments; which he helped to incorporate in the treaty. He now finds the presence of the military note irritating in negotiations which he believes more certain to be fruitful If the sword is kept in the background. Having deeply aggrieved the Marshal, he is now likely to be freed of the an noyance which Foch's will has imposed upon him. ; o ; . "Woman Suffrage in Japan The women of Japan are beginning to evince their rdesfre for political self-expression. It is significant that a bill has been introduced in the House, of;-Representatives ipoking to the abroga tion of an ancient htw prohibiting women from joining political associations or attending political meetings. The Tokio measure does not involve suffrage, but it is nevertheless more revolutionary than OUr own Susan B. Anthony amendment. The possibility of granting so much freedom to Jap anese'women is regarded as a great step in the direction of complete emancipation, a development now maae conceivable by the success of the American women. The presentation, of this bill destroys many of our conventional ideas touching Japanese women. They are no longer tradition-bound. We find them using with great skill arguments advanced by their Occidental sisters for (the, extension of po litical rights and responsibilities. The leaders in the movement have carried on a campaign among the politicians, a Tokio correspondent to the New York Times writes, and at the discussion of the bill presented an address which stated that "to makd women better wives and mothers5 abolitloh of the regulation is imperative." There are still, no-doubt, more women in Japan like poor Butter fly than those who would choose the modern way. But the mere fact of the existence of independent political interest among women argues a great change in the civilization of the East. The Railway Dispute The President rightly declined to be drawn"into the rariway wage controversy. He could not con sistentiy take the matter Out of he hands of the Labor Board, where it has been placed by the law. He could not furthermore strike a blow at the principle of industrial negotiation. The Trans portation Act clearly defines; the jurisdiction' of ' the interstate Commerce Commission and the Rail road 'Labor Board with reference to the questions upon' which ; the President's intervention was sought To have interfered with the functioning of either body would have been an unjustifiable and unwise usurpation of authority, as well as the virtual setting" aside of a measure approved, as the President said, "to a greater extent than any previous legislation." To have denied to the 'Labor Board the free play of its discretion and judgment upon the very matter it was established to adjudicate would have been tantamount to a reversal of President Wilson's consistent policy with i.tespct to the settlement of industrial disputes. " i .-'':.' ' The' railroad companies have the bpvpor trinity to show what extraordinary costs have been imposed upon them by . the national agreements. sThey can reveal thevice" of applying hationwidl rules with out reference to varying conditions. At the same time, the workers can present their side before a tribunal in the composition of which they are rep., resented and the personnel of which they must surelyfind Unobjectionable. ' : ; ; ; " 'r: V - ere ls the utmost need for a speedy ruling. The most vital interests of railroads and workers are Involved in a quick decision. The burdens' of ; the one group should be made lighter, the rights of the; other Should" be protected.;.-But this is no time for dawdling, "and certaiiaiy no time" for rigidity: The hour, ;forjimaking.. concessions has come: A Still Without a Cabinet ' . . Mr. Harding's quiet meditations oh a houseboat have not evolved a cabinet. He has returned, to St. Augustine. 'with a no less' tentative lifet than that which he carried , away from Marion. As a ; matter of fact, the composition of the cabinet' is now apparently, more indenite, than it ever was. New "possibilities ale being Wmed " Even Mr. Hughes seems to be approaching the discard. Mr. Harding has rejected so many outstanding men, people are beginning wonder if he ; hai not ex hausted, his opportunity . to surround himself with worth-while personalities. It is reported that Republican leaders are vastly t - 1 ! little likellhoooVthat truly big men will care to ac-, cept appointments 'which have . come to. them by default, ?The. ihevitabla result of Mr. Harding's tactics is that he will have to build his cabinet out of second-rate people. - Thus weakness would reign supreme in Washington. " -V-,-...' o ' : Contemporary Views SOCIAL REFORM IN RALEIGH i ' ' , Charlotte Johserveri The idea seems to have occurred to some of the mothers in Raleigh, as in dicated in, the One Minute columns, yesterday, that failure to exercise the motherly influence might Ji aye f somewhat to do with undesirable con ditions in the social circles there, as undoubtedly it has to do with these conditions in every town in the country. They have resolved, therefore, that they will maintain a motherly eye over the course of their daughters. They have resolved not: to allow the young people to go but at night without a "conscientious" chaperon; they will stand between their daughters and the young man "who drinks"; they will Insist upon modesty, in dress; after wthet manner, ot the father who stops cmnlflTl cr tVl a f Tu oof a rmrA svimnla frr hie Vinv thee Raleigh mothers will refuse to play cards for Popportfy tJ" obtain yi iz.es auu win aiivi w HU yri&U cai vi-yiay nig iu their homes; they will do all in their power to prevent indecent dancing and going to objection able moving pictures.7' , The campaign for improv ing social conditions.4n the capital city appears to have been formally launched and the public may expect the movement thus, inaugurated ta be taken up by the women's auxiliaries in other cities, as such ' movements generally are. SIDNEY LANIER'S BIRTHPLACE Charleston. News and Courier: The Macon Telegraph of Friday brings the pleasant news that Sidney .Lanier's birthplace is not to bede- strayed as at one time seemed likely. "The con troversy which has been raging about the little gray cottage on High street," says the Telegraph, "was stilled yesterday. At the Rotary luncheon in eelebration of the,poet's birth, Dr. Frank Jones, president of the. club, ' made the announcement which cleared away the doubts And. fears of .La nier's friends and relatives. Mrs. B. Sanders Walker, the present owner , of the historic house, had given him authority to say that she had no idea of allowing any change to be made. The an nouncement was greeted with warm cheering by all present." " Some day Sidney. Lanier is going to be recog nized as one of the really great poets not only of America but of English literature. Indeed, there are signs that recognition is coming to him swift ly, for his fame has been growing rapidly within the recent past. Macon will not regret that her citizens have taken the trouble to preserve , the little gray cottage on High street. A time will come when thousands will visit that shrine. .SHOULD WOMEN PREACH I The Columbia State: The State presents this short epistle from one of its readers to the other members. of the family thereof: "MK" Editor: Iu the complaint of women that they do not receive equal pay for equal work is a flavor of reason. They will never get justice till all the professions and trades are open to them. It is hlh time, for instance, that their exclusion from the pulpit come to an end. I can not argue the Scriptural side of the question but the practi cal side of it is that artificial protection extended to preachers from the competition of women tends to make the pulpit poor in talent. A salary of $1, 800 a year would attract a woman of mentality and education equal to those or men Who get $2,500 or $3,000. While brilliant preachers are still to be had, is it not true that comparatively few yoiing' men of unusual intellectual gifts are entering ihe ministry In these times? It seems to me that the preachers of this day do not measure to the aver age" intellectual height of their predecessors of 40 years ago. If we can not have men of first class minds for preachers, perhaps w,e cbuld get women. Then, if the churches, learned from expedience that men, because they are men, are prefferrable to women in the pulpit, perhaps they would offer in ducements that would cause abler men to enlist in clerical . ranks." Some Of the churches adznit women to the pulpit and, undoubtedly, the drifj.-isJn .that direction. The State, being old-fashioned, ;an.d 'reactionary," if you please, holds to the-ppjnjfln that the proper place for women to preachy ort and reprove, is in the home. " Daily IjAiitorial Digest " The whole question concerning- the German:; indemnity, , says .jttie '.Newark News (Ihd.), is that which" Was . raised two ; ' thousand year's airo by; Adam's first son .wH'en Cain 3 Said. tl,utit6 : the Lord: "My punishment is 'greater, than I can bear," and the majority, of Anier 'ican newspapers;' while they make.no effort t6 igrnoje the mark of Cain, seem pretty well agreed'.tliat the Allies. have loaded Germany , with: more than' the traffic can carry. For vthe proposed export ta there,, is alra&s jjo praise whatever, even, from those, who think . the reparations Just. ; . ' A unique view is presened by ,tfie Washington. Post. ,.Clnd.), which be lieves, that .the Allied ;-demands will work out , to . .Germany's advantage, negatively because there is dka - ad vantage to ; Germany , in the. allied oc cupation 'If., the . country," -, and..! sec ondly, because Sunder: the reparations plan they can well afford to take the load of debt and sturdily march for feiture? since "the credit abroad is worth.all that Germany -will be called upon to pay." The . Kansas- City Star (Ind.), not altogether sentimentally, demands: , ii - "Why is 'it unreasonable to ask Ger many to pay annually ' an amount which 4s only a" fraction jof what other nations are : having to pay on her ac count, and which is not mnch more than half as much as the French peo ple must pay in taxes, tql.-raeet inter est on the sumraised to. repel the Ger man invasion?" ,: . j t. That the period iof-.forty-two years of payments "is long and hard" the Pittsburg Sun (DemO grants, but re calls to its readeirs that "it is fair to remember that it nearly parallels : the period wherein the German people paid our tremendous sums annually ; in preparation for the war they have lost." "Just" is the comment of the Buffalo Express (Ind. Rep,), with which, the Syracuse Post-Standard (Rep.) agrees, though ii suggests that "the wisdom of -imposing ,a 12 'per cent tax on exports is doubtful." The New; York Post (Ind.) and the New York Tinies (ind.' Dem.) go a step fur ther. To the latter .the AlUes propo sition Is "reasonable,"; "but for y the crass folly" of the tax; and the whole plart, the forrrier 'thinks, would "have been accepted without criticism" ex cept for s thkt unfortunate . feature. -f Many writers feel that the duty on exports has made ' the ' plan futile, for they believe, with the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot (Ind. Dem.) that it woiild, "if imposed, tend to defeat the very ends of reparation." The Johnstown Democrat (Detn,). adds: - . , "An ad valorem tax on exports will make It certain that-the re will be no expotrs. If there are no exports Great Britain's commercial fortunes are se cure. But and here is the other side of the question" !-if there are no ex ports Germany cannot pay France." The Hartford Times (Dem. J con demns this idea as "worse than ridic ulous" since it would force the debtors to finds"sroe hitherto undiscovered means of producing gold," and the New York Globe (Ind.) asserts that because of "the interests of the Allied rouhtries" it will have to be modified sooner or later. The effect of . the tax-upon American trade is not overlooked by the com mentators and . the Springfield Repub lican (Ind.) remarks that "to say that the proposal should interest American business men is to pait the case very moderately." The Brooklyn -VEftgle (Ind. Dem.) echoes this- thOught and adds that among other "fallacious fea tures" of Allied policy operating fat the expenSe'of American interests" - is the fact that it would "control our own financial relations" with Ger many.,. :" ' ; . Considering the 'demands of the al lies as a whole, the St. Loufs.- Post Dispatch (Ind.) finds them exhibiting a "lack of good faith, statesmanship and sound judgment on the part of the premiers" and Vitiated with politics, revenge . and . ruthless greed." The Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.) complains that the Allies have not considered that, they are confronted "with a fact and not a theory" and adds that "al most v any " economist conversant with Europe kriog that Such a sum as 56 billions is nothing short of prepos terous." v.f On the same hypothesis the Minnesota 'Star (Ind.), from the same city, finds the indemnity terms "ab surd." The Chicago Tribune (Ind. Rep;)u does not think the : premiers "have any idea that Germany will, pay the amount in the long run,", nor that "she can be compelled to pay it," and the Columbia IS. C.)' State (Dem.) re marks that it has1 already "'become evi dent that these plans will not meet the approval of the several allied nations." The St. liOUis Star (Ind.) likewise thinks it "inconceivable" th&t a policy which it attributes to the "blind obsti nacy of France" and which would "wreck Europe" "Will "receive" inter national suppqrt." It says: . -'Fifty billion dollars can no more be collected from Germany than it can be picked up -in the beams of " the mooiu . The demand for auch a sum is equivalent to refusing, to fix the size of the indemnity at all. . The in demnity must fall upon the present generation of Germany. Collection from the next generation means war." ' iiDou biting that France ever hopes that her defeated enemy will pay, up, the St. Paul PioneerPress (Ind.) sug gests that she expects .'to "hold the Rhineland. forever" and that "it is( mbre territory, : and not money," that sh.e really- want iThe Sioux City (la.) Journal- (Ind.),- thinks the terms "too ,severe" and believes "they should be Seintitar," ahd the Memphis News tSlmitar ' (Intl.) considers $58,600000, 000' to be a sum "which Germany-can-hot possibly pay and doubtless will not attempt to pay." The Petersburg (Va.) Imlex-Appeal (Ind '-tempers a, similar sentiment with the; 'condition unless Germany 'suffered far less from the war and ts far better off economically than1 anything" established concerning her present condition." Instead of a step toward final read justment of Europe's 'financial tangle, the- Ithaca . Journal-News (Ind.) sees things worse than .ever for" "the Su preme Council does "nbt settle the rep arations, question . but rather "it 'opens,. the- way, for more na?rottations and wrangling and' further'jaelay," "" c vvauce treaty in . si million tons., makes IC I against, the foreign ,?r0T sw..l lesa German, lines, althouVi, Ne,enA 000 tons of deep sea S'mM South American and Afrirn ne" 1 Norwegian Dutch. Danish ? harbors. . "Ish ;,nd ine American line, a m,.ml International CViPrr,;, ' .11l,Pr of u pany (the Atlantic shipping n" leased the whole berth,' S, trust. hi, tion, of the. Ross port cnia,,'''"lni0li. years. The Royal .Mail c' for :: also,., according to tl1e TacTi i"1' icoiiuiiucui, leasea ouav a tion, and negotiations with ,u0nimola line, a-Dutch iir,o tn the CUn shipping enterprises ar in 0rei?5 As a result of this rush ,?r( shipping business to the k tu0reif) bor space of HamburK is b" "e uuwueu. ui; The Konher Shin nuns aim warenouse room k,,. B refused, and althoueh quarto ' 1 l u war organizations ' luctantly been evacuated tho'n,.!ere surfers frnm n-ant nt '"'i s that he whole sea and river te the RlhA frnm Cun r lraffic k C11IUW i i .rV "wo wf'ter s.:! ' SENSIBLE 'SUGGESTION Louisville Courier-Jo urn afcy The suggestion of Owen O. Wlard, a former detective, that no one convicted of crime be paroled or pardoned "unless a board of psychologists has determined that he is i mentally normal, free from hereditary disease and criminal tendencies" Js sensible. Criminologists may disagree as to how, the nor mality of a convict seeking pardon , or parole should-be determined. That it is wrong, costly, dangerous, criminally negligent, to turn at large Individuals who will in all probability return to crime, all sincere students of the problem of crime must agree. Inasmuch as indeterminate sentence laws In many states ignore the question which the former detective twOuld have settled before letting prison ers loose to resume their -criminal activities new legislation would have to be enacted. That too many paroles and commutations and pardons now operate id increase crime, at enormous expense to the taxpayers, to say nothing of the injury of. in nocent victims of discharged criminals, is plain. We dcr not: convict as many of the guilty as we should convict. The percentage of convictions of persons arraigned Is ample proof of the fact. The American percentage is much lower than that of many European countries, especially in arraign ments for homicide. That a great deal of crime Is due directly to the low percentage of convictions and the vast volume of pardons, paroles, commu tations js every where, observable. , . ...What Mr. Wiard terms "the surge of misguided sentimental ism" is everywhere apparent, it op erates not only to defeat efforts to convict the guilty, but also, to put upon statute books Jaws which, as administered, promote crime oftener than they reform criminals. WHIPPING THE BANDITS - ;;- Winston-Salem Journal Delaware is expected to be unusually successful in checking the crime wave, particularly in the case of criminals of the bandit type. Other States are employing long terms Of imprisonment, often the longest terms the law allows, but Delaware Is thow employing the lash jn addition, and if anything can put whole some fear into the hearts of. criminals that will do.it. .Forty lashes for, robbery or attempted rob bery On the highway or in a house, id addition to lqntf terms of imprisonment, will make the des peradoes -C-f that State think-twice before they hold-up a 4man or woman oh the highway or break into a honse and steal. - ; - a - ; - Delaware's whipping post has often; ieen de nounced as a relic of . medieval barbarism, which it undoubtedly Is, and its survival to this day is a remarkable fact. But whether it is approved or disapproved, it isadmlttedly - Effective. Native Delaware .criminals are aaid -tn khr v 1 from flogging and both: they and criminals coming disturbed, by ,;th Presidentelecfs .apparent , in- ref rain from crimkVeSp nosT Now tnat , bandits ' have been placed on the whirS- ability; to ihake tip his mlnd, Thl delay which hati pecur red they consider bad enough but the conse qttence of Mr. HardingV presentation of xeIIgibies only to have tthem .slaughtered by political, inter ests Is held to be even, more "serious. There is ping post list, Delawareans will "sleep at night and wlk loneli roads by day ; witn less apprehension; Whipping may be barbarous, but It seems to beget a respectitor law enforcement that -nothing el&e will in Delaware, -at least!" - ; - : k - - : ... . . . - t ii i a European News and Views , No subject has been -more discussed in the past two years than the League of Nations, yet it Is4 surprising how lit tle most people know about It. ' Has it accomplished anything thus far? Is it on the. way toward further accom plishments? These questions are rais ed and answered by a political com mentator in the French review, Mer pure de France. The writer, speaking of the first as sembly of the League, vof. Nations points out that in spiU of the tele graph, the. telephone ; and the presence of three r' four .hundred journalists, public opinion still remains ignorant as to what .had really been accomplish ed. There was much work done at Ge neva, much good will, and appreciable results but very little enthusiasm. Tho delegates of five continents were , all dressed in European fashion, a recog nition thatKurope .marches at .tho head. 'It was declared publicly that the treaties of peace must be executed as they stand. But-t,he text of the league .must be amended and made more orecise. The fact that China has 4nnoH the leas-ue. the withdrawal obi the Argentine, the reproaches of Can ada to the European statesmen, the si lence of Japan on the question of race equality, the bad temper of India, all this made PJurope realize that. though she marches at the head, she is only one out of five continents. "To give vitality to the league'. says the Writer, "It is absolutely necessary that the United States and Germany (and afterwards Russia) should join.' The amendment commission of the league , is preparing the way for ' the United States. As to Germany, it; is probable that after what has been said at Geneva the question will becom acute-and unavoidable next September. No brilliant intervention of M. Viviani wiir suffice to check' the ever increas ing" strength of the current. Of course it is only Just that the one who breaks the glass should pay for it, but every one knows, from private experience that., there .are damag"ea which cannot be paid. France refused to vote fqr the admission of Bulgaria. This 're fusal is scarcely,, worthy qf. the. policy ot a great hatloii The prestige ; )f France is great, and France is repre sented at Geneva by three great names. The French language is s'tlll more used than English in international assem blies. T3Tkt thai -policy of the-- Fre"nc"h delegation has ' ; caused ' much 'surprise and (disappointment." ,he German dan ger does not explain and'Jtfstify every thlrig.'V ' . .' " "As : to . Germany," continues the; wrlter.v "we mtist;.try to find1 out her ideas .with regard to the League of; Nations.; Certain sentiments are -to be found in- the "resolution voted by the nlnthpaclf fst."1 congress in 'Brunswick, October 2.' 1920;: This resolution was . voted following on a. statement made oy Count Harry von Kessllr on the! principles wmcn uusui iu ue uocu eta the basis of , a, real League of Nafronl. This staterriencontains just criticisi and interesting1' propositions, by .the sidei.pf .pyrelv. J;heortcal; tendencies : Vnat lslroodkiH the"hian relates to the 0 emOcratlcfbasisVof the . league and tbl the representative i jCbjaracer of the council. ; The amendments commission of the league will have to examine it. The plap, ft JeltiSproyed by a doz-i en i large G4rhian Uiocietles .which of course, gives It some importance. But it Jml'sht .be 'as,kea .if : the activity of these assoclatio'ns;' misfht not be "more useful sp; ins another, .direptlon. Before prpposlngi amendments to i thty existing league :it might ibbetterrifqrS.Germans. of -good faith.' tryf'to. tchang the na.- " Uonal ideasx Theywill Vssily see that there Is heed of it. Their Inspirations will be useful later on in the asserri bly. For the present, Germany is too poor to give anything, even advice. - "There can be no doubt about it." continues the Writer, "that just as it Is desirable for all nations to be admit ted to the league the collaboration of labor is also indispensible. Mr. Barnes, !a British delegate, had the courage to declare this categorically. Therefore it is. incomprehensible that the need was not felt, and the means were not found of allowing the director of the international, labor bureau to speak'. This bureau is one of the essential or gans of the league. "There was . too much, of an impression that it was a distinct institution, which was a. great mistake. - "In -such, a huge enterprise, individ ual men disappear and count as noth ing, but tfiere is one who . must be mentioned, for he- was the judicious and courageous instigator of, the as sembly, it was Lord Robert Cecil, the South African delegate. He stood up against the governments as well as against the Utopians and appealed con tinually: to publi opinion. Will pub lic Opinion wake up?. Where are its guides? AH depends upon whether the League- of Nations stops in time meas ures which prevent the social transfor mation, which has begun, and which tends in some way to hasten her steps. It is a great race which is being run; on the European race course much is being put on the revolutionary horse JOttT OP HAMBURG 1BTJSY ,..&The .Hamburg correspondent of the Berliner Tageblatt says tnat that port is now filled' with shipping of all na tions. No fewer than' 6 foreign ship ping lines have resumed sailings to and from Hamburg. Twenty-two British lines have,, re-established their . Ham burg , offices 1 and connections. Eleven Dutch lines have followed suit, and flags of all seafaring nations are to be seen on the Elbe, including those of Portugal and Cuba. ' . German shipping reduced by the war the Elbe from Ciivha,.. . "a v, ,j r.. . c" l" Hamu. oiiuuiu ue piacea under the com a single company. lro1 o The first steamer of the new man-Hamburg-Americ-an combing reaca Germany will be the Mount n 1 15. Originally the Prin, rich,, of the North German Llovrt'' was renamed in America ti1(. f , ' Under her third name of M0Unt f she becomes a Kosher siii,. ii ' to the needs of th vnu. uea'caui xuiian Jew am gTants to America. The meals SP? on hoard will ho . serei . ocxwlcu ana cook m accordance with th , Ki tne , Jewish la w. The port of del!' urn will h rnnlo. aePa" FOtRTH ESTATE FOR PVWv The future friendly relations beti """ u America b lar,i,l "nil tn tho nicno .. , .. .. larSeH i t;c" . .in e oPlll vi Lite JiXliy ie'S It Is certnin lr nmr o.. , . ... j moc, SHys tl, NeWs, that they have it in their nn- 'Y,",uu"' mcoc luiuit relations nr, The peril of the future on both sid II V17- 1-T . , 'gnoranoe vii una oiue. arising out Of sheer w-uiauo i,,u..n:iciiLc iiiiKi'U With !! dice, continues the News, the shadj onii uiqwn irom iu'J-year-old hlstorv on me otner, rrom rniscomprehcnsiQi, wmcn , spring partly from the san,, causes, partly from special factors lik'i the Irish question or the Japanej piuuiem. rrum uiese arise the pnpul?.. ideas entertained by many Enplishm,, of Americans and by many American! ui ausiisumen. ivir. Liarainer has sum. marized the former neatly: "There are two popular ideas of thJ Aiueiijui. : . ve pictures him compr, nenoiyeiy s an aggressive person whi talks through his nose, always oarrloj a six-snooter, lives on cocktails m 'quick lunches, and worships at tht shrine of the. almighty dollar. Tts otner pictures him, equally conum hensively," as a Puritan son of' the pd gnm Fathers, sublimely indifferent persecution, sromantically disinterested, now- breaking: the tyranny of k!nc ahd hbw bursting the bonds of ty slave." And the popular American view England is 'neither more flattering nor more tnue: ' "It sees s as the historic pcrsern i I . f a T . I . - . , . , , iur ul me innocent ana neipiess, a snr of coarse x)gre of a fellow who havi een wnippeu oy tne acw Jincian farmers has nursed a grudge ayain America ever since, and is filled with envy of its independence and proi perity." , So long as. Jhese caricatures arc ni; rent and. pass muster for truth witol any considerable, body of English an Amerfcan opinion, the diplomatists an the preachers and business men and tl- philanthropists labor in vain. Ther can be no sure peace, even if rocks offense were less numerous and dangerous, than they manifestly arc The one foundation for a rertaii peace must be mutual knowledge an understanding. It does not imply a profound interest in each other's do mestic policy. It does not necessitate elaborate knowledge of the infinite i' tail of the American reptililic on tl one hand or the British empire nn tr other both worlds in themselvft What is needed is a pen capable e making.clear through the. mists of pas sion and the fog of indifference tow man in the street, wlietlier in Wnd"! or Chicago, how much they have Ii common, and how very much alike thfT are in aim and thought for all the de ference of space and idiom and tem perament that separates them. " GERMANY AND THE SIX FEIN A writer in the Dcutscher AllAem' Zeitung (Berlin) tries to show that tr English are endeavoring to infiuem' public opinion against the lush mo ment by stating that the Sinn Feinert had organized a conspiracy with o manv. He says: "The English are tryinf this meAns of winlne- out the untaior able imoression which their behavior Ii tho Tristh niiMt.Inn has caused in Amer ica. -'But this maneuver will not H successful. TRINITY WINS ACJVlN oecftal tn The Star) TRINITY COLLEGE, DURHAM. FeJ tory here this afternoon, defeating m University of Florida by me . 49 to 21. Tne nrst nan m , In favor pf Florida, but in the sw Trinity came from behind and scort 36 points to Florida s i. : OF :- on Savings & Trust Co. WHEN YOU CHOOSE A BANK . ' ' .-' " , ' Because of Its Large and growing resources Ample capital and surplus Extreme willingness to serve Spirit pf personal'contact with its patrons Ftiendlyvbanking atmosphere Modern and absolutely safe fjreprjoof building. 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