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The Evening Journal FOUNDED 1«*S THE NEWS-JOURNAL COMPANY (Publlshsrs) Fourth and Shipley Sts,. Wilmington, Delaware. GBOROE CARTER. Editor and Managing Editor. CLEMENT B HALLAM. City Editor. ARTHUR C. DAVIES, News Editor. MISS ELIZABETH M. BULLOCK. Society Editor, CLARENCE J. PYLE. Business Manager. __ CLARENCE C KILLIN' Assistant Business Manager. LEON M. WICKERS HAM, Advertising Manager. _ TELEPHONES : 80 - 81 - 82 - 83 . The various departments may bs private Branch Exchange_ ___ __ -_ STORY, BROOKS * FINI, FIT. Inc., foreign Representatives Pew Yor k. Philadelphia, Chicago, Pan Frandsoe. Loa Angele s Entered at Poslofflce. Wilmington, Deb, as eeoond-class m A Republican Newspaper, published every afternoon, exoept reached through this stands in all the The Evening Journal Is on sale at news principal cities and towns in the State, also fading • i,and« in Philadelphia, New York City and Atlantic Price 2c a copy. _ , , Delivered bv canter ln tt iltnlngton and every town In the State, at twelve cents a week. Mali Subscriptions, J* 09 per Foreign subscriptions, 11- per year. All Subscriptions payable In advance , checks, etc., made payable to The Evening Journal. B0e per month. Jl per month. All money orders. rear: Full and exclusiv« special vrlre daily United Pry snd also full Newspaper KnterprlH« Association rsaiurs »rrvlce, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1923 DEAN SMITH'S ILLNESS EWÄ that Professor E. Laurence Smith. Dean of the University of Delaware, has been stricken by pneumonia has caused a wave of regret to sweep over the State of Delaware, carrying with it from all sides ( the earnest hope that he will recover quickly from the Illness that now besets him. Dean Smith has been for years one of the most popu lar members of the university faculty. That has been especially true with respect to the students, ninety per cent, of them have looked upon him. and still look upon him. as their very good friend and well Possessed of scholastic and executive ability. N Fully wisher. charming personality, sympathetic Impulse, keen Inter est In the general and the personal affairs of ths stu dents, he, during the many years he has been con noted with Old Delaware, has endeared himself to has been largely because of hie rea sonable and helpful attitude toward the students has reached that stage In life In which he has He never forgotten that boys will be boys and girls will be girls; nor has he «ver failed to bo the Big Brother who re joice» with the student In good fortune or eerves as a comîorter In distress. Summed up in a few words, the undergraduates and the alumni love him as it Is the good fortune of tew college officials to be loved, and In this emergency one and all of them wish him well In his fight for a restoration to full health. REMARKABLE RESULTS ATTEND APPEAL ENEROUS response has been mads to the local ap G peal for J20.000 to assist In raising »4,000,000 for At the Initial meet the Palestine Foundation Fund, ing and banquet, hold last evening In the Hotel duPont. »9,500, or almost one-half oY ths total Delaware allol ment, was subscribed. In view of the many urgent appeals for money that have been made to Wllmlngtonlans recently, the show ing made last night was a remarkable one. In short, that th* three-day campaign that Is being con ducted her« will he a pronounced success, thanks to the capable management and the worthiness of the It means, cauee. SELF-HYPNOTISM C lOUE'S most Interesting American patient, to date. 1» A a New Yorker afflicted with » chronlo yawn. Llk. all neurasthenics, ho had kept close tab on himself, and when ho walked Into the Coue cllnlo he announced that on the average he yawned seven times a minute. Referred to us. our diagnosis would have been that he had attended several sessions of Congress. Coue didn't sestn especially concerned about the He "put on his work." The patient became In He sat cause. terested and. hence, naturally quit yawning, through the whole seaelon without a single yawn, but relapsed Into gaping as soon as he walked out. It im probable that this unfortunate hypnotized him self Into a belief that a yawn every eight seconds was Inevitable, Epidemics of Interest In the peychdc. come about every fifty years, after the periodical great war. We're And It's running Its in one of these epidemics now. usual course In Delaware and In every other State. The present stage is interest In self-hypnotism—autosugges Prspare to read and hear a lot about hypnotism tion. within th» next year. Maybe you do not believe in hypnotism. Tell a friend that you have some pre-war îrooch. Give him several drinks. Then confess, brutally, that you bought the stuff from « bootlegger and tried It on the All right. friend to learn if it were wood alcohol. In about thirty seconds the friend will begin feeling symptoms of Wood alcohol poisoning and will rush to a doctor. In a frenzy ot fear caused by self-hypnotism. As Interest in hyprtotlera progresses, attention will veer to catalepsy or suspended animation, ot the type Induced by eelf-hypnotism. The most celebrated case of catalepsy 1» recorded by Hudson in "The Law ot Psychic Phenomena:" The Fakir of Lahore, India, at the request of Run Jeet Singh, allowed himself to be burled alive In an air tight vault for six weeks. His nostrils and ears were plugged with wax. His body was placed in a linen bag. the bag In a locked box, the box in a brick vault. Then the vault was plastered over and officially sealed. A guard of British soldiers stood watch, night and day. At the end of six weeks, the vault was opened by official committee and the Fakir taken out and re stored to consciousness. . This case was observed personallly by Sir Claude Wade, head British official at the court of Loodhlana. Sir Claude vouched for it, and Hudson In his book cites it as one of a number ot scientifically authenticated eases. an Either th« Fakir was self hypnotized Into a state of suspended animation or his audience was hypnotized into believing it saw some thing that did not occur. A dangerous force for a curious amateur to meddle Purely hypnotism. with, you'll agree. YOUR IMPORTANCE OW important are you. In this gigantic system by which humanity Is earning ha living? Conceit is proverbial. But only a very small fraction of us aggerate our Importance. Most of us actually underestimate our Importance. Probably this Is because we return from vacation or an illness to find things going ahead Just as If we hadn't been away. The fact that you can be replaced docs not lessen your importance when you are "on the Job." Thousands of men can run an airplane. However, 'his doesn't detract from the Importance of the pilot SI ex on any given trip. Ask the passengers taking their first flight. A discouraged young Wilmington man, In an agony ot eelf-phy, writes a letter bewailing his "trivial func tion In life." He sees and hears of other men doing "big things." He compares with hin own work, as a tool maker In a machine shop, and decide« that he doesn't amount to much. Young man, you are wrong. Men toiled for thousands 'of years to harness the electricity that drives the motor operating your lathee. Other» toiled for thousands of years to find the pro of making the eteel end iron with whloh you cesses turn wit your finished products. Your work la the culmination of the effort» ot those All that went before vast armies of man of the past, was preliminary. leading up to you. In far-off parta of the world, living men toll to bring to the surface of the earth the Iron ore Whirl» other men make Into the stool which you transform Into tools. Still others toll to bring this steel to you. Another great group'await« your nlshed product». Wllh'out It, they could not do their own tasks. Ahead In the future are the ultimate consumers whose needs you aupply by your daily toll, also the saloemen who depend-on you for something to «ell. Many persons'In Wilmington take street car motor men and conductors as a matter of course—do not attribute to them any great Importance. But when the transportation system Is tied up. the public suddenly realizes the tremendous and indispensable Import ance of the car crews. You see a scrubwoman washing the floors of a Market street office building. In preventing the spread of disease, she may bo as Important as a physician, for she Is an agent 'of the great force of sanitation, the preventive of disease. If you are doing useful work In this world, no mat ter how humble, stand up proudly. For your import ance 1« beyond estimation. PUBLIC AND THE POST LL American postoffices combined in 1922 took In about 1484.863.900 from the sale ef stamps and fees. This was more than twice as muoh as In 1912. Part of the gain Is duo to parcel post. Another fac tor Is that persons are sending and receiving mere mall | than they did ten years ago. Many Delawareans now living can recall when it was a task to write a letter and an event to get one. More mall now, because there's loss secrecy. Also, ws have more to write about than In the past—time« and human fortunes changing swiftly. And to the people of our State It Is a pleasing thought that a Delawarean. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-Gen eral H. H. Blllany, Is playing an exceedingly important part In building up and systematizing this gigantic pos tal business of whloh Americans are so proud. j ! WHAT OP ITS FUTURE? IVE hundred gallons of wine are found by the police FJ when they raid the cellar of G. F. F rasa In Nashua, N. H. Two thousand quarts! The kind of stock a home brewer dreams about. Fossa 1« quoted as saying that he thought Jt ail right to make the stuff as long as It was for Ills own use. He'e not alone. Few home brewers In Wilmington realize that, in making beer or light wines, they are violating the Volstead act as muoh as the keeper of a speak-easy. That part of the law is usually winked at Will the whole prohibition amendment eventually fall Into dis repute and be winked at? Many are dismissing lb as a plausible poesIbIMty, especially along the coasts. It's the nightmare ot the dry forces. IT IS DIFFERENT Up THERE I Can you Imagine American police chasing a wood alcohol bootlegger 1500 mttee? Murder is murder. In Canada, whether the Instrument of death bs a pistol or poison hooch. And the work of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police I In "getting Its men," regardless of time and distance, I N Indian 1» found dead In the Hudson Bay country. The coroner says, "Poison booze." V They bury the Indian. Is that the end of It? Not much! The Royal Cana dian Mounted Police call In Sergeant Fred Syme and tell him to go get the bootlegger. The chase lasts 1500 miles. Syme "gets his man." The suspeot awaits trial. I» what has built up for that organization euch a wonderful name the world over. / NEED A JOB? 'S anybody in Wilmington looking for a Job as book keeper? The Philippine legislature has passed a law that all business accounts In the Islands shall 'be kept In English. Spanish, or one of the Philippine dia lects after January 1. The Islands are full ot Chinese buelness men who are strenuously objecting to the new law, so far without j avail. They claim that the small Chinese merchants I ploying bookkeeper», but the legislature has refused to will be put out of business owing to the expense of em I amend the law. Possibly it may eventuate In several Chinese shops combining to employ one bookkeeper, and Jobs of that sort will bo open. British agriculture 1» reported os suffering severely from tax burdens, »500.000,000 ot which go annually for unemployment relief. Soon after the war the Brit ish government adopted the policy ot distributing cash doles out ot the treasury to the unemployed. It 1« a pernicious practice and has brought no permanent re lief; on^the contrary It has greatly retarded the recon struction of the country, not only financially but in In dustry and agriculture. In the United States the un employment problem has been completely solved with out a cent of money appropriated from the Treasury for the direct relief of the unfortunates. Constructive Republican legislation, coupled with sound executive policies, have done for this country what hundreds of millions of dollars have failed to achieve for Great Britain. j There have been many definitions of Jazz but our ! Now that President Harding has made Irvin 8. Cobb a major, what foreign foe would dare to threaten us IVit/i the Paragraphen idsa Is that It Is noisy music.—Dallas News. wlth war?—Boston Globe. The Yale News declares Yale Is absolutely satisfied with what Coach Tad Jone« Is giving Yale and Yale football. So are Harvard and Princeton.—Worcester Telegram. G£MS OF TllOVGllT The men who assail politics are unable to be poli ticians. Everybody prides himself on being a Judge of human nature. A philosopher's best philosophy concerns the trou bles of others—sot his own. The difference between a girl's silly giggle and her silvery laughter 1» In your own age. Dimcouragement sits lightly upon the shoulders of the young—which Is the reason they are young. Enemies Linked Together (From the Washington Post) Before the echo of the bugles has died away there are reports from n ... . , _ . , . the Ruhr and from Paris which In dlcate that the French government Is beginning to feel some doubt as to -the efflcaoy of force in compelling a neighbor to cooperate In fulfilling a treaty. Premier Poincare has thrown an anchor to windward by suggest Ing that perhaps the Ruhr occupa Hon will not yield valuable results for some time to come. Hints that the French area of cocupatlon will ho extended tend to confirm the Idea that the more France presses with force the more Germany will ev^de her obligations under the treaty. Reports of refusal of the Germans to cooperate In making the Ruhr mines productive to France are now followed by rumors of Im pending strikes and walkouts. An other item of dark portent Is that which reports that French money may have to be provided to pay workers In the Ruhr area. The resulting from cur-I complications renry troubles may be so baffling as, to defeat the purpose of the French j occupation. Coincident with these the news from Paris that the French | government Is preparing to offer a plan to the reparations commission 1 reports Is he French j providing for a moratorium to Gcr- j many. The plan contemplates the Issuanee of an internal loan of gold | marka to stabilize the currency and to make reparations payments dur- | ing the moratorium. Other features I ot the plan are calculated to appeal ! The obvious purpose j to Germany. of this move Is to Induce the Ger- : mans to cooperate with France, In] the Ruhr and elsewhere, now that | France has possession ot the coal j fields. Thus, by threats and by promises, , Editorial Opinion CANDIDATES IN t, 8. | A valuable contribution to the dis cusslon of college entrance require monts has been made In a pamflet j Issued by Dartmouth College desorlb- ' Ing the elective process for admis- 1 elon for the year 1121. ) u Is one ot the Dartmouth prln-| olp'.es that character and personality are Important qualifications for ad mission. While recognizing that high intellectual ability 1« Indispensable and that low Intellectual ability ren ders the candidate undesirable the SELECTING COLLEGE From the New York Tribune. college be.levee that after the Into - lootual fitness has been satisfactorily decided "positive qualities of char acter, wide range of interests and capable performance in school aoflvi-' ties should operate as determining ! factors in selection." I Thero le nothing especially new 1 about this thesis. It Is one of the ; important qualification. In , h e Rhodos scholarship selections. In the past m.ny colleges and ualversl ties have been aconstomed to require | references from school principals . . .. - and from friends. But most of them • , ««-»„„a reference, have beep purely per un* tory and have rarely had much la- ' fluence upon th« s.leotlon of cand - j dates. Dartmouth, however, follow ing the exemple of Columbia, has devised rating blanks to be filled Jn , . - , , , , _ . I by the school principal and by a ' . . ',_ ,'to friend cf th© randld\te known to the i .. ... % .. ,1 college authorities. In them «tien qualities «« Industry faithfulness. [ straightforwardness, clesn-mlnded flna »fhonl spirit figure promi nently. Although the blanks have «ho unsatisfactory variations that, Bny rating system »hows, they yet i afford a more complete Indication of - the Individual's personality and | character than used to he obtained In' from the old formal letters of recom- 1 mendatlon. I j Dartmouth also insists upon cer tAln geographical requirements anq favors a distribution partly In ac corffance w T lth the professions * n occupations of the parents, with a I view to making special provisions j for men requiring financial aid. T o those Interested In the broadest ■ j j Inspect of college entrance require ment«, however, the qualifications ot character and personality are the j most Interesting. clentt flexible to keep out undeslra-| hie or unworthy men and yet place . no restrictions upon any group, race 11 or class. Theso are suffi THE WRONG METHOD. From the Milwaukee Sentinel. Members of the New York Molly Pilcher Club gave a sorry' exhlbl-l lion when they Indulged in hissing because President Harding refused ...... to throw the prestlsro of hl» hi*h offlee Into the agitation for repealing the eighteenth amendment. As to the good taste and manners 1 of this demonstration, the members of the New York Women's must me left to Judge for themselves the propriety' of such a proceeding. Considered In its political value, the fashion of making concerted drives on the Federal executive as well ae on State executives, can only be re Club garded as poor tactics. Such performances lend color to the charges made by prohibitionist» that the agitation against prohibi tion. In spite of much hue and cry. not making any real headway In Impressing public opinion. hording executive office» with pro Jn Bom tests means Jthe wrong modification ot prohibition rests with Congress, and when antt-prohlbitlon 1st» make spiteful attacks on execu tives they merely Incur the suspicion of having failed to Impress their views on public opinion as reflected Repeal or direction. In Congress. SPEEDING THE FINISH. From the Los Angele* Times, Bum runners took 17.000.000 worth of liquor Into New York dur- j Ing holiday week. The New Year's j celebration tn AVashlngton was one of the wettest In history- Chicago i was still wetter that same day. and In St. Louis there was a riot In a I fashionable private hotel, In which, a prohibition officer asserts he was | attacked by 250 drunks. It surely looks as If tho folks who sell tho stuff which Inebriates, but_ no longer cheers, were doing their best to bring on a fight to a finish, even though It 1» bound to be their 1 by force and by persuasion. France exerting pressure upon Germany. In the meantime Germany announces ^ ^ has dpoIded |jrnore thp freaty of Versailles In the matter of reparations, on the ground that France violated the treaty by enter ing the Ruhr. If Germany persists In this attitude It Is difficult to be Ileve that she will be greatly inter ested in a moratorium, since the chief Incentive for a moratorium was to give her an opportunity to pay reparations. The stabilization of the mark Is desired by some German, hut not by all of them. The great Industrialists like Stinnes have prof Ited by the debasement of the mark, and would be ruined If It should rise greatly in value. They are paying off their debts In cheap paper and will not pay In good money If they can avoid It. If France should withdraw from the Ruhr the world would attach some weight to the Idea that the .French government Is really dis-, posed to make an agreement with j would enable that'pie Germany which country.to get a breathing «pell and! pressure and begin heartily In the extraction of coal for the needs of th^ two countries, j there would be hope of early peace, France .however. Is not wlthdraw ing, but on the contrary Is prepar ing to take over Bochum and other industrial areas. Germany, also, in stead of copoeratlng with France In the Ruhr. Is blocking the oocupa tlonal mission In every possible way. stabilize her finances. Or, If Get-j many should surrender to French ! pressure and begin to cooperate I Each government charges the other with violation of the treaty ot Ver sallies. The fact Is that ail the powers | have violated that treaty. They ' could not do otherwise, when con-! finish. They are tempting fate a little too far and are bound to get what they persist In looking for. [They don't seem to realize what |Unol*Bam oan do when he 1« roused, hut they will soon learn, for guch events ae have taken place during the last week are enough to rouse Ramesee I, let alone Uncle Sam> Unthinkable »et» may glory In tb9 fractures of the law recently, but tbB dryB ar9 the ones who really ou(rht to give three cheers, for noth Ing on earth could have been better raI( , uIated t0 Kpe9d up tl , 9 finish and br | na about more drastic measures )n the ln terlm. From the Washington Boat, Bv *". a ca " ual nt a " ep - resentatlve newspaper is enough to «how that business throughout the country!« In a very healthy condl Lon. When from the financial ■""'h heading, as Reserve r * v » aI b * ,tw Posit,on Good , r «PO n *e to heavy crop of n«w Issues. ' Cotton advances to _ . , . - „ record high« for the season, of whMLt moTe upw .rd ■ and ahows , arK> reduction in Ampriran mdustry" spring , r . Äfi ^ When one geta below the headline .. the body of any of the reports the Impression o_ PROSPERITY ABOUNDING. strikingly to the eye on the same day the conclusion is inevitable. renewed and K . llfl Ti) ^ f<)r ^ X a mp „,' al f «Rivals of , hft m0t0 r car Industry. One finds it hard to realize that at the end of the year 1922 there were 12,357, 376 automobiles and motor trucks in use on the streets and roads of the United States. This astounding fig ure mean« a moto- vehicle of some sort for every nine persons In the country. There was not a single State but had more cars and trucks )n 1922 than in 1921 Th „ ag(?ro . pate gnln was 17.6 per cent, but thc DIfrtrict of Columbia had more "lthan double this Increase, with 3S.4 per oen «_ Present indications are fhBt 1923 wH] overt<) p even the hlgh bh record ot 1922. While the»« statistics attest a marvelous growth In the automobile industry, they also reflect a state of prosperity among the individual When the Initial outlay on an automobile or truck and the cost of It» unkeep are borne In mind it „ obvious that the nation which citizens. can afford to buy and run so many mo tor vehicles must be made up of citizens who. in the aggregate, comfortably fixed. From the New . Tork j lera i,j are CITIZEN" BERGDOLL. In a letter to friends in Germany Grover B or R doll writes from Swit zerland that ho intends to remain In that country until amnesty Tor po jftjpal and military offenses is de dared Jn the United States, letter concludes, "I'd like to add I am still an American citizen." The Americans would like to knew from BergdoII when he was ever an American citizen In . anything but name. The contempt with which they' regard him Is not the passing enmity of war time toward one of alien enemy blood. BergdoII evaded the fundamental obligation of citi zenship. and he added to that offense by his insulting and contemptuous attitude toward the country whose benefits he. os a citizen In name, enjoyed. Americans know he was not actu ated even by a militant patriotism for the land of his father, or he would have gone to Germany before he did and for another purpose than td claim sanctuary. If he thinks that a declaration of amnesty will In any way affect the repulsion which this country feels for him ancf hla kind he will lea his mistake should presumption ever I prompt him to take up residence In tills country again. At -bottom hla a étions are based on the belief that money carries with It the right for jf S possessor to accept the law ot no man bu t himself. Such a man Is a m citizen of no country, grotesque YELLOW EPISODE. From the New York Tribune. The resolution ot the House Judi ciary Committee dismissing the charges ngalrwt Attorney General Daugherty should lay to rest the Impeachment episode. fronted by the actualities that thrust themselves into European cabinet councils. The treaty having been framed upon an abstraction, around which la grouped a mass of injustice and wrongs. It cannot bo expected that living and moving nations -will submit to Hs fetter» when confronted by necessities. One of the necessities of Germany Is food, which cannot be obtained In sufficient quantities from the soil of Germany. In order tt> obtain more. Germany must produce something to exchange for food, and in order to produce she must have coal. France Is now to try to take the coal, or moat of It. which Germany must have If It Is to be self-sustaining. Hence. It France's effort should suc ceed. the German people will soon be facing starvation. Then It will be the duty of civilized nations to res the German people from death cue by famine, respond to the call of humanity, like all other nations, and thus her peo will be called upon to give back are now so Let No doubt France will indirectly, what they cause France suffered eagerly taking from Germany, the rights and wrong-s ot the kite war be where they may, the present situation will not be set aside be devastation. either side Hatrd and revenge on the economic dlsioca will not cure tion which is driving both countries into disaster. France and Germany linked together economically. does not are and their mutai hatred break the links. Germany Is now the penalty for invading and The world paying devastating hopes that Franco will halt before penalty for Invading Neither nation can If it attempts to bake she Incurs a Germany, cape Judgment that which belongs to anot er. France. rs : The attack was a futile piece of. hectoring, an attempt to embarrass the Administration. Not the slight- , Stu-SSa."Si «£"«'5:hrv' of a "high crime or misdemeanor." The Impeachment provision ot the Constitution was never more frlvo lously Invoked. The House has still to deal with Representative. Keller, who pro posed the impeachment and when his charges fell flat scuttled out of ; the inquiry. A member Congress let his tongue run wild with a ; may degree of Impunity that Is not per Federal mitted to private citizens, office covers a multlude of slanders. Mr. Keller was quite ready to be smirch the Attorney General, when It came to testifying under oath he quit and refused to obey the committee's subpoena. An ordinary witness under like circumstances would feel the heavy hand of discipline. What is to hap pen when the authority House of Representatives Is flouted by one of its own member»? House may waive the affront to Its dignity, but Is it In the interest of fair play to permit a member with out rebuke to make damaging ac cusations which he refuses to prose cute against a Cabinet member or but of the The any other citizen? Representative i Keller's action wus undeniably ycl- ' low. A stiff reprimand from the Speaker of the House would Indl rate that that body demands sports manlike conduct from Us members, . 1 i I MOVING A PEOPLE From the New York Herald, An exodus—no voluntary return \ from slavery but a compulsory re moval of more than a million peo is to take place In eastern Eu- I These are the first fruits of | ph rope. victorious Nationalist Turkey's re- j turn to Europe. Such Is the answer to triumphant Turkey of the Im potent statesmen ot Christian clvlll- ! ! I i zatlon gathered In conference at | Lausanne. Tqtkey having determined to I drive some 600,000 Greek» from her possessions and throw them back Into Greece, thc Greeks have in sisted that the 400,000 or 500,000 Turks In Greece must return to Tur key so as to make room for the de ported Greeks. The decision ot the j conference docs not affect the 200.- i 000 Greeks In Constantinople and the 300.000 Turks In western Thrace. i j I I They are to be left in peace and will no doubt act as hostages for mutual good behavior. The barbarity ef such a solution Is admitted by Western diplomats, who however, since no one wishes to fight about the point, declare apolo getically that it is the only thing to be done. Efficient supervision of the trans port of these peoples may do much to mitigate but it cannot prevent the suffering caused by the uproot ing of hundreds ot thousands of per sons from homes that have been their families' for generation after generation, by the ruin ot their farms and businesses, and by what amounts not to repatriation but to perpetual exile. This suffering is but part of the price that Europe has to pay for the presence of the Turk within her borders. If It Is also part ot the price that diplomacy I« paying to secure Turkish acceptance ot allied proposals with regard to Mosul and the capitulations, then the price is indeed too high. WORK OF MAKING THE CALENDAR UNIVERSAL Frdm the New York Tribune. The present year will be mem orable in chronology for the long step which was taken at Its begin « ning toward universal uniformity ot the calendar. Down to this time many of the world's .peoples, rum 300,000,000. • have adhered to the old Julian calendar, as established by Julius Caesar 1,969 years ago. Indeed, down to 1762 that calendar was In use In Great Britain and her American and other colonies. But the movement which was begun ten years ago and Inter rupted by the war has now been completed. The Julian calendar haa been abandoned for the Gregorian in the countries attached to the Eastern Church, and this year those countries observed New Year's Day at the same time with America and the lands of western Europe, In bering perhaps l The German Obsession (From the New York Tribune) As Herman Chancellor Dr. Wil-I helm Cuno Is running true to form. He has about as much sense of j humor as the exile of Doom, or | Ludendorf or Bethmann-Hollweg. These worthies could never recog nlze that action taken by Germany ! wero to be Judged on the same basis as actions taken against Germany. In their opinion treaties. Interna- ! tlonal rules or accepted standards | of conduct which bound others never j hound them. Germany was In their cyes a supernation, recognizing no j restrictions which bore on ordinary j nations. When Germany did a thing ; It was right; when others did the 1 same thing Jt was wrong. There were many cities in the Rhine Aal ley which actually worked them selves up Into a fever of moral In dlgnatlon when the Allies began in 1917 and 1918 to pepper them with bombs after the manner In which they had peppered London and Paris. Dr. Cuno has sent a note to Wash ington in which ho complains that France. Belgium and Italy are breaking the Versailles Treaty by setting up an economic supervision In the Ruhr. It is of little conse quence to him that he cannot point to any section ot the treaty which has been violated, ot Annex 2 of Part VIII of the con vention authorizes the steps which the three Allied powers hgve taken. Yet that does not worry the doctor. He la perfectly sure that nobody has any right to do anything under the Versailles Treaty which will an Paragraph 18 noy Germany. On the oother hand, he Is equally confident that Germany has the right to excuse herself, on the ground of Inability, from fulfilling any treaty obligations which seem ; How many times has Ger many failed to li\*e up to the terms : of the treaty? The good doctor could easily draw up a list of these onerous. Memel, a New Storm Center (From the New Tork Herald). r j tory officially known *' M "T hM ! suddenly come into a prominence out ot all proportion to Its size, Authoritative reports say that a Lithuanian force—whether regular-ot roops 0 r a body of citizens Is notî ] ear —has entered this w j tb «he Intention of occupying It and that French soldiers who are supporting the control of the Allied Hjgh c<, mmlnlonar have been com . polled to fortify Memel, the chief town of the territory, and defend Itj agalnst the Invading force. The tiny strip of Baltic coast ter-| since the terrltory Memel before the world war be-j longed to East Prussia. It was the) narrow strip of land with the Memel j or Nelmen River for a southern ! boundary and the port of Memel at its most northern point, fought hard Germany j at Versailles for itsj retentlon and Poland and Lithuania' laid claim to it. It was finally set __ T , , _ R .. ... , K .. T al ? d ® reat Retain notified the Lithuanian Gov ernmen t that they had reports Indi ^ at * n 5 t * lat a Lithuanian for ,he occupation of Mcmel was In j progress and asked ti part as neutral territory, with status held In abeyance but tempo- j rarily under the League of NatlonsJ The Allied High M. Petlsne, and he force of about 200 men. Commissioner is ! has a French : agitation 1 that it take 1 means toi guard its frontier. The Vllna Government gave the neces sary assurance that this would be - done. The Lithuanian legation ot Washington reports that the present movement Is purely a revolt of the; people of Memel, and that no Llthu ' ---—------ stead of thlrteen days ] a ter. for obviously one of the most essen tial elements In the reckoning of time Is uniformity, found that out when they realized the vanity ot trying to maintain their Revolutionary calendar against the otherwise general practice ot This is an Important achievement, The French Whether it will be fol the world. lowed by other reforms remains to h 9 seen, with a largo measure ot doubt arrayed against any radical chances. It we ginning, with all of chronology be fore us. It would ho possible !0 de vise a more scientific, simple and practical calender than the present. But doubtless, too. It would be a most laborious and forbidding task to transform radically all the dates In the world's past history. rere back at the be j So the world retains and Is like- { ly to retain the Gregorian calendar, with all its complexities and Its | anomalies. Thus it continues to call Î — j seventh, eighth, ninth an ' 1 j tenth the months which are In fact eleventh and i "What's In the ninth, tenth, twelfth. Anyway, a I name?" It wouldn't make Novem ber a bit less gloomy to call U Un december! Neither would It move us a day nearer the millennium It we called the present year A. D. 1927, which, according to the conventional Chris tian chronology, it really is. since th» birth ot Christ la credited to ] the year 4 B. C. The Immense ditfi culty and the slow progress en- , countered In trying to convert the world to the decimal system of ; weights and measures may give ■ some hint of the practical hope lessness of getting It to transform j Its method ot reckoning lime. The ] possible thing to get all the world "o use the calendar wh.ch Is now in use by the overwhelming major ity of civilized peoples, and toward j that consummation the present year I marks gratifying progress. j AN EMBASSY DRINK ? HOW MUCH CAN Suspicion by the prohibition agents ( at the Capital that a good deal ot tho Washington bootleggers' supply leaks from some embassy's cellar has led -to a suggestion that may prove as speculative as Senator Spencer's commission to determine what percentage ot alcoholic con tent Is Intoxicating. The enforce ment chiefs propose that each em bassy he asked to limit itself to a normal supply ot imported liquor But that raises immcd4ately the grave question of what Is the nor- j mai capacity of an Ambassador and From the Pittsburgh Dispatch. evasions which would fill this col l umn. How about the voluntary defaults on w-hich France, Belgium and Italy have acted? tbat the coal default In 1922 was ,.| esg than 4 per cent, ot the dellver j es coa i to the Entente powers s, s j nce the signing of the armlstlee." Tbe wood default, ho explains, was on jy 20.000 cublo meters of sawn '» wood and 135,000 telegraps poles, jj u( . «he shortage was so Incon „iderable why was there any short- a at all, unless to show that Oer f The Chancellor tells us n 7any did not care whether she com plete ' d the deliveries or not? ^ 0erman roal output lor 19 j; age « eatltnated at S00.000.000 tons. The , hort on de ,Merles to tha Allies 15.000,000 tons. Could not ' thoge 1B OOO 00() ton3 hav9 been duoted from home consumption? ( , erma<ny pged enor mous amounts of * wood In 1922—In ship building, rail road construction and housing. She could have spared the undelivered « timber and telegraph polos and felt the plnoh. The only con never elusion whloh can bo drawn from her default« is that she did not want * to restrict her home supply in order round out her treaty delivery to schedules. The inhibitions of German psy » chology enter into all these prob lems. Germany is offering a sullbn, passive resistance to the execution of the treaty, as well as in default, the sanctions of She is In contempt But when • the Versailles document are applied she weeps at her own misery and charges viola- < tiens of compact against the nations The Irony whom she Is defrauding, and the pity ot It are that these 3 crocodile tears are taken as right eous anguish by persons who have never plumbed the mysterious ah- ; normalities of the German character. «»»*> fj the Mosc0 w Soviet is really back of the revolt and that It has aroused discontent among the Lithuanians Memel In order to carry out Its own policy. slbly In the name of Lithuania but really, with the purpose of securing a port on the Baltic, pq t h which the Soviet Government s on amicable terms, and the asser or Irregular, anlan troops, regular are taking part In it. to be, however appears Two weeks ago Mos cow made a claim for Memel osten - Lithuania 1« the only Baltic State tion 1» now made that In exchange f or Bolshevist support against Po and Lithuania will endeavor to obtain control of Memel and permit Russia to use It as a port. While cult situation. The danger Is that In this conflict f Interssts Memel will become an- v * doubtedly Germany has made no pretense of supporting the Soviet's claim, it has not opposed It. The Berlin Gov ernment, however, makes a formal protest against the Lithuanian In Its'vaslon. asserting that the Inhahl tants of Memcl are more than three fourths German, while the German, press says that the invasion was prepared by French agents In order to Increase Germany * present dlffi other Fiume. Prompt action is un necessary to prevent trouble; but the suggestion that the status of the • territory be Imme Lately settled by plebiscite will • scarcely be accepted by Lithuania. France or Poland, for Germany Is perhaps correct In saying the people nf Memel are largely German in origi n and «ympathy. hls retinue. Who Is to determine It? The Minister from Turkey, if we have one. might have no capa city at all. since the Angora govern- * ment passed that dry decree. Some other legation or embassy might need « private distillery or brewery, a It would probably be without pre cedent for Uncle Sam to suggest the recall of a plenipotentiary be- » cause his liquid capacity exceeded the normal set by the Volstead agents. Nor Is there much elgn of « International sympathy with our dry laws, so diplomacy Is not like ly to accept them even "In prlncl- ^ pie." It's a tough problem, but most dry problems seem to be. 4 THE RECALL OF AMERICAN TROOPS FYom the New York Herald, The action of the President yes- k « erday ] n recalling our troops from the B b j no !s C | ea . r i y against the undertaking of France • t0 enforce In full stipulated annual reparation payments from Germany through military pressure, in protest In The almost unanimous the United States Senate Saturday favoring the Immediate recall of the American troops In Germany k s large In Its significance curately representing feeling on the attitude and action k a f France, vote as ac Amerlcan There is nothing In InternstloVI relations that could he more dit v tre gg inK to the American neon) * than t0 flnd themselves at odds with France on any question. Butfhof It haa fom9 . [(> fh)fl jn , hR attitude of France ward tbe d g Wor nat , on means to th<> f00n0mlc * ' " 4 of Europe and to world certain. Tile New York v . this coXg and has V urgcd that the American incapable of t ' tn peace, is repeatedly mind Is standing of the ^ronrh ° » view, for with America the "e«, a . tion of armed hostilities Is the ginning of peace. A moi lea bo ■ cannot understand the unwillingness of France to accept the ndvlce of or to welcome the a Judgment of the United Sta'es the far reaching problems Ing her. The hold France has on Amarl " can affection, the deep Inters»' America hss in France, to say noth on confronl Ing America's part in the make certain that If France had asked America's advice and Amor lea's Judgment on the reparation* and other serious problems hstwse * herself and Germany »ho have had the truest and pathetic response from war. t would most sym Amirlw. t