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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1926 1 cause of the whining. A vast ma THE TOO LOUD SPEAKER AND THE STILL, SMALL VOICE over, that the so-called "Idle classes" in England contribute nn element of philosophical thought to politics that are budgeted elsewhere. Postal and telegraphic expenses totaling 000.000 francs are not debited, be-i cause higher rates are "expected" to meet them. by lvnc Vn AnUcn in Murk "Raffle" R-slatored WBDXESDAr EVENING. OCT.

II. 1926. tnteittl HI the Brooklyn PnatorrK'Q rVcond Class Mall Matter. THi: ASSOCIATED PRKSS SOWS. Tho Associated prasa la txeluatvely es-ttttrd to the una for raDubltcatton of all dlapatrhvn credited to It or not thorwlM credited In lhl paper, and a'an toe.

Joca news of apontaneous origin pub-hehed herein. All rlrhts of republication special dispatches herein are alio reserved. Thll naper hat a cfrr-olatlin Tarft-er than that of any other Evening Paper of Itt Vtaes In tha United Stata. Ita valua afl on Advertialne: Medium la Apparent. Herbert F.

Gunnison. President. Raymond M. Gunnlaon, Vice President. William Van Anden Heater, Secretary.

Harrla M. l-rlat. Treaaurer. MAIN OKKICE. Easl.

Building. Washington and John, on atreetr. Telephone COO Main. ftlHSCRIFTlON RATES, three Cents Dally. Five Centa Sunday.

By Mall Postpaid (Outside lyr.llinoa.lmo.lwk. Sunday 112.00 IS 1. 20 SO only IDO 4.S0 1.00 IT, Sunday only tM 2 35 Monday (Sermon pages) loo 60 15 4 Thursday (Chess ISO 75 15 4 BalurOay Tiurch Notlcea) 1 50 75 15 4 Wed. or Frl 1 JO 73 li 4 Foreign Rates Postpaid. Bally and Sunday I no 114 00 10 is rarday only too 6.00 a 2 ywday I ii 1 1 i in i hi ii in mMwfiB li i It imWJmfm aaffFHT- ft If If mWifMWMA nMeHMie I I I Av RSL fc TOt STOP)Jiv rWllMffllSwllfe Japan Is Planning Trade Expansion in Southern Asia; Tariff Acts Seen as Barriers jorlty of our people are Incapable of ill-will toward Britain while she Is It trouble.

It might lie different If the arrogance of prosperity were in evidence. For the great Anglo-Saxon power, the main bulwark of anne government and sune sociology In Europe, we have nothing but sympathy as she struggles with conditions irritating nnd even calamitous but bound to show "up in history as merely the temporary after effects of the titanic struggle to preserve democracy. A QUEER "DEBATE ON ATHEISM." It Is announced that members of the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism will go to the Rev. Dr. John Roach Straton'a Cnlvary Baptist Church next Sunday night anil that afterward Dr.

Stralon will go with them to their Ingersoll Forum meeting in Carnegie Hall. There Is an Intimation that Clement Wood, for the Atheists, may speak for fifteen minutes at the church and Dr. Straton may take the same time at the forum, but this is not absolutely settled yet. In any case. It Is a misuse of terms to call such an arrangement a "debate on Atheism." That extremes are meeting In true.

The Fundamentalist Baptist pastor was challenged to a real debate but preferred the plan now accepted. Those who are Interested and thousands of these are neither professing Christians nor Atheists are a hit sorry debate on the same platform wns not preferred. Some of them have a notion that Dr. Straton la perfectly capable of holding his owu in such a discussion. As for the Atheists, they have always the Impossible job of proving a negative.

That Is always to be allowed for. The orthodox polemicist has in the existence of the universe presumptive evidence of a Final Cause. In his belief that this Final Cause is a personal Deity he appeals to the trend of the average human mind. That treutl Is universal outside ns well as Inside of Christendom. Dr.

Straton Is here on much stronger ground tha'n In defending the literal truth of the Scriptures against Liberal and Unitarian attack. That Is self-evident. SUFFOLK COUNTY'S MILK SUPPLY. i The Suffolk County Medical Society h'i done Itself great credit and rendered a valuable service to the public by its study of the milk situation in tl.nt ixipuloiis county, with the attendant revelations. Its findings have been Indorsed by officers of the Stale Department of Health, with the result that nn Improved condition governing one of the most vital sources of health Is certain to develop.

Tile medical society made some discoveries that are little short of startling. It finds, among other things, that milk no lietter than Grade was ntnsqucrndlng as Grade A and Grade and that the hnrlertn counts actually ran from to units to the cubic centimeter. Such milk Is, of course, utterly unfit for use except as food for pigs or other animals. It also was learned that several unlli-ensed dealers were selling milk and that some dairies had never Is-en Inspected. Fortunately there were many exceptions to the conditions described villages and tow ns where the supply of milk was of the first degree of excellence and where the regulations governing Its production and hale were strictly enforced.

But the fact that fully half of the communities In the county were found to lie supplied with milk of doubtful quality I amazing, and the prompt steps taken to uncover those conditions and Insure the health of those communities are most commendable. Chasing the Red flags down the lane seems to be the pet diversion of the British Labor party. Tories wisli it were otherwise. Then the Issue would be clarified lo suit their taste. A ten-legged Cabinet with each of seven leg stumping along by Itself In some State between Maine aud California Is a piece of furniture hardly worth having.

Mr. Ford will have to lend a force of assemblers when this campaign Is over. The Red Bank, N. 'man who affectionately made a pet of a Guernsey bull got gored to death for his reward. That the hull was almost bored to death before he retaliated Is a possible but not Inevitable conclusion.

Grand Island, can't keep a girl out of school because her clergy, man-father thinks It Wrong for her to wear bloomers In a gym class. So the Stale Attorney General rules. Even Nebraska has waves of sanity at times. For helping to kill Matteottl Amerigo Iluminl got a three month term In a Rome Jail. For "Insulting" Mussolini he take a sentence of fourteen monlhs.

Something wort' may happen lo him if he doesn't confine himself lo murder hereafter. Newspaper men In all parts of America are proud of the way Indiana editors have been standing up for the bright sunlight of publicity In the graft scandal against all the darkness the K. K. K. could disseminate.

The Fointh Estate Is formidable when It gets Into action. The League of Women Voters ma ir may not agree with Governor iullli, but II ill ba.e to Hint is too often lacking In Washington. If some individuals don't keep sober that is only an incident of the situation. THE 1927 QUOTAS. The very 'general protest against modifying the present immigration quotas makes It likely that they will be retained for at least one more year.

Congress lias created a commission which is empowered to work out the lfrj" quotas on the basis, of "country, of origin." It was estimated that on 'his hnsis the German quota fo KI27 would tie "J.O00 a compared with for this year. Tho Swedish and several other "Nordic" quotas would suffer similar reductions. But the Congressional Commission has shown no signs of being in a hurry to complete it task. Even after It makes Its recommendation President Coolldge will have to Issue a proclamation before April 1 to make the new qnotus effective on July 1 of next year. German-American organization have actively opposed any such reduction of the German quota by more than one-half.

Their argument Is that the law as it. stands answers every demand for material reduc- tlon of Immigration and that pro- posed changes would only bar a type of worker who Is readily assimilable and for whoso services there is a real demand. THE FEDERATION AND THE REDS. Over a distinct adverse psychology created by the reaction against the Inhospitable attitude of certain Detroit churches and the local V. M.

C. A. conservatism has trl-umpbed in the convention of the I American Federation of Labor. Presi dent Green has held his following In line. Moscow has been denounced and the plan to send a commission to 8ovlet Russia goe by the board.

Also a scheme of the Communists to bore within the Miners Union to break down the Lewis leadership has been exposed and rebuked. It cannot be doubted, however, that in some of the trade divisions which are units In the Federation organization the "Reds" arc very strong If not dominant. They have no faith In the friendliness of Christian chureTies, no faith In the fair-mindedness of employers, no faith In the plans that make for labor peace Instead of labor discord. They vision "Capital" within the ramparts of privilege and "Labor" besieging the works. And though every sane economist knows their dream is a nightmare, they are assisted by the prejudices of nil the centuries.

That well-fed human beluga do not stomach revolutionary doctrine 1.: proverbial. Members of the Federation, generally, are not merely well fed today, they are enabled to in luxuries enjoyed by no classes of manual laborers heretofore since the world began. There lies the secret of President Green's strength. Pessimists may be right In thinking that a period of hard times, of unemployment, of destitution would change the situation. That Is a matter of speculation.

Even then ic I a good guess that the Radicals would have to develop a stronger leadership than that of W. Z. Foster before President Green could be shaken. For the present, with proserlty appar ently here to stay, the question Is strictly academic. THE MACHINE-GUNMAN.

Chics go's gunmen are, properly speaking, artillerymen; at least they possess a fairly sufficient supply of machine guns. If accounts may be trusted, and have made repeated use of these deadly weapons In warfare among themselves. The machine gun seems at first thought too bulky and clumsy a weapon to evade the attention of any really wideawake police force. Either the police of Chicago have behared with singular laxity In allowing weapons of till sort to find their way Into the possession of criminal gangs or else the machine gun has capabilities for concealment and stealth which have not boon suspected. One 1 reminded of the experiment of the criminal world with other weapons ami aid to violence.

The silencer, a a mean of killing per-sons without Inconvenient noise, was at first thought likely to liecome a favorite item of 'he professional gunman's kit. This ha not turned out to be the case, although silencers have been employed occasionally for murder ami ecaie, with doubtful success. The automobile ha fur-nlrdied the chief recent addition to the mean for professional crime. Iti general, not many of the devices of the past few years have greatly led to Increase the safety and convenience of those who rob and kill. The rase of the machine gun may bt an exception.

Its use against police pursuit or raids has not vet been attempted on any Important scab', but such an employment' of ll.l exceedingly deadly weapon seems distinctly possible. Police In Chicago, and elsew here for Hint matter, owe It to their own safety, as veil as to the protection of the public, to prevent the spread of the machine gunman. rOINCAHrj BALANCED IUDCET. Premier polnrare has presentee to the French Parliament a "balanced budget," bill! There Is sn Item of irj7.imo.nnit francs Interest on Ns-tonal Tef'iis4' and Treaaury bonds tblch Is not scheduled. The vapeuara of lh tobacco uioiiupol) In other words, the present budget resembles previous French budgets which were also balanced by hopes and expectations.

They may be realized. And again they may not. If the Chamber ratifies the Mellnn-Berengcr agreement. If American bankers will advance enough money to stabilize the franc. If the French Government's receipts equal expectations, if nothing happen In Syria or Morocco or elsewhere to add to France's current expenses, Polncare's paper surplus may become real.

It would be worse than foolish to be optimistic about France's financial situation at this time. The first step toward stabilization, the ratification of a debt agreement with the United Stntes. has yet to be taken. And until stabilization comes a ten-point decline inTthe franc can wipe out the paper surplus which the French Premier has built up on his high hopes for the future. A POOR JUDGE OF REPUBLICANS.

In column one ot the Herald Tribune's editorial page of yesterday appeared the following war whoop against the milk grafters, ostensibly, and agaiilst Governor Smith by innuendo: Why is the enormity of this offense against decency not more fully recognized by those whose duty It Is to redeem the city's reputation for good faith with the public and to call to account the jackals whose meanness and hcartlessncHs make ordinary graft almost respectable? In column three of the same versatile Issue, same page, amnesty Is extended to ex-Attorney General Dougherty In these feeling words: Here la a chapter In the history of Federal administration which the public would be glad to forget. Does the Herald Tribune really think so contemptuously of Its own party as to suppose that the respectable element In It wants to spread whitewash over the Dnugh-crty mess? Honest Republicans want offending officeholders, even in a Republican President's Cabinet, brought to trial and verdict. As for the milk grafters, no wonder that the Herald Tribune, holding so uncomplimentary an opinion of Republicans, does not think their investigation by the Republican Justice Kelby adequate. The painful if frank cynicism of one of the chief Republican organs in die country doe Injustice to the Intelligent and honest Republican rank and file. OPERA BOXES $200,000 EACH.

Two Yale men. active In New York finance, have paid the Diamond Horseshoe Inltiutlutfcc; that Is, they have purchased each a box in the Metropolitan Opera House. The amount per buyer Is fixed by gness-ers at fJOO.OOO. though not formally announced. Robert S.

Brewster gets Box 4, long the property of August Belmont, but of late owned by Paul Helm. Frazier Jelke purchases Box 6 from William K. and Harold 8. Vanderbilt. The "social organization of the opera" In New York I more or les a mystery to everyday Americans, even everyday New Yorkers.

It Is to le malntulned, we are told, by Inviting bnxholders In the present structure to be bnxholtler In some new oporn house which the directors have voted to erect farther uptown. How long this will be delayed nobody knows. At first blush the figures named above seem extravagant. But It always ha to be remembered that a box carries with it a one-thlrty-flfth Interest in the "Metropolitan Opera ami Real Estate Company," which holds the title to the building. This property, building and site, Is assessed for taxation at It might bring much more under certain condition.

If It were to bring $7,000,000, each boxholder would get bis money back, having Invented the interest of hi lJOO.000 In musical enjoyment and a certain social prestige. The bargain might not be such a bad one, after all. INGE AND OTHER "WHINERS" HIT. "Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone" Is the philosophy of Sir Alfred Monti's energetic rebuke of the gloomy Dean Inge and other British "whlners." Pollyannn said to the sufferer in a hospital. "Oh, how lucky It was that you didn't have both legs broken." That Is the spirit that Big Business loves.

Britain may Im losing her gold, hard hit In her export trade, tumble far to end a strike of coal minors that ha already cost a cool billion of dollars In American money. Hut both her legs are not broken. And she Is not going to the dogs, no matter what whlners nisy say. HirAlfrcd. who lias nix in some time In New York conferring ulth hanker, financier nnd Industrialists, say .4 flatly: "How we were supixised to carry on very difficult negotiations in this defeatist atmosphere, created before we arrived, It Is really difficult to see.

That makes negotiations very irksome." He notes the widespread attention given by American nows-piisrs to pronouncements of Dean Inge. lie notes, also, 'that oilier whlners who coniplslu sliout the llrltlsli American debt settlement terms are destroying the moral value to Britain of her unflinching accept, mice of her obligations. This Is pnrtly true. We Itnagite Moiid Is In error In thinking that "Ill-will" lias dcvclcpt ul In A.uc lv A DEMAND FOR SPECIFICATIONS. Dealing with the Issue of economy and State expenditures as raised by Mr.

Mills. Governor Smith asked Home pertinent quest Ions in his Blnghainton speech last night. What Mr. Mills has had to say about, the wastefulness of the public buildings' bond Issue, which the people of the Slate approved, was considered by the Governor In relation to Mr. Mills's promise that.

If elected Governor, the State would return to, the "pay-as-you-go" plan at the earliest possible moment. If elected Governor Mr. Mills would have the power to lop expenditures for public Improvements by vetoing appropriation bills. The amendment Is not self-operating. It calls for legislation every year and over such legislation the Governor has the power of approval or disapproval.

Therefore. Governor Smith wants to know just what Mr. Mills Intends to do to stop "waste" nnd restore the pay-as-you-go policy to the State. In the Binglininton speech these questions are asked: Will he stop the completion of the Poughkeepsle Bridge? Wl'l he slow up the completion of the State laboratory that is doing such a great work throughout the State for the protection of public health? Will he slow up the work on the State hospitals? Will h- stop the new Institution for feebleminded In Dutchess County? Will he stop the work on the Hospital for Crippled Children at Haverstruw? Will he stop the construction of the State office building undoubtedly In the Interest of economy and admitted to be by the members of his own party In the Legislature These are fair quest lima and all of them should be answered. Tbey should not be answered by generall-rallons.

but by specific statements covering each of the public improvements noted by the Governor. The financing of needed public Improvements out of current revenue would be an excellent policy if It could be made effective In producing Improvements, but It has not produced them In the past and will not produce them In the future. The people having ratified a Constitutional amendment providing for the borrowing of money for public Improvements over a term ot years. It remains for Mr. Mills to say whether he would, as Governor, carry out the purpose of the amendment or 'whether hp would thwart it by vetoing legislation designed to make It effective.

If hr would adopt the latter alternative ho should specify, as the Governor asks Is I in to do. the Improvement he would hold up. The Governor' que, tlona are directly put and should be directly answered. INEBRIETY IN THE COMMONS. The common subject of King loi-ge can buy drink at a public house only within certain fixed hours of each tlay.

But the bar of Hie House of Commons Is open at all hours whin Parliament Is silting. That, according to Dr. Alfred Salter, a Laborlle member, is one contributing cause in the exhibitions of drunkenness on the floor which he deplores. Me declare that he has wen many memlierH hoplessly Intoxicated, that no pnrty Is eiempt, ami that some Labor members are offender, though flflyslx of the memliers for the Labor party are absolute teetotalers. He would be a mnt Inefficient dry orator who could not preach a sermon on-this subject full of plausibility.

The mother country has not learned the value of Prohibition. She Is making a shameful showing of her-self. Staggering Kolons do not make good laws. And so and so on. But the contrast Ix'tneen Westminster and our Capitol In Wah-rtigton i onv that was quite a striking before we bad any dry laws.

Between the days of Daniel Webster and those of the first Wilson Administration atMcnce of In toxltallnu on the floors of Congress had merely reflected the general trend of Americans away from heavy drinking. 1'p-liaw i.f (ieorgla. Indeed, did agitate In nln, even after Prohibition came. In favor of general pledge of member not to drink at all. But that la another matter.

The fa-t Is that what are railed the "bile classes" are so few In number In America that they are Virtually unrepresented In either branch of Congress. In Britain they have greater strength and a big representation. Our energetic Amor b-an lawyer and business men have little temptation to lebl to In ibriety. The fact remains, how lng to do wltn the present conference. "It should be observed." said the Forejgn Minister, "that the question of emigration Is not on the agenda of thla conference.

That question doei not seem to be a fitting subject for discussion now. In order, however, to avoid all possible misunderstand-lug. I would add that what I hava declared on various occasions, both public and private, la that full consideration should aways be given to the Interests of the country In which emigrant are to settle, as well as of the country from which they are to proceed; and thst, from eveey point of view, It Is Inadvisable to encourage emigrants to go to countries where tbey are not wanted." a a Heavy Investments Made In Southern Asia. NEXT to Investments In the Kwangtung Leased Territory and China. Including Manchuria.

Japanese investments ara greatest In that region which the Japanese term Nanyo (literally South Sea Lands, but which In practice Includes the 'island archipelagoes of Southern Asia as well as Burma, Malaya and India). Japan has Invested something like 70,000,000 yen In rubber plantations In Malaya and the Dutch East Indies: about 10,. 000.000 yen In tha Manila hemp Industry, which Japan practically controls; and about SO. 000, 000 yen In other Industries and enterprises. Japan, however, thinks there Is plenty of room for her trade to further no interrogation In It questionnaire ws (lodged or met with cryptic words.

Some women rank frank ness as highly as men do. Votes are not always lost by calling a spade a spade and not a razor or a pickaxe. It Is well to have the question whether "prevailing rate of wages ought to npHar In specifications for subway bid settled before bids are opened. The Morse taxpayer's In junction suit Is wisely begun, what ever the court decision may be. Demagogy has nn place in municipal business.

A Magic Library 1 Boston Transcript. ONE of the largest and finest collection of book on the drama Is owned by Houdlnl, that master mystlfler whom Mil waukee claims na a native son. In his New York home ha has. In addition to tha book on drama, the greatest known collection pertaining to the witches, spirits, ghosts as well a to psychic phenomena. Houdlnl, when not on the stnga, devotes many, many hours to his libraries.

"Libraries" la used In the plural, because among those who hava visited hi home are many Interested In the drama, as well as those delvers Into witchcraft ana spiritualism, who will each find a library separate for himself. The Houdlnl library contains many Important collections of letters, among them a large number from Richard Mansfield. There are about 100 letters by Clyde Kltch, and there are also packets of letters written by Edwin Booth, Edmund Kean, Jenny Ltnd and Mra. Slddona and othera of bygone generatlona. The manuscript record of David Garrtck.

autographed In his own hand "David Oarrlek'a Original Diary," Is the most prized volume In the theatrical section of the Houdlnl library. No more Intimate and significant souvenir of the life of tht great English actor and manager Is to be found even in the scene of his triumphs London Itself. The library also contains correspondence nf Charles Marklln, an eccentric Irish tragedian and tendon theater manager, who supposedly lived to the patriarchs.) age ot 107. The legend, which has reached the status of historical fact. Is that Macklln's mother deserted htm when he was two months old.

at the time of the Battle of the Hoyne. 1IK0. when the great dlspersul of the Irish race took place. Macklin was known especially to fame a the first actor sympathetically lo represent Hhylork a a human being. Cntll Edmund Kean MppearedT Macklin bore the reputation of "this Is the Jew that Shakespeare drew." BUT the Houdlnl library of magic, witchcraft and spiritualism Is perhap the greatest In the world, conslstlag a It doe of eight complete libraries which 1i" has botmlil from time tint'.

More than 21,. Ono bonks snd pamphlets were purchased from Kymoiids. the editor of the Manner of Light, a now defunct spiritualistic Paper published In Hnston. Houdlnl suys: walked Into Hcbelle's antiquarian shop In ftuttgarl, Germany, and when I asked blm where his msgtcsl hooks t.vre, he pointed tu the wall. After a glance I said.

'How much will you take for the whole and I bought four packing cases of these books." The greatest single addition to the magic and spiritualism section was obtained through the' purchase of the library of Henry Kvana Evankon, a world-famous English specialist In those fields of book collection. Although Houdlnl carries $850,000 Insurance upon his library to protect his personal Investment, the real value cannot be expressed In terms of money, herause much of the material cannot be duplicated elsewhere. He has willed the spiritualistic arid magicians' libraries, letters and documents to the National Museum In Washington. Thus the possibility of this rare material being lost to students through dispersal over the auction block has been avoided. The collection of such material la a hobby which Is In a sense unique, and this adds to Us value.

Progn ess ISeattla rot.ntHllrmi-sr KT melancholy bells ring a gentle requiem for the sleeping beauty, the brave prince and the host of good little fairies who entranced childhood readers ot other days. For they are no more. The skep-tlcism of the day has spread at last Into the ranks of the little bovs nnd girls who once listened with wide-eyed wonder to tales of the little mythical people of- the fields and woods. Instead tl ey now demand stories of Snakoo the Snake. Bearoo the Bear and Jimmy the Fox, according lo Mra.

Mabel K. Head of New York editor of the Juvenile Magaslne, who Is at the Olympic Hotel on a tour of the country. "Children no longer believe In fairies." declared Mrs. Head. "Oh, some of them still do, of course.

But most of them want their stories about animals." Honor to an Alien. lOavaraora nf all tha arljlnal Tklrtaan Slatea will join with Ws.hlnfton aothart-lias In kanarlns KsrtuiVs liar. Oct II lha aasqulcantanarr of tha cammlaalenlna tha Pnls as Colon.l la Washlattoa's armr. Naws.1 He came, an alien no one asked his trade, His sge, or how much cash, hs brought along, Or If his fare by someone had been paid. Our freedom spirit then was going strong.

Ha planned West Point, and his strategic skill Lent what lacked, with vloto. rle to be won; And then went home to fight, aa pa- trlota wlll- A rebel, cheered by General Washington. Ye, "Freedom shrieked when Kos. clusko fell," And his defeat we most calamitous As know the Poles, wlioss lamentations swell. Because we will not let them come lo us.

'treat Thuddeus! We must rever his name. Hut feel no pride of Tankee spirit hen I Ws ponder on the ever-glaring shame Of abutting out his, fellow country-iio n. J. A. By ALFRED E.

PIF.RKS. (Sprrlnl Correspondence ot The Vogle) TOKIO, Sept. 1C An Important trade conference, under the scsis ui ine japancaa government and presided over by Baron Shldehara, Japan'a Foreign Minister, was formally Inaugurated todoy. More than 200 officials, business men, manufacturers and capitalists are attending. The discussions, held In tha Diet chamber, will last for seven days.

The motive of the conference is to- promote and foster trade expansion, particularly In India. Malaya, the Philippines and the Dutch East In dies. The methods advocated are to re-establish trade connections with these lands on a more comprehensive and efficient scale and to extend such marketa as are already In the handa of Japanese traders or their agents. Tho territory embraced, roughly speaking, is all southern Asia. Foreign MlaMer Kpcaks; Reviews Trade Situation.

BABON SHIDEHABA opened the proceedings by reviewing the trade of Japan during and after the Great War. He pointed out how that conflict, which only lightly affected east Asia, afforded Japan undreamed-of opportunltlea to expand her commerce. Boon after the armistice, however, the post-war reaction set In, and before the needed readjustmrnta could be mad the 1)21 earthquake and the fires that followed struck a heavy blow at the natlon'a economic structure. The need for reconstruction materials caused the excess of Imports over exports to assume alarming proportions and. In order to meet thla situation.

Baron Shldehara explained, the expansion of Japanese trade and the encouragement of Japanese enterprise abrosd were looked upon by the authorities aa questions of pressing Importance. No Politic Involved III Conference Plans. '-plIKRK i I a pol are no considerations ot political nature Involved, declared Japan'a Foreign Minister, "and the keynote ot our foreign policy today la to live and let live. Only on these lines can our foreign trade thrive with steadiness and rertalnty." Special stress waa laid on the statement that emigration has noth- Against Football Scouting Woraalar Tal'sram. I TIIK Vale-Princeton agreement scouting st football games Is evidence nf determination not to carry the games to extremes.

Vet scouting I one of lb" minor evils. Colleges hire coaches to produce winning team. Why should It be considered Inappropriate for etehea to observe enemy team In action before the final big irnnni? Percy Wendell, ex-Harvard star and now coach of l-htgh, sat he Is saslnst scouting. But He "never put great Importance" on ll.v If scouting really doesn't amount lo much, why will It not ha gradually at ondon' 4 by Indeptndent uctlon, expand In these regions without In fringing on any other nation. For Instance, ahe sees the vast territory of French Indo-Chlna with an area, of 274,000 square miles and population of nearly 20,000,000.

where her trade efforts are almost negligible. There are, however, difficulties ahead, not the least of the knotty obstaclea that will hava to be over-come being tariff barriers. It la for thla reason that the Foreign Office la sponsoring this Important conference and effort will be made to revise old treaties of navigation and commerce. situation, however, la a very difficult one and the Japanese fully realise this. Japan hopes, however, to be able to make fresh commercial treaties or lo secure favorable tariff ratea.

concluded on a basla of mutual advantage, and thus push hap trade and industry Into region where her merchant think there Is yet a wide field to cover. without agreements or new rules? If scouting doesn't really amount lo much, why should team worry about who Is watching them when they play In lb earlier games? In the campaign to remove the "over-emphasis" on football, there will probably be "over-emphssls" many relatively trivial matters. TIMMlirm. The mystery of bow phntoarapha en be transmitted from all part of the Cnlted Slate and even from abroad was explained to member of the rtrnokljn Institute nf Arts and K'lencr Inst nlht by Cspt. ft.

l-t. Kant-r of Ihe Itadlo Corporation of America In a lecture at the Academy of Music on "llaillo Today and I'lo-lure Transmission.".