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I THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NE7 YORK. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 13. 102; of aoore aigTUfxmnc in aa age like ours, when pre and forum and pulpit are busy with aoane-trung Lke aea-revoluuon.

is reasonable cucgea-tion if not an inmtabie conrluivm MAY HIS SHADOW NEVER GROW LESS is rrrm itrti bu artoaiiy mt out but trw of snore triaa a rcerrd. Tbe of more (o.d witn regard to rmituaJ of our economic condition, but it a coDuderabl nereis of to prevent morartr-ary disturbance. Tr prorf of the Rntrti Boards wisdom in Its recent polkm lxt aid IT. -iJ tr iHif Vaa tlM l. 141 i i 1 i.

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Present provision for seventy-one new ships to be built over a live-year period is unwise and unnecessary. It la, moreover. At the very moment when Britain, as a gesture of friendliness and understanding, eliminate from her program two of the three rrui'ert planned tor 1977 this country asked to approve an aggressive competitive naval policy. Big r.avalisti are always seeking to commit the country to five-year, ten-year or twenty-war building programs. They are too Intent upon having their big navy way to realize that their policy blocks the better navy way.

Technical changes in naval warfare are coming overnight. The development of aerial warfare Is probably the most important factor In relation to surface A DEBATE NECROES VS. BRITONS. Certainly remarkable and probably without precedent wa the Intercollegiate debate between the team of the Student League of England i representing three universities! and a team from Lincoln University. Pennsylvania, a negro institution, held in a Harlem A.

M. JL Church, the question being. "Resolved. That th attitude of the Anglo-Saxon race toward the colored race under its control is unethical and prejudicial to progress." Of course the negro team took the affirmative. Equal right of exploited race with the exploiters furnished the central theme for the Cheater team.

On the other hand the Britisher insisted that the rule of their nation over West African territory had done much for sanitation, that India would be worse off If the British were to withdraw, and that South Africa, being left to the descendant of Dutch oolonkt to control, wa out of an Anglo-Saxon discussion. Incidentally they took strong stand against imperialism and against exploitation, declaring that the majority of the people In England were with them. There was no decision, not even a vote of the listener. But that the British student went away with a higher idea of what the AIro-American's range of logic Is than they had before la certain, and that the negroes went away with an enlightened view of what real British sentiment is may be reasonably concluded. Hence such debate can be regarded as a wholesome Incident of international discussion.

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1 i. tl I 4 rf v- r'f v- -a. v4 navies. Yet Congress is asked to approve 000 worth of ships that may be worthless by the time they are completed. More than once we have been told that big navy men are suppressing reports of aerial bombing testa in order not to destroy public confidence in the continued value of large warships.

But more important than wasteful expenditure is the apparent determination on our part to -x launch a new race in naval armament. The failure of the Geneva Conference has given our big navalist their chance and they are taking full advantage of it. Resentment against Britain t-. a vr.r fav. -rJK Is to be exploited by "showing those Britishers" what we can do.

The London Daily News comments on our pro gram as follows: "If adopted it will tend to le- vlve the naval competition which the President so strongly deprecated. Probably, however, it Is Intended to serve as a form of moral suasion with special reference to the British Admiralty." That kind of moral suasion is futile and dan gerous. Admiralties and navy departments are notoriously unresponsive to it. The only answer they give to a big navy challenge is a bigger navy. For the moment the British Government HOUSE DEMOCRATS AND TAXES.

The present House of Representatives consist of 237 Republicans, 195 Democrats, two Farmer-Laborlte and one Socialist. Organizing it was easy for' the Administration party. But three votes In the Committee of the Whole on tax issues have indicated that the views of President Coolidge and Secretary Mellon are not dominant In the House, the last one striking out the tax on automobiles being 166 to 142. Already the tax cut has been run up to nearly $290,000,000, or almost $65,000,000 in excess of what Mr. Mellon regarded as safe.

Twenty Republicans on an average are helping the Democrats at tax reducing. But the personnel of the group of revolters differs on each vote. Reconsideration of Items has been hinted at. But If you take 20 from 237 and add It to 195, plus 3, the supposed majority party becomes a minority one. So reconsideration will be difficult.

A "full vote" will not alter the situation. How this condition of affairs bears on the tariff Issue sharply presented by the resolution of Senator W. H. McMaster in the upper house. Is worth a bit of speculative discussion.

This resolution demands the drastic downward revision of the Fordney-McCumber rates as a measure ot farm relief. Mr. McMaster of South Dakota is perhaps a near insurgent, certainly not an aggressive insurgent. That he will get an affirmative vote of the Senate on his resolution seems to be conceded. The Democrats and the Pro proposes to adhere to its moderate policy.

But that temper will not last long. Challenge will beget challenge. We are facing the first big step in a new race in naval armaments. Will America take the step? GERMANY'S INTERNATIONAL BUDGET. We are informed from Berlin that the Ger- rr.an budget debate has been postponed to await OUR GREATEST FRIEND MAKER.

Colonel started ht great flight to Tuns merely as a contestant lor the Orteig pnw. It as not until he landed and received the acclaim of the world that he tound himself an Ambassador Extraordinary from America to Europe. This sequence has been reversed In his fljpht to Mexico City. He as not flying for a prize. His status as our Ambassador of Good Will was fixed in advance and his mission was definite.

Who first conceived the idea of this mission rt do not know, but it was a cenuine inspiration. No better way could be found to to te Mexican people that the Colossus of the North is not a despotic, overbearing nation Intent upon robbing her weaker neighbors of their resources and their sovereignty. The Monroe Doctrine has been given many interpretations, but Ihe glint in the sky that appeared over Mexico City yesterday was the most and the most welcome manifestation of that Doctrine they have ever received. It is probably not a bad guess to credit Dwight Morrow with the Inspiration that brousht about this latest Undbcrgh flight. Mr.

Morrow is hlm-talf an Ambussador Extraordinary. Banker and personal friend of President Coolidge, his appointment Is perhaps the happiest the President has ever made. Mr. Morrow went to Mexico only a short time ago and quickly mad; it clear that he was determined to dispel the fog of distrust and suspicion that has for so long enveloped our relations'. Mr.

Morrow went to Mexico at a critical time. For a long period our relations with the Calles Uovernment have been precarious. Today, while Mexico is proclaiming our most popular hero, the Eenate is listening to the testimony of William Handolph Hearst, who has been publishing documents supposed to show that Mexico has been plotting against this country- How much truth there is in the Hearst revelations we do not know, but it seems certain that any damage that might be done by such revelations has been discounted by the welcome Lindbergh Is receiving in Mexico. i This welcome proves that the Mexican people are not hopelessly antagonistic to us, just as the rendir.g of Lindbergh proves that the people of the United States bear the Mexicans no ill will. It would have taken years, by ordinary means, to do what has been done in a day by Colonel Lindbergh.

He is the greatest of friend-makers as v.ell as the greatest of fliers and the most magnificent of modern heroes. His flight from the capital of the United States to the capital of the Mexican Republic was another perfect achievement that seer.is to prove that he is either a new breed of man, capable of mastering the ways of the birds, or the most fortunate of courageous adventurers. He may be both. In addition, he is a man who has performed one of the most valuable services possible: that of transforming the hatreds and prejudices of two peoples Into friendship and cordiality. On both sides of the Rio Orande he has most appropriately given the Christmas message of peace on earth and good will toward men an enhanced meaning.

the annual report of the Agent General for Repa CiTd Party Gossip Has Judicial rations. Mr. Gilbert is expected to attack the budget. It is record-breaking and Involves an expenditure of 9.500,000,000 marks, ot which Approval (Newark Evening Newt. What women talk about at the aft Harry Sinclair Enjoyed Years Of Remarkable Luck Until the Teapot Dome Oil Case Broke 127.500,000 marks goes for reparations.

A good part of the increase is due to the an the earth, some suggesting that the comet's tall was a gaseous formation and might come In contact with the earth. Incidentally the earth did pass through a comet's tall In 1861, without noticeable result beyond strange auroral effects. Skjellerup's comet is the first since Halley's to offer anything so interesting. The Pons-Wlnnecke comet was visible to the naked eye for a brief time last June, but was not as large as Skjellerup's. ernoon card tables has long been and long will remain a mystery despite speculation, masculine or other nual growth in reparation charges.

But there are such charges as 326,000,000 marks for the gressives control. But under the Constitution a tariff bill must originate in the House of Reichswehr and 167,000,000 marks for the navy. wise. This Is a territory which is perhaps Just as well unexplored, in Prom the Milwaukee Journal. It was largely a bank for oil men.

Now there may be ground for guessing that the Including 8,300,000 marks as the first installment on a new battleship. These Items will be unfavorably criticized in Germany and without Sinclair was sympathetic to them, trusion in which might bring unexpected result. And it remained for Recorder Stoddard of Irvlngton to McMaster policy mijht be favored by a small whereas other banks regarded oil Uf to me lime ne ootainea irom the Government a lease of the Teapot Dome oil field In Wyo Uniform Traffic Rules establish something else, which is that marginal majority In the House. But no one will figure that any vote Is possible with the present rules and Speaker Longworth In the chair. It as risky business.

The Exchange National grew to be one of the largest In the West. ming, Harry F. Sinclair enjoyed one subjects ot card table discussion are Yet even these are of little importance compared with a proposed general salary Increase for government employees, which may entail an additional charge of from two to three billion marks. of the most remarkable streaks of strictly the affair ot the fair dis good luck In the history of the world. Anderson H.r.ld.) Uniform traffic laws tor motorists cussers.

A woman who suspected her is the safest bet In the world that the tariff will not be changed at this session. Yet the weak Practically every venture In which IT IS the picture of a shrewd, affa ble, poker-playlng, well-fed. cigar- neighbors were talking about her at It is easy to make a good argument on be one of their card parties found this ness of the Administration in the House is one half of all these increases. German federal officials are underpaid and Germany's charges for out when the recorder refused to he engaged proved successful. His wealth grew in an almost fabulous manner.

Today it is estimated to be between $30,000,000 and $100,000,000. smoking youth, always confident, al ways able to inspire confidence, that and pedestrians are being urged by many traffic authorities in conjunction with a general safety campaign tor the reduction ot accidents. It is a generally recognized fact that many accidents are caused because motor of the outstanding features of this Congress session up to date. take a complaint armament are far below those of any other men who knew him in the early dayi Here is a Just Judgment, and a A few Mllwaukeeans remember Power with her population and general position, draw of Harry Sinclair. Sinclair as a Jolly, sportive young Sinclair luck held good on the race At the same time Germany faces the pay new application of the principle that sticks and stones, to take a slight liberty with the quotation, may break ists and pedestrians are not familiar man from Oklahoma, who came here with traffic regulations in most ot about two decades ago to sell oil stock.

CHINA BREAKS WITH RUSSIA. On the same day on which they announce the ment of $325,000,000 a year in reparations. She cannot make these payments without getting fur track where the Goddess Chance often proves so fickle. Zev won for him $279,000 in two seasons. Playfel one's bones, but words can never harm one.

A card party attended by recapture of Canton from radical elements In low, a brother of Man o' War, proved ther loans from America. She will not get the loans unless her financial policy is approved by a flop as a racer, but Sinclair sued SINCLAIR'S first work was waiting on customers in his dad's drug their own party the Nationalist leaders at Shanghai proclaim their decision to break with Russia. a policeman In uniform, bent on getting evidence, furthermore, would be a stiff and chilly affair. Besides, obviously, there would be no evidence. and got back the purchase price.

the Agent General for Reparations. And he will not approve unless Germany presents a balanced store at Independence. Kan. He was $100,000. The Federal Baseball League Withdrawal of all Soviet representatives from The Irvlngton incident i mildly South China is to be asked with the idea of pie-venting Communist agitation.

born in Wheeling, W. and went West with his parents when six. After studying pharmacy at the University ot Kansas, he went into busi disturbing, but nobody is going to believe on Its account that card par This shows bad Judgment on the part of Na was a nop, but Sinclair was one of a handful who pulled out without loss. Higher and higher up the financial ladder he climbed. He rose so high that Hugo Stinnes, the German su-permagnate, became envious and of' tered to combine their Interests.

the cities excepting the ones in which they live. The uniformity should not be confined to the cities of any one State, but should be adopted by all States, say those who favor this plan. Few cities are laid out the same, and as a result each city has its own favorite plan of handling traffic. Certain rules must be enforced in certain cities which would be impractical anywhere else. Perhaps it would be possible to work out a tew general rules which could be applied universally.

Anything that will help to reduce the toll ot death, injury and property damage that comes from motor accident is certainly worth while. ties generally are given to the practice ness as a chemist, but he did not make a go ot it. While rabbit hunting he received of which this woman complains. Many a kindly and generous movement, later to take on large proportions, has come from informal prattle to the accompaniment of riffling tionalist leaders. The trouble in Canton Is due to radical labor unions much more than to Russian agitators.

The break with Russia comes at least five years too late. Communist ideas were sown among the Chinese workers from the day the first Russian emissaries reached Canton an injury that has required him to use a cork foot ever since. Fortunate budget. In the end the whole reparations issue will get down to the question of whether American Investors are willing to go on lending the money with which to make them. Experts declare that private loans precede reparations payments.

In effect they do since the private payments will be transferred first. But the French insist that reparation payments come first, so it is easy to anticipate future friction between France and America on this issue. For all these reasons the German budget debate will be of unusual Interest. in having taken out accident lnsur ance, he was paid $5,000. cards.

A baker in Bartlesvill had been in 1919. In so far as those ideas could find singing the possibilities of a certain Winter Luxuries oil lease. Sinclair hadn't paid much attention. He didn't have the money fruitful soil in China they have been established. Throwing out a few Russian Consuls will not cure the radical tendencies of Chinese OUTGOING GOLD.

Midas' fate, to see everything that he touched turn to gold, won him so much sympathy from posterity that the United States has had good reason to wish to escape a similar plight. Its peculiar commercial and financial situation has rendered it the recipient of a fairly constant More Progress trtualivlll. Republican. This is butchering weather, sau until tie received the $5,000. 'I ll take half of that lease, ne coolies who are out of work.

told the baker one day, flashing the By breaking with Russia the Nanking Govern' The old-fashioned man who used to put his 12-year-old son on the train for a short Journey and tell the money. They agreed. Then they dlS' ment goes farther than the Chang Tso-lln dlC' agreed about drilling and decided to sage, tenderloin, backbone and no weather the ribs not to be spare; but covered with tender, sweet meat, seasonable only with this kind ot weather. Winter brings its pleasures, one of them, to many persons, being stream of gold from other formerly prosperous tatorship In Peking. There the Russian Embassy split.

conductor of his destination has a grandson who can drive the distance ANEW YORKER, Henry Mason Day, enters the narrative about this point. Day went to Russia and a little later announced that the Soviet Government had granted him the only privilege of free operation. An Englishman, Leslie Drquhart, had given him a hard battle for the concession. Day placed his concession before Sinclair in 1923 a year after Teapot Dome "broke." Sinclair had become Interested in foreign lands. He held a concession on tbe northern half of Sakhalin Island, off the Aslatlo mainland; 2,000,000 oil acres In Central America, and controlled by a Si percent Interest 45,000,000 acre Angola on the west coast of Africa.

The latter Is said to be the largest single concession in point of acreage ever granted. Extending 80 miles inland, the tract runs 600 miles along the coast. was raided by its propaganda activity exposed "I'll flip a coin," Sinclair offered without asking any questions. and checkmated. But the Soviet representatives "Heads this half (pointing to the map), goes to you; tails, the other backbones and kraut, while others were permitted to remain and look after Rus prefer a tenderloin nicely done, bak half.

What do you say?" "Go ahead." sian interests. "Yes" and "No" Men Ohio Stf ta Journal. ing powder biscuit with a plate of By making Russia an enemy the Chinese Na' strawberry preserves with a good cup countries ever since 1915. The tide has lately turned, and gold has begun to leave our shores In Vonslderably greater amounts than it romes. The Federal Reserve Board, which ha worked toward effecting this change, has reason to feel satisfaction at the result.

Dr. William R. Burgess, assistant Federal Reserve agent at New York, In a forthcoming book, "The Reserve Banks and the Money Market," set forth an explanation of the Board's pre Sinclair, the luckster, got a half of of coffee. There are a number oi tionalists are playing into the hands of Britain We like the man whose Impulse It Is to say "yes" much better than the the lease that proved to be a bonan possibilities that lurk within the hide za. The baker's half produced only a one whose Impulse it is to say "no.

ot a nice fat young nog. out you number of dusters. and Japan. Neither of these Powers has shown much sympathy for their aims. Yet they will be compelled to rely on them for protection If Russia but the trouble is that the former never has anything to lend.

wouldn't think it to look at It. A Christmas Comet resents the expulsion of her representatives. WOMEN BEST IN FICTION FIELD. Mrs. J.

R. Fisher (Dorothy Canfield) and James Branch Cabell assisted a woman editor of the Woman's Home Companion and the male president of the Day Publishing Company In passing on 973 novel manuscripts and awarding a $25,000 prize to Katharine Holland Brown of Qulncy, Illinois; also In deciding to withdraw the corresponding and equal prize for masculine competitors on the ground that not one of the 418 manuscripts offered was of sufficient merit to Justify an award. Two of the Judges were women, two were men. The conclusion were unanimous. Last April the Atlantic Monthly $10,000 prize for the best novel went to Miss Mazo de la Roche of Toronto, the author of "Jalna." There were 1.100 competitors from all parts of the world.

In this case, as in the later one Just announced, the money prize was not all of the reward. The author gets film rights and royalty rights In excess of a fixed amount. Recent successes of women in the fiction field make one wonder if the of Richardson and Fielding, of Scott and Dlcken and Thackeray, Couldn't Ask for Better Talent sumable theory of what ha happened and what mill happen In the gold situation. In brief, the (D.trolt Pre. Sinclair "1 AND in Russia, eh?" With William Hale Thompson and Li twat.rbury American The visit of a new comet at the Christma ceason Is certain to stimulate weird stories that will strike Labor organizers smile when they read that wages have been increased in the Navy Yard by from one to three cent an hour.

They have pondered. Senator Borah, why should the na view appears to be that the Board stored excess gold instead of putting it to banking use; that domestic business. Instead of seeking to inflate credit on the basis of this excess gold, used gold tlonal minstrel show ever lack for end men? only a quizzical interest in chicken-feed conces sions. THAT was the impetus Sinclair needed. He kept winning.

He chanced thousands against dry holes and won. He scraped together more thousans for pipe lines and refineriesand won. He dealt for acres of potential oil lands in foreign lands and held the highest hand. Much of the credit for develooing the Mldcontlnent field must go to him. When he entered there wa little Western money available tor drilling.

The East, which furnished funds, controlled the He took over a defunct bank In Tulsa In lviO an renamed it the Exchange National. 1 A Child Scientist. receipts largely to pay debts; that low money rates were maintained to counteract the tendency of gold to continue coming here; that a foreign nations achieved a measure of economic recovery they became able to borrow here and "Yes, lot of it," Day explained. "Acre of potential oil well." "Oh, I have acres and acres ot thaC "But my concession Is worth probably a billion." "What's that? Million, did you say? "I said a bilUon." "That's my tyle. You Interest So Sinclair made Day an executive In one of hi companies.

Henry Ford 1 slow, but he Is sure. If Edison (Klnc Ulche. I aced haa been elwted suggested ten years ago the door-catch that now appears on the new Ford car, as the Wizard says preldnt of th. Rumanian National Gee row have balances with us In excess of a bll (rapble Society. New.

lie did, Improvements have not been too wel come, even from the most responsible sources. To teach thl kid geography his Un dollars, which they may elect to take gold. He believes that this country should stand of Hardy and Kipling, is to yield the palm to tutors quick will be; So science yield to nobbery. and the sex of Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte, prepared to export much gold. Such export, he wool absurdity.

contends, should not cause any shrinkage of though neither "Sense and Sensibility" nor "Jane Eyre" is In any way the type of feminine effort The prcrrant hinge of the knee are business credit at home. "Let the dogs have the freedom of the city, they are not making nuisances of themselves like the politicians," is a proclamation of the Mayor of Lynn, Massachusetts. He is too terse to be elo bent to roy. lty Every Little Bit Helps (Cleveland rialn Dealer.l As a protest against apathy and Indifference to the unemployed, British sailors broke a window in tha resi terror to the superstitious. Remembering the significance of Christmas almost but not entirely forgotten-some will refer to their Bible and make ex'ravagant application of the phenomena.

For the rational the appearance of Skjellerup's comet will be a welcome spectacle, the more welcome because of the season. It will be a decoration rot contemplated by Santa Claus and a plaything for the scientists wholly unexpected. A week after Its discovery by an amateur astronomer In Australia, the scientists are satisfied that it will be visible to the naked eye. though this remains to be seen, since comets are eccentric and sometimes disappear in the glare ot the sun and are seen no more. Except for the very young there are few who do not remember the appearance of Halley's comet In 1910.

one of fie most splendid astronomical specticle In history. The return of this comet on it periodical visit was heralded by long dissertations, speculating upon 1U effect upon And sages bow to Infancy because a of today. Probably George Eliot, herself a great novel Dr. Burgess admits that prices rule more than 50 percent higher than before the war. How far the prevalence of the present price level result Ohio Is Used to Them (Ohio State Journal.

I We yield to no man In our proud loyalty to Ohio and for that reason we never mention any of our present Presidential timber" when anybody's around outside of the Immediate family, tor fear of laughing. crown thev see. quent. The subject demands the sort of rhetoric dence ol the English Prime Minister. 1st, who dared once to say that English women writers figured on the literary stage like "bad that made the late Senator Ocorge Graham Vest famous all over America.

actresses in male attire." gave the explanation ol from abundance of gold in one form or another is not easily determined. The question as to the tiiture of speculative borrowing on securities, now the present situation In a reflection In another No. there is no hope, despite the optimism of at its highest recorded total, remains unsolved The world wUl chuckle humorously when with authority King Mickey bangs hi gavel free De-tore this company. And he will think it quite a spree for Juvenility To Issue tome new map-decree of Idiosyncrasy To tench thl kid geography HI quick will be; Whit- rccd men hear gaspingly Wta nil aU wit with glee. J.

A. It will apparently rest with the Federal Reserve wen, tnat gave employment to one glazier anyhow. Should Be Verified Philadelphia Inquirer.) Well-known scientist says man rra been an Intelligent creature for 450 000 years. It would now be Interesting to hear from man's wife on th subject, essay. She said in effect that though science gives neither sex an advantage In art.

in music. In fiction, woman, being endowed with certain sensations and emotions, outside of man's experience, that may be classed as the maternal Board, which maintained low Interest rates I V. hA.wiii ins nmflltthl tnilai'nF an Oxford professor, that girl baboons can ever be trained to dust and sweep and scrub. Our Darwinian cousins aren't going to let either the housewives or the farmers "catch us and cut our tails oft and set us to labor, too." They have What? (Providence Journal It is now asserted that an orange a day will keep the dentist away, but what 1 really wanted Is a fruit that will hold th bill collector at bay. V) prevent its too sudden shrinkage, in the event ones, could offer a distinct contribution ot real gold exportation.

i Vnu 'u" thi country ha lent billions abroad all the cannlness Kipling ever ascribed to them. Importance. That thl contribution would be.