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Mussolini and the League Benito Mussolini, the Peck’s Bad Boy of Europe, has got the old world in hot water again. In fact, it is in a couple of hot kettles at the same time, one having been steamed up by the affair of five carloads of smuggled machine guns intercepted on the ■way from Italy to Hungary, the other fired by Austria’s outburst against Italy’s treatment of German minorities in the Italian Tyrol. Thus today, with the meeting of its council less than a week off, the League of Nations is seeking how it can emerge from both messes with dignity to itself and such admonition to the offending countries as it thinks just or it can get away with. And there’s the rub. For while it may be fairly case to rap Hungary or Austria over the knuckles, the Italy of Mussolini is something else again. II Duce, it is said, does not care to be either investigated orspanked. Yet if reports are true, it is difficult to see how the League can get out of performing both the one and the other. Five carloads of machine guns, the story goes, labeled machinery and consigned to Poland, were intercepted en route to Hungary. Poland says she never heard of the things, while further investigation is said to have demonstrated that the arms were not cnly of Italian origin, but were of Italian government origin, they having been turned over to Italy by Austria after the armistice, j Then, as if this did not- put a sufficiently grave aspect on the affair, the Hungarian government deliberately destroyed the evidence. It smashed the guns and sold the pieces as junk in the very face of the joint request of Jugo-Slavia, Checho-Slovakia and Rumania to the League that the whole thing be probed. Europe is pretty much divided as to the course to follow. And the League is in difficulties. For it is obvious, if there is anything to the reports at all, that to allow Italy and Hungary to get away with this direct violation of the treaty of Trianon, not only scraps that treaty but the treaties of Versailles, St. Germain and all the rest as well. If Italy and Hungary can snap their fingers at the treaties growing out of the World War, Germany and the rest can do it, too—and probably will. Small wonder, then, that League officials are perturbed. They don’t relish the idea of slapping Mussolini, not even on the wrist, for Benito has a way of coming back with a swift one to the chin. The Italo-Austrian episode may or may not be just another flurry. Criticisms in the Austrian parliament of Italy’s treatment of Germanic minorities In what is now the Italian Tyrol has caused an angry storm in Italy. The two countries seem on the point of a diplomatic rupture. The, hullabaloo may have been stirred up in Rome to distract attention from the machine guns, but that is pure surmise. Still and all, the League council will meet next Monday at Geneva, and those interested will not have to wait long for the next chapter of the Peck’s Bad Boy of European diplomacy. Curbing the Lobbyists Commendable as its object may be. Senator Caraway’s bill to cure lobbying in Washington shoots wide of the mark. Senator Caraway’s plan for requiring lobbyists to register with Congress and disclose their purpose and connections, under penalty of fine or jail for failure to do so, might be practicable if anyone legally could define what a lobbyist is. In other words, where do the perfectly legitimate actions of a lawyer or a witness end and where do the machinations of a lobbyist begin? Who can draw the line? Also, what can be done about the more subtle and insidious "social lobby” that snubs the wives and daughters of Congressmen who happen to vote the wrong way? Senator Caraway’s plan to have lobbyists register with Congress may bring forward the petty grafters who operate paper “associations” for the dissemination of various sorts of propaganda in Washington, such associations being designed for personal profit. But these men seldom, if ever, influence legislation. The real lobbyist usually is a polished lawyer or a technical expert or an old friend of a Senator, trading on his acquaintance, who would be the last to admit that he was lobbying. And the distinction is so difficult that it would be almost Impossible to prove. The power lobby that defeated the Walsh resolution was of this character. Its leaders were men who appeared openly, in the perfectly legitimate role of lawyers or witnesses. Its more subtle agents were men brought to Washington from nearly every State in the Union, many of them old friends or college mates of particualr Senators, who capitalized their intimate connections for the powers of persuasion. It was the fellows from “back home,” perhaps wielding no small political influence, who really did the work of the lobby. Tire popular conception of a lobby as attended by bribery and corruption is a mistake. The modern lobbyist’s methods are intimate and subtle and require no such measures. Money may be spent lavishly for entertainment and perhaps there may be a gentle hint of political , punishment back home, but who can prove these } Washington visitors are lobbyists? And they would |>e the last to admit it. Bribery and corruption may be punished, but Senator Caraway’s bill* or no other bill can cure the intimate and subtle type of lobbying that “gets” its man through friendship or political expediency. The only real cure lies within the consciences of members of Congress and the test is moral honesty. Airplane Safety The Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics predicts that the time is not far distant when absolute safety in airplanes will be attained. Even now the airplane is a relatively safe conveyance. Given a good plane and a qualified pilot, with decent weather conditions, there is little risk in flying. But the public is still a bit slow about trusting itself to the air. In the near future, however, according to the Guggenheim Fund’s experts, airplanes will be almost foolproof. The development of commercial and pleasure aviation that will follow attainment of such a condition is a matter for the imagination to dwell on. fcjLt will be tremendous.

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Hoover Not a Grandstander There may be some people left who have a hangover notion about what a statesman ought to be. They may think he ought to wear always a long tailed coat, a turnover collar and long flowing tie, expel words from his Insides like a spouting volcano, and give a vigorous imitation of a windmill in a gale while gesticulating with his arms, hands and hair—and his voice bellowing like that of the bull of Bashan. But—other times, other manners. The old time spellbinder is out of date. Nowadays the successful statesman doesn’t think with his lungs or help progress on her way by making a noise like a gas well. He is more apt to be calm and deliberate, quiet-voiced and convincingly earnest than noisily oratorical. Herbert Hoover belongs to the modern type. Instead of saying things, he does them—and doesn’t pause for “loud cheers” and “enthusiastic applause.” He is an engineer—a builder. Instead of throwing bricks he lays them in an orderly fashion, one on top of the other. When he starts in on an engineering job he has visualized the finished job and laid out his work In orderly manner before he tackles it. In other words, he knows what he is doing and takes more interest in doing the job than in talking about it. Politically, Hoover isn't a grandstander. He isn't strong on the ballyhoo. Asa political promiser he probably would be a failure. If he tried to shoot the bunk he'd probably foozle his put. And he isn’t enough of a political horsetrader to hit it off with the politicians whose main idea about statesmanship is jobs. This may explain why some of the party bosses rather would have somebody else in the White House —somebody who would play the game, and see that the Government was administered for the special j benefit of "the boys” and the big campaign contrlb-! utors. But there are others—millions of ’em—who think ! that being President of the United States is a mighty j big job; and that a man who has the constructive i mind of an engineer is better fitted for its important duties than the old-fashioned, out-of-date grandstanding spellbinder who talks big and performs little. And they don’t care a darn what party tag or label he wears. Old Familiar Tactics Candidates Curtis, Lowden and Watson have as much right to enter the Ohio primary as either I Willis or Hoover, of course. It is an open primary, or ought to be. Ohio Republican voters should have the opportunity to send delegates to the national convention who will support the candidacy of the man the voters think will be the strongest and best candidate, no matter what State he happens to hail from. But Candidates Curtis, Lowden and Watson have not entered as first choice candidates. They appear to have entered into an agreement with Senator Willis, under the terms of which Willis is a firstchoice candidate and they trail in as second-choice candidates. When Ohio friends of Hoover sought an agreement with Senator Willis that meant Hoover entering as a second-choice candidate, Willis wouldn’t stand for it at all. He Insisted that he must be the first and only choice, and that Ohio’s solid vote should be cast for him until he ordered otherwise. That is what made it imperative that Hoover be entered as a first-choice candidate in the Ohio primary. Willis brought on the fight himself by his arrogant assumption of the right to have Ohio all to himself, and without giving Republican voters any voice in the selection of delegates. His position now in inviting Curtis, Lowden and Watson into the primary as second-choice candidates looks very much like a coalition of candidates representing interests that are or will be for anybody to beat Hoover. It smacks of the kind of politics that led to the hand picking of a presidential candidate in a hotel midnight bedroom conference of party bosses and campaign contributors who wanted something for their money. In Ohio the bosses have combined to beat Hoover, and take their chances on which will be the bedroom choice, once Hoover is out of the way.

Babbitt Can Stand It BY BRUCE CATTON

Andrew Maurois, scholarly Frenchman who recently visited the United States, writes sadly that the American has no home life. The average American, he says, arises early and hurries to his office. He comes home "at 7 in the evening,” eats a hurried dinner and dashes off to the movies. “In general," laments M. Maurois, “the American home sees very little of its inmates.” To which we can only say "poppycock”—adding, perhaps, “and if so, what of it?” People from Europe seem unable to scan the American scene with equanimity. They are stunned by our “brutal industrialism,” they are aghast at our public indifference to politics; they are pained by our mania for money—and money, you know, means so little to Europeans that they are voluntarily coming forward to pay the few odd billions they borrowed of us in the war; or, like M. Maurois, they shed tears at the disintegration of our homes. And, oddly enough, we, take them seriously. We listen to them. Let a man from Europe raise his voice in criticism and there will arise, from this side the Atlantic, a corresponding chorus of “Alas! Too true. 1 -’ It is about time that we gave our foreign critics the go-by. Not one in a hundred has anything to offer us, for this reason; the United States and Europe are farther apart, culturally, than ever before, and the gap is widening. Europe is living in one civilisation and we are living in another, and the two have almost nothing in common. Most Europeans can not criticise us intelligently for the simple reason that the only standards by which they can measure us are out of date. There is needed in this country a revival of the old, flamboyant, let-the-eagle-scream spirit of cocky youth. Does Europe sneer at us for bragging about our factories? Fair enough; we shall continue to brag. Our factories are the symbol of our civilization, and our civilization is developing. Does Europe laugh at our Babbitts? Babbitt can stand it, for he is becoming a world conqueror. Is Europe pained by the “crudeness” of our cities? Well, when Paris and London have stagnated into decay, Chicago and Atlanta and Houston and the rest will have time to take on a few of the finer cultural graces. Drop the inferiority complex, by all means. Europe means little to us; her criticisms mean almost nothing at all. We are hardly on the threshold of our greatest development. Let us be proud,

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BRIDGE ME ANOTHER (Copyright, 1928, by The Ready Reference Publishing Company) BY W. W. WENTWORTH

(Abbreviations: A—ace; K—king; Q—queen: J—Jack; X—any card lower than 10.) 1— When you hold three honors in sequence, two in hand and one in dummy, what honor should be played first? 2 When you hold: spades—X X X; hearts—lo XXX; clubs—X X X; diamonds—X X X, what should you bid in answer to partner’s informatory double of opponent’s one-heart bid? 3 First hand bids no-trump. Second hand bids two hearts. Third hand doubles. Is double informatory or business? The Answers 1— One from the hand. 2 Two clubs. 3 Business.

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The name and address ot the authoi must accompany every contribution, but on request will not be published. Letters not exceeding 200 words will receive preference. To the Editor: Pupils in the Finger Lakes region of central New York, in country school and town, have set out to restore the tie between former residents of the lake country and their native home. We’re sending greetings to men and women, scattered far, who have gone to other fields, but still in fancy wander back to scenes of old. Though they be strangers, we pupils in our English classes want to write them a letter, just to remind them that a beaten trail of welcome leads back to the Finger Lakes and that we of the younger generation have a common love with them for the place they once called home. We are not trying to sell these native sons anything or to advertise anything. It’s just our effort to establish by our letters the link ol sentiment between those who reside In this region and those who have said good-bye. We do not know who or where these native sons are, so I'm writing to you as other pupils are to other editors, to ask if you will kindly give space for this letter of the substance of it in your columns. Some former residents of the lake country may read it and for old times sake send me their names and addresses, that we may write greetings. We pupils are trying to locate former residents of Cayuga, Chemung, Onondaga, Ontario, Seneca, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins and Yates counties. We believe that through our letters in the newspapers of the country we can find them. Will you kindly help me to reach residents of your city who once came from our lake country? All I want to know is their names and addresses and the town from which they came. Gratefully yours, JOHN L. LAWLER, 58 Capitol St., Auburn, N. Y. To the Editor My brother, Loren Cooper,, 26, was disabled permanently as a result of an accident at Henry Ford’s Detroit factory five years ago. Is there not some way that his case can be brought to the attention of Henry Ford personally and some financial relief provided? He hid worked as an inspector for Ford. In October, 1923, he fell four stories in an elevator, resulting in severing of his spinal cord. He has lost use of his legs and is unable to work. For eight months he was in hospitals. but medical science was unable to cure him. He received $7,000 workmen’s compensation, more than $2,000 being deducted from that by the Ford company, which bought him a home at Hope, Ind. The remainder was paid him in sl4 installments, but that means of income was exhausted in January. Now it is necessary for his wife to work to support him and a son, Ralph, 6. He requires constant attention. I and my mother have made several trips to Detroit to obtain an audience with Mr. Ford, but we never have been able to reach him. All we were able to get was promises. Mr. Ford’s secretary refuses to acknowledge special delivery letters and registered mail. Is there not some way The Times can bring this matter before Ford? lam a laborer and unable to support my brother. We would be so grateful for anything The Times can do. Sincerely, . ERNEST COOPER. 715 N. Noble St.

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Isn’t It About Time We Broke Up Their Little Game?

THE STORY OF CIVILIZATION Pope Crowns Charlemagne King Written for The Times by Will Durant

THE barbarians spread, as we have seen, from every nook of Germany and the Baltic shores to every nation of Europe: to this day, in the white man's invasion of America, Africa, Asia and Australia their conquest of the globe goes on; the great migration is not yet complete. One sees how history might be written in terms of the flow of humanity from place to place; and for a moment one sympathizes with the anthropologist who Interprets all the past in terms of race, of hereditary racial qualities of body and mind. What a stock they were, these sturdy children of the forest, these tall “blond beasts of prey,” and how easily they overcame peoples who were lax with luxuos’ and peace! See the flood breaking all barriers and inundating every land: the East Goths establishing their power in Italy under Theodoric, the Lombards coming down later into “Lombardy,” the Vandals spreading over the northern coast of Africa, the Anglos and the Saxons driving the Celts of Britain into Scotland and Ireland and Wales, the Danes advancing into Sweden and Norway and England. The Northmen passed from Scandinavia into Russia, Iceland, Greenland, Labrador, and “Vinland,” capturing Normandy from France and at last taking England from Harold the Saxon at the Battle of Hastings; above all, the I'ranks, coming from Belgium as early as 486 into France, giving the country their German name, and establishing Clovis their king as the first of many Louises (the two names are one) to rule, or aspire to rule, the most civilized of modem States from that far century to ours. (The ruling class in France was German until 1792; and the Great

You can get an answer to any answerable question of fact or Information by writing to Frederick M. Kerby, Question Editor. The Indianapolis Times. Washington Bureau. 1322 New York Ave., Washington. D. C.. enclosing two cents in stamps for reply. Medical and legal advice cannot be given, nor can extended research be made. All other auestlons will receive a personal reply. Unsigned requests cannot be answered. Ail leters are confidential. You are cordially invited to make use of this free service as often as you please. EDITOR. What Is the address of the Es,peranto Association of North America? 507 Pierce Bldg., Copley Sq., Boston, Mass. How old is Mary Garden, the singer? Fifty years old. She was born Feb. 20, 1877. Is Victor Varconi, the motion picture actor an Italian? He is Hungarian by birth. Is Hutchins an English or a French name? What does it mean? It is English but derived from the French name Huchon (brought to England during the Norman conquest). Huchon is a French diminutive form of the common name Hugh, which is Teutonic and means “mind,” “spirit.” The literal translation of Hutchins is “belonging to or son of “little Hugh.” Which countries in the world have the largest merchant marine? Great Britain leads with 19,399,797 gross tons and the United States is next with 14,878,761 gross tons. Are turtles ever white? White turtles are found among all species. They are albinoes. Could Congress confer on the President of the United States the power of pardon persons convicted in State courts? It would require an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to give that power to the President. Who is the American minister to Paraguay? George L. Kreeck. Does the cotton-mouthed water moccasin bite under water? The Biological Survey says that there have been published records of the cotton-mouth water moccasin biting persons in water. The

Revolution was an ethnic as well as a social revolt.) Clovis died at Paris in 511, a good Christian and a tried murderer; he left a vast empire that soon stretched from the Bay of Biscay and the English Channel to Vierfha and the Alps. It was this kingdom which, after two centuries of vicissitude and chaos was united and strengthened by Charlemagne into the first ordered society of Medieval Europe. • m or A T first he was called simply Charles; but when he had made himself master of half a continent the world did him the honor, as it has never done to anyone else, of merging the title of greatness (magnus) with his name. History credits him with a stature of six feet, one inch and a quarter; medieval legions, considering this inadequate described him as eight feet tall, and spoke of his sword, that could cut a horseman and a horse in two at a stroke, and of his appetite, which consumed a goose, two fowls, a quarter of mutton, and sundry incidentals at a meal. One of the great cycles of medieval romance circled round his name; and it was in his service, as he retreated Ircm Spain, that the knightly Roland and Oliver of the Chanson diea. He became King of the Franks in 1771, and began at once a career of conquest as marvelous as Napoleon’s. His life was crowded with fifty-three campaigns; he flew from land to land, so that his almost miraculous übiquity gave a handle to the legends of his supernatural power. He was gifted with iron endurance of body, unity and persistency of purpose, simplicity and clarity and yet range of mind; and wherever

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possibility of being bitten is so slight that southern crabbers do not pay any attention to them. Why’will oil and water not mix? Oil is practically insoluble in water, hence the two will not mix. What city in the United States is nicknamed “Bean Town?” Boston, Mass. Who arc the principals in the cast of the motion picture, ‘The Ten Commandments?” Theodore Roberts as Moses, Charles De Roche as Pharaoh, Estelle Taylor as Miriam, sister of Moses, and Richard Dix as the saintly son. Nita Naldi, Leatrlce

Mr. Fixit City Officials Promise to Fill Holes in Streets

Let Mr. Fixit, Tiro Times' representative at city hail, present your troubles to city officials. Write Mr. Fixit at TTie Times. Names and addresses which must be given will not be published. Ten residents were cheered today by the promise of the street commissioner that cinders or gravel will be dumped in chuckholes in their neighborhoods. Complaints on streets and alleys which have become impassable because of mud and chuckholes were passed in to the street department by Mr. Fixit, representative of Times readers at city hall. Streets slated for repair: 3700 block E. Market St.; alley on S. Talbott between lowa and Minnesota Sts.; east side State Ave., between Spann and Fletcher Aves.; first alley west of Livingston Ave. and Walnut Sts.; alley back of 1258 Lawrence Ave.; 960 Somerset Ave.; Twelfth and N. Belmont Ave.; back of 720 Somerset Ave.; alley west of Keystone Ave., one block south of English; alley west of S. East St., between Lincoln and Minnesota Sts.; alley between Thirty-Third and Thirty-Fourth Sts. from Harding St. to canal. , Street Commissioner Charles Groasart promised to provide relief as soon as possible. Several alleys are so muddy it is impossible to haul cinders because trucks mire down.

he went he did not merely conquer, he built. After annexing Saxony, and converting it to Christianity by the irresistible persuasion of his better soldiery, he passed down into Italy, conquered the Lombards, forced the King to become a monk, and took over his throne. Then, being already half way to Rome, he completed the journey, and had himself crowned by the Pope, in the year 800, as Emperor of the restored and Holy Roman Empire of the West. a a • TFOLTAIRE was to point out that * it was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire; but it served extremely well to unify a chaotic Europe, and to consolidate the power of the growing church. It wove Germany, Austria, Italy, France, and the Netherlands into one ordered realm; it gave them a coherent system of enlightened laws, and thereby the security of life and goods which hastened the economic recovery of a continent torn and terrified by pillage and war. It paved the way, across seven hundred years, for the rise of the modern State. More immediately it established the temporal power and spiritual leadership of the Papacy. When Charlemagne permitted Leo 111, by an act of magnificent piesumpiton, to place the Roman crown upon his head, he lent the sanction of his arms to the political ascendancy of the Popes in Italy, and sealed that alliance of church and State which was to become the predominant characteristic of the Middle Ages. Thereafter the Popes could plausibly claim no king deserved obedience unless he had been crowned by the Vicar of Christ in Rome. (Copyright 1927 by Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

Joy and Rod La Rocque also had important roles. Who refereed the Dempsey-Bren-nsn prize fight in Madison Square Garden in 1920, and who fought the preliminary bouts? The referee was Haukop. The preliminary bouts were between Marty Farrell. New York, and Frank McGuire, Williamsport, in which Farrell won; Charlie Weinert, Newark, defeated Bartley Madden; Kid Norfolk won from Bill Tate. When were pneumatic tires for automobiles first made and when were balloon tires first manufactured in America commercially? The first pneumatic tire for automobiles was made in France in 1894 by Michelin. Balloon tires for automobiles were manufactured and sold commercially by several American companies in 1923. Where and when was Mary Brian, the motion picture actress, born? At Corsicana, Texas, Feb. 17, 1906. Is it true that most French made automobiles and locomotives are handmade? Automobiles and locomotives are made in France by machinery and tools which are mostly purchased In the United States. Some tools made in France are used, but work with them is slower than with American tools. More hand labor is employed than in the United States, but it is not correct to say that automobiles and locomotives are manufactured by hand in France. What is the value of an Austrian kronen? It has no value now. The new unit of currency in Austria is a shilling. Who played the part of Bess Morgan in the motion picture, “Captain Salvation?” Pauline Starke. What was the total number of deaths in the United States in 1925? Vital statistics show 1,030,518 deaths that year. How does the Western Union Telegraph Company get correct time?” Direct from the United States NavaJ^bservatory.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Outstanding Effect of Mechanisms of Speed an and Communication Which Have Wrought Such a Revolution During the Last 100 Years Is the Dependence They Have Imposed on All People.”

The American tropic have $14.500,000,000 invested in other countries according to a compilation recently made by Dr. Max Winkler of New York. This is exclusive of debts owed the United States Government, which amount to more than sll,000,000. No nation on earth Is putting so much capital into foreign projects. Capital in foreign projects represents a close and binding relationship. Surplus dollars are entangling the United States with every people on earth, and are making that ‘ splendid isolation” of which the late President Harding talked so much a pleasant, but impractical platitude. 000 U. S. Loans to World With $4,000,000,000 loaned in j Europe, outside the war debts; with 1 almost as much loaned in Canada; i with $3,000,000,000 in Central I America; more than $2,000,000,000 in South America and nearly $1,000,000,000 in the Orient, this nation might as well make up its mind that, no matter what politicians assert, it is becoming definitely bound up with economic affairs throughout the world. Only morons deny that economic affairs now constitute the driving’ force of humanity, and that statesmanship must recognize them as such if it would guide the peoples of the world intelligently. We can stay out of the League of iNations if we will, out of the World Court and out of any other cooperative movement designed to promote international peace and order, but we cannot stay out of the commercial web which is knitting humanity into a common mass. HUM All People Dependent Those devices and inventions which made modern life modern are significant not because of what they enable men to do as individuals, but because of the way in which they draw masses of men together. The outstanding effect of those mechanisms of speed and communication which have wrought such a revolution during the last 100 years is the dependence they have imposed on all people. Just as the railroad forced us to recognize interstate trade and the necessity for interstate regulation, the airplane, radio and a multitude of other mechanical devices are forcing us to recognize internai tional trade, and the necessity of j international regulation. We are developing projects and systems which cannot function, except the area of law and order is • extended. What is more important, we are becoming dependent on those projects and systems not only in business, but in our daily lives. The American home, as well as the American workshop, is now drawing raw materials from all quarters of the globe. The tin on the can comes from England, the mica in the electric light mostly from India, the rubber in the hot water bottle from the other side of the world, the coffee from Central America, the tea from China. * u * Flow of U, S, Dollars American money is flowing into other countries, because American life and American industry need the materials they produce. It is not a case of philanthropy, nor yet of 6 per cent dividends. The same spirit of development which reclaimed and settled the West is now reaching out to th® pampas of Argentina, the iron mines of Mongolia, the forests and fruit plantations of the Isthmus of Panama, the oil fields of eastern Russia and the fertile regions of Africa. u u Conditions, Not Theories We are facing conditions, not theories. The foreign policy that we pursue must be squared with those conditions, or it will get us Into serious trouble. This Government can not ignore what its people are doing, or where they are putting their cash. From a purely political standpoint, it can deny that it is becoming entangled with the affairs cf other nations, and it can refuse to cooperate with them, but it can not annihilate realities. * u n Law and Order There are thousands of American business enterprises which havA taken root overseas and there are millions of American citizens who look to those enterprises for employment or dividends. Not only the expansion, but the very existence of the majority cf those enterprises depends on a reign of law and order. You can put aside Idealism and still find good reason why the United States should help maintain law and order. Asa matter of common sense, the United States has far more reason to do this now that she has become the world’s chief creditor nation. The destruction of property through disorder often works to the advantage of debtors, but never to the advantage of creditors. There never was a time when the welfare and prosperity of the American people were so closely bound up with peace. The prevailing opinion that since this country has become rich, it no longer needs to worry about what happens in other countries Is all wro-'ig.