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Kellogg’s Anti-War Plan Accepted at its face value, Secretary of State Kellogg's peace proposal, renewed in New York last night, is by long odds the most amazing thing of its kind yet suggested by one serious-minded nation to another. Publicly, the Secretary of Slate again puts the United States on record as ready to agree with France, England, Germany, Italy and Japan, and “any and all other nations'’ that may care to do so, formally to renounce war as an instrument of national policy. If the secretary really means what the public will take him to mean, then his offer parallels that of Soviet Russia, wnich country recently suggested that all nations abruptly disarm. For if the leading nations of the world sign on the dotted line with us, formally outlawing war, the further maintenance of armies and navies, beyond police force proportions, would be an open insult, one nation to the others. It would be tantamount to saying: “We have no confidence whatever In your word.” Nor is that all. Even a defensive war would be contrary to the spirit of the proposed treaties, for when the French foreign minister, Aristide Briand, suggested that only “wars of aggression” be outlawed, Secretary Kellogg categorically turned hipi down. “My objection to limiting the scope of an anti-war treaty to mere wars of aggressions,” the secretary explained in his New York speech, "is based upon a very real disinclination to see the ideal of world peace qualified in any way, and upon the absence of any satisfactory definition of the word ‘aggressor’ or the phrase ‘wars of aggression.’ ” Certainly nothing could appear more sweeping. Rather than qualify “the ideal of world peace in any way,” the secretary simply would outlaw wars of every shape and description. But would he, really? The proof of a pudding is the eating. If the Kellogg treaties should go through as he plans, would the administration for which he speaks cancel the $270,000,000 naval program now before Congress? It would not. Would the six great powers involved scrap their fleets? The answer again is emphatically in the negative. Each of the six nations would insist upon keeping its fleet to defend itself against aggression. Here you have the suggestion again, “wars of aggression.” Maybe it is difficult, at times, to say which is the aggressor nation. Nevertheless, we arc- going to have to learn to make the distinction before we can proceed very far in the direction of a warless world. Secretary Kellogg, of course, does not mean to propose for a moment that the United States would not defend itself against an aggressor. Even if he did, the Senate never would nor should give any such proposal its O. K. Boiled down, therefore, there is little real difference between the Kellogg and the Briand points of view. The American Secretary of State has merely hit upon some noble sounding phrases for saying virtually the same thing that Briand said, while apparently—though not actually—saying a great deal more. “Flexible Tariff” The resignation of Edward P. Costigan, progressive Democrat, as a member of the United States tariff commission, again directs the attention of the country to the utter failure of the so-called flexible tariff, which is supposed to have been in operation for the last five years. Whn President Harding signed the Fordney-Mc-Cumber tariff act in 1922, he hailed provisions permitting him to raise and lower rates as the “greatest contribution toward progress in tariff making in a century.” The tariff commission, which had been created five years previously to collect information for Congress, was to make studies which would enable the President to fix rates “to equalize the differences in costs of production in the United States and competing foreign countries.” The Fordney-McCumber tariff imposed the highest duties in history. Republicans, mindful of their unhappy experience with the Payne-Aldrich tariff, and confronted with economic chaos throughout the world, sought to justify their tariff revision and high schedules with the flexible tariff device. Senators Smoot and McCumber and others predicted there would be revision downward. It is common knowledge that no reductions of consequence have been made, that the commission has been dominated by high-protection sentiment, and manipulated with the purpose of preventing recommendations for lower rates. President Coolidge, for instance, has received thirty-two reports from the commission. He has increased duties in eighteen instances, and made reductions in five. Commodities on which the tariff was reduced include bob-white quail, mill feed, and paint brush handles. Many of the deficiencies of the tariff commission, and the revelations of how it has been packed and manipulated were developed by a Senate committee •which undertook an investigation two years ago, but Which never has reported. Commissioner Costigan’s letter to Senator Robinson, embodying conclusions reached after ten years of service, tends to substantiate the charges that have (been made. Costigan asserts that Thomas Marvin, the chairman, and Commissioners Brossard and Lowell “stand today a united tariff band, steadily pressing for tariff rates and against important reductions, reckless on occasions in their treatment of the facts and the law.” He repeats the story of how President Coolidge got rid of Commissioner Culbertson, through promotion, and Commissioner Lewis, through demotion. He renewed the charge that the President failed to act on decisive information warranting a lower sugar schedule. Costigan said he quit in protest, and to force the issue by compelling the President to nominate a successor to him while the Senate is in session. It is doubtful if he will succed in this, .for the dominant Republicans will permit no more discussion of an unpleasant topic than they can avoid. His letter is none the less important, because of the subject with which it treats, and for its information and opinions. When, if ever, we have a scientific tariff, some other means for obtaining it will have to be devised. A Russian professor brings a movie showing how the brain works. We’d like to see a closeup of the mind of a person just as he says, “It never rains when you carry an umbrella.”

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Nicking Nell Nicaragua certainly is not doing right by our Nell. The faction which Secretary ol State Kellogg trusted has deceived him sorely and the people he put in power have left him in the lurch. And yet, warned in ample time, he has only himself to blame. Tuesday night, by a vote of 23 to 17, the Nicaraguan House of Deputies turned down the law which would have legalized the American plan to supervise the coining presidential elections. The conservatives, the party of President Diaz, Secretary Kellogg's puppet and protege, were the ones who killed it, voting against almost to a man with uncomplimentary gusto and eclat. The Liberals were unanimously on the American side. Thus, once and for all, Secretary Kellogg should at last realize that the man he picked and maneuvered into the Nicaraguan presidency Is without power, even over his own party. The strong man of the Conservatives Is the unscrupulous Gen. Emiliano Chamorro, who chased President Solorzano and Vice President Sacasa out of the country and set up a dictatorship. Diaz never has been more than a factional leader, and then only as a sort of lieutenant of the stronger Chamorro, as has been demonstrated conclusively. For while Diaz stormed in his palace and pleaded with the Conservative deputies to support the American election bill, Chamorro sat in an ante-room of the legislative hall and quietly gave his orders. The result we already have announced. Diaz had no more weight with his party than a straw in a whirlwind. What our State Department's next step will be remains to be seen. In vain it delivered an ultimatum to the Conservative obstructionists at Managua, saying if the law was not passed “steps” would be taken to carry out the elections anyhow. Obviously it is Washington’s next move. General Chamorro, of course, is playing his own particular game. He would like to be the next president of Nicaragua, but the State Department has let it be known that it never would recognize him, even if elected. Perhaps this is one way he has of getting even. But he probably has a deeper motive still. He and his followers of the Conservative party definitely have put themselves on record as opposed to the American-supervised elections. He knows, also, that, being in a minority, the Conservative candidate for the presidency will be defeated—that is to say if the elections are reasonably honest. Thus, in the event he sees a chance to begin a revolution against the successful candidate, his own record will be clear and, in addition to that, he will have the moral support of virtually all Latin America, opposed as the Latin republics unqualifiedly are to American intervention. What a pretty mess Secretary Kellogg’s blunders have got us into. It will take years for us to get out of it, but that time will seem short compared with the decades required to live it down among our neighbors. Lindy Doesn’t Like Statue Lindbergh recently visited at the office of Postmaster General Harry New, in Washington. On News desk was a bust of Lindy. The young flier looked at it and shook his head. “Don’t like it,” he grunted. "Makes me look like a high school debater.” With all due respect to high school debaters, Lindy! has our sympathy. He can reasonably lay claim to' being more or less of a he-man. Let’s hope our sculptors are not going to start representing him as an innocent-eyed mama’s darling.

On the Banks of the Wabash “The Republican party in Indiana comes to the voters this year with less to apologize for than ever before.” That ringing declaration, made to a party gathering the other day, was applauded, and quite properly. It hardly seems out of order—until you learn that it was voiced by none other than Indiana’s Governor, Ed Jackson. Hoosier Republicans, of course, are not altogether responsible for the actions of their Governor. All parties make honest mistakes. But it does give one an acute, localized pain to hear the Governor himself making speeches like that. Indiana Republicans may have little to apologize for. But it is hardly in order for Ed Jackson to say so. Taxes and Trade Vice Governor Edmund Platt of the Federal Reserve Board advises Congress to pass a tax reduction bill as a means of stimulating trade. His argument runs like this: Tax reduction would distribute purchasing power generally and increase the demand for the products of industry. If, on the other hand, taxes are collected and applied to debt reduction, the purchasing power goes to the holders of Government bonds, who, generally being large Investors, already have more purchasing power than they can use for consumption. Hence the purchasing power goes into an already over-ex-panded investment market. This is an ingenious argument. Whether it is just so much rhetoric or whether it has a real point depends, of course, upon the form that tax reduction takes. If tax reduction were given primarily to those already having large incomes, It would go into the investment market just the same, and the enormous burden of interest on the public debt would have to be carried along by the rank and file of the taxpayers. If tax reduction were accorded to those groups who would use added income for consumption, It might have the effect of speeding up industry and cutting down unemployment. Just what the tax reduction bill passed by the House and now slumbering in the Senate does along these lines is not entirely clear. Would it serve primarily to release funds to go into a glutted investment market or would the funds go into increased consumption? In view of present industrial conditions in the United States, that is a question which Congress very profitably could discuss at this time. Kansas City ready for jam at G. O. P. convention, says a headline. But it’s the oil men who furnish the bread and butter.

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Is it possible to prepay the reply to a letter sent to a foreign country? An international reply coupon may be purchased for 9 cents at post offices and these when presented at a postoffice in any country that is a member of the Postal Union, except Persia and Uruguay, will entitle the holder to receive without charge postage sufficient to prepay a letter of the first unit of u eight to the country issuing the coupon. By this arrangement a person in the United States can furnish his correspondent with postage for a reply to his letter. What was the result of the first game of the 1915 world series between the Philadelphia Nationals and the Boston Americans and who were the opposing batteries? It resulted in a 3 to 1 victory for Philadelphia. The battery for Philadelphia was Grover C. Alexander and R. M. Burns and for Boston, Ernest Shore and F. L. Cady. Boston made eight hits and one error and Philadelphia made five hits and one error. Is the use of the metric system compulsory in Great Britain? Is it used at all in the United States. Its use in Great Britain and the United States is legalized, but not compulsory. Custom has kept the old system of weights and measures in general use in these countries. The metric system is used in most of the scientific bureaus of the Government, and its use is gradually being extended. How did planets get their names? Many of them named for Roman gods and goddesses; mercury for the Roman god of commerce; Venus, the goddess of love; Mars the god of war; Jupiter, lord of heaven; Saturn, god of agriculture, civilization and social order; Uranus, the husband of Gaea (earth); Neptuno, god of the sea, etc. When was the American legation in Vienna, Austria, raised to the rank of embassy? Whn was the first Ambassador from the United States? It was made an embassy in 1902. Robert Sanderson McCormick who was then Minister to AustriaHungary, became the first Ambassador. Who was the inventor of the photomaton? Anatol M. Josepho was the inventor. He sold his patents for a reported sum of $1,000,000. It was purchased by a syndicate of which Henry Morgenthau of New York was one of the leading figures. What are the comparative figures of the population of Chicago, in 1870 and today? The 1870 census showed 298,977; the estimated population for 1926 is 3,048,000. Who made “Big Bertha,” the famous German long range gun used in the World War to bombard Paris? It was made at the Krupp works in Germany. What is the largest species of animal? The southern finback whale. It sometimes reaches a length of over 100 feet and a calculated weight of about seventy tons. What is the value of a United States one cent piece dated 1922? Only the face value. Who played the leading female role in the motion picture “Mighty Lak’ a Rose”? Dorothy MackailL

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Monks Attempt to Kill Abelard

LIEBESTOD ABELARD did not come. For hearing all this, says Abelard, the Canon and his kinsmen were of the opinion that I had played a trick on them, and had taken an easy way to rid myself of Heloise, making her a nun. Whereat vehemently indignant, and conspiring together against me, on a certain night while I slept in an inner room of my lodging, having corrupted a servant of mine with money, they Punished me with a most cruel and shameful vengeance, and one that the world received with the utmost amazement; amputating, to wit, those parts of my body wherewith I had committed that of which they complained. Only so, short of murder, could Fulbert prevent Abelard's ordination and success; it was a chavacterastic stroke of medieval brutality, part of the same ferocity of those still half-barbarian souls who accepted as unquestionable reality the everlasting fires of Hell. ADtiarcl, humiliated beyond bearing, fled to the monastery of Saint-Denis, and sought to hide from the world. But his pupils followed him there, and begged him not to discontinue his instruction; and when he began to lecture again, crowds larger than ever before gathered about him. His enemies were not pleased; they brought before the council of Soissons, in 1121, an indictment of Abelard for heresy, attesting his book on the "Divine Unity of Trinity;” they held that he had reduced the Trinity to merely a trinity of attributes —power, wisdom, and love; and in trying to prove Plato a Christian, said Bernard, Abelard had only proved himself a heathen. The council condemned him, ordered his book to be burned, and sentenced him to indefinite imprisonment in his monastery. 000 RELEASED after a brief incarceration, he fled to a wild and solitary wood near Troyes, and built himself there a little oratory (i. e., a place of prayer), which he dedicated to the Paraclete—the Holy Ghost; this was the first time a church had been dedicated to the third person of the Trinity; and orthodoxy was scandalized again. “When the scholars knew of this retreat,” he writes, “they began to hasten from all parts, and leaving cities and towns, to inhabit the wilderness, instead of their roomy homes, to construct for themselves little huts; instead of delicate viands, to live upon wild herbs and coarse bread; instead of soft beds, to lay down thatch for themselves and straw.” What a picture of the hunger for knowledge that was putting an end to the Dark Ages! Even into the wildnerness persecution followed him. His foes would not rest so long as he taught by writing or by speech; they prevailed upon a monastery in distant Brittany to call upon Abelard to come and be their abbot; and when Abelard would have refused, his ecclesiastical superior (for he had now irrevocably taken the cowl, with vows of chastity and obedience) commanded him to go. Broken-hearted and aged before his time, he left his students, and found himself head of some monks in a monastery built on almost inaccessible rocks, far out into the cold and gloom and moisture of the sea. The country was barbarous, and the speech of the country strange to me; the vile and intractable life of these monks was known to all, and the people were inhuman and uncouth. So, like a man who terrified by a sword that is hanging over him, dashes toward a precipice, and just as in the nick of time he avoids one death incurs another, so I from one danger to another knowingly bore myself, and there, by the waves of the roaring ocean, since the ultimate ends of the earth allowed me to flee no farther often in my prayers repeated these words: From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, who my heart is

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overwhelmed... .The monks came clamoring to me for their daily necessities, since they had nothing in common which I might administer to them, for each of them from his own purse supported himself, and his concubine, their sons and daughters. o a a TO make his misery complete it was only necessary to add the persistent imminence of death. The gentle monks, not liking the presence of one who could not care for their life of debauchery, put poison in the chalice, hoping to murder him in the very sacrifice of the mass. This failing, they bribe his servant to poison his food. But another monk carelessly helped himself in advance to what had been reserved for Abelard, and fell down in mortal convulsions. If Abelard left the monastery for any journey, they hired robbers to kill him. “And so, to avoid their pitfalls as best I could, I began to withdraw

Noble County Democrat An Indiana court recently has held that a teacher has a legal right to whip an unruly child, regardless. This may be the law of Indiana, but it most certainly must be tempered with no small amount of effort expended in other directions for securing the behavior of a child, before it is resorted to. Otherwise a teacher is in danger of getting himself or herself into a peck of trouble. The first effort any teacher should make is to get cooperation of the unruly child's parents. No child should be whipped by a teacher until the parents have been consulted, and when a parent has been given opportunity to see to it that the child toes the mark at school, it then is time for the teacher to take the responsibility of administering the necessary discipline. Our schools today, in all too many instances, are merely machines through which the children are jammed without any considerable opportunity being given them to properly express themselves in their own, natural manner. There is too much of a fixed standard to which every child must attain. This is not successful, for the simple and very evident reason that children are not, never have been, and never will be alike. They have different temperaments, different outlooks on life, different physical standards, different homes with different spiritual atmospheres. No teacher can know the frailties of a child, nor the mental attitude of a child with one-tenth the accuracy the parents can. In other words, what may be good for one child is poison to another. Therefore, a teacher should never take upon himself or herself the responsibility of punishing any child until the parents have been consuted. In fact, it is our opinion that no teacher worthy the position held would attempt it. Muncle Press The Indiana Republican Editorial Association'performed a distinct disservice to its party and, putting the best possible construction upon its actions, showed a palpable, not to say painful, lack of common courage when it not only failed to place itself on record In favor of Governor Jackson’s resigning or being impeached, but actually invited him to address it, which he did. The party press everywhere is not in especially good case with the public just now, and it is such performances as that of the editorial association in the Jackson matter that makes its position worse. A man or a newspaper may be partisan and still place good citizenship above party. Indeed, the only true partisanship is shown

from the congregation of the abbey, and to live in cells with a few brethren.” During all this time Heloise waited for him, knowing of his sufferings only from other tongues; he had been too overwhelmed to write her. On learning that he had become a monk she became a nun; but her love for him fed on it’s denial, and the memory of his embraces seemed sweeter to her than the consolations of religion. After many years of separation there fell into her hands a long letter, the “Historia Calamitatum,” in which Abelard had described his vicissitudes to a friend who had complained of his own hard lot. It was now that she wrote (or is it only the most marvelous and sympathetic forgery in literature?) the first of her famous letters to him—surely the finest love-letter m the world. (Copyrißht. 1928. bv Will Durant) (To Be Continued)

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by a willingness to clean the party's skirts. This association had the opportunity to go on record as demanding that Jackson either prove to the world that the testimony against him in his trial was untrue, or get out of the Governor’s office. Nothing less than action of that kind is conceivable under the circumstances, if the association is composed of straight-thinking editors with the best interests of the people at heart. But no such action was taken and the Governor who took advantage of a legal technicality to obtain his freedom on a bribery charge was permitted to speak to the editors upon the “achievements” of his administration. The people have the right to look to their newspapers for clean and constructive leadership in political affairs as well as in all others. When the newspapers fail to do this, they not only fail of their mission, but they cast discredit upon all the craft, including those that are struggling for decency in public life.

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M. E. TRACY SAYS: “The Stage Has Been Set for the Republican Party to Clean House, or Be Cleaned Out by the People”

The right thing is hard to think, much less to say, regarding Captain Hinchcliffe and Elsie Mackay, who in all human probability have found death in the Atlantic Ocean. Theirs was not a case of deliberate com-age inundating itself for the sake of progress, but of the irrepressible spirit of adventure inviting tragedy. If they were brave, they were also incautious, taking little account of the difficulties they faced, or of the fact that they could avoid many of those difficulties by waiting a few months. There is a marked difference between those who combine courage and patience to study and provide against the risk and those whose impetuosity, or appetite for thrills brooks no delay. It is not the same thing to challenge death after counting the cost, as it is to seek glory or death in one wild gamble. 0 0 0 Public-Paid Defense Maurice Connolly, borough presi- ; dent of Queens, and accused of misconduct in connection with sewer contracts, asks the city of New York for SIOO,OOO with which to pay for his defense. This is exactly the same amount that Governor Smith requested the city to appropriate for the investigation. While granting the Governor’s request, the board of estimate has postponed Connolly’s for one week. Mayor Walker, speaking as chairman of the board, says: “If the borough president Is guilty he should pay the penalty—he must pay the penalty. “But he is still In the eyes of the presiding officer of the board of estimate & member of the board and he should receive the support of the board in maintaining his defense, for the prestige, honor and dignity of the city of New York are involved in these charges.” 000 Jimmy Walker Wrong? Far be it from me to say that Mayor Walker is wrong in his conclusions, but if President Coolidge had taken a similar view with regard to Secretary Fall when the oil scandal first broke out, had asked Congress for SIOO,OOO to provide for Fall’s defense while he was still a member of the Cabinet, what would people have said, and, more important than that, what would they be saying now? Hard as it may be, our system of justice rests on the theory that people accused of crimes must provide for their own defense if they are able. There are hundreds of people waiting trial in the city of New York for one offense or another, who are vastly less able to hire lawyers than Mr. Connolly. To a mere observer, it looks as though the honor, dignity and prestige of the city of New York would be better served by a thorough-going, impartial investigation than by too much worry about the defense of an official who is commonly regarded as well able to pay for it. 000 Good in Oil Scandal Whatever else may be said of it, the oil scandal already has accomplished some good and promises to accomplish more. Teapot Dome and the Elk Hills field have not only been recovered but $24,000,000 have been collected by way of teaching Sinclair, Doheny and their associates a lesson. With fingers burned to that extent it will be quite a while before anyone tries a similar stunt. To remove the temptation, so far as Muscle Shoals is concerned, the Senate has voted for the Government to operate it. The stage has been set for the Republican party to clean house or bo cleaned out by the people. • 0 0 Nicaragua’s Gratitude The Nicaraguan congress has voted down American supervision of the forthcoming election and Sandino refuses to make peace. Somehow, the gratitude we expected as the result of Intervention, seems conspicuous for its absence, and the settlement Colonel Stimson was supposed to have arranged does not appear to have settled anything. Still, we are going to keep the marines there for the sake of pride, if for no better reason; going to show the Nicaraguans that we can finish the job, even though it may not be worth finishing, and even though we are not sure of doing ourselves or any one else any good by finishing it. Os course, it is consistent with the honor and dignity of the United States not to quit a task, rfhee it has been undertaken, but it cr consistent with common sense (to realize what a task involves before undertaking it. If we learn that from the Nicaraguan mess, it will not have been cooked up in vain. nun The Coal Strike Harry T. Brundage, a reporter for the St. Louis Star, tells the Senate coal investigating committee that liquor, disorderly houses and gambling flourish in non-union mining camps near Pittsburgh. Others have testified to the same thing. It is hard to believe that some fire does not ejflst where there is so much smoke. Evidently the company-paid police are more interested in enforcing Injunctions than the law. Their success in keeping the strikers cowedj warrants the assumption that thevl could keep liquor and dives out ill they wanted to.