The Springfield Daily Republican from Springfield, Massachusetts (2024)

August 26, 1929

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The Springfield Daily Republicani

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Springfield, Massachusetts

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Monday, August 26, 1929

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ar rom the Old Community Blockhouse Spirit The Business Trend 1929 ilii KcpnHkmi SPRINGIELD MON AUGUST 28 1919 OURTEEN PAGES Copyright 1929 New York Tribune Inc THE WORLD BOOKS A CHICAGO History Portrayed in con fa TiTitl i a isn't as certain how his fail make rance and Italy come would affect them He must a personal of the fact surrounding career had irrepressible conflict but the omens just now are hardly favorable Those who have been directing their atten tion to Jewish colonization in Russia have some reason forefeeling that their course has been vindicated In shadow boxing the Chinese and Russians are at the top If one Englishman of the scholar ly attainments of Prof Gregory has learned here that the United States is not nearly so rich as it is reputed abroad to be the Wil liams Institute of Politics has justi fied its existence Jouett Shouse in Boston Septem ber 7 speaker at the luncheon of the Democratic state committee If the orator justifies the name there should be a large attendance A New Bedford woman 71 years old has worked 64 years in one cotton mill and has had' any Still this history should not be urged in defense of child labor such as she experienced when young All Britain backs Mr Snowden but it ure to across win letter to tha New York Times be cause no guidebook or photographs of the city hall were obtainable in that building or at the Metropoli tan Museum of Art If New York is remiss in exhibiting its finest archi tectural monument of the early re public it has now been properly rebuked The Indianapolis suggestion might also be noted by those who are arranging the Massa chusetts tercentenary for if Boston is visited next year by great num bers of people from other parts of tha country they will desire ac curate information about the build ings and places of historic interest which will engage theirattention Our New England cotton textile industry sees more light ahead in the estimate that the four more inches in skirts decreed by the Paris stylists will increase our mill production 4000000 to 5000000 yards a year Henry recent remarks about prohibition and the continued making of ord cars did not reveal a logical mind1 yet Henry ord has made himself by insight rather than by logic What a genius thinks is more significant than how he thinks it T3E SPRINGIELD BEPUBLICAM DAILY SUNDAT WEEKLY (Published The PubJtehlni 19 Cyprvaa St Mu THE SPRINGIELD DAILY REPUBLICAN SPRINGIELD MASS MONDAY AUGUST 26 1929 MR HOPEULNESS ormer Attorney General and Tam Mare New York Times ormer Atty Gen Sargent takes a hopeful view of both democracy and prohibition Dean Inge has recently been saying that we Americans "who are the only conservatives are telling the world that the irresistible march of democracy must continue till all effete survivals are abolished He brings history to testify that in gen eral democracies are short lived More specifically he puts in the testimony of Von Sybel that universal suffrage always heralds the end of popular gov ernment and of De Tocqueville that the more successful democracy is in leveling a population the less resist ance will the next despotism meet He introduces the opinion of Sir Henry Maine that universal suffrage would have prohibited the spinning jenny the power loom the threshing machine and the Gregorian calendar and reminds us that the voice of the people "on one notable cried To this contention Mr an swer is that there is a vast difference between the social structure of our democracy and other democracies Dean Ingo brings in another wit ness who Insists that democracies "al ways die and of the same two diseases not remembering that it is upon whom that fate is visited and that the good never grow old and so when they at last die they are still young Certainly it cannot be regarded as a sign of decadence or of the approach of either of the dis eases of which Dean witness speaks the destruction of national credit and prosperity by predatory leg islation and the emergence of militant groups which the state is too weak to control that our democracy has tried to cure what is regarded as one of its habits The gains' of this effort which the former attorney general mentioned are unquestioned: strength accomplishment and savings from inci cased sotretj and improved capacity to attend to business" Whether or not there Is enough on the other side of the account to carry the total result the it is an evi dence of democracy's virility that it has attempted afresh to fight an evil that has beset the race in one form or another from the time of Noah whose intoxication it is written doomed a son and his descendants to servitude Mr Sargent finds hope in the fact that increasing numbers remember Shanter's Mare" The lines he had in mind may not however be generally remembered: Now wha thia tala truth will read Each man and mother's son take heed: Whene'er to drink you are Inclin'd Or cutty sarka rin In your mind Think! ye may buy the joys dear Remember Tam o' mare Many are their joys these days but one of the most encouraging signs is working men are no longer found in the Keeley incfitiito on TO IT BOBBY Detroit News So long as Mr health tinues xerhaps it wuld be veil to refor to it as the National Open and Shut Tale prions 1 31(1 Connecting All Department Bu beer I pt ton rateai 98 Sunday Weekly 150 a year Entered aa eocondcaaa matter November I STS at the poetofflee or Springfield Maae under tha act ot March 8 18T91 MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS All rishis to the publication of newe in thia paper are expraealy reaervej and will he sranted only by epeetal arrantement JnjLjTbS Aaaoctated Prsss possssacs the exclu slva right to the republication of all newe furnished by It and to the republication of all news of spontaneous origin hi Hampden county gathered by this paper to Its capacity ga a member of ths Associated trees Dally Republican net paid for July JU OST copies per day Cabinet Rumors Reports of extensive changes in the cabinet which seem to have given the President concern and caused him to make a complete denial just as he was about to leave for his week end in camp are per haps due to the summer heat and the lack of concrete developments to chronicle in the newa from "Wash ington A rumor of changes in the cabinet like that of a death has at least this to support it Time if one waits Jong enough will eventually prove it true But for the moment it may be as much exaggerated as the premature re port of Mark Twain's passage to the Golden City It seems altogether unlikely if one consults the history of previous administrations that the cabinet which Mr Hoover selected last March Tvill show an unbroken line for four years The two breaks which have been most widely expected are the withdrawals sooner or later of Secretary Mellon now 74 on ac count of his age and of Secretary Davis of the department of labor who was frankly chosen on a sort of temporary basis because of Mr difficulty in finding at that time just the man he wanted for that post In spite of President ex perience last winter in selecting a man for the department of labor it is not likely as a general proposi tion that in his cabinet if reason arises for them will be im peded by an inability to find new men in the same degree that that consideration prevailed in President second term The late ranklin Lane secretary of the interior under Wilson and for a time one of the two or three cab inet members in whom Wilson re posed the greatest personal confi dence disclosed after his retire ment that his resignation to which he had long been impelled both be cause of ill health and utter lack of personal means had been repeat ly delayed by loyalty to Mr Wilson and the almost pathetic re minder that he would not know where to find Mr successor Mr Lane was used modestly to take this not so much as tribute as a reflection that the circ*mstances Mr earlier placed a relatively narrow boundary around his first hand knowledge of men of outstanding ability And by that time Mr Wilson had ceased to depend upon Col House Mr contacts in the years preceding his inauguration as Presi dent were obviously far wider than those of Mr Wilson while presi dent of Princeton or governor of New Jersey Aside from the volun teer organization including many conspicuously able men now in the prime of life which Mr Hoover had under him in the relief work in Bel gium there was also his highly or ganized work on this side as food administrator and his eight years of gradually developing activity in many directions as secretary of the department of commerce No Presi dent it may be assumed wishes to have rumors of cabinet withdrawals broadcast least of all if they are not at the moment actually impend ing But so far as a knowledge of capable men is concerned Mr Hoo ver ought 'to have relatively little difficulty in filling any cabinet va cancies that may develop What he may have more reason to fear is political interference and pressure if such rumors begin to spread The Riots in Jerusalem The riots in Jerusalem which have prompted the dispatch of military reinforcements to restore and pre serve order bring into sharp relief the conflict that has existed between Moslems and Jews since Palestine was taken over by the British under a mandate from the League of Na tions The Arabs more or less openly have from the first resented the Balfour declaration under which the British government was pledged to encourage the development of the country into a Jewish homeland though the absence until now of se rious outbreaks of violence has en couraged the hope that a peaceful adjustment of conflicting interests of the two ethnically related races would be steadily accomplished When the British mandate became operative about six years ago the Arabs in Palestine outnumbered the Jews by about seven to one By Jewish immigration checked frorz time to time by unemployment due to the slow industrial development the proportion has changed to between four and five to one The Arabs are likely for many years to continue in an overwhelm ing numerical majority and the pres ent riots suggest that an increasing race consciousness is 'likely to con tinue to be a disturbing influence The fact that Jewish enterprise has aided greatly both in the agricul tural development of a barren land and in the establishment of manu facturing industry both activities working to the economic advantage of Arabs as well as Jews apparently bps not been recognized by the Arab majority as an unmixed blessing The news that mobs of Arab peas ants flocked into Jerusalem and en gaged in attacks on the Jews is dis quieting It suggests the possibility of an outbreak of fanaticism which would not easily be restrained by the peacefully minded Arab leaders British military occupation On a somewhat imposing scale seems at present likely to be an imperative need for some time The affair of the wailing wall will need to be thoroughly investigated before blame for the rioting can be justly apportioned This wall the remaining fragment of the ruin of temple built 300fi years ago is on land owned by Arabs but gatherings of Jews there for the ancient ceremonial of mourning have not been forbidden though minor racial clashes have not been infre quent in recent years The present conflict grew out of the recent giv ing of permission to the Moslem su preme council the Arab governing body corresponding to the Jewish Zionist organization for building operations Although stipulation was made that the Jews should not be interfered 'with in their devotions the action was resented by Jews throughout Palestine This resent ment was intensified when on the first Saturday after the permission for building was granted Moslems were reported to have interfered with Jews at the wall Ten days later the annual mass pilgrimage of Jews to the ancient temple site took place several de tachments of police being on guard On the following day as the cere monies were being brought to a close a mob of several thousand Arabs inva'ded the area The Jew ish official in charge of the ceremonies was wounded and much of the Jew ish paraphernalia of worship was destroyed Several Arabs were ar rested but riots continued on the following day Jews being attacked in several parts of the city A Jew ish boy was fatally stabbed in a hand to hand encounter incident to an attack upon a group of Jewish boys who were playing ball The funeral of the youth was made the occasion of a Jewish demonstration some 2000 taking part in the proces sion The procession had been rout ed by the authorities to avoid the old city which is chiefly inhabited by Arabs but an effort was made by some of the marchers to change the prescribed route in a forbidden di rection A serious clash with the police followed during which the body of the dead youth was thrown to the ground The effectof the rioting upon Zionist ambitions can hardly be less than depressing Economic handi caps in developing a backward land and divided councils among leaders concerned with Jewish settlement have seemed on the way to be stead ily overcome There have also been indications of a tendency to amica ble co operation by Arab and Jew ish leaders The present manifesta tions of intense racial and religious feeling do tot necessarily mean an The History of Its Repu tation" (Harcourt Brace Neyr York $375) is the latest of many re cent contributions to the world's un derstanding of the great middle western metropolis This work of Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith is less a of reputa than a graphic history of Chi cago or a beginning the au thors take the glacial which seems to be far enough back for a background And by means of chap ters describing episodes and phases they bring the record down to today The method is filmlike and in its way successful Whatever the de fects of analysis and interpretation the authors vividly impress the story of the city on the reader's mind Though the reader may find the ex cessive vitality a bit trying anything less would have perhaps been untrue to Chicago The authors remind us that wnne Chicago and northern Illinois were still virgin wilderness the southern portion of the state was filling rapidly with settlers' from Virginia North Carolina Kentucky those pioneers whom Andrew Jackson called horse half alligator' des tiny in fact was not assured until 1833 when Jefferson Davis then a young army engineer persuaded Con gress that the outlet of the Chicago river was tho logical place for harbor improvements There were 43 houses and less than 200 Inhabitants in Chi cago when it was Incorporated as a town in the same year Chicago thus became tne gateway to the Northwest Probably it can be said that geography the railroads and adventurous easterners possessed of business talent Chicago with the aid of the inventive genius of Cyrus McCormick a Virginian The man who came to stand for the city on its human and civic strangely blended in an outstanding personality was Carter Harrison an educated Kentuckian In the rise from a crude frontier town to an increasingly magnificent metropolis Chicago has always had a great and conscious power of believ ing in itself Two days after the great fire of 1871 Joseph Chicago Tribune declared: the midst of a calamity without parallel in the world's history looking upon the ashes of 30 accumu lations the people of tiful city have resolved that Chicago shall rise Besides iron energy Chicago has been receptive to new particu larly mechanical ideas of practical application That is why Cyrus Mc Cormick was able to make reapers The skyscraper was a Chicago mven Strikes and anarchist riot ave been a part of what Chicago has paid for material progress The city cul tural progress has been less secure After the fair which glori ously advertised Chicago in spite of the local bickerings that were allow ed to tarnish it there was hope that the city might become a literary center literary position has constantly gained And in America great fortunes have been devoted to public benefits As long ago as 1868 Walter New bury left $2000000 to the city for a scholar's library By 1S70 Theodore Thomas was giving the city good or chestral music thanks of course to the German element in the Popula tion The public library and the Art institute were founded in the seventies to attest a growing interest in the things of the mind Chicago has always had a reputa tion for This is now no new thing It grew out of frontier conditions and the great Mayor Carter Harrison believed in a open Crime and political corruption are no new counts in the indictments against Chicago either As long ago as 1907 in the palmy muck raking days of magazine George Kibbe Turner wrote: reputation of Cnicago for crime has fastened upon the imagination of the United 4 4 Tl United States immigration commis sion from 1907 to 1910 NOTE AND COMMENT The New Customs BookCensorship The tariff bill as it passed the House added to the present section of the law prohibiting imports of im i moral literature and articles an en tirely new clause as Any book pamphlet paper writing advertisem*nt circular I print picture or drawing con taining any matter advocating or urging treason insurrection or forcible resistance to any law of the United States or any threat to take the life of or inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States The tentative Republican draft of the Senate bill retains this addition but with the words person the United States" substi tuted for President of the A customs house censorship i against imports of obscene litera ture has been established by law for years and in spite of the ridicu lous squeamishness at times of the federal authorities shown in the ex clusion of certain literary the present section bf the law would not be seriously attacked The addition now sponsored by the 4 House and the Senate committee introduces an arbitrary customs house censorship over a kind of lit erature wholly different from books pamphlets and papers classed as obscene The new customs censorship pro posed is aimed at all literature of political or social character that certain people might regard as revo lutionary or seditious With the customs sensorship thus broadened reactionaries professionally active to restrict the reading of the American people to what met their approval could exercise a virtual censorship theipselves by merely filing with the officials complaints i against foreign books as seditious or the tendency of officials is toexclude anything that is com plained of The censorship now proposed is be an arbitrary administrative process by customs officers without court review The present law en acted in 1922 contains the provision in former tariff laws that federal judges may intervene in these cases tho proceedings to be conducted the same manner as in other in the case of municipal and with the same right of or writ of That whole clause is omitted from the Hawley Smoot bill now pending in the Senate If some new European work of political science of an innovating or disturbing nature should be import ed by an American scholar in order to ketp in touch with the advanced thinking of the world a United States customs officer could arbi trarily exclude it on the ground that it advocated treason What is treason and what is its twin I sister sedition? There is no exact definition for either What is trea son to Mrs Brosseau would not be treason to Justice Holmes The Ku Kluxers might protest im ports of papal documents concern ing education or the relations be 1 tween church and state One hun dred and thirty years ago a United States customs officer could have ar bitrarily excluded at any time in the past 50 years he could have excluded under this proposed addition to the obscenity section of the United States tariff law Such an extension of the arbi trary customs censorship is un warranted and should be stricken from the bill With so conservative a Republican journal as the New York Herald Tribune denouncing it as "making the sky the in customs censorship and calling for its rejection as a menace to rea sonable liberty in the intellectual life of the American people no one can urge that only are hit by it In view of the recent at tack on the same clause by Sena tor Cutting Republican cf New Mexico it will not get through the Senate without full exposure of its malignant possibilities as gag law An Indianapolis man who lately7 New York complains in a fcri Dr Jeremiah Jenks who died on Saturday in New city in his 73d year was a distinguished scholar whose talent was on many important occasion employed to the advantage of society and govern ment After his gradution from the University of Michigan he studied law and was admitted to the bar but he almost immediately elected to follow teaching as a vocation After a graduate course at the University of Halle in Germany he held professorships successively at Knox college and at Indiana Cornell and New York universities At the time of his death he was research professor of government at the last named institution He was a master of research as his varied public service has demonstrated rom 1899 to 1901 he was expert agent of the United States industrial com mission in the investigation of trusts in this country and Europe and during the same period a spe cial consultant of the department of labor on related subjects Hewent to China in 1903 as the repre sentative of the commission on in ternational exchange and became a recognized authority on oriental affairs He aided the Nicaraguan government in revising its banking laws and was one of four experts who investigated economic condi tions in Germany in 1922 at tne re quest of the German government He is best known to many American readers as an expert on immigration problems He was a member of the THE MOTOR AGE Cincinnati Enquirer It is getting so if you still are alive on Monday you are suspected of hav inggoae to church on Sunday Stock Market Booms as Loans Rise Again and again the stock market has proved completely indifferent to immense increases in Ioans but when stocks were swept upward on riday after loans had set a new record everybody was sur prised With the loans total jump ing $133000000 so soon after the new ederal Reserve policy had gone into effect it was effected that the mar ket would react sharply Instead it moved upward from the start and one representative group of issues gained seven points for the day' The best explanation of what hap pened was that the very expectation of a decline was the chief factor in preventing it When the market opened there was a heavy accumula tion of orders from speculators who thought that prices would be lower Persons working for an advance seized this situation and began buy ing so heavily themselves that prices shot up rapidly Before the day had advanced very far this unexpected performance of the market had in flamed the stock buying fever all over the country and the vigorous activity sent securities to higher and higher prices The upward movement was continued on Saturday so far as a few favorite issues were concerned American Telephone crossing 300 Loans rom Others Than Banks In spite of the sensational gain In loans the banking situation was stronger The gain in fact oc curred entirely in the class of private? loans those of corporations Investment trusts and individuals who place their idle funds at the disposal of the stock market New York city reduced their Ioans by $39000000 and out of town banks reduced their loans by $23000 000 But against these decreases was a spectacular jump in the so called account of $194000 000 This carried the total beyond $6000000000 for the second the other occasion having been a fortnight ago just before the ed eral Reserve board announced the advance of 1 per cent in the redis count rate at New York It is believed that a large factor in the increment of loans is the accumulation of money by in vestment trusts which have recently marketed large issues of their stock but have not yet permanently invest ed their funds Loans of are now more than half the total Call money was easy' throughout the week being for some days at 6 per cent as low a rate as has been touched this year Besides reducing their loans member banks of the New York ederal Reserve also reduced their borrowings at the Re serve by $51000000 Moreover the Reserve bank did not materially In crease its holding of accept ances and actually reduced its store of government securities As discounts for the Reserve system dropped $41600000 there was nothing hr the immediate situation to suggest a need of further steps for controling credit Actually however it is be lieved that credit is still tight be neath the surface and this is borne out by the prevailing rates of 8 to 9 per cent for time money as com pared with 6 per cent a year ago Commercial paper has advanced 44 per cent since the increase in the New York ederal Reserve rate inancial Map Changing The extent to which investment trust funds have been loaned on call has been a matter of conjecture for some months The growth of these has been one of the most sig nificant features of recent financial history Another of course has been the merger tendency among the larger banks a tendency freshly il lustrated by steps being taken in Boston to consolidate the irst Na tional bank and Old Colony Trust company with possibly another trust company included The process of amalgamation in the industrial and commercial spheres has now reached a point where the announcement of an impending merger of important concerns arouses no great public interest except among holders of securities of the corpora tions affected or those who see a chance for speculation in such securities Public utility mergers have been on a colossal scale promoted tor the sake of profit in security transactions as well as for increased efficiency and economy A new development of interest in connection with investment trusts is that their buying into industrial cor porations public utilities and even railroads has almost been sufficient to give them a controling interest in some companies Whether these trusts will attempt to exercise such control or whether they will treat their holdings merely as investments is for the future to determine With regard to the merger tendency in the commercial world re view observed last week: of operation of buying arid selling have changed in no small degree and the bringing together of large inter ests through increasing numbers of mergers is altering the economic And with regard to mergers in general a financial news paper the other day remarked that this activity stirs almost no opposi tion in political quarters whereas once consolidation practices were gen erally viewed with disfavor The indexes of current business continue to present a cheerful pic ture Total' motor car production for the first seven months amounted to 3723723 cars and trucks compared 1VHU JCCH ex figures together with the records of steel production go far toward ex plaining why the country remains prosperous Congestion has again af fected the marketing of gfaine and wheat prices for the week tended lower The sun rose over Little America Antarctica on riday after four months of night and Comdr Bj rd expedition welcomed it with the flags of three nations saluting the emblems with uncovered heads at 40 degrees below zero This should give a good test of the tradition that one never catches cold in the polar regions The working of new penal code under which persons ac cused of crime will be tried by com mittees of alienists and other ex perts instead of by juries promiscu ously drawn will be watched with interest after its inauguration on January 1 Much will depend on how expert the experts prove actual ly to be i Bascom Slemp unaided by Bishop Cannon who has gone to Europe finds the fusion ticket in Virginia disintegrating on his hands owing to the retirement of fhe Republican candidate for lieutenant governor whose ancestors made the political in Virginia of going for the Union in the Civil war It an emergency for a substitute LOCAL PRICE MILK To the Editor of The In your Thursday issue it has come to our attention that you published an article with the following headlines: Stores Boost Milk Price Adds $200 to Daily You may or may not have been aware that the price of milk in Springfield was at least one cent low er than In any other city in the state that there was quite a serious shortage of milk due to dry weather that the state commissioner of agriculture stronglv recommended be cause st the unfair situation existing to the producers of Springfield milk an advance to a parity with markets We were advised of this situation by the commissioner self and asked to co operate in bring ing about an equable situation in Springfield which of course we did not and could not refuse to do Under the above conditions it would seem to the writer that you are a lit tle unfair to the chain stores in ad vising the consumer that the chain stores were responsible for boosting the price of milk The situation in New England as far as the producer of milk is con cerned particularly those produ cers supplying the Springfield mar ket has been quite serious for some time and at present prices of milk and its value as a food compared with other foods its price is ri diculously low in fact It requires a mighty efficient dairyman to secure a new dollar for an old one There are naturally two sides to every food question the Producers side and the consumer side The policy of the irst National Stores inc is to try in every way to be fair to both and we believe that the advance in the price of milk in Springfield was warranted and fair to both interests although we were not responsible for the move ADAMS Treasurer Boston August 24 1929 TO LAITY OR PREACHERS The Churchman A very large number of the theological graduates are young men who have gone too swiftly from adolescence to the pulpit They are so to speak Time was when more men of maturer years turned to the ministry wellseasoned by contact with the world and convinced of the solid opportunity for usefulness offer ed them The youth just out of school is less fitted for the important func tions of the Christian clergyman than even the casual graduate of the ordinary university is for a business career Long ago thewar department found It wise to open West Point to men from the ranks with great gains in steadiness and experience to the service The same thought might well be employed in recruiting the ministry Search should be made among the 1 fnr ma nf th right spirit who have learned their way around in life and who can hold out firmer hands than the callow youth who fresh from the classroom If the has business his it is with another group HOOVER IN DIXIE tHouston Post Dispatch! The welcome accorded to President Hoover in Virginia where the estab lishment of the Hoover end White was celebrated Satur day did full credit to southern tradi tions of hospitality Gov Harry Byrd of the Old Dominion voiced the feelings of the people of his state when he told Mr Hoover that Vir ginia partisanship stops at the border of It is safe to assume that when the chief executive makeshis projected trip down the Mississippi river through the and through the Southwest as far as Texas he will be given an equally cordial greeting Southern hospitality has ever proved Itself able to forget partisanship and regardless of the disapproval of some of the Hoover policies the President will be accorded every courtesy Dixie is able to bestow States as that of no other city has done It is the current conventional belief that the criminal Is loose upon its Why was Chicago then a city of crime? Mr Turner gave the answer which would have to be given today: of the tremendous and elabo rate organizations financial and political for creating and attracting and protecting the criminal intChl cago" This spirited' narrative of Messrs Dewis and Smith doubtless deals over much with external events siiscepr tibie of graphic description But it makes the impression aimed at and there are revealing touches and glimpses when the authors tell us about the firms 40 years ago or the life of the working people in the turbulent years of the eighties and nineties If it is oversim plified drama it is at least honest drama and not melodrama WITHOUT A COUNTRY Indianapolis News Mark Jacobson instructor in po litical' science at the University of Wisconsin points out in the Nation that the women who succeeded in persuading Congress to pass a law that a citizenship is not deter mined by her husband's went farther than they had planned There are 20 countries where the nationality of the wife follows that of the busband Any woman living in one of these coun tries loses her own citizenship when she marries an American but does not become a citizen of this couaitry This in effect leaves her without a country It she lives here a year she can become a naturalized Amer ican but how to get into this land without a passport from the country where she lost standing as a citizen is another problem Jacobson says: example an official in the United States consular service sta tioned abroad wa i in 1922 married in England to a British woman and they afterwards sought to come to the United States The wife was discov ered to be ineligible to an American passport since under the Cable act she had not by her marriage acquired American nationality On the other hand under the British act of 1914 she had lost her British nationality on her marriage to a non Britlsh subject so she was denied a British passport Under section 2 of the Cable act she could have been naturalized after only one year resi dence in the United States if she came to this country but she could not get a passport to The effect of tha law does not ap pear to have been realized by thosewho were among Its strongest sup porters Americans who marry women of other nationalities might evade the consequences by bringing them here and having the ceremonies performed in this country and then having them naturalized in due course if they could obtain pass ports from their own countries This would mean inconvenience and possibly an ocean voyage simply for the purpdse of complying with formalities EVERYDAY LIVING Briand Storm in The Churchman You see me lift my teacup and drink the tea by name How can you know that every day the draught is not the same? Today I sipped of courage and yester day of fears Tomorrow maybe laughter tomor row maybe tears ROM THE GOLDEN BOOKS The Urn Malcoim Cowley Wanderers outside the gates in hollow landscapes without memory we carry each of ue an urn of native soil of not impalpable dust a double hand ful carelessly gathered (was it garden moqjd or Wood soil fresh with hemlock needles pine and princess pine this little earth webore in secret vainly over the frontier?) A parcel of the soil not wide enough or firm enough to build a dwelling on or deep enough to dig a grave but cool and sweet enough to sink the ajia nnu mo ears 1 1 i T' I 85 i i i i fe IS i is.

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