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MAY 29, 1924 VOL. 8&3. 2169 “While there is Life there's Hope” Published by LIFE PUBLISHING COMPANY Curances Dana Gisson, President $98 Ma English Offices, Rolls House, ROM time to time Mr. New: ton Baker is vocal When he speaks appar- ently it is to say nowadays, That was his answer the other day to the question, Should Muscle Shoals go to Ford? No! said Mr. Bake to go to any one. The Government should keep it! To the question, Will the Dawes reparations plan succeed? Mr. Baker's So, at least, it was Since then Poincaré has it is too great a power answer is No again. the other d gone to grass and he may be more hope ful He en yet of Senator Lodge's new World Court. He may not find it necessary to say No to that else says No to it Except Mr. Anderson, who made it, no because every one takes it seriously, not even, onc may surmise, Mr. Lod himself. It seems an expedient to delay action on the desire of Mr. Coolidge and Mr. Hughes to join the existing World Court There have been rumors that Mr Baker is going to make a great speech at the Democratic Convention. Very well, let him. If he has a good speech inside of him, the Convention ought to hear it. Meanwhile, what does he think about the persuasion of the Theosoph ists that the the Aryans is now forming in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand? Has Mr. Baker informed himself on this subject? Does he ap- sixth sub-race 0’ prove the persuasion of the Theosoph- ists? Will he say anything about it to the Democratic Convention? If a new sub-race is forming and the High Authorities are back of the project. and the United States is one of the coun- n Avenue, New Y. Breams Bldg Le Ror Mitten, Sec’y and Treas. ke . London, E. C tries in which it is expected to develop, we ought to push the idea along. Per- haps that notion is behind Mr. Lodge's reluctance to let us mix up too much with Europe, Perhaps it is behind the new Immigration laws that are intended to keep uncertified Europeans from mixing in too large quantities with us Maybe the real basis of the solicitude of Congress, and of President Coolidge off and on, and of all the Cali to keep out the nese is this sense nians J that a new race is forming and that too many — inharmo ous ingredients should not be mixed into it just at this time. A lot of people who have never heard of the Theosophist theory scem to be working for it. They do not say a new sub-race is forming, but they do say, or at least feel, that the population of the United States contains already as large an clement of recently acquired citizens not born here as it can digest and until it has digested what it now has and developed a national type, with minds trained to American conceptic of life, the inward flow of 1s people should be kept down to small propor tions. The New Zealanders are much more particular than we are about whom they let in. The Australians and Cana: dians are a little less fast ious, but the same idea runs through all these coun tries and now through the United States that there is a job on of developing a new racial type of man and that it should have the right of way. S for World Courts and Leagues, they won't do very much until the minds of the nations accept the idea of them. So far they have not accepted it more than imperfectly, but there is more going on in this world than the efforts of politi ans to fet elected to office, and the efforts of individual nations to make good deals for themselves. The French election stimulates the hopefulness of the hopeful. Contrary to all the expectations imparted by the correspondents, the French electorate tipped out M. Poincaré, and with em- phasis; so conveying the conviction that the concerns of France needed the direc- tion of a new mind. The new mind in prospect is M. Herriot, Socialist, so- called; not a lawyer, but lately pro- fessor of rhetoric in the University of Lyons and long mayor of that city Possibly he will be the new premier, perhaps M Sriand, but either of them may be expected to work better than M. Poincaré with Ramsay MacDonald in applying the Dawes reparations plan to the economic ailments of Europe England and France must agree about Germany, and this new France clection in s that they will ISCUSSIO. dates is proguse, but no conclusion has yet been reached. The Walshes take part. The papers record that Fran cis P. Walsh of Ka r lately) is for Alfred E. Smith of ew York, and invites everybody, and Catholics in particular, t But Senator David V chusetts has been of Democratic candi- nsas City (now root for him. alsh of Massa- praising Senator Thomas Walsh of Montana, to be for him. So it is a tie except that Frank Walsh is a more imprudent talker than David, and likelier to bur- chard his favorite candidate. David, is earning odium in Mass: chusetts by voting for tax and appr priation bills that are highly obnoxious nd seems however, to the sentiments of business and eti- «quette in the Bay State. He and other Democrats in Congress are doing what they can to continue Mr. Coolidge in office by voting for bad bil especially rabs and tax bills, for him to veto D*® CHARLES W. ELIOT, the veteran champion of Prohibition, has been put in the ring to confront Dr. Murray Butler, who continues to declare that the present Dry laws are rotten and will disappear within five years. Dr. Eliot is the same who for- merly believed in education by liberty. E, S. Martin. comicbooks.com