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·-   "Interpretations of Soviet conditions  
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y U _   numbers.” -—L0uis Fischer in “Ma-  {
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’ I *HE continued reign of lawlessness in Harlan and O R d S I I il 
Bell Counties, Ky., after a year of violence against         _;
all efforts to organize unions, has challenged the E d R •  
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION to md LII'OpC BI1 USSI8  
this week 3* dclcgatmn °f lawyers and °th°" to help (Itineraries which balance sightseeing and special interests, foreign  
restore civil tights. The patty is headed by Arthur contacts and independent leisure. (I_Srna|| groups of like-minded _;
· Gafacld Hays, genera] counsel of the Union, and ymyelers, {Distinguished auspices here and abroad.   ·
includes a number of Southern lawyers. A Sampling of Open Road Trip, 1932  
This delegation will first; appeal to the federal each under °um°"di”g American leadership  
court to restrain lawless county officials. The prose- SOCML WORK IN $OV'ET RUSSDF _  
cutor of Bell County has declared that "If a mad Wi¤hkf¤“°¤*g*¤°° at df g*“_°"B‘;‘°’?;A§;:Vi;’;E”°E °€v;';;*£u    ,»
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then the American Civil Liberties Union has the NEW ;N[?gSTRlAL ZENTERSQDZLHS  ;”;1:_I:`(0 cn) $777 [_
same right. But just as we would suppress the mad LM "' P`°Fm°K °LsT°N A ' 1 ’ P ° ’, 
dog, we will also _mpl,,.eSs this .,m_Ame,.;m,, U,,;0,,_» FOUR GENERAL SURVEY TRIPS TO THE SOVIET UNION;  g
1. Leader: Mrss jzssrce SMITH. Sails june 23, return (open) $566. V ‘·°‘
Whether the injunction is granted or not, the 2. Leader: Mss. MARGUERITB S·n:wn.·r. Sails june 26, return _
* party will go into the coal area to help establish free- 3 [$39;**) KM B0 DEM sms June 30 mum (cpm)    j
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qom of assemblage w1thPu€ dlscrmlmauom and the 4. Leader: Pxov. Lucy Tzxwon. Sails July 19, return (open) $583. 5 
ugh: of all agcncxcs to distribute rehcf. STUDENT TRIP TO SOVIET RU$S|A_  ».
This effort costs money. The members of Auspiccs National Student Federation of America). Leader:  
the at are 'vi their time an takin the Dx. I-Lxmnsrou Hour. Sails June 2*, returns August 31, $343;  
· bp ty gl ug · g Optional 3 weeks in Europe $132.25 7 
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We call on NATION readers to aid them by    F
contributing to the expenses of the trip, of the    
court actions and of later work which must be '·"?§.?`;T    ·
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establish civil rights, a total estimated at $1200. Lowest Cost Roughmg It Trtps  
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  Auspxces League for Industnal Democracy). Leader: j. B.
M.u‘1»mws. Sails june 30, returns September ll. $467. l
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e Ow 0 ay' june 30, returns August 28. $350. `
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UN]ON' 1. Leader: juurm Bmum. Sails jon: 30, return (open) $387. E
100 Fifth Avenue, . 2. Leader: MAXWELL STEWART. Saul: July l, return (open) $391.
New York City. HIKING IN EUROPE: (for girls)
D¤te............-....-.. Sails june 30, returns August 28. $460.
1. Here is my contribution of $..._............. toward the EURQPE FOR SCHOOL BOYS:
expenses of your campaign to restore civil right; in the $2115 .l¤¤¢ Zh f¢¥¤1’¤$ A¤8¤5¤ U- $382-
Kentucky coal area. Trips may be joined abroad with corresponding reductions.
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  Vol. CXXXIV NEW YORK, WEDNESDAY, MAY 18, 1932 No. 3489 { 
 _ C t t ERBERT HOOVER may find more than passing com- i 
Y OH EH S . . . . . . A 
 . fort in the results of the Democratic primaries in Cali·
  §B§¥8g%2£SPARAGR.APris ..................... . ............. 555 fornia. This is not because Speaker Garner was ViCt0I'i011S,  _
 " Paul Donrrier   .............................................. ssv for it is highly unlikely that the Democrats will choose a ·
‘ r‘5r'i.°i’£"?.??‘??i‘?..::::::;;;:;;;::::::::;:1:::::;:::::1::;:::; 223 dry Sentherner as their Presidential candidate. but because ;;
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    ?;rI§RE A COUPLE OF RUGGED 560 grankhli D:l1%)OS@V€lt WZS SO   defilatedo foyernor ; 
  RUss1A COULD rrrrtt US‘?““rr, iirrrlrriéA.'iiii1i;}é§rZZZZZZZZZZZZ rrr °°S¤VtF sti as M ?¤d away? C Fri °_¤¤°° ° Winnmg
BENIGHTED mPLoMAcY. By Frederick L. seirnrrrnrr ............ sos the nomination. But in the Cahforma primary he showed
{ CULTURAL RECOGNITION OF RUSSIA. By loseph Barnes ..... 565 . . .
‘1 THESE SENATORS SAY YES! ................................. soo again, as he had shown earlier in Massachusetts and Pennsyl-
  ""‘S3`.r‘E“?’??l‘??Si  .T?llT'F?.$’F.‘???‘?F’.‘?‘T’.‘T¥‘??l‘...‘?¥.i'ii‘i’f‘? rrr vania. that he is nat a great drawing card or vctc-getter. If r
1 ?f ESi3TE[¥%S.1i§grES;Iiiii 1iiiJi>)rii§1iiéy ]il.iZ.SZ Pii?f[fff[f[[§§ gig hc is nominated. l1¢ will not arouse the country as his sup- V
l 2 ggR"l`Rl{£P%l¥g}‘§V€g· BY Um D¤“'=' ·-~···········-····-··-····   porters expected him to do. Roosevelt s campaign began with
g ° CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE ................. Q: ......... 573 a great flourish; m the early primaries his candidacy brought
yi FINANCE: ··1>RoTr·;cr1oN*· UNDER DIFFICULTILS. By s. .
e Palmer Harman ............................................. 574 Ollt IHOYC DCKHOCIHYIC VOICIS than many States had CVCI SCC!]
* BOOKS, Music. DRAMA: · ·
  gm.? és; RSM? n£;rrar.MB1,;I aprt Lechlituer ................. gg; before- But since then Something has happened-_ The cn-
‘  ri.2 r.€.2'§rn.r¥.g sgiriinié. réiiiritan ntiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii rrr thusiasm fw rhs New Yvrk G¤v¤r¤¤r has ¤¤¤¤¢¤blv dc-
,   Carlyle. By Samuel C. Chew ................................. 576 C1·cascd_ Perhaps thls is due to thc fact that thc country as
I { Building New IRUSSIB. By Alexander Kaun ...... . ............. 577 _ _ ·
i Note; on Fiction . ......................... . ................. 578 a whole is turning away from the Democrats as a result of
· l, Music: The American Composer. By Arthur Mendel ........... 578 , . T . .
V, Drama: A Palpable Hit. By Joseph Wood Krutch ............. 580 IllClI‘ pC1‘f0I'1'1'l¥iI1C€ IH Vg 2lSl`1lIlgt0I`l, OI 1’I'10l’€ p1’0b8l)l.y lt C2.!]
_   OSWALD GARRISON vILLARD’ EDITOR be attributed to .R0osevelt’s own weakness, to his refusal to
  Assoernn Emrou speak out unequivocally on the questions of the day.
.; DOROTHY vAN DOREN MAURITZ A. HALLGREN
·  ` DEVERE ALLEN
 , DM“n.,cE,,,.,,,, Lpl-ERARyED11·¤l PRESIDENT HOOVER on May 5 unexpectedly sent _
·  ` JOSEPH WOOD KRUT€g E HENRY HAZLYIT a special message to Congress once again calling the
• V ONTRIBUTING DITORS · ·
_  · HE“Yr¥vOODGE§I%g¥T ER]iD%J§§%%}€§,EY gi£]5K\>,{§_, I%)I5§§ attentionboi that body to what he considers ihe egctreme laces;
L, TOHNSAS HOBSON NORMAN THOMAS ARTHUR VVARNER my of a a"°“‘g_ thc fcqfra budgch “ t ° Wm, °
1   the New York Txmesl he placed squarely on the shoulders
 · Snnscnrrrton RATES: Five dollars per annum postpaid in the United States; _
  to Canada, $6.50; and to other foreign countries. $6.00. of Congress the blame for the failure of the tax and economy
5   rm; NATION, No. 20 \£csey Str-opts lgew York Cisykgiaix _Addr§ss: programs.” The message declared that “the imperative need
 ·; §2§L‘I.’.i; ililelslil zrB§`}Iri..yfiéi$"§q%rrr,“rj§§1—iI-.2r°’iiz.“‘é. r, r`§$.,r§I.’2rE ‘” of the nation today is a definite and conclusive program {or
i balancing the budget. Uncertainty is disastrous. It must
 _ LTHOUGH THE SWING to thc left ln thc French be in every sense a national program. Sectional, partisan,
i [ h arliamentary elections is distinctly gratifying, We must group, or class considerations can have no place in it.” These
i . P . . . . . . ....
ll still await the outcome of the political bargaining D1'€llml‘ are beautiful and entirely proper sentiments. In the abstract
    nary to the erection of 21 new government bCf0I`C WC know we can and do irldorse them, But the Presideot’5 message
 A `ust what si nificance to attach to the election results. There must be examined in thc li ht of known political factors_ ·
J E _ _ E
'· _ is little question that Edouard Herriot, leader of the Radical For exarrrple, thorc is thc approaching clcction_ If thc _
Socialist Party, now the largest in the Chamber of Deputies, prospccrivc Republican nornincc can rnnkc it appear that thc
Q will be the new Premier. But Herriot has not yet decided Democratic majority in the House is unable to devise a i
L Wllctllcf to f01‘1’I1 an alliance with the center paftics led by workable tax and economy prograrrl,   the prospective Re-
7 André Tardieu, which would give him a Stable majority, publican nominee can convince the voters that the tactics of
l' ~ or to throw in his lot with the Socialist Party, which Would this same Democratic majority are contributing directly to
give him an uncomfortably slender majority. The Radical the prevailing confusion in Washington and the continued
Socialist Part is radical and socialist in name only. Herriot decline in business, will that not improve the chances of a
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himself has lately defended the nationalist policies of Premiers Republican victory at the polls in November? Mr. Hoover’s `
L Tardieu and Laval even more heatedly upon occasion than language tends to put the Democrats in bad odor, and it
,, the latter have believed necessary. Moreover, in the cam- has unquestionably given millions of voters who read the r
vf ai n Herr-iot was bitter in his denunciation of the Socialists. messa e the impression that only the President and the Re- ‘
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.i lt would a ear therefore, that his more obvious choice publicans have the interests ofthe countr at heart.
ts     ! l · _ y
id l would be to join forces with Tardieu, and thus insure con-
. tinnancc of the present policies of France, which have done REPUBLICANS AS WELL as DemoeratS had a hand
l so much to disturb Europe in the last twelve months. But in wrecking the economy bill. Republicans as well as
in throwing the Chamber majority to the left the French Democrats supported the increase in the Veterans’ Bureau ex-
. voters have made it plain that they want to see the repara- penditures. Republicans as well as Democrats voted for the
Q tions and disarmament policies modified. And Herriot, Goldsborough bill. And what could have contributed more
shrewd politician that he is, may wisely decide to respond to the current uncertainty than the attitude of the Secretary
  to popular opinion in this case. of the Treasury, Ogden Mills, who has publicly changed his
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_ position with regard to taxation several times in recent is for the latter type of war to be disguised as a war of dc-  
months, and whose estimates as to potential revenues have lense. Until a formula can be devised outlawing all war, . 
been demonstrably erroneous? And what could be more this grave problem will defy permanent solution. However,  
disturbing to public confidence than the stupid assertion of the Hoover-Stimson doctrine marks a distinct advance over :_
David Reed, Republican Senator from Pennsylvania, that the “peace by compulsion" school. It recognizes that the  
what this country needs is a Mussolini? Lastly, even the world is not yet perfect and that there may be war again in \
President’s premises are not Wholly accurate. He calls for a the future, but it at least does not add still another possible ;
reduction in expenditures totaling $700,000,000 per annum, cause of war to the many that exist, and that is precisely ·
thus giving the impression that Congress is refusing to make what the advocates of economic sanctions and of boycotts  I
such a drastic cut in expenses. But upon investigation the would do.   '
Washington correspondent of the New York W`orld-Tele-  
gram found that reductions contemplated or already approved JUSTICE CARDOZO, in his new position on the li 
by Congress total $833,000,000. So the very result Dir. United States Supreme Court, has just written two im- il
Hoover is seeking, Congress is already close to achieving. Doftant decisions which strengthen the liberal stand the if
court has lately seemed to take. By a vote of five to four  
'I*HAT THE UNITED STATES will not join with the court has declared unconstitutional the Texas law which r
other Powers or with the League of Nations in coercive gave State executive committees the right to decide who  
action to “enforce peace" has now been made clear beyond might be permitted to v0te——which was in effect a law dis-  
dispute by the Undersecretary of State, V\’illiam R. Castle, franchising Negroes. Thus the long fight which began with i 
Jr. Every foreign office in Europe has known this for years, grandfather clauses as soon as the Fourteenth Amendment  
_ but because Vgfashington had MVC; spoken out plainly on the had been passed, and proceeded through various cireumlo-  ’
subject European governments and League apologists thought Cutions and “property" qualifications to the Texas primary _ 
they might, by their ceaseless propaganda, still win this l21W, has had another and, OHS may ll0pc, a pC1‘manc11t check.  
country over to the "peace by compulsion" theory. Now that The Supreme Court also took action on the so-called Packers ·*
4 the Stare Department has made its position plain, this propa- Consent Decree, and upheld the decree of 1920 enjoining  
ganda should cease. VVe wholly agree with Mr. Castle, as the Eve leading meat-packers from dealing in the sale of  li
we have repeatedly stated in recent issues of The Nation, food products unrelated to the meappacking industry In  __
that peace is not to be secured by resort to economic sanc- 1930 Swift and Company and Armour and Company ap- ir}
tions, boycotts, embargoes, or blockades. Those devices are pealcd for modification of the decree. In refusing the pcti-  I
measures of war, and the use of them, as Mr. Castle de- tion Justice Cardozo aptly says; °
glared, "would almost surely lead to war." On thc Otlwf The case comes down to this: The defendants had  i
hand, we cannot wholly accept the State Department’s new abused their powers so grossly and persistently as to lead  
doctrine of refusing to recognize treaties or other political to thc b¢li¢f that ¢V¢¤ when they were acting separately  
arrangements arrived at in violation of the Kellogg Pact their conduct had been subjected to extraordinary restraints.  
and similar peace agreements. The new doctrine is beyond Tlmic was the {car that °"°” when $0 acting they would  ”
doubt a vast improvement Over the Lcaguc,s System of Sam? still be ready ·and ablelto crush their feebler rivals in the  3
tions. In it there is no room for the employment of coercive iifmo tggoicifs and kéndmd prl°d“°tS by {mms °i °°mP€‘  A
action to prevent war; nations contemplating war are to be and just. u css an oppressive to bc accepted as {mr  
dissuaded by the foreknowledge that the legality of the spoils  .l
4 they hope to 'garner will not he recognized by other g0}’¢rn- THE GOLDSBOROUGH BILL, passed by the House i`
ruents. While we helieve th1s·1s-the best to be had in an by the overwhelming vote of 289 to 60, is either a
intensely nationalistnc, imperialistic world, wc do not con- needless or a dangerous measure. Its simple statement-
sider the new doctrine to be perfect. “lt is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States
l I that the average purchasing power of the dollar . . . for the i
IN-OPPOSIITIG economic sanctions, Mr. Castle ernpha— period covering the years 1921 to 1929 inclusive shall be
srzed the difiiculty that would be encountered in de- restored and maintained"-may be taken to be nothing more
terminmg the aggressor rn. any given war. But would not than a statement to prove that Congress prefers high prices
the same d1i¥iculty (?X1St with- respect to the Hoover-Stimson to low prices, prosperity to depression, even though it may
doctrine? Would it not be Just as hard under this doctrine not expect this declaration to have any effect on actual
for-the governments of the world to determine which of two policy. But the bill does not stop there. It goes on to
nat1ons engaged in hostilities was the violator ofthe Kellogg direct that this former price level is to be restored and ·
Pug, it is, the aglgire?o;·, and which the defending coun- maintained by a specific method; to wir, "rhe control of  
. o ~ · · .
iiirmsb;w§`§‘1f}°iipZrZti§¤Z"u$2: Z°§i£Zli,r"{LiZiil`$yvZiruZZi iii-Y’1"$€t 11 "§—dZi at   T*‘° **5* ‘*‘“°“‘”’ *
certain political or economic rights within the defeated coun- the 'Ihiea Z1 cd ch CT; Reserve B0?}-d, the Secretary Of il
tr ? Th r_ t _ h Y ld ' 1 l sury, an t e cserve lbanks, hereby charged with y
¥_ ' g we or rn t at case vsou certain y not como the duty of making effective this policy " cannot control the ‘
within the purview of the new doctrine. Yet to all prac- volume of credit and currency except in a ver indire t d  
tical purposes its war of defense will have ended exactly as unreliable way. The second is that even if thcyycould cimllilol l
though it had been prosecuting a war of aggression. The the volume of credit, the average level of rices ld E
defect in the new doctrine is the same as that to be found in necessarily rise or fall in proportion The czusatisvol? not »
the Kellogg treaty. The Pact of Paris does not outlaw all to be almost precisely the opposite from that »ghig}$p:}?; l
  wa; but only wars of aggression. But we know how easy it Goldsborough bill supposes. In the ordinary course of bus.

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. lc,  iness on the gold standard, changes in the volume of credit  
-,   and currency follow, and do not precede, changes in the l
-’   price level. The price level can be changed radically through     ii
Y 3 currency manipulation only by tl1e chaos of irredeemable , j 
E Qi paper money or by changes in the gold content of the dollar. T is reported that the President of France rallied will-  
n pg As long as America remains on the gold standard at the I ciently after his assassination to inquire what had · 
e present dollar parity, changes in the volume of Our credit haPP€UCd to him. He Was told that llc had b€€¤ l¤l¤!¢d ,[
y   and currency can have only a negligible cflect 0n the inter- lll 211 3\1t0mObil€ accident. Unable to 1"CCOVCY any recollec- l
ts il national gold price level. tion of the facts, he wished to be assured that the injury ‘
Q ’ was unintended. "Surely France does not wish me any _
  THE HOOVER ADl\HNISTRATION’S campaign to ill." Surely no one could wish any ill to this fond old man,
T" rid the country of radical labor organizers by deport- weighed down by his years and the burden of his sacrifices. l
E {S  ing them can be extremely cruel as well as unjust. In the France has long been famous for choosing her public
lc in case of Edith Berkman the immigration authorities are show- men from the peasantry and for trying to extend peasant
H   ing themselves just this. lVliss Berkman was arrested for wisdom throughout the whole area of post-War Europe. Pro-
rh   taking part in the Lawrence, Nlassachusetts, textile strike in fcssor Sieberg has remarked that the French investor, when-
,0   i93`O, released on exorbitant bail, and rearrested the follow- ever he can be persuaded to take his money out of his stock-
s_   ing year in the course of another strike in Lawrence. The ing, would rather invest it in the government bonds of some
th 2  second time she was not admitted to bail, but was ordered fly-by-night South·American republic than in any stock corn-
nt   held for deportation to Poland. She has now been in custody pany that has as its arm the development of productive m-
0_  x more than seven months and lies at the moment in the Nlassa- dustries. And the truth is that “sound" finance in Paris has
ry .  ehusetts Memorial Hospital in Boston, suliering from tuber- continued, even more than in other capitals, to mean
k_   culosis which she contracted during her first incarceration. the extension to international affairs of the economic ideas
rs   The immigration authorities know that under the terms of of the St¤2ll·€0W¤ m01’ft.Z8g€·h0ld€f.
lg _`  the Polish—Russian peace treaty of l92l they cannot deport So it may bc worth while, as President Doumcr passes
of  ‘i Nliss Berkman. Nevertheless, repeated petitions for her re- from the SCBHC, to dwell {Of H moment On the viewpoint that
[n  g lease addressed to Secretary of Labor Doak and other of- be set f01‘tl1 in 1906 in his Ulaivre de mes fllS," published
p_  ff Gcials have failed to move them. YVithout legal or moral for thc beneht of his sons and of other men’s sons in l906,
ti_  ,` justification, and without having brought her to trial on any and republished in l923 when all but one of his sons had
 1 charge, they are keeping Miss Berkman in custody under perished as combatants in the World VVar. It is Shake-
 ii heavy guard. In consequence of this unlawful action on the speare’s Polonius speaking. Love your ancestors. lVrcstle
 g part of Secretary Doak’s agents, her life is hanging in the with your faults. Self-mastery leads to world-mastery.
 i_; balance. l\’Ieanwhile another drive against labor organizers Read the classics in your spare moments, but chiefly apply
  is being conducted privately in Kentucky. Kentucky’s right your mind to advancement in your profession. Brave men
  to persecute and prosecute radical workers has been cha]- and chaste women are what nations chiefly need. God blesses
 Qi lenged by the American Civil Liberties Union, which is large families. Patriotic duty comes first.
  sending a delegation of representative Southern and Eastern Interesting, in view of Doumer’s period of governorship
 l citizens into the State to investigate labor conditions in the in French Indo-China, is his discourse about the hierarchy
 il coal fields, as well as by a delegation of ministers just re- of races: "Sincc the discovery of fire, man has gradually
_   turned. The reception the Civil Liberties delegation may scaled the heights of civilization. The savage tribes of
PC expect from the press of Kentucky, traditional defenders of Africa and the mountain people of Asia have remained at
a free speech, is indicated by the letters from several Kentucky the bottom of the slope, like the Indians who dwelt in
gg editors which ·The Nation publishes in the correspondence America at the time that Columbus discovered it ’or the
he ‘ section of this issue. primitive folk that once dwelt in Greece and in Italy. · The
‘b€ ‘ great nations conquer and rule these backward races.
THE FREE CITY OF BALTIMORE demonstrates Charles Miartel, when he turned back the Hun, gave to
mi _ Once more irs right ro the name, This is not entirely France her mission as the champion of civilization, and the
S; because, with a rousing majority, iit voted on May. ?·to fact that railways and telegraphs and the credit system have
ua] abolish the laws against Sunday closing of pleasure activities, altered the face of the globe since Charles Martel, and since
to but also because it took the trouble to vote on the question Seneca and Augustus and Perrcles, who were special favor-
nd A at all. · Departing from thc trme-honored American custom HES of DOUHICF, Only g0cS to show that Orrental tmiastons
*0f   of nulhfymg layvs Whrch have become unpopular, Bnlrlimore have been vastly facilitated and that France must be vigilant
lt I _ more forthrightly took the laws out of their musty pigeon- and maintain the b1rth—rate. i U a
l   holes and voted on them in the light of day. A majority of l` here is something sustaining about a well-dehned con-
.0; il some 85,000 votes abolished the statutes forbidding Sunday €€PYl0¤ of public duty- "At times in the Far East,” Doumer
:1:   sports, theatrical performances, including motion pictures, wifotc, “Dcath’s.wi¤g brushed my cheek, but I did not
E { bowling, and the sale of certain commodities. It is true that flinch. I was doing my allotted task. Around me the same
ml _ this liberalizing action was the first of its kind in 200 years, calm prevailed in other men’s breasts in so far 35 those
I0 ig but if somewhat belated, it was none the less admirable. If breasts were untarnishcd by baser motives." One may doubt r
mt l every community could similarly overhaul its outmoded the worth of a civilization that requires to be nourished gn
ms i statutes, we should have a much fresher andmore realistic human blood. But Dcumer has perished in ignorance of nl]
uc i approach to law. doubts-

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HAT Congressman Rainey of Illinois, a Democratic a recorded case where a payment has not been made on the
I leader of the House of Representatives, has joined day set.  
Senators Borah, Johnson of California, and Robinson As for the property taken away from Americans, the
of Arkansas in urging the immediate recognition of Russia is Russians have repeatedly declared their willingness to discuss  
highly significant of the changing opinion in our oflicial life. indemnities to such American concerns as the International  ‘
"Our failure to recognize Russia,” said Mr. Rainey, "is an Harvester Company. It has, moreover, repeatedly offered *
economic crime." He pointed out that whereas in 1898 there to take up the question of the Czarist and Kerensky debts, l, 
were eighty-four American ships plying steadily between the subject to certain reservations. The United States has j 
United States and the Black Sea ports, what little cargo now already written off as a total loss a large percentage of the  
goes to Russia is carried by tramp steamers. He declared loans made to our Allies during the war. It might just as  
that there was no forced labor whatever in Russia. "Russia,” well write off these Russian loans, and perhaps if it does  
he added, "is the greatest market in the world, but we won’t Russia will not present the large bills which it has a right to  
admit that it exists. We sit back and let our factories stop send us for the murder of Russian citizens by American troops i
running and our people stay idle. That is foolish." Quite in the Archangel region without a declaration of war, and I
right, but it is by no means as foolish as some of the other for the similar unconstitutional and unwarranted appearance l
situations that arise out of our attitude. The coming World’s upon Russian soil of the American army of General W. S.  
Fair in Chicago has invited the participation of the Russian Graves. These, we insist, are details which could be worked  
Government, which is eager to take part but cannot do so out in a few days should the government in Washington de- · i
because the government in Washington declares that the sire to remove all the obstacles to recognition. »
red Soviet flag may not be hoisted over any Russian building The Administration cannot now remain unaffected by  V 
in Chicago or anywhere else! This is also the reason that the fact that so conservative a Democrat as Senator Robin-  
there is to be no Russian building in New York’s Radio City. son of Arkansas declares that he advocates Russian recogni-  
Yet we pride ourselves upon our shrewdness and our common tion "as one feature in the policy of promoting amicable in-  ‘
sense! ternational relations and stimulating our foreign commerce}, _
lf the opposition to recognition of Russia were in accord Senator ]ohnson’s position is even more· startling. His Hrst
, with our historic traditions and our usual course of action, point is that "there are billions of dollars’ worth of future _  ,
and were based on principle, that would be one thing. It is, orders in Russia for American workers to fill and in these  .
however, largely due to the belief that if communism suc- times it is simply economic idiocy, by our policies, to exclude i
ceeds in Russia it will spread to America, and therefore we Americans from trade and commerce which could so readily .
must not do anything that would in any wise contribute to be obtained.” Far more important is his second contention .
that success. It is fear, craven fear, which controls, with the that the United States ought to recognize Russia as a move ;‘ 
question of payment for the American plants seized by the to head off another world war. Speaking of the tension exist-  ;l
Bolsheviks and the debt owed to the United States as side ing on the Manchurian border between Russia and japan be- `· 
issues. Yet that fear was never more ridiculous than today, cause of the latter’s aggression, he says that “a spark may set
for if communism is spreading rapidly in the United States, off the powder barrel at any time. Japan seems to think Y
as some people fear, that is due not to Russian propaganda that Russia’s downfall would be acclaime