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Volume 137

Germany Indorses Dawes, but

F

NOR such blessings as the German elections may bring to the world the lovers of peace and concord should be devoutly thankful.

A majority of ten is not a very wide margin for parliamentary government, and that is about all that the coalition of the parties of moderation has over the

May 14, 1924

our subscribers, .occur the French elections. When the newspapers report the results, our readers will be interested in interpreting them in the light of the information which is given in this issue by our European editorial correspondent, Elbert Francis Baldwin.

The British Budget

extremists of both the radical and the H

reactionary sort. Among those included in the moderates are members of the Reichstag who represent views which in America would be regarded as extremely conservative, not to say reactionary. The so-called People's Party represents, for example, the industrialists, of whom the late Hugo Stinnes was typical. The most wholesome and trustworthy element in German politics, which bears the title of Socialist but consists of many whose ideas are not far removed from liberal thought in this country, lost heavily; and correspondingly the Communists gained. The comic tragedians represented by Ludendorff did not gain as much as some feared; but the Reichstag will not lack Ludendorff himself, or Prince von Bismarck, or Admiral von Tirpitz, or Count von Bernstorff, or Count August zu Eulenburg, the former naster of ceremonies at the Kaiser's Court. There was much bowing and craping, it is reported, when Hohenzolern princes voted at Potsdam.

It is much too soon to tell whether the Government, as a consequence of the lections, will have either the mind or the heart to co-operate with the Allies in arrying out the Dawes plan. It is almost inconceivable that the Germans ould willingly choose the alternative, which would be a continuance on their oad of misery that was leading perilusly toward war. And yet the Reichs28 seems to be within ten votes of hoosing that other way. The French re under no illusion about what has appened. They realize that it is not as ad as it might be, but they know that has not removed the need for circumection. On Sunday, May 11, between

day on which this issue goes to press the day on which it reaches most of

ARDLY any one expected that the Labor-Socialist Party in England would spring heretical radical measures on the people in its first Budget. The

Philip Snowden, Britain's Chancellor of

the Exchequer

motto of Ramsay MacDonald's Ministry is the old Scotch phrase, "Ca' canny, mon." The Prime Minister heads a minority party, and can hold office only so long as the other two parties refrain from combining against him—or, to put from combining against him-or, to put it differently, so long as enough Liberal members vote with him.

Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, a radical in theory, and an advocate of a capital tax levy, steered a course which neither excited wild enthusiasm from extremists on either side nor angered either party unduly. The defeat of MacDonald's predecessor was largely on his protectionist declaration.

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It is quite natural, therefore, to find the new Premier leaning the other way; the most notable feature of the Snowden Budget is the proposal to refuse to renew the tariff taxes on picture films, bicycles, and motor cars-a cause of rejoicing to American manufacturers, and notably to Henry Ford, as it is stated that the cheapest motor car in Great Britain is now selling at $1,500. There is to be a lowering of taxes on the workman's "breakfast table"-tea and sugar, that is; the poor man's beer is not affected. Imperial preference taxes are also scheduled to go. The income tax is left strictly alone, for the Chancellor believes that it is more important to reduce the public taxes than the public debt, for "the maintenance and improvement of British credit is a matter of the most vital, first-class importance.'

The political interpretation of this unexciting Budget is that it is better to "muddle along" than to throw stones at hornets' nests, and that the Labor members are being urged by constituents to turn their attention at once toward doing something (even something very moderate, but at least something) to carry out their promises as to the unemployment and housing questions.

Dean Worcester,

Scientist and Statesman

IT

T was fortunate and of exceeding value to Americans who were confronted with the Philippine problem in 1898 that Dr. Dean Conant Worcester's great work on "The Philippine Islands and Their People" was then just ready for publication. The death of Professor Worcester at Manila on May 2 recalls the interest excited by his study of the scientific, racial, and political history of the archipelago.

Dean Worcester went out to the Philippines in 1887 as a member of a scientific expedition, although he was at that time an undergraduate in the University of Michigan. Three years later he again visited the Philippines with another scientific expedition. In the course of these two expeditions he accumulated a comprehensive knowledge of the resources, conditions, and possibilities of

the Filipinos. His books were a perfect mine of information for Americans who wanted to get dependable knowledge in deciding what the American attitude should be toward the Filipinos. They were also replete with exciting incidents of travel, fighting, and exploration in distant and all but inaccessible places.

It was a natural consequence of the interest excited by Professor Worcester's book that he was appointed by President McKinley a member of the first Philippine Commission in 1899, and that two years later he became Secretary of the Interior of the Philippine Government. His service aided greatly in establishing among the natives knowledge of American wishes and intentions, and did a great deal to establish peaceful relations between the islands and the United States.

It has been said with accuracy that Dr. Worcester knew the Philippine Islands, geographically, scientifically, and humanly, probably better than any other American. Scientists remember that his observations added solid information to the world's knowledge of racial conditions and characteristics in the East, as well as to its collection of birds, animals, and plants, and to the geography of the region. From the beginning Dr. Worcester believed that the Filipinos would appreciate just treatment and improve under it. He did not, however, believe that they should exercise citizenship rights until they had learned more of the meaning of the words citizenship and liberty.

It has always been a pleasure to The Outlook that it had Dr. Worcester among its contributors.

World Flights

NATUR

ATURE is going to extremes casting obstacles in the way of the roundthe-world fliers. Over the bleak tip of the Alaskan Peninsula, where Major Martin and Sergeant Harding, his mechanician, lost their way on April 30, gales swept down off the Arctic waste with unprecedented fury. Snow fell so heavily that the old sourdoughs kept to their cabins because they could not see the trail a few feet ahead. Even the seagulls failed to take the air.

At the same time Major MacLaren and his companions in the British entry for round-the-world honors were down at Parla, India, with an engine burned out because of the excessively torrid temperature through which it had been laboring. Natives were kept constantly at work pouring cool water on the wings to keep

them from blistering and disintegrating under the hot sun.

Meanwhile Lieutenant d'Oisy, the French pilot, who had set out from France to beat the English on the route to Japan, passed overhead in triumph, landing on May 3 at Agra, India. His triumph was short-lived, however, for on examination he found his wings were commencing to give way under the heat. Obviously he would be held up sooner or later until his machine was repaired.

There we have the two extremes-heat and cold. But while these handicaps are to be expected and therefore anticipated in any plan to circumnavigate the earth, the eight men who have been urging their four Army Air Service planes toward the west seem to have met with more than their share of difficult weather. Since leaving Seattle the Americans have fought wind, snow, hail, and fog.

From Chignik, where Major Martin took off to join his command at Dutch Harbor, the route lies 400 miles over one of the most desolate sections of the North. Part of it is volcanic, Pavlof, Shishaldin, and Makushin volcanoes rising some 9,000 feet high. They are rather active and constantly smoking; rather active and constantly smoking; but only in clear weather would they serve as landmarks. For the most part the route is over uncharted coast-lines and countless small islands which are not on the hydrographic maps. The three planes which made that leg of the flight ahead of Major Martin spent more than seven hours in the air, nearly twice the time required had it not been for bad weather. The planes have been covered with tons of ice on several occasions.

Speculation as to whether the Americans or British will first succeed in their quest should not confuse the different purposes of the two ventures. The Americans are using four planes for technical and scientific reasons. They virtually are charting a new and hitherto unmapped route as far as aerial navigation is concerned. There in the North, where compass deviation is more varied than in other latitudes, flying is difficult at best. Known landmarks must be depended upon for guidance until a true compass course is determined. The Americans are gathering all sorts of meteorological data for the future armadas of the air which must one day use that route in world transport.

The English and French fliers, of course, are no less deserving of praise because their lone ventures are more in

the nature of sporting events-efforts to do the job in the quickest possible time.

Youth and Religion To-Day

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N imaginary man from Mars is sometimes called upon to testify of his impressions of life on earth. There is really no need for invoking such a witness, for every new generation sees the world's problems from a fresh point of view, and if called upon can tell what it thinks of them. That is the chief significance of two recent conferences of and for young people.

In Louisville, Kentucky, for three days in April, several hundred students of the Methodist denomination gathered to exchange ideas. It was not so much a conference for students as one of and by them. It was merely incidental that this group was made up wholly of Methodists. These young people plainly regarded denominational distinctions, not as ends, but as means or mechanisms for doing, as one of our corre spondents describes it, "some necessary Christian jobs." Their doubting elders were astonished that in the discussion of such questions as race, war, and industry these students had ready to hand an array of facts on which to base their conclusions. And they exercised discrimination. They practically ignored the Fundamentalist-Liberal controversy. As one student said:

Christ told his followers that if they went into the Temple to worship and recalled that there were some matters of individual relationship which were not right in their lives, they should go first and straighten them out. We are trying to find a way here to fix up some of these matters of wrong relationship. That comes before any extended devotions.

The nearest approach to this doctrinal issue came in a resolution adopted with scarcely any debate. It expressed the attitude of youth that looks on re ligious and other problems without th fixed ideas of older people, for it calle upon the Church to modernize its state ment of faith so that it could be recon ciled with the knowledge of those calle upon to profess it.

Similarly, the spirit of youth con trolled the eighth annual Convention . the Young Women's Christian Associa tion, which was held in New York Cit on the first few days in May. The out standing action of that Convention wa the adoption of an alternate basis membership of the constituent associ tions. At present no one can be a votin