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Iombian Treaty f the Panama Canal Dispute ton, April 20?The Colom Ify grew o^t of the charge United States had wTonged in the partition of Panama, one thing in a sequence of ^connected with the building of ima ?anal, and what was icterized by its proponents **thc of the isthmus by Theodore It while Congress debated." stated, those who urged rat iticwr of the treaty charged that irhen Panama revolted from Colom bian rttle5 American naval forces pre ted Colombia fir?xn recovering her lost territory. Those who opposed ratification of the treaty charged that Colombia had long .been engaged in trying to "hold up" the United States for a large sum of moj?oy for a* canal route; that Panama, once an independent state, revolted . from Colombian rule for just cau?e and that the presence of American naval forces had noth ing to do Tith the failure ef Colom bia to force Panama back into her state. In short, it was charged that the j United. States winked or connived at the, Panama revolution to get the ca nal zone. . This charge a was denied with equal vigor. The treaty as at first negotiated expressed "the re gret'* . of the United States. Later the treaty was redrawn to merely iray- $2-3,00.(U'no to Colombia. It was argued by the treaty opponents that; the payment of $25,000,000 was in it- ' self an admission that the United States had wronged Colombia, In the wrangle. Which has lasted over many years few facts seem to be; uncontroverted. It does seem un disputed, however, that President Roosevelt, acting under authority of j a law fathered by the late Senator Spooner, of Wisconsin/ negotiated a treaty. wjfcth Colombia 07 which the rights of the old French canal com pany-to buSd the canal, with a cash payment of $10,000.000 and an an nual: payment of 105.0,000. The treaty was ratified, by the United .States sen :j^^;but the Colombian, senate refus ed, to .ac^ The motives which were said to have actuated the Co l^mblar. senate in Its refusal furnishr e^^the ground; work for some, of the /^rges against Colombia by the op ponents- 0? the present treaty. T^ei-esseps.. the French "canal build erV.tjad. spent m?lipns of dollars and tho^antds; ,of" lives in unsuccessful ef fortsto build "the canal and the pro ject, was; tiie:wor2d*s dream for at least two. centhnes. - , 0k i?ovei^ber' ? 5rd,V 1..3?S, Panama rey/jtf^&*and\set itself up as..an 3ude pendant state'.. A small ?> nierican ha ?'^'iforce, les? than fifty: mjn, the rec oct! says, was ianded. to protect Amer |^?is. .Ten'^days.', .later.. the \ United States x^oghizeVJ.- Pin?ma..?s*..an fn fie^en/Jent state, 's?ar%^ie^ '^T in dependence;" ah? later made the treaty by ;vfrhich the - canal zone Was ceded to.. the United States and the canal w?svbT^ilV . ' '-Jff?^^- "Ke.w ^kranadax to., which - ^o^QTObla" Vs^cr&e^e?; . t*iV.,.-Unife^ S^es was bound 'to '3^.?fa}tf tli'e sovei^hty'. <pf eolpthbii rq\*er Pariah n^'hn^^.. pre^rv>? n^utrAlhy.I A, the P^n^cin^iahfrevolt.' ? " >: *."4^n^ith*e^ i>oint? the .dispute. has r?g4d- Jot more; thaiz > sixteeh years-, 5?E?^c'x-^C.St a?' waa the. implication t a?t the ?^texT- States being'- unabte j to-close':.up'the canal bargain .with Colombia^ "atTangedt'' the Panama resolution 'in- ''some way and' put the deal through . ' with Panama. The ts^ip opponents contended that the ratification of the present treaty would - sustain those contentions wlilch fhey denied and'place a stain on 'the'memory of President Roose velt : T&e strange shifts that often oc cur in political tides find an illustra tion in the history of the treaty, it was negotiated at the instance of fWilllana.- Jennings* Bryan, a Demo cratic secretary of state, submitted by a Democratic president, Wood row TiVftson, blocked in ratification by a Republican minority, recommended far' ratification by a Republican president- Warren G. Harding, and urged, by leaders of. a senate pre ponderantly Republican. . The treaty as finally drawn, however* differs from that signed at Bogota on April ??t$&4 and placed before the senate by PresidentWilson, on June IS, i?14 th2 principal change' being the elimination q?- a paragraph whereby the - .United ' States would have ex pressed its., regret to Colombia for the loss of Panama. The purpose of the treaty as ex pressed in its preamble is "to restore the cordial friendship that formerly \ characterized the relations between the two countries and also to define and regulate their rights and inter ests in respect of the interoceanic ca nal which the government of the United States has constructed across the Isthmus of Panama." Ariticie One provides that tho treatment accorded citizens and pro ducts of Colombia in transportation 1 through the Panama Canal and over the* Panama Railway shall be equal to that given citizens and product* of the United States. Article Two obligates the United States to pay to Colombia $25,000, GO0r gold. $5,000,000 within six months after the exchange of rati fications ?nd $5,000,000 annually for four years. r Article Three obligates Colombia to recognize Panama as an independ ent state, defines the boundayr be tween Colombia and Panama, and obligates the United States to use its good offices to obtain the establish ment of diplomatic relations be tween Colombia and Panama and to baring about the adjustment of ques tions of pecuniary liability between those two court tries. The concluding Article provides for the exchange of ratifications in Bogota, the Colombian capital, "as soon a9 may be possible." The Predicament of Greece Has Lost Position Among the Nations and is Depressed Financially Athens, May 6.?The Greek cam paign now in progress in Turkey was undertaken as the only way to avoid the possible loss to Greece of Thraco and Smyrna and at the same time to give King Constaptine the eclat of a great military movement. . The decision of lha supreme coun cil at the conference in London m February to send a commission <.o Thrace and Smyrna to inquire into the composition of the populations there tilled the Greeks with disap pointment and despondency. Under the proposed revision of the treaty of Sevres, Greece saw itse:f about to be reduced to its 1912 pro portions, its prowess as a Mediter ranean power nullified and its friend- j ship with the allies -alienated. It con- j sidored the territorial losses with which the- country was threatened a staggering price to pay for Con ;'stantine's return to the throne. AH classes awakened to the reali ties of the situation. They recogniz ed that without financial support from the great powers, the country must become an impotent peninsular Estate. The absence of recognition by [Greece's great neutral friend, the United States, was a particularly painful realization to the people. Many Greeks, even some of the most ' ardent Royalists, were willing to sacrifice their king if it would win back the goodwill and support of the big nations, particularly the United j States and England. The Venezelist press has taken a sombre view of the,, situation ever since the London conference and ac cused the government organs of hav ing intentionally misled public opin ion, j The RoyalisC newspapers natural- j ly endeavored to minimize the effect of the decisions of the supremo council and attributed . the .change in the attitude of the powers toward Greece to every reason except the real ; one. They inferred that Great Brit- j ain's leniency toward Turkey was the ! result of pressure brought to bear I upop England by her Mussulman sub jects. Closing their eyes to the allied edicts regarding Smyrna and Thrace, the same journals declared that the war. against Turkey must go on. Greece, they said," must take mat ters into her own hands and fight the Xemalists alone and not only ad vance- to_ Angora, but also to Si/as. j The question of money, has. been I barely'-mentioned.. Hints are-thrown our that; there win be no difficulty in finding the. necessary funds in Aimer- . ica And England. In the meantime the cost of living & mounting- arid commercial Greece faces- . a serious prospect. Imports exceed exports fourfold, the treasury is depleted and the Greek drachma has been selling at 14 to the dollar. [ The/,i*o?r ra?n. -andv even the people! w}io ^'ere-^omfdrlably off before the present chaos, ~find it burdensome to pay/- terv the common necessaries of .?? The G/eek. people did not grudge tke> ;sacrifices'C made during the last ftve 5'ears so long, as they felt tt would"?result* in a - greater Greece. But: td?aV* they are becoming con vinced fhat they have been led into '.a-V .situation'". whlc|i has reduced the country to a fourth-rate power, pros trated its economic life and forfeited t? Greece the friendship of the na tions of the. world. Lutheran TvorldAlmanacand Encyclo pedia, j Des Moines, la., . May 10.?The Lutheran world Almanac and En cyclopedia for 1921, published by the National Lutheran Council, repre senting all Lutheran bodies of the United States, is now being distribut ed. It is the largest work of publicity ever undertaken by the Lutheran Church of America, and its data will be sought by generations to come. It has many unique and original fea tures and contains over 200 illustra tions, besides many pages of tabulat ed matters, maps, graphs, charts and summaries. Never before has such a comprehensive unique and valuable. | book concerning the history, growth and development of the Lutheran Church of the world been published. Every church body and synod is giv- j en a full and fair showing. The chier editors of the Almanac i and Encyclopedia are Rev. (_). M. | Norlie, Ph. L?., of Decorah, Iowa, and j Rev. G. L. Kieffer, of New York City. I Health Report of Typhus and Chol era in Russia, New York. May 10.?More than 8.000,000 cases of typhus have been reported in Soviet Russia with a mortality as* high as 50 percent in some communities, said a report by Dr. Harry Pl?tz of this city, head of a Jewish medical unit operating in Poland just made public by the American Jewish Relief committee. In addition to typhus, the report stated that Russia has been swept by cholera during the last two years. In Petrograd there was a total of 12, 000 cases with a mortality of 40 per cent and cholera has broken out in some parts of Poland after the en try of Russian refugees. Dr. Plotz's report dealt particularly with health conditions in Poland which he declared to bo "still distress ing." He outlined plans, which have I the approval of the Polish govern I ment, for reestablishing public baths j throughout the country. Insuring Pen??. j "I've borrowed our neighbor's phonograph for this evening." ?^Giving a party?" "No. but, by thunder, I'm going to hav? one quiet evening at home this winter." Looks now as though we'd get back to 4 per cent beer for medicinal pur poses?with 96 per cent red tape.? Nashville Tennessean. Stillman Hearing Brings Debate ? Defense Lawyers Object to Tes timony New York. May ?.?Dr. Hugh Rus sell, a chiropractor of Buffalo. N. Y., .testifying today at a hearing on the j divorce suit brought by James A. ?Stillman, a New York banker, de clared that Mrs. Anne L\ Stillman. while under his treatment in April, l?ls. told him that her husband was not the father 01 an expected child. The child, Guy Stillman, who is j named with his mother and Fred jBeauvais, an Indian guide, in the 'divorce suit, was born the following ! November. While the testimony was given behind closed doors, the defendant's attorneys admitted that it had been offered and conditionally accepted by the referee over their objections. The question of its final admissibil ity probably will be argued in the trial courts. Dr. Russell said that Miss Anne Stlliman had accompanied her mother on the trip to Buffalo and that while they were there Mr. Still man arrived. Defendant's counsel quoted Dr. Russell as saying that the father, mother and daughter took tea at Dr. Russell's home and later went on an automobile ride with him to Niagara Falls. Mrs. Stillman was present through out the hearing. She was driven to the hearing room by her son, James Stillman. who told reporters h?. would stick to his mother and would testify in her behalf, if necessary Mr. Stillman, who also is accused o. infidelity in the wife's answer to hii charges, was not present. Cross examination of Dr. Russe/!! will be started at the next hearing tentatively set for May IS. Before Dr. ' Russell went on the stand to day, Charles R. Keller testified tha: Mrs. Stillman and her daughter wen guests for several days in Aprii. 1918, at the hotel where he was em ployed as clerk. A letter said to have containec terms of endearment was admittec" as evidence over objections of th< defense after the handwriting hat been identified as Beauvais' by Ber nard Kelly, for three years superin tendent of the Stillman summer homt at Pleasant vi lie. Several other let ters were offered, but not admitted for the present. New Wage Scale Amalgamated Iron' Steel and Tin Workers in Convention Hamilton, On't.; May 2?A newH wttge scale and working agreement for the independent steel mills of tht United States will be the most im portant matter before the> biennia convention of the Amalgamated As- , sociation of Iron, Steel and Tin Work ers, which will open here tomorrow with representatives of. 25,000 stee. workers present; While wage, scale adopted by the, Convention will only directly . affec. plants wIt'ft* which Amalgamated luu : agreement;-?, .Michael Tishe, interna tional, president, pointed out that i) would also ? ?"eventually affect 150,00; steel workers in the/plants of the United -States. Steel Corporation-whose wages - are generally, based on tht standard set by our organization." Mr. Tighe declined to indicate th? probable action of the convention. "We cannot tell until our wage com mittee reports what the men want,' h<j. explained. "Some lodges ma\ recommend Increases or continuance of the old scale. Our committee hai been sifting out the various resolu tions and will present a concrete pro-' i uosal. "The Amalgamated during the tim* of the present agreement has main tained most cordial relations with th< steel companies." Mr. Tighe said "We have an exceptionally smooth , working conCraet, providing ' for wage reductions or increases accord ing to business conditions as shown by the companies' books." "The employers have adhered tc our agreement and we have had lit tle trouble in making adjustments." j "While our men have taken re i duetions in many cases their wagt I is still considerably above the pre ! war basis." j Because of depressed industrial ! conditions, Mr. Tighe said that th< j attendance at the convention was not j expected to be as large as in past years. "^Thousands of our men are out of I work,' lie said, "as many of the inde pendent companies have closed their [ doors or are working at greatly re duced capacity. "Conditions are the worst we have experienced in years. Not only in ' dependents but the plants of the United States Steel Corporation have been working at about 30 per cent, or less of their capacity.' The convention, which will prob ably continue for nearly three weeks will be executive sessions, unless o jn*.w rule is adopted opening the meetings to the public. Mr. Tighe said that he fa/ors "open sessions" and such action may be taken. Important amendments to the by laws and constitution of the Amalga mated are also to bo considered during the sessions as well as other resolutions affecting the welfare of the organization. j Resolutions tending to support the ! campaign of the Executive Council o! i National and International Organiza- j tions in the Steel Industry to unionize the plants of the United Steel Corpor ation are also to be considered. This committee, headed by Mr. Tighe, will launch its active campaign on June 19. Germany would obtain peace, but not by the beaten path.?Norfolk Vir fjlnian Pilot. As we understand it, we don't ac cept a red cent from Russia.?Ark ansas Gazette. Onco more the mingling fragrance of the liiiac and the moth ball.?Bos ton Herald. DEMOCRATS OPPOSE TARIFF, Leaders in Senate Continue At tack on Measure i Washing-ton, May 5.?Democratic J leaders in the senate continued their, attack on the cmergncy tariff and anti-dumping bill today, although1 friends of the measure, headed by| Chairman Penrose of the finance committee, fought them at every j point. Mr. Penrose delivered an hour's speech, his first extended re-j marks in nearly two years, in sup port of the measure. Senator Simmons, Democrat, Xorth Carolina, charged the Republicans with attempting to transfer "a lot of commodities from the free to the dutiable list" by use of the anti dumping clause and argued that those provisions were certain to prove a handicap instead of a relief to agriculture. "Some benefit will inure to thej farmers through the tariff items in, the bill", M>. Simmons said, "but those benefits will be absorbed many, many times over by the bur dens which will be added to the al ready burdened backs of the farm-j ers." The senator referred to the anti dumping provisions later as making' the manufacturing interests benefi-j ciaries of the bill. He said he saw| no reason for inserting anti-dump-j ing provisions unless somebody was! going to be benelitted, since Senator McCumber. Republican, Xorth Da-1 kota, had informed the senate thatj the provisions would do "little good, and could do no harm." Mr. Simmons predicted a clash be tween the senate and the house when the measure goes to conference. Re publican leaders in the house, he said, were "wedded" to the anti dumping and currency conversion plans carried in the bill as passed byf the house but stricken out by the1 committee in the senate, and he add ed that he believed the house would compel te senate to write them in :he bill again. Mr. Penrose's speech was given over largely to explanation of tech nical provisions of the bill, although he submitted estimates of govern ment actuaries showing that tariff items in the bill would produce ap proximately $105,000,000 in the six months the law would be effective. He added that the amount was $45, 000,000 large than the revenue re ceived from the same sources under the present tariff laws. The senate recessed tonight in or der that debate on the tariff measure might be taken up by priority when r.he senate convenes tomorow. Mr. Penrose said ho then would attempt to reach a definite agreement with opponents of the bill Tor a day and hour for final vote. Unveiling of the Custer Monument ?Reproduction of the Massacre B a Featui-e. Billings, Mont.. May 11.?Prelim nary to unveiling the Custer monu ne'nt, now under construction In the ?ity park at Hardin, an exact repro uction of the massacre on the Little tig Horn will, be staged on the site ?f the historic battle on June 25, it s announced by, the Custer Battle anniversary association of Hardin, Vppro*imately sTo? Crow and Cheyen ne Indians, representing the Sioux .fill: take part In the mimic battle ?.gainst members of the American Le rion and troops of cavalry, repre enting Custer's handful. Permission has been obtained from the federal government for use of ?he national cemetery for the spec acle, and Gen. Hugh L. Scott of the listorie Seventh cavalry has announc >d that he will attend, as probably Till Mrs. Cusrter. The war depart nent also has offered to cooperate in very way possible. Following the "battle" there will be a basket dinner at Government Park, Crow agency, and afterward, 'pectators, troops and Indians will ?o to Hardin where the Custer mon inient will be unveiled with proper ceremonies. Various addresses, a band concert, i men's chorus, with the Indians ar- j ayed on one side and the American i Legion men and cavalry troops on the j )ther. will include a part of the cere monial. An Indian powwow and a street dance at night completes the lay's program. People from every part of the state, as well as many without its borders, are expected to attend in ?iew of the historic nature of tho celebration, marking the anniversary ?f one of the most famous events In .he west. Americans are Unreliable Rebels in Russia. Riga. May 11.?Choice of a home is not permitted In the land of the Bolshcviki, according to persons j reaching here from Russia. Every thing belongs to the government which assigns living quarters. Special barracks have been assign ed to persons from America as soviet authorities consider them unreliable rebels that must be kept apart from others. Everybody knows these "Americans*' by their sad faces and dismal silence. They do not answer if spoken to in Russian, bat their faces brighten if some one appears who knows English, and especially ;he American vernacular. "Don't you speak English?" Is their first question, followed quickly by the inevitable second: "Is there my way to K?.-t Pack to America?" Out there is uo way out, for Russia is locked from within. Russian Peasants Fail to Sow Grain Helsingfors, May 11.?The peasants of Russia, have thus far failed to re spond to the appeal of the Bolshe vist government to sow grain to en rich Ulis year's harvest, according to reports received here. The soviet au thorities are beginning t?> take a gloomy view of the prospects for next winter. A woman is as young as she looks, and a man is young as long as he keeps on looking.?Roanoke Times. ARMY BnX PASSED Byrnes, of South Carolina, Wins His Fight For 150,000 Enlisted Men Washington, May 10.?The army appropriation bill carrying approxi mately $320,000,000 and providing for an army of 150,000 enlisted men was passed late today by the House and sent to the Senate. The vote was 243 to 23. Before the final vote was taken, un successful attempts were made to have the House reverse its previous action in adopting an amendment providing for a reduction in the size of the army which now totals about 230,000 men. to 150,000 and for the discharge from service "under reasonable" War De partment regulations of men making application. An effort by Representative Her rick, Republican, a new member from Oklahoma, to attach a rider declaring the war. at an end and directing the Secretary of War to withdraw Amer ican troops from the Rhine was quickly checked by Representative Mondell, the Republican, leader, with a point of order. Byrnes Amendment Sticks. When the bill was being considered paragraph by paragraph, an amend ment offered by Representative Byrnes, Democrat, South Carolina, to reduce the force from 108,000, the number recommended by Secretary Weeks, to 150,000 was adopted. Priv ileged to call for a second vote, Chair man Anthony, of the subcommittee in charge of the bill did so today, but the amendment was retained, 193 to 159. Representative Mondell spoke in op position to the Byrnes amendment, contending that it would be impossible for months to cut the army to 150,000. To keep within the appropriation dur ing the twelve months period begin ning July 1, he said, it would be ne cessary toward the last of the year to reduct the army to 120,000. Backs Byrnes Proposal. Representative Garrett, of Tennes see, acting Democratic ieader, led the fight for retention of the Byrnes pro posal, and on the vote,, had almost solid Democratic support, and that of many Republicans. Efforts on a second roll call to knock out an amendment previously adopted to permit enlisted men to be discharged on application failed, 183 to 169. As introduced the bill carried ap proximately $322,000,000, but sub stitution of a maintenance allowance for 150,000 instead of 168,000 men de creased the total about $12,000,000. As passed at the last session, the bill, which was pocket-vetoed by President Wilson, provided for a force of 156,000 and carried a total of $343, 000,000. Xcw Orleans Iiidiistrial Cana! -and Inner Harbor. New Orleans, May 1.?The New Or leans Industrial Canal and Inner Har bor, which will be dedicated here to day, eamo into heins" through inability to secure legislation or modify treaties wh'ich would permit of the* New Or? leans river front being leased to .pri-. vate interests. In 1902, Walter Parker than a news paper writer, came to New Orleans, became interested in river front mat ters and began t<? agitato construction of an industrial canal and inner har bor which would permit private in terests to lease property practically at seaboard and do with that property whatever they saw fit. spending what ever amount of money they thought their needs justified. Nearly twenty years later the canal project was suc cessfully launched, the financial ar rangements w:>re completed and work was started. Parker preached inner harbor wherever he could get a Listen er. He argued. "Control the river level by a great lock opening into a ship canal, the banks of which will not be subject to the Spanish treaty of 1795 which declared the banks of the Miss issippi River public property not sub ject to private ownership and develop ment and to the I^ouisiana Purchase treaty with France which confirmed the Sanish treaty. Connect up the privately owned land in that section of the city by means of lateral cafals, thus permitting business enterprises to create all tho water front sites, laterals, basins and slips it might re quire and build thereon all the sheds, warehouses, factories and other struc tures it might need. Ultimately dig a ship channel from the inside the lock to the gulf which would Pe free from silt, current and all the eccentricities of a great silt bearing river. Do all this within the city limits so that fa cilitated and encouraged commerce and industry will pay its proper share of municipal taxes and several of the really serious economic problems which long have confronted New Or leans will be solved." The canal, now nearing completion is five and one-half miles long, depth 30 feet below Gulf, 150 feet wide at bottom and 300 feet at surface, Lock 1,050 feet long. 640 feet usable length, 30 feet below gulf water and 75 feet clear width. The channel ap proach to the lock is 125 feet wide on the bottom, 275 feet on the surface, SO feet below tho gulf low water in depth. The width back of tho lock is 410 feet. This lock is surrounded by a steel coffer dam. No, James, it wasn't futher who caused the frone porch, swing to be hung and the vines planted in front of the lattice.?Harrisburg Telegraph. Wish we knew how we could re tain the services of a good German diplomat the first of every month. ? Arkansas Gazette. The divorce action in which there i.s no co-respondent has slim chances for front page position these days.? Geneva Times. John Wannarnaker lias completed 60 years of mercantile life, but. thank heaven, no one remarked that he hasn't had a vacation in all that time. ?Ne-ristown Times. \ On Harvesting and Sto;j|ug Sweet Po tatoes. Clcmson College, May 4.?Annual ly 25 to 50 per cent of the entire j sweet potato crop placed in storage is j lost because or poor methods em i ployed in harvesting and storing the j crop according to the horticulturists of the Extension Service of Clemson I College; and yet this easily grown crop can also be easily saved by prop er attention to the three- important ,factors of harvesting, grading, and curing. i To help meet the demand for infor mation on these subje. ;s the exten sion service has just is? led Extension Bulletin 4 7, "Harvestir^ and Storing Sweet Potatoes," by <j|o. P. Hoff man, Extension horticu'l irist, and A. T. Sohilletter, assist; it extension horticulturist. The pubJiation is one of unusually timely 1m-rest and im portance because of the fact that the .sweet potato is rapidly becoming an 'important crop in South Carolina farming, especially in the lower part '. of the state. j The new publication contains in structions in the harvesting, grading, and storing of sweet potatoes, and detailed information concerning the operation of the curing houses, as j well as bills of material for sweet potato houses of 500-bushel, 1,000 ! bushel, 2.500-bushel, 5,200-bushel, 'and 1 .',000-bushel storage houses. This bulletin and all other publi cations of the extensio service may be had upon application. Leninc's Speech- Before, C ommunlstt '? Congress. < New York, May 3?The text of the speech delivered by Nikolai Lenine, i the Russian Premier, before the I Tenth Congress of tae Communist Party, as printed in the official Bol shevist newspaper Pravda of March 10 was made public today by J. A. Sack, director of the Russian Infor , mation Bureau in the United States; representing in this cor.r.try the Rus sian democratic anti-Eolsheviki forc ' es. This is the speecr which led to ; reports that Lenine r|.d repudiated a world revolution ans, communism fur Russia. Referring to the question of world revolution, Lenine said: , "Aid is coming to us r'rom the Wes tern European countries. If is not coming as fast as we Should like it, but it is coming nevertheless and gathering strength. <|f course, the world revolution has soade a great i step forward in com oarison . with I last year. Of course, the Comunlst ' International which last year existed 1 mcmely in the form of proclamations is now existing as an independent ; party in every country. In Germany, ?France and Italy the Communist In ternatial has become not only the center of the labor movement but the focus Of attention for the whole I political life of those countries. This is our conquest, and no one can de prive us of it." The world revolution is growing stronger, while the eco nomid crisis in Europe is getting worse at the same time. "But, at any rate, were we to draw j from this the conclusion that help (would come to us fron there within ? a' brief period in the ' shape of - ft solid proletarian revolution, we would bc.simpiy lunatics. We have during these three years lear ;ed to. under stand that the staking of "the game on the world revolution does not. im ply .any figuring ort a d . finite date and that the pace, of its development,, growing more and more rapid, may bring us the revolution in the spring or may not. We must, therefore, know how to adaj>t our activity to the mutual class relations existing with in our own and other countries, that we may be able for a long time to re tain the dictatorship of the prole tariat.and, at least gradually, to cure all the ills besetting us. Only such a view of the problem will be correct and sober." The most urgent problem now in Russia, according to Lenine. ia the relations between the working class and the peasantry. "These relations," Jsaid Lenine, "are not what we had j believed them to be. These relations (represent a peril many times greater ithan all the perils threatened by the IDenikine, Kolchak ar Yudenitch campaigns put together^* "The peasants a . .. satisfied/* said Lenine. "They ot care for the economic forms \ ffered them, j We must not conceal thing but ad mit that a form e relationships which the peasantry woes ont care for will never exist. The peasantry has become far more niddle-class than before. The village has been leveled down. The mio'ue-olass peas ant now predominate*. We must, therefore, see what this peasant vvants. He demands: 1. A certain ! freedom in his economic turn-over; j 2. Opportunity to market his pro ducts in exchange for goods." In conclusion. Lenine recommend ed concessions amountir^- to granting Jto the peasant the righ to dispose f freely of that surplus cf his products which will he left him after giving to the Bolshevist government what will be levied on him as taxation in kind. Besides "freedom in local trade for small farmers," nothing is mentioned in Lenine's speech about any other concessions or changes in the fundamentals of the existing Bolshevist economic policy. Commenting upon Lenine's speech, Mr. Sack said it is clear that the main Russian industries and Russia's transport will continue to operate up on communistic principles. Situation in India, Allahabad, India, May 11.?Mo handas Karamachand landhi. Indian Nat nnaiist leader, has declined to suspend his* program of non-coopor* ation until the Earl of Reading, the new Viceroy, has had time to study the Indian situation. The request for suspension of the Nationalist program was made by M." Raza, a member of the Council of State. All hin me for any disorder that may aris*' is east on*tho government by M. Gandhi who asks M. Raza to address his appeal ' f': the officials who are provoking thi people and creating alarm in tl? country." Candhi rays that "what disturbance there is. ia either foriented by the authorities or the situation is so mis handled as to give rise to bloodshed,**