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American Church Is Thriving in Berlin Berlin. -Christinas was cele brated by the American Church In Berlin with a pageant and festivi ties in which the Sunday school, the American Ladles union and the American Students union partici pated under the leadership of Dr. Lemuel Herbert Murlin of Boston, who assumed the pastorate here ihree months ago. Americans are beginning to take increased interest in their own jhurch off the Nollendorf Platz. rhe World war scattered the Amer ican colony in Berlin. The church lervice and its activities were nbandoned, and the church was slosed during that period. It still is only about one third of Its prewar size, but under the lead ership of Dr. Murlin and his wife, Mrs. Ermina Fallass Murlin, church activities are taking on a new lease otf life. First ground for the American church in Berlin was broken No vember 9, 1901, by Miss Mary Ban nister Willard, the Rev. J. F. Dickie, D. D., of Detroit, officiating, years before Miss Willard, as a child, had given the first dollar she possessed to a fund to give the American community in Berlin its own place of worship. Dr. Murlin formerly was a col lege president, having served for 34 years at Baker university, Kan sas, and Boston university. His alma mater is De Pauw university, Indiana. He serves as pastor here in a voluntary capacity. Different Christian religious af filiations are represented among the church's congregation. Dr. Murlin is a Methodist. Mrs. Rich ard Crooks, wife of the American singer. Is in charge of the primary Sunday school. Army Promotions Prom Washington Post. Two measures affecting the im portant matter of army promotions are before congress. Each seeks to provide a remedy for the socailed hump that stands in the way of the promotion of many able officers. Although there is some sentiment in the army against changing the existing status of the promotion list, justice to a large group of of ficers and maintenance of morale demand that this legislation be en acted. Only officers of the company grade—lieutenants to captains—are affected by the legislation. Follow ing the World war examinations were held to fill vacancies created by the national defense act, as a result of which former emergency officers were appointed to ail grades from colonel to second lieu tenant. Those appointed colonel, lieutenant colonel and major were placed among regular army officers of corresponding grades, but cap tains. first lieutenants and second lieutenant, by an arbitrary inter pretation of an act of congress, were listed in accordance with length of service. Thus a man found qualified by examination for a grade no higher than second lieu tenant, if he served one day longer than a man found qualified to be a captain was jumped from second lieutenant to captain, and will be a major before the captain. As a re sult, at the present time every reg ular army officer has a chance to become a colonel before he is retir ed, but relatively few of the young er emergency World war officers who elected to folliw army careers have similiar opportunities. The legislation before congress proposes that the army promotion list be arranged as it should have been in 1920, with captains placed among captains, first lieutenants among first lieutenants, and second lieutenans among second lieuten ants as originally appointed. In general older men will be placed above younger men, but those who profited by the war department in terpretation will not be deprived of the grade and pay benefits thus obtained. The list will be so arrang ed that former emergency officers will have equal opportunity with regular army officers to reach the rank of colonel before they are re tired. .. . For eight years the question of army promotions has been dragging along. Congress now has an oppor tunity to right the wrong. It should enact the bill clarifying the promo tion situation. Entitled to Larger Share. Prom Des Moines Tribune. The Dayton. Ohio. News taict-o Secretary Jardine’s figures for the gross income of farmers of the United States and measures it against the gross total income of the country, making the showing that anyone who has followed the farm debate with any open mind edness at all wrould of course ex pect. , The farmers’ gross income for the year is estimated at $12,253,000,000. That is the department of agricul ture’s figure, and of course it is a huge figure. . „ . The gross income of all Amer ican industry, farmers included, is figured to be in the neighborhood of $75,000,000,000. That is another enormous figure. The w’orld has not seen things like that before. From the farm standpoint the Interesting thing is the proportion. Gross farm income is seen to be approximately one-sixth of the to tal Yet the farm population is about one-third of the whole pop ulation. So the per capita income of the agriculturist is approximate ly half the per capita income of the country as a whole. That gets to exactly the heart of the intelligent farm campaign. But what the farmer legitimately wants for the future—not only in this country but wherever he has begun to think seriously and shrewdly with his fellows—is to have the disproportion in the dis tribution of wealth corrected. So's He Now From Tit-Bits. The prodigal returned earlv the next morning. “Where have vou been?’ asked his indignant wife. After a moment's reflection he ventured. “The cemetery.” “Good gracious!’ cried ms wife. “Who’s dead?” . . , „ "The whole bally lot of em.” re plied her husband, cheerfully. How long have we had the sale of Christmas seals? D. L. A. In the fall of 1907, Miss Emily p Bissell of Wilmington, Delaware, launched the first Christmas seal Ka.it», lycra which '•« realized $3,000. Out Our Way By Williams A N£W j _ WOO OIQMT GET TH IriRST f dTRts.oi© SOU AVJEC ?' VNEtU * XLE COMNAEMCe AT Trt FIRST ' AG\Nl _\MEJJL.,vT SEE.NAS , WAS A BoCV< WRO I LIKEDTa/O squaws AM’* one was fat am T-V oT*er ^V-TlMM*-/ AM'— WAiT—vAERE. ’ “OME s DUTCR —X WAMT, RIM TO GeT^HIS —■-*£• ^ 'starT^L__ I TUimvTU K eov-uW O' T-V ( WOODS ' Finj\Sh\ T-\IS eToRT before MOU DO.; v r.CwiTbry. AM' EMO, ^tjVRWiLVi**^ rX-'Vf 7 OiM* «f MCA SOVICC. MC, a 1 Benevolent Business Oligarchy Being Developed Through Easy Money from Inflations of Capital From the New York World. Rarely does a week pass without bringing news jf some new business merger. New combinations are constantly forming and old ones are growing larger by a process of absorption. Intensive com petition, excess production capacity, and the econ omies of quantity production and of systematized distribution are proving potent influences for cen tralization. The movement is by no means new’. It appeared among the railroads about the middle of the l»th century, when small and Independent units began to be linked into trunk lines, and these in turn have since been merged into still larger aystems. In the ’80s of the last century the move ment began to make headway in the industrial field, and it has since spread to public utilities, merchandising and even into the theatrical and moving picture businesses. There is now some talk of agricultural mergers as the solution of the farm problem. Much has been written on this trend toward combination. Some of it has been polemical and same coldly scientific; but surprisingly little atten tion has been given to one of its most important human aspects—its effect upon the individual bus iness man who willy-nilly has become a part or member of the new order. For him, in the great majority of cases, the change means a passing of his one time Independence. Just as the industrial revolution of the 18th century changed the inde pendent master craftsman, working in his own shop and with his own tools, into a wage earner supplying nothing but his labor, so this later rev olution is changing the man at the head of a small business enterprise into the salaried employe of a huge corporation. On the whole, this probably means less worry and more ease and comfort for those affected, but whether this is a sufficient offset for the loss of Independence is a moot question. At least one fact, however, seems well established: this loss of indus trial freedom does not mean also the closing of the door of opportunity for advancement, as is some times asserted. It would be nearer the truth to say that the opportunities are multiplied, but with in a much narrower range. The big corporation usually keeps a keen lookout for signs of talent among its personnel, and is ready to reward this talent substantially, because it has learned that such a policy yields good returns. Prompt promo tion for merit explains why every big business to day is so well served by its staff. Occasionally we do hear of some ambitious cor poration official with a promising career ahead of him rebelling at the discipline essential in a large organization, or at the lack of personal contact with anything more than a tiny fraction of the whole work, and going into business on his own account, hoping that, while pecuniary rewards may come more slowly, the personal satisfaction will be greater. But these exceptional cases only confirm the conclusion that for most business men the yoke of the new system is apparently not galling. Nevertheless, the ease with which the transi tion has been achieved can not blind us to its far reaching social effects. It means that the oppor tunities to advance are to be found along only one path. Men must obey the strict rules of the sys tem—rules which they have had no voice in mak ing. Independence exists, but only at the top. However conducive such a scheme may be to in dustrial efficiency, it has little of the democracy of the system which it is supplanting. Individualism is thus yielding to something closely akin to institutionalism. Ability to forge ahead has become less dependent on personal in itiative and more on one’s ability to fit into a cer tain place in an elaborate machine. The machine itself sometimes helps to do the fitting. A person nel staff devotes its time to putting the round pegs and the better square pegs into the proper holes. This pays better than throwing away the pegs which do not fit wrhere they are first placed. Even provision for a "rainy day” is becoming among the employes of great business establish ments less and less a matter of personal initiative. Foresight and self control were once much more Indispensable to getting ahead than they are in these days when so many organizations are provid ing sick benefits, Insurance and old age annuities. The "tightwad" in the big office today probably has poorer prospects of success than the free spender who spends with an eye on the main chance. The changes which are now going on have led some observers to predict that with high wages, high salaries and a benevolently oligarchic control of business America will lose many of those traits which have so profoundly affected its development in the past; that a nation of hard working indi vidualists is gradually becoming one of pampered employes who spend as fast as they receive. Happily, there are many things which chal lenge such a pessimistic forecast. Out of their larger incomes the people continue to save, as the growing business of life insurance companies and of savings banks continually attests. And while the management of our basic industries is being concentrated in the hands of a few, the actual ownership of these industries is becoming more and more widely diffused through the development among the people of the habit of investment. This diffusion of ownership is, in fact, one of the most comforting features of a transformation which is bound to bring in its train many new social and I economic problems. 12 Wives Convinced. Prom Arkansas City Traveler. Yesterday we printed a para graph containing this unfortunate sentence: “There is one man in the Traveler office who makes it his business to go the rounds every morning and rumple the bobs of all the girls in the office.” This morning we found on our desk a letter signed by the 12 married men in the Traveler job depart ment. press room and mechanical department, demanding that we publish an exonerative statement clearing them of any complicity. "It is needless to state,” they com plain, “that we spent a very un pleasant evening after our wives read this article.” All right, boys, we hereby state that none of you is the guilty man. (This isn’t the first time we’ve lied to save a mar ried man from domestic infelicity.) Taking Life Easier. From his office window he looks down int® the streets below. In front of him the excavations are being m«de for a great building. Women Legislators. From Women’s League Bulletin. Women have taken a firm hold in the legislative life of the country, a nation wide survey of November election results conducted by the National League of Women Voters discloses. With the coming of the New Year the names of 145 women will be car ried on the rosters of 38 state legis latures. This is a gain of 15 over the record established in the legis latures of 1927 and 1928 when 126 women served. The republicans are in the ma jority. The political representation of the 1929 women legislators is as fnllnws: ReDUblicana. 100: He observes the laborers. How in different they are! How slowly they move! What time they waste lighting cigarets, standing and look ing, joking together, disputing over their tools. For 10 whole minutes he watches and finds not a single man intent upon his job. And that crowd standing agape in the street regarding wondering ly the deft movements of the steam shovel. There they will remain looking on instead of going about their business, wasting the time of their employers. Next they will saunter off to peer into shop win dows, or to crowd about a truck that ha^: broken down or to watch a man painting a flag pole. And they will return home to tell their , wives what a hard day they have i had. He ponders. Can this be the spirit that has made America? Or has the sturdy pioneer yielded to the shirker? Is the national blood beginning to thin? Where is the old sense of responsibility and self crats, 38; no party designation, 5; non-partisan, 2. Outstanding results of the 1928 November election in regard to wom en law makers are: First woman elected to the Iowa ; legislature. Connecticut leads with the largest number of women, having 20 as compared to 15 in 1928. Fifteen women arc serving as stave senators. Approximately 12 women have been re-elected to their fourth term. Gains were made in Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa, Kansas, Mas sachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota. South Carolina. Tux reliance? Where the old delight in doing a solid day’s work? With a sigh he looks at hi* watch. It is time to go to lunch with his discussion group. Ha tells his secretary he should be back in a couple of hours. And will she please have the letters ready for him to sign upon his re turn, as he is leaving early this afternoon. They have canceled the conference as the general manager is playing in the squash tourna ment. He sets out for lunch, re garding the shop windows on the way, and pausing to observe a mo tor car that has stalled at an inter section and to join a crowd around a street musician. Once more he is impressed with the univer.-al tendency toward idleness. It dis turbs him. Two hours for lunch. Gazing out of a window. Sauntering on the street. Leaving the letters to the secretary. Going home early. What is the difference between this man and the shirkers over whom he feels conoern? Well, you see he is a thinker. as, Utah, Vermont, West Virginia, and Washington. Losses were sustained in Cali fornia, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina. Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Tennessee. There will be no women serving in the 1929 legislatures of the follow ing states: Albania. Delaware, Ida ho. Kentucky. Louisiana. Maryland, Michigan. North Carolina, South Dakota, and Tennessee. Q. What is the local name of the hibiscus, Hawaii's national flower? S L. A. The flower emblem of Hawaii is the Dua alcalu 4 No Excuse for Friction Between United States and Great Britain From the New York Times. No sooner had the British Journalists who recently spent some months in the United States returned home than they were asked their opinion about Anglo-American relations. Excellent, they replied; but immediately added that the best way to keep them so was to stop talking about them. There has undoubtedly been too much talk, too many things better left unsaid, or expressed differently. Borne of the words which have drifted back and forth across the Atlaantlc re call the cynical saying of Bernard Shaw that the "common langu age" of England and America is uncommonly fitted to lead them to insult each other. One trouble has been that neither side has an ac curate measure of the source from which offensive utterances come. Only on Saturday we had a senator of the United States changing his views about the need of an enlarged American navy because of something said by Dean Inge. That chartered libertine had sug gested that some day England w'ould unite with European nations in order to “draw Shylock’s teech." Senator Glllett gravely took this outburst as if it were official, as if it spoke the inner thought of all Englishmen, against whom he must therefore hasten to arm. He should have been informed that the gloomy dean, with his irrepressible propensity to write and speak In a way to startle, is mors laughed at in his own country than he Is here. Nevertheless, his indiscretions hint at what was meant by the British editors when they said the wiser cohrse is too keep still. Talk between nations is not eheap when It means spending hundreds of millions on warships. Vivacious Lady Astor, wbo knows both countries better than do most, made a plea for silence about naval armaments. She declared that she and many others were getting very tired of the end less palaver which leads nowhere. It excites the popular mind, even while confusing It, The technical merits of the debate over cruisers, their number, their tonnage, their guns, are too much for the ordinary citizen. He simply feels that something must be amiss when public men in the United States and In England talk so much about the sub ject with so much heat. If Lady As tor’s proposal that the talk ers pass a self denying ordinance not to say anything at all about ships and navies for a fixed period were adopted. It might relieve the tension sensibly. Certainly It would be a welcome change. This is not to say that the whole question of naval disarmament is not to be debated. Particularly must some friendly agreement be tween Greet Britain and the United States be worked out. As is stat ed by Mr. Allen W. Dulle, In hie article In the January Foreign Affairs, this is the touchstone of the whole matter. Without a pre liminary understanding between England and America there is no hope of reaching a general statement. Mr. Dulles writes with full knowledge, from official relation to the discussions at Geneva, both in 1926 and 1927, and also writes in a spirit of great fairness. Hie general conclusion is that there should be concessions by both sides: Great Britain should abandon the contention that the United States restrict its cruiser force chiefly to the small type of cruiser, or shape Its own naval program to suit the asserted needs of the empire for this type. On the other hand, the United States might properly be asked to consider the British claim that the use by the United States of its cruiser tonnage for the construction of the larger S-Inch gun cruisers would give combat superiority even though there were tonnage equality; that is, parity of combat strength and not alone parity of tonnage should be considered. * • • Certainly a basis can be found if both countries take the common sense attitude that neither fleet Is a menace to the other and that while substantial parity of combat strength should be the basis of any treaty, neither side will in sist that the treaty make each of the fleets the replica of the other. Talk like this is not to be reprobated. It does not inflame, but gats up “forarder.” However, H should be reserved mainly for compe tent specialists and informed and well poised public men, and not made the sport, in either country, of those whose specialty is "trawl ing ignorance all day long." Speaks for Sanders. From Emmetsburg Democrat Ernest L. Hogue, Iowa director of the budget, died a few days ago of Influenza In his hotel room at Des Moines. He was ill only four days. Press reports from the capital city clearly indicate that Hon. W. E. G. Saunders of Emmetsburg is likely to be named as his successor. Mr. 6aunders' close association with Governor Hammill in political af fairs during the past four years give him a decided advantage over any other aspiVant who may enter the race. The appointment of Mr. Saunders would, it is needless to say, be exceedingly gratifying to the citizens of our country regard less of political or other considera tions. He has served as represen tative In the lower house of the leg islature for six years and he was. during the last session, chairman of the committee on appropriations. Hence he is better qualified in most ways for the position to be filled than the average man in public life. He has a broad grasp of business matters and he has had many years of exacting experience in large en terprises. Mr. Saunders served for nine years as mayor of Emmetsburg and he proved himself one of the most capable municipal executives in our state. He is thoroughly familiar with the needs of counties, cities and towns and also our state insti tutions and he would be in a posi tion to pass intelligent and safe Judgment on what would be neces sary for their maintenance and im provement. He would be in a posi tion to give our state high class service. He Is not, in any sense, an extremist and would, we believe, be Inclined to check those who are dis posed to be too generous with pub lic money. The appointment or the budget director will unquestionably be made within a week or 10 days. The citizens of our country and this section of the state will await with special interest the appointment of a worthy gentleman to fill the posi tion. It is sincerely hoped that Mr. Saunders will be named. Beyond Khybcr Pass. From New York Times. Kipling once told what happened to one wno "tried to hurry the east.” But his reference was to an Occi dental, and King Amanullah of Afghanistan, if he had read it, could hardly have applied the warning to native kings. The news frem Af ghanistan indicates that he might well have done so, for he has been “hurrying” his wild Uill people to ward western reforms, and it is re ported that the army has risen against him and he and his consort have been forced to take refuge in a fort. Later dispatches may dis pel some of the seriousness of the developments. But it seems clear that the Afghans are not taking kindly to Amanullah’s efforts to make an Asian power of the state which has been valued by European soldiers and statemen. in war and in peace, ever since Alexander built hi* fortress of Kabul. To relieve his land of the necessity of looking al Getting' Silly From Tit-Bits. "See that girl over there?” "Yes.” "Her name is Via. She Jilted me for another chap, so I went to her wedding and threw rice and old shoes at her.” “Did you hit her?” ‘No. Viaduct.” Q. Should one say, I differ with ^ou, or I differ from you? W. W. A. One differs with a person when he does not’ agree To differ from Is not to have similar physical char acteristics. ways to Moscow or London, Am&rml lah has proclaimed Independence. Imported foreign officers to train his army, changed the laws, introduced western dress, abolished polygamy, and lately there has been talk of do ing away with the "purdah," or ex clusion from publlo activity of the women. In the 10th century Russia and Great Britain scowled at each other across the mountains which com pose Afghanistan, and that coun try Is still "the bastion of the In dian Empire.” For generations Eng land expected her greatest war to arise over Russia’s ambitions In In dia, but the Junker emergence transferred anxious thought to the Belgian frontier, and it was not un til Amanullah succeeded his assas sinated father in 1919 that Afghan istan loomed large again In foreign office concerns. The new king de manded and asserted Independence, obtained treaties with Russia and Great Britain and proceeded to form What looked suspiciously Ilk* Pan-Islamic alliances with Persia and Turkey. During the past few months tha progressive and ambitious king visit ed the important countries of west ern Europe and further enlarged hi* plan of making Afghanistan modern and autonomous. While he wa* sumptuously entertained In London, it was abvious that the British wera putting their minds on India again and stiffening to the task of pro tecting their Imperial Aslan domain as In the days of “The Man Who Was." But the dispatches Indicate that Amanullah may have his hand* full of purely Internal troubles for a while, and It Is not difficult to think of more displeasing news than this in London. But lr "the hook nosed hill gentlemen with the long guns." as Kipling called the Af ghans, turn their eyes Inward from Khyber pass upon Kabul and the Russianizing process, there could be much better news in Moscow. Rose Under X-Ray. (Prom San Francisco Examiner.) The inner secrets ctf the growth of the rosebud, as It Is slowly un folded through a three-day period, have been recorded on a motion picture film by means of a new X ray movie camera Invented by Ar thur C. Pilsbury, Berk^-. Cil., naturalist-photographer. The pot ted rosebush was placed before the camera, and every five minu'es far 72 hours a new four-inch film waa moved into nlace and exno^d to the rays as they passed through the bud. At the end the Inventor hah 200 feet of film portraying the whole history’ of the flower’s un folding, down to the las’ detail of Inner structure. This will reduce to 50 feet of ordinary motion pic ture film. It Is planned to make use of the new camera for many scientific investigations; one pro ject is to get a continous history of the knitting of broken bonea After Effect. From Judge. Wife: Where were you last night? Husband: I was sitting up with a sick friend—and. If you want to know the whole truth, I was as sick as he was. Q. Has the Little Church Around the Corner any memorial windows to famous actors? H. 8. A. The Little Chuich Around ths Corner has memorial window's erect ed to Edwin Booth. Richard Mans field, James Montague, and Joseph. Jefferson. The newest memorial window is one to the memory of John Drew.