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# y?:- 'Mi' European Slavery Still Flourishes Power* Charged With "Winking" at Traffic in Arabia and Abyssinia Conftrmation of r«eent i«porte re- ceived t>y the I^asue of Nations tell- ins of the survival of the slave traffic in Ethtopla (Ab}-»S'lnla), larrely In re- sponse to the demand existing in Arabia, Is found in nn artlclo In the Berlin VOE«lsche Zeltung. The article Is written bjr Dr. Woircang von Weisl, who has been travellttg In the Near EaM. Dr. Welsl asserts that the European powers whose war craft patrol the Red Sea are i.ot making really serioue efforts to suppress this traffic In "black Ivory." In his article, written In Jid- da, the main port of the Kingdom of the Hedjas, the German correspond- ent says: , "Of course, officially there Is no longer any trading In slaves. But in fact there are still slaves in Arabia and the Sudan, In Abyssinia and the colonies on the Red Sea, Only the form has changed a little. Instead of »Iave hunts there are honorable mer- chants who buy up young slaves. And Instead of great slave caravans there are little sailboats which carry batches of from thirty to forty slaves from Africa to Arabia. "Warships of the British, French and Italian beats patrol the waters be- tween Abyssinia and the Hedjaz, but the captains shut one eye. No one wants to be too s.trlOu. A llttl<i stave trading really does not do much harm. 2,000 Imported Yearly "And one of the European Consuls In Jidda with whom I talked a little about the slave trade remarked with a courtewia smile: 'Oh, that doesn't amount to anything any more.' 'Doesn't amount to anything?" I asked. 'According to the statistics I have gathered, more than 2,000 slaves a year are imported by Arabia.' 'Yes,' said the Consul, 'that may be so. But what does that amount to, 2,000 •laves? That really cuts no figure any longer.' "In on« way the European powers are right when they wink at el.ive trading in Arabia. The slaves of the MoslemsAnd above all of the Arabi- ans, are well tr-eated, are counted al- most like children of the family, are rontent. Kven the Soviet Russian Conaul in Jidda confirmed this, say- ing, with a little embarrassment: 'We really shouldn't say so, but the lot of the slaves in Arabia ia almost enviable in compari.?on with that ct tlie poor Bedouins. These latter are dying from hunger." "But the person taJMng about the happy lot of the Arabian slaves Is al- ways thinking of the slaves of the Princes, of_the King*. These 'happy ones' form' one category; the sJavee of the bi« landowners and of the city residents form another. "True, the position of the slaves In Islamâ€" that is, when the slaves them- selves are Moslems â€" is assured by the laws of the Koran. 'It is better that • believing slave become the husband of your daughter than an unbelieving Prince,' taught Mohammad, who never forgot that his flnit follower* were slaves. "And the fact that the staves were generally negros, Abyssiniana, did not hurt them In the eyes of the Arabs of the coast. For centuries Aby«alnian Christians had subjected the coasts of Arabia to their rule. Mohammed and his foilowerir knew the blacks as vic- tors also, not merely as the conquered. And this may be one of the reasons why Islam knows no race question, no color problem. "OaiclaMy, theoretically and In practice, however, this tolerance ceases au soon as we leave the coasts of the Red Sea. In the Interior the negro is regarded as inferior. The Bedouins of the Nejd, notwithstanding the Koran's permission, do not present their daughters with negroes as hus- bands, for there the blacks arrived only as slaves, as the conquered. Con- sequently, they are despised. "Ibn Saud, King of the Hedjaz, Sultan of the Ned], has the ambition to create a whole battalion of slaves^ A slave costs from |100 to $200, an extra powerful youth even $600. while beauti^ll slave maidens come twice as high. And to-day Ibn Saud has a body guard of 120 picked slaves upon whom he can de<pend un- der all circumstances, who are ab- solutely devoted to him. In Arabia 120 slaves represent not only wealth, but power also. They are the only dei.%ndable soldiers. y "When Ibn Saud besieged Jidda about a year a^ It was necessary to construct trenches and emplacements for the cannon that were to shell the city. But the Wahabltes, Ibn Saud's soldiers, refused to dig trenches, de- claring that they were not slaves but warriors. And so slaves did the job. Act as Rulers "Slaves obey blindly, and some- times win high positions thereby. The Governor of Uqair, an important place on the Persian Gudf, is a neg^'o slave of Ibn Saud. Other slaves rule in other places. And the Bedouins obey them, because they are slaves of the King. If a Kins Is defeated his slaves fall into th« hands of the vic- tor and are divided, like horses and dogs. To-day the slaves of the con- quered Kings Hussein and All are serving Ibn Saud and are loyal to him. "Tho woman slaves form another chapter. Those of the Princes are spoiling tho race. A century ago the leading families of tht> Idrisi, who nile in Asslr, were quite white; titty years ago they were brown; to-day they are black. They have bec-omo neg^cs. "In Arabia an attempt of a woman to escape Is punishable by death. And while a male slave still can flee to a European consulate or to a European hip, where he must be protected, the woman slaves are helpless and unpro- tected. Their master demands them back with the words: 'It is my wife.' And Europe's power stops at the threshold of the harem, as before the walls of the cloister. This threshold is inviolable." WorkTs Free Speech Without Violence Never Restrained in London England permits unlimited fro4doin of speech In public places, but the police exercise strict sunrelUaace over the speakers. During the recant ex- citement caused by the expulsion of the Russians from Bngrland, anarch- ists and Communist orators harang- ued the crowds In Trafalgar Square without apparent restriction. Stand- ing at the foot of th^ Nelson monu- ment the radicals denounced the Government of Great Britain as "a gang of thieves and murderers." During one of the Sunday meetlnra recently a voice In the crowd sudden- ly remarked: "God save the King!" The orator of the day retorted: "You call yourself a patriot? You are a patriot like this bloke up there" â€" pointing to the serene figure of Lord Nelson on his column. The crowd laughed. A dignified London Bobby who stood on the outskrts of the crowd ob)»ervcd: 'Those follows seem to be having everything their own way, but the police have the situation perfectly In hand. Gvery one of the speakers has been shadowed. We know everything about them, their past records and present whereabouts, and could pnt our hands on them any moment of the day or night. All 8|>aeehss Reeerdsd. "There Is always some one In th* crowd taking down what Is said. Alii these talks are a matter of official r«V cord. The fellow who is talkiug noW about unemployment and tyranoK could not be Indused to do an honest! day's work. We know him. And wal know the crowd listening to hlmJ They are not taking hie rant seriouslrj They are laughing at his attacks oiu the Government. Uy letting hlmj speak froely we allow blm to blow oSi steam. It does no harm. If there were anything serious brewing In the; way of plota. we would know aboutj it long In advance. "Meetings In Trafalgar Square be handled with diplomacy, should be vlolenca hera, news would spread quickly all over EngJ land and abroad. It would be saldl that there were riots In London â€" tha beginning of a social revolution. Somot years ago there was some trouble here that could easily have beeitf avoided If ihe constables had been a Uttls more tactful In handling tha crowd." The London police on guard in Tra* talgar Square are chosen with oxl treme care; chosen for their intolllJ genco and experience In haoj I crowds. They are the diplomats the force. are miufl If therW ws of II rM EneJ ts oQ Giant searchlight at Charlottevllle, Va. Tbe light throws a b«am of 1,380,000,000 candlepower that can be' seen 2O0 miles away at an angle and 1.000 miles away directly in tbie path of the t>eam. The Meniit Gate London Evening Standard (Ind.- Cons.) â€" What, In the last resort, Ypres means to us Is that there, flght- I ing against heavy odds, we might have been beaten and were not beat- ! en. The war was not for us, or -for any of our Allies, a triumphal proces- sion of victories, nor should wo like to think of it as that. It was, to say the least of it (and the men who were there do habitually say the least of It), an anxious business, and never more anxious than when the German waves broke against the rock our men provided in that little tract of blood- bedabbled Ground. That blood Is still there, aud for all of us It will always bo there. ... It is now for us surviv- ors to show that this blood was shed I In the cause or liberty, was the toll taken by the armies of aggression. We stood In the Menln Gate, In the very crisis of our history, because we would not see Belgium trampled down by an alien Power. Let us pray that to the end of time we may be worthy of what the Menln Gate stands to re cord. Resourceful Financier. "â- WTien I started out In the world, I had but a dollar." "\\Tiat did you do with thatr* "Wired home for some more." 1^ . A lifetime of sorvlco has not des- troyed our faith in human nature. We have so many friends that aro oven bettor than we expected them to bo. Not to the Bobbed Wife. "Long hair falling to a man's shoul- der gives him a dlgnltled look." 'TTes, to all except a bobbed-liBired wife." « High Speed. "How are you getting along at school. Alec?" "Fine! We're learning words of four cylinders now.." â€" American Boy. A dentist declares that his profes- sion is in need of a slogan, ^liat Is wrong with '"Tho yanks are comiug?" Britain Aims at Cleaner Rivers Lords Appoint Committee to Study Effect of Wastage From Factories London. â€" A debate of considerable Importance In the House of Lords took place recently which drew atten- tion to the Increasing pollution of rivers in Britain. This evil, said Lord Balfour, was not confined to Great Britain, but was more acutly felt there owing to the large population and the relative smallness of the rivers as compared with countries like America and Germany. As In every Industry research was necessary, so in this case was It necessary to Inquire fur- ther than into the mere fact of pollu- tion. Debates had taken place In Parlia- ment dealing with low temperaturo carbonisation, with the growing of sugar beet and with the artificial silk Industry. There was every prospect of the first of these becoming a great national industry; the second might spread much farthed and the third was already a big affair. All three produced noxious waste ele- ments which must somehow be got fid of. A noteworthy example of the evils of river pollution could be found In tho River Tees In Northumberland, once a most beautiful river and one In which' the salmon fisheries were most valuable. These fisheries had been completely destroyed by the ef- fluents of coke-ovens. Lord Balfour said that with the question of the necessary research in view of a strong committee had been appointed to collect and co-ordinate the vast mass of Information on the subject of river pollution which was now scattered about the world , Some- times one of tho chief difficulties fac- ing Inquiries was the choice of des- troying an Industry or maintaining the purity of a river. In many cases no method of purification was pos- sible; in others It was too costly to adopt. The only way was to find a method of getting over the difficulty of dealing with the laws of nature. I Radio Soon Between Hudson Strait and Ottawa \ Too Silent. Buyer of Second-Hand Automobile â€" "Didn't you tell how allent the mo- tor was In the car I bought from you?'" Dealerâ€" "Yes. Isn't It?'" "It certalBly Is â€" It's been silent for two weeks now." ^^ It Is by prosence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of a man Is tested. â€" R. J. Lowell. AIR EXPEDITIO ReporU from Ottawa state that the Department of Marine and PIsherles will soon be receiving wiroless com- munication at Ottawa direct from Hudson Straits, If present plans suc- ceed. A mast Is being erected at the Straits, and It la expected the station being Installed there will be powerful enough to reach Ottawa. Messages N GATHERING DATA FOR FUTURE relayed by way of Port Nelson indi- , cats that the work of Installing tho base at the west end was progressing I satisfactorily.. The new terminus of theh H. B. Co., Port Churchill, and its] distance from Nottingham Island, 700 miles, are indicated in tho key map I ABOVE. Big Island and Port Bur- j well, the other two bases, aro shown. ' Tho possibilities of the northern ; NAVIGATION route have been explorod through the activities of the seven planes used this summer, in a way impossible be- fore the development of aviation. The report of this Rummer's work, which l)egan In July, will to a large ertent determine tho development of navi- gation bctwoon Europo and Hudson Bay porta, thief of which seema likely to be Fort Churchill: Laugh at Yourself. Most of us aro quick cnov.Kh to laugh at other people â€" at their blun- ders, their concait of themselves,! their prepostorous opinions. Wo aret delighted to see the ^ther feilowj make a silly ass of himself. It makeaj us feel such superior persons by com«, parison. Of course It does not occur to ua, that the other fellow may trequeuUjri laugh at us behind our backs. And It ho dares to laugh at us to our face wa put It down to his ignorance, his had manners, his porvortod r;cnse of hu- mour. Sometimes it makes us very cross. But not many men havo tho good sense to laugh at thomselres as read- ily as they laugh at their iielKhbjrs. Our little doses of humour aro u.-.ual- ly dispensed to the other f?lli>w, wo do not often swallow them oiirsolvaa. We have no need to bo cured of blua. ders, vain conceits, and egregious theories. Have we not, indued? It is a pity that we cannot stand back, so to speak, and tako a good look at our- selves. The sight would .-<urely strike us as so comical that wo i^lionid break into an uproarious fit of laughter. Wo siiould roalize that not all tho good jokes iu the world spring from tha sayings and doings of tho other fel- 'ow. Suppose Uiat killjoy chap could uet a good look at hiraspK ns we otht'ra SCO him. He would nearly dio of laughing as eoon as ha caught siglit of himsoif rolling his pious eyes and wringing his puritanical hands. Ills killjoy gospel would quickly Blink away from him. And tho Communial. if he could only see and hear himself trying to convince the world that its only chance of leading a useful life is bv committing suicide, he would laugh at tho Billlness of it and bocome sanu again. And the criminal â€" tha chap who thinks his follow men aro iilgeons created for his plucking. If he would only take a good look at himself and his ways, ho, too. would laugh at him- selfr for an utter fool. Ho would oea clearly that in tixa end it is always himsoif wtiose feathers are piuckod, and give up crime as an unprofitable lob. So with all of us. Wa need to get outside ourselves and sco ourselves at our foolish capers. It would pro- vide us with many a healthy laugh at our own expense. But, better still. It would curs us of some of our blind foollshnoBS. It would make us real- ise that we are not a bit sanor than all the other Idiots after all. Ambition is the spur that makes man struggle with destiny. It la heaven's own incentive to make pur- posa great and a4;hievement greater- Donald Q. KUtchell. Paris authorities say that skirLs are to bo worn longer. Unfortunately this rofers merely to tho length of the skirt. REG'LAR FELLERSâ€" By Gene Byrnes. TMERGS "W5 90CA OERKEB ^ IMPILU'SCRO© STORE mL.