Editorials.

This article focuses on political developments. Germany is truly in the dark. Her statesmen are in the dark as concerns not only feeling in the U.S., but the general execration throughout the civilized world which her murderous course of action has provoked. All this is lost upon the rulers in whose hands German destinies are now placed. Of the three chief proposals for increasing facilities of transportation between North and South America, the Pan-American Conference ignored one and definitely split upon the two others. Samuel Hale Pearson, of Buenos Ayres, suggested that the United Fruit Co. and other corporations doing a prosperous business with Central America be induced to enlarge their capital and extend their sailings below the Isthmus. This was thought impracticable. The failure of the discussion emphasizes the fact that private initiative alone can solve the problem.