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Numerous brokers with large capital deal in telephone numbers. They buy and sell numbers at the current market quotation of the day. Other busintss men toy up numbers when they are cheap and rént out the telephones at so much a month. | Others again lend money on the num. ber just ag a pawnbroker here would iend on your diamond ring. This interesting business develop- men is the result of the Government telephone moncoioly, and the failur of the Covernmeni to keep up with the demard for service. Annually Parliament appropriates a certain for telepliome extensiou. When that sum is gone no more in~ struments can be Sut in that year. The nionopoely yields the Government a profit of 10,000,000 yen. But this meley goes into the general fund and! is not available for telephone extén- sion, As a.result of this situation when Mr, One Two decides. start in busi. Ness as a grocer he goes up to the Ggvernmental telepbone headquyr- ters and applies for & telephone. #1 shall put your name on my hon- Orable list of applicants," replies the sogaisha-like clerk girl behind the counter, "How long am [ guing to wait?" inquires Hon. Grocer One Two. "Well, maybe two-i'ree year," re- plies. Miss Apple Blossom. "Not long, anyway." "But," protests One Two "that very long time to wait." "Long time?' inquires the charm- ing Apple | Blossom. "Why, some peoples make apply, seven, eight year ago--no got yet. Hon. Tokye Town uow only 61,000 telephone-- Japanese peoples here and all around got him 120,000 more name oa waltee-waltee list." "No can wait," says Hon. Grocer One Two, and goes away very angry to the telephone broker, . "How much you make hins honor. ablé telephone up at my peachy-blos- som' grocery. house store quick quick: % The so honorable telephone broker takes a Jook- through his stoék, "Here very niece number----2222." he explains, "Suppose you like -- five bundred dolla." : '"I'wo much," One Two. ¥ "No, no, very cheap," cries the dealer. "All numbers like 5,000, 2020, 12234--make the so-easy to re- member---cost very big high. Five hundred. every time.' Mr. One Two takes a 'phone with a plain"number for $400 and sets up his grocery, saving thus from two to five years' walt. The Government allows the instru- ments (o Be Takep out or installed without changs of number. When the business man needs a little extra working capital he pls bis telephone up as collateral for a loan. The in- strument is not removed, but papers are. drawn up which pledge the repay. ment of the loan with usury upon a certain date. If the money is not paid the usurer comes in and re- moves the telephone, which hb sells] or rents to some other Japanese. The highest price ever paid for a telephone. number was 1,250 yen, which translates into $625. The pres- ent market price Is high, telephone service. advancing In cost, like any other commodity, -during times of business activity. The present quota- tion is from 800 to 1,000 yen, ac- cording to the desirability of the numeraj combination. Of the 61,000 instruments in use in Tokio 13,000 are at present in pawn. The amount of money lent on this security 1s said te be 5,000,000 yen. One may easily raise as wucl San, protests Mr, roofing made up for jprovided. The result is that 'phone as $400 on a number that is regard ed as desirable. To become a subscriber to the tele- phone system Is doubly expensive, Ono must not only pay the 800 yen or more that thé broker charges for & number, but he must pay' the Gov- ernment sixty-six yen a year for the service. When he sells out, however, he van get back his original outlay. In fact, unless the Japs reform their aongpoly methods, the investor in telephones 1s likely 'to make a promt, for the habit of wire conversation is growing faster than the equipment sumbers gnuvuaily sell at higher levels. The Tokio bankers and busi ness men ars in the habit of putting thelr surplus cash 'into telepkopes whenever one is offered at a fair price, The speculative in eun rent out the 'phone and after a year or sell its number for a nice pro- me busitess men wake a Lusk 4 telephones. Oce p has an income that the dreams of the Japancye 'avarice, © = "An odd result of the syste Jo that BOLPIPIOVPVVVPO00P0L LIGHT BEGINS T0 DAWN | aERMax PROFESSORS GIVE UP IMMORAL BELIEFS. | They Acknowledge That Nations Should Observe Treaties and Thai i International Relations Must Be | Based on the Idea of Right--One : Very Hopeful Sign of the Times. | ROM an article in'the Vos} | sische Zeitung," of Berlin, it appedrs thyt the German pro- ! tessors of political science and { international law are beginning to show a mew spirit in the treatment of questions concerning tregties and international rights. These profes { sars have much to amswer for. ft | wili he recalled that about z score { of them brought otit a joint work { "tunty justifying" ihe sinking of the { "Lusitaniat' "from the standpoint of international law." And before the war not a few of these political pun- makes right, that the state can dso no wrong, and thus prepared the way for dealing with treaty obligations a8 sccaps of paper. It was freely 'taught that all treaties are valid only 80 long Ws circumstances remain un- coanged, and that each stage must judge for itself whether circum-| stances have changed. But now' a different spirit begins to manifest itself, Dr. Erich Eyck, writing in the paper already named, Indicates that the breaches of inter- national law in the early stages of the War were so numerous that people began to scoff at it as "an illusion of the day before yesterday, just about good enough stith to keep up a ghostly existence in the books of unworldly professors." But it was the practical statesmen themselves who were the first to feel and admit the necessity of fixed laws between nations; they spoke first of international "arbitration courts for adjusting differences between states: it was they who demanded that right should consort with might ss aa equal factor. Eyck'says that the views laid down by Count Czgruin re. garding international legal arrangi- ments would have been laughed at only a few years ago as the fantasy of an incorrigible idealist. | Hg finds that the idea of inter-| nati¥hal courts of arbitration has quite recently found strong support dits taught the doctrine that might] among the political science profes- sors of Germany. Prof. Schuecking, | of Marburg, hae repeatedly expressed ! himself {n favor of them.. Even Prof, Zorn, of Bonn, one of Germany's el presentatives at the seennd Hague Conference und a man of very von- | seérvative tendencies, Las recently | given his support to such internation- | al arrangements. Also Prof. von | Liszt, of the Univérsity of Berlin, | not long ago brought out a little book ! under the significant title: "From tte | League of States to a Community of | Peoples," in which he strongly favors the process denoted by that title. But two mare elaborate works have recently appeared, dealing with this and other international law ques- tions. One is by Dr. Leonard Nelson, professor of philosophy at Gott'ngen, and bears the title: "Political Science i Without (the <cheeption of) Right"; the other by Prof. Robert Redslon, for With Can Always Cnn on of Rostock University, showing nfs. |. torically the progress of the world | toward the development of a univer- | sal system or Jeagye of states which | shall guarantee the observance of | international law. | Leonard reviews the teaching 'of | soe of the best known German writ- ers on international law and theories of the state, and shows that they nave i all been led into error and self-con. | tradiction : through their failure to | make the idea -of right 'he found- | ation of their systems of International law. Especially does he attack the | view that "the state, as being the | only eriterion of right, is to be the sole judge in extending or Hmiting | the validity of its treaties." The doe- trive that treaties are valid only as long as circumstances remain the same is utterly rejected. If this doe- trine should prevail, he save, then the theory of law would correspond all' the more eompletly to the prac. tice of the nations in proportion as these drop all moral considerations and give the reins to their lust for power, fn proportien as the violence aud trickery of the strong triumph over tho weak. 7 ve Prof. Redsiob is meady with a practical example to show the world what can be done In the direction of | creating a league of nations, He takes the confederacy of the Swiss cantons as such an example, shows how it came into existence as a ne- arrangement for removing | eessary strife between its component parts, and how it developed from a loosely allied group of cantons into the pres-- ent firmly united federal state. 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