Evening Star Newspaper, July 3, 1921, Page 23

- r THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SUNDAY...........July 3, 1821 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor %o Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: Tribune Building. Chicago Offce: First National Bank Building. Earopean Offce: 3 Regent St., London. England. "The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city .at 60 cents per month; dafly only. 45 cents per month; Sunday onls, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be sent by mail. or telephone Maln 8000. Collection is made by carriers at the exd of each moath. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo, Tally only. . Sunday only. $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ yr.. $7.00;1mo., 60c yr.. §3.00:1mo.. 2ic . Department Water Waste. Berious concern is expressed lest the water supply of the District may fail | before the additiopal conduit can be completed. The private consumers of ‘water are generally heeding the plea tp conserve water, although there are! some cases of obstinate selfishness,; such as that reported in The Star the! other day of a householder Wwho, promptly at 5 o'clock. turned on a} lawn sprinkler while the clouds were ! lowering in the west for an impending | downpour. But in the government departments, despite metering. there is undoubtedly much waste. The per capita consump. tion_there is altogether out of propor-: tion to that in the domestic use of; the water. The metering has appar- ently done no good whatever. Records, it is stated, are kept, but still the enormous use goes on, and at thg peak «f the load in hot weather it Means Just the difference between enough Water for the city and not enough. The Saving of two or three millions of gal- Jons in the departments today would probably be an easy matter under! strict supervision, and the saving of! that quantity of water would bring the | total consumption point below the ! danger line, which lately has been actually passed. Appeal has been made to the Presi- dent to name a committee to survey the water situation and make recom- mendations to conserve the existing supply. Representative Zihlman of Maryland, who wrote the letter, states | that fully 40 to 50 per cent of the de- partment use could be saved by econ- omy and careful regulation. This esti-| mate alone justifies an inquiry. This matter will probably be taken ' up on the President's return from his! present brief holiday. Meanwhile the! situation is some-snat reiicved by the fall in temperasire and tho prevail- ing showers. ‘ifiere can be no assur- ance, however, aghinse a recurrence of the excessive Reat and drought that cause h.avy use of water. Three hot days in succession without ‘rainfall | will bring the peak of the water use up to the danger point. It Will be a great relief if economies are effected in the departments, which are the| greatest users of water in Washington. | All that the domestic water users of Washington ask is'that the same rules and limitations that apply to them bée observed strictly by the government. —_———— The Travelers’ Aid. The Travelers' Aid Society asks for members, and for the funds that mem- bership brings. This worthy organ- | 1zation has done valuable work in this city for several years. It continues to function for the helping of people of all ages and conditions who arrive in! Washington and are in need of guid-| ance, assistance or advice. It prevents | disasters and sufferings. It findsj friends for wanderers and shelter for | the homeless. It is one of the most| usetul works now in progress, and| every dollar that can be spared from { the pockets of the people of the city * can be put to good use. A city that is truly hospitable seeks| | to make its visitors comfortable. The | railroad station, however, is often the ) scene of distress and sorrow, for the lack of attention to those who cannét find their way, or who are stranded !without funds or who need physical " help in emergencies. The police do good work, but they are after all the . police, and many persons shrink from | appealing to them out of pride and | fear of possible complications. The | Travelers' Aid fills the gap. No record can be compiled of the 'good that has been done by this or-l , sanization. It has saved lives and " spared many young people from shame and suffering. It has reunited families and has found positions for place- i seekers. It is an employment agency at times, a house-hunting bureau, a counselor and a friend. Membership «costs but little, but each member helps '-m carry on the work. Let this ap- ; peal for $10,000 be promptly heeded !@nd the sum subscribed through en- \ roliment. Then Washington will be | ready to extend true and valuable hos- | pltality to all who enter its gates. ’ Like the north pole, Dr. Einstein's ~¢heory has been discovered, but is hard %o get at. . / —_————— ‘A Automatic Train Control. " A suggestion has been sent from the {Interstats Commerce Commission to 1%he American Railway Association that & certain automatic train control de- wice which has been successfully used ,for eignt years on a western road “ymight to advantage be installed on all ke dines of the member railways. This ;3= not an order, for the Interstate Com- snerce Commission feels that the pres- {nt financial situation of the railroads «loes mot warrant compulsory action ‘@t this time. The finding, however, of ysuccessful operation and the official #uggestion of adoption are most grati- ¥ying, and it may be concluded that fghe search for an effective, dependable ‘gneans of preventing collisions has at {Bast been developed. \ The raflroads are reluctant, it is ‘!._lo adopt such a device because ot afeeling that the interposition of the train-control mechanism will tend 0 lessen the individual responsibility the engineer and ‘make him less that has for eight years used the sys- tem in developing tests. It is stated that the engineers on that line are so ple with the system that they would not return to the old way, and their efficiency has not in the least been diminished. .Meanwhile, there has been no-collision. The saving on that score alone in the eight years has undoubtedly been enough to equip the whole line and leave a fund’ for main- tenance. s The annual bill of the American rail- roads for damages in losses of life and property in collisions is an enormous one. That sum capitalized on a five- year husis would probably equip every mile of railway line now operated on the block system. As-an economic measure, the train-control device, whatever its specific nature, whether it is the one now approved by the In- terstate Commerce Commission offi- cials or another, would be one of the biggest savings that are now possible in railroad administration. The air- brakes, long resisted by lines, has been a wonderfully efficient measure of economy. The automatic coupler has saved probably thousands of lives since it was adopted, and yet it, too, was not favored. The railroads were slow and reluctant even to put hand-holds on freight cars for the use of their crews, and now they would not run without them. The whole history of American rail- roading has been one of conservative adoption under pressure of safety and efficiency devices. The solution of this train-control problem has been greatly retarded by this same spirit, notwith- standing numerous ghastly proofs that the human element in railroading is an unsafe reliance, to be eliminated ias far as possible in the handling ot fast-moving trains. ————— A Short Fight for Big Money. Ninety-one thousand people sat in the sun yestérday afternoon in a great wooden saucer arena, watching an ex- hibition of man-fighting in the name of sport. Some of them had traveled several thousand miles. They had paid high prices of admission. Altogether their payments amounted to about $1.500,000. They were there to see a battle between the world champion heavyweight and a French contender for the honor. In less than fifteen min- utes the “‘show™ was over. The cham- ipion had punched and hooked and banged his challenger through three rounds and in the fourth had landed a knockout blow. A million and a half dollars in gate money for a fifteen-min- ute spectacle! This result was according to general expectation. The champion was a heavier, solider, stronger man. He was younger. The challenger had skill and speed, but not the brawn of youth necessary to meet the fighting ma- chine, now successful in two world- champion battles.” Sentiment was for the Frenchman, because he had served his country as a soldier during the war, while the American pugilist had spent his war months in a shipyard. But sporting money has no patriotism and no sentiment. It was laid chiefly on the champion. Had it not been for the somewhat emotional feeling for Carpentier the odds would probably have been longer than they were at the beginning of the fight. The battle at Jersey City has decided nothing except that Dempesy. yemains the champion. perhaps a vear or two, some other challenger will m t him and he will have to defend. Then maybe dnother great saucer of wood will be erected at vast expense and more tens of thou- sands will flock to the appointed place and spend their hundreds of thousands of dollars, and then mayhap another champion will be acclaimed. And so the wheel of sport turns. 5 We are a civilized people, and we look with abhorrence upon barbaric procedures. We of this country think that bull-fighting is an abomination. But we support the “manly art of self- defense” with our millions and cheer lustily for winners whose bloody gloves have battered opponents into insensi- bility. There is nothing edifying, noth- ing helpful, nothing inspiring in these spectacles. But they seem to grow rather than diminish in popularity. If this were an age of fist-fighting, with men attacking and defending themselves chiefly with ‘“nature’s weapons,” this interest in the fight game would be logical. But probably not 2,000 out of the 91,000 present yes- terday In the Jersey City arena, outside of the professionals, ever struck a blow with a fist in their lives in earnest. Boxing is not generally practiced.” It is not taught as a rule. Men play golf rather than put on the gloves, or ten- nis. §ome even play croquet for exer- cise. And yet they will go to fights if they can and swarm in crowds at bulletin points and cheer and thor- oughly enjoy themselves. It is a strange thing, clvilization. —_————— Europe desires a. sound financial basis. When a sum is mentioned a business man naturally resents being obliged to consult the authorities to find out how much it is in regular money. ———et—e After the governmgnt has been put on a basis of thrifty aedministration, there may be experience and informa- tion available that will enable the rail- roads to start over and do better. —_——— All that people can ask of Mr. Hays is that he will run the post office as alertly and effectually as+he did the republican campeign. —— e The oil well i{s the great gambling deyice of modern civilization. End of the British Strike. The British céal miners have voted to accept the government’s plan of a| ‘grant of 10,000,000 pounds and to re- turn to work after many weeks of idleness. The strike has failed of its primary purpose to nati lize the mines, although the present ‘proposal is a concession to the operatives. Un- der this agreement until September, 1922, the standard minimum wage is to be 20 per cent above the 1914 wages. The standard profit of the mines {5 17 per cent of the aggregate amount of wages paid, and of the surplus profits|. above that polnt 17 per cent is fo go to THE SUNDAY STARy WASHINGTON, .D.. C, . JULY 3,- 1921—'15ART 2. - money. is to help tide the men, over during’the process of wage reduction. Thus the outcome of the strike is a profit-sharing plan. But there is no assurance of profits beyond the 17 per cent point. Unless production in- creases materially per man there may be no profits at all. Statistics have been complled showing a steady- re- duction in the output of the British coal mines during the past eight years, both actually and 'in proportion to the number of workers. Thus in 1913 there were 1,127,890 persons employed and an output of 411,869 tons. In 1820 1,248,224 persons were employed, with an output of 229,503,435 tons. Roughly, the product in 1913 was 246 tons a year to each worker, whereas in 1920 it was 184 tons, or 62 tons less, a reduction of about 25 per-cent. It remains now to be seen whether the mine workers on resumption will speed up the work under the inspira- tion of possible profit-sharing or will be content with their recent average of productivity. Much depends upon the spirit in which the men return to work. mood throughout the long strike. They feel that they have wasted them- | selves in a struggle in which they ex- pected help from other unions, but which was denied them. They are as sore against their fellow unionists of other trades as against the govern- ment and the mine owners. They have, however, an opportunity to demon- strate a working capacity thit will yield them an advantage. The British government has been sorely tried by this situation. It has faced possible political reprisal. At one time_it looked as though a gen- eral election might be forced by the mine situation and the accompanying complications. It has weathered the storm, however, though at a price that some of its critics feel is an excessive one. But any settlement, it was felt, was preferable to the disaster of continued non-production of coal, which is the foundation of Great Britain's indus- trial structure. With a shortage of fuel British factories have been run- ning on short time, if at all. General production has fallen to a low point and trade has been seriously affected. The menace of German trade rivalry has undoubtedly spurred the govern- ment on to a concession that in or- dinary circumstances would not have been contemplated as possible. —_——— Versatility leads a man in some cases to be his own rival. Henry Ford, however, has not permitted the lure of politics or the fascination of literature to diminish his fame as the world's greatest manufacturer of motor vehicles. f The average member of Congress will admit that there is needless talk, but each individual will conscientious- ly insist that it is done entirely by the other people. i of the government on a conservative and secure business basis cannot fail to be a help to business in general. { President Harding's cabinet is set. ting an example to the country at a time when industry and co-operation 3e’ vecogniaed -as essential. 1 In a few months, or o Among; the markets of the world those of the western -hemisphere are 1 so ¢lose at handas to deserve garly and dttentive. consideration. = } Lenin still shows hopes of capital- izing bolshevism and in a way that will make it a less precarious source of income. i . Judging from the distinguished at- ltendance. a prize fight is as beneficial to the tired business man as a musical show. { =z The Fourth .of July is no complete holiday for the gentlemen whose ora- torical talents are always in demand.’ ( Political agitation in Europe has re- duced the Italian volcano to the status of a mere local disturber. l One of the modern tests of influence and prosperity is the ability to afford a ticket to a big prize fight. ’ The cool summer prophet was a cheerful citizen while he lasted. The indiscriminate waster is'a prob: lem as well as the profiteer. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Depth. “My thought is deep, said; “So do not be by folly led, And strive my meaning to pursue. My thought is far too deep for you.” Then said the simple passerby, Your thought is deep, I can't deny. It lies secure from common wit, Because 'neath words you've burled it. the grave man The Missing Factor. - “What has become of cubist art?” “It lacked the true essential of suc- cess.” “What is that?” “Salesmanship.” Sport Postponed. thought you were going fishing?" “It was my intention. But after I ‘had bought a complete and proper out- fit I found I had neither time nor money enough for the trip.” The Mermaid. The mermaid is a merry elf. ‘We must admire her morg and more. She swims, and don't enjoy herself By promenading on the shore. Jud Tunkins says & man who never worries seldom has much credit at the grocery store. Cost Elimination. “I can remember when there were men who did not hesitate to sell their votes.” “So can I,” replied Senator .Sor- ghum. “The practice had to come to Answer 1o this is furnished by | the owners and 82 per cent to'the men.|an end. The high cost of geiting SEnexisnon o€ S50 JUBiaAMIond | The voteof 19,000000 pounds of gubliclslected became imbeaceble: They have been in an ugly| jand valuable library. The determination to put the uflairl! .vears of age, he entered the Senate POLITICS ‘AT HOME|How Interests Dominate Politics!IEARD AND SEEN|FIFTY YEARS AGO IN | Congress as Talker. Is Congress too talky? The charge is not new. Many changes have been rung on it. And yet no diminution of} vocalism on Capitol Hill has been ob- served, or is observable. Congress has succeeded Congress with only an oc- casional shortening of the long session, and practically no saving of white paper in the matter of the Congres- stonal Record. Despite all criticism— some of it purely of a humorous char- acter—legislators have continued to have their say in their own way and according to their own notions as to| time and space. ‘Well, why not? Let us consider two things. The first is that a great variety of subjects are presented in Congress and many of them need ex- planation. The supply bills alone are | full of matter inciting to inquiry and debate. Voting away the people’s money is something that must be done as intelligently as possible. In cam- paigns for re-election senators and representatives must give an account of such votes and everything connected with them. The second thing is that every Con: | gress contains many capital talkers— men who have achieved eminence by the exercise of their talenfs on the stump and elsewhere—and when they assemble in the two show places—the hall of the House and the hall of the Senate—they vield readily and natural- 1y to the temptation to match tongues. A talkfest is inevitable. Let us have economy all right, but not in the direction of silence in an assembly which always has & good deal of business to transact, and whose members are among the best and most entertaining talkers in the country. Such phrases as “Cheese it,” “Cut it out,” “Take in the slack of your tongue,” are all very well as applied to tattle on the curbstone, but they do BY THOS. R. MARSHALL, Former Vice President of the United States, F George Washington were alive today and were prepar- Ing his farewell address to his fellow citizens, he would probably warn them not only against the dangers of Intense partisan spirit, but against the de- sertion of the fixed principles upon which the American government was builded, and he probably would caution them against the grouping of themselves into “blocs,” representative not of prin- ciples, but of interests. For four years and more it has been apparent to ary man who watched the trend of American politics thut ours is a government not of party principles, but of compromising interests. Many a woman lives years with a man long after she has Jost even the semblance of respect for him. She has just grown into the habit of being a wife; it means nothing to her; it is but the state in which God pleased to put her, and there she stays. Untold thousands are democrats or republicans not be- cause they are enthusiastic over either leaders or platforms, but just because they have acquired the habit. It is not that they love the one party, but that they dis- like the other. * ¥ % % For many years the aisle in the United States Senate which is sup- posed to divide one party from the other has been a twilight zone, where the recalcitrants of each party foregather. These recalci- trants may safely be trusted to at- tend nominating conventions; they are eloquent on the stump and help elect ‘the ticket, but in legislative halls, after the election, they dis- cover that their views are more in accord with the views of certain men on the other alde of the aisle .than with those of the leaders on not apply where men know how to talk and talk about matters of the deepest . national import and concern. Chairman Adams. A brief biographical sketch of the new chairman of the republican na- tional committee shows a man who has had success in several fields of en- deavor. He is not alone a politician, though good at that game. He is also a business man—one who has mounted high from modest beginnings. He is fond of books. and has collected a large He has always taken an active interest in his home their own side. For more than five years now a strict party vote has been of suffi- cient interest to claim first page space of the leading newspapers of the country. What {8 true in legislative halls is equally true in the country at large. I meet democrats who are stanch defenders of a high pro- tective tariff; others, who are quite satisfied that it is to the best in- terests of the republic to central- tze power in Washington; some who claim they are democrats when Bryan leads and some when Wilson leads. I find republicans community—serving on its school board, and assisting in the management of its church charities. Thus we find a combination of pol- {itician, business executive, student, and allaround useful citizen at the head now of his party's national organiza- tion. Well, & man in that place has need of much, and several varietles of, knowledge. He must know politics and politicians, of course. He should know business and business men, be- cause business has much to do with politics and politics with business. And a student who reads widely and dis- criminately rounds himself out for his duties, whatever they may be. . And the activity Mr. Aflams has shown In local affairs is a guaranty as to national affairs. Having proved faithful and efficient over small things, he has been set over large things. This is a large country, and its pub- Hc affairs are organized, and must be conducted, on a large scale. Interests are numerous, and many are in con- flict with one another. None should be injured, and certainly mnone de- stroyed. Hence the party which steers a course recognizing equities and pro- viding for them has in the long run the best chance of success, and needs for its organizing head a man whose information and sympathies are broad, and who knows the way around. Gov. Hardwick and the Senate. Gov. Hardwick has entered upon the duties of his office with such a fervent compliment to the people of Georgia, the suggestion follows that probably he has long plans ahead. Do they reach as fat as a return to the Sen- ate? The Georglan’s service in the Senate was too brief to suit him. His serv- ice in the House had been long and successful, and his promotion came, as all thoyght, as the proper reward. He had taste for politics, and had demon- | strated capacity for the game.. A good speaker, ambitious, and under fifty with flying colors, and seemed assured of a career there. But he fell under the displeasure of the administration. He and Mr. Wil- son did not hit it off well together, and the voters of the Cracker state, it soon became apparent, must choose between them. At the time, Mr. Wilson was lfl-l powerful within his party. "His word who are opipésed to protection but who vote the ticket because there is a 'solid south”; who consent to local self-government and who stand opposed to the supervisory powers of government. When electiong come along they are out- wardly regular, whatever they may happen to do in the polling booths. Such a state of public mind and legislative opinion is leading in- evitably to one of two things —either to a dissolution of the old parties or to clean-cut declara- tions of ancient principles and a call to all those Wwho believe in these principles regardless of par- ty afliations. ¢ * x x® I am , myselt a Jeffersonian démger: I am not ‘convinced that the principles of Jefferson have been improved by the many appendices and addenda attached to them by well meaning persons who conceived that the business of a pélitical party was to discover and put Into effect something new. 1 am not opposed to anything new it it be good, nor have I ever ob- Jected to the people trylng new things to ascertain whether they are good, but, now that “white mule” has disclosed its vicious- ness, I hope the American citizen will quit riding it. . T had a fflend in Indiana who suffered @ serious accident. Upon ‘ recovery he found -himself in the’ unusual condition that wheneyer he attempted to -go forward, he found himself walking backward. The only way in which he could advance was to make himself be- lieve that he was going backward. ‘With much trepidation and in all humility of spirit, I admit that since last November I have felt that the.only way In which the democratic party can ever.go for- ward Is to get it into the heads of the people that it is going back- ward—to the principles-upon which it was founded. 5 Principles seems to be something that is to be talked about, but which is not to be used in the ac- Recipe i tive affairs of everyday life. We are so busy in considering, not what is the common weal, but the individual good that we have ac- quired, a hodge-podge of conduct, and it is doubfful whether out of it we could get a consistent set of principles. New England, wants the protective tarifft on manufac- tured articles, but shies at pro- tection on raw materials. Louisiana must have something done, legis- latively, for sugar. Texas and Arizona are “spitting” cotton. Every man's business is the axis around which all legislation should revolve, * K X ¥ One of the foolish ideas of poli- ticians i5 that they can meet in convention and solemnly declare what the people shall think about. This is utterly impossible. The Ppeople Will think primarily of those things which affect them the most. "After these have received due con- sideraiior they may be induced to consider ctner guestions. 1t is use- less to present in a poiitics) cam- paign questions about which the people know nothing, and care less. Those who are interested in fixed principles of government and who are convinced that contending interests striving for mastery will result only in confused legislation should occupy the time between campaigns in educating the voters along the line of principle. It would be interest- ing to get an honest statement gs to how many voters in America read the different party platforms in the last campaign. Such a state- ment probably would shock those who believe that the American people give thoughtful considera- tlon to the issues involved in the proposed policies of the several parties. Unless and until political parties announce a few general principles and honestly pledge themselves to measure every proposition by the principles set forth in their plat- forms regardiess of the effecc upon individuals cr groups of individ- uals we may expect a continuance of present conditions, if they do not grow worse. such an abiding faith in the wi; ingness of the individual Ameri- can to undergo personal priv in order to promote the general g00d that I should like to sce a fair and complete trial of & brief statement of principles—a trial by keeping avowed principles regard- less of their effect upon individ- uals and groups. The signs are not hopeful, however, for such a con- summation. * ok ok x United States senators from ten or twelve states which are largely agricultural have banded them- selves together without regard to the party label which they are supposed to wear into a sort of a non-partisan league. They are saying: “What is democracy to us? What do we care for republican- ism? Our people are farmers. For years they have been forgotten in legislative halls. We propose now to do something for them. We are going to devote ourselves to a program of legislation which will be of primary benefit to them.” This, of course, is calculated to produce- special legislation for a class. The rest of us wiil be told that whateyer benefits the farm- er will benefit us; that agriculture i the. basis of all national pros- pRrity. A ‘smaller number of senators have joined themselves together to fight what is called the “vel- low peril.” There is a “bloc” of senators interested in irrigation and reclamations, and yet another ‘group whose members, regardless of political affiliations, believe that the sales tax is the immediate matter of greatest moment. Glorious democracy! An agra- rian party, an irrigation party, a labor party, a prohibitive tariff party, a prohibition party, an anti-Japanese party—every fel- low for himself and may his sa- tanic majesty get the hindmost. Equal and exact justice to all men and special privileges to none have become passe in America. “You scratch my back and Il scratch yours” {s the modern slogan. * x * ¥ Yet there are those in the Con- gress who are sufficiently wise to foresee the dangers to arise from special privileges. They - know there is & great body of Americans who are not satisfied, and they are apprehensive that the medicine will not cure the disease. So they propose to make the Presdient the goat. He is to add to or to take from these special privileges as he may happen to think the times and fad¢ts warrant. Contracts made with’ reference to the tax laws of today may tomorrow be changed by presidential proclama- tion. If the change suits the coun- try, well and good. If it does not, the President was to blame. (Copyright, 1921, by Thomas R. Marshall.) for Summer Reading Hot weather _does. not interfere|that many persons who have no time with the use of the Public Library. July is ordinarjly the third heaviest month in the year of the library. 'Persons stopping in the city -appar- ently find it desirable to real to 'while away the hot hours, and those who are leaving take advantage of the was law. The organization obeyed him | privilege granted by the ‘library, almost without question. In Georgia | which extends to all persons the. op- his influence was thrown against the | portunity, from June 1 to October 1, then Senator Hardwick, and the sen-|of borrowing ten books for such ator was denied re-election. man was chosen in his place. - Subsequently, underwent a change. The Wilson in- fluence declined, and then disappeared. The President became as unpopular as sentiment in the state | $1.00 A Wilson | period -of ‘time as they are to be absent from the city. A deposit of for postage also makes it pos- sible for- readers to secure other books by parcel post while absent .during their vacations. . To ald in the selection of books the he had been popular. Thomas E. Wat-| 2“0 0 e s for the last two son offered as an ant{-Wilson candidate{.. = o s 1ists of books giving sus- for the Senate, and was elected. For-| goqyiong for summer reading. The mer Senator Hardwick, decorated with ;¢ this year appears in the Jume the Wilsonian displeasure, offered for |y, jjetin, and may be had for the the governorship and was elected. So stands the case today. Mr. Wil-|ana covers all types of reading from asking. . It lists about seventy book son is out of office, and Gov. Hardwick | history ami blography to a “Nonsense in office. Should the latter decide that| Anthology.” Recent accessions of a return to the Senate is about the|fiction are also listed. right caper, can he make it? In his present place he wields much influence | their own. A recipe for-those who like to pick 3 titles_but who find ‘dif- at home, and should know how . to[culty in choosing . .among. 8o . many make that power count in shaping his | interestin plans for the future. ———ttm e Unless D'Annunzio is willing to be forgotten, he will cease his literary| .People g booke the ten which they may take with them, is also sug- - | gested by the library. = put ‘oft choosing their books 1abors long enough to hire one of the |unti]. the last moment and then are numerous press agentsmow out of em- {50 dl ployment in EuroPe. Healthi hints for sumnier must givé due consideration to the fact that it Jows: . The_firat half of the ppointed when they cannot se- cure the few titles they can remem- ber wanting. According to the library assistant, _ the: recipe for the sum- s intellectual diet is as “fol- lection is possible to overindulgs even.in icelmay be fciion.. This {s a- cancession cream soda water. to the summer heat and-to the fact ride for novels {n the winter wish to be informed as to the character of pres- ent-day fiction, if for no other reason than to be able to talk about it with _their neighbors. Four novels are ‘selected on the fifty-fifty basis, two of the older writers with two o the newer ones. The fifth book shoul be one to read aloud—O. Henry's short stories, Snaith’s “Araminta™ or some of the stories of Countess Van Arnim or Stephen Leacock's. Of the other five titles one must be a history—not a prosy, dull record- ing of facts and dates, but a broad outline of significant events which illuminates the past and gives a pic- ture of the march of civilization through the ages. * s * % ‘To be sure of good company to live with intimately during these summer days, a good biography should be the sixth volume chosen. A nature hand- book is the next cholce. One year it may be a book on birds, another year on moths and butterflies, and still another year, flowers; for a summer is spent in vain if one returns from the country with no fresh accumula- tion of nature lore. These books, how- ever, should be {dentification manuals only, as a help in noting interesting things in wood and wayside. Book number nine is poetry. Lying on the beach or in a hammock i not quite perfect, it is contended, with- out & book of poetry, and for the va- cationist who has only a limited num- ber of books at his disposal an anthol- ogy is probably preferable. The last book chosen should be the latest one op one's own hobby—the book one has been waiting all win- ter to read. Each person must, of course, have his own special interest, It may be a book of recent plays, if modern drama ‘appeals, or a book on old. furniture, or on art or music, or 'what not; but it is suggested that in ‘s “world so full of a number of things” one may not be “as happy as /kings” unless one has some hobby to One of the real sizghts of Washing- ton is the orung-utan at the Zoo eat- ing his raisin bread. The red-haired anthropoid ape eats his bread much as little children do, When the keeper slides him a slice through the bars ne grabs it, looks | at it critically for an Instant, and then goes after the raisins Flattening read | against his fa £0 over it for the raisins. biti them out one by one as he w over the slice Not_until every raisin has disap- peared does he condescend to eat the bread * » x \ Advocates of reclassification and| reorganization in the government de- | partments foresee the day when peo ple will refuse to belleve that a gov- ernment employe ever supported a wife and sixteen children on $720 a iy to prevent such a forever fading from the memorics of | men, let me tell you about such case. 1t was not so very lor either, that this condition The man is in the service tiough getting more thing from | after a long, hard fight The emplove worked on a shift, and_epent his daytime fis But not for pleasure. The fish he caught to sell, in order to eie out his meager salar for him that he was a rman. awhile the superior officer Once in 'wc—nv fishin' with _him. Upon one of these rips the officer expressed his amazement at the “luck” of the fis erman. “How do you manage to catch sn ked { The moving power of novels of the elder Dumas is known to many. But perhaps no better demonstra- tion of this quality has been seen in a long while than that witnessed on a street car last week. He was a younz colored man, rid- ing out Georgia avenne in a crowded car_He balanced himself in the a holding with one hand to u seat, the other cla g the book. It was| in Fren Id read for a Dblock. then! tears ould stream down s face,) W hereupon would be forced to stop reading. When his tears ceased he would go back to b So, alternating betw, ng. B ding ana sobbing, he went his way. One of the newer officials in the! government was an interested spec- tator a window washing nt. Two men were in his departn nzaged on the job @ board, the other One held the end o stood out on the board, swabbing laway at the pane. § “That would be a dangerous fall if the man holding the hoard should let g0, remarked the new official “We take care he won't have any jmotive to let go.” emiled an older offi- cial “How is that?" el ¥ e. it's like this” 3 “We put th a A Franco-German Understanding? The eagerness in certain English, circles for an alliance with France is one of the straws indicating that| the European wind is blowing toward | a cessation of quarreling between | France and Germany and, therefore, | toward a united Eurcpe. Thus the| Stampa of Rome says, commenting on | an article in the leading semi-official | P French newspaper ! | “The Temps déciares recently that | France ought to have 'a German pol- {iey! If we compare these words with | other declarations made by the Temps on the dissensions which are upset-| ting Europe, and with its statement that the present French policy lead only to a number of Franco-German | conflicts where England plays the ar-( bitrgtor's part, the advice gave the other day not to lose sight of the forest on account of the trees. | Which means not to lose sight of the ! % policy on account of middle Europe: if we compare all these signs we might ask if there is not a ten-! dency teday in France toward a di-| rect agre German: 10 say indepe “This tendency has come into exist- ence through the affairs of the Ruhr and Upper Sil “In both o ment between France and is without England—that toward a continental pol dent from an English poli and upheld the thesis favorable to Germany, Francel the anti-@erman thesis. This simple] reflection makes us inclined to_ state a paradoxical fact: Part of French opinion seems to incline to a policy of reconciliation with Germany just because England had a pro-German, pol Thus the French are pro- German through Dbeing anti-Ger- man. * e, “In order to realize such a polic says the writer, “France would I to give up her designs against Ger- many to which England is opposed. We cannot imagine a ‘German poljey’ on the part of France want- ing to inflict damage on Germany that she was not able to do in agree- ment with England. It would bel a doubly incomprehensible policy, be. Gause first of al Germany Would | repulse any agreement with such an} iunfavorable basis, and then France isolated could not succeed where she ](alled in agretment with England. “We can say so much for French intentions, however, since they were officially announced by Briand in parliament, that they mean to help | Wirth in_his policy of carrying out the treaty and of consolidating thus situation of Germany. internal take the ! consolidation cannot !But this place if Germany has to submit to hew and greater hardships, such as the loss of Upper Silesia and the oc- cupation of the Ruhr. This consoli- dation will take place, on the csn- trary, if. in exchange for the policy of carrying out the treaty eflectiyely begun by the Wirth ministry, France would give up all ulterior weakening of Germany and would do away with | the sanctions now in vigor on the Rhine. “But France seems to be far from this state of mind. And we may al- most wonder whether these pro-Ger- man tendencies are anything else but a maneuver destifed to make an im- | Pression on England, to bring her back to the French fold and conclude a Franco-British _alllance, So much desired, against Germany. The ma- neuver’ would be ingenious. But England_knows very well that no Franco-German understanding is pos- sible until France give of her anti-German ideas. sure until then to remain mistress of the situation.” Muscular Music. The orchestra of freak instruments which plays on the Italian roof gar- den of the Criterion restaurant, in has been reinforced by al eccentric piano, which is twelve feet long, and has to be played with, hammers. This is the | closest description which one can ! give of the marimba, says the London ‘Daily News. It is the modern succes- sor of the barbaric gourd piano of the native races of Peru and Chile. Its keyboard is’.constructed of a series of rosewood bars, under which are London, wildly Q | and evening. THE STAR. Speedily following up the plan of the territorial board of public works fitty years ago, the house of deputiea passed a bill pro- viding means for atic improvement tion naturally de- The Star said of this in 1ts sue of June 1571: The oppesition is mainly political Opposition to Improvements. a general and sy of the city. Oppo veloped and appears to be inspired partly by the disposition to cripple the new government as a piece of party tact: and partly because the disbursements may not be made in a way to help the ‘outs’ to the ascendency “The organ of that party here has labored quite assiducusly to get up & public meeting in opposition to the improvement pi lawyer of the . and a well known {ured lately as a democratic candidate for Congress in New York, has within d appeared here and given task of demon- A call sperty holders ent loan bill bears the signa- ty cieizens of migh on the rule that the names of lemen appear and probably th the major- the gentlemen the far west, assure us Jas be the t ity of th is in Europe, an r authorized the use of the mes, but that they artily in favor of the improve- ment measures.” * * x The meeting was held and The Star in its issue of Jun thus discussed it: “The meeting called Meeting of ~ b¥ Col Philip was very Opponents. respectably attended, " b as was shown by the only t= of the evening. was about evenly divided, standing 27 in favor of the bill 1o 34 against it. ‘The speeches made by Messrs. Philip and Riddle in opposition to the b | very good specimens ¢ law pleading. but no better than the argu- me they iade some months ago on the other side of the question and in favor of a Distri vernment em- powered to CATTY Out JUSt Such a com- prehensive of improvements as is now pr - Mr. Dur: be- ew here, shot rath wild and d some of Mr. Philip's favorite ideas after most cruel fushion, eting. we think d. as af- for the pres- objections Lo rongest light pos- have now been ¥ weight we back upon iprover f things o dollars asked in ti 4 away without app 1 plan of improve- by an estimute. at under the old DIGEST OF FOREIGN PRESS fixed rosewood and metal resonators. The player smites these with his ham- 8 igorously as though he were breaking stones. and they v.eld notes eep and sonorous those of a cathedral organ. The specimen on the Criterion roof garden is the one in England. El and it was imported from the United States. Mr. Keith Pitman. a cham- pion marimba plaver from America, pounds away at it in the afternoon He beats some exciting music out of the weird and deep-toned instrument. The diners on the roof garden say that it is a help to diges- tion. and it is better than any jazz instrument for the dansant. Messrs. Hawkes & Son of Denman street, who are the agents in England for the marimba, state that the market price of the large specimen is £250. A smal] one can be obtained for about L Exaggeration. There are a great many American visitors in London at the present moment, says the London Morning Post, and one of them went last Sunday to hear the orators in the parks, being particularly interested in a socialist rhetorician, who enlarged on the sins of capital for the space of an hour. “l1 guess he has the gift,”” was the vis- itor's comment, “and even a con- gressman couldn’t beat him on exag- geration. He reminds me of the crowd-collector at a circus in Mis- souri, who kept on ving, ‘Ladies and gentlemen. come inside and see the biggest alligator in God's uni- verse. He measures twenty-four feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of his tail, and twenty-four feet from the tip of his tail to the tip of his nose, making, in all, ladies and gen- tlemen, a grand record total of forty- eight feet.” Marquis a Dressmaker. In a studio over a garage in St. John's Wood {s the workshop of a Frencn noblemar. who has lately taken to dressmaking. The highly ccorative rooms belong to the Mar- quis de Tourney d'Oisy. For some time the marquis has devoted his at- tention to ecclesiastical vestments and church furnishings, but is now specializing in painted furniture and in cloaks and dresses, and the London Daily Chronicle gives an account of his new business. " woman's ress should express her personality,” the marquis said. “For that reason 1 like to talk to a client for a little while before I discuss the dress she wants. Chat- ting informally on all sorts of sub- jects, 1 get an {mpression of her character, and can better design the dress which will express it. f a housegown is wanted I like to visit my client's home, for the frock in which a Woman receives her din- ner guests should not be expressive only of the wearer's personality. but be in tune with her house.” Cloaks and dinner gowns in velvet, wilh decorations in paint. are a spe- cialty of this French dressmaker. A flannel jumper sounds incongruous until one explains that the flannel is simply the background for elaborate decorations in bright wools. “I don't suggest that sucn a jumper is suitable for Bond street,” said tne marquis, “but it might be worn in the country or on the river. It will wear forever; indeed, most of my cloaks and gowns are of such a char- acter tnat they can never be ufi- fashionable, because they are not. in- tended to be fashionable. They can be worn two or three tim for months, and brought out again.” The marquis himself cuts out every dress, and does all embroidery and paint work, leaving only the actual stitchery to an assistant. His furniture is as original as the clothes he makes. A painted grand piaro occnpies a large corner of the Studio. Tts keys are green and gold, instead of black and white. and the framework is rosewood hidden under a variety of colors. Painted floors are greatly in de- mand,” added the margquis, “It costs less to paint a floor in a good color with a center design that to cover it with linoleum 8ad & hearth-rus.* M)