Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1922, Page 6

T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1922. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....December 2, 1922 .. Editor THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Offl 0 Nassau St. Chicago Ofic er Building. European Qlice: 16 T .gent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Is delivered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month: Sunday ouly, 20 ceuts per month. Or- gors may be sent by mail. or telephone ‘Main 8000. Collection 13 made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 70c Daily only.. - $5.00: 1 mo., 50¢ Bunday only. $2.40; 1 m All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr. $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only.. 1yr., $7.00;1mo., 60c Sunday only. 1y $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dls- tehes credited to it or not otherwise credi n this paper and a'so the local news pub- Yished herein. Al rights of publication of special Asnatches horein are also reserved An Impressive Spectacle. Yesterday's parade was a vivid safe- ty lesson. It presented the warning of death from carelessness in the streets in many forms. It pictured the coms quences of recklessness in a manner that evervbody could understand. It showed all sides of the quesfion of safety, in the streets, in the homes, on the rails, in the wood on the water, safety for the nation, safety for the children. Rarely has Washington had so im- pressive a spectacie. It left little to the imagination its address to the understanding of the beholders. Pic-| torial effects vied with gruesome dramatic representations. Drilled marchers held the eye and ingenious floats visualized the consequences of recklessness or haste or incompetence, How long will these lessons last? If all of the thousands who yesterday saw the safet ade will acquire the habit of care which it so striking- ly urged, this day will be released from a heavy toll of casualties. But habit is strong. and the habit of care-| lessness prevails to a degree that| makes for danger at every point. Deoubtless many of those who wit- nessed the parade walked carefully, on dispersing, between the painted lines at street cro: and watched the impulse signa ntrol points, or drove with scrupulous care in obedi- ence to all the rules, written and un- written. If only that first response to the plctorial appeal could la To those who contributed to yester- cle the city owes sse who managed and | i tted. The spirit of | § those who pa competition between the units of the departmental was manifest in a variety of w always before, the government off —so important a factor in Washing- ton’s make-up—came to the front with their contributions without stint of labor and with enthusiasm. These safety parades are effective | Jolts to the public conscience. But the main point is to get the habit of care | which they teach. i ion of the parade| As ! | es i | Mr. Harding and 1924. i Secretary Hoover predicts the rE‘-I nomination of President Harding. A{ considerable number of politicians— some of them democrats—are of the same opinion. Well, why not? The republicans are in power, with Mr. Harding their leader. They have made the record! for the past eighteen months, and will | make it for the com iteen. That ‘will bring them to national convention | time. ! They must stand upon the record, and by the man under whose leader-| ship it has been made. A\ refusal to renominate him would he tantamount | to a confession of failure. Renomina- | tion, and especially with a show of unanimity, would be a clear challenge to the opposition under whatever form and leadership it m: appear. That opposition cannct be forecast | now. The recent elections have un- doubtedly heartened the d(‘mncrats‘ everywhere. Talk about both Cox and| McAdoo has been quickened, while{ new names have been added to the! list of those democrats appraised as ! of presidential size. There is a good deal in flux, and the | bloc maneuver, because of its newness | in our affairs and its possibilities, is| causing quite as much uneasiness as curlosity. What will its authors do with it? Or what will it do with its authors? Presidential election day is nearly two years away; and in two years, with the world in a condition of fer- ment likely to continue for some time, a great deal of 2 surprising nature may happen. —_——————— In the early days of Texas the shooting iron was regarded as the symbol of the state. Texas is now the home of peaceful enterprise. The gun-! man has come east to grow up with the country. ————— Thanksgiving having gone its way, the popular mind reverts to the price of coal and other matters which do not exactly call for gratitude. H | Japan Proves Good Faith. Official announcement from Tokio that the Shantung agreement with China had been signed. and that all Japanese interests in the province are to be surrendered to their rightful owners, the Chinese, constitutes a ‘bright spot in the news at a time when so much is dark. If some of the other .nations were as jealous of their word as the Japanese have shown them- selves to be, many things now difficult ‘would become simple and a lot of the suspiclon which impedes the inter- course of peoples would be removed. A “te Wachington conference a year ago the Shantung question loomed larg: as an obstacle to the ef- fecting of settlements which would in- sure peace in the far east. Japan was unwilling that this question should be ‘brought into the conference and dis- cussed by all the powers assembled, contending that it was a matter for adjustment between Japan and China. ‘The good offices of the United States and Great Britaln were invoked, @u informal agreement was read { bringing our immigration agents in { tions? !men who will be taking their first i lock around in a legislative assembly. on terms of settlement which per- mitted the conference to go ahead with ita other work. Other settlements were predicated upon the assumption that these agreements wculd in due course be carried out. In the history of diplomacy Japan could have found many precedents for attempting to evade the spirit of tlflu! agreement, for yielding less than had; been expected -or for delays which would have been nullifying. Apparent- ly she has not availed herself of any of these possibilities, but has held her- self obligated to interpretations which substantially meet all the expectations of China. - 5 Shantung was the particular prize which went to Japan as result of her participation in the world war. Her forces wrested the province away from the Germans, without assistance from the other allies. In the light of past practices she was entitled to re- tain and enjoy the fruits of her vic- tory. But the moral sense of the world would not concede that legiti- mate capture of stolen goods con- ferred a proper title, and it was made i manifest that this wrong which hadj been done to China would have to be righted before stability and peace could be assured in the Pacific. Japan prized peace and the good opinion of the world more than she prized the loot of war, and in order to assure peace and win good opinion she has followed a course which will long stand to other nations as an example in good conduct. Bidding for Immigrants. An interesting story was told yes- terday in @ special dispatch to The Star from Atlanta. The Canadian gov- ernment is not only making an effort to induce its nationals who have re-| cently emigrated to the United States to return home, but is holding out special inducements to American farmers in our northwestern states to cross over and take up residence in that country. This is from a statement just issued by the acting Canadian minister of immigration: We re concentrating attention upon settlers of this type. But one of the difficulties is that many of those who were desirable immlgrants have not the necessary funds with which to buy land in Canada. In order to assist as much as possible we are the western states to Canada to make | a survey and to list desirable farms Which- the owners will rent for a vear or tw in the hope that the renter may ntually purchase and become the owner. This is something that has not before been attempted in the way of immigration work by our agent Ought it to have been attempted at all? Is it meighborly to invade the United States in such fashion and play upon farmers with such tempta- Canada could not find anywhere else, on this or the other side of the Atlantic, people as desirable for build- ing up her interests. The American armers are industrious and capable, nd in Canada, speaking English, would move along easily with the pro- cession. But they are needed at home here. We do not wish to part with them. Special attention is being paid to them : at present, in Congress and out. Maybe we can outbid Canada, and hold on to our own. The flag of the Stars and Stripes looks good to the great majority of those who were born under it. e Preparing for Action. Let us not lose sight of the fact, nor undervalue it, that this short special session of Congress has afforded, and the short regular session to follow will afford, opportunity for antagonists on Capitol Hill to study and “get onto” each other's curves and styles of fight- ing respecting some of the issues now before the country and likely to figure in the next Congress and even in thé next presidential campaign. True, many men now in commission on Capitol Hill will go out of commis- sion March 4, and be succeeded by But it is also true that many men of experience now on duty on the hill will be there after March 4, and as prominent in the proceedings of the next Congress as they have been, and are, in the proceedings of the pres- ent one. We are entering on exceedingly strenuous, and some complex, politics. The stakes will be high, the leading players—the men directing the game —expert, and the interest aroused world-wide. Hence the value of full preparation by both sides. The coun- try wants, and needs to have, every legislator in action at his best, and for the full term of his service. Then, when the play begins, under the ad- Jjuration, “Go to it!” the result, what- ever it may be, will represent the country at its best, and be entitled to prompt and loyal acceptance. ——— Governmental workers have their troubles in the U. S. A., but none to compare with those of & man en- deavoring to be a responsible office holder in Greece, —_———— It should be possible to hold an Army-Navy foot ball game without too much fear of what is pathetically referred to by an American humorist as “the cold gray dawn of the morn- ing after.”’ Will Hays says the public must help the movies. The public has al- ready helped very liberally. New Postage Stamps, Every one is familiar with the lit- tle tickets which letters use to get first-class transportation on the ral- roads of the world. These little tickets are known as postage stamps, ard the letter presenting one gets its ride without question. ¥ssuance of a new set of “tickets,” therefore, is more than a departmental matter. It is something that comes home to the bosoms of men, as Lerd Bacon said, for every one uses postage stamps some time or other. It may be he writes regularly to his mother for years and years, once or twice a week. It may be he writes to his sweetheart once a day until the time comes when he writes no more. It may be he ‘writes for a job. Perhaps he writes in wrath. Uncle Sam's mails carry all kinds. _ So the ‘new series of stamps being ls- sned by the Post Office Department takes on importance by reason of thn; human side. The stamps range from | a denomination of 1 cent to $5, the series being colored with special refer- ence to the needs of the mall clerks through whose hands they must pass. It is intended that the.colors will readily ald clerks in ascertaining if the necessary amount of postage is on a letter or package. The new stamps, judging from the few already issued, reflect credit upon the bureau of engraving and pripting, which is producing them for the postal service. Collectors to date have bought them in such numbers that the cost of engraving, making the dies, etc., has been more than paid for by them. One man sent a thousand-dollar note through the mails for a supply of the new {issues. As these stamps never fulfill their mission as “tickets,” re- maining in albums, the money pald for them is practically 100 per cent profit to the Post Office Department. ‘Their purchase in such large numbers by collectors the moment they are put on sale is an indication of the interest which the people take in their postage stamps. . Pershing at Minneapolis. At Minneapolls Tuesday, under the auspices of the American Defense Society, Gen. Pershing spoke after the manner, in the terms and with the information, of a trained soldier, who in his own distinguished life has shown the large value of training, and rendered service for tralning received. He has been ‘raised on” the sub- ject of the national defense. As a cadet at West Point he was drilled with the national defense in view. As a young officer of the Army he was occupled with problems of the na- tional defense, and as the commander in the recent war of the largest mili- tary force ever put into the field by the United States he {llustrated to the complete satisfaction of the country the importance of & competent man fit for a soldler’s duty and assigned to a soldier’s work. Naturally, Gen. Pershing wants us as natlon to be ready at any time the bugle sounds and the drum taps. He is an advocate of preparedness. In vesterday's deliverance, according to the press report, he “stressed again draft statistics that show 50 per cent of the young men called out during the war to have been physically sub- normal, largely due to defects cura- ble by proper traininz; and that one- fourth of the persons examined were ‘unable to read and write our com- mon language, and that more than 10 per cent cannot even successfully speak English.’ " The reply to Gen. Pershing should be a prompt and cordial acceptance of the general's recommendations. I The reminder of Ambassador Harvey that it is no offense to propriety for a nation to hecome a creditor nation is a deferential suggestion to a number of countries that have asserted them- selves in the quest of preponderant wealth with far more aggression than America has ever done. i Prohibition enforcement will be casier as soon as every citizen who indorsed it as a matter of public senti- ment adopts it as @ matter of personal { principle. | ———— | The question before the average iconference Is usually this: “What is |reference to the e Uncle Sam going to do with all his! money?” —————— Lawmakers are mighty, but it is easier for fashion to revise skirts! downward than for Congress to revise | the tariff downward. ———e—————— The Sultan of Turkey decamped in a manner which indicated no confi- dence at all in his ability to control the harem vote. ( New Brunswick, N. J., has suffered | an interruption to regular business, | but, thanks to the relic hunters, the | season has been rather profitable. f Peril has become so promiscuous that foot ball is now regarded as one of the safest occupations a young man | can undertake. { ! Premier Clemenceau and members of {away from the common effort to which HERE and THERE in WASHINGTON BY “THE MAJOR” ing to the fact that the chairman of the meeting was suddenly called away on account of illness in his family. the gulder of the destiny of the candidate concluded that he would introduce the one who sought the favor of the elec- torate, and, mounting the rostrum, he proceeded to tell what was needed in order to save the country from im- mediate ruin, and he became so en- thused that he spoke for over an hour, and during which time he held the audience spellbound. Happening to glance at his watch, he saw that but ten minutes remained before train time. He turned to the candidate who, really having a sense of humor, en- joyed the situation, and looked for a sign as to what to do. The seeker of votes whispered to let the situation rest as it was. Hurried adleus were saild and the manager hotfooted it down to the train, and while he was buying the tickets the candidate hap- pened to overhear two members of the audience discussing the meeting, and this Is what one of them said: “That fellow s some speaker and I guess that we better vote for him, but I did not think so much of that skinny guy that was with him.?” When the returns were counted it was found that the candidate had carried the town by & ten-to-one vote, and the senator in telling the story on him- self, sald: “It is a wonderful thing to have a manager that can make a speech like he did. and I have often wished that I could have him do it HE other day a well known golf enthusiast was strolling through one of the pretty bits of woodland, when he came across a knight of the road and, being of arather inquiring nature,, proceed- ed to question the hobo as to his ex- periences on the road. The tales sprung by the tramp were of such an interesting character that the ques- tioner seated himself on a rock; he noticed, however, that from time to time the gaze of the traveler wandered from his stout walking shoes upward to his shoulders, and he was also aware that from time to time the derelict had edged toward him. Finally the outcast, after glving one particularly intense look at his foot coverings, asked the local man what his business in life was. Squar- ing his shoulders a bit, he replied that he was a prize fighter, whereupon the idler stopped his forward movement and the prominent clubman, wishing to carry his bluff through, jumped nimbly to his feet. Before departing from the scene, however, he reached in his pocket and pulled out some loose change and as gruflly as he could bade the waster get a good square meal, | that he thought he would take a jog | back to town, as he had a fight on: in about a week from then and was doing a little training. It was a gigantic bluff, but it got over. * K Kk YOUNG and charming woman the | again.” other night was discussing differ- ent forms of lawlessness of the west with a chap who had spent a number { IT is a pleasing thought to know of years in mining camps and other that there is one national figure places that are supposed to contain|that not only believes in what the real “bad men.” She dwelt quite at|flag stands for, but is proud to have it length upon the lawlessness of nu- |in his parlor. merous western citizens. A little later | If some time vou visit Vice Presi- during the evening she told of how |dent Coolidge at his apartment in the she had been held up by a youthful | New Willard, you will see two hand- bandit, had been robbed of her horse | Some silk flags; one is the Stars and by him, and how she had been com- | Stripes, the other is the flag of Massa- pelled to walk home through a heavy |chusetts. The flag of our country was downpour of raln over muddy and!Presented to the Vice President and slippery roads, at the same time men- | Mrs. Coolldge by the Woman's Relief tioning that the hold-up had occurred ! Corps of Massachusetts because the within five miles of her home, which | Women of that great commonwealth is near Columbus, Ohfo, whereupon | appreciated the fact that Calvin the man from the other side of the | Coolidge and his wife both stand for Rockies was mean enough to dryly:the high ideals which brought the remark: “Oh, yes, the bandits of the|Stars and Stripes into being. west are something terrible.” 1 S i XXX . YX7HILE all of us have appreciated STORY was told in the drmncmllc"‘/ for months that woman has be- cloakroom the other day by a|come very independent, having ear- senator who was elected In November ; nestly entered politics and business, by the largest majority that had ever vet one would hardly expect her to been glven a candidate for that office | throw off the shackles as completely in hig state. It appears that the first ' as did a number of the fair sex the time he ran he was not well knowh other night, when she and a male es- to the majority of the electorate in all | cort matched for the dinner and the- the sections of his state. His cam- ater tickets, while waiting for two paign manager had arranged for him friends to join them in the place to speak at a small town—one which where the pretties preen, i Pea- the candidate had never visited. Ow- | cock Alley. e EDITORIAL DIGEST Clemenceau’s Outbursts Are Sub- | ject of Sharp Discussion. The controversy over the treaty of Versailles and its league of nations * % ok X “The Tiger who roams the face of America today is a grand old_tiger, one of the superbeasts of all the jungle. He {s as perfectly simple natural as every tiger |is. sther he purrs or snarls he holds clauses has been reopened by the our enraptured admiration. Hut we sharp exchanges between Former §hall admire him in safety only when he and what he symbolizes is se- v caged « The Waterloo Tribune belicves that lemenceau stirred up the Senate. Editors generally are de- bating the subject with particular|te controversy “to get audiepces, sct the “Tigers”| 3 RO _other way could so much be done for him and his purpose.s allegations may have upon futurc| The policies of Clemenoean. and Eareanaastions. his senatorial opponents are “in- Holding that the “Tiger's tour has|iocluate.” the New York Globe be- already falled,” the Pittsburgh Lead-| Aovericond, it Saye further that “the er says that “Clemenceau should be ssured of oné thing so firmly that he cannot make any mistake—that Americans have had enough of war, and too much of participation in the wars of militaristic Europe.” It is the opinion of the Newark News, for its part, that “the Senate squirms at hate- ful facts,” and it asserts that “Clem- enceau 18 right about it—we flinched ;i\merlt'an spirit which Senator Borah cribes does exist and might have wholesome influence upon Euro. pean affairs. If Borah and his sup- porters really want to make their principles effective. the way to do it is to give America a volce and a vote in European councils. This the way both to answer M. Clem- enceau's stinging assertion that we have ‘quit’ and to reform that policy of force to which M. Clemen- ceau stubbornly adheres.” First Congress to Have Four Ses- sions. we had inspired the rest and for which we suffered with them. That is what hurts the Senate, for the Sen- ate had the most to do with our de- sertion. The Senate has the right . %o squirm. Tt hates the facts. As| YOT the first time in the history of Americans who love ~0url' country we!the American Congress, this, the do, too.” Similar in character are|Sixty-seventh Congress, will hold ¢ iced by the Knoxville 5 e e e e e X{a/le | four sesslons. The present third ana man, a torelgner though he may be.| €Xtraordinary session, opening today, who is not to be browbeaten andf squelched by the bucolic Borah and his Hun-loving kind. They talk of diseiplining the Frenchman. They will close in time for the regular short session to open on the first Monday in December. During recent years the three-ses- talk of denying him the floor of the Divorce proceedings indicate that!Senate. Let them. So much the bet- % The: ‘A rican cople will ac- some of the best advertised husbands | L5y The oA o hnd hear him do not prove satisfactory. only the more cordially because a SHOOTING STARS. man who is honest and brave enough BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. to speak the truth without fear of senators before his eves is denied a {hearing by this body, which is given to prating of the virtues of free speech |when it does not happen to wring { their withers, no matter how dema- i gogic and vicious it may be.” 1t is certain that as Clemenceau de- velops his views the number of those iwho will disagree with them “will |increase,” the Rochester Times Union says In declaring it “perfectly futile to criticize the speeches of this ven- erable old man and to find fault with him as a reactionary. What the ad- iministration at Washington needs to 1do is to abandon its attitude of timid isilence and let France know on what i terms, and in what way, we are ready {to help her. This much she has a fright to ask. Not mere futile criti- The Dollar Bill. ‘When anybody hollers For money nowadays, About a billion dollars Is what you're asked to raise. I recollect quite clearly, ‘With e melangholy thrill, Respect I felt for merely A simple dollar bill. “A billion” is a number sion Congress has come to be the rule rather than the exception, the single exception being the Sixty-fourth Con- gress—the only two-term Congress in fourteen years, 1909-1925. In the Fifty-eighth Congress there ions, as also in the fifth and Fifty-third, the Forty- th and Forty-fifth, Forty-second orty-first _and Fortieth, seventh, Thirty-fourth, seventh. Twenty-fifth, Eleventh, Fifth and First. It is interesting to note that in the early days the extra sessions were held on dates fixed by law rather than at the call of the President, Congress itself declding if and when extra sessions were necessary. The Consti- tution, in article 1, section 4, pro- vided that the Congress should as- semble March 4, 1789, and thereafter “in overy year ® on the first Monday in~ December, unless they hall by law appoint a different day. Up to and including May 20, 1820, elghteen acts were passed providing for the meeting of Congress on other were three se: Fifty s Thirteenth, 1 Not easy to define. Its meaning seems to slumber Obscurely in the mind. ‘We talked finance with unction, But the greatest question still Is the individual function Of the simple dollar bill. i Another Reason. “Would you use money in an elec- tion?” “‘Sir,” answered Senator Sorghum; “I am too lofty in my ideals to think of such a thing. Besides, under the present clrcumstances it can't be done.” Jud Tunkins says a braggin’ man is lkely to talk most about what he thinks he is, but isn’t. Musings of a Motor Cop. Hortense Magee, caught in a wreck, Said to the Doc. in accents weak: “Perhaps I might have broke my neck If this had not been Safety week.” Serlous Delinquengy. “How did your boy Josh happen to leave college?” - “Got discouraged,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “Far as I can understand he ’pears to have flunked on his foot ball. + o “A contented man,” Eben, “is company when you's loafin’, but he ain’ much encourage- ment when you needs to hive some- body foh actual work.™ . 5 said Uncle | L cism, but the presentation of a con- structive policy, this is the answer to Clemenceau.” Tt is “not for Clemen- ceau to say what we shall do.” says the St. Louis Post Dispatch, “not for Borah to critcize. It is for Mr. Borah and the other irreconcilables to ac- knowledge and repair, if possible, their tragic blunder.” ‘An avpeal to “give Clemenceau a chance.” is volced by the Albany Knickerbocker Press, which holds the senatorial criticism “was premature. There are certain aspects of French policy in these criti- cal years which have not appealed to some Americans. Maybe they have not appealed to Clemenceau himself. But he Is trying to tell us of some- thing deeper and more vital than any mere matter of passing politics. He may be wrong; it may be impossible for us to do as he wishes. But we owe it to him to give him a thought- ful hearing.” It is because Clemenceau asked the questlon: “What is the Tnited States going to do?" that alll of the tumult has been started, argues the New York World, in suggesting that “M. Clemenceau’'s history may all be false and M. Clemenceau’s poli- tical principles may all be reaction- ary; but his question remains, and there will be no stabilized peace in the world until the American people have found the right answer to it. It is the opinion of the Scranton Times that “Clemenceau makes the mistake of trying to frighten us, by arading the dogs of war, into doing something we_should do as a mat- ter of duty. We have an unfulfilled obligation, but talk of another pos- sible war with Germany is not the way to make this country realize it.” Germany and France “are unable to see the truth and. seeing it, follow it.” and because of this they suffer today, says the Omaha ~World- Herald, Senator Hitchcock’s paper. The World-Herald suggests that the best reply to certain of the Clemen- statements is to remember “the nature of the vote” which defeated pas S ys in the year. Since that year Congress has met regularly on the first Monday {n December.—Hunting- ton Herald-Dispatch. Clvilization is just a slow process of building more emergency wards.— Birmingham News. “The man in the street” has now become “the man in the flivver."— Illinois State Journal (Springfield). Europe sees dire results of our iso- lation, and certainly we are getting pretty klanish.— Philadelphia North American. “One-minute Wedded Wife Asks for Divorce.” Too bad she didn’t think of it one minute sooner.—Philadelphia Record. Likely the reason muffs are so popu- lar this year is because they make such nice holsters.—New Orleans Times-Picayune. “Taxes are making us a nation of liars,” college professor. He's right. Taxes and ‘“‘Are these fresh eggs?’— Detroit News. “Santa Claus Swaps Relndeer for Plane,” headline. Hope he isn’t going to make one of those non-stop flights. —Little Rock (Ark.) Gazette. Georgla’s “grand old woman,” Mrs. Felton, may be, as reported, the first old woman to hold the senatorial of- fice, but it is a statement that is open to debate.—Topeka Capital. “Senatress” Felton’s first day is also her last. It is not logical, how- ever, to reason from analogy that the first woman senator will also be the last—Grand Rapids Herald. Speaker says coal and iron in this country ‘will last only 300 years more. That rv-vv' D es the temptation to seek some of these - Ing epera- -Peoria S the senator for racelsction, ' The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. In this column the writer, whose chief recreation i3 the reading of books, new and old, and their near relatives, magazines, will try to share with his readers his own reading Dleasures. He will write of books | EXT weck is set apart by the President of the United States as Education week. To many that fact does not about to be published, of those re-igcem to have a personal interest, but cently published. not infrequently of older books, of magazines just started and of noteworthy articles in various periodicals. He will roam at large in the world of prirt, and, assuming that his interests are typical of those of the other cultivated readers of The Star, will cull frém his reading and tell about it in the hope that some of his own enjoyment therein may be communicated to others. Comment on new books in this column may precede or may follow their more formal re- view in the regular book review col- umns of The Sunday Star. * ok * This year I am going to give books for Christmas to all the members of the family circle. It will be so much more satisfactory than selecting un- welcome ties for father and Tom; bric-a-brac for mother, for which she can find no place, and finery for Lil- lian that she exchanges the day after Christmas. I am selecting the books carefully from the season's list and trying to suit the special tastes in- volved. Father has two special in- terests in his reading, archaeology and British political history; and, as he plays Santa Claus so generously to all the family, I am going to give him two books—"Inca Land,” by Hi- ram Bingham, and “Prime Ministers of Britain, 1721-1791," by Clive Big- ham.” As mother is an enthusiastic Daughter of the American Revolu- tion, she 8 to receive William Roscoe Thayer's “George Washington.” As soon as winter comes grandfather shuts himself up in the house, but his eyes are good and he loves to travel through books. He has always been a Bible stude: and has often wished he could visit the Holy Land, 50 he shall have F: G. Carpenter's “Holy Land and Syria.” Lillian, of course, must be given a new novel. She reads all the popular magazin and browses at will in the family L:brary; but mother still has the ide that a schoolgirl of sixteen should not read anything and everything, so I shall avoid some of the new novels and select for her one which has ideals as well as originality and “Rough Hewn.” For the children I prefer the older classics to untried new books. Tom, fourteen, light In a good edition of Stevenson's “Kidnapped.” Little Mary, who is an outdoor child and cares not at all for girls' storfes, but very much for ad- venture, will find by her stocking Howard Pyle’s beautifully illustrated Merry Adventures of Robin Hood. Aunt Anne is rather old-fashioned. he cannot endure problem novels, must have a happy ending, and likes a bit of quiet humor; so Joseph Lin- coln’s “Fair Harbor” will suit her, I am sure. shall probably select three or four new novels for several friends, and among them will certainly be Hugh | whites of some Walpole's “The Cathedral” and Anne Sedgwick’s “Adrienne Toner.” * ¥ ¥ Kk The eves of the world are turned toward the near east, to the south- eastern projection of Europe known as the Balkan peninsula. It now con- ains more of human misery than all 1 war. tumult and conflict, in which Greek, Roman, barbarian, Perstan and Turk have struggled for the mastery. The contending forces of European and Asiatic civilizations have engendered the most intense national and impe- rialistic rivalries, and the end is not {yet. Although there have heen ma { books recounting the stories of sep. {rate nations and of special periods of | the Balkan states, oniy now has there {of the Balkan Peninsul, Ferdinand Schevill of the U 3 jnt Chicago. Excellent as the book ils, the limitations of this or of an historical writing’ are strikingly shown by the fact that, although this ook has been published during the {present autumn, the note of finality {in it as to the settiem t of the Bal kan problem, so far the Turk i {concerned, makes it in that respe: already out of date. The author in his opening chapter, in outlining the epochs of Balkan history, refers to “that total breakdown of the Ottom: power of which the living generation has been the astonished witness.” the light of later events, the reported death of the “sick man of Europe” ap- pears somewhat exaggerated. * ¥ k¥ Pr Tracing influence is a captivating | lMterary pastime, though perhaps not without its dangers.® Sometimes the influence of one writer over another, in general or in a spceific drama or novel, secems obvious; at other times the influence may be partly a matter iterary value — Dorothy Canfleld’s ! will de- | While at the bookshop I} | i the rest of our war-weary world. | There, also, lies most peril of another | that t The 3,000 years of its troubled | coward; and*that patriotism is life have always been filled with |country, which, nes to i - {asks for no ¢ ¥ ithe legion call | | {day as it never has been { frderal Congress for the whole iin hospitals and strug; they look upon it as something to boost the pay of school teachers or 10 add to the trials and troubles of the young. Fducation is a dry word, suggestive of hard disciplive and mental tasks. But, primarily, America needs to be educated as to the care of the bod In the draft for the werld war we made the amazing discovery that one third of the youth of this land wer like Richard III—“scarce half madc up”—and so they were unfit, physi- cally, to gerve their country or them- selveg. Men without sound bedies, well developed, are not whole men and can never do a man's full duty. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, practical. @ farmer frbm Maryland or Virginia. It would mean that before or a passing tourist, could enter Washington in a motor vehicle he, would have to enter ints a bond mot to violate our traffic rules. The agrec that that would require an act of Congress, and| it is doubtful if Congress itself would have power to make such a law., 17 the drivers of automobiles must be bonded, lest they violate traflic rules chy not bond the juvwalkers? Tu short, bon everyt whi h cause a traffic ar Fa It is considercd Commission “would be enged in i A safer method would be 15 our traffic police, <o that = neested strects may be :d then enforce the not violently through trappins arrest innocent offenders, but patient, firm education by the ice until th It is not medicine that is needed, [ POLCE Ut the drivers learn what is nor surgery, but proper exercise and | SxpPected of them. The greatest me: phy. training. together with a e e, the anckiosy K balanced food, from their youth up. | {GNETS,200 public taxicals chautteurs It is not over twent ars since | Who take t others fear. even the medical fr r"“'fd 3 48 m3 ';_“ k’['{_'jl%([na:“‘«- appreciate that a bala quite as essential to build up the hu- man body as stock feeders had long known it to be for the animal. It was supposed that only the faddist would ever consistently follow the rule: a balanced ration. Today we b elinics in the schools to discover, by experiment and test, what the chil- dren lack in diet, and classes ar given the correcting elements in s cial foods. We must learn how ventable diseases t the country oy year. That is e 0 it of the average value of all the agri- cultural products of country. Stop preventable disense nd . would lower taxes or $2,000 ¢ f pure patriotis emphasized during week, for this country is ms betore hypocrisy causn it is law. There is a d tendency to favor enfore such laws as we like and t s or defiance of certain la @ do not favor. The spread of the outlaw order of Ku Kluxism is a menace which gov- erenors and even the President of the United States are facing as a serious matter. There is talk of nation-wide action against the order as a con- spiracy against good government. hould have our serious attention £ Education w. must face the ac 1 it 3 of the people of Americ indicated ¢ the tests of drafted soldiers. T s showed that 24.9 per cent cou her read nor write. The census firures, showing only 6 per cent iilit- erate, are utterly misleading; for they represent only such as veluntarily r ported to the census takers th: v could not read nor write English. and many evaded the humiliating con: and contempt for law cerous sion. The Army figures are based upen actual trials of drafted They showed that even the tates had over 60 per cent of illiteracy. E i week has to do with that most emphaticall Compulso: cation legislation should be enact not only by states, but also by the coun- ongress has no such ould v edu- 1 and if the nstitutional power. then w amend the An rate nation cannot survive Education week must also teach is not a crime at war of defense 1, a conte i1 ve of God, is ost holy sentiment of the human heart. * * ¥ % There are 30,060 sick and wounded “buddies” of the late war lingering ome degree of health, that tl et work. Note the tone of th sage, in their name, spoken tional commander of the Americ - mas mes- b th n been published : i{good history s a{Legion. their champion. Commander { whole. This is found in History { Alvin M. Owsle e lesion ihled: t t s nation to be all. We call upon the iminaful of its own.” That means hospitalization without too much hageling. It means the hichest medical and ical skil vailable, and not ton much experi- mentation by unz graduate f medical schools. mor holding their job& than in resto “cases” to heaith so that the hud may work. The most prized hlessing in all the world is the Ith and op- portunity to work. ® ok % % r correspond- In the week of last ve: ing to Safety week of killed “in Washington every day. This ¥ one up to date of person this writing. but cne fatality has oc- | ust be recognized traffic cannot cenerally has d gotten the & them. curred. though it that the real safety o come urtil the pu learned all the rules a subconscious habit of ohexi Safety cannot he commande of the critic’s or reader's imagina- | nature nabit with sl tion. Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” are reasonably supposed to have been suggested by Boccacio’s “Decameron, Shakespeare’'s “Merchant of Venice’ or Marlowe's “Jew of Malta.” But how Interesting it would be if Chaucer and Shakespeare had expressed them- selves on these subjects! Hugh Wal- pole’s most recent novel, “The Cathe- dral,” seems to be a good example, If not of literary influence, at least of literary similarity. The central char- acter of this fine plece of fiction, dominating all the human characters and their lives, is the beautiful, stately, gloomy cathedral of Polches- ter, crowning the rocky hill up which straggles the town. Similarly, witha Spanish _setting, Ibanez has in hi: novel, “The Shadow of the Cathedra made the great cathedral of Toledo his central character. No omne of his other characters for a moment rivals the great cathedral in personalit; From another point of view, pole’s “The Cathedral” immediately recalls Trollope's Barchester cathe- dral series, loved by many readers who are not ashamed to confess de- votion to a secondary Victorian story- teller. As in_ Trollope's novels, so Walpole's archdeacon, canons, pre- centor, all the ecclesiastical hierarchy down to the vergers, with their fami- lies and neighborhood feminine satel- lites, live by gossip, intrigue and scandal. Walpole, of course, treats the subject more seriously, more analytically, more artistically, than Trollope, but the source of the mate- rial is the same. The use of some great object or place, inanimate, vet most traly liv- ing, as the personified hero of a piece of imaginative literature is not alto- gether uncommon. Victor Hugo wrote an epic of the cathedral of Notre Dame of Paris in his “Notre Dame” and an epic of the English channel in his “Toilers of the Sea.” Ibanez wrote an epic of the Mediterranean in his “Mare Nostrum.” Ernest Poole in “The Harbor,” one of the most original of American novels, has made New York harbor the vital, palpitating center of the story. * *x * *x The tragedy of “fausse jeuness or a pathological clinging to youth and its excitements, 13 the subject of Robert Hichens’ new novel, “De- cember Love” Because Lady Selling- worth at fifty still retained a large part of her great natural beauty and was not a victim of “the elderly spread,” she found it difficult to take her proper place among thé “old guard” and to resign to youth the tumults and passions which belong to it by right. Though she fervently be- lieved that “calm’s not life's crown,” she came through bitter experience welcome ealm as the refuge of old ng to regain| his year we | I it must © dents as there were Americans killed in the world war—or within 1,000 of| the number. The problem of how ta, nt such accidents is not vet solv- «d, but one thing is certain: We must guard the strects far better in future than heretofore. We mus have more men for that purpose. ¥ % % ox The gasp of certain American ad- visers of the Tiger of France at his g mild suz- »uld tone down hi would be tion 1 s 1o that of u canary funny if it were not o pathetie. « neeau cowld no more sing ts of Col. House than ouse could roar like n T eighty years of aze 11 mv life T hava Expediency has no e of things” Mayh, hing th not join ns mor _eancel in spite of such diffirences of viewpoint, we fichter for what he Let is right, him tod rate fichting Could there he two characters far- ther apart from each other in the matter of policy of speech than Col. | House, t irx of the Wilson ad- neeau, who | writer found any vi . a debater and a nd who has never e expediency of = mum? The United States and Canada ars »oth unde ig to bring home many respective countries ign lands. In the case abroad. they are strand- jed and cannot get home. so our gov- {ernment will bring them back. free {and the Red Cross will meet them and care for them until they find work. Canadians who 8! | citizens of 1, who are in f, of American tham with sheald thew ha than w tlers and nroposes to remove | hars to eond settls America mav well wateh that palicy. 1ions of “zond settlers™ 1 States, though that @ a © “he laws rring out the undesirables. | fredie H * ¥ ok x ] eae to laueh The Americon ¢ has a furny cartoon {Lesion W A fake soldier puh vho drew 1t prov that ke is a fake farmer by sho the milker sitting on the “near” s1a+ of the cow. where any self-respecting cow would ins tly kick over the milker. The same ‘eartoonist when dismounting from a fiery steed woull try to climb down n the “off” s of the horse. He would zet down coursa. Bet he would to drive a bunch of hors throuch a Fate on a bottle wh day clothes. If from d a ca his hest Su! dirt farmer. o dresse e's no * o % o* Wine is cut « v the prohit w. o e o out grapes is eliminated. vines coniinue to bear grapes, iti for 1 <0 test t Yet the grape and - railroads will carry 52.- 400 carloads of grapes, or 13,000 mora than ever in any previous season. Neverthel the cost of grapes at retail is almost prohibftive. Instead ten-pound basjet for of getting < once the current price, be educated until it hecomes a secc ay for that quantity is from to four times as much * ok x % Does the grs roducer get his shar of that inc ? What i tae ra The proposal to require all automo- bile drivers to be bonded in the sum of $3,000 has been abandoned as im- tional explanation for the hich cost of that most wholesome and delicious fruit? THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. If you were Chief Justice of the,separate the Taft and Mischler homes Supreme Court of the United States! Incident Mischler has been his and weighed 230 pounds, would You private secre since Mr. Taft was walk seven miles back and forth toi-\'-‘t‘n- ary of War, back in 1908, work each day? ! Just mow Mr. Taft is working Would you get up at 5 0'clock eVery joi oo ang harder than any other morning? Probably not. I certainly wouldn't aent oflicial or employ Ha ving as hard as he knows hoy There is but one man in a hundred that would. William Howard Taft is that hun- dredth man. You can see him any morning, rain or shine, trudging a labored way from his Wyoming avenue home to the Capitol. long walks, and the daily stunt is a hard one. But he keeps it up, though he frankly doesn’t like the idea. It is the only exercise he gets. He is trying to hold down to 230 pounds. When he gets to the Capitol he is steeped in perspiration. He also i pretty well out’ of breath. His 1l act is to go to his vhambers and then to a shower bath. It is necessary for him to make an entlre change of clothing after his walk. He is the only man, perhaps, in official Washington who has to maintain, at all times, 3 complete and somewhat extensive wardrobe at his office. A colored attendant keeps his ward- robe. Mr. Taft is the same neat dresser that Brooks, the White House valet, made him fourteen years ago. The Supreme Court convenes each day at noon. Mr. Taft has then been up for seven hours. Far and away he is the earliest riser in Washington. The milkman doesn’t beat him much. Sometimes when he gets up at § he will telephone his long-time secre- tary and friend, W. W. Mischler, to come over and take dictation. And Mischler dyalks k ;the few blocks that Mr. Taft is not built for. to keep up with the great volume of work before the court. He is working his colleagues hard, to0. There isn't a man of them who | 1oafs. The Taft day. that starts at 5, is ! followed by two and one-half hours of work before breakfast. At that meal 3Ir. Taft foregoes the things that fat- ten. He takes no coffee, no sugar, no sweets. Ie doesn’t use tobacco inany form, nor does he take a drink. s vegetables better than He 1k meat. Cauliffower and &pinach ap peal to b ¥ tices him, an Ihe cats of it fre His breakfast is largely of fruit. It is followed by more work in the study and, about 10 o'clock, the walk to work. The Chivf Justice enjoys dinner afier s work it done. He is v -and lively im. conversation and is the center of every group he adorns. And he loves to go out for Qinner. 1f bridge follows, then he likes it even better. e is cathelic in his Tastes. One evening w tind him at the table of the very rich; the next at the table of some old-time newspaper friend. Mr. Taft use » ride horseback. He doesn’t do 50 now, however. There is a story told to the effect that he had been ill, and, convalescing, wired his friend Elihu Root to that effect. “Feeling much better,” the messag«] said in substance. “Am taking long horseback ride each day.” To which Mr. Root replied: “Fine. How's the borse?” 1 i