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6 THE EVENING STAR,! ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. .. .January 20, 1923 THEODORE W., The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8 nd Pennsyl New York Office: 150 Nassau Chicago Offee: Tower Building Buropean Office: 16 Regent St.. London, NOYES with_the Sunday merain The Evenine Sta the it sdition, is delivered by carriers wi #t 60 cents per month: daily on's month: Sunday only. 20 cents per moath. OF-/ ders way be sent ly mail or telephone Matn | 5000, “Collection is made by carriers at the Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only. $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl. $2.10; 1 mo,, 20c All Other States. a Blll .1yr., $7.00;1mo., f0c 1yr., $3.00; I mo., 2bc Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press in exclusively entitied fo the use for republication of all news dis- patchen credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local mews pub- Tished of publication of re ed. ly only Talk of Another Strike. Efforts of bituminous mine owners and mine union officials to arrive at 4 wage agreement effective next April apparently have been halted by a quarrel among the operators, and there is revival of talk of a possible strike next spring. One faction, ac- cording to report, charges the other with obstruction in order to create a panic for profiteering purposes. Re- sentment at this seemingly aftses from the fact that it will increase popular domand for federaMregulation of the | mining industry. There is no real difference bstween the miners and operators in the mat- ter of wages; the miners have made | 1o demand for increases nor the oper- ators for reductions. The miners want a two-year contract and the operators are willing to sign up for one year only, but neither party cares onough about this point to let it &tand in the way of a settlement. About the most serfous obstacle appears to the question as to whether a contract made on the threc-state basis will run counter to the Sherman anti-trust law, and there is a proposal that the gov- ernment be urged to guarantee im- munity. * The public has no interest in and little patience with the quibbling among the operators or between the operators and miners. It demands two things of both parties to the contro- versy. One is that a settlement shall bs reached in time to prevent a strike in the epring, and the other is that there shall be a quick ending of the present shameless profiteering in coal. If the operators are as anxious as they profess to allay public apprehension, the quickest and surest way they can accomplish that end is to stop taking advantage of public necessity. Opposition to 4 two-year contract is hased on the representation that pres- ent high wages ought not to be too long maintained, because the public is antitled to cheaper coal. That is bun- combe, pure and simple. Extortionate prices of coal today are not the result of high wages, except in & minor de- gree. If prices had been advanced only to correspond to the higher wages of | miners the public would make no com- plaint. Present prices are the result of inadequate supply, and of the fact that the producers and sellers of coal have taken advantage of the scarcity | to “trim” the public. The mine own- ers certainly put a low estimate on the intelligence of the American people when they try to get away with any | such professed concern for the pocket- i hooks of coal consumers. { Taking a Look Around. A number of men who will be new | to national life as members of the next Congress are dropping into town | for a brief survey of the situation be- fore entering upon their legislative | duties. They may not go into action | until next winter. They may have to | answer the bell as early as early spring. But, soon or late, they want to be ready when the time comes, and have a workable idea as to how the wheels go round. The Sixty-eighth Congress will be an interesting body, charged with much responsibility. Its record made at the first session, or at the two sessions if a special one is called, will enter into the presidential campaign. Tts im- portance, therefore, could not well be overappraised. A good deal of business will be on the card. It has been piling up, and it will continue to pile up. Some of it ought to have been transacted by the present Congress. But that is another story. The republicans will be in control by narrow majorities. In the House they will appear to have “shrunk con- siderable,” and in the Senate they will net enter upon lush times. ATl to the good if the situation is properly handled. Where every vote is valuable all must be carefully shep- hérded. Factionism pushed over the Iine might prove destructive in the highest degree. Hence conferences and teemwork should mark the course from the beginning, and continue until the shutters are put up, ——— 1t is quite possible that under the present circumstances Wilhelm Hohen- vollern would rather be an innocent * bystander than an emperor. i 1 4 Safety Slogans. One hundred street safety posters are to be framed end put up at con- spicuous points in this city as warn- Ings egainst carelessness on the part of pedestrians. These posters will be in the form of slogans, short, pithy rayings emphasizing the need of care iend watchfulness. They ‘will be changed occasionally so that they will not lose their effectiveness through familiarity. ‘This is @ good plan. It will teach the lesson of care to many people. It will probably save some lives. Of vourse, it -will not make the streets any lighter at night, and o insure se- curity for people afoot as against mo- tors after dark. It will not protect pedestrians from speeders or corner vutters, or crossing rushers, but it will help, and the hospital and morgue ree- vrds will probably show the difference. [} {ly and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 88¢ I%rian alone. It is necessary to educate lare more people walking than riding, Accompanying these strect-corner | posters designed for the attention of | and experienced in its use, would lay |, the pedestrians there should be a who drive the cars. While the corner posters tell the people afoot to “mind their step,” or that “The jay, walker is taking a short cutsto the hospital,” or advising the pedestrian to “‘Use the head and then the feet,” it would be well to tell the motorist by means of these windshield stickers a few things also. For instance, a sticker so placed that it can be read by the man at the steering wheel might effectively ad- monish him that “The machine does the killing, not the pedestrian,” or that “Short cuts lead to jail,” or that “Speed kills, and it may be yourself who dies.” : Street safety is entirely a matter of reciprocity. The burden of responsi- bility should not rest upon the pedes. the man afoot in better methods, greater care, closer attention to traf- conditions, and especlally to the fact that there are many reckless, heedless, thoughtless motorists who have no regard for other people. But it is also necessary to instill into the minds of drivers the fact that there and that the walkers are the only ones who pay the penalties of in- juries when walkers and riders collide. ——— The National Gallery of Art. In the course of the consideration of the independent offices appropriation bill yesterday in the Senate an amend- | ment was adopted authorizing the re- gents of the Smithsonian Institution to prepare preliminary plans for a new building adjoining the New National Museum to house the National Gallery of Art. “This structure is to be erected when funds from gifts or bequests” are in the possession of the regents. It was explained in the discussion that there is no intention to ask the United States for an appropriation for the cost of this construction, which it is estimated will be about $2,500,000. A short time ago 1t was stated in the course of an address before an or- ganization holding its annual ¢onven- tion in this cfty that every year the regents of the Smithsonlan are com-! pelled to reject gifts of art works of great value hecause of the lack of room. If there were space the exhibi- tion walls could be filled within a few seasons to bring the National Gallery in point of size and quality up to any other art collection in this country, and at very small cost. The National Gallery, now inadequately housed in the New National Museum, is by many regarded as for its size one of the best collections in America. American artists aspire to have their works hung there. It is in a sense thé offi- cial American art collection. Its de- velopment is merely a matter of physi- cal accommodation. It is fully expected that if the amendment which the Senate adopted yesterday becomes a law, and the re- gents are empowered to create a fund from bequests and donations for the building of & new structure to house the gallery, the money will be soon forthcoming, for it is known that in- dividuals and organizations concerned in the proper development of its col- lection are ready to give the necessary means. The amendment is simply an authorizatlon to use space on the Mall, and inasmuch as the New Museum building has been located there it is proper that its annexes should be In close relationship. There should be no doubt of the retention of this para- graph in the appropriation bill in con- ference. With a National Gallery building erected east of the Museum that sec- tion of the Mall will, indeed, be an American art center, for at the di- agonally opposite corner stands the | Frear Gallery, which will soon be opened, with a wealth of art treasures, itself one of the most complete and perfect exhibitions in the world. With the Corcoran, the Frear, the National and the private, and, in fact, semi- public, gallery of Mr. Duncan Phillips, Washington is now a notable art cen- ter, and with this proposed new build- ing its position as such will be fully} established. I Troops come home from the Rhine, | but some of the soldiers leave their hearts behind. The individual impulse | has & most obstinate way of asserting itself in the face of patriotic preju- dices. —_———— | The democratic party is developing | 2 number of willing leaders who may | exercise some potentiality If they can | be persuaded to coalesce. H Question arises as to whether Ger- man marks are worth enough to pay for the wear and tear on paper cur- rency. The hunger strike may assert itself in the Ruhr as well as in Irelapd. Full Speed Ahead. From Rome, quoting Premier Mus- solini: g This Is & day of movement. Every | few miles an hour is easier to catch one must increase his gait, in office and in factory. The government over which I have the ionor to preside is a government of speed. Where here- tofore there have been sleepers in the government service, today every one must speed up to the maximum. We are a generation of constructors who work with discipline and inteliect and wish to bring the gation to its great- est greatness—where there will be a place for all workers but not for all the parasites. This man, comparatively young in ful in their inachinery for busines: aside politics. and kindred influences, | series of windshield posters, pertinent |and address themselves solély to pro- ! admonitions for the benefit of those |duction and distribution and exchange, the world would soon be on an even keel again, and making the progress the world 80 greatly needs. The Wets and Mr. Bryan. Some of the wets are comfoeting themselves with the notion.that by his addresses on' evolution Mr. Bryan fis weakening himself as a public force; that he is rousing such antagonisms, in sclentific circles and in educational circles, and they are being expressed with so much vigor, he is bound to feel the effect in political circles and in other circles where ‘his voice is heard. Mr. Bryan is not a scientist, and makes no pretensions in that direction. He is not an educator, and has no wide connections in that fleld. Anyhow, sclentists and educators aré, compara- tively speaking, not numerous, and take small interest in everyday poli- tics. First and foremost—almost excfu. sively, 1t may be said—Mr. Bryan is @ politician, speaking the language of the tribe, giving much time to sub- jects in which the everyday man and woman are interested. They are nu. merous, and make up the large audi- ences that greet him on his speaking tours. Whenever he succeeds in get- ting their attention on matters of the everyday in government, and con- vinces them, he feels. himself re- warded. » Mr. Bryan can make himself under- stood on the prohibition question. He. gives strong reasons why the saloon should remain abolished and John Barleycorn remain in his cerements, and he asks the.public to believe that the ultimate effect, if not the object, of the wet drive is to pave the way for the return of both. ———————— An injustice is liable to assert itself in motor policing. The filvver that vio- lates the speed regulations by only a than the one that blazes away at fifty or sixty. ———————————— Sporting authorities agree that after a pugllist-reaches forty vears there is no use of his trying to persuade him- self_that he is getting better every day. ———e—— Admirers of Ambassador Har inclined to credit him with having achieved during his visit to America what the rhetoricians refer to as “an cloquent silencey’ Senators who contend that we are already in a European entanglement must admit that we aré not as far in | as we might be. The anclent headline is kept stand- ing in every well regulated printing office. - “Europe Is on the Verge of War.” (German soclallsts are alert in seiz ing the opportunity to represent French troops as typifying the spirit of coercive capital. The farmer is getting market news | by radio. The notices of interest due | on the mortgage are transmitted by the banks as usual through the mails. The President of Germany is em- inent in popular esteem, but has a | strong understudy in Hugo Stinues. The coal strike is settled, but the bills of many consumers are being | paid in imstallments. The Rhine flows peacefully in th song of the poet, but not in the speech of the politician. Turkey has made the terrors of th Kemal klan serlously felt in its range of operations. Ireland is at least keeping the fight more neighborly than it used to be. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sunrise. I saw the sunrise, and I said, “Last night, before I went tb bed, T thought, “Tomorrow’s not so far. It's sure to come.” And here you are! You seemed a wizard whose deft hand ‘Would open up a wonderland, And bid my hopes come blossoming | And teach me some new song to sing. 1 breakfasted, I lunched, T dined. I struggled through the daily grind. 1 saw a show. A book I read— And then again prepared for bed. Once more 1 said, “Tomorrow's near, To bring ‘each wish my heart holds dear. Tomorrow played no different game. Each day seems just about the same. Then came a whipser from.the sky: “Yoy wish—you toil—you love—you die. You have your part in the Great Scheme. : ‘What matters your own little dream?” After Dinner. “A public man should be an after- dinnef speaker.” “Of course,™ replied Senator Sor- ghum. “Even when he isn’t ttending _{ouT OF THE WAR. Queen Marie of Rumania, Europe's royal prise beauty, ls expectpd to &race the annual convention of the American Leglon at San Franclsco in October with her pulchritudinous Dresence. The legionnaires have acquainted the queen with their de- sire to honor her as typifying thelr veneration for the work of women in the world war, Queen Marie was indefatigable in works of mercy among the soldiers of the Ruma- nian and other armies in the eastern theater of operations and was seldom’| out of nurse's uniform. There s an animatgd stirring of heart among legion bachelors and no_ little com- petition for the hopor.of serving as Queen Marie's aide-de-camp in case she comes to the United States. The inside track is believed to be held by a certain_southern colonel, prominent in G. O. P. politics, who-was on duty in the Balkans in 1917 and 1918, * % % x William Gibbs McAdoo saw many friends and political supporters— past, present and potential—during his sojourn in Washington-this week. He was shepherded for the most part by his lieutenants of San Franélsco convention days—Jouett Shouse of Kansas, former assistant secretary of the Treasury, and Robert M. Woolley, former interstate commerce comm sioner. Mr. McAdoo is {n his native Georgia for the- week end to argue a law case at Augusta and then will return to Callfornia. As to 1924, he permits it to be understood he is in that non-committal state im- mortalized by political Barkises since time immemorial—in the hands of his frends. Henry Ford is the darkest cloud on the McAdoo horizon. £ kinh One of the political tit-bits of the hour is the dramatic postponement of the impending nomination of Judge Ed- ward T. Sanford of Tennessee to the Pitney vacancy on the Supreme Court bench. President Harding was on the verge of naming Judge Sanford.. To the surprise of all concerned, a barrage of influence was suddenly brought to bear on behalf of a rival aspirant—Guy D. Goff, former assistant attorney gen- eral. Tmportant senatorial backing was behind the Goff boom, and it was suf- slent 1o hold up the Sanford nomina- tion, even though the latter enjoyed the advantago of Chief Justice ¢ port. A declsion Is fmminent. predicament is one of the classic pat- ronage woes that have turned Mr. Harding’s hair white since Mareh 4, 1921 | #y sk Whether it is due to the epldemic of feeble puns generated by the arrival of M. Coue or the breakdown of the American-British funding negotiations, this observer has been asked whether it is not obvious that “every day, ir. every way, Uncle Sam is growing debter and debter.” * % % % At the National Civic Federation meet- ing In Washington Samuel Gompers, who married a second time in 1921, at the age of seventy-one, publicly congratulated Alton B. Parker, who had taken his second wife the day before, a blushing { tha “military.” It is a value only directed against the United States. The subma- Tine and the airplane have increased fhe importance’ and the threat of islands. We hope never to be at war i with Great Britain or France, but hope does not eliminate possibility. America could not use the islands against Great Britain or France. They are useful only for an attack against the United States, or, in the possession of the United States, for defense of this coun- iry, its canal and its trade routes.” - ECHOES FROM WHAT GREAT BRITAIN GOT Great Britain as a result of the war récelved a vast empire in ter- ritory and some 40,000,000 additional people, and has the promise of large reparations. The United States re- years, is younger still in politics. He|® banauet the average politiclan is| ceived nothing as u result of the war. came to the front with a rush, all but paralyzed the home folks, and quite amazed the outside world, by the com- prehensive character of his program, But he got away with it. The old- sters gave way. The youngster took charge, and has been in charge ever since. He does not lack nerve, and his power of expression is clear and strong. The present is a case in point. The young Ttalian believes in—almost commands—movement. patter, the reactionary, if in the pic- ture, is out of place there and should retire, or be retired. There is room only for the worker, who is willing to work at the top of his bent, and to the fullest improvement of his opportu- nity. The great value of this note rests in the fact that it is applicable to all countries:- If the big nations, power- The stand- | nevertheless talkin bréad.” Jud Tunkins says the way the dove of peace survives in spite of fights shows it is a pretty tough Iittle bird. Musings of a Motor Cop. Hortense Magee observed with glee The motor cye. that passed her. “T'd like,” said she, “a cop.to be. I could ride even faster.” Leadership. ““Why do Paris dressmakers lead the fashions?” “Maybe they don't,” replied Miss Cayenne. “Perhaps t}xey are success- ful only to the extent that they suc- ceed in pleasing American taste.” “Time cures all troubles;” said Uncle Eben. “You ain’t hearin’ a werd ‘now about daylightsavin'.” g for his daily —Senator McKeélTar, Tennessee, demo- crat. . THE POSITION OF SIRRECONCILABLES.” ' The attitude of the “irreconcilable” is Qictated primarily by his love of Arherica, his jealousy of the cherish- ed institutions of the republic, and his firm resolve that they shall en- durés.- It i in some cifcles- déemed trite Wow to refer to: Washingtos— quotations from. him excite-there & derisive smile, but with a presclence peculiarly his, Washington foresaw and understoed that the young nation he nourished could only rise to great- nesg and reach permanency through a distinctive American character.— Senator - Hiram Johnson, California, republican. THE NATIONAL GUARD. “The Natlonal Guard is no longer seécondary. military fotes {n . this country. It has 6o increased in size and in‘efficlency in: the last few years that jt is no longer our second line ol Washington Observations g BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | bridegroom of sixty-nine. Witnesses 0f the fellcitous scens got to checking up on well known men who have burnt in- cense afresh at Hymen's throne after passing Into old age. Henry White, former ambassador, vias wedded for the second time in 1900, aged seventy. Chauncey M. Depew tripped ‘to the al- tar for an encore performance in 1901 at sixty-seven. Woodrow Wilson married his present wife in 1915 when he was fifty-nine. ~ William Hohenzollern ' was sixty-three when he took unto himself Princess “Hermine of Reuss in Novem- Another of Europe's venerable swains is M. Anatole France, who was seventy-six when he became the hus- band of Mile. Leprevotte in 1920. * ¥ x ok “Dick” R. Crissinger, just nominated governor .of the Federal Reserve Board, will not have to pay any more income tax than hs did while®con- troller of the currency. The reserve board governorship carries a $12,000 salary, while the controllership is worth only $5,000. But Crissinger was an ex-officio member of the reserve board and collected an additional $7,000. The appointment of his old home-town crony to the head of the federal banking system makes the fourth prominent Marlonite in M. Hurding’s administration. The quar- tet Includes George Christian, private secretary; Dr. Charles L. Sawyer, residential physician, and “Uncle’ harley White, keeger-in-chief of the White House lawns. * ¥ k¥ Few Americans have been “up against” the tortucus actualities of i jmodern international politics at closer range than Rear Admiral A. P. Nib- lack, U. 8. N, coramandant of the navy yard at Charleston, S. C. He has hit upon an Ingenlous scheme for calling attention to Amerlca’s inter- ost In forelgn affairs by issuing, at in- tervals, what he calls “The Letters of a Retired Rear Admiral to His Son in the Navy.” They are appearing in the “proceediiigs” of the United States Institute. Letter No. 10, recently pub- lished, Is entitled “Tangier, the In- ternational waif” and argues fhat Uncle Sam has vital and important rights in Morocco ! he only will as- sert them. Admirel Niblack knows the Mediterranean and northern Africa iike a book. e Some of Roosevelt's friends are re- calling an anecdore of which the strenuous colonel was fond, apropos the presence in Washington of Indian deputations. Before he quit the presidency Roosevelt expressed & de- sire to receive a delegation of big chiefs and dilate upon his fondness for their ruce. They came in pomp. “Teddy” hurled a grandiloquent speech at them in the White House. It was translated to the redskins sen- tence by sentence The President noticed that the tribesmen now and then ejaculated (by way of applause. as he thought) something like “Bush wah, bush-wah." At the close of the speech, there was a chorus of “Bush- wahs.” Roosevelt asked the inter- preter what “Bush-wah” meant. “Bun the Indian language, Mr. President,” was the disconcerting reply. (Copyrigh. 1023.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Acquisition of West Indian Islands Is Disapproved. The fact -that President Harding does not “look with favor” on the plan of Senator Reed and others that |the United States acquire the British and French possessions in the West {Indies in liquidation of their war in- {dcbtedness to the United States seemsd generally to be approved by most newspapers. A few see some merit in ithe plan, but the majority agree that it would be a mistake. The fact that niost of the population of these is- {1ands also are in opposition has much weight with some editors, while others {feel that prohibition enforcement {might furnish some excuse for at jleast considering the plan. It is a bright idea of the prohibi- tion interests.” argues the Bingham- {ton Press. “They want to dry up the Jislands in order to cut off the supply from the American bootleggers. But that's a large order. The little fel- lows might be hit. but the big fel- lows would continue to do business at the same old stand, as long as Eu- rope, Asia and Africa remained ex- {empt from the operations of the Vol- Istead law.” However, the Columbus 1 Onio State Journal rather feels that such jan argument is far-fetched. and that |aven the probfem of expense is not {50 vital as it might appear. It holds {that this country “has a policy of | helping peoples find thelr way to the !point where they may be capable of {self-government. It would be & big | fundamental change to take large is- ds and administer them to the end we may make money out of the !business. It i8 an un-American pol- {icy, the wisdom of which ix open to {the most direct challenge. It is doubt- ful if-the administration or the peo- ple want to make the change, even ‘hl a desperate effort to collect a ‘bad ebt.” {9 rere is only one value to the [stands so far as a European power is con- i::rned. the Chicago Tribune, which fathered the plan, insists, and that is { This is very much the opinion af the Seattle Times, which believes that “the only use which America could havé for the islands at present would b\“ o strengthen the naticnal defense. Geo- graphically the islands are outposts of the American contiient. The British are a proud, people, and the United States cannot insist upon an arrange- | ment by which the islands shall be- come the property of the United States. The possessions are not worth quarrel- | ing over; that much is certain.” ! The cost i out of all proportion to any possible benefil, as the Waterloo | Tribune sees it. The islands are no use to their present owners and of lit- le more use to thix country, and “Great Britain and France know this,” it explains. “In war they would ‘be no good to them.. They would, in fact, be & hindrance. Ths West Indies offer | a way of settlement of the debt. That | much can be said. But they are not | worth $8,000,000,000 to us.” The sug-| gestion may be worth While, as the Detroit Free Press sees it, but it does not belleve that any such sale could be arranged without bringing other complications, because “the West In- dies contain some of the oldest and most loyal British colonies.” The fact | that Senator Reed proposed the plan without even trying to secure the views of any one leads the San Francisco Bulletin to suggest that his action “is an international discourtesy ®o lacking in tact as to destroy any intrinsie diplomatic value the proposal might contain, “Because of the very general opin- fon in this country that it is not our design to picket the globe with Amer- fcan possessions it is likely the pro- posal will have no more support now than when it was first brought before the Senate,” the Buffalo News holds. “There is not a national policy of ex- pansion or & disposition in that di- rection. Tt Is out of the line of Amer- fcan thought.” Tnasmuch as ghese islands “are a source of ‘great hindrance to the ef- fective enforcement of our prohibi- tion laws, state and national” the Richmond Times-Dispatch believes : that “It Is not inconceivable that the merits of the purchase proposal will appeal strongly from that angle. Not only is the time opportune for-finding out whether the countries mentioned are willing to part with these posses- slons, but it is opportune for Senator Reed in his leadership aspirations.” It is the opinion. however, of the Springfield Republican that this coun- try “knowe” the British and French viewpoint, and that “not only do they not desire to dispose of these colo- nies, but. furthermore, that the insu- lar population is solldly against ab- sorption by this countr CAPITOL HILL i defense from a military standpoint, but the National Guard is now com- posed of trained men and orgamiza- tions which will be able to take their place and efficlently perform any military duty to which séldiers may be assigned. . They_are first-line sol- diers now.—Representative Anthony, Kansas, republican. g WOMEN NOT TO REST UNTIL PEACH 18 UNIVERSAL. We are irrevocably opposed to war and never intend to rest until uni- versal peace s forever established among the nations of the world.— Representative (Mrs.) Huck, Tllinols, republican. THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR." The almighty dollar bequeathed to children is an almighty curse. No man bas a right to handicap his son with such a burden as great wealth. ‘That sentiment may soynd like teach- ings of the soviet, but Andy Car- negle, an eminent American of Scotch descent, 8o expressed a truth that would have been worth millions to & certain New Yark bank president if acted upon in time. Mr. -Carnegie's wealth, running well into nine fig- ures, 1s_a bullet-proof guaranty against Russlan sympathy ‘to those who distinguished sovietism-from ec- centricity by the size of the bank account.—Representalive Frear, Wis- consin. republican. 4 A ot Histor; The.recent publication of “A Short o1y, of the World,” by H. G, Wells, 1ggests & comparison between it and ‘Wells® earlier book, “Thé Outline But first comment is in lorder ‘on'-the remarkable and per- sistent popularity of the “Outlin Published in November, 1930, it straightway became the most-talked- of book before the public, and by May, 1921, it appeared at the top of the Bookman's list of books of non- fiction reported as most popular by. public litraries the country over. With the exception of one month, March,’ 1922, when Strachey’s “Queen Victoria” and “The Mirrors of Wash- ington” temporarily outstripped it, the “Qutline” has held first place in lbrary popularity ever since. What- ever one may think of Mr, Wells' com- petence as, an historfan—and histori- cal critics like Prof. Carl Becker of Cornell have written approvingly of his work—certainly his book gets read for the chief reason, I think, that he makes bygone days as much alive as the events of yesterdsy. * ok k¥ It is reported that the State De- partment has ordered for each of its legations and consulates the world over copies of Charles C. Hyde's “In- ternational Law, Chiefly as Inter- preted and Applied by the United States” The author is professor of international law at the Northwest- ern University Law School, Chicago. * k¥ K s The “Outline” did not claim to be a universal history. Tt was episodlc in ts selection of events, omitting many things that presumably did not inter- est the author or did not seem to him of special significance. The “Short History” is still less complete, but somehow the author has managed An a little more than 400 pages of large, broadiy-leaded type; plentifully inter- spersed with well selected illustra- tions, to give a wide-sweeping gen- eral view of world history. In some ways this book seems almost as much of a triumph as the earlier one. I am inclined to think that a large element in the popularity of these histories is their complete modernity, secured, in vart, by colioquial, even at times slangy language. For example, how |vivid he makes the Roman republic by comparing it with the Tepublic of the South Africa Boers and with the northern states of the American Union before 1850; “a free farmers' repub- lic,” he calls it. This is intensified by his reference to voting in the “town meeting in Rome.” In his preface Mr. Wells says that this history “is meant to be read straight-forwardly almost as a novel is read.” It meets that specification. M b I fancy that most readers of this column are now aware of the identity of the writer of the “Mirrors of Wash- ington” and “Behind the Mirrors,” the authorship of which remained till re- cently a mystery. He is Clinton W. Gilbert, Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Evening Ledger. I {could tell a lot more about Wallace, as he was always called when I was {in college with him, and when later {1 was his colleague on the editorial Staff of a New York newspaper. He was always an odd, silent fellow, so clever that T am not at all surprised at his achievement, now that I krow, though, like most people. I never picked him out as the writer of these books whose scene is our own Capital city. xexe The modern impressionistic method %0 popular in painting has in recent vears invaded the field of fiction. One of the most thorough of the flotien impressionists 1s Dorothy Richard- son. She applies her method allke to her descriptions, the conversations and the subjective reflections of her chardcters. In her novels are no old- fashioned conversation, with ‘“he said” and “she said” often repeated, and complete, well formed sentences issuing from the participants. In- stead we find this sort of thing: ‘Aren’t you glad you are alive to- day, when all these things are hap- pening?’ “What things, little one?" Well, cycling and things. You know. girls, when I'm thirty I'm go- ing to cut my hair short and wear divided skirts" “Why on earth?” “I can't face doing my hair and brushing skirts and keeping more or less in the fashion—that means about two years behind, because I never realize fashions till they're just go- ing. even If T could afford to—all my life. ‘Rut why thirty? one? ““Because nobody cares what you do when you're thirfy; they've all given up hope by that time. Aren't you two going to have any pudding?’ “No. But that is no reason why you should not.” “What a good idea—to have just one dish and coffee.” ‘s what we think; and it's Why not thirty- A, “Well. T couldn’t have had any din- | ner at all only I'm cadging dinner with you tomorrow.” It cannot be denied that thMs im- pressionistic style reproduces very well the incoherence and scrappiness of verbal interchange in real life; just as the following suggests the way in which assoclated ments of thought flutter through one's mind: “This is hearing about death, in a consulting r0OM—no_ escape—every- hing in the room holding you in The death sentence—people would not dic if they did not go to con- sulting rooms—doctors make you dle—they watch and threaten” These extracts, taken from “The Tunnel,” are typical of Miss Rich- ardson's other books. * % % ¥ The prevalling interest in ‘South America is evidenced by the many books published on South American countries. Bolivia is the subject of three recent books: “Six Years in Bolivia.” by A. V.'L. Gulse; “Adven- tures in Bolivia,” by C. H. Prodgers, and “Three Asses in Bolivia,” by Lionel Portman. * Ok % % ¥ Life in the Andes of Peru has a number of points of difference from fite in the United States, For exam- ple, according”to Prof. Hiram Bing- ham of Yale University, in his new book. “Inca Land,” the housewife of Peru keeps fat little guinea pigs run- ning about her kitchen floor to fill in for any emergencles, much as the American will -have a few tins of sardines and cans of pi hend. A guinea pig, he points out, Is, in spite of Eilis Parker Butler, not a pig and it does not come from Guinea It s more of a rabbit than anything else, and for thousands of years it has been ItmlM article of food in the Andes of Peru. Why, he wonders, should North American guinea pigs be kept only pets or The mea: laboratory victims? is delicious and not unlike claims, squab. H * ok % December 6 was the sixty-fifth birthday anniversary of Joseph Con- rad, who has had two careers, one as 2 sea captain and the other as a nov- . To_Fis 1ist of novels -of ad- bventire._and..the. sea -8 -soon to. be added another, called “The Rover.” 2 | temel has no comnection Wwhate CAPITAL KEYNOTES = ~BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ‘When the speech of our “observer,” Mr. Boyden, at the reparations com- mittes In Europe was reported to America a gasp of astonishment went over the land. Here was the Amer- fcan “observer” making ‘“observa- tions” on his own account as to the alleged defects of the Versallles treaty and the need of revising it He was glving his views in general to the representatives of the Eu- ropean allies, thereby appearing to commit America to policies which had not been heard of in America Secretary of State Hughes some- what . sarcastically repudiated the speech when he received the Wash- ington newspaper correspondents. He suggested that American policles were worked out In Washington and not in Europe, and that Mr. Boyden's speech was not authorized by the administration. The public has look- ed for news that Mr. Boyden.had been recalled, but no such announce- ment has come from the White House or the State Department. What has been the actual handling ef the sit- fon? * X ¥ ¥ Senator King (democrat) of Utah waited a few days and then introduc- ed a resolution in the Senate calling upon the State Departmeat (if con- stent with the public welfare) to submit to the Senate coples of all instructions given to Mr. Boyden be- fore his strange speech and all in- structions given him since the speech and to state what the administration was going to do about it. At the BUR] tion of Senator King the reso- lution was referred to the committee on forelgn relations, of which Sen- ator Lodge is chairman. That was last Monday. _ ik “What has been the outcome of vour Boyden resolution?” was asked of Senator King, today, and he’ re- plled: / “Nothing yet. I was teld by Sen- ator Lodge today that the Depart- ment of State had furnished him with a decoded report of the speech. and it proved to be substantially the me as reported by the newspapers and put into the Congressional Rec- ord. There are some very slight dif- The committee on foreign relations still has the resolution, and If it fails to report it out by the end of this missed from considering it, and that the resolution be taken up on the floor of the Senate. “Why, think of it! It was a great piece of impertinence for our ob- server to make any such speech. He was not authorized to speak for the policies of the government. But you know Secretary Hughes favored the Versailles treaty—with some reserva- tione—and there has been no very | defined policy of this administration concerning it. “Who is Mr. Boyden? Oh, he has been connected with the consular service, 1 believe. for some time. He was appointed by Presiderit Wilson He is a hold-over. He was verv ac- tive @ year ago in connection with the du Pont and other big dve in- ts, including the so-called Dye Inatitute. The Versallles treaty stipulated that fora certain period 25 per cent of all the dyes that Ger- many produced should be allotted to the allies, and they were to allocate that dye supply smongst themselves. | It was Intended by the Dye Institute —controlled by the du Ponts and some other big Intérests—that all the al- lotment which was to come to Amer- ica should pass through the Dye In- stitute, but some of the independent userp of dves objected. They wanted an opportunity to buy direct. I in- troduced & resolution—about a year ago—to investigate Boyden's activ- ities in connection with the Dye In- stitute. I have not known much about him since then.” A The writer's card to Senator Lodge brought the chairman of the foreign i relations committee out to the Presi- dent's room, where all men and Presidents now meet the senators. “Senator Lodge. please tell me who his man Boyden." This man Boyden? Mr. Bovden is a very prominent lawyer of Boston— one of the leading atiorneys of Bos- to very capable man “Was he prominent a year or so ago, in connection with the du Ponts and the dye industry? Or the Dye Institute?” “Not that 1 know. if he was."” “Has the foreign relations commit- tee takén any action vet on Benator King’s resolution calling for infor- matfon as to his speech before the reparations committee s 1 never heard of { i Suggests Lining Avenue With Federal Buildings To the Editor of The Star: Some months ago a resident of the | Buckeye state came to Washington | expecting to wee Pennsylvania ave- nue lined on both sides all the way | to the Capitol with splendid govern- ment buildings. “Disappointment at the rural-looking shops and whole- sale supply houses which flank this “most historic avenue in the world on ‘both sides was decidedly manifest No great stretch of imagination is {required from any one to visualize the splendor that would result from {a proper grouping of handsome pub- lic bulldings with appropriate land- scape gardening along the Avenue and in the vicinity of the Capitol. One need only view the Pan-American bullding and its companions to real- fze how the whole approach to the Capitol would be transformed. It would be In the interest of efficiency, too, have government buildings with their interrelated activities grouped Wwithin easy distance of each other. Notwithstanding certain imperfec- tions that have crept into its archi- tectural scheme, Washington fs still the most beautiful city in the whole country and unique 'in the whole world.s The most historic Avenue in the world should be one of Imposing beauty and dignity, instead of dwin- dling on_its approach to the mag- nificent Capitol into a collection -of- commonplace structures wholly out of tune with the surroundings. Cer- i tainly every effort should be made to i keep out the discordant note and to perfect th& harmony of the scheme of beauty that was begun by L'En- fant in George Washington's day. Now that Washington is to have some new bufldings, this is a matter for consideration. JULIA C. GRAY. to ferences, but they amount to nothing. | week I shall move that it be dis-! newspaper | “No; the commities has” had no ‘t:;m;:ixl\:du;‘;':"‘ the »con-u'lar servica coded official report of his speech” Yes, I have seen it. The spacch ;: ,obr“."" printed in the Congressional “And is the official re as the Record’s reprin “Yes, practically so." While it is not possible, nor proper, to attempt to forecast what the com- mittee on foreign relations will do, nor to guess what the State Depart- ment has done in the matter, it is an anomalous situation for a democratio appointee now to be attacked by democratic senator and defended b the leader of the republican oppo. nents of the Versallles treaty for his alleged indiscretion in criticizing the treaty. wontrary to the authority of the administration. * % ¥ ¥ “Aw. gimme the core, can't yu “There ajn’t a-goin’ to be no core.” This is classic. but it remains for the present generation to make it come true. The Department of Com- merce reports that at Abbotsford, Canada, according to Coneul General Halctead. a variety of the Famense apnle has been produced that has neither core nor seeds. The owner did not know that he had a new vari- etv. and o kent no record as t which tree had borne it. It will ha imposeible to identify the tree until another cron is produced. It is known that it came from a Fameuse tree which had heen ton-grafted on’ Rabka geedlings. but beyond knowinz that it is one of a eroup it cannot be more clogely identified. The owner would probably not trade the one tree for an oil well * ok ox xS Washingion has had its Cancar week -and its Safety week and now is in the midst of its Thrift week Now comes one of the prominent ae- sociations of citizens with @ sugges- tion that we should devote a specin! week to the consideration of the growing evil of narcotics. It will shock most Americans to learn that Americans consume seventeen times #s much narcotic drugs. per capita. as China. ever did. Few laymen comprehend how rapidly the evil has spread or how widespread it now fs. A week devoted to informing the masses of the enormity of the traf- fic_and the potential addicts of the horrors they are bringing upon themselves would be most meri- torious. Tt the same * kik . Every few days some devoted pa- triot lssues advice that home owners should join the citizens' associations of their respective sections and the papers tell of the good work these minlature legislative debating so- cieties are doing. All right, they are 800d things and should be joined by everybody, but are not their habltats more mysterious than the summer residence of Santa Claus? Who knows whence they come or whither they go, or where they hold their conclaves? How will they be detect- ed, these more secret organizat than the K. K. K.? Are-their nam in the telephone directory? Are they listed anywhere? They are too modest by a mile. They need an advertising manager. It pays to ad vertise. Let them keep standing cards in the newspapers. announcink location and time of mecting. “Let's go!” . * % kw3 The papers had scarcely time for the Ink to dry on their headlines over the reports of the women's-industrial conference, announcing: “Women In- tend to Fight Hard for Eight-Hour Law,” when Judge Gary, ‘lead of the steel trust, addressed his board of directors, declaring that he favor- ed the eight-hour working time. “when it became practicable.” Per- haps another meeting of the women will convince him that twenty-four hours are as easily divided into three shifts as two. They might suggest putting all the question up to a vots of the workers, on a pay-by-thé-hour basie, and letting . them choose whether they will join an eight-hour &hift or a twelve-hour crew. Of course the eight-hour men will produce more per hour, and will earn more per | hour, and’ the employers, finding that their capital investment produces more per hour under the eight-hour shift. will readily pay more per hour. | Then it may become “practicable’ | when it is tried out. The women were | resolving only for the female work- ler. but the influence seems to have |reached even the Steel Trust—or was lit just a coincldence | Suggestions Offered for D. C. Pedestrian Traffic To the Editor of The ta As & user of sidewalks and cross- ings 1 value vour efforts to bring |about a realization that in a collision between an automobile and a pedes- trian there Is little danger to the machine, and scant jeopardy, either immediate or consequent, to the |driver. I hope that the strong arm of the law will be so upheld by the proletariat and the fourth estate that those responsible for the recent death of several “jay- walkers” may be heavily fined. If it is not too much to expect, 1 hope that the fine will be as much as §100. In the meantime I earnestly urge all pedestrians to cuitivate a birdlike hopping gait. progressing between the white lines by a series of rushes and checks. Dignified citizens are urged to make frantic efforts at street crossings lest the time in transit of some captainjof industry on his way to explain why he cannot make the ninth payment on his 1912 flivver. be unduly prolonged. S Alwayé carry a clean chamois skin in the inner pocket and a small note- book in the most accessible pocket. In case.you are sttuck by an auto- mobile, it you still have the use of your limbs, remové thé chamois from your pocket and endeavor to obliter- ate all signs of violent contact from the car. If you are unable to rise, record In the notebook the licenss number. After getting out of the hospital you can ascertain the owner's name. and -offer ' to repair any damages that you may have caused. 1f_the driver of the car does not' stop. after running over you, you may rest assured that the damage to the car was slight and that he bears vou no il will. L. L. THWING. Says Memel Is Not Under League of Nations. To the Editor of The Star: In many newspapers during the past week there has been the statement that Memel is under the league of natlons {n some way. The fact is that r with the league. Germany, by ar- ticle 99 of the treaty of Versailles, ceded Memel to the principal aliied council and not the league council— has been holding Memel under a temporary French occupation in the hope of some solution of the con- {troversy between Poland and Lithu- ania over the Vilna territory. "7t may be that the newspapers are relying-on a collection of maps made soon after the war which wrongly at tribute Memel to thé league. of na. tions; or, perhaps, they have con- fused Memel with the free city of and associated powers and under- took to accept whatever settlement thesg powers should make in regurd \ far there has been no set- et Memel In o natural port fOF l.oth Poland—and Lithuania, and_ the supreme council—which is the allied ’ Danzig. which is nearby on the Bal- [tic and which is under the protection lof the league, with a league high | commissioner resident there. - -SARAH WAMBAUGH, Formeriy Memher_q&)he _Secr of the League of Natlons. ’ ’ )