Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1923, Page 6

-g~ THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D.C. SATURDAY... .January 27, 1923 THEEODORE W. NOYES...Editor A e S n Office : 16 Regent 8t., London, &nfll‘. The Evening Star. with the ‘Bunday mernin edttion, Is delivered by carriers within 8t @8 cents per month: daliy only. 45 ce: masth: Sunday only, 20 cents per mont! ™ be sent by mail o tel 8000. “Collection §s made by carriers at t! end of each mont Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Bally and mo., T0c Daily vn\yfiund‘ S0 Bunday only. All Other States. Dafly and Suuday..1 yr., $10.0 Dally enly.. 1yr., $7.00:1 mo. Bunday oniy. 1yr. $3.00:1mo., mo., 88¢ . 60¢ 25c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied o the nee for republication of all news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub- tished “heretn. ~All rights of publication of herein are aleo reserved. _——— Baldwin Spills the Beans. Stanley Baldwin, chancellor of the British exchequer and lately a visitor to this country as & member of the British debt-funding commission, may be an able financier, but he certainly grades low in the diplomatic scale. Arriving in Southampton, yesterday, homeward bound from his American mission, he gave out a newspaper in- terview, printed today, which is cal- culated to multiply the difficulties in the way of successful conclusion of negotiations for the funding of the five billion dollars of indebtedness owed by his government to the gov- ernment of the United States. The burden of his complaint is that at the American end the funding operations are in the hands of “politicians.” Mr. Baldwin now is safe forever from the : charge that he is a politiclan, or even that he is politic. In substance, he said that while the executive officials of the American government were disposed to be rea- sonable as to terms for debt settle- ment, Congress had to be taken into ‘account, and Congress was made up largely of farmers and rural-minded representatives who knew little or nothing about international finance, and besides were politicians who cared more for what the American people wanted than they did about making things easy for the British people. ‘Those were not his exact words, but a reading of his interview leaves the un- escapable impression that that was what he meant. There are men of the British way of thinking in the eastern states, he said, but in the west they merely sell wheat and hogs and other produce and have no further interest in international matters. Mr. Baldwin intimates that satisfac- tory settlement could be made with the American cabinet or with business men, but he laments that any agree- ments arrived at must be confirmed by the representatives of all the peo- ple, and apparently he thinks this is wrong, despite the fact that the bil- lions of dollars loaned to England be- longed to all the people. If the people who loaned the money could be denied a voice as to the terms of repayment, it is to be assumed that all would be lovely, from the British point of view, but as their wishes must be consult- ed, Mr. Baldwin is in despair. It is difficult to estimate the harm’ which may result from Chancellor Baldwin's foolish utterances. In the first place, the executive officials of this government are unlikely to relish the suggestion that they would be “easy marks" and willing to put some- thing over on the American people were it not for Congress, and Con- gress is quite unlikely to indulge in an outburst of pro-British sentimentality over the suggestion that a majority of senators and representatives are *“rubes,” who have no competent knowledge of international questions. Executive officials of the government have been hopeful of obtaining amend- ments to the debt-funding law which ‘would make possible easier terms than the funding commission now is au- thorized to ‘grant. Mr. Baldwin's in- terview is calculated to make that hope difficult of realization. The Brit- ish had a good case, as things stood, and the prospects were favorable that they would win a substantial share of what they asked..But their case now is badly prejudiced by too much and too loose talking. Trotsky has quit writing books. Sovietism is becoming conservative to en extent that might compel him to disagree with himself. The ex-kaiser having quarreled with the rest of the world should not be surprised at an occasiopal difference in his own family. It is claimed that some of the films ere anti-American In sentiment. A great many more are anti-American in taste. Speedy Justice in Tennessse. Justice moved much more speedily than usual in the case of the man who was yesterday convicted at Bristol, ‘Tenn., of the murder of five persons on the 26th of November, just two months before. This atrocious crime 8o stirred the community that threats of lynching were uttered upon the ar- Test of the murderer, but the mob spirit ‘was quieted by assurances that the man would be promptly brought to trial, This promise was kept, and proceed- ings were hastened so that if the sen: tence of death, which has been im- posed, is carried into effect he will have expiated his crime in the elec- tric chair within four months.of the slayings. Recently in England two persons were executed for a murder that had been committed less than 100 days pre- ceding, and this was noted at the time as an illustration of the promptness of punishment in that country. It was not exceptional, but followed the usual course. This Tennessee cage is an unusual exhibition of expedited procedure. In all likelihood full justice has been done, despite the speed with which the case has been carried to a conviction. Yet i this crime had occurred in a v ‘hrn city, and the accused had been {a man of ample means sufficient to obtain counsel and to defray the cost of appeals, he would have succeeded in protracting the proceedings. There should be no discrinzination in these matters. Justice should proceed as swiftly in one case as in another. De- lays are due partly to the congestion of the calendars, partly to the liberal- ity with which delaying motions and appeals are permitted and partly to the protraction .of the trials them- selves, Cases that should be heard to a conclusion within a week are ex- tended over many weeks, and others that might be concluded in a day without prejudice to the interest of the accused are spread over a week. It is not, of course, desirable that trials involving human life or llberty should be rushed to the extent of denying the fullest chance to the ac- cused to establish innocence. But in the modern practice of the courts the fullest advantage is taken of the rules by both defense and prosecution to muitiply testimony, to pile up the rec- ord, to repeat questions and answers until the real issues are obscured and the jury is wearied and confused. Re- form of our court practice is urgently required to the end that the law may be made more. effective and would-be criminals deterred by the assurance of swift, impartial justice. { | i i i Grand Opera for Washington. Two weeks hence Washington is to have a ““season” of grand opera. As a | result of the enterprise of a number { of Washingtonians the Chicago Civic | Opera Company, rated as one of the { most notable musical organizationa in | the world, will visit this city for three performances early in February. This is not a commercial venture. The cpera organization is endowed and maintained without the need of tour- ing. It goes “‘on the road” as a means of spreading musical culture in this country. In order to bring it to Wash- ington a guarantee fund of $42,000 covering the three performances has been pledged by citizens. The actual cost of the three performances will {be all of that amount. 1 the guaran- | tors are to be cleared of their obliga- tion it will be necessary to fill the theater to capacity for each of the three performances. If this is not done, if the guarantee fund is not forthcoming at the box office, and it is necessary to call upon the local un- derwriters for their pro-rata shares of | the deficit, Washington will probably { be once more put upon the list of cities | that will not support grand opera, and | will be left without this form of musi- cal performance for another long period of vears. Here, then, is a test of Washing- ton’s appreciation of opera at its best. The opportunity is afforded not merely for this one occasion to hear and see operatic productions of the. first class, but to establish for the Capital city ia reputation of appreciation that will insure ‘future visits from operatic or- ganizations of the first class. Opera prices are high, for the rea- son that it s mecessary to maintain large organizatiéns. Singers of high reputation must be engaged at what may seem extravagant salaries, but which, considering the competition for their services, are not great in rela- tion to the scale of their profession. 1In the motion picture field even larger compensations prevail, but in that line the producers are able to recoup and to profit through the infinite multipli- cation of presentations, whereas in opera each performance is @ finished thing and cannot be duplicated except at the fixed rate of cost. The question of Washington's sup- port of this series of operas, therefore, turns upon whether there are 6,000 people, estimating 2,000 at each per- formance, who will attend. Or 2,000 who will attend each of the three per- formances. Inasmuch as this is not a commercial venture it may be urged that it is more or less of a civic duty to gjve it that support which will demonstrate that Washington i= worthy of consideration and inclusion whenever one of the major operatic organizations takes the road. | The cordial attitude of Germans to- | ward United States troops shows what American influence can do it permitted to operate unhindered on its own natu- ral lines of frankness and conciliation. The Ruhr workmen are as angry when a respected owner of the fac- tories is fined as if he were a regular labor leader. Automobiles are not promoters of brotherly love. Many pedestrians hate motorists and most motorista fear one another. The lady who won $50,000 is worth more than that sum to Monte Carlo as an advertisement for the game. Preserve Fort Stevens! An-amendment to the Army appro- priation bill was introduced in the Sen- ate the other day which, it is hoped, will receive favorable consideration snd will become a,law. This amend- authorizes the Secretary of War to ac- quire the tract known as Fort Stevens, “the main defense of Washington during the civil war.” This tract con. tains in all about four mcres, and is situated near Georgia avenue in the neighborhood of Brightwood. For the purpose of such a purchase $40,000 is appropriated, and it is further pro- vided that if, and when, the proposed District highway plan is executed the streets and avenues will be so laid out as not to destroy or interfere with the egrthworks of Fort Stevens. Fort Stevens {s notable chiefly for the fact that it is the only peint at ‘which President Lincoln was on the fighting front during the civil war, He ‘was, indeed, under fire there. “The oc- casion was the attack upon the ecity by Gen, Early's forces in the raid upon ‘Washington, which, if it had been suc- cessful, might have materially changed the course of events. The capture of the city would at least have prolonged the war. To the defense of Washing- ton were hurried troops from down the river, and a sharp fight took place 80 near to Washington-that the guns ‘were heard in the center of the city. This spot is thus one of the historic landmarks of the nation, and its definite preservation, long delayed, should now be undertaken. The cost involved is a trifie compared with the - ment, proposed by Senator Sterling, | THE importance of keeping intact the scene of the successful defense of the capital and of President Lincoln's presence on che battle front. In the immediate neighborhood of Fort Stevens residential developments are progressing rapidly. The area it- self has until now been held out of the market through the public-spirited motives of the owners, but they are not to be expected to retain it per- manently if the government does not move to make & reservation of the lit- tle space. The only way to insure the preservation of the fort and its im. mediate surroundings is to pre-empt ‘the area as federal property by means of an appropriation. Considerations of economy should not operate in such a case. The United States has spent many mil- lons of dollars for the protection of the natural wonders of this land. It has spent large sums also for the preservation as national monuments !o! some of the more important battle { grounds. Fort Stevens should be in- icluded in this program of landmark retention. —————e The Harmless, Necessary Cat. ‘When the Russian famine was at its height everything eatable was con- sumed. The people were reduced to life. Even the dogs and cats were used for food. Now the country ls j suftering from tne efrect of this un. natural consumption of domestic ani- mals. From Kiev comes a plea for felines, to reduce the mice and rats that are devastating the land. No Pled Piper eppears to lure away the rodents and the southern Russians are clamorous for the restoration of the cats that once throve in the land. The quotations are startling—five million rubles for a promising young- ster, while adults of the species bring ten millions aplece. American house- wives, concerned over the embarrass- ing productivity on the part of their pets, may be encouraged by these fig- ures, low as they may reduce in terms of dollars or cents. A shipment of cats to Kiev would probably make the exporter rich, whatever the rate of ruble exchange. It would not be necessary to stock | the craft to capacity at sailing. Like the express agent in thatdelectable tale, “Pigs Is Piga,” the shipment may grow to the point of embarrassment. In this connection one is reminded of the apochryphal Chicago alderman who, when the plans for the world fair of 1893 were under discussion, and it was proposed to bring a number of gondolas from Venice for use on the lagoon, objected to the expense of a large importation and urged that only two be brought over and then to “let nature take its course.” The rats at Kiev may be the meana of bringing soviet Russia a little closer to the rest of the world. The cry for cats and more cats is'a very human one and may arouse sympathy for the deluded subjects of the com- missars. ————— Thousands of strangers crowded the church where funeral services were tonducted for a motion picture player whoee life had been wrecked by drugs. Hero worship takes strange forms. In this case the demonstration of interest ‘was not necessarlly morbid, but may have been due to & sympathetic sentl- ment as generous as it was futile. ———— France may undertake to demon- strate to the Ruhr region the some- what delicate distinction between an occupation and & siege. —————— New Jersey is beginning to claim that the coast fishermen are too busy with liquid bait to catch any fish. P — German laboratories may be inclined to study the possibilities of war as a coal-tar product. Sovietism preserves the old name of something that has evoluted into Leniniem, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Valentine of Awfulness. There’'s a gentleman who should re. celve ettention ‘When the valentines are flying far and near. It is needless any special names to mention, For his kind is quite as nomerous a8 queer. He's the actor who, regardless of the story Or the line of parts in which he should engage, glory And always wants the center of the stage. And the flapper in the chorus tells the ‘backer That the leading lady's punk as Jullet, And the role cannot be made a cracker- jacker Unless interpreted by a soubrette. St. Valentine, do not forget the lady ‘Who threatens to be falling ina rage And make each joyous moment flerce- 1y shady, Unleas she gets the center of the stage. Accommodation. “Your speeches are pretty dry.” *“Well,” answered Senator Sorghum, “that's the kind of a constituency I've got.” | Jud Tunkins says he likes poetry because it sounds good whether it makes senge or not. Masquerade. Concealment we must often take to task lite' game. \ I'd rather have a foe who wears & mask Then a pretended friend who does the same. Proper Name. “What is your new servant’s name?" “Anthracite. We call 'em all that. They're hard to get and don’t last long.” In uncertain end peculiar “Findin' fault,” sald Uncle Eben, “ig like findin' counterfeit money. “Tain’ worth de trouble of pigkin® it up” 1 the most extreme means of sustaining | | 1 1 | ! (EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, - - ; Washington BY FREDERIC Americans who are abusing France for collecting a debt from Germany by force have short memorl In December, 1901, Germany organized a combination of herself, Great Britain and Italy for the purpose of coercing Venezuela into settling & number of more or less just claims. Those na: tions sent warships to South Amer- ica and established what they called @ “pacific blockade™ of the Vener zuelan ports. But for the vigorous intervention of Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay, European forces would have been landed on the soll of an American republic and the Monroe doctrine put to the sternest test in its history. Roosevelt insisted upon arbitration of the claims against Venezuela. Great Britain and Italy assented. Germany refused. Roose- velt sent for von Holleben, the kalser's ambassador, and said Dewey would be ordered to proceed to Venezuela unleas Germany yielded. She decided to do mo. Wh{lt the kaiser's cruisers were blockading Venesuela they improved the oppor- tunity = of surveying the waters around Margarita Island, which the Germans coveted for a coaling sta- {tion and hoped to extort from Castro in settlement of their claims. * ok k% Washington's newest museum, the Freer Gallery of Art, is to be opened with pomp and ceremony early in May, according to present arrange- ments. The work of installation of the magnificent Charles L. Freer collection of oriental and American works i= proceeding under the direc- tion of John E. Lodge of Boston, Sen- Ator Henry Cabot Lodge's son. Mr. Lodge is curator of the division of Japanese and Chinese art in the Bos- ton Museum of Fine Arts. Apart trom the stately $1.000.000 Greek temple in which the Freer coll tion is housed, on the terrace facing the Smithsonian Tnstitution, the col- Jection itself will add substantially to Washington's importance as an art center. It is without douht the world's finest assemblage of Chinese and Japanese scrolls and ceramles. while the division of Americana, with | fts wealth of Whistler etchings and paintings. has few peers. One of the gems ix the celebrated peacock room which Whistler painted for the Eng- lish shipping magnate, John Ley- land. and which was removed intact to the former Freer gallery in De- troit. Art leaders from all over the world will attend the dedicatory function in May. Several leading American socleties. including the American Jewish Historical Soclety. plan to hold their annual meetings here on the same occasion. - x ok ox Henry C. Wallace, Secretary of Agri- culture, has achieved the miraculous and produced & new golf story. A year or two ago Wallace was enter- taining a brother Scot from overseas at the Towa state falr. Among the various forms of native hospitality organized for the vistor's benefit was a game of golf. The Caledonian played with strange clubs, and in con. sequence sliced and pulled all over the lot. Wallace, exemplifying the cour- tesy of the links, volunteered that nobody could do much better on an unfamiliar course with ~borrowed tools. “No." said the visitor, “I'm often off my game on my own links. That's why my caddie always oarries a tin can allace wanted to know the why and wherefore of the tin can. “Well,” said the Scotsman, “It's like this. After a bad shot or two the cad- die tees the can and I give it a smack. ECHOES FROM BOLL W IL CAUSES ABANDONMENT OF SOUTH. 1 am quite sure that there is not a senator on this floor who fully ap- preciates the disastrous results of the impending destruction of the south- ern cotton crop. In the state of South Carolina I venture to assert that already 30 per cent of the ten- ants have left the state. I am in- formed that they have gone to the northern and middle Atlantic states. —Senator Smith, South Carolina, dem- ocrat. DIGGING UP IRVING STREET. Let us take Irving street. on which T live. It was dug up during the early fall three or four times, re- paired and resurfaced, and the next week it was dug up again from end to end. It was somewhat repaired, and then a lot of holes were dug in it two or three weeks later. There is no government except the govern- ment of the District of Columbia that would tolerate such a wasteful ex- penditure of money.—Senator Cara- way, Arkansas, democrat. REGULATION OF RADIO RATES COMING. 1 think there is no question but that the time will come when it will be just as important and just as proper to fully regulate this service with regard to rates and all t oth- er functions they perform as it is to regulate the railroads and the tele- graphs and the teiephones. ‘Repre- sentative Davis, Tennessee. A FAIR RATE OF INTEREST. If Great Britain wants a longer time for these bonds to run than the ‘Will make a foot ball rush to grab the | twenty-five years, 1 for one have no objection to giving her a longer time, but in so far as the rate of interest is concerned, fixed by the last act of congress at 43 per cent, that should Be satisfactory to our British friends. It is just about the rate at which we borrowed the money from the American _people to lend to Great Britain. The rate fixed should cer- tainly not be less than the rate at which we borrowed. If it should be, then we will be unfair and unjust to the American taxpayers.—Senator Mc- Kellar, Tennessee, democrat. Senator Couzens Corrects An Error in The Star To the Editor of The Star: _My attention has been drawn to an article which appeared in your pub- lication of Wednesday, January 24, 1923, headed, “Harding May Not Wish Ke-election.” You say in said article the following: “COUZENS AN EXAMPLE. “Mr, Couzens came to Washington, |d the appointee of a republican gov- ernor, to, fill a regular republican senatorial seat. No'one expected him supinely to wear the G. O. P. organi- zation collar. But neither .did the President’s supporters expect, for in- stance, that Senator Couzens would let weeks elapse without paying hi respects to the official leader of his ty. He may not have done 5o yet. e haa not up to a fortnight age. 1 am writing you in the interest of accuracy. I am assuming that your publication desires to print the truth and I am, therefore, hoping that you will print the truth when I point out to you that I did call on the President and pald my respects to him at 12:30 nmoon, December 18, which was within eleven days of my arrival here. Some other things you have said in the same article are in- accurate, but as they do not partic- ularly interest me I am not com- menting on them. JAMES COUZENS. D. C, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1923 Observations 11t restores my confiderce and self- respect.” * % % ¥ Maj. Sherman Miles, son of Gen. Nelson A. Miles and nephew of Gen. Willlam Tecumseh Sherman, {s now American military attache In Turkey and Bulgaria, with headquarters at Constantinople. He is one of our pro- fessional soldiers who gives sclentific attentlon to the peace movement from 'tho military man's standpoint. Not long ago Miles, a strapping six- footer and more, went to the library of the Carne Endowment. for In- ternational Peace to consult bibli- ography for a magazine article. The amiable librarian, a woman, seemed l;nrl d that anybody wearing khak! i, rs should he interested in literature on peace. “Are you & mem- ber of any peace soclety?’ she asked. “The greatest in the world,” replied “Which_one?" the 'librarian “The United States Army,” the convincing rejoinder. g * ok o* % Nobody cares, but Willlam -Hohen- sollern Is sixty-four years old today. This would be the thirty-fifth calen- dar year of his reign If it had not come to an untimely end. Samuel Gompers claims the inglorious dis- tinction of being born on the same day as the war lord, but the chieftain of the American Federation of Lab 18 seventy-three. The Hohenzollern autocrat's first grandson was born on the 4th of July—he will be seventeen this year. The circumstance used to be mentioned in Berlin as something destined to cement sentimental rela- tlons between the United States and lethe fatherland. A ribald joke anent William's marital woes is making the rounds of the local diplomatic set. Hermine, the blushing bride of Doorn, anticipated a honevmoon, but got in- stead “a moony Hun." LR It will be into a populous communi- ty of diplomatic establishments that our Vice Presidents will come if Con- gress accepts the Hendergon gift- house on 16th street. The' mansion immediately adjoins the Mexican em- bassy. and almost directly across are the handsome legations of Poland and Cuba. Around the corner, in 15th street, is Washington's largest diplo. lmllhf building, the new ‘Qllllbnp of the Netherlands. A little lower down on 16th street is the noble embassy of France. and a few doors away is the residence of Senor Riano, the Spanish ambarsador. The region numbers almost as many lovely churches as embassies and legations. { The new National Baptist Memorial is nearing completion at the corner of Columbla road. while the impressive basilica of the Sacred Heart. at 16th rest and Park road, already is one of the capital's architectural show- pieces. * ko x President Harding has a brother in misery in the person of J. M. Davis. newly Installed democratic Governor of Kansas. Mr. Davis has been en- throned at Topeka only three weeks, but finds his legislative program ef- fectually blocked. Abolition of the Allen Industrial relations court law is one of the projects against which obstacles have been raised. Radical ‘measures to curb corporations also are hung up. A state bonus law is Davis legislation that has ed. Willlam G. McAdoo hon ored Gov. D with his presence a the Inaugural In Topeka on January 8. Kansas sends twenty-four dele- gates to democratic national conven- tions. (Copyright, 1923.) CAPITOL HILL THE “KING'S CASTLE.” In my district we have United States Veterans' Hospital No. 81. It is a neuropsychiatric center. There | are 340 patients there, with over 500 employes, an unusually large number | of them ‘clerks, and only_elght doc- tors in the entire place. Millions are being spent, or, rather, misspent, in | the handling of the patients there. tand the abuse that them has long been a public scandal. —Representative Rossdale, New York, republican. | FREE AIR ON THE WING. | This (the radio control bill) in- | volves the air. 1 have heard it said frequently that about the only thing that was left free was the air, and now you are going to take that away. —Representative Jones, Texas, dem- ocrat. RADIO'S AMAZING DEVELOPMENT. As of January 1, 1923, there were something like 21.000 transmitting stations in_the United States. Some- thingslike 2.762 of those stations were on board ship. There were about 570 broadcasting stations scattered throughout the United States, one or more in every state of the Union ex- cept the state of Mississippl. There were twelve transoceanic statlons communicating with Great Britain, France. Germany, Poland, Holland, Ttaly, Hawai!, Japan, and there were other stations in contemplation of erection. — Representative White, Maine, republican. THE RETIREMENT OF THE DAUGHERTY IMPEACHERS. The exit reminded one of the scampering of rodents from a pile of trash that had just been upturned by the broom of & responaible and vi orous housekeeper. — Representative Bird, Kansas, republican. THE PEOPLE BELIEVE IN THE CIVIL SERVICE. To do away with the civil service law and the rules framed pursuant to that law would raise such a storm of protest upon the part of the people of the United States—and the whole never been heard or witnessed, think, throughout the country.—Sen- ator Sterling, South Dakota, repub- lean. Who Will Write the True Story of the West? “Some day, somebody—a Russian Jew from Hester street, perhaps, who never heard of the wild west and its traditions—will go to the Rockles and write a novel of the west as it really is—nobody has done it yet." Thus writes a critic in the Argonaut, And lan't it the truth? No one has yet written of the west as it really is. Certainly the author of ‘‘Main Street’ idn't do redly the scenario writers haven't done it. And the Harold Bell Wrights and the Zane Greys and the Rex Beaches haven't hit the mark. The trouble is that western tra- ditions and the west no longer fit, erhaps they never did, in the real se. For many years Montana wes the gTroatest range state in the Union, not excepting Texas, and yet the ordi- pary American conception of tha co: boy was never realized here. We had our cowmen and our range riders, to be sure, and they were picturesque enough, but they hardly lived up to the popular ideas of what they should e. - The Nick Carter books, the wild vivid talea of the days wheh daring trappers ree- cued lovely maldens from outlaws and bdloody savages, all had their share in establishing standards sup- posed to belong alone to the west. As the writer in the Argoniut sug- 3 1t may well be that some one not handicapped with a knowledge of the traditions of the west will write of it as it really is. A story like that would be an important conrri- ries, the Beadle “Ipution to literature.—Butte Post. is heaped upon ! people of the United States—as has; The Library Table. BY THE BOOKLOVER. The ever increasing number of American novelists, good, better, best, makes a reader grateful for an oc- @esipnal gulde book to assist in selection. Such a guide book Iis Carl Van Doren’ “Cotemporary American Novelists.” The book is not too theoretical, but passes judg- ment on epecific novelists who are now claiming attention. For example, Mr. Van Doren bellieves that Zona Gale, in “Miss Lulu Bett” accom- plished “comic or fironic or tragic meaning packed in syllabl that Hamlin Garland missed being a great novelist because he lacks great imag- ination; that Theodore Dreiser, in spite of crude technique and chaotic ideas, occasionally rises to universa- tility; that Winston Churchill, in his later ‘realistic novels, is a purveyor of stale, outworn ideas and tedious 1 platitudes; that Edith Wha ton's prestige is due to her well bred irony; that Joseph Hergesheimer has managed to use exotic, flambuoy- ant material, and at the same time to achieve the effect of austerity, and that Booth Tarkington's “Alice Adams" {s a true and s{gnificant plece of realism. Among Mr. Van Doren's observations about general tenden- i been “run into the ground,” and that the small community has ceased to be an object of sweet sen*iment and has become an object of detes‘ation. * ok k% Gastronomy, or the art of preparing and serving appetizing food, is of inter- est to every one except the confirmed dyspeptic, who perhaps s more con- cerned with the subject of kindred root, gastritis, This interest in food, together with another human foible, the interest in personal detalls about prominent per- sonages, is capltalized by C. Mac Sheri- dan, in his “Stag Cook Book,” made up of the favorite recipes of the great, from President Harding ‘to leading cinema stars. We learn that President Hard- ing is particuarly fond pf waffles, that Secretary Hughes llkes corn bread and that Willlam Jennings Bryan v enjoys the vuigar onion, and that Booth Tarkington chooses corn | flakes. Some other people of impo: tance are not so simple in their tasti s Trvin Cobb selects hog jowl with irnip greens, Otis Skinner artichokes, and Oliver Herford fried elderberry blossoms. * ¥ ¥ % Among writers of fiction who have been more or less influenced by the Freudian psychelogy, May Sinclair is perhaps the most sane, as well as the most artistic. In her novels, “Mary Oliver,” “The Romantic" and “The {|Tree of Heaven,” the Freudian idea of childhood complexes as prevailing influences in later life is in each case one of the obvious motives of the story. Miss Sinclair's latest novel, ""Anne Severen and the Pleldings’ (one of her best, by the way), again shows the evil effect of suppressed or half-forgotten emotfons. Colin, the youngest Fielding, in the terrors of his shell-shock iilness repeats his childhood night fear of ghost recovers only when “he was aware that his recovery was now in his own hands, and that he would not be free from his malady o long as he w afrald to be alone.” Ma loved wife of Jerrold, has tacks of false angina, of which she is cured only when she faces the realitv. {which she has tried to conceal from her- |self, that her husband loves another woman, and then sets him free. * ko % The first of a serles of articles on modern morajs, by the Rev. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick appears in the January Ladies' Home Journal. En. titled “First Things First,” it is de- voted in considerable part to the place of books and reading in modern life. A few extracts will show the cur- rent of the writer's thought. He writes: “When one considers how ireading seeps in through the cracks ]lnd crannies of our day what power there is in books to determine our views of life, it is plain that the qual- {ity of a man's reading is one of his {foremost responsibilities. Most of us imies the best books, not because we i choose the b {up our minds with casual trash. We iread for effgl |man to be kn adept. must read the | specialists. We read to keep up with times—an endless stream of papers. | magasines and books. We read the i books that are talked about just be- {cayse they are talked about. Ye: so 1 continuously reading, we read every- {thing except the books we should rend {first of all. The great books are {habitually crowded out. Nevertheles: the great books are walting for u [ The “entire article, from wnich these isentenceu have been culled, deserves reading. * ok ok K Generations of fiction writers arise, capture the public and decline, with great rapidity, when viewed from the standpoint of a century. We have just become accustomed to think of Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells, John Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett and May Sinclair as the leaders of present day British fiction, when we discover that a younger generation has arisen, ready to take their place. In the Yale Review for July, 1922, an article by Ford Madox Hueffer, called “A Haughty and Proud Generation,” is devoted to what the author calls the | “second flight” of British novelists. | He says: “The second flizht will be. {in our literature. Pushkin's ‘haughty and proud generation; vigorous and } free in their passions and adventure'; | they are such writers as Norma Douglas, P. Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, Frank Swinnerton, Kathe- rine Mansfield, Clemence Dane, Do- rothy Richardson and James Joyce." These writers are, in Mr. Hueffer's opinion, going on to new adventures n material and new explorations In method. They are writing the prac- tices of Henry James and Joseph Conrad and cafrying the proceas one step further. It has remained for them “to carry the conviction of the grinning, complex world into the consciousness, into the springs of ac. tion of their characters—ta render i not objectively, but from the inside.’ * kK % Washingtonians who rejoice in our trees and parks and who are desirous that the country outside of the Dis- trict shall also be made as beautiful as possible will be interested in an article in the January National Mu- nicipal Review entitled “A National Forest for the National Capital,” by willlam M. Ellicott of Baltimore. text and map the author show. there are 110,000 acres, mor: half of which are now wooded, lying north and east of the District that could be utllized to make a park sy tem reaching almest to Annapol and Baltimore. * % k¥ The centenary of the birth of Mat- thew Arnold on December 34/recalls the fact that there Is no adequate biography of the great Victorian e sayist and poet. His letters form the chief material concerning his lite, though excellent critical works have been written by Saintsbury in the “Modern English Writers" serles and Herbert Paul in the “English Men of Letters” series. * * ok X Many readers who always look for Katherine Fullerton Gerould's essays or short stories in the Atlantic Monthly and other magasines and who enjoyed her novel of last season, “Lost Valley,” will be interested in her nw.lx published collection of stories, called “Valiant Dust.” The stories are taken from the author’s contribution to magazines dur- ing the seven or eight years, and deal in usual style with somewhat morbid real life situations. i H | cles in American fiction are the state- | ments that the cult of local color ras | iside the capita either. . but because we littar | ency in daily work. Any | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Lawyers are not required to di- vulge the secrsts of any confession made to them by their clients. Doc- tors and priests, too, are immune from the foroed betrayal of confes- sions. Newspaper reporters, whether legally immune or not. have a well recognized law of their own pro- tessional ethics which requires that the reporter should cheerfully go to jail in contempt of court rather than betray a confidence. This fact is 8o well recognized In practice that offi- clals of the highest station never hesitate to confide in a reputable newspaper man state secrets not to be released until authority be given, which they would not dare trust to bound by tradition and It seems, therefore, a strange situ- ation if a director of a patriotic so- clety should be adjudged not safe- guarded by law or court against be- ing forced to betray his source of in- formation against communigts and al- leged traltors, or how he came into line direct to Teapot Dome, providing Mr. Sinclalr will do the honors, when the Boston tea party will sink intc innocuous desuetude,” or some other kind of obscurity. * o ow ok At our tea party we are going to invite our dear friends from Balti- more to come and bring their own gasoline, for it would not be fair to deprive them of the tax, as well as the license fees. In case Balti- more should have all the 85, Washington drivers in hock by that time, we can extend the pipeline, but with the understanding that the tax is to be collected at the Washington lock. Otherwise there will be another tempest in that teapot * ¥ ok ok “It pays to advertise!” Even co- operative farmers have demonstrated that. Read bulletin No. 1109 of the Department of Agriculture: “‘Sales Methods and Policies of Growers National Marketing Agency.” The story of how the association, known as the American Cranberry Exchange, possession of {ncriminating docu- that the essential fact of interest to the information and the documents proved to be trustworthy and essen- tial to the furthering of justice. The detection of crime s often dependent upon lialson with some pals of the suspected one, and the ends of justice are best served by questioning only the truth and reliability of the evi- dence, rather than the means by which it was obtained and by which future evidence might be similarly secured. * kK % An oyster demonstrated the ideal course of action for just such a situa- tion as above referred to. The oyster was lying awake in the warehouse when a rat ran across it and inad- vertently permitted the oyster to shut its mouth just when the rat's tall was in it. That oyster simply had to keep its mouth closed until the rat had squealed its own doom. Humans did the rest. Many a detecttve and sleuth of the amateur tribe may emulate that Hampton, Va.. oyster. Why. if that oyster had opened its mouth just once the rat might have gotten away and warned other rats by the hun- dreds, and though, mayhap, there was a pearl in the shell, nobody would have been enriched without sacri- fidlng the oyster. By keeping his mouth shut at the right time that heroic bivalve will start a new breed of oysters trained to catch rats, and we shall have pedigreed. thorougbred rodent oyster terriers with snap and bulldog tenacity. Look to the future bench shows of prize rat-catching oysters! We may have fleld tests with competing oysters racing after ter- ribly frightened. scampering rats, Every timid lady will protect herself against terrorizing mice by leading a whenever they promenade the infested public streets And all this comes from just knowing when to keep the mouth shut hard. We have long been familiar with ovster cocktails, but now welcome to the oyster rat-tails. * ok x ok The House of Representatives de- bated for an hour one evening this ‘week the appointing of a standing committe of seventeen members to which all legislation referring to world war veterans will be sent. No decision was reached, owing to the absence of a quorum, but eventually such a committee will be appointed. There are few issues affecting more people than the legislative proposi- tions affecting 4.000,000 veterans and thelr dependents—not less than 10 per cent of the entire population. * k * ® Washington now has the distinction of having more wheels per capita than any other city in the world. and all the per capita wheels are not in- We gained ments. It would scem, to & layman, , to the courts would be only whelher! brace of trained oysters by a“fishline : g | might be Inferred that the increased tested the value of advertising to create & demand for cranberrles, would make an advertising zgency's mouth water. In 1908 the public refused to con- sume the crop produced, and thers were {ndications that the yield would increase from year to year. Pro- duction did Increase from 358,000 bar- rels in 1906 to 544,000 barrels in 1916, and the cost of production exceeded the market price. Then in the winter of 1916-17 the growers appropriated $23.000 for ad- vertising in Chicago newspapers, street cars and otherwise. The im- mediate result was a gain of sales in Chicago of 47 per cent as compared with the previous year and 57 per cent as compared with 1913: while {n Philadelphia—out of range of the ad- vertising—there was _a loss of de- mand amounting to 17 per cent com- pared with 1915, 57 per cent compared with 1914 and 41 per cent compared with '1913. Similar decreases were noted also in_ New York, Boston, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and Cleveland. * % x ¥ The result encouraged wider ad- vertising for 1918, and $54,000 was spent that fall within thirty days. The outlook was bad, because of tha restrictions on sugar. The effect of the advertising was a quick reversal of market conditions, and it beca impossible to ship cranberries fa enough. Advertising of cranberrie for the season 1920-21 cost $2! but it amounted to only 20 cents a barrel on all shipped co-operatively from 1916 to 1921. The bullotin says: “It will be no ticed from the data that more money was received from a small crop in 1917<than was received for a crop over twice as large in 1914. * * ¢ Tt receipts from cranberry sales were due to the general wave of rising puices. But this can hardly be the case, for the price and scarcity of sugar had a tendency to depress cran- bercy “prices. This tendency combated by the stimulation of con sumption by advertising. Further- more, if the increase were due in any large measure to the forces that caused prices to rise during the war, it would naturally follow that cran- berries would fall in price during 1920-21 fn the face of an average crop and in a period of falling prices, but_this was not the case. “The bad s test to the fullest extent the advantages of co-opera- tion. In all probability, had it not been for advertising and the abi of the exchange to distribute ship- ments in a way to establish and maintaln a reasonably stable market, many carloads would not have been sold at all in 1919 and the rest would have been sold for prices which would have meant a decided loss for all those interested in cranberry eul- ture.” A table shows that the cranberry crop of 1914 amounted to abo 340.000 barrels and sold for $1,300.000. 37.6 per cent last year, while the whole country gained only 16.7 per cent. At the present rate of increase we may soon need a municipal pip Dr. Grant Should Resign if Out of Tune With Church. Bishop Manning is almost unan mously supported by the nation's edi- tors in the position he has assumed regarding the public utterances of Dr. Percy Stickney Grant. It is agreed that the rector of the Chureh of the Ascension has a perfect right to any personal views he desircs (o enter- tain. But unless he can preacii the doctrines which the Episcopal Church indorses, it is argued, he has no right to occupy @ pulpit of that faith. And 1t likewlse is pointed out that if he Insists on a trial for heresy, instead of resigning, he will precipitate a situation that will be distasteful to “the great mass of Episcopalians who accept without question the creed and { the dogmas of their faith.” That Bishop Manning's advice to resign was warranted is the view of the Pittsburgh Leader, which points out that “the intention of Dr. Grant cannot relieve him from the responsi- bility of the effects of his language. When he comes to think it over Dr. Grant, no doubt, will agree with Bishop Manming that, if the popular impression of last Sunday’s sermon a dependable expression of the opi ions expressed, the pulpit is no place for him. ‘Boring from within' is not popular in many places, but in the church of any denomination it has always been declared not only in- tolerable, but impossible.” The bishop fully realizes that Dr, Grant will have a following if he Soes, the Jersey Journal says, but “this has been di counted by Dr. Manning in taking hi deciaive step. The world is in chaos. Never was there a time of such un- rest. Opinions, beliefs, customs and policies are being revised by many. That, however, does not alter the fact that & church or a denomination still has the right to insist that those who preach under its banners should either preach what those banners stand for or_quit preaching." These sentiments have the indorse ment of the New York World, whicl asserts that “the question involved i8 less one of theology than of good faith, Dr. Grant would be a pic- turesque and influential figure on any platform, but, as an Episcopal rec- tor, it is not his privilege to formu- late a new creed. His pulpit is not his personal vehicle, but is one of the mouthpiece of the church for declaring its accepted faith.” Tt 1s difficult to judge the merits of the controversy, the Baltimore Sun points out, “because few persons are unprejudiced. Conceding the abso. lute honesty and sincerity of Dr. Grant, admitting that he has acted from a compelling sense of right, from a consuming love of truth, it must be conceded, on the other hand, that his attitude has left Bishop Man- ning no alternative but to demand his retirement from the church. Dr, Grant haa a right to repudiate the creed, but he has no right to teach in the church something contrary to what _the church teaches and stands Possibly good may develop from all this spiritual turmoil, but dis- utes like this do not make for Chri lan brotherhood nor for the spirit ot peace, wh the world needs so much now.” The Ashbury Park Press is another which holds that “none can quarrel with Dr, Grant's views. They are his own and he is entitled to hold i i ! The crop of 1917 amounted to 158.000 | barrels and sold for $1,600,000. Tho | crop of 1929 amounted to 255,000 ba | rels and d for $2,900,000. “It pi ! to advertise!" EDITORIAL DIGEST them. He s not entitled, however, to make the Episcopal Church the ve- hicle for expressing those view violation of his oath of ordination There is also no “persecutio in | Bishop Manning's attitude, the Al- bany Knickerbocker Press points out, “and Dr. Grant acts unfairly when, | by his deflant tone, he seems to seek | the sympathy accorded to a martyr. |1t may be hoped that Dr. Grant will | make ‘a’ trial for heresy unnecessar: {if only because of the indecorousne {and the* needless hurts to faithful { hearts involved in such a contest. |Such a proceeding could have only | one outcome. It would seem that one vho really loved the church which has fostered him for so many | would aveid inflicting upon it such a source of strife.” The Utica Observer-Dispatch sharply insists Dr. Grant should quit becauge “any man of honor and in- tegrity, finding himself out of tune with ‘an organization of any kind, socular, religious, private or public, will decently sever his relations therewith and follow his own bent The Rev. Dr. Grant doesn’t scem to be a man of that stamp. Still cling- ing to his clerical character, he sets himself up to deny many of the things which he had solemnly sworn and pledged to uphold. Why doesn't he get out and stand upon his own footing, not attempt to conceal his cloven hoof under the gown which he was once authorized to wear?” “The creedal falth of the Episcopal Church does not depend for its exist- ence upon the adhesion of those ilege boys who may be inclined to re- |gard it as bunk.” is_the reply of the Brooklyn Eagle to Dr. Grant's latest sermon. “Dr. Grant quarrels with it because, In his judgment, it is in- |elastic, ‘becausa it promulgates doc- trines in_which he does not believe. Dr. Grant's disbelief in the creed of the Episcopal Church cannot change that creed. All it does is to make his retention of an Episcopalian rector- ship intolerable to the great mass of devout Epliscopallans who are un- affected by the suggestion of ‘sinister financial powers' or by the alleged re- volt of the Immature gollegian. “Heresy trials are not Interesting to the world.” points out the Philadel- phia Evening Bulletin. “They seldom, if _ever, are profitable to the church: Bishop Manning_challenges, not the clergyman’'s right to liberal .inter- pretation of the creeds and standards of the church, but the good faith and propriety of his course in flatly deny- {ing the doctrines set forth in the lcreeds while continuing to hold his !position and prestige as a preacher of | religious jurisdiction. That puts the issue on iines semewhat differ- ent from those on which such con- troversies ordinarily are argued, as |between orthodoxy and heterodox and instead of a question of heresy. Lropounds a question which is mor understandable to the lay world.” In- dorsing this summing up, the New Haven Journal Courler ‘feels that “having made himself by his own act an outlaw, Dr. Grant's flag becomes automatically the flag of an outla This ia the fact, regardless of whether his intellectual ‘conclusions are sound lor not. As a Christian gentleman he {should seek to relieve his tellows of embarrassment instead of heaping it up. Having taken his own prescrip- tion, e should let the medicine do lts worlk. - I Eighteenth amendment is now called the leak of nations.—Wall Street Journal. Still water runs deep, but the sleuths find it oecasionally.—Roches: ter Herald,