Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ... .February 19, 1983 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compary Business Ofce, 11th St. anc Pennsylvania Ave. w York Office: 150 Naswau 8ty hicago Office: Tower Bullding European Oftice: 16 Regeat St., London, England. Star, with the Sunday morning arrlers within the city Iy only. 43 conts per ta per month. Or- or telaphone Matn ers at the The Evenin edition, fa dellvered &t 60 cents per mont! month; Sundar oolr, 20 ders may be ment Ly ma 5000. " Collcetion ts’ made by car xd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunday..]yr., $8.40; 1 mo,, 70c Dally onl; 6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl; . All Other States. Daily and Sunday..] yr.. $10.00: 1 mo., 85c Daily oni 1 $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday oniy $3.00% 1 mo. e Member of the Associated Press. The Ansociated Press 1 exclusivels entitled | 0 the ‘e for republication of all news dis- ratelies credited to 1t or ot otherwise ais peper and alwo the ldcal special dispatihes hereln are also reserved. e ———— The Station-Capitol Park. Warning hy the Raltimore and Ohfo ,Railroad Company that it Is planning 0 sell property owned by it and now cupied six of the units of the “oject on the sta- ny by to mind the develoy between the station grounds has never Tieen carvied into cffect. When the war oroke wd, mainly cleared of buildings, was available for the emer- seney use to which it was put in the erection of twelve hotel buildings. These were planned as temporary. with the idea that in the course of a few years they would be razed. They were so tardily constructed, however, *hat Wk of the housing conges- tion hitfgton, to meet which nned. had been passed by they were veady for use. been continued vear R the plea are needed. inasmuch as Washington, sandicapped in the war-time by slow building processes, has not vet caught up with its requirements. I half of these buildings ave to he 1ow déstroyed under the mandate of owner the other half might as well go soon. The government is sure not going to continue indefinitel the hotel business. 1t has ntem d such a departu; only went into it as a war emerger in partial recompensc for the large number of housing accommedations that were taken in this city for offic uses. The land Dhetween the Capitol end the station was available and was properly used. % Now it would seem that the time has come to go ahead with the develop ment of this space along the lines of the original project. make of it & continuous park to the northwest corner of the C: grounds. Some of the original tures are still standing, however, and ot all of the condemnations have been effected. At the next session of Con- gress—it is, of couise, too late now to do anything before adjournment—this matter sbowd be chnsideiedl, whatever happens to tae hotels on the Baltimore and Ohio properfy, With a view to an carly clearance of the space and a beginning on its park treatment. ) for ¢ nent a park and the Capitol this time, They have t i never = Law Enforcement. Tresident Harding touchies on une of the weaknesses of the American sys- tem of government in his message to International Rotary when he points out that a primar; of citizenship 16 to co-oper: cutive officers in enforcem “That citizen Wwho regars as a model of the civie propricties, because his present conduct is impeccable, but who does not co-operate with the civil author ties or exert his influence of the hest- possible administration of the laws, greatly overestimates his usefulfiess as a citigen says the President. The admonition has special force at this time of serious concern over wide- spread violation of the laws enacted to enforce the eighteenth amendment to the Constltution for suppression of the liquor traffic. If all citizens who re- zard themselves as “‘models of the clvic proprieties”. would wholcheart- «edly-co-operafe with federal and state ufficers in enforcement of these laws @ speedy end would be made to the carnival of erime which attends the illicit sale of liquor. Failure to extend such co.operation has resulted in a condition which makes all thoughtful men grave and all lovers of their coun- 1y apprehensive. It is impossible for- ever to make fish of one brand of law- lessness and flesh of another, and if violations of the liquor laws are to be ' winked at and regarded as a jest it is to be expectéd that the laws against robbery and @rson end even murder will come into like contempt. Tnternational Rotary is undertaking a much-needed work this week in Dbroadeasting throughout the country mesgages 6n the duties of citizenship. | 1t is to be hoped that these messages will sink home, and that “goed citi- zens” who connivé at lawbreaking will be made to realize’ How incon- sistent their practices are with their professions of goed citizenship. —_—————— Question is ralsed as to whether it 15 polite to exhibit an ancient Egyptian king in a museum. If, as is believed, ‘Tutankhamen is Pharaoh of Bible ré- nown he is not entitled to any especial courtesy even in historical memory, The New York Holocaust. T4tly Sunday morping & great bulid- ing on Wards Island, in the Eagt Fiver, New York, burned, the fifé starting, it is ‘believed, through deérangement of ele¢tric wiring from a heavy blast set off in ‘the course of nearby dredging operations. This buflding, more than fifty yegrs old, was the home: of over 1,600 insaps pereons, rmany of them confined there -under court sentences as criminals. Herolc work by attend- nts effectéd the escape of most of these inmates, but twenty-two of them 4pd thres of the attendants wers lost. Now comes the usual investigation. are! times. dondetmned aa UnMALe and unswitable: for ts use. ‘The frefight- they ey | and | It is designed to | pitol | in behalf { Ing equipment on. the premises was wholly {nadequate. Even the city fire Gepartment was handicapped by. rea- son of the fact that the nearest water attachment was 1,500 feet from the structure. The barred rooms of the inmates were locked and the passage- ways were tortuous and narrow. The building was a congeries of additions, with different levels, difficult of uccess in all ‘parts at best and in-conditions of a fire desperately hard to traverse. Parsimony on the part of the city government is immediately blamed for this condition resulting in the tragedy. Of course, it is posaible that, even with the' best of equipment, in @& modern fireproof building some fatalities would have occurred in such circumstances. Insane people are hard to manage in the best of conditions, and are apt to be utterly ungovernable in the stress of a fire or other excitement. It is really remarkable that so many out of the 1600 were herded to safety. Still, the fact stands that an cbsolete structure was permitted to remain in i service, with such poor facilities for the fighting of fire. Somebody will doubtless be blamed for this, perhaps somebody long sinco out of office, or maybe somebody now in authority, perhaps a number of peo- ple, with a wide distribution of blame. Municlpal adminlstration leaves a wide margin for the distribution of responsibility for lacks and neglects. During the recent political campaign much stress was laid by Gov. Smith upon this matter of the proper care of the state's iminal and in- cane. and now he has an opportunity to apply rrective ef deavor to root out aii the dangerous | conditions and start the process of their cure. But nothing he or any other official can do will restore the lives that were sacrificed Sunday morning. ————— Breaking the Boycott. The French in the Ruhr have re- cently been faced with a boycott that has been decldedly annoying and handicapping. Troops and officials in occupation have béen refused service in stores and hotels. The people have by a private understanding been mak: ing the lives of the { tors rather miserable. But the Freneh are not enduringly patient. They want what they want when they want it. So they have set out to break the boy- i cott, and have adopted direct methods. This is their plan: A group of soldiers will drive up in front of a shop in a | motor car; two of them will go in 1d ask for shoe laces, or some other rticle i¥ refused: the proprietor of the shop, and perhaps his assist- ants as well arrested and taken cut to the waiting motor, which is driven along to the next place, and | there the process Is repeated; after two three of these visitations, with the wotor load of “arrest éasing, the shopkeepers, who through the win- | dows see the evidences of the preced- {ing action, become obliging and the { purchasers are served. The boycott, it is reported. has thus {been broken. The French are no himself to a o it plied. Of coursc. the Germans are not yielding pleasantly. They are growling deeply. But as between mak- {ing a sale and going to jail they are { chwosing the former. " This whole situation in the Ruhr is a test of patience. The two national { temperaments are in conflict, and the question is which will yield. The French are not getting much coal, and y save for the fines they have collected {—an enormous sum in marks but ! uetting but little in real cash—no ad- {ditions to the reparations i But tighter and { being applied. Who can foreteil the {end? Which of these two contending sitions will break firt? 3 —_——— Cincinnati city officers are using captured bootleg " liquor to prevent automobiles from freezing up. This practice, by slightly reducing the wood alcohol menace, may have the effect of giving undue encouragement to peo- ple who surreptitiously tap the radiator. —————————— The Hotel Crillon at Parls request- ed Tsadora Duncan to move. though content to present a bill for damages to occupants connected with the treaty conference. Paris, though highly ar- tistie, does not accord a dancer as much courtesy. as a diplomatist. ——————————— Occasional strect: fights between French and German soldiers in Gel- ! senkirchen are not remarkable. A phy- sical cncounter between a Frenchman and a German is liable to occur on slight provocation almost anywhere. —————— No great acclaim was given the sol- diers on -their arrival here from the Rhine. The American public is appre- ciative, though not always demonstra- tive. { | —_————— Eminent men continue to found 1i- braries in spite of the number, of peo- ple who, when looking for ideas, pre- | fer ‘phonographs, films and radio to books. ————————— The Humanities. The thought will come to many readers that the publicity which has been given to the American travels. of Sir Frederic Kenyon and his enter- tainment by the American Classical League may serve as a fillip to the humanities in America. “Humanities™ is a word which people do not often use now. Though it meant “learning™ in general, it came to be especially applied, during the revival of learning in the middle ages, to the’ study of Latin; Greek and Hebrew lettérs and literaturé. A scholar wlio was distin. guished in thése Branches or in Greek and latin was often calied & “hu- manist.” g Wide attention has been given to Sir Frederic in the United States, and though he 18 a man 6f many literary achievements it is for his Scholarship and classical learning that he is so much esteemed by e certain element of our people. It is classical scholas ship which has rendered his literary achievements possible. It is not com- mon in the world of our time to pay marked honor to a scholar.. We are more in' the Nabit of expending ap- plause’ on “champlons” and “heroes.” Champions ih bage beil, foot ball and basket ball, and epsed - mervels in aviation, running and fn skating more unwelcome visi- | longer denied goods or services in the | towns where this process has been ap- | account. | iter the screws are | engage the gefiéral ufténtion than do champlons in scholarship. i The old humanities seem to count for very little. Even leafned men dis | pute as to whether the study of Latin is worth while in our colleges. The negative side of this dispute seems to base its argument not on the ground that 2 knowledge of Latin is not use- ful and otherwise’desirable, but on the ground that the study of Latimoas followed in American schools and cql- leges, so rarely leads to a true and appreclative knowlcdge of the lan- guage. . BY' FREQERIC Tt 1s not often in midterm that & President is enabled to shake many plums from the patronage tree as Mr. Harding shortly will. shower upon the faithful. This is Yncom- plete st of the fruit for which many hands are reaching: 1 ccrétaryship of the Interiof. Directorship of Veterans' Bureau. Governorship of Ports Rico. - Ambagsadorship to Japan. Ambassadorship to Peru. Ambassadorship to Turkey. Ambassadorship to Mexico. Ambassadorship to Russia: Ministership to Netherlande. Ministership to Greece. Several new federal judgeships. Chatrmanship of Shipping Board (in June). : The ambassadorial posts in Turkey., Mexico and Russia will not be filled until we resume diplomatic relations with those dountries, but thic Barkis are already o the fleld. ¥ ok ok % Transatlantic steamship lines report; that prospects of war in Europé are signally failing to discourage the American globe-trotting community from its customary summer exodus. Accommodations on the seven popular cablh ' steamers are already fully taken for the “peak” months of May, June and July eastbound and from August 15 to October 30 westhound The passport division of the State D tment-—one of Uncie Sam's revenue producers- bo deluged with tourist credents 137,551 passports was senting an income of § fees collacted by consila throiighout the world. passport rev- enue is endugh practically to cover tha cost of the United Statés foreign service 3 3 Traffic Reform Recommendations. Some reform in the Washington traffic situation ought to come from the recommendations of the public order committee of the Washington Board of Trade. The recommendations are numerous, cover a wide range, strike the trafo situation at many angles and have the backing of pub- lic- opihion. Among the recommenda- tions aro sixty-minute parking in con- gested sections of the elty, establish. ment of more one-way streets, widen- ing streets whera permissible, narrow roadways around circles, strict exam- ination for applicants for license, designation of points at which pede: trians shall cross streets and many others. Though numerous and sub- stantial, there is nothing revolution. ary in the recommendations, and some of them hold out the promise of re- ducing the dangers of the streets. One of the things the committee did not | recommend is that the District govern- ment devise and attach to every car, operating in the city a lock or device | which will make it impossible for that car to run faster than the speed limit fixed by law. ——————————— No cabinet -officer has ever retired in a more cheerful frame of mind than Secretary Fall. His conteniplation of the past is free from resentments and his outlook on the future confidently hopeful. It is not necessary, though at times it has appeared almost cus- tomary, for a cabinet resignation to be accompanied by intimations of dis- cord and disintegration. ———— European statesmen will add in- terest to future history if they succced in establishing the non-collectible debt as a regular incident of international relationships. * ok ok Immigrant-hungry Canada is about to organize a rald on fhe 'Unfted States for settlers. Under the aue- pices of the newly organized Cana- dian National Rallways system, a drive is to be conducted at western border points, adjacent to the fron tiers of British Columbia. Some of inducements formerly offered to pective settlers from our north- ates arc to be renewed ist of free land-grants, re- passenger fares and rebated freight charges on household equip- ment and agricultural implements. Winnipeg is the tenter from which the siren call to Yankee farmers will be sent up. o ¥ Writes a student of these observa- ons? 'As a reader of your column, and one’ who enjovs it greatly, 1 would suggest that the story about Washington social leader who told a | genorita from Brazi] that she under- ood only two words of the latter's ‘Spanish language.’ funny .as it is —_——— { The fact that she feit under obliga- tion to lend money to Poland is likely to leave France more earnest than ever in the conviction that Germany must pay promp ———— Prince Cetewuyo of Zululand is can- didly shocked by what he regards as laxity of morals in this country. There may be some effort at reciprocity in missionary work. ———— | 1t there should be a motien picture | censorship there should also be a news censorship applying to sensational in- cidents in the personal lives of film stars. There was a time—during an entire legislative sesslon—when Repre- sentative Patrick H. Kelley of Mich- igan, who will leave Congress on March 4, after. ten ] years of continu- ous and conspicu- ous service, occu- piad In real life the hero role so often essayed iff political dramas on the stage and silver screen. When he was lleutenant gov - ernor of the state of Michigan in 1907, by virtue of his office he was called upon to preside over the senate, which was composed of thirty- two members. A bitter anti-administration fight had develbped and tNe senate was fray anew, evenly split—sixteen stdunch for the We never grab an enemy refractory | administration, as personified {n Gov. And serve him in a banquet or a | Fred M. Warner, the present national stew. committeeman, and sisteen as staunchly antagonistic. Theae latter were called “Boxers” and that has since been known as “the Boxer ses- ston.” —_——— Attributing “black hand™ letters to jokers serves to encourage a tendenay in England to disparage American huntor. 'SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER -'0“\'50‘\. i i { { No Cannibalism! We must admit it fréquently surprises us When traits of human cruelty in- trude; When the social system which now eivili us Permits us to revert to customs crude. at least. we've this reflection satisfactory: . Though men may gdther for the } Patrick H. Xaller. But, i 1 Though we shoot each other up with- out timidity, Or start a conflagration in a town, We never stand with undisguised| GOv. Warner was trying to put avidity through a comprehensive taxation Until some former foeman is done |5YyStem. This meant placing the tele- brown. phone and telegraph and express com- Though fr i panies and Gther public service cor- usch;rm-‘fcmy e fail in proper | o tons on an ad valorem basis for the purposes of taxation. iz ;::f“m suggestions We 19| "y 1meant millions in taxation for We sometimes treat a victim with |[N® State If the measure went through. The corporations fought hard and the bacatity, oxers” in the senate tried every But we never eat him fried or|imaginable- tactlc - ts Block leglsla- SO, tion. There Was-&n even'aplit and Kelley had the déciding vote. 'All sorts of overtures were made to Kelley; influence and suasion of every kind was exerted. He could have quit haven’t had e l { A-man may be a Caesar ora Hannibal, Decimating human kind without re. morse. 4 But for centuri¢s we cannibal - Or a general who would even eat & horse. - S0 when we make & study that's 6om- |, o o ool g parsttee ? May 1, theough the courtesy of The Of primal practice with the modern | giar, personally express my slncere way, appreciation of the high standard ‘We admit, at the conclusion of theupheld by the exhibition of the So- ‘ narrative, clety off Washington Artists now on The world is getting better every|display in the Corcoran Gallery of day!" Art? - There is no l6velier canvas than A Moment of Relief. the ofl painting by G. Wilmer Gitten, “You seemed to welcome that book | “Gwynns Fall# Purk, Winter.” The agent, even though he waen't & con- | sllent- meadow stréam of blue-green stituent.” coloring, flecked . with Ice, flows “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “it | dreamily on its wAy down to sea. wes a.pleasure to see & man who Snow and frost make a shining wanted to sell me something instead armor for the eafth, while the trees of wanting me to get him something,” | !ift their brown trunks and leafless boughs from the white blanket and Jud Tunkins says the ordinary man | thrust them shivering to the cold 1isténs to a classical conoért same he | Ki#8 Of the winter sun. Hovering does to a lecture by his wife. He over all are the violet-Blue shadows knows it's improving him whether he | °F. appréaching dusk resting like a enjoys it or not: & benediction on this magloally beau- FRT tiful scene of winter. '+ . Musings of & Motor Cop. No limousine appeals to e, “Spring Snow®” by Frank Swift Chase, is another painting of winter, Though handsomély they trim it. A motor cop I'd rather be in which, ‘fathér remirkably, the And never mind the ltmit. e snow can be -felt. You sense its warmth—and #ts cold—the delicacy of Pretty As 8 Picture, “He said you are pretty as e pio- it==and its hardness. The particles ture. that may b driven like needles into your skin by & blustering north wind “A @oubtful compliment,” rc-pued Miss Cayenne. “Have you noticed can also fall on you as gently as a feathered mantle. This snow—real some of the faces on the magazine covers?” snow—is pictured here, mantling the trees and the earth below. g ‘An. Autumn Afternoon,” by Allen D. Cochran, is quite another type.of scene, pictyring radiant October days that h&t’n one t6 coms tor 4" tramp in’the woeds, ‘Out thets in the wild sweet hush of naturs, under thé blue “A man @at keeDs remindin’ any- body dat dey ‘'owes him gratitude,” said Unele Eben, “in Hable o be dout. ds -pépular -« -an installment ool lector. o big | the | An Evenly Divided Senate in Michigan Made Lieutenant Governor Boss of State - WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WiLS. | Would have Been still ‘Bettsr if you'd Galled attention_ to _the fact that Spanish happens not to be the lan- Euage of Brazil, Portuguese ia ppo- ken In Rrasll. Also, it is not correct to speak of the ‘language of Latin Amerlca’ One should say ‘tha ‘lan guages’ of latin America, which re- minds me that the pan-American conference probably will be trilin- gual, not merely bilingual. T wonder if you ever heard of the American advertising agency. that spent thousands of dollars in an fm- pr ve series of handsomely illus trated booklets for a publicity cam- paign in Brazil. in Spanish, and then, when the agen- oy's principals learned that Brasilians speak Portuguese, the tire work had to be done, over again. LI Somebody page “Jim* Reed. Sup- posodly Incorruptible senators of the United States, in charge of cater- Ing arrangements in the Senate res- taurant, have obvlously gone over to the perfidious British. When there's a particularly exalted company at luncheon or dinner in the section of the Senate cafe reserved for members and their friends, and clgars are passed, the piece do resistance turns | out to be fragrant panatel as “Lords of England.” Ive box that contains ,them—most heinous cut of all embellished with a chromo of the house of lorda in august sescion. Reed is sure to fwant to know whether there's any [ wish-father-to-the-thotight &tuff here « x % No delightful literature crept into the Congressional Record for many a day than the cimarks” {of Harry B. Hawes, represcntative from St Louis, delivered in the House on February 3. At the request of dog-lovers the speech is -being given natfon-wide circulation in re- prints. - Its purpose is to Induce the Department of Agriculture to isue bulleting of interest to men, women and children who keep dogs. Here are ome of Mr. Hawes' typical and elo- quent tributes to the dog: - “His story runs back to prehistoric times. He was used as a @acrifice upon the altar of pagan gods. His place In history, art, fiction and poetry ranks second only to man. Next to man, he ranks highest in in telligence, being =usceptible to all human passions—hatred, love, - fear, hope, joy, distress, courage, timidit and ‘Jealousy. Man requires servic from ‘all animals, but only from this one receives friendship. He ‘is the only animal that eats all of man's food, flesh and vegetable. He s the delight of the poor man's hovel and the rich man's mansion. He faith- fully follows his master who tramps the dusty roamdside and sits proudly upon the cushioned seat of the mil- lonatre's de luxe machine. But he knows the just from the unjust; the kind from the unkind; the charitable from the uncharitable: the true from the false; the man from, the hypo- crite.” known The impress.- (Copyright, 1923.) that session a rich man. if he had only satd the word, instead of contin- uing to be the poor man he is today, p about to quit Congress. He voted for the Warner taxation progcauy and i¢ ‘Went through and the state of MiéH- igan got the millions in- txgation on the ad valorem basis. % On other important measures ales’ the “Boxer session” split—such as on the direct primaries law ‘dnd the railroad two-cent fare law—and Kelley's vote is responsible more than any- thing else for the primaries laws of Michigan today 5 All this was emphasized by Repre- sentative Louis C, Cramton, a close personal and political friend of the then Gov. Warner, who told his col- league in Congrees the other day ail about Kelley’s unbuyableness, saying: Never did organized special inter- ests and forces of reactionaryism contest more vigorously or more bit- terly progress in legislation than did those elements contest that program. The state senate was evenly divided. sixteen with Gov. Warner for the pro- gram and sisteen definitely organized in opposition. Kelley was the pre- siding officer and it was then T first learned that his engaging smile and his bit of blarney were but exterior decorations, in no way detracting from the courage with which he held the course his conscience and his judgment dictated. He demonstrated a rigld backbone. Presiding always with fairness, but sustalning the cause of progress, he made possible the success of the legislative pro- gram, and it iy interesting to know that he held the admiration and af- fection of the one sixteen equally with the other.” When the old-time politicians in Micliigan gather and there is any reference to some one having gotten | rich out of politics—with this record in mind—some one Is suré to sarcas- tically remark, “Like Kelley a1d.” Praises Exhibition of Washington Artists. symphony of the wind singing through the trees, all the weariness of life dissolves and slips away ke a dis- carded mantle. It is a beautiful painting. 3 The paintings by liattie B. Bur- dette are joyous, fragrant creatlons. Bach one is lovely. “Péonies” n pastel shades, in a vase of dull blu coloring against & backgrouad of deep golden brown, is extremely beautiful. Each petal is perfeot. The fragrant perfume that i the peonies alons seems to float like incense from the great white heart of the blossoms. “Roses and a Tea Jar” and “White Iris,” by the same artist, are other pleasure-giving gems of this collection, “Morning Mist,” upper Potomac, most restful in it8 appeal, as i8 also “November Hills.” Both are the work of Benson B. Moore. There are many fiofe canvases in this exhibit that are more than wotrth Among them are “Tran- Alfred Hutty: “California by Lilla Tuckerman, and 86n * By Lotna M. Kepe HHT"' It 18 a répresentative ex. hibit And one that should bé visited. The t-rtg. watér colors by Marius Hubért Ro "&‘ splayed oa the south walls of the downstairs gallery, ars all lovely beyond umn{. Horie ate briliiant and vivid in coloting—others wre @0 shaded and gemtle in tone that if you would express theit mood In sound the soun be a sigh ming bits of sentime tund of an old-fashion- “forgotten ropped from a summer day. A palnting of rare distiffetion in this collectipn is the “Villa Ds stately, inipressive work,: With lowinghsaler and artistic’ treatment, far sl ‘the sifcérest effort of pen to dévaribe. There are certain ar‘n that retuse t is They were printedsthe roads were crowded with traffic. has ste.” This | Defends Deaf Driver More Cautious Thin Other, Says One of Expérience on Teip. To the Mitor of The Bta: 4 I riting to champlion the course of :%e“ in their effort to Seeurs Mo tEH Ot the tratls ruld pro- hibiting the granting of perinits to deaf drivers of automobiles. From personal knowledge T know that deaf people are more efficlent automobile drivers than many hearing persons. iMy brother-in-law, Willlam C. Rit- ter, 8 the superintendent of Virginia. State Bchool, at Newport News, Va., and I have ridden with him driving all over the Virginia peninsula when He could pick his way, through the trafiic as well as the ayerage drivers {and much better than.many hearing jdrivers. One reason why a deaf per- j#on Is more efficlent in some things thun u hearing person ls that their| Glher senses become more acute, dnd | thelr attention s not drawn frow itheir work by unusual sounds; their | whole mind is centered an their work, |#nd naturally in automobile driving their entire attention 15 on the road and the work of driving the car, and that is “why eo few accidents are argeable to deaf persons. I belleve that the traffic of the District of Columbia will not be af- fected one iota by giving to the deaf { thelr desired drivers’ permits. It places {them at a disadvantage, and surely ithey are less likely to cause an ac- dent than careless or inefficient drivers, and especially drivers who indulge in and “booze.” R MECH 'Suggests Probation ; For D. C. Auto Drivers| 1 { To the Editor of The Star: ’ Permit one who has operated auto: mobliles continuously and safely since 1909 to submit for publication a fow suggestions on the traffic subject. My speed limit has always béen twelve miles per hour. It has enabled me to avold running down a number of pedestrians who had suddenly stepped from the sidewalk. Previous to the world war tho spegd limit. was twelve miles, and any one runnitig a |car at eighteen miles per hour at that | time would have been liable to arrest for reckless speeding. e If eighteen miles an hour was reck- {lcss when the speed limit was twcive, |it is equally reekless now, though | permitted by law. Automoblle laws are made by those |who can operate automobiles safely {8t a spced of eighteen miles an hour. {12 the speed limit was made by. these | who do not have cars, the limit of running would probably be six miles per hour, the rate of speed: that horse- drawn vehicles 'jogged’ along, con- tentedly before the advent of the au- tomoblle. | it requires an expert driver to run jan automablle at elghteon miles an hour. Yet, & person buys a car, takes {a few lessons jn its operation and 18 i permitted. to- take all the chances of {an expert. When a person applies {for his first permit to operate a car |he should be placed in a probation iclass, with.a reduced speed limit, this {to be rccorded .on his permit. Many (accidents oceur at intersecting {streets. "A- mgotorist approaching an | intersecting street should first look {to the left, and when he sees no car approaching.from that direction, look L6 the right. If’'he is running at a {sate speed ho ca stop his car In time cent a cellision. $e Py 1°1%0-& HopGsoN. Quesjigns the Policy of the Bamfl of Guardians ‘To the Editor of The Star: Why are children taken away from their mothers on the ground that | these mothers are too poor to care for them, then given to strangers to whom a good sum is paid for thelr board? Would not any sane person eay that the poor mother should be paid he board and allowed to retain her own child in its own home, instead of a stranger acting in the mother's place? And, to make things warse, these same strangers not only get {paid for the care of these helpless, | motherless children, but in most | cases they work them at an adult's job, getting money for the children on whose earnings they are living. This condition is a disgrace worse than that which stirred England by the publication of “Oliver Twist.” Let the women's clubs of this city take the matter up. Let every church organization look -into this state of outrageous affairs. The idea of tak- ing tiny children from a poor mother and instead of giving her the money for caring for them (o turn that {money over to a stranger for their care is an idea so wild and unreason- able and unkind as to be almost in- sredible. MRS. T. J. EMMONS. i A Prince and a Soldier To the Editor of The Star: A paragraph appeared the other day i { i | i {in The Star, with what a deep far- {reaching meaning, -headed: “The| | Prince of Wales Kistes the Face of a_Poor Shattered Soldler.” Thero is| nothing that the prince could possibly { have done 1h any way finer to show the soldier who had fought for his coun- try, his king, bis common humanity with him, -his. kinship in suffering with him, actually a part of him, that he weas not ‘suffering alone, showing him his soul In loving sympathy, through the medium:o6f the human toich given to uk. to révéal our souls. Ofce wheh I wWAs & ydung girl, in the héyday df ¥6uth -and health, with rosy cheéks and bright eyes, I was takeh 0. Zee a.podh 0ld woman in the slums. She ‘was very old, very poon and ‘djsfgured froi fliness and wa#' a¥ing.* She_was very dirty and lonely, Bt my ‘Neert ached for her, and- I- trled t0 83y some comforting things to her, but found she did not hear. or. undérstand—then all of a sudden—I_ Rnow not how, I stooped down and- kisfed her good-bye—I havé never forgotten the beautiful light that came on. her facd ab I did so. It was an impulse from the heart. The actlon of the prince was an impulse from the heart. These im- pulses come from deep down: in the #oul, are Uod-glven, and afé'of the noblest that s in us—the Ged that is in u it was hortibly hard for the prince friot becau#e hé was a prince, ‘but beocause he was & loving man). to view the sad wreck of the soldier, but he felt If the soldier could fight and Lsuffer and be Shattered for his coun- try, how ¢ould\li¢, the xrlacr, shrink from locking 6 him? And he looked with infinite love snd plty. and stooped down and kidsed him for Cheist. : Many incidents of a 1iKe loying nhture hAppen all tie time. Let them be wh to eomtort us'in o Wworld full ‘ef ‘welt-geeking: and mean- ness. Let us lw%‘) on such ennobling {deeds. They will-heip -to clieer and | encourage. \Mb, ;??h slu.-wl » llhe God in.humagl 6 world will never e h‘:‘! ‘u‘“:.‘lnuch lové Is' i ‘the OShan Taoen o U As Cap! 1 {ish,” Faic CAPITAL KEYNOTE BY PAUL V. COLLINS. /.Benator Borah vas one of the Ir- Tecdpcllables, i opposition to the league of nations. He now goes the league one better by proposing to “outlaw “nr.”‘ Some woman formed an organlzation, recently, to be de- voted to the same noble cause, It is not inferred that the doughty sena- tof from Idaho has joined that asso- {ctation, but his course in taking the samo feminine stand is little short of matvalous, g * k% % The Borah plan will set up a course of education of statesmen of all na- tions s a condition precedent. Each nation ill _be encoutaged, by eol- emn agreement or treaty, to indict and punish fts own International war Breeders or instigators, and war prof- ftecrs.” . - . That i a great step toward peace. Tatig the meii who advocate tearing up “seraps of pape Hang the head-hiaters and the arrow polgons ersmnd the kaisersand jingoes. Some- body might get g0 much momentum in this hanging business that they would hang the whole Congress. Re- member the French Directorate, might be that, in order to &top war, it would be necessary to hang, draw and quarter all the patri- otlc editors who write that their only regret is that they “have but one life to give for their country.” But we must have peace and we'll be hanged if we agree to have it through any league of nations or anything less drastic than a guillotine. We will therefore proceed to “indict and pur not the slackers, not the Berg but the t liber orators of to tatters e at a th may live, the Scr us the, price—a’ Borah peace! S Oh, we &ne the tear the g pes 1t is not inscharacter to conceive the pugnacious Senator Borah lying down for some kaiser to assault and batter him, Surely “much learning hath made him mad:” Not thus has he argued in the past. As Wwe have sat in the gallery and listened -to his feroclous oratory, -moting his lecnine head and the “fiash of his eyes, it has been terriblel & would fain " cry out, “Shake not- thy gory locks at me!” o But now, in place of &n Army-— a Navy—a' mighty_ flock of batile- planes—he would ery: ‘Help, Herg- tius, or T sink! Cail thé police! A rest the aggressor and Bwear out warrant ia the court of some jusgide of the peace A His resolution proposes:to set up a court of international’ justice of the peace. There is aiready one at The Hague, but Mr. ‘Borah wants a Hague and Hague, despite the eigh- teenth amendment. He did not like “Wilson—that's all” He thirsts for genuine Hague and Hague. This s to be a supréme.court of. international justice and- equity—a court, perhaps, without a balliff. “*Oyez! Oyez! Qvez!" .Who will cry the ~ “Oye: Who whl. serve. 4ng aubpoenas? Who will rap: for order? Who will execute judgment? What Bood s & Qudgmeit and mentenco without “ah ‘executioner? “Think of a scrap of gilt-edged and perfumed and beribboned paper, issued from such a court, upon the kaiser when at the head of an army- whose front was hid in Belgian mists. of the whose rear disappeared in the clbuds of a Russian sunrise he waa lost in rapture of ‘“der tag"! How futile! How feminine! How puerile! 3 * ¥ x % fhis Boracic International court is to “decide ail purely International cdntroversies, as defined by the code, or arising under treatles, and to have the same power for the enforcement of its decrees @s our federal Supreme Court; namely, the respect of all en- lightened nations for judgments rest- ing upon open and fair investizations and impartial decisions, and compel- ling power of enlightened public t \ n who volunteer to| apostrophize | west _and opinigh "It fsefbes may he 1 “open’covenants, openly arrived at.’| Mr. Bogah nei, et dise invention; bus it speiiks for are now living in advanced [the ‘millennium. All publi jagrecs that to PPy Wi | ®ood. We must let justice r {hearts, and honor guide our and the golden rule control relations with our neighbors, lo and internatjonal. Selfishness fe 1 Cupldity is outlawed. *Thou shalt covel,” fs the first Mhought of he unspeakable Turk and Love thy " melghbor s sell” is the actuating rule of our c, duct, just as “Rob thy nelghbor b, [ fore’he fleeces you” is the passion « our enemy. 9 . All history tells us that we Ame cans haye never overrcached, but t others have tried to overre and when they were caught always quoted the, pl juanism: “We've just 1V re said to be @ { mighty dollar—*Mdlio I but not ane cent to pay 1 |in a court without power to c1 { dustice.” : nator Borah declares that “A !alliances, leagues or plans which rely upon force as the ultimate power foy the enforcement of peace carry tig seeds elther of their own destructioh or of military dominancy, to the uttes subversion of liberty and justice” I that 50? There was Yorktown. for example. It ic mupposed that G i Washington "used some force ther€ land the “seed” which he was that from which L | loftiest Jiberty puie v wl "O1d Glore,” the) has ¢ abové : pigm: it forep, : VST tox, and that s the that inspipad 0L word oration that dvgr came from 1 lips of mans, “Let us have peace > % oxx THE. Bénator“rediparés his inter: tional courfiwith otdr Zederal Suprani Court, .and_thygligh hé' is learned it the law, he forgets that back of every ediet of our Suprémé Court thers i Yorce. Tt does not preach; it corr: mands., 1te decrees are given to ith eourt officers; and- through them fo thousands of United. State« marshals. and: back 6f those marclals is the entire United Etates‘Army, to enforcs ge coyrt deerees with force—ail the ree that fb necessary to commanf | I YéBpett And obediénee. Will Benator Bomb's international sutt not-have its-frdrshale? Wil of haye nohe ef the Prectige of powe theitig “found .onlyiwhere power te makeits ‘comimands .obeyed . ingly—by WHifu] vielators of law 2. Then fie open such a moc 1 ! It is, indeed, a delusion t | is Worthy only of Hague and Hagug —né matter how we spell the Haig . Fia | 1f the court is to have power—af {army—how will -thet-courr army bE | supplied? By the nations, of coursd A league by_any other name will hé {a’1eague ‘still. We would not ente {into the arguments pro and con re. garding a leagtic of na \the Senaenf's gwn are in the ( 410i8and 191 arm{ bs | justice? Has ever doma mor |1 vield to the ser ong speeches: Yesg "t] tor from Idahe | Which fs worse for ol | munfty—intoxicating liquor ot vace { nation? Chile requires that @il for- | eigners entering her boundaries muc | be vaccinated. Secretary of Stute Hughes and a commission of genator are about to go to Chile to att an International confereirce, and thé word came that they must be vace nated. Further refie however, convinced the Chilean govérnment that if their diplomats in Americs ate permitted t6 gét—hilarious—and be immune from Volsteadicm, ther our diplomats going to Chile are « titled to get smalipox if that ir custom of their country . 'How the Powers Are Represented at Angor BY LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Although the United States has ac- corded no formal recogmition to Kemal Pasha’s nationallst govern- ment at Angora, Gther than to send unofficial “observdrs’. to meet its representativés at tie con¥erence at Lausanne fof tire purpose-of hears ing its arguments in favor of the re- vision of the treaty of Sevres, yet the American flag ig in evigence at Angora. It files over the rafi¥dag car: riage of Mr. J. Imbrie, the commercial agent of the Washington sdministra- tion, and 'who belongs, & .1 under- stand, to Secretary Hoovet's Deépart~ ment of Commerce, rathiér §han, to the Department of State, This railroad carriage, which has beén f@ months on a siding, is not only tis office of Mr. Imbrie, but also’ his.homé#; and has been fitted up by him with a goga Geul of ingenuity, He 16RkS 4fter the safety and welfare of thé Americans | who visit Angora for the:purpose of curing concessions from the nation- alist government, and Aled affords the protection of the Américsn fRg to the Near East Rellef workers in Ana-: tolia from the United States. - The only other Amerfeéan residents at Angora are Mr. anfl. Mrs. Comp. ton of the Near East Helief Migsior: They are hot able_ to dd much. For there has been a’ véry: pronounced dieposition on the part of th& Turks to identify their -organization with the various socleties in tho United States that are champloning the cause of the Armenians. S * ¥ % ¥ Franee has a Fepresentative of her govarnment permanently established at Angora in the person of Col. Mougin, who has made himself very popular by his charm of manner. He is much liked, but does not carty any particular weight, as tho Turks know that he is completely domi- nated by Kemal, and to such an ex- tent overwhelmed by the importance of the pasha that ho is reported to send a wire to his government in Parls every time that Kemal sneeses Germany has no representative at Angora. But those Qermans who come thers from time to time as visitors are accorded the special privileges in the way of cut rates for hotels, theaters, railroad travel, and even for purchases In tho stores and bazaars. Moscow has -an exceedingly clever diplomatie agent in Nicholas Araloff, perhaps the foremost economist of the Russia of toddy. He has a first secretary called Rosenberg, and one or the other s always haunting elther the tional assembly or the villas o? Kenial and Raouf Pasha It is & question, however, &8 to whether the influence of these Moscew agents is as gréat as thel] seem to warrant. activities would at Afigopa’ appeat come !nmi ‘ot the mationalists fo’have gradually ® conclusidoh that Russ!. friendship is of doubtful value. of . ber prpmises of -material ass tance ' in_the shape of gold and wafsy; suppHes has materialized, and, “moverover, the Turks been taught by the study of the histoty of the- Ottoman -ompire dur. ing the past two hundred years, thal Russla has always béén the princi- pal menacé to the sublime Fe, owing to her openly avowed detér- mh\n!l’l to eventually possess her- gelf _of Constantinople and of the have | Persia has an envoy An ;:gr::.hto?, has Afglanisian, wi ‘entative istinguishes himeel, DY his_undisguised hatred of cvers’ thing English. However, owing to th difficulties ogommuuix:lhon betweok .An‘cga 2ud Peheran on the one hand 2nd With Cabal’at the other, thev a1p out of toueh<With their respectii Bovernmegts,. upable to speak authority ‘fn their: behalf, and u the cireumstarces \not reall: dangerous. 3 Yix . A very.-géneral ‘hnpreesion scenf to prevailv;that 'thé Chamberlain family—that.}s to say;j the family of Austen Chambpftain, ; chancellor of the exeheénuer. in the; Lioyd Georz¢ administratioh—ara people of quite moderls origti Who wire entirely un- knéwn prior ta Austén Chamberlain's father, Josoph Thamberlain, who ag secretary of- state for the colonies, dia much toWard linking thé sarlous Byersda dependencies of ing Yand into The huge federation now known:as {6d B h empire. This impression is all wrong. The Chamberialns were promineut in the éity of Lenddn away back in the relgn of Charles IT, and in the fires half of thé ‘éightecnth century fath and sgh siecceded one another as master of the ancient gulld or Com- bany 6Y Cardwainers. This connection of the faniily with the guild has con- tinued evar wince: The late Jnsfp! Chamberlain’s father was a_membe of the guild, and one of its officers fo thirty-one years, up until he reilreq from business and returncd to his nas tive: ity of Birmingham. Josepd Chamberiain himself—fighting Joe, u% he fsed to be called—was mdmitted to_the Company of Cordwhiners ig 1865, and contihued to, Lelopk to until - his death, consideradly \i two seore years later. Austen Chan berlain naturally is an honored memt ber, and so, also, is. his brother, Nci ville Chamberlain, former mavor Birmingham, and now postmaster & eral in the Bonar Law administrat * ¥ x % Young Lady Clifton, now in he twenty-third year, and a peeress | ‘her own right, who tfas been working on a dally newspaper in. London, haf now abandoned Jjournalism, and i studying for the bar. She is’still uni married — exceedingly good:lookin, ana clever, and is a daughter of th late and seventh Earl of Darnte: When he died fn 1906, his cntailc estates and his éarldom went to hi brother Ivo, the present owner Cobham Hall—Cobham in Kent his_ancient barony. - of Clifton to his only child and datght Blizabeth Bligh, “Who inkeritcd anclent barony of Clifton, of Leigh ton, Bromswoid, of wiich’ she is th deventeenth holdet.. - ¢ She must not bé confounded with her cousin, the divorced wife Of the eldest, son and hejr of presen and §1§bfl: Elrl"nf,an%‘) who |§ known “as/ Lord,_Clif(os, . bord Clifto; who récently &pent some weeks New York and altracted much tentjon by his huge staturc. divorced by his wife In 1913 ne is still known. #is Lady So there are two Lady Cliffons oné the @ivorced wite of Lord Clifto and the other the unmarricd 1 in_her own right, who has just fo saken journalism fér the bar. Sh lives with her .mother, the forme Jamina, Countéss of Darnley, who haj dropper her first husband's title sin her wonk Ladg hib {