Evening Star Newspaper, February 20, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....February 20, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company oo : 1 Chicago Office: Tows B European 0.1‘:‘ 16 Regent St., London, and. The Evening Star, with the Sunday meraiag edition, ta delivered by carriers withia the city 80 r month; daily only, 43 cents y only, 20 cents pei sent Rate by, Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; Daily only. Sunday onl & All Other States. aily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ P 7.00; 1 mo., $0c Daily only.........1¥T., $1. Sunday oniy yr.. $3.00; 1 mo., $5¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled fe the use for republication of all news di tehes credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub. lished ~herein. of publication of e ——m—a The Surplus Amendment. In logical’ sequence to the findings of the joint select committee charged by Congress with the duty of inquir- ing into the ownership of the surplus of District tax revenues lying in the ‘Treasury in default of appropriation, Senator Phipps, chairman of that com- mittee, has introduced in the Senate an amendment to a deficiency bill, the purpose of which is to carry into the law the committee's conclusion that this money is a District credit, to the net amount of $4,438,154.92, to be re- sarded as a free surplus and “avail- able for the same purpose and to the same extent as amounts otherwise properly credited to the same general accourt in the Treasury Department.” 'his amendment does not. it will be noted. undertake to spe either ihe purposes for which this sum shall be appropriated as District revenue, or the ratio of District-national pa: ments in its application. It simply writes into the law the fact that the District has to its credit this sum in vonsequence of an excess of income wver expenditure after the deduction of certain items found to be due to the United tes. Acceptance of this amendment should follow as a matter of course. Congress undertook, through the joint select committee, to ascertain the state of the account between the Dis- trict and the general government to 1nake certain first of the ownership of a sum known to be lying unappro- priated in the Treasury, end second ihe equities in it upon full considera- tion of the record since the last “ac- counting,” which took the form of certaln deductions of District money to pay old items held to be chargeable 10 District revenues as a result of the negligence of federal officials in con- ducting these accounts. It is highly desirable that this mat- ter should be closed at the present session. This Congress undertook the research, created the select committee end called for a report by a certain date. That report was filed on time—a voluminous, detailed, carefully con- sidered finding, based upon researches by expert accountants and informa- tion given by representatives of the District, the Treasury and the De- partment of Justice. Tt was as thorough and equitable an inquiry as could possibly be undertaken, and its con- clusion was as sound as could be had. 1t was eminently fair to both sides. The committee pointed out that e further research through examination of all the old records from 1874 to the present time has becomes impossible through the misplacing, possibly the loss, of documents in the custody of the Treasury Department, and recommended the final closing of the account with this specific conclusion— rhat the District bas title to the amount named. Adoption of this amendment, which thus embodies the findings of the Joint select committee, leaves for fu- ture consideration the objects to which this fund shall be applied—whether it shall go to make up the “cash basis” fund to maintain District payments to the joint capital fund at the beginning of the fiscal year, or shall be applied specifically to some particular pur- pose, as the enlargement of the public school system, or the extension of the water supply, or the improvement of the streets and roads of the District. It leaves also to be determined whether ifi full equity the amount thus found to belong to the District shall be extended on the ratio of 50-50, under which it was eccumulated, or under the new ratio of 60-40, which has supervened since its accumula- tion. Opposition 1o this amendment can be based only upon the rejection of the joint committee's findings, The committee's report was signed by all of the Senate members and two of the three House members. It represents a five-to-one majority judgment. No more complets or judicial or equitable inquiry can be conceived than that which has just been concluded. Noth- ing is to be galned by postponement 10 another session in another Congress of this action in finally establishing title to the money now lying in the Treasury in consequence of-a failure of appropriation of District tax money exacted by Congress in the past. ———————— Statements that in twenty years prohibition will be absolutely effectual do not greatly discourage the boot- legger who hopes to retire on & for- tune. —————te—— Hands Off the Ruhr. . Advocates in and out of Congress of American intervention between France and Germany to settle the ‘Ruhr problem perhaps may be en- “lightened by thoughtful consideration of the debate and, vote yesterday in the British house of commons on a proposal for intervention. British par- lismentarians evidently are more able than some of their American co- temporaries to distinguish between ‘wishing a thing might be done and ability to do the thing. The vote came on a liberal amendment to the address from the throne proposing an investi- . mation by the league of nations, with Amerioan coggeration, into Germany's | ! capacity to pay reparations. Appar- ently the sentiment of the house was largely in sympathy with the pro- posal, but the amendment was reject- ed 305 to 196. Rejection was not be- cause members did not wish for some euch authoritative determination of this troublesome question, but because adoption of the amendment weuld have embarrassed the government, been resented by France and would have resulted in no positive benefits. The situation was very much on a par with proposals advénced in Con- gress that this government take the initiative in calling an international economic conference to pass on repa- rations. Everybody would be in favor of such a conference if there was any promise that it would result in a peaceful solution of the problem, but for Congress to declare in favor of such e conference in the face of the informed opposition of the President and his Secretary of State would re- sult only in embarressment and fric- tion, with no compensating benefits. ‘The time may come when there can be a hopeful and helpful offer to in- is- | tervene to settle the reparations tan- + i i gle, and when such @ time does come it may safely be assumed that neither the British government nor the Ameri- can government will hold aloof. Pend- ing coming of that time, the British house of commons has set an example which the American Congress may well follow. This delicate situation is one for foreign offices rather than for perliaments to deal with Teachers’ Bill to Have a Chance. In response to an earnest demand for an opportunity, the House rules committee yesterday decided to re- port to the House a special rule giv- ing time for the consideration of the teachers’ pay bill which, already passed by the Senate, awaits action in the lower house with certain amend- ments approved by the District com- mittee, to which there is virtually no objection. This action is gratefully appreciated as a concession to the District, which has suffered from a geries of disappointments in the allot- ment of time during the closing ses- sion. This bill represents an urgent need. It has the indorsement of public school authorities and of the citizens generally. Yesterday's representation at the Capitol of the local community ‘was largely composed of women who have a direct and intimate concern in the welfare of the school system. They stood for the parents of the capital, ‘whose children are in attendance upon the schools. Not since 1906 have the teachers of the District's schools been given ney salary rating by substaitive legisla- tion. From time to time through ap- propriation bills certain changes have been made in the schedules, but nothing has been done to assure the teaching force a systematic, carefully considered, well balanced pay scale. In the meantime conditions have changed completely and radically. Living costs have advanced greatly. ‘The teachers’ burdens have been in- creased with the steady enlargement of the enrollment of pupils. This pending bill represents & long and careful study of the matter by school authorities and by congres. sional committees. Its passage by the Senate some time ago was regarded as an assurance of final action before adjournment, but delays were en- countered in the House, partly due to the need of certain corrections and changes to effect a more equitable ad- justment, and partly in consequence of the end-of-the-session pressure for attention in behalf of numerous other meritorious measures. For this special dispensation the people of the capital are thankful. The rule will provide “time” in the House for this bill. Its friends are to be re- lied upon to see that it is given the consideration it deserves and the fa- it{ vorable action that its merits demand. Settlement of the differences between the Senate and the House will not be difficult in view of the fact that the pro-{ posed amendments have already been accepted in principle by those in the upper house who fathered the bill. Lend a Hand. The National Capital division of the National Motorists’ Association comes out with the statement that *‘More traffic officers for the District of Colum- bia is an essential to the adequate en- forcement of the traffic laws.” It is true. It is also a truth that every- body recognizes and admits. It is also a truth that has been uttered several times before. Everybody is egreed that the capital needs more police in general, and more traffic police in par- ticular. The main thing is to get them. The motorists’ association, all the motorists’ associations, will lend 2 hand. Everybody should lend a hand. Congress should lend e hand, but Congress is not always a ready and steady hand lender. —————————— The French occupation of the Ruhr hes afforded an interesting combina- tion of coal problems, strike problems, housing problems and unemployment problems all in one spot. ——————— Europe has not been able to devise any system of insurance to take care of collisions between the Poles and the Lithuanians. —————— Political report has it that we are to bave a new Postmaster General, but not a Postmaster General New. —————e The Beavers. It is not believed that the beavers that have made their burrows, dug their subterranean chamber and buiit their dam on Tearcoat run in Hamp- shire county, W. Va., are fugitives from our Zoo. The superintendent of the Zoo says that all the beavers that have been entertained by his institu- tion can be accounted for. Whether these wise little engineers and archi- tects are runaways from a zoo or survivors of the once numerous family of beavers, the people of the District ‘will wish them good luck. The American beaver fell into hard lines because of men's lust for his pelt. Until the coming of the news from Winchester that beavers had been found on Tearcoat run it was belleved, and is so set forth in the Encyclopedia Americana, that wild heavers are not to be found south of| the rivers that flow tnto Hudson bay, of Maine and the Lake Superior re- &lon, where they are more or less pro- tected by law.’ Beavers were once numerous in this region, and the name “Beaverdam" was given to and is still borne by & number of streams near Washington. One of these empties into the Eastern branch. “Beaverdams” were not the only streams on which colonies of beavers lived. They were found on every stream which suited their pur- pose. That stream must pass through woods where the beavers would be close to their supply of bark. The stream must have a bank in which the beaver could cut his bur- row and tunnel to higher ground, where he would excavate his living chamber. He also needed timber and stones for bullding a dam across the stream to keep the water above the entrance to his burrow and also main- tain it at a depth that thick ice would not block his burrow. The fineness of his fur made him a prize for Indian and white hunters and trappers, and an early fashion in men’s hats caused him to be hunted almost to extermi- nation. Men's “beavers” or “beaver hats"— the forerunners of the “silk” hat— ‘were made of beaver skin, and some very old-fashioned men today speak of a silk or “plug” hat as a “beaver.” When all women took to wearing fur the animal passed except in a few places where the protection of the law was thrown about him. Those I stream are under protection of the fish and game commission, and it is hoped that they will enjoy long life and prosperity. Sabotage. A charge of sabotage was made by the general manager of one of Amer- ica's big railroads egainst striking shopmen of the line in a public in- quiry in the statehouse of Connecti- cut. The witness said: “Emery cun- ningly concealed was found by chem- ists in the lubricating oil and the sub- sequent friction ruined the journals of twenty locomotives.” Of course, this witness may be mistaken and it might not have been a case of sabotage by strikers. That is @ mat- ter for the proper authoritigs to pass Icans is that this device of European importation, called sabotage, has found 2 place in the United States. One hears a good deal about this stealthy form of crime and it adds another to the dangers and perplexities that have come upon our people. Of course, it ought to be “stamped out,” but the problem is certain to be a stiff one. Conviction of a guilty man may often prove difficult, but there should be no let-up in legal efforts to “get” men guilty of sabotage, especially that form of sabotage which kills or en- dangers life. It is a foul weapon in industrial war, and men using this weapon, when caught, should be dealt with in @ manner tending to deter others from similar crime. —_———— An interesting experiment is being tried by the French to determine ‘whether military measures will suf- fice to get prompt and reliable service from telephone exchanges. ——————— Bad weather is expected for at least a month. The March 4 blizzard is likely to keep in practice whether there is an inauguration or not. ———— The bootlsgger does not bother to discuss the ariff, but conducts his enterpris: on the principle of free trade. —_————— New dangers have been added in the Ruhr to the already perilous busi- ness of coal mining. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Pharaoh. You cannot cover up the past, No matter how you try it. The real truth comes out at last, ‘When you cannot deny it. Old Pharaoh, with despotic rule, Oppressed his helpless neighbor And kept the children out of school 'To help their parents labor. He thought by his magnificence To smother the sad story And advertise to ages hence His monumental glory. ‘The architects and builders came; The orders were specific 'To poets to preserve his fame In many a hieroglyphic. He sat upon a gilded throne And thought his demonstrations Of ruthless guile would not be known To future generations. But science, with a nerve sublime, Yet heartless as a vandal, From underneath the sands of time 1s digging up the scandal. Feeling the Pulse. “Your constituents are protesting against your announcement that you will retire from public life.” - “I am glad to hear it,” said Senator Sorghum. “That kind of protest was the precise purpose of the announce- ment.’ Jud Tunkins says he never could understand why people can't be artis- tic or athletic and still keep a reason- able amount of clothes on. 1 ! Musings of a Motor Cop. !When sweet Hortense toward me is drawn Her flivver has to slo., I always turn the “Stop” sign on. I hate to see her “Go.” Seeking a Sister. | “If 1 were to propose to you,” said | the ahy, vet calculating youth, “woula metthcuwm-ndm— ise to be a sister to me?” “Why do you ask?"” ‘Because I need some buttons sew- ed on.’ - “De man dat’s forever tellin’ you to forgit your troubles,” said Uncle Eben, “can’t notice dat maybe he's / gittin’ to bo one of "em.* beavers reported in the West Virginia | { on, but an interesting point to Amer- | proportions | | ! i l; WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Recurring rumors of the resign: tion of Harry M. Daugherty as At- tofney General on March ¢ revive the report, current in Washington for some time, that another Ohioan will be his successor. President Harding’s friend, Carmi A. Thompson of Cleve- land, who was da ted for the gov- ernorship of the Buckeye state in No- vember, ix sald to be picked as Daugherty's successor, it there is to be one. There is no particular novelty about associating Thompeon's name ‘with berths for republcan lame ducks, but ‘the story here chronicled has t merit of circulation in our so-called by informed circles. In those omnl: c q! TS on old that it long has been an understood thing, first, t gherty would retire after and, 1dly that Thomp- Masanso Hanihard, the new Japa- n ambassador, slipped quietly into Washington & day or two ago, a companied by his charming consort, Mme. Hanihara. It is expected that he will be given opportunity to pre- sent the mikado's credentials to Pr dent Harding before the presidential party leaves for Florida, Baron Shide- hara, the former Nipponese envoy to the United States, was requir to wait many months before he could assume full ambassadorial status, ow- ing to the iliness of President Wil- son. Hanihara was not on District of upon {can people. It was casting station that o a3 & theme the d of travel still on_ hi pressed joy that h once again s boots, and ex- ‘was but arrived , come and go in -derly succession, ‘though I once threate: 1k " 'The final pa. to Haniha: eloven suc- years as an attache of the Japanese legation and embassy in Washington. Mme. Hanihara never lived here, but sojourned with h husband on American soil while was consul general at San Francisco, EE Toward the end of February an- other weekly periodical will take the fleld. It is called Time. Its purpose 1s to print the history of the world in the form of news summaries, divided into five or six outstanding flelds of human interest. It will not pattern atter_ the Literary Digest and quote the sources of reproduced articles, but boil actual news into compact news, without any at- tempt to supply comment upon It. Time's slogan is “Take it; it's brief." New York will be the place of publi- cation, and a Harvard man, who evolved the idea, will be editpr and publisher. o was a * ok k% Senator Walter E. Edge of New Jersey, who has returned from Eu- rope with his bride to swell the ust | U time itself, to go on | =a | \,:. l “Harding majority” in the Senate on the eve of dissolution of the Sixty- eventh Congress, faces an interesting political situation in his own state of New Jersey. Some of his friendsaver need of repatr, if he is - election in 1984. No misdeeds of his own are alleged against publican party conditions in J rather are held responsible for & sii uation depicted as unfavorable to the g cause. Also his political lieu- tenants, left in charge while the sena- tor. was honeymooning overseas, are accused of bungling and blundert Highway building in Jersey is a para- mount f{ssue, and Edge's rmfinnm- tives, it is said, have been thwarting the highway-reform proj initi- o by Gov. Siiser and generally brought about a do-nothing state of airs in the Trenton legislature. Edge is a resourceful politician, and now that Washington will not en &ross his attention, he may be expect- ed to put his political house in order. the story crops out n will be a rival of reey senatorial nomi- nation next year. * ko X When Edwin Denby, Secretary of the Navy, was a buck private in the marines during the world war, there Wwas a sergeant of marines at the camp where Denby trained who loved at men” and made things easy, now and then, for the husky recruit from Detroit. Denby hankered most for melioration when in recumbent po- tion on the rifle rang Not the Secretary of the Navy he, that his benefactor—now minus arm, lost in action in France—was a ard at one of the ‘“tempo” war in Potomac Park. He sent 1d_friend, offered to better him In rank and income and urged him to speak up if his lot was not to his liking. The sergeant saluted his o! bordinate and sald he was with his present employ- ment. But he's found a buddieamong the higher-ups. ° * ok ok % Leviathan, giantess and pride of the United States Shipping Board fleet, 1s expected to lift anchor in New York harbor for her maiden trai atlantic voyage as a full-fledged American liner on or about July 15, That is the present expectation of Chairman Lasker. but experience has taught him there’s many a slip ‘twixt the cup and the lip—no reference be- ing had, he emphasizes, to a dry mer. chant marine. Probably a distin- gulshed company of government offi will be among the Leviathan passenger list. They will pay their their invitation to participate extending to them merely the prvi- lege of taking part in a journey of Barring a bar, Now and in oceanic luxury and comfort. will be commissioned too late to catch the eastbound tourist traffic, but ought to be a favorite ship for the home-comers in late summer and autumn. (Copyright, 1823.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Criticize Coupling Debt Settlement and Ship Subsidy Legislation. Criticism was voiced in various quarters because President Harding saw fit to couple ship subsidy and debt-refunding legislation in his recent message to Congres: Some editors -believe that this may fn- terfere with action by the Senate, where the usual “end-of-the-session log-jam” now is on. The majority, however, take the view that the President is well within his rights in demanding that the plans be debated on their merits and either approved or killed by vote, not allowed to die because of a legislative maneuver. “It is by no means certain that the proposed terms, if ratified by Con- gress, will stand until the debt is discharged.” the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch (independent) savs. “But the least that Congress can do is prompt- ly and cordially to ratify the plan. The merchant marine problem also is urgent. It presses for a solution. Rejection of the subsidy measure will | ( not be an answer.” The effect of the debt settlement must be far-reaching, the New York Post (independent) feels. | 2 nasmuch as_“if things nominated in the bond are inviolate for the securities held by this country they should hold for other countries.” The Philadelphia Record (democratic) argues that the “President’s insistence on_ the ship subsidy,” in connection with the debt refunding. “cannot condemned as a bit of political trickery. It is to be regretted that Mr. Harding, who is t0o prone to view every question from a political view- point, is not better advised on this very important subject.” This view, however, hardly appeals to the Balti- more News (independent republican), which sees in the presidential appeal the “laying of the ground for the future to free the executive from the unhelpful restrictions in whick the legislative branch has involved our foreign relations.” Indorsing this suggestion the Cleveland Plain Dealer (independent democratic) adds that “introduction of the bonus issue into the discussion would almost certainly lead to prolonged controversy and perhaps failure of the present Con- gress to act on the debt settlement. The thing for Congress to do is to sanction the refunding plan first, then take care of the appropriations and. later, if time permits, think of other legisiation.” ¢ The “ship subsidy suggestion” is the most important of the two subjects, in the view of the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Independent republican), but it belleves that overshadowing it and everything else {s the fact that “at this juncture a republican President, elected by a seven-million majority two years ago, cannot command from a republican Senate a united and firm support on either a domestic or a foreign policy.” In addition, he has, the New York World (democratic) in- sists, “complicated an International question, which he regards as of first rank, with a domestic quarrel. EXAGGERATED NOTIONS OF OUR IMPORTANCE. 1 do pot bellieve that Germany, Eng- land, France or Italy attach very much importance to the United State: They look upon us as new, inexpe- rienced and incompetent to deal with large problems. I rather suspect we have an exaggerated notion of our supposed influence in Europe.—Sena- tor Fletcher, Florida, democrat. WHEN GERMANY WILL PAY. When Germany ‘tunderstands that France is going to stand on and have her rights, Germany will perform her engagement and meet her obligations, ot before.—Senator Fletcher, Flor- ida, democrat. GERMANS NOT CONSCIOUS OF DEFEAT. i The German people look out upon their own coumtry and see it is not arred or hurt materially. They have the impression the conflict was a draw; that there was no victory.— Senator Fletcher, Florida, democrat. PEOPLE CRYING IN DESPAIR. We have passed asnoying laws here out in “For heaven's sake, lve. us a rest!"—Representa- mfl‘l mes, Texas, democrat. e too severely |C! It is gress. until the American people are crying-| despair, unfortunate that Mr. Harding was in- capable of sticking to his text. Why it should ever have occurred to him to couple the British debt settlement with the ship subsidy is one of those administration mysteries that defy all rational solution.” Admitting that ‘at first reading the President’s in- Jection of Seems untimely,” the Norfolk Ledge: Dispatch (independent democratic) suggests that “it is probable the President has been informed and be- lieves that a combination of log-roll- ing and filibustering will be at- tempted,” and so he “has openly placed responsibility where it belongs.” And the oke World-News (Aemo- cratic) is mainly impressed with the fact that “action is the thing now needed. There are arguments for and against both the shipping bill and the debt-funding proposal. But there can be no argument for further procrasti- nation. Everything is to be gained and nothing lost. Also, ‘mere avoid- ance by prolonged debate is’ as the President declared, ‘a mark of im- potence’ on vitally important public Questiona™ There should be no “debate which savors of international bad manners,” the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (demo- cratic) insists, while the Boston Post ndependent democratic) argues ratification without the complica- tion of ‘riders’ or reservations means long step will have been taken toward world normalcy.” In addition the Utica Press (independent repub- lican) holds that the war refunding “in effect is a plight against war and war expenditures, and a rigid ad- herence to that retrenchment which enhances stability precisely as it dis- harges obligations.” The President acted wisely, the Springfield Union (independent) asserts, inasmuch as “this is the kind of talk Congress needs. It is the kind it should have had earlier and often. These two things, of vital importance, age plainly up to Congress, and it whi &o seriously with those who seek to fritter away these last weeks in po. litical flubdub and legislative im- potence.” It is well to remember also, the Lynchburg News (democratic) re. calls, that repayment by foreign gov- ernments would go to reduce the na- tional debt. “On the whole” the Peoria Tran- script (democratic) asserts, “the mes. sago s a reference of widely dis- cussed matters. Congress will die on March 4. Ratification of the debt funding and ship subsidy is wanted; a soldiers’ bonus is not wanted. It's up to Congress.” Which is very much the view of the Cincinnati Commes cial-Tribune (independent can), which feels that “if the oj ponents of the administration pro. gram and the enemies of interna. tional comity are strong enough in numbers and abandoned enough in conviction to reject this settlement let that be made manifest with celerity and certainty. The accept- ance of that which has been properly arranged the President regards as vital for the good of both countries and the cause of world rehabilitatio But he regards decent defeat fi preferable to disgraceful delay. Th. occasion does call for a differen: order of statesmanship than recently has been put on exhibition by Con e t ECHOES FROM CAPITOL HILL WHAT THE BRITISH DID FOR THEIR ALLIES. While we were lending to Great Britain $4,166,000,000, Grfl( Britain was lending to her allies $9,465,000,- 000, or practically two and one-fourth times more than we loaned her.— Senator McCumber, North Dakota, re- publican. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK IF BRITAIN FAILS, If Great Britain becomes a bank- rupt, at any time in our lives, at la';‘n. I say (}Mr nh-va pity upon the Other peoples of the world.—Senator Smoot, Utah, republican. THIEVES IN THE HOUSE? It happened, in the home of my triend the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Jones). I do not believe he is her: Recently durlug the nignt his wite, Mrs. Jones, ered 'to him In e: citement that there were thieves in the- -~ He remonstrated with her and insisted that she ousht ake that kind of a ainst P onas F oL Sone el proportionately, there were more thieves in the Senate than there were in the House.—Representative ws rey, Bi, democrat, % not to the ship subsidy issue m: AT RANDOM BLACK OXEN. By Gertrude Ather- ton. Boni & Liveright. Thirty-0dd years ago Mary Ogden ‘was the belle of New York. Then, like many another before and after her, Mary became expatriste under the persuasiveness of & Kuropean title. For many years after that, In diminishing frequency, rumors of the brilliance and beauty of the Count: Zattiany drifted back to the old, friendly, half-envious New York set. Among the latest of these, however, . {Were vague reports from this one or that who had caught glimpses of the great lady. A hopelessly faded Woman—these would have it—dispir- ited, gone dead—an old woman, if they wanted it just as it was. And 80, e & legend of loveliness and charm, Mary Ogden faded quite Qut of the New York social mfhd. % Then one day the old Ogden house Was, obviously, in the process of wak- ing up, of setting itself smartly to rights, of taking on the air of ex: pectancy and welcome. What was it? Who was coming? Mary? Mary was dead—or something. Didp't they re- member? No, they didn’t, but prob- ably she was dead. A daughter? Mary had no children. But what was that story of trouble—the count's sus- picion and jealousy, Mary's mysteri- ous flight and retirement? No, 8o far 35 folks knew, there was no daughter. Nevertheless, one other day the old house had a mistress. This was & young woman, twenty-eight or there- about—a beautiful, finely competent creature of complete poise and self- sufficlency. There must have been a duughter, for this was the very image of Mary, only riper and richer, and the “0ld guard” of Mary's day rushed to the acceptance and welcome of Marys daughter. Mme. Zattiany she |called herselt in queer and unaccount- able forelgn fashion. * % ok ok In no time at all it was plain that Lee Clavering had gone under before the full-armored loveliness of Mme. Zattiany—Lee Clavering, literary po- tentate of New York and its out- lying neighborhood of the United States as well, and, what is more to the point right here, a dyed-in-the wool. bachelor of contemptuous and cynical unbellet toward the state of love and marriage. * % k¥ All this to set the. situation. Now for the story itself—the romance of Lee Clavering and the somewhat mys- terious Mme. Zattiany making its way in the critical and sophisticated at- mosphere of New York society. Now, E story whose objective Is frustration and defeat is bound to make no end !o! trouble for its writer. A novelist, y what she may to the contrary, s compelled to keep one eye, at least, on the readers. And readers, deny it though they may, still have a warm love for the fairy tale, th PPy - jever-after sort. And this is a story {of defeat. That is why from the very beginning and along every step of the way Mrs. Atherton has to watch out this fact appear too soon, to th discontent of all concerned. _More. over, the misadventure to the ro nce is of so pecullar a nature that only the most gallant of writers could get away with it. Mrs. Ather- ton is all of that. Besides, she has an unassailable knowledge of the hu- man mind, pafticularly as this mani- fests itself in the mental processes of the female of the species under the urge of social autocracy. And, again, she has a wit that bites its way !through the universal human game of soclal make-belleve. A litsle fing of distllusion is a part of this wit. Why not? Any grown person in his senses is pretty well disillusioned. * % % % Do you want to know what that particular misadventure was which stood in between the body of this romance and its conclusion—the con- clusion that sent Mme. Zattiany back to Europe and set Lee Clavering to renewed conquests in his literary work? ~Nothing but a distinct dis- parity in years and on the wrong side of the ledger. Whether in a story or out of it, & young man cannot marry an old woman. 'verything on earth, and in heaven, i{s against it. What are we talking about? Talking about the fact that this was, in ity, Mary Ogden, who thirty-odd years ago was the belle of New York. *x % % And here, at last, we come to the point of the whole matter. For Mrs. Atherton has put over the first ro- mance of the glands. Absurd? Per- fectly. Impossible? Not quite—for she has done it. Yep! Under a “ju dicious use of endocrine extracts” (Dr. Berman) Mary shed her youth. So many are trying it now, you see, that story appears to be but the Mary' artistic literary projection of daily |family. {chickens? {America. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V.°COLLINS. Here is a statistical fact that may touch the consciences of many alover of fried chicken. Shall we not start & drive to lessen the destruction of There are only five chick- ens per man, woman or child in It any reader ate six fried or stewed or baked chickens last year he ate more than his share and should be punished by having his permit to eat chicken suspended. Yet there is hope, for last year 543,- 000,000 chickens were raised upon the farms, as compared with only 510,- 000,000 the year before. Let us set our mark at one fried chicken per oapita each month. crease the fruit, for it will decrease the insects which prey upon the fruit and kitchen gardens. ‘We are surely getting back to chicken normalcy, for in 1920 the average price of & chicken was 86i% cents, in 1921 it was 71 oents and in 1922 65 cents. G. O. P. administration! Our chickens laid golden eggs to the amount of $500,008,000 last year. Count 'em—1,962,366,000 dozen! Why, the chickens alone could dig'a Nica- ragua canal every year and have mii- llons of eggs left. It takes 113,000,000 eggs to serve as seed _for each years new crop Oof chickens. Now that horticulturists have invented seedless apple trees, and there are iceless retrigerators. maybe some wise birdologist will find maké incubators that don’t That will save 113,000,000 Science is making great progress year by year. * x ok Kk Director Smith of the Smithsonian bureau of Investigation of Boston ‘wants to reform criminals with mu- sic. Fine idea! Some music makes criminals—justifies any crime if It will only annihilate the perpetrator of the jazz. Hence, upon the theory of “jumping into the bramble bush to scratch them in‘again,” it sounds plausible that if a record played for- ward on & phonograph incftes to mur- der or counterfeiting or booze drink- ing, then if we play it backward it should have a reverse effect and con- vert the “bad man” of Dead Do gulch into a creature of sweet, an- gelic disposition. Bring on your band, Mr. Smith; we are for music, though some kinds should be pre- scribed by a homeopathist. * % % % The government is denied an archives bullding by the pennywise economy of the log-rollers from Po- dunk Corners, but the Daughters of the American Revolution have erect- ed a magnificent fireproof archives bullding for their invaluable collec- tlon of genealogical and historical dats. It has not been many years since that organization was “patron- izeG” with a smile of condescension by the men who did big things in today it sets the pace for Congre: Government officials recognise its archives as sources of hleonunlon unobtainable anywhere else. * ¥ % ¥ The Department of Agriculture has discovered that the idea that meat is low in vitamins is incorrect. Meat of. cattle, sheep and hogs is found to vary in this energy-giving quality, but all is rich in it. Tests have been made by feeding muscle from differ- ent partd of the earcasses to pigeo: Pork is the richest in itamin Mutton comes next and beef is the lowest. It is the absence of “vitamin B" from polished rice that causes the disease known as beriberi. Amer- icans are eating less beef than their fathers did and more mutton. * % ¥ % It has always been the practice in America to give shelter to persons fleeing from other countries charged with merely political offenses. This custom is interfered with now by our quota law, which refuses admission to immigrants beyond a certain per- That will in-|b centage per month from each nation- ality. ‘here {8 now a Russian colo- nel, formerly a member of the gen- eral staff of 13. csar's army, confined at Ellis Island, with his wife, pend- ing a deoision as to w! er he must returned to Russiz. We do not ize the soviet government as 4 illsed government, but if the ofcer is sent back, upon the strict interpre tation of our law, he-will at once be 8tood before a firing squad and exe- cuted ag & loyal soldier of the im- perial government, therefore a rebel against the Lenin regime. His only offense 1s political. Our immigration law thereby will be the cause of our sending a political refugee to his death, uniess executive interference saves him by admitting him into the 'lr.l:;d of the free and the home of the be re el * ok %k % Thousands of Americans are inter- ested in the project of the Belleau ‘Wood Association to aocquire the memorable battleground in France and erect & suitable memortal thereon. The assocfation needs a na- tional charter from Congress. It has ample funds to buy the 160 acres com- prising the heart of the battleground. Unless this association acquires it the land will be sold to’ an, English corporation, which purposes to con- vert it into an amusement park—a desecration of the spot most sacred to the American victors of the battle. * k% % The alleged.“vellow peril” is again causing nightmares to some patriots. It used to be California that “saw yel- iow,” but now the scare Is that 500,000 Japanese are said to be golng to Bra- zil, where they will increase and mul- tiply, so that by 1937 there will be 1,000,000 there, and by 1950 2,000,000 All that ails that scare is that it ic not so. It is officially denied by the Japanese ambassador that there ix any such a colonization planned Even If it were true there is nothing that our government could do to stop it. Brazil is not under the contro! of America and if it wants Japanese inhabitants it can have them, so far as we are concerned. The Monroe doctrine concerns only the possible acquisition of political power upon this hemisphere by European or Aslatic governments. It does not meddle with domestic policies of other Americans nations regarding their immigration laws. * % ¥ x Thre right of the United States 1o bar Japanese or any other nationality from {mmigrating {nto our country is recognized by the Japanese govern- |ment” as being beyond question. It {does not cast any reflection upon the barred race any more than our gen- eral immigration laws, which vary as to the quota permitted to various Eu- ropean nationalities, can be taken as oftensive to the nations. This country belongs to Americans and the right rests with its owners and occu- pants to decide who may come. One Teason for objecting to Japanese im- migration is that a Japanese never relinquishes his alleglance to Japan even though he may be born in Amer- ica. Other races may become natu- ralized citizens and forswear alle- giance to their native country, but Tot an oriental. We want 100 per cent Americans, though that does not mean the Ku Klux definition, which would 1imit 100 per cent Americans to the native born ** % Chairman Lasker proposes that al! trade with the Philippines shall be carried {n American bottoms in order to add to the business of our ships. That sounds very familiar. George Iil thought of it, too; and If that be treason, President Harding may profit by his example. It has never been the imperial policy of the American government to exploit its colonies for the aggrandizement of special co nental interests. If the scheme is good for the Philippines, why not also for continental America? There are other. interestg to be considered besides -the shipping. (Copyright 1023, P. V. Collins.) Late Student at Madison University Is Direct Descendant of Confucius I.Y LA MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.|a rather majestic presence, the Madison University, Wisconsin, has been harboring among its post-gradu- ate students the most blue-blooded Chinaman who has ever visited Amer- jca; and as he is just leaving for England to visit the British Isles, be- fore returning to his native land, it mouth inclined to laughter and m keeping with a shrewd and chee: eye. Though venerated as a hol: man, he was a very jovial saint, and i popular rumor in his home province of Shantung was to be believed he was extremely fond of the good things of life. He was very rich, since each generation of emperors, Chinese Imay be.as well to explain that thelas weil as Manchu, has lavished gifts student who has gone at Madison University by the name of Mr. Muller L. H. Kung is no other than the - Duke (or Kung) Ling Hsuan, seventy- sixth in unbroken descent in the male line from Confucius and uncle and guardian of the chief of the entire who is still a minor. The records of fact. And for a time Mary |ancestry of the duke now in America played havoc with the heart of youth, An’ audacious bit of literary vaga- bondage, this, that nothing but sheer | Confucius, goes back hundreds of years before to a date twelve centuries gallantry could have achieved. To be |pefore the birth of Christ—that Is to sure, Mrs. Atherton started it with &|say, for more than 3,000 years—d great advantage. She was able to support the adventure with an art that many earlier novels had brought to an excellent pitch of power. Therefore ghe projected the_curious theme by way of a clever social comedy and sustained it throughout by a sound psychology. Indeed,|the story is, in effect, a psychological drama that offers innumerable con crete examples in evidence of th study. * k¥ % ‘Black Oxen” comes with a littje |nomd shock of surprise. theme. Soon there will be others. We were surprised also at the first|casions that the em, or|their mind to eudian | Confuclus as inc Now these are a_common- | ern progress and e And we are, too, importuned |is not the case. contact with the play, or novel, or essay, based on the complex. and a lescent youth. The most of -this is un- [ decreeing the reviv utterably deary stuff. But if the primejobel: and honorable function of the novelist]in al De to reflect any outstanding fact of life [th why, there you are. The war about a tremendous looking |i ourselves—an importunate demand to “Ch know more about life, to hold to it, to |gan its stay its advance. Iiction is, treachi the way, reflecting this ouf ing world. in of I Having chosen to be a pioneer in|fucius, born glandular romance, Mrs. Atherton has | tyranny set a good mark for future followers, And there will be followers. Glands Regulating Porsonality, Dr. ely become a kind of reference thou Heaty for the novellst. . 8o will “0id | Jur,P*o0l® foF Age Deferred, rand, another learned exposition of the|fions are hereby orders of gland potency in human ex- theofy of glan ence. ;:.:ve a rest from Freud and, maybe, from the overdone theme of adoles o 'R e Jours, 1ike ‘great black ezen, ‘tread ‘the | OF DU oF "God,, the berdsmin, goads them on be-|is to say, the father of th Mh&?fid . —W. ‘B. Yeats. 8o, you see, “Black Oxen” is merely the poetic and ‘euphemistic way of i that wo are w! old Py Ayt et Bt ' | somet acumen and completeness of this|MecC® e |other Louls Berman, will more than|8ta 1 readers will thereby | Con l uring ¢ which time his family has been l'l:l &a possession of the property in the province of Shantung which they own to this day. The duke enjoys the profound Vel’t- eration of all his countrymen as de- scendant of Confucius and also_as ardian of the latter's tomb at Ky- Fu. This tomb of Confucius has times een described as the of China. But it is something ‘whereas L(‘e('\n:a t‘t‘trltl,}l! he adherents of Islam, Ky-Fu OnYys men of every creed and de- nation in China, with its teem- pulation of over 400,000,000. more. For, PO The real occasion | fiicre Is no Chinese man of note, be for surprise; however, is that it ap- |his religion wi pears to be the first novel on this |8t hat it may, who has'not some time in his life made his pil- grimage to Ky-Fu. has been reported on various oc- - PChinese had made up abandon the cult of onsistent with mod- nlightenment. Thil For, shortly befo! wi in the spring of 1914 president of the republic, promulgated an edict al ol' tC ‘dl‘lly to the altar of ‘onfucius nnt%‘o educational Institutions of e land. clamation contained, among e m the following word: n votion to Confucius be- W Haigowu, of tl 561), who rejected the dreds of other authors, making the six Conluc,b:lkcll!!‘lu the clleél‘:llngczli? a nation. Ty in"'the ‘time of the of the nobility, ‘war disturbances comes peace, e with peace real tranquillity. and “The{e e & After studying the history of " by |China end co the_opinion of tesmen and scholars, I find that fuclus must remain the teacher of nds of lenurifi a ultin Con! ® ¢ & Therefore, to. e. and many | eolleges, schools and public institu: ed to re':rolve th: rificial ceremony in honor of &n oius, which shall "be carefully It must be borne in mind that ti cult of Confuélus is not a religious or denomination, but a school Hlosoph. " . fate, oniet of’the family—that uke who has been taking 'a post-graduate course at Madison University, Wis. consin, and. the grandfather of the resent boy head of the entire ouse—was a tall, heavy-faced Chinfi- man, of somewhat massive build, with declared that upon the holy duke of its day. He frequently visited Peking and did not disdain fo travel by rail. Indeed, he was quite liberal,” very enlightened and fully allve to the advantages of many foreign Innovations. He gave a striking illustration this when, some twelve or fourteen years ago, to the amazement of all conservative Chinamen, he granted permission to the Peking-Hankow rail- road to traverse his estate. Nothing has contributed more than this to |r move the pronounced popular prej: dice which formerly existed against the construction of railroads in China and against the development of that network of railroads which is grad- ually opening up the markets of the interior of China to the commerce of the world. The canniness of the late duke was shown when he declined, in the autumn of 1911, to give his approval to the project conceived at Peking of marrying one of his granddaughte to the young Emperor of China. The late duke was shrewd enough to realize that the throne was tottering and saw no reason why he should | bolster up the alien Manchu dynas: by allowing his granddaughter to be- come Empress of China. It was, in fact, his rejection of the offer of an imperial matrimonial alliance for his granaddaughter, made to him by the boy emperor's ‘father, Prince Chun, then regent, which led, on its becom- ing known, to the downfall of the monarchy. Owing to this disap- proval of the late duke, the impe- rialist party ‘at Peking and all Manchu clans found it necessary to seek elsewhere for a matrimonial alliance for the young emperor. whose double marriage to a first and second wife took place the other day in the Forbidden Palace at Peking, & number of foreign diplomats and their wives balnf invited to the ceremony. The Madiscn University, Wisconsin, holy duke holds the hereditary oflice of inspector general of education in China. It is of Inestimable value that & man of his birth and descent. exercising by virtue of hig office and lineage 8o enormous an influence over Jis. 490,000,000 of countrymen, should ave had the advantage of an Amer- ican up-to-ddte education and should have become accustomed to mingle on a footing of perfect equality with his American fellow students. It cannot but bring about vastly beneficial re- sults to his native land. Ling s the family name, “kung” stands for duke. None is more alive to the immense wer wielded _over the entire inese nation by the heads of the Confucius family than the Japanese. It was beocau the latter became alive to the intense hatred which the Germans had aroused among the Chinese by the seisure of the province of Shantung, in which the ancestral ‘while | i,8e8i o) , {forcible aoquisition from the Ger- consented to return it to the nes preciating the relentless hostility which would always prevail in China agalanst any alien power that retalned a held upon the home province of Confucius. .