Evening Star Newspaper, February 24, 1923, Page 6

' 'HE EVENING STAR, _ With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. . .February 24, 1928 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busiuess Office, 11th St. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning #tition, is dellvered by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per smooth: Sunday only, 20 cents per moat - ders way be sont by mai:, or teleplone Maln 8000. ~Collection is made by earrlers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40 . Dally only. 1yr.. $6.00: 1 m Bunday only. 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Daily only. 1¥ $7.00; 1 mo., 80¢ Sunday only. $3.00; 1'mo., 56c Mcember of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled o the i for republication of all news dis- patelies credited to it or not otherwise credited $n this paper and wlso the local news pub. lished herein. Al rights of publication of wpecial dispatohes hereln are also reserved. ey Better Credit for Farmers. No greater mistake could be made than to assume that the controver; now on in Congress over rural credit legislation is of interest only to farm- ers, and that the chief necessity for the enactment of such legislation is to satisfy the “farmer vote.” Every per- son whose interests are affected by the agricultural industry, and that means every one, will be benefited when the farmer is afforded credit facilities com- parable to those afforded the manufac- turer and the merchant. It is a para- dox which ought not to exist that the owners of lund, the best and only in-| destructible security, are compelled to | S and 12 per cent for productive | while the manufacturer and | int, with perishable and less | stable security to offer, are given ac-| lodation at 5 und 6 per cent. It| @ condition which the American | people cannot afford to have con- tinued, for there can be no true rela- tivity of values or safe prosperity long cultural production is un- der this unfair handicap. * The average layman may not be speciully interested in the contention over the two proposals for rural cred- its now chiefly under consideration, hut he is concerned that the reliet proposed shall be both practical and immediate. There is agrgement so general that it is no longer in dispute | that the principal need of the farmer 15 for better “intermediate™ credit, by which is meant loans for periods somewhere betw the short-time | loans which suffice for the manufac- | turer and merchant with their quick turnovers, and long-time loans under land mortgage. The farmer's turn- over runs from six'months in the case | of ordinary crops to three vears in the case of live-stock breeding, and he needs an agency through which he may borrow for purposes of produc- tlon which does not require that he promise to repay until his produce is | marketable. Until such an agency is | rrovided him the country can have no assurance of an adequate supply of | foodstuffs at prices which will not an- duly enhance the cost of living. he two credit sures to w interest mainly atuw % are the C: per bill and the Lenroot-Anderson bill, both of which have been passed by the Scnate and now arc being consid- | ered by the House committee on bank- ing and Both measures have met the approval of farm organi- zations and the general purpose both inctioned by financial ex-| perts; though there is criticism of som, The be that promises the and gives the gr p- curres re details of cach. the Lenroot-Anderson bill immediate veliet ! ter assurance of ¢ the “intermedigte” credit which the | farmer chiefly nceds. and both . the | Secretary of Agriculture and the Sec-| retary of Commerce have within the! last few duys written letters urging! that its provisions be enacted into law | at the of C They are not opposed to the Cappe bill. with its more claborate but less direct program, but they a very | real und urgent necessity that the | governmentaided credit scheme of the Lenroot-Anderson bill be made oper- ative without de On the present session see other hand: supporters of | the more dical pre am re- gard the root-Anderson plan as a step in the right direction. So an ef- fort is being made to draft a compro- mise bill, gaining the immediate bene- fits of the and embodying the | future possibilities of the other. 1t is an effort ed to win the sup- | port of those whose chief aim is to! help the f: 15 those who think in terms of national well-being, and having the influence of the ad- ! winistiation back of it failure to en- | workable rural credits bill be- fore adjournment would be something Congress wonld find exceedingly diffi-| cult to explain. Ler i rmer as well act a i ——— It is a fortunate thing for many a | statesman that constituents are not | expected to read all the speeches made during a filibuster, Washington’s Birthplace. One of the impressive shrines of America is the birthplace of George ‘Washington. Tt is not far from Wash. ington as we measure distances to- day, but, because of several factors that could easily be revised. it is a national shrine which has but few grims. \ Esthmates of distance differ, but something like sixty-five miles of travel down the Potomac brings one oppesite_the tall monument built by “the Uniicd States in 1896 to mark the site of the wooden house in which George Washington was born. The river 13 between three and four miles ‘wide along that part of its course and steamers pass a mile or two miles out from the Virginia shore, but the mon- ument is visible to travelers by day. No steamboat landink I8 there. The house looked out upon the river and stood between two crecks, the up- _ per called Bridges and the lower Popes creek, after two early colonial land- owners in that nelghborhood, George < Washington's great-grandfather hav- iog married & daughter. of P { haps the nations of the world at large, | senting i range | next campaign. {man population is gradually being re- No steamboeat landing is at the mouth of or in either of those creeks. The government at the time of the building of the monument bullt a long pler at the mouth of Bridges creek, but, be- cause of difficultles in approaching the shore and sundry government regu- lations, passenger steamboats soon ceased landing there ,nd the pler de- cayed and suffered from moving ice. ‘The wagon roads leading into these old Wgshington lands from the main road in that part of the country are about as bad as any in Virginia. A few years ago the main road down the northern neck of Virginia was converted into & good road for auto-| mobiles and last year citizens of West- moreland county in the neighborhood of the Washington home site sought to have the government build & short good road from the automobile high- way to the site of the Washington house. Nothing has come forth in the news about the building of such a road and it is probable that nothing has been done. With this short road between the present highway and the monument pilgrims could reach the birthplace of! Washington over good roads by way of Fredericksburg. There is no direct road from Washington or Mount Ver- | non to Washington’s birthplace “over which a man could pass other than afoot, on horseback or at a slow pace in a stout buggy. Gold Star Work Started. Quietly and without ceremony work has been started upon the foundations for the George Washington Victory Memorial that is to be erected at 6th and B streets on a site on public ground allotted by the government. This great enterprise has been in the preparatory stage for some years. Public subscriptions have been so- licited and secured to an amount finally to permit the actual starting of the work. This will be a great national mon- ument, useful, an addition to the at- tractions of the capital, inspiring and highly commemorative of the services of those who have participated in the wars of the United States, especially those who sacrificed their lives in the last great struggle. On the side of utility this projected memorial will be a distinct addition to Washington, It will afford facill- ties for meetings of a national char- acter, commodious halls for not only major but minor assemblages. Tt is &0 designed that it may be' the scene of official national and international gatherings. At ‘presemt, when a great assem- blage is held here, representing per- or the strictly national interests, it necessary to house the meeting in some borrowed place. Only the pan- American meetings have their own home. The George Washington Vie- tory Memorial, which is to be the creation of the people of the whole country, will meet that need. But there is another aspect to this enterprise, it must be borne LC mind. The memorial will be a tribute to those who died in the great war. Upon | the ceiling of the central hall will be a galaxy of gold stars, each repre- an American life laid down that struggle. Every star that shines upon that ceiling will be an investment in the structure. The work that is now in progress prepar- ing for the foundation is gold star work. i in ————————— No Self-Starter. Ford's presidential boom is no “self-starter.” It will have to be cranked. The Michigan democrats, in state convention assembled. have not | applied the spark. They have praised Mr. Ford as an influence for good | “upon the industrial, economic and political affairs of the nation and all | Henry ing been an important factor in “gn»g ing to Michigan and the nation not | only one but two progressive United States senators, and in awakening ! the conscience of the American people | to the menace of money-controlled elections.” That said, the Michigan ! democrats, in convention assembled, | stopped. Tt is now up to Henry. { A question arises whether this is ' the most fortunate way to “mention” | a man of such great wealth as Ford. 1t wiil take the shrewdest of political maneuvering to start a boom for him that will not be “‘tainted” with the dol- lur mark. He was not beyond the of criticism on the score of liberality of expenditure in the 1918 campaign. Campaign money has a hard time proving an alibi when the candidate is as rich as Henry Ford. This action by the Michigan demo- crats is evidently a discreet side- stepping. Tt is much too early to talk hout party standard bearers for 1924. 3ooms have a bad Wi of getting frost-bitten during the winter of the odd year preceding the nominations. It would be rather sad for the Wolver- ine democrats to find themselves com- mitted to a “flivver” when the time comes to talk real business for the —————— 1f a shipping system cannot be de- vised to favor American commerce under present conditions, there are still the enormous’possibllities of air- ship transportation to contemplate. The U. S. A. can casily bring in- ventive genius to bear that will meet and distance all competition in trafic through the aerial highways. ————— The French have taken over the customs offices in the Ruhr. The Ger- lieved of all responsibilities save those of digging coal. ———— When a reckless motorist is incar- | corated there will also be a fine await- ing him if he attempts to leave his fiivver parked outside the jail during his detention. . ————— Systematizing the Law. Need of a high and central authority for the interpretation of American statutes has long been felt, and that need becomes more pressing as the national and state legislatures mul- tiply laws. It has been & maxim that ignorance of the law is. no excuse for violation of it, and the reason for the mexim was that long ago laws were s0 few and simple that & man might know them. The situation is vastly M Bow. Than in the metier of | the case of THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, SA . THE the irterpretation of the statutes there 1s great confusion. 1 In speaking before the assembly of notable judges and lawyers meeting' in Washington to consider the estab- lishment of an Aiericsn law institute “to interpret the great maas of statutes that have been and still are being enacted,” Klihu Root polnted out that in the five years which ended in 1914 62,000 statutes wero passed by Congress and the state legisiatures, and that in the same time 65,000 de- cisions relative % them were handed down by the eeurts. The speaker pointed out a fact that L& well known, that “where we find one court inter- preting a given statute one way we will find another which takes the op- posite view.” The system of laws or the body of laws, Mr. Root said, has become so vast and complicated that it is almost impossible to make a competent in- vestigation. This seems to be the opin- ion of all the law experts gathered in the assembly, and represents the mass opinion of American lawyers. It is surely the bellef of all laymen who have given thought to the subject. A committee of men skilled in the prac- tice and interpretation of the law has complled a report on “a restatement of the law and the establishment of an American law institute.” This re- port comes before the assembly of Jjudges and lawyers now in session in Washington. There is little doubt that the creation of such an institute will be approved. Spare the Parkland. Sentiment is developing in New York that the East river islands shall be stripped of the buildings of city and state institutions and used as parks. These islands, Randalls, Wards, Harts, Welfare and Rikers, aggregat- ing 900 acres, belong to the city of New York, and are now occupied by charitable and penal institutions. The idea is to remove theee institutions to better locations in the country and transform the islands into parks. ‘When it is determined to establish a public institution there seems always to be a temptation to set it up on pub- lic land, rather than to do the proper thing and buy a proper site. If the piece of public land is close at hand, so much the better, or 80 much the worse. New York city yielded to that impulse, and is now being converted to the, idea that it is better to buy a site for the buildings and grounds of certain kinds of public institutions and allow natural park lands to remain as places of popular recreation, or to convert them by means of trees, shrub- bery, drives, walks, fountains, benches and so forth into what we call parks. Public parkland should be let alone. There is already too little of it. It is becoming scarce. while with the growth of population the necessity and demand for park space become more pressing. The mistake which New York made has been madeé, and is being made, by other cities, and here in the National Capital the tendency is to encroach on parks as sites for public buildings. ———————— John D. Rockefeller enjoys his golf lcause L. Mont Relly finally has re on the same terms as the man of more modest fortune. He could have | gold-nandied clubs and diamond-stud- ded ivory golf balls if he liked, but prefers the simple old-fashioned tools. —————— Turther argument will be heard in cky Aynstein, charged with implication ~in bond robberies, next month. Whether or not Nicky will be present to hear them will no doubt depend, as usual, on his per- sonal mood and convenience. ———————— Russfa Is sending Germany 15.000 carloads of grain: which is doing very well indeed for a country that a short | ! time since was reported on the verge msensus of ofinion seems te! pankind,” and particularly for hav- | Of starvation. —_——————— When the Standard Oil Company decides on an additional tax on the gas user it does not have to wait on legislative red tape. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Annie Rooney. I cannot hit the jazzy pace That music's now promoting. An old-time waltz with humble grace Across the years comes floating. 1t any one should play it now ‘We'd think that he was “loon And yet T like to think of how The band played “Annie Rooney.” 1f was a gay yet simple strain, And crudely sentimental; An object of polite disdain, Absurdly sweet and gentle. The youthful cynic held a sneer For love, as something “spoony.” Yet I confess I'd like to hear The old tune, “Annie Rooney.” She typified the lass who won My heart—and never knew it. My rival when the dance was done Proposed, and beat me to it. The lad (it's lucky for the rhyme), I think, was Billy Mooney, ‘Who in the good old summer time Made love to Annie Rooney. Finance and Publicity. “What are you going to do about |gence, this rumor that you have made a lot {no of money in speculation on inside |3 tips “Nothing,” ghum. fit. At least, It credit.”” will improve my Jud Tunkins says an Egyptian mumniy is probably as handsome as the original king was, and a heap more harmless. The Eternal Conference. We heid a conference and then Adjoyrned with plans to meet again; And every conference, as before, Called on us to confer some more. Improvement. “Are you practicing this autosy gestion?" “Yes, top. answered Uncle Bill Bottle- nd it's great stuff. It's fine i { | 1 1 fin i i i i | ihas knowledge of his influence replied Senator Sor-|the governor 'You can’t Stop a rumor, o We | gential may as well take the individual bene- | is in part the opl with the worst period of the terror of the French revolution we shall find | ministration.” The troubles that Mr. | true of Relly, i opinion BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. ‘The pulsc of the world quickens. We travel through life at a speed our forefathers never knew or dreamed of. ‘The rado, automobile, the wireless. the the afrplane, the X-ray, the moving plcture—these are but a handful of the miracles we have grasped from the realm of sclence and invention within the present generatlon. ‘What next? If that be yesterday, what of tomorrow? If today be the age of jazz, what, In heaven's name, will tomorrow bring forth? Take It from one who speaks with firm conviction, tomorrow will be some day. This world always has been a more or less Interesting place. But temorrow it will be more inter- esting than it has been during all the yesterdays since time began. This man _sp from int knowledge of hi pamate subject. He con- fines his forecast to what he knows about. At my request he was good enough to conjure up a picture of conditions twenty years hence. He s "Mason M. Patrick, major gen- eral, United States Army, and chief of the air service of the military forces of the United States. If any one is in a position to look Into to- morrow's skies, he is. e are on the eve of taking wings, Gen. Patrick belleves. i “Do " 1 asked him, you mean, genei “that flying wiil become the favorite method of transportation soon?” ‘Within twenty years, in my judg- ment, the Tinited States will be grid- ironed with airways. The skies will be inhabited, for much of the time, with great planes and airships, the one lighter than air, and, perhaps, 1,000 feet in length, maybe more; the other altogether metal, capable of great speed and with accommodations Or ws many persons as now can travel In a railroad coach. “New York and San Francisco will be not more than thirty hours apart by airship, and that kind of aircraft will make the trip. as a matter of schedule, without stopping. “The heavler-than-air —craft will have a more limited radius, but they will travel much faster. Where the airship will make seventy-five miles an hour, the planes will make at least one hundred, and possibly two hun- dred miles an hour. Do vou think.” T asked him. “that have reached ‘the limit of speed?” “By no means. I think we shall soon attain much greater speed than we have been able to make in the past. The problem now is one of training men to handle aircraft at such great speed and to study conditions. “And you think your forecast will come true within twenty years?” “I think so. The afrways must be developed, of course. We must have speclal air lanes, set aside for certain kinds of traffic. We must have plen- ty of landing fields plainly marked, and we must have the proper sort of markings and illumination to enable us to fiy by night. “The _airways will be developed somewhat as the rallways were. It is my opinion that they will be de- veloped within half the time that it took us to build our raflways. That period was about forty years. “Indeed. in the case of the airships, 1 look for the coming of great com m merclal cruisers much more guickly. It won't be twenty years before we have our regularly establish 'ship traflic between our chief citl I asked him about the cost of such transportation, and whether it would be comparable to the cost of raliroad transportation today. “I should think it would be about " Gen. Patrick eald. “We haven't advertised it much, but we are working now on an engine that will use low-grade fuel. The auto- mobile manufacturers also are work- ‘ng on it, and we are making prog- ress.” ‘Are we sure to develop it?” “‘Absolutely. It is not far off—only a fow rs.” “It_ will revolutionize the automo- bile industry,” I ventured. “It will—altogether.” All this time that hint of traffic lanes through the air set aside for certain classes of craft had been burning in my thoughts. Finally, it burst into flame. “I guppose there will have to be trafic cops on high” I suggested, omewhat llke those we have in our clties.” “Undoubtedy, The air lanes will have to be policed. We probably shall have to set aside certain levels for the different classes of air trafiic. “What about the passenger=trains? Wil they go out of business?” “Not at all. They will supplement the air service and the air gervice will dovetall with them. For long trips, Where Speed 1s to be considcred, the atrplane, or the airship, will be the thing; for shorter trips, the raflway. “Do you think that there will be filvver planes, cheap and ecasy to operate, within the next twenty years “Unquestionably. I look for quan- tity production of small planes, pro- peiled by motors of low horsepower, using cheap fuel. Such planes will be within reach, in my judgment, of the same kinds of people that now can buy small automobiles. Satur- urday afternoons and Sundays will sce the air full of them. “We sometimes sit here and dream about the wonders of aviation, which all of us soon are to enjoy,” Gen. Patrick said. y “Tell me some of the other dreams,” 1 requested. He was silent for a time, looking out_of the window. “Well,” he sald, “for one thing, the world will have no more secrets of geography. We can chart its un- known shores from the air. ~We could fly to the north pole, if we wished. Yes, within twenty years there will be afrships that can cruise from the northern cities of the ited States to the north pole, carrying many passengers. The ships can de- posit their passengers at the pole for a time, if they want to get out, or they can hover over the pole and make the return trip without stop- ping. “Helium gas that will make lutely safe.” is coming soon and the airships abso- T looked up to see if the speaker really were the chief of the air serv- fee. ‘Our talk seemed so fanciful that T should not have been greatly sur- prised to find old Jules Verne sit- ting there at the desk. But it wasn't Jule Patrick. It was Gen. EDITORIAL DIGEST Resignation of Mont Reily Was Timely Act. General approval is expressed be- signed as Governor of Porto Rico and that President Harding has ac- cepted his resignation. The fact that originally the appointment was of a volitical character, and that ever since he arrived at Ponce Reilly has been the center of a partisan storm. causes the statement in certain quarters that his earlier removal might have been justified. There also is a general expression that it will be necessary for his successor to work carefully to repair the damage done. Suggestion that he “was the best governor at stirring up a contro- versy the insular United States has ever known,” the Newark News| (independent) also ins Mont Reily's best claim to fame is as a ‘deserving republican. Predictions favor Maj. Gen. Clarence R. Edwards, retired, as his successor. Should he be named the Army would be well represented in the diplomatic field, with Gen. Wood in the Philippines, Gen. Crowder in Cuba and Admiral Eristol running things in the near east; but the question would be raised: Why do we have to turn to the Army to find capable men for the big administrative jobs overseas?| One answer might be that the mili- tary is our only organization for training men for such positions. The diplomatic _service should do just that, but doesn’t, and it never will until it is made a_ profession in which men may make carcers for themselves instead of a precarious job secured by political influence and held until there is a change in ad- in Porto Rico, the New York Tribune (republican) points out, show the necessity for reform- ing the system of “appointing a gc ernor from among American yoli- ticians who have no undorstanding of and little sympathy with Zatin . This has been particularly e ey, who, @ minor, politican ouri, happened to have sup- ported Mr. Harding in the primaries. Refly did not even have the good for- tune to obtaln a single delegate for Harding on the first ballot. But when Missouri swung in line and the con- vention went for Harding. Reily's dax arrived, and in due he was offered ‘the Porto Rican governorship. Tie was by temperament and training unfitted for the post. It is to bg hoped that in appointing his suc- cessor the President will “appreclate ance of sen 0 the import sending ister (independent tie) suggests “a conservative democra S it Gov. Relly was well that he did represent and that he used all to combat an Insidious for Porto Rfcan indepen AP elE it that his Iron hand wore fove. His manner offended u nsitive people. s purpose 9% and his methods frequently were ad. This, 4f true, was a gravé fault in of an outlying pos- iter in modo ls an_es overnment.” This nion of the St. Paul Refly had The Mobile Reg intentioned; Americanism, A Suav! sessio! in insular ECHOES FROM MORE BLOODY THAN THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. ! If we compare the terror in Russia that the revolution in Russia has been the more bloody. “In Paris during the terror 2,625 persons were gufl- lotined.” That is from Mudelin, Who is & very recent hlstorian and high authority—S8enator Lodge, Madsachu- setts, republican. MEASURED BY THE TYRANNY THAT WENT BEFORE. 1s it not true that the loss of life, to be able to feel better every morning | ¢ne inhumanity, the cruelty and the by whispering something to yourself | frensy ot every revolution ip the his. instead of to the bartender.” “Envy,” esid Uncle Eben, “is whut * makes & man steal a fiddle, regardless | o whather Bo kin gy tory of the world are but the measure of the tyranny lnl‘lho oppression of oibfect i ‘Staniey, | lacked Dispatch (independent), whi that “the whole trouble arose out of Mr. Reily’s inability to work in har- mony with the unfonist party of Porto | Rico, whose moderate and loyal pro- gram he chose to interpret as radical and disloyal. He proved himself temperamentally unfit for the delicate administrative problem with which he was confronted. There was not the slightest necessity for this un- pleasant controversy, and now that it is closed with victory for the Porto o unionists, it is to be hoped that every effort will be made to remedy the situation as he leaves it.” By falling earlier to demand the resig- nation President Harding “carried loyalty to a personal appointee as far as any man could be expected to carry it,”” the New Orleans Times- Picayuns (democratic) points out. “Administration-appointed governors of colonies or ‘dependencies’ may he Zood men in their respective ways. and Yet be wrongly placed if they fail {to win the confidence, good will and co-operation of the people over whom they are placed. That Mr. Reily <ome part of the essential qualification for the delicate and im- portant duties of the Porto Rican post was made” tolerably apparent months ago. He may have excellent qualities for all we know, but in that case the President should have transferred him to a service suited to his quali- Harding cannot undo the damage done American prestige among Porto Ricans by thls appoint- ment,” the Boston Transcript (inde- pendent republican) is convinced, by cause “the people of Porto Rico have been made to pay Mr. Harding's per- sonal debt to Mr. Reily for political services rendered. It was known at the time he was appointed that Mr. Reily was utterly unqualified for the position. If he had received his just deserts he would have been dismissed from office more than a vear ago. He may be able to save his face. but his record in Porto Rico will stand as a warning to future Presidents who may be tempted to pay personal debts for political services as Mr. Reily was paid—at the expense of the help- less people of Porto Rico.” The orig- inal selection was ‘unhappy,” the Columbus Ohio State Journal (re- publican) points out. “that fact be- ing made plain immediately after Reily reached the island. That he would have to be replaced by an- other man has been well known for months. No administration could be justified in facing the opposition that was In evidence against the man. It was only the friendship of the Presf- dent that permitted Reily the last year of his service in his position. There was quite enough reason for & change more than a year ago.” In quitting his t the "Detroft Free Press (republican) feels “he is con- serving the interests of the island as much as hisvown. Reily may have been actuated by the best intentions in the world in all that he has done in Porto Rico, but it remains true that he has been a misfit, and we fancy sowie explanation of the reason is provided in the text of his letter of ‘resignation. 1t the tone is the sample “of the tons Reily used in managing the diplomatic part of his dutles in Porto Rico, no wonder he filled to mako a favorable Impres- slon.” To which the Wilkes-Barre Record (independent) adds, “Mr. Reily seemed to be particularly unqualified by disposition to lead the natives into acceptance of United States adminis- tration CAPITOL HILL OUTLAWED RUSSIA. There are in Russia 140.000,000 peo- ple—a_very industrious, iaw-abiding. home-loving people, o far as 95 per cent of them are concerned—a people holding the utmost friendliness to- ward the people of the United States and toward this government.—Sena- tor Borah, Idaho, republican, THE BRITISH . EMPIRE. Thirty-eight millien people in the Rritish islands exercixe a control and dominance over nearly one-third of the inhabitants of the earth and over nearly one-third of the inhabitable ortions of God's footstool.—Senator eed, Missouri, democrat, CURRENCY AND CREDIT. Is currency today anything mere than a mere-convenience? In other words, what is the differenca betw credit &nd currency, so far as the great volume transaotions s A jOORSSFRAY I—Senator. g TURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1924 WAYS OF WASHINGTON The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. People who have been pussled by the tremendous popularity of the books of Harold Bell Wright should read In the February Bookman an article by Hildegarde Hawthorne, en- titled “The Wright American.” The author served as a librarian 1y a y~Ih® claims, is no moro monkeylike hut in France. She reports that, although almost everything in the book line went there, ten out of every twelve of the boys asked first for books by Wright. In peace time, too, she learncd that young men who care A\little for reading any other books read his. To find the solution of the problem of Wright and of his vast public she talked with the doughboys and read his latest book. One soldier gave this explanation for his liking +for ‘Wright's books: 1 don’t know as it's the story so much, but, you see, he kind of gets at what I've tried to think about and writes it so's I can get hold of It. And he sure does know a lot of mice American girls.” A Miss Hawthorne then proceeds to elaborate the soldier's explanation, trom which, in condensed form, the fol- lowing extracts are quoted: “Wright is not a literary man. He doed not Wwish to be one, but he does reflect upon the obvious life with which the publio comes into contact. He is a preacher, who expounds the basic problems of right and wrong in & manner that will reach the greatest nossible number of persons. He has a theme to teach. He believes to a passionate degree in America and the American; belleves that if only cer- tain things can be set right, then our ship of state will make the port of the millennium or something just as good. Wright's solutions are sane, sound and kindly. Many of those Wwho read him are not readers at all, in_the broad sense. If he did not write they would read nothing. But reading him, they begin to form the habit of reading. He is training readers in a nation which is em- phatieally not a nation of readers. iis readers have nothing to do with literature and its standards, but they have a whole lot to do with America and her standards. He {s popular be- cavse he can give his own public what it really needs.” * x % % Fortunately for writers of eastern storles and essays, not all readers teel as Hugh Walpole recently told his Washington audfence that he feels about literature on oriental subjects. He sald, in his lecture of February 15, that when he opened a book and read on the first page a description of a sandy stretch of desert with a camel stihouetted against the sky, or of some other equally suggestive east- ern scene, he always closed the book instantly, even though it might be “The Sheik.” east, has been rather frequently treated of late in literature, even in the literature of philanthropic solicitation. But even spond to such unusual excellence of tyle as that of W. Somerset Maugham ) his new volume of sketches called ‘On a Chinese Screen” and his earlier !volume of short stories, “The Trem- bling of a Leaf,” and his novel. “The Moon and Sixpence.” Mr. Maugham is so skilliful in creating a vivid im- pression of place, or a vital, eccentric character, or an unexpected, perhaps shocking. attitude of mind—each in a few words—that he can hardly fail to stimulate imagination in his reader. * % % Readers of the books on China, South America and Russia by Prof. Fdward A. Ross of the University of Wisconsin will be pleased to that this trained sociologist, world { traveler and writer will shortly pub- lish a book on Mexico. His publisher states that Prof. Ross found Mexico a very sick country: her illness re- sults from the evil heritages of the past. The book is concerned princi- pally with the land question, the la- bor question, education and tie status of the church. It will be recalled that when Prof. Ross came back from Russia he gave it as his opinion that Tevolutions do not pay. He returns from Mexico with the impression that the Mexican revolution did pay. * % x % The degeneration of the Spanish novel in recent years is the subject of an interesting article by Vicente Blasco Ibanez in the Literary Digest ruary. The author, himself one of the foremost of present-day Spanish novelists, and the one best known outside his own country, deplores the fact that Spanish novels of the past twenty years have shown a grave lapse fnto immorality. He charges that many writers have been “per- fectly well aware of what they were doing,” and. wrote immoral novels “in cold blood,” with the idea that the more shocking the novel the better the sale. It has been a shameful race, says Ibanez, “to see who should run farthest on the road of scandul.” At present. however, there is a reaction against this salacious fiction: the best critics and publishers and the major- ity of readers are ralsing their voices against it, and the Spanish novel is now “continuing on its true way. = oes The publishers of “David Harum" are celcbrating the twenty-fifth an- Iniversary of the initial publication of that example of the simon-pure American novel by issuing an elabo- rate illustrated edition of the book. In spite of the changing tastes in fiction, this near-classic, by Ldward Noyes Westeott, is still popular be- cause of its droil humor, pithiness of lexpression and homely philosoph; Xk Here in Washington we are able to watch the business of lawmaking at rather close range. Sometimes we are not altogether convinced that the process of lawmaking is thoroughly scientific. A distinguished member of Congress, Representative Robert Luce of Massachusetts, has, however, set out to analyze “The Science of Legislation,” in four volumes, in which he expects to treat the legis- lative branch of government histori- cally, descriptively and critically. The first volume of the series, “Legislative Procedure.” has recently been pub- lished. Tt treats, in more than 600 pages, of parliamentary practices and the course of business in the framing of statutes. The other three volumes in the series are announced to be: “Legislative Assemblies,” to treat of their framework. make-up, character, characteristics, habits and manners; “Legislative Principles,” to be devoted to the history and theory of law- r?prenenla,tlve government, tive Problems,” which the merits and defects of the lawmaking branch of govern- ment, with a consideration of tend- encies and remedies. The first vol- ume is a scholarly work, and the whole treatise will undoubtedly prove of great value to the leglslator and of interest to those who arc legislated for—all of us. * ok k Recently Eden Phillpotts has abandoned (temporarily, we hope) his distinctive novels of Dartmoor and its. people and has joined the ranks |of the writers of detective atortes. e has entered so thoroughly into his_new style of writing that he rivals Conan Dole, Maurice Le Blane and other voterans of the anmnals of fiotion. erime. In .“The Red Red- maynes” he aahl S e Do CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Hon, Willlam Jennings Bryan, who Isited Washington last week, claims that he has been indorsed by King Tutankhamen. Mr. Bryan points with pride to the Egyptian mummy, who, than the veriest evolutfonist of to- day. Since tho old king lived 3,300 years ago, this anti-evolutionist argues that that shows the absurdity of the Dar- winian theory that we are evoluted from monkeys or apes. If evolution were true, he savs, there should be some changes evident n 3,300 years. * ok ok x Engineers and astronomers know that the accuracy of their computa- tions depends upon the length of the base of their triangle as well as upon the exactness of their observations. No one can measure a distance with- out a reasonably wide base. What astronomer would set his telescope at one end of a city block and then at the 6ther and make observations, ex- pecting the differences of his angles to enable him to compute the distan: of a planet 10,000 light-years away? Mr. Bryan does not seem to see that his base s too narrow for accurate observations. He forms his conclusions on a pe- riod of only 3300 years. What is a lapse of thirty-three centuries in ob- serving the work of creation? It has been milllons of years since the molten earth cooled enough for it to bring forth grass and the herbs of the fleld. Millions of years from when “In the beginning, God created.” and ever since which He has continued His infinite work of creation. P | I wonder if Mr. Bryan might not correct his perspective. Sclence tells us that the fce age was about a thou-| near and far, northeast and south-|the orthodoxy |On the contrary, it gives to creation propaganda and |an infl the sated reader will generally re-i; jCertain learn { International Book Review for Feb- ! sand centuries before Christ. The date is approximately fixed by astron omy. Half of the northern hem sphere was buried in glaciers hundreds or thousands of fect thick—mountalns of eolid ice. Then followed about 2,500 years of troplc heat—three- fourths as long a period as from the daye of Tutankhamen to the first Bryan campaign. During all of that time the ice “was meiting and the| floods covered the earth. Whether | there were men on earth prior to thej melting of the world of ice there is no positive evidence, but at least for the last 75,000 to §0.000 years the earth' has been habitable—first_upon the high places—possibly more habit- able to monkeys up the irees than for men upon terwa firma. In view, there- force, of that great stretch of habit- ability—750 or $00 centuries—what do the thirty-three centuries since} Tutankhamen's day teach us? The | base is too short for scientific tri- angulation. - Why should the science of evolution * Doubtless the east, both {ever be construed as antagonistic to!development of the horse. of a divine creator? e grandeur and majesty be- ond the conception of those whose naginations cannot reach over the pe- riod of a literal week, with a series of six-day immediate results The historian John Clark says: “Great, almost inconceivable, lapses of time are necessary to any ' appre- ciable change in the constitution, aspects and vital conditions of the world. The concept of this slow and orderly progress of planetary growth and development is as sublime as that which contemplates the rhagnitude| and endlessness of the material universe. | Certain it is that nature hurries not.| it is that her progress does not consist of catastrophes. phenome- nal cataclysms and astounding reviv- als. The rate of formation for our world, for all worlds, has been o gradual as almost to preclude the record of its growth by other than immortal or infinite beings, ¢ ¢ ¢ The slow progress of world history and life history is. therefore. a fu damental concept in the work of d termining the approximate time which a_rational form of being 1 its manifestations on our globe. * % % % A child looks into the sky and sees white clouds afloat and, just bevond, a | blue dome. Tt does not think the blue ! is as far above the white as the white | cloud is above his childish reach. He| Ridpath gan BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. No names are more widely known in | the annals of international sport | than those of the Dukes of Beaufort and of their Gloucestershire country- seat, Badminton, which has been in their possession and in their constant occupation for more than four centu- ries. During the greater part of that time they have maintained there, re- gardless of expense, and on a princely scale, the celebrated Badminton Hunt, of which they are the hereditary mas- ters, and with which the Prince of Wales has been following the hounds throughout the season, having gone to the length of leasing a country house in the district for the “ake of the hunting. They are descended from John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancas- ter, third son of Edward III; the dukedom of Beaufort, however, only dating from the time of Charles 11 and the restoration, i 1 1 call attention to this It is be- se most of the recognized hunts on this side of the Atlantic, regis- tered kennel associations and clubs, presidents and officers of dog show B! ents of turf and jocke s, veterinary colleges and asso- ciations, and men prominent in the realms of amateur sports are recei ing oircular letters bearing the signs ture of the Duke of Beaufort, alxo of the Duke of Portland, twice win- ner of the Derby, and of Sir Theodore Cook, the veteran editor of the Lon- don Field, inviting them to join in an international movement with the |ae e object of “discovering the cause or causes of distemper, in order to arriv at the control or cure of this bafing and disastrous disease. The co- operation of the majority of the mas- ters of hounds and breeders of sport- | ing dogs in Great Britain and in France has already been secured, and Iso that of the British Medical Re- search Council. The latter, at the ingtance of the present movement, has added & large farm laboratory near London to its various establish- ments, which is under the direction of skilled veterinary pathologists. ¥ % ¥ % Individual research is by no means a novelty in the long history of dis- temper, but by centralizing of efforts by the avoidance of overlapping and by the exchange of information us to the progress achieved the investi- gators, through the issue of a regular §eekly bulletln to all subscribers to the movement, hope to give it an in- ternational scope. ‘While subscriptions may be address- ed to the committee of the distemper counll, &t Windsor House, Breams building, London, E. C., or o Coutts Bank on the Strand, they are not the maln purpose of the circular letters which have reached this countr: Thelr principal aim is to secure co operation in the form of useful in- formation bearing on {he disease, the ravages of which entail the annual Jossx of millions and millions of dol- jars, besides an enormous amount of suffering and death among the est friend of man.” As every dog lover is likely to be interested in this movement, 1 do not hesitate to give §t the widest publicity within my h. The council of the organi- glnn comprises, in addition to._the of Beaufort and of Portland also the Duke Lonsdal i | witnessed the horror of the s | support ‘ro.ws, and becomes an astronomer, &8zing in awe through a telescope into unmeasured space, and beholds worlds afloat in infinity. that astronomer’s conception of creut) less sublime than the child's fancy of distances betwcen the carth 1 {clowd, and cloud and blue roof? ence ‘of cvolution is not nor agnosticism nor gu 1 telescope which sw VIslon out of humian space—space material of the verse, space infinite of time, of wonder and awe which sincere man very humble. “Knowest thou the ordin heaven? Canst thou set the thereof tn the earth?” * x % Superstition barriers domir No breeder of live stock can q tion the evolutlon of animals f to perfected thoroughbred operation of Mendel's law—d. monstrable either in animal or veg: table breeding—shows selection ar definite developments therefrom. The horse has been developed from creature no larger than a fox. Within one century of careful breeding and training the speed of the trotti horse grew from minut and o7 seconds in 1796 to 2 minutes and 10 seconds In 1896. Lou Dillon “bested™ that record by several seconds, trot ting in 1905 a mile in 1 minute 58! seconds, Peter Manning trotted a mile last October at Lexington in 1.56%. Is that chance? TIs it a spr cial creation, or is it evolution achies ed through selective breeding a training? “The trotter is born, not made."” 1t that horses, cannot r development of ci the centuries accomplish equal provement in the race? The scien of evolution itself has advance greatly in knowledge since the du of Darwin, and tod one might well deny that the blood circulates to dispute the fundamentals of evo tion. can be accomplished tural ilized man throus w selection a = * % In Tutankhamen’s day very cheap. It not recorded tt any man then would have risked ! own life to save unknown from decath, Last Thursday a little child at Norfolk, Va., unmindful o danger, trudged with its toy wagor in front of an onrushing train. Man: tuatio: but one man sprang forward, seized the child and leaped to safety. The onlookers crowded about the rescuer and asked, *Who are you?” “Only 4 man,” was his answer, and hurried out of range. What life was he is an chi as been that much evolutio A twentieth century developed from the hu who lived in Tutank Tt is greater than the With that as a base for the thirty-three centu ries, what might even be the measure of the evolution *back to and beyond the savage of 500 or $00 centuries” * n an beings hamen s time. to patriotic fer » waste, and pert 1t is not inspir| ing to read of lars, and then to sead of the fainti upon a Washington street of the wi of a veteran whose al been cut suddenly from onth. That was all the me husband and wife. thoue Dboth are said to be aying of tubercu losis. ywance ha to §9.30 « reduction without iclans to ical « of a ssce dition xam a examination by pl tain the soldier's ph It appears thut no tion had been made in this was simply arbitrarily notified his pay would drop from $95 to § he man was too sick to work wife, aleo suffering. came to W ton from their home ne 1o +o appeal from the cruel and weakness brought upon_the public will be fully investizated by the e gressional committee already inves tigating the bureau in order to ascer tain ghe method by which the law i thus ‘violated in_summary and arbi trary changes of compensation. The man had been a patient at- Walter Reed Hosp umtil three months age (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.) the The English Nobility Backs Movement To Discover Cure for Distemper Viscount Lascelles King George), Lord Willoughb of Chesterfleld a number of othe equally well know men. e Lord Dillon, seventeenth viscount of his line, has been so frequent a Vis- itor to the United States, and is widely known as the ecurator and revolutionary reorganizer of the Tower of London armories president of the Royal 5 of Antiquities. that ther > many to svmpathize with him in this cour try on the loss of his only son, Capt the Hon. Harry Lee Dillon f the Rifle Brigade, without male issue; & that the pecrage nd the estates in Oxfordshire will his demise to a cousin, Capt. Lee Dillon of the Travelers' London. sk The town of Ditchley in Virgis takes its name from Lord Dill country place in Oxfordshire, Ditch ley Park, and it was while visit! Ditchley, more than half a century ago, that Lord Dillon, now I eightleth year, made thé acqua of the Canadian girl, Miss Julia ton, who became his wife At Ditchley Park are pres collection of flint implements historic origin found on_the 5 the Virginia town of Ditchlc Lord Dillon, who has royal his veins. ‘or among his ances was Lady Charlotte Fitzroy, whe the natural daughter of King Charles 1 by Barbara Villiers Duchess “leveland. _Lady Charlotte 1 ir Henry Lee, and it was th marriage of Lady Charlotte Lo Henry 1 (Viscount Dillon) thet Diteh ley Park came into the Dillon nily Indeed, all the pfidenti spondence of the with his favorite il ter is still preservec in an antique bra number of h sovereigns been entertained at Ditchle notably Queen BElizabeth, wh was Sir Henry Lee, Kuight Garter, and known fn his da queen’s 'night. The old of the biillard room is still with several heads of wed ht down by Queen I g:’l?jug\ltl‘r oh, in’ 1608 und 1610, King James I and by his son He Prince of Wales. * X ¥ ¥ It is to King Edward VII that 1 tongs the’credit of having reco nized Lord Dillon's eminence as the greitt- est living authority on ancient armor by appointing him to take charge € the collection of armor in the Towe of London and to eliminate therefrom » the extraordinary quantity of shams$ and fakes. Ho relentless wus Lord Dillon in the work of expurgation that he was denounced in the presd as “the great iconoclast of the most cherished Illusions concerning tie Tower.” which everybody from tlis side of the water who gocs to 1 don makes a point of visiting. he relegated to the scrap I headman's axe long shown a done duty at the execution of Queen Anne Boleyn, declaring it to oo swindle, since Anne was beheaded a sword and not with an axe. over, he took the armor suits one by one and demonstrated that the fa- miliar lay figures were most ridicu- lously arrayed in_pleces of armor manufe in different centurics and with no possible co-relation to one another. = (son-in-law Southampto the Ear Tth lub tanc ta rved @ pre- adorn deet ll )