Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1923, Page 6

6 ', THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, TUESDAY, MARCH 6, 1923. THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.... March 6, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. 1 g0 Office: Tower Building. Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, Engiand. | The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning @dition, 1s delivered by carriers within the eity &L 60 contw per month 5 conts menth: Sunday only, month. be sent by mai:, or telephone Mala leeton 13" made by carrlers at the | 1 month. Kate by Mail—Payable in Advance. : Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 vr., $5.40; 1 mo., 7 Taily only. 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., Sunday only....... 1 yr.. $2.40; 1 mo., All Other States. > and Sunday. .1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85 Taily only £7.00; 1 mo., Sunday oniy. $3.00: 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Press js exclusively entitled » for republication of all news dis- redited to it or wot otherwise is paper and also the local news pi n All rights of publication 150 reserved. of The “Community Chest" Plan. m wunity chest” plan of raising money wherewith the welfare work of a city may be carried forward ts taking strong hold upon the minds ot thoughtful Washingtonians. duced to its simplest definition is merely he ing budgets of the various worthy welfare agencies today operated in the District one inclusive budget, and the join- togethe: the part of the ies concerned, the business in- terests of the city and the contributing public intensive co.operative campaign for the raising of the nec- essary f i So efir into an ed, the advantages of the iiity chest” method may read- ily be grasped. They include the an- nual assurance to worthy agencies of needed funds without requiring that a disproportionate percentage of the time of trained we workers be devdred to raising money: the relief of ibuting public m tlie multi- appeals, and cam- h which it is today beset; ving of a means whereby the s of local welfare nancial support fromw 1 serutinized and im- proved a group communding the c and support of every resi- dent of Washington: the granting of 20 0PPOFLUNILY o every citizen earnest- 1y obliga tion zowar und wel- to the co! plicicy drives P the nup; b ageucies the public ns W meth sking by by t.dence ta consider the ext g the and easily ibution based upon that | le fundamental advan- unity chest” plan, and so greatly do they outweigh any possible disadvantages that there is strong temptation to rash acceptance of the project. Tt is imperative under these circumstances that stress be ap- plied to one very important point. The gaining of each of these advantages is contingent upon the unqualified suc- cess of the plan in question. Failure the part of in charge of the mevement to command the whole-hearted confidence and re- spect of the community would lead to faiture to acquire needed funds. Failure to acquire on those campaigns by the local agencies or the curtailment of essential work. And the recourse to individual campaigns would deny the contributing public that surcease from an interminable succession of appeals and drives which it most urgently requires The structure of any ‘“‘community chest” plan must be erected with the utmost care. There must be assurance of success before an effort to put such a plan into effect is made. The big men of Washington, men in whose business acumen, organizing ability and sound judgment the public place implicit confidence, must stand behind the project, ready to give of their time and genius as well as of their dollars toward its success. Sur- veys, with a view to establishing how mueh mioney the local welfare agen- eles today receive from the contribut- ing public and how much the business men and large contributors would guarantee to contribute under the “community chest” plan must be un- dertaken. The agencies must be im- pressed that it is essential that they all Jjoin the movement when adequate as- surance of its success from other angles has once been given. This is not a work to be done in a month. But it is a work to be done. And to the members of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association and their associates, through whose in- itiative concrete and practical steps toward a much-to-be-desired end are today being taken, Washingtonians, growing more and more dissatisfied with the antiquated and unbusiness- like methods of financing the commu- nity's welfare work, will wish full and unqualified success. ———— Those who dislike the thought of & deserted Washington consequent upon the adjournment of Congress are sus- tained by thoughts of the Shrine con- vention in June. —————t—— Congress has adjourned. Perhaps that is why the sky is gray and nature seems so sad. Perhaps ———— Every day in every way it seems to be getting more like March weather. ———————— Limitation of Senate Debate. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania is quoted in a dispatch from Philadel- phia as saying that there is a growing ‘movement among a very considerable number of senators to limit the field of filibustering in the Senate. He prophesied that before the next ses- slon of Congress a definite proposal to this end will be made. The subject is ripe for consideration in view of object lessons very recently presented in the Senate throwing into sharp relief the power and the evil of the filibuster. At the time Senator Pepper voiced his protest against filibustering, but, recognizing that he is a new member of the Senate, refrained from essum- ing the role of a reformer of the Sen- ate rules. The tragedy and the absurdity Wh‘ tactics were shown in B | Re- | that ; of thei 1e needed funds | would involve a recourse to individual | two instances mentioned. The mer- chant marine bill, favored by a ma- Jority of the Senate on séveral record votes, was prevenied from coming to @ test vote on its passage by persist- ent dilatory motions and by senators availing themselves of the privilege | of unlimited debate under existing rules. The ridiculousness of the ap- plication of this powerful instrument of legisiative death was evidenced when one senator used it because the House had refused to pass a bill in {which a group of senators were in- terested. He held up important busi- ness in the closing hours of the ses- ston. No other senator is more adequately qualified to discuss the pros and cons ure in the Senate, than Senator Pep- per. An eminent lawyer and student, he is familiar with the motives and protecting the minority. As a practical jman of affairs he has in his short term of service seen the misuse of | uniimited debate, and is conversant with the popular impatience with the rules of the Senate. Congress of a proposal to restrict de- bate will be of interest and of value. The country could be apprised of the {arguments in favor of leaving debate {unhampered by time limitation, and could balance them with realization of the abuses which are patent. until a definite and overwhelming public sentiment for or against cloture is developed will the Senate be able to { change the existing system by mild modification or drastic revolution, as did the House. ————————— Not Afraid of Hobgoblins. In his letter to the licutenant gov- ernor of Ohio, President Harding has started public discussion of the pro- posal that this country adhere to the protocol establishing the International Court of Justice at The Hague, and | between now and December there un- | doubtedly will be a crystallization of American opinion which will guide the Senate to a right decision, Mr. Hard- ing's letter shows him earnestly com- { mitted to the pian, and he presents arguments which opponents will find difficult to answer. It is inconceivable to him, he say: i that the American people, who have {been so long devoted to this ideal, should refuse their adherence now to | such a program as is represented by | this tribunal. Citing that courts of { justice and equity have been found ! effective in adjustment of differences arising among individuals, the Presi- | dent contends that it is equally logical | that courts should bo established for !adjustment of differences arising among nations. The whole story of { civilization, he says, has been the {story of the effort to substitute the | doniination of justice under law for armed might. and he regards The | Hague court as one of the most im- {portant chapters in this story vyet written. The fear which has been expressed | that membership in The Hague court | would involve this country in the af- { fairs of the league of nations is so far- ! fetched as to seem almost childish. | The American people are rather too stalwart a race to be frightened by the threat that the hobgoblins will get them if they don’t watch out. If we | thing asan International Court of Jus- ice without becoming involved with { affairs in which it is not desirable that we should mix, it is about time for the United States to put up the shutters and go out of the nation business. March. The storm came two days late, but if this had been an inauguration i March it would no doubt have been on | time to take part in the ceremonies. If the streets had been full of troops and civic bodies, and the air vibrant with drums and bugles, it would have come earlier. March has been called a ! fickle month, and one on Which little { reliance is to be put, but it is a de- pendable month in one respect. It can {be depended on for bad weather. It has long been charted on the calendar as the first month of spring, but there March should have been classified as ought not, however, to use up all harsh words on March. There is some- thing to be sald in its behalf. It may be hard to say it, and in saying it there may be danger of inviting pro- tests from & large number of our citi- zens who believe that March cannot be spoken of in conservative or church-going language. But it may be | fairly said that March fs rarely a monotonous month. It can produce more varieties of weather than any other month. It can make the world glow with sunlight just as April does, and it can turn loose winds that would do credit to January. It is a month which one day puts on a cloak of green and -the: next dons a gown of white. Neglige shirts and lisle socks may be the March fashion for one hour end buffalo robes and ear muffs the next moment’s style. | —_——— More than & million dollars was re- cently paid for a famous French tapes- try, but that is not a marker to what a blanket of snow costs the street- cleaning departments of the big citles. If gasoline really does go to a dollar a gallon some of us will have to put another mortgage on our automobiles. Automobile Reciprocity. Although Congress failed to take ac- tion on the Zihiman bill, which pro- vides for a two-cent tax on gasoline in the District of Columbia, and which would automatically bring about the long-desired reciprocity with Mary- land, there is still the hope that prompt action in December, when the legislative body reconvenes, will spare ‘Washingtoniane the necessity of buy- ing 1924 Maryland tags. Optimism is expressed both in Mary- land and Washington that, even with the short notice which will probably be allowed, the arrangement can be perfected and the war of many years' standing be ended. District officials are of the opinion that the machinery for collecting putting into effect the gas tax set in motion here with small \ of this much-discussed proposal, clo- | arguments of the men who threw \h(‘: | bridle off of debate in the interest of A discussion during the recess of | Not | cannot participate in so desirable a ! | { the last of the winter months. One | after action is taken by Congress. Maryland officials point out that their task is comparatively simple. The governor can declare that reciprocity exists immediately after the passcge of the law, and presto! it is done. Gov. Ritchie has already given as- surances to the District Commission- ers that he will take such actlon, so that free use of Maryland roads, be- ginning next January, is almost as- sured. It is the devout hope of every Wash- ingtonian and Marylander, too, that Congress will, at the ecarliest possible moment, take the action that is neces- sary to make reciprocity possible. The gas tax, now used in more than eleven states, has proved an unqualified suc- cess. The motorist pays as he rides. The collection is a simple matter. The | entire tax is collected from the whole- saler. In Maryland only eight men, who are in charge of the various gaso- line companies, have to be visited by the tax collector. It is the one immediate method of getting reciprocity with Maryland. It has been approved practically unanl- mously by local motorists. It is like- wise approved by Maryland, because the suggestion originally emanated from that state. Tt is regretted that Congress did not realize the importance of the matter in its last session. This regret can be wiped out by prompt action in De- cember. Such eminently desirable leg- islation should be passed without de- lay. It remains solely in the hands of Congress. The Mocking Bird. John Sharp Willlams, long distin- guished as a representative and sena- tor from Mississippi, in bidding fare- well to public life a few days ago, said that he was going home to Mississippl where, among other pleasures, he would listen to his own band of mock- ing birds. It was a poetic little speech, phrased as few men besides Marse John could do it. Perhaps mocking birds are more plentiful around that ideal home in old Mississip’ than they are here, but they sing to us also. There are many mocking birds in the District, and, of course, in Maryland and Virginia. Under the protection of the law and because of greater mercy of mankind mocking birds are multi- plying. A man can hardly take a little walk in the country without catching a flash of the white wing bars by which the mocker may be instantly identified in flight. So highly was the mocking bird esteemed by our ances- tors that they trapped and caged him in great numbers. Nearly every old home in the country had its cage or cages of mocking birds. No longer do we make prisoners of these birds, but let them live and sing in the gardens, pastures and open woods. No other native bird sings as well as the mock- er, and he was given his name because he would imitate or “mock” the song of every other bird coming within the range he lives in. Not only does he make a medley of the songs of other birds, but he weaves these notes to- gether with jolly trills and wild cadenzas and improvisations in song | that set him as a singer above other American birds. He is proud of his talent, and will come within a few vards of you and sing for an hour. | Many men believe the mocking bird 1s a summer migrant—that is, that he comes north in spring. There are more permanent bird residents of the District, or birds that may be found in the District throughout the year, than most men know, and the mock- ing bird is one of these. ————e———————— The Reserve Board finds that e gen- erally healthy and prosperous eco- nomic condition exists throughout the country today. Whether this is a Coue cure or not, it is “good medicine” in the midst of income tax depression. ————— Russian trade unions offer 9,000 tons of foodstuffs to German workers in the Ruhr. Will this call for the gift of 9,000 additional tons of American foodstuffs for starving Russians? ———— How can Dempsey and Firpo hope to stage a fight in Buenos Afres? are authorities who maintain that the ; Wouldn’t they both be disqualified for calendarmakers went wrong, and that | hitting below the equator? Standard Oil denies there is a com- bine to control prices, but prices go up while producers complain of overpro- duction. - SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Regal Comfort. 01d Tutankhamen could not view His fame in fullest measure. A world magnificent and new Observes him now with pleasure. No longer is he asked to speak, As well as eat at dinner, Nor hear the patriots who seek ‘To make the pay roll thinner. He need not listen to the sneer Nor see the smiles that flatter, Nor stifie yawns when made to hear All kinds of idle chatter. Yet adulation’s none the less Because he is & dummy. A king’s enjoyments bring distress, ‘Till he's been made & mummy. Proof. “Your constituents as a rule show & high order of intelligence.” “Yes,” replied Senator ‘Sorghum. “Most of them have been voting for me for a good many years.” Jud Tunkins say® e man has to be wonderful well posted on fashions to know whether & woman's well dressed or only careless. Breakage in Art. A picture star got rich and spoke: “How happy shall my way be! For never more shall I be broke, Though my engagements may be.” Exacting, “What made you git mad an’ leave the restaurant?” inquired Mrs. Corn- tossel of her husband. “Dién’t you hear the waiter say the soup wes mock turtle? We want genuine or nothin’.” “De man dat thinks he knows every- thing;” ‘said Uncle Eben, “Is too gen- erous in wantin’ to talk to @verybody as smart She Is one of the workers at the State, War and Navy buflding—a dear little lady who has labored these many years for the government of the United States. Unselfishly she has tolled through the springtime and summer of life and well into the fall. And in all the years she has never overstepped by so much as the tinlest fraction of an inch the mark beyond which she belleves no lady should tread. In other words, she is of the old school of thought and manners, of whom there still are many thou- #ands in the government service to- { day. | A few days ago she rushed, all { a-flutter, into the office of the police- woman whom the War Department has stationed in the big building. “There's 4 man up there in the ladies' restroom!" she announced, ex- citedly. “He ought to be arrested “He' certalnly should,” the police- woman agreed. “I'll go up at once j and attend to his case.” And the little lady of the old school trailed along. | i They reached the restroom and the policewoman bravely threw open the door. A burst of smoke greeted her “A'man!” she exclaimed. “Why, the place 15 on fire! T little lady sniffed the air. “It's smoke,” she announced, “but T don’t think it's a real fire. It's what 1 said it was—a man.” They looked into the room. peared to be empty. “Tobacco,” commented | It ap- | the police- the little lady agreed. “That's v I'said it was a man. guess you are right. the man?" The little lady pointed to an inner door. “In there, 1 suppose,” she said. And as they were talking, the inner door opened. Out walked a halred young woman. You know-—a flapper. Coolly and unconcernediy, she made her way toward the doorway where the little ludy and the police- woman were standing. “Is there a man in there?" the police- woman inquired. “A man?" echoed the flapper in open- eyed amazement. “Well, I guess not.” ““Then, where, asked the police- woman, ' *did all this smoke come trom?" The bobbed-haired beauty tossed her head and tilted her chin. Draw your own conclusions,” replied tartly. And then the little lady, steeped But where's she in of the mark which no lady of her circle ever oversteps, blazed up in rightcous wrath. “Oh, You—you and she groped in valn for an appropriate name. “Do you Opinions Differ Widely on World Court Plan. President Harding's suggestion t the United States accept members in the Permanent Court of Interna- tional Justice, kilied through the de- the brief period which intervened be tween the Teceipt of the message and its final adjournment, through stitutional limitation, developed anew the arguments which have marked discussion of Internationalism when- ever it has been suggested. “The President and Secretary Hughes are feebly kicking and stru; gling in the grip of the inevi 1 insists the New York World (demo- cratic). “Republican congressmen and Tepubiicans generally show no enthu siusm generally.” admits the New York Herald (independent repub can). “This Permanent Court offers the substance of ternatic 1 justice, while the league’s political machinery offers only its shadow in the opinion of the New York Tribune (republi can). “The great thing is that the ad- ministration has at last put its hand to the plow. It knows the fate o those who, having done o, 100k back, says the New York Times (independ- ent democratic). Summed up. this varying view from the New York papers is reflected throughout the country. Other com- ment follows: “The court offers us a way to help in untangling some of the world en- tanglements,” Philadelphia Public Ledger (Independent Tepublican). “It would be more dignified for Mr. Harding to stick to his platform of 1920 or admit the blunder of his party and urge us joing the league,” Phila- delphia Record (democratic). “Slowly, very slowly, we are emerging from the fog which has settled over the United States ever since the drafting of the Versailles document.” Phila- delphia Enquirer (democratic). “The suggestion is momentous.” Boston Globe (independent). “Why should we hesitate a moment to become a member of the court and participate in its functions.” St. Louis Globe- Democrat (independent democratic). “The subject stirs up debate and speculation is free to range from one extreme to another—trom non-adher- ence to_complete surrender,” Wash- ington Post (independent republican). “There is too much evidence that Mr. Harding’s hand has been forced again,” Baltimore Sun (democratic). “The ‘adherence of the United States to the court, as apart from the league covenant, would shift the center of gravity of the world assocfation from the administrative to the Jjudicial function.” Baitimore American (re- publican). “What solitary good rea- on can be advanced for our holding aloof from this fine undertaking—we who since the birth of our republic have endeavored to extend the reign of law?' Manchester (N. H.) Union (independent Tepublican). “To the extent that it Is a stirring in the right direction we welcome the Pprop * New York Post (independ- ent), “Afliation with the court will not by any Implication link us up with the league,” Providence Journal (re- publican). “It would seem Mr. Hard- ing was hoping too much when he asked that the proposal be examined and acted upon solely on its merita,” Baltimore News (independent). “The great majority of Americans, no matter of what attitude toward the league of nations, favored America’s adhesion to the court” Waterbury Re- publican (independent). “The proposal will serve to keep our foreign policy, or lack of one, to the front until Con- Onions Are Praised As Germ Preventives To the Editor of The Btar: I have a little tale to tell about the domestic onion, which I would like to have you publish for the readers of The Star. I have gained and been helped lots by its helpful information and would like to pass this on. Being the most delicate one of our entire family, friends often in- quired as to how I escape such things as influenza and other diseases going about. I answer simply that I eat onions One of our family, fat and rosy and healthy &8 they come, has had the influenza twice, and almost all the family were down at once with it, six of them in the worst epidemic we bad. We could not obtain a_ nurse, 0 it fell to me to do it all. Doctors and all marveled at my not getting it. As & matter of fact all that I did was to keep & bowl of sliced onions with salt and vinegar over them on the kitchen table and during the day I would eat that bowl of onions. Another member of my family had phoid fever. The doctor left rders to keep me out of the room, #s 1 would take anything, but I foiled them again, and was in the foom most all day and part of the con bobbed- | the traditions of vesterday and mindful | cision of the Senate not to act during | mean you have been smoking a clgar- ette? “You can't tell,”” replied the flapper; ‘maybe it was a pipe—or a cigar.” " The little lady turned to the police- woman. “T demand that you arrest this—this— woman,” she exclaimed, her eyes snap- ping. “Well,” commented the policewoman slowly, ““what for?" “What for? for smoking.' The policewon looked at the flap- per, the flapper looked at the little lady little lady looked at them both. the policewoman said presently, i Smoking isn't against gainst the rule of the depart- . replied the little lady. “Fen s0" the policewoman an- swered, “rules ain't law. [ can't arrest a girl for breaking a rule. And b I'm not sure it's against the r nly in the office rooms jected the fapper, ‘Not in the rest- rooms." “You mean that you can go into the rest room and smoke all you want?” the le lady inquired. “Just that, and if you don’t believe me’ try it and see. But don't go around here ordering people arrested when you don't know what you're about’ ‘AN right, replicd frigidly, “we ter at once. A few minutes later the trio faced one of the subordinate clals, who was the flapper's immediate superfor. And then and » they held an in- formal court-mart The little lady stated the case, the policewomun dence and the 1 every word wa defend herself on th she had broken no ru The ofticial “Well,” he is right women may their desks. 1 that the idea with their work bit unscemly. Bu only to the office “If a girl puffs at 1 ints the we can do to He turned had preferred ‘m sorry.” been annoved nothing that madam.” the litte lady 1 settle this mat- cratched h said finaliv, We have “the youns rula that not smoke while at ppose. of course, it would interfer. na Ally be that rule appl rooms. nts to take a few rette when she slips oom there is nothing stop her. to the 1 1y tle lady who hat you have there is really done about the But can be But the littla lady, chin ere walking aw shouldn't th _tol more thought- the odor of scent up the Yo, You sl f others 1t the | s is 1 her curls and EDITORIAL DIGEST gress meets next December and n | it one of the issues in P Hoboken (N. 1) | (democratic). “Nothing is more than is consistent with t | tablished position and policy this governmer Philadelphia ~ Bulletin (independent). “This will be critic a haif-hearted polic: ] may be the it is all he o GE ent saw ake Observe sked tio ress (repu vlan to 10 it that omis n, as well as of co re its own” Cincinnati Commercial Tribune (independent re publican). “The proposals are found- ed in sound common sense,” Cleveland Plain Dealer (democratic). If we are 10 g0 into the court with reservations we might just as well enter_the league with reservations,” New York |(. (independent). 1 ‘The administration has tried to | keep out of the world mess. to pla the part of the useless citizen [knows well enough that something |ought to be done. but wanis son b 1 It knows better ws (independ h'can T taken for gr: If we once get all the way into th tleague's International Court we shall |80 a good deal further before we top,” “Jersey Citv Journal (demo- ratic). ‘The President shows we may take our part in heiping to restore pea and prosperity through- out the world without at the same time binding ourselves to engage in every quarrel that might arise in Eu- rope, or making it possible for other nations to commit us to a course t might be foreign and obnoxiou our national aspirations and id, Hartford Courant (republican). the administration takes another step toward carrying out and policies of Woodrow Wils: niston (Ala.) Star (democratic). “The United 'States cannot consistently stay out if in going In it avoids en- tangling itself with other organiza- tions which would rely on force as the instrument of gaining an end, per- ‘ha]!s subversive to justice. Pitts- hl!rxh Gazette-Times (republican). “Since the league of nations coun- tries do not seem to be particular about the United States squeezing into the court by a private entrance there need be no supersensitiveness on our part” Norfolk Virginia-Pilot (democratic). *““This court in due sea- gon will be handing down decisions that will seriously affect the United Stinesj' Altoona Mirror (republican). “The overwhelming public opinion in support of the world court which the President now discerns will, when he comes to study it further, be found to be almost as strongly enlisted on the side of the league of nations.~ Boston Christian Sclence Monitor, (Independent). t his country become a part of this court President Harding is merely bowing to the inexorable laws of des- tiny,” Paterson Press Guardian, (In- dependent). “President Harding and Secretary Hughes have felt the in- can). v pas: ess the Pre mi e 1 | | demanding more forward movement in foreign policy,” New York Evening World (Democrat). “Mr. Harding has moved forward and the friends of peace and international organization should warmly support him and go forward with him,” Rochester Times Union (Independent). “President Harding and Secretary Hughes have fulfilled public expectations,” South Bend Tribune (Republican). “The court 18 not foreign to American prin- ciples or American thought. Presi- dent Harding is in no danger of In- truding when he expresses the hope that the United States may become a member_of the tribunal for interna- tional harmony and peace,” Sioux City Journal (Republican). |Finds Ready Answer to Legislator’s Shaft To the Editor of The Star: ‘When the salary question was up in the House it was proposed to raise the stipend of certain employes of Congress from $1,300 to $1,500 a year. A member who opposed the proposi- tion stated that any number of men easily could be found to take the po- sitions for $50 per month. Would this member regard it a fair argument if told that any number of men, of equal or superior ability to himself and others, could readily be enlisted to sit in a congressman's chair for 32,000 a year or less? Yet congress- men new receive $7,500 a vear, with perquisites, making it $10,000. G. M. BARRETT. / —— —_—— night, as I would r until 2 in the mnrnellnl:." ther e As is well known to most—onions are germ collectors in a sickroom, and in the body as well. Some won’t eat them—as one can smell them on the breath. Personally I pre- fer the onion odor to influenza-germs, and they have kept me from many sick spells, I am convinced. When I feel bad I usually eat an onion. In fact, I cannot speak too highly of the lowly vegetable a_preventive of diseases, U WEST, | fall cam- | . | deviling how | “In advocating that | creasing pressure of public opinfon | and are talking ‘about LUXOR A herd of slaves broke loose one night— Out toward the desert they took their flight; - And Pharaoh slept. They found a green land far away, And bred their kings and had their day, ‘While Pharaoh slept. Before they fell, flung far and wide, One—was he not his slave?— had died, As Pharaoh slept. But him the sealed tomb could not keep. . Leave Pharaoh to his chamber dim Until his slave’s child sum- mons him; < Let the King sleep! —Wendell Phillips Stafford. i { NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE BLACK PANTHER: Poems. John Hall Wheelock. Charles Scribner's Sons. Poetry, like religion, has euffered much from an excess of man-han- dling. These two, it seems, set ou ahout together—on that day when 7 lifted himself up, and stood, looking across In dull wonder upon {the bLeauty and the terror of the |world. The terror close. Tt | trasled him hour and day. The beau- ity. a little blurred and distant, ne fertheless stirred new feelings within Ihim. Tumbling sounds to express this 1ift of emotlon must have come. {Gestures of appeal to the dread Mov- {er of Things must [Poetry and religion, thus born, moved forward: together for ages, the one the voice of the other. Then learning overtook man. The mania of words seized upon him. The pas- ceremonial postures pos- sed him. And later, as the world ned wider and more wide, there cnted signs, formulas, classi- to preserve order in a ed und erowded world of facts. {And these forms bore hard on both {poetry and religion, which b me had their Both rose to splendor through {power of their primal source and es- Both sank to impoten: the burden of the forms impo: {them. To be sure, there were along s way outbreakings of former fires, these, too, were smothered out by press of the machinery above Poetry, 1ik ligion, became gible, the pleasure of the few with leisure, a little power to think, la little cupacity to feel. The world )day is so full of a number of { things—motors and movi air talkings, money, no and all the rest of the be- business of getting along {that only the driving things are con- i dered And in this situation the poet has pretty nearly gone under. There is no atmosphere, no soil, for poetry, and it. like other live things. perishes and air. If a poet survives nowa- days he does it from the inner urge fof his own inspiration, from his own {sturdy will to live. But now and then one does survive, to the joy of the {handful of folks standing round jabout him. And here is one of them—John Hall | Wheelock—offering poems of so high a quality in form and substance as to | fden him with earlfer days of po- etic inspiration. It is a little book, {with but a single theme. This theme, hoiwever. covers the supreme point of human interest and concern. What am 1?7 What is life? What 1s this {within me that drives me so, that ibewilders me, that sometimes terri- What is my soul? Where 1 get it? Where is it going? {what greater thing is it a part? What am I to the rest of life? Where fand what are my contacts with this jereat unity of existence? What is the drift and direction of the whole? Just the puzzle of existence, you |see, taken in and brooded upon by Ithe poet who turns the whole Into {auery, importunity, demand. Just jagother one trying to beguile or to {force the Sphinx into speech. The author comes upon his single theme ! from various ways of approach and {through a wide range of poetic imagery. In one and another of these {poems the imagery dwells upon caged eretaures, as the soul is caged: “There is a panther ilesl Iy caged within And in “The Lion House": In vain. prond Force! A m Shecwdbe e Sogrs A6 s Around your rage that bright Prison of steel, wherein You pace for my delight. And O my heart, what doom, What warier will hus wronght The case within whose room aces your burning thought, For the delight of Whom?" An outlook upon life, this, in “Blind Players”: Dax breaks and the old drama Thfi(‘,[:;l;l k"lf In";': o Hind wakes 0 bo hunted, The Hutsman to purse The soaring of a fish hawk becomes here the ecstasy of motion, a vision jof power—slow, majestic, uplifted. {as this creature of the air takes pos- |session of its wide domain. “Sea Horizons,” somehow, some way, spreads the in‘inity of all space be- {fore one and, in effect, dissolves one out of his own bodily Self into a far, { native kinship with this immensity of !space. Strange power to be able to {fill space—just empty space—with the whole of life in its real significance, “The Divine Fantasy” is the poet's conception of what—to the man on the ground—God must have been thinking about when he created the world and the life upon it. Or, was He thinking? A gloomy spirit back of this work? | No, not gloomy—not exactly. Despair- ing then? No—not quite. These qual- ities merely tinge the whole. This is a modern man. He sees and thinks out of the drift and color of the present. He, therefore, does not create ! poetry on the basis of old, blithe ac- ceptances. Nor, on the other hand, does he sit in judgment on the work of a good God. Rather, does he hold himself, austerely, to his conception of the great plan as this is glimpsed occasionally and distantly through the medium of modern thought. Aus- terity—that's the word. That domi- nates the whole—an austerity of mood that controls both the thoughts and the form. Yet, it is very beauti- ful. For this is, in no sense, the severe parsimony of the Puritan. It is a rich thing that goes away back as far as Hebrew source for some of its most searching and impassioned words. The thoughts here are so impressive, the beauty of the verse is so clear in its rhythmic call, the imagery is so fine, the touch with the world of nature is so close that one cannot get out of calling this a body of poetry that is bound to live. One does not wish to get out of it, since the pleasure here is an abiding one, an enjoyment that Keeps.one company long after the mere reading has been set aside. John Hall Wheelock? A poet, as you Xnow—but this one judges a little on the side, with real everyday writ- ing going on. It would be that way, vet, certainly. Harvard, 1908. Travel in Europe. Study all the time. Yes, he has written other things. “The Hu- man Fahtasy’—a narrative of city life, but you may be sure this is no enumeration of city facts. It is real- ism lifted from the mess of things. “The Beloved Adventure " is a song of the sea and of love. One does not see this writer in any intimate personal relations. His poetry does not fit him into that kind of picture. However— here is certdinly a poet of whom it our good business to be proud. L G. M, was sion for 1 [ A Book of | have followed. without the support of =oil { or! CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS, Every man in the United States will {be drafted next year and compelled to lserve his country at least six weeks, {without pay. Of course, he will be compensated in his patriotic feeling that he has done his duty as a man and an American, but he will draw no Wwages, nor even commutation of quar- ters. That may be “getting back to nor- | maley,” but it is a plain duty of every man who enjoys the liberties of the {eountry not to be grouchy about giv- ing six weeks' labor to the good of the cause. * k Xk X Thore is one difference between this ‘draft and the one in 1917, when so |many were able to prove that they | 494 crooked toes or flat feet and could |not march or do picket duty, and so obtained exemption. There will be no {exemptions in this draft. If any man 'is found unable to really work as a tull man, he may have to serve double time, but the six weeks' duty is based ,upon a normal, able-bodied worker, jand {s the minimum time allotted !This is to be an industrial draft, not military. It will take all cl bank presidents, lawyers, doctors trect sweepers. Each will give s weeks of his labor —each after his {kind. None can evade; all are listed. * ok x k Not only will this draft come next vear, but, more or less, as to the ength of the service, it will be re- peated every vear—as it has been done for several years. There have been some slackers, perhaps some of mz gresent readers are end thinking that at r and May for e dra s 0 again. But did they? v deceived themselves “ time, did not succeed in fooling Uncle Sam. * k¥ Kk This is the finest government on earth; it gives the greatest liberty. We dee by the dawn's early light what 8o proudly we glimpsed at the twi light's last gleaming, and our chest swell, and our hearts beat with the proudful feeling: “I am an Amerlcan, and that is glory enough for any- body " But let us not be slackers when the draft comes and the bugle calls: “Fall in! Count off, by fours. To be an American coste money or labor, which is the same thing. * ok % x Willlam P. Helm, who likes “figger.” finds that the federal gov- ernment costs $4.665,671,504. jforty-eight state governments cost an’ additional $1,008,540.232. Count and village administra- [tions and all other expenses of civilized administration m, a |grand total running or “overhead jexpense amounting to $8,460.011.58 { Hurrah for Oid Glory! Rah! * % x % Of our population of 110.000,000 ipeople there ara 40,000,000 workers in gainful occupations, and they pro- duce in a year of fifty-two wecks a igross income of $60,000,000,000, which amounts to about seven times as mueh as tha total cost of our & ernment. So, more than one-seventh of all our gross income goes to sus- tain the taxes that run the govern- ment, federal and local. I said each municipal | government six weeks out of the year. I purposely understated the fact, for each must give one-seventh of his time and earnings to support his government, and one-seventh ex- {ceeds even seven weeks each year. * % % x Mr. Poor Man and you, Mr. Tax Dodger, quit your laughing in your sleeves at the funny thought that you evaded that draft last year, and will do 80 again. You are not fooling Uncle Sam. You are listed and the tax 18 collected; you are serving just the same as’ real patriots, for, | whether you fall in and count off, the tax is added to the price of ever: BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. While the former Austrian empire has {been persistently portrayed in print and in public utterances the most hopelessly ruined of all the independent nations of { the old world, and as on the eve of iden- tifying herself in a subordinate capacity with Italy, with Czechoslovakia, with Germany or even with Hungary in order to save itself from national extinction, British and also American capital is {pouring into the country very quietly. but at a great rate, for purposes of in- dustrial investment. Of course, these Investments are not being made with- out previous exhaustive information. As an illustration thereof, it may pointed out the once so gy ltant metropolis of Austria, which has been held up to the world during the last two vears as a city of hopeless paupers, doomed to destruction and {famine, without any prospect whatso- ever of recovery, and its population de- pendent upon appeals to foreign charity, is, nevertbeless, thanks to British and American capital, in a fair way to be- come the principal port of central Eu- |rope. Thus the former quays are being lextended so as to give the port of | Vienna a wharfage of more than twenty miles, capable of handling more than £.000,000 tons of freight a vear in the near future, and a considerably larger amount later on. The port is being equipped with all the necessary and most up-to- date contrivances for loading and un- loading, and a number of big concerns are setting up oil and coal stations. All this is being done in conjunction with the absorption of nearly the entire stock of the Danube Steel Navigation Com- pany by English and American capital, the fleet of which has been extensively increased and reorganized. Ships of 1,000 tons are entirely navigable on the Danube, even to points above Vienna anad as long as the straits of the Darda- nelles remain open to the commerce of the world Vienna will now become a new and prosperous center and port of central European trade with the outer world. Tndeed, the economic prospects of Vienna, and in consequence thereof the political and national prospects of Austria, are more promising today than even_during the most brilliant days of the Hapsburg empire. In this connection. it may be men- tioned as an indication of the extent {to which the city is looking up the [fact that Vienna will hold toward ithe end of this month an interna- tional fair. The exhibition will take Iplace in the Prater Park, in the Ro- tunda, and its adjacent buildings, most of the exhibits having already arrived. They comprise machinery. iron and meta] work, chemicals, elec- tro technical developments, etc. * Kok K Queen Mary's youngest brother, eneral the Earl of Athlone, with his wife, Princess Alice, and their chil- dren, have given up the residence which they have occupied since their marriage nineteen years ago in the Henry 1II tower of Windsor castle, which had been placed at their dis- posal by King Edward, and will from henceforth make their home in Ken- sington palace in London in which they will occupy the large and roomy apartments that had been assigned to the Princess Alice’s mother, the late Duchess of Albany. _ Kensington palace, which looks out onto the Kensington gardens portion of Hyde Park, was the favorite home ot Xing Wil 1L and it wag there e that they | to! The | man ‘would be drafted to serve the | “be | nd bril- | ftem vou buy—groceries, clothing, rent, travel cost—everything. * Ok ok K Now, who of us 1s not 'interested the economies of government and in cutting off the parasites’ of government employ Therg -are over 15,000,000 emploves and other mm;f\r aries of governmental ex- penditures. Some are bondholders ;u‘-hn simply draw intercst on the pub- ¢ del r of the debt economy exer- ns citizens a few ure—cuts off a of service. Th and will con- forever. in @3 each’ o breaths of 1 of our term comes in 192, to come annuai * x % ¥ Tn connection with the movement in the House of Representatives loak- ing to an increase of the pay of the members, from 00 to $10.000, it may be apropos to say that some of the members find it as hard to exist on the present pay as does poor Sharlie Shaplin to marry on his pal- try income of onlv $£10.000 a week, with cost of coal and meat and vege- tables all mounting up. There are some representatives who have not saved a cent—not even their credit— and cannot ever borrow again from their friends with memories. There are also some—a few—who never made, at home, In their respective vocations, half of the $7.500 they are now getting. There are some who fought most bitterly against giving the Washington school teachers an adjusted iry allowance, who are now most insistent that it s thelr own patriotic duty to make a salary grab for thems 00 2 year, jor 83080 a4t is enongh, according to th S of compara- tive values, tn Iy compensate | two ol This Einstein theory of relativi‘y might he applied tn the salary question. Bnt there will be “more anon” when the grab gets busy next December, * % % ok The House of Representatives dif- ferentiated elgnificantly in {ts con- cern as to the ay of clvil service { Fovernment employes and tho school teachers of Washington. The gov- ernment employes well deserved the reclassification legislation, which was passed at the last mos nt befors adiournment of Congress for nina manths, although, since the new schedule of salaries does not go into effact until 1924, thers might have heen hope if had been de- ferrad until 1her; the delay vould have effect. The chers’ pat s killed, and next yea h ns gsome onths atine of Con- £ Wt on Washing- | tan school affici 11 this attitude | of Congress 1w next September when the time to reopen the { schools? more little draft tinue o gro comes * X X * The reclassification of pay for the Fovernment employes had the advan- | tage over the teac * cauSe. in the Political tnflaerc nd the former { Many of the tives, howaver, | may discover tl ction toward | edueation in by edn ! political in new cha incton te | tific worl | reduced in p: act—practical duced. Appa-en ! opposed to too he on Iv the statesmen a uch “book larnin | Envious? N * ox K % There was a little Washington tot who was much impressed by the mystery of death which had visited the family for the first time since her advent. She was fied at the ex- planation given her—the body buried |in the grave. the t asce: to | heaven. A ain it was ex- | plained until at r face bright- ened. Being the child of a phys she knew what v I “Oh, now claimed. “The all the whisky (Cop British and American Capital Aids Austrian Industrial Recuperation that Queen Victorfa was horn and mpent her girlhood until she received at daybreak orning when she was ju n. the formal an- nouncement that through the death of her uncle, King William IV, she | haa succeeded to t one. Among the othe il occupants at this very lar, old palace, are Princes . the mother of the queen hd of Lord Car- risbrook, n elder eis ter. Princes vidow of the ninth and who spent some yea Canada when her hus- band. vhile 11 the marquis of Lorne, was governor zeneral of the dominion. It is difficult to realize that this gifted and most artistic princess—once the beauty of the reigning house of England, is today approaching eighty and by several years the senior of her brother, Field Marshal, the duke of Connaught. * ok Kk K Princess Santa Borghese, daughter of the ducal and princely Roman house of Borghese, and who has come to America at the instance of Premier Mussolini to deliver a serles of lectures and addresses under the American So- Znglish blood in v perhaps have something to do with her mastery of the English languag For_ her great-grandmother was Lady Gwen- dolyn, daughter of the sixteenth Lord Shrewsbury, who was the pre- mier earl of nd. It was this English Donna Gwendolyn Borghese who is the heroine of the celebrated Gorghese ghost story. She was a very lovely woman, adored in Rome on account of her charity, and succumbed to fatigue 1d pneumonia while engaged in nursing the chole: patients during the great epidemic at Rome in 1840. Her funeral was mnade the occasion of an extraordinary The students of the 3 Rome insisted upon dragging the hearse to the church Santa - Maria Maggiore, Where the body entombed in the magnifi- cent family chapel, built there by the Borghese Pope Paul V. Her hus- band, Luke Marc Anthony Borghese, who had himself placed a sapphire ring of immense lue upon his wife's finger on her wedding day, insisted that it shoutd b buried with her, and himself watched the soldering of the leaden coffin. A few days after the funeral a poor woman was arrested charged | with the theft of a sapphire ring, which had evidently belonged to Dona Gwendolyn Borghese, since it bore on the. inside, her name and the date of her marriage. The woman asserted that while she was playing in the Borghese chapel of the church the saintly princess had appeared td her and had given her the ring. On recognizing the gem, Luke Mark Anthony Eorghese ordered his wife's coffin to ba opened in his own presence and in that of several other well known persons who had watched its sealing up. None of the seals were broken, the folder was un- melted and untouched. But the hand was slightly moved and the ring was gone. Much struck by this strange coincidence, the prince not only caused the charge of theft against the woman to be withdrawn, but even provided for her welfare for the re- mainder of her days and educated at his own expense her childrem, one of whom is still living and well known in the Itallan world of lettera, te her veins