Evening Star Newspaper, March 15, 1923, Page 6

el "6 THE LVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......March 15, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor | The Evening Star Newspapcr Company | Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. Now York Office; 150 Nawman § Chicago Office: Tower Bulldiny European Office: 16 Regent 8t., London, Engu The Evening Star. with the Sunday morning *dition, 15 delivered by carricrs within the city at 80 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per month: Bunday oaiy, 20 cente per wonth. dere may be aent by wal:, or teloghone My $000. Collection {s made by earrlers at the €ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 100 Dally only.. e 1yr, 86.00: 1 mo., 508 Bunday on All Other Stafes. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Dally only. Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00; 1 mo. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Pres 1y_entitled e the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited Sn this paper and aleo the local news pub- hed “herein. Al rights of publication of Decial dispatches berein are also reserved. — e ————— The Amaryllis Show. The annual mmaryllis show staged by the Department of Agriculture is | on and blooming. Tt these exhibitions and t say it is “the 1§ in this country.” cegsive exhibition of everything is tae rgest ever, but the pres show is big and brilliant, The Department of Agriculture knows how to do such things and does them well. This exhi- bition is one of the many features of Washington which make it a great city, and perhaps the greatest home city. Washingtonians believe that they have the greatest home city and there 18 warrant for that belief. There is always something guing on, interest- ing, enlightening, educaticnal and free 10 the public. There are free lectures, frec concerts, free flower shows and other grod things without number 1o be enjoyed by the publ ts show inter d the flowers should not wilt cut being seen by everybody ested in the things of ire. Let one not hecome superenthusiastic nor et expectation too high. The amary lis is a showy flower, but in Leauty, perfume, variety and all the graces and virtues of a flower it is not in the class with the rose. There are persons who will vote that a dahlia or chrysanthemum show outshines an emaryllis and friends the gentle violet, lovely pansy and spicy carnation need have no feur that the emaryilis will those flowers in men’s love. There is sometiing in the name that calls to one. It is so old-fashioned that it is classic. There was a Grecian shepherdess of that name who was ved by the young shepherd Tityrus, and Virgll wrote of her, Why the name of a lovely shepherdess was given to this flower is for some man of great curiosity and full leisure to work out. It even may not be so, for the name may have been taken from 2 Greck word meaning the sparkle or bright glance of an eye. Though the amaryllis, enlarged and made more brilliant by hybridization by government boianists, is a de- scendant from flowers of the American tropics, the fawmily is not a stranger to us. That ancient red flower, the Bella Donna lily, or “beautiful lady™ 1lily, which grew in grandma's garden and which was descended from an African wild flower, was a near relation of the amaryllls. Our own atamasco flower, sometimes called the atamasco Ny, which grows near Washington, & relation of the amaryllis. And “atamasco” is an American classic word. Tt is Algonquin end was the viame by which the Indians called the tower. tenth of o news writers a S the display ever hel arly every how. of dispiace Income Taxes and Prosperity. By the stroke of 12 tonight, if you have not filed your income tax return, stand by for penalization for your neglect. Uncle Sam has an avaricious gleam in his eye and will let no guilty man escape; your Uncle will be glad to squeeze a little more out of you by way of a fine. Hundreds are to- day paying the penalty of procrastina- tion in discomfort as they stand in the “breadlines” hefore the several recelving stations established for ex- pediting the filing of returns. A sec- tlon of the belated public gcknowl- edges gratefully the locating of eight mdditional branch offices of the in- ternal revenue office in downtown banks end the Treasury Department building. Each rcturn must be ac- companied with at least one-fourth the emount of tax involved. Internal revenus officials, estimating upon the returns already received, cal- culate that the taxes collected this vear will exceed those for the previous rear. Officials in the New York field, vress dispatches say, predict the ex-| cess will be considerable, *“with fewer financial losses ghown and more sub- stantial profits.” That sounds good, indicative of bet- ter and sounder business. About all the comfort the citizen gets out of the income tax, considered as @ per- =onal infliction, is the assurance of the increased receipts that times really are better. “Figures do not lie” and somebody must be prospering. ————— Murphy, the Tammany Hall le. ier, says the saloon has gone forever, yet there are still those up in New York who wish it had gone farther end tared worse, et e 1f this thing keeps up it may be necessary to form a bloc to block the blocs. e China and Japan. Controversy between China and Japan resulting from the former's offorts to abrogate the SinoJapanese treaty of 1915, embodying the *‘twen- ty-one demands,” brings a discordant, mote into the harmonious progress of far eastern relationships, which have seen such a remarkable betterment since the Washington conference on the lmitation of armaments. It is not to be apprehended that the affair will 1ead to an open rupture between 4t 1s to be feared that much of -the inter- | 1 ought to be taken of it | good feeling which has.followed recent acts of the Tokio government will be dissipated. 3 It would seem that the Peking gov- crnment was not well advised in press. ihg for abrogation of the treaty at this time. Tt is true that the “twenty- ‘one demands” were obnoxious to jus- |tice and fair dealing and that the no-Japanese treaty was pressed upon { China, if not at the point of the bay- oret, at least at the point of an ulti- matum. But time and an aroused sense of international righteousness were working on the side of China, and the great lethargic republic, which has so prolonged a record of patient waiting, might beiter have waited a little longer rather than Jeopardize its prospects by rtrying te make too rapid progress. 2 At the time the “twenty-one de- mands” were presented American opinion was almost solidly on the side of China and this’government did not hesitate to manlifest its disapproval. But China yielded, signed the treaty, and the “demands.” including an ex- teasion for fifty years of the Japancse lease on the Kwangtung peninsula, became an accomplished fact, 1In {pressing these demands and coercing China into accepting them, Japan did enly what other nations at that time were doing whenever opportunity of- | fered: she looked after her natlonal !interests, without regard to the rights L of others . | But since that day there hus come [into the world a new conception of ! national even if it is not | apparen: the conduct of {some of the aations. That Japan has {been touched by the new spirit and | i responsive 1o it was evidenced by {the agreements the Washington conference and by the scrupulous good faith with which she has kept her promises, involving of material interests which she had obtained under a color of legal right. Had China waited this new spirit might have redressed the wrongs of the “twenty-one demands.” {1t is to be hoped that this still may !be brought about, but Japan has re- Jacted as any other seif-respecting va- | tion would react when it felt that too much pressure was being applied. —_————————— Liquor and Legislation. Severa) developments yesterday were roted in the nation-wide “wet” “dry” ficld. In the Pennsylvania legis- lature Gov. Pinchot, who is backing a new prohibition-enforcement act, won the first round in what was predicted worality, always in sacrifice i The state senate passed his bill by a vote of 30 to 15. to the signal dis- | comfiture of those prophets. When the governor made his inaugural ad- dress he announced he was going to clean up Pennsyivania. notorious for being not only “wet" in spots. but thorough drenched. Which state. ment hrought forth loud jeers from the wets. The biil passed the upper house of the legislature, “after long debate.” the dispatches say, by a two- to-one vote. So it goes from time to time; they do not always vote as they talk when it comes to the roll-call test. They talk wet and vote dry. Whether one's personal predilections are for & modi- cum of moisture or complete prohibi- tion, facts cannot be overlooked. To be sure. therc are encouraging de: velopments on the side of the wets, i such as the New York legislature pe- titioning Congress for light wine and beer. and New Jersey still boasting of being “as wet as the Atlantic ocean.” Tn New York counsel for the Anti- Saloon League gave notice that they would appeal from the decision of the state supreme court that the Anti- Saloon League is a political organiza- tion and must account for its receipts and expenditures the same as auny party campeign committee. This de- cision gave great comfort to the wets, who are now engaged in a vigorous attack upon the league in several states, seeking to dry up the sources of its funds. The league contends that it is not @ sporadic political organization, but “an educational institution, function- ing twelve months in the year with a specific moral purpose in view.” A very pretty point of distinction, which eventually the United States Supreme Court may be called upon to decide. Savings. The Postmaster General is advertis- ing the postal savings system, With other things, he has ordered the dis- tribution of 25,000 letters in Itallan among the East Side population of New York. These are intended for the education of people who seem to be ‘“‘easy marks"” for swindlers, who promise remarkable interest return on money left with them. The postal savings system is good and advantage by the people. Savings banks run in accordance with the law are also highly beneficial. The Postmaster General's aim is good. Anything that will direct peo- ple's minds to saving part of their earnings is to be commended &nd sup- ported. The thrift habit is one of the highly valuable habits, end the man or woman without this habit is in danger of being a candidate for the poorhouse when years weaken the arms and back aend bring on other troubles that often come with age. ————— There are plenty of politicians who will concur with the decision of the supreme court of New York that the Anti-Saloon League is a political or- ganization. —————— 1t is too bad that so many pennant- winning hopes now sprouting in southern training camps must, wither under the suns of July end August. ——————————— The Coal Gouger. ‘The United Mine Workers of Amer- ica, the principal trade union in the coal mining industry, has filed a state- ment with the Federal Coal Commis- sion in which the charge is made that operators of mnon-union bituminous coal mines in West Virginia are “gouging” coal consumers. It is al- leged that the prices set by those operators are too high and are not warranted by the cost of getting out the coal. Those filing the charges say that the operators in question she entered into at| and | to be a losing contest with the wets. | THE EVENING there has been no increase in wages paid to the men who dig the coal. The statement that coal consumers are being “‘gouged” will noj astonish the consumers. They have suspected it for ‘some time. In fact, it has been more than a suspicion with them. It has been a conviction. They do not know who the “gouger” is, but they bave suspected everybody engaged In the coal mining and coal distributing industry. The operator pleads inno- cence, and says his hands are clean and that it is all the miner's fault. The union miner says his conscience is as pure as new fallen snow and that the operator is the fellow the con- sumer should get. Sometimes miner and operator Wwill stand together and point their accusing fingers at the raiiroad. Again, miner, operator and railroad will confer and point out the caal dealer as the African in the cnal’ pile. Then the coal dealer comes for- ward with a statement of income and expenditures and will say that he is just able to keep the wolf from the door and settle with the grocer at the end of the month. And so it goes. Some time, perhaps, the coal consum- ers, all of them quite mad because of imposition, will get together and find out who the gouger is or who the gougers are. Then there will be a new deal with a clean deck. —————— It may be true that the Stand- ard Ol interests could put the cost of “rus” to a dol per gnllull-—l»ul‘ i { they will not, for the same reason that | Senator La Follette will never charge | the nation $1.000.000 a vear for the services Gver which he excreises an | absciute monopoly. ———— Japan. in her friendly rejection of the Chinese proposal to abrogate the Sino-Japanese treaty containing the tamous “twenty-one demands,” seems to have had in mind the admonition of Publius Cyrus, “Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.” ———— Announcement that it would require least two vears for the United ates 1o attain membership in the World Court of Justice ought to permit Senator Hiram Johnson to enjoy his holiday in Europe. at —_——— Lloyd George says Europe is acting as if the British empire did not exist. This theory of “Count us out of the dishwashing, but in on the dessert,” may not appeal to Burope. at that. —_———— The claim of the fever girl that she was only fooling when she last said she was only fooling would seem to prove that there is nothing <o con- sistent as feminine inconsistency. ———— Hindenburg hints Germany wmay have to fight a war of honor. That at least would he a variation from Germany's last war. —_———— Scrator La Fullette denies he pre- dicted dollar gas. probably on the the. ory that he knows Standard Oil is too wise quite to kill the goose. ——— Minister Sze probably feely the STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 15 1923. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Miles Poindexter. newly-appointed American ambagsador to Peru, will safl for Lima on April Word reaches Washington from South America that the former senator's nomination for the Peruvian mission causes lively satisfaction in ‘that country. It is being said. at Lima that the United’ States has never sent a more eminent American to a South American diplomatic post—a man who wag a leader in the Senate. who once was “presidential and who latterly was mentioned for cabinet rank. Ambassador Poindex- ter will ind a considerable group of fellow Americans at work In Peru. For nearly two years a Unitéd States naval misston has been there, and since 1931 Dr. W. W. Cumberland. a State Despartment economic expert, has bees adminlstrator of Peruvian customs Latterly” ‘he hak taked charge o1 the Peruvian Reserve Bank. * % kK Harry 5. New might have had a soed job from Willlam M. Calder of New York, a brother “lame duck,” if President Harding hadn't made his Hoosler comrade Postmaster General. A week or two before Congress ad- Journed. Calder sald to’ New: “Sen- ator. on the of March Tl be buck ess of huild- It cting. 17 bricktayer. Tl day. If you es iy earn $1.50 a day common labor and ean swing a shovel. vou can have $4.50.° New is using Calder's offer of remunerative work in the huilding trades as an ad- vertisement of thy high wages prev- alent under the Harding administra- tion. morning at my busin & vontr Fou're w carpen- give you £12 carry « hod. von Tt you're just ter or * % % Rear Admiral William 8, Sims, U. S. N. (retired), is leaving for the Pacific coast this week, to be the Buest of the University of Californta at Berkeley. e will address the faculty and 14,367 students of that institution on national issues asso- clated with preparedness. In the realm of naval preparedness, Sims is “ partisan of aircraft. California universitz clalms the biggest ment of any in the country. The College of the City of New York is next with 18,744, and then comes Chicago. with 11 Admiral sims has a speaking itinerary that will take him up and down the whole Pacific coast during the rest of Mareh | and in April ¥ % F Before President Harding leaves Florida Jumes J. Davis, Secretary of Labor. hopes to induce him to Moosehaven, the home for the aged timber"” | enroll- | WILLIAM WILE of the Moose order, recently estab- lished at Orange Park, Fla. The {home .is on the Indian river, some | twenty miles from Jacksonwille, and | is to serve the same purposs for the old folks of the Moose that Moose- heart in Tllinois serves for its or phans. Secretary Davis of the order. which in sixteen years. under his director generalship, has grown from a membership of 257 to more than 600,000. P Politicians of both parties are anx- ious to corral the “state vote” domi- eiled in the disfranchised District of Columbia. Th estimate the “po- tential total” at 50,000, representing. of course, all part uand every state In the Union. Efforts are being made, particularly by the republican or- ganization, to have such states as do not possess absent-voter laws enact them and also to have such *statutes made uniform ¥ % ok % Before he returns to Washington to become third assistant secretary of state J. Butler Wright, now on spe- cial duty at Rio de Janeiro, will function as secretary of the Ameri- can delegation to the pan-American conference in Santiago. He Is one of our diplomatic specialists in Latin American affairs. having served at P roth Central and South American Lrosts and also ax chief of the Latin { American divicion of State De- partment ! Therell soon { would-be Ameri in Canada be no @ e o 1 trust magnates to | 1o launch trade-re- | straining monopolies. W. Mackenzie- King, premier of the Dominion. has just proposed to the Canadian parlia- ment stringent trust-busting laws, which hitherto have not been in force. Henceforward any one who is a party to, or privy to, or knowingly assists in. the formation of a combine In Can- ada will_be guilty of an indictable offense. 1f convicted he may be fined jup to $10,000 and sent to prison for | & term not exceding two years. Cor- porations may be fined $25,000 i * o ouvlidges, Washington's most Kfusted, iunched #nd dined fum can’'t even slip into town without being invited out flitted across the District { week from Virginia to Massa-husetts i were by # Bostonian j admirer and beguiled into tuking | diinner &t the very hotel which is their Washington home. In as it may . the digestions of the and his delightful weathered the late praud: unshattered. Their ! ha neestry standing them in goud Stead. | (Coprrghr. | The bre: | iy | iy on a As this 1o they captured “ 1923 EDITORIAL DIGEST Record of Sixty-Seventh Con- gress Viewed Through Editorial Specs. The Sixty-seventh Congress adimit tedly had more foes than friends. It had a hard task to handle. Now that its record is history editors sum up the merits or defects chiefly from privilege of returning to Washington is ample compensation for loss of his cabinet job. A little thing like apoplexy cugh* not to bother Lenin. after all tha “deaths” he has survived. SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Modern Instance. Maud Muller on a summe duy Was helping to put the wheat away. And she sighed sometimes for distant lands, Where the girls don't assist the har. vest hands. The judge rode by—a man of note— To see how her father meant to vote. And he craved a drink, and she coyly laughed At his compliment as he gazed and quaffed. His heart beat fast. “Good-day. Then remarked, “Giddep:” and pur- sued his way. But he said, She watched him go. 4nd she softly sighed. 'Tis a lucky lass who becomes his bride!” And the judge sighed, too, with his brain awhirl, “Maud Muller's a stunningly hand- some girl.” The years passed on, and the usuael fate Came to those who mix in affairs of state. Maud's family labored from dawn till dark As the price of wheat reached the dol. lar mark. : And her bright eyes shone with a fresher charm As she lifted the mortgage off the farm. While the judge, he owned with & dismal sob, ‘Was e politiclan without a job. Juvenile Derision. You grown folks oft grow tedious ‘With your superior airs. You seem to think your learned words Of history and affairs Bespeak a deference for you ‘Which must not know alloy. Your mien is proud and haughty Because you're not a boy. But you can't venture out of doors ‘Without your overshoes, Nor laugh to hear the wind that roars; ‘The winter's zest you lose. And all the viands that make glad Your youth began to cloy Long since. You dine on mush and 3 milk, Because you're not a boy. You know, perhaps, how stocks will 80, Or how the planets move, And T must learn such things in time, A sorry task ‘twill prove. 8o since my penance is 8o sure Forgive, if I annoy, By boasting for & few short years Thet 1 am now & bay jopinion partisan angles. The which fnsist on thelr independence of political thought general agree that much left undone that should have been executed, while there also is a wide difference as to how the country will take the completed tale of achieve- ment very was ion viewpoint. holds much of in- President Hard- nh sees the only ex- administ which naturally terest, is volced by ing's own Marion Star, wh as well done, There echoed. and that pressed in the statement “if the measur: for thé reorganization of the merchant marine had been enac! ed the Sixty-seventh Congress would wor is one regret have rounded out a splendid record of achlevement.” Then, after review- ing the other accomplishments with dmitted pride, the blame for money and time lost through failure to enact shipping legislation does not lie with the party in power in Congress. It lies with the minority in the Semate—princi- pally Democrats—which seized the opportunity to defeat the siipping bill by misusing the rules of the Senate.” Summarized. the general comment. as reflected by selections from na- tion-wide editorial pages. is us fol- lows: “Except for the bill creating the budget bureau not a single out- standing plece of constructive legts- lation is to be found among the measures enacted.”"—Chicago News (in- dependent). “There has rarely been a session of Congress that has had less o show for its labors,”"—Baltimore Sun (democratic). ¥Congress worked overtime and contributed its share to reconstruction, A tribute to the com- prehensiveness of its labors may be found in the fact that for the first time since 1915 the country can now Jook forward with serenity to a full nine _months’ ° legislative recess. New York Tribune (republican). “It is not a Congress to which we can point with pride, though it has done some _excellent work."—St. Louis Globe Democrat (independent). **Alto- gethor the record of the administra- tlon and Congress is something which no American can—or at least ought to—contemplate without mortifica- tion.—Philadelphia _ Record (demo- cratic). “As the public sees it the less the law-making the better the law-enforcement.”” — Richmond ~News Leader (democratic). “Its record is a story of opportun: ity wasted. It was an anti-personal lberty Congress and it was against personal liberty at a time when per-. sonal liberty has become the slogan and shibboleth of the American peo- ple."—Buffalo Times (democratic). “Small wonder that the Sixty-seventh Congress takes its place in legislative history under the shadow of a smash- ing personal rebuke,"—Lynohburg News (democratic). “It is a good rid- dance, Many as were its sins of omission and commission, its beset- ting sin was a wanton disregard of the general welfare in order to serve the local pork barrel. As a result of the usurpation of newspapers | ¥ of | the Star suggested | power of the j1ast two vears, government at | Pennsylvantia Loy oligarehy sentatives pendent | the | Brit reutin { priation b ment, the the ise Republican ringleaders we have had for—the instead of one-man the executive end of avenue. a government in the House of Repre- Boston Transcript (inde- republican). “Trasmucn as short-session, ~ excepting the i debt legisiation, and the enactment of the app: Is was devoid of achiev clection of last N nd_as the popular Herald tindepend- Many comiendable points could aken up in but altogether 11d not remove the conviction that the Sixty-seventh Congress mise- i ed mreat opportunities for clean-cut Iwork and muddied through rather than wo through to what it ac- —Detroit Freo Press (ind o use an expression made at the death-bed of one of the Stuart kings, nothing so becomes the life of the Sixt:-seventh Congress as the leaving of it"—St, Paul Dis- { puteh tindependent) al work during the last (reveal a large amount of constructive {lesisiation which the precedin iministration failed to enact"—Kansas City Journal (republican “Uncle nnor. who retired with Con says the world is growing bet. 1cle Joe should know"”—Oakland tindependent republican). truly be safd of this Congress it was @ Congress of great i possibliities and opportunities: that tion of two years | the public entertained great expecta- | | tions | whiie largel. regarding it; that its record, not entirely’ dizappointing, <o, and that the public breath «d a sigh of relief when it died, then | forgot it, except to cuss it occasion- 11" —Roanoke World-News (inde { pendent democratic). “There were fetw tears over its swan song’—Watertown IStandard (republican). “Tt ac plished m gratifying resalts, | creditable alike to the administration and the party in power'—Passaic Herald (republican). “It accomplished some good results. but its passage will not be regretted”—Williamsport Sun (independent). If President Harding saved Con- gress from the liability of the Bursum pension bill, Congress pald the debt by saving him from the liability of ship subsidy"—New York Post (in- dependent). “It went out without re- gret from any section. It outlived fts usefulness and its welcome —New York Globe (independent). Tt cannot be successfully denied that some of its accomplishments not only were noteworthy, but epochal. Ratification of the Washington treaties and the approval: of the British debt settiement proposal were items which deserve high place in the istory of constructive legislation — | Peoria Transcript (independent). “The rise of the farm bloc is merely an- other evidence of what happens to a weak Congress, running wild amidst great responsibilities” — Pittsburgh Sun (democratic). “Inevitably the compensation of much legislation needed. and other justified, will not be lost sight of in the midst of the partisan and prejudiced clamor of ap- proval"—Cincinnati Commercial-Trib. une (republican). “The net result of |the session was negative rather than I positive, and it would be hard to de- fine the policy of the period”—Charles- ton (S.'C.) Post (independent demo- cratic). “The failure of the Congress was due to its inability to get into vital contact with the tremendous realities of the modern world. In scorning the Wiltonian ideals, it fell into the error of ignoring facts'— Binghamton Press (independent). “If the Congress hed done nothing else the feat of retrenchment would be enough to entitie its services to the country's grateful _appreciation”— Providence Journal (Independent). IN A FEW WORDS An {nvitation over the telephone, ex- cept by an intimate friend, is bad manners, because it gives the invited person no time to consider the matter. —JOHN MAYNARD KEYES. The obhief fault with the modern bueiness girl is that she goes in for the extreme or overjazzed things and ‘becomes clothes-conscious. —LETITIA D. If the pitchers stand up the Giants will win another pennant. Pitts- burgh and Cincinnat{ are the clubs 'we will have to beat. I don't think much of the Cartlriin MeORAW, MARVIN. The men who discovered a oure for the hookworm by so doing were learning the will of God more effec- tively than drowsy church members dimly attentive to ritual. —DR. PERCY STICKNEY GRANT. Women have to do things better than men to prove their right to do them at all. —ROSE ROTHENBERG (Assistant Dis- trict Attorney, New York City). Lent. intended for a time of fasting and praying, has become little more than a social period for moral mani- ieuring. —REV. JOSEPH NEWTON. The coal ‘r.aflteen should be put where they belong—behind the bars. Let us be done with this go-snd-sin- no-more st DR, JOHN WA PRRCELLL o is chieftain | redible y ad- ! The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN, Speaking at a dinner of the Ameri- can Federation of, Arts held in this city in Way, 1915, Willlam M. Chase sald that if lie could have his way he would have insoribed over the en- trance of every art gallery or mu- seum the words: “These works are for your pleasure and not for your criticism.” More than most men, he had the right to make this sugges- tion because his own enjoyment of art was intense. He was one of those who seem to have been ‘ipredestined” to be artists, for, so far as his blographers have been able to dis- cover, his inclinations in this direc- tion could neither be laid to heredity nor environment. His early boyhood Iwas spent in Indiana at a time when {life in midwestern citles was ex- ;lremtly raw and unplcturesque. His Ihtlher kept a shoe store and had 1it- tle sympathy with his Son's artistic longings, but William Merritt Chase was fixed in his determination to de- vote his life to art and the firmness of his purpose eventually brought success. * ¥ ¥ % Because he had to make his way against opposition and in the face of most trying circumstances he was late in starting, but he succeeded be- yond his fondest hopes. He is one of the really great flgures of Ameri- can art, and one desiring to know what an artist's life is at the best cannot do better than read “The Life and Art of Wilham Merritt Chase,” {writien by Catherine Metealf Roof published some years ago by Churles Scribner's Sons. Miss Roof Was it one thie one of Chase's pupiis {and was chosen by the artist as his biographer, becaus s Mrs. Chuse has put it, “she had the real and right appreciation of art and an espe- clally sympathetic understanding of his own work"—in short, the paint- er's standpoint, which, to’again quote Mrs, Chase, “is the exact opposite of the ‘literary attitude toward art”” It Was In every way a wisé choice, for in this book Miss Roof has given us not only the facts of the artist's life, but the spirit in which it was lived, and has made us know Chase both 4s man and artist. It is a fascinatin story, a delightful blography—a boo which every lover of art should read. % %% The memorial exhibition of 3 Chase’s paintings now on view in the Corcoran Gullery of Art has brought both the painter and the book to {mind ling at the same time the rapld passage of vears. for obviously the works fncluded in this collection are of yesterday; yet it was not scemingly so long ago that Chase was considered a revolutionary, the older nmien locking upon him as a {disturbing element, an innovator— which he was, for that matter. He wus the first president of the Soclety of American Artisis, which was made up of the more progressive young artists who seceded from the Na- tional Academy of Design. It was through him and on his recommen- ida that Manet's “Boy With Sword” and “Girl With a Parrot were purchased for the Metropoiitar Museum of Art He taught his pu- pils to paint broadly and to be cour- ageous, for whilc he laid great stress upon profliciency in technique he could not abide timidity. He was a great teacher. I belleve” lhe is quoted as having said himself, “I am the father of more art children than any other art teacher.” and it was undoubtedly true. Teaching with him was an enthusiasm. perhaps be- |cause his youthful struggles had been so great and had made such a pro- found {mpression upon him that he had an intense desire to help others, To nhis pupiis Wwas MOSt generous. almost paternai, following their progress with the utmost sympathy, and. as they succeeded oftentimes becoming patron as well as master. purchasing their works, |exchanging "Wis own sketches for {theirs, in manifold ways stimulating |their progress and rejoicing ‘n William M. Chase had a passion fo paintings—in fact, all sorts of Works of art. He was not only u pamnter. Ibut a cotlector. and that which w: ireally beautiful thrilled him jutmost. He had, furthermore. a gift {for comradeship and the roster of his friends and intimate ussoclates was lone of which any man might be roud. Currier, Shirlaw. Duveneck. Twachtmann and Blum were his great riends from the Munich days on. argent and Whistler painted his por- tralt and he painted Whistlers. He lived a happy. improvident life. That is, he often spent more money than {he had. and he often bought what he jcould ill afford, which naturally led to difficulties, but for the moment the clight of possession was supreme and for the morrow he never took anxious though He atic over the works ot the great Spanish painters. He re- joiced with the joy of u discoverer in {the collection of italfan paintings in ithe National Gallery of Art in Lon- don, but he hated with striking in- tensity the works of the pre- | Raphaelite brotherhood. and he had ittle or no patience with the mon- strosities which the first postimpres- jonists set forth. The writer chanced to be in attendance at an exhibition held in the National Arts Club, New York, by a group of post- impressionists some years ago, when Mr. Chase came in. A young man in charge greeted him warmly and took him about, explaining the ex- hibits. Mr. Chase made no remark, until finally the Young man said “Don‘t you think it is wonderful, Mr. Chase? Wonderful, indeed,” ' was his reply: “provided. of course, that it should turn out that all the old fel- lows like Velasquez, Rembrandf, Ru- {bens and the rest should really have ibeen all wrong and you young fellows should be right.” Chase's interest in still life really began with study of the works ot Chardin and Vollon in Paris. but it was not until 1904 that he painted his first fish picture. That year he was in London and, passing a ish- monger's shop, he saw a large, opalescent cod lving upon a marble slab. Finding that it was rather ex- pensive. he suggested to the fish- monger that he rent it for a few hours, but as {t was Saturday and a half-holiday it was some time before he was able to make the ararange- {ments. “When." according to Miss Roof. "the fish was not returned on time the fishmonger sent an emissary to the painter's studio to find out what was going on. His report, whatever it was, evidently aroused curiosity. for in a little while the fishmonger himself arrived on the scene, coming in so quietly that the painter did not hear him.” “When dis- covered, however, he said most re- spectfull ‘urry, sir; it's get- ting on fine” And he waited pa- tiently until the picture was done, That picture was purchased for $2,000 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art and was the first of a long series of fish pictures. The last thing, how- ver, that Mr. Chase desired was fame as o painter of fish, and when some one made the suggestion that through these paintings he would eventually secure lasting fame he said, rather sadly. that perhaps it were true that only as a painter of fish would he be remembered. But with such figure paintings to his credit as the Whistler Iportrait. the “Lady With a Shawl." the “Lady in Black.” the child pof- trait of “Alice” and a score of others thi: should not be the case. and, whatever may be the future verdict as to the worth of his art, it should never be forgotten of William Merritt Chase that he was a lover of art and that he brought to his task of cre- ative work a tremendous fund of en- thusism, the well-spring of which was eagerness to pass on to others ereat ont in besuty which he y exporiemoed prised, erest and | to the! | | Mind ences. ‘crippled” Straightjacket to the insane. Brutal, cowardly attack upon the helplessly straitjacketed by bruiser attendant, Bones shattered; in- ternal injuries; may prove fatal. Hard-bolled” attendant cuted? No, no; just turned upon the public. Veteran now crip- pled both in mind and body after one year at the front and three in the Veterans' Bureau, No savage ever attacked an insane person; only civilized “brave” dare be 80 cowardly. Gen. Hines promises to stop that kind of treatment of vet- erans. by battle experi- “control” prose- loose * k *x ¥ “Conduct unbecoming an officer and & gentleman” may be the court- martial charge preferred agaainst all Army and Navy officers listed in @ card index of a bootlegger arrested {n Washington a day or two ago. It is a long list, including colonels and naval commanders. The Secretarics of War and Navy have ordered inves- tigations. Army und Navy men and other officlals of government are sworn to uphold the laws of the nation, whether they favor the law or oppose it. Some officlals seem to think the of Army and Navy officers mean what they say and that officers, congress- athi been of who haz such of a wall and editorials have written upon folly undertake uunecessary as climbing the outsid thereby meet tragic deaths. What of the equal folly of swallowing moonshine and then racing with au- tomobiles in the ‘“early morning hours™ until they bump into some blg There are differ- but the the m tree or stone wall? ent degrees of folly, much the same. end is P Two days before final adjournment of the late Congress Representative Blanton of Texas got permission to the Congres They appear in the The subject is the “report filed Ly the special committee on the pe the notorious draft dodger, Grover Cleveland Bergdoll” That special committes wWas appoint- ed April 18, 1921, to investigate a the circumstances of that notorious escape. On August 18, 1921, after having spent $6.441.85 in its fnvesti- gation, the committee filed a com- plete reporf of the circumstances which seemed to point tu bribery and {eoilusion In the escape That report has slumbered in com- mittee ever since the special commit- tee filed it, over two and a half vears ago. Mr. Blanton tended remarics" “Is the House of Repres: atives going to bury this report without ac- tion? 1If so. why? Why should not ithe guilty be punished? 1s anybody connect=d with the government now shielding the guilty? * ¢ o And w Why “extend his remarks in sional Record. March 10 iscue temands in his “ex- was he employed as counsel by another select _committee of the House. at a $15.000 fee, about the time the Bergdoll committee had him under investigation? Is the govern- ment going to continue to employ him and pay him big fees Concerning this problem the republican party must make answer to the country.” And Congress adjourne qaaye later without taking an action on the report. Mr. Bergdoll is still mocking Ame an justice from his {safe retrest in Germany. Perhaps n Igreater punishment could be inflicted lon him than now enduring us a fugitive. but if there are Americans fwho have gutlty knowledge of how he escaped they are more guilty thau Ihe Declare i To the Editor of The Star Now that the much-heralded called “Cancer week over and past, and the public has had an op- portunity of digesting and weighing the value of the urgent claims that the “American Soclety for the Con- trol of Cancer” has put forth, it 1s perhaps well to consider the subject from its serious aspects. Through a newspaper clipping bu- reau we have received no less than 835 notices which have appeared 1 lthe daily papers from Maine to Cali- fornia, which must have entailed lenormous expenditure of time, effort and money; these represent no less than 4300.5 inches, or 114791 yvard: of newspaper columuns, advertising {what is thought by many to be uot lonly useless but harmtul advice. Attacks Surg! 1 Dominancy. I Al know, or should know. that un- <o~ is in the United States, as shown DY iyearly mortality reports,. has rieen. between 1900 and 1920, almost 33 per cent. the mortality increasing from §3 per 100,000 population living in 1900 to 85 in 1920. _And now DY special report from Washington 1t has still further mounted to 87.9 per 100,000 in 1921, in the same registra- tion area. while during the same pe- riod the number of deaths from tu- berculosis has fallen 43 per cent un- der wise medical supervision. The society does not tell the public that there are now propnl»!)’ 500,000 persons in the United States suffer- lmx from real cancer and that under the prevailing method of regarding the cancer surgeons agree that ninety out of each 100 persons once affiicted with it die from the disease. They do not say that there are 80,000 deaths from cancer vearly in the United States, with con- | sequently 80.000 new cases develop- |ing_each vear, mor do they tell the public what they hiive done or pro- pose (o do to prevent those new cases from developing each vear: there has not been one word in regard to the prevention of this dire disease! “Terrorized the People.” The Society for the Control of Can- cer was started in 1913, and during the following vear, 1914, & number of cancer surgeons toured the country, and, by means of printed literature and addresses, wherever they could get an_audience, terrorized the peo- ple, advocating early and repeated operations and the immedlate sur- gical removal of everything which they chose to call pre-cancerous le- slons, even warts and moles. The result of all this was shown in the mortality reports issued by th United States census bureau for 1915, that the actual deaths reported that r from cancer had increased b. an amount which was double th for the average yearly rate of the five receding years! Thus, instead of controlling cancer suffering and mor- fality. the result of the agitation seems to be the reverse of what was wished, for even from 1820 to 1921, the death rate was still rising yet Hore, wven to 86 deaths from cancer in 100,000 population, against 83.4 in 1920, and treating Death Rate From Cance: It is interesting to ask what the society has accomplished or hopes or expects to accomplish when dur- ing these eight or nine vears of its existence the mortality from this disease has steadily risen from 79 per 100,000 living persons in 1913 to 87.9 in 1921; that is, 8.9 more per- sons out of each 100,000 population have died from cancer. This does not look like a control of the disease. Also, in New. York city, with good surgery and abundant use of X-ray and radium, the violating their sworn obligations is “eonduct unbecoming an officer’—and g ie. leman—even | @ plain eit i : i i i at is to be done with Gen. Anseli: | |der surgical dominancy the death rate | — CAPITAL KEYNOTES e BY PAUL V. COLLINS The coral “bugs” work for man: vears under the surface of the ocear and no results are apparent to t.e passerby until the foundations of tb« reef arc all laid deep aud strong. Al last the coral begins to show in the sunlight. In much the same way scientific re- search goes on and the general public knows nothing about its progress nor Buesses its aims. It {s quite pos that much of its slow bullding koes for naught, some efforts are dup! cated, and therefore largely wast but, on the whole, a mighty structure is rising which may some day inclose a safe harbor. * ok ok ox l The Jayman often sneers at science ridlcules microbes and bacteria, and the 1peasuring of the heat of invisibl stars at infinite distances from the earth. He wonders what that has 1, do with the price of bread. Yet the science of health has so pro gressed that the average length of u man’s life today is double what . was in Shakespeare's time and hax increased 40 to 50 per eent since the preagnt generation was born. A hu dred’ years from now men will aver age 100 years before they retire from active business. This is not chance it is the fruit of “pure scienc India, where today the millions are no more enlightened than were the masses of England in Shakespeare's {day, the longevity no greater than it was in akespeare's Kngland- twenty-five year: In America it now exceeds fifty years. FEurops savantis Know w lof of scien but Furopea {masses do not practics sanitation #< {do the’ Americans. In no country 1applled science so potent as here » There in Washington at I« three councils ‘of scientific researcl devoted to delving into knowledz: not yet known, if such an expressio: may be used. They are, like D: Coblentz of the bureau of standard weighing the distant and the invisi ble; but they. too, are getting results which will become of great value | the next decade, How much are these searchers Gu plicating effort? The National Re search Council asked that quest {two vears ago and mittee to find the answer. mittee has now made its repor finds that in jseparate {1,000 scientific under 353 projects, two-th new knowledge by igation: others deal wit |ing and teehnical service, |statistics. ete This scient 141,000,000 3 ar, of wh i« horne by the gove comes from outside es and sun {port, us from the great “foundatic: 1of Carncgie and Rockefeiler. « * are | secking invest rout & o research is 1 $14.000.000 1. Theres The chief of the government sci tific acti are thos partment Agriculture partment Commerce, | ¢ standards and geodetic inext in rank. * % % es of surv, osely allied with the seie |search above referred to comes t ctical application of sanitation ar h work by the National Counc: Work, which will hold i+ meeting in Washingtc May 16 to 23, This organization takes the broadest view of social cond tions and applies the most advancec me f ¢ ing the evils and diseases fighting against the healtn |prosperity " and peace of mankind |The officials ure appealing for volu teer helpers in the work of spreading Knowlec health and Isocial work pres: {dents of universities, sors. medic lof tie hizhes: |pr: I ea] of Socia! Inext nual in officials are college p “Cancer Week™ Agitation Futile. #d by the board Weekly Bullet as actually r health in the ceeded those from fubere 431, whereas hitherto thos tuberculosis had been in excess The trouble is that the socicty iginated by and stll largely con trolled or directed by surgeons es peciall erested in operations o cancer, or. latterly, in also experi menting with X-ray and radium, stil has nothing bet the t to offer than me old metliods. uader which th {has been the and distressing | inere: lity. They seen to e i, or have ignored the repeated advice of surgeons. as { well as medlcal men, who in writing | have “acknowledged the futility of surgical operations and have urge: seridus aitention to the internal and cstemde, or constitutionul, considera tion and of the di The naties opinions often very nent men repeatediy in writings. Leen u prom given but have recent medicai inheeded Many Expressed View Possit know Justly p would like ¥ the publi me of the of thess ominent men who have bee honest and bold enough to thus ex press their views in opposition to those of their fellows: Such are the great English surgeon Abernethy who wrots more than 100 vears ago The best timed and best conducted operation brings with it nothing but disgrace. if the diseased propensities of the comstitution are active powerful.” saying also thai fre: an_operation are most partic larly incited to rezulate the const tution, lest the disease should be re vived or rencwed by its disturbance Other distinguished names are Walshe, Lambe. Sir_ Astley Coope: Highes Bennett, Sir James Page: Sir Arbuthnol Lane. Dr. Forbes Ross and Dr. Robert Bell, all of Inglana and even the late Dr. John B Mu the late grand Dr. Willard ¥ and Dr. William J. Maye in country have indfcated in their wr ings the importance of this aspect of cancer. The most recent advocate is Dr. Saucrbruch, the famous Ger man pioneer in thoracic surgery. In a recent quotation he is made to s “Cancer is the local manifestatio: of a constitutional disease. We mus: go back to the humoral conception of life. Virchow, who on a solidistic basis taught that all the constitu tional manifestations of cancer wer secondary to the Jlocal lesfon, is shown to be wrong and that the old humoralists are in line with mod ern progress. “Based on Wrong Principles. And yet this prodigious effort of “Cancer week,” based on wrong princi- ples. Aebli, a conscieutious Swiss writer, by careful analysis of the death records from cancer in Switzerfland for twents-thres years, Wwhere such rec- ords are recognized to be pecultarly full and exact, has shown, by tabulated cases of those patients’ who had been operated on, and those left under or- dinary medical, not special, treatment that, apparentiy, operative - procedures either leseen the life expectancy or have such a slight influen in prolonging life that it may be regarded as negligi- ble. On the other hand it has been re peatedly shown by severil writers that exactly the proper, prolong dietel hygienic and medicinal tratient ca W does crudicate the discase, many patients surely affected with it having lived five, ten. fifteen, eigh n and one observed twenty-eight ) perfectly well after having taken the first tre: ment. When will the world be cou- vinced L. DUNCAN BULKLEY, A. M.. M. D enior Physician to the New York " Skin and Cancer Hospital, Member of the American Society for Cancer Research, etc. to