Evening Star Newspaper, March 23, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1923. S e L e A e e N e e e THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edton. _ WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. ...March 23, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office: 150 Nassau St. Ofice: Tower Building. Ruropean Oftice : 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city nt 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per mouth; Sunday only, 20 cents per month, Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda: $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Tauily only.... $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only.... T., $2.40; 1 mo,, 20¢ All Other State: Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 8¢ Daily only........1yr., $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Bunday only 1yr, $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively eutitled to the ‘use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited fn this paper and also the local mews pub: Jished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatchies hereln are also reserved. Presidential Politics. In republican political circles the ac- cepted view of the hour is that the| presidential campaign of 1924 practi- cally commenced with the announce- nt of President Harding's candida venomination. Republican leaders ticians of the rank and file | are contemplating the hurdles they will to take. It recognized | that some of them are hazardous. The managers do not delude themselves | into an ostrich-like attitude, but are | described as facing the prospect cour- | ageously, with reasonable confidence. The managers are reported as being convinced that there will be no other candida the presidential nomina- tion than President Harding, taking the view that the announce- ment has settled that question. Thi are said to hold that the party gained | @ point in strategy by this move, as with the republican candidate assured the country’s attention will be direct- ed to republican policies that will be under discussion have time to! weigh and discuss them between now and the actual opening of the active campaign prior to election day. The} of strategy is claimed to lie in the fact that long be- fore the democrats have a candidate in the field, with a definite policy de- | clared, the republicans will be forging ahcad with a candidate and specitic program, which, of course. the repub- licans will assert to be tructive end progressive. The present plan of the republican managers is said to be to start their ampaign of education with the Pre: dent’s contemplated “swing around the circle” this summer and fall, and by line d precept upon precept make the country reacquaint- | ed with their candidate and familiar with their program. They feel that the psychology of the situation is with them in this respect. They realize, it is said, that the crux of the campaign for them will come in the accomplish- ments or failure of the next session of Congres=. If there are to be factional disturbances they will arise in Con- gress, and in the Senate may take ag- gravated form owing to the presence of ultraprogressive elements that | chamber in larger proportion than in | the House, and in more effective posi- tion to work harm to the party if so intentioned. All of these considerations are recog- nized as promising an interesting sum- v and fall in politics before the as- of the next Congress. In the meantime the politicians think that the opposition will have its at- tention engaged with the ambitions of aspirants for the democratic nomina- tion. So, it seems, that just as the| country was getting ready to settle down for a peaceful season, with “Con- | off its hands,” the politicians to get it all stirred up again. m for and have is recent and value of this poin upon line in m sembling gress procee Gen. Hines and the Vets. The talk of Gen. Frank T. Hines, recently appointed director of the Vet- Bureau, before a body of vet- erans a few nights ago will hearten many men who suffered in the war. He said that “No service is as near my heart as the service to the men who so valiantly upheld the traditions of their country during the war.” Tt is easy to believe that in saying this the general gave sincere utterance to his sentiments. When he said, I be- lieve in quick relief to the veteran and by the shortest route and that when | & case demands prompt action T would give aid and investigate afterward,” he promised that which is the wish of all veterans and friends of vet- erans. Everybody wishes that Gen. Hines' administration of his important office may be happy and successtul. —_———— top the white man from dancing and we will consider following suit,” is the reply of the Yakima Indian tribe 10 the order forbidding tribal dances. “Poor Lo” still shoots a barbed and well directed,arrow. erans According to the weather bureau American efforts to make rain are no less futile than KEuropean efforts to make peace. Germany is willing to accept league of nations intervention, or any other escape from French pressure in the Ruhr. Torpedo Workers, Hardship comes to another body of government workers through lack of government funds. These workers are those employed in the torpedo plants &t the navy vard and at Alexandria. ¥rve hundred will be thrown out of wock by the closing of those plants about July 1 unless something unfore- seen happens or work can be found for the men in other branches of the gov- ernment. It seems not likely that the Navy Debartment can furnish these men with the kind of work they are trained to do, and it is also improbable that the Navy and other departments can provide them with any kind of work. The greater number of them are nechinists and assistants. It is re- grettat ehat the government should lose the service of these men. As to themen themselves,inconvenience may lieved that hardship will come to none. Many of them are home owners, and they look on Washington or Alexan- dria as home. It is possible that in the two cities private employment may be open to them, but it would seem that their opportunity lies in the great industrial districts, and that many of the men and their families will go away. It is pleasant to contemplate that while the government is letting out employes there s a strong demand for men by private plants. The men lose their government jobs while an industrial boom is on. Rallroads are steadily taking on more business, and steel works are speeding up to near capacity output. In all other lines of industry the movement is upward, and the demand for mechanics and ma- chinists is so strong that wages are at the highest level in many years. It is probably true that wages never were so high. They are unquestion- ably higher in dollars and cents than ever before, and it is probable that never in the record of the world could a man buy So many necessaries, com- forts and luxuries with a day's work as now. —_—————————— Clearing Up on Russia. It has been a bad week for propa- gandists for recognition of the bolshe. vik government of Russia. First, Sec- retary Hughes makes it plain that the form of the government at Moscow does not bear upon the question of recognition or non-recognition by*the United States; that recognition. is withheld solely because that govern- ment refuses to comply with the ordi- nary standards of international moral- ity Now comes Secretary Hoover and shows the utter fallacy of the notion that recognition by the United States would cure the ills from which the Russian people are suffering. Secretary Hoover's letter to Mr. Hibbard of the Y. M. C. A, is a calm and yeasoned survey of the entire Rus- slan situation, based on accurate in- fornuition and an understanding of the forces which operate to bring pros- perity or adversity to a nation. The contention of the advocates of recog. nition has been that once formal in tercourse was established between the governments at Washington and Mos- cow, American capital would flow into Russia, credits would be established for the purchase of life necessaries, implements of production and raw ma- terials. That this result would follow Mr. Hoover denies, and in support of his denial he cites that there has been such flow of capital to Russia countries which have extended no from recognition, though some of them are { schedule is one to be considered soon in position to export capital elsewhere. There is just one thing which will attract capital to Russia, and that is assurance of security. Recognition of the soviet government would not carry | any such assurance; certainly not if recognition was extended in the face of repudiation and confiscation. The precedent political action necessary to the attracting of capital must be taken by the government of Russia; it cannot be taken by any other govern- ment. If the soviet authorities will recant their repudiation of interna- tional loans, if they will restore the in- vestments of foreigners which they have confiscated and give assurance that there will be no further confisca- tion. the capital Russia needs will find its way there, regardless of political recognition. As a matter of fact, the attitude of | not heretofore achieved brilliant the American government represents | the surest and quickest way, prac. tically the only way, in which Russia can be helped. If political recognition were extended under conditions now existing there would be removed the only pressure now being exerted on the Moscow authorities to conform to accepted standards of honesty, and the evidence is unmistakable that the Moscow authorities are much more in- terested in perpetuating their power than they are in rescuing the Russian people from their miseries. ————————— Secretary Hughes says’ truly that Russia’s salvation cannot be projected on the outside and then injected, and i that suggested treatment along these lines must therefore be rejected. But the ladies of the women's committee for recognition of Russia decline to be dejected. They were not ejected. —————— Lenin proposes to solve the Russian monetary problem by striking off some ciphers from the 1,000,000,000,- 000,000 rubles now in circulation. Probably on the theory that after all even 000,000,000,000,000 is nothing among friends. ———————— Germany’s ship of state may be rud- derless, but reports from Hamburg in- dicate that her commercial navy is very much on the job. —————— Mr. Bryan is listed as one of twelve men regarded as democratic presiden- tial timber. That is a little better chance than 16to 1. ———————— Time for President Harding to call another conference! The British, alarmed by France's strength in the air, talk of a race for supremacy. Safety for Federal Workers. Most likely the interdepartmental|But the advertisin® writer is the man ;reflection on Alexandria. safety council will make government workshops as safe for employes as private workshops are. It will come as a surprise to most Americans that this is not already the case, and that government employes are not as well protected in health, life and limb as might be, and that private employers and corporations take more care for the safety, health and comfort of their workers than is taken by the govern- ment for its employes. Such seems to be the case, judging from opinions voiced at the meeting of the interde- partmental safety council. The or- ganization of this council was author- ized by President Harding and, accord- ing to published announcements, it was created “with a view to putting the government workshops on a par with the safety achievements of pri- vate employers.” Whatever is wrong in the government work places will no doubt be corrected. Some of the cor- rections will be made promptly, while others will take time. It has long been a subject of criticism that the govern- ment often carries on its business in buildings not at all adapted for it, and that employes are often crowded as well managed corporations do not rather often that when the govern- ment gets & new building its employes have more space than a private cor- poration could afford to give its work- ers. Nobody in government service is blamable for this condition. Heads of departments and every chief of bureau and division are anxious to get the best quarters and the best possible conditions for their workers, but, as ;| everybody knows, conditions, as a gen- eral rule, have to become notorisusly bad and remain so for some time be- fore the necessary corrective appro- priation can be had. In connection with the latest meet- ing of the council the question is brought prominently forward as to the advisability of putting all applicants for civil service appointment through an ‘“adequate physical test.” This seems to be going afield from the mat- ter of safety for government workers, and might well be considered apart. It is believed that an applicant for a clivil service position gets a pretty fair test in the examination as to whether he or she can perform the work to be done. If this is not so it should be. But there is talk of requiring a phy- sical examination for all applicants for civil service positions, and while a common sense examination might be desirable and operate well for the ap- plicant and the government, there is always danger of the idea being car- | ried too far. The government in taking in people | after passing examinations prescr by the Civil Service Commission done well. Many government employes | fall sick, but so also do employe private corporations. Many gove ment employes grow old and become feebler than when they were young, but this is the lot of all person whether they work for the ment or private concerns. govern- Shortage or “Squeeze™? If, as is promised, the agencies of the government will be used to the full to prevent gouging of the public in sugar prices the government will earn the praise of millions of humble and hard-pressed taxpa Secretar Hoover is quoted as saying that he has suggested to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission that the domestic situation with regard to sugar be investigated by that com- mission. It is also said that the De-| partment of Justice will act swiftly if | there is any evidence of a combination | n restraint of trade seeking to in crease sugar prices. Further, the United States Tariff Commission may take the matter up, e the su, under the flexible tariff provisions of the Fordney-McCumber act. It is known to every housckeeper and family head that there has been a sharp rise in the price of sugar, and the air is full of familiar stories that a sugar shortage impends and that prices are to go much higher. If there is to be a sugar shortage consumers must grin and bear it, and pa but in the light of experience consum ’ look with suspicion on stories of food | shortage. They feel that the present stories are possibly “inspired,” and| that the impending sugar shortage is | a pleasant way of introducing a sug squeeze. Americans look to their go ernment to protect thein against im- position involving unjustified increase | in the price of necessary supplies. and they recall that their government ha"i ve-| ri sults in so protecting them. They re- | call that notwithstanding laws and | various agencies for enforcing the laws they have been repeatedly put | under tribute by profiteers. It ap-| pears that the sugar situation may present the government with an op. portunity to ““make good.” —_——— It is a safe gamble that the New | Jersey town treasurer who turned 60 | per cent of his salary back into the town treasury because he believed he | was paid too much could get a job | with Gen. Dawes. | —_——————————— It was an unhappy choice of Sen- ator Borah to give his advice againgt | “gumshoeing” at Akron, Ohio, the ! center of the rubber industry. —_————— The dean of Windsor says Ameri- cans are kind, but further comment leads to the conclusion that he means kind of funny. ! ——————— i H. G. Wells is not running true to torm. He gives a list of the world's ten greatest books, and there is not a Wells book among them. SHOOTING STARS. ! BY PHILANDER JOHNSON ! A Favorite Author. { T like to get the paper an’ to settle calmly down An’ read about the goin’s on they're havin® up to town. It ain’t the politicians nor the acci- dents an’ crime That really allures me when I pass away the time. Nor yet the things that make ye laugh, or set out for to teach, Or travel stories 'bout the countries ‘way off out o’ reach. It may be that my fancy isn't cultured an’ polite, that hits me right. He helps to show us how the ills of life kin be endured. If you chance to have an ailment he will tell you how it's cured. He ain't the author that jes’ writes for only vulgar pay: He tells you 'bout the shops where they are givin’ things away. An’ when he tackles boetry, the result is somethin’ grand. It flows along like music and ain’ hard to understand. ‘When it comes to literatoor that keeps ye sittin’ up at night—, ‘Well, the advertisin® writer is the man that hits me right. A Nursery Song. Cheer up, honey, don’t you cry; Sunshine comin’ by an’ by. Dandelion’s gwinter smile In de parkin’ after while; An’ de skies so bright an’ blue ‘Will be smilin’ jes’ foh you. Grown folks, dey don' count at all 'Long side of de folks dat’s small. Dey’s jes’ workin’ day by day Clearin’ thorns from out yoh way. Dishere world, I tells you true, {first_produced it, imet | tanguugs {of Turkey One hundred years ago, almost to the day, there was sung in a London music hall a song whose sweet and simple melody touched the hearts of all who heard it. it was an easy song te sing; so easy that those who never before could carry a tune could hum this song with ease. It was a haunting song; a song whose measured tune- fulness came back again and again to run through the minds of the little audience which had heard it. And like all other great music, it swept the heartstrings with a touch of pathos. Within the year that s‘mple song was sung throughout all England. It crossed the Atlantic and its sweet refrain, exquisite in tuneful melody, carried ' it to such vast favor here that hardly a home in America failed to_take it for its own. That song, whose centenary comes this year, was written by an Ameri- can, John Howard Payne. And the name of the song is “Home, Sweet Home." + It has become, perhaps, the great- est of all songs in the Lnglish tongue. ainly it has the widest appeal. Through all the hundred years that have passed since Payne i its hold upon the lhukli.\h‘-flw,nklng people has never esgene, It has been translated, attempts have been made to trans- late it, into almost every civilized tongue. But these attempts have - with only scant success Why? Perhaps the r something 1 was told X something 1 like to believ have no way of knowing any other one man, so fur 1 tell or, rather lies in . it i& this: That the English is the only one that has such a word as “home.” No other people, from what 1 have bLeen told. “home” in just the meaning that we give it. 1f such is the case, obviousl Home, Sweet Home,” is the exclusive pc Hon of those who speak the language of our tribe. Payne wrote his song as part of a light opera, Clari. He liked it best of all the music in the opera, liked, too, the words. But he had no ink- ling of the future of his master- plece, He took the Italian melody. Not the music our song as we know it now—oh, no. But the Italian melody gave him the idea for the tune: and he adopted the music, changing it to his own cre ation His song has endured! though s been dust for upwards of seventy His body lie Washington the shade of Hill Georgetown. may find the that marks burial place music from old of an ha vears, in in stone his he | Cemetery | gung the world over, Fo: It has, in fading letters, his name and the dates of his birth and death. And beneath his hame is the line: “Author of Home, Sweet Home.' Payne, iike his song, went direct- Iy to the hearts of those with waom he came in contact. His voice was low and musical and strangely sweet. When speaking on any subject in which he was deeply interested, he spoke with a degree of earnestness that enchained the attention and :::uch-:d the hearts of all who heard m. He was an actor. At seventeen he was called upon, through misfortunes of his father, to support the family, He did so; he had been precocious from birth and at thirteen edited a newspaper; and in his new responsibility he acquitted himself nobly. But like many another genius he was & poor business man. He was one of the great actors of his time, but his finarclal water was always hot. In 1842 he game to Washington, being then in the prime of life. to ask President Tyler to appoint him to a_ foreign consulate. Financial necessities are said to have prompted the move. He dressed plainly, was extremely unpretending and modest, and_with his charm of manner won the Presi- dent to his cause. Politically he had no claim whatever to the post, bu Lis personal magnetism accomplished what his political delinquincles seem- ingly debarred. He went to Tunis and remained there three years. In all the springtime and the sum- rer of his life and well into the autumn he was a wanderer over the face /of the earth. The man who wrote “Home, Sweet Home,<” im- mortalized an institution of which ire knew almost nothing himself. Another Washingtonian wrote the ional anthem, as almost every ident of the city knows. aratively few persons know rancis Scott Key was a lawyer here in_ Washington. He was born g in Maryland, prac- ticed profession at Frederick, came to Washington and was appointed district attorney. He filled the office capably, though without marked distinction. Perhaps the greatest of all Amer- an scng writers, however, was Stpehen Colling Foster. Foster was born near Pittsburgh. He composed more than 175 Songs, ully both words and mus Old Kentucky Home, of his most popular Another popular song of his com- Massa’s in the Cold. But the one by which he remembered when all re forgotten is “The Swanee River. For that oldtime, plaintive melody, er is said royalties, about was one to_have received $15.000. in EDITORIAL DIGEST “This Freedom™ as It Affects Tur-} key. Ea seems to be taking its way steadily and triumphantly of physical, mental freedom for women even into Turkey. And with the movement to unveil the faces and minds of Moslem women already in a fair way to success, we find, stand- ing by and shouting encouragement and political has penetrated {and support, the press of the country | which has drawn fewer sex lines than any other, and which has enough faith in that policy to believe that it can be adopted with benefit even in i Turkey. Probably noune of the other doc- trines and practices of the Young Turk movement has been so wide a departure from the old Ottoman civilization as the movement to re- gard the feminine half of the popula- tion as an integral part of the body politic, a movement which Mustaphz Kemal i earnestly promoting aim of the nationalist regime in Tur- key to give the new freedom to Turkish women,” the Burlington Free Press thinks, “is manifestly of the moet revolutionary character.” Ac- cording to information coming out since the advent of the government, the old ideal of and subservience has been repudiated, and, the Free Press goes on to say, “Turkish women are grad- ually being released from their do- mestic bondage. Tney now appear on the street and in places of amusement in Constantinople in considerable numbers. The old-time veil is disap- pearing.” That this change is due largely to Mustapha Kemal and his yery mod- ern, occidentalized Young wife is the opinion of American commentators. new seclusion { In a reeent public address Kemal ad- | vocated social, civil and educational equality for Turkish men, ideas which, the Springfield Union ‘thinks, “must have appeared to Turks of the older order as something sacrilegious and of so revolutionary a character as to indicate that he was succumbing to the civilization of the hated ‘in- fidel' of the western nation: But since “the Angora dictator has shown little inclination to subordinate his own ideas to those of the old regime, the Union predicts that his influen may go far enough that “we may vet see the women of Turkey taking their place at the side of the men in poli- tics, science and industry.” In ‘the opinion of the New York Globe. this Influence goes back of Kemal himself to the woman he mar ried, as “she. far more than her sol- dier husband, is the token of the new Turkey,” and she “signalizes the com- plete emergence of her sex. The As- bury Park Press draws a picture of Mrs. Kemal, as she styled herself in an interview with foreign journalists, “dressed in riding breeches, jaunty short coat, high boots, spurs and out- . Cats. ‘That was a fetching little news story not long 2go in The Star about & mother cat named Mike who, ban- ished to Alexandria, found the way back to her home in Washington. The preference of this cat for Wash- ington is not to be thought of as a In that an- cient city are tats descended from cats that caught mice for and other- | tward the course of feminism | woman, For the doctrine | the i | 1 wise served distinguished families. | There are in Alexandria many proud, | the sociable and convivial cats who wear fine fur in winter and summer, and who practice the beautitul rites of hospitality toward other cats. But this Washington cat was homesick and she came back There are some things about cats which men and thefr wives do not understand. A cat will live in a long row of houses which are all as near alike as bricklayer, carpenter and painter can make them. She will Vis: it relatives and friends and attend revels on forelgn doorsteps and In distant alleys and return to the threshold of her own home. It might be said that the cat is skilled in arith- metic and can read the number on her house, but cats sometimes come home after the hall light has been put out and only the most extraordi- nary eye could make out the number on the transom. In these long rows of houses a cat will pick out her own home with greater certainty than many a man, under conditions mnot needful to relate, has been known to do. Tt cannot be said that a home- coming cat depends on the number of her house, because after wanderlust- ing over vacant lots and socializing with acquaintance! Yards ‘she will come to the kitchen door of her home and ask to be let in. That a cat should find her way back from Alexand unless there is a bure: tion among cats and a system and trafio- cats abauy au of informa- l ria is quite remarkable |cie: fish national life, . . . jto It would to ng cap.” ‘ress adds, more at vari garments of the typical Turkish but if the present tendency ‘advances as briskly as it has begun, women of the harem will soon dre: ag freely as their western ters, and mingle as freely in and social life.” a change that “will mean much to the women themselve and should also have a bearing upon Turkish policies. And with these superficial social changes. according to the Utica Press. “is disappearing the old custom that a Moslem might have three or four wives. The woman of modern Turkey is insisting that her husband shall have only one wife™ It “quite evident” to the Colum- bus Dispatch that “Turkey is in the midst of a severe internal struggle between inherited habits and. charac- ter on the one side. and world-wide modern ideas and tendencies on the other.” and it welcomes this repudia- tion of ancient social customs as tend- ing to strengthen the side that is fighing for progress, “for whatever tends to break in on the naturally reactionary temperament of the Turk, will, in the end. tend to remove his unhappy imporfance as a constant source of danger to the world's peace. Indeed, declares the Port Huron Times Herald, “there is nothing which holds out greater hope that Turkey ultimately will_grow into a nation worthy of a place with the other nations of the earth than the disposi- tion expressed by Kemal to enlarge the influence of women upon Turk- The world grows, of be difficult, the imagine a costume better and_ beétter as the sphere influence of its women is enlarged “At any rate.” adds the Oregon Jour- nal (Portland), “women's influence on wnational life, wherever it has been exercised in civilized lands, has been for the advancement of human wei- fare. It might well be that women participating in the national life of Turkey would lead to reforms, un- expected and Impossible as such a thing as civilizing reforms would seem to be in that murderous coun- try. In any event, it is a movement that has a much deeper significance than merely “an interesting step forward in Oriental sociology.” the Peoria Transcript believes; although the pa- per interprets it as largely a national- istic development. “In promising oc- cldental opportunities and privileges its women.” it says, “Turkey is taking a step forward, which will not only serve to improve the condition of the women, but will also assure the nation of improved endurance in th race for international supremacy for “no nation can survive intern tional competition or internal strug- gle without the unqualified support of all the people. Dolis inclosed by a harem wall, guarded by eunuchs and velled to all except their lord and master, cannot be useful citizens or comrade: However nationalistic Kemal's pol-{ fcy may be, the New York Globe, nevertheless sees “hope for the world in it” In a Few Words It is only by a constant stream of amusements that the hardships of a trip_through life can be allayed, and I think even jazz has its proper place. —HERBERT HOOVER. 1 have no patience with that type of woman who can’t find a train in a time table without male assistance. —JACINTO BENAVENTE. ‘What I reproach your former Presi- dent Wilson for most is that he saw world through rose-colored glasses. —PRINCESS HERMINE (wife of the ex-kaiser). For my part I cannot see anything in cubism and its correlated "isms" but a cloak to hide the lack of cre- ative genius among the artists of Europe. GEORGE JULIAN ZOLNAY. The failure of the Lausanne con- ference regarding the near east and of the premiers’ conference on repa- rations {s ominous—ominous that the allles of yesterday may becomc the enemies of tomorrow. —OSCAR STRAUS. ‘The day of the “Inglorious Milton” and undiscovered literary genius has passed. New talent cannot escape t:: eager search of the modern editor. —THYRA SAMTER WINSLOW. ——————————— men know little. It would seem that such a trip would be perilous for an unattended cat, because along the s in far-off back |midnight roads must be footpad cats, brigand cats and cats whose chief d light is to pick a fight. But perhaps Mrs. Mike was equal to all emergen- Thoughts of home were in her head. Dragon cats to overcome, dark of 1forests to pass through and rivers to financial | But com- | that | others | nce with the swathing | public | either as! Would Correct “Error.” H.. W. Hayes. Explains Basis of Christian Science. To the Editor of The.Star: ' 4 In what is evidently an honest at- tempt to answer a question and to defend those who seek to heal disease by other than material remedie Efsie Rovinson, in The Star of March 20, errs in her explanations and shows a misunderstanding of the teachings of Christian Science when she classi- fies it as a form of paychotherapy similar to will-power, psychoanalysis and Coueism, and declares that “the psychological data upon which they all work are identical.” The universal dictionary defines psychology as “that branch of metaphysics which has for its subject the human soul” Webster defines psychology as “the sclence of mind,” clearly meaning the human mind. It would appear, therefore, that in using the term “péychological data” Miss Robinson means that Christian Sclence healing work is based upon data obtained from the human. mind tor soul. Quotes Mrs. Eddy. This is not a fact. The basis of Christian Science healing is God who is perfect—and the perfect man in His fmage and likeness. The suc- cess of Christian Scientists in healing the sick is proportionaté to their un- derstanding of God, of divine Mind, and its operations. 4 Christian Science teaches that the word soul is misapplicd when used to | designate a human consciousness. In Science and Health with Key-to the Seriptures—the, textbook of Chfistian | Science and the only book in which| the teachings of Mrs. Eddy are to be found “jn their completeness—it i snecifically Stated that the term Soul, | jor Spirit, as used in Christian Science, {is synonomous with God; and on Ke’ 9 of that book Mrs. Eddy refers to| psychology as the “Science of Spirit, d."—u diametrically opposite defi- | tion from those who use the wurd‘ pertaining to the human mind. | following statements, all of| which are fundamental, are to he found on pages 466 and 469 of the textbhook: “Mind Is God.” “Soul or Spirit signifies Diety and nothing else. There is no finite soul nor spirit Soul or Spirit means only one Mind, and cannot be rendered in the plural. * * ® Mind is God. The | exterminator of error is the great truth that God, good, is the only Mind, and that the_supposititious op- posite of infinite Mind—called dev or evil—is not Mind, is not Truth, but error, without intelifgence or reality. * ¢+ We can have but one Mind, if that one infinite. We bury 'hpl sense of infinitude, when we admiti | that, although God} is infinite, evil| {has ‘a place in this infinity, for evil can have no place where all spa s filied with God.” “Sickness I Error. Christian Science classifies sickness and sin as error which cannot exist in the one divine Mind filled, as it is, with truth. with all_truth and with nothing but truth. Truth is eternal. If error existed in the divine Mind, {it would also be eternal, hence in destructible; but the truth about any- thing and ite exact opposite cannot possibly exist in consciousness at the same time The foregoing statements the | “data” upon which Christian § ists worl HIRAM W. HAYES, | Christian Science Committee on Pub- lication. for the District, of Co- i lumbia. i The are i Protest Raise in Rat {Girl Renters in Government Ho- | tels Deny Publiched Report. To the Editor of The Star: T have just read your article. in| today's fssue of your paper. under the caption, “Girls Fail to XKick on Raised Rentals.” Please allow me to say that this is not true. The girls {are practically unanimous fn their belief that the new price is not au- thorized, is unjust and exc ive. The action of the assistant secretary of { {labor in imposing it has aroused their keen indignation, and the fact that unanimous protest was not regis {tered on the bills themselves when payment was made indicates that the women have proven themselves again |as they have heretofore done unde {tryving conditions, a self-controlled, { well poised body of women, who sim- {ply obeyed the instructions of the, lawyer employed by them, through their Plaza Council, against their own judgment. {_ 1 myseif. believe it was a mistake to have prevented the girls register- their disapproval, as they were i instructed to do, by writing “Paid under protest” on { their bills. But their failure to do S0 must not be construed either as lapproval of the new rate or as a! kick that petered out. Action is | simply delayed upon the request of | the lawver wha is now in charge | of the matter. Should his protest fail of result there will probably be | a greater “hegira” of guests within | the next two weeks than can possibly be accounted for by the adjournment of Congress or any annual spring movement to the country and Sub- | urban resorts. There is no weaken- ing of intense feeling among the | girls, I assure you. We feel that we | have been sold out to the real estate interests of the city by the very per- |sons who should have protected us against these sharks. Not only that; | the transaction has been so cunning- ly devised that the sale is effective | whether we stay and submit or| register our protest by leaving. i | ™ The worst of it all is that the very | ones who will suffer most, | way, are the very ones for whom ithe Government Hotels were pri-| marily _erected — the lower-salaried I government clerks, who simply can- not afford the new rates and were literally forced out by this action. MARY M. CHILDS. ing at first the words i either | ges Fair Prices ‘When Shriners Come | To the Editor of The'Star: j Let us have our latchstrings out 'flnd extend the right hand of friend- ship, making welcome oyr Shriner | guests in June. Extra high prices{ bespeak profiteering. Are we going to stoop to that? Shriners from cities far and near, from all parts of our United States, and even the entire North American continent, are plan- Ining to visit the Capital city in which we are privileged to live. Are we going to let them carry home the news that Washington is money mad, profiteering at every op- portunity? This question needs the immediate attention of the citizens of ‘Washington. It remains with us to decide: Can we not be guided by our honor to keep prices at a par or will it be mecessary to bring force into play and point out those among us who are not real American citizens? GRACE E. STRAIT. Would Place Ban On Refuse Cans To the Editor of The Star: 1 see by Saturday’s Star that the Engineer Commissioner has issued an edict that no more permits shall be given to plant hedges or erect fences unless all conform fo his idea of what is artistic and beautiful. If he would prohibit the placing of unsightly garbage cans and -dilapi- dated ashcans on the sidewalks and in area stairways (done to save the paid collectors of such refuse) and would keep all premises now under District_control in perfect order he would be doing far more to make ‘Washington “the clty beautiful” than he will by depriving the taxpayers of the right to decorate their private grounds according to their individual gt oIy ROBERT By TENNEYX, 1 | the | ciated by his countrymen CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Orators of the Fourth of July style are very fond of illustrating the spunk of America by telling of the brave drummer boy in battle, who let his enthusiasm and drum run away with him, far in advance of the regi- ment he was leading in a charge “over the top.” Styles of charges have changed since that drummer boy rat-tat-ta-ah-ed. When he was al- most out of hearing his colonel or- dered, “Bring that drum back to the regiment!” and he sussed back, “Bring the regiment up to the drdm!” Or_ was it a color bearer, and did he order his colonel to “Follow the flag”? Orators differ. * k ok % Anyhow, the situation is duplicated right here in Washington today. There is the “C. 0" on Washington circle, and all his staff is on Jack- son place. There are a lot of modern drummer boys crying out to the gen- eral, “Come on over; we're all her. Lafayette calls: “Venez lci, Mon- sieur le General Washington. Tous le monde sont ici.” Von Steuben bellows: “Kommen sie heruber, General Washington. Hier sind wi Zusammen.” osciugko joins in his purest Poli and” Rochambeau, - antiopaiing - Col tanton of the A. E. F., quotes him: Lafayette, we are here! What ails the general that he does not join us * X ok % Washington, perceiving discipline” has gone thunders in that wrath for he was “Attention! s of the revolution will report immediately at post headquarters and file written explanations of their absences.” Gen. military pieces, which Oftic that Al to not * Kok x Forthwith, we see Lafayette climb- ing down past the decollette ladies Wwho have been offering him a bou- auet. Kosciusko tells Freedom to quit shricking until he takés a real full. Von Steuben mutters some guttural remarks which The Star Jvould not print, and Rochambeau sa- utes and declares: “Lafayette, T meant ‘we were nof . : mesnt) not here, but over * ok ok % And, most astonishing of all., Gen. Jackson's bronze charger becomes lo- whirls and tries House fence around to on his hind legs leap over the White His rider keeps his scat. * % o* ¥ It is well settled Wax will not “P. C." flag from W. as has pretty ington that Gen change his shington Circ proposed. In that alternative is for his their commander, been g case staff wherever 1y to join he is That leaves Ge ackson alor aabaty) n. Jackson alone u i field of glory—as it wer tenting on the old camp ground. Ti :dl l’h'nr! is the command to the eneral from the chief of staff: “As S e f of staff: “As What by is to do? The vacancies left Washington's withdrawal of his staft from Jackson Circle naturally will be filled by democrats. Presi- dent Jackson came very near going to war with France ay country was not paying the spoli- ation of 25,000,000 £ it had agreed to do. So pleased at routing Lafayette and Rochambeau from their pedestals. But who will take their places in Jackson Park? Will it be the last four Jackson dinner orators? Who vill stop freedom's shricking when Kosciuski jumms down? Wil Alr Bryan or Mr. Hull, or Mr. Daniels, or ¥ho will it be? Surely Mr. Bryan will have a real interest in stopping the shrieking. How can he make & speech in all that howling? It is not the fudction of Kevnotes to decide question. This is only 4 passing comment on the situation— not an editorial. Not one of the pedestals is a party platform. * E v because that claims 1cs, as he was There is not much that a layman can criticize in a judgment of a group of eminent physicians upon the technical subject of hospitals. One thing which strikes the friend of the sick and wounded veterans is that the need of speed in providing ample hospitalization now i$ the all-im- portant consideration. The peak hospital needs is not vet reac The experts fear that there ma overhospitalization, and then what shall we do with the left-over build ing, after the requirements begin to drop down? The patients will dfe, eventually, and then . there will - b millions "0f “dollars tied up in use- less bufldings. If the constructio lags a little more, the buildings will not be completed when the droppi down begins, and so it will not e serious a problem, what to do wit the vacant hospitals. * x ok ¥ There seems to be a cold-blooded- ness in that line of argument, which makes a shudder. This hospital mat- ter is a war emergency, exactly as the building of battleships, regarc less of cost, was an cmergency. Jt was four years last November since thée armistice. Congress has met the public demand for human, full and immediate care of the country's wards. It is not a questior of money. Four years means that th outstanding call of duty, now, is ac- tion, not delay, and if million spent in alleged “‘overhospitalizu tion,” the nation will condone tha but never will it pardon the procras tination and the “paper hospitaliza- tion™ “which counts the empty i Jifornia against the f and care for the “least of in Florida or M nesota, who treatment for some oth, 1 patriotic ix in these” need ment Not so were build ships, the millions spent t ) or cantonments, The lives of the soldiers a more to the future welfare of the nation th ever was a ship or a "cost-plus tract for store ‘Action! Action! * % A reader cerning the annou child is going to in the publfc halls Washington c the subject of the wickedness of the ience of to Keynot cement appeals each” in one « evolution. The comm ion comment The sun 4 {is Bibl tions that ‘ti not the Bible the earth’? nas? *“Evolution is a wicked teachine ! because—w because it was | known when the & was wri Yet el is that in Genesis th - order of creation was given as | evolution now confirms “Galileo reiterated cons that round the sun in d superstition fuses always to Shut its eves to the supremely inspiring fact: “The heav ens declare the glory e firman < h {Wwork” The dee the vision into th : found the move " tex carth talk about How ¢ How the * glok hot scientific rth moves spite of bigotr Intelligence ro- Ladd visit Russia, condition corded t upon their abandoned. Russia, {ed too much upon North sovietism: or was it that feared the introduction of the cal farm bl party of senators to at Russia's expense, on that the visitors be privilege to talk frani return has been perhap: home, * * Whether Attorney General Daugh- erty meunt his Florida speech as a | campaign keynote or just an ex- i hortation to the bar, his theme was fone which finds a response in the heart of all good Americans. Ve llies the bar and the whole | tion to an aroused recognitivn the only conrse, that will nation is law enforcement. The, no argument on the other side. is & theme that may well inspire orators of every party and every sect. (Copyright. 1923, by P. V. Collins.) he 3 is Gallant Scion of Sir William Gage Known to His Cronies as “Green Gage™ BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Young Lord Gage, fifth viscount of his line, and who, having arrived in the United States for a tour of the country, is now in New York, at the jPlaza Hotel has a strain of Ameri-|died can blood in his veins. For one of the forbears of this gallant voung soldier, who was badly wounded dur- the Coldstream Guards just after he had come of age, a shrapnel bullet piercing his lungs, was that Gen. Sir Thomas Gage who was com- mander-in-chief of King George III's forces in North America at the out- break of the war of independence and | governor of the then British colonies. | He married in 1757 the daughter of Peter Kemble, president of the coun- cil of New Jersev, her mother hav- jing been a daughter of Stephen van Cortlandt of New York Another ancestor, Sir William Gage, | his line, who flourished in the reign of King George 1, introduced into England the plum known as the green gage, so called from its characteristic color and from its introducer. The present Lord Gage enjoys among his cronics his former schoolhoy nickname of “Green Gage,” by which he was like- wise known among his comrades, and has never been of- fended thereby. the homor of bring ing into England this luscious fruit and making it familiar to and appre- being con- Sidered by many as the most praise- worthy event in the history of his family. Sir Willlam Gage brought the plum in question from France, Where his brother, a Roman Catholic divine, the Rev. John Gage of the Order ' of Jesuits, obtained _cuttings and grafts of the trees which grew in the gardens of the Chartreuse nionastery. The fruit trees from which they were taken were those Which furnish the plum known in ¥rance by the name of “grosse Reine Claude,” which is identical with the English green gage of today, and the cuttings and grafts greatly pros- pered at the Gage ancestral home, Firle Place, near Lewes, in Sussex. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Place has been in the unin- terrupted possession of Lord Gage family for over 500 years, and is situated in a park of several thou- sand acres. The mansion is rich in romarkable pafntings—among the masterpleces being a portrait by Holbein of Sir John Gage, who was a favorite of Henry VIII, the king himself ordering the painting of the picture besides creating Sir John a Knight of the Garter and constable of the Tower of London. A brother of the first Viscount Gage is reputed to have amassed a fortune of more than $60,000,000 in the notorious Mississippi bubble. This colossal wealth seems to have turned his head. For he tried to make himself a king by endeavoring to purchase, first of all, the crown of Poland and then that of Sardinia. Nat- urally unsuccessful in these attemps, he managed to secure the Spanish grandezza, but, strange to say. this was only after he had squandered the $60,000,000. For, when his money gong, he made his way to seventh - baronet of Firle regimental | {the land of the Hildalgos, and a bit daunted or disheartened by pre vious turns of fortune, set himse diligently to work in developing the mineral wealth of the kingdom, with |so much success that he amassed | another large fortune, and finally as commander-in-chief of the | Spanish army in Lombardy. | PO | Lord Gage's great-grandmother, { 5 4 {ing the great war as a captain of |Lady Elizabeth Peel, was one of the | greatest beauties of her da | many suitc One of these was the Earl of Dysart, who is generally supposed to have been the male prototype of Miss Havishman in | Charles Dickens' story, “Great Ex- pectations” When Lady Elizabeth Pesl rejected hi he shut him- up in a small housc off the |Strand in London. from which he | never emerged during the remaining | forty years of his life, allowing no |one to have a to his room, the | servants having received orders pass his food to him through a hole in_the door of his apartment. | In strong contrast with this be vior, was the cheerful manney in which another unsuccessful suitor of {Lady Elizabeth—namely, Prince Is- {ternazy—accepted his rojection. Far from bearing Lady Llizabeth anv {malice, he is said to have gracefull handed her into her carriage as sha started on her honevmoon, and what is still more remarkable. is that he {reappeared when the young couple arrived at their destination, 3 tance to the bride, as {alighted from the vehicle. He found out the locality where the hor eymoan was to be spent, and by hir ing relays of fast horses, had out- stripped the happy pair. I do not re- member having heard or read any | where how the bridegroom acted on this last occasion, which is some- thing of a pity, since it may probably have been exiremely piquant. * ok ok K Lord Gage has lodged with the crown an application for the termina- tion in his favor of the ancient bar- onies of Fitzwarren, of Martin and of Dyraunt. His family claims descent from a sire de Gaugi, whose name is on the roll of Battle Abbey, among those who fought under the bauner of William the Conqueror &t the: battle of Hastings. Ile seems to have de- rived his name from the Seigniory of Gaugl, near Rouen, in Normandy. One of his lineal descendants was celabrated for his infatuation with Mary, Queen of Scots, for whose sake he lost his head on the scaffold, while another Gage, Sir Henry by name, was one of the most devoted cavaliers of Charles I; was governor of Oxford during the civil war, and after twice relieving the siege of Basing House, was killed by the Roundheads at Cullum Bridge. 1 may add in conclusion that young Lord Gage is very well to do and in no sense a fortune hunter, although unmarried. He has several sisters, but no brothers, and the next heir to his viscounty and to his baronetey fs his _cousin, the near sexuagenarian, William St. Quentin Gage, grandson of the fourth viscouay, et | and had suit, offer: