Evening Star Newspaper, March 29, 1923, Page 6

| 2 is not cordial to the McAdoo boom for the presidential nomination. Such an assumption would be rather far- fetched. Mr. Wilson has always main- tained an outward attitude of friendly { neutrality regarding his son-inlaw’s THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY . .March 29, 1923 - - presidential aspirations. By saying THEODORE W. NOYES the word he coutd heve brought about his momination at San Fran- cisco, in all probability, The differ- ence between the two men over the Colorado senatorship would not seem to betoken any change in their po- litical relations with each other. . Business Office, 11th St. an New York Office. Chicago Office European Ofiive: 16 Regent S The Evening §far, with the Sunduy morning edition, i dellvered by carrters within the clty ng. . Loudou, England. At 60 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per | The appointment of a senator to fill mouth: Sunday ouly, 20 cents per month. Or-| < liers miay be sent by mail, or telephone Main (@ Vacancy does not usually occasion 0. Colleetion v made by carriers at the 0 much interest among national lead- s as in this case, but these three biz men, each of whom is taking large concern over presidential poli- tics, appear to attach importance to it. ————————— Fences and Hedges. Modification of the order concern- ing erection of new fences and plant- ing of new hedges around lawns on the public parking strip in front of Washington hous: sensible. In changing the order so that there is no hardand-fast rule, but each case 15 to be decided upon its own merits, the proper move has been made. In the old days fences and hedges, much like outdoor Topsies, *just grew.” When one possessed himself of a home and became interested In @ ead of each mont Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday. .1 yr., §8.40; 1 mo. 1 a Dally only . Sunday oni r., $6.00; 1 mo All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mq Daily only. . 1yT, : 1 mc e Sunday onl Ay, } 1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively entiiled 1o the ‘wsa’ for zepubiication of ail news div s credited T 1t or nat otherwise credited is yuper und alwo the local sews pub shed “herein. A1l rights of pablication o sperial dispatehies hereln are alsy reserved. = i = As to Buying Coal. Tt might have been well had our fuel distributors waited until there | was more definite information as|P'ot °f sround, probably for the first to the trend of prices before ad.|Hme In his life, it was only natural vising householders to begin at once | 14t he should want to put a fence laving in supplics for mest winter|atound it, or place an ornamental Under normal conditions it is indis. | 1€dse on the boundary line putably good policy 1o buy as suon|. S0 Washington, Hike sther cities, as grown up with almost every va- ety of fencing. There was a time when the ornamental iron fence was as possible after the beginning of the new coal year in Ay but condition in the coal trade toduy arve so far|) & from normal that ordinary rules do|in VoEue Thr;“ the hedge ook its not apply. In the past it has been | PIACC In the affection of many. But, like all things made by hands, fences will grow old and fall to pleces. Hedges will straggle from their true- th tice of producers and dealers o establish 2 minimum price in April, with a small monthly increase until the beginning of cold weather, But the announcement now is made that cut boundaries and become ragged and u his neighbor—especially his neighbor. any reductions from the present ex- : tortionate price level are unlikely, so| ThuS it came, about that the Dis- the usual incentive for early buying | 'Wict heads put out thelc order for- 1% Tacking. bidding the crection of any more fences or hedges on the parking » one pretends to believe that produc which, though not owned by spaces of stion have played any im-| 3P o _ portant part in determining coat | Washingtonians, (COnEUEUteH their Drices auring the winlor oo passing | front yards or lawns. But, like many There was an acute shortage in con. | Feforms, this went a bit too far, in the sequence of last summer's strike and | OPinion of many. Fences still have the result was u seller's market, with | (heil'_broper places; hedges, man's srs bidding against each other for | STOUPING of God's plants, still make dequate supplics. Conscience was |4 10Vely picture and perform at the the only check on profirs, and con.|Same time a humble duty. ence seemingly had t ken a holi- | Some situations require ferces, some It would be diffievt to find an- | 90 Dot. Some lawns would be helped T e by hedges, others would he spoiled. Saken oF bl When it comes to such creations as Having exacted gardens and lawns, each one is a law unto itself. The Commissioners show a other vantage thameless ad necessity 11 the traflic would bear during the winter months, there | 5 o is 10 reason to think the ccal trade | themselves Wise in thelr decision to will be satisfied with less when warm | [eAt €ach case on its mer Tiven {in £o small a thing it is not well to down drastic laws, cut out of one of law-stuff, to cover such mani- The weather comes. The only chance the | consumer has of relief is that there | should be such an accumulation of | P stocks iIn the hands of producers and | {0l forms as fence and hedge. distributers as would convert it from | City is for the people who live in it. @ seller’s to o buyer's market. And|The government of the city is for Aherh b o Aich abohiaton ! the people, not for the men who have of stocks if consumers continue to]Dbeen selected to do the governing for compete with cach other in buying | the time being. for next winter's need: | Those who love what may be In its denials of & combiration to| termed the civilized outdoors—gardens enhance prices, the coal trade has{and lawns—will rise up and call their contended that the high levels reached | EOVernors blessed, now that they have resulted solely from operation of the | led to treat each request for a law of supply and demand—that when | hedge upon its indjvidual supplics were inadequate to meet de- And in ithol veats §to conie standing by some dec! fence or merits. countl suand high prices were inevitable. So s persons, ! 2 might be well now to see if the | Neatly fenced space, or walking by a law of supply and demand will op.|trim hedge, fit guardian for the love- erato for the goose as well as for the | Jiness it incloses, will have reason to gander. 1f for the next few weeks [be slad that in 1923 common sense stocks are permitted to accumulate | FUled- Evidently the Commissioners will substitute for 'the present irregular and haphazard scheme of hedging a plan that will be systematic and har- monious ———t—————— Phone Growth. The announcement of the telephone company that it will spend nearly balf « million dollars in the coming three montbs in installing new equipment to meet the demand for new tele- sugar. If housewives, | yhones gives one a glimpse of the predictions that sugar | growth of the city as well as the 0 cents a pound. Were to | spreading use of the telephone. Fig- in tho hands of producers and dealers the supply will exceed the demand and that immutable law which is cited in cxplunation of high prices ought | 10 operate to bring them down. If{ does not, the law officers of the| covernment will have abundant jus fication for looking about for some- 1hing other than cconomic law in ex- planation of the altitude attained by | coal. Almost paraliel logic is to be found 1 the case ghtened by > to begin panicky buying of stocks which | are given by the company show- will not be needed until next sul-|ing the remarkable growth of tele- mn canning season, they would be phone service in the newer and upper northwest section. Population grows { fast, but the telephone grows faster ithan population. It is like the auto- playing right into the hands of the zamblers. Whercas, if they keep cool | and buy oniy for day-to-day requir ments, natural laws, reinforced DbY|mghile and every other “convenience.” _zovernment pressure and @ possible { Once get one and there is rarely any Dear raid against the “longs” in the | content without it. Once have a sugar nirket, ave likely o force{phone and one fecls ever after that it V.\.‘ll"x‘.- down to a point of economic lis essentiul. The growth of the phone g tiicaton: s one of the wonders of the century. —_ H ———————— 1t is estiniated thut evéry time the| pinstein says ho cannot express his elock ticks-Uncle Sam’s tax collectors | jaeest discovery in words—that it is take in $13. Tt is fortunate for Uncle | Sam that he more dependable | elocks than the one in the post office s0 advanced as to be explicable only in signs. His statement is reminiscent of the claims of some ‘advanced” souls in fields other than science. ————— us V'n scemingly is no end to the{ Germans are notably fond of goose, versatility of oil. Tt can succor @|py they show poor judgment in kill- wrecked ba s well as wreck a peace ing the egglaying kind by overtaxing touri; conference ———— A French doctor advises men car neck ruffles (to avoid apoplexy. ————————————— President Harding's birthday greet- ings have rescued the present King .Bight of some of us in rufiles would of Egypt from complete obscuration cause an epidemic of apoplesy. by Tutankhamen. . —_——— ————————— In booming “Mr. X" for the demo- cratic presidentiul nomination Homer Cummings overlooks the possibilities of “Mr. Zero."” to | | o«. . The Colorado Senatorship. Three nationally known democrats, Woodrow Wilson, William J. Bryan #nd William G. McAdoo, have volun- 1eered suggestions to Gov. Sweet of Colorado in his task of selecting an mrpolutee to fill the vacancy in the Henate caused by the death of Senator “Nicholson, but they cannot all agree apon the same man, Events disclose 1 difference in preference between Mr. ¢ &cAdoo and his distinguished father- 4n-law, Mr. Wilson, and out of this is expecied to grow speculation as to Possible disagreement in polities be- tween the two. Mr. Wilson recom- mended his friend, Huston Thompson, to the Colorado executive for ap- pointment to the Senate. Thereupon Mr. McAdoo put forward Morrison Shafroth, son of the late John F. Shafroth, who had represented the state in the House and Senate for many ‘years. Mr. Bryan next came to the front with his O. K. on Mr. McAdoo's suggestion. At first blush, doubtless some will jump to ‘the conclusion that "Mr. MeAdoo's running counter to the pref- . erence of Mr. Wilson could be taken . 'te indicate that possibly Mg, Wilson National Stadium. 1f the National Capital had a na- tional stadium it is likely that many of the important and largely attended athletic contests now held elsefvhere would be held at Washington. With facilities at the capital for holding athletic affairs, great contests, na- tional and international, would be ar- ranged. It would be a meeting place for the athletes of the world. The annual Army and Navy foot ball game should be played at Washington, An- napolis always and, at times, West Point have favored such & proposal, but lack of facilities has been brought forward as the objection. If the an- nual Army and Navy foot ball game should be played at Washington so should the base ball games between the cadets from the Severn and the Hudson. A national stadium might come to be looked on as neutral ground on which teams of the large universities would settle their claims to athletic superiority, The national . ghtly in the eyes of man and THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, stadium idea has been broached many times, but just now it is being brought forward with especial enthusiasm and with some prospect of success. The proposal is to_erect here a stadium which would seat 100,000 persons “and which would attract to the nation's capital the largest athletic contests for constructing it would be raised by popular subscription throughout Amerfea and the stadlum would be built and dedicated as & memortal to the ybuth of America. The proposal is to be reported on by a committee of the Board of Trade. Part of the plan is to create a national athletic memorial council, of which the Presi- dent of the United States would be chairman. The board of directors would include the presidents of base ball assoclation, lawn tennis assobia- tion, foot ball coach association, golf assoctation, polo association and others. It is @ blg plan and the wish of a very large part of our people is that it may be worked out to a happy reallzation. Shrine Week. Plans for the great Shrine conven- tion are moving along. Various items were stressed at a session of the ¢iti- zens' committee of one hundred and one of them was food. It is sald that between 300,000 and 400,000 visitars will be here during Shrine week, the passenger trains will so fill the rail- road tracks that freight movement into Washington will be difficult and that dealers in food should stock up in advance. In this suggestion also is one that housekeepers might lay in a supply of the usual staples and relieve themselves to that extent of day-by- day buying. They would serve their own comfort and promote the success of Shrine week. The housing of such @ host of strangers is to be looked after and citizens are urged to list available rooms with the proper com- mittee. The decoration of the city, and particularly the decoration and illumination of Pennsylvania avenue, must be attended to and the town should do better in this respect than it has ever done before. Citizen should be generous with their autc mobiles and gas in showing itors the “sights.” The parade of the nobles on June 5 is mot to be the only great public spectacle. There will be a military parade and pageant picturing the high lights of American history on the night of June 7. It is also proposed to use the Avenue on one night for a “dance of the states,” the music to be played by the Marine Band and amplifiers sending the melodies along the great wide way. A ‘“congress of the seas” is proposed, which would take the form of a procession of barges or real “floats” on the Po- tomac. There is before us a week of excitement, crowds, thrills and amusement, but much work is to be done in preparation for all this. us to it! —_———— Contemplating the world toda; always including the United States, it is well to recall the words Charles Fletcher Dole: “It is absurd to suppose, if this is God's world, that men must always be selfish bar- barjans.” of i Difference* of opinion as to the timeliness of the Harding presiden- tial boom has not led to any denials of fts existence. ! The Department of Justice might inquire whether there is an !mproper combination between the weather man and the coal man. # SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Literary Loyalty. There isn't any finish to these maga- zines and books. A feller's bound to notice 'em which- ever way he looks. But when I pick one of 'em up an' read an hour or so, It seems quite similar to what I've read long years ago. 80 I close the volume. On the shelf T put it back . An' settle down contented to peruse the almanac. An’ They're all about some gal that's fell in love with some young man. It seems jes' like eavesdroppin’ to be follerin® out each plan They make fur future happiness. I've got s0 many cares I haven't time fur pryin’ in young people's love affairs. I let 'em have their novels. never feel a lack Of literatoor as long as they get out the almanac. An Elixir. I care not for the creatures of the south wind's promising, The butterfly that hastens by on iri- descent wing; It is not for the bird that I ecstatically long, ‘Who whirls and veers, half maddened by the sweetness of his song. ‘When sunshine thrills the artist's brush and wakes the poet’s brain I only ask for boyhood for a moment once again. I want to see the elephant once more upen parade And quaff the crystal magic of the crimson lemonade, - 1 will Those groping Rosicrucians—ah, they never found the truth! They spurned this simple potion for restoring joyous youth. The recipe they scorned, in all their alchemistic zeal, Of a lot of aqua-pura and a little lem- on peel. But I, more wise, am waiting for those fairy folk to come, ‘With the tinkle of the cymbal and the rattle of the drum; To see the magic city rise and hear the people's cheers 7 ‘While I taste that humble nectar in deflance of the years. —————— “Home, 8weet Home,” has lasted a hundred years. Can ‘you imagine a song about the “dear old flat” that would survive that long?—Detroit Free Press. ————————— Smoking is now discovered to be beneficial, but confirmed smok®&s will keep right on just the same.—New York Posta, Y WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC While the United States Navy is worrving over battleship gun ranges and carnivals of the warld.” The fund | the United States Army has troubles, treatment in New England. A happy i of its own. It is deeply stirred over the question of altering the uniform of officers. A strong movement Is in progress to do away especially with the tight-collared service blouse and provide it henceforward with a soft or roll collar, like the one fitted to the “tunics” of British officers. The subject, pro and con, has been before Gen. Pershing for some time and will shortly call for decislve action by the Sccretary of War. Opinion Is so divided that Secretary Weeks may want cabinet consideration. There is also. a lively demand for installation of an evening dréss uniform for Army officers, with blue as the favorite shade. The high collar is said to be especially uncomfortable for flying officers, impairing their efticiency at least 35 per cent. One “throttled” captain claims to have developed a cyst in consequence of the choker collar. * & K K Tt will be recalled that.the United States opposed the presence of the league of nations at the Pan-Amert- can Conference, now sitting in Santi- ago. A tragi-comic tale is.in circu- lation on the suhject, wherefrom it appears that Uncle Sam became un- duly excited over the league's de- signs on pan-America. These never' consisted, it would seem, of anything more serious than the desire of Senor Augustin Edwards, the Chilean states- man, who is president of the league, to have some Geneva experts hel Chile organize the conference. league attaches eventually w tached for that purpose—* and “protocol” specialists in diplomatic flummery. When Wash- gton heard about their activiti s0 the story goes—it blew up told the league of nations hands off pan-America. Meantime, worse has happened. Senor Edwards, league president, dent of the Santiago conference on its first business day! He is Chilean minister to Great Britain, * % X x This observer fs mildly rebuked from across the Potomac. Comes this mes- “I sce you have heen quoting some lady who referred to James Monroe 2 hnl\'e no and as an ‘obscure Virginia ance to break for Monroe, . bave to inform hoth the i question and yourself that no Vir- ginlan is obscure.” * ok x x Two amateurs at the senatorial game have taken prompt steps to start out in the Sixty-cighth Con- gress with expert implements. Sen- ator Copeland of New York has en- gaged us his private secretary Ches- ley W. Jurnev. for many years the right-hand man of former Senator Culberson of Texu Senator Ed- wards of New Jersey has comma deered the services of Arthur Blac who was former Senator Pomeren alter ewo. Both Messrs. Jurney and Black are past masters in democratic national politics, and should be able to steer their new employers in the right direction. Copeland as the vice presidentiai end of the demo- crats’ 1924 ticket, especially as an Underwood running-mate, i a late Price of Sugar. The soaring sugar prices generally are attributed by editors to an effort of speculators to recoup the losses { the sustained in 1920 when the “Fuyers’ strike” caused a collapse of the then high prices for the com- {modity. But there is a general de- jmand that the government tuke steps to prove whether @ conspiracy exists, and, if so, to punish those who ar responsible ! “With the supply just about egual lto the demand.” the Albany Knicker- ! bocker Pres asks, “why should the {rrice go up and it suggests that consumers now should buy in small Hots so as *not to jam the market by overpurchasing or hoarding.” The Providence Tribune, however, thinks the *“tariff is to blame™ for the present high prices, while the| Philadelphia Bulletin is clined to attribute it to erconsumption.™ The Bulletin, in addition, somewhat sarcastically suggests “there are some peopie who aré convinced in their own minds that the recent rise of sugar and sugar prod- in the cost . » feverish activities ucts is due to th of home-brewers. Although the initial advances are directly traceable to the tariff, the Syracuse Herald insists that a com- i 1l plete investigation to determine re- eponsibility for the latest jumps must be had, and as to the sugges- tion of Representative linger of Massachusetts that people reduce their consumption it says: “This must be haled as un exhibition of consummate statesmanship. ~ First, clap a high duty on imported sugar in for théir share of the rake-off, ad- vise the people to quit eating sugar.” While the investigation may de- velop existence of a_conspiracy, the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times believes “assurance of future price stability is more certain to come from increase of American production than through legal process. With what would amount to an entirely new source of supply in volume not only would the United States achieve an additional form of independence, but it would exert an influence on world sugar markets that would be welcome to consumers all around the globe.” This view meets direct opposition from the Knoxville Sentinel, which asserts that on, with = traders talking of sugar profits, expected to come from the consumers’ pockets and go into the speculators’ pockets—the men engi- neering the corner. These paper profits already are estimated at 500 million dollars. Each additional rise of a cent adds 90 millions more profits.” This likewise is the opinion entertained by Capper's Weekly, which points out that the only re- 1ief in sight must come from the De- rtment of Commerce and from the ederal Trade Commission which must move slowly therefore it suggests the people reduce consump- tion to the Hoover war-time stand- ard for “thirty to sixty days, when they will have the sugar bandits down on_ their knees begging for Just now it is up to the 1f the public has any fight- to keep was elected presi-. et or the W arhiniton fumos |the exacting requirements of fnter- Pychraduct of the Washlngton rumor |18, 541 life. She unreservealy votes P Washington the most haspitable’ of tear Admiral Bradley A. Fiske, U. | koo Jaby WOrld capitals she Lt ‘Q N. tired, is just back in Wash- | € rizht. 1923.) | { Seems to Be No Excuse for Highs g bloed in it now is the time to |7 “How can the housewife remaln and then, when the speculators rush; “another sugar raid is,; OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE ington after a very long and arduous ; illness, for which he underwent i lttle surprise awalted him in the shape of a newspaper clipping sent by a brother in Los Angeles, an- { nouncing that a 3,000-ton Pacific Steamship Company coast liner has Just been christened the Admiral Fiske. It ds a sister ship of the Admiral Evans, * ok kX Lord Robert Cecil's arrival in the United States gives rise, as usual, to | { an orgy of misapplied titles. Amer- icuns have about as much trouble in calling a forelgn nobleman by his right name as they have in master- ing an alien tongue. In one issus of a metropolitan newspaper this week Lord Hobert Cecil was variously de- scribed as “Lord Cecll” and “Sir Robert.” He is neither, but simply ‘Lord Robert Cecil” The “lord” fs only a “courtesy title,” as he i3 not a i member of the housé of lords, that Gistinction, in the case of a family of 1 brothers, going to the cldest. e it is the Marquis of Sal- who sits in the Bonar Law cabinet in the decorative office of [ lord president of the council. Lord D. C, THURSDAY! MARCH 29, 1923. The North Window BY LEILA MECHLI Tite chief examiner of the New York customs house has lately been quoted as stating that nearly fifty milllon dollars’ worth of works of art passed through his department in the last two years. Of this large sum about thirty-five million dollars’ worth were works more than a hundred vears old intended for private col- lections, museums or public galleries. Included in this groupy werc many famous paintings—works renowned throughout the world, whose coming to America was widely heralded. And to a much greater extent than many are aware, private collectors have purchased and are purchasing, have brought and are bringing to this country splendid éxamples of works by the great painters of Europe, so that it is now said that In the ncar future any one desiring to make a comprehensive study of works by masters of European school—yes, even the early Itallan school and prim- itives—wlill have to visit the galleries of Ameri Obviously America is rapidly collecting examples of the Iobert Cecil and Earl Balfour are ousins. The late Marquis of Salis- bury put so many Balfours and | Cecils in his administration that it became known as “Hotel Cecll.” * % % ¥ Mah-jong, the seductive Chinese game which captured American so- ciety, including Washington upper- i tendom, during the past season, clalms an ardent devotee In Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, assistant at- torney general of the United States Mrs. Willebrandt has a sister living {in China and a mah-j ip the joriginal package the bril- iant voung California lawyer and her friends use. The other night the “dryest” mah-jong match on record was played at Mrs. Willebrandt's home. The contestants were the hostess—who has charge of prohibi- tion infractions at the Department of Justice; Prohibition Commissioner Haynes; his chief assistant, Dr. Mat- thews, and Representative Andrew J. Volstead. When Mrs. Willebrandt told a friend about the party, she wa ke Well, where was Wayne?” * E ok F The acknowledged beauty of the Washington diplomatic corps is a youthful Mexican—>me. Rose Nano, wife of the legation. cretary of the Rumanian Mexico is her ancestral heath, though not that of her nativity, for she was born in Belgium when her father was on official duty at Brussels. She met the young TRumanian diplomat who is now her husband while her father was Xican minister in London. Mme. n who has just returned from a & visit to the turbulent land of her origin beyond the Rio Grande, is not of the standard type of Mexican beauty, having blue instead of black eyes, while her hair and coloring are of Titlan tint. She is tall, siately and in the sunnier section of the twentles, Cradled in diplomacy and brought up in Brussels, Berlin, Paris und London, Mme. Nano is equally at home in Spanish, French, German | and English—an ideal equipment for sweet with sugar prices soaring al- !ready and with promises of further iincreases?” asks the Dayton News: taw sugar wag selling a few month: ago at 31. cents a pound. Today it asks 6 and in some cases Tl cents a pound. The Fordney-McCumber | tariff bill, which was proclaimed far. wide by Its friends as an un- helpful measure, imposed & ! ¢ about 2 cents & pound to {the housewife. Who uitimately be- lcame the consumer. Investizations of the sugar_situation are said to be impending. They will hardly produce much _of value, suse they seldom n the meantime the the house pays the ere why things . are with the sugar b 'sugar barons are getting back,” |the Wheeling News asserts, and are {collecting “their losses due to the boycott the public imposed on them | in 1820. It is the same old stunt of the sugar barons and Wall street to i‘let the public pay again’ Will the public react again? This is very {much the opinion as well of the Bos- {ton Globe, which suggests “sugar buyers have yet to lezrn the efficiency | jof the closed pockethook in keeping | ! speculators in order.” “There is no warrant for the exces- sive price now demanded.” the| Chicago News insists. and “something | Imust be done to check speculation {und avert a stampede in the sugar {market. Gambling on the New York | Sugar Exchange, or anywhere else, should not be permitted to raise the price of so important an article_of food as sugar. It seems reasonably clear that powerful influences are trying to make excessive profits out of that commodity. The government lis duty bound to do what it legiti- mately and wisely can do to block the game.” This s all the more i necessary, the Boston Traveler con- ! tinues, because “the government has the needful machinery for curbing the upward trend of sugar provided there is any underlying cause except a panicky public. The Federal Trade Commission can ferret out the ex- istence of a monopoly. The Depart- ment_of Justice can proceed against any individuals it deems guilty of i conspiracy. The tariff of 2 cents a pound can be reduced by executive order if need be. The trouble is that this machinery operates too slowly. It doesn't operate at all unless the Tesponsible officials set it in motion.” The question “which must be an- swered.” the Bangor Commercial in- sists, 18 “if sugar sold a few months ago at the price which then pry vailed, with an ample supply assure of which there seems to be no doubt, Wwhy should prices now be doubled?’ And it is the opinion of the Mil- waukee Sentinel that “Mr. Hoover n be depended on to get that an- swer. The people as a whole have more confidence in Secretary Hoover than in the self-constituted cham- plons of popular interest, whose zeal is in direct proportion to the oppor- tunity of getting into the limelight. The casc of the sugar inquiry is an- other instance of what happened in farm credits_legislation when the professional friends discovered that they were two years {are thorough igo0d woman of i bill_and wo they | The | | 1 | | behind Senator Lenroot, who had worked out a real relief measure while the rest were still 'about the issue.” Officers Explain Carry-On-Club. To the Editor of The Star: We would appreciate it very much if you will give this letter suficient ! publicity to repudiate an erroneous {mpression which the general pubilc may have formed from the articles appearing in the Washington papers of yesterday and today relative to this organization, in which the mem- bors were characterized as “homeless veterans.” The Carry-On Club was founded shortly after -the war for the.sole purpose of furnishing disabled ex- service men attending various schools and universities insthe District with 2 temporary home during the period of their rehabilitation. The member- ship consists of men who are not homeless, but who are making this their temporary home during the period of vocational rehabilitation and paying for it at a stipulated rate. The management of the organiza- charge of the receipt and disburse: gards rules and regulations. never paid rent, we have been en- tirely self-supporting. Itoward the malntenance of the or- {him to ‘room and board. operating expenses. THE CARRY-ON-CLUB, RICHMOND H. LEE, President. R. E, MAXIE, Secretary. MRS. L. H. BOGG: Chairman of Board of Governors, ) i s ganization, each member paying the |keen and discriminating. !'sum of $43.50 a month, which entitles {and training, coupled with the pat- This sum |ronage which must come from col- has always been adequate to meet all | lectors and wealthy ~amateurs, great art of the world. * k ¥ *x This is interesting and occasion for pride and satisfaction, but It does not necessarily show that Americans are altogether as yet an artistic people or even to any great extent an art- loving people, any more than, as Granville Barker once sald, the throngs who attend concerts go to show that the multitude is musical. It does, however, indicate a trend in the right direction, for if we are not much mistaken production follows appreciation _and is engendered by knowledge. Those who buy the works by the great masters and live with them learn to love them. They pass on their enthusiasm to others, and, for that matter, those who are in a particularly 'good position to know estimate that practically nine-tenths of the great works of art brought to this country by private individuals eventually find their way into mu- seums, and thus benefit the public. * Ok kK A mid-western artist, Birger Sand- zen, who has done more, perhaps, than almost any other to increase love of art and its appreciation in the sec- tion of the country in which he has lived, wrote lately to a friend in this city, saying: “Our country is getting to be the great meeting place for the whole world's art and culture. This is very stimulating, indeed. We must, however, remember that' no lace in the world becomes &n art iter in the real sense of the term until it begins to produce great art It is not enough to collect. But we are commencing to produce really great art in our country now. The all-important thing is to find the creative artists while they are living and working * ¥ k% Sandzen is an interesting per- ‘an outstanding figure in the art world of America today. He came to this country from Sweden when a voung man and took a position as teacher fn Bethany College, Lindsbors, Kan. Hundreds of students have pass- ed through his classes and gone out as teachers, spreading the knowledge they gained through his instruction passing on to others the enthusiasm for art which his enthusiasm had enkindled. He is not merely a teacher, what is more, but a practicing artist, and he is one who has a vision. Many will re- member the exhibition of his paintings held & couple of years ago at the Arts Club here, which awakened much prof- ftable discussion. He is a modernist, but & modernist of an extremely sane type, and he has a message. * k x ¥ But to return to Lindsborg. is a little place, with less than two thousand inhabitants, but it has become famous through its musical feativals attended by thousands of persons from the ad- Jacent dist At the time of the festivals it is sald that five or six thousand automobiles are parked near the concert hall. The audience, fur- thermore, is critical. A couple of years ugo one of the singers who came from New York did not please, and the manager wrote the Metropolitan Opera Company that hercafter they must do better: second-rate singers might do for New York, but they would not do for Jindsbors. It is this eagerness for the Dest, this receptiveness toward art, which has produced such rapid develop- ment in our western country, and which may be regarded as a most hopeful sign. Mr. sonality, and ict. * * Until comparatively recently most of the painting in the United States was done east of the Alieghen; Gradually the territory lying between the eastern coast range and the Mississippi became active, with the result that Chicago is now reclkoned among the chief art cen- ters of the United States. Its museum has an attendance of over a milllon a year and Its art colony s justly fa- mous. Ohfo can boast more art mu- scums than any other state in the Unfon except New York. More lately still the tide has crept farther west- ward. There is a noted artists’ colony at Taos, N. M.; there are others on the Pacific_coast. “The Blue Boy" irs. Siddons as the Magic Muse not tarry on the Atlantic seaboard when they came to this country recently, but journeyed to the west coast and are making their permanent home in Cali- fornia. This winter exhibitions have been coming east as well as going west With reference to one of these, J. Nil- san Laurvik, director of the San Fran- Cisco Museum of Art, writes: “Many signs point to the development of a great school of landscape painters hers In_the far west, whose achieve- ments, I believe, are destined to epito- mize the true spirit of America in a manner hitherto unrealized. The pur- ple contours of the hills buiging large against_the blue vault, the sweeping arms of the bay, the big trees and great streams, the vast expanse of plains and the Pacific, upon which the westerner gazes from birth, give him a bigness of vision that visualizes things and events in their entirety.” * ok Royal Cortissoz, lecturing at the Central High School in this city a of the farmer|short time ago, spoke of the emer- gence of an American school, dating its beginning at 1892, when the great talking | white city rose in Chicago in cele- bration of the four hundredth anni- versary of the discovery of America. But the school that Mr. Cortissoz re- ferred to is today more or less a thing of the past, and a new school, a more tion is in the hands of a board of |genuinely American school, is taking governors (not guardians), who are|its place. This school is exceedingly trustees of the property, and have|varied, and the output reflects to Some extent the character of the life and ment of funds pald in by the resident | thought of that part of the country in members. An executive committee of | whi resident members, elected by resident | something in it—a bigness, a bold- members, has sole jurisdiction &s re- ness, a freshness, a sincerity, which it is produced, but there is differentiates it from the art of every Aside from the fact that we haveother country, and it i{s winning not nly recognition, but appreciation. - During the %he artists, on one side, show them- past two years approximately $50,000 | gelves master craftsmen, commanding has been pald In by resident members | their medium; the public, on the other side, demonstrates interest which is This ability is bound in time to bring big results, to lead to an era of production, as well as collection, which will, indeed, place America in the forefront of the na- tions of the world. fl LEILA MECHLIN, Sometimes even “pure science” goes wrong—gets locoed or just plain crazy. There {9 an enthusiast now in Africa. who has written to an American university. sffering to im- port a collection of live tse flies. Theso are the flies whoss sting cauges sleeping sickness, but it necessary flfst that the flies them- selves shall be Infected by biting a| person already afilicted with the dis case. Until they 8o acquire a Jus| themselves, they are as harmless I a newborn rattlesnake. The collector proposed to feed his colony, en route, on his own blood and so introduce the breed in Ameri- ca in an innocuous condition, for he fis not afflicted with the le-ping slckness. So the uninfected tsetse would be like the unloaded gun—the kind that |8 the most deadly of all Few people have accidents with “loaded” guns, but the gun which} [fvrw “didn’t know wad loaded” dangerous. is F e The Department of Agriculture 1s watching every importation of shrub- bery and seeds to guard against the | possibility of the entrance of disecase germs. Yet, in spite of the utmost precaution, some germs and noxlous insects get by the inspectors, and incal- quickly Increase and cause culable damage. How did the English sparrow get into America? It is gencrally rec- {ozgnized now as a pest, although it{ [ really does not deserve its reputa- tion, for 80 ner cent of its food con- | sists of undesirable inscets. Jt is one of the best extermin of | | noxious insects upon the continen Ibut that virtue had nothing to do} with its original introduction. It/ would be foolhardy temerity, how-| ever, that would advocate the intro- duction of the tsetse fly, In the hope that it might attack mosquitoes, or that it would develop fnto an Eng- lish sparrow “blessing” in disguise. * X K X Washington merchants are aroused in self-defense against itinerant mer- chandising by firms which come tran- siently to the hotels, with special di plays of goods—mostly for ladies' wear—and in a few days sell vast quantities, on_the strength of promi- nent labels. The claim is made tl these traveling merchants pay no 1 nse nor tax, and they demoralize trade and often foist out-of-stvle ar- ticles upon customers attracted only by the labels. Tt is estimated ths me $8.000,000 of such trade is made nnually in Washington. Something ought to be done about i it,” declare the local dealers, but what? Possibly an annual license which all local merchants would gladly pay would serve to make tran- sient business unprofitable F oo Tirector Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau has issued an order that here- after in every case of disciplinary | action against a patient in any hos- pital a full report shall be filed at headquarters within twenty-four hours, giving reasons and the nature of the treatment. In the case of a demented vete in & Maryland hospital, who was br: tally assaulted by an attendant, fcked while the patient was in a straitfacket and his ribs broken by the kicks, no action has vet been| taken to prosecute the “hard-boiled attendant. The attendant was mere- | 1y discharged, but he confesses: | “I lost my temper for the moment| and used greater force, perhaps, than Wias necessary The victim has not vet recovered: | Is it not as much of a felony to at- ck a helpless, bound, straitjuck- eted veteran patient in a lunatic ward as it would be_to attack a stranger on the streef of assaulf dny one else in a quarrel? - * ok ok ¥ What with the boll weevil and the Wall street bears, the cotton inter: ests are complaining of the kind of luck. The Departm Commerce is requested to 1 why cotton price st For many years, until quite re- icently, the men who made motor cars | and the men who made gasoline look ed cross-eyed, at each other wh ever they met. | “Youre queering the game, the | { automobile manufacturer would say, | with that abominable stuff you sell s gasoline. It gets worse and worse | every day. | Whereupon {up and snort: “Go jump in the creek,” he would | reply. “Why don’t you build a real; engine instead of that pile of junk you're putting out?” And, as usual in such case nowhere at all. the refiner would swell they.got | But not long ago it occurred to the refiner that possibly the automobile man did have a little grievance | against the quality of gaso and about the same time the automobile man wondered if it would be pos- sible to improve a bit on the engine. They got together in a gingerly | measure, With the government of the United States as a sort of mediator. The government agreed to look into the rival claims and certain sclentists at the bureau of standards were dele- gated to do the work, The work is now going on. No part of it, 80 far as I know, has been made public, although it is all very inter- esting, not only to the refiners and automobile manufacturers, but to more than 12,000,000 of the common people who buy both automobiles and gasoline. § The scientists selected four cars of popular makes, representing about per cent of all the machines in us They were particular in selecting cars in middle age—that is, cars about two and one-half years old They did this for the purpose of seeing how the cars behaved after a considerable period of use. Then they purchased four different kinds of gasoline. The first kind was the good gaso- line we used to get about five years ago. 1t was better in quality the proved, than it is now. The second Kind was the average asoline in use today B ‘And_as_the quality of gasoline i B steadily deteriorating by the intro- duction of greater quantities of heavier oils, the scientists looked ahead a year or so and obtained a Qquality of gasoline inferior to that on the market today. This they did in an effort to anticipate conditions a year or so hence. CAPITAL KEYNOTE BY PAUL V. COLLINS cake? Maybe that is ¢ a dou proposition, for cake would requir: sugar—and there is the suguar cor bine already robbing us. Minnesota is known as “the hrea |and-butter state” sinc oY ! the hardest }3 THE WAYS OF WASHI BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. The petroleum men were jubilant “I guess that will shut you u a while told the automob manufacturers Not at all.” the plied. “It proves we it proves that all that vou ;\vn.“ ! about our engines being junk was a bum stuff as your gas. “If we weren't building such goc engines. you couldn’'t get by with you low-grade gas. The engine is abou as perfect as can ba made; that's wh vou get the mileage. You get it Spite of the fue And so we are back again whe line, sugar and bui 1e” telegraphic wail received by Sceretary of Com the boll weevil too crop, and the north has tuken 29 por cent of the colored laborers of 1t south, and that cotton stoc he lowest they have been the market slumps John J. McSwain of demands an _investigat tain who is throttling the demand. Balf of last vear's are to as supp n The northwest, not to be outd by the south, and forgetting that war time rationing is out of date, co plains that therc is a surplus of 171.- 000,000 bushels of wheat, and | peals to us all to an extr: of bread.” That will consur surplus. Now we wonder why b Anything the matter with eating more best flour and the the world, but the day with cooks “made in ¢ grating into America 50,000 kronen per month Minnesota and the Dakotas ¢ us into eating brave little boy starvation gna Heretofore styles have those of the all been King fi rican mer mmed to follo ind. It h been declared could tell w noti dou by trousers now i or o longer sty the S “His F the Pre one of the et offi him. This 1s how it happened: 1 has been at the exclusive ho 3 St. Augustine, Fla, that all gentle men will dress in ng clothes soon as the kes 6. Pres! dent Harding set a w style H appeared on a hot evening in w cool. white flanne The society fo their flannels, 5 by it, with whit s gasped and ran f nternational banker repiov ( President Harding and Secrcta Hughes for venturing to 1ss dip lomatic questions European di lomats, since net ever visited Europe says: “The governmer abroud as m £ o possible, and mal ay around, what's not me some of the internatic would take that slogan too, might benefit—I dc 1ch. story, alifornia_into the offic friend to give him The Wall stree nd 1 and a bit ¢ you interesting coun out west ness tr Bufralo away down to derful countr west The Calif thatohe was saaw the cv icated in's oige e s finu o ca it a wonder we ~right didn’t (« 1923, mer operation. the scienti up all the numerous n made and went back to their desk figure out what now. The mileaz of gaso sn't g had been proved ax fo T d an amaz g thing of the the same. ; it was De words, today's asoline yields just ¢ miles to the gallon, when testes the four most popular mal rs, as did the higher quality line ‘of yesterday And tomorrow's still poorer su does just about as well as tod miles per gallon. Kurther, iest gasoline of all, that whi ably will be on the market five or so hence, delivers virtual nuch mileage as any of the rest m each was ite tion of less than In oth inferior ma in ce more or zas we started But that was a summer-time The scientists wanted winter t So d@id the manufacturers. When wi ter comes, they claim, is when @ real test comes anyway. 4 However, Washington's doesu’t afford opportunity to makd real winter test. Our winter mof ings have a habit of developing springlike afte n. The chmate 100 variable The suggestion that the tests conducted farther north was the objection that in such c snow would be present and thus a d turbing factor would be intro The sclentists wanted o tempe test. not a snow-sliding compe: Finally it v greed that the should be conducted at the laborat of the bureau on Connecticut avenu: They selected the “altitude roow where the temperature is ¢ rolleti In that room, the brinis their Centigrade down to 25 below z now the four cars and the four malk of gasoline are fighting it out fi supremacy under the eyes and in t presence of the notebooks of Unc Sam's scientists. scientists th rn b Speacking of gasoline, we real The fourth kind of gasoline was still heavier. In buying it, the sci- entists were looking still further into the future. | Thus they were all set to go. Four popular cars and four. kinds of gas line—yesterday’s; today’s; LomOTTOW's, and that of thé day after tomorrow. Then they took the cars and thelout here. gasoline down to Washington's Speed- way and for thre. out in every possible kind of combi- nation. All this happened last summer. If you drove over the Speedway then, | puol be’ the chances are you saw one Or morc of the test cars realizing just what was going on. e months tried them | in operation without | ter somewhere that the production last year was 5,300,000,000 gallons. Do you have any idea as to how much that is? Neither dit we. I can tell you,” =aid one of the bureau's scientis “We've figured it Of course, yow've heen to Niagari Falls, Y, the great v of wat % and tumbli and sw falls and ch itself into s oking stufl iu W, “Well, if we could shut off the wa d’ substitute gasoline, the flow for 45 minutes would represent year's production in )tho Unit#i At the end of three months of sum- ! States.” A