Evening Star Newspaper, March 31, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.. .Marck 31, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Ev Business O Newspaper Company St and Pennsrivania Ave otk OMces 170X s ago Ofice Furopean Ollve: 16 1 D Bvening Star ition, i deltyered b telephone Collertion iy made by carricrs 8t the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginla. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40: 1 mo., 00 Daily oul, 1¥r, 36.00; tmo., Eunday onl . dyrs 0; 1 mo.. All Other States. v S5 The Asscclated Press o the ur: for republication of il news atchies crodited to 1t or ot otherwise ercdited 5 this paper and slto the local news pub- Mahed herein. Al rights of publlcatton of special disputchcs hereln are slso seserved. _— After Stock Swindlers. sus campatgn to run down <h oil stock swindlers Is one nsefu whic mos! ctivities is now engaged. impunit hot promot: hi fraudu operated bas been a scandal for a number of year wated that the war ed themselves at the ullible public to the exte than a billion of their takings, in fact, run as high as half a billien dollurs a year. Sellr g of worthiues stock to credu- Jous *u always has been a profitale and not a specially hazard- ©us oecupation, but it is only since th war ond as g result of the war that the busincss has attained its present Kifdie . OpuT ©f patriotism who never before had been in tae in ting class sacrificed and saved and bought liberty bonds. And it is upon these milliens that an army of jackal promoters has been preying. Their gold:n opp: came during the period when selling below par. and it the siny estors’ s of Americans 4 rtunif They offered to take face value in ex- stock which, instead of ying 4%y per cent, they promised would pay 10 per cent or more in divi- dends. And bond owners by the scores of thousands “fell” for it. They long azo parted with their bonds, but it Is a maxim of the stock sw dlers that “a sucker once hooked will bite again.” ard they keep on sending good money after bad in effort to re- coup thei E Repeated exposures of the frauds seemingly have little or no effect in diminishing the number of victims. The story of a laundry worker who becomes wealthy overnight stirs am. bition in the breasts of a thousand other laundry workers, and they send thelr hard-earned savings to fatten the bank accounts of the swindlers who invented the iginal story. Their literature, which an obliging govern- ment has carried through the mails, i3 persuasive and convincing to the uninformed, and knowledge that others have been plucked, or cven a previous plucking, does not hold them back. Like the morphine addict, they €eem willing to pay the price for sake of the pleasant pipe dreams that come to them under influence of the drug. Awakening in the cold gray dawn they feverishly set about to scrimp and save the price of another pipe. The government is no miracle worker, and it cannot help one belng born every minute, but it certainly ought not to be a party to these swindles by placing its mail facilities at the service of the swindlers, and where there is transgression of its laws the transgressors should be pun- ished. The cynical philosophy of the underworld that *“some one else would get it” cannot justify the government in standing placidly by while the get- ting is going on. The Weather. Washington, althoush it may shiver end complain at the cold wave sweep- ing over the town today, must re- member that it has little ground for grumbling about the winter asa whole. Winter has gone, now, and compared with the experience of New York and the New England states our climate has been notably salubrious. Malne @nd Massachusetts have had a season of almost unparalleled snowfall, while we bave had comparatively none. The nortawestern states, too, have passed through 2 rigorous season, with tem- perature far below zero st of the time. Two conditions contribute to shield the National Capital from winter conditions which may pr in cities within a couple of hundred miles of us. The Blue Ridge and the Allegheny mountains form a natural barrier, turning most of the south- western storms on & course which Fives Washington a wide berth. Prox- imity to the waters of Chesapeake bay warms the atmosphere. It is said the Lord tempers the wind to the shorn lamb, and Washington, in the shortage of coal, should fecl sTateful for the blessings of a rafld winter. So. If we shiver today. let us he thankful for the weather we have njoyed and hope for a delightful pring. —_——— A chart of this carly spring weather ‘would look like a cross between a «hild’s drawing of the Alps and the Glen lcho roller coaster. ! ——t e Dealers ere delighted over the Easter shopping. So are mother and the girls. Father just grins and bears it. ——————te No Shrine Week Reciprocity. It is regrettable that there cannot| he automobile reciprocity between the District and Maryland during Shrine week. It would help the celebration in the District and it would help Mary- land, in that the roads of the state wwvould be fllled with cars and Mary- lzand’s beauty would be revealed to many, many thousand strangers from The Disteiet, Commissicners THE directed that during Shrine week | To a school boy or girl an excursion , Maryland auto tags shall be honored to a famous place scveral hundred in the District, and the people of the | miles away is always a big event, but s0c | - | th Under the urge liberty bonds were | { Distrfet’s mother state will be at lib-| erty to use the District's roads and strects on the same terms as motor- ists having local licenses. We want our Maryland cousins and their uncles and their aunts, and all thelr chil- ven. to enjoy the festivities and heip us ing the hosts of the Mystic Shirire the biggest welcome ever given to a body of men. Tt was hoped that Maryland would s hing along the lne of “same here.” &nd that ¢ s Shrine week District tags would | be good in Maryland, that the visitors could be given spins in Montgomery, I'rederick, Prince Georges, Charles, | §t. Marys and other famous counties. {We wanted to show to the visitors those charms of Maryland i are worth a long trip to look on. be. The loal division mal Motorists’ Assoctation nsi | wh i But it is 1 of the Nat took up the matter with the resy I nle Maryland suthorities. Col. Baueh man was courteous and sorry. He was gratited that the District will { honor Maryland auto tage, but und law of Maryland it was not within his power to return the compliment. 1le regretted that the law is so stern. and the regret is mutual. Be Careful With Prices. Members of the Washington taurant Assoclatic ¢ they inc Shrine week Res- anncunce that il net should the sume resvive or tuke | the same pledge. 1n the first place, it is unfalr to take advantage of the fac that the population of the city is sud- denly increased and boost the price The fair dealer ought to be content with the vastly augmented trade. In the second place, it is not good busi- ness. Washington aims at becoming the greatest city for the gathering of | the convention capital. It aims at be- coming the American center for mighty celebrations, ceremonies and carnivals. It alms at becoming the place for athletic meets which draw greut crowds. There ought to be no extortion, petty or grand, practiced on Shriners or any other visitors. Each of the visitors is a potential press agent for Washington. He will be a booster or @ buster, according to the treatment he receives here. Let the treatment be fair. Let it be generous. 1 Make a booster of every stranger Who comes to Washington. It is broad- guage business, At the last inaugura- tion, or before the inauguration cere- monies were curtailed, storics were current outside of Washington of @ remarkable uplift in ho Let us be sure that there will be no foundation for stories of overc! in connection with Shrine week. ————————— ] Speed. The air speed record hu been {broken again. In fact, it was broken itwice on the same day by two Ameri- can fliers. The highest speed now stands at 251 miles an hour. but the officlal record is 243 miles for four laps around a one-kilometer course. About two months ago a Frenchman broke the record held by an American aviator by covering the prescribed course at the rate of 233 miles an hour. That was a big advance in speed, and was commented on through- out the world. On the same day, and same course on which the latest speed marvel traveled at the rate of 243 miles an hour, another American flew 2t 236.5 miles an hour. The old stan- dard of “a mile a minute,” which seemed to many of us as the limit of long been in the discard. We are mov- ing faster day by day, and men feel that the speed limit is not reached, and that there may be no limit. In | his spurt at the rate of 281 miles an air close upon a five-milea-minute clip. ———————— Whether or not the subscribers to the naval holiday can change the elevation of their guns seems to be no less moot a question than what the ! temperature is to be tomorrow morn- |ing. ————ee— It is peculiarly fitting that an Amer- | ican Army fiier should establish a new speed record over the course wherc the Wright brothers developed the +airplane. ——— Spring fashions are so attractive that it i{s difficult to blame winter for coming back to have u lock at the Easter style parade. i ———————— ‘ Rejoicing that this is the last day of Ithe *coal year” is dampened by the | fact that another coal year Legins to- ! morron Seeing Washington. The annual migration to Washing- ton of seminaries and high schools is under way, and these large and inter- | esting hodles of student visitors will become more numerous as spring ad- vances. It is a movement which has grown within recent years, and it is { no doubt eafe to forecast that it will continue to grow. It is pleasing to ‘Washington that these student bodles icome. That it is helpful to them hus been proved. Many high chools in th: adjoining states and those close to | Washington, as Delaware, Pennsy i vanla and New Jersey come to Wash- | ington every epring. Many come from !the New England states, and the movement has become strong in west ern New York. When a high school once makes its Washington excurston it comes the next year and the next. The excursion becomes one of the big things to which the school looks for- wdrd and on which it looks back. Teachers comment on the stimulating effect of the Washington excursion on puplls, and especially in their study of history and goverhment. The ex- perlence of an excursion to Washing. ton, with two or three days of hard work at seeing the show places, gives each visiting pupil one of the greatest conversational topics of his or her career. ‘At the gchool, in the home and elsewhere the pupll back from Wash- Tington talks of the things seen. Many of these excursions are of county high schools and the homes of the puplls 5 szl evTno &F fa Uae eeuniry. of eating and the cost of sleeping. | | stranger crowds. It aims at Lecoming | charges. | speed which mortals could reach, has ! hour the flier was going through the | when the cxcursion is to such a fa- mous place us Washington, where the President has his oftice and Congress meets, it is the biggest event in the {lives of many of these children. The {idea of =iving a school an excursion to Washington ix one that ought to be generally taken np. and it probably will be. ) The Red Fez. The red fez is one of the distinguish- not Shriners should not infringe the copyright. There will be great tempta- tion to put on a red foz, for it will be very popilar form of headwear when the temples of the Shrige come to Washington for their convention. Many persons will put on the fez be- thicy feel that they will be doing to the Shrine, but Shrines y hold the sime opinion. Many cther persons may be tempted to wear the Sbriners will be the most popular persons of the time and will have the right of way in every- thing, but it would be the proper thing to allow to Shriners the exclu- case f hon, sn ot Coiuse sive use of the red fez. Tt is reported | t the Shrine committee has usked ashington dealers in novelties and dwear not to lay in a supply of for 1tion week. The com th\y fezzes eony miites points ont ven a . and that oficring red his entrance to zzes for encourages and undesirable characters to wear In Shrine week we who have the honor of being nobles should hats and let the : use of the fez. ¢ 1 menibers then. 10! stick to our Shriner have =o own [ —— Passed and Passing Words. 1If one would be understood it is nec- thut he keep his vocabulary up to date. One cannot be in conversa- tional style and use heopskirt words. We have the old phrase *“new times, new manne or “other times, other manners.” and we might just as well have such a phrase “new time: new w In the matter of trans Jortatios e trolley, taxi, truck, tractor, ney, aute, limousine and touring And there are other: The old word “hack” has nearly gone nto the discard, and onc seldom hears of coupe, landau, Victoria, phae | ton, tilbury, teacart, drag. harouche or hansom. The family coach, the hack- woh, the carryall, the chaise and stagecoach are met with in his- torl You do not meet them essary as car. novels. Perhaps buckboard, surrey, sulky, carriage and wagon may soon be ex tinct. Then there is old “omnibus.” 1t passed nearly 10 the pe tion, but has revived. But it might be calied & metamorphic word because has been changed to motor bus. And, by the way, when a man says an thing alout a horse car he gives his Ms antiquity—away. —_————————— Maybe the E turers used snellac cheaper than sugz. ———————— Even 3 of immigration tors. ter candy manufac- cause they found i too high a ratio communist agita. r cent of i ! fas stil w | Rubir. { relieved the British of the necessity of {a poiey. ——————ee. The British government ithout a policy as to the —————————— Mussclini says men are tired of lib erty. Russians are very tired of the brand they acquired. ———— Ruhr miners at least waited until winter was over before going on strike. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Relief. You prize the friend that prides him- self on being frank and truc; it may hurt him and you. You know that it's his sort on whom vou're likellest to depend When troubles overcast the sky and bitter tears descend. But just the same you sometimes wish that he could comprehend That no one finds perfection, no, not even in a friend. And though you vow you want the strong, You kind o' like the fellow who wiil Jolly you along. You kind o’ like the bird that sings a song of careless cheer; You kind o' like the flowers that blos- som idly, far and near; { { whose strains so idly fall; You kind o' like a lot of things that are no good at all. here is just one fact that stands out palpable and clear, The thoughtless smile is always bet- ter than the thoughtless sneer, And so many folks are ready to re- mind you when you're wrong That you kind o' like the follow who will jolly you along. Spring Sport. @ you de cxcitement's gettin® thick aroun’ de place. De vilets an’ spring beautles, dey is gwine to run a race; An’ de brook is all a-shiver, An’ de trees is ail a-quiver, | A-waitin' foh to sec which one can | make de mostes’ has'e. | But v s I I te ‘We is gwine to love de winner foh his courage an’ his pluck, An’ we's gwine to love de loser “case he didn’t dave mo’ luck; ‘We is watchin® an’ e-waitin’, An’ we all is calculatin’, Dat dis spoht is 'bout de fines’ dat de township cver struck. —————e A sound projector recently used in New York magnified the human voice 12.000 times. It must have seemed al- most as loud as some of the conversa- tion carried on during performances in the concert halls—Boston Tran- seript. —_— oo The least dependable of horticul- tural products is the crop of the family | == ing marks of the Shriner, and citizens | that each Shriner is| the | is reported | The French have very largely | ‘Who talks about your faults, howe'er | You kind o like the merry rhyme | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, i D. €., SATURDAY, MARCH 31, 1923. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS The Library Table CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Anotber “dirt farmer” from out of | the west has arrived in Washington, | with aspirations to become a member of the Federal Reserve Board. Ile is Walter IL Chappell of Kar who covets the pla miade vacant the recent death of Milo . Campbell of y A date for the “dirt farmer” position on the ! Reserve Board when Campbell wa appointed. Te and his friends, there- fore, are beginning again just where they were left off. Chappell has the | support of the Kunsas delegatlon and of the big farm organi jons. He is without banking expericnce, but s a real farmer and has made u political reputation In Kansas as a county | commlssioner at Chanute. as, o Huston Thom m, whom Woodrow Wilson hus nominated for United States senator from Colorado, has been contributing articles to Henry Tord’s “Dearborn Independent.” They deal with the policies and problems of the Federal Trade Com- mission, of which the young Color- | #do lnwyer 18 a member. Thompson i eiscloses a bit of his political the in the latest article. He defines “the greatest social problem of our time, the absorption of our political wnd _economic |!h|lln«:fi])h)' by an en- gulfing mercantilism.” | Men und welcoming the fugton in June are jugslin some Interesting figures ' peet the normal population W cupltal to be doubled by an influx of $00,000 visitors. Ean Francisco bank Geposits in the fortnight of the Shriners’ sojourn at the golden gato in 1922 were §22,000,000, greater than in any previous two weeks on record. As San Francisco entertained only ninety tempies and Washington ex- pects. 130 or 140 with a correspond- inly heavler attendance, the weulith likely to pile up In District banks is asily calculable. Nan Franclscans wised $100,000 for the Shrine con- clave, and spent $298,000. Washing- ton is trying to mobilize a fund of $300,000. ~ The capital's pieco de re- sistance in the wa decorative glory will be the rden of Allah,” to be planted in Pennsylv nue. past the White Hous iSth d 17th streets * x This is how the modern Americ: man of affairs does ft—whea he can afford it. Bernard M. Baruch up from his South Carolina Lunting | lodge this week en route to | Hot | ISprings for Easter. He planned t ations in cha hriners to W organ ot came Is of the Scotti on ‘the roud or in parlor conversation. | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Lora Northe hced that he is following Jessic {the American Ziesfeld T fnow on her wav acress the on board the Oly |for the purpose of mar | this country toward th April, is the eventh {barely twenty-two v succeeded to the f ,!‘) the extensive esta and to his i father’s very lal fortune, in De- cember, 1921, He iy descended from a younger David, first | Earl of Southesk, head of the house fand Scottish clan f Carnegie. He bears on his escutchenn a naval gold | eraam i the conter af the hreast of Ithe golden eagie, which the her- aldie device of all the ¢ L o < the word “Tratalgar,” in n of the fact thaf the seventh Earl of Northesk was third ir. command of Nelson's flent at the o s of Trafalgar ‘""[‘;l‘; 5’»?:;:!::1[‘;:‘!’!-*5 n‘f the first Earl s & Atlantic w York ars of age, and hovors and of % % sociati closed u ,and heavy wooden shire, and Baron Lour, alsa Lord to Lord Ethie, and accordingly he s Earl of Northesk and of Baron Ri tearl w known as Leord Rosehill | | “Exhie Castle was at one time the ole in the history the northern | hundreds of vears. Carnegie family murdered her two- —so much so that it was! {the outside of the windows. 'Ih\ls(‘l _ofl.vn hear, in the watches of th of Northesk were Earl of Ethic. of {Ethie Castle, Arbroath, in Forfar- Egelism: . £ se three titles, created by Charles ppeated cured from Charles II, in 1657, pe mission to change them into thos ihill, retaining, however, the dates of ! their original creation.” The present | until he succeeded to the family hr\u’v ors on his father's death. [home of the celebrated Scottish Car- !dinal Beaton, who played so great | kingdom. But it has been in the i session of the Carnegics for many * * Some centurfes ago a lady of the vear-old child in its nursery, which \fterward bore the stigma of the as- the door fastened by serews | hutters nailed to | !who occupied the rooms above and {below this gruesome chamber would | night, the pattering of littlo feet over | ithe floor, and the sound of little | truth, and want it good andiwheels of a child's cart being dragged | Forfarshire, assumed the name of de ito and fro, a peculiarity connected ! with the sound being that one of tho | wheels creaked and chirruped as ul { moved. | | MGenerations rolled by, and the room | continued to bear its 'sinister char- | | Somtintietii the ninth Earl of Northesk, | { grandfather of the present peer. and 2 colonel of the Scots’ Guards, deter- | | o etime atter his accassion to ithe honors and estates to probe the | ghostly story as to its truthful or| i fictitious basis. i Consequently, he had the outside shutters removed from the windows and the heavy door unscrewed. Then, in the presence of several membe:s of | his family and_retainers, he forced open the door. When it was opened, and the windows had been raised, lhn’ room proved to be quite destitute of furniture or ornament. It had a large hearthstone on which a quantity of ashes still rested, and some fragments of #mall bones, including pleces of a | |w i Hivetis entertain there his youngest daugh- ter, the apple of his cye, and a couple of her friends. Hot Springs hotels, he found, were bespoken for Fasteriide since Christmas. Baruch thereupon tarried in Washington just long enough to long-distance a private Pullman compartment car to be put at his disposal at Hot Springs. In it he and his party are now lusuriating. * * If Europe finds itsclf in u maze «bout Amerlea’s international inten- tions the old world can hardly be blamed. No sooner does Hiram John- son arrive on the other side with as- surances that the “isolatlonists” hold the fort in the Henr Allen, former governor of K sezes along with contrari- tion To interviewers in Par week Allen sald that co- operation with 1 pe will bhe keynote of the republican platform in 1924, “aloofness from wornd a having been abandoned So now Mother Burope, having promised some day to I can tuke her choice x which sent William House and to the presidency, and Atlee Pomercne to the Scnate, may be the next to dis- patch a4 woman “congressman” to shington. Buckeve gossip i3 to ftect that Mrs. of the “lame duck” the MéKinle 824 o the pl Like him, w Miss i Anggeles, a rood-looking. Husbind ¢ cinder pitman in : 1 up a.milli « comrade of Alice Roosevelt Long- worth and, like the latter, haunted the gallerles of Congress on big days. Canton, Ohio, McKinley to the he wite representi- district, her x he Eilevn is young i fimes began 1if, stecl mill and Mrs. Himes Iy nire ¢ . Toat il anr. She Tos % in April the trial of our big $1,000,000,000 claims case against Ger- many will begin. A mistaken ldea prevails that the Germans have the privi of filing counter-claims. t right is specitically denied them our treaty of peace, as it is in the treaty of Versailles. r are Amerl- \ants in any danger of ha collwct _in illusory rman Tt has been decided that, for purposes. the nark s bo worth s exe three months into the war. works out at 17 cents and a frac- . which Is roundls 7 cents beiow nark’s pre-war worth, (Cops it Earl o el o rate tie the Zht, 16230 Lord Northesk. Suitor of Follies Girl, h Clan of Carnegie Noand. of (side of the b att P Wi ed across she did _so ¢ some- listeners d chirrup as . Lady Lady T to e erw rt the " little the ro with a stran uncanny that wheel croak e n it wa thing heurd one it ra The room is now devoted to ordinary sounds ure no The remnants of bone shes found on hearth consigned to consecrated the family little go-cart everence ag one of sures of tne historic Kie, one ground in House ar- w0t quite reconcile oneself ea of this go-cart—thls ic relic of so cruel a tragedy of of vears ago, coming into possession of one of who, while endowed d fagci- expected, in antecedents, to 100k it or to freat it with a fitting of reverence. Sentiments of reverence and of veneration are not the characteristics _and for which the New York d Follies' girls are the most usous, and one wonders what the’ fate of this memento of a atrocious . and of the martrydom of rear-old scion of thie great house of Carnegic which the great American iror i philanthropist of Pitts- bureh, the laird of Skibo Castle, was o proud to belong. x *x % X Few families have furnished a larger number of distinguished offi- cers to the roval navy. Thus, In ad- dition to the seventh Earl of North- esk, who took part in the battle of Trafalgar, there was his son, Lord Rosehtll, who was lost on board the battleship Blenheim, and his brother, the Hon. Swynfen Thomas Carnesxie, who was a distingushed admiral, while the eighth and ninth Earls each married the daughter of an admiral. The Lords of Northesk, like the Lords of Southesk, are descended originaily from a certain John d linhard, who flourished in'the fourteenth cen tury, and who, on receiving -from King David I a grant of the land and_of the barony of Carnexle, in Carnegle. Of the origin of the de Balinhards. no record remains, all the carly family charters having perish- ad_in a fire at Kinnaird House in 1452 Lord Northesk has no seat in the house of lords at Westminster, his peerages. ng exclustvely Scottish. Indeed, he will have to wait vears bo- fore therc is any probabillty of Lis being elected by his fellow peers of Scotland to be one f thei= sixteen representatives in the upper chumber at Westminster. Lord Northesk hy reason of his vouth, i3 so little known, that a few months ago he was obliged to publisi an advertisement in the Lnglish press, warning people against & swin- dler who had assumed his nams, and organized a number of frauds in the western counties of England, espe- cially in Devonshire. The man was subsequently caught, and is now *n- dargoing & term of penal servitude. IN A FEW WORDS Tho beauty of the league of nations’ is that it is always there to save a na- Hon'S S \IRS. OLIVER STRACHY. There fen't a newspaper In this coun- try that has a competent military eritic, but on the other side every paper has one. ADMIEAL SIMS. In breach of promise cases the spirit of revengo and wounded pride predomi- nates, not the agony of broken hearts. —JUSTICE McCARDIE. In Mexico, as in the rest of the world, there will be in tho future two political parties, that which looks to the future and that which looks behind. L —PRESIDENT OBREGO: Thero is more real poverty in this country than in Europe. The nation there are n;ier:'!y lr{lnxl to get money s cach_other. from us (0 A8 PRy BACHARACH. | The reason you rarelys ever see one of the upper classes drunk on the streets S Tondon is because they go home in ‘abe, Y. SEXTON, M. P. Gubor party). i The strong and masterful man who lays down the law and insists on its be- ing obeyed, by virtue of the right of his ll'ufll\oog.‘l is enjoying a mew popularity amoug the fair sex. =EDWARD CECILa | ahead, We must revise our ilea of succes in this country or every boy will grow up with his ambition centered on being a hase ball player or a prize fighter who can get $500,000 for a single fight. —REV. PERCY STICKNEY GRANT. Abolition of divorce by constitu- tional amendment i3 because there are unfortu- nately so many middle-aged men who want new and younger wives. —JUSTICE MORSCHAUSER. Our alleged naval experts are ten years behind the times, and are evi- dently toying with the idea that cur {two strongest rivals on the seas— Japan and England—will never fight us. —REAR ADMIRAL W. F. FULLAM, U. S. N., Retired. is poor The world of commerce ground for a Woman to leap off from into history. One cannot play Jullet in cuff protectors or Helen of Troy with telcphone recelvers clipped over the head. VENNING. Art is anything that is well done. —STANISLAVSKY, Moscow Art Theater. France will have another revolu- tion on their hands if they attempt to follow America’s example of pro- hibiting lovennklnfi in 'Lha paor;x. lted States thanj e 'epy borigh, five miles from Rye. | the | adrs™ | pseph 1L Himgs, | the | Zicgteld | 2 long way | By The Booklover Among the many novels of each year whose interest lies in the treat- ment of Individual characters and situations, without any broad or gen- eral significance, there is occasionally one of eplc quality. Such is Knut Hamsun's “The Growth of the Soll” and such also, in a somewhat less universal way, i8 Shofla Kaye-Smith's “Sussex Gorse.” The subtitle of “Sus- sex Gorse™ {s “The Story of a Fight. The fight is not between indlviduals, but between a man of Indomitable purpose and a monster of the soil— ! the great, shaggy Moor of Boarzell. |* ® ¢ It was hummocked and tus- {socked with coarse grass—here {like all southern heather, almost arboreally. In places the naked soll guped in sorcs made by coney-war- rens or uprooted bushes. Stones and roots, sharn, ehards and lumps of marl mixed themselves into the wealden clay, which oozed in red streaks of potentlal through their sterility. The crest of Boarzell was marked by a group of firs, very gaunt and wind-bitten, ris- ing out of a mass of gorse, as the plumes of some savage chicf might nod mangily above his fillet.” = % At th de philosop age of fifteen Neuben Buck- his father. was summed up of the words, “I'v w happy man.” resolved that one day he would own Boarzell moor and subdue it. Five years later, when his father died and the farm of Odiam, on the edge of the moor, became his property, Year by year he worked and saved and purchased section after section of the moor and brought it under cultivation, meanwhile sacrificing to his great purpose all the joy and kindliness of 1ife. His ageing mother, his brother, his wife, his children as they came, children, his one real friend, who was the only woman he ever truly ed, were all sucrificed to the moor. when he was elghty-eix | was complete and the last of the crest of Boarzell becar but he crted by a'l excent his blind, idiot brother. Of his two wives and his cleven children all had fled from Boarzell or had been killed by it But “I've won selif. . . . "I've won—and worth while. I've wanted a thing and I've got it, surelv—and I aun't oo old to enjoy it, nuther.” * % The recent unhappy events in Levant makes especially timely Short History of the Near East Williarn Stearns Davis, known as historfan and Commentating in his final chapter on the latest bloodshed, tho author suys that of all the treaties designed to liquidate the world that of | Serves, between the western powers {and Turkey, was the one most obvi- ously writ in water. “At this mo- ment,” he says, “it seems probable jthat. to the outraging of all western 1 | the “A by favorably war, America, the Turks will be granted a circumscribed and tenuous occupa- tlon of Constantinople for at least a little longer . This is a_pitiful fulfillmgnt of the promises of many { Franco-British statcsmen during the i world war. ia non-moral temporary arrangement tetated by gordid expediency and ! | promises new wars in the not dis- itant future.” The history gives the {background of the age-long struggle between orient and occident, showing thow European ambitions have com- ibined with local jealousies to perpet- juate the conilict. : * ok k% “The Best Short Stories of 1922 and the Year Book of the Amerfcan Short Story.” just published, is the eighth in serfes compiled by E. J. the O'Brien. The storles chosen are twen- ty in number, and some of the authors are Sherwood Anderson, Katherine Fullerton Gerould, Joseph Hergesheimer, Ben Hecht, James Op- penheim, Wilbur Daniel’ Steele, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ring Lardner and Waldo Frank. I A life-long devotee of extreme real- ism in fiction and an opponent of the classic standards fmposed Dby the French Academy, Edmond de Gon- court, at his death in 1896, left a fund to establish an annual prize to be awarded to the young writer pro- ducing the most remarkable prose work of imagination of the year. The award of the Goncourt prize of 5000 francs by the ten members of the Gon- court Academy always causes a storm of discussion in France and a milder flurry in this country. In 1921 the prize went to Rene Maran, a negro writer, for a | ‘strong” but disgusting novel of the Jungle, atoual. The prize for 1922 ‘was given to Henri Beraud, because Vof his two books, “Le Vitriol 'de Lune" and “Le Martyre de I'Obese.” Beraud iis thirty-eevén years old and cor- pulent. ~He was formerly dramatic {critic of the Mercure de France and |t present is on the staff of Le Peiit Parisien. The first_of his two books crowned by the Goncourt Academy is a tragedy of the events leading to the death of Louls XV: the second is farce of the adventures of a fat man, and is dedicated 1o & number of fat ’celebrities, including Marshall Joftre. * ok ok % The first 1ssue of a. new bi-monthly magazine called Orlent appearcd in February. It is to be a magazine of art and culture, with the purpose of | Ishowing the spirit of the present| renaissanco in Asia and making | own to western peoples the art, literature and philosophy of the east. The initial number contains iby Homain Rolland entitled *Ifomase to Si * K kX ¥ In a recent letter to Christopher Morley of the New York Evening Post, George H. Locke, librarian of the Toronto Public Library, says that he asked the question of the students in the Ontario Government Training !School for Librarians—'What dozen { books of prose fiction would best rep- resent the works of Canadian authors !to readers who wich to know something !of Canadian life?” The books chosen | were as follows i "Kirby, “Golden Dog": Leacock ! “Sunshine_Sketches of a Little Town"; ! parker, “Scats of the Mighty”; Hem- ion, “Maria Chapdelaine”; Duncan, ! “Dr. Luke of the Labrador”; Thom- son, “Old Man Savarin”; 'Connor, “Black Rock”; Hallburton, “Sam Slickt; Laut, “Lords of the Nort Wallace, “Salt Seas and Sallor Men"; Connor, “Sky Pilot," and Pickthall, “The Bridge.” - * ok k¥ A volume of unliterary letters by a literary man has just been published in “The Correspondence of James Fenimore Cooper,” edited by his grandson. Cooper's most vital in- terests were not literary, but politica) and social, and his leifers are con- cerned with public affairs and gossip. )Almost his only comments on Amer- jean writers of his own time are siurs upon Washington Irving, of whom he Was perhaps jealous. Iis own books Ne mentions chiefly in_ connection with their commercial valuc. * % s It is reported that the Russian soviet government has placed Tolstot on the index. The playing of a Tol- stoi drama in Russian is expresaly forbldden, i I “The moor was on the eastern edge | and ! there @ spread of heather, growing. fruitfulness | n; no ambitious, so I'm | his task of conquest began. | his second wife and her | at in his loncly kitehen, ! he sald softly to hime | it's bin | public opinion, and espectally that of | It rcpresents apparently | {tive n article | ' lappropriated for the crection BY PAUL V. COLLINS “Hitch your wagon to @ star,” espe- clally if gasoline goes to $1 . gallon, as predicted by some statcsmen A brilllant and fnaginative writer of Washington, star-guzing, has con- celved the notion that all that §s nec- essary to break the monopoly'of the Standard Ofl Compuny !s to “harness the stars” He even professes that the experts of the United States bureau of standards have rigged up the nec- essary harness and prepared to start the machine, Let us sce how a star-driven machine—an automobile hitched to Juplter or Venus, or the {double team—would go whizzing past | the trafe policeman i * % should take a teaspoouful ter, and focus upon it the coming from a blue star and conserve all the heat, it would ke a million s to rafse the tem- ature of that water one degre: says Dr. Coblentz of the United States bureau of standards, the expert who has invented an instrument for meas- uring star heat. 1lis instrument is 80 delicate that it is sensitive to the a miles from it, and it detects the pri ence of unknown dark, and therefore {invisible star, billions of miles away, 0 he knows how near it would co o running a machine. Ie confirmed the report of run D. Rockefeller out Lus starry competition | “All the heat, from all the stars in fthe sky,” says Dr. Coblentz, if it had been focused upon a thimbleful of water when Liberty Bell first rung, land left o focused until today, would not have ralsed the temperature of that thimbleful more than 1% de- degrees fahrenhelt. That, too, is with the assumption that all the heat had been conserved and accumulated." * x ¥ The same day that witnessed this {alleged hitching of wagons to stars, {also brought more scientific in a cable from e that Jules Guillot of succeeded harnessing ithe electricity of sunlight, ! that he was able 1o extract power ight without cost of operation. There have been many partially successful efforts to focus with mir- rors the direct rays of the sun upon tanks of water, thereby creating steam power, but this capturing of the electricity—rather than sun heat— nbeams, {and may Le revolutionary, {. “With an apparatus measuring jthree yards square,” he savs, “1 light e has not! g Jo ness with s news, 1 Paris report the &0 d novelist. | ten lamps of fifty candle power cacd, | {and heat my flat. With a larger {paratus, it would bo eas whole town."” Presumably, he by u- mulating electricity gathercd while tho sun sh , into a st b from which it would Le used night for lighting, in additicn to tk all-day use of the power. A home equipped with such a wireless light and power apparatus might c¢ven be- come Independent of certain munici- pal monopolies. P The inventor's scientific explana- tion of his discovery is, that, while the atmosphere is full of both nega- nd positive electricity, been impossible, heretofore, to sepa- rate the two kinds, and they neu- tralize each other. It is known that ultra-violot rays, striking an elec trical current discharge it, ¢r neu- tralize it. The sun's light is rich in ultra-violet rays, and =0 long as they could not | extracted out of the these neutralized the power. He has captured these ultra-violet rays with special antennac. The ultra-violet acts upon the negative €0, when he controls their act! and then ‘*pits the rents against each other’ light and power. That is far simpler, surely tein's theory of relativity, and nost as clear as his later theo lwhlch he “cannot express in word; he gets than heat of a tallow candle lighted Hfty | aquite diffcrent, | it has! two cur-} {but must rely high sign to w on the m Ie clear. athematlcal |to foretell w to do with main prices, is entitled at large. But price: jyet gone down materially. Tk ‘1-umi<: is educated up to current {prices, and so $16 « ton shocks ibody too rudely. There nu v nervous oncs who are overanxious to re have ne are s be crowd. are dodging be labout the future; they know thut “Christmas is coming.” But about {the time the thermon: touches 1 in the shade—or 100—there will be o lot of folks who will forget thar they golng to need coal {winter, and «o0 they may not b ! in the line would-be b There will be a bigger rush to * ‘Ivvng” immediately jcent drop, than will jcounters while the strokes. The mine operatore have contractas with the miners which run to Sep- temper 1. What conditions will after that date no one now can pre- Iv”l'!. Some retail companies aro ac cepting orders for summer delfverr, | subject to September curre ! The thankless job of advieing any when to specu not 8. These te on coal price are sugesti S triby ear | T nu ’l-f::‘ zoodhearted American ladie | inststea that tafs government shoui immediately and unconditionally rec- ognize the present soviet governm: of Russia They were quito peeved with Secretary of State Hughes for Inot coinciding with their sentimental lvlew Now that the soviets have | | condemned to death a Roman Cath olic urchbishop and a number of other prelates because they persisted in op- Posing the gpvernment ban on teach religion, it befalls that, e soviets® occasion to pro barity and t 1erica hai natives country. If such bu of sympathy fail to ts with the obliga tiens of clvilization there can cer- tainiy be no c deration by civilizedf governments of admitting Russia into the family of civilized nations. H x * ! candidates tarving nitarian act upress the sov i | for Americ hip the new law scems a hard p. which requires that the wife of a forcign-born citizen must also stand examination before she, too, can be naturalized. It is well known that some men rely on the fact that the!ly vives are members of church as en- utling them also to all the bene of pro: and hereafter. won't wor | citiz s fits | It * % ¥ a while it looked as if the was going to be a close race in Washington between a great Hall of Literature (a sort of pantheon whera authors will be commemorated, not buried) and « stadium which wilf seat 100,000 spectat: of athletic Now it doesn't look o close. ic language, “it's a nch™ stadium folks will take up all the slack in the advertising whica the literary pantheon lets out. They know it pays to adverti: It is just that which constitutes the main dif- ference between highbrow literatura and a whooper-up foot ball which pulls 100,000 spectater. spite of the rain. Why, a tr ther: Its Properties and Life His- tory,” which ran 100,000 would cause its writer to gasp for oxygen. That's literature. A foot ball game in a stadium like Washington is to have, ch did not hang out “S. R. O.” be- fore the game started, would be a polar wave renewing the ice age, It not a jur of liquified air down to ab- |solute” zero. That is the difference between a college professor's salary |and Babe Ruth (Copyright, 1923, by P. a: | that the Collins.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Proximity of Andrew Jackson to ‘White House Once More an Issue. If Shakespeare had ever carrled out his threat of laying a curse on any vandal who would move his bones it would probably have been a tamo affair whatever form ft might have taken compared to the storm that has been raised in the press and elsewherc over the pro- posal to move the statue of Andrew Jackson that stands across the ave- nue from the White Housc gates. It seems a far cry from 1923 partisan- ship to the bronze reproduction of a national hero who died more n three-quarters of a century ago. Nevertheless the storm has a decided { democrat-versus-republican tinge. “President Harding wants the cquestrian statue of Andrew Jackson removed,” Teports the Scranton Times, to be replaced with one of Washington. Although the paver sees “a certain fascination, hard to describe,” in the famous statue in which Ol Hickor dofting his plumed chapeau™ sits astride of a horse precariouslygbalanced on tw slender hind hoo the Presiden £ays, regards it _as “an unfitting montment for Washington beautiful square, and his desire to ave it removed “to a less conspicu- ous site” has no partisan animus. “As a matter of cold, non-partisan fact,” tha repubdlican New York Tribune announces, the sole concern ¢ those who advocate the change sbomination. Replacing it by tho figure of Washington—a mediocre statue by the same sculptor—will rot be a great improvement but it A1l at least place in one of the niost conspicuous parts of the capital o statue which does not call forth the jocular comments of most of those who pause to look at It.” How cior aside from its esthetic phas the Tribune seems to be entirel safe in the prediction that if statue of “‘one of the heroes of the democratic party is removed during republican administration will probably be no dearth of good demcerats who will rise in vehement denunciation of the act as one wanton partieanship” In_ fact cording to the Oklahoma City Okla- homan (democratic), “the country Pelng ctirred frojm one end to the other by the insidious movement.” Organized opposition to the pro- posed_change comes from the Nash- ville Historlo Socfety, which sends to President Harding resolutions to the effect that: ‘When Andrew Jackson and his brave soldiers were fighting for the freedom of America ® ¢ ¢ the British had burned the White House and torn down the American flag. And as s that the statue of Jackson is an | there | Jackson was one who restored ths White House and its flag to the Amer- fean people we deem it most appro- priate that his statue remain in the place accorded it by a ateful people who erccted it in 1853, cight y after his death. i _That, comments the Pittston (Pa.) Gazctto, one of the few republican papers to defend the present location of “0ld Hickory." “is saying in detall what could be said with even morn force in general terms. It fs this—a public cdifice or monument {s part of the record. Those who come after t rccord has Leen made and half-fo sotten are not always fit judges of ether o statue or building shouid erved. And the presumpti fn favor of the statue tuilding. In_ the dispute as to whethar Washington or Jackson should « cupy_*he prominent position opposite the White House if either were now without ials, “the greatest distinction should be given to Wash- ington. of course, the Raleigh New nd Observer (demccratic) concedes but_there is not honor to any man in Washington cqual to the statel: ‘Washington Monumen: which tow ors over all else In Washington Washington towered over all other Americans. No additional honor s ded or could be glven the pre: Virginian. It would add no whit Lis prestige to give him a distinctior long ago conferred upon Jackson and vould he an affront to the memory of the Tennesscean.” Granting that Jackson “should bo memorialized in the city of Washing ton,” the Chicago Post (independent republican) is, nevertheless, at a los+ to understand “just why an atrocity {in bronze should be allowed to do tho memorializing.” To this position th; | Buffalo Times (democratic) ~replifs ! that “the statue, we are told, 18 & poor | work of art. That is neither here nor there. The only valld excuse for tak- ing down Jackson's statue would b to put up a better statue of Jackson in its stead.” ‘The important question to the Cin !cinnatt Enquirer (democratio) in thn controversy 1s, “what good purpyse cun such removal and substitutl} n iserve?” In the absence of convincius eply to that question, it asks again. Why not permit the tern old demo- crat, statesman and soldler to sit hi charger there In perpetuity? Ever {Lody expects to find him there. It I+ i there that he belongs. In any other ! etting he scarcely would be the sam~ to the thousands and thousands who | unnually look up to him with triend- ly, reverent approval. To move him | aside even to make place for thegras: \first President seoms an ungracious humiliation to the memory of a men who in his lifetime never made way for anybody or anything when he be- lieved himself to be in the right, nor, erhaps, when he may have suspected imself to be in the wrong. Let the general remain!" 1| - Colored Mammy To the Editor of The Star: As you know, there has been money of a statue commemorating the colored mammy of bygone days. A plcture in The Star of March, 22, 1923, portraying a suggested design ter tho aforementioned statue, created Design Opposed. a great deal of adverse amonz the well thinking Ponulace of the city. The picture in no way depicts the itrue type of colored mammy, .n- yversely it gives the colored ruce : | chance for complaint, and I for on¢ muuldmsuxns:h- truer, Hobler mo un the one shown. s A. SWAN. c u colored