Evening Star Newspaper, April 6, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. ., WASHINGION, D.C. ¢ FRIDAY..........April 6, 1823 *THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor e Evening Star Newspaper Company “Business Moo &rin St and Pennaylvanie Ave. *fi' York Office: 150 Nawsau 8t. . feago Office: Tower Bullding. A Rurepean Office: 16 Rogeat St., London, England. Aue 3 7" The Evening Star. with the unday morming itfon, i delivered by carriers within the city r month; daily only, 45 cents ¥ only, X dors may he went by mail, 6000. Collection is made by curriers et & eich month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. » Maryland and Virginia. Daly and Sunday..1 yr., $8.4 .~ Raily only . $6.00: 1 mo., 50 T Eundav oniy 40; 1 mo., 26c All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $10.00 Dally only. AyT. . Sunday only......1yT, Member of the Associated Press. Tne Assoctated Preas fs exclusively entitled o the ume republication of all news d tches credited to it or not otherwise credited r this paper and also the local news pub- Livhad ‘herein. Al vights of publication of special dispatches hereln are also reserved. paa o sy Another Judge Needed. Many of the organizations throughout the District have passed resolutions urging the appointment of &1 additional Police Court judge to re- civie lieve the congestion that is felt in that § court, and that is militating against ihe proper administration of justice in Washington. The least study of the records will show the need of an en- larged police bench. One of the judges is devoting a considerable part of his time sitting in Traffic Court and try- ing dozens of cascs daily, with the elimination of many more by prelim- inary examdnation. Liquor cases take up a great deal of the time of the court. Many of those accused demand Jury trials, and thus the progress is checked and the congestion is in- creased. The two judges now sitting are kept fully occupled during many hours daily, and yet are unable to handle the volume of business. A separate Traffic Court would re- lleve the Police Court of much of the congestion that is now felt there. Such & court should be presided over by @ Judge with equal powers and jurisdic- tion to those of the Police Court Judges: the Traffic Court should be, {n fact, a branch of the Police Court, though perhaps physically detached for convenience. But whether the additional judge 1s provided for hearing traffic cases solely or takes his place on the police beneh he is greatly nceded. It does not slgnify that Washington 18 growing worse, to urge the pro- on of an additional police judge. The city is growing larger, and the traffic and prohibition laws are bring- ing into the court a greater number of violators than ever before. Yet the bench remains as it w a good many vears agn when the population was &t least 1 0 less. The Silver Spring Tornado. Tt is seldom that we have In our neighborhood @ wind that can be called o tropical tornado or a cyclone of the northwest. News of that kind generally comes from far- off places from our own cyclone belt, and notwithstanding loss of life and heavy property damage it is read <with mild fnterest. The tornado which struck Silver Spring is the first nearby phenomenon of this kind to happen in the Washington area in many years, end it is hoped that we may be spared nother visitation for an indefinite time. Tho jonger the time the better. That this short but severe windstorm aid not do more damage is a matter to Yo thankful for. Some persons were injured, but none was killed. and re- ports indicate that the injured will get well. Most winds of this kind play strange pranks. In the news of nearly all cyclones we get narratives of one house blown te snlinters and of an- other within a few yards escaping un- damaged, not because one house was stronger than the other, ¥at because the wind did not strike it. A big tree, survivor of a century, will be uproot- ed, and a nearby tree will not have a +wig disturbed. It is not uncommon to vead that while 2 house was smashed its occupants escaped. Some detafls of a similar nature are to be read in account of the Silver Spring storm. The people of the village and the closely settled neighborhood about it have much to be grateful for. Though it was thrilling enough to satisfy an exacting taste for thrills. it might have been a great disaster. ————————— The announcement that France is prepared to scrap her whole fleet. wrovided the world will follow suit, would mean more if coupled with a similar suggestion affecting land arma- ment. ———— That a tornado is bad enough as a home-wrecker was established in Sil ver Spring vesterday. But the boot- legger and the bookmaker bow to no superlor in their favorite pastime. ————— Secretary Davis shows himself a wise counselor when he advises em- ployers and employes to compromise before striking, instead of afterward. —_——— Flowers Blooming. Parks and gardens are primping up for apring and taking on touches of green and gold. Forsythia, named for 1he English botanist, William Forsyth, ~whose life span was from 1737 to 1804, forms part of the advance guard of -the flower legions, and the merry little bell-shaped four-parted yellow blos- soms are here to cheer us. Old for- »ythia was a native of China or Japan, Lut its descendants have been dwell- ing 4® 2he Unliwed States so long, end rave been admitted to so many of our zardens that the proudest old May- flower American has ceased to think of them as descended from an Asiatic immigrant. Also, they claim relation- _~hip =¥ith two of our fairest and most “agdmcted flowers. One of these is the flac, loved for its beauty and perfume. The other fair kinsman or kinswoman ‘of forsythia is the sweet jasmine of the south, a flower which has had many songs and poems dedicated to it. Forsythia braves the dangers of March and comes to Washington very nften before the sun enters Aries. It twisting ! {the hope that the l l | buds in summer, and these rest all ‘winter waiting for the first breath of warmth and the first pleasant glance of the sun. Here and there the crocus is in bloom. for the crocus likes to make its spring opening in Washington as eaxly as formythis. Really it tries to beat forsythia, and sometimes, In sheltered spots, its colors flash across the line ahead of the yellow jacket of forsythia. Dbells of forsythia come bright hya- cinths, which bring to some of us thoughts of Hyacinthus, a handsome youth whom Apollo llked amazing well. The first hyacinth, according to very old accounts, bloomed on the spot ‘where Hyacinthus died. Some years ago, let us say three or more thou sand. there was a story current that Hyacinthus was accidentally killed by Apollo while he was instructing the youth in discus throwing, or, vulgarly speaking, in pltching quoits. But there was also another story that one of the winds, some say Zephyrus and others say Boreas, belng jealous of Hyacinthus, deflected the discus so that it hit him on the head and kilied him. And while speaking of the cro- cuses and hyacinths let one not forget to mention the tulips, which were the speculative favorites in ome of the wildest bull markets of the world. Facilitating Traffic. Co-operation among the railroads. shippers, dealers, consuv and householders to help relieve the great- est trafic burden in history is pro posed by the American Railway Asso ciatien the adoption what it terms a concerted policy and intensiv working program to cnable them to meet the growing transportation needs of the country. It is to be “a long pull. a strong pull and & pull alto- gether,” literally, Only by teamwork, all the parties in interest doing their share to contribute to the dispatch, transportation and receipt of freight, can a congestion of traffic be avoided next fall. Colncident with the carrying out of this policy the railroads propose to cxpend $1,640,000,000 in new tracks, locomotives, cars and terminals. This deciston spells activities and employ- ment n many lines of ndustry. Labor and material of all kinds must be utllized, and the vast sum of dollars will be distributed through manifold channels. The program of co-opera- tion proposes that shippers conserve space and help to keep cars moving; that consumers and dealers get their coal into bins early in the season; that the roads begin their construction work promptly so as to supply the trackage, cars and terminals to handle the freight. It is encouraging to know that the railroads sense the coming of a period of great business revival and activity. They should know, for the movement or stagnation of traffic is a sure barometer of business conditions and the industrial state of the Union. Tt is also a comfort to learn that the rail- roads are intent upon preventing an- s m of other coal shortage next fall, if the! miners and dealers will assist and the consuming public do its share. Sugar Profiteers. One authority says that the present high and rising price of sugar is not because of the operation of tariff duttes on imported sugar, but because certain interests want to discredit the tariff and get rid of it. Senator Smoot is quoted that the price of sugar is! part of a conspiracy of sugar refiners to put Amerlcan sugar producers out of business. He sayvs that the purpose of the refiners i to create prejudice agalnst native sugar producers, “with American people will demand a reduction in the duty on sugar low enough to destroy the American industry and give the re- finers control of every pound of sugar consumed in the United States and at a price fixed by them.” He says that the refiners are seeking to make up the loss they sustained when they re- duced the price of Cuban sugar below production cost with the object of freezing out sugar beet growers in this country. There is plausibility in this. When the agitation against ris- ing prices began to take form a num- ber of men prominent in the refining business disclaimed having anything to do with price-boosting, and charged that the conditions complained of were brought about by speculators who were neither refiners nor pro- ducers. This has been the charge most vehemently made, and it has been made by men who presumably know something of the sugar indus- try and who are not refiners. The public has no means of ascertaining the facts, but it believes that the gov- ernment has such means. Senator Smoot says that he hopes the investi- gation of the increase in the price of sugar will be vigorously prosecuted by the government and the blame placed where it belongs. So say all of us. If & “czar” is necessary for electri- cal contractors, what sort of an auto- crat would be required to make the coal barons be good? ‘The republican victory in Michigan rather forces upon Henry Ford's back- ers the necessity of presenting him as the “universal” candidate. Discouraged by failure of the allies to punish German war leaders, Bul- garia finally decided she would have to punish her own. The most extraordinary phase of this story of the woman who talked steadily for a week is that she was sick when she did it. Art Lights. It is believed that there are few cities which take the care and trouble to refer such matters as street lamp- posts to a body of acknowledged ar- tists. Washington is such a city. The local government believes that street lamps should be known not only by the light they give, but also by their design. Citles that bear such things as trolley poles and wires, telegraph poles, telephone poles and overhang- ing signs are not apt to be particular about the design of street lamps and the posts that support them. Wash- ington shows that it is particular [about its street lamps and that it come® 0 So0n Deceuve 4t Swme-2w|wasts the Dewt, An inepection: of the. v Close upon the golden | THE EVENIN new type of arnamental bronze lamp- posts proposed for adoption by the Dis- trict has been made by the Commis- sion of Fine Arts. New lamp-posts set up will be of the design approved by the art commission, and the older type of electric lights will be replaced as money becomes available for the work. 1n some parts of Washington more or less remote one finds the traditional street gas lemp. It succeeded a kero- sene lamp surmounting a wooden post. The gas lamp was a great stride in street lighting and its form was stan- dard. The same style was to be seen in the streets of all cities that had progressed so far as to use gas. The old lamip-post is passing, except in an- cient melodramas or new plevs which deal with the olden time, A familtar scene in the melodrama of A genera- tion ago was that of a policercan lean- ing, asleep or awake, against a lamp- post. Washington recognizes that it is important that street lataps shall be what is called artistic, ard it also insists that they shall give more light than seems to be their habit-now. ——— The Tightwad. The government, among derful variety of activities, draw the line between and thrift and between thrift and spehdthriftiness. 1t o tell where the thrifty man stops and the tightwad begins. That its deflnitions and distinctions will bo accepted by | eve No doubt { the government experts have done the There h ma its seeks 1o miserliness won- one is not expected. { best possible with a ha job. diftic spendtir, specimens of that most parsons know a spendthrift when they see him her, Generall the spendthrift admits it. With the tght- | wad it is different. e nearly always insists that he is a member of the thrifty class and he talks a great deal about preparations for a rainy dav. It is always rain he is afraid of. 1o never says anything about a cold or windy day, @ slecty or a snowy day. The government, in a booklet urging economy and investment in govern ment securitics, defines a tightwad as a man wh ;. of $100 al month saves $60, spends $37 for living expenses and sets a $1 ecach for education, recrcation and giving. There have been tightwads, who on $100 a month scemed to save the whole sum, and there may be specimens today of tightwads who save the $2 which the government gays they spend on recreation and giving. What a great many persons would like to know is how the tight wad does it. Has he learned to live without buying anything at a grocery store? Has he learned to keep warm without ordering a ton of coal now and then? Does he go without shoes, hat and trousers? A thrifty man is defined as one who on a $100 s ry spends $50 for living expenses, $10 each on education, recreation and giv- ing and saves $20. The man who does this is indeed thrifty. He has a natural talent for thrift. Also he is probably single and leads a hard life. lis no Ity in There identifying & species s i on u salary —_——— Thirty strokes of the hastinado is to be the penalty for drinking bootleg liquor when Constantinople goes dry.” Tt remains to be seen whether this will be more effective than death or blindness and other penalties in America have been. y P S — A sea captain reports sighting off ithe west coast of Mexico a school of turtles “extending for more than ! eighty nautical miles.” Perhaps inl the cold, gray dawn of a morning! after. — The former German kaiser is militaristis His wife is absent leave.” —_—————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON l i B A Plea. Come in, Miss Springtime! Come in out de rain! We's waited foh you. an’ we's walted in vain. De welcome was reads, was sweet, An’ de velvet green kyahpet was dar foh yoh feet; But you wouldn’'t take note how we's pinin’ foh you, An’ de storm it come up an’ it done drench you through. I 'specks you is sorry you showed us disdatn— Come in, Miss Springtime’ out de rain® f de flowers Come in You dene stahted out wif a was gay To gather de wil' flowers an’ make a bouquet. We'd scarcely got clear of de fros’ an’ de snows When you ‘sisted on puttin’ on all yoh bes' clo'es: Now de win's comin’ up an de rain’s comin’ down, 1If you doesn’ git froze, you is likely to drown; Or you'll git rheumatiz an’ be laid up wif pain— So come in, Miss Springtime! Come in out de rain s e dat Between Times. The congressman is sadly still, A placid life he now endures, Impatiently he waits until Another mileage crop matures. ate. Race hoss travel roun’ de track, Cart horse pull de load. An’ feel de whip across his back. A-toilin® down de road. ‘White man’s cash it stahts {o burn— Race hoss couldn’ win; Cart hoss hab to help him earn De money back ag’in. White man mo'ns his foolish tricks, While his load he totes Cart hoss hab to git de licks An’ race hoss gits de oats. i ———— Newest of all the styles and one‘ that will prove a boon to cartoonists and jokesmiths is the return of the bustle—Fashion note. Boy, get down the 1880 files and copy the paragraphs; we're going fish- tng!—Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. —_—— Put on too much speed ahead and you. may meet with reverses.— ‘Wichita Beaoon., e | maint fbe devised by the civi ! the o STAR, British diplomacy is uncommonly active at Washington. Tt has be working at top speed ever since the debt settlement in February. In the interval, Sir Auckland Geddes las been as busy as a cranberry mer- chant. It almost looks as if John Bull had been waiting to adjust the debt business before getting off his chest a varlety of ‘incidents. are following one another i seemingly endless procession. At shis writing no fewer than four issues, all raised by the British, are up. In the order of their origin they are: The Newcastle consulate troversy, the gun-range dispute. the Burma oil monopoly and the denial of Amert right to exercise juris- dletion over ships transferrcd to British registry. Another inciden though not a formally diplomatic one. is Ambassador Harvey's unanswere request to the British government to disavow Earl Balfour's debt conten- tion. hey con- o ox Just before leaving Washington this week the delegation of medical scientists visited the un- known soldier's tomb at Arlington. Prof. Miura, a member of the part suggested to his colleagues th geon William ¢ Whose celebrated probabl ed in th a guide was conduct” the visitors to his g happened that Mrs g Arling ancse se Japanese ® Jupan, tional ked to ave. It Gorgas Wwas visit- 1 at the Jan ed the to assure the widow of Gen as of the esteem in which his name is heid in Nippon for his distinguished services th ause of public hygiene, p. ¥ as & battler of yellow fever. * * % [ ¥ Franklin Adams, counselor of the Pan-American Union, received w call this week from a woman tourist, who insisted she couldn't think of leaving Washington without seeing “the fur- lined roo at the Pan-Ameriean building. After he had recovercd con- sciousness Adams reallzed what she Wis driving at. His own office {s fin- ished in quarter-sawed and ; ornate Oregon fir Adums, “you're in the f ok ok ¥ Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, who conferred with President Harding at Augusta the other day, is periodically taken into consultation on inter- national affairs. Next to Secretary s. there is probably no man whose judgment Mr. Hard: 'pends =0 much in the realm of orld politics. Two or three times a ar the president of Columbia Uni- ined roon. WASHINGTON, D. high | C., FRIDAY, versity is invited to the White House for a week end sojourn and a heart- to-heart confab on foreign develop- ments. Butler's counsel on republl- can politics also is highly valued at the White House. Ho was in inti- mate touch with Mr. Harding at the eritical hours of the Chicago conven- tion in 1920. Assurance and accept- ance of hearty support in the days to come were exchanged on that fateful occaslon. * % ¥ % The Viscountess Northeliffe, who has just married Sir Robert Hudson, was the active helpmate of Lord Northcliffe in the earliest days of his publishing career. She was a Miss Mary Milner, and part of her youth was spent In St. Vincent, British West Indies, where her parents lived. | Northeliffe, then Alfred Harmsworth, {married her when he was twenty-two vears old. Sir Robert Hudson is fifty- nine—he was Lord Northeliffe's senior by two yvears. Ludy Northellffe's friendship” with him ripened during the war in connection with her activi- ties in hospital work. Hudson was chairman of the joint finance com- mittee of the British Red Cross and tho Order of St. John. which raised the famous “Prince of Wales' pital fund of $10,000,000. Lady cliffe conducted her own pr hospital and was ma Dame of the Empiro ices, She un had’ children. for her Lord Northeliffe never Navy blue will from the of Washing Denby from that date onw g is to he we others on duty at ment. Uniforms onned only on Officer Department hay for some tim tion about officers’ regimentals is into eitl provocatic and b My reed » highways ways after it that th Depart- will be cified oo e War civies oneep- idness for their lIopsided. They jump othes on the slightest as d ¢ n o by all officers the Navy n future certain sy e esman-Rey jc h., recentiy polled th of the count the Rubr fmt this quest Do You upprove the action of the French, Belgian and Jtalian govern- ments in going into the Ruhr reg: to collect defaulted deliv and wood promised | the Paris peace treats A partial result Spokesman-Review cl plies as follows Emphatically Smphatically Conditionally Undecided of Spokane, s newspapers mpathies in were asked on their glio. They iermany nounced by the issities the re- a7t favorabl ight. 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST Lord Robert Cecil's Welcome Is Most Warm. From the very moment that he landed on American sofl Lord Robert Cecil has been warmly welcomed by American newspapers, even those which do not share his views as to the usefulness of the league of na- tions. His initial addresses have been seriously discussed and in general has been agreed that he, more tha any otker forelgner, {s entirely dis interested his advocacy of world peace, Thers are” as the New »s sees it, “some whose at foward the league is such as to make Lord Robert's position politica “welcome as the snow in harves.’ but hom is meeting, whethor sympathetic or not toward his league views, will be as reluctant Menclaus to follow his own and ‘speed the parting guest. " Tic attitude which Lord Robert is main- taining in hig addresses lends empha- £i8 to the views of the Oma rld- Herald in insisting “the to foree of ust o instrument must zed world 1o put an end to the barbarous custom of war. As citizens anxious t> find the truth we may look for fair dis- cussion of the merits of the league or tion of nations from Lord 1t also fs the opinion of the New York World that the opposition to the league is lessening in the United States. and ft feels the remarks of Lord Robert “deserve most earnost and most thoughtful consideration by the American people. Foreign poli is too important to be made ball of partisan: sion. Soon or late all of must be faced, and nobody is better qualified to discuss all these facts than Lord Robert Cecil, who has xiven in Yor as Le those whom advic at outiawed. tha {#0ome of the best years of his life t the great task of finding me which the peace of the established and secure The entry of Lord Robert is compared to that of Clemenceau as “modest” by the Newark News, which asserts that “friends of the league will be glad to see it discussed on its merits, believing that whenever that is dons the Ameri- can people will render an enlightened Jjudgment.” Still he visits America “as &n ambassador of internationalism, the Atlanta Constitution points out, but “whatever may be the individuai views of those with® whom he is com- ing into contact he will be given a hearty welcome and a respectful hear- ing. America's sense of fair play never has been and never will be swung, pen- dulum-like, by the voice of politicians or the policy of administration.” No offense can be taken over his tour.” goes on the Indianapolle Star, “for he does not presume to dictate any policy to a friendly nation, nor is he here in anything but a_private ca- pacity. e is the leading European ex- ponent of the league, and its success is the matter nearest to his heart. He feels that it already has accomplished something in promoting a higher plane of internatfonal dealing.” This view is indorsed by the St. Louis Post-Dis- patch, which points out that “the basis for discussion of the league is well re- moved from What it was two years ago, The league has a Tecord which at that time it lacked. Other efforts have been s by orld can be } made in whola « None has succee, “Accept T in part to o : ed s 10 replace it. : the principles, and wha -?.nrfl practical machinery \nnllvr l:ln‘ Vised to carry them out than that vhich is now in operation? I un- ¥ it. can be improved, by 1oL without Participado e st retary Hughes said it Russi ¢ salvation from Lord Robert A Lunt, South B 3 achelor unc child, who has go ol ]tl:» earth with jt v CXtolling fts virtues, hymn i braises. Tho polnt fs that 1f any: i iE can bo sald about the league ’.‘x‘; S country by a European, Lord obert Cecil can say it with least ISk of stirring up resentment. W '[l..:‘rl" v‘."“(‘\p his efforts will be re- -'( The people in the ¢ d country ‘“ 10 stand to Lo helped most by beace seem to desire it the least ,I‘h .,'. ted States does not nfl(‘d";h:“ league.” e entirely because he e ‘\t' 1eed that the league has Jus- Hhied its existence that he is in this (‘ unt the Savannah Press is con- inced, ‘and he is explaining aw ssome misunderstandings ab it and to try . popularize and pro- mote the cause of th eag the Kreatest country now eining, out. side of fits n America's nembership would be in the interest of the whole world, not only at home and abroad, but it would promote the peace of civilization.” i ecause his is “a friendly visit” should “bring light to )d.nrl:(tnes& minds,” fnsists the Birmingham News, aud, “Deing a thinker, he has never gone in for spreadeagle stufr. can think internationally. see beyond the rims of his Having found something that mens- ures up to his ldea of international service, he is throwing every ounce of strength into this work.” He, likewise, s not repeating “the blunr der of Clemenceau.” the Akron Bea con-Jou says. and “charging Americ: with being traitors and deserters because they wanted no part in his imperial schemes to pros. per at the expense of prostrate na. }h'l:‘s * So f,;u" 4s the Asheville Times s concerned, it sees no. reason agitation displayed by foee of inn league over the rem rks of Lord Robert, and it asks. ¥Is the case against the league so weak that It cannot survive the reasoning he em- ploys? We have sent speakers to Great Britain to propagandize in be- half of prohibition. Then why should we have other than the most cordlal welcome for a speaker who talks about the league of nations?” Inas. much as he “wants to explain the league” ft must be conceded, the Roanoke Times believes, “there are few men so well quallfied for the task.” It is his views on interna. tional disarmament, however, that impresses the New Orleans Times- Picayune, which saye, “If he can con- vince Canada and the United States that his disarmament scheme is sound it will help clear the way, per- haps, to eventual victory at Geneva. The course he has taken is thor- Ol:lghl\' honorable and he fs waging kis campaign in the open. Whether we agree with such a man or not, his message deserves thoughtful hearing and consideration. The stage setting for his hearing {s friendly, the Buffalo Times holds, and ‘4t is this state of the public mind, this expression of the national _opinion, which will meet and welcome Lord Robert at overy stage of his Ameri- can tour,” glasses. A Defends Bahai Faith as Purely Religious. To the Fditor of The Sta As a subscriber I know the justice, fairness and “both-sidedness” of The Star, so request the publication of the following as a correction to pub- lished statements quoting the alleged remarks of Rev. John Queally of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Transfiguration on his Easter ser- mon. 3 As both a believer in the teachings of Jesus and a follower of the teach- ings of Baha Ullah, of whose faith I am, I firmly believe the reverend was sincere in his statements, vet he must be ignorant of the “Bahai” teachings to say that they were a part or guise of, or controlled by, the bolshevists or communists of Russia and were inimical to Americanism. The Bahai movement is not con- cerned with petty politics, but is & new divine revelation and pronounce- ment of the same cternal verities that are ancient, modern, future and eternal in their everlastingness, be- ing given in terminology adapted for this day and age, and are universal in scope and applicable to the wide, wide world of every race, nation and peo- le. P!%s Jesus came proclaiming the va- lidity of the teachings and life of Moses, uniting into one faith the different faiths of the Egyptians, Syriana, Mesopotamians. Greeks and Romans and introducing _the Old ‘soriptures into thess oo tries. 80 havo the three Bahai proph- ets come, proclaiming the validity of ! the teachings and lives of both Moses and Jesus and to unite the whole world into one spiritual brotherhood and demoeracy. As the Christian world is looking for the return of Christ. preceded by a messenger. so is the Hebrew world looking for the Messiah, preceded by St. Elias; the Mohammedan world for the return of the “Holy Spirit.” pre- ceded by the Mahdi; the Hindus for the eleventh incarnation of Krishna (Christ), preceded by a messenger; the Buddhists for the fifth Buddha, preceded by a forerunner: the Zoroas- trians for one Shah Baharam, preced- ed by an announcer, and the ancient Tavists and Confucianists for the New Philosopher, preceded by one point- Iug out the way (or light). And the scriptures of all these great religious faiths abound with allegories and symbolisms, each in its one way, by which the two great ones will be recognized by their followers. The Bahal movenient claims to answer the fulfillment of all the Scriptures of the world in_ this respect and pro- pounds the dictum that the highest expression of the worship of the one frue God is unselfish and unstinted service to his fellow men, given in the faith of God. So being a religious movement of unification of mankind and not in- terested in politics of today, how can it he possible for it to be a tool of the bolshevists and communists? EDWARD H. YOUNGy | l ! { | APRIL 6, 1923. In Burroughs’ Memory. l Tribute to Naturalist Suggested by Advent of Spring. To the Editor of The Star: Now that spring is here, and will oon deck our land with all the colors in Her paint box, gorgeous yellow. delicate pink und blue, violet and deep rose, it seems fitting that we should call to mind the gospel of the late John Burroughs, who was born on April 3, 1837, and laid to rest in a tomb at the base of “Boyhood Rock” April 3, 1921. Naturaliat, poet and sclentist he was, whose whole conscious 1ife was spent in keen and delighted observation of nature in all | her ways and in recording joyously his experlences with birds, flowers, trees and ferns, and many other vita aspects which engaged his bright and loving eye. In s essay on “The Art of Seeing Things.” he says: “Some people seem born with eyes in their heads, and others with buttons on palinted marbles, and no amount of sclence can make the one equal to the other in sceing things. * * * Even the suc- cessful angler seems born and not made; he appears to know instinc- tively' the ways of trout. The secret Is 1o doubt the love of the eport. ¢ * * Love sharpens the eyo, the car, the touch. * * ¢ What we love to do that we do well. To know is not all; 1t is only half. To love i the other half. ¢ ¢ & Nothing can take the place of love. Love is the mcas- uro of life. Only 5o far as we love do we really live. eI T were to name the three most precious sources of life 1 should say books, ds and nature. The greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. * * * To fentist, nature is a storehouse L Iaws, processes: to the artist, 1s u storehouse of pictures: to the poet, she 15 o storchouse of imaig fancles and source of inspiration the novelist she 1 a storchouse « pts und parables; to all she ma source of knowledge and joo * The eye sces what it has the of 1ts means of to the e s on the bird in your heart be an find it in"the bush.” Ning him, his birthday his gospel, cannot we, too, each of ug, do our share toward loving, en- couraging and protecting all beauty rather than thoughtlessly scattering, destroying and killing. To the children John Burroughs lways turned especially with faith, hope and love. “In them lies tho salvation of the world” he would say. Thercfore, let uk, children and all, &0 forward caring for and loving ali created beauty, never more in cvidence in the thrce coming months. be means seeing and des and one “Over the hills of April With soft winds hand in hand, Impassionate and dreamy eyes. Spring Jeads her saraband’'— We turl our footsteps Into the by- ays, woodsy Daths and shady groves We feel our kinship with nature, and share in the universal creative spirit when we love and conserve, not only for ourselves, but for those vet to Could desolate wild anything be mora than a world stripped of birds, flowers, ferns and trees? Without birds and trees, life would be ex- tremely difficult.” In destroving them we destroy ourselves. Universal love spells universal life. JEANIE MAURY COYLE PATTEN. Answers Pastor. Writer Corrects Impressions Re- garding Christian S To the Editor of The Star: Will you kindly allow me space to correct the most erromeous impres- sions regarding Christian Science conveyed by the report of the Easter sermon of Rev, John J. Queally of ihe Protestant Eplscopal Church of the Transfiguration as published in » Star, First, the clergyman : classifies Christian Sclence with theosophy, Mindu philosophy, suggesto-therapy, Dahaiem, birth control league and a varicty of other things under the head of “spirftistic movement.” Hav ing thus classified it, he declares that “after ten years of research” he has Always been “puzzled by the insist- denfal of Christ in spiritistic literature,” a statement which can convey but one impression to vour readers—namely, that Christ s de- ed in Christlan Science literature— @ statement which is not only mis- leading, but absolutely false. On the very first page of “The Manual of The First Church of Christ, Scientist.” written by Mrs. Eddy, is printed the following tenet of Chris- tian Science—a tenet to which every church member of both the mother church and the branch churches sub- scribes: “We acknowledge and adore supreme and infinite God. We knowledge His Son, one Christ; the Holy Ghost, or divine Comforter, and man in God's image and likeness.” This tenet is also to be found on page 497 of the Christian Science text- hook, “Sclence and Health, With Key to the Scriptires’: so that whether one reads the manual or the text- book it is casily found. Had the reverend gentleman studied the lit- erature of Christian Science as care- fully as might be expected in a ten- year research he would not only have seen this tenet, but he would never have classed Christian Science as_spiritistic and denying Christ. Webster defines the word spiritistic as “pertaining to or believing in spiFit” A very casual perusal of the Christian Science textbook and other Christian Science literature will speedily convince any one that Chris- tian Sclentists do_not belleve in spirits. _Christian Scienco recognizes God as Spirit, as Christ Jesus taught. As there is but one God, there can be but one Spirit. Christian Science teaches that it would be just as cor- Tect to use the term gods as to use the word spirits. Spirit, it holds, can never be used in the plural. The teachings of Christ Jesus are the fundamentals of Christian Sci- ence, and the sermon on the mount is considered the very essence of these teachings. It fs the constant deaver of Christian Sclentists to fol- low in the way that Christ Jesus ap- pointed, to 1fve in accordance with His every precept and to obey His every command, not only by extend- ing & helping Land to lead the sin- ning to Christ, but to bring health and comfort to_the sick and suffer- ing. HIRAM W. HAYES, Christlan Science Committes on Publication. In a Few Words. ence. one ac- 1 don't know which is worse, the myth of heaven or the myth of hell. Religious beliefs are largely respon- sible for the terror and fear of death. —REV. JOHN JAYNES HOLMES. The money inferfority complex is deep-seated in women's minds, and the money tyrant complex in that of their husbands. —MRS. ETHEL PUFFER HOWES, Prohibition and other restraining laws spring from a weak Intellectual habit. They spring from the fact that we permit a few individuals to use our minds and make them up for us. —AMY LOWELL. The communist who rejects the commandments of religion ceases to be one of the faithful and on fthe other hand any one calling himself a communist who continues to cling to religious tenets ceases to be a_com- munist. M. BUBHARIN. The publicly wronged wife has one of the most dramatic and romantic roles imaginable. She can play a part that is simply stunning. —KATHLEEN NORRIS. —LORD ROBERT CECIL. If the breeding of the human race could be controlled cancer would probably disappear in three genera- SMITHILS. shades of, love | en- | 1 | It is & mistake, says the Shipping Board, for bargain hunters to post- | pone their spring purchases of shiy The latest styles are now on the bargain counter, and there will be no further marked-down sales. Spe- clal discounts will be given buyers! who will agree to operate the ships | for a certaln term of years along| routes desired by the Shipping Board, | which it will be observed, is the| exact equivalent of a ship subsidy. The Shipping Board does not have to wgit for Congress to legislate such « form of subsidy. Tt just calls it a discount and grants it. Buyers who refuse to agree maintain the dictated routes will nos get the ships ex it at “world price: und they will not get any subsidy- discount. A IR The Department of Agricultu burcau of animal industry has fssued {a& new book which must rile the a evolutionists. This all the methods parts of America stock. Think lof trying to “in; jwere made per: Eden! Yet, that breeders are doing |tion demonstration stations on eyers m, By using selected, pure sires, the stock is getting better und {Detter. One would never recognise the horsa which Adum and through the apple orchard bigger than a fox; now I | Tercheron Nion Farme ffarm. How sacrilegious? What hrcedere {ers and flower brecde the time, i& evo compils! 1tention and science in a few the same thing that “I\.uurh accomplishes through nil ltons of vears of natural elec Tt is evolution just the e Creator made nature and nan: works In mysterious wiys, His we jders to perform, and “a thousand yeurs are but as yesterday. % A phase of the alley ejectment law passed by Congress to clear 12.000 Washingtontans out of the al- leys, has been brought to pub tentton by Mr. John Ihlder, chatrman of the o drevelopment department of tho National Chamber of Con merce. All_thesa peopla must cate thelr alley homes, June 1, n- less the courts grant an injunction. The city is already short of homes especlall the low as the evicted tenants Where will th go? Mr. Ihlder { points out that most of them will| remain in the city, even though they | {wander the streets. There is al | sanitary problem involved in that| s{tuation, which is by no meansj | easily handled | An army of 10000 to 135000 men, women and _children, homeless without sanitary conveniences, be a typhold menace to the Simultaneously will come the 000 Shriners, taxing all comfortatb quarters. The citizens are appre-| Ciative of the seriousness of the situ- | ation, and undoubtedly will prepare | for it. | work discusses in different to “improve” live of the frreligious act hrove” animals which t in tho Garden of i% just what our Crating evolu- used Jones s are_dotng all ution. The by ars, The ko 400,- | * ok % ] Last season there was an f dinary crop of potatoes, and the re- | sult was that the market was glutted, | so that thousands of bushels never dug. The wholesale market did not pay the farmer enough to justify his marketing what he had ralsed. sult:” This spring the potato acre- age, as reported by the Department L;!‘ Agriculture, is going to be onl per cent as large as last ves s acre- extraor- | were | | { i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTE! Fe| Much as the marriage, at Romae, to- morrow of Princess Yol eldest daughter of King Victor Em- manuel, to a young cavalry officer, of an entirely modern fan Piedmontese petty nobility, possessed of no fortune, short of stature, not particularly goed looking, b who secems to have won the heart of his popular and beautiful bride by his magnificent equestrianism, appeals to the romantic instincts of her fel- low countrymen, and especially of her countrywomen, there is something that will still more profoundly stir public imagination in connection with the marrfage. For the ceremony, which takes place in the chapel of the palace of the Quirinal, which, by papal edict, has been closed for ll divine service ever since 1S70—that {is to say, for more than half a cen- tury—will be preceded by the investi- ture of the thirty-eight-year-old pre- mier, the blacksmith's son and ap- prentice, Benito Mussolini, with the Order of the Annunciation, by which he is ipse facto converted in titu- lar cousin of both his king of the princess * ¥ x X Benito Mussolini, in his capacity as prime minister, is called upon to per- form the preliminary civil portion of the marriage ceremony as grand no- tary of the realm, and it is a matter of custom and tradition that the dig- | nitary fulfilling this role at a roval | wedding should receive the Order of the Annunclation. | "1t is an order which ranks in im- portance with that of the Garter, in England, and of the Golden Fleece, in iSpain. Indeed, it is far more spar- {ingly bestowed than the Golden |Fleece. For, outside the princes of the reigning house of Italy and of a few foreign sovereigns, there are not all told, more than eight or ten non- iroyal Italians who are Knights of the Annunciation. As such, its holders | have the “pas” over all the other dig- nitaries of the kingdom. They rank immediately after the roval princes and princesses, and above even tho greatest nobles and princes and dukes of the most illustrious and historic houses of the Itallan patriciate. They are immune from the judisdic- tion of all ordinary tribunals, and can only be tried after having been duly impeached in parliament by the senate, sitting as the highest court of justice in the land. Moreover, their wives share their| prerogatives, and it ay that during the reign of the late King Humbert a cabinet erisis was caused by the refusal of Queen Marguerite to accord the hon- , and the prerogatives at court, claimed by the notorious Dona Lina Crispi after her husband, the, at one time, all powerful Premier Francesco Crispi, had become & Knight of the Annunciation. Mme. Crispi was a Woman of the MOSt uUnsavory antece- dents, who had figured on the police registers of Syracuse, and who lived for many vears openly with Crispi, until after their daughter had grown up, when ho married her in order to legitimatize, after a fashion, the girl on the eve of the latter’s becoming the wife of & noble of a distin- guished Sicillan family. * % k% By marrying Dona Lina before he bad relieved himself of the bonds of two previous matrimonial ventures, Premier Crispi incurred public charges of bigamy. and the minister of justice, Senator Nicotera, who had made use of his official position quash the charges and to authorize and to register the bigamous union, was obliged to retire into private life amidst the storm of popular excer tion. Matters were complicated by the fact that the second of Premier Crispi's three wives, was one of the | meroines of. N to b o |not interfere priced ones, such | " Garibaldl’s . historic no one knews the exact CAPITAL KEYNOTES | BY PAUL V. COLLINS. ge. Result: Higher prices—provic ing the law of supply and demand with. This is 2 goc potatoes in the hom car to plant garden, * * Banquo's in Lafayetts Sq down. From all over the south an from all democracy there comes ground swell of rage at the sugges tion that Jackson give way to Wasl ington. He has beon parking his hob rse the in 1t of the White House, for sixty years. Poli regulations may reauire a traffic oft cef to tag him or order him to mo But the solid south stands guars 2 v? Was not Wash v ¥ _should it of the White House? were the work of t the Washington is—less © ono that is more bad. It 1 not a question of art with the sonfan defenders. It scems 1o be matter of orthod gion. The Sec retary of War, Mr. ks, assuresa indignar that the Ars positively will not be employed force a removal of Mr. Jackson word has om the Nav man-of-war in the Potomae <o right over Touso ci tho rid ed hat, ax st have t that Lasdic to the reseue. He ghos statue f of the sh that age who fell in th was talked th age of poppic extortion price put upe limited supply by dealcrs t daisy or marguerite might be subst tuted, but the fdea did not carry with it thia associations which lingore poppy of Flanders feld 0w the use of artificial popple cepted as quits as satisfactory the growing flower. Thousands are being made by the wome 1xiliar fes of the Ami n Legion, as we as by professional manufacturers High tariffs tend to cut down { purtations of foreign goods. Tha curtailment tends to increase the de i for goods made in Americ and &0 increases the demand American labor and enhances wuse All that is the famillar doctrine « the protectior i during the Jonged debate Congress on the McCumber-Fordney tariff it was den onstrated that the rates were so that 7 would stop nearly all portation. Further than fin- that, it was arsued that America cxports must suffer if imports were to be thus barred since we must racognize that we cc never sell unless we bought. That what the democrats told us. An ounce of fact is worth a ton « theory. In cember, $2,509,147, The following under the restrictiv higler tariff, $3.11 T2 Exports, of course. were greatly ir creased and over 4.000,000 more me now have jobs. This is not argument is just a few fac Make own argument. The facts are shipped knocked wn. Or is it some theorics sked down? , by P. V. Co months ended De- imported a total of imported, ence of tl ns. iMussolini to Receive Important Order Before Wedding of Princess Yolanda from Marsala to Naples it 1852, and that she was a particular favorite of Queen Marguerite, whn always eingled her out for particular consideration on the occasion of all Garihaldian T parades and manifes when rt his re march nded Kinz n on to take effect D'ona Lina Crispi: that is to sa: third wife. was not welcomed t court Ly Queen Marguerite, with a! honars distinctions due to her as the wife of a knight of tha Order of the Annunciation, the monarch and Queen Marguerite were obliged to give w For a minte- terial upset at that particular junc ture would have entailed the gravest consequence, not only to the natio at home and abroad, but even prob- ably also to the dynasty. No exception can be taken to Mme Mussolini, a former school teacher, altogether above reproach, and who has always shown herself a most de- voted wife and mother, who has in- deed been her husband's loyal com- rade and guardian angel: a womar entitled to every respect. by Mussolini himself is a man of the people, the son of a blacksmith, self educated, and in turn, after ceasing to be a blacksmith's apprentice, be- came a village schoolmaster and then a village politician. He was obliged to flee from Italy in order to escape imprisonment for smashing a ballot box in his indignation at the frauds which he witnessed in connectfor therewith, and was afterward ex- pelled from Switzerland, where he had sought refuge, owing to the ton ardent nature of socialist doc trines. Then he went to France whence he was also expelled, anc then fortunately came the great war where 1 ht most gallantly ot front as a corporal of d was badly wounded version fr socialism ane from_communism, to the doctrines of the fascisti too well known t. cull for 1 than passing mentior Tods is the all powert premier., cven the dictator of Ttaly, and hecomes tomorrow cousin of his king. Unlike most of he his colleagyes tn the ranks of thic present and. pas: Italian govermments, he is a thor ough sportsman, a magnificent s rides well and excells as a fer spending at least an Lour every with the foil: He Is regarded with g00d will by the church and ower his premiership—not to any parifa- mentary defeat, but to the fact that when he and his Fascisti followers marched upon Rome, the legislator ran away and abandoned evervthing to Museoling, between whom and King Victor immanuel the most plezsan and cordial relatiors existed. In_ fact. Vietor Em uel, the late Queen Victoria was wont to describe as the most sag cious of monarchs of Europe, it o heartily sick of the politicians with whom his life has been burdened even cursed throughout Lis reign of near a quarter of a century, that he has taken a great 1iking to Musso linl, whose courage, honesty and sincerity have made & powerful im pression upon him, * ¥ % % he Order of the Annunclation was founded In 1362, and was organize¢ on much its present llnes by Charles TIT, the Duke of Savoy, who died 1409. Tt has alw S been identifled with the dynasty of Savoy, and the insignia consis: beautifully chiseled gold and enameled jewel representing the scene of the annun ciation. This scene is lkewisn re produced on the medallion adorning the center of the star, wh is worn on the left breast. The jewel is worn suspended from the t not by @ ribbon. as is the case most other European orders knighthood. but by a thin and beau-' tifully fashioned golden chain. The jewel bears the letters “F. E. R. 1.0 the original meaning of which has always remained a matter of debats and conjecture. Indeed, this wonder ful old order has a motto of which day of 4