Evening Star Newspaper, April 17, 1923, Page 6

THE EVE With Surday Morning ¢ WASHINGION, D. C. YUESDAY. .. THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Bueine , New York Officc Wt W Furopen i 28 Regent b, London. Engiand Fhe Eveotog Star. with tie Sniifay poin #aftion, is delivered by cayriern within th e cit! W60 cents per monthy Amls onv. 45 centa por | Wimith: Sunday only, 80 tents per ‘month. Or- Vems miny be xent by R, o Nefephoe Bita 00, " Collection is’ made by carriers at the e of cac : Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. infs. All Other States. haay .1 13, $10.00. 1 £7.00: 1 mo., 60. 3 . 20C Member of the Associated Press. The Associntsd Prews 12 exclusively entidted ¥ tire use for repubHlvation of ‘ANl mews dfw Potilies modited th it oF mot otherwise credited i herein, apecial diopate = 1 rights of publication of “hereln wre wleo A Great American Inflaence. President Harding opened the an- Mital session of the Daughters of the American_ Revolution yesterday in a speech that will be permanently re- vorded fn the anwals of that great o sanization_ as an expression of it iéals and a statement of it His pregence at the fivst meeting was a most happy incident, fortunately permitted by his engagements, and it} was appropriate that the chiet of state shoudd: eddress the of this country who are doing to “uphcld the banners of exalted na- jionakism and of ennobling - citizen- ship.” Tounded upen a lhigh coacept of American’civic duty, the Daushters of the American Revolution have become one of the most potent forces in our country for-advancenient toward the high fd¢als of th¢ founders of the re. public. They have. as the President seld vosterday, “préserved for us all @ lesson in the desirability for balance, ce andl Yolerance.” Today mem- bership in this organication is at once an honor and an opportunity. 1t would be desirable if the. words of fhe President uttered yeserday Wére broadeasted throughout this country for intimate study by ail the For while, necessarily, mem- ip in the Daughters of the Amer- Tevolution is limited to those trace thelr ancestiy back to the who fought for independence in the War of the revolution, the ideals upon which this seciety is based should be those of every other Ameri- can woman, of every Amefican man as well, and especially of every Amer ican child. In practical works the “Daughters” Pdave accomplished much that is not fully appreciated by the country at latge. The local chapters and state units -are constantly prompting spe- cific improvements in civie conditions, They ard not only preserving memo- cials of the past, but are erecting permanent foundations of good citizen- ship for the present and the future. In every way this splendid organiza- tion is helping to make America bet- ter, stronger, cleaner and more fully expressive of the purposes of those men who a century and a half ago struggled for liberty. H —_——————— Florida Convict Camps. Subletting of convict labor has al- ways led to trouble and to cruel treat. ment of prisonérs. Once a .general svstem, it has been abandoned by most of those states which pride themseives on progress. The latest stories incident to the convict lease system come t‘rom' Florida, and it is clear that they h‘avei nen so much stirred the conscience of the state. "The matter has come before the legis- lature, and although it is unsafe to make a prediction as to what the ‘nut»j come will be it is worth noting that when the people of a state have be- come #roused on the' question’ of brutality to prisoners farmed .out to private, employers they have put an erd to the system. The.Florida legis Imture is making an ‘investigation, and one of the questions before it is that ©of a man who died under the lash of B convict camp boss. The Associated Press says: ““Threadbare clothing splastied with swamp muck, distorted and mismated shoes and other of -his gurments were ‘cast upon the floor of the house-of deiegmtes, and & whip used for flogging. prisoners was passed from one member to another for ex- amination.” The* legi¥lature wHl con- sider ‘measures 100king to the aboli- tion“6t the convict lease system and the prohibition of corporal punish. ! ment. It Florida Tollows the lead set bY most states of the Union it will prohibit the AOREINg of prisoners, will &bolish convict leasing and will make other reforms in its penal system. ——t———— Bad German psychology is again in avidence in tle hiding of 42,000,000 mirks-in the mummy cases of Duessel- dorf, found promptly by the French. E¥idently Germany has been too busy dodging heér debts to read of the ve- cént fashions fn Egyptian excavations. ———— Business Inflation. The note of warning sounded yes- terday by Charles M. Schwab aguinst the menace of busineks inflation; with sts inevitable train of economic dis- turbances, was followed by the state- ment of Elbert H. Gary showing the prosperity of the steel industry to be at high .stage, and indicative of in- creasing dusiness activity in all lines. Mr. Schwah 18 chairman of the Bethle- hem Steel Corporation, and Mr. Gary chaitman of the board of the United States -Steel Corporation, both recog- niged as pre-eminent among the prac- tical business men of the country. 1t may sound odd to warn against businéss Betng too good, but the his- tary of industry and the law of busi- ness economics show that invariably when industry” and business take the bit in. their teeth and run away a srhash follows. Mr. Schwab pointed out that “indic tations are that we are entering into a period of business expansion, and utmost caution must be exercised to prevent this from developing into a secondary inflation, which would be disastrous.” - This elder statesman .. April 17, 1825 {in busiress at this time, but he c 1 mo.. She ¢ an1 also the local news pub: | perpeses. | ] anong bubint#s ynen then wAviwed: “Our Job TiEht How 18 to ktep ah Ten keel and to stebr a stralght cburie. Busineés most be kept on a firm féun- Mr. Gery, in his speech @t the an- Steel Corporation’s stockholders, pre- seénted ' a vivid verBal picture of Prosperity in the Stesi Fndustry. He sald the corporation’s gross eatnings In 1922 were $410,000,000 in excess of 1921. Then he epmounced that the total value of the cerporetion hold- inds eXceedted by & dillion dollak's thelr value when (he _ conporatioh was formed twenty years ago. Mr. Gary is recognised ws aiso one of the chiet supporters of a policy of conservatism dutd {not restiain @ snwe of profound {#ratificatien at the happy signs mi the future, wivile Bis mext thought { wouid be one of caution. it evervhedy be- grarefal for the) ¢ things are going in business and { industry, but Ve careful of overexten- | ston. Things. indeed, look teo good to let taem be threatened by rash infla- i tion ———————————— The School Site Detay. ¥inal decision by the Supreme Court | {of the United Seates, through @ental lof the Commissioners' rvequest for & { writ of certiorari in the Upshur street { site care, closes the possibility of tive blishment 6f thé propsed new school for tubercular children on that {location. The school must be erected elsewhere on land already owmed by {the District, or the Commissionérs must wait for farther action by Con- gress. This actfon may take the form a specific authorization to place the shool on the Upshur strect site, or thut of appropriation for another site. | lin either of congresstonal ac-| { tion, however, there will be & Yoss of many months, in all probability at {least & year, before work can be started on this long-delayed buildng. 1t is to be hoped that the Commis- sioners will not seek to cure the ill of jdefay by placing the dgelvool on any { site that may be available regardless of fts suwitability. Better, indeed, that another year should be lost to secure @ proper site than to take any one that way be now possible without reference to the convenience of the children who are to attend this school. | The school for tubercuilar chilMren is designed to meet a particuiar need. {1t is & combined measure of sanitation jand education. The litte folks who iare assigned to these classes are un- der observation, o to speak. becauss of the possibility of tubercular infec- tion. They are segregated to lessen the possibilities of & spread of the disease. But it is vitally important that they be given the most whole- some surroundings. The present proj- ect of the new building developdd from the realization that the school hefe. tofore assigned to this use Was totally unfit for the purpose. It had been virthally abandoned as a school for children of sound heaith. It was not well located. the children being required to go, il many cases, long distances to reach It. The school for tubércuiar children sirould be of *he best model. ®ith par- ticular facilities for open<ir classes. It -should be ciean and-sanitary in every appointment. It. should be so locatéd that no great hardship is im- posed upon the averege attendant in reaching it and retufning hofne. Therefore it cannot be put in a dis. tant corner of the District. Thus the selectipn OF 4 site involves certaih aif- ficulties and embarrassments already manifestéd in the cese of the Upshur street site, But despite these difficulties and these ‘embarrassments a school for tu- bercular children is necessary, and It bercular children is necessary. It must be evolved out of these circum- stances with the léast possitfie delay. —————————— De Valera is mgain reported cap- tured. Some day he may be in a posi- tion to write @ record of escapes rival. ing the adventures of the most active of E. Phillips Oppenheim'’s heroes. —————— Spring opened, according to .the almanac, on the 2Ist of March, but the actual opening is postponed until tomorrow, when the cry “Play ball” resounds throughout the land. —————t———— A new stage show in Paris proved so offensive that the entire audience left the theater. Ia thi® & shrewd bit of publicity preliminary to a long run on Broadway? ——————— Some genius may find a way to hook up the endurance dancdrs for power production, and then there will be no demur to their fox-trotting indefinitely. e Tt Warning to Reckless Speeders: A Philadelphia banker has just been gentenced to a term of from six to ten years in the penitentiary for kill- ing three pecple with his automobi He was intoxicated at the wheel, and, plunging his car through a little group, raced away without checking, only to be later identified through a second mishap Which wrecked his car. ‘When accused of manslaughter he acknowledged his gullt, and he has taken his penaity without demur. His example should be a powerful deter- rent to careless ‘drivers in ail citfes case {in this country. Some such specific object lessons are necessary to cure the evil of ed mania and recklessness in the eets of our city. Recently the ashington Safety Council thus pla. rded the city: "The reckless driver a criminal” This truth was blezoned before the eyes and pounded into the brains of all Washington and its visitors in several weeks. Now another slogan is in evidence, *‘Better be Careful than a Cripple.” Thus both sides of the case are presented, the affirmative and the negative, so to speak. The first siogan spoke for-the protection of the pedestrian, and also of the careful Grivers ©f other ma. chines. The present slogan speaks for the careless driver himself and for and to the jay.walker. Bvery day the Washington Traffc Court is ¢ollecting large sums in fines. ‘Would it not be an impressive object lesson to devote this revenue to the building ofa Trafffle Court? In & véry few mOnthy at the present rate a suf. ficlent fund would be availabls t6 buy the site. Then a great eign might be erected,. stating this land was bought nual wreeting of the Unfted Statesy, by fwes Dald by reckiess wpeed TR W Sormercutters and other Vioftorh 6t the trafic ruleh, and Woatd e oecupfed fater by & ballding bousht, Brick by Brick; by theve saine mendces to pudlic satety. A Trafhc Court bofiding Bo erected Would ¥tawd es a Wonyment of Wwarh- g, O coutse, ft Ts @esirable that the Hefic rules sho 4 be Wo closely ob- #erved that no « - will ever be fined, Mey the day come When that is the case. But in the process of education and correction let the dollats that are taken as penmiiles grow into & sub- stantil permenent token ¢ @dmoni- tion, a beacon of the law, so ) speak. Perhaps If this were undertaken those ‘who now lightly forfeit collateral, or Yay fines, would become scrupulousty etretal about observing tire rules lest they wete hastering the development of a wiachine of correction that would make thefir offenses more certainly end move heavily expensive, perhaps to the point of penitentiary terms like that just imposed it Philedelphia’ Washihgton Would Be Theirs! It would be a stirring and majest spectacle comld the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confed- erate Veterans hold their national re. unten® at Washington at the “same time. 1t would be 2 national peace Jubilee. But this is not to be in 1924. {Pethape it way be the year atter. The suggestion that there be a Blue and-Gray reumion at Washington in 1924 was made before the Confederate Veterans' reunion at New Orleans by Dr. Geotge Harding of Marion, Ohio, father of the Premdent. Details of the discussion which probably followed the suggestion seem not to be Eiven in tie tefegraphic reports from the Cres. cent city, but there is reason to be- lieve that thé Confederate veterans, their children and their grandchildren would faver the proposal. Memphis, Tenn., wak chosen by the Gray vet- erans as their 1924 reunion city. but there were reasons for this. Probably the city for the next reunion was de. terminéd on before Dr. Harding brought out the idea of holding the reunion in Washington. The plan of coming to Washingtoh &nd eapturing {the capital is & proposal which the veterans must have time to think over. Washington would give them a glad hand. Reunions of Confederate and TUnion veterans are not new. There was @ peace Subllee on the Bull Run field on the fifticth anniversary of the battte and vne at Gettysburg a few years ago. In the G. A. R. reunions at Washingioh théfe has always been fratérnizing between those who were foes in arms from 1861 to 1865. Sixty- two vears have passed since Bull Run and fifty-eight have gone by since Ap- pomattox. Tt the United Confederate Veterans shouid vote to hoid a reunion at Washington the great cit¥ on the Potoma¢ would fling open its gates to them. ——————— Assurances that nobody intends to undertake the removal of the Jackson statue from its careful bailance oppo- #ite the White House shouldl reassure those partisane of Old Hickory. who heve been vigorousks pFotesting against swch iconoclasm. Clark Mills® masterpitce will probably always stand in silhoustte againet the front door of the etecutive mansion as long | a8 Amefica is & nation and Wash. ington is its capital ——————— A propésal to retain the old Aque- duet bridge has been advanced, but is subject to certain official objections that afe founded upon a kiowiedge of the reason why a new bridgé across the Potomac Was neceseary. ————— Judging from the constantly grow- ing estmates of attendance at the Shrine convention here there is no widespread fear that winter will linger in the lap of spring in Washington to the point of becoming a national scandal. ———— Volcanoes are active in Mexico and Ecuador. This is evidently going to be a lively season for the scientific globe-trotters who hustle about to wit. ness the cofivulsions of nature. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ; Admenstion. Lay low, Mistuh Fighin’ Worm, 1 gives you warnin’ fair. De sun is shinin’ warmer an® 1 has some time to spare. De rippie’s oh de river Dat's & singin’ soft an’ slow. 1 don’ wan’ no edvantage, Mistuh Fishin’ Worm, lay low. I's gwine to do some diggin’, An’ it @in’ no fault o' mine If right 500N you isn’ swingin’ In de water on a line. 80 you wants to start an’ burrow Jes’ as fas’ as you kin go. I's givin’ you fair notice, Mistuh Fishin’ Worm, lay low. Overwork. He wouldn't g0 to meetin’, Nor to soclables an’ such; He hurried in his eatin’, An’ his meals they wasn't much. ‘The ridic’lous didn’t strike him, Nor yet did the sublime; Didn't want no one to like him, *Cause he didn’t have the time. Tolks who make toil theit mission May find when years have passed Théyre rich In cash, yet wishin® For smiles an' cheer at last. Ths baunts of ghy an’ dizzy Enjoyment they may shun, But they've somehow kept o busy That they've gotten nothin’ done. Fatigue. Left home in the morning, Dodged a troliey car, Got wet by & sprinkling cart Before 1 traveled far. Nearly got run over By a passing train, Had to step from underneath A capstsed aeroplane; Motor car came whooping As it turned a curve, Managed to get past it,” But it surely took my nerve. 1.1ove my Work sincetely, There (an't any doubt, But getting down to do it 1s what weats a fellow out, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WiLE “Everybody who was at the Whité Housé “movie pArty” last Saturday evening is talking of Mrs. Harding's apparently complets physieal “come back” No one whe did hot know it before could évér have told ahe had just emerged from an illnéss that lasted, roundly, six months. Her célor, busyahey and old-time vivaclty hive all fetufned. Many think #he has grown perceptably younger ia looks. The First Lady superintended personally every one of the detalls of Saturday’s entertainment; éspeciai- 1y the elaborate decoration of #pring flowérs. Mrs. Hardihg s under medical restriction, us far 8 strenu- ous social actiVities are Poncérned, though there is about hér every in- dication of capacity to resume thém on the accustonied scale. His wife's recovery has had a marked effect on Presfdent Hardlng. Only those very near to him know what a burden he uf\‘rrh-d while hey condition was eriti- cal * % % % i Obverheard in 17th Btreet, near D: “What's that beautiful bullding into which all those badged womeén are streamthg” hat's the headduartérs of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion.” Ahd, what's that marble pile next door?” “That's the Sons of the said the know: neck wagon pa Union = hepdquarters of th nierican Revolution, & one, as the rubbér- sed the Pan-Americah women, from all parts of the céuntry, enrolled in Washington private schools, is Miss Katherine Mitchel, AAughteT of the late John Mitchell, famour labgr leader. She attends Chevy Chase School @nd is speclaliz- ing in sociology, &s she plans to fol- low, more or less, in the Footsteph of hér distinguished father. Miss Mitchell came into the world a couple of years aftér John Mitchell, aged twenty-nine, won fame as the leader of the great anthracite strike of 1909, 8he is proud of her father's memory pnd of his renoun as a labor chieftain. Miteheil went to work in the coal minbs of southern Illinois at the aze of twelvs, heving been at school only between his si# and tenth years, educating himsel at night after that. Heé was connect- €d with organized labor frof his six- teenth year. Proudly displayed on the walls of the Carnegie Endowment for Inter- national Peace in Jackson place, is an jartistic &ilken seroll attached to an ivory roll, newly arrived from dapan. Tn Japanese and in English téansia- tion the following mesage i# inscrib- ed wpon it: “The wndersigned mayor of Tokio, Baron 8himpei Goto, has the honor to lucknowledge receipt of the collection {of books on America donated by the jCarnegie Endowment for internation- ! 1Clmrting “The Way of a Maid With & Man.” Standardleed lovamaking—is that the néxt thing te ceme out of the Social reform hopper? That appeacs to the editorial mind to be the point jat which the Rockefelier Bureau of Social Hygiene ie-aiming the “intl- mate” questionnaire which it sent t8 a selected list of unmarried college womeh, asking all manner of amai- ing questions coné¢trning “spooning” and their love affairs in general. Tt such is the obfect 6f this Iatest “so- jcial study” the press prediets un- |auallfied failure. apparéntly placing {more faith ih human natwre than in efficiency charts or Atandardigation blueprint. And while there is some ! surprise expressed at the temerity of the bureaw of soceial hygiene in asking such very personal questions, a mAttSr for far gréAter astonish: Iment to editdFs is the fact that they reeeived any answers, ven dlkcount- ing the value of the ansters received. “Mhere's néthing to laugh at” warng_ the Norfolk Ledger-Dispateh, |“we are considering a very seribus {thing. These gentlemen of the bu- rean of social h¥gien® are véry mueh {in earnest. They aie détermined to {find sut all About everything.” &o their latest field, the St. Paul Pfonsef Press tell§ us, Ys “this love buSifiess,” | iand when they get through with It {it “will no longer be a mystery. Dan Cuplid is belng vivisected in thé gaso- line laboratory, and when the gel- entists have finished with him we shall know a great deal more about leart lrouble than we know abeut anthrax and hog cholera. NeVertheless, the Cleveland Naws finds the SIAMSHISS complied by the bureau from the Qquestionnaires “rather fiore interest-catching than ifigures on April rainfall in the last fifty yeark, or the per capita cbh- sumption of ¢eal” and to preve Ita point it presents the data thu; “Thé “bBureau fates that 1900 ! American wives had answered Its questionnai¥e relative to their pre. nuptial lovesmaking, that 889 of them denfed having &pooned beford mar. ridge, that 208 clalmed to have spooned with thelr intended huabands {only, that 376 admitted spobning wi! other men than thoge they eventually married” “For lo these many génerations,” ithe Harrisburg Telegraph ‘;thlnia us, {“the man who ‘kiseés and tells’ has jbeen a subject of scorn amenk Ris jfellows. The boasting Doh Juah has jnever. stood deuct high e¥en among those who may Nave besh & little ljealous over the favors bestowsd ‘upon him by the fair se: And the paper feels the sathe way aboat the ! woman who "tells;” but the Wheellng {News grants her some extenuation by asserting that “the women Who fe- sponded to the extrwordinary Ques- tionnnire were heroines in the Maeri- fices of thelf privacy on the altar | ot sociology.” & Minheapalls Trib- une notes that “some of the answers were. amasingly frank in the admis- slone made as-to the detailar natufe ——. patriotic { {are Tiving in an age of al Pedee. No better #selection of Books éould have béen made, Which would adequately indleate the thesaure of contribution madé by the people of the United States towards the advancement of the world's elvili- zatioh. Théss books, which so well interprét the thought, feélings and lc!lvl!lt‘ of that great péople will continuelly serve i the eapital of Japan as the symbol of thélr good will and cordlal fri2ndship toward the people of this country. In accepting the donation, I wish to express the high appreciation of the citizens of Toklo for the generous and delicate actlon of the Carnegie Endowment.” Xk ok * H. H. Kohlsaat, author of,one of the season’s best-nellers, “From McKinley to Harding,” has been haking one of his périodical visits to Washingtoh. He is by way of producing a magatine articlé which, in the age of omnipres- ént automoblies, will read like a chap- ter from medleval times, although it deals with events of only twenty- eight years ago. Kohlsant is Boing to_tell how he organized America firat motor race at Chicago in 1895, His paper, the Times-Herald, offered 810,000 in prizes for an epoch-making competition which called for contin- uous traversing of the boulevard along the Chieago lnke shore. Auto- mobiles wérs «o searce and so novel then that they hadn't even been named. “Hofseless carriages” was the commonest term, though a prize was won by a person who submitted smotorcycle: Automobile was con- sidered “too_Frenchy.” The winper of the Kohlkaat face, an antediluvian called the Hayhes-Appereon and now at the Smithgoniap Institution, nego- tiated the Afty-thres-and-a-half-mile course in the récord time of 10 hours and £5 minutes. There were sixty- five entrants, and most of them broke down. One fl‘llldn‘l be stopped and smashed in collision with a street car. $rxs This obsérvér is asked to launch a movement for removal of the sign which desécrates the tomb of the un- known soldier at Arlingtoh. It is considered by many visitors to the shrine a wholly unnecessary and in- decorus pieet of advértising, thoush kindly meant as information to the stranger. Objectors find it a jarring note and say it mars the solemnity and grandeur of the most impressive memorial in the United States. The wish finds urgent xpréksion that the ign may be banished before the hriners 'in mass formation invade Arlington in June * One of the most influential organ- izations in the United States, though an infant in age, will hold fts annu meeting in Washington on Apr! and 28. It is the American Socléety of Newspaper Lditors, formed a year. and a half ago for the purpose of ele- vating journalis standards afeguarding _professional _ ethics, here will be a crowded program of business and entertainment, inclndin payment of respects to the editor o the Marion Dai Star, at 1600 Penn- sylvania avenue (Copsright, 10231 EDITORIAL DIGEST of the spooning. * The sheer fact that thers were =0 many explicit avowals is one more f)lmn{ that we focial frank. negs unlike anything that has gone before for almost countless meneras flons 10 1a Rearcels Ho be. Bellaved that these women woald have ap. swered this questionnaire o freelv ten or even five years ago under any possible bond of secrecy or confidence. Their doing so now is undoubtedly under the spur of a conviction that by thus laying bare their girlhood experiences they may render a val- uable Service in the interest of pres- ent-day social welfare” The Buffalo News " agrees that their response ‘probably can be attributed to @ de- sire to serve the announced purpore of this remarkAble survey of Amer- ican womanhood.” That announced purpose finda one sympathizer In the Fargo Forum, which declares that “the quemtion- naire is not silly, neither are the AnTwers a matter for amusement, Correct answers given by sensible and intelligent women will furnish & very accurate guide. It s just because of the intimacy of home and personal reiations that thers haa been tos g:;‘t.: Ih"vslmn-");.‘lo deive Into the an attem - prohle Pt to find 2 so. However. as the Indianapolis News puts it, “the sincerlty of the fnvesti- £2tors is not questioned. only thejr £ood sense.” And the great question, in the minds of most editorial wiit- &rs, is whether. after all. all this Aearching and “sacrifice” has estab- lished anything. “The trouble with the questionnaire as the Peoria Transcript sees it. “is that it asks uestions which cannot be answered nkly by the pormal woman and wlHI be answered morbidly by the Moron. Sensationalists will magnify the effect that apeonink had en thbir characters, while the normal woman w11l belittle this effect.” And “aven supposing perfeetly accuraté date Were to be had on such subjects, What would be the value.” the Bos. ton Traveler asks, “except to estab- 118h a truth which everyone knews 8lready—namely, that human con- duct differs with' different individuais WAder different circumstances?" ‘Without taking the matter too seri dusly, the Meafilnn Star speculates hat “a like questionnaire mailed to 1,000 average men Would prove one t two things: Either the ‘questionees re all Bpooners at some time or Other or xaid ‘questionees’ have been and are just plain, evervday garden species of lfar.” Far from applyin, to the women questioned the Lehory and ugly” which the Meridian paper Burmises would be applicable to men Iving like answers, and “not doubt- ng the honesty of the answers.” the ¥ .‘.';'":f"&"fi'é";.a' (‘!:,h‘l for the nderstay 0% the 37, FOmen who ‘confessed to imocance: o Bbooning” Before marriage ever made the grade. A fisherman who came in WMth a big cateh amd sad he didn't Mge a worm or a fly or a spoon for Bait would be accused of using & het - aapYhow, What Is it all about? “The as ‘the Chambersbu Opinion interprets it, “is ¢?m'31‘§"§ Mentific analyels of that anclent tn- on, spooning.” possib] Francisco Bulletin gfl!!!elfl).' tnh: E:z 2dditiohal textbodk for use In the easy, soft-snap college course known a8 soclal sclence.” The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette se¢8 another poasi. Bllity—“Maybe we are going to have & Volstead act againat spooning.” . 1f We do, the papér prophesies that “the boys will all be for it, on the theory that It will become even more popus lar when prescribed.” Upholds Principle of Minimum Wage, - To the Buttor of The Bear: The judgment of governing,bodies, which confines 1tselt to narréw ef extreme limitations in mattérs were the human equation i8 in question, such as the relations of empleyer and employe, tails to serve the finer pure poses of constituted government, It is undeniable that in nearly all such cases the émployer is in a posi- tion of advantage and that when he wilis to exeré¢lse this advantage the employe has me other choice than to submit: or resign. The necessity ot existence compels that they werlk, which renders their condition one of practical. subseftience, whereas oh the other hand thé employer, mihus necesdity.. has a8 his motive anly financial gain. Below a given walary it ha¥ beeh damonstrated that an employ cannot maintain thoke comforts and necessi- tits of a worthy citizenehlp. And it is & fact, to my mind, that the majority ®f the people ars hot unreasonable as to what constitutes & fair minimum weage. A8 the court reserves to itself the preregative of defining what shall be the maximum rate of interest on hioney borrowed in financial transe aétions, there alee It I8 Within its rights to sustain & minimum wage #c¢ale. Whereas one deals with money alone, the other Is ah exchange of service Yor money, &nd In substance they are the 8 & i ds the vioua'n vighte. ‘T 'one'te hnseriaction ol oney, the other is extortion [1 And sah aviae from condi- o tions of Human ne : el CECIL GALVERT. TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1923. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM WORLD 2-"-14‘?)‘,%1—“‘.11. Small, PRESIDENT REFORME Maynard & Co. A .large ordef, this, that Dr. Dillon undertakes to fill. Howsver, hé ap- DeArs to lave dons 1t. That I8 1o say; hé has satisflea Hifiself to the etent Indicated by ths title of his book and by the further setipus déclaration that, “Mexieo 18 1sadink the way.” 1t 15 clear that from the study itself the author hopés t6 héve réalérs #ecept both Mexico and its président a8 the van of a world movement toward a new civillsation of peace and genefdl Ideaiism. Reading heré, one rubs his eyes, thinking he may have falien in- to a dream over his Bosk—but hé is wide awake and hére it is, plain as print can make it. “Mexico is leading the way” and Alvafo OBFégon i8 a “reformer of tworla ai@nificance.” Now the world iy the biggest thing we know. And in it thefe have béen great mén, innumerable, who havée served nobly Por its bettering in this diréction or in that, Few of these— in fact, no more than one of them in modern times—have reached & world measure of influéica and power. Wherefore, the maghitude of the order that Dr. Dilion enikages to fill here. And oné tuins toward the mat- ter, curious, rather than hopeful. * k%% The bulk of this Obrégon study was made at firbt hand. Df. Dillon admits that, upon a first meeting, he was inclined to pass Obregon by as only another one of the notoflous “geénerals” who, leading rag-tag armies, have, from time out of mind, infested Mexico in a clamorous pre- tence of dellvering that unhappy ehuntry from it othér traitorous de- fenders and saviors. It was not long, however, before he discovered some- thing aifferent in thia man. Here he found an unuswal modesty of de- meanor, a sincerity of purpose, a rea- sonableness of claim, a clear insight as to the source and spréad of Mex- age-old malady, a fair vie% of ne#ds, and a unique selfleseness irit toward the future well-being of the country. And these impres- iops grew in strength and widened in scope through the further associa- tion of the two. Upon Obregon's in- vitation Dr. Dillon traveled with him through one and another of the states of Mexico. In this companion- ship the author's aiready wide knowl- edge of the country took on depth and eonvietion as to its possible high futute, provided only there could be et those basic conditions upon which 1l national development rests. And Gen. Obregon, in the long dis- cussions of these travel hours, set those conditiens. There must be edu- cation for all, with trade and indus- trial schools in the lead. There must be a land rddistribution so that the least of Mexico's nationals may have the means of suppoft out of the good mother earth around him. There must be the popular voice in local affalre and. finally, in the affairs of the state as well. In a word, thére must be, In all sincerity, those funda- mental things which in many respects exist now only as mere gestures of believe, only a8 mere figures of e And, above all. Mexico must be Jev along 80 fan, outsiders have wrought only harm. And Obregon tdiked of universal peace as the core o7 Al worthy statesmanship. | He ubo Reld wilh enthusiaam the simple ex- pedient of “getting together” for the solution of international problems. He decried war. He invented plans to avold éonflict, plans which would projéct this war-weary world into a happy and productive future. A sim- ple man, plain of epeech, deeply grounded in his Taith. Along these travels thers wefe innumerable inci- episoder, pictures, to point the s that the general was saying. And these were turned over into the book pretty much as they were seized and discussed by these two. So, in large part. the study is anecdotal, in- formal, picturesque, interesting and impressive. Taken all in all, it serves Yo cover nét onlv the whole life of Obregon himself, but it serves to in- clude. as well, every high point of Mexican history within the period that is calculated to throw light upon the present conditions of the country and to define also what its future may be. its *r x % Out of this enthusiastic study emerges what would have been a fine and hopeful figure in Mexlcan life, had not Dr. Diilon well-nigh Yuined his subject by an excessive ahd child- ish partisanship on the ohe'hand ana a spitit of bittdr vanom on the other. As it fe, one believes that President Obregon will Yot Suffer ovérs much from thik office of friendship. How fuch more dangerous friends % be than enemiss, after a1l Dr. Dilion is an aFtist in black and white—snow Wwhite against crow black. The ceh- tral point of immaeulate llluminetion fiere 18 Président Obregon. Areund him. black &s night, spreads the rest of the world. That speeial spot of complets Inkiness is the United States. When it comes to plalfi scarrility we appear to be the real thing. Do ¥e rean well by Mexico? Wé do not. Have we ever méant well by any gther nation or countrve We phve fiot. Cuba? the Philippines? Haltl and Santo Domingo? Proofk, all of them, against Lhe sincerity of our claims. Do we desire a peace? Did W have a peace conference. We do not and we did not. Just gestures, these, made chiefly, one would sup- pose from this book, to put sdmething over on Mexico. Wheh the author becomer most abusive. he stops to ex+ plain that hé does not mean the peos ble of the United States, but the gove ernment inatead. Since, however, the people are the government, since’ thie s their pride and their one boast, the explanation fails to stand up fof a minute. A And our President—well, he is & “Yanked politician,” a term, that, mway in the back of the story, Is ex- panded to show that this particular Epecies of politician is a “human termits, a practical hustler, who lives and works in meéchanleal, wealth- creating, realm-cxpanding surFound- ings, and his nature is asubduwed to what It works in. Unhapbily, his ocs cupation offers little scope fof spir itual aspirations, in which he 18 often defictent.” Moreover, the President i& “a fervent CRfIstian.” Rellglous influ- ences dominate his sens® of duty and shape his ldeals ot soclal order and human_progres: And 80 he goes on. Obregon, either by Implication or direct statement, is shown to o ses8 none of these banéful quall log. l | J l thete clear disqualifieations for hl office. An untriendly act of Dr. lon to turn Obregon into & found hard club ToF the pummeling of the United States. However, he does not mean to be unfriendly. Quite the contrary. But hé has only one eyd, and no sense at all of the plaln everyday working of men's miinds. One “believes, too, that L5 ible harm frem the book 18 diminikhed by the Tact that few peeple will fead beyond its first two chapters. Its ap- proach to the subject is of a quality to shut off interest. It is too Vielent, too inept, too inconsiderate. Rathef too for the book, when one ece ets Into Its real substance, ha® in- rimation that Interesting And usstul. Dr. Dillon 1s @ khowh publl- cist, who has written mueh. Bome: thing 18 wrong this tifme. Reagon- ableness has flown eway and with I has gone calm and dispassionate statement. Osear Wilde once said of @ certaih lady that her clothes looked as it they had been made* in tempent 4nd put on in & Tuey. And Dr. Dillsn i) his outfit of lh‘ wbli- cist and writer looks just L that here. ji L@ ML CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS “@6lt? Golf? You spend a day chasing a golf ball around & lot. At night you've got your golf ball._ You R&d 1t When you startéd. If you met a wheelbarrow and a hoe and spread manufé all day voa've got the exér- cise #fid you'v8 done sometning. So says Mr. Samwel M. Vauclain, president of the Baldwin Locometive Company. But is he® right> He knows a lot about locomotives, but is he an authority on spreading fer- tilizer? What farmer would give him a job when they saw him trying to spread manure with a hoe? Why not use & modern manure spreadér, which will spread the fertility better and over more acreagé in an howr than he would with a hos in & week? Wh‘y, any tarmer would laugh at the muftimflilonaire who did not at least use & fork in place of a hoe. * * 2 * But there is a gérm of an fdea In what Mr. Vauclain meant, which tells us that we waste energy which should be put to better use. Some years ago business men were much concérnéd over the teachings of “effieiéncy experts,” who demonstrated how many false moves might be elimi- nated and more accomplished with less work. What has become of the enérgy savers? We pay a premium of applause when a nimble-footéd athlete climbs the wall of a skyscraper—until he falls to his death. What good would his climb do even if he did not fall and thereby discourage other fool- hardy athletes? * Ok k% There is great rivalry bétween dancing §ifts who want to make a record of endurance. They dance fifty hours or more and wear out sev- eral pairs of shoes and several male parters; but when they finish, what of it? Have they demonstrated their special capabllity to scrub as well as scrape floors? A business man in France asked the writer why we did not have our American womén work in the flelds as they do in Francé, for “it makes them strong and healthy.’ instead, we dancé ours. It might make them sirong. 1t has no other possible valué, 8o that must be its object. It is_even more senseless, from a utili- terian standpoint, than Mr. Vauelain finds golf to be. dolf incltés skill; endurance dancing {8 only ‘“bruté power.” A inleroscoplc rotifer can whirl faster and keep it up longer. L I Of coursé, there aré other stand- points from which to judge sports. Theré is nothing highly utilitarian shown when a man hits a little globe with a stick of Wood and it sails 200 of 300 feet up in the air and then some other man catches it when it falls. The relativity of Its rise and fall néver proves the Binstein theoty, and the man who lets it ating his hands as he catchés it could buy a new ball Just as good for half a dol- lar—or could when a dollar was Worth 100 eents, So the utllitarian measure is faulty if applied to sports, and there is a place in life for joy and relaxation as well as for locomotives and ma- nure and hoes. But there is no place in sane life for mere foolhardy stunts of perll nor_for useless strains of endurance. There is nothing but stupld vanity behind both. IRER? The Department of Labor an- nounces for March an increased de- mana for skilled and unskilied labor In all industries amounting to from 4 fraction of 1 per cent in leather to 5.6 per cent in foods. There is a Efeat shoftage in farm help &hd a continued boom fin building opera- tions all over the country. Builders are making up for the suspension of home erection during the war. * K x % In viéw of the shortage of skiled labor the United States Chamber of Commerceé s advoeating a modifica tion of our présent immigation restric tion laws in such a way that we would admit on the basis of social and eco- nomic needs for labor rather than re strict merely upon a numerical basis committee of the chamber has pre- pared a plan in that line to be sul mitted to the annual meeting of the chamber next month. It proposes that the 3 per cent quota remain the general basis, to which would be added 2 per cent maximum, to be controlled, at the discretion of tha President, according to the country's needs. As the trade unlons are interested directly in food production, to reducs the cost of 1iving the chamber argucs that the plan should receive thelr full co-operation. * X% % During March the District of lumbla employment service had on! 2,810 applications for jobs, while had 3,319 jobs to be filled. * ko Again it is the complaint patriot that he cannot sing * Spangled Banner.” Its music cult and the range tries the of all but the nimble voices, ing from the sub-basement to ti eupalo’s high C. But here is i cere consolation for the songless Some of Mozart’s charming music called “songs without words.” and, in return, we can have this great “words without music.” No one who has not heard “The Star Spangled Banner” rendered as a recitation by the well known Sha spearean actor, Charles B. Hanford now living in Washington, can hava any adequate conception of its t ing, patriotic feeling. The it tion alone gives the earnestness a: i love and solicitude of suspensc aid devotion that are lkely to be fn the song. It is & poem that fe have ever read and many have mu dered in song. It should Le recited in the schools even bLefore it is sung for the words—the sentiment—ere American—are Washingtonian, in th.ir origin—whlie the tune was a borrowed German drinking ®ong which happened to fit Dr. Key's poem. The recitation as well as the sing- ing shouid never be heard except v a stending audience; soldlers in un! form at attention or salute. It the greatest poem of patriotism in an language. is di stret Jumy i Adjt. Gen. Davis has issued ofder that all Army officers shall mind their ps and gs better and ir plove their literary style. The order 1 accompanied with a few brief re marks which may be pondered by eivilian correspondents as well a8 Army officers. “Words used to should be carefully selected.” says the adjutant general, “and should be so employed as to convey clearly and forcefully the egfact meaning intended and no other. Sentences should be I ieally arranged.” * o % % If advice of this kind is needed Army correspondénce, which s ur aitionally succinct and logical in rangement in numbered paragraphs. how much more I8 it demanded express an idea n reforming the perfunctory forms of the ordinary business letter w0 nia AL e 1onE TelE wun: Some of the large irms have put their own rules in force, as, for in- stance, the omitting of the salutation and the “Yours truly"—an exampiv set by the Army letters (Copyright, 1623, hy P. V. € Diplomatic Negotiations of Dominions Sure to Embarrass British Empire BY THE MARQUISE BE FONTENOY. Much trouble, both for the present and for the futufe of the British empire, has been stirred up by the absenee of the signature of Sir Auck- 1and Geddes, King Geofge's ambas- sador at Washington, from the so- called halibut fisheries treaty be- tween Canada an@d the United States. It is perfectly true that if the do- minion minieter of marine and fish- eriés, Efnest Lapointe, affixed his sighature thereto, he did so by virtue of lettets patént of the privy council in Engiand, empowefing him to do so—letters patent bédring the Siga Manuel of King George. In Canada the belléf is universal that the king did %o upon the sole advice of his dominion ministefs. But, In England and in the other elf-governing dependencies of the Britien empire, it 1s understood that if the king accepted the advice of his Canadlan ministers in the mat: ter, he did so only on:the advice of the cabinet in Downing street—that is to say. the cabinet of the entire empife, Which is responsible to par- llament at Westiinster and to the i tion. Br‘\l'tow {hie arument s put forward that sinee the halibut fisheries treaty, while signed only by Canada, by vir- tue ‘of a royal warrant issued by the soverelgn in _council, {8 binding upon the entire empire, although of more immediate concern to Canada, the ministérs of the Australlan com- montwealth, of the South Africah union, of the dominjon of New Zéa- and. etc, should have been cone suited by the erown and their sanc- tion gbtained. It is all very well that when the status of nations was accorded to the self-governing d pendenciés 1t should have been de- termined that in special matters in which the dependency In guestion ig golely concerned, the crown should he advized ?nly' by the ministers of that particular dependency, and not necessarily by .the Downing stréet cabinet as well. But a treaty is not a special matter. It is a common matter of coneern to the entire Brit- ish empire, sifce it 18 binding upon the latter, and if, therefore, the crown has 'failed to consult the min- istefs of the South African union, ‘of Australle, of New Zealand—even gf Indlia, it is a question as to wheth®r the act of the erown, In nccord:ng letters patent through the priv councnt ‘et :\'hlmn. authorizing Erneat Lapointe to sign the hallbut treaty on behalf of the empire, hak npt aeted ultfa-vires and in afiance of the constitution. * K ok ¥ Issues such as these are certain to arisé constantly in the future, from the Very foment that the dependen- 8163 Bre permitted to carry on diplo- matie relations with Forelgn powers on their own account. and Independ- ently of the imperial govertment One can readily see how much trou- ble would ensue, If, for instance, the coMmonwealth Eovernment of Aus- tralia were te conclude, even with the autherity of royval letters patgnt \fsued by W maveriegn throu 16 privy council at Whitehall, e treaty (in tne, United States In any way Injuriously affecting the |mponn¥‘ ahd, perha; vital interests of the Dominfon of Canada. If each of Eng- 1and dependencies, to which Nofthern Ireland and the Free Htate of Ireland may m{« be added, were to inau rate, like Canada, |ndem:n\'}lfi matic relations With the United States, or with any other. foreigh power, and take upon themselves 1o ! conclude treaties, binding upen tlo | British empire as a whole, but about | which the governments of the other commonwealths of the confederation, thave not been consulted or their ap- proval obtained, the utmost confusion will ensue in the intercourse between the foreign powers and the Britich | empire. 1t has been proposed by way of deai- ing with the difficulty that the poli- cles of the British empire as a whole, {in ite relation to foreign nations {should be determined by plen ! meetings of the prime ministers of the empire. But, some of these prem- iers, are many 'thousands of miles {away, and before they can be gathered {from’ the Antipodee, and from South i.A(rhn, weeks must elapse before they can reach Downing street. Deputies | could not be qualified to act in their stead for reasons that are obvious. Under the circumstan it looks very much it the measures, by whieh the diplomatic right of pendent nations are conceded to land's overseas self-governing sessions would have o he res for thé sake of the empire itself. the colonies concerned, and of for- elgn natlons, and that while leaving to the depéndencies their full wn- tomony in domestic affairs, the di- réction of their diplomatic business should be restricted to the rial government and to its amt who alone should be qualificd to : for the emplre, and for its various component parte. ! * % x Sir Ralph Anstruther of Balcask in Fifeshire, who has just been u pointed by King George to be | Lord Lieutenant and chief represent- ative of that county. is an old seldicr in the neighborhood of seventy —a veteran of the Black Watch Regi- ment and of the Egyptian and South African wars. Sixth baronet of his line, he represents the junior hranch of one of the mreatest houses of Scot- land. the superchieftain of which (now Sir Windham Anstruther) lLas for seven centuries or more always ranked, although not a peer, as among the principal barons of the northérn kingdom. Sir Ralph's baronetcy dates from 1894, whereas the two baronetcies held by Sir Windham_were respec- tively betowed in 1700 and 1795. But these baronetcies, however, count for but little where the chieffain vt the clan has always been known éither as the “Lord of Anstruther” or as “The Anstruther.” Among the ancestors of old Sir IR-(}m Anstruther, who was formerly & frequent visltor to the United States, and of his kinsman, Sir Wind- ham Anstruther, was thaf Henry de Anstruther, Lord of AnStruther, who was one of the principal companion- In-arms of 8t. Louis of France in his érusade to the Holy Land. Sir James Anstruther was a particular favorite of King James VI of Scotland (who vas also James I of Great Beitain) &nd who bestowed upon him the of fces of hereditary master and of hereditafy carver of the royal house- hold in Scotland. These dignities are now held b 8ir Windham Carmichael Anstruther the present head of the family, who has attained his majority within the last three weeks, and who bears Ris second name that of Carmicha; and who owne the Carmichael e tates, by reason of the fact that he is descended in the female line from the beautiful but unfortunate Mary Car- tichael, maid of honor to Mar Queen ot Scots, and whose pathetic lament is ¢commemorated. in the old Beottish ballad-entitled, "The Queen's Marys." inded