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6 ING ST m’!colhction, The first part THE EVEN With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESPMAY.....April 18, 1823/ THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Busivesy Office, 11th §t. and Rennsylvania Ave. New York Office 150 Nassao B8t Ohiea : Tower Bullding. Buropean Otice: 16 Regeat St., Londod, England. ‘The B Star. with the Sunday morning *aicig, 1s delfvered by Carrieps witkin the clty 2t G tents ev manth, aay oaly. 45 cents ger | Frouth; Suay only, 20 cents et mout ‘é:.‘ ers way.be sent by mail, or telephone Mala | 6000, Tection is made by carri end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., 38.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only. Y B $6.60; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only $2.40; 1 mo., 20c | All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily onl. ~...1¥T., $7.00: 1 mo. .1yr, $3.00; 1mo., she | 60c 5c Member of the Associated Press. [ The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled | fo tip use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or oot otherwise credited i3 this ‘paper and also the local news p lished herein. ALl rights of publication ef snecial dispatebes hereln are alse reserved. ““Selling” Washington. The American Civic Association is 2cing to “sell Washington” to the} \merican people. This organization, ~omposed of public-spirited men and women_ devoted to the idea of civic development in the United States, real- zes that Washington is the model municipality, the central point of | American thought. the truly national | city. It proposes to make the Ameri- | can people keenly interested in it to the point of demanding its develop. ment and the maintenance of the high- | «st possible standard of oivic efficiency | and attractiveness. The project -of * & the capital to the country involves first a surv here of local conditions, then an ex-{ tensive and intensive campaign of education throughout the country: | Inasmuch as Congress is the District's | legislature, passing all laws affecting the capital, appropriating ail moneys | for maintenance and determining | the manner in which the money shall | he raised as well as expended. it is) necessary, in order to give effect to an American demand for the betterment and development of the capital, that the “folks back home” should be in- duced to bring pressure to bear upon the national legislators to discharge full duty toward the capital. The average American proud of Washington. M of tie citizens of this country have visited this city, on individual trips id in attendance at conventions. For | iustance, it is estimated that some 0,000 -will come next June to the at meeting of the Shriners. Many of them will have never been here be- Every one who has ever been in Washington recognizes it as a city of | sreat heauty, and those with diserim- ion see that much is vet necded to ! \o done to attain to the idcals of the | founders and of the latter-day de-| velopers of Washington. i What is chiefly needed js an appre-| ciation back in the districts from| which come the members who consti- ite Washington's legisiature of the fact that both en the national and on the local lines works of improvement | nust he undertaken, that the govern- ment’s equipment must be improved ! and cnlarged, and that the munieipal- | ity ‘he is its is today is fore. ich. =0 16 speak, presides over | capital establishment must bel de in every manner a model in ad- | ministration and in its own equipment. It should not be difficult to effect this “sale” of Washington to the American peopie. They are reading people. if not all of them are traveling } . They know that here center hoth national and world interests, that ! hither come great numbers from every } uarter, .not merely of this countr but of other lands. They visualize Washington as a place sacred to American ideals. The majority of our people are highly intelligent, and know that-a prosperous, progressive businiess cannot be conducted properly | a shabby plant, and that the great- | est successes fn American industry | and commeree are attended by con-| siderations of artistic factors. All through this country are commercial establishments that are pleasing to the eye. They are made so deliberate 1y for e dual purpose, to get better work out of ‘the organization and to attract public attention favorably. A slovenly National Capital is & noor advertisement . for the United States. The ‘present proposition is to sell that idea, o rather the affirmative of that idea, to the people of the Tnited States, and the American Civic Association is to proceed with that 1aek, beginning with a meeting in this | city next Saturday, from which may comé great developments to hasten | works now in hand and contemplated, | @nd to establish permanently the high- est possible municipal standard for ‘Washington. ——— Eight “pennant possibilities” begin work in the American Base League today with the assured knowl- edge that only one will win the flag. Rut hope-is thie mainspring of the na- tional game. ————— The Oldroyd Lincoln Collection. The Dames of the Loyal Legion, in session in - Washington, have voted | ihat they will seek to persuade the sovernment to buy the Oldroyd Lin- «coln memorial collection now housed in the houde on 10th street in which Lincoln died. The house, which has held-the collection singe 1893, is owned hy the government. From 1883 to 1893 the Tollection was in the old Lincoln home at Springfield, Tl, which- Mr. Oldroyd rented from Robert Lincoln, and ¥hen tle son of Abraham Lincoln gave.the home to the state of Illinois the collection was-brought to Washe ington by invitation of the Memorial Association of the District of Colum- hia, which leased the house’ from I'rederick Schade, the Schade family having bought it from the heirs of William: Petersen, who owned it when the wounded President was carried to it from Ford's Theater. The proposal to buy ‘this collection has been before Cangress and the pub- lic a number of times. Representative vers of Texas was prominent in nd-| ‘ocating its purchase. He divided his nian into two parts, to have Congress buy the house, and then to acquire the neople Bail | i 1 i { [ [uf chief interest to our own residents |an intelligent and abiding patrlotism i democratic itions fof the nominating convention {and more numerous. If the politicians *| sia to abolish Sunday ae a day of rest. L1t is not proposed. it would seem. to THE EVENING of the plan | six days a week. One of these is “Big was carried out in 1897. The second | Bill” Haywood, one-time leader of the part has never been accomplished. I. W. W. in this country, now a fugi- The' Memorial Association of the|tive from justice. It is just reported District of Columbia was incorporated | that he has been expelled from a set- March 18, 1892, “for the pu:pose of | tiement in Siberia because, true to the preserving the maest noteworthy | popular nickname of his former or- houses at the capital that have been | ganization, he raised the standard of made historic by the residence of the | “I won't work.” “‘Big Bl wants seven nation's - greatest men; of sultably|days of rest each week. i marking by tablets, or otherwise, the houses and places throughout the city On Guard. fore power to the Daughters of the ~merican Revolution’ in their stand ~Lainst radicalism and extreme pac- flsm, typified in the enthusiastic adoption yvesterday of resolutions de- nouncing in vigoreus terms the “false friends and open foes,” the radicals, and deprecating the course of those who advocate weakening the national defense. They speak the language of their fathers, the men who by force of arms made the republic and endowed its citizenship with the priceless boon of liberty. The Daughters of the American Revolution thus show that they re- main the defenders of liberty in this country, and that they are not to be beguiled Dby the sophistries of the radicals nor misled by the impractical sentimentality of the extreme pacifists who go the wrong way in sceking to abolish war when they urge reducing and to the multitudes of Americans and foreigners who annually visit the capital, and of thus cultivating that historic spirit and that reverence for the memories of the founders and leaders of the republic upon which so0 largely depends.” The association also resolved: “And we wish especielly to purchase the house on 10th street in which Presi- dent Lincoln died.” The association then leased the house, and learning that the Lincoln home at Springfield, 1. had been given to the state, in- vited Mvr. Oldroyd to bring his memo- rial collection to Washington. At a later date the association favored the plan to have the government buy the collection. There have been stories current that Henry Ford has made an offer for the Oldroyd collection. The house in which Lincoln died should, and no doubt will, be preserved by the government, and the Lincoln memorial collection shoud remain in Washington as the property of the people of the United States. was George Washington who wrote: ““To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” The vesolutions adopted yesterday ——— show that the Daughters of the Hold the Conventions Here! | umorican Revotution fally appeeciate The capital of the Un#ed States is| the situation, pointed out so graphical- believed to be the proper place for|ly by Secretary of War Weeks, that holding the presidential nominating|the cxtremes of pacifism blend easily conventions of the great political par- | with the aims of radicalism. It is a ties. Tt has been the practice for|striking fact that two objectives, dis. any years for the republican and|similar in origin, radicalism and pac- parties to let their con-|ifism, should, when carried too far, ventions to cities making the highest | finally merge into a like effect—na- bid for them in the form of a “guar- | tional destruction. antee fund,” or a fund by some other| This great organization of intense- name. Plus the guarantee fund the{ly patriotic women is to be counted politicians have chosen a city in ajupon to stand as an alert and relent- state or section where they believed 'less foc to radicalism, ever on guard, the convention. might swing votes tojand to counsel and warn against well their cause. These may be big things , meaning but fatuous and impractica- in a narrow political view, but they | ble movements for national disarma- seem small things to the American | ment. public. It is very doubtful if the hold- ing of a political convention in any cuiar city influences an appreci- able number of votes, and “selling” a ————————— An “endurance dancer” in New York showed signs of violent insanit et — at the close of his performance. Doubt- convention to a city seems (0 be be-| o5 o glienist would say that these neath the big politics which parties| g nirants for “honors™ in this line all must practice in these times to win.! o "Cith o mental handicap. It was argued in other davs that{ i ———————— Wa ngton did not have accommoda- signs " Pennsyl- vania avenue of wise forehandedness in making ready for the June Shrine convention. Tt is at least certain that of 2 major party. Tt was urged that it did net have a hall large enough to hold the delegates. and that the city was lacking in hotels. That was true in other times, but it is not true now. ‘Washington is building a mammoth convention hall, and its hotels have multiplied and are becoming larger unawares by a “surprise party. ——— Philadelphia’s favorite fllicit cock- tail is said to be a combination of al- cohol and iodine, according to the hos- pital mertality records. There are cheaper poisons than icdine that would be just as effective. ————— will observe how Washington enter-| tains the Shrine convention in Junc{ they will learn that Washington can | accommodate conventions of the great | political parties. For a nation that has been char- Washington would welcome the{acterized often in the past as fickle nominating conventions of the repub-|and changesble the Fren lican and ‘democratic parties. The! tainly showing nominating conventions of other par-| Runr. ties already in being or to be would | be weicome. Those demanding a “guarantee fund” could have one that would be satisfactory. The accommo- dations are here for any political con- vention. This is the city on which the eyes of the world are always fixed. Tt is the city in which any American party successful at the poils must carry out its pledges to the people. It is the city in which political party should write its platform and an- nounce its pledges to the people. It is the proper place in which to choose its candidates for President and Vice President. ————— 1€ these non-stop dancers were only going through the measures of the old-fashioned waltz or the “gallop” of years ago there would be something remarkable in their performances. —_——— The communist party has changed | its name to the workers’ party, but will be no less communist and no more industrious because of the verbal transformation. h are cer- persistence in the It is announced that President Harding will toss out the first ball at the opening of the season here on the :26th. He, too, spent a training season in Florida. . ———— Americans would take more interest in the Chinese military operations if they could remember fromn one we to another who's who in the maze of | strange names. —_———— jtion” for a possible presidential nom- ination is highly appreciated by even the most unambitious American. ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Repetition. ' Oh, history swiftly ranges Through the old familiar changes, And we hear The false, but cheerful, story Of the springtime and its glory, Every year. —_———— Army and Navy flyers at Dayton, Ohio, have just smashed some more world records, a far more creditable performance than smashing them- selves. ———————— Tomorrow's voting at the D. A. R. convention will maintain a tradition of liveliness which has been cherished by that vivacious organization since its beginning. The assuring word is spoken: “Winter’s backbone now is broken.” Then we cheer. But in April you discern us Buying fuel for the furnace, Every year. "Neath the azure sky capacious ‘Tiny buds, all too audacious, Venture near. Then the robin carols swee —— Russia’s Day of Rest. American. woman whose Hus- band is identified with the American relief work in Russia, just arriving in Paris from that unhappy land, says that an effort is being made in Rus- Next the fruit crop fails completely, Every vear. An Life’s Contrasts. Sometimes luck go dis-a-way: Sometinges luck go dat. Maybe we's afl here today: Tomorrow, whar's we & Can't all hold a leadin’ In dis struggling host Some is winners in de ratce An’ some lef’ at de post. establish a seven-day work week. The soviet' has not gome quite so far as that along (he lines of reformation. The plan is to shift the rest day from Sunday to Wednesday. If that is done there will be four days of relaxation, the Sunday of thé Christians, the Sat- urday of the.Jews, the Friday of the Mohammedans and the Wednesday of the Russians, that day being chosen as “neutral.” The Russian.population includes. Christians, Jews and Moham- medans, and apparently the thought is to give them all an official “sab- bath.” The question arises whether the Mohammedan Russians will ob- serve both Wednesday and Friday, the Jewish Russians both Wednesday and Saturday and the sincerely Christian Russians both Wednesday and Sun- day. If the soviet designates Wednes- day as the day of rest presumptively all Russians musi work on ell other days of the week, regardless of their religious predilections. The :Russian calendar is all awry, anyway, and e shift of days would probably not com- plicate matters much more, aithough it would throw out of relationship to the Christian day of observance the Mohammedan and Jewish days, which are now, respectively, the first and|‘Where am 1?” I exclaimed at last, second days preceding the Christian|{ Recovering from my gloomy thrill. . Some steps up to speechify Sabbath. Despite the theory of uvhJA graybeard answered, as he passed, Dat's certain to be heard An’ some has gotter des’ sit Ly An’ never say a word. Some to pfe is drawin’ near Wit glorious victory won, An’ all de other folks may hear Is, “Take yoh med'cine, son:” Foolishville, There is a town called Foolishville. T pictured it a laughing place ‘Where harmless jests were passed at will N And Folly danced with idle grace. Without regret the hours went by While songs were rippling through the air, And no one breathed a mournful sigh Or stpuggled with a sordid care. One day T strayed unto a spot ‘Where every person wore a frown. Of books they read a ponderous lot. They spurned both Columbine and Clown, industry, there are some adopted Rus- “Why this, my friend, i Foolish- slans who are not Inclined to work villy the nation's power of self-defense. Tt | Washington is not geing to be taken | * i astute maneuvers and designs which This is the season when a “men-| icontrol of the monarch, in this sense, STAR, WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, D, C. ! e e e e sl Sk B B S TS et et S e e S S S OBSERVATIONS WEDNESDAY, BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE “Washington, Our National Shrine” the title of & remargable collec- tion of lantern-slide pictures to be shown publicly for the fwst time at the Corcoran Gallery of Art this week. They are the production and property of a Washingtonian, Charles Colfax Long. a super-enthusiast on the charms and beauties of the Na- tional Capital. Mr. Long has assem- bled his pictures, and intends ex- hibiting them throughout the coun- try, as a labor of love. Consisting of slides decorated artistically and minutely by hand in natural colors, the pictures portray in exquisite de- tail Washington's architectural, mon- umental and floricultural gems. Mr. Long. an Ohioan, came to Washing- ton as Philander C. Knox's confiden- tial assistant and was with the late Pennsylvania senator both at the De- partment of Justice and in Congress. He was inspired to immortalize the glories of Washington because they are not approximately known to or appreciated by the Ameriean people at large, whose capital Long unblush- ingly acclaims he most beautiful city in the world.’ * % x % Henry White, who is Lord Robert Cecil’s host this week. is coming to {be Washington's entertainer-in-chief | when hospitality is to be shown to | distinguished strangers. lis heauti- ! ful home on Crescent place. in Sixteenth Street Heights, was the abode of the ion from France in | Clemencean. No liv- ing American commands so wide or eminent a range of personal ties |abroad as our former ambaseador to Italy and France. After entering the diplomatic service at Vienna under the Garfleld administration, White's career embraced activities throughout Zurope and South America, including special missions at epoch-making in- ternational congresses. He represent- ed the United States at the celebrated Algeciras conference in 1908. It is of record that his intervention there at a psychological moment kept the Moroccan mess from going compléte- 1y to pot. Mr. White’s farewell puh- {lic service was as an American peace { commissioner at Paris. He is a pro- tleague republican. One of his former trustces Princeton University, who is still an ardent admirer, recently spent several hours with Woodrow Wilson in Wash- ington. After reminiscences of { Tigertown. conversation turncd on democratic possibilities for 1921, The lcaller reeled off, in geographical re tation. virtually every piece of presi- dential timber in the democratic forest. Whercupon Mr. Wilson co- zently and convincingly disposed of one after the other as “unavailable.” His visitor felt bound to confess the | argument in every case scemed | answerable i | | | | Senator William E. Borah of Idaho indulges in but one luxury. which he confesses amounts to a passion. Ha | loves horses and riding. The other| BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. What Downing strect is to the British empire. and what the Quai d'Orsay is to the diplomacy of France, what, indecd. the palace of the Wil- helinstrasse has been to the Ger- man empire, and now to the republic, | that portion of the imperial Hofhurg lat Vienna, known as the Ballplatz, | has been to Austria—namely, the head- fq'var‘l(rs of its department foreign ‘affairs. ! 1t was from the Ballplatz that the | Rreat Prince Metternich, chancelior of i the Hapsburg monarchies, directed with Machiavellian statecraft, those i ! i {finally brought the downfall of the i first Napoleon, his cxile, first to Eiba {and then to St. Helena, emancipating iall continental Europe from his mili- { tary and political domination. It was {from the Ballplatz also that the cele- i brated Prince Kaunitz, chancellor of | the reign of Empress Marla Theresa iand of her son, Emperor Joseph, con- !ducted the’ foreign relations of the Hapsburg monarchists in such a | tushion as to cause the memory of tie empress to be preserved as ons {of the greatest—perhaps, indeed. the ‘very greatest—of all the long list of irulers of the Hapsburg dynasty. Tt { was there, too, in those stately apart- ments of the Ballplatz, that Count { Berchthold. ae chancellor of the dual {.empire. allowed himself to be hood- i\inked by the ex-kaiser and by his militarist _camarilla_at Berlin, into | declaring that war with Serbla which { culminated in that world-wide con- | fagration resulting in the overthrow of all the sovereign dynasties of cen- tral Europe and of Russia, and the rending _asunder - of that -patchwork : confederation of sixteen separate nationalities, embraced in what was then known as the Austro-Hungarian ! empire. 1t the ministry of foreign affairs of the Hapsburgs was located in their ancient metiopolitan palace of the | Hofburg, on the Ballplatz courtyard thereof, it was because, until 1914, or rather, I should say, until old Emperor Francis Joseph reached his dotage, about a year before the great war, all the foreign relations of Austri Hungary were under the immediate % ! that the ehancellor and foreign min- ister for the time being.' was the minister, not of the aation, but of its soverelgn. and in nowise dependent upon the pariliaments at Vienna and ,at Budapest. Indeed, the statesmen {bined among their ofiices not only | those of foreign minister and of chancellor, but also of minister of the {imperial household and its chteftain- ) At the- Ballplatz, which was also the official residence of all the chan- { cellors and forelgn ministers, includ- !ing Kaunitz and Metternich and An- monarch had his principal advisér and his chief minister under the same roof by day and by night, and, indeed, many was the time when the chan- i his sovereign during the small hours of the night or the early hours of the morning. \ 1t T recall thus briefly the eventful it has now gone out of exlllenc_ & the headquarters of Austrian diplo- macy, and its stately apartments are about to be converted into use for be leased out for patriotic organiza- tions and philanthropic entertain. ments. The apartments have not been used either by the chanceilor, nor yet Who presided at the Ballplatz com- ship. ar. and Count Berchtold, the | cellor was obliged to consult with history of the Ballplatz, it is beca museums and exhibitions, may- even by his foreign minister, Dr. Grun- ! l l day Borah discovered, somewhat to his own syrprise, that horses can and do think for themselves—an ad- vantage they have aver many poli- ticlans. Since time immemorial the Idaho Demosthenes, before mounting his horse for the early morning canter through Rock Creek Park, has given him a cube of sugar. On the occasion herein narrated. Borah forgot to bring his pet the regular ration of sweets. The horse realized instantly that something was wrong. He shook his head and mane in manifest remonstrance. Then he became as petulant and unruly as a woman scorned. and Borah had to requisition the assistance of a stable hoy before he could vault into the saddle. * ok % Among Secretary Hughes' current vicissitudes is a lively recrudescence of claims to fabulous sums alleged to be “waiting claimants In the Bank of England” or “dormant fn chancery.” For generations get-rich- quick hopes of that kind have been gravely cherished by thousands of otherwise normal Americans. The “claims” are purely imaginary. Ordinarily they can be traced back to some swindler who seeks to obtain fat fees for collecting these fictitious fortunes. In chancery in (ireat Britain some $8.000.000 is lodged, dis- tributed over more than 4,300 separate accounts. do not exceed $750 in value. Only about one-twenticth exceed $5.000. All of which proves the absurdity of the supposition that enormous es- tates await claimanis. Often at great sacrifice American family groups are organized to finance the pursuit of these British will o' the wisps. The unclaimed Bank of England fortunes rank with the Spanish prisone vth as prima facie evidence that Barnum was right. William Allen Whife was in Wash- ington this week en route from rope to Emporia. “Me and Hen (meaning former Gov. Henry J. Allen of Kansas) “passed each other in mid- ocean.” said the man who won im- mortality by telling the world what's the matter with Kansas. White thinks Allen would not put the republican vice presidential nomination away from him in 1924; opines that nobody can beat Senator Arthur Capper for renomination or re-election nextvear, and suggests that Allen. on a radical platform, may go gunning for Senator Curtis in 1927 " “When are to politically White Never,” he’ rejoined taken the meonastic vow." * was “I've First stowed prize for peor taste this observer “morticians” who are promoting i new mausoleum near Washington throush a form letter beginning “When death comes to vou and our loved ones, as it must to us all, and their mortal remains are laid away, uld vou prefer that their 5 laid in a cold, damp grave, in the mud and water. or placed in & pure white vault, in x granite and marble Luilding that w be an everlastin, who lie at re; is be- upon the il & memorial to those st therein?" (Consright, 1923.) —_— e Commmsy | Old Center of Austrian Diplomacy To Be Converted Into Exhibition Hall berger. and have been lef: roughout the entire winter, owi: fO”]VII"XINJk of the necessary ofunrr‘ii with which to heat that " he with portion of th Indeed, the chancelior's sea g h s t of gov. riment and the ministry of foreigm affairs are now located in a more modern and less pretentious building, and it is doubtful whether they will ever return to the old Hofburg. parts of which date from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. a pile of bufld- Ings which have been added to by every one of the long list of sover- &igns since the days of Emperor Ru. dolph. the founder of the dynasty of the Hapsburgs. LErE unoecupied Austria’s government. in fact now being run on the most sconomi. cal basis, and it has led the way in the direction of peace by abolishing, not only it department and minist of war, but Thirty thousand troops are the maximum permitted to Austria hy the peace treaty of St. Germain, and these have now been transferred from o- funct m.nistry of war to the deBu i ment of the interior, for use purely as a police force for the repub! Austria, in fact, has becn forced considerations of that Tig which induced the great come to her assistance to abandon all measures of self-pro- tection against foreign invasion and to place herself unreservedly under the protection of the league of na- tions, to depend for her defense upon the Ereat DOWwErs of the entente who ve adopted the league as pl’l},fldo;{l}‘;e?r pnl(r‘isi asipeRcand T obert Cecil, in his i behalf of the league of matioes i America, might do worse than point to Austria as an illustration of some of the benefits which the league Is able to bring about—namely. the itlon of war depar 2politlon of war departments and of It is not only the western hemi- sphere that is overrun at the present moment with all sorts of bogus prin- cesses affecting to hail from Russia and whose fantastic pretensions and transparent frauds have contributed 50 much to discourage kind-hearted and open-handed people on this side of the ocean from extending a helping hand to bona fide Muscovite nobles and victims of bolshevik robbery and barbarism who are really de. serving of their generosity. The op- erations of these frauds are even ex- tending to the Antipodes. Thus, since last December an elderly woman has been traveling about in Australia and in New Zealand as the ‘“Grand Duchess Ivanovitch.” She was treated with the utmost def- erence at Sydney. Melbourne, Adelaide, etc., especiaily when she announced that she was awaiting her imperial husbapd, who is Voyaging to meet her on his yacht, and naturally she told the most blood-curdling stories of the treatment meted out to the members of the former sovereign house of Romanoff to which she professed to belong, and whose fate she asserted to have escaped. Even the newspapers seem to have taken her quite seriously, and she cut & wide swath, leaving everywhere a trail of debts to hotel keepers and credulous tradesmen. 5 ere is no knowing how long b career of fraud would have continued had she not dined o unwisely at Auck- land that the New Zealand police were obliged to arrest her and to convey her from the railroad train to jall on & charge of drunkeness and disorderly conduct of the most violent nature. When subjected to cross-examination by the authorities she broke down and ad- mitted that she was an English ad- venturess. a frequenter of Piccadilly, London, after nightfall, and that she was known there under the name of “Mrs, Fuller,” having picked up a for- eign accent’ through many pleasure trips to Paris, Bruscels and the Riviera, in her better days. And now New Zea. land has for once the joke on Australia, and is making the best of it. army by powers 1o with a loan IN A FEW WORDS \Big cities stifle faith. The sight ot the blossoming and fruiting earth r« i it. e —LOVAT FRASER. In a hundred years there will be no denominations. But in s hundred years there will be more religion tha n ever - - PARKES CADMAN. DR. § I have never seen a clever crook, because if he was clever he would not be a crook. —HARRY V. DOUGHERTY. 1s there any reason why old-fash- foned manners and new-fashioned clothes should not go"iogether. - . -EMRS. 'WIONEL- HARRIS: . More than half of these! You zoing | beautiful | d economy | APRIL 18, 1923, Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER. Democratic political managers and leaders are basing high hope upon a possible split in the republican party over President Harding's proposal that the United States join the world tew other republicans gloomily fore- cast. Some other republicans do not share Senator Watson's forebodings and think the democrats are counting their chickens before they are hatch- ed, to use a simile appropriate to the spring season. “If this threatened split should come,” they ask, “where would the chips fly?” In other words, where would the split-off section go? It could not attach itself to the demo- cratic party because that is pro- league of nations. It could not form a separate party because there would not be enough of them. would be the use of splitting, then?” these republican philosophers ask. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Taken as a cold question of politics and considered as a vote-getting proposition, it upon no other ground, the belief is strong among many re: publicans that the plan which is being supported by the President, Secretary Hughes and Becretary Hoover will find favor among_ thou- jsunds of republican voters who are feeling the pressure of the reiterated charges of aloofness of the United States from peace efforts made by democrats of distinction and who would be glad to see this country show that the charge s overdrawn. Especially do they feel this way after it has heen thoroughly explain- {ed that participation by this country lin the world court as proposed and {with the limitations possible to be | But on by the Senate does not weak- len the fixed policy of the adminis- i tration and the Congress to keep out {of foreign entanglements. + %% The democratic national manage- ment professes to see one possible advantage accrulng to the democrats from the friction among the republi- can senators over the world court plan. The democratic national com- | mittee in its latest statement refer- {ring to the republican irreconcilable { senators, said: “Under the rules of the Senate, these frreconcilables can thwart the President almost indefinitely, just as they did when Mr. Harding was one of their number in 1919 during the second Wilson administration. Here then would be the spectacle of a epublican President being floyted nd defied by senators of his own party and depending on his political ents for the success of his pro- —and all this, too, while he was striving for w renomination and urj |ing the-virtues of his foreign policics {as reasons why he should be contin- ued in office republicans,” this democratic t goes on to say. al of this situation would would not_be n re-clecting a republican who could not command the collaboration of republican representatives and who i t {good will senators and Thad to reply force and cffect to his major foreign [ policies. There will be little chance in 1924 to get a republican Senatc in accord with the republican Presl dent but there will be a fine oppor- tunity to get a democratic President land Senate that will work together on both domestic and international programs.” > e division of opinion among democratic senators as well as republican sena- tors over the world court plan, {f former President Wilson's followers in that body support thé position he has taken against a partial partici- pation in the world court. The Asso- ciated Press a day or two ago carried extracts from a copyrighted dispatch in the Philadelphia Public Ledger quoting from a letter Mr. Wilson is said to have written to Representa- tive Rouse of Kentucky, chairman of the democratic congressional cam- paign eommittee. In that letter Mr. | Wilson Is quoted as writing that he approves not of the “conditional” but the unconditional adhesion of the ted States to the world court set under the league of nations, he United States become a member of the league of nations, sharing with {the other members the full responsi- bilities which its covenant involves. This would seem to be by way of forecasting that there may be demo- cratic “irreconcilables” in the Senate jas well as republicans { appellation—democrats who may be | qualificd “acceptance of " the original covenant of ihe.league of nations. Mr. Wilson's letter, however, may be construed as indicating that he would i be agreeable, as an initial step, as it { were. to unconditional adherence to the world court. 3 President Harding did not propose { unconditional adherence. but _ex- | plicitly stated that it should be with {guch “modifications as the Senate {iight see fit to propose. The Presi- | dent has all along insisted and re- {iterated that going into the court { would not be going into the league of natlons and that the step would have no relation to the league. ko ow Democrats are still parleving among themselves as to what will and will not be the issues of the 1924 cam- paign. Some fnsist that no power on earth can keep the league of nations from becoming ¢ne of the leading if not -the principal issue next year. {Others contend that the tariff “fur- nishes the most promising vote-get- ting issue, whila still others contend that reduced taxation is the thing. The discussion is expected to con- tinue until the democratic national convention meets early in the sum- mer of 1924. Then a group of elder statesmen of the par one chosen by each state delegation. known as 'the committee on resolutio: will meet in an anteroom and proceed to draw up the platform announcing the cardinal principles upon which the, campaign will be waged. And mean- time a_smaller group of the main committee will hold some executive sessions in a private room in a hotel and decide what the main committee shall promulgate. As heretofore stated in this column, many republican leaders feel that re publican fortunes in the elections of November, 1924, will be affected by the state of prosperity ‘and industry at that time. All prospects look promising now_for prosperity being at the peak just about that time, but these republicans realize that a lot of Water must go over the wheel mean- tithe and that economic and industrial changes come unexpectedly and de- velop rapidly in this country. 1t may seem strange to say that one danger-which is in the lst of possi- bilities is that times may become too good meantime, and the peak be passed earlier, leaving the country floundering in a reaction, when “good- bye to the party in power” would be the verdict, politicians tear. Eminent business men and “cap- tains of industry” are even now tak- ing cognizance of the menace which would be involved in overextension of industry and business, followed by inflation and subsequent depression. They are considering the situation, present and prospective, not from the political viewpolnt, but the effect upon the business of the country, and are warning against inflation. “Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the Rethlehem Steel Company, and Elbert H. Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Corporation, this week sounded a nots of warning. These two men are recognized as top-liners in the business and industrial world, holding the respect of the country for their abilities. Their words will be-echoed By political le republican BArfLCL aders in the oresee that | be | much pubife | upon democrats to give | though he would go further and have | {unreconciled to anvthing short of un- | i bearing that jof the Attorney jing. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Brig. Gen. Hines, director of the|with the cabinet. Veterans’ Bureau, says that in his six or seven weeks of administration he has not found any evidence of graft or dishonesty. Maj. Gen. O'Ryan, court, such as Senator Watson and a| o Sy U UEU o T iy in- vestigation for the Senate committee, says he has found evidencs of “ex- travagance, waste and in some cuses actua] dishonesty.” There s nothing contradictory in those two findings. The director's attention is devoted to present ad- ministrative aftairs, and he is not hunting for past muddles, except in connection with his efforts to remedy defects of the present. The discovery of “actual dishonesty” would be in- cidental for Director Hines; it 8 the main quarry of Gen. *O'Ryan. Both So “what|are strong men, working in mutual harmony, for the benefit of the thou- sands of veterans, sick, wounded, shell tional training. markable change bureau; the atmosphere is different. T Representative Thomas D. Schall has brought to light the fact that the Andrew Carnegle will provided lega- cies for former President William Howard Taft and for Mrs. Preston, widow of former President Cleveland, and for the widow of former Presi- dent Roosevelt. All these bene- ficiaries were personal friends of the great steel magnate and philan- thropist and there is nothing remark- able in the fact that they were re- membered by him in his will. At the time Mr. Taft reccived first benefit of the will he was neither President nor Chief Justice. Even now, with his salary of $15.000 as Chief Justice, he is very moderately paid, considering the eminence of the position and the expenses necessary to his living. The Carnegie bequest adds $10,000 a year to his income. * % kW In Mr, Carnegie's will a provision was made guthorizing his trustees to pension, in the amount of $25,000 a year, all past Presidents and past Vice Presidents, but public sentiment re- sented that provision, and it has nev- er been put into effect. Consequently, former President Wilson receives nothing from the estate. The three beneficiaries mentioned above were specifically named In the will, and they stand as any other legatees. In case the bequest for the Presidents and Vice Presidents were put into force, it would ceage as goon as the government made provision for their madntenance. Hence, Chief Justice Taft. now, with his salary and $10,000, 18 as well off as if the presidential pension were effective. % % % % tragic poem “Boots The describes the effect on the mind of a marching | soldier of the monotonous and unend- ing tramping of his comrades, until the tread, tread. tread of before his eyes drove him into insan- ity. The scnseless endurance dancing contests have at last wrought a simi lar effect upon one of the dancers, whose nerves gave way after forty- three hours' strain, in a Baltimore dance. He flew into a towering rage t the jazz band. The police finally stopped the dance. The law interfercs with brutal prize fights in public, and, but for the suddenness with which the long-endurance dances have been eprung on_the public, similar laws would prohibit such sufcidal indul- gences of senseless vanity. The Washington police glve warning that There are indications of a possible |such dances will not be permitted here. P The combination of forty-three hours of whirling and shuffling, with Jazz “music.” Is enough provocation to excuse almost homicide. In the first place, a well would never enter into such a contest. In the sccond place, jazz is itself mu- feal insanity. Put the two together, and the effect 1s too effervescent for any container short of a bomb-proot steel safe In Cleveland a music publisher seri- ously advocates a combination of mu- | sic and Coueism as a means of curing diseases. The rhythmic autosugges tion, either from a musical instru- ment. an orchestra singing, would ‘“soothe the savage breast.” The unprecedented thing has hap- pened in the President’s cabinet meet- At the invitation of the Presi- dent, the meeting was attended las week by Acting Attorney Genera! Augustus T. Seymour, in the absence Generai, Mr. Daugh- erty. There is nothing in the law defin- ing the nature of a cabinet meeting. The members mayv advise with the President and with each other. but the decisions rest only with the President—not. by a majority vote, his | the boots | balanced mind | | or community | ford an The entire cab net might approve a course of action . and recommend it to the President, and then the President could do the reverse of what was recommended Hence, there is nothing fllegal in the presence of an assistant attorney general, any more than in the habif- ual attendance of the Vice President which has been Instituted Pres dent Harding. Mr. Seymour's pre ence was considercd ‘important. tha he might inform the President a cabinet of the progress in the suz investigation. now pendips * % x The. average partisan was sure that the quick democrat support of the world court, as mar fested in the Senate and press, wa enough to arouse frreconcilable position. ‘So Senators Borah, J and other progressive republicans were strong in denunciation. Woodrow Wilson joins them and th seem dismayed by his cordial port of their opposition What {s a statesman the other party split own? republica: to There is much talk of the tance of Americanizing immigra: 50 that they will be able to give it telligent support to the governmen: 1o which they have migrated and adoy ed as their own. That is a laudab object, but why not also Americaniz Americans? Not half the American citizens ¢ nought about ir republic any part in the election times fmagine in the heat of paign that the people are verv muc wrought_up over the vital issucs stake. Their taxes depend upo right settlement of the pre Thelr natonal safcty depends the result o€ the elections. €rowdec halls, where speeches are heing dr livered, testify to the interest of tb clectorate. But, when it comes the voting day, only 45 per cent the legal voters care enough .cven 1 cast their ballols. The country actually ruled by the minority. ki Even a monarchy, 1 kalser's before the England before and under closer control o torate than is the Unitde sidered from the percentage of ballots cast as co ed with the number of legal vute We cast 48 per cent of the orized votes. while in Lng per cent of the possible vote i and in Germany, 89 per cent is p that of waf, and It uce the war. all the cle States, cor standpoint aut +nd In the earlier duvs > had a custom of holding town mnee ings in cvery city or those meetings all pected to attend for the hearing_and participating slons of all measurcs or affecting the local or nationa terasts Every man stood on a level meetings. Woe Lo any who to abuse the non-cloture rule any one had aught to topic, he was permitted 16 sav it, sub ject ‘only to liberal rules of debate. Town meetings have } out. The public press has place of the public debates organization and trained wor has rendered a service of enl ment far superior to uny t open meeting could do * % % Now comes an effort to reg ground, by reviving the tewn ing, as a regular local nati institution. A national organizati has heen formed, with hea established. within the last weck, Washington. It is . known Natlonal Association of Uncl Voters. village. A cltizens w n and Lhi an's % * The initiators of the claim that it has great for patriotic to bring common interests. meén of ability to lead opportunity for pression. It will develop operative spirit. and sho solve the farm-to-consum. which appears 1 of the farmers. It s end believe, to impress 1 zens with their own respunsit the franchise and of intellige watching of their representatives high places. It will insure cleaner government and more watchful citi- zens. 1t will not lessen the power and influence of the press, but rather whet the appetite of the masses to read “the news and views of the journals of public opinion.” (Copvrigit. 1923, by P. V. Collioa.) mover itie heir ov possibi it 1 proble 1 Spe THE WAYS OF WASHINGTOY BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM Seven times has he been arrested| whose wood is only half the weight and thrown into foreign jails, William Popenoe of Washington. Twice as a revolutionist, once as a German spy, once as a Peruvian spy, | PRant grass that produces thirty to once as a highway robber, once as a housebreaker and once: For refusing to pay my board bill,” he confesses. “Tney got me | this | of cork. From Japan there is a mountain cherry with rose-red blooms. From Australia there is an edibio has of hay to the acre: also an canna_ of which a single produced eighty pounds of tubers There is the mi'tsama melon wh furnished the chicf water supply travelers and dwellers in the K lant ich right there, too, for I declined to be | hari desert, good for our own deser held up by a robber landlord.” But now Popenve Is home again |y, from the ends of the earth, ‘Washington to stay. The ambassador extraordinary and envoy plenipoten- tiary to the kingdom of qucer and startling plants but lately has turn- ed ambassador emeritus. For ten years he has sought out the hidden places of the earth, diplomat to dusky peoples and shy, peoples who yield up their secrets only to those Wwhom they learn to love and trust Popenoe has trailed the rare plant to its nest. The quest has led him to the uttermost ends of the earth. And having found his quarry he hai brought it home—home to the U. A., to be grown upon our farmlands, to help feed and clothe our people, to gild the lilies of our gardens and to make cooler still the shades and trysting spots of our parks and woodlands. Popenoe's dragnet and those of the little group associated with and pre- ceding him in the plant scout work of the Departmen:i of Agriculture have brought to America more than 50,000 plants from every quarter of the slobe. % Seme of these plants surpass in beauty and delicate coloring anything ever seen here before. Some have grown commonplace through the years that have elapsed since the work began. Sorghum-—for instance. It was found and sent home seventy- five vears ago. Then— There is a tropical tree from Nigeria. You eat its berries; for hours thereafter everything you take into your mouth, even vinegar, tastes as sweet as sugar water. There is a palm tree from Para that bears potatoés on its branches. They are not real potatoes, but they taste the same. There is a fruit tree from Whst Africa that bears peaches, or peach- like fruits,-in clusters as big as a ‘man'’s head. There is spekboom from Soutl Africa, the food of wild elephants there—in coming years a valuable food for tame children here. There is hauhtli from the Mexican inlands, long lost. What is it? It's the grain with which Montezuma, overy vear, filled his granaries. There is a night-blooming cereus from Colombia with blood-red flow- ors_as large as saucers. There: 18 a_tyee from New Zealand home in | dre | | coun And from ‘Germany comes an clder erry that will mot stain the chil s faces or clothing All these have becu brought hon within the past few years. How do you find them?" I asked ‘ou go to some forgotten city. he said. “and hire a native boy. The you buy three animals—horses. mules or maybe camels—one for yourself one for the boy and one for the bag gage. “Then you head for the back coun try and keep going till you reach a place where there are so few cooking vessels that you can pay for a night's lodging with an empty tomato can. “Then you go to the village marke place and watch like a hawk for everything brought in to be sold. You almost make love to the natives. You get invited home to dinner. “And finally you get the plant or the seeds of the plant you want. if it is a plant, you pack it in moss. If it is seed, you pack them in charcoa 'You put the package on the pack- mule, give the boy $4 in American money—which often as not is about $200 in the money of his own coun- try—and start him back. He repre- sents himself as a great dignitary of the American government; and in- vests the $200, native money, as his fancy dictates. One boy hought twelve pairs of earrings for twelve native girls. “But the point is he gets your pack- age off to Washington.” Since Popenod came home, there only two plant scouts left in the field. Dr. H. B. Harlan is somewhere in Indla or Abyssinia. Joseph H. Roc: is somewhere along the border of Tibet. Others will go, from time fo time, to equally interesting and in- accessible places. “What,” 1 asked Popenoe, “was the most uncomfortable place you ever got into?” “It was in a little village in Guate mala” he said. “I got lodging in a hut containing six dogs and thres Indians, I swung my hammock be tween two rafters and went o bed Before 1 could get out, the flea bites I had accumulated, if placed end end, would reach from Washingto: to Baltimore. I counted eighty-five on one arm below the elbow and seventy-four on the other. But I got the plant I went after Jt's here now, growing ip.the Linited _States