Evening Star Newspaper, April 19, 1923, Page 6

G THE EVENING STAR,| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. .. April 19, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor LN Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassas St. Chicggo Office: Tower Bullding. European Office: 16 Regent Il,,LoMfllf.EI"llnd. . THURSTAY..... Tihe Evening Star, with the Sunday morning | #dition. Is delivered by carriers wjthin the cfty #1 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents smuth: Suiay onty, 20 cents per moth. Dr- m may be ment by mail, or 4 hone “: . Collection is’ made by ca end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. - y and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 7t v only. i J’y . $6.00; 1 mo., 50 Sunday only 1 yr.. $2.40: T mo., 20¢ All Other States. and Sunday..1 yr; $10.00; 1 mo.: 85¢ Dail. Da ularity of the game piayed by hired ‘men who may be shifted from city to city lies in the fact that the game itself is @ spectacle that appeals to the American ‘'sense of sport. It is a contest in_which there are no cer- tainties, in which even the lowlicet player may at any time shine as a star, and the least hopeful team may turn the tables upon its opponent. It is ‘that uhcertainty that keeps the game alive. The action is continuous, brisk and easily observed, no matter how Jarge thie crowd. The fine points of play are intimately understood by the spectators. The names and rec- | ords of the individual players are well known. The peculiarities of eminent performers are discussed by multl- tudes . throughout the season. The personal contact between the public and the sport is close. That is why pearly 100,000 people | yesterday left their occupations in & busy city and journeyed severdl miles Daily "only $7.00; 1 mo., 60 Sunday only. Member of 1he Associated Press. The: Assoclated Pross is exclusively entitled fo tlie ‘use for republication of dis- patclies craditpa o {8 ot not otherwise enditel a this peper and #lso the loeal mews pub. 1ed herein. "All rights of publication of | peciul djupaichen hereln are mlso reserved. | Westward Ho for Harding! | - Back® in those spectaculur days of | 16 to T, when William Jennings Bryfin | would comie into the east to unlimber the guns of his matchless oratory, newspaper” writers referred to it as “invading the enemy’s country,” And it was the cnemy's country, not so much for Bryan the man as for the financial heresy which he had made! the paramount issue of his campaign | for the presidency: but when Bryan | faced hostile audiences in New York | and elsewhere and won their admira- | tion, even if he could not win their he aisplaying political | courage as well as high political wis- @om. If any tactics could have car- ried the east for free silver the taetics of Bryan would have done it. President Harding is displaying the game sort of courage and the same wisdom in going directly to the west to explain those policies of his ad- ministration to whjch- the west is evidencing host:lity. The states beyond the Mississippi are not in any sense “enemy’s country,” so far as “Mr. personally is concerned, and there is no reason to believe they are politically hostile to him; but in some vital respects the viewpoints of the | President and of the west are in con- | flict and cach is bound to be benefited and broadened by contact with the other, Mr. Harding has a sreat advan-! tage over Mr. Bryan in that it is as| President of the United States, not as & candidate for that ofli will “invade the enemy’s country. Mr. Bryan's campaign was pcflmce..l,I re and simple. Mr. Harding's Wflli be as non-political as he can make it. | He would like to forget and have it torgotten entirely that there is to be @ presidential election next year and | that in all probability he will be his party’s nominee for re-election. That cannot quite be accomplished, but the country - may feel assured that the coming “swing around the circle” will mot degenerate inio a stumping tour. votes, was Happy and ‘auspicious as are the| circumstances of the President's trip into the west, it is a very serious purpose that he has in mind. Grati- ficition of personal ambitions plays | litle; if any, part in his plans. He belleves the welfare of all the people depends upon the success of programs ke has undertaken as President, and he is going into the weet to ask co- operation and support. 1tis eminent- Iy a right and proper thing to do. He 1s convinced that western apposition-| to these programs arises from a-mis- understanding of them, and this mis- understanding he will seek to remove. Certainly 10 ope is so able as the President himself to explain his poll- cies, for no ome not in his position ie so able to divest himself of sec-{ tionaliem and view the nation and its needs as a whole. —————————— Lighting Up the Avenue. The Mystic Shrine nobles are at| work setting up poles and stringing wires for lighting the Avenue. They eay that the wonderful way will glow at midnight as it does at noon in sum- mer. They will turn so much electric light into. the Avenue that sparrows will not go to roost, chickens will not close an eye and people will not know when day ends and night begins. These nobles are remarkable fellows. but Washingtonians who have not the honor of owning a red fez should not let them do all-the work. 'The Dis- trict government and - Avenue men £hould give some light to the old wide way, and there should be such a show of flags and banners es the Avenue and the little- warld beyond it have never seen before. This will be done. 1t will be. the mightiest festival of bunting: and ‘electric light that the oapth has known. —————— “The D."A. R. presidential contest: though brief. is quite as exciting & national affair while it lasts.- B The Big Game., These ave -record-breaking times. Aviators are setting new _marks in the air. So.called dancers are passing the endurance points for continuous shuffiing. Sugar i8 staging e come- bick In price that threatens to break the war-time mark. Yesterday base ball, the national game of this coun- tgy, ‘Feached & new record in attend- ance, The new park of the New York Yankees of the American League wag opened with 74,200 paople present, some28,000 more then ever witnessed a.base ball game before. In addition ta.:those who packed into the new park over 25,000 were turhed away tor lack of room. All talk of the waning of base ball as e public entertainment is rendered ridieulous by such figures. The game still easily the most popular form of diversion. Its daily patrons in the cities of the various leagues through- cut the country probably approximate a million. The annual attendance doubtless exceeds the total population of the United States. The annual ex- penditure in base ball admissions would make @ large contribution toward the liquidation of the war debts owed by foreign governments to this equntry. . The secrel of this remarkable pop- , that he! 5 T . | reciprocity means three things—that ! method to see a base ball game, three-fourths of them gaining admittance. And it was_ appropriate that that occasion should be marked by a victory for the home team, earned by the home run of the “King of Swat” upon whom is now concentrated the atten- tion of a vast number of American lovers of the sport. Motor Reciprocity Assused. “Gas tax or no gas tax, automobile reciprocity between the District of Co- lumbia and Maryland will go into effect on January 1, 1924 This cheering message was given Washing- ton motorists by . Albert Ritchie, seaking before the Chamber of Com- merce Tuesday night. That this agsertion brings joy to the heart of every local motorist goes withopt saying. It means that the long-standing war between the state and the District is at.an end: that sentiment in Maryland has undergone a change, and that National Capital | motorists can soon use the highways of every state in the Union on their own tags. i ‘When Congress, at its last session, failed to pass the gas tax, a measure designed to bripg about reciprocity with the neighboring state, hopes for early interchange of tag -privileges dwindled. District motorists felt that with Maryland's strict motor laws and with Marylind's former cold at- titude toward local autoists, reci- procity had become a thing of the far distant future. But even at that discouraging time Maryland officials showed an entirely new conception of the problem and announced that they would endeavor ! to find some way to grant reciprocity if Congregs passed the gas tax early in the next session. Gov. Ritchie’s statament anent Maryland wants the gas tax wdopted in the District; that every effort will be made Ly the governor to bring |about reciprocity, even if it is not adopted, and that Maryland is anxious to co-operate with the National Capi- tal in the belief that the time has now come when old scores must be for- gotten and the two communities work together in harmony and good will. Every District as well as every Maryland motorist should use his in- fluence in Congress for a gas tax for Washington. It has been found highly successful in the states and is e fair of taxing auto ewners. Gov. Ritchie has shown a fine spirit of co-operation. Local motorists must show the same spirit in seeking to have the gas tax adopted. Now that a firm foundation has been created for peaceful .motoring relations, District motorists, and Maryland motorists, too. should let nothing disturb the new-found harmony. ————————— The fall in German marks to the point where 33,000 are needed to buy one dollar might by the suspicious be interpreted as an invitation to American bargain hunters to cross the Atlantic in search of goods ‘mede in Germany.” —_——————— At the present rate of record-break- ing in so-called dance contests, it will soon be necessary to adopt a rule to lengthen the steps of the “dance,” otherwise the spectators will be ex- hausted long before the participants. —————— Washington long ago banned wire- carrying poles from the street, but is quite willing to lift the prohibition to provide a “great white way” for the Shrine week of unparalleled brilliancy. —————————————— Paris midinettes are strikipg for a 30 per cent wage increase and their boulevard parades are now adding to the gayety of that lively capital with- out: bloodshed. B e Sound Advice. In the German reichstag yesterday, speaking in behalf of the socialists, Herr Breitachedt urged that a definite, cancrete offer to France for a settle. ment. of the reparation question should be made by the German gov- ernment. “Our- duty,” said Herr Breitschedt, “is to bring about a speedy end of the Ruhr adventure. We have no friends in the world. England and America will not inter- vene.” The deputy went on to say that the socialists were not affiliated with the present government, but “we desire to see it remain in office.to liquidate the Ruhr conflict, which oc- curred during its regime.” In suggesting that the Gerrhan government submit a definite and concrete offer to France, the socialist deputy gave sound advice, which the government cannot whistle down the wind without & measure of ‘culpabil- ity. All the world is apprehensive of the potentialities for disaster in the existing situation. There is wide- spread feeling that Germany in .the end- must inevitably meet the repara- tions obligation, which now she seems to be seeking to evade. How much better it would be to look that inevita. bility in the face and forestall it be- fore the present situation develops into something worse! The leader ‘of the nationalists, Dr. Carl ‘Helffetich, is reported as deliv- ering “a fiery speech, in which he de- clared all German political parties were united in a determination .to re- fuse all reparations unconditionally as long as the Ruhr remained occupied.” That determination, if persisted in, bodes 1ll, for the fixed determination of France is not to withdraw, until some “measure of satisfaction is eb- tained. As long as the two nations maint their present respective positions the world will be uneasy and stabiliza- tion of Europe will be retarded. Tt would be well for the Gérman gov- ernment to take under consideration the suggestion of the spokesman for the sociafists. 5 ————t—e— Training in Citizenship. Reports received at the War De- partment and just compiled indicate that more than 300,000 men will be “under arms” this swmmer various Army camps undergoing in-. tensive military instruction. They will mainly come from the National Guard, the organized reserves and the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, and there will be, in addition, many citizens who are not assoclated with any organigations, but who wish to keep fit wnd-to learn the rudiments of potential soldiery. This number of 300,000 does not, of course, represent the reserve ‘mili. tary strength of this coyntry. .If multiplied by ten’it would not be suf- ficient for effective participation in any major war. But these 300,000 may be regarded as the possible of- ficers of an emergency army if such should become necessary for the na- tional defense, ‘When the United States went into the great war it was seriously bandicapped by lack of eflicient officers. During a brief period preceding training camps had been conducted and a few thou- 1sand men had received instructions which enabled them to take commis. sions in the hastily organized army But they were utterly inadequate in numbers and lacking in readiness for responsibility and service. Addi- tional hastlly organized training camps were necessary to produce more officers, while the men of the rank and flle were being themselves trained. The worst handicap under which this country suffered in the spring of 1917 lay in the fact that there was @ dearth of men competent to train and drill the troops them- selves. It would be well if there were facilities for a million men in training every yvear in time of peace and if the milllon presented themselves at the camps. Without any prospect of war, even with the most definite as- surance of peace, if such could be gfven, such an annual training would be nationally beneficial. Every man | who goes into a camp of this char- acter is improved physically, is made sounder in his citizenship and be- comes of greater service to the state by his participation. 1t should re- quire no hint of a war prospect to induce these yvounger Americans thus to keep fit and to make themselves ready for possible service. The fact that 300,000 of them will take their places in the training ranks this sum- mer this important lesson of preparedness is being learned. —————pe Ford enthusiasts insist that their man will be a candidate. Meanwhile Henry has just told Wall street he has $200,000,000 in cash in hand. No connection between the two state- ments is hinted. but there are some who will, . nevertheless, detect a rela- tionship. A ———— Archeological attention now di- verted from Luxor to Yucatan, where a new statue of Chac-mool, the Tiger King of the Mayas, has been found in the ruins of Chichen-Itza. Those who have learned to pronounce the name of King Tutankhamen have a new task to keep up with the times. ——————— It is a travesty on history to call the shuffling contests now in progress in this and other cities ‘‘dance mara- thons.” The real marathon runner did not stop to change his shoes or to eat a sandwich. ————————————— Sun Yat Sen is reported as again in flight from Canton. That city has changed hands about as often as some of the ground along the battle line in France during the great war. ———— Ex-Gov. Bflbo of Mississippi got thirty days in jail for contempt of court. Had he lived & few centuries earlier he might have gotten thirty in his namesake. More regulation of marriages would lessen the necd for more regulation of divorces. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDBR JOHNSON. Dissatisfled. The city man worked hard all day In hope of future joy. He dreamed about the rustic way He trod when but a’boy. “Sometime,” he sid, “I'll take my e . Among the flowers and the trees, Ana leave the garish lights that blind The weary townsman far behind.” The countryman exclaimed, “I' A fortune from the farm; And then my pile of coin I'll take And learn the city's charm. Il have steam heat and fancy fare And travel swiftly everywhere. The old- shack and the weaty gfind Forever I will leave behind,” The artist strives, 'mid dreems of gold, “To clutch the rich man’s prize; . ‘The rich man struggles to behdld . Life through the artist's eyes, .. And 's0 we keep, with strange unrest, The envious and etéernal quest, Dgsirous of another’s state, ‘Which he cannot appreciate. The Personal Critic. Oh, pass along the battle ax, “Bring forth the dynamite Andaload the shotgun full of tacks, - And leave it here in sight, 5 ‘That cheery dunce is drawing near ; * Who dearly loves to shout . 8o that the neighborhcod may hear, My boy, you're getting stout!” To show him mercy is not wise, *Twere: well to end him here. E'en if you turn to exercise And face starvation drear, He'll ook you o'er end leave you glum And say, with fiendish grin, - “Go to & mnitariym, My boy; you're getting thin™ in thel is a gratifying indication that ot ‘the entire United States convicty n mnke{ Noted Collection of From Combe Abbey to Be Auctioned| BY THE mfiui DE N.'(n:iop I Cornélia, widowed Countess of Craven, daughter of the Jate Bradley. Martin of New York,.is selling by auction. all the furniture, stained glass, old masters 'and rare books which contributed to render Corabe Abbey’ in Warwickshire orie of the most Interesting and attractive coun- try seats in England, and which had : been the home of her late husband’s family since the reign of Queen Eljz- abeth, ‘it is because her only son, the Half-American young earl, who his made such a mess of his financial and domestic affairs since he attained manhood, has sold his ancestral home, which his father could not leave away from the titl The late earl, however, though he could not dispose of the abbey itself, left all of its contents, its art treas- ures and relics of history, including 1l the sixteenth and seventeenth cen- tury paintings that had belonged to Queen Elizabeth of Bohemia, sister of Charles L to his American widow, and it is because she has no room for them elsewhere that she has nlaced them all on the market -for disposal by auction. She now makes her home, when not in London, at a much smaller place in Berkshire, near New- bury, known as Hampstead-Marshall, and of course still retains her large metropolitan mansion in Chesterfield Gardens, Mayfair, which is in reality two houses thrown into one—namely, her-own, and that of her parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. Bradley Martin. X The feature of the art treasures at Combe Abbey is the old masters that were bequeathed by Elizabeth of Great Britain, last Queen of Bohemia. granddaughter of Mary Queen of Scots, and grandmother of King George T of England. at her death at Combe Abbey, to the first Lord Craven, her childhood friend. and with whom she had been brought up {there. This first Lord Craven's father. who had built the greatest tailoring establighment in his day in {London, and who had served .for two successive years as lord mayor of London, was greatly esteemed and trusted by James I. who visited the ex-lord mayor at_his country place at Combe Abbey. He was ko charmed | with its surroundings, and with the family 1ife there, th he énded by intrusting the merchant tailor mag- | nate with the care of his daughter, | Princess Elizabeth, anxious to keep the child to whom he was deeply at- tached, dwry from the unwholesome | air and evil surroundings of life in| London, erpecially from the atmos- | phere of his court. | She was brought up at Combe Abbey with the millionaire tailor's children, | and at the state trial of the gunpower plot conspirators, it developed that | Guy Fawkes and his confederates had planned to abduct her from Combe Abbey, and to proclaim her as Queen of the British Isles. in the event of | her father and brothers being blown into eternity along with the houses | of parliament. | Princess Elizabeth, when she grew | up, married Frederick V. sovereign | elector of the palatinate of the Rhine, | the mother of Prince Rupert, the| cavairy leader of the army of his| uncle, King Charles 1, against Oliver| | Cromwell. = His sailor . brother. | Maurice, who has been the hero of| many a buccaneering romance of those days. was drowned at sea io o ship- wreck. Queen_ Elizabeth, her husband, returne atter the death of d from Germany | Herrin Massacre Unavenged, Buti May Point Lesson to Nation. The dismissal of all of the indict- ments returned against the men con- cerned in the Herrin riots again has concentrated attention on the mas- sacre there. Editors, in denouncing the apparent failure of justice, ex- press the hope that, while the guilty have escaped, the outcome may cause a change in state laws which will make any such outcome impossible in the future. “If the Herrin massacre serves as a beacon light to the ship of state” suggests the Kalamazoo Gazette, “pointing out in time the reefs of commercial rapacity on one side and organized mass tyranny on the other; if labor and capital as well as the public, the chief sufferer from violent disruptions of the American indus- trial machine. can be made to reor- ganize through it the folly of con- tinuing a policy of drifting. there is hope that a rational and sane sys- tem of solving industrial disputes may be devised and adopted, pro- ducing a rich fruit from-the blood- red sands of America’s most la- mentable and shocking reversions to pre-civilized customs.” Granting all this possibly might eventuate, the Chicago. Tribune nevertheless feels “Herrin is & murderous community. The courts cannot convict its resi- dents of murder and punish thém physically, but the “civilized opinion 1 ! them of wholesale murder and pe! version of justice, and will punish them by, contempt and ostracism from the society of degent people.” The Newiitk News, In its tum, wonders whethier “Herrin’s ' shame” will “pofnt m road to better justice” and recalls ‘e have s reputation as a Jawless pegvle, jearfied because, w rarely, have been .n.bla to ?p_vlot those * gulfty.~of ¢rfme oommitted under cover of riot, -Nowmind in- formed on the history of our juris- prudence or aware Of the possibili- ties of such a change would consider abolishing the jury system. Imper- fect though it is, and will remain while humanity is imperfect, it s infinitely tobe preferred to an un- restrained .judiciary, an utter ab- sence of the brake of public, even brosdly local, sentjment. But why shodld mot the state, if able to show prejudicial interest in. existing local sentiment, have the Tight to'a change. of venue? That does not require any mitigation .of the requirements that the law and the facts shall be pre- sented fully, fairly, freely. It takes nothing.from- the chances of the man on trial to' prave his innocence, if innocent.. ' It does sive “soclety as & whole & ohamce for its white alley that it hss not nmow in Such’Cases as this ‘one.”- This, latter suggestion has the unqualifiéed approval of the New Bedford Stapdard, which insists “these cases ought mot to have been tried in the neighborhood where the crimes were cominitted.” » It is in no:way “accurate”’ points out the Albany Knickerbocker Press, to interpret the result “as a failure of the jury system. Aside from the question of the weight of evidence therv was the difficulty, of showing I8 an inquiry into the action” of the mod that any particular person on {risl * x ox 1 and last King of Bohemia, and became ’ | starvation. to England, bringing with her all the treasures which she had acquired in Bohemia at Prague and elsewhers, and instead of taking up her residence in| the metropolis, she sought the hoapi= tality of her foster brother, the first, Lord Craven, and went to live With him at Combe Abbey in the home of her childhood. On her death there, and her burial in Westminster Abbey, it was found that she had left to the first Lord Craven—that is to say, to her host and lifelong friend—all her property. and especlally her wonderful colle tion of old masters from. the oonti- nent. There is no proof, however, in the widely circulated story. to'the éffect that they were united by ties arriage, and although it was a: rted by Pepys and other' cotem- porary diarists that the matrimonial allian¢e existed between them. This first Lord Craven died at an advanced 2ge &8 & bachelor, being succeeded in his_hopors_and estates by a grand- nephew, who spent a portion’ of his life in America as lord palatine of the then British province of Carolina. - * % ok * G ‘While people are being called upon te subsctibe in this country and’ in western Europe to the Russian famine rellef fund, the soviet government Gazette at Moscow publishes the. text of a télegram sent by the All-Russian Central Trade Union Councll to the central committee of the factory and workshops committee of Germany an- nouncing that the Ruasian workers are sending 800 rallway truckload: approximately 8,000 tons—of wheat to the German workers of the Ruhr dis- trict in order to help them in organ- izing resistance to French oocupation. The telegram requests the German trade union to inform Moscow exactly to which German port or center the £,000 tons of wheat shall he consigned. From this it would seem that Mos- cow has huge stores of grain, collect- ed from the peasants in various por- tions of the country, and obtained through the famine relief funds abroad, which are to be used, not to save famine-stricken moujiks from starvation, but to feed and strengthen the resistance of the Germans in the Ruhr districts against the French. ~ * ¥ Xk * Equally remarkable is the attitude of the Turkish authorities with re- gard to the magnificent work which has been done by the American Near East Relief organization in rationing and caring for the 23,000 Christian refugees in Constantinople, who have been expelled from their homes in Asia Minor, where their people have lived for centyries. The Turkish au- thorities will not allow any more food to be distributed until the Near Tast Relief organization has paid in full the customs duties allcged to be due on the relief supplies. As the duties imposed amount approximately to 100 per cent of the value of the foodstuffs, this decision makes further | relief work impossible. 1t Ys stated that similar orders have been issued to which Christian refugees have been driven by the Turks from the interior. Since the Near East Relief organi- zation, which has been doing such magnificent work. is prevented from continuing _its philanthropic labors and from feeding the mem women and children interned there. it looks very much as though the Angora gov- ernment were determined to pursue fts task of Christian extermination, and it remains to be seen whether the eat powers of the entente, and espe- cially the United States, which has contributed so largely to the urgent needs of these Christians of Asia Mi nor will suffer that they shail be con- demned to death by typhus and sheer Truly, American relief abroad is meeting with every kind of discouragement and obstacle: EDITORIAL DIGEST was one who committed the guilty acts. What the Herrin massacre, and its anti-climax in the courts, amounts to is that any community will ob- tain from its legal processes the de- gree of justice to which its inteili- gence and its civilization entitle it. This 1eaves the state of Illinois with a gieat, sprawling blot of ignominy spread across It. That. however. is the business of the state of Illinois. Disputing this general line of thought. the Chicago Post insists “the real problem underlying Herrin is not the faflure of justice in this specific in- stance, but the anterior and greater failure of American democracy to dis- cover the road of reconciliation and co-operation in the production of wealth. It is deplorable that the bit- terncss engendered by such a serles of episodes as the coal strike pro- duced ip this state tends only to ob- scure the fundamental issue and to make more difficult an approach to it in the spirit of reason and under- .” The result of this trial seems “to link Louisiana and. the Ku Klux, Michigan and Foster and Illi- nois and Herrin in faillure to enforce the law,” the Memphis Commercial- Appeal argues, and “we know that crime unpunished is crime _encour- aged. Yet we wonder when we read statistics why there should be so many and so varied instances of criminal outbreaks: The failure of three states of the Union to assert their honor and Integrity will be the cause of other states suffering similar bumiliation.” “After that verdict let us cease to be censorious to the bolshevists for their butcheries,” says the Boston Transcript, “In the studied and im- mune iniquity. in the unnamable re- finements of utter savagery, in the fine art of ‘raising hell' and getting away with it, Moscow must yield the palm to Herrin, and poor old Russia, only just emerging from medieval be- nightedness, must take second place to_the great. enlightened, progressive republic of the west.” This opinion is very much the view of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, which holds the ace quittals “a blot upon American clvil- ization and American criminal proce- dure. There are clrcumstances in which mob violence may offer pleas in mitigation, when crimes have been committed which the law scems, Dow- erless or unwilling to punish ade- quately, and an outraged community takes the law into 'its own hands. Even such are to be condemned. But when men many of whom at least had committed no crime at all, are indiscriminately slaughtered, as was the case at Herrin, it is an offense against humanity. 'against the law and against civilization which noth- ing can justify, and the effort to do 80 condemns its defenders.” Because this admittedly is so the Philadelphia Bulletin thinks “time is wasted in contemplating the lesson of Herrin as applied to the willfulness of that community. It will be worth while for the mation if that atrocity shall be recognized in its true relation to the strike and the lesson of that rela- tion can be learned.” “It is difficult to suggest any remedy for this specific weakness of Ameri- can justice,” suggests the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “In the south change of venue to some other county where a mob case is on trial would do no good. In the north something might | be gained. Indeed, it is very likely that had the Herrin defendants been tried in some other Iilinois county the verdict would have been different. But this {dea of taking a defendant out of his own county in order to se- cure a conviction Is abhorrent to, the American sense of-fair play. his view brings some opposition from the 8t. Joseph News-Press, which, how- ever, argues that. “the butchery of | twenty-two" innocent and unarmed men shocked the mation, but the re- peated failures of justice since then are even more disquieting than' the original orimes, Murders committed in hot blood have been condoned in cold bleod. No.community can flout the law.and get:away with it indef- initely.” The pity-is that it threaten: to “drag -decgnt unionism and gq-..i citisens. and propesty’ down with ity owa ruln.” i There is a trén deal of misunder- standing in regird to the actual|¥ meaning of the word “art,” and thevgfore it is frequently-misused. rodd in'a southern representative of a natural history, view as 2 whol L1ike; paintings bore me.” “But,” ob- Jjected ~(or corrected) a represen ve of the arts who wgs in the party, “this s not art at ail; it is nature. ‘Art {8 the interpretation of nature by man. It is a means to an end; not an end in itself.” * ¥ ok % of ‘a.piece of wet clay. visitor ‘watching him for a few mo- /Jments 'referred: to- the thing he was “Oh, mo, mad- | be tied to our past. ame,” he sald, with a shade of his| Without sin cast the first stone” at head, “It- {s not art, but”~—lovingly | him who has explated a mistake or a placing his hand on ‘the elay and]crime of his past. producing as “art.” shaping it with a turn of his thumb— “this is art.” And he was right, for it. It is the translation or the inter- color or effect. True artists open the eYes of their fellow men to thas which might otherwise pass unseen. unap- preciated. calls Inness’ painting “The Geo) Pines.” Willlam Bilva, Alfred Hux‘ll“.« Alice Hugar Smith have made mani- turesque loveliness of the mol draped live oaks and cypress tre train through varfed country one rec- joRnizes here a Corot, there an Tnnes Gardner Symons, a Redfield, a Sch these artists has shown in his work ture. * ok ok % was shown a painting of white lilacs. was in a high key, a trifle impres- sionistic. and the writer was little impressed at the moment, but the of white lilacs was seen and instantly the truth of the interpretation be- came convincing, and since that time white lilacs have had a new beauty, a larger significance. { * % ok % | A well known coliector and con- noisseur of art once said that he had spent with silent streets of downtown New York, to him by the artist the beauty of from all the books on art he had ever read. It is this ability to search out beauty and to, in a measure, ex- lightful, mo desirable a companion. | Henry Adams who commissioned Saint-Gaudens to execute the mar- lous figure known variously ‘The Peace of God,” “Mystery, Nirvana"—one of the masterpieces of not only American art, but of the art of all time, which is here in our Rock Creek cemetery, spent months in the South Sea Islands after his wife's death, with John La Farge. and in his delightful letters to his niece, published shortly after hiw death, tells how delightful a traveling com- panion he was and how much he con- tributed to the education. uncon- sclously widening Mr. Adame vision broadehing his sympathies. Th! perience occurred during the period which is silently passed over in “The Education of Henry Adams.” but its effect is evidenced In the fruit of the years which came after. Under Mr. La Farge's leadership Mr. Adams took to sketching in order to better understand what he saw. to find_closer companio ip in na- ture, Jocosely he remarks in one of his delightful lettars to his niece that Lis paintings could not be exhibited. for it would take many years for him to learn to paint as badly as a pro- fessional; meaning that he had not acquired technique. Certainly the artist is the best guide to art, but not every one has the privilege of traveling in company with a John La Farge or & Joseph Pennell. P Away up in the interior of Alaska is a little town, the name of which few know, wWhere there is an artist, Eustace P. Zieglar by name, who is doing missionary work, both as priest and painter. He is a minister of the Epliscopal Church, the rector of a very large parish and is minis- tering faithfully in spiritual things to the needs of a congregation made up of miners and Alaskan natives, men of Canada and the states who are pioneers and who have upbuilt {a considerable settlément, and at the same time he is opening the ieves of those at home and afar to the beauty in Alaskan life, the ma. esty of nature in its awesome mood the courage, the sturdiness, the b ness of the people. In fact, he has organized an art department, gath- ering around him other ' paint- ers, beautifying the little mission churches in the spirit of the primi- tive painters of the early chure {llustrating with wood cuts the little magazine df whith he is éditor, and finding, withal, the utmost joy in the doing. Some ‘years ago Mr. Ziegler estab- lished a clubroom, called “The Red Dragon,” where the roughest was welcome, where books and music and pictures” were to be freely found. Things have changed in Cordova, civ- ilization has crept in, but the spirit of the old time and the memories Temain. A boy “mushed” over fifty B hesene b thete played Branms and Chopin twenty-four hours on a stretch, while the Dragon gentry .stood by en- thralled, and then, with a farewell wave of -the hand, “mushed” back again, Another time an Arizona cowbo: transplanted in Alaska, “toted wood for the Dragon to pay for a meal and then stood on the hearth and wrote perfect Alexan- drian verse.” The place has changed, but the spirit survives, the spirit of sincerity, beauty and truth, created and main- tained by the artist missfonary, who some years ago, in a letter to a friend in Washington in pral ot an Alaskan painter whose works he greatly admired, concluded with the Statement that, despite the difficul- ties and the remoteness of Alaskan life, it was great living, and for him- self he was perfectly happy, “so long | as heathens and paint held out. In a Few Words. Temperance is our goal, conscious control of appetite, not prohibition. Prohibition is a means pot an end, Like all revolutions, it is but an epi- de in an evolutio T : —IDA TARBELL. Néver has mankind faced difficulties of such varied character on so huge a scal ‘The destiny of the race, the future of civilisation, .seems to ‘de- pend on our finding an answer, and on our generous, broad-minded ac- eptance of that answer when it is ound. —PRESIDENT HARDING. When the woman of today discard- ed the set_she also discarded a symbol. 5& torian woman bound aet oniy der “but. her soul. N DE HEDEMANN, Motoring through the pine | Jacksonian democrat, woods of the south, one inatantly re- | olic letter to President Harding, pro- the beauty of certain aspects of na- |a sacre. { Some years ago Robert Reid held |, an exhibition in Washington in which | profaning of President Washington's Like many of Mr. Reid's paintines, it | I3 following spring & blossoming hedge | {learned more from a Sunday morning | commander. by tha Turkish authorities at Samsun. | Mersina and at other Anatolian ports. ! these gigantic modern buildings, than | plain it, that makes the artist £o de- | ..BY PAUL V. COLLINS It is not an uncommon ceremony for church to bugn .its mortgage which has been paid off. The cougregation | gathers around the fire and rejoices ‘Walking -along a Beautiful country 19 see the sign of its former debt go ate recently, the |, in smoke, ... But there must have been a much museum-in the north exclalmed, With | g (qrer feeling of relief, a day or two @ wave of the hand to take in the 40, when a number of former con- “Now this is the art | yio¢y witn, ed the cremation of the criminal records of 60,000 convicts. It was the Prisoners’ Rellef Socfety in"Washington which burned its rec- ords on the occasion of removing headquarters. There were fifty-three ex-convicts present and each one had An Italian modeler was at work one | the privilege of ‘putting his own rec- time o & little figure which, with'|ord into the skillful tpuch, he was modeling out | With a clean redord, as should every ‘A’ chance | man or woman emerging from prison. ‘They start anew In fact, éach day every one of.us starts & new record. We need not “Let him who is At the new headquarters of the Prisopers’ Relief Society. at 201 E street northwest, the society is seek as Saint-Gaudens, the greatest of our | ing employment for discharged pri: American sculptors, he said, art is|oners, and the fact.that mem. from not what you do, but the way you do { Prison go there for: ald in getting honest - employment proves that they pretation by man to man of beauty in | are actuated by worthy motives and nature, beauty of character, beauty |are endeavoring to of strength, beauty of line and form, | track. start on the right * % ¥ % Senator McKellar of Tennessee, a writes a vitri- testing against what he declares would be a “sacrilege to remove the fest through their paintings the pic- | statue” (Jackson's), exchdnging its site for that of one George Washing- How quickly in passing on a raiiroad | ©7: ‘What is a “sacrilege”? Tt is “the act of profaning or violating anything or Wyant subject; or If it be winter, a | sacred. Formerly, the selling to a| layman of property given to pious fleld, a Twachtmann, because each of | uses. What? Is the Jackson hobbyhorse shrine? Which is the sacred part—the horse or the rider? Which is the plous part? Where are the federalists? Why re they pot equally excited over the He, too. was an American! he less sacred? If it be impious y, “Gedup!” to the hobbyhorse, mhat enall we say to the Washingten steed? 3 atue? * k ok % Does not Gen. Washington, com- mander-in-chief who created ghis re- publie, rank Gen. Jackson, who won a victory after peace had been de- clared? Imagine Gen. Jackson commanding a camp and Gen. staff arriving. There would be Gen. Von Steuben and Gen. Lafayette and | Gen. Kosciuszko, aldes to the supreme Gen. Washington would Joseph Pennell in the |send an aide to inform Gen. Jackson of his arrival and immediately Gen. Jackson would summon his staff and exploring the canyons formed by the pay g formal call upon his superior skyscrapers and having pointed out|and await his orders. Gen. Washing- ton would take command automati- cally and Gen. Jackson would salute and—obey. If Gen. Jackson happened to occupy a better house than any other avail- able, the general of superior rank might order him to vacate, and Wash- ington would make the Jackson bbuse his own headquarters. Is that sacri- lege? No; it is war! * Ok kK The irate senator from Jackson's state attacks the Fine Arts Commis- sion for its supposed audacity or pro- posed “sacrilege.” What has the Fine Arts Commission perpetrated? This is not an art controversy, for both statues were made by the same mgn, They may. be on aspar as to:art tech- nique. The suggestion that the Fine Arts Commission might decide to move Washington's Monument and Mount i Vernon because somebody has said they were not artistic must be found- ‘ed on the report that-the commission has faith like a mustard seed. Iyhas faith—also hope—but its greatest asset is charity. Both the Monument end Mount Vernon are safe. So is the Jackson statue, and Gen. Wash- ington's last order to Gen. Jackson was, “As you were.” * * ¥ x The largest and most influential organization in America, the Daugh- ters of the American Revolution, is now ‘in_session in Washington. The atmosphere of- such an organization is like ozone. It purifies and exhila- rates. In the openjng address of the presi- dent, Mrs. George Maynard Minor, a keynote of patriotism stirred the as. sembled delegates to great enthusi- asm as the speaker portrayed the ‘Washington and j “tendency of bolshevism and socialicm to0 deny JMberty, deny the home and de; % 3 0, fimht this ‘spirit that denies! this spirit of evil in our midst, is t1q sacred task of every Daughter of tig American Revolution. This is one of the things it means to be a Daugh- ter,” declared President Minor. TN %y There 1s @ great contrast hetwcin such a spirit and that of other wonin whose {deal.is to persuade thix g to the soviets even while they slaughtering representatives of Christign religion. It was not merc the execution of one or 4 dozen indi- viduals which has set the world horror at bolshevism. “The w world,” said Mrs. Minor. “stands aghast at & crime perpetrated against the sacred religious instincts of ail mankind, regardless of church « creed.” President Minor touched upon an other topic which met a cordlal re sponse. She declared that the gi of today “are just as good as were at their age.” She referred to the autosugge:! of the previous generation wh helped mold the characters of girls by giving them names that = Bested the higher traits of char ter—Prudence, Hope, Faith, Chari “Did not our ancestors dimly reco; nize this'power of thought when the gave their children such names, the belief that constant repetit would inculeate the virtues wi they expressed in those who bore names?” in * % ¥ * There s philosophy Minor suggests. Give a dog a name and he will develop into a 1 dog. “As a man thifiketh in heart, so §s h 1t would_be hare imagine a Puritanic “Pruden dressing in scandalous costume seeking notoriety in an_endura: dance. “Prudence” will Hardly o\ do the use of “the, lipstick and ¢ rouge. Scow! disapproval at daughter ! cause she is filled with the jo: youth, and she.may receive thé & gestion, involuntarily, that o be &« means to be cross and sour.” Show ¢ terest in her innocent pleasures & sympathy in her ambitions, and in t efforts of her brother o be a “regul: fellow” with other decent boys, &r somehow, there are not half as r chances that either will develop ceit or long for forbldden pleasurcs xxx The appointment of former Re sentative Alice Robertson to matronly charge of the welfare the women of the Veterans' Burea meets the approval of pe friends of the appointee and « who recognize the obligation of t administration to care for the “la ducks” of the party. It is not unqualifiedly appro however, by the rank and file American Legion veterans, who call that she was one of the moct outspoken opporerts to the soldier- adjusted compensation bill. The vit eruns are suying that there are 1ia “gold star mothe-s’ who gave th sons—in many cases the main sus ports of widows, Thesc “gold =i mothers,” they claim. are qualitied as is Miss Robertso work of looking after the welf the women of the Veterans' Burea * % in what M “Put up” e highw orde and the prudent victim obeys. But is not the call of robbery whieh t Navy-hears in those words, “Elevat: the guns!” The mystery is as to wh the guns were ever any ship except with efevate the muzzle to range. Now. there secms to be some quibbling as to whether the dls- armament conference agrcement for- Dbids us to improve the range of th | 8uns on our retained ships aft de - | stroying such vessels as agreed upor The Navy decides that it will ele to the ultimate range unless President forbids. Safety first” the power t ve the utmos appears to DLe the Navy's motto. There is more safet: in a gun whose range is twelve miles (hqn in one which can shoot but te This is especially true when an enerm: ship has a range beyond ten mile< {and manages to keep cleven miles away. | “Safety first” has proved a | motto in the Washington schools since safety has been taught by p cept and example for the last t years the number of children killed | accidentally in_the city has decreasci {75 per:cent. Iy St. Louis and L | troit the reduction through sim teaching has been 65_per cent. | (Copyright, 1823, by P. V. Collina.) THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM How would you feel/if you had ten thousand candles burning within a foot of your eye? No, mot blinded. You would be neither blinded nor bedazzled, baked nor blinked. In effect, you have ten thousand candles burning within a foot of your eye every day of sun- shine. Dr. W, W. Garner, royal opti- clan to the vegetable kingdom, has mepsured it and knows what he is talking about. If half of the ten thousand candles were blown out, you would hardly notice the difference. Neither does a plant. If the snuffer kept on snuffing until only ten candles were left burn- ing, you could still read or write or, if your Hand does not tremble, thread 2 needte. So can a plant. Or. rather, it can &0 on doing whatever it is that a plant does by the aid of light. » And right there is the whole basis of cne of the hottest scientific discov- eries since Benjamin Franklin trapped the lightning with the string and a_key on his kite. It is now possible to make any plant bloom and bear fruit anywhere in the world at any time of the year. A tropical plant can be made to bloom in all its glory right up under the Arctic circle. A spring flower be- comes a fall flower or an any-other- time flower that anybody wants. How? Two ways. Ome is to shut it up in the dark before the day is done. 'rgo other is to lengthen its day by giving it electric light after dark. That is where the great discovery came. It does not have to have ten thousand candles. Ten will do, at a pinch. “Dr. Garne figure it out “I didn't,” he said. Then he asked 2 question. “Does anybody ever fig- ure out a discovery? Maybe discover- ies just happen.” . “But,” he went on, “it happened this way. I used to find wonderfully large stalks of tobacco out here iy the Maryland fields. - The trouble was they never did_bloom and, of course, had no seed. We could not get any more ‘like them. - [ “Finally, T'put one af-them in a greenhouss "to try to carTy it thtough the winter. In the dead of wintersit bloomed. : “Then I started to figure. I figured out lots of things. As néarly as I can tell, I figured out all the wrong things there were. When there was nothing elae left, 1 had to take the zight onc. “Phat' plant would “not “bloom in the summer because the day was too long for it. When it got-a short day that it liked, it bloome: ince then, Dr. Ggpgr—heul- to- n%t:o ‘specialist 6f the Department of 1 said, “how did you Agriculture—and his associates hae done wonderful things with man plants. In the department's expe mental grounds they rigged up- of dark houses and a lot of houses with electric lights {n them. They took two stalks of tobarco two bunches of violets, two cluster of asters, two of everything, nearl as Noah did whén he pushed the ars off from its moorings. One cluster of asters they push into & dark house fore sunset. The other cluster the would leave out in the sunlight @day and then put it in a_house wit electric lights at night. The ono th: was given more than the natura number of hours of light grew as hig as the celling without sign of bloom The one_that had its daylight choked Off neve got any. taller than a lex pencil, but it produced an endle profusion of flowers. Other plants behaved just the way. If their light was length they stopped growing and flowe themselves nearly to death. 17 th 1light was shut off, they &rew to bea a fidd full of gargantuas, but “pr duced no flowers. The upshot of it all was that {he worked out the right lizht period f.r all the plants they tested and wi sooner or later, do it for all plant would metime be othe 3 end “I have no doubt.” s Dr. ner. “that there has s something in “that old about planting potatoes and other things in the moon. Maybe the moon- light does not have anything to d with it, but the differenco length between new moon moon does. “Understand,” he cautioned, *wr have not worked that out yet, and I'n not saying anything for certain.” Another Garner guess is that the length of day and not weather what makes a bird leave its ¢ roost on the equator and coie Wwing- ing northward to freeze to death in a mid-April blizzard around Wash- ington, as lots of them probably did the other day. He guesses, broadly, that .tlie law runs through the animal kingdon just as it does through the vegetablc kingdom. ° v “The chicken folks were it he said, “pefors uny of us know what it meant. You have read abo thefr making a ‘hen lay two eggs day by lighting up her bedrgom that she thinks night is day. That is the same principle, though for a long time we thought it was because she até’ _more by being kept awak longer.” Therds{g mo “telling where it il end. Buf s far as we personally ar concerned,. We, can see all sorts of labor trouble #head if anybody trics to make two day§.gut of one by siip- ping ‘midnight int®. the -place now tezanted by noon. Ga superstition and old applyine constructed on- in day ' ernment fo give offictal recogniticn ¢