Evening Star Newspaper, April 21, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, WWith Sunday Morning Editlon. WASHINGION, D. C. SATURDAY...,...April 21, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Edito The Evening Star Newspaper Company SBusineas Office, 11th §t. and Pennavivania Ave. hiea ¢ ‘Towe A European Ofices 10 Regent St.. London, England. | The Eyening Star, with the Sundny morning | edition, In delivered by carriers within the ety | 00 cents per month: dally only. 43 cents per | mouth: Runday onlr, 20 centa per month. Or | dera may be sent by mail, or m:{-unnr Main 6000, Collection s made by carriers at the, end of each month. H l} Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia | Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.4 Daily only. 1yr., $6. Sunday only 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo.. All Other States.. Daily and Sunda Sunday only Member of the Associated Press. * The Associated Press in exclusivaly ontitled to the ‘use for republication of n.l news dis atches credited to it or not otherwise credt b ‘this ‘paper and also the local news pub lished hereln. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = = The President to Clarify. There is cause for gratification in: the announcement that President Harding will take occasion soon, prob- ably at the annual meeting of the As- sociated Press next week, to draw pub- lic attention to the details and effect of his recommendation to the Senate that the United States signify its ad- hesion to the International Court of Justice. There are indubitable indica- tions that the country has not fully grasped either the scope of the court's functions or the limitations proposed to be put upon this country’s affilia- tion with it through the reservagions submitted by the President and Sec- retary of State Hughes. The proposition was submitted to the Senate in the closing days of the Jast Congress, when the telegraph wires and the columns of the press were burdened with a variety of news topics, and there was necessarily limited publicity. The first reaction from the announcement of the pro- posed adhesion was a violent protest against the plan from a considerable element of republicans. This has risen toa veritable storm of opposition from republicans, which s whistling around | the White House as one prominant party leader after another voices the sentiment of objection as he finds it in his community The republican opposition was probably accentuated by the avidity with which the rank and file of demio- crats jumped at the proposition, hail- ing it as the initial step into the league of nations. “If the democrats favor it, it must be something of that kind.” was the thought, overlooking the fact that Secretary Hughes and President Harding proposed a reservation dis- tinetly declaring that the United States disavowed any legal recognition of, effiliation with or responsibility to the | league of nations as now constituted. Yormer President Wilson recognized this, and promptly advised his follow- ers not to favor the Harding plan with the reservations So President Harding is warranted in making further explanation of the exact character of the undertaking. Indeed, he is required to do so by the circumstances of the case. His words will be read with deep interest, and the country will get the correct angle upon the plan and thereby be enebled | to reach a surer judgment. —_————— Bosses and Their Boodle. While Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall is eagerly engaged on the witness stand in New York telling why he got out of the glucose concern because, as he avers, it was making too much money, a court in Dublin has set a | date early next month for the trial of the Croker will contest. This coin- cidence turns the memory back to the time when Boss Croker, who avoided courts as sedulously as has his suc- cessor, was finally haled to the witness stand and asked “where he got it,” and in the course of his curt and eryptic answers acknowledged that he was “working for his own pocket all the time.” Nobody ever found out how he “got it though there were plain indications. The Lexow investi- | gating committee found plenty of ways and means whereby he could easily “get it,” and everybody agreed that he looked very strikingly like the “man higher up,” to whom flowed a fixed commission of all the carefully scheduled payments to the police by certain classes of lawbreakers. At any rate, everybody recognized that Dick Croker's pockets, for which he worked so persistently and exclusive- 1y, became well filled. And now the court in Dublin is to determine as to the division thereof, while the present Temmany boss Is trying to persuade | another court in New York that a cer- tain company, which he quit because it was making big money too easily, should render an accounting to him for his legitimate profits. There is a certain satire in the coincidence. —_—e———— Scientists say that records show an average of no less than twelve earth- quakes a day. Sort of continuous sels- mic shimmy, as it were. The Oil Stock Swindlers. Ninety-two oil promoters have been indicted at Fort Worth, Tex., by the federal grand jury on charges of using the mails to defraud. The companies involved, it is stated, have taken in over $7,000,000 in cash, and into three of the companies were merged 458 companies which had sold $136,000,000 in stocks. The chances are that every dollar of this public investment has been wasted. Enormous fortunes have been made by these oil promoters, who are really manipulators and not producers of petroleum. They are dealers in leases, in promotion schemes. Their best as- sets are their “sucker lists” of pros pective stock purchasers and their shrewd advertising layouts. A favorite device of the oil swindler is to prom- ise dividends at once and to pay them for a time, and it has been proved beyond question that these so-called dividends are, in fact, paid out of the sales of stock and nat-out of the sales of oil. A “gusher” is once in a great ‘while developed by accident. Immedi- ately “near wells” are started. For pvery, dollar’s worth of oil taken :uz i how { communities THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY APRIL 21, 1923. of a real producer tens and hundreds of dollars are taken out of the pockets of credulous investors lured by the offers of cheap stock and the prospect of early big dividends. A few years ago a man named Mil- ler made a “killing” in New York with a get-rich-quick scheme, offering 52 per cent profit to those. intrusting their money to him for investment or speculation. His scheme was somewhat similar to that of Ponzi, who. followed {him. It was definitely proved at his trial- that he had paid the “dividends’ to some of the earlier comers out of the takings from later comers. This 18 the game that Is being played in the Texas and New Mexico oil flelds. Reputable newspapers have refused to carry the advertisements of these oil stock swindlers, but they have or- | ganized their own “press” in the field i itsell under a thin camouflage, and are thus enabled to gain a background promotion work, in® which they must use the mails. These indictments at Fort Worth are based upon the em- ploymeat of the mails for the promo- tion of the frauds. The report that 458 companies, later merged into three, have sold $136,000,- 000 in stock indicates the scope of these operations. There s no telling many little fortunes have been wiped out, absorbed, wasted. Most of the investors in these schemes are people of small means, seeking a quick doubling of their money. The 0ld green-goods game was virtu- cus compared with this ofl-stock swin- dle. That game was predicated upon the willingness and desire of the vic- tims to work a swindle upon their own by the circulation of counterfeit money. There was never any sympathy for those who were stung in that fraud. For the victims of this oil game there is a profound pity. They have been deluded by false promises, stripped of their means and, what is worse, have by their losses heen made suspicious of legitimate in- vestments which make for the whole- some prosperity of the country and | their own moderate, safe profit. ———— The Alley Dwellings. The alley dwelling situation is diffi- cult and involved. Congress refused affirmative action either on the bill to extend the time for closing alley houses or on that to close them one- third on June 1. 1 one-third on June 1. 1924, and the remainder on June 1, 1925. It then became the duty of the Commissioners to close all alley houses on June 1 next. It was esti- mated by the police that more than 10,000 persons would be evicted, and civie bodies and persons concerned estimated that the number {o be evict- ed would be nearer 15,000 than 10,000. With the housing shortage and high rents it was foreseen that a large pro- portion of the evicted alley dwellers would be without shelter unless it could be provided by civic-philan- thropic enterprise or by the District government. The cost of building and the short time allowed for construc- tion were obstacles to any plan of that kind. General and official under- standing was that the law would close dwellings in all alleys. The corpora- tion counsel found that the law did not include alleys which were thirty feet wide, which run straight from street to street and which have water and sewer service and electricity or gas connections. Officials then rough- Iy estimated that 75 per cent of alley dwellers live in alleys exempt from the closure law. This estimate has since been considerably reduced. The next move was a suit against the Commissioners brought in the Dis- trict Supreme Court by alley property owners to enjoin the Commissioners from carrying the law into effect. The Commissioners have asked for the dismissal of that suit. The corporatipn counsel now holds that an alley may be put in the exemption class by widening it to thirty feet, by cutting 1: through from street to street, or by supplying it with water and sewer or with gas or electricity before June 1. Any one of such improvements would remove an alley from the prohibited class after June 1. It is said that the Commissioners mean to increase the number of exempt alleys by making some change to remove them from the class of alleys which are not thirty feet wide, do not run straight from street to street, have ho water and sewer service and have no gas or elec- teic connections. The Emergency Housing Associa- tion and other bodies opposed to alleys as habitable places range themselves against the corporation counsel in his interpretation of the law, and hold that an alley to be exempt from the closure law must meet all three (and not merely one) of the requirements of exemption; that it must be thirty feet wide and (not or) run from street to street, and have water, sewer and pub- lic lighting service. They maintain that alleys should be abandoned as dwelling places or converted into minor streets, but they would like to have the execution of the present law postponed that the alley matter may be put before Congress next ses- sion. —————— Some Washingtonians who have had experiénces are inclined to think that a most urgent traffic regulation need here is a higher standard of courtesy on the part of the “go-go” guardians. Spring weather like that of the past three or four days is well worth wait. ing for, after all. Sugar and Pottery. ‘While the sugar price boosters were laughing at the action of the govern- ment in moving in court for their punishment under the anti-trust laws, a federal judge in New York was en- gaged in imposing sentences of prison terms and stiff fines upon a number of men and corporations convicted of violating the law by fixing the prices of sanitary pottery ware. True, the prison terms are not long, rapging from six to ten months, but they are nevertheless calculated to give pause to eny person contemplating e price combine. These pottery companies, it was proved in the course of the trial, had entered into & close understand- ing to establish the rates of their wares, for the restriction of the output of their plants and for the suppres- sion of all competition. Representing a majority production of this com- I l modity in the country, they formed a virtual trust. A jury found them gullty, and the judge has just put the penalties in terms that show that the law is not absolutely toothless. The sugar price fixers, it is report- ed, are chortling over the procedure designed to punish their enterprise in suddenly advancing the rates of this commodity. Of course, they know ! that it is a long way between accusa.| When they come, take one In each tion and conviction, and especially the beginning of a prison term or the pay- ment of a fine, Still, the smile is probably forced. They cannot be en- tirely sincere in their glee. Indeed, they are ill-advised in giving any pub- lic expression whatever to their dis- belief in the efficacy of the present movements. Attributing the price ad- vanee to “natural causes” would be a more seemly reaction, even though it would be hard to define any such | causes in terms to. convince the pub- of print publicity for their stock-selling | lic that the present extortionate rates are justified by short crops, or exces- sive demand, or abnofmal advances in labor and other costs. A National Home for the “Sons.” It has been proposed that the Sons of the American Revolution establish a national headquarters in Washington. The District society will, at the com- ing convention of the national organi- zation at Nashville, make that recom- mendation, with a plan for a building costing several hundred thousand dol- tars. 1t would be most appropriate to have this patriotic organization thus estab- tished on an all-American basis at the National Capital. The Daughters of the American Revolution are so housed, in a buflding that has become one of the monuments of the city, a meeting place of notable assemblages and the scene annually of the congress of the organization. The “Daughters have never met elsewhere than here. The “Sons” have had their annual meetings in various cities, and it would seem to be appropriate now that they should follow the example of the feminine side of the revolutionary family and make Washington the fixed meeting place and to provide here a suitable structure for that purpose Establishment of a national head quarters gt Washington does not lessen the autonomy of the local or- ganizations. Each *“society,” on other hand, gains in prestige by par- ticipating in the ownership of a hand- some permanent home at the seat of government where the Sons of the American Revolution in annual ses slon may take place with the other American organizations that are keep- Ing alive the ideals upon which the { country is founded and the spirit of their attainment. —_——— Lord Robert Cecil hints that 4 can hospitality and courtesy are muk- ing it hard for him to get a line on the real attitude of the people over here on the league of nations. Ie might consult the returns of the ‘“‘solemn referendum” of 1920 for guidance if he is in any doubt. Perhaps soon the “marathon” shuf- flers will realize that they are mainl engaged in wasting their energies jand endangering their health for the profit of the promoters of the spec- tacles. No Washingtonian should hesitate about substituting the rake and the {hoe for the coal shovel and furnace shaker in an effort to make the capi- tal shine. With the D. A. R. congress closed Washington can concentrate on the job of making ready to shine for the Shriners. Those Muelheim dole rioters appar- ently do not know when they are whipped. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOINSON. Under Orders. | The doctor says that exercise Is something I must not neglect, And whatsoe'er he may advise I listen to with great respect. He says that arms and shoulders should Be worked until they're almost lame, And so T go—it does me good— And watch the pitcher at the game. He says my lungs must oft expand 1f T expect to be quite well. T meekly go upon the stand And use them as I wildly yell. He says my muscles will resent A lazy and luxurious pace, So I behold, with great content, The men who dash from base to base. Upon the field I may not go ‘Where these athletic feats I view, But as I watch the work 1 know Each does more than enough for |the Grackle.” two. And when it's o'er 1 'wait the night Refreshed. I willingly agree That doc, as usual, is right And exercise is good for me. The Robin. ‘When shadows dark’ have made the world seem dreary and monoto- | Sampus p' January 29, nous, And everything except the sky I blue, ‘We fancy that the friends we used to| until Febru: know have all forgotten us the | | THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM To play this game, the first thing you should do is to go out and buy an apple orchard. Then you wait for the apples. hand and rush over to the Depart- ment of Agriculture.” Go to‘the door marked “Pomological Investigations.” Enter. When you have caught the digni- fled occupant's eve, show him both | hands. “What have I here?” you ask. He says: “I should be disposed to say, subject to any corrections that |m&y be found necessary.upon deeper | | | s | servation: investigation, that you have & couple ot apples “Good” you reply, “that's whit the man told ‘me 1 wus going to have when he sold me the orchard; but Wl‘|.h( kind of apples are they?” That,” says the dignified gentle- man, “is another question. 1 shall probably be able to answer it. In any event, I shall be able to teli you the names of 2,998 varieties of apples that yours are not. “But’—and he becomes more Impressive than ever— “I'll have to see Miss Newton.” Does Miss Newton know all of the ,000 varleties of apples by 1 Hoes Py y looking She does not. But she has made models of most of them—wax apples exactly like the real ones, only bet- ter. They are so inviting and life- like that they'd be bitten into by any son of Adam who comes around; 50 there 13 a thick plate of glass over them for protection. And not only apples. but- Picture peuche! them; the ripest berries;: many Booseberries. Miss Newton made them—Miss Aman- ;‘Ih A. Newton. She has made thou- wax models is her specialty. 1 asked Miss Newton to tell me about the most difficult bit of model- ing she ever did. She thought a mo- ment and replied, “It was a tobac- co plant, which I made for the cot- ton statés exhibit in Atlanta, a while 80" 1 couldn’t help but think that here, 45 least. was a model tobacco plant. ad ever heard of had be: called flithy weeds. o Miss Newton went on: “To make those long leaves stand out at right rows of ums, blushing, rosy with bloom still on of lusclous straw- other fruits, even angles to the stalk and not bend down | was a problem. It grew rapldly, for & plant. When it wus five feet high, I stopped. ids of these wax models. Making | Miss Newton comes honestly by her agricultural leanings. Her grand- father, Isaac Newton, was first com- missioner _of agriculture, from 1861 to 1867. Possibly she got the apple instinct from the famous Sir Isaac man, you may rémember, got a very valuable tip from an apple. But what are these models or fruit for and how do they assist in the work of the Department of Agri- culture? It’s like this. A newcomer to a com- munity buys a farm on which there is an orchard, The first autumn, he gets an assortment of apples, many of which are strange to him. He asks his friends the names, but gets con- {flicting answers. Since it means {money in marketing his fruit to know what kinds of apples he is selling, the farmer sends a few speci- mens to Washington to find out. The apple sharks at the Depart- ment of Agriculture can usually spot the different kinds of apples, but you must remember that more than 12,000 varieties grow in the United States. Here is where the model case comes into play. A strange apple is taken to the model case and com- pared with the apples there. Usually the stranger loses its strangeness and the orchardist who sent in the apples learns what kind of apples he as. jut here are six models of the Delicious apple,” I said, “and they all Jook different.” “Yes,” she told me, “the fruits vary even in the same variety. No two apples on the same tree look exactly alike. Here was a greenish one, and 1 learned that it must have grown where the sunlight did not reach it. Climate, soil and topography change the look of the fruit even in the same variety, and that is why it is ‘gu‘(!‘ essential to have models to go 1 by, | There was a time when compara- tively few people knew what kinds of fruit they grew. The Department of | Agriculture corrected this by send- ing out boxes and asking people to send in samples of th fruits for | identification. A rushing fruit busi- Iness was the result. Imagine the {Joy of the apple tasters at this turn | of events. Many fruits there are to tempt one to a bite—of wax—but of them all the apples, the luscious, lving, livid apples, fashioned with the deft and skiilful touch of the artist, tempt most vou n wonder Eve fell,” “With apples like these, I garden of Eden, would Even so think. in the 1 EDITORIAL DIGEST No Tears Are Shed Over the De- parting Two-Spot. The announcement that the “un- lucky two-dollar bill” is to be retired Las met with general approval. Editors, while insisting they are not superstitious and never have felt the “jinx" of the unwanted “promise to vay agreed that there is little place { for bills of this denomination in com- mercial life. The one and the five £l the bill, they hold. and the two can join the now almost forgotten two-cent and twenty-cent piece and never be missed. It is the opinion of the New York Evening World that “it can easily be spared, not because it is unlucky, as the superstitious hold, but because it is superfluous, Inconvenient and confusing. Four times out of five the change from $5 comes In one- dollar bills, and when there Is a two it causes momentary confusion and delay. It may cost the Kovernment a trifie more to print tw in- stead of one two, but the e will meet with general approval, as will the plan for similar designs for all Lills of the same denomination, vhatever the source of issue. The reason for the difference in design passed. United States currency all_xood money—if you can ket The Knoxviile Sentinel, how- rather facetiously suggests if it I8 any service to the Treasury Department, we could tell it where and how It could get rid of all of the bills of this character wihout prejudice or objection of any sort. The bill is a handsome piece of en- graving. the Utica Observer-D patch remembers it, but “it is not a necessity. It is a convenience, and in handling large quantities cur- rency it saves time and bulk. With its passing will also pass a very senseless superstition, which is said to have had its origin in a negro erap game in the south. One par- ticipant went into the game holding five bills of the two-doliar denomina- tion. He lost every throw and was cleaned out. Then along came an- other colored gentleman and cleaned out the winner, and when he was go- ing home with the five two-dollar bills in his pocket, he was knocked down and robbed. ' But the supersti- tion was confined to a comparative few. Almost any one woulg prefer a $2 to a $1." The very fact that it was regarded as highly useful for raising _the denomination” is good and sufficient reason why it should be withdrawn, the Mobile Regi says, in approving the general plan for the standardization of all paper money. “The ease wtih which coun- terfeit money is passed is attributable chiefly to the publi unfamiliarity with currency designs. Persons who handle large sums of money every day cannot accurately describe the designs on a paper bill. The adop- tion of a uniform standard for all denominations would be a sensible currency reform. Derhaps such a change would tend to make people more familiar with the money they ever, that handle, and counterfeiters | a8 check-raisers, would have | prove their workmanship in o I prevent speedy detection There are many reasons two-dollar bill iy useless, Dayton News sees it, and, i there is no demand for the its half-brother, will serve just and there will by as well why the the nyway, bill, since dollar iitn duplicate n added saving to the printing department reduc, ing the number of denomin. onal amounts for which currency of this kind ix made, The two-dollar bill has outlived its usefulness, and de. parting it will bring few tears to our ey Not & the those who may lls hereafter to ngly, as they may !Dullvhe souvenirs of a superstitious pact.” and recites that inspection [ usually will reveal “one or all of the corners torn off, that is done to out- daring enough to carload of white and colored, | with misgivings and spend them with great alucrity, inever do they let them go without seeing that the corners have heen re- moved. A two-dollar bill with all the corners intact i able to bLe me |dangerous than Friday the 13t ! much more pregnant with evil tha |leaning ladder to walk und | would be to court disaster.” Detroit Free Press, whi ! studying the subject, that “when a person lonesome two-dollar bill is uniucky admits that he would go through fire | for a wagon load of them, dent that the superstition is not deep enough _to interfere much with their use. This country has not found the use of two pennies for the old two-cent piece inconvenient, while the substitution of two dimes for the Ibut others. both accept them who ished a nuisance. | “For { friends.” coin that was & downright long while it has had no says the Elizabeth City Ad- vance, “and there will be in 1 following the old two-cent piece,” while the Providence Journal feels “in a process of simplific it would appear to be that this d nomination could be spared with the least public inconvenience, The ob- jection to this particular form of |currency as unlucky “goes as far back as the early seventies, the Huntington Herald-Dispatch Suy and “it became a term of contempt, as when Chief Devery called one of the Tammany triumvirate that fought him ‘two-spot’” The change also follows the general plan of “simpi fication.” the New London Day sa recalling that the fractional cur- rency of the United States also has | undergone quite a number of changes {in the past half century.” and the Bangor Commercial feels that “the superstitious will get a good night's rest when the two-dollar bill finally banished from circulation.” But those who are in this class, the Bridgeport Post holds, are “they who rub a [ hunchback and throw salt over the: left shoulder.” And the Birmingham Age-Herald adds to the number “those who passed two-dollar a two-dollar bill and get change for one.” e - Grackles Uncertain Harbingers of Spring To the Bitar of The Star: 1 was interested in your short edi- torial of March 8, entitled “Arrival of 1 have been watch- ing and recording the arrival of grackles and robins upon the campus of Howard University for the past nine years, beginning my observations in 1914, It is interesting to note from the appended table of arrival dates cov- ering nine years, that the return of the grackle is somewhat less regular than that of the robin. In 1914, for some reason or other flock of grackles returned to the almost a month_earlier than subsequent ob- s show to be customary; these soon disappeared and seen again on the campus ary 29, those arriving on the latter date remaining and nesting for the summer. It is possible that however, none w. And sunny days have all been got-|those which arrived on February 29 ten through. We think that we have reached a point where even bald civility Is scarce where comradeship was once so free. Then we get a salutation from thatof March, prince of affability, ‘The robin who is singing in the tree. He tells & jaunty story of e million ‘welcome visitors ‘Who come to join and beautify his © song. The ghosts of introspection slink away like gaunt inquisitors As hosts of summer sunshine troop along. ‘He takes the sting from every petty human animosity, Bince Nature, just as kind as she can be, Is scattering her treasures with such hearty generosity had misinterpreted the weather in their southern wintering locality. 1t is of further interest to note that the grackles have, for the last two of three years, been reaching our campus somewhat later, coming in 1920, 1922 and 1923 after the first while the robins have kept their dates quite regularly around the 15th of March; March the 4th in one case being the greatest deviation from this regularity. Judging from the dates of the grackles’' return to this particular nesting place, they are not so reliable a harbinger of spring as robin: A contrary opinion is expressed in your editorial. Table of the arrival of grackles and robins on Howard University cam- pus: Date. 1914 19015, Return of Grackles. Return of Robins. March 16 March 15 March 18 March 4 March 15 ! In a Few Words. Bvery act of our national adminis- tration at Washington is subject to the analysis, criticism or commenda- tion of the people through the public press. church. —BISHOP WILLIAM LAWRE! NCE. The misguided citizen who opposes preparedness is as dangerous as the red revolutionist who tries to over- throw the institutions of the statc. The loyal citizen is the one who loathes” war, but keeps his powder dry.” —DWIGHT F. DAVIS (Assistant Sec- retary of War). Although we won the world war, the German people by their spirit of whole-hearted work may yet win the real victory. —CHARLES M. SCHWAB. If the immigration laws are re- laxed, for every onme immigrant who will come as a possible employe of the steel and other corporations, nine will_come to drag down the ilving standards of the United States. Cheap labor makes a cheap country. —REPRESENTATIVE ALBERT JOHNSON (Washington). Evening dress is the tailor's con- fession of weakness. Any one who can produce something more suitable to man's contour will get the thanks of this and the next generation. —MAYOR OF OXFORD (England). The crulser strength of the Japa- nese navy, including ships in commis- sion and under construction, is great- er than the combined strength of the American and English navie: —DR. C. K. EDMUNDS. The reason your fuel s costing so much ts that too many people are try- |l’lf to live on a ton of coal—too many miners, too many operators, too many distributors. —Gfllgf: CROWTHER. B i Newton of old. That learned gentle- | Anniston | them, | but | twenty-cent piece of long ago abol- ! no regret | bills for ones” and those “who present | We need more of that in the ] The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. far more interesting and easily mas- tered than that of fact, though in some cgses the two become identical. Most of us know the Scotland of Scott’s novels much better than the Scotland of maps and text books. Hardy and Phillpotts and Sheila Kaye-Smith have made Wessex, Dart- moor and Sussex the most familiar | parts of England to their admirers. In the May number of the magazine Asia appears a most interesting ar- ticle by Robert Morss Lovett, en- titled, “The Realm of Conrad.” “The pervading circumambient force” of Conrad’s novels, says Mr. Lovett, 18 the sea, but his map covers the world, | except central and northern Asia. On this map are many sea routes, those followed by the various vessels of Conrad’s novels. as the Brute. the Judea and the Narcissus. The routes become very thick in the region of the Dutch Indies, where perhaps more of Conrad's plots are laid than in any other portion of the world. The set- ting of “Alma * and “An Outcast of the is Borneo: that of “Freya of the Seven Isles” is “not far north from Banka"; Sumatra is the scene of “The End of the Tether” and Samburan of “Victory, and th of Refuge in “The Rescue” neo, The names of Singapore, Ba- tavia, Macassar and Surabaya recur frequently in Conrad’s novels of the | Malay Archipelago. * x * K located seas. “In ‘The the land of the nist before which ruin.” ot in tropical Heart of Kongo is the antag human nature goes down in “An Outpost of Progress” is a Africa. The of “Romance” the West Irdies and “Nostromo' takes place in Soutji America. The awful storm described in “Typhoon™ occurs in the China sea, and that of “The Cigger of the Narcissus” in the In- dlan ocean.: Mr. Lovett says: “Con- rad’s hooks live by the sea—if not on it, at least within sound of its voice. The novelist scems disinclined to linger long even in ports like Sura- | baya or Macassar.” W Conrdd's storms are his greatest erpieces of description. In ad- dition to the two mentioned above | there is a treacherous interisland storm in “The Rescue. in which wind, rain and the waves contend for mas tery over the briz. In “An Outcast of the Islands" there is a cloudburst Which catches Willems and leaves him a drenched. dejected and breath- less human shuttlecock. In » Conrad's storms, The Shadow Line. piain is buried at crew is fever-stricken, masterplece. novels are lands and Darkness’ ma which the while the equally a in a, is * K Something of the individuality and sparkling style of the French memoirs of the ecightegnth century o be found in the autobiography (“My Life”) of Emma Calve. Though the great prima donna is most intimately connected in the public mind with the haracter of Carmen, she says that this was not her favorite role preferred several other parts, as Marguerite, Juliet, Ophelia. When studying for the part of Car- men she went to Andalusia and ob- cerved the life of the gyy espe cially in the cigaretie factories fumily were opposed to her on the stage, as familie e to oppose the dramatic aspira- of their daughters. Her aunt 1 psies tions d! You will be ever- A little giri of our Eoing to be an s women who in_consecrated poor chi be the could ground not buried in old day Four generations New | Arthur Train's of oue people the ' page novel “His Childre \lL'lullirvn " Peter B. Kayne, who has {built with part of his dubiously ac- quired wealth the huge brownstone mansion oceupied by the family, is a lovable reformed 1 of eighty. Rufus Kayne, his son, 'is a conven- tional, prosperous trust official who akes a disastrous fling financially and moral when he is past fifty, and learns the wisdom of simplicity and isincerity just as the book ses, Claudia, Diana and Sheila Kayne, daughters of Rufus, represent the Younger generation of the present and the pieture is not a hopeful udia, after a few years of with an aristoeratic English adventurer, returns to her - father's house with her children, whom she has kidnaped because she was unable to obtain a divorce under the unjus English divorce laws. Diana leads an independent life in circle scarcely known to her family time, unchaperoned. at house parti composed, except for her presence, en- tirely of men h a, only eighteen, < a popular member of a wild and awless juvenile se sensation, when danc family of of Yorkers marriage s have palled, Yogi practice. The fourth generation is represented by the two children of Claudia, who join old Peter B. in his trips to Central Park to feed the squirrels, and with him there at (lh(‘ May day festivities when he i the “stroke” which finally cau {death. An upproprizte ending to this | twentieth century “Vanity Fair ! the sale of the Kavne house at auc. tion, coincident with the death of the old “Pirate,” Peter B. P e have been interested in running the new book on “The Psychology of Handwriting.” = by { William “rench, which contains facsimiles of different hand- These illustrate differences physical types and writers, from which s to the characteristics ities are drawn. The hook s letters and autographs of the President and his cabinet and other representative men and women of the country. of business executives, scientists, artists, editors, writers, movie stars and criminals. Tn most cases the author furnishes an inter- pretation of character based on the handwriting. 1 through many writings. in mental states of deductions and the * Fik The sufferings that come from ignorance of social conventions, when one happens to be so placed in life that those conventions count heavily, is the theme of the anonymous frag- iment of a biography, “The Log-Cabin Lady.” In the preface Marie Meloney ot the Delineator says that the au- thor is “a woman of great social prominence, distinguished both in her own country and abroad.’s who has retused all remuneration for her book, but gives it to the public because she believes it contains a helpful message for other women. To pre- serve the anonymity, the geography and time have been slightly altered; otherwise the narrative purports to be a true one. The unknown author was born in a log cabin, of pioneer parents. and so primitive was her early life that when she was four- teen years old she had never seen a table napkin. Before she was twenty- one she married a man of wealth and old family, whom she met while she was taking a summer school course in New York. Then her troubles with social conventions began. These grew worse when shortly her husband was sent to Europe as a diplomat, and be- fore long she had become so un- happy that she was almost at the point of leaving her husband. Her own sincerity and common = gsense finally carried her through the first difficult vears, wntil she had learned savoir ‘faire. The geography of fiction is usually | bably in western Bor-| other | o in contrast | he dead calm in | She | actress—one | and spends much | in her seafeh for i she experiments with drug-taking and | ses his | “Figures won't lie, but 1t is as difficult to ascertain how much sugar there s in the world this year as to tell “How old is Ann.” The De- partment of Commerce has been ac- cused of bulling the market by indi- cating a world shortage. Consequent- 1y, we are paying about 40 per cent more for our sweets than we had been paying. Now comes the Department of Agri- culture with a statement that the crop s 200,000 tons greater than the crop of 1921-22, and nearly 2,000,000 short tons greater than the average for the five-vear period before the war—1909-10 to 1913-14 The beet sugar crop in the United short of last ar's supply, but E rope’s yield is 506,000 short tons sugar more than last vear's there appears every reason. so far as supply is concerned, to expect a fall in price. On the other hand, American con- sumption of sugar has inc ased, ow- ing to prohibition of intoxicants, since fugar is a substitute for liquor, but there are no reliable data as to how much the increase amounts to. { that the recent gouge in have no warrant w tlons. Whether the gov vestigation will succeed in detecting the. “master minds” of the bull con- |spiracy remains to be seen. The speculators have reaped many mil- Hons of profits. i o Ts there not a law against disgra ing the Army uniform? Ir not? When men in the unifo the Army undertake 10 picket President's home, In order to cc him into pardoning convicted ers, what recourse have re. Tt might be that an investig the actual service of these during the world war w some interesting and signifi Wh not, why of the re n ack- tion into picketers d expo t facte, should the police tolerate the picketing about the White House at any time? It was aggravating enough when it was permitted to a lot of sentimental women, but the sight of men purporting to be vet- erans, in the Army uniform, loafing at the cates of the White Houge, with impertinent banners on behalf of men now ving just sent s for acts and words of a treasonable nature during period of national peril while the American Army and Nav { were in act fighting, beyvond durance )t such n Legion rs, nor the v < the epirit of the Amer- or the Gold Star Moth- Sons and Daughters o the American Revolutic e raam- bers of the last named organization, oW in Session within sight of the pick- . certainly have a most edifying i on of Washington's patriotism to back to their homes ail over he * x % Waskington to jupon the founding ne {graduate college, as a t | Washington Univelsity of St. L together with the Institute of nomics and the Institute of Govern- ment Research. Here men who aim to make the government service their profession, and aspire to of doctor of philosophy w special training, and will | theses for the digree. Doubtless the spirit University” will coun- t hevist spirit of many universities and other institutions of learning throughout th against which radic nd registered his vigor- n a speech delivered a » at the annual conv tional Civie Federat felicitated of a post- anch of the st uis, he degree be 1 wi t ir of this new ous protest few nights tion_of the N 1 New York “Ther to parents see that t non 1 and daughters not ex insidious proy ight by doctrinaires and fa and fantastical professors who claim the privilege of academical Theso men should no longer corded the right to teach su, & Rk The strictures made by Mr. Han Lauds Col. Sherrill. Writer Pays Tribute for Efforts to Beautify Capital. To the Editor of The Star: There were three articles Washington Star last week appeal to the pe who { terested in the beautification { Nation's Capital. The first in [ The Sunday Star of April 5. and the {other two were in The Star of April {13. The titles were lows: “Seek Nation-wide Plan to Capi- Heauty.” “Propose a Larger Bo- tanic Garden of T Fifty Acres” and “Tokio Will Give Artistic Lantern to Potomac Park.” The last article stated that the eity of Tokio is pre- paring a reproduction of an old Jap- anese lantern and tablet to be placed among the cherry trees Park, as a gift from the Japanese i people to the American people. The leading art nd designers of Ja are at work preparing the old lantern {and tablet which eventually will find its place among the cherry blossoms. Washington’s chief charm its trees. The people are fortunate in having a man like Col. Clarence O. herrill in charge of publie buildings nd grounds, Col. Sherrill seems to really have the interest and beautifi- catlon of the city at heart. About a |year awo he undertook the task of estublishing a national arboretum in the National Capital. He had an ar- tistic label designed by the Commis sion of Fine Arts to mark the trees in the parks of Washington. The label is bronze, with raised lettering, showing the common and hotanical names of the tree, and the habitat. The Commission of Fine Arts es- tablished by an act of Congress in 1910, is composed of seven well quali- fled judges of the fine arts, who are appointed by the President for a period of four years each. When the people of the United States realize that we are indebted Lo the members of the Commission of Fine Arts for the Lincoln Memorial, Rock Creek Park, the preservation of the Mall and {he Memorial bridge, we can at least show our appreciation by wiv- ing them our moral support. These men are a body of experts, to whom the President and Congress can refer questions relating to the artistic de- velopment of the city of Washington Accordin to the plan of L'Enfant the Mall was intended to be a park- way between the Capitol and the White House. The parkway really extends from the Capitol to the Lin- coln Memorial. At present the Mall fs marred by having the Botanic Garden_at the foot of the Capitol. Mount Hamilton, east of Bladensburg road, has been recommended as a site for the Botanic Garden. If some ther site is selected Mount Hamilton £hould be purchased as a part of pro- posed park plans. 1t would be an attractive addition to the National Arboretum. A parkway should con- nect Potomac Park, Rock Creek Park, Soldiers' Home Park, Mount Hamilton; Anacostia and James Creek canal. A national park should be made of the Virgin forests on the Virginia banks of the Potomu¢ from Georgetown to Great Falls. Boulevards should be made on both sides of the river from Georgetown to Great Falls. These plans have all been recom- mended by the Commission of Fina Arts. If the people of the United States would give their support to these pluns the Nation's Capital would become the most- beautiful city in the greatest country of the world. NCHE C. HOWLETT. ee in The at will ple re in- of the was f Develop { tal 22 ! O in Potomac CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS States is 347,000 short tons of sugar ) 1 patriots? | mond against the political radicalisin of American colleges are found alsp in connection with much of the ool lege professors’ attitude on religious th, and the seeds of atheism agnosticism are sown through supe ficial “higher -criticism,” until man% parents are distressed as to where they dare send their children fo- their real Instruction. 2 xx \ | Genuine criticism, whether of or thodoxy or of nev hur either; it is only the superficial, 1 settling which disturbs. At the met ing of the American Geoph: Union in Washington this week, Rend resentative H. W. Temple of Pe sylvania declared that what scien needs is a press agent who stands both science and how it to the public so it will be stood Th 3. E. science unds to tel under- by was heartily indorsed Slosson, director of the servic Dr. Slosson cited, illustration of the need « interpreters of science, the ry and the discovery of s tomb. d that only a dozen per hended the Einstein t were many more than entists present whe made that statement, it would been lightening to have ha showing of hands upon it. The tor further said that “jou rushed where astronomers f to tread,” and, as a result, much information was given to the pul * ok kK poi Ein:t Tuta dozen Who said it “misinformati from a journalistic st doctor had just s imself knew was all about. Woes 1 slo lize that to the jour the point of interest is not w Newton's apple hit the wrong t | or whether the power of gr inherent in the sun, could b fand prove t ight is matter a ethereal motion. As a Chicago newspaper ma: claimed to his scientific brother « | days ago: “Who the devil cares? hody, aside from the twelve Einste aposiles. To the newspaper man thrill of something new and revol tional mportant “raw material” for his mi publi tion of what legitimately thrills interest is the function of the news paper man, and scientists who call fo a press agent, and do agent, but 4 dry-a who would suppi tions, think they t—but they don® the romance romantic move is what scienc never half o g as {tis in this and inventio * v w beside | stein theory r son re a str w the n it was e dis: cade by other ca ted unearthing of the the doctor savs while it v n: The Tutankhamen. i of popu ny to the fant f the uncov ar tic supe allel which Why inte thrillir i t imagination and de nstrable facts alone—dry a The wail of the scientist be- the public is not aroused fo 1y, and d toid s rinates dust s cause feve heat things tory a over u; night” when weird curse, just the difference between t tory and the press. It is the b possible proof that Mr. Temple w right in ng what sciern ghost s recated thae very con public_ comprehension appre of science which call for an terpreter—not a bespectacled labora tory man. { (Copyrig Colline.) Praises Bird Articles. Busy Folks Have No Excuse for Tgnorance Now, She Says. To the Editor of The Star: 1 wish to learnin; series birds of the District and vieinity, be April %, on the magazine page of Star. Ther: ms to be little excuse for a busy person to complan of having time to learn anything at »out our birds, for it takes onl express my pleasure n of articles on yn he now not couple of minutes to glance at nd read the compr though not extensive, informa just enough to be a dally who care to lovk up furthe subject of our ! Is it a_mere s series on the featl songsters and “Be Kind to Anima week should both have started on Ajr 47 1t is appropriate, at least, i ' of humane education, e td tell the about the articles and see that thes not miss a single one. Later on, a collection has been made, an inter ing scrapbook might be the resul be sent to children in a charitable ganization or hospital. or to be Plied to # church or humane so library. Miss Vi will be glad to receive such s hooks at the Animal Rescue Le (349 Marylund avenue southwes will put them to.good use. This be one way in_which to continus ntiment of “Be Kind to Anin week a little longer. All too mars youngsters never g of country air, see a iy or get into close, sympath-ti with nature, spending ra her acation days playing fr the chasing cats and doxs or stoning birds. But once get thei in the animals, birds rs from the point of view re_God's works, not to be stroyed, but to be loved so as to nake man_himeelf happier, and the heart of the roughest rowdy can be mad to respond. This i e writer, wiio deepl in humane eu- tion work, especially from the re- ligions point of view, and who kn. something of what can be accdni- hed, urges so strongly the n universal observation of the we Sunday that have just passed. The fare of the dumb creation is not only factor involved. The be treatment of mankind himself by brother man cannot help but be result of teaching the younger eration of today to be considerat: the rights and happiness of ing creature. When they b citizens of tomorrow they will harder for child labor and pr form laws, for the Christian educ of the thousands of children without it, for the reform of the slaughter house and, better still, for the encouragement of vegetariar sm, for the abolishment of the w steel trap, of vivisection, and of of other practices leaving death, and_injustice to their wake. Although several tures have marked the observ “Be Kind to Animals” week and mane Sunda¥ this year through ap- I peals to ministers, schools and indi- {viduals, still more can be done next year to make our Capital city & wor- thy example of this important senti- ment of humane education. More pet sonal interest and financial support should make possible at least thess three additional features, a parade well cared for animals, 4 local poster and essay contest in the schools, and, it possible, A common pet animal show. VIRGINIA W, SARGEN" 11, i 1 1 su vs and gr's on p- p- A ble or the w and’ that de- tion 1ow man and beist interesting fea- \ ot