Evening Star Newspaper, April 25, 1923, Page 6

- THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. G April 25, 1923 FAEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor | ¥'fie Evening Star Newspaper Company Wusiness Office. 11th St. and Peansylvania Ave. o New Yok Offce: 130 Nassao St i Chicago Office: Towsr Bulldt ! * Buropean Office: 16 Regent 8t.. Loadon. Eagland. | Star. with the Sunday morning T Beent fers within the city | #uttion, i dellvered by t s il ST mouth: 5 onlv. 20 cents per . Or- | Eora mav be seat by mail, ac telephone Muin | €000, Collsction is made by carriers at the | ‘end of each moath. H Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. JPaily and Sunday.. 1 mo., T8¢ \Daily only. v'lflny only. All Other States. #£oihg on, while London mufictns are planning to observe on May 8 the bundredth anniversary of the public singing of “Home, Sweet Home" and there will be obxervance of the cen- tenary in this country. There are ties between Washington city and John Howard Payne of which some of our newer citizeas do .not know. Payne degan touring the east and south as am actor in 1809, when he was eighteen years old, and ap peared in Washington. He went to England in 1813, was actor and play- wright, anli fame came to him through the song ““Home, Sweet Home." He becgme well known in Washington in the eatly ’40s, before being appointed { United States consul to Tunis, and on his recall in 1845 he was a familiar figure here while seeking appointment 10 @ more agreeable post. He was re- appointed to TuMs, where he died in 1862, sPajly and Sunday..1yT., $10.0 Daily only r., "$7.00; 1 mo., 60 Sunday only. $8.00; 1mo. 25¢ | NMember of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled “te the use for republicatien of aml mews gis- itches credited o 1t or ot otherwise credited | this paper and also the local mews -lished herein. Al Time did not stale- “'Home, Sweet Home.” 1t became more popular -as the years passed. It was played and sung in every home, and the great artists among musicians sang and played it. In the ewly 'S0s W. W. ington’s losees could be kept to & negiigible minimun. With' the beét of apparatus and the largest force and inadequate water, or a supply that may fail in & big emergency, it is at the mercy, immune as it is in general terms, of a devastation beyond meas- ure. This is not merely a matter of local concern. It is of national importance. For the government itgelf is involved, {n its buildings and records and in the continuity of its administrative work. Let this matter be put before Congress at the next session in such terms that further negiect would be a faiture of dnty without the least excuse. —_—————— A Step Toward Recognition: Two eminent Americans, of high capacity in diplomatic and practical affajrs, have been named to represent the United States in the negotiations about to be conducted directly with Mexico for the necessary adjustment of the Mexican fundamental law that will effect the guarantees required by this government as a condition to recognition of the neighbor republic. irighes ot hblssaion of | Corcoran of this city conceived the|{Former Ambusssador Charles B. War. alse Specia) dlapaiches herots are reserved__ ! plan of removing Payne's remains|ren and former Secretary John Barton The Fat in the Fire. Politically-minded republican sena- tors are quoted as belleving that as a. result of the President's speech ves. from Tunis to Washington, and they were interred at Oak Hill cemetery Saturday, June 9, 1883, with solemn and distinguished honors. All the mili. tary and civic organizations that could Payne are exceptionally qualified to serve in this capacity. The former has had an extensive experience as representative of this government at a foreign capital, and the latter has terday in New York the “fat is in the | be brought together here followed the { through his close study of Mexican fire”; in other words, that the contest hearse. The President, cabinet, jus- affairs become one of the foremost between the President and those mem- | tices of the Supreme Court, judges of | authorities in the United States upon bers of his party who have opposed | the District courts and hundreds ofithat question. some or most of the major policies of ‘His administration now is on in ear- nest. ] Such being the case, it is well to examine not only the fat itself but the manner of its being in the fire. For this contest which seems impending is not one in which merely the fortunes of Mr. Harding and a group of ‘senators are involved. It is the affair of the whole American people. It is their fat which is declared to have been consigned to the flames, and if dignitaries in church, state, Army and Navy attended the service. A marble monument topped by a bust of Payne stands above his grave. Not & Party Issue. President Harding, in his address yesterday, courageously challenged the opponents of the International Court of Justice to make it a party question, and his elucidation of the subject clearly proved that they and their followers have no ground for Soon specific_arrangements will be made for a meeting of the representa- tives of the two countries. The suc- cess of the dealings seems assured from the present conditions at Mexico City. Informal indications have been given that Mexico has found a way to meet the requirements to recognition. Thus the appointment of the Ameri- can commissioners is not merely speculative, but is based upon a cer- ain measure of assurance. The American position in this mat- it kindle an excessive conflagration the justification in a threatened split of | t€¥ is clearly stated. There is no de- whole people will feel the hurt of burns. They are going o want to Rnow if there was any necessity for uch a fire, and if not whose spirft of incendiarism it was that applied the match. @k® the proposal for American ad- Bevence to the protocol establishing e Court of International Justice. Why shculd that start any fat to burning? As was commented upon yesterduy in these columns, Mr. Hard-{ Ang showed that not only his own uz~} terances, but the formal declarations i of the republican party, had been con. | sistently in favor of American mem- bership in such e tribunal. As the President said, his proposal to the depate in the closing days of the last session was @ “simple, natural, normal proceeding,” but certain senators pro- fessed to regard it as both new and revolutionary. They are afraid. Some of them. apparently, are afraid of the court, of the league of nations and of @verything else that hears on or apper- | tins to Europe. Others, having mo| fear of Europe, seemingly are scared | of the voters back home, assuming as 2 basis for their fright that the voters are going to be scared by those who are scared of Europe. The President does not believe that entry fnto the world court with reservations in- volves us in European entanglements, Both he and his party are pledged to the adjudication of international dis- putes, and he is willlng to stand by his' own and his party's promises. He and his party are also ‘committed against hurtful foreign entanglements, and renewing his piedge of loyalty to this policy, he promises to veto any legislative proposal involving such en- tanglements. Then there is the matter of an American merchant marine. Why is| that fat in the fire? The republican party has been pledged for & quarter of & century to the upbuilding of American shipping. The war finally save -us the ships, at an enormous ¢ost, and the peace left them on our hends, more a liability than an asset %0 long as they remained in govern- ment ownership. The President pro- Dosed to Congress a practical way out of the difficulty, @ way which would at once have kept the ships afloat un- der the American flag and lessened the drain on the federal Treasury. Congress—or rather the BSenate—re- fused to accept the President’s plan, though it had no solution of its own for the problém to offer in its stead. So he inténds, the President an- nounced yesterday, to go ahead and @o the best he can to redeem his own and his party’s promises. He proposes to consolidate the lines and-service, epplying the costly lessons' learned under government operation, then try 1o sell. 1t he cannot’sell without un- dus sacrifice, he will continue govern- Sneht operation. and will operate ag- gressively, unless and until Congress by, law forbids. As in the case of world court membership, he holds it 1s simply & question of whether prom- iges, his own promises and those of his party, were meant to be kept or mere put forth merely to meet the Bxigencies of politics. : On both of these great questions the President regards himself as bound by & covenant with the American people, and he does not intend to be placed in the ‘position of one who.holds faith lightly. A ———— :'Fhe Pubdlic Utilities Commission de- clares the one-man-cars are to “stay.” That.is the objection so many people glvs to them. ———— ) John Howard Payne. - A reproduction of the hame of John ‘Howard Payne is being bullt near the Shérman -monument south of the ‘Treasury. The structure is to serve as @ buresu of information for Shrine women during Shrine week, and as & feature of the better-home celebration which._is one of Washington's coming observances. Later the John Howard Payne house will be removed to an- ther site, and there it will remain. “_The Juaquin Miller cabin is & place of interest end pilgrimage to many persons, and & reproduction of the | ! the republican par *'1 do not hold it a menace to the unity of any political party,” declared the President. “It is not to be classed as a party question, but if any party, repeatedly advocat- ing a world court, is to be rended by the suggestion of un effort to perform in accordance with its pledges it needs a new appraisal of its assets.” The President is right. The repub- lican leaders who apprehend a split do not correctly interpret the temper of the country, it is belicved, and the President in this instance has keener instinct than the so-called ‘“hard- boiled™” politicians. There is nothing in the pending propoeal that contra- venes the spirit of the clectorate when in 1920 it upheld the republican party's opposition to entry into the league of nations by a majority of seven million. The situation next year may not be unlike that in 1896, when there were silver republicans and silver demo- crats, but the preponderance of senti- ment was for sound money. The President proposes an objeclive which it is believed the great mase of the people favor, a step toward interna- tional peace-keeping without the Im- pairment of American sovereignty and national independence. It is pertinent to inquire of the threatened party-splitters where would they go if they left the republican party; to the extreme Wilson league of nations faction of the democratic party? Or, if that faction does not control in the making of the demo- cratic national platform, would they resort to a modified league pian? If the republican party does split over this question it will do itself to death by its own hand, as it did in 1912, and will deserve its fate. —_—— The soviet political department is said to be subjecting Most Rev. Dr Tikhon to repeated electric shocks to jmake him declare the soviet govern- ment is legal, and that communist doctrines are competible with the highest religious principles. Electric- ity 18 in -most ways superior to the burning pitch used by Nero, but it is doubtful if, in this sort of thing, it will work any better. There are a good many inquisitors in one place, and & number of martyrs in anéther, who would be likely to testify as to its futility. —_— Wonder how long it will take the “knights of the road” to learn how to stow themselves away on the new fy- ing “box care"? Tough to be kicked off of one while it was in transit! —————e————e A motor beat steered by a dead man with a bullet in his chest was lassoed in. New York harbor. ‘Yo, Ho, Ho, and & Bottle of Rui —_—— Fire Risk and Water Lack. Experience at the lumber yard fire Sunday morning, in fighting which the fire department was handicapped by inadequate water supply—while the adjacent suburban section was elmost completely deprived of water—will, it is believed, lead to @ strong demand by the Commissioners for large appro- priations for new mains, not only in that part of the city, but elsewhere. NoO matter what the loss at that par- ticular fire, whether it was greater than it would have been had more water been available, the fact is plain that the District is not at this time adequately protected. Its water smerv- ice has been extended and developed by plecemeal, and not with a view to spread of business and habitation over a long period. It has been spared a great disaster by good fortune rather than through the: sufficiency of fire- fighting means. It heas an excellent fire department, admirably manned, apd in the main well equipped with apparatus. Its broad streets permit a rapid response to alarms. Its lack of industrial congestion lessens the risk of fire spread. General conditions fa- vor it in its defenss against this ele- ment of destruction. But in one. par- ticular, -that the most vital, the supply of water, without which fires cannot be.subdued, it is deficient, and sirc to interfere in Mexico's internal affairs or to suggest what laws that nation shall enact. It is held that when a nation has invited intercourse with others, and has sanctioned contracts entéred into and property rights ac- lQ\.flrPd by foreigners, it is an esscntial condition that there shall be no resort to confiscation and repudiation. In short, all the United States requires is that Mexico shall grant the guaran- tees of security that are granted by other nations with which it maintains friendly rclations. Much progress has been made in Mexico toward etability. Under Presi- dent Obregon the country has been brought ot of the chaos of misrule and revolution. Prosperity has re vived. The Tich resources of the land are being -@eveloped. ‘Bandit been suppressed to as great an extent, {in all likelihood, as in the United States, where, unhappil it still pre- vails at times and in places. The state is in a strong position, stronger than for many years, and there is no rea son to look for any reverses. A settlement of the question of guarantees and the extension of recog- nition will not only establich the United States and Mexico upon a basis of firm friendship and close re lationship, but will strengthen the position of all the American republics. It will advance the day of gencral peace ubon this hemisphere. ———— “Diplomatic,” read the newly ap. | proved special tags for motor vehicles owned by representatives of forcign governments. Why not complete the usual trio of adjectives and issue “Con- gressional” for our guardians on the hill and “Residential” for the rest of us? —_———— A bunch of New York six-day dancers was taken out to sea to avold police interference. Pity is that the boat ever turned back. ———— Cincinnati starts off the base ball season with an infleld composed of Fonseca, Bohne, Caveney and Pinelli. Shades of Donahue, Delehanty, Mec- Bride and Conroy. " SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON | The Price of Prominence. Some day, if you will study hard, oh, little barefoot boy. And go without the pleasures youth's accustomed to employ; It you will not go swimming or at- tempt to catch a fish, But carefully refrain from gratifying every wish, N Perhaps you may be President or, more ezalted still, A hero at whose name a grateful popu- lace will thrill. Although your bill-of-fare be scant and from a kitchen crude, Fame may bring compensation for a leck of fun and food. Perhaps they'll put up statues to pre- serve your counterpart i And critics will regard you as a men- ace to. true art. The children at their books of fear will never quite be rid; They can’t remember how you spelled your name and what you did. The mortal who performs his simple duty day by day ing neither work nor play. Though books and statuary may not celebrate his fame, He'll get his little tombstone and be happy just the same. Sir Killjoy. Sang a song of springtime; Blossoms on the trees! Birds prepare to warble | ‘With the murmur of the breeze! Talked about the sunshine ‘That was s00n to come— Couldn’t get an dnswer from My old friend, Mr. Glumm. New York home of the author of(through no fault of the municipal | He talked about the weather ‘Home, ' Sweet Homs” will b fea: fare of high sentimental and instruc- tional value, and it might be the in- “apiration . which _weuld -cause the building &t the capital of duplicates of homes of Americans deserving such Jnonor. The construction of & duplicate of the ‘John. Howerd Payne home is AL | executives, who have for years been pleading with Congress on. this score. Fire iz not to be regarded as an in- evitable evil. It can be prevented. Loas can be curtailed. It isall & ques- tion of how much is spent for protec. tion and prevention. With enough fire engines and firemen and water Wash. In most discourteous terms. “The housefly’s drawing near, said, 3 “And likewise moths and germs"— ‘When trying to be cheerful TYou'd better far be-dumb; Than start & conversation with Blessed is the bald brother. He is the advance guard of a higher civili- zation, In the far future, all men will be bald—unless evolution jumps & cog and the human race settles down to & contented and unprogressive old age. 5 This balm for the bald is furnished Ly a Washington scientist, Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, who knows head. For five years he measured heads, thirjy-four centuries old, among the wind biown sands in the silent Valley of the Kings, where Carnarvon guined his glory and lost his life. More recently he has measured them, still with beauty blessed, upon the shoulders of a thousand American women. Being a scientist gives a man privi- leges and immunities. A mere man would not dare refer to these women as old. But Dr. Hrdlicka ie curator of anthropology fn the National Mu-i seum. Smithsonian Institution. and jone of the leading sclientists, in hi line. in the world. He calls these women old Americans—and gets by with it { But he appeals to their pride and} Ancestry. What he means is that they are of old American stock. that all of their ancestors for about 300 years have been born in America. It is a dangerous thing and un- Seemly to mention women and bald- ness the same day—but wait a min- ute. “Baldness,” says Dr. Hrdlicka t of the treud of evolu- ized humanity. Nature ot Jong tolerate what has be- come usele: Civilized man no longer us hair. Nature tukes it away from him." Once in a while, there is a bald- headed savage, but he was scalped by gomebody or something. If it wasn't his neighbor fn the next jungle, it waus disease in his own hut. ages use their hair, do not constantly cut it away. and nature lets them keep It—until they become civilized. Does he mean that the head with the high gloss rewlly containe more brain power than the one that tosses 2 tousied man He does not answer directly. Tn- 8tead he runs his fingers through the graying strands combed back over the top of his own head. _“Early grayness, t00.” he goes on, “is a sign of advancing civilisation, one of “the things that happen to hair when it is not used. But it is not quite %o sure an index to advance- ment as baldness. Other things may cause it—worry, hardship, lang-con- tinued hunger, fright.” Is it true that bair grows white In a night of horror? Dr. Hrdlicka buzaes the buzzer. foung wom comes softly to the oor. “is t 1 l he = “that Jetter the human |, D. C, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 1923.' v ——————— e —— THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON Y WILLIAM PICKETT HELM from Gen. Greely—the one written 1ast year on Cosmos Club stationery. he does; and here is the story. Greely _started to the north pole, forty and fit. His hair was dark brown, without a silver thread. It remained that way to the fag-end of the trip. Then he nearly starved. When he was rescued at Cape Sa- bine in 1884 his hair was white wool. But in that case the bleaching covered & period of weeks, at least. Does halr turn hite in_a night? 'Oh, it doe: says Dr. rdlicka. eopie wonder how the <oloring mat- ter gets out of the hair so quickl The answer is, it does not. Air bub- bles get in, und they have the same effect, ®o far as color is concerned.” Dr.' Hrdlicka explaius, howeve thut fright-white is not a fast color. The air bubbles gradually get out. Gen. Greely's hair was brown again within & year after he got home. In other words, when you get badly frightened vou have a rush of air bubbles to the topknot. Maybe that's what you feel when your “hair_stands on end.” = The recent measuring of skulls of old Americans—men . were included. too—shows that more than half the American men of the old stock are bald in some degree. But—and prob- ably this should he printed in whis- Der type—it shows that American women get bald, too. They: could not fool Dr. Hrdlicka There were no mitigating circum- Stances, such as switches. When he measured the skuils of the Old American women. they had their hair combed and hanging down th backs, Aside from baldness, here is some- thing else he found: There are more low-brow women than there are low-brow men' Also, there are more women - than therc are men. And the difference in favor of the women is greater at this end of the line than the difference in favor of the men at the other. What it amounts. to is that there are fewer ordinary women than ordinary men. “But, about baldness,” Dr. Hrdlicka goes on, “women get bald, hut not o such an extent or in sucli numbers men. Already, there is what we call a male-linked predisposition to baldness, which is inherited by men but not by women. Women use their halr; they let it grow: the weight of it acts as a stimulant.” But that ma change in the course of time—we may have a race of bald-headed women some da Can't we start on the back track? A world of hald women §3 not to be thought of. How is it likely to happen. anvhow? “Becuuse,” mays Dr. Hrdlicka, “if girls keep on bobbing their hair— but I don't believe they will, do vou?" Who can tell? Where blows the wind? high-brow high-brow evolution “But, .daoctor.” 1 p ted, it used hair gradually fades from head. what about our unused kers? He lo he said. un- the whis- d at me intently is another story.” Descendant of Confucius Venerated By Countrymen BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | A few months ago I called atten- tion in these letters to the presence | {4t Madison University, Wisconsin, of studept who. under the name of ! “Muller N. M. Kung,” was no other than the so-called “Holy Duke” Ling iHsuan >f China, seventy-sixth in| ‘unlvrokt‘n descent in the male line fro Confucius, and whose ancestry goes back hundreds of years beforc Confucius, to 4 date twelve centuries before the birth of Christ—that s to say, for more than 2,000 veare, during all of which time his family has been in the possession of the lands in the province of Shantung which owns it today. - The duke at the Madison Uni- versity, Wisconsin. enjoved until his recent departure for England, on his way home to China, the profound veneraiion of all his countrymen here, not only as lineal descendant from Confucius, but also as a guardian of the latter's tomb at Kyfu, which has sometimes been de- seribed as the Mecea of China. * x % now T learn that the Uni- versity of Illinofs s charged with the ¢ducation of the two sons of Hulide Edii Hanum, wife of Adnam vice president of the assembly {at Angora, and its acting minister of cducation, also governor last year for a time of Constantinople. The voung men pursued until last win- ter iheir studies at Robert College, | Constantinople, where their mother also had received her education. But, fearing for their safety, in view of the constantly disturbed conditions at Constantinople, she shipped them off to the United States, where, on arrival in New York, they were con- fided to the care of the president of the University of Illinois. Few in this country are aware of their identity. XNo woman has been the subfect of more interest and attention than their mother, who has been described as the “Turkish Joan of Arc,” who was for a tine the Egeria of Kemal Pasha, and who has besn credited in the past with the authorship of many of the commu- nications issued from Angora. to the outer world by Mustapha Kemal Pagha. She is a native of Constantinople; on-l with the affair led her to throw herself into the nationalist movement at An- ora and to ally herself with Kemat| sha. | And tered the American College of Stam- boul at the age of fourteen and pub- lished at sixteen a book attacking the ‘Turkish customs with regard to women, condemning the harem system as de- grading. and orously ~ protesting against the ude of the veil. Her first husband, Salib Bey, was a professor of mathematics, but when he decided that he could afford to support an addi- tional wife ghe divorced him, and in d course was married to her present hus: band, Adnam Bey, by profession & phy- sician. She was’ enthusiastically pro- English until, in spite of her protest, two of her Turkish friends were mur- @ered by the Greeks and she was unable to obtajn any redress. Indeed, the treatment which she underwent at the hands of some of the entente commis- eioners at Constantinople in connection * ok ok % There is no doubt, whatsoever, but what she took a very active part in the gTowth of the population and the | May live in Bweet contentment, miss. | 118 CRmPaiEn to drive all the Greeks and Christian population from out of Asia Minor, and that she fought with her own hands against the Greeks, whence her name of “The Amazon of the Angora.” But. many of the storles told about her prowess in the earlier wars of the Ottoman em- pire against the Balkan states, dur- ing the conflict with the entente, and the attempted invasion of Egypt v Palestine, are of ‘a purely legendar i the -as Student in U. S, character. ever. There is no doubt. that she has been the pioncer of woman reform in Turkey, and had | already acquired fame as 4 story writer, and as & novelst. hefore th downfall of Sultan Abdul Hamed. Indecd. her literary activities were of such a sensational character that | Abdul Hamed, during his brief return | to power, ordered her arrest and her Eentence 'to death. but she escaped the fate in store for her by flight She is no longer in tho first bloom of youth, nor does she present an appearance that conveys the im- pression of romance. Indeed. her persecution by Sultan on account of her advanced ideas, in- dicate that she must be & voman of nearer fifty than forty, and in the near cast the fair sex age very rapid- | 1y. She still remains an important factor in Ottoman politics by reason | of her writings, and of her public terances. But she has o ercise any influence on Kemal Pash since his marriage to his present young. comely, wealthy and master- ful wife. who 'is very jealous of her authority over him. B Moreover. Adnam Bey, her husband, who has been recently one of the vice presidents of the national assembly at Angora, has never quite recovered his prestige since he was dismissed from the governorship of Constanti- nople for having permitted the ex- sultan to escape from his palace on board an English man-o'-war to seok refuge, first at Malta and now at Mecea As a graduate of Robert College. at Constantinople, she speaks English with the utmost fluency, and on sey- t- * % * eral occasions she has contemplated ! visiting the United States and Great Britain, in order to deliver a series of public addresses and lectures in behalf of Turkish natlonalismy and of the Angora regime. But there is a very great doubt as to whether she would be well reccived, owing to the stories which have been so widely published here. as in western Eurape, of her complicity and even active participation in tiie murders and even wholesale maseacres of the Christian races of Syria and of Asia Minors In- deed, it is hardly likely that she would escape the knife or the bullet of some Armenian or Greek who had lost all his property and those most dear to him through the crueity and | barbarity of the Turks. * % % % Although Maj. John Jacob Astor. younger brother of Lord Astor and who last year put up most of the money needed for the restoration of the London Times into the hands of the Walter dynasty, is supposed to make his principal residence at Hever Castle, in Kent, which his father, tho late Lord Astor, restored to its medieval condition, utterly re- gardless of cost and comfort, vet there is no place where he feels so much at home as at Meikelou, the beautiful old place n - Perthhire which came to his wife's first hus- b\nd. the late Lord Charles Nairne, who was killed in the war, and which will descend in the course of time | to his son, still a very small boy. It came to Lord Nairne through his mother from Lord Keith, whose daughter married the Conte de Fla- hault, the lover in his carly dayvs of Queen Hortense of Holland. There was no secret made of this romance between the queen and the count, for the pages of the Almanach de Gotha officially describe the late Duc de Morny as the offspring of Queen Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland and of the Conte de Flahault. One of the daughters of the Conte de Flahault by his Scotch wife married the late Marquis of Lansdowns, father of the present marquis, and late Marquis of , Lansdowne, Charles Nairne and handed over the 12,000-acre estate of Meikelour to him on the occasion of his marriage. IN A FEW WORDS. “The average daughter of the aver- age househoid having been spoil from the.cradle up expects her hu band to go on with the performanee. APa BELEY ALLEN. T 3 - I- wish: women would emancipate themselves from a lot of their foolish notions. T long for the day when they will be free from their present. ob sion to imitate men In everythin LR, ARTHUR HOLMES. < undlfo is & lmd‘bt fi "u." mas- uerading as a lan o b i —HENRI BRUERE. Were it not for fear of what the neighbors would say there would be many more marriages go on the rocks in_the divorce courts.—JUDGE SAM- UEL SILBERT (Cleveland, Ohio). If the German nation once discovers that right can be victoriously defend- ed by passive resistance it never again will wage war. —PROF. HANS DELBRUECK. Correspondence is as definitely an .ol{(:;h-.ruuar 48 either verbal how- ! Abdul Hamed, | I Politics at Large President Harding, n his speech be- fore- the members of the Assoclated 4| Press in New York yesterday, ls re- garded in political circles as having practically begun the series of public addresses which he will deliver dur- ing the summer outlining the achievements of his sdministration anq announcing the admihlstrative Dolicies to be followed In the future and to be recommended for legislative action. : Republican leaders will await with profound anxiety and interest the re- action of the public to his address of yesterdey in explanation of the pre posal of adheslon of the United Stat. to the International Court of Justice, which reaction is expected to be prompt and easily translated. It should reflect the temper of the peo- 277e ~pon second thought. Those politi- cal leaxers who advised tha P: ent ® undertaking, on account unpopularity with great numbers of republican voters, will find out whether they were right or wrong. In making that recommenda- tion to the President they did not utter their own sentiments alone. They were reflecting the pressu: brought upon them by their repub- lican constituents and passing it on to the titular head of the party. ok ok That, however, was before the President explained and clarified the purposes, scope and the limitations as well of the project in hand. There is no question that there was widespread misunderstanding and lack of knowl- edge of the proposition. This was shown by the nature of the objections urged by many of the protestants. Proteste literally showered upon some of the party leaders in Con- gress and in other circlés in Waeh- Ington. Perhaps all of the recipients did not share the views expressed by their correspondents, but they could not fail to be fmpressed by the vol- ume of them and to discern a dan- gerous condition of affairs:for the party. The opinion among politicians is that the President made a very lucid jand succinct explanation of his plan nd its effect and that he pointed out | with clarity the lack of foundation {upon which some of the objections to and apprehensions of the effoct of the | working out of the plan were con- structed. There is no concealment of the fact that the party leaders who ~choed the protests of their party {colleagues were seriously alarmed at conditions, d they will e the first to be relieved at the reaction if it promises to muke for a hetter under- standing and harmony in the party ranks. Iudication of this anxlety among the leaders was shown when John T. Adams, chairman of the republican jnational committes, found it desir- jable to attend the Associated Fress jluncheon. where the address was de- |livered. in persou to sense tas reuc- Ition of feeling of the publishers und I proprietors of the newspapers rapre- lsented there. Chalrman Adams, as the responsible manager of the paity's affaire, had been peculiarly sensibie of the volume and character of the objections to the world court plan. Tle also knew of the state of fecling in hix own state of Towa, regarded as 4 tock-ribbed republican conimon- wealth. and it is no secret that he was alarmed of asserte i w ok & x The next thought that will engage | the politicians is, what will the President do if the reaction of the inext or ten days shows pro- | nounced hostility to his plan? Will he }drop it in the face of the please and arguments he presented for its adop tion, or will he continue its advocacy in the addresses he proposes to make this summer and seek to eway public opinion to its support. | The republican leaders and oppon- are apprehensive of the agit and possible bewllderment of ught which would follow such a ree, other thought is that if a proncunced favorable reaction should sct in, b the President should deem further discussion unnecessary now, would the subject be relegated to the next j Congres sion and come up for acbate in the Senate on the eve of the campaign? . L O There arc two schools of opinion }among the advisers and political | counselors of the President. One fears { that adhesion to the world court plan | would be accepted by the voters as a | concession to the democratic position jon international affairs. The other apprehends that abandonment of the { plan would be viewed as accentuating American aloofness so sharply as to falienate an element In republican party, which was willing to accept the ieague of nations with the reser- {vations proposed by the Senate. Presi- dent Harding is understoon to belfeve |that with respect to the ‘vote getting ialiies of the plan, aside from he regards as the logic and hu- ty of it..his position is not to be {1ightly considered. . * % % K Politicians are already beginning to discuss what effect the acceptance or rejection of the International Court of Justice might have upon the President’s renomination. At this time general political opinfon awards him the renomination without cavil | Whether the world court project may that outlook will be the subject ::'(firem thought and careful observa- tion by the President's friends. Chauncey M. Depew, a politictan of parts and high up in the business and financlal world, evidently thinks that other considerations will have im- portant welght in the renomination. Speaking on the occasion of his eighty- ninth birthday, he said: “Harding has made good. His only misfortune is fn having a Congress that was not prop- erly led. His renomlnl"l.(un d:‘pe‘ndl a eat deal on prosperity, and in my 55?.?.& prosperity is here to stay and grow.” week * % % x The test of reaction upon the President's spsech {8 expeoted to come when the public makes up its mind whether to belleve the down- right, expli¢it and distinct assurance he gave that the world court plan had not the remotest connection with the league of nations, or whether it will continue to cherish its first im- pression that it would prove a stalk ing horse -for that enterprise, . r jected by the voters. AR One of. President Hardings ex- pressions will probably beoéme a Slogan for the supporters - of his recommendation. He declared - that it would not mean the entrance into the league “by the side door, the back door or the cellar door.” He gave further aseurance by pointing out that any aetion would have to be ratified by the Senate; that it was inconceivable that the Senate would agree to anything ap- proaching entrance into the league and then he declared flatly that even if the Senate did so, he would refuse to carry it to ratification. * R Xk Friends of the upbuilding of the merchant marine found comfort in the’ President’s declaration that the administration does’ not ' Intend through pique of disappointment at the fallure of Congress to pass the merchant marine bill, to abandon the fleet. It i8 to be operated as best it may be-under the limitationa anda handicaps, but a fleet shall keep the as. S®Meanswhile it is to be expected that the President will continue his rec- ommendations for the bettering of conditions and in his public addresses will educate the country on the subject. = " CAPITAL KEYNO ES BY PAUL V. COLLINS The American Railway Association announces a program of increasing efficiency, that, in itself, demonstrates how much slack there has been, ‘which may be taken up. For example, it is proposed to increase the aver- age mileage per car to thirty miles @ day. It has been only about twen- ty-two miles a day. Cars have been running at the whizzing speed of a miles an hour, or less. Now, if they can be speeded up €0 that they will &0 & mile and a third an hour, actu- ally beating a tortolse, it will be equivalent to adding millions of dollars' worth of equipment. proposed also to load the cars 80 as to average thirty tons and to reduce the proportion n the shope, laild up for re- pairs, so that there will never be more’ than 5 per cent of the equip- ment of cars and 16 per cent of loco- motives out of service. * % % x During 1022 the railroads borrowed money and fnvested $440,000,000 in équipment and trackage; in 1823, the program calls for $1.540,000,000 for the same purpose, but if the taking up of the slack in the matter of mile- age per day per car, and the full loading, be accomplished, it will amount to more, in efficient service, than all the pew equipment. The low e time the ing and unloading, and that can be n!uced by the adoption of better methods. * ok ok The Dbpartment of Agriculture announces that the grain futures act, which the Supreme Court has recently upheld, does not necessarily abolish trading in futures, so long as the exchanges do not seck to corner the market or send out misinformation, and do not bar co-operative’ farm organizations from seats on ‘change. The law empowers the Secretary of Agriculture to control the actions of exchanges In these matters, which gives assurance of a square deal for the grain raisers. * % K ¥ It ie not only lumber that Americans are using faster than nature can reproduce the supply. It is announced by Dr. H. F. Moore, députy commissioner of the United States bureau of fisheriés, that thel Maryland oyster beds suffer a net de- crease of 50,000 bushels of oysters an- nually. We are using 2,600,000 bushels At the present rate, the which haa been built up the centuries, will suon bo exhausted The remedy proposed includes the shutting_down on gathering any oy sters from half the area, for threc years, and the return of all_ovster to the ocean, instead of using for road making. Oysters must 4 firm foundation on which to cling, and that had been gotten in the ocean bed through the centuries of accumulation of the Livalves, their shells forming the hard bottom. The Oyster gathercrs have not returned ehells and the ocean bed has accumu- lated slime or sand o that the vysters cannot anchor. The industry em- ployes 50,000 people and the loss of the millions of bushels of the bivalves would be & serfous blow to the dietary of hungry Americans P 1 expert announces that all the world 1s on the road to insanity. He says this Is indicated by the fact that “Nobody works, or plays, or docs any- thing, normally. We work like mad; we play like mad; whatever we do, we do it with all the intensity of a crazy enthustusm.” Tuis conclusion had been reached before the marathon dancing craze had struck the country, but thut eraze we steadies machinery. , that Would that all the worid would beat time and sing The crazy world is stuttering. Keep steady! * * x ¥ Another means of steadying nerves would be to look through a great telescope, and behold the immensity of the universe, and the lmitless sweep of the stars and planets through endless space. They are not crowded, as mankind is. They ars not hurried as we are. They are nc jolted and jarred. They do no hesitate and turn back and decide to g0 on. They never forget—as we distracted mortals do—that there is a power ruling the destinfes of the infinite universes, and that “God's on His throne; all's well with the world What & wonderful example of stability and power! The stars in their courses are “keeping steady What are we crazy little mortals, ti we fret and worry and forget “Keep steady?” * * ¥ ¥ There is a new “craze” which ought to outrun the marathon dance, It is “courtesy week,” which has been an- nounced in many cities. It is remark able what a difference is manifested in different localitics in the' matte: of common politen: 1t is not neces sary that a man or woman be trained in high society, or by a dancing mas ter, in order that he may bé courte- ous. Courtesy suffereth long and kind. Courtesy vaunteth not fteelf; not puffed up; doth not behave ftself unseemly. t to in * %k % It is easier to snap at an offender than to retain poise and self-respect enough to excuse the offense and as- sume that it was not intentional. 1 is very noticeable that in some citie it is the conwmon form of speech for a stranger—perhaps a policeman or street car conductor—to address citizén as “brother™ in answering an ordinary inquiry. How much better that form Is in smoothing difficulties than the use of abrupt and too often sarcastlo speech, upon the assumption that sarcasm or snappiness of manner betrays superiority. It indicates only churlishness euch as a gentleman always ashamed of. * % % This occurred a fow nights ago o Pennsylvania avenue: A peliciman was waving both hands frantically, but unintelligibly. It was apparent that the waving was mcant us some kind of signal, so the driver stopped and inquired what he was 1o do ‘Stand_where you are. Don't vou see my hands? Back up, around me, and then back up. Understang: “All right, officer; now where do 7 go? I want to get a the Avcnue. urn the cthier was ‘But I don’t want tv o in that d1 rection. an’'t you understand? 11l sond you a letter tomorrow with a full explu- nation. Turn the other way.” So the chauffeur turncd the oppo site direction from where he, wante to go and drove to police statio; to inquire what regulation had been put into force suddenly Stop progress on the Avenue. It was there learned, for the first time, that there was a nire on the Avenue. courtesy on the part of stic traffic officer woul: dited tratfic and shown bet It will be delightful if v inaugurate week urte yea shingt entually: why not now,” begh ning with traflic officers? * * % Tho American Legion, through its Americanization director, Garland W. Powell, urges the 11,000 posts to in- augurate a new special day—Friday, April 27 Amecricanization day. The selection of this date is to counteract sar. have ¢ ter sen can certainly tends to verify what the doctor says. 1t is a sign of insanity when one loses pol and moderation and reasonableness In his conduet. The world war was an outbreak of an lusane kaiser, and the lunae be- king up the President, and {came contagious, us lunacy is apt to do. It is said that it is rare that physicians and attendants upon in- sane paticnts fail to betray some form of insanity themselves, after years of contact. The world has not become normul since the war. It is even now acting as if on the verge of a great outbreak of violence, which, in the light of reason, 1S nothing short of national suicide. It may be sulcide of civilization. * %k X * The motto of the new president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Mrs. Ceok, might well be taken as a world motto: {cep steady!” There is nothing more nceded than just that idea: “Keep steady!” Conserve poise, both personal and national. Nerves are jangled, nothing moves qulckly enough; nothing goes right; people do not act as we are sure Lhey ought to_act. “Keep steady When a stutterer wants to over- | come his trouble, he sumetimes sings what he wants to say, depending on the regular rhythm of the music to | keep him steady, &s a governor iu the May 1 celebrations of radicalsand olitical extremists of all kinds. The obgervane day i to be with ism at public of Americanization specches on patriot mass m Ngs and in that th publicity in car, but there may | be & Loginning now, especially in the | schools, whicn will bear fruit neat year, and the day become a fixture |among the special holidays, such as Memorial day, July 4 and birthdays of notable Americans. * X ok ¥ | Work is progressing on' the crec- | tion, back of the Statc, War and Nav | building, of one of the most beuutiful | monuments in Washingto It is commemoration of the lst Divisl A, E. F., and its design is by the fa- mous architect, Cass Gilbert, and tho equally famous sculptor, Daniel Chi ter French. The features of tho de- sign a plain round shaft, sur- mounted by a bronze ligure of Lib- erty, holding high the American rag It is an impressive and inspiring fig- ure. 1t is safe to predict that this monument will never bo condemned by the Fine Arts Commission as un- worthy. (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins ) “WAR AND WISE WOMEN To the Editor of The Star: | There was a certain article in the editorial page of The Star a week or two ago entitled “War and Wise Women," signed by Edward Berwick, which I do not believe should pass unanswered. I find that Edward Berwick, if he is the same one who wrote this article, 1s a resident of Pacific Grove, Calif,, and has long been connected with Utoplan world-peace socleties that I feel are responsible for spreading a certain lot of propaganda, conceived in fallacy, that has done this country inestimable harm in the past. I feel that the efforts of his socleties -and other like organizations are the direct result of our not being prepared any better than we were for the world wer in which we became involved in 1917. Consequently, we can trace the useless expenditure of billions and the loss of many of the lives of our younger fighting geneération, the cost of unpreparedness, to this same Mr. Berwick and others of similar men- tality. With the facts of this cost of unprsparedness so recently fixed in our minds, 1 cannot realize how such misguided individuals still re- tain the unmitigated gall and quasi- disloyalty that must be involved in the writing of such an article. Between April, 1917, and November, 1918, we did not hear much from Mr. Berwick and his associates. Those who actually did raise their voices in expressing such sentiments were quickly incarcerated, togéther with s type and the so- Inelt s e vome Yot "thess ~whe have come back in force and are hoping to hoodwink tire country. by coupling their fanaticism with the ostentatious desire for economy, the same type of economy that has proved to be 80 costly,in the past and that will continue -6 be even more costly in the future. Duello Neot Abolished. In Mr. Berwick’s latest written ef- fort, to. v‘v,hich 1 nmfi:elerirllx;z. _he enuously _makes the following. AiStoment: e have ‘Apolised. th duglio between Individuals as impos- sible, why not aH’ women and outlaw war?” ete. I won- der how many actually believe that the duello has ever been abolished. We have never abolished it and never will abolish it -as long as human nature remains the same. Mr. Ber- wick might have gone on and stated join the wise | that we had abolished murder, rob- bery, etc., simply because we have gone on record fn statutory form as being unanimousiy opposed to such outlawry. The statutes, in effect, are successful in “abolishing” nothing. - It the statutes actuaily would aholish it, there would be no further need of our large police and other forces and or- ganizations maintained for protec- tton. The jalls and prigpns might be turned into faotories and the iron bars torn down ty furnish further metals for {ndustry. ldeals and Practice. 1t is a fine thing to be an idealist, we must.all admit, but with it all let us be practical. Before we de- stroy the jalls and discharge our police force let us be. certaln that human nature has changed to the ex- tent that these safeguards will not be neceseary. Before we abolish our armed defenses, let us be certain that Utopia bas been reached and tl our neighbors will not immediatel teke advantage of our helplessness, for until the various elements that €0 to make up human nature have radically changed, occasional war will be as much a reality as an oc- casional duel. In conclusion. I will answer Mr. Berwick by saying that his appella- tion of “wise women" is being most unwisely. bestowed. The true wise women who have lately come to public notice in this'connection are the Daughters of the American Revolution. Thelr stand, under the leadership of Mrs. Story and her assoclates, in opposing the Mr. Berwick type and his “wise women” will ever appear as a happily merited rebuke at a critical period in the development and clvilization of our country when sovietism and communism are spread ing their tentacles in our midst under guise of economy and wdrld-wifle humanitarisnism, - o, o ARTHUR LONG PAXTON.