Evening Star Newspaper, April 28, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.......April 28, 1923 inhibits.” Cheirman Lasker of the Shipping Board has called for bids for the pur- chase of passenger and cargo boats, to be submitted by May 23. The eighty- one services now being handled have been consolidated into eighteen lines, end sales will be made by lines rather than by individual ships. Individual purchasers of stipulated lines will be authorized to route the ships to cover a wide range of ports, to prevent over- lapping or duplication of services at the various ports. Every purchaser will be required to operate for a specified period over the routes selected by him and not else- where all ships to be purchased. Tn return, the government agrees not to operate any government-owned ships while adequate service is rendered. The Shipping Board plan involves about 350 vessels, operating to all parts of the world. Some three or four hundred vessels of inferior types are to be scrapped and others held for conversion. All of this sounds like business, if bidders respond, and the plan, if suc- { cesstul, would ellminate a part of the | waste now unavoidable. But the main | consideration is that the flag is to fiy THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Penns N eager OMea:" Tower Hulliine icago Offce: Tower Zuropean Ofice: 16 Tegont St.. London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning wdition, is delivered by carriers within the city #1 60 cents per month; dally only. 45 cents per mouth: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be ment by mail, or telephuge Main . Collcetion 1 made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virgini T Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 7t Dally only. uy l;'n.u.ofl 1mo., 50c Sunday oniy......[1yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daiiy and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only.. 1yr., $7.00:1mo., 60 Bunday only..... 1yr, $3.00;1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitied fo the use for republication of all news dis- fpatches credited to it or not otherwine credited n this paper and also the local mews pub- lshed herein. All rights of publication of speclal disputches hereln are also reserved. Couft and League. Last Tuesday President Harding Rave in a specch in New York his rea- sons why the United States should, ! on certain conditions, associate itself Wwith the Permanent Court of Interna- | tional Justice. Last night, in this city, Secretary Hughes speaking before the American Society of TInternational Law, in se: 1 here, discussed, as he said, in the simplest manner the pro- posal of the President. With his usual clarity of thought and statement, Mr. Hughes sets forth precisely what the proposal is and what it is not. As the President has explicitly stated, he notes, it is proposed to support the court, and it is not proposed to enter i i in every quarter of the globe contingenc in any ———— Fatal Fires. Twelve people were killed in a New York tenement fire Friday morning. This is but the latest of a long series of such blazes in that city and else- where, indicating a very lax attention to fire-prevention laws. The 1923 rec- ord in New York was started most ter. ribly with a fire in February at the Manhattan Hospital for the Insane on Wards Island, in the burning of which twenty-five lost their lives. Then later four were burned to death in a Brook- the league of nations. “Those who desire that by this method the United States shall become a member of the league,” says the Secretary, “indulge in vain hopes, and those who are alarnied at such a pos- sibility are entertaining vain fear: Mr. Hughes' speech is, in effect, a syllabus on the Permanent Court of International Justice, an explanation cly how it was created, how anized and the extent of its surisdiction, responsibility and power. It shows that it not the creature of the league. though it owes its existence to a statute or constitution adopted by the council and the as- sembly of the league and submitted to the nations for approval. Forty-six states have signed this special agree- ment, which is distinetly outside of the covenant of the league, and of these about thirty-four states have ratified it Having thus been given its organic existence by action of the league of nations, the Permanent Court becomes « separate and distinct body, and is in no wise responsible to the league. It is true that the judges of the Per- 1anent Court are chosen by the con- current votes of the council and as- sembly. Mr. Hughes clearly points out that for the purpose of establishing and continuing the court the league has merely been utiiized as the most availuble and suitable agency of inter- national agreement. Heretofore ef- forts to create an international court, such as that at The Hague, have failed for lack of a medium of choice. The | lcague of nations is thus merely a | means to the end of affording to the| nations of the world an opportunity in | this tribunal of international justice 10 submit and settle their differences upon the principles of international law. On the point of the relation between the two Secretary Hughes say: ‘The fundamental question is whether the league of nations controls the «ourt. To this there is a ready an- swer. The league does not control the court; that is an independent judicial body. The league is composed -of states; they, of course, continue to eXist 4s states. When the lcague acts, its acts under the covenant which { creates the rights and obligations per- iaining to the league. But when these 1ifty-two members act in separate Kroups to elect judges they are, as I lave said, not acting under the cove- nant, but are following a course of { procedure defined by a special inter- | national agreement in order to secure | the independent and impartial judicial body for which the world has been waiting. Noting the repeated efforts of this country, through its representatives, 10 secure the establishment of a per- manent international tribunal to take the place of occasional arbitral bodies especially chosen to meet particular issues between nations, the Secretary irges that adoption of the President's proposal will practically effect an ad. vance toward that goal. There is no departure from American principle in thus seeking identification with the ‘World Court. On the contrary, it is an expression of a long-cherished tdeal and purpose. Secretary Hughes' closing words are directed to this point: Any successful effort to settle con- troversies alds in the cultivation of 5ood will and the desire for the ad- Justments of amity. The support of a J’ermanent Court of Justice as an in- stitution of peace will be a powerful influence in the development of the will to peace. I hope that the United States, in deference to its own inter- ests and in justice to its ideals, will do its part. —_————— A dispatch from Berlin says that a reparation settlement offer of thirty ‘illion gold marks will be made short- ly. The manana habit seems to have @pread to German —_——— A new control committee has been @et up at Moscow to undertake the economic salvation of Russia. Details of the proposed plan will be awaited with the keenest interest. is i Sounds Like Business. President Harding and the Shipping Board are acting promptly in backing up the assurance given when the mer- «hant marine blll was defeated ti the administration would take steps 10 keep the American ships afloat in the sea lanes of commerce. The Presi- edent reiterated that promise in his New York speech before the publish- ers last Tuesday, when he declared a great merchant merine to be an out- standing American requirement, and added: “Since we cannot hope for government aid to private ownership, ‘we propose to do our best to organize and consolidate our lines and service, applylng the lessons of experience, Wich cost us hundreds of millions in Iyn tenement, five in an apartment house and two in a tenement house in Manhattan. Meanwhile four were killed in a burning almshouse at Angelica, N. Y.; four in a hotel in Van Buren, Me., and six in an apartment at Lynn, Mass. Counting all these fires, including that of Friday in New York, at least sixty-seven lives have been lost in less than two and a half months this year in fires in what may be called residential buildings. There were probably many more in smaller disasters. Two of these were public "institutions, which should be as fully protected by the laws as pri- vate dwellings, Indced, greater pro- tection should be given those who are held by the state as inmates and who have no control over the conditions of their habitation. Flimsy construction, accumulation of waste, exposure of wires, neglect of all the rules of safety—these are the elements that make the destruction of life by fire in this country such a shocking record. Fire is not an un- avoidable evil. Only through human agency does it develop, by so-called ac- cident or by wicked design. Some of the fires that have been noted in the list above are believed to have been of incendiary origin. No fire laws, how- ever fully enforced, can be a protec- tion against arson. But the conditions may be such that the torch of the fire- bug will not cause a sweep of flame so swift that escape is fmpossible. In New York city there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of so-called apart- ments, literally. little more than tene- ments, in which the occupants are al most certain to be trapped helplessly if fire starts at the bottom. No matter how many “warnings” are given by these terrible object les sons, little seems to be accomplished in the way of stricter regulations and more thorough enforcement of them. In some cities unquestionably political influences are exerted to keep the standards of safety down to @ danger- ously low point. curity is felt because the percentage of chance that fire will occur seems low. No risk s a safe one, however small the percentage. When human life is involved—and human life is in- volved in practically every fire that occurs—it is the first duty of munici- pal authority to afford the utmost pro- tection. ———————————— Oil constitutes an important factor in two international situations in which the United States is involved. Both Mexico and Turkey are trying their hands at the petroleum diplo- macy game. The latest Bergdoll report piaces him in the northern part of Lower California. That young man simply cannot keep from hovering on the verge of trouble. Withdrawal of a blackmailing suit against him probably rejoices Babe Ruth more than would four home runs in one game. New York goes on a daylight-saving basis tomorrow morning. The District will keep its clock and its time in uni- gon with the sun this year. Sentenced to a Book. A Philadelphia judge, in disposing of a traffic case, has imposed a penalty that may be of value in other cities where the speeding evil offers a prob- lem. The defendant was charged with driving while intoxicated. In his testi- mony he sald that he was accom- panied on his ride by two young men whose nicknames were ‘“Trouble” and “Doubt.’ Judge MacNeille, noting these names, remarked that “Trouble” and “Doubt” were symbolic characters in the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” and he sentenced the defendant to the county jail for a period long enough to enable him to read Bunyan's work through. ‘When he has completed this task he is to report to the court and submit to an examination upon it. Whereupon the judge will determine the final dis- position of the case. There are many books that might be used in this way, books of profound philosophy and instfuction. There are works of admonition and enlighten- ment that might well be “imposed” as penalties. Much better than fines might be such requirements for rule- breaking that displays a spirit of reck- lessness. It might not be necessary to send a man to jail to do his reading. The court might require him to report in a week or a fortnight and stand a test on his reading. If he attempted to A false sense of se- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHING operation alone, then offer for sale. 1f|do his reading by proxy he would be we cannot sell, we will operate, and | in danger of being tripped on exam- cperate aggressively, until Congress | ination. However, the “Pllgrim’s Prog- re: method recommends itself to traffic court judges as one way to curb the evil from which American cities are now 30 sorely suffering. A Disappointment. President Harding is a great disap. TON, WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC No American newspaper man has had a more typlcal climb:up the Journalistic ladder than Caspef Sala- thiel Yost, president of the: Ameri- pointment to many Americans. There | €an Socicty of Newspaper :Editors, is no violation of confidence in saying | POV In vession at Washingtc that he has grievously disappointed many of those Americans who voted against him. It may be that he has also proved to be a disappointment to some of those politicians who did the best they knew how to bring about his election when nearly all the voters | were for him, but there is nothing noteworthy and important in that. Politicians are everlastingly - being disappointed in the candidate whom they helped to elect. But in more ways than one Pre dent Harding has been a disappoint- ment to legions of otherwise good Americans. Before his election he was only an “availability” candidate. It was confidently said that he was the weakest candidate the republic party could put up, and that he was nominated because of his weakne: and that if elected, as improbable, he would be a rubber-stamp President for a “coteric” or bunch of senators whose patriotic impulses went no further than holding down their jobs. The President is a great disappgint- ment. He has simply dismayed those who knew he had a rubberstamp temperament, and that he would fol- low the easiest way in all things. He seems to have shocked a number of gentlemen who wear republican badges and who Dbelieved that Candidate Harding made promises from the front porch at Marion just because they had a pleasing sound and tickled the ears of some foolish persons who believed them. In vetoing certain bills, in ad- vocating others and in instructing cer- tain republicans as to what the party under his leadership stands for the President has acted more after the fashion of a battering ram than a rub- ber stamp. To all those who said they believed the President would be a fourth-rater and would eat out of the hand of a “coterie” he has proved a tremendous disappointment. —_——— They say a printer on his day off goes down to watch his substitute work. And President Harding, the first chance he got, “made up” the edi- torial page of a New York daily. Somebody in the Tribune office is to- day treasuring pair of rubber gloves. ——— A scientist asserts that the sun is giving the earth from 3 to 4 per cent less heat than fifteen months ago. However, the world is trying to make up in calories through ardent con troversies. —_——— The uncertainties of base bLail are illustrated by a two-to-one neck-and- neck contest one day followed imme- diately by a ten-toten twelve-inning tie. In that sport no one can ever tell when an explosion will occur. —_———— Joseph Conrad, writer of exciting sea stories, has sailed from England for New York. An uneventful voyage will probably disappoint him. —_——— Secretary Hughes states the world court proposition in terms so clear that onl misunderstand it. ————— Experts reject the claims “discovery™ of a new is little danger that the will be displaced. a of a riptures SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Tiu¥ion. Unrest awsits us everywhere Howe'er our course is set, a chronic irreconcilable can |recurrence in the future/’ Bible text. There | 4. | Born at Sedalia, Mo., near the close of the civil war, Yost was a reporter in Laclede county at the precocious age of elght. Then, In turn, hé was a news-telegraph operator and reporter in St. Louis, Joining the staff of the Globe-Democrat in 1889. Ife is in thirty-fifth uccessive year on that stanch republican jourral with a democratic name, having becn in charge of the ediforial page since 1915, Between his chasings for the nimble {tem nd wieldings _ of the blue pencil, Yost has found time to write a couple of novels, “A Succes: ful Husband,” in 1907, and “Patience Worth,” in 1916. In 1919 he produced a book on “The World War.” ok ok R Mere diplomatic wolves ire not likely to terrify our chief “unofficial observer” at Lausanne, Joseph C. rew, for he is a big-game hunter of considerable renown. Thé Amer an minister to Switzerland,:now at he head of the American delegation to the near east conference, Bas pur- sued the lion and the clephant in thé jungles of India, and is the author of & racy volume deaiing with -hl ploits, Both the National Geog Society of America and th Geographic Society of Great confer ethnographicz) and zoological re searches in far-flung fields. Gre and J. Pierpont Morgan are brother: in-law, the financier having married the diplomat's sister. The Grews are Bostonians. Minister Grew wis grad- uated from Harvard in 19020 and is one of our most widely experiencerd “career” diplomats, having during the past Lwenty 1 nark and Switzerland. wus secretary-general of the Ameri- can peace mission in | One of his duties at his regular:post in Switzerland is to keep an unofficixl eye peeled on the adjacent léague of nations, which he saw in the making in France in 1919, * oKk kK James M. Beck, solicitor general of the United States, who has just been | granted special dispensation 1o argue an Amer the Dritish John Bull's islands master orator. Britisl him best for a brilliant s livered in London dur Was a panegiric on the omnip of Tommy Atkin actically every sphere of fightin voted by many moving war address English languae. enthusiastic admirer; him to immorta ranks modern privy council, in authorit uttered in Beck induced peroration on EDITORIAL DIGEST Florida Floggings Are a National Disgrace. The revelations of the cruclties in Florida convict camps constitute unanswerable indictment of the le ing system, editors zre convinced, and they unite in indorsing the dction ing taken by the Falmetto legislature to abolish such metheds, well as to punish officials who have winked at, or actively assisted, the practice, state as “Florida’s shame is not that Tabert | died,” s the Feoria Transcript, “but that the practice of farming out convicts still exists in the state” Because this must be admitied. the Mobile Register fecls “Flonida faces the responsibility of finding a way to stop such abuses and pre: their * inasmuch, as the Little Rock Gazette it, “the leasing system is an institution that just as long as it shall exist will be productive of incidents that will be plorably unfortumate for that state in the eves of the nation.” This is a also the position of the Grand Rapids | Herald, which sharply denounces “peonage in 1923, and is convinced that “somewhere in this survival of medievalism men of political power and prominence have been involved. 1f the state of Florida wants to clear the blot from its name these men must be brought out into the full light, revealed for what they are, You think elsewhere the sun and air | and, 1 possible, punished.” Are always better yet. On mountain top or by the sea, By woodiand or the beach, You think that ‘“Somewhere eise” must be The spot you long to reach. And still you make the old mistake ‘Wherever you may roam. You sing about it, yet forsake The place called ‘“Home, Home."” In vain your fancies are inclined To wandering quest of cheer, For ‘“‘Somewhere-else” you'll always|now generally adopted in progres find Becomes plain plodding “Here.” ‘Weather Prediction. The mercury must upward go Or down—and there you are. However it may go, vou know It's going to go too far. Clothes and People. De clothes dey keeps a-changin’ In a mighty curious way. De fashions is a-rangin® F'um de solemn to de gay. De hats is kind o' funny An’ de shoes is sort o’ queer, An’ dey cost & heap of mone; Sumpin’ mo’ f'um year to year. ‘But de men is brave an’ hearty An’ de women good an’ fair. De gals dey gives a party An’ de boys escorts ’em there. An’ dar is'n’ nuffin strange in Love an’ life's eternal game. De clothes dey keeps a-changin’ But folks is jest de same. ————— They carried a knocked-down auto- mobile from Detroit to Chicago in an airplane a few days ago. The knock- ed-down pedestrian still has to go to the hospital in the ambulance.—Nash- wville Banner. —_——— The shop girl's life has a bright side. After standing on her feet all day she has a chance to stand on other people’s feet going home in the car.—Akron Beacon-Journal. ———————e—————— News reports say the next interna- tional conference “will hinge on oil.” Going to oil the open-door hinge?— Lima Republican-Gazette. —_—————————— However, a good deal of the mar thon “dancing” is standing still to music.—Chicago News. | “Prisoners are wards of the state holds the Indianapolis News, it is assumed that the punishment fixed by the courts is just. The convict lease system is alwavs open to dan- ger of exploitation by selfish inter- ests, and it may be doubted whether it ought to be tolerated. Law is in- tended for punishment and_should open the way for reform. Methods used in these cases tend to make ron- and Sweet | firmed criminals, not only of bovs, but also of men—if they survive thie bar- barous treatment.” There is no excus for punishment of such a character, the Chattanooga Times holds, “be- cause there are forms of punishment, ive states, where incorrigible convicts are subdued without resort to violence. Solitary confinement has been found | the best antidote for refractory pris- oners, often results in reformation, where whipping and flogeing only render them resentful and confirm them in their waywardness.” If the exposures in this case compel com- plete reform they will “not have been in vain,’ the Atlanta Constitution feels. ? “The sensitiveness of the social conscience” I3 demonstrated by the indignation these revelations have aroused throughout the country, ar- gues the Springfield Journal, which holds that “the convict camp is of the relics of a dark age.” the “whole south is not guilty” in this instance, the Sioux City Journal Friend of Oak Trees Deplores Destruction To the Falitor of The Star: For twenty-nine, O, sueh short years, I have lived beside a wonderful enchanted oak forest at 5th and Jef- ferson streets, in Brightwood Park, and now this spring the trees are being cut down t3 make room for houses and streets.. One cannot stand in the way of progress, but I find it in my heart to wish that progress had gone in another direction. Few, if any, knew it was a forest of enchantment, but I, having in- herited from the Irish and Scotch the gift of seeing the invisible, discov- ered it when I was a little girl. I have seen the fairies dancing in the moonlight. Could a mortal wish greater joy? There are no trees in the world lovelier than budding oaks in the spring. Some are silver gray, some Qull rose pink and some:-a soft green, all blurry like Corot painted them. They are such wise trees, too. They do not bloom out at the first sunbeam of spring like the silly little peach trees do. When the oaks come out one can be quite sure that spring has really come. Nothing can ever take the place of this beautiful grove, to one who loves the far-away open spaces of the world, yet who is, like Charles Lamb, chained to the d« 1 woed.” Life will never be quite the same ed fellowships ypon Grew for | n government case before | the | tienlarly | D) D. C., SATURDAY, APRIL 28 19 OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE 3. The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. The tragedy and the romance of the the gramophone, ey Peamemot records of culation. and thousands of it found their way intol 5 village, where poverty and drudgery form his only existence in the present and his only hope for the future, and comes to the new world, which he pictures as a land flowing with milk and honey, have been treated by Mary Antin in “The Promised Land “They Who Knock at Our 5. Mary Antin's books are storics of fact, by a rich imagination. Another writer, more recent and not vet as well known, is using the same material as fiction'~but fiction which rings as true and as personal Mary Antin’s confessedly auto- biographical books. S 1 has been poor and what she writes about, but she has lived through to Her first volume of short stories, “Hungry Hearts” won her recognition, and Edward J. O'Br dedicated to her his “Best Short Stories of 1920 Now she has ‘just published a novel, “Salome of the Tenements.” the story of Sonya Vrunsky, an east side tencment girl who marries John Manning, a mil- lionaire philanthroplst and settle ment worker. Miss Yezierska says: Sonya, my heroine, and Manning, tricked “into matrimony, were the Oriental and the Anglo-Saxon trying to find a common _language.......An st Side savage forced suddeniy in- o the straight-jacket of American civilization. * ok ok % The Associated Press paid delicate, though perhaps unconscious, tribute to President Harding’s penchant for unusual phraseology, in the souvenir menu of the luncheon at which he spoke in New York this week. A pref- atory page told tersel s the “A. way, what and why the world's greatest news-gathering organization is, and mentioned that each of ity members contributes the news of his immediate “vicinage.” Leas scholarly narrators might hive been tempted to say “vieinity,” icinage” is in- disputably We just as Mr. Harding's *normalc was—and s, Students of the President’'s diction have come to vote emiy” and “u seemly” his favorite idioms. are almost as frequently encounter in his public utterances as Woodrow Wilson's “May I t?" were in the preceding administration. — “Banner- bearer” instead of *‘standard-hearer” was one of the little philological un- usualities Mr. Harding sprang in his New York speech. *x % Ryan, described as “a friend President Harding* dean of American oil representa- tives in Mexico,” is credited With pav- {ing the way for the American-Mexi- lcan peace conference. eé has been in Obregon's land since M921 and striven ceaselessly for a reconcilia- tion. Reeently Ryan accompan a Mexican financial nmission to oW York and Washington, when |)l_ns for the forthe Joint _commission re said to hav n formulated, ok * * “inslde” and picuously Republican . t colored but sterian, Anzia Ye sick and know suey James K. cle and * * ok % Soma of the constantly recurring themes in Miss Yezierska's stories are the disappointment of the Rus- sian and Polish Jews when they reach New York and find that the bright land of their hopes offcrs them only airless, sunless tenement homes and long hours of work in a sweat sh the " universal Jewish aspiartion “to make from myself a_ person”—to be somebody; the thirst for learning; the longing for ideal love and happiness, and the abhorrence of charity, which even the daily bitter struggle for ex- istence cannot make acceptable. One of the most striking stories in “Hun- gry Hearts” tells of the misery of an catt eide mother who is sent with her children to a charity vacation farm, where she “was thinking for why, with 5o many rules, didn’t they also have already another rule, about how much air in our lungs to breathe.” sther is the tragedy of an old Jew- e who has seen all her children grow rich and through them has been brought to live on “the fat of the land” that is in a fashionable apart- ment on Riverside Drive, but cannot fit into the new life. When the emp- tiness of her days becomes unendura- ble, she slips down to Delancey street and hunts for bargains of fish and onions from the pushearts, barga bich the uniformed hall man will not permit her to hiing into the “marble sepulcher” of the Riverside apartment. “confi- | at Club Thursday's dinner in New York, in honor of | Thomas W. Milier, alien property todian. Postmaster General 1o have represented the administra but turned up missing, and his place the program was tuken by former § ator Frelinghuysen of New Jersey, who proved the most jovial of lame ducks. Plenty of Harding enthusiasm was on top, though one post-prandial spellbind- er opined that Hiram Johnson would “dominate” the mext national conven- tion. Having said that much, the - voiced the hope that “Johnson would be for Harding. * ok ox K s with his_fingers Scott, will Washing- | “Man who otherwize Maj the Cosmo April 0, on Sign Language of the Indians.” During his long mili- ars carcer in the Scott made a detailed study of Indian sign ue,” 1 mastered Countle betwesn rd Uncte red- it at sed” Hugh L. in it warring nve h (Copyr his hands ht, 1¢ PE— love of reading is in evi- dence on every page of “The Place »f Books in the Life We Live” by William L. Stideer. T have been espe- cially interested in the two chapters on the place of books in the lives of Abraham Lincoln and of Theodore Roosevelt—a meager list of thorough- raastered books in the case of Lin- 1 and a prodizious number of well flated books in the case of A real Juty na has he 1llinois has Flor has L and_Bastrop. rrin, and now { Ciara and Madison ught asleep too of of the lu her. botham should charged the right to demand that part of its crime stigma be wiped out.” To which the { Norfolk Ledger-Dispateh replies that ew York produces a mob bent on hing a negro because he stole hok. Even Georgia does n " and the paper insists prisoners is mu; punist { them when unruly, even with the L ary, is right. But leasing con- Higein- * % % x Fandal Many people engaged in educational work have been pretty restive over the extreme conclusions that certain scien- tists have been drawing from the men- tal tests of the young drafted men in the Army camps. Some of these psy- chologists have even gone so far as to announce that these tests indicate that 170,600,000 Americans have “little or no brains’” and that “education can add to private rests, making | nothing to their intelligence.” ) slaves to ind to the ca- | conclusions are stoutly contes £ perver tv, is a_crime {article in the May C sainst civiliza- | Dofence of Educa casing system has|mann, who says the Minneapolis | predestined and i the commoi mocracy i bring forth!and irretrievab by tak-{mann states that the mental testers indling | scem to assume that the men tested al prob- had already learned all they were ca- enlight- | pable of learning and that additional ened and civilized wa education would have made no appre- “The conscience of this country.|ciable difference in the results. But Mr. however sensitive it might have been ! Lippmann, by some ve & com- a few yvears ago.' points out the|parisons among sections of the country { Roanoke World-News, “has 1 | having poor and fine educational facili- | the pa ar stood for th jties. pointa out that high average in- massac the outrages | telligence scores are shown by the men Rouge, the activities of the vigilantes|from the st in Oklahoma. numerous lynchings and {and the lowest average intellizence countless flogzings. And because it|scores by the men from the states hav- i has stood for these things it is more |ing the poorest schools. 1 am glad that than_likely going to stand for what|Mr. Lippmann has reopened the matter, has been happening in Florida. The consclence of a nation, just as that of an individual, becomes blunted if its | protesting voice is ignored. Respect for law is our only rallying point, and it is high time some rallying were being done in every community in this country. The manner in which we allow outrages such as have marked the past vear to go by indi- cates that we are losing our bear- ings." But the Anniston Star feels that “Tabert will not have dled in vain. There are evidences that ‘good will be the final goal of I’ and that Tabert's death will be the straw to break the camel's back of this ne- farious system. And all ®because, suggests the Springtield Union, “the newspapers of the north disclosed the {evil™ The outrakes in Florida have [directed attention to the svstem in{fragment by Miss Oulto The frag- South Carolina, and the Raleigh News(ment was probably written about 1804 nd Observer says, while the state|and was published in Miss Austen's has never permitted the shocking |memoirs in 1871, but has long been un- whippings disclosed in Florida, some |available to the public. of our prison camps are far from what * ok ok x ¥ sho and cases of w e e o e waPPINE: | Americans who delude themselves ‘The prison’ authoritics should not|with the thought that in our foreign Jalt for the general assembly to for- | affairs the United States has always id flogging. In_state and countyi i S o prisons they should prohibit it now.» | followed a policy of completo recti tude will receive a rude shock if they read “Americans in Eastern Asia” by “The tale that is told of Florida in 1923 sounds somewhat like that of the Tyler Dennett of the State Depart- ment. In this book. whose subtitle is Kongo Free State in 1908, when the | rubber camp savageries shocked the world,” savs the Buffalo News,|“A critical study of the policy of the “America can protest with poor grace | United States with reference to China, {Japan and Korea in the nineteenth {century,” the author says: “No na- | the savagerics of Turks and Russians when such things as these are going on within its own borders. They chal- | tion, either of the east or of the west, {lenge our good fame. There should be | has 'escaped the valid charge of bad no delay in getting rid of the convict|faith. * * * Bach nation, the United labor system and in stamping out;States not excepted. has made its con- lynch law. They shame the nation.” | tribution to the welter of evil which now comprises the far eastern gues- tion. We shall do well to drop for all time the pose of self-righeousness and injured innocence and penitently face the facts.” Among the high points of this interesting survey are: Half a century of an open-door policy be- fore John Hay; missionaries and {m- perialism; how the Americans tried to take Formosa; the American share in the opium trade, and the influence of “big business” on foreign political policy. in arice crue U i 70,000,000 are trievable fools, this ohably a predestined failure”” Mr. Lipp- | “disgraccd the st ! Journal holds, nd wealth of Florida must works meet for repentance ng up the full burden of se cruelties and the sc is they represent in an at answer of the psychologists to his criti- cism, destructive to t! case built up by them. but so constructive from | the point of view of those who still be- lieve in education. * % o x | We have been accustomed to think lof Jane Austen as a novelist of the i {past whose work was over—and pub- | lished in a complete edition; but re- cently we are being presented with ad- ditional Jane Austen stori unearthed in fragments from her dusty manu- scripts and furbished up by careful | Austen students for publication. The latest of these stories is a novel, “The Watsons,” worked up from a nameless again and much of the glamour of | spring will be gone forever. Where | will ‘the robins and bluebirds and cardinals rest while they sing the praise of the Creator of us all? The cardinal sits on the topmost bough of the highest tree and looks at the sun and says, “Right here, right here, Tight here, pretty, pretty William llen Bryant says, “To him who, in the love of nature, holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks a various language. Many times T have heard the whisper of the trees, and they say, ‘Take no thought for your life” What ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink: nor yet for your body, ‘what ye shall put on. Is net life 'more than meat and the body than raiment? ™ Francis Thompson. in “Nature's Immortality,” says: “For within this life of ache and dread like the green- ness in the rain, like the solace in the tear, we may have each of us a dreammml oy o one whots * % % X “deamful Sicily” is in the loveliness ' . of the forest, soon there will be noth- | Readers of Hamlin Garland’s "A Son ing of this left in this section of the |of the Middle Border” and “A Daughs city. The wild flowers have all gone |ter of the Middle Border' would en- , thi o ™ Caeh yome, ang Dluebirds |,y ¢Sllowing this most American of forest, beside which T have found a authors on the trip which he and nis hiding place from the wind and &|4aughtor are about to make to Lon- o tige o (he tempest, Will Be | " yhere they will appear before As'T look with deep sorrow at the’|the London branch of the Lnglish- mighty oaks cut down in the fullness [Speaking Union. Mr. Garland will of their beauty, I say in my heart, |give recollections af the middle bor- “Farewell, old friends; some day I jder in pioneer days, and his daughter shall find you growing again by the | will read from his works, dressed in riv ol ife, whose waters arejcostumes of her mother's and grana- crvstal.” ISABEL MELLEN. Imother's time. * X ok % In Theodore Maynard's book, “Our Best Poets—English and American, he makes the following challenging statements: “Amy Lowell is a free verse poet by cleverness; Sandburg by natural bent; Masters by shewdness, helped out by luck.” “Edwin Arlington Rob- inson is a humorist who cannot laugh.” “Vachel Lindsay chooses to profess himself a Buddhist * * * but, of course, he isn't at all * * * He is a Catholic, burdened with a few fads.” Russian Jew who leaves his native es having the best schools | and 1 shall watch with interest for the | There is open opposition expressed by many Virginians to the plan to erect monuments in the | Sheridan’s raid. It i« said that the monuments were to have been built by the Betsy Ro: |('h:¢nl<-r. D. A. R, of Philadelphia, and for that purpose the chapter a ’pl"rt‘urm] from the government two { French cannons from the late world |war. It was thought that these guns | would mark shrincs in the Shenan- doah vailey which would do honor to | Sheridan “Nothing dr port as to pre ng” is the latest re- xress of the plan When one stops to think over all the elements of the project. is i i surprising that it does not work out = it was expected to do by its i promoters? | Ao There is a paper printed from Independence Hall which with problems of farm life, from the perch of a gentleman. Tt is so tho oughly entrenched in city wealth that it cannot conceive the reality of struggle of farmers. It is therefore inclined to geoff at the statisties given out by the Department of Agri- culture, recently, based upon the actual earnings of more than 6,000 farms Without showing any basis what- ever for his allegations, the editor ridicules the statistics of the depart- ment, and then announces that in 1913 the average farm prodnction for each person engaged in farn sixteen tons, and in 1922 it three tons, According to that, the farmers of today are nearly three times as prosperous as they were ten vears ago. not far deals I B i “Methinks he doth protest too much.” The figures call for support- | ing facts, showing that a farm work- er now produces more than two and a half times as large crops as he did ten vears ago. It is often pointe out that by the use of im ved 1a hor-saving machinery farmers can ac. complish far more than they coul fifty yvears ago. but what labor-saving | machinery has been introduced in the last decade that nearly duction? In what crops operate? trebles pro- | does it * k x X The most concentrated values of what produced on the farms is found in the live stock. It is nearer a “finished product” than grain, for erain is raised largely to be fed to ock. Tn 1911 the yvearly marketing o beef cattle from farms to the chief stock markets amounted to S.061 head. In 1921 they were ¥ { head. Hog: n 1911 re a 600,600 head: in 1521 Sheep in 1611, 13.000.000 h there were 11.755.677 head. Surely if the volume of far duction inecreased two and 3 times in one decade it would show up in the live stock, at least approx- imately. w » * ¥ % % The average prices received farmers in 1916—the year hefore we entered the war—were: For ho $6.30, and in 1922, $6.89. For beef, 1916, £5. 1916, 11916, 8128 i e in in | in in 1922.°¢ While 2 mortgage resents enterprise, when in a purchase of a farm, vet who will y that the whole volume of mort- ges do show inereased activity en in 1910 the farmers of Americu owed $1,726,172.851, and in 1920 they owed $4.003.767.192." In 1910 the mort- gages averaged, per farm, $6,289, and in 1920 $11.54 The total value of all we: duced on Americ farms in 1913 $9.849.513,000. and in 1921, §1 000,000, and the acreage producing the increased yield in 1621 amounted to 32 per cent more than in 1913. That icates about the same vield per sometimes rep- it is given th pr | { | { i 1 sideration a petition for the tran the remains of the ill-fated prince im- perial of France from their tomb in the monastic church of Farnborough, in | England. not far from Aldershot, to the elaborate mausoleum which is now in course of construction on land adjoining the o E son, which belongs to Prince N and which he proposes to present to the nation, in order to become part and parcel of the Maln n estat The ground in qus ion cov over two acres and is shaded by anum- ber of stately cedars and other fine trees of great agc. The mausoleum is very artistic and has been fashioned in such a manner as to incorporite well known statue of the | and of his dog Nero, the work of the cele- brated sculpter, Carpeaux, in the struc- ture. Empress Eugenle, some time before her death, had acquired a site on the Ch: p de Mars, not far from the base of the Eiffel Tower, for the purpose of serving as her son’s mausocleum But she was n tisfied therewith. Tt did Rot seem fo harmeonize with the en ronment, whercas the bit land adjoining Malmaison ideal site for the memorial, ! mausoleum has now been {ransferred. * ok k% It the government of the repubiic sees its way to defer to the petition for the tramsfer of the remains of the prince imperial, from nborough to Malmaison. it will b third di ance of his last rest. For when he in South Africa, killed by the Z while in joint command with Capt. rey of a cavalry patrol of English army, and arraved in an English ur form, he was buried not far from the spot where he met with his death Then his hody was ordered hom, d it Talmai- i the long sea journey by meaus of em- balming methods. These were not sit- isfactory, and the chemicals employed for the purpose had the effect of tu ing the corpse almost completely hi: by the time that it reached Southamn- ton. Indeed, Prince Murat, tl elder, and several kinsman and devoied r tainers who ad been requested identity the body. confessed themselve to recognize the corpse. It was not until the services of the late Dr. Thomas I s, the re- nowned American dentist of the Napo- leonic reign in Paris, had been Invoke and he was sunmmoned to determine th identity of the corpse that he was able to do so through the recognition o some rather remarkable and peculis { bridgework which he had made for th prince before the young fellow started for that South Africa, from whence he was never to return aliv first buried in South Africa, then en- tombed at Chislehurst in Kent, and thereafter at Farnborough, is to, huve his last rest once more disturbdd by another change, namely, from Farn- borough to Malmaison. * Kk ¥ X If the Paris cabinet hesitates about grantifg the popular petition that being circulated for the return of the remains of he who was regarded by the adherents of his dynasty poleon 1V, it is because men concerned have a long memor: and cannot forget that the bringing home of the body of the first Na- poleon—the great emperor—from its tomb in the reeking south Atlantic island of St. Helena contributed largely to the overthrow of the regime of the day, and which, in its effort to catér to popular sentiment by bring- ing home in pomp and state the body of the first Napoleon, to rest under the dome of the Invalides o@ Kue henandoah | valley in commemeoration of Gen. Phil | W BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY.| France's government has under con- | fer of L piece of | poieon, had to be disinterrcd and prepared for | Now the prince, after having bech ' CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLIN. |acre. But he ‘farme cent in 192 befare. The recent statistics of over ns showed that the avera ily made no pr abo own food and shelter, except 18 represented by the toil o smbers of the family other than ti farmer hims the purchasing po s dollar only of what it was ten ye 000 t w o kR It is so very fine for an agricultural editor to sit at his mahogany desk and prove te his own satisfaction that his advertisers are reaching, through bis columns, a rich and ferti 1 | for the and lux- Hurious and a Dlines s ¢ of Agri- ture is deal o i ad is a dirt-furm he is not 1ccustomed to banker- & with 7 heckbook, in place manure le of g furs, ulso ut’ the and pianos his coly ment a take mad agricultur much mor “take a_ hoe man it 1 of to be feared now ti tural editors need to given by Poor de shubbel an’ d. to “the pitehfor statistics to prov. e producing two-un much wealth today years ago. ; to cor the 1 leadinss eit | | | | i | { i | | I | * No longer will Washington {men need to have a p lana Navy { broadeas: | speeche world. erecting T for uar states- 1 with the War s. in ord eloguent ca their, to + gn the of npi broa commer ranted Thbrows to cq ial to 1 nteed "EAF of N For som.: journed, tative id Kalams ed in wireless T ma direct m the we now,” with station, ov, m h T hello dence tudes in th is the politici: 12 of the bab omise the v - a wireless ki tube * The carth has It compared viith Bt (300,000,000 000" worlds, laid 18,600 mile is ratt toes dtame An atom is o sy Iving streteh 1 darely as eloses - system’ arther | 1 i | tremendous jordinar jord by PV French Government Faces a Dilemma In Proposal to Reinter Napoleon 1V of the Sein 211 uprising minated in its d and his fact that lent ppveci- tion_in 1 pathetic poleon 1V, and thus Malmaison Shady park is ves itled “The Comnp of Malmaison.” under of Prof. F stitute of ough the average a quari a year, there being m among them. * ok k% Moreover, the French to conmsider® the ves permission jFrance and the prince im demands w for the are the still impe Prince authorities did 1 be brought i tombment the grand old Superg hilltop, near Turin mausoleum the! Iialy. His coffin was particulur part of is reserved f prince world n tiny, bu and the puvpl the rema wis gigan conve ) k | i . holding ron, in bl Guilive Attention ct ears ago, rutonomous own parliament at Dub been formerly and e has happencd is been pass: nt modc of 1d isle, the terms of inconsistent with the or junion This has given barrassing problems. Thus the ac union determined that the peers Ircland should be represented in hous> of lords at Westminster twenty-eight of their num elected for life, and they ceived their roval writs of s as such. They are, therefore, of them, entitied to sit in > of Tords and to vote as 1 til a special act of parlia ment is passed Loth houses @ Westminster, depriving them of th right. The present anomalous condition o affairs leaves the question unc as to whether, in the event one of these’ twenty-eight sentative peers of Irdland dyi ould bhe lawful to ated by his demise 3 ight pec are” conservativ opposed to Iy alism, y will not readily relinquish to what they believed to be their pre- rogatives, and lots of trouble is cer- tain to easue. has heen the t of depriving legislatur alled to 12 her her 4 nion Ireland of rise to many em of of the by uestion s s 1o n