Evening Star Newspaper, May 1, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. "'UESDAY.. THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Oftiee, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Naenan 61 Chicago Office: Tower Buil Furopean Oftfce: 16 Regent St.. London. Engl th the Sunday morning 3 cartiers within the city 1, A o The Evening St edition, s delivered at 80 cents per month; daily mouth: Sunday only, 20 cenf dars may be gent by mi €000, Collection is made end of each mooth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., §10.0 Datztenv it Sunday onl Member of the Associated Press The Associnted Press i3 exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ail mews dis- atches credited tn it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub- lished “herein 1) rights of publication of special disputches lierein are also reserved. Liquor and Ships. Decision by the United States Su- preme Court upon the status of ships entering American ports under the eighteenth amendm enforcement. while clear-cut in its terms, leaves u complex situation which may have an involved interna- tional aspect. In the first place. the court rules that the eighteenth amend- ment applies to the three-mile limit beyond the shores. Next it rules that 1t does not apply beyond that limit. 1t holds that no ships, American or forelgn. can bring liquor within the taree-mile limit, and that all of them. whatever their flag of registry, may carry liquors in waters beyond the limit. This ruling puts American and for eign ships upon an equality in respect to the carrying and dispensing of liguors on the high seas. It also puts them on an equality in respect to the prohibition of liquor within the na- tional limit. But the effect of this equality is. strangely enough, an in- cquality. For the crews of the ships of certain nations. such as France, kngland and Ttaly, ave, by a custom as well established as law, granted a allowance of wine. Plainly, if a ship cannot enter an Ameri. with liquor on board this al- lowance cannot be maintained while in port. and unless the ship restocks at sca bevond the three-mile limit it can- not be continued on the return voyage. There is no difficulty about the west. | ward trips. whether of foreign or American ships. They may stock up at the eastern ports, provided they are free of liquor when they enter the American three-mile limit. Strictly speaking, under the Supreme Court's ruling, if all the liquor on board has not been consumed on the western voyage before the limit is reached it must be destroyed. Clearly it will be a serious handicap for incoming ships to stop beyond the three-mile line and lighter off the re- maining liquor stoc! and to stop again on the way out and take stock on board from supply ships. Yet this Is practically the only way that the liquor supply can be maintained on ships entering and leaving American ports, short of calls at such a {m'exgn‘ port as Halifax. Already protests have been voiced from abroad against the effect of this decision upon foreign ships. Thus the matter becomes one of diplomacy, but unless Congress passes an act to meet | this situation, which will in turn, in the view of the court, square with the eighteenth amendment, it is difficult! to see how the matter can be adjusted by diplomatic negotiations. In one respect the Supreme Court has pointedly indicated the possibility of further legislation, the decision nointing out that “we do not mean to imply that Congress is without power to regulate the conduct of domestic merchant ships when on the high seas.” This is tantamount to saying that if Congress should enact a law pro- hibiting the sale of liquor on Ameri- can ships on the high seas, in accord- ance with the ruling of the Attorney General, which was sustained by the federal court, the Supreme Court would sustain it. Its present decision, reversing the lower court on that point, is based upon the absence of such a statute. ————— Aten-year-old Brooklyn girl, giving promise of great talent, has been signed up to appear as @ theatrical star in 1931. It is hoped somebody had the forethought to insert a clause in the contract that she must refrain in the meantime from both cosmetics and synthetic —_———— The official solution of the con- troversy as to which is the more valu- able in national protection, coast de- fenses or aircraft, is ‘“effective co- operation of the two services.” This solution may wisely be applied to other controversies still raging. The Official Voyage. Friends of Secretary Weeks protest vigorously and with reason against veference to his Panama-Pacific coast- Alaska trip as a*““junket.” They right- ly feel that this voyage is in the pub- lic interest, and deplore the disposition in some quarters to regard and “de- scribe it as a pleasure trip at govern- ment expense. In point of fact, Secre- tary Weeks, intent upon securing the maximum of public benefit from the trip at a minimum of expense, has conscientiously sought to eliminate every aspect of junketing from it. Every person on board the transport, which sailed Friday from New York for Porto Rico, on the. first leg of the long voyage, pays $2 a day subsist- ence, which is more than the cost. The ship carries officers and men and freight, so that the cost of the trip is more than saved. 1t is important that the Secretary of War should personally inspect the in- sular possession of Porto Rico, and especially so that he visit Panama, where there are urgent matters requir- ing his attention both in the Canal Zone and with relatign to the Panama government. ‘The ‘attendance upon 1his voyage of members of Congress at and the act of | is certain to be of value and benefit. Instead of the mere leaven of con- gressmen often to be found in such a party, the many who are present are members of the committees of Con- gress which have to deal with the mat. ters with which they will be brought into contact on this voyage. In one particular this expedition dif- fers widely from the usual official trip. Upon the return from Alaska the en- tire civilian party will bé landed at Seattle. from which point the - voy- agers must make their way back to thetr homes at their own expense. They will travel as “paying guests” of the United States only on the trans- port, and the latter does not now re- turn to New York. The voyage to Alaska is of especial tmportance. This far-lying possession of the United States is in need of at- tention legislatively. It should be bet- ter known by all members of the gov- ernment from the President down. The chief executive has been trying ever since he entered office to visit it, and there is now a prospect that he, too, will go there during the summer. Nobody should begrudge any mem. {ber of Congress the opportunity at slight expense to himself to visit the outlying possessions ‘of the United States. concerning which he is called upon to legislate, especlally as the cost to the government is practically noth- ing. Having undertaken the rule of outlying territory, having constructed {4 great interoceanic waterway ata dis- tance from these shores, it becomes the duty of the American government to keep in close touch with these regions and works, and this can best be done through occasional visits b; those who are intrusted with the re- { sponsibility and charged with the duty of making and executing laws for their government. | | Bishop Alfred Harding. All Washington sorrows in the death of Alfred Harding, Bishop of Wesh- ington, who passed away in this city last night. A resident of Washington for over half his life, serving in the Episcopal ministry as rector and as bishop at the capital for thirty-six years, he had become a powerful in- fluence in this community, and that| influence was felt elsewhere in marked | degree. | Bishop Harding was the second to preside over the diocese of Washing- ton, succeeding Bishop Satterlee in! 1909. Always in his parishional work jan indefatigable laborer for the ad- vancement of the church and through | it for the good of the community, he | entered upon his higher duties with conscientious zeal, which was mani fested despite failing health to thel end. In the course of his bishopric | came the great war, which added to his burdens. He was an active mem- ber of the church’s commission on chaplains in the Army and Navy, and { all those appointed from the Episcopal Church first received his approval. other ways he aided in sustaining the morale of the American people during the great trial. i It was in relation, however. to the advancement of plans for the great; Episcopal Cathedral here that the episcopate of Bishop Harding was marked by unremitting and successful work. He did not live to see the frui- tion of these efforts in the completion of the fabric, but he had at least the gratification before his death of realiz ing that the plans for this develop. ment, meaning so much to his church and to the city of his long-continued labors, were on the point of execution. Regardless of dencminations, Bishop Harding will be mourned by all Wash- ington. His kindly spirit, his helpful endeavors, his unswerving loyalty to the highest principles of Christian life | and to their application in the daily existence caused him to be respected and beloved. ——————— They are called “destroyers.” but| 178 of them, out of commission, are tied up at navy vards because of lack of personnel to man them. In no great period of time they will go to the junk pile. Foreign nations are just about as afraid of vessels in that condition as they are of untrained sea- men. The beautiful Freer Art Gallery will be one more star of the first mdgnitude in a constellation of attractions that only one city in the country can boast. William B. Leeds, son of the late “tin-plate king,” will probably stay an able seaman long enough to write “Two Weeks Before the Mast.” Three hundred and fifty eastern and middle western cities went on daylight- saving time yesterday. Washington, D. C., was not one of them. The Shrine! That famous part of the historic Avenue which has so often been & court of honor is being made over into the Garden of Allah. It is said that the nobles of the Shrine will build Egypt in that part of Washington. That seems to be some order! But the nobles. can do it if it can be done. Egypt is a big land, and has had a place on the map for a large number of years. In fact, it is known to rather a large number of people that ! Egypt was in Africa before Wash- ington was in the District .of Colum- bia. Yet Washington is a great town, with more wonders jn it than were ever at Memphis, Thebes, Karnak and Luxor, and there are & good many square feet of space in the Avenue between 15th and 17th streets. Obelisks and sphinxes are to be set up on the sides qf the Garden of Allah, and if the Washington nobles could have their own way about it they would bring over the pyramids, the Sahara desert and the original sphinx. The first week in June promises to be a glorious time for Washington and the Avenue. There is no need to speak of the great way as Pennsylvania ave- nue. Just ‘“the Avenue” “will do. Everybody knows what is meant. All the glories of the time will not be compressed within the Garden of Allah. The Avenue for much of its length will be so lighted, buntinged and beflagged that Egyptologists will be dazed and the streets of Cairo will seem to be deserted byways. The work for Shrine week goes mer- rily on. If beavers ever worked as hard as Washington noblés thousands of the animals died from exhaustion. i In| The nobles are laughing at all the elght-hour laws that ever were invent- ed, and are not even knocking off for lunch. They cannot hear the 4 or 4:30 ‘whistle blow. Many of them do not go home to dinner, ard Mrs. Noble will need a letter of introduction to her husband when this thing is over. Com- mittees are being appointed so fast that it is hard to count them, and if & man has not been made & member of some committee it must be that his name is not in the city directory. It is up to citizens at large to re- inforce the nobles in their great and public-spirited work of getting ready for Shrine week. It is hoped that every- body is doing ‘We are making ready to put over the biggest thing in the way of carnival, pageantry, convention, costume, brass band and crowd that has ever been staged in Washington. —_——t— More Jobs Than Workers. Evidence that the country has *‘turned the corner™ in overcoming un- employment is furnished in statistics compiled from many sources, Includ- ing reports gathered from labor lead- ers, industrial commissions and state and federal employment agencies from forty-eight states, as announced by the Associated Press. An actual short- age of workers exists in twenty-three states, while in twenty-one other states hitherto existing unemployment has been completely absorbed. Only In four states does an excess of work- ers over jobs exist, Oklahoma, Tennes- see, Georgia and South Carolina. The natural economic resuit follows of increased wages, which is being en¥ Jjoyed in many lines of industry and to a substantial degree. These increases, it is declared, “are rioted in so many different trades and occupations that point to a general trend in that The widespread extent of the increase in employment and bet- ter wages must be accepted as assur- ance that the present upward move in industry and prosperity is no sporadic movement due to local condi- tions, but has @ sound foundation, na- tion-wide in extent. One disquieting feature is discerned in the report of a probable shortage of farm labor in the summer and fall, as men are attracted to industrial centers by the higher wages paid in mill and factory. That may spell decreased production of food necessaries, consequent higher cost of living. But thus things even up: a man has no right to expect to receive higher com pensation for his services at the ex pense of some other class of toile The law of averages will work out. Only nine strikes in the entire coun- try of any consequence are noted. evi dence that a period of industrial peace has settled over the nation. This is one of the best signs of the times showing that labor is in the main satisfied. Building is booming in many | New York alone exceeding last citles, program by fifty million dollars nth. Railroads are preparing im- provements on a gigantic scale, includ- ing much new construction. At the moment efiorts are bent to get the rolling stock in order for the vast tonnage expected to be ready for movement in the fall. ———— Washington is glad that ex-Repre- sentative Robertson of Oklahoma is to remain in service as a welfare worker of the Veterans’ ‘Miss Alice,” as she is affectionately known here, is too capable a person to lapse into retirement. ——————— The last twenty-seven American sol- diers are home from the Rhine. The “last Yank to leave German soil” will probably hang on as long as the last survivor of the charge of the Light Brigade. ———————— There is one thing about this spring and coming summer. When the early sun bursts in upon your weary eves, or the loud alarm clock on your tired ears, you will know what time it really is. —_——— Lord Robert Cecil cannot exactly say, on departing from these shores, *Veni, vidi, vici,” but he can at least say that he had a pleasant time in the TUnited States. Washington would seem almost eligi- ble for the Western League—first a regular tornado and now a cloudburst with resultant fatal floods. Senator Lodge seems to be as strong for reservations as any Indian com- missioner. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JORNSON. A Song of the Season. Get out your check book, father, And likewise your ink and pen. The merry spring is on deck once more To quicken the hearts of men. But don't you turn from your figures To gather a bright bouquet, For this is the first of May, father, This is the first of May. The carpets are off the floor, father; They're shaking the rugs outside. There's nothing to eat but bread and cheese ‘When the pantry stands open wide. You must help them lift the piano— Remember it's moving day, For this is the first of May, father, This is the first of May. The Unexplained. I do not know why Jimmy Jiggs Should fall in love with Susie Spriggs, For Jimmie has a freckled face And Susie lacks in winsome grace. But there are many things, T find, That baffle an inquiring mind. I do not know why thistledown 1s blown afar through field and town, Nor why the bird sings sweet on high And listens for an answering cry. ‘The clouds drift closer and unite; The brook, in its melodious flight, With other streamlets long to be Out in the vast, unfathomed sea, And flaming stars cross distant space To meet the great sun, face to face, The universe in its unrest Seems an eternal, mutual quest, ‘Which wiser men have sought in vain To analyze or to explain. And in the rustic pair we see A part of the great mystery, And wonder stfll why Jimmy Jiggs Should fall in love with Susie Spriggs. with | .. | for Bureau. I STAR., WASHIN GT Daniel Cooper was roasting chick- ens for Sunday dinne For thirty- five years he has been roasting chick- ens for Sunday dinners, but this time it was different.. “How many chickens are you roast- ing today. Daniel?” asked a cool, crisp voice from the far end of the kitchen. “Law, Miss Failyer, you certainly give me a start. Didn't know you were anywhere In sight. Just watch- ing these fowls so's none of 'em gets too brown.” “How many toda: again. “'Bout 275" Daniel replied. “And there won't be none left over, neither, ‘cause these chickens is quality chick- ens, sure enough. Nothin' like those skinny runts you sent back.” The Sunday dinner at the govern- ment hotels here in Washington was in—and on—the oven. In other words, our accomplished and versatile government was cooking dinner for guests at its hotel, 2,000 young women, or thereabouts, who work six days a week in the various depart- ments here helping the wheels of government revolve. Daniel, be it known is the chel chief, sharing the honor with Joseph | Lee at the two great kitchens whence jcomes the food that sustains the girls i that help the government to govern. And Miss Fallyer, superintendent of food: service, hud just looked in to make sure that Sunday dinner was to be | the great event it ought to be, with {lots of gravy an’ everything. came the volce i “Plenty of potatoes, I suppose?” she queried “Yes'm; we just put in the last of the seven barrels you put out.” Seven barrels of potatoes for a single meal—some Sunday dinner! “That's the way we have to do things here,” Miss Failyer explained. “For breakfast we bake 4,000 rolls or 4,000 muffins. We put fourteen crates of grape fruit in the refrig- erator this afternoon so that we may have enough for breakfast tomorrow morning. “And eggs—we eat lots of eggs Two hundred dozen usually are about onough for breakfast. Then we serve quite a bit of toast for breakfast, too. As a matter of fact it takes two men working at top speed from 7 o'clock i1l 8:30 to supply the toast alone.” Over in the corner were four great coffee urns. “They hold fifteen gallons each.” Miss Failyer said, “and we empty them every morning. Sometimes, when the girls want another cup, we {have to refill one or two of them.” When the government whips cream its young women, it whips twenty-five gallons at a time. When it makes ice cream, it makes it in a freezer holding elghty gallons. Ten dozen eggs and ten gallons of oil are used to make salad dreseing for a single meal. Eighteen crates of Varied Views Entertained Concern- ing Sugar Injunction. There is a very decided difference | of opinion concerning the wisdorh of the injunction proceedings initiated by the government to curb specula- tion in sugar futures. The very fact {that in the face of the action prices Lave steadily advanced leads some at least of the editors canvassing the situation to the belief there may be more in the shortage claim than was at first believed. llowever, there seems to be a general bellef that it will be an excellent thing for the people to get all of the facts and that only through a public court trial of the action will this prove possible. The suit is in the nature of “en- joining natu argues the New York | Times, and “the government's action ought to be effective, to be directed against the soil of Cuba for having suffered from the drought and having falled to yield the expected crop.” The New York World likewise is con- vinced “Mr. Daugherty's injunction is all politics. It was not devised to bring relief to the consumer, but to bring relief to an administration that is badly worried about the ballot box consequences of its policy of inflating {prices by law.” The action is much belated, as the Richmond News Leader sees {t. although “had the motion to enjoin gambling in sugar been made before the stakes were swept from the table the country would have been pleased. As it is the drastic form of the proposed injunction and the dramatic tone of the whole pro- ceedings will be more derided than applauded.” To which the Lynch- burg Advance adds “the tanff is working in fine shape. The sugar industry is getting its high prices and tho American consumer is footing the There is & “very proper remedy, not the injunction,” according to the In- dianapolis News, which holds “if housewives will buy sparingly and not anticipate future wants. it should be possible to beat the speculato: Such a method must assist the le action, the Altoona Mirror believes, and it suggests that “a permanent in- junction should have the effect of halting the advancing price, while, on the other hand, a federal criminal prosecution could be dragged out over a period of months, if not years, and meanwhile the speculators could do all the gouging they pleased.” Most of the developments to date “have a campaign smack,” the Roanoke World-News asserts, and “there's no effort being made to make the men who've got the sugar turn it loose, either through court action or through letting down the tariff bars.” It is the opinion of the Albany Knickerbocker Bress that “the latest, Cuban estimates” set up “a condition | as to_which it is probable that not | even the federal government can ac- | complish. much. It -looks, indeed, as if a situation that was entered into light-heartedly by the speculators has gone guite beyond their control.” Denatured Base Ball Not Base Ball at Alll ‘What would a base ball game be if ' spectators were not allowed to call a runner a “big slob,” or a pitcher {a “big bum.” If the spectator was not allowed to “razz” the batter to make him miss the ball, or to so confuse a player that he would throw wild, ‘what fun would thers be in the game? Just try to imagine a base ball game ‘where free and independent American citizens were debarred from asking the “umps” as to defects in his vision | ‘when unpopular balls or strikes were called. How much zest and ‘“pep” would there be in a game where the bleachers were not permitted to ex- press homicidal desires toward um- pires who shouted “You're out!™ when the blearcherites were satisfied that a man was safe by a mile? Maj. John L. Griffiths, commIssioner of athletics in the western conference of colleges, has ruled that the “rasz” and rattling of players will not be permitted in base ball hereafter, but that the highest spirit of sportsman- ship must be demonstrated by both players and spectators. The worst of it all is that Judge Landis expresses himself in sympathy with Grifffths' idea and may attempt to take that ruling into major base ball. No howls, no “Slide, you big ice wagon!” .no _umpire baiting and not even the right to throw a pop bottle at_ the umps. How can the great American game be expected to main- tain its place In the hearts of fans it all these are barred out’—Tacoma Dally Ledger. l | D. €. TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923 THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. lettuce go Into a single salad, if it happens to be that kind of salad. Daniel laughed. the dishes, Mi prompted. It developed that dish-washing at the government hotels has been robbed of all its terrors. All that has been left of it is the clatter. Great machines do the work and the dishes dry by draining. “How many day?’ we asked. “Sixty thousand!" And except for the clatter ‘ho one would know that even sixty dishes had to be washed. The silver and the glassware, how- ever, are not trusted to the regular process. They are polished each day, “You must have an awful lot of breakage,” we hazarded. We had to ask Miss Pammel about that—Miss Violet Pammel. who is Miss Failyer's assistant. We did so; and we iearned that in the dining room over which she presides no waitress had dropped a tray of dishes for months past, and that the break- age Is almost nothing. “How do you manage ked. ‘Oh,” she replied, “that's a little secret between my girls and me. But we do it.” “Tell him about Failyer/’ he are washed every ®” we Back again to the kitchen, where we learned that for Monday's dinner there would be steak—1,200 pounds of it—with many gallons of gravy. We tried to draw Daniel out a bit as to his experiences. “Oh, they haven't been so many,” he finally replied. T ain't been cook- ing but thirty-five years. Before that I was just working with the cook Then he confessed that the soup sometimes bofled over.- That troubled him no little, but it would happen occasionally, = he explained. ~ He would not admit, however, that it ever burnt, “You all burn vour soup,” he sald, “because you cook with gas. and gas is tricky.” You can't turn it so low but what it keeps on getting hotter and hotter. - We cook with steam up here and that makes it different.” And that was all we could get from Daniel as to his mishaps. In its hotels here the government operates the largest American-plan hotel in the world. It is 8o conducted that the government neither makes nor loses money. The. girls are harged just enough to balauce the books. And the cost is low, due largely to the fact that the govern ment ‘buys at wholesale and cons: quently at prices far lower than those most Washington housewlves have to pay when they go to market We are just now ordering our canned , goods,” Miss Failyer said. “We place our orders in advance of the canning season, and we shall order enough to run us a vear from the 1st of next July. “We buy nothing in lots of less than 100 dozen, and many kinds of canned goods 'are bought in far greater quantities than that.” EDITORIAL DIGEST The Brooklyn Eagle feels the public MUSt KNOW “to WHAL extent the car. tailment of the Cuban crop is due to the inteérposition of the American beet suger i_nlerfl!il as evidenced in the Smoot-Crowder episode; the effect of fhe tariff on sugar; the facts regard- ing the Department of Commerce esti- mates and the use of them by the sugar speculators because anything less than a full answer to these ques- tions fall short of justice.” The in- junction procecdings, however, im- press the Scranton Times as “intended 1o draw attention from the decision of the Unlted States Tarlff Commis- sion that the increased rates the McCumber-Fordney tariff act is not responsible for the present high prices of sugar. Attorney General DAaugh- erty is particularly adept in starting back-fires.” And unless the actlo pushed to the limit the Walla Wal Bulletin holds it “will hardly be sat isfying to those who feel that prices continue to he juggled.” The people are vitally interested. the Boston Transcript believes in developing, whether “the practices of which the Bovernment complains are equivalent to the maintenance of a roulette wheel on the American_ breakfast table. If so the sooner that fact is established and the appropriate rem- edy applied the better it will be. It follows that even if there is gambling in sugar in this country and the gov- ernment succeeds in putting an end to it, prices mayv not go back to former low levels. But that is no excuse for permitting the gambling to continue.” The New York Post is convinced that the government has blundered at every stage in the sugar proceedings and that “now public buying will be stimulated afresh at a time when con- sumption needs to be reduced. The administration seems to have ac- quired a peculiar genius for helping to boost the price of sugar.” “Even if it shall prove,’ says the Phila- delphia Bulleton. “that the primary cause for the increasing prices is be- yond the reach of governmental au- tthority. a statement of the underly- ing facts of the situation would be of important value in clearing the public mind of misunderstanding: This_would be especially necessary the Springfield Republican feels, *if the fact of & much increased con- sumption in this country furnishes an excellent reason for the higher rices.” To which the Cincinnati nquirer calls attention to the fact “Europe already has reduced her early orders by 400,000 bags and the demands of the United States also have been reduced. These steps are conclusive as showing steps already taken to take care of at least one- half of the sugar bloc's alleged crop shortage.” Commending the action of the Attorney General, the St. Louis Post Dispatch holds “the infamous dealings in sugar futures which have demoralized a sound, healthy market and imposed a tremendous cost on the tax-burdened public must be ended.” But it also must be remem- bered, - the Cleveland Plain Dealer points out “from the sugar and pro- duce exchanges it is only a small step to the organized security mark- ets. The legality of short selling there would ceriainly be ralsed in the court if it were prohibited in the produce exchanges.” In a Few Words. There are two great rival princi- ples in all social relations. The first of these is’individual rivalry, and the second is co-operative life. These are the foundations of most of the motion and feeling of -all social in- tercourse. —LORD ROBERT CECIL. When every single country pro- duces for use everything possible, in tnat’ proportion and.that extent will the country proceed in the direction of recovery from the ravages, de- struction and poverty of war. —ELBERT H. GARY. Every increase of one cent per pound in the price of sugar, arti- flolally stimulated by speculators, costs the people of the United States $2,000,000 & week. Our aim is to make the sugar gamblers remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table. - —U. 8. ATTORNEY HAYWARD. There has been too much peace in the church. If you want peace go to a cemetery. When a church becomes too n“cclu’l there is something wrong with it 3 —ARCHBISHOP CURLEY, A man is not fit to be a citizen of 2 great democracy who does not think constantly of the past and future of his race. L —H. G. WELLS. - NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM AMBLING THROUGH ACADIA. Chérles Hanson Towne. The Cen- tury Company. Come on, let's go. For not again shall we have a chance of this kind to ses the Nova Scotjan apple or- chards, miles of them in low-lying clouds of bloom. “There can be but few Aprils for us at best,” Mr. Towne reminds -hirselt and us with a touch of sadness. Then., in prompt and buoyant rebound, he sets himself the task of providing two Aprils where but one had been before. A simple trick, too—merely that of betaking oneself northward, where, though May or June may be figuring in the calendar, there is In full possession the form and spirit of April, “filled with the rapture and rustle ot spring.” * ok Kk come along on this quest April, we accent in glad- vear we went “Loafing Down Long lIsland* with Mr. Towne, who proved himself to be among the best of good loafers. A promise this, one takes it, that in the easy gait ot the ambler through Acadia, he will be an equal satisfaction and joy. He has other frailties, too, that we love, beside that of a large and incurable lelsure in a hurry-ridden world. For Instance, before the mere of me- chanics of travel—trains, timetables connections—he is a baby of ig- norance and futility. Not that we desire 0 bs miszuided or led astray. We mention this example as one out of many signs of the temperamental bond between this particular loafer and thé rest of the tribe. Knowing himself, however, he guards against mischance. . For in the narty Bidden to of a second ness. Last CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS The writer of Capital Keynotes ptands corrected as to two misplaced names in recent articles. Fortunately there is no danger of libel suits, be- cause the cases are outlawed by time, but they might furnish live subjects for a psychological élinic. Why is it that one who claims to be sane can say or write words which he has no intention of using? Since it is not ignorance, it must be subcon- scious lapse, or mind-wandering. For example, some days ago I con- fused Abraham with Jacob, and sol- emuly referred to “Jacob’s” taking his son Isaac to be sacrificed—instead of letting his grandfather Abraham take Isaac, the father of Jacob. Youth was really not so precocious in olden times, as I seem to have in- dicated when I made Jacob sacrifice his father. Later, T wrote “Mirabeau” when 1 meant Robespierre, who, cruel as he was, still had a passion for flowers, even greater than the passion of Mirabeau, a passion which did not at all lessen Robespierre’s lust for blood. 1t is flattering to find such attentive readers, so ready to correct slips of the typewriter. “Never again” shall be the motto; the typewriter shall be more careful, or be repaired * k% % Evil associations corrupt good man- riers. We are all the products of our environment. Warlike doves are made, not hatched, and no matter how peaceable their ancestors were, it is impossible for the gentlest of Jdoves to hover around our War Department and remain pacifists. All the soldiers. from the shaie- tails to the major_generals, who chanced to be in the War Department —the State, War and Navy building— is a |last Friday, were thrilled by a bloody real guide, one who recreates himself | DAttle between harmless black crows on the eryptic pages of time tables and guide books. “I'll take care of |fierce and who wanted to nest at the base of the American flag, and a regiment_of weil-trained doves. The this” is his sure solvent of every per- {iEht Was not a sudden quarrel; it plexity. Beside the guide there is an artist of whom, happily, we shall sec much, 5 * ok x ok No hurry. One of the chiet joys of this adventure—no hurry. Plenty of time, slipping down the river, catch again the permanent and su- perior beauty of Brookiyn bridge, now melted into the landscape, &TAY rainbow of stone, arched in soft persuasfon to link up Manhattan and Queens. Plenty of time to thrill again over the daring leap of the sky- scraper, canyon walls of an unbeliev- able Insolence of pride. One Amer- ican, home again, declared soberly |™ that no cathedral tower or spire of Europe could surpass the Woolworth building! Philistine? Seer? FPlenty of time to stand on deck around the priest who, as we skirt Blackwell's Island. tells the legend of the build- ing of the lighthouse there. The next day, Boston. That same afternoon, a clean, brisk boat for Yarmouth. We are in Scotla, greeted by the scent of lilac blooms. and promised the sight of drifting acres of apple blossoms, Plenty of time. though. For the apple blossoms, up and beyond, are said on clear local authority not yet to be quite ripe. And, here at hand, there is Weymouth to see, and Digby, and Sandy cove, and the rest—all on lovely inlets of the bay. where weather-beaten boats rock and cimb- ing streets lead past homes looking indescribably solid and comfortable. Little rivers run gossiping down the hills and lovely valleys lie ready and smiling for the swift thrust of spring. A land of lighthouses, this. Mr. Towne finds a lightkeeper, the “ancient mar- iner” over again so we all agree. The fishermen are handsome as car- dinals and as dignified. according to the author. Everywhere the keen scent of the pines cuts the air. And the waters give up delectable sea things to eat. It is in Digby that Mr. Towne ie led to confess, “without a blush,” his first knowledge that finnan-haddie is merely smoked had- dock. This sets us back a few vears to a morning in Washington when Ambrose Bierce discoursed in phrases that dripped succulence on the glories of finnan-haddie. Like Mr. Towne, we knew nothing of this food for super-men. It was not, however, & pleasant thing, exactly, to appear un- waywise before the keen eyes and sharp tongue of Bierce—so we said nothing. It {s now much too late to play any epicurean part before him. We thought, vaguely, as Mr. Towne did, that this was a Scottish tidbit of long and illustrious lineage. Plenty of time, even yet. save for the artist. He is now a driven man. A line here, rows of little dashes there. a smudge of black, a soft blur of gray, and there you have it—a rythmic beat of wave, a rocking boat, a street, a fish' catch, and this and that—each steeped in its own brew and all redolent of the lovely place itself. A generous and communi- cable man, this artist. « w8 x Then come Bridgetown and Grand Pre, and then the apple orchards, at last. -Drifts of scented and tinted snow, canoples of bloom and, tomor- Tow, carpets of fragile and ineffable beauty. . Now we are in the heart of Acadia. And here so poignant a chapter of history spreads out before us that even the beauty of the landscape must give way before it. And so. with Mr. Towne, we go back to that day, so long ago, when the Acadians e driven from their homes to wander here and,there, desperate and broken. While we linger in Grand Pre we talk over those bitter days, conjuring up what must have taken place in this spot, or over there. or yonder. To make the time and place more vivid we follow the guidance of Longfellow. And here Mr. Towne stops to_wonder, & shade complain- ingly, why it that Longfellow never visited the place that he re- produced in the most familiar and the best beloved of his poems. Not so Y even in Longfel- low's gecent day, as it is now. Quite on his own account Mr. Towne knows, without question, that “Grand Pre dreams its dream: its old houses whisper one to another under the glant trees; and. if Basil's blacksmith shop no longer stands, {ts memory re- mains, and perhaps—who knov’s.—on moonless nights its forge is lit and the ghostly anvils clang, and a yvoung girl passes down these shabby streets, thinking of the days when ‘she took flagoons of home-brewed ale to the reapers.” No more time. Out of ths dream into reality by way of the busy modern town of Halifax, and then home. An adventure good for the soul as well as for the body. And Mr. Towne is a prime adventurer to go along With. * ok ok X On Friday of last week there came the newspaper report of other apple orchards scheduled to break into bloom on Sunday, yesterday. More than two hundred miles of these, stretching from lower Virginia well up into Pennsylvania. On Saturday the paper contained the program of an apple carnival to be held in Wash ington next winter. Now, if at that time Mr. Towne is still in love with Pomona, and still has a leaning to- ward alliterative titles why should he not come ‘“Wandgring into Washing- ton” next winter-for the carnlval, to see the beauty of promise changed to r go “Vag- o’ a single year, completing, thercby. the processional of the apple blossorns, i to|crows in overwhelming force. was part of a campaign whica had come down from last year, when the crows sang, ‘‘We are tenting tonight on the old camp groun Last year the doves were driven in a rou*, but last Friday they came over the top, with a blood-curdling pigeon whcop and bore down upon the surprised The: and scouted them an This year the routed them put them all to flight. doves will sing: @ {Over there! Over there! We won't go home, Evidently the crows were outgener- aled. _Rumor has it that the doves had Heard of the New York hens vhich had drilled “squads right and left” and they had been doing some drflling themselves under the com- and of some shave-tail. Wouldn't Noah have been fooled if he had sent out one of these drilled pigeons and waited in the ark for it to return with a sprig of spring foli- age in its mouth? It mever would have returned without a crow's scalp, "l it's over, orer and that would have let Bedlam loose { in the ark. * % ox x Today is the day set by the I. W. W, organization for the start of the revolu- tion which is to overturn.the govern- ment and begin a reign of anarch throughout the United States—perhaps, some will say, also throughout the world In Californfa the strikers, or revo- lutionists, openly Boast that the riv ors are to flow red with blood, and in New Orleans the announcement is made that there will strike, demanding what the three Army-uniformed pickets before the White House have been demanding— the release of the traitors serving terms in the penitentiaries. The probabilities are that before any leader of this foolish effort can raise his voice he will find himself behind there. | be a genera! | prison bars. There is no pretense of & cause for any such treason or un- rest. It appeals to nobody except a handful of adventurers and cannot 4t all interest the wage earners, all of whom -are busy at higher wages than ever known before. * % % X Is it not time to quit temporizing with such agitators and letting them understand that this government pur- poses to maintain peace and ord and fs tired of sedition? While pa- tience is @ virtue, it may encourugs fgnorant agitators to mistake it for weakness and in the end requite more severity'to suppress the nui- sance of their mouthings than If taken in hand more rigidly from the first. There are evidences that the ‘authorities do not suppress the picketing of the White House b men in sympathy with the 1. W, W agitation it is likely to lead to vio- lence. Unless the uniform of the American soldier is respected by Americans, the morale of the Army, Navy and Ma- rines will fall to the ground. If the uniform be used for a cloak for un- orthy acts, such as when worn by pickets before the White Houwe seek- ing a pardon of seditioners, indig. tion follows in the minds of both civilian and military _citizens; b when it is worn legitimately while the wearer is actually in service of his country, it should be a protection against indignity or zbu ¥t In Fredericksburg, Va., secentls two marines from Quantico, uniform, were found upon the street of the city, and accused by police- men with being drunk The were arrested, and, it is alleged, they w seriously assaulted by the policemen and beaten up. Gen. Butler, in command at Quan- tico, demanded that the policemen be dismissed from the force, but the mayor of Fredericksburg la fused. Gen. Butler then avked his men how much they could raise as a defense fund, and within & few hours they had a fund of moro than $2.400 with which they have employed an attorney of high standing to prosec- cute the police. This s done mainly to establish the fact that the United States uniform is not 4 badge of dis- { grace and must be respected. Fred- ericksburg 1s put “out of bounds,” by order of Gen. Butler, and boycotied by the marines. In Ch go Gen. “Hell-am Dawes has started a new org: tion—the Minute Men of the C tution—whose object 1s to defe Constitution against the encre ments of bolshevism and soclalism In Washington Mr. Wade 11, Ellis an address before the Chauniont U American Women's Legion, advoc the formation of a centr: cu tee composed of representatives of patriotic societics throughout Amer- ica, with the sole object of “safe- guarding the nation against sidious bolshevistic and comr propaganda with which flooded.” Mr. Ellis _proposes the treasonable propaganda with pa triotic propaganda, and where th reds have a soapbox agitato claiming against the government { patriotic organizations should hav i speaker explaining its virtues. He pointed out that the radicals already operate 400 newspapers icals, with a_combined circulati 5,000,000, published in thirty lan guages. These publications have news service of their own. ‘Americans are jealous of their con- stitutional right of free speech and a | free press, but it has often been pointed out that that gives no license to seek to undermine the government nor arouse a disturbance of the peace Perhaps the promised May 1 out- break—futile as it is bound to be— will bring an awakening of patriotic indignation and wrath which will re- | sult in official action to put a stop to loose talk of' the seditionist | (Copyright, 1973, by . V. Coll d-Maria T ted mit- | Aot { to _counterac a Higher Titles of Curzon to Pass Out Upon His Death, as He Has No Son BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Curzon, having no male issue, his Marquisate of Curzon and his Earldom Kedleston will become ex- tinct at his death. His barony of Ravensdale in the County of Derby will go by special remainder to the eldest of his three daughters, Lady Irene Curzon, who is still unmarried. while his Viscounty of Scarsdale, bestowed upon him in 1911, and his barony of Scarsdale, created in 1761, by George 111, as well as his two baronetcies dating from Charles I—that is to say, some 300 vears ago—will go along} with the Kedleston Park estates in Derbyshire, first of all to his broth- er, Col. the Hon. Alfred Curzon, who | commanded the Notts and Derb shire regiments during the great w and afterward to the colonel's son, Young Richard thaniel Curzon, and who after serving with consid- erable success in the great war, first as a Salbaltern of the Scots’ Greys and then as 2 captain of the Ar- moured Car and Tank Corps, was as- signed as an attache to the British embassy in Rome, so as to train him for a career of that diplomacy in which his uncle George has obtained the highest honors within the gift of his sovereign — everything indeed, save & dukedom, the bestowal of hich will undoubtedly furnish the climax and_mark the close of his brilliant official course. Young Richard, upon whom Lord Curzon had rested many of his hopes and who seemed to be marked out for a very repid advancement in diplo- macy, now appears to have wrecked his prospects in this connection by contracting very suddenly and se- cretly in a registry office in London and not in a church, a marriage with a Miss Mildred Carson Dunbar, the announcement of whiahy has come si- multaneously with that of his resig- nation from the staff of the British ambassador at Rome, the inference being that it has beenia marriage which did not meet with the approval of the marquis. | * & kok| Lord Curzon's career 'i§ too well known to need any'extdnded refer- ence thereto—the more 4o, as it has all been of his own making: to such an extent has this beén the case that the family from which he sprung, seems to be almost obscured thereby, and one is tempted to forget that he is the eld- est son of the late Lord Scarsdale, who, one of the parson peers of the upper house at Westminster, led & very quiet and unobtrusive life, at- | tracting so little attention on the part of the public, that when he died fn 1916, his countrymen: had almost forgotten that his eldest son and suc- cessor, was the statesman, Lord Cur- zon, aiready both an earl and a vis- count, besides being a .cabinet min- ister. It wase an inheritance from which Lord Curzon, in his younger days, had endeavored 'to ~escape. ' For, with some other youthful members of the house of commons, who happened to be next heirs to 'peerages, they sought to secure, either direct from the crown or through legisiation, a reliet from the obligation to succeed to the family honors. They argued that their succession to the peerages to which they were heirs, would ha: the effect-of removing them from the house of commons and thereby im- pede thelr political preferment and their prospects of attaining" the pre- along | miership. They insisted that tliey onght to be left free to waive the succession to the family peerages if they saw fit, and that they should be at liberty to decline to respond to the summons of the crown, calling them to the house of lords as right- ful heirs to the vacant honors. The highest legal authorities England, however, took the gro that there was no escape for these sons and heirs of the lute Lord Scars- dale, of the late Lord Coldridge and of the late Lord Middleton, and that from the very moment when their f er ey became Nolens Nolems, in- vested with the advantages and the disadvantages of a peerage of he realm and thus ineligible to the house of com- mons, and what is worse, precluded from taking any part in a parliamen- tary election. Lord Curzon herited in 1916 the barony of Scarsdale, at first created by George T11 in the second vear of his reign, for Sir Nathaniel Curzon, owner of a baronetey which Charles I had granted to his forebear, Sir John Curzon of Kedleston, near Der- by—an estate estendeing over some 15,000 acres, which today has been in the possession of Lord Curzon’ ancestors for over eight centuries The mansion., which is of the pal tial order, always reminds Lord Cur- zon of his viceroyelty of India, since Government House, at Calcutta, is an almost exact reproduction of Kedles- ton—designed, indeed, by the same architect. It measures somc 400 feet from wing to wing, consists of a cen- tral block with two wings and has two broad fiights of stone steps lead- ing up to a portico supported by six lofty Corinthian columns. Some idea of the size of the place may be de- Tived from the fact that the tympa- hum supported by these columns are three statues, proportioned from those in the Pantheon, at Rome. over thirty feet high and three feet in diameter. The great hall, which forms part of the state apartmen meas- lUres seventy feet by forty-five feet Is forty-five feet high and contains twenty Corinthian columns of the most wonderful alabaster two fect Bix inches in diameter and thirty. feet high & the other state apartments are in keeping, particularly the dining room, at one end of which a gi- Fantic wine cooler of solid Sicilian Susper. signed by Stuart. It would take columns to describe the magnifi- cence of Kedleston, which ranks grandeur with Chatsworth, Went Worth, Stowe and those other ma; nificent country seats of England which deserve the name of palaces, rather than of halls or of manors. Lord Curzon is by no means the only representative of his family in the house of lords, other members of which who occupy seats there being the Earl of Howe, and when Lady Zouche, peeress in her own right, died, then by her son and heir, who fought throughout the war as an officer of the Coldstream Guard: 1 have seen it stated in print that Lord Curzon is merely the chief of one of the junior branches of the house of Curzon. This is an error. For the Earl of Howe, whose sailor son and heir bears the courtesy title of Viscount Curzon, is’ descended from the second son of Sir Nathanicl Curzon of Kedleston, fourth baronet of his line, while the futurc Lord Zouche is also descended from one of the Cursons of Kedleston, of. whom the marquis, as in capacity as Lord Searsdale and as owner of the entailed ancestral estate of Kedle- £ion, is the acknowledged head.