Evening Star Newspaper, May 4, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, !, With Sundsy Morning Editiew: Bt ey WASHINGTON, D: C. FRIDAY. ... May 4, 1923 I)HEOMDB W. NOYBS: Editor Company pees... o The Evening Star. Newspaper ey Ry . cago : Biropean Ofice: 16 Regent 8., Londos, England. - The Evening Star, with the Sundey morning. wdition, s delivered by carriers withia the efty %60 cents per month; daily only, 43 cents ger sonth: Sunday only, 20 cents per month. OF- dera may be sent by mall, or telephone Main 8400 . Collection {s made by carriers st the ad of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dally and Sunda: Daily ‘only. Sunday only. ANl Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢c Daily only 1 mo., 60 Sunday .oniy mo.. 25¢ 0. $3.00;1 Member of the Associated Press | The Associated Proas is exclusirely entitled | to the use for republication of ail news dis- | atches credited to It or not otherwise credited o this paper and pub- | Iithed ‘herein. ~ All rights of pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. — i "< The Greatest Human Flight. 1t scems only a little while ago when Bleriot accomplished the then phenom- enal feat of flying across the English | channel, a distance of twenty-seven ; miles. Yesterday a flight of 100 times | that distance was accomplished in this 'y, from New York to San Diego, | ihless: than twenty-seven hours. So, vapid have been the strides in aviation, | «a*marvelous the development in this branch of human ingenuity and skill, that the mind is perhaps slow to react | to new accomplishments. Yet the! flight of Licuts. Kelly and MacReady unquestionably thrills the whole coun iy and probably astounds other peo- | ples. ] For a long time it has been urged | that long-distance flying by xmi jid not be rated as true practical ce-covering aviation, and that it | wisuld require a continuous flight of many hundreds of miles to demon- srate the heavier-thanair machine as | Apractical a in real transport nd communication. Now such a flight | 4% been made. almost the longest | nessible in the United States, & great | zonal from New York to the ex reme lower point of California. I the course .of .the flight the airmen eByered all kinds of country, hill and' vajley, plain and mountain, rivers and deserts. They flew tiacough the night | without pause. They maintained an | average speed of 190 miles an hour. They had no rest. They made goal, | scoring the highest record ever accom. | plished by man in human movement. | Immediately occur to the mind the | possibilities arising out of this ment, not only in peace-time practical | uses, but in respect to national de- fense. Plainly the national protection | against any conceivable enemy is greafly increaséd. From a great avia- tion center in the bread prairie lands! of the middle west arm®s can be sent | to any of the borders within a few | hours. What one plane can do a thou- sand planes, or 10,000 planes, can do. The T-2 carried only two men in the | flight that ended yesterday afternoon. | But a plane of equal or greater powori‘ and speed and fuel capacity can be developed capable of carrying twenty men, perhaps more. i It is idle to speculate upon the pos- | sibifities of airplaning because the art | is developing so rapidly and capacities | are increasing so steadily. Records are | being broken constantly. Yesterday | hrought news also of a French mili- tary avidtor establishing a new al publication of | tude record with a load of 550 pounds ! s of 35230 feet, ‘or. nearly. 2,000 feet higher than the previous performanc This countrs must develop the air- | piane as an agency of defense. It! must have a large equipment of ma- chines and a large personnel of skilled | operators. It must make itself ready | with the transport of the future, which | vesterday’s mervelous flight proved to | be the airpiane, rather than the ship Gf:the Tocomotive or the motor car, ol o¥ able to meet any emergency of | national danger from whatever source. Health 'of School Children. "Approval by the hoard of education | of the proposal of the Washington | Council of Social Agencies for the phys- ical examination of every child en- tering -the District public schools is @& measure of precaution against dis ehse spread which should have im-{ yortant resuits. It is suggested that| in addition to the examination on en tiAice each child should be examined annually afterward. Undoubtedly many | children enter the public schools suf- fering from ~ailments unknown to parents, and. of course, to themselves, . |portation companies and of the state in |dashmg upon the tracks without paus- { tion in crop and market conditions. If | . : SR . THE EVENING. STAR., WASHINGTO! e ——————————————— at a gate crossing. 'Td a separate in-! Columbia. Island is’ bi filding and will dictment the railroad was charged with meintaining'£ nuisance. While it is not probable: that. this: indictment will result in the imprisonment of the offfeials on the manslaughter ¢harge, it 'will have.a very good.effect in center- ing attention oncemote sharply upon the’ culpable negligence of the trans- maintaining these-dangerous. crossings in the strictly populated section. In the present New York legislature. it is pointed out im the presentment of the grand jury, ‘“although wurgings| Lave been made by Gov. Smith, indi. viduals and c organizations for legisiation to remove them (the cross- ings), nothing has proved effective, and the Long Island railrcad does not at- tempt to assist in getting such meas- ures through the legisature.” The weekly death toll at the grade crossings in this country is shockingly heavy. Since the first of January The Star's news columns have noted the deaths of thirty-three people in such a manner, almost all of them in motors. Unquestionahly in many cases the blame rested upon-them for violating the ordinary rules of precaution, for ing to note conditions, in some cases plunging past signals in a foolhardy effort to make a little “time.” But the fact remaing that the deadly conditions were not of their making. However careless the victims of these accidents may be the responsibility actually rests upon the railroads that maintain the erossings and upor the state legis. latures that fail to provide means of curing these conditio Breaking the Sugar Market. As an evidence of the possible effect of a widespread boycott by consumers yesterday prices broke sharply on the sugar and coffee exchange in New York. This was no binff. The prices were sent down with @ run because those who are manipulating the rates vealized that the public. upon which. the market depends, is in earnest in its resolution to abstain from sugar ! consumption in krge measure until a; normal schedule of retail cost has been restored. One refining company an- nounced a drop of fifty points, bring- | ing its product down to 8%z cents. An- other company cut off twenty-five points. reducing to 9.9 cents. Raw r declined from 6% cents to 6, and ! in the late afternoon some operator: were offering Cuban raw sugar at cents. These market fluctuations show ! conelusively that the recent high prices have been without any justifica- | there were an actual shortage of sugar there would be no such response to the public demonstration of disap- proval and bovcott. The truth is ob-; vious that these who are in a position | to manipulate the rates have arti-i advanced them, expecting the ficia consumers to accede. i It has taken some weeks for thel! American sugar consumers to reach o 1 the point of active warfare against | this outrageous gouging process. The | law has been invoked, but, workingi slowly, cannot vield results in season. So the people have taken the matter into their ewn hands. and by the; simplest, most elementary and. most | effective measures have worked relief. | It only takes a little abstention on the part of each consumer daily to B{-" fect the whole market. One spo:)nfllls of sugar to a person less makes a tre- mendous tonnage in the aggregate. No organization-is needed. The word spreads throughout the country that prices are being artificially inflated. The people are toid through the news- papers that if they will they can break them up. by persistent reduction in the | smourt used in every household. This demonstration is not difficult now that | the war-time experience is a fresh veeollection. Then the national sugar use was brought down by an immense tonnage in a few weeks. Having iearned how to economize as & war measure, the people are prepared to economize now as a means of defense against extortion. ! —— { Those who remember seeing the Wright DLrothers hop off from Fort Myer for Al ndria a few years ago have grown gradually so accustomed to long-distance flying that they are only mildly amazed by the New York- | san Diego flight of Kelly and Mac- Ready. —————— Protests foreign governments against enforcement of the dry law as interpreted by the Supreme Court are in the mature of demurrers after the verdict is rendered. —————— A girl of twenty-one is indicted in New York for printing false labels for bootleggers. She might be better em- beeome another -nat bral reviawing stand. There would be ' space for more peepte thaar heve ever mitended a boat race in the United States. Perhaps at some tim«} the viver from Georgetown: to Hains Pbint.may be the national course: on which American varsity crews and thoser of.leading boat end- rowing clubs of America wml struggie. for trophies. Perhaps there may be contésts on this magnificent stretch of river between wrews of Ox- ford and Cambridge, Yalle, Harvard, Princeton, Cornell and all the other universities which have a1 interest in rewing. —— Pan-American - Conference. % While the full measure ¢f results ex- pected from the pan-Anjerican con- | ference in Santiago has not been achieved, analysis of the jreport made at the closing plenary .session dis- closes ground for satisfaction over the progress made. The mosi important accomplishment was the adoption - of the Gomdra treaty. This instrunment provides for investigation of dispates before hostilities are declared. As expilained to the conference by Henry B Fletcher, chief’ American delegate, “This treaty reaffirnys and presents in concrete form the great American principle of the pacific set- tlament of international coatgoversics, and prepares the way for the adoption of more spucific measures for reduc- WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC Dr. Gustave Krupp von Bohlen of Essen, whom the French have jaileds has interesting antecedants, ancestral and otherwlse. His parents, though Germans, happened both to be born in Philadelphia. He himself is a native of The Hague, where his father represented the Grand Duchy of Baden at the Dutch court. One of Krupp von Bohlen’s maternal proge- nitors was a general in the United States Army and lies in a soldler's grave in_Virginia. The titular head of, the Krupp works was originally named Von Bohlen und Halbach. On the day of his wedding to Bertha Krupp, the cannon queen, in 1806, the former kaiser bestowed upon the groom the right tg add “Krupp” to his surname. He Was a diplomat by profession and once was a secretary at the German embassy in Washing- ton. At the timg of his marriage Krupp von Bohlén was attached to the Prussian legation at the Vatican. He is about fifty-six years old. * % % Some of the art connoisseurs of the country who came to Washington for this week's dedication of the Freer Gallery called attention to a strange omission. The Detroit collector’s bounteous beguest of his priceless gallery to the Smithsonian Institution provided that “the collection and the building shall always bear the name of Charles L. Freer in some modest and appropriate form.” Although the graceful Greek temple has been (o !jrito this country. standing for more than a year, the name of Freer is visible on no part of it. ~All that does duty in that respect is a weather-worn pasteboard announcement proclaiming that In due course the treasures it contains will be open to public inspection tion and limitation of the burden of armaments as time and circtimstances offer.” That @ssurance is worth while, justifying the conference. Regretting the failure tos arrive at an. agreement on a concreta proposal toreduce the limit of armarnent expendftures, Mr. Isuac B. Marcosson, king of inter- Fletcher said- there is no excuse for | Viewers, was in Washington this week discouragemeny. at the outset of another interrogatory Satisfaction may alse be taken in raid on old world notables. Mustapha Mr. Fletcher's announcyment that :‘r:';“" h?:dv r:;::‘c‘t‘:v:"“;’:f’r”“‘ e - LE ver ent B s e vaament Inot generally known that Marcosson limitation “have mnot revealed the iy the only American mentioned in Lord Northcliffe's will, which b queathed him £100. Marcosson vis ited the British newspaper Napeleon veriodically and was one of his un- official guides, philosophers and slightest or faintest suspicion on the part of any nation nor have the peace- ful motives or desires of any sister state been called into question.” He | @00 during’ the Noetheliffe war stated further that the dor has not |mission to the United States in 1917. been closed against consideration here- * d % ok after of ways and means tfor reducing Admiral Chester and his friends the burden of armament Igy all the na- { some -day may ecxpect to find that tions concerned. Hugo Stinnes, the uncrowned king of The conference has planted in the | Germany, has stretched his ublquit- participant nations and fin all Latin |ous tentacles into Tarkey. His chiet America the leaven of what AMr.|confidential man. a former naval of- Fletcher so-aptly termed *The _\mc“_inor nanied Capt. Humann, probably knows more about Turkey than any ca c g settlement of can principle of peaceful setlement of j ;" German. Humann was born international controversies.” May itii; the land of the sultans while his work and never cease. |father was a Christian missionary {there. He grew up as a schoolmate e of the notorious Enver Bey, the elu- How Long Can a Lady Shimmy neatl Before She Drops Dead ? body has yet disputed her claim. Nbthing much c-l: be dond' -::;;xn;: proved her superiority rec v fisifie allithe iwostd 15 TIRCL washing dishes for thirty-one hours at |l thee. But, what next? Where do e ° "l go from here? That seems to be a stretch. It was a “'stunt” inspired! i stretcn, Ttimanes 1SPIFCC] he general editorial reaction to the the jazzjigging achievements of. ./ inon dancing epidemic, which, some silly aspirants for fame of foor. {EArSt 08 FATCHE CEIEEL o and There is no record of the number of}, .. ceasonal calamities, has broken dishes Susie washed in the course of{ .. .11 over the country. Some pa- the thirty.one hours, or the speed With } parg strongly favor legal and police which she washed them. but the et |jnterference to put & stop to the ex- remains that she stood to her dislfpan { nibitions. To others, however, this is for that length of time without quit- | merely the expression of a passion ting. And she got her reward. Her {for regulation that is no less a mania generous employer. proud of, her|than is endurance dancing. A bit be- achievement, gave her a vacalion— | wildered as to what it is all about. the two whole days. press for the most part sits back in Knitting marathons have now been | weary resignation to wait for the started. Perhaps some of the rgirls will | craze to wear ltself out. which will start a sweeping marathou. Maybe |happen. the Pueblo Star Journal pre- some of them will try for dusting rec. | 41cts, When “participants discover that ords. Anything but long-distance danc- | there is no honor in being a bigger ing. which is about the last word in | 00} than a lot of other fools ® time wasting and energy consuming, ] The sreat auestion before the Amet- . Susi for i 73 ican public today seems to be, accord- Al homor to Susie for showing the |, .\ ine Los Angeles Times, “How way to something worth while in the long can a lady shimmy before she Coctrdiiet fdrops dead?’ And. it adds, “at last e iaccounts we are still trying to find The United States will give foreign{gutr” “Of all the crazy competitions shipping until June 10 to read, mark. }ever invented the dancing marathon learn and inwardly digest the Supreme | wins by & considerable margin of lu- Court’s ban against bringing liquor |nacy,” declares the New York Eve- This is not an al-|ning World, suggesting that its treat- sutawney. Perhaps she is the dishwasher in the United States. lowance of time for appeal. but anjment is considerably more a matter opportunity to conform to the law. for alienists than for the police. The Norfolk Virginian-Pilot also thinks ————————————————— that “here is an inviting inquiry for psychiatrists. alienists, intelligence testers and all interpreters of human folly,” to determine “‘what inhibited impulse, subconscious desire or modi- fied lunacy is exhibited in converting ‘the poetry of motion’ into a cheap test of brute endurance.” The San Francisco Bulletin explains the phe- nomenon as a throw back to barbar- iem, seeing in “the frivolous flapper and her brainless partner” a “sister and brother to the dancing dervish of the desert and the South Sea Island jsavage doing his war dance.” To this the Sloux City Journal adds that “the Emeérson Hough Is dead. His pass- ing will be & loss to every man, wom- an and child who loves the out-of- doors. Perhaps more Americans learned about their own country and the various ways to enjoy it from him than from any other one source. ——— ‘William Jennings Bryan can never hope to equal Everett Scott's record of continuous performances. —— SHOOTING STARS. East Indian fakir who lies for hours on a bed of spikes, enduring agonies of the body, is no more barbaric than a man or woman who dances for ployed even in marathon jazzing. — The embattled women of America are proving that they are mot afraid of the biggest sugar bulls in the mar- ket ; —_———— Rowing on the Potomac. The congress of the seas or the ma- rife pageant during Shrine week will introduce @ great throng of Americans of- the children. And.yet there is no| t0 the Potomac river. Reproductions rviagon for & protest. assuming that the | Of several famous colonial ships, with examination 1s conducted proparly and | CTéWs dressed in-thie fashions of hun- competently. Children are not admit. | 4reds of years ago. will pass in review. ted 1o the schools unless they can{Land pageants have become quite measure up to certain mental stand- | Popular. and such spectacles on water apds. It is quite as important that|Seem to be growing in favor. The they should be in good health, both tor | POtomac river at Washington gives a {he sake of the health of the others | Matchless setting for marine pagean- R AL fhel one s try. .Many men in this section of the Y inis matter desorves the earnest | COGNtry are striving to bring about & coneideration of Congress if it is put |TeVival of public interest in aquatic betore. that body in the form of recom- | SPOrts, and there are indicatfons that #méndations.for an increased medical | there will be such a revival. During fiBpéetion force. The health of -the | Shrine week a regatta will be held, and is of paramount importance, | CreWs Of local, nearby and faz-off bat 1id it can'be best conserved through a | 1Ubs Will race. 9 kyatematic observation of the children | Old Washingtonians récall that a (RR¥ eIt sontols: generation ago boat races were fre- quent on the Potomac, and that they attracted large crowds. The spirit of sport’is growing in. our people, and there is no reason why water sports ¢ should not vie in _popularity with —— S those ‘on land:" It is believed ‘that the Going After the Cause. Patomac presents one of the highly ac- _The Queens county, N. Y., grand |ceptable rowing courses of the world. Yiry has indloted two' high oficials | Many persons believe that it cftdrs the 'afid two subordinate employes of the{best course in the United States for railroad for manslaughter { rowers and spectators. Along the east as @ rasult’of the'death of three fire- {sidp of the course is Potomac Park, oén in Pebruary, when a truck on|which is a natural grandstand miles Which “they ‘were riding was smashed]long. On the west side of the course sometimgs of a nature to make for dapgeroys communication, more often | of a non-communicable character, but “likely to undermine the health of the oRild unless treated. i A material increase in. the size of the school medical staff is an obvious nhecessity In any such program, and it may be that -specific authorization raiist, be obtained by law for the com- palsory - examination. Some parants may object to such a physical scrutiny H i From Leif Ericson down to Knute Nelson, Norwey has sent some pretty good people to these shor BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Old Story. It's jes' the same old story That's told us every year. ! Of the Maytime's gentle glory ! An’ the skies so blue an’ clear; How youth an’ springtime triumph Over winter's sullen looks; It's jes’ the same old story Like the ones I've read in books. l The robin is the poet That salutes her with a song i As May. the gentle heroine, Is petted by the throng. The flowers are the pictures That reflect her loveliness; It's jes' the same old stgry, But it's purty good, I guess. ' ’ How It Seems, No matter how you guide your feet, Life's troubles you cannot forsake; The road to happiness complete Is always one you didn’t take. Working Heurs. I'm going to join & union : author in his glee; “I'm going to work eight hours a day, and that's enough for.me. 1 shall definitely limit my imaginative power 2, ‘To a reasonable number of typewrit- ten words per hour. > “If poetry, perchance, should be my aim, a style so neat ‘Will measure verse to do away with any extra feet. 'Twould take me hours to tell of all the good the plan will do. For instance; ft—" (Exeuse me, but just here the whistle blew.) ho said an assur another American characteristic one, suggests that given the exhibitions- of continuous dancing that has made them attrac- tive. tunity and make it yield financial returns.” the Arkansas Democrat (Little Rock us, and once the craze start- d, this country was bound to take it up and run it into the ground. An(d s to a number of Transcript, for is the publicity evident glaringly The Bost papers. And there has been the oppor- to capitalize public curiosity What this opportunity is the New York Herald explains by calling at- tention to the fact that “the par- ticipants have been In almost every case instructors in dancing schools. Their achievements always attract attention to the particular establish- ment in which they were performed. As @ result these establishments have reaped - abundant free advertising * '+ and managers are filling their pockets.” But it might reasonadly be asked by the young women who are making and breaking long-distance records, the ‘Oakland Tribune concedes, “why is it not as much a feat to dance for sixty hours as it {s to run & hundred- vard dash in ten seconds?” and the OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE time. The Chester concessions in many respects parallel pre-war pro- Jects of German capital, such as the igreat Bagdad railway and_ other Schemes in eastern Antolia. Stinnes 'is not likely to keep his rapacious finger out of the Ottoman pie. * Ok ok K Another newspaperman has gone wrong. Arthur Krock, brilliant young Kentuckian and successor of Henry Watterson in the editorial chair of the Louisville Courier-Journal and Times, has deserted journalism for the movies. New York, not Holly- wood, is to be the scene of his activi- ties, for he is to sit at the right hand of Will H. Hays at headquarters of the motion picture combination. Krock, it is understood, will direct the organization's “public’ relations” de- partment. Newspaper fellow-crafts- men deplore Krock’s preference of a competence to a career. They look upon him as one of the “best minds" of the profession. He is only thirty- six and young enough to repent. LR Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrant, the assistant attorney gencral of the United States, who lays down the pro- hibition law at home and abroad, by no means devotes all her cnergies to that dry subjecl. Indeed, about half her time is given up to a totally different branch of law cuforcement, viz., prosecution of federal tax-dodg. ing. The direction of United States district attorneys in tax cases all ove the country fals to Mrs. Willebrandt's lot at the Department of Justice. At | present she is concerned With a score of big cases in Geor involving claims ranging from $36.000 to §2,000.- 000 aptece. Mrs. Willebrandt will be thirty-four years old this month. She b lis @ Kansan who reform enii- at Los Angeles. Aladdin Temple of Columbus, Ohio, which is President Harding's Mystic Shrine affiliation, is coming to W ington five hundred strong. It I commandeered the Arlington Hotel for its exclusive use. George B. Chris- tian, jr., the President's secretary. a Shriner, too, but of a differcnt de. gree than the one which ciainis the allegiance of the President. Christian tried to accompany Mr. Harding into a Shrine seance in oreia last month, but, when the subpotentates guarding the sacred portals learned George was attached to the other wing, President and secretary had to part company * £ % x an: st to cse Carrying coals to Newcastlc m ! nothing in the young life of the | catitornia is exporting ri Japan. It is trom Japa | seed and is the first foreign now cessfully with do- Susie Hetlock the nw.hnumwn-[n. ncible regularity from time to| (Copyright 3.0 sounding town of Punxsiuttaw o Paf is a marathoner worth while. No, EST | ahuRiag for Susie for tong and wears | EDITORIAL DIG hours. Dancing has ne charms for | her. For Susie is a dishwasher by pr fession. the best dishwasher in Pun paper suspects that “the men who |tell out or the dancing endurance contest may be hard put for an an- !swer." “Men run marathens. collaps at the end. and the crowd che the Flint Journal reminds us. o one thinks the runners are ‘cuckoo’ & IUS never suggest- when the girly come forth endurance you hear sides grunting and sniffing. Envious, perhaps.” Never- theless there i difference, ‘which Pittsburgh Post emphasizes thus: “When an athlete runs a marathon he trains for several months and is continually under the care of a physician.” Yet in these dance con- tests young men and voung women who work in offices and get little physical exercise start upon endur ance tests that may last for days without any training whatever. While But to demonstrate {people on all well-trained, strong! it sthlettc persons might dance for fift hours without injuri themselvy young untrained individuals, par- ticularly women, might be injured permanently by such a strain.” The | Worcester Telsgram notes another distinction between athletic contests and endurance dancing. In games and track meets, it points out, “there i8 a definite goal to be reached. It is striven for in spite of injuries and exhaustion. * * ® The idea of the dance marathon is to dance until collapse. Thus physical exhaustion is practically the g But after all, the ) nal inquires. “why idiots be permitted heads and feet w Haven Jour- shouldn't these to dance their off =0 long as they undertake the job within doors and do mot interfere with the traffic on the public streets? People have been doing fool things since the dawn of existence.” To the Kansas City Jour- nal. however. this is a_ ‘“cynical stand.” uch gruelling performances is not entirely the business of the in- dividuals indulging in them, the Jour. | nal contends, for “no.one would be properly permitted voluntarily to en: anger his or her health, if not life. and the Lynchburg Advance. from a similar viewpoint. declares thai “the New York authorities have the right idea” in bringing pressure to bear to_stop the fad. With this attitude the New York World sharply disagrees, since in its opinion there is nothing “prejudiciai to public morals about endurance dancing to warrant police interfer- ence. The attitude toward it taken by the police of this city and the mayor of Boston is no less foolish than the craze itself.” On the other hand, the Wheeling Register suggests, it is just such orgies that bring about “regulatory and sumptuary laws,” and “one cannot help but incline to the conclusion that Americans are in large measure to be blamed” for the legislative interference against which they protest. One interesting phase has developed out of the country-wide craze, how- ever, to which a number of writers draw attentior. That s what the New York Tribune speaks of as the ‘superior staying power and perhaps grit of the female contenders.” Al- ready, the Tribune says, * sex” and “the weakér sex” have “al- most been banished from print. In the interest of truth it now appears that these phrases should never again evade the blue pencil” Without bringing the blue pencil into play the Cleveland Plain Dealer observes that “displays of great physical en- durance by ‘members of the gentler sex are distinctly novel,” and the fact that the participants in dancing con- tests have been women and young girls accounts in the paper's opinion for the intense and seemingly inex- plicable interest.” Certainly ‘these women who are making mon-stop dancing records every day are also imaking history,” the New Bedford Standard agrees. “In tennis, golf and other sports in which women bave shown a proficiency approachin; that of men they are still short of the men's best. In dancing, on the contrary, they are having things to themselves.” To Shriners by River To the Editor of The Star: I have just read your editorial re- garding the food situation during Shrine week. The thought occurred that boats and freighters could.be commandeered and food supplies ship- ped in them and held at anchor here on the river. The wharf is near the markets, ho- tels and grocery distributing cen- ters. There is room for hundreds of boats on the river. All the freight yards and streets will be tonfuma with passenger traffic and Pullmans. ‘The river can be used to a great ad- me week, at lent ZACK SPRATT. Would Transport Food |Few Injuries by | Cars and Busses %o the Editor of The Star: Street cars and busses are much harder to control than automobiles, but you will notice that very few pedestrians are injured by either one. The drivers of such vehicles know that if they are in an accident it ‘means trouble for them. It is going to be up to them to prove the® inno- cence. The reason why we have so many accidents to pedestrians is that the driver of an automobile knows t! it he has an accident he will be in no serlous difculty, and the hurd:n’ of ‘nroo( wiil be on the dead or injured man. : & / T L. THWING, f grating to Califorma via Michigan, teaching school and marrying en! {route. In real’life, she practices law he gentler | Defends College Girl. Criticisme Erroneons, Writer Says, ——Cites Advantage of Study. To the Editor o The Scar: In a few weeks the sweet girl graduate, full of hope, aspirations and ambition will leave the high school, carrylng her diploma. She will immediately hegin to plan and make arrangements to attend some college this fall. Perchance, she has read or heard of some of the criticism made against women's colleges and their students. Then, she mey begin to hesitate as to whether it will be the best policy to continue her education. In order to clarify any wrong concen- tion of women’s colleges, I am suh- mitting this article to show the erroneousness of the criticism made against them. This is a subject which requires much study and careful investigation before attempting to answer the ques- tions asked. There are hundreds of girl's colleges and co-educational institutions and thousands of girls must study before passing our judg- {ment. It would be quite unfair for them to study only a few individual cases from one or two schools, then draw our conclusions from them by placing all the college girls in the same class. Women at one time were thought of as belonging exclusively in the home and her duties were to care for the fam- ily. We can no longer confine her to this small sphere. She now shares cqual rights with the father and Lusband In the affairs of life. She Las become a partner and co-worker i of a mere adviser. Since she dowed with all these privileges bilities to which she is led. then. why not let her them without perverse criticism? There are two kinds of criticism— constructive and destructive. Few ble to criticize an individual or institution then follow the crit an cism by a solution to make conditio better, but many can find fault after which they leave it to others to im- prove. That seems to be the kind of criticism which T read and which I am answering. First, it was amusing to see how little was known of the Amer college girl. Second, in the criticism made, not a single rem- edy was offered, except to put her to hard work, then the kind was not mentioned The charges of “smoking, ewag- gering. using slang. bold and brazen in manners and dre cannot be made against the college girl as a whole A few exceptions may be d. but they will become the quiet, suming and demure girl as her college sister when she becomes a little older and the fad wears away: | therefore. we have not much cause ifor alarm. . 1t was charged that her writing could not be read. It is my good ifortune to be in a position where 1 can read the writing of thousands of uifferent persons daily from every section of the United States. [ am quite sure that the less than 1 per cent of jllegible scipt read was not { written by the college girl. “Eternal vigilance is the price of i{good English” Language consists of two phases. the art and scientific. The erate uses only the art phase whether it be right or wrong. The correct use of language comes only through long and careful practice. Even then. we must be eternally on the alert or we will make a gram- matical error since we come in con- jtact with so many speaking different dialects and idioms and using vari- ous methods of sentence construction. The scientific phase deals with the laws and principles governing correct sentence construction. Correct Eng- lish will never be spoken or written until we have a universal ianguage and each person knowing the tech- !nn-al part of it. then put i€ into prac- tice in every day life. Why charge the college girl more than anyone else? She will occasionally make an error unconsciously, no matter how well she might know goed English. since she hears so many mistakes in ordinary conversation. The psychology. logic and philoso- phy which she will learn are essen tial to good wife-hood and mother hood. No parent, either mother or father, can know too much psychol- ogy. The mind in its development passes through many stages. Wa, too, have the many instincts to en- counter. 1f the mother knows psy- choiogy, she can guide the movements of the mind in its process of unfold- ing, and. too. she will krow which insiinct to foster and which to sup- press. The mother's knowledge of philoso- phy and logic is needed every day as the child comes to her with its many questio; Each question _answered creates i cause many more questions to ed. The child wants to know nd effect. There is no of satisfying this desire truth than having a thoroush knowledge of philosophy. Then, too. {knowledge of logic will enable her to answer these questions in a clear, jconcise and logical manner, and, too. direct the child's expressions in like manner. The Latin, mathematics and sci- ences which she gets in coliege dis- ciplines the mind which will enable her to meet all problems whereby she can become a better wife, com= panion and mother. All our schools whether for men, co-educational or girl's colleges are under the control of a board of trus- tees. a president, and either a dean of women or a matron, who look after the welfare of the girls. These imen and women have a broad experi- jence, a practical knowledge and look only to the best interests of the stu- dents. The board of trustees consists of our best business men and finan- clers. They, too, mo doubt, have daughters in’some college. 1 cannot possibly, think of them employing professors, matrons or dean of girls who do not meet all requirements of the school scholastically, morally and socially. The days of menial labor for women Lave passed. Poor old China with its 4,000 years of civilization is a good example of the results of a spcluded life for her women and girls who often become mothers at twelve years and are premature old -women at thirty if fate permits them to suffer {the hardships of menial labor and bearing children that long. Does any sane-thinking, red-blooded Amer. ican father want to see his daughter come to the same state of affairs as the Chinese girls? The American college girl is inde- pendent. She is intelligent, practical and economical. She is modest, de- mure, chaste and virtuous. She, too, is a perfect type of womanhood, and she will become and make as good a wife. companion and mother as those of the past and the present and the morals of our country will be just as safe. A few years 230 a very prominent gentleman returned to his old home after several years of absence. He called upon a lady friend who had been in the same class with him in high school. She had gone to college as did many oOther members of the class, but she married soon after fraduating. She cordially inmvited im into her home, and they spent some time talking of their school days, both in high school and col- lege. [Finally he asked: “Well, your college education did not do vou any good since you married and went into a home?” He was thinking of a col- lege education benefiting her only in the many activities of life outside of the home. She called her two daugh- ters, six and eight years old, resp tively. After introdu them, she very modestly ‘replie ‘es; my’ four years of college education enables me to be a better home-maker, 2 better companion to my husband and a be ter mother for my two daughters. The gentleman immediately saw that she had the true spirit of a college education which exemplifies the same spirit held by our present-day college girls who will bo the home-makers, eempanions a88 mothers of tomorrow. In the ploneer. days there was. & traveling preacher who wandersd through Ohio, scattering apple seeds wherever he went. He belleved in fruit raising, and his devetion to his apple seeds was second only to his aeal, in preaching the gospel. He be- @ame known as “Apple Seed Johnny,” and many a locality owes its first agple orchard to the sprouts from his seeds. How did vegetation first get to the earth, after the original gascous chaos had cooled enough for vege- table life? It is no denial of the miraculous creatlon that some scien- tists belleve it came floating through space with fragments of star dust or meteors, from other worlds, for that in no degree explains how lt‘nrigl- nated in those worlds. It must have who attend these schools whom we {in the lapt fifty years all theories of CAPITAL KEYNOTES 2 BY PAUL V. COLLINS 123 not- were the traitor Why not fine or woters? slgckers in imprison the * x o % “Drifting toward a pure demo Adcy?” What will prove that dri AXA we not rather drifting in the op postle direction, toward a super-re- publ\a such as a former President once twid should he governed by “a represeusative part of tho people What evidlence is there that the rr- cent trend, of affairs is making t more than Refore a “zov the people, ¥y the peopls peopl LY * If history tels us th democracy has ever long what is its record of empire or re public? The depti of the Atlantic, it is said, cover tha\ greatest emplr been created somewhere and at Some | of prehistoric antigiity—Atlantls time, Science has overturned With-|and possibly the greatast of all « pires. Where s the &uD spontaneous creation of life out of pharaohs, of Babylon, o chemical substance. Pasteur gettled |, o 5 0 SR O L that with his demonstrations in bac- | S0 [0 p STEACEN (ST teriology. Bacteria never originate | o5 " Yean ot spontoneously—they come floating in | Grand: Napoleon or the kikwer ¢ the air, until they find lodgement in : Sy ALALHLOLAthe : some substance which will feed them. el rannblie: has! Aon: d? That of Athens on is equally true of mighty forests. Trees do not reforest cut-over land spontaneously. There are vast acre- ages, formerly growing forests. These expanses are now waste land, and it would be practically impossi- ble to replant such land with the mil- lions of trees which, if pianted. might eventually recreate a forest. The Jatest plan for meeting such a problem is that millions of- forest seeds may be scattered over the land from airplanes. Oddly enough the first_experiment with ajrplane refor- estation has been made, under the direction of the Department of Agri- culture, in Hawail There two air- planes, manned by four men, resowed eight square miles in a few hours—a task which should have required months and great outlay, if done in the ordinary way. The seed blew and drifted, but flnally reached the ground. Thus we find either a mod- érn meteor shower of seed, or a mod- ern “Johnny Appleseed” with wings. “The world do move:" * k% ¥ Some folks are distressed because President Harding, in his recent ad- dress to fellow publishers, declared that “our drift today is toward pure democracy, and no pure democracy has ever long survived.” ‘There is meat f a thesis in that text. Are we really drifting toward 4 pure democracy? Only 46 per cent of the men and women who are en- titled to function as rulers of the “pure democracy” care enough about their “royal attributes” and obliga- tions to cast the ballots, even at pr ential electlons. Are not the voteless 54 per cent ruled by a “de- spotic” minority? Call that a “pure democracy”’? * % % & We talk much about the need to Americanize aliens. Why do we not Americanize native Americans? Has & man or woman a right to enjoy the liberty and opportunities of this, the freest and richest country upon the globe—the one with the broadest op- portunities for “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” that any coun- ! try in all history has ever afforded— s long as he or she persists in dense ignorance of the important issues they are required—or ought to be re- benefit of all? Why should any citi- izen rétain his or her citizenship when | they atrophy their rights and obliga- tions? Are they not. in principle, slackers of patriotic duty, as truly as quired—to help solve rightly for the! The United States flag is the alded unchanged flag in the world. Lo may it wave! Who will name an: other emblem of power so mights |or so beneficent of fre portunity?, Its greatnes the founder of tie part power, Abraham L. | fundamental principled 2 as he expressed them-t [trend should ever be 1 public of “a represen part o houbd alw sonrce of power o he toueh of the {ithe people.” but that it be like the mag! the Arabian tal giant with the earth The President azrees who deprecate the failure of t masges to recognize the need of more pogular partieipation in the functions s of cltizenship as indicuird the voting of only 46 per cent o the legal voters th these Ther the « | leged have bee picketing the White House in thefr uniforms of the Army. the nd d skin “po release o : How ism count with & Here is a case for conside | _Kenneth F. Thomas = }was sentenced to th tentiary on a charge {he escaped, and There 1% enlisted army for fighting tJ served under Bri } through the w and intellig colonel. He lin -a hospital recovering from his woux meanwhiic, six months i | cape. and also a year after o Governor of Vi | where he was. and p | turn and complete more |the war. H two vears than nted his_takin that course ptly as Le had promised. but last week he canic. He voluntarily and retfrned to the penitentiary o c\om- j ency by reason of h c fightNng nd. democracy Will re for " justic | spee | Wiil for any pickets to prison “walls who have ex mistake or into before acid test of (Cop: ¥ had been led England’s Position in Egypt Firmer: BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Egypt has once more furnished an illustration of the difficulty which people of the occident experience in understanding the orient, where the expected so seidoin happens, since we are always inclined to base our prog- postications on western instead of eastern standards, principles, ethics the mind of the child ideas |@nd modes of thought. A few weeks|known sporting Col. Thorton, wh ago all Egypt was in a state of tur- moil over the internment at Gibralt of old Zaghloul Pasha, the nationalist leader. Indeed, conditions seemed so critical in the land of the Nile that the English government felt itself compelled to issue a warning to the effect that Great Britain's grant of national independence and of sover- eignty to Egypt was merely of an ex- perimental character, and that if it it could be rescinded. on the advice of Lord Allenby, who El Field Marshal seems, like Kitchener and like Lord Cromer in the past. to have fathomed the oriental mind and train of thought and to realize the virtue of mingled firmness, serenity and bound- less patience, Zaghloul Pasha has been released and allowed to proceed to France to a thermal resort there. * k¥ ¥ The consequence is that Zaghloul has ceased to be a political martyr or an object of popular sympathy in Egypt His liberation, instead of ovoking enthusiasm in the land of the Nile, s treated with indifference, and the closest adherents of Zaghloui are| displaying no little chagrin at the failure of their efforts to organize a grand summer pligrimage to visit Zaghloul in France. Indeed, it looks 2s if he had become as extinct am & political factor in Egypt through his Tiberation from Gibraltar as was Ara- by Pasha, the leader of the Araby in- surrection of 1882 in Egypt, when per- mitted to return home after his in- ternment in Ceylon, to die some years later in complete neglect and oblivion. Lord Allenby's move in securing the liberation of Zaghloul is regarded throughout Egypt not as a sign of weakness or as a surrender to na- tionalism, but as an indication of strength,’ the natives assumins that England would never have darea to let Zaghloul go unless thev were ah solutely secure of their friendly hold upon the land of the Nile—for its own good. The relations between the British residency at Cairo and King Fuad are closer and more cordial than they have been for many a long day, and Yehia Pasha, the premler, like the king, realizes the limitations of their powers, and they are working to- gether in thorough accord with Lord Allenby. In one word, the prospects in Egypt are brighter at present than they have been in many a year— thanks to the sound judgment and understanding of the oriental charac- tor on the part of Field Marshal Lord Allenby—the power behind the throne. * ok ¥ Kk With the birth of a son and heir to Capt. the Honorable William Stourton. and to his wife, the former Shella Gully, the succession is a: sured to his father's ancient peerages of Moubrey, Seagrave and Stourton— the first two of which date back to 1283, and which are now in possession of Lord Msubrey, &s the twenty- fourth peer of his line. Lord Moubrey derives his descent through the female line from that Roger de Moubrey who figures in history as one of the commanders of the Norman army which conquered England in 1066. As Lord Stourton, he traces his descent also to Bothaiph Stourten. who mareisd Lady OSCAR M. MILLER, |Anne, dlulh’l‘ of the famous Earl . Thanks to Wisdom of Lord Allenby Goodwin of the time of | 1 the Confessor, and a r, therefore. of King Harold of and. The pres | ent Lord Moubr he twentv-ninth ! in direct line of male succession fron. | Botholph Stourton and from Goodwin, Stourton is not only Lord Mou brey's patronymic, but likewise th: | name of the family seat near Knares- | borough in_Yorkshire—once famou |as Thornville Roval of the we wife used to ride races dressed as | jockey, and_who kept all Yorkshire | talking by his extravasance | * s ancestors have beea i | Lord Moubre | singularly unfortunate. T | eighth Lord Stourton was hanged with a silken halter for murde and for many vears the sflken | halter in question hung above his | beautiful tomb in Saltesbury Cathe- dral, precisely as the huge red hats of cardinals are suspended abo the tombs ol these princes of the | church. The fifteenth and sixteenth | Lords Moubrey lost their heads on {the scaffold for high treason, and the fourteenth Lord Moubrey suffered | a similar fate for unlawfully quar | tering on_his own shield the ro. | arms of King Edward the Confessor { The second Lord Moubrey was be | headed at York for rebellion and the seventh peer was hung, drawn and quartered for taking a,leading part in the Insurrection against Henry IV. From this it will be seen that a large number of Lord Moubrey's ancestors have engaged the unpl ant atten- tions of the public ex tioner * ¥ ¥ S Strawberry Hill, the historic suty | ban home of Horace Walpole, situatex between Twickenham and Teddington jon the Thames, is once more in the {market, as apparently its‘ present owner, ‘the widowed Lady Michelhan:. finds it difficult to attra London us, in 151 ciety into the outskirte of the me- tropolis in the same way as the late of |Horace Walpole, and afterward Frances, Countess of Waldergrav whose garden parties at Strawbe 1 Hill enjoyed international fame. i The widowed Lady Mitchell, has owned it for the last fifteen years, has been a very pretty woman, and is related to a number of well known families in America—notably to Chandlers and to the of Ne York. She likewise count: mong ou {isinsfolk the Pellews, being a daush ter of that Mrs. Octavius Bra who haw of Powderham Castle, who by her first marriage to Hon. Fleetwood John Pellew was the grandmother of the late Lord Exmouth. Her appearance is familiar to many, for her portrait by Jan van Beer is regarded us that brilliant artist's masterpiece. * ok ok ¥ Strawbefry Hill was origin known as Chopped Straw Hill, owing to the fact that it was first-built by an Earl of Bradford's coachman, who had acquired a large sum of money by dishonestly substituting chopped straw for oats in feeding his master's many horses. Strawberry Hill had always been associated with famous people. It was there that Colley Cib- ber wrote his play, “The Refusal. and whence he waged his war against Pope. Atter Cibber cama Bishop Talbot of Durham, then_ths Marquis of Carnarvon, then Lord Johh Sackville, and_in May, 1747, Horace Walpole, the best known and most brilliant’ of all the sons of the great Sir Robert Walpole. On_his death it went to his niece, the Countess of Waldergrave, and through her to th seventh Earl of Waldergrave. Af the demise of Frances, Countess of Waldergrave. daughter of {he seventh | earl of that ilk, it was bought by the ate Herbert Stern, who was created T8t & baronet and tHen a peer, wnder the title of Lord Michelham,