Evening Star Newspaper, May 5, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, MAY 5 1923. 4% e 1HE BEVENING SI1AR,_WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MAY o 192 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE THE EvENmG STAR, | molish the bridge, or, it may be, for its With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY.....*..May 5, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. now pending. In either case it would be for Congress to declde whether the old bridge is to go or to stay. An argument has been advanced in favor of the retention of the old bridge. It is proposed to use it for steam rail- road tracks or possibly other traffic. It is urged in behalf of this proposal that the piers ave sound and strong. On the other hand, official engineering opinion is that the plers are not de- pendable, and it is pointed out that the new bridge was authorized mainly on grouth: Sunday only, 20 cents D ephone. Mala | the ground that the Aqueduct Bridge 8000, T Cthection” 167 made by carlers at e | wag not safe. ecieasiman Undoubtedly it will require an ex- Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | plicit proof of the stability of the old Maryland and Virgi structure and its security if used as a Sunday oniy 3 $2.40; 1 mo., 20c | Congress to permit its retention in service. But even if that proof is given there arises a question of whether it is desirable to retain these two bridges which are so close together at their i Virginia ends, thus forming an apex of congestion at that point. In any case, the whole question will be thrashed out before Congress next winter. Unless the demonstration of need, dependability and public con- venlence Is effected, however, the law for the destruction of the old bridge will stand, and will be carried into ef- fect as funds are made available. ————————— The Oldest Inhabitants. The Association of Oldest Inhabit ants discusses the matter of estab- lishing & museum in which to display relics and historic documents connect- ed with the city of Weshington. The ancient Union engine house, at the corner of H and 19th streets, priceless collection of such s & collection that could not be replaced. 1t has been gathered by old men, elderly men and middleaged men whose lives have been spent, or have in large part been spent, in Washington, and whose interest in the city is deep and reverent. Many of these men are scions of families set- tled here before or soon after the foun- dation of the city. and many of the velics have come down through gen- erations of men. The collection repre- sents vears of devoted and loving in- dustpy. It is steadily growing, and will continuie to grow, and it should be upon the United States to carry outise placed as to be safe from destruc- the law as thus stated. It is always|tion by fire or time. and it should be to be expected that the states williayvajlable for consultation and exam- make their laws conform to those of | jnation by all persons who ard inter- the United States. It S not, NOWeVer, | ested in the Washington of long ugo. required that they do go affirmatively. | The collection is not safe in the old They must not pass laws that nullify | engine house, it cannot he displayed federal laws, Such state statutes would | there in the way its interest and value be, and have been, set aside by the ) for, and it cannot well be exam- Supreme Court on the ground of con- !ineq by the public. flict and attempted nullification. The | 7, Association Mullan-Gage enforcement law of New |0 long aso outgrew its head York was designed to ald the United | quarters. There are numevous con- Siates. Repeal of it means the With- [gigerations calling for a new heagauar- gapal Gisisteld ters building. but there are contrar. Only in the degree that federal en- | .oniderations. forcement within the state fails of ef | ji i1t o relic of fect does the repeal of this statutel,eycpes far back into the days of vol- signify the restoration of the drinking | ynreer fire companies. when nearl privilege. The eighteenth amendment | oiopy aplebodied man in the town be in not repealed there, nov is the Vol-1)ongaq to one company or another. 1t stead act repealed within the state|,q heen the home of the Oldest In- boundaries. Federal enforcement be- |y yiv it for so many years that they eomes more difficult without state aid. | are Joath to leave it. Turning the There may be more drinking aid|y,cj on the old engine house seems liquor selling than pefore. more fla-y o jany of them akin to desertion arant violation of the law, under a gnq treason. The place is full of memo- misconception of the effect of this re- | yjng and the gray-haired men are peal, and this condition will call for|eqq 1y attached to it. Everything the application of more severe and | ghoyp the ancient building recalls o stringent measures on the part of the | o1, friends who have gone on the United States o enforce the federal|gieqr journey. 1t is a bit of old Wash- @tatutes ingten all grown arvound by things The political significance of this ac- {4y 00T a0 the men who tlon is of interest. Most of the repeal-{ cuior there it is a shrine. ing votes were cast by democratic| ™ ji possible that the Oldest In- members of the legislature. Most of |, ian¢ts may never give up this place the republicans voted in the negative. | g \pai. official home. Yet the deciding votes in both houses were cast by republicans. Upon which party will the responsibility for thei sction mainly fall? ' That question wil Yhe Evening Star Newspaper Company Susigess Office. 11th St. a Ivania Ave. New York Office:, 8t Chicago Ofce: Tower Bullding | Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., London. England. The Evening Star, with the Sundav morning adition, ig delvered by carriers within the city 60 cents per month; dally only. 43 cents 'l All Other States. for_republication of all news dia- credited to it or not otherwise credited paper and also the local mews pubs of publication of igh re also reserved. wpecial dispatches hereln New York Withdraws Aid. Repeal by the New York legisiature of the state law enacted to reinforce the federal statute of prohibition based upon the eighteenth amendment is hailed as a victory for the wet side and as a severe blow to enforcement of the federal law. not only in New York state, but in the country at large. The conclusion, however, that it speils defeat for prohibition mot war- | ranted. That the repeal weakens tic | process of prohibition enforcement in | New York is evident. But it does not mean necessarily that the federal pro- cedure will be less vigorous there or elsewhere. On the contrary, with- drawal of the state support in that quarter entails the obligation gn the part of the federal government to in- crease vigilance there. ew York is wholly within its rights in repealing the enforcement law. The federal Constitution having Dbeen amended 1o prohibit intoxicating liquors, and an act of Congress passed making definitions and providing for enforcement, the primary duty rests a of Oldest old Washington. It be reached whereby the relics and memorials will be placed in some new repository while the members of the he sharply debated later as the ques- association cling to their historic home. tion of prohibition enforcement grows, ! my o matter at a recent meeting was 48 many believe it must grow, into @ | oferred to the executive committee. P 11t is an interesting question, and all 1t does not follow that because the |y friends of the Oldest Inhabitants— legislature, in the hurried final session. { 119"\ 1e o1d residents and many of voted to repeal the enforcement 1aW | o power residents are their devoted | the state at large sapports this action. | e LTI o settle the case The question was not a direct i88Ue |, peir cwn satisfaction, but the hope before the voters at the late election. |, yps¢ the priceless collection in the Tt must now become such, and in the | ;g epgine house shall be made safe. campaign to come it will assuredly be | prominent in the matters upon which | % g i v the people will be asked to vote, at| A "‘f’ f:”(‘f;'l‘i'f‘“"m"‘hu"’";‘:‘"‘:"’ “‘]: primaries and in the final balloting ;J?rl::m; i By o pposes 5 proiition | “plant wizard" The achlovements of ‘ this practical evolutionist will prob- will probably seek similar action in g ably not be either condoned or recog- other states, and will move for the re- 7 = peal as well of the eighteenth amend. | nized by the presencé of Willlam Jen- nings Bryan. ment, assuredly modification if not re- ————————— peal of the Volstead uct. There are two ways to repeal the amend- 1f lzzy Binstein and Moe Smith, ment, one by a constitutional conven-{ noted rum sleuths, should head a spe- tion, the holding of which upon the | cial expert dry enforcement squad initiative of two-thirds of the states is | here for the Shriner celebration it has one of the least likelv of all develop- | been suggested that a new and stun- ments, and the other by direct vepeal- | ning disguise would be the fore and ing amendment, adopted by two-thirds ; hind legs, respectively, of a camel. of the Congress and ratifled by toree- R S R fourths of the states. Modification of King George and Queen Mary of the Volstead act can be effected by a| England have started on a visit to majority vote in Congress. That, being | Rome. It is wondered if their majes- the easier way, is likely to be the firat { yjes, when in Rome, will do as the sought. It remains now to be scen|Romans do. whether public opinion on the question of prohibition has changed sufficiently | to effect a withdrawal ot the enforce- | ment authorization, without which the eighteenth amendmant fails of effect. There is no substantial evidence of such a change. ————— France says ‘‘no’ to Germany so promptly as to make it plainly appear that she had her mind made up in ad- vance. e Aqueduct Bridge. The question of the sale of the Aqueduct Bridge and its retention in service has been put up to Congress by the War Department in a ruling by the acting Secretary, that without spe- cific legislation the government cannot accept the proposal for a lease of the structure that had been submitted. “The act of Congress providing for the construction of the new Francis Scott Key Bridge provides for the destruc- tion of the old bridge. But no appro- priation has been made for the work of demolition, and so until funds are provided it must remain, even though entirely out of use. The question will undoubtedly be brought before Congress at the next gesslon, A recommendation will doubt- less be made by the War Department, perhaps for @&n opriation to de- A National Stadium. The plan for a national stadium at ‘Washipgton is taking shape. The idea appeals to most persons to whom it is explained, and youth everywhere in the United States is expected to em- brace the idea with enthusiasm. The stadium would be an athletic fleld sur- rounded by tiers of seats for thousands of spectators. On that fleld would be hejd international athletic games, na- tional athletic contests and interuni- versity games and contests. It would be the central stage for American ath- letes and a vast theater for the throngs which rush to watch modern gladiators perform. . The growth of athletics in the United States has been remarkable. One marks that growth everywhere. In the schools, colleges and universities athletics have come to play sfch a part in student life that critics-often gay they overshadow the scholastic aims of the institutions. This is prob- ebly not true. The facuities say that it is not true, and they should know more about it than other persons. If student bodies give more cheers for athletic heroes than for men who win scholastic honors they are only doing what youth has done in all the ages of the world. The growth of base ball, foot ball, 1 lease under the terms of the proposal | Inhabit- | The engine house is | 1t is possible | that some sort of a compromise may | tennis and basket ball is obvious to everybody, end there are but few per- sons who have not been touched with enthusiasm for some ocutdoor sport. Golf is & great and growing game, and there ars probably a thousand men going over the links today for every one who was swinging a golf club five vears ago. The crowds at important base ball games and at the annual foot ball games between Annapolis and ‘West Point and between the first-rank universities are Immen: One of the proposals is that the na- tional stadium shall seat 100,000. It was recently pointed out that when the stadium of the Ohio State Univer- sity at Columbus was built it had seats for 62,000 persons, and that at its opening with a foot ball game between Ohio and Michigan universities 73,000 spectators attended. In all the big | games spectators rush to the athletic field by train, trolley and motor from all direction Great cities are often taxed to give accommodation to visitors at the games. It would be so at Washington. The interuniversty games would take on a national character. Washington would be fulfilling one of its functions as the National Capital in providing a “bowl” or arena or stadium for those contests. The leading’ spirits behind the stadium idea believe that it should stand as a memorial to the youth of America, and that Young America, as well as Elderly America, would prompt- ly contribute the money to build and adequately endow a national stadium. —————————— The World Court. President Harding’s attitude on the question of proposed adhesion of the United States to the Permanent Court of Inter ional Justice is explained at the White House to be undeviating support of the proposition as submitted by him to the Senate at the close of the last session of Congress. The ex- tent to which he may go in urging it in public addresses or communications will be limited by ethdcal considera- tions, his purpose, it is explained, being to avoid being placed in the posi- | tion of a campaigner for the plan. In other words, it is construed that he will take advantage from time to time of opportunities as they offer to make it known that he has not aban-! doned his ground upon the subject, | in the hands of the people, who in |hei last analysis must decide. 1t is stated | {authoritatively that there is no foun-; dation for the assumption in some | quarters that because he is not to ku= shouting from the housetops for the !Deposed Sultan’s Removal to Haifa lcourt he has backstepped from his | position of advoeacy. ————— | E A day and a night i1 a lumber camp | are being urged on President Harding during his approaching western trip. | i It will be a proud crew who sit with him on the “deacon seat” waiting f the cookee's stentorian “Come and get it | —_———————— ——— Indian Comm Merritt with { draws his prohibition of dances by the Indians of New Mexico and Arizona. | Considering the fact that dancing is {one of the original aboriginal social ! practices it would seem to be wise to {let it continue. ———— | Joseph Conrad, the British author just landed in the United States, is | | demonstrating a diplomatic ability in refusing to eriticize American authors | {0f the past. He is thus proving himselt to be a shrewd as well as & talented person. —_———— | The American collection of English sporting trophies has been increased | by the capture of the St. Georges chal- lenge cup by a couple of golfers from these shores. The cricket champion- ship, however, remains in England. ——————— The man who carved the capstone | of the Washington Monument recently | died here. The reporter who covered | the occasion of its placement for The Star in 1883 is still on the staff of this newspaper. ssioner The British Union of Wives joins the sugar boycott. Sort of “Saccharins Across the Sea.” SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. ! Noting a Difference. The man who says the things I think, In & convincing tone, And in opinion seeks to link His fortunes with my own, ‘Who holds an audience enthralled ‘While all his thoughts are told— He is entitled to be called A patriot tyue and bold. | But he who takes another side From that which I espouse, And calls mankind from far and wide Their interest to arouse In talk with which I disagree— Let not his words befog Your judgment, for I plainly see He is a demagogue. . ‘Weariness. Oh, the man with the weary Arm lies down And welcomes the night that is sweet with rest. He faces the morrow without a frown, For his strength is greater with every test. And he pities the man who stands apart, The man who strives with a weary Heart. The man with the weary Mind goes out ‘Where the winds of the forest lave and cure. He forsakes the tumult of scorn and doubt, To return with courage renewed and sure. But there's naught of pleasure in fleld or mart, Alas, for the man with a weary Heart. ‘The man with the weary Arm may . droop, But his Heart will call him to strive anew, The man with the weary Mind may stoop, But his strength endures till his task is through. But Loving Nature and Cunning Art Despalr of the man with a weary Heart. { within easier re I ne used to hauve rec { clesiastical ithe limelight. Mrs. Harding is deeply interested in. the project to establish a federal prison for women at Mount Weather, Va. A bill to create such an institution was before the late congress. It was almost the last one on which Knute Nelson conducted hearings in the Senate judi- ry committee, of which he was chair- man. What to do with women con- victed of offenses against the United States has become a real problem. Their number was increased by more than 100 per cent in ten years. Viola- tors of the narcotics and prohibitjon laws are the most numerous type. Three hundred federal woman prisoners are now In custody. State and county jalls refuse to receive them except in two minor instances where accommoda- tions are wholly inadequate. Our thre federal penitentiaries—at Atlanta, Leav- enworth and McNeil 1sland—accommo- date only men. ERE Philip Pitt Campbell of Kansas, who was among the large and eminent con- gressional that fell by the wayside in has hung out a law | office shingle in Washington. Thus he Joins a growing legion of former mem- bers of the Senate, House and adminis- trations who find the National Capital happy hunting grounds for the legal profession. It is not only the lure of Washington that induced Campbell to remain in the District, but his reluct- ance to part from . charming_country estate across the Potomac in Virginia The late chairman of the House com- mittee on rules, famed for his Disraell i .. was born in Nova age of four had rate to Kansa % % You nev ton when n be sure in Washing- you're going tread on| somebody’s toe Harold Phelps Stokes, the most plutocratic mem- Dber of the local corps of mewspaper correspondents. narrates a grewsome experience. The other night at theater he found himself seated by accident adjacent fo Senator Fred- erick Hale of Maine. Wanting to keep off controversial subjects like the world court, Stokes thought he'd | start a non-committal line of talk between the ac enator,” said the newspaperman, “don’t You think the air_in the Senate chainber ix ter ble?" “Do you really find it s0”" re- | joined Hale n chairman of thej committee on ventilation.” H o They're telling a good one on the Department of Agriculture. There| was recently unveiled there a memo- | rial tablet to Harold Powell, who vendered the citrus fruit growers of Californiaz eminent service in the domain of co-operative marketing May Portend New Political Upset By Sultan Mohammed VI's resolve to transfer his residence from the holy E MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. [ city of Mecca to Haifa is not without political significanc ¥ , at Haifa. he will be much more accessible, and ch in the event of any movement toward his restoration at Constantinople. Haifa is a town| of Palestine on the south of the Bay of Acre. Indeed the port is the best natural harbor off the entire coast of the Holy Land. Moreover, it connected by rail- road with Damascus, and is at all times beneath the protecting gyns of the Bnglish and allied fleets. It is the health resort par exv-‘“_bnr(‘ of Palesti AU Megca, the climate is abominable and very hard on an el derly man who is not accustomed thereto. He is beyond the reach there of the eminent physicians, to wh e Precourse while still is at_Stamboul. Then, too, his position at Mecca cw e. For, althoush was an awkward one. For, al 3 he still ranks in the eyes of all mos- s commander of the faith- eity, and was only resident there as a guest of King Hussein, the sovereign ; B the Hedjuz. Besides, his continu-| Ohce at Mecca seemed to emphasize the impression that he was more con- terned with his religious than with his tmporal role, and conveyed the liea that he had given up all hope of ever resuming his place on the throne ot Osman, the founder of his dynas- cupted in deflance o 4 e ical law. by his r, Abdul Medjid. 2 mx’vfhl\el‘e'c::\a. Sultan Mahommed was in (e fair way of becoming an object T profound religious veneration—a | Spiritual, rather than a human pu\\er\ and personality. ] xill be much more in A e ‘f:lr better Pl;l;‘le\:!(—t: lded from all harm. than a and ehie Mere he might have met | ¥ith & voluntary or involuntary death Without any one being the wiser for N ontna together. But at Haifa it will o mpossible to conceal anything, bed ha awill, when established there. Sonstitute a perpetual menace to the Kemal regime at Angora and Con- stantinople. e Haifa is situated at the base of Mount Carmel, and it is, perhaps, the greatest health resort in the Levant, Mount Carmel forming a Drom.onl?ry of nearly 3,000 feet high, projecting & long) distance Into the sea and won- derully rich in verdure. One thing is certain, namely, that Sultan Ma- hommed has removed his residence from Mecca to Haifa for some politi- cal purpose, making the greater part 52! (he Trip by the Medina-Damascus raliroad. So, what with France doubling the size of her armed force | in northern Palestine and England following suit, and, Sultan Mahommed moving morthward from Mecca to Haifa, it looks very much as if grave events are once more pending in the near east; that the regime of Kemal Pasha were far less stable than it appeared to be last autumn, and that further changes of a revolutionary character may be looked for in the relatively near future on the shores of the Bosphorus. ® % k ¥ Young Lord Kinnoull has returned safe and sound from South Africa, ac- companied by his devoted mother, Viscountess Dupplin, and by the lat- ter's sister, his aunt. Thirteenth earl of his line and having only just at- talned his majority, he was carried -_,—,—_——_— Protests Slop Wagons Citizen Says They Us_e Avenue in Rush Hours. To the Editor of The Star: Much is being attempted to make ‘Washington beautiful for Shriners' week—more power to the citizens and the municipal officials in this lauda- ble effort. 2 ‘What is to be done during that week with the dirty, dingy, overloaded, dripping slop wagons that slowly meander down Pennsylvania avenue from 7 a.m. to late afternoon? . The slop wagons are always over- loaded; usually the lids are half open; frequently the “debris” is drip- ping or hanging over the sides— jarea commanders did not kmow in I pected { that materialistic Fthe <hattered fortunes of his house, {nounced that she would frustrate all Powell had served under Herhert Hoover in the Food Administration, S0 Secretary Wallace invited his cabinet colleague to attend the litte ceremonial. During the war Wallace and Hoover was at daggera drawn, but now are friends. While Wallace was delivering the unvelling speech In front of (he Department of Agri- culture, a flock of bees joined the party and one of them crawled up the Secretary's west trouser leg. He bore the ordeal like a Spartan. “Must have been Hoover's presidential bee, one of Wallace's lieutenants sug:- gested. ¥ ¥ ok % Gen. Pershing plans to entire summer spend the in uniform and on “uctive service.” He desires to i spect the progress of the Army's training actlvities. The general of the Army has already visited thre corps areas and is delighted with the results observed. Last year corps time what funds would be available for training work. This year Con- gressional appropriations were fixed soon enough to give them two fyll months’ notice, anqeoperations are ex- to be on commensurately effcctive and eflicient basis. * Ok % % Sam’'s Indian wards call the President of the United States the “great white father,” and the Secre- tary of the Interior., who looks after redskin affairs. the “great chief. Now that the Secretary of the Inte- rior is an M. D. the suggestion comes out of the blanketed west that Hu- bert Work be known to the tribes men as the “great medicine man.” £ Uncle What's in & name? The champion lovemaker of the Washington diplo- matie corps is Dan Juan Francleco de ardenas. Three weeks after meet- ing Mme. Lucienne Nano, newly ar- rived to visit her brother at the Rou- manian legation, her heart and hand were plighted to the young secretary of the Spanish embassy. The theopy American soil is not conducive to “Spanish love” has been blasted by Don Juan. xx e A one-time trooper in the United States cavalry and former Associated Press reporter is now financial ad- visor to the Hungarian government. His name is Sir Willlam Goode, na- !tive of Newfoundland, who, after & but that in reality the question is now | Secretary of Commerce over at the ! distinguished journallstic caresr, wasgerious objections to the book, to knighted in England for wartime viceg. Goode was a speclal cor- pondént with Sampson's fleet dur- 5 the Spanish-American war and wrote a book about it. He lived in the United States from 1592 to 1904. (Copsright 1923.) off by his mwother to fall in order to prejected marriz outh Afri save him from ge to the fascinating Trewartha Surle, English-born. the widow of & Montana man. There is no doubt that an engage- ment existed between the widow and the voungster. But the latter insisted that he merely became engaged to her by way of a joke and that he never had any intention of making her his wife—the more so, as It is only a rich marriage that can restore a last his nd the Montana widow has no money 10 speak of. It may be recalled that the earl fled more or less sureptitiously to South Africa in order to escape his charmer, a woman considerably older than himself, after she announced cverywhere that she would follow him to thé end of th. vorld and wed him to spite the opposition of his mother and family. The latter took the most -\'ran‘rdl ry precautions to prevent the widow from boarding the ship, and actually seated herself at the foot of the gangway until just be- fore it was withdrawn to act as a sentinel. The widow thereupon publicly an- opposition of the earl's relatives and \,:uuld take means of boarding the ship at Madiera, traveling overland to Lishon. But she managed to miss the connec- tions at Lisbon, and failed to reach Madiera in time. Returning to London, she found that Lady Dupplin and her sister—both of them quite determined \:‘om!n—hld sailed for the Cape of Good Hope in order to rejoin the earl and to protect him there, as they had successfully managed to do In En land. A few weeks later, she, too, sailed for South Africa. She did not. however, meet with her fugitive fla ave once at Johannesburg, . with his mother, he crossed the street to avoid her, and where some sort of a financial settlement was reached through the intervention of lawyers and friends. At any rate, Lord Kinnoull has arrived in London free from every matrimonial entan- glement, with his mother and aunt. The widow had already arrived some weeks back. and there is no further :‘::1:1“0“ of any marriage between * % k¥ Lord Kinnoull will now take his seat in the house of lords, where he willl have his place, not among the earls, since his carldom is a Scotch one, but | among the barons by virtue of his! English barony of Hay. He has just come into what re- mains of the extensive landed es- tates of his grandfather, the late and twelfth earl, who sold the greater part of his landed property in Scot- land, including Dupplin Castle, his afcestral home in Perthshire, to Lord Forteviot. formerly known as Sir John Dewar, head of the great Scotch whisky distilling firm that bears his name,” who paid $1,500,000 for the property. As Dupplin Castle formed part of the ~entailed estates, the young carls ‘mother, as her son's guardian, wotlld not give her consent to the breaking of the entail, or to the sale of the property, until half of the pur- chase money—that is to say, In the neighborhood of $800,000—had been put in trust for her bc- A number of years have elapsed since then, during which this sum has gone on increasing by means of compound interest, 8o that the young earl, while not over-rich, neverthe- less'finds himself today at the head of a tidy little fortune, thanks to his watchful mother’s diligent care of his interests. He still retains a large country place in Scotland—namely, Balhousle Castle In Perthshire, sit- uated very picturesquely on an emi- nence overlooking the river Earne. and, more, the slop wagons seem to have the right of way over all other traffic during the rush hours. Why is it that the slop wagons make Pennsylvania avenue from 20th street on down the Avenue in front of the White House the “short-cut” and the most conspicuous way to the dump? The slop wagons in the morninj rush hours go east on the Avenue an: stop with all other vehicles at inter- sections. From the smell arising, one might imagine that a Chicago or Kansas City packing and fertilizing lant was around the corner. Horri- e! In most other cities the slop ig gathered during the early morning} and, 1 can say with some degree of certainty, the slop is in closed recep- tacles or the 1ids on the wagons are held down tight. Most assuredly the slop wagons in Chicago and Kansas City do not use Michigan boulevard or Paseo—here they use Pennsylvagia avenue. I have seen them parked in front of the White House on the Avenue.® . G. W. AYERS. f:ls inimitable story-telling pictures that The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER- “The Outline of History,” by H. G. ‘Wells, is not th® only recent book to be- come a best seller and to make history an eagerly read subject. H. W. Van Loon’s “Story of Mankind,” published a year later than the “Outline,” has for the past year likewise stood high on the list of books most in demand at the public libraries, and has been read by many of the readers of the Wells his- tory and by others who wanted a briefer book. The Van Loon volume was writ- ten ostensibly for children, and I have known of instances where young folks of high school age have read it with keen appreciation, but unless I am very badly informed, it has been read by five grown-ups to one juvenile reader. ® ok K Ok Most of the competent historical erit- ics seem to think that the American | writer (of Dutch birth) who has sev- eral other higtorical books to his credit is a much safer guide than the English novelist. He has also more humor and more real art of story telling than the practiced novelt; and then there are 0 vividly supplement his text. With this delightful combination of gifts he makes the people of the dead past real human beings, who before our eyes go about their business of buying and sell- ing, cheating, hating, loving, fghting and repenting. * ok ok There must have been a demand for it or another publisher than the one who first issued the boock would not have brought out a school edition of the “Story of Mankind.” I am sorry that such an edition should have been pub- lished. T do not think it especially well adapetd to text book purposes or for that matter to children's reading. It seems to me that it is characterized by rather too much flippancy and a certain lack of reverence for some of the well established ideas of history, so that it is not the safest book to be placed in the hands of immature readers. * k¥ * A year ago Van Leon's “Story of Mankind” was given the first award of the John Newberry medal by the American Library Association as the best book for children published in 1921. The award was made by vote of the children's librarian section of the assoclation. But now I observe that several of the leaders among the trained children's librarians deplore the choice, and are pointing out very some of which I have aliuded. It is clalmed that a popular vote of all children’s librarians. untrained and trained, has resulted in an unwise cholce—just too much democracy some times produces bad results in flelds other than literary. * ok ok ok Mr. Van Loon has shown his com- bined gifts of vivid historical writ- ing and the making of story-telling llustrations in two earlier books, “History With a Match,” a history of discoveries, illustrated with draw- ings made with a match, and “Ancient Man, the Beginning of Clvilization.” also illustrated by the author. The latter covers somewhat the same ground as I8 covered in the early part of the “Story of Mankind.” The en- thusiasm of the reading public for “Ancient Man"” led to the writing of the later work. Mr. Van Loon fs now at work on the “Story of the Bible” the earlier installments of which, with characteristic illustra- tions by the author, are appearing serially in McCall's Magazine. apnd it will no doubt later be published in bock form. * X ¥ ¥ Word has just come that last week the John Newberry medal for the “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children” during 1922 had been awarded by the children’s librarians’ section of the American Library Association to i Hugh Lofting. Technically, the award was made on his “Vovages of Dr. Doolittle,” since it was published in 1922, but I fancy that the chil- dren’s Ijbrarians in voting also had in mind the earlier “Story of Dr. Doolittle.” I am obliged to confess that I have not vet read these two books. but I expect to do so at once and will then make my report in this column. * Kk ¥ % To thousands of people ali over the United Btates Washington is an ideal- ized city, not only a place of unique beauty and dignity, but also the seat of all wisdom in science, government and comprehension of international affairs. Many Washingtonians have had the experience, when visiting away from home, of being asked: “What does Washington think about this” or, “What is Washington say- ing about that?” The writer has fre- quently been obliged to explain that gVashington is made up of many and various types of persons, of many minds holding many different views. It 1s this prevalent idealistic view of the unity of Washington life that makes me regret the picture of Wash- ington given in the new novel “Capi- tol HIIL” by Harvey Fergusson. It would perhaps be too much to say that the picture is untrue, but at least it is & picture of a cheap and tawdry side of Washington—a side that may Dbe found in most cities and is not dis- tinctive, Presumably there are men who maintain secret apartments and frequert disreputable places in New York and Chicago; presumably there are soclal climbers in Detroit and Bal- timore; and presumably there are some legislators who are less than strictly honorable men in Harrisburg and Albany. None of these persons are peculiar to Washinston. Those who know Washington fairly well are likely to find.in this book a distorted picture; those who do not know ‘Washington at all will carry away an impression that it is a very vulgar place. * % * * 1 have 80 much enjoyed a little book entitled “Human Nature as the Bi- ologist Sees It,” by Dr. Vernon Kel- losg. secretary of the National Re- search Council, that I wish to call it to the attention of the readers of this column. This lecture, given before Brown Unlversity, 1s largely devoted to & popular statement of evolution. A terse supplement to the volume by the same distinguished biologist will be found in & recent number of the New Republic, under the title “What Is the th About the Theory of Evolu- tion?” An idea of the author’s posi- tion may be gained by these extracts, omewhat abridged: “Every year the old proofs of evolu- tion are reconfirmed and new ones found. Evolution is proved by all the evidence of comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology and geo- raphical distribution, evidence which ncreases in amount every year. The evidence from any one of these flelds of science alone is sufficient to prove evolution; from them all together it is overwhelming. The silver tongue of Bryan cannot overcome the gold of ascertained fact. But it can hypno- tise many people for a longer or shorter time by its tinklin * x ok x “The Education of Henry Adams” is soon to be put into braille, under the suspices of the Red Cross, so that 1t will be available for blind readers. When completed the transcription will be given to the Library of Con- gress' and will sent out to the blind throughout the United States, sspecially to ex-service men, CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. A concrete demonstration of the value of “preparedness” in preserv- ing peace was given on May 1, all over America, That was the day for the beginning of an I. W. W. out- break which threatened to overturn the government, upset society and transfer control of property and in- dustry to those who had neither property nor industry. But it did not turn out that way. There were a few insignificant strikes, but none that was at all alarming, for the police and secret service were on guard at all points of danger, and the first indication of disturbance was the signal for police action. In just that way does the; nation guard against war, by its pre- paredness to meet the crisis, and thus bloodshed is averted, or minimized. Would the pacifists have felt more secure against revolutionary strikes, |y May 1. if we had had no police nor secret ‘service? EE Washington housekeepers are join- ing the sugar boycott with enthu- siasm, All they have left for sweet- ening is honey, moiasses, brown | sugar, saccharine and smiles. It is & blessing in disguise for many whose physical condition calls for the les- sening of sugar diet. They may learn to dispense with sugar in much of their diet, where they had imagined it was indispensable. Americans eat about 100 pounds of sugar per capita | per annum, which is the largest con- sumption in the world The sugar boycott has the offic: approval of President Harding, S retary Hoover, several governors, the officers of the Faderation of Woman Clubs and other women's organiza- tions. Surely Wall Street, or wh ever other malign powers there b that are cornering this necessity of life, will realize that, with a buyers strike, their *cake is dough.” * % ¥ X While boyeotting sus®r. how much more important is it that Americans learn to boycott opium and its re- lated dopes! It is humiliating to learn that Americans consume more dope in proportion to population than do the Chinese or any other national- ity in the world. Upon the authority of Dr. Wilfred M. Barton, it is slnltd[ that Americans use seventeen times | more narcotics than does China. and forty times more than any other na- tion. A conference is in progress at the Hotel Willard, with representatives from fourteen’ foreign countri the purpose of discussing wavs means of combatting this terrible evil, which is growing in power most alarmingly. *, * The Department of the Interlor an- | nounced last week that the Indians of America now own a billion dollars worth of real estate and $50,000,000 cash. It is hard to explain the cash, but that may have come from the sales of that part of the continent taken over by the white man. Didn't Seward give Russia some $7,000,000 just for Alaska? Isn't the rest of the continent worth nine times as much as Alaska? Why should not Poor Lo have his $60.000,0002 Also who appraised at & billion. the land he has | left? Wonder why the whites over- looked all that, while “trading.” | * ok ok k The first annual conference of the| Women's Universal Alliance, in ses- | sion in Washington this week, re- solved that it was the highest duty of womankind to “increase the chil- dren of the hardy ploneer race of America,” since no country ever of- fered better conditions for the pro- | pagation of the human race than our fair land. American families now average only two children. There- | fore, the soclety resolved to encour- | age child bearing and to decorate mothers of four or more children. | which children will be “raised to obey the laws, respect the flag and | defend the country against its ene- | mies. i * evident that these mothers are | {in December the . COLLINS. not of the class which subscribed to the treasonable song. I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier.” These good mothers are to be patriotic or thev will lose thelr “palms.” Mothers of fower than four children are to he decorated (D. S. C.), according 1. their motherhood, but when thev show a quartet they will be “palmed o ey s The society undertakes to erect temple to motherhood in Washing- ton. and & feature of the temple wilt be forty-eight plllars, each to repre sent a state, and upon its own pillar the state will inscribe the names « its best twenty-five mothers in honor roll. “These are my jewels This million-dollar temple will e the monument proposed honor motherhood, Dr. Mary Gage Day of New Yorl states that, by sanitation and medi- cine and tics the span of life has been increased from for 2rs in 1870 to fifty-six 1923, and it can be by scientific measures. Has not the introduction of labor saving housekeeping devices had much to do with the lengthening of life for the homemaker? The psy chological effect of women no long retiring from the pleasures and a tivities of life at middle h given them the habit of thought t they are still many years from ret ment. “What a man (or wom: thinketh in his heart so is he” Th youthful thoughts, mingle with young, stay young. * % % o ther iner the * The weather bureau is planning predict the weather a month ahea uch predictions are easy, for the entists say they will look up the {averages for each month for the pre- vious five vears, and prophecy that the weather will be just like that this month. How simple! The only loose screw in that proz nostication is that the inability forecast the weather for tomorrow indicates that trying it for thirty davs ahead will have about_thirty more chances to miss fire. Why stop at thirty days? The old medlcine al- manacs (which treasures the new generation knows nothing about, alas!), used to pre 't over the whole ear. Every April was Iotted ‘showers” or “thunder and rain,” and Imanac usually sug- cold; killing frost” snow, foliowed hy 1o gested “extreme or “probable colder.” Wonder if the mod weather prophets have not found one of those old almanacs. 1f the s of tha Zodiac™ on the title page do not scare them. they might tell us what gend the signs were, at the same time that they explain what good is a forecast which misses o often. The astronomers of the Smithsonian Institution are inclined seriously the South American practice of reading weather forecasts from tha twice-daily observations of sun spots but such science is s weather bureau, which demonstrating tha dry weather'—or is it “wet weather Anyhow, the sun has cooled 3 degrees recently’ and all its fire may go out some day. British authoritics foretell that tha continents are going to sing and he overwhelmed by the oceans. Wh has our own weather bureau to say about that prephesied wet spell? * ¥ x x ‘What will become of the “three-mile limit" when “old ocean's gray and { melancholy waste” covers the whole continent? England is already pre- paring to appeal from the recent de- cision of the United States Supreme Court, in the case in which the court is alleged to have ruled “an attack on the liberties and rights of other peo- ples,” in forbidding “other peoples to run rum piracy tg America from the three-mile limit of the high seas o they are going to move the coas line to the “top of Pike's peak bust.” This “bally Supreme Court” has dealt “a smashing blow to the Prosperity of all the occan-going com- panies.” The case may be carried, on appeal, to the Workd Court, and the United States Supreme Court be versed, if the raving of some ocea: | Interests is serious (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins ) EDITORIAL DIGEST Editors Seem Hopeful of Mexican Recognition. | There has been a very general and widespread discussion of the proba bility of Mexican recognition result- ing from the naming of Judge John Barton Favne and former Ambassador | Charles Beecher Warren as members | of the mixed commission to discuss matters of difference between this| country and the republic south of the ! Rio Grande. Editors generally seem | optimistic thdt recognition of the Obregon government will be arranged and they argue it will materfally benefit relations with all of Latin Ameriea. | It is because there is a very good | prospect of a complete agreement be- tween the two countries that the American commission is being sent to | Mexico City, the New York World | says, because “otherwise there would | be no reason for Warren and Payne | making the trip.” The “deadlock” be- | tween the countries should be broken. the New York Tribune holds, and &s | “form is not everything, the hopeful thing about the creation of a joint} commission is that it may discover a diplomatic way of doing what both nations appear to agree ‘in principle’ ought to be done.” There also may be a direct connection between this action and late d lopments in Latin America, the Baltimere Sun pointing cut “the previous refusal to meet the Mexican leaders half-way has greatly harmed tiie reputation of this country there and has accomplished nothing in the way of revising the Mexican constitution. That the merits of for- mal discussion as a pathway to agree- | ment shonld now be tried is an en- couraging sign of progress in our foreign policy.” The needs of both countries make eventual agreement certain, the St. Léuis Globe-Democrat feels, and “it ought not to be long before a Mexican ambassador, hur) ing to Washington, and an Amer ambassador, hurrying to Mexico Ci pass each other on the ordinarily used land or water transportation routes uniting the two republics.” A trifle of doubt is entertained by the Albany Knickerbocker Press that the negotiations will find the satis- factory way out because until Mexico executes a direct about face there can be no change In the situation, al- though “we will gravely help Mexico to save their face, assuring them that if they will try to do the right thing they can command our resources and our friendship unreservedly. In this very connection the St. Louis Post- Dispatch feels that the “Harding ad- ministration, while standing on its principle of fair dealing with legitimate American investors in Mexico, should not let technicalities and petty cavil prevent recognition and a cordlal resumption of relations. An example of pe. and_ friendship between all American republics would be salutory for the world and profit- able at home.” There is an excellent 1eason for adopting a meet-them- half-way attitude, the Lansing State Journal says, as “Mexico deserves such recognition as a reward for her own conduct and conditions. We may make all America stronger by binding the natlons togethe: “The Obregon administration is so much more e than any of its | every reason now recent predecessors that it seems to have achieved the impossible, &- gests the Cleveland Plain Dealer. "It governs a united Mexico. Ohregon has in other words set up a real re public. Tt is a radical_republic, bur it is not bolshevistic. The Amerlcan people will watch with interest the progress of the Mexico Clty confer- cnce hopeful of results which will re-establish friendly and intimate relations between the two republies That likewise is very much the opinion of the Schenectady Gazette which feels “we have not the last word of frcedom spoken in our fu- stitutions. We have ourselves a long road to travel to our own ideals Why deny that others may have reached some improvements of con- stitutional law ahead of us? Tt is not necessary to prove that they have done this; but it does seem the anly really decent way to admit the pos- sibility of their having done so with- |out waiting upon our judgment ana censorship before we racognize them ac deserving the privileges of fellow ship. We have bullied Mexico a ome other peoples long enough ndorsing this particular sentiment. the Anniston r holds “there ix why the United itates should get into friendly rela- tionship with Mexico and no gond reason why it should not. Mexico needs the frlendly help that recoani- tion will give and we need the fricnd- ship of our neighbors on the south. Recognition would cement this.” “In’ view of the deep interest of both nations in the removal of the difficulties and differences that have kept them diplomatically apart,” the Syracuse Herald belleves, “it is fair to assume that the commissioners w find a way to the desired entente cor- diale. Mexico's political stability now reasonably assured under Obr: gon's firm grasp of her governmen and all the logic of the situa pleads for a genuine reconciliatio; between the two countries.” been a “trying situation continued the isolation of 4 from its neighbor across the RR Grande,” goes on the Springfield New. o completely have the ofl companies dominated the American policy in this respect that the presi- dent was helpless to act, except as assurances were forthcoming from Mexico City that property previously obtalned, by whatever methods se- cured, would be recognized as legal by the Mexican states. Instead of proceeding in an orderly process to give and take in enterprises of this character, America, unfortunately for her reputation, has been known only for her policy of grab and hold.” But because all “that is asked by this country is “that the legal rights of foreigners domiciled and doing busi- ness in Mexico be protected and there be no confiscation of property under the forms of law,” the Indianapolis News feels “the outlook is encourag- ing. There seems to be little doubt that Mexico at last has a real govern- ment and that happier days have dawned.” Recognition will be a vic- tory for the State Department, as the Sioux City Journel sees the outlook. inasmuch as “Mexico needs American recognition more than the United States yequires the establishment of cordial‘relations. The cffect of Amer. lcan reluctance to recognize Mexicd has been stronz in Europe as well, and President Obregon's final accept- ance of the .Hughes terms will ba taken as proof positive that he got tired of playing a waiting, losing game in diplomacy.”