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6 T HE EVENING - STAR, WASH D. ¢, TUESDAY, MAY 8 1923 P —————————————— =R e e, P, PPl ————————— CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTION, D. C. TUESDAY..........May 8, 1023 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businexs Office, 11th §t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassan Bt. Chicngo OMce: Tower Bullding, Zuropean Office: 16 Regent St.. London, England. the Sunday morning riers within the eity v only, 45 cents per ®iouth: Sun . 30 cents per month. OF- dern may b by mall, or telephune Ma Collection {s made by carriers st the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dalily and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40: 1 mo,, 70¢ Daily only. 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., Boc “ynday only 1 yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 30¢ The Evening Star, w edition, is delivered by #1 80 cents All Other States. Jaily and Sunday..1 Daily only. ®unday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press {s exclusively antitied fo tie use’ for republication of ail news dis- atches credited ta 1t or ot otherwise c In this paper and alxo the local news pub- Hshed hereln. Al rights of publication of avecial dispaiches hereln are alsa reserved. —_— e Held for Ransom. Details of the banditry outrage in a are siow in coming, but so far s received they leave no doubt of the gravity of the situation, Nineteen for- eigners, it is now reported, are held prisoner, including several Americans. | The bandits are holding them for a ransom estimated at $1,000,000. The women who were taken frop the train have been released, after being sub- jected to gruss indignities and suffer- ing acutely. One American. it appears, has becn Kkilled. The brigands are frankly negotiating for the ransom of their prisoners, threatening to kil them 1if troops are sent against them. This me has been committed within close range of the coast, not many miles from Soochow, which is a populous center. That region in China is not wild or sparsely settled. Indeed, it is thickly populated. The bandits, howev have a material advantage in that they have a wide area within which to range in retreat, and further-i yimost advantage from the full par- more, and most important, there is no dependence upon the regular soldiery, who may at any time join the ranks of the outlaws. S Many of these Chinese bandits are former troops. attached to vne or an- other of the “armies” of provincial leaders. Tt is known that thousands of these soldiers have quit the serv- ices of their commanders when funds for their payment have run short, and taking their arms and ammunition have formed roving bands of looters | who are keeping eastern China in a state of terror. The government at Peking is prac- | tically helpless, having no assured au- tho ide of the capital itsclf. | Protestations to that government may | formally be made, but are not likely to be effective. In other cases Peking has merely called upon the provincial governors for action, and nothing has been accomplished. In these circumstances the possibil- ity-of an international expedition such as that of 1900 becomes acute. Tt would hardly seem likely that the pur- pose of the Soochow brigands in kid- naping the foreigners was to precipi- tate such intervention. as thes are having much freer range in present conditions than they would have with | an international force maintaining ord: There is risk, of course, in sending | & force of troops into China. First, the prisoners held as hostages muy all be * killed. Second, such an expedition may result in a grave complication of far eastern affairs. But that risk may have to be taken, both of the slaughter of the prisoners and of the involy. ment in a crisis possibly leading to grave responsibilities. The hope, of course, is that nego- tiations already started may lead to the immediate release of the prisoners. But after that, if it should be accom- plished, there remains the problem of the Chinese chaos menacing all Amer- icans and other foreigners who are compelied to visit that land. ¢ { ——————————— The dances of the Indians of the southwest will not be forbidden, after | all. Some will usk how could a con- sistent government bar them and, at | rather than the “‘counter” type, would 1 to co-operate in eliminating the causes New York, and from Pittsfleld 1n| Massachusetts. A glance at the map| will show that it would be possible for | a. person with a speedy motor car to i cover all the ground in Pennsylvania in one day for the malling of these let- ters, while another covered the ground in New York and in Massachusetts. But the printing and circulation of the letters, which were written on imita. tions of bank stationery, and the checks, which were also probably imi- tated, as they were of the ‘“‘official” involve a number of persons. But however large or small the gang manipulating and posting the letters, there were probubly others who were operating in New York to take advan- tage of the market moves. It is not likely that the same people prepared and mailed the fake orders and checks and worked the street. No reckoning would seem to be now possible of the losses it they can be so called, incurred in the fraudulent transaction. In the rush of buying and selling orders the gang would be effectually concealed as to identity. This episode shows that while the “street” may be protected agalnst forgeries through the watchfulness of banks and the development of close communication, the market is still susceptible to price spasms induced by fraudulent buying or selling orders. Yet such phenomena of fraud do not leave a lasting mark. No real damage has been done except to those who are playing the market on margins, the speculators, and it matters but little whether they are caught by one sort of movement or the other. Women and the World Court. President Harding paid deserved tribute to the intelligence and pa- triotic earnestness of endeavor of the women’s club organizations of the country in their consideration of na- tional questions in his letter to the council of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in session at Atlanta. “The broad and intelligent interest which this organization has taken in public affairs,” the President wrote, “and its splendidly effective effort to insure that the nation shall derive the ticipation of womanhood in the re- sponsibility of public life, entitle the federation to be ranked among the great constructive and educating forces of the land. Thus gracefully presenting @ bouquet to the women. he followed | by assuring them that his were not empty words when he went on to en- courage them in a project in which the club organizations generally are in- terested, the broader participation of this country in world affairs, under proper reservations. The topic dis- cussed by the President was the ad- hesion of the United States to the Per- manent Court of International Justice. It is quite evident that the Presi- dent is entirely confident that the country is behind him in the proposal he has submitted to the Senate. “The national heart, conscience and judg- ment are alike enlisted, and we never need fear that any opposition will pre- vail,” declared the President. He add- ed that the assurances which he is! receiving in increusing number day by day leave no doubt as to state of pub- lic sentiment. conviction,” he said, “‘that our obliga- tions to human society, and likewise to our very material interest, equally demand that the nation shall give this sincere and effective proof of its wish of strife among the nations and peo- ples.” “There is a profound | { motor cycle. being towed by a strap The women, through the pressure they are able to bring. to bear on pub- lic sentiment, can contribute to power- ful degree in holding up the hands of the President in the undertaking he ‘has in hand. The President himself cannot be a ‘“campaigner” in the political sense, but the women can be and will be campaigners, and effective ones. Quotations on Hostages. It is stated in the dispatches from China that the brigand kidnapers have adopted a scale of prices for their prisoners, $50,000 for foreigners, $30,- 000 for Chinese of the highest class, $10,000 for Chinese of a lower class and $2,000 for all others. This leads to speculation as to what constitutes the same time, permit “marathons”? ——————— ‘Wall Street Tricked. Wall street was vesterday the scene} of another explosion, not so tragic or disastrous as that of September, 1921, but almost as profoundly shocking to the “street.” The morning mail brought to a number of brokerage | houses buying orders in large sums from banks in Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts, accompanied by cashiers’ checks. Superfieially. these were genuine orders and perfect- 1y good checks. Some of the brokers hastened to place the orders, and the volume of buying was such as to send { the market up sharply several points. But some of the banks to which the checks were sent for collection ques- tioned them, and making tclegraphic and telephonic inquiries found that they were worthless forgeries. So rapid was the process of inquiry and discovery that word got back to the stock exchange in short order that a fraud had been committed, and prices reacted as sharply as they had risen starting a general downward mov ~ ment which carried the quotations considerably below the closing level of . Saturday. \ It is not definitely known what prompted this “hoax” which, of course, was not perpetrated for fun. There is, however, but onc logical possibility, and that is that a gang of crooks un- dertook first to boom and then to break the market in order to profit by the two spasmodic movements. It could hardly have been designed to put across any of the forged checks for actual purchases and stock de- liveries, for the orders are all given in the name of banks of standing and, being faked, there could be no de- “ltveries. Several people must have been en- gaged in this trick, as the letters were simultaneously mailed Saturday from Allentown, Reading, Lancaster, Al- toona, Johnstown, Uniontown, York, Harrisburg, Greenburg and Bethlehem in Pennsylvania; from Amsterdam, class in ransom. A foreigner is rated as worth twenty-five times as much as a low-grade Chinaman, and only five to three as much as a high-grade Chinaman. The answer to this seem- ing paradox is that the brigands “need the money” and are not particular whether they arouse any hard feeling on the score of discrimination or other- wise. ———————— A swindler sells a stranger the replica of the home of John Howard Payne erected in a park here. Well, it can safely be said of this purchase that soon there will be no place like it. ————— The flivver airplane is now in evi- lence, twice across the English’ channel on $1.23 worth of gasoline. Detroft im- mediately takes notice. ———————— Now Wall street houses have been a Frenchman having flown| victimized through bad checks. There will be many a dry eye over this on the part of shorn lambs. ————— The pan-American conference dele- gates have left S8antiago. They had a nice trip, anyhow: Come On, Noble ,'Two things stand out ‘in Shrine news. One of these is the number of bands that will. make music for the parade, and the other is the festive dressing up of the White House. The real number of brass and sheepskin bands that will lift the feet of -the nobles and stimulate spectators is not now known, ‘but it will be stupendous. And “stupendous” ¢an be as aptly ap- plied to everything else in connection with Shrine week as to the number of bands. ‘The bands already signed up to play here foot up ninety-six, with nearly 5,000 musicians, and the nobles say that this “will be the largest muysical aggregation that has ever been seen or heard in Washington, and perhaps the world.” They will come with Ab. dallah Temple, Akbar, Aladdin, Al- casar. Aleppo and Albambra; Bagdad, Ben All and Ben-Hur; Cyprus, Hejaz, Isis, Kismet, Mecca, Mizpal, Moslem, Omar, Rafah, Saladin, Zem Zem, | Zenobia and nearly a hundred others whose names suggest Arabian nights, sades, crescents, scimitars, cara- vans and camel ‘When all these bands begin to play the plane trees’ on the Avenus will dance, and great elms in the parks will fox trot, two-step and shimmy. Melody may split the paving of the Avenue. Freedom on the dome will j doff her liberty cap and wave a crim- son fez. Great stone buildings will rock to jazz, and all the windows in the town will rattle as the bands go marching by. It is said that the White House “will fall in line with the spirit of Shrine week, and will be elaborately and ap- propriately decorated.” It is a unique occaslion that causes the chaste and pal- lid White House to drape its classic features in multi-colored bunting. ‘Washingtonians who have ever thought of the White House as a shrine, serene and pale, will stare when they see this place of Presidents wrapped and robed in red, white and blue, crimson, green and gold. The Mystic Shrine is mustering in every city, hamlet and cross-roads in the land for the capture of Washing- | ton, We are making ready to welcome the invaders with open arms and happy hearts! Come on, nobles! ——— The White House Cuts Sugar. Mrs. Harding is setting the pace for the women of America in sugar econ- omies as @ means of lessening the consumption and thereby bringing down the price. The President hus so announced in a letter, and Mrs. Hard- ing has given assurance in a telegram toa New York woman that “‘the White House is economizing to the fullest possible degree in sugar consumption, because it is believed that diminished consumption is the most effective remedy with which to meet all unrea- sonable prices. With this example thus set the women of the United States should persist in their own price-regulation measures designed to break the ex- tortionate rates that have been charged at wholesale and at retail for this commodity. The so-called boycott has fluctuated in persistence and ef- fectiveness. It has been proved to be effective in the first stage, the market reacting sharply to the announcemerit that a large organization had been effected. Then a, parade was proposed in-New York city of sugar boycotters and proved to be a fizzle. Only a few dozen women turned out to march in token of their determination to fight the price-boosters. At once the market rose again. Day by day sugar economies in every household will adjust this situ- ation quickly. A tablespoonful of sugar less in every American home daily will make a tremendous tonnage. With the consumption lowered there will be no possible excuse for continy- ing high prices. The White House example should be followed in every American house, whatever its color. A — The latest aspirant for fame is @ man who has had himself dragged | from New York to Philadelphia in a held in his teeth. A by-product of the continuous jazz mania, perhaps. —————e “Women never stund together,"” says. one hopeful sugar operator, in discus- sing the recommended sugar boycott. This seems to be just another case of an operator getting the wrong num- her. ————— Physicians advocate the pasting of @ piece of sandpaper on bottles of poison to prevent errors in the dark. Many a bottle of “pure Scotch” or “pure rye” should gain this added adornment. —_————— The 100th anniversary of the 'birth of John Sherman will be celebrated May 10 in Mansfield, Ohio. John hasa fairly enduring monument already in the Sherman anti-trust law. —_——————— Henry Ford says he thinks *his job is as big as that of the President of the United States. Well, it pays a good deal better and is a steadier one, anyhow. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON An Object of Envy. I don't envy no one exceptin’ Bill Jones. Them monarchs 80 proud sittin’ high on their thrones And viewin' the world with superior eyes, : Nor the men who are weaithy nor those who are wise Aren't settin’ the pace When I start in a-wishin". 'Cause this is the case: Bill Jones has gone fishin". Near the waters so deep an’ the shadows that creep I kin picture both him an’ the fish half leep. There are pleasures the fairest a man ever knew Out there where it's all Tlke a dream comin’ true. I don't ask to fill Another’s position. 'Cept that of old Bill, ‘Who has jes' gone a-fishin’. Sophisticated Youth. The small boy once so full of glee All critical has grown. If you a circus fain would see You have to go alone. Practical Incentive. See dat pick an’ shovel ‘Weighin’ half a ton; . Creck de whip an’ drive de mule An’ git de day's work done. I moves faster dan a bee, Busy as I can, 'Cause Mis' Mandy’s spectin’ me To fill dat fryin’ pan. Some folks works foh glory; Some folks works foh pay, But it's a diff'unt story ‘Wit me, I wants to say. 1 ‘Winter, summer, spring an’ fall Finds dis workin’ man : Answerin’ to Mis' Mandy’ - WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS 'BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE ‘There has just been prepared and circulated a 127-pa booklet con- talning the “facts of record and ed!- torlals” concerning the Daugherty impeachment proceedings. It has been ‘“compiled for the information of the public,” according to the an- nouncement that adorns the cover, and traces in detail the ill-starred venture of Representative Keller of Minnesota to encompass the over- throw of the Attorney General. The publication constitutes a pretty con- vincing vindicatioh of President Harding's Pythias, both at the hands of the House and of newspapers in every section of the country. The Keller crusade was Inaugurated on September 11, 1922, and collapsed on January 25, 1923, with the House ju- diclary committee's resolution of ex- oneration, adopted by 204 to 77. Edi- torlal excerpts consist of comments deprecating the impeachment action and rejolcing over its failure. * x % % ing of the American Jewish Histori- cal Society in Washington. that the Spanish government has a royal com- mission at work on the controversial subject of Christopher Columbus’ na- tivity. There are two rival schools of thought—one holds that Columbus was of Itallan Catholic origin; the other that he was of Spanish Jewish extraction. Regardless of his ances- tral faith, Spain is anxious to estab- lish her prior claim on him. The Knights of Columbus were whether they would feel constrained to change their name if Columbus’ Jewish _strain should be proved. Jumes A. Flaherty. supreme Knight. replied in the negative. He said that the Knights of Columbus is a re- liglous and patriotic organization, not a racial socfety. and added that “the first Pope, Peter, was a Jew.” EEE I Alfred Sze, Chinese minister to the United States, is fated to find another “incident,” the hold-up of a Chinese passenger train and kidnap- Ing of American citizens, on doorstep, when he resumes his duties in Washington this week. Dr. has been year. China has weathered endless trials and tribulations in the interval. For a hectic while S Washington high school boy and Cornell Univer- sity gradu at the helm of his chaotic y's foreign affairs. but his a “westernixm” is not in f: Peking. Sze feels that the Chinese republi 3 periencing the woes inev 50 violent a b with imperialistic He call that the didn't “get goin Dr. | an likes to re- States itself ' for thirteen vears after 1776 tna's republican career is only eleven years old. * o ow % Gov. George . Silzer of New Jer- sey, newest star in the democratic idential firmament, 'sprang a sen The Way Out Seems at Last in Sight. Strong hope that Ireland is voiced by American edi- tors. The peace move initiated b. monn De Valera is expected to al- low the long-hoped-for test of the Free State form of government, al- though many editors seem convinced the action of the Dublin authorities in ordering wholesale executions has created a situation that will make for future trouble. Others oppose acceptance until the rebels are a nihilated completely, which they think certain in the very near fu- ture. “Conditions in Ireland,” #s the St Louis ybe-Democrat points out, “were peculiar. A minority persisted in an objective on which, ohly a few months before, all were united. 1f atter tragedies never to be forge ten. Ireland escapes social turbulanc and the ineffectiveness that comes from malignant obstruction and the impossibility of compromise, it will be fortunate.” Tt is to be regretted. as the Asheville Times sees it. that “the Free State authorities feel De Valera is playing for time in which to reorganize his shattered forces. Apparently they are determined to lose no advantage they have gained and purpose to continue applying force.”” There can be little question. in the opinion of the Springfield Union. that “his rebellion was fore- Goomed to faflure, as any one less vain and obstinate than he could have foreseen. He preferred the rul~ or ruin policy, but although he has inflicted great misery upon Ireland he has not succeeded in ruining the country and there is not the remotest possibility that he will ever be in position to rule its destinie: After De Valera, however, there still is “the group of republican women. the New York Post points.out, although admitting “they cannot fight, but still are abetted by professional gun- men. The Free State will be ex- pected to entertain no offer until arms are laid down and till an ex- plicit promise to abide by the popu- Jar will under the treaty with Eng- land is made. The weakened rebel- lion soon will die out. But a nego- tiated surrender may be deemed pref- erable as a means of reducing the bitterness of the beaten republicans. “De Valera has been a most dcter mined Irish rebel,” argues the Stoux City Journal, but “not even absolute indepandence could offset the value of his life—to him. It is remembered that when the fighting was hottest in Ireland, when the black and tans were on the ground and Irishmen were fighting and dving in hundreds, peace nears in Eamonn De Valera, ‘President of the | Irish Republic’ was sojourning in New York and its environs. His so- called leadership has sent many of his brave countrymen to their deaths when their lives might have been uBed to better advantage for a coun- try that, nominally and actually, is & free state” In addition, can be accepted only when he and his followers throw down their arms, the Binghamton Press says, because “when he proposes to stop fighting Work on Memorial ] On Stone Mountain So deeply interested is President Harding in ‘the Stone Mountain me- morial that he has sent his chief aide, Col. C. O. Sherrell, to represent him at thé Atlanta conference on that| noble updertaking, and also has writ- ten a letter of warmest approbation and good will. The President's interest is typical of | that which the memorial has inspired throughodt America. Intended to em- blason the heroic figures of the con- tederacy, it has an appeal far wider than any sectional sentiment, an ap- peal that it nation wide, indeed world ‘wide—so vast, so wonderful is the conception to be wrought into living rook. It was seven years ago that the noted sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, in counsel With ders of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, con- celved the idea, and the ideal, of car- ving across the sheer expanse of Stone Mountain's granite face an epic pan ma of the men who wore the of the war years deferred the prosecution of the great plain,-but in no wise diminished the » of its ve that the his | sze | in Peking for nearly a| his offer | sational - prohibition ‘“stunt” at At- lantic City the other day. He was addressing a convention of women' clubs and discussing law enforcement, Volsteadism in particular. “I want every woman in this audience to rise,” suggested Sllzer, “who has seen the prohibition laws violated in her own home or in the homes of her friends.” Just about half of his hearers got up. Whereupon the governor preach- ed a sermon on the text of the up- righteousness of laws which evoke such popular scorn. * ¥ K Maj. Frank Knox, Manchester, N. H., newspaper publisher, tells how he once staggered Lord Northeliffe with an unexpected reply. Knox was Northcliffe’s week-end guest at Broad- stairs, the Englishman's favorite !country place on the east coast, which a German U-boat once shelled with deadly accuracy. “What's im- pressed you most in England?” asked: Northcliffe. <A shoe factory in Lel- | cester,” Knox replied, saving it_was | the one plant in that principal Brit- !ish boot and shoe center that was | working at capacity | sclentifically regulated. “The fellow | that runs that factory,” Knox proud- 1y explained to Northcliffe, “got his ideas in my home town.” Incidentaily Knox claims that New Hampshire leads the world in co-operative mar- | keting of farm produce, * % ok % | Buenos Aires is, by the way, | planting Vienna as the world’ | ing waltz factory. “Three O'Clock inf | the Morning.” pronounced by expert and output 1| “steppers” +the most divine waltz of | the decade, is the composition of an Argentinian, leader of an orchestra n Buenos Afres. Latin America | producing a conspicuous number of | fine muslicians, both composers, sing- ers and instrumentalists. The over- ture to the oper: 1 Guanari,” by the Brazilian®Carlos Gomes, is said to be played oftener by modern bands and orchestras than @ny other xingle selection. "Il Guanari” is the operatic version of a story dealing with one of the aboriginal Brazilian tribes, written by Jose Alencar, father of the present Brazilian ambussador to the United States, * ¥ x ¥ Now Abraham Lincoln is to be the theme of & monumental film. The first exhibition in the east will be at Washington next winter for the edi- fication of the President Con- gress. The District of Columbia, Vir- ginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Ilinois, New Orleans and the Potomac, Jumes, Ohio agd Mississippi rivers are the regions in which the picture is be- ing “shot.” It is to cover the entire life of Lincoln. Dr. Gilbert Ellis and | Bailey of the University of Southern | California, an old friend and neigh- of Lincoln, is in charge of the research work on which the picture is based. It ix called “The Dramatic Life of Abraham Lincoln and_Los Angeles is the scene of its production. (Copyright 1923.) EDITORIAL DIGEST certain demands sound like & and the mem- vernment would condition that are met, his proposal play to ‘the galleri bers of the IrisH go be feols to accept them. This holds true, regardless of the nature of his demands.” This view has the in- dcrsement of the Detroit Free Press, !which. agreeing his proposals are “garnished with fine talk about the rights of the peopnle to rule and about the independence of Ireland.” Vins'sts “an anarchist with a bomb in his hands might take a similar stand. Refural to deal with De valera would not bhe a re diation of any {truthful thing nhe may have said | about human’ rizhts, but rather a manifestation of df. proval of the man and his methods.” ‘The offer “is more rhetorical than practical.” as the Norfolk Virginian- Pilot analyzes it. but “its rejection does not detract from its significance as a sign of onmarching peace. It seems reasonable to believe that even though the end of Ireland’s trouble | is not yet. the peace proposal is the introduction to other and more fa- vorable developments.” That is also | the opinion of the Mobile Register. which, agreeing “until all arms are surrendered and the bands operating in various parts of Ireland are su pressed peace will not be fully r stored,” insists “the republicans have reached the point where they cannot hold out much longer, and, in the event De Valera's peace terms are re- jectéd, thelr suppression by force is inevitable." There can be no que tion “the great majority of the people of Ireland mre weary of the domestic conflict.” says the Wilkes-Barre Rec- d, “and want to give the Free State experiment a trial. They have much to gain and nothing to lose from ac- cepting the status of nationality that has enabled Canada and Australia to progress so satisfactorily toward the ful) substance and the fruits of in- dependence. cuse Herald holds, State officials were entirely justified, because “it is only too evident that the Trish government ia now dealing, not with a revolt, but with a camscer. Fortunately the days seem to be rap- idly approaching when the surgeon knife will rid sorely tried Ireland of j that_unspeakable evil Writing ‘finis’ to any chapter of Irish history is precarious at best,” suggests the Newark News in sum- ming up the situation and the fact that most of the real leaders of the revolt are dead and their followers in jail. but it feels “Ireland seems to be coming into a summer which will be more orderly and wholesome than any since the close of the world war. It is a most auspicious opening and will be welcomed by American friends of the Trish people. It will relieve the tension of nerves long over- strained. It will offer an opportu- nity for Jrish industry and agricul- ture to prepare for a winter of rela- tive comfort in a land torn by long vears of civil war.” While De Va- lera a pure fanatic may believe all he write: the Utica Press feels “nis letter shows recognition of the | failure of his movement and an at- tempt to save himself before defeat is crushing and overwhelming.” But, even if his demand for another elec- tion were granted, the Grand Rapids Press is convinced “more than 90 per cent of Ireland is sick and tired of war and knows that a vote for De Valera is a vote for more of it so he would be overwhelmingly defeated. on the Free i r | | Plenty of Berries. For the Shortcake What if spring is slow to come in the north and other troubles harass the south? The United States bureau of agricultural economics. promises the nation the biggpst strawberry shortcake ever! Estimates from the strawberry pro- ducing regions indicate that this year's crop will exceed last.year's by {no less than 18,740 carloads of this luscious fruit. Florida, alone, is said to be turning out something like 110 per cent more strawberries this,vear than last. Although a few siates show a decrease, most of them have greatly increased crops. Three rousing cheers for the straw- berry shortcake and—if the sugar speculators _ permit—three rousing cheers_for next winter's strawberry jam!—Portsmouth Star. the detalled problems of evoking from the mountainside a sweep of heraic figures beside which the Egyptian sphinxes would dwarf. He is prepared to begin operations in the immediate fure. Hence the especially keen in- t attaching to the Atlanta co ce of Stone Mountain M aoee gon‘ M :; ‘:Dllllle d' way. ry an a shining 'mlnlu:"w the 8 Btianta Journal, In rejecting the offer. | oo, NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE _ CONSTITUTION UNITED STATES. Jame: George H. Doran Company. « The ‘study by the solicitor-general is, in both substance and intent, a special application of President Harding's general theory of basic in- ternational relations. The phase of tooth and claw has practically passed among individuals, the majority of whom now settle their differences without recourse to'violence. And Mr. Harding takes the ground that nations also have reached that stage of progress where, given the chance, they, too, will adjust thelr disagree- ments by reason and compromise, rather than by the sheer unreason of war and its inevitable sequence of yet more war. ‘The President is the apostle of political conference and discussion—reasonable, honest, open discussion between nation and nation as the solvent of their misunderstand- ings and antagonisms. He is thor- OF THE It was revealed at the recent meet-| .yy on modern lines. with everybody {oughly committed to the homely and simple plan -of getting together, of talking the matter out, of clearing up the different points of view, of exercising the wholesome practice of give and take. So ingrained s this plan, so habltually does his instinct turn him toward ft. and so notably has he justified himself in this re- spect that, when a final estimate of his work 'is_made, this enlightened and noble policy will stand as a sig- nal achievement in political insight #and international progress. Hundreds of intelligent and public- spirited Americans, each, according to his own talents, and training, and experience, and opportunity, are sup- porting the President in this cam- palgn_of madern political education. 5| For that is what it is. * k% x ‘The book in hand by solicitor-gen- eral James M. Beck is a notable ex- {ample in this program of general political education. Paris peace con- {ference, to indicate only the most con- | spicious recent case in point, demon- |strated in striking and unfortunate manner, that Europeans generally failed to grasp the nature of this gov- ernment in the distribution of its powers. When Mr. Wilson, then exec- utive head of the government pro- moted and accepted the league of na- tions, that act translated i the European mind not only as an expression of the will of the Amer- ican people but also a formal and conclusive acceptance of the league. Thi misapprehension rose from ignor- ance of the technic of our govern- ment, from ignorance of the fact that a branch of the government, co-ordi- nate with that of the executive, must, Ly constitutional authority, concur with the latter in order to consum- mate the international agreement. {One does not need to recall the long {controversy at home over this, nor {the bewilderment abroad with its fre- jquent charge of bad faith on our ipart. A course of eduction is clear- v desirable. So, when the TUni- versity of London urged upon our solfcitor-general its wish to have him come across to lecture to its under- graduates on the Constitution of the |Thited States. Mr. Beck hailed this |as an opportunity to add to fand's understanding of us through a 'helll‘!‘ knowledge of the spirit and !form of our government. These lec- tures took into account our funda- mental law from three points of View: “The Genesis of the Constitu- |tion.” “The Formulation of the Con- {Stitution.” “The Political Philosophy 15¢ the Constitution.” With a singie addition on the modern “Revolt “\gainst Authority.” these lectures form the substance of the book in hand. | i * ¥ % K | Reading here, one by choice trans- {ters himself easily to the time and circumstances of the lectures them- selves. There in the ancient hall of Gray's Inn, surrounded not only by the body of undergraduates, but by barristers, jurists and statesmen as well, one finds himself possessed of a very real proprietary pride in this American who, though backed by wide knowledge and distinguished ence. talks in clear simplicity o “an indescribably human warmgh on the Constitution of the United Statex. The first lecture is a dramatic triumph as well as a schol- arly exposition of the genesis of the {Constitution., One must keep in mind that these are Englishmen listening to the story of a political adventure in which their own blood, trium- phant, divided their own kingdom. In Ristoric fdelity, the lecturer holds fast to the facts of colonial life. He {calls up innumerable events to show the natural growth of the idea of self-government. The remote life was So conditioned, physically, as to im- pose no small degree of local control. Rhis developed capacity. The capac- {ity, enlarged by circumstance. re Vived the English instinct for legall tonstituted . authority as set off against the absolutism of pure mon- archy, This Instinct must have been {alive hefore King John, else it could Tot have eventuated at Runnymede In the Great Charter. These colo- nists possessed it, and along with it the English political tradition and the English veneration for the com- mon law. When they sailed away to a new world this stream of influence Waw not shut off. They took it with them. And out of it, in the new en- Vironment. there came the American “ommonwealth, based on constitu- tional law, for which all Englishmen must feel a participating pride that their own blood projected and sus- tained this new political vision. A splendidly flluminating lecture—one | calculated, too, to tighten the already |secure bond between these two na- {ions of a single speech * K ok * ‘The second lecture describes the great convention where for months a handful of men—mostly young men __wrestled with the complex facts and the almost unsolvable problem of merging the colonies into an organ- ized commonwealth. Patience, wis- dom. sagacity and self-restraint, all almost beyond belief, went into this great secret meeting, about which so fittle 1s known or can be known. The triumphant faot is. however, that out of it came the immortal charter of our republican government. This fresh exposition of that great con- Vention renews one's faith in the genius and self-forgetting of the men ¥ho produced the instrument upon which our commonwealth i3 based. * ok % Kk And in the third lecture the solicitor general defines those basic and shap- ing ideas and principles that sum here to our own philosophy of gov- ernment. They are familiar, but they remind us, once more, that our gov- ernment is representative, as against the dangers of a pure democracy; that it is uniquely dual in character, the state reserving certain rights, the central authority covering other rights; that the individual is pro- tected in certain “unalienable rights against encroachments from even the government itself; that its judiciary is independent in its approaches to equal justice for all; that it possesses a curious system of checks and bal- ances against usurpation of power on the part of any one of the three branches of the government. This is ‘more or less familiar ground to Amer- ican readers or students. owever, all of it is distinotly fresh in its ap- peal, and this, to a certain extent, by virtue of the solicitor general's zest in the work, by the warmth of his spirit in giving out his store of seasoned knowledge on the subject that-he is endeavoring to present in ‘compl arity to, first, an English audience, then to readers and students at home. A defini n?on is richly met in this fi ltuzy of the Constitution, ( - Ge. M s e T Friaies | 1 | 1t to, The Department of Commerce is s M. Beck. | planning to establish July 1 a new division to investigate the retail trade in all kinds of merchandise. It is hoped to standardize retail prices. Presumably the first step toward such standardizing will be to stand- ardize grades of all kinds of goods, Prices without a definite and law- controlled grade are meaningless, Laws have long been under con- sideration to make pure-goods reg- ulations, so that, for example, when cloth is sold as “pure wool” and is found to contain cotton or shoddy the seller will be subject to a penalty. Until such a law is perfected, not only for dry goods, but for every other kind of merchandise, what do fixed prices. mean? Business defini- tions will be fixed by law. The term “shoddy” has been used indefinitely, and some manufactur- ers have contended that “shoddy” is really “pure wool,” while others, with better consciences, have recognized as “pure wool” only virgin wool which has never before been used. * % ok X The law creating the bureau of commerce stated that it was for the purpose of developing both foreign and domestic trade, but up to the present only the foreign commerce has received attention. The new division will first devote its principle gathering data as to methods of buying and dealing with economics peculiar to the ~retail trade. It is safe to predict that one of the main features of the study will center in how to eliminate the end- less varlety of gtyles, weaves ands patterns, just as has heen done re- cently in “standardizing” paints. ‘When Mr. Hoover gets us all stand- ardized. perhaps every man will wear the uniform of his trade or station in life. Tt will be illegal to violate the standards. Wives of fairly well- to-do bankers will dress quite dif- ferent from the wives of plutocratic newspaper men. There will be a standard Easter hat, duly numbered and cataloged. All stores will be conducted, upon standard methods and there will be no longer an ex- cuse for the ladies to “go shopping. TWhen they get ready for “hat No. 8 all they need to do will be to tele- hone the order and have it sent 0. D. “No. 9" is “No. 9" and it is nothing more. There was a popular book of fic- tion published thirty or forty vears ago called “Looking Backward. Probably Mr. Hoover has been read- ing it and gets his standarized ideas from it, for it foretold exactly this kind of merchandizing. * k k¥ The voluntary sugar boycott has demonstrated that this is a govern- ment in which the people rule, even without the aid of its officials. What courts and the Department of Justice failed to accomplish, the boycott seems to be achieving, for sugar prices are lowering. Just keep on avoiding the purchase of white sugar—that hits_the alleged market manipulators. It is not so many Vears ago when practically all sugar 1 home, except for “special compan: was light brown sugar. Tt is sweeter than granulated sugar and of good flavor. P The president of the National Edu- cation Association, Dr. William B. Owen. in speaking before the asso- ciation, advocated a new bloc to in- fluence the government. He says that every teacher should join the asso- ciation, and if they did, they would have an organization of 750,000 mem- bers and the association could then to Congress: “How dure you re- of the D BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. When the Germans, with their Aus- tro-Hungarian, Bulgarian and Turk- ish allies invaded Rumania in the summer of 1916, spreading ruin and desolation everywhere, the reigning family, the national government, the national church and religious orders dispatched all their most precious belongings. including the crown jew- els, the funds in the national banks and in the state treasury to the kremlin at Moscow for safekeeping in several special trains. Many of the great houses of the Rumanian untitled nobility ok advantage of this opportunity of putting their most valuable belongings bevond the reach of the invaders. An impressiony has always prevailed that this treas: ure thus confided to the custody of the late Emperor Nicholas was stilly held in tact in the vaults of the kremlin, by the bolshevist junta at Moscow, and was being retained as a means of forcing the Rumanian gov- ernment to grant official recognition to the bolshevist junta, and to sur- render to the latter the province of Bessarabia which Russia had been forced to restore to Rumania by the peace congress of Versailles. For purposes of its owp, the Rumanian Toval family and government en- couraged this impression. or at any Tate, did nothing to dispel it, ai though considerable surpyise h been manifested, both in Rumania abroad, at the attitude of bold {ndependence assumed by the Bucha- rest court and government. as it the bolshevist junta had no longer any hold whatsoever upon the reigning house at Bucharest, nor upon the government there, the church and the religious orders. * k ¥ ¥ The fact has now been brought to light that the treasure was all brought back from the kremlin to Bucharest just before the present bolshevist junta obtained the com- plete mastery there. It was brought back mainly through the enterprise, the resourcefulness and the indomid- able courage of the late Col. Joseph Boyle, who died last week at Hamp- ton Hill, Middlesex, near London, both the widowed empress mother of Russia, and the King and Queen of Rumania_ being _represented at hi funeral by members of their house- hold, and by floral emblems, to which autograph cards were attached, ex- pressive of kindly memory, warm ad- miration, and of profound gratitude. Col. Boyle, who wore on his breast the British distinguished service order, the officers’ cross of the French leglon of honor, the Russian order of St. George and high Rumanian orders, Wwas of Canadian birth of Irish origin, and was no other than the “Joe Boyle” who was the manager, the backer and the chief associate of Frank Slavim one of the giants of the prize ring in the days when John L. Sullivan, Charley Mitcheil, Bob Fitasimmons and Peter Jackson ere competing for champlonship honors. With Slavin, “Joe Boyle,” as he was familiarly known in sportin circles north and _especially souf of the Canadian border, he went prospecting for gold in the Klondike region toward the close of the last century, and ultimately beceme the sole owner of the immensely valuable s0-called Boyle concession. ‘When the great war broke out, Boyle—a_ perfect giant of a man, organized the Yukon Machine Gun Corps, mainly rectuited of sturdy miners like himself, and, after win- ning fame & member of the Can dlan Army in France. was dispatched, with some &f his best men. to Russia as of m) British military o o and ! foot in the National Capital | pecially trict of Columbia what you know you have to do for vour schools at home?" Dr. Owen refers, t0o, {0 the changes which have come recently in demands for more high schools with more training therein in the trades. He says that in every one of the larger cities high schools have been doubled, so that double shifts in the sama buildings are necessa More bo are turning to the trades and fewer to the so-called higher “professions.” * % % % Physicians advise housekeepers paste bits of sandpaper on all bottles containing poisonous liquids, that, hunting in the dark for medicine. they will not take poison by mistake. The scheme is likely to do more harm than good. for, relying on the sandpaper warning, one is liable find that it has not stuck to the bo tle. Any person so careless as 1o seek medicine in the dark can never be trusted to get the sandpaper o all bottles. Tt will be postponed. vet, if reliance is put on the sand paper warning, that careless post- ponement may prove a fatal trap In Holland a law has been passed requiring all poisonous medicines, o medicines for external use only, to ¥ put into square hottles, while me. cines for internal use are to go in round bottles. This distinction mu be made at the drugstores, so that i* is reliable. Heavy penalties are as sessed for violation of the la * * % % Leonard P. Steuart, tentate of Almas clally contradicts the persistent port that the Shrine in Washing- ton during the first week of June will sce the “lid” removed from the liquer laws. He declared: “It is an insult to the Shrine and an insult to the shriners to seek to belittle tha character of the greatest event in the history of fraternalism by the cor stant repetition of the statement that this is to be a carnival of bootlez- ging. or that the bars are to he let down, and that the fundamental of the land is to be trampled u Tf the is any one thing that a shriner re spects, and it is a vital part of his character. it is his respect for tha law. Furthermore, he is a gentle- man. He can have a good time with- out violating the law, and he knows how to so illustrious no- offi Temple. * ok Kk ok T evident who started the storr that Washing- ton would be “wet® during Shrine weel did not know any more about camels than some of Roosevelt's po- litical opponents knew about royalty It was in the midst of the 1912 can paign, when the nominee for the pres- idency was recounting at a luncheon with certain leaders of the wes of his experiences with the and he sudden pped and chuckled in his characte way. remarking. “Some people say I want to be a king! They don't know kings, and T dol™ Some people say Washington w intoxicate its camels. Perhaps or camels will fully appreciate Wash- ington. That is why the slogan “Park vour camel with Uncle Sam'l.” * x x % is very that the gossip Dr. FEliot. president emeritus of Harvard College, announced some vears ago that five feet of books were enough to give one a liberal educa- tion, and now comes the Army with an announcement that it will sell a shelf of text books five miles long. Anybody who wants to be as high- brow as that had better bid. That is too many for just a mnewspaper writer. Besides, maybe they are all about squads right and left, for they Were used to educate the Army. The announcement naively remarks, few have seen use.’ gbt. 1 Collin: 1 to do for the schoo! Rumanian Crown Jewels Saved Bv Former Prize Fight Promotor transport mission to the land of the srareT"The record of his adventures there would make a volume of a na- ture to stir the heart of ever: isher, and especially of ever: man, with pride, and assuredl one did more to enhance the prestige of Great Britain'’s name in Russii, in Rumania, and all along the coast of the Black sea, than Joe Boyle. He undertook on behalf of the British government the chivalrous mission of ensuring the safety, and of organizing the escape of the Wwidowed empress mother of Russia. of her daughters, the grandduchesses Kenia and Olga, with their children and of the one-time Generalissimo Grandduke Nicholas Nicholiovitch, from their captivity at Yalta, just in time to save them from the fate which was meted out to the czar and czarina and their children and to so many other members of the relgning family. and to which they had already been condemned by the bolsheviki authorities at Moscow Making use of British. and es of Rumanian_ airplanes, he would fly freely into Russia, arraved in his British uniform. and on land ing would give pre-emptory orders to the local bolsheviki authorities in perfect Russian, and with such an air of imperious command, that thev Were at once obeyed without demur no matter how extraordinary. and with every token of extreme defer- ence and with the awe struck words Slushaius, vashe vysokorokie (I obe most highborn one). followed by t words, “Vot cholovick” (What a man) ¥ k¥ K That is why the qu.iet obsequies of this splendid type of an almost g endary hero, of this ex-Yukem mine: and of this one-time associate of professional pugilists and promoter of prize fights were made the occa- sion of such unusual -manifesta- tion of regret, of ldmlrnti?X| and of profound gratitude by th idowed Pmpress_mother of Russi&’ who now in England; by Queen Maric, by King Ferdinand of Rumania and by la number of other members of the Russian, Rumanian and English reign- ing families. Tt is tg be hoped that some 0T Thvse who knew him best and who were close to him throughout the jgreat war and its aftermath will jpu} into print_and on to permanent fecord The stirring story of his adventures. 80 many of them suggestive of me- dieval chivalry. But it would Tequire the pen of a Rudyard Kipling jo do them any adeqyate justice. -4 PR R An attempt has been made to insi§t that those monster guns of the Get- mans, known as the “big: berthas;’ and which dropped deathrdealing shells into the city of Paris_from a distance of some ninety miles, near Laon, never really existed, dfid that the damage done in Parls was ef- fected, not by gunfire, but by somie local explosions. But the War Da- partment at Washington has on file reports of some of its officers who ac- tually saw several of these big bex- thas in 1919 at the great Skoda ord- nance and steel works in Austria, and morevoer, has the report of the French_airman who discovered the whereabouts of the guns within twen- ty-four hours and dropped bombs on them, killing and gravely wounding nearly every member of the crew of German naval petty officers who were manning the two guns, under the command of an admiral. There is no doubt whatsoever about the guns, the range ‘of which was increased by an additional tube of some thirty me- ters, having been in actual existence and operation in the last year of the confiict, and to insist that they wers a mere pigment of/ imagination is sldiculous.