Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR,| ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY......May 10, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivania A New York Office: 150 Nassau Ot. Chicago Ofice: Tower Bullding. Zuropean Oftice: 16 Regent St., London. England. Ths Evemng Star, with the Sunday morniog vaition, is delivered by carriers within the clty 1t 60 conta per month; dails only. 43 cents per ®onth: Sunday only, 20 cents per month O ¥ero may be aent by mail, or telephune Ma $000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., Daily only. 70¢ 50c All Other States. Dafly and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 86¢ Dally only. 00: 1 mo., 60> #wcay onl Tie Awsalated Press fe excl: = “uke for republication of 1 tehes eredited to it or not otherwise ecedit 7ty pamer and also the Jocal news pub- Dished ‘heremn. Al rights < publication of apecial disparohen horein are alae reserved. The Sugar Decision. of sugar, which means country, will share the Consumers the entire disa Jus tates New York v mjunction asked the nment 1o restrain the coffee and sugar ex- change from dealing in *“futures in sugar. Appeal will taken to United States Supreme Court, but in the meantime the bars will be down for u ¢ in specu lation which has resulted in the un- warranted high price of sugar, halted racmentarily steadily rising movenment to a goal prophesied to be 0 cents a pound. is believed. due rather to a public boy- cott than to the filing of the injunc- tion petition. rary injunction. 1t is to be expected that the speculation will be resumed. The government, in asking the in- Junction. contended that dealing aw sugar futures artificially fixed the price of sugar. It was claimed that the futures were not backed by ownership or conteol and that inves zation had shown that only a small fraction of sugar dealt in had actually been delivered to refiners or sugar 4 zovernment had asked orary injunction pending ice over the der civcuit court of appeals in by he e renewal on a Attorney that an appeal Supreme Court ble time. until May June 11 until next October, so that only the promptest action by the de- b ment and the advancement of the cause by the court can prevent a long “open season™ fo this vicious form of speculation—in reality the most flagirant type of gumbling—in one of the neces: of lffe. In the absence of a statement which 18 vet to of appeals. setting forth the ground: for denial of the injunction, the coun- Daughe will be taken in the The court is now in recess says shy ries try will be at a loss to compose this | action with the decision of the United States Supreme Court of April 186, last. upholding the grain futures act of Congress. which ulated dealing in grain futures. o doubt the cir- cuit court of appeals had this decision n mind and will explain wherein the case to which it applied differs from the one arising under the request for | a temporary injunction. One of the objectives of the grain futures act was “the prevention of the manipu- latien of prices or the cornering of | grain by the dealers or operators or the board —that is. the board of trade of Chicago. With the possibility of delay on the government's promised appeal, with inevitable continuance of speculation and extortionate prices. there is but one relief for the public, one weapon which can wielded, an effectual boycott on sugar by the consumers. President Harding favors it. so does Secretary Hoover, and it is being ex- erted “in spots.” Some means ought to be found for nation-wide and con- certed action. for its efficacy has been proved where there has been general curtailment of sugar use. The country should not be left at the merey of the sugar speculators, who have shown themselves to be repacious and ruth- less. —_———— be According to statistics filed with the United States Coal Commission, coal mining is said to be a less dan- gerous occupation than at least 100 others, It was pretty safe last win- ter—that is, if it could be called an occupation. —————— According to present plans, Deputy Tire Chief Sullivan will be made act. ing chief during the absence of Chief ‘Watson. With Maj. Daniel and Chief Andrew on their respective jobs in the National Capital, it will be a proud day for the Old Clan. The Captives Reported Released. Reports from the far east regarding the situation of the kidnaped foreign- ers are conflicting and confusing, but i the later dispatches are to be ac- oepted the danger of their death at the hands of their bandit captors has been passed. According to a Shanghai report, all of them, save the Italian Chevalier Musso have been released. This does not square with a Peking dispatch, which denies earlier reports that the two American Army officers and their sons had been set free. It also fails to agree with a reported message from the American news- paper man, John Powell, who was captured, that ‘‘dire consequences” would surely follow if the force of troops were not withdrawn. "X all of the prisoners save the swmlian have been released it is likely wmat ne, too, will be set free, although ime reports suggest that the bandits regard him as their most “valuable nostage” and are holding him for the full amount of $1,000,000, first stated as the price for the release of all. 1t is impossible to follow the reason- ing of the Chinese mind. Possibly these men figure that by concen- trating upon one captive they in- crease their chances of escape from ibe ireops 65G Of gelting ransom. % 7 < ppointment of the Department of | by the United ! terday of the temporary | This pause was. it | in{ to the | est possi- | 21 and will adjourn about | me from the circuit court | - THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1923. —————————— They may argue that by reducing the number of possible national antag- onists they gain in prospect of a set- tlement. The matter, however, does not end with the release of the prisoners, | although if their lives are saved the acuteness of the case passes and remedial measures can be deliberately applied. This outbreak of banditry is a menace to all foreigners. It de- mands a correction unless China is ito be shut off from the rest of the ! world for purposes of business and | visitation. What has just happened may happen again In the same con- ditions, ard the present conditions in { China will not be cured by the mere | rescue or release of the captives taken by the bandits. ! The suggestion is advanced now in China that the outrage was not the work of & band of criminals bent upon loot and ransom, but was designed to | bring about @ change In the political situation. A demand has been made strongly that the provincial armies be | disbanded and responsibility concen- trated. _That is more easily said than done, These provincial armies, under | several individual leaders, are, in ef- | fect. the government of China today, a China split into several parts, with- out cohesion, with much overlapping of territory and claimed Jurisdiction and with resulting chaos of adminis- tration. If the captives are released. with or without ransom, the episode will not have been without value, even though some lives were lost and much uffering endured. For it brings to the point of acute need of action the intolerable conditions that are menac- ing the peace of the east and pos- sibly the peace of the world —————— Reclassification Under Way. Actual work on the reclassification of the government employes in the District, to the estimated number of 60.000. is begun with the prospect of 4 report by June 1. Thus the long- awaited foundation for a systematic organization of the personnel of the federal administrative is in | sight. Reclassification, so-called, is, in fact, classitication, for heretofore there has the | { force fi=s vision of duties and salaries in the ixm.»rnmenz oftices. Long ago clerks | were rated in four groups. the first ! class. who received $1,200 a year: the third class. who got $1.600, and fourth class, That was the “classified service.” Be- low those grades were messenge laborers and other workers of smaller pay than $1.200 u year. and above were the chiefs and in some cases the assistant chiefs of division and other higher officials, whose compensations ranged up to several thousand lars. Clerks were promoted through these four divisions. In recent years these divisions of pay scale have been somewhat altered and the broadened. But there has been no system of duty assignment and pay allotment uniform throughout the gov- ernment service. The new act, re- sulting from long endeavors and much the | {study of the situation, establishes a | uniform system throughout all the de- partments and bureaus and sets the | scale of pay according to duties. The | present work is to grade the govern- ment workers according to the pre- scribed definitions, The announcements of the classifi- on board will naturally be awaited ( with the keenest concern by all those who are now on the rolls. In some i cases the assignments are automatic n others they are dependent upon the judgment of the board. Official ratings and standards in the depart- {ments and bureaus will necessarily |be the guide. Tt naturally follows | that in the inevitable adjustment, to i bring all the offices to a single stand- ard of duty and pay. there will be some disappointments. Without doubt, the members of the board will work to the end of the equitable treatment of all. As in the case of the retirement system, which went into effect a few years ago, this new law may produce some friction and disclose the nced of changes. A perfect system is not to be expected at once. Experience is {necessary to develop the inequalities i that may be caused by the institution iof the new plan. But. with all its ! possible faults in application, the new measure is a marked improvement {upon the old condition end the gov- ernment service is certain to be in- creased in efficiency and the situation of the average employe is certain to be more satisfactor: ———————————— Lieut. John A. MacReady, transcon- | tinental non-stop aviator, has just been married. Tt is wondered if the “Lohengrin” wedding march was re- placed by the old “Robin Hood" fa- vorite, O, promise me that some day you and T will take our Jove together to some sky.” 5 B ————— John J. Tigert, United States com- missioner of education, says that twenty times as much is spent in this country on cigarettes and cosmetics as on education, It is quite a sur- prise to learn that education has been doing that well. ——————— Laundrymen from adjoining, states are holding thelr convention here. It is hoped the gathering will not have a. dull finish. —_——— A Scrambled Socialist. Willlam Z. Foster, head of an or- ganization that calls itself the Trade Union Educational League, and re- cently tried on a charge of criminal syndicalism, which resulted in a hung Jury, is in the east, speaking wherever he can get an audience. Yesterday in New York he spoke in a cafeteria be- fore the Soclalist Soclety of Columbia University. The society members were sympathetic, but there were others present, and some of these went pre- pared to manifest disapproval. When Foster spoke slurringly of the jury which failed to acquit him—some have regarded it critically from the other point of view—a barrage fire began, consisting of eggs of uncertain age. Unfortunately, the aim of the “gunners” was not infallible and the range was short in some cases. It takes skill to throw an egg without disaster to the thrower. But little ica | i H been only the barest outline of a di-| second class, who were pald $1,400; the | who were paid $1.800. | dol- | “classified service’ has been ! harm was done, for the front seats where the barrage chiefly fell were occupled by devoted followers of the advocate of militant trade unionism and “‘one big union.” So that justice was done, even though Foster himself was not hit. It is a question whether eggs are £00d arguments in a discussion of this sort. But they certainly manifest a wholesome state of mind on the part of the users. Those students who sup- rlied the ammunition and used it were assuredly of the right sort, even though they adopted rude means of expression. This man Foster is by his persistence of exploitation headed for more serious trouble than eggs that fall short, or even that reach their mark. He will probably be retried on the criminal syndicalism charge in view of the conviction of Ruthenberg, nls assoclate in radicalism. There is a chance that he will supply material in the course of his public addresses that will make the task of the pros- ecution next time easier. —_—— Tax Time. Tax time in the District is here again. * It seems always to be drawing near or to be at hand, and the tax col- lector is persistent in his warnings that taxes will soon be due, or that | they are due, and that tax bills must {be paild or certain penalties suffered | by delinquents. It must be noted that {the tax collector is only doing his {duty and trying to make things as {light and easy for the taxpayer as he can. Taxes are heavy and uncomfort- jable, but there seems no way to lighten the load or to drop it. Prop- erty owners might just as well smile and pay, or as the old phra “grin and bear it.” With so many other | things to keep up. including the auto- mobile, and with the grocery bill, coal bill, charities, amusements, and the multiplied and mutiplying of living, it is not the happiest thing on {earth to have the tax bill staring one {in the face. | But such is life. The city must be I maintained. Schools, streets, policing, fire protection and many other serv- {ices must be paid for. So. as long as one is under the necessity of paying taxes. it is better to pay them { promptly and avoid the cleventh hour rush. There is always a rush in the closing hours of the tax-paying period and in this rush property time and often lose their patience. If the tax bill is not paid within the time prescribed by law a penaity of 1 per cent a month is added to the bill and other penalties are piled as time goes by. The collector of District taxes gives warning that taxes are now due and that if not paid in May the penalty {laid down in the law will be added to the charge against the property. He says that bills will be mailed to per- sons requesting them before the mid {dle of the month, but that later than that this cannot be done because of the tax-paying rush and the pressure on the tax-collecting force. e s, costs owners lose on —_—— A member of the staff of the Mount Wilson observatory has invented a camera that needs only one-ten-mil- lionth of a second of exposure. That is plenty long enough for an amateur to make a double one. ———— A government official who came to Washington from Kansas recommends threednch baths for everybody dur- ing Shrine week in order to avoid a water famine. What with the official promise that liquor will positively not flow freely, and the presence of live camels, it begins to look as if the Sahara desert would have little on us. However, it may rain. —_———— The United Mine Workers of America declare that complete union- ization of the bituminous industry and the abolition of the open shop in West Virginia and other states would result in the cessation of strikes and the elimination of coal shortages. It took a long struggle to bring themselves around to this view, but they finally did it. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON ‘The Flubdub Bird, The flubdub bird is a creature strange ‘With a note that is heard afar. Its song is subject to frequent change, And varied its accents are. The mocking bird with the parrot blends, And other strains were stirred In the evolutions through which de- scends That marvel, the flubdub bird. Its lay 1s shifted to please the throng In the moods that swiftly pass. Sometimes with @ note that is loud and strong It appeals to the martial class, And many a heart is beating high And bold is many a word. | We think we are called by the eagle's cry When it's only the flubdub bird. Then it wings its way to some other land, 7 ‘Where the popular mood is mild, And its note is as soft and sweet and bland As the laugh of a little child. It sepms that the cooing will never cease That near and far is heard. ‘We think we list to the dove of peace, But it's only the flubdub bird. A Consistent Performer. ‘The kicker once again begins His program of rebuke, And even when the home team wins Declares it was a fluke. i Reminiscence. My Uncle Jim, he says, says he, “This world ain’t like it used to be. I kin remember years ago ‘We used to travel sure, though slow. But now you simply take a car, Sit down awhile, and there you are. And if you count the time once lost You've made the trip at half the cost. “We're not as formally polite, Nor are we near as prone to fight. ‘Where men would once draw swords or shoot X ‘We now declare a libel suit. It's not as glorious or as grand, But much more safe, you understand. I'm kind o' glad, 'twixt you an’ me, This world ain't like it used to be.” The man who can take a running jump into the dictionary and splatter bigh-toned language—he gets his. He may be a flossy short-story writer, a novelist or a playwright. Great is his reward. The fellow who can put his mental forceps Into a rhyming dictionary and drag out a snappy verse, also gets his. So cometh the spring poet Great. too, is his reward, especlally when we measure it per word The lad who can land with in the hyming dictionary and come out with a near-poetic effect. also is a go-getter. He sits upon the top- most branch of the tree of advertls- ing. He writes the copy that sells goods. And—generally course—he goes home with money than either the flossy story writer or the spring poet. But the person who can t the alphabet and come out with a string of letters he can take to the patent office and trade mark-—his re- ward is high as the winking stars above. For thére are trade marks, regis- tered today in the patent office hers in Washington, that are worth $1.000.000 for every letter of the alphabet they contain Not all trade marks fetch so charm- ing & sum, to be sure. There are scads and scuttles of them that won't bring a thin dime in dozen lots. There are 87-cent words, $4 words, $25.000 words and, finally, « $6.000.000 wo That's about the highest value plac on any trade mark in the shop And it is real, honest value, The goods bearing that trade-mark wll mostly because they do bear that trade-mark. U iv other trade mark they wouldn't sell so well. The trade-mark is advertised, the pubiic gets acquainted and the 1 n Lehind the counter does the rest That $6,000,000 trad k snappy, concise and fetching. poses on a humble soda cracker. more short- r into o short, It re- There is & brand of baking powder sold under a trade-mark valued at £1,000,000 for every letter of the word The trade-mark this instance is short word. Maybe if the owner added a couple of a had a letters or so he would have added a couple of miilions | or so the value Maybe! A certain kind of soap is sold under trade-mark worth for letter. A familiar for cameras is trade-marked is appraised at $1.000,000 letter. Before it w: that ‘word dindn't now it is a4 syn sold under its “Good Luck twenty-six ti twenty-six using the prising to to of his marking a every million word That for s trade-marked mean anything: sm for the article branding has been trade-marked <. That is, there are kinds of trade-murks phrase. It was not sur- find it trade-maraked for every BY THE MARQUIS| Fortunately. Lord D American born Sir William McMiUlan of St. Louis, Mo, are at present in London and in with the Duke of Devonshire, secretary of state for the L Otherwise serious trouble might ready have broker th African colony of the whites and the In Kenya, which has robi—a name DE FONTENOY. ere and the Northup Just touch who is colonies out in its <o familiar to every American and European who has ever visited East and Central Africa i for purposes of sport, and especially for big game shooting. aud which has its principal port at Mombasa. the finest harbor of the entire ecast- ern coast of the dark continent—is an immense tract of land fertility and of rich lowes its present prosperity and its remarkable development to a number of rich men of birth and wealth who were led by that spirit of adventure and of enterprise which promopted the builders of Great Britain's huge oversea empire, transfer homes from the conventional mother- land to flelds far distant ‘Among the pioneers of the K portion of British East Africa. in ad- dition to Lord Delamere, und his friend, Sir William MeMillan, were Sir Alfred Pease, who entertained the late President Roosevelt on the oc- casion of his trip to Africa. Lord i Cardross, eldest son and heir of the fourteenth Earl of Buchan. and a number of other men of the same type—most - of them formerly con- nected with the army and navy ik of great nya In fact, Kenya had much in common with Virginia, in that its pioneer founders were almost exclusivel what may be described as the cavalier caste. They put their heart into the enterprise—embarked large sums of money in the adventure—in some in- stances, selling all their landed pos- sessions at home, in order to find a more profitable return for their money in Kenya, one of the relatively rare regions of the dark continnent that are particularly suitable for white colonization. P colon; prospered to such that it attracted emigrants from British East India, {settled in Zanzibar und along the coast for purposes of trade. They gradually drifted into the vicinity, | ending by outnumbering the ten thou- sand whites of Kenva, by two to one. Not only did they encroach upon the area which had been regarded as restricted exclusively to white colon- jzation and habitation, but they also began to clamor for full equal status with the white settlers, and to equal { franchise. TLed by clever native aglitators from v, from Madras and from Cal- E\?{r{.::’.a)(hey made no secret of their intention of converting all British Africa into another India. with In- dians instead of Englishmen as the dominant and ruling race. ‘Although there is no sympathy be- tween the Indians and the native blacks, who number several millions. yet the latter are being prompted by the Indian agitation for franchise d equal rights with the whites, to put forward similar pretensions to a share in the rule, of what is, after all their own native land, and are show ing a restless disposition to abandon the relations of well paid labor with the white capitalist for that of im- possible equality. * k k% 1t is urged that the situation cre- ated by the Indian immigrants in Kenya is only the beginning of a movement by Indian nationalists to gwamp all British white populated oversea dominions with native In- dians, among the leaders of the move- ment being Sriniviea Sastri, who rep- resented India at the disarmament conference at Washington a year ago. The contention which Lord Dela- The an extent foot In the unabridged and the other | speaking, of | who had | i | pasture which their | | or ! i THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. artificial fishing bait, but it was a total surprise to find it on hair nets and garters. George Washington is in the ent office as a trade-mark fairly often. The father of his country left a name revered the world over. Our enterpris- ing_manufacturers have trade-marked it for u: on such practical things as razors, fce-cream freezers, velvet pocket knives, hams and taffeta ribbon. Martha, too, comes in for some trade- rk publicity. Her lines are candy. needles, scouring compound, hosiery, coffee, fresh apples and kin- dred tidbits. The Washingtons are trade-marked, it is explained, because they are dead No one can_register as a trade-mark the ame of 5 living person, nor n any on photograph be registered except with hi or her—consent. Once an attempt was made to trade- mark the photograph and signature of Grover Cleveland. A hustling brother thought it would be helpful in his business, but the application was refused on the ground that it detracted to some extent from the dignity of the offi of President of the United States About the same from the fie trade-mark words Theodo: the pi time, a live wire i of commerce sought to Bevano Tumbo.” The personal application te sevelt at the time, and + said no. There some be trade-marked states, cities, for ld ph e trad; rk though poetie auite often hel character or quality of the goods on which it Nor can a trade-mark be re which imitaut another, whole the trade-mark protect Did you know that Unel, a trade-mark? It is appl Lo the famed airplane engines constructed duri the war—the “Liberty” in liberty mo In making ernment asserted that it poration with its chief pla ness at Washington, D, €. of course, is entirely true, pected words that can't Names of countrie Nor car A are instance, trade-marked de: any be must be iptive nse is exe or relate to the travels. er The is o closely idea of a_ “cor- of busi- Which, but unex- The 1t pelr. the rhyme moral is thi Koing be vou're in for don't hrow writing and a Don't knit the short story. Don't write those elegant art folks from their novelist over D adds that money N¢ atr rk the diet phabet! Go get a trade- Letter for letter it's the high- M there is the alphabet—twent Zood as ever. it is capable billions of combinations And there's the patent office. It still open for business. If vou would be fumous and line your chest with 20ld, combine the two ynary alene and bene letters Sir W. H. McMillan. American Born, Faces Racial Fight in East Africa mere and his assod with which colony. ex put forth former governor Maj. . |have had a fowe therefore. assume that the citiz rt thereof are qualified by tra- mperament to govern ther part; that no claim Africa can be put for- nnot with far greater dvanced for Africans in ¥ that Indians ha ical fact, no experience coloniz that tn quite completely. have times and not Indians faced sponsibilities of under British self-zovernment the «, 1t would be natur ric in governing t precede any expe to govern the Afri dians in st Af shown no aptitude or uplift the native races. and 300 vears of intercourse with on the coast have left little or no nark on the native African popula- tion: that India has no responsibility for East Africa, If there has been a deficit capital has made it good any rising. British forces have been and are responsible for keeping order. There can be no privilege where there no corresponding responsibility % ok it ix to 1S of in recent 1that expe- Ives shouid irattempt races; that In- 4 have thus or desire to te the British Lord Delamere and his associates 4dd that Indians represent a radically different civilization. It is not neces- to assume that it is a lower zation. 1t is more ancient than curs. and it is essentially different Its traditions, ideals, moral stand- rds and outlook are all radically dif- rent from those of Great Britain; that it would be impossible for repre- sentatives of two so completely dif- fe civilizations conjointly to ad- minister African races alien to both Lord Delamere and his friends in- sist. moreover, that segregation virtually imperative. It does necessarily imply inferiority. Chinese confine Europeans to their own quarte many of their cities and towns. White people are excluded from certain towns in Nigeria. Euro- pean settlers are barred in just the same way white folks are denied ad- ce to certain Indian reserva- in_Amer from native re- in Kenya. When two races r widely in language. habit and dition, it is better from the point of view of either that they should oc cupy distinct and separate areas Where they differ as widely as do the respective civilizations of Eu- rope. Asia and Africa, it is necessary on sanitary. social, moral, and even on religlous grounds, that should occupy thelr won area. The Indians rigidly observe the princi- is not The in ! ple of segregation in their own caste system in India. They themselves demand in East Africa that the Af- ricans shall be segregated from the Indian community. But, they sav- agely resent and bitterly oppose their own segregation from the white com- munities as inconsistent with the status of complete equality. LR A It must be confessed that all the arguments are in favor of the atti- tude of Lord Delamere and of his fel- low white colonists of Kenya, who insist on Indian segregation. and upon the refusal of their admission to electorial franchise. What is more, they have announced to the imperial government that they are determined to fight for their con- tention and for the defense of their homes from being swamped by Indians—if necessary, by force of arms—even if it entails secession from the empire. Lord Delamere is the head of the ancient house of Cholmondeley' of Vale Royal, to which Miss Mary Chol- mondeley, the author of “Red Pot- tage,” and of other well-known novels, belongs. The Marquis of Cholmondeley is head of the junior branch of the family. In England, Lord Delamere owns some 10,000 acres of the finest land in Cheshire, while in East Africa, his ranches ex- tend over a tract of half a milllon acres. He spends the greater portion of each year there with his only son, new twenty-three years of age, its application the gov- | rule, | If there is | each | ———— The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN Washington has a new plaything— the Freer Gallery of Art. And what could be more acceptable, more pleas- ure-giving than this unique arf mu- seum which yesterday for the first| time opened its doors to the public? Once upon a time, as the old story | tellers were wont to say, museum | were far from being playthings, for th jmain idea of those who adminis-| tered them was to preserve their con- tents, and in order to do 8o they kept them in xlass cases and fenced them off. They w in fact, mere store- houses. and they were rather dull and dead affalrs; but an amazing chunge has come over these institu- tions within the St twenty years, and today, instead of having the chilly atmosphere of cold-storage plants they dispense, in most in- the warmest kind of hospi- Their attitude to the public in fact, is not only cordial, but win- ning, and evervthing that can be| thought of is one to make the ex- hibits both enjoyable and of educ tional value, * | Bulletin_of the of Design has *x * x A writer inthe Rhode Island School lately called attention to the legend cribed on the north gate of the | ity of Sienna, which, being frecly ated, reads: “More than her nni opens her heart to you,” s5: It ds @ great temptation o enerave 4 phrase of the in- | seription trance of the art {musenm—>More than her doors th art museum opens her heart 1o you,’ uch a_statement.” this wri i -5, “would define at on which actuates all Ame museums of art that justify th or the storage days are long the modern spirit of help- usefulness and the power t imipels. Of | cours with_Sienna, with the {art museum. There are many who | blindly spend hours within its walls {Wwho Seek it out of curiosity or be- jcause it s the thing to do, and they {have thelr reward. The heart of the! {museum is incomprehensible to them. |l:u{ there are others in lcreasing numbers who seek beauts |and inspiration, who love color and jpattern, who ‘appreciate beauty of design. To those the heart of the museum 1s indeed open and to them the vision is vouchsafed beyond ques- tion.” : | past i fulr { visi | FE ik | An interesting illusuation of {0l and new methods of setting 1 {exhibits is to be found in a | museum in a southern city. where | two beautiful groups of native birds Pare shown with consummate art. the |stuffed birds being exhibited with | landscape wetSing, as in their native ! environment, and the landscape work i being by an artist of distinction. Ad- | jarent these very beautiful ex- | hibits is a case of stuffed birds shown | in the old manner, €ach on its perch with its label beside ft—very stuffed, v dead, very unengaging. In our itional Museum exceilent illustra- jtion given of progress in the of display through medium of ibits. the Roosevelt ani- Indlan tribes, the latter designed and set up under the super. ision of the bureau of enthnology To be sure these do not come within e of the art museum, but h the change in the pirit of the museums generally ok % K 1seums are equally awake tu the requirements of the times, and do what they ¢ ate their ex- hibits to p The direcs | tor of one uscums of the rth sm { B wroup mals and the i i sent of the i in { vach cxhibiti mise has inciuded a local feat Here is the way they I have gone about it: This spring they show in their e have set forth an exhibl etchers, 1 They by {dens, ition 8 work they are giv- lectures : time fine | 'S »f nine old masters, an ies of appreciation d masters at the s are hav an exhibition o home hitecture. la {stress on suburban ho nd {urban gardens, and in {having the co-operatior | chapter of the America {Architects Savs the d woven counterpanes and flower not be strictly classified 1 fine arts, but they possible to bring th t into the gallery trying to do fmay 1e m the strei is is what we are * % without i Atmost the | museums of the country are trying to| {do the s thing—woo the public, teducate by amusing. The great| {Museum of F; Arts in Boston. | which has a reputation for seclusive ! ness, has within the past ¥ |away with all entrance fe tlished the custom of having free certs ben h its roof, and for yea J’ll\l\ museum has kept on its staff a Inumber of persons especially gifted {in explaining its exhibits and b {spent much energy in bringing to [the museum the children, not of the | irtch, but of the poor. On Saturdays| fand during the sun vacation, ¢ | }loads and busloads of the child i {from the settlement districts are! {brought to the museum, told stories | ibout the exhibits. taken around and shown the things that are most in-| jteresting and most lovely in an inti- imate way. and later on these little |children bring their parents to the | museum, leading them eagerly by the | hand. The Art Institute of Ch 2o, | which has an attendance of over al million a vear. belongs to the people und is used as a ®reat community i center. a hive of acti ¥ | ““There are those occasionaily murmur that there is danger cheapening _art by attempting tol torce popularity, but mnothing can| ceally hurt art if it is of fine quality, i and though all may not get the mes- i sage or eatch the vision. some do. 4nd they in turn will hand it on to others exception, all { i who { of b | For many years the Corcoran Gal- ! lery of Art was fortunate in having its doorkeeper one who had grown {4p with the institution and had a * i x great reverence for its collections Because of the delightful way in which he welcomed the visitor. the | Writer, when a little girl, thought ! hat the gallery belonged to him and was immengely impressed by the way n which he dispensed hospitality. welcoming those who came. bidding wdieu to the - departing visitor, with | an appreciative word about the charm of the collection, the joy of seeing the gallery. Every art museum should have such a host, but if it has not, it can at least demonstrate the same &pirit through the medium of its other employes. This is the spirit of the Inl(ldlll'n art museum. The ol_il idea that art is only for the elite is very | nearly obsolete in America, and,! | though there are still a few who | maintain that the musses should not be considered in such matters. the | democracy of art is pretty well es- | tablished. i i i * ok Kk If one wants tanglhle evidence of this fact it is only necessary to visit the Metropolitan Muscum in New iYork on a Saturday or a Sunday {afternoon or on some legal holiday, for at these times it swarms with {the people of the East Side, not the aristoeracy, not those who live in pulatial residences, but rather those Who come from the tenements, from the thickly settled districts — boys and girls, old men and women, who o ahout freely, seeking out those things which are of most interest to them and getting evident enjovment from them. It is a great and insdir- ing sight. But the Metropolitan Museum does | not hesitate to advertise—in fact, it puts its placards on the busses and in many public places. It takes every pains to reach the public through the press, setting aside one afternoon a month, if not more, for press views, when the curators of the several® departments meet the press representatives, and take them trankly into their confidence. _In short, the great .Metropolitan Mu- seum. with all its wealth, with all its treasure, goes out into the highways and the byways and persuades the great public to come in, assuring them that “the museum opens not o‘v;ly her gates, but her heart to them.” 1ie Lot | §w { value of the | claim | the CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS If there is anything which anybody wants to know, just ask Uncle Sam- uel. He has opened a new bureau of information about all the manifold activities of all departments of the government, and this question bureau is ready elther to give, directly, the detailed information wanted along all lines of knowledge, from science to political economy—or, s it has been put, from accldents to zoolog or it will tell where the information can be obtained. Address inquirie of the United States byreau of effi- ciency. It might even help make out an income tax statement, or explamn the rise in sugar prices. * o ok * The largest suit ever flled in any Amerlcan court is that of the Sioux Indian tribe, brought against the United States in the Court of Claims, which suit was entered last week. The claim is for $760,000,000, with interest on part of the claim It is the amount alleged to be due the Indians for Minnesota and Dakota land, including the Black Hills gold land in western South Dakota, which, leged, the tribe government’ took without treaty sccepted the Sioux in their whites perhaps the bloodiest of tribal relations since the coming of the whites into the great west. They were allies of the British in the war of 1512, They warred on the whites in 1854-35, and they imagined the north was defenseless 1862, the. suddenly war and committed massacre w Ulm, Minn., threatening all of southern Min tu. They were chas- ed by our troop:s through what is now North Dakota. and they crossed the Canadian boundary, completely routed. * ok kX The history relation with the of is any when in massacre encamp- Some years after that there was a tribe of Indiar ed near Prince Albert. Sask (230 miles north of the United States houndary). whose language was un- known to the whites about there. Tk origin of tribe was mystery which was finally solved by an Ame ican who long near Prin Alb with Ing effort the a woman been t t. Sh missionary, at or friends ans, and prolonged became able to understand lect. In spite of their efforts to ¢ ceal their identity, she identified them Sjoux. Son achin made by as part of the renegade thirty vears ago, it chanced that the present writer visited Pr Albert nd v taken by that mission across the Saskatchewan river visit the Indian camp, but was warz ed not to betray the an American, for the Indians still afraid of identification. 3 were Upon the military chase across the Dakotas, Maj. W. D. Brackett of Min- neapolis was in charge of a herd of mpanying the Army for and while they were lake, the cattle a meat eur supplie Devils northern the part the state, attle stampeded and lost in the night upon the less prairic. That was in the fall In the following spring, 1% Brackett chanced to be at Fort ton. in South Dakota, when he and some other officers saw th distant horizon a bunch of what the thought buftalo. The officers after the sport d were the of the previous fall. The weathered the winter upon the open prairie, and had grown 1at upon the wild “buffalo gra which for many years after was found sutficlently nutritious to fatt vast herds of cattle shelterless u the blizeard-swept prairies. the original discovery of brairies of Dakota for cattle raising—an industry which e riched many a cattle raiser in years. The incident of the stampeded cattle and their subsequent recovery by Maj. Brackett wa writer by Maj. Brackett himself. The significance of the cattle story connection with the enormous today of the Sioux lies in act _that up to the time joux committed their massacre . that Dakota prairie was con- by to be a part of the were bound- Maj upon were them that rode a cattle cattle had for the e o lost in tie in 1 ceived all 1 | i | | | so-called “‘great American desers with no value whatever execept us range for wild buffalo and wilder Indians. Neither had the black hills any commercial value. The gold they contained was unknown * * When the Northern Pacific was projected by Jay Cook understood that the Red as always flooded for in the spring. because flowed north and southern source earlier tnan 1t €14 at Its mouth. Owing to that belief, it was supposed that the Red River val 1 »W the richest whe: the world—was worthless. ers of the railroad miles of trestle to cross the floaded valley, but later learned that trestle was unnceded, and i with the contractors over the lations of the trestle pied the courts until late railre it w River vall miles river man 1 <0 melted at it t region in The bu contracted 3on in the | ties. owned ‘and the | | | ; 1’ | hewan | | al 1 will i | | their dia- | fact that he was | { teopathy and | related to the when | While the Da the t ssession of the i desert” A treaty by Gen. not i« valu the able, at D it passed vernment with the Shern catisfs who wa into it was made but it was Sitting Bull and held. In 1876 & f under Gen. Custer, was 9,000 Sioux and wiped out Known as the Custer pLured 166 mon orce of 1,1 ttacked b in what | massacre These are the scendants — who are pay—apparently_at tod: for millions of acres of land they get it? men—or n w There Va D of p mo is one rooster of W which has learned to mind his if not his a's. He was fond as that he dug up and swallowed t of what his landlady had plant Sk aT d him, and, like t farmer's wife who turned on the three blind mice used knife she a butcher on the roost ng his cr peas, en she turned the rooster Toose—a si bird. T question as »p those pe nally enter remains to be ser (True story.) pint » and whic sewed recovering she planted up the crop her ag: and ran 1 in it An but Washington Aha practicing p This man put your f eopath invisibl bacilius, t tition opath egular prac practicing oste twelve e er in vea on " actually tr He diatry ated with might e spine with and dislocated impunity as well a But he had saged a sprained fo The Court of Apj t Tha swallow neck s with actually mas tha than other nd z ons ¢ also th dica to o tolerating a barberry busk no effort to it of a violator of his neigh committed the well from which cat single barberry Dr. E of Agriculture and mak eradi of muc and proper ar:sm law destroye as if e bush the knows Stakman of 1in to the amc $12,3 to causing ¥ was busi single bush through eigntee five miles 963 acres average ield untouchec aged That bush ‘might ith ten puunds ster traced dist n heat vield 1o bushels, where ti s infection a\ damag. It been or wi grubbing rield t bushes S0 far from grair a heavy fine fo should be rigid Lave kil v ¥ cannot k t for ornamenta flelds. No. T doing so and the I¥ enforced aw 1923, Ly 1% V. EDITORIAL DIGEST Widely Varying Views on Supreme | ” Court Liquor Decision. There is a wide difference of opin- ion, together with some uncertainty. indicated in the editorial discussion of the recent decision of the Supreme Court applying to the use of intoxi- ants on occan steamships. tional complications, of necessity, are looked for, while editors are vinced the incoming Congress can b depended on 1o keep all American shipping dry, both in port and on the high seas. “The court’s decision is a blow to foreign shipping, some of which can- not even obey the laws of its countries with regard to wine rations for crews, while it puts American passenger vessels in better position to compete for trade,” says the New- ark News. In the opinion of the New York Tribune, “the decision is equita- ble and is based on common sense, as well as legal principles” To which the New York World replies “it is a fool situation thus created, from any angle. But the fault is not the Supreme Court’s. It had a statute of fanatical foolishness to interpret and has been just as liberal, appar- ently, as it could” This is very much the view, as well, of the Balti- more Sun. which holds “the further we go in company with the eighteenth amendment and the Volstead law, the more tangled up we get in our logic, our precedents and our practice.” It is too early to decide what the effect will be, the Philadelphia Bulletin holds, and application is unwise on “what the final effect may be in its practical application to the alcoholic facilities offered transatlantic pas- sengers, also .whether it will work out as well in practice as in theory in putting American and foreign ship- ping on a plane of equality in this regard.” It is hard to see how the court could have decided otherwise, the Brooklyn Eagle believes, because “the prohibition law, based on the Con- stitution, is positive in_the restric- tions it sets up.” The Boston Globe somewhat facetiously suggests ‘“to the bootlegging fleet must be added a group of vessels which will serve as a set of lockers. These vessels must need carry a suitable armament because the high-jackers of the mighty ocean are always on the out- look for a cargo of liquor that may be had at a minimum outlay.” The interpretation, as the Lynchburg News analyses It, “precipitates a policy of enforcement which if un- dertaken in good faith, will very searchingly test the Interna- | own | that | | | | | ingenuity . and penalty | Buftalo sourcefulness of the Eovernme For. manifestly bristlex with dutt cult and complex bearings, this bot! 1 connection with international law usage. itertained other countries, with refer- ence to the legal muchinery required for the actual and effective impos tion of the restrictions thus vitali ed”" To which the Albany F bocker Press adds “it is di see why this decision ix not a splitting Kairs upon a prodis Sear There a SIS u is nothing to be doue Congress has a chance to the Cleveland Plain Dealer insists. be- cause “hoth parts of the decision are surprising. We doubt not thi gress will make prohibitior vessels and remove of international misunde - The Albany News sion “‘another milestone the long road—a buoy in this uncharted channel,” while tl News declares “Secretary is quite Tight when he the decision presents a problem ou side of the three-mile limit." Clear enough on the particular issues “in volved,” the St. Paul neer Pro eels this latest decision “leaves oth :r_issues in _inextricable confusion legalizes “a floating base of supplies.” and, while foreigners will find fau “too many Americans will complain to permit a foreign growl to be heard.” America is “drying up the sea.” ix sists the Duluth Herald, “but thers can be no question about the luw of it. A law which forbids the trx portation or sale of liquor certainl applies to ships, and there i no more unti on new, Mellon jreason for discriminating in favor of ships than there would be for d criminating in favor of clubs.” The “painful aftermath” of the decision somewhat amuses the : Syracuse Herald. which, after reciting the many suggestions which have been made to meet the conditions set up by the decision. says “all of thes fantastic vossibilities fit in 1 with guch existing realities as Am can navies and aerial fleets maintain- ed for the enforcement of one co stitutional amendment.” And ths Utica ObserversDispatch adds “it wll be impossible to change the flow of commerce and to add delays and convenlences to passenger traffic beczuse somebody wan “If the next Congres make American vessels as Sahora it evidently has the to do so the Detroit Free points out, as the “general effect the decision has been to transfer responsibility from the President to Congress.” But, concerning the act ual decision itself, the Milwauukee Journal insiste “neither a wet nor a dry victory can legitimately he read "into it” although the Little Rock Arkansas Democrat believe interpretation of “transportation cssential to every Amerlcan. means,” as the Democrat interprets it, “that If you arm yourself with < pint and start fishing or hunting, — to tha golf links in your car, carry- ing that pint, vou are a transporte and, as such, subject to the fuil of tha Volatead law. just power Presa \