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6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. "MONDAY.........May 14, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company 11th St and Pennaylvania Ave. % Office: 150 Nassau St. Ofce: Tower Building Chicag :16 Regent St., London, England. pean Oft The Evening Star, w edition, ix delivered 30 cents per montl 2 nt by mail, or telephone Main 5000, ion is made by curriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—P: Maryland and Virginia. {ly and Sunday..1 yr., §8.40; 1 mo., ily only 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo 1yr., $2.40; 1 mq All Other States. Daily and Sunday.. Daily only........1y Sunday only......1yr, Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled 1o the use for republication of all news dis- putehes credited to {t or not otherwise credited In this paper and ‘also the local news pi lished herein. —All rights of publication dixpatches herein are also rexerved. The Russian Public. 1t is reported in dispateh from Moscow that some of those who marched in the demonstration in that city in protest against the British | ultimatum, when questioned by a cor- | respondent, admitted that they did not | understand much about the situation, but they expected to be told that some- | body again was trying to enslave them a nationa! associations, and that this popularity is increasing. Within two days the news has chronicled that the fifty-sixth annual convention of the American Institute of Architects will meet in this city this month. A circular sent out to all members of the assoclation says: “Washington is the headquarters of the institute, and every member should be at home here and should look upon Washington in much the same way as he looks upon his own city."” The third national conference of the social workers of the Episcopal Church will be in Washington from May 22 to 25, inclusive. The national conference of Jewish Social Service has just closed its session here, and the National Probation Association, holding its seventeenth annual confer- ence, is now sitting in Washington. The Chemical Society of Washington has invited the American Chemical Soclety, of which it is a branch, to hold its annual convention in Washington in the spring of 1925. This is said to be the largest scientific organization in the world. and one can have but little doubt that it will accept the in- vitation of its Washington members to come to the National Capital, which is the home of more scientific workers than any other city in the United tes and probably has a larger popu- lation of people enlisted in scientific employment than any other city in the world. As every one knows Washington is now making most elaborate prepara- tion for the approaching convention of the Shrin, Every month and every week national associations gather at Washington. The Indians had some and that war threatened. One pro- found conviction of all the paraders | was that they did not want any more ! war. This is a characteristic performance. | The soviet government sends word to the workers to parade in protest. They | £0 out in numbers and march through | he streets carrying banners, perhaps | supplied by headquarters. They have | 10 knowledge whatever about the situ- | ation. They do as they are told. That is what they have been doing four or five years. In a country like Russia it is not| difficult to manipulate the public. There is little education and there is | low intelligence. The people act in a mass without reason. ¢ have had | an overabundance of war in Russia. | That is the one sincere thought on the } yart of the people. They want peace. But Is is rather amusing to read of the | protest of these poor, misguided peo- ple against the efforts of “somebody | to enslave them,” when they have! bean enslaved by their own present | leaders. If there ever was a case of | the enslavement of a nation it ha been that of the rule of Russia by a|{ small number of theorists, fanaties | and schem who have taken posses- | sfon of the government and have ex- | ploited the Russian millions. 1t is practically hopeless to pene trate this dense ignorance with the | wruth. Therein lies the strength of the | bolshevik position. The smart Rus- sians are either in control at Moscow | or at ed points of observation | and manipulation, are ) other Those Who are being gov- erned and conirolied and directed in Ru «d, but it is hard to sec how they can be helped. 1 s sel or lands. a are to be pit One More Sign. Announcement by the Treasury De- partment that its call for $400,000,000 with which to complete the refunding of victory notes has brought subs tions in excess of a billion dollars in cash and offers to exchange old securi- ties for new, adds to the steadily ac- cumulating mass of evidence that business, finance and industry are on | a solid foundation in this country. | There in the land, and in | plenty, loan at 4% per cent interest heavily oversub. scribed. There is unbounded faith in the government of the United States and the permanency of its institutions, while parts of Burope are menaced with communism, radicalism and the | possibility of the overthrow of states. | With prayerful gratitude every Amer- | ivan should rejoice in the happy con- | aition of his land and be fiercely mili- tant against all classes that seek to impair the form of government or that | preach discontent, idleness and mis- chief to the industrial and other ele- | ments which create our increasing prosperity. Steadily during the current year has the tide of prosperity been rising, as resistlessly as the tides of ocean, | and there is no chhb in sight. He is an | undesirable citizen who would wish or k to check it by preachment or| ction. There is no reason discerni- { ble why it should not rise higher and higher. The mass of statistics and| veports gathered by various govern- mental agencies, labor organizations and civic bodies show that basic condi- { tons in all lines of industry and pro- duction are sound and promising. Now comes this oversubscription to the government’s plan of financing, { one more sign of the existence of easy financial conditions. —_——— The University of Maryland is going into the dairy business, according to College Park dispatches. When will she start in on the bakery business? The National Capital always did think highly of Maryland biscuit. —_———— 'Meeting Place of the Tribes.” Before there was-any thought that a great city would stand at the junc-{ tion of the Potomac and Anacostia | vivers the Indians of this region | called the site of Washington “the! meeting place of the tribes.” Tt is a tradition, and perhaps it may be set down as history that representatives or delegutes from many tribes held councils or conventions on Green- leafs point, a place which old Wash- ingtonians persist in calling Arsenal point, though that name seems to have passed from the vocabulary of later Washingtonians, who have adopted the name “Washington bar- racks” for that part of the city which was “the arsenal We do not now speak of Washing- ton as the meeting place of the tribes, but es the meeting place of Congress and of national socleties of all kinds. Reading the news columns of The Star ought to convince any person who does not know the fact already that Washington is the most popular of all cities as the gathering place of i i s i { street district September 11, 1920, in a { kind. ! Topeka, i { themselves as foresight of the future as well as knowledge of the past and present when they 1 this locality “the meeting place of the tribes.” ——— A Wall Street Plot Suspect. Pursuit of those who perpetrated the Wall strect bomb outrage September 16, 1820, persists, despite vepeated fai ures and disappointments. The latest development in the case is the arrest of a man recently returned from Rus- earch for him was instituted on the basis of a statement by an Ameri- can and his wife who some time be- fore had come back, grievously disap- pointed, from one of the co-operative colonies promoted by bolshevik agents in this country. They declared that a man named Lerner had, in Russia, boasted that he drove the death wagon n Wall street. Lerner, finally caught in New York, denies any association with the crime, and claims that he nade no such boast, but claims that he did possibly he had driven a wagon about the streets in the Wall sia. campaign in behalf of the New York state socialist assemblymen then un- der fire. The against Lerner does not scem, according to matters thus far disclosed, to be particularly strong. It is stated that the police have proof that he went to New York from this ¥. where he was then employed, on the day before the explosion and regis- tered at a certain hotel at wh by pre-arranger number of other | radicals were accommodated. But un- s something specitic to con- | nect Lerner with the crime of Septem- | ber 16 his association with these radi- < would not warrant aceu This case is of interest showing that the search for those volved in the Wall st sists. That it was a crime and not an | accident is definitely accepted. That | it was the work of radicals bent upon | t ng the country is also believed. Mauny people have been arrested only to be let go after an investigation has failed to elicit proof of complicity. A crime of this kind necessarily must have involved several people, and it is altogether probable that ultimately one of them wiil, through inadvertence or boastfulness, reveal his part and thus bring to light the whole dastardly plot, and probably bring to punishment those still alive who were involved in it. : case, *h, as cet crime per-| ori; 5% —_———————— The retiring Baltimore grand jury states i conviction that race-track gambling, barred by nearly every state in the Union, is an unspeakable curse to Maryland, worse than any state lot- tery, causing frequent defalcations | and sapping the moral fiber of many people. There should be some method whereby a grand jury of the caliber of this one could not be retired. ————— The rman section of the Women's International League of Peace and Freedom holds that the reconstruction of northern France is a debt of honor, and urges the German people to get busy. Some exhorters prefer slow and deliberate conversions to the sudden Here and there a ray of light «eems to be penetrating Teutonic con- sciousness, —_—— ninety-year-old man living near Kan., claims to have been the first man to use gasoline as a fuel. Present-day motorists would be inter- ested in learning what he paid per gallon. A And now the horse show. with ribbons. Say it New York’s Bid. New York is out after next year's democratic convention. One of the newspapers in that city has been at work recently canvassing the ques- tion, and it now announces that in re- ply to telegraphic inquiries ten na- tional committeemen and twelve na- tional committeewomen have recorded irtually unreserved- 1y” for New York, while “many others personally favor” that city," but do not feel free to commit themselves.” In connection with the effort to.land the convention for New York it is point- ed out that it has not been the scene of a national political meeting since 1868, when for the first and only time the democratic convention was held there. Since then that party has met as follows: At Baltimore in 1872, at St. Louis in 1876, at Cincinnati in 1880, at Chicago in 1884, at St. Louis in 1888, at Chicago in 1892 and 1896, at Kansas City in 1900, at St. Louis in 1904, at Denver in 1908, at Baltimore in 1912, at St. Louis in 1916 and at San Francisco in 1920. Thus since New York entertained the democratic party St. Louis has had four conven- tions and Chicago three out of thir- {largest scientific organi HE EVENING STAR, teen. New York feels that its time has come again. 3 In this connection it is stated that St. Louis does not want the meeting in 1924. Just why is not explained. but perhaps St. Louls has a tip that it has small chance of choice. However that may be, the present discussion favor- ing New York arises from the fact that the Empire state is now reckoned as a factor of vital importance in the political equation. But there are other clties than Manhattan that might be host with less disadvantage. New York and Tammany are in many minds regarded as synonymous, and the combination is not a particularly happy one in the national field. The last democratic convention was held at San Francisco, and it is under- stood that the prevalent feeling among the members of the party is decidedly adverse to crossing the Rockies again. The contest would seem to be between one of the Mississippl valley citles and possibly New York, which, having made a definite bid, must be con- sidered as in the fleld. Kan; 3 ‘would be pleased to act as host, it is said. Chicago, virtually pre-empted as the republican meeting place, is not especially keen in the contest. If the convention comes east why should it not come to Washington? ————————————— Come-Backs. There is comfort for sportsmen, and for statesmen as well, in the news that Jess Willard, onetime champion pugilist, has staged a “come-back.” This “big fellow.” after several of retirement, forced by his unfortu nate encounter with a certain chap named Dempsey, who proved harde and more agile in the ring, has re turned to the fight game and won first battle, against an antagonist who has been heretofore rated as a possible contender for the title of heavyweight premier. His victory was decisive and undeniable. Now he is rated as in line for the leading role again. Few men in the fight game can thus return to condition and prestige. De- feat takes something out of them that, it seems, can never be restored. But Willard, grown heavy during his re- tirement, worked down to form. re- stored his muscles to their former prime, regained his wind and proved that he could step about as lively as ever. Of course, one fight does not make a championship, He may crumple under the attack of the next man he meets. Or he may fight his again to the point at which he can challenge the champion and de- mand a meeting, only to succumb once more to the furious driving power of the other. That is all in the game. In other lines the “come-back" is the perennial hope of those who have lost a fight and have been shelved. Hope springs eternal in the human breast, and there is nothing more stimulating and inspiring than an example, even in the prize ring, for those who, once winners, have been frowned upon by fortunie and put in the shade. Now will come a season of revivals. The political pugilist has an advantage over the wearer of the gloves in that age does not necessarily diminish his powers or rob him of his aegility in meeting issues. In certain circles the conditions strongly favor the “come- back.” —_————————— A Baitimore veteran demands a permit to drive a car with his remain. ing arm, and the authorities are to decide whether or not he will be al lowed to do it. Plenty of men around Washington are doing it, and getting away with it. —————————— The Chemical Society of Washing- ton has voted to ask the whole Amer- ican Chemical Society, said to be the tion in the world, to convene here next Easter. It estimated that 2,000 would attend. We could keep them all busy analyz- ing poison booze. —_———————— Baltimore marathon dancers aver that they were bilked of their prom- ised prizes and have entered suit for $14,000 against the management stag- ing the terpsichorean treat. This will be heart-breaking news to the general public. cars Jess Willard, ex-cowboy, fighting for a milk fund, proves the adage “They never come back™ to be bull. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Credo. I've read some books of science Which T did not understand; T've tatked of metaphysics, But my brain cells failed to land. Just why I'm in existence Is a most mysterious text. And faith is all that guides me To my destination next. I don’t know how I came upon This big and bounteous sphere. I don't know where I'm going, But I'm mighty glad I'm here. Here to welcome pleasure Or stand for sorrow's test. And confident a fellow's safe That does his level best. The Longer Days. Jes’ foh good measure, An’ a wish to "'commodate, De sun he comes ‘round’ early An’ he lingers until late. De blossom is a-laughin’ An’ de sky it wears a smile, As he says dar ain’ no hurry, Jes' enjoy yoh selves awhile. An’ we's feelin’ mighty grateful When de summer’s in its prime, Wit de old sun dat good-natured, He's a-workin’ overtime! Intangible. No gem was ever polished which Compared in radiance with the dew at morn; No silken fabric ever shone so rich As the soft petal of the rosebud worn. Yet dew and roseleaf are despised by men ‘Who seek to gain the treasures of this earth. They somehow don't give satisfaction ‘when Ydu put the usual question, “What's it worth?* - WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC President Harding will return to the United States from to Seattle, and then southward by rail to tour the coast n Diego. One visit California is that he has an elder sister living near Santa Ana, whom he has not seen for some years: A day at Santa Ana and a day in the Yosemite National Park figure def- initely in Mr. Harding's southern California itinerary. ke Former Justice John H. C first league of nations “drive vashington will be made at Continen- tal Memorial Hall on the afternoon of Wednesday, May 23, under the spices of his League of Nations Non- Partisan Association. The meeting will be addressed Mr. Clarke, President A. Lawrence Lowell of Har- vard, Miss Abbott, director of the children's bureau, I of Labor; Royal Meeker. state commis- sioner of labor, Pennsylvania, and Dr. Linsley Rudd Willlams, director of the Rockefeller Foundation's tuber- culosis work in France. No announc ment has been or is likely to be made of the expectation that Woodrow Wil- son will attend the league rally. The meeting has been called in connection with the National of So- clal Workers. which will be in session here that week * %k Husbands of the land will stirred by the reason which h pelled Marle Stuart Edw dians to decline election first vice presidency of the League of Women Vo wards, & prominent Peru, has been complaining bitterly for years about “being married to a publie institution.” So Mrs. Edwards. « diplomatist of obvious talent, tained his objections in order hence- forward to have a little time “to in- vite my soul.” Her league col- leagues deplore her decision, but pronounce it a reasonable one. M dwards ranks not only as the Les looking woman in the ° but one of the most ratio has given six vears of unremitting toll to the general program of wom- en's enfranchisement and citizenship education, besides raising a son and helr, “Dickie” Edwards, jr * % ox partment Conferece be s im- rds of Iu- re to the ers. Mr. manufacturer at One by one, Am rendered emin world war are approaching orable retirement period—age of sixty-four years—and passing from the active list. Sims, if any one can call that stormy petrel inactive der any conditions, was October, 1922, July, 192 admiral who was a class at Annapolis, Albert P. leave uctive Servic have completed forty notable work in the the Naval Academy i year of 1876, he w intermed &ra attacheships in which found squadron of battleships of the first war ar Admiral black was transferred to command our for ed on Gibraltar and made nt record in char rican admirals who service in the the nt u ired in a nd Niblack, will Niblack ™ will seven years of Entering centennial it through all the including naval until 1917 nding a In October rear, Sims DE FONTENOY. active prepara- world's fair of n BY THE MARQUISE is making tions for the great decorative art and which is to be held in Paris in 1923, and which is destined to surpass in importance, size and interest all the other great international exhibitions Franc modern indust that have taken place on the banks | the first affair of This one was fol- lowed by the second in 1867, by the third in 1878, by the fourth in 1900. iThe fifth one was to have occurred ten years ago, but was postponed on account of the threatening, aspect of the political horizon, and will be opened to the public just two vears hence. It will occupy an area of about 100 acres on both sides of the River Seine between the Invalides bridge and that ot Alexander IT1, and the funds for the undertaking are being raised by means of the issue this week of gov- ernment lottery honds to the value of $20,000.000. “The bonds are to be of fifty francs each, the purchasers to have the right to twenty free ad- mission tickets to the exhibition and other advantages in the way of re- duced prices on railroads and at mietropolitan theaters. The subscription lists for the sale of the bonds will remain open for a month unless the issue is disposed of by an earlier date than exy and there will be fifty-six monthly drawings for monetary prizes. All bonds which do not draw prizes c eventually be redeemed at 50 franc each. Invitations are to he dispatched in the near future by the French go ernment to friendly foreign powers, sking them to take part in the im- pending international exhibition. Bk | Alexandre Millerand, president of the French Republic, has found time amidst all his multifarious duties in connection with the office of chief maglistrate, to write and publish a volume entitled, “The return of Al- sace and of Lorraine to France.” Tt is a subject on which he is better qualified than anyone clse to speak ior write. On the 22d of November, 1918, Prime Minister Clemenceau de- creed the transformation of Alsace and Lorraine, which Germany had been compelled to vacate into three new Departments of France, entitled, “The Bas-Rhin, the Haut-Rhin and the Moselle”. But, the task of or- ganizing the transition from German im French rule in those regions was found to be far more complicated and ldifficult than anticipated, and as the result thereof, a new post was created, and Premier Clemenceau pointed Alexandre Millerand as high commissioner of Alsace-Lorraine with full powers. That was in April, 1919, and from that time forth until January, 1920, when Millerand was summoned to Parls to assume, first of all the premiership, and then the presidency of the republic, he grappled with the mission which he had accepted and which demanded the use of all his patience, tact, firmness and liberality. His place at Strasburg, after his de- parture, was filled as high commis- sloner by M. Gabriel Alapetite, former plenipotentiary in Tunis. and now ambassador at Madrid. The work of the organization of the new admin- istration of Alsace-Lorraine has now been almost completed, and the high commission at Strasburg is slated to o out of existence on the last day of une. It is said that-the book of the president is most instructive, laying bare the varled character of the prob- lems by which he was confronted and the manner in which he was hampered and obstructed at every of the Seine the kind in 1855. since N Unless present plans are changed|atlantic convoy work. Alaska by boat | | Europe. of the reasons the President wants to | au- | National | Ea- | sus- | France Plans to Sell Lottery Bonds To Finance 1925 World Exposition coted, | ap- | WILLIAM WILE He is now of the navy vard at having recently com- States naval forces in | commandant Charleston, | manded United * % % * There art at least two notable names missing from Secretary Work's Indian committee which might well have adorned-it. One is Rodman Wanamaker, son and heir of John Wanamalker, who sent three expedi- tlons to the west to study Indian life, the results of which were de- posited with the United States gov- ernment. Another great Indian lover and expert is Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, secretary of the Rodman Wanamaker North Amerfcan Indian Foundation. Dr. Dixon recently pub- lished the thrilling story of the American Indians’ work in the United States Army during the world war. Thirty thousand redmen fought in the A, and Pershing wrote u stirring preface to Dixon's epic of their deeds in France. * ok k% Seerctary Hughes is likely the only high officer of the executi branch of the government left in Washington this summer. He is th poorest vacation-taker in the world. A country to which he can hie himself after the day's work, occupied out on the edge of Rock Creek Park, Washington. last year, and will again have Forest Glen this gives M. Hughes all the reer n he craves Greystone, where the Secretary of State lived in 1922, nestles in a region amed us the habitat of particularly sweet-voiced larks. Hughes once was asked if he enjoyed the singing of the lurks. he rejoined, “they're the only larks I ever have * ox The monumental “life” of Cleveland, which has been in for three years, will short- from the press. It is a of two volumes, compiled MeXNutt MceElroy, profes- t Princeton Univer- was sclected to write pite the fact rock-ribbed Kentucky he former Mrs. Grover Cleveland, now Mrs. Thomas J. Pres- ton—-remembered as one of th most chaming mistresses the White Hous ‘ver had—has collaborated actively in production of the work It will jrevel in documents and letters hither- {to never published and throw many shafts of new light on the life and times of Cleveland. * x x to be retreat, such as he ! Grover prep- aration Iy emerge biograph) by Robert sor of histor sity, MeElre the Cleveland that he is a {republican. * | There was recently a large dinner {party in New York, attended by a rnumber of Washingtonians, at which ! remarkable souvenirs were distribut- wd. Each guest found at his place 4 handsome crook-handled walking- stick, with band mono- | grammed with his initials. Close in- | pection developed that the cane opened.” The barrel prov- to contain a glass tube nearly a long filled with enoush forbid- fruit to liven up an entire even- nie and capable, of course, of un- imited further duty. (Copsright, 1923.) a silver former German authori- their [turn by |ties of | friends he Alsace-Lorraine and 5 i ok ok % long survived man- Lord Ca has not the destruction of his stately of Castleboro, in County Wex- Ly the misguided banditry of ¥ho recently reduced this $300,000 mansion—one of the very {finest in ireland—to ashes. For this model Trizh landlord, always on such | cordial terms with the tenants, has just passed away at his house in Bel- grave square, London. leaving his | brother, George, to succeed to the en- tailed estrates, and to the two peer- | ages—onw of which being a United { Kingdom honor. carried with it a seat the House of Lords. Lord Carew seen but little in society in re- years, owing to a stroke of s. but he had a large circle ende, who used to gather at his home in London in order to listen to the wénderful playing of his wife's ter, Mrs. Clifford Cory, whom, after an unfortunate marriage, spent most of her life under his mof, and who has been declared by Paderewski to be the finest amateur pianist in | Europe. | . Lady, Carew herself, like her sister, | Mra. Cory. a woman of exceptional reauty and charm. died a few vears ago, and the new Lady Carew, whose {hushand is one of the foremost | philatelists in the United Kingdom, | therefore. has come into the posse: sion of the world-famed Carew ruby, a stone of 133 carats, and consider- H ably over an inch long. Tt halls from Persia, and apart from its value as a gem, it is uniquely precious as hav- ing its history engraved upon its sur- faces. For, oni its four sides, it bears the name and the titles of the four great Mogul emperors to whom it has belonged. It was Nadir Shah, the ruler of Persia. who looted the treas- ure houses of the Mogul emperors, at Delhi. and carried off their contents, among them the peacock throne and the sacred ruby to Teheran. Nadir Shah was murdered at Teheran in 1747, and then the ruby disappeared, and nothing was known of its ad- ventures until it was picked up in Persia some eighty vears ago by the oriental traveler,” Alison. who pre- sented it to the zreat-grandmother of the new Lord Carew. * ¥k Many famous jewels once had in- scriptiens engraved on their surface. But lapidarles have ruthlessly re- Imoved all traces of the lettering as they cut and recut the gems to endow them with the brilliance which only such cutting can insure. The stones may become much more beautiful, but their historic identity is destroved, and so far as is known, the Carew lruby is the only engraved ruby or Idiamond of any importance now in existence. It has been bored through from end to end, and has been evidentaly worn as a necklace or armulet, threaded onto a cord. The late Lady Carew |had it mounted with a diamond for suspension from a neck chain, and that is how the new Lady Carew will undoubtedly wear it. The jewelers were anxious that it should be mounted in a tiara. But that would not display the inscriptions, which the late Lady Carew rightly held, from its most remarkable feature. Another heirloom, which has now come to Lord and Lady Carew, are a set of four quaint jewelled buttons. which belonged to King James IL. In his flight, after the battle of the Boyne, he arrived at Castleboro, and begged for some refreshment. It was willingly given, along with assurances of sympathy and good will, and the king, before he left, tore off four but- tons from his walstcoat and handed them to’his host as the only token of his gratitude for the hospitality which he had recelved, and which it was within his power to bestow. o sion | ford, cent i MAY 14, 1923. Pleads for Dogwood Native Flower Should Be Adopt- ed for D. C., Says Letter. To the Editor of The Star The present seems to be a psycho- logical moment to put in nomination a new candidate for the position of District flower—namely, the common flowering dogwood (cornus tlorida). From data furnished by a recent arti- cle in The Star the question seems to me to require further consldera- tion before an authoritative decision is made. So far as T recall, I never before saw or heard the nasturtium 80 much as mentioned in this con- nection, and T hope this reference has not struck deep root. 1 do not know by whom or why the sentiment of “patriotism” has been attached to this plant, but it is difficult to dis- cover In the plant ftself any charac- ter which fits it for the emblem of an American_community. It is not na- tive to the United States and in itself is merely an attractive garden flower, not superior in beauty to the weet pea and not approaching the lassic elegance of the lily of the valley. But the cholce of a local emblem should not be determined hy a4 bookish sentiment nor controllingly by the beauty or Interest of the plant itself. Local association should take precedence of other sentiment. At least nine out of ten botanists will agree with me that the District flower should be a native plant, or, at the very least, one that s in some way distinctly identified with the lo- cality. It should, in addition to that, be a conspicuous, well known, digni- fled and attractive plant. A green- house exotlc like the holy ghost flower, however lovely in ftself, can- not Lé thought of for this purpose. The suggestion of “rosemary,” I sup- pose, was in jest; but, still, let us notice how absurd it would be to adopt as our emblem an old world plant, scarcely known in this country, mereiy because it has in literature a certain sentiment attached to it. Turning to the list of national and state flowers In the article above re- ferred to, we find that the great ma- jority of the states have taken a plant with local assoclation. All of the states west of the Mississtppi and some east of it have chosen appro- priate native plants. Some eastern states have taken extensively culti- vated plants—apple, peach, orange, clover—which is in a measure justi- fled A few have taken favorite cul- tivated flowers—rose, carnation— without regard to crigin. The west- ern states have chosen more wisely than the eastern. Let us follow their example. They have taken striking plants characteristic of their own flora. If we wish to express patriot- ism in our Distriét flower, then let us choose one that in gome way be- longs to our own country and to the District, preferably a plant native to the region. Several flowers can be thought of in this connection, but the common dogwood seems to me de- cidedly the best. It is an exclusively North American tree, common in and around the District, striking and dig- nified. known to all and liked by all. The foliage is not unpleasing, and the clusters of bright red berries are attractive in autumn. Its figure can be utilized in ornamental design and the tree itself can be grown in park and on lawns. The pink-flowered form seems to be that which is chiefl cultivated at present, but this nee not continue to be so. T hope there will pressions of view on this subje especially with reference to th nomination. Though it has no bear- ing on this question, it may be of interest to laymen to know that the real flowers of the dogwood small green bodies which are sur- rounded by the showy white or pink blades, while these are not. as might be supposed. the petals, but what the botanist calls an “involuer STEELE. EDWARD 8. The Hurry-Up Age. New be further ex- York to Peking in sixty-five hours, by airship of course, this is the latest prospect. jubilantly pro- claimed, for annihilating space and defying time. There we go again. In the spirit of this hurry-up age, it i not the journeying but the getting there that counts. Mr. Dooley, reading the announce- | ment that the railroad time had “brought San Francisco hours nearer Chicago.” was mov. remark that if the Lord Chicago any nearer San Francisco He would have put it there. The earth is too big round, anyw We cannot reduce its dimensions, but, thank goodness, we can spare ourselves the tediousness of getting about by con- trivances that beat three-league boots, Who said tediousness? Is there no longer any such thing as leisureli- ness? Has the going lost all delight in the twentieth century lure of the arriving? “T1l put a girdle round about the earth in forty minutes,” cried Puck. Foolish child! As th old Romans used to say, “Qui bono?" Why on earth should anybody want to? Oh, yes, one may still find leisure —in'a sanitarium. Formerly a food. it is nowadays a medicine. We take it when we have to. It is a sign of this breathless age that sanitariums table two ed to lare countless, and always crowded. “Take Your eternity,” suggested St. Peter to the recent arrival, impatient as the tourist with round-trip ticket to see the sights. Time is but eter- nity begun: why rush about so?— Providence Journal. In a Few Words. There is just as grave a danger of mistrusting every one as there is of trusting every one, but if you believe everybody but yourself a scoundrel, you will go through life very un- happy. ~~TORD ROBERT CECIL. Wealth hurts children when they get too much of jt. Just because a man can afford to have people to walt on his children is no reason why he should do it. I don't —JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. T don't believe in trying to do two years' business in one. because I do not relish the idea of seeing the kill- ing of the old goose that lays the golden eggs in the lap of the Amer- fcan public. —HENRY FORD. One of the dangers ahead is Fascism. Premier Mussolini says that the people are tired of liberty. If they are, God help them. —LLOYD GEORGE. The romance of the sea passed out with the coming of the turbine and wireless. The real sailor men have been supplanted by marine factory hands. —JOSEPH CONRAD. ‘The Russian revolution was not a real social revolution, but a humbug. It was merely an exchange of ty- rants. —GILBERT K. CHESTERTON. The difficulty with the Permanent Court of Arbitration is that it is not permanent, not a court and not an adequate agency of arbitration. —PROF. MARLEY O. HUDSON. The “double standard” in business seems doomed. The realization is growing that a man cannot have one code of conduct for his family and social life and another for his busi- ness life. —CHARLES S. MERTON. Some one sprang the phrase “This is the age of specialists” and it has been taken literally—so literally that a “specialist” is usually a man who knows nothing outside of a small field. —EDWARD N. HURLEY. The heaven to which the dead man goes is a regular world on a higher plane, where the colors are brighter, the sounds sweeter and the people nicer. Each man acquires his normal astrength about the age of thirty and each woman receives the beauty of cwenty-five. «=SIR CONAN DOYLE. it re the | 1d wanted | CAPITAL KEYNO BY PAUL V. COLLINS. There may be established a “Great White Way” clear across the Atlantic ocean, by anchoring wooden ships at Intervals along a route %0 miles wide. ‘This is proposed by Brig. Gen. Wil- Ham Mitchell, but Chairman Lasker opposes the plan. Mr. Lasker says the government does not the wooden ships now anchored the Potomac and James rivers, which Gen Mitchell proposed to use. The Lasker objection might overcome by the government some of its other surplus ships there e found merits scheme. It is proposed not only light the ocean but to the chored ships supply tions fiying airplane own in the we in use st s for * k x x | With in wirele telegraph: the old idea of lampposts on the ocean is crude and outgrown The radlophone can give the latitude and longitude to any airplane at any time, and sensitive antennae will tell what direction the plane is going in reference to the station whose th improvement ms that very rapid { i | in tion is announced ‘The radiophone will all visual methods of guiding travel. Its range covers the full width of the ocean. so that arplanes traveling at 150 tp 200 miles an hour, and with ability to rise above all clouds, must have means of gu AT MOTé efficient than sight. clouds below the six-mile altitude, and ready airplanes easily rise above that The height record is nearly eight miles—40.800 feet. The stars, or sun, are always vieible, and they are uhy ready anchored soon supe of the federal cou decision that the Voistead law not restrain physicians from pre- seribing intoxic: nz liquor as med clne, it is significant to note two or three things in that connectic The Materia Medica lists whisky and brandy as stimula a about | one-fourth of the phy of the country approve their us certain cases—prescribed by competent phy- sicians. The others disapprove of their use. and say that the are ot stimulants that are more efficic ess danger of evil after effects That's that. for the doctor: The Pharmacopocia (the sta fixer of the pharmacists) dropped standards for whisky a brandy in ow pre- ihes whisky or brandy, any drug- t who has more greed th con- he abled range v in filling the preserip- tion with whatever moonshine he finds most profitable, calling it ‘whisky” or “brandy.” for no author- | ity can dispute the The Phar: Tn the light can 1 ician in ere he will acopoeia is re ten vears, o that the next revision will he in 1930, W bootlezzing physicians and moor druggists, who will be drawn into the professions of medicine and phar- | macy. in case the Supreme Court up- holds the federal judge: i | won't make much differenc 1930, what the Pharmacopoeia savs: the 'vietims of wood hol and moonshine will be dead or stone blind by that time. after * % ok ok Of the 130.000 physicians "nited States. 40,000 are in which have local laws prohibiting the issuing of liquor prescriptions. Of the remaining 110,000 physicians. les than 33,000 have ever called for liquor prescription blanks, showing that voluntarily have gotten along without ever prescribing liquor. be- ides the 40,000 above mentioned. Tt is to the benefit of the 35000, out of ia total of 150.000, that the fedcral ruling on the Volstead law will ate. if confirmed ! The decision of the federal t {has to do only with the scope of the | eighteenth amendment. and the q { tion is as to whether the a thorized Congress to de se of the liquor question oth than its use for beverage purpose | Many states a ¥ have laws { lutely prohibiting liquor to he or prescribed as medic state laws have heen by the courts. Congres: not in- terfere with state rights except where the constitutional amendment clearly gives it that power. P 1t often happens that bank tellers delve for weary hours because their | cash does not balance to a cent. | in the ites tained Are Sun-Spots Coming to Aid of‘ “Fireproof Coal?" | After struggling with “fireproof | !co:n" through a long. hard winter, it | is a little disheartening to be con-| fronted with the prospect held out! {by Dr. C. G. Abbott of the National | Academy of Sclences, of a breakdown ! to “the world's ancient heating | i plant,” as one writer calls it. Tditor- | {ial weather prophets, however, are | | disposed to take a cheerful view of the probable effects of Dr. Abbott's| discovery that “the sun is exerting| its warm qualities upon the earth to| an extent from 3 to 4 per cent less than fifteen months ago.” “Something seems to be the matter with the sun,” the Rochester Herald agrees, for “it is not furnishing as much heat as we are used to ex- pecting from it. and pretty nearly every one on this planet is disap- pointed, if not disgusted. with their luminary's behavior.” Dr. Abbott's| figures would seem to account forl this state of affairs, and for the early winter and the very late spri 30 if you enjoy indulging pes tsm,” the Duluth Herald sugg that “you can speculate on what is going to happen to us all if the sun quits working for us. The Detroit Free Press feels, how- ever, that “it would seem to be a little too early to be alarmed. There have been other cold winters and late springs. They did not result in anything serious and Dr. Abbott’ figures do not appear to contain any proof that this vear is more porten- tous than other cold years have been * e e The wise thing to do is to pin one's faith to Old Sol. Since men began to make records he has al- ways come back and the chances are that he will come again.” For most people, the Springficld Unjon be- leves, “the principal thing about the sun is that it shines. The fact is sufficient. The scientists may tell us that it is growing colder. but few | 1 worry much about that. It has been In existence a long time and we do not expect to see it go out of business just vet.” Nevertheless, “the question arising in the lay mind” from this announced diminution in solar heat, according to the Watertown Standard, is “the effect of this change on weather,” but the paper notes that on this point “Dr. Abbott is silent. refusing to draw any deductions. He doesn't know what! will happen, but he wants all observers on the Job to see what does occu But, advises the Saginaw News-Courier, “don’t worry. A co gressional committee will probab investigate it." “But Old Sol's unscheduled hehav- lor is inspiration for the wildest speculation on the part of amateurs | pai | aire Thero is no suc! ashing the out of balance error must be ome of the tr modern ba the cd tra of needed and printin regretfully a some $100,600 w Now the story bonds mis out @ k see bureau A few days that in ago, announced had lone irch s¥stem of be bank red thousana 1a D Her found What we happen? happen to sokKeeping handlicg miilion Many thought of who go dows fear risk of special 0 the bur: after striking dent insura we are far saf modern ship than w. road train What a ¢ pressed ir If Am from t of peds” to rest with whom was comin oppose ¢ of court fc Now We wou Harvey Tt wou society hetwe Dawes vocabular: if not in Tt is rece Washington ¢ battleficld, but & hires me him. who like to rretended wisde con-Journal _finds rec Kening ¥ to happe vers mor less 19 horsemen, scatts struction intheir w the Ashury Park Press nouncement will upon by of new ‘end o the like i knowledge that it ha millions of vears fo of the heat of the « ceptible, and that ire sure to roll darkness in the vails” “And th Eests further comfort to the in the observation tiat “in scientist and soothsayer, tl are plowing as usual.” The prophesying inciden announcement is not coming scientists, the De points oit. for nor the weather bur have interested the tions are preparcd prediction.” To the Paterso suardian “it is gratifying to know that the weather hurciu officials ds cline to commit themselves, for (1 attitude indicates not merely 11 tion of the wise, but at leas measure of hope that the sun 1, consider, and after a while to give forth the usual amount heat as well as 1i Those of with_long memiori 0w that sun has lapsed in resular hal before today and late fun th all his accustomed in the matter of heat radia this reason it requires stretch of imagination sweltering July and August days ome that will make us wish th 01a Sol would hold up even i Tittl At any rate, “with the scientific hi Wigs differing among themselves,” th: Buffalo News suggests that thers isn’t much to do but “to await the s perience in more or less blissful i norance,” and although ' ers and summer amusement promo Akron p. une farne: v a 3 1 all who look forward to their v tions in the hope of good outing ther” may have “occasion to wor Mark “Twaln's eomplaint th ever does anything ahot weather apparently still holds But “even if a_cool summer come this vear” the Anniston Star predicts that “it doubtless would he followed by a very warm one next year,” for “it has been proved that heat’and moisture maintain their av erage,” and “there is no cause for alarm.” In “an ancient volume” thes Lexington Leader finds these “wist and reassuring words: ‘While the earth remaineth scediime vest, cold and heat, summe: ter, 'day and night. shall o That record,” the Leader is confident, “will stand.” nobody hes &