Evening Star Newspaper, May 15, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY... ..May 15, 1923 . THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company . Business Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsslvanla Ave. New York Office: i S Chiea European Otfice ‘The Evening Star, with the Sunday mornivg | edition, y carriers within the elty | at 5 8000, Collection is made end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, and Sund only Sunday onl; Daily and Daily only. Sunday only. mo., 60¢ mo., 2 Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press fv exclusively entitled to the ‘use for republication of all no [ateies and also th Al righ The Drug Evil. The drug cvil has played a prom- inent part in discussion by delegates to the thirty-cighth annual conference of state and provincial health authori- of North America in session at shington. Tt has been said that | there is one drug addict to ever: persons in the United States, as far as the number can be estimated “the traflic in narcotic drug: the United States to be the large consuming country, with an average | of thirty-six grains of opium per | capita, as contrasted with one grain in Italy, two in Germany, three in| ¥rance and three and one-half grains | folland.” This is a startling presentment. There is no doubt that it is startling to the great mass of home-keeping, church-going and law-abiding people of Washington. It is probable that they have but little understanding of the magnitude of the evil. They were familiar with the evil of drunkenness because that was an evil of a more public nature. The narcotic evil is more under ccer. The “dope fiend™ does not ofter make a public spectacle of himself, a¥ che drunkard did. Washington people have read of the | growth of the drug evil, but perhaps there was often the thought in their minds that the matter was exaggerat- | ed, and that the vice was confined to certain very low classes of people tn the closely populated cities. It seemed to them that the vice was very far from their homes, and that it could never come near them. The learned and experienced men in their meeting at Washington tell what may be assumed to be facts about this evil, and these facts are shocking. They prepare a plan of campaign for combating the vice, and their opin- fons and their decision should be fol- | lowed. Public opinion should be solid- 1y behind them. The committee on drug addlction considers it necessary that there be enacted state narcotic lawe to supplement the Harrison fed- eral antinarcotic law; that there be conpulsory and voluntary commit- ment of addicts; that there be facili- tles for treating addicts at all state hospitals and penal institutions; that smuggling be prevented as far as pos- sible by international agreement, and that the manufacture of heroin be pro- hibited. The case seems to be serious, and no pains should be spared toward’ bringing back addicts to health and self-respect and in taking all meas- ures possible that persons not addicted to the pernicious habit shall not con- tract it. —_————— Policewomen. | Among the numerous conventions | in Washington is that of policewomen representing forty cities in the United States. Tt may be that there are cities in the United States employing police- women and which are not represented in the convention, but that is not brought out in the news accounts. That there should be in Washington policewomen from forty cities is suf- ficient evidence of the growth of an idea which was entertained by a very small number of persons a few vears ago and was considered as a good deal of a joke by many. The manner in which a policewoman could be useful to the community was understood by @ certain class of advanced thinkers for a number of years before the -ex- periment could be tried, and it is prob- ably true that there are now large numbers of people who do not clearly understand the ways in which police- women may be and are valuable to a city. That the policewoman has made ‘headway in forty cities in this coun- try shows that there is vitality in the idea, and it is fair to assume that the policewomen are proving their worth 10 the communities they serve. ———— The New York sugar boycotters ‘have concentrated on Monday of each ‘week as a no.sugar day. A one-seventh reduction of the consumption will soon put a crimp in the high prices. ——————— Those Chinese bandits are conduct- ing negotiations over their captives with as much shrewdness as a regular government. A Safety Stop Proof. A train on the Long Island railroad | scheduled to stop at Central Islip dashed through that station at a rate of sixty miles an hour last night filled ‘with people on their way to New York to attend the theaters. The conductor, realizing that something was wrong, signaled the engineer and got no re- sponse. The train dashed on, passing & grade crossing at unslackened speed and without sounding the whistle. ’I‘hel conductor leaned out from a platform i lapse i near'y impossible as highly perfected | universal mati: train stop which the Interstate Com nerce Commission has ordered in- stalled, in part, on certain rail lines. This train ran for several miles out of conti ol. By a mercy it did not colllde with another train. It was only by shee. good fortune that the engineer's veeurred sufficlently far out of erminal to enable the conductor to check the traln before it crashed into an obstruction, which would doub'less have cost many lives. With the automatic control system insta led an accident due ta the col- of the engineer i# rendered as mectanism can make it. Much was said in the years of discussion that H preceded the decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission to install the automatic stop about the higher per- centage of mechanical error over that of human error. { mechanical system that will operate, as has been proved in practical tests covering long periods, successfully in virtually 100 per cent of cases, {8 more { dependable than the human judgment {or the human mechanism that may, as in this ment. The installation ordered by the In- state Commerce Commission s not or< complete. Under the order only certain specified roads to Install the automatic control, of some approved type, on at least one passenger train. Such an installation, of course, means the equipment of the line throughout. If those trains that are fitted for automatic stop work success?: nd there is no concetva- able reason to doubt—every train may. be so equipped with little delay and comparativ nall expenss . ———— Mussolini and Suffrage. Mussolini, premier of Italy, has been often called the man of the hour. But he is qualifying as the man of the ase, collapse at a critical mo- { hour yet to come. He seems to keep a jump ahead. His latest demonstration of progressiveness is related in a dis- patch from Rome which tells of his declaration at the opening session of the International Suffrage Alliance Congress that his government will ac- cord the vote to certain categories of women in Italy. Mrs, Carrie Chapman Catt, the president of the alliance, put the mat- ter up squarely to the premier in her speech opening the congre Ad- dressing him as “the most-talked-of man in the world today,” who stands for order, unity, patriotism, for bet- ter and higher civilization—the ideals of the wi attending the —she asked the g e ongress vernment of T 10 indorse their plea and program. Although much depends upon the ‘“categories” of women whom Mus- solini has in mind to franchise, yet great gain is made for the cause of ‘woman suffrage by any recognition of women as citizens in that country. Heretofore the women have taken but little part in Italian affairs openly, but during the war they were active in patriotic endeavors, in what in other lands came to be known as ‘“‘war and recently they have been growing more politically “conscious™ and organizing for enfranchisement. The holding of the international suf- frage congress at Rome was certain to evoke a demand. Mussolini is smart enough to get ahead of that demand. He meets it before it is formulated. It thus ceases to be an issue as far as he is concerned. This performance is characteristic of Mussolini. He was once a soclalist. The war taught him that socialism is a mistaken policy, that nationalism is the only sound basis for government. He changed from a socialist to ultra- nationalist. He found the government in a sad state of confusion and inde- cision, weakness and compromise with the forces of dissolution. He organized the fascisti and effected a bloodless complete revolution. He has put Italy on its feet. His present move for the d'visions and cemmissions are scat- tered around the eity in unsuiteble quarters for which high rent is paid. Government business-is being carried on under costly difficulty In sheds or temporary bulldings that always seem to be on the point of tumbling down. These bulldings are also in dunger night and day of being swept by fire, and the only things that stand be- tween them and this fate are goed luck and the good Washington fire de- partment. ‘The proposed bullding program should be pushed through the next Congress. But there are always so many pushers who are pushing mat- ters of private or special interest con- cern that pushing an adequate bulld- ing program may be difficult. It is be- lieved, however, that there will be enough common horss sense in Con. It s obvious that a|&ress to pass bills which will provide for proper bulldings at the Capital, Damned Either Way. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, prior to his departure, after his rest-up at Atlantic Clty, for New York, was offered the suggestion that he 18 soon to make the greatest decision of his career, signing on, vetoing the prohibi- tion enforcement repeal bill. Ho was quoted as roplying: “I don't know Ar€ | apout that, but I do know I will be damned If I do and damned if T don't.” Never was truer word spoken. If ho signs the bill the dry sentiment of his own state—and New York s not all wet—will feel that he has given the sharpest blow yet delivered at the spirit of the elghteenth amendment and the act of Congress carrying it into effect. The dry sentiment of the nation, which 1s belleved to be the pre- ponderant thought, will share in the regret and dismay which will follow the governor's action. If he vetoes the bill he will be open to accusation by those who voted for him of having “‘double-crossed” them, of violating his own pledge and re- pudiating the plank in the democratic platform which attracted to its and to his support thousands of voters who otherwise would not have indorsed the ticket nor the candidate. A veto, it is argued, would lend color to the charge made by his political opponents that the wet plank was designed as a vote- getter, good enough for the occasion, but not expected to be fulilled. The governor's dilemma illustrates the danger of using the wet question as a political issue. Once adopted, its proponents must carry through to the end: it cannot be flushed at the polls and dropped in the executive chamber. —_———— Chiet Plenty Coups of the Crow na- tion is coming to the rodeo planned for Shrine week. He did not survive the Custer massacre because, as has been stated, he was not in It; nevertheless he has had e mighty exciting life. If he survives Shrine week he ought to be entitled to add fourteen or fifteen new ermine tails to his regalia. —————————— The west is not to be left behind in any respect. Its climate is perfect ‘when perfection is the topic; when phenomena are under discussion it will produce any not beyond the bounds of possibility. A fullfledged waterspout on Lake Crescent in the Olympic range is the latest. . ——— Tales of piracy on rum row outside of the three-mile limit suggest that perhaps after all enforcement at sea will not be so difficult as it seemed at first. The traffic in liquor contains the elements for its own defeat. ———— “Alberta Lures Tourists With Camp- ing Facilities” runs a recent headline. The hussy! She is as pernicious as Fauna and Flora who, Mr. Dooley al- ways contended, were no better than they should be. ———— A Chicago society girl has closed her enfranchisement of the women is one | Smart shop in order to concentrate on of his wisest acts. ———— Now it is reported that the “poison typewriter,” on which the New Yorl society blackmailing letters were written, has been spirited out of the her studies for the operatic stage. There are some prima donnas who would be glad of an opening in busi- X | ness. ——— A tornado in Texas and a flood with jurisdiction. This makes the pursuit|fire accompaniment at Hot Springs, of the offenders difficult enough to en- | Ark., supply tragic notes to the news list all the sleuths of metropolitan | reports, even though this country is in journalism. —_——————————— The old adage, “Don’t monkey with the buzzsaw,” has been given a nau- tical adaptation in the slogan, “Keep away from the Leviathan.” Experts say that this monster, when in prog- ress, creates a suction that would make Scylla and Charybdis look like a couple of vacuum cleaners. —————— The Florida senate has voted against the use of the lash in prison camps. a state of profound peace. ——— ‘Washington will lose some pic- turesqueness with the doffing of naval uniforms. For the present there is a prospect, however, of much gayety in Shrine costumes. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Rainbow Myth. The margin is narrow, but sufficient {Oh, de blossoms was a-smilin’ an’ to save the state from a deep shame. ——— Public Buildings Falling Down. The government at Washington is a-bloomin’ in de spring. De birds dey all admired 'em so,. dey couldn’ help but sing. An’ de sun look down upon 'em an’ he says, “Dat sho’ is gay; in a bad way in the matter of build-| We gotter have a ribbon foh to tie up ings. There are not enough regular or permanent buildings to house the dat bouqttet.” working force, and much of the work | De raindrops got together an’ dey of the nation is being done in the ‘worked a little while; temporary buildings which are so ex-| Dey sorted out de colors in @ mos’ en- ceedingly temporary that they are fall- trancin’ style. . ing down or would fall down if repair | An’ dat is why you allus fin’s de rain- work were not constantly going on. tion’s business and is costly in more than one way. It seems that only by steady tinkering can the temporary buildings be kept on their feet or their legs or their slender supports. In a ‘bow and de flowers | This repair work interrupts the na-|A-comin’ 'long together wif de sun- shine an’ de showers. The “Fan.” Just now he doesn't care, Though nations rage; news story in The Star it was said: | He has no thoughts to spare The trouble with these temporary buildings is that they were built with- out foundations, and on piles, and such construction must be renewed For history’s page. Diplomacy’s shrewd art Moves not his soul— about every three years. It is being [ One passion has his heert urged by the Public Buildings Com- mission that it is very poor economy to spend thousands of dollars a year for putting in new underpinning when in three or four years the building would be unsafe for government work. Just now it is likely that more than 3,000 government employes working and saw the engineer's shoulder and the back of his head at the cab window. He threw on the emergency brakes and the train was brought to a halt. The fireman, at work on the other side of the cab, was thus apprised of an unwcnted situation, and making his way around found the engineer un- cons dous in his seat. He died within & fev minutes. | Héve is one of the best possible il- Justrations of the need of the m‘w on income taxes will be forced to quit wofk in large groups for five or six months while the temporary building ‘which houses them is having its un- derpinning renewed. If there is to be less government in business and more business in government-a good start can be made in providing adequate quarters for the government in Wash- ington. Various departments are-call- ing for help and have been doing so for years. There are overcrowded rooms and crowded corridors and bureaus; | In its control. Though thrones meet dire mischange, He would not turn His head and give a glance Their fate to learn; For vain ambitions he Cares not a pin— He only wants to see The home town win. Insect Examples. I's done observe dat busy bee Dey tells so much about, *Bout copyin’ his industry I sho'ly has a doubt. De butterfly’s de one dat knows De way to do de trick. He allus w'are his Sunday clo'es An’ never works a lichf) France - Disturbed by Exploration At Site of Ancient City of Carthage BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. France has. become seriously con- cerned by the {ndiscriminate explora= tlons by her citizens, but, above all, by allens, of the site of that once great metropolls. - of northern Africa which undet the name of Carthage rivaled in grandeur and importance the Eternal City of Rome under the palmiest days of the Caesars. All sorts of irresponsible partles and syndicates have been at work re- cently, and each discovery of arch- eological and other treasures which are brought to llght results In a fresh Influx of explorers, mostly from abroad, who carry on thelr excava- tlons in the most vandalistic manner without any system, and who carry off whatever they find, regardless of the fact that the site and, indeed, all | Tunls, forma part of the colonlal em- pire of France. Accardingly, a decree has been 1s sued from Parls to the effect that the explorations are henceforth to he re- stricted to those who have obtatned permits from the French resident general of Tunis, M. Luclen who is charged with the organiza tion of an elaborate servic spectors and police officlals, for the proteotion of all archeological treas- ures above and helow the soil on the site of Carthage and elrewhere in Tunls, preventing anything from he- ing taken out of the country withont duo authorization and puttin stop to every gort of excavatlon and ex- ploration that s being undertaken without government permission, which will only be very sparingly granted, especially whero forelgners are con- cerned. As there are several partles at work on the site of Uarthage, com- posed elther of Amerlcans or of non- descript foreigners financed by Amer- ican money, it {8 well to call atten- tion to this new departure of the French government, which has been riven to adopt these measures In self-defense against the ruthless manner, utterly regardless of French interests and authority, in which the foreign explorers have carried on Ireland, like Italy and Spain, has no law of divorce. Indeed, the word divoree does not figure in the code of any of these three countries, and un- til now, whenever Irish people have been bent upon securing a complete dissolution of their matrimonial bonds they have been obliged to go to the trouble, and above all to the heavy expen: of securing the pas: private ‘act of parliament minster legislating the se r marital ties. It was onl he rich Irish who could ever get divorce. v, howe: that Erin fegislative” autonomy, her national Jesis! has her has, in- own deed, Saint, | | for north of Ireland at_Belfast and the other for the Free State at bublin, the competence of the im- rial parllament at Westminster to private decrees of Irish divorce ased, and the great law officers of 3he British crown and of parll mest at Westminster have publiely in- | timated that no divorce bills from Ire- 1and ean any longer be recelved or con- sidéred by the Imperial parllument. remains to be seen how Ireland wilf deal with the problem which has thus arisen. It Is probable that in couzge of time the north of Ireland leglxlature at Belfast will enact lnws pro<iding for dlvorce by her courts ndiwithin_ her horders. Rt the Free State of Treland 1s #o largely Roman Catholic that it s idle to lmagine that its people will vote secular laws providing for dlvorces which are absolutely contrary te the t and strict rules of thelr 4 fact, any citizeng of the State of Ireland who desire free- from matrimontal bonds will be 1 In the futuve to transfer thelr tance to the Ktate of North Tre- 2 n order to win their marital emagclpation L the Earl of Northesk, who i 1% on board the Olympic this n New York In order to marry lea Brown, formerly of the Follies, s serfous In his matrimontal Intentlons may be gath- | ered from the fact that before leaving | Englgnd he resigned his commission | leutenant of the Coldstream * Reglment dwhrd VII fsaued and enforced a strict cule requiring any officer of the | & 4 to Tenlgn is nmission if e mufricd & lady connected either in | the past or in the present with the | Atage. . The various regiments of | guurds—that is to say. the Cold- stream. the Scots, the Grenadier and the Welsh Guards, and as well the | mounted Lite Guards and Horse | Guards —eight regiments in all, form the so-called Household Brigade, and |all of fts commissioned officers are rogarddl as forming part and parcel | of the Zoyal household. »w E£ince present or even past con- ] with the stage has always ded as a bar to form t the court of England, »f most of the continen it naturally follows that - no place among the wives of the royal household Conseqgently, whenever an officer of any of ithe guards' regiments weds a fo igkt favorite he is called upon to resign his position forthwith, just S5 1t he were one orithe sqlEcHlesion gentlerfien-in-waiting of the sover- | Th Arr presen and a i e ssions in the guards are high- mmissions are not lightly cast aside, and that Lord Northesk should have f adrift from the Col sailing America EDITORIAL DIGEST At Last! A Worth-While Long- Distance Record. “The year's craze for long-distance | records has at last produced a real one,” says the Binghamton Press, of the twenty-seven-hour transcontinen- tal flight of Lieuts. MacReady and Kelly of the Army in the T-2. Not only is it a real record, but it is a stupendous achievement as well, the press of the country declares, firing ‘the imagination and opening the way for actual accom- plishments in the fleld of commercial and military aviation. “It {8 more than a record,” the Al- bany News feels; it is “‘one more human triumph,” for, as the Boston Globe sa. “history was written in that flight.”” So far as mere record is concerned, that is unimportant to the Anniston Sta: “of course, the record later will be broken,” but the men who made it “‘cer- tainly have started something and are entitled to the glory of a great achieve- | ent.” As the Buffalo Times puts it, to do a seemingly ir possible thing first makes man conspicuous among his fellows.* In the triumph over the “seemingly impossible” and in the contrast to other transcontinental voyages lies the ro- mance of the great flight, as the press sees it. * ‘From the rock-bound coast of Maine to the sun-kissed sands of California,” has summed up all of Amer- ica from the oratorical point of View,” the New York Tribune reminds us. But now, the Sioux City Journal suggests, that doesn’t sound so far as it did, and | ¥Americans may wonder whether, after all, their country is as big as they thought it was.” Even Jules Verne's fantastic visions are becoming ‘‘tame stuff,” the Fremont (Neb.) Tribune as- serts, for while “he foresaw the auto- mobiie, the submarine and the dirigible balloon, even he would have hesitated t write of two human beings who would eat their lunch in New York city one day and in San Diego, Calif., the next.” Across the North American con- tinent “from lunch to lunch—all the acientific phraseology that could be used by technicians,” the Kansas City Jour- nal is sure, “could not possible conve: %o the average person a more convinc- ing conception of the feat of the T-2."" 1t is indeed “‘a long way,” the Wheeling Register notes, “from the old stage coaches and prairie schooners which used to roll westward for months before reaching the Pacifio coast, to a coast- ast trip by airplane in a single Thus “one by one we wipe out the remaining stunts,” and the Philadel- hia ‘Public Ledger is confident that one of these days a flving man will be hanging on the shoulder of the westering sun and marching with it across the continent toward sun- down. One of these days we will swoop over the poles. On another day we will be making the long, long for, | hop a The N prophecy that time ss the Pacific. And then £ York Post takes up the from there. Probably by “it will be the most ordi- even boresome occurrence v Yorker to climb into an et an appointment the n Francisco, perhaps | taking: his place beside an English- man Who has flown from London the day before. FronZ the romance and the imagin- |ation gf the story, “the admliring minds furn to the combination that hed it, that combination of muchinery in which there failure for an instant” and the New:York Herald sees in the pe |formancé” “a lasting tribute to the noplage and its Liberty engine.” | “Nelther metal nor mechanism nor oil faile©” the Tllinois State Journal points oud, and “without the mechan- |ical fnitiztive, to which all tribute is to be gisen. the St. Louis Globe- Democrat adds, “no exercise of navi- | kation skil d resourcefulness could have m. But, insists the Dayton even in'a perfect flying ma- i airman lacking the qualities |of MacReady and Kelly would not { have omplished what these men | accomplished, and the credit for the | remarkable. adventure is due to the | two men” ho braved it. It is a test, | the Baltimgre Sun says, “which few fiyers can nieet.” It is the test which ail pioneers must meet, the Minneap- | olis” Journal holds, for “a flight of | this kind Seems like plaving hide- |and-seek with failure and death.” But “while the achievement of the T-2 is looked upon as a sporting event by the public generally, cording to the Tacoma Ledger, | was not thelidea of the air service of |the Army. ® Whether or not planes could be rushed across the continent without loss of time and prepared for action upon arrival is what the service endeavored to ascertain.” The Boston Traveller agrees that the ef- | fort “was ended primarily to ad- vance the art of defense, Mobile Register says, it has revealed “the possibilities of the airplane for | use in national dfense, for transport- ing soldiers, .supplies and other vital | necessities m coast to coast in an | emergency. | Moreover, as the Pueblo Star Jour- | nal sees it. the feat of the T-2 “brings | Into prominence the possibility of the |airplane as & means of travel.” and, the Arkansas:Democrat contends, “has |paved the way for commercial flying between the foasts.” Also, continues the Brooklyn Eagle, “it gives |richest and n:ost definite promise we |have had yetzof a very great reduc- tion in the time of the mail service, * * When:New York business men | can receive fetters mailed the day before in San Francisco or Seattle as we now rereive letters from Chi- | cago, the stimulus to business will be | enormous. The telephone company may vet withdaw its favorite adver. tisément, ‘Den’t write, use \phone'. e e Miss Gwynn’s Loss Felt. Had Given Forty Years of Life to Aid Sufferers Here. To the Editor of The Star: The death of Miss Mary Gwynn, for more than forty years a resident of ‘Washington, leaves a vacancy in its soclal life and charitable activities that must long remain unfilled, and brings deep and lasting sorrow to a wide circle of devoted friends and hundreds of sufferers whose lives have been brightened and health es- tablished by her loving ministrations and unwearying care. = In 1904 Miss Gwynne ‘Joined the board of the Diet Kitchen Soclety, for aged and indigent invalids, of which she soon became president. Later, impressed by the belief ghat there was even a more crying need to provide for the care and develop- ment of undernourished babes, whose lives of potential usefulness and happiness were all before them, she founded and became the head of the Infant Welfare Association. Dur- ing all the years from that time until now, when she has laid it down, she carried on the steadily growing work with such ,wisdom, such unfailing tact and unflagging seal that what she has wrought has grown to pro- portions of. bepeficence .and . usef: ness rarely attdined by any one in‘a lifetime. Her helpful work ‘for "hu- manity was not confined to one in- terest. She was an active and highly estesmasd member of the board of the My Mother. The:symbol of truth. Gentle- ness fulfilled; Patience adorned. Strength renewed. Compassion given. Charity explained. Thought illurained. Faith up- lifted. Lové inexpressible. Strife unknown. Distrust si- lenced. The helplessness of evil. Forgiveness ‘unending. The music of the spheres. The soul of poetry. Tke depth of en- durance. The hgight of achieve- ment. The fragvance of the past. The radlance of, the future. The tears for the: universe. glorified. triumphant. My hope beyond the stars, MARY MOORE MISCHLER, (Copyright, 1923.) Associated Charitles and of the board of St. Elizabeth's Insane Asylum, by appointment of the President. iss Gwynn's sucoess in her work was largely due not only to her de- yotion and trained:capacity, but as well to the compelling charm of- her personality. Her wholesome woman- liness, her cultivatéd taste and ap- preciation of the beautiful, her wide information and intérest in publicaf- fairs, her unfelgnedly’kindly, symp: thetic nature, and resady responsiv ness, joined to a kesn and unfailing source of humor, mgde her an ideal companion’ and a uiversal favorite in social life. Any éne privileged to call her friend knows what true, un- selfish, undylnz rgump means. = HOPKINS. this remarkable voyage: NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE GLORY OF THF, PHARAOHS. Arthur Welgall. Q. P: Putnal Sons: Arthur Welgail, Egyptologist, is one thing. 'The famillar type of arche- ologlist Is quite another. The major- ity of this particular order of savant have gone dead along with the mum- mles of old pharachs. Welgall, In happy eontrast, has, Instead, brought the mummies to life agaln. The one sets out from the graveyard and ends with the museum—a dead march from start to finish. The other evokes from the tombs of old Fgypt the #pirit and saver of the anclent Fgyp- tian life itself. And this effect of vital essence I8 no accident. Rather does it spring from & definite theory worked out laboriously Into practice. The historian’s work, according to Mr. Weligall, falls into two distinct Ilnes, each unlike the other in pur- pose and, therefore, different in thelr modes of development. The first in- volves a completa mastery of the ma- terials of history for the period under consideration. The wsecond ro-creates that period in Its body and spirit. The firat calls into use the full equip- ment and technique of modern inves- tgation up to ita Intest word, Hero history ia sclence, to be treated in the imperaonal and exhaustive search for truth that stamps all acientific re- search. This done, the mecond line of work follows, the creative line. Here history is drama. Its agent Is imagi- nation and the gift of forgetting— forgetting the years that He in be- tween the historlan and the period which he reeks to project in its own intergrity. Such, roughly, 18 Mr. Wel gall's theory, and auch, in this study, is his practice. *oxoa o We are for the time being in Egypt with Mr. Weigall at the opened tomb which proved, finally, to be the tomb of Ahknaton, king of Egypt four or five thousand years agone. And, by the way, Ahknaton turns out to have been the father-in-law of the imme- diately popular Tutankhaman, who is at the moment providing new fash- fons in headgear for beauteous houris of the modern movie. A trifing item—and now we are back at the tomb of Ahknaton. Standing within. the tomb looks to us much like a house, better like a room, from which the family has been absent for A weason. It proves to have been the long season of forty hundred years—a little more, a trifie less, maybe *hairs, two or three, are set about in rderly arrangement; over there a chest of drawers; flowers faded but not crumbled; on a low table, cakes dried but not broken, covered with a glaze like that used by our confection- rs; a censer holding the ash of incense buriied 5,000 years ago. The walls are warm time not dimmed. The s of the king’s life is recorded on these walls. In the midst, the splendid sarcophagus protecting the king himself. + Days go by in making photographs of each object as it stands, for posi- tion, éven, may have an {lluminating part in this elaborate ritual of death that seeks to project so much of life out into the unknown of the long future. ~ Pictures are supplemented by a full body of explanatory notes on every object and on every aspect of the plac been done may any object in the tomb be displaced or otherwise disturbed. The body of the king takes on un- kingly intimacies of observation. The storied walls_are deciphered. And this is what Mr. Weigall designates a8 mastering the materials of history. 1t is the task of the pure scientist. * % x X His work done, the scientist now makes way for the creative artist. We recall Mr. Weigall's contention that to deliver over any period in the truth and power of its dramatic content it is essential for the his- torfan to slough off the years that lie in between him and that period. To burden a simpler era with the complexities of a later one is to distort that era, to belie it—a clear act of bad faith and blunt conscience on the part of any historian. There- fore the gift of forgetting is a vital part of his power. Mr. Weigall pos- sesses that gift. Therefore, he steps back Into old Egypt actively con- scious, creatively consclous, of only those ' things that the world had achieved up to that time. To be sure, he adds to this knowledge those body hungers and soul hungers that have been the single common pos- session of man since he began to be man. These provide the in- terpreting centers from which he reaches out in complete certainty for the life of that time. And from these broken tombs he gathers the bodies and hearts and minds of the old rulers of Egypt. In their own setting of time “and place he reanimates old religions and philosophies. From these relics he restages the old state craft, and traces the rise and fall of kings to their sources and out again to their consequences. And from them he draws innumerable pic- tures of the life of the family, of the influence of more than one wom- an reckonable from this important point or that. From these, too. he re-creates the elaborate ceremonial of the life of the courts—religious, political, or merely recreative cere- monial. ' Throughout, the high art of a trained and simplified imagination is applied here in an amazing realism of effect. * ok ok ok Mr. Weigall is to all intents and purposes a desert man. He has lived off the desert—eaten and drunk and slept it. It has been his chief medium of productivity, not only as archeol- ogist and historian, but as novelist besides. Naturally he has a deep feel- Ing for it, a feeling that is supported by intimate knowledge. These are the reasons why he is able to pro- duce a book as vital as this one is. And by way of it one is able to enter, actively so to speak, into that old life so vividly set out here. Early impressions are hard to correct. Later education has to work over- time to rub out some of these first mistakes. With the majority of us the anclent Egyptian has never suc- ceeded in being quite human. Those old pictures of rectangular, trussed- up, wooden humans, looking off into an immeasurable nothingness, have pretty nearly been our undoing in this respect. It takes work like Mr. Welgall's to make the Egyptian of those anclent days really human. It turns out, under this knowing man" disclosures, that the Egyptian was altogether human, a joyous man who, in the main, took life as the good God designs man to take it—with ease and courage and enjoyment and fullness of days, and tranquil exit. He ate and drank and made merry, and did not spend his life in stolid contemplation of nothingne: And all this Mr. Weigall brings to us out of the relics of old tombs, from mummies which, he, himself, ad- mits to be the deadest of all dead things. However, under knowledge and art they have come to life here. There is here a warm and live and lovely ~chapter on these ancient Egyptians who danced and sang and made merry, who loved and hated and loved some more, like the rest of the world. And here is a little verse, fallen from lips that are now un- sightly parchment, a verse that might have been made yesterday: “The ‘breath of thy nostrils alone Is l.{llat which maketh my heart to ve; 1 found t{me: o God grant thes to me Forsver and ever” and bright with colors that ! Not till all this has | ! declares most emphatically that there CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. It had been proposed by Secretary Mellon, and tentatively agreed to by the cablinet, that taxes on the higher classes of Incomes should be reduced | at the next session of Congress. This would probabisy not affect the mod- erate incomes, although it is now in- timated that the party leaders were cautious as to the program of the radical progressives, in ease the tax question be opened. Senator Reed Smoot, the next chair- man of the Benate finance committee, will be no reduction of taxes; it is time, he says, to consider raising funds to pay the soldiers’ adjusted compensation, “for,’ he ndds, “as sure as God Hves and the sun mses in the | morning, there will he a bonus law passed by the next Congress.’ Me| seems to think that taxes on mil- lienalre incomes can wait. * X ¥ ¥ It is only about a century and & half since Franklin brought lightning down a kite string and proved it to be electricity and that it could be harnessed and made a servant of man. E. M. Herr, president of the West- inghouse Eleotrie Company, says that all tho anthracite ooal in the world will be exhausted {n another century. How opportune—or, shall we not sa providential?—Is the discovery of the electric substitute for old-fashiened | fuel, Just before the coal disappears ‘We shall still have soft coal, hut | that is not a satisfactory substitute for anthracite. Within the coming century wireless electric waves will take the place of all other fuel. The Keokuk dam In the Misnissippl river supplios power equivalent to 6,000,000 tons of coal annually, through the fall of water, translated Into electrlc current. It Is transmitted now by wire cables but within the next generation not only the Keokuk falls, but Niagara, Muscle 8hoals and many other water- falls. and alao the waves of the ocean, or the trapped tides, as they flow back to the sea, will do the work of man. “White coal” ams it fs called n Europe, already is known to be| the world substitute for the carbon | stored deep In the earth so many centuries ago, and there can never be an exhausted *supply of Nature's “white coal’” The sun source will never go on strike * X % *x It is estimated that from 20,000 to 30,000 negrocs have migrated from each southern state to the north| within the last year. The reason | generally assigned is that they are| attracted by the high wages and bet- | ter living conditions in the north. The exodus has become a serlous problem in some southern localities, as it shortens the labor supply both on the farms and In the industries. Senator Dial of South Carolina has | taken up the matter with Secretary of Labor Davis and the labor com-| missioners, with a_view to seeking | some measures whereby FEuropean | immigrants may be induced to go south to take the places of the de- parting negroes. He looks with spe- clal favor on Italian immigrants, al- though he will endeavor also ,to in- terest the Scandinavians. * K k% Washington has acquired the habit of a seven-ringed circus. The Shrine will make it a show city, a great ed- THE WAYS {with their : COLLINS ucational, mammoth of all that is gra splendid, glorious Nothing that can be compared to ing, stupendons bmpressi camel park alone, during surpass Noah's ark. s @ tneomparably superior to. b lon's famous hanging karden that, with all the spectaculs dor of the arches hooth wonders, Pennsslvanin avengé defy the tongue or typewriter bf o tal man to depic 5 There will' be historic repr tions evers eentury, fr 8.C. the last day of and the pageants, which will paras before the astonished of millons of bystand conglomerario ite overwhe ness. Tunie, and ot 3 1o ves amazin dingly readistic and militude, fo true to celve and enchant the vers the elected —enlighten tellect and insplre 1) beyond the conception devoted “fan” Arvabian Nights. The erufiti the hest seholars of America hus o tributed to make this the pomp, the essence of ben perh culminatior very elect even the i ima ot of the ce of mpler cestagy of poetic dreats King Solomon and her mijesty Queen of Sheba, have ront thelr but her majesty 1 Cleopatra, and both Cac Antony whl arrive went is sending o mior ACTOSS tho wreat Ate Imperial rous cu an dese several mutomobhiles from ¥ will got free admisslon ANl ordinary ac suspend. Aismissed. couse to hambor Wil become hur The flowers w don en hues, th Epheres w trees and publi schools weather bur. thie the stars wil er, in xlor with rainhows, and » filled With sunbursts, the unsophiscated imaginative might £ and accu 14 facts, 1 Ly not been told et o The expected we gave the ba first thing George W overst the: has happene is to prove not only e en G that he doted “allfance” was day before he arrived, at Mount Vernon, letter to his that: “You mu well cleaned, : fires in all the room air_them.” Then he fu staircase is to be to make it look well, put the beds, tabl order, that - may and cleaned Does not t Perhaps it spring that vear, Polish! r out petty OF WASHI BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. ‘Washington ' scientists, measuring the heat of the sun, have found that for the past eighteen months or so we have received an average of three degrees less than normal. That accounts largely, they say, for the remarkable weather we have re- cently experienced. The difference | from normal of a single degree of | heat at this time of the year, ac- cording to Dr. Humphreys of the weather bureau, moves the frost line | about eighty miles. 1f the difference brings an excess of heat, the frost line moves north. It we receive a degree less than nor- mal, the frost line moves south. The variation in our sun-heat must be sustained, of course, for a period of time to be felt. It has been sustained for an unusually long period at pres- ent, hence the unseasonable cold. In other words, according to these findings, the frost lihe has moved down about 240 miles, and Washing- ton today is experiencing the climate that might normally be expected by the inhabitants of a city 240 mil to the north. The same condition presumably applies to all other cities north of the equator. But, speaking of weather, we haven't yet seen anything to com- pare with the weather that visited the world about 100 vears ago. Did you ever hear of the year with- out a summer? There was such a year in 1816. We do not have to rely on_the uncertain memory of old i habitants for the facts, either; they are recorded by reliable observer: living at the time, but now all dead. The record those observers made has come down to us in old hooks. One such volume, entitled “Peirce on the Weather, etc., published in 1847 in_Philadelphia, has been lent me by Herbert J. Browne, a Washing ton writer, who is one of the best informed amateur meteorologists the country. 1 have it before m here are some of the entries concern- ing that fateful vear of 1816 (“Eig teen Hundred and Freeze to Death it was called at the time), as recorded by Mr. Pelrce. “May, 1816. The medium tempera- ture of this month was 57, and she was really a frosty jade. Her frowns were many and her smiles few. Northerly winds with cold frosty nights prevailed until every green thing was either killed or withered. Buds and small fruit froze upon the trees, 3 “On some mornings there was ice from one-quarter to one-half inch thick in exposed situations. Corn was replanted two or three times and very little ever came to perfection.” Some month of May that was, and in no wise so sweet ahd balmy as this May of 1923, even though she brought a blizzard. But read on: “June, 1816. The medium tempera- ture of this month was only 64. There were not only severe frosts on several mornings, but on one morning there was said to be ice. Every green herb was killed. All kinds of fruit had been previously destroyed. “From six to ten inches of snow fell in various parts of Vermont: three inches in the interfor of New York and several inches in the inte- rior of New Hampshire and Maine. Oh, what is so rare- On the morning of July 5. 1816, this authority states, “there was ice as thick window glass in Pennsyl- vania, New York and throughout New Of that July we also are “There were not only heavy frosts, but ice, so that very few vegetables rfection. Indian corn was withered and the grass was so much killed by repeated frosts zing cat would scarce “The av { month w that measures up to August, 1816, « scribed by Mr. Peirce as follows “The medium month was only 66. “This poor month entered upen duties so perfectly chilled to unable to ra one w morning or cheerful sunny day. It commenced w n. and when it e phere was ice in many plac. It froze the in the milk tem as t rotted ¢ s moaved it dow 4 it for fodder. reen thing was dest untrybut . rope. Newspapers from England said ‘It will ever be remembered by the present generation that the vear 1815 was a vear in which there no summer!" “Indian corn raised in Pennsylvani in 1815 sold for seed to plant in t spring of 1817 for $4 per bushel many places.” Mr. Peirce's record has been dant supported by literature. Our own we knows about this vear w mer, although the bur then existent What caused the c 3 approaching a repetition? The cause, so far i figure, was two-fold . a ano, Tomboro, in the Malay pelago, had roared out with a t rific explosion in 1815, the preceding. That explosion, whic cidentally killed 56,000 blanketed the whole world . layer of volcanic dust through which the sun’s filtered, bereft of much heat, in sickly and puny disarr: The dust of that mighty uphea halfway around the world, lay heas fn our upper air the following yeur and shaded the globe partially from ther hout o owas arch That is one of the reasons &« The other is the sun-spots rather, the lack of sun-spots, f the year 1816 they had reach minitmum, perhaps, for more than century. According to the our sclentists there is direbt connec tion between the spots op the sus and the temperature on the It seems that many spots gause 1 heat and few spots, or nene of 1 size at all, cause shrinkage in th volume of heat receive from the sun. There is a definite cvele of spots. Minimum and maximum « cur at intervals of little more th eleven years. On every fifth cyc the minimum and maximum are tensified. That means bout every fifty-five and one-l a hotter hot nd that the cold v be expected also year intervals Just now are nearing the crisis of the fifty r cold cycle. Mr. Browne tells me it is due in 1326, as he figures it, or about three ycars hence. Without an obliging volcano to charge' the earth's upper air with dust between now and 1926, we prob-, ably shall be let out with only ' series of unusually cool summers and cold winters—that is, of course, if the theory works out and there no other relevant factors introduc unexpectedly. ° But If a Tomboro blows its he: oft between now and then—Ilook out ‘We may have another “year without ! obsepy: at fifty-five-