Evening Star Newspaper, May 16, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING: STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. . WASHINGTON, D..C. WEDNESDAY.....May 16, 1883 .Editor THEODORE W. NOYES. Soprelivpe- The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th 8t. and Peansyl a Ave. New \'ofl:mom 150 Nassa 50 u 8t. Chica, Tower Building. Buropean Offce: 16 Regent 8¢, Londob. England. The Evening Star, with the Suaday morniog edition, in delivered by carriers within the city ¢ month; daily oaly, 43 cents pér | 08 per month. sent by hone . Collection 1s° made by end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mzryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only. ~1yr., $6. mo., 50c Sunday only. .1yr., $2.40; 1 mo,, 20c All Other States. Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press i exclusively entitled to the ‘use for republication of ll news dis- atches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub. lished herein. All rights of publication of #pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. P ——— Germany May Appeal. Indications appear in dispatches from Berlin that Germany's response to the various notes of the powers will take the form of an appeal for an in- ternational economic commission to determine her obligations in that di- rection. This course has been hereto- fore suggested. It was, indeed, pro- posed by the United States as a satis- factory method of determining what Germiany could pay. France and Eng- land;, however, decline to put the mat- ter in the hands of a commission com- posed of Others than their own na- tionals, and the United States, having no direct interest in the matter, of course, dropped the question. But it is known that this is the procedure re- garded by this government as best cal- culated to elicit a workable basis of settlement. i Germany is, of course, playing for time and for international sympathy. But it does not follow that time will work 'to her advantage or that sym- pathy, if she can win it, will affect the policies of the interested governments. In the deadlock in the Ruhr the French have decidedly the better of the situation, however costly it may be to them. They have possession of one of the richest areas in industrial Germany. They have practically a grip upon the “pocket nerve.” They are, it is true, by maintaining this grip, lessening Germany's ability to pay. The situation is in a manner psychological rather than economic. Move by move the French are increas- ing. their hold. For example, French troops have, s a direct result of Ber- lin’s unacceptable reparations pro- posals of May 2, now formally reject- ed by all four powers, seized what is described as the backbone of the great German dye industry in the Rhine valley. This seizure is based upon a paragraph in the treaty of Versatlles. In January Berlin notified the allies that it was suspending all reparation deliveries to France and ‘Belgium be- cause of the Ruhr seizure. This in- cluded the non-delivery of dyestuffs as well as coke, coal, wood and other commodities. Seizure of the dye works | is undertaken in accordance. This latest move is a definite indica- tion that the French and Belgians are | not remitting In their policy of “direct | action.” An appeal by Germany for | an economic international commlssion} 1s fess'likely to be acceptable to those ! powers as time passes and as the area of seizure enlarges. For in the degree | that the German industries are taken | over as security for the reparatlona.] %0 to_speak, the more improbable an agreement by the parties in possession to‘refér the verdict to an interna- tional body. An appeal such as that indicated in the Berlin dispatches, therefore, would be little more than a gesture. Department Housing. Announcement was made at the ‘White House yesterday that a definite program of building by the govern- ment to house departmental activities | in this and other cities will be pro- posed to Congress at the next session ot Oongress. It was declared that in October or November the heads of de- partments will survey their respective flelds;, decide upon projects of most immediate necessity and recommenda- tions_ will be made for appropriations to earry them out. _At the cabinet meeting yesterday this program was the principal topic of discyssion. It was started by Sec- retary Mellon, who said that one of the government bureaus is now housed in e building whose foundations are faulty. It will.requjre $25.000 to make them safe, and it would cost nearly as-much to move to another building. The government has only $15,000 available, and will have to use “strong- arm’ methods to make the repairsand rely on, Congress to make up the de- ficlency. Then other members of the cabinet:came forward with thejr re. ®pectivé tales of woe about insufficient housing. : For years' The Star has advocated ‘batter and more buildings for the gov- ernment departments here on grounds of ecoribmy to the government, if for no other reasoh. From time to time there have been sporadic outbursts in Congress over the .question of the government having to rent so much space Instead of putting up its ‘own buildings. It 18 Yo be hoped that the good run- ning start made by the cabinet yes- terday In setting out upon a definite recommendation to Congress will not be all; ed to lag, and that each of- fotal will make it his business to push the ehterprise to a suceessful conclu- Those Chinesd bandits are beginning to find themselves in the predicament of the fhtrepid huntér who had caught » Bear by the tail. The Minimum Wage Law. BSoon after the Supreme Court of the United States rendered. its decision that the minimum wage law for wom- en in the District of ‘Columbia was un- conatitytional it was announced that there Would be: & meeting at Wash. ington: of: Tepresentatives of women's national assoclations to consider what might be 'done to protect women against wage cuts and to secure for them those rights which it was be- lieved they had under the wage law. Such & meeting is now in progress. The decision of the Supreme Court applied directly only to the minimum ‘wage law of the District of Columbia, but women’s wage laws of numerous states cannot be valid if that of the District is. unconstitutional, and the result is that the question has become & natiopet-one among wage-earning ‘women. Women will not be content to accept condlitions which prevailed be- fore the enact:nent of the wage laws. The Star said at the time of the Su. preme Court decision that if a wage law of similar terms to that declared unconstitutional could not be written within the Constitution the situation ‘would give a fillip to trade unionism among women, and that there would be wide discussion of amending the Constitution. The questions being dis- cussed at the Washington meeting give a fair idea of the way wage- women's thoughts are running. Three of these questions are: “Shall the Power of the Supreme Court be Re- stricted?” “Shall the Federal Consti- tution be Amended to Insure the Pro- tection of Soclal Legislation and the Rights of Labor?” and “Shall We At- tempt to Secure Modified Minimum Wage Laws There have been announcements of reduction in women's wages since the decision of the Supreme Court, but there seems to have been no general reduction in the pay of women. Wages for men and women are high in this booming time, and there seem to be more “‘positions™ than applicants for positions. At some time the tide will turn and wages will fall, and then, if not before, women's minimum wage laws will take a big place in public discussion and in politics. ——— Shrine Week Bootlegging. ‘The police promise to make things as difficult as possible for bootleggers during Shrine week. It is believed that there is already & marked increase in the operation of stills in the country near Washington and in mixing chem- ical “whisky” in the city. Prohibition officers and police are speeding up ac- cordingly. Lawless distillers and com- pounders and the distributors of the dangerous stuff look forward to the coming of a great crowd in Washing- ton as an opportunity to carry on their traffic in a larger way than usual. Processions of autos will be passing along all the roads near Wash- ington, and this condition will favor the operation of rum-runners. There will be many boats moving on the Potomac, and probably rum-runners will be among them. Crowds and congestion in Washing- ton, it is believed, will help bootleg- gers in distributing their stuff, much of which is poisonous, and probably all of which is decidedly unwholesome. Speeding up of efforts by law enforce- ment officers will be necessary. In this work they will be striving not | only to enforce obedience to law, but they will be working to protect the lives and health of the people. It is stated in the news columns of The Star that “thers will be no re- laxation of efforts on the part of the federal and city authorities to run down bootleggers during Shrine week, and Lieut. Davis, in charge of the local police dry enforcement squad, will ask for an increase in the number of workers should there be any dis- play of unusual activity on the part of bootleggers, and the federal force will also be increased.” It is said that the | sheriff of Arlington county, Va., has| undertaken to allow no liquor haul- ers to pass through that county on their way to Washington, and that the Virginia officers have learned that big stills are in operation in nearby counties. Sheriffs and their under- officers in all the counties in the ‘Washington territory should do the best they can in hunting out stills and in intercepting the liquor between the still and Washingean. The law officers have a difficult task before them, but it is believed that they will be able to protect the people of Washington and their guests from the flood of dangerous liquor Which. it { is probably planned to distribute in the District during Shrine week. Every man who values his health should re- fuse to touch the stuff. The District chemist has had many samples of local “whisky” under examination and has found them all bad, and some ; of them not whisky at all. Many of these samples no doubt represented liquor that was sold at $10 and $12 a quart as “legation stuff,” ‘‘pre-pro- hibition stuff,” liquor stolen from a | bonded warehouse and liquor brought in by smugglers from the Bahamas and other places. Analysis has shown that nearly all the stuff was either fresh from the still and high in fusel oil or that it was a mixture of alcohol, water and coloring and flavoring mat. ter. . ———— ‘The sea is slowly but surely eating away the coast of Great Britain. How- ever, the tight little lsle has been there & long time, and should last a good while yet. Also England has several other fairly roomy places where her population can go 'if worst | comes to wors —_———— Twenty-eight large sphinxes e being prepared for’ stréet installation i here during Shrine week. Is there not some way these could be retained | after the celebration and placed as gentls reminders in the House and Senate chambers up on the Hill* Teaching by Motion Pictures. Thonias A. Edison, as & witness at a Federal Trade Commission inquiry, has expressed the opinion that in twenty years children ‘will be taught through pictures and not through books. As a ploneér in the motion pic- ture dévelopment Mr. Edison has a right to express such an opinion. He is & firm beMever in the educational value of the “‘movie,” and, it now ap- pears, has made certain interesting ex- periments in education by photogra- phy that prove, at least to his satis- faction, that the screen is a better me- dium’ of instruction than the printed page. Some years ago, for example, he made some pictures dealing with the subject of chemistry, and showed them to twelve children, who .later wrote down what-they had learned from the screen. He then revised the film to make Clearer thosa parts that the children aid not understand, and reached a point of clearness of pre: entation at which ‘he finally got as high as from 80 to 95 per cent of un- derstanding by.the students. = Another experiment, however, dis- couraged the inventor. ‘He developed a number of fiims of an educational character and showed them to the members of the New York board of education, who, he says, “‘went back and did nothing.” Then, Mr. Edison testified, he saw he had bitter opposi- tion from book publishers, and he knew defeat of his plan was certain, 80 he gave it up. However clear and effective the mo- tion picture may be as an educational factor, it will probably never displace the text book. It may be true, as Mr. Edison says, that children “hate school ook but text will still remain nec- essary for certain studies and pur- poses. A combination of the motion picture and the text is likely to be the ideal method of imparting knowledge. Instruction is largely a matter of memory, and the memory of what the eye has n is apt to be less per- manent than the memory of what the mind has absorbed through what the mind has known as study. For some purposes a pictorial presentation is more effective than the printed word. But for detail, for formulas, for the linking together of facts and princi- ples, the text is essential. 1t is undeniably true that the best “schooling” s effected when the child does not realize he is learning, when his interest is aroused and he absorbs his knowledge or information in the guise of entertainment. Wise text hook writers, realizing this fact, seek to present their themes in an interesting manner, with a semblance of narra- tive. In the old days the “primer” was illustrated for this very purpose. The little mind was guided by the pictures. They were queer, crude wood cuts, but they burned themselves in the memory of the children, and today there are many who vividly recall those odd drawings of their ‘“readers” and “spellers.” Probably the most effective combina- tion for educational purposes will be a motion picture that illustrates the text of the books the children use, and books in turn illustrated by scenes from the films. —_————— The burst of applause' when Mr. Bal- four, at the Washington conference, announced that the British were will- ing and ready to give Weihaiwel back to China is still fresh in the minds of those who were present at that session. Recent news dispatches, however, some eighteen months there- after, indicate that, as Abe Potash would say, “It don't go 8o quick as all tha —_—— Local marathon dancers received their “prize money''in the form of a bad check from the promoters of the dance for their protracted stepping. This will call to mind a good many old adages and texts, including “The la- borer is worthy of his hire.” A few of these occurrences will do more to- ward checking this vicious craze than any amount of public opinion. ————— Only ninety-two inhabitants out of the entire alley population of the Dis- trict will be required to move June 1, after all, according to the latest ‘sur- vey. It reminds one of the old story which ends, ““Well, anyhow, there was our old cat and another one.” ————— Naval officers detailed to desk jobs in Washington shed their uniforms by official permissidn and go back to civilian clothing. This move puts .000 moth balls back into circulation. It is wondered if, in yvears to come, a common remark will not be: “Do you remember the rough spring of 19282" “Bonar Law Cabinet Faces New Crisit runs a headline. It must be refreshing to face a new one now and then. 2 Every friend of the firm of Potash & Perlmutter is pulling for Montague Glass to pull through. ' SHOOTING ‘STARS. BT PHILANDER JOHNSON. ‘The Motorist. When forth 'mid sylvan scenes goes A-speeding his machine. He looks ahead and never knows The beauties of the scene. If clear and sunny be the day He vows that he is glad— But more than this he will not say— He simply drives like mad. . 5 he And even when hé stops awhile. The green field spreading fair, The blossom with its winsome smile, Claim nothing of his care. The sights which other men might please z He turne not to admire. He has no mind for things like these— He has to mend a tire. Pty The Rain. When : summer skies are filled with gloom, PR And’ ¢louds their sorrows pour— Forth to the earth, thé flowers bloom More sweetly than before. . And so, amid our doubts and fears Some plan we may not'know Ordains the passing hour of tears, -, Then bids the smiles to grow. No'Tdle Ditty. De robin hab & purty way Of startin® up & tune; * De whipperwill ain't much to An’ sayp it-to de moon. ' De mockin' bird kin llnq 80 swWeet « You wish he'd sing again, But none of "em has got her beat— " Dat good old cacklin’ hen. I knows dat music mighty well; Dat's what I likes.to hear. It's nex’ do' to de dinner bell In sweetness to my ear. Dem yuthuh birds starts in foh To warble now an’ then; , ' ° But dat has serious meanin’ son, Dat cacklin' of de hen. fun, BY’ FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Cleveland's ambition to secure.the republican - national convention in 108 8 heen wrecked to a conaider- able extent by President Harding. In & spirit of sportmanship, he is op- posed to holding the party conclave in_his own. state, lest there might ‘be some justification for the suspicion that he would like to *pack” it with Ohio boosters. It is within the prov- ince of the national committee to send the convention wherever it pleases but knowledge of Mr.- Harding’s opposition to having it in his home state will b all-decisive. 12 Chicago -lives up to Its clvic motto ament the conven- tion and says “I will” Fred Upham, G. O. P. banker, stands ready to round up the réquisits national com- mjttes majority of 37 and bring the big show once n to the wind- swept city by the lake. % 2 ox Herbert Spencer Hadley, one-time Governor of Missouri, who conferred with President Harding this week, now fives in Colorado. Since 1917 he has been a professor. of law at the State University in Boulder. Reasons of health impel him to live amid the Rockies. Hadley, once the darling of the. Roosevelt progressives, is heart and soul with the President on the world court. -*“It is not only sound republican ~ party doctrine,” sald Hadley to this observer, “but it 1= sane m safe American partner- xhip in Tmternational affairs. Qurs is & party government. The republi- can party has been op record for world arbitration sinde time fm- memorial. In espousing it now Mr. Harding is on solid ground. for he is _vindicating the basic prineciple of political organization. viz., loyaty to declared party principle. ‘1 am not frightened by the specter of Inter- necine strife over the world court. Party harmony Is not fetish to me Party consistenecy, espectally whe: it interprets the heart and conscie of the country on a great moral sue, strikes me far more important. * % % % Maj. Frederick R. Burnham, who was the guest this week of John Hays Hammond, is one of the world's big “outdoor men,” who has had as romantic a career as any of Bret Harte's heroes ever lived. Burnham was prospecting in the Klondike in 1899, when the British were try- ing to beat the Boers in South Af- ri One of Lord Roberts' first or- ders was to commandeer the services of Burnham as chlef scout of the British army, for he already had achieved celebrity in Rhodesia in the Matabele wars. His most famous exploit ‘'was the capture of the Mata- bele “god.” Umlimo, whom he took and killed in the “god's” own cave. The British government showered re- wards upon Burnham after the South African war. While it was still in progress he was commanded to dine with Queen Victoria on the Isle of Lord Castle-Stewart Wife Soon to Visit in United States BY MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Castle-Stewart, who is sailing early next month by the Berengaria with his American wife and his boy to stay with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Solomon R. Guggenheim of the firm of Guggenheim Bros..of 120 Broadway. New York, is the seventeenth earl of his line .apd head.of the illustrious and historlc family of Stuart, which has‘furnished so many rulers to the Scotch and English thrones. Of course, there are plenty of per- sons who have a strain of royal Stu- art blood in their veins. Indeed, Thomas Carlyle calls attention to the fact that even Oliver Cromwell, who brought about the death of the Stuart king Charles 1 on the scaffold, was descended through 'his mother from the Stuart rulers of Scotland. Many of the pretensions put forwrd to descent in the male line from the Stuarts are ridiculous and impudent, any quite a number of them have been cxposed by that genealogical icono- clast, J. Horace Round. who some years ago was appointed by the crown to be adviser and counselor of the committee of privileges of the house of lords, which passes on the claims to peerages either dormant or in abeyance. 1 | l 1 | * % x % But there is no doubt ,whatsoever about the clalms of the present Lord Castle-Stewart and of his infant son, Viscount Stuart. They are both de- scended in the male line direct from Robert Stuart, son of Robert II of Scotland and brother of King Robert 1II. The second Duke of Albany was put to death by his nephew, James I of Scotland, after the latter's libera- tion from Hnglish captivity, and his dukedom was forfeited to the crown. But his heir in the male line direct regeived-first the title of Lord Avon- dale, then !hna of Lord Stuart” of Ochiltree, and finally those of Baron Castle-Stowart, Viscount Castle-Stew- art and Earl of Castle-Stewart, in the peerage. not of Scotland. but of Ireland. That is fo say, the acknowl- edged head of the great Scottish housé of Stuart has not a rood of land in Scotland. and no- place among those peers of the northern kingdom who, at each general election to parlia- ment, assemble in the rcyal Palace of Holy Rood. at Edinburgh, and elect the sixteen representatives of their drder In the house of lords at West- rt, indeed, has not of lords, and since Ireland has acquired her legislative autonomy it is very doubtful whether be any longer’ possesses any vote: in the election of what used to be the twenty-elght representative-peers of the Emerald Isle for the-upper cham- ber of the imperial legislature. * ok ok ok Ultra-legitimists agree ' that Lord Castle-Stewart has a better claim to the throne of Scotiand than ‘King George. For the male line of the descendants of King Robert III that. is to say, of the eldest son_of Robert 11, cafis -to an- e ont the death of James V. father of Mary, Queen of the Scots, and it is held that on his de- mise the descendants in the male line direct of King Robert III, ‘onnnr brother, the first Duke of 1bany, should have succeeded to the throne of Scotland, instéad of James| V's daughter Mary, at that time widowed Queen of Frande. King George is a Stuart only through the female line, that is. to say, through Mary Queen of the 8cots, and through her granddaughter Elisabeth, sister of the fll-fated King Charles I, and consort of the last King of Bohemia, Lord Castle-Stewart on the other hand can show a_direot male line de- acent trom King Robert II. Of course, King Gi holds the throne, of Great Britain, Scotiand and Freland, not so ‘much by virtue of descent, as by that act of pariiament, now over two centurfes old, And which 18 known as the act of settlement. There are two other peers of the realm that can show a lineal descent of the ‘male line direct from the house of Stuart, and who retain ita name as their patronymic. The:one is the seventeenth Scottish Earl of Moray. descended from & younger son instead of the elder. son” of the. first Duke of Albany. - And then thére I8 the eleventh Scottish -Earl of Galloway, whose descent from _th Stuar oz micdates thelr rogal GigmIty nd thel ession of the throne of tland. po Lord Castle-Stewart's succession to the ‘Wight, and later was-personally dec- rated for valor. by. King Edward. rnham 18- himself cowboy, scout, f\llk. miner and deputy sheriff. He s sixty-two years old, but spry. .as a man ot forty, has a profile-not un- 1ike Gen. Pershing and has remained a real American. ¢ * ¥ % ¥ . America is In grave danger of be- ing -overorganifed for -political :and spiritual uplift. The latest candidate for homors in the realm of public £004. 18 the “National Federation: of Uscle Baim's Voters.” One learns from its prospectus that Ira Nelson Mor- ris of Chicago, resigned from the ai lomatic: service, ‘aftery ten .years as minister to Sweden, to become pres dent of the federation, Samuel Adams; late president of the American Agri- cultural Editors’ Association, avows he rélinquished that post to become director:general of the federation. Its purpose Is to goad and cajale efti- sens into a more intensive Interest in nattonal welfare. Officés are in Wash- ton and an official organ is called Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes, as If his.troubles’ were not already sufficient, is now accused by his foes of growing a physiognomy reminiscent of John Bull. It is a crop of becoming sideburns, which adorn a well rounded countenance, that seem to glve point to the indictment. ‘The resemblance to Britain's allegori- cal national hero is heightened by Commissioner Haynes' — somewhat Falstafan dimensions. He I8’ young- er than most people think, being still on the sunny side of forty-two. * ok ok x ; If there's anybody charged. with the duty of broadcasting the ways of Washington to the universe, it's a timely hour to proclaim that the capital lives on eastern standard time. During this vast month of con- ventions and next month’s Shrine in- vasion, clock and watch know. a light saving. The Union station al- ready is the scene of much wailing and gnashing of teeth over miss- ed engagements between arriving strangers and would-be . welcoming residents because of the choronologi- cal chaos. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Docket, the lawyers' says Washington, D. C., has in pro- portion to its population more at- torneys than any state in the Union. There is one-to every 181 inhabitants. The Pacific coast is the barristers’ happiest hunting-ground. Nevada, land of knot-loosening, has a lawyer for every 337 people; California, for 507; Oregon, for ev ‘Washington state, for ever. (Copyright, 1923.) trade organ, and American family honors was due to the fact that his two elder brothers gave their lives for thelr country in_ the great war, throughout which he him- self merved, first as a subaltern of the Berkshire regiment, and then as major. commanding a machine. gun battery, winning the Military Cross. His principal country seat ix Stuart Hall, Stewartstown, County Tyrone. in which county he owns some 36,000 acres. o 5 *. k k% . They are not. however, productive and the late Earl found a largé.pen- sion, which. heé received-from the In: dtan government for services in the far east, a very welcome addition to his income, while the present peer, | who, up to the time of the outbreak of the great war, had merely the status and reiatively meager allow- ance of & younger son, was very glad 1o turn the knowledge which he had | imbibed at Charter house at Trinity College, Cambridge, and at the Unive sity of Paris, to a profitable account as one of the instructors of the famous | English_public schools of Rugby—the Rugby of “Tom Brown's Schooldays. * % % ¥ H The first of Lady Castle Stewart's| family to come to America was .\ifl)’ori Guggenheim, who arrived in the United States more than a century | ago from Langenau, in Switzerland, | and settled down in Philadelphia, | where he seems to have started on his wonderfully successful business career by means of his production of a stove polish. Then he turned his attention to mining. and_built the first smelter in Pueblo. Col. urging sons to follow him in the business. The venture was Ssuccessful, e from the very outset. and as far back as half & century ago an English | syndicate offered the sum of $15.000. 000 for the purchase of the Guggen- heim mining and smelting interests, an offer which was at once declined. * ok ok It is difficult to find any Irish peer who has been more useful to the Emerald Isle, totally irrespective of politics, than Lord Killanin, who_has been throughout his public life at the head of every good work, and who has given his services and intelli- gence, which are of a high order. to the furtherance of every projeet cal- culated to benefit his fellow country- men in an economic sense. Yet Va- lera’s followers have given another instance of their character by burn- ing down his country seat at Spiddal'j on the north shores of Galway bay. Son and helr of that lord chief jus- tice of Ireland, the late Lord Morris, who Wi 10 celebrated fdr his wit.and. descended from one of the ancient thirteen tribes of Galway. he has been the ploneer of the organjzation of Irish-American linés running between New York and Dublin and New York and Londonderry, Dending the reali- zation of his efforts to revive the an- clent glories of Galway as_the prin- oipal transatlantic .port of .Ireland, the distance betwaeen St. Johns, New- foundland and Galway, the .terminus. of the Midland Great Western road of Ireland, being 2,100 miles, as com- red with 3,000 miles.between New ork and Liverpool. : Columns could be written about Lord Killanin's energy -and useful| enterprise. There is no one who is written and spoken--more apprecia- tively about the United States than Lord Killanin. Having traveled ex- tensively in America, he has nothing but good to say of the people who live under the Stars and Stripes. “Simple and candld, without pretense or con- cealment, the American people, race o thelr own wide land, are free and essy in manner, speech and dress. There is no secrecy or hypoctisy about them.” In a Few Words. France is {n the position of a samall boy who is sitting on a big boy's chest and knows that he is in for a bad pummeling if he lets the big boy “? _SIR FREDERICK MAURICE. I don’'t mind.being called the Prince of Wales, but I do object to the use of the word “royalty”. ¥ —PRINCE OF WALES. Just as fevar is the result not the capse of sickness, so the war didn't create the chief evils from which Eu- rope is suffering. It merely unveiled ROM. . MAXMILIAN HARDEN. - ‘{rise in the prite of s 'Pfilit‘fi!::snat*_:l'é‘r.gié o W 0. MESSENGER. . .- President Harding 18 now busy over plans:for. his trip to. Alaska-and in- termediate stops for the delivery of apéeches, and is.taking couasel -with his advisers, voluntary and otherwise, as to.the subjects to dscussed. liticlans Are urging’ ‘the ‘world court, Wwhile he has exactly the opposite ad- vice-from othérs, inihis oMgiatl’ family. The republican national committes is .understood to be particularly so- licitous that he should mot discuss the international court of justice ta’ any extent, and the opinfon prevails] among. many of the committeemen. that he will not make it an issue, but will adhere to his position recently made known that he has submitted the plan'to the people and that it is now “up’to‘them.” e * oKk k Pity the woes of a poor governor who s “between the devil and the deep get"—to wit, Gov: Alfred E. Smith of New York. It {8 all about making his decision whether to sign or veto the bill recently passed by the. logislature of his state which would repeal the existing state aw for enforcement of ‘the Volstead act. The governor has been.at Atlantic City recreating since the adjournment of the legislature and last Monday started back to New York to hold series of conferences with his ad- vizers over the course he shall fol- low in approval or- disapproval of the repeal bill. Some one suggested to him that he would be making the most important decision of his-career; whereupon he replied, “I don't know about that, but I do know I'll be damned If T do and damned if T don't.” The governors return to New York earlier than he had expected was sald {to be a desire to conult with Boss Murphy of Tammany Hall, and get the last word from that hard-bolled politician before he proceeds to Al- bany to hold public hearings on the repeal bill. Two conflicting reports of the governors final Intention are urged with equal” vigor by their re- spective supporters. One group de- clares positively that the governor Intends to veto the bill. The other contends that at the last moment he will be swept oft: his feet by the ques- tion of the moral effect upon the state, and indeed upon the country, of signing the repeal act, and will not afix his signature. Thus far he has refrained from disclosing his in- tention in the premisés 80 as not to seem to prejudge the hearing. * ok ok X That public hearing promises to be an-epoch-making Goeasion. It will be attended by a. notable:array of coun. sel and laymien’ from -both the waef and dry camps, not only from New York, ut other statem. . President Samuel Gompers of the Fedération of Labor will be prominent in the wet delegation. Former genator Joe Bailey of Texas is to be avaflable when needed. There is some talk of WHliam J. Bryan heading the drys. _ Politicians “in speculating upon Gov. Smith’s’ final action point out the embarrassments which surround him. = Personally, he':fjo known to favor repeal of.tfie ‘enforcement act. Politically, he is pjedged. to its re- peal through the platform of the party upen which. he ran. and by wRhich he undoubtedly received thou- sands of votes, republicans among them, which he would not have other- wige been given. To veto the act for which. he. and his_party stood would easily be construed as failing to take a hurdle up to which he had been riding since the last summer ang fall campaign and throughout the sésion of the [egislature. ~The repeal bill would be coneidered as good enough to .get votes on, but not desirable to be enacted On the other hand, is the undeniable pressure of public opinfon. both -state, and natfonal, urging him not to make the state wide open for violation of the law of Congress such as will in- evitably follow the abstention of.the atate goyernment from: staté enfogoe- ment oY {ie- federal ‘act..and plaemg upon the government a burden which iz cannat . carry. - Many of the GV- &ruori friends hava-told him that i# he vetoes the repeal bill he will be- come a national figure. At that, the majority opinion in New York is said to be that he will sign. * ok k% Those friendy of the governor who harbok the hope that he ma: becom a candidate for tife d&mocratic prés! dential. nomiwnation.in ‘1924 despité the objections which somé of the democratic_ politicians _apprehend would be.faised against him on re- ligious grounds have advised him that he might as well cash in all ex- pectations of being elected and quit the game at once if he signs the re- peal bill; that the majority sentiment of the country is dry. and that the state-wide violation of law in New York which they predict would fol- low the repeal 6f the act would con- stitute a “horrid example” that would hock the moral sense of the nation and preach a sermon on prohibition calculated to kill any presidential candidate running on a wet or non- enforcement ticket. All authorities in New York agree that the moment | repeal of the state enforcement act becomes effective -the “bridle will be off” in the empire state and that a saturnalia of illicit liquor selling will set In. Cabarets, restaurants and other dealers are described as already ving in_stocks in anticipation of a big rush, and geétting ready to empty the caches whe; " goods are atored. - 2 The democratic national committee professes to see stormy days ahead for the republicans in the attitude of the women toward the rising costs of living, which democratic speakers will lay to the republican tariff.law. Discussing the women’s sugar boy- cott, the democratic nattorial commit- tee in a Statement yesterday said: “There is a political as_well as an economic phase to the battle the women of the country begun against - their exploiters. They are ro longer merely housewives and stewards of the home. “They are also voters now and quite able and ready to take care of them- selves anH their interests. It is doubtful if a-boycott by housewives would have been very effective, but a “strike’ ‘of women Voters- who can give “or Withhold their ballots next year actording -as the republican ad- ministration grants or denles it co- operation is a ' wholly different matter.” * *x x % Discussing President Harding's forthcoming trip, the committee state- ments says that if the price of sugar remains at 101 cents a pound or goes higher the President will find thou- sands of women facing him with the question, “What are you going to do to stop this profiteering in sugar?” The committee asserts that “In this ar 8. epjto. mized oné- of the main lssues of the next e- Cumbe: It has brought home to the .women the vital importance of the republican adMinistration’s classic piece of economic legislation, and has raised a political question of the first magnitude.” The statement contends that “The tariff question is wrapped In_ every Package of sugar that that.is carried into an American home these days. And, unlike the years that are gone, the package falls into the hands of 2 voter as well as a housewife. From the lessons of Bugar American Wwom- en, it is belleved, will turn to the les- 20ns of wool, cotton, ailk, beef, uten: sils and all the oth commodities she Buys, and what she learns, it is thought, will* prove fatal to the re- | publican tariff act in 192¢." Republicans realize “th to: be edid on this poin to be dismayed and find a oftset. .They are going ahead on a different line'of argument, They be- lieve that the housewife-voter is not going to be so much impressed by the slight rise in price of dresses, utensils, beef and so forth, as she is with size of the pay anvelope which: “the old man” brings ‘homie and the sight of his having a steady job. That is what the republicans expect law to-4o for the famil! {-vancem, PO A BY PAUL V. COLLINS + Clvilization 1a 3 trial in Washing- ton this week, beginning today. Giv- ilization -is & condition of communi- th characterized by political and social organization and order, ad-| t -in' knowledge, fefinement and the arts, and progress in general: S . Has divilization made good in re- cent years and in 'all lands? The; world war was fought to preserve ‘clvilization. Ias it been.presefved, or is it retrograding? How far have ‘we gone In .advancing human order and_social organization? There :are 5,000 soclal ‘students in .| Washington now, maqny of whom have come from forelgn countries—from Europe, South America and Canada— for the purpose of checking up on the problems of civilization. It is one .of the most notable gatherings that have come to Washington in years,. and {ts activities will be re- flected over the wide world, in the betterment of conditions and ideals of miny natfons. Amongst the topics to be studied re public health, the big brother” and ‘“sister” movement, for helping the weaker members of society, in- dustrial _conditions, law and -ogder, schools and church influence, and the home. - The conference will open this even- ing at Poll's Theater, after which it will be -broken into group- confer- erices, 0 that thoss who aré spe- clally interested. in one or more topics may attend to their study with- out loss of time on other features. . Some of the most eminent sociolo- gists of the world will take part in the various group programs, and will algo address the general, meetings. Surely this is a.form of “interna- tionalism” to which no one can find objection. It makes for the better- ment_of living conditions through- out the world without touching upon political questions or national jeal- ousies. * % % Senator Sterling of South Dakota decldres that the United'States should assert its right of visit and search of vesssls upon the high seas a dis- tance of twelve miles from shoré in- stead’ of only thé present limit of’ three miles. This, he says, would not conflict with the principle on which the three-mile Iimit was originally based—the range of shore guns. To- day.coast gliard cannon have a range of thirty to thirty-five miles, and, on the familiar theory advanced by Sen- ator Sterling, there appears no spe- clal reason for putting the limit at twelve miles. The real principle appears to be that any country, like any individual, has the Tight of self-defense. What- ever measures are necessary to pro- tect a man from a highwayman's as- gault are justifiable. If pirates can hover ten Miles from shore and ‘defy the laws of the land, after the. goyr ernment has taken all reasonable measures of self-protection for that distance, who will gtop the govern- ment from declaring that -its sov. ereignty is menaced by piratesor en- emies of law, and frém taking other measures—whatever the exigencies require to effect self-defense? It is not a question of miles; it is a test of eftectiveness. * K ¥ ¥ “The so-called “three-mile limit” often extends out twenty or thirty miles from shore, for its demarcation does‘ not follow the meanderings of every little inlet of the coast. .It runs in straight lines drawn from point 'to -point of main. projections, often fifty miles apart. While “three miles” are accepted by-all nations as the gendral limit of their jurisdiction falong their coasts,-there is nothmg #%ered In"that limil.and if.a power ful nation like the United States were to announce that, in order to perfect self-defense, it would assume juris- diction as far as its coast guns would carry nothing would happen to put that assertion in question. . Nothing happened’ when we -announced the Monrge doctrine, except that: other nations reeogmized it,and kept away ffom interference. This is A case .where might makes right, and some sfatesmen declare that America has Dboth the might and the right to en- force her self-defense. * X ok x The British parllament has been amused recently by the introduction of a measyre which would bar from the ports of England any. ship:which did not carry intoxicants. ~Whether such a bill will pass or not rests with the statesmen of that country, in the Tight of- te 6hvlous' rétaléation on the Amerlcan prohibition. law, When ‘countries: begin' retaliatory ‘measures it is much~}ike neighbtrs building “spite fences,” and trouble i& sure to follow. Nobody can allege. that the eighteenth amendment or the Volstead law were .adopted--to . spite”™ Eng- 1and. but-it {s beyond quest{on. that it England adopts the proposed law barring. from her ports all vessels which.do not carry -bars:it will bs aimed “solely at retaliation against America. Where will such tactics lead to? F The well known international banker,” Frank A. Vanderlip,? com- plains that “no President was ever elected because of his knowledge of foreign affairs, and the same rdje ap plies to the Sehate.” i Updoubtedly-that is true. But does not Mr. Vanderlip overlook the fact that “krowledge of foreign affairs” is not to be compared in importande with knowledge of domestic needd -and ideals? In-the valuation of issues it is a well tecognized principle that perspective is what measures the im- porténce™of the event. Perspecti depends upon the station of the ol server, and the international bankers look from their foreign positions rather than from the station of the “100 per cent American.” Patriotism. like charity, begins at home. $iE i 2 Mr. Vanderlip proposes to compli- cate our form of government by tak- ing all diplomacy and foreign rela- tions out of the hands.of the Presi- dent and Senate—représenting the people—and . putting the responsi- bility into the hands.of & foreign re- lation commission, to be purposely selected because’ indifferent t6 the il of the people. They would have independent power for a termy of ten years or Iongef. Perhaps fioth- Ing could better illustrate the aloof- ‘ness of the International bankers” position from American domestic ideals and interests than that propo- sition. Our Constitition was adopted by the peopje. This is not a good year for an? ryational revolution of our for: govern¥ment, accord- ing to the yiew “100 per cent Am cans.” s K Kk ok Premier Poincare cabled to 3Miss Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia Franee's greetings for, Mothers' day. The spirit of love of mother is by no means confined to America. In the earliest.ntonths of America's participation in the war an American soldier boy waé agcidentally killed in one of the camps “somewhers in France” He was burfed in “uncon- secrated gréund” adjoining the Iocal cemetery. The next week another died of pneumonia, and when he, too, was carried to a grave heside the first it was noted that some one had been to the first grave, had smoothed its mound and heaped a little pile of stones upon it, that the stones might hold a bunch-of violets and a simple card: “Une Mere Francaise”—the ten- der touch of sympathy from a French mother for the mother-heart of a stranger away off in lowa. Somehow that message seems now to-be re-echoed by the words of the premier of France to the founder of hthe beautiful American custom of special horior to the American mot .6y - <ROL- an_. American veteran whase: heatt does pot-gé. out to- “the - -millions. of *“les meres Francaises'-bereft and mourning Pt L Washington is ever interested :in the advancement of architecture, for here is to be found miore of archi- tectural beauty than anywhere else in America. There is to be an exhibit of architectural plans in the Corco- ran Art Gallery this week during the fifty-sixth annual convention of the American Institute of Architects. The gold medal of the institute is to be given Henry Bacon, the architect of the Lincoln Memorial, recognized as one of the most beautiful and fit- ting structures of the kind in the world. (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Cullins.) - EDITORIAL DIGEST Wets and Drys Renew Fight When New York Acts. Despite the fact that the fate of the New York stafe repeal of its liquor enforcement law rests in the hands of Gov. “Al" Smith, who can either sign or veto the bill which passed the legislature in its closing hours, editors generally have as- sumed it is to become law.. They dis- cuss it frankly from the wet and dry viewpoint, an@ partisanship for the] most part tempers the argument. ‘The Indianapolis News sees “a dis- solved partnership,” so far as the national and_state governments are concerped, and . “officially, of course, the state is now wet. It is still to be shown that the people will sustain the legislature in its action. Neutral- ity in New ¥ork on this subject is from now on impossible. In part ‘the Syracuse Herald echoes this view, explaining it has held the state en- forcement act should have beén amended to eliminate oppressive fea- tures,. but suggesting ‘it thing for, (he4 state recommend as it ha oyt deation ralizing -: modi! federal act, but it is quite another legs deféeniible’ thing to deny the federal government state co-opera- tion in the work of enforcement. For that reason we would like to see Gov. Smith veto this bill."” There s possibility, as the Fort Worth | ‘elegram es it, that “the net efftect might well be the crea- tion of a condition of practical warfare between the people of New York ‘and" the federal government. That a national fight over the .que tion s impending there can be little doudt. Far from getting prohibition out of our politics by adopting the eighteenth amendment. it would seem that we have just begun. to.make it a national ‘Taku: -5 R So far as the legal phase of the case is concerned, the state is “well within its rights,” the Roanoke World News points out, and it believes the only remedy is “a campaign of educa- tion .ot all of the voters to the advan- tages. of prohibition. The “revolt in New York” will increase rather than diminish, the Chicago Tribune is con- vinced, because the ‘“original and basic error was the imposition of a national police law upon the states. It prohibition Is justifiable the con- sl e8> and’ good judgment of the states could have bsen relied upon to adopt it in good time. - There w: no justification for the interposition f nationsl. authority” But, because th‘ New York legislature fatified the amendment, the Pittsburgh Sun holds “it is disgraceful that it" should show hostility to a policy for which New York was ss much responsible any other state.” Dealing with the purely political aspect, the Newark News, agreelng it will earten those most virulently opposed to Volsteadism,” points out “to assume that it will be a power- ful influence toward committing the democratic party nationally against prohibtion is not to take account of 0 1§ of - the. sl solld “south,” dry “long™ before e esighteenth amendment, and by fits own_volition.” It is possible, how- 1ol .0f the Pit ing state dry laws not only to put a stop to divided responsibility, but also because they fear the present situation is making us a nation of hypocrites.” Repeal will “make for official sincerity and reduce the chances of police corruption,” says the New York Tribune. and “it is a matter for New York voters to say how far they shall spend their money and ure their state instrumentalitfes to carry out the Volstead law.” the view of the Albany Knickerbocker 1 Press that the governor should vetn | the blll because “responsible citizens. even many so-called wets, do mot wish New York to place itself in a position of nullification in regard to A federal enactment.” The “double Jeopardization " was com- pelling i the Hartford Courant , in view of the su- ipreme court decision “which showed that punishment for the violation of a state prohibition law did not pre- vent the trial of a violator in the federal court, and the -idea that a person may be placed twice in Jeopardy for the same offense is ah- solutely contrary to our idea of Justice.” : y “It must be remembered,” accord- ing to the Providence. Tribune, “that there are forty-eight states and that New York 8 only one. The Volstead law: 18 still in.force and still stands as a-law highér than any state legis: lation.” . This . likewise 'is the view -entertadned -by .the Petersburg Prog- réss and Index Appeal which holds the.action “is.signifieant only as re- vealing the attitude of a majority of the. yoters of the state.” and it sug- Kests in otherr states a -referendum would show a different result. Should the. gaveinor. sign the bill the Rich- mond News-Leader is convinced “New York will revert to the wide open policy that prevailed” prior to the passage of the Mullan-Gage law. Tha- police, of course, 'wilt remain sworn to support . the Constitution, of which thé “elghteenth amendnment is a part; but practioally they will Jeave the enforcement of prohibition in the hands of federal inspectors and agents.” far as the New York Post is concerned it feels the gover- nor's hearing will demonstrate that the people oppose repeal and “by tha time the hearimg 'is over, unless we are mreatly mistaken, the sentiment forlaw-enforcement will have mani- itself so unmistakably that the Mullan-Gage law will have to be Téft on the sfatue books” ,LAgreeing w‘lltr:lhr;urgr of the criticisms of the oxisting law, the Springfield Union holds “if it has been a failure or Worse its repeal seems to leave the situstion in “New Yark far worss than it wQuld.kave been had it not Dbeéen -enacted. - It is a demonstration that federal prohibition can not be ved by concurrent legislation in ates where there is not sufficient, public sentiment behind it.”” The New York World appeals to' the governor to “sign the repeal be~ cause the state is under neither legal nor moral obligations to en~ force the Volstead law for the United States government.” The Baltimore Sun takes a similar position because, ew_York hes. X __w%lcome lead | to & nation be ng justly irritateat by the excesses of a foreign and ' | domestic policy into which our in- toldzant., prglmpgeiuuun,umnl