Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1923, Page 6

g THE EVENING STAR, - With Sunday M:mlnz Edlthn.. - WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.... ..May 17. 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Everling Star Newspaper Company Office, 11th 8¢. and Pennsyivania Ave e Yok Offce: 150 Narsan St. Building. Kuropean Offce: 16 Regeat &t., Loudon, England. ening Star, with the Sundsy morning edivion."ts deifvered by carrisre within the ety At 60 cents per month; daily only, 43 cents po month; Sunday oaly, 20 cents per month: Or- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5000 Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday Daily only. Sunday only. All Other States. Daily and Sunda: , $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only.. $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only $3.00; 1 mo., 25e Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the ‘use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwige credited in this paper and also the local mews pub- lished herein. Al rights of publication of ial dispatches herein are also reserved. The Way to Peace. At a time when all the world is longing for an assurance of peace which is lacking, it will be worth the while of statesmen in other lands to halt their maneuverings long enoeugh to read the speech made last night by Secretary Hughes before the National Conference of Social Workers. He gives a simple formula by which war and the danger of war may be ban- ished from the earth; but he does not advance it as any new discovery. Confucius set it forth negatively in the dawn of civilization when he said: “What I do not wish men to do to me, 1 also wish not to do'to them"; and 1wo thousand years ago Jesus of Naz- areth translated it positively in the Golden Rule: “Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do Ve even so to them." By the precept of the Golden Rule, and not by any agencies of force, Sec- retary Hughes believes, can peace be had and made secure, and withodt any impropriety or lack of national modesty he showed what America has achieved in the way of banishing in- justice and suspicion from the inter- course of nations. For more than a hundred vears the long boundary be- tween Canada and the United States | has stood unguarded, a condition made possible because neither country thinks the other has any wish but for friendship and fair dealing. What is possible on oiir northern boundary is possible on every boundary in the world whenever the nations reach a state of hanesty in their own inten- tions and confidence in the intentions of their neighbors. To those who will say this is an dream and beyond the realm things. it ought to be only to direct attention to the Washington conference on the limitation of armaments. the Pacific—war between the United States and Japan—was felt by ‘many conservative statesmen to be unavoid- ...Editor | ¢ | than war ‘nzz. A year ago the resources in |labor and material were taxed to the utmost. Today they qvertaxed. That is to say, there is en actual | shortage, with the consequence of I high prices. in all lines. One direct ivesult is a bidding, or auction, proc- ss that has proved demoralizing. A ; moratorium, in effect, is now sought | to bring about restoration of stability. The present rush of new construc- jtion work is an endeavor to catch up with the arrears caused by the | war, when building works for other purposes were postponed. There was then a shortage of material and of labor. Capital, furthermore, was required by the government to finance its military campaign. It was not until the beginning of 1920 that building enterprise was revived, and this present “boom" has prevailed for a little more than three years, on a vising scale. An enormous sum of money has been expended. Employ- ment has been given to a vast army of workmen and this has greatly aided in lowering the.percentage of idleness. iIn the building trades now there is not only no unemployment, but there is an actual shortage of labor, and the high prices are due in large part fo that fact. A suspension for four months would perhaps effect in some measure an approach to balanced conditions, but would leave an arrears, to be supplied in later works. To the extent, how- ever, that speculative building enters into the present program its suspen- sion would be wholesome. It must always be remembered that construc- jtion undertaken in time of abnor- mally high prices represents invest. ment that must carn proportionate returns in the future, or cause hea losses. A million-dollar building erect- ed now calls for a million dollar build- ing’s return hereafter. Harding’s Warning to Smith. President Harding, in logic that cannot be controverted, has pointed out to Gov. Smith the danger of sign- ing the bill repealing the law of the state of New York by which the state authorities undertake to enforce the Volstead act. Replying to a letter from a citizen urging that in case the governor signs the bill the President should convene Congress and that body should distipline the legislature and state officials for treason, in that they fail to support the Constitution lof the United States, the President { points out the consequences which will come from the repeal of the en- forcement act. Of course, the disci- pline suggestion s untenable, for there is no constitutional warrant for such action. The danger which President Hard- ing apprehends from repeal of the enforcement act, thereby placing en- tire responsibility upon the federal government for carrying out the { eighteenth amendment and the act of Congress, is a possible serious con- flict between state and federal au- says the Presi- dent, “that if, by reason of the re- fusal of any state to discharge its federal government is compelled to enter upon the territory and juris- diction of the state and to set up able, because of misunderstandings | those police and judicial authorities and suspicion as to motives. At the!ywhich would be required, the most Washington conference misunder- standings were removed, motives were explained and. cleared up, and the re- sultant four-power pact removed that menace from the world. Not only the statesmen of the world but unofficial people can find profit in Mr. Hughes' philosophy. Often, he said, the “intriguing diplomats” are prevented frem doing the fair and friendly thing by the nationalistic sen- timents of their people, and the same people complain at the same time that their diplomats are unable to assure them the peace for which they clamor. If the French people, for instance, willed to do unto the Germans only such things as they would that the Germans would do unto them, and the Germans were equally imbued with the spirit of the Golden Rule, how quickly the difficulties over repara- tions and other post-war problems ‘would melt away! ° The telephone company plans & new special “‘Shrine” separate phone sys- tem, equal to that serving e town of 100,000. It expects local calls to jump up to 600,000 per day. Yes, you guessed it—citizens of Washington are asked tolimit their calls during Shrine A Building Moratorium. Recently, 8s a consequence of ab- normally high prices for labor and material, large building projects in New York city, and to a less degre: elsewhere, have been'suspended. In New York alone new construction in- volving an expenditure of hetween sizty and seventy millions has been cheecked in the hope of a betterment of conditions in the near future. In part, the trouble is due in that city to strikes on the part 'of building trades, some of them unauthorized by the major unions and others with Zull authority. Yésterday a meeting was' held ‘in New York of the board of governors of the American Construction’ Coun- cil, at which represengatives of all branches of the building industry agreed that present conditions merk a crisis, and the board voted to urge a nation-widé postponement until next fall of all projected building work not yet started. 5 This proposdl is based upon the be- lef that the present building prograny cannet be carried out with the avail- able resources, even if no further in- crease in construction occurs. Ae one means of checking the building “‘boom” now in progress, it Was recom- mended that the benking interests curtail the financing of speculative building; also that wide publicity be given to the increasing trend of ‘con- strugtion, cost; that government and state ' construction . departments be urged to delay their work as much as possible until ‘September or Octo- ber,, and that the co-opération of newspapers and trade publications be sought to-keep the public informed of monthly increases in construetion costs, i Thus far this year the volume of construction work projected in the Urifted States exceeds by '40.per cent the volume for the same period during difficult and trying situations ;would inevitably arise. More or less conflict between state and federal authorities would seem unavoidable in such cir- cumstances. The impression would be created that the federal govern- ment was assuming to interfere with the functions of the states and the distressing results that would ensue readily suggest themselves.” President Harding quotes Lincoln, who said that the Union could not exist half slave and half free. This apt parallel is made stronger by the fact that when the words were ut- tered there was no constitutional amendment prohibiting slavery. eighteenth amendment is predicated upon concurrence by the states in en- forcement, in fact and in spirit, along with the federal government. fact is attested by the prompt enact- laws. the states in support of the Constitu- tion is a most serious evasion of re- sponsibility. Politiclans will see in the Presi- dent's letter & loophole for Gov. Smith to escape the responsibiilty of his promises to the wets. He can set up the plea that repeal of the act is in fact e case of falling to support the Constitution and that he and all state authorities are sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States. —— sort of neighbor and we like power- fully to hear such neighborly and sympathetic talks as Gov. Trinkle save at the Washington Chamber of Commerce meeting Tuesday night. —————— ‘Will it not be rather lonesome for the 800 guests invited to go on the special trial trip of the Leviathan to Guantanamo? —ee—————— Mr. G. Harvey of London, England, is visiting friends at 1600 Pennsyl- vania avenue northwest. ‘Washington is said to have a lawyer for every 181 inhabitants. And a ‘bootlegger for every 81. Musical Washington. . Greater Washington is pieking up in a musical way, and at some time it may be recognized es the musical eenter of. America and the world. Perhaps it is the music center of the new world already, but Boston, New York, Chi- cago and a few other ambitious towns might challenge that claim if it were made for Washington riow. Butin a musical way. Weshington is coming on. Msny things indicate it. Wash. ington’s third musioal week is to open soon, and ‘it 'is ‘said of this festival that “it is of nation-wide importance because all official Washington, head- ed by the President and Mrs. Hard- iug, will share in its celebration.” The director of the Community Music As. sociation says that “never before has there been such a whole-hearted re- sponse as the musicians of Washing- ton have given in their volunteer of fers to be a part of this celebration.’ Twenty-one concerts are listed for the community centers, and throughout the week there will be ‘concerts in The | ‘This | ment by the states of enforcement| Deliberate default by one of | - i The Old Dominion i a right good THE _EVENING . STAR.. WASHINGTON, D.. 'puh"c auditoriums, clubs, hotels, sfu- dios, churches, settlement houses, hos- pitals, orphan asylums and. various other institutions. KEight thousend children will sing together at the base ball park. Community singing has grown in popularity in Washington end is growing. Nothing quite like this was known in the older Washington. A community song leader steps on the jstage of @ theater between acts and says “No. 13 on page 11,”” waves his hand and everybody sings, or tries to do s0. A list of those musicians called “artists” who come to Washington year, will surprise most per- sons by its length. There also are the free concerts at Central High School. There is, furthermore, the grand opera house and grand opera praject. Music is nothing new to Washing- ton, but it is having music on a bigger scale than formerly. Time was when famous singers and players came to Carusi's and the old National, and later to Marini's Hall, Willard Hall and Lincoln Hall. Many years ago Washington aitended the Marine Band concerts at the White House and the Capitol. A great many per- sons still attend these concerts, but once upon a time nearly all Washing- ton turned out to them. Winter and summer opera came to us. The sum- mer opera seasons in the '80s at Al- baugh's are still fresh and happy in the memqry of our senior citizens. About that time thes Universalist Church and the Congregational Church became the principal places for concerts, and then came Metzerott Music Hall. ‘We have always had a large num- ber of charming singers and players “in our midst,”” and in the Washing- ton of other times were excellent ama- teur music organizations. But if one reads the musical news today the im- pression is strong that we have trav- eled a long way in a few years toward becoming a great music city. —————— The Alley Closing Law. The alley closing problem, which long disturbed the District authori- ties, philanthropic societies and pub- licspirited men and women in gen- eral, may be considered solved. No great number of poor persons are to be evicted on June 1 to prow! about the city in séarch of humble sheiter, to camp in parks or be teken care of by the District government or chari- table folk of the town. Under the cor- poration counsel's construction of the law of Congress compelling the aban- donment of dwellings in alleys it is held that 265 alleys, in which live ap- proximately 9,000 people, are exempt from the operation of the law, and that only nine little alleys or “courts,” in which less than 100 people live, fall within the terms of the law. ‘The names ‘of some of these allevs recall the Washington of long ago, some of them being Car Stable alley and Cooper Shop alley, in George- town; Daggs lane, in Hillsdale, and Crab Tree alley, in Northwest Wash- ington, near the Capitol grounds. has been foyund to save thousands of | people from eviction at this time. The ! situation looked threatening for a long time, and, although it was known that not all the inhabited alleys would come within the proscription of the law, it was generally understood that most of the city alleys would be closed as places of habitation. It was not until the interpretation was put upon the law by the corporation counsel and a survey of all the alleys had been made by the secretary of the condemnation board that the real sit- uation was discovered. Nearly all the alleys complied with at least one of the terms of the law. The names of Crab Tree, Car Stable and Cooper i tonians many local place names once familiar, but now seldom heard, such fleld, the Slashes, Swampoodle, Tincup alley, Louse alley, Willow Tree court and a hundred others. | ————————— ! An Alabama boy leads the authori- ties to a private gravevard, contain- kept by his father, & moonshiner re- forces. can probably beat this record, al- though they do. not know exactly where the bodies are. : ————— “New York city council raps Vol stead act,” states a headline. This act can stand more knocking than some on the four-a-day vaudeville circuit. e gt dad railway. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNEON. A Darwinian Suspicion. I like when riding in the car To see the stout conductor man bar And lift himself across the span. I like to clutch the strap and cling— I've learned to do it now with ease— When round some sudden curve we swing, It's most as good as a trapeze. And that is why I often think Some able-bodied chimpanzee, Related to the missing link, Ie capering in my family tree. On the Edge. On the edge o' summertime, Peekin’ through the palin’, ‘When the honeysuckles climb Cautious o'er the railin’; ‘When the robin swells his chest An’ with “voice so merry Starts to do his level best, Singin’ fur a cherry. Sunshine coaxes you to pause.’ - Days is growin’ lazy; Dandelion laughin’ "caus He allus beats the dalsy: Bee a-mumblin’ "bout his plan Fur to own' the clover— Hurry, Mister Weather Man-— Kindly boost me over. Not Enough. ' I wouldn't be a millionaire, Not even if I could; 1t takes @ billion now. at least, To do you any good, Shop alleys recall to elder “’nahh\g-. as Foggy Bottom, Hells Bottom, Blood- { centty killed in a clash with dry; Those who peddled his stuff | { there, Speaking of rallroad receiverships, | the British now have the Berlin-Bag-! {in this respect, {part of King Edward's reign, Stretchr forth his arms to grasp the; l WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Bir Auckland Geddes, the British ambassador, has notified the lieuten- ant governor of British Columbia that President Harding will spend a day in its capital, Victoria, If at all possible. Bver since the President's Alaskan plans were first mooted the Canadian northwest has been anxious to greet him. The Canadian Club at Vancouver, British Columbia’s great port, craves @ visit from Mr. Harding. too., and has put in an urgent bid for it. En route to or {rom Alaska, the Presi- dent hopes to find it feasible to touch Canadlan soil. Seattla is only a stone's throw from Victoria, and they have much in common. There's a precedent for Mr. Harding to follow. President Taft once stepped across the Rio Grande to shake hands with the President of Mexico. * ok ¥ % Albert D. Lasker won't be out of a Jjob long after quitting the chairman- ship of the United States Shipping Board next month. Fred W. Upham, treasurer of the republican national committee, has offered him imme- diate employment on the board of di- rectors of the Consumers'' Company ‘of Chicago, of which Upham is president. Tie corporatioh is a big @lvidend payer. It sells Chicago coal in winter and ice in summer. There's a vacant directorship, and as Upham doesn't want to see even a millionaire unem- ployed, in view of 1924, he decided to give Lasker work without delay. ST The American Legion affords one of the finest examples extant of re- ligious tolerance and non-sectarian- ism. The ritual for ceremonial oc- casions now in use was drawn up by a Presbyterian clergyman, & Roman Catholic priest and a Jewish rabbi— respectively, the Rev. Eliot Porter of Cincinnati; Father Willlam P. O'Con- nor, national chaplain of the legion, and Rabbi Lee J. Levinger of il- mington, Del. All three were Ameri- can expeditionary force chaplains in France. * %k % Wayne B. Wheeler seems to have received a promotion. Hitherto he has ranked merely as general coun- sel and legislative superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League. The other day the New York branch of the league, in appealing to Gov. “Al" Smith for a hearing on the prohibi- tion enforcement repeal in that state, recommended that Wheeler be per- mitted to file a brief. He was describ. ed as “the recognized legislative er of the federated church forces of the nation.” * ok ok X Gorgeous 'z.vmuon- have been nt out byrthe Lee Highway As- soclation to 'the ceremonial dedica- tion of the Zero Milestone Monu- ment in the “President's PVark"” (White Lot) on the afterncon of June 4. Fellow losts ‘of the highway association aje the imperial poten- tate of thef Ancient Arabic Order of the Mystid Shrine:; Almas .Temple; the Americary Automobile Assocfation and the Natigpnal Automobile Chamber of Commerce> The zero milestone, an :g“'hl chun% of embellish- with & brenze tablet north side of the Ellipse, just across from the Walte House grounds. R Viscount Eshii, the Japanege diplo- | Well to consider what are the great books or so. mat who concluded the recently an- nulled’ Lansing-Ishil agreement with our government, has made some re-|capital city and which. are worth|miles up the mountain side In burro- | markable 'statements ‘about it at Tokte. Home on leave from Paris, where he is Japanese ambassador. Ishli declargd " that the" “spirit” thes agreemdnt ' will” continue to ex-|coln Memorial,” standing In ochaste |« 1st, despite fts formal abrogatipn. So lonr as Jaban maintains \her pre- dom__ant pesition in Manchuria and Mongolia conditions would remain unaitered. Japan's ‘‘preferential rights’ in those regions, Ishil waid, were per- fectly sec , in a geegraphical sense, even though ‘the agréement with the United Stateq is no more. * ok ok x The Naticnal Woman's about to lsunch a new magazine which shall be woman's very from cover tq cover. It is to be call- ed "Equal RMgnts” and espouse in tengively the cause of that unquali- fied equality qf the sexes before the law which Allos Paul, Mrs. O. H. P, Belmont and ather *Pauline siste advocate. The Woman's Party s that none of he existing periodicals for women wuite fills the bill, Dbecause all are man-edited, man-pub- lished and man-dominated. - No such deleterious feathres will be tolerated in “Equal Rigats,” which is to be womanish in the n-th degree. * ¥ ¥ ¥ Col. Theodord Roosevelt went up to Albany the Hther day to attend a meeting of a trock-ribbed republi- can organization which calls itself the “Unconditional Club.” Members are pledged to %. O. P. fealty, no matter what betides. At present the Unconditionals aré in the midst of a first-class row &mong themselvas, but the bond of party loyalty, “Teddy Jr” says, will preserve them from anything more disastrous than elg- quent recriminatioas. (Copyrig Party is 19: Countess of Suffolk, Former D. C. Girl, Loved by British Neighbors BY MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Some confusion has been created by describing in the cable dispatches from London the former Daisy Leiter of Washington as “Lady Margaret Hyde,” instead of as the Countess of Suffolk and of Berkshire, in an- nouncing the fact that she had joined ! her sister, Mrs, Colin Campbell, now A war in! proper duty in such connection, the| Washington is thankful that a way |at California, and her brother-in-law, the Marquis of Curzom, British sec- retary of state for forelgn. affairs, in proceedings against her brother on charges of mismanagemsnt of the| large cstate of the late Leyt Z. Lelter. As Daisy Leiter, Lady Suffolk was one of the most popular beautles of Washington, and it way while stay- ing In India as the 8t of he ter Mary and the ters husband, Lord Curzon, that she wag wou won by the iate Earl of Suffol a member of the vice re . Their marriage took place at Wash- ington in 1904, since which .time -the countess has but rarely visited the: During the first;riages of the ladi in t land of her birth. few years of her married life in Lo don she had the fling of several s sons in London. But after a time both she and her husband became somewhat tired of the somewhat mo- notonous round of gayeties and en- tertainments with so little variation | from onme another and withdrew to their beautiful old country place, Chailton Park, near Malmesbury, in Wiltshire. B I For a time after his marriage Lord Suffolk, who had shone while out in jIndia as an amateur actor, organized | a troupe of amateur players known ! as “The Earl of Suffolk’'s Theatrical i Company,” and they traveles \bout ing nine victims who knew too much, | Lo ranY: > lad o the United Kingdom, giving perform- ances here and there to charity. There were no professionals in the troupe,; and on one occasion, when the com- pany gave “The Country Girl" at Cirencester, even the orchestrs, with Lady Muriel Coventrv in the chair as conductor, consisted exclusively of i""d"‘%"i; mostly lad ulndxdlnl’ ord Suffolk's sisters, o5 and Lady Catherine Howard ~°" As a rule American women who wed foreigners and make their home abroad find it difficult to acoustom themselves to country house life and ‘crave the excitement of travel or of residence in the big -cities, in the rush and strees of society. Lady Suffolk has presented a striking con- tract to most of her countrywomen For, since the latter he has made her home almost entirely at Chariton, devoting' herself to the various interests in connection with the Charlton Park estate, and becom- ing an “important, popular and- influ- ential member of county. soolety, which. is far more exclysive than that of the metropolis. ‘When the great war broke out, Lord Suffolk was among the-fifst to respond to the call to arms and served first with the infantry at the front in France, and was afterward poated as a major of fleld artllleiy in Egypt, where he-&ave his.life for his coun. try in ‘the fghting on .the western frontiey: His widow thszeupon . be- came mgqre than ever attached to home at Charlton .Park aad to -the care of her-two boys the eldegt one, the fifteen-year-old: Cecll,- now twen- tleth Ear]. of Suffolk and thirteenth 1 of Berkshire. and her fourteen- year-old gon, the Hon. Greville How- ard, who met with an accident & yeéar ago through the accidental discharge of his gun, which shattered his foot #0 badly as to necessitate the ampu- tation of the leg. ‘The patronymic of the Earls of 8uf- folk.and of Berkshire {s Howard, and Northeliffe’s Unrest In the Spirig Land; {cliffe would consider it was worth & Lord Northeliffe is evidently not very happy In the spirit world If we give credence to the interview which 8ir Arthur Conan Doyle claims to have had with the dead Northeliffe. 8ir Arthur claims that Northcliffe came and chatted for twenty minutes the other day. It was such an informal affair that not evén & medium was employed. thaz'n Northeliffe was avive he own- ed & mighty nlln{ of newsp: ‘! 8. Now he isunable to do so much as write a check, to say nothing of his inability to tell his editors what is the mater with hi aper; Sir Arthur, however, told the world that Lord Northcliffe is not at all pleased with the way in which his pre is being run. We recall that 'when Northcliffe's widow married iican mother, and: first Earl of Suffolk. 1 the first Earl of Sufiolk of this How- ard line was a distinguished naval officer of the reign of Queen Eliza-} beth (a younger ror: of that fourth Duke of Norfolk wHp was beheaded In the Tower of London) and received hia earldom from King James T for his vigilance in the qiscovery of the Afferward he be- ® lord high admiral of E: a His second son, Thomas Howard, greatly distinguished Eimself as mas- ter of the horse to King Charles , and was created by hins Earl of Berk- shire, the two titles becaming suhse- auently merged through .the ‘ghcces- slon of the fourth Ear: of Berkshire as eleventh Earl of Sufrolk. Charlton Park, the ancestral home of young lnrdd&m'ol'k And Lis Amer- ates from the elo: years of the reign of flesn'cE.lnl‘l: beth, having been built by Sir Henry Knevet, father of Lade Rich, wha married, as her second ‘husband, the' Fhe Charlton Park housewarming, of which a full feoord Is still preserved. took place in 1803 The immense hal’. now pars uetted, formerly had a sione-flaggeq oor, for the conveniencejof the cars Hages %olden timgs lh!;hhl A N e picture gallery is i the longest room in any yrivate est: dence Tn England. Andestral por- traits cover the walls.” SoAne of them ate from the reign of Edward VI, when Zucchero was in Enxland. That of Queen Ellzabeth was presented by herself to her lord high adiral. Lord Thomas Howard, afterwarg first Earl of Suffolk. The oil phinting of James I was also a royal gift to that peer. and is more truehful than flattering. For one can gimost *see that the king’s tongue roiled in his mauth when he talked. Fhe face is not Scotch, but Piedmomtese, thus serving to’ recall n and eight could Henry IV of Franc of David Rizsio, 'the favoRite Ial) minatrel of Mary. Queen oy Scots. In: eing t! 1Y husband. Lord Darniey. " V5 °F her * x % x 3 Several of the paintings st Charlton Park were the property’ of King James 1I, and among. his ‘most pre- clous possessions. When fie found him- If compelled to fiy fron;. England e committed them to ‘the care of Col. Graham, who had mArried the Earl of Berkshire's daughter, and who placed them for safo-kesping. at Charlton, When William I{I came to the throne he refused to have any- thing to do with them, and there they have remained to this day, at Charl- ton. They include some very fine Van Dycks and also an cxmglll. Van Der Veld, which, along with a Guldo and five other equally valusble paint- ings, were stolen from the fwo draw- ing rooms in which they hung, by & dismissed servant Long Sought for in vain, they were recovered many years later in a rather romantic man- ner and restored to their places. e more Swdern portion’ of Charl- was added in 1773’ by 1 Suffolk who was secretary of ‘state during the Amer- ican war of independence and- th: andfather of the present peer was amous throughout the racing werl 83 8 toward of the Jockdy Club f‘,? pedia of Sport, - . The extent of which thé Jdoweq Lady Buffolk has endearedihergelf 't the people of her home counyy—that s, Wiltshire—is best shown E the fact that the childless head of Hne of the old county families, who Jied a few months ago, was' found; to have. named her sole executrix 5f his will —a will which, subject t> the life interest of his aged wife, deft every- thing to be spent in thé improve- ment of the estates of the young Earl of Suffolk and Berkshirs. again his papers made no !,Mntlon of the fact. Sir Arthur doed not say whether Northcliffe was pecved about that. But we have an {dea that North. line or two in his papers-as-an jiape that would interest .hls reagers. ‘The departed publisher was sorry he not have his checkbosk along, he would have given Couan Doyle tantial amount to further the of spiritualism, 8o Coflan Doyl says, No doubt Conan Doyl ry, too. It would be intere what. bankers would sa. check, could it.have be e ‘They could hardly send i Northeliffe. How terrible it thust be to want to give a check to. forward & cat like spiritualism and then for irit to learp he 'can ccount! The spiriy place of agony, i quoted Lord North. written. back < to the depa m not check on hi world must be 8ir_Arthur h cliffe correctly. Bir Arthur es us ;-lth-r want to r ade ] B own, { wrn round 'l Lnen. should cause men to pause, to the wsertion off that the British Solomon was in relity a son | !:::lu\d and as editor of thz Encyclo-{" The North Window i' LEILA MECMLIN. “Excuse me,” sald & tourist to an old Washington resjdent, met by chance &outh:-of.'the. White House grounds, a@nd_pginting to the Wash- ington Mbnument, “will you tell me it that is.not Cleopatra’s Needle?" Belng disillusioned, her look of ex- citement vanished, and, with eyldent disappoimtment in her voice, she con- tinued: “J am 50 sorry; 1 have always wanted to see:Cleopatra’s Neeile.” Such is the hypnotic influence-that famous sights exert upon the tourist mind. It is this influence which, sum- mer after’’ summer, draws ;like a magnet thousands gf ‘Americans to Europe, .and {t is the same influence which likewise, is, drawifig: many to ‘Washington. Therefore it may be sights, the monumental works of art, which are worth seeing here in our traveling far to see. /o * o k¥ { First among ‘thess would vow be of I placed by common censent the Lin-|ihen they g beauty 'and monumentaldignity in Potomac Park on the -axis of the|Men out of the world, Monument and the Copitol.” Like all great art, this bullding is so almple in deslgn that it seems to the cawual observer as if {t could no6t have been other than it is; that it did not have to be designed; that it merely came into existence almost as a matter of course. Because of the extradorinary merit of this design, Henry Bacon, the architect, will tomorrow night be awarded the gold medal of American Institute of Architects, the highest award in the gift of the architects of this country; the high- est honor, save that of being chosen to design this monument, that could possibly come to any living American architect. Shortly after this superb building was completed, a Boston architect, standing among the foremost in his profession, commenting upen it, said that when he was married he took his bride to Greece to sit with her on the steps of- the Parthenon -in- the moonlight. “If that were today.” he said, “T would bring her to Washing- to sit with me on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, flooded by the light of the moon. I know of no other sight comparable with that in this country..or, in any country.” High praise, but well deserved. * ok x % And vet there are those who mur- mur persistently that it was absurd to memorialize Lincoln, a typical American, through the medium of a building classic in design; that to borrow from Greece is un-American. What do they want? ~Curlously enough, none ha; 1d. Such eriti- cism is never constfuctive; it nevsr takes into consideration the fact tha we Americans are the. inheritora of the nations, the children ot the old world, with a full tight to carry on their traditions. And what is really meant by those who clamor - for| things “typically American”? Is it the vernacular of .the #treet or the language of the drawing room? Is it, the clothes we wearior thecharacter istics of the people?: W& ave not de: scendants of the American.ndian for the most part; thes e, Whi paradé in war paint and-wampum? To be.typical Americans, must we invarlably saunter down the street whistitng “Yankes Doodle"? Lincoln Was great not because he once split rails.iPut because of the noble sim- plieity and superiority of his charac- ter’ and it Is this which is memo- rialized in the great architectural mornument designed by Henry Bacon, reared by the nation; a monument which should carry on its traditions, which through its beauty, its aloof- ponder, to reach up. * %k x x The early builders of the nation realized the influence of fine bulld- they were in their way artists as well as statesmen, and they recog-, nized architecture as one of the great arts, the art of the people. In a let-! ter_written by Jefferson from Pi infServe? its provisions’ on_the seas for | the selection of the desigm; '3 gested that, whoever might be" 'the | designer, he should take as his ex- ample such works as thoks:of: past | generations had agreed to admire, | Here. indeed, is given an excellent: mepsure of merit. Art, like other things, has its fads and those works which ny agreed to admire are all of super! tive quality. ot * * % x . Architecture less than any of th other arta has been influenced by the modernist movement, some one has sald, because buildings constructed in such wise would not stand up—a good reason, and fortunate; for, whereas, a | picture which is unpleasing may be hid from sight, a building which is| hideous so long as it remains is an | eye sore. To prevent such we have art commissions, but of the bur- den of responsibllity should not be put on them. Curiously enough, the public generally is less interested and less well informed on this subject than any other. About a picture or a work in- sculpture almost every one has an opinion, but works of architecture are accepted without question. The architect is never held responsible, and in most in- stances he is given neither credit nor blame. And yet design {in archi- tecture is not very different from | design in other flelds; the same basic | principles govern. E K E mete [the - Pittsburgh Gazette-Times accepts THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELW. All day long on Harqua Hals, two men look In the face of the sun. There ia not a tree on Harqua Hala. There is never a cloud above it ex- cept, perhapm. for two days in Jan- uary and one or two In July. From Harqua Hala, the world is; reached only by a system of strong- | light algnals to a water-tank town on the level desert. Up there 6,000 fe€t, along with-the sky, the two men look at the sun and catch its rays in a long. black tube. Sometimes, when the sun goes down In desert glory, they pitch horse shoes—which are really shoes from the feet of a little mountain burro. They have a phonograph and a dosen They scrimp and pinch to save a drop of water, for it comes eloven back lots of seven gallons a day. Sometimes they can save enough) for a bath at the end of a week. to work refreshed ‘and keener at their task of staring the un out of countenance. What are they doing—these two the top of t lands of Harqua Hala, in the d Arizona? They are perfecting a system for telling what the weather wiil be years ahead—maybe, Certainly, they are measuring the radjation of the sun to the one millionth part of a degree of heat. . i They have two brothers in the faith, 4,000 miles away, at the top of | Montezuma on the edge of the nitrate dgsert in Chill. Here In Washington, at the Smith- solan Institution, sits Dr. C. G. Abbot, thejthe father of the work, and checks | electric current is turned on. up on resylts. For twenty-one years, on a dozen deserts of four continents, this thing has been going on. And they have found—Dr. Abbot and his assistanty— that whenever all or nesrly all of the sun spots have besn blotted out and the face of Sol is calm, the earth Is torn “with all _sorts of erasy weather. “Take,” says Dr. Abbot, “the winter Just ended—or is it ended? There are fower gpots on the sun than for many years—it is radliating less heat than at any other time since we began measuring it. “On the earth, the:spring -is-late and cold and wet. -Cyclones lose their way and stray where cyclones never Wwent before. Great numbers of ice. bergs float so far south that steamer tracks have to be shifted to escape them, One group of states is hotter than it ever was before and another is colder than ever.. The coldest weath of the winter comes to a large part of the country, not in January but in March, and early April brings to the whole eastern half of this continent the most severe cold wave ever known so late in the season. “Does the absence of sun spots and low radiation cause this sort of weather on the earth? I don’t know. 1 do know that, for twenty years whenever there have been few spots on-the aumon wi:gxder stations on nrk! et temperatures belaw | #ts a job for the aty, 1o 'fgyre out how they L] Many Fhink.Big Guns $hould’Be “Elevated: " - Despifp thé fact that fhe British ggv- ernment has et ft be known gthere néver. was any thoyght of viola\lnfl‘he 553 | big ship ratio in connection with:her plans for the émprovement of the Sin- gapore naval base, editdrs continug to read into the declaration of Lieut. Tol. | Amery, first lord of the admiralty, am'K excellent reason for the United States proceeding with its original proposition | to elevate the guns on all battleships. | This latter plan, designed to increase | base the range of the big guns, was author- ized by Congress after figures.indicating British naval activity ‘had been cited before the naval committee. Later de- nials of their accuracy resulted in the announced decision that there would bé no increase of the ranges pending the next session of Congress. Inasmuch as Lieut. Col. Amery characterized as an “ideai British policy” the “command of all seas,” there now is an increasing number of editors who are urging that : the United States reconsider its decision and get its warships into better ‘condi- tion forenational defense. In connection with the naval treaty, the British position, that it will “ob- tha ‘eriod agreed on. It points out. hawgver, that ‘fn other respects there may be a departure from the ideal em- Lbraced .in the agreement, though with- out transgressing that instrument. At the time of the Washington atwis’con- ference it was the common opfuifori !a,; possible future conflices would arise the Pacific. For that reasom: festrig- tions on construction of fortifications | were carefully drawn to prevent the likely contestants from securing *umdus advantage, one over the other: Britaln was not then regarded a probable bel- ligerent in case of war in the Pacific. But it {8 for her to look ahead to possi- ble need. If she will, at the expiration of the limitation treaty, pursue her an- olent idea of supremacy at sea ahe will have made a ®ood atart during the | shipbuilding holiday by creating a great naval base at Singapore," ‘The Chicago Tribune, arguing it does not expect war with England, and hoping to aveid war with Japan, neverthéless {nsists “‘the back down of our government in the gun range controversy | pervert. duty and misreading of the true intent of the limitationl agreement. -We hope Col. Amery's. remarks will shock our government out-of its muddle-headed- ness and bring about & comphrehen- consideration of'our problem of defense. e hope fal conomy, peace at .any price sentimental internationalism vigorously challenged in the next: Congress. The Washington confer« . 1t is intéresting. to note how gener- a]ly architectursl subjects have been ‘coming into vogue la paliitingg and. etchings. Thero are quite 3" .number of the foremost’t§! Americam painters who have special ized in architectyral themes—city pic: tures, picturés,of village streets, pic- tures of skysdrapers, that developy ment. in architecture which all agree is typjcally American. The names of Colin "Camphbell Cooper, Felicia W, Howell, Evérett Warner and others immediately come to mind, wher foremost among the etchers of archi- tectural themes is Joseph Pennell, But the great etchers of all time have found delight in architec~ tural subjects—Meryon, Whistler, Cameron; .and on_this: side of the tlantic, not only Joseph Pennell, but Hornby, Arms, Logan and a dre ‘of others whose names are almost as well known. - To be sure, many of these -have etched foreign subjects. byt they have also mani- fested.the beauty of American hi- tectural works. I Speaking of th por, the Britiah Society of ATohi- affic: -its latest 38! h‘u;('n. o 13 aper of .enormous uflding, a skyscraper of . hefght. The #ditor, from his British viewpoint, disapproves of what he terms the “charming historical head- ear of the premeated design,” which, e insists, is an tation of one of th t, slomers ol & “writer of the edi- s | 'stituted the competis] rican sky- |- competition nor! which would| pti AmMSnt_ Do ceur part. ‘hat. is. fully. underatoed in Gredt Britdin .and "Japan, am. their ener- gotic. measures denonstrate. It iy e. for,Washington .to realize iy and act dcordingly” The Sioux ity ‘Jourpal for its part is incline to feel that Col. Amery ‘‘wanted to torial. ppkens fun- at the American methodsyof procedurs,..the publicity methods -amployed -by ‘those who in- o -while the tiglon” was’ip progress. whic! “side ;vt the. ogean ‘fight, and probably = ¢nuavd as of ‘aduchtiondl benefit-1o.4] blic, ac- qusinting thousands of na with the- :great architecturalmonuments £31O not only.of Europe, but of the world. |- -n?:: lirm-h journal, ‘however, has no love for skyacrapers, ciaiming that { thet is _the mos o5, d willy be'(3 The United States weather bireau is investigating th mithsonian dis. coverfes to see If they will be useful In weather forecasting, The weather bureaus of, Argentina and Brazil a! ready arg, using ‘them,. to_an extent Dr. Abbot has fot alwivs ‘stayed a: home and checked up on the othe fellow. Knowing that the work mus be done in desert places, he ha trekked over the earth to find the best ones, and has-had disappoint ments many and great. Back in 1909, he climbed to the ton of Mount Whitney, nearly 18,000 fcet With 3 gese of Ingtruments 8o delicate that-he Would net trust them out of his own’ hands. A thunder storm met him at the top of the mountain, 11 was followed by sleet and snow, and he had to coms dewn.without the re- sulta he wanted. . - Preyented ; by revoMition in 1911 from going into the desert mountains of Mexlco; foiled at Bassapr' in Al geria once by clouds i a d that ought to be cloudless: and ggain b volcanic dust that drifted half th. width “of the world, from Alaska turned back from Australia by the breaking out of the world war; kep: from the deserts of South America by the United States getting into the ?n;ll.lshe @id finally get established n 3 His two stations, one at Harqua Hala and one at Montezuma, are the two most cloudless spots in the west ern world. There, from year's end to year's end, his men measure the hea' of the sun. The_ long, black Hala has hollow walfs and in them is a_column of water. The black walls absorb the heat froni tHe sun and the temperature pf the water rises. The most delicate thermometer know:n to sctence measures how much. . Then the up-hgated watsr is let out. Fresh water is put in and a: When it brings the water, to exactly th same témperature as’the other water took from the sun, it iy measured and trauslated inte standardized terms of electric energy. The change In temperature is not the same for any two days, and it is far from the same throygh any, two years., % ; 2 Sun, spots ;swing through. as cycle eleven years lopg. Thay were most numerous in 1817. They are fewes: in 1923, When the spots are at high tide, the syn’s heat boosts the tem- perature” of tha water in the bla tube—boosts it pretty high. When the spots are at low tide. the ten perature of the water is boosted not 80 much. © - 2 5 fr * But R is never ‘the samir todaduc it was vesterday, and that is becanse all'parts of the sun are not hot alil The same spot may be just as hot asAr was vestergEfegust ac it ‘wads 10,000,000 years ago bug ‘the: spot that was.thrped towar! the earth yester is tutned, perhap toward Jupiter today and a colder o a hotter spot'is sending its rays to the earth. ube; at Harqua When -all the. measurements are finished, when all the results have been checked up and tried out, will it be possible to foretell the weather a year ahead? Scientists are a cautious clan. ask them—they say that time wil tell. They do say this much: 3 If tha theory holds, every man ma¥ be his -ofn_ Joseph, foretelling the lean yeary and the fat years even n cycl f geven. DIGEST croate. greater efiiciency ffi person- nel.” holding' that ,wv—-&trgnsn feel ;. aF- reguirement ay thie fmn o addi he Akron itop Journal*su statement was designed to “give assépance of de- | ;flfz‘m Australin and Now Zealand Yoip g /it feels the occasion a good ons '{:"?‘«Sntremrv Hughes ‘gflnl;ng’ o d Balfour that the jccasion is propitious for another apostrophe to hisibeloved dove-of peace which at the moment seems to be discovering some of the attributes.of a turkey buszard.” Regardless of all declarations 1o the contrary. the Tacoma Ledger in sists. “establishment of great naval s are as much an essential part of a navy as i= possesion of huge dreadnaught. This latest declaratio: is & reversion to the traditional basic policy of Britain, which for centuries has proudly boasted that Britannia rules the waves. and, in the light of the latest British protest against the purported Intention of this_ govern- mefit to readjust the guns of its bat- tleshlps to increase their range, it would look as though there was somewhere a considerable lack of consistency and sincerity.,” Complets ly disagreeing with this contentlon the Asheville Times points out that he words complained of * an outcropping of rhetorical exub: ance. What he was LF¥INg to sav w that the British navy must be kept in efclent condition. The phrase indiscreet. But such oratorical la happen in the best regulated parlia- mentary bodies. Our own lawgivers and cabinet members have been known on occasions to induige in fm prudent statements.” Because “*ng nation welcomed the naval agreement with a greater ap- pearanee-of sipeerity than the British people did:*band ‘tower taxas is the one thing that England is praying for." gfi Detroit .Fras Press holds “Great tain. Hag 7o ntign of attempt ing 1o command .the Prcific and places the most of -{{& hofé for security in that quarter §paj continued friend ship with the: Uriited States” Th likewise isx the_viaw entertained by - the Springfield Illigdis State Journal which believes that it was entirelv personnel. Amery had in mind. inas- much as “superiority of personnel and skill cannot be regulated or limited by treaty, and the treaty does not undertake to do so. With navies of equal size British or American su- premacy on the seas would be deter- mined by brains. -The billions o money {nvested by us during the wa period ape-t waated; and the plain me u\t'm% Tesgons of that pe- riod are to be discarded ‘in our fool ish notjon that'we can compete with- out subsidies on the skas with foreign shipping. ngland commands the seas commerciaily because we permit her to. 8he will. command 1t mili- tariipewikhs fewer ships if we insist pon - Putsuing . the ,way we are now Tollowing. Kigoes, - ' 4 It is to. be regratted, in the opinio lof the, New ¥grk .Tjmes, that “t many néeple’zre s to jump to the conclusion”that ‘Grdle, Britain has no idea of ivink. up 2o hér agreement of naval dquaHty . wigh the United States. Notmpxhnél ez more Murtful to Anglo-Améric ‘mtitty than a prone- ‘mess (0 _read into deliberate official utterances bad-‘falth.and dark de- signs.” i 4 ;. :InaFew W{m‘ds The Gérmans are a- péobls to who: war is-eternaily a national.industrv and for whom peace never was-any- thing but a truce-between combats. —PREMIER POINCAIRE n I Spain ‘were to become a repub! they are unsociable, that they are un- necessary, that they break into the skyline, that they fmpede traffic that they are altogether a nuisance, and, 10 emphasize the absurdity to which they are ci a-8i i ‘whole floors, indiceged as an element in the das sign. A sketch is given showing suciv| a bullding, “like a flower on a -tall stem,” surmounted by a dome and a headpiece. Not such an impossible into"éWect by the present generation. 3 . s Emap N tomorrow, the king would be th first president. He is about the hardest working man in the countrs. —AMBASSADOR WOOD. -, d{? i FABE DURHAM e Archibishop of m};.-- S le‘e' een month: e ou! g.i‘lgm, but doubt ft. - {E —BISHOP OF ST. ALBANS If you would be & “perfect 34, Lukp suy other i for suc- of !l\»-n"v he '