Evening Star Newspaper, May 19, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON K ° D. »C, 8 ATURDAY, MAY 19, 1923 —_— e e e CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C SATURDAY.......May 19, 1923 Editor THEODORE W. NOYES... The Evening Star Business Ofice, 11th St. and Pennsy New York Office: 130 Naxsi Chicago Offce: Tower B Buropean Office: 16 Regent St.. Los The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, ix delivered by carriers within the eity at 60 cents per mont, 5 cents per month; Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- ders may oe xent by mail, or telephone Main §000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.4 Dall + $6.00: 1 mo., Sunday . $2.40; 1 mo., ewspaper Company vania Ave. ng. on, England. o 3 All Other States. Daily and Sund; $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ Ao 1 Member of the Assoiated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the vxe for republication of all news di pateles eredited to it or ot othersviss eradi (v ‘this ‘paper and atw e local news pub: | lished hercin. Al vights of pablication of | special dispateles herein are also reserved ey L A Pageant of Honor. Despite unpropitious weather an impressive ceremony was enacted last night at the Lincoln Memorial, when the gold medal of the American In- stitute of Architects was presented to | Henry Bacon, the architect of the| Mewmorial, by the President of the| United States. Tt is a pity that the elements were adverge, for an impres. sive and beautiful spectacle was car- ried through which would have been much more effective under clear skies Yet there was something significa: in the exccution of the program re- ' gardless of the weather. The Lincoln Memorial itself stands as the result of | unremitting labor against adversity and delay. It was fitting in a way | that the presentation which marked | the close of the annual session of the ! institute should be held regardless of | external conditions. This pageant, which included the use of the reflecting basin. showed strikingly the possibilities of this set- ting for national fetes and spectacles i Awce fur a vast number of | Pebple. and there will be more space | wuen, i the course of time, which it is hoped will be a short time, the emporary” public buildings now ob- truding on the Mall are removed. The | noble colonnade of the east front of | the Memorial forms a background un- approached in this country and unsur- passed the world for significant silent drama. The cast front of the Capito! is an- other setting of this character, in| Some respects more practicable owing to the single level of the immediate | plaza and the breadth of steps and ! epproach to the building itself. On this space have been presented nu- merous historical and patriotic pic- tures. Washington is rich in these oppor- tunities for elevating and instructive | presentations. There is no other city | with such facilities. It was appro- priate that last night's ceremony of honor to the man whose gentus has | created one of the most striking memo- i rial structures in the world should be held at the scene of his triumph. For that program, conceived in such a| high spirit of artistry and carried | through with such dignity, served ef-) fectively to present theeMemorial as | ® patriotic shrine and stage of na-: tlonally devotional exercises. ——— Controller Overruled. The Federal Employes' Compensa- | tion Commission wins its point | sgainst the controller general of the ! United States in the matter of the| right of the commission to compensate | government employes for disabilities | arising from occupational diseases. | There is law and legal reasoning on both sides of the case, but it will strike | which they regard as remote. of a most men_that the Department of | panic stampede. It would seem that| tew people think ahead to the point of | Justige, $gstaining the commission, | | burned, ing his action, and by the result of ‘whatever course he follows. Politicians say that the Ford pos- sible candidacy for the nomination is causing concern to all the other as- pirants in the fleld. Likewise, that it is being watched closely by the repub- | licans, who' weuld be very much per- turbed if he should be nominated by the democrats, Other democratic can- didacles, it is averred, must sit up and take notice of every sign of ‘‘some- thing doing” in Ford circles, because { he may yet hold the balance of-power in the democratic natlonal convention and be able to swing the nomination, even if he does not capture it himself. Republicans admit that if the demo- crats should nominate Mr. Ford he would be in a position to attract in the election many votes of republicans who now show signs of rallying around the radical organization, taking them away from the regular republican nominee, thus making their votes count and not throwing them away upon a candidate who could not be i elected. The judgment of the politicians is that Mr. McAdoo stands to suffer more than any other in an increase of Ford prospects. Mr, Ford, they say, would make inroads into the McAdoo strength in the south, in which sec- tion Mr. McAdoo is well intrenched through the efforts and industry of his friends, said to hgve been steadily at work since 1920. Neglect and Disaster. Details of the fire at Cleveland, S.C., add to the horror. It now appears that the doorway 'at the foot of the single staircase which formed the exit !from the second floor of the building | opened panic-stricken people rushed to escape inward, and that when the the flames they found it impossible to get free of the building. They were packed into a dense mass, and many perished for lack of a way into the open. In 1908 two fires, resulting in a ter- vible loss of life. occurred in this country in quick succession. Janu- ary 13 of that year a theater at Boyerstown, Pa.. on the second floor of a flimsy building. burned and near- ly 200 persons perished. In this case a single stairway impeded the flight of the people and many died in the panic crush. On the 4th of March in the same year a schoolhouse at North Collin- wood, near Cleveland, Ohio, was and 4 children. lost their lives, most of them dn the crush at {the exit. In that case the doors opened outward. but were of such construc- tion, witp narrow opggings and block: ing framework, that the children fell at the threshold and others were piled deep upon them. Some years before @n opera house in Vienna. Austria, burned with a frightful loss of life due chiefly to the fact that the doors of the building : opened inward, and*the frantic people were packed against them so tightly that the firemen bad to chop their way through, the ages killing many in the opening of a passage. At the Iroquois fire in Chicago De- cember 30, 1903, 602 people were killed. In that case scores lost their llives by a blockade at the doorway owing to the fact that a step inter- vened between the auditorium and the lobby, within a few feet of the street and safety. All these happenings have had their lessons for the guidance of those who bulld and inspect structures of a pub- lic character, buildings used by the ‘peoplc for amusement or other pur- poses. Yet there are hundreds, pos- sibly thousands. of places in this coun- try where the conditions are as they were at Collinwood, at Chicago, at Vienna and at Charleston. S. C., where the lessons have not been learned and applied. It is & simple matter to hang a.door the right way, but this item is neglected, because those who are re- sponsible do not think to take that precaution against the possibility, trees. There is no thought of injur- ing trees, for Washington would scarcely be Washington without its riches of follage along the streets. The Commiesioners have appointed a com- mittee to make @ survey of the street lighting ssituation, and the news is that they plan todnclude in thelir esti- mates to the next Congress a sum which will carry ou. such recom- mendations as the survey committee may make. This survey committee includes the electrical engineer of the District, the secretary to the Public Utllities, Commission, representatives of the electric and gas companies and members of the Washington Chapter of the Society of Electrical Engineers. It is a competent committee to deal with this important subject Those Who Did Not Come Back. In the dispatch from Camden, S. C., printed in The Star Friday telling of the school fire at Cleyeland, occurs the following paragrap® Men who made their way out of the bullding veturned in an endeavor to rescue the injured and Imeeriled. Some of them did not come back. Some of them did not come back! They knew the chances were against them when they returned into the horror, but they did not hesitate. They did their best for others. They obeyed a natural impulse—to rescue those in distress and danger. 1t is felt by prac- ! tically all men, without reckoning the risk. Repeatedly cases are reported of heroism of this kind, men pulling others out of danger in the street, leaping overboard to save the drown- ing, climbing perilous places to aid others to escape from menace. There is never any lack of volun- teers when such services are required. Usually if @ few are needed from a crowd the difficulty is .to choose. At i this South Carolina fire horror there was no calling for aid, no assignment of rescuers. There was the burning building with women and children en- trapped, screaming for help, the flames close upon them. A chance remained to save some of them. In they went, these men, to do what they could, and “some of them did not come back." All honor to these heroes, who acted instantly and lost their lives. They are the kind of men of whom America is proud. the more so because they are | typical of American manhood. ——— * Easter Island Missing Again. * A dispatch from Melbourne, Aus- tralia, says that a wireless message, apparently from a ship. picked up there saving that Easter Island has disappeared. Something ought to be done about Easter Island. i It is doing some very strange things On an average of at least once a year it is reported missing. Then somebody goes out to find the spot where it used to be. and lo, there it is, right on its old site, with its great stone images staring cryptically out to sea. just as they have been for untold decades maybe centurie: Now. whether this isa sport of Easter | Isiand or a sport of the newsmongers of the Pacific is not precisely certain. But it is surely confusing the geogra- phers to have these unaccountable “disappearances” coming over the %ires through the ether from timg to time. If Easter Island has a secret means of vanishing for @ space there is matter that interests others than | the mapmakers. On the other hand, if the “disappearance of Easter Island” {is merely a joke of the radio operators on Pacific-plying ships it should be known as a standard jest, so that it need not be taken seriously. Islands do disappear, but not to hob iup again soon after. And when they i of a convulsion that is felt elsewhere and leaves a record. Surely Easter is no “floating island” that shifts its base and travels around in the cur- rents of the South scas. One thing may be sald of it. that it does not change its latitude, however often it may be reported among the missinz. The International Longshoremen's Union, in convention at Boston, adopt- has the better of the argument. The | provision against disaster. The chances!ed a resolution calling for the repeal department construes the law with | liberality, and points out what was| evidently the intent of Congress. It | will be recalled that the controller held | that the commission erred in constru- | ing personal injury incurred through i Rovernment service to include occupa- tional diseases. The commission held that the controller general was with. | out the right to reverse- its decision, | and presented the case to President | Harding, who referred it to the Attor-| ney General for an opinion. The De- partment of Justice holds that the ! commission “has the power by virtue of the act under which it was created | 10 construe the terms of said act, and | that any construction so rendered is final and beyond interference by other government officials.” When the ad- verse ruling of the controller general was promulgated the disbursing of- ficer of the compensation commission stopped payments which were being made to about 200 sufferers from oc- cupational diseases such as lead, mer- | cu carbon monoxide and TNT | poisoning. anthrax and some cases of tuberculosis. The opinion of the De- partment of Justice is final in this case, and the compensation commis- sion has the power to make payments according to its interpretation of the law. —_——— Japan is all agog over the approach- ing wedding of Prince Regent Hiro- hito. It is too bad the Japanese are not familiar with the catchy tune of “I'm Going to Marry Yum,Yum." —_——— A twenty-three-year-old horse wins the blue ribbon for jumping at the local horse show. His name ought to be either Weston or Willard or Adams. ————— Democratic Booms. Mr. McAdoo comes to town, and im- mediately there is recurrence of in- terest in democratic presidential booms and potential candidacies. A few days @go the Ford boom cgme in for notice when the manufacturer stated that he feared important business interests would prevent his nomination. About the same time reports were current of an outcropping of the Underwood candidacy in the middle west. The Al Smith boom is temporarily embar- rassed by his indecision on the pro- hibition enforcement repeal bill await. of tragedy are always to most minds “remote,” despite the numerous illus- trations so shocking in their emphasis of the more than possibility, of the ; { probability, of such happenings. i It would seem that immediately, all | over the country, in the light of this South Carolina horror, there would be | an examining of the doorways of buildings of assemblage, large and small, to make sure that none of them could ever be the occasion of a panic jam in the future. But herein lies the awful aspect of the waste of life in these needless disasters, that the les- sons are not learned, and these simple. easy, inexpensive precautions are not taken. Laws are sometimes passed in states requiring inspections and pre- scribing remedies for these evil con- ditions, and then these laws are neg- lected, ignored, unenforced—and sud- denly tragedy occurs. Who is to blame? —_——— Sir Thomas Lipton has sent a silver trophy for the forthcoming race of fishing craft off Gloucester, The genial | Irish peer seems convinced of the truth of the maxim that it is better to give than to receive. —_——— Jacob G. Schurman may be minister to China, but he is “talking Turkey” to the celestials when it comes to dis- | cussing the bandit question. Brighter Street Lighting. There may be more light in the streets. The District government knows as well as citizens know that many streets carrying a heavy volume of traffic at night are feebly lighted | and that many residence streets are nearly dark on moogless nights. 1t is mot the fault of the District gov- ernment that this is the case. It has perhaps done the best that could be within the limits of dbpropriations for hting and’ with the other means at hand. Experiments have recently been made with higher can- dlepower street larips, with posts of different heights ahd with reflectors to throw most of the light into the street and yet cast no shadow on the sidewalk. Low branches of trees on many streets, and even trees of the usual form, have added difficulty to the problem, but Washington under- stands that the problem must be solved without harm coming to the { ' of the eighteenth amendment and the legalizing of light wif®s and beer. What do longshoremen care, anyhow? Do they not get first chance at the crews of all the incoming boats? “Decisive Battle Raging in China, reads a headline. It is too bad that there is a battle, but it is sincerely hoped that the qualifying adjective is true. —_——ee————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Ball Game, Father had some business which would make him rather late. He told the folks to go ahead with dinner and not wait. Uncle Jim he said the office wasn't going right, He reckoned he'd be busy, too, until "twas nearly night. And Brother Bob, he said they needn't mind him much that day, He had to go down to the train and see a friend away. I had to get my nerve and take my chances, ‘cause, you see, They'd used all the excuses. ‘wag not much left for me. There In the grandstand father was a-yelling some that day, #nd Uncle Jim and Brother Bob, they " were not far away. . And 1 was in the bleachers, and they saw me. But who cares? True gantlemen don't talk of other gentlemen's affairs. Opulence. Sunbeam come e-dancin’ On de summer sea. Laughin® an’ a-prancin’ As purty as kin be! Raindrop comes a‘scatterin light 'Crost de summer breeze, Sparklin’ like a di'mond bright To ornament de trees. Dewdrops in de daytime, Stars dat shine by night! Every hour's e playtime When de weather's right. 1 ain’ covetin’ no mo’ Riches, 'cause, you see, Earth’ great big jew’l'ry sto’ * ‘Where everything {s free! has been | disappear there is usually some sign | THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Washington s different from any other place on earth—even for the Shriners. “Imperial session,” the sort of meeting they are going to have here, ordinarily means, as nearly as Shrine language can be translated, national conventlon plus one full week of rip-roaring fun, frivol and fezzes. Only that Is exactly what it does not mean—in Washington. The pligrimage to Washington, for the thousands of red-fezzed ‘nobles,” will be a real pligrimage to a real shrine—the Mecca of AmeMca, they call ft. Those who speak for them say they are coming¥with a touch of reverence. The first thing they do, after the caruvans arrive from all the distant deserts and mingle in one mighty throng, will be to bring to- gether all the bands and all the glee clubs—hundreds of them—to lead the jmultitude in a dlapason of sacred song. The last thing before the festival ends will be the gathering of 200,000 or more people In Pennsylvania ave- | nue In @ revel of patriotic enthusiasm in which ever» fezzed “noble” will feel again the holy thrill of love of coun- try. All through the week of mammoth mimiery a sacred note will sound above the din of pleasure—a silver |thread through the riot of eastern col¥ {ors. A Shriner is a Mason who has at- tained to next to the highest degree in either the York rite or the Scottish rite. 1f he came up through the York rite, his rank before he became a Shriner was Knight Templar. If he rose by way of the Scottish Rite, his rank was thirty-second-degree Mason. The two are equal in honor among the crafty, Below 'them are degrees piled on degrees, fi ed with serious things and olemn,” breathing the lore of old gypt and the oceult power of the Greek mysteries. set with stern les- sons of morality .and rectitude clothed in deep symbolism that every Mason for himse! must translate into terr.x of living as a good man ought to live. When he reaches the has done a man’s wor looked ahad, wearily, many tim for the green gleam of the oasis at the end of the desert trail where “We shall rest (and, Lord. we shall need i), lie down for an con or two, till | { tha Master of 211 good workmen Shall set us to workinz anew. So the Shrine is the playground of Masonr, at the end of a wearisome trail. where the man who has subdued his passions may taste of revelry as of a reward Tt is not Masonry. Tt is a_club which admits to its mem- bership only Masons who have at- tained to the high degree Of such are those wha soon will wend their way to Washington { “What man really a man.” asked their | spokesman, “can have frivolity in his {heart when he stands where Wash- | ;n.uon stood and dreamed of this i | pinnacle he He h: [ | | Mob Protests i [{BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Saghalien is an island lyving to the | extreme nortin of Japan. It seems to | be necessury to emphasize this. For | the rank and file of the labor party | in Great Britain and the masses of | the working people there appear to be lunder the impression that Saghalien a horse. On May day a monster demonstra- | tion took place in London by the| laborites, who with the communist| jred flag flving. with shields adorned | with the soviet armorial bearings and carrying placards of the most in- | cendiary character. marched to the {strains of the communist war chant, | |“The Red Flag.” to the Japanese em- | bassy. before which they booed and; hooted and hissed by way of mani- | {testing their disapproval. and of en- tering a vizorous protest in the name of British labor against the treat- ment of Saghalien by Japan Why English British labor should suddenly have developed sugh a pro- nounced interest about Saghalien. a remote corner of tigg wortd which few know of and that rarely figures in newspapers or magazines, nat- urally gave ‘rise to a considerable amount of speculation, and a careful investigation ensued, which led to the discovery that the majority of the manifestants bef<re the Japanese em- bassy on the subject of the mikado's treatment of Saghalien were under | the impression that the latter was a irace horse which had run without {much success in some of the winter steeplechas in England, and it had in some way been doped or hocussed through sinister machinations of the Tokio government. When informed that Saghalien was a remote island. { forming a sort of connecting link between the northern coast of Siberia and the most northerly portion of Japan. they expressed at first disbe- lief and then amazement, and had never heard of the hairy ‘Ainus, the| hairiest people on the face of the'l earth, who constitute the bulk of the4 rative population of Saghalien—| pagans who'worship the bear, whose scanty clothing behind the thick hair { with which they are enti.ely covered {{s made of bark of elm trees, and i boots made of fish skin and who are! |cn unenviable record as being quite! the dirtiest and the most drunken of human beings on the face of the globe. It is said by those who have visited Saghalien that its people never \wash, that ablutions are unknown to them. that they are dying out from a variety of diseases engendered by filth, and. that their unwritten lan- guage consists in the main of curses. ook ok kok In the very early days of the open- ing of Japan to western civilization, now some seventy years ago, the gov- ernment of the then tycoon at Tokio was either persuaded or terrorized by the czar's diplomats to cede Saghalien to Russia, which was under the im- pression that the island was possessed of great latent mineral wealth. But climatic conditions, difficulties of transport, also the hostility of the natives, rendered the development and exploitation of these hidden riches virtually impossible and the Petro- grad authorities ended by making Saghallen the. most feared of all its penal settlements, where only the most atrocious criminals, and most feared of political offenders were held in the most cruel form of captivity and penal servitude. At the close of the Russo-Japanese war of 1905 the victors demanded the return of Sag- halien. But in the end they had to content themselves with the recovery of the southern part of the island. Japan's reward for her participation in the late war on the side of the United States and of the entente. was the return to her of the remainder of the island, which she at once pro- ceeded to occupy. driving out all the Muscovite population and establishing military posts on all the most stra- tegic_points, so as to establish her complete control. The bolshevist junta at Moscow has long been clamoring for the re- covery of Saghalien, not because it was _of any value, but merely because its alienation from the former 1 heart of a nation that means liberty and justice? “Anywhere else in the United States we may go our ways as we will. In Washington we cannot do otherwise than feel as,Washington ave felt when he had the For all that, don't get the impres- slon that the Shriners won't have a ®00d time when they come to Wash- ington. They may not have the best time yon ever saw anybody have, but thev “will{have more of it. And it will be the biggest time anybody ever had in Washington. Here are & few measures of its bigness: When President Harding speaks in i Keith’s Theater to the handful of Shriners who czn get in, 75,000 more will sit on the Ellipse and hear what he says. Amplifiers are being built iz _enough to take care of that. When the massed bands—all bands of the Shrina temples and Sousa leading—play in the ball park 35,000 people will hear them from he grandstands and the bleachers. Another 100,000 will hear them from the Ellipse. When the dancgs of tno states is staged in PennsyRania avenue, all the waywy fron the Capitol to the Treasury. the heople of each of the forty-eight states fIn their appointed places. the music will o by radio te all of those Htates—the people of California and of Maine at home will keep step with their fellows here. For the first time in the histery of Washington Pannsylvania avenue from the State. War and Navy build- ing to Washington Circle will be decorated just as the.lower Ave- nue is. For the first time in the history of Washington there will not be a freight ear in the train sheds of Union station the For the first time in the history of Washington practicsly all of the parking space will he ffled with au- tomobiles. @ome slanderer started the report that there would not he enough space for all the cars. A Shriner frgm Maine telegraphed about it A"wire went back to him that Washington has space for 45.000 cars. All the fear is in the hearts of the onlookers. The Shriners know they will be cared for when they conie to the “Garden of Allah” That is what they call the center of their festivities, this bunch of hovs grown old and gray and (many of them) great. They play at making pil- grimages to Mecca, build gorgeous columins, decorats with lotus flow- ers, talk of camel's mill: and burning sands and all that playful ness. That is what the Shriner plays with. But his real Garden of Allah is not seen of the senses—is far from the glare and the din. out in the ineffable quiat of the forest, on dim and dis- tant roads where crippled children fell and were lifted up: in stricken homes to which a secret messenger goes in the night bearinz reli=f. Its music is not the blare of the massed bands. ®It »is the harmony of the silent land of conscience. Its light is not the blaze of flam- ing suns swung athwart broad streets. 1t is the clear, whita light of a verse which reads, “Now abideth these three—faith. hope. love, but the greatest of these is lova, Thinking Saghalien Is Horse, London Abuse b\ Japanese empirs has gravely prejudiced the prestige of Russia in the orient. and so the sogiet directorate, which has all along @een very active, and quite successfully o, among the labor element in Great Britain. has put up the Eneglish laboring man to make peremptory demand on Japan that she should withdraw her troops from Saghalien and restore It without any further delay or procrastination to Russia e If I call attention to this anti- Japanese manifestation in London b British labor, it is because it fur- | nishes a striking proof of the degree of the ignorance of labor aboug con- | ditions in foreign countwges, concern- ing which they do not seem to possess even the remotest infdmation. their lack thereof r ering them particu- larly susceptible to the maschinations. more or less sinister, of revolutionary and anarchistic influences from abroad, Bolshevist agents and gold have been very active among the col- ored races in America and among the alien born and consequently least en- lightened of our toiling masses. the better class of United States labor being too intelligent and well edu- cated to lend an ear to the anarchis- tic doctrines of the bolshevists and to their designs for the overthrow of law, order and religion. rights of life and property in all civilized countries, \\'léh general chaos as their ultimate en Thus it would be rather annoyi é ving if one of these days there were to be a great demonstration before the French embassy at Washington of masses of colored pfiople. and of alfen- born workers of the extremist type. in ordergto prgtest against France's treatment of the Ruhr, about which the mantfestanks Would probably be as wholly ignorant as the British labor m.’;nlf@ tants before the Japa- nese embas; in London wer Saghalien. S ahons L B Lord Brownlow's death some eight- een months ago without issue and the consequent disbursal of his vast estates have brought into the market a large number of treasures of art and of history, most of which were stored in his beautiful Hertfordshire home. known as Ashridge Park. Some of the old m@sters which adorned its galls are already in this country. But still the sales of the contents of "Ashridge Park continue and among those which remain to be disposed of by auction in London are a quantity of relics of ‘Queen Eliza- beth and of her cousin and heiress presumptive to the throne of Eng- land, Mary, Queen of Scots. Among " these relics of Mary is a whole set of baby linen prepared, em- broidered and sewn by Queen Mary and by her attendant Marys at the time when she was looking for the advent of a baby which she hopea would live to sit upon the English throne, but which was born dead. How confident were her hopes of ad ditional motherhood is shown by the fact that she caused the formal an nouncements of the birth to be pre- pared and to be held in readiness for dispatch to all the foreign courts of Europe as soon as ever the happy event had taken place. These -an- nouncements were never sent. There Wwas no occasion to forward them and they are still preserved to this day in the Museum of the State Records in_London. Had the babw linen prepared b, Mary, Queen of Scots, and preservex for hundreds of vears at Ashridge, come into the market during the life- time of Queen Victoria she would un- doubtedly have insisted on purchas- ing it. She was devoted to the mem- ory of the {ll-fated Scottish queen, her ancestress, and always carried about with her a large lock ,of the hair of Mary, Queen of Scots. cut off before her ‘execution at Fathering- gate Castle. The late Edward VII had the same cult for his Stuart forbears. His favorite Stuart relic was the actual shirt worn by King Charles I on the scaffold at Whitehall on the day of his execution. He carried it about with him “everywhere on his many travels and it always had its own particulal ind carefully locked hat box. He 'was never at ease unless he felt that it was being carri about with his other intimate belong- ings. To him it Jras a sort of fetis It now preserved in_the private apartments of Windsor Castle. All the space will be | I given over to Shriner Pullmans. foolish- | The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER The ten best books of the twentieth century ‘are discussed in the May number of the International Book Re- view by a group of well known critics —Hilaire Belloc, Henry Seidel Canby, Gertrude Atherton, Van Wyck Brooks, Christopher Morley, William Lyon Phelps, Maurice Francis Egan, Carl Van Vechten, John Erskine and Rich- ard Le Galliene. No limitations are set on the type of hooks or the lan- guage in which they are written. The results are naturally rather miscel- laneous. Only a few titles appear on more than one of the lists. The vari- ous critics seem to have had a most difficult time before arriving at their decisions. One of them remarks, “I have had a rush of books to the head.” Here are three of the most interesting lists. * ok K * Gertrude Atherton—"The Old Wives' Tale” (Arnold Bennett, “The Golden Bowl” (Henry James). “The Passing of the Great Race” (Madison Grant), “Spoon River Anthology” (Edgar Lee Masters), “The Dynasts” (Thomas Hardy). “Nostromo™ (Joseph Conrad), “Men of the Old Stone Age” (H. F. Osborn). “Eminent_Victorians” (Lyt- ton Strachey), “Jurgen” (James Branch Cabell)! “Life of Lord Ran- | dolph Churchill” (Winston S. Church- ). * ok ok % William Lyon Phelps—"The Admira- ble Crichton” (J. M. Barrie), “The Furnished Room" (0. Henry), “The Forsyte Saga’ (John Galsworthy), Jean Christophe” (Romain Rolland) Joseph Vance” (Willlam De Mor- gan), “Letters” (Anton Chekov). “Life of Mark Twain” (Albert Bigelow Paine). “Orthodoxy” (Gilbert K. Ches- terton), “Poems” (Francis Thomp- son), “Recollections” K “Pelle the The Greek Henry Beidel Canby: Conqueror” (M. A. Nexo), Commonwealth” (A. E. Zimmern), “Ethan Frome” (Edith Wharton), “The Everlasting Mercy” (John Mase- fleld). “Youth” (Joseph Conrad), “Spoon River Anthology” (Edgar Lee Masters), “Queen Vi-toria’ (Lytton Strachey), “Plays” (John M. Synge), “Varleties of Religious Experience” (William _James). “The Dynasts (Thomas Hardy) PRI The books mentioned by two or more critics, with the number of votes received, are as follows: “The Dynasts” Hardy. 4: “Jean Chris- tophe. Rolland, 3: “Plays.’” Synge, 3: “Spoon River Anthology.” Masters, ail and Farewell.” George Moore, 2! “Eminent Victorians.” Strachey. 2; “pelle the Conqueror.” 'Nexo, 2; “The Tragic Sense of Lifé.” Unamuno. 2; “The Commonwealth,” ~Zim- mern, “The Everlasting Mercy Masefleld, 2; “Seven Men.” Max Beer- bohm, he Forsyte Saga.’ Gals- worth “Joseph Vance,” De Mor- gan, | * In these days of feminism and “little theaters” the volume of short plays just editzd by Frank Shay, under the { title, “A Treasury of Plays for Wom- len" should be extremely useful to women's clubs and colleges and girls’ schools. The collection includes cighteen plays in which the parts are almost entirely feminine. The few uline parts are either subordi- et ‘uch as may easily be taken by women. Some of the plavs are: Kreymborg's “Manikin and Minikin.” 3 Before Breakfast' Clements " Florence Knox's or 4 Service.” Christopher Rehearsal,” Howard ‘Blackberryin’,” Clarice Ma- The Conflict,” Edna St. Vin- cent Millay's five-act’ dramatic poe of renaissance Italy, “The Lamp and the Bell," and an old favorite, Maeter- linck's ““The Death of Tintagile: PR A few months ago people interested in public education, and especially those engaged in educational work. were startied and disquieted by the annual report of the Carnegie Found- ation for the Advancement of Teach- ing in. which President Pritchett wrote of “The Rising Cost of Teach- ing." His principal theses were two: That the cost of education has become overwhelmingly burdensome, and that the chief causes for increased costs are that we are educating large num- bers of children who ought to be in | industry rather than in school. and !that there is too much vocational training and_so-called “enrichment iof public school courses. A brief, pointed and effective answer to Dr. Pritchett will be found in a two- page article in the May number of {the Journal of the National Educa- tional Association. by W. Carson Ryan, jr., formerly of the United States bureau of education and now professor of education in Swarthmore College. He quotes figures showing that less than 1l2 per cent of the annual income of the country is spent for education. To be fortified to an- | swer those enemies of public educa- tion who have seized upon Dr. Pritch- ett's onslaught, the article referred to should be read and digested. * ¥ ¥ X The story of the Czechoslovak struggle for independence, written by one who was a leader in the struggle. will soon be available for interested | readers when the memoirs of Presi- dent Masaryk of Czechoslovakia are published in English. The author, who recently celebrated his seventy- third birthda anniversary, visited the TUnited States in 1918 to represent the interests of his country to our gov- ernment. The memoirs discuss many diplomatic events of the European war and will be a valuable contribu- tion to flrst;hxnd war history. * ok k k Tn an age of modernism which has to a large extent relaxed so-called orthodox belief in the actual divinity of Christ. “The Life of Christ,”” by Giovanni Papini, translated freely by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, appears to the general public as something of a novelty. Papini makes no conces- sions to theories of symbolism and the divinity of human genius as re- gards the birth of Christ. He up- holds the literal sonship of Jesus to God. the incarnation, the immaculate conception _and the reality of the miracles. The epirit of the “life” is mystical. Love is shown to be the motive power in the life of Jesus and the central ideal in His teachings. The doctrine of love and sacrifice is what distinguishes the religion of Jesus from even the noblest of the pagan philosophies. Papini is gen- erally recognized as one of the fore- most literary men of Italy today His work is somewhat severely critl cized by his fellow author. Luigi Pi- randello. as reactionary and also as unduly harsh toward modern devotees of Plato and Socrates. ERE I In reading the memoirs of Augustus Thomas, published under the title “The Print of My Remembrance,’ Washingtonians will be especlally interested in the chapters in which the present autocrat of the American theater tells us his adventures as a page boy in the House of Representa- tives, particularly of his making caricatures of Ben Butler and of the cross-eyed general's forgiveness of him when his offense became known. * kK X There is a movement in London to raise a fund for a memorial to the naturalist . W.. H. Hudson. The me- morial is to be of stone or marble, with a medallion of Hudson, and will serve, appropriately, as a drinking and bathing fountain for birds. It will probably be placed in one of the royal parks of London. as a part of & bird sanctuary. * ¥ * iege Distinguish Morley's “The caula 1 i (Lord Morley).g A reader expresses astonishment at the paragraph contained in this column a few days ago warning of the damage done to grain by the rollen from barberry bushes. She inquires as to what foundation ex- ists for the statements. Many states have strict laws for- bidding the toleration of barberry, &8 it is considered worse than a fire. “'he Department of Agriculture will send free, upon request, all of fts literature on the subject. The de- partment makes the specific state- ment that' a single barberry bush has been shown to have cost nelgh- toring farmers over $1 age to grain. PEE R A pseudo scientist writes for pub- lication, concerning the recent cy- clone in Oklahoma, to the effect that the succession of “moisture-collect- ing crops, 1n place of the heat-storing huffalo grass, which once covered the whole ‘strip,’ soon did awa, ‘twisters'!"” The statement s referred to the dirt farmer of the Department of Agriculture, so that a commission may be appointed to make research to identify the “moisture-collecting c10ps”; also how much heat the buf- falo grass has ever stored, affecting cyelones; 1lso how much the cyclone census has dropped off, anywhere in America, owing to moisture-gather- fng crcps and the absence of heat- storing buffalo grass—or for any cther reason Buffalo zrass grows in little clus- ters. It is a fine-bladed grass, in curly bunches. only four or five inches high. The department has never announced it as efficacious for cyelones, although very nutiitious for stock i ok o X Director Hines of the Veterans' Bu- reau, has 'mstructed all hospital au- thorities to take steps to aid pa- tients who are illiterate to acquire the rudiments of the “three Rs. Statistics show that one-quarter of the men of draft age were unable to read and write, consequently there are many among the wounded or sick and convalescent who have been confined in hospitals ever sirce the war who are still illiterate * k¥ * Tnder the former regime there was considerable variation in the handling of vocational training cases. Some veterans were enabled to go through law and medical schools and enter their professions as graduates; {others, who were competent but lacked the rudimentary education, were refused even the proper, basis of the grade schooling, which would enable them to take up apprentice- ships in some of the skilled trades. Incapable, physically. to earn their living at manual labor, many such cases., if given clementary schooling along with trade instruction, might 1t-supporting. _Evi- ¢ it is the aim of Director Hines to correct this fault in the system. tira v It is a great feat to make a non- stop trip across the continent in an airplane. Now comes a proposal from the school management of ‘Washington for a non-stop course for school children from the cradle to the Crime Breeds Crime and Russia Set the Example. Entirely political is the general characterization of the murder at Lausanne of M.- Vorovsky, chief of the unofficial and uninvited Russian | delegation to the near east con- i ference there. Editors generally ac- {cepted it as an expected develop- ment because of the reign of blood- shed which has marked soviet rule. The chief question in most minds was whether it would bring on re- prisals against foreigners. within Russia. Since there has been no ap- parent movement along this line the belief seems growing that the Rus- sian government accepts the “run- ning amuck” of the murderer Maurice Alexander Conradl as an incident to be expected in these days of gen- eral violence. “Murder is a despicable method of* adjusting _grievances,” as the | Chattanocga News sees it, being “war reduced to a private enter- prise,” and this particular crime “will increase the present tensity of feeling which prevails in Eu- rope.” Yet, while Switzerland “must punish” the murderer, the Chicago Journal thinks “the average persons in Europe as well as in America will wish it were possible to give the killer a_medal.” In addition, as the { Mobile Register, analyzes the crime and the events leading up to it, “it shows the disordered state of af- fairs in all parts of Europe, even in Switzerland, long a sanctuary for po- litical refugees and ‘the model state of the old world." The killing_must precipitate a situation.” the Provi- dence Tribune holds, “that will e gender more bitterly the soviet ha- tred of western Europe.” Although “the unwelcome guest always IS a source of embarrass- {ment” the Saginaw News-Courier Points out “whatever the motive, the highly regrettable occurrence has caused a profound shock as super- ficially it has put Switzerland in the position of resorting to methods prevalent in soviet Russia itself.” oven though “the bolshevists were not only uninvited to the conference, but very distinctly notified thex were not wanted.” The entire world will take into consideration in reviewing this particular crime, the Cincinnati Times-Star thinks, the fact that “re- cently political murder was commit- l'ted in Rucsia.’ when prelates were slain, thus “bringing out the dis- 1 I tinction between capitalistic countries and the brotherhood of Russia. In capitalistic countries political mur- ders are the acts of individuals who are punished. In soviet Russia they are the acts of the government which rewards the men who act as gun- Wants Carnivals Barred in District To the Bditor of The Star: T have read with interest Mr. Albert |M. Hayes' letter iw The Star of the {11th, in answer to my letter regard- ing the numerous carnivals that are soming to Washington. His letter is a brilliant defense on behalf of these side shows, and the 1823 Association of Out-Door Show- men. but it entirely ignores the facts to which I called attention in my let- er. % These shows pay a small license fee of $3 a day, whereas local residents pay large taxes and rents. Mr. Hayes states that last month a show visited Washington that required thirty-five _double- length cars to transport it. Does Mr. Hayes think that a show of this kind —and it is not the circus—should pay such a small fee to the city or that this fee is adequate? 2. Mr. Hayes says nothing about the fact that & great number of com- munities_do not permit such side shows. There is a reason why they do not. They are mot instructive or - l 500 in rlm'n-| } counting reom. The plan is to aboi- ish the summer vacation and to have four quarters of three months cuch. The theory would be that a student might elect to attem any three qua ters he dealred and so have a threc- month vacation, or he could attend twelve months and so get through tha course earlier—or die in the attemnp:. Most physicians have been cautlon- ing parente to avoid crowding their growing children too much. Tha continuous schooling from infancy tn graduation, they say, would put g stultifying strain upon them wlila they are growing. Prodigies do gt into colleges at abnormally young ages, but they would not do so iff they were normal—and the averazs child is normal. Wrecked nervous systems cost tan much if they are the price of lost vacations, say the phyeictans. * ik How much does deafness incapa~ tate the victim from safely driving an automobile through the traffic crowd €d ftreets of a city? How is the hazard of such a driver to be com- pared with the danger arising fromn the. speedy and apparently recklces driving of delivery wagons and ot vebicles by young and unintelligs boyvs? The prime consideration in issuirz a license is the safety of traffic ard { Dedestrians using the streets. Safety News of the National Safer: Council, says “It certainly seems logical that go. 4 evesight, hacked by an alert brain. iz more _essential in the driving of motor vehicle safely than is the ser of hearing." 5 It is recognized that the loss of t ume of one sense tends to quicken t other senses. A blind man's hear.nz’ i8 often o acute as to be uncanny. \ visit to any institution where deaf are educated astonishes the vi itor with the display of alertness « the students in reading motions of tha lips or hands. The natural awaken ing of perception and observat seems to come to those who find t they must depend upon substitute powers—sight for hearing or hearing for sight. Is not most automobile drlv guided by sight. rather than by w! tles or horns? In the roar of traffic how distinctly can any driver hear sound and signals? If it he true that the control is in the eve, rather tha the ear, cannot the eves be so ® <t for alertness. with quickness of b as to more than offeet defective h ng? ) 1 . * * ¥ *x We have not comprehended yet mysteries of mind reading. At National Press Club a ghort time ag» two mind readers—husband and w: —demonstrated most amazingly, that neither sight nor hearing were need- ed for instant and rapid-fire con nication. The lady was blindfolded and stood with her back to the hus, band and audience, yet when the hi- band was handed a coin by any in the audience his partner. fift teet away, instantly described it ar told its date. Or, she would instant tell the number of a watch, at an di-- tance, and with no known means communication. “In Europe - scientists are wonder- ing over a recent demonstration which shows how the blind—"stone blind"—can distinguish colors and large letters painted, though the have no sight. These scienti b of unseen eves in the very fi our flesh. What is the mea which the deaf do appear to even invisible sounds. and the to “see” without eves? (Copyright, 1823, by P. V. (olli sense blind EDITORIAL DIGEST men, acoessory and in fact” So as Russia itself is concerned “nu ternational questions are involved this shedding of soviet blood. the Dayton News explains, “though the affair will be generally regrettci if for no other reason than the resuits it probably will produce in stirri: | up wighin the bolsheviki author a more determined effort to win t way_ through, similar enterprises The Swiss' government is open censure, as the Cleveland Plaimn Dealer ‘sees it, “for_its failure to provide protection. Diplomatic re)- resentatives of any government entitled to protection in any land government which does not such protection cannot escape demnatlon foritscarelessness.” W this.all is true, however, the Scra ton Times feels the murder “appears more the act of & man whose mind has become unbalanced by suff. than a political plot." and harder to guard against. The murder, it would appear, v« ‘evidently premeditated and cun; ly planned.” the Lynchburg suggests, and “as such appeals to ¢ | scathing condemnation of all civiliza tion,” despite the fact that there }no “moral responsibility” so fa | Switzerlang is concerned. inasmuc’ | that government had “disclaimed sponsibility for the fate of the lo shevist delegates if they remained .t Lausanne.” To which the Pittsbu Press adds, “Europe already has many causes for discord. Here is « other seed of jmplacable hatred. « other international grudge to settic " Inasmuch as the “Russians Swiss were already in disagreemc: over passports the Salt Lake D News feels “it will be difficult to termine just what responsibility th- Swiss were under. That little repu! ile in the Alps is beginning to hui» its grave political issues, and manv are just now wondering If there is tn be a Swiss fascisti government befors long.” Then. again. “the reaction wili an inflammatory effect in Rus- the Reading Tribune holds. 'ey cause “the view is held there thai ‘he world is against the present form of government. Switzerland. had she preferred not to have M. Verovsky in the country, should never have vis the passport which permitted hin enter.” Nevertheless, the Spokane Spokesman-Review insists, “a fov- ernment that has engaged in assissi- natlon on a wholesale scale cuts a contemptible figure in crying out a protest when one of fts representa- tives goes down before the pardonabla vongeance of one of its victims." Tn partly agreeing to this argument the Indianapolis News holds “crime breeds crime. When a government ix itself criminal there s no occasion for prise that its example should b tated—even if only faintly. The reizn of blood and terror which Rus witnessed can hardly help some influence even bevond the hor- ders of that unhappy nation.” A atford t 1 { ] educational. The greatest part their make-up consists of gypsy tume tellers and chance games. 3. They attract a very undesir: element.” A local evening pape: other evening carried an item, t “showman” had been arrested for ¢ ticing a sixteen-year-old girl awas from home, g 4. They take from the city thou sands upon thousands of dollars and do absolutely no good for the com- munity. 5. They come in large numbers and stay for weeks at a time. They can not be compared with a circus Lik» Barnum & Bailey's. T repeat what I wrote previousiy, it is time for the city of Washington to follow other progressive ciics and prevent them coming here. The least that can be done is to change the regulations and this the Ditsrict Com- missioners can easily do to limit their number. I repeat again, that it is for cur civic and welfare organizations (o i take action. This can be done by questing our Commissioners to cha the regulations, if that has not ready been done. It will be time enough when Congress convenes 13 commence active steps to change ti® law to prevent them coming alto- gether. A. G. FREY.