Evening Star Newspaper, May 21, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY May 21, 1983 Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 S8R Chicago Office: Tower Buildil Buropesn 18 Regent St., London, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the cits daily only, ents per i Der month. _ Or- ders may De semt by mail, or telephone Main 5000. Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. land and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T80 Daily only “1yr. $6.00; 1 mo.; 50¢ Sunday oniy THEODORE W. NOYES. St 5 . Eagland. 8. 6. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $0.0 1yr., $7.0 1 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- atches credited to It o Bot otherwise credited nis paper and also the local mews pub. 2 of publication of special dispatches herein are 1o reserved. —_——————areerr e Bonar Law's Resignation. Andrew Bonar law's resignation as premier of Great Britain does not come as a surprise, for it has been forecast by repeated reports of failing health. But it is, nevertheless, a shock, because the hope ill held that he would be able to continue at least in the titl of his office. pear as The basis of this hope ap now in the anxious speculation his ssor that follows im- the announcement of For it is apparent for this duty now n who can so surely carry on in England with the confidence of the whole country and of all factions as Me. Bonar Law. Few men have grown to such a stature as he in so short a time. Known before the break-up of the Lioyd Georgé ministry as a man of substantial dependable qualities, in the few months of his office at the head of the government he has won the esicem of all parties by his stead- fastness, abstension from polit cal gesticulation and his earnes! sagacious manzgement of the govern- ment's affairs. He has been a partisan ithout prejudice and a statesmap with a vision of the greater good and ultimate benefit of the Br people. Two names are immediately can- vassed in the news dispatches fo: the successor, Lord Curzon, foreign se tary, who has for some time been act- ing virtually at the head of the gov. ernment during the illness of the pre- mier, and My. Stanley Baldwin, chan- cellor of the exchequer. The former has been much longer in public lite, is better known and has more prestige. But he sits In the house of lords as an ultraconservative, and suffers there- fore under the handicap of compara- tive aloofness from the elements that make for party success in Great Brit- ain. Mr. Baldwin, a commoner, is cloger in touch with the active politi- cal factors, but is identified with the ““die-hards,” who are a minority fa tion of the conservatives. As leader in the house of commons in the absence of the premier he has taken active part in the recent discussions relating to foreign policies, although those poli¢ies have been in control of Lord Curzon as foreign secretary. The problem in England today, how- ever, is to find a man who can com. mand a sufficient following in parlia- ment, especially in commons. to insure & support for the ministry for a period long enough to permit the execution of a policy. In the circumstances there is much talk of a compromise on the Earl of Derby, now secretary for war. Certain personal differences hitherto limiting his usefulness have been set- tled, and it is believed that if premier he could command the services of a re- organized cabinet of some of ®he strongest conservatives who were members of the Lloyd George coali- tion cabinet, In these speculations that are com- ing from London regarding the pre. miership note is taken of the attitude of the labor element in parliament, which is in general opposed. to the se- lection of a member of the house of lords as premier. There is, however, no commoner othet than Baldwin who is believed to have the political strength and the capacity to carry on at the head of the government, but his close association with the die-hard faction may make his selection impos- sible. suce there is read —————— The abelition of poverty should be achieved in the United States within the next twenty-five years, says Miai Julia Lathrop, former head of the chil. dren's bureau and recently adjudged one of the “twelve most famous wom- en in the United States.” If what she says comes true, she will easily out. rank all the other eleven. ————— “Although it might prove somewhat difficult, T should not hesitate to begin the study of Sanskrit,” savs a fifty. year.old Lima, Ohio. clubwoman, in emphasizing the fact that the decade of the forties is woman's best age. Modest as well as brave. War Claims Against Germany. A bill of war ¢laims against Ger. many has been presented to the mixed claims commission totaling $1,479,084,. 313.92. Stated in terms of Germany curréncy at the present quotation of 50,000 to the dollar, this claim means about seventy-four trillion marke. The filing of these claims does not necessarily mean their collection. This government has brought together in this reckoning all of the ascertainable equities that may be stated “if, as and when,” as the brokers say, Germany is ever in a position to pay. The United States is not likely to press these items for collection at the pres- ent time, when Germany's debts to the allied nations in reparation is a mat- ter of grave debate involving the most difficult complications. But it is nec- essary to state the account as a mat. ter of government business. The largest claim in the list is that of the government itseif for $255,544,- 801.51 for the cost of the army of oc- cupation in Germany. That claim is now under negotiation with the allies o Baris, Then thare is a government f not in the active duties lelaim for s67.266,626.28 for general damages growing out of submarine warfare; another claim for $37,082,000 by the Veterans' Bureau for war risk | Premiums, $5,380,000 by the railvoad administration and $40,075 for war risk premiums of the Shipping Board. Individual claims range from $100,- 000,000 for alleged patent infringe. ments to $1 for the lcss of property by a prisoner of war. Lusitania claims are included. These are large in individual amounts, rising | to $5,000,000 in one case, but ranging | | | usually from $10,000 to $100,000. An interesting item in the list is the claim of George Sylvester Viereck, former editor of the Fatherland in this country, regarded as one of Ger- many’s best friends in the United States in the course of the war, who demands $13,000 for property in Ger- many. Other names appear that give rise to passing amusement considering the fact that during the war their owners were inclined to rejoice at Ger- man “frightfulness™” and destruction. For somewhat academic in character. The German government is all but bank- rupt, and despite the important part played by the United States in the winning of the victory, this country will not press for payment against the undeniably superior claims of others. Suggestion may be made that the United States itself satisfy the claims of its nationals and take over the whole debt as a government mat- ter to be pressed by this countr when Germany is in position to pay. —_————— Smith's Shocking Suggestion. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York, at a dinner at Coney Island Saturday night, discussing his possible action on the bill repealing the prohibition en- forcement law of the state of New York, is quoted as saying: “What 1 shall do will be for the best interests | of the state. Nobody owes more to! the state than I do. When T make| this decision 1 will do the best I can | to uphold and sustain the Constitution ! of the United States and the law of | this country.” Reports from New York say that this utterance is generally construed as indicating that he is inclined to veto the repeal bill. They add that his announcement has caused consterna- tion among his friends in the Tam- many organization, who freely pre- dicted that if he dues veto the repealer it will mean a break with Tammany | Hall and the loss of support of that organization in any political plans he | may have for the future. That may be true, but it is also a fact that the loss of the support of Tammany and the “wets” upstate will be as nothing compared with the sup- port he will gain fn the country at large. He will immediately become a national figure should he veto the bill, and ghould he have political aspira- | tions, especially of a national charac- { ter, the gain would be of such magni- tude that he could well afford to cast Tammany's support to the winds. 1t it is the governor's intention to veto, as would seem to be indicated by his statement, it is because of his conscience and of his appreciation of the welfare of the state and. indeed, of the country. His judgment must as- sure him that New York's refusal to enforce the Constitution of the United States and the Volstead act, the law of the nation, would deal a severe blow to law enforcement generally and i to respect for the Constitution. A man would take upon himself a terrible responsibility by his individual action in thus flaunting the C tution and the law. In vetoing, he would not stultify his attitude favoring light wines and beers. which was | the present these claims are lar case actually in dissolution. The office 6f recorder of deeds is self- suetaining. It i§ indeed a profit- making establishment. It has “‘earned” many times the amount necessary to bulld a permanent, safe housing. Though this argument has been fre- quently presented to Congress it has been steadfastly rejected. In the case of the income tax unit housed in one of the temporary war buildings, the government faces an ir- reparable loss in the event of the col- lapse of the structure, which is feared, or in case of fire. Records that cannot be reproduced, upon which depend the payment of millions of dollars in in- come taxes, are daily exposed to de- struction. These conditions should surely be { 8tated to Congress at the next session in such terms that there can be no further delay in the provision of ade- quate funds for the proper housing of government works that involve such vast interests and such great values. Efficiency Rewards. There are branches of the govern. ment at Washington which encour- age initiative and inventiveness among the workers. There is an opin- ion strongly held by some persons that in a government office or workshop new and improved ways of doing things are officially frowned on, and that & man or woman who finds shorter process for doing the assigned work s out of Tuck. It must be that in some government offices this Is the case. because it seems that a beliel that new ways and short cuts are not wanted could ly be so widespread and stron, unless there were some foundation for it. But it appears that in one branch of the Post Office Department they give prizes and official letters of ap- proval to persons who find a better way of doing their work. The Star, in a news story, told of awards of cash prizes and a letter of commendation signed the Post- master General for:several small in- ventions made and used by men in the mail bag repair shops. One young man was rewarded for inventing a de- vice for ‘reaming” or enlarging key- holes in mail bag locks: another for an invention for cutting lacing cords for mail bags: another for a device for bending tumbler springs in mail bag locke, and the third assistant post- master general was given a prize for his slogan last winter, “Say Merry Christmas with a postal money ord Here is a government shop in which Progress is &pelled with a capital P. Perhaps some time one may read that an humble clerk has been given a cash prize and a letter of commenda by jtion from the head of the department for devising a way of shortening the correspondence methods of the office or for discovering an improved way of getting out an answer to an anx- fous writer asking for information which it is thought the department should be able to furnish. —————— A New Jersey jury rendered a ver dict in favor of a plaintiff whose hu band had been killed in a motor smash- | up, and then set the damages at $500 Judge Bodine of Newark said that such a sum for an adult human life was ridiculous and set the verdict aside. Perhaps this particular jur. seseed themselves struck an avérage valuation individually and ————— Frederick Funston, jr.. and Bmiiio Aguinaldo, jr.. are plebe classmates at West Point. bers of the “yearling” class for fre quent stagings of a stirring capture | shown when he sent to the Congress the memorial passed by the legislature of New York recommending the amendment of the Volstead act to per- mit their use. That meant changing the established law in a constitutional manner, but to repeal the énforcement act is to nullify the law and the Con- stitution. It is believed that the majority senti- ment of the people of his own and all the states will appreciate this clear distinction and will uphold him in a veto of the repeal bill. —— scene, with preliminary swims across wash basine, cap pistols and thrilling effects. —_———— And now Maude Adams is returning to the stage..She may have been in- spired by the example of the late Sarah Bernhardt, who, however, never was awa ——— . Now it Is rumored that the Prince of Wales will wed a-Welsh girl. Those who own St. David as their patron hope he will not welsh on this propo- According to a Philadelphia scien- tist we can begin to look forward to the day when we can carry a vest- pocket case of tabloid “hormones” and gions. Cannot you see the head coach just betore the game feeding his husky gridironers the necessary gland ex- tract to make them chew up the othér fellows? The right pill just before a ! necessary apology will also put one in the proper humble frame of mind to #0 through with it. ————— The socialist party of America has passed a reésolution calling on Con- gress to Impeach Chief Justice Wil liam Howard Taft. If they will only forget to appoint & committee our es- teemed ex-President will be safe. Records Exposed to Loss. - Notice served on the District Com- missioners that the owners of the building in which is housed the office of the recorder of deeds will not lease space there for that purpose after July 1 brings sharply to a head & sitution that has been seriously trou- blesome for & long time with respect to this important branch of the mu- nicipal government. This office was for years housed in the 614 court build- ing on Judiciary Square, but after re- modeling was transterred to outside quarters. Despite repeated efforts to secure a fireproof, suitadble housing for these invaluable records, the loss of which would mean menace to real estate ownership in the District be- yond calculation, nothing has ever been done. NOw this office faces evic- | tion bBecause the owners of the build- ing will not continue to rent it for public ofice purposes, doubtless for the reason that they look for a larger return than is provided in the appro- priations. Thus agein this government faces the possibility of the ouster of an sential part of its machinery. It is al- together the most unbusinésslike situ- ation conceivable. In every branch of the federal administration there is con- gestion. Buréaus are housed in rent- ed structures which are not suitable in design. S6me of them are sheitered in make-shift buildings that are littie more Lhan sbacks, and in oA pasticy- sition. ———————— The BSaltillo district of Mexico re- ports the first favorable outlook for a thus regulate at will our various pas-|erop in nine years. What do they|in the loss of the greater raise down there, century-plant blos- egoms? SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Commuter. Oh, strange amphiblan; never quite content; Seeking to find a different element, You make a plunge into the country air ‘When you grow weary of the city's glare. Then you plunge back and all exult- ing-say: “I very nearly missed the train today! My life is joyous, free and never slow. 1 scarce arrive ere it is time to go.” As evolution's story still is told, What changes, gradual, vet great, unfold! Your eye is plercing shock Goes through you every time you see a’ clock. From carrying bundles, in your quest of ease, Your arms grow curved into paren- theses, And as you roam you vow you're free from care, Since life is something neither here nor there. and a certain A Common Impulse. Man, he likes to make a speech, An' make it good an’ long; Bird, he hops upon a limb An’ wants to sing a song. Bulifrog bellows in de marsh, De cricket chirps his best,- An’ even de mosquito, He gits noley like de rest. De bumblébee keeps buzsin’, But the locus’ drowns him outs Dey's all a-speechifyin’; Everybody wafits to shout! Dar’ ain' no use objectin’, 'Cause it isn't nothin’ queer— ‘We kind o' wante the éarth to Stop as-| It i a pretty good bet | r that there will be requeets from mem- | other | WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Harry M. Daugherty’s comrades amile at the tale that he has said farewell to politics. It is the breath of his life, and he will not leave politics till life leaves him. The At- torney General's friends explain that his interest in politics cértainly will last as long as Warren G. Harding is in public life. Undoubtedly, but for Daugherty's personal suasion on an authenticated occasion nine years ago, Mr. Harding today would be editing his Marion newspaper instead of inhabiting the White House. Hard- ing had been beaten for the Ohio governorship in 1910. He was much depressed by his defeat and fore- swore further political ambitions. But Daugherty had other plans for him. When 1914 came, and Buckeye repub- licans were looking for a candidate for the United States Senate, Daugh- erty “found Harding sunning himself, in Florida,” brought him home, had him nominated, and then elected him. The President has invited Daugherty to join the Harding party on its return from Alaska and malze the gater trip back ‘Washington. The Attorney | General's physicians say he can do it. * % k% George L. Berry, head of the Inter- national Printing Pressmen's Union, who has just been triumphantly ac- quitted of charges of malfeasance in | office, was a major in the American expeditionary forces and rendered outstanding “service in command of battalions in Fran At the conference Maj. Berry was a o officer between the American hor delgation and the labor repre- | itatives of the allied powers. ! Pressmen’s Home, Tennessee, the splendid philanthropic establishment | founded and maintai by the pressmen’s union, is mainly Berry's creation and he still directs its af aire. Berry is a past national vice commander of the American Legion * A John Bull expects that our pro- verbial sensg of humor will solve the | question of liquor ships entering | American waters. Says the vener- able Sunday Timse of London: ‘Of course. a way out will _be found. The situation is too farcically | imposeible to last. It will not even i1 be necessary 16 forbid American ships to enter British ports on the grcund that they do not carry the iegal quantity of liquor. Sooner or later American humor will be touch- ed, and then sanity and decency will | reign again.” PR Cyrus E. Woods. newly appointed | ambassador to Japan, will sall for | Yokohama from San Francisco aboard S. S. President Taft on June He hopes to tarry a day at Honolulu and discuss Hawalian conditions with Gov. Farrington. While in Washing- ton this week Mr. Woods pald his respects to Mr. Hanihara, the Japa- nese ambassador. who will entertain formally in his honor next month. A Washingtonian with whom Amba dor Woods spent reminiscent hours was Warren F. Martin, special assist- ant to the Attorney General and fo many years Philander C. Knox' right-hand man. It was under Knox' aegis that Mr. Woods entered the dipiomatic_service in 1912, Our new envoy to Tokio is one of the elite in- tellectual _company that proudly wears the Phi Beta Kappa key. won at Lafayette College In 1886. Secre- | {Envoy of Austria at { {BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY | All the generous and kindly efforts powsrs of the entents indi- and through the league of put Austria Lt feet by means of official and | nd by the extension the sums due by her ad of reparations for her s destruction of private prop- A devastation of territories of ring the earlier stages war are certain to be id nd_possibly even sus- pended by the frightfully injudicious ation made by Prof. Hartmann at Frankfort-on-Main last Friday, speaking in his capacity as Austrian ambassador at Berlin, to the effect that his_countrymen were hard and fast in their yearning for union with Germany and for the co-ordination of Prussia, the middle states of Ger- many and Austria Into one united European nation. This uttérance was made on the occasion of the celebra. tion of the séventy-ffth anniversary of the meeting of the A German parliament at Frankfort ahd in the presence of President Ebert, the ehief magistrate of the Prussian républic, of the president of the reichstag and of the leading authorities of the southern states of Germany. It shows once more that the Aus- trian will never learn. It was their; alliance with Germany which drove them into the great war which cul- minated in the disruption of theéir ancient empire and in thelr réduction to the rank of a fifth-class nation, and art of their territory. When the late Em- peror Charles, shortly after his cession to the throne at Vienna, rei lized the hopelessness of thée great {war, at any rate as far as Austria was concerned. and sought to nego- tiate a separate péace with the pow- #rs of the entente, which would have saved her from dismemberment, it [was Berlin who forced her to remain the union of the central powers, and {actually threatened to invade her ter- | vitory, at the same time appealing 1o { the German population of Austria to rige against the goverhment at Vienna if it continued to pursue its negoti- ations with France and Great Britain for a separate peace. . Indeed, Austria’s alliance with G many has been the entiré cause of her downfall and ruln, and Doth during the war and immédiately subsequent thereto the Austrians were accuse tomed to heap upon Bérlin all their {curses for the disasters by which they had been overtaken. ‘When economic and political chaos appeared imminent at Vienna and the Eovernment there, absolutély _insol- vent, was on the point of abandoning its tack and the nation seémed to be on the eve of extifiction as an inde- pendent and sovereigh stats. the én. tente powers rémolved to eéxtend a helping hand, movéed theréto not alone by pity, but also by the con- viction that Germany would stép i and absorb Austrin. “This was some- hing Which the ailles wished at all costs to prevent. Indi t my memory serves me aright, a spécial pi vision was made by the Parls péace con- ference of 1919 against any eventual uhion between Germany and Austria, and both countries were placed under the strictest kind of obligations to bstain therefrom. A fet now we find the ambassader of Austria, speaking in the name of his government, proclaiming _the earnest longing of Ris Eovernment and of his people {0 become & prove ince of Germany, and the présidént of the German republic, with the lead- ing authorities of Berlin sitting by and_vigorously applauding these re- marks and_expressing a hopé for their early realigation. union tween Germany and Austiia, that is 1o say, the absérption of thé latter by the fofmer, would bs the climax of the absurdities resulting from the interna- tiohal congress of peace of 1919 in % % x are two Lords Curzon. Thére is the Curson, the former vice- af fof the { vidua i nations to - more on fof Paris and Versailles. As many of my readers know, thers ot 3 Wflnfllm NOwW secretary of stats foreign affairs and possessed of nsl fame as OBSERVATIONS | Secretary { Among those who lels and Angus Hope Two Nations May Merge Soon B taries Hughes and Hoover are simi- larly adorned. * x ok ¥ Karl Heinrich von Wiegand, the American newspaper man, who won fame in 1914 and 1915 by interviewing the kaiser, the German crown prince, Tirpitz, Zeppelin, Hindenburg and the other Prussian war gods, now lives the life of @ nabob in Berlin. A com- munication to this observer from Unter den Linden says “Wiegand | has become a personage; has two automobiles. a Russian ' chauffeur, a royal villa on Lake Starnberger, near Munich, and orders the foreign office to buy tickets and make reser- vations tor him when he, his wife, or his maid wants to go anywhere.” In 1906 Wiegand ran a little bookshop in San Francisco till the earthquake put him out of business. * ok ok x Japanese public interest in foreign affairs, and in the affairs of the United States, increases from day to day. A second group of important Nipponese newspapers, the Asahis of Tokio and Osaka. has now sent a per- manent representative to this coun- try. He is Mr. I. Fukuda, who was in Washington this week. Fukuda never was in an English-speaking country before, but commands our language, merely from study in the Japanese schools, with entire fluenc, He deplores the over rapid Ameri- canization of the in the United States, at least, as he has per- sonally observed it from a brief ex- perience. [Fukuda took lodgings in the Japan Club in West 93d street, New York city, night he came down for dinne < Clad in the native costume of panese gen- tieman—a with an at- tendant. also eminded him that he was in A now and only American attire was permitted at the Japan Club! i The week witnessed a formidable gathering of the ifcAdoo clans in Washington, incidental to the former of the for the Hamilton oregathered with him were Jouett Shouse of Kans Senator King of Utah, Josephus Dan- McLean of North Carolina, and Daniel C. Roper and Kobert W. Woolley of Washington. Mr. McAdoo says he did uct come to the capital to talk politics, hut on on behalf of his big California clien the Bank of Italy. Some of the M Adoo booster: claim a \ention noses for 152 1 hysic impose ibility thirds vote for their favorite. Othe that the country's dry sentiment the growing wave ultra- Frogressivism make McAdoo undoub cdly the strongest card in tie d cratic pack Huston Thompson, commissioner, whe Wilson's unsuc the senatorial federal trade was Woodrow candidate for in Colorado, ul vacaney € ] rrobably was combated by rival ele- ments mainly on the sround of his nun-residence in the state. As matter of fact, Thompson tor a aua ter of a century has bLeer intimately identificd with Colorado. ke began law practice there in 1894, married a Coiorado woman, is the father of a Colorado-born child, maintuins his voting domicile within the common- wealth and is a Colorads property owner. He has becn a profesgor of law In the state university and was twice assistant attoru.y general at Denver. In college days at Prince- ton in the late nineties Thompson was a famous varsity foct ball star. {Copyrigl ) Berlin Voices statesman. Then there is Viscount Curzon, member of parliament for or of the ‘suburban divisions of Londo and who is th eldest zon and heir the Earl of Howe, ounty Curzon being one d nities of his e mitted by lox use as than of law Until now Viscount €u been mainly known to the pu the husband of a very lovely Who on frequent occasions ured as the quzen of beauty historical pageants. In fact band was completely t ) the shadow by her loveliness and by the admiration which she aroused among rich and poor. Yet Lord Curzon does not deserve to be overlooked. For he served with considerable d tion throughout the great wa ginning with his participation ctivities of the British naval brigade Antwerp in 1914 and afterward Joining the royal naval reserve in Gallipoll, where he was nearly all the time under extremely hea five. Lord Curzon. while serving in the British channel and in the Mcditer- ranean as officer of a destroyer. de- voted himself to learning everything about his ship, and especially about its engines. and on the restoration of eace joined the Marine Engineers’ oval Institute, of which he has just been elected president. He is said to know more about the technique of internal-combustion engines than most of their constructors and has contributed & lot of sound investiga- tion to the future application of big Diesel engines. 1In fact, Lord Cur h, by the eminence which he h ready achieved in the science of marine engineering, has furnished evidence that he will prove a very uséful citizan and as much of an ornament from a public point of view In the house of lords as his beautiful wife, who is also hig¢ cou- sin, is to London society. e Lord Curgon has an American step- motheér, his father a couple of years or #o ago having married Florenc daughter of John H. Davis, the X York banker, and widow of the sec- ond Marquis of Dufferin. She spent her childhood in_the region of Wash- ington Bquare, New York, and at the time of her debut into society at- teacted much notice by her comeli- ness and by her musical gifts. Lord Howe and his son, Viscount Curson, are descended, like the Mar- quis of Curzon. from a Norman knight of_the name ‘of Giraline de Curzon, who received a number of manors in Oxfordshire and in Berkshire from Willlam “the Conqueror and Wk founded three lines, namely, the Cur- zons of Gopsal, the Curzons of Ked- leston and the Curzons of Waterperr The Curzons of Kedleston #lone su vive. being able to trace their deacent in an unbroken” main line from the founder of their house. King Charles I oonferréd a baronetcy on the Cur- sons of Kedleston of his day and the sécond baronet married Sarah, daugh- ter_of Willlam Penn, a cousin and namesake of the founder of Penneyl- vahia. In this way Penn Marnor, in Buckinghamshire, the ancestral home of the Penn family, is today fn possesion of Richara Curzon, Earl Howe. Bordering on the Penn Manor estate is the Quaker burial ground| known as Jordans, in which revose; the ashes of William Penn, the found- er of Pennsylvania, and of his two wives. The fourth of the Curzons of Kedleston baronets had two sons, the élder of whom was elevated to the ?ur-ge Lord Scarsdale, and was he ahcestor of the present Marquis of Curzon. The younger brother, Ashton, was created Lord Curzon in 1802, Lord Curzon's son. Penn Cur- zon, married Sophia, Baroness Howe, ughtér and heiress of the famous dmiral Lord Howe and niéce of the wo génerals of the same name, one of whom fell in the battle of Ticon- deroga, whilé the other was com- mander-in-chief of the British mies In America from 1776 to 1778. The #on of Sophla, Baroness Howe, and of hét huBband, the Hon. Penn Curzon, inherited his paternal grand- father's viscounty of Curzon and also his mother's barony of Howse and was created Earl of Howe by King George IV on the occaslon of his ha in great i | | { terful coronation. jtions Dangers of Streets Man on Foot Protests Speeding Drivers. To the Editor of The Star: With the record of nineteen Killed and 394 injured since January 1 many of the casualties due to pedes- triuns attempting to cross the streets, or otherwise interfering with motor traffic in Washington, should we not set forth for the benefit of some of the misguided ones still with us a few axiomatic principles, apparently forgotten, chief among which is the elementary maxim 20 the driver be- longs the road. Reminders of disasters are conspic- uously placed where all who walk may read, but no attention i» paid to them. The latest and most eloquent addition to the litérature of the streets informs these errant ones that to avoid being crippled they should be cautious possibly something which never occurred to them, excepting as a pleasant conceit originating in the humorous minds of the Washington Safety Council. Most unhappily the radical reac- tionaries among the “footers” refuse 1o subscribe to the doctrine that the motorists own the streets, and loudly proclaim that they are entitled to use the thoroughfares without being run over. They even go s0 far as to insist that the authorities should establish and maintain a speed limit withjn the populous city limits and that jail sentences should be im- partially inflicted upon motorists who drive carelessly, jeopardizing the lives of citizens, as well as those who kill and mangle their victims. These nrighteous malcontents flercely de- laim that many motorists drive with reckless abandon, wholly disregard the wafety of pedestrians and that at night a very considerable number of cars are to be seen speeding along without lights or with only spot- lights visible, in all of which they are unmolested by the police. Even if true, these irreconcilables ought to remember that from time immemorial the driver had always a recognized advaniage over the hiker. The owner of a $10,000 accident pol- lcy of insurance, conscious of the fact that heaven is always on the side of the corporations and that he is. therefore, immune from danger While traverhing the streets of the National Capital, may find that the Fumunity does not work as against 2 $10,000 touring car and that where death stalks proudly about between curbs, inviting the unwary to an untimely end. no one is fortified against disaster. A fund of humor offers itself to any one #0 constituted that he knows the differ- ence between an almanac joke and Mr. Bryan's definition of science, by merely standing on some busy corner, say at W York avenue and 15th street, and from that vantage ground to watch the sober throng of office folk homeward d Ing with calamity at the Some old man with rus joints and palpitating heart wiil ne. Botiate a passage between the street car piatform and the curb as if age and infirmity were a taiisman of y. He waits the oncoming and departure of fiying machines till a hiatus offers, then he ventures a little way, retreats quick- I¥ to avoid some youthful driver madly careening along the avenue and for his pains receives only a mocking laugh from the youngster as he whizzes past. Again he will venture, this time con- vinced that the approaching motorist is too far to catch him in his journey, but, alas' the driver of that distant car is guddenly reminded that he may save two minutes in his three-mile trip home by stepping on the gas, and, presto, our ancient friend, doing the hop, skip and jump as he did at the age of six, es capes by the breadth of a hair and adds a long delayed apopolectic stroke to his pleasures of the morrow. 1f there is one crumb of comfort in all this, it Is that very few motorists will deign to jump the curb and chase the pedeatrian down the sidewalk. Perhaps the “fun” involved in this maneuver has thus far escaped at- tention. Tt might be suggested as & random shot at any official regula- that the unfortunate persons insist upon walking should be tted to cross streets midway ecn intersections so as to avoid attacks from the rear, as is now at crossings, naturally due 0 a of éyes in the back of the head seems to be forgotten by the ge foot passenger that the mo- securely intrenched in his flanked bastion, has nothing to r from collision with the yielding ne of the human anatomy, but the alty of the law. and this is €o n and easily defiected that he takos chances without risk of punish- ment Motorists of the patrician group. generously endowed with wealth and possessed with a&reat influence in e affairs, have satisfactorily to themselves added a new word to the dictionary of the road in thé cheerful epithet “jaywalker.” meaning a vari- exated Kind of “nut” which has the propensity of always being in the way and ready at a moment's notice to call out the ambulance, and they malign this adventurous genius as the cause of all their misfortunes ex- cept tire or engine troubles. So it happens that the family and friends of the luckless footperson never really know that he was a jaywalker until after the inquest. and then it is too late to warn him against ven- turing upon the streets May we not secure some rules per- tinent to the art of navigation upon our thoroughfares and the follow- ing suggestions of a cross reference variety are offered for the presérva- tion of those who deem it necessary to stir out of the houwe for a little excreise. Learn the goose step. The agility required for this performance tends to make one able at a moment's no- tice to side-step any auto, or jugger- naut truck, and to do the act grace- sully. Meanwhile, the modern dances, prize-fighting, amateur golf, moun- tain_ hikes, “all contribute to the strength and skill necessary to main- tain a stcceksful flight from curb to curb. LOUIS ERNEST PHILLIPS. In a Few Word: American labor is evolutionary and constructive. It is not révolutionary, ahd it declines to adopt any of the shibboleths or symbols of revolution- ary movements. —SAMUEL GOMPERS. Mussolini began life as a brick- layer, and still boasts that his bricks were well and truly Jaid. Tt is a pity he laid aside the trowel for the sword. It is only by bricklaying even in politics that anvthing solid and permanent can be accomplished. —ISRAEL ZANGWILL. If ever a man is to be a real any- thing. the sense of privilege will be the sig! A physician to whom doc- toring, is not a privilege is no real physician. ‘A teacher to whom teach- ing is ot a privilege is no real teacher. A-fnenfl to \vo z}r l!r"le‘mlndm» ot a privilege is no real Priend. 8 o ARRY BMERSON FOSDICK. The Russian experimeént has proven that communism destrovs initiative and that no human power can substi- tute what God has implanted in man and woman, the incentive of pérsonal gain and the security of property gained by personal effort. —CHAUNCEY DEPEW. Nine out of ten insurgents are peo- ple who, having failed to achieve any- thing under the rules of the game, bécause of their laginess, incompe- tence or crankiness, are willing to dat to win. . —FREEMAN TILDEN. The pistel is becoming a national badge of this country. Even the dies have taken to toting them. It more important for América to have individual ditarmament than to scraf a dozen battles] ._gHIEF MAG!S'!'RA'F McADOO. Mankind cannot bs taugkht wherp its passions and prejudioes are con- d. T —LLOYD GEORGE. One of the characteristics of the average American is that he resnts the “ave . e term "¢ Rfen . cuanunas. {ana fill against the | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. The Conservation Assoclation, of which Gov. Gifford Pincaot has been president since 1909, has merged with the American Forestry Associa- tion, Col. Henry 8. Graves, president. Maybe there is nothing else worth saving now but the forests, yet there is certainly increasing need of con- serving trees. A tree lover of Wash- ington, seeking a home, published a wise appeal recently to all builders to desist from their proneness to clear away the trees from their plots before erecting homes to sell. He alleged that it is @ mania of our builders to make deserts of home lots. Wash- ington is today noted for its foliage, which, perhaps, constitutes its chief pride. ng life to the Forestry As- sociation In its determination to keep it so. If the Forestry Associgtion takes over the honors of the Conservation Association, will it also take over its responsibilities to conserve the water- falls and government-owned coal and oil lands? E kv Nearly all the great inventions, -and many of less importance, have come about through aciident. The inventor was bent on some quite different aim, when he stumbled upon a sur- prise more important than his original idea. For example, the story is often told that in the early days of steam power there was no machine that ran auto- matically. It was necessary to have a boy attend the engine, so that when the steam entered the cylinder and pushed the piston to the limit. the boy would open a cock which would let the steam out behind the piston its head, driving it back. The boy was interésted in reading a story, and he discovered that he could tie a string to a part of the machine in such a way that when the piston reached a certain point it would pull the string, which would open the cock, and so reverse the piston, as well as if he did it himselr. The plan worked well, until his employer made the discovery that the I boy was “loafing” on the job— yet the engine continued to run. The emplover got a patent -on thé boy's marvelous invention. The boy got— a ecolding. So runs the story of the invention of automatic power. * % X % a similar case of a “very He is an Italian who en- tered the service of the Post Office De- partment a few months ago, and set to the work of reaming keyholes in locks on mailbags. Not a thrilling task, After he had been at the work only'a few weeks he excited the jeal- ousy of the other employes because his records showed that he reamed twice as many keyholes in a day as did anybody else. He was accused of lying "about his records and was brought up for discipline. Every- body said he could not pos#ibly ream so_many In a day Then he showed a little invention he had made for the work, and he easily demonstrated that it wae his machine which did the work twice {as fast as hand work. He had been !hiding his “jig", but now the jig is up, and Antonio J. Lombardi is an inventor. Uncle Sam rewards hi with a prize of $25. What will com- mercial firms give him? The man who dug a cellar and re- tailed the hole for postholes might set a fine examplé to the boy—he might ream a bank vault in which to store his prize. * * % % Dr. Lorenz, the Wisconsin psychi- atrist who startled the national con- vention of welfare workers, last week by declaring that there are to- day over 20,000 veterans of the worid ar imprisoned on various crimipal charges, largely due to their menfal break-up, of service origin, has cer- tainly started something of grave fm- portance. Already his statements are {#aid 1o have been confirmed by the |records of the Veterans' Bureau. The situation aroused tha 5,000 dele- gates to the conferenceé as nothing else in the convention had done, A movement s under way, through the Joint action of the Veteran's Bureau. the American Legion and several lother organizations of veterans. to make a survey of all penal instity- tions of the country, and when such wrongs are discoversd. efforts will be made to secure the pardons of the victime. ¥k & There is a school of psychiatrists who make much over the name given to certain cases generally classified as “shell shock.” They even say that theré is no such thing as “shell Worst Tradition of American Uni-| versity Life. Whether or not investigation de- termines that Lelghton Mount, whose skeleton is said to have been found under a Lake Michigan pier, was a victim of the hazing of freshmen at Northwestern University in 1921, the incident, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer, “will at least have called attentioh to one of the worst tradi- tions of Ameérican undergraduate life,”” and, the Dallas Journal adds, “is gertain to provoke publie condemna- tion of the hazing practice as it has . COLLINS shock. of all victim.” It matters nothing whit the condi- tlon ig called. If it leads to. suicidal mania or homicidal tendenciss, or any lesser crime tendencies. theé victidy needs skilled attention, not the blast. ing of hope by making him a eriminal in the eves of the law and communit, according to Dr. Lorenz. % ox Many of the so-called shell-shock cases originated hundreds of miles away from battle or air raid. Thers were no shells to cause the shock, therefore, of course, it Is a misnomer to call them “shell-shock cases,’ Sometimes the victims were scared an utter collapse, and ths Nsé mechanism"—nerves—gave Yet they suffered mentally and physically, and ceased to be moraliy or legally responsible, say the ox- perts in mental science. But. 20.000 in jail today for crimes for which they are not responsible ix enough to shell shock the American public! 7 It is "simply a breaking down defense mechanism of the * x x * Some day civilization will find a better way to discipline the criminal cl than by imprisonment or execcu- tlon. There Is an institution in Wash- ington, in which there are thousands of insane men many of them former soldlers—and the director of clinics states that, when men arrive there, committed as desperate character dangerous men with homicidal tend: encies—men laden with 1 from head to foot—his first order is to move all shackles and let the man stand upright. He says that in the entire institution there i straitjacket, camisole or such " torturing means of restraint, and that never, except for surgical operations, i a man bound, and nona Is put In solitary confinement. What power must exist in sonality, when one scientifical trained man can release the most de perate from restraining chains, and do it with safety and beneficial 1 sults! *x There is another example of the power of personality which controls viclous and dangerous characters. There is a penal institution where hundreds of white and black girls are sent by the courts. These prisoners are—or have been—recognized as most desperate. A most prominemt lady of Washington, with philanthroy impulee, visited the institution sor months ago and was so shocked conditions noted that ehe set to wo t6 have the authoritics in charge con pletely changed. Being a lad fluence, she accomplished a « and a new superintendent was gaged—a lady recommended by Ja Addams as the greatest in her line | America. At that place there had been ons girl in solitary confinement seven months—a despérate character. Thera were many thieves. An average of three times a week there was staged a riot requiring many policemen to overcome. ko Months have gone by aince then, and there are no more riots, the “des- perate” victim of seven months’ soli- tary confinement has even been per- mitted to visit her mother without a guard, and the girl who takes cars of the unlocked room of the super- intendent is known to have the worst récord in the fnstitution as a thief. but nothing is ever locked up—nor ever stolen. * 5w What ¥ the secret of such per- sonality? It is sympathy and pFehénsion of the human heart. it be imparted to others? WUght? When it cun cast” over the world, o may take long vacations, for then the world's problems will have been solved. and the prisons will becoms museums of a semi-civilized past. This is far from sent ty, but It is the most inspiring t this side of the millennium ki While our forefathers were detor- mined to keep church and state e tirely weparate, it is now discovered that the capital of the nation is cen- tered in a church. The bureau of tha census announces that the center of population of Washington is exactly in the Central Methodist Episcopal Church, at 1215 5th street northwest. “Westward the star of empire takes its course,” even though it travels at a snail's pace (Copyrigh con Can Can it bs be “broad- states by P. V. Col EDITORIAL DIGEST 1688 ‘running’ within the etudent Lody which goftens the brashness snd tonies ‘down the rough edges of tha freshmen ie one thing.” the Knicker- bocker Press (Albany) thinks: “tor- ture. physical abuse and felonious a<- sault are something elee, and some- thing which ought to be suppresse!l With the utmost firfines Boys thelr teens, says the Sioux City J nal. “are not responcible agents ! their own destinles. Given their free- dom, the quickest development of which they are capable is the ex- loftation “of thélr irresponsibility. eedlessnese. careléssness; and it is a serious matter when the violence of uncontrolled play results in_such a ewsome accident befell Lelghton fount.” ~ The feéling of irrespon bility is encouraged. the Decatur been Indulged in American uni- vereities and colleges.” Such con- ]demnalmn indeed, strongly ex- pressed In editorial columns, followad by & demand for a complete abolition of hazings =nd unregulated class rushes in those schools which still permit them. “American college authorities have been fighting hazing for a-quarter of a century,” the Elkhart (Ind.) Truth reports, and, according to the Lincoln Star “the American people had {thought _that it was a tning of the | past” Now, however., “within three days after 'one Northwestern Uni- vereity freshman was killed and six wero injured in a class war, the skeleton of Leighton Mount, missing student of the same college, W | found under an old pier.”” making it | evident to the Lansing State Journal that so far as that college at least s toncerned there has been no .ban on hazing, and that ‘college authori- ties have permitted the disgraceful battles to continue with resultant in. Juries.” “The shock of the scandal is like a dip into ice water for Northwest- ,” but the Wichita Eagle thinks ‘may be a life saver for the uni- vetsities. In the excitement of the moment the ultimate gain looms small and far. But there should be an ulti- mate gain,” for, as the New Bedford Standard points out, “the case ré- opens the old question of the sup- pression of hazing, class rushing and other forms of student ebullition that are part of the traditions of many American colleges.” *“What if it is a tradition?’ the Charleston Mail ob Jeots: “colleges should lead in casting off traditions that are relics of bar- em.” b.'pha ‘Appleton Post Crescent finds that “haszing is geénerally a subject for hutnor, and the publi¢ has up to this time been tolérant of the pranks which the hazers play upon their unfortunate victim: rdinarily, the Pinghamton Préss says, “there is no more harm in college hazing than there is in college foot ball.” Neve ville Banner co ‘hazing has résulted in unnece! sary fatalities tithe and time agal Each set of hazers flas Been desirous of improving on the tortures pre. viously uséd and the result h usually been a tragedy.,” “The harm- Herald belie by the apparent ai- titude that “college students should be immune to punishment for trans- gréssions of the law for which non- collegians could not lope to escapp penaity,” and while “the law does not &top at campus boundaries, and im- munity does not hedge collegians,” the paper points out that “policemen seldom make arrests for disorderly conduct when freshmen and sopho- mores engage in class scraps on o lege territory, and coliegze authorities usually prefer to exercise their own disciplinary powers rather than to call in the law." However, “hazing that ends fatally is murder.” the Oregon Journal (Port- 1and) deciares. and “those who com- mit that kind of murder should be dealt with llke any other criminaiy” and “civil authorities,” the New York World suggésts. “could do more than college presidents, by the enforcement of the pénalties of the law, to check such ‘college pranks’ as felonious as- sault and manslaughter. “Acgidents are the conat; youth.” the World continu, “death ma N at any time when large bodies 6f young meén engage in flll\,~ ing not meant to be fatal, even in friendly frolie. What should not hap- pen 18 that death in such circum- stanées be concealed by means sug- gesting the calculating criminal.” 1f in fact Leighton Mount did die “from rough treatment at_the hands of his fellows,” the Duluth Herald holds that “they 'wolid have been wiser and nobler to havé made the truth known then and there. Rhey might have suf- téred punishment. but thay wou Hhave had sympathy and respect fdr their frankness.” The evidence that the body was secreted forces the Chicago ‘Tribune “to the conclusion at least gullty knowledgs on the part of some one.” for “we-do not hide human bodies in this day and age unless we wish at the same time to hide evidence of death and responsi- bility for death.” That phase of the atory léads the Mobile Register to suggest that the university ¥institute a courseé of léctures upon student hon- orable conduct, and make attendance compulsory.” o Because of the edict of the college authorities banning hasing and clase rushes “for all time,” many “innocent persons will suffer” but the Kansas cu{ Journal bslievas it better “to make college 1ifé drad rather than have it stalned with blood.” . - t tiek of