Evening Star Newspaper, May 22, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. May 22, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Conipany Business Offce. 131h 8t. and Peansyivapia Avé. New York Office: 150 Nassau 8t. Tower Chicago Office: Européan Offce: 18 Regeat St.. Lon iding, don. Englabd The Evening Star. with the Sunfks mordidg adition. 1s deliversd by cArriors within the city 3760 cents per month: daliy only. 45 ceatd per /-month: Bunday onl; cents per month. Or- Atrs may be sent by mail, or {elenhone Main 8000, Collection is tade by catriers at the #nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mar§land and Virginia. Daily and Sunda $8.40; 1 mo, Daily only 4 $6.00: 1 m6. Sunday -only $2.405 1 mo., , T0e All Other Stateés. . $10.00: 1 mo. 7.00; 1 mo. . §3.00; 1 mo., 85¢ 0c Mermber of the Associated Préss. The Aweociated Pross in exclusively Satitied o the use for republication of All ndws dis- atchen crédited to it or mht otherwise credited n_this paner and also the lockl news pub: lished herein. ALl rights of publication of apecial Bispatches herdin are also reserved. L — ] A Shrine Week Safety Measure. The magnitude of the task of enter- taining 800,000 visitors or more i this city for séveral days is indicated by the suggestion that as a measure of safety and actual transportation the entire streteh of Pennsylvania avehue hetween the Capitol and 17th street should be closed to traffic during the week of Juhe 4-9. This proposal is to rveceive consideration at a conference of officials at fhe District building to- morrow. The plan is_io keep off the Avenue Auring that period all véhicular traf- fic save that which is absolutely nec- " essary in the transaction of busines: leaving the street cars, of courseé, in operation save during the parades. Traffic would be permitte@ across the Avenue north and south, but, except upon particular permits, not east and west. 2 So radical a départure-from the cus- tom of the eity is not fo be warranted save upon the most urgént need. It is believed that with several hundred thousand strangers in the eity the sidewalks will not suffice to accommo- date the crowds-during the week of numerous attractions, and that it will be neceseary to permit them to flow into the stréet area. At numerous points great stands have Been erected upon the sidewalk $paces. and it is . even now difficult for the people to make progress withdut passing into the area of traffic. It is too late now to consider whether it was wise or justified to place so many and such large stands upon the sidewalks. They are in posi- tion and presumably must remain. Clearly, whatever the justification for them in those poeitions and in their present numbers and size; they offer serious obstructions to the pedestrian traffic. There are several places along the Avenue where, in a few days, the streams of peopie will be entirely too great for adcommodation. If safety spaces are not assured tnéré Wil be af overflow upon the pavement and accidénts will result in large numbeérs. Thus the proposal 16 closé the Ave- nue to all save the absolutely essen- tial traffic is advanced as a meéasure of public security. In the circumstarices it is diffieult to see how it can be re- jécted. 1t is becoming increasingly evident that the undertaking to énter- tain a cérowd nearly as largé as the city's permanent population for a week calls ~for” extraordinary _pro- vistons, and it is well to consider it ir“advance of the actual gmergeficy. ————— Andrew Bonar Law‘s Premiership. | Andrew Bonar Law is undergoing a | not unusual expérience. During his acttive service hé was subject to con- stant and often sévere criticism for his policies and proceeding$. Now that he is ill and has fesigned his office he is th& object of the most flattering ympathy and the warmest enco- miums. His virtues are being retog- “nized and extolled in sinceré phrases. Former antagopists are joining if a chorus of praise fér him as a man and as a statesthan. 1t must. be a &olace to the former nremier of Great Britain to be thus applauded, and it is certainly gratify- ing to %know that he is in a position to appreciate the kindly things that are béing said of him. His ilinéss is not of a type te prevent his understanding all that i§ passin, In point of substantial qualitiés of statésmanship Andrew Bonar Law has démonstratéd himself to bé #-than of exceptional ability. He was not a 1eader in tHé seriso of being a driver. He did nét.demonstrate in office the qualities of Maghetism and comphisive pérsohality that were the prineipal en- dbwhenis of his prefecessor. He was moré stéadfast, moré sincers And more winning through reasén. When the time came for tha choice of a successor to Lioyd Géorge it was V guished former govérnor, according o Commissioner Demink, sald that'there Hadl beéh no pregress in civil service sincd the Mw went on’ the Statute books forty years ago. The corminis- sioner insists that much prégreas has been made, -and he brings vut' facts and figurés. We used to have rows and ‘ardent language concerning civil service re- form, but it is unusual now to hear a word raised against.the 8pirit and ob- jects of the law. Sonietimes men critigize the opération of the law, but generally they explain that their ob. Ject 18 to improve it. and that théy _would not hamstring it for anything In. the- orld. . One has anly to think back a few years when there wers many men high in patty councils &hd prominent- in nationel life who insisted that the civil sérvice réform’ 1aw would work harm, that it was contrary to the splrit of the-republic, and that témperary appointment” to clerkships anad other government jobs at Washirigton with rotation in oMce, and plenty of rota- tion, was the proper tHing. It is ex- ceptionial mow to heatsuch views ex- pressed. 3 Times have changed and the civil service law is here, has beén here a gobd many yeéars and s here to’stay. There is he thought in any responsible mind of golfig’ back to thé “good old days' when govérnment clérks came and went with each administration or 28 the members of Congress from their districts were changed. There may be quite & nuimber of men in public life who Would shoot holés in the civil service Iaw if they could do it quietly, but they knéw that it would be con- trary to public opinion, public con- science and the current idea of good government to pull the trigs: R - " Areas of Tsolation. If banditry such as that which has just beeurred in China contihues un- checked, with foreigners the object of attack and possibly of murder, thdt great area may be regarded as closdd to travel, even in a measure to trade. The failure of effective government leaves free the forces of barbarism against which civilization cannot, short of active intervention, make headway. China has been opened to world con- taéts in very great measure during the past few' decades. Up to the time of the Boxer revolt’in 1900, and after that -spasm of anti-foreign reaction, the major part of the former empire has been virtually free to all comers for trade or visit. Even Tibet, once closed tightly, was .brought into re- istionship With _thé outer world through the Younghusband expedi- tion which broke down thé influénce of the dalai lama. : Now, as a result of fadtioh and fail- ure of céntrai-authority, the land is closing again. Save in the fringes of the coast travel in Chind is attended with the gravest perils. There is no assured protéetion for foreigners, anl evén Chinese themselves are exposefl to kidnapers and ransom seekers.® if the gates thus swing shut upoh this vast.land the world will present tHe remarkable 8pectaclé of two of the largest countriés in effect tlosed to for- eign visitation and influence, China 4nd Russia. Today -soviet Russia is bevond ‘thé pale, in bath. Europe and Asia.- An area of approximately 7,500, 000 square mifles is out of relationship to civilization, with a population of at 1east 125,000.000. The aréa of China affected by the present disorders and anti-foreign in- fluences is roughly 4.300,000 square miles, and the popllation=Chinese census figures are always' rough-ap- j proximations--426,000,000. Putting_ together the Chinese and Russian areas and populations theré results a total of 11,800,000 square miles and 651,000,000 péople who, in contiguous territory, are out of con- tact, or about 20 pér eént of the land { surface of the world and 32 per cent of the population. One-fifth of the surface and nearly ofé-third of the people! Ot ¢durse, such a condition cannot continue. A change must come. The barriers between Russia and the rest of the tworl@ 8et up through the radi- edlism of the bolshevists must be razed in time, and thdt immense, rich land brought once moré into relationship through the establishment o proper government. In China, too, a restora- tion of order is to be expected. The tendency of civilization is not back- ward, an@ evén in such difficulties as those -that have déeveléped in the far eadt advaneé must be resumed. [ P P Ohe of thé most highly appreciated eompliments ever extended by one na- tion to anbther was the gift by Japan of the cherry blossott trees that bring springtime splendor to Potomac Park. Some day Afnerica will utilize our ‘na- tive dogwood blossoms ifi more sys- tematie effect, ahd be able to recipro- cate the courtesy on équdl terins. —— e Palicé préparatioris for Shrinery week are mélancholy remindérs of the pernicibus élement of society that de- liberately undertakes t6 turh évéry big r8cognized in England that there would fecessarily be a “let-86Wh" in point 6f political management. For théré %as no one in line whe céuld be ratéd @s the Welshman's équal in méafiéuvering and parliamentary strat- egy. Bonat Law played no gdme for the premiership. It is beliéved, indeed, that he did not want it, and that he Accepted it only under préssure. Hé felt that his health Wwas failing, and he { réalizéed that He &cdepief office at & heavy risk. - Brjef as it was, Borar Law's pre: miership has been of value to Bfiglang, for it has afferded a breathing spacé after thé strenuous and complicatéd " administration of the master.of finesse. Evén thé sovietists wh have béén ‘slow about the more usual forma of odcupation arée willing to fight Bng- 1and for the privilege of going fishing. ————————— " The Civil Servicé Law. Ex.Gov. Lowdeén of Illinols, speaking at the National Conféience of Social IWork; madé some referemces to the civil servicé law to which Civil Serv- ice Commissioner Déming takes ex- "céption, and to which he makes veply. 1t would not be proper té cail thls a 16w, for the language uséd s to6 mild and polite, and. perhaps it_ought nét 14 e ealled a controversy; though it “aught dévalop ints one. “Thé distin. y and jdybus oceasion into s6mé kind of a crime wWave. —————— Ministérs who will visit the prize ring to sée just Wwhat happens will exert benéficial infllience if they ecan Persuade pusilistic fanciers to réturn the visit on Sunddys. ———— When én actor attempts suicide the taithfiil préss agent is at Hand to ad- filnister feéstoratives that convince him lifé is worth fiving.- ——— Grooers’ Convention. It fieeds caré and persistence to keep the récord of 1erg® ahd important as- #6ciations Which gather at the capital, and thé list of such associations which have met and dre to meét here this spring seems t6 be much I6hger, and very likely is longer than usual. iThe list 18'lengthéning every vear. Now it i8 the thiFty-fifth anhual cenvéntioh of the. Américan Wholesale Groeers’ Asseciation, and it is estimated that 2,000 delegates are attending. With thése delegates are many members of |- their familiés, many friends and many enlookérs adséelated with the grocery business and with food producing and maiufaeturing organizations -which help 8upply the grocery trade. The.im- portance of the eonvention may be in- e Hoover, Secretary Wallacé and othér men of natlonal nate will speak. to the deldgates. » The grocery business has been an important one since men bégan to gather in communities called cities, and its importance had increased at a great pace as cities and towns have multiplied in numbér and population and as many milllons of men have de- voted themselves to other work than farming and raising: their own food. | The grocéry business has made a vast growth even in agricultural districts, becausé the family is rare now which tries to raise all the kinds of food it needs. The man on the farm calls for food from all parts of the world, and the surplus of what he raises gos to distant sections. The manufacture of food products. milling, éanning, preserving, drying. pickling, eéic., Haé comeé to be a vast industry, and the putting up of food in convenlent and economic packages is a branch of the business that has made gigantic growth. A large and modern grocery store now résénibles that mar- ket which We call a ‘department store.” Many grocéry steres are show- places becduse of the varlety, beauty and Wealth of goods they exhibit and sell. it was only about two genera- tions ago that the average grocery store-was a place of barrels and bags wheré meal, flour, sait fish, molasses, vinegar, salt, sugar, starch and rather a short list of “staples” could be bought. The modern grocery store is a very different thing. Washington ' has become a large grocery city, and will continue to grow along that line. The ingrease of popu- lation of the District and of the town and countfy néar the District calls for bigger business. The building of good roade, the évolution of the truck and| improvement in rail facilities bring a large and populous section of Mary- land and Virginia into closer associa- tion with the District. The hundreds of country stores scattered through the Potomac and Patuxent valley which formerly got their supplies b; stéamboat, with a long wagon haul from wharf to store, are now having their supplies delivered by truck. ——————————— A thiet stole the false teeth on a| local dentist’s electrical sign. and po- lice autherities are wondering what on earth he is going to do with them. Perhaps he will use them to take a bite ot of one of those gigantic gilt fish that swing in front of a fishing tackle dealer’s place of business. 1 —————— The Chinese can organize a gang of bandits that maintains disciptine in its membership better than any political administration they have yét devised. 1t i8 unfortunaté that in ihe orient, as elsewhere, the wicked stand together while rightecus patriotism engages in altercation, —— The fneident in which Prestdent Harding and Seriator Harrison recent- 1y figured represents a gratifying de- parture from political tradition. Men of opposing party afliliations frequent- 1y interchange advice: occasionally, a ! few asperities, but very séldom com-| Miments. ———— Even those not in full agreement with Bonar Law's policies must ad-| mire the man and wish with all their hearts that his departure from author- ity rhight not have been due to so sérious a crisis in his physical condi- tion. ———— 1t 18 getting so in the southwest part of the country that ho pedestrian dare venture out without & cork jacket, no Wagon without 4 mést and sail and no dytomobile without a canoe strapped on thé runnfng board. | —————— | After a vareer in the calm delibera- tive atmosphere of the United Stateés Supreme Court; the work of umpiring war ¢laims against Germany natural- 1y ddes not appeal fo Mr. Day as a congehial occupation. —_———— “We are making bad. boys good through music,” says a Hull House, Chicago, settlement work expert. That | | is onity squaring up. A lot of good boys have been made bad by the same agéncy. et —— Latest world court dope: Says Moses to.Warren, “I've been in parts for- eign.” Says Harding to Mosés, “How aré your roses?” : ————— The warden of Sing Sing has de- clared that jail has failéd as a cure for the dope habit. Some think it kas failed as a cure for other bad habits. i SHOOTING STARS. PY PHILASDER JOHNSOS. ‘Tunes, Fahey tunés, dey comes a-soundin’ ‘Every little while. 'Tain’ so very fhuch I's found in Demi t6 fake me smile. But my foot it stahts a-swingin’ An’ I steps along Ev'y timé I hyuhs 'ém singin' Some ol'-fashioned song. | Bird calls ‘mid de leaves dat quiver 1In de passin’ bréeze An’ de murmurin’ 6f de river Underneaf dé trees, Dem's what meets my approbation, Allus good &s néw; Oldest tunes in all creation, An’ de sweéetés', too. <. A Ballad of Reeteation. A bold and sturdy man was he. He vowed that he woilld go T6 join the merry revelry - And see the summer show. “My coin #0 white I will employ. Quoth he, 'mid pleasires thére, Like silver bullets to destroy , The imps and elves of eare,” | He atéand drank what hé should. not. “Hé rode on monsters strafige. Base balls he threw: He.took.a shét (At everything in range. His hair hung dankly .on his brow. His burning bréath was short. And still he strove, exéfaiming, “Wow! Am 1 a real hot §pert!” He's homeward bound. The day is o'er. But.Why éxtsha the song? Back up thé ambulance once miore— dickted by the fact that Sesretary'l Me'll be all right eré long. Ia {have to be taken | sioga: | | ‘WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE William R. Day, the vétéran formér Supreme Court justice, Who has re- signed as umpire of tHe Américan- Gérman claims commiasion, has bsen ailing for some time. He hopéd a sojourn. In the south at thé énd of last winier would rehablilitate him, but he ‘found himself unequal to the impending strain of commission duty. To date thére has been no occaslon for his arbitral services. He was only to functioh In cases sént to him on appeal. Claims héarings have just begun. With & batéh of “test’ Lusi- tania cases. The Oeérmans. havée re- nounced their ancient conténtion that the submarined "Cunatder carfled munitlons and was theréfors fair géme for U-boats. M. Day has just entéred upon his seventy-fifth ygar. Comrade and confrére of Willlam Me- Kinley at Cantgh, Ohlo, he has 1éd an &ctive career either at thé bar or on the bench for fifty years. Président Harrison gave Day his firat federal appointment. th 1389, as a United Statés judge in Ohio, but Day re- signed before taking officé, on ac- count of failing health. * kK % The British Institute of P out with a list of “what's the world. Heré's a tabulation of “what's wanted” in Washington: The vote, Home rule. Some all-night, drug stores. Fiv-cent street car fares. More and better music. Cooler weather In summer time. Fewer politicians and more states- men. Better trdffic laws. Motor reciprocity with Maryland. e Senator Lodge., as majority leader of the Senate, will bé called upon to fill two vacancies in the all-powerful “committee on committees Messrs. McCumber and Calder, who Will net bé in_the Bixty-eighth ' Congress, were members of the fotmér committée. The “committee on committess” éffects the organization of the Senate. Its remaining Mmembers are Sénators Brandegee (chalrman), Wa Ster- ling, McNary, Moses. Curtls and El- kins. The committee’s function s to assign committee plums from ssssion ntées is anted” in sénfority lightens the taak. Follette's Jendtoe susceptibilitlés will i into consideration this time. He will wield a_bdlanee of power on Caplitol Hill in December that can easily play havoc with eut- and-dried committéeship schemes, e If the foreign powers want a for- mula to effect speedy release of their nationals in bandlt captivity ih China let them consult Edwin M. Hood, vet- eran Washington reporter. Hood ts the man who devised the famous Perdicaris alive or suli dead!” when a Morocean brigand at- tempted to hold &n Américan citizen to: rantom. President Roosevelt re- i to session, though the sacred fule of ! I ceived éredit for the phrase, but “Ed- dle” Hood was {ts actual inventor. He suggestdd it to John Hay, and the Secretary of Staté passed it along to the White House. Hood has been chaging the nimble item for the Asso- ciated Press since 1875, and is now dean of Washington correspondents. John D. Long wanted to make him as- sistdnt secretary of the Navy in the McKinley administration, and any number ‘of other high government Posts has been offered him. R President Harding, who disclosed in letter to Benator Pat Harrison that he turns to a pipe for solace, isn't the only member of the admin- istration addicted to that form of smoking. Hérbert Hoover is an in- veterate pipe smoker, a trait inherited from studént days at Leland Stan- ford. All the taciturnity and shyness assoclated with Hoover vanish under the Inspiration of his favorité briar stém, Hoover las another hobby peo- ple don't know about. stealing out of Washington on Sun- a with his boys or a couple of friends, and seeking out some nonde- seript brook or rivulet in the woods where he can play at dam-building by the hour. No other pastime affords him half as much amusement. He calls it constructive recreation. A Sixty newspaper correspondents havé alréady announced their inten- tion of accompanying Harding to Alaska. He is delighted over that prospect. The expeidition is a frank project to put Alaska on the map. The President is giad that He is fond of | President | NEW - BOOKS AT RANDOM CONTACT; AND OTHER STORIES. Frances Noyes Hart. Doubleday, Page and Company. “Contact, sir?” “Contact.” And the releasing spark lifts Jerry Langdon to the clouds and beyond. This touch of the technic of flying serves, also, to release the lovely “short story, “Contact.” In its beginning this is a story of Cupid and Mars in liaison on the Frénch front. Up to his lights, the little blind god—you recall—was in those days no less busy than was, in his own place, the great god of battle himseif. A girl in an Army hut, tired to déadness in the full sérvice of a long day. Then, through the hut a rushing sweep of life and gayety and adorably absurd banter. In an instant the spark — the immemorial spark — is struck. Jerry Langdon and the tifed wirl,_ Janet, are faring out on_ the glorious highway of young love, speeding, in careless human effront- ery, toward ihe inevitable penaity of their high daring. To us the story comes only by way of a handful of worn letters and, the broken reminiscent words of a stricken girl. Eloguent lgttdrs, élo- quent words, that give over to us the body and spirit of Jeremy Langdon. Here is youth, all radiance. Heére is the rich heart, with ready and under- standing 1ips and eyes and hands to deliver it. Hitherto passionatély in love with freedom, Jerry is now even more in love with his new bondage. He would never leave her, never. He'd come back to her—he'd come back to her from heaven jtsel—"back to you, Janie Janet.” One sees the boy, and loves him—Iloves his long for the first time in the territory's|8&race, the competent gearing of his history it is going to be appropriatel press-agented. He himself may depended upon to leave no stone u turned to produce attractive “copy” for his vast entourage of seribes, How to shelter the big presidential caravan Is giving Gov. Seott C. Bone plenty to think about at Juneau. There are no Ritz-Carltons in Al- aska, but the government railroad boasts a squadron of Pullmans and dining cars, aml these may save the eituation. ek &k Thére's one former resident Washington—a canary from the Smithsonlan Institution — that is falthfully devoted to its home roost Not long ago an official of the Smith sonian sent onc of its rare canar to Mrs. George Vaux, jr., of Bryn Mawr, Pa. a sister-in-law of Dr Charles D."Walcott, secretary of the institution. The bird, for some rea- son Mrs. Vaux could not divine, be- §an to pine away. In particular, it scorned the birdseed which came from Philadelphia. Mrs. Vaux, being a niece of the late William James, had recourse to applied psychology. She decided the canary was homesick for Washington. So shé requisitioned birdseed from the Smithsonian Insti- tution. The canary forthwith re- vived and now the Vaux home at Brin Mawr reverberates with its contented and continuous melody. (Copyright, 19 of THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. T As you read the printed page today, ponder a fleeting wink or two on this: Eager feet have chased the elusivé news item across the District of Co- lumbia, caught and clothed it in be- coming ralment for your casual éyé. Wires that spréad in tangled net- work the léngth and breadth of all America have chhttéged .their céase- less tals into thé telegrapher's eéar that you might read and know. The whisper of the wireless and thé moving curve of the ocean cable have poured their message. into metal that | you might learn of thé néws of other tands. Reporters walk the far ways of the world to bring the ndwé to yeu. Editors work for you galora. You have hear, perha; city editor, the managin ] editor-in-chief and, possibly, of the publisher. But there 18 a newapaper man in Washington of whom vou have heard nothing whatever, though he is known throughout the world. Ha is the city aditor of the sévén 8348. He Sits at a desk in the hy@fo- graphic_office 6f the Navy Depart- ment. Ravénscroft is his namé and he ranks as.a commander. - He publishes -a we€kly, or, rather, the governfient publishes it after he has editdd it His subscribers are the men whe go down to fhe sed in ships. The winds and thé waves o into his society column. The icebergs and the derelicts of the world of waters give him his leading articles, . The ocean currents and the tides furdish him material for his personals. He prints tha news of the untracked oceans. And thers is moré of it than ever lanAlubber's faney could fash- jon. It is hig néws, géod news for the lonely ship far 6ut at sea wnder thé twinkiing stars. Almost every ship reportér_6n the stal editor. For instance; Capt, Breeching 6f thé good ship Nestlea fixes his 8hip's pesition, leagues away from the nearest shore. He writes it on a bit éf papér, puts the paper into a bottle. corks the Dottle and hurls it into the sei Tweénty tonths latér and 8,000 miles away the bottle is washed ashore—at Lagens, island of Pico, Azores. The paper is taken out. It contains, in ‘addition to the written notation of Capt. Breeching, a request that the findér communicate With the hydro- graphic office glving- the cireum- stances and date of his find. Tn time the story ecomes to Ravens- croft’s desk. CTOIt works out this way.” he gays. “A great many such bottles are thrown overboard. Most of them drift somewhere, carrying the lati- tuds and longituds of the §pot where thay hit thé ocean. The paper comes back to us, showing the place where it went ashore. “THAL SROWE b (hS 3 e oo currents run. And, 0 e have been working on th m“'Sny years, hat sails i& a of this eity thé way ‘the ocean Quotes Booth’s Diary Correspondent Shows Lincoln As- sassin Did Shout “Sic Semper Tyrannus.” To thé Editor of The Btar: In vour issue of Friddy (May l);) 6 a eémmunigation from Mr. "Wlflllult:\: Tindall in w Heh he diseusses what, anything, was Shouted by Jonn Wilken Booth whed he assas- sinated President 2““"‘ and when, it u.v. all, Booth madé his exélam: tions. Ve ¢ There is in exisfénée some first. hlnlfrtefllm Ay upén the sdbject— that of Beoth Mimsélf==whieh should servé. Bobth's diafy, takén from the assassin's dead body, tains his own' account of what h fatetul night. The diary reans: “April 11, Friday, eekheiing T g For six months we e otething decisive and great must bs d6 But its failure was owifig to others who' did not strike for their country. with a heart. I truék boldly and né the papers say. alked with a firm step hrou thousand of his friends, r bejore I fifed. °(Italics sup- plied.) in ;l,lflllm« my leg. 1 at night with the bone of my leg tears ing the fiésh &t every Jumih I éa8 DeVer & i1 ‘n W P ongs. *:a"wniked to 1 wi h N ped, Dut Fished on, I ekouted assed all his pickets, rodée sixty miles | graphic Bulletin. Y don’t know all the ocean currents “Heére on our ocean map we chart that current. We print the story of it In the Hydrographic Bullotin Maybe we tell navigators how to avold it. = Poesibly we draw a new ng route on one 3 satling one of the pllot “By missing the currént, or by run- ning with it. o ship may clip a few hours off its crossing time. Or, pos- #ibly, thé knowiedge may save twen- ty. fifty. or more tons of TER - § Baves f00d, wages of the crew." And it helps the ship on its way. Here is somathing on editor's copy hook that looks as if some one had shaken a pepper box full of punctuation marks over the page. It's an item about tide rips. What is a tide rip, anyhow? b Did you ever stop to think." asks Commander Ravenscroft, “that the €bb tide going out and the flood tid coming in have to meet somewhere away out in the ocean? Well. the gnp'"“d their meeting causes a tide The watér. we learn. swings u down. a tiny bit like the :(‘(i(‘;‘nnc’g a skipping rope swung by children. It isn't particularly important, the tide rip, our city editor expl but the paper prints it becauds it is esting. this city Here's a birth notice for the Hydro- “A voleanic island made its a = ance about nine miles from Catu ol In the China sea. Not named Helght about 115 feet." New islands are born pretty fre- queéntly. Others die—sink a?u( of Sight under troubled waters. “Dead but not forgotten.” they are labelcd, for the city editor keeps track of {hem 1o make sure they have sunk ugh to be out vay ity of the way of nd here's big news from the keen Scouts of the coast guard, the cutters Modoc and Tampa out on ice pairol duty In the north Atlantic. ; is so important that it mets an éditorial. The editorfal tells ail ship masters that great icebergs are float- ing in the normal transatiantic steamer lanes and that vessels Should switch to extra-southernly tracks. ‘The hydrographic office belioves,” s the ‘editorial, “that this chango i8 distinetly in the interest of life at Next comes a local brevity fro the steamer Jamestown. “About {wo miles south by east from Northeast End Light passed an overturned life- boat fast to floating wreckage.” om another reporter, givin, e tude and longitude, comes thies 20 ‘Wreck of the barge Grew Lévick, reported in this position, has been sunk by coast guard cutter Kickapoo and now lies in fifteen fathoms of fater, no longer a menace to naviga- n." And so it goes. Thé bulletin Is known te all who sail the sea. It is among the first things sought. - And it can be bought in every im- portant port in the United State repent it. Though we hated to Kill, our cnungy owed all her trouble to him, and God simply made me the instru- ment 6f his punishment. The coun- try 18 not what it was. This forced Union is not what I have loved. I care not what becomes of me. I have no desire to outlive my country. This ‘night, before the deed, I wrote a long article and left it for one of the éditors of the National Intelligencer, in which 1 set forth our reasons for our Drogtedings. He or the Govmt.” ‘hen follows an entry, dated April 21=0ne wetk later—in ‘whieh Booth deseribes his efforts o escape, and says: “I am here in_despair. and why? | For doing What Brutus was honored ‘or, what fiadeé Tell a hero. And yet , for striking down a greater tyrant |than they éveér kréw, am looked upon dia on that| -wrongs to avenge. fi\“ -éur cause béing almost [ ehilr a8 a common eut-throat. My act was greater than either of iheirs. One oped to be great himself; the other had not only his country, but his own 1 Moped for no gain: I knew fo private wrong. I struck for my country, and that alone.” Thé * penciled éntries in this old iilsry are still legible, and the book tself has beeh in the possession of the government ever since the night that Booth, surrounded by Union cay- alfy, Was shot @éwn in the barn in which hé*was hiding. It was not uséd in évidénce Quring the military trial of tha econspirators, though when John H. Surratt was tried some years later in the civil courts the book was then produced. Wi A. GRAHAM, - Lieutenant Colonel, Judge Adyooade, i { | | adorable {long lit , Eray roadster, for her. { one. fine brown fz blue 5. body, the sleek dark head, the ce and the gray light of the One loves the laughter of his happy heart, and his Whimsical, endearments. Yet, all this comes from a handful of worn létters and a few halting, broken words. For Jerry is gone—gone on the long flight of other gallant warriors of the sky. “It's your voice, your voice of silver and peace tha eternally whispering ‘Contact’ to me—and I am released, heart, soul and body! And because you speed me on my way, Janie, I'll ngver fly so far, I'll never fiy 80 long, I'll never fly so high that Il not return to vou." _And now Janie has her chance. Indeed, Janle has two chances to speed Jerry on his long way. The first one comes the young French officer—sol- dierly, grave, pitiful. “SBay to her that she has my heart; if she needs my body, T will live. Say to her that is an_ ugly, broken® and useless thing; still hers.” A flash here of sheer woman triumph that Jerry, helpless. is now hers alone forever. (Wise in woman lore, the author, right here.) Then a vision of the radiant Jerry, otherwise—oh, quite otherwise—than thé pure embodiment of life, and free movement and glad encounters. And Janet, swift as light, sends back the reicasing word to him. The second chance comes with the recurrent droning of an uneasy, questing airplane—now near. quite near. then farther and gone. a plaint in the retreating flight. And, all at once, Janie knows, the import of the droning song of the plane. Jerry's call to her for definite and conclysive release. Read the story. It is an untactful clumsiness to touch it in what must be only a futile explica- tic with “rying? Crying ov story? Well, if you ask me- 'm not crying. and I'm not askink you and, anyway, 1 always cry over beautiful, pitiful. hopeless human things. I'm going to read it over again right now." This is short storics. the best of these eight e R Well is it, after all? “There Was a Lady"—different, of course, but such a story! You see; the friends of Larey Benedick knew positively that therg was not. never had been, never would Te, any woman in the life of the self-contained Larry. It ell came about in the quiet corner at Raoul's where, every day. Larry sat over a long lunch. Right across, a lady, déep in the buginess of reading little books and_nibbling at little lunches and poking a small boot out toward a frolickome kitten—but not once Jook- ing over Larry's way. And gut of this a.romance sprung—Larry's romance. nd_the romance actually grew to a cottage bought and furnished. and a Not once, yet had the girl looked over Larry's wa. And not even yet has she, mnor will she. Then, one day- Read this 1t will_be like you to call “There Was a Lady” the best story of o cight. It is more than likely that vou are right * * No. T've not forgotten “Philip the Gay.” Who could forget that voung war hero from old Provence where for hundreds of years there had been a succession of jovous, proud-hearted Philips to take ihe free homage and love of high and low alike in_the whole countryside roundabout! This the last Phillp, nobody could forgat. Yet. Fairfax Carterfrom the United States of America—worn-out war worker resting in this lovely ances- tral corner of southern France with Philip's sister—grew positively furi- ous when from Philip's distant rooms she heard his joyous peals of laughter and bright outpourings ofsong. She spoke blightingly of slackers then, and was he going to rest forever from the war while his sisters supported him? Sha would tell him exactly what she thought of him. And she did. Back from this high mission she met a cold and deadly anger while Laure. the sister, told the truth about Philip. Not for nothing was this young thing a Tairfax and a Carter. too, both of Virginia. She turned promptly and marched straight back to Philip to make such honorable amend as a gentleman should make. But, Philip was dificult—oh, not about the “amends,” but about the other. A beautiful story—the best of the eight. * k% X And we must not forget “Green Gardens’—these, spréading wide and cool and deep around the big house meilowed in its own fine tradition. And here. oné day, Daphne met a tired and world-worn man. at homs in the gardens. Togethér théy went into the great house, where the man lingered to sce and touch_the old intimacies of i childhood. “You are Stephen Fane “Yes; 1 am Stephen Fane.” Then back under the trees Stephen told Daphne of his far wanderings. of the untruth and the injustice that had sent him so far from thé green gar- dens, and of the terrible homesick- ness that had brought him. reluctant but helpless, back to these lovely home places. Daphne, seventeen, looked with mother-kifid eves into he worn face of Stephen Fane, and balm flowed Into the hurt places of the man's héart. A whistle, and Robin leaped the wall. “What doln’, Daphne?’ “Oh, I've had such a lovely talk with Stephen Fane. There hé goes now.” And Robin, frightenéd, led Daphne away, for, you see, there was no Stephen Fane there. Cer- tainly, the best of the éight. R Theré aré foiir more of these un- fualifiedly ‘best” stories. Different in thémeé, of course, and, so, different in approdch and treatment. A part of their value 1iés in the economy of their structuré—good building here, Invarlably they are both modern and romantie. As modern as the moment itself, as romantic_as youth's firt dream of love. They are Youth. The medern and romantle do not blena? Canhot bé made t6 blénd? Théy @o here, naturally, too. ~You tead. Somewhers, some way. this auther has, beésidés, "i?'T’T“' thé ower and splehdor of unfulfiliment. Eumllme t,_at best, ¢an ohly 'filk' ut unfulfillment &preads _golden wings of hope and dream and desire and- out-reaching. This discovery serves tendér and béautiful human usés hére. From secrét sourcé of youns wisdom, this author has, too, Blipped by the périod of crudity inte an easy sophistieation of attitude ana ’p"g"'laAr:“ ;ghl‘ozimenat.’ t 00k b rejolee the hearts of many readers. i@n ¥ mnt‘n t6 take D) in a8 well, L CAPITAL KEYNOTES i BY PAUL V. COLLINS, Each week’'s disclosure of the ad- vance of science makes previous achievements commonplace. A Paris scientist has made a lens of Icelandic spar which penetrates the old grime and blacKened varnish of ancient paintings, restoring to vision the original brightness of color. The lens refracts the rays from thie old varnish, at a different angle from those coming from the surface of the paint, underneath the varnish. The result is ‘that the be- holder is enabléd to sée only thase rays which come from the paint, without the darkened rays from the grime and varnish. All the original béauty of the painting thereupon re- appears through the lens. In Madrid last week it was demon- strated before the king that the hu- man éye, if especially traineéd, can penetrate opaque substances Wwith- out the ald of Roentgen rays. A boy was blindfolded and In that condi- tion read a clipping of a newspaper which was Wrapped In a cloth and locked in an iron box. An eminent French psycholégist announces that he is on the verge of discovering scientific means of foretelling future évents and a learn- ed society of psychologists indorses his claim. Right here in Washington the United States weather bureau prom- ises to foretell, selentifically, the weather months ahead as accurately as tomorrow’s “Cloudy, with possible rain, followed by clearing weather.” This is undoubtedly a eombination of e Icelandic spar seeing through @grime, the Spanish eye penetrating iron and the prephetic vision of the ultra-psychologist. What a wondrous leap berond the medicine almanac of our grandfathers! A Transportation is the link that binds parts of the nation together and makes “E Pluribus Unum” a fact. What has Atlanta, Ga. to do with New Bedford, Mass.? How can such widely separated cities combine their industries? By airplane a 500-pound baie of cotton next week will be car+ ried from Atlanta to the Massachu- setts city, there to be weven “while you wait” and made into 5,000 Ma- sonic aprons, ail within twe days from its departure from the south. Then in less than four hours more the aprons will bé on sale in Wash- ington as seuvenirs of the Shrine. These aprons will signify far more than souvenirs of a holiday. They will be reminders forever that indus- trial America has moved its parts closer together, o that it knows no longer any linés of separation in its national community of interests. The “suggestion has beén made thal this feat will demonstrate 2 new use for the airplane. This appears more oratorical than real; but who can question the significance of the tying together of sections no longer apart frrther than a flight of a few hours and each a complement of the other? What does it _mean when the round trip from Atlanta to New Bedford can be made from breakfast to bed- time? * % % % He was such a little feliow. He had not traveled much and was_not familiar with “high church” customs. With his mother he visited a great church, where the verger, in full panoply, éscorted them to seats. The little chap was impressed. He look- ed at the verger's costume and long staff. emblem of office, and, snugshing up o his mother, he whispered audi- bly: “Mother, is he a religious traffic cop? * ¥ % X Probably it was not that same “yerger’ who was so officious at the ceremonies at the Lincoln Memorial last week, but in such presence all other dignitaries may well quail Somebody—was it Shakespéare ér some other Englishman’—speaks of the ashes of Caesar used to stop a hole in a window of & peasant’s hovel. The quotation is lame, but it points the moral and adorns the tale. There was a great crowd of guté- mobiles milling around the Memorial when a_ flivver approached and was summarily ordered by the “verger’ to move aside and not stop up the gangway of the President of the United States, who was about to pré- sent a_gold medal to Henry Bacon, the architéct of the Memor Perh the occupant of the flivver was lucky that he was not required to depesit $2 for blocking traffic, Hut he escaped by turning aside, barred from closer approach to the cere monf althotugh he was president of the memorial eommission, Chief Jus tice of the Supreme Court and forme: President of the United States Surely this is a democracy, and the only royalty against whom it is un- safe to commit lese mafeste is the “traffie verger.” R Anybedy can plan a house with bare walls making -rooms, but hot éverybody ean rémember that bare walls do not mAke a home. It takes a woman to think of the closets Once thers was a hishop who had read @he histories of many cathedrals and he came to the conclusion that the real part of bullding a cathedral was thé erection of ifs towers Therefore, when e was put in char of the erection of a cathedral he de cided that nothing shonld be doné on the main bujlding until the towers were completed. In just that way housewives wiv are wise and experienced would do well to insist that all the closets should bé finished before anvthing is done on the “den,” or even the bédrooms and dining room. “The play's the thing,” said Shakespeare, and the modern housewife para phrases that to “The closets are the home.” * 2 2 % Séeretary of Labor Davis, who is 2 member of the National Council for Better iHomes in America, scems to coincide with the above suggestions. for he says: “The campaign for better homes in América is a woman's campaigi They are taking stock of themselves to see how they fill their side of the bill. The best American wage ear ers know that the pay check at the end of the week belongs to th family. They also know that a $4 a-week wage do not do as well.in some families as $ a-week wage does in some others. * ® % ¥ Experienced builders warn the nevice not to undertake to build without plans fully werked out and drawh in detail. It Is the extrasand changes which mount up beyond ail comprehension when they have not been carefully thought out and coufit ed as to ecost. June 4 to 10 is the timé set apart all over America for the speclal study of better homes, and the study is fostered By chambers of- commérce and “motheréd” by wonien's clubs everywhere. - * % % % There is not the slightest contro- versy betwéen Dr. Lorenz and the Veterans' Bureau in connection with the doctor's shocking disclosure that there are now some 20,000 veterans in prisons under conviction for erimes for which they were not men- tally capable of being responsible. Director Hines says that the bureau is aware of the conditions and is at work trying to persuade state au- thorities to release the prisoners. that they may be cared for in the bureau's hospitals. It is impossible, he says, for federal authorities to in- terfere with state jurisdiction. e is, therefore, seeking the co-opera- tion of the states, but In many cases, he says, the bureau finds the state officials in conflict with federal au- therity, even when it is for the good of the veteran. While this statement was not intended to apply to Dr. Lorenz, the head of the Wisconsin State Psychiatric Hospital. it mav apply to Wisconsin courts, and it be of dssistance to Dr. Lorénz rd aiding him in gaining a re- form in his own state. The disclosure of conditions by Dr. Lorenz will do great good all over the eountry, it is said at the buréau. * % ¥ % * Some burglar, whose identity i unknown, stolé all the false teet! from a dentist's showecase, and the olice seemed baffled to find the motive f this were in the midst of a politi- cal campaign the solution would be easier, for there has been at times much talk about the need of “pui- ting _teéth into certain legislation Maybe the thief is a statésman. (Copyright, 1023, by P. V. Colline ) EDITORIAL DIGEST It May Point the Beginning of the Eend. The British troubles with Russla have convinced many editors that there is little hope for the present soviet government. Russia, it is ad- mitted, has béen a real mirage.” Naturally England, with her unemployment problém, her need of world trade and suggéstions that, after all, the former homeland of czarism might be the open door of opportunity, accepted commercial suggestions. But even beéfore com- plete and adequate establishment came the trouble with the fishin fieets. 1t hardly was to be wonder: at, editors suggest, that the red bear finally wore out tiie patience of the British lion. On top of the ultimatum came the hurried aero trip to London of the Russian trade representative. Then began the various “talks” with the efforts to aveld a break which, for the present at least, seem sué- cessful. Nevertheless, editors seem con- vinced the final touches have “been put upon the disillusion 6f England. There is a halt, théy agree, but only a briet one, while the real issue. ac- centuated through the Moscow priest Mmurders emphasizing the soviet war on religion, generally is se Whether Russia shall be treated witl stand-offishness” or, whether ult matums and bloéd vyet shall hold Yngland swallowed her prids. says the New York Post, “for thé sake of possible material rewards. Hor discoveries that th8 stories of a soviet Bl Dorado are fairy tales is rot without point for imaginative persons in our own country.” The mere fact that Britain has accepted “goviet domination” in the past con- vincés the Detroit Free Press that “British policy toward Ruasia, 8o far, has been opportunist and weak.” This has been due, however, as the Worcester Telegram analyzes the sit- yation, “to British labor démands. British 1abst may défand theoretical consideration for the soviet experi: ment, but British laber efsily ex- hausts its patience with folk who insist upon being ugly and stupid and proud of it.” The excuse whicl made possible the “trade agreement. the Cincinnatl Enquirer points out, ow has “disappeared. Sifiee then Eogiand's sconomic eondition has had 2 wonderful revival. Financially and commercially ghe ig resuming her old. time sway. She no longer is obliged 6 dilly-dally with soviet Russia.” The note which precipitated thé esent_situationm, the Norfolk Ledger: ispatéh is convinced, cofmpels the bé- Wef ‘unless all indieations aré at fault the soviet government is. just about throu as we put it. New out of Rus s riglaly cénsored, o sourse, but, as Sif Paul Dukés puts it, the bolsheviks in Russid rule by the ruthless force of a very small minority. And indications are that he massés are gétting up on_ thelt hees and snatling. WHhY should reat Britain go down with the minority?” In addition to that par: ticular consideration, hécauseé of the controversy on prohibition in Amef- jca, and the suggestion of the pro- ibition leaders that the -three-mii imit be abolishéd, the el & N “trade | Rep tiongd view,” in the present circunm- stan Intérest centers in Great Britain’s vigilant defense of the free- dom of the seas beyond the threc- mile liniit, & matter to which atten tion has recently beeén called in this country by the activities of the rum flest.” England may gain her enc prefent partieular point, so the Celumbus Dispateh suggests, but it merely emphasizes “sovistism is buit on the negation of those principles upoh Which honest assurance betweén individunis or nations must depend.” | Britain's _attituds ,is “summar: ! tollowing, as it does. the fact thut “over a considerable period affronts have been allowed to pass unnoticed the Newark News points out, and “from the American standpoint the Eritish-Russia Inbroglio only leads us to the conclusion that we are well out, and had better stay weil out for an ‘indefinite timé to come, from any situation involving business with the soviet traders so long as soviet trade commissioners’ promises are all we have to rely on.” Which position en- thusiastically is indorsed by = the Syracuse Herald, which adds “if ¥u- ropéan and Amer n civilizsation ean- not eorreét the evil conditions within Russia, it I8 still master of its own political and commercial policiés and reiationships. It _can leave Russin severély aloné.” Such a movée would be the best possible, as the Atlanta ournal sees it. and “outlawing of ddsia by England would be the firet move te convince the soviet that uhtil the behaviof of her rulers con- Sormu to law and to order and makes 'or the safety of nations, Russia will B8 an outeast on the vontinent.” The “dignity of the British government has been askailed,” the Minneapolis Tribune points out, “and this is an insudt which c¢annot be treated 1ightly, let the attitude of the home groups be what they may. It seems to be Ineradicably in the blood of [ the soviet te eafry o pro-éommunist propaganda in sd-called éapitalistic | countries, agreements, understand- ings and pledges to the contrary net- withstanding.” “Thers can bé no eéonomic relation bétween capitalism and communism.” the St. Paul Dispatch points out, be- caise “they are two distinet s; eich excluslve of the other” He- ¢ause this, then, is so, the Rochester Timés Unlon suggests, “neither gov- erfiment eared & great deal about the latest developments. To the British. tradé agreement has resulted in dis- fliusionment; and thé belsheviki no long!r cares much about it. If the fest of the world 18 not very mm{,\ to the sbviets, It appears equally true today ihat the gdoviets carc hatdly a rap about the réest of the world." _Yet it-is thé apinion of the Seattle Times, that, “if Hussia cAn- not bé persuaded to conforni to inter- national c¢onventiohs of decency she il Be ciateed v th barbarisns and forced By Great Britain to respect her rights.” The Russian answer impreased the New York Tribuné a imedbrate in tont afd tactlea éfafty. THe eonferefice arranged vir tually brings about what Moscow has long désired—de jurs recognition bf the soviet regimé. Ruasia is still an outlaw state with the morals o such a state. The old Russiah mef ace, now implacably rénewed, might a8 wall be met opsnly. The Likya Géorge rapprochemént was an_ efror - the- view -t~ British illoln holds, “frem the interna- 8