Evening Star Newspaper, May 23, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY. ....May 23; 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busisess Office, 11th 8t..and Pennsyivania Ave. R Tu Revicine Ry B Shicago Office: Tower 5 Koropean Office: 16 Regont St., London, Eugland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered bs carriers with city 2t 80 cents per month; daily oply, 43 cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- | dersmay be sent by mail, of telephone Main ©000. Collection s made by carriers st the e8d of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday Daily only Sunday onl All Other States. Daily and Sunda; yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. Daily only $7.00 Sunday only $3.0t 0; 1 mo. 0% 1 m 00 Press iy exclugtvely entitled | to the use for republication of ‘all news dis- pate hies credited to it or not otherwise credited | v this paper and also the local uews pub- lished hérein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. = ! Premier Baldwin. i One of the two ‘“favorites” in the field for the British premiership won the race. Stanley Baldwin was chosen by his party in parliament and pre- sented to the king as agaipst Lord Curzon. The king's choice followed that of the conservative party, he hav- ing in the premises no practical power of selection, but merely ratifying the nomination. In the naming of Baldwin as against Curzon- the conservatives were guided by certain political considerations that indicate plainly the new trend in Brit- ish affairs. Against Lord Curzon was a strong feeling of antagonism on the part of the laborites, who regarded him as too autucratic in disposition and manner. The fact that a conserva- tive premier is chosen in England with regard for the feelings of a labor fac- tion in parliament is an important in- dex of the great change that has taken place in British affairs. There is, however, no reason to look for a change in the program of the party now in power at London. Yet there will be a change in the parlia- mentary situation. Lloyd George, speaking last night in Wales, said that the consideration he had shown Mr. Bonar Law would not necessarily be extended to the latter's successor, and at the same time made a strong appeal for liberal reunion. This is taken to mean that the former premier will un- dertake an alignment of all the ele- merits of opposition. Not until the Baldwin ministry— which is likely to be mainly the same as that of Bonar Law—is named and analyzed can it be' determined whether the new government will be more re- actionary than that of the immediate predecessor. The fact that considera- tion as noted has bgen given to the prejudice of the labor faction against Lord Curzpn as a peer suggests that the conservative ministry will not at- tempt to rule without regard to the feelings of that important minority group. It may be that the party led by Ramsey MacDonald will be the ob- ject of attentions from both the Bald- win government and the Lloyd George opposition. This would tend to put the laborites in the position of the balance of power, in effect, if not at once nu- merically. In these circumstances a new elec- tion in the near future is not atall un- likely. Mr. Baldwin holds his office by appointment at the nomination of his party, and not by virtue of “an appeal to the country.” He will not be likely to seek such an appeal, but it may be | “ITHE . EVENING enéouraged to inbtall radlo récetvirig [adequate stock of provisions in thelr sets. There is: already at Washington. a pational bureau of criminal identifica- tion maintained by the Chiefs of Po- lice National Assoctation, and the rec- ords and personnel. of this establish- |ment will be taken over by the De-!in. the habit of receiving it. Those partment of Justice as purt of the new, federal bureau. The matter of suit- able quarters for the bureau embar- rasses the department, but it is hoped | that Congress, under persuasion of | the public buildings commission, will | provide proper housing_facilities. | The federal bureau mbout to be es- tablished has been urged by crimi- nologists and police authorities for a | number of years. Its creation has been repeatedly urged by the Chiefs | | of Palice National Association, one of the founders of which was Richard | Sylvester. former major and supertn- | tendent of the police department of | the District, and the establishment of the national bureau of identification | by the police chiefs’ association was | decided on after its failure to induce | the government to establish such a | bureau. The director of the bureau | of identification of the Department of Justice is quoted as saying that the new. bureau will greatly restrict the activities of criminals. It would seem | that it should render 'distinguished service in stemming what appears to be a rising tide of crime in America. | The Railroads. The conference on the valuation of railroads, which will be held in Chi- cago on Friday and Saturday of this | week under the auspices of Senator La Follette's group of progressives in Congress, is calculated to attract wide- spread public attention to this impor- tant subject. Governors of eight states, four senators and twenty-five representatives in Congress will at- tend the conference, and William " J. Bryan will speak. The public will be justified in wondering what is the ulti mate object of the statesmen and poli- ticians who are engaged in discussing the valuation of railroads. Is it a movement taward the nationalization of the roads? 1Is it a gesture of poli- tics; or is it a strategic move to force down rates for the benefit of the farmer particularly? Is it a threat over the railroads to weaken their re- | sistance to rate reductions? Nationalization of the transporta- tion lines of ‘the comntry could only be attained, as long as the Constitu- tion holds and the Supreme Court exists, by purchase on a replacement basis of present cost. That would in- volve an issue of bonds approximating the war debt. The interest on them would have to be superimposed upon rafiroad rates. The agitation of rail- road valuation, if it is meant to bring pressure on the Interstate Commercel Commission to order a lowering of rates, is likely to fail; that body is not susceptible to political pressure. Tt answers only to the laws of Congress. The query may well be put if it is opportune or desirable to agitate the railrcad question at this time to a degree, possibly, to arouse uncertainty in the minds of the operators of the Hnes @s to their future. The railroads have recently entered upon a concert- | ed campaign of betterment and con struction involving the expenditure within a year of nearly: a_billion and a half dollars. They predicated that outlay upon the expectation that there would be no unsettling of rates in the near future. The two classes whom the progressives are understood to champion, labor and the farmers, will be beneficiaries of the betterment pro- gram. Labor will get the bulk of the | outlay in cash wages. The farmers will get improved transportation serv- | ice in the/ moving of -their crops to market. It would seem to be a pity if accepted as strongly probable that Lloyd George will persietently man- euver to bring about such a test. The latter will have nothing to‘lose from a and may have something to Rumors that Ambassador Harvey will manage election activities for the republican party have not gone far enough to indicate whether he will revive his famous ‘“‘weekly” or limit himself to documents for the cam- paign text book. 1t would be interest- ing, if he were to reassert himself as a pamphleteer, to note whether diplo- matic contacts have modified his literary style as well as his wardrobe. —————————— The class of 1847 of the -United States Military Academy has just held its annual reunion in this- city. The whole living strength of the class, Gen. Horatio G. Gibson, was present, and, as usual, had a fine time. | Caves in the Shenandoah valley are being exploited as tearooms and dance, pavilions. ““Oh, excuse me, please; T must have stepped on a little stalag- mite” The board of educafion, has- de- weloped differences of opinion in, the | past, but has managed to agree em. phatically on Dr. Ballou. Criminal Identification Bureau. A new government bureau is to be establisted- at ‘Washington . with the aim of keeping the records of all known criminals and concentrating | and co-ordinuting the’ efforts of the national, state, city and county gov- ernments in the detection and pun- ishment of criminals. It fs a big move in the way of maintaining the law | and will open a new chapter in Anterican histofy. As the'pureau de- velops and.expands it will co-operate with foreign agencies in the hunt for evil doers. The- title of the organization, only o few getails for the creation’of which remain to be worked out, will be the federal bureau for thé ‘identiffcation of criminals, or something much like that. In its archives will be kept the record, history, photograph and finger prints of every known criminal. Al records of police departments, shgriffs and other peace officers. throughout the land of value to the cause of jus tiee will be sent to this central bu- veau. By radlo it will broadcast throughout the United States warn- ings and “look-out™ notices for crimi- nals, and it is said that photographs ot will bo sent by radio, o stations and il over the ountry agitation should check the efforts of | the roads to improve service. : ———————————————— i In twenty years Germany will be | the mightiest nation in Europe, with a monarchical government patterned after that of Great Britain, according to Dr. Max_Kemmerich, eminent Ger- man histofan. German historians made some. pretty hot predictions alorig in 1914, 1915 and 1916, but these have cooled off considerably since. —————— Monkeys are well known to share the aversion of most animals o al cohol in.any form. This fact does not reconcile Col. Bryan io the idea that they are at all desirable as femote an cestors. E 1 i [ — Students of finance abroad are in clined to sympathize with América as | a country that is altogether too ri¢h. If there must be sympathy the reason 1s‘about as painless a ‘one as could be suggested. g ————— s 3 [ A delegate from Mexico to the. so- cialist party convention in New York ) denounced the soviet governmeni. Bad as’it has seemed, it was not suspected that it ‘was that bad. ——————— .Chinese outlaws, like those of other | lands, are impervious to patriotic emo- tions, and do not care how much trou- | ble they get their country into. | ——— ‘The “merry month of May" would! be still merrier if it were not for the taxes that fall due at this season. ———— Buy Food Now!, No danger threatens in the food situ- ation ‘during Shrine week and the period of ‘swelling population preced- ! ing it, but for convenience and econ: | omy homekeepers are urged to lay in an ample supply of food staplés before the rush begins.’ The advice to do. this. ig given by the proper committee, and | it ought to be easy to follow the ad-| vife. It is beleved that families will save money and time. It would seem reasonable- to stock ‘the pantry with ten days’ supply of flour, bacon, ham, sugar and such-canned and package goods as it 18 the custom of the family to use. The indications are that Wash- ington will be crowded as it has never been before, and that’ demands upon the wholesale and retail food supply houses will be extraordinary. ‘There ia na likelihood that food, ship- ménts into the District will be checked, and the prospect is that all the food needed will be In storage here or on | customers. | home kitchen and dining room by lay- !ing In the necessary stock of food be- storerooms or.on their shélves. There will certalnly be & great buying rush, and there is apt-to be a good deal of confusion. ¥ Frelght will not be dischdrged in' those yards at which consignees are freight terminais will be given up to the parking of sleeping cars chartered by visitors to the Shrine convention and festivities. Freight trdins will be unloaded at the Benning yards and at other outlying terminals requiring a long hau] to places of wholesale dis- tribution. There may be difficulty and delay in retail distribution. Transit through the streets will not be as easy as in normal times. Stores are taking on extra employes, but s0 many firms and shops ara reaching out for extra labor that already a shortage is felt in men and women qualified’ to wait on It Wil be very easy to avoid possible embarrassment in the fore the crowd comes. Bryan at Indianapolis. William Jennings Bryan has not been entirely successful at the Indian- apolis General Assembly of the Pres- byterian Church. First of all he was defeated for moderator, undergoing the same experience that Champ Clark had in Baltimore: eleven vears ago, when he led the fleld of candidates for presidential nomination only to be beaten by the two-thirds vote. It was the field against Bryan at Indianapolis. and the fleld won. Then the eminent Nebraskan-Floridian tried to line up the adsembly on the evolution ques- tion, which has absorbed the greater part of hif” thought and energy for some time past. He fought a hard fight to get the church as there repre- sented to resolve that no part of its educational fund should be paid to any institution “that teaches or permiis-to be taught ag & proven fact either Dar- winism or any other evolutionary hypothesis that links men in blood re- lationship with any other form of life.” By a rising vote of more than two to one the assembly rejected the Bryan resolution, and adopted a sub- stitute which instructs synods and | presbyteries to “exercise careful over- sight over the instruction” given in Presbyterian support institutions and to withhold their official approval to schools in which teaching or instrue- | tion is given “‘which seeks to establish a materialistic evolutionary philosophy of life which disregards or attempts to | discredit the Christian faith.” This compromise was not satisfac- tory to the commoner, and he fought to the last point, but had to bow his head in defeat. The assembl ever, did not entirely turn its back upon him, for he won from it a vote to demand that every minister, church official, churclh member and the facul- ties and students of the denomina tional school sign a total abstinence pledge. Taken altogether, it was not such a bad day for Bryan. ————————— i 1t is rather difficult to keep a vicious person from getting hold of corn liquor. Everybody admits that, at present. But it ought to be compara- tively easy to prevent his possession of an automatic_pistol which does deadly- damage. How much longer is| the National Capital to suffer from the ravages of the fllegally armed? —_————————— A scandal may be pressed so per- sistently that it becomes less unpleas- ant as it grows more uninteresting. The public demands novelty, and while the same old domestic situations al- ways command attention new names { are required in order to carry a thrill. ——— s AN i e e bl Al | tention congratulations are in order for its luck in being purchased from the Russian government vears ago and so relieved from any participation | in sovict dissensions. ————————— The nobles of the Mystic Shrine| make up for the inauguration festivi- ties this city has missed for some vears past. Dancers are like conversationalists. The worst ones are capable of the most ehdurance. SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON. i The Calendar. Ev'ry day is numbered though I don’t know how it's done— Some. months stops at 30, an’ some has 31. Since T kin remember I has had to play dat game; Sometimes I's ufilucky, but I likes it - jes' de same. Dey say dat time is money, but it’ mo’ dan dat, I-guess. Dar ain’ no way of payin' cash.foh real happiness. An' so I watch dem numbers come excited as kin be, A-hopin’ dat dar's dividends of fun in store foh me. An’ sometimes every blossom seems:to know me 1 pass, An' dar’s music in de treetops an’ d:r’s dismonds on de grass, Whah dewdrops is a-glistenin’ f'um de sunshnie In de skies, H An' den I sure feels good; because I knows I's won a priz i Neglect. They sing of the roses that blush but to fade: They sing of thie wild flowers -that brighten the glade; ‘With rapturous joy Our songsters employ . Their arts on the useless adornment _displayed. There are chanting and cheers for the ‘" blossoming scenes, But nobody sings of the cabbage «nd beans! Alas! 'Tis too oft the unfortunate lot Of thie plain, honest friend to be switt. 1y forgot. ‘We enthuse o'er the bird Who from treetops is heard But who never helps out in the pan or fras had ‘he courage to act with f g ownér of the abbey instead of being forwarded to his sovereign lady. STAR; “WAS THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON ~ BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM T was leaving my office the other dey, late in keeping .an important appointment, when Bulletin 320 came in with the postman. | “Wait a minute,” he demanded,| with a flutter. of his 270 Dl‘u.l e a message for you' Make it snappy, Bulletin 320" 1| countered. “I'm late now,” And I seated myself at my desk. “Do you know who. I am?’ asked. I glanced at the printing on'his slate-colored cover. “Yes™ 1 replied. “You're Bulletin 320 of the Department of Lahor, an- other of those dry-as-dust govern- ment publications. “Don’'t be rude,” hé broke in. “Well, you're ‘Bulletin 320, pre- pared by Ethelbert Stewart of the bureau of labor statistics; vour name is Wholesale Prices, 1890 to 1821, and. S0 far as 1 can make ou bunch of line drawings, cf fine print.” “And an appendix,” umphantly. _“Don't forget the.ap- pendix. Thdt's the part of me that has the message for you and for all | these other buay men who are #o busy | they can't sit and talk a moment with | a friend.” | | he you're a rts and te cut in, tri- “The message; what is fre “Turn my pag he commanded. “Keep turning till you come to the| appendix. What do you see?” | ‘To tell the truth, there ‘wasn't much of anything to see except a long list of differént commodities—faods, fuels, wearing apparel, furm products and ! S0 on—with two figures opposite each item. _ “They @re the things that enter into’ our wholesale trade,” he ex- plained. “The figures opposite edch ' one tell the relative value of each | commodity to all the wholesale busi- ness transacted in the country. @ “Mr. Stewart, therefore, has made it possible for me to say what frac- tion of all American wholesale trade any particular industry {s. The farm- ers, for Instance, some six to seven millions of workers, produced about one-fourth of the whole volume of our wholesale trade. “Now, turn over to housefurnish- ings, for instance. Look at glass tumblers “Several thousand men were em- ployed in 1921 in making glass tum- blers” Yet. the whole sum total of all their work was but one ten-thou- | sandth part of all our wholesale trade. “There were, we'll assume, half a dozen factories engaged in that work. There probably were more, but we'li sa. fo the sake of argument } 1 Now, if the work were evenly divided § them, would perform. an in- imal part 6f our united effort as & ‘nation —one sixty-thousandt part, to be exact.” 4 “All very statistical and po quite interesting to some folks, agreed. “But I must hurry gn now. “Not - yet,” Bulletin 320 cut’ {o. hayen't finished. . “It & qulte 11kely that each factory had its own little czar, who bossed the works and swelled 'up generally over the importance of his job. “He was a cog on a wheel that per- formed one sixty-thousandth part of our national work. ‘And the lesson I want to tell you is this: “So long there are 80 many mil- lions of us and there is so much work being done, no one man, no_matter how big or important he fiay. be locally, should kid himself into be= lieving that he is so important the rest of us can't get along without him." The light flashed o Bujletin 320.¥ I said an interesting thin bly ¢ ‘T “I thank you, You've told me “Yes,” he continued, . est salary paid any one individual in the country is so small when compared with what is paid all individuals that it affords no cause whatever for swelled head. “What.” he asked quickly, “is the most important group of men in the country today?’ h ity bureaus, | i { HINGTON, - D. *c‘é. W-EDNES'DZY:! MAY 23, 1928 - ; ok S ics at Large ME! Polit I.Y ENGER The republican national committee ch factory, Working [and the democratic national commit- tee, through their respective pub- are issuing some heated political statements these days and making lurid charges of a partisan nature. _The democrats are saying that the republicans are a ‘bad lot and the republicans retort that the democrats -are the worst ever. Looks as if the country is in for & rough time, whichever way the cat hops in 1924, Chalrman /Hull of the democratic natfonal committes charges that the republican managers have slighted the woman voters by not taking them into managerial partnership. Republican national leaders,” Chair- man Hull alleges, “after a full trial of nearly three years, have demon- strated the fast that republican wom- eh are uot welcome on the national committee, however welcome they Tay be on election day, and that if 'V welcome should later be Ve them it will be done most mua.fig:c and eolely through circumstances of pnlb)\_ll('al expedien . Not only,” says Chairman A has the republican D.zr()'un e the economic rights of ‘women, -but their political rights as well, we behold the humiliating spectacle of republican women on_ théir bended knees imploring republican leaders of the republican national committee to at least treat republican women as I thought for a time. “The Supreme |human beings and full-fledged Amer- Court of the United States.” 1 re- plied. 3 “Right; and as a newspaper man you may be able to name all the members. Such stunts furnish you your living. But not one man in ten thousand, away from Washington, could name all nine justices of the Supreme Court. “Such 18 fame! That group of men probably is the most important, taken as a group, in the country. Yet we cun’t name them. “Where, then, does the fellow get off_who isn't nearly so important as a Supreme Court justice? What rea- son has he got to ‘trick himself into believing he is such great shakes?" £ “A President is a pretty important man. Can you name all our Presi- donts? Can you name all the Vice Presidents?” Not 1" 1 replied, man who can.” ame him.” Mr. Harding, the former governor of the Federai Reserve Board. He can do all such things as that.” “He's a_ wonde Bulletin 320 said, ut let me tell you something else “but 1 know -a Down at the government printing |uine office there 18 a fat hook, printed some | teres years ago in very small type. Except for a few pages of text, it contains nothing but names—the names of the great “They are the men who have served the United States, either in Congress or in the executive departments. All have held high office. The list is com- plety, beginnin, nation. “As I sald, the book has many pages It has thousands of names. But who even remembers a hundredth part of them? “Fame is fleeting. Don't self into believing you are works, no matter how big kid your- the whol vou Lady Blythswood Quick to Deny That Prince Will Wed Her Daughter BY MARQUIS DE FONTENOY. If there is anything that is caléu- lated to mar the success of a royal it it the publication beforehand of purely imaginary reports that a rarriage hes been arranged between the illustrious guest and the daugh- ter’of the house. This is what hapr pened to Lady. Blythswood, who promptly dealt with the situation 3 ing & formal denial of the rumor.® Fortunately, Lady Blyths- wood is terms of personal in- timacy with the king and queen and on more promptitnde and decision than has been the case with other host- esses of the Prince of Wales. who is to be her guest at Penrice Castle at Swansea during his impending \isit to Wales. Otherwise he.might I'ave been obliged io alter his plans, since, if he had stayed at Pen: Castle, without any formal denial of the reports of his alleged engage- ment, his sojourn there would have been accepted as a confirmation of the rumor. Lord and Lady Blythswood have child, a.daughter of the Olive TDougles-Campbell, seven 1 ears of age—that is to say, a vear younger tham the Prince of Wales, and who is, per- haps, the greatest heiress in the United Kingdom. For, on the demise of her parents. she not only_comes. into the possession of the fortune of over $30,000,000 in- herited by her mother from her aunt; the late Miss Emily Talbot of Penrice Castle, amorganshire, but also all the unentailed estates of “her father, Lord- Blythswood; in the counties of Renfrew, Dwmnbarton and - Lanark. The ldte Miss Talbot was the daugh- ter of Christopher Marsel Talbot, who sat in parliament for an unbroken period of over sixty years. being known as the father of the house of commons. He married Lady Char- lotte Butler. daughter of the. first Earl of Glengaw. Her landed prop- orty in Wales gmounted to some 80, 000 acres, most of it. rich fn. coal mines, which vields the finest & ship coal in the world. ‘Miss T who also owned the greater part .of Pork Talbot, in Wales, was likewise the mistress of Margan Abbey, with its park seven miles in circumferenc and which .js so famous for. its orangery., hundreds of years old. "It seems that in the reign-of Elizabeth a Portuiguese ship, laden with orany and lemon trees, consigned 'to the virgin - queen, was wrecked on the seacoast of the Margan Abbey estate, the cargo being confiscated by the n only me of row twenty Both. orange and lemon trees wers planted iy the most Sheltered portion Bt the park and throve 8o wall that.the Margan Abbey oranges have ‘become celebrated throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom. 'The late Miss Talbot caused the entire croln 0] lers “and sajlors .in the rious . hos. 'hole-of the.great | o be turned over to the woun gnulu throughout the w! iwar. * Kk k- R Lord Blythswood, who onily succeeded to his- father's honors and. great estate: in 1918, served throughout the war. at the front in France as a chptain of his father’s old regiment, the Scats Guards. Although only the fourth peer of his ling, he is the sixteenth Laird of Blyths-. wood and the :twenty-first Laird .of ‘Mains, in Dunibartonshiré, and of Doug- las Support in Lanarkshire. In accord ance with the conditions under whick the Biythgwood's estates are held, te | father, “Dougta; difficult to keep track 1 lcul o ind o divine vl&-"mv when are 1ly Campbels | Some 300 years ago John Campbell of Blythswood married the daughter and heirees of John Douglas of Mains, in Dumbartonshire. and while his eldest son Colin inherited Blyths. wood, Renfrewshipe, his second som, Decame the “owner of Mains and of Dis mother's landed property, and as- sumed her name and her armorial bearings . of Douglae. . The i the elder brother died. A :r:‘faen?: eldest son of James inherited Blyths- W00d and took back - fHe mame . of Cempbell. From that time forth—it usually happens in every gener —the elder brother hus bee of Blythswood, With the ancestral patronymic of Campbell, and the-sec ond brother has become the owner of Mains, and of Douglas Support with the name of Douglas. =~ The Dumbarton estates are very large and were greatly added to by Margaret Douglas of Mains, who married Archibald, Duke of Douglas. the vic- or of the great D s “caus tor of | 1 ouglas ‘“cause _On her death the duchess left a con- siderable amount of property to her nephew, Col. Archibald Douglas, with a Proviso In her will that every_ owner of the property should bear the nhame of Douglas and that the whole properts should he known as Douglas Support, or the main support of Douglas. ; A _few years ago the great manston of Douglas Support, . situated on the banks of the North Calder, was partially destroyed by fire, the beautiful chapei, however. being aved. while among the paintings rescued was a celebrated one of gigantic size, representing the whot, genealogical tree of the house of Doug- las. Blythswood itself has been in the possession of Lord Biythswood's family since the reign of Mary, Queen of Scot and the present mansion erected on the foundations of a very old castle, was built on the south bank of the River Ciyde, to the west of Renfrew, in the early part of the eighteenth century, and was frequently visited by st Walter Scott. * o % ox Lad. Susan Townley's “Indiscre- tions,” which she published last year and created a momentary stir on both sides of the Atlantic by reason of the fact that she had always been a storm center in all the diplomatic positions to which her unfortunate husband was appointed, has not proved a financial success. Nor has she been more fortunate in her rural under- takings, which she aliuded to in her book, which she wound up with the ‘announcement that she had retired with Sir Walter to the country, where she was “breeding large black pigs, which, if not quite so interesting, is at least more remunerative and less exacting than diplomacy.” For she | has been obliged to abandon her. pig- breeding enterprise as disappointing in a monetary sense, and Sir Walter and herself have been compelled to put Winkfleld Place, on the out- skirts of Windsor forest, upon-the ‘market for sale by auction. Within tour miles from Windsor castle, with large pleasure grounds, a lake of two acres and the mansion dating from the Georgian era, It was in every sense of the word & most attractive home to ‘which Sir Walter and Lady Susan always returned with pleasure during the intervals of their diplomatic mis- sions, and for the rental of which dur- Ing their absence. they were always able to obtain a handsome sum, es> pecially during the Ascot season. . That they should have bee 1o aacrifics it 1s a blow which me s hhjud hig them ve‘:y hard. y Susan makes no secret in h .bnok of the reasons which led ‘2 h:: husband's retirement from the diplo- gnulo service and to_the shipwreck ot is official career. For, when in De- cember, 1918, he went to London from is legation at The Hague to asce in from the forelgn office why he had been passed over in the pramo- tions to an ambassadorship to which he was entitled by senlority, he was informed by the private secretary &f the minister of forelgn affairs that “the Indiscretions of Lady Susan had destroyed his chances.”” "The “indis- cretions” of Lady Busan had been ex- Aremely numerous, lu fact this stormy petrel °§.‘.'=‘ er of the Earl of Albe- of ill feeling she h, t & her comment yeam | up $is ! fcan cltizens, and pleadin, Atrongest reason in 'suppore of thels position that the democratic party bestowed full and equal rights on the women of America by glving them cdual representation on the demo- 4 national committe. since that time.” Sea il * ko % The republican national committee Jambesting the democrats on the guestion of “taxation. A broadside from the republican national manage- ment says: “The democratic national committee announces that demo- cratic leaders are perfecting plans for a heavy reduction of federal taxes, in event that they get control of Congress. . Democratic reduction of tax®s is a thing always talked about, but never realized. The Wil- son administration began to increase taxes as soon as it came into power. During its firat year, in times of ab- solute world peace, it jumped public taxes over $100,000.000, as compared with the last P, Fon year under President “The cratic for ne announcement that demo- leaders are perfecting plans W tax laws should cause gen- uneasiness among business in- s of the United States, particu- larly those of the northern states. The business, financial and industria! |interests of ‘the north have not for. i i w g with the life of theltne nortn i 1 {1eesiy gotten cratic Lramed icl that when the last federal tax jaw was being the democratic chalrman had it in charge boasted in ad- It Would be so devised that would be compelled to pay the bill. This prediction came truc, If democratic leaders showed as much diligence in keeping down public expenses while they are in power as they do in issulng state- ments about reducing taxes while they are out of power, they would command a greater confidence among the taxpaying public.” demo- nce * o ok o The democratic national committee continues without let up to remorse- hammer the republicans on the tariff law and its alleged effects on the’ consuming publiz. “The annual whole cost of the government,” the democratic national committee as- serts. “is about $4,000,000,000. That is just about the amount the Fordney- McCumber tariff takes from the peo- ple. Any feasibie reduction in income taxes could save a comparatively small numbor of people hardly more than $200.000.000 a-Year. A reason- able decrease in tariff taxes would save all the people at least $1,000,000. 009 a year. But the interests which enjoy ‘the protection given them by the Fordney-McCumber act and which are the chief republican campalgn contributors will oppose any curtail- ment of their profits for the benefit of the publlc. “Save as a means of defeatin President Harding's proposai for American adhesion to the Interna- tonal Court,” alleges the democratic national committee. “transportation and taxes are of little concern to the frreconcilable republicans. They would be willing enough to permit freights and taxes to remain as high as they are now if they could cir- cumvent the President by playing the game another way.. They are merely trying 1o use theee domestic issues to block the road: to this country's participation in international affair ‘American farmers are fixing their minds and their hopes on a profitable forelgn - market for their surplu products as the only solution of the economic difficulties which have slunged thousands of them into in- solvency and bankruptcy. Two at- tempts to cure the farmer's ills by enacting rariffs on agricuitural prod- ucts have failed, and the farmer is going to apply a new remedy—the stabilization ~ of Europe through American co-operation.” The republican national committee, in its arguments, insists that the eco- nomic condition of the farmer has nothing to do with the question of American participation in European affairs. So there you are. The voter will have to work it out for himself. * ook % The Institute of American Businese, with headquarters at 50 Madison ave- nue, New. York, has recently taken a poll of the attitude of republican and democratic newspapers toward the Permanent Court of Justice, league of nations and the exlent"".: which the United States should par ticipate in European affairs. In quirfes were addressed to 1,000 news. papers outside the metropolitan cen- ters—republican, democratic and fns dependent papers having representa- tion in proportion to the total num- ber included in each classification. Replies were received from 735 pub- lications. daily and weekiy. ccording to a statement sen: by the institute, “the editors o‘f ‘l’l‘:: country are overwhelmingly opposed to a policy of isolation. Republican editors indorse President Harding's proposal that the United States join jthe world court under conditions that will entall no entangling alliaj Democratic™ editors not only. indorss the world court as a second choice, but still remain faithful to the Wil. son league of nation: * ok ok X The editors of independent dailie were consistently opposed to_isola. tion, atement said. Replies were received from 135, 93 standin for the Wilson league, as a t -4 Spposed. The showing as en- tering the league with reservations was concerned, was 60 for to 36 against. While only 93 of the 135 were willing .to enter the league, 102 found the Harding-Hughes world court acceptable, 33 being willing to accept. the Borah world court as a SOEhe" the_editors of ind e the editors of independent anilies showed a majority In favor of the league, the editors of -the.inde. endent weeklies developed -a ma- ority against the league, lining up 'or the Harding-Hughes court. _';hc showing e the administration .pro- gram wa: for to 30 against. Twen- ty-four editors of independent week- lies favored the Wilson -league, ul 3?“ _ 785 re| h,"l‘n Wflé lies - received onl: b for- an abeolute and dotwh- right oy of 1solation, Was ex- plained that democratic edi ‘werg! more willing to compromise on par- ticipation tl the re lican edi- tors. It is that to eren ion In ignored | until | | ington conference gave us a naval CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. Apropos of the suggestion of an all-year, non-stop course in Wash- Ington grade and high schools, from the cradle to the shop or counting room, it is significant to note the comment of Dr. David Starr Jordan, president emeritus of Stanford Uni- versity. Speaking of & four-course’ term in a universilty, where the stu- dents are. no. longer.. growing.. chil- dren, he says, “It makes for speed, at the cost of thoroughness.” ehow, it seems to suggest a non-stop dinner, with no laughter, no relaxation, no sociability, no di- gestion. ‘Now good digestion appetite, And health on both.” * % kK Secretary Hoover reports that Utclé Sam-is still doarding 3,000,000 children in Russia. Yet the world imagines that Americans love only greed! waits on * ok X * Canada is sending to the Uaited States for fans. That refers to elec- trict not human, fans. It is hard to understand what she has done to hut off all her glaciers, or what the Lady of Snows” wants with wind- jammers in her frigid weather. Americans could understand Can- ada’s coming after our coal last winter. but ~why should we blow both hot and cold, even to be neigh- borly? R As £00n as 2 new fiscal year opens, July 1, the bars of immigration will reopen, and it is predicted that the rush will be limited only by the capacity of the “bridge of ships” across the Atlantic. The fmmigrants will arrive just in time for the harvest. If all were required to help farmers for the first six months the high cost of living for all of us might come down. Why not reguire initiation ~exercise i {farm work, similar to the strenuo ness of riding the Masonic | Then the *entered apprentices” more highly appreciate the sublime degree of full-fledged Americanism. This is & topic for Shriners to de- ate. PR The bay stood on the burning deck, Whence all but him had fled. The fast American officer, left be- hind to watch the Rhine flow down hill, has arrived home. He reports that he left a rear guard of one {doughboy, lest the river turn back. He refuses to divulge the doughboy's nam®, but the rumor that it is Grover Cleveland Bergdoll is vehemently de- nied. When the final contingent does arfive in the poert of New York, the entire American Legion may . turn out for the review. “Kamarad'™ e | { It is going to add greatly to thel interest of visitors in Washington when all the trees In the parks and | public places are duly labeled ‘with their “common miames.” The task of \dentifying them and attaching labels is oo great to put upon the regular: officials between now and Shrine jweek, without veluntary assistance, but the naming of the trees with a record of those which are historical— and there are many such—will en- hance the interest of the city for all who come. * kX % The story of the confusion of Babel | is woven around the lack of compre- hension of what the crowds were saying. Washington is eloquent’in its foliage. There are treés which stand as monuments to great men of the past. There is the tree in Lafayette Park which was planted, with much ceremony, on the first anniversary of. ‘Armistice day, in honor of the Ameri- can expeditionary forces. There are the trees along 16th street, each as a monument to a fallen soldier from the District of Columbia. But, with- out signs or labels to tell what is I ! Building Suspension Only Remedy _ Against Inflation. Cancellation of building . contracty and suspension af contemplated erec- tion programs throughout the coun- try, but chiefly in New York city, was a step that has received unqualified editorial approval. Editors generally seem convinced that if this had not been done a rapidly developing un- healthy economic process would have become serious to the welfare ef the nation, The construction vlans for 1923, it was shown In the investiga- tions of the American Construction Council, taxed bevond any possible 1limit the country's present manufac- turing, transportation and labor . re- sources. The competition in these three lines resulted in a scramble for everything wanted. thereby mak- ing costs & peak proposition which necessitated” a_charge in rental re turns out of all proportion with the properties affected. It meant great| losses when present high prices re: ceded. and was certain to postpone the long sought day of recessions from war-time rentals. “Excess cost production of any- thing.” says the New York Tribune, “{s bad for the community, and is tolerable only during a state of war. We are trying to get away from e ceptional war conditions. The Wash- A general build- ing holiday. e 2 desirable and ing holiday is equally would have more widespread ec nomic results”” The Philadelphia Public Ledger considers the “whole situation jumpy. The sorriest phase of it all is that the country needs all of the building that can possibly be done for months and possibly for years. Two years ago huilding was caught in the general deflation of the post-war ‘primary inflation’ Must We Ro.over-the same bumps again? The increasing demand for labor which causes wagés to Soar is the main factor in the building situation, the Jacksonville Times-Union ses it. but it explains, “in the south con- ditions are not so acute as they are ig the north and east, aithough there 8o steady demand for new buildings, espeeially in Florida. he warning of the American Con- struction Council must be heeded, the Pittsburgh Sun is convinced, because the “mad scramble to build—manu- facturing plants as well as homes— has resu.ted in a shortage of mate- rials and a shift of competition from the selling to the buying side of the ledger, with both materials and labor soaring. 1f we avoid suth a ‘wild- spinnirg cycle as attended the infla- tion of 1919 it will be due in no small measure to the brave words of cau- |morial day. [ field, | which may have a guilt COLLINS commemorated, the trees aré 1o 1ong- or monuments, but mefely trees. They are like closed books which have lost theie titles. Aftd this our life, exempt from haunt Finds tongnes in'trees. PBocks m’t:lekru;uuf;.‘ Scrmons in stones' and good 1n éverything. Surely there are “sermons in stones” —and ‘bronze—throughout Washing. ton, and every monument should have its sermpn interpreted. but-no more I8 that true than that every tres should have its tongue untied. * K k¥ When Congress adjourned the grass had not grown over the graves of the veterans of the world war. Arlington cemetery. So it was e for Congress to overlook the need of special provision to keep the graves In proper condition. The apparent negleet which has permitted the grass and weeds to overrun the cemetery’ Is not due to lack of effort on the part of the workers in charge. but they have becn overburdened by the in creased demands of work Now, the Amertcan Legion las called for volunteers to contribute tervtqe ', and the matter wiil bé cared for. No grave will be found neglectsd on Memorial day. * % ok % Ts not this local situation character- istic of the proneness of the uvcrage human heart to think that the task close at hand may be neglected, be- lying in » cause it is close, while what 1 distant , looms large? The amount of money called for for the permanent care of the graves of American soldiers left in_France was quickly oversu scribed, 80 that a surplus becam available to add to the home fund The unknown soldiers tomb would never be neglected, but here was a seeming neglect of the grave of thou- sanlls of known soldiers but for the ready watch of some of the leaders of the American Legion. * ok ok ox By proclamation from the President- and also from tie District Commis- sloners all patriots, and all who hold the memory of those who died for the perpetuation of civilization, are requested to wear the poppy on Me- It is the official flower of the soldiers of the world war. Artificial poppies are acceptable, and more durable than the real flower. It is a small thing to do, but the failurs to show the poppy will indicate that the memory of those who fell fs Iightly esteemed. Can it be true that, so soon. thers are many who would forget what ths war meant when {ts termination hung in the balance? Is the world now settled in ways of peace and jus tiat the crisis of 1918 is no longer living? Upor the breast of an American hero, dead upon tlie battiefleld. was found a message, even to the living of today: . Ye that have faith to look beroud ‘The tragedy of a world of strife And know that out of death and night Shail come the dawn of ampler life Refoice, whatever anguish rends the hear That God hath given you the priceiess dower To live in these times, and have your pa In freedom’s crowning hour: That ve may tell your eone. who sen the High in the heavens. their heritage to tal “I saw the powers of darkness take their 8ight, I saw the morping break! Wik An American officer upon the battle~ at 11 o'clock, November 11, spoke these solemn words, hearing of a group of doughboys, a rough-spéaking soldier replied, “Yes, and we can all thank our Jesus that we're alive today.” The poet's words mean more, per- haps, to _men who heard the awful silence of the armistice heus: upon the field of carnage. but surely the world has not yet found the “mo ing” cloudless.* The spirit which won battles wil prevail to win the struggles vet be- fore civilization, ere “the powers of darkness take their flight.” (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins ) EDITORIAL DIGEST tion sdbunded by business and financial leaders emphatically and repeatediy.™ There is -“nothing alarming to ge eral businéds”.in the dispontinuances that already ‘b#ve .béefi anngunced. he Wall Stréet Journal points ou Décausé " the' | country ' nedds new freight houses more .urgenfly than goitge libraries: * it needs -ehcun ellings, the buflders.of Which car- not and will not pay fant&stic prices to briekiayers. far more thap it& need $15.000.080 hotele, . the boildérs of part in the present bullding trad tuation. Ax all building involves some unskilled labor. the present abatement of taln classes of construction will ease the competitive demand for men and leave at least a relatively better la bor supply to the railroads, amo othere.’ It'must be remembered that “the:» is a limit to the purchasing power of the public.” the Providence Jour nal argues, because “men who arc not getting the wages of bricklavers and plasterers cannot stand the ex cessive rentals necessitated by in flated building costs. Has this limit been reached? That is the importan question to be answered by investors in improved real estate.” In addition as the New York Evening World sees the situation, it has not “been made clear just what the distinction is be tween building in general and hous- ing construction in particular. In, New York, at any rate, almost all classes of housing may be properly considered as emergency building Every possible workman should be kept busy buflding homes.” The > York Globe does not agree with this. Dbecause it feels a general suspension is necessary and suggests “it is high- ly desirable that this retrenchment work should be continued and ex- tended to other industries wherever this is practicable. In such manner business generally: may avoid over expansion and the ‘subsequent defl tion and unemployment which have been s0 common in the past.” The Houston Chronicle carefully points out that “capital is scared scared of constantly advancing prices, scared of inefficient, indifferent work scared of every element which see to jeopardize the situation. Capital cannot bé forced to build. There is no law, and there never will be a law, which compels men to build against their judgment. Building al- ve has been, and always will be = matter of voluntary effort. We have perhaps overworked this era of pros perity. We have- never imagined that capital might hesitate, but that is what has happened.” This is the opinion likewise of the Springfield Union, which feels “labor is killink the goose that has been laying gold en eggs for construction employes ever since the wa N_& FEW WORDS. \ . S o * jtis 1dle to taik ot proscribing war m{n.. the people ar Fatent-on.main- peace. * Yoy cannot maintain [ peace by fora. for -whe will supply, d di forge?. 7 3 ol "'—eéf:::{_’flfanr HUGHES. re are too many coming her about their constl y forget ’..“ &6 'OUMATOR CRYER (Los Angel The supine attitude of other coun- Jbetween capitalists and labor. I am a “theological illiterate’ and my conception of immorality is. that a thing which does harm, either to one's self or to others, is immoral whereas a thing which is not harm- ful is not immoral —FRANK A. VANDERLIP. Germany 18 the only country whers there seems to be a genuine alliance Prop- erty and labor retain their relativ values, and it is only the man with money alone who is broke. ¢ Ve~BERNARD M. BARUCH toward the question whether or he invasion of the Ruhr is & just The truth about the Germans |» > /