Evening Star Newspaper, May 24, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 24, 1823 Editor THEODORE W. NOYES... The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th At. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Office: 150 au Bt. ‘Tower O« Juildiog. oropean e 16 Reront B o Eugiand. The Evenis r, with the Bunday moraivg adition, is del ‘by carriers within tbe clty at 80 cents ‘month; daily ouly, 43 cents per Inonth; Sapday only. 20 cents per moath. ders m be sent by mail, or telephone Mal 5000. ollection 1s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only + $6.00; 1 mo., b0e Sunday only $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. ! Dally and Sunday...! yr., §10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ | Dally only.. } '$7.00: 1 mo.. 60¢ Sunday only $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ Londo | L1y 1yr. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all mews dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in ‘this ‘paper and alsa the local news pub hereln. All rights of publication of 1 dispaiches herein are also reserved. | === ‘Washington, the Wonder City. Washington beautiful is a theme that has enlisted many pens and| brushes. The attractions of the Na- tional Capital have been related in| 1ype, in prose and in verse, and have inspired artists from other lands as well as this. Picture postcards of the city have been sent by millions throughout the world. The theme is| endless, for old as are many of the| structures that comprise the public establishment at the seat of govern- ment and the open spaces that have | been developed as parks and cherished | s prominent features of the capital’s | setting, there is always something new to be shown. And always there is the wonder story to be told, never 100 old to retell, of how this city came iuto being and grew through adversity and years of neglect and poverty into its present rank as the most beautiful in the world. This story, in part, is | nounced, Home, Battle cemetery, St. Elizabeth's and many other ‘cemeteries has been the work and duty of the G. A. R. and its auxiliary, G. A. R. to raise a large part of the necessary fund by soliciting contri- butions in the governmental depart- ments, but this year that practice was | prohibited under an order forbidding all soliciting in government offices. Now these good gray veterans, many of them bent and stooped, must raise in other ways the slender sum they need for strewing the graves of sol- diers with flowers. The veterans make ; a public appeal. All the old friends and all the new friends of the veterans of 1861-65 and all those who hold dear the memory of men who served the Union in all its wars should hear the appeat and answer it. In its news columns The Star has printed this: “The Grand Army of the Republic and allled veteran organiza- tions in Washington are prohibited from making their annual solicitations n the government departments for funds with which to bear the expenses of placing on Decoration day fand on June 8 for the Confederates) a small American flag and a flower at the head of each of their comrades’ graves and of holding appropriate exercises in each cemetery where rest soldier dead. These veterans appeal to you through The Evening Star, which will accept and acknowledge contributions. Send something, no matter however nall. stating whether it should go to the Decoration day fund or the Con- federate veteran fund for use June 30.” —————— Shrine-Time Traffic. Traffic regulations for the Shrine pariod have been promulgated by the superintendent of regulations become effective this mid- night. Numerous one-way streets have been listed and these are indi- cated by vellow arrows on lamp posts No parking is to be allowed in the downtown congested section and the limits of that section have been an- The regulations have been made as plain as the authorities can Ide it and the responsibility is now up 10 motorists to obey them and the 10ld again in the current issue of the National Geographic Magazine, a pub- licaticn of which the capital is proud 10 be the seat as-the headquarters of an organization that has rendered an invaluable service to American know! edge and culture. In this issue of the magazine, which reaches several million readers not only In the United States but else- where, is a group of four articles, il- lustrated by a wealth of pictures, which, in part—a full illustration of Washington will fill a far greater vol- ume—tell the story of the capital. They present the noble structures that, not adequately, but in the main attractively, constitute the govern- ment's housing equipment. They show the parks, with their masses of foliage and their glories of blossoms. They give vistas of entrancing loveliness. They show the memorials to the na- tion's great ones. They give bits of architecture and scenes of human in- terest that make the capital's lite so vivid and so attractive. Such a publication cannet fail to quicken the interest of Americans in their national city, and to stimulate the desire to visit it and to see at first hand the scenes of governmental ac- tivity, to get in touch with the great organism that is the United States. In this fssue is told in text the story of, the great flow of people here, includ- ing theusands of children from the schools of the country, whose teachers regard a visit to the capital as of equal importance with their studies. It is most desirable that the Amer-| ican people should know Washington, | for in the degree that they come in contact with it and understand it, ap- preciate its significance, they are bet- ter citizens. A sense of pride is certain to be evoked through such a publica- tion as this issue of the National Geo graphic Magazine, a pride working out in terms of co-operation in the process of developing the capital. That work is incomplete. It will probably never be completed. No city is ever’ “fin ished.” The Washington of today is infinitely finer and more attractive than the Washington of half a century ago, and ity years hence wiil be even greater and more significant and more inspiring. Publications of this kind are of serv- ice, not merely to Washington, but to the people of this country. ————— | French dressmakers have length- ened skirts for fashionable wear and French dancing masters are now in- sisting on greater distance hetween partnérs. Paris, once the home of frivolity, is threatening to become positively prudish. ———— When Ambassador Harvey plays golf he wears long trousers. Knicker- bockers now have a ceremonial sig- nificance which those who have not participated in court life do not un- derstand. —————— New York city continues to develop new chapters in the sad story of the banker who neglected his ledgers for love letters. ——— The G. A. R.’s Appeal. The Grand Army of the Republic ereated Memorial day, and it is the Grand Army of the Republic which solemnized ‘the day and made it a time for strewing flowers and setting little flags on the graves of men who fell in the cause of the Unlon fifty-eight to sixty:two years ago and on the graves of men who served in the Union armies and survived the struggle be- tweeh the north and south. In the public mind there would have been no fitting and appropriate observance of the day but for the Grand Army vet. erang and their auxiliary societies. ‘Washington remembers when the Grand Army of the Republic was an crganization of large membership. It could turn out veteran regiments and | police to enforce them. Loyal Washingtonians will do their best to keep within the regulations. The list of one-way streets is probably too long for the average driver to commit to memory, but he generally | follows one route from his home to shop or office and he can easily revise his route to conform to the new rules. As cars in the no-parking area will be allowed to stop only long enough to discharge or take on passengers and. as the great majority of automo- blliets do net employ drivers. it is likely that a large percentage of per- sons having business or errands down- town will give their machines a rest and take to the street cars. Nearly every Washingtonian will have a little problem of his own during Shrine time, but there is no doubt that he will solve it The normal run of things will not prevail in Washington during the crowded period close at hand and the authorities have worked out a plan which they hope will give the greatest comfort and safety to autoists and pedestrians under the unusual cir- cumstances. Perhaps it is not a per- fect plan, but it represénts the best judgment of the men assigned to the work. That there will be many cases of individual discomfort is not to be doubted, but by accepting the new and temporary regulafions in good faith and calling on reserves of good humor we shall get through the situa- tion all right. ‘There is bound to be'a good deal of confusion and much bad driving ac- cording to the Washington standard. ‘The number of foreign cars coming here has been estimated at 20,000 to 40.000 and it may be conservative to set the figure at 30.000. A large pro- portion of the drivers will know noth- ing of our reguiations. such as giving right of way to the coming from the right, passing a car on the left, keeping to the right around circles, even though it is the longer way around, stopping behind . treet car while it is taking on eor discharging passenge: etc. Some thousands of the cars will come from small towns, villages and the farms. The Wash- ington driver should know his beok, watch the one-way signs, drive with extraordinary caution and be ever on the lookout for jaydrivers and jay- walkers and pedestrians forced into the street by crowded sidewalks or by stands which close the sidewalk to pedestrians. l If the Mystic Shrine renews its wel- come visits vear by year the number of incoming automobiles will increase until it becomes necessary to egtablish parking limits somewhere in the vicin- ity of Rockville. l The provision merchants, anticipat- ing an extraordinary crowd of visitgrs, have borrowed a slogan from Christ- mas merriment and are advising peo- ple to shop early. 4 It has taken an unusually long time to rescue the month of May from the attentions of the cold wave prophets. f Kansas has changed a great deal, but its old-fashioned cyclones have not yet been entirely eradicated. f Closing ‘the Avenue. Decision has been reached not to close the Avenue to vehicular traffic in the daytime during the Shrine con- gestion, but to close it at night, begin. ning tomorrow, between the hours of 7 and 12 o'clock. * This will permit the crowds in the streets to use the pavements and will net interfere with business. Vehicular traffic will be per- mitted across the Avenue. The purpose of this closure of the street space is to lessen the chances of accidents. It is the practice or- dinarily when Pennsylvania avenue is flluminated and is the scene of spec- divisions on parade. The grim reaper has worked in its ranks and compara- tively few of these brave and patriotic men are still with us. Though we bave fought a war with Spain and played a major role in the world war, we should not lose sight of or affec- have ever been called on to bear. The decoration with flowers and Sags of graves at Arlington; Soldiers’ tacles for motorists to assemble and drive to and fro to enjoy the scenes, The stretch between the Peace Monu- ment and the Treasury is on such oc- casions packed closely with moving cars. When the sidewalks are.free for pedestrian traffic these streams of motors are not menacing. But in the present oconditions, with the sidewalks the Woman's Rellef Corps. It has been the custam of the police and these | THE EVENING walke intq the pavement, and unless the vehicles are excluded there will grave danger. 2 It ever Washington is agaln the scene of such a great congregation a that expected here week after next, ‘with accompanying spectacles, precau- tlans should surely be taken to limit the reviewing stand provisions so that there will be no diminution of the sidewalk spaces. At Inauguration times in the past there have been no such encroachments on these spaces as at present. The crowds have then been so dense that the movement of the people was effected with difficulty and at times even with some danger. In the present conditlons the side- walk accommodations are lessened seriously. In some places no passage- way whatever is left. In others the free way for pedestrians is reduced to narrow limits, —————— Gov. Smith’s New Worry. As the time approaches when Gaov. Smith of New York must declde ta sign or veto the bill repealing the state prohidbition enforcement law he finds his embarrassments increasin He picked up another thorn in his heel yesterday. It was discovered that a bill {hpught to have passed the legislature which might have afforded him ground for compromise actlon { had in reality failed in the Senate and iis In the scrap pile of the document ! room. This measure, called the ‘“‘double jeopardy bill.” provided that violatars {of the prohibition law, if prosecuted by federal muthoritles, could not be | put a second tme in jeopardy under | the state law. It had been suggested to Gov. Smith by some of the poli- ticians that if he felt it necessary to veto the repealer, on the argument that the bill would be a back-hand blow at the Constitution of the United | States and weaken the effectiveness {of the national prohibition law, he uld throw a sop to the wets by sign. ing the “double jeopardy” bill, and thus free himself of the charge of hav- |ing gone over completely to the drys. It is said that the governor has been lending a listening ear to this suggestion that seemed to afford a | way out of a critical situation, end i one | report says his advisers were “flabbergasted” when it was found that he could not do it As the case stands now he is face to face with the flat proposition to sign or veto the repeal bill, and, as he himself publicly remarked a few day ago, “he will be damned if he does and be damned if he doesn't.” A sidelight on the incident of the dis- covery of the loss of the measure is that the betting odds on his action, which had been 11 to 10 for a veto, whifted to 11 to 9 for approval of the repeal bill. The governor is reported as being disquieted by reports that large sums of money were being wagered all over the country upen his expected action on the bill, —_———— The Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads have effected a raise of wages without jand without the amount of acrimoni- ous discussion usually attendant on such a transaction. ——— Col. Bryan's views on evolution were not indorsed by the Presbyterian Gen- eral Assembly The colonel is som times defeated in religion as well as in politics. —_———— 1t is all right to carry a motion pie- ture camera around the course when eminent citizens are golfing, but it would not always do to take along a phonograph. { Lloyd George's determination not to be obstructive will not prevent him from offering a few brief and timely remarks as they occur to him. I Many a person would have been of more value to himself and to society had he held strictly to the ideals an. nounced in his graduation essay, fled in describigg Washington as a city surrounded by golf links. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Relaxation. Of course, you are striving, whoever you are, To help the old world go upward and far, And you hope for results very soon. Each month finds you strong in the struggle and stres: Excepting just one; you're obliged to confess, That you get kind o’ careless in June. When the aky is serene and a cloud here and there, Makes a light fleck of foam on the ocean or air, And the world is a-thrill with a tune That is sung by the breeze and the crickets and bees, And the waves on the shore and the leaves on the trees— Well, you're bound to get careless in June! Different. The tenor sings notes that are sweetly refined. The orator's voice serves to cheer. A man often thinks he’s improving his mind, ‘When he's only amusing his ear. Superstition, Poor, Mr. -Skeeryman! mournful life. Every time you spill the salt, he looks for care and strife; Thinks the new moon wasted, with its gentle silver light, If he observes it to the left instead of to the right. Never undertakes a thing when Fri- day comes along, Says the day's a hoodoo and you're certain to go wrong: Shudders when a cross-eyed man ap. pears upon the scene, Loses hope completely at the mention of thirteen. % ‘The howling of a homeless dog will fill . his soul with grief; If he walks beneath a ladder he will tremble like & leaf, Poor, Mr. Skeeryman! & rest. He leads a He never gots startling the public, | Geographers will presently be justi-! STAR, Ambassador Harvey Is occupying historic quarters in the White Hou; |His spacious bedroom on the south front s the apartment in which Abra- ham Lincoln signed the emancipation proclamation on January 1, 1863. That event ls commemorated by & bronze tablet afMxed to the fire- place. President Harding accorded Col. Harvey anothter distinetion when the ambassador became & White House guest ten days a; Being “a fundamental democrat,’ as Harvey styles himself, Mr. Harding put at his disposal thte four-poster canopled bed In which Andrew Jackson slept while an occupant of the executive {mansion. It i not of record whether the spirit of “Old Hickory" has trou- bled Harvey's dreams or mot. The colonel’s future plans remain the acme of uncertainty, as well us o matter of general speculation. - He may come home for another vacation if he returns to England on the Le- viathan's malden voyage. The Har- veys want to spend some time at Chilef Justice Taft's summer place at Murray's Bay, Canada, while the colo- nel longs to funt and fish on the vast preserves of the Laurentia Club, in the heurt of Quebec. to which he has belonged for many years. ok ow Booksellers of the nation have re- clected a Washingtonian, Simon L |Nye. president of thelr national ae {soclation. Their annual convention has just ended at Detroit, where the orator-in-chief was Weodbridge { Ferris, newly-clected democratic sen- ator from Michigan. Senator Ferris railed eloguently at books of the {“Main Street” type, declaring works like Sinclair Lewis' authentic narra- {tive of amall-town stuff should never be written. Ferris himself halli from Big Rapids, Mich., which, cespite its name, is of Gopher prairie proportions from' a population standpoint. Mr. jNve describes Senator Ferris as a statesman and speaker of tha ald {school and prophesies that ba will speedily riseto eminence on Capitol i, | o Senor Lon lgnacia Calderon, for six- teen yveers Bolivian minister to the United States, has decided to veturn to this country and make Washing- ton his home. About a vear ago Senor Calderon, wife and daughter, suld good-bye to thelr many friends here and sailed for Tacns, on the western coast of South America, whare 1h diplomat lived some thirty years. ago. Now he and his family intend to cast anchor permanently in Washington, | pronouncing it the most beautiful {and attractive city in the world Senor Calderon resigned his minis terial position when the Bolivian gov- ernment was overthrown in 1921. I, iis an enthusiastic admirer of the| United States and a firm believer in| !the Monroe doctrine. During the {world war he electrified the Southern | Commercial Congress at New York by |declaring: ~ “If "the allies could use | Bolivian® troops Bolivia would send them." ! e | There's always room fer one more in the democratic bandwagen of presidential possibilities. and this i week, while in Washington. Gov. William E. Sweet of Colorado got | aboard. The governor came to ad- dress the national conference of social work, and many democratic politicians who had not him WASHINGTON, - D. "WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE | ter Hines Page. !the American before took occasion to give him .the rofessional “once over.” Many think e measures ‘up. Colorado is almast certain to present Sweet's namo aloRg with the flock of favorite sons to be ut forward by other states, Huston hompson, federal trade -~ commis- signer, got a first-hand account of wily Sweet dldn’t appoint him United States senator.. The governor dined @t the Thompson home while in Washington. Dark-horse possibilities are being associated with another western democratic governor, Jona- than M. Davis of Kansas. Lok ok Judge Edwin B. Parker of Texas, who succeeds former Justfce William R. Day as umpire of thk American- German mixed clalms commission, was one of Bernard M. Baruch's dol- lar-a-year men on the war industries board. Eventually he filled the im- portant post of priorities commis- sloner. After the armistice Judge Parker was sent to France as a mem- ber of the United States liquidation commission, and conducted negotla- tions with the French government for N transfer of the st Amercan equip- ment which our Army left “over there.” Parker is a Missourian by birth, but has lived in Texas since boyhood. Uncle Sam gave him the D. 8. M. for war services, and France thrust upon him the leglon of honor. ok kK Probably never before was there such profound satisfaction in Wash- lngton that a given European states- man did not achleve power, as pre- vails over Lord Curzon's fallure to become British premler. His reputa- tion, both in England and the United States, is that of an incorrigible anti- American, despite his successive cholce of two American wives. Cur- a0n, though his legion of enemies and critics considers he has the finest in- tellect now In British public life, is incurably aristocratic. Toward Amer- ica he adheres to the tory idea that the revolutionary war was “the crime of 1776." Since the days of his rule in India, Curzon’s manner has been described as “vice regal.” Wal- our wartime am- bassador at London, cordially dis- liked Curzon and entirely ignored him in his posthumous “Life and Let- ters.” There was one anonymous ref- erence tq Curzon—a threat by Page that if a certain man became foreign secretary, Page would resign the American ambassadorship. * % % ¥ Among the distinguished men who are preparing introductions for the memorial set of Theodore Roosevelt's works is Lord Lee of Fareham, late first lord of the British admiralty nd chief naval delegate at the Washington conference. Lee (for- merly Col. Arthur Lee) was “T. R. closest friend in Britain. their com- radeship ‘dating from the days when | Lee was British military attache with Army in Cuba. Lee's to the Roogevelt mem- it is understood. will centribution orial velumes, contain the inside history of the! famous speech the colonel delivered | t Guildhall. London, in 1910, in which he criticized British policy in Egypt. Roosevelt subjected himself to bitter criticism throughout the British empire for his apparent “but- ting in.” Lee is likely to make public —what long has privately been known —that the former American President spoke with the full approval of the British government. (Copyright. 1921 Bestowing of Honor Recalls Ancesto i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Kintore has been so much in Amenica and has so many ftrieids in the United States that King George's action in bestowing upon him the vacant green ribben of the Most An- clent Order of the Thistle, of which there are but sixteen non-royal mem- bers, all of them peers of Scotland, will create a certaln degree of sympa- thetic interest on this side of the Atlantic. For it serves to recall the fact that this now septuagenarian highland chieftaln, who is the tenth earl of his line and hereditary knight marshal of Scotland, holds the latter office in recognition of Yhe services which his ancestor, Sir John Kelth, the first Earl of Kintore, rendered to the reigning family by preserving for it the crown and scepter of the king- dom of Scotland. Indeed, the motto that figures on the coat of arms of i Lord Kintore, “Quae Amisea Salva" (What has been lost is safe). is in- | tended to commemorate the fact that King George and his predecessors on ithe throne of Great Britain since the restoration of Charl II are in- {debted to the Earls of Kintore for ! the possession of the crown and { scepter, the sword of state, the orb and the remainder of -the. ancient regalia of Scotland. The crown is the one with which King Robert Bruce was fivst erowned at Scone in 1308, and which thereafter was used, together with the scepter. { the sword of gtate and the orb at the coronation ef every Seotflsh sover- eign. including Mary Styart, James I of Great Britain, Charles 1. Charles IT and their successors, When Crom- well rose in arms inst Charles I and swept through the northern kina- dom with his ironsides like & scourge, | the crown, the scepter and the re- | mainder of the regalia were carried off for safety to Dunnotar Castle, built en a lonely rock overhanging the waves of the North 8 Crom- well learned of thls and caused the castle to be closely besieged, know- { ing full well the superstitious impor- tance which the Scots of high and low degree attached to this aneclent regalia f their kings. 8o close was the siege that surrender appeared inevitable. * % ¥ % Resolved at all costs to save the regalia from falling into the hands of the enemy, Sir John and Lady Keith devised the following scheme: Sir John, at the imminent risk of fall- ing into the hands of the enemy. managed tg escape from the castle v hes in a Small boat during a storm. It was a dort of forlorn hope, with 99 chances in 100 that he would either be taken prisoner or drowned. He carried nothing with him and was finally picked up by a Duteh ship in the offing, thus reaching Holland and France. His eseape was quickly known and, of course, Gen. Lambert, who was in charge of the besieging force, took it for granted that he had carried the regalia away with him and therefare somewhat relaxed the severity of the siege, since its prin- clpal object had, as he believed, disappeared. < Consequently, when Mrs. Grainger, the wife of the minister of the parish chureh of Kineff, some six miles dis- tant, b-qu‘tot ermission to visit Mrs. Ogilvie, wife of the-lieutenant gov- ernor of Dunnotar Castle, op some pre- text or other, she was ailowed tp pass threugh the ‘lines, Gen.' Lambert per haps’ Believing that she might pe suade the Inmates of the uselessness of holding out any .longer. ~Mrs. Grainger, before leaving the castle on her return home, managed to conceal the crown, the scepter, the sword of state and the orb about her person, the sword and scepter being sawn in halves and swathed in Mnt. %W ‘When Mrs. Grainger emerged from choked with stands, it is obvious that | He reaches out for- trouble and he the castle, Gen. Lambert plied her there will be a large overflow from hugs it to his breast. with questions, which shé answered | indeed, on Lord Kentore . r’s Aid to Scotland to his satisfaction, and was so pleased, that, much to her embarrass- ment, he insisted upon himself as- sisting her to mount her horse. She reached her husband in safety and at the dead of night he and she dug a hole in front of the pulpit in the parish church at Kineff, where the crown and_scepter were concealed, the stone being thereupon replaced in such a manner as to leave no trace that it had been raised. The sword of state and the orb were hidden in a similar manner under the stone flagging near the western entrance of the church. A fortnight after- ward, Dunnotar Castle surrendered, and. some doubts having arisen in t mind of Gen. Lambert as to wheghe Sir John Keith had really carried the | regalia away with him to France, George Ogilvie and his wife and eventually the Rev. Christian and Mrs. Grainger were subjected, not only to a searching examination. but even to torture in order to induce them to disclose what had become of the regalia. Nothing, however c force them to admit anything bey the fact that they believed Sir John Keith to have carried off the crown. the scepter, the orb and the sword of state to the continent. EE Under the floor of the parish church of Kineff. the regalia remained hidden from view for the following nine years, until after the restora- tion of Charles II they were un- earthed and turned over to Charles 1. The latter bestowed a large monetary reward upon the Graingers, of which the record remains in an aot of parliament dated 1661. while money and a knighthood were granted to Lieut. Gov. George Ogilvie. Sir John Keith's services in the matter were acknowledged by- his eléevation to the peerage, first at Lord Keith of Inveruire and then as Lord Kin- tore, as well as by his appeintment as hereditary knight marischal of Seotland. The second Earl of Kintore joined the rising in behalf of the Stuarts in 1715 and was at the battle of Sherrifmuir. He was succesded by his first and second sons and then the estates and honors should, accord- to the remainder of the grant 6f the earldom of Kintore, have gone ta George and James Keith, sons of the elder brother of the first earl. Both George Keith, de jure earl marischal of Scotland, and his brother James had, however, been attained by parliament for their devotion ta the Stuart cause, and while George 1T of England was ready, in.deference to the pressing intervention of his mother-in-law _and Frederick the Great, their friend. to allow ' them the possession of their estates in Scotland, he would not permit them to succeed to the earldom of Kintore. They neither of them married. and while the younger of the two, James, fell in the battle of Hochkirchen, serving under Frederick the Great as a Prussian fleld marshal, George Keith, the earl marischal, on the i vitation of that monarch took up h residence with him at Potsdam. Not until hig death did the earidom of Kintore pass to the eighth Lord Fal- coner as the grandson of Katherine, only daughter of the second Earl of Kintore, who had married the fifth Lord Falconer, the Falconers being descended from Ranulphus- De‘Luns kyir, who was a royal falcomer to King Willlam the Lion, the ‘barony of Falconer being created to this'| lineal descendant in 1G47. The, title of Lord Falconer s now borfie Wy the elder surviving son of Lord Kintore, whose wife is a daughter of the sixth Duke of Manchester. 1s a captain of the Scots Guards, with which he served in France through- out the great war, having previoualy taken part in the Boer campaign of a quarter of a century ago, and put of years at Buenos Alre secretary of the Bri tly been put forward in_ print as th{ prospective . husband. of some.Ameri- ‘can heiress cr weaithy widows. -, —. although frequen Lord Falconer |4, 'C.," THURSDAY, MAY '24,- 1923, BY LBILA MBOHLIN A city of the middle west boasted publicly the.other day that It was not disfigured by sculpture, naming this as one of its distinctions. 'What a sad reflectlan, not on American sculptor: but upon the city fathers who so frequently have erred in judgment when - melecting works of art! The great trouble comes {n most instances through lack of understanding snd bec¢ause the children of darkness are oftentimes more enterprising than the children of light, and how can one unfamilfar with thelr trappings, dif- ferentiate? To many, sculpture merely means a form, & semblance of reslity; to them @ portrait statue is goed or bad ac- cordIng to whether or not it resem- bles the man It represents, or their idea of the man, and of all forms of sculpture for public purposes a por- trait statue is most popular, as If it were the appearance that mattered, the clothes that made the man. When- jever some prominent citizen leaves this world the first thought of those who would do him honor is to erect a portralt statue in some public place, little thinking whether it will carry out their intent and serve a moble purpose when they themselves are dead and gone. Occasionally such commissions have fallen into the hands of capable art- sts and have therefore, almost by accident, become works of art, noble monuments. Examples of such cases are the Farragut in Unlon Square, New York, by Saint.Gaudens; the standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago. by the same sculptor; the Henry Ward Beecher, in Brookiyn, by J. Q."A_ Ward; the Bryant, in Bryant Park, New York, by Herbert Adams. Of ail such portrait statues perhaps the outstanding example, the highest standard yet attained, is the Nathan Hale, by Frederick MacMonnies—a very' simple statue standing in City Hall Square, New York. Of this the sculptor himself said: “I wanted to make something that would set the little bootblacks and clerks around there thinking: something that would make them want to be somebody and find life worth living.” In other words, he wanted not merely to arrest attention but to emphasize the char- acter of the hero, the patriot, the man who dared to-do right. and this he accomplished, But if one wants to know how usually are, it is only nece: make a tour of the Sculpture our Capitol: Here are works, and many’sculptors of fair standing, but how utterly uninteresting and unin- spiring in ‘most instances, theysare! | The Houdon Washington, and the Cass, by Dapiel Cheeter French, are }exceptions to the rule e | curicusly ugh, the most notable | portrait statues from the standpoint of | artistic merit that one can reeall ha: been produced long years after the men who they represent have died. For example, the admirable statue of Alex- ander Hamilton, by Fraser, on the ter- race south of the Treasury, which was unveiled with appropriate’ ceremonies here last week. This statue is essen- tially & work of art and one to wich at all times we may point with pride. 1L is essentially plastic in its conception, spirited, full of individuality, a charac- terization—charming, delightful. And whether or not it actually resembles {him as he was in life it does not signify It certainly personifies the spirit and character of the man. The John Paul Joues statue at the foot of 17th street, the Hahnemann statue at Scott Circle, both Ly Charles Henry Niehaus, are likewise excellent, and were both' exe- cuted many years after the men they commemorate had died. So also_the Bawy statue in Franklin square, by John Boyle, which is not, however, as good as it should be, the'O'Connor statue in the same competition being infinitely more artistic and engaging. k0w Washington is the city of the eques- frian statue and has a larger number of such statues than any other city in the world. Among this troep of horse- men, all of which are of military lead- ews, the Thomas, by Ward, in Thomas Cirele, and the Grant, by Shrady, at the foot. of the Capitol, at present in the Botanic Gardens, but later on Capitol Plaza, according to the city plan, are of chief ‘importance as works of art, bril- liant_achievements both, statues show- ing rider and horse at once and in- herently possessing great dignity. * ok ok x But how little our eity, and, in fact. any of our American cities, have in- duiged in_ purely decorative sculpture, =uch as the beautiful Fountain of the Observatoire in Paris. Here in our eapital city we are fortunate in having added in recent years the McMillan Me- morial Fountain in McMillan Park, the { Dupont Fountain in Dupont Circle, and, hidden away among the shrubbery, the delightful little Millet-Butt fountain to the narth of the cllipse. But think what we might have! Consider for a mo- ment the charm and beauty of the im- aginative works by American sculptors —Daniel French's exquisite “Spirit of Life" at Saratoga, the extremely inter- esting and_important Indian sculpture by Cyrus E. Dallin of Boston, among which the “Appeal to the Great Spirit," standing before the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is of exceptional interest Lorado Taft's “Fountain of the Lake: at the Art Institute of Chicago: Selon Borglwn's sculpture indicative. ‘of the life of the plains; Anna Hyatt's “Joan of Are,” on_Rivereide dri New York: Janet Scudlier's fountain figures, or Paul Manship's extremely eriginal groups re-echoing the spirit which found expression through the medium of sculptural art in Egypt and the far east, or MaeMonnies’ superb ‘Horse Tamers,” in Prespect Park, Brookyn. * ok Ok ¥ So mueh of the gay sculpture in this country has been produced for our expositions and has vanished with them. It served its purpose, but it was so worthy of being put in per- manent form. With our innumerable parks, our beautiful foliage, we offer in Washington exceptional landscape sotting for sculpture of this sort, and the pity is that we have not more of it. Who, having had the experience, does not recall with delight the cheery sculptural figures half hidden by fo- liage, in the gardens of the Luxem- bourg; or the sculpture of earlier date which so amazingly embellishes the wooded “Allees” at Versallles. And, after all, why spend all of our means and all of our effort memorializing the heroes of war; why not, if we must memorialize, ‘erect menuments to the heroes of peace who have em- bellished life by their genius—our great painters, our great writers, our great architects, our great musicians —and. in so doing beautify our city We would. under such circumstance: undoubtedly be building menument: to ourgelv to the age in which we live, to our own wisdom and culture, and such expenditure 0f money sure 1y is not to be regarded as.waste, it is thrifty. for it emriches, .it adds to civie pride, and it influenc those who come after us. * % ¥k Mrs. Herbert Adams has lately -written a delightful little book enti- tled “The Spirit of American Sculp- ture™ for the National Sculpture So- ciety, and published in connection with the great exhibition of Ameri- can sculpture now being held in New York indoors and outdoors, under the auspices of the National Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Numis- matie Society and other meseums and associations whose permanent homes are located on the block at . 156th street and Broadway. In this book she. calls attention to the excellent wq{k that has been done In the sev- ergl flelda of sculpture, the statue, the buat, the ideal figure, our eguestrian atatues, work in relief—and touches on influences, going and coming, which have helped to give character o the work. In her introductory chapter she notes with some emphasis the fact _that through ergon’s hands ‘“the realism -of France and the idealism of Italy came to the aid of our new-bern plastic art;" but she says that we differentiate too rudely if*we say offhand that American ry . to 1 in sculpture h: learned its art from France, | raft from Ital; “"’e lhl.ve ut we come under both influence ‘have-- ved-an - art -essentially--ou 1 who gave all for bis country, the man{ Alse, to find how the animals and l dreary and uninteresting such statues | The best optimist in the world is the mathematiolan starts 2 breeding farm, whether it s to breed gulnea plgs—for “plgs is plgs"— akunks, foxes or reindeer. Uncle Sam is that kind of an op- timist, for he began ralsing steeds for Banta Claus just before the auto- mobile came to life. He imported sixteen reindeer from Biberia Into Alasks in 1891, and 174 the next year. ‘These bave “increased and multiplied and replenished” Alaska, so that now they exceed in number 230,000, and are still going strong. L No longer does the Alaskan depend on whale blubber, since he can eat the fulcy. venison of the reindeer. The day may comgq when the full pasturage of Alaska, sald to be capable of feeding 4,000,000 reindeer. will be taken up, and the marketing of venison even to supply the United States will become an important in- dustry, Greater revolutions than that in the meat and fleld supplies of the world have taken place within the life of this generation. Mankind has not begun to understand the re- sources of ‘the earth. France an- that she will develop the 80_that it shall no longer be a desert, There {8 nothing incredible in that announcement, for it is sald that most of the desert lies lower e level, and could easily be ed aor turned into a vast inland sea. In either case, the change of so vast an aréa would change the cli- mate not only, of northern Africa, but also. propably, to a noticeable degree. all of southern Eurppe. * kK It is a subject of constant research in.the Department of Agriculture to seek out plants and animale not now growing jn our country, which might be adapted to our soil and climate. plants now confined to certain sec- tfons may be used to fill up “the chinks” of other sections. .For ex- ample, it has been annmounced that many head of camels which are com- ing to the Shrine, from far-off Texas. will remain in Virginia, so that in a few years we may see humpy flocks parading the highwavs and scaring eutomobiles into runways. ¥ ok koW Hon? William J. Bryan thinks that nobody has ascended from monkeys. but he seems quite willing that all, from the President to congressmen, should ‘“make monkeys of them- selves.” by signing a pledge to main- tain all the laws of the country. Is not that exactly what they swore to do when they took their oaths of office? What more ds a pledge? % Why should Washingtonians fear starvation during Shrine week, when 2,000 wholesale grocers meet in con- vention in the capital the week be- fore? Does any one suppose that these 2,000 men will leave business behind when they ehter the hungry city, as Dante was warned to leave hope behind when he entered Inferno? * ok ¥ % Miss Jane Lothrop, ene of the “twelve most: famous women in the Tnited States,” according to the lsr snnounced by the National Wamen's Party, prophesies that within twenty- five years poverty will have been abolished tn the United States. Perhaps her dream may come true. But will that be the climax of felic- ity? The Good Book says “the poor ve have with you always.” Poverty is a comparative word. Does its abolishment mean that we shall have no more sickness which stops_ the breadwinner from his labor? Does it mean that we shall have no more vice which robs, or which cheats, or which plays siug- gard? What is poverty, that it should be expected to slip away? It is not the disease, but merely a symptom, Every Detail Should Be Inquired Into. “Something to proceed cautiously with” seems to be the general inter- pretation of the suggestions for rail- way consolidation now being investi- gated by the Interstate Commerce Commission. It is agreed that if & division of the roads into natigpal groupings is to come logislation Will be required. But editors see no good reason why the plan should not be thoroughly looked into and the pub- lic given a chanee to understand what it all is about before Congress is asked to act. The frank manner in which Presi- dent “Al" Smith of the New York Central told the commission that his system “was not a haphazard growth,” but had been thoughtfully, almost prayerfully, bullt up se that each of the branches performed a proper function for the benefit of the entire bedy, is pointed out as an ex- cellent “pattern” for the commission to consider should it ever decids to favor the plan and ask Congress to authorize it. In the opinion of the Albany Knickerbocker Press, before any step can be taken “it must be shown that there is a way of combining small railroads with larger ones, or with each other, that will be an improve. ment on present conditions. The pub- lic s prompt and adequate servs ice at as low & cost as possible. The railroads seek a reasonable return ment. These are not to attain. But any- impossible en thing which dees not lead specifically ay turn out to their direction in The term “community of intere: lends {tself admirably to the present dis. cussion, as the Boston Post reviews the testimony of the railroad chiefs and suggests that any apportionment of the various roads to any single system must be carefully worked out .and shippers will benefit." s0 _that the interests of the patrons will not suffer. ins of past mis. management” are held responsible by the Post for the present plight of th New Haven and the Bostan and Maine, and it suggests, “with the past mismanas nt elis with a unified system, th roads can serve New England to better ad- vantage under local control than by turning them over to forelgn domi- nance.” “Had the transportation companies beén permitted to develop naturally, absorbing or being absorbed accord ing to the laws of business,” the Pittsburgh Gazette-Times sa. “the necessity for compulsory mergers probably hever would have appeared. he point is that the government now is insisting on virtually that which in the past it has forbidden. If hi tory may be depended on as a guide, Tt'1s a safe conclugion that fhis ven- ture of authority ‘will preve more eostly to the public than would have, consolidations by private initiative' that have been for so long forbidden." To date, as the Boston Herald inter. rets the teatimony, “the consolida- ionists can find amall comfort in the Interstate nfiommul’t'~ g:mml‘a:lo: hearings; -although tssue -is of _—consequences -to-—all.” - Then The North Window specific will cure it? Wil lon for all .do away, with oW would.such a pension be mair- tained? There is no_meney In the government, except what is taken from the people. Shall the masses be taxed for the su a ort of those w do not work? Aup o M * %k % % Dr.. Stelzle, the sociplogy expar: preacher, himself a machinist,. was speaking before a crowd of working- men in Chicago, when he’was inte: rupted by a socialist who told him and his audfence that what the coun try needed was to do away with pov erty. “That it would end a1 troubie and do away with all unrighteousness Dr. Stelzle replied by asking himg if there were not many milllonaires in Chicago, and whether the socialists thought all milllonaires were ideal citizens. If not, he suggested that the socialist ption to mend al troubles by ‘‘abolishing all poverty” might need further consideration * % k% It was many vears ago that wise Agar. the prophet, prayed i “Remove from me vanity and lics glve me neither poverty nor riches feed me with food convenient to “Lest 1 be full and deny Thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I poor and steal, and take the name my God In vain” T the ik There are many sincere advoc of some form of thrift insura: whereby, out of the productive lab of all, during their active years, s percentage might be laid aside the relief, either of each individual of the particular class, when reaci- ing the age of retirement or when overcome by sickness, or for the whole of the semi-submerged p whose poverty is not due to thr lessness. . e, s et tor i The greatest blessing in life is tife privilege of work. What a disaster it would be if, in some way, the gov ernment should say to a considerabfe class: “You shall no longer have part in production; you shall be t! drones, supported by the toil of thess noble workers! You shall be para- sites. It is noteworthy that many men who achieved success are men whose boyhood and young manhood were i spent in continuous struggle against extraordinary handicaps. They have been janitors in colleges, that thesyj might work their way through a busines course of education. In they at the bottom and work against obstacles which developed their resourcefulness and self-depend ence. Rich men's sons, too. succeed, whe they inherit. not merely the weal but the qualities of their ancestors Such men are eager for the struggle willing to endure hardship and to “begin at the bottom” on their own merits of work. * %ok % Not long ago, a European your man from a wealthy family brok away from his family remittance and came to America against his parents’ wishes. His remittance stopped, and he was thrown upen his own ret sources & What a romantic crisis to test what was in him! Did he go to wor Not accor@ing to the latest news. He advertised for some wealthy Amert cans to gdopt him and support hing s0 he could .go through college at their expense. * FW % Silly young man! Yet does he not typify the attitude of many young Americans today, who even want thefr own parents to pinch and deny their own comfort while supporting their sons beyond adolescence, whi think that they confer a favor them by attending college and be- longing to fraternities and sports® There {s scarcely a successful man in any walk of life who ever “ar- rived” because some one else had “abolished his poverty” and enabled him to progress along such a soft EDITORIAL DIGEST mud road. Success comes by the stony pike—vet not to “pikers (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.} 4 again, in connection with the claims of those who favor the grouping that it will not interfere with competi- tion, the Worcester Telegram sug- gests “if unification and co-ordination are undertaken with a view to the complete systematization there will have to be less competition. The problem seems to be to obtain uni- fication and at the same time avoll government ownership or govern- ment control.” The entire problem is extremely “complex,” the Baltimore Sun insists, although “that the merger proposal is a desirable one is the belief of most disinterested students of the railroad problem. In spite of that, Drlc*:m} ralroad men are not & unit in favor ing even the general idea. It Is argued that the arrangement would limit present competition and dis- rupt existing routes. in a sense It is because these existing routes and chatinels of trade are held to be eco- nomically unséund, costly and waste- ful that this proposal to consolidate is made. The layman can seé how the proposed groupings would alter the channels of trade and how cer tain communilies may be Affected by them, -comparatively speaking, but unless the whole schéme is unsoung the bulk: of the traffic under the grouping plan can be handled more expeditiously and cheaply and tie great majority of the communities All of the figures showing railway finances con- clusively Indicate, the Wilkes-Barre Record holds, that “the country is verging toward a railroad crisis that can be overcome only by getting down to the level of common sense. That means that people who have been misleq by the clamoring class interests, and by the strident shriek: ing of radicals who know not whereot they speak, or who knowingly seek notoriety at the expense of public welfare, must think straight. Unless existing conditions are remedied there will be ncreasing congestion of traffic, with coal famines in cer- tain sections and - geteral delay in the movement of heavy freight. It is time td make an accurate appraisal of the needs of the ratlroads in th light of reason and@’to act accord ingly.” . Inasmuch as.to stabilize the trans- portation industry will necessitate absorption of _weaker roads by stronger, the New York Tribun argues “regional consolidation can not be accomplished without com pensation to these stronger roads which take dn their poor relatives. Financial adjustments must be work- ed out after agreement on groun: ings . is achleved. Such a thorougi¥ | going settlement cannot be rushed. But it vident that the raliroads themselves are not averse to. discuss- ing constructive and"ratlonal regional consolidations. - 1t 1& the opinion of the New York Journal of Commerce that “what demanded today from the railroads' standpoint is & recog- nition of the fact that a new era has arrived in connection with the trans- portation issue. That our railroad . policy in the past has been foolish nd unjyst no one could doubt. omething is clearly called for that will bring about & constructive ap- proach to the rallroad lssue and will render possible the development of ™ program that can be offered against the demands of the confiscatory. .li- ‘meat-in. Congress.” ey