Evening Star Newspaper, May 26, 1923, Page 6

«+LHE EVENING STAR, 2yesi3Vith Sunday Morning Edition. guu W ASHINGTON, D. C. ....May 26, 1928 L - - “WHEODORE W. NQYES........Editor aoigil b The Evening Star Newspaper Company voBusiness Office, 11th and Pennsylvania Ave. 147 New York Office’ 150 Nassau St Gap o1 Chicago Office: Tower Huilding. tilluropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. e Eyening Star, with the Sunday morning o ia deifvercd by carlers within the elty + month; daily only, 45 cents per \qath; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- WAy be sent by mail, or telephone Main 004 Collection 1s made by carriers at the @4d 87 euch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. soby Maryland and Virginia. aily and Sunda. hwily enly 5. ¥agday only fraet Yo bas ey All Other States. Daily and Sunday-..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only. Sunday only “§0) cents 0c. * Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the ‘use for republication of all news dis- [tchies credited to It or not otherwise eredited n this paper and alxo the local news pub- lshed ‘herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatchies Lierein are also reserved prctintous oA sheaadisatt Overplaying Their Hand. The “wets” in New York, who are frantically urging ’ Gov. Alfred E. Smith to sign the Muillan-Gage re pealer bill give indication of possibly “overplaying their hand” in some of the arguments they advance in sup- port of their plea for executive ap- proval of the measure. They are said to be fostering the impression, a mis- taken one, that if he signs the voters may expect a return to wet times thre zh legislative action, which, of coul s, is not the case, and that if he vetoss they will take it that he has slammed the door of opportunity in their faces and will resent it. An Al bany dispatch says that some of the Tammany politicians tell the governor that the state will be lost to the party for the next five years if he vetoes the bill. 3 The wets in this line of talk are making it harder for the governor to sign if he wants to do so. Should he acquiesce in their reasoning he would be in the position of approving their illogic and offering the voters a gold brick, as well as slapping the Consti- tution of the United States in the face. They should know that the only al- leviation that will come to their parched throats will be from a flood of contraband liquor which will flow into the country, but the Volstead act will still stand, to be enforced by fed- eral authority The only reason the governor could advance for signing the repealer would be the one presented by the three lawyers who wrote to him, dissenting from President Harding’s appeal, that the state is not bound to assume the greater burden of enforcement of the federal act—and that argument is ‘pen to dispute. Tuesday next, at Albany, all phases i the question are to be thrashed out in the public hearing on the repealer bill. The occasion promises to present & death grapple between the wets and the dr; and both sides are marshal- ing their forces. It is realized by both sides that whichever is victorious will have won a highly important skirmish in the greater battle to come in Con- gress and possibly at the polls next year. Shopping and Parking. Lifting the ban on downtown park- ing until the crowd comes will be gen- erally commended. There is no need to break down the Washington routine until it becomes necessary to change our ways of living in order that the Shrine crowd may be happy, and also in order that we shall not be run over or walkegl on during the busiest week in Washington’s history. It was a good thing to give the new no-parking regulations a try-out, so that the city might have a full-dress rehearsal of how to get to and from home during Shrine week. It worked well in the main. No doubt some in- curable automobilists stayed home be- cause they dreaded the jolting of a street car, but most of the automobile crowd got downtown and back home without serious results. The walking was good and the exercise was bene- ficial. Other autoists got a taste of street-car travel, perhaps the first they have had since they bought the family car a few months ago, and the bumping, pushing, elbowing and strap- hanging gave some of them a new out- look on life. The autoist who refused to give “the old boat” or “the old bus” or “Lizzie” or “Susie” a day's vac: tion may have found some difficulty in finding a new curb-stall a mile from the office, but the experience will not do him permanent harm. Altogther the experiment was not so bad. The no-parking ban has been lifted until midnight May 31. A committee of the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association called at the District building, saw Commissioner Oyster, ‘who is in charge of police matters, and told him that in the downtown district the no-park and short-stop order had cut shopping to the vanishing point. Nobody wants to interfere with shop- ping. Shopping is one of the great activities of the world, and next to government it'is, perhaps, the leading industry in Washington. —————————— 1t would make a dazzling statistical display if the regular census figures washington, D. C., could be cal- culated during Shrine week. for —————————— Immoral Drama. A jury in New York city has just returned a verdict of guilty against a group of persons charged with vio. lating the penal laws - forbidding presentation of an immoral drama. “This play, written by a European play- wright, been the subject of sharp discu: d much agitation. It deals theme of debauchery and vice and by its defenders is claimed to be a strong moral lesson. On the other hand, its critics aver that its portrayal of scenes of vice is more harmful than helpful. The latter is the view taken by the prosecution and confirmed by the jury. Those found guilty include not only the producer, but all the members of the cast. They will be sentencel later, the court re- marking that in view of all the cir- cumstances he proposed to impose _light penalties. The conviction will | be appealed. i This is of importance, as it is the first in which conviction has been had in at least New York, where most ! plays presented to the American public | originate. If the standard of morality i thus set in the case of the play in {point is maintajned many other per- i formances of a less serious character w~4 more frankly appealing to the low tastes of certain classes of people are subject to prosecution and prohi- pition. Plays have been given in this city within recent months that have offended seriously, and these plays of local production were not susceptible of being described with high moral purpose. They were frankly lewd in their appeal, Yet they have escaped the attention of the law. Condemnation through criticism of plays of this character is futile, for it only serves to advertise them and attract to their support large audi- ences composed of those who seek such things for their own delectation. It would seem that_the application of the law is the only remedy to prevent the pollution of the public mind through the stage. Yet there is a prejudice, well reasoned and justified against the imposition of a censorship depending upon the judgment of a few individuals. In the case in New York condemnation has been expressed by first a grand jury returning an indict- ment and a petit jury returning a verdict. This perhaps is the safest form of censorship. In the-trial in New York the de- fense depended largely upon parallels, quoting Old Testament Scriptures to produce lewd texts in justification by example. Also Shakespeare and some of the older classic writers. As for the Old Testament, it may be stated that it is read with reverence and understanding and not perverted to the debasement of public taste and morals. As for the classic dramatic writers, it must be borne in mind that their works are not now presented on the stage in their original forms, but are modified and “cut” to conform to the standards of this age. —_————————— The Avenue Lights. Washingtonians and those compara- tively few visitors who have reached the city in advance of the big Shrine party had a treat last night when the lights were turned on in the section of Pennsylvania avenue that has been set apart for special illumination. The historic street was transformed into fairyland. Always impressive in its proportions, it became a scene of wonder. The soft glow of colored lamps, many thousands in number, and the brilliance of the general scheme of de- sign gave the Avenue a new character to those who have known it for years and who have seen it in many aspects. No word picture can effectively pre- sent it to the minds of those who have not witnessed it. No photographic rep- resentation can faithfully reproduce i It must be seen to be appreciated. In one respect this illumination brings sorrow to the Washingtonian who takes pride in the city and who aspires to see it become the world's most attractive city. This is the knowledge that only on such occasions as when lights of this character are used for decoration is the street worthy of its reputation. For there are undeniable blemishes on it, un- sightly conditions disfiguring it, un- dignified structures blotting it, and, for a large part of the space between the Capitol and the Treasury, it presents to the eye in daylight a sordid, un- sightly appearance. Only in the soft light of a special ilfumination are these disfigurements hidden. This situation results from long neglect by Congress of the govern- ment’s public building needs. If years 2go, when the public housing require- ments began to be acutely felt, the en- tire triangle between the Avenue and the Mall had been taken as a whole and utilized for the emplacement of public structures of dignified design and substantial character the whole stretch would now have been restored to its former dignity and attractive- ness. Not until the government forecloses upon its virtual mortgage on this area on the south side of the Avenue will the north side be developed as it should be. If and when that is done there will be incentive to business to center upon the eastern end of the space and the proper utilization of this magnificent thoroughfare will follow. Then the unsightly scarring struc- tures will pass and the whole distance between the Capitol and the Treasury will present an appearance worthy of the National city. Those visitors who notice the marked difference between the eastern and the western ends of this wonder street should be told why it exists, and then given a concept of the pres- ent congestion of the government of- fices and the imperative need of new constructions. They should be ac- quainted with the fact that the gov- ernment has for some years owned the westérn end of the Mall-Avenue triangle and has done nothing with it save to rent out the structures upon it for private uses, while it has been paying rents itself for inadequate quarters for its departments and bu- reaus. Possibly the lights that were turned on last night for the first time may teach a lesson that will react upon the congressional mind to hasten the process of Avenue redemption through provision of proper buildings for the work of the United States. 1f old Doc Cook should acquire a string of oil wells he may grow rich enough to compel a rehearing of his discredited claims as an explorer. ‘When sovietists said there was no need of money they merely convinced a large number of people that it was no use to work. Radicalism and Anthracite. Anxiety is expressed lest the process of “boring from within" has proceeded in the anthracite miners’ ranks to the point at which another strike is prob- able in that industry next fall. Re- ports have reached this city that throughout the anthracite = field changes in official personnel have been effected lately that may give the or- ganization a decidedly radical char- acter, This, it seems, has happened THE EVENING STAR during the absence in Europe of John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine ‘Workers. A convention is to be held some time between now and the 29th of August to consider the rehewal of the present wage scale adopted as a settlement of the coal strike last sum- mer. It is well known that the radical forces want a fight, that a strike is welcomed by them as means to the end of forcing nationalization of the mines regardless of the suffering that will be caused- On the other hand, the con- servative elements in the industry do not want another contest, and hope to effect an agreement upon the scale without trouble. If such an agreement is not reached and a strike occurs at the end of Au- gust, terrible suffering will result. Heretofore the “mine year” has begun in the spring, contracts being renewed at the close of the season of heavy use of coal. This has permitted coal pro- duction throughout the season of non- use and the accumulation and dis- tribution of large stocks for fall and winter consumption. Shifting of the contract year to August 29 has com- pletely changed the situation, and the radicals are evidently working to take advantage of the fact to force a strike at a time when it will be most disas- trous. Hearings and conferences are about to begin before the coal commission, and the hope is that these facts will all be brought out for public reading and consideration. Three months will elapse before the close of the contract year, and before a strike can be called. If there is a determination on the part of the radicals to force the issue it is well to have the fact developed now. There are surely enough men in the anthracite ranks who are suf- ficiently intelligent to see that they are being used to advance sovietism in the United States to bring about a re- volt against this pernicious influence and to avert a public disaster. —————— Gee Chong Wong, a wealthy San Francisco Chinaman, wrote his will on a laundry ticket, and the document has been presented to the courts there. Another case of “No tickee, no washee.” —_——— Occasionally an eminent citizen ex- presses a fear that people are making too much of the word “patriotism.” It would be difficult to convince a French. man that such a thing is possible. ————— It is evidently the intention of Premier Poincare to let the French soldiers try the Ruhr out as a summer resort if circumstances require such a course. ———— The socialist’s relation to public economy is largely that of the germ who does not care how much he spoils the party so long as heé enjoys him- self. The fact that Alaska is not yet a not prevent it from being visited by the nation’s most distinguished states. men. : Mr. Harding shows no inclination fo reiterate his declarations in systematic publicity, feeling no doubt that he is a President and not a propagandist. China finds it difficult to keep up with the times. Her bandits are em- ploying methods that went out of date in Mexico some time ago. The Shriners promise the city a brilliant convention, with no interna- tional discussions to lend a serious aspect to the occasion. Europe, though fond of fashionable leadership, is growing weary of trying to set the styles for the world in politi- cal trouble. Reports from Florida indicate the need of an emancipation proclamation for local application. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Cabin Lullaby. is a-flyin’ whar he makes his nes’, De sky done shine like a new silk dress, An’ de whipporwill a-tellin’ his heart’s distress— Baby, won't you try foh to shet yoh eye An’ wake up in de mo'nin’ by an’ by? Crow De moon is a hole in de sky so blue, An’ de man in de moon comes a-lookin’ th'oo, A-makin’ faces at me an’ you. Baby, won't you try foh to shet yoh eye An’ wake up in de mo'nin’ by an’ by? De bee in de hive done lock de do'. One side de butterfly sleep an’ sno’. Ain’ gwineter wo'k nor play no mo'. Baby, won't you try foh to shet yoh eye An’ wake up in de mo'nin’ by an’ by? De owl settin’ in de roadside tree Is jes’ as solemn as he kin be, - A-talkin’ dat foolishness same as me! Baby, please try foh to shet yoh eye > An’ wake up in de mo'nin’ by an’ by! Retrospect. The days that are gone, never return; And as Memory pauses to lift The clouds from the past, many days we discern That we wouldn’t have back as a gift. they will The Hat of Straw. 'Tis here again, The hat of straw; Let none complain Of nature’s law, ‘Which everything In season due Doth gayly bring With glories new! No blossoms rare On tree or vine Would dare compare Its charm with thine. Our weather guide ‘Without a flaw! Our hope! Our pride! .., -Our hat-of straw} center of great political influence will | " THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM “After Suchow, the deluge! The | when the republic trod down - the tiger has tasted human blood: never | empire eleven vears ago and then again will he content himself with |split itself into many milk-weak fac- sheep or heifer.” We were speaking, an officlal of the | sifect for the foreigner. government and myself, of the prisoners still in the hands of the Chinese bandits. He was speaking unofficially, of course, and anony- His words came, however, from ripe knowledge of far eastern whys and mental processes. ew China has started something all be vears in stopping,” he continued. “We may look for new raids at any time from now on." What's the end of the business?" I ed him. don’t ‘see it at all” he replied. “Certainly not until China manages somehow to set up a government strong enough to command respect at_home." . By that time he was in a mood reminiscent of the days when roamed the length and breadth China, as immune from bands as an ostrich is from indiges- tion. This business of capturing for- elgners, it scems, is new in the old- est country on the carth, It is a Gemocratic” institution tha®™the old empire did not tolerate, Bandits did not disturb the peace of an emperor, they were a part of the established crder, but they had this thing in common with honest Chinese a foreigner came around th their noses in their sleeves fused to touch him. My friend sighed for the old orddr that is no more. As he told the story, it was a theory of government that kept everybody under control by let- jting them do as they pleased. Any community could be as disorderly as it liked 0 long as it did not get the central government in trouble. No- body was responsble for the emperor except th man immediately under him, but everybody wa: to the person just above The village headman might have his own pet band f bandits—even if they were not h pets, he was sponsible for them if they operated in his territory-——and they might cap- ture somebody so important that rep- resentations were made to the em- veror. Did that celestial potentate send an army trekking into the mountain fastnesses to ferret out the bandits and rebuke them with bullets? He did not bother at all about the re- mote village or the bandit band. In- stead, he threatened to cut ‘off the head of his own immediate inferior, the vicero Having ‘a hankering for keeping his head at home, the vicdroy go after the governor of the province and threatened to boil him in oil The governor of the province went after the district dignitary, who went after a local magistrate, who saw the village headman, who went and took the captive from his bandit band. Thus the snickersnee was stayed from snipping off the viceroyal head, the captive went home havpy and the celestial court remained as sercne as_the moon. In those times a foreigner played with a nest of bandits as if it were la nest of kittens. Every bandit in {China knew that the capture of a foreigner meant representations to the emperor and all that rigamarole luf cutting off heads and fryin, in fat. The village threatened with bandit raids prized a foreigner more highly than a negro does & foot. ~ His presence was the hest pos- sible Insurance against attack, and the village headman frequently paid {a foreigner to prolong his stay in the village. v stuck nd re- him | When China became progress | i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Count Stephen Bethlen, for the past {two vears prime minster of Hungary, fand accompanied by Tibor von Kal- lay, the minister of finance at Buda- {pest, both of them closely related the regent of Hungary, Admiral von Hoerthy, have been in Paris and in London during the past fortnight or i three weeks, urgently demanding the ! immediate modification of the terms {imposed upon their country by the peace congress of Versailles. in’ sucn a manner as to enable them to raise { ong or more loans on the money mar- Kkets of Europe. At the present mo- {ment Hungary has reached the end of her resources. Her treasury is empty. and, as the international com ! mission of reparation organized by the entente has, by virtue of article 180 of the treaty of Trianon—or, rather, T should say, of Versailles— the first charge upon all her assets and revenues, no one is willing to loan her any money. Unless she ob- tains money the existing regime at Budapest will go to pieces, and chaos, civil war and a revival of the former bolshevist anarchy of 1919 will ensue, | imperiling the peace, the stabili {and the economic and politcal wel- ifare of the adjacent states Under the head of reparations Hun- gary's preferred creditors are Ru- mania, Poland, Serbia and Czecho- slovakia, especially the first three who suffered cruelly through the de astation wrought in their respective territories by the Magyar troops in the great war. They form the so- called little entente, and without their consent France and Great Britain are likely to turn a deaf ear to any ap- peals of assistance from Budapest. S e The fact of the matter is that until now they have all of them, and Italy as well, looked upon Hungary as a standing menace to their existenc as reactionary, as aggressive and as bent on recovering her former terri- tories at their expense. They are convinced that in the event of a monarchical restoration in Hungary the new ruler would endeavor to strengthen his position on the ancient throne of St. Stephen by appealing to the warlike instincts of the Magyars for the reconquest of the lost prov- inces. Before the powers of the so-called little entente will waive their objections to any -delay in the paymeént of the money due to them under the head of reparations, and thus remove the ob- stacles which stand in the way of the great powers lending a helping hand, either directly or through their re- spective money markets, Hungary will have ta furnish satisfactory guarantces to the effect that she will not lend he: self to any restoration of the Haps- burgs, at any rate for a considerable time to come; also that she will ab- stain from any attack on her neighbors and from any effort to alter the present political frontiers of central Europe, likewise that she will rigorously sup- press and punish any border disturb- ances; that she will maintain law and order 'for all alike in the country sub- ject to her rule, and that she will en- deavor by means of ‘rigorous economy to restore their healthy economic condi- tions. - With regard to the . latter, Premier Count Bethlen and Minister of Finance von Kallay can already show a promising beginning. For during the last twelve months they have dismissed no less thap 11,000 government officials and the salaries of the remainder have been ruthlessly cut. Admiral von Hoerthy, the regent of Hungary, having to content himself with annuai salary nd allowances of $2,800, all told. But even if the government fulfills all other conditions exacted by the powers of the great entente and of the little entente, there is one thing more that Premier Count' Bethlen will have to undertake before, even with the will of the entente, the money markets will advance the necessary loans Tequired to stabilize the currency and to reorganize the finances of the former kingdom of St. Stephen, and that is _to rigorously sup- press the so-called fascisti movements of the reactionaries against the Hebrew population and to arrest the so-called “white terror,” the feature of whose activities is the suppression of the Jews and their elimination from every sphere he | of | andit | ~when | responsible | rabbit | { through matrimonial alliances with| { | i 1 { last o ad tions—the bandit began to lose re- It was five years before any foreigners were cap- tured, but therc had been growing up during that time a new brigandage. # class of former respectables trained to_lawlessness. i Sometimes the beginning of their lawlessness was forced upon them, but, as the scrambled years rolled them around they became Jesse Jameses, with an added impulse that our hard-riding bandit never knew. Not only is brigandage today among the most profitable employments in China, but many of the brigands find it the best wavyof advancing them- selves in military, civil and social affairs. To use an American parallel, it is the way to get shoulder straps without going through West Point. Army ‘and bandit bands have be- come allied industries in China_in these vears of its new freedom. Sol- diering is not a steady job, owing to shortage of public funds, and those who make it a profession are not above working at the bandit trade in seasons of slack army employ- ment. Usually they. practice brigandage when they want money and soldiering when they are out for glory. Banditry is the better business. It pays in cash. The bandit gets his ransom monéy, not from the foreign- captive and not from the government of the foreign captive, but from the pro- vincial governments of his own China —sometimes from the central govern- ment itself. E Thus is money put in the pilfering When the bandit leader has nade his pile” and wants to retire from the stress and strife, he makes another capture and gets paid in for- | giveness of his sins, coupled with a_commission in the army, an honora- vil position, the privilege of collecting a certain kind of taxes, or title to a piece of land where his lemon love has set her heart on build- ing & bungalow Practically every foreigner cap- tured since 1917, when the first rash foreign bird flew into the net, meant an army commission for least one bandit chieftain. anchow proves, said the familiar of the far east, that the bandit at last is getting rampant. Never before had they held up a train to effect cap- tures. Never before had they shot at an American offictal. This time they shot at a consul, knowing him to be one, It means worse trouble, just how bad nobody can tell. That is what at ! the man who knaws China told me. Then, after all, he suggested a pos- sible way of ending it without wait- ng for China to establish a strong government )t course, you've read about the great Taiping rebellion.” he said, “when the half-ci Chinese-Chr tian lot, making war on the Man- chus and setting himself up as a Me siah, attached to himself every law element over a large part of t was back in the middle of the century, when revolution-born brigandage rolfed down almost to the gates of Shanghal. Even imperial China wa hle to protect ftself and d to ask the aid of foreigners in stting the bandits under control Ward, the American, and ‘Chinese’ Gordon of the British army performed the task of organizing and directing a Chinese force that restored order.” “Interesting histol & L 1, “but how does it help th present tua- tion?" He got up and reached fo “Oh, nething.” he said, “except there are plenty of ‘Chinese in the orld today-—if there is any body in China sufficiently sure of his position to invite them his hat. that Hungarian Nobles on Perilous Quest For Loan Visit Eastern Europe of gvar life. for the so-calied tection of the Hungarian patriots.” ik “pro- moment when Jewish are being driven sanguinary risings It is citizens by violence and by from schools and universities and from public resort and when foreign Jews are being expelled for no other reason than their creed from Budapest, and from all the more important towns a:d cities of Hungar: by reason of anti- Semetic prejudices, that she can expect to find any cordial response to her ap- peal to the money markets of the 1e- mainder of the world for foreign loans. Premier Count Stephen Bethlen be longs to a very ancient house of the Magyar aristocracy, which has been prominent in Hungary and has fig- ured in the pages of her history ever since the time of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, and which won the rank of Count of the Holy Roman Empite in 1614, when it was bestowed upon John von Beth len in recognition of his services chancellor of the kingdom of St. Ste- phen. It is a family that has fur- hed much romance and tragedy to annals of the nation and it may be recalled that during the great war a woman who styled herself Countes Aurelia von Bethlen of Hungar was_arrested in Chicago and interned until the restoration of peace by the federal authorities on a charge of sending threatening letters addressed to President Woodrow Wilson and for spreading German propaganda in America. She claimed to have been a in-waiting to the murdered Em- press Elizabeth, but was unable to furnish ‘any evidence as to the va- lidity of her pretensions in the mat- ter. Some years before the war the name of another member of the Beth- len family, Count Gregory of that ilk, a first cousin of the Hungarian premier. was much in the public eye in central Europe through his extraor- dinary quarrel with Prince Theodore Odescalchi, and which led to a public protest delivered by the princ B o Phouse of lords—or *“table of magnates,” at u against sitting in ‘the same room a such a man as Count Gregory Beth- len, who had brought domestic misery and unhappiness upon the house of Odescalchi. The prince had been thrice married. After the death of his first wife he married a Countess Erdoedy, a dame du palais of Em- press Elizabeth of Austria, and whom he deserted and divorced in order to wed her cousin, Countess Julia. Zichy, a very beautiful woman. * % % x Count Gregory . Bethlen becdme a very frequent guest of the prince and princess at their magnificent castle of Skizko on the prince’s invitation until he suddenly developed a well nigh’ insane jealousy against his not in at a Hungary guest and grossly insulted him, with ] the ordinary result of a duel, the count being badly wounded. The en- counter, far from assuaging the wrath of the prince, caused him to turn against his wife, and he kept her a close prisoner in a remote wing of the castle, threatening to keep her in the strictest sort of captivity until released by death. In some way she managed to communicate the news of her treatment to the count, who lost no time in informing the authorities at Pesth. She was thereupon sum- moned by the judicial courts of the Hungarian metropolis to appear be- fore them. After some demur the old prince consented to release his wife and to permit her to obey the sum- mons of the tribunal since which time, and naturally, she never re- turned to his roof. Matters were further complicated by Count Gregory Bethlen lodging a charge to the effect that while stay- ing at the castle at Skizko a number of valuable papers inclosed in a pock- etbook had been stolen from him, the prince being charged with having in- stigated the theft by one of his serv- ants in the hope that it might contain compromising correspondence be- tween his wife and Count Gregory Bethlen. The proceedings lasted for a considerable time, and were finally ended through the restoration in a mysterious fashion to Count Bethlen of the principal paperg of which he had been robbed while under the prince’s roof—that is to say, the re: toration of all the papers that hap- pened to.be of any financial value. has | i {almost Gordons | i | seclusion | knew- I hoax.” The Library Table : BY THE BOOKLOVER Several representative types of old age are to be found among the minor characters created by Zonma Gale in her Jast two novels, “Miss Lula Bett” and “Faint Perfume.” The chief con- testants In the two novels—and they are contestants against fate and their relatives throughout—are mature men and women rather on the youthful side of middle age. It is, however, of three of the old people who form the background of the two stories that I wish to speak. Mrs. Bett, though fortunately not found often in real life, is still a very real type. “The temper of Mrs. Bett ¢ * ® Ead days of high vibration when she absentéd hefself from the table as a kind_ of self-induigence, and no_one could persuade her to food. ‘Tan- trims,' they called these occasions.” When the “tantrims” were over, Mrs. Bett would emerge from her bedroom, expeetant, yet indefinitely resentful of attention. A visit to an old neigh- bor next door usually bridged over the awkward interval between her and her return to family life. After this she became affable and talkative, signifying that her fit of childish sulks was over for that time. “Toward 9 o'clock Mrs. Bett an- nounced that she thought she should have a lunch. This was debauchery. She brought bread and butter and a dish of cold canned peas. She was committing all the exc ¢S that she -offering opinions, laughing and eating. It was to.be seen shat this woman had an immense store of vitality, perpetually submerged.” ey In “Faint Perfume” there are two old people with strongly marked personalities. Grandfather Crumb is very old man—so old that the Crumb family has relegated him to a vague hinterland where he is sup- posed to be awaiting death. No one pays any attention to his remarks, and when he lingers about, he is metaphorically told to “run along.” “The latch of the porch door click- ed, and there was Grandfather Crumb. No one gave him attention, and he leaned in the doorway, fumbling in his pocket. He was clean, collarl shaven. His gray hair rolled thickly about his ears. He came down the room and laid by Leda’s plate an apple. With her thanks she smiled up at him, but he did not look at her. No one €lse said anything to him. He went to the kitchen, still fumbling in his pocket. You knew that noth- ing was there, that this was his way of preserving his dignity, the dignity of having preoccupations of his own.” One of Grandfather Crumb’s meth- ods of self-entertainment in this household, which ignores him, is di gently to polish quarters on a “fluff" rug in the upper hall. The paper aring his Jast message to the fam- ~“Canal. By the Cottonwoed — by a bold deed, he escapes at the same time from them and from impending blindness, is found in the middle of his bed, weighted by four bright quarte a * x5 % Mama Crumb is a generation be Grandfather Crumb_ She is very ternal, but also vers careful of own comfort. When her daughter Richmiel comes home, after vears of unhappy marrizge abroad, Mama is submerged by her rush of her long-absent child; but when Richmiel annc s that she is divorced, Mama pushes her away and demands shrilly: “What are Prospect folks going to say? Later, she un- expectedly advocates giving h grandson, Oliver. to the divorced father rather than have him left with her while her ease-loving daughter winters in California. She says: “Reesha, father have him. fornia, instead of leaving us? Pounding around * part. I can’t stand a big bo; ing around my house, with his moth- er gone. I'm too old.” Reesha pro- tests that she will be gone only three months, but Mama replies decisively It's too much * * Great big bo 50" As Oliver his father Mama Crumb to as “that one whom ( vet called grandmother. i T6%a: for why don't vou let his if you go to Cali- m with * My smash- is referred er had not One of the most prized of the few books that I owned as a boy was the “Life of P. T. Barnum.,” written by that great father of modern publicity. 10t course. my family went to the cir- In the morn- | cus at the county seat ing before the circus genial showman made a speech in the lobby of the hotel and at its ‘con- clusion offered his ook for sale and an indulgent father bought a copy for me and I read it again and again 1 am not surprised to learn that Bar num's autobiography sold to the e tent of half a million copies. The memories of boyvhood thrills have been recalled by the entertaining new biography of “Barnum,” by Morris R. Werner. With the author I hay revived my delight in the “woolly horse” and_the “mermaid In revisiting Barnum's Amer- Museum in New York I have crowd “To the Egres not before seen! 1 b began the ican joined the an animal ave delighted again in Gen. Tom Thumb | and Commodore Nutt and their mi get wives, and in Jumbo, the elephant who was fed peanuts from third- story windows. 1 have been especial- 1y glad to read again of Barnum's real contribution to art in bringing Jenny Lind to this country. Mr. Wer- ner's book. treating as it does Bar- num's career from a new viewpoint. is a real ntribution to the history of American amusement and o American advertising. P A book that has continued to be in factive demand ever since its publica- tion in 1921 is “The Mind in the Mak- James Harvey Robinson In the June number of the American Magazine the author of this thought- provoking work attempts, at the re- quest of the editor, to pick the seven greatest Americans. The list is quite as interesting for its om Washington,’ for example, is not in- cluded—as for the names selected, which are as follows: Abraham Lin- coln, Theodore Roosevel John -D. Kockefeller, Thomas A. Edison, Mark Twain, William James and John Dewey. Before condemning the list, read the article and note the reasons advanced for the names included and excluded. ing,” by Dr * k k %k Olive Schreiner will be remembered as a pioneer of the ‘new woman™ movement. The protest against the new woman which arose in many quarters after the first performance of Ibsen’s “Doll House” in London resulted in the burning of every copy of Olive Schreiner's “Story of an African Farm” in a London library. But Olive Schreiner had a clear vision of woman's highest Tesponsibilities and capabilities that has since been fully vindicated. and her ‘Woman and Labor” was one of the important books of the nineteenth centur: volume of posthumous works, “Stories, Dreams and Allegories,” recently pub- lished, contains three stories that are particularly marked by her peculiar vision of the woman soul. These de- serve a place with her greatest work. * % %X ¥ Basil King is planning a series of magazine articles based on the cor- respondence between Ibsen and Em- flie Bardach, begun whén he was sixty and she was eighteen and ex- tending over a period of two years, Emilie Bardach was called by Tbsen “the May-sun of my September life,” and is supposed to be the original of Hilda Wangel in “The Master Build- er.” . * %k ¥ ok A memorial of Mark Twain will soon be erected on the campus of Elmira College, at Elmira, N. Y. The great humorist married Olivia Lang- don at Elmira, wrote several of his books in that city and was buried there. Funds for the memorial were contributed by the friends of Mark Twaln, without solicitation. about to leave with hep | CAPITAL KEYNOTES We have all had to face a sugar famine during the last few weeks, or, rather, a sugar price gouge. Next will come a coffee famine. It is explained that three years ago Brazil decided to limit coffee exports to 47,000 bags weekly, with a view of stabilizing prices. The Amerjcan imperters decided to go them one better—by limiting their purchases. As America buys two-thirds of the Brazilian crop, the effect would be to squeeze the exporters of Brazil. At the same time the American exporters believed that the high prices would encourage the coffee production in Central America and other regions, so that, eventually there would be a strain on the credi of the Brazilian corner. The Amer cans have not imported during th last three years as much as this country has consumed, so that toda the stock on hand is very low. It is predicted that, unless the American {importers have calculated to a I nicety when the Brazilians would find themselves overstocked there will be a shortage, in fact, in this country—all due to the battle of speculation. * ¥ * x The statement of Detective W. J Burus, head of the secret service of the Department of Justice, to the effect that the University of Virginia is the only college in the United ates where communism does not exist among the students, is de- cidedly startling. It is scarcely 1 startling, AU the public has Enown, in gencral, that many col- leges have been found lacking in the conscrvative principles of either re- ligion or politics. The report i sweeping that It causes a gasp breath, There are colleges where sovietism is upheld and commended by their professors of political economy. There are colleges, supported b the churehes, where infidelity onnec tion with the Bible fruit of scholastic are other college deprecated, under sion of the critics that science con- tradicts the Bibl Also, there are professors of science who, assuming that their science does upset Bible statements, have sought to discredit | the Bible as ufscientific and, there- fore, fallible. But it has not been supposed_that any college has gone 80 iar off the track of the founda- tions of American patriotism as to tolerate communism in its student ranks s for is is taught research where science the misapprehen- * %k ¥ % The trend of tiis scientific age is to upset every faith in concrete and ac- cepted facts we used to know, and to substitute the most absurd truths of today For ex our ey amplie, we used to see with but science now tells us we | can poke our fingers through a knot- hole in a fence and see the game with | our fingertips. lar at every g ence alto us that the old dea that we must have ears to hear out of date. Insects hear with antennae, and so can we. Just shut up the ears, conne ith some vibrating wire, iv- ing a radio, and will | “hea or music through ti hands so clearly that word messages may be recorded Even putting the left hand into an empty pad box enables trained “listener” to recog nize sound waves of the atmosphere nd identify words. All sound con- sists of atmospheric vibration. The greatest lesson of all science eon {sists in breaking down cocksureness and giving us a willingness to - { shown * % % Word comes from Canada that the iberal party, in power, has indorsed ! | the budget of Finance Minister Field- ng. which includes reciprocity | EDITORIA hat saves half a dol- | ¢ BY PAUL V. COLLINS. treaty proposition to be negotiated between Canada and the United ates. It is not stated whether the Canadian manufacturers are support ing a plan to invite American manu facturers to share their field in com- petition. When the Taft reciprocit treaty was refused indorsement b Canada, in 1911, it was the easter manufacturers of Canada who ¢ posed it, while the Canadian fo were eager to have it. It would | interesting to learn how the two i terests line up on the same Dropos tion twelve years la * At the conference on weights and measures at the bureau of stand ards the delegates advise that “long ton” as a measure for coal i abandoned, since its 2,210 pounds confuse the public. The “short to is more easily remembered as a de nite unit— 000 pounds. The ence still more the b confer definite isting of “heat a rule the shiv order a proposes a measure for coal, con Under such units. ering public would not of coal, but would say 1,000 calories.” Then could dilute the calories stone or diamonds, as he convenient, ami would difference, since the bLill based on 1 the he who would be scient make home tests of hov of caloric were represented mass is not made clear, Edison dec that come when coal w at the mouth of the mines ries verted into tri and delivered in that 1 heat where with! hundre found n would the tima be b 1 1 There ent crud carbon in th ed. but the wind waves and tides Mr. Walter Holland- name—claims to have zotten the Ribition amendment “in dutch. makes the point that it is null void, because. to his aled by the pass amendment—the ndment about, He and according 3 ment, of a lat suff am all comes Holland The it was rep. women This is how it , to ) accorling prohibition amendment hout an al rticle Then the v mendment was Eiven is 1l ti the other a seria th & and Taw have passa ws la of the, the “ourt opportunity to covery before the Supr What « lucky thing women's suffrage amenc -but, then, the last w liscoverer has 1 ue me Co a it nt ¢ T that t oil $100,000 alleged sw in stocks have day to been red a One of the Dr. been the practically men indi who, first di o the nor! cold w are 100 i ainst pro Cook, once claimed I verer of to be a s seem he There exas a s and ound in T well s 1923, 1, ments fo L DIGEST Edison May Be Right, But There!: Are Doubters. o The alluring prospect which Thomas Edison holds out of a royal road to | {learning by way of moving pictures jleaves American editors unconvinced. | That motion photography ecan, and ishould, play a large part in education | seems to them so certain as scarcely | | {to need stating. But the prediction that in twenty vears movies will have | - |supplanted text books as an educa- | | tional ‘medium draws out me editorial comment as that which | followed Edison’'s questionnaire and |his critictsm of colleges—to the ef- |fect that educator Mr. Ed lis a wonderful inventor. Mr. Edison’s opinion, accordi the Springfield Union, “is part on experiments which he say have convinced him that per cent of all knowledge is received through the eve. No doubt this estimate will | be challenged by educators as not! taking due account of constructive | mental processes,” but the paper holds that “if in place of ‘knowledge’ Mr. | Edison’s staterient be amended 1o | read ‘mater s for knowledge' h statement will, perhaps, be accepted. Ever since miotion pictures became | well established, says the Bangor | Comercial. “there has been the he- | lief that they would be utilized zrea Iy in the public schools and institu tions of higher learning.” In the Springfield (Ohio) N goes s far as to ert that * and girls of the future are dest o study {Ristory Dby observing important and epochal events portrayed on the screen instead of being obliged to retain dates and names and circuni stances by pressing through the dry | pages of history. We shall study bot- any, physics, physiology. ence, geography, chemistry and all manner of educational subjects through the {films instead of through text book [The only exception the Springfi paper makes to Mr. Edison's predi tion is the length of time which he lallows for this change. “It will come ! before that.” the ays, “in fact, | in_part it already has arrived. The Decatur Herald agrees in large part with this position_feeling that although - “Mr. kEdison’s pronounce- ments upon educational matters no! tlonger carry the weight of his judg- ment upon electrical engineering, vet in this most recent declaration he has come nearer the truth than upon some previous occasions.” But grant- | ing the wide field for educational | movie, it must be recognized. the Herald warns, that “their usefuln reaches its limits.” 1t must b ad- mitted, the Memphis Commercial-Ap- peal grants, that “there is hardly a branch of educational instruction from the three Rsup to the fine arts, | the abstruce mathematics and the higher philosophies, that cannot much the s an based H Warning to Autoists. Washington Man Al;gcs He Was Unjustly Fined in Maryland. To the Bditor of The Sta; Will you kindly print in the columns of your paper notice to the automobile owners of Washington to bave their Maryland tags unobstruct- ed by bumpers or they will pay a fine of $11.45, as I, with twenty-three others, was compelléd to do at Berwyn, Md., on May 20. I was stopped on the Baltimore pike by a motor cyecle policeman, taken before a justice of the peace and tried and fined when the tags of my car were in plain view for 100 feet. I pleaded not guilty, but { tion |they would not listen. assisted by i that writer contin readily will continue ion in es, “will understood, 1 to be the foundati the future D)W perhay the Aberdeen (S de that s well however, he minor plase of cducut important that chi taught to think and reas The Syracuse H s the retention of schooling, fe “kne cdge U ily ired Ly rowlede forsc vastly preponderant judgm pert educatol we k, is that information acquired by labori 1 the kind that is most ap! stick. ... Qur greatest scholars w laugzh at the notion th a flashes on the screen can plant the patient, honest working « the brain as the chief factor in that intellectual development which wa ecall educ to which the Hur ington (W i-Disputet that “because the yield noth value except in response to books are the most educational things. Wichita Eagl that moti should 1 ) for the ald eve icture < t nt of us to ever sup- pictures ha en developed more fully thi: v have been, and “doubtless they will be used in the sehools mich more freely twenty vears hence than they are used now but, it declares, “the Wi mot replice books, for the sin Ple reason’ that cduchtion depends largely upon processes of thinkine. rather than upon observation of pic ture Pictures will make valuablg impressions upen youthful mindd But nothing can take the place reading and thinking. There is more time for thinking while pouring over the page of a bbok than when look ing at ving picture And while the suggestion “may wir favor with the childre the péca ture Review does not “imaging that the text book publishers are pa their bags preparatory to mov 5 The question at bottom, as Paul Pioncer Press sees it, what extent are children amused at the novelty of things raded before the: on the s to what extent are they to a real interest such as would gend them out to do further investigation on their own initiative? Upon' taa answer depends the future of the movies in education.” But the Lans ing State Journa raises a question #s to whether or not such a change would in fact be a development, or a reversal. If 1 bur knowlege cpm by way of pictured impressions, it suggests. “we would drift hac the stone age, when man expresscd thoughts and left his recotds in e rtures chiseled out in stbn. n n . I asked that Baltimore, so 1 could get my attorney. The justice informed me it could not be tried elsewhere than in Prince Georges count I think the District should take some action against the treatment Maryland is handing out to our motorists. The Shriner: be _on us, and I suppose will keep this game up. the case be tried in ¢ convention will soon Maryland It looked very mu a hold-up on Sun- The that arrested meé informed me he was one of twenty-six between the District to Baltimore; that he alone had& vested twenty-five at 3 p.m. on day in question, i am giving you this information that other District of Columbia motorists may have notice and get s at least a foot above theiry 1. 8. BARKER,