Evening Star Newspaper, May 28, 1923, Page 6

rg THE EVENING STAR, " With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. I purposes and the worth-while achieve- ments of the Y. M. C. A. are known to a great number of people. The Wash- ington branch of the association has been established here so many years ‘ MONDAY.........May 28, 1023 pa it s a strain upon the memory of TKEODOEE ‘W. NOYES. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsvivania Ave. New York Ofice; 130 an St Chicago Office: Tower impm.o e rsgens St London. England. * The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning A n?:?u...‘.. Welivered by carriers within the city Qaily only. 40 cents per ents per month. Or- ders ent by ‘mail. or telephone Main §000. Collection is made by carriers at the +end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, 1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo,, 20c month ""Daily and Sunday Dally only. Sunday only All Other States. 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There are heavier penalties for disobeying the: new rules than there were for violat- ing the older regulations. It is pro- vided that no vehicle or street car shall be so operated as to endanger the life or limb of any person or the gafety of property, and the penalty for the violation of this provision is fixed at not more than $300. A new rule is that on approaching an intersection at which there is a crossing policeman the driver shall not proceed ahead or make a right or left hand turn until signaled to do so by the policeman. One section is aimed at that species of road hog who drives at a funeral pace, sticks to the middle of the way and slows up traffic. This section pro- vides that when a motorist is over- taken by another driver approaching at a legal, but greater, rate of speed the slower-moving vehicle shall move in and give the right of way to the ap- proaching car on receiving a signal from the second car. There is, also, a provision that a vehicle turning into a street from the right must keep as near to the right-hand curb as pos- sible. This is aimed at those drivers who scem to need the full width of a street to make the right-hand turn. The new traffic code comes both at @ good time and a bad time. It comes on the eve of Shrine week, when there will be an extraordinary number of foreign cars in the city, and many of their drivers will know nothing of the new or the old regulations. There will probably be a great many pedestrians in the streets. Some will be there be- cause the sidewalks are blocked or overcrowded, and some will walk in the streets from choice. Not all the strangers will cross at street iater-: sections. The man carrying a District tag is on his honor to observe the new code, and if he does not it is likely that the police and the trial judge will remind him that the code is to be given full respect. e Animal Rescue League. ‘The Animal Rescue League asks for funds to carry on its work. It is rather an unsual appeal, because this society maintains itself from within. Its mem- bers pay dues, they chip in generously to make up deficits and conduct enter- tainments to raise money to make easier the lot of unfortunate cats, dogs and other domestic animals. No officer of the league draws a salary from it, the leakue car travels on its errands of mercy from morning till late in the evening, and the number of animals received at the home of the league last year was over 12,000. Those acquainted with the work of -this society know that it is good and faithful. At this seaSon it is faced with the problem of abandoned cats end dogs. It seems strange to gentle-hearted persons that a family can pet a cat or fondle a dog or pretend to “think the world” of its pet and then shut up the flat or house and go away leaving the poor animal to hustle for food and shelter. A pet which has had its food served plentifully, and has looked on some comfortable corner as a sleeping place, finds it hard to go forth in the alleys to make its living in competition with poor half-wild cats and dogs that have never known a friend. In issuing its appeal the league says: *‘At thie time our work is many times greater than during the winter months. Many persons leave town without making provision for the little pet who has been so much pleasure and com- fort through the year. As a result it is left homeless, and soon becomes a stray to find shelter and food for it- &elf. This being impossible, it leads a life of untold suffering until some one takes pity upon it and sends it to the Rescue League.” If a person has a pet, or holds in remembrance some animal that was a pet, or thinks kindly of the dumb creatures that are companionable with us when we encourage them, and that seem to do their best to talk to us, that person might think for a moment of the appeal which the Rescue League sends out. —_————— China is expected to renew activities for the open door and kick the bandits through it. The Y. M. C. A. The membership campaign of the TYoung Men's Christian Association is going well. The teams have taken upon themselves such familiar names as the Yankees, the Pirates, the Car- dinals and the like, and are working full time, and thus far in the cam- paign 170 members have been added. ILIMIhnflthll-oflhflontnldfl W ~its -membership,. .:flq.‘wquw the oldest inhabitant to think back to the time when the association made its appearance in Washington. One seems to recall that many years ago it had its headquarters in the old Tay- lor residence, which stood at the north- east corner of 9th and D streets, and on the site of which house and its garden Lincoln Hall was built. Later it had headquarters on the north side of New York avenue between 14th and 15th streets, and still later it took up its quarters in the building set up by the Columbia Athletic Club. Then it built its present fine structure, retain- ing the old athletic club building for the use of one of its departments. It ought not to call for much effort to add 500 to the membership of the organization, but such is the case. There are membership campaigns everywhere, just as there are drives for raising funds. Nearly every or- ganization wants more members, and nearly every charitable organization needs more money. Organizations have increased, and nearly everybody is a member of one or a dozen, or more than a dozen, organizations. But even n the present era of competition for increasing membership the Y. M. C. A. should get what it wants. It is doing and has been doing a big work for giving boys and young men a whole- some environment and giving them ideals worth sticking to, or, taking un- der its supervision boys with high deals, it has striven to make it easier for them to keep those ideals. ———————————— Ku Klux and Publicity. The office of Governor of New York has certainly not been a bed of roses, especially just at present. Take the situation of Gov. Smith at this particu- larly trying junction. When the legis- lature adjourned recently it passed on to him two bills, one repealing the pro- hibition enforcement statute of the state and the other requiring that all secret societies within the state must file lists of their members with the secretary of state at Albany, under penaity of prosecution for failure to do so. Last Wednesday the governor signed the “‘anti-mask” bill, and later this weelk he will hold a hearing to determine whether to sign the enforce- ment repeal biil. There is political dynamite in both of these measures. Already the fuse on the anti-mask dynamite has begun to fizz. Saturday and Sunday in plain flouting of the new law—though it does not become operative until next Saturday—several initiation services were held within the state, with the usual accompaniment of flaming crosses. There was little or no secrecy about them. Indeed, they were de- signed to demonstrate that the mem- bership of this organization is indif- ferent to the anti-mask statute. Openly members and apparent leaders at these meetings, which were attended by i newspaper representatives, denounced the statute and declared their inten- tion to ignore it. Under the present system of the Ku Klux Klan certain officials in each locality or jurisdiction are avowed | publicly. In case of a general defiance of the New York statute and failure to file the list of membership these officials will doubtless be the ones named for prosecution under the statute. In all likelihood the law will be resisted, and those haled to court for failure to file membership lists will challenge it. To do so they must themselves invoke the processes of law. It will be interesting to watch the course of these proceedings. One ot the principal objects of the Ku Klux Klan is to do “justice” by short cuts, ignoring the law as too slow and cum- bersome for results. It may be that resistance to the New York statute will take the form of invoking the very processes of delay that are so often quoted by the Klan as one of the chief reasons for its existence. Meanwhile Gov. Smith’s political prospects, if he has any, are dimmed by this development of antagonism on the part of an organization which un- questionably numbers a great many American voters in all parts of the country e — A large number of pleasure-loving people who have missed several in- augurations will come to the city to see what the nation’s capital looks like when decorated for a gigantic occasion of festivit; If Greece and Turkey can come to a peaceful understanding there is every reason to hope that the other nations of Europe can conquer the war habit. i If all the cures announced by science prove effectual it will become neces- sary for competing undertakers to make their advertisements even more alluring than usual. l Anxieties as to the city's water sup- ply are suspended pending a rum- running conspiracy to flood the city with deleterious substitutes. I Personnel classification plans re. quire a great deal of preliminary dis- cussion. A federal employe must pos- sess patience as well as industry. l Brindell. New York's Monday thrill is sup- plied this week by the announcement that Robert P. Brindell, former build- ing trades union czar, now serving a term in Sing Sing for extortion, was caught yesterday in communication with his family outside of 8ing Sing prison where he has been confined. Rurnors of such meetings have been current for some time, but it was not until yesterday that the warden of the prison, getting a tip that Brindell was outside, trapped him in a building con- nected with the reservoir system, his guard standing on watch outside. The guard was ordered to report for trial, and Brindell was put in closer confine- ment and will probably lose his good behavior allowances, and perhaps be made to serve the limit of his flexible term of from five to ten years. This case is of importance outside of New York in that this man Brindell conducted a series of transactions in holding up the owners and promoters of the pullding projects by THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. C., MONDAY, MAY 28, 1923 strikes and actually fl]ln‘ them, to be ended only on payment of large sums to him and his associates. It was the same game that Sam Parks played some years ago. Parks was “walking delegate” of the structural iron work- ers and was a strike promoter and ex- tortioner. Brindell played the game through political channels as well as labor organizations, and it was difficult to catch him “with the good: But he was finally convicted, and now he, it seems, has been corrupting the guards at Sing Sing and holding frequent com- munications with his family and, it is said, with representatives of the build- ing trades organizations of New York. A suspicion prevails that Brindell has been in some measure Instru- mental in the recent building trades troubles in New York that have been marked by numerous strikes and have caused a general suspension of large building projects involving a cost of over $70,000,000. Of course, if there is such & connection it may still be main- tained by those secret means of com- munication that have been developed jin prison life. But at least the long conferences that it seems he has been holding outside of the prison walls with family and friends will be no longer possible. He will probably be transferred to another prison and kept under strict observation. —————— The lhyety of Politics. The republican and democratic na- tional committees are adding to the gayety of politics these otherwise dull political days by an animated conten- tion over the question of which party is the best friend of woman. Talk about. jealousy—the green-eyed mon- ster is fairly devouring the committees in their rivalry for the woman vote. Chairman Hull of the democratic committee came out in a statement the other day alleging that the republicans had slighted the woman voters by not taking them into partnership in the national committee. Judge Hull said, “Republican national leaders, after a full trial of nearly three years, have demonstrated that republican women are not welcome on the national com- mittee, however welcnme they may be on election day.” Then, figuratively extending his chest, he pointed with pride to the democratic committee and told of the generous treatment it had accorded democratic women in giving them equal representation on the na- tional committee since 1920, contrast- ing it with the “‘chinchy” course of the republicans. Chairman Hull seemed to have the edge on the opposition for a while and enjoyed seeing the republicans squirm. Secretary Lockwood of the republican committee Wrote an_apologetic edl. torial in the National Republican, the committee’s unofficial organ, pointing out that only the action of the national convention could enlarge the national committee by the addition of women, but laid great stress on what the re- publican party hed done for women. Today, Mrs. Harriet Taylor Upton, vice chairman of the executive com- mittee of the republican national com- mittee, comes back at Chairman Hull, calling his attention to the fact that five times between 1913 and 1919 the democratic party in control of Con- gress defeated the proposal mlroduced by republican minority leaders to'give women full citizenship under the Con. stitution, and that Judge Hull, then in the House, voted consistently against it. Furthermore, that when the repub- licans came into power and an extra session was called, in two days the re- publican House passed the equal suf- frage resolution, Judge Hull again vot- ing against it. The next move in this game is await. ed with keen interest. —————— Predictions of democratic votes in Congress for the present administra- tion’s world court plan are attributed to Col. House. It is to be assumed that {in such an event each party will salute the other as more or less of a convert to a great cause. —————— A number of eminent democrats doubtless think they stand a chance of being the next presidential candidate, but nobody will admit it. History may have to repeat itself and let somebody stampede the convention as Col. Bryan i1 once did. No gayer sight greets the advance guard of the Shriners than the bunt- ing-bedecked Post Office Department on Pennsylvania avenue. There's a veason. Postmaster General Harry S. New has been a Shriner for thirty years, since the days he was a young editor in Indianapolis. Never before in our postal history has the Post Of- fice Department been a private post office. That distinction has been re- served for the A. A. O. N. M. S, whose cryptic initials now dot the landscape in all directions. No fewer than twen- ty specially installed general delivery windows will do duty at the Shrine post office, a larger number, prob- ably, than any post office in the coun- try boasts. The Shriners are sure to find the department building one of the capital's real sights. .It is nearly twenty-five years old. but inside and outside it is a magnificent structure. Postmaster General New is anxious for his fellow Shriners to inspect the headquarters of Uncle Sam's biggest business, which employs 339,000 * ok ok ok A tousle-headed young Indianian, James Bennett Gordon by name, is the republican national committee official who has sprung into sudden notoriety over the allied-Rhine army debt af- tair. Gordon, who hails from Rich- mond, Ind, has for several years been in charge of G. O. P. national pub- Meity. He was with Will H. Hays dur- ing the 1920 campaign, and has served t Chairman John T. Adams’ elbow throughout the Harding administra- tion. Practically all of the national committee’s propaganda rolls from Gordon's easily flowing but sometimes peppery pen. He is a hard hitter, and hitherto his emanations have been sent forth in the committee’s name uncensored. Current events, Gordon' friends fgar, may precipitaie a muz zle, or at least a bridle. * * ¥ X It's a $100,000-a-year man that has just been chosen to be chairman of the republican party's ways and means committee in the person of Claudious Hart Huston. Until a few months ago Mr. Huston was assistant secretary of commerce, but left Hoover's department to take the presidency of the World Commerce Corporation. That alllance of big New York and Pittsburgh interests is said to have hired Huston at $100, 000 per annum to superintend its in- ternational activities, mainly in oil,! BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. owe a debt of gratitude to the Prin of Wales, whose recent services to the cause which they have at heart ought to win for him some recogni- tion in the form of honorary mem- bership of the great international convention of advertising men which is to assemble very shortly at At- lantic City. For at a time when ef-| forts are being made in posting and especially that is to say billboard bill hoardings, W every landscape, the British heir apparent, speaking the other day in London at the banquet of the Roval Academy on the occasion of the open- Ing of its annual exhibition, raised his voice in behalf of what he de- scribed as “The Art of the Hoard- ings.” He extolled them as galleries of the great pub pointed out that many of the greatest auccesses on these hoardings were re- productions, the originals of which have hung in the Roval Academy. and that many a man who has never given pictures a thought has had his interest in them stimulated by the casual study of a poster. And then he went om to say “Advertisements are now recognized as the most neces- sary adjunct to the business side of life. Their refinement has advanced in such leaps and bounds as to justify one in calling them artistic. Their influence, if only because thev bring color an§ decoration to an otherwise gray and monotonous street or wood- is surely not to be despised. 1, with all deference, suggest that here is one possible channel for reaching and satisfying the ele- mentary love of pictorial art which is hidden in the hearts of practically every man, woman and child. The annual Royval Academy ban- quet is always one of the principal events of the London season from & political, social and artistic point of view: members of the reigning house. of the cabinet, leaders of the oppo: tion. great dignitaries of the state of the army and navy, members of the judiciary, the most important eant; ot industry and finance | make a “point of being present, know- ling that it will be made the occasion of some important pronouncement. This year it has fallen to the future ruler of the mighty British empire to make this pronouncement, and the fact that he should have appealed to the members of the Royal Academy. within their hallowed precincts, and to their guests, to encourage. instead of opposing _the billpost hoarding methods of advertisement, as & means of bringing home. a taste and a love of art to millions of people who never set foot within » picture gal- lery. extolling the educational value of this particular branch of art and advertisement, has created a world- wide sensation by its boldness, origi- nality and appeal to common sense. The Prince of Wales has once again shown that he is thoroughly up to date and modern,, and.above all he has a keen businéss sense. a surely valuable asset in one who in the ordinary course of events will be called upon sonte day to reign over an empire in which trade and indus- try and business in general play so pre-eminent & role, an empire com- prising a fifth of the area of the globe and a fourth of the entire popu- lation of the world. * * k¥ Serbia, although twice invaded and twice ruthlessly devastated by the armies of the Hapsburg empire dur- ing the great war, has shown a far greater degree of generosity and, it may be added, of common justice to the members of the historic house of Hapsburg _than_ Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland or Rumania. For, whereas none of the new fledged republics, whose territories formerly were embraced in the dual empire, have been willing to restore the pri- vate property of the formerly reign- ing family of Hapsburg, which they had confiscated at the time of thl revolution, following the close of th great war, or even to make the slight- ‘est provision for the widowed ex- Empress Zita and her children. now entirely dependent upon the charity of the chivalrous ruler of Spain, the Serbian government has just 'paid over to the ex-Archduchess Eliza- beth, only child of the ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph, the sum of 11,000,000 dinars, which, in American money, would amount to about 0. “:!h‘l': has been granted to her by the Serblan treasury on the ground of a decision in her favor by the highest courts of the Jugo-| -Slav king- dom at Belgrade, and in consideration of the abandonment of her claims to Adriatic 1 :r;d of Lacroma, lying Mr. Stillman has had enough rough experience in love to turn out a list of best sellers if he has a literary bent. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. O Trouble. Dar ain’ no use o' dodgin' when OI' Trouble's after you; If you stops an asks foh pity dar’'s no tellin® what he'll do: But if you stahts a-laughin’ like you's feelin’ bright an’ gay, He thinks you's makin' faces an’ he turns an’ runs away! Dar ain’ no use to stop an’ whisper gently in his ear; He'll simply grab you tighter ca’se he thinks ‘you's showin’ fear. You want to let yoh voice come out ‘melodious an’ strong; Dar isn’ nuffin dat’ll scare Ol' Trouble like @ song! OI' Trouble’s like a lot o' folks dat keeps a-hangin’ ‘roun’. Dey doeen’ do much wu'k, but dey is makin’ heaps o’ soun’ If you squares right up befo’ him, he'll go driftin’ out o’ sight. He likes de conversation, but he doan’ want to fight. Alas! This world, alas. 1s filled with kickers, ‘Who scorn the rose And hunt the stickers. The Jonah. He meant well, but he didn’t know, Oh, words of deep pathetic woe! He caught a hornet wandering by; He thought it was a butterfly. Live wires he would boldly test, Because they looked just like the rest; He'd trust a mule and walk behind, Because its look was meek and kind; A toadstool he would pluck with car ‘With mushrooms growing everywhere! Fate always played him curious tricks, He has a passion for gold bricki And yet his heart was very kind; Exceeding active was his mind. And still his troubles seemed to grow;, WASHINGTON OBSERVATION BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE | Prince of Wales Holds Billboard Is Art Gallery of Great Republic Advertising men all over the uorxdlh,m,, rom the Holy Land, and in ce | gratitude for being saved‘he built and for the mnment in_ Venezuela. Huston, like Hays, is a Hoosier, but has spent most of his life in Tennes- see, where h has an estate on historic Missionary: Ridge, near Chat- tanooga. His chief claim to political fame is that Tenne: went repub- lican in 1920, under his leadership— the first Dixie staje to break away from “the solid south.’ * k% % Probably the very newest thing in presidential booms—and doubtless, newest of all to him—is that of An- drew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasuray. To this observer in re- cent times has come more than one suggestion that “the cabinet minister with the biggest record of achieve- ment in the Harding administration” is a sure-fire G. O. P. winner in 1924. It's a long time since (if ever) milti-millionaires were suggested for presidential honors. Ford is ap- proaching the- billionaire class, and Mellon is said to be nearly as rich as Rockefeller. * kK * It is questionable whether any man in the United States ever enjoyed such an opportunity for a real “close- up” of railroad prollems as James C. Davis, director general of the federal railroad administration. As agent of the President in liguldating contro- versies arising out of war-time con- trol, Mr. Davis is now on the home stretch of a three-vear job. He has settled more than 80 per cent of all the railroads’ claims. During that cycle of stress and iravail, Davis has come in contact with virtually every railroad executive and manager of importance in the country. He has sat across the table from them day after day for many weary months. Thelr joys and sorrows are today to Davis as his A B C's, He Is an Towan. * ok ok K Barring the two men (Johnson and Arthur) who became President by assassins’ bullets, the United States since 1860 has had exactly as many Presidents as the itish empire has had premiers, \ eleven. Their powers are virtually identical. The King-emporer of Britain, under the unwritten British constitution, reigns but does not rule. Elected American Presidents during (he past sixty-odd vears have been: Lincoln. Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Cleveland, (Harrison, McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft. Wilson and Harding. British premiers have been: Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone, Rosebery, Salisbury, Balfour, Camp- bell-Bannerman, Asquith. Lloyd George, Bonar Law and Baldwin. (Copyright. 1923.) the English king, Richard Coeur de Lion was shipwrecked on his way and endowed a monastery, which t flouriched for centuries at the expense | bitter enemy every | an international stir that, country, especlally in the new world. |Lgppold was to arouse popular sentiment ARAInst/ egtore the king to liberty and to agalnst | permit him to proceed s | without further molestation. and similar contrivances, which it 18 | yaiio” brother of Emperor claimed destroy the beauties of nature [ Joseph of Austria, who already owned | of the British crown, in spite of King Richard having been held in German captivity for several years by his Archduke Leopold of Austria, until discovered in the dun- goons of a remote Alpine castle by his devoted minstrel. Blondel. who brought the news of his whereabouts to the outer world and caused such by orders German emperor, Archduke reluctantly forced to the to England Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, the Francis the beautiful seacoast castle of Mira- mar, near Trieste, developed such a liking for Lacroma that he trans- formed with the permission of th papacy, the monastery on Lacrom island. or rather its ruins, into a won derfully beautiful and picturesque is- l1and home. to which before departing on his unfortunate adventure in Mex- ico, where he lost his life, he was wont to retire with his devoted wife (the now octogenarian ex-Empress Charlotte of Mexico, under restraint for more than haif a century, indeed ever since the execution of her hus- band by a file of Mexican soldiers on the plain of Queretro, in the Belgian Castle Bouchoute, near Brussels). for rest. relaxation and privacy when- ever tired of the pomp and ceremony by which they were surrounded at Miramar and Vienn * % ok X When Maximillan died Lacroma reverted to his elder brother, Em- peror Francis Joseph, who was like- wise his executor and the legal guardian of the demented widowed Empress Charlotte. Crown Prince Rudolph, who was devoted to the sea, and who spent much of his time in achting, visited Lacroma, took a great liking to the place, obtained its pos- session from his father, Emperor Francis Joseph. and made it his favorite retreaf, bequeating it by means of the letters which he wrdte on the eve of his shocking death at Meyerling, to his only child, Arch- duchess Elizabeth, intimating, how- ever, that he wished his widow to he barred from the isiand and from hav- ing anything to do with it. His daughter, Archduchess Eliza- beth, who had been kept as much as possible alaof by her Austrian rela- tives and especially by her grand- father, the old emperor, from her Belgian-born mother, ex-Crown Prin- cess Stephanie, became infatuated with young Prince Otto Windsch- Gratz, and when she insisted upon marrying him in the face of the op- position of her grandfather. the latter turned over the Island of Lacroma to her as part and parcel of her father's inheritance and of her dowry. By the treaty of Trianon, that is to say, by the peace of Versailles of 1919, Ragusa, along with the Island of Lacroma and, indeed, the entire prov- ince of Dalmatia. were transferred from Austria to Serbla as part and parcel of the latter's. spoils. The city of Ragusa had meanwhile taken possession of Lacroma, with the ob- ject of converting it into a public park and pleasure resort, and ap- pealed to the Serbian courts to de- clare the island to have been part and parcel of the Austro-Hungarian therefore, transferred ip of the kingdom of Serbia. But Archduchess Elizabeth resisted this pretension in the Serbian courts, showing that on the occasion of her unfortunate marriage to Prince Otto Wjndsch-Gratz in 1902, she had been required to renounce all her rights and status as a member of the im- perial family of Austria, that she had become thereby the wife of a mere member of the upper Austrian aristocracy; that is to say, of a pri- vate citizen, and that this being the case the Island of Lacroma, to which she held the title deeds, could not be considered in the light of former Aus- trian crown property or as belonging to the Hapsburg dynasty. The Serbian courts in final appeal decided in her favor, but as both the Serblan government and the city of Ragusa were very anxious to secure entire control of the island, which is indispensable to -the: system of ma: time defenses of Ragusa, they nego- tiated a compromise with her by means of which they agreed to pay m_of $150,000 in gold for rights. Her marriage turned out very unhappily. Her matrimonial ties have long since been severed, the Austrian courts awarding to her the custody of her four children and as- suring her of protection from any interference and persecution by her thoroughly disreputable husband. She {vides her time between her hand- ome mansion in the Strohgasse at Vienna, her castle of Schoelau-Triest- ing. in lower Austria, and her villa in the metropolitan Pleads for Liberty Montenegrin Official Brings Na- tion’s Hope to U. S. Public. To the Bditor of The Bta Coming to America for the first time, it {s my pleasant duty to salute the friends of my people. You have already saved thousands of starving women and children by your gener- ous contributions to Montenegrin re- lief. I am here as the natlon's repre- sentative, bearing witness in person to a gratitude too deep for words. You are saving our lives. But I come here to tell you that there is one thing which Montenegrins love better The public is warned by the De- partmeht of Justice nst the many organizations and individuals pro- fessing to give aid to veterans of the world war. in prosecuting their ¢laims before the Veterans' Ald Bureau. The department estimates that at least $10,000,000 has been collected from friends of the veterans through false claims of aiding them. One or- ganization sends out bunches of lead pencils for which it asks 32 from the :mnd“"h And that is mnr:y We | sympathizer “for the good of the and where your own great orator " ol ohen pan o caus It is reported that while it Give me lib- handles only a few claims a month, it asserts that it aids 40,000 veterans a year. Like the *pension attorneys' were finally outlawed) who fleeced the soldiers of the civil war by repre- senting that they could get pensions for them not otherwise obtainable, some of these organizations are fat- tening on the assumed needed ald of the veteran. It is claimed to be malprutlce for any attorney or agent to charge a soldier a percentage or fee of any erty or give me death!” We asgk no more than you asked in 1776. And we ask it as your ally, who trusted the solemn promise of an American President that Montenegro should have a hearing. Seeks Fair Play. Your high bulldings, as you say, scrape the sky—like the Black moun tain that gives my country its name. But your own people, who know your heart, tell me that you hold justice even above the tallest of your towers. You call it “fair play. (who CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS under the charfge of the ship's medica! officer, seems a good deal ltke the famous “agricultural conundru 1¢ you call the tail of a calf a leg, how many legs has the calf?” The answer to the conundrum wlill, be found in a footnote. No text boo question s answered right in the text, %% P Judge Gary, the head of the United States Steel Corporation, says in his annual report that the world's great- est need s to be Christianized, but that he sees no way to adopt shorter hounrs than twelve per day, seven days a week, in the steel industry. Senator . Pepper makes a fine speech in which he advocates more faith—faith in fel- low men. Yet, some authority is on record saying that “faith without works is dead.” An old man who had had a life struggle tried to discuss some abstract question, but finally stopped with the remark, “Puzzlin’ work—talkin’ is!" * ok K ¥ America uses seventeen times as much narcotics per capita as China kind in connection with services in getting his pension or other wllot- ment. There are committees of the American Legion and other patriotic organizations, which look after the rights of the soldlers without charge, whether the veteran belongs to the orgahization or not. * K k¥ If half of the alleged clouds over the administration were really there, and {f it be true that the President has asked Will H. Hays to “make hay” and manage his campaign, then it would be certain that the President is an up-to-date “dirt farmer.” Old fashioned farmers have an adage “Make hay while the sun shines. Modern, ecientific farmers say that that is just when one should postpone the job, for new-mown hay is filled with a volatile oil which quickly evaporates in hot sunshine. Make hay in cloudy weather; it makes bet- ter hay. Prove it by Secretary Wal- lace. 'Yet—you need a good tedder. Will” can kick like the best of ‘em. * x % x Washington is going to have a huge hotel for automobiles. It will cost $1,500,000 and be provided with all the modern improvements so dear to luxury-loving flivvers. Mr. Hause is to house the weary autos in a palace eight stories high, fireproof and with every luxury, even to including rest- rooms for the riders in the automo- biles. There will be hot and cold baths—for the machines—oil, gas, chamois rub-down experts, bltlery sharps and a library of information as to how to run without carburetors and the best method of dodging traffic officers. It will be located at the corner of New York avenue and 13th street, where is now the Hall of the An- clents. The wonder is what the spirits of the ancients will do when they find this modern innovation ousting them from their sleeping quarters. Presumably, the roof will be flat and provided with airplane catchers as a landing place for helicopters. Without such foresight, there is dan- ger that it will go out of style ere the paint grows dull. Perhaps in five vears automobiles will be in the slow class along with ox-carts. and we shall all be birds. Montenegro has never had fair play. She was the first ally in the war. When Austria threatened Ser- bia, she made no conditions, but cheerfully sacrificed nearly half her army in the first year. In return, erbia took away, or tried to take away, her independence. For five years, under Juguslav mili- tarism, our people have suffered im- prisonment, burnings, exile, torture, death. But the spirit of liberty can- not be destroyed. In the systematic plan of destruc- tion carried out from Belgrade the height of cruelty is now being exer- cised in the criminal attempt to Scatter the Montenegrin people through the most distant regions of Jugoslavia. The Serbs have set their hearts on seizing the stronghold of Montenegro. that superh height which dominates the Balkans. They covet our rich mines and forests. Anks Ald of United States. Fortunately the United States has not signed any international treaty recognizing the annulment of the sovereign rights of Montenegro. You have not sanctioned this great inter- national crime, which offends the consclence of all liberty-loving peo- ple We are counting upon your con- tinued kindness to our women and children and upon your moral and material support in our struggle to maintain the independence which we kept through five centuries, even when every other Christian nation in eastern Europe was conquered by the Turk. To free America Montenegro calls for aid in securing her ancient free- dom. T. S. PLAMEMAC, Presldent of the Council; Min- ister of Forelgn Affairs of Montenegro: Supreme Chief, political and military, elected by the Montenegrin people in the national uprising of 1918 for liberty; ex-President of Parliament. Would Ban Cowboy Scenes at Rodeo To the Editor of The St No one reveres more than I the American Indian; no one regrets more the fact that the white man in his westward march has most shamefully robbed him of his lands; no one stands more ready than I with those ever did. This country is farther the grip of the devastating evil than any other part of the world. Bishop Brent stirred the Geneva conference on international control of opium when he dramaticall: charged that the British empire producing, in India, ten times as muct oplum as the world requires for medicinal purposes, and that the sur plus is meant o for dope users. To that charge the delegate from India and another from England re plied that “It would be a calamity the people of India to reduce India's opium production.” The profits of India, the lives of Americans, the misery of the world doped and insane o dying—which shall weigh most in the balances of justice? ok xh Judge Gary says: “It must be ad- mitted that if one reads the Congres sional Record"—whew, what an *if"! Who reads the Congressional Rec- ord?—"If one reads the Congressional Record,” says the judge, “and visits congressional committees, * * * thers is ground for discouragement. Then he adds that by talking with farmers—who are barely making both ends meet—or with manufacturers transportationists and mine operators. it is seen that “the small army of pessimists cannot long interrupt the onward march." He just ought to witness the on- ward march of the Shriner caravan across the Great American Desert, on to Washington! Why those Shrin- ers have enough pep in them to drown even a Congressional Record special edition with the “leave to print” 8speeches, and set fire to the seats of all congressional committees. They are going to work twelve hours a day. too. all the time they stay under th shadow of the Capitol. How ca Judge Gary stay awav? There a hardly any congressmen here. Th must not “interrupt.” * Ideal butter contains fifteen pounds of water per hundred pounds. At the last session Congress decreed that it may contain twenty pounds. The ex- tra five pounds of water at the price of butter is a high price for water even in Volsteadian days. No wonder there is danger of a drought! * ok % X (* Footnote—Key calves have four legs. Calling the to the calf. All * * ox % The proposal now under discussion. in the Treasury that intoxicating liquor held on foreign ships while within American ports might be con- seeking to Christianize him and get him protective legislation. All honor, therefore, to the motive behind the production of “The Passing of the West” for impressing upon the Amer- ican mind the place the Indian has held in our land and the pathos of his waning glory, vet the wild west and rodeo exhibition considered necessary as a setting in connection with this production is strongly objected to by the writer and others of those e gaged in moral uplift work. The reason is that while Dl.r( of the event will bring out pity for human beings, the other phase will amuse by its very cruelty, and that to speech- less animals. No cowboy contest in the eves of the general public is worth seeing if it contains no real danger and thrills, and these thrills are procured at the expense of the enforced, participants. the steers, calves and horses. We are indeed grateful that the managers realize enough of the gross cruelty of the bulldogging practice to prohibit this worst feature of all, for thev know that steers are injured horribly and would have to be killed at the end of each performance. Still it remains a regrettable fact that any of the fea- tures which form a part of the great west's way of handling the thousands! As the direct result of the publica- upon thousands of food animals, vic-|tion of these dispatches, scores of tims of the unnecessary flesh appetite | newspapers have published editorials of man. should be made into commer- | unjustly criticizing the Philippine | cialized sport. The west has no sen-|Commission of Independence and the timent for them as individual sen-|cause, a sacred one to us, of our in- tient creatures; they are regarded |dependence. coldly “en masse” as so much market{ Therefors, we are writing to ask produce, spelling dollars and cents.!you to publish this reply. The exclusion of the cowboy acts{” Governor Wood, in a letter dated would in no wise detract from the|Mav 22 and addressed to Teodoro M. pathos of the passing Indian Kalaw, executive secretary and chief j VIRGINIA W. SARGENT. [adviser of the Commmission of Inde- pendence, Manila, said: “In reply to { vour inquiry I beg to assure you that Ino information has ever come to me | to the effect that any member of the American Congress has ever received any pay or compensation from the independence funds.” Both Deny Charges. Philippine Resident Commissioner Isauro Gabaldon and former Comm Attempt To the Bditor of The Star: On May 7 and 8 The Star published | dispatches from Junius B. Wood, its far eastern correspondent, to the ef- fect that Governor General Leonard Wood would make public a list of TUnited States senators and repre- sentatives who have been ‘“receiv ing payments running into five fig-| ures” from the funds of the Philip- pine Commission of Independence for espousing the cause of Philippine | freedom. ! 1 H |Scores Lurid Tales “Flooding Markets To tbe Editor of The Star: They say that the literature of a country is a reflection of the social and spiritual conscience of a country. | sioner Jaime C. de Veyra both de- That may be so, but I think thn;c_lared the charges were with founda- (as we are all agreed) just as i ot L gleed) Just as it 81 Commmissioner Gabaldon asserted po 0 mo| public - opinion}that his intimate acquaintance with through the daily press, so it is possi- the members of the American Con- ble to mold the social and spiritual;8rese, and his resulting appreciation conscience of a country through a of their integrity, were sufficient to icon!clousl}l directed literature. The jazz literature that is flood- ing the market today, causing young men and young women shame- facedly to hide the contents of the books they read through the appli- cation of a false cover, is undermin- ing the morals of our young folks. Why allow the pestilence to spread unchecked? True, we cannot stop the so-called writers from turning out their filthy, ignoble yarns, but surel we can counteract the effects of the: lurid tales by a conscious effort to bring to the fore again the good old classics of our American forefathers. Such a red-blooded, inspiring and thrilling story as James Fenimore Cooper’'s “The Deerslayer,” for ex- ample, would do much to check the undermining effects of our present- jazz literature. Sincerely yours, JOSEPH KELLER. Gives Mrs. James Credit For White House Dresses To the Bditor of The Sta: I have just been called up on the telephone and told that in Sunday's Star, which I have not seen, in an ar- ticle on the dresses of the mistres: lof the White House, exhibited in the National Museum, no credit is given to the splendid work performed by |t the late Mrs, Julian-James, for as-- sembling these gowns. As her work- ing partner, it is my earnest desire to accord her all the praise which is her due for her spinedid inspiration. She was always generous, just and efMcient, and in her gentlé, gracious way I have heard her say n and again, in speaking of the costume ex- hioition, “we did it together.” I owe to her firs last and every time, whatever 1 was able to accomplish in this work, and to speak of this great national costume exhibition without mentioning Mrs. James is like the Dlay of “Hamlet” with Hamlet left out. All praise to this splendid woman for all she did for our beautiful Wash- ington. RORE | that not one of them could possibly stoop to accept mone¥ to influence his vote, and that he was willing to state { without fear of successful contradic- |tion that not one of them had re- celved pay, as charged, from the in- dependence funds. Manuel L. Quezon, president of the Philippine senate. who has been di- rectly in charge of the independence funds, upon learning of the charges in the-dispatches alluded to, promptly cabled the following instructions to this office: “With reference to cam- paign - of misrepresentation as dis- closed in your recent cablegrams. vou are directed to do everything fn your power to place the truth before the American people regardless of who is hurt. We are bound to perform our duty to the cause of immediate independence.” Seek Only Freedom. The 11,000,000 Filipino people are determined to have their independ- They are determined upon subject because they believe their freedom belongs to them by divine right and because the United States Congress solemnly promised it upon conditions which they have already fulfilled. The fulfillment of the speci- fled conditions was officlally reported to the Congress by a President of the United States and by an American official who was for seven years the governor general of the islands, Believing, then, that independence nxhuoully and justly belongs to us, no nation has the moral right, in th. sight ‘of God and the Declaration of Independence, to longer withhold it from us, what is the most intelli- gent method for us to pursue to ob- tain it? Revolution? No;: the world has seen enough of war and bloodshed, with its staggering cost in human blood and treasure. Besides, we have some asense, even though our opponents may not be willing to give us credit for it. . We would be annihilated if we attempted to meet the United States in arms. But even were it prac- ticable, no thought could be so ab- horrent to us. For we do not regard the United States as our enemy, but as our great friend. We ar ‘l;rlteflll w‘llll aption for all it has l! for strued as being “medicinal” and held | cause him to be absolutely certain | tail a leg, does not make it one There are no five-legged calves out- side of the Treasury, except in freak shows. 1If there is a five-legged gol- den calf in the Mellon patch, will somebody call Aaron?) (Coprright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.) Philippine Agent Denies Any to Bribe Officials us. If fate rules that we must re- main under some nation, even against | our will, we choose the United States for our mother nation. But we would never be. could never be, completely | happy. And it is because we believe we are entitled to self-determination and all the happiness and self-respe, that we can possibly get out of life {that we are resolved to forever i sist upon our definitely promised in- dependence. We can raise the mon Should we, then. attempt to “buy lh& mem- bers of the American Congress at | much per head? The mere sugge |tion 1s not only an insult to the \mn!nherfl of Congress and to our- | selves. but is too ridiculous for an but fools to contemplate. One Way Open. There is another way It is the only way that can ever, or that will ever, lead to our independ- ence. It is the path that we are traveling. It is by direct appeal tc the American people. The Filipino people know that the Tnited States is a nation with a heart and a conscience. They believe im plicitly in the good intentions of t American people toward them. They | believe that if the American people | can be made to know the truth tha | the American people will make them | free. There is only one way to make the American people know the truth and that is through publicity. We are trying through publicity to demonstrate that the Filipino race has been outrageously misrepresented by great American financial interests who are profiting and who want to make still greater profits by holding the Filipino people perpetually in sub- jection while they exploit their rich natural resources. We frankly admit that the publicity method of meeting the misrepre sentations of our opponents is expen- give. But we insist that it is method far less costly than that of the battlefield. And that we are ma ing headway is evidenced by the pres ent frantic drive of the America investors in the islands to cut off our funds and thus bring our American campaign for independence to an end Funds for Wood. Your correspondent represented Governor General Wood as taking the position that any person who r ceived any part of the cost of our campaign fund had been “bribed” to support Philippine independence, and was only espousing our cause becausc he had been bribed. This we are loathe to believe. In all respect to Gen. Wood, we submit that no one ought to have a better idea of the high cost of publicity campaigns in the United States than the genera! himself. The Senate committee re- ported that the campaign to make him President of the United States cost $1,773,000. Would Gen. Wood, be willing to’ concede that any porlon who received any part of that $1.- 773,000 was bribed to support him? We think not. But is it not a poor rule that cannot be made to work two wayvs? The Wood-for-President campalgn fund was contributed to by individ- uals affiliated with many of the largest corporations in the United States. In our own case, we keep a stand- ing statement at the head of our Philippine Press Bulletin so that every reader may know where our funds come from and why they are lneln expended. The statement fol- o 'his work is being carried on by the Commission of Independence. which was created, provided with funds and directed by the Philippine legislature, duly elected by the Filipino people, to campalgn in Ame ica for Philippine independence, and ‘to promote better understanding, greater confldence and closer eco- nomic relations between the United States and the Philippines’. v,“ flnf'ufl' %Wmm open to us. ! '