Evening Star Newspaper, May 29, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.........May 29, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Peanayivania Ave. hicago ower Bullding. Furopean Oice: 10 Regent St., London, Engla “The Evening Star, with the Bunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city #t 80 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per Sunday ouly. 20 cents per month. Or- be sent by mail, or telephone Main 5600, Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday $8.40; 1 mo., 70 Taily only Sunday on nd. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., §10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. 1 $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only .1yr., $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the ‘use for republication of all news dis atches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub: hereln. Al vights of publication of ecial dispatches heref also reserved. e Cafe Charges. The epithets ‘“‘food gouge! and “restaurant profiteer” are being freely used. The city faces a situation which the citizens hoped would not arise, and it may be that we will yvet get through with credit and happiness to every- | Mecca” in the greatest motor car pu- body. That there will be an increase in restaurant prices during Shrine week seems certain, but there is dis- agreement as to whether the increase ‘will be moderate or immoderate. There are people who are saying that the profiteers do not know such a word as moderation and that they are out to get all they can get while the getting is good. The purveyors of cooked food defend themselves hotly. They say that their cooks, who are now getting about $25 a week. in- =ist on $70 for Shrine week, and that the dishwashers and other employes are after more money because of the greater amount of work demanded of them during Shrine week. The cook- ed food men say that coffee is up cents a pound, eggs 2 to 4 cents a dozen and grapefruit a dollar a crate. They have other tales of woe. Buttwo cents a pound on bulk coffee ought not to justify a raise of 5 cents on a cup of coffee. The Shrine men have told the cafe men that they should maintain the present prices and that the additional money paid out by them to their em- ployes will be offset by three times their normal business. ment seems very reasonable to men ot in the cafe business, but the cafe men say that it is piffie. The Shrine has appealed to the res- taurateurs and coffee-and-doughnut merchants to hold down prices for the good fame of the city and for long- ange business purposes, but the res- taurateur says that he cannot afford 10 carry on business at a loss and that he is not' a philanthropist. If the charge of philanthrophy made against the cafe men it will probably be withdrawn Tt is said that the Shrine committee will present to the Department of Justice any cases of price ‘gouging called to its attention. It is also said ney. if convinced that there is agree- ment among the cafe men to raise prices, will lay the matter before the grand jury. That has a promising sound and is vertainly a threatening gesture, but it may be remembered that for several years the government has been bring- ing the coal bandits and other bandits to the rack of justice. Yet the ban- dits are still taking ransom out of us. ——— e —————————— { Fire Department Ready! Commissioner Oyster and Fire Chief ‘Watson have reached the decision not to divide the fire department so that one section of it might answer alarms morth of the Avenue and the other sec- tion alarms on the south during Shrine week. Ten emergency traffic lanes are indicated across the Avenue, and po- lice will open any of these as needed by the fire department, and fire drivers That argu-| has been as to warrant sale a serious loss wiil ifrom a handicap as against the ship that the United States district attor-lines of other countries. They are com- the trip. It is impossible to know just how many machines will roll into this city during the next four or five days. Because, in addition to the scheduled “caravans” bringing Shriners to the gathering, there will be many who will be drawn hither for the sake of visiting Washington at such an inter- esting time, not members of the or- ganization, of whom the local commit- tees can know nothing. That is one reason why the estimates of the num- ber of visitors here during Shrine week vary from 300,000 to 500,000, That it will be difficult to handle all these machines in a city already crowd- ed with motors goes without saying. The merematter of providing “housing" accommodations for them is a problem in itself. Some large spaces have been secured and organization has been ef- fected for parking them by thousands. l | There is not garage room in town for cars that are now here in daily use, and many Washington motors are kept in the streets at night for lack of shelter. A motor car is harder to ac- commodate than a person. There is no such thing as getting two machines into a stall built for one. And, simi- larly, it is harder to pack moving cars into a given street space than to crowd people. Announcement is made that on Thursday and Friday nights Pennsyl- vania avenue, at present and up to that time closed to vehicles at night, will be thrown open to motors, and it is expected that at least 100,000 ma- | chines will traverse the “road to rade ever known. These motor cars now coming from all points of the compass toward Wash- ington are an evidence of the tremen- dous interest that is taken by the peo- people of the United States in the Na- tional city. Washington is trying to make ready in the last detail for lhel comfort and entertainment of these visitors. The general hope is lhlti everybody will be happy i ——— | Bids for the Fleet. Uncle Sam has put the merchant fleet on the auction block. Bids were received vesterday for the sale of the ships which have, as a resuilt of the war, come under government posses- sion, and which must now be disposed of, as the United States is going out of the merchant marine business. Some of the bids were “facetious,” it is of- ficially declared, and others are to be taken seriously. One of them. informal in its immediate shape, proposes pay- ment of a billion dollars for the entire active part of the fleet. It is necessary to sell the fleet be- cause Congress has declined to provide for its maintenance as a government activity. If the ships were not sold they will deteriorate and become use- less, a heavy loss. They are now in such condition as to command possibly the highest possible price, If they can be turned over to private ownership and made useful in promoting the carrying trade of the United States it will not matter much whether some loss has been suffered by the govern- ment. If, however, the bids do not measure up to the point of such value have been inflicted. American ship owners are somewhat reluctant to enter largely into mercan- tile marine operations for the reason that under present laws they suffer pelled to maintain a higher scale of wages and to maintain the crews more expensively. To meet these costs they must charge a higher freight rate than foreign owners. Necessarily this factor bears upon the prices they are willing to pay for the fleet that now is of- fered for sale. Foreign bidders could afford to offer higher prices for the American fleet. The urgent hope of the American people is that these ships now offered for sale will be put and kept in the service as an American fleet; that they will carry the flag into the ports of the world, transporting American goods to all markets. ———————— The New York agitator who declares himself “provisional president of Africa” has been put on trial for fraud, and is threatened with personal attack by associates in business. He is ev dently regarded as one of those pro- in crossing the Avenue will proceed with great caution. The fire depart- ment and Commissioner Oyster are| making plans for Shrine week. The best that is in the fire department will he given to the service of the people. | Of course, the department always doea‘ jts best, but during Shrine week it will be on tiptoe. There will be un usual conditions in the city. There are many big wooden stands with bunting on them. The outside of buildings will be draped with bunting, and the in- terior of business establishments and many homes will have those flags and draperies which we call in general “decorations.” There will be a great deal of smoking. Cigarettes and cigars will be lighted and puffed by the mil- lion. Crowds in the streets will slow up the fire engines. There are always certain dangers in such celebrations as that which is close upon us, but the fire department is ready. —_———— The profiteer in discussing the price of food may say, ““Hi, noble!"” but the #ubconscious thought will be, “High, noble!” The French and Germans in the Ruhr are becoming more afraid of the communists than they are of each other. Rolling to Washington. Reports from out of town indicate that many thousands of motor cars are on the way from all directions to- ward Washington. Streams of them are moving steadily castward from the western states over the highways. They are bannered and pennanted to jdentify them as parts of the great “caravan” making the road to the mecca of the Shrine. The red, green and yellow colors are flashing east- ward and southward and northward as this great concours& concentrates. It is though the capital were a mag- met, drawing these machines toward 6t as by an irresistible force. Estimates vary as to the number of Jmotors that will be brought to Wash- #ngton for the Shrine meeting. Some ‘may 80,000 are coming, and some aver Mthat an even larger number will make party. LloydGeorge, however, is playing a middle-ground game and after elicit- visional presidents who are mostly oc- | cupied in providing for themselves. —————————————— Although Mussolini has many orig- inal ideas. he falls into a common trend of European thought when he takes up the possibility of debt remis- sion by the U. S. A. Although the| greatest creditor in history, Uncle Sam hears constantly this slogan, “Please naturally inclined to suspect that the French republic is trying to conduct a democratic form of government with an autocratic foreign policy. ————— The Rhine would have been a grand old river if it had managed to leave its fame to the poets and keep out of the hands of the politicians. —_———— Baldwin Wins in Commons. Premier Baldwin's first session of the house of commons since his suc- cession to the government leadership has resuited in a victory. He faced a difficult task. A bill was before the house which involved the element of serious trouble. It was drawn to pro- tect Home Secretary Bridgeman from the penalties threatening him as a re- sult of a judicial decision in the case of certain persons deported from Ire- land during the crisis there. A vigor- ous opposition was launched against the measure, and for a time it looked as though it would receive only the support of the ministerial conservative ing assurances that the government is willing that the deportees should re. cover compensation end damages threw the weight of his support to the ministry, and the bill was passed to its second reading, 219 to 143. This was a larger majority than at one time seemed possible, and the result greatly cheers supporters of the ministry. It is unquestionably in the interest of international stability that the British ministry should remain in office for a period long enough to work out a def- inite policy of foreign relations and to carry it out effectively. A change of { appeal | what may be regarded as an excess of THE ministry at London over some domes- tic question would throw out of gear the mechanism of international adjust- ment that is so essential to general peace and prosperity abroad. This particular question upon which Yesterday's action turned is only one of a number growing out of the Irish troubles of a year and more ago. And it is not the last that will arise to give annoyance to the ministry, especially if the laborites, who are voting solidly asan anti-ministerial party, seize upon these questions to attack the govern- ment. The Lioyd George liberel party’s policy is evident. It will vote with the government on some occasions and against it on other: It will “play politics” as its leader dictates, assum- ing the virtue of patriotic principle whenever possible and seeking to hold the balance between the conservatism of the ministry and the radicalism of the Jabor opposition. It will wait for an opportunity to effect an unfavora- ble vote by combination with the labor party and dissentients from conserva- tive ranks, and then will force an ap- peal to the country in & general elec- tion in the hope of an overturn restor- ing it to power. “Hop In, Noble As & means of solving the problem of local short-range transportation for the visiting Shriners, the committee in rge of that matter has issued an to owners of motor cars in Washington to lend the use of their machines during the next week. Some responses have been received, but many car owners have, in view of the assured great congestion and the limitation of parking space, decided to put their cars up for the week and not to use them even for their own pur- poses. One of the devices to aid in carrying the city’s guests around town is a sticker that reads “Hop in, Noble.” This is intended as notice, when pasted on a machine, that any visitor belong- ing to the order is welcome to a ride without charge. Unfortunately the dis- tribution of these labels has not been done with tact and discretion, and as a result there is considerable dissent from the plan in general. Through zeal those charged with the distribu- tion in many cases did not await per- mission to paste them on their wind- shields, but gummed them on the glass. | It would have been far better to ask the consent of the car owners before fixing these labels. To paste them on indiscriminately was, in effect, to com- mandeer the cars. Few people relish such action, and it is quite natural that there should be @ widespread feel- ing of resentment. Already many of the labels thus unwarrantedly stuck on the windshields have been removed ; —with some difficulty, for the gum used is of a most tenacious quality—and in many cases it is doubtful whether the car owners will consent to their restoration. It is always a mistake to take for granted that a person will be willing to have his property used by others. Much better results are obtained by asking consent. —_————— Statesmen love the clamorous ap- proval of the populace, but none of them, however popular or profound, can hope to measure up to the ap- plause average of Babe Ruth. ———— In spite of the extraordinary ac- tivity of printing presses in several countries, Europe has not been able to design a currency as attractive as that issued by the U. S. A. ———— Philosophers have asserted that every human {s created with an object. Even the seemingly most useless in- dividual may have the making in him | of & non-stop dancer. —————— The man who thinks it good busi- ness to seize on an emergency to boost prices unfairly is growing more and more in disfavor among regular busi- ness men. —_———— Col. Bryan has had an interesting career, one that demonstrates that a man may be a popular lecturer, re- gardless of how many people disagree ‘with him. | | | ———— Every one is asked to make Wash- ington safe for the Shriners. How about asking the Shriners to make ‘Washington safe for Washingtonians? SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Glimpse. June, a-peekin’ ‘crost the hedge ! Sweet as she kin be, Rests her fingers on the edge ! An’ throws a kiss to me. Butterfly came driftin’ by An’ caught it on his wing, An’ maybe that's the reason why He's such & handsome thing. i Robin gayly caught it next An’ set it to & song; South wind took it for a text To coax the sun along. It fell to earth an’ blossoms fair Came springin’ by the score. An’ June, she stands a-waitin’ there To send along some more. Reciprocity. The man whose soul is full of art— This world of ours is funny— ‘Would deem himself exceeding smart, To take some portion of his art And let it go for money. The man who has a gélden store Is lured by fancies mystic To send his wealth to Europe's shore; He values not his golden store, He wants to be artistic. A Pronoun’s Evolution. He was the hero of the hour. The bands would madly play To celebrate his dawning poweér, ‘While people said, “Hooray!” His friends would earnestly insist That wonders he would do, His name was well up in the list ‘When men discussed “Who's who.” A year or so went swiftly by, And various changes came. He dwells not in the public eye, But few pronounce his name. If in & crowd perchance he's found Unquoted he will be, Unless somebody turns around And merely says, “Who's he?” - Ithe marriage took place EVENING STAR, .WASHINGTO D. C, TUESDAY THE WAYS OF WASHINGTON BY WILLIAM PICKETT HELM. Did it ever ocour to you that right here in Washington there are fewer laws to the square inch' than any- where else in the United States? It's the fact. Our neighbors of New York, Chicago, Oshkosh, Tombstone, Ariz, and all points west, large or small, have two, three or five times| as many laws to watch out for as we have. In some localities they break & law almost every time they do anything at all. . And if they do nothing, there's a law against that. too. Yet we seem to get along fairly well and happily. Maybe Elsewhere could take a leaf out of our notebook. 1t's like this: Here in the National Capital we are, 80 to speak, the wards of Congress. That great and noble congregation enacts all our laws, passing them on to us with due and proper penalties, and we let it go at that. And that is the sum total of the law in the District of Columbla. Elsewhere—Anywhere—the people of the city, town, village or hamlet have at least three, and sometimes four, different sets of lawmakers grinding out statutes which they must obey. First, they have the federal Con- gress. So do we. Next comes the state We of Washington don't bother with any state Jaws Then comes the county legislature —freeholders, or what not. So far as Washingtonians are concerned, non est . Finally come the pompous alder- men. councilmen or whatyoumaycall- em composing the legislature of the city, town or village. To them we of Washington say Poof! Likewise, Shucks! There isn't any such me- nagerie here. Washington, as the only American city that isn't in a state and county (or countles), simply doesn't know what state, county—or city—laws s a result, we are the least lawed-against folk in the country. True, adopts police regulations and so on. but, after all, they are regulations— not laws. legislature. have to All of which makes it mighty easy for the Washington policeman, or board of Commissioners | enacted about i | | | as ) gession. about ft. Your friend will go with you, then. And, speaking of Washington police- men, you know, of course, that there are several different police forces in the city ‘The city policeman proper is under the chief of police, Maj. Sullivan, who, in turn, is under the control of the District Commissioners. That force is the largest. Entirely {ndependent of the city force are the park police. When you drive, for instance, into the Capitol grounds. you enter m new police do- main. In those grounds the city po- liceman is just like any other citizen. The grounds are policed by a force of men under the control of Col. Sher- rill, who is in charge of parks, And if you drove from the Capitol to the White House. you enter a third olice domain. The White House orce of some twenty-odd men is in dependent of the other two. It is under the President’s direction. To these three varying police baili- wicks there should be added a fourth —the places where none of the three kinds of policemen has any authority whatsoever, These places are the embassies and legations. A policeman in uniform has no authority there. Each em- bassy or legation is a bit of foreign land set down In the heart of the nation’s capital. The laws of Great Britain govern the land and buildings of the British embassy; the laws of France the French embassy, and 8o on. A fugi- tive from justice seeking asylum in a foreign embassy or legation may not be arrested there by an American officer of mny kind. Of course. the embassies and lega tions do not give asylum to such fugitives But theoretically they have the right to do so, if they wish. Coming back to this subject of law- making. did you realize that there are at least 100,000 persons engaged in making laws for the people of the United States—except Washingtoni- ans—to obey? They are on the job virtually all the time. They turn out at least 100.000 new laws every year. The highest lawmaking body, of course, is Congress. Its 531 members consider from 10,000 to 20,000 bills every two years. The last Congress 500 laws. The legisiatures of the various states are composed of 1,756 senators and 5.658 representatives, or a total of 7.414. During the past spring for- ty-three state legislatures were in They considered between compared with the “Elsewhere” po- 30,000 and 50.000 bills. liceman, to_attend to his duties. In New York city, for Iinstance, a former police commissioner figures that the average policeman. on to all 1t they lived up to past perform- ances they enacted about 15000 new laws. Heaven only knows how many the curves of his job, must have a members there are of the lawmaking good. working knowledge of at leas 16,000 federal, laws. He must know—if he is letter-per fect—or nearly so in his calling what the law of the country is, what the law of the state is and what the law of the city is. Ask the average Washington po- liceman—who, incidentally, is about the finest and most courteous in the world. barring a few misplacements— to tell you about the 16.000 laws h has to énforce. Have a friend along, 50 you won't be sent to the asylum Ask the New York city policeman state, and municipal | odies of our 3.000 or 8o counties and ,000 incorporated towns, cities and cillages, but if we allow only five ersons to each unit—ten, probably. is more nearly correct—we run up a total of 90,000 local lawmakers. Thess fellows are meeting and making new laws once or twice a month. Figure it out for vourself. TUndoubtedly, we have too many laws on our books. Nobody can re- member a fraction of the things he ought not to do. % Nobod at least, except a Wash- ingtonia Third Leiter Sister Just Widowed By Death of Indian War Hero BY "HE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. It will be news to many that Nancy Leiter of Washington. D. C.. whose two sisters, Mary and Daisy, made most brilliant marriages—the one to the Marquis of Curzon, now secre- tary of state for foreign affairs of the British empire, and the other to the twentieth Earl of Suffolk, who gave his life for his country in the great war—has been living for some time past at Goleta, in southern California, near Santa Barbara, where she has just lost her English husband. Col. Colin Powys Campbell, a fine old veteran of Great Britain's frontier war in India. Col Campbell leaves her with a son and two daughters to par- ticipate with her similarly widowed sister, the Countess of Suffolk and their brother-in-law, the Marquis of Curzon, In the suit which they have started against their brother, Joseph Leiter, for an accounting of his share in the trusteeship of the big Levi Z Leiter estate. Lord Curszon, of course, is taking part in the suit in behalf of his three daughters by the first of his two successive American mar- riages. Col. Campbell was the son of a very prosperous Scotch coffes planter in Indi Alexander Copse Campbell, who spent the latter part of his life in London with his wife, a daughter of Lord Lilford, where they were well known by reason of their hospitalities. Colin was their second son, and after pa 2 hurst, he was gazetted to the North Staffordshire Regiment., from which he was transferred at his request to the Bengal Staff Corps, and eventual- Iv appointed to the Central India Horse, one of the crack cavalry corps of the British army in India, in which the remainder of his military career was passed. 5 In 1895 he was placed in military command of Sir George Robertson’s political mission to Chitral and di- rected the heroic defense of the mis- sion during its prolonged siege in the Fort of Chitral. having as his second in command the then Captain (now Major General) Sir Charles Town- shend, whose subsequent experience of another siege. napely that of Kut, on the Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Was less fortunate. For whereas Sir Charles Townshend was obliged to inaul down the British flag at Kat and to submit to the imprisonment of his entire army by the Turks, his name being associated for all ‘time With one of the most sensational sur- renders of the great war, terribly damaging to the prestige of the Rritish army throughout the orient, Col. Campbell was able, despite his ere wound, to hold out at Chitral until the siege was raised by the ad- vance of a relieving force. * Xk * % Colin Campbell, who received pro- motion to & colonelship for his serv- ices at Chitral, took part in several other of the Indian frontier wars, was military secretary of the late Lord Elgin during his viceroyalty of Infia, and was renowned twenty-odd years ago as one of the most bril- ltant polo players in India. He won the heart and the hand of Nancy Leiter when she was staying with her sister, the late Lady Curzon at Calcutta_and at Simla, during Lord Curzon's’ viceroyalty of India, and in 1904, shortly after which the colonel re- tired from the army and returned to England, where they lived for_ sev- eral years., first at Stanmer Park, near Brighton. which they leased from the late Earl of Chichester, and afterward at Lord Ailesbury's house in Savernake forest, which they rent- ed for a term of years In 1920 the colonel was ordered by his doctors to take up his abode in a kindlier climate than that of his na- tive land. His long service in India, also the severs wound which he had received during the siege of Chitral. had told upon his constitution, and s0 the. colonel, with his American wife and three - children, left the United Kingdom to settle in south- ern California, where they purchased large place, to which théy gave the name of the Campbell ranch. Thig was about two years ago, and from then until his death the other day, the colonel's entire interest and ac- tivities were absorbed in his develop- ment of the ranch, in which he took the: test pride and pleasure. His marriage was in every way a very happy one. Theé couple were devoted to one another, and every one liked Campbell, who was a particularly ng through Sand-| i | i fine and gallant type of the British soldier and ecavalry officer. el The Hon. Amyas Stafford Northcote. a younger son of the first Earl of lddesleigh, has not long survived his American brother-in-law. the late Stuyvesant Fish, who fell dead the other day while entering the Park National Bank of New York in order 1o take part in a directors’ meeting. Amyas Northcote's death at Vinters, his country seat near Maidstone, in Kent. was likewlse very sudden. He was well known in the United States, a frequent guest of Stuyvvesant Fish and of the relatives of his American wife, who was the daughter of the late James Garrard of Dudley. of Frankfort, Ky who has now been left a widow with a and a daugh- ter, Northcote and Stuyvesant Fish arose from the fact that Stuyvesant's sister Edith married the Hon. Oliver North- cote, brother of Amyas, and who spent_several vears in business in New York Oliver and Edith Northcote died more than a quarter of & century ago. leaving an only son. now near forty vears of age. who was brought up under Stuyvesant Fish’s guardianship and who during his adolescence de- veloped a_ mental affliction, from which he has never recovered. and which has necessitated his being kept under restraint. The son of Amyas Northcote and of his American wife is in the line of succession to the Earidom of Iddesieigh. But his chances of inheriting the peerage are somewhat remote, as there are many lives between his and that of the | present holder of the title. The earldom is a modern one dat- ing only from 1885, when it was be- stowed upon the late Sir Stafford Northcote, the statesman and con- servative leader who filled so many cabinet offices. including those of first lord of the ti ury, chancellor of the exchequer and of minister of foreign affairs. But the family is a very an- cient one. It has a baronetcy dating from the reign of Charles I and doc- uments {mmediately_subsequent and even prior to the Norman conquest are preserved at Pynes, its ancestral home near Exeter, showiug that even in those remote days, that is to say some 900 years ago. the Northeotes were people of great consequence in the county of Devon. * ¥ X* % The present Lord lddesleigh is the second son of the statesman and has achieved note in literature as a nov- elist, having a number of successful novels to his credit. among them being ‘lone Chaloner” and “Charms,” the latter dealing with a celebrated tragedy in the reign of George II. Lord Iddesleigh’s younger brother won a peerage for his services as governor of Bombay and as gov- ernor general of Australia. He died in 1911 shortly after his return from a prolonged visit to America, leaving an American widow in the person of the Vermont born, adopted daughter and principle heiress of Lord Mount- stephen, one of the creators of the Canadian Pacifio railroad. Lady Northcote's adoption was in the nature of a romance, and it is worthy of note that in all the stand- ard “peerages’ and works of refer- ence she {s described as “Alice, adopt- ed daughter of Lord Mountstephen,’ and no other information is vouch- safed concerning her parentage. This is due to the fact that her childhood, spent in Canada near the border line, was far from happy. She was the Cinderella of an American clergy- man's family, the divine in guestion and his wife halling from Vermont, where their daughter Alice was born. In gome way the Lady Mountstephen became acquainted with Alice took & fancy to her, and as the girl's life was not precisely rose-colored, and she was more or less the “souffre douleur™ of her family, she gradually came to spend more and more time with the Mountstephens. The parents raised objections to this, declaring that it resulted in Alice’s housework being left undone, whereupon Lady Mountstephen started by providing a servant to take the girl's place in the clergyman’s family, and ultimate- 1y made an arrangement to adopt the girl altogether, on the understanding that the clergyman, his wife and th remainder of their family renoun 1 further connection and relatio; #hip with her. At any rate it result- ed in the complete severance of Alice’s ties with her family and in regular adoption by Lord and Lady Mountstephen, who settled a very large fortune upon her when she married Lord Northeote, which was still further vastly- augmented when Lord Mountstephen died, The relationship between Amyas | MAY 29, 1923 NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE TAIL OF THE HEMISPHERE: Chile and Argentina. Frank G. Carpenter. “Doubleday, Page and Company. The traveler, like every other hu- man, gets out of his experiences pretty much what he puts into them. 8o, back from going up and down the earth, ons comes laden with plec- tures of the landsacpe, those combi- nations of land ' and water, those gradations of mountain and plain, that set off region from region. An- other brings back the varied peo- ples, each set in its own preposses- sions of race, religion, society, gov- ernment. One comes with poetry, art, literature. Another, maybe, with the progress of science or the fruits of archeological research. Each ac- cording to to his own bent and his OWn power to seize. The traveler who merves best the greatest number of the reading folks left at home is the one who, drawing in due proportion from these varlous special lines, bullds with them the common basic life of all human beings. Humanity the world over has but a mere hand- ful of fundamental preoccupations. These are identical among all orders and grades of mankind. Food, shelter, procreation—secured on the one hand through the elahorate intricacies of lan advanced civilization and on the {other hand in the bare simplicity of {primitive existence. At root both the same, however. And this fact the good traveler must keep in mind, if he have any hope at all of delivering ‘remote peoples over into the interest and understanding of the reading folks at home. * % kX Enter Frank G. Carpenter in the unassailable role of the “good trav- eler"—not only the good traveler, but a great one as well. In a literal, dictionary sense, Mr. Carpenter is neither explorer nor discoverer. In a very real sense, however, he Is both. To be sure he was not the first to penetrate any part of the two hemi- spheres, nor any part of the seven seas. And to be sure no single spot of earth can claim him as its dis- coverer. Nevertheless in his effect upon thousands of readers he has brought to them many a distant re- gion in the vivid colors of fts new and only real significance. A clear explorer, this. As discoverer he has more than once uncovered for us from its blanketings of false informa- tion the first-hand truth about this far place or that one. Mr. Carpenter is as interesting and as profitable in outlook and method as he is in his ultimate findings. Neither his- torfan nor pronhiet does this traveler choose to be. Instead, wholly modern and practical, he elects to be an ob- {server and a recorder of facts, both in their actuality and in the most immediate of thelr useful implica- tions. His mind is bent to such as- pects of any locality as are calculated to contribute to the general current of important affairs the world over. This questing mind is fitted with a pair of very keen eyes that look around on every side. rarely back- ward or far forward. Under the hand is a ready notebook, and into this Mr. Carpenter pours, while they are vet hot, the vital facts and striking impressions that region after reglon vields to this eager and importunate raveler. And_this notebook, with ractioally no fixing-up at all, turns " finally. to be the book itseif that id and alive, passes over to read ers one or another of the far places of the earth his time the places are Chile and Argentina. A new Chile and Argentina. {The old school books—some of them still going—catch us young when we are plastic to take in and to hold fast to impresgions. Since these school davs we have found out that many of the things we learned were not =5 at all, and the rest of them were hardly worth while. Still the old noti persist. among them. in an odd perversity, that old notion about Patagonia. Up untii {vesterday we were actually clinging to that uninhabitable region, to those des- sert wastes, with their occasional pre- historic relic. their handful of savage tribes living on nothing at all but sand and the scant airs that heaven assigned to this resch of desolation. Then, ves- terday. Mr. Carpenter came along bear- ing this “Tail of the Hemisphere” for the creation of a new Patagonia. A few words—{rrigation.” “intensive cultiva- tion,” “electricity.” “modern mechanics of production. transportation, commur cation,” “modern methods of co-ordina- tion and administration"—and there vou are. with & live, human, growing, productive and progressive Chile and Argentina spread out before you. Good maps add to our sense of an actual partaking in this travel adven- ture., By way of these we =zo along with Mr. Carpenter, entering Chile from the north. Then south, threading like bright beads upon a string such color- {ful objects as, Iquique. Antofagasta, Valparaiso, Santiago, Punta Arenas, then turning northward, Bahia Blanca and, finally, Buenos Aires. This inclu- sive chain points upon various pictur- esque features of natural setting to which the author gives good heed in passing. These melodious names point also upon mines of copper. gold. silver, upon the rich nitrate fields, upon the great frult-growing region of the in- terior above and below Santiago, upon the immense plains where millions of cattle graze, upon busy seaports and manufacturing centers. B There are interesting descriptions of growing enterprise with such names as Bethlehem Steel and the Guggenheims to indicate the increas- ing solidari* of industry in the west- ern hemisphere. The fruit region around Santiago will supplement that of California in providing the eastern seaboard with fresh fruits the year around, the short cut of the Panama canal making this possible and en- tirely feasible. Here are descrip- tions, too, of the people and the daily life of work and play and recreations of every sort. Here we get acquaint- ed with the Araucanian Indians in existence away back and setting up an impassable barrier to the ancient | dominion of the Incas. A remnant | now whose state is hers set before us. At Valparaise Mr. Carpenter takes us across for a hasty overlooking of the lone island that gave rise to the story of Robinson Crusoe. Then back and on again in this interesting tide of life in lower South America. An absorbing book from first to last in its latest account of the present state and the promised fulfillment of a rich and growing region. * K Xk Mr. Carpenter, eminently practical and businesslike, is, nevertheless, an amazing colorist. Let us hear him talk a minute. “I am on a little steamer in the strait of Magellan. I am at the end of the great Andean chain. These hills mark the jumping- off place that ties the continents to- gether. Rich with copper. silver and gold, they crawl from here on their sinuous way toward the north pole. They span the equator, they drop their heads at the Isthmus of Pana- ma and end only at the Arctio ocean. beyond the gold mines of Alaska and the Klondike.” ‘“The water is still. The steamer moves slowly, and seem to be in a great river rathe than in the ocean. We are sailing among the clouds through the water- filled ravines of some of the greatest of the world’s mountains. On our right are grass-clad islands. On our left are rugged, jagged peaks rising in all shapes out of the se There is one that reminds me of the pyra- mid of Cheops and there is another that is & fair likeness of the smashed- nosed sphnix. In front the hills are climbing_ one over anoth like a troops of giants at play and further on they rise in fort-like walls of green a thousand feet high"—just couple of pictures out of a booic tha combines picture and stories of hu man _interest and enterpris wonderfully rich and iant adven- ture on the part of & great adven: turer. ¥ LG M CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. There is going to be something new started in Washington when all states mingle in one grand dance along Pennsylvania avenue from the Capitol to the White House. every evening during Shrine week. It might be called a folk dance. ‘This great outdoor dancing floor, the most famous street in America, is to be only the center point of a nation- wide festival, for the muslc, the laughter. the shouts of merriment of the hundreds of thousands will be broadcast from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and will be re-echoed, while all America may join in the merry whirl. Never has there been any thing like this for a gigantic frolic. The fdea that this should be the be- ginning of annual frolics all over America, with dancing to amplified and broadcast music centering in the capital. originates with Chairman E. C. Snyder of the entertainment committee. “Let joy be unconfined!” * ok %k The novelty does not consist in the street fete, for there are similar cus- toms of street dancing in many other countries. Tt was common in Paris and other cities of France after the armistice—as well as before the war —though it was suspended during hostilities, In Mexico and other Latin countries of Central and South America there are gallant parades in the parks and | plazas, It js the custom for the senors to paradé around a circle in one direction, the senoritas parading around a concentric circle in the op- posite direction, thus passing the senors continuously, while the duen- nas sit in a third, concentric circle, watching the sly. flirtatious glances passing, like little flashes of light- ning, between the two inner circles Perhaps that mild fiirtation would not weem very exciting, to some “seno- ritas and senors” of Washington, for no dancing comes out of it, nor would “playing the bea) be accepted as a turiqus courtship, but when in Rome —or in Mexico—one does according to the customs of the country. Per- haps the Washingtonjan folk-danc may really start something American, it properly guarded by chaperons and police, until the excitement of novelty is’ superseded by the crys- tallization of custom. * x x % The novelty of the proposed street frolic in Washington will consist in | the nation-wide participation. The probabilities are that most of the mierrymakers here will be Shrin- ers who will need no “chaperons.” The Poet. Southwell, says: “Of mirth to make a trade would be a crime, But tired sprites have a time. i There is a movement on foot to revive interest in genuine celebration of Fourth of July as a national day rather than a sport holiday. This is headed by Nathaniel Phillips, pres- tdent of the League of Foreign Born Citizens. ~Mr_ Phillips believes that to0 much stress has been laid on Amerlca as a synonym for obportu- nity. and not for obligation in pro- portion to the opportunit. He urges that every city should plan a Court of Honor, a pageant and a patriotic oration. Both the pag- eant and the speech should emphasize the history and ideals of America avoiding controversial partisan pol tics. He suggests that the local for mirth must naturalized citizens should be listed. d the names given to Boy Scouts. ho would call upon each one with a personal invitation to attend the ex- ercises, Each group of foreign born should be givén a place on the pro- gram, to ng their national hymn of the old country. and much singing of American patriotic songs shouid be joined In by all—both foreign and native Americans. * % * % The truth will prevail. Forty prominent American scholars, leaders both of orthodox religious thught and of scientific learning unite in declar- ing that “the world do move,” and is not flat, nor sustained on the back of an Atlas standing upon nothing. The strange feature of the situation is that there are men of brains, and acumen in other directions, who have to be told authoritatively that thers is no conflict between nitelligent re- ligious doctrines and pure sclence. Whatever may appear to be contra- dictory becomes the strongest kind of confirmation, the one of the other, when rightly understood, according to the signers of this statement “The heavens declare the glory of God. and the firmament showeth His handiwork.” £ x The present talk among republicans around the Capitol fs to the effect that the Senate may lose one more republican seat. The successorship to the late Senator Nelson of Minnesota was originally expected to fall Gov. Preuss, who was to resign his governorship, so that Lieut. Gov. Col- lins would succeed him, and then Gov. Collins would appoint Mr. Preuss sen- ator. Thal program was upset by the argument that a federal law required jthe genators to be elected by the per ple, although lawyers in Minnesota do not agree that such a law by Con- !zrmx could interfere with the state's iright to choose her scnators as she |sees fit. However, Gov. Preuss evi- dently thought that it would he detr! mental to his permanent political future to construe the disputed in favor of his own appointment, He has called a special election. tn be held in June. That has brought out a number of genatorial candidates besides himself. These include Mag- nus Johnson, the farmer-labor candi- |date. who almost beat Gov. Preuss for the governorship at the time S ator Shipstead, farmer-labor (dent candidate, beat Senator Kellogg. There are other candidates who are not strong conservative republicans. in cluding the blind progressive-repub- lican. Representative Thomas D. Schail. - { * ok ok V. Uncle Sam is becoming somewhat of a spender. In spite of the “high protection” of the Fordney-McCum ber tariff. he bought from the world ) abroad $41.000,000 more during April than he sold, and im the first four months of the year $88.894.359 more than he exported. Yet every fac- tory. every industry, is running to its full capacit and there are more jobs offered than there are men and jwomen to fill them, and such wages as are now being paid, in re money, were never before heard Koy Mr. Frank H. Vanderlip. the inter- national banker, says that there are too many farmers in America and that if more farmers would move into the cities it would tend to equal- ize the division of population and of supply and demand. It would, nat- urally, increase the consumer's cost for food. since the demand would be | increased and the supply reduced. T | would tend to lower wages In | dustries for the same reason haps that Vanderlip. | In the meanwhile, | policy seems to be to expand farm- ing even more than it is at present Last year the Department of the In- terior lssued patents (deeds) to land, 1 mostly to homesteaders, amounting to the grand total of 21 acres. That "is an expansion of farm area equal to the three states of Connectl- cut. Delaware and Maryland (Coprright, 1923. by P. V. Colline.) Per is the end desired by Mr. the government EDITORIAL DIGEST British International Leadership Hangs in the Balance. “In this critical period of inter- national histo the Lynchburg News observes, “British leadership as well as British influences and Brit- ish policies loom before the vision of the world as factors of tremen- dous importance.” Hence the change in the prime ministry is treated in the American press as one of the most | vital immediate matters in Interna- tional politics. Successful as Bonar Law has been in his brief term of office. and sincerely as his serious illness is regretted by American writers, the feeling is strong that present conditions in the empire de- mand that the hand on the wheel be a vigorous one. Ax the Boston Globe points out. the United States has re- cently experienced severe illness in R chief executive “at a very critical period.” and “in England it iz im- practicable for a sick prime minister to_remain in office” The attitude of American papers toward the appointment of Stanley Baldwin to the premiership hears out the belief of the Springfield Repub- lican that “Great Britain's choice of a successor to Bonar Law will be well received in this country. where Baldwin made an_excellent” impre: sion as head of the British mission which negotiated the funding of the debt to the United States” The Youngstown Vindicator puts the same idea more vigorously, saving thit “Americans will feel a personal interest in the elevation of the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin to the premier- ship,” not only because of the agree- able relations already established, but because he is “the tvpe of man Americans like.” Bonar Law was ill. the Toronto Star tells us, when he hecame prime min- ister, but once having undertaken the task of leadership after Lioyd George's passing, “he had to continue, well or ill, for one worry crowded so closely on the heels of another that no favor- able opportunity presented itself for his_retirement.”” However, “the state of his health now is such that he had to resign, regardless of the effect upon the fortunes of the govern- ment.” Some trepidation is felt in editorial columns as to what that effect may be. As the Manchester Union savs, he “was steering Britain on a course that made for world sta- billty,” and the paper “looks with alarm” upon any move which might threaten that course, To this attitude the Grand Rapids Herald replies that however great the loss “of a valuable personality,” the change of leadership from Law to Baldwin entails “no damage to the policies” which Law has established. ©On_ the other hand the Roanoke World News feels that “although the tranquil, steady-going Bonar Law was a welcome relief from the restiess, Says Courts Here Move Laggardly To the Editor of Tha star: The inefficiency of our judicial sys- tem, as evidenced in the long delays in the enforcement of our oriminal laws, is a disgrace to the District of Columbia, and is more responsible than anything else for the rampant lawlessness of the city. When the law is weakly enforced the guarantees of order fall—as they seem to have done in Washington— for it is more by the cer swiftness than by the The esterday that L ygo, who Tnurdered Mrs, Emily Falthful in her home In this city over three years ago. and was but recently convicted and sentenced to be hanged, has Dbeen tierky Llovd George. a relief which was just what England needed. yet “the rest cure is not a good thing tn Itak? indefinitely.” and “Mr. Law was lffl'klng in a certain vigor of which England stood in need.” Indeed. the jAkron Beacon-Journal believes that in the last few weeks of the Law ministry there were increasing signs that the thing was beginning to get away from him, and that serene seas were becoming choppy.” But since, as the Duluth Herald ra- mMArks. “no empire nowadays rests upon the shoulders of any one mun his retirement i= more to be regre:- ted on personal grounds than on political. and his suce ion by Stan- ley Baldwin. the Pittsburgh Sun thinks, “should bhe reassuring to world opinion.” Few men says t Brooklyn Eagie. “have risen to prom- inence in English public life in so short a time as Mr. Baldwin, and fewer still have Inspired so much confidence after brief terms in office " As the Richmond News-Leader. the Waterbury Republican and other papers point out. his American par- allel can be found in Secreta of the Treasury Mellon. for. the Waterbury paper says. “lifke Mr. Mellon, Mr. Baldwin won his laurels as an ag gressive. successful business man According to the Philadelphia Re:- ord “he represents what we call ‘big business'—coal. iron and railways.” and to the New York Evening World “it I8 significant that business ahil- itv and financial acumen have the call over a trained and experienced diplomat at a time when foreign af- fairs are at a critical stage.” for it suggests Britain's appreciation of change in emphasis in i 1 relations.” As a politician the Phila- delphia Public Ledger regards Bald- win as “more or less of an amateur.” and “it is possible that Lord Curzon, the Earl of Derhy, the Duke of Devonshire and others of the old wheelhorses of conservatism have forgotten more politics than he will ever know,” but ‘“considering that politics ix ‘one of the sore troubles of the British. this may be a help in- stead of a handicap.” Tn fact, “the gravest problem facing Great Britain today,” as the New York World sees them,’ “are those of finance and eco- nomics,” hence Mr. Stanley Baldwin is the logical choice” of a leader to meet those problems, for “if the con- servative government in any way has added to its prestige in the last six months it has been primarily in the conduct of its finances” by Mr. Bald- win as chancellor of the exchequer. If Curzon had been named, the Houston Chronjcle thinks “domestic affairs would have heen left to shift for themselves while England's for- eign_difficulties were ironed out.” and the Baltimore Sun agrees that “under Lord Curzon Rritish foreign policy would have been a much more ag- gressive and cxpensive matter than will be the case under the premier who has been chosen.” given a respite by Justice Bailey of the District Supreme Court until October 26, 1923, on account of the pendency of an appeal by Perrvgo to the Court of Appeals. The prob- ability is that another year will pass before the case is finally dis- posed of—making more than four vears since the commission of the crime. A painful contrast with the ministration of criminal justice in gland and even in some of our states. The fact that this case, like many others that have come under my ob- servation here. was not or could not be disposed of and the accused duly hanged within three to four months &t the farthest from the day he com- mitted the crime indicates a Jament- able state of deficiency in the admin- istration and enforcement of our criminal laws that argues badly for the future peace and good order of this community, and can but result in encouraging the criminal elements in the pursuit of their crimipal activi- ties. ALEXANDER §. LANIER.