Evening Star Newspaper, May 30, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR,| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘WEDNESDAY THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper {émpany Rukiness O T1ih St and Pe vanin Ave. RN e "l St 5t Chieago OMce: Tower Bulld Furopean Ofict: 10 Ttegent St.. London, Engiand Ed Tie Frening Star, with the Sunday morning edivion, Is delivered by carriers within the city Mt RO Cents per month: daily only nts per moath: Sumday only. 20 cents per month. Or- s may ne sent by mail. or telephone Main o0, Collection i eul of each month, Rate by .\llll—l"n)‘uhle in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday..1 vr., $8.40: 1 mo., 7 only 11 vr $6.005 1 mo.; 50c oniy. 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ Daily Traily Sunday . All Other § Dailv and Sunda il only nday only : 1 mo.. $5¢ $7.00: 1 mo.. K 2.00; 1 mo. of the Associated Press, Press is exclusively entitled republication of all mews dis. otherwise credited 1 news pub. pubtication of Membey The Assoc use < vredited to 1t or 0 tiis paper and also the rights of Memorial Day. Despite the disttaction of preparing | for a vast throng of to wesemble here with o testival occasion. W today wio visitors who ave Vi fow days for ashington turns to those they’ a an occasion of devo their live whe to its annual service dicd Memorial fixed institution. tion to the that the fered and principl endeavors on tion stability have for 1 day country loved has become who might sacriticed to the republic men live suf- maintain the and whose of he present govern- nation of occasion na- 1 need contributed to and strenath of the 1 that once a tivities of ordinary life in order that the nation’s thought may turn to this duty of remembrance. We upon the of existence. Senti- is not suppressed. 1 {s itself upon every appropri During the great war it rose often above the surface of busi- ness and gave inspivation to the deeds of valor that brough viory 1o American wrms abroad. is meet vear the ac are a husy people. intent practical affairs ment. however, fe accast n. fice t sacri and cansed the purse strings of the people to iy open and the funds neces: to maintain the great campaign to flow fnto the Treasury. Tt sent overseas a tremendous army, and it kept the naval forces on the seas to thwari the stratagems of the enemy. Sentiment today, the highest and most enduring sentiment of all of which human nature is capable. 1t is the sentiment of gratitude for those wio suffered d died that liberty <hould not perish from the earth. and that the American flag should remain afloat, for so many vears stood before the world he. highest expression of freedom and democracy. Tn the numerous cemeteries of this land lie a geeat army of men whose names are scrolled as martyrs to the cause of American national life. of them died in battle, others of dis erec and still others passed away after vtetory had been wop, secure in the beaceful ways of life. At one time or another they wore the uniform of the country. mustered under the flag, and those who survived the struggles in which they were enzaged returned to civilian life and did their part in the work of making America great through the arts of peace. Now on their graves flowers are ently placed and flags arve plant- rules as reve ed to mark them as the heroes of the | past. a great army of them. a siient guard of honor. The national spirit is strengthened by these devotions their memors. —_———————— There is never a time when the old Political are giving enough to prevent some- hody from calling tor a third party. The time has long past since the pro- hibi party was regarded as about the third party the country organizations satisfaction on only needed —_——————— Like many another big man, the late Joseph W. Folk is the subject of sin-{ cere culogy from many people who antagonized him during his life. Historic Pennaylvania avenue is to he the scene of a big parade without the slizhtest suggestion of politics in it. ————————— Ruhr Reds Beaten. Fears of a general ved revolt in Ger many and possibly other YBurope, aroused by the prevalence of communist disturbances in the Ruhr cities, have heen allayed by the sub sidence of the troubles. The strike of the nietal workers, involving about 500.000 men. which was one of the causes of this uprising. has been set- tled. "The forces of order have at all points held the rioters in chec though with a loss of about fifty lives all told in various encounters. Peaceful conditions will probably be tickly restored. Thus passes in in the once in the red menace It has developed the armistice, ching a point of greatest danger to the political stability of Germany in the Nparticide revolt, headed by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. Un- auestional uprisings are Rus- sian inspir at least are due to the influence of the same forces that Irought about the bolshevik revolu- tipn. 1t would appear, however, that Germany cannot be stampeded into In the first place the people of that country are too intellj- zent. Again, despite all its troubles, the government at Berlin is repre- sentative of the majority of the peo- ple. Conditions in. Germany are mnot favorable to radicalism, which remains rmany. several 1 s since communism. the resort of a small minority of :he] discontented - This situation in the Ruhr was par-} ticularly difficult because of the divi- sion of authority between the French and Germans. Beriin contended that thescommunists were stimulated by the French. Paris, on the other hand, asserted that they were being secretly entouraged by ”the German govern- ment. In all likelihood they were act- ing strictly on their own, seeking to ...May 30, 1923 itor' sade by carriers at the | be suspended | symbel of the nation that has Some { lands in ' tions to effect a seizure of power. But their move was futile, was, In fact, doomed to defeat. For France could not posibly afferd to let communism | guin a hesaway i the Buhr with the { possibility of a sympéthetic movement {in France itself on the part of the radi- cal elements there. who. it is known, lare. though a small minority, alert to 'm,n an anti-government movement. The French ministry has scored a pronounced victory at Paris in obtain- ling a vote of 305 to 67 in the chamber of deputies to ratify the Poincare pilicy of economic pressure. This vic- tory was the more marked because it | was scored against the Clemencists. j Who advocate applying the treaty of Versaflles by sending a huge army inte the Kubr with the arms in au- {thority to suppress all opposition. Aligned with the Clemencists in the | deputies were the radical socialists, who ok the government with a divectly opposed to that of mili- measures. With this tremendous to sustain him Poincave will | ibtless conthue along the line now laid down. despite the fact that thus fur but small vesults have been gained. ————— Henry Ford. Another outburst “of Ford-for-Presi- dent propaganda, like an exploding | star-bomb. is illumining the political Widespread publicity' for the industrial magnate, suggesting his candidacy for the presidential nomina- tion, is furnished in the columns of the daily press. and for the hour he is the most talked-about man in politics. The immediate point under discus. sion is the question. will he seek the nomination at the hands of one of the ! old parties or head an independent or ganization to be created in his behalf? {HO\I) of the old parties fear his entry {into the primaries, and would probably e glad to see him run as an inde- pendent. although some politicians in each party fear that as an independent | candidate he might develop dangerous strength. William R. Hearst has de- clared that if Mr. Ford will take a | third-party no.numnion he will support { bim. Democrats and republicans of | | prominence have recently said that he { would be a formidable candidat®. In Dearborn, Mich., Mr. Ford's home town, there is an organization called {the Ford-for-President Club. Dis-| | patches from Detroit today quote an of that organization as saying |that if the American Economic League. now holding a national conference in Omatia, fails to assume leadership of | national third-party campaign for 1 Ford the Dearborn club “is prepared | to go it alone.” Discussing Ford's’ political afiiia- tions, this officer said that, despite his running for the senatorship on the democratic ticket in 1918, there was no question in the minds of his backers in the Dearborn club that he is a re- publican at heart, and that in a biogra iphy said to have been approved by i Mrs. Ford he was classed as a repub- i ! i | ! { firmament. { | ! 1 [ ord for the present is sitting {tight and refusing to comment on the | storm of specuiation and gossip raging | iabout him. He is described as holding [ that inasmuch as no responsible politi- | cal organization has indicated a desire to have him as a candidate it is not i necessary for him to speak. This is a { position of political strategy, the poli {ticians say. Meanwhile he has the { politicians both parties gue: {ing und worrying. while he is com- { Placent. He is nof losing anything by the publicity. whichever way the vane | turn: i in u s ——————— { A New York dispatch states that a { delegation of members of the National | Woman's Party demands of Commis- sioner Enright that in future raids in- { volving both sexes the names of men jas well as of women be taken. In fact, | they demand a “single standard” in raids, everything else. How about seats in the patrol wagon? as in | ———————————— Their firmness of tone makes it seem | | possible that the Chinese brigands, if | { they could be to some extent reformed, | might establish a more veliable form | of government than any China has | enjoved in some time. ! —————————— ! While in Seattle President Harding | will attend a hoys’ picnic given by the ! Elks. There can be no .suspicion of | political ‘mativesin this engagement. | None of the hoys will be 0ld enough to | ; vote for several vears to come. In certain circles of society. it is be- | | coming constantly more difficult for a | {man to have a love affair without pro- | i viding “ad” copy for the manager of | some musichl show. i i ] It is estimated by James A Stillman | | that he has paid about a quarter of a | { million dollars for an exceedingly un- | { profitable style of publicity. ! —————————————— Fair Food Prices. 1t seems safe to set it down { there is a marked improvement i ! Washington restaurant situation. The indications are that fair prices will} prevail in the public eating places, and that the word “fair”” means that prices will be reasonable to Shriners, to all the other visitors to Washington: and to the regular patrons of the peStau- irants. { There seems to be less fear on the !part of the cafe men that a great ! crowd will bring bankruptey to them, {and they appear to have taken on hope | that an increase in their business may fmean a larger profit than they are | making with their normal trade. Com.- ! mittees representing the Shrine have | made a survey. and it is reported that they have found that restaurant prices will be fair. It is even said that many Dlaces, especially those that have been established for some time, will not raise prices at all, and will take their chance on feeding three, four or five times the number of people they serve now and yet keep out of the receiver's hands. One of the news stories of the mo- ment is that special agents of the De- partment of Justice are investigating the restaurant situation, and that should they be able to get evidence of a criminal conspiracy to gouge the Shriners the facts will be immediately laid before the grand jury. Tt is not | likely that evidence of a criminal con- spiracy will be found. If the cafe men considered it right and proper—for themselves—to add 5 and 15 cents to that the i | | i plaint is now specifically made savor | building. | How the whispering branch delights would probably not enter into a !‘gan. spiracy” to do it, and even if theyl conspire it is not ‘likely thac they would leave evidence of such a con- spiracy lying around on the lynch counters and tables. They would pim- ply raise prices because the incrigse in the crowds of people needing food -would enable them to do it. 1t is the weight of opinion among the local Shrine authorities that some increase in restaurant prices is justifi- able., The crowd comes suddenly, eats furiously for a few days and then vanishes. The cafe men must spend some money in meeting a sudden in- crease in trade which lasts but a few days. A good deal of new equipment must be hought, and the crowd does not stay long enough to pay for the extra cups, plates and things of that kind if the old rates are charged. The cooks and other employes, faced. with more than their usual work, and know- ing that shekels will be dumped into the cash register, dentand twice and hree times their usual pay. ———————— Rodeo Features. Protests have been entered with the | Commissioners against the practice of | certain inbumane features of the| “rodeo” or “wild west show” that is! now opening in this city as an item of 1 i H The particular practiceg complained of lave the stimulation of the “wild horses” used in the broncho-busting feats, and the “bull-dogging” trick of throwing steers by biting their nether lips. It has been stated on behalf of the man- agement that these features will not Dbe permitted in the program. 1t will be hoped that this assurance will be observed, and that the program at this performance will not offend iny these respects. The “rodeo.” which is a characteristic western form of en- tertainment, has elicited the opposition of many people, not merely because of the specific items of cruelty which have in the past marked it, but be- cause of the unfortunate stimulus given to the vouthful spirit of adven- ture by the displays of shooting and rough tactics. Records show that fol- lowing every such exhibition in & com- munity casualties occur as juveniles attempt to imitate the daring deeds of performers. Bullfighting has never gained a foot- hold in this country as a sport, for the reason primarily that the American sense of fair play has been revolted by the spectacle of a form of public en- tertainment in which animals have been wantonly slaughtered. often with torturing agony. In these western shows, however, there has been a close approach to the game of the southern countries. The tricks of which com- strongly of the cruelties of the bull ring. It is desirable to keep alive the tra- ditions of the frontier west and to pre- serve mementos of a phase of Ameri- | can life that is rapidly passing. But{ the tragedies and cruelties of that; phase of life should not be reproduced, | especially for commercial profit. In| this Washington show it is to be as- | sumed that offensive and needlessly cruel features will not cccur.- It mi stated that close watch will be kept upon the performances to insure that they are not allowed. { e i The Duke of Leinster declares that, | to him, the two great symbols of Amer- ica are Henry Ford and the Flatiron Too bad he missed Babe i 1 i | Ruth. ———————— The Chinese, once noted for their mildness of mood and high sense of honor, are beginning to develop rough methods in dealing with foreigners. —————— The ex-kaiser's interest in religious matters should be helpful to him, even if his comments prove to have little interest for the general public. ———e———————— Turkey will naturally resent the fact | that Greece chooses to spend money for an army instead of paying it over in indemnity. —————— In certain circles of world states- manship the great problem continues to be: What is America going to do with all her money? i } i i i ————————— Deports, as well as imports and ex- ports, are now claiming the earnest interest of British statesmanship. | SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Summer Resort “Come on. fellers! Let's go swimmin" How the old-time ery Echoes in the recollection, \Spite of years that fly! How the summer breeze invites us! | : 1 us Through the window all creation Seems to breathe that invitation Of the days gone by. “Come on, fellers! Let's o swimmin Ah, "tis far away. That old nook where merry truants Shouted in their play® How maturely and demurely You may journey. quite securely, Where each mighty, murmuring breaker Mentions' to some ticket taker ‘What you ought to pay i ‘Come on, fellers. Let's go swimmin'!" Those were playdays rare. . Naught of pleasure that awaits us Can with them compare. ANl this poor perfunctory splashing; All these modes so trimly dashing Please alone as they remind us Of the days w2 left behind us Thoroughnes: When you stahts in doin’ sumpin’ You mus’' do de bes you kin; You mus’ give it yoh attention An’ declare you's boun’ to win Yoh conscience’s approval As & mighty earnest man. 'Stid of bein’ just contented To remain an’ also ran. An’ when de sun is droppin’ Out vonhder, 'crost de bay. An’ 1 takes an inventory Of de doin’s of de day, I swells my chest wif pleasure: 1 is feeling proud to know Dat’s as fine job o loafin? jeventful {the jand ' during his WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS || [Pof BY FREDERI Joseph Wingate Folk, who will be buried in his native Tennessee this week, s acclalmed at Cairo as one of the heroes of Egyptian fndependence. In August, 1919, Folk, as chief coun- sel for the Egyptian delegation then stationed in Washington, made a powerful argument on its behalf be- fore the Senate committee on foreign relations. The plea for Egyptian recognition did not avall, but its logic later became the basis “Young Egypt's” successful negolia- tions with the Milner commission of the British government. nation of the British over Egypt in March. 1922, was the result. Had Folk been a European instead of an Amer- ican, he might have died “Folk Pasha.” Mahmoud Pasha, the bril- liant young Egyptlan. who enacted the role of Benjamin Franklin at our court in 1920, made his headquarters at Folk's offices. One of Folk's last big activities was associated with the minimum wage litigation before the protectorate |United States Supreme Court. * ok Kok “Flashes of Action,” the superbly realistic films of the American Army in actual battle in France, are to be preserved for the benefit of posteri {the Shrine convention entertainment.|ky a process specially devised at the fiims have | bureau of standards the been treated with. a fluid which will make them eternally indelible. The offspring of doughboys an eon of generations hence, will be able to envisage the scenes 'of glory enacted in Belleau wood and the Ar- gonne in 1918. Millions of feet of dim, made under fire by United States Signal Corps camera men. are in ex- ister They are stored in specially constructed fireproof vaults at Wash- ington barracks. PR o teginald McKenna, who Prime’ Minister Baldwin's of the excheqper, is, like America’s ecretury of the Treasury, a banker by profession. After filling the same office in the Asquith liberal cabinet in 1915 and 1916, McKenna became chair- man of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, Britain's biggest finan- cial institution. The bringing of Mc- Kenna into the Baldwin government attaches to it another British states- man who knows the United States well. Only a vear and a half ago Mc- Kenna visited this country on busi- ness for his bank, and was in inti- mate touch with leaders in New York and Washington, He wus first lord of the admiralty before the war, and, because the next official in authority was named MacNamara, it was a mu- sic hall joke in London that the rulers of the King's na-vee were “the two Macs.” ix be chaneellor to When Secretary Weeks reached California last week, one of his first acts was to extend greetings to Lieuts. Kelly and MacReady, the Army airmen who made the New York-to-California non-stop flight Mr. Weeks expressed cordial > ¥ {Viscount Maidstone Wife, Visit BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Although Viscount dstone, who has just arrived in this country from England on board the Majestic with his American wife, daughter of An- thony Drexel of Philadelphia, won the distinguished service order. along with other military honors, as well as the rank of colonel by his services at the front in France and on the coast of Flanders during the war, he is essentially the firm of Kitcat & Aitken, one of leading houses of Bishopgate street ‘While he has been very suc in his commercial career, it cessity rather than inclination “tul that {caused him to have recourse to life in the city. For his father's earl- doms of Winchilsea and of Notting- ham-—there are two of them—while ancient, are extremely impoverished. through no fault of their present holder, but in consequence of the well nigh insane extravagance of the tenth earl, who was, in hiy young- er days, one of the boon companion of George IV, when regent. and fig ures as such in many cotemporary memoirs. - The confusion in which he left his affairs at his death was increased by his elder son, the eleventh earl, so renowned for his wit and for his classical lore—probably the last peer to indulge in the old-fashioned prac- tice of interlading his speeches in the house of lords with apt quota- tions from Horace. He had, ho ever, no business sense whatsoever. liftime the family fortunes went from bad to worse, the ruin being, so to speak, completed by his only son, the late Lord Maid- stone, who pre-deceased him after a most riotous career, which included enlistment as a private in the army and repeated appearances in the court of bankruptey, The Horace quoting earl was suc- ceeded by one of his half brothers. who endeavored in vain to restore the. family fortunes by associating himself with the unsavory promoter, Terah Hooley, sharing the latter’ disasters. The latter was until re | cently quite frequently in jail. * ¥ * ¥ ‘The present and thirteenth Earl of Winchilsea, who is likewise the eighth earl of Nottingham, is another of the halt brothers of the Horace quoting earl, and is a very useful citizen. and { president of the National Agricultural Union of Great Britain. For a time he was,much in the public eve in connection with his model farm at holme priory, in Lincolnshire. he experimented with foreign jStops to determine upon their avail-| bility for adoption by the British farm But he was unable to make the place pay. and with the terrible in- { crease of imposts of every kind, espe- cially on landed property. following the great war, he was obliged to not only abandon the enterprise, but like- wise to place Haverholme Park on the markei. As I have not heard of its sale, 1 presume it still remaing in his possession It is an estate of some 4,000 acrei was founded in 1137 as a dependency of the celebrated Fountains Abbey, and, on the confiscation of the prop- erty of the church by Henry VIII, s granted by that monarch to Ed- sard. Lord Clinton, and finally came, through marriage, into the posses- sion of the ninth Barl of Winchilsea. It is a very beautiful place, the an- clent priory standing in a park of nearly 1,000 acr and includes among its’ featu superb yew hedges, dating from ante-reformation times and planted by the monks, and algo_a splendid_herony, the largest in the United Kingdom, which has been flourishing since the old monas- tic days. There is excellent fishing in the River Slea, which trayerses the park, beneath the trees of which there roams one of .the finest herd of deer in England. = As_Haverholme forms part of the entailed estates of the family, the old -earl had to obtain the consent of his son before placing it on the market. The fact of ‘the matter is that neither Lord Maidstone, and still less his American wife, care much for Bnglish country life. The latter is too slow for Lady Maidstone, who prefers the social restlessness of the world of fashien in_London, Paris | and _oi. the ‘French Riviera, or else of | The termi- | though it be ! regret great | a business man, | and has long been a member of the| London Stock Exchange, a partner in | was ne- | IC WILLIAM WILE that the government officially can take no rcognizance of their epoch- making feat. The lieutenants under the law can't.even be promoted. The most they can expect is a letter of congratulation from the Secrelary of War. Republics would often appear to be less ungrateful if regulations were ia tithe less hidebound. * % % % of America’s veteran consuls general, Alexander M. Thackara of Paris, is just concluding a month's leave in the United States. He came home for a reunion with his two daughters who live in New York and his <on, who is in business in Buenos Aires and joined the family while the consul general was here. Mr. Thac- kara married the gifted daughter of Gen. Wiliam Tecumseh Shermari, He himself was destined for the sea, having been graduated at Annapolis n 1369 and served in the Nuvy until 882. President McKinley sent Thac- kara to Hordeaux as consul general in 1897 and he has been in the foreign service uninterruptedly ever sin He was consul general at Berlin be- fore the war, and at Paris throughout the wir, where he rendered eminent service.' Though seventy-five vears old, Mr. Thackara is as vigorous a servant as Uncle Sam possesses any- where in the world. * Admiral the Irr the fleet number of Current frontal attack on America’s sub- marine policy. He says that propa- ganda tales of German U-boat atroc- One * W William pressible,” teur “Billy him in 8. Sims— they ¢ History “sadly misunderstood by American people.” Legitimately use “s Sims thinks the U-boat for th Most part was, he calls the sub- marine an indispensable weapon of modern sea . Therefore, the re- {doubtable admiral holds that we made a bad tveaty at Washington when we agreed to restrict the oper- {ations of “subs.” The Sims article at the conference to outlaw marine by statemen the official records. The admiral doesn't think public opinion “oblige us to agdhere to the spirit of the treaty—at the cost of being dominated by a predatory enemy.’ £ ox % eyes are turned toward Jowa, where there is a congressiona by-election on June 4 to Ml the seat held by Horace M. Towner, governor of Porto Ric district has been heavily republican the sub- s unsupported by Politicans’ is i H determined attempt to capture it by backing J. P. Doughton. an out- spoken progr Brookhart complexion. Doughton ran against Judge Towner in November. 2! 1d brought down the normal G, 0. . majority to unprécedentedly low figures. This time he is thought to have a chance of winning. Demo- cratic national to consider it a keynote Vi Doughton brings homé the lican nominee is aservative. (Copyright. 1923, tory it bacen. Judge With American ing in United States "hus, last year -« accompanied th Duke and Duchess of Suthe land on a big same shooting expedi tion in British East Africa, starting from Mombasa, on the east coast of the dark continent, and returning by way of the Nile—that is to say, down the river by way of Khartum, As- siout, iro and Alexandria—and | bringing home many tfophies of the chase of big game that had fallen 110 her rifle L ; | . [ * x x Maidstone married it that her parents, would furnish the money needed to repair Kirby Hall the wonderful ancestral country place of the lords of Winchilsea in Northamptonshire. Indeed, so thor- oughly understood was this hat Lord Winchilsea transferred the onu- tire property to his son. Her parents, the Anthony Drexels, paid several visits to Northamptonshire for the sake of making a careful inspection of the property The money, however, was not forth- coming. Lady Maidstone, contrary to expectations, received no dowry, but was forced to content herself ‘with an allowance—ve liberal, it s true—from her father. further com- plications resulting when her par- ents quarreled and ended by divcre- ing one another. Lord Maidstpne thereupon returned Kirby Hall! to his father, with the remark that neither he nor his wife possessed the | means to restore its former glories llo the grand old place. It dates from the Tudors, several subsequent additions having bzen made by Inigo Jones in the reigi’ of Charles I. It originally belonged to the Earls of Stafford: was purchased during the reign of Queen Elizabeth by Sir Christopher Hatton of Holden- by, who is_described in the deed of sale & ‘captain of the Queen Majesty's Guard.” He died as lord high chancellor, and Ki eventually passed fo the I Winchi through the marriage of the Hon. Anne Hatton, daughterand heiress of Christopher Viscount Hat- ton. to Daniel Finch, the seventh Earl of Winchilsea and the second Earl of ttingham. e ! When Lady was anticipated now divorced, i | i | | { ! Considerable damage having lLeen done by fire to the mansion, the im- poverishment of the Earls of Win- {chilsea prevented ils restoration, or even its maintenance. The roofs were allowed to fall in: the windews robbed not only of their glass, but even of their casings; the doors ‘re- moved from their hinges; while ivy, S0 picturesque and yet so promojive of disintegration of buildings, was allowed to have unchecked growth. In short, the place was allowed to fall into rack and ruin. 3 Lord Winchilsea had still a further country seat at Burley, on the nill, which was almost wholly destroyed by a fire several vears ago while oc- cupied on lease by Capt. the Rt. Hon. Frederick Guest, M. P., former minister of the air, and by his Ameri- can wife, Amy, daughter of Henry Phipps of New York and Pittsburgh. Burley on the Hill figures in th, history of England by Macauld¥, who relates that while the festivities were in progress there in homor of the marriage of Lady Mary Finch, daugh- ter of Lord Winchilsea, to George Saville, son. of the Marquis of Hali- fax, the latter, one of the minisrers of the crown, was suddenly taken ill in London, where he had been de- tained by affairs of state. Informed that his malady was mor- tal and his demise was imminent, he declined to allow any news theteof to be conveyed to his son, lest it should mar the wedding rejoicements at Burley on the Hill, and breathed his last jn London while the mar< riage ceremony was being performed in Rutlandshire. Lord and Lady Maidstone have three_children—a boy of eleven and two little girls. Lady Maidstofe's father makes his home in Paris, and her mother, who since her diverce has become the wife of Lieut. Col. Brinsley Fitzgerald, resides in Lon- don. The colonel won the Order of the Bath by services at the front in France during the great war, has a very pretty place in Berkshire and i8 a son of the Iate Sir Peter Fitz- gerald of Valencia Island. off the coant of Kerry, twentieth hereditary: Knight of Kerry, one of the mos Lanci nd histuric of thles .of ! 1l geriously intending to go into the is out in the June|race and actually intends to seek the with a | nomination.” ities have caused the submarine to|democratic committee last Saturday, is " ihe | auoted as expressing the. opinion that % | nomination. Insinuates that the British attempted [should he decide to run as such. would | bility 1| which resulted in such a close mar- leaders are prepared { moye. i i | tics at Large sy R o MESSENGER During the past few days there has Leen a notable increase in the dis- cussion of Henry Ford 'as a possible candidate for the presidential nom- ination in a vein of seriousness which is classed asgindicating that political leaders of importance realize that he is 4 factor to be reckoned with in presidential politics in 1924. The dis- cussion as it progresses does not al- locate Mr. Ford as a possible candi- date on the democratic ticket, but takes into account the possibility of his running as an independent can- didate. The opinfon is held, how- ever, by many prominent democrats that if Mr. Ford should set out with the announced determination to seek the nomination of the democratic party, his chances of obtaining it are as good as or better than those of any candidate now in the field. They udmit that as the candidate of the democratic party in the election he would attract a large independent vote gs well as votes from the re- publican party which would not be negligible. One development of the week in the Ford crop of rumors, reports and speculations was a special dispatch to the New York Herald from Wichita, Kan., which quoted a citi- ben as saying, “I was talking with Edsel Ford just before 1 left for Wichita. Edsel says his father is ] Judge Willlam Connally, demo- cratic national committeeman _from | Michigan, who attended the meeting of the executive committee of the national Mr. Ford will not file for the democratic * E % William R. Hearst, in an interview in New Orleans, announced that he wauld support Mr, Ford as an inde- pendent candidate for the presidency, 1t n increasing is noted that there is volume of dizcussion of the possi- of a new party movement in 1824, outcroppings of suggestion of a third-party movement. This is in- direct contrast with the situation six months ago. After the elections of last fall gin between the democrats and re- | publicans, expressed in the repre- now | sentation of the two parties in the While the|next House and Sena‘e, the consensus of opinion among demoeratic and re- publican leaders was that there would for vears, democrats are making & pe no room for a third party in 1924; that the two old parties, looking forward to an epochal contest for the ive of something like|presidency and the Congress in 1924, with the prize fairly open to each. would close up their ranks and go to the mat with each other alone. gns of an impending change in the spirit of the voters have been apparent for the past two months or Evidences of dissatisfaction with the two old parties have been observed by thoughtful politicians and expressions of the same have been uttered by men who are in the political limelight. There have been indications of a progressive outbreak in_the republican party against the old-line policies and methods, going #s far as to well nigh amount to| threats of radicalism. ~As to the re- | publican progressives, no political | leader believes that faction intends to { nominate a third party ticket in event that the republican platform fails to be as radical as they desire. But in such a case, if a third party should be et with an attractive figure at its liead, when it comes to election day in next November—well, “that is something else yet,” it is said. TR If Mr. Ford should run on the demo- cratic ticket or as an independent candidate with a distinctively Ford platform, he would, the politicians say, present the spectacle of the! richest man in the world appealing to the class which is supposed to most bitterly oppose plutocracy. ok At the annual session of the Inde- pendent Order of B'rith Abraham in Atiantic City last Monday a resolution was unanimeusly adopted declaring “that the delegates assembled con- demn Henry Ford for his attitude against the Jews as un-American and that his candidacy for the presidency is an_insult to the fundamentalg upon which this country is based.” The resolution also accused Mr. Ford of being the financial backer of the Ku Klux Klan. The acting grand master ; of the Jewish order said the order would joln with the Catholics in fighting Ford, i The National Monetary Assgociation. composed of a group of economists, has invited Mr. Ford to speak at its annual convention in New York June and present his views on finance. The president of the association de- clared that while it was not designed to give the impression that Mr. Ford's fnancial views were approved by the ussociation, ‘‘we do wish to have a full discussion of the money problem and would like to have his views. “He will be asked to speak on the stabilization of price levels and infl tion and deflation with their bearing upon the present building trade diffi- culty i | * ok kK Mr. Ford has at times given evi-| dence of holding some unigue lndl individual views on finance. If he can find it convenient to engage m! the economic discussion at the coming meeting, and further elucidate his opinions and policies, it would attract increasing attention to his suggested presidential candidacy. * Kok ok Further entries and withdrawals of candidates for the nomination for the United States senatorship in Minne sota serve to draw attention to the stirring political contest scheduled to come off in that state between now and July 16, the date of the special election called by Gov. Preus. The primaries for the selection of candi- dates will be held June 18, leaving but a month for the campaign. That consideration has caused Representa- tive Knutson to drop out of the race for the republican nomination. At the same time former Gov. Burnquist an- nounced his candidacy on the repub- lican ticke Halvor Steenerson, for twenty years a representative in Congress, also filed as a republican candidate for the senatorship nomi- nation. Gov. Preus announced sev- eral days ago. Gov. Preus will be regarded as ap- pealing to the “regular”’ republicans of the Knute Nelson type. He will be fought, if nominated, Ly Senator La Follette and others of the La Fol- lette faction. The senator plans going into Minnesota from his own state of Wisconsin to urge the election at the special election of whoever runs as a candidate of the radical vote in the state. * ok kK The democratic national committes, in the ourrent output of its publicity bureau, claims that the irreconcilable republican senators on:rolm: Presi- dent Harding’s suggestion of Ameri- can adhesion to the Permanent Court of International Justice are trying to scare the President out of vigorously pushing the project in his speeches made on his trip to the Pacific coast, and adds thet “there is evidence, neu- tral observers of this republican row believe, that the irreconcilables have made some headway with their plan of ;ntimidatifg Mr. Harding. The statement quotes from Senator Bo- rah's speech at St. Louis and from interviews given out by Senator Moses on his return from Europe and Graws the inference that they have cauwsed the President to limit his jan | whereby CAPITAL K E BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Secretary of Labor Davis telis the President that the conspiracy of na- tions Is eyen worse, fn his estimation, than the league, for we ars sur- rounded by nations determined to overthrow our protection, o far as our immigration laws are concerned. He declares that the situation is a “national scandal” wherein “boot- leggers line the Canadian and Mexi- can boundaries, and pirates threaten coasts. These “‘bootleggers” are not the old-fashioned kind. bent on selling moonshine liquor, but, instead, they are sneaking aliens across the border, contrary to our.immigration laws. The Secretary confesses that guard- ing the borders against illegal immi- gration has broken down with the present number of guards. He has sent the commissioner of immigration and ihe assistant secretary of the Department of Labor to Canada to negotiate an “armistice” with the Canadian government. : o If it be true that Canada is adver- tising to secure more citizens from all parts of Europe, she is as much inter- ested as ourselves in arranging steps she may hold them from escaping to the United States. 1t ig #aid that the agents who aid smuggling these immigrants across the border are working on a com- mission basis * ¥ ecretary of State Hughes is pessi- mistic of the possibility of controliing narcotics, unless the countries pro- ducing them are willing to co-oper- ate. He says that there seeins to be no way to keep the smuggling down since the drugs are so compact that they are easily concealed. This appears to he one instance where fnternationalism 18 the ‘only hope of rellef. But. asks the Secre- tary, how will England, with its India poppy enterprise, be induced to gojoperate, when it refuses even to aid us in stopping the smuggling of intoxicants? S Just as we were getting ready to accept the theory that a.new ice age is approaching. as some scientists have warned the world, wave arrives. However, insist that there are an _approaching ice * % the heat scientists indications of cap extending down from the north pole, as it has | done, at Jeast three times since geo- logic records began. Icebergs are now floating farther south In the Atlantic than usual. One appeared recently in the midst of a group of icebergs that was larger than had ever heen seen by the ship captain who reported it. He esti- mated that it extended 'above the water 120 feet, which means that what was under the surface reached down over.500 feer. Such _masses of ice cool the ocean for miles around. and that, in turn, cools the air which blows over the land and sea. Capt. Kriebahm's report that this big berg “did not throw out any cold air” must be taken to mean that the breeze was blowing in an opposite direction, for ice is ice * % x x It i= scientifically established, and is conceded both by the Department |of Justice and the’ Veterans' Bureau, that there are thousands of patriotic veterans who are in jails or peniten- tiaries, suffering under sentences for crimes for which they are not men- tally capable of heing responsible, Has anybody heard of any petition being circulated and signed by prom- inent citizens, asking clemency for them? _The Department of Justice and the Veterans' Bureau are uniting to check up the cases and see that simple justice is meted out to thein, according to their mental conditions. But. sentimental clemency! Has anybody asked for it? _A few dayvs ago the story was pub- lished of a younz man in the Virginia penitentiary convicted of bigamy. wha escaped during the war and made his way to Canada. Thefe he enlisted as ‘a private in the Canadian army. He went across the seas’and fought so_intelligeitly that he rose to the rank of colonel. He was severely wounded in battle, but after EDITORIAL D Work of Presbyterian Assembly Is Indorsed. The various decisions of the Presby- terian General Assembly are the sub- ject of varied comment by the editors of the country, especially those which had to do with the activity of William Jennings Bryan and the con- troversies that followed. The Newark News is convinced “the church has a great service to perform that calls for all its energies. 1Its field is the moral and spiritual life of the indi- vidual and the community where its | leadership is welcomed and desired. When it goes into other fields to pick a quarrel it only weakens itself and wastes its strength.” Agreeing that on the face of things this is true, the Philadelphia Bulletin appears con- vinced “tolerance of liberalism has given such encouragement to radical iconoclasts that there is a realization that old faiths, old principles, old constitutions must be fought for if they are to be preserved. The spirit of the assembly in declaring faith worth having is worth fighting for against the challenge of doubt will inspire a sympathetic response from those in other circles of interest who are fearful of th¢ passing of old anchorages of principle and belief.” The part William Jennings Bryan played in the early proceedings of the aseembly, although he was tem- porarily defeated in some of his aspi- rations and “knocked out” in his cam- paign for moderator and later chair- man of the most powerful of the com- mittees, is declared by the Grand Rapids Herald to suggest that "Eryan is a great Ameriean who holds a place close to the hearts of the mass of Americans greater in defeat than are many other men in victory. The big thing 1s that this splendid fighting, unconquerable leader, a man of mas- terful talents and tremendous elo- quence, is making rellgion the domi- nant thought of a life which is still richly active and powerfully influen- tial.” To this, however, the Minneapo- lis Tribune suggests “the Bryan for- mula was highly controversial in its potentialities. For the broad purpose ‘which he seeks to serve Mr. Bryan has the general approval and sym- pathy of the church of which he is a member, not f{o speak of other church but there is a sharp di- vergence of feeling and judgment on the method he has chosen to serve the purpose. This purpose, we may say, is to maintain a cherishing regard for the Christian faith.” Even sharp- er is the comment from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, which asserts “gov- ernment is the Bryan shield and buckler. He -turns te the law in avery emergency. For individual gu- - L. two that a | years in hospital he recovered; He returned to the Virginia prisén’ = month ago to complete his terny. Fa=< there been any petition for his par don signed by prominent citizens? . * ok ox % Yet again there comes the dishour aging news that a peti heing ‘circulated among the nent people in Americ the'r support for the uncon ional release of fifty-two mien who were duly wer tenced for crimee of treason durine the war. No argument for clemenc i offered. exeept that the war over, 5 Why, ask the American l.eglomaires let 20,000 irrespons fer, in snite of the dehs of mpatitude for their heroic sacrific whitle the men who sougft to betray the Are subjecte now of sentimentality? h put this premium on treason?® P Some tre 00l Washingion are urging form in the methnds of teaching b the greater use of pfetures in place of text hooks. Assistant Supt. Kra mer advocates the mse of motion nl tures combined with lectures hyv the teacher. Th most prom! to get omicia radical re i method is many times herts than book le: g, saw. the edy tors, as it not only vhes the cific lessons of the dav. but it tra the nowers of quick observation, i at of granter. tha fixed lesson. They declare th | brain comprehends what it sees y | times more strongly than wl {merely hears. It remembers het o Thomas, A. Edisen testif he urged this vi ing method unon the commissioner of education n the opposed to encourag of 1t rhe ivears a 1 tear) but nothing was done cause schoolbook interests a competite books movie interests argue the movement, fearing tha w take the edge off the regular moy The kind of films wanted for scl work are ‘ot now produced—films demonstrating scientific experiment botanical growth. industries nd sources of foreign lands ot dramas, trife to life * % L In the course of a few government films rences in nati { come availabie. of act 1 history How, of the Of nota the development regions—Alaska and the Amer desert! And the developmer by of machinery and n e interesting w world war! w wcts of new ican step dustrial lifet The commissioner 1 John T. Tigert, tells teachers to teu impartial truth about America not attempt to leave the i that Amerfca is always other countries always Some teachers. thereupon, the answer to .Pilate's | “What is truth>” ; Will they find the answer in ican history text beoks telling the revolution was “u justified”"—the tory argument at th time of the revolution and today that the Declaration of Independen was a plagiarism. as was also 1 Constitution—copics of English wi dom of ages prior? These patriotic teachers assert that Americans have waited long enough for the elimination of British propu- ganda from American text books slandering the fame of revolutionary leaders, declaring the war of s1 was “a mistake,” the Mexican war territory grab and nothing else: th the civil war was won by the north only because England helped the north against the cotton states? (') These teachers concede that thes should teach the truth. for the truth will save patriotism. while misshaped stories of alleged foreign leadershin after foreign superior ideals of 1lib erty. contrasting with American al leged pusillanimity. may make the rising generation apologetic for he ing American. Is there real danger of heing too patriotic toward Amnier iea? What is the sentiment Me- morial day orator. (Copyright, 1923, IGEST ste of education prese right wrong de questi Amer | i i by P. V. Collins.) | He would suppress scientific teaching within the domain of his church the ukase of authority. He has confidence in truth. He trusts plicitiy in the force of law. Br: ism means the apotheosis of gover ment and the destruction of the dividual _morally and materially Yet the Bryan fight and the vario |actions of the General Assembl characterized by the Jersey Journal as “courageous well ax mely in taking a definite, clear-cut stand in an hour when some advo cates of expediency in the religious fleld are vielding to the temptation to dodge.’ Because the assemebly held “therr hall be no reinterpretation of relig- fous doctrine.” the New York Pos: insists “religion, in this view, comes perilously close’ to being a set of mathematical formulae. 1f Christ had taken the view of the Jewish cre that literalists of all ages have faker of the Christian creed there w have been no Christian creed. is a fatal course. If truth srow inside the church it will over the wall. A ant theology doe: thy religious life.” That there ix something to this argument is agreed to by the Colu | bus State Journal, which “the conservatives in any fleld of hu- man endeavor serve ax a brake, and brakes are highly essential to saf: Progress as we travel the intellectual roads. Butin the end the progressive always wins, for progress is the law of life. The cqnservative of today is the liberal of vesterday, the ortho doxy of this generation the hetero- doxy of the Jast” To which the Sioux City Journal adds “the closed mind is’ one opinionated, and i never has been popular in America Tn sharp contrast is the open mind one not only willing to receive other impressions. other views and otle: representations, as well as oth: facts, but eager to have them for thn sake' of their deepening, broadenin influence.” So far as the Baer resolution was concerned, the Louisville Post holds “it affords a guide for Presbyterian institutions, and the guide is one that can be adopted in the publfo school and the publio university. Certainly there i3 no excuse for an effort by educators to' use modern science ‘to establish a_materialistic philosophy of life’" "In an effort to clear up opinion concerning just what the ac tion of the assembly meant the Pittgburgh Chronicle-Telegraph points out “defeat of Mr. Bryan's propomal o prevent the teaching of the evolu- tion theory in Presbyterian colleges has been hailed as a victory for the progressives, while the success of the movement to censure the New York Presbytery in the Fosdick matter is regarded as a triumph for Mr. Bryau and his fellow fundamentalists. But the fact is two entirely differs questions pressed for answer. In botk matters the general assembly seems acted with entire con- an- Dealing with an entirely different matter, the Rochester Times-Unio warmly applauds the assembly action on the temperance- question; hold “it hag set a fine example to all citi- zens in asking all members of 1 Presbyterian .organization to sign 2 total abstinence pledge. _The Proshy- terianis have done well. ~ Let follow. law and make it easier for all to re- frain from drinking by removing ag -a8 posstble the-temptation.” . other: In the meantime -enforce lhz“. )