Evening Star Newspaper, May 31, 1923, Page 6

e e e———— _THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. . WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......May 31, 1823 *THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. in Ave. . New York Officy 150 St. Chicago Office: Tower Building. ‘Furopean 6 Regent St., London, England. The Evening St , #Aition, is delivered by carriers within the city #/at 80 cents per moath; dai month: Su ders may ve sent by m 5000. "~ Collection s ma each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c - Daly ‘only..-o-v...1yr., $8.00: 1 mo. 50c Sunday only. .1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Daily and Sinday..1 yr., $10.01 Dally only. . s7. Sunday only. 1 mo., $5¢ 1 mo., 60c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusirely entitled o the use for republication of all news dls- Jatches credited to it or sot otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein, All rights of publication of 18} rved. hes herein are To Make War Unlikely. ‘There should be no dissent in this tountry from President Harding’s *words at Arlington yesterday, when, addressing the assembled veterans of the wars in which this nation has en- ®aged, he said: I devoutly wish the United Sta to do its full part toward making war unlikely, if not impossible. While I would abhor a pacifist America, would rejoice to have the United States proven to be unafraid, and vet the most peace-loving and the fore- most peace-promoting nation jin all the world. We have already proved that we can have less of armament. Tet us strive for the assurance that we shall have none of war. Tpon that platform the President can confidently stand without the least departure and without challeng- ing the just criticism of those who ‘wish for greater preparedness or those who wish for a more direct and com- plete participation in international as- sociations, 1t was well that reference was made | to the reduction of armaments, ef- fected through the conference of eight- een months ago. The United States, by its initiative on that occasion, set the course for a distinct lessening of the chances of conflict between the na- tions. That was a practical contribu- tion to the cause of peace To make war “unlikely, it not im- possible.” says the President, is his hope. Recently he has urged that the TUnited States participate in the pro- ceedings of the world court of inter- national justice. Such a move is cal- culated to lessen the likelihood of war. The argument on the subject has be- come violent and discursive, but it has not weakened the proposition that association with such a court, with the reservations which the President has clearly stated, will tend to lessen the likelihood of war. Just at present a strenuous effort is being made by certain factors of the President's own political party to swerve him from his advocacy of ‘American participation in the world “court. A determined onset against his position is in evidence, with hint of @ split in the party and possibly denial +-of & renomination at the next conven- ‘tion. There is in the address at Ar- lington no sign of a weakening of purpose on the part of the President. _The gestures of deflance and defeat that have been lately made have evi- dently had no effect. In adhering to his purpose to do!the weeks of pressure he has under-{ whatever can be done to make war unlikely, if Not impossible,” Presi- gnt Harding is winning the esteem and the support of the people, regardless af party, ‘which will mean infinitely _more than the narrow partisanship of those who are now seeking to frighten him out of this course, Claude Kitchin. “ During the long period of his iliness, ““which resulted this morning in his death, Representative Claude Kitchin of North Carolina remained a force “for legislative activity. He was con- stantly consulted by his colleagues in the House. His advice was frequently sought. Forced to remain.away from theé scene of his labors of more than twenty vears, he, nevertheless, con- tinued to take an active interest in Washington proceedings, and the hope of his constituents for his restoration 19 health was manifested in his re- election last November for a twelfth term. = Claude Kitchin came to Washington a young man—he dies at the age of fitty-four—and from the outset of his congressional career he manifested ability. He rose through the ranks of'| the House to important committee assignments. His district, recognizing his worth, retained him in his office “as representative, pursuing a wise policy, ‘which, maintained generally throughout the state, gave North Caro- lina unusual prestige and strength in the House. By seniority and by abil- ty Mr. Kitchin came to a post of -high responsibility. He devoted himseif as- siduously to his duties. He made and ‘Weld many friends by his kindly per- sonality. He won admiration by his ebllity, as a legislative worker and ©s a speaker. _ It is one of the tragedies of public life that 2 man of such parts, reaching at so early an age a position of com- ‘manding influence, should be taken by death, his work unfinished. North Carolina suffers a loss in his passing |- and the nation loses as well by the “deprivation of the services of a man who, while always a partisan, was un- failingly and tinflinchingly a patriotic American, with vision of the national meeds and opportunity. —_———— . The weather has been a trifie un-| were disposed to slay their hostages, certain, but there is every confidence _ that the parades can be managed |regarded as a sign that they realize “‘Awithout the use of snow plows. r Plenty of Food. o Washington may rest easy on the, r, with the Sunday morning | 'Iulhorily of the chairman of the com- Immoa on food supplies, who says that there is food enough of every descrip- tion in wholesale warehouses ard re- {tail stores at this minute to feed Washington and its 300,000 guests | sumptuously during the convention ‘und still leave enough to last the city juntil railroad shipments return to i normal. The announcement is also made that |an danger of profiteering in food seems to be past, but that should there -be any undue price-raising by restaurants or other food dealers measures to restrain them will be im- mediately taken. The Shrine author- ities, the citizens’ committees co-op- erating with the Shrine and the De- | partment of Justice will be ready to | deal with those purveyors who might itry to take advantage of the great in- {crease in the city's populfition. Pre- cautions are to be taken that there shall be no boost in prices on the ground of food shortage as the Shrine crowd is withdrawing or after it has | withdrawn. | were received at Shrine headquarters | “that some business houses were plan- ining to seize- upon the situation to {‘fake’ a shortage and boost prices,” ibut that such a project has been checkmated. It is still urged that homekeepers lay in geveral days' supply of staple Such a forehanded measure will make |for the convenlence of families and {will lessen the pressure on storekeep- jers during a period which will prob- who deal in the necessities of life. | There is bound to be more difficulty wholesale establishments to the retail stores and in making deliveries from the stores to homes. . Everybody can do his bit in keeping this congestion down to the minimum. {With the knowledge that there is | Plenty of food to tide us over the un- {usual period on which we are about to enter, Washington faces the com- ing of the Shrine hosts with confi- dence and pleasant expectations. The Battle of Albany. { Today the attention of the nation is {attracted to Albany, where Gov. Alfred { E. Smith is holding the long-deferred ihearlng on the act of the legislature repealing the Mullan-Gage law, which provides for enforcement by state au- thorities of the Volstead law. Tt is a dramatic occasion, for Gov. Smith's recognized as fraught with far-reach. {ing consequences, political and cther- wise. The political possibilities. in volved not only touch Gov. Smith's own future and the fortunes of the democratic party of the state of New York, but bear upon national politics and possible shaping of the destinies of the democratic party at large as to issues for the next presidential campaign. i Dispatches from Albany graphically describe the tenseness of the situation at the state capital. Wet and dry forces are assembled in force, rallying their lawyers and speakers for ag- gressive presentation of their re- spective sides of the question of the governor's action. Tammany Hall, clamorous advocate of signature, for reasons of strategy is not represented | ganizations represented are the Anti- Saloon League and the Association Opposed to the Prohibition Amend- ment. Gov. Smith is described as harassed almost to the point of collapse after gone from both sides. The wets at the beginning of the hearing are said [ to have been the most confident, with odde of 5 to 4 in the betting in favor of the governor signing the repealer. It is told that so assured are the wets of action favorable to their contention that they are now concerning them- selves with the question of whether he may, in case he signs, attach & mem- orandum which might qualify the ef- fect of his action. They want him to “go the limit" in supporting the act of the legislature, by words and deed. The reported presence at the hear- ing of the United States district attor- ney of New York to urge the governor to veto the repealer would indicate the interest of the government in the case, first intimated by President Harding when he wrote to a cor- respondent pointing out the national consequences of the governor signing and the subsequent possible invasion by the government: of state sov- ereignty. Aside from all considerations, party, personal and political, one other is in- volved in the governor's possible ac- tion—the support or weakening of law and order and enforcement of the law of the land and the Constitution. As Gov. Smith has said he would not make up his mind until after the hearing, this day may properly be classed as an eventful one for the nation. ———t— At this season of the year long ego the interesting announcements related to people leaving the city for the sum- mer instead of to the.thousands ar- ranging for a visit, B The efforts of China to introduce foreigners into her own peculiar styles of traditional troubles are not prom- ising satisfactory results. Better News From China. Release of Maj. Allen and an Eng- lishman by the Chinese bandits is be- lieved, according to late dispatches from thé far east, to foreshadow the surrender of all of the prisoners who have been held since the train wreck of May 4. Despite sinister indications that the brigands were growing des. perate from shortage of supplies and the.freeing of these twq men may be the folly of sacrificing those of foreign birth and nationality. This situation has presented a most. perplexing difficulty. The bandits have been making demands that could not It is said that reports: foodstuffs before the rush begins. | {ably be a trying one on all merchants | than usual in getting supplies from | { signing or vetoing of the repealer is| in the meeting. The two major or-{ |of castern Asia. The Peking govern- ment, lacking real power over the area of the outrage, could not send a force competent to deal with the situation. Fortunately a way has been found to deal with the brigands. Evidently jdheir leaders are sufficiently intelligent to realize that their crime has involved them deeply and that further crime: will surely react upon them disa trously. Negotiations have been con- <ducted through a paroled prisoner. He has been passing back and forth freely and has finally brought about an un- | derstanding of the situation by the | bandits that may lead to the quick release now of all the captives. ‘While it is, of course, primarily jimportant to secure the release of the prisoners, it is still more important that the conditions which permitted this outrage should be cured. China is in a state of political chaos. TUn- less it is to be permitted to remain | in that condition, with its doors closed, | in effect, to all foreigners, the western | powers must bring pressure to bear to effect a solution of the problem. The { antagonistic elements must be brought together, either under one flag or with a division of jurisdiction and au- tonomy. Chira has been broken. Can the pieces be reunited, or must they re- main separated? That is the question that lies behind this tragedy of the kidnaping. Apparently China cannot herself answer. It may be for the powers of the world, through friendly services and disinterested and un- seifish, peaceful intervention, to bring about a solution. = Rubber From Milkweed. 1t is reported from Detroit that Henry Ford and Thomas A. Edison are now at work on joint experiments on the milkweed in the hope of pro- ducing from that common product of { the fields a practicable rubber. is not a new line of research. Others have tried, but for some reaspn have failed to effect the economical treat- I ment of the juice of the plant. Any- body can make a little plece of rubber by plucking a milkweed stem, squeez- ing out the juice in the palm of the hand and then manipulating it with the finger until it finally becomes a gummy pellet. - But iaboratory experi- ments heretofore have been’ unsatis- factory. The rubber yielded from this source has not been of a proper con- sistency, and has cost more than that obtained from the tropical trees. It would be a remarkable advance in {industry if the Ford-Edison experi- | ments yield a satisfactory rubber. | Milkweed can be grown anywhere in | this country on almost any kind of land. It is a perennial, and can vield more than one crop a year. Indeed, milkweed cultivation could be so or- ganized as to produce an abundant supply of juice immediately within | factory range,-and maybe while they are about it Ford and Edison may find a way to use the fibers of the stalks, which are possibly of value in certain { tabric making and possibly also the | seeds and the cottonlike fluff that car- ries them on their propagating jour- neys. If this can be done the milk- weed, which has heretofore been re. garded by farmers as a nuisance, mould be turned to rich uses. i The children will be asscmbied to sing out their welcome assurance that, | despite .the prevalence of jazz, ‘they {are being educated in more substan- tial forms of music. Every agitator in Russia should be required to read the history of the French reign of terror and then sit down and think it over. The only person to be heard from in connection with the success of the Shriners great outdoor display is the weather man. | All of Wilhelm Hohenzollern's once magnificent retinue appears to have deserted him, except a press agent or two. In New York the latest fashion in vehicle with a bootleg compartment. Col. Bryan still talks politics, but the topic has become only an inciden- tal feature of his repertory. Turkey, though a proud old bird, is willing to admit that the dove of peace has some rights. b SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Loneliness. From far away, through the wood so still, Comes the sobbing note. of the whip- poorwill; The moon that rises so cold and white Stares at the world with a look of tright. And the trees in the shadow toss and moan, ‘When you're trudging the weary way « alone! Another time, what a friendly note Has the whippoorwill, with the tireless throat! The moon has a jolly face and round, As jolly a face as could be found. And the sigh of the wood is a tranquil song, » If some one along: Our Daily Ice. Once more, altogether. In.sorrow we're sunk; The warmer the weather, The smaller the chunk. with you is trudging Almost June. % 'Tis almost June!” the robin sings. The wildwood flower its perfume fings Across the path. where snowdrifts lay In times not yet so far away. The. humming insect lightly flies ‘Where waters shine like rippling skies And nature sings the lazy tune In accents soft, *"Tis almost Junt Though Maytime is a season rare, question. There is enough 10| possibly be met, They asked not only | And misty April’s days are fair, supply the wants of the regular popu- | for cash, but for certain guarantees| From time to time through them will "lation and the coming crowd and to that neither the forelgn powers inter. | tall .~answer all the needs of Washingto-|ested nor - the- Peking government|An echo of n;a; March’s call. nians during the days following the|could possibly give. The foreign pow-| But as the softer skies disclose. - Shrine celebration and until the nor-|ers could not enter China with ar§ed | The salutation of the rose, ¢ mal system. of shipments and distri- | forces without precipitating e turnwil | At midday and beneath the micon; Jidution ‘sgain gets under way. - agpaguncement is made by tion i Chine and possibly in the whole, The |leading perhaps to a general conflagra. | The 'chorus sounds, * 'Tis '-almost Juner™ | view. Ihis relative and one of his immediate | ezotism. the impatience. the disregard { taste and even’the malignity of the This | { historian, Sydney Smith, Sir Walter political band wagons is a commodious | Declares Lord * Drawi 'ng' BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Tichester, sixth earl of his line, who has just ‘arrived frém England on board the Mafestic, is no stranger on this side of the Atlantic, being a frequent visitor. He js the head of the historic house of Fox, which has played so important a role in English history.during the last three centu- ries, and is the owner of Holland House, so celebrated as the center of political, literary and artistic life in London, and of all that was most brilliant in English and foreign so- ciety throughout near 300 years. Holland House has been portrayed in many memoirs and novels. History, foreign as well as English. has been made there and Mrs. Humphreys Ward's romance entitled “Eltham House” has been built around it. This led to a spirited public protest on the part of Lord Iichester in the pages of the London Saturday Re- He took exception, not 30 much to the fact that Mrs. Humphreys Ward should have taken Holland House and its owners, Lord and Lady Holland, for het theme, but rather to the manner in which she portrayed his kinsfolk under the names of “Lord and Lady Wipg.” giving them a twentieth century setting.. He In- timated that the portrayal was in the nature of a “Travesty of questionable taste.” Lord llchester contrasted “the lofty sense of honor. the chivalry, the breeding, the infinits tact and patience” of the third Lord Holland. predecessors in the ownership of Hol- @ House with the vulgarity,” the of every one of the canons of good naturs of Mrs. Humphreys Ward's “Lord Wing Morcover, he showed that the salons of the famous Lady Tollandat Hojland Iiouse and their international fame were not llke those of “Lady Wing” at “Eltham House” the product of a few weeks. but rather of gradual development. Tord llchester manifestly ‘enter- talns 4 higher regard for Lord Ho land than for Lady Holland. For he insists in bis lctter to the Saturday Review that the real attraction which drew men of distinction in every walk of life, and from all over | the world to Holland House. was not | Lady Holland. who, especlally in her | later years. “ruled through the tyr- anny of fear” but the “incomparable ! personality of Lord Holland with his welcoming smiie and his witty, ani- mated and brilliant conversation.” Lord Tlchester wound up his letter in the Saturday Review with an. ex- pression of the opinion that possibly under the altered conditions of the ! twentiath century. the lot of Lord and Lady Molland might have been different. but that “Lord Wing" wi foredoomed to failure in whatever generation Mrs. Humphreys Ward had chosen to place him. EE The famous Elizabeth, Lady Hol- land referred to above, balled from Jamaica, had been a Miss Vaseal, born of a New York mother, and after marrying Sir Godfrey Webster, owner of Bdttle Abbey, near Hastings, eloped with the third Lord Holland, whom she married after being di- voreed by Sir Godfrey Webster under the most sensational circumstances. Despite this and the fact that she was barred until her death from the court of St. James, statesmen and celebritles from all.over the world, including. royalty, EmngliSh as’ well as foreign. were wont to gather at Holland House under her reign. among its hablitues being the great Talleyrand, Madame de Stael. Princess Lleven. the poets Lord Byron and Tom Moore, Baron Humboldt, Lord Macaulay the Seott and in fact all the notable per- sonages of the age. By her marriage to the thing Lord Holland in 1797, she | had two chcildren. a daughter who married the third Lord Lilford and a son who succeeded his father as the fourth and last Lord Holland. The fourth Lord Holland spent several vears in_ the diplomatic service and married Lady Mary Coventry, but had no_children by the union This fourth’ Lord Holland. however. had an adopted daughter. concerning whose birth much mystery always prevailed. She was known as Mary Fox, was brought up not in his faith but as.a Roman Cathelic and: was married in London with much pomp and ceremony to the Austrian Prince Aloys Liechtenstein, after the sover- eign head of the house—the only reigning . monarch of Germany, who still today retains his throne—had EDITORIAL DIGEST Poincare's Resignation Gesture | Unimportant at This Time. The “Poincare . gesture, in sub- mitting his resignation as premier of France only immediately to withdraw it, interests American editors chiefly as emphasizing that the present head of the government faces real oppo- sitlon at home. His retirement is taken as certain, editors seem con- vinced, and the only question seems to be when it may be compelled. “A large section of France,” says the Youngstdbwn Vindicator, “is skep- tical of Poincare's policy, just as vir- tually all England and America are. Such incidents as this show that there 1s restlessness among_ the French themselves.” The act “was impul- sive,” as the Brooklyn Eagle sees it, and has no immediate bearing on French foreign ations, ~because German policy, and at present the: is no alternative but to back him u This opinion is not shared by th Chattanooga News, which feels, while | the question raised “did not concern the Ruhr issue directly, it was rather | closely related to it. An impression i Is growing that the results flowing | from that imperial venture are alto-! British Leaders to Home et been satisfied under the seal of se- erecy” by Lord Holland. that his adopted daughter was fully qualified by birth to wed Prince Aloys on a footing of equality and ‘to take her place at the court of Vienna. This means that she was in reality of royal or mediatized parentage. * ¥ % ¥ Holand House and all Lord Hol- land's property, the estates compris- ing some 50,000 acres, revertgd, at his widow’s death in 1889, to the head of his family—that is to say, the head of the senior branch of the house of Fox, namely, the late and fifth Earl of Tichester. . Wonderfully picturesque is this old Elizabethan edifice out in the Ken- sington suburb of London, nestling in & beautiful large private park, shaded by.trees many, centuries old. heneath the foliage of which Oliver Cromwell discussed . with Ireton the impeach- ment of Charles 1. It {s in its big ballroom that a celebrated ball was given in honor of that ill-fated mon- arch’s marriage. while still Prince of | Wales. to Princess Henrietta Maria of France, .at which both bride and bridegroom were present. Gen. Falir- fax made it his headquarters during most of “the civil war, and it was occupled for some vears by William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. X kxS The founder of Lord Iichester's family, Sir Stephen Fox. who helped in the escape of Charles IT after the disastious battle of Worcester, was the first to announce the death of Cromwell to the then exiled king in Holland, refused a peerage offered to him by James II on the condition that | he would become a Rom. played an Nell endowment for aged countarp 1 Catholic, important part along with Gwynn the foundation and f Roval Chelsea Hospital and_crippled soldfers—the of the Paris Palace of the Invalides—headed the commons on the coronation processiom - of | Queen Anne and lived to sit for Salis- bury in the first parllament of King George 1. He married for the second time at the age of seventy-six and had four children, two of ithem sons. who each of them hecams the origi- nator of a distinguished line. The younger one, Henry. was first Lord Holland and ‘father of Charles James Fox. the celebrated statesman of. the reizn of George 111, and the eloquent champion of the rizhts of the revolt- ing American colonies. Tha elder, Stephen. was raised to the pearage in 1741 as Lord Stavordale, and was subsequently advanced to the earl- dom of Tichester in 1756. Through his marriage with FElizabeth Horner he ! inherited the immense wealth which | had been accumulated by her mother. formerly a Miss Strangways. whosa patronymic, in accordance with tha terms of ‘her will, was thereapon added to his own. The patronymic, therefore, of the Earl of Tichester, in- stead of being merely Fox like that of the late Lord Holland., is Strangway E Lord Ilchester married to the sister of the present Marquis of Lon- donderry and she was for many years one of the ladies in waiting of Queen Mary besides being one of her giri- hood friends. She is one of the mos: charming and hospitable hostesses in London and has two boys and two girls, the elder son. Lord Stavordale, | being now seventeen and at Eaton. . -| * % ¥ % Lord Tichester, by the bye, owns at ‘Abbotsbury. his place near Dorches- ter, the most wonderful swannery i Europe. They are the lineal descend- ants of the swans which flourished there in the reign of the Danish King Canute, who made his home at Ab- botsbury—that f& to say’ prior to the Norman éonqliest. They fave surf) vived throaghdut all the wars that have devastated England at various times during the last thousand vears and have never been disturbed. There are always several thousand of these beautiful birds: with their snow-white | plumes to be found there at complete iiberty. roaming and swimming about | just as they like. They are horn| fighters, and during the breeding sea- son not a day passes without homerie | battles between the males. Indeed, the fighting s almost continual throughout that period From time immemorial has always been regarded as a royal bird, and no one hesides the Barl of Tichester. the River Thames conserv ancy board and two f the oldest colleges at Oxford University are per- mitted to keep them without a special license from the crown, issued by the king's swan master. who is a member of the royal household Ali swans not thus licensed and bearing the royal license mark nicked gn. their bills are confiscated by the crown wherever found Fox- | the swan much the entertained by Fargo Forum ch adds that long as France has reason to believe | there is a possibility of Poincare be- | Ing successful it will follow. him. international conditions should change | S0 as to make it seem imperative that the only course open to France was to enter into a reparations conference, Poincare, who believes thoroughly in | the efficacy of force. might find it necessary to quit the premiership, but | not until then.” After reviewing the circumstances | under which the resignation was tend- ered, the Newark News points out “there are two fundamental facts which should not be lost sight of in the political flurry at the Luxem- burg. One is that France is deter- mined, as Polncare said in the cham- ber of deputies, to stay in the Ruhr until France is paid. The other is that both the white-haired premier and his temporarily estranged friends | In the senate are determined to han- dle the communists with a irm hand. | Where the two differed in opinion was in the fact that Poincare's dras- tic action of a semi-political trial for Cachin was considered by th tors as undesirably theatrica rtheless, the Lynchburg Adv the occurrence forcibly illus. ! trates both the exceedingly uncertain tenure of French cabinets and the re- | markably delicate sensitiveness of French statesmanship. Nor to Ameri- cans is it likely to suggest anvthing in the nature of a tribute to his pa- w 1 | i {ing, “low-brows" i {in {being regarded as * | one every one would choose. gether inadequate, in view of the cost | triotism that at this so acutely cr! and complications. involved. = Presi-|cal moment in the history of his dent Millerandiis an extremist of the | country Poincare should be willing, Poincare type, however, and is slow to be convinced that the country. is tiring of the enterprise. Other | sational developments y occur at. " It was wise on' Poin care's part to withdraw the resigna. the Memphis Commercial Ap- I believes, because retirement! ‘would have been accepted by the! Germans as a failure. Poincare isi i the man finally to drive it into the minds of the Germans that they must assume and bear a financial responsi- bility for their part in the war wreckage.” The Arkansas Democrat suggests the strain of the Ruhr adventure has glven Poincare and his colleagues “an attack of merves” -but it is con- vinced that his- “power still Is su- preme in France. Poincare and pres- sure will continue to be the French policy, and it seems that the premier has little to fear becat the senate for once jumped the traces.” While this may be so, the Nashville Banner is convinced “the world s not with Poincare. It eame to France's resc and saved her from Teutonizati But this same world, is not ready to submit to a similar poliey by the Gallic_nation toward a_foe. however generally _condemned. - It - looks like the beginning of the end of Poincare and his merci ful campaign. Cineinnati Tim: a gesture, and a knew would be frustra by the re- fusal of President Millerand to ac cept the ra-ln‘nlon- P-a:a; w:; attempting to. decide for. en senaté a question fu-o“ prinei- Bies of Jurisdiction.” This ia very' for a relatively slight provocation to suddenly render the situation more perllous by retiring from -his high position. Friends of France every- where will hope it is quite true that this entire matter may be more sensi- bly likened in its importance to a tempest in a teapot-than regarded as a profoundly grave. affair of state concern.” “The France that seemed imperish- able during the four yvears which be- gan in the summer of 1914 is sl enced now by Poincare's strident tones,” asserts the New York Globe. “Whether he Is the spokesman of the real France of today, no one knows. Perhaps his course is almost over. On that fact the coming elec- tions must be witness. Until this referendum has been had it can hard- 1y matter seriously whether Raymond Poincare or some one like him is premier of France.” The Duluth Her- ald likewise feels while Poincare re- mains premier the Ruhr issue is “not tmproved. The wotld would breathe easier and would be in a much safer situation if outside advice could.fix a bill that Germany can pay and get France to accept that figure as the utmost she can hope to get” To replies he responsibility being his, th The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN At the recent conventlon of the American Felleration of Arts, held last week jn_St. Louls, two, things were made evident by the numerous speak- ers from differant parts of the coun- try—that there:is & big place in mod- ern life for art on its recreational side and that there is a great move ment beneath the surface Indicative of art development. In defining the meaning of modern- ism Oscar B. Jacobson of the Uni- versity of Oklahoma called attention to the fact that art is mot infre- quently in advance of popular thought, and drew the conclusion that modernistic expressions in the field Of art therefore either foretold the decadence of civilization or the T birth of a new art era. Anoth speaker, Dudley Crafts Watson, di rector of the Milwaukee Art Insti- tute, brought to attention the extraordi- nary amount of leisure - which is today at the command of the work- ing man and woman and pictured, in almost terrifying fashion, the use to which these hours are today being put—such, for sxample, as & rest- less seeking of excitement in the mov- ing picture -theater, the dance hall, bridge and whist table and motoring, On the other hand, it was learned | that much is being done to fmprove and beautify the cities of America, St. Louls having lately secured a bond issue of $87,000:000 for this purpose alone; and that the love of art is spreading through the tality of the 'public women's clubs, the public libraries and the art museums to a far greater extent than many are aware. One litlle téwn in Kansas, with a popu- lation of approximately 4,000, was. re- ported to have an original work of art in every six of its citizens, and in the farmbouses of that state are to be found many etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler, Zorn and others. Headed by Lorado Taft, the seulptor of the Columbus fountain in this city, the Fountain of Time and the Fountain of the Great Lakes in Chicago, & com- mitte in Illinols {s awakening. through the medium of exhibitions, lecturere and the like, interest in art as a recreation assef in all of the little towns of that state, showing the people, as far as can be, possi- bilities in’ the line of production, pointing out beauty in nature and in art and so widening vision. . * % ok x Prof. Jacobson is right; modern art does Teflect the trend, to a great ex- tent, of modern lite, and it is none the less ugly nor repulsive for this rea- #on; but, fortunately, it does not tell the whole story, and., curiously enough, those whom it allures are chicfly “those to whom the life it re- flects is foreign, those ‘who represent a somewhat overripe clvilization, and arefor this reason in search, not of emotion, but sensation. The vulgar- ism of “Main street” cannot be over- looked, . but it Is not yet completely current. - To overlook it, however, will not help to check It; it must be recognized before it can be remedied. and if*it is to be wiped oyt something Dbetter. and equally alluring must .be substituted in its place. Speaking at a luncheon given. by the Friday Morning Music Club in thie eity a fortnight ago, Danfel Gregory Mason, referring to musie, said that those at the top—the know- the - so-called “high-brows"— were apt foday to be frothy, to be more intergsted in teehnicalitiss than in the substance of the thing itself: whereas those at the bottomi—the or the sediment—cared only for the substance and not the spirit — in other words, . vulgarized art; but that in between the plain man is not touched. and that from this great stratum should come the art of the people, the art possessing the ts_of beauty, joy-giving power, tiomal fachlit ¥ - ek The truth is that art of this sort is the art which lives, the art which is really loved; for, despite the prize juries and the talk about modernism art, there are comparatively few who are buying the works of the so- called modernists and taking them into theiy homes. Of course, it may be that “the occasional collector is in advance of his time, but it is hard to believe that even he finds real pleasure in that which is inarticulate and comparatively: brutish. A British art writer who confessed to a dislike for the works of the modernists was asked why. then, in writings he tolerated them. His reply was: “Because if I didn't the voung fellows who advocate the would put me down as an old fogy Ten chances to one much of the toler- ance of modernistic works of art springs from the same source. So few dare to be behind the times, to risk 14 fogles. * % % x how absurd all instrumen- schools, the But this seems {when one gets down to cold facts! i Here is what is said in a little folder gotten out some while ago by the American Federation of Arts, entitled “Why Bother About Art?’: “A flower pot is worth a few cents: a bowl of {the same clay, a few dollars: a vase exquisitely formed and finely glazed or decorated, sometimes hundreds of dollars. The difference between a kitchen chair and a Chippendale chair is a matter, not of materfals, but art. The cities of Europe are visited be- cause they are beautiful—works of civic art. The artistic home is the Art is one of the few things in the world that is permanent. The art of Greece is still the glory of that great nation. So is the art of Italy, of France. A knowledge of art can g more pleasure than almost anything else. It can make one rich. It can give one a vista and a vision. 1t reveals hidden beauty. It is like the window in the workshop that lets in the sun- shine and gives a beautiful outlook— it makes life more worth while, it makes llving better. * ¥ X ¥ So often it is said that the great masses do not care about art, that the common people of America are not instinctively artistic, but it not so. Great art delivers its mes- sage simply and is generally under- stood. Beauty appeals to almost all there are few who are indifferent to it. Perhaps we have not here among the young people of America the in- stinctive reverence for art which is bred by association and_tradition in the youth of France and Italy, chiefly, Lowever, because we have not had the association. Our cities have not been made beautiful by works of art, ‘buildings of stately magnificence, sculpture of noble character. We have not duly honored our own artists. We have not looked up to them as benefactors; we have not reckoned them among our great. For this reason the celebration in connection with the award of the gold medal of the American Institute of Architects to Henry Bacon, the archi- tect of the Lincoln Memorial, which .oceurred in this city lately, was of reat and lasting significance. As fioyll Cortissoz said upon that ocf‘. , too little do we recognize the man behind the building; too little do the people generally know the nam of the architects to whose genius w. owe the best we have in both public and private buildings today. Too much are we inclined to look back over our shoulders and think only of S t ose whose names will be ravsrdd nd whose works will refiect honer in time to come ~upon our own generation—sculptors like ~ Daniel Chester French, Herbert Adams ‘and Herman like jhould go with it. Of cours thould be a reversal of opin- | jon in France; the case would be dif- ferent. This Ruhr question. as well as the attitude of the socialists and corllmllnllllt ani lhel; redltntion l:l) fl}e overnment, are 1o _be discussed. It wall tha! *‘k\u will icipate JIn the U‘h:lfi a8 ponsible.he: g‘ architects Henry Bacon, Charles Platt and James Gamble Rogers; painters like Cw‘gll Beaux.:Emil Carlsen and Garl | Melthers—men and women Wwho are doing great’ work adding beauty to the world. sharing with the world, the g:g,_mq the simple, the rich and. it t oan !proposed deposit, on account, of & mil- Ilion dollars, while the details of the 1board the ownership of one out of ! {retrigeration of the.ngrth. BY PAUL V. What a growth has come into the finanelal world’s imagination since the war began! When European commissioners first appeatred in Amer- fca with a request for a loan of a billion dollars,’the amount seemed 50 huge as to stagger even our biggest bankers, and the floating of the loan was an epochal event. No financial} transaction of that size had ever be- fore been known, even in government circles. Later deals running up to an aggregate of ten or twelve billions, have somewhat accustomed the public to think in billions, with no mors awe than was formerly shown in the transactions of millions. Finally, the climax of stupendous finance comes when a billlon dollars. is bid in a single purchase—the mer- chant fleet of the government—and a guaranty of good faith is offered in a sale are being worked out. The bid Is said to come from a comparatively unknown business man who makes stamp-cancelling _ma- ichines for the Postoffice Department. {The $1,000,000 guaranty of good faith has not yet arrived, and the shipping is puzzled, but whether the | transaction materialiges or not, it | starts one to thinking in billions, and that is as refreshing as to “dream I dwelt in marble halls.” ! Mark Twain had his_“Colonel | Sellers” who boasted that his trans- | actions “had millions in them.” He | was a piker, in comparison, H * * ain Croesus and Solomon, with ail their wealth, never had credit like unto one of these modern financial giants. {Yet the growth in financial figures might be compared with the growth of modern ships, in comparison with the roval hoats of the ancients. What a race might be run between Cleo- patra’s famous barge and the Le- viathan! The modern age does not appreciate its own development as it might. e . An Arctic expedition “is en route to the North Pole under command of Capt. McDonald. Incidentally it is to check up evidences of the alleged approach of another ice age. Seamen have reported that the ice cap of the Arctic zone has ‘descended farther south than usual, and that there are more icebergs in the ocean than-in previous seasone. Imaginative folks have alSo inferred that the present cold spring and summen indicates | Prof. U. S. Grant, head of the ge- olography department of the North- western University, however, reit-| erates the proposal of his illustrious ancestor: “Let us have peace.” He ssures us that there are no present dications of an-approaching ice age. * % ¥ % Science tells us that the last great ice age ‘was some 3,000,000 years ago —in the pleistocene time—a few hun- dred thousand years prior to the “transformation of the precursor of humanity into man—the cuimination of the highest line of evolution.” ‘The solid ice cap then extended from the North Pole all over Canada and about as far south as the Ohio, river. It had several recessions of | melting times, when the edge of the great glacier would recede ‘up into Canada, and “spells of warm weather” would last several thousand years. Then would come a ‘“real sharp win ter” of a few thousand years more, during which the oldest inhabitant Finds & | District Girl Attracts Auemioni In Vienna. To the Editor of The Star. The writer is a relief worker in the service of an American organiza- | tion that has been and is helping hundreds of thousands of Europeans who have suffered from the late war. It helps them not only with food, clothing, shelter, medicine, etc., but with loans to rebuild their devasted homes, their business, their whole life anew. From time to time a stranded American walks in and asks to be helped. Of course he gets a hearty welcome, and whatever there !s in my power to do I gladly do for him. If 1 am an American anl helping Europeans, total strangers to me, | why should I refuse to help an American in need? Quite logical, is it not? If that be the case, permit me to bring to the attention of your readers something about a Wash- ingtonian. I visited Vienna a short time ago. Looking out of the window of the house in which 1 lived T noticed across the street near an iron fence a crowd of people. My curiosity was aroused. 1 noticed they were all looking up to the house in front of them. I went down to inquire of one of the crowd what it was about: But before I could get a reply I realized what had brought them to that place. A most beautiful voice came ringing into my ears from the second floor of the house across the street. A woman was singing some of the crying music by the great Rus- ian composer Tchalkovsky. Vienna is now a very expensive place. That the Viennese are fond of music is known the world over. And now that many of them have not the means with which to pay for a ticket, they are perfectly satisfled to stand near the iron fence and listen to the music 1 Sweet Singer. . COLLINS. * would tell“liow warm it was in his younger days, and that the climate was surely changing. And he would be telling true weather lore, if tim0 limits were forgotten. These great changes do not come about in one lifetime, byt in tems of thousands of years. Heénce, scientists laugh when 2 sea captain sets out for the pole to head off ‘another -ice age—millions of years ahead. * % %k ¥ Prof. Grant rather whimsically suggests that humanity might divert & great polar ice cap from North America—if one “were headed this way—provided we built a gigantic wall on-the Grand Banks off Labra- dor, not to push back the ice, but to divert the Gult Stream of warm water toward the American coast. He qualifies his suggestion with, “if it were humanly possible-to build such a wall” Such a diversion of the Gulf Stream has been suggested be- fore as a means of “turning on the heat on North America.” If it were humanly possible, at would Eng- land and the rest of Europe do when we stole their heat and brought to them a prematuyre ice age? Could Europe sue for her “riparian rights" if we stole her Gulf Stream? Would the international court have jufic- diction? S o No overcharge to Shriners, is a placard which some restaurants will display during next week. H Who will be overcharged? Sometimes people are like Polly, in using too many words. To illustrate what would be the effect of fewer words., an anecdote of Lincoln is apropos. President Lincoln in the act of polishing his boots, when a_ top-lofty diplomat entered .hi office. The President kept on polfsh- ing, until the astonisned visitor €x- claimed: “Why, Mr. President, I neve polished my own boots-in my life.” to which Lincoln rejoined: .‘Whose boots.did you polish?" Why not umit the last two word of the placard? interrupted £ixin Every dog shall have his day court. In California a judge has ruled in favor of the defendent dog, ac- cused of biting a five-year-old human who undertook to take a bone ou of the dog's possession. The court ruled that the bone belonged to the dog and he had a right to defend his property. In Washington. on the same day. & {court ruled that a dog had a right to a reasonable amount of barking. !t may not be so expressed in statutery law, but in_common law, or canine law, it is clear—and the run back so far that the man runneth not to the contrary that we should *iet dogs delight bark and bite, ‘tie their natu Hegh for ey Dr. H. S. Cummings, surgeon g eral of ‘the United States, has issued a list of suggestions as to the kincd of vacation each class of persons should take. For the wife and mother he prescribes: “Get away from hus- band and children. Soothe nerves by chatting with other women. Be per mitted a few moments of genuine privacy.” For clerks. “Get out and not in excess." For every person, the doctor's ad vice i8 to ‘do the opposite of what rour daily routine has been requirinz Zbut not over do it (Copyright, 1823, he use offers mu Writer Say: ;5r More to Be Found in D. C.'Parks. To the Editor of The Star Your journal has. T believe, already called attention to “Forest Trees of the District of Columbia,” that excel- lent and inexpensive little handbook publishéd by the American Forestrs Association, Washington. Some sixty five species are described. (sixty-four of them illustrated by line drawings) and some nineteen other species are mentioned. But of this total of eighty-four spe- cies, but six trees, European elm American elm, Cameron elm, Japanesc pagoda tree (sophora japonica) and evergreen magnolia (magnolia grand: flora), are specifically mentioned -as located within the boundarles of the capitol grounds. While it is true that name labels. bearing botanical and common names and habitat, have been attached to important trees throughout the grounds, visitors might be interested in having their attention called to the fact that some thirty-five or more species of trees are to be found in the grounds, including the Persian horse chestnut, the Christ's thorn, the Paulowinia, the Chinese varnish tree &nd sgssafras. Of the species within the capitol grounds. at least eight escape mention in this pocket manual of the “"Forest Trees of the District of Columbia,” so “tree hunters” may find it of interest to search for the omissions, Undoubtedly this pamphlet will prove sufficiently popular to ne- cessitate a new edition, in which case it would be helpful 'if its authors were to add a check-list of the trees which visitors in Washington might find in the capitol grounds. P'GARDNER TEALL going to be the sensation of Vienna and Europe. She possesses a magi cal voice. And as I inquired further about the singer and was getting_ replies from the professor my memory was gradually becoming refreshed and 1 could almost bet that I had heard the singer somewhere. A knock was heard on the door. In came a youns coming from the bullding across the street. 1 asked a few of the people, and they told me that they come | regularly évery day to listen to the singing of some “American” in the house No. 33 Doblinger Haupt- strasse. As soon as I heard that it was an American my curiosity was still more aroused. The regular at tendants of thase “fre cencerts woman, with her music roll in her hand and, greeting:us in perfect Ger- man, she passed fl.g t into the studio. “Stay here and listen to her. It is the American Emele of whom we have just been speaking,” remarked the old professor to me, rising from his chair and following the singer into the studio. I remained outside. No gooner had the singer begun to told me that they “had never heard | sing when I recognized her voice Lot 2® wonderful’ voice, even in_ the jand felt sure that I had heard her in main opera house in Vienna.” And|New York some time in March, 192 that was an American girl singing.|Yes, it was the same Emma Rede How proud I felt over it. who sang at a benefit concert at the Betore long I learned of the ad-|Commodore Hotel, in New York. The dress of the professor of the Ameri- | night of that concert became a vivid can singer. He is considered one | picture to -me.. I recalled how 1 of the greatest singing teachers in|was standing in'-the rear of the Vienna. When I asked him about his[hall when the singer began. A num- American pupll, he said: “You Ameri- | ber of people approached me to in- cans do not seem to take any pains|quire who that new star was. Among to discover good musicians in your {the inquirers were Col. Ginzburg and own country. You try to|other notables. I only knew that seok musicians everywhere except|she was from Washington. And now in your own country. And look at my |1 heard her here in Vienna. What pupil Emele. (Her name is Emma |improvements 1 could notice - in Redell, 300 M_street northwest, Wash- | her singing. Now she is marvelous ington, D. C) You could not get|Even then she held the breath .of a better interpreter of Tchaikovsky |about 2,000 people. And now I feel in the whole of Europe today; she |certain that if she were to appear sings German operas to perfection;|in America she would shine awa she sings operas in Italian marvelously; | abave the much heralded allen she is beautiful; she is a wonderful | musicians. = -~ character. And, despite -all thege| I havethought of writing the above ualities, your people at home never |lines to vou, feeling that the people scovered her. As I _understand, | of Washington, D. C., the birthplace she is from your capital, Washington, | of ‘the forthcoming musical sensation, D. C, where a good many music|the place where she was educated. lovers ought to be. ‘Where were | where she took her first lessons in they to find this girl out and give |singing, violin and plano, would be her her chance?” glad to hear of what was in store T felt ashamed of myself listening | for them. The numerous friends of to what the old professor was talking. | the sipger will no doubt be happy I_could only. plead - guilty—that was |to hear of their beloved and charming 2ll. We Americans are worshipers|Emma Redell, who is going to add of allen talent, while at the same [fame to their home town—Washing- time we abound in wondertul sin ton. Let this not be lost, sight jof: ‘The professor- went on let-us seek-out_our own talents t{;m just. watt and come ‘aroind .to : and 2MQic that Vienna star _pupil - 5 fl L gers. She is