Evening Star Newspaper, June 2, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY........June 2, 1028 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Stn\w Company Business Office, 11th St. and Penuayivania Ave. New Yorx Ofice: 100 Nasety St. 0 Ofic r Building. Buropean :16 Regent St., London, England. ar, with the Sunday moraisg ‘by carriers withia the eity ‘month; datly caly, 45 cents pet . 30 cents pet month. Or: or "t by cardlers at the Editor . The Evenin; “aitlon, 1o del 2260 cents .month; 8 lay era miay o sent 000. Colleetion fs 'i!ld of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, ily and Sunday. {ly only. .1 Sunday only. " All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo. Daily only Sunday onl Member of the "Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled o the use for republication of all news dis- Jatrhes credited toltt or mot otherswios credited n this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. ~All rights of publication of pecial dispatches herein are also reserved. —_——————— Gov. Smith’s Course, Gov. Smith's signing of the act of the legislature repealing the law which furnished machinery for enforcement by the state of New York of the Vol- stead act of Congress .may be con- sidered from several viewpoints. The most important is the effect which his action may have im upholding the law of the land and the Constitution of the United States by the states, and the example that may be set to other com- monwealths than New York. Next, is the political bearing; his own personal political fortunes and the possible Ppresentation of prohibition as an acute issue in the presidential campaign of 1924. Furthermore, there arises con- sideration cf the question of states' rights and the lines of division be- tween state and federal authority and responsibility. In the exhaustive memorandum made public when he signed the bill be discusses all phases but the politi- cal ore, seeking to jystify the repeal of the law on the ground principally of maintaining state sovereignty. He discourses upon the prohibition ques- Tion at length, and unhesitatingly comes out for modification of the Vol- stead act to permit the use of light wines and beer. He takes sharp issue with President Harding’s position on the relations betweén the federal gov- ernment and the state, as expressed in & recent letter .to a citizen of New York state. Analysis of the governor's memo- randum would seem to indicate that he relied for justification of the repeal inly upon the assertion that he is tairing state sovereignty. “1 am not here discussing,” he says, “the wisdom or unwisdom of prohibition, The question is rather whether all * vestige of the»ights of the states guaranteed by the federal Constitution is to be-driven from our political theory of government. With all re- spect for the President of the United $tates, T must here reassert the prin- ciple against his challenge, and as'the chief executive of the greatest Sov- ereignty in the Union it is my duty to declare and maintain that sovereignty in exact accordance with the guaran- tees of the Constitution.” According to Gov. Smith's explana- ton, the repeal of the law does not, in fact, release peace officers of the state from responsibility in enforcing the Volstead act. and he issues a solemn warning to that effect. He points out that it does eliminate double jeopardy and puts the state in harmony with the recent decision of Judge Knox-de- claring unconstitutional that section of the Volstead act which puts a limit on the prescriptional and medicinal use of liquor. Gov. Smith argues earnestly for the right of each state to define for itself what constitutes an intoxicating bev- erage. This suggestion may be the vehicle for a political issue in the next presidential campaign. He thinks Con- gress should amend the Volstead act by defining a maximum alcoholic con- tent greater than the present defini- tion. Then each state should be left free to determine what should consti- tute an intoxicating beverage. He says: “States which then wish to limit traffic to beverages containing not more than one-half per cent of alcohol would be free to do so, while others which wish to extend the traffic to the maximum allowed by federal statute would be equally free to do so.” It is ceftain that the governor's ac- tion and his arguments in support will arouse widespread discussion and ex- pression of varying opinions on pro- hibition, law enforcement and states’ rights—enough to keep the country Foing all summer and to set the elee- torate into opposite camps of thought. Prospects of republican harmony are rendered slightly confused by the fact that just when Senator Borah develops a mood of mollification the chairman of the national committee sserts him- self as an irreconcilable. . . Dancing on the Avenue will Help to molve the problems of the future com- are df no particular moment. They are such names as can be found on hundréds of certificates being offered to the public at tempting prices every day. They ere mostly promotion com- panies, some oil companies, some:in- dustrials, some investment corpora- tions, some mines—some of them “near mines”—in’ fact, all gorts of projects which are touted as sure to make big winnings. Not everybody knows a hotel treas- urer who has so striking a souvenir as this/ New York man. But everybody surely has friends whbo are capable of giving a _distinterested and sound opinion on the value, present and prospective, of ‘investment ‘‘opportu- " Neglect to ' consult such friends ‘and advisers before buying leads almost, invariably to loss. For every sound stock on the market there ‘are perhaps two or three fakes, and the’ chances are actually against the speculative investor Who buys these flashily alluring securities which promise quick and big retlirns at small original outlay. | 4 So the next time a stock salesman comes cooing around or & tempting “personal ldtter” is recelved with tender of a chance to get rick quick— a chance usually offered as a special favor—it would be wise to remember that box of $30,000,000 worth of securl- ties, face value, now resting in the strong box of a New York hotel as a token of & total loss. ] | l l New Bishop of Washington. Election of the Rev. Dr. James E Freeman as third bishop of the Epis- copal - diocese of Washington gives satisfaction to Episcopalians, and the news of his election has been read with interest and approval by persons of all other denominations. Dr. Free- man is loved by his congregation and by a host of other persons of his faith and by many who are not of his faith. He is 2 man of piety who has lenience for freiler men. He is a progressive man who has made attractive to men and women the churches in New York, Minneapolis and Washington over which he has presided. He has been a man of achievement in church and civic matters, and has beerf particular- ly interested in social and civic bet- terment in the District of Columbia. Dr. Freeman is & persuasive speaker, a gentleman of supericr intellect and a broad-minded end sagacious priest. He will fill the office of bishop with distinction. Things t¢* Be. There are certain things which ‘Washington would like to show the Shriners, but which it will not be able to present to them at this time. Per- haps the next time the Shriners come ‘we will be able to show them features of the. city which the people of the District have had in mind a long time. One of these will be the reclaimed south side of the Avenue. That the Mall should extend to Pennsylvania averue was a part of the original plan of ‘the city, It is now a part of the |plan for the further development of | the capital, and it is proposed that | government buildings as they shall be provided by Congress will stand in & setting of Jawn and treés in this park facing the Avenue. It is believed that the rebuilding of the north side of the Avenue from the foot of Capitol Hill westward will follow the reclamation of the south side. Washington would like.the Shriners to see a splendid park extending from Union station to the present Capitol grounds, and progress is being made on this project. It was a long campaign to get Unlon station, and another to have the government take over a number of built-up squares for the extension of Capitol Park. The proper development of the area be- tween Union station and the Capitol will be carried out, and the execution of this work cannot be far in the fu- ture. Washington would like the Shrine to see a memorial bridge link- ing Potomac Park and the lands of Arlington. The city would also like to show a parked and picturesque way along the lower part of Rock creek giving connection between Potomac and Rgek Creek patks. When the Shrine comes again this parkway link will probably be open, and Anacostia end Columbia Island parks may be green and flowering places. Traffic will be passing over the memorial bridge between the Lincoln Memorial and Ar- lington. We would like to show the Shrine a monster convention audi- torium, but this has not been finished, and we would like to show them a na- tional stadium and e mumber of the other greater capital.features which are in prospect. But taking Washing- ton as it stands today they will find it a great city. ——————— Alaska will get into line for some effective publicity in connection with the President’s visit. It is time that interesting *afd _resourceful section should come into popular ettention on terms which do not involve a stam- pede to locate gold mines. ————— The Ku Kilux Klansmen will hold a parley in Washington, which. is a dis- appointment. . It was hoped that they had come to town to forget their trou- bles and enjoy themselves. ) ——t e mitteemen who think that the inaugu- ral ball ought not to be dispensed with. Old J. B. to Gov, Smith: “You know me, All” A $30,000,000 Total Loss. About twelve years ago @ guest at one of the big New York hotels was taken ill and had to g0 to a health re- wort. He was shy of cash, and left with the treasurer of the. hotel a box lof stock certificates as security for his 'bill. The face value ofuthese certificates was about $80,000,000, ample enough ‘on any reasonable appraisal to cover the charges of even a New York hotel. The man died at the sanitarium a left no helrs, so the hotel kept the box. In the course of time the estate was settled, and the certificates were “val- ued”’ and were found to be worth pre- cisely nothing. The hotel management keeps the box of waste paper.as an ob- ject Jesson in foolish investments, ana the treasurer of the company is now using it to restrain the speculative _impulse of friends who are tempted to buy “stocks that are being bally- *" The names of the stocks in this box A treaty with the U. 8. A. may en- able Turkish politics to develop a sense of moral responsibility. - ——— The Weather Is Safe. Prophets will not let the weather alone. It seems to be their principal concern. While there a kinds of prophets as’ thers are varie- tles of weather, the tribe may be divided into two broad and general classes, wmaro those who hold out for & long winter and @ shogt hot summer, and those who stake <their reputation on'a short green winter and a long cold summer. This spring has seen much ectivity among the cold-summer soothsayers. = Some of these enthusiastic prophets have ar- gued that the summer of 1923 would be as bad as that summer about a hundred years ago, when there was frost in ‘every picnic' and vacation month and corn did not ripen. Condi- tions in April and May seem to have given courage to these prophets, and some of them have been taken .so seriously ‘that it is said a number of women have thought of laying off It is comforting to have the word of the distlguished metédrologists of the weather bureau that long-range Dprophets are just as -apt.to guess ‘wrong as to guess right, and that this summer will probably be like the ayer- age run of summers, even though it bes made @ late start. They belieye that the cherry trees will bear fruit; that “branch” strawberries and green peas will be seen upon ‘our tables: that’ blackberries Will turn {rom green to red and from red to Black, and that next autumn we shall have a harvest moon, old-fashioned . corn-shucking matches and plump pumpkine. It is also gratifying to read that the Smith- sonian Institute has issued.a bulletin setting foyth that there is no.prospect of a second ice age; that the sun is radiating & proper amount of heat and that the glaciérs of our hemisphere are still receding toward. the north pole. ————— Humble and Important Work. Each should do the best he can in any job he tackles. All our childhood copy books held some such sentiment. “The injunction to do this meritorious thing is no doubt written and spoken many more times than it is done. Am- bition often “eats” us. A man longs to do something higher and nobler, and especially more conspicuous and prof- itable, than his present job. The work that he is now performing is nearly al- ways beneath his natural qualifica- tions, and semetimes it is beneath his digrffty. There are many other tempta- tions to slight the job. If this job should be lost there is another. There are always plénty of jobs until a man begins to look for one. Every man knows how it is, and there is not imuch use in writing about it. But the point is this: The average Washing. tonian probably never knew and prob ably could not conceive that & garbage man or an ashman could take pride in his job and perform_ it with such efficiency as to bring him official praise, cash prizes and victorious ribbons. The average man has doubtless assumed that the garbage man or the ashman had no other thought than to get through his work as fast or as slow as possible and clutch his pay check on Saturday night. That he should take singular pride in his work and that there are standards by which excel- lence in that work is judged are things not of common knowledge. Yet here it fs: “Seven colored em- ployes of the city refuse division were summoned from their wagons and, ac- companied by their boss, Supt. Morris Hacker, were lined up before tie Com. missioners in the boardroom. Engineer Commissioner Besson addressed them. They were ‘the winners of prizes of fered by the Twentieth Century Club to highly efficient employes in the city refuse division.” Richard Briscoe and “Uncle” George Pollard were the prize-winning gar- bage collectors; William Nelson end Paul Wanser excelled all others in re- moving ashes; Andrew Perry was the champion trash collector, and Herbert Lewis and Jerry Butler took the prizes offered to street cleaners. In addition to the prizes each winning team of men was presented with a red banner which the wagon of that team is en- titled to carry for two weeks. Think of the physical and moral courage, the heart, stamina, grit and hope which must be in a man to carry him on to victory as a gaybage man, ashman, trashman or street cleaner! —_——— Failure of English excavators to flndl the grave of Pocahontas brings disap- | pointment. However, there is no chance that the tomb of Pocahontas would yield anything like the interest. ing material dug up from the resting place of Tutankhamen. A few. arrow heads and a bunch of feathers would scarcely reward the archeologists for their search, ———— A New York theatrical ;man de- nounces prohibition in terms of emo- tional vehemence. It must be admitted that some of the shows might seem better to a number of spectators if there were a barroom just off the main entrance, as in the old days. ————— His report of an interview. with Northcliffe, if popularly received, may enable Conan Doyle to establish a spe- cial correspondence bureau to provide communications from the other world. ———— Parking regulations, when too strin- gent, interfere with business. The fliv. ver has.at last attained a recognized status as a commercial influence. ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Where! Where are the merry villagers who | _.. warbled, “Tra la la!” When we young folks saw a music show along with pa and ma? The ragtime orchestra today will hesi- tate and sneeze. The trombone has the hiccoughs and seems very ill at ease. The rhythm once 80 simple now pre- sents a curious twist, ‘The’ chorister must have the gift of a _contortionist. : So swift are the surprises, she is wor- ried half to death To know just when' to holler and just ‘when to hold her breath. No more your hear old fellows joke ebout “bald-headed row.” Nobody winks and says, “‘There is-a ballet in the show.” No bevy of fair lasses hurries lightly to the spot Explaining who they are and their re. lation to the plot. +en ‘We miss the old comedian with quaint and nimble skill, And the little prima donna with the S long and lofty trill. And the bushy-eyebrowed villain, ‘who would s¢owl and say, “Ha, Ha!" But most We miss the villagers who Z ‘warbled, "'Tra la la!” ‘What does you mean, ole myle, Aloafin’-glong dat way? « You knows.it's agin de rule Aloiterin’ on Till de’day is gone An’ de ‘stars is smilin’ gay. * Ole mule, what does you mean? . Don’ you know dar's work todo? / Mus' I lick you an® raise-a scene’ T'd bé Joafin’ de samie as you! " P " WASHINGTON - OBSERVATTI Huston” Thompson of the Federal Trade Comimission sails today - for Europe at the oytset of &n extended Inguiry Into. the co-operative market- ng s, m. His first stop will be in Treland, where he will be chaperoned by i* Horace Plunkett, a great co- operative ' authority, and then Mr. Thompson will investigate in.Scat- land and England. He carries letters to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb, famed pioneers “in the ‘co-operative move- ment, and will spend much time at Rochdale, the center of Britain's vast effort in that field. 'On the European continent Russia is Mr. Thompson chief objective. In csarist times the Deasants of ‘that country had devel- co-operative marketing to-an important degree, and it has spread to even wider dimensions during soviet éra. .THompson is persuaded that co-operative marketing is des- tined to obtain an fmmense foothold in_the United States. and believes it the most promising thing in sight, in stabilizing celations between pro- ducer and consumer. Tn Great Britain one-third of commedity business is scheme. * ox x % A handy compendium for those who care for serjous summer reading hi just been 1ssued by the American As- soctatioh for International Concili tion. It js a 171-page brochure con- taining the half-dozen principal off- clal documents dealing with the world court, - After reproducing the statute establishing the court and a list of the nations that have accepted it, the brochure, presents the statements of President Harding, Secretary Hughes, Secretary Hoover and Mr. Root. advo- cating American adhesion, The con- cluding chapter ix an outilne of the court's organization by its American member, John Bassett Moore. e There have been recent suggestions that American fiianciers might finance China or Chinese . enterprises out- side of- the four-power - American- British-French-Japanese “consortium’ formed for that purpose in 1919. This observer is authoritatively informed that the United States government encourages no such free-lancing in turbulent China. There is no curb an private capital, and, if properly in- vested, it may claim full American protection. But Uncle Sam's view is that the consortium principle is the safest and sanest plan for helping China. Once in a while, when proposi- tions are offered to the consortium, they are found beneath its plutocratic dignity. Nothing less noble than a $10,000,000 deal makes an appeal. * % ox The archeological expedition into Central America, just returned from Guatemala was led By a nephew of Andrew Carnegle, Oliver Ricketson jr. Mr. Ricketson has made Feveral trips of exploration among the a cient temples and clties of the new world. He inherits a fondness for pan-American interests from hjs BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Accustomed as people are to regard Africa as one of the v tions-of the globe and as a continent of scorching deserts of sand and of steaming fever-infested jungles, it will come s somewhat of a surprise to the public to learn that in its northwestern corner. there are snow- covered ranges of vast extent and of great height vaguely known as the Atlas mountains, which are still shrouded in mystery. for the reason that because of their inaccessibility and of the fanatic ferocity of the tribes by which they are defended, they have never as yet been explored. Indeed, of all the dark continent, the Atlas range in the northwest is the least known, even the natives of the lowlands at the foot of the mountains beinz apparently afraid to talk. The only man who has ever at- tempted to penetrate the region has been the Marquis de Segonzac, former cavalry officer, scion of one of the oldest houses of the French aristoc- racy, veteran member of the Jockey and of other leading Parisian clubs and the hero of innumerable and well unending series nigh incredible adventures, risks, im- prisonments -and ‘hardships which have fallen to his share in his many explorations of northeastern Africa and of his attempts to penetrate the mysterious mountain regions where, thanks to his scientific attainments and to his knowledge of geology, he has been able to convince himself that the highlands of the Atlas region possess 3 well nigh incalculable amount of mineral wealth. D The gradual extension of French mastery and control of Moroceo up to the very base of the mountainous region of the Atlas has enabled the Marquis de Segonzac to recently make, with the assistance of the French military authorities, a more serious attempt to penetrate these regions untrodden by white men than any vet undertaken, and while his party reached plateaus 6,000 and 7,000 feot above the sea, and scaled heights of 14,000 feet, which enabled them to secure photographs of the veritable succession - of = mountain _ranges, stretching as far as the eye could see and presenting spectacles of gran- deur comparable .only with those of ~snow, .decked Himalayan peaks that met 'the eyes of those who last year attempted to scale Mount Everest, de Segonzao and his party were ultimately compelled to retreat by ' the terrible sno storms, the exhaustion of the ‘pr visions and the lack of the con- trivances and equipment needed to surmount the otherwise inaccessible precipices. The photographs brought back by the marquis and ~his party are extraordinarily impressive. and even the material which they have gathered in this prelmi attack upon the mysteries of this unex- plored corner of Africa will form & notable addition to the works which he has already published on Morocco and which have been crowned by the Academy of France. That de Segonzac's name should now be on every lip in France, and, indeed, throughout tHe scientific rld, is a sort of poetic justice. For Africa, which has proved fatal, not only to many a white man’s life, but also to many a white man’s reputa. tion, but which has now onge more brought fame to the marquis, almost wrecked his entire career some thirty years or so ago, in his younger days. Tt was when he was still in the army, handsome, bearing an illus- trious name, possessed of a consider- able fortune, a prominent figure in Parisian society and on the turf, dashing officer of & crack cavalry regiment, that he was suddenly seiz- ed with & longing for adventure and Volunteered for service Africa. Shortly after his . arrival there he was dispatched, along with a fellow officer of the name of Capt. Quiqueres, on a' mission of explora- tion' into the interior. Some months Jater he returned to the coast alone, the mission successfully accomplish- @d, déclaring that the captain had l'succumbed to” fever in: the interlor. With_his ‘health impaired, the mar- said to be done on the co-poerative |Ci v hottest por- | in West | da: ‘muiti-millionaire uncle. Andrew Car- negie was & delpgate to the first Pan- American Congress at Washington in 1889. He gave $850,000 for comstruc- tion of hington's architectural palace, the Pan-American Union, and provided funds for erecting two Cen- tral American courts of justice, both in Costa Rica. The foutth. pan-Ameri- ean conference, held at Byenogs Aifes 4n 1910, struck’a medal in Carneg! Jiondr, while the fifth conference, just held 4n Chile, voted to have a marble bust bf the ironmaster-philanthropist piticed in the Pap-American Unfon. g e e ‘What promises to be" the world's most authentic and up-to-date trea- tise on_radlo is soon to emerge from | the government printing office, under the spongorship of the Navy. 'Depart- ment.. It will be encyclopedic in’ its completeness, yet popular enough in &tyle for the amateur radio fap, pro- vided he's the possessor of at least a high school knowledge of physics. Commander S. C. Hooper 1s one of the United States Navy's principal radio experte. During " the = Henderson's spring\ junket in southern wdters ‘ommander: Henderson. deliveved._an instructive lecture on the world's radio systems. Within a few hours the. Henderson's passengers were in possession of the lecture,. printed jn pamphlet form aboard the battleship California. . There's. a certain officidl “of . the United States government who has small respect for the statesmanilke qualities of Henry Ford. He.had oc- casion not long ago for important dealings with the emperor of the filv- vers. The officlal emerged from tedi- ous conferences with Ford convinced that, although the Detroiter has be- come the richest man in the world within twenty years, Ford neverthe- less {s a babe in urms as faras knowl- edge of finance and cconomics i con- cerned. “Wouldn't Ford be confront- ed every d. as President, with prol lems that uld baffle his intellect?” thie observer asked. “No, not every day,” was the reply, “hut every Atlec Pomerene, former United States senator from Ohio, recently returned from South America, paid his respects to President Harding at the White House yesterday, and then left for his home at Canton. There, amid scenes often enacted in honor of another fa- mous Cantonian, William McKinley. Pomerene will tonight receive a cere- monial “welcome back home" after twelve years in the Senate. He will not be at Canton long, for Pomerene Iplans immediately to enter law prac- tice at Cleveland with an eatablished firm of corporation attorneys. Messrs. Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. The for- mer senator’s intimate association with enactment of the federal raserve system. the Federal Trade Commis- sion and the traneportation act equips him to deal expertly with corelated problems. Pomerene. despite’ his de- feat “for re-election in 1922, is still a democratic “white hope” in the esti- mation of many admirer. 15: (Copy Explorer Finds Snow-Topped Peaks In Northwestern Corner of Africa; {quis returned to France on leave of | absence. * % % % Not long afterward menced to circulate 5t. Louis and elsewhere glong the west coast of Africa to the effect that Capt. Qui- queres’ death, instead 6f belng the result of fever, was due to a gun- shot wound and reports of foul pl soon became rife. These led the au- thorities on the coast to dispatch a mission .igto the interior for the re- covery of the retains, which. on in- vestigation, proved that death had been caused by a bullet wound in I the «head. On’the relatives of the captain becoming acquainted with this fact. they at once brought charges of murder against the mar- quis, and even went 80 far as to ac cuse him of having shot his « rade in order that he, the junior mem- ber of the expedition. might reap both the credit and the reward for the suceess which it had achieved. The marquis was arrested in France while staying at the chateau of his uncle near Tours and subjected to a long series of harassing examina- tions by courts of inquiry, by vari- ous high dignitarfes of the army and even by the minister of war. to whom he admitted that the version which he had given of the death of Qui- queres was incorrect; that the cap- tain had blown his bralns out dur- ing an attack of delirium tremens and that he had concealed the facts of the case out of consideration for the feelings of his comrade’s family. As usual, the newspapers took sides in the affair, and while the roy- alist press championed the cause of the marqufs, the radical organs were so violent in thelr denunciation of him as the murderer of Quiqueres that the government had no alterna- tive but to hold him in military prison until the matter had been thoroughly cleared up. After nearly eighteen months in jail in. France, he was sent back to St. Louls, on the west coast of Africa, under arrest. to undergo trial by court-martial at St. Louis, * X k % The only witnesses were natives, and while they all agreed that the two officers were constantly quarrel- ing while fn the Interior and ascrib- ed the responsibility for the disputes to the captain, who was continually drunk, some of the evidence was to the effect that he had shot himself, while the other led to the inference that Quiqueres had been shot in an encounter with the marquis, the lat- ter acting in self-defense, and in an endeavor to control him, durihg a fit of delirfum tremens. * % ¥ X Finally the marquis was acquitted and his sword was restored to him. But he felt so bitterly the suspicion which had prevailed with regard to his responsibility for the death of his comrade and the opprobrium lav- ished on his name by the: press that he demanded and obtaired his trans- fer to one-of the Foreign Legion regiments stationed in the most dan- gerous portion of Tonquin, where at the time French troops were in almost daily conflict with black flag pirates, and even a still more cruel enemy— namely, the péstilential climate. He escaped both, greatly distinguish- ed himself. won Tapid promotion as well as the cross of officer In the Order of- the Legfon of Honor, and, returnig to Europe, retired from ‘ac- tive service, and has ever since de- voted himself ‘to the study and ex- plofration of African . problerhs. “He won a commandership of the Legion of - Honor and the croix de guerre during the great war, on the outbreak of which he rejoined the army, and has entirely lived down all the former animosity ‘which the masses, incited by the Tadical press, at one .time manifested toward him. 5 A Indeed, today there are fow name: in France that are held in higher honor by his countrymen and by the scientific world abroad than'that of the Marquis de Segonzac, whose tragic experience with Capt. Qui- queres thirty years ago shows -the r to which explorers are ex- posed when they venture into’ the wilds, beyond the boundaries of ciy- ilization, with only a single white If one of them returns almost certain to expose himself to insinuations, or even to actual charges of having murdered his comrade, the annals of.geographi- cal exploration and of adventura Be- ing full of episodes of that kind. rumors com- | i m- A collége professor of my acquaint- ance tells'te that he is frequently consulted by hig-own students and other young people who feel within themselves the stirrings of poetic activity. Sometimes they want ad- vice; sometimes only an-ear into which to pour their ‘smbryonic imag- inings. Being a kindly person, he listens to many a halting lyric, many a long and dragging plece of blank Verse,: &nd, of course, to “vers libre” withélt limjt. Once in a great while he fs rewarded by.a few lines of real poetic fire. When it comes to the ad- vice, he pever gives any to the vers librists, for they never take any. They always know what they want to say; and, recognizing no rules, consider their own way of saying it as good as another.' 'To other would-be poets the profgssor always gives the same advice. “First, he sends them all to Milton,” Shelley and 'Keats, not for copies; but for-ideals. He. feels sure that after a study of “L'Allegro.” “Il Penseroso,” the -“Ode to the West Wind,”"the “Ode to a Skylafk” and the “Ode on a Greclan Urn,” no one, Lowever immature, will -be content to write absolutely formless verse. Then, as guides in form and possibly checks on too exuberant imaginations, he | ports. recommends several good. works on prosody, such as George Saintsbury’s “Historical Manual of English Pros- . Sidney Lanier's “Science: of English Verse,” J. P. Dabney's “Musi- cal Basls of Verse” and William H. Carruth’s “Verse Writing, a Practical Handbook.” g * % k% That jealousy' and religioys fanat- feism may both become so extreme as to amount to insanity seems to be the theme of Eden Philipots' latest novel, “Children of Men." Jacob Bullstone's inherently morbid, jealous nature Is the only cause for his ab- surd but acute and growing suspi- clons”of the, woman who has been his wife for twenty years. Margery | finds that explanations and reasoning help matters for only brief periods and, indeed, Jacob’ will often listen to neither. When the climax of their domestic unhappiness is reached and he does her an jrreparable injury, she, with her gentle nature, on account of her love for her hore and chil- dren, would forgive hiini but then the religious fanaticism of her self- righteous, unyjelding mother, Judith Huxam, steps .in_ and prevents. Throughout, it is the innocent, lov- able Margery who pays for the seri- ous faults 6f character, almost mental aberrations, of her ' husband - and mother.- Eden Philipotts recognizes that such payment on the part of the blameless is the way of life. He does not, however, permit Jacob Bullstone and Judith Huxam go escape suffering for their own acts. In fact he prob- abiy believes that in the development of his plot he has made them the chief sufferers, but the reader is not o sure of this. The complete victim- 1zIng of Margery by the two dominant characters who control her life arouses far more sympathy. on. the part of at least one reader.than the unceasing, destructive remorse of Jacob and the profound melancholia of Judith, arising from the fear ob- session that after preaching all her life to others she herself may become a castawav. To the reader who loves the Dartmoor of Phillpotts’ novels. the gloom of the tragedy is compen sated by the deseriptiol of the moor- l1ana, the patches of forest where the goats hide, the winding road which runs to Brent. following the rushing | river Auna, Red House with Margery’s | old-fashioned flower garden, Bull- |stone farm which s given to the eldest son, Owley farm which is the | marriage portion of the eldest daugh- ter, and Huntingdon, the white- washed cottage on the lonely moor, where Jacob works out his repentance and his mind'’s salvation. * ok ox X ¢ The opening of the tomb of Tutankhanien has been responsible for such an orgy of Tut styles, dances and objets d'art that perhaps the Booklover may take the occasion to mention some of the interesting Tut hooks, to be less slangy, some books in which Egypt forms the set- ting. There is first, of course, Shake- speare’s “‘Antony and Cleopatra,’ { with fts wonderful description of the ‘barge of the Egyptian queen floating down the Nile. In one of the most famous of historical novels, “Hy- patia,” Kingsley describes Alexan- dria_at the period when the new { Christianity was beginning to dis- {place the old paganism. ~An old- fashioned writer, a favorite of my vouth, but little read today, George Ebers, gives richly imaginative plc- tures ‘of the life and customs of the ancient Egyptians, In his ‘“Tarda” and “An_Egyptian Princess” The prolific H. Rider Haggard has made Egypt his favorite ground for the nts of his extravagant romances, ch as “Moon of Israel,” "Wisdom's ughter,” “The Ancient Allan” and “The Wanderer's Necklace.” Alger- non Blackwood has an Egyptian novel, “The Wave,” as Well- as the original “John Silence” stories. * ok % X | Having recently written his own biography, Edward W. Bok has now employed some more of the leisure brought by his retirement from the Ladies' Home Journal in writing the biography of his father-in-law, Cyrus H. K. Curtis. This blography has the attractive titls, “The Man From Maine.” . As a biography, it is_per- haps not-as readable as Mr. Bok's own, because the personality and life of Mr. Curtis seem to be less varied and dramatic than those of Mr. Bok. Mr. Curtls is presented as a keen business man and successful publish- er, a man of simple habit and New England reserve. His genius as a publisher is proved by his having ac- curately . gauged . the -public .taste in his two magazines, the Ladies’ Home Journal and the Saturday Evening Post. * ok ok * That even Turkey has been affected | by the feminist movement and .is no longer the typleal example among nations of masculine suprem- acy and feminine suppression has been brought to our attention by many recent articles and books One of the most interesting of the books is Demetra Vaka’ nvelled Ladies of Stamboul,” a series of vivid and authoritative sketches of the new women of Turkey. -Demetra Vaka. who iy Mrs. Kenneth, Brown, is well known to American ‘readers'not only \through her books on Turkey and: the Balkan ocountries, “Haremlik” “In the Shadow of Islam,” “A Child of the - Orfent” ‘The Grasp of _the Sultan™ and “The Heart of the Bal- kans’; but also through her articles published in_Collier's in 1918 under the title “In the Heart of the German Intrigue,” These articles were the result of personal Investigations in Greece, which included dramatic in- terviews with Venizelos and King Constantine, at a time when_the two men were not the mést cordial of friends.. Demetra Vaka was born a Byszantine Greek .on an island in.the Sea of Marmora. .She came to the United States at the age of seventeen. Tk K k% Another work on Egypt, and one of whose séholarehip we are sure, is Prof. James Henry Breasted’s “A History ot t” The demand for ‘this standard book has become so great since thg discovery of the tomb that a new edffion has ‘just been brought out. TRe -author is. professor of Egyptology and oriental history in ithe University of Chicago. . * % % % A new “Rootabaga’ volume by Carl Sandburg will bs published next fall under’the title “Rootabaga Pigeons, Mr. Sandl s “Rootabaga -Storie: published affurmn, was one of most discussed books of the season. BY PAUL V. COLLINS A definite policy against bolshevism in the Navy has been adopted, with a view to stamping it ‘out. It is sald that thousands of sailors from forelgn vessels desert their ships every month in the port of New York alone, and many more in other They are lured by the reports of higher pay in the American mer- chant marine. Disappointed in get- ting employment aboard our vessels, because the- merchant marine today is.in & slump, many remain here and seek work in machine and aitomo bile. shops: “These sailors are bringing into this ‘country a vast amount o smuggled “red” literature, and wherever they &0 they are talking_ bolshevism. Un- der our immigration laws they are not entitled to remain in the United States, say Navy officials, and so long as they teach revolution they are “undesirable citizens.” - * xkok The Daughters of the Ameri¢an Revolution of the District of Colum- bia have begun a campaign of educa- tion on the proper- use of the Amer- fcan flag. They have secured the aid of Army and Navy officers to give educational talks, as the general pub-¢ lic pays little heed to the rules and regulations so often printed in the newspapers. The cause of the pres- ent protest is thé many violations of these rules in the decorations in honor of the Shriners. Not only is the flag improperly draped, but clvilians fail to salute it 83 it passes in parade, The hat ould be removed and be held against the left ‘breast while Old Glory is passing. B e For each soldfer who went over- seas the War Department counts one and one-half trophies still held in storage, either in Newark, N. J. or Norfolk, Va. The lots number over 3,000,000 items. They include German cannon of all sizes, 70,000 rifles and 10.000 machine guns and everything else that makes uo a fighting outfit. Among the collec- tion-are paper harnesses for cavalry horses, such as Germany vas obliged to substitute for unobtain- aole leather. The government would like to get rid of thesa trophies by distributing them among the states, hut it has no authority yet from Congress to do so. They are useless, except as trophies, but are of great interest to the men who helped capture them. *x e Half a billion dollars a vear is the cost of America’s candy. The federal tax of 3 per cent brings to the Treasury $1.000,000 & month— and that is based on manufacturers’ prices, not retail cost. The’ account has grown 20 per cent in 1923 over 1922 1f it keeps up the pace we shall be a billion dollar “candy kid” nation before pr’;flh!denl‘h\l term. ere is an institution, located in Chevy Chase, D. C., of which very little Has been known. It is the “Character Education Institution,” of which Dr. Milton Fairchild _is the head. Working quietly along lines peculiar to itself. it has achieved a victory, which the highest of diplo- macy may weil envy, for it has been instrumental in the Setting up of the same children's code of morals in America and Japan. Ak & In 1916 the now deceased Dr. Kel- ogg. of breakfast food fame, offered, through this character education in- stitution, a prize of $5,000 for the best children's code of morals. There weré many eminent competitors for the prize, and seme fifty-two codes were. submitted. The judges were Prof. George P. Ladd of Yale Uni- versity, ~Justice Pitney of United'States Supreme Court and Mr: Philip North Moore of the National Mother's Council. ' The prize was awarded to Dr. Willlam J. Hutchins, president of Berea College. Kentucky. News has reached America that the code has been translated into Japa- nese by President Sawayanagi of the Japanese Educational Association and published for the use of all Japa- nese public schools. No change what- evee was made in the Japanese trans- lation of the code, except that the words adopting the code as the ideal for making “good eitizens of Ameri- ca" were changed to “good citizens of Japan.” The code has also been translated into many other languages, but Japan i the first foreign country to adopt it as its own ideal. ® % X % The code consists of ten “law: ideal character. They relate health, self-control, self-reliance, for to re- Not P'I}:eatx-iml Censorship Is Needed.: An irrefutable answer to the agitation for censorship of plays, pictures and books has just come out of New York Gity. At any rate that is the way Amer- ican editors regard the court decision by which the European drama, “The God of Vengeance,” has been declared obscene and a violation of the penal code, under which the producer and star were fined $200 each and the othef ac- tors given suspended sentences. As one writer puts it, “when the people find a thing, bad enough to warrant action, they act.” The verdict of the jury is “a timely reminder,” the New York Times ob- serves,-“that existing laws furnish ade- quate protection for public morals.” After this demonstration that the ends at which they are aiming may be at- tained *by due process of law,”, Without the need of arbitrary suppression, “the Clean Book League, the Lord's Day Al- liange, the Soclety for the Suppression of Vice * * * Justice Ford and his er." the Hartford Times Suggests, fi:;s;mmw cease firing,” for “there are several other clean-minded people in the world, after all.” The outcome of the case clearly dem- onstrates to_the New York Evening World that “censorship is both unwise and unnecessary,” and that “the ordi- nary processes of law are adequate” and there is no occasion “to delegate the work of judge, jury and prosecutor to professional censors.” Prosecution of the play in question, the paper informs us,**was in the hands of an official who is responsible to the public and who, if he forfeits public confidence, may be ousted at the next election. No prosecu- tlon of this Kihd may be had until such an officer believes there is’a reasonable probability of guilt. Then a jury of twelve men, picked more or Jess at ran- dom, must be unanimous in their opin- ion. Finally the judge exercises discre- n. U engorship, on the other hand, puts the niatter in the hands of an {ndi- vidua) or small group whose personal dards often vary from the gen- atal Thus, “The God of Vei the New York World points out, was given the same treat- ment as is given any offender of the jaw, “It. has been tried by due progess of law, in _accordance with Anglo-Saxon principles of justice. “It has had its day in court and has been found guilty by a jury of twelve citizens on the evidence and with punishment to_ fit.- e only toler- able ‘censorship of 'the stage, the World declares, “rests in the tribunal which is charged with the censorship of other human activities.” o far us concerns the decision it- self, the City (Mich.) Times- Tribune s in it “hope for New the end of the next| liability, clean play, duty, g0od watk- manship, team work, kindness and loyalty. 5 * ok k¥ The institution recently offered an- other. .prize of great importanee prize of $20,000 for tie best method of character education, and the con- test was open to states, not individ- uals: “The award has_gone -to the state of Iowa, although the actual money ‘prize goes to the personnel.of the state collaborators. There wers twenty-six states that competed, each one appointing nine collaborators Fhe committee in lowa was heatted by Prof. Ed D, Starbuck of the Towa College, and he receives $4,000, whila the eight other collaborators each get $2,000. T3 Dr. ;-Ballou, superintdfident = .of Washington schools, is one of the di- rectors of tle.Character Educational Institution, and through it there is to be a contest for the best character education methods for junjor high sohools.: Dr. Ballou will appoint = committee to have the contest in charge, and the method whivh wins will be adopted in the Washington schools. R What is the Character Educational Institution, and how is it managed and supported? Dr. Milton Fairchild 15 wel lin educational circles and s ed highest respect for his scholarship and character. He has devoted T to research work and study in con- nection with character developinent through education. He has had the financial interest of Dr. Kellogs, re- cently deceased, who endowed the in- stitution, and his endowment has been very iiberally supplemented by the { fortune of the late Mrs. Falire A wife of the head of the work ‘The endowment amounts to $1,000.000 now, with a provision that on a certain part of the income is available for current use, the rest to be accumula- tive -until the endowment grows, in the course of a century or more, {o & total of $300,000,000. e ke The board of directors consists of the forty-eight state superintendents of education, together with an exec- utive committee of nine men, headed { by Dr. Fairchild. The other eight of the executive committee are Dr. Ti- gert, United States commissioner of education; Dr. Ballou, superintendent of Washington schools; Dr. Davis, principal of Bus! ss High School of Washington; Secretary Crabtres of the National Education Association, Dean Ruetiger of George Washington University, Mrs. Watkins of the Na- tional Mothers* Council and Dr. Dody of the National Research Couneil. cepting Dr. Fairchild. the founder. 1 hold office on the board by virtue ¢ their public offices,” and th: succeeded automatically on the b by their successo the same D lic offices. * ok & e that the potato crop this season will be short one peck per person. There used to be 2 saying that “every person eats a peck of dirt in his lifetime.” This might be a good time to finish the job, i short of the peck of potatoes. Some folks should choose “sand * % % % Statistics indic; not have the actus! which sw ed Jonah that was ght recently off the coast of Florida, and which is en route to the Smithsonian Institution, but it must be a relativé of the Jonah fish. And now it is almost fried. It was scorched in a fire as it lay in Norfolk, Va., last Thursday. Fortunately it 4id not get away, and the experts are endeavoring to restore the fried parts. Scientists have been-unable to iden- { tify it. It is, therefore, numeless, but it gives ground for a fish stor: is a whopper. 1t is forty-seven fee long, weighs fifteen tous and stomach contained a_400-pound o topus, 1.500 pounds of blackfish and 500 pounds of ock. Imagins Jonah, though he have bee a 200-pound man ould such monster have any difficulty in swa lowing him? | Huge deep-sea mon; float to the surface sink again, if th a certain depth. Scf that there are in the great depths monsters which are bevond the re 1t may be that after this *'is mounted in the Smith- sonian_Institution, where it can be studied, it will be identified. In the meanwhile the skeptics may take this fish as the possible sequel to the whole Jonah story. 1025, by P. V. Collins.) been It fis may i i rs sometimes 1g_unable to rise beyond (Copyright, EDITORIAL DIGEST York,” for “it goes to indicate that the wicked city of Gotham is not yet so hard-boiled as to submit to any- thing that the theatrical producerse may place on the stage” And these same theatrical producers, the Brook- lyn Eagle adds, will now “think twice before seeking profits from sen- sationallsm in the face of a public demand for a clean stage.” . One phase of this application of “soap and water” to the drama in- terests the Milwaukee Journal be- cause of the fact that Sholom Asche, the author of ‘The God of Ven- geance,” is recognized in Europe “as a genius,” what, then, the paper asks, “is the matter with America? Does it not appreciate genius? Is it prudish? We think not. Rather in America is a certain wholesomeness ~that is lacking in the older world. And it s a healthful sign that Americans insist upon drawing the line when realism becomes nauseating.’” “Pas- sion for reallsm has run riot in recent vears in the productions of the stage,” the Syracuse Herald main- tains, “but the realism in too many cases has been of phases of life that the ordinary deeent citizen knows of | only through hearsay and with wkich | he “desires no closer acquaintance | # ¢ » The judge who tried the case in point agreed with the jury that ‘the time has come to clean up the drama,’ and there are many who will ‘with him.” P he dofenders of the play. the Springfleld Union tells us, “claimed that the lesson it contained made it & highly moral play, afd some dra- matia critics have indorsed this state- ment. To the healthy minded Amer- ican, however,” the paper feels. “the theory that morality may be reached by wading through muck is not par- tioularly pleasing. The muck is too often found to’ stick where theé mo- rality roMs off objects the Providenoe Tribune, “if ‘The God of Vengeance; which purported to teaoh a lesson, is considered unfit to be seen, what can be said for the parlor- bedroom-bath forces and suggestive musical comedies whose very obvious purpose is to arouse stimulation and provide what is known as a ‘kick™? They do not even attempt to make vice hideous; instead. they disguise it caretully to make it appear desirable. Tt there is any cleaning up to be done on the American stage there ts much more work to be done with this sort of play than there is with “The God of Vengeance’ For one who_would visit the latter there are hundreds who see the former. The Philadelphia Bulletin _concedes that “perhaps “The God of Vengeance' was less potentially harmful than the prurient ‘bedroom faices’ and similar meretricious productions of recent theatrical his But the paper believes that “for that very reason the sharp example may prove all the more beneficial in warnipg managers fo avold not only lewdness, but oftense to the moral sense of the com-~ munity”