Evening Star Newspaper, June 6, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, . With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, B. C. ‘WEDNZSDAY......June 6, wsa[ THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Stzr Newspaper Company Busfness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office; 150 Nassan St Chicago Office: -Tower Building. Puropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is. delivered by carriers within the elty nt 80 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunduy only. 20 cents per month. ders may be sent by or telephone Main £000. Collection is made by cai at the end of each month. . Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. | Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daity 1vr., 26.00: 1 mo., 50c $2.40; 1 m All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily. only. . 1 0c Sunday only. c Member of the Associated Press, | The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the ‘s’ for republication of all news dis- atehes credited to 1€ or not of n ity ‘paper and also the loc lished ‘hervin. " ATl rights of apectal qi = = - A Brilliant Spectacle. Washington has been the scene of many beautiful and interesting | pageants and parades in the course of | the long vears in which it has been visited by national organizations and representatives of the country at large. But it has never witnessed any- thing more colorful or impressive than the parade of the uniformed bodies of the Ancient Arabic Order of the Mys- tic Shrine yesterday. It was a unique parade, for the ma- Jority of Washingtonlans, for it was the first time in twenty-three years that the Shrine has met in national conclave here. It was brilliant as a spectacle, infinitely varied in_detall, harmonious av a whole, It was nt in that every part of the was represented. It was im- in that it was composed of citizenship of the United | ien of affairs, prominent in} communiti tensely interested in natfonal welfare, active in the pro- of the business of the country. aleidoscope was turned loose on with every color signif untr, ssive offered va in their patrols, chanters and musical organizations. Theie were at least 150 distinct effects. In the brilliant sunlight they shone wand glittered with an indescribable ef- sct. The eye was constantly surprised and pleased and never tired. Then. too, there were diverting fea- tures. surprising maneuvers of the| with case and remarkable expedition. shrill whistles sounded above the notes f the many bands, and suddenly the vigid lines broke.and reformed, intri- | cate movements were executed’ and | or@er was resolved out of seeming chaos, . The chanters, too, furnished excel- music, though their voices were at a disadvantage against the many bands and in the din of the almost constant cheering. Now and then ani. mals, some of them real, added notes of zoological interest. A few clowns cavorted to the .great joy of the younger onlookers. g But on the whole the parade was a dignifled; significant display of the manhood of America, dressed in un- usual but attractive costumes, true to the.type of the order, expressive of the spirit of jollity which underlies the organization of the Shrine, indicative of the cheerfulness and mutual help- fulness which pervade the ranks of this great institutfon. 7 There was food for thought in this display. Why do men associate in such 2 manner and assume such gay array? There is nothing of profit in it for them. It is the eternal spirit of youth manifesting itself, a spirit that it is to | be hoped will never falter, a spirit that keeps the nation young and vigorous and: progressive. There is business enough to keep men active. But it does not need to be eternally solemn | and fun-killing. A country that can send from its ac- tive ranks of workers 25,000 men thousands of miles to march in cos. | tumed parade to express the thought | of .good fellowship is sound and will endure. —_——— The parades of the nobles should be studied by’ Col. Harvey. It suggests some wonderful variations from the conventional styles in knickerbockers. ——— ations Te. Any inhabitant of the original Mecca would have to admit that the old town | was never like this. f —— The Twelve-Hour Day. As between the American Iron and | Steel Institute, which recently; at a| New York meeting, recorded its ap-| praval of the twelve-hour day in the steél industry, and the three repre- sentative church organizations that have just united in a protest against this provision there can be no room for doubt on the score-of public feel- ing on this question. The twelve-hour day, which' is-defended in the report adopted by the institute, is out’of har: mony with existing. industrial - condi- tions. 1t is an anachronism.” In:prac- tically every.other industry the shorter day prevails. In time, and ‘berhaps a short time, it will prevail in the steel industry ‘as well, for it is impossible to | conceive- the: continuance of that long | period of labor in one of the basic in- dustries of his countr¥ in the face of the adoption of the shorter -day in other lines of labor. .- The three church organizations are the, commission on church and social service of the Federal Council of Churches, the social action department of the National Catholic Welfare Coun- cil and the social justice commission of the Central Conference of American ! Rabbis. * It is stated ‘that these three organizations represent fifty million Protestants, - Rontan~ Catholics - and Hebrews, nearly haif of:the American | people. Seldoni hds thgm been such a concentration through’ representative organizations upon any single question affecting the social welfare of the na- tion., While.it .is @oubtless true that there may be dissent in the ranks-of the Mty of thesy three great. church organizations, .undoubtedly the over- whelming sentiment among the mem- bers of the churches thus represented is for the principle which the combined organizations now advocate, the prin- ciple of the shorter working day as & measure of socfal justice and of physi- cal arld moral heaith. Three particular points are men- tioned irf the statement of the church organizations reflecting the point of view of the proponents of the long work day. One is that it is question- able whether men who woark shorter hours actually spend their leisure time at home; another is that the workmen themselves prefer the longer hours, and the third that the shortage of la- bor may seem impracticable to change from two to three shifts. On the first question there is no ground for argument. Whether the workman free from toll spends more or less of his time at home is entirely beside the issue of whether it is right to keep him continuously at his task for half of each day. The claim that the men prefer the longer working day is to raise the question whether they are not compelled to prefer it be- cause they cannot earn enough for the support of themselves and their fami- lies during the shorter day. Finally comes the question of the shortage of labor. Undoubtedly a few during the war period there was a shortage, and any expedient to keep the essential industries active and productive was justifiable. But, save for the limitation of immigration, there is now.no shortage. There is no enjer- geney. Conditions are normal The question, in fine, is whether it is good for the country for so large a number of men to be kept at work half the time in one industry—and that, the most toilsome of all—when in virtually all others the average period of labor is one-third of the time. The Iron and Steel Institute declares that it is desirable and justifiable. The church organizations, representing neariy haif the people of the country, declare to the contrary. The issue is joined, and there ean be no doubt of the verdict of the country on the ques- tion if it should be submitted to it in any manner or form. Modified Parking Regulations. The experience of the first few days of strict enforcement of the “no-park- ing” regulation, applied to the down- town séction of Washington, has conclusively established the necessity for promipt modification of that instru ment. The National Capital has every wish to ingure. the comfort and convenience of its Shriner guests. The sincerity of its hospitality has been and will con- tinue to bhe effectivel, demonstrated. But there is a limit beyond which even the most genuine hospitality may not be asked to extend, and this limit the existing “no-parking” regulations cbviously transgresses. For two week days business, accord- ing to reports from the leading mer- chants of the city, has been brought virtually to a standstill in downtown Washington. Denied the privilege of parking their cars for even the briefest of periods within an extensive restrict ed zone, the residents of the National Capital, together with their welcome guests, have been practically shut off rom normal shopping methods, and as a consequence do not shop. From every viewpoint, that of the mer- chants, the shopper and the visitor, this condition of affairs should not be suffered to continue. Parking upon the Avenue should continue to be prohibited. The one-way street regulations should be continued in force during the week and in the future. But half-hour parking should be permitted under the strictest of en- forcement upon all other streets, until 6 p.m., at which time the streets must be cleared for the night crowds. This is the course of action today wisely determined upon by the Com- missioners, to be put into effect tomor- row morning. Grateful for a wise modi- fication in regulations excellently con- ceived, but proven to be slightly too drastic as a result of the smaller at- tendance to the convention than antici- pated, every Washingtonian or guest should co-operate whole heartedly with the traffic authorities in strictly adher- ing to the half-hour time Jimit placed upon the parking privilege. The brass bands revived a number of old-time melodies with excellent musical effect. It may be that the dis- couragement of ultra-jazz will be def- i initely -included among the joyous and benevolent purposes of the Shrine. —————— ‘Washington, D. C., finds it easy to take care of an enormous erowd of visitors, which is a fortunate thing, as the conventions coming to the Ameri- can capital ‘are likely to be more nu- merous every year. e ——t—— French sailors insist on their native wines while in New York harbor rather than go ashore and take chances on bootleg lquor. ———— As the June climate warms up a& brief pilgrimage to Alaska seems more appropriate and: pleasant than ever, ————— « The Size of the Crowd. It is evident that not as many peo- ple have come to town for the Shrine convention as the estimates indicated. There was ‘talk' of 300,000 on - their way, and some. calculators of the crowd put it as high as 400,000, though it. was plgin that the city could not accommodate -even the smaller - of those numbers. At present it is im- possible to ascertain precisely how many have eome, but evidently not as many are here as were expected. Per- haps there are half of the lower esti- mate. But at 150,000 strangers the city has about all it can comfortably entertain. So it is well that the first estimates were too high and that ail’ who indicated an intention to visit the Capitol at this time did not carry| out_thelr purpose. Xssuredly an additional- hundred thousard could not have witnessed the parade of the uniformed bodies. For every grand stand seat was taken and every window was fillled, while the sidewalks were packed from building. to curb with standing spectators. A materiak addition to.the crowd would probably have caused a most danger- ous congestion. Just why the early estimates ran too high is not yet known. Perhaps | _ THE_EV some thought first to come and when they learned that the city’s accommo- dations were taxed by advance en- gagements changed their minds. Some definitely turned back, members of the motor caravan that started across the continent and ran into muddy roads in the middle west. Whatever the cause the fact re- mains that encugh have come to give Washington all it can comfortably en- tertain. Aad perhaps the occasion is the more enjoyable because the crowd is not greater than it is. Certainly it is better to have had & good time'with 150,000 visitors than to have had 300,- 000 in discomfort: —— ——————— Good lhugo. ment, numerous While WASHINGTON ENING - STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY, OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLI‘AM WILE Observations around about Wash- ington’ were made by this observer yesterday from the _incomparable vantage point of the sky. For nearly two hours he cruised In an F- seaplane of ‘the - gallant aircraft squadron of the Atlantic fieet. Beau- tiful as all the world knows the val- ley ‘of the Potomac to be, its pano- ramic glories need to be enyisaged from aloft. Washington itselt be- comes truly a’city’ of magnificent dls- tances. Even Algxandria develops unexpected pleturesqueness. 3ount unknown: lacks public confidence, and is not now the man for the job. The prohibition commissioner’s friends feel that such an attack is unfair. One of these days some of them may burst forth and tell how Haynes' en- forcement activities are blocked by politics and politicians, Two classic and recent incidents relate to his in- ability to secure the appointment of a federal prohibition director for II- linofs and to_the overruling of his choice for a New Jersey director in favor of an appointee preferred by the politicians. Nk Louis C. Cramton, representative Othef * features | Vernon and its sylvan environs are:from Michigan, who would like to see mark the convention' of the. Shriners |loveliness Incarnate. As for an aerial}the Treasury spend 350,000,000 on than the parade. of the .uniformed bodies yesterday, the manner in which that spectacular displdy. was conduct- ed stamped the convention as a suc- cess. The parade, to begin with, was started strictly on time. There was no long wait. The route' was: kept clear for it from first to last. There were no halts or breaks. The order march was strictly obsetved, and it was possible to follow the organiza- tions and identify them even if the dis- tinguishing banners were obscured. No accidents marred the occadion. The heat caused some of the specta- tors to become faint, and’ théy. were promptly treated. thanks to the per- fect ambulance service that was main- tained by means of the numerous call stations along the line of march. The police had little to do save to guard the lines, and to give access across the Avenue from time to time to those Who wished to pass to one side or the other. The Boy Scouts were helptul in serving drinks of water to the march. ers and in carrying messages. It is a remarkable fact that only one accident was reported, although fully half a million people were assembled along the route of the parade, and that was the result of an effort to raise a chair to a window, and was not of a serfous nature. The smoothness with which this af- fair was managed was a high credit to the organization taking part and to the local committee in charge. It was a most satisfactory ult of many weeks of careful preparation. i re: ————— Carnival. The marval of the festival spirit of the Shrine gu of the capital was evident last evening. when for hours after the Avenue fllumination was turned on that great street was thronged with carnival-making people. tens of thousands swarming back and forth hetween the Capitol and the Treasury and through the Garden of Allah. The indefatigible bands marched to and fro and played, as if they had never walked a-step or blown a note during the day. The crowds cheered as lustily as if they had never opened their mouths since morning. Ther was nothing especial “doing.” No pro- gram was arranged for public enter- talnment. The people simply “went downtown™ and walked about, secure from the traffic, with unstinted laugh- ter for the antics of the impromptu funmakers. Then, at a late hour, they went home tired and happy. And the marvel of it all was the jndustry of the musicians, who counted no hours and begrudged no efforts to give pleds. ure. Washington will long remember those Shrine bands. i —_——— Historians who might seek to intro- duce siighting suggestions concerning American incidents and heroes only waste their time. The boys and girls of the ‘country enjoy unlimited nppoh’ tunities for independent reading and have a way of thinking things out for themselves. —_——— Times have changed since ‘the days when old John Barleycorn considered it his privilege to ring in as an osten- tatious figure in every assemblage of men on pleasure bent. ———— In order to permit every individual to view all the extraordinary features of the Shrine program it would be nec- essary to extend the engagement- for at least two weeks. - —_— Delmonico’s restaurant has been per- mitted to become extinct, which seems a deplorable waste of years of the best advertising a dining place ever en- Joyed. : ———— A joint debate on the league of na: tions between the chairmen of the two great national committees might prove | 2! s enlightening. The question of how much she shall pay is one that Germany never tirés of discussing. —————————————— SHOOTING STARS. g DY PHILANDER JOHNSON. - Advice. Advice is something very fine. s Most bcople sometiffies need it.” Yet as it's passed along the line There are but few who heed it.” The warrior gets advice in bales. The statesman always hears it. °, Whenever any project fails The wise ones shdw what queers it. There’s many an honest man and true| ‘Who scorns to seem a shirker And seeks instruction with a view To be & willing warker. . But lofty analysts of: fate s ‘Will often leave you surely, Most good advice arrives too late * Or else it lands too eerly, . . And even when it seems to touch .* Your need you Tearn to hate it You find they hand you out so much You can't accommodate it! The Gardener. Oh,let us all rejoice once: more. ‘The vernal skies are bright. , ‘The garden seeds down at the store Once more our hopes invite. = - ‘We'll watch the tender leaves.and buds And pray for sun or shower 1 And raise 'most everything:from spuds. To-kale and ‘caullflower. .-~ Oh, let us greet the crowd once more That gayly gathers 'round. - =~ ° THe cutworm, as in days. of yore, 1s working through the. ground. ‘The grub that makes the butterfly. Displays pernicious zeal, .. - o And everything that wanders by. 1s looking for a meal, E “} Catholic Churc] ties with regard to A hike in_ Lient. Henderson's bus, no flivver, limousine, street car,' Pullman or elevator could possibly: provide easler -riding. Even when we were dropping smoke bombs, almed - with uncanny accuracy at a moored target 700 feet below, this land-lubber pas- senger was unaware of any interfer- ance with the deliciously even temor of our way. Manned by the splendid sailormen of the Navy's aircraft units, such a thing as mind of those who fiy in them. : LRL L S Observed at the Anacostia naval air station: That last thidg bafors going up is polite request to sign a “release.” ab- solving Uncle Sam from responsibil- ity for unexpected happenings; also to give name of next of kin, to be notified in case you are “bumped oft.” | That first thing after golug. up,is the stuffing of your ears with cotton wool, to keep out deafening roar. of propellers. : That Capt. Qsami Nagano. Japanese naval attache, was a keenly in- terested spectator of the preparations for mock war in the air. That our air sailors, offtcers and men are 1.000 per cent enthuslastic about their jobs. o Walter Folger Brown of Opies who has just returned to Washington aft- er acting as itinerary advance agent for President Harding. continues tq be conspicuously mentioned as the O. I". campaign manager for' 1924 Brown will gd out ahead ‘of. the President’s party later in the month to see that the ways are greased at every possible point The former progressive chieftain is widely- ac- quainted in the west, dating, from 1912 days when he was an important cog in the Bull Moose machine. -1t is because of Brown's close associa- tion with the Roosevelt moyement that he is considered an ideal pacifi- cator for the purposes of next year's rresidential campaign President Harding has great esteem for him. He tried hard to send. Brown.,to Japan as ambassador in 1921 3 * ¥ k% s In page advertisements of many American newspapers, : Iy read monthly periodical is boom- ing an article entitled “Who~ is Haynes—and Why?" appearing in its June number. The advertisement says Haynes hon upright, hard-working. long-time belisvér 3 best —but is a wide- a e | of | copt 5 the foe—is remotest from the : lification movement. [ pronibition enforcement, 1s & long- |ume dry advocate. Still on the sunny side of fifty, Cramton is expected to bring to prohibition leadership in Congress a little more vigor than Andrew J. Volstead, who is sixty- three, was able to supply. Cramton is ‘sure to be valiant in the fight against snread of the New York nul- He was a co- author of the WarnerCramton liquor law, enacted by the Michigan legis- lature as the state enforcement code. Cramton is a_graduate of the Univer- ity of Michiran. lawver by profes- slon. once published a newspaper and 15 entering unon his sixth su term in the House. l L Vancouver is making preparations to welcome Harding on July 26, slon to. speak in the metropolis of British Columbia is the result of more than <a year.of negotiation, begun Twhen Sir Auckland Geddes, British {ambassador to Washington, was at Vancouver, In 1922. Barring a hand- shake with’ Diaz across the Mexican baorder by President Taft and Presi- dént's ‘'Wilson’s trin to Europe, Mr. Harding's sojourn on Canadfan soil will be the only occasion of a United States President’s nresence on foreign | territory. The British Columbians ifae] a bond of special kinship with {their fellow North Americans south {of ‘the Dominion line, Vancouver is | very much of,a go-ahead Yankee { community, wifh tall buildings and {railroad “ and pért life destined. one day.to make it a worthv rival of neighboring Seattle and of San Fran- cisco. elaborate President * % ¥ *Appointment of Brie. E- Nolan, U. S A, to an assistant chiefship of staff at the War Depart- ment brings back to Washington one of ‘the big flgures of the Amerlcan expeditionary forces. lan was | Pershing’s’ chief, of intelligence, and no man, even in the active combatant branch of the Army, rendered more vital service to our cause In France. When Nojan_ went Surope with Pershing in May, 1917, the Army in- telligence ser conslated of him- self. two assistant officers and a type- writer. By the time of the armistice we were in possession of a * G-2" divi- sion, the peer of anything in the field. Nolan was its creator. If war ever overtakes us again, “M. L will be ready. Gen. Nolan for the past two years has been with the field artillery division at Fort Sam Houston, Tex. (Copyright, 1923.) Gen. Dennis to Grand Master of Teutonic Order Asks Pope for BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Of all the members of the historic house of Hapsburg, the one Who pre- sented the most imposing appearance at the great state functions at Vienna in the days when his family still occupled the ancient thrones of Austria and of Hungary was undoubtedly Archduke Eugene, whose stature of six feet five inches was enhanced, if that were pos- sible, by the striking garb which he wore on all official occasions as the grand master of the so-called Teutonic order. The dress was White, with a great black cross woven on the breast of the doublet and another black cross on the long, white cloak hanging down from the shoulders. It wasdifficult to look upon the archduke, or any of the knights of his order, officially styled “Deutsche Herren” (the gentlemen of Germany), without belng reminded of the knights of thesholy grail, in “Par- sifal.” Nor did the archduke's appearance alone pecullarly. it him for the grand mastership of this anclent and famous order. For he was a strange mixture he soldier and of the ecclesiastic. ?,’Ik; all other members of his housef. Eugene, who s a younger brother of the queen mother of Spain and of | ke Frederick, received the train 3\‘:‘::“- soldier and was reputed by m\lr itary experts to be a skillful lvnder. of cavalry, and at the time of lhe. over- throw of the dual empire had won his way up to the rank of fleld marshal. This did not prevent him from turn- ing his attention to theology, for which he had a strongly developed taste, and he passed all the regular examinations f the faculty before recelving the de- gree of doctor of divinity. Soma twenty five years ago the arcl oL mutz became vacant, and he entreate his uncle, the late Emperor Francis Jo- seph, to permit him to resign the com- mission which he then held as com- imanding colonel of the 13th Hussnrs: with the object of entering gll‘flulu‘l) ‘upon a full fledged ecclesiastic career, and of becoming the ‘Archbishop of Olmutz. He poited out to his uncle that there was a precedent in the Hapsburg family for the step which he wished to take, since Arch- duke Rudolph, son of Emperor Leopold 11, whose name is still remembered in the musical world as the disciple, friend and patron of Beethoven, died as car- dinal and archbishop. Francis Joseph, however, declined to yield, but by way of compromise. promised 'to nominate Eugene to the grand mastership of the Teutonic Order in succession to the late Archduke William, the grand astership carrying with it all sorts ‘of prerogatives as well as an income of over $1,000,000 per year, derived from the immense endowments of the order. * % ¥ ¥ 1t must not be confounded with the Brder of Malta and was instituted after the slege of Acre in 1192 by the cru- sader emperor, Henry VI of Germany. from any bourgeols strain in their blood for sixteen genérations on_ the father's side as well a8 o the mothers, ‘were to belong exclusively' tothe " Tautonic r German nation, whith 'had sustained Freat lonses at the siege of Acre. Pope Celestine_commanded that they should pe styled “Knights of St. Mary” and that they 8hould be clad in white and wear a blagk -cross on their habits, mantles, standards and arms. Their first station was at Acre. After the fall of Jerusalem they moved to Venice, and from thence to Germany. They are bound by vows, not mere- Jy of celibacy,.but likewise of chastity, the members of the order being regard- ed in mu‘cg Jlu pame ‘:ecl‘ug'n»:wllgh: uly ore priests of the Roma: o tholte Fortunately, there is in the vows of ‘the order the saving clause of “Castus Tanquam Posse” (a8 aste as ble), and although the seriousness of the character of Arch- ‘duke Eugene helped him to keep his name unsullied by ‘tose frivoli= {alr sex which nstitute . & hers trait - of uncle 1dj of bUrg, , ol b e o Sk Heaier. (i Jolly old Archduke Willlam, took the llt was decreed ‘that the knights, free shopric of Ol- | Leave to Take Wife | fullest of advantage : Posse.” the_ “Tanquam oo Now, however, the Archduke Eugene, white haired and white beirded and in ihis_sixtieth year, is. nccording to ca- |ble dispatches, about to depart from [ the celibacy of a lifatime and to take advantage of the “Tanquam Posse. For he has addressed to Pope Plus XI a petition to grant him pontifical dis pensation from his vows. It seems that iin order to protect the huge endow- ments of the order, of which as grand master he had exclusive control, from the danger of confi publican” governments of Austria_and in particular of Czechoslovakia—from that confiscation” which had overtaken eversthing that appeared to belong di- rectly or indirectly to the Hapsburg | dynisty—he has resigned the grand { mastership of the Teutonic order, along with all its revenues and its truste of the property, to the Rt. Rev. bert Klein,Bishop of Brunn, in Czecho- slovakia, has surrendered the castles of the order in which he made his home and has retired to the neighborhood of Basel, in Switzerland, where he is liv- ing in extremely 'modest circum- stances and in the utmost retirement ion a relatively small pension granted { him by the order. It would appear that the effect of the disappearance of all the ecciesias- {tical and military court, by which he was surrounded, as well as his releaso from the activitles and obligations im- posed upon him by his rank in the army, by his administration of the Teutonic Order and of its property and by his status as an imperial prince of the then rcigning house of Austria-Hun- gary have all contributed to create in him a great feeling of loneliness and that it is this that has resulted in his becoming susceptible to feminine sym- pathy, companionship and devotion, That is why he Is anxious to wed and 1to seek relief from the melancholia which is clouding the eventide of his iife. The lady involved is said to be- long to the minor ranks of what was iformerly the Austrian nobllity and to share many of his tastes. * X X % Lord Monkswell, who has just lost his brother and next heir, the Hon. Gerald Colliet (leaving a little son of ten by ‘his marriage with Sir Evelyn Mountstuart Grant Duff's sister), spent some years at Washington, during the presidencies of McKinley and Roosevelt as secretars of the British embassy and bears a name that was at one time very familiar in the United States, figuring in its history. Eminent in interna- tional law, the first Lord Monkswell, father of 'the present peer, made 5o memorable an argument in the case of the Fellcidate pirates that Minister Adams used it as the basis of his de- mands upon the British government for the detention of the Confederate crulser Alabama in the Mersey. That demand and the argument of Lord Monkswell, upon which it was based, led to action by Great Britain, though not before the Alabama got away—a getting away for which the Geneva court of arbitration mulcted the Brit- ish nation to the tune of $15,000,000. The late Lord Monkswell was a most versatile and accomplished 'man, an artist of po mean merit, his paintings. finding "a place ‘on the walls of the Royal Academy. He _translated 'the “De Corona of Demosthenes” and was recognized as the finest amateur bil- liard player in England. His artistic talents he bequeathed to his_younger son, the Hon. John Collier of the Royal Academy, one of the most successtul portrait painters in London and whose so-called problem pictures, entitled “The Death Sentence” and also “The Cheat,” have been exten- sively reproduced. on both sides of the Atlantic/ and have furnished as much discussion here:in America-as in Eng- land. John Collier .married first one of the daughters of the late Prof. T. H. Huxley, the eminent scientist and privy councillor, and after her death her younger sister. It is only since the repeal of a few years before the war of the English law. prohibiting mar- Friages with-deceased wife's sisters that his sons by second mrrl.fi haye :be- some Jegitimate and’have been. placed I the line of ‘succession to t rage of their childless .uncle, Lord mm- well. His final deci- | tion by the re- | JUNE 6, 1923 Politics at Large: BY N. 0. MESSENGER 85 far in advance of a presidential campaign seldom has there been existent such interest in national politics as prevails now, especially within the democratic ranks. The action of Gov. Smith of New York last week In signing the bill re- pealing the prohibition enforcement law of that state has created a tense situation in the democratic party over the question whether modification of the Volstead act and a demand for the legal use of light wine and beer is or 1s not to be an issue in the next presidential campaign. The question i regarded as being more pertinent to the democratic party than to the republican, for the latter party is in all human prob- ability likely to take the side of the ldrys whenever the issue arises. 1 * k¥ % A resident of Washington, who talked with Gov. Smith a day or two before the executive signed the repeal bill, brings back with him an interesting account of a conversation with Gov. Smith, which throws an illuminating light upon the gov- ernor’s recommendation, in the mem- orandum which, accompanied the signing of the bill. This informant says the governor remarked that in making the recommendation he was gulded by the realization that 10 per cent of the voters may be considered as embracing what the . governor called “the fanatical wets and the fanatical drys” That is to say, he explained, the extremes of the two elements—those who would go to the extent of absolutely wiping every vestige of alcohol off the earth—the “fanatical drys” and those who make no of wanting a)l the al- ' an get—and the strongest of its kind; thg “fanatical wets.” Intermediate of these two classes are the rest of the voters, who are intent upon moderation. who realize the -unsatisfactory conditions now and who are seeking a_practical so- lution of perplexing conditions. Gov. Smith, the informant said. feels very deeply on the subject and wants to find a way out of the maze that now prevails which: will be satisfactory to the 90 per cent of the voters out- side the 10 per cent of “fanatics.” * * ¥ % * It is pertinent, in_elucidation of the foregoing. to reiterate what Gov. Smith said in his ‘memorandum on this subject: “It is impossible.” he wrote, “to di- vorce from the public mind the im- pression that the definition of an intoxicating bheverage as contalning not ore than one-half of 1 per cent of alcohol was written by the fanatical drys in deflance of the gen- eral experience of mankind and of actual fact. “It sees to me that common sense. backed up by good medical opinion, can find a more sclentific definition of what constitutes an intoxicating beverage. Such a definition should be adopted by Congress as a proper and reasonable amendment of the Volstead act, and a maximum alco- {holic content “should be prescribed by Congress which would limit all states to the traffic in liquors which are, in fact, non-intoxicating within the meaning of the eighteenth amendment. “Subject ‘to that limitation, each state should therefore be left free to determine for itself what should constitute an intoxicating beverage. ates which then wished to limit traffic to beverages containing not more than one-half per cent of alco- hol “would be free to do so and those which desire to extend the traffic to the maximum limitation al lowed by federal statute would be equally free to do so. There could be, within the limitations of the max- imum, many differences of degree. xtending even to the complete pro- bition by some states of trafec in liquor containing any alcohol what- ever. | * % % % It may be construed by some that this suggestion of Gov. Smith's is in fact a form of local option. That is, indéed, believed by some of his triends to be what the governor has in the back of his mind—not the local option of old, under which a community decided whether it want- ed whisky and beer or not, because there was in the old local option plan no restriction upon the alco~ holic content. Under Gov. Smith's plan the eighteenth amendment would not be |violated. That amendment prohib- ited traffic in iIntoxicating beverages. and Congress defined an intoxicating taining more than one-half of L per cent of alcohol. It could just as eas- ily, it is held, set the limit at 5 or 6 per cent for beer and 10 or 15 for {light wines. i * x oo Then, with this federal maximum fixed, Gov. Smith would allow the state legislatures and the voters to decide whether the people of the state wanted to avall themselves of the maximum limit. Towa could re- fuse to take advantage of the max- imum, being a dry state, and New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states could avail themselves of it . Smith classes himself in the memorandum as an inveterate foe of the saloon, which institution he says can never and should never be re- {instated in this country. * ¥ *x % Politicians declare that discussion and consideration of the New York executive's suggestion is certain to find echo in the national campaign of 1924. It will be to a marked ex- tent, it is predicted, a feature of the congressional campalgn. If the dem- ocratic party in its national plat- form should recommend modification of the Volstead act, every candidate for. election to the national House of Representatives and to the Senate Wwould be expected to stand on_ the platform or quit the contest. If it should not be a part of the platform in words and terms explicit, the poll ticlans_can aver that many candi- dates for the House will elaborate the natlonal platform by declarinyg that they will vote for modification it elected. * k X X To ‘that extent the Smith plan also will find sympathy among many re- publican candidates. 1t is to be re- membered that in New York and New Jersey some republican members of the next Congress were elected last November on_their personal declara- tion during the campaign In favor of light. wines and beers, although the state ‘platform upon which they ran made no reference tothe subject. * ok k¥ Politicians in both parties are con- vinced that the Impetus given the movement for modification of the Volstead act by the passage of the repeal bill through the New York legislature and its signature by Gov. Smith cannot fail to be reflected in the national campalgn of next year. In a Few Words. 1 don't think there is a busier man in this country than I am. I have gc' 1o keep the democratic party straigh:. I have got to see that prohibition f enforced, and I have got. to. se>_thai ion is_defended. religton 8 T *TENNINGS BRYA . In twenty yearg Germany. will (he mr.-:.u.‘?h mfl'un dn Burope,, \vl?; & monarchial government patiernac after that of Great Brifain. * —DR, MAX KEMMERICIL beverage to consist of anything con- | CAPITAL KEYNOTES %_ BY PAUL V. COLLINS, The business of homemaking, says the President, is the greatest indus- try: of America. It employs 20,000,- 000 women, of' whom 18,000,000 do thelr work without help. Yet there has been toc little attention given to the possibilities of labor-saving apparatus in the home. Until two years ago there was no organized effort to make research as to what could be done to relieve the tired housekeeper. Now the Better Homes Association has spread its in- fluence not only all over America, hut into Canada. Australia, the Philip- pines and other countries. * ok ok ok There have been unappreciative re- marks about the erection of the replica of John Howard Payne's boy- hood home, which stands temporarily behind the Treasury, and was dedi- {ecated last Monday. The criticisms were due to misapprehension as to the purpose. The home is “humble,” but that is what inspired the immor- tal song—“Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.” The National Federation of Wom- en’s Clubs, through whose initintive fhe movement came intn existence believes that if this replica fnepires greater attention to the things in the average home which mav be im- proved it will have well served fts nurpose. Lahor-saving machinery they sav, may well disnlace the broom, the washtub. the coal or wood stove.. the ‘lamp. the thousand and one Items of the old-fashioned daily grind. Electriclty is the modern housemaid of all work. % wcwly Surely such modern equipment must take off more than half an hour a day from the necessary drudgery. How much does that amount to fn a vear? Tt is 18215 hours. The leaders of the better homes movement campaign argue that a man who works more than farty-four hours a week feels that' he is abised; he is ready to strike: he demands time and a half with aZ bonus for overtime. Women have bgen working from ten to four- teen hours a day. with no honus. Now. [t iz allezed, there .comes a means of reducing that by at least thirty minutes a'd Shall she not have that time for a vacation, when Ishe may take Dr. Cummings’ pre- crintion. “hy getting away from the family and have a chanee to rest tired nerves by talking to other women? Counting the man's ‘work week at forty-fgur ho the saving of the woman's drudgery by. thirty .minutes a day’ amounts” to more than a month's vacation annually. If she is not gettinz that vacation, the Bet- ter Homes Assoclation wants to know the reagon why. P2 Some :of the enthuslasts are specu- lating ¥s to what would happen if the 20,000,000 homemakers were to form a union and go out on strike until they are taken out of the steel foundry class, to hours, and put on an elght-hour plan. They are hoping -that with better homes, equipped with labor-saving machin-’ e some of the dreams of girihood will come to life. Some may get time to read goqd literature or cultivate their love of art, musical or pictorial or the feminine refinements of the jhome beautiful. Even with recent emancipation of women. how many yet senge the possibilities of thelt new freddom? This, declare the ad- vocates aflf the better homes move- ment, i8 not polities: it is social economics and“hIgher civilization. 2 Lk K k¥ People often sit up all night to watch an eclipse of the moon. They it Q. About how many national or- ganizations have their headquarters in Washington?—M. W. A. This city has become the head- quarters of more national organiza- ticns and associations than any other city in the country. A recent compilation, admittedly incomplete, lists almost 300. A few of these organizations have erected fine bulld- iings that contribute materially to the beauty of the city. Among these are the Amertcan Red Cross, the Daugh- ters of the Revoiution, the National Academy of Science and the Ameri- can Federation of Labor. One of these feature buildings will hefl the new home of the Chamber of Com- | merce of the United States. The Scottish Rite Temple, on 16th street, and the proposed new edifice on the old Dean estate. on wWhich the Ma- sons will spend millions, are illus- trative of what fraternal orders aiso are floing to enhance the attractions of Washingtow. l Q. What is the estimated average number of visitors coming to the National Capital daily?—G. B. A. It is said that more than 9,000 visitors—from every corner of the world—register at Washington ho- tels every day the year round. Q. Where does Washington get its water supply?—G. N. SR . From the Great Falls of the Potoma by an aqueduct twelve miles jlong. The waterworks are owned by the government. All funds from the water tax are kept separate from the general fund, and are used to ndintain and improve the water sup- ply. A sand filtration plant is part of the system. B . Why are there in Washington? D. A. All buildings are regulated by District authorities according to the width of the streets. . Who was the founder of the Sn‘;lnhsonmn Institution?—K. J. A. The Smithsonian Institution was founded in 1846 as the result of 2 bequest made in 1829 by an Eng- lishman. undér the assumed name of James Smithson, who had never set foot on American soil. no skyscrapers Q. What famous vessel was con- structed in the Washington navy yard?—A. K. A. The Wasp, which played an active part in the war with Great Britain in 1812, was constructed in 1806 at the Washington navy yard. Q. How miany churches are thers in Washington?—J. H. W. A A recent -survey lists 215 churches and missions in the District of Columbia. This includes such or- ganizations as the Salvation Army Volunteers of America, etc. Q. Where is the Oldroxd collection of Lincoln relics?—J. G. R. A. They are housed in the bullding in which Lincoln died—316 10th street northwest. The government owns this small brick dwelling, but the collee- tion is a private one. to which Capt. Oldroyd has devoted many years. While a price has never been set on the collection, Henry Ford made an offer of $50,000 for it. This offer was refused. | 4Q. How: ntany miles of streets are there in the District? . : - A, There aré 537 miles paved and Emplved. o | thought sometim. | premises with servants. even refrain from attending church on Sundays if there is to be an eclipse of the sun. Next Sunday, when Sun- day will be only one minute old, there will be a total eclipse of intoxicating liquor aboard forcign vessels in American ports. So rules the Treas- ury Department, carrying out strict- 1y the decision of the United States Supreme Court. Will there be a mid- night watch? That will be epochal in American history, whatever may be the out: come when Congress meets In De- cember. The Treasury, being an ex- ecutive branch of the government, had no discretion, but is obliged to carry out whatever law Congress en- acts, especlally after the Supreme Court construes the law. ook % Won't somebody stop the squabble betwecn the chairmen of the national committees of the two great and good political parties? 1If they continue to dispute over sugar and the league like they are doing they'll get “all het up” and there might not be any election until they cool off. Maybe the great party leaders think some- body 15 reading their arguments, even WIth tue thermometer at 100, and Washington trying to teli the visi- tors that “this heat is quite wnusual for Washington.” Who reads poli tics now? * ok ok ¥ One lasting effect of this week's Shriner decorative gayety In Wash- ington will be a stricter enforce- ment hereafter of the law of the Dis- trict regulating the use of the flag Never again will the American flag in the District be draped in the form of a butterfly ot contorted in an: other fantastic shape. The Daugh ters of the Amerjfcan Revolutton and the Waomen's Auxiliary of the Amer can Leglon have comblned their forces in protest and before the next decorative stunt they will be pre pared for organized prosecution of the widespread deflance of the con- gressional law on the subject. It is hard to sing “Oh, say can vou see” when all that is seen’is a red, white and blue butterfly. * ow o % The weather man h: overdone hi duty in providing a Sahara temper:s ture this week. It was not necessury to poke up the sun to this degree just to give the Shriner desert cara vans a warm welcome. Damp Turn on the rain. We are not & camels. * ¥ X % Secretary Herbert Hoover is to standardize everything if he kecps on the job long enough. Now he has Hooverized the language and issued a Hoover dictionary for the use of | builders in making up specifications Words are useful in concealing but when they are used in building contracts, words without very definite meaning, are expensive playthings. The Hoove vocabulary will become obligatory it all government departments in mak ing_contracts. If this dictionary could be un abridged’ so as to be used in Cor gress in planning bills, and especially in arguing them. Congress might fi ish so as to have an eleven-month vacation every year. The . Capitol would become as efficient as one of the “hetter home: When Hamlet jvas asked what he was reading he “answered furfously Words. words, words!” Must hav had the Congressional Record « some of “the other party's speeches.’ (Copyright, 1928, by P. V. Collins.) Answers to Questions Ahout 3 Washington for the Shriners By Frederic J. Haskin. Q. What _styles of architecture are Tepresented. in Washington—I. M. A. The following are the principal styles represented: Treasury, Greei lonian: Patent Office, Greek Doric Library of Congress, Renaissance. Sithsonian Institution, Norman; Post Cffice, Romanesque; National Museum Neoclassie. Q. Of what material is the Capitol built’—F, L. A. The center bullding Is of sand- stone, painted white: the Senate and House wings are of marble, and tha dome s of cast iron coated with copper. Q. How much harbar has Washing- ton?—C. S. P. A. It has two miles of well de veloped harbor and sixteen miles of harbor that is still undeveloped. Q. What is the cost of maintaining the White House?—G. R. B. A. The expenses of running the White House this year, according to estimates submitted to Congress, will be about $124,000. This sum main- tains for the President a house and srounds, heats the house, lights both house and grounds and staffs the Among the expenditures will be electric Tght, $8.600; installation of a new refrig- erating stem, $4,000; renovason $6.000; gas bill, $430: general upkeep of the grounds, $10,000. Dhe Presi- dent pays his own grocery bill, Q. What members of the Washing- ton family are butied in the Mount Vernon tomb?—S. N. A. The new tomb contains, hesides George Washington and his wife, Maj. Lawrence Lewis, Mary Lee Wash- ington Herbert (a child of the Rev. W. P. C. Johnson), Mrs. Jane Wash- ington, Judge Bushrod Washington, Ann Washington (his wife) and John Augustine Washington. Q. How does Washington ran! an educational center?—F. O. B. A. The District of Columbla is tha largest center of learning in America, with its 100,300 pupils in collezes and schools, public and private. To familiarize one’s self with the historic ‘palt uf’w:amnzwn is an education n itself. $ k as Q. How much money has the gov- ernment invested in industrial estab- lishments?—H. M. A.The government operates eleven distinet “industrial = establishments that Tepresent a total capital invest- ment of more than $§5,000,000. They operate at a total expense of $59, 074,899, Q. When was the Capltal of the United States moved from Philadel- phia_ to Washington and at what cost?—F. S. A. George Washington chose the new site for the government, but he did not live to see the actual re- moval from Philadelphia. On May 28, 1800, in pursuance of .the act of Congress of ten years previous, the moving of the federal government began. The books, papers, furpiture and other paraphernalia wera brought from Philadelphia to the new site in sailing vessels, which went around by the Delaware and Chesapeake bay and“the Potomac river. Official records show that it cost the gov- ernment. onmly 364,000 for removal of its ofices and archives, ‘This sum in- ¢luded ‘the-expénses ofthe clerks of the various departmen “ (Té be continued tomorrow.)