Evening Star Newspaper, June 9, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. June 9, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company R sipess Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania A Nem Work OMce: 150 Nasstn Chicags OMers Tower Buiidiag. Puropean Offee: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star. with the n, is delivered by carrlers 60 cents per month; dalls onls, 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- dars may be sent by wail, or telephone Main anday morning thin the city 5000, " Collectlon is made by carriers at tae | end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 vr., $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Daily only 1 yr.. $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sundav only 1¥r., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. . .1y, $10.00: 1 mo., 83¢ ...1yr. $7.00: 1 mo., 60c 1yr., §2.00;1mo., 25¢ only. ... only. Member of the Associated Press, Tie Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of wll mews dis- patchies credited to it or not othierwise credited In this paper and mlso the local news pub- Haled herein. ANl rights of publication of 1 dispatches herein are also reserved. Recognition for Women. Prosident Harding and Chairman Adams of the republican ‘national com. are reported as having agreed ! nee last night on a policy of | increased sgnition to n in the party ¢ red capacity o committes until furth taken. Furthes the committee mects in this city an n nore, it is stated. n be when December to issue the call for the tignal convention of 1924 a resolutior will be proposed recommending tha the convention auth of a woman fi national committee standing with committeemen. 1d be. The d + has included wom- ship since the na- 0. The contrast in the repub ec has caused ng repub- lican women. The democratic national committee recentiy harp statement on the calling at- on to the difference in the treat- of by parties, The repubiic ne by point- that which ca na » the election om every state on the mocratic 1 con s it memb comment issued a subject, the two bag wome out was d the constitutional amendment to be submitted by Con-! that democ leade party Powe ust submission One objection to enlargement of the commiittee through added repr: tion of wi gpess, and noting their ud voted a ra; was in s, when nta- cen urged by the It was said the democrats had dia mmittec Ings of the « slight That nor there. The woman voters are en titled to equal poli otherwise, and if they. do not care enough take advantage of privi loges extended that is their lookout ———— Clear Away Demoiition of the reviewing stands erected for the zan immediately of the great pushed struc ing. and remain longe &hsolutely v nd manifested interest is neither here rights, to hrine convention be- upon the conelusion “ting. and should be apldly to completion. These ¢ disfiguring and biockad: should not be permitted to than the that is | their removal. | t were built ie sidewalks for the sale of and refreshments should be ashington should be re. | 1 conditions speedily. of erecting these struc- and stands covered af iod. Owing to the short e of labor it was necessary to begin i i a of time, the consequence being that in some cages tn were obstructed at least a fortnight abead of the conven- | tion. Certain of the stands have been standing for nearly a month. Their re- woval will re as long a period as thelr construction. t the latest. the Shrine equipment | that Washing- i the experience of | the convention. the contrary. it hopes to bear it in mind for y for | it was a most enjovable and memora- ble exper But it does not need to be reminded of it by cluttering and disfigu g scaffolds and tiers of rough seats and by faded and bedraggled érapery decorations, | — e — President Harding conducted a front-porch campaign of geniality from the White House which won him many devoted admirers among the visiting | hosts m time stored to nor The work construction well ahe suredl not requ on ouncils by the ap-) pointment of ‘women in an advisory | national | hext | to have equal | the rrepublican { ot attend meet- { y and | gress Heights and Chain Bridge and Seat Pleasant. It often happens that when one gets information on the road by word of mouth from a native, or from a sign, that Washington is ten miles away he is not clear in his mind whether it is ten miles to the District line of ten miles to the Capitol, White House, Naval Observatory or Navy Yard. . ‘When a man understands that the signs mean miles to the Zero Mile- stone he ought to be able to calculate {how far he is from home. It is pre- sumed, of course, that he knows how far he lives from the Zero Milestone. It may be that our casual lcqul.lnl~l ances by the roadside wlll not take quickly to the Zero Milestone idea and will continue their age-old habit of in- creasing the distance to Washington as one approaches the city. Men on the road are relying less on wayside friends for information as to the way znd distance to Washington. Road signs giving direction and distance have become numerous on the improved roads, but there are still thousands of miles of road in the ‘Washington region along which peo- ple live and over which supplies are lauled which have not become good oads. The work of improving them proceeding about as fast as tax- ers can provide the money. It simplify matters when a man knows that when he is eighteen or twenty-three miles from Washington be is that distance from the Zero Mile- stone. i will ————————— Tammany Hall to Move. Tammany Hall is on the market. This does not mean that the tiger is going into captivity or the organiza- ion into liquidation. The political ma- hine that runs New York city is still a going concern, and will continue to | run as vigorously. as smoothly and fliciently as eyer. But the “hail,” that famous lith street structure that has housed Tammany for many years and has been really the seat of government in Greater New York, is to be sold. It has become too valuable a site to be held for mere meeting purposes, and S0 bids are being sought for it, and doubtlesg in a short time Tammany | will sell and move uptown, perhaps to 2 more ornate home, more commodi- ous and more significant of the wealth {and power of the society. | For a number of years an element in {Tammany membership, somewhat vounger than the real leaders, has Leen endeavoring to break away from the old 14th strect establishment and 1to get up into the more rarefied at- I mosphere above Madison Square, po: { sibly above the Grand Central station. {'They have soured a little on the old 14th street home, because they felt | that it was ass {arm methods of the past. The por- traits of John Kelly and Dick Croker {on the walls were unpleasant remind- ers of the days when the political “work™ of Tammany was done frankly {in the open by ds that have long ! since been discarded. These younger tes have wanted to get away | from that old reputation. and have felt that one way to do it was to move from the scene of the work of early sachems, who sat like the doges of { Venice and received tribute and gave { orders back in the “‘good old days." jut as a matter of fact. as far as either New York or the country at large is concerned, it will matter noth- ing whether Tammany is housed 14th street or 42d street or ith avenue or Madison avenue. There is some thing somewhere said about the diffi- culty of the leopard changing its spots which applies as well to that other member of the feline family whose marks take the form of stripes. ————————— { Dancing on the Avenue {s an innova tion that may turn what has been a strictly indoor pastime into an out- door sport. A dancing floor with sev- eral square miles of area to be cov cred in the same evening will invite { competitions of speed as well as en- durance. ——e————— Pickpockets were not so much in | evidence as it was feared they would | he. Picking the pockets of some of the Shrine costumes is an enterprise that might easily discourage the most expert erook. e | The attitude of the person who saw | a Mystic Shrine demonstration for the first time is like that of the rustic who | on seeing & dromedary defied his ac- tual observation and exclaimed. “There ain’t no such animal. | —_——— Among e many melanehaly pe-| dictions that never came true was one ciated with the strong- | on i to the effect that by this time Ger- many would be in active preparation for another war. There will be more parking space. | but Washington, D. C., would rather —_—— 8everal European countries would 1ike to forget all about their more re- cent currenc stead of going to the trouble of a formal repudiation. i H — e The Turk would be better off if hel knew as much about American ideas |2nd easier. learned about | s Americans have Turkish costumes ———— Zero Milestone. The zero milestone which stands on &he Ellipse south of the White House end at the dedication of which Presi- | dent Harding made a memorable good roads speech has an important na- tional mission. In the dedication ex- ercises it was sald of this stone that from-now one it will mark the point ef caleulation of all road distances in | tais gountry. There is a local service whichi the zero milestone will render to Washington. Tt will give us a datum point or something to hitch our distances 1o in the city and the eountry. Because of this stone we wlay know just what we are talking about and what others are talking about in the matter of miles. There is a great deal of loose talk about miles. The person who goes in for automobile road maps and geologic suryey maps may be able to tell how many miles he is from his' home in Washington, but the best that many ®f us can do is to learn that it is twenty or ten miles to Washington. #Washington” has come to be a big lace and a good many miles inter- / ‘ Cfne hetwcen.Bfl‘htwbod and Con- have the visitors. ———— One-Way Streets. It seems that one-way streets are to ghe given a chance to do what they can to make the traffic situation safer It is the opinion of ex- perts and a good many others that during Shrine week trafflc moved faster and easler than before, and| L credit 1s given for this lmprovemam} {to the one-way streets. There are contrary opinions, of course, but the weight of opinion among driversi seems to be in favor of oneway | streets. There is no doubt that pedes- | trians favor them because there is| less chance of being struck when all vehicles are coming in, one direction. The views of merchants doing busi- {ness on the one-way streets seem to pedestrians, but those persons who believe in permanent one-way streets say that they afford easy access to business houses on both sides of the street. The special traffic committee of the Washington Board of Trade recommends that the entire plan of one-way streets now in operation be made permanent, and it makes this recommendation in the interest of both traffic and business. Commissioner Rudolph is reported as saying that the city should either curtail parking privileges or maintain the presént one- way streets. Commissioner Oyster is reported as in favor of the one-way street idea and believes that some, not all, of the Shrine week dfie-way ts should be made permanent. ‘It 4 THE EVENING mey be that we are on the way to clearing up our traffic situation which has resulted in a great number of ac- cidents and.has become very difficult for drivers and pedestrians. ———t—e— Helicopter Advance. A report from London states that a helicopter bullt for the British govern- ment by Louis Brennan, inventor of the torpedo and@of the gyroscopic monorail, has just withstood an official test at Aldershot. With a crew and 1,000 pounds of ballast the machine rose vertically to a height of twenty feet and hovered for a quarter of an hour under perfect control. This is the latest achievement in vertical flight, which has been the object of research by many inventors for some years. Several machines have been tried out with some degree of success in France and in this country. One in this city, the Berliner helicopter, has demon- strated @ measure of success promis- ing solution of the problem. The advantage of the vertical flyer is obvious. It can rise from and de- scend to a small space. It can, when under perfect control, maneuver into any position desired. It is susceptible in theory at least to the most perfect manipulation. If the helicopter is de- veloped, as it is now forecast, the prob- lem of individual flight, that is, per- sonal aviation, will be solved. For it will then be possible for @ man to have his own machine for daily trips which can be kept on the roof of his house. It is not too great a stretch of the imagination to conceive provision in all cities for helicopter service. This far in the helicopter experi- ments and tests none of the machines in England; France or in this country has been sent on a filght. The utmost accomplished has been to demonstrate the lifting power of the apparatus. The English demonstration is perhaps the most striking. The real test, of course, will come when the machine is sent not only upward but off to an objective point. Safe Boat Landings. The Commissioners take proper pre- cautions in ordering a thorough In- vestigation of all wharves and landing places in the District because of the collapse of a part of a private boat- house landing during Shrine week. It 1s not believed that there are many danger places on the rivers in the Dis- trict, but there ought to be none, and it is desirable that all of them be looked over by the wharf committee of the engineer department. No suspicion can attach to of the regular wharves' at which steam end sailing vessels land, but it may be that weak- ness will. be found in some of the smaller landing places. In the naturel order of events no crowd collects at any of these places. There is no cause for excitement in this matter. The accident which has called attention to the little boat land- ings was not serious, though it might have been. The Shrine week water pageant drew to the riverside a greater crowd than perhaps had ever gathered there before. Several persons were thrown into the river by the falling of a landing place on which they stood, but there were many river men around and all those persons In danger were quickly rescued. It is said that the part of the landing which gave way was posted by the owner as being dan- gerous, and that persons were warnad to keep off, but the temptation to gain a point of vantage to see the river pageant was stronger than the sense of caution and respect for gigns. It is not to be expected that these boathouse landings, where men hire canoces and fishing boats, shall be any { made secure for large crowds of peo- { ple, hut they should be inspected with @ view to determining how many per- sons may be allowed on them, and these that are unsafe in all ways should be repuired or taken down. ———————————— These magnificent demonstration are sure to revive in the hearts of many people the wish for an old fashioned—but not too old-fashioned— inauguration. ————— The fear that Washington could not accommodate the Shriners has been replaced by regret that a return en. gagement next vear cannot be ar ranged. ———————— Berlin may be expected to 11»\'(—]0]‘1] some facility in using new forms of language to suggest practically the same old terms. ———— A large amount of money was spent for beautiful fireworks, which is more economical in the long run than wast. ing it on death-dealing artillery SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON 0ld-Fashioned Flowers. Old-fashioned flowers, Blooming so gay. Soft are the showers That pass on their wav. Sunbeams so lightly Over them fall. The blossoming brightly Echoes them all. ‘Tints from the twilight, Hues from the dawn, ‘The noon’s golden high light— On these they have drawn To make simple bowers Of beauty and rest. Old-fashioned flowers— The sweetest and best! Golden Silence. 1t silence is golden, as we have been told, j differ from the opinions of driversand |proe reckless, indeed, is the world with its gold! How we shatter the silence with words that are flung In mighty array, spoken, printed or ' sung. ., ‘We rail and we praise and we offer advice, Nor study toYender our language pre- cise; And epithets strange are tossed into the air In a prodigal spirit that banishes care. Today we will offer of comment & lot . Which tomorrow we know will be wholly forgot. The scarceness of stlence we viewasa Joke. i If silence is molden, broke! WASHINGTON N, D. C., SATURDAY OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Now that the Shriners are gone and ‘Washington is back to,normalcy, poli- ticlans are discussing the effects of the conclave from their professional standpoint. Yowll find democrats Wwho suggest that the bringing of the Shriners to the National Capital on the eve of 1924 was a nefarious plot In the interest of Noble Warren G. Harding. In the same breath it is admitted that if there was such a conspiracy, it probably was success- ful, for the President, as he always does, won the hearts of every Shrin- er who came within the sphere of his influence. Evidently there'll be only one way of overcoming that dis- advantage to the democrats—they will have to put up a noble them- selves next year. * %k ¥ ¥ Brig. Gen. Frank R. MecCoy, United States Army, assigned to the civil government in the Philippines, 1s home on leave from Manila. He s dividing his time between his ances- tral home in Pennsylvania and his friends in Army and civillan circles in Washington. McCoy is a bachelor cavalryman, and one of our soldier-| speclalists in Insular affairs. He was an aide-de-camp to General Leonard Wood In Cuba and the Philippines, and served as a_ White House aida under both Presidents Roosevelt and Taft. Affer active battle service in France, Gen. McCoy became direc- tor general of the American expedi- tionary forces. Iny 1919 he was chief of Staff of Gen. Harbord's mission of Inquiry in Armenia. g e This observer requires to quote Mark Twain and announces that his allegation of the death of Represent- ative Henry T. Ralney of Illinois is “badly exaggerated.” It is another Illinols congressman of the 'same name and_political persuasion. the late John W. Rainey of Chicago. who passed away in May. Congressman Henry T. Rainey, who comes from the Jerseyville district of the Prafrie state, is very much alive, and, as a militant democrat, Is doing his full share of kicking. He is in his sixty- third year, but will take the chau- tauqua_stump all summer. During the Wilson administrations Rainey was a recognized White House spokesman on the hill. R Brand Whitlock, our war-time am- bassador to Belgium and once mayor of Toledo, will be home during the summer from France, where he has been living since he retired from the diplomatic service 1922. At a sequestered spot in Mentone, on the French Riviera. Whitlock has been hard at work on a book destined, ad- cording to his admirers, to the long-awaited “great American novel.” Whitlock is a writer by profession and produced a couple of novels be- fore he achieved fame as Toledo reform mayor during four successt terms. - “The Turn of the Balance, published while Whitlock was rulinj Toledo, ‘is one of his best products. 1t deais in compelling fashion with criminological problems, as_churned up by our big cities. Mr. Whitlock expects to establish his future resi- dence in Westchester county, New York, and to devote himself entirely to writing. As a reporter in Chi- cago in the late ‘elghties, he achieved celebrity as a base ball writer and was one of the first to popularize the slang of the dlamond now in vogue on the sporting pages. * %k s Sir Auckland Geddes, the - British ambassador, is making highly satiy factory progress toward restoration of his eyesight. He is still under sen- tence to sit with bandaged eyes in a darkened room, but Dr. Wilmer be- lleves his patient s out of the woods and that rest and patince now will do the rest. One of the bits of news from the outside world that caused SIr Auckland Geddes genuine delight was President Harding's decision to visit Vancouver on his return from Alaska. Geddes 18 mainly régponsible for that plan. When the ambassador was in British Columbla a’year ago he was intrusted with a definite mi slon to “land” Mr. Harding for Van- couver whenever the President made his Alaskan trip. A A resident of Washington is to be permanently attached to S. §. Levia- than—Frank Pignone, Italo-Ameri- can, loyal citizen of the United States for twenty-five yvears and a master barber by profession. He is to have charge qf the Leviathan's “tonsorfal parlors.” which, in keeping with the other luxurious appointments of the world's biggest ship, are the last name In ocean-going barbering estab- lishments. Pignone has looked into the faces of many Washingtonians, for In recent yvears he has been say- ing “Next!" in the capital's leading clubs. * * * Secrotary Weeks was agreeably im- pressed during his recent transcon- tinental trip by the popularity en- joyed In their local communities by ymmanding officers of the Army. At most every post they rank as the leading cltizens of the place. They are in demand for every sort of pub- e function and cailed upon to make speeches on an endless variety of subjects. They Invariably measure up to the task, Weeks claims, and the Army as an institution is the bene- i Y Rich Heir to Ancient Estates Likely to Make Fight for Title BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY ! Lord Carmichael, former governor of Victorfa, then of Madras and afterward of Bengal and Bombay, lord leutenant of Peebles, and one of the most dis- tinguished and eminent Scottish ser- vants of the British crown, has just lost his only surviving brother through the death of John Murray Gibson Car michael, whose only son was- killed a a lieutenant of the royal navy in the great war, and while his modern peer- age will become extinct ‘when he is gath ered to his fathers, his two h‘fnd.“'d year-old baronetcy, created in 1702, as well as his_rights to mora remote honors, and the entailed Carmichael estate of Skiriing in Peebles, will there- fore pass to his second cousin, Sir Henry Thomas Gibson-Craig of Riccartor, who already possesses a baronetcy bestowed upon his_great-grandfather by & William 1V for his services as clerk of the signet in Scotland. and which Sir) Henry inherited from his elder brother, killed in the battle of the Alsne in Sep- tember, 1914. Sir Henry, unlike the kinsman Lord rmichael, i€ a very rich man and it is expected that when he succeeds to Lord Carmichael's baronetcy and in- herits his claims, he will take the neces- ary and costly steps to secure recogni- n of the latter by the crown, These ims include the barony of Durie, Which was bestowed by King James I fupon Sir Alexander Gibson of Durle, in {the county of Iife. president of the ourt of sessions of Scotland, along with {the title of Lord Durle of Anticosti, and eighteen miles of the island of Anti- Ccosti In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, now owned by the French senator and choco- Jate manufacturer, Gaston Menler. The claims also Include the earldom of | Hyndford, which has been dormant istuce the death of Andred Carmichael, sixth earl of Hyndford, in 1817 Readers of the novels of Robert Louis Stevenson may be interested to !know that the Barbara Grant, who Is im\e of his most popular heroines and one of the few actual personages appearing in his romances—I think it {was In “Citronia”"—became In real {1ife the Countess of Hyndford. * k ok % Lord Carmichael has in his posses- sion among the family archives duly authenticated official copies of the patents of the baronetcy, the peerage and of the grant of a portion of the !1sland of Anticosti, bestowed upon ! his ancestor the first Lord Durfe. The { copies were made at the time of the | hie ancestor, the first Lord Durle. The { honors and the estates were inherited by his son, who succeeded him as { Lord Durie, but who. was deprived of i his judicial office in 1649. IHis son in turn did not assume the title of Lord Durie, which was allowed to lie dormant, as was also the baronetcy, although there is no record of their having ever been forfeited, and, in 1702, Thomas Gibson of Durié, a lineal descendant In the male line direct of the original grantee of the 1628 bar- onetcy and of the peerage of Durie of Anticosti, received another baron- et Therefore, according to some, | Lord_Carmichael is today the four- teenth baronet of his line, and ac- cording to others only the ninth. It was Sir John Gibson, sixth bar- onet of the second creation, who, on inheriting the Skirling estates in Peebleshire, which had come into the family through the marriage of John Gibson of Durie to Helen, sister of John Carmichael, fourth Earl of Hyndford, assumed, In accordance with the terms of the entail and with the authorization of the crown, the name of Carmichael in addition to his patronymic of Gibson. And it s on the strength of this matrimonial alllance between _John Gibson of Durie and Lady Helen Carmichael, sister of the fourth Earl of Hynd- ford, that the present Lord Car- michael’s rights to the earldom of Hyndford and to the minor honors assoclated therewith are based. * % % X 2 As many of the estates of the Earls ot Hyndford have been alienated and are now In the possession of young Sir Windham Anstruther,. hereditary much 4nfluenced by their b3 fons as their races. A musical Composer, biometrist or wood carver fighting in the German ranks in the late war was much nearer in the human scale to the French composer, biometrist or wood carver he was shooting than he was to the German papeffianger or lawyer lwho fought ide. at his side. o o . Labor and women, not the allies or O ey x YTMIIWILLIAM ALLEN WHITE. Sioa the royal household in | Scotland and also hereditary cas !to the king in Scotland, Lord Car- { michacl has always been refuctant to &0 to the enormous expense of estab- lishing his claima to the earldom of | Hyndford as well as to the barony of Durle of Anticosti before the com- mittee of privileges of the house of lords at Westminster, where the pro- edings would hawe cost anywhere from $150,000 to® quarter of a mil- lion. He considered this all the more unnecessary In view of the fact that the government had already raised him to a purely modern peerage, as Lord Carmichael, for his services as a_singularly ssful administrator great oversea dependencies. But as T have mentioned above, his cousin and his next heir. Sir Henry Gibson- Craig, who will follow him the possession of the entailed Skirling estates of the Earls of Hyndford, is {not_ likely to be influencdd by any such pecuniary consideration, being | very well to do. To what extent Lord Carmichael has been regarded as the lawful Earl of Hyndford a fourteenth Lord Duria of Ant 1 s perhaps best ! shown by the fact that, having been elected to parliament for Midlothian in succession to Willlam E. Gladstone, whose friendship and confidence he enjoyed in a very marked degree, he was forced to resign his seat through the objections raised by the Rt Hon. Joseph Chamberlain and other unfonist leaders, who contended that he had no Tight to sit and vote {n the house of commons, since, by inheri- tance, he was presumably & peer of Scotland. In fact, an acrimonious debate actually took place in the house of commons about the matter, and it was i{n consequence of the pos- sibility of his vote on any important measure In the lower chamber being Invalidated on the ground that he was a peer, and of the heavy fine which the casting of such a vote would have involved, that he with- drew and was shortly afterward raised to the house of lords as Lord Carmichael master of * k% ¥ I'ntil that time the impression had prevailed that a member of the house of commons could retain his seat there, even after succeeding to a peerage, until the moment when he received the indispensable writ of summons from the crown to the house of lords. The discussion brought to light, however, the legal fact that a member's seat’ in the*lower chamber becomes invalid from the very mo- ment that he inherits a peerage, matter whether he receives a writ of summons in the house of lords or uot. That is to say. in cases such as Lord Carmichael, where there is a pre- sumption of his right to the peerage without his claims having been ac- knowledged by the crown in the form of & writ of summons, it is up to the member to establish definitely elther before the committee of privileges or elso before some high court of law the fact that he is mot an heir to any peerage before he can be allowed to iretain his seat and to cast his vote in_the house of commons. It may be added in conclusion that Lord Carmichael, in addition to the eminence which he has acquired as a colonial administrator, as an art lover and expert—he is a trustee of the National Gallery of England, on Trafalgar square, and of the Wallace Museum in London—and as heir to the earldom of Hyndford, so rich in Scottish romance, drama and tragedy, is world famed also as the greatest living authority on centipedes and spiders, his remarkable knowledge of these insects and his uncanny influ- ence on them winning for him the profound awe and respect of the na- tives of India, when ho was governor of Madras, of Bengal and of Bombay, ‘where he still remembered to this day for his amazing Haroun al Ras- chid adventures among the natives of the lowest as well as of the highest class. In native disguise he pene- trated everywhere, and it is doubtful whether any British governor ever achieved 80 much success among the natives, whose various languages and dialects he spoke without any trace of accent. Indeed; to this day there is no British name that is to such an extent a household word throughout the length and breadth of India as “Carmichael.’ e When a dictator begins to talk about imposing his soverelgn will by force upon a hostile majority, he is on the road which leads via Potsdam to Doorn in Holland, i . —J. A. SPENDER. One of the main differences between English’and American university ed- “Jucation is that in England one goes to a_ university to develop ‘himself, whereas here you go with the ‘idea of aist] hine yousgelves. ROSSON. . SUWILLIR \ JUNE 9, 1823, The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER “To get the best out of books, I am oonvinced that you must begin to love these perennial friends very early in life. ® ¢ ' There is a glamour which you never see if you begin to read with @ serious Intentfon late in life, when questions of technique and grammar and mere words begin to seem too impor- tant.” This 18 the opinion of Maurice Francls Egan in his “Confessions of a Booklover'—a most delightful book, by the way, and one to stir pleasant remi- niscence in all other booklovers. With respect to the words quoted above, his experience has also been mine. The books about which a glamour still lingers for me are those which I read or which were read to me before I was fitteen. Scott's “Lady of the Lake, read aloud to me by my mother during one summer spent on the shore of a clear Adirondack lake surrounded by mountains, always brings back to me the scene ‘of its reading in_connection with Scot's own Trossach country, vividly imagined at the time and visited some yeare later. “Nicholas Nickleby.” read aloud during another summer, will always be to me by far the most ab- sorbing of Dickens’ novels, even though I may intellectually agree with the critics who assert that “David Copper- fleld” is his best. Because I was not permitted to read “Jane Eyre' until I was fourteen, I shall always have a vague feeling that it is a more or less ehocking book, though I remember that 1 was disappointed at the time to find in it nothing equal to my worst expecta- tions. Scott’s “Talisman” and Gabo- riau's ‘“Monsleur Lecoq,” beguiled the time for a restless child during two slight ilinesses in bed, and 1 ehall al- ways be grateful when T think of them I wept over “Enoch Arden” and he my breath over “The Three Musketeers” and Stevenson’s “Black Arrow” in a way that I wish I were capable of do- ing now over any book. & Under the striking title “The South Buries Its Anglo-Saxons,” Frank Tan- nenbaum writes in the June Century of the cotton-mill villuge system of the south. He finds that some of the best blood in the south is going into the mill villages where it is lost to the com- munity and the country. The Inbreed- ing and the isolation of the mill vil- lages make a man unfit for life in an independent community. When a man moves into the mill village he settles not only his own destiny, but also that of his children; in return for the house in which he lives at a small rental, he and his children must work in the mill. Mr. Tannenbaum emphasizes the fact that many of the cotton-mill men are genuinely interested in the welfare of their workers, but he shows that it is this interest on the part of the cotton- mill man_ that reduces the workers to a state of childlike {mpotence and robs them of contact with life. Mr. Tannen- baum in his article discusses the bury- ing of a complete section of the south- ern people in the mill villages and the resulting 10s8 to the life of the south. * ok ok X A strong prohibition document is to be found In Cynthia Stockley's new novel, “Ponjola” It is the story of the part played in the life of South and East Africa by the native alcoholic drink, ponjola, called by the author the “black curse of Africa.” Desmond, one of the chief characters, asks: “Does_every Mr, Sheridan " od men do,” was the proud Every good man in Rhodesia can mop up the ponjola.” It was the first time young Desmond had heard the magic word. “1 can't quite accept that,” he sald. 1 once met u Rhodesian in—in Burope— a fine fellow, who didn't drink.” Sherry wagged his head. “Not in Europe perhaps, but as soon as he got back to Rhodesia he did.” Even in Rhodesia a certain code regulating drinking existed. “Thers ls an unwritten Rhodesian law that, once breakfast i3 past no drinks shall be taken until 1 o'clock. It doesn't look well. It isn't done.” The course of the Story is strewn with human wreckage of ponjola, and Lundi Druro, one of the two central characters, is reclaimed only through the devoted and undismaved efforts of a woman = * £ & % ientists, alumni of Cornell, Indiana and Stanford universities, workers for universal peace and many others will be interested in what one enthusiastic reviewer pronounces “‘the greatest au- tobiography that has been published in America in a hundred years,” that of David Starr Jordan. 1t is entitled “The Days of a Man: Being Memories of a Naturalist, Teacher and Minor Prophet of Democracy.” A bare list of Dr. Jordan’s books, honors and positions of trust requires an entire column in “Who's Who in America” and his au- toblography runs to nearly 1,700 pages, none of which is dull, but on the con- trary all are packed full of interest. They tell of his boyhood life on a farm in western New York, of his working his way through Cornell, of work with Agassiz, of scientific work and travel the world over, of mountain climbing, of university teaching and administra- tion, of discussion of the great prob- lems of theology, sclence, pacifism, edu- cation and liferature—all written in clear and forceful English, with much humor. * ok ok % In view of the obsession of eex in so much of our current fiction and that because of this tendency there is a de- termined drive in certaln quarters for a more rigid censorship of books pub- lished, the article in the June Bookman on “Sex In American Literature,” by Mary Austin, is of special interest at this time. The author attributes the marked change of attitude toward love, life and sex from the time of Nathaniel Hawthorne to that of Theodore Dreiser, to the greater participation and in- fluence of writers of Slavic, Baltic, south Furopean, and especlally of Semitic orlgins in American letters. * % % % Frederic Harrison was correcting the proofs of his book, “De Senectute,” just published, on the very day he died. In addition to the opening study of the subject of old age by its author in his ninety-second year, it contains mem- ories of the Victorlan era and essays on literary and historical subjects, Al- together delightful are the things Mr. Harrison, who witnessed every gredt celebration of Victoria's reign from her coronation in 1838 to her funeral in 1301, tells of the personages and events of the age of which he became 50 strik- ing a figure. * Kk % Among the announcements of books to be published in the autumn none is more interesting than the promised au- toblography of Kate Douglas Wiggin. The author of “The Bird's Christmas Carol,” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm"” and many other books for children and of a “A Cathedral Courtship” and sev- eral others for grown ups, has endeared herself to a wide circle of readers and her autobiography will be especially ‘welcome. * X K X, A A curlous sight in Sarah ‘Bern- hardt's autoblography, “Memories of My Lite,” just published in a popular editioh, 1s one of the fllustrations, which depicts the Divine Sarah in her youthful days reposing in the coffin she had made for herself and in which she studied her parts. * ok x Mount ‘Diablo, which Bret Harte'has immortalized in his stories and loved as John Mulr loved Tamalpais, has been preserved forever in American 1literature under the name which he made for it of Kah Woo Koom. The Californians have taken this lsolated and strangely beautiful mountain as 'state park and e & permanent and lasting memorial (o Bret Harte. man in Rhodesia drink. |pill has arisen since it was formu- SRR LA R VS 00 DAL BN L e e R R e DO R s R s S SRS CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. A brand-new plan for discharging the government obligations to the soldiers of the world war is under consideration by Senator Bursum of New Mexico, chairman of the pension committes of the Semate. It Is not only a radical departure from the McCumber bill, which was passed by both branches of Congress and vetoed by the President, but the Bursum measure Is based on the argument that certaln acts of the government during the war, in deducting the sol- diers’ premfums and allotments ar- bitrarily, wera illegal, and created a direct obligation to reimburse the amounts, not as a mark of apprecia- tion for service, but as a final pay- ment on an open account. Y The bill, furthermore, would put the soldler on the same footing as the cilivilian clerk who remained in Washington or elsewhere In govern- ment employ and recefved a bonus of $20 a month during and since the war under the assumption that liv- ing costs had increased, and that the bonus was only in proportion to.that increaxe, No such bonus having been given to the soldlers, Senator Bursum now seeke to add the same amount to thelr pay, in addition to repaying whatever amounts wera forcibly de- ducted from their regular $30 a month pay (or $33 if serving abroad) He argues t it was not fair to treat the clerks more liberally than the men in the trenches. % & The deduction of $7 a month from the soldier's pay to cover his in- surance (which was compulsory), he argues, was not In line with the practice in the industries of peace, and, therefore, especially unfalr for war. In most states now there is legls- lation requiring emplovers to sustain insurance for their employes, cove ing the risks of the industry. He asks why the government should not do for jts drafted and volunteer sol- diers, in the risky occupation of war, at least as much as civillan em: plovers do toward carrving the in- surance cost covering the risks of the occupation. He wants that $7 a month reimbursed. * X x The $8 which was required as an allotment for dependents he also wants retmbursed, for if the govern- ment foreibly took from the support ot any wife, or other dependent, the means of support, and pald the sol- dier only $33 a month, less deduc- tions, hs thinks it only right that the government should allow the amount needed for the dependent's support thus forfeited * * ¥ ¥ There has been mno official action by the American Legion in the matter of the new Bursum bill. No legisla- tive policy of the legion can be for- mulated except at the annual con- ventfons, or, in an emergency, by the semi-annual meetings of the na- tional executive committee. Neither of such opportunities to discuss the lated. * ok % ow Tp to the present date the govern- ment has not spent one cent out of general funds for soldiers’ war risk insurance. The premiume paid by the soldiers, deducted arbitrarily from their service pay, amounts to about $400,000,000, and the losses disbursed up to date by the War Risk and Vet- erans’ Bureau almost exactly bal- ance that $400,000,000. The obligations of the government under the terms of the polcies are not_payable in a lump sum, but ex- tend over a period of twenty vears. Even if all the losses had occcurred on or before Armistice day they would be spread over the next fifteen vears for settlement. The Veterans Bu- reau estimates that these obligations payable in installments during the next fifteen years amount to a bil- lion dolla The accounts of the War Depart- ment indicate that the soldiers patd in_premiums not $400.000,000, but $460,000,000, according to statements by high officials of the American Legion. Tn transmitting credits to the War Risk Insurance funds there is a discrepancy alleged, amounting to wome $50,000,000, as only $400.- 000,000 was thus transferred Tt {is explained that it Is “Just a bookkeep- ing discrepancy” and that some day. when the hooks are overhauled, that $50,000,000 will be found. What a $50,000,000 between bureaus? The government {5 responsible for the payment of the total insurance losses whether the $60.000.000 is ever found or not. The leglonaires co sider ¢ an interesting item, howeve rather thrilling, to misla s e Uing, slay or confu * X % The legion officials also call atten- tion to the figures given out by the Veterans' Bureav in which s the statement that the government has pald out for the relief of wounded or sick soldiers some $2,000,000,000 No explanation is made of the fac that some $450,000,000 of that total relief consists of the soldiers' own money, paid in as premiums. A bank when It pays & depositor's check, doex not count that disbursement as ar act of generosity nor does an old-lin= insurance company when it pays a loss out of accumulated premiums * ox ok w Brig. Edward Underwood of tie Salvation Army says: “Thousands of voung men have been made hoboar as a result of their world war ex perience Sapped of their ambition and stamina, efther by shell shock o- by a peculiar msvchological kin developed in the strain of battle, the lives of these men are being slow! ruined by a mild form of insanit: for which physicians have yet found no_cure.” No one is in a better position observe conditions In such cases the brigadier describes than one who is in touch with the work of the Sa. vation Army. Tt is to Salvation Arm headquarters in all cities that theso vietims of “a mild form of insanjty drift. The Salvation Army was thelr best friend at the front; they turn to it now. * B How do girls play pianos by trol ley? A headline proclaims: “Girl s killed playing plano by wild trolley ‘Neighbors have sometimes felt that even when the piano is played on by hand something might happe: But a trolley—and a wild one! * ¥ Xk *x The National Health Council c attention to the fact that Americans are carrying around 200,000,000 pounds of excess fat. The experts say that this is not only unbeautifu) but that it is dangerous to lifs. Ten pounds of overwelght adds 12 per cent to the date rate, fifty pounds increases the death rate 60 per cent and seventy-five pounds increases it 92 per cent. The council warns that overfat is not a joke, but that the victims should consult their doctors on how to-reduce, even thougn they do mo! feel any symptoms of disease. * x % % If the 200,000,000 pounds of fat ex cess now toted by suffering Amer: cans could be Hamletized—"Oh, tha this too, too solld flesh would melt!"- and be reincarnated into model welghing 150 pounds each we increase the population by 3. 3331-3 folks, with no more weigh! than now tips the scales in the ag zregate. That would make a big city. W Chesapeake Beach offictals have de cided that the only rule they will have as to dress of hathers Is that they “must not ape Adam and Eve. The beach will Le safest, then, for followers of Mr. Bryan, who is so opposed to evolution that he bars al “apes” from human ancestry. Car an ape swim? (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Oollins Answers to Questions About Washington for the Shriners By Frederic J. Haskin. Q. What oconvention will be first to use the new Washington Audito- rium? H D.T. ; - reat hall, with’a seating > y ;1'0.1'00, will be completed by . 1923, a{:d lha“lfll:r convention to be held there w! e t::;eot the Southern Medical Asso- clation. The entire space of the ex- hibition hall will be used for a dis- play of the latest sursical instru- ments and appliances. many visiting sutomobil w Q, o Ty during the week were in t e Automobile As. A. The American Automobile As- sodiation says that no exact figures can be given, but the estimates range between 80,000 and 40,000 ere @M the bands play that cuiinen the music heard throush the amplifiers on\ Pennsylvania ave- | nue Thursday night? R.N. i A, Two bands stationed at 15th and E streets northwest played alter- hately for the dancers. One band was e Milwaukee and the other from Domter. The amplifiers, which made remusio audible the iength of the Avenue, were Bell loud speakers, fur- nished by tho Chesapeake aud Fo- c hone Company radio from the Arlington station. Q. What is the significance of the foz?—L. B. A, From earliest antiquity Mo- hammedans were _accustomed to Mmake sacred pilgrimages to the city of Fes, where a distinctive head cov- ering, called the Tarboosh, now ¥nown as the foz, was manufactured. The cap was dyed soarlet for stu- dents of the school located there and pecame known as @ mark of learn- ing. . What Is the foreign-born popu- 1ation of \vnsmngton?—:v. o . total foreign-born popula- s (foss than 30,000, the smallest of any metropolitan district in the United States. . Are any of the Presidentsburied 11 3ina Rational Capital?—J. D, P. A No President ls b::;ec&“:;h:r:: 1 Capital, but m: N on e ess are buried in the Con- gressional cometery, on ths bank of fhe Anacostia river, east of the Cap- itol. v Q. Does the Washington Monument ol ht bendi a a sl ending cause byA 'n:rem-':n": helt.‘ This is rendered porceptible by means of a copper Wire 174 feet long hanging in the center of the building. It carries a plummet suspended in a vessel of Water. -At noon in summer the apex of the Monument is shifted a few hundredths of an inch toward the north by expansion, A slight motion Caused by high winds is also reg- istered. ). the salaries paid to house- ho?d 9::1:": in the White! House?— W. H. 3 A. The malds at the White House are not_ general houseworkers, but merely hous dfls !u&,::nzg-:n‘t; o E:..?éfi'.’i" ost of the servants are ty men. - There_is s manager. at $1.560 o Vear, and,(except for the engincer, i who draws the same pay, he is t highest salaried employe.' The heac butler gets $70 a_month! Contrar: to what society fiction and dram: would teach us, he is not the proud monarch of below-stafrs, but s out ranked in pay by the four footmern the chef, the second cook and the head housecleaner. The chef get- $1.260 a year. Q. Where is the statue of Joh: Witherspoon?—A\. W. A. The Rev. John Witherspoon wa the only clergyman signing the Decla ration of Independence. His statue is at the corner of Connecticut avenue and 15th street. Q. Why was the Treasury buildinx Dplaced so as to conflict with the pla: of Washington and L'Enfant?—M. G. A. The choice of the location wi vexed question, and was referre President Andrew Jackson for deci sion. The tradition is that he stuc his cane into the ground where h- happened to be walking, and said “Put it here.” Q. What is the total Potomac river?—R. O, N. A. The Potomac river is 450 mile long, the last 100 miles from two (» seven miles wide. Q. Where are the celebrated Capitc snuff-boxes?—E, H. A. The snuff-boxes now in use in the Senate chamber are placed o: the ledge immediately to the left of the doors entering _th Senate chamber from the lobby. While seldom uwed except by visitors, they are kept fillec with fresh snuff, and have been i use since the custom was general. Q. How long is the canal that par allels the Potomac river hers?—>. 0.k A. The Chesapeake and Ohlo cana i= 184 miles long, six feet deep, anc from sixty to seventy feet wide. length of th- Q. Of what style of architecture i- the Scottish Rite Temple, 16th an S streets?—0. N. A. The Scottish Rite Temple is saic to be a faithful copy of one of the seven wonders of the anclent world the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, iu Asia Minor. The entrance is guarded by sphinxes of granite, chiseled from the largest stones ever quar- ried in America, one weighing 10 000 pounds;-the other 110,000 poun: Q. Where does the Prestdent take the oath of office?—G. A. R. A. The President of the United States takes his oath on a stand, bulll for the occasion, on the east front of the Capitol building. The oath is ad- ‘ministered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. President Harding used the same Bible as George Wash ington. The oath is the same ax that taken by the humblest civil service employe. Q. Was the White House an orig- inal design or a copy?—E, B. A. The White House before the wings were added is said to have been a replica of the residence of the Duke of Leinster, whose ancestra’ 4 mansion w located near Dublin Ireland. The prize of $500 offered for a design for the White House was awarded to James Hoban of Charles- ton. 8. C., who was Irish. (To be continued {omorrow.)