Evening Star Newspaper, June 11, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. _MONDAY. June 11, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Offce, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. Cicags o erfL“m.um,f" a ce: 4 Suropeun Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Tho Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivered 'by carriers within the city at 60 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. O:- ders may be sent by mail, or telephone M 8000. ~Collection is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday..1y .40; Daily onl ... 1yr., $6.00 Sunday onl: 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20c 1 All Other States. Daliiy and Sunday.. Daily Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled %o the use for republication of all news dis- patches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. ~All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. pes —= Bulgaria's “Revolution.” What was at fir: “bloodless revelution™ capital of Bulgaria. proves now to have been of tragdc character. at least eighty gendarmes having been Killed in street fighting following the over-| turn of the sovernment. It appears, however, that in the main the revolt was accomplished without difficulty. | announced as a | at Sofia, the j opposing leaders. | expected. booze joints.” Touching upon Gov. Smith's possible candidacy for the presidency, Mr. Bryan said: “We have yet to learn whether his consecration to the cause of state rights, applied to the control of the liquor traffic only: will make ifm feel it his duty to offer himself as a candidate for President. If so he ought to read @ familiar pas- sage in Shakespeare and find out what his friends will say when they dig up his remains: ‘Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him well. 2 Gov. Smith, in his reply to Mr. Bryan's declaration, applies such words as “absurd,” “foolish,” “fanat- ic” and “narrow-minded.” and also speaks about “lack of common sense.” He asserts that Mr. Bryan, answering thefirstquestion, “running trueto form. uses about a thousand wordsand says nothing.” and on the second question says less than he did about the first question.” Gov. Smith winds up his statement by saying: “Mr. Bryan, throughout the article, speaks about my candidacy for public office. Unlike himself, T am not a candidate. When T have been in the past T have usually been selected by the people. But in Mr. Bryan's case a wise and discrim- inating electorate usually takes care to see that Mr. Bryan stays at home.” Apparently, the wet and dry forces within the democracy are lining up. with Mr. Bryan and Gov. Smith the From this sample skirmish an enlivening battle may be New Botanic Garden. The new national botanic garden, which is to occupy a large tract of The army was on the side of the revo lutionists, and it is believed, indeed, that the king himself was favo to them. It seems. in fact, to have becn a “palace revolution,” a revolt by the monarch, under cover of a new coalition of political forces. against | former Premier Stamboulisky The position of King Bo some time past been one of subordina- tion to the premier. who fyankly declared to him that he was a puppet. incapable of independent action, and completely subject to the will of the people. whom Stamboulisky to represent without question or ap- peai. But Boris himself, it is believed, is not the direct inspiring force of the overturn, the coup having been promoted. it is now suspected, from Berlin, where former Premier siavoff is living in exile. Radoslavoff i under sentence of having heen tried by tial in his absence from Bulgaria son, an officer in the Bu . is one of the leaders of the revo. headed by Zankoff. a univer professor 1omics, the new premier. aris fears are expressed lest i ment n a sity of come: InF Bulgarian overturn ous trouble in the Balkans. anxiety. too mistakable Germanic olution. The elements & into alliance wi pawers in great war are now in the ascendant in that country. Rado- slavoff himself is already seeking re mission of his sentence of life im prisonment in hope of heing able to return to Sofia. It would not be sur prising to find him actually again at the head of the Bulgarian govern- ment, in succession to Zankoff, who may prove to be only a stalking horse. During Radoslavoff’s premiership in | 1913 he sent Zankoff, with others, on | a propaganda trip into western Eu rope during the Balkan war, 1o re- nabilitate Bulgaria's reputation, which Tadoslavoff now declares in an inter view in Berlin had beel® blackened by Serbian and Greek propaganda 1 Revival of the Balkan animosities | would be a dangerous development at | this time. Serbia and Greece, as well { as Rumania, are acutely jealous of { Buigaria and fearful of her restora- tion to a position of dominance in the Balkans. While it is probable that| there is sufficient motive for the revolt | in Bulgarian politics alone, unques- | tionably there is a coincidence of in-4 terest between Germany and the anti- | allies’ forces in Bulgaria. It would be { quite to the liking of the government | at Berlin that trouble should start in southeastern Europe. —_——— On candid analysis war appears so | tragically absurd that it should be possible to prevent it by compelling all overambitious politicians to con- sult alienists and make public their reports. % —_———— The nobies of the Mystic Shrine gave an entertainment that, set a new standard for outdoor display. Wash- ington would gladly have set aside an- other week for an encore. —_——— Attention now being drawn to Alaska may enable some of the snowy regions of that territory to put in at- tractive bids for consideration as sum. mer resorts. ———— References by Poincare to’ German proposals as ridiculous do not neces- sarily “imply that the French are laughing merrily. ead to se There nay that led Bul- a the central Girding for the Fray. Gov. Smith of New York and Wil- llam Jennings Bryan are engaging in @ joint debate through the press over prohibition and state rights which has broadened into a shower of personali- ties full of ginger. The New York Times started the rumpus by submit- ting to Mr. Bryan a series of questions {ana extending able { from the foot of Capitol Hill to the { ’ { Bastern "branch, will begin to take {oldest inhabitant can remember, will is has for! ‘"‘““““‘Iha\e been discussed for many years. |tomac river it became evident that Rado- | imprison- { court- | & | popular idg who be- | 5 2 {an ambitious project for the estab- ilishment of a truly national botanic _ltrict between the Baltimore boulevard on tie score of the un- | influence in the ! government land south of the Capitol in an irregular way form this summer. The present Bo- ;rani(- Garden, which goes back as far in the history of the city as the be abandoned and its site will become part of the Mall, the great park which | stretches west from the Capitol to the Monument Lot and Potomac Park. The removal of the Botanic Garden and its establishment at another site As Washington grew and as land- scape architects became interested in park from the Capitol to the Po- {the old and historic garden and its long-familiar buildings would have to go. Various sites for the garden were Once it seemed to be the that it should be removed Park. Again it was it should be placed in Par Then there was | proposed. o Potomac hought that | Rock Creek garden in a situation within the Dis- and the Eastern branch. That sit- uation was approved by committees of botanists and others, but it seemed impossible to interest Congress in the matter to the extent of making the required appropriation : The late Elliott Woods and others | conceived the plan of devoting to the fuses of a public botanic garden a ‘number of government reservations |in the southern part of the city and {the news is that the work on this | project is proceeding. A contract for | the principal greenhouse has been let and its erection is to be begun in a few days on the reservation between 2d and 3d and South Capitol and i South Canal streets and south of the | present propagating greenhouses. It is believed that a botanic garden acceptable to the people of the United States interested in such things can | be created on the lands that have been chosen and there is no doubt | that the appearance of the city south of the Capitol ‘will be improved. It will also encourage the flow of visitors and native sightseers into a section of Washington in which park devel- opment has lagged. The botanic garden is to be con- tiguous to the Capitol grounds or Capitol Park,” and when the terri- tory between the north side of the Capitol grounds and Union station is converted Into a place of herbage, | shrubbery and trees there will be a park system extending from Union station to the-Eastern branch. The plan to retain the ‘one-way street system will justify future com- ment that the town has never been the same since that big Shrine meet. One of the greatest aids to prohibi- tion lies in the fact that liquor has be- come so bad that almost everybody is afraid to drink it. German statesmen think there should be a conference on reparations. A conference is as good a medns of killing time as any. The Broad Street Station Fire. Destruction of the great train shed of the Pennsylvania railroad at Broad street, Philadelphia, removes a cele- brated landmark. This immense vault- ed structure, covering nearly a city block, was one of the famous Ameri- can railway terminals. It was of the type that formerly prevailed generally at the large railroad stations, but that has been in recent years discarded for { the “umbrella’ type of shelters for pa: sengers, such as that at the Union sta- tion in this city. It will be remem- bered that when the Union station was planned for Washington strong whether prohibition will be a leading issue at the next democratic conven- tion, what strength will be ‘developed on each side, whether it will continue to be an issue in national politics, and 80 on. Mr. Bryan replied to each in order. He declared that if the wets at- tempt to reopen the prohibition ques- tion in the convention and muster force enough to menace enforcement of* the Volstead law, prohibition will not only be the leading issue, but the only issue. He held that prohibition will continue an issue in national poli- tics as long as there is any organized opposition to the prohibition law. Then Mr. Bryan set out to ridicule mercilessly Gov., Smith's espousal of state rights to uphold his signing of the repeal bill. Neither in the north mor in the south,” said Mr. Bryan, “are the defenders of the rights of the states willing to chain their cause to @ corpse and use the doctrine as a pover Tor bootleggers, Mind-tigers and objections wer® entered to the de- parture from the traditional tvpe of terminal roofings on the ground that ‘the great arch of metal and glass was a distinctive’ and monumental design. Experience, however, has proved the wisdom of the lower form of shelter. The smoke and gasses of locomotives are quickly dispersed and the lcading platforms are lighter, and save in the most extreme weather quite as secure from the elements. They are much less expensive in maintenance. The fire at, Philadelphia started, it seems, in the space below the train platform, and ate through the wooden floors into the train shed itself. It is rather surprising to find such a use of inflammable material. Doubtless in the reconstruction of the terminal con- crete will be employed, and it is pos- sible that the domelike shed will be replaced by the umbrella type. Dispatches about the fire in Phila- , THE EVENING STAR this demoralizing blaze, train service to and from Philadelphia wag not in- terrupted. Other roads were used, schedules were quickly readjusted and the immense traffic which flows daily to and from the city was accommodat- ed. Railroad organization is one of the wonders of modern life. It is high- 1y efficient and, considering the magni- tude of interests dependent upon the transportation lines, it renders a serv- ice that, being daily taken for grant- ed, is not adequately appreciated. A Champion for Justice. . Senator Copeland of New York has declared emphatically for the enfran- chisement of the Washingtonian. In & Flag day address conducted by the Elks in this city he vesterday said: All Americans ought to have the right o vote and to direct the policies of their government, and the people of the District of Columbia, being Americane. are entitled to that right as much as any other city in this country. The District will look to Senator Copeland for practical service in the effort to secure the right of national Tepresentation for the citizens of the capital. They hope that he will lend his aid to obtain for the joint resolu- tion proposing a constitutional amend- ment a favorable report from commit- tee and favorable action in the Senate. If he will make such a work one of his principal purposes as a national legis- lator he will be of great assistance to this end. Senator Copeland sees this matter correctly from the point of view of political righteousness. He recognizes the truth that-the people of Washing- ton have bepn urging for years—that they are Americans, no different in their persons and their obligations and responsibilities from Americans who live a few miles to the north or south or west or east in one of the neigh- boring states. ‘He sees that they are taxed, as are their neighbors, called upon as are their neighbors for na- tional services In time of war and in time of peace. One phrase in Senator Copeland's speech leads tosthe hope that a per- sistent champion for the cause of na- tional representation to the District has been gained. He said: “To attain that end I shall fight until the victory is won." It is a fight worthy of any American legislator. A Crossed Scent. Fox hunting in the West Virginia hills is not an altogether safe sport. 1t has its perils, not deadly ones, but decidedly poignant. The other day a group of fashionable fox hunters set forth on one of the first runs of the summer season from a watering re- sort. The master of the hounds planned the drag in regulation man- ner to afford a maximum of rough rid- ing and of smooth riding combined. The hounds soon picked up the scent and were off, with the field in good order close behind. Presently, how- ever, a certain little animal that is beautiful to the eye~—but not to other senses when aroused—was encoun- tered by the velping followers of the anise bag, and they forthwith lost their interest in the shadow trail and addressed vociferous remarks at the black-and-white little stranger. There- upon the intruder demonstrated in characteristic manner. By this time the hunters had arrived on the scene, an unhappy coincidence. The hunt broke up right there and then. The dogs dispersed, and the hunters fled in dismay and great disgrace. Report is that they made their way back to their hotel by devious courses, not en- tering proudly as from a successful hunt, but ip scattered formation, through back doors, mostly headed straight for the swimming pools. Some expensive clothes, it is said. have been discarded for the season, perhaps for good, and those who have not for- sworn the hunt have been put to the cost of expensive new outfits. As a promoter of the clothing and haber- dashers’ trade the little black-and- white animal that only asks to be let alone is a pronounced success. The soviet government, in claiming recognition, makes the most of the fact that, with all its faults, it has no competition worth mentioning. The Chinese decided they had trou- bles enough of their own without per- mitting the bandits to invite foreign complications. Prohibition has gotten deeper into politics than it ever did in the days when there was a regularly organized prohibition part; —————— France's occupation of the Ruhr leaves Germany facing the problem of getting rid of an undesired and highly unprofitable tenant. ——————— Occasionally a “‘straw vote” conveys an impression that most of the people who participated were inclined to be practical jokers. ———— ~ SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Relaxation. Jes' foolin® 'round! De sun drifts by Till shadows gather in de sky. De water ripples on its way A-singin’ sof'ly at its play. De butterfly wif tremblin’ wing I envious of de birds dat sing. An’ ev'ything in sight or sound Seems only jes' a-foolin’ "round. Jes' foolin’ 'round! De day must come ‘When winds will blow an’ skies be glum; ‘When every minute as it flies May lose or win some precious prize. But while it's June dis old world seems Disposed to triflin’ an’ to dreams, Forgettin' matters mo’ profound; Jes' satisfied to fool around. Dilemma. If with other men’s troubles You busy yourself You'll hear it declared You're a meddlesome elf. If you mind your own business You'll speedily end > In the grouch category ‘With scarcely a friend. Though life may m a sorry jest As bubbles glean{ and burst, » his best WASHINGTO Present Premier of Britain Gave Fourth of Fortune to Nation at War| —_— . it would go far toward relieving the necessities of the national treasury and the burden resting so heavily upon their less aMuent, but infinitely more patriotic and public-spirited fel- low citizens. Incidentally it may be stated that Stanley Baldwin Is closely related to Rudyard Kipling, and if he happens to be still in office as prime minister when .the anclent office of poet lau- reate to the soverelgn becomes va- cant, he may be relied upon to gratify universal popular sentiment by nomi- nating England's favorite bard to the post in succeysion to its present in- | cumbent. BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Stanley Baldwin, Great Britain's new premier, is a very modest man. It is owing to this that it has only just become known that during the great war, when so many of his countrymen were glving their lives for the cause of the empire, he be- came imbued with the sense that he was not doing his share, although from 1917 on he devoted all his time, both by day and night, to the duties, terribly arduous In those days, of financial secretary of the British treasury. True, the elder of his two boys, the only one of military age. was at she front in France through- out the entire conflict as an officer of the Irish Guards, serving with dis- tinction, and his son-in-law was likewlise in the fleld. But Stanley Baldwin felt that this was not enough that he should have llcrlflc'd' * % xx Ax the new Lord Trevor s a con- firmed bachelor of over sixty, at one time in the colonial service in New Zealand, and who, after being dis- qualified by reason of age from the combatant ranks of the army on the outbreak of the great war, joined the French Red Cross and won the croix de guenre on the battlefield, it looks very much as if his peerage were destined to become extinct with his death. It is understood that the Jate Lord Trevor, who for a time com- manded as lieutenant colonel the First Life Guards, bequeathed the bulk of his large fortune to his widow, Rosamond Petre, whose first husband +was the fourth Earl of Ban- . 50 that the new Lord Trevor, who was his predecessor's half brother, will remain quite the reverse of affluent. The late lord. who some years ago sold all his real estate in London, including Prince's, the Ra- | quet wnd Tennis Club, Knightsbridge Hall, etc., for a sum near $2,000,000. was not ‘particularly generous with his half brothers, and allowed one of them—namely, his then heir apparent, the Hon. George Hill Trevor—to be gazetted as a bankrupt with no as- sets, although the liabilities were barely $10,000. The Hon. George was found drowned last summer at Bog- nor, on the Sussex coast. Throughout thé greater part of the Victorian reign, _bankruptey was looked upon in England as a dis- grace of sufficient importance to en- lun the forfeiture of membership of all the time needed for the care of his own business Interests to the service of the government, and have sent those dear to him to fight in France. He grieved over his own medical rejection for military duty on the score of age, and so he quletly had the whole of his private fortune valued by one of the leading London firms of chartered accountants, and when this had been done he unob- trusively contributed one-fourth part of the valuation to the exchequer as a voluntary and free-will offering. 1t is only recently that this example of patriotism has leaked out, and it is but right that it should receive the widest publicity, both at home and abroad, since it affords a clue— nay, more th a clue—an fllustration of ‘the character of the successful business man now intrusted with the direction of the destinies of the vast British empire, as its prime minister. * ok ok x Another reason why this contribu- tion by Stanley Baldwin of the fourth of his large fortune to the na- tional exchequer during the war as a patriotic gift should receive widest publicity is this: It is under- stood that some other gifts of a similar nature and prompted by an- alogous motives were made. though none so generous as that of the pres- ent premier. But none of them have been made known, save that of King George, who, it may be remembgred, presented a sum of $1,000,000 during the ar to the national treasury in his own name and that of the queen. as their personal con- tribution to the relief of the heavy burdens resting unon the nation; that is to s . upon its taxpayers. And now the people have become aware of Stanley Baldwin's contribution in spite of his endeavors to keep it quiet. The other contributions should, however, now be made known, not only as due to the donors and to serve as an example of patriotism to their fel- low citizens. but also for the purpose of calling attention to those profiteers who have reaped enormous fortunes through the war by gouging the gov- ernment and the nation, and who have never given one penny piece to the treasury as a voluntary contribu- tion to the treasury by way of atone- ment for their ill-gotten ga ex- ;orled h(hrnugh taking advantage rom the pressing necessities and | 111, in spite of this condemn: 2 u ] {111, in s o < ation, to dangers of the nation. If they could | retain his high judicial and lucrative be driven by public sentiment in |office of master of the rolls until his Great Britain and also here in Amer- [death, when he left a very large fore ica to disgorgeé at least a portion |tune. History Is far from lenient to of their shamefully acquired wealth, | his memor: the all the leadinz London clubs, and the relatives of the insolvent debtor were ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to avert what they regarded &s a stain upon the family’s escutcheon But since the late Lord Esher, as master of the rolls, presiding over the high court of appeal, with Lord Justices Lopes and Chitt declared from beside him, the bench “the plea that there is any shame in bank- ruptey” is an exploded one, altogether jdifferent ethics have prevailed, and the late Lord Cadogan, one of the very wealthiest members of the peer- jage and ground landlord of the great- ler portion of the Chelsea district of the British metropolis, preferred to allow his son and heir, the present earl, to be gazetted as a bankrupt, rather than to effect any compromise of the liabilities, which were under $30.000. The founder of the fortunes of the Lords of Trevor was John Trevor, who {was speaker of the house of com- mons and master of the rolls in the seventeenth century. He was de- prived of his speakership and x- pelled from the house of commons on conviction of acceptance of a bribe from the common council of London, but was permitted by King William Old Egyptian Temple Motifs in Shrine Columns. To the Editor of The Star: ract. It is a small granite rock fringed The intense public interest in all|with great verdure, about 1,200 feet things Egyptian manifested in the |long and 430 feet broad. The natives immense amount of space in the pub- | style it Jeseret-el-Birbeh or “Temple lic press devoted in recent months to | Island” and the ancient Egyptians re- the discoveries in the tomb of Tut- | zarded it as the birthplace of Isis and ankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings' | Osiris. The island is covered with an- tombs. across the Nile from Karnak ‘:']"!m&urxi-:l(nsa of reat archeologi- and Luxor. finds adequate expression | hich are the f:mnézz‘(emz?:‘fi?llnfl in the giant Egyptian columns and |and the kiosk of “Pharaoh’s Bed,” an decorations which form one of the |Unfinished templie with great columns main featurse of the Garden of Allah, | jaga typer 218 ©f the,spreading fol- on Pennsylvania avenue. The great| Agriculture in Egypt in modern as columns at the extremities of the|Well as in ancient times is dependent court are faithful reproductions of those of the hypostyle hall of the entirely upon the Nile for the water supply and the old system of “basin temple at Karnak. which has figured %0 much in the public press of late. irrigation” handed down from the an 1t is my purpose in writing this cient Egpyvtians has only been sur. passed by the great perennial irriga- brief communication to call attention to the four more graceful columns tlon project by Sir William Willcox with palm-leaf capitals that are to and carried out by the British gov- ernment. This made necessary the erection of the colossal dam at As- suan across the valley at the. first be found at the intersection of Jack- son place with Pennsylvania avenue. These were suggested by the col-| umns of the hypostyle hall of the cataract. A The choice of the site was due to the fact that the river here cuts its way through a dike of granitic roc Thus the dam is bonded at both ends and at its base into this natural o : t 55 of granite. The dam was rais great Temple of Isis.at Philae, which | to. a helght of 143 feet Abgve. tha undoubtedly represents the most per- ::“:!-l»:"ée"(??rz Seoi0s e mossibls: (e ! iy t stora : .000 tons of water fect achievement of later Egyptian|over and above the normal content art in the days of the Ptolemies at Of the river bed. The raising of the ed of the river naturally meant the :‘fl close of the fourth century B. C. gupmergence of the Island of Philae, Not only are the motifs carved on|but considerations of the necessity of each of the capitals of these columns | careful regulation of the water at Philae inconcelvably rich and|ihe®pecnie. Subirairy thoeriorare of tasteful, but the artists heightened the effect by shades of green. blue, red and yellow, which are incom- parably soft and harmonious. Those painted columns are among the purest and most delicate creations not only of Egyptian, but of any art, and the reproductions so carefully worked out by Frederick D. Owen and Mor- the people naturally overcame the protests of archealogists and lovers timer Clarke give, in temporary ma- terials, something of the great ef- of the beautiful against the ultimate fect of the orignals. destruction of these interesting mon- uments. The dam has raised the cur- rent of the Nile over the foundations of these temples almost to the capi- "Thls endeavor to reprodice the art of Philae brings vividly to mind that these great monuments of the past will soon be but a memory on account tals of the stately columns and the waves of the river swirl into the of the construction of the great As- suan dam. sanctuaries once filled with eager worshipers and processions of priests. Philae is an {sland in the Nile south of Assuan, just below the first cata- The water is causing the inevit- able decay. The colors on the columns are beginning to fade and their very substance is showing signs of disintergration. Some day, while the older temples of Egypt situated upon the parched plains retain some- thing of their former grandeur, the temples of Philae will have tottered over into the water and pass forever from the sight of man. MITCHELL CARROLL, Member of committee on decorations * of “Garden of Allah.” Psychoanalyst Takes Place of Spanking The modern theory is that the bad child is not bad, but psychopathic. What used to be ascribed to original sin is now regarded as the result of the derangement of the mental func- tions. Hence the old-fashioned spanking, which, in the old, unen- lightened, unprogressive days was regarded as. reasonably effective in the matter of permanent character building, is rapldly giving way among the advanced to milder and more immediately considerate treatment, a call on the doctor or a visit to the psychoanalyst. ' : 2 Now a'woman psychologist of some note extends the-theory to apply to parents also. Neglect by parents of their homes and their children, she says,’ is largely the result, not of their moral fault, but of their mental defectiveness. Doubtless there is much of truth in the modern theory, but there is a great deal of danger in it, too, for new an#l attractive theories are pretty likely to rectiye an exag- erated and overextended application from those who espouse and promul- gate them. If they're not careful, this one will crowd out and replace the good old doctrine of individual responsibility. If, for psychopathic reasons, we can't be good anyway, ‘what's the use in 7—'Columbus | Ohio Hot Springs Disaster Shows Need of Radio The Hot Springs disaster reminds us with a shock that the only high- ways which are never interrupted are the highways of the air. The famed resort city was cut from all communi- cation with the outside world at 5:30 p.m., Monday. All that was heard of the place the following night and most of the next day was by indirect report, which was fragmentary and unauthentic. The town might have been wiped out completely and the world would not have been the wiser. Wires were down, raflroads washed out and. roads obstrycted. The predicament’ of Hot Springs proclaims the need.of modern com- munication for all éommunities.. A radlo broadcasting apparatus might have apprised the world. of the situa- tion immediately. Preparedness would have enabled surrounding cities to send quick airplane rellef. Afrplanes from many surrounding towns and cities could have brought all the as- sistance both in material and person- nel that any disaster might have re- quired. _,The day is coming when every ham- let in America will have its complete radio station and airplane, or many of them, for the sending or receiving of news of moment and the dispatch- aid in the kind and quantit; almost instant nulcz D. C, MONDAY, JUNE 115 Would Save Blair Home Appeal Made to Buy House of Virginia Patriot. To the Editor of The Star: 4 1 noticed with great interest the account of a~luncheon given May 19 in Washington in ald of the fund for the purchase of Monticello, the beau- tiful residence of Thomas Jefferson. It 1s & wonderful place and ought by all means to be preserved both in honor of its distinguished founder and because of its beauty as a relic of the best type of colonial architec- ture. But there is another place In Vir- infa far less pretentious and in ft- self without any claim to architec- tural charm, which, nevertheless, is the shrine of historic memories and the home of the first justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, John_Blair, esq, of Willlamsburg, Va. This Nouse, now in the tempor- ary custody of the College of William and Mary, was the early residence of one of the framers of the Constitution of the United States, built in the days when he was a poor man, though al- ready famous as a jurist and great patriot, member of the Continental Congress, whose portrait adorns the walls of Independence Hall at Phila- delphia among the portraits of the makers of America. An_effort has been made to ralse money to buy this little house and present it to the College of William and Mary for academic purposes in recognition of the service of Mr. Justice Blair, graduate of Willlam and Mary and one of its famous “visitors.” Thus far, the fund raised is far from adequate, and 1 take this opportunity of suggesting that while other projects to preserve the his- toric sites in Virginia are being o ably promoted, the philanthropists and patriots who are supporting them should remember “the old Blair homestead” at Williamsburg, Va. The meager sum of $16,000 will save it from destruction and insure the plan to make it a lasting memorial of John Blair, esq, who, while residing un- der its roof, held conference there with Washington, Jefferson, Marshall, Wythe and other famous Virginians on’ the basic principles embodied in the Constitution of the United States signed and adopted in Philadelphia. Funds to be applied to this purpose may be sent to 'W. F. Low. cashier of the First National Bank, Wililams- byrg, Va. ELEANOR M. HIESTAND-MOORE. Potome River Port Development Praised To the Editor of The Star: In your fssue of March 27 last you said representatives of commercial and eivic groups of Washington and Alexandria would meet at 4 p.m. the 29th, at the City Club to form a per- manent organization to develop the Potomac river front between Wash- ington and Alexandria as & port capable of harboring the largest ves- seis of commerce and war. 1 was glad to see that this absolute- Iy practical and much-needed work was at last to receive the attention it deserved, as it opens up a wonder- ful vision of the capital’s future, the accomplishment of which, however, cannot be attained until the greatest vessels of peace and war can anchor in our harbor. - It recalls a prediction made by George Washington a century and a half ag ‘That Alexandria would some day be a great manufacturing and commercial center.” 1 have not heard much of this im- portant work of late, which I hope to, after our visiting Shriners return to their homes. Apropos of the subject, the follow- g .@rticle of mine was published tember 25, 191 “After completing the Panama ca- nal, instead of utllizing the outfit in Alaska, why not have Col. Goethals bring _his men and machinery to Washington and cut a canal to Chesapeake bay, or dredge the Poto- mac river, thus” enabling the great ships of peace and war to anchor at our nation’s capital? “Having completed this, the m: chipery could then be sent to Alaska, of wherever desired. “The above thought is born of a contemplation of the future conti- nental (not to mention the insular) territory of the United States, the limits of which will be the north pole, the Panama canal and the At- lantic and Pacific oceans.” Of course, 1 do not contemplate war, with its death and destruction, bui peace, mutual Interest, as comes the rain and sunshine from heaven. 1. T. RANDOLPH. Find “Good Farmers” Staying on Farms The Department of Agriculture tells us that half a million people left the farms of the United States during 1922. Which is not something to bs un- duly alarmed over, although it is not a good sign. One of the most noticeable things in _connection with this greatest in- dustry in the world is that the men who are farming according to the best modern scientific methods and agricultural thought are not leaving the farms. The good, modern farmers are not leaving the farms. A casual observation confirms that statement absolutels 2 i The farming business is not bank- rupt. It éven happens that an occasional city man goes out into the country and makes more of money and other things Which constitute life' than he was able to make in the cit The modern farmer is putting up a Stiff fight for a fairer share of the high cost of living, but he is not for- getting the development and improve- ment of farming methods and prac- tices, to the end that he will do his share toward getting what rightfully is his—Port Huron Times-Herald. Wants ““Coal Hole Covers” Removed To the Editor of The Star: Is it not about time that those abominable “coal-hole covers” placed at the center of cross streets, and “supposed” to assist in the further- ance of traffic, should be removed? They aré not only a failure in se- curing the “drive right” direction which they are intended to order, but they are actually a menace to life and limb at times. I.was on the Treasury portico during the pa- rades of both Tuesday and Wedne: day and T saw séores of those march- ing stumble and almost fall over the one’ on 15th street opposite F stree! They should certainly be removed trom marching courses; and while ordinarily pedestrians will probably safely avoid them and large vehicles not be affected- if -they strike them, bicyclists are .very liable to have hard falls if they inadvertently run on_to them .in avolding other traffic. By all means let these antiquated devices be removed. “ ALVIN T. GREGORY. . Urges Only Arabic : Numerals in Use To the Editor of The Sta Roman numerals are used in such a way as not to be easy to decipher by-the average person. On_the- contrary, Arabic numerals are known all over the world—and universally understood. The Roman numerals are written in such a way as to be confusing. 1t is suggested by the writer that Arabic numerals be used exclusively as in addition they are strictly Amer- kpows ican, and to the most illiter> . ; ULIAN-SRALLe. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. “Hitch your wagon to a sta especially it you can find a “fixed" star. convenient—and you will dem- onstrate the relativity of motion, ac- cording to Herr Einstein. With your airplane thus fixed, the earth will revolve under you. Lieut Russell L. Maugham, U. S. A., of McCook Fleld, Dayton, Ohio, flew from Washington to Dayton last week in the officially recorded time of fiinety-seven minutes, a distance of nearly 500 miles. As Old Sol, him- self, took about an hour to make the same trip. when Maugham landed he was only thirty-seven minutes behind the sun. Nk No longer will the world gasp at Darius Green's challenge: “The birds can fly, So why can't 17" Not far ahead. the prophet some bold Maugham saying: “The sun may pace Tl win the race. When the future flver. looking westward, “hitches his car to a fixed star,” he will see the earth turning eastward, speeding beneath him at the pace of hundreds of miles un hour. Relatively, he will be station- ary, as is the sun. He may rise with the reddening sunrise, and. like the Goddess Aurora and her chariot, hour after hour, stay with the dawn e sees the revolving earth. is about 1.041 miles an hour, but at the latitude of 45 degrees the speed is reduced to one-half, and at the poles it is noth- ing—as stationary as is the sun Somewhere near the boundary of the United States and Canada the speed is approximately 450 miles an hour. At some latitude farther north the earth might race with the present day aviators, so that one fis- ing with the sun. could keep up with its pace, and live an interminable flight in a never-ending sunrise. Or he might chase the sunset, and for- bid the oncoming night. Like a modern Joshua, it is in the power of the aviator to say: “Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon. and thou Vi y of Ajalon. ¢ ¢ mOoRIIn the een’ u. the ook Jasher: So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hasted not to g0 down about a whole day. * kX ¥ Lieut. Maugham is planning a trip from the Atlanticto the Pacific, to be made between sunrise and sunset. Will he take a northern latitude and travel like Aurora and repeat the miracle of Joshua? * %ok * The Department of Agriculture boasts that its crop estimates, as checked up with the final crop har- vest reports. have come to within 2 or 3 per cent of accuracy for a period of eleven years. Why not have a progressive card party the government depart- ments? Let the accurate prophets of crops move up to the weather bureau a while. The results might be surpris- ing. At the stock market they could give out reliable tips. By that time there would be frantic call for the prophets in_connection with the 1924 elections. What's trumps? The ace of spades. Why hide such talents under a farmer's corn basket? Liberty en- lightens the world. Why shouldn’t Secretary Wallace do the same? * X ¥ X Our wheat exports are reported as showing a decline. This is attributed to revival of foreign wheat growing. The reported decline comes together with prognostications of crops, not only in the United States, but in some Buropean countries hence, American authorities are con- cerned to see that home consumption is maintained at top notch. It is a demonstrated fact that when every- body is employed at good wages they The speed of at the equator. of in Irish Republic Goes the Way of Other “Lost Causes.” In history’s big ledger of lost causes Amerlcan editors are making & new entry—The Irish republic. That, as the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch an- nounces, “the Irish republic is at an end,” s the interpretation which the press of this country places upon De Valera's secret order to his fol- Towers to give up the fight and aban- don their arms; and the Utica Ob- server-Dispatch expresses the gen- eral feeling of relief and rejoicing when it says “there is mothing more cheering on the horizon than the news that comes from Ireland.” “The world can scarcely conceive of an Ireland at peace,” observes the Chattanooga News, for “the tagk of promoting pacificatign has baffled some of the ablest stdtesmen of both Ireland and England. The problem has been given up as insoluble by one after another.” Now, however, with the Irish Free State well launched {n sound paths, and freed from the menace of the irregulars; Ireland at peace appears to American observers as a not impossible dream. De Valera’s “demobllization” order ‘would have been worth three rous- ing cheers if written-and published. many months ago,” but now, as the Detroit News sees it, it “is an empty confession of impotence,” and, many writers add, hopeless defeat. Tp the Chicago Post his surrender “is the pelated wisdom of an ambitious lead- er, defeated at the. polls by the vote of the people and defeated in the field by the soldiers of the people.” At one time the Waterloo Tribune tells us, “De Valera's followers were estimated at 500,000, most of them able to bear arms.” How great the change from such a formidable army to. the few | followers who remain t6 obey his order to surrender is suggested by the recent megotiations between De vValera and the chiefs lof the Irish Free State; for, as the New York Post points-out, “when the Free State government rejected his peace offer of May 7 the républicans would have re- sumed actiye warfare had they been able: i “The evidence is that most of them have scattered to their homes, their arms ahd ammunition have been cap- tured, small units have been taken and resistance hag ceased.” On the whole, the St. Louls Globe-Democrat finds it “a rather pathetic document in which the curtaln is rung gown on a great national tragedy, and a pa- {thetlc figure is De Valera himself.” for.the paper thinks he “must have sickened of the specter that has un- interruptedly thrust death op him in many forms without even the conso- lation of temporary ' triumphs,” and bumper | actually eat more than “'h?.n times are hard. EEE Chairman Lasker writes an inter. esting' review of conditions haw found them when he took charge af the Shipping Board. It was handiing a monthly deficiency of $16.- 000,000, with no adequate system of accounting. That deficit. he repo; in his letter of resignation, the b has reduced to ahout $1.0%800 month. He also reports that board is now equipped with *tl. only monthly trial balance of any of the government activities,” as stated by Gen. Lord, the director of the budget. One government department at llnhuvvvu to its bookkeeping system as then dispute regarding receipts and di Lursements of certain items, in wh 4 balance of $50.000.000 appears be missing. Everybody is sure it only an error in bookkeeping. there is no monthly trial balanc check it Another department ent, every now arq then and between times, scares u seeming to mislay a few million bonds or comething, bt nounces that the inves sure that it is “only 4 age.” ) Great is the trial balancer eace at home. within our cous ace with all the nations of 11 a sacred 0. to whi has herself and he Americ resources defended v to invite the sixty and Army several davs b th Secretary of War Weeks snd Gen. Pershing. on how o or the religious and moral f of the Army and e “The Army and Navy of the United States. therefore. command the 1e t,0f every true citizen.” they ady We deprecate any attempt made under the cloak of religion, and the name of false pacifism, to deny * Support of the churches to the we being of our Army and Navy." PREE conference to The tariff on be taken up by t July 17, with pub! on July 24, the commission to the very pressing whether the infant industry of m ing wall pockets | be crushed Does the protection of paint bru es and wall pockets bring us o present wave of prosperitv. whie gives employment to evervhody bar.lenrlfll'.‘. who, like Othello, their occupation gone? The output of automohiles by factories of America is double vear. as compared with last. or an previous vear. months. the total was nearly a lion more than in correspa months last season Should the political partles fear t public demand for “view with alarm” the who! hecoming speed crazy? Or relv on 8o many will be readv to of their troubles” T Word comes from Ma movement is on foot for a wholesale migration of Mennonites from Canada ¢ to Maryland, bringing several thou sand Immigrants re farmers and it 18 purposed for them to tal over a tract of several thousand acres, and establish a colony. wi they will have freedom to te: fldren the German languag Canada prohiblts the teaching « German. The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that the stat have no power to forbid the teachir of any foreign language, hence great impetus is given to the M. nonite project. Some 2.000 have ready_ purchased land in Marylan according to the report. Nothing is sald about the restr tions of our immigration laws. P haps it is intended that the migr tion shall begin immediatel the opening of the new fisca which is July 1. S0 as to h |advantage of an unbroken quota, & | cording to the law. The Southern Marvland -Soclety | reputed to be handling the migrati nd undertaking to locate the migrants in St. Marys, Charles bot and Prince Georges counties i (Copsright, 1928, by P. V. Collins ) paint brushes is Tariff Commissior Then will ture questior, ¢ hearings ’ Tal EDITORIAL DIGEST arated by a gulf of bitterness anid differing opinion almost as unbridg- | able as that of death.” Drawing a parallel from our ow history, the Springfield Republica recalls that “when the civil war ha been fought to a finish in open batt it would still have been possible, Lee and the other Confederate lead ers were fully aware. -to conuinim warfare indefinitely. But such a pro- traction of futile hostilitles would have served no good purpose, and the leaders of the south were w nough to recognize at once. now recognizing, that arms is now an act of patri And, the Louisville Courier-Journal advises, “what De Valera's followers should do is to follow the example et by Lee's veterans—that is, go ho and retake their places in the pur of peace De Valera is merely admitt “what the majority of the reasoni men in Ireland_ have long knof says the New York Globe. Quating from the order the conclusion that “/f our people have turned away from you, quit giving you their active sup port, it is because they are weary: s need rest,” the Savannah News g it this interpretation, “in other word the great majority of the Iri do mot see that. anything gained by following De Vale a matter of fact, the Journal believes ' “there been a time since the Free S established when De Valera ctuld honestly and truthfully claim that b had the Irish people in any consi able proportion behind him.” It has_been apparent for months, the Dayton News holds, * the Free State is an established stitution _and is moving along i # manner that gives ample evide thie sincerity of its leaders. T appearances it 16 the popular gove ment in Ireland and as such has manded practically ‘universal resp and fidelity,” #And with Ireland “s: governing in fact’ the Springficld TUnion thinks that the loss in po {larity of the republican cause can ! accounted for. by the fact that shadowy difference between com separation” and autonomy was of ! little moment to constitute a cau “The abandonment of obstructi tactics simplified the problems w which the new government ha deal,” but, while “the latest De move promises peace,” the N Virginian-Pilot warns, that it does no promise “immedfate unity.” Tn the Burlington News fears that government will have even a difficult time in dealin surgents thap heretofore,” since mi!! tary measures could be taken to co bat force of a¥ms. Now, as a num of writers point out, the battlefisid only may be changed and the guerrilla tactics carried into the political in- stead of the military fray. Perhaps. as the Wilkes-Barre Record puts It “there {s more surrender of arms than of spirit.” and granting the possibility suggested by the Reading Tribun: that De Valera has called off active insurgency “in order to take his plac among the political factions.” the Der catur Review protests that by be coming_“political opponents of the Free State in an opposition party” the republicans are merely takin “the way of self-governing peoples. At least, and at worst to have a breathing speil.” the Ann Arbor Times-News rejoices, and the Peoria Transscript concludes that “if Ireland is moving toward peace, hope for stability In Europe is not entirely ( ’ ha