Evening Star Newspaper, June 12, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. G TUESDAY.........June 12, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Co:;p:ny . 11th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. - N;g%;bz‘flu:,‘!w'fi;lml: S8t. <*“Tower Bullding. Puropesn Ofce 16 Regent B¢, London, England. ing Star, with the Sunday morning dition, fe dellvered by carri ‘within the city at 60 cents per month; daily only, 43 cents per month; Sunday only. 30 cents per month. ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Main 8000. Collection is made by carriers at the ‘end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0¢ Daily only "1yr. $6.00: 1 mo., 50c Eunday oniy......[1yr. $2.40; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. only Sunday only.. The E: Member of the Associated Press. Tie Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled | to the ‘use for republication of all news dis- atches credited o 1t or Dot otherwise credited n this paper and also the local news pub: 1 hereln I rights of publication of e also reserved. e Supreme Court on Wage Fixing. A unanimous decision by the Su- Preme Court declares that the Kansas court of industrial relations has no power under the Constitution fix wages. This decision does not destroy the state act. but undoubtedly “draws its teeth” in the most important function of the court created by This decision of the court, rendered without dissent, is analagous to that rendered about three months ago by the same court. which aside the District minimum wage law. The | earlier decision, however, was given by a divided court, five to three. Yet the two conclusions were based upon similar grounds, that the legislation was contrary to the spirit of the four- teenth amendment to the Constitution, the first section of which declares that no state shall deprive any person of | ife. liberty and property” without | due process of law. 1t is the view of the Supreme Court in these that any process of wage fixing tends to deprive the dividual employer or the worker of the | vight of contract. In the minimum | wage case the effect of the decision | was adverse to the worker, in that it permitted the adoption of a lower scale of wages than that established by & commission created by act of Con In the Kansas case, in the par- suit at issue. it militated the worker in that the i s based upon a ruling by | the state industrial court which fixed | @ lower rate of wages in a particular ; industry than that which workers contended The question entire respect to set cases in- aress ticular against in point wi in case ises whether lheuei decisions, taken together —more strongly expressed t h unanimity in the second than in the first instance imply that that court would rule out @< unconstitutional any act of Con-| gress or of state legislature setting up @ tribunal of compulsory arbitration. | A wage-fixing board is now operating under act of Congress, with jurisdic- | tion over the pay of railroad workers. | But that board operates only upon the mutual mandate or request of the em- pioyes and the employer. It has no ebsolute power over a wage dispuzo.' A controversy must be submitted to it, and as the practice now stands the Dboard cannot enforce its decisions un- the parties have pledged them- n advance to abide by them. the Kansas case the industrial court had jurisdiction as to wage fix- ing in cases of appeal by either side, which is quite differcnt from the Rail- ad Wage Board. It is that point on which the court's decision turns. A ruling by the Kansas industrial court to fix wages was not predicated upon | mutual submission. Thus it would £eem that the court's present ruling heads away from compulsory arbitra- tion, which is based upon the hypoth- esis that the public welfare demands action to adjust wage differences re- gardless of the wish of the interested | parties in order to continue the serv- ices and supplies involved in the in- dustries affected. | ————— Marathon dancing is denounced by a Chicago judge degrading to morals and injurious to health. The conscience of the court often compels | it to take a firm stand on matters which do not lend themselves to solu- tion on lines of legal technicality. Peo- pie who are only foolish must be re- strained as well as those who are ag- gressively lawless. - On receipt of a demand for an epology Japan sent four battleships 10 China. Though not acceded to, the request was, at least, not ignored. ——— Alaska is commanding admiration as a large and diversified region that can produce sunstrokes and snow- storms on the same summer day. —_——— Washington has grown large enough to follow the examples of other com- munities and have a few oneway Streets. less gelves In as 1 1 I The Rail Merger. Approval by the circuit court of ap- peals at St. Paul of the Interstate Commerce Commission’s action in au- thorizing the Southern Pacific railroad ta acquire control of the Central Pa- cific by lease and stock ownership marks a development in railway oper- atlon. It is evidence of a distinct change in the aftitude of the courts towerd railway conselidation, and recognition of the demand for more economical methods of operation, re- sponding to public sentiment. Aforetime there has existed an. tipathy against railway mergers which might threaten the creation of trusts and the exclusion of healthy competi- tion. That feeling reached its crest in the injunction by the Supreme Court of the proposed merger of the Great Northern and the Northern Pacific. ‘That decision was widely approved by the country. As proposed, the un- dertaking did, in fact, seem to threat- en destructive monopoly. Since then, in Congress and elsewhere, the senti- ment favoring reasonable mergers has been growing. This sentiment was based on the soosideration of benefits-to the publis I but of reasonable merge: of the Interstate Commerce Commis- slon, as authorized in the transport tion act of 1920. These benefits were expected to be derived from obvious overlapping of service and duplicating of overhead expenses. The transporta- tion problem is @ question of securing the maximum of service at the mini- mum of cost from the existing railway systems. The problem before the In- terstate Commerce Commission is to get the best possible service out of existing plants, and recent merger plans put forward have been made with that objective in view. The Supreme Court in October, 1922, had decreed the separation of the Southern Pacific and Central Pa- cific. After that decision the Inter- state Commerce Commission, under authority of the transportation act, authorized the Southern Pacific to re- tain control of the Central Pacific by a new lease and continued stock ownership under certain conditions. Judge Sanborn. who handed down ves- terday’s decision of the circuit court of appeals, said he did not belleve the Supreme Court had considered the transportation act in its dissolution decree. The case is still open for an- other appeal to the Supreme Court, it is said to be questionable whether it will be taken. Yesterday's decision is classed as being in line with the administration’s policy of beneficent merger of existing lines in special cases The Austrian Loan. An important step was taken ves- terday in the stabilization of European affairs when the international Aus- trian loan at 7 cent was heavily oversubscribed in New York and Lon- don. Within fifteen minutes after the books were opened in the former city bids had been received for more than five times the amount of the American quota of $25.000.000. In London the £11,000,000 British quota was sub- scribed before noon. This loan is a de- cided success. Austria’s financial condition is about as bad as that of any country in Eu- rope, perhaps the worst of all. That country was greatly reduced in area by the peace of Versailles, was stripped of its most valuable territory and was shut off from the sea. Its currency fell to so low a rate as to be virtually worthless. Its efforts to amalgamate with Germany were thwarted. For a time it seemed that there was no hope for Austria but national bankruptcy and complete reorganization. This present loan is guaranteed by eight of the nations. If Austria de- faults in payment these nations will participate proportionately in the liquidation. It is therefore to the in- terest of the guaranteeing powers to restore Austria’s economic health to the point of enabling her to meet her obligations. A significant feature of thi subscription of the Austrian loan is that it occurs markedly in “enemy countries.” The question im- mediately arises whether Germany could effect a loan in the same man- ner. Opinion is already expressed that t could be done on the same condi- tions, that is, with equally strong guarantees. No move, however, has been made to that end. As long as the reparations problem remains unsolved, that is, while the amount of Ger- many’s acknowledged obligation is un- determined, nothing can be done to- ward a guaranteed international loan. Certainly France would not join in such a guaranty of German liquida- tion while she remains the largest un- satisfled creditor of an undetermined and unpledged debt. Yet the Austrian loan encourages the hope of adjustments that will un- derwrite peace in Europe through mu- tuality of obligation and financial risk. An international flscal partnership may effect more than a political coali- tion. —_————— Reports are now current that Lenin's health is improving. There is no immediate way of telling whether they are more reliable than the rumors of his demise. The physicians of Russia are at times as mysterious in ther ways as the lawyers and diplomats. per over- most The man who boldly carried the body of a murdered woman on a New ! York ferry boat and tried to throw it decided to re- of overboard apparently lieve the police, for once at lea the trouble of solving a mystery. China, being a rather backward na- tion, has not yet made any vociferous demonstrations to induce the league of nations to straighten out her diffi- culties. The June commencement essay now claims careful consideration. Next year the attention of the public will be distracted by numerous campaign speeches. One of the most serious cases of overproduction ever brought to notice is that of paper currency in Europe. - Caravan. There will probably be a vogue for the word “caravan” as one result of the Shrine festivities and the publicity given them. It would seem that the run on the old and familiar word hes already begun. In the account of the President’s automobile trip through Delaware to the town of Milford to join the Tall Cedars of Lebanon the President’s auto and the machines fol- lowing it were called a caravan sev- eral times. In the account was this “Following a luncheon a caravan of twenty automobiles, with the Presi- dent and Mrs. Harding in the lead, started on the journey across the state.”” And there-was this: “The next &top of the caravan was at Smyrna, ‘where a rousing welcome was given the party.” The President being & Shriner, in addition to being a Tall Cedar, is entitled to travel by caravan if he likes that mode of going over a road. 1t is likely that we will continue to hear a good deal of caravan until the fashion wears out or the caravan breaks down or is captured by nomads of the desert, Bedouins or some other kind of wild fellows. It is a very old word, and perhaps was. devised by the Persians or Hindus or by peoples who lived in the east at an earlier time. It ssams to have been dertved from:ov| | ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JUNE 12, 1923, under controt ! related to a word meaning ‘“trade.” and a caravan was a company of traders or merchants who treveled in & body the better to protect them- selves against bandits. Outside of Shrine circles' little has been heard of caravans in late vears. We have used ‘“wagon train,” *flest of autos,” ‘“cavalcade,” ‘“procession,” “‘escort,” *convoy” and other words, but now when two market wagons travel together we may hear them spoken of as a caravan. The old hotel at Four Corners, which was first called the Scythe and S8ickle Tavern, later became the Drovers’ Rest and is now called Rose Leaf Teahouse may become a caravansary. Souvenirs of Genius. Sarah Bernhardt's stage jewels were sold at auction yesterday in Paris and brought remarkable sums. Trinkets worth intrinsically only about 10,000 francs were bid in by souvenir seekers for neary ten times that amount. Tin- sel bracelets, “‘decorations” und other adornments associated with some of the “Divine Sarah's” greatest stage creations were sought so eagerly by collectors and admirers of the actress that the bidding ran far beyond ex- pectations and caused some of the most interested competitors to drop out long before the hammer fell. Purchasers of these bits of stage decoration will cherish them proudly. They will probably increase in value with time. A century hence, perhaps, they will be rated with some of the most precious niuseum pieces in the world. Why? Because they were worn by a woman whose name will always stand as that of a remarkable imper- sonator, whose genius thrilled the world for vears and who, despite the handicap of illness, disablement and age, continued almost unto her death to represent the greatest traditions of the stage. But there is one of Sarah Bern- hardt's accessories that can never be eold or preserved, and that is the spark of her incomparable genius. It will remain, however, to illuminate the history of the drama for as many years as the stage continues to exist. —— Park Concerts. Summer concerts in the parks will begin this evening. These summer recitals by government bands are one of the pleasures of Washington and thoueands of persons attend. Open-air concerts by the Marine Band at the Capitol and White House became one of the institutions of Washington con- siderably more than half a century ago, and that great band still plays for us. Every one hopes that it will play for all time to come. Other gov- ernment bands have in late years come into being. and several of the June park concerts will be by the United States Army Band, which is a big and highly meritorious organization that has won distinction. The thought must come to many of our people that we have lately had a mighty volume of free music. There was first our third annual Music week, with public concerts, great choruses and an event- ful feature of thousands of public school children singing at the ball park. Close upon Music week came Shrine week, and Washington will long remember how numerous and ac- commodating were the Shrine bands. Now, our park concert season opens, and the band which has long stood at the head of martial musical organiza- tions is to play for us, and another great band which is reaching out for laurels and the palm will also play. —_———————— Capt. Cox of the freighter Almagro, Just docked at New York, found six- teen stowaways during the voyage. If he put them all to work, according to the custom in all sea stories, the regu- lar crew must have had a nice vaca- tion. The time is always ripe for a third party, although no third party re- wards its promoters by attaining a state of luscious maturity. A few brokerage failures offer no urance to the haters of high finance that a process of elimination is caus- ing old Wall street to improve. Straw votes are reliable only in in-( dicating that a number of people have had a little spare time on their hands. As usual the prediction, always ful- filled, that another war would be much more terrible than the one preceding. The hope Is confidently expressed, however, that the world's wisdom is at last keeping pace with its death- dealing ingenuity. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Lazy Microbe. U's got dat lazy microbe dat I been a-readin’ bout; He's a mighty curious critter, an’ dar isn’ any doubt ¢ makes a heap o' trouble if you tries to show him fight, But he sho'ly is a comfort if you only treats him right. You musn’ git too busy; you musn' scol’ an’ fret. Dat lazy microbe says you got to treat him like a pet. But if you’ll only take yoh res' an' sing a little song. He's gwinter be good company mos' all de summer long. ‘Wasted Tribulation. Experience is a teacher stern. Her lessons we cannot refuse. The trouble is, she makes us learn So many things we never us Indolence. In honest consclence oft he tries Severely to economize. His struggles with dismay we view ‘To make a day's work do for two. Intellect and Acoustics. ‘What small considerations check ‘The loftiest ambition, And leave it struggling in the wreck, 'Mid silence and contrition! /A man may study up a speech Convincing to each doubter; But if the mob he seeks to teach He's got to be a shouter. 8o with this moral we're impressed: ‘The man of fame the proudest WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE There was some plain speaking at William and Mary College in Virginia today by John W. H. Crim, Istant attorney general of the United States. Addressing the alumni of his venerable alma mater, Crim charged that “the crooked politiclan” has to be combated virtually every time the federal government moves in the courts to enforce the law. “I can count on my fingers,” sald Crim, “the professional politicians in my long experience who at any time rendered substantial aid in law en- forcement.” Crim's address was a frontal attack on the archaic sys- tem under which the Department of Justice 1s conducted. He declares that it needs renovation from top to bottom like an old house that long since outgrew its usefulness. Onc of Crim's recommendations is that the Attorney General's office should be taken out of the cabinet. and the post turned into a non-political one, with a long term, If not permanent, incumbent. * % ¥ % Homer Cummings of Connecticut, formerly democratic national chair- man, held forth as today's commence- ment orator at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He had some caustic things to say about TUnited States policy at the re- {cent pan-American conference {Chile. Our refusal to submit the {Monroe doctrine to discussion, with [a view to eventual admission of the Latin republics as partners in its imaintenance, was excoriated as “po- litical perversity. or w Cum- mings told the ‘faculty and students of the institution Thomas Jefferson founded that America. under its present national leadership, is suf- fering from “the complex of in- volvement.” | * e The fascisti have at length invad- ed Washington and are now repre- sented here by a personally appoint- ed emissary of Mussolini. This fis the way it came about. Willlam Atherton Dupuy, well known Wash- ington scribe, was recently in Rome, attending the International Women's Congress. As all journalistic roads fn the Ttalian capital lead straight to Mussolini, Dupuy availed himself of n_ opportunity to meet that benevolent autocrat. The premier is not exactly a shrinking violet in the presence of dispensers of print- er's ink, and Dupuy encountered a warm welcome. While it was at its effusive zenith, Mussolini decorated | the American with the official badge ‘of the fascisti, and for the moment | }it has displaced the American Legion button in Dupuy’s coat lapel * o ow % Senator William E. Borah is due in Jdaho this week for a protracted visit | destined to be of decisive influence upon his political career. Borah comes up for re-election in 1924. His renomina BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Schomberg House, on Pall Mall. | where King George's oldest aunt, the kindly Princess Christian, is now re- ported to he dying—indeed, she may have breathed her last ere this ap- pears in print—is one of the historic mansions of the British metropolis and was built during the reign of | Charles 1T for that Duke of Schom-| berg who was in turn a German| prince. a Swedish and a Dutch gen-| eral. a French fleld marshal. a Portu- | guese grandee and count. a Drld‘xh marquis and duke, a commander-in- | chief of the armies of the Hohen- sovereign elector of Braden- | :xr:::"gr.“nnd Who was killed fighting for | King William at the battle of the Boyne in 1690 and buried in St. Pat- rick’s Cathedral at Dublin. beneath a handsome memorfal inscribed with an epitaph by Dean Swift. | Princess Christian shared more than any one of Queen Victoria's| children ‘the pronounced leanings of her brother, King Edward, for every- body and evervthing connected with the United States, and used to be known as the Providence of the Americans, hundreds of whom she aponsored in Englinsh society. In- deed, there was no royal personage in Europe who had a longer American visiting_1list than Princess Christian. She had much of the geniality of King Edward and absence of affecta- tion, keenly enjoyed her popularity and it was a source of great SOITOW | to her that during the war her hus-, band, very much her senior. who had spent forty years of his life in Eng- Jand, was subjected to manifestations | of anti-German prejudice and even | of suspicion In the land of his adop- | tion by reason of his German title of Duke of Schleswig-Holstein. It broke his health and his spirit. He did not survive the war. After his death the princess gave | up the home of her married life at | Frogmore, within the domain of | Windsor Castie, and established her | residence in Schomberg house. Pall | Mall, which between the great Duke of Schomberg’s death and her own occupancy had sheltered William. roval Duke of Cumberiand, and a number of other notable people. In- deed, the preat painters, Gainsbor-| ough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, did much of their best work beneath its roof. The late kaiserin, owing to her father's death and her mother's in- sanity, was brought up at Frogmore under the guardianship of her aunt, Princess Christian. * ok ok % Poland, on the occasion of the re- cent celebration of her national day, published the first list of those upon whom her new order of “Poland’'s Praises Salvation Army. Kindness to Old Man, Fallen on Street, Wins Passerby’s Approval. To the Editor of The Star: May I not have a bit of your space to tell your readers something I learned recently about the Salvation Army, which now seems to be strug- gling to raise a bit of money with which to carry on its splendid work another year? One afternoon this week, while the Shrine carnival was at its height, an aged man sunk to the sidewalk on a street just off the path of the fe tivities. This old fellow looked like & down-and-outer; clothes were badly wrinkled, there were heavy pouches beneath his eyes, and he was n need of a shav It didn't take long for a small crowd to gather, and soon there was derisive laughter, and puns. The most cruel of all' came from a fiip- pish young man who suggested, “Call the wagon and let the old bird ride his bun off. No one seemed to be ready to do anything, but all were looking about for a policeman when a man in blue suddenly came through the small roup and knelt beside the moaning f&urs on the sidewalk. But the man in blue was not a police officer; nor did he proceed on the tion that the stricken man was drunk. This man in blue was a gray-haired, smooth-faced, ruddy-cheeked Salva- 'my worker, and he took the the sidewaik in his arms like tion s assured. But his re-election is far less certain. Borah's Inveterate habit of voting and acting along the lnes of his convictions has allenated important local “interests” "in Idaho. The sugar-beet people didn't like his op- position to the mugar schedule in the new tarift bill. The wool growers are ggrieved over his hostility to stiff rates on their produce. Then the regular G. 0. P. organization in Idaho, which destroyed the state primary law, fought Borah' on that issue. He s going to make a number of speeches during the Aummer and renew personal ties that have been more or less broken in con- sequence of his almost continuous ab- sence in Washington for the past seven years. Whether Idahoans realize it or not. Borah is a priceless asset for the state. His disappearance from Con- gress. politicians of all hues admit, would be a grievous loss to American public life. * ok ok ok Senator Oscar W. Underwood is ex- pected to return from Europe on or about July 1. The tossing of his hat linto the democratic presidential ring is confidently expected ®oon thereafter. Before leaving in March, Underwood wrote his constituents they might an- ticipate a pronouncement on the sub- Ject when his travels and ruminations in Europe were over. He has, of course, been kept in intimate touch with de- velopments in the interval. At this | writing the two outstanding horses in the democratic stable are McAdoo and Underwond. Each carries well deflned colors. MdAdoo ranks as progressive \d dry. Underwood is considered con- rvative and wet. ‘The contest for delegates to the 1924 convention will rage between them much as the 1920 G. O. P. fight in which Wood, Lowden and Johnson figured * ook * A German dignitary now in Washing- ton remarked to an American friend the other day: “The trouble with you Americans is that you don't travel enough.” Whereupon the Yankee asked the Teuton if he doesn't cherish rather vivid impressions of the 2,000,000 Amer- icans who “traveled some’ in 1918. * % % x John Cheshire, who headed the dele- gation of British advertising men in Washington this week, is publicity man- ager for Lever Brothers, Britain's im- mense soap-manufacturing concern. | That is the firm to which Lord North- cliffe fitteen years ago had to pay $230, 000 in libel damages. Other soapmakers sued the Northcliffe Press and before the legal melee ended Northeliffe dis. gorged in damages and costs a round $1,000,000. He had fought a proposed British soap trust and inadvertentiy ac- cused Levers and their confreres of sell- ing as a one-pound bar a plece of s0ap that weighed only 15 1-2 ounces. La- bouchere’s Truth printed & historic cartoon showing Northcliffe in the guise of the tramp in a celebrated soap ad- vertisement, and writing Messrs. Lever: “Six weeks ago 1 abused vour &oap, and since then I've abused no other. (Copyright. 1923.) Princess Christian, Aunt of King, Notable Figure in Edward’s Reign resurrection” has been bestowed. Among the recipients of the grand | cross of this order, the highest dis- tinction in the gift of the of Poland, was Paderewski, for his services as delegate to the peace congress of Versailles, and Dmowskl, his ~ fellow plenipotentiary. The others include J. J. Jusserand, am- bassador of France at Washington and who a couple of years ago was dispatched by his government on & special mission to Warsaw at a ver. critical juncture and which he a complished with signal success, also the late Premier Sikorski Skirmunt, formerly ‘minister of foreign affairs and now Polish envoy in Londor Count Zamoyski, who, ever since 1918, has represented Poland in Paris as minister plenipotentiary with con- siderable tate and splendor, and without pay; Count Alexander Skrzyn- ski, who up to the other day was minister of foreign affairs. and who prior to the great war was in the Austro-Hungarian diplomatic service and successively secretary of the im- perial embassies at Rome and in Paris, transferring, however, his alle- siance to Poland at the close of the g\;‘ecahl \l.’str to se:;ome her ministor at arest and last, b Gen. Zelidowski. el e presence of the latter's In this first official “honors 1ist- 1ec sued by the Polish government, has excited a considerable amount of at- tention n the various capitals of Europe. It may be recalled that in October, 1920, Poland concluded with the republic of Lithuania a solemn armistice under the auspices of the league of nations at G neva, accord- ing to the terms of which the oity of :':II:u Jeusito }:omuln on the Lithu- n side of the border | 2 the two countries. e etkean 58 than a fortnight I Zeli- dowskl, at the head of & Turge Potion force. crossed the armistice line, in- vaded Lithuaina and seized Vilna. 1t Was no secret at the time that he was acting In accordance with Polish pop- ular sentiment. and it was alleged that he had the secret approval of the Pilsudski government. Great Britain and France, as weli as most of the governments comprised in the league of nations, vigorously pro- tested against this breach of faith and especlally against the violation of an agreement concluded under the auspices and with the full approval of the league. in response to which the Polish government disclaimed all complicity and respongibiliy, econ- demning “Gen. Zelidowski, and pro- claiming him as a rebel over whom the Warsaw government had no con- By now including the list of honors him with the highest hood of the republic, republic the rebel general and by investing order of knight- the latter may The old fellow revived quickly water was given weak from d about ap- parently helpless ‘while the army an led, or rather almos tthe old bum” into one tofc“l.h‘osde' v::'.:’;drlzl:n;l'ls;z:! uledhb_\' the Sal- gatl :_lonul::l mflltrllfl & p;para. Theerl"tfipp?slfi Joung man had lighted a cigagette I followed the case. the old fellow was Jjus gltv'lllfe‘s uvi:ortunlte Y _speaking, he had b - ming against the tide Tor & lung ims could not find any sort of work and had fallen, weak from hunger ang tatigue, looking for employment. Ha was absolutely penniless and phys. fcally low when he was taken into the Salvation Army's Hotel for his l’::.r:_(:eodn.l'imnru:. There he was fed, u v ' pursed and put on his feet within days ago. That was two because I odd jobs about there, I _know, ested. He Is daln{ while is being found for hlm.‘orAkndo“!(}::e: the army hotel he’ll stay, I'm satiefied, wholesome meals & das Snd 3" bea 15 sleep in until he fs strong and well again and ready to start anew in a n?u;‘ Jjob. a appened to be near wh, i man crumpled on the lldeev'v'a})l‘(.e oh; had flld much of the Salvation Army's campaign for fund: I fol- lowed out this case. And then I made very cent I could out my check for ¢ spare.” 1 wish I had more t v hope my experience will 'p‘r\oel‘nv{ others to help. for I understand the army needs funds badly and they're not ocoming in var‘_ ipumiili I learned that t another one that, figura- He is still am inter- NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM EN LIKE GODS. H. G. Wells. Macmillan Company. H. G. Wells recalls the kalser when the latter was yet a kaiser. Like Wilhelm In his great days, Mr. Wells turns never a hair of hesitation to- ward improving upon the handiwork of Gld Himself. Indeed, creating a new heaven and & new earth every now and then is coming to be a Wells specialty. He has only just complet- ed one of these periodic acts of crea- tion. This latest omnipotence is set out in “Men Like Gods.” * ok ok The It s an uge of marvels. We are| duily getting more and more used to this fact in a wide and varied field. So, it were childish to hang back here on any plea of either the absurd or the impossible as Mr. Wells gravely waves us in invitation toward his brand-new world, Meanwhile, he is soberly windng it up to register two thousand years ahead of the point; where we earthlings are now stand- ing. Twenty hundred years. nowa- days, however, is hardly more than a minute of our earlier reckonings, for the scientists have taught us to talk easily in terms of milllons of years— sixty, a hundred, a thousand of these. Therefore, Mr. Wells' trifiing jolt to his time machine counts with us for no more than stepping off into to- morrow The last two thousand years have changed man, essential man, not an atom. We look for no difficulties with the new order of man | in this new world * ey For, we are going And, we are arrived—just like that. Possibly we merely desire to see what kind of a 80d Mr. Wells can be when he really puts his mind to it. Not so much dif- ference, after all, from our own place. Some little shifting about of the landscape, maybe, much as we used to reset the parlor furniture, upon occasion, in the old home world. A brighter sheen upon the leafage, perhaps, & deeper dye within the bloom, a richer blush upon the fruit- age. Nothing more, at firet glance, Then the amazing roominess of this new world steps into the open. How is this, Mr. Wells” Where are all the ‘-“lk!'{ Mr. Wells, for the first time reminiscent in manner of his high creative calling, asserts that the sparseness of population is no acei- dent. Achfeved by clear design, it stands as the basic fact in this tri umph of modern creation. ‘“Merely good housekeeping.” “cutting the garment according to the cloth.” are the homely and familiar phrases into which we translate Mr. Wells as he BOes over the scheme of having neat- ly held down the population of his world, In order that each individual might have his rightful due of am- ple opportunity for a sound and beautiful development. Polite to this new god, we for the moment accept the theory. But how can this be brought about? Children—broods and litters of them—are certainly “acts of God” with which no man may tamper. Mr. Wells shakes his head and smiles, a little, as he points to his splendid people of a carefully se- lected parentage, indicating, contrari- wise, our own millions upon millfons of ill born, half nourished, diseased, miser- able children. Never mind. Let's drop that point. But—just a minute. How does that matter of proper parentage affect the tradition of love. and the institutions of marriage and the fam- ily? Shaking his head again, Mr. Wells tells us to tthink that out for ourselves, keeping in mind the single essential fact that children have just one right—the right to a falr birth as a part of the fair chance that is their clear due. ik Much better to move into a more impersonal domain, that of the gov- ernment, for instance. But it turns out that there is no government in Mr. Wells' world. No. not any at all, except as such as lies in a diffused | joy of the people as a whole in beau- ty of conduct, in seemliness of be- havior, in a general order. This com- mon joy each converts into an active impulse for the commor good. Mr. Wells appears 1o us to be stressing his new heaven right here, some- what to the neglect of his new earth. He contends, however, that this is not true and suggests, in proof, that we move over into industry to see how it behaves in this world of his own making. Not nearly so much of it as we have been used to see among | ourselves. It is clear that these| people have passed beyond the mania for things, and more things. An in- teresting point, this. We ourselves| are at the height of this madness. As the material condition of our own people improves, what do they do? Get more things—more and better clothes, more ~ automobiles, more music _machines, more this. more that. Does this better condition bring added kindliness, greater sympathy, {a keener joy in nature, a truer feel- ing for art? Not so that you can notice it—yet. Maybe in another mil- lion vears or so. we too, like Mr. Wells' people. shall hav moved out of this passion for individual pos- gession into a common ownership! and & deep appreciation of many | things that can neither be bought nor gold. Industry here is greatly sim- plified through the elimination of in- numerable demands. The good earth gives enough for all and there is with them no organized purpose for huge piled-up reserves. Therefore. the un- derlying causes far industrial strife with which we are so familiar have fallen out. impotent, under this new outlook and aspiration. Government, goclety, industry, in Mr. Wells' world have become simple. instead of more complex, through the elimination of innumerable negligible things by an and highly developed * ok ok ok Why “men like gods"? Ther look as we have been told the old gods did look, as we have come to think a god ought to look. They are beautiful— big and straight and easy-moving, com- posed and self-confident. They have come to do without clothes, these peo- ple. Think of this as an easement for both body and soul. It is hardly pos- sible for a clothes-ridden world like ours 10 enter into anything like an adequate conception of so heavenly a release. They have learned, also, to do without speech, that is, for the thoughts and emotions that count. To be sure, they still babble, a little, over the fragmen- tary nothings borne over out of the old life into this new one. Here We differ from them only in degree. For we. too, transfer our deepest thoughts and feelings direct, without the lumber of words. Here the likeness ends, for where the people of Mr. Wells' world have reduced their superficial speech to an_almost complete wordlessness, we still wallow in a loquacity that shuts off thoughts and emothers intelligent ex- pression. These “men like gods” are men of peace. Their world is a neigh- borhood, a_friendly co-operating neigh- borhood. _ Patriotism is a constructive world sentiment, not, as with us, a sectional bigotry that heads perpetually upon strive. * ok ok X Such in slight accounting is Mr. Wells' new stors. For it is a story. At least he says it is and a man ought to know what he is making. To us it seems like this writer's one theme projected In the form of a solid ex- position and discussion around which he has thrown & slight and somewhat ramshackle framework that gives the whole the illusion of a story. However, that s unimportant. Mr. Wells is in- teresting and provocative, original, too, and wholly given over to a new and bet- ter world than this one, even if he has it himself, as he has so stim- Balinaty dons Beres 1% % intelligeat people. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. Washington stands midway between the upper and nether millstone in the proposed grinding out of the truth as to evolution. Rev. Dr. Abernathy of North Carolina offers a reward of $1.000 to Rev. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of New York as a challenge to him to produce “one fact proving the evolution of man from a lower order or specles.’” Scientists say that evolution is not based on the dictum of “one fact” but on the chain of evidence of geol- ogy. bLiology and physiolegy. Fur- thermore, it does not, they assert, even tend to deny the creation of man or of the universe by the Divine Creator, any more than the law of gravitation, which explains the rota- tion of planets about the sun, and of the onward sweep of the universe through space, explain what was the Infinite Pawer, which created all things. Men have been burned at the stake for declaring that the earth revolves about the sun, for to their judges the statement seemed in con- flict with biblical statements. Few stlll believe that the earth is flat and that the sun revoives about it. vet those who accept science are as devout as any others. * ¥ k ok One of the clearest scientific think- ers America has produced was Prof. John Fiske of Harvard College. Tn his book, “The Idea of God,” Fiske discusses the reasonableness and ac- ceptability of evolution as sclentific, and ends his argument with the fol- lowing (and will not both Revs. Aber- | nathy and Van Dyke agree?) “But of some things we may feel sure. Humanity is not a mere local incident in an endless and aimless serles of cosmical changes. The events of the universe are not the work of chance, neither are theyv the outcome of blind necess Prac- tically there is a purpose in the world whereof it is our highest duty to learn the lesson, however ill or well we may fare in rendering a scientific account of it “When from the dawn of life, we see all things working together toward the highest evolution of the highest spiritual attributes of mun, we know. however. the words may stumble in which we try to sav it, that God is in_the deepest sense a moral Being. The everlasting source of phenomena is none other than the infinite Power that makes for right- eousness. Thou canst not by search- ing_find Him out; vet put thy trust in Him. and against thee the gates of hell shall not prevail; for there is neither wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the Eternal e of the most orthodox theolo- glans of America, Rev. Washington Gladden. writes in his book, “What Is Left>” p. 41, “When we see what a marvel of majesty and beauty can come forth from the minute germ of the acorn or the maple seed, we get a slight impression of the potential- itles of life. The evolution reveals the miracle of the involution. Crea- tion is far more wonderful when we think of all this manifold life of the world "as having been originally packed awa to be drawn forth thence in the slow progress of the ages, imagine -each of the forms as having been bidden into existence by an in- finite flat. One % ok in a few simple forms | than when we | whoppers that they indicate the effect of the rigid enforcement of the Vol- stead law, requiring all liquor to be thrown overboard as soon as vessels come within the three-mile limit intoxlcating is the briny deep coming that every minnow gets a case of swelled head, and even sucker becomes bigg-r than a whale Last week we were regaled with « fish story of a monster that could not only have swallowed Jonah but the boat that Jonah dived from. Nex: comes a more modest story of a 20,000 pound small fry harpooned and shot fifty times but not landed. A of them go to show the Florida vis- itors singing “How Dry T Am.” Re- member what happened to the frog which tried to swell up until it would be as big as an ox. It busted The Treasury officials assure the world that the Volstead law is going to be enforced to the letter—fsh o no fish. Enforcement agalnst alier ships began last Sunday. X xrn Surgeon General H. 8. Cumming hz issued posters full of information to the medical treatment of all sailors on duty under the American flag Ever since 1798 the government has maintained a hospital service for the saflors. At first the sailors taxed 20 cents a month to cover the expense, and later the tax was ir ed: but 1888 the tax was abolished and the service maintained at the cost of the government Any American_ship upon the high seas may call the service by radi relate the symptoms of any cases ¢ sickness aboard and recelve scriptions by radio. Some of sailors who have not yet accepted t spirit of the prohibition laws, asking what good is a “prescriptinr a thousand miles away from a pensary? be were Caina The Vincent B. Costello Post. Amer ican Leglon, is plgnning to bulld a post headquarters at cost $100,000, provided it receives sufficient encouragement from generous con- tributors. That will be the headquarters of an American Legior post for the District, the first being the fine old historic residence oc pied by George Washington Post, 2 1, at 1829 I street , As “the vears go by the spiris of fraternity is growing stronger among the veterans, as it did among the veterans of the civil war, united in the Grand Army of the Republic. * ox ok % second In announcing a new program for mobilizing laborers needed in th steel plants, brickvards and on rail- roads, the head of the White Cross Free Labor Bureau of America, Rev Simon P. W. Drew, said that there had never been such a demand for in the United States as now The bureau has calls for 50,000 men for lucrative jobs e There will be a conference held at Continental Hall next Thursday and Friday, whose special object will he to formulate rules for civillans in re lation to the American flag. It will be addressed by the President and other tinguished speakers. The The fish stories which are coming now from Florida appear to be such EDITORIA Text Book Revision Not a Field for Politicians. History text books may or may deserve the criticism which is being directed against them recently—that is a question on which American editorial opinion divides. But there is general agreement that, however serlous the need for critical examina- tion of current school texts, it is not a field in which politiclans may prop- erly lead. Accordingly the report of an investigation of the histories in use in New York city made to Mavyor Hylan by David Hirshfield, an official of the municipal government, is ccored even by those editors who see ample room for objection to some phases of present methods of teath- ing American history. < a result of hi 1 Mr. Hirshfield finds that eight spe cified texts are “un-American and pro-British,” and should be “fed to Phe furnace” In view of the fact Ihat a case can undoubtedly be made out against some school histories, the Oleveland Plain Dealer regrets that e Hishfield weakens his case by his unwarranted deductions. The standing of the historians he attacks "ia far better than his own,” the New York Evening World remarks, and in answer to his charge of pro- Britich” the paper contends that Hirshfield is even more anti-British. and “has grown up in a school of Dolitics that has thrived on the capi Talization of anti-English Irishism. The Utica Press thinks “it may amuse Americans to learn that Hirshfield condemns the work of historians like Dr. Albert Bushnell Hart and Dr. C. H. Van Tyne, but they are hardly ready tc turn the writing of these Dooks over to the Sullivan Social Club or the East Side Benevolent Associa- tion.” L But the New not investigation: York official is not in his stand, the Buffalo News Al ngs out, for “out in California a mania has hit some of the and In the Pennsylvania ure a resolution has been demanding that school texts be examined for historical heresies.” This is “a pretty situation, indeed. the News complains. “Instead of leaving history to educators who are reputed to know something about it, fhe politicians are arrogating to themselves the right to determine What texts shall and what texts shall Mot be used.” The most severe critics of historians are historlans. says the Boston Herald, “and we may safely depend on them to check up one an- other, not always too Ke.nuy. But, \Unfortunately, the New York Herald. reminds us, while “scholarship may have the facts, politics has the em- phasts,” and the Hirshfleld report, the Mobile Register thinks, is “another phase of the movement in America fo alienate the two great English- speaking nations and discourage co- tion.” P tide from the political complexion of the report, however, editors find Much to say on both 'sides of the Subject-matter. The Pittsburgh Sun finds that it is “open to discount chiefly because he lays his case upon @ false premise. That premise is that the text books current before the war presented American history truly and as it should be taught.” On the other hand the Jersey City Journal thinks that Hirshfield “makes out a strong case against the elght histories” in dispute, and the Boston Transcript rts that— BS50F it is true that text books regu- larly used in any American school teach such nonsense as that in Eng- land's taxation of the American coi- onles prior to 1776 ‘there was no in- Justice or oppression’, and that the colonies declared their independence merely because they were unwilling to pay their fair share of the cost of legisl passed conference will he of delegates rep | resenting meveral patriotic societics (Copyright, 1923, by P. V., Collins) L DIGEST Weems School” should not bhe ac- cepted “in place of historical accu racy,” but at the same time, 1t Cleveland Plain Dealer contends. order to do away_with our jingoistic tweaking of the British llon's tail is not at all necessary to belittle the good Americans of Bunker H and Valley Forge and Guilford Court House." Moreover, the Pittsburgt Post contends, “‘there is nothing cold in American history * ® ¢ the history of America is too romantic too full of fire and too great in ac complishment to bLe told in a mer. statistical way.” This point of view, however. pears to the Waterbury Republican to take too seriously ‘“‘the patriotic legend that by a special dispensation of Providence all American patriots were supermen in irtue and with out the customary emotions and weaknesses of men."” Hirshfleld's “jazzy little turn on the public stage would hardly deserve notice at all in the opinion of the Baltimore Su: “If it were not for the lamentabl: tendency on the part of a few ex citable citizens whom it represents To them every effort on the part of educators who seek to replace tha traditional self-glorification of histor: \\'llh_iln outlook of broad understand ing is ‘unpatriotic’. Every attemp to have our children regard history as something more than a series of h_ermn battles. sounding slogans and righteous is ‘insidious propa- ganda. only serious element in_ the Hirshfield report. to the Springfield Republican “is the as- sumption that truth must be subordi- nated to a jingo patrioti and that patrioism means sedulously keeping alive an ancient grudge.” Flaying of “silly Americans who prefer E. ropean "countries ‘to their own ar lightly adopt foreign nations, Schenectady Gazette regards good thing, but ‘“narrowing American mind and cutting off knowledge of the true history of ou origin is ‘dangerous.’ " The long and the short of it, as the Hartford Times sums it up, “is that it we are teach ing history and not mythology wr want our children to acquire a it cal capacity which shall enable them to appraise the world they live by an intelligent application of the knowledge of the past * . S ) child has been trained to believe { between the years 1776 and 188§ Americans were supermen the an- pearance of a Hirshfield must come wiih something of a shoc as a In a Few Words. If the state of mind which ex between Canada and the United States prevailed among France and Germany, Russia and Poland, Turkey and Greece, China and Japan there would be no fear of military troubie for hundreds of yvears. —NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER The greatest enemies of present relief from the Volstead law are that class of “wets™ who loudly call for the repeal of the 18th amendmen: SENATOR EDGE (N. J) If. when I get back to Americx, anybody says league of nations to me he ought to say it conveniently neu: a hospital. —REPRESENTATIVE PORTER (Delegate League Opium Conferenc: ' Thig country has the greatest out- put of law the world has ever secn It is our chief product. Our appetits for legislation is unsatiable. —CHARLES E. HUGHES. Seven or elght million men went from the British empire during the late war. T wigh there were just one word of appreciation of that fact in France and Belgium. —LILOYD GEORGEL. Since the preservation of history their own defense, we certainly owe thanks to Mr. Hirshfield for exposing the business.” Further, the Harrisburg Telegraph finds that “holding American patriots up to ridicule and belittling certain achievements of revolutionary heroes appear to been the amusement of a few compilers of istol text Pooka et ghe commenced there has never been any thing approacling the Bible as a lit- erary production or a code for proper and desirable human conduct. JUDGE ELBERT H. GARY No one, without being guilt gratitude, can accuse ingratitude. of in- France of