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6 THE EVENING STAR, —————— WASHINGTON, D. ¢, FRIDAY, JUNE 15, 1923 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edl!lgn. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY. .June 15, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. " The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Of 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 150 Nassau St Chieago Office: Tower Building Furopean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Evening Star, with the Sunday mornisg n, is delivered by carrlers within the eity 0 conts per month: dails only, 43 cents per muonth: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. #are may be sent by mail. or telephone Main 000, " Collaction is made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. 38.40 $6.00: 1 mo., 50c $2.40; 1 mo. only..... Sunday only. All Other States. and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ ;1 mo., 60c Member of the Associated Pres The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis. patehes credited to It or not otherwise credited 2 this paper and also the local news pub. tished “hereln. Al (ghty of publication of Public School Needs. The Public Proceeding Imitatiore put upon the board of edu cation by the law in the matte commanication of school needs for year 19245, Its decision to proceed inde- pendently of the board in the framing of its own budget of school needs is proper in the circumstances. These independent and unofficial estimates ¥ e regarded in ihe light of recom mendations from the citizens, and may by Scehoo! wis its estin the fiscal de in b the Commissioners, budget bu reau and by Congress, of course, undesirable that there should be a of recommendations. Confu may from a differ- Jjudgment on the score of the of partict needs. The is that if there is such a differ between the two budgets—to call me the recommendations of public schaol association—there be put jeopardy the whole school program Wprovements. that there should be ent advocacy of different items in th g Some will think th this feature needs particu- lur stress as against another feature. Al Washi ns agree that ther rger expenditure for the Luildings. for equipment salavies. There is no difference The only is to where s will allow is st to be spent most liberally. It is a wholesome token of public ap- of the importance of the sch tem that this association <hould have come into being. and can now be so carnestly cndeavoring to considered possibly even by the 1t conflict <ion easily result urgency Tav Eune ence by that m no such opposition as t natural school needs. schouls, v 1 judgment on score. spute there be one, money that Congre 1 promote the cause of a better educa- tional for the ecapital. Co- uperation hetween the association and haol hoard is likely to strengthen cquisition of the board, which, it lieved. will be in terms of school system the may be confidently be the larzest possible as e e A New Road to Baltimore. A new voad Washington and Baltimore is being talked of, and the talk is going on in euch practical and influential quarters that it is like- Iy a new road will be built within a | reasonable time. Certain business in- terests in Baltimore are behind the idea, and they propose to bring the matter bofore Congress and the Mary- land legislature at their next meet- ings. The co-operation of Washington husiness is being sought. The a to be to turn over the pres ent Washington and Baltimore boule- vard to truck traffic and such light traffic s belongs to it by reason of the territo; it serves, and to give over ihe mew road to the use of pleasure ven ney between men seenn mo., 70c | of the | ates fof | of | | was maintained until almost the close passed a bill to this effect last year. and the =enate's recent approval pre- cipitated the resignation of the min- istry, which was organized in Decem- Dber, 1921, under Theunis as premier. Following the vote of the chamber of deputies last year university stu- dents demonstrated in protest, and serious street disturbances resulted, with menaces directed against the Flemish deputies. Back of this lan- guage question lies a serious political factor rooted in the failure of the Flemish and Walloon elements in the Belglan population to coalesce. Dur- ing the war these differences were merged in the national resistance to German occupation and the fight for Belgian preservation. The Flemish portion of the people, those speaking the language more allied to that of Germany than to that of France, were in no wise less hostile to the Prussian invader than were the Walloons or French-speaking people. Since the war, however, the old differences have Dbeen revived, and now fears are ex pressed that they may cause serious rains, possibly leading to natio disruption. But such a happening not likely. Belgium was weld- | ed into a national unit by the war, and it inconceivable that it will now divide over a question that during many years of peace was susceptible of adjustment. is The Carnival Nuisance. Protest against the holding of car nivals and so-called entertainments of that character in the District is being voiced by representatives of citizens’ assocfations and business men, and the matter will be laid before the Com- missioners as soon as the sentiment is formulated. There can be no doubt of the deleterious influence of these shows. They attract a very undesir able element from outside. They give cover to questionable and even illegal {enterprises that thrive under the pro- tection of a general “entertainment license.” That they do great harm morally is the belief of all who have ! observed the conditions that prevail | around them. Tn most cases there iy specific pro- test on the part of those living close | at hand against the pitching of tents | for these cheap. noisy shows. Yet these protests are seldom heeded. The jcarnival promoter picks his lot and perhaps with a show of support from some local organization which may share in the profits—very slightly as a rule—he applies for a permit and jusually gets it. The people who are {disturbed by the noise and glare and {confusion and the evil smells of these shows are given scant, if any, consid- | eration Recently a show was given in Wash- ington for the “entertainment™ of the hrine visitors. a wild west perform- dnce. practically on the Capitol-Union Station plaza. The show itself was subject to some objection on the ground of cruelty, but it was held under observation sufficiently to keep the particularly obnoxious features out of the program. But around it clustered numerous catch-penny booths that drew crowds of ill-behaving peo- {ple. games of chance, cheap peddling | shacks, an array that certainly did no leredit to Washington, but in fact | doubtless did serious harm. Only to- ;\\':n] the end was any attempt made !to check the illegal practices there in progress. A veritable gambling den | 1 of the program. Doubtless under cover of the crowd bootlegging was practiced extensively. This whole question of itinerant | shows should be carefully considered by the Commissioners, with a view to lesscning the public nuisances that they inflict. Assuredly the wish of the people within the range of a “car- | nival pitch” should be considered, and if it is adverse to such an imposition a license should be denied. { 1t must be always remembered that ! these shows are outside enterprises, which take money away from Wash- | ington and give nothing in return. There is no lack of means of public | entertainment right here at home, and Automobile traffic between Washing- - ton and Baltimore has grown 30 much that it is almost an immediate ques- tion of widening the present boulevard or building another road. The Balti- more men behind the movement be- lieve that at this time it would be better to build a new road, give the old road over to heavy traffic and then widen it when the density of traffic de- | mands it. One of the officers of Ihei Baltimore Merchants and Manufac- | turers' Association is quoted as say- | ing: “Washington is developing rapid- | 1y as a business center. The volume of | trade between the two cities is ex- panding, and the present roadway is no longer capable of accommodating the heavy traffic.” There is already so much traffic on the Washington-Baltimore boulevard that many motorists traveling between the two cities are taking the longer and quieter road by Wheaton, Olney, Sandy Spring and Ellicott City. Just automobiles are crowding the streets of the city they are also crowd- ing the smooth roads about Washing- ton, and the indications are that new trunk roads are needed, or soon will bhe needed. between Washington and the east, north, south and west, ————— Eritish cabinet is excusable for oceeding with caution when called “upon to act as an advisory body for all Burope. : The Belgian Language Issue. A Belgian cabinet crisis has just oc- « curred as a consequence of an issue over the language question. It may be matter of surprise to some Ameri- cans that Beigium is a bilingual * country. Tt has two distinct tongues, the Flemish and the Walloon or French. The Flemish is allied to the Duteh, and prevails generally in the “ porthern and eastern portion of the country. Partisans of these two lan- suages are tenacious in their prefer- ence, and many difficulties arise in eigium on the score of the inability of some of the people to understand others. Belglan business men are usually familiar with both languages. In Antwerp Flemish is mostly spoken, while in Brussels French chiefly pre- vaile. In this particular case the issue arose over legislation providing for the use of the Flemish language |n Ghent University. The lower houj a it is not necessary to import these catch-penny demoralizing games for the diversion of the people. ———— More women and still more women are needed in the house of commons. This is the opinion of Lady Astor, an opinion which represents an influen- tial and growing sentiment. Parlia- ment needs pep, and as conducted by men seemed to be in need of rescue by feminine energy from the danger of resembling an old ladies’ home ——— Having released American captive the Chinese brigands will doubtles take steps among themselves to fix the responsibility for leading the gang into so impractical an enterprise. | i ! Prohibition authoritles, if the pres- ent ambitions of Gotham are realized, will find themselves confronted by the task of making New York safe for a democratic convention. Just at this time no real presidential possibility likes enough discussion of his prospects to destroy his dark-horse status. The Mystery Ship. No work of flction of recent issue | has told @ more lurid tale of the sea, of piracy and tragedy than that re- lated by the Chinese survivors of the little Bahama sloop that drifted up to the New York coast Tuesday night with fifteen Chinese, some of them sorely wounded, and their story of a desperate battle with the crew, al- leged to have been intent upon rob- bery, in which the crew was wiped out and five Chinese killed. The narrative, which the authorities think does not relate all the facts, savors of the Spanish main in its prime, Only the Chinese themselves sur- vive, and they are sticking to their story @s by concerted arrangement. The Maria Beatrice left Havana May 8. they say, With twenty Chinese whom the captain had agreed to smug- gle into this country for $500 each. She anchored with the rum fleet off | the New Jersey coast June 6. where she remained until the fight took place. The crew, the Chinese assert, attacked them with sawed-off shot- guns, razors and knives. The Chinese wielded axes. It was a gory occasion. the fight lasting forty minutes. In the attacking party, it was told, was “Black Moge,” the cogk, of al- most glant stature, who uséd a razor, while Sing Guey, who was his pros- pective victim, had an ax. Black Mose was driven overboard into the bow chains, while Sing Guey fejl exhausted with' his hand almost severed: An- other Chinese grasped the ax and, leaning over, brained the cook, whose body fell into the sea and drifted away. Another Chinese told of stalking a negro who carricd a knife In his teeth and had two revolvers. Although wounded several times, the Chinese ran his adversary through with a ten- foot boat hook. Two negroes and two white men of the crew were killed and thrown overboard, while five Chi- nese were killed. The captain of the sloop, @ white man, disappeared. He 1s thought to be in hiding along the water front of New York. The wounded and other Chinese are in Ellis Island immigration headquar- ters, while the authorities, plainly skeptical of the tale, are seeking further light. Their efforts may un- cover 4 narrative of the actual hap- penings which will rival the most thrilling tales of Robert Louis Steven- son, for there seem to be all the set. tings for it on the dingy little sloop with her blood-stained decks and slashed and shot-riddled fittings Leain the National Songs! President Harding's appeal to people to learn the words of “The Si Spangled Banner,” addressed to the Americanization commission of the American Legion, in session here yes- terday. should receive country-wide attention, He estimates that only about per cent of the people who ng” the national airs actually know all the words, while the remainder merely mumble them, “pretending to sing.” This fact has often been noted, and it has been urged that the school children be all grilled in the words of this song as w as “America.” believed that if the children once learn text of these anthems school they will never forget. It is a singular fact that people memorize the words of foolish, mean- ingless songs, and yet stumble over those of the really significant ones. Yet there are many occasions for con- certed singing of these patriotic songs. It is not as though the people were v rarely called upon to recite the words of patriotic sentiment. If they knew them they could find many such opportunities. The concluding feature of the zre Shrine convention held here last weck was the concerted singing of “Amer- ica” on Pennsylvania avenue by the thousands of people there assembled for the “dance of the states.” At mi night the amplifiers on the poles, afte; a few moments of silence, sounded the well known strains, and immediately all motion was stilled and a great volume of vocal sound arose. Just how many of the people were singing the whole song cannot be known. Some there were undoubtedly who knew the text from first to last, for “America’ better . known than “The Star Spangied Banner.” Bat surely seems as though more th the ar the in an a is is an 2 iper cent of that multitude carried t words to the conclusion. Possibly the President is @ bit pessimistic in his estimate, vet it that he is right in his statement that the majority of the people do not know the words of these songs, and he is to them to learn the text. ————— A presidential campaign fought out on a wet or dry issue would simplify the work of the orators who have heretofore bheen expected to qualify for expert discussion of abstruse branches of political economy. ————— After contemplating several storms at sea caused by the liquor question. the conclusion becomes inevitable that old John Barleycorn is the twentieth century Jonah. ————— The flivver is & source of anxiety, but nobody wants to return to the old days when the worst thing you had to dodge on the street was a boy on a bicycle. —_———— No reason for a third party is seen by Senator Borah, who finds all the inspiration needed for live comment in the two already in operation. —_———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON An Example. Hello, Mistuh Busy Bee, Wuckin' all day long. Why foh can’t you stop like me, Jes' to sing a song? Gatherin’ up de honey sweet, Stackin® it in tlers, Savin’ mo' dan you could eat In a dozen years! Hello, Mistuh Busy Man, You is wuss dan him: 'Ca’se he'll sleep de winter's span, In some corner dim. Bofe er you should take a rest, Pattern after me. Mistuh Man. foh time so pressed, An' Mistuh Busy Bee, Self-Congratulation. Dey kin reggle-ate de price: push ’em up an’ down. Dey kin keep de wheels a-goin’ till dey buzzes roun’ an’ roun’. Wit de telegraph a-clickin' an’ de men a-hustlin’ fast— Dey kin keep de game a-goin’ jes’ as long as dey kin last. Yohjuncle doesn’ worry any mo', 'Ca’se he hasn’t any use foh wealth an’ rank. It is comfortin’ for sho’ To sit quietly'an’ know Dat he hasn’ any money .in de bank. Dey kin I stahts out in de mo'nin’, when de sun begins to gleam; An’ maybe T'll go fishin’, an’ perhaps T'll only dream. An’ I doesn’ read de paper, ‘ca'se 1 doesn't want de news A-tellin’ bout de white folks an’ de money dat dey lose. Dey nebber takes yoh uncle by sur- prise, An’ my lucky stahs mos’ gratefully 1 thank— De fact T can't disguise Dat 1's feelin’ mighty'wise, ‘Ca’se 1 hasn’ any money if¥e bank. cannot be questioned b indubltably right in his appeal | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE When President Harding visits British Columbia on July 26 he will be offictally welcomed by a brother publisher, W. €. Nichol. Mr. Nichol, who is lieutenant governor of the great Canudiah northwest province, is the proprietor of its leading news- paper, the Vancouver Daily Province. Besides thewr mutual interest in printer’s ink President and lieutenant governor are golf enthusiasts, and a match between them has already been arranged. The British Columbians, who are nearer neighbors of Alaska than the United States is, are taking the llveliest interest in Mr. Harding's expedition to the territory. Van- couver and Victorla newspapers ure arranging to send special correspond- ents with the presidential party. * ok ok ok Vice President Coolidge is having an uncommonly busy “vacation.” He and Mrs. Coolidge purport to be tak- ing life easy at their home in North- ampton, Mass., but the Vice Presi- dent is in incessant demand speeches. During the past sixty days he has been on the platform or on the road practically without respite. His engagement hook presages that he'll spend the summer in the same Wi No trips outside of the country are on the Coolidge program * * % Oceasionally a Ku Klux Klan spellbinder gets mixzed on his his- torical dates. To this observer comes word of an amusing incident on the eastern shore of Maryland. There the other night a Klan orator was holding forth in his best “100 per cent” style. Among the infor- mation he offered his audience was a statement that “the Pilgrim fathers landed at Plymouth with a Bible in one hand and a spelling book in the other, while ov waved the Stars and Stripes. dently Americans who the 146th anniversary of ' Evi- celebrated the flag the times. o ow % | hind The American commissionership on {the American-German Mixed Claims Commission, to which Chandler Ander- son has just been appointed, carries with it the salary of a cabinet officer, £12,000. sion, Judge Parker, receives $15,000. paid in equal shares by Germany and the United States. One post still to be filled, that of the United States agent, carries a salary of $10,000. Rumor names two candidates for that office—Marshall Morgan, who has been assistant and counsel to the re- tiring agent, Rohert C. Morris, and | Frederick K. Nielsen, formerly solici- jtor of the State Department. l BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Crown Princess Charlotte of Mon- aco. whose little daughter Antoinette fs now two vears old, has just given birth to a son and heir, who Is to receive the names of Rainier Louis Henry. The husband of the crown | prine is the former Count Pierre {De Polignac, youngest son of Count {Maxence de Polignac, and of his | Mexican wife, now dead, one of the !hejresses of the well known and {colossally wealthy Mexican family of ! Mier. veral of the numerous son of this unfon have followed their {father's example In marrying Mexi- {can heiresses. But Count Pierre, the i voungest of them, did better for himself in a monetary sense even than the others, by securing the hand of the only child of the pres- ent sovereign ruler of Monaco, who, on the occasion of the wedding, be- stowed the title of prince on his son- in-law, at the same time Insisting upon his adopting the dynastic name of Grimaldl in lleu of his patronymic of_Polignac. i The Crown Princess of Monaco is a very pretty woman, and has achieved much popularity in her fu- ture dominions, more especially since her influence with her father is sald to be largely responsible for his emancipation of the principality of {Monaco from the malodorous domi- {nation of old Camille Blanc and his imale and female craw of crouplers. and of vampires of the half world, True the public gambling tables at Monte Carlo still subsist, and will continue to do so, until the reigning prince can find means of terminating or annulling the contract with the lessees, which would otherwise have some years to run But the so-called “Casino,” as the public gambling es tablishment is officially styled, has come under more decent and honest management, and the present lessees, who have supplanted Camille Blanc and_the former Radzivill Bonaparte outfit, is administering the concern with the utmost care and discretion, realizing that the reigning prince is only looking for the first mistake on thelr part. which would afford him valid prétext for annulling the ex- sting contracts, * % * The crown princess’ history in the nature of a romance, and sounds almost like a fairy tale. She was born at Constantine in Algeria in 1898, where her father, who rose to the ranks of a general in the French army during the great war, was & mere captain of spahis—that is to say, of French irregular cavalry. The marriage was ecclesiastical, but not valid in the eves of the law, either of France or Monaco, since the then crown prince had failed to secure his parents’ consent to the union, and had failed to fulfill other formalities required by French and Monaco laws. ‘When the crown prince was tran ferred by his military superiors t Paris, the mother of the child. = woman of the most obsoure birth and ‘of little education, put forward pre- tensions of an intolerable character, { SRR a hpetiany in” . financial Senseprotensions which the erown prince, who was not on good terms with his father, was unable to satisfy. The woman retaliated by preventing the child from seeing its father and by prejudicing the little girl against him. Indeed, the environment in which she held the child was unfortu- nate in the extreme. Finally, when 'the prince found that his little girl's entire future was at stake, he carried her off in such a manner as to cause the mother to raise an outcry that the child had been kidnaped. The matter engaged the attention of the French courts for some time, with the ‘result that the woman was led to surrender all claims to the child and to accept in lleu thereof an allowance conditional on her making no attempt to molest the orince or the little girl, nd upon her abstaining from any use 5% his name and titles, to which she had no legal right. . P In the meantime the late Prince Al- is for! r them | yesterday are at least 157 vears be- | The umpire of the commis- | | early {New Heir to Throne rof France, { son’s appeal to their counter attack, of which, it is sald, Lasker was the originator. As a rouvenir of a his- toric occamion the script was turned over to him and it has for two years had the place of honor on the walls of his office at the Shipping Board. EE When Ambassador Hanihara takes | kindred Japa- Secretary up jmmigration and nese grievances with Hughes, Nippon's® envoy will have some striking figures to indicate that America’s “vellow peril” seems to be a vanishing phantom. More Japanese are returning to their na- tive land from America than are emigrating to It. In 1912 classed as laborers, including some who had already lived —there and were returning after visits to Japan, came to the United States in num- bers totaling 3.061. Non-laborers numbered 4.005, a total of 7.566 in- coming subjects of the Mikado. During the same twelve months the total number of Japanese who re- turned to thelr own country from the United States was 10,697, or 3131 In excees of the number which cime here. S Secretary Hughes invoking spirit of John Marshall, first Chief Jus- tice of the United States. in his nego- ations with foreign powers anent the twelve-mile limit. Away back in the rours of the republic is Court affirming the validity of our so- called “hovering statutes.” 1t is under these statutes that the United States sets up the right to search and seize allen shipping suspected of transgress- | ing_our customs or other federal laws within _twelve miles of our shore: When Mr. Hughes made this contention in the previous discussions with Great Britain the British contended that our hovering laws had fallen into disuse end are therefors no longer enforcible in international law. * % % Two lucrative federal filled by President Harding before packs up for the west and Alaska—the United States commissionership on the American-¢ d claims tribu- * Le he jobs may rman mix al and the post of Uni before that body. Two of rumor's can- didates for the commissionership Frank L. Poik of New York, formerly undersecretary of state, and Fred K. Nielson of Nebraska, formerly solicitor of the State Department Marshall Morgan of Washington haa been as- sistunt to the retiring agent, Robert C. Morris. The commissioner's berth is worth the salary of a cabinet officer, 12,000, while the United States agent's pay_is $10,000. Judge Parker, who suc- deeded former Justice Day us umpire of the Joint commission, receives $15,000, America and Germany cach paying half, 182 are (Oopy of Monaco Born to Crown Princess Charlotte for the little zirl. who was a singular y attractive child. Indeed, he became passionately fond of he: and ended by legally adopting her as his child and as the eventual heiress to his throne. at the same time legitimizing her birth by sovereign decree. It was contended at the time that he might have spared himself all the form: ties and trouble of adoption of the child if he had merely contented him self with recognizing her as his grand- daughter. Rut there was a danger that this might have been construed by the courts as the acknowledgment of the validity of the marriage of the child's parents, and have served as basis for legal proceedings by the child’s mother ‘The girl—she A Young inarried woman now—has been duiy proclaimed as crown princess, and as the next heir to her father's throne. and has been recognized as such by the governments Great Britain and of Italy and by most of the foreign royal pe sonages who are accustomed to fore- gather each spring on the French and Italian Riviera. * % % ‘While at Moscow the soviet govern- ment has just instituted a separate department of state for the propaga- tion of athelsm, which is taking the place of the former state department of public worship and of the ho! synod, the government d people of the neighboring republic of Esthonia, formed of the formerly. Muscovite provinces of Etsland, of Liviand and of Pskoff, have recently given their approval to the production in its capi- tal of Reval, the well known seaport at the mouth of the Guif of Finland, of an intensely religious drama, en- titled “The King of the Jews.” The scene is laid in Jerusalem at the time of Christ's entry into the city, and the action concludes with the resur- rection. The success of the drama has been greatly enhanced by the accom. panying music of Glasounoff, the pre- ludés to the varlous scenes being par- ticularly harmonious and appropriate. ‘The program informs the audience that the drama. which drawing large houses, is a translation of the Tussian, the author being designated by the initials K. R 7 _These initials stand for K tine Romanoff, and are those of the late Grand Duke Konstantine, the most gifted and liberal-minded of all the scions of the former sovereign house of Russia, and Lrother of Queen Olga of Greece. He w the one grand duke of all others with whom Em- peror Nicholas Il stood on the terms | of the closest intimacy, and his death in 1915 was a great loss alike to the unhappy monarch and to Russia, since his influence was alwavs exerclsed in the direction of liberailsm and prog- ress. He was a foe to reactlon and his poems, of which he published sev- eral volumes under the initials of K. R. and sometimes of K. K. (stand- ing for Konstantine Konstantino. vitch), are remarkable for their in- tense patriotism, and above all for thelr liberalism alike in political mat- ters and in soclal life. * % * His widow, the former Princess Elizabeth of Saxe-Altenburg, a great |lwauty in her day, who declined to become a convert to the orthodos rites of the Russian church, and whe adhered to the Protestant faith of her childhood and youth, lives in strict retirement at Brussels, having lost three of her sons, the Princes John, Konstantine and Igor, who were kill- ed at Alapalevsk on the 1Sth of July, 1918, while her son-in-law, Prince Konstantine Bagration, the husband of her daughter, Tatiana, fell fighting in the Caucasus in 1815. The late Grand Duke Konstantine was a great Shakespearean scholar, translated a number of his works in Russian, and on one ocaslon gave, at the Imperial Palace of Peterhof, an amateur per- formance of “Hamlét,” in the presence of the entire court, in which he him- self took the role of the Prince of Denmark. He had little taste for mil- itary matters, detoted all his leisure to literature, and to art, and at the time of his death was the active pres- ident of the Russian Imperial Acad- pert had developed a great fondnessleray of Science and of Art. One black aftermath of the war has peen t devise, and the poisoning of men’s | their lives The greatest need of civilization is he Warping of men’s minds to | better babies, and women who risk in this task deserve a souls to recelve destruction, moral | bonus quite as much as the soldier and material, as part of the reason- able machinery of life. —KING GEORGE. not be aimed at. pen and should - " ~—MARBHAL FOCH. who fought to preserve it. —NATHAN STRASS, Jr. The natural tendency of Darwin- people. Ih war unusual things do not hap- [ism is to make athelsts out of good —BIf ¥ SUNDAY. Japanese | Marshall | handed down a declsion in the Supreme | d States agent | nstan- | DOES FRANCE FACE RETURN TO MONARCHY? BY DOLORES BOISFEUILLET COLQUITT. The recent activities of the royal- ists at Paris amazes the American public, which, with few exceptions, is in ignorance of the political move- ment and increasing sentiment since the war for the restoration of the King of France. That country today is In a state of political evolution and the royalist party will prove a great factor in the next general election slated for May, 1924, when. the Ruhr policy will be a great issue. Our, American newspapers often carry Paris dispatches in which Leon Daudet figures conspiciously as roy- alist leader, and he and his party, though vigorous in the defense of France, are sometimes made to ap- pear ridiculous. “Yet, although they have been charged with plotting to restore the king, they have never been accused of pro-Germanism,” says a re- cent authority. “In fact, hatred of Germany is an essential element in their nationalism. By means of the {rigorous campaigns of the Action Francaise, the official newspaper of |the party. edited by Leon Daudet, many traitors and pseudo-traitors to ance have been exposed.” This newspaper. a Paris daily, ims to have more than doubled its irculation since the war, and it is generally conceded to be the best edited of the French papers, which can readily be understood, as Leon Daudet. member of the chamber of deputies, is distinguished in the lt- erary world as belonging to the Academie Goncourt The rovalists are ganized into a league, quarters at Paris and branches in_the larger cities of the provinces. Each dcpartment has a staff of officers who receive orders from Paris, lach ar- rondissement at Paris is similarly or- ganized, %o that at a word from the head of the organization the whole force might be set in motion The younger royalists are formed | into the auxiliary organization of the Camelots du Roi and the Itudiants | de I'Action Francaise. Fv en are organized in like are quite active. They and like entertainments for raising Imoney. All members pay dues of 3 francs 4 year to the organization. In order that the vities may be intelligently carried on, they maintai besides their orgun, the A caise, an institute, in which cour are given upon the problems which monachy will have to soive. It is a unique feature of French politics, and {T.eon Daudet himself says: “L'Action { Francaise is not only a dailv paper, but is a_league and organ of action.” Tliey propose to change the republic of France into a monarchy, not by rev- olution. but peaceably by evolution, and this has become their slogan. All their activities throughout the coun- try, with time, place of meeting a orators, are published in the Acti “rancaise, which, with jts wide cire lation, keeps each part of France in- formed on league affairs. !"The chief adherent to the royalist {party is naturally the old nobility, but liere are also many recruits from other {ciasses who are convinced, as their {leader, Daudet, that “before ten years, {even before five, perhaps, France wili have to be a monachy, or she will no longer exist; for France is of a fami- 11l temperament, and family and { democracy are as antinomic as mother | country and democracy. A writer who is antagonistic Daudet says, though, that lic whose opinion weig is distinctly_indifferent to the roy ist theory. The word ‘indifferent fs used on purpose. They do not Aight it, because they feel there is no need of { fightin, some day the king actually 'k to France he would king 1ik { th stly & figure. head. seldom a really active power. But the situation has caused alarm in the socialist group of the cham- ser of deputies. Then, following the royalists insistance on backing the hr policy, on May 25th of this vear George Taupin, a French com- munist, was arrested in the offices of the Action Francaise after firing a revolver when he was refused per- mission to see Charles Murras. This was generally stated to be the causs of the notorious reprisal week before last by the Camelot du Roi, when they wayvlaid some rovalist ene- mies and dosed them with castor oil and bespattered ink. This led to the so-calleq “disclosure” of a fascisti! machine in France. { The socialists and dyed-in-the-wool | republican groups in the chamber of ; deputies show anxiety over the roy- | alists affiliated with the league of i the Action Francaise On June 2, at Nantes, the capital city of the de- partment he represents in the cham- ber of deputies, Ex-Premler Briand delivered a speech, calling for a big rally around the republican flag. He declared that in the present chamber there never had been a real repub- lican majority consclous of its duties to the republic, and that while he was in power he never had a real re- publican majority back of him. At the beginning of this year an attack was intended upon the life of Leon Daudet when he, instead of Marlus Plateau, was to have been the victim of the assassinatress, Ger- maine Berthon, a militant commu- nist, who proved to have played al leading part in the attempt last fall on the life of Mr. Herrick, United | States minister to France. 1 This murder was precipitated by a violent scene in the chamber of dep- | uties when Leon Daudet vigorously | defended France in denouncing the cialists’ attack on the Ruhr policy nd the communist propaganda which has been carried on in France since the w Following the assassina- | tion of Plateau in the editorial rooms ! of the Action Francalse, the royal- ists in reprisal wrecked the offices and printing rooms of three radical newspapers. It was the famous Vaugcous who founded the Actlon Francaise, and Leon Daudet became his disciple. In his memory a marble bust now oceu- ples a place of honor in the luxuri- ous salon at the Action Francaise headquarters at 14 Rue de Rome, just weross from the Gare St Lazar Teon Daudet inherited his love of politics from his grandfather and his |literary tastes from his father, great Alphonse Daudet. literary pressionist” His mother wrote der the name of Karl Steen. and his wife i9 also a writer and interested in_politics. Leon Daudet is the author of nu-. meroas Dooks His,latest s <Th Siupid 180 Centiry,” o eriticism. of French letters. He is an interesting | character, stout and ruddy complex- joned, jovial, quick in manner and. with an_explosive temperament, ex- presses himsell in a most emphatic manner. During his childhood Flaubert, Zola and Goncourt were intimate friends of his father and often dined at his home. Goncourt died there and in his will left his estate for the en- dowment of an academy Intrusted to Alphonse Daudet, whom he named in his will, as one of the ten members. But Daudet, the elder, died in 1897 and his son Leon, earning a place for himself in the literary world, has since become one of the members, an honor of distinction. The royalist candidate for the throne of France is the Duke of Or- leans, living in retirement in Eng- land awaiting the call to France He acquired his title on becoming chief| of the Orleans house in 1894 at the death of his father, the Count of Parls, grandson of King Louis Phi- lippe of France. He was born in Eng- land in 1869 and was educated In France. He was exiled shortly after the establishment of the third repub- lic, and he afterward entered France, despite the decree of banishment against him, and. presented himself for military duty. He was tried by the government and sentenced to four months’ imprisonment ~He afterward went to America and later undertook three vovages to the Arctic reglons. Before the war he lived in-Belgium, completely with head- or- manner have baz | to] “the pub- { something Linvalia CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The Department of Agriculture is proud of the success of its motion plcture film showing the action of a horse in its various gaits—how the horse uses its limbs. This action be- comes apparent when the film s slowed down. So educational is the slowed-down film that a professor in the Texas School of Agriculture declares that the students learned more about the horse by watching the film fifteen minutes than they had from books and lectures in their whole course. Traflic experts make a suggestion in this connection: If the film is proved of such efficlency in teach- ing horse—that extinct animal of domestication prior to the automo- bile age—how invaluable would it be in teaching the actions character- istic of motorspeeditis which is oft- en fatal in its epidemic form! Let the movie film embalm the expres- sions upon the face of such a pa ticnt while he is “stepping on the gas,” and riding on two wheel around a corner into a group of chil- dren playing on the road. wdded feature would be possible If an X-ray tachment could be fixed on the camers to record the uction heart—assuming that it still beats, The use of the movie in education is one that has been much discuseed by educators: namely, that it may be ed in teaching nee in all its nches. and the idea is em- phasized by the verdict of the Tex professor. s S Brazii is kinder to the owners of motor ¢ living in the District of Colimbia than are authorities of cer- tain nearby regions. Brazil invites us to tour her broad and interesting land free of all license charges. No import duties on tourists’ cars w be charged. The amount of duty to be deposited on entering, but re- funded upon departure. Some tour- sts will find that deposit a cafcguard against returning home dead broke for trave] always costs more tha the budget est!mated. Even a trip to Maryland is often costlier than in- ended. A deposit before crossing the ine might heip some * % % % is It has long been noticed that men’s names often fit their occupation, but seldom is that found to be exact a fit than in the case the superintendent of Central market. It is Mr. C. W. Kitchen. Mr. Kitchen is interested mot only providing all kitchens with plenty of food. but he insicts that It shall he sanit He installing closed-in bhakery where moth and dust wiil not ipt the pies and cakes. That L comes, indeed, a model Kitchen. * ¥ x more uot a matter for national at violence still preva extent it docs, accqrding to our Experts of criminology, arguo is the crime data analyzing the facts, certain cities, year er Year. make records consistent with their own past records, it shows that the rec- ords are not accidental, but are at- tributable to inherent conditions of the respective communities. The record for twenty-eight cities covering the year 1922, 'shows an av. erage of nine murders to each 100, 000 population, as compared with 8.3 ar average for the period 1917 21" That indicates a slight improv ment in 1922, But the city of Mem phis had a record for the peri 1017-21 of 54.9 average per vea for 1922 of 67.4—the blackest record of murders fn both periods. e also was cousistent in ta ext to Mem ¢ for the four-vear period, and 30. 1922, Hartford had the best record for the four years—oniy 3.7 for the four-year period, and 2 for 1022 Spokane had 4.8 in the first period and only one in 18 These figures show that conditi atmosphere or local standards co trol crime outbreaks. Therefore, it is not hopeless to strive for betterment. * N % % The Post Office Department trouble as to how it can clean huge flag—sevent o feet long that since is in its nd of the| s to of proportionate width. The flag k. hung for years inside the Coyered court of the main building of the de partment. It is beautiful and jm Dpressive, but now it is fouled by grime and dust of the No 1 dry has a tub. no professio cleaner a vat big enough to comth iit It would be regrettal to ) o rip “its broad stripes and b {stars,” which have hung b many a “perilous nigl the cleanser that will its pristine beauty? raised upon “Flag ) the President 1d others ing at a public meeting upon the ance of proper respect fo air. roux Wiere restore it auery n whil o t ev Shall lope it be within the of some balloon where pur gases may “dry-clean” its bunting Shall the whole post office buildin: become its vat and be filled wit ing vapors overnight? ls ther bathing pool where foamy sud could be stirred and the flag e & bath? Are the golden wins bus to take the cor Uncle Sam no little fairy {delight to please the wo {all the Chinese laundries « {rescuc? How casy the flag, just smoke and the do their wors hard to purify if hung clean no wh * There is a greater flag probl that before Americans. IHov the flag that is the spirit of patriotism be cleansed of and smoke that have beauty within the America: There is a huge blotch of ence” spread from stars tc a scumlike smear. Who put it thera? There {s a rip madae over “blocs™ in Cong The might easily spr it beco sk Kome r needle and ad one and . arnished heart ndifre citizs: but as it dragwe o< with t magie v “Union, up the Where is the modern Betsy s a jagged tear. a corner of ta var with | f the whole flag. wave in triumph upon defense of alien rig its own gons and dauglters —th mocracy should not perish fron earth. It has never gone feat. it has hias has always def, i By what d “1o classes n The worl battletic has seen fo t do the ac dow ever howe a nt hat right the master of n guard and transmit (o pos iples of justice, freedom and « ; and to consecrate and ufy devotion to mutual helpfulnes of all good citizens %5 What Old Glory needs is a bat dry cleansing, a renewed swingine out to the bleaching sun of patriot idealism. Away with the frill frumperies of festoons of th syml Tt means self-sacrifice fo country. It means stanch battlir against_ insidious selfishy means lovalty to law— means that which Faul he differentiated cision of the flesh of the heart. It meant when he cried out “God give us men' A time like th minds, gres and ready hands * * Who will wash Old Glory. store, through tha cleansing waters | of tdeal patriotism, the arterial blood | of its red, the fleckless snow of i { purity, thé celestial biue of its truc [field, and the eteady shine of it~ forty-eight stars? right, 1 | both ghit ¥ aw | P (« Oall EDITORIAL DIGEST Teaching of Alien Tongues Gets Widespread Editorial Support. Virtually all editors agree with the salt Lake City Deseret Ne when it declares: “While the English lan- { gvage should be taught in all of our public schools as a matter of law, it is not unreasonable sometimes to allow fereigners to keep alive their mother tongue.” Editorials came into being wherever the scent of printer's ink pervaded the atmosphere, as soon as the nited States Supreme Court d clared state laws forbidding teaching of foreign langua in grammar schools, public and private, Extremely few, if any, felt that the decision was anvthing but just. “The right of a parent o suy what shall be taugkt his child,” savs the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, “is estab- lished by ‘he court of last resort According to the Ne_\'n‘urk News “the test case was that of a parochial echool teacher in Nebraska, who was convicted of instructing a ten-year- old child in German’ But, as the boston Post points out, bv\ sut Ciently emphatic_majority,” the Su- preme Court held that—quoting now the Jersey City Journal—"the action’ of legislatures making such laws, twenty-one in number, “was in vio- Tation. of the fourteenth amendment that declared that no state ‘shall de prive any person of life, liberty or property without due proces ¢ “Indeed, as the Li ournai declares, tr. compelled the 1 Schools to discontinue the o1 Latin, a dead language, grammar grades, That the legislatures of the twenty- 1S _agreed. Hence, says New York World. the decision is “yery important landmark in the recovery of American liberty from the vandalism of the non-combatants who went mad during the war.” Yet, in the opinion of the New York Times, “the motive of the legisla- tures_was honorabl and, says the New York Tribune, “the general pur- pose ® * * was sound.” The acts were the product of “intense loy- alty,” says the Philadelphia Bulletin, which multiplied after the war, due, according to the Norfolk Virginian- Pilot, to “bogus ‘100 per cent Ameri- canism.”” Now, the Waterbury Re- publican points out, the country is “getting over a fit,” as indicated by the Supreme Court decision. The state laws “sought — e in th or thie to bring and upon its outbreak tried to enlist in the French army, but M. Viviani, then president of the council, refused the request because of the law of banishment. The duke is credited with sayink that he will return to France if the people of that country elect that he do so. The Action Francalse in its columns openly discusses and agi- tates public sentiment in favor of the advisability of his return. What will be the outcome? Will Daudet's prophecy regarding the restoration of the monarghy In the next few years materiali the ' about the universal tongue and, doubtless, st ing a that sioux Falls the object of cellent,” declares the (W. Va.) Mail To the Duluth Her- ald, however, the spirit behind them was hatred, “much like that which | induced us to ® ¢ ® call eauer- | kraut ‘liberty cabbage.”™ If the t | case had come up during the I war, the Baltimore Sun believes. may reasonably be doubted whathe: | these laws would have been held | constitutional.” But now, says Binghamton Press, while not fall on their (the ere wasn't aws. it time.” The Bost preme Cour ice “to culture a thorough k in German, ) Spr (Mass.) Republ ) a pra value.” ‘Art know nationa says the Albany Times-Union. fone would understand his ¢ ! tongue.” the Louisville Courier-Jour nal emphasizes. “it is essential tha he have at least smattering of others.”” The prohibitive laws, the Chicago Daily News' opinic were “needless oppr e interfer ence with cducational and_pers {ilberts Looking back, say { Waterloo Tribune, “w fail to where the teaching of foreign 1 guages has done any harm.” ‘Academic freedom is_powerfu! sustained outs the St Louis Glob {Democrat. It is hardly necessur {says the Chattanooga News. to ¢ {pel foreigners to “abandon thefr {anguage.” Tt ig agreed now, sa {the Providence Tribune, that “a st SO %y Sucn ana : {¢an be faught and such and Sucn iother cannot be.” The decision in accordance with “common sens: the Detroit Free Pr TrRUES, & in the opinion of the Utica Observer Dispatch, the situation “would hat regulated itself if it had been lof alone.” On the other hand, whil admitting the justice of the decis the Danville (Va.) Register w prefer it if it were “possible to forhic the use of a foreign language in th instruction in the elementary schoo’ The states whi have such lav “may well remodel those Taws” nov says the Milwaukee Journal o use of anything but Eng in ge eral school wo. probably will e again be attempted,” says the Pitt burgh Gazette-Tim Indeed, gests the Indianapolis News, interesting to speculate wh school boards and * * * syuper intendents can bo required to provid ® e & nstruction” in foreign la guages. The Columbus Ohio St Journal hopes the decision “for shadows the annulment of the Orego! law prohibiting the existence ¢ private and parochiul schools.’ A. Cording to the Philadeiphia Publs Tedger, the decision may even go far as to “check the drive of Willfan Jennings Bryan and his ant Darwinites to ban evolutiona theories from public schools i state colleges.” At least, the Cincinna Times-Sta spiclly points out, “the Germa will come back, but 1l i R G R R ot Argus ch s “was e brands the n as a rare in America.” owledge A} v Charlestom,