Evening Star Newspaper, June 16, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. .~....June 16, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.., The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th St. and Penneylvania Ave. New York Office: 160 Nusxan St. Chicago Ofice: Tower Duilding. Luropean Ofice: 18 Regent St., London, England. The Eventng Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city | 8 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per | month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month dora may b sent by mail, or telephone Main £000. ~Collection is made by curriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunda; $8.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only. Sunday only.... All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daily only. $7.00: 1 mo., 60c Sunday only......1¥r., $3.00;1mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entith fo thie ‘use for republication of all news di atelhies credited to it or Dot otherwise credited n this paper and elso the local news pub- lshed ‘uerein, ANl vights of publication of apecial iy Prosperity to Stay. It is good news that comes from ! Atlanta, where the National Associa- tion of Credit Men are in annual con- vention, in the prediction that a sum- | mary of business conditions the coun- try over shows that prosperity is here to stay. These men, who keep a finger upon the pulse of credits in business, are in position to know what is going on in trade and production. The sum- mary was compiled from question- naires sent to fourteen trade groups. 1t was announced that all the groups showed not only an improvement in collections and sales for May, as com- pared with April,"1923, but held out gocd prospects for business within the | next six months. This favorable forecast adds to the testimony coming in from many other sources as o the apparently sound basis upon which present prosperous conditions in business are founded, dispelling the fear of a temporary boom which might flatten out sudden unexpectedly. It has taken a pull and a strong pull for business to recover from the late depression, but the slowness of the comeback ap-| parently has but made it the more solid, and with greater promise of stability and continuance. All these favorable and promising conditions, however, carry with them e warning nst extravagance and thriftlessness, so likely to arise when “times are flush,” and the temptation to spend a little more is strong in the average man and ¢woman. Former Gov. Lowden of Illinois, who ad- dressed the credit men, issued a warn- ing against extravagance in ment and municipal expenditures, | with consequent increased taxes. He declared that taxation is increasing faster than wealth in this country, and that a halt must be calied. Such statements as the summary of the Credit Men's Assoclation, and the forecast based on it, are helpful. The psychological effect of them is calculated to encourage and to stimu- | late further effort. No one ought to | “get the Dblues” over the immediate future in business conditions. a govern- —_—————— Vermont Avenue. Proposal is made by the chairman of the Fine Arts Commission that Ver- mont avenue be extended from its present terminal at 9th street and Florida avenue direct to the entrance of Howard University at Georgia ave- | nue, with a circle at that point. This proposal is in connection with a plan for the improvement of the grounds of Howard University, upon which the advice of the Fine Arts Commission was sought. Extension of Vermont avenue, while perhaps it would cost considerable in the coridemnation of now obstructing buildings, would greatly relieve a con- gestian now suffered on Georgia ave- nue. It is one of the direct arterles to the center of'the city. If extended to Georgia avenue it would afford access to the neighborhood of the White House. At present it is an interrupted street, unfinished and without definite terminal. Improvement of Howard University grounds is provided for in an appro- priation now available, and it is due this institution that.access be made to it easier and more dignified than at present. With a circle established at the entrance, as Chairman Moore of the Fine Arts Commission proposes, it would be given a much more fitting but must sign a commission personal- President may, of course, take with him on his trip a stock of blank com- missions and sign them while away from Washington and announce the fact by wire or wireless, which would be ample authorization to the ap- pointees to take the oath of office and begin the discharge of their duties. In the course of departmental rou- tine there are many matters arising constantly that involve overlapping between departments and bureaus and that require conferences. Fre- quently two Secretaries will meet and discuss matters of mutual concern. There is no conceivable reason why all of the members of the cabinet should not in the President’'s absence thus confer, even though these conferences may not be called “‘cabinet meetings.” There is no possible usurpation of the presidential office when there is a lack of power on the part of any partici- pant, or all together, to do anything of a presidential nature without the tion of the chief executive. Inasmuch as the President is to be away for some weeks from the capital, it is most desirable that this under- standing should be had in advance that leaves the members of his official family free to act according to their judgment upon matters which fall within their provinces of decigion. Stamboulisky. In the dispatches relating to the death of Stamboulisky, the former Bulgarian premier, who was shot in the course of an attempt at rescue by peasant supporters after he had been arrested, the following descrip- tion of the man is given which pre- sents a striking portrait: Stamboulisky, who was forty-four years of uge, was entirely self-edu- cated. He married a school teacher, to whom he attributed most of his success in life. He was as rugged physically as he was mentally, and usually overawed those who came into his presence by the very bigness of his frame. He had all ‘the elements which in the popular mind go to make up the dictator. He stood more than six feet in height; his enormous head was covered with a wealth of black, curly hair; his small eves looked ply out over an upturned, kaiser- like mustache, and his tremendous jaw hinted of his unbounded energy. With this formidable physique went & thundering voice. This picture of Stamboulisky shows a man different from two famous “‘dic- tators,” one of the past and one of the present, Napoleon and Mussolini, both dominating in their times through force of intense personalit but both of short stature. Mussolini has a big voice and tremendous energy. Napolcon was of a quieter temperament, but untiring and in- domitable, Stamboulisky, however, was more the popular conception of a man of will and domination. His giant frame and flerce aspect and bellowing voice made him formidable. He appealed strongly to the popular mind. He made and held adherents by his strong will and his fearlessness. He had lit- tle respect for the roval office, and several occasions confronted the on diplomatic and uncourtierlike phrases of rtual defiance. That he was honest in purpose and practice has not been questioned. He was doubt- less ambitious for great power. Pos- sibly he had in mind and was seeking for the real rulership over Bulgaria. But his enemies have never success- fully impeached his good faith, nor have they fastened on him a desire to gain financially through his office. Stamboulisky’s death perhaps, in the peculiar circumstances in which it has occurred, prevents a very seri- ous complication in Bavaria. He was killed in the course of an attempt at rescue, and it is not clear, and pos: sibly will never be known, whether he was shot by a friend or an enemy. He was probably trying to escape when he was taken into custody, and it may be that the intervention of his peasant adherents was unwise, and that if he had been allowed to go to Sofia under guard he would have been treated with leniency, possibly exile. Yet Stambou- lisky alive would remain a menace to the Bulgarian government. His death will perhaps the more quickly effect a that country has been plunged ' by revolution, and which is threatening a revival of the Balkan troubles, always g0 dangerous to the peace of the world. ————— Occasionally the New York Stock Exchange members have to protect themselves from intruders who mis- take the regular Wall street assem- blage for a flock of lambs. setting than it has now. This plan should be urged upon Congress through the Commissioners, both as in conjunction with the Howard Univer- sity improvement and for the sake of the completion of Vermont avenue as a means of improved city communica. tion. —————— It does not take as long to travel twelve miles by sea as it took to cover as quarter of the distance when the three-mile limit was established. —————————— Among the allurements of ‘Alaska 1s the fact that it is not asserting it- gelf as a battle-ground in connection with the 1924 campaign. ——— “World court” is still regarded by Senator Borah as only an alias. ———— In the President’s Absence. President Harding shas made it plain on the eve of his departure on his Alaskan trip that he will leave the members of his cabinet free to confer and to take such action in his absence as may be necessary for the public interest. It is not contemplated, how- ever, that there will necessarily be meetings of the cabinet, but Mr. Harding gives assurance that in case conferences of this character are held no one participating will be in danger of official decapitgtion. This obviously refers to an episode in the last admin- istration which is too familiar to re- qQuire to be more than mentioned. Certain actions of an administrative character lie within the jurisdiction of members of the cabinet, while others are beyond the power of any other of- ficer of the government than the President. No appointments to office can, of course, be made save by the chief executive. He cannot make such en appointment by cable ot by, radio, ——— Chinese are represented as having great contempt for foreigners, in spite of the desire of so many to be smug- gled into distant lands. —————— It is recognized as impossible to organize enough new parties to ac- commodate all the available candi- dates. ———————— The District’s Telephone Bill, The District government is in trou- ble about its telephone *bill, and a most drastic regulation has been put on outgoing calls, that the capital of the United States may get through until July 1 without a deficit in its alldtment of money for telephone serv- ice. There is a mixture of humor and seriousness in the situation. The gov- ernment of the American capital has $30 left with which to pad for outside telephone service for the next two weeks, or until the appropriation for the next fiscal year becomes available. It is not thought likely that the telephone company would take out the instruments and shut off the serv- ice if the District should fall down on the payment of its bill, for the Dis- trict has been a good customer of the phone company, has heretofore been prompt in the payment of its bill, and ought by this time to have built up a fair credit with the company. It might also be remarked that some of the officers and others of the tele- phone company know the District gov- ernment when they see it, and are on speaking terms with some of the Dis- trict officials. All these things ought to help the District in its hour of trouble. At all events it is most prob- able that the telephone company will deal gently with the District govern- ment, even though it should owe it seven or eight dollars until the next warrant and direction and authgriza- | monarch without hesitation and in un- { subsidence of the turmoil into which | 1y to effect a legal appointment. The 1 available. 1 | land parks. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., District appropriation Dbill becomes The assistant Engineer Commis- sloner of the District, in charge of the electrical fepartment, does not want to have a deficit. He believes that every department under his adminis- tration should live within its means, and a deflcit looks to him as a sign of bad housekeeping. It might be re- marked - that such sensitiveness re- garding deficits is not universal among public officials. But in our District the assistant Engineer Commissioner wants the ledger to balance, and if it does not balance he would like it to tip slightly on the credit side. To keep the telephone service within its al- lotment of money it has been directed that for the balance of the month only twenty-seven telephones, one for each department head and one for each of the Commissioners, will be available for outside calls. An appeal has been made to District employes to co- operate. by making only essential phone calls. The Boosters. The annual booster outing comes again into view. These booster out- ings began with the idea of introduc- ing Washington as a commercial city to the people of the lower Potomac valley, and the effort has been so suc- cessful that the boosters now boom Washington on the eastern shore of Maryland, and they have been known to go farther afleld than that. The average citizen may think that it was not necessary to advertise Washington in a district so near as the lower Potomac valley, but the Merchants and Manufacturers' Asso- ciation, of which the boosters are a part, thought otherwise, and they probably know what they are about. All the people of Northumberland, Westmoreland, King George and Staf. ford on one side of the river and of §t. Marys and Charles on the other knew a great deal about Washington. Most of the summer boarders in that t-ction came from Washington. Most of the men who wanted to fish, “whether they caught anything or not,” came from Washington. Sons, daughters and cousins went forth from that old country to seek their for- tunes in Washington, and going back home now and then they told splen- did stories of government bulldings But for more than 100 years the storekeepers who supplied that large region had been dealing at Baltimore. They knew little of Wash- ington as a business city. Down the Rappahannock and ex- tending well across the ‘“northern neck” petween the Rappahannock and Potomac- the *trade was very largely with Fredericksburg. Along the lower Potomac people drew largely from the wholesale houses of Alexan- dria. They bought little at Washing- ton. These were the habits of genera- tions, and habits are very strong in old settled and conservative commu- nities. The hoosters have probably succeed- ed in showing southern Maryland and Virginia on the lower Potomac that Washington has goods to sell, but whether or not they “hoost™ the com- merce of the city they always have a 0od time on their trips. ————— There will be little hesitancy in crediting the assertions of the French that the Germans have not gone out of their way to make it pleasant for them in the Ruhr. The incident did not at the outset suggest itself as an occasion for cordial hospitality Fears that the movies will supplant hooks as means of education should not at present cause anxiety in circles of scholarship. Books still assert their dominating influence. Some of the best movie plots are derived from the best sellers. Considerations that seem trivial to one generation take on the highest significance for the next. Bar privi- leges on ocean-going vessels now claim the ‘attention of the most responsible ! officials of state. Announcements that a speech- making tour is not intended should not discourage the audience. Some of the best things a practiced speaker says are strictly impromptu. England desires from France a definition of her Ruhr attitude. Ger- many's definition of it would not be printable in any diplomatic dictionary. New York clty statesmen continue to be much less concerned about the league of nations than they are about the Anti-Saloon League. The Chinese have a way of making a resignation rumor assume very seri. cus importance when it is backed by military persuasion. Even ocean liners are not exempt from traffic regulations, including those that-relate to parking privileges. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Careless Wish. The poet sighed, as poets do, “If all my dreams would but come true!’ 'Twould be a sorry lot, no doubt, Unless fate cut the nightmares out. A Desperate Endeavor. Some men there be who seem to find Much favor in the public mind Because they noisily deny All that we learned in years gone by. And even they who disbelieve ‘With interest one’s words receive, And fashion mufmurs that he shall Be knn.lr'x as ?n original. So here I'say, “The sun do move,” And that the earth is flat, by Jove! In hopes that some may bleat my name And let my folly pass for fame, Culinary. First some sunshine, then a shower, And ere long this world will be Ready for the banquet hour, An enormous fricassee. Easy. The man who thinks that he is wise— *Of all this earthly clan He is the most beloved by The wily bunco man. SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1923. CAPITAL KEYNOTES WASHINGTON Senator Hiram W. Johnson will! leave England for America on July 117, sailing on the Leviathan's first ihomebound journey. She is scheduled to reach New York on Monday, July 23, and presumably that will be the date fixed by his New York admirers for the projected triumphal welcome to the Californian. One of Senator Johnson's traveling companions will be Albert D. Lasker, whose activities as chairman of the Shipping Bbard will be brought intormally to an end with the docking of the Leviathan at the end of her first transatlantic |round trip. Lasker and Johnson are bosom friends and in 1920 were close ! political assoclates. Lasker was out-| spokenly in favor of the Californfan’s nomination for the presidency, but as | soon as Harding became the nominec threw himself whole-heartedly into| the latter's campalgn. During the| Harding administration Lasker has functioned as a “liaison officer” be- tween the President and the seaator. * ok ok ok Col. Edward M. House's article in the June number of Forelgn Affairs contains the first public u‘ferances he has ever made since his break with Woodrow Wilson. That his. toric breach commemorates its fourth anniversary this month. Since its oc currence at Paris in 1919 Wilson and House have never met, though cer- tain amenities have been exchanged, such as the leaving of the colonel's| card in § street whenever he hap-| pened to be in Washington. A host; of versions Is extant as to what ‘t| was that really estranged the one-! time bosom friends, but “insfders” in- ! sist the truth is yet to be told. Some | say it will redound to the former President’s credit. Others avow it fs| Col. House who will emerge the more | creditably. House is in Europe on| his_annual hebnobbings with old | world statesmen * o ok % i Frank H. Hedges of Missouri and | China is a visitor to Washington. For ! the past three vears he has been an | American newspaper correspondent | at Peking and is home to renew na- tive ties. This observer asked Hedges | for his principal reaction to current | events in China. “The fact I'm not there right now, the I}Fl(‘fll‘ Journalist's repl Hedges is a “bull" on China’'s future, howev. dark the horizon at the moment. ‘The Ameri- can minister at Peking, Dr. Schur-! man.” he says, “puts it about right| when he expresses a ‘fatalistic opti- | mism’ that somehow, some time, China | will find herselt.” Hedges is sure that | was Obelisk on Boyne Knocked From BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Memories of the battle of the Boyne. | which fs commemorated to this day by the people of the north of Ireland and by the southern portion of the Emerald Isle, each in their own par- ticular, rather obstreperous fashion, | usually with broken heads and black- ened eyes, have been revived during the past week by the news that the well known obelisk, nearly 200 feet high, erected on the spot where Wil- |tiam 1II's general, the Duke of Schomberg, was killed by a cannon ball, was blown to pleces and torn {trom its rocky base. The first stone of the obelisk was laid in 1736, that is to say, some forty years after the battle, by Lionel Sackville, Duke of Dorset, then viceroy of Ireland. For close upon two centuries the obellsk has been a landmark of the entire region, perched on a rocky eminence on the banks of the river just about two miles to the west of Drogheda. People of Ireland, irrespect- ive of party, resent the outrage as wan- ton, and naturally attribute it to those irregular armed forces now abandoned and repudiated by De Valera, but who started their campaign of useless and ruthless destruction, arson and plun- der under his direction, at his insti- sation and under his auspices. * K % % There is one sovereign in Europe who affects tramcars; namely, King Hakon of Norway, younger brother of the King of Denmark, and, through his marriage to Princess Maud of England, & brother-in-law of King George V. King Hakon and Queen Maud have a very stately and im- pressive-looking palace at cmmx<| anla, with lofty ceilings, and the en- tire atmosphere of which is redolent of state and pomp and court cere-| mony. Indeed, despite its splendor, the Metropolitan Palace Is rather op- pressive. Under the circumstances it is not astonishing that the mon- arch and his wife, who love simplic- ity and merely tolerate etiquette, have established their home in a large and roomy chalet on the slope of one of the mountains forming a background to the city. ‘They live there with their only now a student at the university as owing to the steepness ol gradient of the hill automobiles are prohibited from being used there, he makes his way every morning down to his workroom and audience cham- ber in the palace by the tramcar, usu- ally with a portfolio under his arm and chatting in the most unaffected manner with the other passengers. The public likes this. For these Norsemen are extremely democratic and care but little for rank and title. Indeed, there are no titles in Norway but one, namely, the Baron of Wedel- Jarlsburg, now King Hakon's envoy in Paris, and whose title is of Swed- Ish origin. He mainly uses it abroad, and as_for the rulers of Norway, they are addressed not as your majesty, but plain “Mr. King” and rs. Queen.” | France's ambassador in Japan, who before being appointed to his present post had achieved fame in his na- tive land as a poet and playwright, has just produced at the Imperial Theater of Tokio a wonderfully fai cinating ballet, writing the music in conjunction with one of the leading native composers. The ballet 1is being interpreted exclusively by Japanese actors, actresses and dancers, and the music is as striking as_the performance. Paul Claudel commenced his of- ficlal career as an attache of the French consul general in New York, from whence he was transferred to China. There he devoted his leisure time to the writing of poetry and plays based on Chinese life and tradi- tions, and had the satisfaction of seeing & number of his own plays presented on the Chinese stage. In Japan, when appointed to his present post as ambassador, he found that his name had gone before him, and he was received with open arms, not so much as a shrewd and ob- servant diplomat, but also as a poet- ! fiefal function. lclaiming that {of our government, | which app | Duke of OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE the existing turmoil, in which LI Yuan-Hung, the fleeing president, and Marshal Tsao Kun are the chief fig- ures, is the latest, but not the least, phase of kaleidoscopic events in the turbulent celestial republic. Hedges is_a graduate of Walter Williams'® celebrated School of Journalism at the University of Missouri, whose alumni dot the newspaper landscape everywhere in the east. * % ok ok Two signs were planted side by! side yesterday on the Pennsylvania avenue front of the White House, where the last vestiges of the Shrine Garden of Allah” are being dis- mantled. One read “Laborers want- cd.” "The other sald “Danger; keep out.” * K ok ok Women who work—51,810,189 of jthem were classified as “gainfully oc- cupled” in the census of 1920—are soon to have a magazine devoted ex- clusively to them. It will be called the Business Woman. One of fits representatives, who was in Wash- ington, told this observer there are now twenty American periodicals dealing more or less altogether with women's affairs. Their combined circulation is so enormous that they consume S0 per cent of all the print paper manufactured in the United States. ik Friday afternoon, when it was hot the east room of the White Hous was filled with that elite company which always foregathers when the foreign diplomatic set attends an of- Ambassadors, minis- ters and attaches from abroad came in faultless “day dress” of cutaway coats, patent leather shoes, spats and high collars. They were wel by President Harding and Sec ar; Hughes in Washington's summer “court costume”—Palm Beach suits. Ambassador Fletcher was in white duck. Fletcher, among his other claims to eminence, ranks as the best dress in the American diplo- matic The irreconcilables may soon be the United States is trying to enter the league of nations through the barn door. The world dairy congress, to be held in Wash- ington in October. under the auspices has asked the health organization of the league Geneva for any co-operation it can usefully render. The Department of Agriculture has communicated with the league, according to the latter's official bulletin, and confirmed the value attached to the congress by the United States. Battlefield Base by Explosion fcal genius, whose vers are mys s and drama mbued with that atn cism and religiou als so strongly to the ori- ental mind, especially to the minds of people such as the Japanese. * x k ok Royal hearts a subjected to many strange vicissitudes, fortunate, indeed, if they find lasting havens of rest in the mausoleums or crypts of churches and cathedrals. Most of the hearts of the kings of France, pre- served in silver urns’'in a mummified condition in the ancient Abbey of St. Denis, were scattered by the terror- ists at the time of the great French jrevolution In 1793 and converted into hig priced and greatly cherished pigments for use by the celebrated bortrait painters of the last century. Indeed, there are quite a number of hearts of princes and princesses of the formerly reigning house of France, which, after being reduced to powder or to paste, now figure on the canvas of masterpieces of picto- rial art. The heart of Louls XIV, completely dried up and in a mummified condi- tion, after L\I-IVX')K been purchased by one of the English Harcourts in Paris from the plunderers of the St. Denis Abbey, which the: robbed for the of the jewels, the rolden chal- and monstrances which had been accumulating there for negrly a thou- nd_years, and for the sakoe of the silver urns containing the royal hearts, was swallowed inadvertently h)_' the famous Dean Buckland of Westminster Abbey during a spell of abeent-mindedness when dining at this deanery, The missing heart of the famous Montrose, extraordinary most vicissitudes the theme of one of Sir Walter cott's most dramatic novels——The Heart of Montrose"—{s known to have heen brought to America nearly a hundred years ago and has been the object of much costly search on the part of the present Duke of Mont- rose, though until now without suc- cess. * K ok % And now an inquiry has been in- augurated under royal auspices for the whereabouts of the heart of the patron saint of England—namely, St. George—which was venerated in the Chapel of St. George within the precincts of Windsor Castle up to the Reformation. Even till the days of Oliver Cromwell, the heart was preserved in a pinnacled golden mon- strance of wonderful design, with crystal panels, on the altar of the chapel. It was a gift of the German Em- peror Sigismund somewhere about 1485, the gift being acknowledged by the "then 'ruler of England, King Henry VIII, with the bestowal of the Order of the Garter upon the donor at the castle. Henry VIII is said to have repeatedly worshiped at this beautiful shrine of England's patron, saint, besides Honoring the memory of the eaint by assigning to the first company of the Royal Artillery Com- pany the title of “the Company of St. George.” Several books and manu- scripts which came into existence In the fifteenth century refer to the heart of St. George. And then, in about 1640, the shrine suddenly vanished and has never been heard of since. The only record pre- served of its appearance is contained in_the British Museum in London. There are a large number of shrines and of monstrances which disap- peared along with their sacred con- tents from their homes and religious establishments in England at the time of the reformation, and also dur- ing the wars later on between Charles I and parliament, that have found their way to this country, and that by reason of their artistic beauty now figure in the treasure houses and art galleries of the rich in the United States. It might be well If those who have anything of the kind were to examine the contents, in order to con- vince themselves that they have not got concealed therein the missing heart of England’s patron saint, St. George. Alphabet’s Condition Shocking to Scientists. Certain reformers have recently hit upon the idea that this will never be a really happy world in which to live until the alphabet has been complete- 1y dofle over and modernized. They are, it appears, very much shocked to discover that the letter “a” Is being very much overworked, doing duty for a half dozen different sounds: while such letters as linger on in the language, senile and useless. It is probable that the great numbér of persons will have the feeling about this reform that though the alphabet may be in a shockingly degenerate condition, it is after all “a poor thing, but our own."—St. Paul Pioneer Press. which _after the | n in Europe and India, and which_forms | The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER- When an author of note leaves an unfinished novel at his death, it seems to me it is better justice to both the author and his lovers that the frag- ment should be allowed to remain a fragment. Well meant efforts on the part of literary executors to finish the work are usually unsatisfactory from the standpoint of the discrimi- nating reader. Better a flne torso than a poorly restored statue. Per- sonally, 1 have never ceased to feel poignant regret that the novel which ever written, and on which he wrote hard all the morning of the last day of his life—"“Weir of Hermiston"— could not have been finished before that bursting blood vessel ended the herofc life. I have always been glad, however, that neither Mrs. Stevenson nor‘Lloyd Osbourne nor Sidney Colvin attempted to tamper with the inter- rupted story, but that it was pub- lished as it stood, with the addition of only a summary of Stevenson's ler-Couch was not so considerate with Stevenson's other unfinished novel, ‘St. Ives,” which he completed, with a fair degree of success. * kK K Dickens' “Edwin Drood” is another famous case of an unfinished novel, left as the author dropped it. Some vears ago an appropriate ending for the novel was made the subject of a mock trial, in which a number of fa- mous British authors took part. among them Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton. Mrs. Gaskell died sud- denly while her nove “Wives and Daughters.” wa=s running_ serially in the Cornhill Magazine. Her daugh- ters indignantly refused to finish it, though they gave information con- lcerning their mother's intended de- nouement. * Kk ok * Recently an unfinished novel of Jane Austen, “The Watsons,” has been published, with a conclusion written by Miss L. Oulton. The pub- lishers have declared that members of the Austen family cannot distin- guish Miss Oulton's work from Jan Austen’s; but Edmund Gosse says that he has “no difficulty whatever in discovering the place where the di- vine author dropped her work.” EEE Pasteur’'s name is inseparably as- soclated in most minds with a cure for hydrophol but few people re- member, or perhaps know, that Louis Rasteur also made valuable re- searches and discoverfes in con tion with the prevention of tube losis, the germ of diphtheria, the an- thrax bacillus and chicken cholera. These res ches are described in a most interesting manner in “The Life of Pasteur,” by Rene Vallery-Radot, translated Into English by Mrs. R, L. | Devonshire, with an introduction’ by Sir William Osler. This biography, reissued in connection with the ce tennial of the great French scientist, is enlivened by various anecdotes of Pasteur. About 1570 he announced that the beer produced by practically all of the great brewerles, including those of Strasburg, 1 Vienna, and most of the British was diseased. He found sample most famous beersto contain poisonous ferments and to be lacking in “sur. gical cleanliness.” The brewers were at first indignant but Pasteur soor convinced the that it would t n to make pure beer and showed them how to do it. Pasteur was him- self most scrupulous In trying to avoid germs. It is said that he always dipped his grapes in a glass of water before ea them, but sometimes forgot and afterward drank the wa ter. Whether at home or a gue: another's house, he invariably wiped his plate and glass bLefore using them. of the e xe Sinclair, the soctalist author, who in and other books h “shown up” various sore spots on the body politic, has broken loose again. Years ago it was the Chicago stock vards whose vileness was portrayed in “The Jungle.”* More recently the ielties of the Colorado coal mine strike were revealed in “King Coal.” The shams of religion he exposed in “The Profits of Religion.” The venal- ity and subserviency of the American press were prov isfaction, in “The Brass Check.” The great crying scandal of the present— according to Sinclair—is the control of our universities by great weal All this_he sets forth in “Tha Goose { Step.” Sinclair's thesis is this: “Our cducational system is mot a public service: its purpose is not to furth the welfare of mankind, but merel to keep America capitalist” In an- other place he says: “Our six hun- dred thousand young peopie are being taught, deliberately and of set pur- pose, not wisdom, but folly; not ju tice, but greed; not freedom. but slav not love, but hate." Some of his chapter headings are: “The of the House of Morgan” ; “The University of Lee- arvard) G. I_(Pennsylvania): “The University of Standard Oil"* (Chica- “The University of the Black Hand" (California). Sinclair requirc nearly 500 pages to tell of the enor mities of university education and ends by promising a second volume deallng with the public schools and to be entitled “The Goslings.” * Kk Kk A Dbiography of Mrs. Humphry ward has been prepared by her daughter, Mrs. George Trevelyan, who is related by marriage to Macaulay and the younger Trevelyan. Mrs. Humphry Ward was a prominent fig- ure in_English literary and social circles for more than two generations, and her biography should be an ex- tremely interesting one. The book is ! to be published in the fall. * K ok % The best similes for the past year have been selected by Frank J. Wil- stach, editor of a “Dictionary of Similes” The crop for 1922 was, it appears, an abundant one. Mr. Wil- stach, who is the acknowledged ex- pert in this line, has chosen those which seemed to him to be best in point of piquancy and sententious- noss. Here are a few selected from his long list: N The human mind should be like a good hotel—open the year around.— William Lyon Phelps. Dull as duty—Don Marquis. Difterent as grape juice and vodka. —Katherine Fullerton Gerould. Subtle as the tapping of a pile driver—Channing Pollock. Grave, but satisfied, like a widow- er—Gordon Arthur Smith. Thrilling as an account of a flower show.—Gertrude Atherton. Adroit as a rhinoceros.—Franklin P. Adams. Naked as the moon.—George Sterl- ing. There are many minds that are like a sheet of thin ice; you have to skate on them pretty rapidly or you'll go through.—Christopher Mor- Upton al sit Jey He felt like the symptoms on a medicine bottle—George Ade. Decorous as Mr. Rockefeller would enter a Baptist church.—St. John G. Ervine. * ok ok k Russia has already been the sub- Ject of two books by Prof. Edwari A. Ross of the University of Wis- consin, “Russia in Upheaval” and “The Russian Bolshevik Revolution.” The latter told the history of Russia from. the fall of the czar to the seiz- ure of the government by the bol- sheviki. “The Russian Soviet Repub- lic, 1918-1922," is to be the title of a third book by Prof. Ross, announced for publication in the autymn. It wi'l tell how the bolsheviki haie con ducted their government. ! Stevenson judged the best he had) plan for the ending.” Sir Arthur Quil- | breweries, | | pay t in | ed, at least to his sat- | “Th2 Univer-| There will be no excuse for ques- tioning Washington's ability to take good care of the national conven- tions of both, or several, political parties, since the record in connec- tion with the perfect handling of the Shriners. If President Harding's en- tire plurality should come as a tlacque, does anybody fear they would not be welcomed? Pennsyl- vania avenue, with its amplifiers, would make an excellent convention hall. Chalrman Adams would feel lat home in the Garden of Allah—or Carden of Eden, as, in his honor, it might be renamed. Supt. of Police Sullivan points with pride to the demonstration made during Shrine | Week that there are no “snakes” in our garden. * ok x % Besides, this fs neutral territory, not being in the franchise district, where party strife 1s sald to promote discord. Washingtonians = arc the neutralest Americans that ever ex- isted. They are so neutral that they jdTe unsophisticated as to party dif- ferences and would welcome one party as cordlally as any other, if not more so. In fact, they lean back- ward in their proud impartiality. Why not hold all the conventions at once? No pent-up Utica is Washing- ton, but a city of magnificent dis- tances. * K % x If the one-way streets become per- manent the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Assoclation purposes to estab- h free bus lines to cover the barred district and bring in thelr customers. There are some city planners who persist in belleving that an elevated promenade over the middle of the street would relieve the congested regious more effectively by releasing the present sidewalks and broadening the way for automobiles. Bridges would connect the clevated prom nade with second-story entrances to stores or to narrow stairs or in clined planes to ground-floor en trances. There would be no danger- ous street crossings, for the prome- nades would span them above all wheeled traffic. * x x % A humoroug writer. discussing sub- ways in New York says: “This town is built in lavers like a chocolate cake. put subways underground. Must be ashamed of them.” When citles be- gin building elevated promenades over the heads of automobile riders pedestrians will regain thelr pride and self-respect as they gaze down in a supercilious air at the folks who are so beneath them. e Washington can beat Siam. Here- after, this city will be famous for its salutatory twins. Loulse and Miles Flint are twin brother and sister. They are graduating together from Friend- ship Helghts High School, and they tied on their scholastic status, in the matter of the right deliver the salutatory It was proposed that they er a joint address. That is amese twins would have had if they had delivered any. The autho: planned that Louise open and her brother close. That all they know about the tradi- word ' for femininity. But rights to his sister, and assigned to deliver a patriotic lutary, but not salutatory. L A London physician asserts that any person who contracts any disease is to be condemned as a fool, rather than be pitied as a victim. If that is true, then environment cuts ino figure in causing disease, exposure lto floating germs in the air is not a H of disease, the eating of ptomaine even under apparentl; anitary tions, is an act of “folly” rather than one attributable to laxness of measures to guard the public. i s | addre. {ehould del { what th n Search for Pocahontas’ Bones Draws Editorial Criticisms. - When Edward Page Gaston, Chi- of many long dead folk of Grave- send, England, in a search for the re- mains of Virginla's own prince fair Pocahontas, he started comment {not only among the frate ¢ [ { that village but in many American | And some of the | i newspaper offices. editors are as sharp in their criticism !as the English. & With few exceptions, Amlerican | editors think Gaston’s activities were deserving of protest. Even in the ©Ola Dominion, where Pocahontas iplayed diplomat for the first per- ! manent English settlers in her father Powhatan's court, and where one might expect to find approval of there is disapproval. There seems to be some justice in the protests * ¢ ¢ against the arch for the bones of the American ndian princess. Pocahontas,” the Lynchburg Advance asserts. “Vir- ginia could hardly expect a protracted search of graves in England in an effort to find the bones.” “What seems to be the most utterly foolish undertaking of the present century is the search for the body of Pocahontas,” declares the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. _“Foolish, because there is but one chance in a million of finding it or of being sure of its identity when found.” Massachusetts, which has always been a friendly rival of Virginia his- torically, goes further and revives cartain old questions relative to Poca- hontas herself. “The story of her saving the life of Capt. John Smith Is seriously doubted, the Boston Transcript points out, and proceeds to say “it is now rather hard to find a Virginian—to say nothing of Pennsylvanians, Ohioans, {Indianans and Californians—who does not claim_ descent from Poca- hontas.” Gaston’s exhumations are scored by the Boston Post, which sees in them “an ill-advised disturbance of the English dead, for no good what- socv And says the Boston Herald, “the excavations in England * ¢ ¢ are likely to bring on once again the many controversies between those who want embroidered history and those who want the plain facts.” Now whatsof Chicago, of which metropolis Archeologist Gaston is said to be a native? The Evening Post has spoken: “We agree with the honorable foreign secretary, Lord Curzon, that the Chicago gentleman might be engaged in better business * '« « If the spades of the delver: finally turn up bones which somebody declares on his doctor's oath were part of Pocahontas' framework, the instant sequel will be the starting of a row @s to whether it is or lsn't a plece of Pocahontas, and the row never will be settled satisfactorily.” Other editors discuss the matter from various angles. There would be nothing gained in_bringing her body here, says the Milwaukee Journal, “for Pocahontas * * * lives on in the minds of Americans.” “Let Po- cahontas rest” suggests the New York Herald én an editorial caption. “It is creditable to the good folk of Gravesend that they should evidence their sense of outrage,” the Charles ton (S. C.) Post declares. Body. snatching’ It is_rightly called, the Providence Tribune. The Utica Observer-Dispatch can't understand how anybody can be in- terested in such a search. Of course, ic: it admits. it would be a proud thing It is impossible to tell why we | | cago archeologist, disturbed the bones | of skull hunting” a “fad. itizens of | den out of town on a rafl.” a move to return her bones to Amer- | BY PAUL V. COLLINS. The charge that disease {s contracted only by “fools” assumes that all mew have equal advantages for guarding against germs, and that public servani. officials charged with safeguarding tn, public against germs, are performing their duties with ideal efficiency. Sanitation is much farther a vanced in America than in any ot er country in the world. Yet peopls do become infected with disease germs, even with the best of pre. cautions. Dr. Willlam_C. Fowlor, health officer of the District, an- nounces that measures are redoubling 1'to protect health through extra care in inspecting food during the hot weather. All establishments han- dling meats or other foods are being closely inspected. Restaurants, bak- eries.'ice cream and soda stands are watched. Not less than 2,000 in- spections are made weekly. Intel- ligent citizens—rnot “fools”—have a special duty to perform in co-operat- ing with the Health Department by notifying the heaith officer when- ever they see “fools" careless as to cleanliness and other forms of sani- tation. This is everybody's duty. % Pasteur demonstrated that there 18 no such thing as spontaneous de- velopment of germs in foods that aro once pure and then kept sealed Germs float in the air and quickly ifind thelr way into open milk bottles or other food contafners. There they quickly multiply and fermentation results. If the germs are barred out Lot sealed vessels fermentation is im- possible, provided none have been in- olosed before the sealing. * * k X Market quotations show that the price of pork has fallen 80 low that it is back to pre-war basis. Seven- teen Piggly Wiggly stores in Vir ginia were sold last week witho a squeal from the buyer any lou or than what one pig under a gar would have made a year or two ag i e % Congress passes all federal law: Such laws require a majority of botn branches of Congress, and the ap- proval of the President. The Presi- ! dent by, and with the consent of the {'Senate (without the House), makes {treaties with forelgn natlons, and these treaties become the suprem: law of our land, so far as they go. As such they are above the laws passed by the whole Congress. becomes interesting under some cir- cumstances, in case the treaty cir- cumvents the laws of Congress, based upon an amendment adopted by more than three-fourths of the states. The combination of circumstances is with- out precedent. It makes precedent * %k X 3k The statement that men have been “burned 2t the stake for saying that the earth is round and revolved about the sun” 1s not historically and liter- ally exact. It is substantially true that men have been persecuted severe- ly for so saying, and the persecution has been sanctioned by clerical influ- | ences, actuated by the bellef that onl- by suppressing such progressive sclence could the truths of religion be maintained. This was doubtless the case when Galileo was haled before the quisition (see Encyclopaedia Britanni- !ca, volume X), threatened with the tor- !ture unless he recanted, and finally sentenced to prison and required to recite certain penitential psalms every week for three years. Later he was paroled. under restrictions continuing the rest of his life. No one today questions the scientific truth for which |he was thus persecuted. Galileo was | “condemned as vehemently suspected of heresy,” and although he submitted to recantation, he was sentenced by the inquisition to prison during the pleasure of the tribunal. The essential point is that charges of heresy made !against advanced science did not begir {with Mr. Bryan's skepticism of evolu- tion. Men have been burned at the | stake for heresy, but probably not for the_alleged heresy of science see ingly contradictory of the Bible. Im prisonment and persecution have bee: the extreme penalty of advanced science. (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.) EDITORIAL DIGEST | to bring the bones back, “but whether | the movement would amount to very [ much is a question.” The Oklahoma | City Oklahoman calls “this business And “had | the same thing been attempted in an | American cemetery,” the Burlington , the | (Iowa) Gazette believes, “it is quite probable the highbrows would be rid- “Nothing could be gained by disin- terring_her bones,” says the Ne: York World. Indeed, in the opinion | of the Charleston (W. Va.) Mail, “one cannot regret that those who were searching * * failed to find them.” The Savannah Press draws a lesson from the episode: “Archeologists, | zoologists, cranks and irresponsibles, |it seems to , are being allowed |to take a lot of liberties with the dead these days. We are losing sacred |regard for a lot of things in this | world, and loss of respect for the dead secems to be prominent among our other failings.” But the story is not vet told. Here' | the New York Post, which says, “it | would be fitting to have her grave | at Jamestown.” pointing out, howeve | that it is much more dificult to find | and identify her bones than it was to |find and identify the body of John | Paul Jones, also buried abroad. A {the New Haven Register savs. { “Americans who are fond of tra- | dition cannot but share with Edward | Page Gaston his disappointment at !not finding the bones of Pocahontas where he expected to find them at Gravesend.” It is possible, that paper continues, that the critics who all along have doybted that she saved Capt. John Smit¥'s life “will now be- come bold, perhaps, to deny that Po- cahontas existed at all. Pointing to_the outburst of protest from the English, who recently breathlessly followed the exploits of Lord Carnarvon_at Tutankhamen's tomb, the New York Times asserts “the rude cisatlantic, inclined to im- partiality between England al Egypt, and feeling that our home town girl is as important as Egypt's king, will probably hold that Gaston and Carnarvon must stand or fall to- gether,” and concludes “what prob- |ably gets under their (the English) ekins is the imputation that England ike Egypt, is a played-out country, fit only for the digging of arche- ologists.” | | . Objects to Making Fetish Out of Flag To the Editor of The Star: y This agitation about the “proper’ use of the flag should, in my opinion. cease. The idea that the flag must be treated as we would treat our grandmother's daguerrotype is going a bit too far. Whenever the agita- tors get things to the point that we cannot use the flag as a patriotic decoration in any way we see fit, and when they succeed in making th flag a fetish and object for supersti- tious worship, true respect and affec- tion for the emblem will disappear. 1f_the flag is to continue to stand for liberty, let us begin with liberty to use the flag when and where we please, 5o long as it is not commer- cialized. As a veteran of the civil war I fought for this flag and for what it stands for, three years and six months. In my opinion the deco- rations on the Post Office Department and elsewhere were beautiful and ap- propriate. We do not need a board of censors to eduut: us into respect for the pational emblem. ? JOSEPH MITCHELL. Thai'®es