Evening Star Newspaper, June 21, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......June 21, 1823 .Editor THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsyivania Ave. e e roue: "Handine. $ ower. : Furopean Office: 16 Regent St.. London, Evgland. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, Ju delivered by carriers within the city ot 40 cents ails only, 45 cents per month: Sunday only. 20 cents per month. Or- dera may be sent by mail, or telephone Main £000. Collection fs made by carriers at end of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Marylsnd and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., Datly only.. Sunday only. All Other States. Datly and Sunday..1 vr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Dafly only. $7.00; 1 mo., 80c Sunday only Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is excinstvely entitled 10 the ‘nme for repiblication of all news [rtqhes credited to'it or mot ofherwise credite o this aper and almo fhe local news pub: lshed “herein. “All “rights of 'publication of special dispatches herein The Rent Commission. President Harding, before leaving Washington yesterday, appointed three new members of the Rent Com- mission of the District of Columbia and reappointed two of the old mem- hers, making a commission of five, in- stead of three. His action was taken thirteen months, almost to a day, after the law extending the life of the Rent Commission had been en- acted and approximately eleven months before that law expires. With the augmented membership of the commission, the work of settling disputes over rents is expected to move rapidly forward. A vast amount of building for residential purposes has been under way in Washington in the last year or two. The Capital city has gone a long way toward catching up in the matter of home building, which was practically at a standstill during the war period. The law of supply and demand may step in to settle the rent question, so far as the tenants are concerned. If the supply is such as to bring about competition, forcing rents downward, landlords who have op- posed the Rent Commission in the cays of the shortage may be desirous of having the commission continued t0 see that they obtain a fair rental for their properties. The boot would weakness adhering to them. It is now pointed out-by conservative fac- tors In New York that this statement is calculated, followed so quickly by the announcement of another failure, to weaken public confidence in the stock exchange, perhaps causing a withdrawal of support and patronage, a heavy shrinkage in the volume of b;usiness and possibly the beginning of a period of stringency. These failures are to be differen- tiated distinctly from those others that took place some months ago, one of which led to a trial just culminat- ing i confession and sentence of the principals. The earlier failures were those of strictly brokerage houses of a questionable sort, commonly called “‘bucket shops.” The firms that have Jjust failed, members of the New York Stock Exchange, were in effect private banks, with large brokerage connec- tions. It is an interesting fact worthy of note that in all likelihood if the danger of fallure in the second case had been recognized a few hours earlier it could have been averted. A |member of the Morgan firm was calied on Tuesday night by telephone, being reached after several attempts at a quarter to 12 o'clock. He told the representatives of the firm that it ‘was too late to do anything then, but suggested that they “lay the picture” before him the next morning at 10 o'clock. Before that arrived it was too late, as the line of certification had been exhausted and could not be renewed. Probably with two hours more in which to operate the credit would have been covered and the fail- ure averted. There is nothing in these fallures to indicate an unsound condition of domestic finance. They do, however, suggest that financial houses with heavy German holdings and interests are in a measure of danger. German securities are not sufficiently fluid to be safe holding. With the mark fall- ing as it is now to the point of van- ishment on the foreign exchange, and with the German government in an insecure position generally, financial associations with that country are to be rated as liabilities, rather than as- sets, for any financial institution. —————————— On Guard. Secretary of War Weeks, in @ notable address delivered yesterday at the commencement exercises of Brown University, made a vigorous {drive against agitators who suggest { nostrums for the ills of the hody { politic and again came valiantly to | the defense of the system of indirect ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, -D. .C.. THURSDAY, JUNE ground by this extra work in vacation iime. Some are inspired by ambition to get along faster in their studies the sooner *‘to seek their fortune” in the big world. Mapy adults will feel a sense of regret that some children push along in.their schooling and clip short vacation time, but children and their parents have problems and views of their own. The summer school has come to have an important place in the school system and is justified by the needs of the time. A great many Washington schoel children will not leave town “during | the heated term,” as we used to say, but with the trolleys and the autos the countryis very near for day trips. Even in the city there are comforts for children in summer. The bathing beach, the river park and the big hill and forest park of Rock Creek and other places are open to them. With text books closed it is not believed that any normal boy or girl will suffer for lack of entertainment. Children are very resourceful in keeping off that depressing thing which goes by the name of “‘ennui.” It is hoped that ! the summer of ‘1823, which promises or threatens to be a hot one, will be a bappy time for the children of the schools and that as many as possible will go deep into the country and make the acquaintance of wild tiees, wild berrfes, cows, colts, pigs and | chickens, and build up a fund of in- formation which will keep them talk- ing of their experiences almost until next vacation time comes around. B — A Freak Summer. This is going to be a strange sum- mer, with odd things happening, one of those summers of mystery and freaks of nature that occur once in a blue moon. Here is Etna in eruption | { and devastating enormous areas With-1, ., . e western country view with | WAy home for consultation with thelr out taking a single human life. And there are strange weather happenings, too, tremendously high temperatures and low ones close at hand. Now West Virginia turns in a freak with an invasion of beetles hitherto un- known. The pest is a hard-shelled insect about the size of a coffee bean. It not only devours the foliage and thé green fruit in the orchards, but it actually eats the chickens alive. Local entomologists have attacked them with paris green, arsenate of lead, and even hoiling water, without effect. Every little while one of these queer | summers of combination woes and | freaks occurs. Sometimes the mis- | fortunes run in streaks, as a series | | the end of July. 'WASHIN ; BY FREDERIC Mr. Harding loves to talk shop— newspaper shop—and when he's not unraveling Alaskan tangles with Scott C. Bone at the Juneau White House, President and governor are bound to drift into the lingo of the composing room. Bone, being from Indiana, was preternaturally destined 0 be a literary person, and became a reporter at Indianapolls as soon as he became a man. Afterward he was an editor in Washington and Seattle. While conducting a paper in the Washington state metropolis, Bone was chairman of the Alaska bureau of the local chamBer of com- merce. His interest ‘in our great northwestern colony dates frem those activities. % ok koW Insiders ave convinced there was method in Hiram Johngon's prolonga- tion of his sojourn in Europe until Originally he plan- ned to be back in May. It is sug- gested that the senator desired to be far from theascene while the Presi- dent's party s in Cull!ornfot s0 much on Mr. Harding’'s accofintjas on aceount of Herbert l.loo\t'x. Hoover and Johnson waste no affection on each other. As the Secretary of Com- merce {8 a member of the Harding ex- pedition, Johnson natu 1v would not feel that California was comfortably big enough for both of them at the same time. This observer learns that a well known Pacific coast lawyer who was in Washington for Shrine veek announced his jintention of “bringing Hoover and Johnson to- gether” Whether he means in a drawing room or a twenty-four-foot ring is not clear. P Democr: who will have their cars close to the ground for rever- berations of the presidential swing reminiscent satisfaction the fact that Mr. Harding is billed to speak at Hutchinson, Kan. They've hauled down their political diary for 1911, found that Willlam Howard Taft spoke at Hutchinson on a pre-election | vear swing, and are purringly opin- {ing that history ix on the verge of repeating itself. The wish is prob- ably father to the Hull thought * & Viscount Birkenhead, lord high chancellor of Great Brit ain. who will be the foreign “sta at next month's Institute of Politics formerly Von Kuhlmann, Fomenter of War, GTON OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE in Willlamstown, Mass., is one of David Lloyd George's cronies. To- gether with Winston Churchill, Birk- enhend and “L. G.” constituted an in- separable war-time trio known as “The Three Musketeers.” Birkenhead became lord chancelfor at the un- precedented age of forty-seven, the youngest lawyer ever to galn the cov- eted woolsack. Before becoming a peer, he was known popularly as “Freddie” Smith. He chose Birken- head as a title by way of tribute to the famous Liverpool dock district which he represented in parliament. YLord Birkenhead visited America dur- ing the war and came a cropper with @ newspaper view in which he spoke {not wisely but too frankly. He fis |a statuesque Englishman of the Gib- | son-man type, a gifted speaker, and just fiftyeone years old. Birkenhead is now taking an active part in Brit- ain’s campalgn for preparedness in | tne atr. * ok kK Tammany Hall election prophets, claiming twenty-two states and a | majority In the electoral college for {a wet democratic presidential candl- | date, “list North Carolina among the | certainties. Here's a public advertise- | ment inserted the other day in a | Charlotte, N. C., newspaper by the | president of a building and loan | assoeiation over his signature: | “Gov."Smith made a fatal mistake {for himself, his atate, his party. Thanks to President Harding and his party we're going to be dry, very dry. This kid has voted the democratic | ticket for forty-one years, but if his | party and its leader are not dry, | clean-cut and unmistakably, his tiny ballot will desert, and thousands of others who place home above politics and constitutional government above | bootleggers and rum- ners are | sailing under like colo: | * ¥ % ¥ | The British cotton trade delegates | recently in Washington are on the | home government and their princi- | pals. Meantime, Mr. Nixon, secretary of the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, | has remained behind, to act as a {1ink for the resumption of negotia- | tions with our Department of Agri- culture. The Liverpudiians and the | Mancestrians—that's what residents of Liverpool and Manchester, respec- tiv are called—found the United States government far more concilia- tory than they expected. Their fear that Liverpool's pre-eminence as the world's cotton center is in danger no longer haunts the Britishers’ souls. (Copyright, 1928.) The North Window By LEILA MECHLIN There are three exhibitions in New York which it will well pay any chance traveler to see and which fortunately will remain open the greater part of the summer. Away up at 156th street and Broadway there is an exhibition of American sculpture, arranged by the Natfonal ~Sculpture = Society, com- prising ‘some seven or eight hundred works. In the Grand Central station, up under the roof, there is an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Ameri- can artists, set forth under the auspices of a mew co-operative organization made up of artists and art patrons. At the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gth avenue and 82d street, there is a loa collection of paintings, furniture and art objects of the Italian Renaissance. Any one who passes through New York will be well repaid by stopping over and visiting these exhibitions, which are all of an extremely pleasurable character. * ook ok The sculpture exhibition is largely found out-of-doors, and thus takes on a uniqua character. The Hispanic Society’s muscum, the museum of the Numismatic Society, the Indian Museum and the new home of the American Academy of Arts and Letters prac- tically occupy the entire block between 155th and 156th streets, Broafiway and the next street running north and south. They have been built on the land as it lay, which was a bit hilly, and their grounds therefore slope upward from Broadway and drop down in terraces to 156th street. Here, amid excellent planting, many of the works in sculpture are shown. Others are to be found in the halls and galleries of the three as- soctations, the Indian Museum alone not being included 5 A good deal of the work, while ac- complished, meritorious and fairly correct, is obviously uninspired, but more than a fair proportion shows a real glint of genius, and a few startle with thelr evidence of Inspiration, with that subtle something which transcends definition but proclaims great art. Such is the bust of Pablo Casals by Brenda Putnam, the daugh- ter of the librarian of Congress, which is a superb work. The head is slightly turned to the left shoulder and thrown back, the eyes are closed, the lips slightly parted, but it is in- sistent with life. The lids almost seem to quiver, the lips to move. It is restrained, and vet intensely emotional—a superlative work, and one which sweeps the sensitlve ob- server off his feet. This is to be ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin Q. How many hospitals are there in Washington?—D. K. W. A. There are thirty-four hospitals and dispensarles in the city. . How many women belong to the District Chapter of the League of American Penwomen—C. G. A. This chapter has 280 members. Mrs. Harriet Hawley Locher is its newly elected president. Q. Was all the marble in the Washington Monument taken from the same quarry?—M. A. W. A. All the marble in the facing of the walls came from Beaver Dam Quarry, Baltimore county, Md. The n | slight difference in the color is due | to the fact that work rupted for over twenty exposure to the elements had affected the marble slightl: Q. —D. J. H. A. The government maintains a White House police force of thirty privates and three officers, at a cost of $59,000 per annum. Q. What is the correct way to eat a club sandwich?—E. C. A. A club sandwich should be eaten with knife and folk. When one has cut a small portion of toast, meat and lettuce, the knife should be placed to the right of the center of the plate and the fork should bLe used to convey the food to the mouth. was inter- J Q. What percentage of the whole is the negro population of the Dis trict of Columbia?—J. J. P. A. The negro population is only per cent of the total, or 109,366. Q. How does Turkish tobacco differ from American tobacco?—T. U. J A. Tobacco is native to America, and it is not known when nor how it was carried to Turkey. In the cen- turies ‘that it has been there, it has lost many of its American character- istics. It has a much smaller, thinner leaf, and a pungent, spicy taste. Q. Is it a fact that electric wires ru\n‘nixzc(hrough trees will kill them? A. The forest service says when electric wires come in contact with the follage or any part of trees the electricity will damage them seri- ously, and perhaps in time kill them. Q. What —M. A. A. Yellow wax is beeswax, a prod- uct obtained by melting and purifying the honeycomb of the bee. Q. Who said, —S. L. G. A. Laugh and Be Fat" is the title of & tract of John Taylor, published in 25.1 is yvellow wax made of? “laugh and be fat years and| Who guards the White House? Q. Name three important archaeo- logical discoveries—J. G. > A. The Rosetta Stone, found in 1787 | which bears a proclamation in hiero- | glyphics, demotic and Greek: the ex- |cavations at Thebes, which opened u ithe Ramesside and neighborin | periods, 1600-1000 B. C., and the tem ple library at Nippur. L. Q. When did Barnum start his cus, and what were the i |the’ Bailey who was later as | with him*—W. H. B. | A. Phineas Barnum established his “greatest show on earth” in 1 |James Anthony Eailey was later | sociated with him. | Q. What can be done to dissolve { fishhone lodged in the throat?— A M. P. | "A. It 1t cannot be removed, suckine lemons will probably dissolve it. Q | e How do the great universities | rank in endowment?—D. C. D. A. Harvard has the largest endow- | ment. then Columbia, Yale, Chic !and Leland Stanford. Q. | try use electric lights?—F. | A. It is estimated that !of ‘the homes in America | trically wired. | Q. Have the Dardanelles been { ed on an international basis>—M | A. The Dardanelles are at pr open on an international basis |Ing~ the Lausanne conferenc: question of Turkish control o | straits came up and on Decembor 1922, the principle of free passazc o { merchant ships and of warships. un | der certain restrictions, was accente | by both the allicd and Turkish de | egates. The final agreement, how- ver, was not reached until December 20, the latter plan including the set- ting up of an internatic s commission. How many homes in this « [ S are Dur- he 8 Q. Which is the higher honor. congressional medal or the Br Victoria cross?—J. D. S. A. The congressional medal of hon- or and the British Victoria cross are | both awarded for conspicuous brav Each is the highest honor of the k that can be awarded, in its cwrg country and there can be no question of comparison between them. sh | | Q. How old s the Navy Corps?—J. D. G. A N Engineer Corps w created by act of Congress | while 2 similar act in 1564 e ed a course of instruction for engineers at the Naval Academy Engine | (Send your questions to The Information Bureau, ¥. J. Haskins | director, at 1220 North Capitol street | Write plainly and inclose 2 cents | stamps for return postage. Lo use the telephone.) Sta e Divorced by Rich German VWife CAPITAL KEYNOTES jof floods or a succession of.tornadoes. found in the Hispanic Museum, then be on the other leg. The Rent Commission was created during a time of stress, when homes of any kind were hard to find afd prices had mounted. in many in- stances, to gross profiteering heights. The commission rendered a distinct service to the community. The con- stitutionality of the was upheld by the Supreme Court. Whether the commission will die at its appointed time, May 22, 1924, re- mains to be seen. Undoubtedly efforts will be made in some have the commission given a perma. nent status. On the other hand, it will be pointed out that the commis- sion has served its purpose; that, with a full supply of homes available, there 18 no longer necessity for maintaining this commission at the expense of the taxpayvers, but that the right of pri- vate contract, without governmental | interference, be. restored. | The Marion Star. President Harding's sale of the con- trolling interest in the Marion Star, Just announced, is doubtless dictated | by consideration of the need to con-| centrate all his energies and attention | upon his present exacting job. Un-| doubtedly he relinquished his control | of the paper with deep regret. He had | held it for thirty-nine years. No man | lets go of a business in which he has | been the leader and director for four decades, and which is still a prosper- ous and profitable enterprise, without | a wrench. The fact that from the| editorship of the Marion Star Mr.| Harding has passed through the United States Senate to the i dency has not & the work that was once his mainstay and for a long time his sole occupa- ‘tion. Presumably the President’s re-! Jinquishment of control was dictated | by the desire to see the newspaper that was his for so long continue in prosperity and strength, and a feeling that it could be so maintained only by putting it into the hands of those who could devote themselves directly to it without distraction. 1 The affection of a newspaper owner | for the journal that he has made, or | that has made him, cannot be meas- ured in terms of profit or substantial It is a parental affection | h is heyond definition. Therefore | it is gratifying to find Mr, .Harding now, while letting go the control of | his paper, holding an interest in it} and retaining, as it is stated, an edi- | torial connection with it, an interest ' and a connection which will probably | continue throughout his life. { | | Stamboulisky wanted to be Kking. He attained the fate of many a mod- ern monarch, if not the honors. Financial Failures. Twice within a week large bro- kerage and privaté bankihg firms, members of the New York Stock Ex-| change, have failed.. One closed its doors last Saturday and the other yesterday. Both of them, it is be. lieved, have been embarrassed by their dealings in German securities. Roth had close German connections. The second house to fail was for a time under restraint during the war, under the “trading with the enemy” | act. . These fajlures do not necessarily involve heavy losses, if any. They are not particularly significant in themselves, save through the coinci- dence of close occurrence. Indeed, the second failure is attributed in part to the first. But an unfortunate effect has heen produced by the fact that on Tuesday President Cromwell of the New York Stock Exchange made an official statement of reas- surance to the effect that investiga- tion of several names touched by rumor—that of the firm faillng ves. terday being one of them, though not mentioned—showed no euspicion of | { law creating it | quarters to | | presidential nominations, he said: I the part of malcontents and by the ifully demonstrated the wisdom of representative democracy which now prevails in the United States. Secre- | tary Weeks, well grounded in the {principles of the fathers, looks askance at and deprecates the tend- encies of the times toward radicalism and so-called reforms, and, although philosopher that he is, he recognizes that they are not new to this age, [ generation or country. “Every age, he said, ““has had its ultra-modernis: in political science, its violent cr its destructionists, its suggested cure- alls.” Recognition of that fact, however, Secretary Weeks contended, does. not | warrant abatement of the necessity of being vigilant against the spread- {ing of pernicious doctrines by the agi- tators of our times, He sces srave menace in the expansion of the pri- mary system in nominations. He contended that our experience with the primaries thus far “has improved neither the quality of our government nor the quality of our public serv- ants.” Viewing the possibility of the extension of the primary system to b 2 is very easy to understand how a man of some personal popularity, who possibly has been brought to the fa- vorable attention of the public through some personal act or business activ- ity, might be nominated for the presi- dency, although he might not possess one qualification necessary for that great office.” i | ens. Secretary Weeks warned his hear- ers that the system of government | inherited from the American fore- | fathers is being endangered and weak- | ened by the attempts at change nnl i 1.1 political inertia of believers in Ameri- can representative government. It is that inertia which may be truly sald to be the most dangerous phase of existing conditions; the indifference of the electorate who know better, who are sound in their beliefs, and vet fail to exert themselves In re- sistance to the maicontents. Secretary Weeks never uttered a truer word when he said, ““History has those rather conservative methods and policies which have guided the nation since 177 It is devolvent upon those who believe with him in that statement to' be on guard against attempted impairment of the system. R e ——— Reports vary as to the atate of Lenin’s health. While the strain of & | political career in Russta is deplet- ing, its end is not necessarily disas- trous. In this case the patient can no doubt call in the doctor with the equanimity of & man who has lald something by for a rainy day. —————— A pugilist weighing 110 pounds calls himeelf “Pancho Villa." The old Mexican bandit must laugh when he hears of a man of this size, using only his fists, claiming recognition as a fighter. ———— German finance has shown an oblig- ing determination to put paper marks within the reach of the lowest bidder. School Books Closed. This is the great annual playtime of the children. Tt is vacation! It is the time for visiting cousins in the country and getting information about swimming holes in the creeks and about cows, chickens and otheér things. It is the time for getting memories ‘which will still be fresh when the boys and girls grow old. The school year of the District public schools has closed and 65,000 children are free from lessons and school routine for three months., Some children, and really quite a large number of them, will enter the summer schools which open next month. Various motives in- epire these children. Some fell behind in thelr work ‘during the- regular school term and will try to cover the Then, again, sunstrokes hecome com- mon or peculiar pests like this West Virginia visitation appear suddeni without any known cause. Probably in this particular case some bug pert will classify this bad bee nd prescribe a lethal* dose that will save the West Virginia -orchards and chick- It will be interesting meanwhile a little about those to know chickens. ———————————— When Mussolini gets through with his program of election reforms he may leave a situation in which the ballot, without wielding any definite influence, may be useful in disclosing the political bias of the individual voter. more ———— Shocking loss of life through motor accidents over the week end may call for the revival of gasolineless Sun- days, through motives not of war economy, but of public safety. —_————————— Occasionally other nations than Ger- many develop statesmen who template debt with certain leaninzs toward a passive resistance policy. —_————————— Another objection to the bootlegger lies in tha fact that he has conspic- uously asserted himself among the ultra-reckless motorists. on- ————— Kansas does not propose to allow her industrial relations to prolong a family quarrel in the United States Supreme Court. —_————— No suggestions have yet been for- mulated by Col. Bryan for submitting the question of evolution to a, vote of the people. —————— ‘The hope that wars will cease has not grown strong enough to discour- age the inventors of military ma- chinery. ———————— Coast resorts would be grateful if a twelve-mile limit could be establish- ed on the inland side for the mos- quitos. Trade notes indicate that this year's bucket-shopping has been even more expensive than usual. —_—————— SHOOTING STARS. - BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. As It Sometimes Happens. He takes two:weeks’ vacation, He starts away with glee. When he gets back he is so tired, He's glad it wasn't three. Exonerated. It ain't my fault If things go wrong; I've labored hard and labored long To show our congressmen the way Our nation’s troubles to allay. I've jwritten letters by the ton; " The public speaking that I've done, If melted down right now, I guess, ‘Would make a cyclone—nothing less. !1 didn't act a.gelfish part, For I, with hand upon my heart, Can say I never got a cent For helping run the government. In fact, my patriotic cares Have balked my personal affairs, So with clear conscience I proclaim If things go wrong I'm not to blame. The Locusts’ Opinion. Though man declares he owns the earth On which his days are spent, The locust comes and eats his fill, And never pays a cent. And then the locust sits on high Within the orchard tres And sings, “This creature they call man - ‘Was made to work for me.* BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Richard von Kuhlmann h important and sinister a T | during the great war, but also in the i various cpisodes which brought it about jand which, since its conclusion. have s played so peace, that the news of his divorce at Berlin is not without passing interess Of obscure origin, son of a petty Ger- an raliroad official on the Turkish railrozds in Anatoli; and a native of Constantinople, he is but little over Afty vears of age, and has been in furn min- ister of foreign affairs at Berlin, charge d'affatres and counselor of embassy in jLondon and am saGor at Stamboul, also minister pienipotentlary at The Hague, where he is still accredited’ as envoy to this day. He was brought up in an atmosphefe of Teutonic-Levan- tine intrigue at Stamboul, attracted the attention of the then German ambassa- dor, the late Baron Marschal von Bieb- Jerstein, and also of Arthur yon Gwinner, {at that time head of all German rail- { road and financial undertakings in Tur- |key, and afterward chief of the {De sche Bank in Berlin, and, thanks to | their interest and backing, was ap- {pointed to the department i amair n the W - Strasse. where he won the ex-Kaiser's good will, and, !incidentally, rapla promotion. Indeed, it as through the emperor's favor of the Jatter that he was appointed counselor of the German embassy in London, and iwas able to secure the hand in marriage Baroness Margaret von daughter and heiress of the great maxn iron-master, Hugo von Stumm. iwas enobled on the occasion of his wed- ding. A |12 Bcitien government has in fts possession evidence that Von Kuhimann :s the instigator of the German in- trigues in Ireland in the early part of | the summer of 1914, which had for their iobject the fomentmg of trouble be- | tween the nationalists and the Ulster- ites. 1t speaks well for the native i H 1 shrewdness of the Irish peasantry that they should have been alive to the purpose of these Mmaneuvers and should -have declined to play the Kuhlmann game. He exaggerated the resulte . which he wrongly. believed himsel? to have achieved, to such an extent in his secret reports to the kaiser, that he convinced him that, owing to the acute nature of the dis- sensions between the people of Ulster and the nationalists in ireland. civil war was certain to break out in the late summer or autumn of 1914, while he was equally positive In his assur- ances that the British army wae in a state of complete disaffection, deriv- ing his belief from the military crisis which, in May. 1914, led to the retire- ment of Gen. John Seely from the sec- retaryship of state for war and the retirement of Field Marshal Lord French from the army council. Von Kuhlmann insisted that, by reason_ of this combination of circumstances, Great Britain was rendered powerless to participate in any European war. The kaiser and his advisers believed Von Kuhlmann. Had they dreame ! that Great Britain would join in the Jatruseie in behalk of France and Bel- gium and that she would have been {able to put an army of 5,000,000 men {in the field, Germany would never have ventured to precipitate the great international conflagration, and peace would have been preserved. * £ x % i Forced to quit England, von Kuhl- !mann was transferred to Constanti- nople, where he devoted his attention to the organization of a German press bureau for the communication of rews of a distinetly Teutonic flavor to the Ottoman publications, and to the people generally. - Thanks to this, and to his ingenious device in pre- venting authentic information from reaching the Turks, he managed to convince them that Germany and Austria had been victorious all along the line, that Russia was being. de- feated everywhere, that Great Brit- ain's fleet had been destroyed and that. Emperor Willlam had already entered Paris in triumph. Had it not been for these fairy tales and for the ny'cusu with which he inspired the Turks 7hit the cause of the entente ! was ho,.iess, they would never have thrown' in their iot with what they believed to_be a wholly victorious Germany. Moreover. von Kuhlmann was largely instrumental in engineer- ing the_ totally unprovoked attack by Foreigners will always be welcome in the -United States to drink the waters of freedom. but they must subscribe to the. obligations .of Amer- fean citizenship. —~PRESIDENT HARDING. The drift towdd pure democracy which, once achieved, no nation sur- vies, is in my judgment the most ominous = poseibility that threatens our representative government today. —MAJ. GEN. JAMES HARBORD. . not only | proved obstacles to the restoration of | of foreign | | | the German cruisers, the Goeben and the Bresfau, flying the Turkish flag, but with officers and crews composed entirely of men of the imperial Ger- man ravy, on unfortified and defense- less Russian towns on the Black sea, which precipitated the Ottoman empire into the war. During - the war von Kuhlmann |lost his enormously wealthy wife, who left him with several children !\'et only a few weeks later, while filling the position of minister of foreign affairs at Berlin, he was 8o savagely attacked in the reichstag at Berlin and in the German press {on the score’of his flagrant and public | immoralities at a conference which | had just taken place at Bucharest a | week previously that popular ciamor, i and especially the indignation of the late empress, compelled Chancellor von Hertling to insist upon his resignation. Two_ winters ago he managed, de- spite his matrimonial record, to se- cure the hand of another enormouely | wealthy heiress, namely, that of the {only child of the principal coal mag- rate in_Germany, Fritz von Fried- lander-Fuld She had heen engaged hefore the war to Prince Alexander { Romanofsky. fiftth Duke of Leuchten- {berg, 1 member of the imperial Rus- | sian femily. Her father announced at the time that he would give her a | {dowry of $15,000.000. But Emperor | i Nicholas would only give his consent o the union on the condition that it was of a -morganatic character, or else that Prince George relinquiched his honors and titles to his younger brother, Sergius, descending to the rank of the ordinary nobility. He declared that he would not tolerate under any other conditions the mar- riage of a member of his family to a daughter of the Jewish race. Conse- afl;amly‘ the engagement was broken o * ok ok % Then Marie von Friedlander mar- ried the Hon. John Freeman Mitford, a younger son of the late Lord Redesdale, in January, 1914, most of the members of the imperial family at Berlin being present at the wed- ding. Jack Mitford was a strikingly handsome man, who served with dis- tinction as an officer of the - royal horse guards'during the war. But by the time the honeymoon was over and the wedding trip completed the newly married couple had parted company, Jack Mitford returning to England, making sacrilice of all the colossal fortune that had been placed within his reach by the marriage and declining to return to his bride, who, on June 18, 1914, brought a -suit in the German courts against him on the ground of “incompatibility, bearable selfishness” and “masculine indolence.” The outbreak of the war immediately afterward rendered it impossible ‘for Jack Mitford to con- test the charges. But after the lady had taken advantage of the decree which she had thus obtained in Ber- 'lin to contract in March, 1920, a mar- riage with Richard von Kuhlmann, he sued as an Englishman, in the English courts, " his wife on the charge of bigamy and adultery with von Kuhlmann. ~He, however, was non-suited on the ground that, his marridge having been contracted in Germany, where he was domiclled at the time, the German courts had suf- ficient jurisdiction to annul the union on charges that, while admissible in Germany, would not be recognized in’ English jurisprudence. Last win- ter Mme. von Kuhlmann, nee. Fuld, bore von Kuhlmann a son to supple- ment the family left to him DBy kKis first wife. Now the fair, lady, whose good looks are undeniable, but whose temper is said to be extraordinarily lr{ll\& is about to embark upon a third matrimonial venture, this time with voung Max von _Goldschmidt Rothschild, ' grandson of the _late Baron Wiiliam Rothschild of “Franl fort-on-the-Main, - whose wife s such an intimate friénd of old Prin- cess Bismarck. _ Young . Goldschmidt Rothschild was ‘attached to the Ger- man embassy. In London in an hon- orary capa ti. in the year immedi- ately precedlfig' the great war, and as such assaclatéd with von Kuhl- mann. But he frequented by prefer- ence the young -Grand Duke of Meck- lenburg-Strelitz, * who afterward com- mitted suioclde, or else was mys- teriously murdered in Germany dur- ing the war, and spent much money in 'reckless hospitality In the main- tenance of steam yachts, race horses and country houses in England, without making much social headway and rather kept at a distance by the English Rothschilds.: . 3 ! Gov. Smith has heard. from those who ledn on the bar and blow off the foam, but he has not yet heard from the women whose husbands wasted at the saloon tho money that belonged to-the family. —WM. JENNINGS BRYAN. One obstacle in the way of par- ticipation in the league is that to the average-American foreign-policy means something political instead -of economical. ISAAC MARCOSSON. {linis, all madonnas, and wherein also is shown a collection of drawings by sculptors, . which evi- dence that the art of modeling is an all-around art, requiring the subtlest draftsmanship as well as feeling for form. It was a happy thought, ex- hibiting these drawings in conjun tion with the works in the round. T How extremely modern, American and up-to-date is the idea of main- taining a salesroom for paintings and sculpture of the best sort by cotemporary artists under the roof of a great metropolitan rallroad sta- tion! If you have an hour to wait between trains, step into the Vander- bilt avenue corridor, summbn the genie of the elevator and be lifted above the trains, above the hurry of traffic coming and going. partings and greetings, and find _vourself trans- lated into an atmosphere of leisure and quiet and art. ‘From the minute you step into the entrance vestibule you will find youreelf in another world. One gallery opens out of another and each is arranged accord- ing to the best art of display of a modern museum—small galleries well lighted, pictures hung with plenty of space on wall charmingly tinted, furniture. plants, a little fountain with tinkling water. And the pictures that are shown are of the best—robust works by American artists who have a vision, | landscapes and figures, pictures of seashore d mounta woods and open fie winter and summer, charmingly arranged. Some are high- priced, but one whole gallery—and it is not the least attractive—con-| tains moderate-sized pictures, suita- ble for the home, by artists whose names are all well kpown, but any one of which is procurable at $250. ‘What a temptation to buy while one waits, to add a little picture to the luggage waiting below! A tempta- tion which, it is understood, a good many have not resisted. Bui what a novel idea! * ok x K | The Italian Renaissance exhibition | at the Metropolitan Museum recalls | Florence and Venice and ‘the ‘great days that once were. It also brings to mind the wealth of American’ pri-| vate collections, the increasing num- | Dber of princely €ollectors on this side | of the sea. The pictures are all- by great masters, but are not the most important portion of the exhibition, which includes furniture, textilé sculpture, printsand books, all charm- ingly set’ forth. From the Morgan collection has} come a portralt of Giovanna Torna- buoni by Ghirlandaio that bears a most_gallant Inscription, which, being translated. reads as follows: “Art, | could'st thou but portray character | and the mind, there then would be in | all the world no picture more beauti- ! ful than thi From the Kahn collection is a por- tralt by Botticelll of Giuliano dej Medfci, the younger son of Piero_di Cosimd, who was noted for- his knightly prowess and, also, so the catalogue tells us, for his ‘devotion 1o Simonetta Vespucel, whose beaut the courtly poets of the time ex There is a “Portrait of a Bo | Moroni, who is xo well represented in the National Gallery, lsondon, thel painter of the tailor with his shears. The “Boy”.1s niow in the C. C. Still- There are three Bel- each owned by a different collector. There is a charming Carpaccfo—a portrait of a Man in Acmor, which, was once in the collection of the-Vernon Went- worthe, . but is now owned and lent by Mr. and Mrs. Otto H. Kahn. And with these paintings.dre shown sculpturs-of the period, “works by Della Robbla, Rossellino, and others, and with them chests and cupboards and cabinets and chairs aswere used by thoBe whose pOrtraits are painted and modeled. Further con tributing to the ploture of the time are.examples of embroidery and tex- tiles, velvets, tapestry and majollc: ware, {lluminated manusecripts an: books of the period. e But how utterly foreign :thdse works_are to our cotemporary life! Beautitul - tq . look _at, splendid _to Jearn from, admirable as examples, ‘but not ours nor of our day. * K k% Writing on “What Is Art?” in the ourrent number of the North Amer- jean Review, Mataichi Miva, a Jap- anese authority on the ancient art of the Far East, touches on’ the subject of collecting and protests azainst art collectors cornering the works of an individual artist. “Are you proud or ashamed,” he asks. “to own fifty Rembrandts, or one hundred works of Degae, or a roomful of black haw- | thorn or peachbloom porcelains, or of Rodin sculpture? Yes, if you are going to give them to the nation them you can be proud; but if you are go- ing to keep them Yourself, you should change your mind. We humans can- not live long—as art is long—but good will With Works of aFt may per: sist forever. The individual coflector should osll all kind® of art to be a real art oollector.” man collection. BY PAUL V. COLLINS The Natlonal Society of the United States Daughters of the War of 1512 is appealing to the District Commis- sioners for permission to erect a handsome bronze flagstaff, with the flag thereon, upon the new bridge :named in honor of Franeis Scott Key. The sccretary of the Commissioners, in reply to a letter written by the president of the~society, Mrs. Samuel Preston Davis, states that the bridge has not vet been delivered to the Commissioners by the United States engineers who are building it, until delivery is made September 12, no action can be taken on the so- clety's request. . The Daughters argue that i there are to be special dedicatory exercises upon the occasion of the delive the bridge, “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” should then grace it and be re- dedicated with it—not in the form of more deeorative flags, but with a permanent staff and an fimpressive token that “our flag is still there, The Key bridge without the flag would be remindful of what a French painter once said of a without water. ~ “A landscape with- out water,” said the artist, “is like a pretty girl without eyes” A Key bridge without “Old Glory” would be a barren desert. * ok kk The original flag which inspired Key's song during the British attack on Fort Henry September 12, 1814, is preserved in the Smithsonlan Insti- tution, and it is planned that patriotic socleties will deposit wreaths of flowers before it on the anniversary. The flag was presented by the gov- ernment to Col. Olmstead, command- er of the fort during the unsuccessful attack, and from him it found its per- manent home in the National Smith- €onfan Institution. It is fallen into tatters, but is carefully framed, un- der glass, and wlill remain for many decades one of the patriotic shrines of the country. * ko ok It is recognized as a great privi- lege to be an American citizen Alfens who desire that privilege must qualify for it by attaining a standard of civilization, morality and loyalty to good order. Because a man is a human is no more proof that he is env titled to share American rights and opportunities than it is for him to come into a private home and appro- priate the guest chamber without an ! invitation. * ok ok % ‘There is divergence of 6pinion as to what should be the American pol- fey toward aliens. Some interests would bar all immigration, to the end that laborers—skilled and unskilled— would grow scarcer and scarcer and wages would climb. Others, believing that Greater America needs population to develop its resources, providing it is the right kind of population, want to admit all law-abiding, industrious, healthy and intelligent immigrants that will come, intending to become American_ citi- zens, -sabscribing to the ideals of thelr adopted country. Such immi- grants are expected to relinquish their old country ideals, and refrain from classism. Others want to perpetuate nation- ality divisions and so rely on na- tionallty quotas to maintain the status quo. * k Xk ok Secretary of Labor Davis, In whose department the whole problem of im- Worl:f Owes Vast Debt - To Its Brave Scientists In the. early days of maritime ven- tures and discovery these yentures would only be’ usdertaken under the lure of gold, the acqiilsition of’vatuable new lands and of subjects whose. toil and labor, under the lash of the brutal taskmaster, would result in the accumu- lation of wealth for others. Adventurers there were aplenty ready to risk their lives in the most desperate undertak- ings. They were brave and reckes: impelled by a strange yearning which is not absent today. 2 In thesé days, however, men . still venture forth in quest of discovery, daring everything, risking everything. not_seeking wealth, but verturing for the pure love of adventure and to -do something which no other has done be- fore. What the world owes to these and | migration lies, has some very defi views on the subject, and he Is da- sirous of getting these views befc the people, and, through general timent, before Congress. ning to travel ext, coming fall, for the purp ing and explaini much mooted subjec ! * % % Secretary Davis is not « {merely restricting fu {of immigration. He jaliens already in ti from those who have achi ship. While most of them are here good faith and will ultImately bee Americans, he claims that there are 1,000,000 who are, and alw ill be fundesirable ¢ ns. T do jcome up to our present standards admission of alie argues, @ they have no intention of so doir Hence, he believes they ought to deported—a million of them. * alinin With the view to.carefu the grain from the cha Davis recommends that zuns be required to re port the essential facts regarding their origin and record prior to c ing to this country. This record, the would form a basis fot-investigati jand for keeping track of their co duct while here. It would be no har: ship on the well-behaved, but would enable the government to a decision in case of any grou I deportation All over countries outs it is necess velers to registe with the local police, within twenty-four hours after arrival In' a or vil lage; hence such a requirement here would be nothing drastic, in the minds of the aliens. but would be funda mental for officlal sifting, says Se.: tary Davis. This will be one of t issues before Congreéss next winter > * ok x ¥ The National Health Council, with t indorsement of the American Med Association and otler organizations medical men, proposes that all citiz should have a- physical’ examination o every birthday. ~They would thus (s cover physical degeneration when it least suspected. 1t is alleged that of many already cxamined only 3 per cent were found to be normal, and 60 pe cent were in such a bad way that thes were sent at once to a doctor. A few days after Dr. Work, Se tary of the Interior, became Post- master, General. the writer.chanced t be present when a representative of a physical culture magazine inter viewed him, hoping to get some word of encouragement for systematic cu ercise. Dr. Work has been preside of the Ameérican Medical is one of our leading thorities, especially on c Pressed by the magazine to his method for preserving h Dr. Work replied that he never exercise In the form of g never had a vacation. and ate whats ever his appetite cailed for. at all hours of day and night—inciudings midnight pickles when he e in from a long ride. He remarked dry- Iy that the man who concerned with gymuastics and symptoms was looking too much inwardly, when he ought Yo look: outwardly. . His hest prescription was: “Look outwardly not inwardl (Copyright, 1923, by P. V ner adm finds 7,000,000 vs v all non-c ister, and r eed. in most ted State al Collins.) ‘men-who go forth because they ca stay at home, whom peril beckons tofl fascinates, and who look upon ! death tn-the quest as a mere inciden: | bed, can never be estimated. Men dare for science and not (gold. Men endure all sorts of hard ships and perils in order to add their mite to the sum of human knowledge. hoping that sometime in the future, in some way unknown to them, the world at large may benefit and humanity he blessedi: If there are men who thus will dare, theré also those who will pro. vide the fundé-and for the pure love of encouraging hes that may be of value to mankind. the explorers do not expect to obtain’suy special re- wards, neither do those who put up the finances. It is largely a matter of serv- ice, in which each one does his part in the most fitting way and In_accol c§ with the abllity of each 'to' do 86 &c rding to the talent in his po slon: arieston Mall. for A |1f not preferable to dying quietly in- [l i