Evening Star Newspaper, June 25, 1923, Page 6

m ) S A R ed at thelr national conventions néxt |those aboard had been convalescent E EVENING STAR, year. Should the conservatives oceupy | veterans of the war. . With Sunday Morning Bdition. Rt s £ i WABHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY. ....June 25, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES, The Evening Star Newspaper Company the saddle ih both conventlona the conarasslonal 1. There may bk @ chances for the organizatioh of a third | vestigation of the LeViathah trip and party would be brighter. Many of the progressive leaders in | Editor | the old parties prefer to remain within it. may bripg out spine Interesting fact not now known, or throw now absent light upon the known' facts their party ranks, hoping to see the |about this trip. But it is to be doubted day when those parties il stand for {4f it Wil greatly stir the country, Business Offce, 11th St. and Penpsylvanta Ave. principles as progréssive as they them- | gvén though the voyage may be selves advocate. Some of thé othérs |ghown to have been without warrant would be glad to bee a hew party and.|or need. * New York Offce: 130 Nussay 8t. Chieago Office: Tower Buildls Furopean Oftice: 16 Regent St., Londoh, England. Evening Star, with the Sundhy mornite wdition. T delfeered by Carriers Within the clth 8 60 cents per month; dally onty, 40 cents per month: Gunday only. 20 cents pet imonth. ders may be sent by mail, or telephone Mal 6000, Collectton Is made by carriers at end of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. fly and Sunday..1yr., $8.4 11y “only. .. -vr.1 V., $6.00 Sunday only.......1yr., $2.40; All Other States. Daily and Sunday Dally only. Bunday only. Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press {s exclusively entitled fo the ‘use for republication of all news dis- tehes credited to 1t oF hot othermive eredited this paper and aiso the local news pub, Ushed herein. Al rights of pubileation of rved. Law Enforcement. In the clearest terms, which appeal to &ll who have thought on the sub- ject, President Harding today at Den- ver, discussing the question of “law enforcement,” goes to the Heart of the question of the prohibition issue. The real issue, he points out, is that of 1w observance and enforcement. It is complicated by a problem of concur- rent jurisdiction between the statesi and the federal government. This i8 not a new problem, he says, brought 10 us with the eighteenth amendment, but is as old as the federal govern- ment. The prohibition amendment is the basic law of the land, and, says the President, those who belieye that it will ever be repealed are a small and a ‘“greatly mistaken” minority. The general policy of the stat is to sup- port the prohibition program, but some of them “are disposed to abdicate their | own police authority in this matter, and to turn over the burden of pro- hibition enforcement to the federal authorities.” This is in the nature of § nullification, and on this point the President has that to say which should give pause to the advocates of the non- enforcement policy in the states: It is a curious illustration of loose thinking that some people have pro- posed, as a means to protecting the fullest rights of the states, that the states should abandon their part in enforcing the prohibitory policy. That means simply an invitation to the federal government to exercise powers which should be exercise: by the states. Instead of being an assertion of state rights, it is an abandonment of them: it is an abdication amounts to a confession by the that it doesn’t choose to govern itself, ‘bute prefers to turn the task, or a con- siderable part of it. over to the fed- | eral authorities. There could be no | more complete negation of state rights. The national government has been uniformly considerate of the | sensibilities of the states about their rights and authorities. but when a &tate delibérately refuses to exercise the powers which the Constitition ex- | pressly confers on “it it obviousl commits itself to the policy of nul- lifying state authority, the end of which/we are reluctant to conjecture. The policy of nullification has never appealed strongly to the American people. There are some _historical records regarding efforts of states to nullify national policies, but the spec- tacle of a state nullifying its own authority nd asking the national sovereignty to take over an important part of its powers is new. When the implications of this strange proposal are fully understood by people and parties devoted to preserving the rights of the states, the new nullifi- cationists, T venture to sa will di: cover-that they have perpetrated what 18 likely to prove one of the historic blunders in political management Thus is presented in plain‘terms an aspect of the non-enforcement policy of some of the states, notably New York, that will, indeed, arrest those who by their impetuous attempt to nullify the prohibition law would carry far over the line of safety and public security. Already a reaction has been evident from the course pursued in New York. In other states where. siilar attempts at nullification through repeal have heen made wiser second thought has prevailed. In New York the political stake of commit- ting one of the parties to the “wet” view of the question has been realized. Tt is evident now to political leaders that the repeal act of the New York legislature, signed by the governor, was a definite and serious political ‘blunder. - The President's statement of the enforcement question is one of the strongest that has been made. It puts the question squarely before the peo- ple. It leaves no chance<for dodging or compromise. The law must be en- forced. —_———— Mr. Garvey, the Black Star steam- #hip promoter, preferred Kansas to Georgia as a place in which to serve ® sentence. A discreet discrimination ®sserts itself rather late in.his career. The bucket shop broker gets into trouble by envying his customers their chance to figure as lambs. i N Anthracite and a Third Party. President Harding, before leaving ‘Washington, wrote to John Hays Hammond, chairman of the Coal Com- mission, urging that the report on anthracite: mining be speeded up, so as to be available in the threatened controversy over the miners' wages this summer. The wage contracts ex- pire August 31. The warning has gone forth there is danger of another strike. A strike in the anthracite mines this vear, similar to last year's, un- doubtedly would lend impetus to a de- mand for public ownership of the mines. Politically, it would spell dis- aster to administration forces in New England and other parts of the coun- try which rely upon hard:coal for their fuel. Politically, it might lend the required push to bring gbout or- ganization of a third party—a party standing on a platform of government ownership of the great public utilities —the coal mines, transportation, pe- troleum, etc. Political parties in the United States have been created by the Gevelopment of séntiment among the people. Dis- grufitled politicians ané leadérs in old partiés have néver bec¢n suecessful in attempts to form new wrl(fia merely by .conferences aniong™ themselves. Much will dépend -upon the. selections of the two old parties for Siandard pearers and upon the platforms adopt: i @ new deal all around. Thé fact is that the ship has made In the presidential “Who's Wha" |a suceesstul run, has functioned per- the name of Henry Ford s being men- | fectiy ih all conditfons and has scored tioned fore and more often. It hejtne highest apeed on record. While fails of the nomination by either | Americai pride in the Leviathan is democrats or republicans, the sugges- | ot as great as though this ship had tion has been made he would head @ |poen buil originally in the United third party. Whether Mr. Fotd would | geates, it s still high because of the stand upon a platform of government fact that the work of reconditioning, ownership of public utilities remains to be seen. He himselt has done very which has been done by American Mands, has been almost a reconstru well as a private owner of a very large { tjon ana the Leviathan as she rests share of a very great industry In this today at dock in New Y country. Senator Borah of Idaho, republican, is not to be a leader of a third party. He has said so. The political wise- acres say that Senator Hiram Johnsoh of California, another progressive,.will stick in the republican ranks, and look to 19 8 for party leadership and the ja fatal ork, and as she will sail next week on her first trip, is practically an American product. . Death of Sumner Curtis. It s & singular colncidence that automobile * accident which ‘White House. Senator La Follette of | marked the western tour of President Wisconsin, organizer of the progres. ‘Wilson in September, 1919, when one sive “bloc” in Congress, contents Hifn- [of thé newspaper eorrespondents was self with saying that a new party will | killed, was, in effect, repeated yester- come only when the peoplé demand it. | day, when a motor car carrying sev- In 1912, Senator La Follette was lead- eral of the newspaper men accom- ing the progressive fleld in the race [ panving President Harding on. his for the presidential nomination, when | trip westward was wrecked by a fall Col. Roosevelt took up the race and jover a cliff and two of the occupgnts was, eventually nominated by the bull moose. 1f Henry Ford should step in | Sumner Thus the déath of yesterday parallels lost their lives. Curtis next year as a piogredsive nhominee |ihat of Ben Allen nearly four years for President history will again have lago. Both men were so well known repeated itself so far ds the Wisconsin {in Washington that senator is concerned. Keep an Eye on Ralston. the tragedies were especlally shocking to the cap- ital. Sumner Curtis was identified with Democrati¢ politicians of natiohal | N®wspaper work in Washington as standing are taking notice thége days |1 ago as 1891 and sirce then has of the advent of a tising star in the |been one of the foremost figures in presidential candidatorial firmament, | cabital jotrnalism. In recent times he Senator Ralston of Indiana. Telescopes kas devoted himself to other lines have been leveled upoh him anew |28 Well and quite lately has been since the recent political conferences at French Lick, participated in by Gov. Smith of New York and other prominent democrats, and since Tom Taggart’s ruling out of liquor B8 a political asset of the democratic party. Senator Ralston’s chief hope, ac- cording to the politicians, of captur- ing the nomination rests in the ex- pectation that the democrdtic nom- inating convention is to be a long- drawn.out struggle, with the prob- ability of a compromise upon a candi- date not at this time included in the list of “top liners.” If Tom Taggart should be asked he would promptly sdy, “That means Ralston.” Let us consider the likelihood of a deadiock in the convention. Bear in mind that it will require a two-thirds vote of the convention to nominate. Neither McAdoo, Cox mnor Underwood can possibly hope to go into the convention commanding Such strength. Then there may be Gov. Smith, with hié backing of wet or near-wet delegates from many states. assoclated with the republican na- tional committee. In the coursec of bis long residence here Mr. Curtis gained a wide circle of warm friends. He Had gained the goal of Washing- ton correspondents, the point at which he enjoyed the implicit confi- dence of public men by reason of his fidelity and unfailing accuracy and trustworthiness. ——————— A favorite occupation of statisticians is calculating the amount -of power that I8 runiihg to waste over Niagara Falls. As this waste has been going on for ages, any delay now experi- enced in getting complete control of this energy may be regarded as inci- dental and negligible. In the meam: time the public will remain calm and enjoy the scenery. —_———— The declaration of Robert M. La Follette that he has no speeches on his mind at present leaves it to be infer- red that he is making observations end making notes for comment to be It f@ cértain he cannot expect to have { fii ared duking the campaign sum. such support. There will be the spec- tacle, then, of prolonged balloting, each candidate réceiving accretions of support and by turns losing votes: it It will take long and careful calcu- Indiana stands pat for Rafdton, but | lation of the different kifds of expense not making much of a showing, per- | Involved to enable the French con- haps. Friction and bitterness are en- gendered among the top-liners. The spirit of “If-I-can’t-get-it-you-shan’t- have-it” begins to crop out. At the sumer to deeide whether the Ruhr policy has resulted in cheaper and better coal. A patient quietude is maintained by first appearance, note the sagacioiis {a distinguished Ohio gentleman named Tom Taggart busying himself among | James Cox in the face of much demo- the delegations. The convention i8 hot, | cratic agitation over the d gnation weary and mad. Mr, Taggart pours|of a logical candidate. seductive werds into ears attuned to the promise of breaking the deadlock. The hour of hope strikes for Ralston, —————— Voliva, the leader of Zion, Ill., is out in & campaign to prove that the world according to the logic of the situation, } s flat. The uhadvanced student is and-at the proper moment Mr. Tag- gart shoots his bolt. It all sounds reasonable enough, the politicians say in their midsummer gossiping. Anyhow, it is something to talk about, and much of political speculation at this time is mere talk. ———— The great kindress with which President Harding speaks of Col. W. finding the scientific authors as hard to believe as some of the historians. —_——————— A number of Russians evidently be. lieve that the longer Lenin's passive convalescence lasts the better Rus- sia’s outlook will be for a complete recovery —_———— ‘The Ruhr shows no inclination to J. Bryah will eriable the prophets to|earn the repitation of & joyous sum- assert with confidence that the advo-| mer resort among the Frenchmen now cacy of a court of natiohs is not to bé | visiting there. complicated with any argument over evolution. B —— The grade crossing gains no popular sympathy merely because it asserts Farmers prevented by drought from | itSelf as the worst enemy with which raising produce will at least be re-|the reckiesé motorist has to contend. lieved of the necessity of correspond- ing with the middlemanh to ascertdin why they are not collecting profits. —— ————— A large numbér of Europeans, anx- ious to let Uncle S8am solve their prob- lems, are taking a Sshort cut and During the hot wave in the U. S. A., | BUrrying over here as immigrants, Paris advertised a cold wave guaran- s teed to produce shivers. No effort is| . Germany objects to any policy of spared in appealing to-the American | Passive resistance when it might ap- tourist. Many prosperous voyages will be made by the good ship Leviathat, but none mote famous than her trial trip. ply to the return of patents. S8HOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Neighbors. Slight apprehension 18 expresséd of | vijs dirange such scencs of contrast entangling, alliance between a world court and a league of nations. —— The Leviathan. Interest in the Leviathan, which has just returned from & so-cailed trial, téip of séveral Qays; h&s un:|T doubtedly béeh ihcreased because of the criticism that attathed to the trip. It is indeed unfortinate that ciréum- stances were stch s to invelvé doubt as to_the propriety of taking a large number of specially invited guests on a run that was recofimended by the experts as desirable to @emonstraté the vessel's fitness for regular trans: atlantic sérvice. It the purpose %as i advertise the Leviathin in anticipation of her critrtficd upon the FegiAF acheduls of ocean trips, it assuredly Sucessded. But it is a question whether it was necessary thus to advertisé the greatest ship afloat. It has had pub- lic attention from the day it was built in a German shipyard, and es- pecially since it was taken over by the United Statés atid Was used as & transport durlhg the waf. Indesd, the Leviathafi 18 oné of the best ad. vertised ships that ever floatéd. The ‘trip to the West Indles would have been fully notéd by thé coufitry 1f it had carried ho pasSengers at eli, or | | I ! great On stith # little Wotld fihd room! Here fife and lava devastate And there the placid roses bloom. Most Mendacious Pastime. 'hey tell us how George Washington Made truth his constent mission. He must have missed a lot of fun By never-“goin’ fishin".” The Lightning Bug. De lightnin’ bug, he started out A-trabblin’ froo de night; Says he; “De road is full o' doubt; 1 wisht I had a light.” An’ %0 heé fléw up 6 de sky An' stole hisseit a star; Says he, “Wit such a lantern I Kin journey near an) far.” Dat shipin star, ft weighed so much' It near}y made him fal, An’ any boy dat tried could clutch De lantern, bug and all. Sech doin’s, honey, is what makes Some people lead a' dance. Dé man dat steals his brightness takes A mighty sight o chance 3 2 Monopolist. 5 That widdom 18 thé truekt Wealth’ . ML GFEARIENE & thust b and that she had I I Q. Does ‘approfHats money for the maintenaace Y the Unitea States Soldfers’ Home here A D A. This institution is unique in that ‘it is self-supportth. Funds are derived from Interest on the per- manent fand in the United States Treasury, and through a netpetual revenue accryfog from coyft-martial fines, debertions, forfeltures ard thé like. The home Wwas establishéd in 1851 when" 3118701, a\ part of the tribute levied by ‘Gen. Winfleld Scott | on the City of Mexico, was appropri- ated for its sypport. m?'zafowr,m-}_"y animals are therd in A. The superinténdent of the Zoo els there are 650 animaly and 1,180 birds at present. This makes a total of 1,800 specimens on exhibition. Q. How many colleges aMa uni- versities in the Unlted Statés have g‘ndywwenll of $1,000,000 or more?— A. There are 135 which have en dowrhents of such size, Q. What will remove paint from an old bed?—J. L. P, & A. A solutlon of soda a Q‘ equitl proportions ls eMcacho solve the soda In water, &pply with a brash. moments, rinse O with hot water. The wood —aftérward shopla bo washed with vinégar or u'n?cld Bo- l\;flun in order to remove all traces of the alkall beéfore repainting. lma In 8. Dis- 3dd lime, ania After ‘a few Q. How much hicotine §s thers | the smoke of burning to aceo s M. hA 1t varies approximately from 2 to % per cent, the larger. propor- tions béing found in _the coarser grades of tobacco. Q. 1Is there any difference made in the use of flour—whether it Is Winter wheat or spring wheat flour?— ALM. P A. Bakers buy flour of two kins— winter wheat flour for cake baking and spring wheat flour for bread making, Q. Can mocking Successfully?—J. L. A. Mocking bifds, when taken from the nest young, réadily becoms fc- zustomed to cage life and may liye for many years. They are easlly taught and often improve with care- ul tralhing. birds be caged &4, Where 1 Death valty ?2-—C. ‘;A,' It 13 a glosiy tract of 1and in o Am: jesért, In. _In; Eo'n'nlg Cant, 1t iea from 100 t6 5o eet bilow ea level. the P. . Where, hre examples of viflies! manataerats y‘am —L. 3. P. A. 1n the British Muséum there is 2l head of glass found at'Thebes, beatlhn " insgription Which piace Its dabe 200 B.C, In the tomb o genl Haksan, dating at least 2,00 C. the process of glassblowing 18 rep- Fésented. Q. Who were of symphony?—I. A. Haydn, Mogart, Mendélssohn And Beethoven. The niné symphonies o{ Besthoven afe genirllly recof: nized as being the nobiest work of their Kind. Q. How did gellbu lm“\ influenza comparé in mumber %ith those of the world war?—A. T, A. It Is estimated that the inflyenza epidémic of 1917-1919 took & toll of life of not léss than 25,000,000 perkons, more than four times AS many as the battie deaths of the world war. Is It good nflcngé to wrap DAREF around lcé In u refrigerator?— it mé‘?‘xln so rapidly. But fce so wrapped Win"not keep the refrigera- tor g0 cold as unwrapped ice will. Q. How much money did the first John Jacob Astor leave?—M. J. A. He left & fortine of $30,000,000, Invested mostly in NéWw York real estate. @. 18 there such a thing as a cir- cular inch?—P, L. O. A. A circular inch is the area 6f a circle one Inch in diameter, as dis- tinguished from the square inch. " Japan restored China recently?—F. B. R. A. The territory restored to China by Japan December 10, 1922, was the rovincs of . Kinocha This had een severed from Chihese sover- #lgnty for twenty-four years. It was first occupied by Germany after the Boxer rebelifon and seized by Japan durihg the world war. ‘ul?a Lflnt ~composeérs rapping the jcé will prevént (Bditor's Note—Star readers are re- queated to give thelr full nanies and addresses svhen writing to Mr. Has- kin for information. This Is neces- #ary because he replies direct to all inquirers. Only a few sélected an- Swers of general Intérést are printed in the papet.) | Barony of Latymer Revived and Sixth Lord Takes Seat in Upper House BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Although the new Lord Latymer, who will be taking his seat in the upper chamber of patliament at Westminster this week, is only the sixth baron of his line, vet his peer- age was created as far back as 1432 by King Henry VI, and he can show a royal descent from King Edward 115, through the latter's son, John of Gaunt, first Duke of Lancaster. That he should be only the sixth holder of this peerage ia due to the fact that it fell into abeyance in 1577 on the death of its fourth holder, who left four daughters, from™ the third of Whom, Lucy, wife of Sir William Cornwallis, the late Lord Latymer was able to show his descent, when the present king, on the recommenda- tion of the committée on privileges of the house of lords, terminated the abeyance in his favor. The new Lord Latymer, who served in the army and won the rank of colonel in the great war, is a man of about fifty, and is one ol the prin- cipal partners in the great London banking house of Coutts & Co., where King George, like his imme- diate predecessors on the throne, keeps his private account. He is married to a daughter of the late Gen. John Cecil Russell, and has a son of the name of Thomas, who be- came/ of age last year. The partner. ship in Coutts bank comes to Lord Latymer by inheritance. His father, the late peer. was born as the son of the late Rev. James Drummond and of Clara, fourth daughter of Sir’ Francis Burdett, sister of the celebrated philanthropist, the 1late Barontss Burdett-Coutts. Clara was the elder sister of the baroness, and if Lord Latymer is today the dominant sharehoider in Coutts bank, it is due to the will of Harriett, Duchess of St. Albans, a former actress. * %o x When old Tom Coutts, the great London bankér of King Geerge III's reigh, lost his first wife, who is gen- érally understood to have or!gnally been a female domestic in his house- hold, he became Infatuated with the footlight favorite of the day, Harrlett Mellon, a very comely, rather coarse and vulgar, but extremely kind- hearted woman. She’ made old Tom Coutts very happy, and whet he dfed he left everything that he owned, in- cluding all his stock in thé fahjous bank bearing his name, to hig widow, who, by reason of her good looks, but more especially. of her immense weaith, was soon surrounded by a crowd of sultors for Her hand. Shé eventually consénted to become the wile of the Duke of St. Albans, lineal- 1y descended in the male line direct from King Charles II and the drange- Selling girl, Nell Gwyn. Neither the duke nor his fi!ople trilled the &x- actress with the respgct of affection to which she considered herself en- titled. They wete disposed to make fun of her #ocial solecisms. She is portrayed in a kindly yet somewhas arcastic fashion, in several of the est known noveis of Lord Beacons- fleld. She endéd by becoming embit tered aginst the duke. She made a companion of the younger of thé twd granddaughters of her first_husband, namely, Angela Burdett. For Tom Coutts’ only daughter by his grqt wife had married Sir Frahcis Bur: fett, who played 8o notable & political ole at the beginning of the 1ast cen- ury a8 member for the city of Lon- don. G When the duchess died, it was foud that the duke was ignored ih Her will eft all the huge ortunie, that had comé to her from er first husband, Tom Coutts, to his vounger gradduughteF dnd her adopted child, Angela Burdett, on the nderstanding that $he should assute he natme of Coutts in addition to her own, and that if she 18ft no Iskie the entire property should go to her elder o S e Suntat imaseed (toseng ev. James Drummond Money. The two sisters got on very well together, Angels winning world-wide fame ad %phllinthmpl-l er public_benefac- fons being evéntually recognized by Queen Victoria’s bestowal upon Her of a peerage as Baroness Burdett- Coutts. * k Xk * But' the slsters quarreled when Lady Burdett-Coutts married in 1881 the Brooklyn-born Wililam Ashffiesd Bartieth, her seerétary, and héf Juhlof by near half & century. M Ménty opposéd this strange umton in the fmost Bownright mannés, and - ireaved Yyounger sister to “such plain kpeech aneént hér proposed union to & mah young enough to be her grand- t all relatil een the t:?, that all relations m n b o 1o assum the additional nares of Burdett. Coutts) her Coutts fortune went, on her death, -sorely against her Will but by virtue of the Duchess of 8t. Albans last will and testament. lo her sister Clara's son, Franci Money, a nephew who had sided with his mother about the baroness’ mar- riage, and who had incurred her last- ing resentmment. It is true that the baroness haa made the. most genérous provision for hér American-born husband. In- deed. she bequeathed to him every- thing that she could alienate from the Coutts estaté. He was left with & fortune of at least $150.000 a vear, which, When he in turn passed away as member of parliament for West- minster was found to have been be- queathed to the children of his only brother, the late Sir Ashmead Bart- lett. Eut Francis Money thus came into the possession of all the Coutts property entailed by the Duchess of St. Albans, Including the principal ownership of Coutts' Bank. ~He~ 8 member of the bar, the author o several volumes of somewhat me- diocre poems of a rather religious and mystieal bent; and with a marked disposition for unobtrusive philan- thropy. In parliament, first in the house of commons and afterward in the house of lotds, he became known as the principal defender and cham- pion of the Royal Marine Corps, and as their hi$torian. He had also a pro- nounced taste for genealogy, and it was his studies in this connection that led HWim a8 soon as he had in- herited the Coutts wealth to embark on the extremely costly: process of securing, through the house of lords from the crown, a revival of the an- clent barony of Latymer in his favor. He was a tall, slightly built, bearded man, who was said to have borne a striking_resemblance to his grand- father, Sir Thomas Burdett * % X X After protracted proceedings, which are said to have cost in the neigh- borhood of $200,000, the peerage case was findlly decided in Francis Money- Coutts’ faver. Fof, according to the terms of the duchess' will, he had been obliged to assumé the name of Coutts in addition to his own patronymis on succeeding to the Couttd fortuné. Subsequently, he had recourse to still further changes in his name, and on the strength of his descent from the Nevills, secured the permission from the crown to add the name 6¢f Nevill to those of Money and Coutts. During her long career as a phil- anthropist, old Baroness Burdett- Cottts employed a considerable por- tlon of her huge income in endowing umerous bishoprics and churches in he United Kingdom and in the colonies. It is no exaggeration to assert that during the near three gcor‘e Years which élapsed between ef inheriting the Coutts fortune from the Duchess of St. Albans, until her death. #he must have spent sev- eral _milllons of pounds sterling in this fashion. But all these gifts and éndowitiénts were made conditional l ? l ! ! l stats chiirch. Indeed, she directed in all lhuvtlee s of ;L}l and endow- ments and confirmed the directions in her will that In the event of the threatened diestablishment of the Church of England, every penny of money Which she had thus disposed of should revert, not to the Coutts estat but to her American-born widower and to his helrs, the prin- flp\lfi one h‘:qg his favorite nephew, erbert Aghmead Bartlett, now a ultimiliion#ire and known as Her- ért’ Ashménd Bartlett Burdett-Coutts. . Ecoh Would Make City Safe . -By Inereasing Noise _ Drivers ot fbtor vehiclés in New York city havée been asked to blow thelf horhs for ohe minute at 3 o'clock évery aftérnoon. That f8 the time When riost of thé schools are ais missed. The 1déa, as 8xplainéd by the maybr, is “to impress bn motorists their responsibilitids to the Creator, to themselves and thelf fyitow men in thé conservailon of life” dnd at the 8amé time to whrh school chil- dren of their dangér. one silldseh il be ot ] » 4 ...Empou -oug &l»r uest. on thi dlu'll.nct undérstanding that the Ic ifch of England would remain the the watches and Eloek 8 Uhiere 8 they 86 ué‘ a &Rnd 3 rIEl of toots #hd Blakts miy last for ‘halt &h AT It & suggestioh from thé outside is in order, why ot hkvé the children i ‘lp'tloh( the &4 work by shout- i ,“l the to) o‘ their voices for a few mihutes a8 théy leave school? Other comfiunitiés will hardly agree that nolse ig the best safoty . Evén If this were true, to rake the streets %fi““ of nervous sy ‘m}eu«!»nyedlfl 14 ‘o city - nolses.—i EAST Article No. Il By Frank H, Hedges The wman on 4 atrests of ‘Tokis, Whether he be & 'rickisha eoolle, ven- Qel of raw fish of WAt mhilonklré in his newly bought and Iported alito- mdblie, no lohger carties in thé back.| of his mikd the thought of War With the United States. Hé no longer takes it into comsideration in mtking his plans. Here and thers & jinko- Istic journal oF & sensatioh monger tries to’ revive the. discardéd bogey fof personal ends, atid it may b that Téw such newspapeérs shd persons are quite sincers in & belléf that in 80 dolng they are serving thelf Home land. But the important fwet—vitaily impoftant to Japan and to this coun- try and of cofislderably more than pasilng moment 6 thé~rést of the warld—the impbrtant tact is that the hué and cry of a waf with Atherica when ralsed by Japin today no longer atrikés a respofisive fote in the thouhts ot the average Japanese. This Whs not always so. "L€ss than two years ago most of the 57,000,000 Japanege believed war to be on fits Wway and were psychologically pre- parig for it. - The belie, attitude and. plhns. of .the Japanese goverament were and are hl;ly‘ well ln;uwn to the government this ‘cotintr; nd e e qute g \bgb, DUE Tois a; t&u,u, g:nferned with lhu“:houk“tn of the o of Japan, the over- Whoimhllik mass of non-oficials, those WhD, would have entered the army or navy or those wives who would have remained at home—waliting, Two Kears and more ago ;:lpnn as & whole believed a war with America approaching. _The policles of the two Eovernments were moving along con- verging lines like the sides of a tri- ngle, and at the point where the lines ‘would meet logmed war. This whs the belief of all Jjapan, and it may have been of most of America, but. where one American gives & thought to his nation's policies and future in tha far east, a hundred Japanese give serlous consideration to Japan's relations with u The position of the empire makes foreign elations, espécially with America, “hiha and’ Great Britaln, of para- Hoiint importence, The newaphpers of Tokio, Osdka and other great citles constantly discussed the forthcoming war. The government taxed the peo- ple to the limit, and nearly Afty sen of every ven collected taxes went to the army and navy, but the Japanese bore the burden uncomplainingly, for they preferred to pay for War pre- paredness rather than to meet a war indeninity. I @o ndt intend for one minute to say that the average Japénese wanted war with us. As in any country, there weré persons who di:i, perhap. more in Japan than in most countries, for her rapld and phenomenal rise has, naturaily, brought with it a vast amount of conceit, a vast amount of “cockiness” I do not believe, how gyer, thag most Japanese wanted war, but they belleved war at some future date to be Inevitable, and so were preparing. N There Was a curlous mixture in the attitude of the. indlyidual Japa- nese toward the United States at that time. Hé bellfeved America his enemy and he was antagonistic to the United Stateés, but he was antagonis- tic to an abstract idea. He admired and respected most things American, just as he has done for a half cen tury. He was friendly to the Amer can citizén resident in Japan. Realiz ing that he was consoious of the approach of war, it is remarkable that only on the rarest occasions was any hostility shown, either by word or act, to the American in Japan. At the time of the adoption of the anti-alien land law In. California by popular referendum, feeling against this ‘country Was" rufinimg high in Japan. The press talked constantly of War and of the injustice and hypocrisy of ‘the United States. The law was adopted by a tremendous majerity. that Nowember. Thé pews reached Tokio in the early afterfioon. Bxtras, telling the story and contéin ing inflammatory and denunciator: editorials, were on the streets almost at once. By nightfall every man and woman in_ the empire knew what California_had done. We Americans in Japan had felt certain of Califor- nia’s action, and we d expected mobs to gather and perhaps to throw a few bpickbats and oaths at the American embassy and, the Japah Ad- vertiser, the two greatest centers of Americanism in the empire. 1 was curious to sée how Japan would teact, and that evéning I went into the front grounds of the imperial palace. The spirit of the laté Em- peror Moifi was being enshrined in the capital with full Shinto rites just then, and the city of nearly 3,000,000 was flooded with &nother million vis- itors from the. country. A lahtern Procession was weaving along the banks of the inner moat of the pal- ace, and the grounds were thranged by ‘thonsands. The crowd was so dense that I could not make my way against it, but had ta move with It There was no other foreigner to be seen, and, although most Japanese cannot distinguish bet¥een an Amer- ican and other tvesterners, those near me could see the American Army but- ton in my coat lapel. Not one ugly look was given me, not one untoward gesture made, not one murmured in- sult did I hear. I was an American. The crowd was unfriehdly to my country in the abstract; to me as an individual Americah it Wwas all cour- tésy and kindness. g ‘The change that has comé aince the close of the Washington conference in the attitude of the Japanese toward war with the United States is clearly shown by what a Jipanese told me three months ago. He was a college graduate, a man of some wealth, and held an important semi-busine: semi-political posltion. “I am so glad,” he said, “that I no longer have to think about fighting your couht For five years 1‘have been telling my wife that when (not “If,” but “when") the war with America comes, she must kill herself and the children so that thoughts of them would not bother me on the battlefleld. Now all is changed. .1 nio longer have to think about it, for we are not going to fight. In a Few Words. - England is in #uch a position of in- ferfority today that if a nation which is friendly now, and which we believi 2and hope will remain friendly, Wers J & result of a quarrel to direct its power against our shores, we should almosi for the first time in History, be foun tirely defenseless. » i °LORD BIRKHNHEAD. Oplnion today l:\daarmfiny 13 tends ihg toward the sability ot ful fledged. membership 1n, the® 16kus of nations, in ‘spite of tlie feeling aroused in us all By varlous declsions inade by the league in days gone by. —HERR SCHEIDEMANN. 1 am not one who urkéd that the United~ States should plan to get along Without the rest of the world, but conditions today aftord proof that we can imo 2 bgree of pris- n erity wi 'S, bty Wi . ROBERTS. & wlml:_d. &l1} Riia 18] 3 Wik PAYNE. AP RTa, S MARCK. Fifty great war of FevEngs ught and Fri d “~COUNT VON SCHOE! d court o nintes flqfl &Efi Have de- had existed : cided that the fes must Temain VERIDGE. f the Bry Part oL oX.SENKBOR & President of —HENRY CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. President Hardifik dlscritfinates ; o BEtweén a cowarly arafé-doager— Who - perhaps has béén punished endugh by his tert in prison—and a 1ékder of mobs, &n mctivé agitator and Inciter to treason. Cowafds he has pardonied, but acttve traitors will be 16tt to serve their sentences. As far back as Moses, it waw or- dained that thé cowards shibuld keep away from batds, Moses made Prodaimation that “The officérs shall speak further ur!Qi’ the peoplée, and théy shail say, ‘What man is there that Is fearful and faint-hedrted? Let him teturn unto his house, lest his brethrén's heart faint, as well as his heart.’ Y * % %k % When Gideon, the mighty soldler, wa# called to march against the Midjanites and Amalekites, he gath- ered all his forcés toEéthier on the eve of battié. in comparison with the enemy, hs had -a pitifully small army o astepse. Hé watchied his men drinking water of a stream. “And the number of them that 14ppéd, " putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men; but |’ all the rést of the people bowed down uppn_their knees, to drink water.” s S 2‘ the Lord said unto Gideon, ‘By the three hundréed men that Tapped will T save you, and deliver ¥he Miflianites tnto thins t..nd; and let all the other pgople, g1 Very man unto his place! ¥ ¢ 3°And all the Midianites and Amalekites and ali the children of the east lay along in the valléy, llke grasshoppers for multi- tude. : Gideon put them all to flight with his 300 heroes, while the men of easy habits looked on. President Hardin, follows the Mosaie command and the Gideon ex- ample, sending the fearful and faint- hearted home. * % & % Thé President refused to pardon ceftain other men convicted of treason during the war,!for the evidence Showed that they were not mere Weaklings, but dangerous conspira- tors and enemfes of soclety, actively striving to foment trouble, cause strikes and stab the government in the back, even when all its energlés were needed against the enemy in the fleld. That they were permitted to live at all was an act of mercy; to turt. them loose against the s clety which they sought to batray, according to the President. would be but to give them opportunity embittered =pirit, to repeat their dan- gerous offenses.' For they have ex- pressed no repentance, nor desire to retrieve -their tredson with . future lovalty. There are twenty-ona of #uch, Who will not be pardoned. o % % “You can revoke laws, but you dare rot disobey them,” says newly elected Bishop James E. Freeman, addressing the Civitans. “There is only one! thing to do, and that is to obey the laws enacted by this republic, There Is too much talk of personal liberties, forgetting that personal liberties can dgstioy the foundation on which the country stands. 1f privileged men | persist in personal liberties, un- | privilezed men deserve them, and this | will cause men to violate laws that will strike vitally into yvour homes and into your business. LIS | { With Washington sweltering in 95 egrees of heat; our hear pi t ti 1 t [ 1 t i 1 i EDITORIAL D Prohibition in Every Phase of In- tense Interest Everywhere. The country at large. id following with the greatest interest every de- velopment in the prohibition fight. This fs iIndicated by the wealth of editorial discussion that marks every step taken, whéther it is in Washing-| ton. along the coast line and bordars | or in foreign capitals. While they ! are waiting for the issue to be ralsed when the British and French liners en routé to this country reach port with intoxicants under seal, editors ‘have discussed the efforts of Secre- tary Hughes to barter coastal domi- nation as far as the twelve-mil8 limit for a promise to ignore the mandite of the Supreme Court and allow for- eign vessels to carry rum into port so long as they are securely sealed and guarded and distributed only as “médicine” to crews who still get their ration of “grog” through opera- tion of their country’s maritime laws. “Barter for a twelye-mile limit is worse than useless,” headlines the Newark News ih analyzing the pro- posal and explaining why it should be abandoned. The News cites as a con- crete Instance, to prove |t& contention, the éffect should Newfoundland and Tanada “ask that our fishermen be exclyded twelve miles from their ‘cdasts. - Such action would affect one of our most profitable industries. The proposed bargain has the ear- marks of a poor one. It would bring little advantage and might lead to embarrassing and costly complica- tions.” To which the Brooklyn Eagle adds “the spectacls of an American Secretary of State auctioning off Afieriéah courtesy and good will’ is not an elevating one.” The New Yérk Post.argues that “extdnsion of the 1Mt to twelve miles might bs of somé * benefit, inasmuch_ as it would give the officials more room in which to operate, but it could not take the place of the Jarger fieet which we need to fight the bldckade runners successfully. The remedy for rum- runnin® lles fn our hands. Let us use it. 1t 4% thé opinion 6f th& Lexington Léader, hofyever, t “nd €stablished principle av{nte atibrial law is in- volved” in the entirs foreign ship questioh, #0 that "tl‘:li_g :ve;nme:n has no, reason to nelsc uty in tnis "Pegara out 53 5:? f conse- quences. It is gelf-evident that noth- ing fin be done to provoke resent- ment which {8 hot hecessary to the execution, within the rule of reason, of_thé Constitution and, thé laws of Congress.” This view {8 the direct opposite, however, of that enter- tained by the New York World, .which insists “only an uttef land- Shakespeare Fails It Modeéfn Clothes 14 Birminghdm, Eigland, the other day an experimeént in dramatic’ art, intended to pfové that Shakespeare's piays w gréater than any répre- séntation of them, ended in_a ludi- Erous fladco. What the exPbriient proved ‘was that, unless the charac- ters are garbed according to the ac- ceptéd traditions, the Hneés an® situ- atlons créated ®vad By the mdste: nind of the wi r‘d‘l greatéest dramat- gtnvimwgv r o fhiptess & mod- Thée play chosen for thé purposé Fondnéss fof Vienna with a longing that is not akin to glagses resembles rain. roll” within Snow! Basil i€, tells the reason why th has a greater crimé record than land. Only one murder in ten ever conviction, come back? amongst the orchardists of West Vir- ginia The insects are devour and will crop. Usually beetles are voraciously consumed by chickens, by ens being effectiva béetles chicken icans waste dobrs than thrifty Fre quire for their sustenanc garbage comes near den in their|of that saying, priated $800.000 for collecting, redeemed from the p. per cent years ago, continue to rise. cent lower in June than i 812 per cent higher than Farm products avers tact between consumer | by | that in shipping we are ninets a_case of morals or one of cxpedicjce. wa that that never existed. COLLINS ur the Austrians. rolls returns late enemies, ain and resembles sorrow only a8 he mist on our besweated eye- The “Vienfla referred to means a rolb in he five inches of snow, reported to be ying upon her ktreets, in defiance of he law requiring that it be removed eight hours after falling. The very naming of it brings efreshing. * % % & “Lave in 1t, Drink of it, ‘Then, if you can.” 80 sang the poet of “One More yn- ortunate,” but the poet never hought the day would come when his challenge would be accepted literally. A revenue officer, M. J. Fossche, with other officers, of brandy and 700 gallons of mash, néar Rockville, dare taste th. | pourea and have taken milk baths, but ¥ says he felt royal captured 100 gallons Md. They did nof stuff, but Mr. Fossche lons” into a htub nwelf.” Some queens ten “soaked hi like a swim. king brandy T aw does not prohibit b but, as in the famous recipe ho cook a hare, the first “First catch vour hare * % % The former Scotland Y Thompson, after tou direction country It is because of the loopholes n - our laws and Aure. ngs age, court proc of “Murder wilf spite out.” LI old Egyptian There is the Are the plagues to st a panic over an invasion of beetles. ng the trees entire apple consume th it this army £ the chick- b the the s 80 vast that instead o litérally and eating them S It has often been s e king id that Amer- their kitchen ch fami more at collector of Washington trating for hée has nto the Treasury ceeds from the refuse collects ng the last vear. Con the but nearly h * x Even while less Army than th food prices three to Prices were civilians 2 per less than & year ago, w producer was direct, but food f: wh dealers is 51 are you going to do about European crops : promise fine yields, so e less need for t thers will our exports and IGEST lubber. in terror of a political certainly not the man w establish a great mer would think of confu: sufficiently confused world b ulous insistence upon an i provision of a fan: 1 which sentiment e Providence Tribune subscribes and adds *no onder the sailors on foreign ships think that the Statue of Lit bas a blue nose. We should ber aling gnificant g t in terms of Kansas and Ne with ‘the whole world. Ot have rights as well as w Recalling history, the ¢ News, after reciting the k tion of Great Britain and F the fact that “the United States gov- ernmetit bn more than one memo on has insisted on retainin thrée:mile limit and it has upheld the freedom of the s lieves “in view of these fa tary Hughés' suggestion calculated to meet with favor.” Philadelphia Bulleti; gues “the most sens be, 80 far as it is_possible gressional action, to postpc nitely the question of hibition and to supplem sional action by an policy which would c. effort on the consequent of lay enforcement on shore.” Kansas City Star, admittedly the dryest papers in the and the Columb: agree the applicat Iaw to foreign ships “is {o strensthen the law invite respect for Am while the Journal further su ‘we #ometimes think that the stead law is In more dangzer house of its earnest and ac than anywhere els On the hand, the Kalamazoo Gazette the reciprocal tréaty propos mean real progr toward effective prohibition en while the Grand Rapids “the three-mile limit has actual logic in its favor t or five or twelve mile limit because international law is entire changeable.” = This ‘ suggestion hrings from Albany . Knickerbocker - Pre: guery: “And why a twelve-mi Why not a fifteen-mile mite limit? 1t is obviously con- e indefl- a-going pr other, rE; “worgd moBa ent, the the| 1mit?| limit or a ither If it s a case of morals where shali the line be drawn® At what poi shiore does this corruption put or corruption? To Congress, then. must £0 the efforts to bri(s the Volstead act into conformation with interna- tional law and the respect due from us to other power: The San An tonlo Light sugzests “one of the rea- sons that we gave for going to war with Germany was that she was try Ing to make German laws effective jn America. Now we are about to tly to do to France what we said Ger- many had no right to do to us.” Then, again, as the St. Paul Dispatch points out, “while treaties might solve the Question, treaties must run the gant- let of thé Senate, and whether that body coyld muSter the necessary two- thirds’ vote to approve a covenant that involves disaster to the principla of the Volstead law has not been deyeloped.” : “Cymbeline,” 2 drama of &n ik- never existed, staged in a eountfy Therefore, argued the promoters, they were fres to garb the characters in any way they pie ed, and so the characters appeared !’n the modern dress of the present| ay. A company of scholarly actors had béen assembled to play the parts and all other stage traditions carefully at- tendéd to. ‘But Shakespears in a tuxedo failed to get across. The Au- dience saw only the funny side of the| unexpécted costumes and laughed at) the most dramatic incidents and tit-| tered at ‘the Rctdors’ most poetic and) insplrational utterances., &h(ch seems to confirm the atti tude bf the motion picture producers tne Shteriecttos Anc lés Times.