Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1923, Page 6

g THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. June 28, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th $t. and Pennsylvania Ave. ew York Office: 150 N au St. Chicago Office: Tower Iding. ‘Buropean :16 Regent St., London, England. The Evi Star, with the Sunday morning edition, 1 delivered by carriers within the clty at 60 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month. Or- be went by mail, or telephone Main Collection 1s made by carriers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. - Maryland and Virginia Dally and Sunda: $8.40; 1 mo., 70¢ Dadly only $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday onl; . $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yT., $10.00; 1 mo., 85¢ Daaly only. yr., ¥ Sunday only Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled 1o the ‘wse for republication of all news dis intches credited o it or Bot otherwise eredited n this paper and also the local news pud- lished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. The Law and the Ships. In his speech at Denver Monday on law enforcement, President Hard- ing said: Unless, through the recognition and meceptance of the situation in its true light, through the effective enforce- ment of the (prohibition) law by all the constituted authorities, and with the acquiescence of the clearly domi- nant public opinfon of the country, the question is definitely removed from the domain of political action. i will continue a demoralizing ele- ment in our whole public life. It will be @ permanent bar to the wise de- termination of many issues utterly unrelated to the liquor question. It will be the means of encouraging di tespect for many laws. It will bring disrepute upon our community and be pointed to justifying the charge that we are a nation of hypocrites. There can be mo fissue in this In parnmount to that of enforcement of the law. The law of this land now provides that any vehicle or carrier used for the transportation of liquor shall be subject to seizure by the government. Under it numerous carriers have been aken, chiefly motor cars and trucks, d there is no appeal from their con- fiscation. The government finds in this selzure clause in the law an effective weapon In the fight against bootlegging. Now arises the question whether ships entering American ports-with liquor on board, contraband of law, shall be subject to seizure under the same statute. There should be no question. The ships, like the auto- mobiles that have been seized, are sub. Ject to the law, which provides for their condemnation. In this case time has been granted for a full determina- tion by the highest court of the land of the subject of bringing liquors in side of the three-mile limit. That court has ruled that the jurisdiction of the United States extends to them, no matter what their registry, their nationality, and no matter what the purposes for which the liquor is car- ried. The government has made lenient rules permitting the carriage of liquor for “medicinal” purposes. It has, however, refused to allow liquor to be brought in, even under seal, for consumptlon on the return voyage. Ample notice has been given to foreign ship owners of these rulings and decisions. Despite this notice, however, an effort is being made to break down the position of the United States. Liquors have been sent in under seal and the seals have been broken and the liquors seized. Now comes the point of supreme im- portame: Shall the ships be seized if the practice is persisted in of sending these contraband stores into the United States? It is impossible to see how discrim- ination can be shown in this matter. The law i3 explicit. If a schooner laden with liquor runs into the terri- torial waters and is caught she is geized and sold by the government. If a power boat plying from a linuor ship anchored outside of the three-mile line is caught with liquer cn board she also is taken. Does size make a difference? Does the fact that a ship is primarily engaged in legitimate trade render her less sub- Ject to seizure if the law is violated? The President says that law en- forcement is the paramount issue in this land. That means, if it means anything, that 100 per cent enforce- ment is required. There can be but small respect for the law if it is waived by the government in respect tain offenders because of their importance and applied to others. It must be applied to all equally, without discrimination, or it will lack that public support for which the President now pleads and which is the test of citizenship and of national strength. ——— Bomb-throwers have arisen in the Rubr. France regards it as a shame to waste so much physical energy that might have been utilized in coal-pass- ing. et The Improved Fourth. The dangers of the Fourth of July &re not so great as they were a few years ago, but the chief of the fire department issues a warning to par- ents that they shall give strict super- vision to their children while using sparklers and a certain form of toy balloon. Not long ago the celebration of the Fourth of July was attended by as many casualties as a battle and the casualties were commonly among children. The national birthday came even- tually to be called the “tetanus holi- day"” because of the large number of deaths from lockjaw which were at- tributed to the use of firecrackers, torpedoes, toy pistols and other things of an explosive and noise-making character. It was a day of accidents and fires. The hospitals always had @ busy time and fire engines were run- ning here and there In answering alarms. Every home used to have its fireworks and a boy was not thought normal unless he were setting off fire- crackers by the pack. Firecrackers grew in size until some were called “giant crackers" and “cannon crack- ers’ and they were worthy of the names. They would explode with great force and a loud noise. .. Gradually the situation was brought wunder control, but it was at the cost —_——— developed public opinicn against the barbaric an@ dangerous celebration of, the day and in the enactment of laws forbidding the sale and use of ex: plosives in certain forms. A great reform has been brought about and the Fourth has come to be observed as a time for patriotic exercises of an educational nature and as a day for family outings and outdoor sports. Things are very much better than they were. The fire chief in urging care in the use of sparklers says that, although- the rays thrown off are harmless, yet the wire of the sparkier becomes red hot and, “if accidentally touched to a child’s clothing, may ignite a flimsy garment.” The fire chief also warns against the danger of toy balloons that are filled with kerosene-soaked waste, because these in falling may land on & roof and start a fire. Women Gladly Responding. In three states, New York, Massa- chusetts and Pennsylvania, prompt response has followed the request ex- tended by Chairman Adams of the republican national committee to the national committeemen to invite women to assist in an advisory ca- pacity on the comumittee until the national convention can authorize thefr electfon to joint membership on succeeding national committees. In these instances the particular women invited into the party councils form notable examples by their ability and experience in politics of the wisdom of Chairman Adams, with the ap- proval of President Harding, in rec- cgnizing woman workers of the party, In New York, Mrs. Charles H. Sabin was selected by Charles D. Hilles, national committeeman, after con- ferring with Senator Wadsworth and with members of the state committee, thus giving her appointment a flavor of democracy and assuring good team- work and no friction between the state and natlonal organizations. Mrs. Sabin has been identified with politics for a number of years and prior to the enfranchisement of women was an earnest worker in that cause. Massachusetts will be represented in the women's advisory membership by Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird, wife of the progressive republican leader of the Bay state, and who herself has been active in politics, state and na- tional. Her husband was one of the electors-at-large in 1920, and in his illness she filled the vacancy. 8he was asked to take har place on the national committee by National Com= mitteeman William M. Butler, Senator Pepper of Pennsylvenia, rational committeeman, has selected Mrs. Barclay H. Warburton, recog- nized as a for€e in politics in the state. She has for some time served as vice chairman of the republican tate committee and is highly es- teemed for her political sagacity, en- ergy and loyal earnestness by her associates. The care and discrimination shown in the selection of these admittedly competent women forecasts the as- sembling of an advisory committee which should prove a stimulus to the men who now make up the national committee and will undoubtedly “'put them on their toes.” In the demo- cratic natlonal management women have demonstrated their value since 1920. A big vote in 1924 is desirable and the managements of the two parties are doing well to arouse the interest of women in furnishing their hare of promoting attendance at the polls. ————— Failures of stock brokers do not in eny way affect the reports of increas- ed earnings in actual industry. They merely emphasizé the fact that in the effort to accumulate money somebody is liable to guess wrong. ————————————— A welcome will await Mr. Lloyd George If he comes to the U. S. A., especially if he decides to make a few timely remarks. Whether for music or for oratory, America is always a good audience. The speed attained by the Levia- than is the subject of compliment. It is safe to say the boat went faster than any investigation will ever travel. Like others who find disappoint- ment in their political purposes, Oid John Barleycorn plunges in as an in- ternational agitator. If a statesman on tour does all the thinking and talking expected of him it is wrong to refer to his trip as a vacation. Heat and Humidity in London. It must be het in London, hot and humid with the heavy quality of the sea-laden atmosphere of the British Isles. While no meteorological re- ports have lately come from the cap- ital, there are other signs that indicate clearly that the temperature is high and the alr is thick. Members of par. llament are showing evidences of the heat. They are losing their tempers and using language which is decidedly unparliamentary and are ‘getting sus. pended in consequence, No surer in- dication of the heat and humidity could be ha ‘The outburst in the commons which caused the suspension of four labor members was e peculiar affair. The recalcitrants were angered mainly against members of their own party. The trouble arose over the proposed reduction of appropriations for child welfare in Scotland. The Scottish laborites flamed forth in anger, de- nouncing all who had proposed or agreed to the reduction as “mur- derers,” aiming their remarks chiefly at George Lansbury, labor member for Poplar. Labor Leader Macdonald advised them to withdraw their of- fensive wqrds, and this advice made them hotter than ever and they added to their offense with other eplthets, until they were called to order and suspended. Then others caught the fever and harsh words fiew over the chamber and other suspensions were threatened. Parliament develops one of these rows about once a session. Washing- ton has them now and then. but sel- dam bas either house of Congress pro- duced a concerted outburst of anger {of 16ng and active egitation, which { like that which has just occurred in Londom. Usually the congressional ebullition of temperament involves only two persons and the owicome is ordinarily an {nvitation on one side or the other to “settle it outside.” Then the gavel falls sharply and in most cadses members apologize, or the mace is presented and order is restored. Suspension is rare, It must be very hot indeed in Lon- don, and very humid! —————— Capt.. Cool A report has reached the Navy De- partment from the Governor of Amer- ican Samoca that recently a turtle was found in the Tonga Islands that bears marks indicating that it was left there by Capt. James Cook, the explorer, in 1773. It is stated in the announcement that, “despite the es- tablished proclivity of the specles toward records for longevity, the tur- tle exhibited signs of extreme age,” and the governor added that the crea- ture is “blind and, when walking, creaks like an oxcart.” 1t does not follow that because Capt, Cook’s mark was put on that turtle in 1773 the Tonga Island reptile is only 150 years oM. Nobody knows how old it was when Capt. Cook found it. It may have been then a mere youngster of fifty or so, or a veteran of two or three centuries. It may now be 200 years old, or 500. If the latter age, no wonder that it “creaks” when it walks. | The only way to determine the age of a turtle is to mark it when it is born and then trust to luck that it will survive the perils of infancy and will be found later. This Tonga Island turtle is chiefly remarkable for the fact that it is identified with Capt. Cook. It should be cherished and preserved in its senility as long as possible. When it has succumbed to the ravages of the centurles its shell might well be brought to Washington and placed in the National Museum. Then perhaps science can tell about how old it really was when it died, ——— A carefil statesman may express himself with uncompromising firmness in favor of law enforcement without going on record as regarding all laws as sclentifically accurate and minutely Just. automobile knpws better than this. —_———— | England is to have an enormous air force. John Bull is a lover of peace, but does not propose to be as trustful in matters of defense as he was be- fore the great world war took place. The most remarkable thing Wilhelm Hohenzollern has accomplished is his complete retirement from public at- tention. Years ago such a thing did not seem possible. If Germany can get full control of the dye Industries, she may be able to make the paper mark more attrac- tive to the eye if not to the. pocket- book. Determination of Chihuahua to seize American-owned lands would indicate that Mexico is having the farm bloc in its most violent form. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Truancies. ‘When Willie was a littie boy His mother washed his face, His happiness it would destroy, He deemed it a disgrace. But sometimes he'd neglect the school That held his lesson paper And hurry to the swimming pool And splash and whoop and caper! He'd hold his nose and make a dive While comrades hollered, “Looky!™ On bathing there he seemed to thrive While comrades hollered, “Looky!" He'd hit his toe upon a rock, 'Midst poison oak undressing. He didn’t seem to find the shock In any way distressing. Now William goes to base ball games Or sends a golf ball flying, And keeps the score, though business claims His care, there's no denying. This world is pleasant here below And life is full of beauty— But its enjoyment seems to grow Apart from simple duty! Survivors. “Any bootleg law evaders in jail here?” “Only a few,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Most of 'em is in the cemetery.” d Making It Unanimous. Some day we'll have disarmament For aircraft that might harm us, And no mosquitoes will be sent ‘With weapons to alarm us. Challenge to Punsters. It is wicked to suggest puns on a man’s name; but the fact cannot es- cape notice that Gov. Pinchot has ap- pointed to the chairmanship of the Pennsylvania workmen's ~compensa- tion Loard Mr. T. Henry Walnut. Once a forester always a forester. “Faculties” in Retirement. “‘Are intellectual requirements high in the modern college?” “Very,” replied Miss Cayenne. But the more or less metaphysical con- troversies arisnig are causing some of them to lose their faculties.” Utilitarian, “Don’t you despise gossip?” “Not always,” replled the film star. “It may be made a first-rate adver- tising medium.” ’ “De prodigal son,” said Uncle Eben, “was foolish. But he had sense enough to lmo& dat home cookin® beat boardin’ ‘houses.” Worrying Less. “What became of that Pon't Worry Club you used to belong to?" “It took up a more practical form of development,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax, “and resolved itself into a credit men’s assoclation.” Jud Tunkins says & man who thinks life ain’t worth living is generally en- saged in making it seem that way for other people. THE _EVENING it R R A A B AR e TR S’ TP it ettt Bttt l;lllns remedy l' e —L. M. THOMPSON. STAR, WASHINGTO N, D. C, THURSDAY, JUNE 28 -1923. . 2 : ) — : 4 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Some of the actual gold with which Germany mobilized for war has just reached the United States in pay- ment of certain German obligations in this country. It was discovered that the funds, amounting to 80, 000,000 gold marks, consisted of French 20-franc pleces bearing dates prior to 1871, That s evidence of the | fact that the money is part of Ger- many’s celebrated “war chest” of gold established by Bismarck after the Franco-Prussian war and lodged in the famous Spandau Tower near Ber- lin. The Germans extorted $200,000,000 in gold francs from the conquered French. Bismarck earmarked $30,- 000,000 of it for a so-called “‘mobiliza- tion fund,” to be stored permanently in Spandau Tower for the emergency of war. In 1913, as one of its signals of preparations for “the day,” the German government. by vote of the reichstag, trebled the war chest to $90,000,000. * ok ok k R. H. M. Robinson, president of the {United American Lines—the great group of steamship and shipbullding | Interests founded and controlled by young W. Averell Harriman—was a Washingtonian for many years. A graduate of the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Robinson was a com- mander in the construction division of the Navy Department when Har- riman engaged him. He heads the largest single shipping concern in the American merchant marine, with a_ gross tonnage of 400,000. One of these days the Harriman group intends to renew its bid for the Leviathan and other transat- lantic liners now under Shipping! Board control. The Cramp shipyards at Philadelphia are owned by the Robinson-Harriman combination. The United American lines are experienc- ing excellent results from their twen- ty-year reciprocal agreement with the Hamburg-American line. The pact was concluded in Washington In 1920 with Wilhelm Cuno, then manag- ing director of the “Hapag.” and now chancellor of the German republic. * k% % Louis H. Brush of Salem, Ohio, one of the newspaper publishers to whom Mr. Harding has just sold the con trol the Marion Dally Star, w. impressed into a friendly commercial journalistic service by the President a year or two ago. One of Mr. Hard- ing’s cronles, Senator Frederick Hale of Maine, was at that time the owner of a newspaper property at Portland. Hale wanted to dispose of his interest in the business and told the President Any man who has driven an |he was looking for a good man to|calls a good story apropos the deter- negotiate the affair. Harding sug- gested that his friend “Lou” Brush was a past master at that sort of trade, volunteered to secure his ser: lces "and a deal entirely to Hale's satisfaction and profit resulted. * %X X % ‘When F. E. Scobey, director of the | mint, goes on ation this summer, a | young woman, May M. O'Reily, will | be in charge of the colos hoard of | gold over which Uncle Sam holds watch and ward. Miss O'Reily has EDITORIAL DIGEST With the majority of his purely| political addresses disposed of and | with Alaska directly ahead, President Harding. in view of most editors, can | now “get busy” to solve what ad-) mittedly is one of the greatest prob- lems facing the United States. No- body attempts to deny that there is something radically wrong in Alas- kan administration. The falling oft in population, the decrease in ex- ports, the general “looking back- ward™ methods that have been em- phasized in territorial reports prove, the editors see It, the truth of the allegations that “Seward's Folly” is being smothered in red tape. Con- sequently editors hope that when Mr. Harding and his retinue get bach here it will be possible to tell the country just what is wrong and what the remedy must be. After all, edi- tors insist, Alaska is dear to all Americans and they will back up any real plan designed properly to ex- ploit that territory. “There could not be a more thor- ough or sensible plan for getting at the truth of the Alaskan problem,” insists the New York Tribune. “President Harding does not satisfy the hasty generalizers who approach a problem with a preconceived theory and accept only such facts as agree therewith. He makes a profound appeal to the ecommon e of America that looks long, thinks care- fully and decides right.” The Albany News argues that the President “carries with him no sure cures. no newly discovered serum with which to vaccinate and perform the miracle of bestowing instant health, wealth and happiness upon mankind. If the nation isn't ready to listen to the best wisdom and common sense Presi- dent Harding's leadershp can pro- duce, it must do better, if it can.” “It is time the deadlock Iin Wash- Ington in regard to Alaskan policies was relieved,” asserts the Chicago Daily News. '00 many departments and bureaus govern Alaska and the President has been recelving all man- ner of contradictory suggestions con- cerning the proper way to stimulate its industrial and commerclal growth. It is at once natural and commend- able that he should desire to consult officlals and citizens upon the spot, to ascertain the drift of local opinion and sentiment, and to see with his own eyes the needs and the possibili- tles of the_territory.” So far as the Cleveland Plain Dealer is concerned, however, it is far from indorsing the general view, Insisting ‘‘the country will know more about Mr. Harding and his administration when he gets back to Washington than it could know any other way. What Alaska gets out of it is likely to be insig- nt in comparison. The question is whether Mr. Harding, elected thres ysars ago by o majority beyond prec- edent, has lost more than the nor- been the right-hand “man” of direc- tors of the mint for the past seven- teen years. No - incumbent of the office ever knew more about it than she does, and some of them not nearly as much. The world's gold supply to- day is about $9,000,000,000. The United States possesses a little more than a third of it. Miss O'Reily has served under six different Secretaries of the Treasury, dating from George B, Cortelyou's regime. Her first su- perior officer, as director of the mint, was George E. Roberts, one of the ablest who ever filled the office and who held it for several terms—first under McKinley and Roosevelt, and later under Taft and Wilson. * ok ok x J. Hampton Moore, mayor of Phila- delphia, may be tempted into coming to Washington as a super-newspaper correspondent when his term of office expires next year. He has had two flattering offers to join the press gal- lery at the National Capital. Mr. Moore is a reporter by trade and was chasing the nimble item profession- elected to the House ves ten or twelve years ago. He knows Washington and the present generation of public men, is a forceful writer and speaker, and would be an undoubted adorn- ment to the journalistic craft on Capitol Hill. Moore was headed for illimitable political honors when he became mayor of Philadelphla three years ago, but has not hit it off with the powerful republiean organization of the state. Development of the neg- lected waterways system of the At- lantic seaboard 1s one of his present hobbies. * K % Wayne B. Wheeler, commander-in- chief of the prohibition forces of the nation, is henceforth likely to be known in Congress as “the man be- hind the clock.” Representative “Jim" Gallivan of Massachusetts, the chief wet and the chief wit of the House, 80 christened him on the last day of the session of the Sixty-seventh Con- Galllvan was in the midst of inimitable onslaughts on istead act when he spled Wheeler sitting in the public gallery directly behind the clock. It is a place of special vantage for hear- ing purposes and almost conceals the occupant from sight. According to the wets, It's Wheeler's favorite listening post. * ok xox Former Senator, now Representa- tive, Theodore E. Burton of Ohlo re- mination of certain irreconcilable re- publicans to rewrite the rules of the world court. The United States was once participating in an international conference on maritime law. One of our delegates was a super-patriotic soul who objected to Uncle Sam's vlelding an inch to “abroad.” When the question of adopting a code of uniform ignals at sea came up this aborlginal _isolationist —objected such an_entangling, have our own signals!” he inslsted. (Coprright, 1028.) mal shrinkage In public confidence. Any elaborate presidential speaking tour is an experiment. The Winona speech of a dozen years ago will long be remembered. Any President who wishes to keep in line for a second term must tread cautiously on the speaking front.” Regardless, how- ever, of the effect on Alaska, the Nashville Banner approv the trip because “no President can spend all of his time in his office and rely upon information brought him by politi- olans and succeed. He must get out and learn first hand what it is essential he should know. The Chattanooga Ne ing the entire trip, insists ¢hat ‘“not alona_Alaska but the Panama canal and Porto Rico will be penefited by the vieit. “The Presidefit ought to return to his dutles at Washington with a clearer conception and a bet- understanding of the situation than he has heretofors had.” The “rest will do the President and his wife good,” the Indianapolls News asserts. while “the trip will afford the people an opportunity to see their President.” It is suggested in a rather sarcastic vein by the Peoria Transcript that “whether Alaska is to be the paramount issue next year does not appear, but, if so, the Presi- dent will be able to outtalk and pos- sibly outwit any other Alaskan ex- pert who has not visited Alaska. The newspaper correspondents may agree that his speeches have no politl significance, but it is no easy task to discover why Mr. Harding has gone to Alaska." Arguing from another point of view the Utica Press feels whatever “‘motive the politi- cians may ascribe it is well for the “hief Executive of the nation to visit as many sections of the country as possible and acquaint himself ~not only with the character of the people, but with the character of the terrain and its possibilities.” This opinion is indorsed by the Harrisburg Patriot, which feels ‘“no person will object to the tour. It is entirely regu- lar, although it long ceased to be de- fended as anything but a political trip.” “Jurisdiction over Alaska,” Norfolk Virginian-Pilot say: vided in Washington between thirty- five different agencies. With thelr affairs brought under a single unifled control Alaskans belleve their terri- tory will experience & new pros- perity. As a result of the President’s trip it is to be expected that Alaskan problems will divide Interest during the next session of Congress with rallroad and tax legislation.” The need for this is pressing, the Port- land Express _continues, because “Alaska only asks for fair treatment to prove a vast source of wealth to he American nation." The President “will Alaska at its best” accord- ing to the Nashville Tennessean, “and the country will be interested to learn his views of it when he returns.” The Brooklyn Eagle, however, rather feels that “the President doubtless ‘would prefer to spend the time sitting on the back plazza of the Mayflower, because he has anything but a va- cation Job."” IN A FEW WORDS. Culture is very nice, but it has nothing te do with the balance sheet. - THOMAS A. EDISON. The people of Europe seem to con- sider the league of nations a league of donations as far as this nation concerned. SENATOR ASHURST (Ariz.). In Europe the government officials lead public opinion—in America pub- lic opinion leads the government. IRVING T. BUSH. The world is a patient in the hands of quack doctors. The quacks in charge—the Poincares, the Lloyd Georges, the Ludendorfs, the Lenins— .and we have some micro-organisms of our own—have not, during their sev- tient. 3 i S‘ENATOR SHIPSTEAD (Minn.). ractice is an un- Bolshevism in or 'bolshevism in ‘We can only get international peace if the rep%fled |nc.ru.nl|: ‘!h. n:vu- tion of Europe comes n_end. i lonse N—CANON BARNES. * The rules of admisston to” Noah's ark were rational in comparison to the present American immigration T ¢’ M. HODGES. . eral generations of care, improved thol The first requisite of valuable pub- lic service is not the desire to find out what most.people want, but the purpose to help people want, what they ought to have. —M. L. BURTON (President Michigan University). Only by keeping America free and uncommitted will this country -be in position to render just and impartial aid to the world. ' ELIOT WADSWORTH. I war is bad ‘for business, busl- ness 1s good for peace. . —HERBERT HOOVER. Americans are by law. forbldden to do more things and by law forced to do more things in more ways than were the Russian people under th czar or the German people under the kalser. —EX-SENATOR BEVERIDGE. Any politician who tries to make a raliroad a political foet ball is gullty of treason. —A. M. SCHOYER. No one has ever heard of a good sportsman rising among the soclalists or bolshevists. —SIR ROBERT HADFIELD. - When & man is as loyal to his God as a faithful dog is loyal to his mas- ter, that man will have traveled far on’the road which leads to & genu- | inely Christian life. —DR. GROSE. . in_approv- | times. The North Window By LEILA MECHLIN There are some people who seem to cherish the bellef that if they lgnore that which is unpleasant it ceases to exist. There are others, also, who style themselves optimists and re- fuse to belleve that there anything but a bright side to life and. to art. Such dispose of modernism as a pass- ing phase and insist that it is rapldly dying out, but the signs are to the contrary. More and. more the work of the modernists are finding their way into cotemporary exhibitions, The four great prizes given at the Carnegie Institute’s international exhibition were awarded this year to works showing modernistic™ tendencles, if not distinctly modern in character— works perfectly unintelligible, so far as merit goes, to the gene yet these awards were made tists of high standing whe had at- tained to more than years of alsel tion. Exhibitions of works by Mati Gauguin and Van Gogh are still be- ing held in Parls and attracting wid attention. Within the month a groud of students at the Pennsylvania Acad- emy of the Fine Arts, the oldest and oné of the most conservative art schools in the country, petitioned for the appointment of a rank modernist to replace an instructor whose work and teaching are academically sound. These are all startling indications of the spread of modernistic tendencies a condition which, seriously conside ed, cannot help but be found alarm- ing. * k% % An exponent of modernism in art was asked recently to name some of those modernists who through their works had added beauty to the world. After a few moments’ thought one name, and only one name, was given —that of Arthur Davies, to whom the first prize at the Carnegie Institute's international exhibjtion was given for a_picture entitled “After Thoughis of Earth.” But Davis is only half mod- ernist, inasmuch as his landscapes are invariably academic, even classic. The figures that he introduces are unshapely cnough to satisfy the most advanced and are meaningless save as color spots in the composition. But his works are toneful, they are well com- posed, they are beautiful in color, and they are in these particulars just as they were twenty years ago befo he began pursuing the rainbows of “isms.” He {s not a typical modernist. The tendency of modernism In painting, as in literature, is to throw aside that which generations of cul- ture have produced, the flower of clvilization. It is an attempt to re- capture primitive simplicity, which is impossible. however, through the medium of sophistication. In litera- ture it means the adoption of an idiom of “Main Street”; in painting it likewise finds expression in vul- garism. It would seem to indicate a breaking down of an overripe civi- lzation. Marle Antoinette played at being milkmaid; those of the upper classes today seem to be trying to find enjoyment by imitating the low- bred of our citles. * ok ok x To the student of art who merely wants to “get on” modernism holds out allurements, inasmuch as it provides short cuts to attainment, such as it ls. The study of art is a long, tedious business, a discipline against which many rebel, and when prizes are given to works which seem to be ill drawn and roughly painted. which have but slight resemblance to the thing represented, why take the time to learn and to unlearn? The conclusion is logical. The modernist does not try to pre- sent things as they are seen, but rather endeavors to set forth per- sonal Impressions concerning that which is seen; whether these impres- sions be worth while or whether they be intelligent to others seems to ma ter little. The worst of it is that works of this sort are often shown in conjunction with weak paintings of the academic kind, and, through their bolder line and more vigorous color, emphasize the weakness of the latter. Academic art may limp at but it does not always do so. and for this reason it does not need to be cast aside, inasmuch as it has for centuries been joy-giving, en- nobling. Because we have compara- tively few Titians and Rembrandts today does not prove that the way they painted was wrong and that we must invent a new way of our own, * x x ¥ One often hears it sald that the modernists are striving to produce in the epirit of childhood, but when children have a gift they do not produce in this way. For example, take little Eileen Soper, who, when but fifteen, won an enviable reputa- tion for herself by etchings of chil- dren at play. “She is the daughter of an etcher, but her father has not, it is said, in any way influenced her work other than to Insist upon cor- rectness, criticizing it freely and frankly. In a recent exhibition at the Royal Academy, London, she was rep- resented by a series of twenty-two etchings, all of children, charming works, full of action, gayety, co- temporary spirit, but academically sound—that {s, well drawn, nicely composed, _beautifully executed — works Whiéh not only appeal to the eye but the heart, which have a soul and a spirit, as well as visible form. And is not this what the modern- ists are everlastingly talking about —personal expression, indication of thought, yet in this instance not In- compatible with academic formulas? A number of this little English girl's etchings are included in the permanent collection of the Library of Congrees: others have recently been reproduced in the London etudio. One shows a group of children playing leapfrog—a little lass is seen hurt- ling through the air as she makes the leap; another pictures children jumping rope, three in the act of ®oing over; a third shows a group of children coasting on cooters,” and a fourth “the see-saw"—a fear- ful yet delightful maid of three or four poised high in the air. Such pictures give delight and add beauty to the world, which, according to their own confession, the modernists have not yet done. They are real art. and any one is worth all of these un- intelligible, vulgar utterances which are today attracting so much atten- tion, taking prizes and bewildering S0 many. * ok k% In this connection it is interesting to know that the American artist whose works all foreign artists seem, according to Mr. Homer Saint- Gaudens, to agree in admiring, is Albert Ryder, a man who stands high with the collectors and in the estimate of the painters, but who is not so well known by the general public. As a rule he paint little pictures, and most frequently these plctures represent oat salling on a somewhat stormy sea. One of his best known is entitled “The Flying Dutchman.” Excellent examples are to be found in the Evans collection, the Natlonal Gallery of Art, and in the Phillips Memorial Gallery. An exceptionally fine example was re- cently exhibited in & dealer’s collec- tion in St. Lou! Ryder was not a realist, but a painter. His pictures ' are epics, vigorous, dramatic, but they are also extraordiarily lovely in color, rich in tone, and first and last always works of art They are most invariably heavily painted. a rently coat on coat, and present a g utiful surface. ‘They are {llnpu-. instantaneous. effects, beautiful and moving, - made ent. Dl 3 which suggest infinitely more than is said and yet deliver their message through the medium of the most re- fined and’-ac ished art. Here, agaln, is the thing that the modern- ists say they are striving to do, but it is not done at the expense of art or the disregard of beauty, and for this reason {t is intelligible and de- lightful and infinitely worth the do- ing. Albert Ryder was an artist, and in the annals of art in America his name_wi oet- ittle l always be giveh a high| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin Q. Are mosquitos attracted to cer- tain colors?—R. D. A. Mosquitos in thé house are apt to take refuge behind objects, and are cunning enough to settle on dark wood rather than light. It 1s sald they are attracted to black clothing rather than gray or light brown, and that they prefer dark blue and violet to yellow and red. Q. Where is the ceater of the ne- gro population of thé United States? —A. N. A. The bureau of census says that the 1020 census located it dn the extreme northwestern corner of Geor- gla, about one and three-quarter miles northeast of Rising Fawn, Dade county. Q. Who polices the Conduit road?— M A C. A. This is a military road under the Jurisdiction of the War Department, but the District police patrol it. Dis- trict automobiles may travel on this road without Maryland licenses. Q. Where will the national open be held this year?—C. O. L. . A. The national open golf cham- plonship will be decided on the links of the Inwood Couniry Club, the tournament being held July 9-13. In- wood is on Long Island, twenty miles from New York city. Both amateurs and professionals are eligi- ble to enter, the professionals play- ing for purses, but winning amateurs taking the equivalent of the money in plate. This will be the twenty- seventh tournament of this kind. Q. Is there a line of steamships from Baltimore to New York. and one from Baltimore to Philadelphia?—I. D. A. There is no line operating be- tween Baltimore and New York. The Ericsson line runs between Baltimore and Philadelphia. Q. How are arrangements made for the burial of a civil war veteran in the Arlington national cemetery?— M. 8. A. Apply to the cemeterial branch, quartermaster general’s office, War De- partment, Washington, D. C. Q. How are dlamonds tested?—V. C. McK, A. The geological survey says that the ordinary tests to determine the| restricted in North America genuineness of a diamond are to test| Indlans inhabiting the eastern p its specific gravity, hardness and re- fractive index. When further proof is desired the stone is burned in an atmosphere of hydrogen. An or- dinary fire will not affect a diamond it only the atmosphere of the air is|bureau present. substance known. | Diamonds are the hardest|1220 North Capitol street. Q. Please give recipe for mara- schino cherries.—J. R. A. The formula is a trade secret. The following recipe is similar: Mount Morencl or any other firm cherries. Soak them in vinegar for twenty-four hours, then drain. Take equal parts cherries ‘and granulated sugar. Mix thoroughly. Spread on platters apd keep in cool place for seven days,’stirring them each da Put in fars and seal. Stone Q. How long have jockeys worn colors to identity them?—G. L. D. A. There are reeords to show that King Henry VIIT ax early as 1520 dressed his jockeys “in colors—but nothing to prove that the colors were always the same. In 1762 the Jockey Club posted a notice to the effect that several owners of racing horses had selected colors to be worn by their jockeys. Some of the colors chosen then are still in use by the same familfes. s Q. How was the sling David used?—L. G. C. A. The sling In use in the tine of David, and which with small modi- fications is still used by shephe in Palestine, is made of plaiicd thongs or of one strip of leather. probably not over twelve or fourtecn inches in length. The leather is broad at the middie to form a pocket for the stone. Both ends are held firmly in the hand while the sling is whirfed rapidly round and round the head, one end being finally relcased in order that the stone may take its flight. made tha Q. When were belis first placed chureh towers?—J. B. A. The practice of placing bells in church spires or towers for the purpose of calling to worship, toll- ing for the dead, etc. is generally ascribed to Paulinous, Bishop of Nola in Campani, about 3 1 AD. From town came the word ampanile,” bell tower, in or Q. How did the habit rise of lift- ing the hat in salytation?—H. L. A Denudation s a movement symbolic of resignation of ones 800ds to the king, and this is prob- ably the origin of the custom of lifting the hat or removing a glove Q. Did the thefr victims?—N. A. This practice tribes scalp was 1y ris It gradually spread origin: to of the country. over the plains (Do not_telephone vour questio Write them to The Star information , Frederic J. Haskin, director, cents in stamps for return CAPITAL KEYNOTES ~ BY PAUL V. COLLINS Gen. Pershing has developed a plan jof the brain bursting into flame: every of defense of continental United States, approved by the War Depart- ment and heralded as proof against any invasion. The details and essen- tial features are not published, for no plan could be effective if the enemy knew Its weak spots in advance of ; attack. One feature of the defense will con- sist in putting a barbed wire en- tanglement along our entire shore, especially strong where landing par- ties might be halted. There, in con- fusion, the enemy would be at the mercy’ of guns of defense and of mines. * kK ¥ ‘The published reports do not state what is to prevent. parties landing “over the fence” with the aid of air- planes, sent aloft at sea from plane carriers. The next war will not be fought as any previous war has ever been. Wire entanglements, which were almost new In the world war, will be useless if ships can stand thirty miles offshore and bombard citiee, or send torpedoes through water or alr, with wireless guidance, from fifty or one hundred miles at sea. There are many predictions of what the future will bring into war meth- ods, and yesterday's prediction will be obsolete tomorrow. The chiet of air defense of American forces in England prophesied a year before armistice that, before long, the art of fiying would be so perfected that whole_divisions would be “mounted” in either airplanes or dirigible bal- loons, each carrying fifty men. and would leap over the intrenched enemy and suddenly attack from the rear. Now, instead of thousands playing battle leapfrog, or fighting in the clouds, like Tennyson foresaw, a few men will carry enormous’ bombs capable of annihilating a city or an Intrenched army with one explosion and {its escaping polson gas. Or such carriers may ascend bearing no plane is being tested at Dayton this week, sald to be capable of carrying a 10,000-pound bomb, which would destroy a large city with one ex- plosion. 1t Gen. Pershing will build his wire fence high and stout and never for- t to lock the gates, we may rest n fancled security until the bombs begin to fall. Whether the plan in- cludes overhead poultry netting to catch the bombs is not announce: EE New Jersey is reported to be wor- ried as to how to bell its cats so as to glve warning to squirrels; other regions are troubled over fear of un- muzzled dogs, but it remains for ‘Washington to appéal to the police force to catch a $1.000 canary which “flew the coop” last Sunday. Some unbelled cat may have beaten the police, for, owing to the rigid disci- line which forbi patrolmen to un- Eut!on thelr coats, climbing' trees of parks and sidewalks s siow work, especially for all but 1ith& and slen- der officers. Birds have bad habits of not staying in the same tree that the man is climbing. Laddie Boy caught “Pigi napping, and that ended “Plggy.” though “Piggy” was the President’s $1,000 squirrel. What can Laddle Boy do with a canary, belled . or unbelled? Thousand-dollar breakfas for cat or dog are not “normal * % % ¥ The Navy has undertaken to utilize the “work-while-you-sleep” method of Instruction. Special receivers of the radio are attached to the ears of the trainees, when "they retire to restorer, balmy t les- 80 conscl It used to be accepted that 18 no royal road to learning.” but no longer need we lose time from work or play of our consclous wake-time, simply in order to study dry lessons. All that is needed is to park our sub- consclous mind upon a radio and let science take its course. It any jeular _brain-groove seems shallow, so that the idea slips ut of it, the radio can be set to glx ing. it deeper, by repetition all night, and no.time lost from dally ‘vocatian. compl can thus be drills the scale: not learn sc fast as those gentle souls whose sub-consc “go softly all their days"—or nights —but there will be added attach- ‘ments to meet such cases. * % % % Some psychologists define an idea as “an"explokivn or' discharge of the tiee | brain cell; aqgemetion ae ap actiity feeling of Iove, aspiration or fear can be explained as due 10 purely physical changes which produce the vapor of thought or the aroma of virtue.” ‘Therefore, the wise student will have lghtning rods on his ra nightcap, and an automatic spray eau de cologne to neutralize “vapor of thought,” if he is to take a lesson in higher mathematics, seeks solutions for an Edison ques- tionalre, or is cramming to take a civil service “exam.” * ok K x “Europe hak no hafe of Armerica” So we are assured by a noted London preacher. That puts an end to har- rowing suspense, for why deny our self-consciousness of guilt? Did not America begin foisting billion-dollar loans upon Europe. early in the war, in spite of her need of money to save the liberty of the world. And we are not hated for that? Did not America invest more bil lions in combating the starvation of Europe's millions? Has not our ganized charity prevented the most awful desolation and death that the world has ever known? And we are not hated for it? Our consclences confess that have rescued millions of Europeans trom untimely graves, saved millions of Europe's innocent children and made it possible to repeople he homes and preserve the coming gen- erations! Not -even hated perfidy against Woden? ‘The Spanish have a proverb: “There's nothing in this world sweet as love, and next to love hate!” Hate rankleth long and is_bitter Hate coveteth, hate envieth. Hate is casily puffed up. It we canceled our European debt. would we be perpetually hated? Could Europe imagine that we could be goneroug without some ulterior m. tive? How could we achi hatred against us—or even as expressed by the Athenian who de- termined to vote against Ar because everybody called him and he was tired of hearing virtue expatiated upon. e for such civilized the worshipers is such An inventive bootlegger has con- trived an automoblle wtih a self- destroyer, as effective as a self starter. All he has to do when he sees officers headed his way Is to step on a button and the whole thing ex- plodes after fifteen seconds of clock- work grace, enabling the owner to escape blowing up with it. That de- strovs the evidence,.and the auto- mobile, too, but it prevents a term in prison. The next move will bé for the polica or prohibition officers to plant frizhi- ful jacks-in-the-box at every turn in the road and watch the moonshine do the rest. * k k¥ Lawyers are criticising the prohi- bition enforcement officers of New York for failing to confiscate the ships which have violated the V¢ stead law, as well as confiscating thelr contraband liquor. They allege that the same law that requires c fiscation of bootlegger automobiles, as well as the liquor found in them. requires confiscation of shipy under simijlar circumstances. President Harding, in Denver, and Lord Astor, in parliament, sound the warning note to the effect that law enforcement In America cannot be taken as a joke, and Premier Bald- win of Great Britain informs the radicals that the United States is clearly within law In breaking gov- ernment seals when searching for contraband cargo. * % K % Thers have been, periods of uncer- tainty, even for the backers of the Volstead law, but the President takes the outstanding position that this is not now a question of approval or disapproval ‘of any particular law: the Volstead law is law, and will be enforced. Executive officers—includ- ing_state or municipal officers—have no giscretion in the matter of law en- forcement; it s mandatory.. State of- ficialy, says the President, are obl gated to support all laws, state or federal, and the movement of certain state to dodge the obligation is but an tempt of the states to nullify, not a federal law, but state rights. This is the first time in history where a state has attempted to nullify state Tights = e (Copyright, 1923, by P."V. COlllSE) -~