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by Gen. O. O. Howard and other: ? | About 1868 they bought part of the tract of St. Elizabeth's, and which part was best known as Barry farm. Lots were sbld to freemen on terms they could meet, and they were aided {in putting up small houses. That set- tlement was called Hillsdale. It occu- pied the heights above and the slopes of the valley of Stickfoot branch, which was then a picturesque creek. It was, and is, a region of fine scenery. East® of and adjoining Hillsdale, Howardtown and Stantontown grew up, but only a local geographer could define the boundaries between the vil- lages. In the early 80s part of the tract Chichester, between Fort Stan- ton and Hamilton road, was opened as a subdivision for colored people. It ‘was called Garfield. In the news concerning the polluted wells it was saild: “The health of a large section of Anacostia is menaced by inadequate water and sewer serv- ie That is & geographical error which has persisted for nearly half a century. When the first Navy Yard bridge was built in 1820 the usuel bridge-end settlement grew up at the south end. In the 60s the Van Hook subdivision of Unfontown was opened. Pretty homes and gardens of people, for the most part employed in Wash- ingtgn, spread beyond the limits of Unlontown, and the people living with- in and without the bounds of the old subdivision began to call their town Anacostia, after the wide and beautiful river near which they lived. The name of the first horse-car line to run from Washington to any of ite sub- urbs was the Anacostia and Potomac River rallway. That was about 1876. | The post office name was changed from Uniontown to Anacostia, and “niontown” sticks only in the rhemory of old inhabitants. A few years ago a considerable stretch of country intervened between Anacostia and Hillsdale, and there is still a wide expanse of country between Anacostfa and Garfield. THE EVENING STA With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. . July 3, 1023 | THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Buslness Office, 11th 8t. and Pennsyivania Ave. New York Ot 110 East 42nd Rt Chicago Offiee ‘Tower Bulldi ‘European Oftice: 16 Regent St.. London, the Sunday morning rriers within the clt ouly, 45 cents fs per month. Or- o telephone Main by carriers at the The Evening Star, wi edition, Is delivered by at 60 conts per mont! : Sudny onl end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 5., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c Daily only .. 50¢ Bunday only. .0 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunda; $10.00; 1 mo., Daily only $7.00; 1 mo. Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press Is exclusively entit to the use for republication of all news di patches credited to it or not otherwise credl in this paper and also the local news pub- lished herein. ~All rights of publication of *#pecial dispatches herein are alko reserved. o it i . = No Reduced Taxation. Senator Smoot of Utah, who is to be chairman of the Senate committee on finance in the next Congress, will leave behind him a feeling of distinct disappointment in the public's mind as he departs for Europe tomorrow to study financlal and economic condi- tions abroad. In an interview he pre- dicts the unlikelihood of Congress enacting any legislation looking to reduced taxation at the session which will begin in December. He admits that there is public demand for lower taxes, and recognizes the political as- pect of the question, but says the gov- ernment has not gone far enough in | reducing its debt to undertake to cut down its income. This is discouraging news, indeed, coming as it does from the man who ought to know by virtue of his fa- miliarity with the finances and legis- lation of the country. Senator Smoot asserts that the expenses of the gov- ernment are likely to increase, rather { than be reduced, foreclosing hope of curtailing its income by lowering taxes. He looks for demand for the passage of an omnibus public building bill in the nex session, and is con- fident that a soldiers’ bonus bill will be enacted, even if it must be done by passing it President Harding's veto. About the only cheerful suggestion he has for the public is the poseible lowering of freight rates to help the | farmers. He thinks the roads are pros. P rous enough to lessen their carrying clurges, for which there is insistent demand, especlally in the west. ‘The politiclans will foresee impor- it political consequences it Senator forecast of noreduction of taxes | fulfilled. The democrats are cermini » emphasize the demand for reduction, ich they can safely do because they ve no responsibility In the prem- They know that it will be prac- ally fmpossible for the republicans, in the face of clamor for a soldiers’ —————————— Co-Operation and Street Safety. A new slogan has been blazoned upon the streets of Washington in the campaign for safety. It reads: “Co- operate with the police! When cross- ing a street obey the semaphore, lis to the whistl Every pedestrian should obey this injunction. It is backed by a new rule of procedure at the crowded crossings where the traffic is controlled by po- licemen. Under this rule a traffic of- ficer will give a whistle signal a few seconds before he turns the semaphore or otherwise gives the sign for the traflic to move. This will give an op- | portunity for all who are between the curbs on foot to reach the objective side of the street before the blocked traffic begins to advance. Under the old practice it has been | necessary for pedestrians at regulated street crossings to keep one eve on the ; semaphore or the policeman's hand and the other on the waiting motors banked up against the white lines. They might be caught in the middle of the street by the change of the signal and the advance of the traffic. Now a whistle will give them warning sufficient to enable them to get to the curb, and will at the same time warn bonus, to do ariything in the way of reduction, and they may be counted uron to assail the party in power with all their might for not accom- plishing reduction. —_——— Ambitions of Boyhood. Every boy in the United States knows precisely how Warren G. Harding felt years ago when he as- pired to run a locomotive. For every American boy has probably felt, just that way, envying the man in the cab who, with hand on throttle, con- trols the power that pulls the train. Yesterday Warren G. Harding’s boy- hood ambition was realized. He drove a locomotive for twelve miles in the Rockies. True, it was not one of the | old-style steam “engines” puffing and snorting and sizzing. It was an elec- tric locomotive. But it pulled the train, and that is, after all, the big thing. Warren G. Harding, now President of the United States, was as a boy about like every other American boy in his ambitions and tastes and ideals. Probably when he was a boy he thought that possibly he might some day sit in the White House. That is a fundamental notion that every youth in this land some time entertains. That and the thought of driving a locomo- tive. Now Warren G. Harding has had both hopes realized. He has be- | come President and he has “pulled a train.” those still on the sidewalk that there will be no chance to cross before the traffic starts. Another phase of the new rules just been put in practice for trial dur: ing the month of July will check the practice of right-hand turns through the pedestrian lines without special warning and signal from the traffic officer. This corner cutting has been one of the most difficult factors in the traffic control system. If pedestrians will co-operate by watching the visual signals and heed- ing the whistles there will be much less difficulty at the crossings. No one should start to cross a street in which the traffic has been checked after the whistle has blown. It is nec- essary, therefore, to listen for this signal. Possibly the whistles now in use are not quite distinctive enough. Others may be adopted so that there can be no reason why every pedestrian does not get ample warning at thel change of traffic impulse. Co-operation i8 the keynote of street safety—co-operation between pedes- trians and the motorist and between all street users and the police. ——————— The sum of $100,000 offered by Mr. Bok as a prize for the best suggestion as to how the U. 8. A. can enter the league of nations sounds large; al- though the undertaking has already cost a great deal more than that. ——————————————— New York city wants municipal golf links and more housing facilities. Real estate experts are trying to figure out how the big town can have both un- ! less some method can be devised for playing the game vertically. - ———t———— One_ of the democratic suggestions for presidential candidacy shows a dis- ereet inclination to throw into neutral. Polluted Wells. It is a surprise to a large part of | the people of Washington that there are still thickly settled sections of the District without sewer facilities and with no other water supply than ob- tained from wells and springs. This | has recently been brought out by the ! health department in cases arising in Hillsdale and Garfleld, old and large villages of colored people beyond the Eastern branch. In much of the Hills- dale section it is sald that the nearest city water main is half a mile away, and that in the Garfleld section the nearest water main or sewer is more than a mile away. What is true of these sections is . Farmers in considering the markets are differing in views as to whether | the tariff addresses itself to wheat to the eéxclusion of a certain amount of chaff. ———— Nebraska is to have an authors’ week. The literary trail is evidently moving on westward from Indiana. ——— Personal Taxes, This is the month in which the Dis- trict citizen should make out and file { his personal tax return. By perform- probably true of other sections of the District. There must soon be an ex- tension of water and sewer facilities to these places, and under the assess- ment plan financial hardship will be imposed on many hundreds of poor | people, but the question of their hesith and the public health must come first. Hillsdale goes back to civil war days. ‘When forts for the defense of Wash- ington were built refugee slaves began to camp near them. They built rude shelters and often had difficulty in obtaining food. After emancipation there was a great influx of those who had been slaves. Thousands came to ‘Washington, and thousands settled in and about the old refugee camps. Much hunger and disease were known in these settlements, and various projects for the betterment of fhe people were undertaken. ing this necessary function in good time confusion will be avoided and a penalty of 20 per cent will be saved. Each of these considerations ought to urge to promptness in filling out the blank form and sending it to the proper authorities as provided by law. If the return is not filed before August 1.a penalty of 20 per cent will be added to the tax. Though the filing of the tax statement should be made this month the tax is not to be paid till later. One-half of the tax is payable in enforced. The assessor 86,000 personal tax returns were flled last yeur, that it is believed that ! 45,000 will be filed this year, and that last year “hundreds of persons had & penalty of 20 per cent added to their. assessments for falling to get their returns in during July.”- Whether the Increase in the number of personal tax returns over last year will be as great as the asgessor be- lleves remains to be seen. Tax col- lectors are always hoping for en in- crease in taxpayers and in collections. It may be that the local tax gatherers are getting a line on persons ' who should have paid a tax last year, but who did not. Perhaps the increase in the number of returns which the as- sessor looks for may come about be- cause of the increase in the number of automobile owners, and perhaps th8. large’ number of persons who have taken up housekeeping in new homes will help to swell the list. A personal tax is collectable on household furnishings in, excess of a value of $1,000, on automobiles owned outright or being purchased on time payments on July 1, on bank balances subject to check, on all jewelry ex- cepting watches and on stocks and bonds with certain exemptions which most holders of these forms of securi- ties understand or on which they can’ easily inform themselves. l Summer Schools Crowded. The public schools of the regular term have suffered from congestion for years, and now the crowd pressure upon the summer schools proves greater than the money available can provide against. The report is that the summer schools were filled to capacity on the opening day, and that many children may be turned away because “the limited summer school appropriation will prevent the ap- pointment of additional teachers.” In. adequacy of public school facilities in the District is an old story, and the situation calls for a remedy. There are promises that a better day is com- ing in course of time, and hopeful persons believe that the promises will be fulfilled. The outturn of children for enroll- ment in the summer schools for a six- week intensive course is remarkable. If children are eager and willing to give up six weeks of their normal playtime in an effort to make good in studies in which they fell behind during the regular term, or to cut a semester from their school life by keeping at their books in summer, facilities by which they may do these things should be furnished. It was forecast by the director of special schools and his asaistants that enrollment in the vacation schools would be greater this summer than in any other year, and provision was made for 3,000. That estimate was ex- cceded on the opening day of the schools, and the registration is prob- ably above 3,500. Next year it will be larger. More children are turning year by year to the vacation schools for help. —————————— Numerous foreign stage successes are to be shown in this country next winter. Authors and actors will be CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS ‘The American Legion was one of the prime movers in the recent con- erence of aixty-eight patriotic so- ’xledu upon how to prevent desecra- tion of the United States flag. An elgborate code was formulated at the conference, contalning specific rules for, the hanging of the flag. Since then the American Legion has vio- 1al many of the rules. This has not been done through any desire to violate the code, but’ because the rules have not yet been written on the héarts of Individuals as living, practi laws of conduct. They sound fine when the committee reads tham, but when decorators and ar- tisty get busy, what are rules be- tween frignds GQ. L PP Rule § of the code says. “When) the flag of the United States is displaygd other than flown from & staff it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out. When di played horlzantally or vertically, against a wall, the union should be uppermost, and to the flag's right, Le. to the observers lef{.” At the banquet given by the Ameri- can Leglon last Week to its national commander the flags were festooned in groups, wherein half of them had thelr unions revelsed—to the ob- server's right. Nofe was displayed flat. all were caught 'n & bunch at the bottom. * K k¥ At a District conventlen of deley of all American Legion posts of the District of Columbia ‘ast Friday evening the flag was complcuous by | its total absence, though the cere- | mony of opening and clsing any | Legion meeting requires the flag salute. * x k¥ A Nor is this apparent indiffer\nce to ! the flag code confined to the lumc!' of Columbla. The American Legion Weekly, the organ of the natlonal organizaton, has undertaken* to celebrate he Fourth of July with & prize designin colors on the front cover of the pu.- lication. On page 18 of the same num ber it calls attention to this picture, as follows: “An_American of Itallan extraction who had served the country of his birth as a naval officer, and been wounded In action against the enemy before the world war was even dreanied of, won the first prize in the annual Fourth of July American Weekly cover contest, open to federal vocational training students who are studying at the Soclety of Illustrators’ School for Disabled Soldlers, in New York city. Two prizes were offered, one of $100 and one of $65. The first prize went to Hidolph A. Bianconeini, whose winning design appears on the cover of this issue.” It is not to the discredit of the Italian artist that his winning design violates the code. How about the American judges who failed to note the errors. The artistlc character of the frontisplece 1s not criticized. * ok k% The design depicts Liberty, as a woman—a left-handed fighting wom- an, for she carries her sword in its scabbard on her right hip, where she would have to use her, left hand in drawing It. Her left arm, however, bears as a shield a large reproduction of the Legion insignia; this is pic- tured against a large flag behind her. The (s'ude says in its list of “Don’ts” —No. §: “Do not place any object or emblem of any kind on or above the flag of the United States.” It may be argued that this shield is not pictured as being painted on the flag itself, but as a shield before the ag. made welcome as well as lecturers and diplomats. ————————————— Alaska would have become a great political news center if President Harding had reserved all his remarks until he reached his destination. ———e——————— It is not difficult to draft wealth for a war. Its distribution, however, re- mains a problem even greater than in time of peace. —————————— According to the dry statesmen, the country is full of people who disap- prove of prohibition, but insist on voting for it, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. High Cost of Art. Oh, Geraldine, thou footlight queen, My shekels it doth wring ‘When I behold the tragic-scene ‘Where you appear to sing. Oh, Geraldine, your art must win A liberal fee, of course, Because you need the money in An action for divorce. We know Fame craves an exploit new. Yet, patient and serene, ‘We hope you can make thig one do Some years, oh, Geraldine. . Shut Out, “Haven't you a trade or profes- sion?” inquired the sympathetic tranger. “Yes,” replied the mendicant. “I'm a fine and fancy bartender, but I can’t get employment.” “Because of prohibition?" “No. On account of being subject to sea-sickness.” Celebrating the Glorious Fourth. Now patriotism lift the cry In an emphatic way. One boxer blacks another’s eve ‘While thousands shout ‘‘Hooray!" Diplomatic Rejoinders. “Uncle Sam is disposed to speak gently about the twelve-mile limit. “He is," replied Senator Sorghum. “But this is no reason why incoming ships should adopt a speak-casy pro- gram, A Question Settled. “Some questions are never settled,” exclaimed the weary citizen. “That statement goes a little too far. All doubt has been removed, at least for this year, as to whether it's time to 'wear a straw hat. Jud Tunkins says mebbe one reason ‘why children don’t grow up with more respect for their parents is that they November and the remainder is pay- able next May. There is always a rush of taxpayers toward the close of the periods in which tax statements must be filled and taxes paid. Wise persons avoid the rush. It saves time, trouble and money to be forehanded or at least punctual in the payment of taxes. In most cases taxes are hard to pay, and remember subconsciously the baby talk formerly addressed to them. No Idle Innuendo. ‘Whenever there's a rumor That boosted cost is due, The canny coal consumer Knows for once that gossip's true. | “When a man says he enjoys fishin® in a rainstorm,” said Uncle Eben, “he One measure 'of relief for those who | this 15 especlally the case with per-|don’ prove nothin’ to me, 'ceppin’ dat had settled on private land near the{sonal taxes, but the law must be|he'd rather do aenything than stay * Eastern branch forts was undertaken Jobeyed. It s enforceable and will be | home.” * ok ok % However that may be, Liberty is at- tired in tbe flag of the United States. The dress consists of a walst of the starry unlon, partly covered by a coat of malil, together with a skirt of red and white stripes. If the whole had been either the union or had been merely the red and white stripes the plea might have been made that it was only bunting, but the combination. as pictured, is unmistakably the flag—not buntihg. No. 12 of the code’s “Don’ts” says: American “either & speclmen of humor or a serlous enormity,” and he seems inclined to regard it as the latter, to judge by his remarks to the recent conference of British and American professors of English. A number of editors agree with Dr. Van Dyke and, like him, decry the ‘slovenly manner” in which the mother tongue Is used in the United States. At the same time Henry L. Menken, whom the Princeton pro- fessor was indirectly attacking and who might be called the founder and discoverer of the American language, is not left altogether without the support of his journalistic brethren. “Anglophobia has had no more fu- tile manifestation than the proposal for a distinctive American language, declares the Loulsville Courier-Jour- mal, a movement which the paper says has the backing of “the literati who have been bitten by the anti- British bug. or literary fanatics who favor any fad that has the appear- ance of being new or intellectual.” The political slant which the Courier- Journal Suggests is not, howeve constdered by other commentator imost of whom point out that the de- cadence that is complained of is just as true of British writers and British people generally as it is of us. Slov- enliness and “the besetting sin of laziness” are responsible for the threatened growth of an “American language,” as the Philadelphia Rec- ord diagnoses the malady. “Bgth these faults” it belleves, “conspire to make the enormity of ‘free ve that passes for poetry, the claptrap that usurps the honorable place of the essay and the slangy and frothy tales of trlvl;lll:e hich are now served up as fictiol But “Dr."Van Dyke would admit,” or at least, the Paterson Press Guar- dian thinks, “ought to admit, that some slight variation from the parent tongue is inevitable in Americ | that both here and in England the language will be gradually broad- ened, 0 phrases of colloquial origin.” Cer- tainly “the new-made slang of Amer- jca now and then supplies the Eng- lish-speaking world with a word or an expression that conveys meaning never precisely expressed before, ldgl the Detroit Free Press. ut to other writers this line of argument proves that, as the Pitts burgh Sun puts it Mr. Menken rophocy of a distinctively Amer- can tongue “stands little chance of fulfillment,” because “the pendulum is swinging th:d uthcr' wtyl.‘y'r::‘dx‘-,t-n today is toward conformity, - 4 The New York wherein “the ican language” can basing it on the that differences between Our own Sp and that of the English will increase with time.” As a matter of fact, the Herald maintains that “incr closer communication between the two countries s cortainly not going to make for greater differen in their speech, and Americans and Britons “are becoming better ac- quainted all the time with one anoth. or's use of the langusge,” in illus. tration of which the paper points out that “Englishmen no longer wrinkle and { pldest flag in the world. ngly | Wikan t use the flag of the United & portion of a costume." * % k¥ At the feet of Liberty lies a dead soldler covered with a fl Does he represent a soldler of the revolu- tion? His breast straps cross like those of the revolution, but the color of the uniform is khaki, like the world war_uniform: The flag over the body shows ten stars, arranged in a circle. Was that a revolutionary flag, with the three unseen stars hidden by the folds? No modern flag has its stars in a circle. L The flag does not lie correctly upon the body of the soldler. It has the stars at the left of the observer, spread over the ground, stretching three or four feet from the body, while regulations require that the stars shall be reversed from the posi- tion used for all other occaslo: and the stars shall lle over the heart of the soldier, the stripes, in this case, to lle to the left, and run parallel with the body, not crosswise. No. 13 of the main body of the code says: “When used to- cover a casket the flag should be placed so that the union is at the head and over the left shoulder.” * ok ok % These criticisms are not made in a captious spirit, but that they may impress the reader with the need of studying the code. While the code itself has no official status, as yet, it is almost entirely a compllation of laws and army regulations, and has been formulated by the sixty-elght societies which are especially de- voted to such matters, It is intended as a gulde for state legislation to be promoted by committees appointed for the purpose of securing uniform state laws. The District of Columbia has laws more fully covering the sub ject than has any state, which ha been due to the activity of the Daughters of the American Revolu- on. This subject is timely because of the proximity’ of the Fourth of July, when the flag will again be displayed. * ok x ok The flag of the United States is the The flag M Great Britain as it now appears Qtes from 1801; that of Spain, In 1%5; the tri-color of France, in 1794. h present flag of Portugal was adGted in 1830 and of Italy in 1848, and the flag of Germany under the ohnzollerns (now discarded through defed) dates from 1571. No Suropean flag has had so many dle Inlts defense. * % % x The \rst use of the Stars and Stripes vas at the battle of the Brandywno, September 11, 1777— eight dayeafter its adoption by Con- gress at Wiladelphia. Betsy Ross had made e first flag in early June of the saMy year. From 1795 to 1818 it was ntended to add a stripe as well as awar for each new state, and during %ut period there were fifteen stribes. That idea wae aban- doned In 1318 o avold throwing the rhape «»utr nlf wroportion. If there were now forty=jghi - ent width, the Yags hist werend be twice as gred g jts “fy.” Now the thirteen stries are permanent and represent th original states, while the stars apresent the cur- rent number of tates—each star standing for 18 Rrticular state— but the distranchise District of Co- lumbia has no star ) the flag. * K Ky Legionnaires are @itified over a letter received bY Gairman Joe Sparks of the national enabilitation committee from Directofines of the Veterans' Bureau. saying “It is the policy of the bureau to wacuate all its beneficlaries from contres fnstitu- tions during the coming Yar, trans- ferring them to hospitals nder the jurisdiction of the bureau. There has been no causéof com- plaint against the care of he vet- erans 8o acute as that of arming the sick out to “contract hoatals” In many cases their treatmet hag been unbellevably cruel. (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collin “p Stat | EDITORIAL DIGEST When Is the “American Language” Not Really Anything of the Sort? To Dr. Henry Van Dyke the pro- posal of an “American language” is thelr brows when Americang says guess 80’ b But while that may tend to prov tho impossibility of a distinctively American _language as a vernacular other conclusion to be drawn from this trend toward unity, which the Boston Transcript points out at some length, and it speaks volumes for | the virility of “Americanese.” There | can be “no distinctive American lan- guag the Trangcript grants, but the reason is that “all other English speaking countries, including ng- land, are constantly engaged in transferring to their own vernacular all the peculiarities of speech that are developed in this country. ® * @ Literally by the thousands, pecullarly American words, words used in a pe- culiarly American way and American locutions have passed into daily use in Britaln, and American_habits of spgech have affected the British do- minions rather more powerfully than English habits.”” Whether or not it is true that from a nationalistic standpoint “we should be froe if w had a distinctive American language, we may at all events console our- selves with the reflection “that if we are going to speak the language of England in perpetuity, it is, together with the speech of England itself, be- coming less English every day. But “the American language as a flexible, ever vigorous, growing, thoroughly characteristic product of our development is already coming,” the Boston Globe declares, for lan- guage “has always grown from the bottom up, very rarely from the top down. It is based upon the needs and mede of expression of the plain masses of folk, rather than upon the elegant aspirations of classes.” So the Globe finds it “reasonable to sup- pose that an American language Is no impossibility. English is and will |remain our basic tongue” but “the great masses of foreign-language speaking folk whom we have been, and still are, busily absorbing the melange of viewpoints, of turns of thought, of imported color and em- and idiom—all these, added to our*own divergent growth as a na- tion, are bound to impress themselves upon English as spoken in America.” phasl In a Few Words. I am far from being a pacificist, but if not enriched, by words Or |y do protest against that patriotism which deolares our country to be the greatest and always right, whether right or wrong. —REV. DR. CHAS. H. BRENT. Whenever you restrict the power of the majority you necessarily In- creave the power of the minorit -mv?“mmn-r G. RITCH. fe. It is perfectly compatible to be- lleve in evolution and God at the is simply man’s way of explaining God's same time. Evolution method of working in nature. —BISHOP CHARLES WOODCOCK. ‘Women as a class are not, I be lieve, so likely as men to be politi- ally a little cynical. oy —GOV. }('!IFFORD PINCHOT. ‘The labor party to the abuses of capitallsm. —SIR JOHN SIMON. | ticular line there can be no justifica say they are op- posed to capitalism. What they mean I suppose is that they are o l;d ork- ing men, by thrift and energy, will ll!uyl #ave money and apply it for their own good—and that is cepital- ism. NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM AFTER ALL. George F. Hummel. Bon! and Liveright. ‘There are two “After Alls” to this romance. The first one stands as a climax In a . properly constructed drama. The other presents the familiar anti-climax with which life forever denies art, offering no more than a shred here, a patch there, out of the full fabric of rewards and easements that art so neatly portrays through the loglc of its carefully selected situations. A fair break With the literary convention this one, too, for the story is a study of life, not an invention suggested by it. To be sure, as life it gives but one man's experience. To be sure, It covers but one man’s convictions. The situation involved, however, is a general one— as general the widespread insti- tution of marriage. The conclusion Is, therefore, calculated to reach far and to take a fighting hold upon the prepos ons of innumerable read- ers. * k% % And what is that vital point upon Which the romance converges? Just this: The state of marriage consti- tutes the biggest handicap that life has so far devised to hold man back from any considerable development of his own inherent powers, from any possibility of his best achieve- ment, from the realization of any of the brightest of his dreams. Such conclusion, thoroughly tried out, serves to separate the husband and wife who center this particular situa- tlon. Now, if thiv romance were pure art, it would stop short here upon the tragic note of a family gone to wreckage. But this is life, and so the crisls merely holds the story in sus- pension. And at the critical mo- ment_life, the great opportunist, in- tervenes, offering its usual make- #hift, down-at-heel compromise. This, cepted, provides the second “after all” the anti-climax, to an uncom- monly searching bit of soclal realism drawn off into a modern romance of striking feature and effect. * ok ok K And what wrought dissolution to thisparticular marriage bond? Nothing atall. Thatis, nothingatall in the com- mon rigmarole of cause for such cf- fect. No broken vows, no allenated affections, no this, no that, set up against the recognized code ‘that has bullt itself strong and high for the safekeeping of the ancient and hon- orable Institution of marrisge. If none of these things, then what? Just the system of never-ending compromise ~and accommodation— twenty-four hours a day of it for 365 days a year and “one day more each year in four." Trifles the most of them—"Let's do this. No, let's do 'm not going to-night. Yes, you ‘are. Whatll they think? ot that way. Right over here.” “Same old dinner, great Scott!” “Can't my things be put where there is some chance of finding them!” Just about as little as this—but Lord! how these littlenessesdonibbleand gnaw and dig in! The Spartan boy, calm of front While the fox was dining off his in- sides, had nothing at all for endur- ance ‘on this married pair, chewed to bits by the business of trying to make & go of matrimony. Common people? Quite the contrary. But even If they were, that would make them only a part of the great ma- jority.” And meanwhile what has be- come’ of the old bright dreams Where is %the time to hold to one individuallly, to have one's own thoughts, 1o ‘salvage a scrap of one's own particular leisure, to rescue one's own soul from sheer damnation? Finally, the separation. And this act, in any other line of life, would have justified itself by subsequen events. But, of course, in this par tion. However, just in passing let us see what does happen. Both romptly take a new lease on life. he man goes back to his dreams, (o his old practice of seizing upon the beauty of life and setting it to word and phrase. A _writer whom the world wants. The woman starts anew upon an old course of public service, a sane and intelligent work- er, for whom there is need and a place. This is really what does hap- pen. P*Row, In the course of time, not over long, something assails the man. Is it the years coming on? Maybe it is_but the memory of the best of the home, now broken. Maybe it is only the poignant, deep-seated home- sickness—for God knows what!— that every mortal knows. Whatever the caus near or remote, the man is clearly homesick. He feels again— now with something lke comfort— the house-bond, the community-bond settling upon him. Maybe recollec- tions of the immediate past, maybe separate from English, there is an-lome far call out of an immeasurable | some well-to-do and intellige st, when human learned to flock for Mety. Nobody knows. He knows Mst of all. But he is homesick. And | Us {s the moment when pure art Diks her budget and goes home. Just th moment when life steps Into turn € customary trick of compromise. hijs the anti-climax to art, but it is Othe very essence of life and hu- mamature. S0y the story ends—not as you think maybe, since these two have not thyeled equally along the road of life—# there are disparities yet. * X X % A 100 time, relatively, spent on what 18 It a part of this uncommonly sincere 8y peautifud story of the life of Gus Biyner up to the point where We have gyed so long. It begins away backyhen Gus, a little fellow, could swim e g tadpole, when there wasn't a tréin Bishop's woods that he couldn’t Chp, when he was ‘Black Snake’ in_th®naian tribe, of which Red Cloud.’ th blacksmith's boy, was chief, when Bgould row a boat in every Kind of reather all over the bay and knew t, swamps and woods like the back ' 'his hand for ten miles around. Aough little animal with the love of £ opon soaked cloan into his blood. the school days come, with this &6 outepoken sin- cerity to PpICture ‘em. “And those other days, so beSii ing: 'wo qifn. cult, to the Rrowingoy, wherein his dominant passion, Wltever it may be. rides the boy fast al harg till some sure place of COMDPO&e and control and understanding o up ‘before him. Gus Brenner is I'ep by, S1O7S beauty—the beauty of o Wworla, the beauty of women, of mi," ¢ whot ever God has made to 88,y the need of man for things fine iq g {0 C It s under this single dony, §o U the story develops in a beay muq. ot sincerity and simplicity. * % k X% One thing sets this romdy quite apart from the class which, o1 the surface, it appears to resembi mp; class makes much of its Xy Many of these stories go b-&n s m. all and women. Frank disclosurg ., ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin Q. How many telephone calls are made here daily? P L A. The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company handles between 350,000 and 400,000 calls & day. Q. How did the government acquire Bolling Field? L. M. A. This land was reclaimed, the work being done under the direction of the Army engineers. The title to the land thus made rested in the gov- ernment, since in the District the gov- ernment owns all of the river bottom. Twelve or fourteen years of work has been done on this project, and the present Bolling Field is still to be raised, and other land not yet re- claimed will be added to it. Q. How many of the victory bonds have not yet been turned in for re- demption? Wic. A. There are outstanding in the hands of the public approximately 4200,000,000 in victory bonds which, so ‘l'_nl' as interest is concerned, are dead.” In other words, approximate- ly $200,000,000 of the public's money which couid be invested at 6% per cent is lying Idle because of failure on the part of the holders to turn their bonds in for redemption. This amount L, 5% ber cent represents a loss to ¢ olders of these bonds of over $36,000 a day. Q. What will make green vegetables keep their calor when cooked?—C. D, A. A teaspoonful of sugar added to the water in which fresh green vege- tables are bolled will preserve their color, but will not alter the taste per- ceptibly. Q. What color 18 best to wear in hot weather and what in cold weather? A. According to the Outline of Science for a warm-blooded animal in very cold surroundings the most cconomical dress is white, for it loses least animai heat. In very hot sur- roundings white is also best, for it absorbs ‘less of external heat than other colors do. | be directly Q. What {s tho name of the plant used to catch fish?—M. B. A. Fishberries are the seed of an East Indian plant known botgnically as anamirta paniculata. The feeds are used commonly in India for stupefy- ing fish, that they may be taken by hand. 'When the fishberries aro thrown into a stream any fish in the neighborhood are quickly stupefied. Q. What are the dimensions of a pound of gasoline in liquid and in vapor form?—L. A. “ A. one pound of fiquid gasoline equals one-fortieth cubic foot. One pound of gasoline vapor equals twen- ty-seven cubic feet at atmospheric pressure and lemperktpre, Q. What kind of a climate has Pan- ama?—F. M. A. The climate of Panama s equa- ble, the average temperature being about 80 degrees on the Atlantic and Pacific coast. In the higher altitudes the average is about 66 degrees™ Fahrenheit. Variation from season to season is slight. The summer or dry season 1s from January to April, while the winter or rainy season extends during the larger part of the year, the heaviest rains occurring during the months of October and November. On the Atlantic coast the average rain- fall' is 140 inches in the year: on the Pacific coast sixty inches and in the interior ninety-three inches. Q. Does the wood for base ball bats have to be seasoned before it is used? —F. L. W. A. The wood should be seasoned be- cause it shrinks during drying, and a bat made of green wood would be de- cidedly oval when dry. It is usually best to dry the wood either in the square or in the rough-turned condi- tion. Seasoned wood is more than twice as strong and stiff as green wood, and the welght has decreased materially. QG ‘What makes bricks crack?—C. A. The cracks that form in brick while drying are due to shrinkage. Q. How can directions be found with the aid of a watch?—J. E. S. A. With a watch flat In the hand, | the hour hand pointing toward the sun, the point on the circle half-way between the hour hand and XII wiiF south in the northern hemisphere and directly north in the Q. Please tell me when the explora- tions began which led to the dis- govery “of Tutankhamens tomb? southern hemisphere. , Q. How much flour is there In a loaf of bread?—N. R. A. Mr. Howard Carter had been ex- | A. The Department of Agriculture cavating in the Valley of the Kings |says that there are twelve ounces of for seven years prior to last autumn, | flour used in a sixteen-ounce loaf of when, on’November 29, 1922, Lord |bakers bread Carnarvon, with whom he was asso- | (The Star provides free information clated, announced the discovery of the | service for the public. There is no tomb of Tutankhamen. | charge except return postage.) Chief Justice Taft Deals a Blow To Hopes of Prohibition Repea_l BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | George 11T, who insisted that no per- g | son engaged in trade should ever be Chlet Justice of the Supreme Court| ;ijoweq to enter the gilded chamber, Willlam Howard Taft contributes & and in the king's opinion o be a bank- remarkable preface to the new book €r Wwas to be engaged in trade. Pitt i o | used to take the ground that any mans p™s friend. Lord Shaw, justice of | wio was In command of an income of e supreme court of appeals, not|$100,000 a yvear, mainly derived from only of the United Kingdom, but also | land, was entitled to a seat in the of the entire British empire, entitle | house of lords. Finally the obstinate 5 , .. old monarch yleided to the extent of The Law of Kinsmen.” The preface pugtowing upon the banker “Bob” contalns some welghty utterances on | Smith, not an English peerage, but an the present state and the conse-|Irish one. “;‘h!rr:- did m;tlcn:lr)' w‘x‘ahbu ca, | scat in the house of lords. “Bob” e oy Pronibitlon in Amerlca, | gnyith selected as his ttle that of Lord g as they do. from the|Carrington and his son, the second head of the most august tribunal of | lord, lost no time after hid succession the new world, and from one of the |10 Sécuring permission from the ‘ vep | CTOWN to drop the patronymic of most popular statesmen Who ever g nin and to assume in lieu thereof filled the office of President of the|that of Carrington. His son in turn United States, they are naturally at- | obtained from the throne advance- | ment, first to an earldom of Carring- tracting much attention abroad. The Chief Justice mentions that he | was “strongly opposed” to prohibi- | tion. He feared the demoralization | of law, the disturbance of balance be- tween national and state powers of the American system and electoral confusion, and declares that these fears have been ‘realized only too| fully.” He deplores the present lack of respect for law in America, and in- sists that the special promoting cause of lawlessness is to be found in pro- hibition. | | | * K ok x ! “In the colder, calmer state of the public mind, the reform is found to be at variance with the habits of many of our people. especially in the large citles, and in the outset the law has become most difficult to en- force. * * * The most distressing| system, however, is the attitude of nt peo- ple, who protest against the justice and wisdom of the law, and who treat with levity its violations when such violations serve to furnish them the wines and liquors they wish to have for their own enjoyment. The dif- terence between the fundamental law and the government enforcing it on the one hand and a group of such well-to-do men and women, usually an element of strength in enforcing law on the other, is demoralizing. It enlarges the criminal classes by re- cruits led to join their ranks through the lax, apologetic and conniving at- titude of respectable people to this unlawful but lucrative trade. * kX K Chilet Justice Taft predicts that if the continuance or abolition of prohi- bition were presented to the country as a broad issue, fully 90 per cent would be for its continuance, and not more than 10 per cent for its aboli- tion. Under the glrcumstances he takes the ground that repeal of pro- hibition must be regarded as “simply impossible” and advocates enforce- ment of the law and the ceasing of all further protest against its enactment. For he sees in the violation of the prohibition law a far worse evil than the aberration of the lawmakers in its enactment. Nowhere do_the utterances of Wil- llam Howard Taft, in his capacity as Chief Justice of the United States and as the former President of the republic, command a greater amount of respect than in Great Britain, and the effect of his weighty foreword to Lord Shaw's new book, “On the Fel- lowship of Law,” will do more to convince the people of the British empire of the permanency of prohibi- tion in America, as an Institution that has come to stay, instead of a mere temporary measure, and passing_ af- fliction as so many hove believed on both sides of the Atlantic, than this declaration 8o to speak ex-cathedra, that is to say, from the greatest liv- ing exponent of American law. * kX x ‘The unveiling the other day, by the lord mayor of London in the Royal recounting of the loves of younkye, | Exchange of a life-sized portrait of the eminent eighteenth century bank- which each writer has brought s |er, Abel Smith,. presented to the city own sophistication to act as palr.[of London by his descendants, was and interpreter of young love. ' cannot be done. The effect, un this treatment, is that of a recit with tongue in cheek, a leer to thé aye, & general offensiveness of effect. And right at this point is where thi, writer proves his quality. He in con- summate art, fired by the right feel- ing, holds the youthful episode to its own integrity. It is a natural and fine and dignified integrity, youth ad- venturing, with no lawless hand be- ing any situation through the slon of “pure realism.” Gus Brenger is driven by a love of beauty, ahd when he finds it he moves glorified, a natural youth. In s, to be sure, sophisti tion com but it is his own sophi tication, not that imposed by a med- dling author in the throes of a letter erfect reproduction of “Things-As- ‘hey-Are.” An exceptional story, as it would be, with nothing more than this fine discrimination. And it has much more than this. 1L G. M. 1 something more than a mere civic 'unction in which all the municipal dignitaries of the British metropolis ook part. It was an act of tardy eparation on the part of old Abel ith's descendants to the founder their house, for their snobbish ndonment of his name as not suf- ntly aristocratic. \d Abel Smith, head of the even at th'fime ancient Nottingham Bank of ymuel Smith & Sons, and who bréy¢ the great London bank of | Smi Payne & Smith into existence in 1y was the banker of the Pitts | and § financlal power in England duriiine administration of the great | Lord G¢ham, and of his still more celebryg gon, Premler “Billie” Pitt. i {Jatter demanded that Abel| Smitl then the ~latter's “son | Robert &u1d be raised to the house of lords £, of lords 3 eminent financlal services violent o [son not , he encountered the moltlnnf- #0 bad, tions on the part of KingTimes-Heraid. ton and then to the Marquisite of Lincolnshire, and having held a num- ber of dignities at court dnd served as governor of Australian colonies, was the principal one of the de- scendants of oid Abel Smith at the unveiling of the portrait of Premier Pitts, banker, in the royal exchange the other day. * K Kk K ! But the Carringtons were not the only descendants of Abel Smith who found it necessary to renounce his name =as Indicating the absence of blue blood. Another of the family and firm, George Smith, on being created a baronet, married an ille- gitimate granddaughter of Prince Rupert of Bohemia, son of King Charles I's sister, the last Queen ot Bohemia, and, deeply impressed by the fact that in this way there was | a strain of royal Stuart blood in the veins of his son, secured permission from the crown to exchange the young fellow's patronymic from Smith to Bromiey. It may be remembered that his descendant, Sir Robert Brom- ley, sixth baronet of his line, was a quarter of a century ago attache of the British embassy at Washington, where he married the daughter of his chief, who was likewise his kingman —Lord Pauncefote. The present holder of the Bromley baronetcy has' sull further added the name of Wil- to that of Bromley, so as to completely obscure the name of Smith. * ok kX As for Lord Pauncefote, who left no male issue, and whose peerage became extinct with his death at Washington, he, too, was a descend- ant from old Abel Smith. The latter's second son was John, whose sons ob- tained the permission from the crown to drop their patronymic of Smith, for that of Pauncefote. This was sreatly objected in print and otherwise by the Paunceforts of Gloucestershire, especially by the late Sir Philiip Pauncetort and by chis son, the present baronet, Sir Ever- ard. They were able to show an unbroken descent in_ the male line dircet from that Geoffrey de Paunce- fort who is on historical record as having been the lord steward of the gourt to King John in 1210. King Henry 111 bestowed upon the son of offrey de Pauncefort the ma. of Hatsfleld, in Gloucesiersiire, in that grant, which is still in exist- encé on official file, mention is ex- plicitly made of the fact that th. Paunceforts had at tHat time bee in possession of “fair lands" in the county of Gloucestershire since the telgn of Willlam the Conqueror, & fact confirmed by entries in the oomsday Book. Naturally, the late Sir Philllp Pauncefort, who was thu able to show a direct male line de'f scent of his house extending over ' to great-grandson was raised to title of Lorq P: Smith, the peerage with the auncefote. “No Bananas” Song Held “Light and Breezy” “Yes, We Have No Bananas.” No doubt you've heard the song. It's a. tune of the times—and it makes a' fine subject for a hot day editorial. It's so light and breezy like. He's a salesman, this Greek fruft merchant. And he understands someching of the psychology of sales- manship. He might have said simply a:flemh.nt.ve no bananas” and let it go o "m’;."or e might simply bave And there wouldn't have been any song. .yBut not how he starts his answer— Yes, we have no bananas,” ete. That's what counts, not only in a fruit store, but in a community. It Isn't a matter of substitution, or anything approaching that. As musié goes, “Yes, We Have No Bananas” is good, but, as philosophy, it's at that—Port Huron '

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