Evening Star Newspaper, July 12, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. > WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.......July 12, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 Enst 42nd Chicago Office: Tower Buildis Buropean Office: 18 Regent St., London, England. . with the Sunday morning by carriers within the city 8 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 30 cents per month. Or- dors may be sent by mall, or telephone Main 6000. Collection is made by carriers at the end ot each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40: 1 mo., T0c Daily only. ...1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c | Sunday only -1y, $2.40; 1 mo,, 20c The Evening St edition, 18 dellve All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 5., Daily only. 1 mo., 60c | Sunday only 1 mo.. 25¢ | Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Pross is cxclusively entitled to the ‘use for republication of all news dis- patclies credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tie local news pub. | sishied “herein. " All rights of publication of anecial dispatehes hereln aro ve France Ratifies. l France has set the capstone upon the Washington conference on limi- tation of armaments, the senate final- 1y ratifying by a vote of 207 to 3 the naval limitation treaty. The United States, Great Britain, Italy and Japan had all previously ratified the pact. At the same time the French senate took this action, so gratifying to the Tnited States, there was circulated in the French chamber of deputies a re- port of the army commission for re-| organization of the land forces of | France. It contemplates an army of 660,000 men. It says: “We are pre- paring the army for war, which we are resolved to prevent.” Two opposed schools of thought are here. The one, given tremendous im- petus at the Washington conference, looks to reductions in the armaments of the powers as a means of insuring peace and relieving the peoples of the earth of burdensome taxation and the calamities of war. The other, older but still somewhat modern, advances the theory that in order to preserve peace a nation must be armed to the teeth against its neighbors in the Yope that its neighbors will be afraid te tackle it. The theory that arms are made for naking war is not far removed from the theory that arms are made for preserving peace. Not n y centu- rles ago it was frankly admitted that big armies were for conquest. Fight- ing was a jovous pastime. No one would have suggested that the armies of Caesar, of Attila, or of Napoleon were for the maintenance of peace. But the would-he conquerors of to- day, it seems, must cloak thelr aims. The recognition of this necessity indi- cates perhaps a step in the direction of final victory for the school of thought which maintained at the Washington conference In the meantime it is well to recall what the naval limitation treaty does. Its outstanding features are the limi- tation of the number of capital ships, recognized as the offensive naval forces, so that the United States and Great Britain shall have 525,000 tons of such vessels; France and Italy 00 tons and Japan 315,000; the limitation of capital ships to 35,000 tons each and their guns to 16-inch caliber; the limitation of auxiliary craft to 10,000 tons each, with guns uot to exceed S-inch caliber. No limit is placed, it is true, upon | the number of auxiliary craft, cruis- | ers, submarines, etc., which each of the nations may build. The Washing- ton government had hoped for such limitation and worked out plans for it. But France would not agree, claiming that she needed unlimited submarines for coast defense. 1 The naval limitation treaty runs! until December 31, 1926, and in case | none of the contracting powers has given two years' notice before that date of its intention to terminate the pact, it shall continue in operation, | with two years' notice necessary at! any time for its termination. The re-) sult of the treaty has been to halt a ! missing in the picture of felicity. No mention is made of the roads. Tourists who have made the coast-line motor trip have not found the highways of the southern half of the New York- Florida run particularly agreeable. Rum-running at the speed induced by such a lawless enterprise is apt to be pretty bumpy. But what matters a few jolts and jars when the profits are so great? Here we have the business of law- breaking brought down to the brass tacks of security and comfort. And, the recommended and, indeed, pre-| scribed route for the traffic thus per-l sonally .conducted lies through the tion in the one-way streets. A line of parked cars at each curb materfally ‘reduces the width of the drivéway and cars travel two and sometfmes three abreast. There is much driving that is too fast for safety. Too many driv- ers, in their haste, speed up to pass the car ahead and gain an advanced place in the procession. North of Pennsylvania avenue the great mass of traffic {s southbound in'the morning and northbound in the late afternoon, and the one-way streets have to bear a burden that was formerly distributed over a greater number of streets. On the whole it is believed that the one- way experiment has proved its worth National Capital. Perhaps the en- forcement authorities will find: some interesting matter in the transactions in the hiring of cars in Florida. The game is not beyond the reach of the law's arm, clever as it is. ————— The Big Issue in Minnesota. Evidently something more than the senatorfal seat vacated by the death of Knute Nelson is at stake in the Minnesota election which takes place next Monday. The campaign now being waged furiously in the state between the regular republicans and the farmer-labor forces is more sig- nificant even than may be measured by its possible effect upon the margin | of the republican party in the Senate. In an appeal to the labor voters of the state to go to the polls next Mon- day and vote for Magnus Johnson, | the Union Advocate, the organ of organized labor in Minnesota, has de- | clared that the future of the farmer- labor movement is at stake and that the continued progress of radical po- litical organizations depends largely upon what happens next week. It adds this significant sentence: “Min- nesota is the crucial point this year and the progressive tendencies of the nation must not receive a setback by the defeat of Johnson.” Upon the fate of the collar-shed- ding, diapasoned-voiced candidate of the radical forces in Minnesota, it is urged, will depend the course of future national legislation. 1If Johnson is elected advance will be given to the movement for the public ownership of means of transportation and commu- nication, the fuel supply and other natural resources and control of the medium of exchange. In other words, proclaims this organ of labor in Minnesota, elect Johnson and step out toward a complete change of national policy, defeat Johnson and check the movement toward sovietism in the United States, It may be questioned whether such frankness is calculated to help or hurt the farmer-labor candidate. Ap- parently the managers for Gov. Preus and the candidate himself are willing to press this issue and to put up to the voters the question of radicalism. | Recent dispatches indicate that there has been a turn in the tide, favoring Preus. Of course, pre-election signs are not always accurate. Minnesota may be headed right now toward rad- fcalism or it may be preparing for a conservative reaction. Only the count of the votes next Monday will disclose the fact. But it is meanwhile im- portant to observe that the contest has its national significance and that the outcome may have a decided bear- ing upon the greater contest a year later. The High Pressure Item. Announcement is made that the District Commissioners will include in their estimates an item of $500,000 to start the installation of a high-pressure firefighting service for the downtown section of the District. This is a gratifying response to the public de- mand for a first move toward giving the capital this measure of protection from a possible conflagration destroy- ing millions in values and doing frre- parable damage not only to the city but to the government. Half a million dollars will make a big start on this system. It will pro- vide a pumping station and a wide range of mains and hydrants that can be later extended, It is possible even- tually to cover practically all Wash- ington with such a system, using for firefighting only the water from the Potomac. But the original plan, and that which is now in contemplation, disastrous race in the building of huge war vessels at tremendous cost. Its! proponents have by no means given | up hope that within the years to come the principle of limitation may te extended still further. —_————————— A wet candidate is always likely to find more enthusiasm in a large city than when he goes into the country and tries to stir up indignation about | the scarcity of hard cider. ————— Bootlegging De Luxe. Bootlegging reduced to science and system: That is the substance of the tale that is told by e Chicago nws~| poper which was in submance re- ! weated iz The Star yesterday. .veritably guaranteed detective-proof method of running rum from the | sasily reached Florida coast to the! northern cénters of distribution and sale {8 described. And the funny part | “of the case is that the promoter of | this system is not himself & handler of the contraband, but merely a motor car dealer in one of the Florida wet + orts, " According to this tale, the scheme ‘i to put the liquor on board & spe- cially built car that carries a profitable »quantity securely hidden from prying _or suspicious eyes and to place the wheel in the hands of a competent, “skilled and altogether “private” look- ing chauffeur, who knows the road, #%nows all the “rum traps” and is capa- sble of appearing. highly respectable and law-abiding under close scrutiny. Thus outfitted, the bootlegger sits back in the tonneau and takes his ease as he is driven safely and swiftly up the coast, perhaps, for the sake of addi- tional security from question, in com- pany with a well dressed and at- tractive young damsel, who is also furnished by the enterprising entre- preneur. Such an outfit, it is stated, Is charged for at a rate which, with all expenses. leaves the rum-runner a very good profit at the end of the journey. " “The "chances™ of detection are reduced. to a minimum, the mar- ket 1 assured and the bootlegger has, | in addftion; the pleasure of & very de- lightful ride. There s ome thing includes only the business area, where the fire risk is greatest and the pos- sible damage is heaviest, the area of | government buildings as well as of large commercial establishments. i This item should not only be in- cluded in the estimates, but should be vigorously pressed as one of the most urgent needs of the District. Local sentiment is a unit on the subject. The people are willing to pay their share of the cost. The Commissioners shou:id write the recommendation so strongly that it cannot be ignored in the budget shaping and in the writing of the appropriation bill. e ————— Ambassador Jusserand refers to dif- ferences of opinion between France and England as transitory friction. The ambassador speaks like a true[ diplomat. ———— Germany’s attitude toward govern- ment and commerce is that of a na- tion that is willlng to.change form but is tenacious about color. —————te—— One-Way Streets. Legal operation of the one-way streets began today, -and violators of the one-way rule are now subject to arrest and penalty. Since the promul- gation of the one-way traffic rules vio- lators have been merely cautioned by the police because the new regulation could not be put into legal effect with- out thirty days’ notice. That period has expired. Auto drivers and pedestrians hold that the one-way rule is working well, and in general the great mass of drivers inbound in the morning and outbound in the afternoon have learned the right way from home to office and from of- fice to home. The arrows have aided their education in this matter and all drivers must henceforth heed them. The east and west bound Btreets, of which there arg fewer than those for north and south travel, have not given much perplexity to drivers, and it is believed that they have considerably ameliorated the traffic situation. While it is thought that the one-way rule has much improved the matter of atrest travel, it ought hot to bs-sald that all iy right yet, Thers is conges- and that it is wise to % uside certain streets as permanent one-way routes. e ———— The Big-Money Fight Game. Tonight & prize fight is to be pulled off in' Jersey City between aspirants for heavyweight championship compe- tition. ~ The ticket sale is so heavy that a $500,000 “gate” is indicated. Some difference between this affair | and that at Shelby, Mont., on the Fourth of July, which ruined the mayor of the city and has caused three | banks to close their doors. Prize-fighting finance is somewhat matter of geography. A well adver- tised bout between possible champion- ship contenders anywhere around New York is pretty certain to draw an im- mense crowd. In certain other parts of the country only the biggest princi- pals can be relied upon as drawing cards. The financial flasco at Shelby has apparently not lowered the self-esteem of the present champion or of his man. ager in respect to his drawing powers. The latter, on his way east to look in on' the Jérsey City meeting, said he hoped to arrange @ match for Demp- sey on Labor day, with either an aspiring negro contender or the win- ner of today’s bout. Then he declared: I may ask a million for Dempsey's end, if the gate receipts are big enough. What do you know about that? Dempsey is entitled to all he can get. He brings the dough into the box office and makes these big gates possible. A few years ago the prize fight stakes were usually in the tens of thousands. Then they reached the six-figure mark and crent up to the range of high finance. Now the talk is in terms of a million. What will the champion beltholder of 1950 de- mand as his starting point, his guar- antee, his share of the “gate”? ——— Gov. Smith will tour New York state in October to secure votes for a democratic assembly. He does not in- tend to allow his presidential boom to interfere with the political duties of the hour, even though the strategic move, at this stage of procedure Is usually for a man to come as near looking like a dark horse as possible. —_———— Some {llustrious BEuropeans now in political retirement are deriving a melancholy consolation from the re- flection that their governments are not much better off than when they were running them. — . An Atlantic coast resort is a nice cool place to discuss the prospects of a coal supply that will enable the con- sumers to avoid being kept too cool during the winter. —————— The French is not a militaristic na- tion, but Germany does not think that | the Ruhr policy meets any such charge | with a satisfactory alibi. —— A duel in Central Europe might be a suitable sporting incident of a safety | first week. { SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Alaska. { Alaska! Alaska!' The home of ice and snow! The silvery land of promise, ‘Where the golden nuggets grow. ‘The home of splendid forests And streams of mighty pow'r, What once we thought a wilderness | Became hope's choicest flow'r. Alaska! Alaska! The lure that you extend Bring men close back to nature, To call each other friend— A symbol of the future ‘Which this whole earth will view— A land that's now awakening ‘To bid great dreams ceme true. Jud Tunkins says the only kind ef courage a man who rocks the boat shows is a defiance of public opinion. A Rustication. “What has become of Three-Finger Sam?” i g “There he is, in front of the post office.” ““That fellow, all dressed up like a city clubman “Ye Sam’s home on a vacation. He only wears them rough western togs when he's earnin’ his dally bread in a picture studio.” Board. Oh, Lasker! Oh, Lasker! ‘We have a gentle hunch ‘When shipping board is mentioned You should not forget the lunch! ! | Convenient Apology. “Do you believe in evolution “Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne. “‘After all, it's Just as well for us to have a little heredity theory to’fall back on in_excuse for some of our human foolishness.” Praise Too Faint. “Why do you want the press agent discharged? He says you are the greatest singer alivs “It is not enoug coldly rejoined the prima donna. ‘He should have said I am the greatest singer that ever lived.” Optical Iusion. “Your boy Josh says he's going to be an aviator. “I'm afraid Josh is deceivin’ hisself agin,” said Farmer Corntossel. “He's got an idea an aviator has one o these jobs where all a man has to do 15 to set still and lock off.” _“If a man Is_ improvin® his mma,"i sdid Uncle Eben, “he 1ooks. foh people dat knows mo’ dan he does. When he's improvin’ ! masterpiece, ened because he ventured to photo- ! preciation [The Shelby { more so, 'HURSDAY, JULY 12 . 1923, - 3 BY PAUL V. COLLINS Romance hangs about & plcture | owned by a colored woman of George- town. Her brother had been a porter in a hotel, who had rendered service to a pecullar old lady guest, from whom he received the picture as a tip. When the porter died, the pic- ture fell to his sister. It was admired by Millet, the famous artist, who ex- hibited it at the €orcoran Art Gal- lery In the hope of tracing its origin. While it was there, Millet was drowned on the Titanic, and the pic- ture was returned to its humble own- er. Mr. Bush-Brown, president of the Fine Arts Society of Washington, of- fered $500 for it, but advised the owner not to sell for that sum, ex- plaining that that was all he could afford to inVest. The picture is un Itallan master- plece, belleved to date about 1620. Who was the artist is a puzzle, which baffles experts. It depicts a rustic in- terior, with & mother bathing a scalp ound of a ten-year-old boy, while two brothers look on. x % k% Thomas A, Edison is quoted as say- ing that he is In doubt as to the value of inventions, as compared with art; which adds to the beauty of the world. He suggests that Greece with its beautitul art, and few inventions, gave more to the world than later na- tions with Inventive genius, but little art. And Edison leads America in tuvention! What is the measure of the import ance of an “Old Master” hidden from the sight of connoisseurs and the pub- ? Does It_not become like “full any a4 gem,” which “the dark, un- thomed caves of ocean bear?’ The orld holds many an art treasure hidden through the accident of own- ership or superstition, away from sight of those wha could intelligently appreciate their beauties. * ¥ ¥ % It is a fine question as to how to differentiate between fee simple prop- erty ownership of a plece of art, and the rights of civilization, In the works which are the supreme prod- ucts of civilization. Genlus is be- lieved to belong to the world, whose Interest is superior to the property rights of the owners of its tangible expression. For example, did not civ- ilization protest against the wanton ravages of war, which destroyed the Cathedral of Rhelms, and other works of the centuri of art, impossible to restore or repay with money? There are those who believe that the products of art genius belong to all mankind, that their influence may inspire and encourage to greater achicyement, since civilization must use the past as stepping stones to | progress. They argue, therefore, that it is morally wrong that such univer- sal inspiration should be monopolized, buried or destroyed under the clalm of ownership. What would be the protest of the worid if some vandal power should selze the Sistine Chapel or the Louvre, and procecd to wanton destruction of their treasures? Would the answer that they been bought or cap- tured in war, satisfy all claims? How can moral justice be main- tained, in such cases, and yet the rights of civillzation to the enjoy- ment of the superlative products of art be preserved? * % *x x For centuries the Toitecs of Tzint- zuntzan, Mexico, located miles from a railroad, have worshiped a genuine Titian painting, “The Entombment of Christ.” The picture had been given by Charles V to a bishop, about 1500 A. D., in token of reward for his suc- cesstul missionary work amongst the people F. Hopkinson Smith tells in his book, der a White Umbrella,” how he was mobbed and his life endan- gered because, while studying this | he had dared to touch the canvas. Later anothef traveler was threat- graph the painting and its environ- ment. The possessors have refused enor- mous sums in gold for it, yet there is not the slightest trace of art ap- amongst those ignorant Mexican Indians, so jealous and su- | perstitious of their canvas. It is not seen once a year by anvbody who knows art. How can justice decide whose is the greater right to the Titian—the world of civilization and art or the people of primitive super- stition, believing that that canvas can heal by miracle, and .who have fallen heir to its fee simple? The people over whom the good bishop presided were 30,000 savages; their descendants and heirs are less than 100 ‘benighted fishermen who “own” the Titian. * ¥ %k ¥ Surgeon General Hugh S. Cumming of the United States Public Health Service predicts a time when we shall all cease to eat, as we do now, meat and vegetables, but shall take a tiny tablet and, swallowing it, call it a meal. Ho says that by dehydrating | foods we can reduce thejr bulk 70 per cent. - Some foods can be condensed even more... Milk, which is one of our most nutritious foods, is.about 95 per cent water—and that is no reflection on the daityman and his pump. * * x % Who wants to take a pill instead of dining on & six-course repast? What gossip and - soclability can .be in- spired by a tablet? Away with your sclence; we demand fundamentalism in digestion. . When the body shall have habituated itself to pill meals, saving freight by having meals pre- pared in the' laboratories close to the tields, as Edison advises all coal to be burnied at the mines, making gas and electricity—why, what will become of our atrophied teeth and atrophied stomachs? Where will dentists and stomach specialists go for their liveli- hood? We shall Indeed be sans teeth, sans stomachs, sans everything. Is that Cumming or going? * % ¥ *x Dr. Cumming says that when that tims comes, the women will not have to cook, and they will have time to attend to other dutles and pleasures. ‘A few days ago, 4 feminist announced that in a few years women will be doing the business of the world and men will stay at home and do the cooking. Psrhaps it would be “a bit- ter pill’ to have to eat what the men would cook, so science has the hunch to make it all a pill, and let it go at that. * K ok K The congratulations of the entire public are given to Howard Univer- sity, upon its success in oversubscrib- ing the necessary $260,000 with which to make effective the other $250,000 endowment offered by the General Education Board. The total $515,000 will be used in the medical section for preparing colored physiclans—a much needed work of education. It is noteworthy that the death rate amongst colored people is nearly double that of the whites. A great advance can be accomplished in san- ftation, and in €ducating colored peo- ple in proper .care of both children and adults, to preserve health. Such educational work will be accom- plished best through the increased number of colored docters. * Ok ok % One characteristic of Secretary of the Interior Work is his accessibility at all times. That appears to be the spirit of democracy; the public offictal is the servant, not the master, of the public, according to the Secro- tary. ¢ He, therefore, cannot properly bar his master from access to him, as be will. Secretary Work has fssued an order to all government employes in his jurisdiction, all over America, that the word “private” upon their doors is an offense and must be re- moved. Managers of projects of de- velopments are advised to call fre- quent conferences of local parties interested, and to make prompt ad- just of complaints Secretary Work’ never closed. * Ok K * If any one can look Into the faces of the boys and girls singing tn the street songfests of Georgetown and not smile .at the eagerness and vim of the singers, he must be “fit for treasons, strategems and spoils.” It is worth a million dollars a minute just to see the faces; what Is It worth to hear the joy-noise? The inventor of street sings is a patriot and a builder of better humanity, whose service deserves a medal. As Napoleon sald about a parade or sham battle: “It's magnificent, but it's not war,” 80 one may eay of the street sings, “They are glorfous in their influence on good citizenship, no mat- ter whether they make pure music or jazz.” When will tired business men relax downtown for half-hour street singing? Wouldn't they find the wheels of commerce olled by the relaxation and good fellowship? (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.) own office door is EDITORIAL DIGEST “Come-On"” Episode | Holds -Center of the Stage. Shelby's “crowded hour” still is a sourcé of:either amusement or sympa- thy to the people of the country. The fact that. for the privilege of getting “its name in the papers.” a commun- | ity was willing to go broke, evenl because bankruptey and bank faflures have followed the “big day,” is praised as the “acme’ of gameness,” and has served to distract attention from the Dempsey-Gibbons fight result. It is acceptéd that whether it so desired or not Shelby has directed attention to' the sordid of prizefighting “for . money. which will result in the “gold grabbers” getting the worst of It in the future. Shelby was a “mark for the pro- moters,” the New York Times points out, “but the fact must not be lost sight of that, in spite of the comie spectacle the city has made itself, it has drawn attention, as no losing venture of one of our own impresarios | could do, to the commerciallsm of | professional boxing as®practiced to- day.” The outcome, as the Albany nickerbocker-Press sees it, is that ack Dempsey still is champion and Tom Gibbons the popular hero. That is the net result of one of the big events in American-sport which in its processes toward consummation was at times ridiculous, then ludi- crous and farcical. At every step it had all the blatent marks of com- mercialism rather than sportsman- ship.” The Decatur Herald feels that “prospecting in Shelby has its humor- ous as well as its pathetic side,” and forts for this sort of publicity could only come from.a community where untold wealth awalted the magic wand of the oil driller.” In- cidentally, the Norfolk Ledger-Dis- patch, moralizing_over the result, quietly suggests that *deplorable. shocking, vulgar and reprehensibl as the fight may have been, ‘it attracted more attention and was fol- lowed with interest by more persons than any other event of the day,” the Ruhr and the Harding Alaskan trip included, and the Ledger-Dispatch also sees little call for the wasted sympathy on Shelby because it “had nothing to advertise” at the start so the promoters have simply left it with a “very dearly bought reputa-| tion as a ‘little western cow town' that had a deuce of a time putting on a prize fight.” ‘There is somewhat of the same tone in the remarks of the - Pittsburgh Gazette-Times, which feels “for those who were muiéted by the promoters and their nimble tools in a degener- ate commercialism thiere need bé no ! { public sympathy. They took a chance | and got all they had any reason to expect. JWe may, though, have more | than passing concern for the good re- pute of Amerjea, ,whose sportmanship generally ARove geprohch, and for survivi Yy abou! devold of The hope is expressed by the Spring- field Republican that the “Shelby epi- Sode indicates that the popularity of boxing has gone over the peak and is headed down the other side. It were well if it were so. For the extreme commercialism of the sport has reached a point where public dis- gust begins to manifest itself. As for Shelby, farewell to all thy greatness.” It is possible, however, in the view of the Springfield . State’ Journal that ‘having made it"plain that champion battlers will fight for $200,000 when they can't get more, we may see a return to normalcy in_ the fighting game. The opening of the Shelby arena for the small change was a great object lesson.” There is no dis- position to find fault on the part .of the Dayton News which takes its ‘hat off” to Shelby which “paid a king's ransom for a couple of months’ publicity. "But her citizenship has proved to be game and there has been no weakening along the line, even wh-;‘n financial disaster was threat- ened.” Expressing the hope that “Mr. Dempsey's next public appearance will be a little less glaringly mer- the Cleveland Plain Dealer “hopes no other little town of the Shelby class will aspire to great- ness by means of promoting & prize- fight. "Shelby’s lesson has been trag- | icly costly, but Shelby will not have suffered in vain if she has saved others from inviting a similar fate.” And the Cincinnati Times-Star rather sarcastically suggests incorporation of fighters ‘with speculation in their stock in thie curb in_which it sug- gests, “In thie event of a man becom- ing champion who would throw a fight, there -would be opportunities for stock-jobbing that some direcior- ates love so well. Pugilism has a future of which John C. Heenan and John L. Sullivan pever dreamed.” To which the Topeka Capital _adds, ‘Shelby can congratulate {tself that it-came. through with clothes for its back. Like Piggly-Wiggly specu- lators who bucked all Wall Street Shelby- has afforded the world a use- ful example of exaggerated ambition and of the wisdom of moderation. Where the sky is the limit let all ‘Wall street and big business tackle it." n' the future Shelby will stick to oll,” asserts the Milwaukee Journal, sut the Syracuse Herald feels “in a case like this there {s nothing that succeeds so well for the protection of manly sport and decent athletics as the kin ismal fallure now recorded.” The Reading Tribune b lleves “this orgy will in the end have been a good thing, for it will prob- ably force pugilists to fight for an amount ' of - money only slightly greater than they could earn at some remunerative occupat In add tion, as. the Minneapolis Tribune se it, “nothing ‘much was hurt except the pride of the prophets and the feeling of the losers out on the arena benches."” - The Lansing State Journal sharply declares “when money is needed in this world for.so many worth-while things such waste is folly,” but the Lynchburg Advance “woyld call things square as what the village has lost in money it has ‘gained in notorfety and that was what by wanted when it first proposed " The North Window 5 By LEILA MECHLIN Because the city studios are closed and deserted, let no ore think that artactlvities have ceased and that the artiste are fdle. Summer is the land- scape painter's harvest time and the various art colonies are busier in July and August than the traditional hive of bees. On the New England coast there are three famous colonies located at Ogunquit, Me., Gloucester and Provincetown, Mass. Then there is the ‘colony at Lyme, Conn. a bit back from the shore, where the salt creeks lefsurely creep in and out as the tide ebbs and flows. In the first three of these places thete are sum- mer schools, much patronized by art students. At Ogunquit, Charles Woodbury, the well-known painter and etcher. whose interpretations of the sea rank high, has for some years gathered around him a group of students of landscape 4nd marine, through whom his influence has been strongly im- pressed and fortunately o, upon co- temporary production.” Miss Sawtelle of this city is one of his pupils and has in seasons past acted as one Of his assistants. Ogunqult Ka€ a charm of its_own, quite different from any other place, with its sandy beach, its rocky headiands, its picturesque cove, its rolling uplands covered with u stubby growth of blueberry and hem- lock, backed by a fine stretch of pine woods. There {8'a certain rivalry be- tween Ogunquit and Gloucester, the inhabitants of each claiming superi- ority in beauty, the Ogunquit so- journers boasting of their sunrises, the Glousterites claiming first place for their sunsets, and in each instance with good cause. Emil Carlsen has & studio at Ogun- quit and_ occupies it late into the autumn, long after the summer folk have gone, and it is there for the most part that he paints his most beautiful pictures of the sea. e t Gloucester there is the triple in- terest of water, landscape and town, for Eastern Point Gloucester has the ocean on one side and the harbor with its endless shipping interests on the other, and looking back over one's shoulder there is ever present the lovely vistas of the town, climbing the hill, with its picturesque church spires pointing heavenward. There are several summer schools at East Gloucester and have been for these many. years. Season after sea- son Henry B. Snell conducted classes there; o also did Mrs. Rhoda Holmes Nichols. Now Hugh Breckenridge of Philadelphia has a school on the inner harbor, and Felicie Waldon Howell, whose studio is on Rocky Neck, has her following of puplls. In the old duys before the North Shore became 80 popular as a millionaire’s summer resort, George de Forest Brush used t Gloucester, and tradition tells of @ summer when Winslow Homer painted there and when Rud- vard Kipling was staying and writing in one of the oldest of the hosteiries. Then a little group of Washing- tonlans—the Curtises, the Childs, the Lunes, the Nichols, Parker Mann, Bertha Perrie, Everett Warner and others. formed a tiny colony of their own, and in the way of sport got out an occasional _publication entitled “The Trifler.” Mrs. Lane was editor- tn-chief, and to one of the lssues Stockton Axson, ex-President Wil- son’s brother-in-law, who was asso- clate editor, contributed a poem en- titled “Them Artises,” setting forth supposedly the Gloucester fisherman’s idea of the summer invaders. It ran in part as follows: What fs it sickens with disgust the Glou- ceste It 't fight nd fog. or driftia’ It fsn't (oiling W the banks whers fishin’ the bum: - It den't even wrestlin' with the facts of Gloucester rum. It's these everlastin’ around. A patntin’ éversthing we do from the top- mast to the ground. | They take us in our overalls, o shapeless and so slack, can hardly tell by oin’ or comin’ back; Our own wives and our sweethearts fail to find us pretty then, But 1t seems to auit these artises—the women and the men, For they puts us into picters and they think it's just immense: They call ‘it se,”” T b'lieve, but it certain’ isn't sense, They're paintin’ in the ' i the fog, ntin’ when 1t's rainin’ hard enough on artises a settin' all You lookin® if we're sunshine, they're pa They're 1 to drown a dog; They paint when it is high tide, and then the tide goes down leaves the Darhor mostly siime, all green and greasy brown, So nagty that yowd think 1t would digust a bor rat, But h wouid you believe it? They've even painted that?” * ¥ % X Gloucester has had the distinction for several years of having an excep- tionally fine exhibition gallery—the Gallery on the Moors, owned and built by Mr. and Mrs. Wiliam E. Atwood, adjacent to- their summer home. This gallery was designed by Ralph Adams Cram. and was built in the same way as the medieval struc- tures, through the co-operation of craftsmen and builders, Its exterior walls are of pink stucco, and its in- terior consists of one large room with a stage. suitable for exhibition pur- poses, for plays and lectures, with a little balcony at the rear for spec- tators and for the exhibition of prints. Herein for several years have been held annually exhibitions of the summer work of North Shore artists, and herein_also, each summer, the Gloucester Players have given a series of extremely clever dramatic per- formances. So great has been the interest awakened that this year two other galleries are coming into ex- istence. and exhibitions will be fairly continuous. And * K X % The colony at Provincetown may truly be sald to have been founded by Charles W. Hawthorne, who discov- ered material there among the, Portu- guese fisher folk for his own painting and therefore established at this place his now famous summer school of outdoor figure painting. It is the stronghold of the “Beach Combers,” an organization of artists—painters, illustrators and print- makers—that has become well known throughout the country. The Provincetown Art Association is a flourishing organiza- tion which has witin the past year acquired an old house which it has remodeled into a gallery and under the auspices of which an annual ex- hibition s held in July and August. * X Xk % Lyme, Conn, is an_all-year-around colony and it, too, has its exhibition gallery and its annual summer show, one of the first summer exhibitions established in this country and one of, the most successful. A unique fea- ture of this exhibition {s that organi- zations throughout the country con- tribute to a purchase fund, and the pictures so purchased are distributed among them—a far better plan than prize awards, and one calculated to not only encourage but stimulate production. It was at Old Lyme that Metcalf painted the “May Night” that most lovely picture of a colonial mansion bathed {n moonlight, which is one of the Corcoran Gallery’s prized posses- sions. This fine old home with its classical portico and its overshadow- ing horse-chestnut tree was for many years a rendezvous of the artis Old Lyme can alsa boast one of most _ attract! of the colonial churches in the country, which, with its picturesque spire, d; ed in the Christopher Wrenn _tradition, has been pictured many times by some of the leading artists, and so has be- come famillar to many who have never set foot in the town. Conspicu- ous among pictures of this old church is one by Childe” Hassam, considered by many his masterpiece. It is not easy to get to Lyme. The through trains do not stop at- the station, so one must either go beyond and.motor back or await the pleasure of an accommodation traln, or stop oft too sogn. But it is well worth & B O URENNCLS ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, By Frederic-J. Haskin Q. When will Rock Creek Park be connected with Potomac Park?— L. C: Me. 7 A. A bridle path will be ready for use in about six months. The origi- nal act was passed March 4, 1913, authorizing a commission whose pur- pose would be.the acquiring of neces- sary land to connect these two parks. The first appropriation was made in 1916, Each year since & sum has been set aside and land acquired Progress s being made toward the bullding of a road for vehicles. but no definite date has beem set for its completion. Q. To what secret orders Woodrow Wilson belong?—B. A. Former President Wilson is not afljated with any secret orders at the present time. does Q. What {8 the best way to cook bacon?—J. W. A. The bureau of home economics says that it has reached no conclu- sion as to the best way, but that fry- ing it i3 the most popular. The fry- ing pan should be hot and the bacon turned 'several times, until golden brown on both sides. When removed from the pan it should be allowed to drain oh a piece of brown paper be- fore being transferred te a hot platter Q. What makes soap lather?—M. M A. The bureau of chemistry' say. that soap lathers because of the clusion of air in the emulsion of soap and water, thus forming myriads of tiny soap bubble; Q. How is the.gross tonnage of a vessel figured?—K. F. A. It is dope by measuring the in- terior of the ship to ascertain its internal volume, and then dividing the total by 100 to obtain the tonnage. One hundred cubic feet is figured, ac- cording to this system of measure- ment, as being equal to one ton. Q. Are D. D. and Ph. D. honorary degrees?—W. D. A. The bureau of education says that the D. D. degree is always an honorary degree. The Ph. D. degree s sometimes granted as an honorary degree, but usually is a degree for a course. Three years of resident work is required for the Ph. D, degree. 1 Q. Which ‘port has the largest number of steamship lines departing from t?2—J. P. C. A. Fully 200 lines of steamship are in operation at the port of New York —a record not achleved by any other port in ihe world. Q. What emblem {s placed on the graves of soldiers of Jewish faith?— AH | A. The emblem used is the star of David. | Q. Has an estimate ever been made | of the money earned by the capital which was first invested in the manu- | facture of Ford cars?—Q. G. S. | A. The Oil and Gas Journal in a| recent editorial said that in the twen- | ty vears that these automoblies have been manufactured, Ford has sold over 7,500,000 cars. The ‘sales for the two decades amount to over $4,000. 000,000, anc the estimated profits over $607,000,000, or $21.678 for every dolyr of the original $28,000 used iuw stam ing the business Q. Ts the statue of Armed Liberts very cleaned’—G. G. G. A. Congress onge appropriates money for washing this statue on dome of ‘the Capitol. Liberty been subjected to the brush pomace only once. It was deci that she be allowed to take on tha platina which is to bronze what old yellow is to ivory. ha an Q. When were streets first paved | the United States?—G. L. A. Cobblestones were used for p; in Boston and New York a€ ea 1650. The first brick pavement on roadway in the United States was laid in Charleston, W. Va., in 1870. In same year the first asphalt pavement the United States wnudlaxd i Newar! edt. Q. Am Ian American citizen? T was born in Europe and lived there unt was twenty-one. Both my parents came naturalized American citizens be fore I became of afe.—F. B. D. . The naturaflzation bureau says that in order for fne son of an alien #r derive citizenship from his fathers naturalization he mlust take up his per manent residence in the United § before attaining the age of twent years. You are, therefore, mnot an American citizen, since you did not come to this country before you reached the age of majority. Q. Does the Natlonal Old Trails road follow the old National Pike?—A. R A. The Automobile Road Book sav that it is _comprised of Braddock's Road, old National Plke, Boone's Lic Road, old Santa Fe Trail and the Gray Canyon Route. The -part of the o] National Road between the Potoma and the Ohio was constructed in 1818, Q. What was the orlgin of the phrase describing presidential tours as “swings around the circle”’—P. A. H. A. President Andrew Johnson, the presidential reconstruction tour August, 1866, used the expressior “We are swinging around the circle.” Q. What is the most densely popt lated country of South America’— J L P A. Uruguay is the smallest ¢ and has the densest population. It has 53 square miles. and a popu- lation approximating 1,500,000 Q. How many egi Leghorn chicken lay 9 A. The Department of Agriculture says a good production for the av age White Leghorn a vear is from 200 to 250 for the first yvear. The official record is 314 eggs. From this time on. production decreases rapi After three years the hen lays v few eggs. (The answers to questions above are just a few specimens selectad from the ‘mass of querics which are answered direct to readers of The Star. If there is anything you want to know state your question v and enclose 2 cents in stamps postage.t Address your letter to The Star Inf mation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, @i- rector, 1220 North Capitol street.) printed Gen. Greble, West Pointer, Launches First Rumanian Country Club BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Through the efforts of Gen. Edwin | S. Greble, who graduated from West Point in 1881, and who was one of the principal lieutenants of Gen. Leonard Wood at Havana in the early days of the Republic of Cuba, the| first country club of Rumania has| been brought into existence at Bucha- | rest in the face of all kinds of polit- ical opposition. The general was alded by a few prominent Rumanlans, such as M. Misu, formerly Rumanian Lx;xlnimr in London, ex-Premier Mar- | hiloman and some others, and was | inaugurated a fortnight ago with much ceremony by King Ferdinand and Queen Marle, and with religiou pomp, the clubhouse being solemnl blessed by an ecclesiastical dignitary | of high degree. Thereupon, after the natfonal flag | and the club colors had been run up | to the mastheads to the strains of | the Rumanian national anthem, King Ferdinand inaugurated the golf links | —the first at Bucharest—by driving | the first golf ball. Then Queen Marie started the first polo match on the | club’s polo fleld, while the crown | prince served the first tennis ball | on the cluo's ternis courts. Among | those present were Queen Marie's | daughter, the young Queen of Serbia, who is visiting Bucharest and -vho {s | in this way filling the void left there | by the absence of King Ferdinand's | voungest daughter, Princess Ileana, Who has gone off to Athens, where | she is to spend the remainder of the | summer with her eldest sister, Queen | Elizabeth of Greece. | * X X X The latter's union to King GEOPKOI seems destined to- ramain childless, | and as the next heir to the Hellenic throne Is the king's twenty-one-year | old brother, Prince Paul—the only member of the reigning house that| has been permitted by the present | Athens government to remain in Greece—it is reported that a matri- | monial alllance between him and! young Princess Ileana, now in her| sixteenth year, and well developed for her age, is far from impossible. At any rate, Queen Marie of Rumania, born in England as a member of its reigning family, and now celebrated as the moit ambitious and successful matchmaker in Europe, is credited with the project. Much of the opposition to the new country club at Bucharest, of which King Ferdinand has accepted the honorary presidency, has been due to the political affliations of Gen. Gre- ble's principal backers in the enter- prise and not to the urdertaking it- self. Thus, ex-Premier Marghiloman, prior, during and -subsequent to the great war, was credited with Ger- manophile sentiments, and this natu- rally led to prejudice against the af- fair by those who were averse to the ex-kaiser and to his cause. Gen, Gre- ble, however, has managed to rele- gate politics to the background and to subordinate every other consldera- tion to that of sport, which is a per- fect godsend in Rumanla, and pe- cially at Bucharest, where the posses- sion of great wealth and the preva- lence of much extravagance and lux- ury is combined with idleness and with_enpul. From now on the gay and frivolous Bucharesters will have some new interest in life and some- thing to occupy their mind: Meanwhile, those who have the wel- fare of Rumania at heart realize that they owe a debt of gratitude to Gen. Greble. The artilleryman and en- gineer officer who knew how to or- ganize the department of charities of the Republic of Cuba, and to win suc- gess as supervising secretary of the interior at Havana at the time of the second intervention of the United States there, has been shrewd and re- sourceful enough to understand that there are other ways of furthering the American interests abroad than by mere diplomacy, namely, by sport. which, among most civilized nations, always constitutes a species of frees masonry. = - N ok ok < A few days ago in these letters 1 called attention to the project pro- neted bx Jaed Rosehery, Ex-Eramies A j of charters and other Bonar Law, the Duke and Duchess of Athol and by a number of other pa- triotic Scotchmen of note for the cre- ation and endowment of a National Library of Scotland. I mentioned that the project, indorsed by the gov- ernment, which voted a subsidy of $10,000 a year, had acquired as a gift the magnificent collection of books. ncient manu- scripts of the v of Advocate: of Scotland, a lection embracing almost a million works and which has been in existence for several hun- dred years, and I likewise Indicated that the committee headed by Lord Rosebery was making an appeal to all patriotic Scotchmen at home and abroad and also to all foreigners of the Scottish race for contribution o literary treasur.s and of funds f | the endowment of the undertaking. which is now well under way. therefore interesting t Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin an- nounced the other evening in t house of commons that in respon: to this appeal a public-spirited c zen of Edinburgh, Alexander Grant of the firm of McVitle & Price, multi- millionaire biscuit manufacturers, had placed at the disposal of tha Rose bery committee a sum of $500,000 to- ward the endowment of the new Na tional Library of Scotland. * x x France's Jockey Club, founded some ninety years ago by the royal Duke of Orleans of the day, by Lord Henry Seymour, by the Duc’ de Grammont- Caderousse and by a few other v rich French nobles devoted to sport and particularly to horse racing, has been compelled to abandon the prem ises which it had occupied since the relgn of ‘Napoleon III, on the fir: floor of the -building on the Boule vard des Capucines, at the corner of the Rue Scribe, owing to the the building, by a transatlant cern for conversion into an o structure.* All sorts of reports have been current about the future of the club, which still remains one of the most exclusive in Paris. Final ly the question has been definitely settled and the trustees of the Jock. Club have purchased the fine mx of Baron Francols Gerard, in Faubourg St. Honore. It is one of the long scries of eighteenth century residences, il large gardens built along the bourt St. Honore and which the Elysce Palace, the offi dence of the president of th lic, the British embassy cupled by the Marquis, mansion which once belonged to the Swedish Count of Ferson, who playei so romantic a role in connec his chivalrous defense and cha ship of Queen Marie Antoinett the so-called Inter-Allied Club, was formerly the home of Henri of the great banking h that name, and who has ach distinction not so much in fina but rather as & physician and spe cjalist in children’s maladi nd as a very successful playwright For the first time in its his the Jockey Club will have an er mansion of its own, and a very p tial bullding at that, instead of beins compelled to content itself with the terribly costly floor of a building oc cupied by a number of other t The Jockey Club, which present presided over by the de La Rochefoucauld, fifth Doudeautille, is rather chary abov admitting foreigners, and there a only about half a dozen Americans who have survived the ballot, amons them being Myron T. Herrick, the present ambassador of the United States and his predecessor, Hugh Wallace, also the late Frank Riggs. who_served in the French army in the Franco-German war of 1870, and his friend and chum, Robert W. Goelet. It is the only club, more- over, where royal personages and even kings, when, elected, enter the club on a footing of perfect equality with the remainder of the' members. THey may be said to leave their scepters with the umbrellas and canes In the cloakroom. and th: King Leopold was on one occ even suspended for six months f the privileges of the club for havi rendered himself guilty of the ve unclubable offense of having enticed away by means of a larger salary. the “high-priced chef of the Jockey It to note th the Club, a celebrity in the world of & late b '