Evening Star Newspaper, July 19, 1923, Page 6

WASHINGTON, D. C. July 19, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Siar Newspaper Company -lln§c- Office, 11th St. and Pe--)m Ave. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning #dition, is delivered by carriers within the eity €60 Cents per month; dailv only, 45 cents per menth; Sunday only, cents per month. - dare may” be sent by mail, or tele Main . lection is made by eal rs at the .Editor Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dajly and Sunday..1 ¥, Daily - only. o Swnday only. c Al Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Daily only.. . .00; 1 mo., 60, Sunday only H 5 Member of the Associated Press: The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patehes credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper apd also the loial news pub- tished herein. All rignts of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. . Hoadis- Kk - - The Philippines Incident. For some time past friction be- tween Gov. Gen. Wood and the Phil- ‘ppine calinei and council of state ha¥ been manifest. It has just cul- minated in the resignation of the members of the cabinet and the coun- cil; headed by Manuel Quezon, presi- dent of the senate and chief of the collectivista: party recently organized. As a result of the resignations the administrative work is being con-| duated by the undersecretaries and subchiefs, under the direction of the governor general. Thus the manage- ment of insular affairs passes out u{! Filipino hands for the present. But there is no thought of a retrograde step in the matter of Filipino adminis- tration. The United States will not go back on its policy pinos steadily a full ticipation in and control of their own affairs, despite the maneuvers of politicians who for their own interests thwart the benevo- lent purposes of this government, as in.the present case. This immediate issue a treatment of & secret ser wio accused of bribery, acquitted by a native court and then by the sovernor general was restored to his position, which he at once resigned. The Quezon party accused Gen. Wood of an encroachment of author- ity in reinstating Conley. Inasmuch as the man immediately quit the serv- es from the agent ice ice, it would seem that the subsequent | action of the collectivistas with- drawing from the administration was merely a political move such as has heen made in the Philippines hereto. tore on the eve of an election. In a protest sent to Washington by the Filipino lcaders the case is mag- nified into an “usurpation of -power in direct violation of existing laws.” in A trifle has been magnified far beyond | its importance. There can be no ques- tion of the sympathy of Gen. Wood for the Filipinos in their aspiration for practical if not literal inde- pendence. Not can there be any rea- sonable doubt of the purpose of this government to advance them to that point with the greatest speed con- sistent with their own interest and welfare. The government at Washington will surely ‘support Gen. Wood in his posi- tion. It will doubtless recognize the action of Quezon and his partisan sup- porters as a political gesture made far campaign purposes and sustain the governor general in proceeding to re- organize the insular administration, perhaps to the exclusion of those who have thus without warrant sought to precipitate an issue. Playground Progress. Progress is being made in the mat- ter of playgrounds, and conditions are better this summer than in any pre-| ceding year. This is the result of un- fiagging effort on the part of munici- pal officials and of citizens interested in giving to children proper play spaces that they may indulge their natural desire for play and be guarded @#gainst dangers of the streets. The growth of the playground sentiment indicates that finally, Washington will have as many and as large public play places as the children 6f the city require, but the realization of this much-desired condition is still some the future, and persistent en- will be needed With the opening of the play deavor about, yard of Van Ness School as a summer yecreation center there wil be sixty- one playgrounds in service, which is the largest number in the -histery -of the city. 1t is sa the opening of the Van Ness School vard was made possible by the fact that the Catholic Big Sisters, through Mar. €, F. Thomas, offered to'Com- missioner Oyster the use of a plot of ground near the school for-use as a municipal playground. Teen a numbei of favorable replies 10 Commissioner Qyster's recent ap- peal for contributions to help main- tain playgrounds that could not be maintained under the current appro- priation of public money, and several affirmative answers have come to his appeal for the services of volunteer ¢ leaders. On the whole, the play- sround situation goes fairly well, and conditions are bettar than eaflier in the season it seemed they would be. a ————— Uncle Sam preserves the attitude of a good listener while Europe makes ihe diplomatic conversation as inter- esting as possible. The Navy Yard. The Washington navy yard can do little work in scrapping the Ameri- can warships that are to pass under _the terms of the international agree- ment on armament Hmitation. There was once a belief that a fair share of this work would fall to the lot of the Washington yard, but the fates and other things are agaipst us. The home yard-lacks facilities for doing the work. There is no dry dock, and without this the heavy giant hulls cannot be taken apart and cheaply salvaged as old dron.” Some of the ships to be scrapped are still on the ways and will be junked in the yards where they are bullding. - it is regrettable that there “has not of giving the Fili- | to bring it} id in the news that | Theté have | been enough wark to keep the splen- did force of the Washington navy yard together, but the people of the whole country cried out at the close of the ‘war for deep cuts in government ex- penditures. Obedient to the call of the electorate, Congress cut down appro- priations, and the departments have been forced to get along on greatly reduced allowances. Mixed with the hard iuck of the government workers has been some that is good. 1t was good luck that the cuts in the navy vard force came at a time of tremendous demand for skilled labor and high wages. Many men who had worked at building guns deftly turned their handls to other things, and it is believed that most of them are doing well. Many have found work in other cities, and some of these were forced to part, with their homes here, but this necessity came when the denmand for houses was the 'grentesl in the city's history. . - There has been a good deal of hard- ship for many government employes or ex-employes in readjusting them- selves even in this time of prosperity, but it is believed that the mechanics | and machinists of the navy yard, be- cause of their peculiar equipment, have fared better than other empioyes forced out of gavernment service by reduced appropriations and general LW W, 0 work, no eats,"” may be a method of bringing recalcitrant “wobblies” into line. The method of attack planned by the I. W. W.'s is at least novel. It i3 thie converse of the plan adopted by militant suffragists in Washington and elsewhere during the struggle for votes for women. The women went to jail, not to eat, but to starve. How much more pleasant a stay they might Bave had ifi the jails had some clever member of the militant party evolved such a scheme as that of the I. W. W.s, and thousands of the women had insisted upon being fed by the government, in am effort to make resistance to votes for women an expensive proposition. If there are 20,000 foot-loose men in this country capable of making their way to Texas, either afoot or in “sidedoor Pullmans,” the outery of some of the industries for increased immigration seems somewhat untime- Iy. The invading army may, how- tever, be found to be considerably less {than 20.000. Chinese Complications. Americans wha have had some hope of understanding the Chinese complex will be discouraged hy news that comes from Shanghai to the effect that Canton has been taken by 5,000 retrenchment. 1t is hoped. that the { et CAntoR § 2 ux e reduction in the navy yard force has | o "ige"e 1roops, who split with at last touched bottom, and that the | a0 & e CHIeE milisty, jhenchman of Sun Yat Sen. These historic old yard will have plenty of work to keep it .busy and happy even { though it cannotrtake-a hand'in scrap- 'pin: warships. ———— To Put Ford to the Question. Whether thgre is anything more than a coincMence in it or not, the | fact stands that just following the | Minnesota election, which demonstrat- ed a pronounced radical tendency in |one of the hithero stanchest of re-|a skeleton government. The president { publican states, there started a quiet | has quit office, and half the ministry { movement on the part of certain un-|has resigned. The various provincial {named but, it is known. influential |armies are still maintained, watching democratic leaders, to sound out|each other jealously, and occasionally Henry Ford on the subject of his poli- | making moves to increase their re- cies ‘and political beliefs. News to|spective areas of jurisdiction. In the this effect comes from Detroit, where, ; south Sum Yat Sen is having a see. jit is said, attempts are now being saw of a time, now holding Canton, | made by national democratic chief-|now losing it, as in the latest develop- troops walked out of the battle line on thenorth river front returned toCanton and seized all points of strategic value. | From the east river front comes also inews of menace to Sun Yat Sen. {Troops of Gen. Chen Chiung-Ming, 1 who drove Sun from Canton last sum. mer, have forced the constitutionalists to retreat. There seems to be no end to the Chi- nese mix-up. At _Peking there is only 'uma to ascertain just where Ford|ments. Evidently nothing resulted istands on national es and how | from the exploit of the bandits, who lloyal he would be to the party if he |captured a number of forcigners, and { were supported for the | nomination. | 1t is planned, according to this dis- | patch, for a delegation of prominent presidential | whose daring enferprise it was hoped would possibly cause, through interna- tional pressure. a restoration of order {in the land. Suspicion develops that democrats who favor Ford’s nomina- |the Chinese divisions are being pro- tion to meet in Detroit soon to draft i‘mm«fl by Russian influence, it being la skeleton platform. which will be |obviously to the interest of the soviet submitted to the motor maker with |government at Moscow to cause the {the anding that if he wub-|breakup of China into several com {scribes to it he will be given their { paratively small states. { support for the nomination at the con ————— vention, The business of writing a platform The prize of one hundred thousand offered by Mr. Bok cannot fail to be {shown no pronounced radical tenden- | have the hundred thousand. cies nor any partiararly conservative | | disposition. He is a manufacturer on | In addition to the interviewers who a large scale, reputed the wealthiest ] will greet Senators Ladd and King on {man in the world, certainly one of the | their return from Europe, Mr. Samuel {most active and most successful. He { Gompers may be on hand with a ques- pays big wages—too big, some of his | tionnaire of his own. critics aver, for the good of industry S —em ot e and he exacts a high standard of per- formance on the part of his working force. i America is noted as a liberal pus- ;«hu. v of diamonds. The farmer has for a long time insisted that it is his The nearest to a *close-up” of Henry | yurn to wear some of them. Ford as a thinker on affairs in gen- | jeral ever obtained was that afforded in the course of a libel suit, when he ! was quizzed regarding his ideas and ideals. must be said that he pre But it —_——— Diverse comment in all parts of the | country is aiming to make the presi dential visit to Alaska as instructive as possible. It sented a rather sorry figure. is always to be borne in mind that at | —_————— SHOOTING STARS. | BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Great Example. If men cannot reform the earth, With all its discontents, Let's heed suggestions of much worth That this old world presents.” no stage in his remarkable advance ! to_industrial power and great personal | wealth has Henry Ford's honesty ever | | been questionea. ! It may be possible to write a plat- iform for Henry Ford, but will it be a ! { platform that the democratic party will adopt? The truth is that this] platform-making movement is simply | {a sort of questionnaire. It is vitally | important before anything is done to | It bids the blossom greet the sun And through the stress of storm, make a candidate out of Ford that|In patience waits the blessings won ihe should be reduced to a political| When skies are mild and warm. i la. ey It tolerates the insect brood, i Yet struggles to produce The pleasures’of a gentle mood And things for honest use. —————— An impression on the part of Am- jbassador Geddes that prohibition works successfully only in the small {towns brings up another angle of the relativity proposition. No town big tenough to have-a mayor and a con- stable is willing to admit itself to | classification as a small town. —————— Printing presses turning out unse- | curea paper currency abroad have to { work long and fast in order to turn fout enough to pay the wages of the press men. Let the example great remove Our prejudices blind. If men this earth cannot improve Let earth improve mankind. i Among the Animals. “Were you & bear or a bull in the market?" *Neither,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax. “I was one of those wise old foxes who kept out of it.” { A Fisherman's Wail. “I fished all'day and only caught’ one fish.” “How do you account for that?” “Only op the theory that the fish had hydrophobia and was ready to bite anything.” l The art impulse in America will not fail to note the efforts of Minnesota to make some contributions in pic- turesque politics. i | Savings to Pennsylvania announced by Gov. Pinchot may arouse ambition in other states to borrow him as a business doctor. “A man dat really values his opin- ion,” said Uncle Eben, liable to take a little care of it an’ not let it git mussed up in permiscuous conver- sation.” ‘Wobblies” to Invade Texas. { Kansas has had its grasshopper in- ‘vnlonsA Other states have been eaten up by locust armies. And now Port Arthur, Tex., is to be overrun by 120,000 ““wobblies”—I. W. W.'s—in re- taliation for alleged mistreatment of three members of tha# organization by Texans. According to the instruc- tions issued by the headquarters of jthe Marine Transport Workers, in New York, the largest 1. W. W. or- ganization in the east, all foot-loose I. W. W.'s are to converge on the Texas town. No force is to be used in the attack on Port Arthur. In fact, there is to be only a “passive” attack, taking a cue from German ‘‘passive” resistance in the Ruhr valley; perhaps. The only weapons to be used are mouths, hungry mouths. The 1. W. W.'s fig- ure that if their thousands reach Port Arthur and are placed in jail they will have to be fed; that food costs money and that the people of Port Arthur will soon weary of digging down into their jeans to buy food for them at the present high cost of living. The officials of Port Arthur, on the other hand, are reported to be in readiness for the invasion. They ex- pect to get a lot of city work done through the labor of the incarcerated Educational Test. To reading and writing I shall not direct My thought. T'll be happy at last If my ’rithmetic shows.I have been quite correct In counting the votes to be cast. After a boy learns what to do with a saxaphone, the next thing is to find out what to do with the boy. Ins and Outs. “I-am told that you know all the ins and outs of politics.” “I don’t pay so much attention to the outs,” replied Senator Sorghum. “The ins are usually the fellows who have most of the real influence. Jud Tunkins says it's kind of a deli- cate matter to be smart e¢hough ina horse trade to protect yourself with- out bein' $o smart folks'll be scared to do business with you. Effort Demanded. . “The world owes me a living,” re- marked the socialist. ‘/Yes,” replied the willing worker. “But you've got to make some kind of & demonstration’ to convince .if you're entitled to_collect,” =y 'lm' Henry Ford will not be particu-|appreciated by countries who think ilarly easy. Thus far little is known |the U. S. A. ought to enter the league | of his political ideals or concepts. It|of nations, although a few of the is hard to classify him. He hdsismaller ones no doubt would rather MIDWE BY FREDERIC Somebody British and lyrical—Shel- ley, Wordsworth, or perhaps it wis Kipling—once soliloquized In meter: “What knows a man of England, who only England knows?” or words to that effect. What knows an-Ameri- can of the United States, who knows only the Atlantic seaboard, or the stretch of country that lies between the Alleghanies and the Mississippi? Such an American knows precious little of the “land” he glorifies In the only line of “The Star Spangled Ban- ner” that he can sing by heart. This observer deserted his eastern habitat at the beginning of July, to follow once again, after a considerable in- terval, Horace Greeley's immortal ad- vice to young men. It has been a voyage of discovery and inspiration. The midwest and 'the midcontinent regions are still virile and vigorous, despite the temporary blight of eco- nomic depression. Thelr air is ener- i gizing, though heavily laden with gasoline, and they are still as differ- ent In their outlook upon life, judged by eastern standards. as their golden Jsunsets from the smoke of Pittsburgh. % x Many Washington statesmen are becoming acquainted with their home bailiwicks this summer for the first time since the war. Borah is riding the political circuits in Idaho. Sena- tor Warren, Pershing’'s father-in-law, is at Cheyenne, supervising the vast affairs of his sheep herds. Lawrence C. Phipps, whom some Coloradans consider more of a Pittsburgher than | a Denverite, Is renewing home tles in the Rocky mountains—there's an election in 1924, Arthur Capper is the busiest man in Kansas, flivvering from county to county in anticipation of next year's re-election campaign and personally attending, after long absence, to, the business of his great publishing "house at Topeka. im Reed was in Missouri o much last summer, during primary and election campaigns. that he has torn himself eway for the long congressional re- cess, and is touring the country in connection with his big case against the Standard Oil. Reed lost his old- time law partner, “Jim" Harvey, at Kansas City recently. The senator is now bent upon -rebuilding single- handed the business of a once pros- perous firm. * s Statesmen who come back to little gray homes in the west find that too prolonged absenteeism is bad politics The folks in the constituencies resent it They're afraid the glamour of life t Washington too easily blinds the verage senator or representative, who once was content with the minor diversions and less distinguished so- ciety of Main street. Owing to war work in Congress, hundreds of mem- bers of both houses this summer are making their first protracted visits to iocal regio nee 19 They are finding to their sorrow. in many cases, t their popularity and prestige have waned. In one or two instances, defeats for re-electlon in 1922 are di- rectly chargeable to the failure of certain eminent men to keep in closer touch with their home people. By these sometking more than franked Senior Branch of House Proclaim BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENEY There are two branches of the h toric house of Arenberg, all the mem- bers of which are by birth not only princes. but aiso dukes, and who, belonging to the mediatized or for- i merly petty sovereign fami of eentral Europe, were accorded. at any rate until 1918, the right of mat- Ing on a footing of perfect equality with the now reigning dynasties of the old world The junior branch of the A nbergs, that is to say, the branch which has hundred vears past, is headed by the octogenarian Prince and Duke Au- gustus Arenberg, who is a member of the Institute of France and of the chamber of deputies, and who was formerly president of the Suez canal and of the jockey club. His yvounger son, Duke Ernest, fell fighting under the French flag at Combreux in March 1915, and his_eldest and only other son succumbpgd not long after the res- toration of peace to an illness con- sequent of wounds and hardships at the French front, leaving a boy now { ighteen years oid to succeed to his honors. Of the old duke's daughters one is married to the Marquis de La- guiche, one of the most brilliant cavalry generals of the French army. while the other is the wife of the Marquis De Vogue. *ox % It is necessary to explain and em- phasize this in view of the decision just rendered by the supreme court of appeals in Belgium. which virtually bars the senior and Belgian branch of the Arenbergs from the kingdom jand_ places upon it the stigma of {having sided with Germany when the latter, without provocation. invaded and devastated Belgium at the outset of the great war. After the Germans had been driven by defeat to retire from Belgium in 1918, and as soon as ever King Albert’s government had been re-established at® Brussels, it lost no time in issuing a decree sequestrating all the palaces, cha- teaux and the vast estates of the Arenbergs, by reason of their dis- loyalty to the Belgian crown during the war. Of course. its members immediately instituted legal proceedings in order to bring about the repeal of this se- questration. The affair was carried from one court to another, and now the supreme tribunal of the kingdom, sustaining the verdicts already ren- dered, has_transformed the decree of sequestration into formal confisca- tion, without any compensation or redress, on the ground of the atti- tude of the family during the war, when all of its adult maie members served as officers under the German flag, and when the German command- ers, who had directed. the destruction of Louvain, and whe were responsible for the reduction of so many other Bélgian towns and villages to ruins, for the butchering of the civilian pop- ulation under circumstances of inde- scribable atrocity and for the devas- tating of the land and of its indus- tries, were welcomed with open arms and as valued friends and comrades by the Belgian dukes and duchesses of Arenbergs in their various Bel- gian palaces and chateaux. The decree of the Belglan supreme court in delivering this imevitable, but nevertheless ~sensational judg- ment, recalled the fact which was to a great extent ignored, at any rate, until the beginning of the great war, that in 1909 Duke and Prince Engel- bert, head of this family which had always been regarded as the premier house of the nobility of Belgium, had formerly given its complete allegi- ance to the ex-kaiser in his capacity as German emperor and as King of Prussia, The judgment takes note of this, and accordingly bars every mem- ber of the non-French branch of the ducal and princely house of Arenberg from ever holding any property in Belgium, and excluding them from her territory as having borne arms against the kingdom of Belgium while living under its flag, and mak- ing their home on Belgian soil. and with having aided and abetted the rous gnemy. D as. it this denunciation of the Duke and Prince Engelbert by the supreme court of Belgium in the name of her king and of her people were not sufficient there was the dying Zenunciation of his own mother three years ago, an accusation'by which she placed in her last will and testament the stigma upon her eldest.son traitor to Belglum._ * % ¥ X Arenber; t only by mar; but " alad. by ‘and ’during ST OBSERVATIONS b been wholly French for more than a | WILLIAM WILE ' copies of long speeches are demanded. They crave the handclasp of old friendship. They want to see “Bill" or “Tom™ in the flesh, look him in the eye, slap him on the back and hear the old stuff. Sad to relate, they're mot usually beguiled by the minor qvents of Washington, and the west- ern statesman who is wise “lays off"” them in vor of the parish-pump politics that dominates most thoughts. * ok k% . Four demochatic state governors now reign at western capitals— Bryan In Nebraska, Sweet in Colerado, Davis in Kansas and Ress in Wyo- ming. Each was swept into office by the 1922 landslide, supplanting in all cases republican predecessors. Any one or all of them may be candidates for the United Stgtes Senate in 1924, and republican incumbents have a healthy. respect for the opposition they would be able to offer. Sweet and bis newly appointed senator, Alva B. Adams, are almost sure to be the democratic team in the race agamst Senator Phipps and Carl Schuyler in Colorado. In highly optimistic mo- ments the democrats dream of de- feating Senator Warren in Wyoming —which would be a miracle—and pit- ting against _him, for the purpose, Gov. Ross. Wyoming governors are elected for four years, and Ross is disinclined to desert his present job for the uncertainties of a campaign against the state's grand old man S Arthur Capper is strongly intrench- ed in Kansas, and most authorities i consider him invincible. Yet the Sun- flower state has developed an antip- athy to its overproduction of editor- statesmen. “Dirt Farmer" Jonathan M. Davis' election was to a certa degree an expression of discontent j with the time-honored practice of taking Kansas governors and sena- tors from newspaper offices. Capper. A superpublisher, was governor for two terms, and then became senato He handed over the state capitol to, Henry J. Allen, another editor, and when Alien retiréd from Kansas poli- tics — temporarily — the republicans nominated another scribe, “Bill” Mor- gan, for the governorship. It was he whom Farmer Davis overcame in 1922 % o The National Non-Partisan League's i political campaigns are directed by Henry G. Teigen of Minneapolis, who is hereby christened the Will H. Hays of the farm-labor movement. The | sobriquet is appropriate for several | reasons. In the first place, it is j Teigen. to a considerable exte, who | has organized victory for the N. P. L. in the northwest during the past llhrm' or four years Then he is young, like Hays—still in the early forties—and, again. like the grand kleagle of the movies, halls from In- diana. Teigen is a graduate of the Valparaiso Normal College, and began life as a country school teacher. He is American-born, Norwegian by ex- traction, full of Hays pep and energ. and, like that prototype, Is small o Stature. An only brother of Teigen's backslided onto the plutocratic side of the fence and is general counsel | for a great Chicago merchandizing cor- | poration. (Copyright. 1923 ) Noble Arenberg ed Belgian Traitors dominant figure of the great world of Brussels. she was so passionately fond of Belgium that she could not forgive her eldest son for having sided with the Kkaiser, and placed on record the fact that Emperor Wil_ liam had warned her son three months Defore the outbreak of the war, that |18 to say as far back as in Ap: {1914, that he intended to traverse | Belgian territory, by foree if neces- | sary, in order to reach thie northeast- | ern’ provinces of France. That he an- ticipated Belgian resistance is shown by the fact that he recommended his friend, Duke Engelbert. to transfer the bulk of art treasures and most highly prized portable posses- sions into Germany. The old duchess, who was a very masterful character, was very unfor- tunate in her sons. For her younger Prince and Duke Prosper Aren- before ndered him- 3 ing murders and atrocities in German West Africa to which he had been transferred because of the disgraceful scrapes in which he had become involved in Germany. that he was, in spite of his birth and rank, condemned by one court-martial to death, by another to fifteen years of penal servitude, by a third to twenty vears’ imprisonment, while a fourth® pronounced him ir- responsible and caused his committal as a homicidal maniac to a German asylum for the insane. There he was treated with so much honor and dis- tinetion by the officlals as to excite @ storm of public protest in the reichstag and in the columns of the | press. After two or three years' de- tention he was discharged as cured, He was forced to leave Germany for | Argentina, where a ranch was pur- | chased for him. But he soon tired of | life there. and returend to Europe, | where, finding Germany barred to | him, he took up his residence at Brus- | sels, where, to the relief of his rela- tives, he died on the eve of the war. * K k% It may be put forward, not excuse, but asan explanation of Dule Engelbert of Arenberg’s conduct in siding with the Germans the fact that the estates of the family in Germany and in what was formerly the dual empire embrace an area of no less than 1,100 square miles, only a portion of ‘which is situated in Westphalia, where he has a mag- nificent country seat known as the Nordkfrchen. 'In addition to this he possesses what is to all intents and purposes a_monopoly of the coal mining rights for the whole of the Prussian province of Westphalia, per- haps the greatest mining district in Germany. “These mineral rights were vested by Emperor Charlemagne in A. D. 800 in the original house of Arenberg, which became extinct in the male line in 1280 when the hon- ors and estates and prerogatives were continued by the Holy Roman Em- pire to Count Engelbert de La Marck husband of the only child and heir- ess of the last of her family. They were confirmed in 1357 to the head {of the thus continued house of Aren- berg by the so-called golden bull of Emperor Charles IV. By its terms no one has been allowed to open up any mining operatiéns in Westphalia without the sanction of the chief of the house of Arenberg for the time being. permission being only granted in return for a royalty of 1 per cemt of the selling price of the mine prod- uct, no matter to whom the surface of the land above the mine belonged. These royalties have thus been paid for the last nine centuries or more, bringing an enormous revenue. That they should have existed during nine centuries or more through all sorts of revolutions and changes of sov- ereignty and government is almost incredible and °constitutes perhaps the most notable instance of that much abused term “unearned incre- ment.” Prince Duke Emgelbert 'of Arenberg, fifteenth of his line, stood to lose this moriopoly, as well as pll the entalled estates of the family in Germany, and in the old former Ha burg monarchie, % to ‘throw- in his lot with the kaiser, and had remained true to King Albert and to Belglum. Thus far neither his Westphalian coal monopoly no: his estates in Germany have been interfered with by the governments in power. But should really socialistic, or, worse still, communistic regimes succeed in supplanting the governments- at Berlin, at. Vienna, Budapest. and in the southern German states, it is pretty certain that he would not be allowed to remain in possession of these advantages of a territorjal and sub-territorial char- acter. They would be torn from him, d in that case he would find that he had made a -oux-ur‘l:l in be- ing Albert-and the Belglen BTEAL WAL, 4 | | ‘traying K nation o resent | The North Wind.ow "By LEILA MECHLIN Much lias been said and written about organized labor, but little at- tention has been given to the ad- vantages tog be gained through the rganization.of those occupied with the arts—that is, producing artists Such a union to the majority of per- son® would seem as chimerical. a thing as a working plan to abolish war from the face of the earth, for which Edward Bok is now offering a prize of $100,000, but the fact is that such a union has been formed, not in one, but in several countries of Europe. In France it is called the “Confederation des Travailleurs In- tellectuels”; in England it is known as the “National Federation of Pro- fessional Workers.” The former was organized about twoiyears ago, the latter held its inaugural congress in London on June 23 of the present year. In the announcement that was sent out from England it was stated that “the organization of capital and of manual labor has, in our day, reach- ed such a scale and such complete- ness that it has become necessary for the eaually complete organization of the force by which capital is set in motion and through which all manual labor is employed. This force is the power of the intelligence or the intellect—the work of the men who create the works of the spirit and of the labor of thought.” In the French organization there are socleties representing all the arts and all the" sclences, including the four salons. Under the auspices of the French confederation an inter- national cbngress was held at the Sorbonne in Paris in April, at which over twenty nations were represent- led by delegates.” “There has been no such gathering of thinkers one who was present has said, “since the ceuncils of the thirteenth century which met in Paris and out of whose meetings came the Universities of Paris and of Oxford. * K kK More than two vears ago William J. Locke, the well-known British novelist, in an address made before the Liverpool Architectural Society, proposed and advocated the import- ance of such a union of artists. Deal- ing with world conditions both as a literary man and as one-time secre- tary of the Royal Institute of British Architects, he said, as reported in thé institute’s journal: “Is this the time to concern ourselves with the trivial theories and philosophies of art? Are we, as ‘artists, merely fiddling while the world is burning? What is the use of us? What Is the meaning of us? Are we, or are we not, a vital force in the world groping its way through chaos to the light?" Before answering these questions he strongly emphasized the fact that those who write, those who, paint, those who de- sign houses, those who compose music, gave evervthing in common, every- ing in life that matters, for there is only one art”; and he said, “If we {are to be of any use to mankind as artists we must live or die together.” In this way he stressed the solidarity of art * % ¥ Ok But his recommendations were more explicit, even, than these, and he con- tinued: “The one art is & mighty force. If there Were some means of organizing it, co-ordinating the ef- forts of a painter, musician, architect, i poet, so that they all could be brought into one sociological focus, its influ- ence would be immeasurable.” How it could be done he admitted he did not kaow. Certainly not through the medium of the academy. The need as he saw it was for a “great organiza- tion for the conservation of the spirit. A vast trade union in which there Should be mo rules as to wages or 1imit of output or the right to strike. It should be generously all-embrac- ing, unselfishly educative, in all its elastic superficies in_touch with the kreat social mass. It should be a Freemasonry without other secrets than those only dimly divined which h of us keeps in his soul for the execution of his peculiar work. A Freemasonry too subtle for signs and passwords, vet very real in the mu- tual recognition of brethren, and very in its universali of benefi- i In support of his theory, Mr. Locke claimed that ever since the world began mankind has craved some that the life around him should be interpreted in terms of beauty. Therefore, he argues, as the creative artist adds beauty to the world, hel does matter—in fact, he matters so much in the continuous regeneration of the world that every man living ‘ho practices any form of art ania ake counsel with himself and search out his own sincerity, for he is indeed dealing not with thing: material, things which pass, but with the destinies of mankind. * kK K As an offshoot of the International Association of Intellectual Workers there has been formed in England a confederation of the arts, similar in scope (and to an extent modeled after) the American Federation of Arts, which was formed here in Washington fourteen years ago and has come in that time to be nation- wide, so that it now embraces 35 affiliated organizations scattered throughout the United States. This American Federation of Arts has’its headquarters in the Octagon and is carrying on throughout the gountry a widespread educational work in the interest of what Mr. Locke has called “the everlasting propaganda 1t sends out traveling of paintings and other works of art, circulates illustrated lectures, acts’ as a bureau of infor- mation and & general olearing house for art assoclations—but, more than all this, it binds together the work- ers in the arts and the lovers of art and forms in a measure that solidar- ity for which Mr, Locke has pleaded. * K K K It is not always easy to make plain to those who have had little assoclation with art or time for its consideration that it is one of the great forces in life and that without it civilization. would be lost. It is, therefore, extremely interesting and encouraging to find that there are a sufficient number interested to in- augurate such a movement as this International Confederation of In- tollectual Workers, and that appar- ently spontaneously ~this movement has sprung all over Europe and in Great Britain, and is recoghized al- ready as a promising end powerful force. Just what it will mean can-. not be more than conjectured. But undoubtedly it shou result in a better understanding among nations, a higher regard for mtal attai ment_and the development. of leader- ship in thought. Lok ok % X 2 Certainly the modernist movement in art tends to exalt ignorance and aiscount the value of intellectuality; the trend is toward the brutishness of. primitive man—all that civiliza- tion has brought is to be cast aside, the cry is that of the forces of na- ture ‘in rebellion against the power of the epirit. It is & symptom of the ’ 1o revelation of beauty, has demanded j Q. Will the interior decorations of the National Theater be completed before fall?—C, J. A. Manager Harry Rapley says that the work will be finished in time for the first performance on Labor day. The walls are being covered with putty colored damask, and the draperies will be made of blue opera Velvet. Miss Billie Burke in a new play will be the opening attraction. Q. How many Pullman cars were parked in the Washington railroad yards for the accommodation of Shrin- ers during Shrine week?’—K. R. A. The Pullman Co that 473 cars were parked.in the ton ::rkinlg Jards.’ This included the 107 rs at “Shrine Park” in the Southern raflway's yard at Alexandria, Va. Q. How far up on the high moun- tains is vegetation found?—K. K. A. The British exploration party which attempted the arcent of Mr. Everest in 1922, reported the finding of edelweiss at a hei 2 e eight of 20,000 Q. Where is the world's I. concert hall?’—L. T, R. Sfaiis A. The Cleveland auditorium, seat- ing 12,500 is believed to be the largest concert auditorium in the world. It was opened April 15, 1922. Q. How much water power i in the world>—R. A. )Lp oo A. The estimated potential water power of the world i 439,000,000 horsepower, of which about 23,000.- 000 horsepower has been developed. Q. Can a one-armed ma play golf?—J. L. F. il A. There are two one-armed play- ers'in Washington, These men aye Al Howard and Gen. Drain. Al Howard is right-handed and lost his left arm when he was quite small. Gen. Drain is left-handed and lost his right arm when he was thirty years g}g.“‘(;:l\'lng I{;I these peculiarities Mr. v: is able to give the ge; a small handicap. © Al Q. Ts there any part of the United States where ic = States where lice s not manufac A. The federal census of 1520 shows ice factories in every state in the Union _‘except Vermont and New Hampshire. Q. How many members are there of the Knights of Columbus?—R. S. A. On April 1, 1923, the total mem- bership of the Knights of Columbus was 767.683-—223,195 insurance mem- bers and 544,485 associate members. Q. What does it cost the United States government for the upkeep of the national parks?—J, M. T. A. The Congressional appropriation for the fiscal year 1924 for the admin- istration, protection, maintenance and improvement of the parks and monu- ments amounted to $1,689,730. Q. What is the percentage of illit- eracy among criminals’—K. R. A. Criminal statistics of this sort are practically unavailable from offi- cial sources. The superintendent of the New York state reformatories said that of 22,000 criminals whom he had examined., only 4 per cent were college graduates; only 7 per cent had. finished high school; 25 per cent had finished grammer school; 64 per cent had attended only primary schools or none. France's Ratification of Naval Treaty Is Commended. Extreme gratification is expressed | by the editors of the nation over the | ratification Ly France of the naval limitations treaty. It is agreed that this is an excellent time for such action in that it may cause both France and England to “stop. look and listen” in their mad rush to at- tain the supremacy of the air. This, t0o, in the face of the general admis- sion that the treaty, as a matter of fact, means very little when the changed conditions which will pre- vail In the “next war"—and it is sur- prising how many people expect a next war—are taken into considera- tion. “While the agreement is of less im- portance than its more enthusiastic friends would have the country be- lieve, nevertheless it is of great value,” says the Indianapolis News. { This treaty marked a real advance on the road to peace, and, taken with the Pacific paet, means a_ great deal to the world." 'The benefit that will faccrue to the United States through this ratification, as the Albany Knickerbocker Press analyzes it, is we “will be enabled to clear away the uncertainty that has surrounded our own naval policy. A definite pro- gram can now take the place of { ‘suspended animation’ that has ruled for a year.” Not only the United States but “Great Britain and Japan,” the New York Tribune emphasize: strength within the limits set.” Economically it is an move, the Hartford Times thinks, be- cause “as a money-saving move the treaty is an excellent device to ap- peace move it is of sligh quence in their estimation. France’s delay in acting ha embarrassing, “the breach has been closed,” the Minneapolis Tribune holds, “to the great gratification of the other signatories who delivere their ratifications long ago.” So 800 as the actual “scrapping” takes place, he St. i “an implied contract for future peace will exist with all the world, but it would be better news if we could be sure that it means a change of front at Paris as to many problems affecting the other nations as well jas itself and a new attitude and spirit toward obligations on which ~the peace of at least its own continent rests” But the 'Danville Bee is in- elined to suggest “whether the Wash- conse- been to battleship curtailment will really sterilize the seeds of war is doubt- ful with competition in another dead- apace.” It should be remembered in this connection, the Hoboken Observer points out, that “the ratification does not mean that the nations in the treaty will have weak sea power, for {probably all will have navies up to the maximum strength permitted. The pact will check the brisk and costly competition in construction and be an immense sdving to all the powers in_the cost of ships and equip- ment and maintaining forces to man them.” Because. this is so, the Phila- delphia Bulletin argues. “as a matter of fact, it had been folly on the part of France to hesitate at all as to rati- fication. She could not exceed the ratio of battleships allotted to her for years to come; is not likely to want to_exceed that. allotment. And neither France nor any other nation could afford to refuse indorsement to the spirit and purpoges of the treaty.” The Chattanooga News is convinced “it doesn’t seem to make any dif- ference whether or not the naval treaty was ratified. The competition {8 now in the alr rather than the sea. No disarmament agreement is of any avail unless it includes all the war powers of all large nations.” This likewisd is the position taken by the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, which feels “it must be manifest that litile was actually done by the much adver- tised and over-advertised Washington conference. Japan is building unpro- hibited war vessels feverishly. France has_lost nothing. - But America is pledged to leave her possessions in the Pacific, naked to her mies, un-, toytified. Poincare took pains to ex. lain to his-people that Frane anufl only a% to offensive means, ¥ “ nothing>1é ‘done-to curtail he: By Frederic J. Haskin ‘now may bring their capital ship excellent peal to the Frenchman, although as a While Louis Globe-Democrat feels, | ington disarmament treaty relating 1y form—in the air—already growing is |that th PEEE——— . How imany miles from Parie waqra the Germans on their closest approach?-—¥. L. D. A. The potnt in ‘the Ofse province where the Ggvmans were turned back Wi 20.43 s from Paris. Q. Why i tiw Black sea so called?— L C F. A. The nam® was given to this body of water (g1 account of the fact that in winter sheavy fogs nhx«-ur‘r- the sunlight and .end & back H‘Nn"l? to the wvaters, Q'he ancient Greek nume was “Inhosivitable sea. Q. What is the name ‘given to poker when the jola'r is left in the pack?—W. T. A. It is called joker, poker or Mis- tigris. Q. What kind of mou is the small- est?—1. E. D. A. The harvest mouse ©f the south- ern states is probably 1lie smallest. Its_entire length is only tour inches, and half of this is tail. Q. How are flalding averages of ball players determined? McD. A. To determine fielding wverages divide the total of put-outs, ASSSLs and errors into the total of 1$ut-outs and assists. Q. How many gallons of gas) were used in the transdontinental fligthit of the T-27—C. H. D. A. Seven hundred and twenty @al- lons of gasoline were used. Q. Before railroads used standavjl time, what time was used’—O. M. A. It was formerly customary for* a road to use throughout large sec- tions of its territory the tocal time of one of the prineipal cities throus| which it passed. On October 18, 188 a convention was called by W. ¥ Allen, secretary of the general rail- way time convention, which decided on the introduction of standard time. to take effect at noon November 15. 1883, and the change was made with- out difficulty. Q. Why was passed?—D. K. A. Mr. Plimsoll had at heart the g00d of sailors when he urged this bill upon the parliament of England Unseaworthy ships were overloaded, sent to sea and sunk for the col- lection of insurance so often that | did not seem a coincidence. The the = Plimsoll act versels loading 10 a over their load-lime mark, which was painted on the side of the ship and which came to be kmown as the Plim soll line. This law* reached beyond Great PBritain. bacawse it was ap- plied hy that governiuent to ail ship entering the British ports. While willlng to protect her ewn sailors i such a fashion, she wae not willing to give her ships unfairt competitio by allowing ships of other nations 0 overload. Q. Is cannibalism still practiced” T L A. Martin Yohnson. who makes movies of savages, says that he sc- cured some pictures on his last trip to the South Sea Islands which prov: conclusively that “long pig” is still \a delicacy eaten occasionally’ b some tribes. (Have you a question you want ak sweored? Address yowr inquiy to The 1 Star Information Bureau. Frederic 7 Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol strect. ' Be sure {0 give yowr full nanc and address and inclose 2 cents stamps for return postage.) EDITORIAL DIGEST jdefensive power. But we lav pledged ourselves against oven self defense. One achievement of the war seems to have been to have. re-estab- lished certain imperlalistic preten- sions of the - land of 'Napoleon.' France's loss in delaying ratification “has been her own,” the Richmond News Leader asserts, “a loss of many thousands of supporters acr the channel and over the Atlantic.” It is the belief of the Syracufe |Herald that “by joining the quad- ruple entente for naval limitation the United States government already has knocked into smithefeens the whole structure of protest or argu- ment built up by the American op- ponents of the world éourt and the league of nations.” This view is not accepted by the Wheeling Register. {which holds *the Washington con- {ference was a poor excuse,” and tha failing to gain anything here, “France went home and feverishly built (o gain control of the air. She iz today in a position supreme, read: willing to barter control of for that of the air." Disputes Baldwin. Pro Writer Takes Issue With mier’s Reparation Talk. To the Editor of The Star: o your issue of July 12 I read an account of the speech of Prime Min- ister Baldwin outlining the new Eng- lish attitude to the German repari- tions. He said: “The indefinite occupation of the territory of one country by another is a regrettable phenomenon to which an honorable end should be found as soon as possible.” This remark was made in regard to the present occ- pation of the Ruhr by Belgium and France. Does this also apply to the presence at this time of British troops in German territory About 160 years ago England in- vaded Canada and by force wrested { that country from France. 1 have | looked over Wells' “Outline of Hi | tory” and cannot find the date | which she withdrew her m forces and returned Canada to Fra Likewise the dates on which Gibral- ter, Malta and Crete have been evac- uated I cannot find. Can you inform me when England returned the man colonfes awarded her by tl Versailles treaty? 1 have a shorl memory and somehow cannot recall the date on which Britain renounced her sovereignty. Am I right In thinking England kept her militar forces in Ireland some 250 years b fore she discovered that it was “regrettable phenomenon” to do such a naughty thing? Of course, Germany kept a large military force in France until the last franc of the Bismarckian repa tions was pald. But that apparent did not interfere with British tradc If I am rightly informed, William the ‘onqueror never did return the coun- try he conquered ta its inhabitants of_1066. It is only fair to say that Mr. Bald- win was not premier when these “re- grettable phenomena” occurred. We hope he will at least restore Canadu to France when he finally determines that the Ruhr be evacuated. 1 wonder if Premier Baldwin has considered the attitude of the million and more brave British soldiers who lMe in Flanders flelds ag voiced by one of them, Col. John McCrea of Montreal? “We arp the dead 2 Gs Take up our quarrel with the foe. To you from falling Lands the torch we throw; Be yours to hold it Iiigh. On Flanders Belds.” E H. W. WILEY. Balloon and Plane. To the Editor of The Star: 1 was flld to see your editorial of Lk the 9th tant on balloon and plane. You are quite right as to the utili of these events; they are in the in- terest of sport absoiutely and as at present conducted are without the least scientific_value. It is idle to credit them as being of interest to meteorol- ogists as a writer in Tuesday's Star undertook to do. The pity of “ua"ux'; o federal government. sho g?nnmsn.lu o qng them. “* T aoie