Evening Star Newspaper, July 21, 1923, Page 6

g™ THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.... ...July 21, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave, ew York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Ruropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. The Eyents »dition, is delivered by 2t 80 cents per month; daily only, 43 conts per month: Sundsy only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders muy be ment by mail, or telephone Main G000. "Collection fs made by carriers at the eud of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $5.40; 1 mo., T0¢ Daily only. 1yr, $8.00; 1 mo., 5c Bunday only.......1¥r, $2.40; 1 mo., 20c Star, with the Sunday morning rriers within the city All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c Dally only vr., $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ Runday $3.00; 1 mo.. only i Member of the Associated Press, The Assoclated Press is exclusively cntitled o the use for republication of ull news dis- patelies credited to it or not otherwise credited In thfs paper and also the locul Dews pub- 1shed “herein, ublication of wpectal disputches herein are als, reserved. Francisco Villa. Francisco Villa died as he lived, by violence. His had been a turbulent life, full of excitement, full of crime and desperate deeds. He had ‘‘reformed,” Lad retired to become a farmer, and, according to all recent accounts, was pursuing a quiet career at the head of a large agricultural colony, in the good graces of the government, and seem- ingly surrounded and scrved by loyal and contented adherents and depend- ents. He was arch. But the in a small way a mo Nemesis of his misdeeds overtook hin. He was shot down from ambush by a group of men believed 0 be partisans of the Herrera family, the leading members of which Villa slew while he was engaged in his i titioner’s tient believes that he has been cured it may be that ut least he has been benefited, although, of course, on the other hand, he may by reason of his belief fail to call to his aid those measures of physical sclence which might save him. Among most men there seeme to be a great deal of mystery about the matter. Among the most ethical medical men are those who attach importance to, psychology, and particularly to the ‘psychology of the patient.” There are physiclans who deal in what they call “psycho-analysis,” and they have reported that patlents suffering from obsessions or from insomnia. nervous breakdowns and other troublesome things have been cured not by the usual sedatives, but by getting the dis- turbing thought out of the mind The word “psychotherapy” has found lodgment in the medical prac- vocabulary. One of the churchmen engaged in the experiment is quoted as saying: “The real cause of nervousness In about 95 per cent of the cases Is due to the mind, and the cause being psychic, psychic treat- tuent is demanded.” That means that the patient's doubts and fears may be removed by reasoning and explana. tion. Itis interesting to many persons that a body of eminent physicians and eminent clergymen and others who be- lieve in psychotherapy have got to- gether for the operation of & clinic in good faith. —————— The Handbook Decision. Handhook makers should not take encouragement from the result in the case in which Justice Balley of the District Supreme Court held that the failure of the superintendent of police persoually to serve a search warrant at a ratd invalidated the seizure by the police of gambling paraphernalia and marked money. A technical error in the making out of the search warrant forms the ground for the justice's de- career of banditry. Evidently the full facts of the kill- ing of Villa have not yet appeared. Possibly they may not be disclosed. There is much in Mexican politics— and this is clearly in certain aspects a political crime—that is obscure. If the killing of Villa was an act of ven- &cance for the execution of the elder Herrera and three of his sons by Vil- la’s orders it appears as a simple crime. But there are suggestions in the news reports that other factors entered into the matter. It is said that Villa’s death has been predicted for some months, as a number of his old followers have bécome disgusted and have deserted service at the ranch, where “Pancho™ reigned like a feudal | baron. Again it is noted that recently Villa has been taking an interest in national politics, and has indicated a strong preference for the presidency in the next election for Madero, brother of the late Francisco Madero, the as- sassinated president. The administra- tion candidate is understood to be Gen. Cal 1t has been heretofore noted that Madero was the one possible can- didate who could give Calles serious opposition in the 1924 campaign. When Francisco Villa raided the American border and shot up the town of Columbus, N. M., his death was de- manded by the American people. He furiously hated as well as feared. When he fled into the Mexican moun- tains, pursued by Gen, Pershing, there was hope, which steadily faded, that be would be caught and punished. He gdve our troops the slip, and they hampered by Mexican official jealousy and suspicion, were forced finally to turn back empty-handed. Then came the downfall of the Carranza govern- ment and the establishment of Obre- gon, with the opening of a new era of peace in Mexic Villa submitted to the new regime, confessed his sins, and was granted a pardon on condi- tion that he retire to the quiet life of a farmer. He kept faith with Obregon, rehabilitated himself in the esteem of Mexico and won the admiration of the American people as well. The spec- tacle of this illiterate peasant working for the real betterment of his people transformed his enemies in this coun- | try into partisans. But there are signs that Villa was not greatly changed after all, and that probably he would have been unable to resist the tempta- tion to take a hand in political mat- ters. Possibly the as sination put an end to his career in season to prevent a lapse that would have undone all i the good of his reformation. —_——— The election in Minnesota has re- vived references to Jerry Simpson. Judging by the prosperity attained by Kansas, Minnesota will refuse to re- gard sockless statesmanship “as at all in the nature of a hoodoo.” ———— The new senator from Minnesota is expected to give the public the benefit of a fresh viewpoint in the contempla- tion of some very old problems. —_——— France regrets the necessity of tak- ng hier eyes off the Rhine long enough to give a glance at the English chan- nel i H { | Mind and Body Clinic. An experiment in healing has been undertaken by a New York church, the Episcopal Church of St. Mark's-in- the-Bouwerie, which will probably be watched with wide interest. Briefly, it has been described as “‘a body and soul clinic to be administered by clergymen and physiclans.” It is said that the church will be “a center for mental, physical, social and spiritual healing”; that the work “is to be wholly in charge of medical men,” and that “the ministers will work under the guid- cision, and in the issue of future war- rants no such error will be made. It is sald that all that {s needed to make warrants conform to the court's rul- ing is that they shall contain the names of the detectives or police ac- tually making the raid instead of the name of the superintendent of police. The district attorney is reported as saying that there will be no let-down in the efforts of his office toward the prosecution of handbook makers, and it is certain that the police will con- tinue their activities against this form of vice. Commissioner Oyster, who, besides belng a high official, is a man of the people and 4 man of the world, is quoted as saying that “The making of handbooks is & violation of law, and we propose to do all we can to enforce the law.” There are a number of local detec- tives and police who are especially apt in the work of keeping down the evil of handbook making. They know the veteran or chronic handbook makers, and it does not take them long to get a line on a new adventurer in that field. The main difficulty is in catch- ing the bookmaker “with the goods” and in securing the evidence on which a case will stand in court. The police department can be relied on to do all that is possible to purge the city of men who disregard for their own profit a law whose enactment was de- manded by nearly all the people and is supported by practically the whole body of citizens, Bookmakers have been banished from the race track in many states, and the man who makes a “book” on distant races should be driven out of his occupation. His activities are in- jurious to the public. He preys on the credulous who hope to win money at an “unbeatable” game. The sure win- ner is the handbook maker, and the sure loser is the man who plays the other fellow’s game. It is not easy to protect those men of weak minds and weak morals who hdve the habit of “placing bets” with handbook makers on distant races, and who, nearly as much behind in the game as the total of their bets, are always hoping to break even or make a killing in some race where the odds are high against the winner. But by putting handbook makers out of busi- ness these men may be protected against themselves, and it may be pos- sible to keep the temptation of making fool bets on horse races from being presented to men who have not al- ready formed the habit. Washington should be made an unsafe place for nhandbook men. ————— Pennsylvania state employes experi- enced a raise in salaries, only to find that the state treasurar expresses doubt whether, under the law, he ought to make out the checks on the new scale. At all events, they at least had the thrill of the raise. ————— At least the presses turning out Européan paper money are to be com- mended for not turning them to the more harmful, though more lucrative, employment of turning out spurious liquor labels. ————— In studying the methods of self- government the Filipinos proved that they have given serious attention to the cabinet crisis as a practical form of demonstration. —————— It is not uncommon for a newly elected statesman to declare little faith in printed history and decide to make some of his own. A Horrible Example. In an article in the New York Medi- cal Journal a writer seeks to show by statistics of hospital and asylum ad- missions that prohibition has failed, in- ance of the medical men.” According to the plan, the mental and physical treatment of the patient will be in the hands of the physiclan, and “his spir- itual condition in the hands of the ministe: It may be a highly impor- tant step. Medicine, surgery and radiology make their cures and their allevia- tions. They have their victories and their failures, but they are making progress. The world is full of storles of cures made by other than what we generally call physical méans. There is a mass of testimony that this s the case, but in large part the testimony iv rejected as unworthy of confidence. Hosts of witnesses testify that they have been cured of this ailment and that by suggestion, by autosuggestion, by faith and by thought. When & pe- asmuch as eince it was enacted there has been a heavy increase in the num. ber of cases of drunkenness and of al- coholic insanity and polsoning. The figures he cites are assuredly in sup- port of this contention. But it is note- worthy that Dr. Hubbard confines himself to a survey of metropolitan conditions, which are not a trust. worthy index of the national situation. Indeed, it may be that the very excess of alcoholic misfortune in the New York area is @ sign by reverse of a different condition in the country at large. A survey of the hospitals, courts and asylums throughout the United States would probably show another picture than that which Dr. Hubbard has painted. While there are ‘“‘wet spots” here and there in the United States in consequence of the perversity of people with regard to the law, all indications point to a very material reduction in the consumption of liquor and consequently in its evil effects. It is a common mistake for com- mentators upon rational cond’tions to depend upon metfopolitan statistics for proof and guldance. If one were to Judge of the degree of lawlessness in this country by the records of crime in Greater New York the conclusion would be inevitable that the American people are as a rule given to robbery and manslaughter and all other crimes in the calendar. Of coutse, this is not true. These statisticul analyses, just as that just published, are doubtless made and proclaimed for a purpose. This particular one is without question put forward with a politi motive. An effort is plainly under way to make prohibition an issue between the major parties in the campaign of 1924. The tight is already on in New York state, and the greatest city of that state and of the Union is quite willing to point to itself as a horrible example as a contribution to the cause. The Wobblies Are Wobbling. The “Wobblies,” that is, the Indus- trial “Workers” of the World, are more wobbly than ever. The other day it was announced that they were golng to mobilize and concentrate on Port Arthur, Tex. to punish that town for the “illegal arrest” of mem- bers of the order, to punish it, that is to say, by choking its jail and feeding at its expense. Then it was announced immediately afterward from Texas that the invasion was off, and that instead a general strike of marine workers would take place. Next came a statement from New Orleans deny ing this Texas statement. and saying that “footloose” members of the or- ganization were mustering in that city and in Galveston for the trek to Port Arthur. And when that report was made public in New York city the sec- retary of the Marine Transport Work- ers, an 1. W. W. auxiliary, said that the invasion was, in fact, canceled, giving the rather cryptic reason that “the movement of the members would cripple shipping, lumber and oil indus- tries.” This is the first intimation that the I. W. W. has ever sought to keep any Industry going, except the indus- try of feeding at the public expense. It would seem that there is need of a clearing house in the wobbly organiza- tion. But there is ground for public gratification in this demonstration of mixed councils and crossed wires. It is characteristic of radicalism that participants and leaders in these move ments are never able to agree on de- tails. ——————e—— A New York publisher has been in- dicted for issuing an alleged improper book. In order to prevent a suspicion that the publisher might be willing to profit by free advertising, some of the news items relating to the incident withheld the name of the book and that of the publisher. —————— Proceedings against combinations of capital are still in order, but they are more formally conducted than in the time when “Down with the trust” was a general slogan. —te——- One of the sources of unpleasant- ness in the Ruhr is the uncertainty in the minds of those concerned as to who is landlord and who is tenant. —_—————————— Leadership of the farm bloc is be- coming & position of enough impor tance to develop new rivalries in legis- lative organization. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Produce and Consumer. Throughout our broad and generous land The people that we mect Find things they fail to understand About the price of wheat. ‘When farmers in resentful mood Are almost moved to weep, ‘They say they’'ll have to start a feud Because it is too cheap. When city chaps proceed to buy Their bread, they say in fe@, “The wolf of hunger will draw nigh If it remains so dea The man behind the plow doth roar From Frisco to New York. ‘The man is also very sore Behind the knife and fork. For every ill that can be sent Our pleasures to defeat, Iarlnn up the same old argument About the price of wheat. Playing the Game. “I've got to do something to game,” remarked Senator Sorghum. “Thought you were a stand-patter.”” “I am, as @ rule. But you've got to show the real cards once in a while in order to get proper respect the next time you have to bluff.” Jud Tunkins says everybody is so goas-you-please in his talk that an argument down at the store doesn’t sound much different from a jazz band. The Summer Lady. The summer sails upch the lake Delight her eye no more— She likes the summer sales they make In the department store. Reason Enough. “Why should the white-collar man demand higher compensation?"” “For one reason, because it costs so much to keep a white collar laun- dered.” The Successful Pugilist. “What's your idea of a really suc- cessful pugilist?” “One who learns a good monologue ‘0 Remedy. “‘A mosquito is a beautiful thing un- der the microscope.” ‘Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel, “but you can’t get enough of "em there to make any difference.” “‘Be slow to anger,” said Uncle Eben; “if only foh de sake of knowin®' exagl 1y whut you's talkin’ about,’ D. C, SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1923 CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS 3 There {s not a slacker woman leader in Washington. That is proved by a series of interviews with woman lead- ers, following the declaration of Gen. Pershing that “none but the brave deserve the fair.” Every one of the ladies has indorsed his position that no patriotic girl should marry a slacker, and that preference should always be given to men with actual war records. The ladies who thus rally round the flag include the pres- ident of the District Federation of Women's Clubs, the supervisor of school playgrounds, the president of the District of Columbia Catho Daughters of Americs, a prominent leader in women's republican circles, the president of the Women's Politi- cal Study Club, and the presilent of the Women's Universal Aliiance. Woe be to uny husband or son of these patriotic ladies who would b ibrave enough to show a white feather | of slackness in case this country were facing war, or who would dare refuse his support to training and full preparedness against war! Woe to any daughter of theirs who would attempt to snub a soldier in favor of a slacker! Gen. Pershing l struck a responsive ord, not only in the hearts of the soldiers, but also of the leaders of women, when he took for his theme: “None but the brave deserve the fair.” * oKk ¥ So many radicals appear in prospect in the Senate that the professional masseur whose duty it is to operate in the senatoriul bath making “permanent waves” thrown up his o« “What's the use asks himself, Senator La Folletto's wave Is xo per- manent that he must have been bor with a pompadour, and so many of his followers are sceking to cultivat pompadours that there is no hop. for tonsorfal art They get 50 used to being thumped about among their constituent s one senator, that when the masseur begins pounding them in the bath they dream it is a political debate and not even straps will hold them down: their arms fly in all directions and their “eagles” darken the ski When he turns on the shower bath | they think 1t Is a signal to hurry the hay fnto the barn to prevent it from molding, and they then become absolutely uncontrollable. * s It is within the still living that the wutomobile introduced and its entire growth| built up. Thirty years ago, to have predicted that it would almost wh ly displace the horse would hav been deemed fanciful. Yet today | there are millions more automobiles inj use in America than there are horses. | The bureau of stundards of the | Department of Commerce predicts that in the next decade the growth | of the airplane will be as marked | us was that of the automobile, and | tha there will be thousands of air- | planes in use by private flvers— busi- ness men commuting dally between | business and-home, 100 miles or less |apart. The airplane will grow rap-, idly In popularity fe Je rides and | for the hunt for climate suitable to the tastes of the wealthy., Week end | trips will cover flights of hundreds of mil from New York to Nova otla, or the Thousand Islands; from | Washington to the Shenandoah val- llc}‘ and its rimming mountains. : The suburbs of the great cities will co- in has hands spair. he memory of men was | no longer be within a “threc-mile limit,” but will extend a hundred miles. The mails and {will be rushed by airpl spooners will take Joy ric the clouds, out of reach of traffi lice—unless the police undertake patrol with wings the upper regions {and order the spooners to “move on.” Perhaps a complete new set of ru governing Jjoy riders will prohibit spooning anywhere amongst the clouds and limit the privilege of parking to| perishable Consumers’ Co«Operative Associa- tions Hardly the Proper Remedy. When President Harding returns from Alaska and gets an opportu- nity to study the “reflexes to his trial balloon,” suggesting somewhat hazily the organization of consumers’ co- operative associations lessen th fcost of lving, he will find few warm | advocates of the innovation. ble | lefforts to initiate such a movement | |seem to have failed everywhere, and | yeditors, commenting on this fact, sug- ] }E"al that the chief reason for this is| thut past results have demonstrated ithat they are costly gxperiments, as {has been demonstrated in the past. E “Experfence has wn that i | 1 to sh con- sumers, in co-operative huying { soclations.” the Oklahoma City Okla- | homan points out. “often, if not not ! |generally, are left holding the bag. Instead of urging the consumers to protect themselves against high {prices by forming co-operative asso- iclations of an uncertain nature, Presi- dent Harding should do all he can to help them by using his power to re- {duce the high tariffs which his ad- jministration has imposed.”” The fact ithat the President is concerned with jthe cost of living is “encouraging,” {as the Topeka Capital sees it. and j“reduced taxes and lowered costs of !distribution are, as the President de- scribes them, the true line to pursue | in dealing With the ‘exorbitant cost {of living.’” But talk is cheap, in_the strengthen my hand in this political | oPinion of the Norfolk Ledger-Dis- | thing {pateh, which insists, “we know and have 'long known these things Mr. Harding iy telling us. If the Presi- dent wants to make a real hit with the people he must do a little better than tell them that ‘methods must be found’ to remedy these conditions. It makes all the difference in the world where such suggestions origi- nate, the Duluth Herald says, be- cause “in poiut of fact if this sug- gestion had come from some radical senator, it would have been greeted by loud expostulations. But it comes from a man who would like to see the masses of the people happler and more comfortable, and who In all sincerity would like to contribute to that end. Therefore, it deserves rea- sonable consideration and will get it from most people.” Pointing out that the new Nebraska constitution en- courages co-operative organizations, the Lincoln State Journal adds: “The city of Lincoln now contains no oc- operative store. The operation of co-operative stores,involves responsi- bility and trouble. We insist, accord- ingly, on having our lower cost of living handed down to us, if one must be had, through the less safe and sound method of politics—a munic- ipal coal yard—for instance. Because the American temperament and habit are so the President's suggestion is not likely to play a great part in the Wrestling_of the Immediate future with the "H. C. L' : Absolute agreement with the Presi- dent is volced by the Columbus Ohio State Journal, which insists “the co- operative system thus far developed may be Incomplete, there may have been unwise ventures and poor man- agement in places, but when well handled it has fur more than justified its introduction and use-and it holds out large promise, as It may be)per- fected and given .better administra- tion. Both sides will be interested in &ny steps taken by the federal goverament to simplify and aid dis- tribution of products.. Yet while co- operation of this character has work- ed out in the west the Springfield Union doubts its value in the east, where competition is most acute, lto | number of tea { finan | legisiation ! highest | that “the Pre the stratosphere—above the six-mile altitude limit—where no clouds conceal. Business will go to such towns as supply ample landing fields for the fiyers, according to the bureau ex- perts and prophets. * ok ok % The city of Washington continues to lead the nation in its persistent Loost of food prices, according to the Department of Labor. For the montn ended June 15, the price of potatces rose 19 per cent, and we have to pay 3 per cent more for banenas. The whole index on food shows an in- crease of 3 per cent, while In sistecn Ler cities ihere was a arop of 1 per cent. After the Consumers’ Lengue finisles chastising the ~oal dealers It 'nay keep up itx gool works in cther” directions, just to keep in rractice, sccording to som: of its leaders, * ok ok % In view of the election of radicals, it is highly significant that the Tariff Commission is asked to reduce the protective tariff on ‘paint-brush han- dles 50 per cent. How can radicals raint red with handles held at pro- hibitive prices? Unless the tariff on handles 18 veduced. will they just pour the red out of huckets all over the Cupitol? Thus do_politics and paint mix, as thoroughly as bages and kings” Anyhow, wk use have the radicals for paint, ex- cept in the form of lipsticks? * koK X The United Daughters of 1812 are plunning to put a bronze tablet and fagstafl on the Key bridgc in Wash- ington, and the word comes to the Secretary of War, all the way from Arkansas, the home of the national president. It is =iipulated by the that the tablet will contain st_verse of “The Sar Spangl-d Banrer,” for without that song there weuld Lave been no Key bridge. and it will include the insignia of scciety. As Arkansae was not known to Francis Scott Key should not the tablet also show a good 1 locating that barbarous region? * kK X ¥arm prices paid for producing food dropped during the last month 1.8 per cent, according to the De- tment of Agriculture, even while the retail cost of food in the cities increased. But the farmers were en- couraged when the July 1 price was found to be 16.7 per cent higher t a year ago, 0.6 per cent higher than two years ugo; wet it averaged 17.6 per cent lower than the average of the lust ten years. Meat animals, veraged, on Jund pwer than a year er than the average last_ten vears. in Minneapolis it sells for 96 June May, sold for $1.70; cents. Not only are pri discouraging, but crop conditions July 1 were re ported 3.6 per cent poorer than thelr ten-year average on that date. x X x % wheat now A farmer reader writes that the reason farmers are not prosperous fs because there are too many of them, He argues that there is an overpro- duction of food products, and that the cry of the statesmen “back to the should be reversed to “back the city and higher wages.” e argues that if many farmers would leave their farms, {t would in- crease the profits of those who re- main, for the excess production is what kills prices. There are others who would substitute for both of the cries above quoted, a radical one, not often heard nor very ~popular se th middlemen—distributors, for there is never a surplus of food » long as there is hunger unsatis- fled.” It s distribution,” they arguc, “which is defective. 1f there wers more distributors, there would b more competition to reduce thef charges or give better service.” farm.” EDITORIAL DIGEST while the St. Joseph News-Press uestions how any plan can be draft- that will make possible such a plan unless some new method of ing can be suggested by the President. The St. Louis Globe Democrat Jooks n the proposition in something of me light, insisting “there are s difficulties to be overcom whether even with appropriate the idea can be success- fully applied in this country to such an extent as materially to affect I ing costs is conjecture. But the President’s proposals will be awaited with no little public interest.” “Probably there are ways of sim- plifying distribution s the Wilkes-Barre Record, “but_ many people who are more expert than the President have thought about it and e not offered a feasible plan. It may be, though, that real co-oper: tion of ‘the kind the President hints | has not yet been experimented with in the right way.” The Wheeling Register disapproves the plan an calls part pledges in the 1970 ampaign insisting they were not ept and “Congress, by enacting the tarift on record, has done everything in its power to make e: ploitation of the people by the inter- i ests easier than ever before.” This 1= in part the view entertained by the Rochester Herald, which holds ident’s ideas, indefinite though they m some consideration, aithough the con- sumer would gain little if he were able to buy his supplies at a lower cost and was then compelled to pay higher taxes for the government sub- sldy to selling agencles.” But the Philadelphia Bulletin insists “if fed- eral or state governments can do any- to help individuals to help themselves through such associations, kindred in principle to the familiar building and loan, more will be gained than by government regulation, stabilization, or other arbitrary in- tervention.” In a Few Words. Lawlessness was not engendered by the eighteenth amendment. That ar- ticle of the Constitution only threw the light on the lawlessness which has been the distinguishing charac- teristic of the liquor traffic for over & century. ¥ _WAYNE B. WHEELER. The one word they need to learn in Europe is forgiveness and not re- taliation. —WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN Nowadays when so many people are talking so much I prefer to be one of those who say less and do more. —JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER. 1 have never written a blography —1 do not propose to write an auto- biography. members of my family. —EX-PREMIER ASQUITH. So far as the situation between Great Britain and the United States is concerned, some of our good friends are too much inclined to pull those relations up to see how they are gettin, . —DR. NICHOLAS MURRAY BUT- LERy I do_mot ke government owner- ship. mercantile marine, then I agree to it. ALBERT D. LASKER. The winner of the Bok ‘American peace #ward will have to be a states- v be, are worthy of | I leave that to other It is poison vy to me, but if that is the only widy we can get our | i The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER. ‘Peking Dust" tertaining little book, years old, by Eilen La Motte Physically, Peking dust is the fine, red, powdery dust which perfodically blows In from the Mongollan desert and envelops Peking, as in a dense (and gritty) fog; psychologically it is the flying gossip, native, foreign. diplomatic, which always circulates about the Chinese capital. In her preface the author says: “Take it lightly; blow off such dust as may happen to stick to you. For authentic information turn to th heavy volumes written by the ac knowledged students of international politics.” In spite of her light tone, thor has several very strong opinions ina. One is that “spheres of influenc have kept China from developing her nationality in modesn times and have exercised over her an unendurable tyranny. The United States is, according to Miss La Motte the only country which has playe fair with China. She tells a good story of the head of a great Amer- ican corporation seeking u conces- sion from the Chinese government for certain developments which would greatly benefit the Chines. One part of China after another was ruled ont, as belonging to Russia, France, Great Britain, and so on Finally the exasperated American turned to the silent Chinese official and asked, “Where the hell ir China?" is the title of an en- about four the au- * ok Kk K Migs La Motte was in Peking at the time of the scandal of the Brit- ish Shanghai combine, which fluenced” the vice president of China to purchuse for the Chinese govern- ment three thousand*chests of opium ust before the on which, by ugreement with Britain, the opium trade was to end. She also there when France seized Lao Hsi Kai and added it to her “spher of iufluence.” Finally, she was there \hen Chinia was brought into the world war; and Miss La Motte's opinfon is that the Chinese govern- nent did not go in voluntarily, but wus “advised,” “influenced,” practi- cally coerced into the war. One in- teresting chapter tells of the recep- tion of a party of Americans, under the chaperonage of the American minister, Dr. Reinsch, by the pres- jdent of China, Li Yuan-Hung, who only a few weeks ago was deposed. * x * Great was An inexpensive vacation, and per- haps a more comfortable one than some spent at seaside on mountain re- sorts or on rushing motor trips, is a cation by what Isaac Anderson, in Literary Digest International Review, calls the “All-book Mr. Anderson briefly coms v the Book Route.” | ments on a numier of books of traves to remoter and less frequently vis ited places of the world. Some of them are: “Head Hunters of the Ama- by F. W. Up de Graf: “Casual in Eeuador,” by Blair Niles; “The New Argentina,” by W. H. Koebel; “The Trail of the Hem sphere: Chile and Argentina,” by Frank G. Carpenter; “Alaska, Our Northern Wonderland.” by Frank G. Carpenter: Wake of the Buc- cancers” by A. Hyatt Verrill; -Bers muda, Past and Present” by Walter “Hayward; “The Call of the Moun by Le Roy Jeffors; “Romantic by Vietoria Hayward; ““Villas 4 Wanderings Canada. Florenee and arold in France,” by Charles H. ; A Beachcomber in the Orient,” by Harry I. Foster; “Men of the Inner Jungle, W, F. Alder; “Mainly East.”” by Mrs. Alec Tweedi A Woman Tenderfoot in Egypt,” by Grace Thompsen Seton; On the Gorflla Trail,” Mary H. Bradley; “Back to the 3 Dan Crawford; “From Berlin daud and Babylon,” by Rev. J. A. Zahm “The Heart of Arabia,” by H. St. J. B. v: “Travels of a Consular Officer stern Tibet,” by Erich Teichman: in Tranition,” by Loretta L. “Wanderings in the Queensland | and_“‘Bird's- by W. L. Puxley, by James T. e Views of Far Lands, ! Nichols. l | imer's i i | | {vote | time_ago. far man and economist, with a touch of the philanthropist and idealist. —HENRY W, TAFT\ * o % % Of the ever-growing those who spend their vacations in motoring constantly increasing number are achieving independence of joy-killing high-priced hotels by c To all such F. E. Brim- utocamping” will prove a most helpful guide. The author writes from long experience about the necessary equipment of tents beds, | clothing, Stoves, refrigerator baskets, cookery and utensils, furni- ture, illumination. trailers. photog- rephy, medicines, hunting and fishing gear and the packing of equipment. His advice is made especally valu- able by the ct that he glves th trpgde names of the equipment he r&ommends, instend of forcing_ you to {dentify it by descriptio pspecially glad that the author d a final chapter to the of autocamping. giving as his golden rule: “Autocamp upon others as you would have others autocamp upon you.” He points out that so many inconsiderate autocampers have littered up the landscape and made nuisances of themselves that nless there is greater self-restraint xercised the desirable increase in autocamping is likely to be limited by law or the force of public opinion. B A new English monthly magazine, The Adelphi, is edited by John Mid- dleton Murry. The first number con- tains as a frontisplece a hitherto unpublished portrait of Katherine Mansfleld, who died only a_short Her husband, Mr. Murry, is also going to print in his new periodical all the stories which she left in manusecript. R Last winter the Wisconsin legis- lature passed & law forbidding the use in the schools of that state of any text book of history which “falsi- fies the facts regarding the war of independence, or the war of 1812, or which defames our mation's founders misrepresents - the ideals and causes for which they struggled and sacrificed, or which contains propa- ganda fevorable to any foreign gov- ernment.” In the July number of the American Historical Review Dr. J. Franklin Jumeson, thd managing ed itor, in commenting on this “pure his- tory law,” says: “No one can miss the significance of the fact that, un- der this law, you can say what you please about the war with Mexico or the war with Spain, but you must not ‘falsify the facts' (l.e., modify the sacred one-sided tradition) regarding the two wars with Great Britain.” Dr. Jameson's brief article is a plea for historical truth and deserves to be read entire. Its viewpoint is in- dicated by this further quotation: “It is surely disquieting, if not discour- aging, to witness these efforts, in Wisconsin and other states, too, to put back the clock by substituting, for the deliberate judgment of first- rate scholars the prejudices of the uninformed, of those whose notions of American history have never ad- vanced beyond the point at which they or their fathers were left, in the eighth grade, by the stale text books of an®earlier time.” * % ¥ % The English publisher, J. M. Dent, who has already iIssued the well known series, “Everyman’s Library" end “Temple Classics,” has just an- nounced the “Bedside Library,” to consist of very light, dainty volumes, printed in clear type and designed to be read in bed. Among the volumes arranged for al cameron,” “Cr: Death of Socraf and “Parables and Sayings of Jesus Christ.” multitude of a ¥ Harold | T am | ANSWERS' TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J.-Haskin Q pedestrian?—1, H A. The police department says that a bicyclist is classed as a driver; that he must obey the semaphores or policeman's directions %o other ve- hicular traffic, Q. What has become of the s tue” of George Washington which used to stand, or sit, in the plaza east of the Capltol scantily clad with one hand lifted toward the sky M. W. T _A. This is known as the Horatio Greenough statue of W shington and I8 now in the Smithsonian Institu- tion on the ground floor. _ Q. What are the boundaries of the unicipality of the Isle of Pin H. J. B A. The entire island forms this municipality. The exact status of the island is dificult to define, since 4 treaty was made between the United States and Cuba in regard to it in 1904, but was never ratified. The Isle of Pines belongs to Cuba and for administrative purposes is @ municipal district of the province of Havana The United States is represented by a consul. About 700 Americans live on the island and own @ great part of the land. Q nearly A with it h In f model Q name What country has a flag most like ours?—E. V. S. The flag of Liberta is fdentical ours except for the fact that a single star upon its field ct, our flag was taken as a for theirs. What is Joseph Conrad's real and nationality?—J. Y. F. A. Joseph Conrad Korzenjowski, the =on of a Polish revolutionist, was born in Poland in 1836, Though he ¢id not learn English until compar tively late in life, he became t master of a style idiomatic degree and notable for its descriptive resouree. How many teachers have Har- vard, Yale nd Columbia?-—J. S. B. A. Harvard University has 783 pro ssors and instructors; Columbia, 970, and Yalg, 410 Q Q. Give the exact wording of the message sent by Gen. Pershing to the French government when he with our troops in France? A. This letter, written emergency arising from the and direct, truly . soldier. It reads farch 28, 1918 To Gen. Foch: I have come to to you that the American people would hold it a great honor for our troops were they engaged in the present battle. I ask it of you, in my name and in that of the American people There is at this moment no question than that of fighting. fantry, artillery, aviation—all we have are yours to dis vou will. Others are coming, w will be as numerous as may be heces- sary. I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle of history. Pershing.” This letter ix exhibited at the Library of Congress the mess; of a In- that Q. What system fs followed in_the numbering of spool cotton?—A. W, . A. The numbering of cotton thread is based on the size of the yarn from l {BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lady Evelyn Herbert's impending marriage to Capt. Brograve Beau- champ ofthe Jst Life Guards fs of a nature to interest people on this slde of the water. For the captain is half American. His mother, Lady Beauchamp, is the daughter of the late Archibald Woods of Columbus, Ohio, and Lady Ev is the only daughter of the late Carnarvon, I nis devoted companion and associate {in all his epoch-making Egyptian dis- coveries in the Valley of the Kings |1ast winter, and the heiress not only to a large share of his own huge for- tune, but also to that of her mother, the now wdowed Lady Carnarvon, to whom the late Alfred Rothschild left the bulk of his colossal wealth. The barometcy of Capt. Beau- champ's father, and to which he is next in the line of successlon, is of modern creation, having been be- stowed upon him in 1911, for his par- llamentary services as member for Lowestoft, and chairman during| many years for Lioyds. His early years were spent in the ro al navy, as was only natural, in view of the fact that his own father, Sir William champ Proctor, of whom he was a jyounger son, was a distinguished ad- Imira!, who had seen much active Service under Nelson and others of the great naval commanders in England’s | Maritime wars in the early part of {the nineteenth century. The admiral was followed in T {own much older baronetcy, which dutea from 1745, by his two grand- sons, Reginald and Horace, both of Whom were unfortunate in their do- Mestic relations. For Sir Reginald was compelled to divorce his wife, Lady Violet, only child of the fifth Earl of Roden, under the most sensa- tional clrcumstances, while his brother and successor. Col, Sir Hora. Proctor, was a frequent visitor to \merica and an intimate friend of Gen, Leonard Wood, whom he closel resembled, was obliged to divorce in 1915 his American wife, daughter of the late H. M. Leavitt of New York, only a few weeks before he met with She’acath in the fighting on the pen- 1 Mitula of Gallipoli. She has since be- | tome. the wife of Col. Harry Francis Darell, who has a famous ancestor in the person of the hero of the ballad of “Wild Bill Darrell.” e as | B was one of the mysteries of the war. He commanded the 5th Norfolk Terri- torial Battalion in the fighting at Suvla bay, on Gallipoli, on the 12th of August, 1915. Among the subal- terns of his regiment were two of his nephews, one of them Bdward Beauchamp, elder brother of the cap- tain who 18 going to marry Lady Evelyn Herbert, and Montagu Proctor Beauchamp, who was next helr to the senior Beauchamp baronetcy. One entire company of the regi- ment was composed of picked men agnificent physical condition, all 3:'; s were born and raised on the Sandrigham estate and country home of Edward VII and of King George. Indeed, there was not one of them Who had not been personally known to the members of the royal family since their earliest boyhood. On the night of the 12th of August they found themselves less strenuously opposed by the Turks than the re- mainder of the brigade and kept pushing on, driving the enemy before them, and the last thing seen of them was when, led by their officers, they charged into the forest in which the Tarks had withdrawn. Nothing more was seen or heard of any of them. Not one of them ever came back and the forest was never retaken by the English. The gen- eralissimo, Sir Jan Hamilton, in his official dispatch about the engage- ment, described the disappearance of this entire battalion as a very mys terious thing. Indeed, it was not cleared up until after the conclusion of the armistice three years later, when one of the army chaplains en- gageéd in the registration of the raves of those known to have fallen n' tha fighting on the peninsula of Gallipoll, found during the course of to a high [1ower | anclent offensive of March 21, 1918, is simple ‘“ A ne | 1 | | i | { | | wrestling i people Is a bieyclist a driver or &)which the thread ic twisted. T ished thread was ori Ply and carried the yarn size, th i to say, threc strands of i YArn_were twisted togethor and ¢ No. 50 thread Wh six-ply Eix cord came into use, ft wan deoid. 10t to change the numbering of 11 thread, but to use six strands of ya size 100 to make the No. 50 thread Q. Where can T send s s0il to be analyzed free’—R. A. Samples of soil are anal of charge by the state agric periment stations. Q. What oatmeal ginally all three les R zed fr uitural « m ives the wall peculiar papers hav fini E. R A. Sawduct i3 usel distinetive surface paper. d to produce t of this kind Q. How deep is Salt lake St L@ Ty e lake in Tta A. The Great age depth of is satd that the lake in__rainfall 1750 square increased to 2, 1869 and 1570 t ually receding, Ond cau diminishing of the wate B amount used for irrigation, " ond cause is the fact that the of water contributed to the the inlets has decreased. o E t Lako hag an a; 55t 20 feet, I the chz n area o re due to uctuatior, In area wi 1869 hu has been gra it Which is more dangero flelal or wnatura! gas? ¥ A. Artificial gas (water ga more dangerous to use than natur €8s because It contains carbon 1 oxide, a poisonous gus. Q. What the other cateh-as-catch-cun wrestli Lancash Engli nerica, Austral ountries is the lei and representut Greek sport of the middle Tur ¢ Q. Who said “Beyond Tta ) M. E. origing of 1 2 e Alps 1) 3 7 A. the The Latin 1 of this is found Q. Did another Queen Victoria W, W A. Her name was Alexandrina V- toria, and it was under this nam that she was first mentioned queen. The next day the shorter name was decided upon and the do s issued were rewritten signed again. Q. Do city dwellers have beeter teeth? | common other | in_his| Col. Sir Horace Beauchamp's death | { to Miss Mary A. th A dental journal whole, defecti in rural t says teeth in urba n tricts Q. Are more patents taken out the United St: in other ¢ tries?—. A. About one of the world country (Have you a question wou want o wd? Address your inguiry to The Information Bureaw. Frederic kin, director, 1220 North Capito street. Be sure to give your full nams and address and inclose cents n stamps for return postage.) Lady Evelyn Herbert Will Be Bride Of Half-American Capt. Beauchamp his wandering ble tons of the entire batta and officers, who had every one of them fallen while fighting, not a man being taken prisoner. The hundreds of skeletons of Brit- ons and Turks lay facing one another, the Turks looking toward the sea and the Norfolkers toward the enem; At one point the had e been a grim hand-t hand & mong the fe survivors on either side. It was po sible to identify their remains by the disks of identity which they wore and which had not been moles ; now all rest in car graves on lipol memor records compar he hous in King (¢ of Sandring episode f the Church estate. Th the annals var as * tery of the > k ba one single member of which survivec or allowed himself to be taken alive * o % % Evelyn quiring through American mother-i son of Lady Beauchamp, nee of Columbus, Ohio, further extends her relationship with the people of the United States. F her only brother, the present Earl of “arnarvon, erine Wendell, Jacob Wendell, § New York vounger brother Prof. Bar Wendell of Harvard and of Evert J sen Wendell. And then she American aunt, for the late Earl « Carnarvon's brother. the Hon. Mer wyn Herbert, secretary of the Britie embassy at Madrid—that to say the uncle of Lady Evelyn—is married Willard, daughter of Joseph E. Willard. former America ambafgador to Spain. and young Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt Lady Evelyn, her CUncle Morw and her brother Lord Carnary owe their patronymic of He thelr descent from the Earls of broke. Henry Herbert, grandson « the eighth Lord Peml vated to the peerage : City and_Coun: King George 11T in 17 English property has come t Carnarvon Herberfs through mat monial alliances. Thus when th enth Earl of Chesterfield dicd married, he bequeathed evers ve of the extensive property at 1 posal to his only sister, Lady | Stanhope, married to the f the Herbert Earls of Carn was in this way that all the and artistic treasures of t hopes, including the famous Chesterfield letters, were D into the family of Lord Carnarvo * ok * x To the number of royal authore<ses must now be added the name of Prir cess Helene of France, sister of 1! widowed Queen of Portugal and cor sort of that Duke of Aosta who next to his nephew, Crown Princs Humbert, in the line of successiom o the throne of Italy. The c prince is now of age. But had thing untoward befallen King Vic Emmanuel during the boy’s minority is Lady Herbert her marriage -law In the per Rett aughter sister ¢ | it was the Duke of Aosta who would have been intrusted with the adm tration of the government as regent and as guardian of his nephew The title of the new book of the Duchess of Aosta is * Errante,” and in its pages are to be found ¢ scriptions of scenes in Africa, where she spent so many wintars in purusit of blg game before the great war, pen pictures of the remote rex. of central Africa and of China, also triendly allusions to her traversal of the United States in 1911, all sug- gestive of the delicacy. poetry and coloring of the marvelous pen hic- tures of the late Pierre Loti. V. Errante” jis the work of an artist It is also the revelation of the fram of mind to which clever men and women of ro cometime < reduced by the ennui, the artificialit; the pose, the ceremony and the girictions of etiquette of wuat @ known as court life. voa A