Evening Star Newspaper, July 24, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY. July 24, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Turopean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Editor The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivered by carriers within the city 2160 cents per month; daily only, 43 cents per month: Sunday only, 30 cents per month. Or- dors may be xent by mail, or telephone Main 6000. ~Collection is made by carriers at the end of cach month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Iy and S .1y, $8.40; 1 mo., Daily “onl. 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday only 1 yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20c | ! All Other States. | Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., §5¢ Daily only. J1yr. $7.00: 1 mo., 60c Sunday 1yr., $3.00; 1 mo.. 2c | only Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exelustvely entitled to the ‘use republication of all news dis- tehes credited to it or Dot otherwise credited not be able to find other shelter. Operation of the Jaw was postponed. The final time limit was June 1 last, and for several months preceding that date there was disquiet in the public mind as to what provision could be made for the alley population. : In the years that had passed many of the alleys had been improved with sewer, water, gas or electricity. The corporation counsel rendered an inter- pretation of the act of Congress that an alley which was thirty feet wide, or which ran straight from street to street, or which had sewer and water service, or which was lighted with gas or electricity, did not fall within the prohibition of the law. This interpreta- tion solved a difficult problem, and un- | der that interpretation it was found that only a small number of alley dwellers would be disturbed. Before the corporation counsel had given this interpretation of the act certain alley dwelling owners brought | Isuit for injunction against the Com- missioners. Justice Balley, in granting the injumction, takes the same view of the law as that held by the corpora- paper and also the local newx pub: sished ‘hereln. Al rights of publication of | special dispatches hereln are also reserved. | | Anacostia Park. | ound will be broken for costia P the Ana k system on August 2, and | ¥ will be participated i Ly the Secretary of War, the chief of englnes . one of the District Commis. | ers, -the officer in charge of puhlh'I prildings and grounds and various | colebritics of the ancient village of | Anacostia, which in the early 'S0s, when things were booming beyond the E n branch, was dubbed and took unto itself the title “Queen Suburb of the Dist i This ceremony will mark first step in the “beautification” or the ac tual parking of the reclaimed Eastern | branch flats. That part of the “made | and” or reclaimed flats to be first transformed into park land is at the =outherly end of the avy Yard and along what was the shore the vilage of Anacostia. Final- all the land reclaimed and to be imed from the District line be- Benning and Bladensburg to Giesborough point will be transformed | nto park after the manner of Poto- ¢ Park, but that improvement. which will greatly advance the charm of the capital, is still some way in the future. But it is on the schedule of things to be, and perhaps only a few years may pass before thousands of autos will be rolling over smooth park roads, groups of people will be loung- in the shade of trees angd all the sports and pleasures now going on in Potomac Park will be in full play in the Eastern branch park. By that time this section close to the town of Anacostia will be well established as a park, and perhaps it will be spoken of as “the old park,” or the “original park.” or by term to dis. tinguish it from the new sections. The development of the Anacostia flats has been going on for a genera- tion or more, but it may be recalled that Rome was not built in a day, and that Potomac Park has been in the making since early in the '80s. Many old inhabitants remember the dredges that smoked and churned and pumped far out in the mile-wide stretch of viver between Water street gnd the Virginia shore and between the Long widge and Arscnal point. They recall slow building of the first lines of viprap or broken rock laid down as retaining walls and the first rows of | young willow trees planted on the mud banks. Work on the stern Branch Park has gone on slowly. There have been many suspensions of work for lack of money, but vear by ar hundreds of | of land have been built several feet above high tide, where twenty-five vears ago there was an expanse of shining water at high tide and green brown marshes at low water. The peaple of Anacostia can be congratu- lated” on inducing the authorities to begin the work of making a park of the reclaimed land. ceremc tween some other ——— Magnus Johnson is depicted as a man who expects everybody around | him to be industrious. It will be in- tordsting to see how far he can im-! press his views on this point when he comes to take up committee work in Congre ———— ! j An’Ohid man has developed a flying machine to be operated by foot power. The small boy will be enabled to aban- don his ‘velocipede in order to en- cotnter new peril A —————— Germany will read England’s notes atfentively, but the most significant | comment in response to them may be expected from France. ——————— Urink is blamed by William H. An- | degson for his troubles, only in this instance he ix not the man who did the drinking. ——————— Alley Injunction Case. 1 The alley situation in’ the District may be a matter for future congres. sional action. It is a question that has been before the people of the District for at least a score of years, and is still with us, though not in as acute form as it was. Justice Bailey of the District Svzceme Court has granted a permavent injunction against the Commissioners to prevent them clos- ing certain alley dwellings, and the | corporation counsel has noted an ap- peal to the Court of Appeals. A generation or more ago there were many inhabited alleys in Washington which drew protests from civic asso- ciations and the municipal authori. ties. Many of the alleys were un- paved and unlighted at night, and many of them were without sewer and water connection. Rows of dwelling houses had been built in these alleys, the construction of houses was pro- ceeding fast end the alley population was increasing. . . Public protest put an end to the is- sue of building permits for dwelling houses in alleys, and in 1914 an act was passed by Congress setting a time at which alley dwellings should be vacated, and giving the Commissioners power to proceed against owners of such houses, The limit was sbout to expire when the war population of Washington was at its helght, and it was feared that the alley dwellers, el “mated at from 10,000 “u- ek l | ! Washington since 1 {An | nate tion counsel. The alleys are much bet. ter than when the agitation against alley houses began, but there is still a strong public bellef that there should be no dwellings in these byways. It is elieved that of them can be ectified Ly being converted into minor treets. many ——— William Van Zandt Cox. William Van Zandt whose death occurred this morning in this city after a protracted illness, was one of the most active and valuable citi- zens of the District. A resident of . Mr. Cox early became identified intimately with the progressive work of the Washing- tonians for the development of the community and its advancement to- ward the ideal as a national city. His early association with the National Museum, and through it with the se eral of the great international expe tions made "him acquainted with mu- nicipal conditions throughout the world. He had abroad vision of Wash- ington's possibilities and the respon- sibilities of the cifizens of the District. indefatigable worker, he member of numerous organizations making for the improvement of the capital. He served on inaugura! com mittees in important capacit was greatly jintercsted in the publie educational system of the District and served as president of the board of education for a period. During the great war he rendered valuable service as chairman of the Army draft board for the District. For many years Mr. Cox was inter- ested in the preservation of Washing- ton's landmarks, and promoted and in large degree personally conducted the work of properly marking with tablets the historic spots and buildings in the District. ¥ that this highly important task was In great measure carried through by himself alone, for it was his inspira tion and indefatigable research and his persistent watchfulness that led to the present high state of pubiic no- tation of the important and interest- ing sites and structures that tell the history of the national's capital. In business matters Mr. Cox was active until ill health interposed a check, and in all his association and activities he maintained the highest standard integrity. His name was synonymous with good faith. A man of warm af fections and kindly spirit, he won and held many friends, who are now be- reaved by his passing, but are grateful for the remarkable record of useful- ness written in the course of his career shingtonian, covering close Cox, as a ! .pon half a century. ——— For every stock market prophet who predicts depression there is an- other who predicts prosperity. The only uniform utterance in the diver- j gency of expression is the melancholy bleat of the lamb. et A device for sounding an alarm may be attached to a handbag to defeat purse-snatchers. An intricate and or- mechanism of this type might make the prize more valuable — e Republican leaders naturally assume | that Minnesota yielded to an emo- | tional jmpulse, and is likely as Hot to change her mind within the year. ——ve— Conditions have become such as to encourage the opinion that some kind of a receivership ought to be devised for Germany. ——— California will never admit that fagnus Johnson is in reality as big a man as Hiram. ————— Street Crossing Safety. A short time ago the Washington Safety Council placed posters through- out the city calling upon the pedes- trians to co-operate at street crossings with the police by obeying sema- phore signals and listening for the whistle before crossing. The Star called attention to this effort to effect a closer co-operation between the peo. ple on fdot and the officers in control of traffic, and urged that those afoot would find a greater degree of safety if they would “look and listen” after stopping in accordance with the tra. ditional rule. and obey the signals and take advantage of them. Police officers were instructed to blow their whistles in sufficient time to allow all pedes- trlans then in the street to cross to the opposite curb in safety. Bince this admonition was given ‘it has been observed that although the police have been alert to give the pedestrians this opportunity, few have availed themselves of it.. At the bus est intersections most of the people afqot still take a chance by hurrying across the street regardless of the semaphore, or start out from the curb to the line of passing vehicles, ready to rush through at the first break in the line. They are intent upon saving a few seconds, and they not only risk their lives, but tend to weaken the regulation of traffic, which can be ef. fected only by teamwork between all classes of street users. Much impatience is felt and manl- fested by pedestrians at the crowded corner# on ‘the score of the tedious walts'that are necessary. to insure safe passage across the streets. But these walis are far hetter for everybody and was al He | Indeed. it is not too much to | of | THE EVENING STAR, WASHI TON, D. C, TUESDAY, JULY 24, 1923 2t S B e B e L i e e R A S S N | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - By Frederic J. Haskin dodging through lines of moving vehicles that would otherwise prevail. With perfectly regulated traffic pedes- trians are quite safe, provided thet they move in obedlence to the signals. The only danger comes from the corner-cutting machines, turning out of the moving vehicular stream into the cross street. Under the present local regulations, and with the control system in effective operation, these corner cutters are rare, and are so frequently caught end punished that they are becoming less of a nuisance and source of danger. To the degree that everybody watches the signals and listens for the whistles Washington's street naviga- tion will be regulated to the point of safety. It is hoped that more people will learn this lesson and acquire the habit of crossing the streets properly. ————— Stealing Speeders. Definitions differ. Most people thus interpret the word “speeder” as ‘a dangerous nuisance.” But some town officials, county constables and rural magistrates change the phrase to “a source of revenue.” This latter definition of speeder pre- vails in the hinterland around New York, where the smaller towns and boroughs do a thriving business out {of the excess paces of the gas-step- pers. But this enterprise brings its troubles and its competitions that make for bitter suburban jealousies. Out in Westchester county, for ex- {ample, formal protest has been entered in court because one town is disposed to “steal” the speeders that belong to another. The rivalry between New Rochelle and Pelham, for instance, and between Larchmont and New Rochelle has reached the point where the state authority may have .to be invoked. It surely is provoking:for an enter- prising traffic cop to chase a perfectly good speeder across a borough boun- dary and round him up in the next { jurisdiction only to have him taken | before the judge there and soaked for a good round fine that goes into the coffers of the piace of arrest. These towns are close together, and a metro- politan gas-stepper can run from one to another in a few minutes. As a matter of fact, these boroughs ought to pool their speeders and have a divi- sion of proceeds at the end of the {month. Apparently what is nceded is an interborough .police force and a clearing house for the division of fines. —————— Purchasers of spurious art works would have saved a great deal of money if they had been content with the productions, both beautiful and bizarre, available at nominal cost on the magazine covers. ———— During July and August the states. n is compelled to make delicate de ons as to whether it is worth while to make a ringing timely utterance at jthe risk of spoiling a { tion. 1 cit summer vaca- ————— Cooking experts are advocating the use of honey and molasses in order to cope with the expense of sugar. How far this policy will boost the price of honey and molasses statistics have vet to show. ————— British courage is famous through- out history, and is again in evidence in a willingness to approach as nearly as i possible to the position of an umpire {in the troubled conditions of Europe. | | i In order to help the farmer. the res- taurant might revert to the ancient and almost forgotten custom of mak- ling no extra charge for bread. { All that Alaska needs to complete the admiration in which distinguished | visitors now hold it is a little more | volitical influence. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Pancho Villa. Pancho Villa, fare you well: Far off sounds the funeral knell— {In your law-defiant day | You were ready for the fray. i Riding boldly to the raid All unhurt and unafraid. You escaped from serious harm { T you tried to run a farm. | Soldiers fled to give you room, But the farmhand brought your doom. | Prizes offered for your life | Could not check your bandit strife, But about you broke the storm ‘When you struggled to reform. Farming’s hard luck, truth to tell. Pancho Villa, fare you well! Agitation. “It has been hinted that you are an agitator.” “That's unjust,” replied Senator Sorghum. “During a campaign the crowds seem comparatively calm. I'm the one that's agitated.” Jud Tunkins says he knows a man ‘who is so orderly that he never does anything much except straightening things around. Substitution. “The raiders took several bottles of turpentine from the hottlegger's home.” “Why not,” replied Uncle Bill Bot- tletop. “If you drink it, turpentine will make you jis as sick and dizzy as the regular stuff.” Difficult Selection. The landlord’s lot i full of strife. The tenant finds no giee. 1, cannot tell to save my life ‘Which one I'd rather be. Unnoted. “There are never any more sea ser- pents sighted from the shore “Maybe they're around just the sanfe, but not noticed. The summer beach costumes are calculated to keep | in people from looking much beyond the first line of breakers.” “These. self-starters ere responsible for considerable loss of lif,” remarked | timore Sun as Mr, Chuggins, gloomily, *They let & ':u “Y Iikos de ulkulele hetter dan @ | MOroe plano,” said Uncle Hben. “It don’ cost | other war ml:l, eminently fe g 80 much if somebody - gits tried . o ‘Memu*w'amnw»" i ! CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Senator Moses, chairman of the re- publican senatorial committee, says that the farmers of fhe middle west are dissatisfled with present condi- tions, and that the unrest is likely to spread. The “present conditlons” re- fer to the market prices prevalling on grain and other staple products. Just what party politics has to do with the price of farm products may be open for political elucidation—it Is not the function of this column to enter Into that discussion. The International Institute of Agriculture, at Rome, is not at all interested in any political party, but Is engaged in gathering data from all countries, concerning the world production of &taple crops. What it reports is gen- erally accepted as reljable. After all 1s said about how specula- tors affect the market quotations on grain, the fact remains that grain value depends finally on how much is needed for actual food. The data from Rome disclose the fact that sixteen countries of Iurope are producing. this year, enough excess wheat over what they productd last year to give a full supply for a year, to 30,000,000 people. That is an_ increase of, 124, 00,000 bushels over last vear, when we 'were still feeding Europe's starv- ing people with American wheat. They dow't need that we should feed them now; they don’'t need our wheat. That is nearly a third as many people ag there are in the United States equal to the entire population France. In little Switzerland. Algeria and Tunis, there is an fucrease of over 24,269,000 bushels, which alone will be as much wheat as 6,000,000 will eat in a vear. of TR Italy, Algeria and Tunis have than doubled last year's barley—127 per cent increase. Algeria alone pro- duees this vear 46,297,000 hushels of barley, where last vear she = w only 19,804,000 bushels. Tunls is | “vesting 11,482,000 bushels, in place o last vear. Neither Tunis ever heard of the democratic or repub- lican party of America, nor of the vary- ing tariff schedules -of any American party, yet it is said that American farmers are determined to overturn both old parties and put none but “dirt farmers” on guard. The world's productiop of oats this vear is 12 per cent greater than last year. All grains—wheat, oats, barle; corn—are interdependent, as to pr! 1f_there be a bumper crop of dats and & small crop of wheat, the oats will al- ways tend to depress the price of wheat, because it will be used as a substitute in consumption. Tunis is producing this vear more than four times the amount of oats shé produced last year. Shall the democrats or the republicans be blamed for tha * ¥ *x x Senator Brookhart demands that the government shall actually buy all the products of staples raised by the Amer. ican farmers this vear and make the purchase price high enough to make farming profitable. Farming would be profitable if only Europe would not break in with its bumper crops, but would let our farms feed her millions. Perhaps what our farm leaders really want is plenty of tanglefoot alliances which would stop allen competition in the production of food. Soviet Russla experimented hy making the government take over all farm products, &t its own price. The soviet farmers then quit producing. Yet senators who have recently visited Russia come back and want the United States to repeat soviet cxperiments which totally failed in Russ 3 * & % % Even before this vear's great crop appeared certain in Europe, the need of American farm produets there had fallen off by increased production in several Furopean countrics In 1920 Great Britain took farms products $1,193,000.000 last vear only 100.000. took in 0 £328,000,000; AsSL year only $177.600.000. The Netherlands took in 1920 $145.000,000: last yvear only $32.000,400. Six countrics, in- cluding the above. took in 1 340,000,000 and last vear only $1 000,000—a falling off of over $1, 000,000 of our farm products. Europe has been steadily coming back to a status of self-support since 1920. Up to that vear she had been almost paralyzed by the war and had not been able to plant or reap a nor- mal crop. Economists-tell us that such facts as cited above cannot be quoted by party demagogues and that they make for depression in farm prices by the more over of our worth France it il 000 Algeria | simplest of- all economic rules—the relation of supply to demand. * % * % Another reason for. Eyrope's de- er d demand for Americari farm products, assigned by the committee of gconomists and ‘nnlmchn- ap- pointed by Secretary Wallacé of the Department of Agriculture, is FEu- rope's decreased pprohasing she has less to excl committee reports hile manufac- tured exports for the first half of the year have been appreciably lurger than a year ago. the prospect for the second half of the yéar is less favor- able.” 3 * k% % In harmony with the recommen- dation of an Ohio farmer, quoted re- cently, that iIf more farmers would quit farming and move to the cities| it would help agriculture, the com- mittee sa; ) “During the last five years'certain forces have combined to indrease the supply, #0 that the price level of farm products has been kept below that of prices of other commodities, This situation has generated off- setting forces tending eventually to restore the former equilibrium, thus iimproving the position of the farmer. “Among such forces is the migra- tion of the farming population to the city. There has recently bgen a dis- tinct acceleration in this movement. “This movement will, in the long run, add to the urban demand for foodstuffs, and will eventually lessen the supply of furm products, thus tending to establish a more normal relationship betweep agricultural and other prices.” * kX % The committee calls attention * to the expansion of wheat acreage in the world, on account of the world war, and estimates that, outside of America, there are now, 38,000,000 acres more devoted to wheat than before the- war, and in the United States 14,000,000 acres more, The committee urges American farm- ers to reduce their wheat acreage ac- cordingly. * * % o ox The American Farm Bureau Federa- j tion is pushing its plan “to withdraw" 200,000.000 bushels of wheat from the market by storing it—net in great government-owned elevators, but in thousands of bins on the farms of the wheat raisers, the bins to be designated as government controlled. The government would then advance loans to the total of $150,000,000 with the wheat as security. The wheat owners are estimated to number 1.500.000. Stored in farm store- houses, what security will = exist against defalcations? If the wheat I8 pooled and seurely stored, does any one doubt that private loans, on bonds. could be negotiated, without soclalization? If it is not safe for private bonds, what makes it safer for the government? * ok ok % What would be more heavenly thun to be able to join the fiver. Lieut Vaughan, multiplying his speed four times, that we might keep o« stant pace with aurora and live cver in the sunrise ‘and birdsong. encir- Jeling the world? Was not Longfel- low "dreaming of some such bliss en he said: “Tis always and abov awakening continents, shore to shore, Somewhere® the birds are evermore.” * morning somewhere. The from =inging The World’s Dairy Congress. when it meets in Washington. Is planning to give specfal attention -to intro- ducing the use of milk as food for farm children. Tt is @iscovered that {less milk per cdpita is drunk farms than in cities and more mal- nutrition exist among farm chil- dren than city children The president of a_state dairs sociation told his ‘fellow dairymen that his little granddaughter from a city came to visit him on the farm. he had been very fond of milk in her ty hom. but on the farm she refused to taste it En route to the train to return home he quizzed her as to why she had not liked milk tund she explained what she thought should be obvious: “Why, grandpapa. 1 saw where they got it. They just pulled it out of an old cow!” Hence, if farm children are to be }induced " to drink more milk they must be given glassgows, the same as city children have. (Copyright, 1923, by P V. Collins.) EDITORIAL DIGEST 'It Man Power Is Needed, So Are the Resources of Wealth. Probably because the ‘‘next war" has become the universal subject of | discussion Dbecause of the race for control of the air between Great Brit- ain and France and thelr failure to reach any comprehensive agreement on international questions, discussion has been renewed of the declaration i of President Harding that “wealth as well as men” will be conscripted by this government should it again be menaced by conflict. This address at- tracted only passing attention when it was delivered at Heleng But in the face of the comment on the Euro- pean situation editors now are exam- ining it somewhat carefully. Many seem to belfeve that there would be no necessity for conscripting either man power or wealth for strife should the administration get behind an or- ganized effort to conscript the “in- telligence” of the country to compel universal peace agreements. There so is an acceptance that the next no_ matter with whom it 1. as the Christian Scien “tax every re- war, fought, wil Monitor points out, rce of the world. Svery war of which the people of the United States have first hand knowledge,” explains the _onitor, “has left in_its trail uncounted profi- teers who became rich_ through the misfortunes of others. The most re- cent war was no exception. So wh shall it not be a rllfl.l [ w::zusr::ulni nhapplly, be the only re Some fime in the future, that every national resource be drafted and made bject to governmental control and use? By such a process would the bur- de be distributed as fairly and evenly as possible. Perhaps it would be as well if it were understood, even now, that there wil be no profits in any future war. With its horror and de; struction nothing in the last war, te: rible as it was, will be comparable to that which may come, Should ans other war be declared it would mat. ter little, when the final accounting was made, whether the country's re« sources were drafted through the ope- ration of law or whether they were Just taken' in the course which would evitably be pursued. There wil be no general provision for preferred exemptions or for industrial contracts contalning 10 per cent plus charge ‘The mt ;: faot that President Harding . t ted on by the Bal o 5 method {8 comment cr!h;‘n ot comes from & man (Who has con- tly .refused to support feasible immediste steps. in rid the pen event ‘of an- in his opinion, be and euccessful.” Fxpressing the hope that the plan 'vu? be mude operative ln every way v el |in the event of the national emer- | gency, the Wheeling Reglster points | | ing the hazards and es out that “the man who is conscripted | for service gives his all—his home, his family, his friends, his earning power and perhaps his life. Why should those who remain behind make money out of the war, or, to {put it better, out of the fighting strength and enduring qualities of the flower of nation’s manhood? When it is necessary for the gov- ernment to conscript man power to save the nation, it should llkewise conscript industrial power, assume charge of all ordinate and combine them to carry on the work at _home.” Inasmuch as there “is Httle likeli- when the ‘“next war” come the Springfield News suggests, “why not institute at once a universal draft in behalf of peace such as might be forced upon the country in the event of war. Peace, after all, isn't such a complicated sort of thing. It is simply happiness and conteatment among nations. What other coun- try is better fitted for the task of loading a movement looking to uni- versal and lasting happiness and contentment than the United States?’ The fact that the plans of the Army gereral staff already provide for “drafting of everything” is comment- ed on favorably by the Birmingham News, because “it is the only way" to end war profiteering. The “saturnalia of greed in the last war has pointed out the way to avgid it in_the future the News concludes. Those who themselves fought will indorse the method, the EI Paso Herald insists, because “the dough- boy who lay with his face in the mud while the . strafing was on, won- dering when he would get his, feels rather disgusted because he thinks he and his buddies were cheated out of the kind of peace they were. fght- ing for; disgusted, (o, because of the slackers and the profiteers.” Approval of the efforts of Repre- sentative La Guardia to have such 2 plan_ backed by the major politi- cal parties is glven by the Worc ter Gazette, which points out that “La_Guardia’s -service. as a _soldier 'warrants him in using his influence in_ getting the machinery of gov- ernment prepared for the drafting of the war-time dollar.”. The com- plete failure of the government to Eecure.the punishment of any of the me profiteers is another real reason for adoption of this plan in the future, the Columbla Missourian “much of the dis content and soclal unrest>in this {country has been” caused by the.ap- & parent benefit which has eome to thoss who used'the resources of the nation for their own selfish . ends. This plan, is at least, a democratic primciple, since it comes nearer to establishing equality among the va- rious elements of the nation during the perjod of fighting.” The Pater- son Call approves the entire plan and insists ‘the suggestions-that “4t would be in violation of the Con stitution™ %n!oundod* while the Miami News lis, for its par would alse hav our mental an maral resources drafted in behalf of universal peace.’” industries " and co- | hood” of Mr, Harding being President | NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM IN. THE WAKE_OF THE BUCCA- NEERS: A. Hyatt Verrfll. The Century Company. 2 Oft_to port a speck of rock and ‘sand., Olive-drab against ‘the tur- quolse of the sea. A barren cay, topped by clouds ot circling sea birds, {ts only apparént life. *What island is that, S8am?’ The black Bahaman pliot slued his huge bulk around to face the lonely {slet. “Tha’ ov' tha'?" slurred Sam. “Tha's Dead Man's Chest, tha’ oV _tha And then the big adventurs leaped to instant life with a whoop and hurrah of sheer Joy. “Fifteen ;men on the Dead Man's Chest, . Yo-ho-ho and & bottle of rum!” . Now we know where we are! And indeed, across the shortening an of - water. we see—or we think we see—me; prawled on the white sand of the Dead Maun's Chest, above the pounding ‘surf, and In the thin shade of the sea-grape trees. Gaunt, flerce- looking' men, castaways, marooned beyond hope of succor. And we catch—or think we catch—the dull glint of doubloons flung In a last chance, the final gamble of daredevil men for the scant solace of a drunk- en half-hour at best. Now we know where we are! And what luck—more llke Providence than luck—to meet with this particular send-off to venturing in the wake of the buccaneers. . For these are our own pirates—quite in the family so to speak—and in this one touch of re- newed association we shall ~easily slip back into the mood of these early marauders. We shall casily regain our old lawlessness and take on once more a share of our own primal fero- cities. And that is as it should be. For we are sitting in here at no par- lor game. Instead, we are sailing the Spanish Main in the spirit of the wild freebooters. A And we are on a real pirate ship. To be sure, its character as such suggests that famous pair of boots which, re-soling and re-topping. re- heeling and re-toeing, wore so credi- bly long, still holding pridetul claim to their original identity. But the Vigllant is the pirate ship. rivateer, pirate. slaver, man-o'- war—these, in official record. mark the high stages of her colorful ca- reer. And down in the hold, you may see for yourself the ring-bolts to ‘which the’ groaning blacks were chained in the days when her cargo was “black ivory." bound from African rivers to the slave markets in the very zone where we are now seeking adventure. And what kind of ship, the Vigilant? Oh, a_sail- ing ship, surely. None other than a white-winged craft driven by the singing trades, its crew native, would serve this prime adventure. * ok ¥ ¥ And, where are we bound? for Bound the lairs of the bold buccaneers, to be sure. Broadly charted, the sailing takes us from the Virgin 1 lands out into the west, then south- ward to Panama and the Spanish Main. Islands as big as some of our biz states, and islands, ere rocks nosing out of the sea like the Dead Man's Chest, one and all pro- vide some scene, some act in the great drama of the Caribbean when Spanish and English and French and Dutch and Dane struggled here in a rivalry that was all cupidit, and avarice. A covetousness, th that turned many & loval master and man in th vice of king and country to the luwless life of ship raider and the brutal butchery of other men. What is it in us that answers 8o ringingly to the call of the buce: neers? One wonders. For. no mat- ter what annals of peace angd order this region , may in the on’ coming yvears pile up, its deepest potency will lie forever in this glamourous 0d of the lawless sea kings of Caribbean. * % The Virgin Islands, now « part of | our own commonwealth, are rich in pirate lore. A far cry, this, from the pious destiny implied Yor them in their naming by the faithful Catholic, Columbus, who, seeing them spread out across his way in so great a rich ness of numbers. gathered them all up as “the Virgins in honor of the eleven thousand companions of the holv St. Ursula. It was here at St. Thomas that the infamous Edward Teach flung deflance not only at the great and good discoverer, but at the holy saint as well. Here he built him- self a stronghold—standing to this day—from which he sailed out to rob and murder, to which he returned for safety from pursuers. Here he mar ried his fourteen wives, more or less, and here he adroitly made away with them when the weariness and general discomfort of matrimony interfered with “the business of pirating. A spectacular fellow, this Blackbeard who today would have been a most competent publicity man and a prime cy expert. St. John, St. Kitts, saints, either male down that way—each has its own special store of report, leg- end, truth and half truth concern- pes of these “Bretheren of the Main.” And around each there lingers still the story of a vast hidden treasure to tempt the be- lieving, to_beguile the imaginative man even though he openly and loud- ly declares himself to be & skeptic in this matter. * % Sailing across to Santo Domingo, we reach the birthplace of the bucca- neers—skipping no end of dramatic and Interesting recital lying in be- tween this point and the Virgin Is- lands. There the Vigilant drops her anchor in the secure harbor of Tor- tuga, where for many a year the sea rovers held their own and where, in rough organization, they created the “Brethern of the Main." Here pi- rates of all nations gathered, united against any power that was at the moment dominant. Here they appoint- ed their own governors, made their own laws, built their own forts, and defled the world to dislodge fhem. Here they fitted out fleets of armed vessels, manned by thousands of ruthless men. From this point they ravaged cltles and destroyed ships along the shores and on the waters of the Caribbean. Lolonais, Morgan, Montbars and another, and another of the great corsairs had dropped anchor and swung to moorings in these se- cure waters, just as the Vigilant is doing .today. “From Tortuga they spread far and near, and the dugouts in which they were wont to make their first raids gave place to swift ships bristling with cannon and man- neflpb)' hundreds of well armed men.’ e No miore than a passing touch here and there, this, to an experience that possesses every quality of pure ad- venture. And lusty with life is this adventure from the moment "when, sailing away on our pirate ship, wé cruli the waters that have been made forever famous by (he most reckle: d daring and unscrupulous men that ever forgathered for deeds of violence and outrage. Yet, despite all this, there is a flash' of splendor upon it;, even in the face of our soft, modern recoilings from -its -hard and brutal actualities. 7 “In the Wake of the Buccaneer: rich as. it is in adventure, gorgeous as it is in pageantry and spectacle, stands as neither of these to_ the ex- clusion of its value as fact. For this is good ory, documented stuff, signed - and .sealed with authenticity. Moving on the Vigilant from port to port, Mr. Verrill makes landings to gather in every sort of considera- ble cotemporaneous feature. Some of these cast back in evidence, of the old ‘wild days. Others merely’ show the changes that time has wrought in the ancient order. ' These changes are recorded in specific countings of cause and effect. There is here an ‘amazing amount of . information known as the 1 kind. Yet, the background and the approach itself are.of the buccaneer stripe. This is the illuminant, the Interpretation of the ‘whole. - A sum) “I:l“l. uhln:lv:::; rilling expe L G M bt th ¥ H Q. What is the diameter of the new conduit? M. H. A. Its diameter is ten feet. The old conduit has a dlameter of nine feet. Both will be used, and will be | places. Q. What was the tune played by, the band of the Medinah Temple on the morning of June 5, when Dpass- ing the Star bullding? B. W. A. That was the Chicago band and it was playing the state song, “Ilinof Q. How large a place was ithe new capital when the goyvernment was. established here? A. C. T. A. There were about 3,000 people in Washington when the first ses- glon of Congress was held here in Q. What was the *name of the magazine issued -in Washington in the early days that dealt with the doings of capital soclety. B. B. A. The Huntress was such a pub- lication. Mrs. Ann Royal was the editor and the magazine appeared weekly. Q. When were cigarettes first manufactured in this coustry? I M. C. A. The manufacture of this pro- duct began about §864, in which year 14,770,000 were made in the United States. Apparently they did not ‘“take” well, for in 1869 the num- ber of cigarettes manufactured was only 1.750,000, but since that time the annual output has rapidly increased until in 1921 the total number of cigarettes made was 63,214,000,000. Q Did Dr. Mary Walker wear a special kind of clothes or were they the regulation male attire?—M. A. F. A. A picture taken of Dr. Walker shortly after the civil war shows her in garments that might be termed nondescript. While she was dressed in trousers, a garment rather fem- inine in cut came to her knees. In later years her clothes were cut on mannish lines; black trousers, Prince Albert coat, white shirt and collar, high silk hat, gave her the appear- ance of a dapper, smartly dressed man. Q. Wpat is the greatest distance that a base ball has been thrown?— M P A. At a field meet held October 9, 1810, Sheldon Lajeune threw a ball a distance of 426 feet 9% inches, es- tablishing a new record. This was 26 feet 21 inches better than the record toss of John Hatfeld's which had stood since October 15, 1872 Q. Were any members of the A E. F. killed before Enright, Gresham and Hay were?’—J. A. B. A. The War Department says that they were the first killed in action. Two months earlier, four members of the Medical Corps were killed by a bomb which was thrown on a hos. Prince Rene, Soon connected with each other in several { pital. These' men’ were noncomba- tants and were killed in, the line of dyty, but not in: action. ‘Q. "1y there land -4ty the north pole? %Ax..w;—- “M ! A. This northefhly extromity o the earth s i the midst -of & hol. low which holds na Tand in thy neighborhood of ” the ' ‘pole itsels The most horthernly land ‘possesses animal life—musk-ox, - reindeer, po- lar bear, wolf, -fox, ermine, land birds, as well as inééct life, and du-- ing a few short weeks in summer, bri Hant flowers. Human life is found within some’ 700 miles of the nort: pole. ' Q. Is it true that a spring of ex cellent drinking water made its an pearance at Andersonville priso during the civil war?—G. §. B. A. The uppearance of the spring a: Andersonville prison 3 generally a:. cepted as a fact. Its appearance '} described by various eyewlitnesses, who were Inmates of the prison af that time. Q. Why does glass expos to t sun often turn violet in color?—H. A. The violet color acquired by sor: glass after exposure to light is ger erally. attributed to a change in the state off oxidation of the manganese in the glass, which is produced b ultra-violet, or actinic 1ight. This effect is not characteristic of any 1 callty, but may be found anywhere. is espectally noticeable in glass bulbs of arc lights Q. Who started ‘the Y. M K. A. K. A. It was founded in England bv George Williams, a London dry goods merchant, in 1844. On the occasfon of its jubllee its originater was knight ed. " The Y. W. C. A. was founded in 1855, in two places sfmultaneousi: 11n 1877 the two branches united Q. Does an object Weigh less at the equator than the same object would at either pole>—R. §. G. A. The Naval Observatory save = body weighing 181 pounds at the earth’s pole would Wweigh 190 pounds at the equator.. This loss in welgh is caused, in ‘part, by centrifugs force and in part by the fagt that & the equator the body is farther fro the ‘earth's center. nd henc earth's attraction is slightly les CA Q. What plants were grafted gether to produce grapefruit7—G. H A. The Depattment ‘6f Agriculture says that the grapefruit belongs tn the same family as the lemon and orange, but represents a distinct b tanical species. The tungelo is hybrid form of the grapefruit recer 1y developed from a cross between the tangerine, orange and the grapefru { (It you have a question you wait answered send it to The Star Informa tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, d rector, 1220 North Capitol strect. Give your full name and address so that the | snforination may be sent direct. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) to Marry Polish Countess, Is of Neapolitan Family BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Since there are two princes of the royal house of Bourbon who bear the Christian name of Rene, it is neces- sary to explain that the one whose impending marriage to the Polish countess, Caroline Zamoyska, has just been announced, belongs to the Nea- | politan instead branch of the dyn. of the octogenarian, Prince Alphonse, Count of Caserta, half brother and heir_to the clalms of Ferdinand 1, last King of Naples and of the two Sicilies, who Tost his throne to Vic- tor Emmanuel 11 in 1860, after the pro- longed sicge of the stronghold of Gaeta the defense of which the now aged widow, ex-Queen Marie of Naples, was the heroine. She and the equally widowed Countess Trani _re the only surviving sisters of Empress Elizabeth of Austria, who w. sinated at Geneva, and the saintly Duchess of Alencon, who perished in the conflagration of the charity ba- zaar, in Paris, along with some other 150 victims, many of them belonging to the oldest houses of the aristocracy of France more than a quarter of a century ago. She had been at one moment the flancee of her cousin, the ill-fated King Louis I1 Parted from one another through a discreditable court intrigue, he never married, and met with death b drowning in the waters of the Ba- varfan lake at Star Prince Rene. . brothers, has received his military education in the Spanish army, in which he is serving as captain of the crack cavalry regiment known as the “Hussars of the Princess.” He is persona grata at the court of Madrid, close upon forty years of age, and his_elder brother, “Don Carlo Infant of Spain. is the brother-in-1 of King Alfonso. to whom he served as mentor during the early years of his reign after he had attained his majority oy his sixteenth birthday. X rw of to the Parma He is the son in The other Prince Rene of Bourbon is the brother of ex-Empress Zita, a younger son of the-last sovereign Duke of Parma. and has been mar- ried since 1921 to Princess Margue- rite of Denmark, the Catholic daughter of Prince Waldamar of Denmark. and who was regarded by many as destined to become the bride of her cousin, the Prince of Wales, her creed, however, proving an insurmountable obstacle. Countess Caroline Zamoyska is a4 cousin of her fiance. For her mother and namesake, was before her mar- riage, Prince Caroline of Bourbon. of the Naples and two Sicilies branch, daughter of the roval Count of Tra pani and_sister of Prince Rene's mother. The Zamoyskas are among the greatest houses of the old Polish aristocracy, and one of its members, Count M. Zamoyska, has been serv- ing in Paris without pay as minister plenipotentiary _of Poland since the restoration of her independence, main- taining the entire Polish mission to France at his own expense, with much pomp and splendor. Countess _ Caroline’s grandfather, Stanislaus Zamoyski, owed much to King Edward VIL ' Like his elder brother Andrew, he was one of the leaders of the great Polish insurrec- tlon in 1863 against the Russian crown, and whereas Andrew, who had been minister of the interlor of the revolutionary government, es- caped, Stanislaus was captured and banished to the most remote portion of Siberfa. In 1866 Edward VIL as Prince of Wales, arrived at Petro- grad to attend the marriage of his brother-in-law, the Czarovitch, after- ward Emperor Alexander 1II, to Princess Dagmar of Denmark, sister of Queen Alexandra. Alexander 11 met the British heir apparent at the railroad _station, and on driving back from thence to the Winter palace, he declared that he was pro- foundly disappointed and chagrined. He explained that he had got to- gether an absolutely matchless team of four Orloff trotters for the pur- pose of presenting it to him, but that during the preceding night, one of the horses had suddenly and mys- teriously died. “I wish' concluded the emperor, “I could know how to make up for it. -What I could do to please you? Some pleasure that I could give you In its stead.” With- out a minute's hestitation, the Prince of Wales replied, ‘If you will do that, then let me beg of you the pardon of Stanislaus Zamoyski.” 'The emperor at once promised this. and on reaching the palace gave orders that the count should be immediately brought back from the remote penal settlement in Siberfa, where he was of Bavaria. | |interned. Although the parden was | granted in October. vet so great wa |the "distariee, that it was not untfl the end of December, on Christmas eve, that the count was restored to his family at Warsaw X kih ¥ In the list of prizes given by the Jockey Club of France at the Grand Prix races in Paris the other da: the Grand Prix is like the Englisn Derby, the chief racing event of the vear fn France—there was one which bore the name of Major Fridolin. Its appearance there excited soms curfosity and was the object of much inquiry and conjecture. For, whereas the name of Major Fridolin is uns known to the present generation racegoers in Burope, it was thirty and fifty and seventy years ago among the best’ known on the tyrf of continental Europe and in the British Isles. The fact of the matter is that Maf Fridolin was name ‘not ‘of any one man. but perhaps the mast celebrated stable of its day in France, owned by Charles Laffitte, nephew 'of the celebrated banker, Jacques Laffitte, and of his friend Baron Louis Niviere. u combi- nation which at one time included Maj. Fraser of the British army, the | Prince Marc de Beauveau and Count Lagrange, owner of the great horee { Gladiator { The stable known as that of “Major | Pridolin” had any number of vic | tories to its record, notably the Grand Prix of Parls in the carly scventies, with & mare of the name of S {nette. and the Derby of Chantil | with ‘the great horse which bore tb |name of Bigarrcau, The Laffitte- -ombination ' played & very nt role in the early vears of the Jockey Club of France, which may ‘be said to have identified itseif {with the Fridolin stable more than* with any other stud. Jacques Laffitte Louis de Niviere, and the Prince of Beauveau may indeed be said to have been among the principal pillars of the Jockey Club, which, in instituting @ prize bearing the name of Major Fridolin, :hus pays a tribute of hon- Fridolin, thus pavs a tribute of hon died in 1876 or 1877, 1 forget which Old Baron Niviere, however, surviver until quite recentiy, when he passed away in his ninetv-eighth vear. ¥ ko % That Prince Aymon of Ttaly, Duke jof Spoleta, who spent some America last year on his way to join the man var in Chinese to which he had been appointed licutenant, almost succumbed to fi- phoid fever at Shanghal within =« few wéeks after reaching his des- tination, is well known through t Bwwspapers, at any rate to those who wade the acquaintance of this good tlooking lad while in America. But what is not generally known is that his only and elder brother, Amedeus Duke of Puglia, next heir to h father, the Duke of Aosta, has ! wise 'been very {ll, almost su cumbing to an attack of double ! pneumonia, following influenza, at Turin, where he was serving as tcaptain of artillery. At one mo- ment his life was despaired of, bur he was nursed back to health by his French mother, Duchess Helenc of Aosta, who was thé president of the Itallan Red Cross during the great war, and who recelved from the French government the Cross of the’ Legion of Honor for her heroism un- der heavy fire. This, too, In spite of the fact that her eldest brothe the Duke of Orleans, like her fathe! the' late Count de Paris, & veteran u‘ the army of the Potomac, were an are, barred from the soil of France, as heads of a dynasty that formerly exercised soverign sway over the na- tion, i As a thank offering for the almodt miraculous recovery of his first borg, the Duke of Aostd, who commend in chief one of the Itallan armies 3t the front during the great war, (and whoe in his boyhood, during his father's three years' tenure of ti throne of Spain, bore the tiele of Prince of: the Asturia, restricted to the eldest sons of the rulers of Spain) drove in full state with his French duchess to the celebrated sanctuary of Our Lady of the Consolation, {n Turin and presented .to the church a magnificent chalice of chased gold and of great artistic beauty., after. ward assisting at mass at the high altar. The duke in this way' has lived up to the traditions of his an- cestors, whose relations with the church, save during the réjgn of the late King Victor Emmanuel, and of King Humbert, were very cldse. lag deed, there .are sevéral princes © the house of Savoy who have recel od the highest hopors in the gift of the Roman Catholic Church, namely, that of canonization as saints, of . time wats