Evening Star Newspaper, July 30, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING e ———— e — THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Fdition. ——— e " WASHINGTON, D C. MONDAY.........July 30, 1923 e e THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Rusiness Ofice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. York Offce: 110 st 42nd St . Ticags Ofe: Tower Huilding, Furopean UJ": :18 Regent 8t., London. England .Editor The Evening Star, with the Sund: s within ders may be sent b 000, " Colleetion ix made cud of ench mouth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Ad Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday, 1 7., §8.40; 1 mo., only......s..1¥r., $6.00; 1 mo., only. .. s. 1 ¥T., $2.40; 1 mo Daily Dail Sunday All Other States. Daily and Sunday..] yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85 Daily only.... §7.00; 1 mo., Sunday onl: £3.00; 1 mo., Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Presx is excluively enfitled fn the use for republication of il ‘news dis patchies eredited to it or unt otherWwise credited I this paper and also the local news pub Hehed herein. ANl vights of “publication of apecial. dispatches herein are also reserved =3 The President’s Illness. While there is no present indication j of danger in the illness of the Presi- dent, which has caused the cancella- tion of the remainder of s scheduled trip through California and through canal homeward, it is theless disquieting to learn that he is sufficiently indisposed to requir a consultation of physicians and to effect a.complete change of program. It must be assumed that the President is in a depleted state of health, due doubtless 1o his recent experiences in 1ranscontimental trip and the journey to and from Alaska. Specifically, his fliness is attributed to ptomaine pois it to marine may have heen contami But it is possible cause but the oning. due, it is helieved food which nated by copper that ific dimax of fatigue With all the strain and weariness ties for comfort anc ticn like that of tie necessarity exhaus The ne: to keep schedul conform preparations made in advance, the re quirement 1o muke addresses, the need s meet many people—all this is bur- A President of the United Stagtes cannot travel freely or as vestfully as a private citizen. Indeed. the President cannot relax on such an accasion ial journey of visi tation. Harding went south and, being under no requirement tof mak to do any “sight- seeing it were. -unof- fieially and informaily, he rested thor- oughly and enjoyed himself He found relaxation and exercise in golf and kept in the best physical condition. That trip to Florida was the nearest approach to a presidential vacation possible. Bulleting from the President’s sick room will be awaited with the keenest interest and concern hy the people. While there regret for the neces sary cancellagion for the remainder of the scheduled trip. there is neverthe- less a feeling of relief that the Pres e. course s great gath this sne is precautions against with all facili- an expedi- President’s is ity with densome as an o Last spring Mr pecches o traveling, as greatly is dent’s obligation to fol and to meet and addr erings of the people is at an end he will quickly recover his health the fervent prayer of all —————————— is Statement is attributed to Charles M. Schwab to the effect that he cannot | get rich men’s sons to work as he wants them to. Possibly those who came under his observation are only imbued with a general desire in circles of employment for shortar hours and more personal income. ————— The of gasoline is reported tn be hat low prices must prevail. The great oil interests. licitous about the demand for their product. will hardly encourage any fliv ver manufacturer to take his mind off | business in order to run for office _———————— Not being asked to contribute opin 1ons or advice in the coal controversy, the consumer will content himself with making a few pertinent notes in his check book. . —_——— A Talky Congress in Prospect. The next Congress promises to he @ talky affair. This is nothing new in connection with Gongress, but some Congresses put through legislation, along with their talk. and others do not. When the Sixty-eighth Congres: convenes next December, if it is not called earlier the coal situa tion or some other matter, the various groups will he so divided that none will he able to dominate and legisla tion will languish. Plenty of fireworks will he set off, it 1s predicted. particularly as there is to be a national campaign next sum- mer and fall. But it really seems un- fortunate for the American people at this juncture. when matters of much importance demand attention, nene of the political groups or parties will be in a position to take action. Railroad legislation is a prime issue: aid for the farmers is another subject demanding attention, at least the agriculturaf diserices insist: Tnited States Coml Commission recommended drastic regulatory Jegis- lation dealing with the anthracite in- dustry, and probably will make sim- lar recommendations regarding bitu- minous coal: there is demand that gamblers in food products—sugar, for example—he curbed. All of these sub. Jjects require constructive action. But, with the republicans holding a major- ity in the Senate in name only, and practically a similar situation existing in the House, the result of efforts to lagislate may be a deadlock, or enact- ment of measures that are not really tisfactory to any group. The repub- licans, the democrats and the pro- zressives, including the farmer-labor- ites. all have their own ideas on thes matters and, as has been pointed out, sione has a majority. ~ The one measure over which there has been considerable controversy, which, it is predicted, will go through without fail, is the soldier adjusted compensation bill. With the changes in the Senate in the new Congress, even a presidential veto, it is confi- dently predicted, will fail to halt the to meet s That | that other measure handed along from the cld Congress is the proposed adherence to the world court, and the chances for this getting through the Senate seem to be getting slimmer and slim- mer. The merchant marine bill, it ap- pears, is dead as a door nail. But, while the new Congress may be short on constructive legislation, just because the wheels will not be able to go round, it will be long on oratory, | Not many years ago it used to be the thing for a new senator to hold his peace for at least a session of Con- | gress. But, with the new order that modest prictice has gone. Magnus Johnson of Minnesota is not coming to Washington to be silent. An unfortunate result of a deadlock over important matters in Congress may be increased criticlsm of the legislative branch of the government by ‘the people generally. The impo- tence of Congress to deal' with matters in which the people are keenly inter- ested has in the past caused a distinct reaction against Congress. ——————— Coal. The coal situation is still disturbing but not hopeless and there are those in touch with the coal trade who say there is no reason for great discour- agement. Yet, even though differences between operators and miners may be composed, there arc few prophets. or none. who forecast lower prices. The Atluntic City conference was abruptly broken off, but at the last minute the secretury was authorized to call the | | { concessions to offer. A month must pass before the expiration of the agreement under which coal is being mined and coal authorities say that it is unusual for miners and operators to reach a new agreement so long before the expiration of an old one. In the news it is set forth that “The federal government will act with every disposal to prevent tieup of the anthracite mines when the present working agreements ex pire’” and that “Membe s of Congress }in Washington expres the opinion | that the President should take drastic ac n, if necess to see that the fuel supply There ms power its a to be a milder tone in this than in tement made a few days ago that the bureau of mines, with the sanction of the President, has prepared a plan by which the gov- ernment can take over the mines on twenty-four hours’ notice and mine coal. Tt is said that the United States Coal Commission “is occupying a po- sition of watchful waiting.” That may mean much or little. Readiness for action is what the public expects demands that the government act im- mediately and effectively at ment the strike begins. The situation in the District has {been shown in figures. Five million i more of hard coal have been | mined between April and July than during the ponding time last vear, but larger shipments have been ! made to northern points, Large ship- ments to the north in summer is the normal practice of the coal trade From April to date this vear 121,000 tons of hard coal have been received in the District, against 7,000 tons for the like period last year. The normal lannual consumption of hard coal in ! the District is something over 500,000 | tons. but in 1922 we got along with t difficalty and by using unsatis. “‘substitutes” on 343,000 tons the mo. tons corry are ! tactory | have coal enough at high prices, but ons believe, that there is & com- bination to hold up or hoost coal prices, should keep busy. If the com. bination can be proved the combiners can be routed. Nearly all coal so far received in the District is in the bins of consumers, but many Washing- tonians—most of them, in fact—have only a part of the necessary winter supply or none at all. The greatest hardship may fall on the poor, who buy coal as needed in v small lots ————— New York reports an unusual num- | ber of out-of-town buyers. Banks note an increasing tendency on the part of people to save money. In spite of the forebodings expressed by a few finan- cial experts, the indications of prosper- ity submit themselves encouragingly fo practical tests. ————— Assertion by Ambassador Harvey that Senator Hiram cannot nominated for may not startle the country jeral, but it will be i fornia George Johnson President in gen ad news in Cali- he Belgium is no more afraid to make a stand in diplomacy o in war. ———————— The Worst Grade-Crossing Day. Yesterday's grade crossing death ivecord was the worst ever known in this country, As a result of seven different accidents twenty-seven per- sons lost their lives. Four were killed {at Highland. 1il,, and nine at Liggett, rad it ianetiaey by the same train. Four were killed at Tron Moun. {tain, Mo.: five at Rockville Center, L. i two at Wadesboro, N. C.; two at Camden, and one at Castleton i Corners, Vt. Detaile of all these difevent acel dents are not available, but they are not really necessary to permit under standing of the real cause of the slaughter. It may be set down as assured that in all cases the primary | responsibility lay upon the drivers of machines who sought to cross the tracks before the trains and failed. ‘In one case—that on Long Island—it ap- pears that the gates had been actually lowered and the motor was driven upon the tracks through the barrier. There is some question whether the warning red lights were displayed. Reckless driving is accountable for practically all of these grade-crossing deaths. 1Tt is true that the railroads have a large measure of respensibility, They should maintain warning signals | at all crossings to put road users on their guard. No crossing should be permitted to remain unmarked, Signs should be erected at a preper distance from each track crossed by a road, visible both day and night, In the more congested areas near cities where traffic is heavy watchmen and gates should be continuously in service. But whatever the responsibility upon the rallreads for safeguarding their ‘ ‘ | | ‘ enactment . of - that legislation. An-lrl‘h!l of way and preventing what negotiators together if either side had | {100t s not cut off by a strike.” | { will probably be formed in this coun- | ferenc 1 | 1f there is no strike we will probably | which assert, what most ; + When (It's dig—dig—dig—while When is by them known as “‘trespasi zone of danger, the primary burden rests upon the road users, who can halt their machines quickly and start them as quickly and are therefore capable of protecting themselves, pro- vided they are aware that tracks lie ahead of them. lu a few cases drivers may not know of the proximity of dangerous conditions and are justified in proceeding without halt. But in almost all instances they do know that railroad tracks are ahead and that trains may be met at any time. Still they persist in pushing across, think- ing to make the crossing ahead of the trains, rvisking their own lives and those of others in their charge with eriminal folly. ———————— Pancho’s Pesos Francisco Villa kept Mexico pretty well stirred up when alive and, now that he is dead, the atmosphere con- tinues to be agitated by his spirit. less than five widows are filing claims children. Then there is a brother who seeks a share of the property and a sister as well, Some off the children whose claims have been advanced allege that their mothers were kid- naped and never reappeared. the fact that, according to popular be- lief, Pancho buried some seven million pesos near T 1 and the claimants are “staking out” to have a look-in it anybody should happen to unearth the treasure. claimants in comfort for the rest their lives. But there is little likeli- hood of an amicable arrangement he tween them for a pro rata distribution. The status of the various wives and the motherless children is questionable in the eyes of the brother and sister. Search for Pancho Villa's treasure is likely to become ams exciting as hunts for pirate gold, These seven million pesos, if not found quickly- if. indeed, there are million pesos hidden somewhere—will bly acquire fame equal to that ef Capt. Kidd's treasure, or Blackbeard's the Cocos Island cache unearth Pancho's seven peditions to pesos try. The State Department is likely the reputed wealth of the dead bandit ——————— ex- The suggestion of another parley is offered by Bel~ium with confidence in the well tried theory that another con. every now and then can do {very litte real harm —————————————— Berlin has at least the satisfaction of the “no admittance” removed from the German side of the Ruhr territory, seeing —g——— SHOOTING STARS. RY PHILANDER JOHNSON The U. C. He is only just an ultimate consumer: He always takes the paper day by da: rumor Ahout the bills he'll he compelled to i pay. {The farmers leave him very appre hensive— At bill of fare he hesita No hoe has he to fight expensive, he just keeps digging pocketbook. s to look this world i 1 So It's dig—dig—dig! care a fig For the ultimate consumer and his worry. 3 the others hold conventions with strategical intentions The U. €. gets to digging in a hurry. The ultimate consumer’s in a stratum Remote from anthracite that he re- quires. He can’t arrange to bring an ultima- tum That might secure respect for hi desires 3 He's alw some one that the can step on When he lifts a weary wail in timid tones, in his purse he digs without a weapon, And almost wears his fingers to the As i bones. have the jig He must fiddle without pay for all his flurry. the others are brand-new rules framing . e hur proclaiming that they are The U, digs—and does it in a Modern Destruction. “If there should be another w remarked the military expert, | won't last long. No." rejoined Senator Sorghum. “Neither will anything nor anybody elge.” Jud Tunking says when he was a boy he though maybe he'd be Presi- dent of the United States—and he still thinks he has as good a chance as a lot of the better known candidates. Apportioning the Time. ou believe in an eimhthour Do day?” “No," declared Cactus Joe, “Eight hours' work don't leave a man only sixteen hours to play poker. Unrest. Reforms forever come 10 View In every carthly station ‘When one's complete we start in to Reform the reformation. Where They Still Save Daylight. othing is the same since the war.’ No.” answered the man who had missed a train; “not even the time of day.” Advantages. “Women should have all vantages that men enjoy “They have more advantages,” com- mented Mr. Meekton. “At the office it is considered impolite for a man to work in his shirt sleeves, while the girls wear no sleeves at all.”” the ad- “Gratitude is measured out same gs de meal in de restaurant,” sald Uncle Eben''—de bigger de tip, de louder d ‘thank you.' No for his estate, with a small army of This post-mortem activity is due to Seven million pesos, if equally distributed, would keep all the of proba- | to acquire trouble in consequence of signs He shudders as he reads each romping in his! No one seems to rest | the others The public roads bureau of the De- partment of Agrioulturs wants laws passed abolishing all grade crossings of railroads and highways because of the numerous accldents. The danger has multiplied since the use of auto- mobiles has become so general, and the department bureau asserts that all attempts to avold accidents by systems of signals have failed. 2k %% It is claimed that branch railroad trains now carry but a small amount of the traffic that is borne on the main lines, the bulk of the feeder traffic being carried on automobile passenger and truck vehicles; there- fore, it is argued, if it be required by law that automobiles must come to a stop before passing over the ing, the branch trains ought also to stop. * ok ¥ It is recognized that in congested regions, where both steam and auto- mobile trafiic are heavy, the only as- sured safety comes from mnon-grade crossings, but since an automobile is %0 easily handled, when the chauf- feur is attentive and sane, it is ar- gued that it is only reasonable thut upon approaching a country railroad crossing—perhaps once in three to ten miles—he should, for his own safety “look and listen” before plung- ing ahead, when a train is liable to {appear while he is crossing. The same argument which requircs non- grade crossings everywhere—regard- less of expense—would require them at all street intersections In cities, %0 that the speeder could rush ahead, over intersections, at full speed. % . Is the cross-country driver's speed jany more important than that of the business man In the city? Every driver of & car is facing engineering problems of momentum il cen- trifugal force more acute th.: those faced by the locomotive engineer, for the locomotive is guarded by its ralils, jwhile the automobile’s many tons go hurtling along the road, unguarded {except by the hand of its chauffeur 1f the control once leaves the steerer, the automobil wild locomotive. for no one can see in what direction it swerve. A three-ton automobile golng at high speed has as much momentum as a forty-ton locomotive at moderate speed Merely abolishing grade crossings, while desirable in congested ons {were gua both entrances, |WH| not iminate, but rather aug ment. the ignorant recklessness of tie speeder, whose rushing car in the nar- row undergrade crossing, in fancied {safety, is likely to meet and side- swipe an approaching :peeder com ing from the opposite direction Under such conditions, therefore. the under-rail crossing enhances danger by encouraging highway speeding The chief remedy is to enforce cautio at all .points, upon a . Stop. look. listen!" is not 1p any driver when ap- {proaching a crowded street : {or a country railroad crossing. proves wise and humane caution. »E is as dangerous as a tor- is going to cross STAR,. WASHINGTON, -D. C, las | vear 275,887,00 It Is a most welcome word of agri- cultural that comes the research director of the American Farm Bureau Federation. He has| Just Issued a monthly report which points out that there has much about the ruinously price wheat that the high of corn and other important farm products has been overlooked. He !sums it all up by saying that the total Ireturns for the Amgerican farmer will I'he nearly $200,000.000 more this vear than last. If that be the case, 1t will amount to an excess of $200 and $300 per farm throughout the coun- try; that is equal to a third of the | laverage profits per farm, year year, aside from living—flood shelter for the farm family £ x The headquarters of the American | Farm Bureau Federation is in lowa, ' in the heart of the corn belt, and, naturally, the farmers there are more | interested in corn and hogs than the | farmers of Minnesota and Dakotas, where wheat the chief crop. Still, Towa has her Brookhart, as Minnesota her Shipstead and Mag- nus Johnson, rth Dakota her Frazier and Wisconsin her La Fol- | lette, Kansas experts are adv farmers to feed wheat to hogs cheer from Leen so said low price | { \ the His End Was What Was to Be: Expected. ! There were few mourners in Ameri- can journalism when the word came that old Pancho Villa had been checked out by the violence route. {1t was a “good riddance” in the minds of ‘the majority. An isolated few re- called that, after all, bandit and mur- derer though he had been, Villa was | utterly fearless and, had his model been cast along better lines, he might have been a most powerful influence | for mood. Then. too. the few who| really knew the man regretted his| slaying from ambush. If he had to| fall, it would have secmed more like | justice to have let him meet his fate with his big gun clutched tightly in his fist. Under such circumstances he surely would have avenged him- self. “He was not a statesman nor a man of any great intelligence,” asserts | the Danville Bee. “but he lived a feckless life and there was adventure | and romance in it and these three Gualities combine to win him a last- ing place in Mexico's history.” Inas- much as he “was a butcher by trade and a gunman by choice,” the Pitgs- bursh Gazette-Times feels he met a guse fat To which the New York World adds “born with extraordfnary talents, he set himself purposefully toward his goal of a true villian. It was no easy task; yet he succeeded magnifi- cently. To cap his inconceivable villainy, he did not love women, to- | bacco or wine. With Villa it was| villainy for art’s sake.” His was “an {nglorious end for a man who had 80 | often flirted with death in many more | spectacular ways.” suggests thie Wil-! iamsport Sun, and, when his mortal | our w struck, the Lousivelle{ Courjer-Journal s&ggests, “the spirlt of Pancho was, by every credible system of pagan theology, trans- ported to the Valhalla thal is surely reserved for the world's elect who live and die ‘with their boots on.¥’ “The standards of civilized life cannot be applied to him." the New- ark Evening News holds. “His en- Vironment was one of violence. He was guided by his instincts, which were often tha instincts of passion, although imtermixed with instincts of justice. He belonged in the picture of flliterate, undeveloped Mexico, groping to escape fram the oligarchic rule of the cientificoes and the op< pressions and exploitation of the owerful. What he might have been n a civilized country is a question— e might have been greater or noth- ng.” This is' not the impression re- tained by the Little Rock Demoorat, however, which places him in the tategory of “Jesse James” and insis | homes [iberator.” inever MONDAY, CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS ators Curtls and Capper. may ask, “What's the matter with Kansas?’ SR Nevertheless, the farmers are ac- tually facing a general slump In prices, which can.not be ignored.. The value of all agricultural products in 1919 was $24,982,000,000, of which $2.074.000,000 represented wheat. The value in 1922 was $14,310.000,000, of which $764,000,000 was wheat. Farm- ers have had practically the same Tunning expenges for labor, seed, taxes. wear of machinery, etc., in pro- ducing the 1522 crop as in producing that of 1919, with a shrinkage of re- turns amounting to $10,000,000,000. * ok k% The value of the corn crop last year was $1,900,000,000 and of wheat only $564,000,000. It is Impossible at this date to make close and certain comparisons between last year's crop values with this year's values, because this year's crops have not yet been produced. The Department of Agriculture re- ports on the 1st of each mon the condition of the crops and the “esti- mate” of yield, but that estimate is not a prediction, because almost an; thing may happed to a growing crop | in a few days. made July 1 When the “estimate” is glven out, it is the nearvest that can be made as to the ield that may come, providing con- itions between that date and harvest remain normal, but that is not a prophecy > % ik The midwest—Minnesota and ad- joining states—where spring wheat BYows, b the chief sufferer this year. Winter wheat of Kansas and adjoin- ing states yields practically the same in 1922-586,204,000 bushels in 1922 and, estimated July 1, 585,889,000 this year. Spring wheat yvielded last . and the July 1 esti- mate this_year ix only 284,739,000 bushels. The farm price of wheat last year on July 1 was 102.8 cents and this year on July 1 only 95.1 cents. These figures indicate that the raisers of spring wheat—in Minne- and the Dakotas get about $39,059.962 less for this veur's crop than for last year Part of that shrinkage must be at- tributed to an “act of Providence” in giving a yicld “lessened by some 41,060,000 Lushels, and part to a lower market price, attributed to the greater vield in luiope, which lessens the call for our grain W The corn yield of 1922 w. 712,000 bushels mate this 2,577.437.000 and the July year pointed to The vield then is ap- proximately the same. but there is a Jump in farm prices from 62.2 up to 86.5 cents, July l—over 14 bushel and in excess of 310 for the corn crop of this vea 192 1f party polic the wheat what is resp 2.890,« 1 about 12,180 over are responsible for bushels and price, sible for the corn gain * % % Here come more statistics from Instead of the Department of Commerce chiefly—will | esti- | cents a | JULY 30, 1923. EAST IS EAST By F mnfi Hedges Seven thousand Japanese, most of them young men and many merely university students, drifted about the gravel strewn streets in the neighbor- hood of the imperial diet building in Toklo. Five thousand black uni- formed police, with their ridiculously ineMcient sabers banging their knees, stood guard or were ambushed as re- serves in nearby parks and garages to protect the great barn-like struc- ture that looks like an American country club and that houses the two branches of Japan's national law- making body. Tn their coat lapels or pinned to the breagts of their kimonos the 7,000 young Jdpanese wore a single cherry blossom cut from pink paper, the sign of the universal manhood suffrage ad- vocats of Japan. Ipside “the diet bullding the house of Tepresentatives was voting on the suffrage bill that warm afternpon in early spring, and the 7,000 had gathered to petition that the ballot be given them. Because the Japanese government is timidly fearful of demonstrations on the part of the peaple, the cordon of police had been thrown around the diet building to prevent their approach. * ¥ ¥ % The crowd was good natured and— apathetic. Up one of the narrow alleys of the vicinity orators of the party in opposition to the government were holding forth. Street orations. had been banned, #o the vocal champions of the ballot had retired their party headquarters, where they stood on the ro6f over the little entrance portico and harangued the crowd gathered in the yard. There had been tremendous parades through the mtreets of the capital a few days pre- viously, when theusands had shouted for suffrage and waved white banners covered with' queer shaped word sym- bols. The petitions for presentation to the diet had been printed, and now, on the day set for the presenta- tion they were not allowed to ap- proach the diet building. Gradually the apathy of the crowd began to give way to a more bellig erent spirit, and a part of the police reserves strolled out from their am- buscades to join those guarding the entrance gates to the diet. The right to petition is guarantced by the con- stitution, and the suffrage workers insisted on excrcising it. Compromise followed, for the police permitted them to file pust the diet entranc in single file. and hand the printed and signed slips to the doorman. Here and there one of the more enthusi- astic petitioners drew a knife blade across his hand or arm. dipped his writing brush in the blood that fol- lowed the cut and signed in red the characters of his name. * ok % Within the walls of the house of representatives turmoll was in prog- ress all afternoon Opponents supporters of the suffrage hurled bitter epithets at one another to and jwarm and warmer. the quoting the figures, take the conclu-| The of sions facts shortage America tailed by the in been cur- of material five years of a_million of 700,000 years to relate to persisting has homes Building the high cost and high wages, and so, after the war, the lack homes remains a luck today homes. Sinc it took ve reduce shortage only about one- third, 1 require ten vears more of strenuous building to catch uj n if the speed remains the same as it has been since the war. That may throw light on the persistent high rents and the crowded conditions in all citles, R A 3 g But that d home creasing at to the is in- es not do justice The populatl the rate a That for as many new each year as the net produce tion of the last five years. 1f we can build no faster than we are doing, we are losing ground, of catching up. Building material is being ex- hausted and the future looks gloomy for the man without a home. What is the use of crying: “To your tents. oh. Israel! so long a$ millions have no tents The department reports that build- ing activity has slumped because of high costs, and since June 1 there has been no more construction than there was during>the winter. 1923, by PV crisis, of 1,500,000 year. calls instead (Copsright Collins ) EDITORIAL DIGEST “Mexico is better off with Villa dead. When he died he reaped some of the oats he had sown during his ten years of banditry.” Inasmuch as “he died as he had lived, by treachery,” the St. Joseph News-Press feels “there was a kind of grim appropriateness in it Tt must be remembered, how- ever. the Miami News-Metropolis suggests, that while “many crimes were laid at the door of Pancho Villa, had he succeeded history would in all probability have proclaimed him a Although he had publicly abandoned his former practic the Oklahoma City Oklahomian feels cer- tain “Americans residing near the border will now breathe more easily It wa “happy riddance.” insi the Nashville Banner. because “in the last analysis of his character he was merely " a lustful marauder and a wholesale murderer who should. by all rules of good government, have been caught and hanged. The death which finally came to him was none too bad.” To assume also that “Villa was a natural leader” is unwarranted, in the, view of the Omaha World Herald, because he “had a great op- portunity to show capacity for lead- ing the new Mexico, but he did not have the qualifications. He was only ighting fool. And so it is in all countries of the world. The conflict passes with the moment, but intelli- ment leadership. in both peace and war, endures.” The Waterloo Tribune convinced “he wronged his follow- he had wronged others. To wrong was his nature.” Regardless he was and did he “mizht Prosident of Mexico but o g fun o tmen oh [oBiE Regliiter points out, and “he retired only when it suited his pleas. ure,” He was ‘mot solely a plunder- er.” the Lincoln Star in turn recalls, but “his sympathies alwayy were with the peon class of Mexico, victims of an oppression more terrible than lan- guage describes.” It ig tha opinion of the Albany Knickerbocker-Press that “we can at least say that he de- serves admission to the Valhalla of the picturesque heroes who have made the world laugh while they made it suffer. Villa from-&n angle of strict racticability was never anything better than ‘a horse thief and cattle stealer and semi-sentimental, sem|- bloodthirsty squire of dames. He grinned most of the time and he was so dangerous a&s when he grinned most broadly." Picturesque he may have been, the Minneapolis Tribune admits, “but he was.a devil. Villa had a veneer of the social decencies but under his shirt was the bandit heart. There should be a little easier breathing in Mexicp City now that the one-time mountain outlaw has paid in kind." Vengeance “was slow in coming but insists the Decatur Herald, and. “that a man who had murdered in cold biood hundreds of men should die in a feather bed was hardly to expected.” His out lawry was ‘“sordid,” as the Bt. Louis Post sees it. and “he had his glam- ourous heurs, but the character to rise to opportunities of his own cre- ating was wanting. -He lived and died a bandit,” 5 | { i i | across the floor and the debate grew At least one of 7.000 had obtained a pass to the mallery for that afternoon. As a member of the government party rose from his seat to denounce the bill. this spectator-agitator leaned over the gallery rail and. with unerring aim. pitched a small paper bag at the speaker. The mouth of the bag opened and from it there crawled a small very much frightened, but harmiess snake. The cry for universal manhood suf- frage ix a popular one in Japan. It rallies the Younger generation as the mess call in the army brings a double time response. But it is little more than a call, for the grant of the bal- lot to all the men of Japan would work no fundamental change, in th existing system of government, a sys tem that masquerades as democrati but that is. in e¥sence. a bureaucracy of the first order. The ballot might give the people control of the lower house of the diet. but the lower hous is helpless in a struggle against the house . of peers with its equal au thority. and joint action by both would be of To avail if the little BT P of admirals and generals the men qualified to hold the navy {and war portfolios, chose to prevent the formation of a government by re- fusing to serve under any premier save one yelected by them. Even con- trol of the public purse the real source of strength for most national legislatured, is but partly in the hands of the Japanese ~diet. Budget in- creases are possible oniy when sanc- tioned by the diet, but faflure to sunction them does niot mean the gov- ernment is penniless. Instead. the budget of the previous vear is autos matically authorized. * x v ¥ And vet. the spectacular campaign for universal manhood suffrage has grown and waxed with the years. It is today the outstanding issue of Japanese liberals. They are its real proponents, but their ranks are awelled by the minority political parties. by labor and by all Japanese who nurse a grievance against things as they are. The political party at present in control, the party of the farmer, has proved itself strong enough to withstand the repeated as- saults, but its younger members are wavering. It. is probable that the majority party is not opposed to uni- versal manhood suffrage in principle, but the granting of such a measure the very eficient po- litical machine that has been erected on_the b f the present restricted suffrage qualifications, restrictions as to property and education ‘The opposition parties champion the measure for the obverse side of the same reason. They believe the re- organizatien of the electorate would open the road to power for them. The support of labor has been won by a clever interweaving of another is- sue, that of unemployment, and the workmen of Japan have been taught to believe that with a vote for every man will go a well paid job. To the discontended, universal suffrage of- fers an opportunity to strike a blow at existing institutions. * kX % The Aattitude of the Japan 1ib- erals, the real fathers of the suf- fraze movement. is somewhat dif- ferent. The liberal leaders realize that suffrage in itself will not enable them to reach their goal of true democratic and party movernmient, but they mlzo realizo itx popular appeal and that it 1% @ necessary Arsc step. Yukio Ogaki, the hero, if not the pfac- tical executive of the liberal move- ment, expressed it well last March: “The ballot will not glve the peo- fle control of the governfent; its value lies in the stimulation it will give to the consclousness of each Jap- anese that he is a part of the govern- ment and that therefore he must exert himself to aid in governing. Suffrage is only a means, an inadequate but an essential means, to the democracy toward which we are driving." In a Few Words. In polities and business T doubt. if very many successful men have al- wayvs run quite straight. —DEAN INGE. No nation can be secure by a form of security obtained at the expense | of other nations. g —LORD GREY, M. P. Every one who reflects! believes in one way or another in God. “"DR. ROBERT A, MILLIKAN. T get suspiclous of a candidate who keeps mum; no real friend of the people ever does that. My throat is sore because-I talk all the time be- tween spasches. We den't believe in BR8N T2 e, eut Bers e they do & i —MAGNUS JOHNSON. measure | ANSWE RS TO' QUESTIONS By Frederic J. ’Haskiu Q. What is the average summer temperature in Washington?—C. O. P. A. The mean temperature for sum- mer is 74.7 degrees Fahrenhelt; for fall 56.5 degrées; winter, 34.5 degrees, and spring, 53.2 degrees. Q.+ When will the “Colored Mammy" statue be erected?—A. J. C. A. Permission was asked of Con- of the Confederacy to erect such monument in Washington. The bill did not pass the House, o it will be necessary to fntroduce it in another session of Congress before further progress can be made. Q. Was Washington ever in the White House?—F. J. W. A. It is said that he inspected the rooms in company with his wife just a few days hefore he died in 1799. Q.: Do most of tha forelgners work- papers?—F. P. A. The coal commission in its an- thracite report states that less than half of the 78,000 miners of foreign birth in the anthracite flelds have them have been in this country more than ten years. Q. What are scallions?—A. K. H A. Scallions are a kind of onfon which are used for flavoring in much the same way that garlic is Q. How many stars are there in the southern cross?—J. T.G. A. This constellation four bright stars, to which imagina- tion gives the form of’a crucifix. stars making the head and foot of the cross act as pointers to the south pole. This constellation is not visible in northern latitudes. Q. Are the boys at West Point and Annapolis allowed to smoke?—J. B. A. Smoking 1s permitted only when men are in barracks. Q. Are white foxes and blue foxes two distinct breeds?—R, J. M. A. They are not different species, but merely different color phases of the same fox. In both cases the prized color represents the winter coat In summer the white fox is brown and tawn; and the blue one is sooty gray and brown Q. Was any compensation made to relatives or dependents of the victims of the Titanic disaster?—L. T. A. Seven hundred and twelve peo- ple are still receiving financial aid from the Titanic fund founded soon after the dixaster oc- curred, according to the public trus- tees of this fund in their annual re- port, The fund was raised by publio contribution. It amounts to £290.813. The interest is distributed in pension payments to 104 dependents of pas- sengers and 605 dependents of members of the crew. Q. Is the public drinking cup pro- hibited?—F. G D, i A. The public health service for bids the use of the common drinking cup In all places over which it has control, including all interstate trains Many states and cities, too, have pro- hibited it. Almost every communicable disease finds its port of entry through the nose or mouth. Q. What fibe bly hygroscopic?—W. D. B. A. All textile fibers are more or less hygroscopic, varying from 6 to or textiles are nota- BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Members of the former sovereign house of France are fillowing the example of the scions of the reigning family in England in ruverting to the medieval practice of seeking matri- monial alliances with the old aristoc- racy of their country instead of re- stricting their marriages to princes and princesses of their own rark Thus, King George's son. the Duke of York's recent union to the daugh- ter of the Scottish Earl of Strathmove and Princess Mary's bestawal of her hand upon Lord Lascelles—still a commoner in the eyes of the law— have been followed by the marriage of Princess Genevieve of France daughter of the royal Duke and Duchess of Vendome and of Alencon to the Count of Chaponay, grandson through his mother, of LBugene Schneider. the great ironmaster of Cresot. And now comes the and nouncement of the formal engage- ment of Princess lsabelle of France. daughter of the roval Duke and Duchess of Guise, to Count Bruno Harcourt, son of the late Count Ku- gene d'Harcourt of the Paris Jockey Club, who will be remembered in New YorK as a camposer in connection with severa] visits to America to su- perintend here the performance of hi works by the Beston Symphony Or chestra, and by other equally impor- tant organizations. * o x o The wedding will take place early in September at the French country seat of ex-Queen Marie Amelie of Portugal, near Versailles, the bride being her niece. The bride's father. the Duke de Guise, is the only son 6f the late Duke d'Chartres. who, with his elder brother, the late Count {of Paris. served tiroughout the Amer- jcan war of secession under the Union flag and who, afterward fought in the war of 1870 in the ranks of the French army “under the name of Robert le Fort, winning a commis- wion and the Cross of the Legion of Honor under that name by conspicu- ous gallantry on the battlefield. The Duke de (Guise is. theretore, by right of heredity. entitled to membership of the Society of the Army of the Potomac and of the Grand Army of the Republic. He received his mili- tary training at Copenhagen, where his_elder s er, Marie, was married to Prince Waldemar of Denmark, the ranking admiral of the Danish navy, and he still holds a commission of lieutenant colonel in the Danish army, but makes his chief home with his Sife™ina children at Larache fu Moracda. whera he owns an enormous ranch, which he has converted into a financial success. He also has a chateau in the French department of the Alene. known ay the Castle of suvion. His wife, Princess Isabelle. N ONEer mister of Qusen Maris P S T st v (e Pucness oF Aosta and of the Duke of Montpensier. With regard to the bridegroom, he is twenty-four years of age and the great-grandson of the seventh French Duke of Harcourt. o There are two families of the Eu- ropean aristocracy that -have played a more notable role in the annals of France and of England in the last 900 They trace thelr origin to Bernard the Dans, cousin of Rollo, sovercign Duke of Normandy, by whom he was invested in A.D. 812 with the seigneury of Harcourt in what is now the department of the Fure. The Harcourts took an active |part in tne conguest of England under RWilliam of Normandy in. 106, one of |them commanding the 'Norman archers at the battle of Hastings, and his name appears as. sucn on the | Baveuve tapestry, on the Battle Abbe: roll and in Brunston's “Chronicles It was during the reigp of King Richard Coeur de Lion that one of the Harcourts became possessed of Santon-Harcourt and of Nunham Park in Oxfordshire, now: the ancestral home of the half Americar " and fifteen-year-old Viscount Harcourt, whose mother -was Miss Mary Burns of New York, a niece of the late J. Pierpont Morgan. The name of Harcourt figures on almost ery ge of English histery. An English Hateourt oarried Henry Vil'a stand- ard at the battle of Bosworth, an- - ! - yoe A years. gress by a chapter of the Daughters | g in our mines take out citizenship] Francer—H, sought citizenship, although 68,000 of.| consists of | The | which was | 16 per cent. Cotton has 6 per cent mofsture, silk 11 per cent, wool from 14 to 16 per cent, These figures are for moisture contained when exposed to an atmosphere of 65 per cent humidity at 70 degrees Fahrenheit Q. Are the ofl_lands of the Osage Indiaus taxed?—Y. B. W, A. The government does not tax ol lands which are owned by the Indian wards of the nation Q. Is the Dirkens wrote standing 7—K. ¢ A. The Dickens ¥Fellowship has purchased the Charles Dickens house at 48 Doughty street, Mechlenburg Square, London, in which was written Oliver Twist.” “Pickwick Papers and “Nicholas Nickleby.” It will’ be endowed and equipped as a Dickens museum, library and picture gallery Q of house in which Charles “Oliver Twist” still How does the piesent-day army Germany compare -with that of / H W, . A. The defense force of Germany is 500,000 The metropolitan army of France I8 335,000; the army of occu- pation_umbers 150,000 Before the world war the two countries also kept armies of nearly the same size ‘an enough timber;b# imported United States to meet this country’s regquirements when our own forests are no longer able to supp!y the demand?—D. L. A. The United States forest service states that any hope of augmenting our awn supply of timber by fmporta j tions must *be abandoned ig so far a- softwoods are concerned. The timber {needs of the United States/are so enormous. amounting as they do to nearly half of the world's copsumny tion, that it 13 inconcejvable they can be met by imports except in a’ very limited way and at excessive price The situation is also serious in the case of hardwoods, as the hardwood forests for the most part are situated in tropical countries where transpor- tation is exceedingly. difficult and where the forests will probably re- main undeyeloped on any large scale for a number of decade Q. How long will a cocoanut tree bear?—M A. It often begins to bear when less than ten vears old and continues to be productive for more than halt a eentury, vielding about 100 nuts as an annuai crop. i ‘ G. | Q. What pationality is Kitty Gor- {don, the movte actress?—D. 0. H A. Kitty rdon. who s gs wel Kknown on the stage as on the screen is English. She was born at Folke stone, England, and is married 1o | Hon. H. W. Hoarsley-Berestord. Q. When will ‘the mew cable be tween New York and London be com pleted>—D. ’ A. According to a recent announce ment, the new cable is expected 1o be completed by August 1. 1t will be tie largest ever laid, gnd will have & serviee .capacity twice that of any other cable between the United States and Kurope. Itk conductor requires tan ayerage of about 1,110 pounds of {copper per mile, as agafhist an aver age of about 100 pounds of copper per mile for the heavfest now in service (If you have a question you want answered, sead it to The Star Informa- tion Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, dires- tor. 1220 North Capitol street. Give your {1l nume and address so that the information may be sent direct. Incloss £ cents in stamps for return postage ) Members of the French Royal Family In- Marriage Alliances With Nobility —— ‘ S s other took a leading colonization of Virginia. Simou Hai: court was Queen Anne's lord high chancellor of Englang, and the father of the present ¥iFcount was secretur) of state for the colonies In. France the histors of the Har courts has_been cqually illustrious and prior 16 the gregt reyolytion of « hundred years ago. the family had furnished no less than five field mai- shals to the French army. & unique recoid. The College de France war founded by a French Harcourt. The French marquisate of Harcourt dates from the sixteenth century, while the dukedom of Harcourt, of whigh the present boy chief of the entire family is the tenth holder, was created in 3700_and his other dukedom. that of Beuvron, was_added to the honors of his house in 1784 by the ill-fated king. Louis XVI part in_the ) i In the official arnouncement. the other day. of Lord Reading's action as vieeroy of India in compelling the Maharajah of Nahba to abdic h throne in favor of his four-vear-ol boy. on account of gross maladminis tration and the oppression of his peo prle. it was stated that he would con- tinue to receive -a fixed allowance from the treasury of Nahba on the conditien that he remained bevond ‘her borders and refrained from inter- ference in her affairs. and alsoe that he would be permitted to retain the enjoyment of his salute of eleven guns. < People this eide of the -ocean have no idea of the value which the native rulers of Indja attach to these salutes of guns, which they esteem more highly than any distinction or token of favor on the part of the suzerain. namely the Kaisr Hindh jGeorge V. Native rulers have beer brought, indeed, o the very verge of armed rebellion by the unintentional neglect to fire, on the part of the English authorities. the stipuluted number of guns in their honor. whil the most drastic punishment that tiv empire can inflict, short of dethron. ment in disgrace, is the suspension o the gun salute Each native ruler has his quota of guns assigned to him by treaty. The three or four most powerful native rulers of India are accorded the sa lute of twenty-one guns. The vicercs takes a salute of thirty-one gun and so it is all along the line dowr to the shelk of Mohammera, a Mo lem chieftain. whose capital looks out onto the Persian gulf. For over a hundred years each English ship that passes Shatt El Arab fires one gun in grateful memory of a service ren dered by the then sheik of Moham mera, more than a century ago. to Great Britain. When any of the lat ters crulsers pass ¥1 Arab a salute of twelve guns shakes the entire cit) as aw eloguent tribute of the debt of gralltu%v which the greatest of empires bwes to thls chleftaln of tiny and remote Moslem state on U Perstan gulf. AN U Cirrencnman on one occws sion made a remgark to Leord Curzow when the latter was viceroy of India / anent the importance of the gun sd- lutes and of the: value attached thereto by the native rylers: “No one bat you English could have found out how to maintain your rule over three hundred million orlentals by tite use of mere blank cartridge: g o N The saluting by guns, se far as & known, dates from the end of the A teenth century, and an accldent is sai to have settled the number of gu needed for a sovereign salutc. seems that Emporor Maxmilian L e turning to the city of Augsburg aft: a victorious expedition, was receivefl, with what wag to have been a salu of -a hundred guns. The officer i charge of the artillery lost count his nervousness and, in order to mal sure that the full number was rer dered, fired-an extra gun. The city df Nuremburg, which was the next b have the honor of entertaining thhe emperar, thought that the new nums ber was official and followed the ex- ample of Augsburg. Thus, the highs est honor that'was payable by gunfire became 101 rounds. The greatest number of guns.ever fired by way of salute was undoubt- edly that of the thousand and one guns which, in 1840, greeted the ar-{ rival in France of the warshi La Belle Poule, bearing Napoleon's res mains back from St. Helena. ¥ 4 . 3 /