Evening Star Newspaper, August 7, 1923, Page 6

SR e THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Editic WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY........August 7, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Basiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Office: 110 East 12nd St Chicago Officr: Tower Tuilding Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. Editor The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at 80 cents per month; daily only, 45 cents per onth; Sunday only, 0 cents per month. Or may Do sent by n eteplone Matn 5000, " Collection 1x. m cargiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $£.40; 1 mo. Daily only 5. Bunday only...... T0¢ S0 20¢ All Other S Daily and Sunday..1yr., §10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only 1 mo, 60c Bunday only §5.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is es to the use for republic atches credited 1o it o n this paper and al 1shed herein. ALl special dispatche Through Mourning Millions. Delayed for hours Ly the immense throngs of mourning people who massed close to the railroad track in the larger clties of the route from the west, the train bearing the body of the late President not Washington until late evening. So Washington waits, in deepest sor- row, for the homecoming from the final journey of the beivved Chief Ex ecutive, who went forth in June with the cheers of the public ringing in hi ears, bent upon a vi continental territc States. Though this delay is discommoding and deranging to the fully prepared for the fune monies here, it not without valuable significance. Due as it is tc the desire of the people tribute to the n. @s in itself a tribute to him whos body has been fHiy b the great contir In Chicago, it than a million people side the railroad trac the funeral train bled in nounced hours in stil were no pu vas no crowding behavior. Patier passage of and cars. Thus almost litera coast this train the heart the « time it reac! Was v been looked upon lions of peop! in mind its memory a quence of this sad tra There is a significance. too, fact that of the last dent is to be borne first here to Wasl ington and then back for nearly five hundred last resting | place, in Ohio. This was done in the case of President N slain body brought he Buffalo and to the state that is now preparing to receive its native final rest. And it| also was done in the case of President Garfield, brought back from Elberon, where he passed away, to the Capital | before going also to Ohio for inter-| ment, For Washington is the official | home of the Chief Executive. and | when their lives in the cours of their duties, matter at what point in the v, it is virtually imperative that this city should be the scene of formal rites, regardle of where their bodies may rest in| peace that follows duty faithfully | discharged. —_——— by will reach v of the United schedule care- al cere is its to pay silent n's dead. it stand pass accordance with and ness and in silence. ed There there schedule wa ing moveme no pushing, no rude they awaited the ck-draped v L the engine from coast through B it is passing the will m untry S inston by will always bear There must be patriotisn: conse many wh quickened in | in the e body Presi miles its *Kinley, whose was e from then back same son in no countr s ald the Atiantic $40,000 th wd is not r by old John | Coast rds ghore report seizur of cognac, garded as Barleycorn —_———————— No further attention is given G Bergdoll. _He has added to h : complishments that of publicity dodger. f A coast gu a life-s aver o ————— ‘Washington, D. C., is the scene of the nation’s greatest hopes and of its deepest sorrowings. The Treaty With Turkey. Treaties signed of the United Stat of the Turkish government at Lau- sanne yesterday re-establish diplo- matic relations between the two coun- tries. When the United States tered the world war relations between | this country and Turkey were severed, but there never was a declaration of war and technically the United States was not at war with the Otto- man empire. Since the close of the war, however, affs have been in disturbed condition in the ndar east, culminating in the war between Tur- key and Greece and the expulsion of the Greek forces from Smyrna and| other portions of former Turkish ter- ritory. For weeks and months at Lau- sanne, Switzerland, the representa- tives of the allied governments and Turkey worked upon a treaty of peace and a convention relating to the use of the straits of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus, documents signed within the last month. Joseph C. Grew, United States minister to Switzerland, represented the United States at the Lausanne conference, and, while the United States was not a party to the treaty of peace, the representative of this country was largely instrumental in straightening out and smoothing over difficulties that arose and threatened to dissolve the conference. Mr. Grew succeeded in preventing the recognition in the treaty of peace of alleged vast pe- troleum concessions claimed by a British company, considered preju- dlcial to the interests of this country. Now Mr. Grew has brought to a suc- cesstul conclusion the negotiations of the treaties between this country and Turkey, one a general pact and the other relating to extradition. These treaties will go to the United “States Senate for ratification when that body meets, in. December, or i by representatives s government and en- s t to the farthest | to] i | the end of the term. | that | ness interests of Washington and there sooner should & speclal session be called. They supersede all other and older treaties between the two coun- tries. Turkey's system of govern- ment has been greatly modified with the overthrow of the old regime and her political ideals have become far more democratic. Mr, Grew has pointed out that her relations have changed with European nations and that not unnaturally the change has brought about the conclusion of the new treatics with the United States. The most favored nation treatment, under the treaties, will be accorded the United States by Turkey and vice versa. Diplomatic and consular officers will exchanged, citizens of the United States will be entitled to travel and reside in Turkey and to engage in business and profes- sional activities permitted by law to foreigners; of particular interest is the fact that the most favored nation treatment is accorded in the patter of amounts and collection of duties on imports and exports. It is specially i provided, as in the treaty with Euro- pean nations, that American citizens, be with regard to matters of personal , status, shall be subject to American icourts only. Although the United States assumes no responsibility for application of the straits convention, ‘yh\-r ships are assured the freedom of ithe Dardanelles, the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmora, in accordance I\\‘uh the stipulations of the straits convention At present i and for some time the United States has been represented in Turkey by a high commissioner, Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol. With the ratitication of the Turkish treaties | just signed, and the resumption of | diplomatic relations, the appointment of an ambassador to Turkey to | follow. This will be one of the first | major diplomatic posts to be filled by i Coolidge. President B | The New President’s Trying Task. Calvin Coolidge has been thrust by the tragedy at Sas Krancisco sudden- and practicany wiem.:* warning into a most difficult and trying post {tion. Although in the nature of our jaffairs the Vice President chosen | primarily as a potential successor to the Chief Executive in the event of ! his death in office, and is therefore, so to speak, under warning from the time he takes his seat in the presiding officer’s chair in the Senate, it is al- I ways with the full expectation and the hope that he will not be called upon to serve in the higher duty. Mr. Coolidge, like the other “suc- or Presidents, must carry on in 'ms of the policies of his party and He must continue the administration in the same terms in which it has been conducted up to the time he umes the office, how- ever events may resolve themselves and affect poli and personnel. In tle first hours and days or a Ysuc- or administration” there is a se- train which is inescapable and from which the President suffers severely. He must attend promptly and thoroughly to the routine of the coffice. He must meet many people. He must completely change his rela- tionship toward affairs, advanced thus suddenly from a place on the side lines, 0 to speak, to the very center of government. With all the distractions of officiai mourning—which is also a personal cavement in the case of Mr. Cool- idge—the new President must attend to practical affairs, receive reports, confer on governmental matters and consider his own readjustment to the responsibilities attending the direct grasp of the governmental throttle which, when once the hand is laid | upon it. cannot be relinquished until or until, as in Mr. Harding's case, death loosens the fingers. For the President in this stressful time must be the keenest sympathy, and there must be also the best wishes and the most helpful service in co- operation. He has become the leader of the nation and he should have the help of all. s An adjustment of economic rela- tionships is still hoped for by work- ers, investors and ultimate consumers will cause Labor day to be looked forward to each year as al time of general refoicing. R ——— iy is | i 1 | it of his predecessor. vere sf Immigrants now arriving will be expected to contribute at least enough labor to take care of the increasel building necessary to meet their own addition to the demand for housing i facilitie —_———— The simplicity of the scene in which Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office is in accordance with the most im- pressive traditions of American his- tory. ——— Lenin's illness, like his tenure of office, is of the lingering variety. ———— Suspension of Business. Suspension of private business in the District during the very solemn hours of this mourning time will con- stitute a devoted manifestation of the depth to which the people of the Cap- ital have been touched. The Com- missioners yesterday called upon the owners of places of private business to close stores and markets today “during the time that the body of the late President is being moved from Union station to the White House, namely from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., and on Wednesday during the time that the funeral cortege is moving from the ‘White House to the Capitol, namely from 10 am. to 12 m.” There is no doubt that the call will be answered with practical unanimity by the busi- is little doubt that this action would have been generally taken even though no suggestion had come from the executives of the District gov- ernment. That part of the Commissioners’ call relating to the closing of Dlaces of business today was written when the funeral train was not many minutes behind its schedule and when it was helieved that it would reach Wash- ington at 1:30 p.m. Further time has been lost by the special bearing the remains of the late Président, and this is due to the request of the widow. that the traln not run faster than THE EVENING STAR, WA'S’HINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1923. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE fifty miles an hour and that it slacken its speed to a slow pace in passing through villages and towns where crowds of people have come to stand mute and uncovered while the train goes by. Now it is assured that the funeral train will not reach Union sta- tion until late tonight, so that there will be no opportunity for the mer- chants to attest to tHeir sorrow by closing their stores. Tomorrow dur- ing the removal of the remains from the White House to the Capitol and during the obsequies in the rotunda there will be a general suspension of business and the capital of the United States will be silent. ————— Children and Flowers. hildren of the District are to lay a carpet of flowers on the Avenue | Defore the District buillding tomorrow. It is to be a tribute of love from the little folk of the Capital and it will be an impressive figure in the sad procession from the White House to the Capitol. In the mat of flowers the children will lay a cross of yellow blooms—a golden cross—and the boys and girls as the cortege passes will sing the sweet old hymn, “Nearer, My God, to The Details for this solemnities have by the District playgrounds department and the children will come from the sixty playgrounds of Washington. The: are to meet at their playgrounds and busses and perhaps other cars loaned by companies and individuals will carry them to the District building. It will be an effective and affecting scene. It will make a mark in the memory of every child that will last through life. Each child, grown old, | will tell from time to time that *I strewed flowers in the path of the funeral of President Harding. That was long ago. It was in the summer of 1923 And now we come to the question | of flowers. This is not a time of | such floral riches as we have in May | and June, but the flowers of late ! summer are a-bloom. Washington not the city of gardens it was once upon a time and many children may have trouble in getting blossoms for their flower carpet and the cross over | which the funeral will pass. Elders can help in this and the suburbs,where flower gardens still smile in color, can make their contribution. Ever garden and every blooming bush wil be sorrowfully happy to give its flow- | ers for the carpet and the cros: feature of the been made a i ! —————————— “ine scientific work the Department of Agricuiture in teach- ing the farmer how to grow things is not as much appreciated as it would be if accompanied by equally reliable suggestions on how to sell them, by —_——————— Cuba wants a lottery. One of the embarrassments Cuba has caused is due to an assumption that its proper mission is that of showing friend Uncle Sam a touch of sporting life. Members of nobility are said to be seeking positions as domestics. The servant problem is already difficult without being complicated by ques- tions of soctal precedence. A few of the presidential possibili- ties have at least demonstrated quali- fication in advance by showing ability to endure all kinds of rough criticism. History would be different if Ger- man statesmanship had been as desir- ous of keeping out of war as it now is of keeping out of an argument. Berlin resists all temptation interrupt an exceedingly interesting chat between France and England. to SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Sacrifice. | e give you fame,” the people said. “We give you power; and but ask By your discretion to be led Yours is & well rewarded task!” His head the bowed. He faced, while others went their ways, The jeering of the idle crowd, Or Insincerity’s dull praise, great man humbly { | | | Lonely amid the throng, yet brave, He toiled, that men might live and learn— They never knew how much he gave, Asking sp little in return! Reciprocity Between Hemispheres. “Columbus came from the old world to put America on the map.” “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “And now America is expected to re- turn the favor and see If it can’t do something to prevent Europe from sliding off the map.” i ! Jud Tunkins says a man who doesn’t like dogs is generally the kind of man that a dog won't have any- thing to do with. Shock. “I never go sea bathing.” remarked the hypochondriac. “I'm afraid of the shock.” “Do you refer,” Cayenne, “to the cold costumes on the beach? inquired Miss ater or the Mysteries of Credit. A man whose credit is n. &. Is sure to pine and fret; With too much credit, soon he’ll be In grief because of debt. Community Morals. “There have been a great many arrests in Crimson Gulch.” es,” replied Cactus Joe. “We can’t make up our minds whether the Gulch is getting worse, or whether bootleg liquor is stupefying the law- less element and making it easier to come up with. The Joiners. In_ curiosity we turn To hear each novel shout, And keep on joining things to learn Just what they're all about. “When a man gits his own wey completely,” said Uncle Eben, ‘“he’s liable to turn around and blame some- body foh not tippin’ him off befo’ he made a few bad mistakes.” but i has [gan with McKinley and has been at | mon lite is most praiseworth Prosident Coolldge abhors red tape, but sometimes goes in for white tape—tho adhesive variety, which surgeons prescribe ‘and athletes use. This observer once was an ear- witness of a luncheon table conver- sation in which Mr. Harding and Mr. Coolidge participated. The President arrived late because of a hand- shaking bee at the White House. He was proud of having made a record— 2,000 patriots greeted in a fraction more than thirty minutes. Mr. Hard- ing complained of the wear and tear | on his right hand. “Coolidge.” he said, turning to the Vice President, “you must have had to do a bit of hand-shaking yourself in Mass husetts. How' did you stand it Then the man who now faces the ordeals of the White House replied: “Before 1 tackle a crowd 1 usually bind some surgical tape around the palm.” Mr. Coolidge claimed the de- vice was extremely effective. * %k x % Probably never in the history Ereat governments was there stranger spectacie than now is en- acted, day and night, in the long srridor of the Willard Hotel's third floor. There the seat this mighty republic of the United States for the nonce is established. King Haakon of Norwayv remarked to Theodore Roosevelt at Chris- tlania: am only a president for life; you wero a king for nearly ight ‘vears” Royalty would marvel at the supermanifestation of democ- racy the Willard presents. The life of a great hotel tiking its normal | course s and egress unre stricted sentries, guards or policemen in sight. Elevators land- ing passengers on the “White House floor” without question. Waiters, tray laden. rendering “room service to “ordinary guests. Chambermalds, key-jangling, ‘about their business. The_doors of a dozen rooms flung widé open, revealing humming type writers and clicking telegraph in- struments. Newspaper men_ in squadrons. Private secretary of the President scurrying in and out of presidential suite, inexhaustibly pa- tlent with buttonholers. Secret serv- ice men, ved, alert, some_of them, like Murphy, 'Miles Me- Cahill and “Jack" . now guard- ing their fourth President in suc- cession—here, there and everywhere, always unobtrusive. An idler or It is America. s of a of power in i two, Rudolph For: executive clerk | at the White H3use, inaugurates his career under the sixth President he served throughout a continuous period of twenty-six years. He be- er, the elbow of all chief nmm-n—ausl since—Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Hard- | ing and now Coolidge. His memoirs, if ever he's tempted to inscribe them, ought to be priceless. What Forster doesn’t know ahout prestdential pro- cedure and White House practice isn't worth knowing. Through his hands, from year to year, pass tho sands of the President's letters. | early every commission for public of- | fice crosses Forster's desk. He sees countless callers, serving as buffer —— .. Comietien) CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS The President of the United States| is often likened to a king, !wcausel of his very great and even more than | royal power. But no modern king carries the personal load that is put| upon a United States chief maglstrate, for the American President, unlike a king, not only names his premier and the entire cabinet, but he directs| the governmental policies, a task carried on by the premler In coun- tries of kings. % . History Indicates that the founders of the country had no such conception of the presidency as has developed in the last century. The strain has been cumulative, and more than one senator now intimates that the prob- lem how to relieve that strain will be given serlous consideration. Sen- ator Edge of New Jersey say 5 is criminal for the public to exact such a toll.” R w The cables tell of the daily round of King George and Queen Mary, which often includes visits to the poorer homes, and a friendly but nevertheless condescending interest in the small affairs of those homes and their occupants. Only last week, the story of the cables related how the king patted the baby on the head, which so overjoyed the proud parent that they renamed the baby “George, after his royal highness. The queen was_so Interested that she insisted on remaining in the humble home of the poverty-stricken family while she inspected “ever: thing." This royal interest in com- e Sk of the same character as the y kissing” of an American poli- tician. It is distinctively English. The difference is that the king looks down to a level wholly unfamiliar to him, except as he comes in contact through such personal visits. The daily round for the king has not much that is more nerve-tapping than that. Compare such a life with that of a President of the United States— equal to the responsibilities and strain of both king and premier com- bined. not * % k & A President does not spend much time visiting the poor, for he is too busy with the problems of state, and he has no need for such means of ympathetic knowledge of the humble walks of life, since most Pesidents came from such. When President] Coolidge left his father's farm last week, for the Capital, as chief magls- trate, with more than royal hnwor.' he left unfinished the gouging out of | a rotting tree which he had begun,| and which he intended to fill with cement. There was no pose in that.; He saw that the tree needed it, and it was “up to him" to attend fo it, ;s soon as he had finished pitching a; ok ok % Like father, ltke son! The manly independence of the sons of Presi- dent Coolidge, as the one continues to work as a farmhand doing the heaviest kind of work, indicates more than mere assertion what have! Been the principles of that sturdy | New England family. The chance to! Joaf in the White House has no ap- peal whatever for_those fourtern and sixteen vear old bovs. The younger explained that he “wants to make} good, himself, like dad." That is the spirit that will surely make good. And where, but in America, could such a spirit have opportunity for such self-expression? Could a royal prince of England continue to work in overalls and wornout a farmhand, for current even the popular “regu- the Prince of Wales, would dare’try it. nor be permitted to “carry on” like that, “on his own.” * x kX ‘What Président has come to the ‘White House from the 1ap of luxury? Washington was reputed wealthy, but he had tramped as_engineer and fought the Indians. ~The great of | Hughes | the {1s comfortable and has every inten- | London 1 merce, | that th, No. 1 between the outside world and the presidential presence. The Ex- ecutive's secretary is buffer No. 2. Forster was predestined or the diplo- matic service—he can “turn down” a suggestion or a visitor with a smile that annihilates disappointment. * ok kK Senator Magnus Johnson is bring- |ing with him to Washington as pri- vate secretary one of the “brains’ of the Non-Partisan League—Henry | G. Teigan of Minneapolis, Telgan 18 the “Will Hays" of the farmer-labor movement in the northwest, having been its national campalgn manager during the past three or four years. He was the motive power behind the Ladd, Frazier, Shipstead and Johnson fights in North Dakota and Minne- sota. Like Hays, Teigan is of small- ish stature, young, dynamic and of captivating personality, There is nothing of the agitator about him. He was graduated {rom the Va puraiso Normal College, in Indiana, and intended to be a school teacher. but developed a flair for politics. He knows the farming northwest like a book. Teigan to this observer at Minneapolis on the eve of the July clection predicted Johnson's - vietory by 70,000, * ok k% Hughes, special as- sistant to the Attorney General and the oldest surviving official of the Department of Justice—vintage of 1885—tells how he qualified for mem- bership in a famous Washington club, Modestly disclaiming his distinction of being the leading authority on federal jurisdiction and procedure, wondered wh the club, which has rigid qualification rules, took him_ in never could find out,” he explains, “until my proposer recalled how 1 was rescued from a nearly fatal automobil accident on the Rockville pike. The board of governors heard that my wife, daughter and myself, in the absence of an ambulance, had been hurried to hospital in an empty hearse that happened to be passing. As probabl. the only man who ever lived to pay for his own ride in a hearse the club thought that was ‘distinction enough’ and elected me. ok ox % Sir Auckland Geddes is spending a quiet and restful summer at Christchurch, near Bournemouth, on salubrious west coast of Eng- His subordinates at the British y in Washington hear that he William J. land. emb tion of returning United State autumn. Reports have arrived from that Geddes would retire. But the embassy is without any sub- etantiation of them. * % ok ¥ to his post intended. the the A Calvin Coolidge without interest at ical shouting sional relief: 'We have had too much legi by clamor. by tumult, by Representative government ceaxes when outside influence of any kind | is substituted for the judgment of the representative.” aphorism not this hour of rad- for drastic congres- (Copyright, 1923.) America have risen from rail splitters and farmers rather than from castled ancestry. * ok % ox It may have been only a coinci- dence that the first official report made to President Coolidge came from the Department of Labor, giving as- | surance that labor was tranquil and | that there wou'd be no coal strike. It | is generally said that President Cool- | tdge owes his ascendan to the rank of Vice President to his action against | a strike—the Boston police—and | therefore labor Is supposed to be in | fear of his attitude now concerning its organized efforts. President Gom- pers was an early caller to assure the | President of the support of the Amer- | fcan Federation of Labor in all t makes for the good of the nation and its people % o % Sir Conan Doyle announces that he | has no time now to write fiction. “My only concern.” he adds, “is advancing the principles of spiritualism.” There are folks who would construe the two Statements as self-contradictory. Sir Conan gave promise of becoming a first-class fictionist. Is he not keep- ing promis Why do churche “hoot.” as he charges, when he is not Scotch? Hoot, mon, will ye tell why? ek The prophets of pessimism are prone to sigh when they look at the building actlvities all over the country, and to say they will not buy a home until prices drop. Of course, they assume that present prices being abnormal and the present building craze, being also abnormal and much “overdone,” there is going to be an early reaction and slump, so they will wait and take advantage of the fall in costs. It was shown a few days ago, by a report from the Department of Com- that in spite of the alleged building boom the new homes built in the last five vears, since the armi-| stice, are not equal to the number of families of the increased population. Builders have not begun to make any headway in the home shortage due to suspension of operations during the war. ok Reports of the lumber interests reach- ing the National Lumber Manufactur- ers’ Association last week, from 399 of the largest sawmills in the country show that the lumber movement during the preceding week was ‘“considerably larger than for the corresponding week of 19227 There were 263 mills belonging to the Southern Pine and the West Coast Lumbermen’s associations ~ which _re- ported their unfilled orders to be 548,- 402,500 feet. * * ok ok Other building materials are reported ecqually active. Wages of building me- chanics show not the slightest tend- ency to reduce, but, on the contrary, they are being pushed upward in many places. Skilled mechanics are demand- ing the privilege of working overtime, ‘' may earn in excess of $100 a week: This does not prove an indl- cation of an early slump in the cost of homes, nor in the need for more homes to be built. * X X ¥ Among the causes for the building de- mand, aside from the effect of the war, is the outspreading of suburban re- gions, made possible by the automobile. This relieves the congested downtown parts of cities, but the increasing pop- ulation has prevented general appre- clation of that relief. Another influence Is the trend of the rural population to the cities. The ! cities are growing out of proportion to the entire country. A third influence—affecting wages—is that the farmers coming to the cities are not skilled builders or other skilled mechanics, hence they do not swell the supply of carpenters, bricklayers, plumbers, etc. On the other hand, there has been a loss to the ranks of builders through the high wages of mechanics on automobiles. Also the unions have put such restrictions on apprentices that mechanics are becoming scarce through natural causes, | The man who continues to rent, while | walting for the cost of homes to come back to pre-war figures, may be priv- ileged to take one more guess; he wi have time to think it over, according to many who are close to the building tion. S oRrnt 1938, by 2 e Goliasd {beginning of my journe v {child-interest had centered. l NEW BOOKS AT RANDCM THE HAWKEYE. Horbert Quick. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. When I was a youngster the Erle canal was what a canal ought to be—a straight waterway fitted up with a good towpath for the use of those masterful boys who captained the craft of this luring highway. To be sure, pairs of mules, one or more, tugged at the boats by way of the blg cables that now pulled taut and now dipped low in time to their plodding feet. And, to be sure, less looking men {dled against the tillers and certain other men answered to the name of “captain.” But all these, to me, were mere tools in the kits of those lordly boys who, In some strange competency, were able to walk the earth and all the seas at one and the same time. Enviable boys! Free to come and go—or so it seemed to me— barefooted, barehcaded and other- wise bare, too, save for a tolerant Kesture toward covering to satisfy what overnice folks called ‘de- ceney: Those boys of the towpath moved in and took possession of me. They ordered my play in the pattern of their work. They ghaped my dreams. Some day I'd be a canal driver—by Christopher, I would! From the start the case was hoveless. I was an in- curable landlubber. Even these bright visions of my future were gathered from the seat of the “dimo- rat. where, wedged in between Erandfather A grandmother, 3 dangled impatient legs and wriggled \ uneasy back—in part, I admit. to VAR a bit mo seat space for myseif, but, far larger part, th w the wrigglings and squirmings of desire toward the adventure of a carcer on the towpath. Eventful journeys, those, from the old to the village four miles away, big and splendid place—or =0 #eemed to me. For, in between, rol ¢d the Seneca river, lapping hungr wise, T feit. asx the loose bridge- planks rose and fell under the clump- ing hoofs of good “old Sall.” And, in between, lay the magic canal, old Erie, the object of my early passion wnd desire. By and by T grew up and went to work and moved away. The little village of Weedsport, perched on the ®outh bank of the canal. the river of lovely name to the north of it even the enchanting canal itself, dropped down into the place where half-forgotten things lie. True, ru- mors now and then caught up with me. Did T know t Weedsport had grown stuck-up and citificd, that un- der the spell of gasoline and elec- tricity it was. too, running round nd round after its own tail like the rest of the world? The “big Seneca” Huh! The “Lig Seneca” was no more than a sy ling drift spreading pondlike here and there along its idiing way. rely 1 must have heard about the canal scandal—bri- ber; graft, robbery, gri ng taxes— all in the name of making a modern waterway out of “old Erfe” And deep-down, the old memories dozed and turned slowly over—the canal, the boys. the boats, me-and cams. the glory of the towpath, the shining way of the young canal- driver. it S ke x One the dut day—on instead of in path of desire—I picked andemark’'s Folly For some reason, or for no reason. I was at the moment in the grip of a grouch dusty road of delectable up a bogk some {that old Jeremiah would have turned to blasting prose or blighting song. But, as for me, I could only grumble at a writer who would select poor Vandemark for his folly, In a world where all men are fools. So, Indif- ferently, one gathers flying views speeding train. What's that? Who's this talking about the Erie canal. the Erie, telling of the pleasant life along it way? The new places * "¢ the slow progress with time to pick up the country, plodding along behind the mules * * * Weeds ort * ¢ = Montezuma mars * Clyde * * Lockport, where hoats have to climb the water hilis of old Erie. Who's talking? Who is this fellow? And, right here, 1 came face to face with Jakey Vandemark, canal boy. He looked straight at me —and 1 passed muster. Y’ com’long 'f ¥’ wantta.” 1T did wantta, nd 1 did com’long. That was the ¥ with J. T. ndemark, a journey that brought to life the boy-davs so filled with dream. brought back, all alive, the old Erie in its every feature and be- havior and in ite thousand appeals to my voung desire—a beloved old way- mark around which so much of my The full truth ahout this, the vividness of it all even. to the least detail, +the fragrant reminiscent atmosphere of the whole—these stood to me as the credentials of Jakey Vandemark. a certification that twhatever he had to deliver he would deliver sound and whole in both its body and spirit. That's why I have staved so long right here—to make you feel, as 1 feel, the lovely truth of the whole matter. And =0 I went along with young Vandemark. finally away from from - a {the canal and out along the pioneer jtrail, in_ploneer fashion, to the new land of Toway. There we found Van- demark’s “folly”"—a homestead that was just a slew, wished onto Jakey by aland shark of the day. But no- hody could down J. T. Vandemark. You read about it. You will see. 1 saw and, meantime, found myself deep In the interests of the ploneer life of the Hawkeye community. * %K % One day, Jake said to me, vou next to Herbert Quick. He knows this country from the ground, both down and up. As a matter of fact, Toway has actually got into the blood of the fellow. He'll tell you a lot of things about us and you can bank on every T bet he'll tell you all about Freem McConkey''—*John Charles Fremont McConkey.” corrected J. T.. ndly smile. And that's the upon Herbert Quick—a clear throwback to the days before conven- tional history on the one hand, or the history of modern scientific method on the ofher, had squeezed the life out of human beings in their natural and mo- mentous human behaviors. In days when_poets and singers were the hi tory books Herbert Quick might then have been a bard. going from place to place with tales of heroism to inspire his countrymen with a decper love for their homeland, With a greater pride in its high honor. If this be too fanciful and you throw it out on that account, vou will have to let the fact stand that he has, indisputably, caught the classic import of the pioneer period of the far west, and that, in a simplicity that would be austére if It were not so homely, he has imparted to that perlod its full classic content of form and eignificance and effect. Yet this is the plain tale of American pioneers, men and women, who, out of the prairle and diverse racial strains and widely different old-home sections, are fash- ioning, slowly, the beginnings of one of the great American commonwealths. The point of general convergence here is the life of Fremont McConkey—just a boy of the Hawkeye state. His growth, like that of all boys, comes through work and play and love. Much reading gets this particular boy a little apart. Dreaming as poets dream, he spreads the beauty of the prairies out in a pas- sion of. revelation that opens them anew %o the reader. The political jsmé that crossed and recrossed the new common- Wealth_battered him about as they 8o often did his elders. Towns grew and clashed and_grew on in renewed vigor. ‘And ‘the “Hawkeve,” Fremont McCon- key, embodies much of all this, any very much of universal human stuff be- sides. I'm going to hold ‘““Vandemark's Folly” and “The Hawkeye" together. Then, when from time to time I want to refresh myself with a true and beautl- ful picture of a single pioneer out- faring, I'll take them apart and go over h i re of the scope and qual- g NS farm | 1 leafed the book, catching | words and phrases here and there as | cn| T get ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS By Frederic J. Haskin Q. favorite flower?—F. N. A. The White House says that the late President had no favorits flow- er. He was very fond of flowers and used all kinds thaj were in the White House conservatories. Q. Did President any books?—K. L. C. A. Aside from his published speeches, the only one credited to him in the Library of Congress is “Our Common Country—Mutual Good Will in America,” published in 1921. Q. Is all of the Freer collection on exhibition?—J. G. R. A. The entire collection is not dis- played at the same time. Mr. Freer thought 1t better to exhibit fewer things and display them well. -« Q@ What is the meaning of the term dog days?—J. F. K. A. Dog days comprise the hot, Sultry geason of summer during parts of July and August; so-called from the fact that the rising of the dog star Sirfus. the brightest star in “the heavens, is coincident with the rising of the sun. The ancients thought fhis conjunction caused the intense heat of summer and the mal- adies which then prevailed, hence the popular supposition that dogs are specially liable to go mad at this sea- son. It was by mere accident that the rising of the star coincided with the hottest season of the vear in the times and countries of the old as- tronomers. Its rising depends on the latitude of the place and is later and later every vear in all lati- tudes. owing to precession. In time the star may rise in the dead of win- ter. Ohvicusl is variation in the limits of the dog davs. although they are usually connted from July 3 to August 11—that is. twenty davs before and twenty days after the riging in unikon of the dog star and the sun. The date given bv Roger Lang as the beginning of dog days in about 735 A. D. is July 14 Q. Who discovered that finger prints had ind{viduality?—F. R. B. A. The taking of finger prints ie known to have been practiced in the £ast at a very early period w thumb prints wers a monarch's sign man The permanent character of |thumb prints was first put forward sclentificallv fn 1823 b: E. Pur- kinje. a professor of phvsiology, who read per hefore of Breslau advocating a system of classification. His_work was taken up by Bewlick, an Ernglish drafteman. who made a numhcr of impressions, #nd later by Sir Francis Galton ard William™ Herschel What does Harding write | ienandoah mean?— on is daugh- valley which name is famous in Ameri- can history as a hattle ground of the French and Tndian wars; as a from which Daniel Morg operations against the Beitish in t revolut and later as highly stra- tegic territory in the civil war. One town in the valley—Winchester—is said to have changed hands sevent two times duringz the civil war Q. When did Sousa rine Band’—T. E. B A. John Philip Sousa |leader of the United [Band July 30. 1592, H, pointed principal musici 1850 Q. From what part of the country | does the east receive the bulk of its timber supply?—K. F. N. A. From the south and far west. In {a recent booklet the forest service, United States Department of Agricul ture, shows that the lumber ind leave the Ma- retired as had been ap- n October 1 German Intri | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. While Great Britain has been con- centrating her attention on the trigues of Dbolshevist Russia in Afghanistan at the very northern gateway of her vast Indian empire, vnder the impression that the Moscow soviets were her only enemles in that part of the world, which has been the scene of so many of her frontler wars during the past cen- tury, she seems to have entirely lost sight of the activities of - Germany in Afghanistan, which do not appear. thus far, to have aroused an tion abroad The appointment. ing the last few weeks, of a German minister plenipoteniary to rep the Berlin government Kab however, led to the somewhat alarm. ing discovery that there are quite a large number of Germans in Afghan- istan working there in various capacities and a number more are on the way. Thus the by which Kabul is German engineer tect fs planning construction of | in- up-to-date electric the metropolitan city of is in charge of A German archi- and directing the the new modern rter of the city in which the new palace of the ameer and all the for- eign legations are being buflt, a perfect army of (erman masons and skilled The organization public_education been, until now plant of the system of in Afghanistan has under French direc- tion.” But a_German named Sebastian Beck, who has, for some time past, Leen' employed by the ameer's gov. ernment as its chief interpreter and as an adviser on European matters, is in_a fair way of ousting the French and securing a German con- trol of the national education. A German medical commission, consist- ing of seven physicians and surgeons in addition to fwo_ woman doctors, has left Berlin, via Moscow, en route for Kabul. where they are to take up their residences, and every effort is being made Berlin to shape the ideas of the ameer and of the states- men of Afghanistan along German lines. 2 In Berlin, indeed, Afghanistan is described, in certain circles, as “New Japan,” and although the Cuno gov- ernment is supposed to be bankrupt and to have no money for the pay- ment of those reparations which she pledged herself, by to pay to the allies, yet she to have plenty of mogey to spend. regardless expense, | ‘urthering her interests in Afghanistan, which, like those of her Russian bolshevik friends, are admittedl hostile to Great Britain. The attitude of the ameer in thus countenancing anti-British intrigue in his dominions is largely due to the fact that England has withdrawn tha very large annual subsidy which she was wont, in days gone by, to pay to the rulers of Afghanistan. X k¥ % Henry A. Daniel, who has just passed .away at his country seat, at Wallingham, was relatively unknown to the general public but a familiar and popular figure in the city of London, where, for over fifty years, as the head of the stock exchange firm of Muyllens, Marshall & Co., he had served broker to the British gov- ernment and broker to the Bank of England. He was a great character in his way, so conservative that he always refused to tout or compete for business, and his adherence to old traditions and to old-fashioned methods causéd him to entertain a perfect horror of typewriters, tele- phones and anything which did away with personal toucl In his own country house and in his London home he would have neither electric lights nor telephon His experience and his integrity endowed his opinions and his judgments with a unique value and his advice was frequently sought by the treasury, by the Bank of England and by the stock exchange committee, for which he always refused any sort of reward or recognition, fadsed, he was re- versity | point | conducted | artisans working under him. ! | | | America would States Marine | | Adrice | Daugherty |and mining compa What was President Harding’s|has constantly shifted toward the west, where three-fifths of the na- tion's remaining supply of saw timber is located. Q. What A A. Luis Angel tinian. Q. What _ color flowers?—C. N. 0. A. Luther Burbank says that more than half of the flowers in the world are red or some chade of red. is Firpo's nationallty?— H 3 Firpo is an Argen- predominates in Q. What {s the highest altitude in the United States at which snakes are found?—J. M. T. A. The oredonus specles of the rat- tlesnake is found on Mount Whitnex. California, at an altitude of 8000 fegt. Q. To whom belongs the credit for the idea of burying an “unknown so'- dier">—A. W. 8 A. When questioned on the rubject in parlfament, Lloyd George did not reveal the name of the man who first suggested the burial of an unknown soldier. It is generally established. however, that the suggestion was made by J. B. Wilson, news editor of a London paper, Q. Ts there 2 camping site for tour- ists at Gettysburg?—J. K. F. A. Hershey Park. two miles west of Gettyshurg, on the Lincoln highway, is a’ camping site with accommoda- tions for 175 cars. Q. Who is conducting a trip to the Holy Land this fall>—U. R. E A. One such cruise i€ planned under the direction of the Holy Land Pil- grim and Tourist Society of America A ship with accommod: for about 1.500 7 gers wiill saii on October 10 for Jaffa, port of Jerusalem the round trip occupying less than two months Q. Does Minnesota have any farm er-labor member of the lower b of Congress?—H. J. T. A. Minnesota elected one far lahor candidate, Knud Wefald Hawley, to the House in 1922 Q. What gems are found tralia?—K. L. A. The principal gem Australia are opals, d pearls, emeralds, zircons, garnets the in Aze turquoise es, and tour- malines’ Q. What became of the cases against the miners and operators out of the 1920 A. On motion of Attorney General the indictments against operators, unio als e reing cor were irned Fet . were dismissed in th district court at Ir Anderson on 226 coal ch r whi ates dianapolis by Judge 28 last. America ever fouzht a wor the sea?—R st war as a nation It was with Franc our friends of the revolution. France offended because she thoug treaty gave advantages whom she had hope engage in war. Th- States ship Constellation a sharp battle, captured the French frigate L'Insurgente. When Napo- leon came into power in 1800 1 brought hostilities to an end. h United ng information are cantioned to ask only questions of fact on legal matters, domestio and financial incestments can- given. Inclose two cents in for return postage. Address letter to the Star Informatio Frederic . n, Direct itol (Persons desir lations not be stamps wou Burean 1220 No gue in Afghanistan A New Cause of Worry for Brit sh puted to have tha consultative business at least on two oc honors by the refused largest unpaid fn the city and asions was offered government which £ Inasmuch as the primate of Sweden, the most Rev. Dr. Soederbloem, former professor of ecclesia: 1 history at the great German Uni of Leipzig, who is on his way to Amerlca, arriving this week, bears the title of Archbishop * of Upsala, it may be just as well to re- call the fact that the latter is the av ient capit of S en. until the sea of government was transferred to Stock- holm. It is at Upsala that Woden or and Frey from whom we de- s the names of Wednesday, Tburs- and Friday, are buri It has been, si the year 1100, the principal archiepiscopal see of Scan- dinavia, the present cathedral dating. however, from 1273, where the rulers of Sweden have aiways been crowned It contains the tomb of King Gus- tavus I, first of the Vasa dynasty, and in the silver shrine, to the right of the altar, are the rellcs of St. Eric, the patron saint of Sweden University of Upsala, of which rchbishop is ex officio the chan cellor, is the most ancient and imy of the northern kingdoms, having b founded 14 by Archbis! ssen. It is celebrated for its among the most highly prized ures of which is the celebrated fou century Gothic manuscript known the “Codex A eus,” itten in go! and silver letters on 18 pages of crimson vellum. This document, the principal source of what scholars know of the ancient Gothic language was brought from Prague in 1648 b Queen Christine's general, Count Koenigsmark. It was carried off from Upsala, under circumstances which have never been cleared up, by royal librarian of Sweden, to Holland, was purchased there by a Swede for a very large sum of money and re- stored by him to the Upsala library. The treasures of the latter were en- riched in the seventeenth century by the contents of a number of oele- brated libraries in Germany and Po- land, picked up as plunder by the Swedish armies in their brilliant cam- paigns, especielly during the thirt vears' war. It fis probable that, many cases. these libraries were saved from a worse fate by being carried off to Sweden as war boot: Not long ago a party of Polish schol- ars visited Upsala for the purpose of studying a number of documents taken from the roval library at Cra- cow by King Charles XII. These con- tained matter of great historical value, and the Poles expressed their profound satisfaction that they had een thus preserved from destruction. Among_the other treasures of the university library is all the corre- spondence, in the original manu- script. of Gustavus III. one of the most brilliant and interesting figures in Swedish history, Who wrested their ill-used power from the nobles by means of a coup d'etat and, in revenge, was assassinated at masked ball at Stockholm, in 1 The letters, mostly in French, King Gustavus III was steeped in French culture, make up over one hundred bound volumes. The library, quite the largest in Scandinavia, re- ceives every scrap of matter printed in Sweden, down to the very theater programs and trade prospectuses, any printer failing to send in a single’ item being lable to fine. * %% versity 0 [l ) Upsala has always been the intel- lectual and spiritual center of Scan- dinavia. For, in quite ancient times. that is to say. in the seventh, elghth and ninth centuries of the Christian era, it was celebrated for its magnifi- cent pagan temple, all gleaming with gold The Lutheran state churches of Scandinavla, uniike those of Germany, have their full fledged episcopal hier- archy and. whereas, Denmark and Norway are content with mere bishops, Sweden has, in addition thereto, an archbishop, namely, the Primate of Upsala, who, by the by, is ex officio chancellor of the univera sity.