Evening Star Newspaper, August 16, 1923, Page 6

6. . THE EVENING STAR, . With Sunday Morning Edition. . WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.....August 16, 1923 e — ' PHEQDORE W. NOYES....... Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvama Ave. ) Ni 110 East 42nd St. aps Offce: Towoer Hnilding. European Office: 18 London, Kogland. The Exening edition, 13 delivered by cartiors with: . At 60 cents per month; daily only, 43 month: Sunday ouly, 20 cents per mont sders may be sent by mail, or tele 000, Collection is made by carricrs ai the fend of cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo. Daily only......... tunday only. All Other States. and Sunda; the city nis per Or- 37.003 1 mo., $1.00; 1 mo.. Associated Press Is_exclusively entitied republication of il news dis- it or nat utherwise credited ! aiso the local news pub: ADl rights of publicaticn of B e Swapping Check-Off: material progress was made ard agreement between the an- thracite operators and miner: day that the chances of a strike in the hard field are lowered to the voint of virtual assurance that mining will be conginued and the public sup- piy maintéfhed. This approach to ‘-agreement was effected by a “swap,” whereby the miners traded off their check-off demands for the practice vithat has long prevailed at the mines "7&f the company check-oil against the wages of the men for rent, drills, in- Sirance premiums, house fuel, taxes, cil, etc. The proposal for this trade came from the union. It was ac- cepted by the operators after a con- sultation which led to a formal letter to the federal to abandon the company check-off, “if now the employes desire a discon- tinuance of the present practice.” The operators, in their letter to the commission, say they are quite willing to write into the wage agreement a Wi h places the business upon a cash basis.” They aver that they have extended credit to the men as an accommodation and had as- sumed that the practice “has never been presented as a grievance.” Nor did the demands presented by the - miners at Atlantic City embody a request to abandon the practice. It immaterial to the ~public whether the trade involves a new factor or not. It may be that the ynion chiefs, finding that their men ave not strong for a strike, particu- tarly on the score of the check-off issue, are glad to find a way to drop that question. It may also be that "the operators are glad to have it dropped and are willing to abandon a practice that is of no particular ad- vantage to them, but, as they say in their letter to the commission, is a convenience to the miners. is The point of importance to the coal-| using public is that the way is.now open for a full agreement upon wages and working conditions without in- volving the question of union recog- nition, directly or indirectly. gratifying that there s such a strong ‘assurance that coal will continue to be mined this fall and winter, The hope is that the new agreement will bel written in terms that will carry on mining for a considerable period . without break or mcnace through the / meed of a renewal of negotlations. “President Coolidge’s action in secur- ing a resumption of the conferences | ~With the Coal Commission as inter-| mediary is the first important step since his accession to office. It 'bhas #tius far met with such success as to vin him the thanks of the people. | it unanswered finanelal question in Germany is what the gov- soernment ever wanted with the im- mense supply of paper marks. It is rue that revenue was derived from people who purchased them on specu- ~“fation. But this phase of the trans- action would cause it to resemble the tablishmeht of a lottery which sold s#ickets but gave no prizes, and must, in cpurtesy, be regarded as inadver- tent. # The igreat 3 ——— Frequent references to the wealth of this country make it scem possible “that Uncle Sam is regarded by sev- eral nations as the very one to as- __sume the role of financial backer. ———— Another war is predicted for Europe BT the theory, perhaps, that no kind of trouble is too great to be feared fyom present circumstances, ———— g The Gasoline War. “Tt is noteasy for the public to un- fcstand all the angles of the gasoline price-cutting war. ‘The belfef is gen- g@l that gasoline has been selling at 06 high a price and the American -Htomobile Association and the Na- tignal Motorists' Assoclation an- Tounced a few days ago that “steps would be taken toward obtalhing a reduction in the exorbitant prices of —#asoline.” The opening of hostilities éame when Gov. McMasters of South Dakota cut the price of gasoline owned and stored by the state and which presumably had been bought from , independent producers. The sunder Oil Company operating in _that territory met the reduction, but made the statement that the price Star, with the Sunday moraiug | commission agreeing | It e} ing trouble since the war. Oll statis- ticians have repeatedly made the statement that production exceeds consumption. The slight reduction on | the Atlantic coast is perhaps the first move of the Standard ih forestalling competition of jobbers who might ship cast low-price gasolire from the west. That the several Standard Oll com- panies which resulted from the “‘dis- solution™ of the old Standard Oil Com- pany have been and are making money is shown by financial state. ments and the market price of thelr stocks, which generally are selling far above a price warranted by their reg. ular dividends plus security. It is the frequency of extra disbursements to stockholders which gives them this market value, It will do no good to go into the old quarrels between the pullic and the Standard Oil. The main thing to for gasoline and then to determine how we can buy it at that price. One drop for a month or two, that hun- dreds or thousands of little inde- |nemlen( producers will Le put out of | business and that then prices will soar higher than ever. The most con- servative people in the east are tired of “soaring™ prices and they belleve that the government should find some way of preventing so much “soaring.” ——— United States and Mexico. approaching an accord. Special rep- reseniatives of the Presidents of the two countries have concluded their conferences in Mexico City aud the records will be transmitted to their | chiefs. | While recognition of the Mexican | goverssent by the United States is not vet an zccomplished fact, it is now expected, Claims conventions re- lating to guarantees for American rights in Mexico and to damages done to American-owned property in Mex- 1o and done to Mexican property dur- ing the occupation of Vera Cruz and the Pershing punitive expedition into Mexico have been tentatively drafted. It is generally assumed that Amert- can rights have been protected in the proposals. This government has as- serted in unequivocal terms that such protection is a sine qua non to rec- ognition of the Mexican government. The prospect of an amicable settle- ment of the differences between ‘this government and the Mexican govern- ment at the outset of President Cool- 1dge's administration is heartening. The negotiations have been under way, of course, for a long time, with the late President Harding and Sec- retary Hughes handling them. An amicable accord between the United States and Mexico, with the resump- { tion of dipiomatic relations, should go far to improve already pleasant rela- { tions with Latin America. With the resumption of diplomatic relations between this country and Mexico, provided it follows the nego- tiations now concluded, and with the resumption of similar relations be- tween this country and Turkey, pro- vided the treaty of Lausanne is rati- fied, the United States will be on friendly terms with all the govern- ments of the world, with the excep- tion of Boviet Russia. | The United States has withheld rec- ognition of the Mexican goverament since President Carranza of Mexico was killed in the spring of 1920. Un- stable conditions, the refusal of Mex- jco to guarantee American rights under the agrarian laws and those re- lating to subsoil petroleum have been the stumbling blocks. The revolu- tionary period in Mexico, with fre- -auent overthrow of governments, con- tinued for more than a decade. It has been the hope of the United States that, not only would the Mexicans succeed in establishing a stable gov- ernment, but also that.the govern- ment of the southern republic would see the justice of the claims of this country. These hopes, it is believed, bave been and will be consummated. ————— A newly elected member of the United States Senate is justified in demanding plenty of time for secluded meditation when his constituents elect him with the expectation that he will find an authoritative method of regu- lating the price of wheat at home and in the markets of the world. ———— Republicans agree that Calvin Cool- idge is going to make a good Presi- dent. This implies that each influen- tlal member of the G. O. P. Is, in the absence of explicit informatien to the contrary, hopeful that the new Execu- ive's views will coincide with his own. The United States and Mexico are | | ! Wail street opinion is that prices will | to refuse visas | The check-off system occasionally tempts an industrial concern to inti- mate that the workingmen organiz- ing in opposition to the rules of the establishment ought at least to be will- ing to attend to their own accounts and collections. Popular criticism divides much of its attention between the middleman and the man higher up. For France the road to the Ruhr remains strictly a one-way thorough- tare. s A Ellis Island. Severe criticism® of the conditions at Ellis Island, the principal gateway into America for European emigrants, 1s expressed by the British ambassa- dor to the United States in a speclal report to the foreign secretary. Last Wwas below the cost of production and distribution. That is an anclent state. ment and in a famous history of the «~Standard Oil which was widely read J4bout twenty years ago it was written “fhat the Standard Oil Company often sold kerosene and other ofls at a g¥s to rwin competitors and,, after srnining them, would put up the price high enough to regain the loss sus- Aalned in the operation. « ~{The price war rapigé South Dakota and ig the west. We ay its effect .Company nounce, spread from general over jing to feel dard Oil Bas an- he price fersey,’ conts -3 December Ambassador Geddes visited Ellis Island and studied its capacity for the proper accommodation of ap- plicants for admission to the United States. Now his report Is lssued as 8 parliamentary paper and it comes with a somewhat of a shock ta Amer- ican pride that it has been necessary for & forelgn government, through its representative at this Capital, to point out deficiencies and inadequacies In our equipment. According to the British ambassa- dar, thorough repairs of existing buildipgs are necessary and provision of better detention quarters and bet- ter facilities for medical examinations are required. He urges also the bulld- ing of a new station for immigrants requiring kosher food or the retention ${-ilis Island es such a station, other pmigrants being accommodated else- he: He proposes further a new jadmission to the United States, THE . EVENING -8TAR, WASHINGTON, D, C, THURSDAY conclusion Sir Auckland Geddes says that what Ellis Island needs “is to be relieved of the presence of about one-half of the people who are poured into it.” it Ellis Island has been the subject of urleasiness and distress for a long time, It is obviously outgrown as an immigrant station. Conditions there have been such as to arouse the in- dignation of many visitors, whose ppo- teets, however, have never been heed ed to the extent of a thoroughgoing reclamation. Now comes this com- ment from one of the accredited rep- resentatives of a forcign government, with an indictment of the place that must be heeded. Ambassador Geddes does 1ot confine himself to observations regarding the physical equipment of Ellis Island. He goes to the source of the trouble and suggests that the great tide of do is to determine what is a fair price j migration should be in some measure checked at the source, proposing that American consuls be authorized to would-be immi- grants who would be obviously re- jected at Eilis Island, and urges the conclusion of arrangements for final approval or disapproval of prospective Immigrants in their home lands. It is well to have this searching survey of conditions at the point where applicants for admission are mainly recetved and from which those who are admitted must inevitably gain their first impressions of Amer- ica. Tt cannot be said that it is not our business to prevent those who are unsuited and ineligible from start ing toward these shores. It in truth, our business to check the stream at the other side. Inasmuch as visas ave required for all who seek the granting of those visas should be dis- ecriminating, in a measure, to keep away those who cannot possibly be admitted, to save them the expense of a fruitless voyage and the pain of detention and rejection. ————— When he finds time to read the spec ulation as to his intentions, President Coolidge will find a large and inter- esting list of things he can say if he happens to feel so inclined. o —————— It may be assumed that aff: have to quiet down very much in Ber- lin before various members of the Hohenzollern family are genulnely anxious to hold office again. s will In the excitement of a shortage of coal the ultimate sumer never thinks of mentioning a little thing like the large price per ton demanded. probable con- Germany has not neglected any ef- fort to render her problems so intr cately interesting as to fascinate the expert statesmanship of the world. Mention of President Coolidge as the probable G. O. P. candidate for 1924 is a natural,perquisite of his pres- ent position. The influence of public opinion is great, but England and France have not been successful in deyeloping the same kind. Europe, while glad the war is over. is not confident in fixing the date of the beginning of positive peace. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHN! Thoughts and Words. He hadn’t anything to say. Though other people raised A mighty din from day to day, His thoughts he seldom phrased. His friends would sometimes stand in fear That he would he forgot. They said his silence must seem queer, Because -he knows a lot, The mighty din on every hand Voiced sentiments so free That many couldn't understand Just what their sense might be. He hadn't anything to say, Excepting now and then. But when he spoke he showed a way To help his fellow men. The speaker whom but few will heed Must magnify his tone. ‘The real thinker does not need To use a megaphone. Improving. the Fleeting Hours, “So you are going to get out and cultivate the friendship of the farmer?” ““Yes,” veplied Senator Sorghum. ! “They're inclined to listen to what I say and the forecasters are busy. 1! don’t claim to be any agricultural ex- pert. But T know enough to take straw votes when the sun shines.” Jud Tunkins says & man who says he wishes he were a boy again always thinks ‘abeut the swimming hole and the ball ground instead of the school- house. The Economy Quest. “Gasaline is cheap in Oklahoma.” “Yes,” replied Mr. Chuggins. “But by the time we crossed the Mississippi river we'd read about something get- ting cheap around here, and the first thing we.knew we'd spend our lives pushing the old filvver all over the| map trying to economize.” The Tired Business Man. If a great millionaire is inclined to despair His friends will soon lighten the gloom— Though it may be no more than a transient affair, : He can have a political boom, Literary Comparison. 1 l CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS There was a very kind and sym- pathetic man, who wanted to fallow the dictates of fashion. He owned a dog, whose tail was unfashionably 1gng. He thought to standardize that caudal. appendage, but, being kind and sympathetic, he refuled to be too sudden and drastic; he reduced“it one Inch at a time. The canine was thé public of the District of Columbia. If the Standard Oil Company had not been so kiid and sympathetic it might have caused heart failure by Texanizing the price of gas all at once. Or it might have transported us all out to the Dakotas and sold us gas at 15% cents, instead of 22 cents—carbon thrown in: but now the kind and sympathetic “SOC” cuts off the extortionate rate one lone cent—or promises to do so0. Any- body can afford to ride then. ~The cent will buy a postal card to send thanks. * ok ko It is rumored that President Cool- idge Is preparing a series of speeches for a swing around the circle, and that he gets up early to rehearse them. A day or two ago he “swung around the circle"—Thomas Clrele—in an automoblle and, although accom- panied by his friend, Mr. Stearns, and secret service men, he had time to rehearse his entire oration. It consisted of four words: “Up Four- teenth. Home, Jeems!” 1 In comparison, what a was the Egyptian Sphinx! Attention Is called to the known {fact that the Egyptian Sphinx is jliterally embedded in “sand.” | * % ok » In the Bill of Rights recognized by the United States Constitution (sec tion x, clause 8), ft Is expressly pro- vided that the Cabots are illegal. It q. “No title of nobility shall be granted_by the United States. WhenEdward Prince of Wales was Philadelphia, he betrayed his in- sularity by bluntly asking, “What's a Biddle? but he was never %o be- nighted as to require a Cabot to be tagged. chatterbox tin &% the hen which laid the which Columbus stood on end—even before the mother of that hen had cackled—there were Cabots in Back Bay, next door to the old Lowell family, and now here come these -upstarts, Kabotchnicks, with the audacity to want to make a nick in their names and be—would you be- lieve It*—Kabots! * Before tresh esg T Go to Europe, and one can buy titles to dukedoms. At fargain prices one may become a prince. But come to the lund where all men are created equal, and have the effrontery to be- by law. a Kabot, “these Kabotschnicks are trying to be at shows how the proletariat are preparing to revolutionize America. It not merely “boring from with- in"—Iit is the awfplest bore that was ever attempted—in all directions. There are plenty of other names. Why can’t they be satisfied to use the other end of their name, and be call- ed Nick, for short? They might be confused with Old Nick, but that would not be so bad as belng mixed Old Nieck with the original Cabots. * oK ok % When the aforesaid Harry Kabot- schnick and Myrtle Kabetschnick un- dertook to have the court amputate the tails of their name, all the Cabots arose in righteous indignation, and asked for an injunction, lest serlous and Irreparable injury be done to their noble ancestry. Kabots today, and Cabots tomorrow. Thus do climb. ers ascend. “Cabots and Kings” must and shall be protected, under the ad- ministration of the w gland FPresident, though it will constitutional amendment. * % k¥ Bu robbed the Gern bassy of 10,008 worth of liquors last Monday, and also broke into lars | wine and drank them. up with aristocratic Cabots, would it?| a_parvenu as compared | require auire a|jiged to recognize “hoveri n em-| the ! Venesuelan legation, but were fright- ened away from the latter. If the wretchen are so desperate as that, it will be necessary to change the com- bination on our coal bins as soon as cool weather approaches. Nothing precious is safe. * K kK One square inch of crinkled and faded paper sold at auction last Tues- day evening at the Shorsham Hotel for $560. It was a postage stamp of British Gulana, issued in 1856 and used to carry a letter. It had cost its orlginal “owner ¢ cents and, being canceled, had fulfilled its mission in the worid. Yet it was listed in the catalogues as worth 34,000 and might have brought nearly that sum, even among dealers, if tiny bits of its cor- ners had not been trimmed, and it had not been wrinkled. * Kk ok * Five hundred and sixty dollars! From a utilitarian standpoint, as use- less us a second-hand cigarette paper upon a guttersnipe. From the stand- point of historlc information, no more Interesting nor informative. It con- tained a bit of picture—worthless to art—printed in faded blue ink, more or less soiled. It was doubtless cov- ered with Insanitary germs. The price actually pald would have kept alive for years some starveling in Europe or the orient. %% The price of a wrinkle and three or four bits of blank paper as large as one of the types of this printed page is measured by the difference between $4,000 and $560. Could ab- surdity go farther? That difference would buy a good automobile, or finance a trip to Europe, or educate an art gtudent abroad, or support a missionary for several years, or put several aged men or women in “homes” for their declining days. * o ox % ‘But, after all, what has been done? Nothing has been destroyed. There Is as much gold and precious stones, also food and clothing, in. the world as before that sale. Certain sums of money have traveled from one pocket to another, but the money still exists and retains its ability to finance all the meritorious enterprises hinted above. The extravagance of the rich, how- soever foolish, Is no hardship on the poor, so long as that extravagance sfmply releases wealth from hoard- ings to put it into circulation. It is @ crime against society only when it destroys the products of labor—not when it releases possession to others. * % ok % Cleopatra dissolved pearis in her Pearls are but ornaments, and the more she drank the more profitable was the labor of divers after the rare gems. But if Cleopatra or some modern war lord devastates the orchards of an in- vaded country, or if an incendlary de- stroys elevators laden with millions of bushels of grain, something {5 de- stroyed whose 10ss adds to the strug- gles for life. That is wicked. Canceled stamps are more useless than pearls. Spending money for canceled postage stamps is not wick- ed. It puts money into ecircula- tion. It may be a joy-ride for the dollars. Joy go with it * % % % Nobedy who is married is requircd to accept verbal abuse from his rela- tives-in-law. A wife who is driven from home by the tirades of her mother-in-law” may sue her husband for desertion—constructive desersion Leing his failure to provide for ker a peaceful home. That is one late ruling of a learned fudge. We must have peace if we have to marry for it. Here is another: A ship which “Bovers” outside of the threa- 1imit, yvet aids or abets the trafii illicit Tiquor, with agents or dealers on shore, may be captured and con- fiscated,.and internationa international crime, Looks as though the war wh was fought to make the world for democracy had not been fought in vain. (Copyright. 1928, by Paul V. Coliins.) President Coolidge Now Holds Center of the Stage briefly the nation mourned, has once more Politics, swept aside while assumed the center of the stage. Naturally there is spoculation con- cerning President Coolidge. While waiting for him to outline his future policies editors generally seem agreed to accept him as a certain aspirant for the republican presidential nomi- nation in self-succession. There also is speculation just what effect cer- tain of the so-called Harding princi- ples will have on his popularity with the people. The “miles of speculation” are at leasi interesting, aithough many |papers are voicing a plea for quiet untii the President himself has spoken. A leader of this school is the Buffalo News, which insists “President Coolidge's public career gives mo indication of inability to make his home views known. On the contrary, he has a remarkable ability to hit the nail on the head. Until he does so no good can be accomplished by others seeking to supply either hammer or nails.”” A similar sugges- tion comes from the Akron Beacon- Journal, which asks that he ‘“be ispared all these conflicting but, of course, very expert analyses of his character until time and circum- stances permit him to develop the assets which he will bring to public service and by which alone he should be judged. ] However, there is a somewhat sharp defense for speculation forthcoming { trom the Wichita Eagle, which argues “politics never was more active than at this moment,” and insists “not only 1s the republican party left with- out a head, but nobody knows who will succeed to the headship. The ambitious ones will not recognize the rights of a new and untried Presigent to claim the nomination as a matter of course. And, besides, the political moves will be fast and furious and the new President could not hope to get his hat Into the ring hefore.-the others.” Mr. Coolidge also “will not enjoy the large opportunity that fell to the lot of Roosevelt,” suggests the Lynchburg News, although that paper emphasizes the opportunit: facin him and expresses the belief “the by guess now would seem to be that be- tween Coolidge, Hughes and Johnson the real fight for the nomination will lie.” 1f there is to be a “scramble for the nomination” the result will be “When. I was a child they made me recite ‘Little Drops of Water. “Well,” commented Miss Cayenne; “it may have been rather tiresome, but at that it is better than some of the poetry the dear children pick up from the popular songs.” Independent of the Mails. “What are the advantages of a trip abroad? 3 “It enables you to be pn- the ground. and pick out your own gt cerds.” s “A hoss,” said Une man’s true an’ faithfu for criminal deportees. In his flznmmln'hen L J “| derstanding of busin hurtful to the republican cause, as the Jacksonville Timeés-Union sees it, because “the party 18 In none tog good shape for the next campalgn.” B The Tndianapolis Star is convinced “the bars are down to all candidates, but, what is of far greater account to the mation, they are down in faver of radicalism and a dangerous pater- nalism that has heen affecting the minds of certain sections of the coun- , among people who take no ao- vt of the teachings of history and who have hardly an elementary yn- “fulfl{i the prin. iples. underlying political econemy. A5 has. ofteh . happened -fo’ the To- public, in its hour of need there are waiting “men equal to" th rgency | Enquirer s | most {pose and of strength” | dent Coolidge of the hour.” Not only will the men be under fire, but, as the Cincinnati s it, the “issues will be al,” apd it feels Senator Cara- £ht in defining the leading ones as “creating a world market for Ameriean products; reduction of ex- penses of government; less interf: ence by government with individual liberty; the tariff; and cheaper trans Portailon rates both on water and and. 1t is the conviction of the Knoxville Sentinel that the “first test of pur- which Pres| i1l face will be on the world court propasal. The Mobile Register, however, feels 1t may come even earlier should the President be asked to take a hand in the Vermont Situation, and it suggests “there is a great deal of unrest amang the rank and file of the republicans, and among some leaders of high standing, whose party loyalty, however, will not per- mit them to rush into print about it This_must eventually be reflected in the Senate, says the Saginaw News- Courler, where the clash for control between the radicals and conserva- tives will be precipitated, and “where the view seems to be in favor that, because the late Presldent was chosen from the Senate, therefore all future Presidents must be taken from that body, And a number of the senators make it plain enough they have picked a man to whom the nomination be- longs." * ¥ k% With that fact in mind the Des Moines Register insists “the time has comé to set the presidency up in its own right. President Coolidge is not the New Englander he is reported to be if he does not have the courage to take the bull by the horns. President Coolidge can make himself one of the great Presidents by directly chal- jenging the thirty-three recaicitrants and irreconcilables who have set up 1o control or break the presidency. The people are ready for a great pres- Moncy In law as ‘well sz In fact Somebody Is going to act. - Why not President Coolidge?” Despite the fact that a coalcrisis and a serious wheat problem impend, the Oklahoma City Oklahoman insists “an extra seasion would not be justi- fied,” because executive action alone can’ settle the former, and the latter is a_matter of suppiy and demand. The Muskegon Chronicle, for its part, feels unless the President announces a “positive” policy he can ‘“safely be classified along with the other Vice Presidents whom fate has made Pres- ident.” Agreei of what has been said, the New Haven Journal Courjer, however, insists that the President is own time, i the only sure thing now is that the death of Mr. Harding has logically and inevitably changed the political conditions of two weeks 8g0. The chatterers can continue to chatter, the plotters to plot, the gassips to’ gossip—wé shall know nothing worth while knowing uptil the new central figure in the political drama takes the center of the stage. It will he well, until then, to heware the agents of propaganda. They are already at work.” This is ilkewise the opinion of the Steuben- jlle Herald.§tar, whigh thinks “it ould-be in-g0od tagte” to allow: the President to announce all of his pro- am_before discussing policies that way :r'e entirely speculative, , AUGUST 16, 1923. The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN A little book, of an unusual char- acter was lald’ on the writer's desk a short time ago by the postman. It came from Caloutta, Indis, and was| the first of a serles of monographs on modern Indlan artists. Ordhendra Coomar Gangely !s thg name of the author, the subject, Khsitindra Nath Mazundar—strange sounding names, both, to western ears. Mr. Gangoly is the editor of Rupam, a sumptu- ous magagine published periodically and dealing exclusively with Indlan art. This book is a remarkable example of the bookmaker’s art—paper, type, letterpress, illustrations and binding, but its parcicular interest lies in the fact that whi'y it avowedly presents an artist of he ‘“new school” and deals with modernistic tendencies in art, the illustrations show extraor- dinary kinship with the most ancient art of the Orient. In flavor undoubtedly they are Indian, but in spirit they are closely allied with the works of the greatest masters of the Chinese school. This Is something that we have not before come across in modern Oriental art, for the majority of cotemporaries have felt the influence of the west, which has been detrimental, or through an effort to overcome such influence have too ;Im(tely copled the Oriental art of the ast. Mr. Gangoly prefaces bis essay with quotationy from Burne-Jones and from ndinsky. The former is Burne-Jones' statement that the more materialistic sclence becomes, the more angels he Intends to paint, their wings belng his protest in favor of the Immortality of the soul; whereas the Kandinsky quotation is a defini- tion of good drawing, “drawing that cannot be altered without destruc- tion of its inner spiritual value, quite irrelevant of {ts correctmess as anatomy, botany or any other sci- ence.” Obviousiy the intention is to show that fthe purpose of art is not mere reprouction, but interpretation, or rather, as the author reminds us Santayana has sald: “The remodeling of nature by esthetlc reason.” A glimpse is glven into the ideals of the modern Indlan school of art. The modern Indian painters, we are told, have for the most part no in- terest in the sights and scenes of modern life, and so “have deliber- ately set themselves to illustrate the stories of old romance, sweet legends and poetic fables, beautiful romantic dreams of something that never was, never will be, in Ilght that never shone, in a land po one can define or remembers, only desire—a form divinely beautiful.” And to an extent, one examining the reproductions of this Bengal palnter's works must admit that to a degree he has accomplished this purpose. Certainly this Indian painter has a remarkable sense of decorative values, an amazing power of setting forth with great simplicity significant compositions full of the mystery, the symbolism and the sumptuousness of India at her best. * k% % There is a kinship between the art of Mazundar and that of the Russtan Bakst, though the latter has in it an element of the barbaric which is ab- sent-from that of the former. Mr Gangoly suggests a similarity be- tween this painter's works and those of the early religious painters of the west, such, for example, as Fra An- gelic ‘Christ and the Emmaeus Pil- grims.” and he ventures the hope that through art perhaps the east will work out with the west “a new spirit- ual rapproeNement.” This is indeed a message from a new and an unex- pected quarter. * % K % The arrival of the Gangoly book brings to mind one of the most de- lightful booky on art ever written, “Form and Color”" by the late L. March Phillipps, an English author, published some years ago by Serib- ner'’s ons, and not nearly as much known or read as it should be. In the ‘most charming fashion, and with rare clarity as well as bfilliance, the author describes the essential char- acteristics and essential differences of eastern and western thought as expressed in terms of eastern and western art, Briefly he explains that there are two cssential elements in art. form and color; that form has dominated art whenever and wher- the intellectual faculty was dominant in life; €olor has dominated art whenever and wherever the emo- tional facuity has dominated 1 luding that thus, by the traces have left in art, the two great currents of jdeas which have illu- mined the mind and_ spirit of man may be traced in their ebb and flow and in their interaction upon each other. He claims that every spiritual impulse which has quickened the soul of man.has come out of the east, just as every praetieal invention or intel- lectual,_conception has come out of the west, form being the art idiom of the west, color the art idiom of the east. And of all this he makes no mystery, but leads the writer, as it were, by the hand, first to.see the testimony of nature, then to better understand the viewpolints of east and west through a study of the art which stands as witness. There are chapters on Byzantine architecture, on Indlan thought and Indlan art, as well as on Greek sculpture and architecture, on the Christian_point of view, on Venice and the Renaissance, when and where. in fact, east and west did meet with resultant glory. It is a philosophical work, yet one full of romance. a book on art which none can think dull and all must find informing. * k X ¥ A writer in the London Times' lit- erary supplement recently has called attention to the increasing popularity of the art of music as campared to the other arts, more especially. that of poetry, but likewlse™ -painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. The re son for this, he savs, is the greater emotional appeal of music, the vital- ity of which is obvious, whils that of poetry Is concealed. “Music as- saults its hearers, seizes upon them, while poetry patiently awaiis her hour.” This is a nice distinction and one. equally applicable to paint- ing of the better sort. Tt has .become the fashion for paintings to assault the eye, Lo pro- claim aloud their virtues. To some extent this is because of the in- creased interest in color, but it has partly been brought about throush the medium of exhibitions and the desire of the artists to be seen. Some one sets the pace and all ths steps are quickened. One has tu strive not only to keep up with the proces- sion, but, in order to gain reward, get 3 little ahead of it. * ¥ K ¥ But it is not the hest art, nor is it ar¢ of a sort which proves in- definitely companionable, Even a brilliant talker can talk teo much; as the old adage says, a certain amount of “silence is golden. To again quete the London writer, “when s man leaves a bridge party or a circle of gay talk before the fire and, walking out Into the night, sees the tars in their eternal watch, alien nd immutable, he experiences a sense of suspended life, of annihila- tion in awe before thelr remoteness; the heart stops beating, the breath catches, the whole being readjusts itself; how. utterly insignificant, after all, are its transitory interests and cholces!” Thig in truth is the effect that & mreat work of art, reticent yet beautiful, has upon one. whose eyes are op;n“:‘nd wl peroention Xkeon. . Bu o nature, suc ‘Il.ml:.g'e ?imed; efr best 15 hel in reserve. ever BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. Are the mother and father of Mrs. Coolidge living?—J. R. F. A. The only living close relative of Mrs. Coolidge is her mother, who makes her home fn Burlingtun, Vi Q. Was Mrs. Harding iu the funeral processlon from the White House to the Capltol?—J. M. A. Mrs. Harding was in the car with drawn eurtains. She was ac- companied by Gen. Sawyer and George Christian. “Q. Who was the Secretary of State during’ the Wilson administration’= 'A. There were three Secretaries of State—William Jennings Bryan, Rob- ert Lansing agd Bainbridge Colby. Q. 1s banking a profession or a trade?—S. B. A. The bureau of the census | classes banking under the heading of trade, . Where are the best collections of colonial furniture?—M. A. G. A. Some of the many permanent collections of colonial furniture may be found in the Connecticut His- torical Soclety, Hartford, Conn.; the Pilgrim Society, Plymquth, MB‘SS ; Van Courtland mansion, ~Van Cortlandt Park, New York; American Antiqua- rian Society, Waorcester, Mass, and Mount Vernon, the home of George Washington. Q. What will take paint off win- dow glass?—J. W. U. A. Mix American potash, three parts, and unslaked lime, one part. Apply to glass with a stick, allowing the mixture to remain for some time. Q. How long does it take for moth egEs to hatch?—S. L. E. pair the female s moth deposits fifty or more eggs, which hatch in about a week. These eggs are usually laid on gar- ments, or, In fact, any woolen mate- rial hanging in dark closets or stored in trunks. In about a week the small white larvae begin to feed on the dry animal fabrics of which the cloth is made. Q. When did Jullus Caesar dle?— C:D. W A. On March 15, 44 B.C, at a meet- ing in a hall attached to Pompey's Theater, Rome, Caesar fell, pierced by twenty-three wounds. A Q. What causes seasickness?—R. r %, H A The primary cause of seasick- ness is the motion of the vessel, and it _is generally believed to be by 8 reflex disturbance of the nervous 8ys: tem due to the violent and ungsual stimulation of the organs of special sensation concerned in maintajning the equilibrium of the body, particu- larly the semi-cireular canals of the ears, the eyes, the dlaphragm and also of the abdominal viscera, especially the stomach. However, in some cases it seems to be primarily of gastric origin: others purely psychical or nervous. Some authorities suggest that the attack is due to & conges- tion of the nerve centers in the spinal cord which are related to the stomach and the muscles concerned in vomit- ing. Q. What do daddy-long-legs eat?—L. H. A. The name is usually applied to so-called harvest spiders, which feed on tender rootlets or grasses and grains. Q. What is it called when one writes shorthand on a typewriter?— D. R. F. 1t is called phonotypy. Q What was the original woman's magazine?—C, H. C. A. Godey's Lady's Book was the first women's periodical in the United States, having been established in 1830 at Philadelphia by Louis A. Godey. | tor, 1220 North Capitol strect. Q. How long did the Franco-Prus slan r of 1870 last?—J. G. T. A. War was declared on July 19 1870, but the firét overt act of w did not take place until August Paris capitulated on January 2 1871 and on February 16 the armistice he: came general. What city has the largest higt R.A. G. A. w_ York has one high schoo with 8,000 puplls and 28 teachers which is said to.be the largest the world. Q. How many homes in this coun. try use electric lights?>—F. O. ‘A. It Is estimated that 36 per ceni of the homes in America are elec- trically wired. Q. Are single beds or double bed: used abroad?—K: D. A. Single beds are usual continent, while the double more common in England on the bed it Q. How {s the air kept fresh in- side of beehives?’—M. E. C. A. The bees provide for this. Some of them are employed constantly in fanning the air near the mouth of the hive with their wings. thus keeping a circulation of air sufficient for theiy need Q. Did Abecedarians believe par. ticularly in education?— A. On the contrary, these sixteent century followers of Nikolaus Storck believed it was best not to know to read, since the Aoly Spirit would convey knowle of th Ser ures directly to the und(;mlu!.dmf, and as education might be a hind e t salvation, they encouraged childre to leave school early and learn trades. Q. How name?—! A. It was named for Andre Marie Ampere, a noted French physiclst who made many contributions to science in the way of invention anc deduction. Q. did the ampere get it L Is a sea lion or a walrus larger} —M. G. R A. A full-grown mele walrus slightly larger and weighs considerabl: more. Q. Who selected the seven wonders of the world?—F. C. ‘A. Antipater of Palestine is thought to have made the selections about 200 B.C. Only one, the Pyramid o! Chedps, is still in existence. Q. Was the District of Columbia ever the site of an Indian village —L. C. A. That part of the District whic is now Anacostia was probably t site of the famous Indlan vil Anacostan, Powhatan or Naco visited by Capt. Smith in 160, 1663 an Englishman started a plar tion upon the site of the present ci of Washington Q. What rank has a drum majc —B. M. A. He is a non-commissiencd ¢ ranking with first sergeants, Q. Have the Dardanelles opened gn an international bas AL 3. A, The Dardanelles are at presc open on an international basis. Dur ing the Lausanne conference, ih question of Turkish control of the straits came up and on December & 1922, the principle of free passage of merchant ships and of warships un der certain restrictions was acce; by both the allied and Turkish d gates. The final agreement, however was not reached until December the latter plan including the sett up of an international straits miesion n (If you have a gquestion wou answered, send it to The Ntar Infor tion Burau, Frederic J. Haskin, dirc rite your name and address plainly and in- close = cents in gtamps for rcturn postage.) a- Superstition Bars Christmas Fires From Refugees in Palace of Anhalt BY THE MARQUIS FONTENOY. Anhalt's former sovereign Auke, who has placed his ancestral palace of Dessau &t the disposal of Berlin , government, for use as a temporary refuge for thpse German cltizens who have been expelled, along with their familles, from the Ruhr and the Rhineland occupied districts in consequence of their re- sistance to the French authoritie has made but one curious stipula- tion, namely, that in the event of the ‘refugees being still in need of shelter beneath his ancestral roof throughout the winter, every fire in the vast buildin nd every stove shall be extinguished on eve, no matter how cold the weather, and not to be relighted until after daybreak on Christmas morn. There {1s a reason, of which anon. He offers {no objection to the paiace being |dl\'ldcd up Into a large number of small apartments and. with stove chimneys emerging from every sec- ond one of the hundreds of window the Old Gray House, as the palace called, presents a very odd appea ance. That this should voung ex-duke lic-spirited offer to the government | {s thoroughly | of the German republic in keeping with the attitude of his ate father and of the other members of his house, who have been noted for their liberalism. Their relations with the court at Berlin were most the late duke simply and his strained and 4 abominated the ex-kaiser methe execrated militarism and, like his brothers, made a point of always appearing in mufti, that is to may, in eivilian attire, instead of the uniform affected by most of the German royalties iwhem at home. They seemed to prefer evening dress to gold and silver lace, epaulettes and swords, even at court festivities, and, although the name of the Duke of Dessau is associated, in the minds of 1] of those who have read Carlyle's History of Frederick the Great,” with memories of the seven vears' war, vet there is no capital in Ger- many where the military element has been so conspicuous by its absence dnring the last quarter of a century. * ¥ ¥ X The young Duke of Anhalt belongs to what is undoubtedly the oldest of the former sovercign dynasties of Germany. For the princes and dukes of Anhalt have always claimed to be able to prove their descent, in an un- broken line, from Noah, their patro- nymic Ascania being derived from the Castle of Agcanis, now In ruins, near Aschersleben, which is on record as having been & very powerfu] strong- hold early in the tenth and eleventh centuries. The .fortunes: of the dukes and princes of Anhalt are bound up with a toad, or rather, with a talisman, Which {s the gift of a toad, a harmless reptile, which is treated with particu- lar kindness and consideration by all the people of Anhait. The talisman in question, instead of being a glazs goblet like the Luck of Eden Hall, ng’f miliar to the lov- ers of Longfeilow’s poetry, or the Coulston pear of the historic Scotch house of Hay, or the Lee penny of the Lockharts, is &n ancient ring with an extraordinary history. According to the latter, a Princess of Anhalt had been in the hebit every day of throw- ipg out of the window, after dinner and breakfast, the bread erumbs, for the birds, poticing, however, that in addition to’her smail {eathered friends a particularly squat-logking toad al- ways appearsd to join in the repast. One evening when the princess was on the eve of becoming & mother, a strange woman appeared in her bed voom bearing & lighted lantern, inti- mating that the Lady Toad sent her very-best thanks for the coumbs, ul:a ) the_promise that the child, about to he born, weuld be a hoy who would ring honer and fortune to his house, ; the | Christmas | Fa\-e ‘made this most liberal and pub- | and presented her w h ring token of gratitude, stipulating. how ever, that the ring must alw be kept in the ducal palace, 5o that the family might sper and the dy of Ascania er become exti Finally, before disappearing womap warned the princ that great care should be taken of all fires on Christmas eve, because that night the palace might easily be destroved, * k% ok The ring is still in existence. made of gold of a pale color adorned with three diamonds stones are ve cut or polished, the triangular and the long. The ring is preserved to t day with religious care, hidden aws in the immensely thick walls of t old palace somewhere in the vault which are of enormous extent. It is only the young duke who has th key of tHe safe and his nncle former guardian, Prince Aribert, the only other person who knows its exact location. Moreover, t warnings of the Lady Toad, or, a e is known f{n Germany, of the “Frau Kroete” are still strict heeded. as the ex-duke’s provision i turning over his palace to_the gov ernment clearly show All fires in the ace have for centuries beer extinguished early on Christmas eve no matter how cruelly cold the weather. No Christmas trecs are ever lighted on thet night, while, until the abdication of the duke in 1918, the grand master of the hous hold, the principal officers of 1 court and a large number of guar: patrolled the vast edifice from cellar to garret until daybreak on Christ mas morning. * ok x Young $ir Edward Anson, who « attained his majority last Janua and whose impending marriage W Miss Frances Pollock, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Pollock of South Chard, Somerset, has just becn an- nounced, is the sixth baronet of line, having come into the possession of the family honors through the death of his sallor brother, the late Sir John Anson, who lost his life at sea, in the English channel, during the last year of the great war, and who bad, himself, succeeded Sir Dennls An- on, the fourth baronet, who, just & few weeks before the beginning of the great war, had been drowned in the Thames as & result of a foolish prank. Twenty-six years of age and of New Zealand birth, it did not occur to Sir Dennis to grieve unduly for the death, in rapid succession, of his fa- ther and ef his uncle, ond it did not prevent him from taking part, before a month had passed, in a particularly festive nocturnal party, which had a tragic ending. The party boarded a large steam launch at Westminster bridge, at the close of the perform- ance of the opera at Covent Garden 2nd steamed up the river, having su er and_music on board, and retur om to Westminster as ‘the duy wis breaking. The party, which included the Duke of Rutland's daughter, Lady Diana Cooper, who has since won fame as & movie actress; the Raymond Asquiths and Count' Constantine Bechanderf, son of the then Russian ambassador in London, were very merry, and when they arrived off Baf- tersea, Sir Dennis, who had been boasting of his prowess as a swimmer and diver, was dared, by some of the crowd, to jump overboard and give evidence of the skill which he had ac- quired in New Zealand waters. Thiz Sir Depnis proceeded to do and dived overboard fully dressed as he was Seeing, & minute or so later, that I was drowning, young Count Becken- dorf and-one of the musicians jumperd ard, in turn, to save him, and, le the musician and Sir Depnls 1ost their Hves,Lount Beckendort was rescued in & state of complete 6xNuu¥- tion. ot the outs central one o is