Evening Star Newspaper, August 18, 1923, Page 6

‘B THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, AUGUST 18, 1923 THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY.....August 18, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company ‘Business Office. 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Oftice: 110 East 42nd St. Tower Building. European Office: 18 Regent St., London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is dellvered by carriers within the clty at 80.cents per mouth; daily only, 45 cents per Sunduy only, 20 cents per month. Or- ders may be went by mail, or telephone Main KOO0, Collection is made by carriers at the nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $5.4 Daily only 1yr., $6.0 €unday only 1yr., $2.40; 1m All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10. Daily only salyr Sunday Lyr., only. $2.00; 1 mo.. Z5c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoctated Press is exclusively entifled fo the use for republication of ull news d! o not otherwise credl also the local news pul rights of publleation of When the between Spain and Cuba and, after United States interven: N short defeated the European power and rescued the islund from its autho it gave it full independence war, as a republic. One condition tached by the act of March which was later embodied in negotiated between the United States was at- 1901 treaty and Cuba, proclaimed July 2, 1904, to the effect as follows: That the government of (uba con- @ents that the United States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maiutenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United tes, now to be sumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba. Under this provision the United States has once intervened to restore order in Cuba, and has, within recent times, sent to the island & representa- tive to regulate fiscal affairs, who has since become the ambassador of this government. Now a condition has de- veloped which may lead to further in- tervention. The Cuban government Tas adopted laws which seriously menace eatablished American interests in the island through the virtual con- fiscation of railway lines and port fa- cllities. Furthermore, it has against the protest of this government es lished a lottery system. A loan was negotiated in the United States by Cuba under an understanding reached between the American ambassador and the Cuban authorities to the ef- fect that there should be a general re- form of the administration and the correction s believed to have been responsible for widespread graft and abuse of power. One specific stipulation of the loan arrangement was that the lottery should be aban- doned. These circumstances have been re- ported to and are now under con- sideration by this government, and the question has been raised whether the United States is justified in mak- ing the strongest representations to Cuba in protest, with the possibility of another intervention. Such a course would be highly distasteful to the United States. It does not desire to interfere with the domestic affairs of Cuba. But it is in a position of re- sponsibility for that republic. Tt must protect the interest of its own tlonals. Tts imposed and accepted con- ditions upon which the Cuban loan was based have heen disregarded, Short of a complete abandonment of all responsi- bility and treaty-given rights of.super- vision and corrective control it is hard to sec how the United States can ab- stain now from effective protest. ————— A determination on the part of a President to carry out the policies of & beloved and respected predecessor cannot obviate the fact that as new exigencies arise new policies may have to be formulated. Time and events will not stand still even in deference to the most revered memories. ——— Voliva of Zion, L, in an effort to join the movement to interpret science on lines which substitute personal in- spiration for erudition, declares that a sunset is only an optical illusion. The sunset may not be one, but what the bootlegger sells for moonshine often is. = of practic na- e s After waiting for several years for the ex-kaiser to develop higher spherc of usefulness it begins to look as if he might as well go back to wood-chopping. The consumer is less interested in the check-off than he is in the remote possibility of @ rebate on the coal bill. ——— Presidents and Horses. It is announced that Pr, 1dge will take up horesback riding as his principal outdoor exercite. It is not known that the President is a horseman, but only a small proportion of persons who ride horses can be classed as horsemen, using that word to describe & man skilled in the art of viding. Perhaps the President is not & good rider, but he will get no less exercise because of that fact. He will probably get more. No doubt in his boyhood in New England the President rode a horse, but that section of the country is more famed for harness horses than for saddle horses, though in New Eng- iand the trotting horse, principally the Morgan horse descended from a thoroughbred, was used under the saddle. In very old times in America trotting horses were raced under the saddle, before the practice came in of hitching them to high-wheeled sulldes: The art of riding seems not to have been as much practiced in New Eng- land as in the country around Wash- ington. Jertainly It was more talked of here than in New Ergland. Time was In the Potomac country that to say of a young man that “he is a fine rider” was to pay him a splendid com- pliment. A young fellow often better established himself in the graces of a southern Maryland or a Virginia girl by being a fine rider than by being a g00d dancer. Many persons in the ‘Potomac country now class as a good rider @ man who merely sticks to his Lorse when In difficulty or when tak- dent Cool- | ing fences, but in other days it was the manner of taking the fence or controlling the horse that counted. It was assumed that the rider should keep his seat. It is hoped that the President, if not already a good rider, will become one, and that he will find pleasure in the exercise. Several Presidents have gone in for riding, and some were not notably successful. President Harding rode for some time, and President Taft was provided with a horse that could carry him, but no pictures seem to have been made of President Taft taking the jumps in Rock Creek Park. President Roosevelt was the best rider among modern Presi- dents, and he was an object of interest {0 photographers. He was generally acclaimed as a good rider, but some {men used to say that although he stuck to his horse he was not an ac- | complished horseman. They criticized his hands, feet and his general “seat.” But there ave always critics of every- body and everything. President Jefferson used to ride along the roads of the early Capital. President G a young man and Army officer was accounted a splendid rider. but when he came to the presi- dency he took to harness horses, and a team of trotters which he drove him- self was a familiar sight to Washing- ton people. President Arthur liked harness horses, and his carriage and { pair were much admired. President Cleveland never ranked as a horse- man, but during his administration he bought « pair of carriage horses. His “seal browns” were celebrated in Washington and on the country roads. known ant a; Coal Meetings Resumed. pecific request by the Federal Coal Commission for a resumption of the direct negotiations between the an- thracite operators and miners’ union has resulted in an arrangement for them to meet Monday morning at At- lantic City to resume the conferences which were broken off on the 27th of July. The commission in its note re- questing this course calls attention to the fact that although the contract expires on the 31st instant, and only two weeks remain, no meetings have been held and no efforts have been made to effect an arrangement assur- ing the continued production of coal. It asks, thereforc, for an immediate conference to consider and report to the commission whether an agreement can be reached on the matters now in dispute and a new contract negotiated, or whether in the event of failure to agree a plan can be adopted to assure continuance of mining. In compliance with the request of {the commission the operators and junion lcaders will meet on Monday, land will proceed from the point at which they suspended conferences on the 27th of July. There is no assur- ance. of course, that they will agree. But since the adjournment of the 27th certain developments have occurred. The federal commission has Inter- vened and a mutual waiver of check- offs has been effected, though with an { unfortunate reaction of dispute over | the scope and meaning of the waivers. The case is appreciably nearer the possibility of agreement than it was iwhen the conference adjourned in July. One of the new factors of impor- tance in the case is the development of a feeling on the part of the public that there can be no tolerance of a strikemaking stubbornness on either side. People demand coal. Coal is to be had if mines are worked. There is no physical reason against their ope tion. Only insistence upon a particu lar form of working agreement stands {in the way of continued production. 1 Suspension of mining would mean widespread suffering, with no gain to anybody. If the miners and the opera- | tors cannot agree, the public feels, the government must insdve continued production. Refusal of arbitration to settle dis puted points will bring universal pub- lic condemnation upon the side which thus blocks the way. That fact may operate to effect an agreement at the conference which begins on Monday. ——r—————— If French and German capitalists come to an agreement for handling Ruhr interests there will be a new angle to the situation. Protestsagainst ia suspected merger may arise in both | Paris and Berlin. —_——————————— The fact that a prohibition leader gets arrested does not justify John Barleycorn in assuming superior pose and trying to impersonate a law-abid- ing citizen. ———————— The German currency system has developed a remarkable number of | people who can honestly say they do not care for money. ———— Arithmeticians are still at work on the problem of how far the price of wheat will have to drop in order to make bread cheap. | J { ! i | i About all the householders can do with reference to the coal situation is to unite in prayer for a mild winter. Archives Building and Others. A national archives building will be erected at Washington, but the imme- diate outlook for its construction is {not so promising as one would have it. The need for this structure is gen- erally admitted. It has long been planned to set up at the Capital @ hall of records, or an archives building, in which to keep government records not required by the government depart- ments in the ordinary course of their work. In the archives building rec- ords of the greatest value could be kept safe from fire and decay, could be drawn on as needed and the pres- sure on space in many public offices would be lessened. It takes a long time to get affirma- tive action by Congress on a proposal to construct a public building at ‘Washington, even when the need for such a building is universally admit- ted. The President is believed to fa- vor an archives building, and it is the understanding that he also favors the construction of new buildings for the departments of State and Justice be- tween Pennsylvania avenue and the Mall and 14th and 15th streets on property acquired by the government several years ago. Two things stand in the way of the early erection of the archives building and new buildings for the State and Justice departments. Demand for re- trenchment in public expenditures is insistent. Cost of government main- tenance is being cut, and it is difficult to have the government enter upon new works. The matter of these pro- posed buildings at Washington is tied up with the need for- government buildings in other parts of the coun- | try. With an omnibus public buildings Dbill, which many congressmen would support for local reasons, there would probably be no opposition to several new governmient buildings at the Capi- tal, but an omnibus buildings bill would involve a large appropriation, and would call down much adverse criticism of the administration at this time. It is said that the President is opposed to & general building bill, as it would require an appropriation esti- mated at between $150,000,000 and $200,000,000. No one can foresee how high the figure would go. Chairman Langley of the House committee on public buildings has intimated, ac- cording to news reports, that unless a general public buildings bill is put be- fore the next Congress tifere will be little chance for the passage of a bill providing for an archives building or for any single government building. —_———— The Paris Divorce. The news warrants one thinking that Paris has become a fashionable American divorce center. Day by day one reads items to the effect that Mrs. X., well known American heiress or daughter of the celebrated millionaire, kas been granted a divorce at Paris, and that Mr. Z., rich and and prom- inent American clubman, yachtman and tennis player, his has divorced wife at Paris. A day or so ago the ca- ble carried a story which referred to Paris as a popular divorce resort for Americans, and gave tho names of half a dozen Americans who had just obtained divorce decrees. What in- ducement the divorce laws of France offer beyond those of certain American states i8 not mentioned in the new but they seema to present superior at- tractions to certain restless and dis- contented souls. Perhaps there is some style about the Paris divorce that is lacking in the homemade article: It may be “chic” and more becoming to the applicant for divorce. It may be quicker and cheaper. Foreign labor may be underselling American labor in the divorce industry. Perhaps an imported divorce with a French label is more impressive than a domestic divorce. At any rate, an increasing number of Americans seem to be ac- quiring the habit of getting their di- vorces at Paris. It was not long ago that a domestic Reno divorce was thought the most fashionable thing in that line, but the Paris divorce ap- parently now has the happier sound. It is recalled that once upon a time our beloved, historic and elder sister city, Alexandria, cut something of a swath as a divorce metropolis, but it is feared that with fashionable Ameri- cans the Paris divorce will be con- sidered smarter than any to be ob- tained at home. —_———— Turkey will modify its prohibition laws. It is easy enough to change laws, What Turkey needs to revise is a collection of quaint but reprchensi ble customs. ————— After secing the way he behaves in a fight, Bergdoll's friends in Germany should be much obliged to him for not jolning the American Army. — e If those engaged in controversy are wise they will at least arrange to mine sufficient anthracite for their own use. —_——— The German government finds it easy to change personnel, but not the conditions which make changes in- evitable. ! | i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. A Peril of Peace. Some day we'll get them settled, These problems so perplexed, 'Mid peaceful how'rs This world of ours Will seem just like the next. Some day we'll get them settled— And vet there comes a doubt. With all made plain, What will remain For folks to talk about? Seeking a Candidate. “We want @ man who knows all the ins and outs of legislation, and who understands human nature,” re- marked the idealist. 4 “I dunno as I regard your notion as entirely practical,” replied Senator Sorghum. “But if you're absolutely sure you want a man who can answer all those requirements why don't you resurrect one of those old-time lobby- ists?” Jud Tunkins says every time a fash- ion changes a lot of twenty-dollar bills have to do the same. early every workingman has an automobile.’ “Yes,” said Mr. Chuggins. “And 1 shouldn’t wonder if that didn’t ac- count for some of the discontent. Any man who tries to keep a motor going is bound to feel unrest and irritation.” Conversational Philanthrop; How oft a man with phrases good Amid the throng will walk. He talks of “human brotherhood" And pays his dues in talk. Parental Obligation. “Why are you suddenly taking so much interest in politics? I need the influence,” declared Farmer Corntossel. “My boy Josh is a speed maniac, and I've got to get him a job as a motor cop to keep him from getting arrested hisself.’ Revenge. “You are becoming a great swim- mer,” said Maudie. “I'm going to keep practicing,” re- plied Maymie. “After awhile T intend to go rowing with Gus Titterton, and as soon as he begins to rock the boat I'm going to upset it.” When I hears a man quarrelin’ over de telephone,” said Uncle Eben, “I picks him foh one o' dese safety- first Aighters.™ CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS It is foretold by Dr. L. C. Gray, head of the farm management branch of the Department of Agriculture, that within a few decades the United States will reach the limit of its agri- cultural productivity, and be obliged to look to forelgn countries, with their cheaper lands and cheaper labor, for the supply of grains and other foods. He makes the rather startling statement that “the average yield per cre of land and crops has not in- eased during the past (wo dec- es Ao Millions of dollars are expended an- nually for scientific research in agri- culture and in education of millions of farmers, vet in twenty years that in- vestment has not “made two cars of two blades of grass to grow where but one had grown before. The department officials explain that increased vield is wholly depend- ent on increased fertilizer and labor. If fertilizer {5 expensive and if labor ts scarce and wages high, these ele- ments of increase are spared and no increase results. For example, during the war the price of wheat was high, and that justified intensive efforts of the farmers in preparation of the soil and selection of seed. Since the wheat price is low It does not justify the same care, and so, in the first case, the vield was proportionately good and now it has fallen back. It is, then, u question of practical eco- nomics rather than a matter of sci- entific agriculture that neasures the vield per acre. That being the case, what would a practical business manager do about continuing the unproductive expend- fture in scientific rescarch and edu tion? “The average yield per acre of land and crops has not inereased dur- ing the past two decades.” That Is probably an understatement. Has it increased within the last four decades —slnce scientific farming has been corn or taught in the United States? Dr. Gray has suggested some im- portant questions. These questions are not put forth as argument, but only as interrogation: Whither Is ag- ricultural progress drifting? 1s it not more farm economics rather than ag- ricultural “pure science” that is needed? ¥ ok ok % During the war so much stress was put upon the world’s need for more wheat that diversified farming suffer- ed for the increase of wheat acreage. The momentum of the “lazy man's crop” — wheat — has been such that, without increasing total acreage, more than 14,000,000 increased acres devot- ed to wheat has been maintained since the war, at the loss of acreage for diversified crops and live stock. The wheat produced on that 14.000, 000 acres is surplus, unless the for- eikn markets will take it, and Europe is recuperating agriculturally, so that the foreign demand for American wheat is reduced, The solution of that difficulty, ae- cording to the Department of Agricul- ture, is to turn again to diversitied crops and lfve stock, reduclsg wheat acreage. * ok ok x What a gr-a-nd feelin’ the chronic pessimist might be expecriencing, If he would only credit all the bad news in the pre: For example, the United States has just lost $4,000.- 000,000. Lost it? Certainly! Do not the cables tell us the Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Mellon, was told in Paris that France has no inten- tion of ever repaying what we loaned her in time of war? The pes- stmist confirms his misery by caleu- lating all that that $4,000,000,000 would buy. It would run the whole United States expenses for how long? And now it is all gome—mavbe. President Coolidge is not saying a word about it Then. too, there is the news about the coal strike. The miners threaten to strike September 1. All who have not yet got their winter's supply of coal, prepare to shiver. For Presi- dent Coolidge is “It is all quiet along the Potoma * Xk ¥ K And “that ain't the worst of it as the oldier said, in James Whit- comb Riley's poem, about the buddy he was carrying off the fleld, when the cannon ball took off his head— the buddy's. The climax comes when it is reported that gasoline has gone up in South Dakota, and won't come down in the District of Columbla. It's just one thing after another. * ok k% But the “fool optimists” point to the fact that “the government at Washington still lives,” that France could no more afford to repudiate its debt than the United States Treasury could open its doors for an I. W. W. looting; and that, when- ever the coal miners and operators cease to dig, the government will find some means to protect the pub- lic. For any country to destroy its public eredit by repudiation would be sulcide, and the world has not gone crazy yet. “Never despair! The darkest day, = Live till tomorrow Will have passed away.” x &% The American Philatelic Society, meeting in . Washington, has estab- lished a precedent which will live to make its members blessed. It voted down a motion requesting President Coolidge to recelve the society, and incidentally and inferentially. to shake hands with all the members. “Not love, but vanity, sets love a task like that.” * x % % If the American habit of shaking hands with Presidents and other celebrities could be broken our great men would live longer. Tt is 8o per- functory that it serves no purpose but to feed the vanity of the individual. The visitor approaching In line with hundreds of other individuals, with no excuse whatever but his desire to hoast that he had shaken hands with the President, cannot possibly leave any impression of his personality upon the President. The latter would not know, a minute later, if the same individual rejoined the line and again marched by for another handshake. In European countries it is the fashion for dignified men to kiss eacl other on both cheeks to demonstrate their cordiality. To Americans, the fashion seems ridiculous. Is it more 50 than for thousands of Americans to crush the working hand of their Chief Maglistrate to prove their lo alty? e The dawn-to-darkness flight across the continent has not yet been sue cessfully accomplished, but the Post Office Department 1§ instituted a new mail schedule of twenty-eight hours. The service will begin next Tuesday, with a flight from New York to San Francisco, when planes will leave each end of the route simul- taneously at 11 a.m. The entire distance will be marked with electric lights. At five prin- clpal points between Chicago and Wyoming there will be two llights each of 600,000,000 candlepo Beacon lights will mark every twen- ty-five miles, while smaller lights will mark every three miles. There will be a five-day test of the service on this plan, after which it will be checked up and modified as necessary. Could there be anything more ap- pealing to the imagination than the contrast between such service and the pioneer trek across the plains within the memory and experience of men still living? The weary months of trudging afoot and guiding the lumbering ox teams! The dangers of the plains—the Indian vages, the wolves, bears and other wild beasts The great herds of buffalol All these are goune into history, (Copyright, 19 ul V. Collins.) B Until William Jennings Bryan an- nounced that “it was thumbs down for Oscar.” little attention was de- voted to the declaration of Senator Underwood that at last his hat was in the ring. The Bryan attack has served to focus attention among other things on the fact that Underwood was to make his campaign as a south- erner who realized the sentiment against golng south of the Mason and Dtxon line to select candidate. “Senator Underwood's presentation of the difficulties accompanying the candidacy of a southern democrat was temperate and understandable, agrees the Newark Daily News. “The impression left by Mr. Under- wood's bid_for the democratic nomi- uation is that he may enlist the sup- port from democrats who feel the pinch from the present policy of i lation. quitting with the world's pea: half established, and a high tariff which lets the farmers down they sell and holds them up when they have to bu The New York Times alsp feels Senator Underwood wise in asserting knowledge of the prejudice against a southerner be- cause “prejudice against a presiden tial candidate simply because he comes from the south is indefensible. it ought mot to exist, but in fact it does exist in some regions of the north. Mr. Underwood confronts the | unreasoning attitude as directly and courageously as he does_other politi- cal issues; and even if his candidacy does not succeed next vear, he wiil bave done much to vindicate the right of the south to press upon the nation a son whom she can demonstrate to be well fitted to become President of the whole country.” * K k% At that, however, gthe Cleveland Plain Dealer sees “three, not one,” very definite handicaps against the Underwood boom, because “his geog- raphy is bad; he is rather too con- servative for this progressive age and he opposed both the eightcenth amendment and the Volstead act. Part of Mr. Underwood's handicap is thus duc to his own actions; the rest is accidental. Altogether it consti- tutes a burden which a man seriously contending for the presidency would much prefer not to carry.” Distinctly the opposite view, although seemingly arrived at by the same method of rea- soning. is that of the Philadelphia Bulletin, which holds “Mr. Underwood by reason of his record and principles is hardly the typical southerner as the north views it. Although Ala- bama's entry, he is a candidate that New York would find no difficulty in appropriating after the preliminary jockeying is over, though no such outcome is. yet -indicated as prob- able.” * XXX The Utica Observer-Dispatch is a trifie out of patience with the “south- ern viewpoint” insisting that “if after a passage of almost sixty vears this sectional difference has not dis- appeared, it is time that the bell was rung. There is no reasonable bar for the present south having candidates for any office in the gift of the nation. There 18 no longer a ‘southern oli- garchy,’ and ‘King Cotton’ long ago lost his crown.” So far as the Bryan when | a4 presidential | ryan Opposition Advertises Candidacy of Underwood attack is concerned. the Roancke World-News insists *in the gloriously demagogtc days of populism Jennings Bryan never indulged more unfair exaggeration than in his attack on_Underwood. Despite the noise which the radicals made in 1596 it was found that conservative- minded people were in a decided ma- Jorlty, nineteen twenty-four isn't apt to be different from 1886 in this respect. Underwood then, despite his conserva- tism, is far from unavallable as a demo- cratfe candidate. The fact that Mr. Bryzn has ruled him out ought to help far more than it hurts.” Enthusiastical- 1y indorsing the record of the senator, the Mobile Register insists “Senator Underwood would make a most desir- able President and the republic would be the happler for having such a man as its head.” A * Another paper which feels that Un- dertood decidedly is presidential timber is the republican Boston Tran- script, which suggests that if he will “visit New England he will have little difficulty in getting among league re- publicans, and low-tariff democrats. If the democrats have the sense to nom- inate either Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama or John W. Davis of West Virginia and New York the republi- cans will have a hard fight ahead of them in 1924, regardless of the stand- ard-bearer they select.” He is both “popular_and able,” asserts the Sa- vannah Press. and it “belleves that McAdoo’s friends_would support Un- derwood and Underwood's friends would support MeAdoo in certain con- tingencles in the national conven- tlon.” The Chattanooga Times sharply insists “to climinate Oscar -Under- wood because of the fling that he is & ‘wet'” would be unfair and ab- surd. In all, the Alabama senator's candidacy should make such an appeal at least to the impartial considera- tion of the party and of the country as the records and abilities of few, if any, of the opposing aspirants war- rant.’ * Kk Ok Kk The Knoxville Sentinel is opposed to Senator Underwood making a cam- paign simply as a southern or as the “distinctive and exclusive candidate of the south,” feeling such a claim is “unfortunate. Is our interest in the 1924 campaign to be restricted to the privilege of naming a candidate from a southern state and to have no ref- erence to electing a democratic Presi- dent? If that is all the south craves for its share in the 1924 outcome, it is easlly and surely gained. Let the south put out its own distinctly southern candidate and then go home or stay at home and let the rest take care of itself.” Yet, after all, as the Jacksonville Journal points out, “Old King Expediency” is in the way, “be- cause the democratic national con- vention feels sure of the south, it can expediently ignore it in presidential nominations and won't, in all prob- ability, let down the barriers against the nomination of the favorite son of Alabama.” The Hartford Courant agrees tha sectionalism is a distinct factor, say- ing, “Senator Underwood is able, but Senator Underwood has as vet to get the answer to the question as to whether the south will venture to name a candidate from its own sec- tion.” To which the New York Post replies that “it is always refreshing to see a candidate for the presidency take a definite position.”” and it is as- sured this very fact will materially aid the Alabama’ solon’s boom. Willtam | in | l The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOV Recently at the University of Ten- nessee It was Prof. James Harvey Robinson’s “The Mind in the Making” that precipitated the crisls that led to the dismissal of several professors. It appears that one of the professors was giving a course in genctic psy- chology. In order that the members of his class might all read “The Mind in the Making” he asked the unlver- sity co-operative book store to obtain a supply for sale to students. When the books arrived the head of the de- partment directed that they be re- turned to the publishers. When the professor concerned protested he was dismissed, as were several other teachers who sympathized with him. Darwin’. ‘Origin of Species” and oth- er more modern books on evolution entered into the case, but the ques- tion of recommending the Robinson book to students appears to have been the crucial point. R i‘ What manner of book is this Rob- inson's “The Mind in the Making” that it should be a rock of offense? To begin with, it is a thought-pro- voking book, a mind opener. In this book, whose sub-title is “The Rel tion of Intelligence to Social Reform,” the author pleads for the application to the science of man of the ame mental viewpoint as obtains in the natural seéiences, the “critical open- minded attitude’” To this end he says that *we should proceed to the thorough reconstruction of our mind, with a vifw to understanding actual human conduct and organization.” Instead of making our philosophy first and in its light trying to justify the facts, we should reverse the proc- ese, as did those who began the great work in experimental science. We must first face the facts and out of them find a new philosophy. Our minds need to be brought up to datd he s Most of our thinking, vs, is not really reasoning, but * sts in find- ing arguments for going on believini as we already do.” " What we need i3 “creative thought” For, s he, his kind of meditation begets knowledge, and knowledge is really creative, inasmuch as it makes things look different from what they seemed before and may indeed work for their reconstruction” Although the author ommonds no specific reform ex- ept the liberation of the intellizen and the transforming power of “erea- tive thought.” which he sces as the “only hope for the future” it is up- paremt that those who stand for the sacredness of they are” have found the book a dange one. Tublished about two year it becomes increasingly popular authoritics in control of the Univer- sity of Tennessee inot by the meuns adopted prevent its bein rea by their own students and by an cv increasing public. In fact, their at- tempted suppression of the book will only serve to Increase the demand for it. " Least of all can they hope to {buna ‘a dam that will keep out the ideas contained in it and similar books. * kX William Lyon Phelps has prepared for the August forum a list of the fifteen finest novels, explains his cholce and has arranged them chrono- logically. ¥ are “Robinson Cru Gulliver's Travels, " by Richardson Tom Jones," Ficlding: “Fugenie Grandet,” by zac; “Three Mus- cers including its sequels, Twenty Years After” and “The Vicomte de Bragelonne.” by Du ] “David Copperfield,” by DicKens: Iscarlet Letter,” by Hawthorne Thacke mond.” by jovary,” by Flaubert athors {Children,” by Turgenev: “Les fables” by Hugo: Anna Karinir {Tolstoi: “The Brothers Karamazov.” by Dostoievski, and “Huckleberry {Finn by Mark Twain H May 1832, ¢ curred the death of Allesandro Man- lzoni, the author of the first modern | Italian novel and one of the patriots {of the risorgimento, or nationalization Iperiod ot Italy. His great romance, {“T Promessi 8posi” (The Betrothed). lfor which he drew his inspiration from Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, appeared in 1840 and is prob- {ably morc widely known ti other Ttalian book except the Comedy.” It 200 editior in Gern has gone through over 5 in in ench, Ish in Italian, n, and 1S ] {¥rom its large sale in his own | Manzoni never protited & cent; all t [profits were paid to artists and en- {gravers who illustrated the book | The scene of the story is Milan under the harsh Spanish rule of the sev- ienteenth century, but 1 phase of Jralian life of the period are surveyed. Like Goethe's “Wilhelm Meister” it is a document of the times. Wars, plague, famine, the position of the lower classes, with whom Manzoni had great sympathy, political and the romance. In his portrayal of the and thus in- xamp his firs the nineteenth century directly to teach by histor a lesson of patriotism. In t edition Manzoni used the spoken lan- guage of Lombardy, with many Pied- mont localisms, but he afterward re- wrote the novel ¢n Tuscan and so has, therefore. place in Italian literature. as of the novel, as standardizer of language and as patriot. e € Manzoni @ Readers of Dorothy Richardson's long series of naturalistic idea novels, concerned very much with the thoughts and a little with the life of the not very intevesting Miriam Hen- derson, may be pleased, and may not, with the appearance of the feventh novel in the series, “Revolving Lights.” The series began with “Pointed Roofs.” in which Miriam is governess in a German boarding school for girls; the present novel finds her where the last. “Deadlock,” left her, in a Bloomsbury boarding liouse and earning her living by work in consulting rooms in Wimpole street. She is now engaged to a Rus- sian, Michael Shatov, and exchanges many ideas with him'and his Russian friends, the Lintoffs; then her en- gagement is broken and she goes for a visit in the country. That is all that happens. Tt seems certain that, at the | present rate, at least seven more novels will be needed before the key to Miriam's existence is found. * k %k % The case for and against tobacco is well presented in a book of this sum- mer, “Tobacco and Mental Efficiency,” by M. V. O'Shea. It is educational, not propaganda literature. It is divid- ed into three parts; the first gives the habits and opinions regarding tobacco_of various prominent persons, smokers and non-smokers; the sec- ond presents evidence as to the effect of tobacco on schoolboys and college students; the third is a laboratory study of the effect of tobacco on cer- taln intellectual activities. University presidents and deans quoted in the first part seem to be in agrecment that tobacco 18 & harmless and pleas- ant Indulgence for mature persons. The tendency of the evidence in the second part is to show that tobacco has bad effects on -scholarship. Prof. O'Shea has summarized his conclu- sions under eighteen points, and his general conclusion is rather against though not dogmatically or ively so. | i H | 4 | { | church intrigues all have a place inj Spanish tyranny of the seventeenth century, Manzoni intended his coun-| trymen to see the Austrian tyranny of ixed the standardof literary Italian. | Q. Has President Conlidge ever been defeated for office?-—M. A. Me is said to have been a can- didate in se have never known snteen elections and to defeat. Wy Where 1a West Washington?— A We Georgatown is sometimes called st Washington. Q. What will keep an open dance floor from warping?—D. L. The forest service savs that air G. certs ing may be expected. Assuming th it fs impractical to cover the flour with tarpaulins or other coverings, best that can be done is to keep floor thoroughly varnished or waxed and dried as quickly as possi- ble after rain. Where did the word “booze" from?—M. O. H. The word “booze” is said Q to be X war it enrolle 31,000,000 adults, Cross 000,000 children, Red workers. Its 23 served the Army and Nav ted Cross at home; it aided 780 French hos- pitals: its canteens served 15,370,000 doughboys overseas, and entertained 0 soldicr convalescents in France. and material the American received for war work Cros: 000,000 in contributions 1 Are the people of India prac- all Hindus’—D. 21,000 Jews. Q. What will take the color out of wash material without injuring the fabric’—F. L. C. A. The goods must be washed and bofled then transferred to a_warm bath of 30 parts of water and 2 parts of permanganate of potash. In this it must be left for an hour, always undcr water. It is then transferred to the second coid bath of 500 parts of water with 50 parts of actd, in which it must remain covered for three to four hours; then dried in a warm plac Q. What is the National Transpor- tation Institute K. G A. According to the articles of in- orporation filed with the Illinois ate the purpose of the isportation Institute is to conduct non-partisan partial investigations into trans- portation questior dissemi- nate the facts so tq the public. Q. When does the cotton-picking scason end?—A. G. L. A. Unless the crop is ur ally late, cotton picking begins in the extreme south of Texas during the latter half of July and it continues generally until mid-winter, as the ripenin process is a continuing and the plants must be picked over thre sometimes four or more times and How Q. many men ongres- mal medals of honor?—E. E. F A. There have been ninety awards of the congressional medals of honor to officers and enlisted men of the United States Army and Marine In Scottish Mat {BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Young Miss Sarah Cook, daughter fof Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Cook of Mon- treal and sister of the Countess Minto, may boast of having won one of the richest prizes in the Scottish rket in the persor arl of Haddington, who, captain of the Scot Greys, won tary cross in the great war, {and, after being wounded, joined the taff of the Duke of Devonshire dur- {ing the latte term as Governor i of Canada. He is. therefore, Ino stranger in New York and Wash- | |inston, which he frequently visited {while in the Dominion His estates compriss fome 70000 acres, extending through five count of the northern Kk dom, and are very rich in minerals, the exploitation of which contributes in no small de- gree to his large income. Moreover, his mother, the widow of the late Gen Lord Binning. is the daughter of the multi-millionaire William S. Salting, and at the time of her marriage was accounted the greatest heiress of her day. The fortunes of Lord Haddington's family, which is a junior line of the historic house of Hamilton, of which the Duke of Abercorn the chief, may be said to have been founded by Thomas Hamilton, who, although his grandfather fell in the battle of Pinkie in 1347, commenced life as a commoner, became a lord of sessions in 1592 as Lord Drumcairn, wa ated Lord Binning and Lord {twenty years later, and was then irafsed to the earldom of Melrose by { King James 1 in 1619 But his family considered the name of Melrose to be of ill omen, and so, in 1627, he ob- {tained a permission from the crown lto change the name of his earldom ot that of Haddington. As king's ad- vocate, as lord clerk register, as sec- retary’ of state for Scotland and holder of all sorts of other offices und sinecures, he succeeded in accu- mulating a very large fortunc. | hunt ‘and even to play polo whe: his ninetieth vear. indeed, he w | thrown and badly kicked by one of his polo ponies when he had attained the ripe old age of four-score yeu and ten, and when, on recovery from his injuries, he procceded to” break his collar bone in the hunting field, his family with & good deal of diffi- culty_brought home to him the fact that he was no longer as limber he used to be and that he must posi tively settle down ta more quiet methods of existence. » It was_that enforced quietude and the abandonment of his former activi~ ties which brought about such a de- gree of discouragement that he suc- cumbed. He was extremely unconventional, and when, not long before his death, he wanted to attend a matinee per- formance at an Edinburgh theater and was unable to find a conveyance to take him from his club in Princes street—all available cabs having been requisitioned by foot ball enthusiasts, the occasion being the match between the teams of Scotland and Ireland at Inverleith Park—he caught sight of a passing grocery cart, he hailed it, and the driver, who, curiously enough, was a former hackman, at once agreed to give him a lift. The old earl's bearded appearance was fa- miliar to_every man, woman and child in Edinburgh and his drive through the streets of the “Athens of the north” on a grocery cart and his arrival at the theater in that convey- ance created a good)deal of amuse- ment. A Lord Haddington's principal coun- ~ANSWERS TO BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN in amount of truble from warp- | t an English adaptation or corraption of the Turkish word “buzeh” which is used in Syria to include sherbets and | similar iced drinks. Q. How many people were in the Amicrican Red Cross during the war? —E. K. A. In its ranks during the world A. According to the latest figures avail there are in India_approx- im 215,000,000 Hindus; 67.000,000 | Mohammedans, 11,000,000 Buddhists, 110,000,000 Animists, 3,900,000 Chris- ftians, 5,000,000 Sikhs, 1,250,000 Jains, 160,000 Zoroastrians, or Parsig, and sulphurous | The present earl, who is a repre- sentative peer of Scotland, succecded to the honors and estates some six years ago on the death of his won- derful old grandfather. who had sat, in the house of lords for over forty | vears, and who was accustomed to QUESTIONS - | | | Corps during the world war, and or- |wward to the unknown soldier of eur jof the following allled nations: e | Bri n, clgiu France, Ita' an Rumania. Q. Tow many girl guides are ther~ in England?—L. T. R A. Four hundred and eighty tho | and. The girl guide movement | eight vears old. The charter of ir | corporation was granted in 1915 | @ When was the typewriter i | 3 earliest record of a pate ing machine found in t} f the British patent offi { for 1714, in which year a patent w | granted to H n sineer. In Am t writ machine was 1 Bu 1529, | Q. How many licensed d - tand breweries were ther hibition went into cffect 7— Just before July 1, 1919, E liquor Sta hibition affic the part in operatio tablishmer pr t put i were 669" hrew. and seventy-four tilleries prior to that dat | there were werfes and 20 distilleries of which wer tra to industrie ther ion of ti tion advent of na Q. Where copper in the A, The says th information, per on the Minnesota min: gion. It measured Tength, tu weighed the ed by Q represer the line of & Lady Ba daughter, Q. How m there ini the T A. At present banks in this cc unions or the trolling inter at least tey stitutions first of th Mount Ver: ington, 1. the Interna ehuists, there in wh mbers owr a it ch 1 a con satd that such financial i projed Th banks more Being 1 ted. was Was OF the w record for A. Elepha 1est 1 gdom hout sevent e life of a fand twenty-five {compare with that | A cubas forc {than that of i 1917 I to Cuba’'s about $ | prosperous o | «rhe star | answer uour q ve your fuil tion may be sent tddress your letter to The Star tion Burrai, Frederie J. Haskin . 1220 North i Capitol streer. Encl Jor return postag cents in stamps Canadian Girl Wins Richest Prize rimonial Market fes tim for the Christlanity j during [ ren s ! Buddha, the | ¥ and eve | ubjected to eve } and indignity, s lany vestize of rever | vounger generation of Ihave retained for things as sacred, has just caused to b jveiled, with c | efticial ceremony, [ Iscariot at Sviashsk | This cult of Judas Iscariot is n | without precedent he latter days of the ander III, his attention and that | the Holy od at_Petrogra hic! [ was @ department of state, was draw: {to a fanatic sect which revered Juda | 1scariot o most saintly of all the apostles, as the only one whos: example uld be ed ane | worthy of pravers for his intercessi alone among the diseipl i repented of his sins n \imsel In Mexico they take differ view. There the Raturd. He week is given over to th atic of the betrayér, grotesque imuges and guys representing him ar d. ar maltreated in the m o g an revolting fashion with great ostont |tion by the purchascrs a destroyed byt It i means that a particular] crue fcan low-caste mind couid devise Lord Leverhulme, who represent €0ap indumr: e of par ament and wh the upper i figure o this side of the Atl . hus just pu chascd Mo Tark, of Hertfords with the object of adapting it for us as a clubhouse available for tra atlantie visitors and run on somewia the same lines as the Westchester ¥ more Club of New York. An Anierici oman, the 0 rence Paddleford aughter of M. Paddicford ¢ Washington and of Baltimore, now the wife of Lord ury, is responstble for this conv ) of one of the mos ‘beautiful and historic of English cour try seats into what is virtually a cari vanserai. Lady Ebury, like most . can women who have married fo endowed with country seats and lan possessions, is averse to country I life. which doeg not offer the same gree of cnte nt, excitement us d gayety as in the metropolis or on Riviera Biarritz, and so when her hu- band suceeeded to the family honor « third Lord Ebury she persuaded him 1 place upon the m le his cele brated country se as Moorc Park in Hertfordshire Originally the pluce belonged to the abbey of St. Albans. CAfter the batile of Bosworth, Henry VI granted it to John de Vere, Earl of Oxford, who. con science stricken at being in pos of church lands, restored it, on hi death, to the church, As such it br came the residence for a time of Cardi nal Wolsey, who entcrtained Henr: VIII and Queen : of Aragor The Blue Beard monarch liked it s much that when he d the confis cation of the mo; s and churcl property he bestowed it upon his favor ite, John Russel, first karl of Bedford.