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) — — THE EVENING STAR With Supday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY.....August 23, 1933 THEODORE W. NOYES, The Evening St 55 Office, 11th St. and Peunsyivama Ate. T Fast iud St Tower Rullflug. geat St.. Lond 0. England. o Offce- European Office: 16 R 'is measured by the number of minutes | ticked off on that clack, or equiva: {lently on a clock carried, it that were | possible, on one plane throughout the Jjourney. | In the case of eastflying planes, though the speeds are the same and the actual record of distances unaf- ar Newspaper Company | fected, the apparent elapaed time In & flight is longer. Still, it it were pos- sible to start two planes simultaneous- Iy, one from the eastern and one from i the western poinl, and they were to e Sundas iers within The Exening wo:niog he city ents per month. Oc- ¢ telephune Main e By carrjers wt tke | Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance Maryland and Virginia. and Sunday..1 yr., $5.40; 1 mo. only L1 yr., $6.00: 1 mo. only. .1yr., $2.10; 1 mo., 20c All Other States. Taily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Taily o1 $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ Sunday $3.00; 1 mo.. 25 s may be sent by muil £000. " Collection s’ n end of cuch month, Daily Tai v * anday | i | | ! Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively ent 10 the ‘use for republication of all news b r not otherwise ercdi r an: also the local mews pu Al rights of publication of cial dispatches herein are also reserv ! d Coal Substitutes and Profiteeringfii The government is taking steps to provide fuel substitutes for anthra- e in the case of a shutdown of the | hard-coal mings. 1f suffering is to be | prévented this winter, with strike fn effect, the government also ! must undertake to sce that the prices of the substitute fuel shall be within the reach of the public. Of what use .is & supply of fuel to the poor if the poor cannot purchase it? teports from New York show that pleas are being made to Gov. Smith for emergency legislation similar to that of last winter to protect the citi- zens of the state against profiteering and to provide for an equitable dis- wibution of coal. Bituminous coal and coke will be the substitutes used for anthracite this winter, in the event a strike, together with fuel oil, of which there is an excess supply on band at present. The bituminous pro- ducers may have an opportunity to | reach out and take permanently part of the anthracite market. It would appear, therefore, that these pro- ducers would wiscly insist upon rea- | sonable prices the consumers of the substitute fuel. prices that would ttract when compared to prices that have been paid for anthracite. On the other hand, with the anthra- {eite supply curtailed, some of the bituminous producers may see their opportunity to squeeze the last dollar out of the public; to make a big clean. | fup. Tt is against such producers and azainst some profiteering dealers that e public must be guarded. If the ! government can bring about a plenti- 'ful supply of the substitute fuel, then the ordinary law of supply and de- mand may be sufficient to meet the situation. Handling difficult task Heeced many a coal o the profiteer The times. has been a public has been The great diffi- culty has been to obtain all the facts | An the cases presented. The recom- mendation of the United States Coal Commission that legislation be en- acted providing for the fullest pub- ! ity in connection with the coal in-| dustry is regarded as a valuable meas. | ure to prevent gouging. But these recommendations of the commission cannot he carried out until Congress meets. The anthracite operators in their with the mine workers have insisted that an increase of the | wages paid the miners must be passed | along to the public in increased prices | of coal. With the present high prices | of coal such a statement can be re- zarded as a bid for public sentiment | against the miners. They have also said that they are willing to submit the wage question to arbitration. But they have said nothing about being willing to submit the prices of coal | arbitration. They are willing to | submit to arbitration the price of Jabor, but how about the price of ! <oal? The miner's product is labor, and naturally he may have the same dcsive not to arbitrate in regard to | the price he receives for it that the operators may have not to arbitrate the price of coal. In informed quarters it is said that the mine operators are not candid in 'their statement that any increase in wages must be passed along to the public. A margin of increase may be | found which will not necessitate an increase in price. to the coal con-| sumer, and at the same time might well prevent a shutdown of the mines, ————————— Uncle Sam has been told by stu- dents of world conditions that he must Join the league of nations or equip 1ho greatest of armies and navies. A | few European statesmen are inclined 10 think he could be more helpful in their purposes if he would do both. B Foreign duelists would be justified in defending their method of redressing wounded feelings on the grourd that the duel is quicker than the libel suit and much less expensive. ———— | i 1 The public has been warned that coal will cost more if the miners met @ wage increase. The news is sad, but too familiar to be surprising. —_———— Coast-to-Coast Mail Flying. When one comes to figure on the time record in the cross-continent postal flights just undertaken as an experiment in day-andnight aerial mail service confusion is apt to be caused by the time differences by daylight-saving and by the directions «of the flights. Thus it is stated that the westbound mail reached San Fran- cisco from New York in less than the twenty-cight hours of the schedule. “The plane starting with that mail left Mitchel Field at 11 o'clock Tuesday morning and reached San Francisco at 6:24 oclock Wednesday evening. According to the clocks, therefore, this mail was 31 hours and 24 minutes in transit. In fact, however, inas- much as it arrived at San Francisco at 2:24 pm. New York time, it was only 27 hours and 24 minutes in crose- g the continent. A west-going plane has the advantage of flying “with the sun.” That is to say, its “hours” are longer than those of an cast-fiying plane. But in reckoning a flight the clock at the starting point is the recording instrument, and the length of the flight in terms of clapsed time I | ous disruption. | gestion, that the reparations question {ing and | Amerjcan mind. I cially ambitious. fiy at precisely the same speeds, by 'the same routes, and make the same distances in the same conditions of air, they would land at their vespec- tive stations in precisely the same | lapse of actual time; that is to say, in the same number of minute; These tests, though not wholly suc cessful, inasmuch as the western mail was interrupted at Cheyenne, and mail enly from that point was carvied to New York, mark an ex- waordinary advance in practical aerial transportation. The westbound flishts were completely successful. The eastbound flights were not quite complete owing to the gap west of Cheyenne. But the whole test was so close to perfect performance that it may be said that continuous dd and-night mail fiying has been demon- strated as practical, opening the pro: ect of regular mail service between the two coasts on a two.day basis, in- cluding terminal deliveries. —————— Debts and Reparations. Premier Poincare's reply to Lord Curzon’s note on the reparations ques- tion involves an indirect, yet never- theless pointed. invitation to the United States to join the effort at settlement of ghe German obligations question. 1In any event, M. Poincare says France will not be able to pay her debts to Great Britain and the United States until after she has re- ceived what is her due from Germany. American participation in the discus sions is essential to any settlement. | since Great Britain, as a part of the ral reduction of the reparations claims and debts, calls for France to | torego all of a certain class of bonds from Germany. America’s interest as a creditor in France's financial pros- perity makes it indispensable first to obtain America’s approval before any such arrangement is made. ‘Thus is the effort made to use the American loan, which France has made no move as yet to pay, as a lever to force the United. States into the reparations settlement. 1f you { want your money, says M. Poincare, in effect, to thig country, under cover of a note to Great Britain, you must come in and take a hand at getting our money from Germany and making Great Britain co-operate with us in that endeavor. This country will not be brought into the reparations situation by such an agency as the debts which are owing to it from the continental pewers. Its motive for participating, it it does participate at all, will be to relicve Europe and the world from the | menace of a distressing and danger- It has already pro- posed, by informal but definite sug- be submitted to an international eco- nomic commission ‘to determine the ;amount Germany is capable of pa; in what terms. That pro- posal is not acceptable to France. The United States can go no farther toward participation. | To put the proposal of American participation in the reparations mat ter upon the basis of the debts is to seek to make this country a partner in the financial business of the Euro- pean powers. The United States wants its debts paid, of course. It needs the money, perhaps not so badly | as do the debtor powers, but badly enough to warrant it in making terms that will permit the debtors to pav.; But it does not need its money so badly that it will offer its services as a mediator, or a negotiator, for the settlement of the German reparations, especially as there can be no guaran- tee that its services would he accept- ed by all or would be effective. The debts to the United States and the reparations question may be cou- pled in the European mind, but they | ave not inseparably associated in the | —————— The possibility ie announced that Germany will divide up into numerous small states. This might not make for satisfactory government, but it would provide more titles for the so- ————tm - - As an opening achievement Presi- ! dent Coolidge has, with promptness and apparent ease, disposed of the cabinet resignation rumors. Class distinctions are beginning to be drawn in various parts of Europe | between those who use gold money and those who use paper. B Funds for Psychic Study. The chair of psycholic phenomena at Stanford University has received a bequest of $400,000 from the estate of Thomas W. Stanford of Melbourne, Australia who was a biother of the late Leland Stanford. The fund will be used in efforts to establish whether thére is or can be communication be- tween the living and the dead. It is] known that there are departments of psychology at many seats of learning, but the study of psythology is some- thing different from the study of that which passes under the name of spiritualism. ‘Whether “psycholic phenomena,” as taught at Stanford, includes “spiritualism’ cannot be said off-hand, but the bequest indicates that it does, or that it will include ex- periments in spiritualism. The read- ing world is tolerably informed of the activities of the Society of Psychical Research, the principal aim of which is to prove, if it can be proved by scientific processes, that there may be communication between the living and dead. Belief in the existence and survival of the soul or the spirit has no doubt been held since the beginning of the human race. It is almost universally held today. Belief in the presence and activities of spirits is very old. His. torians of spiritualism claim entiquity for their belief, and say that appari- tiong, inspirations and visions record- ed in old chronicles were spiritualistic manifestations. They set far back in English history what they claim was a \ THE EVENING recognition of spirit communications, #nd they make reference to spiritual seances at Tedworth, England, in 1661. 'In the Upited States spiritual- ism seems to date from 1848, and the word “spiritualism” and belief in it spread rapidly in the eastern part of the country and in England and con- tnental Europe. B ————— Mr. Madden and Economy. Chairman Madden of the House committee on appropriations, in a statement published in The Star yes- terday, felicitated the government on the policy it has pursued since the! vepublicans came into control toward a restoration of a normal state of government finances. He took occa- sion to predict that the incoming Con- sress will continue this policy of keep- ing the government “on the substan- tial and creditable basis of paying its debts from current revenues. He pointed out that the vepublican Cangress, coming into power in 1919, followed by a republican administra- | tion in full control of all branches of the government in 1921, “has fol- lowed a persistent and relentless pro- gram of reduction in government ex- penditures that has an overwhelming nfluence for good on the entire na- tion This statement gave Mr. Madden : hook upon which to hang an admoni- tion to states, counties, municipalities | and individuals which is well worth the earnest consideration of all par tles concerned. He went on to say that what has been done and what is proposed by the federal government should be followed all down the line. “The course of the national govern- ment,” he said. “‘should be a healthy object lessun to the lesser political ubdivisions. Oaly Ly their co-opera. tion can the total aggregate expense be greatly curtailed. Fach individual must pract thrift and save some- thing from his income. Each city and village must keep a rigid hand on its treasury. Each county and state must keep its budget down.” These are words of wisdom from a wise and far-seeing man, a political economist, and one who deals with figures in terms of billions of dollars. Cvery individual should take them to heart. Uncle Sam fs setting the ex- ample, and it is for political subdivi- sions, the family and the individual to follow. —————— Public affairs cannot remain at a standstill. Opinions that conditions in Russia must be getting better may be based on the theory that they had reached a point where they couid not possibly grow worse. ———— The Steubenville assailants of masked paraders may have thought they were conferring a favor on a group of neighbors who appeared to be looking for trouble. e A courteous tolerance abroad is growing more and more inclined to look on prohibition another of those quaint but not always comprehensible American customs. ——————— When science has reduced the work- ing day to a four-hour limit, the ques. tion, “What shall we do with our spare time?” will rank as a great so- cial problem. —————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Fishing. “Everybody fishes some,’ Said Hezekiah Bings, “Even in the busy hum Of life's common things, Fishing for @ compliment, Fishing for a smile, Each one fishing is intent In a different style. “Fishing for a title grand With a social bait, One who thought @ whale to land Only got a skate. As the seasons go and come Still the custom clings. Everybody fishes some,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Perils of Magnanimity. “'I don’t know that the history books jought to be rewritten,” said Senator Sorghum. “But some of those old ro. mantic stories about the magnani- mous condescension of great men ought to be put out of print.” “Don’t you think those little touches of human nature make life easier?” “Not for me. 1 once got held up | for speeding, and when the policeman recognized me and began to apologize 1 remembered the anecdotes and said, ‘You did perfectly right, and T shall see that your unswerving attention to duty is rewarded with a promotion.’ Now every motor cop in our township is laying for me.” Jud Tunkins says by the time he has decided how many hours a day he cught to work it's so near quitting time there's no use starting. Crowding Into the Cities. “What has become of the old moon- { shine still in the mountains “Abandoned,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop, with & sigh. “The outlaws heve got theirselves automobiles and raised prices so's they can afford to pay city rents.” Eternal Abundance. The ancient economic din From year to year keeps high. There never is a shortage in The conversational supply. Making of the Man, “Why do you persist in refusing public offici “‘Because,” said Mr. Dustin Stax, “I'd rather stick to business. In finance you can be a self-made man, but in politics you've got to be more or less machine-made.” rising Economies, “Did you go abroad to study po- litical economy?” “That was my original object,” de- clared Miss Cayenne. “But I stopped at Monte Carlo, and after that I had to give all my attention to personal economy. ‘Education only confuses a person dats naetchelly dumb,” said Uncle Eben. Ever since Rastus Pinkley learnt dat de world is. round he's skeered foolish foh fear he'll slip off." STAR, WASHINGTON, CAPITAL BY PAUL The publicity given to Laddie Boy made many a sale of Airedale dogs, and the wire-haired fox terrler given to President Coolldge will prove a most profitable advertisement for |that breed of canines. The action of : President Coolidge, however, In tak- ling up horseback riding is of far greater importance. There will be less talk of golf and dogs, and more of saddlers, hereafter. When the President the Whii~ House saddler as General for his pleasure his eagerness to mount and ride away. without waiting for fashion- able riding togs. demonstrated that riding was not 4 fad with him, but a passion. discovered in stable so fine a * kN X% Where will the demand for saddle horses be met with adequate supply? There are few in the country, Bump- Ing over the road on the back of a carriage horse is not sport; it is tor- ture Only a or two from the Army remount service of the Quartermaster Corps stated t it is almost impossible to find riding horses of good breeding. type and conformation it officially that there Is a conspiracy fo fu legislation infmical to riding hors * ok ok ok The report asserts that the war took “immense toll” of riding horses ) That surprising statement in jview of the well known fact that {cavalry cut comparatively little fig- ure in the war. The report extols the results of the remount stations’ efforts in the last year or (wo to I place the loss of riding horses {breeding the type required |rl ims th: these efforts dound to the benefit of the | for famm hoxses, ers und polo ponies. { Perhaps the enthusiasm fwriter led to too broad a claim, for the demand is not be- jieved to exist for farm horses of the riding type, but rather for heavy draft_ horses. but there wil be growing market for saddlers. hunters and, perhaps, polo ponies, lithe and aglle When that report was prepared its writer had no inkling of the supreme stimulation toward horseback riding through the Presidents example 'EEE There is one New reappointment to office by President Coolidge Is welcomed by thousands 1t is Mrs. John Jacob Rogers of Bo: ton, the Florence Nightingale of toda She was President Harding's pe ago a report ter by hunt of snglander whose ports of hospital conditions through- out the country, and this work proved 80 helpful through her quick sym pathy. intelligence and tact that she has been reappointed by President Coolidge for the same work. It is said that whenever President Harding visited the Walter here. he found Mrs « unitorm of a nurse. mingling with the patients to chee and comfort them, as oul the touch of a good woman can do. * > 'he future beefsteak be synthetical or more catt produced In the United State Charles W. Brand, rketing clalist of the Department of Agr Rogers, in the will have to must be Mr m, sp | keeping up the ratio between people and cattle. In 1831 there w a pop- ulation of 62.948,0 with cattle to the number of 51.363.572. That made one head of cattle for every 1.2 per- sons; now there are 1.56 persons for each head of cattle. in the thirty- WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC One of these davs a full-blooded Indian named Coolidze will be coming to see the Great Father at Washing- {ton. He is the Rev. Dr. Sherman | Coolidge, canon of St. John's Cathe- | dral at Denver, a Wyoming Arapaho, | whose parents were known as Ban- {as-da and Ba-ad-noce. How this In- { dian Coolidge came to bear the name lof the thirtieth President the [ United States is a tale worthy of i Fenimore Cooper. In the early six- | ties, our Indian tribes were frequently {at war. One day, following a bloody engagement between the Arapaho and their traditional foe, the Apaches, {Maj. Larrabee of the United States Army found a papoose lying along- side its dead mother on a battlefield | near Wyo. Larrabee | turnea boy, over to the wife of a brother officer, who | zave the child his own name of { Coolidge and the Christian name of 10ld Tecumseh, then the idol of the jarmy. Eventually the lad was educated at a military academy and Hobart Col- jege; became an Episcopal minlster and a missionary ming and Oklahoma Indians, and an advocate of Indian interests through- out America. Dr. Coolidge is hono- irary president of the Society of Amer- |ican Indians. is sixty vears old. and. as becomes a Coolidge, is a republican. . * % x X Here's a Calvin Coolidge quotation of more than ordinary interest in view of approaching events in the anthracite flelds: “The problem of unemployment is aggravated not only by the alien knocking at our gates, but by the laborer at home slamming the door of production behind him and walk- ing out. ¢ * * There are those who teach the laborer that the fewer hours he works, the better oft he i In order to maintain that belief they have attempted an organization to dictate to government. This attitude 1s against public conscience, against {the working of economic law. Tt appeared In an article by Mr. Coolidge in the February, 1921, num- ber of Good Housekeeping on the immi- gration question. * N ¥ & Aspiring and resolute seekers of public office in the United States should take heart from the recent triumph of Robert Smillie. Scottish miners' leader, in Great Britain. For seven times in succession Smillie un- ! successfully contested an election for a seat in the house of commons. He has just been victorious in his eighth effort, at the age of sixty-four. There seems omen and hope for William Jennings Bryan in Smillic’s experience. * % * % Friends of Newton D. Baker, Secre- tary of War during. the second half of the Wilson administration, are cir- culating in leaflet form a speech he recently delivered in Cleveland on international affairs. Its peroration, which is said to Rave brought an audience of 400 business men to their feet amid cheers and tears, read: Men of America, I plead with you, 1 beg of you, lay aside partisanship. Let us tease each other about the tariff and bicker over the federal re- serve system. But on the question Whether the beauty and the sweet- ness of -civilization are to be de- Atroyed by another war. let us. I say, put away our partisanship. and as grown men consider and deal with this matter, and we may yet save the world!" The speech was a plea for Amer- jca's entry into the world court. . * K k¥ Rumor, for the dozenth time during the current political season, has put “the skids under” John T. Adams, re- publican national committee chair- man. When Mr. Adams decides to step down and out, his committee col- Goose Creek, the baby, a i charged | the + market | sonal representative to bring him re- | Reed hospital, | tells @ hungry public that we are not | among the Wyo- D.~ ¢, THURSDAY, AUGUST . KEYNOTES V. COLLINS two Jeace. the cattle Have increased only 15,288,000 and the people 41,- 885,000, » To offset that threatened meat famine, the exports of the future will be curfailed, because American farm- ers cannot hope to compete in the world meat markets with the cattle raisers in undeveloped countries. The chief competitors are to be found in Argentina at present, and later will be “in Australia and New Zealand. Pork exports will continue high for some years to come, wecording to Mr. | Brand. * K Kk ok Which shall be protected” There are 400 veterans who are suffering from the mental strain of the war and are in hospitals at Perryville, Md. Across the river is a nest of moonshiners. Dr. Soper, superintendent of the Perryville hospitals, found the vet- erans preyed upon by the moon- shiners, who sold liquor to them, which ° greatly aggravated thelr mental diyeases. Because the super- | intendent appealed to the legal lauthorities to put a stop to the moon- {shining, and part of the moonshiners |were arrested, his life is threatened, tand when a patlent was mistaken for { the doctor by one of the moonshiners the patient was shot. Which shall be protected—the 400 patients and doctor, or the moon- { shiners? The issue seems squarely put. * K ¥ ok Art for oil's sake! A Baltimore news item tells of a wonderful painting, re- jcently completed in that eity by an amateur. Art critles, says the re- iporter, appraise the picture at $20,000. It is sald to have taken more than 000 worth of oils."” Apparently then, it is not a water color. With 1$3.000 paid out for “oils" that leaves ionly $17.000 clear profit, according to this reporter Just as if undertaking to maintain the eternal harmonles of setting and character, nature gave us the coldest August day in thirty vears simul- taneously with the chilling news that a coml strike fs positively assured and will arrive within ten days. The administration promises to see everybody may get anthracite suk tutes, even if the anthracite workers quit.’ But ‘will President Coolidge supply wall paper to go with ton of soft and smoky coal” In some apartments. it is hoasted that no tenant ever need cook hoth itham and eggs; the eggs alone are enough. the ham odor coming gen- ierously up the air-chute. Perhaps the isame principle may apply to the use |of smoky coal; let'the neighbor burn i { | it. and his neighbors get new wall ipaper in the spring However, “any weather!" port in stormy * * 1¢ is estimatcd that there is already mined enough anthracite ta supply all |normal demands for four months i Washinzton hou lders have been }extraordinarily provident in laying in |their winter supply during July and 1 August, {strike. There are many jliving _in Washingto! lamps filled and trimme wise virgins” with their * % % % Washington sclenti predict an early fall. and coal miners show in- creased faith and hope in science. But the greatest of these is charity * * Gasoline sells for 6 cents a gallon in Los Augeles and cents in the east. Why not let Los Angeles sup- ply the east by airplane mail? Down with the trust’ (Copyright, 1923 OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE * by Paul V. Coliins.) leagues say it will be by his own wish and not at the behest of foes A middle west committeeman said to this cbserver that out of the fifty-odd members of the committee at least thirty-five, a safe majority, can be mobilized at any time on behalf of Mr. Adams. He is particularly strong among western politicians. By un- writt ational chairman place: T tion in the hands of a presidential nominee, and its ceptance implies no discredit % % % Col. W. B. Causey of Suffolk, !is one of the national heroes of re generated Austria. He has just left Vienna after four successive vears ac ! technical adviser to the government, ! which 18 being put on its feet unde |1eague of nations auspic A pra tical railroad enginccr and Army of- | ficer, Col. Causey has devoted his en- crgies to establishing new trade re- {lations between Austria and her | neighlors. He resolutely ignored the | political intrigucs that raged around the shrunken empire of the Haps- | 1 | Va | conditions. Causey’s immortal achieve- | ment was the organization of the food transport from Trieste to Vienna in the spring of 1918, via Jugoslavia and The Austrian capital faced star vation and it was only Causey's sledge-hammer methods that saved it. It was the result of a suggestion by Herbert Hoover that Causey event- ually entered the new Austria's service. * % % % Few KEuropean ambassadors ac- credited to the United States could expert e of Sir Auckland Geddes. The British ambassador is a doc- tor by profession, specializing in anatomy and surgery. He gained his M. D. in his native Scotland and then did post-graduate work in and Germany. His last position be- fore entering British politics and diplomacy was as professor of anatomy "at McGill University, Mon- treal, of which he also was princl- pal. ! * K % % ‘When the District of Columbia, Oliver Twist-like, asks for more in the way of appropriations, and should it carry its case to the White House, it ought to find a friend in Basco Slemp. President Coolidge's exet:\'l13 tive secretary, while in Congress, was & member of the appropriations sub- i committee of the House committee on appropriations. He knows the Dis- trict’s financial needs from A to Z. (Copyright, 1923.) Severity of Penalties Not Measured by Crime The Jaw does not take Into con- |sideration the size of the crime, al- ways. The other day a twenty-three- year-old New York girl was convicted of grand larceny, the extent of her crime belng that she stole 2 pocket- book contalning & cents from another woman. She was caught in the act, the story says, and turned over to the police. The judge gave her a sentence of five years in Auburn prison. The point about all this is that the law 100ks upon crime in a broad and unsentimental manner. The mere theft of 5 cents would not seem (o warrant Imprisonment for five years, but the law looks a little beyond the size of the theft and percelves the possibilities which might have been within the power of the convicted girl. Little crimes not infrequently bring overtowering penalties. It looks as though sufficient object lessons had been furnished to warn men and women of the consequences of mis- demeanors, but police still manage to keep busy because people will not learn an impressive truth.—Canton News, ~ each | anticipation of a possible | | burgs. and concentrated on economic | have inspected Ellis Island with the | England | 23, 1923 The North Window BY LEILA MECHLI At this season of the year many are sketching. Stark Young in a re- cent issuc hof the New Republic, writes from Italy that Siena s full of sketchers. “And how cheerfully,” he exclaims, “dfter jam and toast these painters go forth ‘A dear, lovable lot, loving the world as they do, its surfaces and shapes and changing lights,” but apparently ac- complishing so little. That it 1s good {for the sketchers to | Young realizes, but loving Siena he |15 moved to lament that painting is not a cure instead of an art." Prob- ably every lover of art who has been at some time submerged in an artists’ colony has had the same feeling, without, perhaps, the power to voice it so well. For here, again, it is true that “many are called but few are chosen,” and_one often wonders what becomes of the innumerable sketches which are precious in the eyes of their authors but by no means worthy of preservation. | "As some knowing person once re- {marked, there is almost nothing so {pathetic in this world as nmghty !ambition and puny capacity. And yet one would not forbid the sketch- ing, even if one could. Undoubtedly it opens the eyes of the feeblest to beauty in nature and opens the Way to apprecfation of greater art. But one can readily sympathize with Mr. Young In his distress at seeing his dear Siena violated daily at the hands of the merciless sketchers. P Stark Young is not an art critic. That 1s, it has not, up to the present time, been his chosen fleld of en- deavor. He is a southerner by birth and has had some years of instructor- ship in several colleges. Most lately he has been professor of English at Amherst, which position, however, he has resigned. The drama has en- gaged much of his attentlon, in fact has written a play or two him- 1f, and he is associate, editor of the Theater Arts Magazine, but just the same he writes most understandingly (and possibly because it has not yet become habitual) on the arts of paint- ing, sculpture and landscape archi- tecture, and it is refreshing when an author of this caliber writes on art of this sort. £ % For instance, a delightful essay by Mr. Young, entitled “Two Walks, which appeared in the June number of the North American Review. These walks were at the Villa d'Este at Tivoli, and Addison’s Walk at Oxford, England, the one essentially a work of art, the other a bit of nature care- fully preserved. He finds in them the substance of the difference be- tween the two, and he is led to a definition of art which is weil worth while. ~ “Art is a translation” he ays. “by which the material is stated terms of something clse. and something is added which was not there before.” This is a distinction which many do not often make, but which explains the charm of the courts at_Versailles as well as the gardens of the Villa d'Este. In both instances one has design. pattern, ar- rangement—not. art as something which happens, but which reflects the forethought and ability of man's mind to select and to compose with pics turesque and lovely effect. It has its message. 1ts human retationship. * x !hand of man can be as lovely as a work of nature, but the original of a painting. the subject from which the painting is made, has only in rare instances the power holder as_the work of art As Mr. Young says, | the Villa d'Este commits human na- jture to a full expression. It the natural world and uses it to e press an idea. ' Like a painter with his colors, it uses the resources of the earth out of which it creates. In nature and art together are translatéd into one complete art” And the in- resting thing is that all this is cqually applicable to other great works of art—sculpture, painting, architecture. | Artists have a tendency to feel that none but a practicing artist can ful lappreciate a wark of art, and in the I majority of instances they may have right on their side. Certainly if one stands by and watches the crowds of tourists with perfectly blank expre: | sions pass through the great galleri of Europe during vacation checking their Baedekers, seeing with their ears rather than with their eves, giving no backward look over their shoulders, one would be inclined to think that there was little real appreciation of art among those who travel. A humorous story is told of {two little children who had been abroad and were found, one standing on a high stool immovable, the other walking around with a book in her hand and nose buried therein. When ! asked what théy were doing they | plained that they were playing tour- ists, one impegsonating the statue, the other the visiting hordes. P when great %% s But there are exceptions, and Mr. Stark Young has found one of them, a young Texan from a ranch north of San Antonio. For some years this voung man had not been away from the ranch house, and his life had been comparatively solitary until they “struck oil."" Then his father sent him abroad. But despite the distance between a Texas ranch and an Italian hill town he is reported to have felt at home in Assisi. and without know- ing much about the various periods of art, found evident delight in disc | | | | | self. Without guide, without fore- knowledge, he had come under the spell of the artists of the Renaissance, and though day after day he said he must go cn, he stayed. There is many another of "this order in America to whom great art would speak had it the opportunity. It is contact that is need. ed, not the spoken word, and some times it would seem that nothing to unlcarn were a blessing. Ok k% 1t seems curiously difficult to di vorce the idea of commercial vulgar- ism from American ideals in the mind of the Britisher. A distinguished writer on art in the London Archi- tectural Review, treating of American sculpture, recently said: “Amerlcan sculptors are alive to the facts that they work for the public, get their commissions from the public and re- celve payment from the public. They are, therefore, out to educate the public.” Later on, referring to the exhibition recently held in New York, he declares that “American sculptors are out to capture everybody, i only for an order for a gravestome. Ap- plied sculpture is the cry of the American sculptor. Sculpture in the garden d on the grave might be his slogan.” ‘And vet this writer meant to be complimentary. In fact, he thought that he was, for he sent this notice in appreciation to one who had_se- cured for him a catalogue of the New York exhibition and other data on the subject, and he had read Adeline Adams’ admirable little book, “The Spirit of American Sculpture.” In all probability he did not realize that he was prejudiced, did not dream that he was not flattering. It was the enter- prise of the American sculptor that called forth his admiration, not the artistic character of his work. But, after all, the fault is ours. We Americans have been much too in- Qdifferent, and are still, of what our neighbors across the sea think of us. We make continuously a display of our money bags, but we go to no pains_whatsoever to exhibit our art outside of the United States. The director of the Tate Gallery, London, has for some time been endeavoring to get a representative collection of American art to show in his Institu- tion. Those in charge of the blennial ‘ i sketch Mr. | In many ways nothing made by the | to move the be- | “The garden of | takes | it | time, | ering their manifestatlons for him- | Q. What became of the brass star that designated the spot in the old 6th and B streets station where Presi- dent Garfield was shot?—M. B. A. This star is in the Smithsonian Institution, but is not on exhibition. Q. What other city was the seat of our government besides Washington, Philadelphia and New York?—K. C. A. Before it was finally established lin Washington our government s d |scribed as’ having been “peregrina- \tive, perambulatory, peripatetic,” and it had exercised its functions in New York, Philadelphia, York, Baltimore, Annapolis and Lancaster. Q. What per cent of the Indians are American citizens?—G. T. A. The Indian hureau savs that about two-thirds of the Indians of all ages are citizens. Q. Is it necessary to place a period after the abbreviation “per cent? TP A. The Government Style Book ap- proves of omitting the period after |per cent. the abbreviation for per c:ntum. Dictionaries give both forms, Q. On a clear night how many stars can a person see.—L. L. A. There are only about 5,000 stars in the whole sky which are visible to the unaided eve. Q. What penalty has been imposed on the man who whipped Martin Tal- bert, who dled recently as a result of being beaten in a Klorida prison camp?—J. T. G. A. The man has been convicted of murder in the second degree and sen- tenced to twenty years in prison. Q. Why is it said that English is a non-gender language?—L. F. . A. In a strictly grammatical English is a non-gender language b cause it possesses no form or words ldistinctive of sex. For example, we know that “wife” Is feminine cause it repre but we do not know this by virtue of its grammatical form. In Spanish, for instance, the “o” ending of a word denotes the male being and the “a” ending denotes the female being. 2y Q. What is the “cracking” process for making gasoline?—D. McD. A. By the “cracking” process crude oll which has yielded its product of gasoline and other of the lighter dis- tillates by the ordinary methods is confined in a vessel and subjected to both heat and pressure, which breaks up the hydrocarbons or “cracks” the oil. It is a peculiarity of the process that it may be repeated many times, and more gasoline is formed every time. Q. Was be- Mayor Gaynor York assassinated?—J. R. M. A. Mayor Gaynor was shot on August 9, 1910, by a discharged city employe, just as he was going aboard a steamer for Kurope. He never tully recovered from the effects of the wound, although he resumed his official duties. Q of 1s the brant a wild goose or a duck ™ T A. The brent or brant is one o the best known species of wild geese in America Q. Over what countries has central soviet of Russia jurisdiction {—F. C. s { A. The eight federated states u: der the control of the soviet central exccutive committes are: Russia proper, including Great Russia and | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. That Switzerland, in spite of its many centuries of existence as a re- public and the democracy of her gov- ernment, which strictly prohibits the acceptance of any orders of knight- hood or any nobiliary titles by her officials under the penalty of immedi- ate dism citizens, nevertheless possesses hereditary nobility of her own—and not of any mushroom kind—is re- called by the announcement of the formal engagement of Miss Helen |Gould, daughter of k J. Gould by |ents' divorce was brought up by her aunt and godmother, Mrs. Finley J. {Shephard, to young Barcn Jean {Daniel de Montenach of the_ canton lof Fribourg in Switzerland. He was lan ‘attache of the Swiss legation in {Paris during the war and for some |time past has been a member of the |secretariat of the league of nations {at Geneva | The aristocracy of Fribourg, like }that in most of the semi-independent {cantons embraced in the confedera- {tion known as the Helvetian Republic, jdates from the domination of Dukes of Zaehringen, one of whom, Berchtold 1V, founded both Fribourg and Bern in the closing years of the twelfth century, and from the Haps- burgs, who inherited Fribourg and Bern through the marriage of Anna. isole heiress of the last of the Dukes {of Zashringen. to Eberhardt Count iof Hapsburg, in 1273. And, although a {couple of hundred vears later. after brief spell of subjection to the so |ereignty of the Dukes of Savoy, Fri- bourg jolned the Swiss confederation, some five centuries ago, yet the pa- triciate of Switzerland may be said to be indebted for its nobiling dig- {nities almost entirely to the Haps- purgs and to the old-time sovereign Dukes of Zachringen, who also reigned {over what was, until 1918, the Ger- Iman Grand Duchy of Baden | * ¥ ok ¥ Thus the title of baron borne by the future husband of Miss Helen Gould was bestowed upon his ances- tor by Duke Berchtold V in 1188, that {is to say, at the time of the crusades, ard. therefore, his people are thor- oughly justified in claiming to be one of the most ancient houses of Swiss | aristocracy. The latter includes a number of counts and even a full- i fledged prince, who lived all the year {round in his ancestral castie at Dies- bach within easy driving distance of the city of Fribourg, and whose pat- ent of nobility bears the date of 1434 land the sign manual of Emperor {Sigismund. ~ A couple of hundred years later the head of the family owning the castle, namely the Baron von Diesbach, was advanced to tho dignity of a count of the Holy Roman Empire, which, in due course, was ex- tended to all the members of his family, and in 1722 Emperor Charles VI bestowed upon Count John Fred- erick von Diesbach of the Castle of Diesbach the hereditary title of Princo of St. Agatha, together with extensive estates in Sicily, for his services in commanding the imperial army there. * * ok All the members of the Diesbach family today make use of the title of count, some of them being settled in France, others in Germany, others again in Belgium, but it is only the head of the entire family. Count Maxi exhibition in Venice and Rome have quite lately again invited American participation, but in most instances the artists cannot very well afford the expense of forwarding their works to Europe, and very few of them care whether they are shown abroad or not. There is no branch of the gov- ernment_which is at present charge- able with this responsibility, and yet all thinking persons must agrec that the only hope of & permanent peace is based on mutual respect engendered by common ideals. We shell not have the respect of Europe until the qual- ity of our attainment in art and let- ters is realizedand accepted. ents a female being, | New | the ssal, and even by her private | aj his first wife, and who after her par-; the | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Siberia, the Ukraine, Whité Russia the Georgian Kederation, Armenta, the Tartar Republic and the Republics of Khiva and Bokhava. Q. Is “Barrymore” the family nar ot Lionel, John and Ethel Barrymore G A. In her reminiscences. now being published, Ethel Barrymore tells that when her father decided to go on t stage, his plan met with family op position. It was determined that b should not use the family name of Blythe. He thereupon opened a book and his eyes fell upon the name of Barrymore. This he took for his non de theater. Q. What is the official name of ti« republic that now includes Bohemia —F. L. C. A. Czechoslovakia. spelled as on- word, is the name decided upon b- the government at Prague in repl: to a resolution adopted by the people’s party asking that the country be named Czecho-Slavakia. Q. How many tricks below the line can be counted for a revoke at au tion bridge M. WL A, The declaring side may take two tricks toward game, or score in_honors. Should the declarer voke, his opponents score 50 in honor column. Q. What is the technical tern: which applies to the condition whici exists when a propeller revolves at such a rate that it affords little trac- tion. but creates a vacuum instead This condition is called cavita- 1 | tion. Q. Who originated the iwest, young man”?—J. « A. It was Horace gave this advice Q. Is a mustache age in China?—1. M A, Age is judged by the hair the face among Chinese Before a man reaches forty-five or thereabouts he is clean-shaven, but after that he grows a mustache. Q. How large H. L W, A. If the cubit it is_supposed. it and feet wide. The Leviathan o today is slightly more than 900 feet long and about 100 feet wide. Q. How tral station N, The cost of construction of th terminal amounted to more than § 000,000. Q. How much docs a silver dol welgh?—T. i A. The weight of one newly milled s 412.50 grains, logan “Cio an was Noah's Ark?’- were 18 inches. as s 450 feet lonk much _di in New the Grand Cen- York ¢ cost How is the name of the famo ivar of South America pronounced P A. The Bo-lee-var, ond syllabie Q. What is the m an Army Spripgfield?—J. J. J. A. The National Rifle Association ays that the maximum range of the Army Springfield rifie is 4.501.6 yards. Spanish pronunciation is with accent on the sec- range of (The Star Information Bureau will answer your questions. Send them 1o The Star Information Bureau, Fred- eric J. Haskin, Director, 1220 North Capitol street. Give wour full man and address, so that the informat may be sent direct. Inclose 2 cents i stamps for n postage.) Recent Engagement Discloses The Nobility of Switzerland who temit is: Cha mself Prince of § ; vou | Castic of | by virtue of the {sncestor by Emp: i Vienna, to style Agatha. He is o Swiss for a nu king divist Diesbach Diesbach. s colonels of o the retired list her of vears was the ommander and de At least fo fell N under the French flag in the great war, which served to recail act that their fam had fu field marshal to F of Count hillippe de Relleroche Diesbach in the eightcenth e of and ' hundred names that I could mention of fami- lies of equal juity of descen instance, the de Watervilles and thic Graypenriods of Bern and the Schauensces. Ther are extremely careful about marrying in their own caste and. although the nat! ciples of the Swiss are, like those the United States, based on and fraternity, vet there i triciate in the world that anxious to keep it bloud blue, and free from any strain that i not entirely noble, than the aristoc- racy of the Helvetian Republic Thus far, there have been but matrimonial alliances that I can re- 11 between members of the old Swiss nobility and American women and in each instance they have proved a failure. One of them was that between Miss Maud Tolland daughter of Mrs. Robert Tolland of Philadelphla, and Baron I'redevick von Schauensees. son of old Baron Leopold Mever von Schaucnsecs. long the commander of the Swiss Guard {of the Papacy at the Vatican and head of a family which has for the last 00 vears made its home at the Castle of Schaucnsecs, on the shores of Lake of the Four Cantons, the castle having been bestowed upon them, along with the title of baron in 1273, by Emperor Rudolph of Haps- burg. The union of young Baro Frederick and of the former M Tolland was wrecked by his.extrav agance and by the insistence of his demands upon his wife for monoy. which rendered their separation in- evitable. It attracted no end of at- tention at the time because of the public sale, at Rome, of the baron’ belongings for the benefit of his creditors, and 2lso because of the fact that he, as a subaltern officer in the Swiss Guards, should have exposed himself to such a public scandal. x %2 With the death, the other day, England, of Sir Augustus Webst formerly of Battle Abbey at Hastings and famous when an officer of the Grenadier Guards as the champlon amateur banjoist in ngland, h family, which has been & much in the public eye for the past two cen- turies or more, has become extinct. For he lost his only son in the great war, and his wife died £ix years ago in a vain attempt to save her daugh- ter from drowning, a tragedy which many regarded as a fulfiliment of that monkish curse of death by fire or by water of all those who owned or oc cupled Battle Abbey. It was a monas- tery until the time of the reforma tion and an abbey commemorating the battle of Hastings and built over the last resting place of King Harold. who fell in that struggle against th Norman invader, and was taken from the church for hestowal upon Henry VIII's favorite, Sir Anthony Browne, under circumstances of great brutal- ity and cruelt Undeterred by There several 1 nal prin s of equality o pa- is more exclusively two | this curse. and de- {ying superstitiol the late Michael P. Grace took Battle Abbey on a long lease and spent much money upon the place. Most of his five daughters were married from thence, during his ten- ure. But the eldest and fairest of them, wife of the Hon. Hubert Beau- mont, was drowned with her littie boy while bathing near Leghorn. After that, Michael Grace declined to live any longer at Rattle Abbey and. a convert to belief in the curse moved to Cortachy Castle of TFor-9 farshire, which he leased from the young Lord Early.

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