Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY.....August 25. 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evel Business Office, 111 St. agd Penusylvania Ave. New YorkOffice: 110 Eant 42ud St. Chicago Office: Tower Building European Office: 16 Regent St., London. England. 2 Star, with the § edition. 18 delivered by carriers conts per month: duily onty. Sundas only, 20 cents per 1% iz be <ent by mail, or tele E000. " Calliction is made by carriers ot the end of cach moath. The Eve nday mornin Rate by Mail—Payable i M land and Virginia. and Sunday $5.40: 1 mo. only L $6.000 1 mo.. only. $2.40; 1 mo. All Other States. and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo.. $5¢ only ..1yr., $7.00: 1 mo., 60c only. 1 $3.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Daily Daily tunday ¥ i Member of the Associated Press, Associated Press iy exclusively entitled e use for Tepublication of all news dis o wot otherwise credited the local news pub: s of publication of hes hereln are reserved. Vished enecial dis Self Interest and Intervention. Lord Bi v oc eves that kenhead, former lord chan. Britain, evidently be- ivilization is enlightened *Ifishness.” In his address before the fams Cy Institute of Politics he urges that the United States should Great iet its own welfa of the world Buropean, which he situation. Lord Birkenhead, evils in the European woblem. Only through following thé line of the hest interests of this coun- wy can th ly dis. duty both to itself and to owe says United States prop lord chan situation should join in “the war But its motive in suld be the protection of its and not an idealistic de- the former of the State of the analysis ted T a is peace. sive Letter the conditions of world Solut mi 5 larae n' rnational problems same economic basis 1e fittest that con. ms between individuals, | keynote which w of Lord Birken one of the most ng that Williams Col He feels. how: this govern. feeling that isolation and illumina dctivered torum this sc who seek to into the Euro- solvent factor American people own welfare de- m of stability do that they will out a change of of this country, distinetly indis: than in the role to the American self- rvene is a matter for stration. Broadly course, eminently world should be reat powers of Eu d; that in- hould be revived; that the wel- all tands abroad should be re American foreign markets, to the matter the lowest plane, ave dependent upon the ability of the American goods, . depends upon their in- markets depend, too, toration of the currencies n countries to a normal harmo on ople ahroad to buy a upon the These ba There market of course, han the this matter m of potential war, of the more question i the matntenance of gove t the avoidance of con- and overturn, the prevention of spread of the cancer of bolshevism uropean body politic. these the United States is con- the But our people is whether there is a pr tical way of intervention or participa- tion in the settlements which are so in heing reached that will not involve the United States in the poli ties of Europe: that will not make this party to the schemes and of nations for their own advantage. 1f a formula of interven tion can be framed. that will enable this zovernment to take a hand in the Furopean question for its own wel- fare without such involvement it will, without much doubt, be adopted here and promptly applied. ———————— “ c- slow comtry a maneuve Detroit is.slightly agitated by the { that a scrubwoman employed in ene of the municipal buildings goes n automobile. There has impression that in Detroit more a bar to the some kind of a motor than to keeping a pet dog or a mule. to work in been an poverty was no ownership of ——— Canada to be sending bad liquor into this country. In view of the large quantitles reported in cir- culation such action is unnecessary as it is unneighborly. —_——— The power of public opinion is not yet sufficiently concentrated to enable it to figure with prompt decision in a strike controversy. ————— Columbia Island. Work of developing Columbia Is- land, which is an important unit in the river park system of the Capital, goes on, and one may read in the an- nual report of the engineer officer in charge that the time is not far off is sa when this tract of 172 acres built with | mud dredged from the Georgetown Fhannel for the purpose of improving navigation will be dedicated to park uses. Making the new park accessible 10 the public depends on the construe- tion of the memorial bridge from Poto- mac Park, near the Lincoln Memorial, to the Arlington reservation. This bridze will cross the island park and e entrance to it, but no doubt a bridge will also he built from the river- side’ lands of Arlington to Columbia 1sland, a narrow strip of water sep- arating the island from the mainland. ~ Thousands of people driving and valking In Potomac Park look across g Star Newspaper Company | re be its guide in the | has | There | nments on their | | estion that is now before | ! question as to an eight-hour da the river to the new-made land, but not all éf them know that it is a long island, because from Potomac Park the river separating the island from the Virginia shore cannot be seen. It was necessary 1o deepen the broad |channel to Georgetown, it having + shoaled to an average depth of seven- | teen feet. The material taken out was { pumped behind retaining banks and lines of broken rock, with the result jthat a large tract of new land was raised above high tide, and this will ! be turned into park as funds become {available for the work. As the chan ;nrvl deepening was necessary to com- n the river the park may be considered in the light of a gift from the dredges. Sometimes the question comes up in men’s minds as to what disposition can be made of mud dredged from the river as the years go by. The Potomac at Washington shoals as mud brought down from thousands of square miles _.-r country begins to settle in the quiet water below the falls and rapids. If the water-borne commerce of Wash- ington increases, dredging must be ! carried on from time to time, and the | building of new parks with the dredzed | material cannot go on without end.} But the time when people will be faced with that problem is many, years away, and the descendants of the Washingtonians of today can cross that bridge, or dispose of that wmud, when they come to it. i merce | | | | i | | many | The Pinch Hitter. Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Penn- Ivania, is to try his hand at bringing | the operators and miners together in ! a settlement that will avert a shut.| down of the mines. Pinchot is the | “pinch-hittec™ for the administration. | 1t is eminently fitting that he should be. He is the chief executive of the state in which the anthracite mines lie. He has more intimate jurisdiction lover the miners and the operators | through the police powers of the state | than has the federal government. The Governor of Pennsylvania is acting in entire harmony with the President, and. in fact, at the sugges- tion of President Coolldge. He knows that in any steps he may take he will have the backing of the United States government. There is to be closest co-operation between state and federal authorities. President Coolidge's action in call- {ing upon-the Governor of Pennsyl- | vania to use hix good offices is in no sense an abandonment by the federal government of the task of protecting the people in the event of a coal strike. It is in line, however, with the policy {of President Coolidge from his first entrance upon public life. He moves always in a lawful way to maintain law and order. Nothing could be more in accord witlt this policy than his re- | quest to the Governor of Pennsylvania | to act in the present situation, and | | hnis promise of support from the fed- eral government. ! Gifford Pinchot, who has now taken {on the role of a special medlator at the instance of the President, is well | He is no stranger to Washing- | ixun. He put the forest service on the map. He has been an earnest advo- } cate of the conservation of the natural { resources of the country for the bene: | fit of the people. He was an intimate {friend of President Roosevelt, one of | | the members of the “tennis cabinet” | ot Roosevelt days. He was elected as |a reform Governor of Pennsylvania. | The people of his state and outside of {hm state have confldence in his hon- | esty and integrity of purpose. The | operators and miners may well give heed to the advice and counsel of Gov. Pjnchot _———— Fears are entertained that Ellis Is- {1and has been so managed as to bring | utter disappointment to immigrants | whose minds were filled with glowing | pictures painted by people who in-| duced them to make the trip. ———— i | New Engiand has produced great talents for statesmanship, and is pre- paring to show the world an equal amount of perspicacity in managing some rather difficult railroads. —_———— i ! When an eminent democrat throws his hat into the ring it falls into com- pany with so much distinguished head- gear that it attracts only pagsing mno- | tice. ————— The prospect Is that instead of any in the coal mines there will be a decision for no day at all. B —— ! Present agitations in public affairs do not permit any official of great re- sponsibility to complain personally of unemployment. An early opportunity for handling {a labor crisis has been presented to President Coolidge. 0ld-Fashioned News. The Star a day or two ago published a news item that a horse hitched to a wagon ran away, that the occupants of the wagon were thrown out and in- jured, and that the runaway was stopped by Policeman Frye. It was old-fashioned news. It had the flavor of other days. Once the horse figured more prominently in the news than he does today. A runaway item was in nearly every issue of The Star.| Whether it was because horses were more numerous or because they in- dulged with greater liberty in the habit of running away is not to be told. One of the important duties of policemen ! was to stop runaway horses. * Before the coming of the automobile | it was a common happening for a pedestrian to be run over by a horse and buggy, or to be knocked down by a horse car. There was reckless driv- ng in the good old times, and The Star published about as many stern editorials in denunciation of reckless driving on the Avenue, on F street and on 7Tth street as it publishes now against reckless automobile driving. A man with a fast stepper liked to pass everything else on the street, In- stead of stepping on the gas he would cluck or flap a rein. Although a man would boast that Prince Charlie, Sor- rel Dragon or Gray Lightning could trot a mile in three minutes, he would always tell Judge Snell that he was driving along at a leisurely pace. The old-fashioned driver seemed to have little more patience with police regulations than the new-fashioned | jaircraft production fi tion. THE EVENING driver. It was against the law to leave a horse standing without a weight, or to hitch him to a street tree or a tree box. It was against the law to let a horse go faster than a walk in crossing the Long bridge, Aqueduct, Navy Yard or Benning bridge. Yet there were violations. The records of the Police Court, if they have been kept, wiil show many fa- millar names against which were as- sessed fines of $5. When the bicycle came in trafic accidents took a boom. Pedestrians were knocked down and horses werk startled till they ran away. There was an outcry by pegdes- trians againsi the reckless Ricycle riders who thought they owned the streets, and there were outcries by horse owners against that modern and infernal invention the bicycle. Kircraft for War. Authoritative announcement at the ‘White House that President Coolidge deprecates the calling at this time of an international conference to limit war, gested by the American Leglon, is not to be construed as meaning that this | government approves unbridled rivalry amons the nations for such construc- On the contrary, the policy of | the United States is to seek to limit by setling an example here rather than by attempting to draw the gov- ernments of the world into another armament limitation conference. President Coolidge, it is explained, feels that the difficulties confronting Europe are so varied and so serious it would be impracticable to undertake another conference; in other words, that Europe is in no mood to hearken to any suggestion of a unanimous agreement on another world-peace measure. At a more opportune time the President, it is said, will be glad to initiate such & movement and to press it with all ¢he ardor that Presi dent Harding exerted in bringing about the late armament limitation conference. In the meantime this government can set the world an example by re- fraining from entering upon an exten- sive aircraft.production program. The bureau of the budget recommended the cutting of the esti- mates of the War and Navy depart- ments, much to the concern of the re- spective heads of the military estab- lishments. President Coolidge will have a great deal to say in the final action taken, and doubtless he will be guided in his decision by all the circumstances of the case. That is to say, he will prob- ably recommend a course which does not contemplate a rivalry with other nations, but will still not leave the United States utterly unprepared in case another world crisis involves it. —_———— The farmer and the city dweller have not yet held a conference to in-| vestigate why wheat i§ so cheap in the field and so dear after it comes| out of the baker's oven. —_——— Archeological discoveries are only picturesquely interesting. None of these ancient records gives any prac- tical information on how to settle a { coal strike. ————— Germany started out in the expecta- tion of making trouble for the entire world, and this aspect of the enter-| prise still gives a slight suecess. promise of —_—e———— Dyestuffs are clqgsely associated in origin and laboratory development with material for chemical warfare. The frivolities of fashion have had their serious association ever since it became a rule of existence for comedy and tragedy to walk hand in hand. It the oil companies continue to re- duce prices there may be hope of { solving the winter fuel situation by means of the keros@ne burner. ————— ‘When the public finds a commodity quoted as nothing available at any price, the cost of living may in this particular instance be regarded as having unquestionably reached its | peak. e _Recent conferences have developed nothing sufficiently novel to interest ‘even the best of listeners. President Poincare shows versatility | in finding tactful phrases for convey- ing the fact that he has not changed his mind. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Permanencies. They say a kind word never dies; As controversies come anew The harsh words that may there arise Display a vast endurance, too. And though some little things we need From time to time may disappear, We listen to or eise we read The same old words from year to ve “Would you consent to use money your campaign?” “Never,” replied Senator Sorghum. “At the same time I wouldn't try to force my personal views on members of our organization who have their own practical ideas.” in Jud Tunkins says a man often gets the reputation for being wise by learn. ing a lot of things that nobody is par- ticularly interested in. Rotation, The lass pursues the old-time plan— Perhaps there's no improving it— All summer she’s acquiring tan, All winter she's removing it. Inevitable Change. “Why the fig-leaf costume?" quired Adam. “Fashions have to change,” an swered Eve; “I had to put something on. There was nothing to be taken off,” in- - /flly Paree. “A great many people go to Paris to study art.” “Yes,” answered Miss Cayenne; “and a great many study art as an excuse for going to Paris.” “A man dat does hie best,” sdid Uncle Eben, “is entitled to credit, but he may have to Improve some befo Dest is worth noticin’,* as sug-| has already | 'STAR, WASHINGT! D. C., SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1923 CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS “Truth to tell, 1 am surprised at writes a reader of Capital Key notes, and he incloses a paragraph concerning the new black memorial stamp in honor of the late President Harding. He underscores the sen- itence, “The first stamp of this country ever printed in black,” and then he crushes the writer of that atrocious misstatement by asking in freezing tones: “Did you ever see one of the old ‘Andr Jackson' stamps, that once were used where we now use G. W. 2-center * ok ok “Truth to tell” the writer was not interested in stamps in Andy Jack- son’s day, but, being willing to learn, he called on Third As master General Glover and asked for [facts. That official did not know, but ordered an investigation. remarking: “That must come from a philatelist. Those fellows are always jacking us up if we make the slightest error.” * ok % ¥ “Truth to tell” can it be that a philatelist would assume that the Andy Jackson black stamp was unigue, prior to the Harding black memorial stamp? The uniqueness of the Hard- ing stamp 1s that it is the only black memorial stamp ever issucd—the_only memorial stamp in_any color. -There have been no less than thirteen stamps printed in black, not counting the re- issues of the same stamps. And Mr. Philatelist is still voting for Andy Jackson! Here is the list of black stamps, as ment, through the kindness of Third Assistant Postmaster General Glover: Denom ination 10-cent Subject Washingron Washington ckson asuington Lincaln Hamilton ; Jefferson olumbian 2 Catile In Storm Farragut < L Twent Washington TS cent McKinley The official letter adds: “No refer- ence is made to the fact that any of the above stamps were Issued in the form of a “niemorial.” In fact, the year of the series compared with the jdeath of the subject would indicate that all were selected for their his- torical value.” Try that test on Columbus, or even W. or Jackson. * ok K K 5100 nsmississippi e $1.00 G “Ain't men funny ored cook when the head of & house- hold, in an emergency, tried to help, and set the breakfast table with an | unironed cloth, not seeing the ironed ones. At philatelists funny!” They count the notches on the edges of stamps, knowing that certain stamps printed on flatbed presses have more notches than others printed on rotary s. Or is it fewer? d if the perforations in a sheot amps happen to come perfect at intersection, making a “perfect instead of un imper- | fect intersection. perhaps mutilating | a perforation, these perfect stamps are prized and the others despised. i"\lnl\ng four-leaved clovers or count- {ing the petals of a daisy, with ro- mantic_inquiry, is trifiing, but check.- ing philatelic marks is science. “Ain’t philatelists funny!” o A few weeks prior to President Harding’s start on his trip to Alaska, Assistant Postmaster General Glover made up a set of certain new postage {stamps, and gave them to his little daughter to present to the President. Mr. Harding, with his characteristic fondness for children, was greatly pleased with the gift, and was amazed when he was told that dur- {ing the last fiscal vear the depart- an Imaitese cross” to the amount of $105,000, for which the mail service would never be called upon to carry a pound of mail. | ""Fhiis included three airplane stamps {to the total of $6.000, of which the collectors took the entire issue. The ! three plates had cost §860. 8o that the government made a profit of $5.140. It included $12,000 worth of Haves 11-centers, Roosevelt 5-centers and Washington 2-cente: i President Harding. chuckling, sug- BY FREDERIC To t er comes word of an alleged project among the Moham- medan people to do remarkable honor the name of Woodrow Wilson. IThere is said to be under a scheme to compile a compendium of the former President's most famous ipublic utterances, translate them into Ithe Arabic language, and circulate the volume throughout the Islamic world. Mohammedan admirers of Mr. Wilson are quoted as predicting that the volume is.destined to rank among their people as second only in in- spirational value to the Koran. Charles R. Crane, former American minister to China, himself a Wil- sonian adherent, and an authority on ilslam, has been mentioned as one of those interested in the enterprise. | Woodrow Wilson's enunciation of the !self-determination ideal at the end »f the world war fired the imagina- tions of the whole Mohammedan iuniveruo. i fto way * % k% One of President realized ambitions was to bring Her- bert Hoover and Hiram Johnson to- gether and turn their feud into friendship. Mr. Harding told them Ine deplored the ‘“unseemliness” of {California’s two outstanding repub- licans in the guise of implacable foes. !The President, always at his best in the favorite role of conciliator, pto- iposed a little White House dinner, at which Hoover and Johnson could i{bury the hatchet. The Secretary of Commerce, without evincing any in- decorous enthusiasm, indicated his readiness to smoke the pipe of peace in the interest of republican harmony and because Mr. Harding wanted it. Senator Johnson is understood to have rejected the proposal. He in- timated that hg desired no fraterniz- ing with what the California matador has just publicly dubbed “the Hoover crowd.” * ok % % John Jacob Rogers, representative from Massachusetts, whose wife has been reappointed the President’s “friendly visitor” to war hospitals, has a hobby. He nursed it through \several futile sessions of Congress— his bill to reorganize the American diplomtaic and consular service. The bill passed the House at the last ses- sion of the Sixty-seventh Congress and just narrowly escaped enactment in the Senate owing to routine pres- sure at the finish. Secretary Hughes is heart and soul for the Rogers bill, which aims at putting our foreign serivce on & basis which will induce men of brains and not merely men of money_to adopt it as a career. The State Department hopes Representa- tive Rogers' measure will speedily run the gauntlet on Capitol Hill next winter. Incidentally, it proposes to pay our foreign representatives what Samuel Gompers would call a living wage. * ¥ ¥ % Who and what are “the basic agents of the government?' According to wilbur F. Wakeman of Eitingville, Staten Island, they are the members of political county committee! tant Post- | supplied by the Post Office Depart- | ejaculated a col- | iment had sold to philatelists stamps| WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Harding's un-} sested that it might pay to change stamp issues quite often. * X ¥ % All the airplane transcontinental letters which are being carrled now in the five-day preliminary test of the new twenty-eight-hour schedule are golng for 2 cents, for the phila- telists monopolized the entire output of the new airplane 8, 16 and 24 cent stamps. When the service Is regu- larly scheduled, the postage will run according to zones—like parcel post— 8 cents from New York to Chicago, or intermediate points, 16 cents to Chey- enne and 24 cents to the coast. P A taste of future ease, such as Dr. Steinmet the electric wizard, prophesies will come within a cen- tury, when nobody will have to work much, has already come to Capt. Pat- rick Irving O'Hay. Capt. O'Hay had been given a golden meal ticket by | the Society of Restaurateurs of New York, which ticket entitled him to a free ‘meal, anywhere, at any time. Just why he was to be fed up free is not part of this story. He was. Then he and & friend, traveling westward, took a hobo into his fliv- ver. Would a tramp appreciate a free :meal, anywhere, all the time?—yes. he ‘tramp stole the golden ticket, {and now Pateick would change his itname, either to “Dinnis” or “Tan- ltalus” Mr. Tantalus was a son of Zeus, entitled to nectar and ambrosia lall his eternal life, but for some of- |fense was sentenced to Hades, where {he had to stand in the middle of a !lake whose waters receded from him when he would drink, and where fruit evaded his reach when he would leat. Three times a day this modern Tantalus now finds his golden ticket Just out of his reach. When the Steinmetz millennium ar- rivee, shall we all have golden meal tickets? i 1 i | i I e The way of the transgressor is zo {ing to be harder than ever. when the international system of chasing him is completed which is being perfected under the direction of William J. Burns, director of the United States bureau of investigation. It consists primarily of an agreement with the secret services of England, France, italy, Germany, Spain, the Nether! lands and m: smaller countries, whereby all these secret services will act as one in detecting international fugitives from justice. According to the detectives this will be worth as much to civilization as the most enthusiastic advocates of internationalism have ever claimed for their special plans. whether for a league or a court. There will no longer be ‘cities of refuge’ for thieves, murderers or defaulters. As every civilised nation is at war with criminals, all such nations are nat- ural allies in the fight against crime Their mutual alllance in the fight strengthens each and all. * % x x have been men without a but it remained for a con- gressman to become a man of two states at the same time. A repre- centative from Michigan serving the Wolverines in Congress is officially adjudged a resident of the District of Columbia, by a court in ruling upon his bankruptey. The repre- =entative is a legal voter in Michi- man. has never voluntarily relin- quished his_citizenship of that state and is in the District only officially because he is a citizen of Michigan, lentitled to be chogen by the Michi- Igan voters to represent them in Congress. 1y 1 There country, * ¥ X% % it comes as a surprise that congressional privileges and im- munities may #ct in the reverse, and trap a statesman into a citizen- ®hip against his choice. Is there such a thing a dual citizenship, involvjng two states? It is claimed by most authorities that no dual citizenship as to two nations should be recognized, and certainly the hyphen became unpopular ecnough during the war. Now we have a court-decreed Michigan-District-of- Columbian. Maybe some day it will be as necessary to accumulate h phens as now it is to gather aut mobile license tags. A bas les h phens! (Copyright, 1023, by Paul V. Collins.) Somehow WILLIAM WILE ! throughout the nation. Mr. Wakeman on his own hook is circularizing the G. O. P. committeemen of Greater New York and -admonishing them in these terms he after-war burdens of the cffice of President of the United States cost us the life of our beloved Warren | G. Harding. How an vou and I lessen the burdens of Calvin Coolidge, his successor? By increasing the ef- ficiency of the basic agents of govern- ment, namely, members of the county | committee In every scetion. They are | our actual bosses, for, excepting in cases of emergency or political revo- {lution, they tell us for whom we shall | vote, and, from their action and policy, come good or bad results.” * ook % yes of the nation are certain to be riveted upen Gifford Pinchot, | Governor of Pennsylvania, who is to be President Coolidge’s chief co- operator in handling the anthracite coal strike. More than 75 per cent of ! anthiacite is mined in Penn«ylvania, and the overwhelming bulk of it in an area so restricted that it can be traversed in a day’s automobile trip. That is a cumstance from which both the miners’ leaders and the public authorities will derive advantage. The leaders can conduct a strike with corresponding facility ang the authorities will be able more dasily to maintain law and order. Gov. Pinchot commands a splendid state constabulary of 6,000 officers and men. They are well or- ganized and disciplined. He is con- fident they are equal to any likely emergency. Politicians will watch Pinchot's _activities with interest. Some think he may score so heavily before the anthracite storm is calmed that_he will loom predominantly on the 1924 presidential horizon. * @ % % Judson C. Welliver, whom Presi- dent Coolidge is retaining as public- ity counselor at the White House, recounts a disconcerting experience with the Harding party in Alaska. “Jud” paid his respects one day to Juneau lawyer who is struggling through life with the name of Grover | Cleveland Wynne. Welliver is a pretty keen. judge of human nature, and thought he had the lawyer's pedi- | gree. ‘Wynne,” he said, “youre a middle westerner, probably from Jowa, and your father was a good, old-fashioned democrat about the; time you were born, in the middle 80s. That's why he named you Grover Cleveland.” The lawyer re- joined: “Well, I am a middle west-| erner, and 1 was born in 1885, but you've got me wrong on the rest. My father was an old-line republican. I was the fifth ckild of a steadily grow- ing family, my predecessors all be- ing boys. My father had a hunch I was going to be a girl, and when 1 turned out to be a hoy he decided to vent_his wrath by naming me after the first democratic President inau | gurated since the civil war.” (Copyright, 1923.) His Ford Failed Him In Bear Baiting In spite of the claim of its en- thuslastic advocates, there are some things that cannot be successfully done with a Ford. It might be pos- sible to run down a rabbit with one, if the rabbit wouid keep out of the ditches and brush and follow the road. We have heard stories of climbing trees with Fords, but know of no case in which ‘the story was bacfed up by affidavits of geputable witnesses, and so we are still inclined to doubt all such tales. But a man in Pennsylvania the other day, apparently convinced that the Ford has no limits, attempted to run down a brown bear which he encountered as he was driving his Ford coupe along the highway near the town of Kinzua, The bear was prepared to meet the attack and &ripped the tire of a front wheel with his teeth. Shaken loose the first time, the animal took another bite and col- lapsed the tire. By that time the driver was ready to retreat; but driving with one tire was slow, and the bear, now oughly engaged, followed close be- hind, trying to get another hold. The man saw a willow tree off to one side of the road. ran his Ford into t. and succeeded in getting into its limbs before the bear got to him. The tree was too slender for the bear to climb. and so it proceeded to chew one tire into shreds, while the captive {shouted in vain from the treetop for help. Finally, Bruin got tired of chewing rubber "and standing guard and walked away. The prisoner descended from his tree, drove some miles on the rim, in order to be sure that he was well away from the bear, and then put on a new tire. He is now convinced that the Ford has its limits, and that for Pennsylvania bear hupt- ing an Army truck, or an armored tank, would be decidedly better.— Columbus Dispatch Once Famous Bandit Now a Diet Patient How have the mighty failen! Here we have Emmett Daiton, member of the notorious—we almost said famous—*“Dalton boys,” an inmate of the Battle Creek Sanatorium. The fire-eating bandit has become a diet patient. He who used tos sleep the rain and the snow now s hot baths and avoids drafte His plunging steed has given place to a wheelchair. The bullets with which he used to be so free have been replaced by little brown pellets that rattle around in a pill box under the label. “take one every hour.” Nineteen vears of prison life h made remarkable changes in the bank robber. Nurses at the sanatorium say they cannot imagine the gray-haired Dalton. now fifty-two years old, soft of speech, with mild eves and Kindly smile. s a member of a band of des- peradoes of whom the entire south- west stood in fear for three years and for whom rewards of $40,000 were at one time outstanding. “Why, he looks more like a lawyer or a banker,” observed one nurece There is hardly any trace of the former life about Dalton. He looks somewhat heavy now. for a horseman, and too genial, frank and friendly ever to have been the man that once he was. His hair. once black, is gray, his face is as smooth and good-na- tured as a boy's, and hig light gray « are mild and thoughtful. He i mild-mannered, kind and to all ap pearances a good citizen. And vet, there are those who sa our penitentiaries are but training schools for criminals.—Harrisburg Telegraph. More Good and Bad Reading Now Than Ever There are countless savings about books and reading which are more or less famillar to the general public. but almost everybody knows - that “Reading maketh a full man,” likewise realizes that “Of making many books there is no end, and much study Is a weariness of the flesh.” Perhaps there was never a time in the history of the world when those quotations applied more fully than they do at present. though doubtless not in the way in which their authors intended. If Bacon were alive toda certainly add that it was matter of vital importance to see what a man read and was full of as a result, and just as surely the flesh of the biblical author would be made even more weary than was formerly the case if he had to study part of the endless stream of stuff that comes from mod- ern printing presses. That is to sa there never was a time when it was easier to go right or go wrong on reading than it Is today. It is true. and unfortunately perhaps. that there were never so many books, papers and magazines which are not worth the paper they are printed on and not fit for the perusal they get at the hands of the public. The story does not end there, By the same token, there were never so many worth-while_ things being put_into circulation. Condemnation of that which js essentially rotten all too often means nothing more than added advertisement and circulation for it. What we need"is a public which will_not buy such rot and then its menace will be negligible. The way to achieve such a happy result is by inculcating a desire for that which is worthy, Teachers and parents must bear the brunt of this effort, and it is pleasant to be able to say that every civilized community in America today can find out very easily what it were good to read. —Nashville Banner. a he would 0, Crocheting a National Time-Killing Sport A voung and fairly intelligent mar- ried woman, on a vacht cruise, was observed by a male passenger to be busy with a crochet needle and a big spool of heavy thread making little wheels, which were put together to make big wheels, which in turn were to be combined some day in the grand sum total of a marvelous white bed- spread, made of millions of stitches. She sat, hour after hour, day after day, fingers flitting and eves fixed on the work in her lap, oblivious to the beauty of sky, water and forest. She had sailed presumably for a vaca- “I figured on making " she explained roudly. han that. I may get the spread done in less than two years. 1 know a woman who was offered $1,000 for iy DnSIW didn’'t need the $1,000, either. Her husband would have gladly given her that much to stop her eternal crocheting and take an interest in life. = Not all women seem to be profiting by the new leisure they have won.— Norfolk News. The Puzzle of Agriculture Half the farmers made less than $1,000 last year, claims Nathan Straus, jr., agricultural expert of the New York state senate. Such figures are confusing. Do they represent clear profit? If so (and probably not), the s in addition got their living. Lo ity "workers have $1,000 clear after paying for food, ete. On the other hand: In New Jersey, 399 school pupils in one year clear nearly ‘370,000 above all expenses from their home gardens. hat's $175 aplece, and in spare time. They had, of course, no investment in land, no_notes at bank, no taxes. Intensive farming and diversified crops may be the solution of many farmers, especially ones wkho stake everything on onme crop. The cotton rower finally is learning this— uffalo Times. thor- | and | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. What is the oldest building in Washington ?—K. C. | A A row of brick builaings in old {4th street between N and O streets southeast, down near the Anacostia and the Potomac, are said,to be the oldest buildings in Washington. They were built by a man named James Greenleaf, but the exact date of thelr erection could not be ascertained. Q. Who or what was John Wither- spoon that he shquld have a statue in Washington?—L. A. Witherspoon was a noted clergy- man president of Princeton, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, and the only ecclesi- astic who signed that document. i Q. Does President Coolidge helong to & college fraternity?—K. L C. A. He is a Phi Gamma Delta Q. Is there an animal drinks water?—C. T. A. It is sald that the gemsbok, a large South Arican antelope, never drinks water, the moisture which it requires being obtained from the suc- { culent bulbous plants on which it | feeds. that never Q. What states produce the most lumber?—J. R. M A The five greatest lumber pro- ducing states in 1922 were Washinz- ton, Oregon, Louisiana, Mis: and California, according to figures complled by the forest service. Q. How large is Plymouth Rock?— F. M. A. Plymouth Rock is 6 feet long, ' feet wide and 3 feet high. On its f. the figures 1620 are cut, showing th date on which “the feet of outcasts pressed this svmbol of religious fre dom.” The rock was moved in 17 by patriots, who placed it in Liberty Pole square that it might “be near the guarl house. the church and the {liberty pole.” While being loaded on an ox cart the rock fell and was broken. Some said this was an omen of the break that was to come be- tween Great Britain and her cologi in America. Pieces of the rock were cemented together and it was later moved back to its original resting place. | Q. What is a “dearest” ring?—L. B. H. A. This name is given in England to & narrow ring set with a diamond, emerald, amecthyst, ruby, emerald sapphire and topus, the initial letters of which words spell “dearest.” Q. Docs a Chinaman have to have his cue cut off to get into the United States™—W. F. C. A. Careful examination of the iCl ese exclugion acts do not show that any statute requircd a Chinese person o cut off his cue in order to entor this country. Q. What words arec the Alamo?—A. G. L. A ““Thermopylae had |t messenger of defeat The Alamo had none This has reference to the little band of 188 men who were massacred by a horde of Mexicans numbering about 2.500. Although death was inevitable to surrender ins ed over the little band refused For ten daj back, but were finally overcome in a hand-to-hand battle. Q. Do many actors and actr. of the stage succeed on the scr A K. A. Few screen succ the stage and vica Hamilton | technique 1 The tempo of acting for the camera is | much slower and more deliberate than {British Admiral McKenna sses come from versa. Clayton says that film and stage 1 i i | | British admirals on the retired list, who are credited with a gift of plain |speaking, and with an experience of the liquor problem iess one-sided [than can be derived from the prisons {and hospitals. are taking a very ac- {tive part in the wogk of the Anti- { Prohibition League. and kindred or | ganizations. Naturally, they have at- {tracted the hostile attention of Pus: ifoot Johuson and his disciples, who jare now directing, in a_special de- jgree. their guns upon them, among ! the objects of their attack being Ad- miral Sir Reginald Hall, member of parliament for the County of Derby, and who was at the head of the se- cret service of the roval navy throughout the great war. and Rear [Admifal Sir Guy Gaunt. member of liament for Buckrose and who will be remembered by his many friends in America as having been in charge of the secret service work of the British navy in the United States. in the West Indies. in Canada, as well as in Central and South America, from 1914 until the restoration ,of peace. Sir Reginald Hall. on retiring from the navy, became, first of all, a di- rector and partner of the great brew- ery concern of the Barclays, and thereupon. the founder and president of the Fellowship-of-Freedom-and- Reform, an anti-prohibition organ zation of considerable power and i fluence, and. on his appointment as chief agent and manager of the con- servative party machine. surrendered his presidency of the society and his jdirectorship of the Barclays, though {mot his interest in the firm. to Sir Guy Gaunt. The fellowship society spent last vear close upon a quarter of a million dollars in its far-reach- ing political activities. Another for- jmer flag officer, namely, Admiral i Nicholas. 1s the secretary of the Anti- Prohibition League. * * % x Sir Martin Conway. who has an {American wife in the person of | Katrjna. daughter of Charles Lam- {bard of Augusta, Me., president of the i1 Alpine Club, member of parliament |for the combined universities. and | perhaps the most celebrated of living veteran Alpinists. having made the ascent of mountains in all parts of the world, has just called attention to the fact that, with the recent pas- sage of a member of the English Al- pine Club from the Vallee de Mont- joie, in France, into the Val Veni, in Italy, by way of the dangerous and until’ that time virgin ~ “Col In- !franchisable,’ the conquest of the Alps has been completed. He de- clares that today -there is no Alpine mountain or peak the summit of which has not been scaled by modern mountaineers, and no pass. no matter how arduous and dangerous, that has not been crossed. The field of moun- taineering conquest has been exhaust- ed in the Swiss, French and ftaliag Alps. Those seeking fresh victories destined to win lasting fame for their names, in connection with the scaling of heights deemed inaccessible, will have to seek them in Alaska. in cen. tral Africa and in the mysterious At 1as ranges of Morocco and among the Himalayas, and in this the Roval Duke of the Abruzzi has shown us the way, since he has to his credit the ascent of Mount St. Elias in Alaska and Mount Ruenzori in central Africa. P Those who were so much impressed by the masterly grasp by the Rt. Hon. Reginald McKenna of the various financial ana economic problems con- fronting not only the natfons of Eu- rope, but also the United States, on the occasion of his last two visits to New York. will be interested to learn that the prospects of his acceptance of Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Ppressing request for him to join his conservative cabinet in the still va- eant office of the chancellor of the eippi | they held the Mexicans | are separate and distinct, | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. acting for an actual audience: every n.ovement, gesture and detall of fa- cial expression must be proportioned more delicately and reticently. The cold, searching eye of the camera ma nifies ¢, and 4 human face in a “cloge-up” may measure ffteen foet from top to bottom. The cacual batting of an eyelid swoep through two or three of film Pittures also place a valuation on youth Few women learn to act on ‘the stage until thev are over thirty, but on the screen, where every line is greatly magnified, most women look old after they are twenty Levotees of the spoken dra £0 to hear a Saran Bernhard eight-and-seventy. but the clientele of the movies demands fresh faces Q ma fe Are garlic and onions closely related?—W. J. €. A. Garlic is & species of onion | in cultivation Q is it not true that tha penaliy for a shot out of bounds in ®olf has been changed and is now only loss of distance?—L. L. A. The penalty for a ball out of bounds. a lost ball and a ball in an unplayable lie - same—a loss of one stroke and_distance. Thus on a drive out of ds the player is playing three from the tee. Many clubs have made it a local rule, how ever, that the out-of-bounds penalty shall be loss of distance only Q. What is ihe real kissing bug s or 1 T of the and how the excitement over t A. About twenty- during t summers ¢ apers featured st sing bugs. These were s far Reduviidae, with mon name of cone-nose scuthern United States the ed “giant bedhugse” Th bedbugs in being fierce hloodsuckers, and have vantage of wings. their favor. however. they prey upon bedbug Q K A. Oleomargarine is ter.” 1t is by straining me beef fat and allowing it to stand 24 degrees. Much of the stearin cr Stallizes out and the remaining liqu (the oleomargarine) is pressed o land al d to solidify. The solid is finally mixed with a little oil render it softer and is churned with milk to impart the proper flavor Although it lacks the butyrin. the product is ilar in chemica nature to butter Q sage J. L. : age and 1399, o< whout the com- In ve v n esembla biters and od ad- caid in ~ fact that roaches ITow is olcomargarine made?-— T L. rtificial bu was Peary's first me the discovery of the no pole?—H. W. W A. The message was stripes nailed to_the pole. and felegraphed by Commodore Peary September 5. 1908, from Indian M. bor What tural gas _H. F. When was used in this country A. The earliest economic natural gas known in the States occurred in 1821, when used for the illumination of lage of Fredonia. N. Y. A we |and one-half inches in diameter < |@rilled to a depth of twenty-sc {feet near a noted gas spring and | many years supplied the village street lights. the difference betw o G e Unit What i cameos and Intaglios’—G. A. In cameos designs are repre- sented on precious stones in raised work: in intaglios. by figures ¢ into or below the surface Q (The Star Information Burcau, Fred- eric_J. Haskin, director. 1220 Norti Capitol street will answer your quest Give yor fuil name and address so th the information may be seat dircet. | close 2 conts in stamps for return post age.) s Are “Wet”; Not for Cabinet exchequer have been reduced to the anishing point. McKenna. who wi |in the decade lasting from 1906 {1918, in turn. minister of education {first lord of the admiralty, secretars |of state for home affai and chan- cellor of the exchequer, until the vent into power of the Lloyd Grorge government, is a very uncompro ing liberal and 1= committed | economic policies opposed to thos: the ultra-conservative me of t present administration. He is # most vigorous champfon of free trade and has frequently expressed his opinion. in no uncertain terms. that all ad valorem duty on imported lyxuries imposged during the great war $hould have been repealed on the restorati of peace. insisting that the: were only authorized by parliament at his request, on that distinct unde:- standing. o Reginald McKenna last winter to accept Sta Bald- win's offer of the chancellorship of the exchequer, it was on the under- standing that these war duties would be repealed, and there is no doubt that McKenna was prompted to accept the office by this belief, and also by the universal expression of public opin- ion that he was the man supremely fitted for the position of the con- troller of the finances of the nation in these extremely difficult times. As to his unique competence. there can be no question. For. since his with- drawal from politics in 1916. when he followed his friend and chieftain, Her- bert Asquith. into retirement and b came the chairman of the London Joint City and Midland Bank, he has developed that amalgamation of banks and trusts into the most powerful banking ccmbine in the United King- dom. gradually becoming the prin- cipal power in the financial world ot the British metropo His return ta politics and his acceptance of ths office of chancellor of the cxchequer would have involved enormous per- sonal sacrifice, which. however. ha was willing to undertake for the sake of patriotism. ! . | When agre * K ok x But McKenna was not willing to ga back on his word, and when June Capt. Wedgewood Benn, M. P, who is credited with a “card index” [mlnd. produced a letter written by McKenna ‘two vears ago, vigorousiy championing the repgal of these war duties on' the ground that their con- tinuance was a breach of faith, and asked, point blank, of the government for an assurance that either the cah- inet had yielded to McKenna or that the latter had abandoned his prin ciples proclaimed in the letter—and the government was unable to give a definite answer—it was felt that his prospects of becoming chanoellor of the exchequer had become very dim. Since then Lord Salisbury ani other ultra-conservative members of the cabinet, who are strong advo- cates of protection for the purposes of revenue, have taken up the cud- gels against any concession to Mc- Kenna in the matter, and, as a result thereof. both Sir Frederick Banbury and Edward Charles Grenfell, head of the London branch of the banking firm of J. Pierpont Morgan. the twa ultra-conservative members of the city of London in parliament. have declined to any longer consider the question of surrendering their seats in favor of one to whose political views, especially on economic matters, thes were, like the Marquis of Salisbury, so strongly opposed. As McKenna's un- derstanding was that, if he accepted the chancellorship of the exchequer. it would be to sit in parliament with the additional prestige of being the representative there of the city, which is an altogether privileged position, he has now declared that he will no longer consider the question of re- turning to parliament or to politics and will remain in hix wonderfull lucrative and_powerful position as chairman of the London and Midland Joint ‘stock banking combine, last