Evening Star Newspaper, August 27, 1923, Page 6

i} 6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C ']IMONDAY AUGUST 27, 1923, e R L e e e e e CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......August 27, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Businesa OMice, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave, New York Offic 1 42nd St Chicago Office: Tower Building. European Otfice: 16 Regeut St., London, England. with the Sunday morning within the city Iy, 45 cents pe h. O Eveni tion, I deliver a1 80 cents month; Sunday only, 2 ders miay be sent by ‘mi 5000, end of cuch month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1 vr., $3.40; 1 mo., 70c Daily only.........1yr, $6.00; 1 mo., 50c tunday only.......1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only. v $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ sunday only’ $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ Mer-ver of the Associated Press, The Associated Press je exclusively entitled to the use for republicarion of all news tohes credited fo it ur not otherwise credited n this paper aud also the local news pub: 1ished “herein. Al rights of publication of 1 dispatches herein are also ved. A Coal Strike Anomaly. It 18 stated that even if Gov. Pinchot should. in the course of the confer- ence which begins today at Harris- burg, win over the coal operators and miners to an agreement to continue the mining of anthracits pending a final settlement of the matters in dis- pute, a shutdown of some of the hard coal mines on ¢ next could not be avoided. “properly certified orders recalling the suspension notices | could not be got out in time to reach @il the scattered mining camps before that date. This is an extraordinary statement advanced by union officials. The an- thracite field is narrowly restricted. It is, in fact, the most compact of all the fuel fields in this country. Anthra. cite is mined chiefly in an area of about 480 square miles in northeast- Pennsylvania, a region fully seryed by rail transportation and mails, by telegraphs and telephones. It can be covered by motor car in a few hours. Mails are rapidly distrib- uted through it. There is no physical difficulty in getting word of definite action into every corner of it. The few scattered mining camps in which an- thracite is produced contribute a very small percentage of the total output. 1t has been heretofore noted by the strike-suffering public that whereas orders to cease work can be sent out in a few hours and become effective, cancellation orders are always slow There seems to be something ponder- ous about. the machinery for calling off a strike, whereas that for putting one into effect is speedy and efficient. Perhaps it is meant by this state- mient that if an agreement can be reached for the maintenance of min- ing, pending a final settlement, the cancellation orders, effective in the concentrated Pennsylvania field, will not reach the distant regions where that commodity is mined. If so, this will not appreciably affect the public. But the consumers will, nevertheless, take note of the speed with which these orders produce result, if they are issued in the happy event that Gov. Pinchot succeeds in persuading the two sides that their best interests le in the continued production of coal. ern Ku Klux and Rioting. A Ku Klux assembly and parade at Carnegie, Pa., resulted in a riot, and reports show that a number of men were wounded and that at least one was killed. The man killed wore a white robe and hood. It is said that a permit for the parade had not been granted, and in some of the accounts it is stated that the town authorities had told the Klansmen that the parade would not be allowed. The demonstra- tion against the Klan procession was made by citizens. There was general throwing of missiles and a good deal of pistol-firing. In other parts of the country ciashes have been reported between the robed and masked organization and public authorities and citizens. To what extent hostilities will spread be- tween the masked members of this organization and persons not members of it cannot be forecast, but there is something ominous in the situation. Parades of the Klan, whose mem- bers wear masks apd otherwise con- ceal their identity, and against which organization charges of violence are being made at an increasing rate, tend to create disorder. Though the leaders of these men of white robes, masks and secrecy make preachments of their Americanism and set forth that their ideals of Americanism are true and lofty, there are millions of people who believe that the secrecy practiced by the K. K. K. is most un-American, and that it furnishes a cover under which cowards may commit crimes with comparative safety. Processions at night of these masked “and hooded men frighten children and women, and some men- have great fear of an organization of this kind. Resentment and rioting follow as a natural thing. There will probably be more reports ‘of ‘bloody clashes be- . tween Klansmen -and -non-Klansmen. An American secret order with a loyal and patriotic mission has no meed for masks. ————— Effortd (o hang a presidential boom | on Govi Pinchot's present prominence in the coal situation show a tendency to play politics with a very serious mattery Atlantic City is famous not only for its gayeties, but for its exceedingly serious moments in connection with labor controversy. A man lucky enough to have coal in the cellar is not supposed to com- plain about a little thing like the price per ton. A Five-Million Baby “Star.” The latest of the big-money film con- tracts, just announced, illustrates the absurdity of the scale of values in that business. An agreement has been signed, it is stated, with the parents of a girl of three and a half years which calls for her exclusive services before the camera for three years at a ealary of $1,500.600 e year and $500,000 bonus, or $5,000,000 in all. . Btudents of economics will be’ pag- zled to adjust to this new scale of human values. A baby’s services worth five millions in threc years! Where does the value come Into the equation? ‘Through the box office, of course. A big salary figure is a big attraction. It seems to matter little about the story that is told on the screen. Usually the story is & poor one—most film stories are extremely slim material for en. tertainment., But think! A child of three and a half who gets five million in three years! She must be wonder- ful! So the crowds go and gasp at the picture, tne lines form outside of the | doors, the bright lights draw recruits to the throng, the money pours into the tills through tens of thousands of hoppers all over the country, and though the receipts may be split up forty ways in the complicated course of production, distribution and exhibi- tion, the five million and much more will be assured those who Mave just signed the contract as the “parties of the first part” or the second part, per- haps. { Movie millionaires are numerous, it |is said. Some of them are actors—Ilet i them be called that for courtesy's sake —some are producers, some are dis- tributors and some few are exhibitors. And the price of screen ‘“entertain- ment” continues to rise, with all other prices, and no one can tell what the end will be. —————— ! 1870 and 1923. Whatever may be the feeling that perhaps France is too exigent in her demands for reparations, it cannot be denied that the statement of Poincare vesterday in his address at Chassey- Beaupre put the matter in an impres- rive manner. He referred to the situa- > ion in 1870, when victorious Germany required France to pay five billion Yrancs as indemnity for the war. France paid, within the time granted, greatly to Germany's surprise and dis- comfiture. The French people, im- patient of the presence of German forces upon their soil, did ndt strike, did not offer “‘passive resistance.” did not commit sabotage, did not “welsh” or whine. They buckled down to work, they speeded up their industries, they bought their country’s bonds out of the savings in their “stockings.” They paid and freed their countr ‘When France paid in 1870 and the few years following she had been dam- aged by the war, not, of course, to the terrible degree that she was injured | by the conflict of 191418, but hurt to sich a point that her ability to pay wus somewhat less than it had been bafore the war. But Germany was na§ harmed physically by the fighting of the four-year combat, save in the 108 of manpower, which was far less than the loss suffered by France. Her industrial areas were not touched. Her ability to work and earn and save and pay were not appreciably lessened. And she has not done as France did in 1870. She has not acknowledged her debt and set to work to pay it. She has complained of the award of the peacemakers and the allotment of reparations. She has resisted every move to make her pay. If she had gone to work in a sincere -spirit to meet her obligations, however unjust they may have been, however heavy beyond her ultimate ability to pay, she would have won the right to ask re- missions. Now that France, in pur- suit of a policy of direct action to com- pel payment, is on her soil, thus repro- ducing the situation of 1870, she fails completely. France remembers, and that mem- ory is too keen to permit her now to take any other view of her duty than that she must make rmany pay. | The French syllogism has an undeni- able logic. ——— To Inflate the Ford Boom. Officers of the Ford-for-President Club at Dearborn explain that their recent inactivity is not to be construed as indicating abandonment of their efforts to bring about the nomination of the Michigan manufacturer for the 1 presidency on some ticket or another. Their quiescence was due to the thought that Mr. Ford would prefer they should cease their work in| proper respect to the late President Harding. When the season arrives, it is announced, they will begin with re- newed impetus the propaganda they have in mind. Early in September the directors of | the club will call a meeting to discuss {a remewal of their campaign and evolve a definite plan of action. It is declared that one of the first steps will be to send a delegation to Mr. Ford and ask for a statement from him whether he will consent to be- come a candidate for the nomination. This would seem to be a sensible course, and will be approved by the public. There have been so many con- flicting reports recently whether Bar- kis is willin’ or not that the public is in confusion, hardly knowing if it js afoot or on horseback in this respect. Let Mr. Ford come out and.say.so, if he wants or will take the nomination; if he does, his friends ought to know it so they can set the pot a-boiling for him, and if he does not he should relieve the minds of a number of esti- | mable gentlemen who do want it, and| are willing to work for it. ~* ' ——— e It must be admitted that there is something wrong with the type of demonstration that starts as a parade | {and finishes as a street fight. 1 —— great enough to prevent the county fairs from being more successful every year. —_— In Europe passive resistance does not imply political inertia. Lynching the Wrong Man. In the case of @ man lynched near Jacksonville, Fla., a night or so ago it is said that “information gathered by investigators today led them to be- ilieve ‘that mob members had lynched an innocent negro.” The crime im- puted to the man was that he peeped through the window of a woman's room. It is said in a dispatch from Jacksonville that “It developed today that at the time a negro peeped into the window the man lynched was at home twelve miles away, and that it was impossible for him to have been the one wanted.” Lynching is intolerable, but the law machinery in some states is too de- fective or the law officers of those states too feeble to stamp it out. In | reason in a mob. some sections of the United States lynching seems to have the backing of public opinion, and law officers seem to feel that there is no use in trying to enforce @ law that is “against public opinion.” Some cor- rective sHould be found for this savage or depraved public sentiment. In novels and moving pictures Jjudges and juries are forever making the mistake of sentencing Innocent men to death or imprisonment. This is fiction, but there is no doubt that innocent men have been convicted in courts of law. If such mistakes can be made in courts how often must they be made by mobs? There s no It would not listen to reason even should a man appear with sufficient courage and intelli- gence to suggest it. With a mob a man suspected or a man caught is @ man condemned. Mob violence is a blot on the civilization of the United States. ———me—— President Coolidge’s Axiom. A Massachusetts man, who was in town last week, a lifelong friend of President Coolidge, made this remark: President Coolidge has an axiom, the wisest one a man in public life can cherish: “What I do not say can never hurt me.’ This principle, to which he adheres, possibly to a degree which might seem extreme to many, may ac- count for the impression which many people entertain of him that he is taci- turn or reserved. Well, is it not a pretty good policy at that? Suppose, for instance, if the late President Roosevelt, on the night of his election had not in his elation uttered those fateful words, which came back to haunt him, no doubt attended by a train of regrets, “Un- der no circumstances will I be a candidate for a third term!” how dif- ferently republican national politics may have gone! Senator Capper of Kansas. in his farm weekly analyzes President Cool- idge’s characteristics for the benefit of the farmers who do not know him, saying; “‘His is the blood of Puritan New England with its inflexible in- tegrities and Spartan simplicities, Hia was a New England education. This teaches the discipline of self-repres- sion. It gives perhaps an impression of coldness and austerity that in the case of President Coolidge is entirely misleading. A man of few words and no mixer, in the popularly accepted sense, he undoubtedly is, but with him these are not evidences of austerity or aloofness, for he is essentially a man of the people.” A fine tribute, this, as well as an accurate description of some charac- teristics of the new President, in whom every one is interested, and fits well with the axiom ascribed to him by his Massachusetts friend. A few summer cold waves like the present may do more to modify Atlan- tic coast bathing costumes than the authorities have been able to accom- plish. As soon as Uncle Sam joins the league of nations there will be an im- mediate move to nominate him for chairman of the finance committee. A Labor day celebration should not become a customary prelude to a period of work cessation. France has a system of polite re- sistance which shows diplomatic value. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Hypochondria, Old Mr. Business! People stopped to say, - “You're lookin® sort o' poorly. Are you feelin® well today?” Even when they're cheerful they re- mark, “You're far from ill, But maybe if you're lucky you'll be feelin’ better still.” Old Mr. Business got worry in his head. He didn't think of workin’, but about himself instead. Ahangin' round the ticker where they're reelin’ off the tape, He only looked for symptoms till he felt clean out o' shape. Doc Braney called to see him. the Doc is mighty wise. He said, “You want the sunshine and a lot of exercise. An ailment in your body now and then may need a nurse, But in imagination you can have a dozen worse."” Now, 0ld Mr. Business, rollin’ up his sleeve, Exclaimed, “It's time to hustle both to give an’ to receive.” He never stops to listen to what gloomy people say. An’ there ain’t a doubt about gets better every day. it—he Modern Convenience. “You don’t object to being photo- graphed?” “Not at all,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “Pictures enable a man to keep before the public without the physical fatigue of shaking hands or the pos- sible embarrassment of expressing personal opinions.” Jud Tunkins says people used to go = { to Europe for pleasure, but now they Discontent among farmers is not|gg to see what real trouble looks like. Personal Liberty. “Do you feel that prohibition has curtailed your personal liberty?” “No,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. “My personal liberty seems more re- liable than it used to. I ain't in near 0 much danger of gettin’ arrested.” Spectacle. This world is but a fleeting show. Since Gwendolyn and Sally In knickerbockers choose to g0 This world looks like a ballet. ‘The Clarion Call. “Do you think women in politics can awaken men to their semse of duty?” “No doubt about it,” answered Mr. Meekton. “You ought to hear how Henrijetta wakens me to a sense of duty when 1 forget to feed the canary or water the rubber tre A little learnin’ may be dangerous,” said Uncle Eben; “but ’tain’ never as dangerous as no sense at If > The ofcial spokesman for the President was surprised when his re- mark concerning the possibility of Mathew C. Brush becoming chairman of the United States Shipping Board 'brought a spontaneous laugh from the 100 newspaper men gathered at the White House. There is about as much chance of getting Mr. Brush at the head of the Shipping Board as there would be in persuading one of the professors of l.m- leading colleges to come to Wash- ington and enter the primary class of our public schools. The speaker, taken aback by the laugh, explained that Mr. Brush is now at the head of a great private enterprise, and with a very high alary, and is doing work perhaps of as great public importance as any work of the government. * oKk ok X The incident is not without its sig- nificance. Much of the work that is carried on under private management has even greater effect in shaping the welfare of the people than most public enterprises. As it is not so well _heralded the public cannot appreciate its importance. For in- stance, take any of the great inven- tions—the Fulton steamboat, the Morse telegraph, the Atlantic ‘cable, the building of Brooklyn bridge, the invention of electric light and power, the telephone, the airplane and the radio. 5 How would connection with the government have added to the im- portance of any of these great in- ventions? “Honor and fame from no condition rise, Act well les. our part, there all the honor KoK X What is it that gives the President so much confidence that there will be no cessation in the supply of anthracite this fall? His authorized spokesman as- sures the public that the President has sincere confidence that the public will not suffer. Nevertheless, he is taking no chances in the matter of eafeguard- ing agninst the unexpected. He drew much comfort out of the recent confer- ence with Gov. Pinchot, and the full understanding as to how the federal and state governments would work to- gether in co-operation. It was pointed out that the governor of the state in which all the anthracite mines lie can et into closer touch with conditions, and can do some things in the matter of state laws which the federal govern- ment has less power to do. But the general peacefulness of the nation. the desire to preserve the peace and maintain the progress of the country is so general that President Coolidge sincerely hopes and expects that there will be no coal strike. Senator Brookhart, who has been sued for 30 cents damages by former Secretary of Agriculture E. T. Meredith, because the senator asserted that Mr. -cretary Meredith had at in with the Wall street gang in deflating farm credits, now comes back at Mr. Meredith with new arguments. Mr. Meredith had declared that Towa farmers were pros- pering, as proved, he said, by their hav- ing borrowed in 1920, from the War Finance Corporation, $27,000,000, of which they have already paid off $24,000,000. The_ senator retorts that the war finance board did not lend a cent to the farmers, but loaned only to banks and certain co-operative associa- tions. Is the senator frank, or is he quib- bling, in view of the fact that the loans to banks were in the form of rediscounts of farm loans made by the banks to the farmers, which could not have been made without the re- discount privilege? Mr. Meredith will fight his own battle, and the public is only an “innocent bystander” watching the fun, no fouls allowed. * Al With airplanes connecting the At- lantlc and Pacific coasts so that they are less than twenty-elght hours apart in mails, and with radios and ampli- fiers, it will not be so serious as it might have been for California to fight out the Johnson-Hoover battles, while the “generals” stay so far in the rear, as Washington is from San Francisco. It is quite in accord with modern military tactics for command- ing officers to remain far out of range of the guns, while directing and commanding the maneuvers. L “General” Johnson charges gallantly the intrenched army of “General” Hoover, and throws a rolling barrage ahead of his coherts. He says the Hoover forces are fighting like ir- regulars, by burglarizing and robbing Itters files, contrary to The Hague laws of clvilized warfare. Nothing that he has ever written would make him blush to publish, but he objects to having the enemy rob his hen- roost. 3 “General cries out, did it If the war continues, the very foun- dation of California republicanism will shake and the residents wlill be- lleve they are having another earth- quake. It was California which Hughes his election in 1916. the earthquakes ofe “There's a ralsin? * ok ok E L A cablegram from London an- nounces that Col. Gibbs and Col. Grif- fin of the United States War Depart- ment are now in London for the pur- pose of placing & contract with an inglish firm to lay a cable from Seattle to Alaska, at a cost of about $1,500,000. The Morse telegraph was an Amer- fean invention; the first oceanic cable was successfully laid by Cyrus W. Field of the United States, and the United States sends more than twice as many telegrams as does either eat Britain or any other nation. The greatest electric inventions are American. The greatest copper mines are American. Why must the United States Army seek to spend $1.500,000 with a forelgn cable-laying com- pany? Are American companies so overcrowded? *E x o With a twenty-seven-hour schedule by airplane from New York to San Francisco, how can a tired business man spend a week end on a round- trip across the continent, without occasionally being late,in arriving at office Monday mornings? It will be pleasanter when the dawn-to-dark- ness time-table is perfected. * ok ok * Why be a banker? Learn bricklay- ing and buy the bank. The Wash- ington Y. M. C. A. is opening a school in bricklaying, since builders scem to have solved the problem of how to “get rich quick.” The "salary” is $20 a day: why drag along through life in a_learned profession at $20 a week? The art of bricklaying will be taught in lectures, demonstratic and individual instruction, ce common bricks and hollow tile. gold bricks will be lald. The course leads to the high degree of “D.. B." which, when spelled out, means ‘Doc- tor of Bricks. g % The rehabilitation branch of the Veterans’ Bureau finds that the aver- age cost of putting a sick or wounded man on his feet so that he may go out and make a living and support a tamily is $200. The works of Henry Ford are not run as an eleemosynary institution, but on a strictly business basis. Mr. Ford employs so many thousands of men in &0 many thousands of kinds of labor that he has to utilize all the avallable kinds of men who apply for work. Yet he finds the work for which each man is capable. his jobs classified from a physical standpoint into 3,338 kinds, and his orders are never to refuse a man work simply because he is physically imperfect. So in the shops there are 670 men without any legs, 2,637 with only one leg each, two men with no arms, 715 men with one arm each and 10 bfind men. Hoover, like “Thou canst not Banquo, say I lost Mr. Beware California! * K K ¥ He believes that if other large em- ployers of labor would study how to utilize cripples—the lame, the halt and the bMnd—they would not only demonstrate humane sympathies but also patriotism and economic good sense. A laundry manager advertised a few days ago for women to work in his laundry, stiplating that none should «pply unless she was deaf and dumb. That was not Sfentimental sympathy, he explained; it was his policy, based on the ground that the mutes would epend less time gossip- ing and more time at the work they were hired to do. So the lame work- man, knowing his handicap in general industry, works with unusual faith- fulness at the job he has secured. A government eipenditure of $200 per man to produce faithful workers is a good investment. even from the standpoint of economics, though that is not the highest view of rehabilita- tion of the veterans. (Copyright. 1923, by Paul V. Collins.) WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE That noble lord :he Earl of Birken- head seems fated to step off with the wrong foot on American soil. When he last visited the United States in 1917—then as the Rt. Hon. F. E. Smith, M. P.—he gave an inter- view to “Bob” Norton, a well known Washington correspondent, which sent the Irish-American world into a paroxysm of wrath. The British poli- tician resorted to the time-honored recourse of blaming it on the re- porter, but the net result| was Smith’s precipitate withdrawal and return to England. Some stinging comments on the turbulent situation in Ireland did the damage. America had just entered the war and the visitor suddenly found his usefulness among us at an end. * % %k * Samuel G. Blythe, whose already ample writing fame has sky-rocketed afresh because President Harding was reading him a second before passing , 18 in Washington to give the new regime a reportorial once-over. Blythe, once a working Washington correspondent, has been one of the plutocrats of the journalistic profes- sion for some time. When he writes nowadays, he does it largely for phs time. He has arrived at the stage where, as George Ade once put it about himself, he can sell anything he produces, “even if it's good.” Blythe is in his fifty-sixth vear, was born in Geneseo, N. Y., which’ pro- duced two famous “Jimmies"—Wads- worth, jr., and Gerard, ambassador and was a managing editor a twenty-five. He has been pursuing the nimble item for thirty years, ex- ploring the while almost every clime on earth. American politics is his favorite theme and he has had it and its various votaries under the micro- scope since Grover Cleveland’s. era. * ok ok K There were two Admiral Katos from Japan at the Washington conference —Tomasoburo Kato, the premier, who has just died, and a junior naval of- ficer of the same surname. They were frequently mixed up, though the senior Nippone: delegate was a baron. “Call me om Kato,” sald the latter one day to an inquirer, who wanted to know how to distinguish between them. * ok ok America’'s diplomatic representative in Morocco, where the Mohammedans are said to have proclaimed a holy war against Spain, is Father Joseph M. Denning of Marion, Ohio, the Ro- man Catholic prlest who waw a life- long friend of President Harding. The United States maintains only a diple- matic agency and consulate general in Morocco, and Father Denning is in command of them at. Tangier. It may be he will be called upon before long for some important activity. The question of the future of Tangier is shortly to be discussed by a con- ference of experts in London. The port's geographical position at the northwestern tip of Africa clothes it with immense politico-economic and strategic importance, and the United States has certain anclent rights there it has never renounced. * * % % San Francisco is wondering how much President Harding’s death mili- tated against its chances of securing one or both of the 1924 national con- ventions. The Golden Gate has de- signs on both the republican an democratic conclaves, with rather a stronger hope of securing the G. O. P. meeting, because the democrats went there in 1920. At one time, too, San Francisco feared that republican leaders might hesitate to take their convention to the coast on account of the possibility of “too much John- son. Now that the intrepid Hiram is on autographed record that he has “lost out” In California, the G. O. P. may take its courage in both hands and go there next June. Chicago can have the convention if the popular and potent “Fred” Upham, republican national treasurer, wants it again for his home town. * % ok % Col. Charles B. Warren, laurel- crowned from Mexico, denies the probability of his being sent to the court of Obregon as our first ambas- sador under the new deal, but Warren says nothing about going to London. Circumstantial stories are afloat that succeed Col. Harvey- that Green mountain boy resigns. Col. Warren acquired a taste for diplomatic life during his two years in Japan, but between homesickness and lack of occupation he tired of Tokio. There is always something doing in the way of inci- dents between Uncle Sam and John Bull, and the Detroiter is not expect- ed to reject a proffer of the mission to St. James if it's made him. * ok ok ok Breckinridge Long of Washington and St. Louls is being talked about for the chairmanship of the demo- cratic national committee. The re- ports seem to have their origin in the illness of Judge Cordell Hull, now at the committee's helm, but who is re- covering and has given no sign of desiring to retire. The Long rumor may spring, too. from the fact that the democratic national organization is not rolling in money. The young Missouri democrat, who succumbed to “Jim” Reed in the 1922 senatorial primaries, is the possessor of & seven- figure private fortune. It may be that those who are grooming him for, the national chairmanship are pro- ceeding on the well known theory that “them that ntaflufl' He has) EAST IS EAST BY FRANK H. HEDGES ‘New blord ie coursing through the veins of the people of Korea, the blood of a determination to help themselves, to exert every effort to ke advantage of their opportunities, determination which wil carry them up the long hild to “a place in the sun” and give the ancient Hermit kingdam a future In the true sense of the word. A nation that long lay in slumber, that earned the title of the “Land of Morning Calm,” is awak- ening and is no longer content to drift idly through the passing vears, but seeks to build itself into a tower of strength. How this has come about is open to discussion, but the fact re- mains that among the Korean people a development is under way that is a genuine expression of a greater life, a greater activity and a greater in- terest on the part of the Koreans them- selves. Three explanations from three sep- arate schools of thought are offered. Some say the present stimulus is the result of the movement for inde- pendence, a movement born of the ac quisition of the country by the empire of Japan and of certain methods pur- sued by the Japanese in its govern- ment. Some attribute it to the abil- ity and personality of the present governor general, who seems fruly to have the interests of the Korean p ple at heart and to sympathize with them in their aims and aspirations. Others say that it is merely a mani- festation in the far east of the ger eral world ferment left in the wake of the war. Whatever the cause, certain it is that the Koreans are awakened to the advantages of exerting themselves and of grasping their opportunities. CE Y interest is especially to be in the field* of education. While it is true that the Koreans have always made much of their schools, every such institution is crowded today and the demand for an education is at fever heat. It may be due in part to the fact that the existing schools are better than any the land has known in the past, but the explanation lies deeper than that. The Korean secks an education in order to better himself and that he may serve his land. He realizes the tremendous handicap under which the ignorant labor, and would overcome this handicap for himself. A greater freedom of expression ex- ists at present than was formerly the as is shown by the larger num- of periodicals published in the an language. Six years ago but one daily newspaper was printed in Korean, and it was without influence or following, since it was generally regarded as a subsidized paper. A few missionary magazines complieted the little group of Korean language publications at that time the ves of one bookshop in day are twenty-three pe printed in Korean, covering range of subjects, from labor organs to genuine ‘lterary magazines of merit. A strict press law imposed by Japan is in_ operation and the Korean press is far from free, but at that it has made tremendous’ strides in_independence. worth and volume. On the day t orean paper should have issued its 255th number it actually published the 238th; the others had been suppressed. R Another indication of the fact that the Koreans have decided “to do it themselves” is the interest they are taking in business. One store in the Korean capital is owned, managed and operated entirely by women. The patronage, however, is confined to them, and more men than women are among its buyers. It was only a few years ago that no woman ap- peared on the streets of Seoul except behind a heavy veil Today the streets of the city are more nearly like those of the west than are the streets of any city to be found in Japan proper. Wide, well paved thoroughfares make pos- sible the traffic of many automobiles, and street cars link the residential districts with the business section. A curious mixture of Korean, Jap- anese and English is heard as the throngs stream from the modern hotel to the modern railway station. The gate that leads out of the capi tal to the pass througn the moun- tains in the direction of China has become a “Victory Gate.” Formerly it was the “Tribute Gate,” for through it passed the envoys of the vassal King of Korea on their way to the throne of the Son of Heaven in Peking. The Japanese considered rechristening the = gate once again dedicating it _to the Empire of Japan but the wisdom of the governor gen- eral prevented such an action that would have stirred the hatred of the people against those who now control the peninsula. a This noticed * k X X There is no question but that Korea has prospered materially un- der the rule of Jupan. Evidences of this prosperity in the shape of im- proved living conditions, increased trade and sounder economic basis are evervwhere to be seen. There still remains the question of whether this growth in material prosperity is sufficient and of such a nature as to compensate for the loss of independ- ence. Foreign observers in the coun- try, as nearly impartial judges as it is’ possible to get, are divided in theis opinions. Merchants and busi- ness men generally believe the dom- ination of Japan to be a good thing: missionaries and teachers in the main deplorg it. Perhaps it is still too early to sit in judgment and pronounce a final and_irrevocable sentence. When the nited States thinks of Korea the Philippines must also be kept in mind. We ourselves do not question our good intentions there, but the outsider has a right to reserve his opinion until those intentions have borne a more definite fruit than at present. That fruit may not vet be ripe, but it is possible to watch its development toward maturity. In the Philippines may be seen also a greatly improved material situation, an_increased interest in education and the stirring into life of a na- tional consciousness. Japan, unlike this country, has never promised Korea her independence at some in- definite future date. Therein lies the fundamental difference in the other- wise largely similar cases of Korea and the Philippine Islands. * & ko Korea is going forward under the rule of Japan, whether that rule is to be upheld or condemned. The de- velopment of the country in a ma- terial way is remarkable, but far more significant is the change that is being wrought in the character of the Korean, the new blood of a de- termination to better himself that is coursing _through his veins. The three explanations to be heard in Korea itself have been offered here. Choose which you will and reject the others, or perhaps take all into con- slderation and ~reserve judgment until theories have worked them- selves out into facts. In a Few Word ‘Whoever holds the Ruhr will in- evitably become the commercial mas- ters of Europe. —H. A. VAN DE LINDI. Toetry and religion are Siamese twins—you cannot have one without the other, and if you have one you have both. —REV. W. ¥. COBB. " Today the average middle-class young folks ;r; «Lulh:‘ zhl:uthm‘n that ‘used to be confined to millionaires. % =BOOTH TARKINGTON.. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN What is the name of the shrubs, four or five feet high, covered with pink blossoms that are in the park containing the statue of Gen. Sher- man, back of the Treasury?—>M. F. M. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the shrub now blooming in the park directly south of the Treas- ury is known as the Rose of Sharon. Th bush if not trimmed regularly, will attain a height of about twenty fect Q How is a flag raised staff’ ¥F. L J. A. At sunrise the flag should he hoisted to full staff, then lowered to half staff. At sunset, the flag should be hoisted to full staff and then run down to half- Where did Theodore Roosevelt the oath as President upon the death of William McKinley?—C. L. B. A. Mr. Roosevelt was in the Adi- rondacks hunting, but when reached with the message of the President’s ath he made all baste to Buffalo, where he took the oath of office at : home of Ansley Wilcox. Q. Can tattooing be removed from the skin?—A. L. D. A. Tattooing is always removed with difficulty. Most methods aim to produce a destructive inflammation of the skin by which an eschar is formed, which, when it falls, takes with it more or less of the coloring matter and often leaves a scar. Wh the pigmented area is small it m. be removed by excision or by elec- trolysis. Q. municated?—A A. The latest theory is that infan- tile paralysis is spread by rats and fleas, much as the bubonic plague is spread. Q. How does the labor party in Australia M. C. A. At the I Aust the labor party elected members of the house of representa- tives, the national party twenty-seven and the liberal and country parties nineteen. This was a gain of four seats Q take, How is infantile paralysis com- L. J. rank lian elections twenty-nine by labor, a loss of eleven seats by the nationalists and a gain of seven seats by the liberal-country. Q. Who is Marcus Garvey?—J. R. M. A. Marcus Garvey is a negro leader who styled hi “provisional pres- ident of Africa” and pr Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Committe League, this organization being k to Africa” movement. Garvey Jamaican and a printer and news- paper man by profession Q. Ts human life getting longer?— A 0C A. President Farrand of Cornell is authority for the statement that the average expectancy of life in the United States in 1870 was about forty- one years; in 1910, about fifty-two and a half years, and at present about fifty-six years. In India, where pub- ngineering is at the lowest verage today is but twenty-four meteor red hot when it lands on the earth?’—W. H. R. A. Contrary to the popular impres- sion, the meteorite when it strikes our atmosphere is extremely cold; the heat developed in its passage is purely on the surface, and in a very few seconds after its fall the stone should be about the temperature of ice water. Q. Has Houdini ever reve secret of his many tricks?—F. J. L. A. Houdini quoted in a recent issue of the Theater Magazine as fol- lows: “When I was a young man, on aled the sident general | ebb, | my first visit to New York, broke and hungry, T offered to exhibit my ‘tricks’ and explain their nature to four of the biggest newspapers in town for sum of $20, very one turned n down. The s et will go with me to my grave. If it were anything in the nature of a contribution to sei- ence, nything that might help hu- manity, I would assuredly disclose it, but it is not The secret is peculiar to myself and it is improbable that there will be another individual in several generations so oddly consti tuted. Kor one thing. I was born with an inordinate ph ical strength.” Q. How many organizations wers represented in the conference tn formulate a code for the use of the flag of the United States—M, P. A. This conference was held in Washington, D. C., June 14, and sixty- nine patriotic or civic organizations were Tepresented. Q. What do the Filipinos call “open work” embroidery ?>—H. H. A. The native word is “‘calado.” Q. Why is the ocean blue?—U. J. G. A. Dr. F. B. Kenrick of Toronto i3 cited as’an authority on this subject. He suys that water absorbs all the other of th freely than it docs blue, and that hence light reflected by it or trans- mitted through it carries a preponder- ance of blue; that water scatters light more freely than air and in this xetion the blue light of short wave-length again plays a preponderant part, and that, finaily, the sky is blue for the sam ason that the water is, and that the water gets bluer by refiecting the sky. colors spectrum more Q. How many British ships are idle? —A. K J. A. Two years ago 423 vessels, witi a tonnage of 2.000,000 net tons, wer: reported as tied up in British ports The idle tonnage is now reported as ,000 net tons. Q. How much money do the Italian immigrants in this country send home annually?7—H. F. A. In the vear héfore Italian immigrants sent home abou 65,000,000 lire, or approximate 000,000. Thi% yvear receipts are ea pected to total about $16,000,000, Q the wur What —K. D. A. Labor turnover is the number of kars cmploved during a stated d in order to maintain_a force of a given number. Thus if, for a year, it is mnecessary to hire 2,000 to keep a regular force of 1,000, the turnover is 100 per cent for that period is meant Ly labor turn- . _ Q. Is Luxemburg still in existenes —W. M. H A. The European burg still exists. It is an independen: grand duchy. The present ruler the Grand Duchess Chas population is cstimated at Q How state of Luxem- many eggs lay a year?—A. M. A A. A typical standard b Jays annually approximately 1 [ of uniform size and color. should Q. What is the largest 1 South America?—F. G. H A. Lake Titicaca, which lies on ti boundary between Peru and Bolivia is the largest. It situated abou 113,000 feet above sea level. The | greatest depth of this Jake is abour 700 feet. (Send your questions to The Sta Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has kin. director, 1220 North Capitoi streot. Give ‘your full name and ad- dress so that the information may b sent_direct, The only charge for tis service is 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) {Rebellious Canadian Indians And Curtailed Subsidies BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY, Although the public at large seems to be unaware of the fact, there danger of war breaking out in Can- ada. The comes, not from across the northern border line of the United States, but from Geneva, where Deskeyeh, chief of the Six Nations, that is to say, the Indians of Canada, has just arrived, arrayed in his romantic headdress of feathers. to present an appeal to the annual as- sembly of the league, which meeting, to come to the rescue of the Six Nations, under clause 17 of the charter of the league, which au- thorizes the council to intervene in any dispute threatening war. The Six Nations proclaim them- seives an independent nation, or fed- eration of nations, and insist that they are in imminent danger of in- vasion by the Canadian government, which they intend to resist to Yhe last man. Tt cems to be true that ever since the treaty of 1784 these red men, whose tribes came from south of the border line, have en- joyed home rule in the territories granted them on the Grand river by King George I1I, who gave the land to “his faithful allies in of their valuable. assistance in the war with America in which they lost their ancient domains,” in what is now the United States They hav had until now their own embl. and have managed to _preserve many of their old rights. But the are a thorn in the flesh of the pres- ent conservative regime in the Do- minion, which finds in them an ob- stacle to the system of government prevailing elsewhere in the Dominion, ad which, the Indians are firmly con- vinced, is bent on depriving them of their autonomy in defiance of their treaty with King George. * kX ¥ ¥ news of is now There are only about 5.000 red men left of the Six Tribes, mainly of the Iroquois. and they have gone to a good deal of expense in order to send their chieftain to Geneva for the pur- pose of pushing their appeal to the league of nations, after having al- ready presented a petition to King Gearge V. who has referred it to the judicial committee of his privy coun- cil. Although the Six Nations have undoubtedly right and justice on their side, vet their cause looks very much like a forlorn hope. The league. which has already enough trouble and a sufficient num- ber of thorny problems on ifs hands, will. despite the provisions of its covenant and charter. hesitate about intervention in the administration of an entirely self-ruling colonial de- pendency of the confederation known as the British Empire, while the pres ent conservative cabinet of William MacKenzie King at Ottawa has shown itself so determined to go on, its way without regard to the views dnd poli- cies of either crown or government in London that the Duke of Devonshire, former governor general of the Do- minion end now secretary of state for the colonies in the Stanley Baldwin cabinet, will not particularly relish the idea of creating a fresh cause of friction by intervening at Ottawa in behalf of the Six Nations. whose in- dependence, it is contended there, con- stitutes an anachronism. * * x & Since the Rt. Hon. William Crosby Gore, undersecretary of state for the coloniex in London, has informed par- liament the other dayv that in view of the slashing economies rendered im- perative through the drain on the national exchequer to meet its finan- cial obligations to the United State it would be impossible to continue the subsidies paid to 4 number of Asiatic potentates the outlook in the Orient has hcconkur: somber. The cutting recompense | off of the large subsidy paid for many vears to the Ameer of Afghar istan has converted the ruler of thar powerful state on the northwestern frontier of Ind from a more or less fricndly vassal, content to conduct his relations with foreign powers through | the British government, into a resent | ful enemy, who is showing in man: | different ways h hostility to Eng land, not only in befriending Germa and bolshevik intriguers at Kabu! but also in countenancing risings and raids on the part of frontier tribes against British India. -ven still more serious will be the results of these Downing street econ- omies in Arabia. Until now large ubsidies have been paid to King Hus- sein of the Hedjaz to King Feisul of Iraq and to Emir Abdullah of Transjordania, who are united by ties of close blood relationship, but also to Ibn Saud, the Sultan of Nejd and head of the very powerful tribe of terribly fanatical Wahabis. Ibn Saud has always execrated King Hussei King Feisul and Emir Abduliah. and the only thing that has kept him from attacking and waging s g£e war on these three new kingdom: brought into existence by England, has been the subsidy of $400,000 a year paid to him by Great Britain for that par- ticular purpose. ince Ormsby Gore made his decla- ration in the house of commons the ther day that all these subsidies would be abolished at the end of the current vear, the Sultan of Nedj is { Ly this time already aware of the act that he can no longer look to money, and there is every son to apprehend that he will not walit until Christmas e in order to overrun the Hedjaz, drive King Hus- sein out of Melca and Medina and King Feisul out of Bagdad and put all Transjordania to the fire and the sword. Great Britain will then be put in the position of either sending back to Bagdad all the troops which she has withdrawn from thence on the score of economy, or else of aban doning all the valley of the Buphrates to chaos ang anarchy and to the eventual reoccupation by the Turk after all the many millions of pounds sterling which have heen spent to bring Mesopotamia under her contro!. ko It will be news to many in this country that the King and Queen of Italy content themselves with using the former papal palace of the Quir nal for purely ceremonial purposes and make their real home when in the Eternal city In the suburbs beyond the city gates in a villa of the most modern kind, built with American dol- lars for a well known and beautiful blonde New York woman, now dead who was for many years attached to the household of the now widowed Queen Marguerite, as one of her three or four foreign-born ladies in wait- ing. Daughter of J. Hickson Ficld of New York, she found the old Fo- man palace of her husband, Don Sai- vatore, Prince of Brancacclo and Duke de Lustra, too gloomy and, ac- cordingly, devoted a portion of he large fortune to the purchase and construction of a very beautiful suburban villa, surrounded by exten- sive and beautifully laid out grounds, just outside the Porta Salaria. No money was spared in_ its con- struction and equipment b every modern comfort. When she died at Rome in 1909 her husband, who had {been greatly devoted to her, took & jdislike to the place and, as his only H the Princs and made her home In the magnificent old Massimo Paluce one of the landmarks of the Eternal city. and his son, who bears the title of Prince Raviano, did not care for the place, Queen Marguerite sug gested to her son, the King. that hs hould purchase it, which e at once proceeded to do. daughter was married to of Massimo. 7