Evening Star Newspaper, August 28, 1923, Page 6

u’HE EVENING STAR,‘ increased demand for water due to the{ One would think that the natural. im- Wit -3 jextension of manutactures and the in: | pulse of every man would b¢ to take __‘M’ Moralnz Edition. stallation of water in thousands of joff his hat and stand silent in con- T WASHINGTON, D. C. new buildings. The increase in con- | terplation of this tomb. TUESDAY.... August 28, 1923 sumption of water would have been | It would seem that every man who - AR s jerveater if water mains had ‘been laid ) had been a eoldier- would come to at- THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor|™ all the mew built sections needing | tention and render a humble and un- ¥ S | them. 1f all sections of the District | ostentatious salute, and it is veky “T'he Evening Star Newspaper Conpal closely enough peopled to be entitled | likely that every soldier and ex-soldier Businees Oice, 386 St ol vivamia Ave, | 10 Public Water service had such sevv- | does pay these simple duties. It would N iears Ocr: Toer fitiing {lce the need for water would probably | seem that everybody who had a son, . Furopean Ofive: 18 Negent S, London. England. | excecd the volume that can be carrted | brother or husband in the great war, by the present conduit whether he fell or came back, would Based on & poputation ob 430,000 the { on coming to this tomb offer up a| per capita consumption seems high. | prayer, and many persons do this. It does not mean, though, that the | But great numbers of people, prin- | average person uses 142 galions a day. | cipally strangers and tourists, rest All water used by gdverhment depart- | their feet on thq tomb or make a seat ments, by manufacturing plants, by jof it. Some strike matches on it. the fire department and the street- | Smoke goes merrily up, and groups of cleaning department and in supplying | people laugh and chatter. Attention fountains is charged in that per capita | of the War Department was called to Ry | The Brening Star, with the Sunday moerning | wdition, i dviivered by ithin e eity | a1 80 cents per maont s onty, 43 cents per | h: Sandas oaly. 20 cents per mouth. OF- ¢ ax be seat by wail, or telephune Main o o] Collection s made By carriers at the | ach montl Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. . Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. . Daily only 4unday onl CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS Now that air meil service between New York and San Francisco Is a demonstrated success, it is planned not only to make that route perma- nent, but also to install many others, both longitudinal -and latitudinal. Ships that will pass In the night, as well as day. We are living in an age of great miracles and many changes which will make history. In’ fact, a new kind of history is being written— history of human achievement in overcoming nature, such as previous generations knew nothing about. In_ “The French Revolution” by Thomas Carlyle, appear the following paragraphs concerning history as it steam locomotive, the telegraph from Baltimore, the submarine cable, the electrie light, the telephone,’ the electric. motor, the gasoline. engine, the automobile, the airplane and the, innumerable other achievements cluts tef the pages of American. hisjory and pemce and inertia. out into fathomless space and time, to annihilate time and space. “Yes- terday” the trip across the continent Wa depicted, in time, by a map forty- five inches wide; “today,” one-elghth of an Inch. Inscribe that, ©h, his- torfan, and note how ‘‘vacant” has become our world! P When men become sufficiently en- grorsed in “doing things” Wil they | { leAve not even a blank margin for, We are reachitg|that the fame of those .““feasts of not be diverted from the mania of | NEW. BOOKS AT RANDOM THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF FOOD. Ar- Suppose that Mr. Luclus Liginius Lucullus, B. C., could have had for his lown using this sumptuous summary of food lore. In that event, it is clear Lucullus” would have come down even to this far day in a mightily in- creased candlepowet of glory. Then, 100, the eplcurean triumphs of that 161d pagan would stfll have been sérv- Ing more substantial purposes than their present restricted ones of mere poetic reference and vague gestares toward polite learning. nelther epicure nér poet Q. To mettle ' an argument, state temas Ward. No, 50 Union square. | whether the. flag on the Capit s jearth and how wide & pitol was | Kalf-mast, the day that President Hard- ing ‘was inaugurated?—IL M. K. A. The flag that floated over the place” wheré the new Presidént was to stand was at half-mast on the morning: ot March 4, I921. - It had been lowered as a mark of respect upon the death of ex-Speaker Champ Clatk on.Mareh 2.. Shortly before the inaugural -ceremenies. the flag was -raired to full-staff. Q. If 4 cabinet member were to become Presldent When Congress was not in session, would he call a ses- sion at once?—F. 1 TANSWERS TO QUESTIONS, S BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. P8 < Q. How. long . is ®ha A e of the moon?—J, R. g A. The Naval® ObsfrvAtory =ayvs cone-shaped shadew cast. by th har a length of a million mile distance from the ea¥ih of the moon, thls shadow h of 6,000 miles. W of the 1('»’dtlflam-. at a kbt O 3 A diadi & Q. What Was Tgbara Tpn2—Y. A" A1t wad an” old London” ok [hade fambus by Chaucer ak‘the mal {Dlace of his pilzrims -befort sturtimey Canterbury. ' It reeerved ss naws meon s sign, which was.a (kbard o e coat, Q. there?—J. M How - mahy Kinds of insects v computation. It is manifestly extrava- | ghis state of things by the cemetery . S ¥ | was_prior to the nineteenth c y »inor pedant has part or parcel in thel A I e v 0 A. It is impossible to s w N TIE ) At by ERAL b W DOE puting vut flru.} ecre several meoke ago, and i sy | FAR.BrioT to the ninetecnth century |the centuries to destroy each other? GUL PeUl i Q3 R b uthones of | this | Congrens providing Tor ihe. succeq. | Kngehere are. but therq are as mis Ny, fl§r..' A5.00; 1 mo. 660 | flushing streets and making steam, | proposed to set around the tomb a bar- | - A 'v‘ar:l'tlimlr“dl phllt:su&}:‘l‘r‘,hcn‘r;_\'; ‘T|he‘r|~ 'ls nomethn;a: l?::ld::hl:\-‘l:: bl)!:‘kér“)'i{'lul:‘!l; x?)? p‘:;{‘lpr;.p‘.l: nor ::5 sion In such -an event, 1f Congress| " 204,000 naméd epecies e . | about fifteen miles of costly conduit |a guard there. It is possible that this | the people whose annals are tire. (o8t ThE SS0rel "1 | Rather does he stana wholly within Fwould corl an. oxtre session. " €Mt (tricg2—J. L. F. 56 lember of the Associated Press. |, n4 runnels, held in settling reservoirs | plan will be carried out, but for the | B°me’ has said ‘Happy the people cease 1ies in increasing acquaintance- | the present and the immediate future. | i 4 1..A, Native gpecies of ,the. g The Awsociated Press fs exclnstvely entitlel i o itered disteibuted. We | o » Whose annals are yacant, in which |ship of neighbors, The intimacy of | Rather does he plant his féet squarcly | Q. What is the best dramatic libfary Toind v nekt S s A fo the wwe for republicauisn of all new and then filtered and distributed. We | immediate protection of the tomb a |xaving, mad as it looks, may there!nqignborliness comes through en- jupon the supreme fact that, in' thé | in the world’—L. C. N. S it wor patches credited to it or not otherwise credited n this paper ani atwo the local mews pub- lithed kerein. All rights of publication of *pecial dispatches herein are aiso reserved. e Gov. Pinchot States the Case. Gifford Pinchot, Governor of Penn- sylvania, is a direct man, who states his case, whatever the subject, with plainness and explicit meaning. Wash- ington knows him well a® one who, When on duty here in the federal serv- ice, always went straight to the point ot whatever he was discussing, who shirked no responsibility and who softened no phrase in order to avoid hurting feelings when the ‘simple Truth was necessary. Now he is act- ing. virtually, as mediator in the hard coal orisis, and in talking yesterday to the representatives of the miners and the operators at Harrisburg he used the same straightforward language and employed the same methods as those for which he was distinguished while he was fighting for the con- servation of the national resources as chief forester “This controversy between the miners and the operators of the an- “thracite field.” he said vesterday, “is not a private quarrel.” There lies the substance of the case against a strike. The people are parties to this con- woversy: indeed, the principal parties. They need coal. If the mines are closed, through the stubborn insistence by one side or the other upon a for- mula of settlement of the questions now at issue, Rreat hardship and suf- fering will be inflicted. Without pub- fie consumption of the product of the mines they could not be operated with profit to the owners and with wages for the miners. ow comes the test of that public fnterest in the anthracite equation. Will it dominate, through the forcing of a settlement, or a provisional agree- ment with continued mining pending | final adjustment? Or will it be ignored through persistence in their respective positions by the two trustee-members of the coal-producing combination? Gov. Pinchot has no more “power” to compel the mining of anthracite than has the President of the United Btatés, although the mines aré located almost exclusively within the state of Pennsyivania. He can only apply moral pressure. He cannot send forces of men into the mines and, taking them away from their ownere, operate them for the fuel the people need. He can, however, afford protection to workers if the union decides to strike and the operators decide to continue to work the mines. He can send state troops into the field. So can the Presi- dent of the United States sénd troops there if rioting starts and the workers who are digging the necessary fuel of the people are attacked or hampered. The hope is that these measures will not be necessary, that the two sides will come to the point of agreement. ! "There is still time before the contract expires and the strike orders already issued become effective. This matter could be settled in twenty-four hours Al the spirit were willing on both sides. 1f, however, either side wants a fight, wants to force a showdown of the pub- lic interest, it can do so by maintain- ing the present obstinate attitude of refusal to agree. Then will come again the test of whether that outraged pub- Fic interest will finally, after repeated injuries at the hands of stubbornly selfish and wrong-headed contestants Yor private interest, at last succeed in .&aining relief through some measure of public control and supervision over the production of this necessary fac- tor in daily life. “I express a truth none will deny. eaid Gov. Pinchot yesterday, “when 1 say that the anthracite-using people of the United States are losing pa: tience, and T ask you to consider that fact with care.” They have, indeed, governor and mine: and operators, lost patience already. ——— Machine guns were in evidehce in the election at Dublin, but there were no casualties. Conditions are not ab- _solutely satisfactory in Ireland, but this incident marks an improvement over the usual course of events. ————— , Lenin has had a great deal of Rus. Alan statuary destroyed, substituting busts of himself. This move may make the future of his country as precari- ous in art as it i in politics, ——— e Buried treasure discovered near Hagerstown may have belonged to Bergdoll. A great many Americans would like to see him put in a per- sonal appearance to claim it. ‘Water Figure: The annual report of the superin- _tendent of the District water depart- ment shows that the mean daily coh- sumption for the past fiscal year was 63,982,461 gallons, equivalent to a datly per’ capita use of 142 gallons based on 2 population of 450,000. For the pre- ceding twelve months the mean daily average was 63,309,230 gallons, or 149 gallons per inhabitant. During-the hot weeks in June and July water consumption ran close to have river water close at hand which would serve those purposes. 1t would be manifestly economical to install a duplicate system or high-pressure system in the central part of the city. The fire hazard would be reduced, in- surance premiums would be lower and five losses would be considerably less. ——————— Supplementary Heating. The two District public utilities which have to do with heat and light are taking and have heen taking for some time such measures as possible to meet the fuel shortage which threatens. Tt @ said by officials of the Potomac Electric Power Company and of the Washington Gas Light Company that “they are making careful plans to obtain an adequate supply of fuel so that Washington will not be deprived of heat or light this winter.” The electric company uses for the most part bituminous coal, and the company is doing its best to fill its storage yards and keep its reserve at the highest mark. The gas company depends mainly on hard coal, but during the coal and railroad strikes last year it used coke in large quantities, though the cost of making gas from coke was higher than from coal. Officials of the company are quoted as saying that with a strike of the anthraclte miners recourse may again be had to coke. 1In case of a strike cutting off pr duction in the anthracite regions many persons may use electricity and gas { for supplemental heating, and it is en- couraging to know that the public may set some reliance on these means, The gas heater is an old institution for keeping the temperature of a room or suite at a comfortable degree, and in late years the use of this form of heater has become quite common. The use of electricity for heating is com- paratively new, but it has rapidly come into considerable favor, and a coal shortage will probably result in a bulge in the use of gas and elec- telofty. Anotiier thought is that with a fuel shortage Washingtonians may wear heavier clothing indoors than has been their habit. Much criticism has been made of English houses, and perhaps of those in’ Scotland and Ireland, on the acore that they are not well heat- ed, and there has been a great deal of criticism along the line that Ameri- can houses are overheated. We do not ! want to adopt the English etandard ofl heating, but if the workt comes to the worst we may have to take & leaf out of the book of the people of the Brit- ish Isles and wear more clothes. ———— Hunting Down the Gamesters. It is said that the Washington m-‘ lice are warring against the Maryland gambling element which has invaded | e city since the closing of several notorious gambling places across the | line. It ought to be a short war and not a mefry one. There may be some difficulty in the beginning, because it is said that these men practice their detices in one place for only one night. The news has it that several of these “one-night stands” have al- ready been broken up and arrests made. It is gratifying that the Mary- land authorities, probably &purred to greater efforts by public opinion in those parts of the tate near the Dis- trict line, have made it 80 uncomforta- ble ahd hazardous for the gamesters that they have been forced to move on. That they would seek a field for their operations in Washington was natural, because most of their cus- tomers or victims are residents of this il They will find it hard sledding here, and whether théy will move on to safer and,more pleasant fields or go to work at some legitimate trade or exercise is up to them. i New York state wants to name the democratic presidential candidate, and New York city desires to entertain the convention delegates. This is alt for the present, but more suggestions may be evolved before next spring. l While operators and miners appear to waste many words, they evidently knew what they were talking about when they advised the consumer to get hie coal In early. i It ie asserted that farmers are los- ing interest in politics. This may be only an unfounded report intended to discourage Mr. Magnus Johnson. l Tomb- of the Unknown. It seems strange to normal men and women that there should be persons 50 Irreverent or callous that it has be- come necessary to build a fence around the tomb of the unknown sol- dier at Arlington. Here is a monu- ment that is a shrine. The transporta- tion of the remaine of the unknown frqm one of the battlefield cemeteries of France stirred solemn Sentiments in milllons of our people. The recep- tion in the homeland, the honor paid to the remains of the unidentified sol- dier and the extraordinary solemnity of the funeral deeply touched practi- { for & prospective aspirant for the nom- .This landscape gardening, though, is wooden picket fence has been bulit around it. ———— Favorite Sons. Senator Hiram Johnson has gone home to California for an extended visit which, it 18 said, may continue through the fall. 1t is presumed by the politicians that he has gone back to make a survey of his political for- tunes at home, upon the result of which may hang the possible an- nouncement of his candidacy for the republican presidential nomination or indication that he will not enter the field. 1T will be recalled that in a recent letter which was written in confidence to a friend, but which gained publica- tion, Benator Johnson himself ques- tioned whether he is, in fact, Cali- fornia’s “favorite son,” and whether he could get a solid delegation to the republican national convention should he desire to enter the lists. It is not only desirable, but, indeed. necessary ination to make sure he has his owr. state back of him before trying his luck in Gther states. There is agother case analogous to Senator Johnson's, that of former Gov. | Frank O. Lowden of Tllinois, who has been mentioned as a possible contest. ant for the nomination. He has some bitter political enemies in his state, led by Gov. Small and former Mayor Thompson of Chicago. It is likely that they will oppose Mr. Lowden's ambi- tions if they are set up, and make a lively fight against a sclid delegation. Indeed, they are reported to be ready to side with Senator Johnson. It is recognized by evervbody that it is entirely ethical, politically and otherwise, for any one to seek the re- publican nomination in the circum- stances. However, a wise precaution will suggest to irants that they make sure their political fences at home are ail fntact before “they go i faring forth for outside support. i —_————— When the former lord chancellor of England states that ex-President Wil- son's judgment of the people was wrong he has at least important statistics in the way of election fig- ures to back hiw assertion. —_————— Mohammedans are threatening a “holy war” in spite of the éarnest ef- forts to teach them that there is no such thing. ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNKON ) ! ! i { I Life in a Large City. Along the spacious thoroughfare A bootleg wagon sped. The péople promenading there Gave one swift look and fled; Excepting one who tame to town From simple rustic scenes And murmured, with a mournful frown, “I wonder what this means The bootleg wagon fired a shot ‘Which at the cops was aimed. Si Simlin said, “This town is not As safe as has been claimed. fine, Its style appeals to me. I do not like the firing line. I'm going to climb a tree.” The bootleg chariot threw behind A smoke cloud as it passed. Si fell to carth both dazed and blind, “Good Lord!" cried he; “I'm gassed! Though drink has caused me no re- grets, Delirious 1 feel. The innocent bystander gets The worst of every deall “Vell Attended To. “If you find you have made a mis- take, why don’t you own up to it?” “No need,” replied Senator Sor- ghum. “The opposition will call all possible attention to it. I don't feel under obligations to go out of my way 10 help their publieity campaign.” Jud Tunkins saye a professional ball player quits at forty, but an amateur ia liable to go through life laming himeelf on holidays. Vanished Prestige. “Three-inger Sam doesn’t seem so popular since he went into the movie » 5 “No,” answered Cactus Joe. “Sam was regarded with awe as our leadin’ bad man till a party of his friends went to see him at the studio and overheard the way he let a stage di- rector talk to him.” Annual Program. The annual program grows queer. A story familiar is told. You shiver all summer with fear That all winter you'll shiver with cold. Dull Dialogue. “What do you think of this great controversy?” “I'm tired o' tryin’' to think,” re- plied Farmer "Corntossel. “If them | the i ting iand seeking the contfa-trade winds |The steamboat on the Hudson Secretary Slemp Will Be a Real Aide to the President i formed chiefly the capacity of the conduit. Discus- [cally everybody in the United States. sion of possible water shortage brought | When the simple tomb at Arlington about some economies. The public|was cldsed there was a how- of senti- sfountains did not 'splash as in the|ment which has seldom been equaled isid days and nights. The:pitometer | in this country, A few weeks pass, -division: was zealous in ‘locating and |and the shrine at which ‘all men stopping leaks. Then. large fires call- | should stand fn reverent thought be- ing for mighty volumes of water were | comes only one of the many show V36w, On ths other handthere was an |places in the Capital and environs. fellers expect to get any more eager an’ respectful attention out of me they'll'have to hire a band.” 3 “A law is diff'rent fum money said Uncle Eberi. “You can’t put &' law away an’ not notice it foh years an’ den Aind it has accumulated interest.” not be found some grain of reason For truly, it has been written, ‘Silence is divine’ and of heaven: so in all earthly things, too, there is a silence which is better than any speech. “Consider it well, the event, the thing_ which can be spoken of and recorded, is 1t not, In all cases, some disruption, kome solution of tinu- Were it even a d Event, It involves change, involves loss of ac- tive force; and, so far, either in the past or the present is an irregularity; @ disease. Stillest perseverance were our blessedn not dislocation. * ¢ ¢ It is thus everywhere that foolish rumor babbles not of what was done, but of what was misdone or undone, and foolish History (ever more or less the written, epitomized synopsis of Rumor) knows so little that were} not as well unknown.” Thus with more elegant but not less forceful style does Carlyle con- Henry Ford and Senator firm our : r Magnus Johnson in saying, “History is punk!” P History would fndeed be “punk” if in this age of improvement and achievement, such as adding to the travel surface of the globe a new globe of atmosphere, in which gelaxies of ships are sailing with the rich argosies of the world—or soen will be—and already ar® bearing, faster than the wingse of the hurri- cane, the messages of commerce, of ktatecraft. of love and of all the in- trieate activitles of modern eiviliza- tion—if history concerned itself to- only in the battles of jealous fons and the scheming of selfish politicians seeking vlace. how far ehort it would fall from the thrilling stories of sclence which make man in power and knowledga scarcely lower than the angels! *oxox % But. with all the romance and ad- venture of what makes the warp and web of today, there 18 no imagina- tion which can forestall the actual- Tomorrow the crives of today ities. will be ecommonplaces, as yesterday they were foolish impossibilities Only today are they tingling with thrills and wonders. Who I8 #o case- hardened that he does not gaep at leap in a day over mountain ranges and across “endless plains” spanning « continent in' one night and two pleces of days? A flyver learns at Chevenne that his father ia dying in Chigago. He s permit- ted to make a double stunt and all through the night he speeds 1.000 miles, high above the clouds. and he & in the morning, a winner of devotion in a race with death ok % % Has there been in fiction any plot #o daring as_that? The story writer must indeed be alert to weave a plot and dream a setting, with hero bat- the storms above the clouds, ! which will speed his witch's broom from star to star. Yet that is not the blood-tingler of the novel; it is today In history. Who will write the next chap- ter of the United States Post Office star routes? That is the long-sought great American novel. Hail, ve heroes—avia- tors! R It only “happy the people whose annals are vacant” still rests true. how most miserable of all peoples must be restless Americal Vacant? th Campbell Bascom Slemp of Big Stone Gap, Virginia, will be an ex- ceedingly useful aide to President Coolidge as secretary to the Presi- aent. That fis admitted by papers of every shade of political faith in every community fin the country. But exactly the form such usefulness will take on is a subject of debate, with opinions seemingly through political be- To editors of the stalwart ree publican type, he will be a wonhder- ful liaigon officer between the execu- tive and legislative branches, because of his years of expérience as the sole lief. republican representative from the Old Dominion, To editors of the democratic faith his appointment means only that the President is al- ready a candidate for nomination and Slemp will get the southern dele- gates. The editors of independent views interpret the appointment as somewhat of a mnilxture of the two suggestions, with the vast majority seemingly convinced that Slemp is far better qualified to be secrétary to the President, in fact as well as in name, than many of those who have held the job in the past. The suggestion is put forth by the Boston Transcript (republican), that “if the new secretary should be in- vited to attend cabinet meetings this would be another step in_the direc- tion of restoring this office to the importance it posseéssed in the admin- istrations of McKinléy and Roose- velt. Should Secretary Slemp, whose expérience in public service, in pr tical politics and in_the busine: world exceeds that of an hi predecessors, come into the ~same close relationship to, hia chief that was_ enjoyod under the administra. tions of McKinley and Roosevelt, the the presidency would be * % K X Agreeing that the “appointment has an unmistakable political flavor,” the Newark News (independent) asks, “Why should It not?” and points out as well that “on his record Slemp should be the possessor of just those attributes of tact and diplomacy that make all the difference between suc- s and failure in this important It is the_view of the New ork Evening World (democrati¢) that “if Mr. Slemp oan collect the gouthern delogates and Senator Moses can control New England, the usual prestige of the incumbent promises to make easy sailing as far as the nomination is cencerne: 'Attention is directed by the Albany Knickerbocker Press (independent republican) to the fact that “Mr. Slemp I8 & powerful figure in demo- cratic politi ‘Though in el touch with national republican ment, Ne is opposed to what the south calle negro domination. There could not be a better man for the purpose, it it should happen that President Coolidge holds an ambition to obtain support in_the solld south. The choice of Mr. Slemp probably. also reflects the President’s desire to have a close adviser Who understands congres- alonal .problems fiom the inside.’” *Agresing to . shis, -the - Springfield Republican (independent) poluts out news- | hanced propinquity—the opposite of aloofness—and whatever takes voyage of forty-five units and makes it a step of one-eighth of one unit makes for the harmony of human thought afd the sympathy of human hearts. Men do not fizht each other When they understand each other. Race préjudice, like foul bacteria. thrives only in darkness. The sun i8 never clouded In the stratospheric track of airplanes. We are going to live above the miasma of prejudice. The next generation will be of av tors, traveling upon the ‘“wings of the wind” to the uttermost parts of | the earth. Then we shall talk by radio with all the world, and—who knows—literal- 1y may “Ifsten in” to the music of the throbbing planets. How can men of such powers be little and petty and jealous? They must “love each other as themselves.” The whole world will be peopled with good Samaritans, Grace Darlings and Florence Night- ingales. Wars will be forgotten. for all people will be neighbors, talking from horth to £outh poles. * X k% truth of evolution. All that is neces- ®ary now to demonstrate it is to be- &in with the three-volume novel of a previous generation, trace its descent through the narrative to the &hort story, and at last to the three tailless pups born a month ago in a colored man's woéodshed on L Street north- west. That is the ultimate of the tale wander and wag at will. without pl or climax. The ““Tale of Two Cities" isn't a circumstance to the Iack of tail of three pupe. It is a malicious lie to quote: “For thereby hangs a tall"—it does nothing of the kind. * % x % Biologiste have been misleading us by declaring that the children of one- legged parents always have two nor- mal legs, and that the arms of the parents may be mutilated without changing the arms of the children, to the third or fourth generation. Yet, because the parénts of these pups had their tails cut into short- stories, here ir the gequel shorter than the storles—so different from a woman's postscript, Which §s always twice the length of her letter Each pup looks as if it had had one ear boxed, for a great black blotch covers the “off” ear. that on one the black eplotch seems to have slipped back toward place where the tail ought to be, Hut that one has a little splotch on its “near” ear. The "black and blue” aplotch shows that there was a con- fusion, the first time those babies were reproved, but that is excusable, since how could anybody, krow where to administer the reproof? * % % % zled boy &t the circus, whose new straw hat the elephant mischiev-| ously swiped and flung underneath his huge body. The boy found a stick and marched several times around | the stealer of his hat, and finally blurt- ed out: “You great big, two-tailed, Injun- rubber beast, if 1 Knew which end cour brains were Ird lam H at, you that “government in a sense and to @ degree rests upon the practice of politics, and ameng thosé who have recognized the fact was Abraham Lin- coln. But political actlvity, particu- larly under the roof of the White House ofces, where Mr. Blemp wijll function, must be limited by good judgment and by a recognition that the practice of politics, even If es- sential to government, i8 not it8 goal.” Regardless of motive, however. the Louisville Courler-Journal (demo- cratic) feels “Mr. Slemp Is well qual- ifled to perform the duties of his of- fice, and both he and the President have the country's best wishes for Successful téamwork.” This {s also the view of the Columbus (Ohlo) State Joutnal, which sees In the new secretary “a hard worker, 2 suave and polished gentleman, who will have need of all these qualities in discharging the duties he will assume. He is well fitted to serve well the chief who has called him to one of the most difficult positions in the public =erviee in Washington.” Agreeing with the suggested good qualities mentioned, the Boston Christian Science Monitor points out that “the post of secretary to the President is one approaching that of A cabinet officer in dignity and importance. We are inclined to be- lteve that Mr. Slemp will be one of the secretaries that political ob- ervers will be slow to forget.” It weems likely,” the Dayton News (democratic) suggests, that the coul try will hear more of the charges of patronage selling because of the ap- pointment. The Casper, Wyo., Tribune (republican) believes the appoint- ment will “be pleasing because of Slemp's thorough understanding of the public and official business.” Be- cause of the temptation to cartoonists nd the like the Illinois Journal trusts Mr. Slemp has a sense of humor, for thd humorists and wits of the land are likely to use his name in the manufacture of merry persifiage.” % ko In the opinion of the Harrisburg Telegraph (independent republican) “the copperhead squad is striking at the heels of President Coolidge” in agsailing thé appointment, arguing that “it will be ample time to com- plain it the President's secretary should begin to take on the regal airs of the tumultuous Tumulty, for in- stance.”” Because the néw Executive “came to the presidency with the gen- erally accepted reputation of being a statesman first and a politician after. ‘ward,” the Knoxville Senti; (ina: pendent dem tic) suggests the inti- mation that he is & candidate to suc- teed himsel? and his appointment of Mr. Slemp are “two surprises which tend to make the country réverse its impressions of him.” The Indianapolis News’ (independent) llkewise believes the ‘“patronage-selling” allegations must prove & handicap, but the Ch cago Daily News (independent) in- sists “Secretary Slemp is entitled to a square deal, as-is his chief. - Presi dent Coolidge should not be gratui- tously suspected of an intention to play fast and loose with the merit system or with principles-of political morality for the saké of picking up delegatés T the néxt, repudl! i tional coaveatisn.”. . i datly and familiarly with each other, | Washington has at last provea |hhf'\!ll~h!|n(‘ Artemas Ward steps out which hitherto has been permitted to | except | the | It is Just like the case of the puz- | miliar midst of plenty, this has been a half- starved world. ‘In this connection he | repeats the plausible theory that much of the lawlessness of the world, and many of its ills, are an uncon- ! scious response to the ftchings of hun- ger and not an expression of a nat- ural state of sin. An lgnorant misuse of food has, through the long, years of the past, been unloading its crimes upon an already overbufdened devil, and would have been doing this yet had not sclence stepped in with its miracles of disclosures’ as to the power of food, not only in the body of man, but in his mind and morals as well. And the people caught up this miracle of food that science spread out before the They not only became convinced Yof its truth, but already they have grown a pub- lic conscience toward proper feeding as a prime element of individual worth and as a basic condition of collective integrity and power. * Kk k¥ Right in the midst of this general awakening toward thé importance of an enlightened food program as an eatential of individual and cailective | with thirty years of research on this vital theme, all completed and round- | «d up in a volume of imposing and impresgive front. Green &s @ growing garden splashed 'with sunshine on the outside, tho book itself covers 600 pages of selected food facts In an or- | derly arrahgement, set out fn_the clearest of type on paper of Eood cubstance and fine finish. There are here many pages of rainbow hue for all iflower. fruit, gleaming scale and bur- | inished wing—supported by rany | more pages of photographs portray- | ing far localities of food source, the Drocesses of preparation, transportd- tion, marketing. Merely as & book {personality thie one has distinetion and appeal. The text itself leads one jn orderly progression from A to Z—from “Aba- lone,” the sea-snail of the Pacific coasts, to “Zwlebach,” the twice-baked bread originally “made in Germany. For good measure and further help- fulness of the practical sort the au- thor has supplied a dictionary of food names in six different languages. those most likely to be used in this irountry. He hak, besides. given n list of those names and terms that adorn and bedevil bills-of-fare in kmart and near-smart hotels, those over which lthe one-tongue man from Oshkosh turns himself i into a perfect babel of | profanity without, however, getting a Iray of light on the particulit tofigue {in which the blamed thing before him is written. A complete and useful {and highly impressive book, as these imoro externals g0 to prove. * % X % il Once inside, the book offers story, advedturd and romance. ‘Ofe Is cer- | tafn,/however, that these had no place in the purpose of Artemas Ward.| | Rather do they Yie as inherencies of | 1 | { the various themes themselves. Clear- | |1y, the author's part here was to pro- | {duce a book of practical intent and| olid substance. This he has done.| Naturally, no one consults a book of | | this sort in reégular order, any more than he wowld handlé -a dictionary in jthat way. Instead. he hunts for what {he wants. And, finding it, he is often illkN’l to some far place where an exotic food frows. He fis thére met down among the natives as they cul- itivate and harvest and pack the prod- {uct, and then he fs sent safling scross | the' geas to great factorles and mar- {kets. And, one morning, upon hir lown breakfast table, he finds one of the things that has.sent him on the llong trail. And, right hers, he ra- builds the scenes that went into the perfecting of this food or drink and involuntarily he reallies himself to those distant people who are at the moment indirectly serving = him. iOften the food product is of the home- {erown variety—for they are all here. domestic and foreign, alike. And this one, too, gives out much that is new and useful as to its source, its culti- vation, its modes of manufacture and| atstribution, its food value, its prépa- ration for immediate use, with a naming of those complements and eupplements that round it to a rull nutritive value. The range of prac- tical and useful information given here is astonishing in scope and va- riety. And this fund of information serven it good purpose in three well defined ways. First, it greatly ex- tends the average food list, thus se- curing the variety that both taste and full nourishment require. Next. It discusses relative food value in a manner so Simple a& to make this important topic avallable to any average reader. Again, it gives the best ways to prepare food in order to met from each its best nutritive value. Beyond theae three vital points the book Kketches the history of each food from ite source to its destiriation ar a food factor, thus rounding but a consideration of the entire fleld. A model of useful fact, g00d arrangement, simple statement— an open and available study on an all-important theme. * % % % Let us mee what this author does with any single topic. The book falls open- at “avocado,” and that subject will do as well as another. We often see this big and green’and rather for- elgn-looking fruit among the com- moner sorts that pile the carts of the venders and the windows of the shop- i keépers. “Alligator peas we call it, a8 a rule. But Mr. Ward tells us that It is not & pear at all. And we cah see that its skin bears no faint likeness to the water-soaked, sun- blistered hide of the alligator. 8o we Are Boing to ¢All this fruit the avooado. And to find it we must go to Mexico, Central America, thé north- ern coast of Bouth America, the West fndles, and, nowadays, scroes into Florida. We shall find it trees wide and spreading ones with shining ev green leaves, its fruit of free growth, sometimes reaching the lusty sise of four pounds and more. The ftuit is a geed, like our apple, wrapped in I{hick flesh that we are going to eat, and around the flesh is the tough pro tective skin. The flesh of the avoca. do is rich in oil, a greenish oil run- ning sometimes as high as 30 per cent of the whole. -Besidea this oil it has & good protéin content alsos so_ it turns out that in countries where fish and meat are scarce and where the ocado grows this fruit takes the lace of those substantial edibles. A :Il yocado, up of coffee—and there you aré, am- y fed and fully sustained. - Then, ringing the fruit to our own use, the thor tells-us just how to prepare it as & salad, as a vegetable, or com- bined in a soup. A handy-man about tha Kitehen, this fruit with a Spanish narmeé, that tn- common talk is called “vegétable butter” or “midshipman’s butter.” Just a little sketch picked up at random from the hundréds that make ue _th‘- substanice of this book. Even this little ofie shows the fa. and ical -trohtment. that e =i ke G Dl tour or five tortillas, afPh: A, The four largest dramatic libra- ri¢s in the world are said to be, in the order of “their importance, those of Harvard University, Henry ington, the British Museum and Har- ry Houdini, Q L. L. A. The name geyser is derived from an Icelahdic wbrd signifying *to burst forth with violence. tural #prings of hot water ‘of that Kkind were firet observed in -Ieeland, and gince in the United States and New Zealand. Q. Wi Why is & geyeer so called?—J. .. What is the meaning of “Shane- the name of the Indian opera by Cadman?—I. K. T. A ‘The word i translated “robin woman. Q. What was'the average weight and helght of the boys enlisted in the United States J.H G, A. The War Department says that of $58.000 recruits examjned, the average height wae found to be 6749 | clec Hunt- | for ' the - worla _ war?— | 5 2 . Q. How largé are penguins®—) A. Thé 7 Eperor * pegiin largest speciex and may stand over g feet high anfi weigh nearis 100" pour | What .is the Great Sehism? | g Jzthe freat Ectiym This term is usually applied 1o & | division betweer the Roman and Ge: | churches, which.hegan in the ninfh e L tury. . » 1 = | Q. Does the federal goverrimtnt { the public: to -use-the-national for.si< { for, campinge hunting -and fishine ‘7. A. The usesf the national forests | the public is encquraged by -the geva ment, Certajn regulations, however, mus: be observed. These. dgal aimost entica: with precaution againet fire 1- Q. Who was the invefitor of oxvaceiy {lene welding?—D. K. 4+ A. The processiof onyacetylene weldi | was first. cuswested by Le Chatelier- | France, about 1595, whortly after i production of caleium carbide ir ric furnace and the inches; weight, 141.58° pounds... OF | cquipment ToF Ta 102,400 examined at demobilization. | aueed fhta the Uniced Stmcs the average hefght was 67.62 {nehes | France in 1905, and average Welkht 144.50 pounds. 5 = i Q. Where did the expression “ger-| . @ Wiy was Ragéliffe Gollege given rymander- originate? M. B, Ln o |that name L. int ey A, Probably in Massachusetts. In| A7The name was ghvew in honor 1§12 the republicans, corresponding to the democrats of today, carried the state legislature and redistricted the ' state. The Boston Sentinel published a map showing what an amaging shape one district had, and an .in- manner of ediblé.things—plant, | dignant fedéralist said that it looked ' like a salafmander. “Bétter call it a Lady Mowison, whose maiden name w Anne ‘Radeliffe. Jm 4613 she geve 1 pounds to Harvard. the first giff madg to the coliege by a-Woman. Q. TIs the evolution of the human rack etill in progress or is the man of toda¥ a fi ed product?—G. A. C. '~ i i Eerrymander was the prompt ve.! A. Scientists sav that the evolationar} tort of another federalist, Elbridge | Rrocessiis stiil goink o A i Gerry belng th iblican gov it is not'likely that'man's body wili ad- & . Gl e ] mit of great change, th o Q How wmany climate ' belts ' are | “ome improvement, such as in the there in'the United Stutest—E. K. P. | supsetluous Jenkth of the, food ehoe A._There afe nine climate belts in;| AN the avercrowding of the teett: U the United States. eath beink marked | |5, Kely, however, that there will 14 by a range of -five degrees in mean annual temperature. . Why is there fusel oil in whig ‘—g. w. o A. In improperly prepared liquork. ingly objectionable constituent comes over in the later parts of the distillate, and may be separated from ethyl alcohol, in’ large medgure, at least. Ly resort to fractional distil- 1ation. Q. Where firet praeticed?— wak scientific forestry w. J: €. A. The Pisgah national forest and the game preserve was original property of the late George W. Van- derbilt, who first introduced the prac- The tice of scientific forestry there. first school of forestry in.ge- United Statep was also established theka London to Elect New: _ Lord Mayor Next }omih BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. © Just month from tomorrow, namely, on Michaelmas day, the Ilverymen of the anclent guilds of the city of London: will meet at the Guildhall for the purpose of electing an alderman to- the office of lord mayor of the city for the ensuing a tiwelve -months, and it is practically | certain that the cholce will fall jupon the senfor of the aldermen who |of the most have not yet passed the chalr, namely, | upon Sir Louis Newton, who received {hig knighthood for his services as |yl {senior eherift of the ®it¥ during the |early’i eventful year of 1917, that is to §ay. when the outiook in ‘connection with fusel oil is an injurious and exceed- | It | { longed -Youthfy {of healthfulness afd {to disease. . Q. Where were the firkt highw the world—F. C. 8 A. The firet highwayg af which ! thing_is_known | of Asia Minor, which gonneeted the « i with the west about 2000 B. C ! Q. How much wete the i when the civil war began’—A. T. _ } A. The cénsus bureau rstimates fiv ‘Value of slavés Nthe ™ Etatesi 38 at $£1,500,000,000 s a greater i aves wor | (Let the star ‘Information Buresi Fredevick J. Haskin, divector, 139 North Capitol street. answer your qubs [tion. The only charge for this seimick {18 2 cents in stamps for return ,)-hh,yy‘l jnicipal magnates from which thé city {of London makes its selection of.chist magistrates are comparatively obseurt until chosen for the post. The great !I'Ank(‘r\' the great captains of indu<d try and trade whose names are how Y |hold words in the United Kingdaip and even in the empire do not Agws among the roster of aldermen .from whom the lord mavors are dtawu | But during his twelve mont ol \fice the lord mayor of London is ong onspicuous pereonaes of the realm and. while in office. 'lg: {a furnished residence, known as ‘th {mansion house, a statély huilding ot ¢ the Bank of England. decizn the eighteenth cantury by S likewdsy ace. thi {John Van Brugh, who w the architect of Blenheim 1 home of the dukes of ) lborough . | the great war was particylarly| The lord mayor receives a salary of somber. 450,000 2 year in addition to allow i Sree. |BNCES amounting to almos £ &g Sir Louis, who is a prominent Free- | ycp ggain. But, large as are theek mason, hails from Macclesfield, has a particularly lucrative practice as | ju surveyor, and belongs to the con-, servative party and to the Junio¥ Cariton Club. He is not a univer- sity man. In fact, university .train- ing is thé exceptlon rather than the | emoluments, they are altogether adequate to enable him to main | the dignity and the tradition of b jtiful hospitality for which the rho'x§ {mamistrates of the city of Londph yhave always been celebrated. it i& {estimated that the lord mayor on.res tiring invariably finds himself out of rule with the chief maglstracy of | pocket to the 01 b the city of Lond He 15 addicted’ | Boh over and Shene Shar noioL $607 to golf, has a Wifé, with two sonsiceived in the shape of stipend i(rod ana two daughters, and is identified !the city treasury. This is <o well G With the guild of feltmakers, of derstood t No poor man is evel which he has been, on several 0c-|elected to the post. But. once elecied. carions, the master. |even if against his will, he renders Sk e {himgel? liable to a fine of §2.500 { 1 g . |declines to serve, unless he can shyy The so-called Feltmakers COMPARY | That he has any. connection. whajad holds a eharter signed by James 1|every with the Hauor trade. Far, by on August B, 1604, and mceording to | SLALUteN enacted in the reign of it the law of the city, every person engaged In the art, trade or “mystery ot a feltmaker was compelled b se- cure admission to the guild. * % X * Sir Louls Newton will be the 840th lord mayor of London since the time of the Norman conquest, although the office‘is much older, going back, indeed, to the times of King-Alfred the Great, who, in A.D. 886, appointed his_on-in-law, Ktheired, to be port reéve and chief magistrate and ealdorman, or alderman, of London. During the reign of King Rufus, the old Anglo-8axon title of port reeve was transformed into the Norman equivalent of bailli, which, by Khik Richard Coeur de Lion, was again aitéred into that of mavor, the firkt chiet magistrate of London to bear that fi!llfinn\loll being Henry Fitz- Eylwyn. 1t was on_the latter's death, in 1214, that King John be. stowed another charter upon the eciti- zens of London, confirming all their previous rights and authorizimg them to elect & mayor each year, on the feast of the Translation of Edward the Confessor, the date being changed some hundreds of years later, King Henry- VIIL, to the day of St. Michael's. Sir Louis Newton is by no-means the first man In the surveying busi- ness to become lord mayor of Lon- don. The incumbénts” of that office have been recruited from almast every walk of life, Including ‘pawn- brokers, such as Nicholas Watton, in the relgn of Henry V: bootmakers, such as Thomas Coke in'1468; barbers, such as John Northampton, In the reign of Richard II; parsons, brick- Iayers, bakers, printers, fishmongers, ysiclans, whil James Roll, popularly known ‘Pickwick,” be- ause he was the president and ounder ©Of the famous Pickwick Coaching: Club, was. president of .the Pearl Life Insurance Company, in which he had worked his way up from office boy. S 1t cannot be sald that Sir Louis Newton is widely known outside his [owa particular- epheére of business.in !l‘:"l“] AnA T disterct Rrowed, @ in] ba. -indéed; the mil- by | ouma l“!‘l rd 11 and Richard 11, brewers { licensed victualers are’ forbidden {hold any kind of public office in of Londopn, the object of the sures. beini to protect the pebpl. from fraudulent administration gt the lawy concerning drink and food | The principal insighia of the: lord mayor of London is his gold chatn of jofice. It dates from 1544—ihat is 1o | say, from the reign of Henry Viims {and’ fs the oldest mayoral chain o office in existence. It is of pure ok |consisting of twenty-eight “S" finks alternating with enameled Fudpr roses and knits of plain_ goldi . gy 1367 it-was enlarged to its present 1édath of sixty-four inches. A pehi} dant, or badge, adorned with thd eit arms, was added in but this wi ylost and the present cameo. s diamonds, Was acquited in 1670 * x The lord mayor has likewise robes of office. On ordinary « faced with velvet and edzed fur. When administesing justi the mansion house cgurt he rayed In searlet and sable. satin embroldered with gold is at state banquets and official rets; tions, while,- when the King the city, the lord mayor meets hii at_the entrance areayed In an ead® robe of ruby Vel¥et. barred | Wit ermine. and looped with gold. ' ‘) Yord mayor's ‘Tobes of oftice heé i {obliged to_provide ot of his' own pockat and they ‘dre “worth on #n averake of $1.000 aplece. But ' the chain and badge of office, as well ‘ak the four great swords of state pres sented by Henry VIII, Edward Vi Queen Mary Tudor and her half sis- ter, Queen Elizabeth, also the anclemt gold and crystal sceptér of the Anglo- Saxon port rééve, and the great sil; ver mace, all befong to the city, & before” entering upon. his twel month- term. of office Bir Louls wi! be tompelled to Nfin a bond of $1,000% 000, not for fhe honest perforr-m‘i ! of'hfis lmpor(:n‘lhdu’tls.g but for safekeeping of the insignia in fu. tion, ch the citdgénsure mnnirflql afraid that he might sell, pawn digpose of In some questionable ma ner, which is not precisely indidativk, of popular confldence, in £0 _ch magistrate. of .the.metropolis. of.; 4 Sgiah ire . and..of Ahs ty-in_the world, : gy s )