Evening Star Newspaper, August 29, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR,| With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY ... Kugust 29, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star @ewspaper Company B ess Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. e Tork O ChicAgo Office: European Ottice wer Building. ( St., London, England. The Eyenil rdition, is de r. with the Sunday moral b carriers withia the €1ty i Gaily only, 45 centy per v, 0 enuapor month. O e “Lent by ‘mail, or telephone Main Moo i made by carriers at the «ud o cacl month. . Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday. Daily only....... tunday only.... All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 85¢ Daily only. 1vr., $7.00} 1 mo., 60¢ Bunday onl. 1yr, $5.00; 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Associnted Presa fu exclusively entitled fo the ‘U for repubiieation of all mews dis: credited to it not otherwise credited aper and alto the local news pub: herein, All rights of publication of al dispatches herein are reserved. Nearing the Crisis. After today two d settlement of the upon which depends the many milliéns of people. If an agree- ment is not reached by Friday night 135,000 anthracite miners will oil their tools, pack out of the mines and settle down to idleness for an indeterminate period. Whether in that event the mine operators will undertake to work the mines by non-union labor Even in that case the out put of anthracite will be very greatly essened, and the people who depend | upon that fuel will tailed in their supply, in most cases shut off without enough to warm their houses during the tirst period of cold. Gov. Pinchot, in his endeavor to ad- just the controversy und effect a con- tinuation of mining, has, it is stated. a proposition to advance tonight which may prove acceptable to both providing the basis for an arrange- | ment to continue mining while the major questions of wages, hours and working conditions ave discussed and scttled. This. however, will only be effctive if both sides wish to avoid a There unfavorabl indicate at least one wants to fight. A strike of endurance. The operators ave far better able to remain ! tdle than ar T 1o urgent ne s remain for a coal controversy, welfare of smains o he seen. be gravely cur- sides, signs side strike. that are that the min d of fune have only their savings and the “ben from the union treasury to main- | tain them while they not working. Th been continuously at work only for a year. Their past savin were probably depleted. perhaps ex hausted. by the former struggle. The union treasury, likewise, was brought low by the drain of a long strike. Even if every union miner has main- tained his stat and paid his dues during the past vear the total in the treasury available for strike benefits cannot now be sufficient to run the men in idleness for many weeks. Still | there appears to be a disposition to go to a strike in order to force the ques- tion of recognition and avoidance of | arbitration. The question, in the event of a strike next Saturday, will be how long the men can stand the strain. If the operators accept the challenge of the union and suspend all werkings will it be possible for the state to de- clare a public emergency and com- mandeer the mines? That is to be de- termined when the final erisis is cached. That the public must be cerved with coal is assured. That the substitution of other fuels for anthra- not meet the requirements of the people is also well assured. An thracite must be had, and while it is ] lying in the ground, ready for easy mining. with the means available for ready transportation and distribution, it would be monstrous to allow any technicality to stand in the way of eupplying the imperative demand. Upon the character of the man who npw stands as the public’s representa- | tive, the executive of the coal-mining | state of Pennsylvania, the people are today dependi rs. They are in he miners have a cite will —_—— Bergdoll is credited with having so much money cached here and there that it may be possible to trail him by his buried treasure. = War possibilities leave civilization in doubt whether to be proud of the airship or afraid of it. The Gang Game. YWhen Kid Dropper walked out of Essex Market police court in New York city vesterday, after having been discharged from arrest for suspicion in connection with a gang murder, he was the head ofgas fine a bunch of suninen as New York ever boasted. They went by his namie, that is, his professional name, “The Droppers.” As & matter of fact, “The Kid's” real name was Nathan Kaplan. Well, one moment he was a free, if not alto- gether - unsuspected, citizen, proud of the fact that in court not a man dared to identify him as having in the least to do with three murders recently committed. The next moment a gun barked and the Kid was no more, save as an unlovely bit of material for the coroner. A slender, sallow, wild-eyed youth ‘stood néarby with smoking pis- tol. He fired several times, shot a chauffeur and nearly killed a police- man. He was good really only for one straight shot, and that was the one that put an end to the hectic career of Kid Dropper. Later the police found that the slayer was one Louis Cohen, who, though a member .f a gang, “The Little Augies,” had not yet reachod the stage of being honored by a “Nncy moniker,” otherwise a dis- tinctive nickname. He was just a re- eruit, a rookie in the gang game, and he had, it. is believed, been assigned to this bit of work as his initiation. There is the tale of the latest gang murder in New York. It differs from préeceding tales only in names and de- tails. Probably other murders will fol- low, in consequence, for these New York gangs play out their feud strings to the limit. The Droppers will doubt- iess declare war on the Little Augies, and the police will be kept busy gath- ering up the remains and rounding up the suspects. So long as the gangsters prey upog one Ano!.her there is small {do. and the; | the growing city. ground for public complaint. But, un- fortunately, they do not go to the point of mutual extermination. They engage in these gang feuds only be- tween jobs, and the jobs are the toll they take from seclety. Most of these gangsters are young. The mortality is high and the average of life is low. An elderly gangster is a freak. Yet it is the ambition of sev: eral thousand youngsters in the big town to become a gang leader. The way up the line is slow and danger- ous, One has to be accepted into the ranks, first of all. The qualifications seemyto be that one must be utterly worthless a&s a citizen, without the least scruple as to taking lite, “slick” and shrewd and nervy. The testing process fs severe. The rookle is given a hard job, like that of “bumping off” Kid Dropper, in which the chances are perhaps ten to one against him. I he goes through and escapes he is given the accolade and a nickname. It is a great game these New York youngsters are playing. The schools are busy and crowded. The churches are active. The cltizenship social workers are industrious, The employ- ment agencies are constantly placing young men in positions. But some- how they cannot, even all together, succeed in breaking up this gang game. The courts and prisons and electric chair do not discourage it. Where lies the remedy, if remedy there be for such an e —_—a———— Schools. ‘our “‘portable” structures for use as schoolhouses are being set up in the play lot of the North Petworth Public School. News items of this char- acter have appeared for & number of vears, and are likel¥® to reappear for some time to come. School facilities lag DLehind school population and school needs, and the effort at catch- ing up with those needs tries the spirit of the school authorities and a large part of the population not connected with the school system, but deeply in- terested in it. A stern chase is a long chase. In any of the thickly peopled parts of v. as well as in the outlying dis- and in the nearly rural sections | the District, one sees scores of temporary wooden buildings and “portable” structures built elose to the school buildings and gen- erally occupying ground that was once play space for the pupils. More of these structures are being sct up to meet immediate needs. They will not last long, and the school authori ties wiHl soon come to the end of their string in trying to meet school needs with temporary buildings. But it is the only thing they can do now. Every school building In the District is crowded. and the few new schools in course of erection will be crowded soon as their doors are opened. The only solution is a building pro- gram extensive enough to bring the school plant in line with the demands upon it. This is what the school au- thorities and a considerable body of our people long have been trying to are still at it. It was to this end that the board of education made its estimates for the next fiscal year. The estimates were greatly reduced by the Commissioners before sending them to the director of the budget. Tt has to be so. Nearly every District department has fallen behind the demands made upon it by 1t is said that to meet requirements of the budget bu- reau the school estimates have been or will be further reduced by the Com- missioners. These are troublesome times, and there are many perplexi- ties, but the only thing to do is to as { “carry on,” with the hope that every- thing will come right in time. ————————— A Chicago woman suing for dower rights she signed away, says her hus- band wears long silk stockings and gold safety pins. There is always sym- pathy for @ woman who feels that her faith in man has been betrayed. But this should not prompt her to waste the time of the courts in the con- sideration of catty remarks. In this liberal era a gentleman may wear long silk stockings if he desires just as a lady may wear knickerbockers. There is not much reason to hope for debt payment by France if she in- sists on regarding unwilling Germany as her only prospect of financial back- ing. All that is needed to complete the apprehension surrounding the fuel situation is for the “coldest-winter-on- record” prophet to make an earlier start than usual. Atlantic City is compelled by occa- sional conferences to send out some serious news along with the gay chron- icles of a summer resort. The price of gasoline has receded a few points, but not enough to encour- iage hope that it can be utilized in- stead of coal. Boarding Moving Vehicles. Two young persons lost their lives in Washington within two days by at- tempting to jump on moving motor vehicles. One was a sixteen-year-old Eastern High Schéol boy of fine prom- ise and beloved by many persons. The other was a girl of ten years who was killed in Southwest Washington by a cross-town bus. The report was that she fell under a wheel “while trying to board e side step of the car in an effort to get a short ride.” These are deplorable accidents which arouse the sympathy and give a sense of horror go all persons. Similar accidents have occurred time out of mind, and perhaps there will be many other accidents of the same kind. Warnings probably lessen their num- ber, but they do not prevent them. It is the duty of all parents to per- suade their children as far as it is in their power to do so not to take such risks. The little girl was engaged in that youthful play called “stealing e ride,” which has cost thousands of lives. In the days of horse-drawn wagons and street cars ‘“stealing a ride” was a common form of play with children and casualties were numerous. Board- ing and leaving street cars while in motion was & practice emong grown- ups and accidents were of daily occur- rence. The press inveighed against it, and the car compenies 14 all they could to stop it Wieen the traction ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. \C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1923. CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS companies passed from horsepower to cable and then to electricity cars were bullt with doors so that passengers can neither be taken on nor dis- charged while the car is in motion. There are too many accidents of all kinds. Those which come from at tempts to board moving vehicles should be made rare. It is & subject which parents should give earnest con- sideration to, especially in view of the two recent tragedies. Reassurance to Business. It has been made known at the ‘White House that President Coolidge holds that the most Smportant con- sideration at this time Is that the country should have stability, con- fidence, reassurance and co-operation. That it should feel assured that the present administration does mot con- template any violent changes in poli- cles hitherto prevailing, and that the same attitude applies as to the per- #onnel of the administrative branch of the government. | The authority back of this announce- ment carrles the fullest weight, and as it is broadcasted through the press it should attract the attention of busi- ness circles, high and low, and be com- forting to the man in the street whose prosperity depends upon thriving busi- ness conditior This statement of policy to be main- tained by the President and his cab- inet is characteristic of President Cool- idge and is in harmony with the course he has pursued since he became Chief Executive of the United States 1t should go a long way toward induc- | ing the public to take its mind from the uncertainties of politics and de vote attention to the homely and nec- essary tasks of the hour. President Coolidge himseif will set the example of devotion to duty b: declining all invitations to make ad- dressgs, by giving up thought of further vacation and by attending to his own job, learning the machinery of administration and applying his knowledge to those tasks which come under the purview of his own office. Business and the country are in a satistactory condition, as shown by statistics und reports from all authori- tative sources. Business has pleaded to “be let alone,” free from govern- mental interference in legitimate en- terprises. Reassurance from head- quarters that this plea is to be grant- ed should give further impetus to the prosperity movement now under way. ———— ' Paper money is designed to mect a | { popular demand, but cannot be relied on to satisfy it. As history repeats it- self the resumption of specic payment now shifts to Germany under circum- stances more exacting than these existing when the move was made a half century ago in this country. —_— Opportunities for economic investi gatton are so great and the need of it so pressing that comparatively few Americars go to Europe now merely for the sake of the boulevard life or the Alpine scenery. | { It is not so many years ago that no one would have belicved there could be this much politics the world with Wilhelm Hohenzollern having not a word to say about it. —— e 1 Conditions at Ellis Island need im- provement. They go too far even as| a warning to the immigrant of the overcrowding he must be prepared to | face in his search for a home. ————— in In view of the ways in which they may blunder into publication only an artist should attempt to write love let. ters. —_—— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Muse Remodeled. It's time that poems once so prized Should be a trifle modernized. 'Mid jazzy strains so lightly tossed Some little gems should not be lost. The boy stood on the burning deck Said he, “I will not budge, by heck! Here's heat enough and maybe more. | The coal strike may leave none on shore.” | “Oh, curfew shall not ring tonight,” Exclaimed the flapper with delight. “Late hours don’t cause me any shock. T'll dance till 12 or 1 o'clock.” “Drink to me only with your eyes:" Though vamps are dangerous none denies. I'd rather risk a glance or two Than take my chances on home brew.” The Inevitable Ego. “A man should think not of him- self, but of his country.” True,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But if a statesman neglects to take care of himself at election how is he going to hope to put in practical opera- tion his patient and far-reaching plans for the public good?” Jud Tunkins says the intelligent en- Jjoyment of music depends on whether it's an accomplishment or a bad habit. Discrimination. “You cannot always take & man serfously. - ““No,” replied Miss Cayenne. “I dis- criminate. When Reginald and I wander together in the moonlight I know what he murmurs in my ear are probably sweet nothings, but what he says in parenthesis about the mos- quitoes is right from the heart.” Economic Archives. The ultimate consumer isa philosophic soul. When in tones of agitation they're discussing strikes and coal On the minutes and the records he is not inclined to look. He gets the real data in his personal ‘pocketbook. The Easy Part. “Do you understand the Einstein “Which part?” Sl “Thé one in which the author an nounces that he doesn’t expect any one to understand it.” ““When a man borrows money,” said Unclé Eben, “he's liable to git two eople worried 'stid of only ome.” / | seems {the Furm Lo i of the jafter jbut that they will recover. | erative T It was stated a few days ago that President Coolidge had agreed with the chairman of the Federal Farm loan Board that the alleged farm distress was “76 per cent ‘psycho- logical and 25 per cent real.” There- upon & mountain has been made out of a molehill, and much wrath has been fomented in certain quarters. The President never said anything of the kind, nor was such a statement made in his presence by anybody. This point-blank contradiction s made on the authority of Gov. Robert A. Cooper of the Farm Loan Board— the man who did say something on which the statement was based, * % ok When the matter was called to the attention of Mr. Cooper by the writer of Capital Keynotes, he volun- teered to dictate the following state- ment of what did occur, and he gave it for Capital Keynotes' publication: “In my opinion, too much i3 being said about the distressed condition of the farmer, and too little intelli- gent and constructive effort is bhing made to relieve the situation. Agri- culture is by no means in a hopeless condition. Ample means have been provided by which the farmers' com- modities may be marketed in an or- derly manner, and certainly adequate factlities exist through federal and joint stoek land banks and other agencles ~to provide capital oredit All of us who are honestly trying to serve the cause of agriculture must have confidence and courage, and then an intelligent upplication of the facil- ities available. “The plight of the wheat farmers to be peculiarly distressing, but it is not hopeless. If we will honestly take stock of conditions, and udjust production to the consumptive needs of the country, there is no reason to doubt that ull commoditics may be placed on u profitable basis. “I stuted. a few days ago, that 75 per cent of the farmer’s troubles are pevchological. By bad peychology 1 mean that we think too much about our weakness and not enough about our strength, “My attention has bheen called to inferences drawn in certain quarters that the President efther approved, or hud knowledge of. the statement for whic I alone am responsible that per cent of our agricultyral troubles are psychological.’ The President made no such statement, nor was any such Statement made 0 him. What the President did say was that he was very much interested in the subject of agricultural relief, and if he could be of any service he wanted the Farm Loan Board to be free to call upon him.” ¥ o ok ¥ “That is absolutely all that was {said by the President on the subject,” interposed Mr. Corey, a member of Board, who was pres- ent when,Chatrman Cooper gave the |above statement T am a democrat,” said Mr. Corey, 50 you may know I am not saying this to shield the President politically, but because it is truc. The board simply called to pay its respects to the President and to offer its services in support of his policies. Nothing kind, us quoted by the news- papers, was said in his presence, but we left the White House Some reporters gathered around us Gov. Cooper told them that the farm situation was not so bad_as it had been pictured, gnd that 75 per cent of the farmers’ troubles were due to his fears rather than to his condi- tion. There is no denying that farm conditions are serious, especially in the middle west, but not go serfous The board is taking steps for the orderly mar- keting of the farm products. _“The federal land banks,” added Chairman Cooper, “will be able to continue normal operations of about $15.000.000 to $20.000,000 per month, and the intermediate credit banks are prepared to extend credit to co-op- associations and through other channels to meet every demand within the terms of the agricultural credits act of 1923." ok ox ok The intermediate credits banks have already loaned farmers (through regular channels) some $25,000,000. They have ample funds at present and authority to sell debentures in case more funds are needed. The United States Treasury supplies the founda- tion capital and the banks may sell apd | debentures to the amount of ten times the capital stock. These banks lend for terms between six months and three years. Natlonal banks take care of the shorter (90-day) loans, d the farm loan banks, both federal and joint stock, lend on real estate on long terms, Tunning up to about thirty-four years, with easy amortiza- tion” terms covering interest and principal. . * % % ¥ The rate of interest charged farm- ers everywhere by theso federal and Joint stock bunks is 5% per cent. Not long ago. the Co-operative Cotton Raisers Assoclation of Texas. got some $20,000,000 from a syndicate of New York banks for § 1-3 per cent in- terest—which Is ~ agreeable to the Farm Loan Board, since it relieves the pressure by $20,000,000. * k¥ ¥ Referring to the proposition of Sen- ator Brookhart and others that Con- gress should pass a law providing for the storage on farms or in public warehouses of 200,000,000 bushebs of wheat which would serve as collat- eral for farm loans, Gov. Cooper said: “Why should they do the very thing that would tell to speculators and ex- porters that they had 200,000,000 bushels which they could not ell? It would act just in the reverse of whut they imagine it would. The wheat thus stored would add to the ‘visible supply’ and tend to depress prices. Therc are ample facilities for financ ing an orderly market for selling the grain.” * % % x The press has published gencrally a telegram addressed 1o President Coolidge by Benjamin C. Marsh, man- aging director of the Farmers’ Na- tional Council, headquarters at Den ver. This telegram is based on the assumption that the guotation in the press as to the President's having sald that “75 per cent of the farmers’ troubles was psychologlcal” wus a correct quotation—now officially con- tradicted. In his telegram Mr. Marsh sald: “Your inherited Secretary of Agri- culture has suppressed the results of the investigation he made of how many farmers lost their farms last vear. He was afraid to print the truth.” * ow ok ¥ Dr. William A. Taylor. who has charge of the statistics referred to, states: “The Department of Agricul- ture is not in the business of sup- pressing anything. We have gath- ered the statistics by one method, and now we ure checking them by an- other method. When that is com- pleted and we have reliable data they will be published.” Dr. Taylor could not say when the checking will be finished, beyond in- dicating’ that it would probab! done within a few weeks. * X ¥ ¥ Who owns the air? The question of how deep runs title to land has long been settled in law in mining disputes, but how high rises juris- diction of governments above the surface of the earth is now raised, as If it were a new problem. It was discussed during the world war by sending up a squadron of airplanes to give chase whenever an enemy plane appeared across the line, no matter how high they flew, for there was potential harm in permit- tng high explosives overhead. That same principle applies in peace. when some one proposes to permit air- planes to carry alcoholic beverages across Alaska to supply British Yu- kon. % ox Postmaster General Harry New is worrying now lest the Grear White Way, erected across the “American desert” from Chicago to Cheyenpe tor suidance of the air mafl, might attract other airplanes, belong- ing to amateurs. and result in col- likions in the night, He is therefore asking the American Bar Association, now in session in Minneapolis, to formulate road rules for the sky. He believes it will be necessary to have Congress pass laws protecting air mail thoroughfares. Just as there are “road hogs” using automobiles, so there may develop Which deserve ditching. Collins.) - WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE If there is one thing more than Calvin Coolidge’s amazingly prompt grasp of the presidency that aston- ishes close observers, It is his com- municativeness. The newspaper fra- ternity had christened him “Silent Cal.” and it is that same aggregation that now stands astounded and aghast at the President’s talkative- Never in the history of White House press conferences have pencils had to be pushed so fast as when Calvin Coolidge is handing out “copy.” His conversational pace on these oc- casions is of the express-train variety. Some of the Washington correspond- ents ‘write shorthand. Coolidge is too swift for them. He jumps from topics as diversified as Mexican recognition and rural credits with agility, pre- ciseness and fullness. In Harding days the scribes used to count them- seives lucky if they left the White House with one “story.” ~ Coolidge provides them with a sheaf of front- page “stuff.” ness. * k% ¥ Col. W. B. Causey, of Suffolk, Va., who recently returned laurel- crowned, from Austria, where he served four vears as technical ad- viser to the Vienna republic, has just received a handsome appoint- ment. The city of Norfolk, Va., has engaged him as city manager at a salary of $20.000 a year. Causey is an Army engineer by profession and presumably will devote his energies at Norfolk chiefly to port develop- ment. * ok k¥ Robert Marion La Follette’s bris- tling pompadour has made a deep impression in Europe. This is how a London reporter described the Wis- consin republican insurgent upon his arrival in England early in August: “Mr. La Follette is short and very stout,. with thick gray hair that stands straight up, giving him the appearance of a feroclous person about_to_spring Into a fight.” Mr. La Follette did not conceal his determination to corroborate his in- ternational prejudices during his trip to Europe. “I am- still opposed to America’s active participation in European affairs,” he sald, “and the superficial knowledge I shall gain on my short visit is not likely to change my view: * % k% Postmaster General New’s confreres in the postal services of Great Britain and Germany are not lagging behind in the realm of airplane mails. A regular, ajr, rajl 1§ pow maintained ‘between London, Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin._ The “air fee” is 6 cent: an ounce. Parcels are not carried, as yet. For a special delivery fee of i2 cents letters forwarded from either the British or German destin: tion are delivered the same day dl; tched, roundly, within twelve hou .!‘h ordinary. traln and sea route be- | i tween London and Berlin is twen two to twenty-four hours. By con- | necting with night mail trains from German points, British letters can be (!'H\rr-:d in Denmark, Norway and Sweden the day following their post- ng in London S Col. William N. Haskell, American relief director in Russfa, expects to spend the autumn and winter on the lecture platform throughout the United States. No American has had his unique opportunities for studying soviet Russla from within. Leave will be granted him from the Army for the purpose. Haskell, a West Pointer, was chief of operations of the 2nd Army in the American expeditionary forces, and then, suc- cessively, American relief adminis- trator in’ Rumanla and Russia. Sand- wiched in between, those activities, Haskell acted as allied high com- missioner in Armenia. Later he was Anlel’!(:flh Red Cross commissioner for Europe and that organization's active director for Greece. What Haskell doesn’t know about the lights and shadows of present-hour eastern Europe isn't worth knowing. He helped to plan the fmmortal drive of Pershing’s army through the Argonne in 1918, * ok ok ok Calvin Coolidge might have been a rich man if some of his landowning ancestors in Massachusetts had been as cautious as the thirtieth President of the United States. Everybodyswho has motored through Brookline, Bos- ton’s ultra-exclusive suburb, knows “Coolidge’s Corner,” one of the land- marks of the town. Mr. Coolidge, Wwhen a candidate for governor of the Bay state, once was driving through Brookline with a newspaper man on the way to a campalgn meeting. There had been profound silence dur- ing the entire journey, except when the party whizzed past “Coolidge's Corner. The candidate suddenly Jerked a thumb in its direction. - “My people once owned that place,” he ejaculated, and then I - taciturnity. apsed again into * k k¥ Several members of the American branch of the American-German mix- ed claims commission are spending the summer in Germany. They include Robert W. Bonney, the United States agent, and Henry B. Morrow, secre- tary of the American commission. Their purpose is to look into many million dollars’ worth of American claims that cannot be intelligently adjudicated without an inspection of certain facts in Germany. These claims are mu.IY for American real property located in that country. The German commission has also gone there for the summer. The mixed commission will resume activities at Washington in October and then pro- ceed rapidly with the hearing of the world's biggest lawsuit—Uncle Sam’s claim against the Germans for a round billion dollars. PR (L R T — . : { him Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER- President Coolidge continues to gain the support of yepublicans of prom- inence for nomination. It looks as i no conservative republican will contest the nomination with him and that only Senator La Follette or some ultra-progressive may undertake jt. The party strategy as it is being de- veloped from day to day and very BWiftly seems to be realization by the Jeaders that the best opportunity for harmony and possible success at the polls in November, 1924, rests in the nomination of President Coolidge and carrying on of the Harding pol- icies and the pending plans for legis- lation. The radical bloc in Congress may try to throw a monkey wrench into the machinery of legislation, but the best thing for the administration and the regular republicans in Congress to do, it is felt by the leaders, is to keep ‘on full speed ahead and “dis- regard the torpedoes. ¥k ¥ K Departure of Senator Hiram John- son for Californfa, on a prolonged visit, started the politicians gossiping about his future attitude toward a possible contest for the republican presidential nomination. His posi- tion, up to the publication last week of a certain letter, written months 480 to a friend and intended by him to be confldential, was one of quies- cence, to give President Coolidge an opportunity to make a record, before setling out to contest his nomination. But the publicity given that com- munication and nature of its con- tents may cause a chunge in Senator Johnson's course and poli The eifect of making the letter public ap- pears to have been to put him on the defensive in his own state, with the raising of w guestion as to whether he can get a solid delegation to the national convention of 1924. Natural- Iys an_aspirant for the nomination lacking the unanimous support of his ate would ordinarily be regarded ¢ seeking the support But it may not be 80 with him. Senator Johnson, in published in The Star, accentuated the issue between himself and the other faction of the party, not seek- ing to mollify in any degree the caus- tic’ comment upon them made in the private letter, The politicians take it that he has gone home to make open warfare on his enemies and to call for u “showdown” as to where he stands with California. x> xinis Senator Johnson is a fighter of a very aggrewssive type, and politicians would not put it bevond him, if he is pressed too hard in his own state and receives encouragement outside, to tell the California republicans to-do their worst, and call wpon the pro- gressives of the country to stand b,\-l him. The politictans look for some | interesting developments in Senator Johnson's ge¢ in the next (rw‘ a statement months. * o ow ok But developments must come soon | if they are to be effective. The con- vention is a long way off, to be sure, but the actual choosing of delegates will commence within five months, and much of the preliminary founda- tion laying will be done earlier. A What is the differcnce between a Pinchot progressive and a Hiram Johnson progressive? The question becomes pertinent by the dramatic emergence of the Pennsylvania gov- ernor into the national limelight,! through President Coolidge's Inviting into participation in efforts to settle the coal strike. Both claim to be legatees of Roosevelt. The colonel probably was closer to Gifford Pinchot than to the Californian, but the latter ran on the bull moose ticket with him and has wider acquaintance among the progressives of the forty- eight states. e Gov. Pirichot has been mentioned before as a possible running mate for President Coolidge, and he would di- vide the progressive vote with Sena- tor Johnson if the latter should ap- peal for delegates to the convention. * % k% Cordell Hull, chairman of the dem- ocratic national committee, in a state- ment issued by the committee today points out some policies that may be stressed by the democrats in 1924. While reserving the point of order that “the democratic national conven- tion alone can define the issues for democrats,” he goes on to intimate some campaign issues which he con- siders likely to be raised. One of them is “the demonstrated failure of the republican administration. domi- nated by the old guard at all times, which has been aimless, unstable and unable either to understand or to solve most of the acute domestic and international problems. Contrasted with those failures the democrats will propose “application of the great body of intelligent, sound, liberal and progressve sentiment to the prompt solution of conditions and problems affecting the commercial, economic. industrial and social wel- fare of the people.” Also “the adop- tion of sound, economic and trade policies, domestic and foreign, in con- trast with existing wholly unsound policies, or none at all, of the repub- lican administration. RS The republican national committee is taking on a more aggressive tone under the repeated attacks of the democratic national committee and is “fighting back.” In a statement today it assails William G. McAdoo for a statement he recently made. No in- dependent or neutral writer could fol- low all of the allegations and retorts of the two committees even by plac- ing the responsibility on the authors. There is not enough asbestos on the market. But it is possible to give a general 1dea of the drift of the war- fare. “In a statement issued today the re- publican national committee says: Running_true to democratic form, William G. McAdoo, active candidate for the democratic nomination for the presidency, issued a statement a few days ago in the state of Washington that is a mass of misrepresentation. First, it charges that the Esch-Cum mins act, passed by a republican Con- gress, resulted in excessive freight and passenger rates to the injury of agriculture. “The Esch-Cummins act was nec- essary In order to take the railroads from government control, where Mr. McAdoo and a democratic Congress placed them, and return them to pri- vate control. Under Mr. McAdoo's ad- ministration_of the rallroads freight rates were ‘hiked’ to a point higher than ever before known in the history of American railroads. There they remained until the Esch-Cummins act, passed by a republican Congress, be- came effective. Since that time greight rates have been gradually re- ed. dUCEfat they have not been reduced more is due to the fact that the rail- roads were wrecked to such a degree under Mr. McAdoo's regime that it has been necessary to keep the rates ab- normally high in order to repair some of the damage done under McAdoo's railroad administration.” Here is another whack: “Last year ih two or three western speeches he stated that the republican administra- tion was responsible for the deflation of farm prices, when the record shows that the deflation came in the fall of 1920 as a result of action by the Fed- eral Reserve Board, then composed, with one exception, of democratic ap- & of President Wilsons” ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Q. What Vice Presidents besid Coolidge came from Massachusetts? —A. G. U. A. John Adams, Vice with George Washington; Gerry, with James Monroe, and Wil- liam 'A. Wheeler, with Rutherford B. Hayes, were the other May setts men who became Vice President. Q. What Is meant by the check-off system, concerning miners?—W. S. A. The check-off iz an arrang ment. between mine operators and the union, by which the dues of union miners are deducted from their pav and remitted direct to the union offi- cials authorized to receive then. This follows the gystem by which the accounts carried at the company store, rents, etc, are deducted from the miner's pay. 2 Q. In speaking of furniture is “suit” or “suite” correct?—I. W. A. A. This is a moot question. “Sui and “suite” in this sense have the same meaning—a set of objects con- nected or used together. In Lngland| “a suite of furniture” is the form used. In America the modern tend- ency is to use “suite.” The one defi- nite rule is that the spelling and pro- unciation of the word must agree. ‘Suite” should be pronounced “sweet,” while the “u” in “suit” has the sound of “u" in “yse.” President Elbridge Q. What is the best stock company on the stage?—J. J. G. A. The Moscow Art Theater Com- pany is said to be the most distin- guished stock company in the world. Q. With what hand in poker does the holder get his money back if h calls and lose: C. H A. In stud poker a plaver cannot call with a hand which could not pos sibly best the shown strength of the | called hand, and if he mal ich u call inadvertently, he gets his money back—for instance, if th 1led hand has a pair of aces exposed and the | caller's hand could at that | pair by any possible combination of its exposed cards and buried card. Q. Please give a list of women's Bible names—R. B L. A. These are all Bible names: Eve, Miriam, Deborah, Ruth, Esther, Na- omi. Delilah, Rachel, Leah, Mary, Mary Magdalene, Tabitha, ~Dorcas, Lois, Martha rah, Rebecca, ahab, Tamar and Herodias Q. Tf it is true that rain trees col- lect and condense molsture, why not plant them in the arld regions of Ihe United States?E. V. C. A. The forest service says that se eral kinds of trees are called rain trees. They are native to the tropics and will not thrive in the temperate zene. They grow where the humid- ity is great, the leaves condensing moisture, which causes water to run off the trees. Q. origin How did_spircs on churches te?—K. H. A. Spires on churches were ori nally ouly four-sided roofs of slight elevation. They became gradually elongated and more and more ute, reaching their highest point of devel- | opment during the middle ages. Q o give a brief history the early fight for prohibition in country?>—F. C. A. Briefly, it may be said that I".Pl prohibition movement started in 1642 s a law punishing drunkenncss by a fine of 100 pounds of tobacco. The American Society for the Promotion of Temperance was founded in Bos ton. 1826, and the first national ter perance conv heid in Phil adelphia, 183 h i founded in 1873; yrohibitio in 1869; and the Anti- in 1893, party loon Leugur s Tish in the stories of Roberts Rinehart taken from life C.ARaY A. Mrs, is purely Q. Where is Francis buried?—E. B A. The body of Francis Scott Key interred in the town cemete t Frederick, Md. On a flagpole p! near a porfrait status of Kev flag flies day and night, contrary the usual regulations. Q. How many permanent of the Navy have there beer Only two—Admiral David_ G Farragut and Admiral David D. Por- ter. George Dewey was Admiral of the Navy, being the only man who was given this title Q. What cho A. Both are products of the cacan bean, the difference b, of the butter or fat making cocoa than i late. Rhinehart fictior Scott Key ra J. P. Q. At what time do trees bloom fn Japan '—K. A. The brief period of soming is in April Q the How muci United roud bureau of the rai the coul is mean on the n pap silver (dome A. The bar price quoted New York ver other than that v produced and refined cuts ates and has nev any foreign market. The two tions were made necessary of the operation of the cla Congress know the Under au ¥ of th amount of silver was sold duri war 1o Great Britain to be shippe to India. T. silver is now being re placed by purchase by e U States govern f purely dome silver th s American produced and refined. Th t makes it 2 datory upon United States ernment to pa one dollar pe for all such er offered United States mint up to a total ¢ t amount of silver sold d war. This figu has ne; reached and when such pu the United States have bee cd the special domestic s tion will no doubt be disce Q. A Punjat becaus 50t our. ere i s mountain range is in ndia, and is a rugged ch of barren peaks from 2,000 to feet high. noted for immense depos of pure rock salt. The Star Information J. Haskin, Dircctor Vorth Capitol street, answer your qur tions. The only charge for this seric Wh when the colony of Maryland passed is 2 cents in stamps for return postage ) Modern Turkey Developing public in Fact Into a Re BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Turkey is rapidly developing into a | republic, and the newly elected grand national assembly, which met last week and which is engaged in the task of modifying the constitution, has practically decided upon the prin- ciple of collective cabinet responsi- bility to the so-called bash-vekil, or| president of the council of commis- sarles, and to parliament. The bas vekil is no other than Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who has been endowed by his countrymen with the additional title of “Ghazi,” that is to say, “The Victorious,” and who assuming a | position which, save in name, is that similar to the president of a republic and who is finding in the premier designate, Fethi Pasha, an obedient | ‘9% e present occupant of the throne | at Stamboul has been restricted to a | purely ecclesiastical role as caliph, | and has no voice whatsoever in lh‘-‘ policies or temporal administration of the country, while the grand national | assembly has just resolved upon a | constitutional measure rigorously e -1 cluding_all members of the “former imperial family” (sic) from every| civil. military or naval office and from election as deputies of the assembly or as municipal dignitarfes. ~There | are a very large number of these | princes, who, until the overthrow of the de jure. sultan, Mehmed VI, and thirty-seventh sovereign of the Osman avnasty, occupied high and well paid | Offices in the army and in the navy, and who were, moreover, in the e joyment of fat civil list allowances from the imperial treasury, all of | which have ceased. They will now | be forced to seek means of livelificod'| in foreign countries, and Prince Zia, heir presumptive to the caliphate, de- prived of his rank and pay as gen- eral of the Ottoman army, Will be reduced to ecarning his daily bread as a dermatologist, being a very clever physician who has specialized in diseases of the skin. EE The actual caliph, whose office is an anomaly since it has been deprived by the present Turkish regime of its temporal sovereignty, and the re- liglous validity of which had alwa: been questioned by the orthodox on the ground that the caliphate is, by canon law, restricted to direct or col- Jateral descendants of the prophet, and that the Osman dynasty has never had any relation with his family in an- cient or modern times, but is de- scended from a tribe that were| among the bitterest enemies of the founder of Islam. is Itable at any mo- ment to be given his walking papers by the new republic and sent to fol- low his elder brother, Sultan Mehmed VI, into his Swiss exile. If so, he may be able to earn & modest income as a professional planist, painter, or as a drawing master, several of his pic- tures having been accorded the honor of exhibition at the Paris annual Salons. Whether his artistic _efforts would receive equally flattering ap- preciation from the Salon authorities When he is no longer a prince in the jmmediate line of succession to the Ottoman throne, but merely a mem- ber of a dethroned dynasty, working for a living, is quite problematical. * % % X Moy Hall, in Invernesshire, whero King George is spending the present week for the shooting, as a guest of MacKintosh, chieftain of the historic Clan Chattan and head of all the Mac- Kintoshes as well as one of -the greatest land owners in Scotland, is a grand old place where Prince Charles Stuart, the young pretender, sought refuge after his defeat at the battle of Culloden in 1746. Bent on his capture, Lord Loudoun set out from Inverness at the head of a body of royal troops, But the Young prince got clear away through the stratagem &¢ the chieftain’s wife. She instructed one of her few remaining retainers | tawa. fo Eather every available man and to 1 them in the woods through which the road from Inverness to Moy Hall passed. Theso men, by firing their guns and by imitating the war cries of the various Jacobite clans. led Lord Loudoun intg believing that post | Christianity | twenty-eight | the High rs were present in co siderable strength, and fearing 1o Tisk an engagem. with what he was convinced were his inferior fore ie ordered his men to right about face ang hastily marched them back to Ir verness. Moy Hall is beautifully the shores of the 1 and is full of histor ing three ous swords, by Pope Leo X to King by him, the day; a wa house at the battl while the third I and was presentcd monarch to the chi of his time. There pretender's dr stick. of Claver- ther by that ain of <o the < cup and walk * % k% It seems that the Norsemen a , on invading the north- of Scotland, found the Dunscamby Head to Ross to be known as Cattuv, from its occupants. the Cattai The new, comers called the district “Cattins settled there and intermarricd wi the natives. From among them aro & missionary who did an immen amount of work in converting the pagans of that portion of Scotland to and who was subse- zed as St. Cattan. His on, Gillicattan. celebrated as a wa rior. emigrated to Inverness and gathered around him a large follow ing. including the MacKintoshes. t illivlayes, the MacLeans a . "the mixed clan becomi known' as the Clan Chattan, after its leader. Since then, there have been chiefs of Clan Chattan, the present lord of Moy Hall being he twentv-fifth owner of Moy, Ons of them figures in Sir Walter Scott's novel, “T} 1 of Perth” An- other, William MacKintosh, fifteenth chieftain of the clan, was beheaded under the most extraordinary ct cumstances, portrayed on a magni cent old tapestry adorning the princi- pal drawing room at Mov. In 1543, the Earl of Huntly and Lord Moray sought to crush the MacKintoshes, who had risen against the Gordons. Lord Huntly, then all-powerful aty court, secured a capital sent r the absent MacKintosh, and then left for France with the Quecn Mother. MacKintosh to save his clan from age and extermination by fire and sword resolved to submit himself, and made hig way alone to Countess Huntly, thinking that she would bo a peacemaker. He met her kitchen znd she said, vou have offended the Gordon” is to say, the Earl of Huntly) deeply that he has sworn, by his father's soul, that he will never par- ¥ don the MacKintoshes until he has brought your head to the block.” * ok kK “I would stoop even to that' said MacKintosh, “for the safety of m father's house and clan,” and so say- ing. he placed his neck upon the kitchen block, thinking that the countess would be satisfied by this token of submisslon. But without a moment’s hesitation she seized a meat chopper, lying within her reach, and struck off his head. The twenty-third chieftain, Aencas MacKintosh, had a _ baronetcy con- ferred upon bim by George 11, which became extinct with his death. his other honors and estates passing to his younger brother, who was mem- ber “of the legislative councll of Canada. Nor was this the only asso- clation of the MacKintoshes with Canada. For the only son of the pres- ent chieftain, namely, Capt. Angus Alexander MacKintosh of the Royul Horse Guards, after being badly wounded at the front in France joimed the staff of the Duke of Devon- shire at Ottawa and there fell in love with and married Lady Maud Caven- dish, eldest daughter of the gevernor general, It may be recalled that he succumbed to an attack of influenza while on a visit to Washington, while his wife, Lady Maud MacKintosh, wus con ing from the birth of her baby daughter at Rideau Hall at Ot- ‘2. The chieftain’s wife, who, in ordance with Highland customn bears the sy title of “Lady” Ma Kintosh, is_the daughter and heiress of Edward Richard of Plas Newyee in Glamorganshire, who left her & very . large fortune, including & co ahle fatrest in the C ook, tnt ninth centur east corner country from quently can 11