Evening Star Newspaper, September 7, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, With Sundsy Morning Edition. ~ WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......September 7, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofice, 11th St. und Pennsylvania Ave, Nra, York lolgnv: ’1""’ Hl:’t l‘lmfl St. teago Ofice: Tower Building. Puropean Dmfe.;lfl Regeat St.. London, England. The Evening Star, with the Sunduy morniug edition, Is delfvered by carricrs within the city #t 60 cents per month; dally only, 45 cents per month: Sufiday only cents per month. r- gers may be sent by mail, ‘or telephone Meiln . Collection is made by curriers at the end of each mooth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Daily and Sunday.. Dally only tunday onl . §8.40; 1 mo., 70c 5 $6.00; 1 mo., 50c “1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. 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If the mini- mum of five million ¥ere multiplied by ten, and all could ¥e spent effective- 1y and the product dispatched with the utmost speed and distributed with the greatest efficiency, there would still be terrible suffers.ig. The first prob’em in a case like this is to organize lae relief so that the most urgent n:cessities will be prompt- Iy supplied. The immediate necessity is food. Sheiter may be more slowl provided, for the weather mild, and the greater part of the homeless can subsist without covering for a time and not suffer acutely. There is also need of medical supplies and phy sicians and nurses. Tens of thousands of the survivors are injured and ill. There is grave danger of an outbreak of epidemic disease. A report as vet unverified states that cholera has b gun to spread at Yokohama. In the recess of Congress the United States government cannot give of its own funds for the help of Japan. Without the least doubt if it were in session that body would immediately vote a large grant of public money to e spent for this purpose. The people must take up the task and supply the necessary funds out of their pockets directly. In New York, where great wealth is concentrated, the million quota was auickly subscribed and passed, and collections are still being made to bring the total to the highest possible figure. In other cities, however, there is lagging. In Washington, at the latest report, the allotted amount was only about half subscribed. There is no disposition on the part of the American people to withhold practical sympathy and aid. Although the scene of the disaster the Japanese people are close to us in spirit, and there is every reason for the extension of the fullest assistance 1n the shortest possible time. is stil own son is remote, Of all the nations in the world this | sent to Ameri- s in the best position at pr give abundantly and quickly." cans are, too. perhaps the most fre- | quent visitors Many thous those islands, greatly as scenes of interest. They have today vivid recollections of delishtful days spent there. They will doubtless among the first to give. A of common humanity spires the swiftest and most generous giving of funds. It is assured that every dollar given will go direct to the relief of the suffering people. The American Red Cross, trustee of the bounty of the people of this country, assures the fullest devotion of the fund to the immediate purpose of rescuing the stricken nation from its terrible plight. ————— ‘There is especial complaint of coal shortage in the anthracite regions. Early opportunity to inspect hard- ships at close range should have its influence in promoting a strike settle- ment. E be sense in- Poincare is willing to talk business with Germany, intimating, however, that it may require time to catch up with business that is still unfinished. England is patient and conscientious in offering advice to neighboring coun- tries that sooner or later must find time to listen, Plea for Park Land. ‘The District surveyor in his annual report deplores that the new Wash- ington which has been built north of Florida avenue and in other directions beyond the original limits of the Capi- tal is deficient in park land. He adds his recommendation to those that have been made by other District auth ties, civie bodies and congressional ad- vocates of a better Washington that the defect be corrected as far as pos- sible. He urges that the valley of Piney branch between 16th street and Rock creek be acquired because of its | desirability as park land, and because it would be especially useful as an en- trance to Rock Creek Park. 1t was be- lieved some time ugo that because of the depth of the valley and the steep- ness of its sides this picturesque land could not be used for building, but we have recently seen as rough tracts as this filled and leveled and made avail- able for blocks of buildings. Surveyor Hazen would have Klingle valley taken over by the government for @ number of reasons. It was be- lieved that this tract would be passed over by builders, but the surveyor says to the Commissioners: “Especially do I wish to call your attention to the rapid encroachment upon Piney branch and Klingle valley. They have already been much reduced in area, and it is my firm bellef that Piney to Japan of all peoples. | nds have traveled through | joving them | ! branch parkway will be lost if not ac- quired within the next year. The surveyor aléo touckes on the subject of the Patterson tract as a park for Northeast Washington out- | side of the city’s original Himits. The desirability of this property as park |land has been advocated for many | vears, and the prospect is that if not soon acquired it will be built over. | The matter of the preservation of | the civil war forts and their connec- {tion by a driveway is also urged. This lis one of our historic questions. The { preservation of these forts, most of ; which were built on sites commanding wide vlews, has been advocated for generations. In the '80s and '90s there ! {was particularly strong local agitation | ‘and considerable congressional en- | couragement for preserving the forts jand connecting them with a “fort jdrive” which would pass from the I heights above Chain bridge to the | heights of Fort Lincoln and the Re- form School above the Eastern branch. Near Benning the fort drive would re. sume its course and continue to the hills that rise at the junction of the | Potomac and Oxon run. The city has grown over many of these old land- marks, but a few are left to us. Some are a tumble of ditches and broken ramparts, and others have been leveled, though their sites are bare. If the work of saving the old forts is not be- gun soon it will be too late. } Counting the Lost. | Wide variations in the estimates of | the losses in Jupan are the normal re. | sult of sudden disasters.” Rarely does | it that the early accounts of casualties are consistent or accurate. | { And the reason is readily understood. The greatest confusion prevails. There is no order anywhere. The people are in panic, rushing about as rapidly as the conditions permit, and often laden with heavy burdens. Dead bodies are everywhere, and many victims are still living and crying aloud for help. The mind of the observer is impressed with the sense of tremendous loss of life. Reports fly about with the speed of the wind, growing as they pass with wild exaggerations. It is impossible to | verify them or check them. In Tokio and Yokohama even a d: after the first shocks the fires were till raging. The streets were blocked with debris and cracked with fissures. It was impossible to penetrate the greater part of the area for investiga. tion. Swarms of the people had hud- dled into places of supposed shelter | and had been trapped. The tidal waves had taken tremendous toll of them. The flames had enveloped them. Only by the grossest gu work was | it possible to estimate the los e,: What was true in one of the smaller | places, where it was reported that it was easicr to count the living than the deud, was true practically every- where else. But it was impossible to count the living. There was other work for the authorities to do, and for the relief forces hastily organized. | “The living had to be rescued and in | ome manner provided for, else they would starve or perish from their in- | {juries. And there was grim work of another kind to do, to maintain order and to check the ghoulish enterprise | of the fiends who robbed the dead and | looted the ruins. ! Counting the dead in the wrecked {cities became confused when it was i found to be nece ry to consign the { hodies of the victims to the still raging | flames, to prevent the horrors of pesti- H Thus it may never be known | oceur {lence | how many died in the quake and the { fires and from the tidal waves. Only iby later census enumeration can any {approximation of the cost be reached Descriptions of the catastrophe by i | witnesses are beginning to come. They {are varied in detail, because no two | persons could possibly see the great {tragedy from the same angle. In re- { spect to the awfulness of the happen- ing, however, they are in agreement. | These stories surpass in their vivid- ness and harrowing pictures of human | | suffering and the sweep of convulsive | | natural forces anything that has been heretofore told. ! ———————————— Conditions in Japan are so appalling that it will hardly be necessary to have an investigation before taking ction. The worst that imagination | an depict may be relied on as within | the limits of fact. { ————————— Occasionally the respect of a coun- try for the league of nations appears to be measured by the extent to which the league may be useful in that par- ticular country’s business. Ludendorff, instead of seeking to train a prince for the ex-kaiser's throne, might well take a few lessons { himself in the art of keeping out of unnecessary trouble. e "There is no fear of isolation on the part of Uncle Sam when a distress call sounds in the ears of nations that has in it no suggestion of world poli- tics. Mr. James Cox threw his hat in the ing in 1920, and his admirers deemed further comment unnecessary. The | hat is still there. ! The Pacific ocean does not deserve lits name. Its earthquakes are no less I(reachorous than violent. i | Running to Fires. A schooner tied to a dock at South Amboy, N, J., last evening was being loaded with powder from railroad cars when a fire started in the galley. The flames spread to the cargo and caused an explosion. The freight cars on the siding were ignited and blazed. The sound of the explosion and the glare of the flames attracted general atten- | tion, and many motor cars were head- | ed in that direction. For it Is a com- mon impulse to “run to the fire. About a dozen of the automobiles were Jjammed into a passageway beneath the railroad tracks when the freight train was being hauled out. The flames, however, were too speedy, and the deadly loads of the cars began to “go oft.” The motors were trapped and their occupants were unable to es- cape. At latest acconts three died and at least twenty were badly hurt, some of them mortally. This is a result of the habit of run- ning to fires. In these days of motor- ing the crowds at spectacular blazes are 8o dense that the firemen have difculty in reaching the scene. Police |names with THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTOx, D. C. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923. reserves are necessary .to keep back the spectators, The streets are blocked for long distances with farked ma- chines, impeding the advance of the second-alarm apparutus. Often the motoring onlookers get to the fire ahead of the apparatus, and their speeding is a factor of great danger. In this South Amboy case the “fire- runners” were the only sufferers. They had no knowledge of the deadly nature of the contents of the freight cars, but there had been an explosion, which was an adequate warning that dangerous materials were within the range of the fire. Yet they rushed on, seeKing to get as near as possible, and death and injury resulted. It would seem that nothing can cure this habit of racing to g five. Not even the danger of death in its most ter- rible form serves to hold people back from the closest possible contact with a big blaze. This is another of Amer- ica’s tributes to the fire god. —_— e ———— American Intervention. As soon as Congress opens in De- cember discussion is scheduled upon the proposal that the United States shall take the initiative in some plan to bring about a settlement of ‘the Ruhr controversy. The angle which it will take will be from the viewpoint of the economic necessity of disposing of this menace to the world's peace, | and the right of the United States to endeavor to propose a settlement, as a { measure of protecting’ its own inter- csts asserted to be involved. Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen, address- ing the ngtional industrial conference board in New York yesterday, said that it is high time for American in tervention in Europe, that a method can be found and that the one thing important is pr upon the government. Maj. Gen. Allen announced that he will make a nation wide trip to confer with heads of in- dustrial organizations and chambers of commerce. By this means it is expected to start a back-fire on Congress and the administration, looking to the taking of steps which will bring about some expression by Congress, if possible, proposing a form of inte Those who know Congress realize that the back-fire will have to be of greater volume than any which has up to this time been started. The dominant sentiment in Congress has been against intervention. The poliey of the adn; ation been, and continues to be, “hands off” of European affairs for the present. Maj. Gen. Allen’s mission of propaganda will be followed with interest. —_——————— Positive miodes of expression which Mussolini has hitherto employed ef- fectually in handling Italy’s internal affairs may have to give way in some degree to diplomatic formalities. ssure of public opinion ————— President Coolidge’s attitude toward prohibition is that of a man who re gards a law as requiring enforcement s of varying popularity in different communities. —_—t——————— it may be regretted that Germany made paper marks so plentiful that they cannot for ages to come have value even as museum curiosi- One or two nations appear unable to realize that Europe’s financial circum stances are such that she possibly afford another war. —_——— ireece and Italy have linked their art history. Artists, how- sionally fight among them- ever, o SHOOTING STARS. #Y PHILANDER JOHNSON Killing Time. Father plays a shabby gam Makes the caddie laugh. Brother Willie's jokes are tame, Irritating chaff. | sister Kate will sing or play Tunes she thinks sublime. Each in some peculiar way Starts in “Killing Time. Aged man, with furtive glance That is sad to see, I haven't any chance; after me! He must always fear the worst. ch artistic crime Makes him long for “Safety Poor old Father Time! Symmetry. “Do you take plenty of exercise?” Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum “but I'm afraid it hasn't enough va- riety. In order to prevent a statesman from overdeveloping his right arm it ought to be permissible to shake hands sometimes with the left hand.” Jud Tunkins says some people are like @ screech owl. They always sound melancholy whether they have any real trouble or not. The Life of Leisure. “How did you spend the summer?” “Mostly,” replied Mr. Dustin Stax, “in listening to mother and the girls figure on where we'll spdnd the win- ter 2 Joyriding. A “joyride” scares us more or less, With danger people flirt, And any trip is a success On which 1o one gets hurt. Picturesqueness Vanished. *“Some of the liquor you used to get in Crimson Gulch was awful stuff.” “Not as bad as bootleg,” answered Cactus Joe. “The old firewater made the boys shoot at each other with more or less uncertain aim. Now the bad men stand treat and wait for one another to pass away mute and foolish.” , » Location, “You have a fine location for your farm.” “It's all right for crops,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “But the family insists it's too far from a good motion plcture theater.” “I gives my preference to a mule over a hoss,” said Uncle Eben. “What- ever a mule’s faults may be he never gits out on a race track an' tempts you to bet on him." rvention. | could not First.” | Some weeks ago this column contained comments upon the statements of scie@s tists as to the lack of vitamins in olee= margarine as compared with their abundance in butter. The statements were challenged by a correspondent, ‘who contended that olcomargarine did contain as mu~h, or nearly as much, of the newly discovered vitamin D as did butter. Chemists of the Department of Agr culture sustained the views quoted by Capital Keynotes, but for more specific infosmation referred the writer to cer- tain technical books published by the discoverer of vitamin D, Dr. E. V. Mc- Cullum, head of the department of chemical hygiene of Johns Hopkins Uni versity. * %o Not only were Dr. McCullum’s books | consulted.” but a letter-of inquiry was {addressed to him. Delay in his reply iis explained by his tion and ab- sence fron, Bultimore. It comes, how ever, under date of September 1, follows: | 7“T have been absent from my labora- | tory all summer and on my return find your letter of July 24. The statement that oleomargarine is ‘nutritively the equivalent of butter’ is false and mis- leading. “In August, 1922, with my coworkers, I published an article in the Journal of Biological ~ Chemistry, demonstrating, we believe, the existence of a fourth vitamin, which has frequently been as vitamin D, and which in directing bone growth. nee is most abundant in cod. s ubundant in butter fat less abundant in 1 still ‘much argarine ! 1§ as much of the {recently disc I vitamin D as the best grades of butter,’ is inaccurate and misstates the facts. Such evidence lexists would indicate that oleomars 148 & much poorer anti-r. this statement would indicate. “Yours sincerely, “E. V. McCULLUM.” « unusual word used by Prof. Me Cullum, “‘anti-rachit means oppd tion o the discase of rickets, which dis- ease brought on by the absence of the [necessary vitamins in the diet. * ok ok % most advanced scientists |confess to a very limited knowledge of {the functions of vitamins. Their exist- i ence 1912, Until nnounced ‘contains a ! Even the was discev {Dr. McCullum's by him in 1 nized |but three kinds, the absence of which rom the daily dict if continued too long |brought beriberi. pellagra, scruvy or |rickets. These thr are {known as “fat soluble A uble B, 'water solub | Dr. MeCullum adds “vitamin D, tends to bone growth. * o % red only r in arch, there W rec \ ! Vitamins exist in most foods not confined to hutter, oleor fats. They are found lare absent from | erat othe ! evidenc are = or tables, by “polished rice™ and sev- ially handied foods, The t will happen when they much better understood than what are their functions when they are present. The only thing the layman can do about vitamins is to take " hotgun diet™ w h covers almost all | Kinds of foods. in the hope that some- | where he will find his proper allowan of v mins—leafy vegetables like cab- ettuce, ete., for vitamin A Inutrition and accom- of the eye: Eat ished rice and plenty of milk and jeggs if you would avoid dis s of the for thereby you get vitamin B. yellow furnips, potatoes, tomatos anges and drink lemonade to get vitamin C, thereby avoiding scurvy. Lastly, take cod-liver oil to get vits min D and grow big, strong bones, 1k i Firpo and Dempsey, or. in th b lof “a cod-liver il "taste, butter y whole-wheat bread on both sides with I thick lnyers of sixty-cent creamery but- tter, until, like Jean Valjean, y {strotch vour arms in full v | shout, “The world is mine: H at A, B, C, D! Be rea Iphabet, too. Fe n ve of wi absent s u nd Y to eat Cotton raisers showling that th are interested United in tr Criticisms by Lord Birkenhead they are | your | can | CAPITAL KEYNOTES BY PAUL V. COLLINS imports $21,711,595 worth of cotton gloth. England sends us nearly $14,- 000,000 of it. Part, but far from all, the cloth is woven of Amerlcan cotton. * % ok ok Amongst expected results of current events may be a gonsidérable rise in the cost of silk, for four-fifths of our supply came from Japan. In the earthquake at least 49,000 bales of raw silk were de- s[myu\ The United States took over 90 per bent of ‘the silk exported from that country. Now the industry is paralysed. This will stimulate the mak- ing of artificlal silk in° this country. As a result both of the earthquake, [Tamine in the orient and the threatened war in the Balkans, there will be ex- traordinary demand for our grain and meats. Cotton ‘also 18 in_demand b 1 Japan. Americans can afford to pa more for their silks—or substitute wool- ens—if there is a rise in the world price of farm products. * ¥ * x The Department of Agricultu; us that the cost, this year, of duction of wheat averaged $1.23 bushel, and oats cost 53 cents. Wheat sold this week in Chicago at $1.02 to $1.03 a bushel, September delivery. That ‘means only about 85 cents on the farm. It means that every bushel of wheat caused a loss to the producer of not less than 38 cents. A farmer who had 100_acres of wheat produced prob- :4|l|;\" 1,500 bushels, on which he lost But statem mate of that _is obviously an under- it, for the department's e Cost does not consider the of the soil which wheat ff the farm. That loss is just s is the cost of labor, of land, etc. Few farmers ta loss of fertility intc ideration raising grain, but it scems strange thut it is not computed by the scien- tists in giving out a statement of cost of production. When farming is de- voted to Bairying and buttermaking, and the skim milk is fed to hogs, practically no fertility is carried off the farm, but when a thousand bushels of grain leave the farm, away goes several hundred dollars’ worth of fertility, and fertHity means dollars in the rematning value of the soil. * Kk ok % \ It miners nthracite of pure, surface were to discover a new region with great bodies high-grade s0 near the tha farmer, with pick and shovel, could gather two or three tons in an hour, there would be quite |a flurry amongst operators and min- fers who now holding up a fright- ened public. Practically, that nounced this week ates bureau of min as been perfected h | which will successful | nite * into first-class any re what. is an- ¥ the United An appar. this bu convert anthracite, | The burcau is open 1o proposals from | private part paratus i klons of This n to take over and go_into the lignite re- orth Dakota and Montana apparatus does not merely make brionetten of the soft lignite; it makes hara anthracite. The making | of briguettes is‘a score of years old, but the objection is that the briquette are merely squeezed lignite—smoky and unsatisfying as t6 heat. * x x the ap- is an inexhaustible suppiy of in North Dakota and Montana, a o 964.000,000,000 tons. al in the United States 'amounts to over a thousand biilion (1,051,290,000,000). It exists also in parts of Canada, and the Canadian | burcau of mines has made a very sat- isfactory test of the new method of manufacturing anthracite out of the abundant material. The manufactured anthracite is as different from the {raw material as coke differs from coal, | 1t is smokeless and hot. If it supplicd [the great demand of the midwest, it would relieve the demand for eastern anthracite as to benefit the castern consumers’ market very ma- terial (Copyright, 1 | | There { lignit estima The t | tons 23, by Paul V. Collink.) Anger and Amuse U. S. Editors The erit of former President Woodrow Wilson by Lord Birkenhead amstown. which was sharply ssailed by Henry Breckenridge and rs. continue of sharp discussion, with widely dif- fering as to the propriety of the ut- terances. It generaily seems agreed that the remarks were neither tactful nor courteous, but, after all, there re many editors who believe he ex- pressed the “British businesslike and { matter-of-fact” viewpoint in what he |said. His declaration that, altruism abandoned, the States, for self-interest alone, ito take another hand in the | pean game, is agreed to, however, by | very few editors. ¢ The Cleveland Plain Dealer i newspaper whicn suggests were {Curzon and Baldwin to adopt the Birkenhead view the reparations and m a opinions topie United ought one side ar, ably less perplexing than the while the Janesville Gazette, re- calling that “Count Harry Kessler, German diplomat, at the very same gathering, nted the United States to boycott Fremch comgmerce,” ar- gues this was much worse than Birkenhead and was “a gratuitous in- sult to the United States.” Neither view, however, particularly impresses the Manchester Union, which feels that “we should dislike to think that the curtailment of free speech had gone so far in this country that visitors from abroad could not give | for- imprudence.” And. as to the | exact statement of the British visitor, | the Indianapolfs News points out “it would be hard to prove that the pres- ! ent woes of the world are due to the idealism of Woodrow Wilson, or to Mr. Wilson's mistaken estimate of his own countrymen. The Wilson {dealism played little part in Paris {and 4t was defeated by the victorious mood of the victorious allies. Un- doubtedly it is to America's interest that there should be a strong. happy !and - prosperous Kurope, for that { would make for peace in the world land for prosperity here. But what can America do as long as the prac- tical statesmen of the old world are in command and still deaf to the message of hope? 8 z * ¥ X ¥ The Lincoln State Journal holds the British statesman is wrong. America is capable of acting at times alttuistically in its relations with other nations. We shall get back in no great while to at least that de- gree of altruism which can see a profit for one’s self in the prosperity of a neighbor. The “hidden and somewhat insolent fling” toward Wil- son' will not, “and cannot possibly injure thé former President in the estimation of his fellow countrymen, asserts the Utica Observer-Dispatch. «President Harding realized sentiment had swung back to where it originall was when the peace conference closed. President Coolidge must follow Hard- ing’'s footsteps and support the World Court with all his strength. There with | Buro- | [ indebtedness problems would be con- | their views without being penalized | Wwas no mistaken judgment on the part of Woodrow Wilson.” To which the Buffalo News adds “great as the {moral influence of America may be, |it is not great enongh to save Europe from its cwn devilish devices.™ |- The Philadelphia Public Ledger, in- | €isting that “whether one agrees with | Birkenhead or not. his right to speak { his mind ought not to be questioned |is answered by the Lynchburg > s pointing out “no_sensible human be- ng maintains that what Woodrow | Wilson did while President must not be criticized.” but the News insists |that not alone what sald at | Williamstown but the motives and the matter of good taste” are in- volved and “Birkenhead knew he was | taking sides upon a live issue in | American politics, and derogating |from the high worth of the chief of | the national democrac, The Provi- |dence Journal, however. feels “he might have made a sperfunctory ad dress, but he chose' to avoid mere platitudes and gave us some sound advice. His talk was one of the most stimulating ,that we have had in America for a long time.” ST | The address impressed | @elphia Record as “in ve; and ngularly inaccurate,” while the Providence Tribune argu ““‘America is still proud that at least she sent a message of idealism to the peoples of the world, even though the diplomats of Burope, gathered at Versailles, bowed before and then stole his eye teeth.” Con- sidering the source of the remarks, the Pittsburgh Chronicle retalls Birkenhead “has always been looked upon somewhat in the light of an enfant terrible in English public life. |Tn his own country he was long ago given the name of the ‘Galloper.’ It may not be considered too inhospit- able to suggest that hereafter his lordship might do hix rough riding at'home.” This is likewise very much ‘the view of the Knoxville Sentinel, which declares “we can well believe that the gathering in.the Institute jof Politics was stirred with pain at this cheap and wanton exhibition of his noble lordship’s heels.” Decidedly stronger language is used by the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, which argues that “of all the royal asses England has dumped upon us, despite the laws of quarantine, there has been none to approach that stupendous egotist and flippant fool, Lord Birkenhead.” and characterizes his address as n in- famous insult. The Detroit Free Press feels convinced that “Birkenhead has done no more than restate the verdict of the nation as expressed in a 7,000,000 majority vote for President Harding and in repudia- tion of the Wilson international poli- cles: he has only said what most un- biased observers of men and events believe to be far within the truth.” |But the Richmond News-Leader dis- | misses the controversy by sagely sug- gesting that “to those London editors who knew the earl when he was Sir Frederick Smith, and before, when he was simply styled F. E., his remarks must have been highly amusing, be- cause they were, for him, ostenta- tiously _tempered and unbelievably mild. * Birkenhead is one of the few men who have been thrown upward by the explosive power of hard words. He is professionally vituperative and has cleared Jis path by the TNT of his the Phila- v bad taste per | m the American messiah | i i {tion of civilization. 1 posterous Jth Iworks Seizure of Corfu A Greek View of Course Which Italy Has Pursued. To the Editor of The Star: Truth s respected and loved by all; nay, even the liar protests that he says the truth, because he knows truth is the only thing that prevails and lasts forever, wheteas anything false has but a temporary existence. In your editorials since the Greco- Italfan eplsode you have come out and stated the truth. You told your readers exactly where the case stands, namely, no matter what the dictator of -Rome may call the bom- bardment of the fnnocent women and children at Corfu, the fact remains that it is not only an act of war committed on eek soil, but a bar- barous deed, which has shocked hu- manity and civilization from its very foundation, No self-respecting nation could comply with Mussolini's demands, much less a proud nation like ¢ e, whose life has been the examp freedom, of justice and the founda- Without waiting to ascertain the responsibility of ‘he crime committed near the Albanian frontier, the dictator has chosen to commit actual murders on the inno- | cent refugees to right an alleged | Wrong. H Can_ there be said that an of an individual condemns a whole n tion? Gr « has courts of justi and if a person or persons are guilty of erime, after the regular trial, he or they may be punished cordingly. If the chension and ¢ n of re made according to of the land justice would done. But to take people slightest suspicion and shoot without tr as the dictator des) is to upset the machin, v of law @nd order and comply with ihe unwritten lynching epithet King « 1w hee with th them a triumphant sration was effe Turks and yet the | ssassin »d uand convicted in ordance with the law of the land, not lynched or shot before Every man has the right to heard and cannot be convicted without trial The Greek government promptly consented to do what is vight, name- ly. to investigate the incident, to bunish the guilty. to salut- the | Italian flag in a proper manner and to pay indemnities to the families of | the officials that were so unfortu- nately killed, as may be adjudged by the league of nations or councils that the case may be submitted to for de- termination No'one knows yet who the as- | assins are. They may be Albanians | or Grecks of that territory that was | given to Albania, although it k in every particular. The nians are ot very fond of Italians, and it may be recalled tha no foreigner can govern that little | country of mountaineers say that the assassins connived | with Greek officials is the most pre- | nder that can be uttered | that country. Any official, minor in his sphere of knows that complications would arise in perpetrating a deed of that character, But why were not nian commissioners molested, ceded the Italian commission? gives a r to the suspicion the murderers may not have been Greeks. but Albanians. Those that hold whaz public opinion wonders in the world s | witnessing the results. Public | n_could not stop the German | cannot make France move Ruhr without the payment | of reparations; it has not removed Italy from the Dode 2 not move her from where she sets her heart's desire— Corfu and . other | valuable strategic « slands i ITERIC HOLSON, Vi d in 1913 againsi inst cver | { i i In Favor of Sports The Star eptember 1 published a e relative larity 1 beach, h stated that Col. Sherrill Lid reat improvement was made during the vear in raising the general tone by the climination of all kinds of displays outside of the line of regular hing." 1 don’t believe there is -a man who patronizes the beach more than I do. and I must say that B dis- e with Col. Sherrill in regard 1o .. 1 have heard hundreds of com- ints made about this very thing, just the opposite. I wili the attendance has been £00d, but he must remember this has been st summer we have had for cars, and, natura re people have been to the beach, | If this summer had been as cool and | last there would not have There are six days-in 1 any one can go swim- ming and enjoy that alone. but to say the average normal person would not like on Saturday afternoon to look at @ few swimming races, high dives, plunges. cte., is all wrong. We natur- ally looked” forward to this, and 1 have heard a great many of the hest rons at the heach remark how much it had injured the general tone of the beach. to climinate all such ports. If Col. Sherriil does not like ports he must remember he Is in & class by himself. You cannot even take a kodak on the beach now to take a pieture of a jolly bunch or of 4 high diver. JOHN P. WAGER. was to the popu- Basin bathing Correction as to Use Of Spanish “Buenos™ To the Editor of The Star: In your edition of the 3ist of Au- appeared an item to the effec Secretary Hughes and Jack Dempsey (how could you utter the two names in one breath?) were ap- plying themselves to learn to pro- nounce “Buenas dias, senor.”” “Dia" in Spanish is one of the exception to the rule of nouns ending in “o, being masculine, and those ending in a” being feminine. This rule, you will recall, originated in the Roman tongue, for we find “dies,” “manus,” ete, jn Latin not following the gen- eral Yule. eek, 100, has them. al- though 1 t offhand quote any to You now. That is, can to be sure, a small thing, almost as'small as the correction that the philatelist made upon the occa- on of the black Harding memorial stamp. But there have been 5o many beoks written with French and Span- ish “quotations” (most of them wrong), that I thought Th Star would like to have it correct, and in- cidentally show your readers the cor- xpression, which is now, was yesterday will be tomorrow and Probably forever, Buenos Day is masculine and night is feminine. Why? You might ask the distin- guished psychologist in our midst. You see, Shakespeare was right, “Caesar was ambitiou Siis HECTOR LAZO. A Way to Minimize ¢ Grade Crossing Perils To the Elitor of The Star: 1t seems to me that all suggestions put forward to eliminate the anpual toil of life taken by gradé-crossing accidents either are not practicable or too expensive. "The present signs posted do mnot consider mists or night driving, being placed on ‘the roadside, sometimes out of focus of the drivers lights, and therefore not seen. A driver must keep his eves on the road and 1 offer the suggestion that the present railroad crossing sign be painted or set right across the road 300 yards before grade crossings. On'dirt or sand roads, granite blocks which show up in anv weather, and on cement or asphait roads, paint could be painted on or mixed in with the cement or asphalt when repaving, which will also be a permanent and sure sign of danger ahead el a IV uld nof ssibly fa) 0 gee. SR RED. T. DEVINE. | phrase i1y minor parts | quently i ed ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKENV Q. Where is the wishing tree of Washington?—A, H, W, A. Early books of Washington remi- niscences tell of a wishing tree in La- fayette Square, an old beech, under which lovers made wishes that alwayve came true, but the identity of the par- tlcular tree has been lost l Q. What is it about finger marks makes it possible to, bring them out?—A. K. D. Fingerprints contain mainly salt By careful dusting with Jumpblack the impression is brought out clearly, Q. What are the e the wealth of the R F:L A. The bureau of census says the first report of the wealth in the United States was taken in 185 that time the total wealth wa 135.780.000, or $307.69 per capit was estimated in 1920 that the wealth of the United States was $290,000,000,- 000, or $2,689.34 per capita Q. What is the mea used on visiting card. A. The abbreviation P iting cards stands for French words “pour prend ' e is used on sent when one is leaving the city without hav- ing returned calls, rliest figures on United State: z of P, T Q. How is invisible ink made which l\unm red with application of heat?- A. A weak solution of nitrate of pper gives ~an invisible writing, which Bgeomes red through heat. Q. While passing through Mariboro, | I noticéd a small sign pointing he woods d “Mary Goodnow’s Grave. AWhy is her grave pointed out?—B. R. C. A. Mary Goodnow was the daugl ter of Samuel Goodnow On August 18, 1707, she and Mary Fay were gath- ering herbs in a meadow near a ga rison designed for use by her family and othe Indians ~ approuched them. Mary Fay ran toward the gar rison, but Mary Goodnow could not, because of lamene. Some of the Indians followed the fleeing giri; the rest attarked Mary Goodnow. = She s killed and scalped. Her body was later buried at the spot now marked by a stond. Q. Has copper ore ever been on the surface in this country A. Native copper was found urface along the shores of Michigan. found | at the | Lake | Q. Are rattlesnake that give birth to their young’—E. J. A. Many serpents lay eggs, but | MOSt Venomous ones and many of the commonest species - are viviparous. The viviparous retain the eggs with- in the body until hatched. Rattle- | snakes are’ viviparous and produce | from six to nine young of five inches in length, { the only snakes | Q. In what claxs peiroleum belong? A. They are cia do natural gas and ! A. E. R. ed as minerals, 3 B Q. What i# the s Guard”—H. T, A. The orlginal Swiss Guard was a regiment of royal body guards of the rulers of France, constitutey by ro ecree, 1616, s composed tirely 'of Swiss, and o cond self that it became absolute fidelity na Ourag e traditions of the guard w kep until after the final dissolution of t empire. The papal guard known the Swiss Guurd consists of te cers and 110 men picked from of unblemished racter and, in iss the | Pretty Lady Mercy To Make the Stage Her Life Career, BY THE MARQUIS DE FONTENOY. | Under the stage namé of “Nancy Parsons,” pretty Lady i;r-: ville, nipeteen-year-old daughter of | the Earl and Countess of Warwick, of Warwick castle, has for the last six | months, been earning her living as a | professional actress at the Ambassa- dor Theater in London and is now touring in the provinces with her ompany, in the play “The Lilies of the Field,” : Althouglt: filling,” until now, relative- she has proved enough | of a success to determine her to adopt | the stage as a permanent career. The fact is, she has been fond of acting | ever since she was fourteen when her | mother, Lady Warwick, fitted up an | | | Merey old barn on her estate at Little Eas- ton, in Essex, as a village theater, for the entertainment of the local peas antry, and_in which Lady Mercy fre appeared in Shakespearean | parts, on one occasion under the di- rection of Ellen Terry. But she had | to learn that there is a vast difference | between amateur starring and real professional acting and that is wh she is working her way up from ghe lower rungs of the ladder. Lady Me eldest brother is Lord Brooke, ( \. who command- Canadian infantry brigades in France in the great war, took part in the Boer campaign of a quarter of a century ago, and acted Reuter cor- respondent in’ the field through the Russo-Japanese war. He is married to 1frida, daughter of the late Sir William Eden of Maryland. Lady Mercy's eldest sister, Lady Marjorie, is the n er of the very rich Earl of Fitzwilliam by her first marriage, which was terminated by the death of her husband on the battlefield. Since flv‘n she has married again, her second ‘husband being Sir Gervase Beckett, the banker, brother of Lord Grimthorpe. But Lady Mercy's par. ents -have lomg been in terribly straitened circumstances and, while Warwick house, St. James, in London. | is now the home of Lord Rothmere's son, Esmond Harmsworth and War- | wick castle has been tenanted on a long lease by Mr. and Mrs. Henry W. Marsh of Boston and New York, Lady Warwick's own particular property, Easton lodge, in Essex, has, at least on two occasions, been the scene of a sheriff’s sale of all her alienable be- longings for the benefit of her cred- itors. ' Consequently, Lady Mercy has little to expect in the way of mone- tary assistance or of inheritance from either of her parents. Consequently she is doing well to pick out for her self a profession of her own, which may prove lucrative and in which she is already making enough of a success to assure her of independence. * ok x X Prince Andrew of Russia. who, with his wife, has just undertaken the management of the so-called Re- gents Park Club in London—a coun- | try club in the metropolis formed of the estate of the late R. D. Walker of cricketing fame, is a son of the Grand Duchess Xenia, cldest sister of the ill-fated Emperor Nicholas. He is, therefore, a grandson of Alexandef 111 and of the latter's widow, Czarina Marie. It is necessary to explain this in order to avoid his being con- founded with Grand Duke Andre Wiadimirowitch, brother of the Grand Dukes Cyril and Boris. .. Grand Duke Andrew is far better off than either of his brothers or than his cousin and namesake. For, two ago. he contracted a marriage at Nice with Mathilde Kszessinska formerly the premier baflerina of the imperial corps de ballet at Petrograd, and who, by the the time of the out- break of the great war. had amassed an immense fortune among “le monde ou Fon s'amuse” in the Russian capi- tal ag well as a collection of jewels that enjoyed international fame. She managed to escape from Petrograd at - \ en. \ | Union, Bern, Switz | last fiv. | 1442 the then chie! |or | count of th { buuit case of the officers, of high famil Only Swiss are allowed to serve, and privates may not marry during S term of service, Q. What is a isme?—A. L F. A. “Disme” & (e old speMmg e the word “dime,” u %h-cent piece. Q What is meant by fhe expressi “nexe friend?"—J. B.C. A. In law a next friend is an other than a guardian who rep in an action another person not lega 1y competent to maintain » sult In s own behalf. The praciice originaten in England in the time of Edward 1 adn Q. Did either man or beast escaj in the Custer massacre?’—J. J. A. Of the men who rode ihto batt under Custer no man lived 8 tell ti. tale of the massacre, but one hor escaped and after its death it wi stuffed and mounted. It is now at Fo. Riley, Kan. Q. What is *‘meant wool"?—A. B, P A. To card wool f% to_comb It wi a carduus or thistle. The teasel plant grown expressly for this pose, s a thistle, The name slightly altered, by “cardinz Q. How long did it. take to the Coliseum at Rome?—W. W A. Ttais said that this enormo structure was completed in one yea the compulsory labor of 12,000 Jew and Christians being employed Q If 1 ters to a o is thers V. ¢ W A. The Post Offic hat record is ke office showing th the n f the sent several registered le cern and lost the receip: way 1 can trace them? Department sa the local po registered numbs sender and the-nan of the addressee. If a person wou :pply within four vears after da of mailing he should be able to nt tain the registered number of particular registered letter. Q. What per cent of the wei the hog ix contained in hams, and loin of pork?—R. A. G A. These choice parts of amount to about 34 p welght of the live animal ShE the ent o Q. Where can I get « radio stations of the world? An Enalish edition of the Inter tional List of Radio Stations of t1.s World can be procured from the Ir ternational Bureau of the Telegraph Tand. Q.1 am « 7 Havana, F. D. M A1t passport Q. How ieneva 7 A. The University (Switzerland) was Calvin in 1 ntemi Is a ating passport nece sary? is not to go necessary to Cubu to have a oid the r University of Geneva founded by Job Q. How did the term “cere. ]‘::h_{;jlv‘ binl“]t._\’. ete., originate? A. This term is derived from Cerec the goddess of agriculture. for (Any Star reader can get the an swer to any question by writing 1o The Star Information Bureaw. Fred r‘nt'v.l. Haskin. director, 1220 North Capitol This offer applies strictly to information. The bureq cannot ad on legal, wedic and financial matters. It does on way subject. W your questio and address and inclose two ce stamps for return @stage. ) Greville Plans strect caliaustive th time of the With both her f; and, thanks to provide for th granducal husbar itch, dn her be . Prince Ana is, like his Italiar olit money Grand Duke she had never b n f[wl]]gh( favorite birth, to the ancient Ita princely house of daughter of the | di R Rus: Her revolution ine 4 in 19 her gems, . 18 now enabled to maintena of her adimiro- 1tiful home at Nice on the other wife, entirely ke the wife re W W but “belong an duc ;ufiu. e late Prince uffo by his marriage wit ess, Natalie Mete rst husband was a Russian | g iEriedericl, whom she ” divor d in 9 she married Prince Andre h‘f :{(l‘ms; lh! Junior by ten v Ste; Oof being younge n b has been alleged SRl They wert marricd at Ai Tod, the Crimea, in 1919, just :f"'»v.v prince's escape from eightecn mor of solitar; confinement in g » during which time he lay under sen- tence of death, effecting his cs.ap when Baron Wrangel's: white o obtained. momentarily h | hand of ‘the boishevists cently e has in a”London wife became woman of establishment have started been employ, bank while designer and SMArt dress in Mayfair. X C, running this M tan Country Club on the bo: Regents Pa rK, and, as the royal family and the leading bers of the -English great worid Well ax ail the members of the Kus. sian imperial house now living London, are constantly seen there. ¢ enterprise bids fair to prove a gre be added that t t favorite of especially of lix s Nenia, anc widowed czur- They have two pretty childrc * % ok % or the Holy Loch, Duke of Argyn, his a princess a g husband's relatives, mother, Grand Duch his grandmother, the ina. Kilmun, the tenth chieftain of all the hereditary admiral of the Wener: Isles of Scotland. has just laia his gifted mother to her last rest. ar away from the Campbel] though in Argylishire. interesting story as to became the buri, bell chieftain, lords and whe super Campbells ani . is far countrv There is how al place of the Camy and of -the dukes of Argyll.dur centuries. vari ing ¢ Tt weems that f of the united f Campbell, known as the pi. Knights of Lochow, had a favor: son, who, being educated in the Jou - lands, died suddenly in the depth of a particularly severe winter. Gn ) heavy snow it was fou: impossible to convey the remaine i Inverary, and the funeral party being snowed up, stopped at Kilmun. ! tained permission of the local «hi Lamont of Cowal, to bury the 1ad i the parish church, which had beer b some 00 years earlier by (i amonts of Cowal. The gra Wwhich the dukes of ArgyllSatin c. joy possession of their family s ulchre in the churchyard of Kilm is preserved and runs as follows. the great Lamont of Cowall, do gi- to thee, Black Knight of Lichow, « grave of flags wherein to bury the son in thy dist " The Knight of Luchow, himself, when he died vears later and was entombed besid his son. bequeathed a large encosw . ment to the church, and ever sin all members of the fam{ly have be. entombed there, save three. Thus 3t second Duke of Argyll, the friena o Jennie Deans, reposes in Westminst.r Abbey. The ninth Earl of Argyll m. with his.death on the ‘scaffold, 4nd '« buried in Greyfriars churchyard, Edinburgh, while only the head the Marquis of Argyll, who was gui- lotined by the “maiden” at the Mar ket Cross of Edinburgh on the 28th «f May, 1661, is entombed at Kilmu: 1t was exposed for three vears, ik~ the heads of all those who had suf fered death for high treason, stuak ot a spike. on the Tolbooth at Edin- burgh, and was removed from the¢ and restored to the members of the family when the parliamentarians se- rulted possession of the Scottish capi- tal.