Evening Star Newspaper, September 10, 1923, Page 6

|| THE EVENING S1AR, ‘With Sunflay Morning Edition, WASAINGTON, D. 0. | { .Beptembor 10, 1023 NOYES........Editor vama Ave. ot 16 Regent 8t.. Londos, Englaad. Star, with the Sunday moraisy ved by ariirs’ wiiia e Sty res mouth; daily only, 45 cents D aniy.c5% ety pe meskh. sent wail, or tel e Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, ly and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., Dedly only 1yr. m 700 mo., 50¢ ., 200 860 25¢ Afember of the Asseciated Pres: 1] The Ansociated Press fu exclysively %o #he use for republicarion of all ne Pitshes eredited to it or not otherwise credited Ahis paper and also the I ocal news pi hereln. Al f publication of 2=;| Sapatenos herels’ % ed. ts o Jave “also_reserved. } Pinchot’s Performance. An jmmediate reaction from the Bupcess of Gov. Pinchot in eecuring e settlement of the hard coal strike brings his name into the politieal dis- ‘eussion for 1924. That name, it is Btated, is certain to figure at the re- Ppublican comvention, possibly for first place, almost certainly for second place. He will, it is urged, surely be Presented to the convention as Pean- sylvania’s “favorite son.” It is inevitable that & political valu. stion should be thus placed upon the governor's achievement, which is of #reat worth to the people. Probably he bas not himself regarded it as hav- ing any bearing upon his political for- tunes. President Coolidge placed in his hands the direct negotiations with the contending factors in anthracite production. He went to the task with vigor and sagacious persistence. He @ccomplished the result of effecting a settlement, and coal will be .mined, with only a few davs of idleness. In one respect Gov. Pinchot's ac- complishment has had a marked po- ilitical value to his party. He has se- cured the writing of a two-year con- tract, which will carry the period of mining over until September 1, 1925, nearly a year after the election. Had the contract been written for a single vear the issue would have been re- precipitated just on the eve of the vot. ing in 1924. Gev. Pinchot has an important work to do in his own state. He is serving Athe first year of a four-year term. There are vital problems to be solved there. There is no suggestion that he does not regard this as a task of the first importance, and he has given no intimation of a desire to be taken from it to the federg) fleld.~ Those who know Gifford Pinchot are aware that he regards a public office as a trust. He sought the governorship of Penn- sylvania in order to correct certain faults of state administration. He has only just started that work. He is doubtless the last man to think of leaving it yntil it is finished. But these considerations will not -stop the speculation about . Pinchot and the 1924 mominations. 'Nor will the fact that Pennsylvania Is not & promising fleld for e presidential as- pirant hamper the discussion. The normal prospect is that it Mr. Cool- idge is named by his party to_carry on the federal administration, as the sur- iviving partner of the presidential firm ichosen in 1920, the second-place nom- ination will go to the west, where there are political conditions calling for direct attention. But that element ‘will not deter the coupling of the name of Pinchot with the 1924 ticket, It is {a familiar phenomenon, and, of course, it 18 certain to be agreeable as a com- pliment to the man who is just now so strikingly in the public eye as one who has turned in a valuable bit of work for the people's benefit. Yet it ‘is hardly more than a form of ap- praisal of @ good joh well done. ——— England is doing her best to make 4t plain that her remarks on the Itaio- {Greek situation are not to be con- strucd purely as a contribution fo the "I Jeague of nations discussion. ——————— ‘Western farmers who burn grain in *disgust may, if coal prices go as high Bs has been feared, find that they are after all getting the best of the fuel ‘market. ———— Pennsylvania js discussing prison weforms, but not yet in sufficiently al- * ¢ luring terms to cause the bootleggers to surrender without an argument. led dls- The American Merchant Marine. The merchant marine fleet owned by ¥he Tnited States government is val- med at $226,733,315, it is announced by the Shipping Board, a valuation based on world market conditions. The fleet #s composed of 1,334 vessels. Of particular interest is the state- ment of the board regarding the num- "her of vessels now in operation and those laid up. It appears that 365 . €argo yessels, valued at $81,390,410. " @re in active operation, and that 802 pargo vessels, velued at $75,568,296, #re inactive. Thirty passenger vessels, ineluding the great Levigthan, valued at $46,390,000, are being operated by the governrent, and three, valued at $1,400,000, are inactive, Nineteen tank- * | ers are-in operation and twenty-six | are indctive. Two of the fourteen re- | frigerators ownad by the government ! wre in operation also. The Shipping Board fleet was cdon. wtructed and purchased at a tremen- doue cost under war conditio Its value todsy necessarily shows a huge losg in dollars and cents. But let there be no mistake regarding the walue of the merchant fieet. It is to- day a great asset, It carries a large - share of the trade of this and other coutitries. It is oompeting with the ' vosgels of other maritime nations on ~ all the seas. ‘American producers are safeguarded and assured - means of transportatier. It is of great value te “the pation as & measure of prepared. _ness should war threaten. President Coolidge has { ‘before him 1'-\1”0 merchant vessels in privete own. ership and operation. It calls for the jcreation of a number of subsidiary corporation® to operate the vessels, «the corporatinus 1o own the terminnl {fachities, the business and the good l'm of the lines thsy operate. These are to be government corporations, 11t ts the contention of the pro- ! ponents of the plan that under the | proposed system going business con- lm' will be bufit up, concerng_that the government may dispose of even- tually to American citizens, with as- surance that the merchant marine + business of the country will continue. Under the present munager-agent plan the government owns the ships, but the terminal fecilities, the busi- ness and good will Lelong to the agents. | The government pays all the losses of | the operation of the vessels, and also pays to the agents a certain percen. tage on gross receipts of the business done. There is no incentive for the agents to purchase the vessels. President Coolidge has called upon i the Attorney General for an opinion as to the legality of the plan for the subsidiary government corporations to operate the lines of vessels. A minority of the Shipping Board is opposed to the' plan, and efforts are being made, It is repcrted, to have action delayed until Congress shall assemble in De- cember. If the plan is held to be legal, however, and a preliminary decision was recently given by the Department of Justice to the Shipping Board of- ficials that it is legal, President Cool- idge may be expected to act in the matter with promptness. Traffic Problems. The Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association hms petitioned that the one-way rule in downtown business streets be abolished. The business men say that the rule does not facilitate the flow of traffic and operates against their interests. They also petitien for & time limit on parking cars on busi- ness streets. Traffic in downtown streets became so congested that driv- ing was difficult and dangerous. The lot of pedestrians was hard. One-way streets have been adopted in many cities, but many of these were made one-way streets because they were actually narrow and two-way traffic could not well pass through them. When prepdrations were mak- ing for the Shrine convention, and it was estimated that 400,000 strangers and 50,000 outside cars were coming, it seemed necessary to make certain new traffic regulations, and severdl streets were designated for one-way traffic. Though the crowd was not so great as had been predicted, the new regulations worked well. The Com- missioners decided to continue. one- way streets, but changes were made in the designation of those streets which caused confusion. All drivers could not learn the new rules prompt- ly nor did they heed the arrows. Very recently the direction of trafic on a number of one-way streets has heen reversed, and there is a good deal of corfusion, and it will continue un- til the drivers learn the new rules. As the Merchants and Manufacturers’ As. sociation says, the one-way rule has\ not brought all the improvement in traffic conditions which was hoped. North of the Avenue the southway streets are jammed in the morning and the northway streets catry little traffic. In the evening conditions are reversed. It seems, though, that & majority of motorists belleve that the one-way rule is working ‘successfully, and will work better as time goes on. The one-way rule Is experimental, and should be given full time for a try-out. . The Naval Disaster. Following the extraordinary naval dieaster on the Pacific coast, in whigh the United States Navy loses seven destroyers, with twenty-three seamen dead, will, of course, come an investi- gation to determine the causes of this tragedy. Apparently the flotilla was siéaming at rapid pace along the coast when it ran into a fog, and in a short time the seven destroyers were piled up on the rocks, total losses save per- haps for some slight salvage of ma- terials. It will be necessary to ascertain just why the destroyers were so close- ly hugging the coast and why they maintained their high speed when fog was encountered. Evidently the navi. gators were not aware of the nearness of the shore. They were, then, off their course. The question is raised whether there was any reason for haste to send the flotilla ahead at high speed in dangerous conditions without pre- cise knowledge of the conditions, Inquiry will not, of course, restore the lost lives or the wrecked ships. But it will, perhaps, elicit facts that will serve to lessen the chances of further sacrifices. These present 16sses would seem to reflect seriously upon the naval administration. B e ] German economists are not discuss- ing the price of wheat, but will regard affairs as improving if the value of paper marks can be ralsed to a dollar a bushel. ————————————— President Coolidge will be fortunate if the Senate remains as deferential to his announcements s it was when he was its presiding officer. B e — Germany intimates that her figfin- clal situation is at present about as. distressing @as her most Implacable enemy could wish, B L S — Two Years of Coal Peace. When in AuEust, 1922, the bard coal strike was settied on the basis of a new contract beginning September f, that year, and ending on the same date a year jater, anxiety was ex. predsed regarding the possibliity of a recurrence of the same trouble just on the eve of the heaviest coal-using season. This anxiety was justified in the strike thet was called a time ®go and that has just beer. settled. thorities with as great fresdom of gc: tion as at other times, - | But fortunately this anxiety i» layed by the unnouncement that the view contract will rap. for two yeurs. ‘While not as long « period as the pub. lic welfare demands, as far as the strike menace'is concerned, it is much better than the one-year ferm. And, moreover, it may be better for the pub- lic interests that the contract should run for two years than for the even longer period askéd by the operators. For there is still & chance that in two Years conditions may have changed so as to permit a reduction instead of an increase in the cost of mining anthra- cite, & reduction of which it may be expected the public will get some benefit. At any rate, there is now the pros- pect of hard coal peace for two years. ‘That will permit the accumulation of stocks sufficient to put, thrifty con. sumers {n possession of sufficient sup- plies to tide them over the next period of idleness and non-mining, if it should come in 1925 as a result of another strike. | ———— Tammany’s Attempted Grab. Politics in the Empire state this fall will be enlivened by the drive which the Tammany organization will make to capture the lower branch of the legislature, in order to gain complete control of the sgtate government and of Greater New York as well. With Tammany Hall politics and business go hand in hand. Or, to put it another way, “business” is founded on poli- tics, contracts, franchises and the like, passed out to the falthful, through control of the political machinery. Senator James W. Wadsworth, Speaker Machold of the assembly and other republican leaders are apprised of the plans of Temmany,to take over the assembl;’, and they will concen- trate efforts of resistance in thoss as- sembly districts where it is known Tammany will exert unusual efforts to win them and to hold those recognized as close. The republicans are said to have canvassed the state, and claim to be confident of gaining some seats in Brooklyn and several upstate which went democratic on the big landslide for Alfred E. Smith for governor last year. Fate seems to be taking a hand in the coming back.. Mayor Hylan was to have been used by Tammany to speaw in close districts, which prospect was disconcerting to the republicans, who recognize his influence with the vot- ers. Now his doctors say he cannot do so, on account of his Impaired health and the necessity of rest and recuperation. This will throw the burden on Gov. Smith, and if the democrats should lose it would be & blow at the governor's prestige in his possible presidential aspirations. ———— The fascisti are naturally wondering whether Mussolini will be able to in- ‘woduce into foreign relations a style of dealing to be known as “black-shirt. sleeve diplomacy.” —————e— Subscriptions to the relief fund are enormous. Japan can epply every cent of it to good purpose. ——— Discovery of a vast radium fleld in Turkestan immediately suggests pos- sibility of new complications in the problem of managing the world's un- deveioped wealth. ? B A new Japan will rige from the pres- ent. The prediction may be confident- ly made, but it doks not serve to lessefi the sorrow and hardship of present, calamity, + SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Triflin’ Along. Just triflin’ along with a sigh or a song, The wind in the tremulous trees Brings never a thought that the world can go wrong. Each hour lightly floats at its ease. The butterflies shift 'mongst the blos- soms that Hft Their radiant smiles to the sky, ‘Where the clouds are like ships that ‘will lazily drift To the land of our dreams by and by. There's @ task to be done, there’s a race to be run And sorrow that calls for a tear, The prize that we sought seems but little when won Compared to the effort severe. The reward that seems best for the ‘wearisome test Which calls for the struggle so strong - Is the day now and then when the world seems at rest And we simply go “triflin’ along.” Force of Circumstance. ‘How did you happen to go into poli- tics?” 3 “I'wanted to serve my country,” re- plied Sedator Sorghum; “and besides there didn’t happen at that time to be any regular line of business in which 1 had sufficient experience to be in de- mand.” Jud Tunkins says one reason his town doesn’t segm to improve faster is that the folks have been acquainted so long that everybody knows the worst about everybody else. The world’s & stage, the poet states. Just now, as actors bluff, ‘The patient public intimates ‘ The show ls getting rough. case, the only compliment Henrietta has paid me In years was to, put on knickerbockers."" St In the first stageeof the fnally sue- |3, cessful ‘negotiations it seemed likely that the new contract, when written in settlement of the strike, | rus for one year only, like rence of the trouble 4 year ont twelve months' respite for the public in the rhatter ‘plies. 1t would, that the cohtroversy would b6 Just oni the eve of the p | mistrust, “WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Gov. , Gifford Pinchot's presidential or vyice presidential boom arouses mixed emotions in national republi- can circles. In the first place, Pinchot has the disadvantage of hailing from Pennsylvania, which, because .of its rock-ribbed ‘republicanism, tradition- ally commands relatively little ri spect from nominating convention ‘“We'll carry Penn state with any old candidate,” is the regulation view of G. O. F. stalwarts, Republican or- ganization leaders, too, felt that Ponnsylvania gave an inadequate ac- count of itself in 1930 in respect of the sinews of war. Since time Im- memorial the state has been one of the standbys when It became neces- sary to pass the hat and replenish the war chest. In the Harding and (0o~ lidge camj n Pennsylvaniu's ash quote. fell disappointingly short. Men who recall that dreary ' circumstance say things might be different if Gev. Pinchot were on the ticket. He spent $125,000 to $150,000 of his own money n the flerce 1922 primary cumpalgn. AL ook % In the Sixty-eighth Congress there'll be a member who once was a factor in the distillery industry—Represent. ative William E. Hull of Illinols, who called on President Coolidge Ilast week. Mr. Hull is from Peoria, which in pre-Volstead days made a quarter of all the whisky produced in the United States. Its boast was that it manufactured more than Kentucky and Pennsylvania put together. Hull's republicanism stretches back Mark Hanna's day. McKin him postmaster at Peoria at the of twenty-seven—the youngest first- class postmaster then in the service— and Roosevelt reappointed him, An- other of Hull's claims to fame is that he was a classmate of Wiiiam Jen- nings Bryan at Illinois College. Bryan Was on, the stump against the con- gressman last autumn and dubbed Hul! “the_crows prince of the house of John Barleycorn. McAdoo also took the hustings against Hull. As there's nothing dry about Peoria, how- ever, it elected Hull over Anti- Saloon League democrat by a record majority. * ¥ % Dr. Caballos, the statesman, now on a speaking tour of the United States, lamonts what he finds both the ignorance and the nonchalance of the American people with regard to the Latin republics. As prima facie evidence of how little we know of things beyond the equator. Cabellos produces a letter once written him by President Roosevelt. “Why,” declares the senor pampas, “even the great ddressed ' me as ‘senator,’ ve never been anything be- low the rank of a cabinet minister in my life and, to cap the climax, my lstter bore the d Buenos Aires — Brazil Caballos probably inciudes among our imper- foctions the fact that the most dil tinguished Argentinian now occup: ing Uncle Sam’s attention is Luis Angel Firpo, who is expected to make things interesting for Jack Dempsey at the New York Polo Grounds this week. * ok ok % Chief TJustice William Howard Taft was one of the popular heroes of the recent Ameriean Bar Associ tion meeting at Minneapolis. He sat democratically among the ordinary delegates on the floor ¢f the con- —— Latin America Should Accept The Hughes Statement on Merit| ! Secretary of State Charles Hughes' declaration of just what this country believes the Monroe doctrine really means is accepted generally as having been timely. Following, as it did, on the complete recognition of the Obregon government in Mexico, it is characterized- as = bid to the {Latin American republics to feel that | the United Statés has no desire to be looked on as dictator but' really wishes honestly to co-operate with tha neighbors to the south. “South American statesmen would gain in peace of mind if they would study this piain restatement of the Monroe doctrine,” the Utica Observer Dispatch believes, “and that they will do so is quite certaln, for no inter- fonal subject more deeply inter- | ests | them.” Because “Latin Ameri- can susceptibilities.{n regard to the Monroe doctrine were one of the main reasons for the failure of the recent ," the New York Po feels the address was timely, because, “in prac- tice the Monroe 'doctrine’ has not worked for the limitation of Latin American liberties and has certainly cperated for their protection. The real problem for the United States is one of meeting the facts of Latin American psychology, and psychology is not a negligible factor in interna- tional relations.” This is also the ‘view of the Springfield Republican, which, in addition, suggests '‘our gov- érnment’s Panama canal policy, its treaty relations with Cuba, its various interventions in Central Americ exico, Hait! and San Domingo res on special interests, which would have existed by reason of geographical contiguity or nearness if the Monro dootrine "had never been invented. While this may be admitted without hesitation, the fact cannot be ignored that Latin America cannot be +ex pected,to draw nice distinctions be- tween What is Monroelsm and what is not. 'What chiefly concerns Latin America is what we do rather than what we say.’ % ., * * k% The address brings home to the country at large, as the Philadelphia “the strongly rooted if mot suspicion, in Latin America of the purpose and motives of the United States policy-affecting the other nations on this”contiment. Mr. Hughes has made a candid answer to understandabie, if unwarranted, griticism, and candid consideration in Latin American countries of his re- 1 i | Bulletin sees it, ply ought to clear the air consider- ably.” To which the Boston Globe adds “the trouble, however, source from which most of the suspi clop about us in South Amsrica h flowed of recent years from such of ;hf“ stats opposite view Is tha by the Boston Tran- M A direstiy which Argentinian | ; i 1 E. dress should do much to silence eriti- t I | 1 Ig: t t l ! peopl: vention, made motions, voted and generally participated in pr 2s one of the rank Chiof Justice said d brot: fon in to Supreme file. e privately to friends or ll':'u that his ambi- bring his colleagues of the Court bench ° into the closest possible contact with lawyers and laymen. Taft is anxious that tribunal of instance shall ‘humanized” “popularized” to fullest extent compatible with its functions and tradition. ok w Unique. publicity 1is being dis- tributed from the office of the Gov- ernor of Alabama, Willlam W. Bran- don, on behalf of the presidential bee of Oscar Underwood. Accom- panied by an autographed letter from the governor, a persuasive pamphlet s been broadcastéd, epitomizing and eulogizing the public virtues of ‘Underwood of Alabama.” The pam- phlet is sponsored under the per- sonal signatures of four former gov- ernors of the -state, in addition to Gov. Brandon. ood Ppresidentiai stature, yri reads. “His serene personality and his character stand out in his gen. eration, worthy of the best traditions of democratic leadership. As the bresent and all living &rmer BOV~ ernors of Alabama, we make thl foint statement, in order to challenge the . suggestion that Underwood's citizenship in a southern state should or will in any degree whatever de- tract from his availability for the demacrdtie nomination or the rea- sonable uran; 3 e ©6 of his -election if * ok ok % At the Instigation of Interstate Commerce Commissioner Johnston B. © | Campbell, tk \ commission on Novem- ber 13 will be regaled with a report of personal interest to the 34,000,000 or 35,000,000 people who annually sleep, or try to sleep, in Pullmans. About 9,000,000 of “these adventurers are women. At last week's Pullman ring before the commis- . Mr. pbell declared that one of the paramount issues before the American public is how to undress and dress in His Pullman.” Mr, Campbell wants to know if it isn't possible for the sleeping-car company to_provide dressing-room facilities men similar to those now available for women. The Pullman people claim this would mean curtailment-of berth space and because of that might affect fares, But they promise to submit plans and specifications two months hence. * % x % Poultney Bigelow, writer, traveler, lecturer and diplomat, oplnes it would be far more charitable for the United States to admit 1,000.000 Japanese refugees than te drench their stricken land with dollars. Bigelow knows something about Nipponese disasters, for as & young man in the course of a cruise around the world in a salling ship he was wrecked on_ the coast of Japan. Gratitude for his rescus made Bigelow profoundly and incor- rigibly pro-Japanese. He visits the mikado's realm periodically and re- ceives the honors of a crowned head. In a letter to the press Bigelow sug- gests that the American people should eschew ostentatious sympathy with | Japan in the form of vast money sub- | soriptions and practie some real benevolence by throwing wide open the gates now barred. to Japanese by the “gentlemen’s .agreement. (Copyright 1923.) cism and’to clear up any misappre- hensions that may have existed with respect to our present intentions un- der the Monroe doctrine. That doc- trine is not a menace to the liberties or the Interests of the Latin Ameri- BY FRANK H. HEDGES “What ls that?’ arrival from America as the floors of the second story ¢f the Japan Adver: tiser office in Tokio began to tremble and the doors and windows to rattle. “It is an earthquake,” came the re- ply from Americans who had gone through of the eurth tremors to which Japan is subject, “and you had better get out of doors.” ‘With the first: plunge be was at the head of the stairs and with the sec- ‘ond had taken the long flight a was out in the open, but rapld as ‘was his exit the entire Japanese staff of translators and compositors was in the street before him. - ‘ To be starti®d by an earthquake at any hour of the day or to be awakened from sleep at night by the rocking of the house is an almost weekly ex- perience. for the dweller In eastern Japan, but it 'brings about a dlrect contradiction to the old adage that familiarity breeds contempt.” Sev- eral times a year a shock of such intensity occurs as to cause consider- able damage and the loss of life. Pe haps every hundred years or so the {empire - suffers from a_disaster great as that under which Japan is now bearing up bravely. All Japan is prepared against the earthquake. Native houses are so built of wood that they sway with the shaking earth rather than topple to the ground. Tne many-storied pagodas are constructed on the prin- ciple of an invertea pendulum-and swing back and forth through the air as if they were the clapper of some gigantic bell. Stone walls and em- bankments are constructed in an arc instead of a stralght line, thus dis- tributing the tremor over their whole surface instead of weakening at the base. In the modern skyscrapers that Japan has borrowed from this country the best of engineering and scientific skill has been devoted rto devising safeguards agalnst destruc- tion by earthquake. > The very islands themselves are thé results of the violence of nature in past ages. Japanese mythology, in accounting for the creation, tells how the gods on the “plain of high heaven™ dipped their spear points in the brine and the drops that fell from them formed the “eight great islands, the land of fertile rice fields.” The my- thology, while fantastic, is close to the truth, for volcanic eruptions. and earthquakes on the bed of the ocean spat forth or heaved upward the chain of mountains along the cosst line of Asia that is now known as the empire of Japan. With the earthquake often comes the tidal wave, for a disturbance at sea forces the waters of the Paclfic high on the shore, sweeping away houses and bits ot humanity who struggle helplessly against the force of unbridled nature. A simple peas- ant farmer has Become one of the national heroes of the people’of Japan,’ a hero honored at Shinto shrines throughout the natlon. Years ago in a cogstal village to the north of Toklo » great celebra- tion was being held. ‘The crops had been gathered and stored on a ter- race several hundred feet up the side of the cliff, for the villige itself nestled close to the waves: that japped the sands: ~ Only one man, so old that he could scarcely walk, had not gone to the celebratiom, but was: resting in hig little house on the cliff, guard- ing ‘the crop of harvested rice and straw. As he watched the gavety below him, his eves suddenly lifted and looked far out to sea. There, in the distance, he saw-a great wall of water rushing inland, a tidal wave that in a few minutes would engulf -the happy village and its throng of can countries. It does not challenge their sovereignty or undermine their independence. Oh the contrary it Is a source of strength to them, and as it has been for a hundred years is stil! « bulwark against bullying and aggression.” So far as. the Louis- ville Courler-Journal s concerned it Boes not sympathize with the all-cov- ering statements with which the Sec- retary concluded his address, insist- Secretary Hughes may be com- petent to define his attitude, or any number of his attitudes, or world re- lations, but he has no authority to define ‘the_attitude of the American It also shou!d be remem. . the Indianapolis News points out, that “the trouble is the Monroe doctrine, has been defined so manmy times in so many different ways. Some of the definitions bear only the faintest resemblance to the doctrine 8 originally promulgated. Many men have interpreted it in many ways and there will be still further interpre- tations, A doctrine may thus be very handy but it has its inconveniences.” The Minneapolis Tribune, however, feols that Mr. Hughes was right and choose the right moment to make his statement and that “eventually. tne day will come when the noBlé words S0’ spoken will be accepted by Latin Americans in the same spirit of sin- cerity that they were uttere Spread of Mob Spirit A Menace to Nation To the Editor of The Star: Your recent editorials on mobs and the Klan and lynching the wrong man can but arrest the attention of our entire country and give us ap- preciation of the destiny toward which we are going, Lawlessness is a contagious affliction; it knows no merrymakers, bringing death and de- struction. . He could not shout a warning that would be heard, but he seized a pot of glowing charcoal and -threw It on the rice arnd straw. In a second the work of a'year was blazing, the flames mounting upward and light- ing the sky witl a glare so lurid that the villagers turned to look and then, with anger and. hatred distort- ing their features, stormed up the face of the cliff in an attempt to arrest the flames. They had scarcely reacheq the higher grouad when the wall of water struck the beach, bury: ing their homes and even dashing spray into the faces of the groups huddled on the little ledge of safety. Anger against the old man changed into heartfelt gratitude. Their year's harvest and their homes were gone, but their lives were saved, Feared and dreaded as are earth- quake and flood, fire is even a greater terror to the Japanese. The very safeguards against earthquake prove a handicap in the battle against the flames. The houses of wood and straw and paper are like tinder, the blaze once started running through streets and whole districts as a prairie fire crosses the plains of the middle west in this country. Tokio expects sev- eral fires every winter that will each take a thousand or more houses as their toll. Two winters ago the city of Hakodate, the largest city on the northernmost island, was virtually wiped out by the flames. In the spring of 1922 I stood in the grounds of the ‘great temple to the_ Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Kwannon, in uska Park in north- ern Tokio, and watched a cl ‘very grounds of grounds that have ened and ruine reat catastrophe. e sacred in been made & black- ‘waste by this last bounds. Lynching was designed to punish one race and one sex for one crime, but, leaping beyond the de- signs of its creators, it punishes fifty crimes and “no crime,” both sexes in all sections, and nearly every one of our Bomorie’ Sopalation” has i e = nished Its victima. - o e® fur Tae Klan'is at once the result and cause of our unchecked mob epirit. Iynching which Eovernment. has tor: rnmen - erated, and is &h‘l’hrfil‘r of ‘f’} awlessness the w and Carxegie are evidences of t?md of the t{lrlt w)fl:m is| challenging government and _civili- zation Itself. a few weeks 4 Tmade 1t niaWtul Tor & white Jos made it unlawful for a white teacher f missto: spirit to teach in' istatently o ee gro institutions, incon: 5 | Manded that th ated nospi Eated hosp! ow tongues leaped fro to house, while just before the approach- ing horror fled thousands of japanese whose homes and possessions - being taken by the fiames. High on the roof of his hom lined against the dan ground of sthe flame-covered sky, stood an old man with hands out- retched, clasping his Buddhist rosary and p that his little house might be spared. to quit his post of supplication, and not until friends and neighbors forcibly carried him from the roof RY FREDERIC ], HASKI| Q. Please publish again the name of the person in Canada who is ask- ing for a cancer cure.—$. A. This ip Lord Atholstan, owner of the Montreal Star, Montreal, Ca: Q Whare ald Johnson take the :lc of office after Lincoln’s death?— A. Andrew Johnson was hastily sworn_in as President, on the night after Lincoln's death, in a hotel that staod where ¢ Raleigh Hotel now Q. Were southern slave owners al- | Kai lowed to free thelr slaves without as- suming any responsy y for them ?— W. W. C. A. Many of the southern states placed restrictions on the manumis- slon of slaves, which by 1360 had in- creased the number of free negroes to onesgixteenth of the total number. One restriction practically common to all states was that the master must give bong that ths freed slave should not become & public charge. A second restriction very common obliged the master to remove the freed slave from the commonwealth in ‘which he was freed. Liberia was American Colonization Soclety for the purpose of providing a ssttlement for manumitted slaves. The first colon was sent out on the Ellzabeth, 1821, During the next twenty-five years, 4,500 freed slaves were seat out. Q. What Is thé age and height of Harold Lloyd?—G. J. A.° He i3-thirty years old, five feet nine inches tall and weigh 150 pounds. | Q. How is steel made that will not be affected by {‘onplrnlan or ordi- nary aolds?—J. H. G. ‘A. “Stainless stcel” is a high chromium steel containing certain porcentages of tunssten and nickel t is not affected by perspiration or any weak acid: Q. Does the mocking bird migrate, uired by the labor, labor laws of the various states nlocun, children, are specified in the w #d falling within the province of bureau. e It in England & bililon'’is & million: MlioRs. whit ag the Eng: iish call our billion?—J. D. R. A. Tt is ealled one thousand mil- lions. The ‘technieal term ' for this amount is a mtiliard. - . When did Hawail first contem- plate annexation?—J, N..D. A. The Sunget Magazine says that time of his death, in 1854, King hameha AII had drafted and was negotiating a treary. under which Hawail should be admitted as a state of the United States. ‘Q. How miny Canadian provinces have rejected prohibition?—A. A. A. 8ir John Wiltlson says that three provinces have rejected it. Q. In playing auction bridge has the player wklmklnc in tt:: ktr:;k: a it'to 'k at a . has been turned face down?—M. E. C. A. None of the players has a right to loock at & trick that has been quitted. The laws of.auction forbid this and provide a penalty of twenty- five points for each and every such offense, to be scored in the ad- versaries’ honor column. rs there no proper names eglnning with “W"7— at t in the Bible ALC . Dr. Shapiro in the Library of Congress says that there is no letter. in the Hebrew alphabet corresponding in sound with the letter “W,” which counts for the fact that no proper names in the Bible are transla commencing with the letter To settle an argument, on what date was “The Star Spangled Banner” written?—F. C. W. A. " This poem was written during the time that Francis Scott Key was detained on the British ship Bur- prise during the bombardment of or why does its singing cease about Fort McHenry. Tnis began on Septem- the middle of the summer?—B. W. M. A. The Department of Agriculture s that the mocking bird as a rule is not migratory. It is true that only the male 18 a singer and perhaps the reason he ceases his singing is be- cause of the molting season which b t § 200 eone” birds muaciy el s SN the flag of France?—T. These birds usuall: qight years of ag Q. How long has.the Roosevelt. family been in this country?—A. J. G. A. They are descendants of Klaas Martensen Roosevelt, who emigrated from Holland in 1614. Q. What is the oldest agricultural paper in the United States?—G. D. A. .The Country Gentleman is the gggis!, having ‘been tablished - in Q. What are the dren’s bureau?—K. A. Under the law the bureau is au- thorized té investigate and report to the Department of Labor ail matters pertaini to child welfare and child life. Such matters as the birth rate, infant mortality, juvenile courts, ac- cidents and diseases of children, child Cutles of the chil- L'C. ; ber 13, 1814, and continued until the following day. When Mr. Key went ashore on the 14th he carried with ft of “The Star Spangled Banner,” which had been written that morning. When_did the tricolor becoms A. Marquis ‘de ‘Lafayette brought :%o'ut the adoption of the tricolor i o% Is Lowestoft china still ‘made?— A. The production of this cels- brated blue and white china was be- gun in Lowestoft toward the ‘end of the eighteenth century, but it is-no longer made. . Q. Is kelp still being harvested for its potash on tjie Pacific coast?—1. A. The kelp industry, which grew to ‘importance in California duricg the war, is now a memory, all plants having closeq dow: (Bend your questions to The Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol- street closs & cents in stamps for return pest- age.) > Wolseleys Trace Back Their Ancestry To Days Prior to Norman Conquest BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Sir Capel Wolseley, who has just been run down and killed by a motos car near Southwood, in England, is a mnephew, by marriage, of Lord Knollys, throughout near half a cen- tury the private secretary of King Ed- ward. He Is the Irish baronet of the Housé of- Wolseley and must not be confounded with the English Sir Charles Wolseley, who' has an American wife in the person of Anita, daughter of the-late Daniel T. Murphy of San Francisco and New Yark.. Theq* late Sir Capel Wolseley, Sir Charles ‘Wolseley and the late fleld marshal, Viscount Wolseley, all belong to one of the very old families of 'England, one that can prove by autkentic'and offficial documentary evidence still in existence an unbroken descent, in the male line, from early Anglo-Saxon times and the inheritance of the same ] ancestral 1 lands from a period long anterior to the Norman conquest. The estates in question are now in the po; £ sh_baronet and ession of e English, ere bestowed ing Edgar upon rvices in by a certain Siwardus for his connection with the extermination of the ‘wolves in England. The lands ] thus granted were those of Wisclei in the county of Stafford, and in conse- quence thereof. the grantee stvled himself Siwardus of Wiselel, whichs Lin_course of time, became corrupted into Wolseley. S e { It is on account of his services in |connection with the extermination of wolves in England that 5 wolf's head figures on the armorial bearings ‘of all the Wolseleys and that the wolf also appears in the family ~motto, {which is “Homo homini lupas” (man is & wolf \to his fellow man), a singularly appropriate motto for a house which has furnished so many soldiers to the state as the Wolseley In the reign of Edward IV t owner of the Wolseley property- fn Staffordshire caused a portion of his lands there to be inclosed for use as a deer park, by permission of the crown. Sir Charles Wolseley’s bar- onetey is one of the oldest in exist- ence, having been created in 1628 in tavor of Sir Robert Wolseley, who was in charge of that department of Kin, James’ household which was intruste with the issue of royal patents be- ley of Mount Wolseley in County Carlow, member of parliament for that shire and who had inherited all the Irish estates of his grand{ather, Sir Charles Wolseley of Wolseley in Staffordshire, SO Sir Capel, who 1s succeeded in’hig family honors by a very remote cousin, now Sir Reginald. Beatty ‘Wolseley, & bachelor of about fifty, was, prior to the war, British vice sed { congul at Archangel and during the international conflagraton saw serv- ice ‘with the East Surrey regiment on to the comparative safety of the |y from the path of certain death, ‘Earthquake, fire- and in a fearful league against mank! in this most recent holocaust. how many, have lost their lives and ousands more are brulsed sastern coast of the m: been torn and cracked by ment of the earth, smoke is S SR an res or inundated by the ocean. o 5 through it all, G it At e ] the Pacite that s herste, restoration, riumphant.| vinnlla":‘lmm.l h:nluu) mé ‘_ to m’e't that note of coi u; an answering chord of .lm"?w:mm helptul chord that e to the uflus@ in u..i: J;‘"fi?‘ v people in any /| ther's ahoestra will inherit his end rty, lose | 11 o e, tle | temple - compound was he removen sz}x of the war and in 1919, he was ritish expeditionary forces n northern Russia. He could, like ir Charles, show, on the distaff side, a descent from Lionet, royal duke of ma who have |sands, as yet we know not certainly | Clarence, second son of King, Edward III. Sir Charles’ half American son agricultural school for- women- at Glynde in Sussex, where:women are taught scientific agricultuse and also how to cmitivate at the greatest profit the smallest pieces of ground. Her work has been so.remarkable in this connection that the anclent guflds of gardeners in London havebestowed upon her the fréedom and membership of its worshipful compapy, the: first time_in ‘all its history, of 700 years, that @ woman has thus beenl hanored She 13 now past the half céntury mark and thus farrhes remaimefyunurarried. Being absorbed by her life work, it ia practically assured that ner-father's Deerages and other honors will be- ome extinct at her death.,. * x k% Comimander Dliver Locker-Lampson, M. P, ‘whose marriage to Miss Biancs Paget of_Californiayhas, just taken place at Cromer in Norfolk, where the ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Norwich, ‘has'a stfain of American blood in his veins. For he is the son of the, latg Frederick Locker, ane of the higher officials of the admiralty and a commissioner of the Royal Hospital of G-defrwich, who. on marrying the only daughter:of Sir Curtis Miranda Lampson, a Vermonter. assumed his father-in-law's¥name In addition to his own, a double-barreled mame stfll: remembered as that of.the author «f much popular poetry such as Lyrics,” “Lyra Elegantia- rium” and *Patchwork.” . The lnte Sir Curtis Lampson—that is to say, the grandfather of the Capt Lampson who was' married the' other day at Cromer—was engaged in e, nurn- ber of New York banking enterprises and became associated with the late Cyrus Field in the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable. , In 1866, after the success of that enterprise was vir- tually assured, he received recognl- tion from the British government in the {orm of a baronmetcy, having pre- viously abandoned his American na- tionality in order to secure naturall- zation as an English citizer. His career was in the -nature of a romance, For, born at New Haven Mills in Vermopt. he_started out to eara his own 1iving on the farm of an upcle named Walter Squire, who employed him at the munificent wage of §56 a week. Later he was sent by his uncle on some mission to upper Canada, where he managed to secure ore profitable employment: by the orthwest Fur Company, and became the assistant of Ramsey Crooks, one of the right-hand men_ of the o al John Jacob Astor. Eventually, he be- came the successor of Crooks-up in Canada and attracted the personal at- tention of old Mr. Astor. who brought the former farm boy. to New York, as- sociated him in many of his enter- prises and. thus started him: on the road to fortun v 'The: present holder of the barbhetcy. some thirty years of age, took part in the great war as a captain of the ‘beautiful. vide, known by the nama of Miranda, at Hyeres, on the French Riviera, Protection for Elder - - Government Employes To the Editor of The Star: . T.will thank you very much it you can find space in your paper to help along the cause of the elder govern ment clerks. One of the best resolu- tlons of the National Fostal Clerks' Association that should be brought fo the attention of every government a |employe is the thirty-year optional the great ‘war co-religlonist, He has _estates moth mostly situated in the Tattor. @ very - “energe; ‘woman snd her father's confidant e-'l‘tlhn in the closing years of his numwr the ¥ " and of large fortuns retirement. It will glve the younger cnes the opportunity to reach better fades in salary and keep the gov- ernment service full of yopnger ea- ergy and greater efficlency in taking Ithe places of some who might fe} or could retive on n_go eut on nd be ified /every , with the fear of not being re- A1 should In" their WHl be very berad that thos: mn..{”?fi various ages. For the most part. nearly. if not. all, will have r over fif r8 landscape ening, BV CREA T wi