Evening Star Newspaper, September 13, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING, STAR, V/ith Sunday Morning Edition. T WASHINGTON, D. O. THURSDAY. .September 13, 1083 .Editor THEQDORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office, }‘I';h St. Ave, w York Chicago Ofic Buropesn Oftice: 16 Regent St., Loi The Evening Star, with the Sunday edftion, 1s delivered by carriers within £ 60 cents per month; dally only, 48 woath; Sunday only, 20 teats per month. ders may be sent by mail, or telephane . Collection is made by earriers at the ead of each month. Eate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. $8.40; 1 mo., T0¢ boc R vl Daily only. funday eonly. All Other States. Daily and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85c y. 3 $7.00; 1 mo., 60c $3.00; i mo., 25¢c Member of the Associated Press. exclustvely entitled n of all news dit credited to it or ot otherwise credi! paper and also the local news pub- Iehed hereln. All rights.of publication of wpecial dispatches herein are also reserved. The Enforcement Issue. Attorney General Daugherty, in a report to the President, gives a review of the record in the work of enforcing the prohibition amendment and the Volstead act, whic prosecutions and convictions, shows progress. Mr. Daugherty, however, pre- sents facts that are distressing and dis- quieting to citizens with a regard for the law and belfef in the mnecessity of its full observance, A statement sued by the Department of Justice relative to the report says: The facts set forth veveal one of the most tragic efforts in American history relative to law enforcement. The report shows, among _other things, that the Department of Jus- tice has been called upon to prosecute « member of the judiclary, prominent members of the erican bar, high officials of the federal and st ornments, mutimillionaires, scions of the nation’s aristocr: and th #ordid story of assination, bribe and rruption that found its into the ve! sanctums wherein the inviolability of the law was presumed to have been held sacred. Far more important than the pre- vention of liquor distribution is the punishment of law defiance. The issue in the enforcement of the eighteenth amendment is not merely the checking of drunkenness, but the stopping of nullification. Much mischief has been done by the plea for a modification of the enforcement act on the ground that it is impossible to enforce so sweeping a prohibition as that enacted by Con- gress, and that the people will not support it. As a matter of fact, there is no warrant whatever for’ saying that the people of this country do not support or will net sustain full enforcement of the law as it stands. If there is @ majority sentiment in favor of modification it may be readily ascertained by lawful processes, Thie is a battle between law and lawlessness. If the forces of disorder win through trickery, bribery, evasion ;nnd actual crime in this particular .they may win in a fight against any law. The lawmaking process may be scrapped and the United States turned over to what is no less than mob rule. Much has been made of the cost of enforcement by those whofavor modi- fication or repeal. There should be no question on that score. Enforcement is worth any amount of money that may be needed. If $100,000,000 is required to establish the law it should not be grudged. It will be well worth the outlay. It there has been dishonesty in the enforcement organization, connivance with lawbreaking, betrayal of trust, such crimes are deserving of even more severe punishment than those of the direct assallants of the law. Attorney General Daugherty's re- port is calculated to strengthen the determination of those Americans who are concerned in the maintenance of order in this country to put to'a test this issue of the supremacy of law. All over the country are evidences of the arousal of this opinion, this public sentiment. It makes a tre- mendous foree, which will be a factor to insure continued and increasingly officient prosecution of the law. So far from this matter easing off into a habit of law evasion and official ac- quiescence, prohibition enforcement is becoming more and more definitely & demand of the people. The flagrant violations, the flaunting boastfulness of enemies of the eighteenth amend- ment and the enforcement act. the display of riches made through viola- tions—all these only intensify the de- mand that the law be made effective and that its violators, whoever they are, be punished. ———— Having succeeded in settling’ the coal strike, Gov. Pinchot proceeds, ac- companied by hope and good wishes from the general public, to‘the broad- er and even more complicated problem of profiteering. ————————— ‘While threats of war continue to @rise in Burope other parts of the world are compelied to give close at- tention to the perils asserting them- selves in regions where peace pre- vatls. Compromise on School Names. The Commissioners and the board of education have made a fifty-fifty compromise in the dispute between them as to which body has the right t0 name new school buildings. The dispute is of rather long standing and fduring the deadlock it seemed .that new schools would go into commission without names. They would have per- fdrmed thelr mission perhaps as well without as with names, but it is the cgatom to glve schools names, which mekes for convenience in identifying #ehools and furnishes & way of giving morials to men who have served the Distriet well. ‘The controversy over the naming of four schools was one which did not much stit public interest and was not In itself very important, but it was significant as new evidence that the efficiency of the school system cannot e carried to the highest point. while therq s division of responsibility or dispute @ to authority. Controversies becauso Of this division of responei- bllity beve developed in more material matters than naming sehool dulidings. $ad will continug until.the in the figures of { education is appointed by the Com missioners end made directly respon: ble to them, One set of names for the four schools was submitted by the board of eduction to the Commissioners, who returned the list without approval Be- cause it did not include names of for- mer District officials, and the Com-\ missioners sent to the board of educa- tion a set of four names of former District officers, which list was re- jected by the board. Under the com- promise two names are chosen from the Commissioners’ list, these being Charles R. Walker and Lemon G. Hine, former District Commissioners, and two names are chosen from the list of the board of education, those names being Bernard T. Janney, who was prominently connected with ihe schools for nearly half a century and whom everybady in old Washington knew and liked, and George Bancroft, historian and long prominent in na- tional and local life. A World-Cireling Ship Line. Who says the American merchant marine is going on the rocks? Wit ness in refutation of such an asser- tion the deal consummated yesterday between the United States Shipping Board and a San Francisco shipping line, which will result in the estab- lishment of a round-the-world service | of freight and passénger carriers un-! | der one house-flag. It is said that no| other line in the world is now op- | erating on such a schedule. It has remained for the Yankee, who long has been forced to eat humble pie among the maritime nations of the world, to set a new fashion in merchant marine operation, The Ship- ping Board yesterday sold to the Dol- lar Line of San Francisco, an estab- lished shipping firm, seven of its idle ships, of the combined cargo and passenger type, which will be placed on the round-the-world service. Leav- ing San Francisco, they will touch at Japan, China, the Philippines, Java, Straits Settlements, Singapore, Suez, Mediterranean ports, New York and thence through the Panama canal to the home port. It is cheering to the stpporters of the American merchant marine to hear of this progressive step and to contemplate the girdling of the earth by the Stars and Stripes. It is to be hoped that it will prove an in- centive for the creation of further trade and passenger routes. There is a suggestion of permanency in this arrangement. Taking Off the Mask. Oklahoma has dealt in a drastic way with the Invisible Empire. There the Ku Kiux Klan has yielded, though unwillingly, to the decree of the governor that hoods or masks shall not be worn in parades or in public meetings. The grand dragon of the Oklahoma realm has notified members of the order in his jurisdic- tion that robes and hoods must not be worn in public. The order of the governor is that the Klan shall un- mask “and cease all demonstrations of such a nature as *o alarm the public or disturb the peace of a community”; that “flogging parties, threats and intimidations and unlaw- ful activities must be banned,” and that “the Klan must cease to exer- cise or attempt to exercise any influ- ence over municipal and county offi- cials, juries and courts.” The gov- ernor said that he would put under martial law any place in the state where the anti-Ku Klux order was defled, At a later meeting of the Klan without hgods and robes the governor was call czar” and a naticnal lec- turer of the society said the governor would not be resisted, but that the Klan “would satisfy itself with action at the next election.” It ought to be plain to citizens of the “Invisible Empire” that the hood and mask are factors which invite trouble. It is the general belief that no lawful purpose can be served by wearing a disguise. A Pennsylvania farmer made cider, dumped the waste near a barnyard and discovered that his ducks and chickens were suffering painful ef- fects of inebriety. Authoritles are in doubt whether to report the matter to the prohibition authorities or the 8. P.C. A. Statutes forbldding people to wear masks' in public Wijj never be en- forced with a strictness preventing cosmetic disguises on a fashionable promenade. In view of his fancy for biting off thumbs, the next party organized to capture Bergdoll should be careful to tackle him after he has had a hearty meal. termany has about decided that a state of unemployment artifically in- duced will not help matters for resi- dents of the Ruhr. Earthquakes represent one form of catastrophe which no amount of in- wvestigation will provide against. Street Railway Merger. Unifleation of the street railway systems of the District is one of the needs of the peopie of the Capital, and much discussion of this impor- tant matter is likely in the near fu- ture and perhaps at the next session of Congress. The District Commis- sioners and the great body of citizens stand for merger on terms that will be as nearly as possible fair to both companies, Merger is urged in, the public interest. This reform has been sought fop & number of years and probably would have been brought about long ago but for tha difference in the physical and financial condition of the Capital Traction and Weshing- ton Railway and Electric companies and the dispute and litigation over the valyatior placed on the Potomac Bleotric Power Company and: plants of the railway companies by the com- mission authorized to make that ap- praisement. Various measures have been proposed to consolidate the com- panies, and the Commissioners have a plan to that end which embodies fea- tures generally acceptable to the peo- ple, but which perhaps are not ac- ceptabie to the stronger of the traction companies. The Eagineer Commis- 1 lord. THE.EVENING ties of his office, i# quoted as saying that new steps will be taken to, bring tout, consalidation of the local street railway lines as sqon as the disputed valuations of the companies have been finally agreed on. . The valuation of the companies’ property has been in- volved by the questions of original cost and reproduction cost under|per 5 and November 3. higher price standards, but these WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC David Lloyd George will visit se enteen American cities between Octo-. In the order of his itinerary they are Minneapolis, questions will be irened out in .duesSt. Paul, Chicago, Mooseheart (IL), time and then- the way to merger |Springfield (IlL), St. Loul: should be comparatively smooth and straight. ; ¢ e Paretic Fashions. Glass wigs of colors to match the gowns are indieated in a fashion nate @s the season's novelty which must be adopted if one is to be strictly up-to-date. The use of spun glass for wigmaking is not new, nor is the wearing of colored wigs an innovation. About ten years ago Paris was in the green-wig stage and those striking colffures were to be seen in the Bois de Boulogne and on the boulevards and in the cafes, as well as on the stage. The green wigs of 191314 reached these shores, but “fifvvered.” America did not take to them. It has stood for a good many absurd fashions and is even now going through a phase of feminine fancies that are bizarre and sensational, but it is doubtful if it will take more than a comic interest in the colored glass wig suggestion. These absurdities, which usually start with some promoter of styles in Paris, are strictly ephemeral. They usually run their course over there in a few weeks. As soon as they have served to attract attention to the individuals who start them or quickly copy them they are dropped. In fact, Paris usually laughs them out of vogue. It has been always thus. The French capital is a fertile soil of fun. The saving grace in the matter is that these idiocies are really only jokes, after all. Butsome other countries are apt to take them up seriously. Japan will quickly recover from the earthquake, improved no doubt in some respects, but nevertheicss suf- fering irreparable losses. In seeking to convey an optimistic impression the plain truth need not be ignored. The brave little nation has suffered to an extent that calls for prompt and generous assistance. In contemplating the misfortunes of heér nelghbor Japan, the Chinese may find a historic opportunity to exercise the lofty generosity of spirit com- mended by ‘their eminent ancestral philosophers. 4 After a little experience in states- manship many a farmer is liable to become a little discouraged about agri- culture and wonder whether he might not as well turn the old place into golf links. Sir Thomas Lipton deserves hon- ored recollection as @ man who tried to keep the world interested in yachts instead of cultivating a taste for dan- gerous craft in air as well as water, American fecling toward Russia will be better if that country con- tinues to instruct us in dancing and other branches of art and keeps her politics to herself. France is determined that Germany shall set a historio example to the world in the matter of debt liquida- tion regardless of difficulties. Some eminent publicist should offer a prize for the best way to get Italy into the league of nations, The coal miners will proceed to dig, and so will the ultimate consumer, SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Overworked. “Our legisiature's overworked,” Sald Hezekiah Bings. “For every danger that has lurked” Through life some cure it brings. Though industry lays down its tools While thousands take a rest, Our legislature makes new rules And labors for the best. “There is no business on earth 1t does not understand. In serious plans and ways of mirth It boldly tekes a hand. A task it never yet has shirked, But tries all kinds of things; Our legislature’s overworked,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Capitalizing Enthusiasm, “You can’t get semething for noth- ing,” remarked the ready-made phi- losopher. “Several of my constituents think they can come pretty near it,” replied Senator Sorghum. “They don't do anything but lift up their voices in the confident expectation that they can exchange three cheers for .a gov- ernment job. Jud Tunkins says he can always convince himself that the world s improving by getting out his grand. father's photograph album. Great Difference. A little change involves the chance Of turning smooth to rough stuff. The ‘“moonlight's” full of soft ro- mance, But “moonshine's” very tough stuff, Cogitations of Genius. “Our boy Josh is right smart,” com- |tire royal Louisvill Frankfort (Ky.), Indlanapolis, Cleve- land, Pittsburgh, Washington, Rich- meond, Philadelphla, Scranton, Boston and. New York. Before touring the United States, after arrival in New York, he wlil proceed to Canada, speaking in Montreal, Ottawa, To- ronto and Winnipes. “The Little Welshman” will be the guest of the Welsh Soclety of America while on this side and travel in a private car chartered by that organization. James J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, is chair- man of the soclety's board of direct- ors. The visit to Scranton is due to the fact that the anthracite city is the “Welsh center” of this country. . K% ¥ The champlon set of names in the United States civil service is now found on the roster of the general ac- counting office of the internal revenue division of the Treasury. The chief of the office is named Bibb and the as- sistant chief Is named Tucker. They are known as Controller General Me- Carl's best Bibb and Tucker. L President Coolidge has a double in Washington. He is Eugene E. Thomp- son, an investment banker, prominent in capital finanoce for the past twenty- five years. Thompson Is a strawberry blonde, like Coolidge: has his trim, spare, well knit figure and in physi- ognomy Is enough like the I'resident to be mistaken for a twin brother. Thompson’s friends all over the coun- try have been sending himclippings from the rotogravure sections of the newspapers, asking him how he likes. masquerading as Presuient. Like Mr. Coolidge, Mr. Thompson is just shd- ing gracefully inte the early fifties. * ok k% When Arthur M. Hyde, Governor of Missourl, was at the White House last week the offictal version was that he had come to talk prohibition enforcement and G. O, P. harmony in his faction-ridden state. Gov. Hyde, as a matter of fact, has a busily buzzing vice presidential bee, and his friends are quietly but re- ligiously grooming and booming him as the tail end of the “Coolidge ticket.” Alliteratively and geographi- cally they think Missouri would make an ideal running mate for Massachu- setts. Also, if the President turns out republican 10 be a world court man Hyde, as an Lord Farquhar’sDeath May Open Fight for Big Fund in Britain BY THE WARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Farquhar's death the other Aay in London is not only a great loss to King George and to the en- family, of which he was perhaps the closest personal friend and most intimate counselor, but is also likely to renew the violent quar- rel which took place last fall as to the disposition of the fund of $10.- 000,000 collected duripg the premier- ship of Lloyd George for the cam- paign purposes of the liberal party, and of which Lord Farquhar was ap- pointed trystee. There can be no appeal to the court f w about the matter. For any trial would involve inevitable disclosures as to the iden- tity of the contributors, the amount of their contributions and the re- wards which they received in return in the shape of peerages. baronetcies and orders of knighthood, would prove most embarrassing to all concerned, eepeclally to the crown. whese name is so much misused in such matters. It may be remembered that Lloyd George w. driven last fall to resign the premlership of the coalition: ad- ministration, which had lasted eince 1815, by the defection of the con- rvative party, followed by a split ong the liberals. Immediately er the fall of the Lioyd George cab- inet the conservatives put forward a claim for the money, on the plea that it had been collected for coalition purposes. Lord Farquhar curtly re- fused to admit this contention, in- sisting that it had been subscribed for the liberals. Thereupon the anti- TLioyd George liberals, including former Premier Herbert Asquith and Lord Grey of Falloden, as well as Reginald McKenna, who not long ago refused Stanley Baldwin's offer of the chan- cetlorehip of the exchequer In his con- servative cabinet, demanded that the fund should be turned over to them as the real representatives and chiefs of the liberale. * * ¥ % Lord Farquhir again declined. He declared in the most determined fash- jon that he would not surrender pos- session of the $10,000,000 fund until & general election had shown who were the real chiefs of the liberal party as a whole, sinte, quite independent of the numerical strength of the fac- tions in the house of commons, it ‘is rather generally known that Lloyd George has an infinitely larger 1ib- eral following throughout the coun- than former Premier Asquith, - Wil be difeult to find another. great banking magnate of such au- thority and of such abselute in- dependence as the late Earl Farquhar, and it is to be feared that his demise will give rise to another rather savage fight among the liberals for the possessior of this large fund, con- stituting, as it does, invaluable am- munition for the next general elec- tion campaign—a _campaign looked for by the end of the year and which is llkely to result in the defeat at the polls of the conservatives and consequently of Stanley Baldwin's dministration. A9brd Farquhar is-one of the half ozen sons of the la Sir Walter g‘own!end Farquhar of the diplomatic service. While some of his brothers went into diplomacy, and others into the army, another, Gilbert Farquhar, became an actor well known profes- sfonally in Amerjca, while the late Lord Farquhar, then plain Horace Farguhar, went Into business as an ordinary bank clerk. He was con- nected. first of all, with the London and Westminster Bank, then with that of Herries, Ine., and afterward became & partner in . the banking firm of Scott Brothers in Cavendish uare. There he became assoclated with the late Duke of Fife, then mented Farmer Corntossel, “but there | merely Lord Fife, who began Ly tak iz such a thing as dependin' too much on headwork.” “I told him to g0 out and help you ‘with that balky team,” said his wfe. “He wasn't any real assistance. He sat on a stump an’ looked on, trying to, figure out some way of liftin’ the selt.starter out of the flivver end at- tachin’ Rt to the mule,” \ Solicitude. “We don't allow any._children in ‘this apartment house,” said the land- “Don't you like children?" “Yes. Several tenants keep poll parrots and we're afraid their lan- guage might demoralize ones.” ing an interest in the Scott congern, through his _ business eonnactions with Ceoll Rhedes' enterprises in South Africa, and finally ¥ife joined Farquhar In the active management of the bank. The two men became inseparable, their friendship being of the Damon and Pythias order, and when Lord Fife, after a good deal o{.dlmeult , succeeded in obtaining the hand of the princess Toyal, eldest sister of King George, it was Horace ¥arquhar who attended him at the altar as best man. Lord Fife was Taised, on the occasion 5f the wad. ding. to a dukedom and, not long afterward, his best man, who had made & most favorable impression on “Jold Queen Victoria and, indeed. upon the entire royal family, was created a baronet, . R TR 1t was through the Duke of Fife, the litte | .ot only son-in-law, but also a hoy- hood friend of King Edward, that e et Wimeis S, G which | WILLIAM WILE snti-court republican, would be a candidate after the ' irreconcillable heart. He is young. s lswye thirty-second degree Mason, & prom ‘nent” Wesleyan and an Odd Fellow. G. O. P. natlonal organization leadors been at loggerh state machine. i rogs that Mr. Coolldge cummis- i 2 signed sen to bring to * ok % A tabulation, never before made public is supplied to this' observer from an authoritative quarter, indi- icltlnl the vast dimensions of Amer- fcan charity since 1914. In the in- tervening niife years our gifts for distress abroad aggregated $1,514,- 1630,967. American Red Cross expendi- ture amounted to $217,265,688. The American Relief Administration’s European children's fund” aggre- Bated $44,721,412. In Belgium the Hoover_ rellef organization expended $36,665,519 during and following the German occupation. Near East Relief -accounts for $60,000,000. Individual §1fts in food, goods and money from 1914 to 1923 are estimated at 3500,- 000,000. A large part of the balance of the billion and w half was raised and spent by the Kniglts of Colum. bus, Salvation Army, Jewish Walfare Board, Y. M. C. A, Y. W. C. A. and kindred érganizations. * k¥ % Relief activity on' behalf of Japan recalls the American Red Cross’ glorious record” in disaster relief, | which the organization calls “our historie function.” It has spent since its foundation in 1881 over $20,000,000 to ameliorate distress due to causes ranging in variety from “germs to jearthquakes.” On nearly 400 dif- ferent occasions, at home and abroad, the American Red Cross has cleared for action in the field of disaster. Its machinery, like' its traditions, is ideal for coping witn such emergen- cies as the present one in Japan. ;. John W. H. Crim, assistant attorney general, who happens, in spite of and not because of his surname, to handle criminal affairs at the Department of Justice, recently faced a poser. §ome- body wanted to know if the following epiéode constitutes fraudulent use of the mails: Man out in the middle west wanted to circularize a number of commun ties and hit upon a brilliant idea for obtaining addresses. He asked the mayors of half a dozen cities for coples of their telephone directories. came in due course. Soon aft- erward thousgnds of citizens received letters beginning: “I am indebted for your name and address to his honor, ————. yed by her to the peerage, in 185%, assumed charge of the finances of her successor and, by clever financing and businesslike arrangements, pro- vided for the settlement of all the obligations that the new sovereign had contracted during his forty years of social rule in England as . heir A verybady had verybody had expected that when King Edward came to the threne an application would have to be made to pariiament to pay the heavy debts which it was generally understood he had contracted a® Prince of Wales. [Nor would there have been much op- position to the granting of a demand of this kind. For it was acknow! edged by people of every political denomination that durin, ueen Victoria’s four long dedades of widowhood the eldest gon had been compelled to fulfill, in her place. all the onerous social duties of royalty, without having the means to do so. Thanks to Lord Farquhar's financier- ing, King Edward was placed In a position to intimate that ne applica- { tion would be made to parilament for any special grant of money over and abave’ the ordinary civil list whichs being derived from crown property, does not cost the taxpayers a single cent, and that there were no obliga- tions of his that the nation would be called upon to settle. This, of course, Was & most agreeabie surprise to the Pecple and added largely to the popu- arity of the new ruler. who was thus able, thanks to Lord Farquhar, to in- te his reign under the happiest S e Subsequently, Lord Farquhar, at the pressing instance of King Edward, took charge of the entire manage- ment of the royal household as its master. He reorganized it from one end to the other in a most radical fashion, putting an end, with a merci- less h to the thousands of abuses which had crept into existence after the death of that well nigh equally able business man, the late prince con- sort, over sixty years ago. When he had completed his work in this con- nection Lord - Farquhar ‘abandoned the mastership of:the household to his deputy, Col. Sir Charles Frederick, whom he himself had trained, remain- ing attached to the court in an honorary capacity as lord in_waliting and as personal adviser to Xing Ed- ward. He retained the same degree of confidence and intimate friendship on the part of the present king, at whose urgent entreaty he aceepted, ten years ago the highest office of the ‘court—that Is to say, of lord steward of the household—without pay, which he held until his death. Lord Farquhar married, in 1895, the widow of the Sir Edward Scott who was a partner of himself and the Duke of Fife in Scott's bank. She shared, in the fullest manner, the intimate friendship accorded by the royal famlly to her husband, -and when the present Royal Duchéss of Fife, wife of Prince Arthur of Con- naught, made her debut, it was at a ball given by Lady Farquhar at which all the members of the relgning house were present. Lady Farquhar died very suddenly last year, and now her popular and clever husband has followed her to the grave, leaving no ome to inherit his earldom and other honoxs. Of all his brothers only one remains, the eldest, Sir Robert Town- send Farquhar, now nearly ninety, whose barenetcy will become extinct when he is gathered to his brothers. The Farquhars are descended from Sir Robert Farquhar of Gilminseroft, who was deputy receiver of Scotland in the reign of Charles 1. His great- great-grandson, Walter, was physi- clan ito the prince regent and was by him created a baronet in 179 Sir Walter's second son, Robert, the first governor and commander- chief of the Mauritius after its co quest in 1811, and, exercising a spe- cles of suzerainty in the name of the crown oyer Madagascay, placed the Radama dynasty on the throne of that island, of which the late exiled Queen of Madagascar, 50 long cap- tive in Algeria, was the last repre- sentative. * ¥k * He also was made a baronet in 1826 for his colonial services, and four of his sons held the baronetey in turn, the cldest dying as secretary of legation at Peking, while another distinguished himself in the defense of Luckhow during the mutiny. This particular baronetcy is now held by old Sir Robert Townsend Farquhar, the elder brother of Lord Farquhar. One of their cousins, Granville Farquhar of Grosvenor Square, Lon- don, and of Dalton Hall, Beverl: Yorkshire, 18 married to the daughter of the late Edward Louls Livingston of New York, and, like his vounger son, Guy—his eldest son was killed fighting. as a_ corporal, in the great ediate line of The Nerth Window BY LEILA MECHLIN At this season of the year, when the schools and colleges are reopening, attention is naturally directed to the subject of education, and a big, srave subject it ls. The wisest among us are saying today that there is some- thing wrong In our educational meth- ods, and the most earnest are cudgelling their brains to find_just what it is. Schools and colleges there are in abundance, .but somehow, despite much teachimg, the average youth steps out into the world minus that education which in days gone by charasterized the university grad- uate—the educated man. Perhaps, though it may net have been suggested, part of the trouble comes from a neglect of the fine arts which has arisen through a mistaken notion of economy in life. The aim of many of our young people today is to learn to make a living. The real obiect of education is to teach one to Jefferson stands in memory as a type not only of great statesman, but of cultivated gentieman, a man who was well educated, and Jefferson had 0 intimate a knowledge of art that was able to direct the taste of his eneration in the matter of building. fow much this knowledge added to his own pleasure and richness of life {8 shown in a charming letter written by him while ttaveling in Europe and recently published in a current maga- zine, with comment by President Alder- man_ of the iversity of Virginia; which universit the way, has a department of arts. * A step in the right direction being taken this autumn by University of New York, which, in co-operation with the National Academy of Design, is re-establishing a school of fine arts, under the leadership of Prof. Fiske Kimball, well known both as architect and author. Curiously enough, the first university instruction in' fine arts glven in ‘America was inaugurated by this university in 1832, 2t which time Prof. Samuel ¥. B. Morse, then pres! dent of the National Academy of Design, was appointed a member of its faculty. In 1835 Prof. Morse was made professor of the literature of the arts of design, a title he held until his death, when the chair and the subject were allowed to lapse. Prof. ‘Morse, it will be remembered, was the inventor of the telegraph, but had he not made this invention he would have been renowned as a painter. It is worth noting, howevar, that Morse the painter and Morse the foventor and Morse the university professor were one and the xame: that dolng one thing well did not mean dolng other things poorly; in other words, that the painter in this case was the scohlarly gentleman. It is a mistaken notion. but one which has gained wide prevalence, that an artist should know only his art. The late Henry Golden Dearth once said to the writer: “The more brains a painter has and the better they are trained, the better pletures he will paint.” which is true. The great masters of the past were in few In- etances ignorant men, In some cases they were brilliant scholars. For ex- ample, Leonardo da Vinci, Michael- angelo, and, coming down to these later days, John La Farge. o Through the agreement recently ratified, the New York University and the National Academy of Design, the last & purely professional school of art. will offer a combined course for art students who wish also to secure a liberal college education. This will {involve a college course of four years, |in which the fiert three will be spent In the study of academic subjects in one of the colleges of the university and the fourth vear will be devoted exclusively to the stuay of drawing and painting .at the academy. Thus the students of the university will Ihave the advantage of taking thi: work under well known professiona masters, such Hawthorne, Curran, Francis C. Jones and others, with the jdea of pursuing a further course of painting after graduation. * k% It is interesting to know that this arrangement has been brought about the e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN , Q. How much above sea level are Washington, D, C., and Los Angeles? —D. B. 0. A. The geological survey says that the elevation of Washington is from ea level to 420 feet above. Los An- geles has an elevation of 338 feet. Q. What is the long held by any one in Washintol E € A. The minister of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes has perhaps the longest official title that is now heard in Washington, although the distinctien might go to one of the attaches eof his legation, who could add a few words to that impress) array. Q. Where is the seismograph at Georgetown University?—W. H. R. A. The two small buildings to the west of the astronomical observatory house instruments of Georgetown's seismological observatory, whera earthquakes as far as the antipodes have been recorded. Frequently the news of such a disturbance Is report- ed from here far in advance of its ex- act location by cable dispatches. This university was established before the federal government came to Wash- ington. § Q. What is the highest government position in the world held by a Jew? —0C. W. 3 A. The American Hebrew says that Lord Reading, as viceroy of India, holds the highest position t title oxer rebellion in <F nese Q. Why was the China of 1900 so-calfed?—( A. The Boxers were a Ch whose native name meaning League of art of the ecret I-ho- nited name much ame foreigners, and, since athletic practiced by th Boxers was given them b; Q. Why will grapes fall off a young vine before they are ripe?—G. O. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the cause of grapes falling from the vines before they are ripe is due to climatic conditions durin, flowering. Extreme cold is the usual cause of this condition. However, in gome cases it 1s an indication of dis- ease, and, if this is the vines should be sprayed with Bordeaux mixture. Q. How many men go to France with Roos A. When Col. R raise and lead to I division, over 170.000 men, aboy draft age, applied to him for pk under him. Q. What are the definitions “maund” and “lakh"?—M.E.R A. Maund is @ Hindu word referring to a varying weight of India. Its value has ranged from less than 19 to more than 163 pounds avoirdu- pois. The government maund is 100 pounds troy. Lakh is also an Anglo- Indian term meaning the sum of 100,000; when used absolutely, 100,000 rupees. It was originally used to express 100,000 objects of any kind, but in modern times its use is con- fined to money. In Java and other Malayan courtries the lakh has been adopted from Hindustuani, but is used for 16,000 Q. What causes kleptomar M Kileptomania denotes a disorder of volition termed &n impulsion and constituting a symptom of insanity, due to mental impairment. 1t is characterized by impulsive acts done without a reasoning process. Klepto- maniacs appropriate generally bright or attractive articles. stowing them away often without concealment. never ‘putting them to any use or obtaining any gain from them. for Where did Thomas, Marshall live Public Must Pay Of Papers on “0f course the public pays'” That sums up the viewpoint of the American press on the settlement of the coal controversy. Naturally, there is praise for Gov. Pinchot of Penn- sylvania. He did a good job, editors through the generosity of certain New York men of affairs and through the urging of a little organization called the Art in Trades Club, made up mostly of salesmen in those trades in which art is a leading factor, such, for example, as furniture, wall paper, carpets, etc. For this reason there will be special courses in the decora- tive arts, and lectures will be given, open to those outside of the univer- ity as well as those within. x *x % % 1t is pleasing and appropriate that one course of lectures on this newly established foundation will be given by Edwin H. Blashfield, now presi- dent of the National Academy of De- sign. and that these lectures will take the form of reminiecences extending from a meeting with Morse in Paris {n 'student days on to the present time. These Morse lectures are to be glven in the auditorium of the uni- versity at Washington square, in a building bullt on the site of the old university building, where Morse had his studio, and in which, despairing of public appreciation of painting, he constructed his first telegraph. * XK * There are few in Washington who remember the venerable artist-in- ventor, but his son, Edward Linde Morse, who died at his. New England home but a few months ago, was well known here. For @ number of years Mr. Morse, who was also 8 painter of considerable abillty, had & studio on R street, and took prominent part in all of the local art activities. He too, like- his father, was a scholarly gentleman, with keen artistic per- ception and a delight in art ih its varfous manifestations—one who it was a privilege to know and who did much in & qulet, unostentatious way to advance the cause of art, gathering around him those like-minded and in- terested, and engendering enthusiasm and effort. Ok K ok Reverting to the subject of profes- sional art education, an exceedingly interesting and significant paper by Cecelia Beaux on “Professional Art Schools” comes to mind. This paper was prepared for and presented at a meeting of the Colldge Art Associa- tion held in- Philadelphia some years ago. In it Miss Beaux refers espe- ¢lally to the tendency today to em- phasize self-expression, which in these later days has become a slogan in the art world and'is used almost univer- sally to cover every kind of artistl: shortcoming. a first glanc Miss Beaux said, “it seems plausible and right to tell the student to ex- ress himself. But is this po le?" she asks; and, answering her own question, contin as follows: “The period of & student's life {n the art school ia one of the most sensitive and formative his whole career, and the trend of opinlon around him there, especially of an influence that bears upon his inner life and con- selousness, may make an indelible impression. It is no light thing to {turn a_voung person upon himself— Imore than he is already turned—and although his Instructer, when he asks him to express himself, may not at all medn that the stadent is directed to- ward introspection, nevertheless his mind s drawn toward a state which is bne of strain and endeavor to do original things—not, I believe, healthy or lead to development of gi: and character. The student has co 1o the school to absorb rather than uce. Never again will he be able mm and to assimilat Bo‘hu o thad Siate of ! believe. But they cannot lose sight of the fact that the outcome means an increased price for fuel which will be reflected in both the anthracite and bituminous fields. In discussing this fact the Albany News, agreeing that the people could not afferd to go through another or- deal such as they suffered from last year, insists “some way ought to be found to put the coal busines on a basis of falrness not only to -coal miners, but to the public. In this instance the miners gain a little, the operators lose nothing and the public paya the cost.” That is probably true, admits the Harrisburg Telegraph, but it also suggests “laurels in composing the differences have beed won by Gov. Pinchot. There may be diverg- ences of opinion as to the effect the gettlement will have on the buyers of hard coal, but there will be none on the success of Gifford Pinchot in averting a serious disturbance of in- dustry.” It also must be remembered, as the Rochester Times Union points out, that “mining is hazardous and unpleasant work. Most of us would not want to do it at any wage. So i* has become necessary to pay more to the men who do this work. For the agreement the public is heartily grateful to Gov. Pinchot and those who have, co-operated with him.” At that, despite the two-year com- tract, the Cincinnati Times-Star is fully’ convinced “only superficial re- lief has been obtained. The need of the country is a solution that will go below thé mere surface, that will rec- tify the -fundamental conditions of the mining industry. The country does not want annual or biennial or triernial bickerings with- its coal supply in jeopardy. And such con- tinual jeopardy can be avéided only if economic justice is accomplished in the mining regions.” That like. wise is the viewpoint of the Buffalo News, which Insists “the public gets no satisfaction from either the man agers or the men. Matters have reached the point where some meas- ure of government control is abso- lutely necessary. Nothing else will do." The public also wants io know, the Chicago Tribune believes, the nite reason of causes and respon< sibility for the high price of coal. The men on the Federal Fact-Finding Commission are -competent to make such & statement. Let them make it. The prospect of another dollar a ton added to our already high cost of anthracite coal justifies the demans The Pinchot plan, as the Appleton Post-Crescent analyzes it, “{§ un- usual, but it’ is probably suited to a monopolistic industry in which there has_been s0 much discord between capital and labor. The consumer will assume the increased expense just as he has to pay the price of every prod- uct_of mononoly. This particular and the fertilization gained by it must come the value of his future produc- tion. The student is to feed upon the scheol. He is laying by for the fu- ture, and of that and mot of present original production he should be mlnk!ns" j Miss Beaux has‘taught for a num- ber of years, and she knows whereof says, “No young ean. moreovery is afraid of be- ing original. He 'ddes not have to be encouraged to believe in himself. But he surely needs to understand that self-expression can never be learned nor gained by thinking about it: that it only comes from being something: that being something is infinitely re moved from trying to think of some- thing, and that whatever there is will fnd.lia wey oyts And tnen she save “Let the studant look out from him selt as from a’tower upon a world so rich, that his all-engr ich, gnr‘t will b:_;ll-v shall T ex) while serving as the United States?—M. A. Former Vice President Marsh made his home In Washington while Vice President at the Hotel Willard occupying the same suite of roon.: as the ome occupied by President Coolidge. Q. Did Jefferson Davis have an thing to do with the designing or building of the Capitol>—G. N. D. A, Jefferson Davis had no such cou- neotion with the Capitol, but Craw- ford's bronze statue of Freedom whi tops the dome wears an unusu: liberty cap of eagle's feathers whi was suggested to Crawford by Davi Q. Is there nicotine smoke?—P. L A. Nicotine, the alkaloid containeq in tobacco, does not appear in to bacco smoke. It is split into pyridine and_collodine. Q. When and by whom was the thread used on bolts and screws in vented?—J. 8. W. A. Willlam Sellers suggested ti« first formula ever offered for bol aad screw threads in 1864. Q. When was the attempt made assassinate J. Pierpont Morgan? M R K A. On July 1, 1915, at Glen Cove Long Island, J. Pierpont Morgan wi. shot by a fanatic, but escaped witl minor injuri Vice President of in tobacco Q. T have a number of thrift stamp Can 1 get money for them? Are the sold now’—I. O A. The Post Office Department 8a:s that thrift stamps are no longer soid but any stamps outstanding may be redeemed through any postmaster Treasury savings stamps costing § each may be purchased in the sa manner as the thrift stamps. Whe twenty are attached to a certifica: they may be exchanged for a Trea ury savings certificate in the demom nation of $25. Treasury savings cert flcates are issued in_the denomin:- tions of $25, $100 and $1,000. They are purchased at §20, 380 and 3800, re spectively, and are payable at face value five years after date of salc. Q. What musical instruments di Indians use?—V. M. R. A. The Indians had various drums a fiute, with a scaje of seven notes whistte,‘with a scale of five notes, a: a rattlé, made of dry gourds loaded / with sand O pebbles. Q. What was_the nature of t Morey lotter, which created such furore in the Gartield campaign? JH. G A. During the Garfield-Hancocx presidential campaign of 1380 a 1o ter which favored Chineso immigrs tion, purporting to have been written by Gen, Garfield to H. L. Morey ¢ Lynn, Mass, was made public a used as a campaign document by th democrats. Gen. Garfleld denounced b letter as a forgery. Q. What is the Indian word for the cradleboard on which the Indian squaw carried her papoose?—3L D. . The Sloux name for this is posk tan. (Send wour question to Tho Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Has kin, Director, North Capitol street. The bureaw camnot give ad vice on legal, medical, and financia matters. It does mot attempt to sci- tle domestio troubles, nor to under- take exhaustive research on any sub- joct. Write your question piginly and bricfly. Give full nome and ad- dress and inclose 2 cents in sitamps for xaiwrn postage. Replics arc sent direct to inquirers.) Price, View Coal Settlement the New Or- leans T which, how ever, feels it should develop that the price of the peace is per nent increase in the alread. hig’ | cost of anthracite to its consumer many may be persuaded to doubt th wisdom of Gov. Pinchot's ‘compro mise’ before the winter en While admitting the truth of this premise Salt Lake Tribune feels “th program may eventually ford a basis for future action to make peace In the hard coal fields perma nent and gatisfactory.” Not at_all, insists because “we aro with individuals but com | They are in control of somet if it is & luxury is an extrem portant one. Without attempting course, to limit unduly their freedor as individuals, certainly it seems rea sonable to assert tho pu intere: over their actions, at lea: as to find some way of insisting the public be mot made the chir sufferer in their disputes, although will probably turn‘out to be the that the only thing that will ke the price of anthrgeite down is publ refusal to buy it This is agreed b the Tndfanapojls; News, which ferls “the people_ will have to pay fron 80 cents to §1.50:a ton more for voal” ! This is, we suppose, a part of the compormise. In his tem: Gov Pinchot spoke of the ‘fairness a forbearance’ on the part of bo miners and operators. So, apparently averybody is happy—except those whe pay the increased coal bi The fact that a two-year contract has been entered into is_emphasizes by the Baltimore Sun as “of no smal significance and gives a further illus tration of the skill and un stand ing with which Gov Pinchot brought the'miners and operator; gether for constructive achievem He has induced capital and labor tc take out insaramce for industris peace, Which they have hitherto spurned.” The public has to be satis fied with the resuit, the Springfield Union iusists, becduse .it “had very little choice -in the matter, with Wwinter weather ‘the_deep sea on ont side of it and the Pennsylvania an thracife monopoly the @evil’ on the other aide.” But ths public will think it all over, the Escanaba Press point: out, realizing that “Mr. Lewis is & soft-coal man. To him the anthracite miners ave only a tall to the soft coal organisation. His leadership it a. misuse of “esomomic power for, private ETAN )ement and to the gerious injury of the public. It is & misuse which the -public. will not much longer tolerate.”. This view re celves partial indorsement from the Binghamton Press which would have ¥the public get all the facts” behine these “annual hold-yp: In a Few Words. The world of forty and over is s syndicate for perpetuating the jdtoc! of conventienality. = They _have framed a Volstead act that no young person shail drink of ideas stronge! than one-half of 1 per éent © utopianism. ~-PROF. H. L. BAKER It is fatal for the Englishmar visiting Amerigh to_indulge in the gentle art of leg-pulling. —SIR J. FOSTER FRASER point to by the Newark not dealing The human being as he exists to- day is a fighter, and if he isn't 2 figiter he {sn't fit to live. —ADMIRAL CHARLES PLUNKETT. Britain_cannot Dé expected to be finally left as the only. nation paying an indemnity for having helped to win the war. SIR ARTHUR MOND. Seience and religion both aim at & mplete understanding of the uni verge, und it is because our knowl- odge of reality is o imperfect that the two methods su oftén eome 10to conflet. DEAN INGE. ; 1f our troops were to re-cross th: Rhine before Germany pald her debt’y to u ha d