Evening Star Newspaper, September 14, 1923, Page 6

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Bunday only M Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exclusively ‘entitied he ‘use for republication of all uews: dis: teleyeFediied to, It or not otherwire credited s _py also ¢ ol T pecial dlspatches berein a; e = » -The National Coal Problem. s The solution of *the national ‘coal sproblem may be found in an honest ef- fort on the part of thie miners and the operators to improve their day-to-day welations, the United. States Coal' Com- ‘migsion, bas reported'to thé President. It recommends that steps be taken by, both parties'fo séf up the machinery. far bringing about better, understand- Ying by each of the problems a1id nceds ® the other. The time has come, it Holds, for them both to realize that the ry will progress through the es- ment of ~gdod “yelations rather than through conflict, The comimission'is against nationali- Zation of the mines on the one hand, _and against compulsoryarbitration on wdhe other. As'in its former-reporta, es- 2pecial streds ig Jaig'on the advjsability “of complete publicity ,of the facts in Fezard’to the industry. Ventilation of ihe causes of differences, a letting in of light, it is held,"will be far more refective than threats and coumter Soreats; . ™1 In line-withvthis belief, the commis- jon_has recommended that all agree. mments between thie miners’ and opera- ors shall be - self-renewing, unless ither party shall give ninety diys’ né- tice; pwior to the Gate of the expiration of* thegreeménts. This Rotice will give the public,.and - the authorities ample notice of -a threatered® suspen %ion of mining, so- thidt steps may be _fil_u n to #id Tement Specific it is proposed’ thatin etent of 4 threafened national strike : the Presidént ‘be-authorized to #ppoint ageritd t make a thorough. in- vestigation - of “the facts' in* the nd report them. .The £ that: with- all- the facts in hands of_the publfic, Vitally interested in a cont and with end the operator the bility to thie ‘public, to continue to‘sup- ply the public. with fuel, the danger of actual suspension of mining will’be minimized. Phe. power.of public epin- Jop will ‘rigbessarily dughe if§81Y, telt. Pointing -to the -fact*thatstHe union fas beconte a great power, the com- mission-notes that this powerzmay be Aged with wisdon) ‘or 'if, may bé abused. A ward: of advice is ‘given the oper “have ho adequate organi- Ny theniselvas to meet the unien. The formation of an ation or ors as closely s the union .is ‘suggested, both 3 sire of defénse’and s a meang »f heitefco-operation .with the Sniners' i bringing aboit improved .in- 1t relations. d The Fépgrt. of, the copniission on in Austrial “an admirable plea for standingg between the two parfies, miners.and-operators.. It 2 ah’ appedl 't es fo get down s tacks amnd:to prevent further which in the €nd, might be ug tosboth. THE, With . NOYES..,....Editor r States. ay7.1 yr., §10.00; 1 m Rt $7.00; 1 mo., by the miners o bra tatio; aceuse each al. tendencies. Law. en- meft by strictly legdl methods in- sn'.of: personal preju. Ja-The' fuel- consumer, will be discreet End rot say affvthing that mjght agi- tate the opgrators or.mjners .in.such 2 wav s to'interrupt fhe digging. ation of Ffume will enable °t discipline The Passing of the Mark. Oune, of the largest of the New York hanks yesterday discontinued al quota- «ions ofiand dealings in Gorman marks, heaause they have fallen. to such T low Pate 6f eschange that computation is too difficult -and. uncertain. . Within ‘Eeven da¥s the'rate had declined from 42,000:000- to the dollar to 145,000,000, and then duy's estimates) ranging around . the 00,000,000 pbint. The enormousl¥ wide Suctuations made all dealings extreme- 1y- difficult: "The action of this bank is Ykely-to be followed by other American financial institutions. : The decliné of the mark is the result of the Dolicy of the Gernian govern- “ment in respect to its obligations to-{ sward the allfes, and especially ‘towdrd FFance. It,is confidently believed by Juany, thag: it. was "originally’ fostered by that government as a demonstra- tion of povérty. Onte started, the dilu- 1lon of the currency through the issue of flat money without - substantial Toundation..could, not .be' checked by ordinary- prodednie. As' a political maneuver it falled. As a domestic ex- Pedient- it Proved costly. Vdlues were distortedfi jeodfidence’ “was “weakened and industiial conditions were gravely. adisturhed, U5l ’ * Repudiatigy ofH . fok s ‘have poured frem -the -Gefman print- ing estAbNEhHENtE &ifice "(e" dllution process began may be the ultimate “Femedy.” The niark has virtually lost dts value, and repudiation would not baay dificult Bow a8 it ‘would ‘have been , earligr. TWVhat is peeded is & ratio, ‘arbitvi iy establishéd at Berlin was sepup at7Viensa. If an &3 with Fyande a & for g new currefcy’ dard Wit Bave been provided. 5 5 thid @b theferiias beéti*misch| brimging adout a. set- commission | the | ance of its supply of fuel, | responsi- | reacted somewhat, yester- | speculation in marks. Soon after the armistice was signed the low state of the mark in exchange quotations tempted many to buy,-in the belief that with the cesiation of hostilities Germiany would rehabilitate money. But steadily the quotations de. clined. Even then there was much buying, on the supposition that Ber- lin ‘would not permit the standard to' drop materially farther. Spasmodic fluctuations sent the price up . occa- hsionally, and there was a little more %% | buying. These American purchases, of course, could not effect a turn In the rate, for the fundamental conditions upon which the rate was based were radically wrong. Nobody will ever know how much money has been 18at by the American speculators in marks, or whether those who have lost are mainly “sym- pathizers” with Germany. ‘Tt can only be assumed and hoped that they are f@able ‘to bear their losses without suf- fering. Faster and Faster! It the preliminary flying of Army- Navy contestants who are to enter the St. Louls races next month is an indi. cation all world records will be ‘srhashed at that meget. “The other day Lieut, Sanderson of the Marine Corps established a new speed ‘mark of 238 miles an hour, exceeding Maughan's champion record by about & mile and a half. Yesterday Lieut. Brow of the naval air service made the phenomenal mark of 244.15 miles an hour, officially recorded. In one of his round trips over the course, when he was fiying with the wind, a speed of 255 miles an hour was: checked by cbservers on the ground. Sciertific experts alone can tell how far the coincidence of the wind's diection was a factor in this phenomenal speed. At 255 miles an hoyr, or, in fact, at anything above 100, a plane is going much faster than any recorded movement of the air. The difference between the Sander- son and the Brow flights is approxi- mately six miles an hour, or an ad- vence of about 233 per cent. This is a striking gain. It shows that the air- plane has not yet reached the point 50 .closely approximating perfection that ‘variations due to improvements in design and motor are infinitesimal. When within a week two flights are made with a 23; per cent difference in average speed there is a prospect that within enother year much greater gain may be achieved. Just where the conceivable limit of speed in the air lies is not to be de- termined. That it is higher } 244 miles an hour may be assumed. | Brow's flight yesterday showed. eleven miles faster in n' copditions, Doubtless ambitious aviators are even | now looking to the 300-mile mark as | attainable. The question-of speed is !largely” a question of plane strength {and durability. The vibration of a { plane flying’ at 244 miles an hour is mitch more intense than one flying at well as of éngine power. ————————— Spain’s Brief Reaction. Spain’s military revolt appears to have heen quickly suceessful without any bloodshed. It was one of the speediést bits. of work ever accom- | plished inj the way of a revolution. It was not anti-monarchical, but anti- ministerial. Its purpose was to effect the ouster of the cabinet, and it suc- ceeded. \ This i reaction in King hostility to him. | has been assured by the army leaders tire fealty. They are, indeed, setking to aid him in overcoming certain con- | ditions- harmful ‘to the best interests | of spain. - This issue turns immediately upon the attitude of the now retiring min- i ' i Moroceo. The army chiefs desired a vigorous campaign there, but the gov- ernment held them in check. There | large supports the army. A thorough entbrcement of ! south of the Straits of Gibraltar would be costly and the country is not friendly toward any expensive mili- 1 that 1t is not assured that the success | of the revolt that originated at Barce- lona and that has caused the ouster of the ministry will ‘be followed by a {sharp prosecution of the war in Africa. | But at any-rate the immediate cause of friction is removed, and unless some new element develops Spain_is likely to subsfd® into placidity after a brief flash of arms. It has proved. impossible, thus far, to depict Eilis Island conditions so from continuing to overcrowd it. financial system as confidently as he does about the solar system. There is no further talk of bringing the ex-kaiser to trial, but he may beat Bergdoll info court at that. Punching for Profits. “Tonight In New York a cyowd of whtween 80,000 and 100,000 people will assémble in a base ball park to watch two men pound eachiother for the fistic champlonship of the world. It is éstiated that the admission fees of this’ multitude will total over $1,300,- 000, If the forecasts of thé wiseacres are Verified ‘the big fight will last only, a téew minutes. Almost' all ~of .the “trained seals” of the sporting world predict that Dempsey will win in the first few, rounds, some of them grant- ing Firpo, the Argentine challeniger, léss the totally unexpected happens the entértainnient will' be over within half an hour. For that the average spectator will have spent a-great many dollars. ‘Large numbers of them will have traveled many miles. All of them will have. subjected . themselves to But from their point of view, no mat. worth. while. 5 There is a deecided revival of public interest in pugilism. These big bouts are staged at groat expense, and when ry toward tae military campaign in | | tary enterprise which would add to the | | burden of taxation, already heavy. So her | | sey-Gibbons fight ‘at Shelby, Mont., ‘was a conspicuous exception. That show proved a costly failure to the backers and the town. It practically | bankrupted the community, The fact is that prize fighting has got to be such a big game now that it must. be run on & million-dollar basis, dnd New York prides itselt on affarding’ the most solid foundation of that sovt.: If the “‘gate” tonight is $1,300,000 Demp- sey will get'about half @ mifion, win oF lose, and Firpo about $160,000. For these men are fighting 6n an assured percentage basls, and 1ot, as did the pugilists of yore, for stakes. That is one reason why the ¢hampionship is highly desirable. It gives the holder un assured price for every match so long as he can successfully defend the title. e No Navy Liquor Blockade Attorney General Daugherty's rul- ing that the naval forces of the United States cannot be used to prevent vio- lation of the naetional prohibition act is based upon the conslderation that the President is not empowered to utilize the Navy except in cases of na- tional emergency, and that no such emergency now exists, JAdmitting that there have been numeérous violations of the law, the Attorney General takes pains to point out that “there have been ng unlawful obstructions of the functions of the courts, or restraint of their processes, or of the coast guard, the division of customs, the prohib tion unit, or of the marshals and their deputies ‘of the Department of | Justice.” ¥ A national emergency can be de- clared to exist only when by reason of unlawful obstruction, combinations or assemblages of persons or rebellion haif the rate. So that the problem of | higher speed is one of construction as ! Alfonso’s | domain 1s not in the least inspired by | On the contrary, he ! | ! (} ] i less than gne round ef endurafice, Un-{ | against the authorities of the United States, it becomes impracticable in the judgment of the President to enforce the laws in the ordinary course of executive or judicial pro¢eedings. It is clear to every ome that however scandalous or flagrant the violations may be they are not upen a scale of magnitudé to censtitute general re- sistance to the authority of the United States. s The Attorney General says that Con- Can Europe Hold Together? I—Up or Down? . BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR, The gist of the problem can be ‘Mlmmul up by & question; Can the 486,000,000, of people in Europe. hold together long enough to climb the Ihill back to health and prosperity? It is harder—so much harder—for the average man to livé in Burope today. than it was last year, and it was harder last year than the year before.., The standard of liying is sinking. The average man—hard- working and industrious=finds the industrial machine less productive, so that his existence is. threatened. The { problem of merely living has become | an intensively personal one tor every {man in Europe. But, as in América, he realizes something has happened, but what it is or why it Is he doesn’t Just know. A trip through sixteen countries of Europe (such as 1 took this summer) will convince even the most super- ficial observer that something Is radi- cally wrong. Production is slowing down, Exchange is 'demoralized. Government expenses far excee ceipts from taxation In three-fourths of Europe, Money has gone Wrong. It is not safe In any part of Europe. Disease is spreaging. Unempioyment is menacing—more even in the so- called sound-money countries than the others. Militarism is increasing. Intermational misunderstandings threaten new and ‘more terrible wars. The people are plainly- discouraged They are sound and good at heart, | but they cannot understand it. In this scries of articles I am going to deal fully, and frankly with the present, up-to-the-minute economic and financial condition of the several countries oY Europe, and 1 will at- jtempt to “measure” each country by {a scientific yardstick, which ean‘be easily understood and comprehended. This scientific yardstick is nearer to the realm of daily existence than the average man realizes. Ten years ago person not familiar with the auto- mobile wondered at the knowledge displayed by a river. Now 20.000,000 I people in America know how to drive. {it's simple when “vou know how.'" The stranger in New York marvels at the lack of confusion in subway. But it's a simple thing to explain after a week spent ¥n New | York ¥ ¥ o ox The sagie may be said-of finance and economics. These names sound hard and confusing, but enly.because we gress in its wisdom can: pdss specil'| pave given too little.time to' them. legislation directing the President to use the Navy for the prevention of rum smuggling: It is quite propable that an effort will be made in Con- gress to secure such legislation; and the subject is calculated to'cayse,de- bate, since a large element will be dis- posed to let the case rest upon the Attorney General's interpretation, and to contend that the Navy's duties are strictly military and should not extend to police duties in time of peace. ———— A girl was fined $200 for smoking a cigarette en a, Staten Island ferry boat. Though many important laws are being disregarded the “No Smok- ing” sign is still entitled to a little respect. o The giant dirigible ZR-1 calls atten- | ion to the fact that Uncle Sam favors ikeemng In touch with €He latest mili- tary- improvements even while hoping he will never have any ‘use for-them. Y 3 1t is too much to hope that a pro- hibition official can discharge ' his | duties as he séés ‘themi and remain popular with all elements of the popu- lation. 5 Aoza ——————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Important Present. who prometed the revolt of their en- | Old Man Smithers talks about The things he used to do. His story leaves no,cause to doubt Its bein® strictly true. Our admiration we express, Unto the past we bow, . Though Old Man Smithers, we con fess, Is doin’ nothin® now. Young Gussie Smithers ‘taiks about The things he’s goin’ to do. is no assurance that the country at{y oo Suer o dovrul shout For plans o big and new. Spanish = authorits | y,q poiher gives him a caress And smooths his lofty brow, Though Gussie Smithers, we confess, Is doin’ nothin’ now. So many of us talk about ' “I aid” or “I will do,” And leave the precious present out Of hopes that we pursue. ‘When we it tones of boastfufn Our special worth avoyw,. ; ‘We usually must confess. ‘We're doin’ nothin’ now! " The Real Motive. “I have Voted for you éver since the first time you ran for office,”” said the constituent proudiy. E “I am much obliged to you, ve- cléarly as to discourage immigrants | joined Senator Sorghum. “‘You fatist have approved of my policies.” “I wasn't paying s6 much attentfon S S t Germiany would be deeply indebted | 0’ them. But my wifé's family were to Einstein if he could‘speak about a |81} down on you, and I voted for you 50'8 to show my independs: Jud Tunkins says good singers usually have to be coaxed to make ‘em start and bad ones have to be threatened to'make 'em stop. Not Always a Simple Question. “Why won't they let theé telephone operator tell you the time of day?”, It would be unfair to everybody to ‘make her run the ‘chance of getting Sdayuxhl-uvln argu- My winter coal I uséd to dump p Down cellar. 'mongst the shadows black. be EF o - But now I decorate each lump, And put it with the brica-brac. September. “Girls Wil .now have to wear more othes,” remarked Miss Cayenne. “They don’'t seem to mind the cli- mate. 2 3 “No. But it becowes absolutely nec-| essary tc hide the sunburn. ‘How &id you ‘happen to make much’ inconvenience and loss of time. | Threefinger Sam traffic. cop?”; “‘Nobody elsé would give the time to tei’ how’ brief thg show, it will be |tne work,” answered Cactus Jde. “Sam {e the enly man in the Guich who isn't running a fivver of his'own.” . “De man dat tells ‘you: to laugh at held in’ large centers of popuiation are | yoh' troublés” ssid Unele, Bbett,. “is Swell a5 to the partictpaits. The Demp-[a mistake an’ laughs | hignty profitable to the promoters, as | liable to: git £l f TIght hufty1-you-takes 1t is possible that every reader will be able to tell the why and the {wherefore of the European problem and be able in the future to apply the scientific method In reaching con- clusions regarding American finance and world reconstfuction,, In beginning this series of articles, iand even before we explain our yard- i stick. which weé expect :to use. in measuring Europe, the reader should have in mind a few basic facts about Europe never before pyramided. | 11 1816 the public debt of European | countries totaled $8,000,000,000. 1In | gone up to $28,000,000,000, an 'increase of just $20,000,000,000. During this period of ninety years—f{rom {1816 to 1913—the wars of 1$18,500,000,000. That is, | of the total debt increa 5 per cent e during thi the great} 1913, a year before the war, it had | century of tfme~—the Victorian efa can be laid directly to war. cost of the great war was $200,000,000,000, over six times as great s the COSt of all the wars in the, previous 120 years. The whole world.during this 120 years spent less on 'war than the British war. In makipg comparison we can take the case of one country, Great Britain. The government expendi- tures of the six years from April 1, 1914, to March 31, 1920, £11,268,000,000, were greater_ than the expenditures of the 226 years from 1688 to 1914, which amounted to £10,944,000,000. The war expenses of the United States are not included in these cal- culations at all. They were larger than those of any other country ex- cept those of Great Britain. The in- direct losses are not calculated In these figures. Wk k “The total. loss of life in all the wars of the nineteenth century was about 4,600,000, including 2,000,000 killed during the Napoleonic wars, from 1792 to 1815. In the last war the loss of life is estimated at 12,991,000. The known dead—fncluding poets, musi- clans, sculptors, writers, statesmen, scholars—of the world war was five times: that of the Napoleonic wars, which lasted twenty-three years, and twice that of all the wars of the last century. The committee constituted t Copenhagen to investigate the so- ial effects of the war makes out a total of 35,000,000 lives lost through loss in births and killed In Europe, including 763,000 killed .by blockade during the war and after. So the close of the war amd a Vie- torious peace saw in Furope: 1. from $26,000,000,000 to $185,000,000,000. An_jncrease in public debt ex- penses from $2,000,000 to $26,000,000 a day, an overhead that must be paid before labor, wages and dividends, 3. A decrease in the percentage of g01d reserve held for currency from 57 per cent to 6 per cent. : 4. _An increase in“the cost of living of 230 per cent. 5. An increase in goverhmental ex- penditurcs of 480 per cent. 6. An increase of military expendi- tures of 320 per cent 7. A shifting of wealth through in- flation.from the creditor to the debtor class. 8. America holding the European note sack of seventeen countries to the amount of $14,000,000,000. 9. An increase in the boundaries of Europe from five to thifty-five * % % % national twenty Those, then, are the basic facts and conditions staring every major states- man of Europe in the face.. They present an appalling condition, a vis- ible sinking of-the living of the peo- ple. .. Preduction-——und in the last analysis modern civilization—is af- fected with disease, which may mean dgcay and death; not one country is affected, but scores of them. It is time we. candidly faced the facts and applied the scientific yardstick to see it we can discover if it is fatal. Next: “The Yardstick of Clvilization.” urope cost | (Gopyright, 1923, In United States and Great Britain Alliance by North American Newspaper Rights Reserved.) WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WH.LIAM WILE In one of the London papers the other day it was suggested that Presi- dent Cpolidge is aiQuaker, or of {Quaker ancestry. ¥nquifysat ithe [White Housc disproves thé report. | All the Coolidges of American record, {beginning with a dohn Coolidge of the vintage of 1632, have bheen Congrega- {tionalists. Edwara T. Clarke, the {President’s personal secretary, enter- ied offcial denial to the Quaker story | with a lament. “Sorry,” he said, “I'd |like to lay claim to the Quaker vote, | but the dncestral tree won't allow it.”” * ¥ ¥ % Wwilliam Knawlés Cooper_ of Wash- ington, ~general. secretary @ of the Young Men's Christian Association, is proud to call himself “a fighting Christian: in an eloguent peroration {before the Rotary”Club, of which he iis a past president, Cooper was re- |counting his recent observations in | Europe and narrating the militaristic istate of mind there dominant. “On uesday of this week,” he said, gazed skyward in New York and saw the shimmering ZR-1 floating over our {neads. I said to myself: ‘I'm for {that. Let'sbuild more of them.' Then 1 saw the escorting airplanes that were circling around the Leviathan of the heavens. I said: ‘I'm for them. Leg's build more of them. I am a Christian. Iam for peace. But I love my family, my home, my civilization and my country, and I want for them the maximury of protection.’. That is a sermon which our national council for prevention: of. preparedness might circulate with profit™. * ok ok K , David Lloyd George has a special object in éntering :the: United States through a side door—the noble state of Minnesota. He wants to meet Sen- ator-elect Magnus Johnsoh. Ar- fangements have been made for him to do so. His secretary and advance agent, Sir Alfred Cope, was in Minne- sota and St, Paul this week, and, In connectlon with other plans, fixed up a confab with the newest luminary in the farmer-labor constellation. Also “L. G* wants to inspect-some typical Amerigin Wheat fg¥ms. He will find them detted with s in Minnesota by the time he reaches there in the Decond Week of October, but his Go- pher state’ hosts will' have a plenty ¢ rural magnificent distances to ex- e | i i | [ b LI O Y e The'S. P. C. 8’ P. G. is America’s latest fraternal organization. It's the | uSoeiety for the Prevention of Calling ' Sleeping-car Porters ‘George.’” following -are the society's patrons and officers: G e Washington, patron saint. - Sdmirat | Georga Dewey, . patron saint. Gen, George Goethals, president. °'°"l°¢ M': T len K George V, English represent- ative. . George Ade, poet laureate. George T. Dexter, honorary tre rer. - Following is an_explanatory estract tiom the by-laws: “Any member ma; ber b; {ssuing & membership card and administering the , oath of _alleglance %o the sole object bf the society. ¢ * kK% James™J. Davis, Secretary of Labor, | expeéts to be the first member of th Coolidge administration to fly agross the country. He will combine business with pleasure, if the trip comes off. Mr. Davis is pledged to attend the American | Legion convention at San Francisco in [ October, but requires to be at Moose- heart, Jll.. the orphanage of. the Loyal ydt almost the samne time. 1 3 bath - roja with air-mail service, and honorary Coban, honorary vice lect a new mem- to welcome Um i to Ll what he would lke to do. Mr. . 1 o e carrent mwmper | Ast. 7 the ing ! | | quietude. late President “America’s greatest fra- ternalist.”— e X s ‘Washington presents two aspects to the ‘newcomer nowadays, which he seldom fails to remark. One is the omnipresence of politics and political chit-chat, which is the exception and not ‘the rule im other communities. The other is the noisiness of the capital, due to the automobile, the motor bus, the clanging street cars and the clatter of automatic riveting apparatus at the many . steel-con- struction buildings now under way. Politics, of course, has dominated the talk and thought of Washington since the foundation of the republic. But, | once upon a time, before we plunged into modernism, it was a placid eity, famed for its repose, poise and Now, as in- less favored climes, the saxaphone and the mator- honk, machine-tools and trolley- gongs, and the other concomitants of metropolitan life have turned Wash- ington into & place with all the ills that city flesh is heir to. ok ox ok When Jack Dempsey was 'h London two vears age, the late Lord North- cliffe entertained him at luncheon in the newspaper peer's mansion in Carlon House Gardens. The heavy- welght champlon was called upon for a speech. He struggled to his feet, stammered, and said “talking isn't my long suit.” But, he added, as a fellow under such ciréumstances ought to do the thing he could do best, he offered to “lick. any man in the room.” Then Dempsey sat down. His speech was the hit of the day. (Copyright, 1923.) -In a Few Words. Under sociallsm the whole of in- dustry would be controlled by pariiament. We would have been isters-of-everything, including a seoretary of underwear and & min- ister of fried fish. - C. M. AVERY —L. (First Lord Admiralty). Eve started intelligence. When our first schoolmaster entered the Garden of Eden as a serpent and forced Eve to choose between ° innocence and knowledge, he made._ the_first test of human behavior and Eve responded to if with intelligence. PROF. LIGHTNER WITMER. The Christian Church has no mes- sage for a dying world; as a matter of fact, the Christian Church is preaching too many gospels, and th result is_confusion and failure. —REV. CURTIS LEE LAWS. A century from now the abolition of disease will make death a physio- logical event, like sleep. A genera- tion that has lived together will die together. . —J. B. S. HALDANE. The war has never truly ended. Ever since the armistice we have been at war. What act of ho.vtll:y uld be concelved more ghlrlet ris- tic than the occupation of the Ruhr? ~—ANATOLE FRANCE. The Scotch 16ve Americans, and I am encouraged to’ think™ that the Americans love Scotch. —LORD DEWAR. We have. got to Americanize our «ndustries. ‘We must recognize the anpalatable trath that the American r - today is producing, man - for man and week for week, trabie the wealth produced-by his itish- com- . ~—C. A, McCURDY, M. P. Since the war some of us have madé the mistake of thinking of that what might be war weariness ecessarily an *access of Innate '.'..3 will, . —PREMIER STANLEY BALDWIN. ‘Within a few les one of the most valuable regions on the earth's. surface will be the northern polar islands, whict will be the basis for alr routes crossing the roof of the world in the shortest distance journ- eys from- Am empire did during the great| Aninerease in the public. debts’, to Europe and | e . =" “Disgrace to Capital ‘o the Editor of The Star: Some weeks ago a flag corference was held in Washington, at which a number of resolutions were adopted concerning proper use of the flag. One outstanding disgrace to our ity is the use of American flags on public buildings and otherwise until | they rot off the pole The George H. Powell School, for | example, as I observed last Sunday and the week before, had a flag with frayed edges, ripped to the union, utterly faded and dirty, sadly waving its brown and buff stripes in several directions. The Johnson - School, across the street, wus nearly as.bad. The Arcade garage, jn the same nelghborhood, had a flag in almost as bad condition as the Powell School while the tenth precinct police sta- tion was a’close second. The flag on the Bond bullding is |nearly as bad. Anybedy can find.hun- |dreds of examples for himself. The old post office on New York {avenue used to display the most foi lorn flag in Washington, which wa left up for months until it fell off {the pole or the post office moved, I i forget which, There 18 not the shadow of an_ ex- cuse for this practice. We have flags | which we have used on every appro- | priate occasion for seven years. They | are washed frequently, never left out | overnight or in storms and are prac- | tically as bright as new flags. In the Army and Navy they never allow flags_to ain up until they fall down, but ralse them and lower them each day, and use special storm flags, when necessary to have them up at all in a storm. It would seem that thos of our schoolhouses, police stations, ete, could take the five minutes re- quired morning and evening to kecp flags in ‘respectable condition. Down in Richmond and Nashiville I have seen American flags captured by Confederates yn battle which, though more than sfxty years old, are in better condition today than many flags flying in Washington, though, of course. such flags are now in glass cases. But they were once carried in battle, and sixty years of time has {not injured them as much as many flags in Washington are injured by thoughtlessness and negiect in.a few. | weeks. 1.5 Wherever the Army and Navy are in charge, and on most of the big public buildings, hotels, department stores, etc., the flag is displayed in excellent condition. But why not make it unanimous? The Washington practice of dig: playing flags at night, where searcf- lights are used to picture Old Glory framed against the dark background of the sky, is one of the mast beau-, tiful and inspiring sights that greets the visitor tq Washington. Such nl;ss are always kept in"good eondi- tion iy Therefore a good ruls to those who desire to let their flags remain out at_night would seem to be this: Would we be proud to point it out | to visitors if a searchlight were wurned: upon_it2- . 2 J. S. EICHELBERGEER. Against U. S. Taking Part in Ruhr Crisis L]’o the Editor of The Sta: In the issue of the The Evening Star of September §, Mr. Fred W: Up- ham, treasurer of the nation¥l re- publican committee, advocates drastic measures to end the Ruhr situation, to Wit: The United States shall in< quire into Germany's ability fo_piky and whatever that figure may be, France shall be commanded-to ac- cept it. 1f France refuses this uli- matum, to be applied by us, then France shall be compelled to.pay at once her debt to the Unjted States Now, the Ruhr occupation Is nome of our affair, we refused’ the league of nations, that leaves us only on the “advisory committee.” The finals are up to France, she knows hep argh- enemy. For the fist time in centuries, | France holds the Whip lash. This 1s | the time for France to demiand full| justice and reparations, from . Ger- | many. i France may tell us as she told Stan- ley Baldwin, “hands off"‘--Germany. is | {not in need of assistance; her whin ing and squirming istcamqufiage, an. earthquake could not change ‘her black heart. Americans generally stand with France and admire her courage, admire every gesturs she has made since August 1914. Tt -must be forced on Germany’'s convietipni .that she !s absolutely whipped.} France is the instrumentality, and now is her opportunity and duty, and ; we must leave France to her own wisdom_without foreign interference, ESTELLE THOMAS STEEL. Tells of Tailless Cats in Virginia { To the Editor of The Star. Some one has sent me a clipping from a recent issue of The Star, con- cerning a litter of tailless pupples born in Washington. } In thé articie reference is made to| | the race of tailless cats found on the Isle of Man._and on one of the Jap- anese islands. Will you kindly advise Dr. Leonhard Stejneger and others who may be interested that it is not necessary to travel farther than Stafford county, Va. to find, not one but many cats iborn either without any tail at all lor just a little knob, varying in length lup to an inch and & haifi Within the last four years there has been an epidemic of such Xittens, the oftsprings of 'petfectly normal parents. I wish that Dr..Stejneger would ex- lain the phenomenen and its sudden rsevelopmuL Up_to about four years | ago no one in this vicinity had ever heard of a tailless Kitten being born. know of at least thirty, approxim: ly a rozen be- ing on cur own farm. About ten years ago an. old man, now dead, cut off the ears and the tall of one Thomas cat, near the body. Is he responsible for the new brsed, and. If so, why have all the kitties thefr full share of ears? MRS. F. T. CHAMBERLIN. ‘Should Not ‘Overlook The Debt to Grandmother in charge | 1 i i % l Most Americans, says a current| commentator, had grandfatkers who | worked with their hands and were | not ashamed of it. Yes, and grand- mothers, too. Grandpa had no monopoly of the qualities of courage, industry, pa- ‘tlence, wisdom, virtue, endurance and on which helped the United States of the present day to come into being. Grandma was right there; in a great many eases she had the heavy end of the bifrden. FFom making her own soap to sitting up with sick folks for weeks at a time, she shirked nothing. That _pioneer grandmother who “often drove howling wolves away from the front door with flaming fire- brands, and on more than one stormy, black night rode on horseback ten or twenty miles along blazed trailt to do errands of mercy for distant neigh- ors, and-ingidentally bore fourteen chnaren:‘flw-h;m’tk much e jivernd r weafin ers or retain’ her ahden Bamse, Wt tulfilled her good 'ples and cookles, gave her big brood of healthy boys and girlé the background of a wholesome home, stood by grandpa mere than one tight place, lived ‘her old-fashioned religion to her last breath, and contributed as much as any stateman to the advancement, of the human race. ] The debt to grandmother ought never to be overlooked. We should have had a sadly different world honor, fidelity and brav. led $o its ients. bocker. ywar a Syrian with® his family A ,f SR Y v ey BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. 1s paper money printed only in Waghington, or do mints printiit, too?—aG. H. ' K> A. The paper money of the United States is printed only at the bureau of emgraving and printing, Washing- to, 'D. C. The mints of the"United Stdtes’ muke no paper currency. Q. What is the canoe?—N. E. A. Different tribes\ had different names for things, the Dakota word for cance. being’ Canquanzi -Wata; the Lenaye, Amochol; and the Che enne, Semo. ° Q. What member of Roosevelt's cabinet was continued in the Taft cabinet?—F. R. O. b A. George von L. Meyer, who was | Postmaster General in Ioosevelt's | cabinet, was made Secretary of the Navy by President Taft. Q. What is “the Incherra” a place where the Duke of Connaught stay- ed when visiting Winuipeg?—N. M. G. A. The Incherra is the name of the residence of the Hon. Robert Rogers, whom the Duke of Connaught visit during his stay in Winnipeg, in 1 Indian name for Q. Does the federal government operate many food markets?—L M. M. A. As head of the Department of Agriculture, the Sscretary of Agri- culture has charge of Center Market, Washington, D. C. This is the only market owned by the federal govern. ment. Q. In what style of costume did Washington appear at his ihaugu- ration?—A. H. D. A. At the first inauguration, Wash. {ington wore a suit of brown mixture. | The material was manufactured in this country. He wore a full suit of black velvet upon the second occa- sion, Q. How fast does ivy grow?—J. T. Y. A. The Boston and Japanese Ivy grows vigorously and soon covers large spaces. A single plant has cov- ered a stone wall over 150 feet long and 20 feet high in 12. years. The plant usually grows about, § fect high the first year. Q. Some time previous to the world re- moved from this city to his land of nativity; the children were born in this county; they are now 'desirous of returning.. 1 will be glad if vou will dvise me What steps are Tecessary in order to permit them to returs.— B. L. MeD. E A. The children of the Syrian ate citizens of the United State: were born in this country. The mother land father, however, would have to come as immigrants upon returning {to the United States, meeting with all |§ the immigration requirements. Q. What per cent of American-made products are .exported?—J.. Se- B A. The Departfent of Commerce says that between 8 and 10 per cent }of our manufactured produciy are ex- ported. Q. What is the extent of the Ever- glades, and the nature of the soi 2. B. A. The Everglades. generally speaking, lie south of Lake Okcecho. bee, Fla., and have a width of about forty-five miles, and a léngth of mear- 1y 100 miles, with an area of 2,862,000 acres. About eight-ninths .of this: is | land. The soil consists chiefty of muck or peat. 3 Q. How is the birthplace of Abra- ham Lincoln maintained?—K. L. C. - A. The Lincoln Farm Association in 1816, in connection with the'deed of Eiff covering the homestead of Abra- ham Lincoln and the, log: cabin in: which he was born, transferred to the United States the title to an endow- ment fund of $50,000 Invested iff cer- tain stocks, bonds and securities held and owned by the association. The fund has been converted into bonds to the amount of $46,000, on which there is an annual income of abo $1,700. This income is used for t preservation of the birthplace of Li coln. Q. Whit pictures are considered 1 twelve masterpiéces of the world? ML T A. No one.is equipped to whici are the twelve. greatest, .but a co: eensus of opinion has resulted in the Selection” of the following ax com whder this classification Supper,” Leopardo da Vinci: Judgment,” Michaelangelo From the Cross,” Dani “Sistine Madonna, Rapha sumption. of the Blessed Titian; “Holy Night,” C muyion ‘of §t.~Gerome, ceding Chariot of the Reni; “Immaculate Conception' X rillo; “Destent From the Cro * R bena: “The Transfigura: | phael, and “Sorgie of the C! Rembrandt. Q. Where daes Michigan rank production of copper?—J. L. A. In the total production of per Michigan ranks second to Mor tang;.and in annual output the state is surpassed only by Montana an | Arizona. | ok | Q. At what time did the most so | diers” ¢ government in How many do Bow?—W. L. A. The Veterans’ Bureau says tha the Jargest number of policies | force on November 11 [time there were 4.4 Q. Where are Moon?—F. T. A. The Mountains of the a mythical chain of mount thé “early Egyptians believed the sourde of the River Nile Q. What: was the wors disaster_in thig country A. Between _ 1869 were nineteen coul mine disast which the oss of life was 100 or and ‘the worst of these accident the explosion at Mon giniaDesember 6, 19 lives were' last. Q. When'. Wee finger prin taken®—M. C. B, ' Alphonse Bertillon inven em of mensuration in March, which' he was made_chevalicr the Legion of Honor. z finger prints as a ication, has been or the far east Since very' éarly tory. Qi dVho lhas . weit ‘nhm'k in the United Stz - | _A. The. Teeasury Depagipn hat the largest official ché |rant issued by the government \us |that of $200,000,000 which was givow from. this country to Great Britaw during the war. They have no knowt edge ofia larger check issued by one. «If You have a question you wait v gpstoered sond it to The Star | *gmm:m Bureaw, Frederic J. Ha:-. Kimyg Dircctor, 1220 North Cepito'g street. . State your question p and brifly and give your full end address so that the infor 31y De aent dbect. The oty oharg for this service is 2 cents in stamp for return postage.) i Eduoard Hétl’iotst"iting 0.8 | 'Fo Boom Famous Fair at Lyon BY THE MARQUISE: DE FONTENOY. Eduoard Herriot, who is arriving i New York to@lay on board the French liner France, is one of the mést’im- portant French statesmen of-the day, Nas been for eighteen consecutive years fie mayor of 1 ? the second olytef city of France, and her depre- sentative in the national legislature. He is recognized as one of the Tore-- most statasmen of lis native land’and as the most dangerous foe of the Poincare administration. His advent to péwer in the place of { Premier Poincare would mean a com- plete understanding of France with soviet Russia and the return to public life and to office of ex-Premier Cail- | laux, who, as everybody knows, was the bitterest foe of the entente during the war and the champlon of Franee's understanding withi Germany, at the expense of her allles. including the United States. Herriot in one wprd, the acknowledged leader of the radical party, which still looks upom Caillaux, -despite his conviction-and sentence by the senate, sitting in its capacity as the supreme court of the nation, as the most resourceful of its statesmen, especially in the matter of se. Not that Herriot ever identi- fled himself with Caillaux's “pro- German: and pacifist intrigues during the great war, in which the mavor of Lyons rendered invaluable ‘serv ices to his native land. . ‘A former university professor ‘of rhetoric at the University of Lyon. Herriot was elected in 1904 to the municipdl councll of that city. Al year later, .the then mayor of Lyon, the - despotic Dr. Augagneur, was rather unexpectedly appointed to the lucrative and _important governor generalship of Madagascar, and Her- riot, who was only thirty-six years of age at the time,\ became his suc- cessor_ini the mayoralty. i By his pleasant and cordlal 'man- ners and' by his originality and in- itfative, he soon acauired 'a Dopu- larity among his fellow citizens that was almost without precedent in the annals of the chief magistracy of the ultra-radicel city of Lyon, and in 1909, while still mayor..' he ; was elected- senator of!the department. of the Rhone—that is to say, for the re- gion of which Lyon was the capital. He next took the active leadership in the organization of a wenderful international exposition at ° Lyon, which he converted into a phenomenal succesg in the face of almost insuper- able_obstacles, and that, too, almost on the, eve of the war. This ex- hibition has become something of a permanency and a powerful agency for the marketing of Krench indus- tries and’ of French’commeérce: abroad. s * ¥ K E It is alleged that tho chief object of his, visit to the United States, which is to extend: over 2. period of five weeks, is to promote and still further develop the success of this world's fair at Lyon. But it was not until the outbreak of the great war that Herriot really became a great national figure, owing to his remarkable talent for organiza- tion, his success in getting things ac- complished and by his contemptuons disregard for bureaucratic precedent and red tape, Which are the curse of publig life and everything relating to_thé government in France. He gmndoa at Lyen the first:great institition in the country fot the physical re-education for soldiers crippled and permanently disabled by wounds, . and originated ‘a number “of other equally useful measures adopt ed by the government, while. the war was in progress. Indeed, it was in response to popular demand that he as appointed minister of transport nd of military, naval and civilian victualling during the' war, accom- ng- miracles and overriding - in- is, | gpmplishme a ruthless fashic o stood in t everything ¥ of the nt of his task | Formerly, as 1 pointgll out abs | professoref rhe; T has, as t [ sult of the-extr ¥ experie |of the last -twi rs, become | an_of actiafsirathier than of doc- I'trinek or*theartos, and whereas fare . be ' becanie mayor L ad Achieved considesable literary [eminence as: the.author of a very | ¢harnifng. afid, at the same timé | erudite biography of the celebrated | Mme. Recamier, his only contribution | to literature since then has been & book which he entitled “Agir” (that |is to say, “Action”) and in whic he embodied the necessity of “doing [rather than “spcaking” and “theo- | rizing.” * % % Herriot is a big, burly man, with a heavy, squarish nead sot on a short neck betwedn big shoulders. He hap Bieri-* iightly described “talking. not from immediately behind his tront teeth, but from his stomach with a good deal of forcefulness in his expression. He is wreless in hip Aress and -prefers. al dadk. suit any othersraiment; _a sack dhit ich often looks as if he had slent He insists that he is not comi America on any political er that whateyer propaganda he dulgés in’here will be only for the of his world fair at Lyon. Halis particulafly anxious to securs a lot of American wood-working ma- chinery for the -éxhibition. In fact, His mission “here is largely ofh ihe same linex as: those which took him to Russia last year; a mission which was described as.political, but which wae undertaken mainly in the inter ests of his world fair. Its result wi that Russia has been among the largest foreign exhibitors at Lyoa, Russian furs being the piece de sistance of_ the show. Buyers dubious at first. _But the fur marka was hungry Yor fine pelts and had buy the furs that, through him and through hjs, world fair at Lyon, wi placed at its disposal. The great fashion concerns-of Paris and Londo. ojdered millions of dollars’ worth ar skins and (e goods have been deliv- eted to thelr complete satisfaction. | Herriot, who would not believe ih the possibility 0f the great war unti it actunlly broke out, is of the opiniot that international 'cconomics dont inate interfational policy and that business relations and the bonds of trade and of commerce are far mor powerful and lasting. than any liance based on sentiment, idcali and treaties. w in * %k ¥ ok 1t is very doubtful whether Edou Herriot will go to Washington. Ed he has already arranged to visit tie chief industrial centers and will sk it is said, a meeting with Herbert Hoover, whose businesslike admir- istration of the various American ré lief agencies in KEurope during the great war aroused his sympathetic interest and admiration. There is but one disadvantage undér which Eduoard Herrigt will labyr avhile in America, nanigly; his inabil- ity to_cqnverse With tiig¥e whom he nteets iny English,~ori te™ make ap public addresses in that language. i?? could do so with fluency and elo quence in Latin or in Greek, of whidh he retains a remarkable mastery. by English presents difficulties which b has never been able to overcome. 1 deed, he js a man of great cultu pgrsonal charm, very simple and geted, and openly favors the furthe {renunciation by France of some of her just’ demands upon Germany (9 reparations, belng convinced of th impossibility of obtaining anythin like the total sum meéntioned in t WVersathon treatymme 7T aie: Sassaae