Evening Star Newspaper, September 18, 1923, Page 6

With Sunday Morning Fditian, WASHINGTON, D. . TUESDAY. . . ..September 18, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES.......Rditor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and r-u‘g-uu Ave. !C'hk!:rk Oflu ll_lt‘) East d 8¢, Eurspegn, 316 Regent St.. u-%-,'l-xu-a. The Rrening Star, with the Sunday ."g #dition, is deliyered by carriers within the eif at 60 flllu!r month; dally osly, 45 cents g’. mouth: Sunday ouly, 50 cents pet month. Or- in £00. b don” 17 made” v arelre-at b end of each mooth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginis. Daily and Sunday Daily only. All Other States, Dafly and Sunday..1 yr., $10.00; 1 mo.. 38 Daily enly 1¥r. $7.00: 1mo., 600 ®unday only \1yr., $3.00; 1 mo.. 25¢ Member of th:;mkd Press, The Associated Press. fu exclusively entitled E e ‘use for republication of all news dis- in chew credited to It o Bot otherwise credited Sjils paper .:il uho. tn-.’mlb"-w —.v‘ re s of publics erial dispatchon herela. ace el revorved. —-— e The League Still Lives. Mussolini’s repudiation of the league | of nations has placed the council of that body at Geneva in a most dificult position, the embarrassment of which was illustrated yesterday at.a meet- ing at which Lord Robert Cecil under took to show that no failure had oc curred to the end of permitting in ternational conflict. The league, he afd. has no mission to secure victo for one side or the other, “or even a vigtory for the league.” No one, he urged, doubted the competency of the league, but all wanted a settlement, and the.real thing to do was to bring the parties together and secure that settlement. The council had fulfilled its' full duty in the affair. It had not rushed in madiy, insisting upon the league's right to intervention, but had caimly, in observance of the fundamental aim of the covenant. col- laborated with the council of ambas- sadors and had secured an amicable settiement In other ‘words, the league did not e through, but let another agency settle the case. It was most fortunate that there was another agency to ef- fect a settlement, for the league was in a position in which, unless it confessed impotence and inabi at the start, would have had to, “rush in,” madly or otherwise, if the ambassadors had not been will- ing to rende decision in favor of Italy without investigation. The league was repudiated by one of its members. Tt saved its face by refrain. ing from insisting upon its preroga- tive. To use a colloquialism, it thé buck. There s in this situation a much more important matter at issue than the question between Ttaly and Greece, and that-was the competency of the league to exact the compliance of its members with its clearly definéd Jurisdiction. And in avoiding that is- sue-the league left the matter to a political decision. That decision may have been correct. Time' may show that in the Albanian murders Greece was definitely responsible. The jnds- ment rendered at Paris, however, was not based upon knowledge of ‘the facts, but vpon Italy’s accomplished advantage in the ‘seizure of Corfu, with the slaughter of innocent people, and upon a fear of other drastic ac- tions. ' No apologies ing friction and competency - will the surrender at Geneva when the Ttalian-Greek conflict was yielded to the council of ambassadors. The league still remains intact, Bt un- questionably weakened in prestige. the need of avold- vading .the issue of ———— Thé present plans are not to encour- age a of the Navy that might cause some future prohibition commis- ner to pire to the title of “ad. miral.” use King - Aifonso evidently .recognizes the fact that even a monarch's useful- ness may depend on his_ ability to adapt himself to new conditions. France and Germany are both weary of the Ruhr situation. Each is encour- aged, however, by the hope that the otler is suffering the greater fatigue. ———— Financing Europe. The United States is doing its bit in the rehabilitation of Europe in the most practical,. way in ‘the world, through dollars and cents. Secretary Hoover of the Department of Com- mérce has revealed the fact that there was a huge world balance against this country when all the factors are con- sidered in 1922, and that this balance promises to be much larger in 1923. For the first time a detailed study has been made, through the Depart- ment of Commerce, to ascertain just what the .credits and debits of this country - are in connection with its trade with. the world. So-called “in- visiblé” exports and imports of the United States with the rest of the world in 1922 have been considered, and it is through them that the bal- ance was turned against this country. For example, American tourists’ ex- penditures abroad were estimated: at $356,000,000, nearly all of which was expended in Europe, and the sums which ‘immigrants sent honie from ‘passed | comparatively little effect in thave continued to.send large: i i render less marked | i i { his great wealth when it is appl ‘mer home. study of the trade balances made by Mr. Hoover takes on added significance in view’ of these facts, “As long as Eurcpe has something to sell, whetner it be manufactured products, raw maferials, securities o sightseeing, which Americans' desire to purchase, a certain ameunt ef Amercan money is bound to find its way abroad. It is this process which is alding Europe now after the col- lossal losses growing out of the world war. The great gain in imports ‘of ‘merchandise - into this country ‘gives the lte, in part, to the calamity howl. ers who raised their voices when the republican protective tariff law was put through. It apparemtly bas not prevented imperts on a larger scale than ever before. s Mr. Hoover's report shows that dur ing 1922 exports carried in American vessels were valued at $1,261,315,707, or 38.4 per cent of the total export: The other two-thirds were carried in foreign Dbottoms, and the freight | charges naturally went to the foreign owners. The Ameyican merehant ma- rine, however, is gaining today rather than lesing in its carrying trade. The report refers to the movement of money due to the smuggling of for- eignmade. liquor into dry United States, although these expenditures are not included in the balange of trade. It says that estimates have been madt that expenditures for these liguors run from $10,000,000 to " 250,000,000 & year. The department,{Louis meet may go Mto history asi,, however, says that there ave plausible marking the highest point in aviation. | the prices of articles went up and statistics to prove that the amount so expended is not less than $20,000,000. Back to the Mines! ‘The miners in the anthracite field will return to work tomorrow, unless the umexpected happens. Only the formal signing of the new agreement stands between a renewal of operation. The miners in convention in Scranton yesterday voted to accept the terms of the agreement brought about in con- ference with Qov. Pinchot and the operators. The mines shut down September 1. They open September 19. Eliminating three Sundays and a holiday, Laber day, the result of the strike has been a shutdown of fourteen working days. Prior to the strike the anthracite mines turned out a greater quantity of coal this year than in the past. In fact, the geological survey estimated that the production had been well above the general average. This ton- nage had been practically all distribut- ed and placed in the bins of con- sumers. With a resumption of mining a similar scale or perhaps an even more rapid rate of production is to be expected. The interruption of coal production, therefore, should have caring for the needs of the anthracite-con- suming states and the District of Co- lumbia. The situation. is not at all comparable to that of last year, when the mines had been shut down, not only in the anthracite fleld, but aiso in the bituminous, for months. There should be a plentiful supply of coal and the prices should not be exorbi- tant. It has been estimated that, even if the added cost of production due to the increase of 10 per cent in wages is passed along to.the censumer, the increase should not ‘be in excess of 60 cents a ton. And part of this should be absorbed by the producers and dealers. Washington will watch with interest the prices charged for anthra. cite. The federal government, dominant here, is in a position to deal with profiteering in coal. That it will deal promptly with any attempts to gouge the public has been repeatedly prom- ised. —————— Unele Sam demonstrates with fre- quency that he can be generous with to a purpose that has behind it no sus- picion of ulterior motive. Magnus Johnson shows” himself an adept in a difficult and important political accompiishment. Wien he likes he can be just as silent as any- body. P S G E Y Many vacationists could report a better time if they had not been obliged to spend so much of the sum- reading about the . anthracite strike. It is too much to expect Gov. Pinchot to work quite as fdst in pro- tecting the interests of the fiél con- sumer as he did in settling the strike. { He turns away and follows up one on | Gasoline Reduction. The small reduction in the price of gasoline. in the District will slightly lowér the cost of operation of about 100,000 motor cars. The reduction is not enough to encourage extravagance in the use of gasoline, and is so slight that many persons will scarcely notice it. The small price cut is interesting to the public, not because it is a sub- stantial teduction, but because it is 4| week how can I sympathize with him | Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, which start downward and may point the way to ‘materially lower prices. There is much about the gasoline situation which tie patrons who sup- port, the oil companies do’ not know, but efforts are making by many of them to -improve their education. Gasoline is selling in some states at 12 and 15 cents a gallon, while here the price has ranged for a long time close to 25 cents. Freight rates do not account for the difference in price in this country totaled $400,000,000. New | various parts of the country. Gas foreign - bond .issues in the United | soared when the war came on, and, of States amounted to $637,000,000, and | course, we were freated to essays on fopeign securities idsued :abroad, but|the increased demand for gas. Gas #old to the United States, were valued |and many other things went up a at $326,000,000, In the matter of visible exports and imports the balance in 1922 was fa vorable to the United States by $754, 000,000. But Secretary Hoover esti- madted that when all the other items of * expenditure were taken into con- sideration the balance against .the United States reached”at least $566,- 000,000, and possibly much higher. In 1923 the balance of trade In the mat- ter of visible exports and imports has swung the other way. At the end of the first six months of the year the balance favored Europe by $141,000,- 000, and ‘the prospects are that the Yyear will close with the balance in merchandise still against this country. THe nusmber of tourists 'abroad this year has been very great, and’there is reason to belleve that immigrants 1 great deal more then the demand. ‘When the war was done the price did not drop, but had a very gentle de- cline, and we were overwhelmed with statistics dealing with the marvelous rate of car production. Car produc- tion is great. ' The price of gas may be all right, but the matter will bear investigation. Delegates-from a great number of mo- tor clubs will meet at Cleveland to dis- cuss the situation, and even if they do not find out mueh about it they will give a'strong impulse to the spirit of investigation. - Inquiry into the gasoline situation has been under- taken or is proposed in several states, ahd very likely there will be an in- vestigation by the national govern- ment, with the probable resuit ‘that we 1"!! have federal supervision over. o announced that there ave more than 13,000,000 motor cars in the United. States, or about one car to every twe families in the country. We have & hundred thousand cars imthe District, with 2 population of something move than 400,000. In.California there are as many automobiles s there are families, and in Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota and Kansas there is an auto- mobile to every five persons. e ——— Still Smashing Records. If the'St. Louls air'meet next moith dévelops speeds in proportion {o those scored 'in the preliminary flights at Mineola fhere will be some tremen- dous recard breaking, Within a week four new speed records have been “hung up" at Mineola, where govern. ment flyers have been preparing for the competitions. . Lieut. L., H. Sander- son started it with a flight of 238 miles an hour. This point was broken by Lieuts, Brow and Williams, the latter making 255, and yvesterday Sanderson came back-with a new record of 259 miles, or twenty-one better than--hisg world speed of a week ago. Of course, it is not-assured that these speeds will be repeatted at St. Louis, but there Is good reason to expect that they will be, and, indeed, that, tuned to best performances, ‘the planes entered there will do. even better. This St. e Fifty million dolfrs worth of road construction is contemplated by Penn. sylvania. Motorists obliged o traverse Philadelphia will wish that e portion of the maney could be expended in the neighborhood of the famous old, Mar- ket street ferry. ——— The dirigible may not yet b2 quite perfect, but it is behaving more de- cently than formerly. ————— Pugilism is improving, Two rounds suffice to end a style of battle that has frequently. prolonged the agony to a degree that even the most enthusiastic prize ring patrons found unpleasant. ———————— The number ‘of rounds you get for your money is one of the legitimate elements of chance in a sporting con- test. —————— Gerthan carrency is being lavishly counterfeited. It makes but little dif- ference to the ordinary citizen whether he géts a genuine paper mark or a cheap imitation. ——————— Compeliing secret societies to dis- pense with disguises will deprive sev- eral of them of an element of mys- tery that constitutes their chief lure to the joiner. —————— For many citizens the settiement of the coal strike only serves to pass the question of heat up to the janitor. —_——— A man of personal force and orig- inality, Mussolini nevertheless shows a strong tendency to indorse Gabriel d’'Annunzio’s Fiume policy. ——————— If the dirigible is employed for arctic explorations it can carry alohg enough witnesses 1o prevent any controversy {as to who was first to reach the north pole. —_——————— Having experienced a revolt agajnst { the monarchy Spain can at least pro- vide enough news to give it a chance at the first page, along with other European governments. SHOOTING STARS. i BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Brotherly Love. If you ‘attempt to lead your fellow man to reformation The 'chances are that you'll have neither cash nor admiration. But get him in a prize ring and then hit him till he hollers, And ‘maybe you'il receive at least a hundred thousand dollars. If you attempt to prompt your fellow man to erudition She chances are that you will land in an obscure position. But get him in a prize ring and then bar his solar plexus, And maybe you will be renowned from Canada to Texas. I you attempt to soothe your fellow man with gentle phrases. the rougher crazes. It looks as if the way to do is biff him when you meet him, The more you try to win his love the rougher you must treat him. | No Object of Sympathy. ““You must make it clear that you sympathize with the working man.” He' has my profound respect,” an- swered Senator Sorghum.’-“But when a plasterer gets a hundred dollars a and seem sincere?” - Jud Tunkins says the man who gets the best of the bargain is usually the one most willing to let bygones be by- gone: Profundities. Do you understand this new Chi- nese game? “No," treplied Miss Cayenne,-‘but: T like to:trifle*with it. It helps to.take 'my mind off the Einstein theory. | The New Headache. Convivial drinking has been barred - Before and after dinner. ‘We get our huflncheg thinking hard For ways. to-catch the sinner. An Eye to the Picturesque. “Didn’t you object to that hostile party from Snake Ridge ‘wearing dis- “No,”: answered Cactus J “The <disguises didn't make 'em any. harder to lick an’ ruther improved their ap- “This' show was intended for _ tired. business man.” ; “The jdea is evidently to catch him when he .is ‘too tired fo want his money’s worth.” “A great public question,” said Uncle Eben, “is like de rent. De fact] dat you settles it now don't prevent ft fum \ \ I Cincinnati Enquirer, i - The bureau pf public r¢eds ruo;lfir i V—-England’s Problems. BY JOHN F, SINCLAIR. _England was king in the intefna tional trade of the world.in 1913. Sixty-two per cent of her.total trade Wwas Wwith other countries. Her cur- rency was sound and inflexible. By this I mean her total governmental expenditures were paidVeach year by recéipts from taxation.' She had a density of 471 people per square mile, against 313 for Italy, 311 for Ger- many and 191 for France, yet in 1914 her per capita income was $243 as against $112 In Italy, $146 in Ger- many and $185 in France. She had then outstanding 2238 millions of dol- lars of bank notes and 144 millions of dollars of gold resemve. In other words, for every dollar of notes out- standing. she had-64 cents of gold to pay with. During the war she increased her circulating bank notes to $2,333,000,- 005, whilg her gold reserve was' only increaged to $389,000,000. To put it in another way, her circulating bank notes increased during the war ten and one-half times, while the gold re- serve Increased only 1,7 timess For every dollar of bank notes outstand- ing at the end of 1918, she had only 16%; cents in gold to pay with. _On July 21, 1914, the note circulation Wwas equal to $4.84 for every person England. On October 15, 1919, it w $50.62. What happened? With a far great- ¢ {norease of money than of good: s the purchasing value of the went down. Taking the average wholesale prices.in July, 1914, as 100, we find that prices for the same ar- ticles averaged in 1918, at’the closé of the war, 232. That is to say. and due chiefly’ to Inflating the currency, an article which cost $100 in 1914, Icns( $232 in 1918. * % ¥ % In spite of the fact that England during the war raised more money than any other European belligerent by taxation, still she was forced to bofrow money for 77 per cent of her total war expenditures. To put it more coneretely, Britain spent $41.- 000,000 exclusively for the war, and raised 0,000,000 by taxation. For every dollar spent for war, she raised 23 cents from total taxes. The difference, $34,170,000,000, pius an- other $1,500,000,000 for expe ernment other than for war, railsed by borrowing money and by inflating her currency How did she raise the $36,000,000,000, 97 per cent of which the mighty moloch of war demanded? (1) By selling her liberty bonds and increasing her national indebted- ness from' $2,165,000,000 to $37,221,000,- 000, more than 1,100 per cent. 2) By increasing her note issues, a: stated above, from $223,000,000 to §: 333,000,000. 1t was easier to stop war than tol stop Inflation. Prices continue to rise money | | with eyery new issue of money. The increasa in the note eirculation “in= creases the floating debt of the state. which {ssues ‘treasury bllls in eéx-. change for bank notes, and in addl tion leads to the depreciation of ‘th currency. Inflation s theft by ¢l tate. Who gets the money so stoles 'he nation as & whole is neither richer nor poorer as a result of the increase of note circulation, just as in the case of the increase of the domestic debt. However, in both cases, owners of war industries are enriched at the expense of the wage earning salaried and bondholding classe: * K ¥ ¥ By 1920 the wholesale index figu standing at 307, as against 100 jn 1914, Let us suppg! 1914, an Englishman dled, léaving $10,000 of life insurance to his wife and three small children. She, on the recommendation of a reliable trust company, reinvests her money in a splendld high- maturing in 1920, netting 4 per cent interest. The tramsaction ig complet- ed and she received her money in 1920. But with the $10,000 she can only get $3,010 worth of goods in 1920. For her industry and thrift she loses $7,000. This is net overdrawn. It is a true illustration of what has ppened in every part of England. But it Is eleer enough to show us that the danger t6 a well balanced society in times of war is not always enemfes without. ¢ the most Insidious ones work quletly within, and of all enemles within a nation during_such times infiation is . the most disastrous. . Since the ‘war England has been trying to regain her lost ground. She has tried deflation. She. has de- creased her paper curremncy from the high mark by. almost 20 per cent, or $440,000,000. But it has been accom- panied by the worst Industrial depres- slon In her entire history. Appal bankruptcles, many suicides, great fallure: increasing unemployment: The English soclal and industrial or- der has been shaken to its very foun- dation. The wageworkers today, the second most powerful political group in England, demand a reduction of the domestic debt by a capital levy on swollen fortunes. they cannot support the overhead tax and maintaln & decent standard of living. One or the other must go: Unemployment government doles now equal $1,000,000 a day. The num- ber of men and women out of work has increased 130,000 during the past thirty days as this is written, and winter 18 coming. So is_hunger and suffering and death. The govern- ment, harassed by the Rubr invasion and’ the breakdown of international trade, is faced with the greatest prob- lem ever faced by a great power. How can she come back? Next: If Britdin Is to Live. (Copyright, 1923, in United States and Great Hritain' by North American Newspaper Alltagce. Al rights reserved.) Success of Helium Seen As Boding Well for Aireraft Helium spells safety in the alr. That is one point which practically every American editor emphasizes i discussing the performances of the ZR-1, the latest addition to the American aerial fleet and the biggest rigid type lighter-than-air craft now {in service. The fact that a German expert, ths man whom rumor has'had it wds the master mind behind the famous alr |raids on London by the Zeppelin ifleets during the world war, was in the cabin on the initial flights and lactea as second in command, so:far as actual exercised -authority. was coneerne: is dismissed as an _inci- dent. What counts, as the editors #eem to. see it. is that the:Navy has thown that it is possible to fly an air vesgel of the rigid type in this coun. try with non-explosive helium gas and have her make a record of per- {formances that must give all Amer- jicans a thrill. F * ¥k x ¥ 1 This nation has a virtual monopoly lon helium, it is pointed out by the| which goes on [to say that “it is of the greatest im- {portance, from the standpoint of na- {tional defense, that this monopolv be retained and that no helium be ex- iported.” A further plea that the Army and Navy give up. entirely the use of inflammable gas in favor of| helium 1s voiced by the Portsmouth,| Va. Star. “We have had evidences | sufficient to convince the authoritie of the necessity of such action.” says this newspaper. “The terribie dis- aster at the Army base, when -the great Roma, purchased for the Amer- ican Navy from the Italians, fell in flames, resulting in horrible deaths jto the number ‘of practically. her {whele company. was in_ltgelf enough to have caused the uee of inframmable 1gas to be banned for all time.” | ySome editors disagree as to. the value of an airship like the ZR-I in {war, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, for instance, holding that “its value is doubtful,” while the New Haven, Conn.. Register bélieves that “this type of airship is destined to. take the place of the modern dreadnaught of the seas.” The Boston Tranecript, among others, thinks ‘that “the air- ship has an important place. to fill both in commerce and in w Be- cause of its ability to travel great distances without stopping, it is pre- destined to become the most rapid means of communication between the continents,” continues the Transcript. There has been of late “a reaction |against excessive depreciation of |lighter-than-air - craft. as dangerous, unwieldy, more vulnerable and less efficient than the airplane,” says the adds that it now “is heing more gen- erally recognized that for observation work and_ long-distance transporta- tion the dirigible has a legitimate field of service.” Rigid airships, like the ZR-1, will be the capital ships of the air navies, the Arkansas Gazette belleves.. “They will-be attended,” it argues, “by bombing and torpedo craft, whose duty it will he to protect capital ships on the surface of. the sea as well as capital ships high above the earth.” * ¥k K “So much is at stake in the launch- ing of one of these enormous ma- chines, both in cost and in the' pos- sibility of loss of life, that the public regards every new Initiative warily,” says the Buffalo Evening Times, none the less, tie achievements of | building and trying the up.bmue.l of the ZR-1-are of a kind which:the country may well take pride.” The on, Ohio, ~ Daily News indorses | this sentiment, pridefully comment- ing on the fact that the success of tife trial flights “attests to the genius of "American brains, because the ZR-1'ig lan__American-built machine, and Yankee workmen constructed as well as designed it. o The success of the ZR-1 means that nother ter has been written in the story of American aeronautical evelopment.t. si thé Manchester (N.'H.) Union, and 1o this the Newark Evening . News hearfily agrees. In- cidentally, the New '¥ork Herald. ‘mpeaking of the wonderful flight of ihe ‘ZR-1 over the metropolis, de- clares “New York pald more atten- tion to the dirigible then it did to the eclipse. The Navy was kind enough to send its dirigible around at high noon when every one is ready for & blt of air, anyhoy. Z p 's dream come e ough -anl'mmkm the hum- of M Ing watching her at ZR-1 is a |been the work against the biue must be thrilled with a just pride in bélong- ing to a race that can create on such a scale, even though she may prove to be a’ fizzle at fighting. The legson of the eclipse is that we are puny bipeds on a second-rate plamet in an inferior constellation. The lesson of the ZR-1 is that we are lords of cre- ation to whom nothing worth while i impossible. providing our hands, hearts and minds weary not in well doinz.” In this latter connectio however, the New York Times wo ders wien comparison will be po: sible between this craft and-the ZR soon to come from Friedrichshaven, because “it is reported that the Ger- man bullders have been at great pains to turn out a dirigible superior to the product of the Lakehurst shop. With these two. ships in its posses- sion the United States Navy will take the lead in what may be called dread- paughts of the air, and the nation will be in a fair way to outstrip the Test of the world in commercial air- ship transportation.” Reserved Seats Aid English Travelers | It isw't often that railroading in the United States has anything to learn from England, but perhaps there is found such an instance in the recently inaugurated system of re- served scat sales on certain of the train runs. To be sure we for vears have had our reserved Pullman services, but the new under- taking “over there” is to sell the pas- senger In advance numbered seats in the regular day coaches. A small charge is made for the addefi service. but so w the extra payment that it usually has been found that the unreserved seats, of which a certain number kave been left for the genmeral scramble. have | frequently béen left vacant. The old eustom of first come, first served, in the matter of train seats led to so much crowding and ill feeling, caused such loss of time by those who were willing to stand in line to get first choice of position and generally was such a nuisance that the publi¢ wel- comed the change. We imagine the same would be true here in. America at populous centers and on trains whieh carry daily throngs. It might even be made pos- sible to secure in advance regular seats over weekly. or even monthly, periods. The advance reservation of numbered seats would make known rather closely the number of passen- gers to be carried, so that the needful train equipment could be prepared without a last-minute rush to add another car, or, worse still, without forcing the overplus to stand.—Ni Orleans Times-Picayune. In a Few Words. We must have theories of govern- ment, but we must make sure that they are theorles of government and not just theories. —PREMIER MUSSOLINL The question of Whether the labor union has a soul will have to be an- swered shortly just as surely as a few years ago the country was talking about the soulless corporation. Fis —MRS. LAURA MILLER. My experience with German banks has led me to decide that the safest piace for my money is in a stocking under the mattress of my bed. —CLARE SHERIDAD The werld is at the present time drift- into an era of humor, an era of fun. ‘e have had our fill of tragedy and high-seriousness for the present and we are about to enter into a lighter period of existence. —H. G. WELLS. ing All our governmental schemes are in- genious devices to make the world safe for forty to sixty instead of for twenty- one. We regard youth as something to be ruled, rather than developed. i —PROF. H, T. BAKER. . Bvery. industry ‘that ever got any- Where at all has been a little monarchy: B —HENRY FORD. The hope of the world today lies not in a gold reserve but in orderly. peace- ful industry. 5 —LORD" BIRKENHEAD. 1t may be' ‘amen late ‘Ilflll‘.d curse s claimi to adopt a twen- g Conatitution to Liquor traffic ever the ages, but They declare, ling has the | traveling public shown itself to make | bstractions to co; : e I A h v the | would have removed him from tho OF ASTRON Camille l"‘l.l‘uu‘:flon. D. Anov et & Co. *A moving and inspiring b Overton says, Nobody can gainsay this judgment. Yet astronomy. alence leayes the majority w ugmoved. We of this earth glye Dot Ppertunctory acknowledgment of debt fo our ewn sun. And we leave oyr moon; largely, to ‘the lyric transports of in- constant lovers. As for the other worlds that Jewe! the night with splen: dor, “these llo unheeded, incaloulably remote from the prodigious busy-ness of man's momentous affairs. n f 10 A ook,” Grant | George Washington 3 ted Stat. - ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - - - BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Whehe Is the first statue erected eorge Washington?—J. R. street, Baltimore, Md, The first monument erected to .- Wifen a. fo '\l?er ap) ean R is in Charles Mew for. & t paten Re use his Wh language*—F. &2 £ AY..Whén an application is made for ‘a United States patent,-all data must “be submitted in the English language. Q. 'Is ‘it true that wirelcss meg- sages can be recelved from a greater dlatance &t night than in the day A. A wireless message can be re- How does ‘It ‘come about then that,\ ceived from a far greater- distance at his‘own fires burning low with mere than eighty vears. of flaming, Camllle| damper and is, that fu June, | Flammarion is able to give. Ruman conductor. warmth and nearness to thig infinite- Iy cold and distant thing? he achieved a body for this immense abstraction? How changed a sheer be- wilderment of pure caleulation to the spheres. By what maglc has he ens sphered the universe itself in puny r};lln‘fl:al man? . sure, by infidelity to the grounded in- togrity of the great fact itself. stands undisturbed in its own essence of truth, as science has, so far, un- covered the truth. is to move this harmonious world of the skies Into us along the thousand avenues built by the senses and ex- tended by the imagination for the ad- mission of the outside w substance of our” being. and imagination are the tools of this warker. Knowing that we are children in knowledge and feeling, he employs with us the arts that-appeal to child- :;'&d.‘ lgn"fl{:;etr-hea the magic carpet in delight we take passage f yoyage in the sky. ¥ i ¥ ke * % % ¥ To the moon, to Mars, to Saturn our own universe. billion miles! eons of time! Other universes—a second, a third, a fourth! And Flem-rWn talks—*“all the stars which have ever been seen In the sky, the millions of luminous points that constitute the milky way, the Innumerable celestial bodies, suns f every magnitude and of every de- 8ree of brightness, solar systems, planets and _satellites,~which by mil. lions and hundreds -of millions suce ceed each other In the vold around us, do not in the fnfinite represent ‘mors than an arehipelago of celesttal is- lands and not more than a city in the grand total of ‘popuiation. In this city of the ltmitless empire, in (hl: town of a land without frontiers, our sun_and its system represent ¢ sin- &le point, a single house among mil- lions of other habitation: Is our so- lar system a mlace or a ho- Ereat city? And the earth? The earth is a room in the solar mansion.-a small _dwelling, miserably smal Then Flammarion stops a minute to compare this fact of the earth's Iit- tleness with the swollen pretensions of & man throughout the records of history. And he talks, quietly if to himself, of the curious philosophies and theologies that have risen out of the belief that the earth is the center of all creation. That is his way—to come back from these far journcys into space and time to make sure that jWe are seelng the earth and man in something like their real proportions. ok ok % From the immeasurable magnitude of the universe with the pinpofnt place of, the earth therein, Flam- Marion points 4o the whole as a law- abidiug universé—a grand harmony and § ced by the supreme m whose effects he de- ) { €an feel in himself the Thythin of “the ‘swinging majesty of the sky.” From the celestial workings of this law he shows the application of the law of attraction ip the mole- cules that make up the earth i its various aspects, and.to human be: ings alse whom it serves to -defing and direet and fulfill. Again, by this | passage from the great abstraction o] thie conicréte and Immedlate example, Flammarion brings the former into. {the sympathy and clearer. e 5 hension of the, latter. He ls. in of. { fect. translating the skies into terms {of human interest and understanding. All science will come to this method in the measure to which it desires {0 be generally understood and supporte {ed. Thié book is.a rare example of setting abstract facts out into. the open of general acceptances. * ¥ x % And Flammarlon dreams of world of long ago, a point In a breathless second, Then infinite space! 1 the lion years passing llke a day. world, this, which rose and its turn and passed out. And “in a hundred million years the earth where we live will no longer exist, or if any wreck of it remains, it will be only a funereal desert. The va- A lived achieved their circle of life, the his- tories of its human race will® long ago have been finished. Our own sun. no doubt. will haWe lost its light and will roll along, a dark star, through the realms of light.” 5 * % %k % And he prophesies of the world to passed away. He plctures life on various considerable theories as {communication between these worlds, {The spirit of the book, the bent of this knowledge,tull discussion, bears }directly upon the people of this earth. The closing sentence embodies the spirit of the whole: “Let us not be personal, like infants or the aged, { Who see only their own room. Let 4nd ‘in the etermal” All this that has happened' accomplishes naturally, “And indeed the being whom the in- habitdnts of the earth have hitherto defined a: d_does. not_exist. The Buddha of the Chinese, the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Jehovah of the Hebrews, the. 'Ormuzd and Ahriman of the Perslans, the Teutates of the Gauls, the Jupiter of the Greeks, the great' Allah of the Mussulman, the i Father of the Christian, are human the | College is at Newport, R. I Not, we may be|are many other schools where orld_into the | syubmarines, et Knowledge | water from leaking in and permits a ling [and on and on and on to the edge of {1n | | come after our own world shall have | AUSUSta, had elapsed. the various planets and projects the | a to | Hohenzollerns, wi itself | Germas ‘as if God did not exist.” | of seventeen, who has Been admirably night, especially sent over water. if the message is The air at night is therefore, a Dbetter Q. Ts a’man's milltary education How has | complete when he finishes at West Point?—R. C. B. A. West Polnt is but the begin- ning of education in the Army. Each of the services has continuing schools grade municipal bond, [ °rdered and rhythmic swinging of the|of growing breadth and usefulness. The Army War College is in Wash- ington, D. C., while the Naval War There in- struction In special branches of war . This | sclence is given. Q. Is compressed air more buoyant ‘What ‘he does de | than ordinary air?—F. Hv.W. A. The bureay of standards says that compressed air is not so buoyant as_common air. The advantage of using compressed air in diving suits, . is that it keeps the lighter construction of the container. Jo Does a light-colored cigar wrapper Indicate a mild cigar?i— LCB : A. The tobacco used in wrapping & cigar does not disclose its internal make-up. Q. 'What is the number of women the United States belonging to Sixty thousand |federatad women's clubs?—F. M. J. A. The latest published member- ship of the General Federation of Women's Clubs is 2,000,000. Q: What makes mercury break into drops or pieces?—S. B. A. Mercury being a liquid has surface temsion. It-also adheres to very few substancts. This surface tengsion, the same thing that makes raindrons round, tries to make the mass o1 mercury form itself into as small & shape as possible and causss ‘| shates™ it to break up Into a quantity of semi-spherical and ovgl muases, Water or any liquid would do the same if it did not adhere to sul- stances. g Q "When and ‘how did iast names originate?=L. G. - i A.. Burnafies originated in various ways. Oflzlnlify":%‘dlvldu«ls were only known by their.Christian names when certaln distinguishing names began to be added. Some surnames are descriptive of the place of resi- @ence of some ancestor, others refer to seme peculfarity either in charac- ter or dress. Surnames were legally recognized in England by the statute of additions, pasaed during the rcign of Henry Voarl387-1422. .. What awill A N. R H. A.' To remove rust from rub them with & plece of emer that has been dipped in turp Polish well with a fresh pic emery paper. Q. Where iy the Suwanee river?- L., MeD. A. It rises in the Oksfinoke swamp in southern Georgia, flows through_Florida, emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, ° Q. Where is the Mesabe range of mountains?—J. A, W. A. Mesabe range is in morthern Minnesota. Strictly speaking, it ¥s not composed of mountains, the ex- treme elovation being 2,200 feet. The Mesabe, the Vermillion and Cuyana ranges., all in Minnesota, produce more iron ore than any other dis trict in the world. When was; th d?—L. T. L A In 1787 va “gles club" was iformed_ing London which flourished "untfl;1857. %Since this style of music: whieh was uliar to England, was not_written- until the middle of the elghteenth eentury, this glee clui was probably the first of any impor tance. Q. Who was the first Emperor of China?—D: M. U. A. The first Emperor of China of whom any detalled account is give is Fu-hi., whose lifetime traditlo fixes as being about 2852-2738 B (Have you a question you want answered? Send it to the Star Info, ‘mation Bureaw, Frederic J. Ha director, 1220 North Capitol str Give your full name and address ani enclose 2 cents in stamps for returi postage.) remove rust from skates Paper first glee cluby Ex-Kaiser’s Stepson Has Crazy Ancestors in German Kingdom BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Germany’s -republican government £l In this | oyes a debt of gratitude to Gen. Eric von Ludendorff, for he has created a perfectly brand-new and totally unex- pected subject of disunion and interné- cine strife among the monarchists, whose dissensions constitute the most insuperable obstacle to the sucosss of their intrighes against the Barlin gov- ernment. For he had the gmazing tupidity to selze upon'the oceasion of the monarchists’ mass meeting at Nu- remburg last month to hail the six- teen-year-old stepson of the former Kkaiser as emperor, and to address him as “Your Majesty.” This astonishing break on the part of one who assumes to be the leader of the monarchists, which amazed and startled most of those present, has excited extraordi- nary indignation anmione:-the numeraw adherents of the formerly Fovefeign dynasties of Bavarla, of Hohengolistns Saxony Wurtenbezg, and among all the houses of the great nobility. They are unanimous in the expréssjon of the opinion that Ludendorfl. Who showed himself quite as inept in mat- fers of statecraft and policy during the war. as he did as commander in the fleld, and who bore a large share of responsibllity for the disasters of his native land in 1818, must have been either drunk or crasy when he took upon himself to hail: this. cal- low lad of barely sixteen, Prince John of Carolath-Beuthen, as German em- peror and as the hope of the mon- archist party. 3 : The boy has been, since his father's death, the head of one of the junior branches of one of the houses of the Silesian nobility, -which had to con- tent itself with the title of coant until its members were raised to.the rank of Prussian “fuerst or princes of the lower grade, by Fred- erick the Great. b Tts members never did anything in the | particular to distinguish themselves, history of creation, a hundred mil- |and the two principal occasions when the family came into the limelight and attracted public attention were when the beautiful Princess Elizabeth Carofath,~wife of the head of the house, &l , _some forty yéars ago, with /Prifice. Herbert Bismarck, wh afsér a few months' publicly. spent wit] renice, deserted her in the most _shameful tashion, leaving her rious woflds of our system will have | there without resources, at the per- emptory demard of hiS father, the Iron.Chancelior. The second bid for the limelight was ~whet cess Hermine, the widow. of Prince John of Carolath, the insignificant cadet of an insignificant famlly, became the| second wife of the ex-kaiser-at Doorn Dbefere the period of mourning: for his devoted first wife, the late Empress * K K X ey It has been asserted that ‘there'is siain of lunacy in the blood of the ichmanifested itself in King Frederick William iV of Prussia, grand-uncle of the ex-kaiser, who died insane, and in . the late Prince Alexander of Prussia, who was affileted with imbecility. and spent much of his life under restraint, and also_in the ex-kaiser, whose reason has long been regarded, alike by his fellow countrymen and by foreign nations, as abnormal. Still, some of us know how to live in the infinite | the dynasty seem to have escaped the hereditary taint, among them the eldest .son of the ex-crown prince of who is now a promising lad brought up by his mother, the ex- crown princess, a woman who enjoys the respect of all, and especially of the present republican government at Berlin. o : jut, whatever may be said &bout the Hobenzollens, the hovse. of Renss, to which the present ambitious con- sort of the ex-kaiser belong by birth, is renowned. througiout Europe for conceptions, personifications {nvented | the extraordinary number of Junatics by not only his highest aspirgtions an his sublimest virtues but alse his grossest prevarications and vices.” _ his own likeness.” But the human mind cannot comprehend the infinite, eternal, immutable spirit, ganizing of that all of which the |ROr* earth and man are but particles as ugliest | Henry “Man has conceived God in | Ereign ag and imbeciles that it has furnished t man, in which he ha: gmbodied | 11 Detty sovereign. dyma. 0 ies of the old world. Thus, her only brother, XXIV of Beuss, former sov- rule of . that principality, is deaf,- dumb, imbecile and’blind, the latter affliction having been brought the - or- |about in a particularly. tragic man- As an only son, in epite of his being deaf and dumb, he was idolized imperfect as they. ars mediocre. The | DY his mother. And when, as a young existence of this. infinite is proved by the univel organization. Every s organized, from the hum- boy, it was decided to submif him to an - |operation to cure some defect in his ¢éye—a squint, or something of that blell‘ leaf to the world system. - An|Kind his mother insisted on hold- invisible immaterial element of a ing him on her khees while it was spiritual nature, as yet imperfectly [being performed. At the most criti- revealsd by our means of investiga- cal moment of the operation her ter tion, manifests itself within us and |ror and grief at the sight of the cut- around should be revered as enveloping the] world and enfolding us. The future- will teach us. t!ume H ity grows up. rn. Human 3 no'longer children. Let us, thefefore, knew how to live in the infinite and in ¢he eternal. v jearning here, and dramatic vision, independent thinking, keen psycho- logy, eloquence and great power in translation—in _bringing far things ce, in humanizing ok jomena of the science. LG M - e r Tolay “we know but|fect of *we 'ate only beginning .to/|deep in the eye in suckh.a. manner as We:are | to h father—that * is say, There is specialized llf}u;‘ _1(, the lad who w. Truly a “moving and | wholesome aberrations was us. This spiritual principle |ting which was being done, cluse‘!’(; er to make a sudden movemen 10 and dread, which had the “ef- driving the occulist's lance - the child ahd. injure hi s for - Princess Hermine's to he nd - publicily b rain. h ast -rhonth ‘as German em- r by Ludendorfl—he was so_crazy at; had it-not been for:the hatred i is b, entertained for abin. whom T Ha sbarred. they his un- r of s insist- throne. Among ot 3 enge { the publi; birchings and canings of (& school children, both boys and £irls, each week at his palace o the ground that, as father of his people he alone was qualified for the task. He would not allow a house to be built ar a tree to be planted or cut down i his capital of Greiz with out his sanction. Then there was his cousin, Pri Henry XIV of Reuss, who, after contracting a second marriage with an actress, whom he created Baroness of Saalburg, was stricken by some brain trouble, which developel into complete imbecility, in which con- dition be lingered for a number of years. b Etiquette and ceremony fantastic proportions.at the courts of Reuss, and I have before me an old copy of the Official Gazette Reuss, in which it is stated that all highest (meaning, not the ex- empegpr, but the Prince of Reuss): in_token of his satisfastion and im flé';g services of Rulolf Schulz o reache reman, has had 0 tho bigh- me gra nfl?‘ffi’fin & ‘delsmnz to extend nis own -all highest hand to be Kissed.". OF ‘course the comic papers 10 the other German states, especially in Mutlch and Berlin, were quick to ask why the Princa of Reuss shoulid have' extended his own hand instead of giving some one else's hand to he kissed by -the ‘old fireman, and printed widely: verses to the effect that it ‘was only in Reuss that the sovereigns still knew how to reward in_a Atting, mapner, real services 1o |the -nation and ta the state — | Moreover, until tite overthrow the monarchy in' Germany 3 ber, 1918, the rulers of R that _when court wmwourning w dered“it should extend to the {clothes; that is to sav. the |dignitariés “and officials were pected to wear not only black outer garments, but evem black-bordere |shirts and handkerehiefs and under | garments, in the ogSe of the and equally somber “dessouse the women. This was strictl forced and any non-observance the regulation was resented punished. ‘Whole pages could be printed the abnormalities of the Princes and Princesses_of Renus, for the 1 three cenfiries. . Indeéd. from a cu wenic point of.view no more unfortu- nate and evem crazy chaice could have, Dbeen made-by, Ludendor(f as the hope' of the mQI\I;chlll party th Her~ minie's’ won, young * Prince of Caro- lath, whom ‘the general. in a moment of aberratjon, proclaimed emperor and ‘hafled as *Your Majests at ‘the mass ‘meeting at Nurembu last month. . R A couple. of ‘months ago 1 reco Ju_ these columns the fact that Henry . Malaby “Deeley, member of parliament for the Willisden district of the metropolis, had’furnished the auarter. of a ‘anililon dollars needed by . the’Carlton Club to_entirely_re- comstruct the disintegrating Caen stone facado of that stronghold of the conservative party, and to carry out a number of other fmprovements and reparations exacted by the ground landlord of the club, namely, crow! among its conditions for its renewal of the leasehold of the prop- erty, which had just run aut. T neg- lected to add that he had placed further large sum., of money at théfy disposal of the club to enable o purchase from the Earl of Dudley h fine mansion, at 7 Cariton Garde which adjoins the club, for the pur- pose of converting it into an annex where the wives of members can en~ tertain and be entertained. Lord Dudley’s house, which has been the scene 0f some véry brilliant hospital-* ity in the past, has the advantage of posgessing a Private garden, and has * also an excellept view gver the grounds of Queen Alexandra's metro-%. politan residence at Marlborough = House. ; Steps are’being taken to connect Lord Dudley's' house with the Carlto Club by means of & bridge. Ur the Carlton moved into its pres stately edifice.at 94,Pall Mall it \ housed, for some years, -in Carl Gardens. By_adding Lord Dudley house to its Pall Mall premises the- club, therefore, recovers onco more a site on those gardens, whence it derives its name. Sir Henry Malaby Deeley, who has thus earned the gratit of his fel- low members of-the Carlton by sav- ing them a very heavy assessment,. is the brother of “Frank Curzon,” the well known actor and lessee of the Prince of Wales' and Wyndham Thea- ters in London, the son of a Shrop: shire county 'magnate, and first claimed. public attention by some enormous ~metropolitan real estate deals, fovolving millions of pounds of sterling_and the jpurchase, from the , Duke of Bedford. one of the greati grougd landlords, of London, of all his metrowmlitan property, including the Covent Oarden Mirkét and the Covent Garden Opéra House. To golfers ho ts well known as onc of the finest players in England, and on the cons tinent:as the -founder of at least & dozen popular golf clubs, thus pro- ‘moting the favorite pasiime of: all devotees of “the ancie able” game.”” - and | i i e S nt and honor- |