Evening Star Newspaper, October 6, 1923, Page 6

THE E NG STAR’ Zev and My Own. This is largely due With Sunday Merning Fdition. |, tho manner in which ‘hu'lhscrn; Club iteelf has bandled the affa WABHINATON DO ‘lalc«ung America’s horse to meet SATURDAY......October 6, 1823} p;,crys. When the plans for the in- Seem ternational race were first aunounced THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor| the Jockey Club decided upon the M American Tria} Sweepstakes to be run e ST N e e tvama. Ave. | 2t. Belmont Park. The winner should New York 110 East 4204 8t. be first choice to meet the English horse, and those finishing second and third the substitutes for him. But Bvening Star, with the Sanday morning THE ~EVENMNG an obviaus need. The street rules we now have may not be the last word in traffic regulation, but if those rules were universally observed or enforced trafic would flew more smoothly, there would be fewer accidents, there would be no all-day parking In busi-'iy ness sectfons and there would be much | they had the imagination and prophetic less inconvenience to the publie, Commifesioner Oyster advocates @ |“Saw the heavens fill wi law to authorize the police to impound an automobile that has been parked ' ™ edition, is deliverod by catriers within the city R o y only, 30 ceats per moath. :y be sent ‘ollection 1 end of eich month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. Dafly and Sunda; Dally only. Sunday oni All Other States. Deily and Sunday.1yr. H Dauily only. Sunday only. 1y Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fs exclusively entitled #o the use for republication of ail news dis- patches credited to it or nut otherwise credited ed All rights of publication of wpecial dispatches herein are also reserved. - = & Lloyd George's Reception. David Lloyd George's reception yes- terday In New York was an ovation. ‘While marred by a little heekling and some impudent intrusion by a few hos- tile persons, the welcome was im- pressive exhibition of sympathetic American interest in the an who contributed so greatly to the vletory of the allies in the great war. Mr. Lloyd George's impressions of America were, of course, immediately sought by his interviewers, and were given with frankness and wit. Though mever here before, he expressed him- self freely and most delightfully about the United States, not in e spirit of flattery, but with sincerity of aed- miration. There has, in fact, been nothing in all this remarkable man’s career that has shown a disposition to criticize or belittle American qualities and performances. Indeed, in a speech at a luncheon tendered him in New York yesterday he declared that Eng- lshmen contend that George Wash- ington was the real founder of the British empire, and that America by the lesson of its revolution has taught England how to govern free peoples. The rise of this man to power, the highest power in the British empire for a long period, is an lllustration of the real democracy of the British sys- tem. The son of an humble Welsh cobbler, David Lloyd George advanced himself to the first rank. We often say on this side that America is op- portunity, and are prone to boast of the fact that our Presidents usually come from humble origin, while our highest offices have been held and our miost responsible duties discharged by those who were generally known es “gelf-made men.” Mr. Lloyd George's career shows that this may happen and does happen in Great Britain as well. It is, perhaps, this fact that makes the former premier so highly appreciative of the United States. His tour, which begins in Canada, will bring Mr. Lioyd George before a great number of American people. He ‘will address directly an immense audi- ence. He will, of course, be inter- viewed wherever he goes, and judging from yesterday's happenings will re- spond freely and frankly. That he will interest his hearers and those who| read what is printed about him is as- sured. For he is easlly the most in- teresting man who has come to the Uhlited States for many years. Helping the Farmer. Representative Martin L. Davey of Ohto ralses 2 new point in the case of the farmer's load of woes. He deseribes the farmer as the omly man who pays the freight both ways, and contends that this is so because the freight is deducted from the sell- ing price of his products and is added 1o the cost of everything he buys. Bvery one else, the Ohioan asserts, who has anything to sell includes the freight in his costs and collects it from the buyer. Representative Davey, in & letter to Presidenit Coolidge, maintains that high frelght rates really now stand as the greatest bljght on the agricultural industry of the country, and he urges w reduction of at least 25 per cent in rates, to be made through the Inter- #tate Commerce Commission, on the suggestion of the Chief Executive. If the rallroads find they cannot stand such & material reduction he would have: the commission -make up the loss in revenue by increasing the rates on Tuxuries. ‘What ought to be done and what can be done to relieve the farmer is engaging the best thought of the coun- try, but no onec has thus far hit upon a method of economiic relief which is not open to criticism from some point 2, view. President Coolidge is under- stood to be giving his major attention 1o the subject, and soon. Congress will have it on its hands. In the mean- time, with hogs and corn.and cotton, indeed, almost everything the farmer raises but wheat, commanding good prices, the question of relie? may solve ftoelt. B e Germany has issued so many paper marks that it is liable to take a work- man longer to count his pay than it takes to do the work. —— The Chosen American Raocer. Zev, the Sinclair colt, is the selec- tlon of the Jockey Club committee to carry the American colors in the in- ternational race October 20. His selec- tion had been confidently predicted in spite of protests that there should be a fair trial to decMe between Zeov and My Own, Admiral Grayson's unbeaten three-year-old, befare the Jockey Club ehoice wae announced. The official announcement of the salection of Zev contains the follow- ing: “The definite’ cholce of Zev sets at rest any. speculation as to the chances of My Own outranking him for the honor, and puts an end to the controversy which has been raging for the past two weeks.” Apparently the Jookvy. Club believes 1 that old adage, “the king can 40 no wrong,” and expects the American publie to hold the same beliet, no mat- Wr what the facts are in'the case. It ey dissover that an end has not been pactive merits of Zev and My Own. The trouble adout the entire matier ‘Main e Zev did not take part in the American Trial Sweepstakes, which was won by My Own. The Jockey Club, instead of stick- ing to its first announcement that the winner of the sweepstakes would be the selection to race Papyrus, decided that the results of the Realization should also be considered, after Zev's trainer announced that Zev would take part in that event. Zev won the Realization, and Untidy ran second to him, as Untidy did to My Own in the Trial Sweepstakes, but My Own's vic- tory over Untidy was the more ime pressive. The Jockey Club could have averted the present controversy by merely sticking to its original plan to let the Trail Sweepstakes decide. Furthermore, the Jockey Club has apparently favored the Sinclair horse in the effort made to arrange a match between the two, holding that the pro- posal for a mileand-an-eighth trial was sufficlent, the distance proposed by Zev's trainer, instead of the mile and a half demanded by Admiral Gray- son, which is the distance of the in- ternational on October 20. . A victory of Papyrus over Zev would not tend to abate the criticism of the Jockey Club. Furthermore, the Amer- fcan sporting public probadly would |masks “walled into a smoke-filled make a demand that & race be ar-|building at the bureau of standards ranged between Papyrus and My Own. ! and fought an imaginary fire with as much ease as though they were stand- ing in the open air.”” With the fire- man into & smoke or fume filled build- ing goes a little lamp called a “safety lamp.” The mask protects the fire- man so long as there is a small per- centage of oxygen present. When that percentage falls to the danger line the lamp goes out. That is the signal that a law the police would take the car to a police etation or would lock it so that the owner must appear at the |againat him before ‘e could recover the car. That would be a drastic regu- Iation, and perhaps we need not come pel observance of the present parking rules. Firemen’s Masks. day’s work he does things which seem do, such as climbing tall ladders that bend and swmy, standing on sills and copings high above the streets, rush- ing into blazing bulldings and all that. The fire department sustains many and noxious, suffocating fumes. It is interesting t> know that the Commis- sloners have been able to buy for the firemen some masks which will re- duce the damger to the men of being overcome by smoke or fumes. A com- vany of firamen fitted with these The Dry Law Problem Here. Indication that the inquiry into the conduct of members of the dry en- forcement force on duty in Washing: | ton will be thorough is afforded by the announcement that two of those against whom charges have been brought by District officials have been g suspended without pay. While 1o re- |1 “;'2‘:‘_:"‘:;‘ ’fl‘::an:;::’_:“;; port has come from the inquisitors, oth: hi and no Intimation is given as to the | Soie” SWNES: Derhaps some Mo the nature of the disclosures, this action | ien some of the “bullet-proof” vests serves to point to substantiation of | ay,u¢ which one gets astonishing re- the accusations. 'ts from tim ime. It is vitally important that this mat- | P e to time. —_———— ter be entirely cleared, and that the enforcement organization on duty in Lloyd George will not speak pub- Washington, as elsewhere, be placed |licly in New York city until after he above suspicion and on a basis of con- | has been heard in other parts of the tinuous efficlency. The violations of |continent. So practiced and popular the law in the District have been, as |an actor on the world stage need not already stated, flagrant and scandal- | have followed the custom of out-of- ous. The eighteenth amendment and |town appearances preceding a metro- the enforcement law have been flouted | politan premier. here with amazing daring. The police, who are only supplementary to the federal enforcement organization, 1 have not been able to handle the situ- ation. Their numbers are limited and, it is charged, their efforts have been in large degree negatived by the atti- tude and actions of some of the gov- ernment agents. e e e Fear lest complete enforcement of | In planning to make Germany one the law may expose persons in high | huge factory, Hugo Stinnes reveals standing to public embarrassment |the fact that he is not content to be should not deter either the federal or |2 captain of industry, but proposes to the local officers from prosecuting [be a commander-in-chief. thoroughly the enforcement of the ————e— law. The main problem, however, i3 | If ho has been @ newspaper reader to locate and suppress the sources of | President Coolidge has in advance supply, the mediums of the traffic. | fairly good idea of what Gov. Smith Bootlegging must be made too hazard- | intends to say to him about the Vol- ous to be practiced. Penalties must be | stead law. applied to the limit of the law. The large profits that are earned from this octions e e axarieatn | shameful business must be SWeptaWRY | 0 o ooiping digcontent and everting {in fines. That is the only way to stop threats of violence. The idea appears the lawbreaking that is shared in by £ b6 woskin + 4 (OMiat; customers. sontin omne, If the trafiic is as open as it would seem to be from all evidences it should not be difficult to bring to court and send to jall those who are now en- gaged in it. Complete honesty, how- ever, 18 necessary on the part of those charged with the enforcement of the law, and that, it would now seem, is to be sought by the government as ‘well as by the local officials. o Denunclation by Mr. Gompers is ikely to make little impression on Mussolinl, who probably does not know much more about the American Federation of Labor than he does about the league of nations. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNESON. Feminine Influence. When women first went on the stage, There was a gentle rumor That plays would soon become the rage Feminine influence tn matters of | Of 4 POUter bamor. public concern has not operated to dis- | 1\ oot they seemed to sufter. courage pugilism. On the contrary, ;v gip10eue and scenes portrayed has brought up a new point of " geomeq gometimes even rougher. etiquette as to whether & true gentle man is under obligations to give up|{ We thought when women came to his seat to a lady at a prize fight. vote ———— ‘We'd soon be less erratic Reminders that Mr. Magnus John-{ When on the world stage scenes we’ son looks a little like Theodore Roose- note velt will not be a great help to the{ Of politics dramatic. new sehator from Minnesota. The |But riots hit the neighborhood. suggestion of comparison is likely to| We get results unpleasant, make criticism exacting rather than | And won't remember, as we should, generous. ‘That there are ladies present. ————esee e — Having opened the mined, Gov. Eusekios M Owe, do not envy great riches,” re- Pinchot is now closing the saloons. marked Senator Sorghum. The ultimate consumer will at least “Why not?” be immediately protected from the| |, n 80 many ceses they give a man insidious attentions of John Barley- the nucleus of & magnificent campalgn coan. fund, and yet by their very presence T SR vent him from taking the benefit Turkey will proclaim itself a repub- | op gy » e 5 lic, and massacres will probably be Pl less frequent. A man who has a vote| Jud Tunkins says is in a position to supplement hi® ap-{ 1tvin® in his town is peals for mercy with a little political pull. one advantage of that it ain’t rich enough to pay a burglar for staying overnight. The traffic situation in the is to be the subject of investigation by a committee of the Senate.under authority of @ resclution adopted at the Iast session, That resolution was offered by Senator Robinson of Arkan. sas, who has long shown. strong in- terest toward improving frafiic condi- tions in the Capital, and the chairman of the committee is Senator Ball of Delaware, who has figured prominent- 1y.in discussions of this subject. There has been a good deal of in- vestigation and much criticlsm of But in Europe a fow Bome business might do In lands where they now seem to need ‘em. Contradicting » Proverb, “¥ou can't get something for noth- ing,” remarked the ready-made philos- opher. “Maybe not,” answered Mr. Dustin Stax; “but I'l say the man who took mv good money in exchange for forged masterpieces came very near i, P ey s ter will go into the matter with thoroughness, and that conclusions will | poker in Crimson Gulch?”’ bereached that will be helpful to pedes- | ~ w1t g kind of,” repiled Chctus Joo. motorists and merchants. | “Sometimes & rough party from Snake Testimony Wwill be taken ‘on everyY{Ridge sits in and gets -suspiciously angle of the problem, and traffic rules | uoky, Wo had tp fix up some kind of of other cities will be considered. Tho {g police regulation o' could X : ~ STAR, D. ¢, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, ia that there has been no trial between mnfiflbut“‘mom That is ! . pin more thay the time limit. Under such Heard & station amd answer to the charge ' future, to it if the number of police assigned plish to trafiic duty were sufficlent to com- |9f ga The dangers of a fireman’s life are | ¢ ‘well understood by the public. In his | tinuo perilous an® which most men cannot |1t would re l x | _ WASHINGTON, BY PAUL V. COLLINS A few days ago thousands of Wash- gtonlans looked into the sky, and if vision of Tennyson, they b | Seemthoces, le twilight, Bhlcar s argosies of ST G vens u 3 ot thR AR Al ng in the N:ltr.ryllnhlll i ‘Without any power to “dip into the they saw soaring over the Capital a monster eater than a transatiantic amship, as graceful as an eagle above its certain prey. Since ~ that visitation, sailing gh the air has been accom- ed by this ZR-1, on one gallon soline per mile. Compure that the two or three tohs of coal per milé required by a steamship to crowd its way through water! hrou; An air-sail around the world can be made b: h $2,260 worth of gasoline, ‘at the retall price at which it is sold in Texas, the ship carrying fifty passengers and forty- hree officers and crew. Sailing con- usly, at the rate which is easy for the f a mile a minute, over plains, mountains and oceans, quire sixteen days twelve hours and forty minutes to circum- navigate the 25,000 miles of the great circle of the globe. ‘The expense of the fifty cannot now be red o officlal estimaes of the an of oper‘llnr such a ship is and she could make more than twe! 1ve Enthusiasts predict that such a ship may travel with the sun, arownd the world in twenty-four hours, but that would be at a speed exceeding 1,000 miles an hour, and experts say that at a velocity of 500 miles the heat pro- duced by friction with the air would burn up the airship. with which the earth is pelted co: tinuously, are usually burned to harmless ashes while passing through the air. Otherwise, humanity and all animal and vegetable life would soon be annihilated by the bombardment. *xx The American Airship Assoclation is planning to put Into passenger service, in 1924, dirigible ships for transcontinental voyages, and soon thereafter will establish around-the- world circuit tours. The Post Office Department will use the airships, next summer and thereafter, for a two-day malil service to England, and also for South America. The u: f such ships in time of war as scoul obvious that it needs no discus: A half dozen could patrol the mid-Atlantic and discover the approach of any threatening fleet, reporting by wire- less its locality to the Navy defend- ing our shores. Exploration voyages to the poles and other “impenetrable” reglons are clearly visaged. * % %% The gas-bag non-rigid balloon was invented in the reign of Charlemagne (742-814 A. D.), but the early bal- loonists were executed as sorcerers. The first practical balloons were made in France in 1783. In 1851 France had a dirigible, with a three- horsepower steam engine, but it could not exceed a speed of six or eight miles an hour—useless in war or peace. In 1884 France produced a| dirigible operated with a storage bat- tery, fourtecn miles an hour. In 1898 Santos Dumont of France made the first oline-propelled dirigible. About t! me time Count von Zeppelin of Germany was building his | first great airship. His earliest ships| casualties from falling walls, smoke |trips a year around the world. | | Extensive Empire Building all met disaster, but later Zeppelins became formidable war engines of destruction. There have been built 126 Zeppeli: Rival German build- ucted twenty-five diri- gible 2 Britain fifteen and France one—total, 166, The Zeppelin principles were secrst until a ship was captured in England and another in France, in spite of efforts of their officers to blow them up. * % % % In the United Btates the general board of the Navy in 1916 recom- mended to Congress the construction of at least one such ship. Agaln in 1916 and in 1917 this recommendation ,'Wwas repeated, and, beginning in 1316.! an effort was made to establish a| Joint Army and Navy board for air- ship construction, but it was a year later before actual plans were begun. This board 1s headed by Admiral Tay- lor and Gen. Squier. A mission was sent to Europe, where our allies sup- plied the investigators with all the information in their possession. About the time our mission arrived in England a new meries of ships wai being designed, based upon the Zep- pelin which had fallen in England, &nd our commission was given the benefit of those designs. In France and Italy the same liberal courtesy was shown to our representatives. The success of our first dirigible built in America, ZR-1 (designed by the bureau of aernautics and built by the Navy and Army combined) is a story of great achlevement above all the ‘special alds received from other nations. While England had the courage to cull her first ship the ‘Mayfly,’ the ZR- s to be known as the , an Indian name meaning *“Daughter of the Stars. 8he is 600 feet long by 90 feet diameter, with a capacity of 2,400,000 cubic feet of gas—hellum belng used because it is non-inflammable. The United States lacked some of the metal alloys used, but our invent- ors have supplied acceptable sub- stitutes. Some of our materials are better than any used in Europe. We have an alloy with a tensile strength of 56,000 pounds per square inch, as tested at the bureau of standards, and a three-sided, latticed girder, in- vented at the bureau of standards, is the lightest and strongest column known. 5 The twenty-four gas bags In the Shenandoah, containing helium gas, are covered with that most imper- vious material known as “goldbeat- er's skin.” This Is a “skin" covering of certaln parts of intestines of cat- tle, and for such an alrship as ZR-1 #t requires hundreds of thousands o attlo to produce enough goldbeater skin. There 1s only one place in America where helium is produced; it is Fort Worth, Tex., which has a’productive capacity of 600,000 cublc feet a month, taking four months to fill the Shen- andoah. . * * ok x England undertook to build for us ZR-2, but it exploded on its try-out Germany s now bullding for us ZR-3. This is not a reparation balloon, but takes the place of two allotted to us but destroyed before delivery by patriotic Germans. It will be de- livered some time this fall. The United States owns some six or eight non-rigid or semi-rigid bal- loons, but according to Mr. Star Truscott, engineer designer of the Navy, they are not in use, “for econ- omy reasons.” Mr. Truscott, to whom this writer is indebted for much of these data, seems to have faith only in the rigid, dirigible type of the class of the Shenandoah. (Copyright, 1923, by P. V. Collins.} of Britain Has Been Carried on by Companies BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Much of the empire building of the British empire has been accomplished, not by the mgency of the govern- ment, or by the state, byt by char- tered companies. It is to the old East India Company that England s in. debted for the acquisition through conquest, purchase and treaty, and, in one word, for the possession of her vast Indian empire. with its popu- lation of more than 300,000,000 and its incalculable wealth. It wae built up through the enterprice of this com- pany, working under a royal char- ter, during nearly two centuries, it by bit and step by step, until, just @ little over six decades ago, after the great Sepoy mutiny, or native in- surrection, its possession and control was taken over by the crown. In the same way the huge Dominion of Canads, greater in area than the United ’ Stat a land of boundle: possibilities and of actnal and poten- tlal wealth, was added to the British empire almost wholly through the instrumentality of the royal char- tered Hudson Bay Company. British Nigeria, with its area of more than half a million square miles and its population of some 20,000,000 native: was added to the British emplire by a chartered cogcern known as the Royal Niger Company, and within the last few weeks the huge tract of territory, extending from the Trans- vaal province to the borders of the Belgl: colony of Kongo, known as Rhodesla, covering an a of 400, 000 square miles, constityting one of the richest regions of the dark con- tinent, and which owe: to the royal chartered compiny o Rhodesia, founded a little over thirty years ago by the late Cecil Rhoder and bearing his name, has just passed quietly from the company into the possession of the crown as a self- governing colony of the British em: pire. odesia’s Great Wealth. Rhodesia is alveady famous for its mineral wealth and for its extraordi- nary agricultural possibilitics. It Is six times the size of England. Save for the payment of about $20,000,000. as representing the value of the pub- lio works and lalllldlntll. the char- tered company will receive no money for the transfer of the north and state, :h!ch now ‘become un- allenated lands and mineral rights— no return, in fact, for the milions of dollars which the stockholders in the invested in the development of the territory. The returns were voluntarily foregone by the stockholders on the ground of tism. They would say to the G Y go shead, wo are in this particul same policy as t adopted by the shareholders in the former Brit South Africs company. Indeed, so great has been the benefit and ad- vantage to Great Britain of th British 4, ?n.m ffl:: empire, ul t=mur|u. and in Tact. : not “Ien't it against the law to play - Siv Huwmphrey Muckworth. Sir Humphrey Mackworth has not remained single very long For, al- though his masterful and enormeusly rich wife, Viscountess Rhondds in rl?t only secured the final f - divorce from him .a.few st cotarisd awother LA ”In- 'h‘: a Miss w] Y did not play a very important role in the existence of his former wife. For she may be sald to have gone her own way from the time of her marriage in 1808, first of all as a militant suffragette, who served her bit in jall for having set fire to a letter box with the object of destroy- ing the mall therein, eventually se- curing her release through a hunger strike, and, after that, as the prin- cipal business k, assoclate of her father, the late Lord Rhondda, in all his vast business enterprises both in Great Britain and on_ this side of the Atlantic. ~Sir Humphrey was never Been with her, never accompanied her in her numerous travels and trips across the Atlantic, was rarely men- tioned by her was treated in such a fashion as to confirm the impression that his wife regarded him as a superfiuity and as a negligible quan- tity who was not worthy of consider- ation; In fact, as a husband who “did not matter. Satisfied with Name. Coming of very humble stock, she was satisfled enough to bear his an- clent and honored name and his,title. and even, by her suffragette activi- tles, to drag them into jail, prior to the death of her father. But when she succeeded to, the latter's vis- sounty, which he recelved during the war, and became Viscountess Rhond- 4a in her own right, she ceased even to have any usc for the name and title of her husband. In fact, at.the time when Lady Rhondda took the ‘nitial step for a divorce, it wa- slaimed that she had only just re- membered her husband-in order to get rid of him. These Initial steps take the form of obtaining & decree from the courts for the restitution of conjugal rights implying that the petitioning wife has been cruelly and basely deserted by her husband and that she yearns ‘or his return, the assumption being, of course, that they have parted com- pany. The whole thing is a mere formality. For the respondent sel- dom, if ever, complies with the decree of restitution of these rights, and his refusal to defer to the dircctions of the court are grounds for the latter's grant of a divorce, when taken in conjunction with his more or less bona fide admission of marital mis- conduct. But it was difficult to re- frain at smiling at the notion of ady Rhondda, the former militant suffragette and the F test coal magnatp in Wales—quite a ‘“super- woman” where business matters were soncegned—ocoming into the limelight as & poor, devot: forlorn wife who bas been left desolate and . heart- broken by the abandonment of her husband, and aeeking the assistance of the law to restore him to her loving arms, . Seventh Baremet of Lime. Sir Humphrey Mackworth is the seventh baronet of his line, head of a very ancient famtly in Derbyshire. which has held the lordship of the Manor of Ashe, {n that shire, ever since the relgn of King Richard II, that is to'say, néarly $00 years. One ose | of Sir Humphrey's ancestors, a name- sake, enjoyed the distinction of en- tombment with great pomp and state u::frmmmur Asbe ’::e of the cipal utensnts o liver Cromwell and ws one of his council. But when Chafles II was restored to the throne In A middle-aged woman, well edu- cated and a great reader, iiving in & Main Street town, was much dist: u; restricted, rather frivolous, lives of her daughter-in-law and the young married women who were her:asso- clates. The formal education :of all these young women had beefi prema~ turely ended by early marriages and many of them were now feeling thelr lack of intellectusl resources. One |day when the daughter-in-law ex- pressed some such consciousness, the mother-in-law, who was not of the kind represented in the joke columne, seized the occasion and suggested |that she form a small study club of her daughter-in-law and her friends. |’rhe offer was eagerly accepted. Then the older woman was very anxious to choose just the right subject of study to begin the - experiment— something really educational and yet not so “highbrow” as to discourage her students at the outset. She de- cided against a course in the devel- opment of English prose fiction, be- cause most of the reading already done by the young women was fic- tion. Finally she selected history as the field for the winter's study, and, because of his popular style, com- bined with thorough knowledge and accuracy, she chose John Fiske as the historian. She also considered that her class might with great beneflt learn from Fiske the interesting beginnings an {development of the history of their own country. So they read and dis- cussed in order Fiske's series of American histories—"The Discovery of America,” *The Beginnings New England,” “Old Virginia and Her Nelghbors,” “The Dutch and Quaker Colonies in America,” “The American Revolution,” and * Critical Period of American History.” Then for des- sert she furnished the class with a list of novels whose backgrounds were some of the historical periods covered by Fiske. The list was as follows: Of the period of the dis- covery of America, J. F. Coopers “Mercedes of Castile” and A. Tourgee’'s “Out of the Sunset Sea”. of the New England colonies, Haw- thorne’s “The Scarlet Letter,” Beulah M. Dix’s “The Making of Christophe: Ferringham” and Amelia Barr’ ‘The s Black Shilling, G. Austin's “Standish of Betty Alden” and “David Daughter”; of the Virginia Vaughan Kester's “John o »” Mary Wilkins' “The Heart's Highway,” and Mary John- ston’s “Prisoners of Hope, and to Hold” and “Audrey”; of the New York colony, Washington Irv- ing's _“Knickerbocker's History of New York” and Amelia Barr's “The House on Cherry Street” and “The Bow of Orange Ribbon”; of the pe- riod_of the American Revolution, F. Cooper's “The Spy,” S. Weir Mit chell’s “Hugh Wynne,” Paul Leicester Ford's “Janice Meredith” and R. W. Chambers' “The Reckoning” and Maid at Arms.” This incident leads the Booklover to inquire whether there may not be among the readers of this column those who would like to have read- ing ists on other subjects. Requests rom indlviduals, and especially from reading clubs, will be welcomed and if found to be of general interest will be answered in this column. * K kK The dangers of family life would seem to be the theme of Gilbert Cannan’s novel, “Round the Corner.” The Rev. Francis Folyat and his wife Martha are the parents of ten healthy children, not one of whom ever amounts to anything, and as the story of their drab family life progresses it becomes obvious that with their heredity and environment they could not possibly amount to anything. The Rev. Francis Folyat himself is a kindly man of high ideals, but hopelessly weak and in- effective. His wife 1s a selfish senti- mentalist. The ample Income with which Mrs. Folyat's dowry and his .Aving supply them at the beginning of thelr married life is gradually diminished by repeated encroach- ments on principal, for the purpose of paying debts, financing futile en- terprises and stralghtening out dis- graceful episodes for their children. The only child who contributes any satisfaction to his parents is the iittle boy who is killed by falling irom a roof and is thereafter ideal- ized and becomes a for the rest of their lives. children straggle through 1dult years and then to middle age, iiscontented, accomplishing nethiag, and disgusted with themselves, eaca other and their parents. Most of them marry and their'marriages are unhappy. Serge, the eldest, is a par- iial exception in thls joyless family picture. After deserting from n:l: Navy and being brought out by hi {father, he develops artistic and phil osophic tendencles and attempts to sring some harmony into the family relations. He himself is careful never <o marry. After over eighty vears of fe, and over fifty as a_ father, the Rev. Francis Folyat finally dies and leaves his old wife sentimentally convincing herself that theirs has been a very happy marriage. * k% % The voting contest for the ten best books of the century now being con- ducted by the Literary Digest Inter- natlonal Book Review 1is arousing much intertst in readers of that ex- cellent monthly magazine. The con- test, which closes November 15, is being participated in by people all over the United States. The com- posite list of ten books compiled from the many lists sent .in will be published in the January issue of the international Book Review. Natu- rally, each reader’s list must be se- lected from the books of the twen- tloth century which he has read, and as presumably no one has read all the books published since 1900, no list, not even the final composite one, will be based on complete knowledge. The Booklover has just sent in his list, which 1s follows: Albert J. Beveridge' ‘Life of John Marshall,” Burton J. Hendrick's “’Life and Letters of Walter H. e, Moneypenny-Bucklo “Life of Ben- jamin Disraell,” H. G. Wells’ S Olllllrnlc of Histo! eties of rfiell win Slosson’s Butler Wi Edith Wharton's John Galsworthy's Forsyte Sag Shella Kaye- Bmith's “Sussex Gorse." PR Twé new books ou Wordsworth represent a philosophical and a per- he i in Their Historical Relations,” by Arthur Beatty, and “Wordsworth in s New Light” by Emile Legouls. The first is one of the University of Wisconsin studies, and the second '"’u-mamw-‘a(mmmu himself and other prominent parlia- mentarians. Whereas, however, the corpses of the lord protector, of Gen. Ireton and of the others were treated with every public indignity, drawn on hurdies to Tyburn, through the muddy. streets, hi to- the gal- Jows there, and then, -after being buried at "':u- foot of the r hcvln":.zt. heads of St. Mar- i, that is to sgy, ‘two houses States) last autumn before several university audiences by M. Legouls, the distingulshed professor of Eng- |ed with sand, bearing the Inscription: | 1ish at the Sorbonne. The object of the first book'is to show that Words- H “To Have | —C. 1 i | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Where was the Bible opened when Presidont Coolidge was Inaug- urated?—N., 0. A. Upon that occasion the Bible was opened without regard for book, chapter or verse, and, apparently, no account was taken of the exact place. rings. Mourning earrings of jet have a large sale. Q. How long does it take to call the roll of the House of Representa~- tives?—N, M. A. The reading clerk of the House says that he can make a roll call in twenty-five minutes. There are 435 Q. What cities sell the most Pull- ‘man tickets?—T, L. W. A. The Pullman company says that ased on receipts for the months of January and 'July, the cities, in or- der, are Chicago, New York, Los cAl:nln 8t. Louis and San Fra co. Q. Why is there no longer Spanish olive oll on the market?—S E. E. A. The Department of Commerce says that there i{s some Spanish oil on the market, but much less than there was during the war. Then, while France and Italy were at war, they exported almost no oil, and Spain seized the market. So much oll was exported that the Spanish people were deprived to a great ex- tent and the Spanish government put &n embargo on the exportation of oil. Gradually some of this product has been admitted to export, but with France and Italy in the market again the Qulnlllr of Spanish oil is rela- tively small, e Q. What is the proper name of the rain crow?—H. B. G. A. The native Brazillan name of the “rain crow" is the ani. The anis inhablt the warmer parts of America and are related to the cuckoo. They are of medium size, about one foot in length, and have a black lustrous lumage, with blue and violet reflec- tions. The tall contains only eight feathers, the smallest number cred- ited to any living bird. Q. Why did Turkish women of the “ancient regime” cover thelr hair?— A. H. D. A. Mohammed commanded them to do so, lest their hair be a temptation to men. Q. Will glass decay or_ corrode if burieg for a long time?—P. M. A. Glass would slowly disintegrate if buried in molst soil. The action on the glass would be due primarily to water and alkall. The disintegrating action would vary with the composi- tion or character of the glass and the conditions that obtained in the soil. ‘This action would probably be ex- tremely slow with any glass and it would probably be centuries before some glasses would be completely disintegrated. Q. How are the amounts determined that are pald on the winning tickets in lhipgl-mntuel system of betting? A. Each horse in a race Is repre- sented by a numbered ticket. As each ticket is taken from the machine it registers automatically at the top of the machine, showing at all times just how many tickets are sold on The bettor can therefore ‘what amount is in the pool and ‘after deducting the 5 per cent (the club's commission) and dividing by the number of tickets sold on his Loree he will know just how much he ltl!l\.dl to win if ‘his horse comes in rat Is it true that jewelry is worn a sign_ of mourning in South America?—J. D. H. A. Jewelry is so worn in most of the South American countries, par- ticularly in Chile and Peru. Mourning Jjewelry consists of bar pins. neek chalns, studs, link buttons and ear- Q. as members of the House, and on each roll call these names have to be called three times, with clerks checking off en printed lists as the members &n- swer to their names. Q. Did Woodrow Wilson pay in- cumflaux while he was President? A. The President of the United { States was exempt from paying in- come tax under the revenue act of ,1917. Under the revenue acts of 1918 and 1921 he was not exempt from the payment of income tax. He is taxed on his income from outside sources as well as on his salary. Q. Where is the largest natural gas field in the world?—O. 8. 8. A The bureau of mines says that the present indications show that the Amarillo, Tex., gas field is the | t in the world. ‘ e Q. Why does the government bor- row money—why not make it as fast s It {8 needed?—F. H. A. The government could not coin money continually without exhaust- ing the supply of gold, without the | security of which paper money would be worthless. All gold offered fs pur- chased and forms the basis of the monetary system of the Unitgd"States. Silver and minor. coins are marely. token cojns. Silver bullion is bought in the open market on competigive bids, in the same way that any gom- modity is bought end sold. -~ . Have any. English barristers bech asked o sit on the Armitean Supreme Court bench?—D. N. B." A. Only twice in the history of the United States Supreme Court has the court asked foreign representative to sit on the bench with the justice: and In both cases it was a lord chief Justice of England—Lord Coleridge and Lord Redding being so honoréd. Q. What countries are Includedin the near east?—C. M. E. i A. The countries included &re Greece, Jugoslavia, Rumania, Egypt. Bulgaria, Persia. ~Albania. Turkey, Abyssinla, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Af- hanistan, Hejaz, Syria, Mesopotamia, alestine. S Q. What state Is credited wifhy hgv- ing the highest per cent of draffed men who passed the physical exam- ination for service in the world war? —E.P. L A. Wyoming s said to have had the highest per cent of physically fit drafted men during the world war. The percentage was 87.; Q. Where . will the scl sun In 1926 be total?—A. A. The Naval Observatory says the eclipse of January 14, 1928, wilk be total in equatorial Africa, in the In- dian ocean and in the East Indles. ipze of the P. Q. How many postmen are there In New York city?—W. H. W. A. There are 3,053 city carriers, 5977 clerks and 1,632 special clerks in the post office of New York city, ¢If you have a question you want answered, send it to The Star In- formation Bureau, Frederio J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitel street. [Inclese £ cents in stamps for return postage.) Suspension of Newspapers The strike of the New York news- paper pressmen, which deprived the people of that municipality of their daily papers for a couple of days and forced curtallment of the size when publication became possible, was sharply denguriced by editors, who found -a' lesson in coutract enforce- ment. in the.action taken by George Berry, presijent of the International unjon. The. leeson *should be brought home - to -all citizens,” the Boston Transpript bolds, “because no mere obstfuctionists .and outlaws : should have the power to paralyze even mo- mentarily an important eection of the American press.. The sober sec- ond thought of American skilled iabor is againSt the exercise of the brute power of labor-union gunmen. Measurably the thought and day-to- day knowledge.-and keen attention ol’l the great city were. atrophied and silent.” Agitators who had no personal in- terest “misled” the strikers, the Bing- hamton Sun feels, and “this strikc business may go on until a day comes when the public itself takes to strik ing back. Then it will not be so one- sided.” It likewise is “obvious” th Springfleld Union holds, “that nothing is so eeriously at stake as the prin- ciple of collective bargaining insisted upon by leading labor officials. If the principle has any value for either em- ployer or employed it lies in the Pprocess of mutual negotiation, mutual agreement and mutual contract and mutual adherence-thereto. This prin- ciple was violated by its most ardent defenders in deflance of superior of- floials, and thus in deflance of the nciples on which labor unionism » based. Capital is not unwilling to accept the principle of collective bar- gaining, but the principle becomes of no use to either side when elther breaks its pledges.”” This opinion re- celves the indorsement of the Albany Knickerbocker Press, which feels it Is “appalling to be brought face to face with the fact that the summary stop- ping of agencies of Information can be enforced by one of the subdivisions of the Industry. It is a situation which cannot long be_tolerated. As the Cincinnati Commercial-Trib- une sees the episode, “the New York newspaper strike teaches a lesson, but it is a hard lesson. It is that without the press the people perish. Because without the newspaper business stag- tes, human intercourse is suspended, Sic Transit Gloria Of All War’s Heroes The great lon on the fleld of Waterloo is reported In danger of collapse. The base upon which It rests is in ruins. The battlefield of more than a cen- tury ago has been forgotten by most people in the rush to the new field of glory. Where Napoleon and ‘Wellington contended does not con- cern the tourists who want to' see where Foch and Hindenburg were making their fame. Ana the lion has lasted much longer than either the Corsican or the Eng- lishman, neither of whom had any other claim upon the attention of the 'world. The poet Shelley sang the requiem of all the glory of might in the plo- ture of a crumbled statue half-cover- “My name is Osymandias, king of king: Look on my works, ye mighty, and LR T 2 N::!:Exzhha‘n%:’hmunn the de gg“all:l;:ololul wreck, boundless ihe Hon of Waterloo, the By o g Telegram. ) lton_of | th foundation toh | Brings Industrial Chaos their means of livelihood. That's ex- actly what suspension of--the daily newspdpers in any large city must of necessity bring to- pass.” ‘It was an outlaw_strike, of course, the Chatta- nooga Times says, and “simply a man- ifestation of the lawless spirit which seems to be taking hold of men. We have got to hasten back to' that state of mind that compels submission to constituted authority, or else the revo- lutionaries are going to get a foothold :hey never could get with the peaple of the country In their right minds. We will be in a bad way when agreements, understandings and good faith between men may be broken and set at naught on the order of selfish, deslgning and unauthorized leaders.” The world YTas come.to take'the modern newspaper for granted and the “labor to produce-the daily news- naper never enters the thought of the man who surveys the finished product” the Grand Rapids Herald in its turn explaine, but *ence-let newspaner publication cease and tho public is hopelessly lost. Newspaners are necessary to modern life. Per- hape it is- journalistically beneficial +hat the point should be brought im- nressively home to New York. The ~onvenlences of modern life are most appreciated when temporarily taken away.” This view is approved by the Milwaukee ~Sentine! because “publicity acts as a safety valve and the public rests assured that nothing important’ will escape public dis- {cusslon. The moment publicity blocked , public apprehension aroused. 'The safety of the publia lies in the fact trat the forum of the press is open to any one." It might have been worse, at that, the Nashville Banner suggests. but “fortunately New York city is not far from Newark, - Philadelphia, Boston and other cities which, to a considerable extent, could supply the New York public with the news of the day.” e most valuable of the assets of tre New York papers the Syracuse Herald carefully explains, “is the right to print every da.' in the year. They have been virtu. .y robbed of this right in a spirit of wantonness by a local organization irresponsive to the law and acting. moreover, in deflance of the rules and regulations of their national organi-~ | zation. It s unnecessary to say t there s something radically wrong in a legal and economic system | which permits a comparatively small band of headstrong men, acting in de- flance of all restraints. even from their own national unton. to inflict grave injuries upon an institution for public service Itke the metropolitan press. Embrace-Proof Cigars Boon to Married Men Thomas R. Marshall 1s knowh wherever tobacco fIs worshiped as the chlef advoocate of a goéd 5-cent cigar, asserting that it is the crying need of the country. Hoosiers take special pride in the achievement of Mr, Marshall in thus putting his fin- ger on the outstanding desiratum of the time, and hope that it will de- velop into more than a consummation devoutly to be wished. With all due respect to him. however, he only ut- tered a half-truth, and it has remained for comparatively obscure professors of chemistry to confer the greatest boon on the smoking fraternity. Two members of the Lehigh Unl. versity faculty, after a year of re- search, have apparently succeeded in perfecting an unbreakable cigar. ‘The discovery will prove a great boon to the married man. The lover {will cheerfully sacrifice his cigars in |the rapture of a fond embrace, but the less romantic married man may cool the ardor of his morning fare- well If he finds that it is usually ac. coma!nlerl by the destruction of his smoke: family tiit may have sors. The wrapper may crumble, by the filler will remain intact. one fear remains. The application of tend to retard the b dieriioeg ;r:xolpflm n ed out by Mr.