Evening Star Newspaper, October 8, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR, .\ With Sunday Morning Edition. "WASHINGZON, O 6. MONDAY October 8, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Eveniig Bfar Newwpaper Company Chrieago European Oftice: The Bvening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, 1s dellvered by carciers within the city &t 60 cents per month ¥ 021 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 20 cents M} 70nth. Or- ders may be sent by mail or tele@one Main 5000, . Collection is made by carriers at «nd of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginis. Daily and Sunda: g Daily only. Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. Not many years ago the only repre- sentatives of America’s armed forces which Washingtenians sew, except at inguguration times, were sallors from the navy yard, artillery from “the ar- senal” and the marines. Last week the east coast expedition- ary force of marines, stationed at Quantico, entered Washington after thirty-six days of march, camp and maneuvers. These soldiers of sea and land had covered several hundred miles of road across the coastal plaip, through the pledmont, over the Blue ridge and outlying spurs and ridges and through a long stretch of the Shenandoah valley. With the cadets of the Virginia Military Institute they gave a colorful and bloodless repre- sentation of the battle of Newmarket. Marching home they crossed many of the battleflelds of the civil war, Arriving at Washington they passed in review before the President, being the first troops officially reviewed by President Coolidge. A little later they went, to the stadium. There was a The Associated Press is exclusively entitlen | mighty throng, @ thunder of cheering to the upe for republication of all news dit patches eredited to it or not otherwise credite¢ l and a roar of bands. The Marine foot in this paper and also the local news pub-, )] team saw and conquered that of 1ished herein. All rights of publication of specinl dispatchies berein are also reserved. e Dry Enforcement Conferences. Almost three years after the consti- tutignal amendment and the Volstead act became effective the National Cap- ital is to be the stage for two impor- tant conferences to determine what steps must be taken to bring about better enforcement of the anti-liquor laws. The first is to be a “conference on _citizenship” in the interest of pro- hibition, suggested by two sections: of the Federal Council of Churches, which opens next Saturday. One week later the second conference is to b# held, called by President Coolidge. At that conference the governors of al the states are to meet the Chief Execs- tive to discuss ways and means of promoting the enforcement of the law. In a measure, the mere holding of these national conferences so long af- ter the country “went dry” is a sad commentary on the manner in walch the law has been enforced. But in a greater measure they are a warning to the lawbreakers that the gcvern- ment, state and federal, is prejaring to exert greater eiforts than ever be- fore to put down “rum-running” and bootlegging. The “wets” are likely to find within a short time that the senti- ment developed for a modification of the liquor laws within the last veas has reached its high-water mark, and that the tide is setting the other way. There are signs pointing to this, even in the so-called wet states today 5 1f these conferences are to be of any benefit, how in ths matter of law enforcement something practical must emanate from them. One sug- gestion that strongly appeals as e measure of preventing bootlegging is the substitution of jail sentences for fines in all cases. A fine of §$400 or $500—and’ those are among the large fines imposed—rmeans little to a rum dealer whose profits run into the tens of thousands of dollars each vear. But @ jail sentence is a different thing. It leaves its mark that is not easily erased. Last week Gov. Pinchot of Pennsyl- wania and the representatives of the Department of Justice ordered 1,300 saloons in Philadelphia to close. Re- ports as to the effectiveness of this drive vary, but all declare that many of the saloons have continued in operation, in them, and the counsel for the Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association—save the mark—has been quoted as saying that only four had closed, and the others had decided to “sit tight.” phia, ems, piesents a real test case of the effectiveness of the pro- hibition law. 0- Tecently Attorney General Daugh- | g ojy announced that sinceMhe nation- ! rcuin his strength In full after that wide prohibition law became effective | constant, cruel drain upon his energies. ) more than 90,000 cases involv- | g5 present situation may be one of n of the liquor law had{ine Qirect results of this long-borne in 19 tng viola been terminated, and that there had been T that fines had twenty- three nivnths totaled more than 3,000 wea Further, the humber of con- victions has steadily increased. The |studied its temper and institutions at ! close range earlier in his public career. dry forces, it appears, have been ac- tive. But it also appears that the sen- tences imposed have not succeeded in checking the flow of liquor. Should Great Britain adopt prohibi- and there are signs that even- - may—it will be interesting & na- tion carries out the law. The punish- ment of law violators in Great Brit- afn is fur swifter than in the United States, due to the fact that the court procedure is quicker, and that the endless delays and technicalities found in Am n courts are absent. ———— Mendon of Elihu Root as the suc- cessor of Ambassador Harvey is in accordunce with a pretty well estab- lished American custom. Whenever a maan is needed ‘in the adjustment of foreign relationships Mr. Root enjoys the honor of immediate consideration. The suggestion as to his years also serves, us usual, to call attention to! hie valuable .experience. ——————— If impounding gutos becomes a practice the dog catchers may be called on to help out by using the net on some of the smaller varieties of ] fivver. The Marines. The Marine Corps added several sprigs of laurel to its trophies last week, and-all Washington applauded. Ancient Georgetown University, which most old Washington people still call Georgetown College, salutes the con- quering heroes. Tlie Capital keeps a warm place in its affections for the marlnes. They have been among us 50 long that memory runneth not to the contrary. The marine barracks has been a Jandmark here since Washington was @ quiet, shady village with streets of dust or mud, according to the weather. Southeast Washington would not seem the same if by some great change the varracks should be removed. Time hes added new buildings and modern improvements to the familiar square, ‘but the changes have been gradual, and the walled rectangle, prerced by guarded gates, has been known to our people for about @ century. Next to the navy yard it is the outstanding o4 ypstanding feature cf a large part @t the sbutheast quarter of the fact, practically all of | Philadel- | | ! “drawing powers” of Mr. Lloyd Geogre | performance was arranged, {him, but by others who were com | tions. | upon the vital energies. Though Mr. , Lioyd George has not for some months Georgetown, 14 to 3. The banners of tae corps waved triumphantly. At cast two of the days of last week will be entered with red ink on the annals 9t the corps. Lloyd George Weakens. David Lloyd George is handicapped on the very outset of his American tour by the warmth of his reception. Greeted in New York by an enormous throng, and a regiment of interview- ers, his first day there crowded on & minute-by-minute schédule with recep- tions, hurried to Montreal, where he was welcomed by enthusiastic crowds, and stmilarly rushed through a con- gested program of events, he has now balked at the arrangements that have been made for him. He is. tired. His voice has failed him. There is danger that he may not be able to meet all his lecturé engagements. This is not a surprising condition. David Lloyd George is one of the most interesting men in public life today. People are eager to sce him, to hear him and perhaps to shake his hand. Just so they were interested to see Foch. But Foch spoke a foreign lan- guage, with but little English, and, turthermore, he was fn this country a fairly long time, as Lloyd Georse, who is to be here only a few weeks, with his fluent command of English, is sure to be understood whenever he speaks. : 1t no provision was made in the ar- rangements for his tour for the stress of keen public interest and the de- mands for special engagements, the were sadly underrated. Whoever planned his expedition elther over- estimated his strength or under- reckoned his attractiveness. ‘When President Harding's trip west was planned, that which wasso trag- jcally closed by hig death in San Fran- | cisco, a schedule of almost continuous { not by missioned to plan the itinerary. Too much wgs provided for in his pro- gram. The President was subjected to too continuous and too severe a strain. The sturdiest of men could notihave stood it without suffering. | While there is great stimulus in public appreciation and applause. no | man can endure long the intense pres- | sure of an unbroken series of reccp- These contacts draw heavily been in office, he has only recently left a post of the weightiest respon- 1 1 i { {gince the exploitation of turtle serum sibility. For several vears he was stel to probably the most intense | Dressure that was ever experienced by | ian offictal. He may never again draft upon his.resources. —————————— Lloyd George will find much to in- terest him in America, and, may per- haps regret that he could not have ——— e One of the greatest disappointments { as an alleged medicine is Doc Cuno’s announcement of a monarchy re- story Another earthquake, this one in the vicinity of Quebec, calls attention to the fact that the earth is having a shake-up geologically as well as politi- cally. No doubt Mr. George Harvey found world affairs interesting, but for real excitement give him a United States political campaign. 1 For some time Germany’s govern- ment has consisted largely of a pro- longed cabinet crisis. ' Democratic Convention City. i New York city appears to be going after the democratic national conven- tion in earnest. The movement to bring the convention to the greater city was started by a New York morn- ing newspaper “on its own,” and for some time the other newspapers al- lowed it to run with the ball, but now they are taking the proposition seri- ously and concurring in the effort. Ap) committee of several hundred persons | of prominence has been appointed, and an organization is being perfected all down the line. The New Yorkers arise in their dig- nity and ask, “Why should Chicago and St, Louls have a perpetual lien on the two national conventions?” and then go on to point out that New York has not entertained a national conven- tion in the memory of this genera- tion. The wjuestion is well taken and the observation pertinent. There are several reasons why the democrats might dg well to take their convention to New York, one of them being the stimulating effect it would have upon party interest and enthusiasm. ' New York state, in 1924, will not be a cinch for either party, but will have to be fought for, according to present prospects. The democrats have a big stake in the game, and their hand is likely to be strengthened by the hold- ing 9t a.convention within radio. hear- | ing of the faithful. New York in June ———————— A series of questions have been pro- pounded to Thomas A. Edison con- cerning the mysteries of this life and the future. While his information is not conclusive, it must be admitted that he faces a questionnaire with the, fortitude of a man who has not hesi- | tated to puzzle the minds of others. ——————————— Magnus Johnson of Minnesota has an aggressive personality when aroused. Just now he is disposed to be good-natured. Possibly it might be a discreet thing for the senators to keep him that way. even at the sacri- fice of some tempting opportunities for hazing. —_——— Gov. Pinchot has been courageous in assuming prominentresponsibilities. | His friends are now wondering whether what they regarded as the political spotlight may not prove to be the hot end of the poker. g - —_——— Science asserts that there is enough cval in China to last the world several thousand years. Once the Chinese realize the power this fact places in their hands they may become formida- ble. Those who have seen Bergdoll since he bit off a pursuer's thumb say he is very nervous. He should try vege- tarianism. Paris is not sure, that England's diplomatists are as great as her war- riors. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON True Generosity. H Dear Uncle Sam is generous with people near and far. The nations recognize him as a philan- throplc star. He sends his contributions, which are easily obtained, . To people who are needy, purse is never drained. and his But when his own expenses for con-| sideration rise, He looks the budget over with dis- criminating eyes l And says, “We must not undertake to move with too much haste. We want to keep on giving—so be careful not to waste." ! Housing Problem. “Do you have any trouble with the housing problem?” “More than most ‘citizens of this re- public,” answered Senator Sorghum. “Of course, my favorite location is 1 Washington, D. C. T don’t have diffi- {culty with the landlords, but I am obliged to keep wondering whether the voters out home will continue to permit me to reside here. Jud Tunkins says hard work isn't always consplcuous. A_foot ball player isn't near as easy to identify from a distance as a cheer leader. ,Nationsl Obstinacies. Theé lecturer who goes abroad A hearty welcome finds. Folks listen closely and applaud, Yet seldom change their minds. Fame’s Turbulence. “Why are divorces so frequent?” “We all love attention,” answered Miss Cayenne, “and many people at- tract little attention except when they are being married or separated.” Rough Economics. ' “Doesn’t this poker game promote idleness in Crimson Guich?” “Not as a rule,” answered Cactus Joe. “A few of the boys manage to do the winning. Thb rest of us have to work extra hard for enough to sit in the game.” “De world may owe you a livin!, son,” sald Uncle Eben, “but ’tain’ no uge o' your tryin’ to act haughty lke | Forbes. {van 'THE EVENING would furnish.a delightful climate for the thousands of visitors who would bo attracted there. ‘And many of them would stop over in Washington en route. ‘Willlam J. Bryan appegrs to be the chiet opponent of the plan, fearing that it conceals the dire purpose of the wets to influence the convention in favor of a wine-and-beer plank in the platform. The drys can afford to take a chance on that, though, for it is the present belief of the leaders that there will' be no such plank in any circumstances. ——————— The Highest Air Speed. . Expectations that the world speed records would be smashed at the St. Louls air meet, raised by recent per- formances at Mineola, were fully real- ized Saturday, when in the major event of the tournament, the race for the Pulitzer trophy over the course of 124.27 miles, the winner made an average speed of 243.67 miles an hour. This is nearly forty miles an hour faster than the mark set by Lieut, Maughan in last year's race for the same trophy. Lieut. A. J. Williams of the naval air station in this city, who now holds the new world's record, must, however, expect it to be goon ex- ceeded. For recent flights have been made even in excess of his extraordl- nary performance, but without official recording. Brig. Gen. Mitchell had confidently predicted the attainment of a 250-mile speed, and that mark may any day be achieved. These tremendous speeds in the air are valuable in the development of air- plane stability. A plane that malkes 200 miles an hour is subjected to in- finitely more strain than one that makes 100 miles. While these races, developing the phenomenal speeds that were accomplished in the St. Louis meet, do not last long, every such test is of importance in showing the limits of endurance. Recently Cur- tiss, the airplane maker, declared that the practical limit of speed had been reached. Probably this is true in point of actual practical flying apart from racing. But, nevertheless, men will continue to seek higher and higher marks. Curtiss declares that he can build a plane to go so fast that it will consume itself in flames as a result of the friction with the air. If the 250-mile mark is a safe one it is likely to become the standard of endeavor. WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC One by one the popular myths about Calvin Coolidge are passing into the discard. Along comes now an afflant, Wwho, being duly sworn, doth to this observer solemnly affirm that the President was. the recognised college wit of Amherst, and author of some of its merriest quips and pranks. : * K% Ellen M. Stone, veteran missionary teacher and herolne of a celebrated kidnaping eplsode which nearly plunged us into war with Turkey, is now «_resident of Washington. She was recently the victim of &n experi- ence which she describes as mortify- ing in the extreme. In the vast crush at the open-air services at the Na- tlonal Cathedral, Miss Stone fainted and required the tender first-aid at- tentions of the Red Cross. Her chagrin, upon recovering conscious- ness, was inexpressible. For years, Miss Stone explained, 8he had endured the terrors and vicissitudes of life in the near east, only. to .succumb to a mere crowd In Washington! Mace, donian bandits captured Miss Stone, and she wus ransomed “for her welght in gold” by popular eubscription in the United States. , * ok X % The three young men from Oxford now debating with Americdn univer- sity students seem likely-to- explode an anclent theory——namely, that the British lack wit. In their recent duel with George Washington. University the Britons had a complete monopoly of the wit. They scored. their best points with subtle shafts of humor or irony, which invariably plunged the house into merriment. Nothing dur- ing the entire evening was so de- liclous as the Oxonian reminder that “when the world was created all the animals were given talls, but men were allowed to form thelr own con- clusions.” There was another marked distinction in the forensic style of the Britishers and the Americans. Our men were eloquent, flowery and ora- torfcal. The visitors seldom rais their volces, and consistently pre ferred reason to fervor. L David Lioyd George, during his trek across Canada, 1s bound to hear a good deal about the possibility of eventual “annexation” of the Do- minfon to the United States. The late Franklin K. Lane told this observer that he was once approached by a group of Canadian “annexatlonists” and invited to lead & movement in favor of an amalgamation of Canada with the®United States. Lane, himself a native of the Dominio: ted the Secretary of Egyptian Legation Is a Distinguished Explorer BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. King Fuad's appointment of Ahmed Bey Hassanein, the well known ex- plorer, to the first secretaryship and office of counselor or of the new Bgyp- tian legation in the United States may interfere with the projected American lecture tour of Mrs. Rosita For his nomination to Wash- ington cannot fail to recall to mind his controversy with her about thelr joint visit to Kafra, the headquarters of the great Mosiem religious sect of the Senussi in the Libyan desert, and which had never, up to the time of thelr visit in 1920-21, been seen by any European traveler, still less by a European woman. When they re- turned to civilization she was the heroine of the hour and was called upon to glve all sorts of mewspaper interviews, public addresses, to write magazine articles and to publish a widely read book about this plece of exploration. She took all the credit to herself and only occasionally re- ferred to Ahmed Hassanein as her intefpreter and secretary; that Is to | say, u clever servant of the ordinary dragoman kind. a blend between & courler and & domestic, Now, while Ahmed Hussanein was perfectly content to leave to her the principal glory and kudos of the af- fair, his resentment was aroused by the rather contemptuous way in which she referred to him as a mere unimpertant member of her suite. and his friends, notably Dr. C. G. Hogarth, director of the Ashmoleon Museum at Oxford and probably the greatest living authority on every- thing connected with Arabian discov- ery, lore and knowledge of the people, took up his defense. Dr. Hogarth is well known on this slde of the Atlan- tle and -has recelved many Americ: nonors for his discoveries and e plorations in Asia Minor and the Lib- desert, including the Drexel medal of the University of Pennsyl- vania. Dr. Hogarth cxlled attention to the fact that Ahmed Hassanein was no mere dragoman, but a bev of the first class, or high-caste Egyptian government officlal, with a rank equivalent to that of colonel in the army; that he was the son of a very celebrated Moslem divine; that he had taken his degree and high honors at Oxford, where he was a Balliol man; that during the great war he had been atttachei. with the rank of colonel, to the staff of the British commander-in-chief in Egypt and was & member of the British headquarters mess. Furthermore, during the war he had been intrusted on several oc- casions, by the British government, With difficult and delicate missions, in one instance to the grand master of the Order of the Senussi at Kufra, which had important and, to England, very advantageous bearing upon the ultimate issue of the great war. * % * % At Dr. Hogarth's request and press- {ng instance Ahmed Bey Hussanein laid before Sir Frank Younghusband, the then president of the Royal Geo- raphical "Society, and before the principal governors of that body, proofs that the expedition to Kufra was his idea and not hers, that the caravan which carried the expedi- tion was lent, or given, to him by one ! of the Senussi emirs, or princes, with v cost whatéver to Mrs. Forbes and fhat this favor and courtesy was due to the friendship which he, Ahmed Bey, had formed with the emir in question on the occasion of his pre- Vious visit to the grand master of the Senussi at Kufra, in his capacity as special envoy of the British gov- ernment. = Moreover, he showed Sir Frank Younghusband and his fellow divectors of the Royal Geogrsphical Soclety that in all the passports and hatlve credentials carried by the ex- Pedition. including lettees of recom- mendation from King Felsal of Meso- potamla and from his father, King Hugsein of the Hedjaz, who reigns at/ Mecca—that Is to say, the principal living members of the family of the founder of I is_name, that s, the name of Ahmed Bey, figures in all of them before that of Mrs. Forbes. which would scarcely have been the Case had he been ‘merely the drago- man, the courler and the sort of up- pér servant of Mrs. Forbe: Rosita Forbes, who was formerly Miss Rosita Torr of Swinderlee, in Lincolnshire,- and _the divorced wife of Col. Ronald Forbes of Rothenay Castle, Banfshire, and who is now married to Lieut. Col. McGrath of the war -office, Whitehall, came off dis- tinetly sccond best in the controversy. Which would never have taken place had she not exasperated Ahmed Bey and his friends, in EEypt as well as in, solentific circles in England, by ln% uent references to him and then o In such terms as to convey the idea that he was a mere native serv- ant, instead of an officer halding the rank of colonel in the Anglo-. ptian army, in the tian civil serv~ ice, and as a man who had STAR, 'WASHINGTON, D. C. OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE Pproposal as the height of impractical politics. He said he doubted if 10 Der cent of the Canadian people would | Exvor l:ch,l scheme and bme’vodt i e just as unpopular in the United States. Sz * k% % Col. Henry Bayard-McCoy, who re- contly died in the Philippines, was the man who hauled down the Span- ish flag from the walls of Manild when Dewey took the citadel in 1898. A8 a souvenir of that historic occa- slon Dewey permitted the flag to re- main in McCoy's possession. McCoy was a colonel of Colorado volunteers. * Kk K Woodrow Wilson is lending a hand to the democratic women's clubs. At the request of Marion Bannister, ed- itor of the Fortnightly Bulletin, published by the democratic national committee, Mr. Wilson has autograph- ed two coples of his recent brochure. “The Road Away From Revolution.” One copy will be given to the woman gending in the largest number of new subscriptions to_the Bulletin and the other to the Democratic Women's Club which reports the largest num- ber of subscribers. * %k ¥ K The “front-porch” cabinet of Marion, 1920, "which Mr. Harding took into his administration en blog, is almost completely broken up with the retire- ment of Ambassadors Harvey and Child. Together with George Suther- land, appointed to the United States Supreme Court, Harvey and Child were Mr. Harding’s principai coadju- tors in the home campaign. The pure- ly personal appointees of the late President, it is noted in Washington, are dropping off one by one. George B. Christian, jr., was the first to re- tiré. Then came Fred E. Scobey, di- rector of the mint; later, Dr. Sawyer, and now Harvey and Child. “Dick" Crissinger. governor of the Federal Reserve Board, {s almost the only one of the Harding old guard now left in the federal service. * kK % Mme. Labat, American wife of one of the military attaches of the French embassy, 1s back from Italy with a priceless anecdote of a sister Yankee tourist. She was a schoolmarm from the middle west, “seeing Rome” with a party and a guide. In the crypt of & famous basilica they were shown a bas-relief which, the cloerone explain- cd, contained the likenesses of Chris- topher Columbus and Amerigo Ves- uccl. Between them was a ship. ufin;lh thlnll;:;a lm; Mayflower,” piped e e lady from th, - sippt valiey. I Ras (Copyright, prior to her visit to Kufra. won in- ternational fame as a fearless and | | resourceful explorer. | | * k% x Since then, Mrs. Rosita Who in aplte of her second marringe | continues to call herself by the name | of her first husband, has sought the | limelight through a recent visit to | the famous bandlt Ralsuli, who on | {one occaston kidnaped and held for | ransom the American consular agent in Morocco, and concerning whom| Prestdent Roosevelt issued his mem- orable order, “Raisuli, alive or dead.” the incident being closed with the brigand's release of his captives without the payment of the ransom which he demanded. Mrs. Forbes' stay with him was attended by no risk, was of no geographical or po- litical service, but was a mere piece | of journalistic enterprise | Ahmed Bey Hassanetn, on the other hand, has, since then, won additfonal | laurels by undertaking a very re- markable ‘trip of exploration through a portion of the Libyan desert which had never been traversed by any sci- _entific explorer, from Kyfra due south | to eastern Wadal and then via EI Obeld to the Nile; that is to say, & trip of over 2,000 miles of absolute | terra incognita. The discoveries which | {he made and the services which he rendered to various branches of sci- | ence during this recent trip are re- arded in London nnd Paris H of inestimabte value. S * ok ¥ ¥ Indeed, with his wonderful store of | experience as an explorer, as a &ol- die1, as a diplomat and as a man of distinguished birth, and of Oxford| {culture and erudition blended* with | orlental lore of the highest order, Ahmed Bey Hassinein, the counselor of the new Egyptian legation in the Untted States, bids falr to prove a great acquisition to Washington so- clety. While Ahmed Bey had, as I have pointed out, preceded Mrs. | Forbes by visiting the mysterious city of Kufra four years before he undertook the trip with her in 1920, she is entitled.to the credit of having been the first Eurepean explorer to reach that goal. Many had attempted it, only to be murdered by the desert tribes or to be turned back, robbed of | everything they possessed. The one who most nearly achieved success was the German explorer Rholfs, who was captured when within a hundred miles of the clty. and suffered several subsequent vears of cruel slavery, sharing the labors of a buillock in pushing in eternal cireles around and around & pole by means ‘of which | motive power was furnished to the ancient mills, grinding the millet seed. He nevér completely recovered from the torture which he then en- dured, = perpetually driven by the pointed goad of the herdsman em- ploved to keep the bullocks going. Indeed, when finally released by means of costly negotiations with native tribes and returned to civili- zation without ever having reached his aim, namely, Kufra, he was al- most totally blind, and his once pow- erful physique completely wrecked. In a Few Words. Bad manners have been quitc as fruitful a source of international misunderstanding as bad conduct. "CARTHUR TWING HADLEY. Forbes, | i 1 I ! » 1 believe that the mere admission of Ireland is worth to the British Empire all that the league has cost e —-PROF. A. F. POLLARD. That modern woman in expanding her horizon has neglected her home is untrue, More science and more thought has -gone Into child-care in ithe last century than in all past his- tory put together. —BEATRICE FORBES-ROBERTSON HALE. . ‘When Mussolini bombarded Corfu he shot up the moribund league of nations. The Italian ‘cannon. dra- matically demonstrated to the world what was before known. —SENATOR HIRAM JOHNSON. I find everywhere an appfehension, a sort of premonition, that if we do not chapge our laws and mend our ways, we, ourselves, are speedily rid- ing to the hardest fall in the history ot clvilization. GENE STRATTON PORTER. L — The number of Yankee “dry” prop have descended upon Britain of late is well in excess of any e quota. One of these days. we may moved to institute an Ellis island of our own. —M. AKELY. {leader of the radical section of that 1 Lo In ‘MONDAY, OCTOBER 8 1923. EAST 1IS- EAST BY FRANK H. HEDGES . Misguided zeal to.protect Japan from the dangers of soclallym has brought a captain of; the Toklo gen- darmerie ‘before a ‘court-martial and has caused a change in' the com- mander of the martial-law zone in the earthquake area of Tokio and Yokohama. Sakal Osugi, snarchist and long considered by the Japanese government as the most dangerous radical in Japan, was shot by the captain of gendarmes a few days after the disaster. Osugl was making a public address at the time and is charged with having alded Koreans In the distribution of inflammatory literature against the government in the disorder that followed the trag- edy. 2 The cabinet acted at once, arrest- ing the captain and removing tho general in command from his post. The present ministry realizes that it is open to the charge of being bureau- cratlc, and undoubtedly its prompt rotallation for the kiliing of Osugi has strengthened It with the mors Iiberal elements {n the empire. Soclallsm, or “dangerous thoughts, as the word reads when translated into the Japanese language, s one of the bogeys of which the goverr- ment and conservatives of Japan have long been fearful. Drastic measures to combat its spread and to stamp it out entirely have taken. A number of socialists have paid with their lives for the beliefs they held and preached, while hun- dreds have suffered prison terms. Osugi himself had been Imprisoned more. than once. Only about a year ako he_secretly fled from -Japan, go- ing to France, where-he .was arrested and held for deportation. * ok kK Sociallst theories have been known to Japan for nearly & half century, but have never obtalned a firm grip there. The outbreak of the Russo- Japanese war and the intense wave of nationalism that passed over the country disrupted the socialist party, although a few of its members de- cried the war and even went %0 far as to shake hands with Russian so- clalists at Amsterdam. In 1910 eleven soclallsts were arrested on the charge of plotting to overthrow the govern- | ment, were secretly tried and exe- cuted. The tremendous growth of industrialism that came to Japan during the world war gave socialism a new impetus, but most of the labor unrest in that country has no con- nection with the teaching of Marx and Lentn. Osugl looked more nearly like the popular misconception of how a bol- shevik should look than did any other Japanese radical I have ever seen. The first time I talked to him he sat passively smoking, smiling and answering auestions I put to him Only his eves were active, but the life In them as they glittered or grew bright told the tale of a strong will | and a strenuous personality. He was consideref an anarchist by most of the soclalists of Japan, wvho refused to co-operate with him in his schemes, advocating more peaceful measures The little group that followed him blindly might better be compared with_ the Indust Workers of the World than with any other or- ganization in America. Before the Japan League of Socialists was broken up by the police, he was the organization. “I dislfke the title of the magazine I edit” he told me, *‘the Labor Movement,’ but 1 fear if 1 used some word other than ‘labor’ it would. be suppressed. Of course, I endeavor to appeal to the laborer, to reach him with my doctrines, and the thousand subscribers that I have are prineipak 1y the e¢oal miners in the ln\l(heml island. The laborer of anun must determine his own future.”- i * X ¥ % Osugl spoke in English. He was a graduate of the Forelgn Language School of Toklo, and each time that he had been imprisoned had taken up the study of a new language. He appeared at home both In his native costume and in the coat and trousers of the west The first day that I saw him he was wearing a light gray sult of American clothes and a soft silk shirt. Unlike most of his coun- trymen. his thick black hair was not plastered sleekly to his head. bUt Was | .,rioys wars, including the world [yqpr rumpled back as if he were in-the habit of running his fingers through it. A wiry lttle mustache and goatee gave additional notes of ferocity to his appearance, a ferocity whioh he af- fected and in which he seemed to delight. ‘Although opposed to a revolution in Japan such as Russia_experienced. Osugi sought the adoption of the soviet system in his native land with no essential changes in the features ! of that system. “We should have} o mmunism.” he said, “but we do not | want or, need a SLTONg central govern- ment. Japan should be divided into a number of units based on economic fines, each with the power to tax and largely govern itself. A com- Mmittee, with as little power as pos- slble, would act as the central go ernment. We should not even have an army unless compelied to by some outside power. The chief trouble With Russia todas is that Moscow has teo much and the provincial soviets little power. We could unile the whole far east, I am certain. Korea would be given autonomy, but she would voluntarily choose to belong to a loose federa- tion. The scheme would spread to China, but it would be necessary to form everal federations. there b cause of the vastness of the country. Present nationalistic lines would be abolished and new units established, units determined solely by economic factors, Unnecessary industries would be destroyed and the men would go back to the farms.” * o K ¥ The real Introduction of soctalism into Japan, according to Osugi, came with the rice riots of 1918. Before then, socialist theories were little 1ore than theories and were confined to & limited number, he said. “Each d'sturbance is a step forward,” he added, “since it sets the people to thinking. The time for a general revolution {s approaching. The catise of the revolution may be opposition to the imperial family; T do not know. “There is & movement under way now among the bureaucrats and capitalists to compromise with us by offering u plan for state soclallam, retaining the imperial family as the supreme power In the land. " This movement is being fostered by cer- tain among the higher officers of the army and navy, especially those who have been abroad and consider them- selves ‘modernized.’ Of course, T op- pose it and shall do all in my power 16 prevent it. It is unlikely to prove puccessful, because it i essential that they obtain the support of the labor- {ng element and I belleve that to be impossible. I am now carrying on a ampalgn of propaganda among the laborers in order to capture them and use them as a Weapon against any compromise with state soclalism. “Very few laborers in Japan have any class consciousness, nor do they know what they want. They merely realize that they are restless and dis- satisfied with conditions as they exist. Fortunately, most of the labor leaders are now themselves laborers and not outside theorists as was formerly the case. They are not primarily com- munists or syndicalists, but advocates of ‘revolutionary laborism." Communism Osugl regarded as a gift from the outside, from Russ but anarchism, he says, sprang int life at the time when,.Kotokd and ten other radicals were secretly tried and executed on the charge of plot- g against the life of the emperor. ‘I Was in prison at the time,” he sald, with a grim little smile, “or else 1, too, would hg been accused, tried .m, e “prison _saved my . ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Does the Constitution of the United Btates provide for calling a sesalon of Congress in case of im- poachment of a President?—S. M. M. A. There is no special provision in the Constitution of the United States! for calling a sessfon of Congress for the purpose of impeaching the President. Section 3 of article If provides that the President may “on extraordinary occasions convene both houses or either of them, and in case ot disagreement between them with respect to the time of adjournment, he may adjourn them until such time as he shall think proper.” Q. I have a tract of eighty acres of land. How shall I go about having it set aside as a forest reserve?— A. The forest service say® that tracts smaller .than 100,000 acres in area are not considered of sufficlent size for this purpo Q. Are there -more playwrights than there were twenty-five years ago?—A. R. S. A. Dayton Hamilton says that at the end of the nineteenth century our American playwrights could be counted on the fingers of both hands. Today there are 195 members of the Dramatists' Guild of the Authors' League of America, each of whom has had at least one play produced professionally, and this body does not, by any means, inciude all the men and women in this country who are actually earning their living by writing for. the stage. Q. What was the “parson’s 2 _9 yna D cause A. This term was applied epikode in Virginia history. The English king annulled a statute of the Virginia burgesses which com- pelled the clergy to accept the de- preciated currency of the colony in payment of their annual salaries in leu of 16,000 pounds -of tobacco as theretofore. Tobacco was then sell- ing at a high price, to_an Q. How long are college vaca- tions in England?—W. R. _A. In an article contrastinz Ene- lish and American universities, Wil- um A. Robson says: “Between fiv ind six months of the year are vaca- tion in most English universities and | these long periods provide the under- graduate with what are in many cases the most valuable of all his opportunities for the process of in- tellectual assimilation and develop. ment. He is expected to work during | vacation.” Q. Are Jewish people apt to take drugs’—T. A. C. A. Charles B. Towns says that few Jews, exrcept In the underworld knowingly acquire the habit of tak- ing drugs He, himself, has met with only four cases of drug-taking | among Hebrew: \ Q. What is the record in royalties received for a poem?—L. E. R. A. “An Old Sweetheart of Mine"” earned royalties for James Whitcomb Riley amounting to $500 for each word. This is sald to be the most profit- able bit of writing ever done. Q. How old should a collie pup! be to be weaned’—D. N. A. Al puppies should be weaned at the age of about six weeks, and a start to prepare them for leaving the mother should be made when they have reached the age of about three weeks. At this time give them | a little warm milk, which may be | { mies Q. Who was the poorest President of the United States?’ D A. Tt would be impossible to ob tain official _information on _this polnt. It is currently reported, how- ever, that James Monroe, while mats- taining the presidential office in suf- ficiently good style, retired from oimce completely 4 Q. What was the price of passage from the United States to Kngland by the first steam vessels’—M. E. C. A. The passenger rate quoted in the Royal William, one of the earliest transatlantic steam vessels, which safled from New York, August 4, 1828, was “$140 (for which wine and all stores of -all kjnds will be farrished).” This vessel also carried letters for 25 cents a single sheet, or $1 an ounce. Q. Why is Filipino spelied with an f instead of ph?—E. J. A. The Philippine Islands were named originally “Isles Filipinas” in bonor of Philip II of Spain. When this name became translated into English it was spelled with a “ph” instead of an “L" The term “Fili- pino,” as applied to the inhabitants, has stiil been retained in its Spanish form. & Q. How many of the automobile tourists camp out over night, and iwhat per cent stop at hotels?—J. E.C. A. Since it is not possible to com- pute the number of tourists, an esti- n be made. Itis thought 25 per cent of the tourists camp out, while 75 per cent seek hotel shelter at night. Q. Did Cleopatra’s son ever reign in Egypt?—J. P. B. A. Ptolemy XVI, called Caesarion, son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar, reigned as co-regent with his mother, trom 47 to 30 B. C. Q. When is a person considered an illiterate?>—H. J. K. . A. The bureau of education defines an illiterate as one ten years of age or over unable to read or write in any language. Q. Are soiled er dollars dered or burned?- . A. Paper money which has become soiled ig laundered by the govern- ment and placed In circulation again. After it has become too soiled and torn for use it is destroved by the government in a macerator. laun- Q. How does the number\of domes- ticated animals compare with the number of people in-the world?—J. S. A. It is estimated that there is ome sheep and one head of cattle for each five inhabitants of the eartl, and one head of swine for each twelve per- sons. Q. In cribbage, why does a player say “go” when he cannot play a card under 317—P. S A. “Go” is merely the first word of a sentence which is implied="Go on and play, for I cannot.” Q. When are hams at their best?— ) A. A well cured ham is usually in perfection when one year ol% G Q. What countries have the short- est and tallest people in the .worid?— G A. Africa has both. The Akka pyg- are the shortest, and the Wa- huma of Ruanda. -East Africa, the tallest people in the world. (If you have @ question you want answered, send it to The Star In- formation Burean, Frederic J. Has- kin. director, 1220 Neorth Capitol street. The only charge for this exchanged for soup and stale bread en they a month old service is 2 cents in stamps for re- turn post Morley’s Record Rests More On Letters Than Statesm It is as an author more than a, statesman that the career of the late | Lord Morley is reviewed by the many | American editors who sincerely | mourn his passing. That he was at | all times a pacifist is accepted, of course. But it is agreed he provoked no controversies through his personal attitude either before or after .the| war. that his country participated in after he became prominent in public | life “Few people think of him as \'L\.‘ count Morley of Blackburn,” the Brooklyn Eagle. “The peerage con- terred no distinction upon him. Of} the great Gladstonian group that feil apart over the Irish home rule issue | the solitary surviver now is Lord Rosebery. Clear, incisive and force- ful as a speaker, an accomplished parliamentarian, sagacious, firm and successful in the discharge of his cabinet duties, it is certain that John} Morley will be longer remembered for his services ta letters than for} his achievements in public life. In whatever direction he turned his pen his subject was illuminated by pro- found knowledge and was presented in unexcelied purity and b it Tie way, ndeed, “a veteran in the war for human Pprogres: asserts tlfe Youngstown Vindleator, and, as the| Canton News recalls it, “men llke Gladstone and Morley stood out as glants in their day, unafraid, scholar- ly. studious and al e Such men held the rudder straight fin storm-swept _seas.” in .ddi_lkzn. as he Omaha World-Herald points out, perhaps nothing describes a true liberal more than that he, while dis- agreeing with others, can appreciate another's views at the same time that he dissents from them. * K Kk Replying to the Springfield Re- publican’s statement that his retire- ment from the British cabinet in 1914 “must be credited to his pacifist ideals,” the Des Moines Register sug- gests “it cannot be said of Lord Mor- ley that he was not a practical states- man. Why then was he so deter- mined not to vote Britain into the war? Of course, Britain's part in the war had been arranged long before and there was only one thing to do when the war broke. But it will likely appear when his letters are published that Lord Morley had con- sistently fought all the preliminary mmitments. Might not Britain and everybody else In Europe have been better off today if Lord Morley had been listened to?” 3 “Morley was a genuine liberal Chicago Daily News points out, “a his definition of liberalism was ‘re- spect for human personality and human_ freedom.’ Popular govern- ment depends for its success upon disinterested, sober, sincere and en- lightened leadership. Such lcader- ship Morley long exemplified” 1] was, the Boston Transcript adds, man jncapable of faction and_desti- tute of all the devices of the trimmer. But he did have a most useful public career, and the fact that his influence deeply and beneficlally affected the policy of Britain toward Ireland con- stitutes a_tribute to the British po- litical system which still has at least occasional use for men of intellect and high political morality.” * ko k In the “pageantry of empire,” in- sists the Richmond News Leader, .viscount Morley will be remembered as the radical who announced to the ways san the nd | part, anship, primted English word, probahly will live in his in ad- pire of t Lord Morle books when he is’ forgotten ministration.” His departure from the ministry as a “protest” in 1914 was lamentable. 1s the Syracuse Herald sees it, but ardonable “in the retrospect as & splay of stalwart courage and inm- tensity of sincere convietion at & time when he himself must have rec- ogfnized only t00 clearly the unpopu- ¢ of such a course. John Morley was a great man—great in intellect, in aehievement and in character. It would take -far more thau the cir- cumstances ,of his retirement from public life and- his comparative ob- scurity in the twilight of his later years to cloud the recollection of his uperb ltera abors and his long. honorable record ih the British' com- mons and administration.” “He was neither “a propagandist por prose- Iytizer,”. aserts the _Indlanapolis News. hough he was a man of great intellectual powers and fine literary taste and scholarship, he will | bé remembered- chie by his moral qualities—honesty, integrity. sincer- ity, love of trut houid be said that he had no whatever with Kipling imp he showed when he op ver war. Mr. Morley of his country and, indeed, of mankind, for he was a lover of liberty. * K K X e also was a “statesman of which this country.can furnish no counter- assérts the Baltimore Sun “lie was a politicul,"a religious and an economic rtadical, although ih view of the meaning currently given to that word it will be hard to think of him asx such. Imaging a present- day radics who would oppuse the eight-hour day and stake his political future on the action. Hls own writ- ings, the critical essays, the blogra- phies and the exceptionally interest- ing auteblography. are marked by wide knowledge and, despite the fact that he was theoretically & doubter and a desponder, a warm ang gracious spirit. Truly England has_ Jost a_great man.” . As the Spring- field News analyzes the situatiod; “England has fuced vexatious proli- lems since Gladstone died and Morley: went into seclusion. -Has the ‘new blood’ fired the British governmeng with the same fire as the ‘old blood'? The Columbus Dispatch feels it 1s 4 be regretted that he “failed o seo h way clear to approval of the action hiscountry in entering into the wap after the vigorous efforts of Eai Grey and others had failed to eecur® from Berlin the delay and mnvcrenE Dby which the conflict might have beef averted. But it is to be set down 1 fhe lasting credit of Morley that he did not let his difference of opiniop lead him Into any action or ‘into the utterance of any words which could be turned to the aid of the enemy."” * et Oklahoma’s Brave Governor. H From the Boston Transcript. The American-people have good cause to be grateful to the Governor of Okla- homa. Where. many other governoss have shivered in eilence before the p: litical threats of the Ku Klux Klad: Gov. Walton has gone out to meet thi cowardly crew H iR Just an Incident: From the Kansag City Star. It is comforting to learn that the falr at Corfu is now tormed an in dent. When tho Italian shells we falling in the town the inbabitants under the mistaken impression that- was war. : ——— e house of lords that if it did not pas: the bill for the reform of parliament the king would create sufficient peers to insure its passage; in the aniials on empire Morley will rank as one £ S e Too Many Dictators. From the Boston Transeripb. 7 At the present rate of increase of dictators all over the world it beg! )k _as .if.soon -thers_was't le FLEROEYSDEOFS 10 §O SYOUBS ‘ . 7