Evening Star Newspaper, October 17, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, " With Sundey Morning Edifion. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . ..October 17, 1923 - THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busifiees Office, 11¢h 8¢. and Pennsyiventa Ave. New York Office: 110" East 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Turopean Of 8 Regent St., London, England. The Eveniog Star, with the Sundny morsing. edition, is Gelivered by carriers within the city | At.60 conts pet month: daily only, 40 cents per month: Sunday euly, 20 conts per mest. O 060, ™ Uoulceelog 1s mede b7 careiers st 1he end of each meutb. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mary*and and Virginia. Dalily and Sunday..l yr“:g 40; 1 mo., T0¢ Daily only. .1 ¥v., $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Bunday enly. I 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo.. 202 All Other States. ily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 85 e, S cece..lyr, $3.005 1 mo., 25¢ Da D Sunday oni Mémber of the Associated Press. Tio Aewoeiated Press fa ox o tue “use foe ropubii Patches credited 1o it or not otherwise credited in thls paper end niso the local nowe pub- Lished herein. ~ All rights of publication of wpecial dispatches berein are also resersed. e S To Carry On for Enforcement. The citizenship conference on law enforcoment, which concluded its ses- sions herc Monday, Is to “carry on. Tt has proposed a nation-wide yatgn of education, con intercat of end the law, tion law, wh against than land. It conferences, similar in plan to the Washington conference, be conducted to aid in the work of stirring the peo- plo to the need of obedience to the law. The citizenship conference will have done a great work if it aids in arous- ing the people to a realization of what continued disrespect for the law of the Jand entails, and to thelr awn respon- sibility in the matter, The federal government take the lead in the matter of enforcing the prohibition laws. It should take the lead. But it is as idle to expect the federal government to take the whole sibility of “enforcing the pro- ition law as it would be to expect it to take the whole responsibility of enforcing the laws against larceny or murder. It can clean house in Washington, the federal District and National Capital. and it should do 1t can better distribute the feders cam- pasticularly the prohibi *h today is more sinned any .other law of tie can Tespo law-enforcement officers so as to aid, | und. perhaps for a time lead, in the enforcement .of the law in the recog- nized “wet” areas of the country. Under our dual form of government it is not only idle to talk of the federal rment assuming the whole re- sponsibility of the enforcement of the prohibition laws, but it would be an economic blunder of the first degree. For the federal government to take over the work of enforcement through- out the country would entall the em- ployment of en army of hundreds of thousands of agents. They would have to be paid for from the federal Treas- ury, out of money collected in federal taxes running into the hundreds of millions of dollars. The creation of such a force would be a duplication of forces already existing paid for by the people out of money raised by state taxation, the state and municipal of ficers of the law and police. result in doubling the amount of taxes paid by the people. The citizenship conference was a srest step-in the right direction of summoning the people of the country and of the states to their duty in this wmatter of law enforcement. To just such an extent as the people take the matter up will there be success. ‘he President's conference with the governors on law enforcement is set for Saturday. The keynote of that gathering undoubtedly will be co- operation. Any attempt on the part of any one to fix the blame for lack enforcement or the responsibility for enforcement on ration or state would be a great mistake. e food shons are being raided in Ber- 1 mo., 60c | reaching to ail | 1t would | I I i nunities, sreat and small, in the | sspect for the Constitution as proposed, too, that regional | ! | | 1 i | northeast { Washington several | been erected.” and Pennsylvania avenue the meager funds appropriated for maintenance the library cannot be op-. erated on full time every day and evening and on holidays. The library has lonx planned to establish branches in various parts of the ciiy and that plan has not been carried out, but some progress has been made, A branch in southeast Washifigton was opened in December, 1922, and statis- tics show. that thousands of readers’| are using it who used no library. be- fore. Certain provisions have been made for a branch in Mourit Pleasant, and ‘one may be opened tbere at the beginning of 1925. It is planned to erect branch library = buildings, in Washington, ~southwest Washington, Ceorgetown and the Dupont Circle nelghborhood ~when funds become available. One of the points of usefulness of the Washing- tol Publie Library has been the in- stallation of branch libraries in pub- lic school buildings, but extension of | Pennsylvania rallroad, he called to @ mostiinformiug axtic this work s retarded by lack of | money. ——————t—— e New Public Buildings. Plans are shaping and efforts are concentrating toward constructing at public buildings which the government needs. Discus- sion of the proposal seems nearly to have run its course. A number of de- ¥ | partments are seriously handicapped for lack of space, and grievously handi- capped for lack of proper space in whiclf to carry on thelr work. At a late meeting of the President and his cabinet the President asked for opinions on this subject. and he was. told that one or two departments are housed in twenty to thirty build- ngs scattered over the city, that some of these buildings are dilapidated, un- safe and insanitary, and that they operate as a great pull-back on effi- ciency. These matters have been gone over time and again in official report and public discussion. President Harding was favorably in- terested in the plan to provide the de- partments with adequate buildings. and President Coolidge is convinced of the need for a number of new pub- ic buildings, and it is announced that he “will endeavor to obtain from Con- gress a continuing appropriation of from $3,000,000 to $3,000,000 a vear until the neceseary buildings have government to proceed at one time with the construction of three to five bulldings. It has been a g0od many years since the land between 14th and 15th streets and the Mall was taken over by the govern- ment to afford sites for public build- ings, the need for which had long been feit. There is warrant for the conviction that the President favors; the plan of the Fine Arts Commission for erecting the proposed buildings in those squares. The plan of the Fine Arts Commis- sion calls for the constru. of buildings “magnificent in architecture and general aspect,” in harmony with the general run of our public build- ings. The sense of the commission and of the public is that we should not erect factory or commercial ypes of public buildings. That is a style of architecture into which the government has lately fallen in sev- eral instances because appropriations for buildings of monumental architec- ture could not be had from Congress. | Erection of appropriate public build- ings in the squares indicated would be the beginning in the work of mak- ing over the scuth side of the Avenus !from the foot of Capitol Hill to the Treasury. That is a Capital improve ment which. has been almost univer sally approved, and which has been before Congress at various times in the past forty years. ————e Among many tributes to President Coolidge the highest is paid by Gov. Pinchot, who believes him capable of divectly enforcing prohibition despite the difficulties experienced by so many others less hampered by urgent re- sponsibilities in numercus other direc- | tions. —————————— Ferdinund, former King of Bul- garia, flees from imaginary enemies. Nn. The fallacy of the theory that an g A king in that part of the world con- ebundance of paper money means easy times has been proved, but the demon- tracts habits of thought that time can- not efface. He is like ‘the old fire en- stration has involved cruel experience. { gine horse that wants to run whenever ————— Go prohibition on a big national scale, which will include Philadelphia as an Pinchot believes in enforeing | D he hears anything that sounds like a —_————————— The only solace to be found in con- ncident without holding the spotlight | nection with the fact that automobile en it. e By studying conditions in Europe a ktatesman on this continent can ob- serve a- nnmber of things it would be destrable for no government to do. e e Far from being envious of a dic- tator, President Ebert would probably €hake hands with him and wish him well. ‘Washington Public Library. Press summaries of the annual re- port of the librarian of the Washing- ton Free Public Library have been vead by all persons in the District and wudjoining sections of two states who Tave interest in books and education. Dr. Bowerman presents many en- coutaging facts and some that are not, but discouragement if felt at all &hould be borne with the thought that it will probably pass. Washington ha$ more books than any other city in the United States. It may be that there are more books here in govern- ment librarie8 than in London, Paris or Rome, and Washington’s book hoard may not only be measured in numbers but in all the other ways by which book collections may be judged. Yet Washington's public library fa- ¢llities are below those of many American cities. The teasoh is that the government libraries are not free pub- lic eirculating libraries. The free virculation needs of the Capital are met ‘as nearly as can be with the funds available by the Washington Public Library and its statistics of tooks called and carried home are impressive. Its cost of operation di- vided by the number of books served or by the number of patrons is lower than many free public libraries in the United States. Its administration is satisfactory to that large part of our population which uses it. As the i brarian points cut, the library staff is “desperately. iusufficlent,” and with l | q_ | i acciden®s are increasing in number is in noting that they are not in full proportion to the increase in the num- ber, of vehicles. There have been such things as snowstorms fn October. The hope is permitted that conditions have changed in the climate as well as in matters pertaining to the price of coal. The communistic borer from within is about as popular with the A. F. of L. as the boll weevil i with the cot- ton growers. Fire From Barreled Trash. Washington has just observed Fire- Prevention week, with pubdlic dem- onstrations and city-wide appeals to take every possible precaution against wasteful combustion. There were par- tidular pleas for the cleaning up of premises, the removal of trash and materials making for fires. It would seem that there is no excuse for in- attention to this matter of business and domestic houseleeping. et ac- cording to the District fire marshal a fire that last night destroyed property to the value of about $10,000 in the general market section criginated in a barrel of trash, possibly feathers. This fire, fortunately, was confined to the initial premises, but the conditions in the neighborhood are such that it might readily have spread to involva a tremendous loss. And all from a barrel of trash! This trash to which the fire depart- ient officials ascribe the origin of the fire may have accuniulated during the day, so that it «could not well be removed at the close of business. But it should have been kept in a fire- proof can, as all trash should be kept, all waste that may ignite. Wooden containers are sources of danger. They invite fires. Yet they are used constantly in various bisiness estab- lishments, although the first principles This would enable the | office | 1 ! THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO of*fire preventiom @emand . their Te- covers. % ? If all ‘tresh were removed or de- stroyed daily and the qvernight ac- cuniulations kept in eovered fireproof containers the fire losses in our eities would be greatly reduced. This lesson is being painfully learned at' tremen- dous cost. It is strange that public demonstrations; such as those of Fire- Prevention week; do not hasten more rapidly the process:of education. President Coolidge Aots. fare in the matter of lowering the cost of coal and preventing profiteer- ing, siving cqfort to the country by the assurance that he will do all in his power to protect the consume:. In the course of an interview yesterday with Samuel Rea, president of the that official’s attention the complaints jagainst the coal freight rates, and { made a direct appeal to him to use his { influence in the direction of possibly { bringing about & voluntary reduction. 'Preddem Coolidge pointed out that the public feels the discrimination in lower rates on coal intended for export than on the same coal, from perhaps the identical mine and carried over the same road, to a domestic consignee. If the roads can carry at a profit at a lower rate coal going abroad, the citizen is entitled to feel that the roads migit give the domestic user some of the benefits of a reduction. It is cal- culated to rile the bystander to sce a train of ¢oalladen cars pufing its way toward Canada and earrying the coal for a less freight rate than he is called upon to pay, for the freizht cnters into the cost of the contents of his bin when it is stored away. President Coolidge will be given credit for the action which he took in having the Federal Trade Commission start an inquiry into complaints which had come to him of alleged unfair practices by certain wholesale dealers in coal and operators. Every step taken in connection with keeping down the cost of coal to the consumer will be appreciated by the public, ———— A favorite New York opera singer announces that after a six-month stay in his native Italy be is broke. A six- montb stay in America ought to rem- edy that situation. Uncle Sam does not originate much music, but he pays ! well for the best. —— Renewed activities of the Japanese voleano Mihara create the fear that the efforts to cheer up may be hin- dered by apprehensions that the worst is yet to come. The people of Nippon have need of all the fortitude for { Which they are famous. i | ————— 1t is stated by Magnus Johnson that he is not ready to say what America {ought to do with reference to affairs in Europe. If be can produce the de- red information a little patience will | Le well rewarded. Give him time. —————— History repeats itself in forms eof | prophecy as well as recorded events. It | is confidently asserted that if there is {any next war it will undoubtedly be | the last one. —_— Every organization is liable to need reorganization at one ‘time or another. {On reviewing the fascisti Mussolini | finds that some of the black shirts need mending. L ' Last year's coal pri are being de- manded. There is no hope of going lvack to the prices of a comparatively | few years before. i ——— After a close study of the soviet gov- ernment statesmen at first anxious to recognize it are likely to favor cutting its acquaintance entirely. ————— SHOOTING STARS BY. PH:LANDER JOHNSON Self-Consideration. 1 help reform, as best 1 can, This world we're journeying throus? I like to tell the other man Of things he ought to do. i T often think that by this plan Improvements we may view. If I convince the other man Of things he ought to do. T quite forget my list to scan Of cares that rise anew. I'm busy with the other man And things he ought to do { If each his own defects would scan, Joys would not be so few, And none would tell the other man Of things he ought to do. Too Much te Expect. “You are & man of courtesy. “I try to be,” answered Senator Borghum. “What would you do if a woman were to be the opposing candidate?” *“You've got to draw the line some- where. I'd give up my seat to a lady in a street car, but not in the United States Senat Jud Tunkins says we've gotten over some of our old troubles, even though we have no new ones. Nobody is afrald of @ boy on a bicycle any more. Modern Emprovements. The mother sang in days agone A cradle song. ©Oh, that was long ago. The phonograph she now turns on And trots along . To see the movie show. Moderate Allowance. “She is two-faced!” “No harm in that,” “replied Miss Cayenne. “With the aid of cosmetics one may have quite a number of faces.” Aveiding Further Complications. “Are you expecting the government ‘to do something for the farmer?” “J dunno's I am,” replied Farmer Corntossel. “I don't expect much speed from the government, and it uses up. about all the patience I've got waitin” fur rain ’ “If coal keeps growin’ in value,” 'said Uncle Bben, “I *specks de furnace man'll have-to charge more to cover lde expense of gettin’ hisself bonded.” Prosident Coolidge is manifesting | sustained interest in the public wel. | i| IN TOPAY’S SPOTLIGHT- BY PAUL V. COLLINS President Cleveland anneunced, at one time, that he had "Cougress on his hands” Congress is comtinually crying that it has the Supreme €ourt on its back. How shall the court be taught its proper subservience to the “will ef the people,* as personiied in the will ot Congress? That question has two outstanding answers—one hy Senator William H. Borah, the other by Sen- jator Robert M. La Follette. The two replies do net eeincide, but that onty adds to the seriousness of the crisis which the senators: “view . with alarm.” Thése frightening senatorial glimpses are discussed by Mr. Charles Warren, { former assistant attorney gencral, in in a recent tssue of the Saturday Evening Post It would be audacious to attempt to teadd another tint” to -his colorful {analysis of these sematorial yagaries, jbut there are sidelights which also ihave interest. % % 3 Both senators are concerned that. sometimes, a majority of one justice of the Supreme Court has upket laws which have been passed by the com- bined wisdom of both branches of Congress and signed by the President of the United States. Radicals have denounced such “five-to-four” deci- stons .as “oft-recurring scandals,” en- dangering the freedom of the peopl Senator Boral introduced a bill last February requiring that seven out of | 5 i Rouncing apy act of CONZTeSS UNCON- | Chapta? Puriament supreme stitutiopal. Such a law would recOR- | cxcept against popular revolution- nize thaf, cven them, the ~Supreme|th. only real exprossion of popular Court might sometimes prove ils|rights, "if invaded by parliament. supremacy—and Semator La Follictte ) krom parliament descends authoriry will have nonme of that to the people and thelr institution The Rorah bill failed to pass, and | Not so in the United Stat From Senator La Folletto announces that Deaiile: Akecunds ower teatiliten he would amend the Conmstitution 50 |within defined lince. to the Congress, as ta provide: 3 the courts and the Executive. Shall ¢1) That no_ inferior judge shall|tnat order be reversed? Then way tho court, in case.the Borah bill is passed. Majority rule.is the founda- tion of the republic. Senator La. Follette wauld over- turn the cardital theary of our three- part governmenmt, so equitably coun- terposted. A wholly new method of amending: the Comstitution would be adopted. [ K W K - There is a fundamental diffgrenc between the institutions of govern- ment of the United States and the ®overnment of any other nation, past or present. Here, all power originites in the peeple, from whom it is as- signed, in trust and fer eertain pur- poses, to the people’s representatives legislative, judicial and.executive. Back part of tlre government answer. fto the people, and each an agent | of the people, not only in its own activities, but in checking the activ ities of the other two. The lczie-| lature may impesch the Supreme Court, or fhe. Exeeutive. if found usurping powers. The Exeentive may | veto the acts of the legistature. while | tthe Supreme Court may annul the un- only. have the ultimate power. England has no written cobstitu- tion and her parllament is supreme, its only lnterpreter of precedents. Tennyson characterizes HEngland's laws: “The lawless science of our law, That codeless wmyriad of precedent, That wilderness of single stances. Yet even England's courts do set aside municipal laws found incon- sistent with precedent and annul {rect reference to authorized acts of cither. The peipie, | Politics at Large BY N. O, MESSEMGER Thespoliticians are still buzsing over the political gesture witich Gov. Pin- chot Is considared to haves made when he “put up” to President Ceolidge the enforcement of the matienal prohi- bition laws and’ its possible relation to the Pennsylvapia executiive’s politi- cal attitude. towan} the presidential nomination. It is thought that the possible dleparaging eftect of the gov- ernor's action was nullified by the comeback. of' former Gov. Henry Al- Ien of Kansas the ndxt day. when he taunted Gow. Pinchotwith failure to close up the 1,300 open saloons in Philadelphia.. President Coolidge will have oppor- tunity to have his say, & he wants to, when he meets the confepence of governors next Seturday, buk the be- lief in political circles is ithgt he will Tet the incident ride and wnake no di- it. * kK York is in the throks of a po- litical campaign of unususl intensity for an “off year,” made sl by Tam- many's attempt to wrest the lower house. of the state legislatyre from control of the republicanp. Political leaders of national character arc to be sent into the state by} both par- ties, Gov. Smith and Senfator Cope- and are making speeches) every day for the democrats, whifle Senator Wadsworth and Assistarg Secretary of the Navy Rooscvell ake the tep- liners of the republican campaigners. It probable that senadors will be ldrafted from other states in the clos- Yimg week of the campaizm. { In New York city the cgmpaign ienlivened by William R. Heturst ing Tammany .in his chirac 'way, “attacking = Boss Murphy | 1 New is cartoons in the ‘highest style of the art of lampooning a polikical adver- sary. * d.k ok Senator Copeland’ of New York was set aside a law of Congress on the |the revolution of ‘76 ground that it is unconstitutional. A (2) That if the Supreme Court as- sumes (0 decide any law unconstitu- | Tnder the institutions of France ional, or, by interpretation, under- |, . tional, or, by interpretation. under: | and Italy (and st mose. of the old D e e shntery actara. | German empire), no security- exists !slan of f‘hnl-rel hlh? Congress may, | for the individual against the tyranny Y re-enacting the law, nullify th : . action of the court, Thereafter, the| of Officeholders. A decree from a functionary, however, subordinate, even invading the rights of home, can- not be resisted in any ordinary court law would remain in full force and of law. The functionary is not an- jeffect, precisely the same as if the i ourt had never declared it to be um- ! swerable to the people, but only to ! his superior. There ik no court to re | constitutional, ¥k %o S ygarsen; callsgge ention he | vjew the invastons of an officeholder fact that both senators are defending | into the rights of a citizen, except in only the acts of Congress—not state | the administrative court, madec up of legislation — against the Supreme | OMclals of the udminletration. There Court. istration, contrelled by the He also cites that in the stration, cven to the power of dis- stace the Constitution was adopted ' charge. And there is another set of there have been only nine “five-to- | cour has about as much power over {four” decisions, overturnlng acts of | with man. Even the administration |Congress, and’ - during that same | courts dealing with man's reltions period there have been omly forty- | the acts of officials as a President's ope other decisions holding acts of | cabinet has over the decistans of a Congress unconstitutional. Some were Chief Executive—advisory only. by unanimous vote, some with two or | Our Constitution recognizes that a three dissenters. Of this number, not | citizen is the menarch, from whom more than twelve decisions have becn | comes whatever authority is held by publicly criticized. an officenoler. Senator Berah would FaEee curtall that authority of the court, Senator La F i e IR ollette would transfer it tyranny of a minority of * Mr. bility Warren of to the Congress (Copyright, 1923, by Paul V. Callins.) A. F. of L. Lauded by Press For Blows at Radicalism That the American Federation of La- | conservation of child life.”" That also bor. in its Portland convention “made | is in part the. opinion of the Portiand history " 15 conceded by editors who | Journal, which insists *if it served no have discussed its procecdings. Its ac- | other of its many good ends, Organ- {tion in expelling ~communists. voUNg | zed labor, as an educational influ- down the one big union proposal. de-| cnce, would be @ mest wholesoms claring “labor wants no third parts.” | ugency. The pinched faces and the and in opposing child labor are “head- | sunken checks of a millton American lights on the road to sknity,” It is de- | children tofling at machines ol clared, and throughout the entirc ro- | size the volce of labor in its demand !ceedlnw editors see a note of eri- | for an adequate child labor law. The ;canism that is “helpful. | five-to-four decision of the highest | Recalling that the attempt to form a | court, by which such a iaw was set labor party in this country “is not Dew,” | aside after the legislative and exect- [ The Star pointed out that “no effort has | tive branches sanctioned it. is a sum- I beent made to check the activities of the | MONS to the best thought and best politically inclined in taking part in the | f";"’“" in America to right the political batties of the country through | WIORES i the regular party organizations. The| t is lwh elief the Kansas City action in Portland is a healthful sign.” | Journal that “labor reflects credit It is “unjust. however.” as the New |UPOR itself and inspires public con- York Times sees it. to “look at the fed- | fidence every time it repudiates radi- eration’s course as merely politic and | falism, whether of the domestie or clever and the result of experience. The | (T el&n 1 rand,” while the Spokane economic power of orzanized labor | SPokesman-Review suggests “it is would be destroycd by its injectign into | $irAn&e that any workingman, par- politics. The almost pitiable feebleness | ticularly those who have family obli- lof the separatists in the convention is|&ations, should not discern that the | raditional proof. if any was needed. of | Wwage earners of this country consti- he wisdom and patriotism of the fed- | tute the very class that cannot throw i cration. Its leaders are among the S3Nd and rocks into the complicated { shrewdest managers of politicians and | 30d delicate Industrial, social and {their views are often wise and states- | Dolitical machine upon which all are { manlike, however much we may regret | depenflent for their prosperity and, some of thair proposals.” Amnu{\,-.g‘im‘"d, their very existence. this declaration the Chicago Daily Newa OT8anized labor “‘conducting {recalls “it ix no new experience for |27d operating coal mines” the Indian- | Samuel Gompers and his supporters to | 4Polis News feels it must coatinue i combat and defeat radicalism. The ma- | COnServative, because “‘these enter- 1 jority of the delegates who attend these prises would not even be considered o e atinan are coderate and | If unions were the class-conscious or- | {evel-headed and undoubtedly they truly | Elisations that some are secking to | repcaent the Tank and e of the or. | make them.* Because this Is the fact ateerl Iabior Tauvement: the St. Paul Pioneer-Press feels “the . = | stand of the federation for our sys- | * % x |tem of government and its institu- { *'Playing down' the radical ele- | tions is traditional and in pleasant b contrast” with such class-consci {ment has heen the keynote of the|geclarations. This Is also very much ium\'en(iol\fi the Newark Evening|the view of the Canton News, which, jxen insists, and “it is a healthy sign | iz &3:“2&;.‘.‘:“"’#", “the best pro- 2 | tec an labor can ha: {of the times. Like it or not. sporadic | ediicated chilaren of the hboringvr;e:'i {radicalism, in ome form or another, Where sinister influences are at work bas played too large a role in organ- | rl::;ze !it:ulg”l;e_ncm:ged. Ul‘tger the . i el i ing the workin; 1zed labor since the war. Recogni- | §IIZ2 06 JODINE e workingman tion of this ugly fact undoubtedly is | templating the enthrallment of ihe Iback of the vigor with which the [Text generation by promoting igno- {miners' union lately hurried to the Tance country, through the press, with an attack ~upon radicalism. It was echoed in the report of the executive committee of the federation, and has ibeen harped upon in various kevs {during the proceedings. Labor’s best course is to face itself in the mirror of the present and Profit by the re- flection—of its fanlts as well as its virtmes.” It is, however, the opinion of the New York Post that “rejec- tion of the labor party idea was due uot so much to conservatism as to realism.” while the Chattanooga Times' feels “intelligent labor leaders are quite as wise to the impossibility of a farmer-labor combination as are the farm leaders™ So far as the Reading Tribune is concerned, it sees 1ittle excuse for the “cry agalnst radi- calism” by either Solicitor General Beck, Attorney General Daugherty or the federation, although “all of this chatter makes good reading to the man who fears for his safety. It! arouses some anxieties in a gullibie public. But it does not do any more than make the gooseflesh rise. The shouts against the reds may- elevate the men behind the labor movement temporarily, but they will eventually work to their discredit when the peo- Ple underatand that it has been a cry of ‘wolf” “There are those within the ranks of organized labor who consider Mr. Gompers and his followers as being too conservative, even . non-progres- sive,” the El Paso Herald points out, “and there have been desertions to the 1. W. W..by these dissatisfied ele- ments. - But Mr. Gompers is backed copse and glade. by a substantial and numerically jarge cloment of sane and conserva- | . Crescent meon s sinking below Gesiro that the federation shall con-| the pointed firs 1 BY ARCHIBALD HOPKINS, {1t begins with gentle dropping, like tiny elfin hoofs Galloping hither and thither over the shingle roofs, And grows with quick crescendo, as " martial drumbeats do, Till it sounds on the resonant shin- gles a rousing rat-tat-too. Then rises a rushing tumult, as the drops come swift and large, Like the noise of mustering horsemen when squadrons form and charge. The zigzag lightning flashes illume the darkliug lake And the rolling thunder crashes make the mountains seem to quake. Anon the rush is over, and, muttering far and low, Out through the mountain passes the routed cohorts go. Night casts upon the landscape her all-effacing shade And stations firefly rangers in every | | e workers, men and women who tinue along the nge. of. its ori‘gin;! And thé breath of the dying west wind correspondingly better - contribution | From gcross the lake comes fitful the ement of industry.” loon’s wetrd, wailing crv, % koo And the owl hoots back responsive | As for the declaration against child from his jouely perch nearby. labor, the Cincinnati Enquirer won-!A solemn hush steals softly o'er lake deré why it is that “each Congress and wood and hill holds men who do not dare enact s | And nothing breaksethe silence save sational law that would make for ihe _ A far-off whippoorwlll . o the IMprov courts for the admin- | admin- boomed for the democratic nomina- tion for the Presidency by Oscar S. iStraus at the Jefferson memorial din- Iner in New Yark. Senator Copeland | shiea at the suggest\on, however, and | says that Gov. Alfred, E. Smith is his first and only choice $for the nomina- tion. et The republican national committee, stung by recent taunts) by the demo- cratic national commitiee of the re- publican party’s asserged failure to help the farmers, has come back with some caustic questions) to Chairman Hull as to what the democrats would do for the farmer and ‘what acts of the republicans they would undo. “Whom would the demodratic party leaders consult in regard!to agricul- | tural conditions if they were in con- itrol?" the republican comimittee in- quires, in a current statament, “and just what acts of the republican ad- ministration in connection. with agri- cultural problems would the cratic party undo? These questions are pertinent because of the twenty- six specific pieces of farm legisla- i rellable organizations repre {agricultural interests and {in both Lranche farm bloc. lenacted by the republican Congressi was drafted by accredited representar tives of agricultural interests, intros duced by members of the farm bloe, indorsed_in public hearings b creditsd “representatives of those in- terests and pushed through to cnast- mment by members of Congress who represented strictly agricuitural dis- triets. It is 2 matter of record tnat Congress did net refuse to cnact a single major proposition that was ‘vroposed and generally indorsed by teputable farm organizations eountry. Congress did not siial single measure affecting agricultural eonditions that was opposed by farm. erganizations or by the farm bLloc. supported, The committee imsists that ‘‘never| has any administration co-operatedl to such a close degree with the repre- sentatives of agricultural erganizations, snd taken their advice so implicitly the present administration.” * ¥ ¥ % The democratic national committe has issued a statement charging tha Prestdent Coolidge and the republica; Congress tion. The committee asserts tha “President Coolidge's letter to the; 1Western Tariff Association and th latest statement of the repuolican) national committee are taken by democrats as evidence of an attempts on the part of the republican ad-, ministration to block any move in' the next Congrass for a ri the present tarifr.” S “This propaganda against a down- ward revision of the excessive rates | of the Fordnev-McCumber law will be continued by the republicans in the hope of effecting harmony of; action in the ranks of their own senators and representatives.” * ok ok ox The committee statement professes. to see that “the republican leaders, fear to enter the next presidential campaign after having frustrated ef-: forts to lower the tariff as a means of cutting the cost of living. They prefer to prevent the question from rising in Congress and their present activities, democrats feel sure, are designed to discourage revision by the cry that it will disturb business. “Two sepatate angd distinct efforts will be made in the next Congress to compel the republican party and the Prestdent to lessen the exorbitant tax on sugar. There will be a renewal of the pressure for an investigation of the sudden and onerous rise in_the price of sugar beginning last Febru- ary. Concurrently with this move for ia scrutiny of the udvance in sugar, {estimated to have cost American con- {sumers more than $300,000,000 thus far, a bill will be presented for a re- duction of duty. * ¥ ¥ X “These two undertakings,” the com- mittee threatens, “in behalf of a lower cost of living, will confront the republican admtnistration with concrete proposals which the public will understand and support. If the republican Congress refuses to pro- tect the users of sugar, among them millions of housewives who are alse voters, the next republican presiden- tial candidate, whoever he may be. will_ have to expiain why his party in the Senate and the House favored the beet sugar trust at the expense of the. public.” | i | * k% ¥ The republicans, in their current drive to win back the affections of the farmer, long time considered an asset of the republican party, are pointing out to him that the financial legislation enacted by the last Con- gress will give him protection from the deflation which came about dur- ing the democratic administration. It is claimed that under the new in- termediate credit system the risk of forced liquidation by the farmer and the' live stock man is practically eliminated. The farmar surelyiis the pet of both parties. ere anything he ‘wants he wwrw gfink up, for he is thair falr- ed a, demo-| tion enacted by the last republicany Congress every one was indorsed byyf entingl “The bulk of the farm legislationider bro: plan to block tariff reduc~} _.. ANSWERS TO Q [ % BY FREDERIC 1. HASKIN Q.- Where will Lloyd George stop | while in Wasbington?—J. K. A, The British embassy says that | reservations have been made at the | New Willard for the Lloyd (imyrg.\‘ party: ! Q. Who designed the statue of Joan of Arc in.Meridian Hill Park?—L, | A. The statue is an exact copy of the one by Paul Dubois before the Rhelins Cathedral, considered one of the. flnest modern equestrian pieces. The former was presented to the women of America by the French- women of New York city. Q. What is the origin of the e pression Stoughton bottle’—A. L. H. A. The expression Stoughton bottle is used in reference to a stupld pe son-ar a figurehead term orig nated in the black or dark green bot- tles of Dr. Stoughton's were shaped like a log cabin and us in the presidential campaign of 1840, 1z a Q. What is the record atte: at foot ball games in the States and England?—W. A. T A. The largest number of people | attending a foot ball game in Eng- Jand was 125,000; at the Yale which holds the largest number in the United States, the record number was 81,000. . Can an accurate map of tbe United States be made on a flat sur- face like a sheet of paper and have one scale of mlies apply to all parts of the map?—W. L. B. The geological survey says that an area as large as the United States can be shown 1 a flat surface on { what is called the Lambert proje { with comparatively small error, not with absolute accuracy. but Q. What is the ratio of melted to unmeited snow ?—W o A. As a rule the ratio is 1 to 10— that is, ten inches of snow will make about one inch of water. Q. Does every animal have a vermi- Q. | than Joe Miller's? ca Bowl, | tion | What was the first Americal novel?*—R. R A. The Indeptadent Thronicle i the jssue of JYanuary 22, 1789, an nounced the publicalion of the firs American novel. “The. Power ol Sympathy.” by Mrs, Sarah Wentwort Morto, alias “Philenia. Q. the L Yho invented Kewpie - way originated by R who is Mrs. larry Leon Wit Q. Had any of the thirteen origing colonies declared their_independernc of England before the Declaratiop o Independenco?—N, W. B. , A. Prior to the Declaration sever tates had aséumed indapendent gov eruments and four had drawn u written constltutions, while omnel Massachusetts, hat adopied a pro visional government. Q any doko books older jests did not collection b id to ha 5 though bears the d 11 title runs: “The Fi of - Scoggin's _Tewts, Mirth und Pleas: Shifts, done by him in France other ' places, _being Preservatis 2gaiost Melancholy. Gathered by drew Boord, Doctor of Ph Are there A. This hook pear until 1739. A as Scoggin’s Jests is = mad early ar 1 oldest edition extant 1626, The fu and Rest Parts Full of Witty of ap nowt Des in Q. Since air cannot be seen, is it that is visible when one lo over w streot on & hot day or look, over a hot stove?—N A. The refraction or hending of th light rays caused by a change in th index of refraction of the air thro |heat is what produces the appune: ; motion ’ Q. | grow A How long if left T The hair of men will n average length greater 11 to twelve inches ff left uncut maz's hai would a ordinary buttons patent -D. G. S. A. That would button, but there huve been 1.500 patents for buttons issue the patent office of the United Statc depend upon form appendix?—A. P. A. The appendix is found animals except some of the apes and the wombat in all higher Q. When was double time for for- cign service in the Army stopped?— R.A. A. The adjutant general's office any man enlisting in the Army be; August 24. 1912, received double time for foreign service until the cxpira- tion of his enlistment. Any man en- listing on August 25, 1912, or after did hot receive double time for for clgn service. Q. ZR-1°—M. R. H. A. This great now known as the Shenandoal feet iong and 96 feet high, diameter of 78 feet and a gas capacity of 2,150,000 cubic feet. It has a speed of 70 miles an hour. total lift of 130.000 pounds and a cruising radius of 4.000 miles. The horsepower de veloped by its six engines is 1.800 and the crew of the dirigible is composed of 9 officers and 22 enlisted men. dirigible, which is with re | What are the dimensions af the | 680 al times would an atoa nagnified in order to ?‘ e Taagnif een as it abou tiameter of il with the micro| Q. How man fhave to be fcome visible I A 1t would fa million diar T jextended object; that is { one-thousandth 't smallest particle s scope. Q. How many New York?—W } A The streets a ‘mileage of 4.267. which is aboul lone and a_half times the distanc from New York to San Francisco. O] | this 2,295 miles are paved. Q. Is cheese eve eer milk?—E. J. C. A. In Norway and Sweden the mil {of the reindeer is sometimes used | cheesemaking. | to be of streets hal E New York hav ’d made from whi (If you have a question you went answered send it to The Star Infor mation Burcau, Frederic Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol street Inclose 2 cents in stamps for retury postage.) ‘ ‘Mullins’ Becomes ‘de Moleyns’ Lord Ventrs's succession to his el- r's Irish peerage and bar onetey, as well as to his very exten- jsive estates in Kerry, embracing near 100,000 acres, where New Zealand flax is now belng grown with great sue- cess and profit, serves to recaH the very wide path eut out hya swindler who alternately assumed the name of Lord Ventry and, sometimes, that of his brother, the Hon leigh de Moleyns, in New York and other cities of the United States, but more especially -in Chicago, in 1908 and 1909 The man turned out to be a former valet of the late Lord Ve try, who had been in his service for 3 number of years and had not only be in the history of the United States¥come intimately acquainted with all his family affairs, but also succeede in acquiring his peculiar manner. and in cultivating a marked re: blance to his former employer. fore finally landing in Sing Sing he ran an extensive career of crime in Australia and New Zealand, where he married several wives, deserting each of them in turn and defrauding nu- merous people by means of forged checks, to some of which he signed the name of “Ventry.” while others bore the name of “de Moleyns.” After he had made the antipodes too hot to hold him. he drifted across the Pa- cific to the United States, where, with is photographs in the garb of a Brit- ish hussar, his military carriage, his good looks and his unbounded assur- ance, he uid well in _a number of western cities, including Goldfield, Nev.,, where -he swindled the miners out of a considerable ajnount of ready money Then he turned up in Chi cago, where he made his way into so- ciety and married a woman .with some money, by whom he had a thild As soon as he had exhausted her r. source he reverted to his former methods of raising the financial wind by forging checks. and then de- camped, deserting the wife and her baby. He next appeared in New Yor where he had recourse to his.custom: ary practices of providing himself with funds, until arrested, duly tried and convicted on charges of fraud and forgery. One of the members of the de Moleyns family—if my memory serves me right it was a younger brother of the new Lord Ventr: namely, John dé Moleyns of the Roy al Munster Fusileers—came to Amer- ica for the purpose of identifying the man who had so shamefully mistsed their name in Australia, in New Zea- land and in America. The ex-valet was sentenced to a long term in Sing Sing and it was understood that on its conclusion he would be re-arrested on a_warrant of extradition for trial at Chicago for similar charges of forgery and bigamy. PR The name of Lord Ventry's fam has only been Eveleigh de Moleyns since 1841. Before that time. it was plain Mullins, the change in the pat- ronymic having been made by the third Lord Ventry, grandfather of the present peer, who secured a royal li- cense authorizing him to effect the alteration. The first Lord Ventry started life as plain Thomas Mullins of Burnham in County Kerry. re- celved a baronetcy in 1797 and an Irish peerage in 1800, for his scrvices in bringing about the legislative un- fon -between England and Ireland, now severed: Until the third Lord Ventry, the members of the family were content to regard a certain Frederick Williams Mullins. member for Traleo. in the Dublin house of commons, during the reign of King Willlam i1I, as the founder of their house. The third lord was, however, more ambitious and caused a genea- logical tree to be constructed show ing his descent from a certain Will- iam de Molines, who, coming over with William the Conqueror, took part in the battle of Hastings and received a grant of land for his bravery on that occasion. His immediate " de- scendants, according to this genea- logical tree, of modern growth, were asserted to have distinguished them- selves in the early crusades, and the Saracen’s head which constitutes a feature of the armorial bearings of the present Lord Ventry, and of his family, is supposed to commemorate the warlike- deeds of the de Molines in the Holy Land. Few, if any, of the leading standard ‘pecrages,” even those whose editors were the most complaicant in fathering the Tesponsibility for gesealegical fairy 1 | Arthur Eve-i When Family Obtains Titld of Congress by thegBY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. tales and mythi it possible to silence on the subject slons can only be cant mong the most noted mer 2 time < genlal and wit udge The Eveleigh de Moleyns. who, by reas: of his very agreeabie manners wonderful suavit even under most trying circumstances, known throughout _the length breadth of the Emeraid Isle b name of “Silky To: f Dublin’” mother, the Hon. S dward lins, was one of the most celebrate beauties of her da and saw much 0 which her hug] 'k active part. She > most cxtraord tures there, lost her be amputat without covered sequ husband th wa th | universally kindly w temper. new Lord unlike the bache brother whom hic has just succcede i a married man and has children, including his eldest son secured a commission in th Guards just in sufficient’ time to part in the fighting during tt ing months of the great war. - S AL T TUndeterred by the bolehev trigues in Bulgaria, intrigues gineered and financed by the government at Moscow. which 1 minated in a communist insurrectio against King Boris that almost him his throne, old Nicholas Pachitc | the octogenarian premier of 4 has induced hie sovereign, King Aley] ander, to initiate steps toward 1L {establistment of diplomatic relation | between Belgrade and Moscow, in volving. of course, the official recoz 1 tion of the soviet regime Iu R With this object in view, the Se envoy at Athens, M. ugchiteh been transferred to Beriin for the press purpose of conducting the essary negotiations with the representatives there. In the reign of King Milan, wh was always pronouncedly pro-Au trian in his foreign policies, Pacl:to was the champion of Muscovite I ests in Serbia and of the se kind of union with the Rus . pire. Indeed. he. on several occasion. suffered imprisonment at the hang of Milan on account of his Muscovit) leanings. These seem to have endut ed, despite the fact that he ciio ed, in a very marked degree, Tt favor and friendship of Emperc Nicholas II. and likewisa of Cza Alexander Til, and, in spite, tor the circumstances that if Prince; Helene of Serbia. sister of the is today a widow with gwo less children. and bereft of fortune, it is because her Prince John of Russia.’ eldest of the late ultra-liber end Grand Duke Constantine, was to death. under circumstances most_horrible atrocity. by t she the princess hers her two children narrowly esca with their lives after terribie ships, now making her home grade, it is largely through her fluence with her brother that diplomatic representatives of the Emperor Nicholas have still_be tained there, including the Env N. Strandtman, whose expenses those of the councilor of the legatio S. N. Paleologue. as well as those Count Potocki. the military a . and of Capt. Eprelefl. the nav attache, are defrayed by the Scrb! crown. Their retention by the Serbian 5o ernment, as representing Russia an longer in a diplomatic capacity.w under the circumstances, be no 145 &ro possible. Premier Pachitch takes the that Greater Serbia constituts chief and most powerful Slav staf in the Balkans, and that popular an racial sentiment is strongly in fav of an understanding with the fello embers of their race in Russia. th Tore so as they consider it difficy to finally settlé any problem in th near east without taking Russia int consideration. This being the case is better for Serbia to have Russi friendly than hostile. Pachitch elain that the peassmtry of Greater Serhi have been entirely cured of commu ism, and that, if assured of the frict ship of the Serbian zovernme soviet outfit at Mos-ow aw il from any - communist - pro which would defeat rather than pr mote the purposes. But his new mo in favor of a “rapprochement”, wit Moscow is far from meeting with 29 proval im foreign capitals. t Th en sov 1l Ia 2 ¥