Evening Star Newspaper, October 19, 1923, Page 6

& THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Suminy Morning Editfen. WASHINGTON, D C. THEODORE W. NOF¥ES...... Bditor The Evening Star Newspsper Company’ Busigesy Ofice, 1ith §t, and Pennavivuate Ave:. N hicape Orike: Tower BuNmg: Chicago 0 ower Burcomen 6o 18 hemeat St Losdus. Ggieud. Tie mrectng Star. with the Sunduy morsing edition, 18 deilvervd by carrierw within tie city #t 60 cents. per month: daily onix; 40 cents per month; Suadey ouly, 20 eeuts per mosRi. O Avra Be sent by mail or oleyliine Meln 6000, _Collection Is mwde by end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mary'and and Virginis. Daily and Sunday..T yr. §3.40; 1 mo., 10c Dafly only. 1 yr., $6.00; 1 mo.,. Goc: Sunday only. 1yr., §2.40; 1 mo., 20 All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00; 1 mos, 85c Daily “only. $7.00: 1 mo., §0c' Member of the Associnted Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled fo the use for repubilcmtion of all tews dis- Datclies erndited fa It or Bat otherwise credited this paper sud also the loeal n=ws pub- lished herein. ~ All rights of publication of #pecial dispatehes berein are also reserved. ey No Third Party for Veterans. As the American Legion was as- sembling at San Francisco for its an- nual national convention many del wates expressed themselves as favor- ing the organization of a separate | political party to fight for the lhi“g‘; most desired by the veterans of the {rreat war, Subsequent reports indicate | that second thoughts are prevailing, [ prohfbition party national committee, | safer and s and that the third-party plan is net|khus issued the statement from Los [ taking his le upproved. This isthe course of wis- dom. When the American Legion was Tormed it was based upon the prin- ciple that it would mot participate in politics, that it would be a non-partisan | cratic and republican parties ejaculat- organization, devoted to the promotien | ing of the welfare of the Americans whe § participated in the war, regardlese of { political affiliations. and net taking any part in the political movements: ; “The strength of the order has been In | eat measure the result of tiis! course. H A thi the rd-party organizcion formed by | terans of the war weuld be a | vet hiopeless minority in any natlonal can | petsnr. It would not have the eomplete suppurt of all the veterams. The sreate the ance with their partisan {nelinations. ! As a minority party it only a negative inflience, possibly de- structive. ¢ The history of Americ f fall of third parties. formed for spe- : parties. These split-offs have usually | failed even to effect the modifcation | of the policies of the major organiza tions. One notable exception oceurs in the case of the.free scil perty prier | ) the civil war, which contributed to ! the crganizafion of the republican arty dedicated to the prevention. of | the spread ‘of slavery. Members of the American Legion will doubtless continue to be politieally | active in the ranks of the two major | parties. They will seek. by means of [at the White House. and have had! their chosen organizations, to affect | national and state legislation. How- ! ever remote the legion may be itsclf from partisanship nothing ‘| bootlegging and illicit distiiling are would Bave ! i { never given support to the proasbition | purposes and to promote PBTHCY- | party. he is Mkely to be fess fnelined | lar issues. accomplishing results enly ! : through the influencing of the Maor | qgestions of policy pending in Congress H can or! it is alleged; forraed w peol to the end af corrupting on a larger scaie the enforcement agents. This was the op- portunity of ‘the federal erganization. Certain agents were detailed to be bribed and went through the game | with muci: success. Yesterday eleven imen were asvested in New York at | tite hotel' whith served as headquar- |ters: of the beer smugglers. It is stated \that the ewfdence iy complete. | The raid thao led. to- the arrest was: (net made until indictments had been secured’ quietly, se that the case is now well advanced. The aceusatioms: | cover a wide range. They fnvolve not | 'merely the bribing of officials, but the manufacture of petable drinks eut nfl denatured aleolol and other violations of the federal statute. { Sueh proceedings are of the kind to | freak up the flagrant violations of the law. Prison terms ave needed. The imposition of fines will not suffice. The profits in the business of rum-running, | i I | enormous. Money penalties are quick- Iy compensated by increased profits. ' But when a penitentiary i made the goal of the lewbreakers a decided “erimp” is put in the business. Clamors for modification of the n-n-é forcement aet are constantly heard. in | the interest of a broadening of lhl—i scope of allowable dispensation. Far | more likely is the amendment of the | daw to increase the penalties for vio- | lation, with imprisonment rather than | €. Ford and the Prohibitionists. Virgil N. Hensbaw, chairman of the | Angeles that Henry Ford will get the | presidential nomination of the prohibt tion party. Imsteresting, indeed, if it turns out to be & true propheey. Ome can imagine the leaders of the demo- { ine, that's just tie place fnrs i htm. Politicians analyzing the suggestion will find §1 it elements and considera: tions, huwever, which might not prom- ise victory for Mr. Ford. Labor. o a | considerable portion of it, is held to ' be friendiy o Me. Ford, but labor has ! never siwown any predilection for the | prohbiticn purty as a poiitical or-| sanimtion. Mereover. lubor is under- stcod to be demanding its lizht wines and beer. While it loves Mr. Ford! i part of them would vote ae !nome the lews persomally, it might be ! 15 have heretofore voted, in accord [ Gkely to love irs ewn policies and | Who can afford to pay the re cherish its amtipathies morc i The tarmer fs supposcd to be strong | for Mr. Ford, and the farmer is gen- | eraily agafnst the wets, but he is a n politics is | staunch party man, either a repub-| replete with instances of the rise and | lican or a demecrat, and as he has to do so now, when therc are great. in which he is interested. He mag be | expected to make his choice for Presi- | dent between the two regulur parties. | Such considerations as these are | caicuisted to cause jubiiation among | the old-party leaders over the prospect ' of Ford running for President at the | head of the prehibition party's ticket. White House Cats. Dugs have had many of their days | their names and pictures “in the pu- per.” Visitors have petted them and patted them. ‘A great deal bas been written about White House dogs. and should prevent the individuals from !many authors have exercised thes showing partisan activity. They may solidarity in insistence upon ‘courses | helptul to them, but only as they work i in and through the parties that al- ready exist, one or the other of which | will control the federal organization. | Neither of the major parties will Iznore altogether the claims and de- mands of the American Legion. -But | that organization cannot and probably } will not undertake to dictate as a body" in matters affecting the welfare 6f the ! membership. 3 Tax Reduction, When? . Senators and representatives agree that taxes ought to be reduced:’the | public, groaning under its burden, | fervently savs, “Amen.] There is further accord among leaders in Con- gress and Treasury officials that they can be reduced, but there.is divergence of opinion as to when the action should be taken. Senator Smoot, who is to be chair- man of the finance committee at the coming session of Congress, says that it will be possible uitimately to reduce the taxes, notably the income tazes, to the extent of $500,000,000. But he does not want it attempted at the approach- | ing session. Such an attempt, on the eveofa presidential campaign, would, he Eays, “open a Pandora’s’ box. of troubles Senator Borah, on the other band, avers that Pandora’s box of troubles is already open “out in the countr: If. as Senator Smoot suggests, $300,- | 000,000 can be lopped off, it should be done, the Idaho statesman contends, as soon as possible. He urges Senator Smoot to urge his program, and do it ot this session, claiming that if an ac- tive campaign is not at once conducted Congress may drift into a program of raising the taxes inequitably. Public sentimént at large is lkely to take the view that, with the general concurrence of congressional and ad- | ministrative opinion that taxes mnot | only should but can be reduced, the action should be taken at the earliest hour and with the least debate. ————————— Like other items relating to the cost of living, it takes much less time to put prices up than to bring them down. § A Big Dry Haul. There is an old adage to the effect that “when thieves fall out honest men may get their due,” The prin- ciple underlying this adage is sug- sested in the case of the illegal beer vrewers of New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania. For some time past they have been competing for the New York trade, smuggling their wares into.the Lig thirsty town in large lots. They have had to “‘smooth” the way by dis- tribution of backsheesh. Lately, how- cver, the New Jersey brewers have suspected that the Pennsylvania rivals were -having & bit too much the bet- ter of the game and, being nearer the market, have felt aggrieved, So they undertook @ drive for business, and, ilitemn talent on White House horses prove to be a furmidable force through and White House sheep. There have been White FHouse cats, but they nev sought nor found publiclty. No eat has given way to a desire to accor pany a President on his walks, nor to | ride on the front seat of u White | House automebile, nor to trot alemg | at the heels of a President’s horse. If | a White House cat strays from the mansion it strays at night, and on & mission of its own. An admirer of the President has sent two cats to the White House. and the eook hes named them Blackie and Tige. In no spirit of irreverence | may it be observed that Tige and Blackie have already adopted that; cosk as @ more important government | officlal than the Commander-in-chief of | the Army and Navy. To them that i i age, and no courtier has flattered a | President with more skill and guilc’ than those cats will use on that cook. In the cats’ code a cook lives to be “worked.’ 0 doubt their duty is to! watch the mice, and if they are real cats, faithful to the customs and tradi- tions of their race, they will honestly carry out the duties of their office. —_—_——— Among the numerous pet anima sent to the White House nobody has | included a parrot; so talkative a bird evidently not being regarded as meef ing the presidential views of what callers should expect. i 1 Plans for skyscrapers startle Paris, | although the proposed buildings are | only eight and nine stories high. France is not as bold in her architec- ture as in her politics. There is gathering doubt as to whether what the Filipinos are trying to qualify for is independence or more police supervision. H i The Crowded Jail. The crowded state of the Distriet | jail comes in for much publicity and a good deal of official inquiry. The | officer in charge of the jail has said that a few nights ago he had 415 prisoners, whereas the jail was built nearly half a century ago with ac- commodation for 300. No measure has been taken since the building to enlarge its capacity. One reason for the crowding of the jail is that it is used as a place of detention for pris- oners awaiting trial and the courts cannot handle cases as fast as ar- rests are made. Many men confined at the jail under conditions of hard- ship are presumably innocent and ft is very easy to assume that many of them will be found by judge and jury guiltless of the charges against them. They are entitled to speedy trial and to proper accommodations while awaiting trial, Commissioner Rudolph will inquire into the possibility of having priseners more rapidly re- moved from the jail to other penal institutions with & view to lessening congestion, This expedient. will no doubt be trieds There has been a 3 | rentals. { for | hoards money just for HE | proposition tha! priseners awaiting [ trial might be séut ta the Occoquan | workhouse or the Lorton reformatory, but the officer in.-charge of the jail believes that the District has no right to send a mun’ te either institution in advance of conviction. Mast per- | There iy almost an equal number of | by erecting a powerful automatic sea | g, jsons will consider that apinion sound. | The jail superintendent says that it (would net be econemical to transter from the jail to the workhouse those prisoners who on conviction are sen- tenced to ten or fifteen duys’ impris- onment. Tt is apparent that the pap- ulation of the District has outgrown local jail facilities. might be tempurarliy relieved oy speeding up the processes of the courts or increasing their capacity for disposing of cases brought before them, "but it would seem that the measure offering the only sure means of relief would be the enlurgement of the jail or the building of a larger | and better jail beyond the vity. —_———— It is evidently feared that rewriting treaties te favor American ships would disorganize diplomacy to a _greater degree than could be compen- sated for by the advantage to com- merce. The public mind has been made aware of the amount of trouble a treaty can make when thoroughly arcused. Bergdoll is thinking of coming by to America. His pres are becoming so rough that decide to take with the authorities here. If he can brace him- self for the ordeal he may be really ather mare comfortable al ]rlln}mmull ——— ok undings he may his chances Lloyd George is suffering from a cold. This fact will not prevent every | effort to have him 1 all speaking en- gagements. In the effort to honor a popular man the fact that his heaith may be a consideration is not given the attention it deserves. —_———— After a trip fo the U. s fred Mond tells London that bootleg- ging is regarded as the second indus- try in America. Effores at hospitality may passibly convey un neous im- pression as to the gemeral plentitude of cunvivial beverages. ——— A New York housing expert says are plenty of homes for those uired This breaks the news gently. but does not alter the practical aspect. ——— situation in its There is a generous yet discreet dis position among statesmen 1o give any- budy who thirks be can inmmediately feduce fuel cost or regulute prohibi- tion enforcement offhand all the | chance in the world —_—————— The slight redeeming feature scandal in the Stokes divorc of case is the reason to suspect that most of it | is untrue. A little perjury becomes a velief by comparison, Many @ German citizen is ne able to zive due thought to r tions, owing to worry about his board bill. ¢ un- A scarcity of foud leaves more talk and favors the de of communistic theories ———— SHOOTING STARS. time, iopment BY PHILANDER JGHNs0N Aecording to Custom. have heard v wonderful orations I thought would world. The audience made mighty demonstra- tiong even hurled. T woke next day to watch the revolu- tion felt was aftfame. Intact was each familiar institution And things were running pretty much the same. 1 some ry revolutionize the And hats into the air were 1 sure to set the earth reaghed the summn of our glor Or else we think has ceme. generation stor Of hopes or fears or glum. Complaints aris¢ and low, As love and money old game. may prove hollow— world keeps much the same. the worst at las Each telis the ancient that make us glad Jubilations fol- play the 'same either genuine or The running pretty The Public Demand, “Aren't you going pee “Not if I can avoid it," answered Senator Serghum. “Why should 1 risk saving something that might me unpopular? All the public appears to ask at present is that I keep quiet and be photographed.” Jud Tunkins says to make a the man who the fun of counting it is now having the time of his life with German paper currency. Compensatio We hear the story of distress Repeated o'er and o'er. “I want my taxes to be less And some one else’s more, Result of the Interview. “Did you tell the landlord we want- ed the flat papered, painted and fixed up generally?” asked she. “Yes," answered he. “Did he take the matter under con- sideration?" “He did. He isn't going to make the improvements, but he doesn’t see why people with such luxuricus tastes shouldn't be able to pay more rent.” The Silent Art. “My boy Josh has given up tryin’ to be a musician and wants to be a movie star,” said Farmer Corntossel. “‘Are you disappointed “No. We're all pleased. Josh won't have to make so much noise around the house practicin®.” “Flattery don’'t need much elo- quence,” said Uncle Eben. “De man dat's bein’ complimented is always a good listener.” The situation make | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC republican and democratic governors of the states—twenty-six democrats and twenty-four republfeans. Rela- tively the same political proportions are represented among the common- wealth executives attending the gov- ernors’ conference with President Coolidge at the White House. The 1922 elections constderably aitered i the balance of gubernatorial power in favor of the democrats. Western states, in particular, like Kansas, Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska, | Which are not accustomed to any- thing but . O. P. chief executives s a rule, elected democrats last vear. Bven rock-ribbed republican strong- holds like New Hampshire broke over the truces and did likewise. In the governors’ conferemce may be both republican and democratic dark horses for 1924. x5 % William J. Hughes of Penusylvania, who is on the threshold of his for- tieth consecutive vear of service at the Department of Justice, is going to write his memoirs some day. Mr, | Hughes, now a special assistant at- | torney general of the United States, | was appointed to the department un- lder the first Cleveland administra- | tion. in 1885, He has become the coun- | try’s foremost authority on tederal | proeedure “aud Jurisdiction. His nie- moirs will be distinguished from the | kwrden variety of po ftical blographies Iy their human inte Hughes has scery @ notuble proces of dr: atic personalities and e pess in review at the department | where the Dlind goddess presides. At { close range he has observed men like August H. Garland, Richard Olne Jus u Harmon, Joseph McKenna, {Jokn W. Griggs, Philander €. Knox, William Howard Taft. John W. Davis, William H. Moody, Charles J. Bona- parte and George W. Wickersham. Onee tor general, throw a man bodHy out of his office. On another occasion, Hughes was present when a solicitor general put frum him the oppertunity to become the Chief Justice of the | United States. * % Zangwill's boldly before the Congress, that Jews states would hardly exchange securi- ty and prosperity in this country for the uncertain vielssitudes of Pales- tine as a national home, recalls a | eelebrated ancedote of the late Lord tot ild. British Zionists once |asked Rothschild if. when Zion be- eame the Jews' political homeland. he would go there to Mve. “Yes.™ said the great banker, “on one con- dition— that I could be appointed Palestinian ambassader to London ! for life Only sixty-six American Jews | are said to have been willing in 1322 to jmigrate to Zion * thrust, uttercd American Jewish of the United Israel I a boon in i ibps o upon general Senator Lawr Colorado has bestowed {his state and the nation Hughes saw Taft, while solici- | WILLIAM WILE |beacon on Ptkes Peak. Four years of persuasive effort were required with the federal authorities to per- mit the establishment of the world's first mountain-top signal lamp. It iIs deslgned to make the tortuous mountain roads within many miles of Pikes Peak in all directions al most as safe by night as by day. Above all. the Phipps lighthouse will gulde the alrplame pilot, who, in crossing the continent, reauires to traverse the Rocky mountains that pierce the Colorado skles. The bu- reau of lighthouses. the Secretary of Commerce's juris- diction, hus been disinclined to ap- prove the erection of a sea bewcon atop a meuntailn. The coming winter pected to be illuminated by the Phipps light on Plkes Peak. Perhaps it will brighten the seriator's chances for re-election In 192 there has been some doubt. * ok ko | | Calvin Coolidge's taciturnity, mani- | testly. is for public exhibition purely. A former and distingulshed senator |of the United States, who recently | spent an evening at the White House in conference with the President, de- poses that never in his life was he, the visitor, so exhaustively and inces- santly quizzed. He found Mr. Cool- idge’ not only volubly gluttonous for fnformation, but as chipper ax a lark in offering his own Vicws on contro- versial questions. « * which Is under|on the part of the peop about which | { Wily is it that a country editor— | boss of a paper with less than 5,000 H ‘lh;’l)'dhl\'l not !ull,lh‘ ent :A;A called money t . it nights in the great divide are ex- | T Weplies 10 Gotham Banker . Dwyer Takes Issue With w. George E. Roberts’ Artigle. To the EN10r of The Star: . article in The Sunda; eorasl 1\ Hoberts, vice . prs the Natiorytl City Bank New Yark, makes some Statements which 1 can- not pass umn'ticed. He say is simply a mwasure of production, and the answer 0o high prices ply produce goods. # » # There is no suciA thing as overprod tion. It fs an \impossibility.” But when the goods a%"eady not bought and .y isum ble thing: the natu to cease production 1 Wt conlsumption catches up with praduction. Now, why are not the tigngs produced bought and consumed? Because of the lack of & the sensi- Not that they do not want the thin; which make for happin. lite, but ‘\w Lot ry con- of the matter Is, we have peculiar and abnormal financt dition In this country at the p 'sent time. There are three times as iy ADY dollars and one-half of the gold in the world in this country than A ®©- fore the war. Naturally, the dollar Is nearly one\- third less 'valuable In purchasin power; and yet there s a lack of production, because consumption goe hand in hand with production. Or r« verse it, and production goes hand in hand with consumption. Every one else gets less in purchasing power for the thing called a dollar, excepting the banks, which ask you to pay more for the use of a 60-cent dollar than before the war they charged for u 10f-cent dollar. You can prodice Koods to your heart's content, out you cannot sell the production. however much the people might went it, unless they have the money to buy with, and gen- crally they hate not the morey. which is proven by the lact that the last Topurts of ihe director of the mint circulation, in’ a town with only 11.000 | shuwed the per capita circulation was population—cemmands the public ear, nation-wide, every time he has any- | thing to say on an lissue of popular importance? Such is the distinetiv merit of Willlam Allen White of the | Emporia Gazette. The scribe who put limself on the map of eplgrammatic fame by opining that “the trodble with Kansas Is that she started in to raise hell and had an overproduc- tion” has few superiors us a writer of terse, plain-spoken English. There’ mare to White than a nimble pen. ie's transparently sincere, incorrigibly straight and in his lexicon there are no such words as trim or pussyfoot. He won the Pulitzer prize for a po- liticul editorial. But r fell from his quill than the punegyric on the death of his duuigi- ter Mary a couple of years ago. * % % In these witching hours when many clamor for divorce of politles from prohibition enforcement, therc are men, and not wll of them wets, who declare the slate will never be wiped quite clean till the Anti-Saloon League, too. Is taken out of politics. That it is in politics is admitted by no less an authority than Generalis- simo Wheeler, who has just been lec- turing at Columbia University on the puwer of “group pressure” in Ameri- com legislative halls. ‘opyright. 1923.) 'Winterton, Peer in Commons, To Wed Rich | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lord Winterton, the only full- jfledged earl in the house of commons, jis to marry next month Mouica, the jonly daughter of Lord Nunburnliolme lof the Wilson Steamship Line fame. i Representing India as undersecretary ot st in the lower chamber at | Westininster, it seems difficult to ize that he is now u man of forty nd @ veteran of parllament, to which he was elected just n ago. @ few weeks after attaining his majority In those days he used to be known as “the babe of the house™ although he stands six feet five inches in his stockings, and he formerly lved up to the sobriquet by his infantile check, by bis extraordinary effrontery and by his unblushing fmpudence. He id not have an ounce of reverence in | his composition wnd with a keen sense f humor was quick to see and pro- claim aloud the ridiculous side of even the most serious matter. othing seerned xacred to him. He was ut- terly unimpressed by the solemnity of { botl houses of pariiament and before he had been in the commons a fort- ‘uight he was cailed to order by the speaker for demanding of him to hold the stakes in the bet I that the bill which he was sponsoring would pass by a big majority, betting being at that time illegal. time, when exasperated beyond all en- dnranc the earl’s gibes. the late John O Louse an impertinent Lord Winterton invited step outside into the palac ettle their differences by heir fi i PUpD; O'Connon to yard to means of Lord Winterton, both as Viscount | Turnour and_after his succession to the earldom, has been a fraguent vis- itor to the United Stutes .and .on his first arrival in New York (it was in 1906) atiracted an immense amount of attention by coming on shore at New {York with a_heavy plaid shawl fas- tened around his Shoulders® with a sufety-pin This wus_considered the latest seream of fashion. and was tele- graphed all over the coumtry, while there was no self-respecting Sun- day paper that did not publish a picture of the young peer thus garbed. As at the same time he expressed himself very eulogistically about American women, and was ex- tremely breezy and whimsieal in his utterances, his visit caused a good {deal of talk. | He comes from a family that always been renowned for is .ef- frontery, and its fortune may be {said to owe its orlgin to a Sir md- | wara Turnour, who. while speaker |of the house of commons, excited {its Indignation by the unblushing {manner in which he “accepted” | bribes, “extorted” from the East In- ! aia Company. Indeed, he was forced, by threats of impeachment, to re- |sign the chair, whereupon Charles 11, to reward him for his subservi- ency to his wishes, promptly raised him to the bench as chief baron and Ipresldenl of the court of the ex- | Chequer. He married twice, one of i his wives, Sarah Gore, daughter of an alderman of the city of London, bringing him, by way of dowry. Shiliingee Park, one of the most beautiful places in Sussex, and which | ever since has been the principal home of the Turnour family, and is owned by Lord Winterton to this day. More money was brought into the family by the marriage of the grandfather of the earl to the daugh- fer and heiress of Sir Peter Jan Not- ten-Pole, who represented the for- tunes, not only of the rich and his- | toric ‘Gloucestershire Poles, but also of tile hoi Friar: has use of Van Notten of Austin London. * k ¥ ¥ The present Lord Winterton has, however, other assoclations with Indla than those of hls ancestor, the ex-speaker of the house of commons and lord chief baron of the court of ! $he exchequer. For. like & number of other members of parliament, he se- cured leave of absence from his Sus- sex constituents during the war and served up to the rank of lieutenant colonel i the army—first of all in the terrible Gallipoli expedition, then in Palestine, under Field Marshal Lord Allenby, and afterward with the Arab allies of Great Britain, not only in the Holy Land, but also in Arabla, being closely assoclated with the for- mer cemir, mow King Felsul of Irak, Ho s, therefore, artioularly well equipped for the office which he now holds of assistant secretary of state for Indla. Speaking Arabic with flu. e was offering | Another | r denounced him In the ! the great Anglo-Dutch mercan- Earl’s Daughter ency. he is thoroughly abreast of all the various problems by which Eng- and has been confronted in connec- ition with the holy places of Islam. jand is acquainted with the views of nothing finer | i ]the natives on the subject of the ca- | !liphate and of the Ottoman problém. | B2ined during his services in the near east through the intimate friendship {and confidence which he won among }the Arubs. as well as by close asso- {ciation with their chieftains while { campaigning. | Being { dabb) nalism, very rich, Lord for ‘a time in socie and owned and London weekly. the World, iby Edmund Yates. But what with his loutspoken opinions. his proneness to ridicule and satire and his vitriolic pen in behalf of any cause that he considered just. lie was In petual hot ‘water and had so man libel suits on his hangs that he finally jallowed his lawyers to prevail upon him to drop the paper. which, after a very stormy career from its outsct— it landed its founder, Edmund Yates, in prison for a year—has been laid to 4 much needed rest. § 1t s because all Lord Winterton's tare Irlsh dignities that he has the privilege of sitting in the house of commons for an English or Welsh onstituen a privilege which is denfed to Scottish peers. It may be recalled that the celebrated nremicr of the Victorian reign, Lord Palmer- ston, who was a Knight of the Garter, spent his entire parliamentary career of over three-scorc rs in the house of commons. because his vi county was one of the pecrages Irelund. Jour- edited the of With regard to the future Countess of Winterton, she will be bountifully provided with the world's goods as well as with good looks. ¥For her mother, now Lady Nunburnholme, is one of the particulariy comely daugh- ters of old Lord Lincolnxhire, and, as Lady Marjorie - Carrington. ivas brought up King George's burnhoime also sleters. TLord Nur comes from a ver: rich family that is noted for i pulchritude, and his sisters * include the Countess of Chesterfield, V: countess Chaplin, Mrs. Guy Fairfax and lady Cowley, who, having been parted by the divoree court. in turn, from Sir Charles Hartopp any from the late Lord Cowley, is now the war widow of Maj.. Grey Duberly of the Grenadier Guards. Lord Nunburnholine owes the for- tunes of his family to his grand- father, Thomas Wilson, who, in 183 founded the firm of ship owners bea ing his name with one small vessel, While In those days the dockage of Hull comprised less than thvee acres, today there are some 400 acros of docks at Hull, most of which, if not sons, with whom the fortunes of this thriving ~ seaport are prominently identified. Old Thomas Wilson had two sons, Charles, the eldest, who made his home at Warter Priory, in Yorkshire, and Arthur, who owned Tranby Court. Thé latter place was the scene of the baccarat scandal which created so great a sensation in the closing decade of Queen Victoria's reign. It was because of this bac- carat scandal, with which the name of Tranby Court always will be as- sociated, that Charles Wilson. raised to the peerage as Lord Nunburnholme, refused to permit cards to_be played under his roof at Warter Priory and why he, llkewlse, always declined to ntenance horse racing, on account of the evil of betting and consequent suffering of wives and children. Having some twenty thousand men in his employ and the Doncaster race course within easy distance, he spoke with knowledge about the matter. The late Lord Nunburnholme was so much attached to Warter Priory, a country seat and estate which he bad purchased from -the last Lord Muncaster, and which was famous for its haspitality and its shooting. that he insisted on being buried. not merely in the grounds, but actually within the gardens of the priory. It is owing to his demand that he should be buried on one particular spot, situated In the center of the lawn, that nelther his widow nor his children can gaze out into the grounds from one entire side of the 1house without having before their eves the grave of the late peer, to whom they were deeply attached. Under the clrcumstances, it is not astonishing that the present Lord Nunburnholme should prefer to make his principal country home at Fer- riby Hall, near Brough, in Yorkshire, to Warter Priory, the possession of which he leaves to his widowed mother, Who was a Miss WeHesley, of the houge of which the Duke of Wel- lington is the chief. all, owe their existence to the Wil-| Winterton founded | i such per- i { | about | i to a great extent with | | tio {him study the banking business, ot much more than before the war-— und $39 (It was $72 during the war)—although there are billions of | idle dollars in the banks and trust company vaults of the country which ought to be in circulation, but re- main inactive because the people will not pay the excessive rates of Inter- est demanded for the use of a §0-cent dollar. Again he says: “During the war prices of everything went up fairly evenly becuuse there was a huge de- mand for practically every —com- modity.” True. Then the people had —_the per capita above shown and they bought freely be- one-third easier to get than now. ow their desires me and they would buy as but they have not got the . due to_the criminal detiation of the Federal Reserve Board, aided by Mr. Roberts and the big financial in- stitutions, whose poliey is to make money scarce in order to charge USUTIOUS rates of interest 17 Mr. Roberts wants to know the real Cause for present business condi- and the lack of consumption for the production which he refers to, let not was § cause mouney W from the banks' point of vie the people’s, and he will learn’ that manufacturers will not produce un- less the people buy. The present banking system of the country is ail wrong. The issuance of money should be entirely taken out of the hands of banks and issued by the government— the people—and loaned to them at 3 per cent interest on Eood security Then the people would borrow money, there would be plenty in circulation and the things produced wouid be consumed instead of lving on the shelf. W. J. DWYER. Backs World Court. Reader Cites Success of Postal Union as Precedent. To the Editor of The Star: You can’t fool all the the time. but the quantity of political bunk they will sometimes swallow is e appalling. Today a great beme- al step forward for the whole vorld is proposed, in which the pub- is intensely interested. The pro- posal is to do for ull the nations of the world what we have long dome individuals, We all admit that no individual competent to sit as judge In his own cause. Unavoidably he ix par- people all tiran and prejudiced: 8o an unbiased | cowit of justice is called fn to setile the case impartially. But when na- tion; difficulties need adjustment, and an International Court of Just is proposed for their settlement, the of “world supergovernment” ntangling alliances” is con- jured up to scare the nation. as though world supergovernment were something unheard of, and unspeak- ably horrid and impossible. There is neo mystery or horror such & supergovernment. Governments exist to do for the peo- plecollectively what they cannot well do for themselves as individu- als, viz.: build roads. coin money, nact law: ete. At least one suc 'world supergovernment” exists and functions most admirably end efficlently. A call it the Uni- versal Postal Union. Tts headquar- ters are In Bern, Switzerland, and it daily regulates the forwarding of our leiters, packages and cash to all parts of the world with safety and security, and quite without fuss or friction. Moreover, its work is far more eomplicated and intricate than is the probable work of the International Court_of Justice. Nevertheless, it is so wholly harmless and successful that » never hears any breath of complaint or disapproval. With the whole world participating, the Inter- national Court of Justice might be even more useful than the Universal Postal Union. Why not try Jt? EDWARD BERWICK. Biblical Old Age Question Challenged o thie Editor of The Star: T Fhe Star of Oetober 15, 1923, there is an article by Paul V. Collins which contains explanations as mar- velous as the statements to be plained. He telis us that Abraham 175 vears (of five months each) were equal to seventy-two years. But we are told in Genesis, 17:17, that when Abraham was informed that he was %o be the futher of a boy he “fell upon his face and laughed, and sald in his heart, ‘Shall a child be born unte him thut is a hundred years old, and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear 1t a “vear” was then equal to five months, Abraham was only forty-one years old and Sarah thirty-seven, ac- cording to our reckoning. When Sarah heard of it “she laugh- ed within herseif.” “And the Lord said unto Abraham, ‘Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying “Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?"* Then Sarah denied, saying, ‘I laughed for she was afraid. And He said, but thou didst laugh’'" If Abraham was only forty-one and Sarah_thirty-seven, wh: have been so amused at the thought of people of their age having a child? Sarah did not deny that she called herself old, and no woman of thirty- seven, even if she admits it, considers herself aged. Mr. Collins further tells us that in Methuselah's day the year was ‘one moon” long, and that Methuselah's 969 “years” were seventy-nine years. ‘According to Genesls, 5:25, Methuse- fah, when he was 187, bacame the father of Lamech. If & “year” was then equal to one month, he begat Lamech when he was fifteen. And Enoch, when he was sixty-five, begat Methukelah. 1f a year was then equal to “one moon'* Enoch became the father of Methuselah when he was five years old. How old his wife was we are not informed. In the same chanter we are told that Enos lived ninety years and be- gat Cainan. Ninety moons are equal to seven years. And Cainan lived seventy years und begat Mahalaleel. Seventy moons are equal to a little over five years. And Mahalalcel lived sixty-five years and begat Jared—the same age as Methuselah's pa. Many precoccious children have lived, but most of them died young. Mr, Collins' statements @s to the Roman calendar are entirely wrong. s may be seen from the chapter on ‘The Roman Calendar” in Ramsay's ual of Roman Antiquities.” s £ RO!CO‘E LAMONT. Star ident of “Money is ‘sim- uc- roduced are thing, to do is uying power produced e thing already | should they | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN ?_ What enimal makes the most noise when bellowing”’—D. M. A. The Natlonal Zoological Park Says that there {9 no authentic infor- mation as to which animal makes the moast nolse, but that the following nimale are generally conceded to be among the greatest noise producers: L‘I‘nn,lbull elk, sew lion, wolf and cle- phant. Q. Is it true that two thin gar- ments are warmer than one thick one?—G. R. Y. . A. Government experts say that two thin garments are warmer, because the layer of alr between them I a poor conductor of heat. Q. Why are some playing cards culled squeezers?—I. M. S. A. This term Is applied to cards with corner indexes—that is, with Pips printed in the corners. Q. What is meant by morticlans?— &% y ans A. “Mortician” is a trade expres- fon used by undertakers who are nembers of 4 certain organization. [The word is in u class with the ex- Wesslon “realtor,” which may be used oI¥ by such real estate men us are moyubers of a certain resl estate or- gargzation. The word mortician is & derfstive of the Laun word ucutu. Q. Av'e musical glasses old?—J. A. The first mention of musfcal glasses o Xtant appeared in 1631, Q What President hat a form of influenza 14 med for him?—J. T A Your a‘ference is evidently to i Prestdent Toa't. A Boston man con- tracted influw.za a few greeting the Fresident. explained: I probubly ceught cold from shaking ha'ds with the Presi- jdent” The malagy was called "Tyler grippe.” Q. How long hae the loganberry been grown’—J. P. Q- A. It was produced (¥ Judge J. H. Logan of California in 3851 Q. Has Constantinopld ever been out of the hands of the Tarks?—P. J. A. Before its capture by the Turks Constantinople was in the bande of the Romans, Greeks and Meyammed- {ans, consecutivel Q. Is national forest timben sold {without advertixement?—N. E. & A. Only quantities of $100 or tn value are sold without adverth |ment. The law requirces advertis - ment of amounts greater than thds for thirty days in a local newspapers The larger sales are usually adver- tised from sixty days to six monthe. Sealed bids are recelved, and the award is generally made to the high- est bidder, although the Secretary of Agriculture has authority to award the sale to other than the highest mands such action Q. Where is the original version of Ithe expression, “Beyond the Alps lies {Iraly">—D. J. | A. This is found In the La Liv¥—Ab Urbe, Book 21, line Q. Who wrote Kittic Bellairs A. The play. | David Bel {povel cailed “The | Edgerton tle. the book, AT weet Kittie Bellairs,” is founded on a Bath Comedy.” by Q. What are the nearest and thest distances to the moon ?—! A. The greatest distancs from earth to moon is 252,970 miles. The least jdistance is 608 miles. { Q. How.loug have shoes been made Tann, M D. E. McN. A. The manufacture of <h | the United States was established in far- | but ,hldd r where th public interest d of 11629 by Thomas Beard, over hides in third voyage. Philip Kertland b in Lynn. who brought the Mayflower on its Seven years later land began to make choes evelopment modern. shoe factory began *about 1815. At first only u small portion of the work was <one In the generat factory, the rest in private hoies or shops as before, Q —0. A. When were tin cans first used? o used In 1839 Willlam Underwood be- Ban to substitute tin for glass fu the canning business, but it was g number of years before the use of the tin can may be said to have been established. The first machine-made 1‘1;? Was {nvented by Allen Taylor iu Q. What eauses the explosions when a canebrake {s on fire?—T, M, B, A. Cane stalks being hollow, hav- ing no pith, and bejng divided insido every few ‘Inches into sections, are very combustible when dried in the sun, and the uir confined wilhin the hollow sections, warmed by the ex- ternal heat, explodes with very con- siderable force, so that a canebrake on fire gives the idea of @ continued roar of distant musketry. Q. Which of the great lakes has the most fish in ft7— AL C . A. Lake Michigén produces the lurgest cateh of feod fisn, umounting to 41 per cent of che totai for all the Lgreat ukes; Lave Erie yields 34 per t; Lake Hustn, 13 per cent; Lako Superior, 8 pir cent, und Laste Ou- tario, 3 per ceat. ! | @ | pre Ry A The fiz tree s distingutshed | from almost ail others by the ex- traordindry projerty of producing two crops of fruit In the same year on dlstinet shoots, in climates congonial to its growth, Is there any fruft trec ce two erops in one at w sou Q. What are the fine arts?—J. T. A. The fine arts are those intended primarily to affect the emotions, such as_sculpture, painting, music, ltera-- ture, etc., as distinguished from the useful arts which serve the physical needs of life. Q. What wes tia. fent Rome? L. ftome. at her he century, had about tants populative of 7 0. ar 1ght, {n the'first 2,000,000 inhab- | Q. Mo is the bull killed in a bull- \ fight?—P. B. \ A. A bulifight generally comprises | three epigodes. The bull is tirst bait- ed by the picadors, who are mount- ed a0 horses, and second by the ban- | deriMleros on’ foot, while the matador Compyetes the Bght. He lures the buil avd plunges his sword betwcen the lefd shoulder ‘end the blade. Q. If aynn where in & where.—A. 1 } i cticed , please state balism (s world today L. B alism exists among h American tribes, in rix | and Central Africa, in art bipeluzo, in some of Sea Islunds and in paris the of South Austral star Information Bureaw will wswer your questhm. Thiy offer ap- plies strictly to inforynation. The bureaw ! cannot give advice om legal, medical and Arancial matters. It does nut attempt to, scttle domestic tronbles, nar to un- devtake erhaustive vesearch on any eub- Ject Inciose 2 ceits in atamps for tirn postage and seud your query 1o The star Information Bumai, Frederic 7. Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol Street.) (The Married Women Are Slaves Mrs. Oliver H. P. Belmont, president of the National Woman's Party “started something” when she de- clared recently that “marriage is a sort of slavery,” so far as the woman in the case is concerned. From one end of the country to tha other sar- ocastic replies have been huried in the direction of the noted suffrage leader. | Now the various editors have taken {up ber declaration. and in turn are i{amusing themselves with it, ajthough, | naturally, there are a number who. in- sist on treating it serlously | “In an age when women ux well as {men have come to have decided opin- {ions about what they should do, abowt what they should not do. spend or not | spend, earn or fall to earn.” the Day [ton News feels, j creasingly apparent that much of the i difficulty which enters into domestic jinfelicity centers about the subject of between the two which will put mar- | them.” Use by Mrs. Belmont of the | This is not slavery, but justice. There seek relief through the cour! [income.” The ‘clinging vine' type of { women, regarding whom Mrs. Bel- riags on & more sacred and substan- tia) basls and afford to home life in | word “slavery” ia decidedly question | was never a time when women werc { more Independent than they are to and the records indlcate that it forthcoming. imont speaks, does mot represent Amer- {ican womanhood any more than that { masculine type which indulges in any | impulse which comes to the mind. There must be sothie medium standard ‘.\merlru more dependability. Dis- | couraged women, not unlike discour- |aged men, soon find sufficient cause | for taking out of fireside activities | everything that_should enter into {able, as the Memphis News-Scimitar Sees’ It, because “in a nanner men {and women, whether married or sin- | gle, are practically without freedom to encroach on the rights of others. Iday. If marriage is a sort of slavery, {as Mrs. Belmont says, on the other | hana divorce is the recourse for {emancipation. When marriage is irk- women mo longer endure it. * R ok ¥ The Little Rock Democrat rather | feels “Mrs. Belmont was excited,” and suggests “in the language of the of- fice sage, ‘Ain't that a helluva state of affairs? Mrs. Belmont knows as much about the average American a: we know about why the circle can't| be squared or why a pterodactyl de- cided to fly instead of walk during the latter part of its career. If Mrs. Belmont will make a brief pilgrimage into the land of real folk, where men have to work as many as seven hours a day, she will find her ideal. The trouble is she simply is talking with- out knowing whereof she speaks.” Incidentall; the Peoria Transcript polints out, “however just may be her condemnation of those who do nut believe in the absolute economic, so- cial and moral equality of the sexes, Mrs. Belmont will not discourage ma age by her pessimism. The slavery in marriage is largely bunk, unless it be self-imposed. The relic of a forgotten day--a man who in- #ists upon holding his wife as a chat- tel—is fast disappearing. Instead, men are beginning to apprectate tne worth of wives aside from thelr kitchen service and dusteloth ar- " 1t was “loose talk,” asserts the New Haven Journal-Courier. but “this lady is not competent to speak to the young womanhood of America on the serious and sacred topic of marriage. She has all her life trained with the extremely rich and the feverish world of fashion. She knows all that hectic crowd and their woes, bred of idleness in lacge part, and lack of earnest motive. In a careless and bored mood, familiar enough to her sated class, she takes a fling at marriage which must do a good deal of harm. She is collecting full meas- it is becoming in- ! ure for her contribution tu the and arrogant wing of suffrag It is The opinion of the Jerscy Journal {hat “1o doubt an equally case could be made out for the propusi- tion that married men also arc ‘siaves, It all depends on the point of view." That lkewise is very much the opinion of the Detroit Frea Press, which points out “there are millions of average ymen in the world who are just about able to make ends meet, They are consclentions persons, feeling the usuzl affection for their familles, und having a strong re- gard for the obligations which they as- sumed when they married and became fathers. They h in a xense Leen the slaves of marriage quite as much as their_better halves, but it has not Bren obsérved that the outlook for hard work and small returns ever discourage: \the youth of vith x when marrsing tim comes. They seem to think the e fs worth the candle and something |over. Perhaps. notwithstanding Mrs. A\ Belmont's doubts, they are right about it noisy It is a case of “slaves s the Lansing State Journal sees it, recalling that “from the cradle to the grave” wi are mpre or less In a sort of slavery to our enyironment, but the State Journdl is convinced ‘‘the statements by Mrs. Belmont might be termed of the ‘bunkum elass.’ The more we hear from some suffrage leaders the more we won- der how the cause was able to triumph 0 easily in the face of its champions. Agreeing “there are married slaves. but that does not prove Mrs. Belmont's ' the Worcester Gazette points out “marriage is neither a failure nor a form of slavery. Some married folks are failures. though, and some arc slaves, not partners.’ But human weak- ness, mot marriage, must carry the blanie for th Although Mrs. Bel- mont insists “among the men who op- pose her views only are to be found the smail-town man, and the benighted church organization,” the Cincinnati Lnquirer insists ‘“there still continuc to e, even in this sophisticated world youths and maids who dream dreams and sve visions which Include the hayen |of & home where baby feet patter and baby laughter rings. " It is pretty har to “see Mrs. Belmont's girl” the Grand Rapids Press suggests, or to_ find her “yearning for the good old days spent in freedom béfore the sewing -machine or in the glove factory,” vet it {s en- tirely possible, in the opinton of the Chattanooga Times, that **Mrs, Belmont is ahead of her times, but who will eay hat she is not blazing the way along which she and her kind are going to | drive cowardly and spineléss politicians just as she ‘and the suffrage-hunting feminists did in forcing through the nineteenth amendment?” as Erin’s Promise to Pay Example for Other Lands Definite announcement that the Irish Free State will redeem the bonds issued in America and Irelana in support of the republican move- ment comes as a pleasant surprise. It is surprising because of the wide- spread talk of debt cancellation by national debtors and tho customamy attempt of new governments to hag- gle over assuming obligations of their predecessors. Offictals of the new Froe State could not legally be hala for repayment of money invested in a Tost cause. But they voluntarily rec- ognize a moral indebtedness, for, they say, the republican movement led tu cstablishment of the Free State. They give a lesson in good faith much needed by soviet Russia, whose oh- stinacy' in_refusing to recognize the foretgn debts oreated by the czars in the name of the Russian people has hrought down on the distressed coun- try the distrust of the world. Anc the money the Free State pays out in carrying and redeeming the bonds whl earn 100 per cent Interest in good will—in friendliness that could not be had in any other manner.—Milwau- kee Journal.