Evening Star Newspaper, October 22, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR, WASHI G’I;ON 'D.. C,. MONDAY, OCTOBER W WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE " THE EVENING STAR, ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY... .October 22, 1923 . THEODORE W. NOYES........Editor " The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. New York Office: 1. Chics Office: European Office: 18 Regent St., London, Tie Bvening Star, with tbe Suaday morning edition, Is delivered by carriers within the city =t 80 cents per month: dally only, 45 cents per month; Sunday only, 2 cents pet moath. Ur- ders may be sent by mall or telephone Main 5000. Collection 15 made by carricrs at the ond of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Mary'and and Virginia. Paily and Sunday..1 ; Daily 2 Bunday onl All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1yr., $10.00; Yaily only.. 1yr, 37.00 8unday only. 1yr., $3.00: Member of the Associated Press. The Associsted Press fs exclusively entitied %o tie use for republication il news dls- patches credited to it or vot otherwise credited in tils paper aud also the local news pub- iished hereln. Al rights of publication of special dispatelies/ herein are — 202 1 mo., 25¢ Protect New Organic Act. The new organic act of 1922 in- creases the District’s proportiongte share of the cost of Nutional Capital upbuflding, makes heavier its tax| burden and cuts down its heretofore exelusive miscelianeous revenues. In | compensation the new law retaine the i wise principle of detinite proportionate contribution by nation and Capltal community in Capital uphuilding, and | continues to bless Wushington with: this safeguard against cxcessive and unjust taxation by a tuxing body in| h the tax-paying community has ro representation. The new law was heralded as a com- promise peace-promot measure which would bring eessation for many years of the aunual friction-causing, prejudice-breeding and Injury-working controverstes over the flscu!l relation of nation and Capital. Let us of the District so act that the new law may have full opportunity to develop its merits and demerits ‘rith- out disturbance through the constant raising and discussion of new proposi- ‘ons concerning the fiscal relations of ration and Capital. | Let us have peac fiscal atfal for a few years. Let the leglslative decision in favor of a definite propor- tionate 60-40 ratio stund without ap- peal for several Congresses at least. The national legislators and District H i {ville, and would make it unnec {acte { bardt. Deel | mo conict with the Matthes organiza- { coramission decides to do tlhie wor One of the main strects of Hyatts- ville would have to be widened. This ‘would make for the good of that enter- prising town. ‘The proposed tLoroughfare would be of great advantage to a large section of Maryland near Washington. By the bullding of a broad, smooth way north- eastward from Mount Rainier thou- sands of Maryland people, many hun- dreds of whom come to Washington daily, would have the use of Rhode Island avenue from the District boundary to the heart of the city. That avenue has been bullt through to the line of the District, and is now an important way of travel. To extend the avenue to Hyatts jville. where It would connect with ;i ;og { the Y7ashington-Baltimore boulevard, slowing down In work in the big citles would also serve the purpose of peo- ple ‘of the District and of the very many autolsts traveling bétween ! Washington and the cast. It would divert & great deal of traffic now pass- {ing over the Baltimore boulevard, and | would Jessen congestion which has be- jcome serious at the junction of the boulevard and = Maryland = avenue. Rhode Island avenue, it extended cording to the proposed plan, would connect with the Baltimore houlevard beyond the railroad crossing at E ary for thousands of autolsts to pass that | danger point. ——————— The Rhineland Separation. Proclamation of a Rhineland repub- lic is not & surprise, for the possibilit; of a separatist movement of that char- has been dlscussed frecly for ®ome t It coms owever, in on unexpected manner. While Joseph {Matthes has been recognized hereto-|In the District of Columbla there is fore as the leader and chief promoter of the pian, this present move ls spon- sored by Leo Deckers and Dr. Gut- re declures that there is tion. Matthes himself, today's dis- patches state, has set up general head- quarters at Dueren, where the French {and Belglun authorities have provided | private industry is so busy that it calls | htm with a telephone system to keep | for all available labor. Trade is active in ‘clcse touch citles. nounces that Coblenz Is to be the capl- tal of the new repubile. Suspiclon is immediately expressed that this new separatist movement has the sanction, if not the support, of France and Belglum. Mr. Lloyd George has s0 stated explleitly in an inter- view. From Berlin comes the same expression of bellef. From Parls conies the statement that France and Bel- with the Rhineland taxpayers are entitled to a wholesome and refresiing period of rest from thlsl cONntrovers; Ne proposition to store the 50-30 ratio, or to substitute an indefinite national contribution for one that is definite, or to provide a lump-sum national contribution in- stead of the nation’s proportionate contribution under the new ratio should receive consideration. of the issue in eny shape is contrary to tie spirit of the compromise enact- ment of 1922. These contentions are claborated in editorial correspondence elsewhere in today's Star. The Dry Rivals. If there be poiitics in Gov. Pinchot's pronouncement of yesterday suggest fog in detail stricter federal enforce- ment of the prohibition law it may be construcd as emphasizing his recog- nition of the existence of a condition which is gencral among the potential presidential candidates in both par-! ties, namely, that every aspirant is an | ardent supporter of law enforcement. Therefore, Gov. Pinchot has no cop; right upon the policy 3 Law enforcement and prohibition are synonymous in the mind of the public, made 80 by protestations in fa- vor of enforcement by all the suggest- ed presidentlal possibilities. Gov. Pinchot would seem to be intent upon setting himself up as the “original en- " and staking his all, suppos- ing that he intends to be a candidate for the republican nomination, upon that platform. The questtion is, can he get away with it? Johnson, Low- den, Watson, anybody who may enter, will assuredly dispute his claimed monopoly. President Coolidge proved by his address to the governors' con- ference that he is an enforcer “on the -job.” i Revival ] glum will not Interfere unless there is disorder. Deckers is quoted as saying that the separatists will recognize the treaty of Versailles and proportional reparations obligutions. Perhaps the most significant fact in this connection is tha Deckers, the Berlin turrency is to be at once repudiated, and a new Rhine. land franc set up as a standard of value, equivalent to the French franc, end probably printed in Parls or Brus- sels. ‘Whether Berlin will undertake to check this movement by military force is not Indicated. Deckers announces that although the Rhineland forces {are now unarmed they “know where ito find weapons if necessary.” This again suggeste an understanding with the forces of oceupation, France and Belgium have in com- mon two purposes in thelr dealings with Germany, one to prevent future aggression, and the otber to collect as speedily as possible reparation pay- ments to enable them to restore their own lands to pre-wer conditions. Es- tablishment of a Rhine republic com- pletely separate from the German or- {ganization would provide a buffer. state on the north boundary, leaving only Baden in direct contact with the pres- ent French area, and that covered by the zones of occupation established under the treaty. But would the break-up of Germany leave adequate resources for reparations? It the Rhineland state assumes, with guar- antees, its portions of the reparations, will the other portions of the nresent German republic carry on with their fractlons? Could they do s0? The Rhineland is the industrial treasure- house of Germany, and its separation would leave the present republic seri- ously depleted in resources. Thus there is an evident conflict of interests from the French and Beiglan In the democratic party all the sug- gosted candidates are for enforcement. Mr. McAdoo is regarded as dry, else ‘Willlam J. Bryan would have pounced on him long ego. Senator Underwood, upon whom Mr. Bryan has already *landed,” protests that he is for en- forcement. Gov. Alfred E. Smith, say- | ing he would enforce, is not doing so in fact, but no one considers Gnv.l Smith as in the running. It would seer: that the blue ribbon will be the colors of every entry in the presidential nomination race; in ‘both parties, and continue to be worn by the successful candidates after momination. There were & number of considera- tions which placed Papyrus at a dis- advantage. They are easily perceived now, ‘bt were mnot observed early enough to make the betting gdds ex- traordinarily long. ' « The public paid nearly half @ million dollars to see the great international horse race. There should be no doubt ‘whatever about the nation's pros- perity. The fact that Turkish people are %ond of perfumes does not prevent them from appreciating the odor of petroleum. Rhode Island Avenue Extension. Hyattsville and other towns and set- tements northeast of the District line | * are interested in the extension of Rhode Island avenue from Mount TRainier to furnish a shortand other- wise better route to the center of the clty. Hyattsville, naturally, takes the dead in plans for this work, and its mayor haes appointed a committee of the town council “to gather the nec- essary facts to build up a strong argu- ment for the thoroughfare for presen- tation to the state roads commission.” This project, if consummated, must be carrled through by Maryland. The District has already done its part. There are difficulties in the matter of rights of way, but none that cannot be readily overcome if the state roads point. of, view. All the evidence, how- ever, points at least to a complacent attitude toward this movement for the division of Germany. ———t————— ‘While contemplating with calm the disorganizing influence of radicalism in Germany, France is compelled to recognize the fact that, like other countries, she has a few radicals of her own. ———— A new phase of reparations will come up if Bavaria, after “kidnaping” 12,000 troops, undertakes to hold the central government ultimately respon- eible for thelr board biil. The Moros are regarded as needing fewer politicians and more police. —————ea——— Clear the Way! ‘When the siren sounds in the streets of Washington es a signal that the fire engines are on thelr way every oc- cupant of the streets should make room for their passage. Drivers should draw at once close to the curb, and pedestrians should keep out of the path of the oncoming apparatus. These machfnes must be driven swiftly to check.the flames in their inciplency. ‘The loss of a minute may mean the loss of many thousands of dollars, and perhaps of human life. It is not enough, however, for the traffic to make way for the first en- gine or the first pair. The way must be kept clear for all that are to come. The other day, when in response to an alarm near the Capitol the engines went down Pennsylvania avenue, the traffic moved out slowly to give space, and for a part of the distance the ap- paratus had to be driven on the car tracks. As soon as the first pair had passed the traffic moved out into the street again, regardless of the fact that close behind came a fire truck, and behind that the water tower. These large vehicles had a hard time making their way through the Avenue to the scene of the alarm. The traffic is checked only a few minutes for. this purpose. An accldent may very easily happen ifithe fullest At the same time Deckers an- | according to| scope is aot given to the appeyatus. The most ample warning is given, The siren can be heard well In advance. 1f everybody starts at once toward the curb, and halts until the last of the fast-moving machines has passed, thers will be no mishaps. Considering that these motors are speeding in the pub- lic interest to save property and lives | they should be given absolute right of way. Winter and Employment. Though winter draws near we hear little or nothing of an “unemployment problem™ in the United States. In other years, in those times which we have come to call “normal’” it was | usual at this season to have news of a | of the east and north. Men were being dropped from pay rolls in the indus- trial centers, and other signs of hard times appeared. No such news comes today. Quite the €ontrary. The Star has published correspondence based on reports from many cities famous for manufactures that there is every indication that there will be more jobs “in the great industrial and manufuc- turing centers like Pittsburgh, Cleve- lend and Detroit than men who want them."” It is sald that jobs are plenti- ful, and in some sections there is | shortage of adult labor at good pay. The ~ eutomobile bullding industry promises to continue at full tit throughout the winter. Imployment | departments in the steel mills say that scarcity of labor and not of orders is the reason that some plants are not operating at capacity. News from {the northwest Is that “employment is iat an exceptional level, and sufficient { men are not avallable for every line.” no sign of abatement of demand for labor and no sign of a decline in wages. Public works are going slowly, jand there is uncertainty as to when {many projected and sorely needed | works of a pudlic kind will be begun, | | but the list of private works in prog- ress and prospect is a long one, and end prosperity is still with us. ——— Traffic Slaughter in Chicago. | A "safety commission” named by | the mayor of Chicago has reported | that automobile accidents in that city during the vear 1922 totaled 31,6041 and caused a monetary loss 509,078, This vear's total, will be greatly in excess of t | ! The loeses, computed at the rate of | $3,000 as an average for men, women and children, were as follows: Three | thousand six hundied and nineteen deaths at $3,000 each. 10,510 serious in- jurfes at $86 each. 17.475 Injuries at {$12 each, property damage at $162 each In tie fatal accidents and at $64 and $16 each in the other two classes of accidents. At this computation the Iife in Chicago during 1922 represent- ed a monetary of 310,867,000, while the property damage totaled $2.- 662,078, This ta a very high price to pay for motoring, for rapid individ- ual transport. And it may be set down @s the minimum cost. as an under- estimate. For the money value of the lives lost is absurdly low. It is merely ! the legal damage rate, which is never as high as the actual social loss. Here is a slaughter of 3.619 persons in one year In one city, due to care- lessness, speed. The safety problem is, indeed, now a grave one. It will be noted that the Chicago commission states that the record for 1923 will be greatly in excess of that for past year. Evidently there is no hope in Chicago for improvement. 1038 et The press may be depended upon to support law enforcement. The trou- ble is that many rum-runners are too busy or else not sufficlently enlight- ened to read the papers. Thanks to the presence of My Own, Zev will not have to depgnd on for- cign talent for another sensational race. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON The Tax Grudger. I wish, good sjrs, you would reduce The taxes I must pay. Believe me, I have other use For funds from day to day. I'd like to see the pugilists Pursue their tactics queer. 1 cannot watch them ply their fists, Since tickets are so dear. H I'd like to see each base ball game And also watch the field Where foot ball players gather fame, In splendid strength revealed. I'd like to go from place to place And view each grand display; The gallant horses in the race, The yachts out on the bay. Good sirs, the taxes should be less! My sportive mood so rash Makes their expense seem, I confess, A gloomy waste of cash. Expressions of Genius. ‘We haven't any great orators and poets like anclent Greece and Rome.” “Our situation has its advantages,” replied Senator Sorghum, ‘‘Ancient Greece and Rome hadn’t anybody in- venting electric lights, motor cars and so forth.” Jud Tunkins says men fight to get something, and have to keep fighting to hold on to it. | Serials. | There is so much to talk about, ‘There are so many questions vexed, That every conference turns out *To be continued in our next.” | True Enthusiasm. “Flivvers and gas are going down, but food keeps getiing dear.” “That's as it should be,” answered Mr. Chuggins. “Most of us -would rather ride than eat.” Business and Currency. “Still printing paper warks?" - “Yes,” replied the Berlin official. “So long as tourists keep buying them as souvenirs we might as well take the slight but steady profit.”” ‘‘Patience,” said Uncle Bben; “is a great virtue, ‘ceppin’ when it's only 1oy'nase in. disguise.” {was attorney { virtutam constanti: Gen, Pershing had planned to go to France early this year, but the French occupation of the Ruhr induced him to postpone his arrangements. He and the War Department jointly agreed that, under the circumstances, his presence fn Europe at that par- ticular moment might be miscon- strued. The occupation fs still a mili- tary fact, but has apparently passed into a phase, In the estimatlon of the United States government, that re- lieves a visit from Gen. Pershing of the delicacy that might have attended it ten months ago. The general will, of course, be the recipient of distin- gulshed honors everywhere in allled Europe. He is too £ood a soldler not to do a bit of unofficial observing be- tween banquets and presentations, and the administration is sure to hear from him confidentially and often. Once Pershing thought he might set- tle down in Normandy and write his memoirs. ok ok ok The Germans, despite their hour-by- hour “crises,” the crash of the mark and their troubles in the Ruhr, con- tinue to miss no tricks in the markets of the world. Thelr very latest ex- Dortatlon te the United States was timed for the current foot ball season. At every big college game, cast and | west, hawkers are seiling miniature foot balls made of pasteboard, at- tached to ribbons and buttons of the contesting teams. Stamped conspieu- oualy on the make-belleve pigskin ia "Mu'a in Germany.” The toymakers of Nuremberg are probably able to sell the stuff in America for leas per thousand than it would cost us to muke w hundred. % ow % One of the kernels of gossip that| fil the friends of James M. Beck with hope that President Coolidge may appoint him ambaseador to Great Britain is the reported “slat- ing" of J. Weston Allen of Massa- chusetts o be wolicitor general in succession to Mr. Beck. Mr. Alen general of the Bay state from 1920 to 1922 and an un- successful candidate in the repub- lcan gubernatorial primaries in 1922 He made a brilllant record last year in disbarment proceedings against & coterie of crooked Massachusetts lawyers. Allen is an old friend of Mr.” Coolidge. He is a Mayflower degcendant and a Yale man. * % % % “Tay Pay" O'Connor, M. P, the ven- | erable Irish journulist, who hus just revived “T. T's Wee London, though he was seventy-five years old this month, is enthusiastic over Will H. Hays. Here is a t of O'Con- nor's eulogy of the G. 0. P. chieftain from Indiana: “This pon the reul h is ful ality once litical | gestion that President Coolidge ought | of the Navy. |are diplomats in everything except { by party, later a successful cabinet min- ister, and now the chief force In the gigantic cinema busines looks a mere boy. His boyishness vanished the minute he started to make his recent speech in London. For it was of such compelling eloquence, some- times of such exalted emotion, that the company was stunned into silent admiration. The cinema people knew what they were doing when they put at their head this slight, small man, Jith a soul aflame and a tongue of re.” * okod K Viscount D'Alte, Portuguese minister to the United States, has gone home for the first vacation he has had there in ten years. The viscount, a surviver of the old school of Euro- pean diplomatists, has been accredit- ‘ed to Washington longer than any ambassador or minister now here. He came in May, 1902, while Jules Jus- serand of France did not arrive until February, 1902, Aa the Frenchman is an ambassador and D'Alte only a mintster, M. Jusserand ranks as dean of the diplomatic corps. D'Alte holds another record—he is the most un- obtrusive diplomat in Washington. He never makes public speeches and even in private conversation is almost as frugal as President Coolidge. Al the opening of the Washington confer- ence in November, 1921, Viscount D'Alte made the shortest specch of the sessfon—it lasted less than two minutes—but, by general consent, he sald more than anybody clse. The viscount is u bachelor, is rich, and hus an English mother. L To this observer comes the sug- to choose the four ambassadors he shortly will have to appoint from | among the active or retired admirals Our high naval officers name. They have seen the world, have dealt with all manners of men, are the last peopls In the universe likely to have wool pulled over their y and possess the soclal graces that belong to the diplomatic pro- fession. A good many of them have wealthy wives, a fact which would make up for the parsimoniousness of our government. Also, our sallor. men do not play politics. Great Brit- ain has just made a retired admiral, Sir Dudley de Chalr, who commanded the third battle squadron of the grand fleet, governor of New South Wales. Admiral de Chair accompanied Mr. Balfour's war mission to Washing- ton in 1917. *ow o K One of the “books of the scason” promises to be “Woodrow Wilson's Case for the League of Nations,” just published &t Princeton by the Uni- versity Press. It has been compiled with the former President's approval Hamilton Foley and consists of Mr. Wilson's complete arguments for the league, in his own words only and now iseued for the first tim. lLaufly Maud Mackintosh to Wed Capt. Evan Baillie, War Hero Lady Maud Mackintosh, eldest | daughter of the Duke of Devonshire, | whose husband, Capt. Angus Mack- | intosh, only son of the Mackintosh | of Mackintosh, died at Washington in 1918, while she was just recov- ering from the birth of her littie girl | at Government House at Ottaws, is| about to marry again. Formal announcement made- of her engagement to Capt. the Hon. George Kvan Balllie of Dochfour, Inverness, eldest son of Lady PBurton, peeress in her own- right, and who is next heir to her barony, as well as to her extensive holdings in the great Bass brewerics at Burton-on-Trent. ~ Capt. Baillie served as captain of the Royal Horse | Artillery during the great war, win- ning the military cross in France, and afterward further distinetions while on the staff of Gen. Jan Smuts in the conquest of German East Africa. Lady Burton's peerage was bestow- ed upon_ her fathen the late Sir Michael Bass, with special remainder to his only child Nellie. He was one of the close.persanal friends of King Edward, their Intimacy dating from the time when they were at college together at Cambridge. When he was ralsed to the house of lords as Lard Burton, he declined to follow the usual custom of applying to the Royal College of Heralds for the dis- covery of mythical Norman and Cru- sader forebears, being content to be ancestored by the true founder of his house and of his fortunes, the humble carrier and bottls washer, Willlam Bass, born in 1717, at Burton- on-Trent. He even made fun of the heraldic devices which he was com- pelled to assume, selecting as his motto a punning allusion to the name of his firm, namely, “Basis which he used to translate as “The virtue of Bass' ale is that it's always up to the mark.” PR His daughter, Lady Burton, resem- bles him in this respect. She is very unaftected, outspoken, and, as a girl, was very high-spiritcd. On one occa- slon, at a dance in the old picture gal- lers of Holyrood Palace, at Edinburgh, when she whisked past in the mazes of a Highland schottishe, an old-fashioned general, startled by her decidedly lively style of dancing, commented, within her B eing, “Hardly the manners of a Vers Vere.” de"Nz," retorted the then Miss Nellle Bass; 'they are the manners of the Dode Decr, and Joly good beer it s, wOn another occasion, at a ball, the present Duke of Athol, having been Dretonted and promised by her a dance, D “Who was then known as the Mar- e "o Tulllbardine, wrote the latter Lo on her dance program. s that really your name?” inquired the irrepressible Nellie. It is a very Surlous ‘one, and very long for every- day use. YWwell» replied the red-headed mar- quis, somewhat nettled, “it 18 & mame Shetty well known in Scotland. Have you never heard of the Tulllbardines, who fought at Culloden? Or of my at_great-grandfather, who fell &t alplaquet?” Bver, I'm afrald” Miss Bass. re- plied, “But then, you See. my great- great-grandfather was a bottle washer. At vet another dance, a fancy dress ball, at which she appearad gorgeously e hyed In the garb of the royal lady Hho’ in scripturally reported ta have tempted King Solomon from his maritai obligations to his 1,000 wives, her host- ess inquired, as she greeted her: “Well, Rellles 50 you've come s the Quesn of Sheba. ‘No,” Lady Burton replied; “of Beer- P What Lady Burton omitted to men- tion. in repiying to the Marquise of Tullibardine was the fact that, al- though the fortunes of the Bass fam- ily were founded by the humble bo! tle washer and carrier. whom she de- scribed as “her great-great-grand- father,” she is connectéd in a way with the family of Shakespeare. As every one knows, the bard’s mother was & Mary Arden, daughter of Wal- ter Arden of Park Hall, Warwick- shire. Now, Emily Jane Arden, who married Michael Thomas Bass, and who was the grandmother of 'Lady Burton, and the great-grandmother therefore of her son and hefr, Capt. Hvan_ Baillie. wes descended i a di- rect line from +3i: Welter Arden ,of has been | losses Of | yy pgy MARQUISE DE FONTENOY: (cngaged to the present Marquis of Cambridge (formerly Duke of Teck), and the eldest brother of Queen Mary, broke off her engagement in order to marry Col. “Jim" Baillie, the Laird of Dochfour. he latter, although untitled, comes from the same stock as Lord Lamington, and as the Haillies of Innishragie and of Inndufferin, in Ireland. According to tradition,” the three sons of Sir William Baillie of Lam- ington, in Lanarkabire, irritated be- yond ‘measure at the interference with their lovée affalrs on the part of the priest who was acting as their tutor, subjected him to such injuries as to result.in his death, and they were forced,.,in consequence, to.flee to remote parts of Scotland. _The eldest of the brothers settled at Doch- four in Inverness, and it is from him that the present Laird of Doch- four and, in consequence, his son, Capt. Evan Baillle, are descended in a direct and unbroken male line. The laird's mother, the late Lady Frances Baillle, was a_daughter of that Earl of Elgin. to whom the Brit- {sh Museum owes the possession of the Elgin marbles, and she was, dur- ing the last six or eight years of his life, the head of the household of her brother-in-law, Dean Stanley of Westminster Abbey. She was a par- ticular favorite of Queen Victoria, whose lady-In-waiting she had been. Among_her brothers were Sir Fred- erick Bruce, who died 4t Washing- ton as British envoy to the United States, also Gen. the Honorable Rob- ert Bruce, who was the governor and mentor of King Edward during his youth, accompanying him on his trip to America._ Still another brother was James Earl of Elgin, who, after baving, as he claimed, succeeded in floating a treaty between the United States and Great Britain through the Senate at Washington, on a sea of champagne, died as governor general of Indla. * K %k Young Capt. Baillle, the future Lord Burton, Is an active partner of the Bass breweries. On leaving Eton, in- stead of going to the university he went straight off to Edinburgh, to study brewing in the brewerfes of Sir George Younger, in order to secure a better training and apprenticeship than he could have obtained as one of the owners at the Bass breweries at Burton-on-Trent. He was busily en= gaged In learning all the intricacles of the industry and trade when the great war broke out, which led him to immediately volunteer for active service in France, although he was barely twenty y s of age at the time. Incidentally, it may be sald that Sir George Younger, who was for &0 many years mansger of the conserva- tive party machine, and, as such, forced the resignation from premier: ship of Lloyd George last autumn by withdrawing the conservative party from the goalition, receiving his re-. ward in tie shape of & viscounty from the present government, has re- contly been very ill as the result of terpsichorean excesses. Although seventy-five years of age, he fs, like Lord Leigh &nd a number of seéxa- genarian and septuagenarian peers, an indefatigable dancer, and the other day fell in a dead faint from over- exhaustion at the Stirling county ball, being only revived with considerable difficulty. 5 This has served as a warning to most of the other hereditary legisla- tors of his age, with the result that the “tempo” of the dances will, from henceforth, be much slower and less fatiguing than in the past. Lloyvd George, who has always regarded TLord Younger as one of his most re- ientless adversaries, and as the chief factor in ousting him from the pree miership last year, can hardly be ex- pected to be overwhelmed with grief over the lilness of his peppery little enemy, brought about, not by over- work in behalf of the state. of the conservative party, or of his brew- eries, but by frivolous terpsichorean excesses, unsujtable to a man of his advanced years. ——e——————— Indian Population Grows. The Indian population of the United States, according to the latest tabula- tion of the bureau of Indian affairs, is 344,303, an increase the past year of 1,144. Oklahoma continues to lead among the states with a total of 119,280, Arizona being second with 43,015, Delawere reported two Indian inhabitants and West Virginia seven. —_————— Comparison in Misery. From the Boston Transeript. President Finley of the Chicago and Northwestern rallroad finds that the Kl w of the W 22, 1923, AST IS EAST BY FRANK H. HEDGES The hand of a Chinese officer shot out and landed with a ringing blow on the ear of a Russian of the middle classes standing In a railway station in one of the citles of northern Man- ehurfa. ‘A curse went with ‘the blow, but the Russian merely covered his aching ear and cringed back, He took the blow without a murmur, reacted in exactly the sdme manner as the coolie of Peking or Shanghai who is struck by a Chinese policeman—or by a foreigner. Within the past few years the Russian has done more to “lose face” for all foreigners in China than has any other one person or event. The problem of several hundred thousand Russians drifting about the republic, subject to the laws and abuse of laws by the Chinese, without the protection of their homeland behind them, without funds and without ways of making a living, 8 a problem whose serlous effects are felt less in Moscow than in London, Washington and Paris. The Russian is a repre- sentative of western peoples in the east. No matter how he abused his position in the past, and he did abuse it greatly, his present pitiable state causes not only him but all Buropeans and Americans to lose the respect of the more ignorant classes of China, the classes that make up the great bulk of the nation of hundreds of millions. i The conditlon of the Russians in Manchuria, evén of those who make their living by smuggling oplum, is one of poverty. They have very little money and live in very poor houses, while their clothes and ap- pearance are slovenly in the extreme. Occaslonally a woman is passed on the street who has made attempts to dress well, such pitiful attempts that they rouse sympathy. Perhaps her dress will be cut in the latest style, but it will be made of the cheapest sort_of materlals. * From the time that the boisheviks rode into power, thousands of Rus- slans who refuse to acknowledge the soviet government have crossed the Amur river in Manchurfa, have come down into China across the great deserts of Mongolia or through the mountain passes of Kansu and Sin- kiang. Bones lie scattered all along this latter route, for it is @ hard and difficult journey and many have per- ished in’ attempting to make it. Harbin, the headquarters of the Chinese Eastern railway, is the haven of refuge for many. The control of the rallway by French, Pollsh and imperialist Russian inerests giv employment, in some cases wealth, L0 several thousand Russians who would otherwise be destitute, but tho Russian whites who are not tak under its protecting wing drift from city to clty, from province to prov- ince, picking up what odds and ends they can. America is their promised land, but even the few who are able to piy thelr trans-Pacific passage fear that on their arrival on the west coast of this country they would be turned back under the restricted migration laws now in effect. Since the revocation by China three years ago of the extraterritorial rights of all Russians, those In nortt China are without legal protecti other than the Chinese courts, wh are more often used to extort money or to heap abuse on them than to give them fair and impartial justice. When the commission authorized by the Waushington conference to examine into the feasibility of the abolition of extraterritoriality visits China, it is to be hoped that its members will slip quletly up to Harbin without the blare of trumpets and there get a glimpse of how Chinese law actually oporates in, the cese of forelzners when Chinese underlings believe tiat they can “get away with it * x ¥ ¥ It s true that tie Germans in China, who are also without extra- tarrioriality under the terms of their new treaty, have no serious com- plaints to make, but this 1s due to the fact that the Chinese still fear and respect Germany despite the out- come of the war, and, to an even greater extent, because the German has too much self-respect to live on the plane of the coolie. To the average Chinese of Manchuria, the Russlan {8 no better than a coolie. Russians may be found working side by side with Chinese in street gangs or 1n other menial tasks. The Chinese who sees this at once gains nothing but contempt for Russia and all Russians, while many make no differentiation be- tween Russians and other foreigners. Because he is without the protec- tion of the laws of his own land and because of the Chinese opinion of him, the Russian in north China and as far south as Shanghal is subject to gll manner of hardships at the hands of the more brutal and un- restrained _Chinese, officials and civilians alike. Arrests are frequent in Harbin for no cause whatever, and the prisoners are placed in dirty and crowded jails for da awaiting trial Often they are guilty of the charges against them, but this has nothing to do with the treatment they receive at the hands of the Chinese under- officials. A bribe Is always sufficient to obtain better treatment. * ok ok ok As the Russian walks along the street or through the market place he is apt to hear bitter gibes and taunts thrown at him in Chinese, and he is fortunate if he fails to under- stand the language. At least some of the American residents of Harbin carry tiny red, white and blue flags in their pockets, ready to flash them on some ignorant Chinese at any time to prove the nationality of their owners. The American flag is far more efficient protection than the law courts of China as at present con- stituted. The upper class Chinese and the higher officials do not take this same attitude, but they are in a minority and the governor of a province can- not effectively direct the actions of the vegetable seller or the Itinerant barber when he chances to pass some Russian_on the street who is down and out. That barber recalls some personal incident of several years past, when a Russlan dressed in furs swept past behind his prancing horses and upset the barber's little street shop, perhaps even lashed at with' & whip and jeering laugh. It may be argued that the Russian is merely getting back what he gave in former years, for no foreigner in China has ever been as arrogant as the Russian of other days. But the blow given by the Chinese officer in the railway station did not equalize and cancel the old score; it merely stored up fresh bitterness, the more intense since silent, that some day must find vent. The Russians may have earned what they are now re- ceiving, but the Chinese are not only collecting a debt long past due but are mortgaging the future when the Russians shall have returned to power. PSSP Makes Earnest Plea . For the Race Horse To the Editor of The Star: Now that the racing season is on I want, in the name .of the Humane Education Society, to make a plea for the race horse. The fire -at Laurel, Md., when four horses and a dog, belonging to H. Guy Bedwell, were burned. to death; the fire in Kentucky last.year, where thousands of dollars in -horse flesh perished in the flames, seems to be sufficient evidence that the stabling * % him facilities of these horses are very| PO he jockeys and stable boys who fraquent these places are all inveter- ate smokers, and, owing to the na- ture of the horse, there is very little chance for him when the fire starts. “So, I make my pléa to the racing sien pf the count:y—give these horses fireproof stables. - MARY E. CLARK. "ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS -~ ’ BY FREDERIC J. HASKI) I Q. Why has a ban been placed on the parking of automobiles on Hains * Polnt?—W. T. A. A ban was placed on parking at Hains Point on the Speedway because the accommodation for parking is rather limited and the parked machi obstruct the view of the river from the drive. Q. R. T. A. Pound for pound fish contains as much proteln as meat and_in some cases more. It therefore affords the same class and grade of food material as beef, mutton and pork. Q. What are ponds”?—J. Y. A. Sky ponds are those wholly or partly dependent upon local preeipi- tation for their supply. Is fish as nutritious as meat Q. What breeds of horses are called draft breeds?—B. M. A. The Percheron, Belgian, Clydes- dale, Shire and Suffolk are known as draft breeds. Q. Did the women of ancient Egypt cover thelr faces?—N. H. A. They did not wear velils. Q. 1Is there any wa ticlés that are ot viet microscope?—W. F. H. A. There is an instrument called the ultramicroscope which makes visible bodies which are much smaller than can be seen with the microscope. It does this-not by magnification, Lut by very bright illumination. The bodies are seen only as bright specks. It is claimed that some of the largest mole- cules can be seen separately by this method. These molecules cont a large number of atom From the motions of these ultramicro scople particles their masses can bé estimated. of seeing par- ble through a Q. Why can't the stamps on stamped envelopes be cut off and used?—G. E. A. The law provides that to be valid for "postage government stamped en- velopes must be used to inclose letters, Obviously the stamp when separated from the envelope cannct be o used. In other words, the envelope is part of the stamp and ‘the latter is not good for postage when removed from it. vision is made, however, for redemp- tion in other stamps of stamped en- velopes spoiled in addressing or other- wise made unserviceable, provided they are presented at the post ofiice by original owner in a substantially whole condition. Q. What is the weight of the aver- age elephant?—E. D, A. The average weight of an ele- phant is about 8,000 pounds, or four tons. The weight of a larg s about five ton: Q. When was Australia discovered? —W. 0. 1 ’ g A. The first authenticated was made by the Dutch in 1606, believed, however. that the count: visited by the French prior to date, though there were no actu rec- ords. The first important explorations were made by Capt. Cook, who visited the country in 1770. Q. Tuit be °— % fruit be made? voyage that How can gl Place in a Kettle any fruit you )m which to boil it. Now add sugar, allowing five pounds to each two quarts of water, set on the fire and cook to a thread or until a littie between inch and 2 half or s0. Remove from the fire and grain the syrup on the sidi of the kettle until cloudy, then remov the fruit with a fork an v on sieve to dry. Q. is the oldest theater in America’—L., B. A. The Walnut Street Theater, ope ed in 1508 in Philadelphia, is the old theater in this country. very littie in outward appearance it was erected. e N TODAY’S ‘The president of the New York Cot- ton Exchange, Mr. Edward E. Bart- lett, jr., takes with some seriousness a statement of Lord Derby. that Great Pritain will become independent of the United States for its cotton and will get its supply within the em- pire. Mr. Bartlett thinks it unfortunate that the United States government appreciates less than do foreign in- terests the danger of the wiping out of our cotton production. He cites the estimated loss of 20 to 25 per cent by boll weevil and drought, and ing without any cotton reserve in 1924—which is undisputed. He in- sists that the appropriations to ex- terminate the boll weevil are “infin tesimal” as compared with the de- struction of its yearly ravages. * k % ¥ It is intimated by some that much of the pessimistic talk about the ruination of the cotton ind: i attributable to spiration” speculation and great gerated. There is_also exaggeration of the estimated loss, due to counting the value of a crop on the existing mar- ket price. which price is high be- cause of the destroyed portion of the yield; whereas if that lost catton had matured it would have “beared the market very considerably. By that false method of accounting the estimated shrinking of the 1922 crop, Que to the boll weevil, amounts to balf a billion dollars. * %k ¥ Cotton has two principal enemies— the boll weevil and the pink boll worm; both pests invade the states from Mexico. The pink boll worm has been successfully eradicated, ex- cept In Texas, close to the Mexican border. This was accomplished only by forbidding for several years the raising of cotton In infected regions. This method brought great resistance from the planters who were alfected by _the prohibition. The first state law was found un- constitutional. Through state and national government uniting to pay an acre rental for all land where the Taising of cotton was ordered sus- pended the good result was achieved. The Department of Agriculture has been studying thé boll weevil for many years, and now feels confident that a spray of calcium arsenate will control it. But the federal go ernment is not prepared to do the spraying, any more than it under- fakes to spray all the orchards of Amerlca. That is the work for the owners of the land, says the bureau of entomology. * K k% The chief cotton economist of the Department of Agriculture, William B. Meadows, is a genuine optimlist in regard to America’s holding the lead in the cotton production of the world; t for the next quarter of a 2 sy “He 'says that for vears Great Britain_has_been seeking to find other sources for cotton, outside of the United States. She has sought, particularly, to develop in her own folonies and protectorates, but each country has Its own obstacles to OV potamia. It 1a inhabited by a nomadic race of half savages whn‘ are belligerent to the English. are not accustomed to fleld labor. Before cotton could be produced llu‘r? war and irrigation are necessary this would be too expensive for cot- 3. o el ine population is_ostile ava conservative. They have been raising cotton for 3700 year: and sesent sugzestions improve seed s exag- “ » i a hundred or so, | Pro- | e elephant | desire to glace and add enough water | the | fingers will just barely string out an, It has changed | says there is danger of the world be- | Q. Wheh two countries have a treaty ‘ltn:l"el::re‘lll E‘qllle‘!tlon as to just 'h&lt 8, how is the treaty interpreted” —G. W. B. e A. Interpretation of a treaty must be mutual. That is to say, that the contracting powers must agree as to the construction of all provisions or must agree to leave the construction to & neutral. Q. What state has the most wilder- ness, wild game and Indlans?—W. B. H. A. Oklahoma has the greatest num- ber of Indians, the Indian population numbering 119,481. Idaho probably has the most wilderness and wild game of any state In the Union. Q. Is emery cut from stone or is it 2 manufactured product?’—0. R. A. Emery is 2 mineral. It Is a com- mon dark granular variety of coron- dum, containing more or less magnetite of hematite. On account of its great hardness it is used in the form of pow- der, grains or larger masses for grind- ing’'and polishing. Q. Do bananas ever ha o ever have A. Bananas occasionally develop seeds, 1In such eases little black specks may be noticed in the flesh of the banana near the center. These are embryo seeds. Q. Could a person who is not a cits zen of the United States be guilty of | treason’—R. E. G. | A. Although treason is popularly re- ! garded as a breach of allegiance it = now well settled that an alien as well as a citizen may commit treason, sine. 1if domiciled in a country he owes it {local and temporary allegiance in re turn for the protection he receives. Q. Has the book “Treasure Is any historical basis?—T. W, B. JA. The story was written and read a chapter at a time for the entertainment of Stevenson's stepson, Lloyd Osbourne, then a twelve-year-old schoolboy, to re- lieve the tedium of a rainy vacation, and grew out of a map the author had drawn and labeled “Treasure Island.' seeds?— and ] Q. Did Stephen A. Douglas outiive | Lincom?—n. ¢ Faoont A. Douglas, who was Lincoln's op- ponent for the Presidency in 1860, died June 3, 1861, while Lincoln lived to be re-elected to office. Q. Why is land at the a river called a defarak. G Too ©f ,.A. The name was given to a tract of land inclosed by the mouths of the Nil river, which was shaped like the Greek letter delta. Now the term is used for | any land so situated 1., Q Whlle on an automobile tri Niagara Falls 1 saw in the public *I;pmll':) the little town of Painted Fost, 2 elaborate bronze ctatue of an In- n, What is the connection between he town and the Indian E W, A. The monument at Painted Post was erected by Indians over the gra of their chief, Capt. Montour. Orig 2 ly the name Painted Post vas ap- plied to the entire country in New York and Pennsylvania drained by the Tioga (now Chemung) and it | tributaries. The confluence of th three tributaries form g the ver was known as the place of the “meet ing of the waters” It was a pla of rendezvous and dispersion of the various tribes, when preparing to move upon their enemies or to go on hunting and fishing expeditions. Thes Iso met there for games of chance and to exchange various articles. Posts were set out by them to com- memorate important evenis and upon them they painted rude characte: describing the resulis. (Readers of The Freming Sta should send their questions to The Star Injornation Bureaw. Frederic J. Haskin, director. 1220 North Capitol streel. The only charge jor this service i3 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLIN. or methods. Its cotton competes only | with our lowest grade fo-'o'pvnfl | southern ‘India, where a so-called t;_\meru:xn' sced has bee introduced \pDrT tht' Il’flll.y peninsula, but it is a [T ST;@L:(’;DD;TW;’M the Ind: | favorable to Indian cotton © “T° U { . EgYDPt.* The production | ing "in_Bgypt. due, part] i tion of the long staple, t boll worm, and to the s the sofl 'with grr drainage. “England ter in Egvpteat | and the Egyptians s This territory requires fr- : Efforts are suspended on gccount of the political agitation in eypt. Eventually it will be capable of 400,000 bales, but not soo ¢ poouth Africa.” After twenty years' efforts, it produces 100,000 bales, but owing to " the high 'wild tropieal cotton growing is greatly hin- The country is burdened, too, ' mosquitoes and consequent ma- laria. In half a century its natural disadvantages may be overcome through settlement and development AAIIK alia. England has subsidized ustralian cotton growing, and some ?rngress has been made there in the last three yvears, producing now about 30,000 bales a’ vear. Climate dr: labor very high. population sparse.”’ estine produces a - sma and is being S agia the pinic turation of gation without © longer is mas- t, outwardly are not progres- Sudan. rigation, ursed by Englan Aslde from the.Britfsh Empire, the best outlook for new cotton areas i in Brazil, where for some years there has been a small ‘export sur- plus, but the domestic mills use nearly the full Vield. Braazil h been encouraged by Wisits from cot- ton experts sent out by a federation of master cotton spinners of Man- chester, England, who have advised as to methods and seed. Brazilian laborers can make more in coffes hay sugar than in 'cotton, Cotton re- quires much hand-work. Brazil lack. transportation, and the cotton has to be carried on the backs of burros hundreds of miles. Brazil also ha- its insect pests. There is some suc. cess in southern Brazil, at San Paulo. | .- In Bolivia, Uruguay and Paragu there is lack of transportation, popu- lation and irrigation, which unites in Dpreventing important cotton growing. Peru raises a good quality-—150,000 bales—but requires . irrigation = to make an important yield. Argentina. The German multimil- Honaire, Stinnes. has bought millions of acres in Argentina, Which he is planning to colonize Wwith Germans. with the view to cottén raising, buf that will require many years to be- come important. Russla. It had_an export surplus of 1,600,000 bales before the war, but since Russia's collapse the surplus has been wiped oul,.and that los more than equals all that the small nations produce. Last year Russia had for export 50,000 bales; this y 100,000, Belgian Kongo, ton—by fighting It could raise co sects—but there i more money- In its rubber. Pers: and Turkey in Asia nroduce small yields. China produces a&n inferior grade, used only for their own blan- kets and for stuffing. The Chine are now trying American seed, and may improve, in long years, but even then will probably use their product at_home. The war practically killéd the flax industry of Belgium and Ireland, and the result is that Europeans have learned to use cotton, where they for- merly used linen. With @l the de- velopments in_ various - countries— each with its own handicaps—it does not follow that the total yield of the world will more than keep up with the increasing demand. There is an increase of consumption—temporarily interrupted by the war and its after- math—amounting . t0,1:000,000 . bales every three years. 3 5 (Consright, 1923, by Paul Y, Colltms.