Evening Star Newspaper, October 23, 1923, Page 6

o I THE EVENING STAR, With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY......October 23, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES... e e The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvaniu Ave. New York Office: 110 Bast 420d St. Chicago Ofice: _Tower Hutldiog, Foropean Office: 16 Regent 8t.. London, England. The Brening Star, with the Sunday morning sdition, Is delivered by carriers within the city &t 80 cents per month: daily only, 45 cents pe month: Sunday oniy. 20 cents per moush. Oi ders muy be sent by mail or tel 5000. Coilection is made by carr end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Mary’and and Virginia. Dafly and Sunda 1mo., 70c Dafly only 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday onl All Other § unday. 1 yr. Sl ges 1yr. Daily and Daily only. Sunday only. $10.00; 1 mo., 85 $7.00; 1 mc., 60 §3.00% 1 mo., 25¢ Member of the Assoclated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitled 0 the use for republication of ail news dis. patches credited to it or not otherwise credited D this paper and alo the local naws pud. ished herein. All rights of publication of special dispatehes herein are also resersed. Our Proven Treasury Surplus. The joint committee on District sur plus made, as required by law, two dis- tinct findings. The first clared the surplus balance eredit of the D of the Treasury.” The second finding declared the net surplus to the credit of the District, morally as well as egally, after the equitable credits of the United States and the District since 1874 had been determined and subtracted or added. to the The second finding of the commit- | tee needs, in order to become effective, approving enactment by Cong: The first finding, however, is rooted in a binding decision of the controller general of the United States, and i cenclusive In itself. Thus the finding of the balance or | surplus to the credit of the District ; “on the books of the Treasury” is es- tablished conclusively by the certifi- cate of the controller general, the highest authority on this issue. It is affirmed by the representatives of the Treasury Department in the surplus investigation, by the official and unof- ficial' representatives of the District 1nd by the joint congressional commit- tee, the legislative tribunal created by Cong:ess to deal with this iss three representatives of the Senate and two out of the three representa- tives of the House on this committee approve and make their own the de- | »ision of the controller general. The demonstrated fact of the existence of | this balance or surplus “on the books of the Treasury” needs no further legislation or adjudication. There s consequently no need for Congress to declare this surplus avail- able for appropriation. The certificate of the controller general alone is con- | clusive evidence that this surplus money is in the Treasury to the credit ! of the District and available for ap- propriation for District uses whenever Congress chooses to appropriate, and the same certificate states the gross | amount to the District’s credit avail- | able for such appropriation. Now that ! the existence and availability for ap- propriation of the District’s Treasury surplus have been demonstrated, it only remains for the District to convince Congress of the justice of approprla!-" ing the surplus for the District's bene- At, and to induce Congress to appro- | priate with a proportionate contribu- | don by the United States. ‘Washington rejoices that it has be- come unnecessary from the District’s | Doint of view to reopen either the sur- | plus issue or the fiscal relations issue on its merits, and that the surplus :ssue no longer serves to keep unset- ! tled, breeding friction and dissension, the question of definite or indefinite | nroportionate contribution by the | nation toward Capital upbuilding and the percentage ratio of such contribu- tion. These contentions are elaborated In | editorial correspondence elsewhere in today’s Star. ————— Argument as to whether manager or guest ought to pay the tax on a theater pass led to a duel in Paris. Nobody was serfously hurt, and the ! notoriety of the occasion was such: that it should be no longer necessary 0 paper the house. 0ld Washington. At a recent public gathering one of the speakers, to emphasize the present wakefulness of Washington, said: | “Washington is no longer the sleepy clty of the past.”” Forty or fifty years ago the people of Washington did not suspect that they lived in a sleepy city. They thought they were living in | a great town, and they used the term “National Capital” about as many ' times a day as we do. Very often | they even called Washington the “na- tonal metropolis.” Metropolis had a front seat in the vocabulary of the! old-time Washingtonian Forty or fifty years ago the population of the city was approaching 200,000, and that seemed a big figure. People then liv- ipg could remember when the popula- tion was 20,000. Not many American cities had so many Washington fifty years ago. Cities| that now have half a million people were flag stations on a single-track raflroad over which a train of three cats passed nearly every day. Some citles which were not even on a stage- coach route now have opera and sym- phony concerts, Forty or fifty years ago Washington players and actors whose names and jected to a like test before being al- faces we keep in faithful memory. We ' lowed in the streets the sidewalks and | had fine hotels, for that time, where |the crossings might become as lonely ; board and room could be had for $2 a | on & sunny afternoon as now they are finding de- | trict “on the books | inhabitants as | day. We were even prouder of our cet car system then than we are now. understood that it was the best in cars drawn by two horses and hav- conductors to ring the bells, sell We up fares. had steamboat excur- Landing and Fourth of July picnics on A “the spa woods, W at Bl ak Hill cemetery s on rainy Sundays. If an intelligence i test were required before a man be | licensed to practice politics or engage many would be hard hit. from education or other acquired | tests. siderable number of men could get by STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1923.° WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC David Lloyd George wants to visit,that practically all of the bankrupts DON JUAN. the country. On some of our lineswere | in learned pursuits it is feared that|tne spot where Abraham Lincoln de- |in his state nowadays are i lUvered the Gettysburg addre Visits to the tomb of the He seems determined to 'e unknown soldier, at Arlington; Mount | and 819 of them by farmers. wostan Island, at Custis Spring, | rough on mankind. There i8 no ercy | Vernon and Walter Reed Hospital are | at Green Spring above Georgetown, at | in him. He prescribes the test that 8lso on “L. G.'s’ densburg, in Parrott’s most men would find hardest. A con-'at the Natlonal Capital. " three-day program Mr. Lloyd George has engaged Peter B, Kyne, inow, and in Pencote woods, where ' on what is called an educational test, | the novelist who created Cappy Ricks, Congress Helghts has grown. We w to horse races at Bright- wood and Ivy ity and at the National i City race course beyond St. Eliza- beth's. Some ot us used to take a ride in the family carriage as far out in {the country as Mount Pleasant or Ten- | leytown, and we went a-sleighing on ! the Av had balls and parties, and we played croquet, euchre and casino, Altogether Washlngtonians living a pretty good sort of city. Pe fifty yvears from now the flap- pers and jazzers of that time will be stories of what somnolent folk | we are —_—— Confus:on in Germany. German news continues to present many conflicting phases of the situa- tion. The complexity increases dail In the Rhineland the separatist mov ment advances steadily. But now comes the statement that it has, in the judgment of some well posted ob- ! ser spent its force, and that while no serious opposition has been encoun- tered thus far, later stubborn resist- nce to the revolt will be met. Cob- lentz, chosen for the capital of the new republic, is reported to be unwill- {ing to hold that post. But the sep aratist leaders are proceeding to take possession, nevertheless. From Paris comes a report that “it is understood” that Premier Poincare doubts the success of the movement, and apprehends serious difficulties for the allies if it should succeed This is, of course, unofficial. It may be only a diplomatic nst the charge, already rought by Berlin, that the re promoting the revolt. This finds support in some of the dispatches, which tell, for example, of tentativ Frenct the issue of a French army order in | the occupled area that the separatists must not be fired upon, which puts the police in a helpless position. One dispatch states that Hugo Stinnes is opposed to the separatist movement. If this is true the Berlin government may gain his support. Apparently Berlin is doing little or nothing to check the separation. It can, however, do little in the circum- stances. It cannot march troops there, | where the French and Belgians are in force. One of the reasons why Berlin can- not act effectively is that Bavaria is on the point of departure from the reich. That is, indeed, a more serious { menace even than the Rhineland re- volt, which may possibly collapse : through lack of local support. Yester- day the reichswehr division command- {ed by the mutinous Gen. von Lossow . was placed under allegiance to the Bavarian government At a formal dinner Prince Rupprecht was saluted as king by those present, including | the chief officials of Bavaria. To make matters worse there is a threat of a general strike in Berlin if the wages of workmen are not put on a gold basis within three days. The { economic conditions are becoming in- | tolerable. The latest quotation puts | the price of a loaf of bread at five and a half billion marks. The mark has | become worthless. Out of all this confusion must come action or order. Action probably means disintegration of the German republic. Order may mean civil war, followed by the coalition of the in- tegers of the republic once more into a compact state. In either case Ger: many is for the present and near fu- ture in for a very bad time. ————— A new salary scheduie for police and the loss of the $240 bonus. In the . meantime the men will attend to their duties as usual, recognizing the fact that bravery and loyalty are not to be measured by mercenary standards. Gov. Pinchot, having taken up con- spicuously the matter of coal prices and prohibition enforcement, is in the distinguished position of @ man oc- cupying two spotlights at once. Organization of a league to oppose fascism in Italy calls attention to the {fact that while competition may have lost its prominence in trade it still remains the life of politics. Proclaiming a republic in Europe is as casy @s drawing up a prospectus. Getting the concern on a going basis is another matter. Germany is still called the father- land. with suspicions that France pro- poses to assume the attitude of a i stern stepfatherland. Test for Marriage. ! A member of the faculty of the Uni- 1 versity of Wisconsin comes into pub- {licity by saying that “within ten or | | twenty years an intelligence test will | be required of persons before they will !be allowed to marry.” A sharp te in winter, The young folk belleved they were | timation, to serve as de- | firemen is expected to make up for | was not a sleepy place. It had the- | tongued person might say that such a aters, and its people went regularly | test would discourage matrimony. He to weep themselves red-eyved over|might say that anybody who could “Camille,” “East Lynn” and “The Two | pass such a test would have no in- Orphans.” Sometimes they laughed at | tention of comrhitting matrimony. tarces, but it was not as good form | There would seem to be some exag- to laugh in a theater as to cry. Our |geration in such a statement. It is olden folk had concerts, and Clara | believed that a considerable number of Lbulse Kellogg and Louise Carey and | persons whose mental state was equal scores of others, after singing to us in | to a reasonable test have gone into opera, came to us in concert at Wil- | the marriage staté. They may bave lard Hall, Lincoln Hall, 0dd Fellows’ | regretted it, but that is not the ques- Hall, Temperance Hall and Marini's | tion. The proposed test would not dis- Hall. Great lecturers like John B.|courage matrimony, nor would any Gough came to us and stirred a few | other. of us to “sign the pledge” and to pin | . It might be argued that an intel. on & white ribbon. ligence test would show deficiencies We hed ministers of renown, and |in other persons than prospective we bad churches where we went on | grooms. For example, if automobil- Sunday, and in that remote time th ists were required to pass an Intel- was a widespread notfon that this ligence, test worth mentioning before 0ot an improper thing to do We had | zetting licenses there would be fewer which would give them credit for de- ' grees taken at college, for ease in| writing, reading and public speaking and for fluency in discussing subjects |about which nobody knows-a thing, | but relatively few men could get by in [ an examination on native or natural | subject on which many learned men would fall down. Art and Washington. ‘Washington's progress toward em- !inence as an art center hag been noted. | Perhaps it will become pre-eminent as the American art center. Perhaps it will come to be as Florence and Venice ! were of old, and as Paris and Rome {are. At a recent artists’ breakfast in | Washington attended by 130 painters | and sculptors one of the speakers, George Jullan Zolnay, said: “There is | nothing between us and success in | making Washington the focal point of | the world’s artistic and intellectual ! endeavor. This will come about as | {soon as we free ourselves from the | | tallacious notion that whatever is to | be will be, because we and our city will never be except what we make it.”” {1t is a prophecy with a qualification, but there is faith that it will be made good. The Corcoran Art Gallery is grow- ing in the number and character of its | exhibits. A biennial American salon | is held there to the credit of Washing- ton. The National Gallery of Art has { come Into being, and is developing in a healthy way. The Freer Gallery has added and will continue to add to the richness of our art hoard The frescoes in the Capitol and the Congressional Library are becoming mellower, and frescoes will no doubt be embellish- ments of public buldings that are to come. Fountains and statues, some of them splendid works of art, continue to be { unveiled and dedicated in public parks. The government is always adding to its collection of portraits distributed through public buildings. Art schools | multiply and flourish, and more men | land women are. taking up palette, | { brush and chisel and making a living | { with those tools. Nearly every home ! has pictures, and some of them are 1 good. Everybody Is interested in plec- tures of one kind or another, and the number of men and women who use terms of art and insist that they know something of the subject is increasing. There is no doubt that Washington has already become an art center, and that it is on its way to becoming the art center of the new world. ———— The Friuce of Wales will follow his | incog Canadian tour by a trip to South Africa. As one of the world's most eminent unofficial observers he should acquire information likely to be valuable in the future. ———— Hugo Stinnes is credited with plans to compete with Standard Oil in South America, Persia and Texas. The local supply of trouble available to him is { evidently not sufficient to require all his time or capital. Visitors from abroad occasionally re- fer to the great wealth of America in feeling tones which leave it in doubt whether they are extending congratu- lations or sympathy. When a millfon-mark note is ten- {dered the permission to keep the | change sounds large, but actually means very little. Curlosity is still felt in turf circles as to what kind of a race Zev would i have run if he had been perfectly fit. | Ppolitical turbulence may become so j extraordinary as to make the title “dictator” sound like a mild formality. -SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Hunting Season. “A-hunting we will go!” The chorus now we hear. “The ducks will not stand any show; The quail will disappear.” But when the story’s done— The tale you've often read— The animals had all the fun. The hunter’s sick abed. Shifting Conditions. ‘“Your constituents say your speeches are not as convincing as they used to be.” “Perhaps they are right,” replied Senator Sorghum. “It's dangerous to convince a crowd of voters so thor- oughly that you won't be able to make | in case circumstances render it neces- | imry for you to change your mind.' { Jud Tunkins says he's in favor of | { enforcing the law, even if it stops; | conversation. Efforts Neutralized. When all unhindered they appear, The lobbyists we need not fear. For each who has his little say There’s one to talk the other way. By Way of Apology. “She frankly admits that she mar- 'rlod me for my money,” said the ill- | natured man. ‘Well,” rejoined Miss Cayenne; “there had to be some excuse.” Ruining a Neighborhood. In reckless agitation Men oft decide in haste The way to save one nation Is to lay another waste. “You is Intitled to yoh ion,” said Uncle Eben. time tryin’ to force it on opin- 'l"" o intelligence. The professor picks out & = 1 lin the dairy farmer { more than half a century ago. {both in China herseif and abroad. to be his “contact officer” wih the American prews. Mr. Kyne I3 a Cah- | fornian. “The Pride of Palomar,” his romance of Japanese conditions on the Pacific coast, aimost became an international incident. * ok k% Nelther republican nor democratic ers are upset by the perennial threat of the American Federation of Labor to enter politics on an organ- ized scale. Under Sumuel Ggmpers, the federation has always pursued the poliey of “rewarding friends and punishing enemies.” At congressional elections it pretends to cast its solid intluence in in.or of men why have! voted in the labor interest. But po- litical leaders, aw well as the fadera~ tion itself, almost Invariably find that the vote of local unions canaot be “delivered.” And it is the “locals” that count. * ok ok k Magnus Johnson has come to Wash- ington and gone, leaving behind him a trall of exploded misapprehensions. Nobody who talked to him has gone deaf. He did not stamp into the Senate office building in mud-caked boots or distribute hayseed wherever he betook himself. It was not neces- sary to proclaim martial law in con- sequence of any revelutionary ut- terances on his part. President and press men found that Johnson can ta.k English about as fluentiy as the next feliow. He was discovered to be addicted to collars, neckties pressed pants and the other habil ments of the average man. No Daniel Webster has come to Congress from Minn but, for the matter of that, not other states in our day and g tion have sent one, either. *xox ¥ Represontative George M. Young of North Dakota, who led the north- i sion delegation to the White House iast week, declare nan nera- WILLIAM WILE. farmers. ou To | After his arrlval in Washington Mr. | n ; The Wisconsin professor is quoted that end the British statesman will | Young telegraphed tickets at six for a quartcr and take 'as saying: “Native intelligence, apart spend part of his last day In Wash- |48k how many petitions ngton, October 27, in touring the bat- | sions to Glymont and Vhite House | knowledge, should be sought in the ' tiefield. to Blsmarck to in bank- ruptey had peen filed in North Da- kota ‘thus fdr this year. The reply read: “Elght hundred and foi ve, The the the as menac- He knows in despair a tiller of congressman says that tells | whole story. Depopulation of | farming country ‘s almost | g a_situation, he acds. |a_man who has given | aftor forty-three years | his own soll. KAk | Horace Lee Washington, veteran | American consular officer, Is home on leave from his post of consul general at Liverpool. Washington by name, birth and education, his career in the foreign service dates from a clerk- | ship in the State Department in 1892, | Since then he has becn on duty in Zaypt, Syria, Spain, South Africa and France. Mr. Washington became con- sul general at Liverpool in 1909. Dur- ing the war he and Mrs. Washington fathered and mothered hundreds of thousands of doughboys who passed through Liverpool om the way to France. D ok x % Nobody hankers for the return of Congress so anxlously as the retail merchants of Washington. They tell this observer that life in F and G stroets is entlrely different when the flags are flying from loth wings of the Capitol. It's not unly the presence of senators und representa- tives and their families that makes trade bristle. 1t's the thuusands of o from all parts of the country ongressional affairs bring to Washington throughout a session . u.ogion Sores and whops now rank with the finest in the couniry Increasingly it's become the fashion for winter residents to shop here and not before they reach here. | * %k * ¥ | October 12, “Columbus day,” this !yonr for the first time will be cele- |brated in every national capital city | of the two Americas, with women of the Pan-American Congress as “the sponsors. Mrs, Hughes is chairman of the women's auxiliary commitice | | the first place. rather worn down by | | responsible for the approaching joint | celebration. All but seventeen states {of the United States treat “Columbus |day” as a general holiday. Every | Amierican _republic, except Bolivia, Haitl and Venezuela, observes the day |as a legal holiday. In California it |is one of the gayest holidays of the | year. ! (Copyright, 1923.) Sir Francis Aglen Keeps China In Line on Payments of Debts | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Sir Francis Aglen, who Is making a brief stay in the United States. on his way back to Peking, for the pur- pose of conferring with the authori- tles at Washington, is the inspector general and chlef of that wonderfu maritime customs service of China, organized by the late Sir Robert Hart 1t is entirely under forelgn management and control and under the immediate | protection of the foreign embassies und legations at Peking. Owing to its wise and honest management, this particular department of the Chinese government, which is recruited from picked men of various nationalities {and of which Edwin Denby, the Se: retary of the Navy at Washington, is a well remembered and popular vet- eran, has always shown a surplus which, in recent years. has amounted to as much as $25,000,000 annually Now this surplus has, with the con- sent of the foreign powers and by virtue of a hard and fast agreement, {been pledged as security for the in- terest of a number of domestic loans obtained by the government from native banking institutions. Until now this interest has been punctually paid by means of the maritime cus- toms surplus. But when Dr. Welling tgn Koo, the Columbia iversity graduate and former envoy of China at Washington, became minister of foreign affairs at Peking, last sprinj he insisted that the interest on thes domestic loans should be allowed to go by default and that the surplus in question should be turned over to him for the purpose of covering the large arrears of salary and expenses of the Chinese diplomatic missions in foreign lands. To this demand Sir Francis Aglen. as supreme chief of the maritime cus- toms service, opposed an absolute re- fusal, in_which he was, and stli i sustained, not only by all the foreign embassics and legations at Peking, but also by the entire native banking community in China, and especlally by the great guild which exercised an enormous influence upon the economic and also upon the political life of China. They all take the ground that any suspension of the payment of the interest and amortization of the do- mestic loans would inevitably pre- cipiate a financial panic, with the gravest political and possibly inter- national consequences. * K x K While the outlook for the diplomats now in the service of the Chinese government, and who. have to rely upon their official stipends, is, there- fore, not only gloomy, but even so desperate as to compel its desertion by all save men of large private means, the determination of the mari- time customs service under Sir Fran- eis Aglen to live up to its contracts for the allotment of its surplus to the payment of the interest and the amortization of the domestic loans of the government, has done much to strengthen the confidence, native and foreign, in the entire business situa- tion in China. Indeed, it has con- tributed to the altogether remark- able situation that, although the gov- enment at Peking with the solitary exception of the maritime customs department, is virtually insolvent and without money or credit, the native business world of China is doing ex- tremely well, the trade and industry them follow @ new iine of argument | of the nation are in a most flourish- | ing condition and the credit of the great and powerful native guilds and firms is excellent and above reproach, £ indeed, the business situation in hina that may be said to consti- tute the broad silver lining to the It | some of the country’s most Interesting { clouds that rest over the govermment, | or rather 1 should say the several governments, which. by their eternal rivairies and internecine war, have re- duced conditions at Peking w0 @ virtual chaos, depriving the nation, as a whole, of any responsible or central authority. Sir Francls Aglen, who, by the firm- ness and independence which he has displayed in dealing with difficult sit- uations as inspector general of mari- time customs, especially during the great war, has managed to win the same degree of confidence ana re- spect on the part of the Chinese or all classes as was enjoyed by nis tamous predecessor, the great Sir Robert Hart, is the son of an arch- deacon of the Church of England, was educated at Marlborough Coilege, ana has belonged to the customs service ever since 1888. He is married to a daughter of Sir Isaac Bayley Balfour. e king's botanist for Scotland and proessor of botany at the univer- sities of both Oxford and Edinburgh. Sir Francls. it Is interesting to poin: out. is one of the most vigorous op- ponents of the opium industiy in gen- ral, and In particular of the mor- ;‘fl.umamuvflohm more injurfously affected by the mor- phine injection” habft than th were by the smoking of opium, and the responsibility upon two namely, upon his owp coun- reat Britain, and uvon Japan He complains that Great Britain permits the i owth of opium poppies in India, vasily in excess of the local consumption, and thus encourages the manufacture therefrom in England and in America, and in Germany, as twell as in Japun, of morphia and {other pernicious drugs, millions per | cent beyond the legitimate require. ments of the whole world. Official ! statistics show an average Importa- ‘tion into America of 300 tons of crude iopium, which, manufactured into the ratio of seven to one, represent about forty tons of morphia and other noxious drugs. It is also shown that {one ton of morphia should suflice for {the annual medical needs of the en- !tire western hemisphere, from Alaska | to Patagonia. Sir Francis Aglen 1shows that one ton of morphia i equivalent to ‘that, although the importation of {opium and especially of morphia and its kindred drugs to China is strictly | forbidden, yet that thousands of tons of crude Indian opium are being smug- {gled Into the country, and that the bulk of the opium converted into morphia, etc., in Great Britain, Ger- many. the United States and Japan is smuggled Into China, mostly through Korea, and through Japanese ports on_the mainland of Asia. | The United States forblds the ex- port of morphia, or, indeed, of opium in any form, to China, eéxcept for medicinal purposes. But there is no | restriction upon its export to Japan, or upon its transport, in bond, through the United States to Japan from Great Britain and from Ger many, and, as 8ir Francis has pointed { out, the smuggling of the drugs from Japan Into China is conducted on the most extensive and Ingenious scale, thousands of motor boats being de voted to the clandestine trade. In | fact, much of the work of Sir Francis Aglen's maritime customs depart. ment is devoted to the apparently from reaching the nation whose cus- , toms service he is administering with s0 much independence and integrity. ¥ & x5 | T have on several occasions called attention to the revelations resulting {from the removal of the ban of secrecy upon the archives both of the | house of Hapsburg and of the im- perial government. And records and memoirs that were arbitrarily sup- pressed and strictly prohibited as long as the dynasty occupied the throne at Vienna are now being ex- posed to the light of day. Among the many interesting disclosures of this | character are the reminiscences of ! Mme. Vicenzo Nunzlante, whose hus- | band for more than twenty years was jthe chief male dancer of the famous corps de ballet of the Imperial Opera at Vienna. Her malden name was Marle Stubel and it was her younger sister, Milll Stubel, with whom Archduke John : lived,” more or less openly, during the last fifteen years of his existence in Austria, and whom he married in London, after his departure from | his native land, the loss of his honors and his title, nay, even of his citizen- ! stip, and before he started with her on { that sailing ship, the Santa Margherita, i of which he was not only the owner and skipper, on that voyage to Val- paraiso, via Cape Horn, from which he was never to return, and during the course of which he as well as his | wife and his crew disappeared, thirty- three years ago, without leaving the | slightest trace. ' ° ‘Archduke Johp was in the habit of frequenting the* home of Milli Stu- | bel's older sister, and of her husband, at_ Vienna, and Marie Stubel's ver. exhaustive reminiscences of the arch duke, who used famillarily to be known, both by the Stubels and by his imperial relatives, as “Glann | would go to show_ that his departure | from Austria and his abandonment of his membership of ~the house Hapsburg was due to the fact that he was aware that the government was in possession of evidence.of the fact that he had bcen engaged in a conspiracy to compel the abdication | of Emperor Francis Joseph in favor {of his only son, the ill-fated Crown Prince Rudolph, with a view to the abolition of glaring,abuse and the introduction of urgent reforms in the clvil and especlally in the military administration of the dual empire, to which the Cameritta surrounding the emperor was bitterly and desper- ately opposed. Marie Stubel, in calling attention to the close and intimate friendship which existed between Archduke “Gianni” and Crown Prince Rudolph, conveys the inference that the crown prince was in' some way privy to, If not an active participant in, the con- spiracy, and that it was his tragic death at Meyerling, immediately pre- veding the departure of the archduke from Austria, which placed the evi g:nu against l;::n &e.:nnd;.nt e emperor, who ylpuld-have been o] to proceed X on ‘NEW BOOKS 000,000 injections and | hopeless task of preventing morphia | AT RANDOM Ludwig Lewlsohn. Boni and Liveright. “She dld right, perfectly right.” | With this pronunclamento Hildegardo {registered a Solomonlc finality of judgment. “I'd have done the same | thing and so would any other woman iworth talking about”” And all the | women agreed in a babel that, though iquite unintelligible, was clearly a ! tumult of assent. “If I'd been in her | place—!" * Such a man as that!"— { here, contempt calculated to blight “Oh, you men make me and crumple. sic By now Hildegarde was a | trampling fury, while Peter, her spouse, was a crawling worm. And Peter was willing to let It go at that. ! Not Hildegarde. All ~ this to-do— | B-b-br-rumph-ur-urgh! — was_Hilde- garde merely warming up her Works for a thoroughgoing tryout of her powers of vituperation against the hapless male. But here the other women took a liitle sidestep. was much too personal and Peter was a good sort. He had done nothing— that is, not so far as any one knew. It seemed a little raw to maul good old | { i [was s was deed. that is not so far as any one knew. It upposed to be. And Hildegarde aking herself ridiculous. In- she looked at the moment Ilke nothing else in the world somuch as | | that historic creature of tHe spider {tribe that settles her conjugal dif- | ficulties by promptly eating up her | mate, thus doing away with him for ‘good and all. Absolutely rapacious | Hildegarde looked. So they tried to lead the talk back to the particular | pair that had started the clatter. Not {an earthly bit of use to try | “Hadn't this Elsie been that man's | wife for years?' Indubitably. | Hildegarde would like to know, more- {over, it Elsie was not a perfectly good | woman, much too good for that scamp | 7€ a husband. “To the former. cer- alnly—perhaps to the latter. Fool- | ish Peter, to Inject even the semblance of special pleading here for the los and-damned man in this case. hadn't a chance in the world to stem the tide of condemnation, and was only insuring himsel for future trouble. /to be free—wanted a divorce—had {had the Indecency to sav to his wife | 'nd—worse vet—had even asked her {70 help him in eecuring his freedom.” ‘Shame! Shame | "Ana Peter, not greatly interested in !the whole rumpus. in fact. and, it must | he owned. a bit dulled by the din. said thig witless thing, said it Innocently and ruminating'y, much as if he were | talking to himself:—"But. you see the man had ceased,to love his wite.” e Thunder and lightnin, and fire! Hurricane, wind, cyclone! Al blights — moth, rust, weevil! typhoon, whirl- the devourine mildew, * *x * K When Peter came out from under thé wreckage, {than actually aisabled, that the whole matter be moved back longed, had set out to discuss Ludwig Lew- isohn's new novel, “Don Juan.” that even before laying down the facts upon which any proper consd- !eratioh of the book might be given {they had completely deserted Mr. Lewisohn, running clean away from him back into the particular fleld of ces. From this point of bi~sed ahd oregone concluaions thev had turned 1hout to make faces at Mr. Lewisohn and to revile him for not having done way with so feckless a hero in his ery borning. Not a_fair deal to the author. Peter s~id. Bes'des. it made an altogether discreditable showing— if they asked him—{for the‘r power of broad and impersonal thinking. This 1+&t was pure bluff. for Peter w2s un- eqsy. He knew perfectly well that he had said an unforgivable thing. His {immediate purpose was to get {minds away from that. So he stung them at the vulnerable point of their just possible intellectusl inferfority Tt is to be feayred that Peter w { more concerned for himseif here tha { for the fate of “Don Juan.” | * K K X However, he made quite a to-do of straightening himself up—leaderlike —to take charge of the story. “Now. ladles, just lay your precious selves | "&lde, 80 to speak, and tell me what {this story is about” “Very good.” | “It is, as you relate, the story of un- |nappy wedded life —never mina! And Peter hurried along here, for he saw the black clouds of accusation about to gather. “Unhappy wedded {lite; Indeed. so unhappy as to sug- gest that a separation could not be { worse, and it might—just might, vou | know—be better.” “Now. merely is a i {outside this book, of marriages that are clearly and destructivelv un happy?” “Yes. we do. but- —" “That's {enough.” cut in Peter. “Now"-—most ~oncilatingly—*“would it not have been better—better for both, mind you—if each had gone his separate way here?" “No! No, sir!” “He wanted to get married again. He was in love with a girl fusing him freedom for such scandal- ous behavior.” “It was only fair for him to feel the obloquy of his lawles< conduct.” “A man ought to love hi wife.” Oh, Lord! hoping. but without hope, really, to escape that oughtness of marital af- fection. “Well, let's talk about it but Peter knew it was of no earthl use. “Yes, the wife was unhappy desperately unhappy. But band was unhappy, too.” “He ought to have been. He deserved it.” “Never mind. he was truly unhappy. It made him more desperate to know that the young girl was in danger—not inany vital danger from him. but deeply jeopardized by the tongue of rumor that was beginning to scatter suspi- cion and Innuendo.” “You see, she did finally go out of his life, because both agreed that the price she was paying was much too heavy.” ‘“Now, quite apart from your own feelings out In the open and from your own champlonship for the wife on the in- side here, what do you make of this love episode between Hegla, the girl and Lucien, the man in this case?" “You agree that it was an Innocent and true love, & very beautiful thine —or would have been had it not been black with the sin of longing for a wife when a man already has one.” “All interesting people. true to life honest at heart. just victims of— what?" “And there you are.” said Peter. “That's the case.” “No hope So far as we can See. The flame of love does not kindle twice with th | same two—once the fire dies out, it's dead and burled for time. So, ‘man and his wife are forever apart.” A protesting rustle here warned Pe- ter that the question of duty to ilove, the oughtness of affection be- |tween married folks. was about’ to | ‘This | Peoter who was all right—that is. he | that. | And | “Now, the poltroon wanted | Earthquake | boll | luekily more stunned | he suggested | But | | their own prepossessions and preju- | their ! test for the story, do any of you know, | ‘His wife was right in re- i Peter had been | the hus- | the | Q. When will the annual convention of the Daughters of the Confederacy be held’—R. W. B. S A. The annual convention of the United Daughters of the Confederacy will be heid at the Willard Hotel, start- ing on the evening of November 20. Q. How long was the artist Whistler employed in the coast survey In Washington?—D. M A. After belng discharged from West Point for deficiency in chemistry, Whistler secured a position with the coast survey, where he remained three montis and ‘fiv. days. Ome day the young draftsman sketched a carica- ture In the margin of a plate of some charts. These appeared when the pate was dipped in acid during his absence. Whistier was dismisscd for the prank. it Q. How much longer does cold water to ieave the stomach then it does hot water?—J. M. L. A. According to Dr. William Beau- mont, one and one-half hours are re- quired for six to seven ounces of water or other common beverage to leave the stomach. Hot drinks do not leave the stomach more quickiy than cold ones. Q. Are birds animals?—C. F. A. Birds are the most highly develop: ed animals except the mammals. T are of a class of warm-booded verte brates, distinguished from all other animais by the body being covered with feathers. They are descended from the Taptlies, Wiichi they resembie anatomi- caily? Q. How many_pounds are there in 2 bale of sisal’—M. M. A The sayas sisal aud henequen are u-uaily packed In bales of approximately 400 pounds each, though the weight varies om a litt'e over 300 pounds to mor than 500 pounds on different planta- ions. The manufacturers wouid prefer ito have uniform baies of 400 pound. Q. How are bayberry candles made? —L. J. B. . The berries are collected from the bayberry bush and boiled In pails of water. The wax rises to the top. i3 skimmed off, and boiled again. | Regular candle wicks are cut the de sired length, attached to & rod dipped in warm water and then dipped into the pail of wax several times. Allow jthe ‘wax to harden between times {The wax should be kept just warm enough to be In a liquid state. Q. What is the origin of the word vaudeville?—H. M. A. The word owes its origin to a ittle French village in Normandy, in the valley of the River Vire. named Vaudevire or Valde-vire. Here lived in the fifteenth century Oliver Bascel or Bisselin, a poet, the composer of convivial songs, which became popu- lar and were sung by the common people and introduced into plays and entertainments. The name was thus given to all such songs and later to the entertainment Into which they i were introduced. This word has but two syliables and should be pro- inounced vod-vil, long o and short i, or vod-vel, long o and long e. nto the sphere where it rightfully be- | He reminded them that they | Q. What is the age of the young- est student in an American college?— C.M A. The youngest student ever entered an American college is Moses Finkelstein of Syracuse, N. Y., { who entered Syracuse University this fall at the age of eleven years. Q. How many beds has Johns Hop- kins Hospital?—D. V. B A. In 1923 Johns Hopkins at Bal- timore contained 621 beds. Now Believed The record of the last three weeks in aviation circles has convinced the | majority of editors that not alone the mail service, but passenger and {freight trafic must prove material factors in the conquest of the air during the coming year. When Ad- miral Moffett, commander of the naval air service, some time ago announced that the ZR-3, now under construc- tion In. Germany, eventually will make two-day trips between London and New York, carrying mail, he was ought to be dealing in hopes rather han in facts. The performances of {-he Shenandoah, a much emaller | lirigible, however, coupled witn the our-miles-a-minute rate of, speed | chievea at the St. Louis air contests, |has caused many editors who for- merly were skeptical to reconsider {and agree that the next twelve months | “hould see many of the aviation plans now on paper transformed into { actualities. | One important development was he declaration by Glenn Curtiss that the ‘maximum speed’ has been jeved so far as heavier-than-air machines are concerned, and _that, while the §00-miles-an-hour airplane s feaslble, friction would burn it up This leads to the belief hat ter manufacturers, govern- ment agencies and piiots generally will devote more time to safety plans and practical work than to_spectacu- lar flights. Yet. as the New York World sees It, “if the 500-mile plane were built many young men be found to fly it" while othe editors seem convinced .that Curtis is somewhat of an alarmist. * % % * The Wichita Eagle feels that the Army and Navy cost too much, far as their aviation experiments are concerned, aithough they “do bring some good to civilian and commiercial aviation, but only Indirectly. The Post Office Department, with the same money, could do at least a thousand times as much good through the air mail” Another skeptic this time so far as the lighter-than-air type Is concerned s the Waterbury Repub- lican, which Insists that “if thera is ever to be any profitable object in aviation the dirigible must be ap- proximately as durable and efficient as the fransatlantic line In ‘his connection the Canton News points | “not a criterion by which to Jud the performance of an even larger craft in a transoceanic voyage. Gen- {erally speaking, weather conditions at sea are much more feared than conditions on the land. In an emergency a dirigible could come to the ground and its passengers and crew be saved. There is noth become pessimistic about in all this. As time goes on we may be assure that a way will be found for maxing take | Department of Agriculture | that has | 50| out that the flights of the ZR-1 arc of ! burst out again. So Peter hurried {are now impossible.” cn to remind them that the wife's de- | _The Springfleld Union is convinced termined refusal to free the husband | that “with the Increased element of secured the lasting unhappiness of :safety resulting from the use of both him and the young girl. And the |non-inflammable helium gas the ques- wewnen liked that. Indeed, the story, | tlons of speed and the cost of the save for the miserable wife, rather,Service would be the factors mo: suited them. . the situation completely. The man, |any aerial passenger line. —Whether still the husband. The wife— well |or not it could be made tu pay fs, soberly, how did they feel about the of course, problematical. Thue inati- | wife=—Peter wanted to know—when | tution of the transatlantic acrial she had definitely secured the lasting | mail service, however, may lead the misery of three people, herself among « way to the fulfillment of the predic- them? There Peter made his mistake. tions of rapld passenger servic: le- Yes, they'd grant that Mr. Lewisohn tween America and Europe. Whi had made a remarkable story, wholily | giving Admiral Mofrett great credit within the realm of fact, touched with | for what has been accomplishea .y That he had dene this, not only to tell | ZR-1, the Springfield Repub.ican fecls a highly dramatic story of modern ' “announcement of a regular mail life, but that he had as well, by way |service has not been preceded by that |of this story, drawn the tragedy of amount of experiment and practice certain aspects of divorce. “But all | which has usually -been essential be- the same”—and the women were at it | fore any new means of transportation again, just as at the beginning.. Poor |or communjcation has been made Peter!” He had failed ignominiously. | practicallysevailable.” In this con- for he knew this story to be a master | nection, holyever, the Mobile Register stroke—and, besid he was waking |feels “aviation is first of all & miii- up to the recko with Hildegarde. |tary undertaking. Europe is|oriss- e ile} com- The girl gone out of | likely to determine the patronage cf | the pity that fact so often reveals. | the Navy and for the success of the| ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ). HASKIN Q. What will kill scor arfve them away?—H. B o8> O . A. The biological survey says‘that the best way to eradicate scorpions in a house s to sprinkle pyrethrum | powder freely around all cracks and crevices. This pawder may be ob- talned from any drug store, | | Q a'hy Is Scotlund Yard so called” | A. Scotland Yard ters of the metropolitan po’ ot London and is situated within =2 Stone’s thuow of the houses o1 par- liament, fn southwestern Londoun. Formerly the departinent was housed in & group of bulldings surroundiig a courtyard near Cnaring Croga. 1t derived its name, Scotland Yard, from a palace signed from the time o Edgar to Henry Il as the residence of the Scottish kings when thev v ited in London. The c is P pointed by the crown upo recoft = | mendation of the home secreter~ The rly cost of Scotland Yard, aus | cording to the latest published sta iuallcs. is $15.000,000. Q. Why 1s the twelfth month called December when decem means | ten?—A. L. { A.In the Roman calendar Decem- | as the tenth month and has re- | tained the Latin name, as have sev- i erdl others. Is the headeugr- Q. Which of Dickens’ | tains the m quoted phrase “Bar- ! kis ts willin' “7—S. H. | A. Mr. Barkis is a_bashful carrler in “David Copperfield,” who marries Pegotty. He conveys his intentions to her by sending -her sage by | David that “Barkis is w novels con- 11ln". Q. When was the term fiapper firat applied to young girls?—K. H A. The word “flapper” has been ‘n in England for nearly two cen- ries. The term originilly implied young ducks not yet able to fiy. {Early In the elghteenth centur growing girls were first called “flap- pers” irom a fancied resemblance young ducks. | us Q. Are there any substances that are actuaily non-conductors? — K. L0 e A’ There is no substance of such blgh resistance as to be a non-con- ductor. The so-called non-conductors are properly termed in tors, Q. Please glve the address of H. G. jWells—H. J. 8 A. Tne London address of M Wells is 120 Whitehall Courts, Q. In a bugle drum corps of twen- two members what is the proper pro- portion of instruments’—H. L A. A member of the United 3 Marine Band says that probibly the best division would be twelve bugles or trumpets, seven snare drums, ono bass drum and cymbals. Q. What is the difference between the prohibition amendment and the Voistend law?—M. M. | A. The elghteenth amendment, | known as the prohibition amen nt, is now part of the Constitu- ion.” The Volstead act is an act p.ssed by Congress over the Presi- dent’ the purpose of pro- S f orcing the and defining | what constitutes intoxicating liquors. x | (Let The Star Information Bureaw answer your queition. State your query plainly and briefly and send it to The & Information Bureaw, Frederic J. cin. director, 1220 North Capitol street. Inciose 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) Practical Use of Aircraft to Be at Hand merclal fiving in the United States may still be considered in the inluinl stages. In this country It |s continual fight to persuade Congr to make minimum appropriations for the air service.” * As an indlcation of what already has been accomplished and what stil! can be looked forward to the New York Evening World recalls “only & few years ago we marveled when rallroad trains and the .carly ra:ing automobiles went one mile A minute. Lieut. Wiiliams, who traveled at the amazing rate of 243.67 miles un hour, reported that he got terribly sleepy kept nodding and went out ecnid around the pylons, which would seem to indicate that Mr. Curtiss speaks with knowledge of the limitations o man and machine. We recall, ever, similar comment in automobile ract Yet men found who managed to train selves to greater speed a nce to fatigue tha possible.” The Lynchbury entertaining a _somewh; similar view, suggests “there may reason to belleve that the speed iimit ned by Lieut. Willlams will not A speed of 241 mijes d to prove an unduc 7 another fiyer. Can a plane constructed that will stand up against the terrific friction of the air as well as an r? That seems to be the vital question as to future d velopment of speed in aviation.” The Flint Journal, in tu recalls the government right now is co- ing with private owners bringing to a reality “Great Britain' m of rapid contact with them d grea: <semed &8 the Lima Re- the outlook, the y of this government to ex because “man is destined to ! air, making that element |safe and expeditious in one way or another. London and New York should be, and will be, brought within | two days of each other. The dirigible {balloon. in spite of comparative ;unwicldiness and great size, has cer- {tain substantial advantages. It the {best dirigibles that modern engineer- {ing can produce prove unequal to the k. then the builders can go ahead | and concentrate on big airplane liners, | which have already reached remark- |able development in_ cruising range. |carrying power and dependability i Indorsing this statement the Man- chester Union points out “it may be {that quite as much will result f al progress as for milita: ntage from the construction a | operation in this count lighter-than-air type of v orfolk Ledger-Di that “so far the ccnques: of the am (reads like a romance and the next |few years will undoubtedly bring | many “other marvels to light. The government of the United States wil be gravely censurable If It fails to lend all aid possible to this wondertul work. ! possible adventures in the air that! In a Few Words, If T were governor of a state, avd la city in that state defieq iy orants to cl up seloons violatig the law, | the citizens of that city weuid wak up the nesc morning at che sound {of a bugle reveille, and would go to bed to the tune of taps. --HENRY J. ALLEN, - Former Governor of Ksnsas, The people of France are the most prosperous in the world. The cost of {living In France is not more than | one-half of what it is here. She has | the best houses. the best roads, the best farms, and the best crops I ever saw. —SENATOR' KENNETH McKELLAR (Tenn.). Sclentific research will bring wus closer to divinity than any theology invented by man. —PROF. MICHAEL PUPIN. Health 1s a state of mind an laughter is the b Agest PN