Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STARIbehl! mors mized with siate than on at the present price of milk, or it | With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. MONDAY.......October 29, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company and Pennaylvania Ave. Bt. The Evening Star, with the Sundsy morning dition, is delivered by carriers within the eity at 60 cents per moath; daily only, 45 20 cents per mail or tele- e by car- cents per month; Sunday omly, month, Orders may_be sent bs Dhone Main 5000. Collect'on Ia m Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payuble in Advance. Maryland and Virginis, Dally and Sunday..1yr., $8.4 Dally only 1y, $6. Sunday only. 1yr., §2.40;1 All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1yr., $10.0 Dally only.. 1yr., $7. Sunday only. Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republ cation of all news dis. patches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper aud also the loal news pub- ished herein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. —_— The Reparations Problem. A new phase appears in the repara- tions situation in a communique writ- ten personally by Premier Poincare and issued in Paris last night, re- iterating the French government's de- termination to refuse to agree to any reduction of the German debt as fixed by the London conference of May, 1921. This, however, is not viewed here as interposing any barrier to the participation by the United States in an international economic Inquiry. Jn his letter to Lord Curzon Secre- tary Hughes definitely stated as a con- dition of American participation in such a conference -that it should not be viewed as binding upon the govern- ments taking part, but should be merely advisory. Premier Poincare in his communique notes that under the Versailles treaty the reparations com- mission itself has no power to grant any reduction, the treaty stipulating that such a measure must be decided by the unanimous vote of the interest- ed nations. He notes further that the reparations commission has full power to name agents, to create committees. It would appear from this latest French note that a new commission of inquiry on which the United States may be represented will work as an agent of the reparations commission or not at all. Under the French view- point there can be no departure from the established mode of determining the extent of Germany's ability to pay, which is and has been virtually from the first the measure of repara- tions exactions. France apparently will not yield on this point, and, in view of the citation of ‘the Versailles treaty by M. Poincare, it is clear that any change would be, in effect, a de- parture from the treaty itself, which is not, practically, subject to amend- ment. The question arises whether Ameri- can participation in a purely advisory agency of the reparations commission would add anything of material value to the research and the process of collection: Much stress is laid upon the moral effect of the inclusion of this country in the survey. But it France insists that the amount ad- Judged as possible damages cannot be reduced from that fixed already by the reparations commission the ques- ton comes whether this moral effect can work to any practical result, The practical question in this repa- rations matter is to find a formula of payment that will work, that Germany ‘will respect and execute in good faith. Germany has failed to meet her obliga- tions under the original award of the reparations commission. She has in- terposed obstacles, has set up excuses, hes demoralized her currency, has, it 18 believed, deliberately put in jeopardy her industrial organization to the end ot a virtual repudiation of those obliga- tions. France has moved into a por- tion 'of the German territory as a means of compelling deliveries of ma- terials under the schedule of pay- ments. That occypation has failed to vield results, has led, indeed, to serious complications, and at present Germany 19 In a state of political dissolution partly in direct consequence of this move. It remains to be seen whether a re- newed survey will yield more definite results than the original reparations study. Participation by the United States may not help. It certalnly can- not hurt. It will involve no obligations whatever on the part of this govern- ment, and it is specifically separated by the definite terms of the proposal from any consideration of the allied debts owing to this country. It is at any rate worth trying. ———————— At least the Philippines have pro- gressed far enough to become famous. ‘The time is not so far back as to be whelly cut of recollection when many fairly informed people scarcely knew the islands were In existence. mo., 0¢ mo., 50¢ mo., 20¢c ————— Frerich statesmen occasionally ad- mit that there are moments when a debtor nation is entitled to as much leniency as can be arranged. Coal Prices. Declaration by the Federal Trade Commission that anthracite is being sold by some Pennsylvania mine own- ors at “prices which are neither rea- sonable nor necessary” may not lead to any Immediate corrective action, but should surely be followed by such detalls as will put the country on notice as to the identity of the ex- tortioners. According to the com-! mission's report, there is a wide range of prices: Six and seven-tenths per cent of anthracite is sold by the op- erators to wholesalers at from $9.50 to $9.99 per tan, 45.5 per cent is sold ut from $10 to $10.99, 13 per cent is sold at from $11 to $11.99 and the remainder, 34.8 per cent, at from uzl 1o $13 and more. Here is & range of at least $3.50 a ton, or more than a third of the lowest price charged. It is noteworthy that the smallest per- centage is sold at the lowest rate. Conditions vary somewhat at the saines. At some of them coal ca:: be others, and this shate must presuma- bly be culled out before the product is shipped; in some cases transporta- tion is more difficult. But it is not believed that therp is a range of 331-3 per cent or 40 per.cent in the cost of production. Anthracite comes in the main from a very narrowly restricted field, in which the general conditions are uni- form. With all the differences in mining conditions that have been noted there is no conceivable warrant for the wide range of rates that the commission has found. Plainly there is profiteering. Some mine owners are getting too much for their product. Further figures are neces- sary to determine how far this dif- ferential affects the retail market. It cannot fail to have some effect. The consumer who buys coal that has cost the wholesaler §13 a ton is paying more for his coal than that delivered to the patron of a wholesa'er who gets his supply at $9.50 a ton, prob- ably much more than the §3.50 dif- ferential. If anthracite were a widely scat- tered product there might be reason for this extensive range of wholesale mine prices. This report, showing such a marked difference at the mines, should certainly be supple- mented to show what happens to the high-priced coal and to the buyers of it. The Retirement Decision. According to a decision just rendered by the Attorney General, employes of the government who reach the age of retirement fixed for the class in which they are employed must auto- matically be separated from the serv- ice, regardless of whether they have served the requisite number of years to entitle them to an annuity, and if they have not served long enough they must be let out without any com- pensation whatever, Under this decision, which is un- doubtedly a strict interpretation of the law, those elder employes who are so unfortunate as to have entered the service so recently that the new retirement act catches them on a short service must be dismissed without any consideration. This is contrary to. the spirit of the law. Still there is no ground for conten- tion that the decision is not war- ranted. The fault lies in the statute and to correct the injustice an amend- ment is necessary. ‘When the retirement law was rassed it was recognized that there were numerous points that would re- quire correction through amendatory legislation, points plain at the time, but incapable of adjustment then, and other points which it was feared would work out in practice. It was a new condition that had to be put to test. The United States should start clean in its application of the retirement principle to its civilian employes, with the least possible inequity. It should grant to all on the rolls of the gov- ernment at the time of the enact- ment the right of retirement. It should not now commit the injustice of throwing out completely from the service those faithful employes who have reached retirement age, but have not enough years of service tech- nically to entitle them to any an- nuities whatsoever. One of the purposes of the retire- ment system is to assure steady pro- motions by preventing congestion in the upper ranges of age. It was de- signed to assure to the juniors in the service opportunity to rise to higher pay and positions. But it was never contemplated that the removal of the elders from service should be arbi- trary and cruel to the extent of re- fusing annuities on the score of a too short term of service. Now that the law has been interpreted as com- pelling such separation, it is in order to move quickly for an amendment which will prevent further procedure along this line. ——— Poincare has no objection to any further discussion of reparations. So far as his own observations are con- cerned, all he will have to do to mave himself time is to recall previous statements and use ditto marks. In view of her forelgn entangles ments Germany selected a pecullarly disadvantageous moment to take on an extraordinary burden of local poli- tics. ———t—————— While Ambassador Harvey had his share of criticism, some of the sena. tors are inclined to be very particular about the selection of his successor. Steinmetz, the electrical engineer, died & poor man. He enriched the world. ‘ Up Goes Milk! , The price of milk is to be raiged. Pricelifting is a fashion. Nearly all persons who have anything to sell in the food line seem to keep busy look- ing around for reasons to put their prices higher, and they generally find a reason which at least is satisfying to the producer. No reason for the in- crease in the price of milk is given in the public prints other than that “the board ¢f directors of the Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers’ Association, after a careful and detailed study of the matter, has recommended that beginning November 1 the price of 3.5 per cent milk be 33 cents per gallon f. 0. b. Washington, with the present differential for butter fat and premiums for barn and cattle score.” generally do not understand the ref- erence to “the present differential for butter fat and premiums for barn and cattle score,” but the fact is made plain that the price of milk will go up 4 cents a gallon, 1 cent g quart, Every- body can understand that. It might have been more kindly in the producers to have given us a rea- son. We might have been told that the long drought this fall dried up the streams, aprings and wells and reduced the supply of milk, We might have been told that the warm autumn made grass so plentiful and common .that the cows declined to eat it. We might have been told that the autumn was s0 cold that there was no grass for the cows to eat. We might have been told that the corn.and fodder crops were 80 short that the cows could not carry ‘THE EVENING might have been explaired that there was 80 much corn and fodder that it ‘was not worth cutting and hauling to the barn. ‘When the contest between the milk producers, their association and the local dealers was at its height the pro- ducers sald that they had no thought of increasing the price of milk. There is no cause to question their word. Perhaps they were not thinking of it ithen. But they have thought of it since. Sort of an afterthought, as it were. And the price of milk goes higher than it was last winter. Usually in summer the price of milk comes ! down, but last summer we paid last ‘wlnler'l price. Suggestions From Pinchot. Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania s still Iprflllnl his contention that it is up i to the federal authorities to bear the lm(n burden of enforcement of the national prohfbition law. He raised the point first in the assertion that Presi- dent Coolidge should take on the duty of enforcement, and insisted that he cquld dry up the nation speedily if he would set out in earnest to do so. It will be remembered that President Coolidge countered by pointing out to the governore In the recent White House conference that the states are also charged with a share of responsi- bility. Now comes the Pennsylvania execu- tive with a letter to Secretary Mellon in which he blames the alleged break- down of federal prohibition enforce- ment in Permsylvania upon the fed- eral permit system. The governor gave the names of several breweries which he said violated the law prior to 1923, and yet were given permits for this year. Also, the names of breweries which had been caught by the state police and whose licenses have not been canceled. Gov. Pinchot wants the Secretary of the Treasury to say whether In permits hereafter to be issued the Secretary will require as a condition that the state police have access to the plants at any time, and whether the Secretary will cancel permits upon evidence furmished by the state police of violations. It would appear that Gov. Pinchot is in a strong position, which would be impregnable upon furnishing proofs that the federal government is lax in enforcement. The Secretary of the Treasury cannot whistle down the wind the suggestions the governor has made. The statement that Secre- tary Mellon is desirous that Pennsyl- vania shall send an uninstructed dele- gation to the republican national con- vention, while Gov. Pinchot is under- stood to be insisting upon instructed delegates, will cause the politicians to watch developments. Gov. Pinchot, having elected to make prohibition enforcement his slogan, is not muffiing his notes. ——— ‘There may be enough different gov- ernments at hand to enable the former kaiser to make a selection in the event of his being persuaded to attempt a resumption of leadership, ———tee————— When copditions in Japan are re- membered, the housing problem as it asserts itself elsewhere. may be re- garded as a comparatively small mat- ter. K —_——— President Coolidge is not a loqua- clous man, but Lloyd George and the overseas writers will indorse him as a firstrate epistolary performer. ————— e SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNBON. ‘Wisdom of Solomen. Oh, Solomon, that you were wise, in- We must believe, so often do we read Those words 80 very old, yet good as new, That make us sigh end sy, “How true! How true!” Yet we must fear that all your pre- cepts grave Your fellow men from folly could not save. For human nature does not change its ways. ‘We slight the truth, while we applaud the phrase, When you were laying down your moral laws Could you give each & strict enforce- ment clause? Your wisdom, Solomon, was great, in- deed, If you knew how to make men give it heed. Sympathy. “Do you sympathize with the farmer?” \ ‘Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. “Although most of the farmers I know seem luckier one way or another than Iam. “Then why sympathize?” “Because it has so long been a statesman’s regular business to cuilti- vate that line of expression that it has become a habit.” Jud Tunkins eays the old oaken bucket makes a nice song, but the real sentiment at present attaches to some | apparatus for scooping up the con- tents of an ofl well. Obligations. Debt could not spoil this life so gay ‘With irritating chatter, each could say, “I cannot pa: And thereby end the matter. 1 I “If you must drink alcohol,” sald “But {t'll make you sick."” “That's why it's comparatively benevolent. It spolls your taste for liquor in time to keep it from killin' you.” “Why isit that the more you have the more you want?” “I don't know,” replied Mr, Dustin Stax, “unless it's because you. feel you've got to keep the profits progress- ing in order to keep up with the in- come tax.” “Forgive yoh ensmies,” said Uncle “but st so inthusiastio ST, IN TODAY’S Is it an apomaly that a man whose whole life had been devoted to the I crease of mbans of destruction of life and property, and by that effort had accumulated all his great fortune, should, at his death, devote that for- tune to the, rewarding of other men's achlevements In the paths of peacs| and sclencd? That is the paradox of Alfred Harden Ndcbel's life. The inventor of nitroglycerin, dynamite and glant powder professed to belleve thrquh- out ali hig’activities that his products would make war 80 terrible that they would force civilisation to outlaw human carnage. John Er the Inventor of the ; monitor, Feld similar faith—that his HAVAL PrOAIKY WU bE 50 ITicaldi- ibie that ‘it would end naval war- Lure. SIF HITAM MAXID, Wivelior v high explosives and rapid-firing guns, brophesied e suiie LOF Dis iuseru- mends of wholesale death. Yet war maue terrfuie 1s never ended vy its lerrora. Perhups it was the late realization: of tnis fact and a soui regret at the ghastly resuits of his . pow.rs since the relgn of the god inor awas from the arts of destruc- uon to these of construction and Iite preservauicn. * ok ok K ‘This thought arises from last week's announcement that the Nooel prie 1or the greatest medical achievement of the last year had been awarded 1 Dr. F. G, Banting, a young assist- ant in research work in the physioi- ogy department of a medical schoo. at Toronto, who had discovered “in- lin cure ior the hitherto incur- able disease, diabetes mellitus. * ¥ ¥ % Alfred Harden Nobel was a Swede, yet he was far more than citizen ot one nation—he was international in his work. His first encouragement in chemical pesearch for high explosives came from the Czar of Russia, and his greatest factories were those ouilt, first in Russia, with the czars Hnancing, and later in Austria and Scotland ' avout the time of the Franco-Brussiun war. Prior 19 that he had gone to Parls, in 1861, o solicit capital with which 0 make an “ofl" which would ex- plode with such power that “it could vlow up the world.” but the capi- talists feared thut if {t had such potentialities It might shake their securities for other investments, und, not untij Napoieon III saw it demon- strated was the inventor able to get dnancia: backing. Even then, it was on condition that he locate his fac- tory outside of France—at Stock- noim. He buyilt his factory at Stockholm and in 1867 he produced nitrogl verin, Later, mixing the “oil” with’ clay found in Austria, he hardened it and calied it dynamite. Later still he made for American industries and mlutary use what is known as ‘siant gunpowder.” ' * % x % In hig will, Nobel provided a. fund which his executors were instructed to invest in safe securities, so that its Interest would supply five gen- erous prizes annually to be given to the greatest in scientific, literary and peace achievements. Une prize Is for the greatest achievement of the yeas in chemistry, one for physiology o medicine, one for the greatest in. vention fn physics, one for the writer whose work has the highest merit from the standpoint of ldealistic sense and one for the man who achievés most or works best for the establishment of peace and the re. duction: of standing armies. All ‘prizes are awarded by the Acaderay of Sciences of Sweden, through its various Institutes, ac- cording to the science of the award, except the peace prize, which i3 warded by a special commission of ve members of the storthing of Nor- will shall go to the most worthy, whether ! he is Scandinavian or not." i ; Pi | In 1901 the first prize In physics went 10 Wilhelm Rontgen, the in. ventor of the rays which penetras SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS opaqueness; that for medicine went to Emil von Behring, who invented, or developed, therapeutic serum. Later prizes (in medicine) went to Prof. Plerre Curie and his wife, Marle 8. Curle, discoverers of radium. In 1912 the prize in medicine came to Dr. Alexiz Carrel of the Rocketeller In- stitute, Ne\iv York, for surgery on icans have won the o Prealdent Theodore in 1906, for his work In settlement of the Russo- war; Elihu Root, in 1912, vecelved It for his success In arrang: ing immigration restriction of Japa- nese with the avoidance of war with n and his estabishing of the -American Union, while he was Secretary of State under President Taft, dissipating the misunderstand- ing of Latin America regarding the attitude of the United States with its Monroe doctrine. President woodrow Wilson received it in 1319 ior his services in the peace confer- ence of Versailles. * K ok ok Now comes the fifth award to the western continent—that to Dr. Bant- ing, aged thirty-two—the youngest winner since the prizes have been of- fered, and perhaps one of the great- est benefactors of mankind, through nls discovery of insulin. The other four prizes for this year have not yet Jeen announced. The head of the Rockefeller Foun- dation, Dr. Flexner, speaks of Dr. Sunung’s discovery in wor «mited appreciation as to tance, but ratl discounts the merit of the discoverer by saying that it came about entirely by accident, while he sald “we experienced pny- sicians who had so much material and so much sclentific background 1alied.” * ok % ‘What {s Insulin and how does It work? It comes from the pancreatic Juice of all animals. In the human victim of diabetes mellitus the pan- creatic Jjuice, through disease, oe- - unvalanced with its proper exce: 3 When pancreatic julce is examined tnrougi. a microscope there are found m it many nuclei, called “islands of Langerhans” (named for their dis- coverer). From these 18 cxcreted a substance, differing from the rest of the pancreatic juice, which substance Is found to pass directly into the blood, and not the bowel to the blood. uame of an island is “insula,’ substance derived from an +0 Introduce into the biood of numan patients, by subcutaneous insertion: CALI4CLS . Of .usulin derivew .. healthy animals. By thus fortifying we pluod with an apundance 01 tne substance which neutralizes or burns up the excess sugar, the sympto of the disease disappear, as if by mir- acie, and nature is given Its oppor- tunity to rebuild and fortify the dis- eased pancreas and the other parts or the weakened by incidental diseases which follow in the wake of diabetes mellitus. * ¥ x % The first announcement of the dii covery is only about fifteen months old, yet medical men of the highest standing, usually ultraconservative, welcome and acclaim the remedy a worthy of full acceptance and of marvelous {mportance. Dr. Banting, In his generosity and modesty, expresses himself ‘hurt" because the Nobel prize comes to him alone, instead of being shared with his fellow worker, Dr. Chagles H. B He ys he will share the honor always with Dr. Best. It is understood that the prize carries with it _about $40,000. The province of Ontario, Canada, has voted Dr. Banting a life annuity of $7,500 and $2,600 yearly for ex- penses in further scientific research. The Medical “insulin,” but only for the purpose of protecting its purity. Manufacturers of medi- cine will be given free license to make it, provided they maintain it s purity. ‘under the direction of Dr. Bantin, dozen Unitea States Py howlu’ have been furnished a sup- ply of it, for use on poor patients. (Copyright, 1928, by Paul V. Collfs.) s t Turmoil in Art World Stirs General Public to Mirth: Suggestions that there are very few real Rembrandt paintings in the world, and that the majority of the prized exhibits attributed to the noted Dutch master are, in reality, stmply the product of a “school for painting” which he conducted, have thrawn the world of art Into a tur- mofl. The controversy thus precipi- tated will require a long time to settle, with the friends of Prof. John C. ¥an Dyke, author of the charges, on ‘cne side and many .other neted experts on the other. Meanwhile, tho “non-artictic” element. which malkes upP a very large proportion of the pofulation of this country, is having plenty of fun over the controversy. It does not seem to care the pro- verbial two hoots who has the better ofit. It mercly seems to make a go2d fight 'to watch. Pointing djut that Dr. Van Dyke has “reduced the number of genuine Rembrandte from something like a thousand to only twenty-five,”- *he Roanoke World-News says, for | ua” gullible Americans, who thought iwp had in the Metropolitan Museum iaf least fifteen paintings from the ¢ brush of the old Dutch master, he h: left us looking' foolish and trying escape from our embarrassment with | a!‘Yes, we have no Rembrandts’ It's alridiculous positicn In which to find ourselves, and an {rritating one. But | bud as it is we can doubtless endure | it somehow. We are becoming ac- { customed to feeling' the ground slip fyom under our feet In this fashion. One after another of our treasured nptions has under the inquir- ing gaze or men like Prof. Van Dyke, until, as a matter of fact, not mluyl 1omain undisturbed. They have told us that we didn’t descend from Adlal i the whale never swallow: Jonah, that Shakespeare did not write ; the plays that bear his name, that: b1 ‘what does it matter that another ohe comes glong to teil us that we have no Rembrandtst” % k% (The Newark Evening News also is{DyI !inclined to suggest “what difference ! does It all make? inasmuch, as,| “whether Prof. Van Dyke s right: niay never be certainly known, but If: these plotures are the work o {other hands the world is richer than ¢ rajses mi as Nicholas Maes, to b it its in those r.i.z' oo ":n 11:" toachin o J“fiu&:‘ howe 3; e be mis H i 0 | brandt, 1 this charge originall have looked upon the spurious Rem- brandts and secured the ration and reaction as though 'WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1923. EAST IS EAST BY FRANK H. HEDGES . “Btrike two! The English words come from the lips of a little Japanese schoolboy dressed In a kimono and wearing straw sandals. Nine of his playmates, one or two in base ball suits, a few in the uniform of their school, but most of them also wearing kimonos, are spread out over an invisible diamond in a park of one of Japan's great cities. They the playing the game with all the zest of any growd of back-lot youngsters in this country and the only words of Eng- lish they know are base ball terms. From the day, now more than forty years ago, when'a base ball team com- posed of japanese rallway employes de- feated an American nine, base ball has steadlly Increased its grip on Japan un- til it might safely be called the na tional game of that country today of the colleges and universities have teams—teams that compare favorably with those in this country. Occasion- ally one of these university teams crosses the Pacific to play on the dia. monds of American campuses, and just as often an American university team Journeys to the far east for the same purpose. There arc no professional base teams In Japan, but there are many clubs in addition to the school teams. Scarcely & boy in Japan ls too poor to be the proud possessor of a glove, a bat or at least a good ball. As the day express to Kobe speeds along the coast line or through the mountains of Japan, not a village is passed but Japanese are seen with rackets in hand playing tennis on all sorts and kinds of courts, The success of Shimizu and Kumagae In the Davis cup tournament has given tennis the same impetus in Japan that came to base ball many years ago. The people of the island empire have adopted that game also as their own. * ok k% Sport, as understood In this country, was unknown to old Japan. It is an innovation from abroad, but an inno- vation that has been eagerly welcomed by the younger generation. Fencing, Jjudo, wrestling, archery and swimming were known to old Japan, but they did not partake of the nature of sport. Fencing was a serious business, a train- ing for warfare later in life. Judo, more generally known in this country by the incorrect name of jujitsu, was taught in order that the man might learn to defend himself in hand-to- hand encounters. It is still so re- garded, and the teachers of the art have decreed that no professional matches shall take place. Archery fell In the same class as fencing and swim- ming was highly regarded for its prac- tical benefits only. Mountain elimbing, practiced in Japan for centuries, was of @ religious nature and was ususlly per- formed by pllgrims, who ascended one or another of the sacred mountains of the empire. Wrestling alone came within the realm of sport, but it ferent type wrestling from that known n this country. It has al- ways been done by professionals. by a speclal group of men of gigantic stature and girth. Formal rules take much of the enthusiasm from the sport, and during these later years it has steadily waned in popu- larity. Disputes and jealousles among the champions have aided it on the downward slide, but despite this the enormous wrestling hall in Tokio now destroyed by earthquake, holds thousands of spectators while thou- nds more gather before the bul- letin boards of Toklo newspaper offices during the two annual wres- tling seasons. * ok % X Base ball and tennis are not the sole importations in the line of sports that Japan has made from abroad For more than ten years the far eas! has had its own Olympiads, the las* having been held In Osaka only las® May. Japan and the Philippines tied for first place, which was awarde to Japan on a technicality. Prince Chichibu. the second son of the em- Peror, was the patron of the meet He is an enthusiastic fencer and ten- nis player himself. The records mad~ at Osaka give promise of what the far east may do at the world Olvmniec mames In the near future. Filipinos. Chinese and Japanese. with a bit mor: expert training. will be able to hol® their own against the best athletes of this country and of Europe. Association foot ball. such as fe played In England; golf, basket ball volley ball ekiin kating and row- ing are other sports that Japan ha- adopted _as her own. The Youns en’s Christlan Association mor- than any other single Institution has brought about the popularity of basket ball and volley ball. In th- mountains of Janan there is good skatine and skiing throughout th- winter, and the patronage of mem . | bers of the tmnerial family has don- pictures were the divine affatus was stirred.” Becal the public long has been schooled to have its opinions changed. it iw the view of the Springfield Re- publican that “it has not been alto- gether prepared” for this allegation, but “coming from such high author- ity, the charge is not shor: of sensa- tional, Dr. Van Dyke has been study- ing the work of the Dutch painters and lecturing and writing about them for forty years. It O BT dotesa that his tcomoct SonSlusions would o unchRlcnEed. The disagreeing doctors have aiready begun a vigorous defense of the ‘tra- dition,’ and the layman will naturally awalt developments. It may be that it will prove that Dr. Van Dyke has started a controversy that will far-reaching and long continued, with one good result at least of stimulat- ing a more general and a more en- lightened interest in the painter's art.” To ch the Columbus Dis- patch adds “we have the old Latin law maxim—'Qul facit per alium facit per se’ (He who does a thing through another do it . himself)— but this will not bring much comfort o the owner of a supposed Rem- if he must row accept it as probable that Rembrandt's only re- lation to the canvas was merely through some pupil working under the. master's inspiration and direction.” tion.” * % K ¥ The Brooklyn Eagle is inclined to accept the denial of Dr. Wilhem von Bode, director general of the Prussian State Museum, that Dr. Van Dyke i3 right, as probably the “last word,” in- asmuch as the former hag recalled was ;nld.b;'hz Ge named Laudrier, whose boo! eosayed o prove . that Rembrandt only ran & painting school and that Ferdinand Bol painted pictures which were sold under Ba;?rlol:‘k'nne:me. The tures -ca Re:nbmt lflllnlrx: to which Laud- ner pointed as proof of his assertions, were found to be counterfeit. Thus the evidence upon which Laudner relied falled to sustain him. Dr. Van s crlr.u are so sweeping and directly counter to the long- acce) of the art world that it -fu require a great deal of scien- tific evidence to establish -them.” After all, however, as the Peoria views the situation, ‘New run od escribe the jewelry worn by a lady of low easte he replied: ‘All I can say Is that they would be worth §10,000 If they were not phony.’ Not so in Li'l oo ST T e 2 are In o8t :::"cmfi ti Enquirer adds that "if a is good as icture 7 |t Boty deniat tha It was done by 1 master's hand, what has the world lost it it finally be proved that it is only & copy? Not much. So let us enjoy the pictures and let the ex- . Which is also very much on of the New Haven Regls. feels “we c | trothed to nd six millions | ¢ Dink* much to foster these twa sports. Rowing 1s largely a university ac- tivity. + An even more start!ing departur- from the past was made when wom- en fivst began to follow in the foot- steps of their brothers in athleti contests. _Tennls, more than anv other sport. has been taken up them, and the woman tennis pla ers who won their matches at Osak: last May were ordered to play be- fore the future Empress of Japan the Princess Nagako whn le be- e e Tt ‘Toironten. e ‘With the Introduction and growth of sports has come the necessity of developing sportsmanship. It | seldom that university contests ar marred by a lack of the spirit of fair play, but the same cannot al ways be sald in regard to profes. sional or semi-professional events The Japan Amateur Athletic Asso- clation, whose rulings are effectiv: throughout the nation in amateu sports, {s mot open to criticism, al- though it has been called upon t deal with some peculiar probleme such as barring jinrikisha puller from amateur meets on the ground that they are professional runners The association, however. has n jurisdiction over professional sport< and too often rules are made on th ground that favor this or that par ticular Individusl. When America wrestlers met judo experts in Toki three years ago. each to use his owr style of combat. the crowd threat ened to mob one of the American when he floored his man with . half-Nelson. The American ther offered to bar all neck holds on hi part but sllow his opponent to. re tain all judo hold: e crowd wa in such an angry mood that the con test was postponed until the nex: “X. the ’Andnrlcan wrluugrt:na the Japanese judo man entere e ring a housands of spectators brok most unusual actior £08 “almpat st ‘omce - gof can almost down and for the rest of the battl- held him In a grip that threatenec to break every bol‘ilc plln his body The judo man was rule: ’pfllcl’“’llfl that ol of *“quit” could bring victory, an: this he to give. Never hav seen & man taie puni severe as did that Japanese, kept his lips tightly compressed, an« as time was called the umpire pro unced s draw. "It was a bitter pill for the Jar snese. The lack of a decision 4 not blind them to the fact that th American’ wrestler had bested th Japanese judo expert, and for year e l?lnw(hld cherished a blin fafth in ‘the superiority of jud There were grumblings and mutte: ings, but the crowd was learnin Is valuable lesson In sportsmanshi: and no move was made to storm th American as had bee: previous day. zlll.l -. A L ed much of &. first a ing th All | is a very dif-’ ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS -BY .FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Why Is there no light thrown on the Washington Monument?—E. A. A. The searchlight Is thrown on the Monument from the Powhatan roof only during the summer when the roof gar- den is open. Q. Was the bureau of the budget authorized by Congress or did the President establish it?—J. F. O. A. The bureau of the budget was es- tabiished by an act of Congress, passed June 10, 1921, under President Harding. A budget bill was projected duriny administration of President Taft, in the Sixty-sixth Congress and vetoed by President Wilson. The act makes the President practically the head of the budget system, since he appoints both the director and assistant director of the bureau and makes all appoint- ments carrying salaries exceeding Q. What advantages does Alaska of- fer over other parts of the United States for the establishment of a pulp and paper industry’—R. M. A. The industry {s assured of a per- petual supply of pulpwood, since most of the foiest land is In the national forests and the cut will be regulated to the amount which can be maintained through growth. There Is an abundance of easily logged timber, the kinds that make g Pulp and paper, now avail- able for purchase at much lower prices than are being pald elsewhere In the United States. There is abundant and cheaply developed water power In the region, with many sites where the power can be developed on the shore! line and logs can be brought to the power site by towing through sheltered waterways, Q. When and for what the Alamo erected?—E. C. A. The Alamo, San Antonlo, Tex. was originally inciscan mission house, built 1732, and called San An- tonio de Valerfo. The building was used as a fort on occaslons and called Fort Alamo. How many states have been ad- into the Unlon since 19007— purpose was H. Q. mitted V. K A. Three states have been admitted to statehood during the past two dec- ades. In 1807 the territory of Oklahoma became a state and three yvears later Arizona and New Mexico were admitted | Into the Union. Q. Does a Japanese woman walk ;mL l;;r busband or behind him?— A. A Japanese lady of other days was expected to walk ten paces behind her husband. The modern Japanese does not observe this custom strictly. Q. Are the names of the minute men of the revolution contained in any one book?—E. P. W. A. The names are not compliled in book form. Most of the town records of Massachusetts contain records of these men. Q. Which is larger, British America or the United States and her posses- sions?—D. V, H. A. British America, which consists of Canada, Newfoundiand, and a number of islands, has an area of 3,750,000 square miles, while the total area of the United States and its possessions s 3,743,446 square miles. Thus Britain has a little more _territ but much of it is so far north as to be of comparatively ittle value. Q. What precious stone brings the highest price?—R. B. A. While it is possible that the emer- ald tops the list of costly gems, fine | rubles are the scarcest of precious stones. Were they the vogue, chéuld bring higher prices than emer- alds, Q. How many huts did the'Y. M. C. A. maintain overseas?—H. C. A. Overseas the “Y” maintained more than 1,800 huts and tents for the use of the American Expeditionary they | Forces The organization furnished 303.3&?‘000 sheets of lotter paper, 200, 00, envelopes and 16,000, cards to the bo! A o . Do more white people dle of ;lleg"?lnz sickness than negroes?— A. The census bureau says that in 1920 1,453 whites died of the disease and only fifty-two negroes. the whites this was a rate of 1% per 100,000 population, and among the negroes 0.7. Q. How the air?>—I. M, C. A. Dust from the eruption of Krakatoa in 1383 circled around the [ globe several times and for two years it gave rise to extraordinary sunset glows and other remarkablée opticsl phenomena. The finest particles arn believed to have been raised to axn altitude of fifty miles and to have remained buoyed up by air currents {for several years. In 1901 dust from the Algerfan desert was carried o maximum distance of 2,500 miles. Cinders from the Chicago fire reached the Azores forty days after the out- break of the conflag Q. What s the meant phrase ‘“‘due process of law' A. The constitutions of the various states and the federal constitution contain no description of those proc- esses which it was intended to allow or forbid by the various uses of tha expression “due process of law.” 1t is generally. held to mean, however. law in its regular course of admin tration through courts of justice. Q. What known?—C. A. By the device of coating - platinum wire one-hundredth of a: inch in diameter with silver, drawin. the two metals out together as fins as possible, and then dissolving awa the stlver coating with nitric acid, platinum wire three one-hundredih thousandths of an inch in diamet. has been securcd—so fine that o mile of it would welgh only one twenty fifth of & grain, far may dust be carried in ion, ng of tho is the smallest wire H E How many lelephgdne! are thero Q in North America?—G. A. There are approximately 15, 000,000 telephones on this continent, Q. What Is the difference between |dri1nng and boring?—P. L. A. In machine shop parlance, drill- ing is making a round hole through metal or the like with a rotating pointed tool that forces its way through by pressure and rotation, while boring is enlarging a hole that already exists. Cutting a circular hole in wood with a brace and bit. {as done by carpenters, is boring, but |; similar operation in' metal is drill- ing. Q _What {s a “Dutch concert"?— M W.W. A. A Dutch concert Is a social en- tertainment In which every man sings his own song at the same time that his neighbor is singing his, or in which each person present sings in | turn one verse of any ong he pleases. some well known chorus being used |as a burden after each verse. . What makes the earth go on rotating on its axis?—T. M. A The Naval Observatory says | that the earth continues to rotate on its axis because the only forces (suct as friction by tides) tending to et it are inadequate to produce an ap- preciable effect. The origin of this rotation Is a matter for speculation. depending upon how the earth w | separated from the primeval nebul: | out of which the solar system is be- | lieved to have been evolved. If you have a question you want answered send it to The Star I formation ~ Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin, director, 1220 North Capi- tol strest. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for reply. British Lord Placed in Charge of Demented Mother’s U. S. Estate BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. If Lord ‘Vernon fs afriving In New York with Lady Vernon on Thursday next, from England, on board the Ma- Jestic, 1t 1s because he has been ap- ointed by Justice Glegerich of the su- preme court of New York to take charge of the extensive New York prop- erty of his American mother, the dowager Lady Vernon, who lives In the strictest retirement at Pau in the south of France. The unfortunate womap, & duughter of the late Francis C. Law- rence of New York, has long been men- .y affiicted. Her eldest son, the late word Vernon, succumbed at Malta dur- .ng the war to wounds received at Gal- ithe "New York banker and trustee of -ne Lawrence estate, having no one to ~hom to pay over the money for it, had aer eldest surviving son, the present weer, designated by the New York -ourts for the purpose, and it is In con- .ectfon with this business that he is oming to New York. Lord Vernon Is a captain of the royal aavy, served in the grand fleet under A&iira) Lora Jellicoe and in the Med:- (rrantan. Und’ Was attached to the ad ‘airalty at Whitehall, in turn, during ue great war. He lost his father nearly -hree decades ago und was brought up .nder the guardianship of his uncie, «ne late William Frederick Vernon, who aiso had an American wife, namely, the daughter of Gen. Daniel M. Frosi ord Vernon married Miss “Merry ‘lay, daughter of Col. Clay of the In- lian'army, eight years ago, They have ne daughter, now four years oid. But ord Vernon is still without male is- sue and the next heir to his peerage d extensive estates is his cousin, Sir lllam Vernon, bailiff of the Isiand of ct, and making his home at St. Peter: Jersey. * * k¥ Lord Vernon came quite prominently sefore the public, some time ago, in -onnection with the sale by public uction In London of his celebrated .brary at Sudbury Hall, the gem of ae collection, the celebrated manu- cript “Le Roman de la Rose™ fetching n enormous price and being purchased or dispatch to the United States—I nderstand for the California library of Henry Huntington. “Le Roman de was executed for King Fral is I'of France. It covers 206 leaves i vellum and has about 220 miniatures, t was, no doubt, stélen from one o he royal palaces durlng the great revo- ition and was then brought to Eng- ind, finding its. way to the Sudbury brary In the year 1819. How It came > England Is not definitely known, but sefore finding a place in the -Sudbury brary It had been one of the treasures f the library of the first Lord Thur ow. In fact, it first came to England bout the end of the eighteenth cen- ory. The arms of King nels are mbiazoned on the first page and on the acond page there Is a painting of the 'onarch surrounded by his courtfers acelving the volume from the author ‘The Vernons can boast of being wmong the very oldest families in ‘ngland. being descended from that ichard de Vernon who accompanied 'vlfl‘fnm tlhe lfo:que‘ror 'rom !N:‘:- nandy to England and was one of the even barons created by Hugh Lupus. he great Earl of Chester. ey set- ied at Haddon Hall In Derbyshire '+ 800 years ago, and one of them. ~ Henry Vernon, 1 o on. vas goyernor and treasurer of the iousehold of Prince Arthur, elder other of _Hen) VIIL >rince of Wales spent much of hi oyht at Haddon Hall, and h! ephew, Sir Henyy, was the grand- ‘ather of that Dorothy Vernon whose 1 20 o ed . b 8 % mamos, Qg8 wiows Fusaway marc rage with 8ir John Haddon Duke of qoners carried Hall intc the \nlly of the Rutland. the pressnt owner. * * % Admiral Sir Dudley de Chair, who has just been appointed governor of the Australian state of New South Wales, with a salary of $25,000 a year, additional allowances and an officlal residence handsomely fur- nished at Sydney, is a native of Canada and spent several years as naval attache at the British embassy at Washington, where he was very popular. He was also a member of the spectal mission of former Premler Arthur Balfour to the United States dur.ng the war, as well as naval ad- viser of Lord Robert Cecil in the ad- ministration of the blockade depart- ment while the conflict was In prog- ress. It may be added that he Is the only officer of the British navy and, today, the only colonial governor of the British Empire who can speak from personal experlence of life in the Interior of the harems of the orient. His experience in this con- nection occurred prior to his mar- riage to one of the daughters and helresses of H. W. Struben, a South African multimilliionaire, her mother belongng io,ihe _rall knemn, frian deed, Sir Dudley’s experiences of the interior of orlental seraglios was ob- tained when he was a midshipman in the Egyptian war of 1882, Sent by Admiral Lord Alcester, ¥the swell of the ocean,” commanding the British fleet that bombarded Alexan- dria, to convey dispaiches from the khedivial palace of Ras-el-Teen to the outposts of Ramleh, he lost his way. He was taken prisoner and brought before Arabi Pasha, the rebel chief, who sent him off, under a strong escort, to Cairo. As It had been intimated that the prisoner was {no less a personage than the great | Lord Alcester himself, his arrival in jthe Egyptian capital was hailed by many thousands of natives, yelling that the English had been defeated. * k% % When he alighted from his train at Calro It was realized that his diminutive stature and his extremely boyish appearance precluded him from being passed as the British commander-in-chief responsible for the recent bombardment of Alexan- dria. So he was declared to be the admiral's eon, and was then paraded through the streets on public exhibi- tion a& a type of the foe. Afterward he was lodged in a palace belonging to one of the princes of the khedivial family, most of the members of which were friendly to Arabia, and was trested with tho utmost consideration during his five weeks of captivity that ensued. In- deed, he became a special pet of the iad.es of the reigning house, enjoying the freedom of their various harems, treated by them as a particularly ‘wumey smali Loy, of no masculine consequence whatever. That they were justified in adopting this atti- tude is, perhaps, best shown by the fact that he vigorously resented it as reflecting upon his claim to be an officer of her majesty's navy and con- sequently a fuli-tledged gentleman. His kindly treatment was due In part to his unden.ably good looks, though of a very boyish nature; likew:se that Arabl Pasha was pal ticylariy anxlous to show his mag- anlimity —and also to please. old iferdinand de. Lesseps, creator of the Suez canal, whose good will he was anxious to retain and who had inter- sted himself in the lad’s behalf, In- eed, it was through the efforts of < Lesseps thai the ‘“‘middy,” . now an admiral and a colonial governor, was finally released and sent back to Alexandria trom Cairo, just before Arab! final overthrow by WW. the battle of Tel-el-Kebr.