Evening Star Newspaper, October 31, 1923, Page 6

- 13 T HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO. D, C, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1923 I e e e T T e R T e ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Moruing Edition. _— WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY. ..October 31, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. . Editor ‘The Evening Star Newspaper Compan Busivess Office, 11th 8t. and'Penusyivania Ave . New York Office: 110 East 4ind Bt. Chicazo Offic wer Buiidiog, Rurepean Office: 16 Regent St., London, England. * The Evening Star, with the Sundsy morning editiog, is dellvered by carrlers within the ciiy df 0 cents per month: daily enly. 42 coits per moath; Sunday only, 20 cents month. Orders may be sent by mail or plione Mafn 3000 Collection 18 made by c Tuwers at tie eud of each month. Rate by Mail-——Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, ., T0¢ Daily only > i s Sunday onl: mo., 85¢ mo., 60c mo., 25¢ Member of the Associated Press, The Associated Press is exciusively entitled Jie “use for republ eation of ail Dews din- hes credited to It s rwise credited news Al cighty of publication creln are also reserved. herein. I dispaten Great Britain Accepts. t Britain's acceptance of the tions inquiry proposal of Secre- Hughes, on the basis of the ¥French limitations, puts the matter in the way of immediate execution. In a short time the formal acquiescence of the London government veyed to this government. and pre- sumably meanwhile selections will have been effected of the American pusticipan the inquicy. As the se stands, this inquiry is i «d by the United States as merely advisory, and as not involving the subject of the allied debts. It is conditioned by France as @ phase of the repurations commission’s work. Great Britain, as it now appears, has made no conditions, but has accepted those of the proposing and acquiesc- g governments. It is indicated in some of the Lon don dispatches that the London gov- ernment ig induced to accept the pro- posal, thus conditioned by France, in “he hope that as the inquiry proceeds France will yield somewhat from her isistence upon this inquirs being merely sybordinate to the reparations commission. This suggests that effort will be made to blish the new quiry lines that may e scope of the original r upon the suggestion is thrown rom London that an American should be chairman of the inquiry Lody, to give it more distinetly a neu- Fal character, If Japan participates, as it is now proposed, there will be a frong minority representation of dis- interested factors. But as this is to be an economic inquiry, not political in | any sense, conducted for the purpose of ascertaining what Germany can 1% and at what rate, and having nothing whatever to do with whether should pay—that being presumed i established, as Secretary Hughes definitely states—there is no particular t in the “neutrality” of any par- ticipating elements. The question at issue is one of judgment as to facts. The word of the commission will be Whether the inquiry .will take into hanged and changing al conditions in Germany is to mined. Doubtless this will be pable factor. Germany may viewed as an economic entity for heoretical purposes, but by the time the commission reaches a conclusion as to what can be paid by that coun- vy, viewed as a whole, there may be two, possibly taree, autonomous Ger- in states. Then will arise the ques- tion whether those scparated entities cAn vield the sum agreed upon, and in what proportions the payments should ice and with effectiveness be Ford Not a Candidate? One of Henry Ford's secretaries, in a letter to a “Fordfor-President” Club relative to the presidential nom- jnation, refers 1o vecent magazine a el expressing Mr, Ford's views o the presidency, and then concludes *“This may be summed up as a dete mination not to accept any nomina- tion whatever. He feels that he wi be able to aceomplish much more through his present and projected ac- tivities."” «Mr. Ford himself only a few days ago said that he is for President Cool- idge “strong” if he enforces prohil tion. That utterance at the time was construed as indicating that he is not entertaining presidential ambitions himself. Thomas A. Edison, oue of his clogest friends, has lately publicly declared that he noped Mr. Ford would not run for' the nomination, as he thought Mr. Ford could be of more service to the country along other lines of endeavor. Every real well wisher of Mr. Ford ought to feel the same way about it. The possessor of the vast fortune which Mr. Ford has at command can ‘find better use for it, for the welfare of mankind, than in expending it in pelitics. Mr, Ford is gifted with un- usual qualifications along certain lines; hie has a great heart which throbs for s fellow men. His wealth, his spe- ciglized abilities, should enable him to ‘be of great use to the world. 1t is to be hoped -that the secretary in the letter quoted aforegoing 18 cor- | rectly outlining Mr. Ford’s intentions. ——————— Announcements from several coun- ‘tries would indicate an impression that organizing e republic is one of the easiest enterprises imaginable. —p e The Paleolithic Skull. Paleontologists are now actively dis- cussing the find of & skull in Califor- nia which, if genuine, and if in true location, completely upsets previous theorles of the age of man on this con- tipent. If Prof. Harrington's discovery is. authentic—tkere is no doubt, it ‘would seem, on the score of his good faith—this fragment of human re- ‘mains demonstrates that man existed here long before any previous records have established. Doubt, however, has been thrown upon the §nd, in that it is mverred that the skull may have Deen ‘‘planted,” having been previous- 1y unearthed in Europe and brought here. For what purpose save to serve 23 @ hohx cannot be gonceived. Paleo- litpie skulls are not common. They P pub- | of will be con- | - of Masonic dignitaries. carry it | are not eastty found. When found they are hailed as rare objects. fit for the choicest display in the most care- fully guarded places of custody. It does not seem probable that the finder of such an old bit of human hone would go to the trouble of bringing it to America and depositing it in some place on the chance of its being later found, to coufute the hypothesis of buman life on the western continent. The chances of its ever being found, save through carefully guided sugges- tions, which would be likely to leave traces of purpose and intent, would appear to be extremely remote. This is a big stretch of country. A skull is rclatively an atomic entity. The needle in the haystack would be an jea find compared with that of such a deliberately placed piece of bone. This reaction of doubt is character- |istic of science. It is, indeed, the basis of sclentific search. The researches {into the history of the earth and fts | oecupants are founded upon the prin- ciple of the Science must be “shown.” It must| know beyond question. It must bo | | convinced by irrefutable proof. But| { what is “proof” in the case of & frag- | {ment of bone? Geology tells most of | | the story. Certain layers of rock, | is now established, write the positive {records of civilization's development. The rocks cannot lie. Contraversy once raged upon them, but agreement has 1 been reached regarding their story. 1f |4 bit of extraneous matter, such as @ | human bone, is found somewhere its | locatlon tells its age. This California | skull is in the wrong place, according | to established concepts of the earth | ‘record in this hemisphere. Tlence the: battie between previously iblished ' fundamentais and = eiement, | manifested in the doubts which bave | | arisen and have bLeen expressed. | | Science is skeptical, because hoaxe: ‘have Dbeen perpetrated heretofo | Some men living remember the “Car ! | new i i | diff giant,” which astounded the world | eastward, might find refuge in Rus- | mome decades ago. It was exploited as | {a wonderful “find"” of prehistoric man. Tt proved, after months of profitable | exhibition by its “discoverer,” to be a | | gypsum statue, crafuly fabricated in | !a tombstone cutter's shed. | ' A Great Masonic Gathering. vashington and the neighborin city of Alexandria are at present the scenes of an extraordinary assemblage The eves of ! the three million members of this| (order, “Blue Lodge Masonry,” through- | out the United States are focussed on | Several gatherings of the utmost in- terest to the rank and file of the| “eraft” are in progress. The Masonic | Service Association, made up of repre- sentatives of all the Masonic grand! Jjurisdictions of the country, opened its | | sessiors Monday. This organization is | | devoted to the rendering of service to i Americans, whatever their race, headquarters from the middle west to | { Washington, a fact which is signifi- | cant of the trend of national organi-: zations to locate their central offices at the Capital. i Tomorrow the grand masters of the | | forty-nine Masonic jurisdictions of the | | United States, for the first time in his | ; | ory, will meet at Alexandria, where | { each in turn will spread mortar on the | | corner stone of the mammoth memo- | rial being erected thera to George | Washington, the Mason. Preliminary | | to this ceremony the grand masters have met in Washington for confer- | jences and for an inspection of the ! { Capital, as well as for visitations and | { social functions. ! One of the objectives of the tour of | { the city by the nd masters yester- | | day afternoon was the site of the! projected Masonic templs on the | heights north of the city, the old Dean | { estate, chosen by the local Masons | {tor their future home. Tt has been | suggested that one of the results of | 1 this visitation will be to forward a j suggestion that ultimately, perhaps | { soum. may be formed & governing or | { administrative body to coordinate the | i pre forty-nine distinct jurisdie- | tions and to create for ‘“‘Blue L:)dgei a supreme grand lodge | { headquarters in Washington, so that ! this city may become the Capital city of Masanry as well as of all otl:er! mmendable national urgauimliune; and movements. 3 ———— i 1 { Norway, in considering a change of | i name for its capital from Christiania back to the original name, Oslo, may congratulate itself if it has no mere serious topic of popular agitation. 1 ———— { i A number of eminent republicans | ! signify their readiness to accord un-! stinted appiause to any one among !thpm who can positively muarantee prohibition enfercement. : ————— In referring to the reparations con- ference Poincare intimates that so far as his own views are concerned the assemblage need expect nothing novel or surprieing. , —————— Sclence, with all its magnificent | achievements, has to acknowledge it- | self often defeated by o tiny a lhing, { as @ pueumonia germ. Reference by Senator McCormick to ! “lotophagi” is likely to renew the pro-| test that &ll bills of fase should be printed in plain English. H i Home for Incurable } One of our old and worthy ins}ilu-‘ tions is in need of money. It is the! ‘Washington Home for Incurables. For Dearly half a century the home has made a strong appeal to the best senti- ments of our people, and bas been held !ln high and affectionate regard. ltl makes & plea for help, fts management makes a plain statement of the rea- son for the plea, and there is no doubt that & muititude of citizens will re- spond. The old property of the home ‘was sold some time ago, and a better sjtuation in a tract of about ten acres was provided through the generosity o!two women. A contract was let for & new and fireproof building with ac- cominodations for ‘ene hundred pa- tients, or forty more than can be ac- commodated in the old building. The contract price of the Hew structure is | $402,000. i The president of the home says: “Qwing to increased cost of material and labor- this is $150.000 over our original estimates. Toward this we have $100,000, $75,000 belng from the ¥ el ! plus for the good of humanity. | Holland. { Nature smiling zale of the old home property and a cancer fund of $25000. A splendid legacy of $130,000 recently pald in leaves us $170,000 ehort, and surely in this great, prosperous and beautiful city of 437,600 there must be at least 60,000 who feel able—willing, I am quite sure they are—to give us $3 each, for ‘we shall need approximately §10,000 for unavoldable extras and furnitur Our work and backs are open to in- spection, and we feel sure that the help will come to enable us to com- plete our building free from debt.” The fact is known that this home gives comfortable refuge for sufferers who can find no other accommodation except in the almshouse or in &tertain hospitals, where the cost of care is be- yond the means of most persons. The appeal which the management makes is strong and touching. Here is an- other opportunity to give of one’s sur- The running expenses of the home are car- ried by a special fund, & small appro- man from Missouri. | priation from Congress and the daily | stus gifts of friends. —e— Willie Wants to Go Home. Former Crown Prince Wilhelm of ants to return to his native land. The Netherlands government, it is 1so stated, is willing he should go, but will not permit him to return to This puts the case up to “Willie” rather unpleasantly. If he nccepts an opportunity to go to Ger- many, possibly to go into the motor Lusiness, which has already accom- modated one of his brothers, or to hang around waiting for a ménarch- ical restoration, he will have no place 10 g0 toward the south or west in case things get unpleasantly warm there, unless he should wish himself on Switzerland, which would perhaps .Azh;u'e something to say about such a ! visitation. Of course he might go sia, But ex-monarchs or near-mon- archs are rather at @ discount over | there. Whatever were once the sym- pathetic feelings of certaln of the so viet leaders for the royalty of Ger- many when the reds in Russia were playing the German game by captur ing the revolutionary government at Petrograd, they have decidedly waned meanwhile. —————————————— When Uncle Sam is frec from his national debt in 1952 he can depend on finding abundant advice from all quar- | the National Capital and its environs. | ters of the globe as to what to do with | m¢ jany superfluous income. —_————— The admiration expressed by Lioyd George for the Liberty Bell is a re- minder that truly great nations do not needlessly harbor histosic grudges. ———————————— The chrysanthemum, now in glor its Japanese, who developed the flower. ——e—te————— Army planes scatter tlowers on ceremonial occasions: which is better than scattering bombs in warfare. —_——t——————— America is looked to for uable aid in establishing a state of peace as well as in settling a war. ——— Automobile disasters are sufficient numerous to call immediately for an- other “Safety-First” week. —_————————— Nobody will object to innocent Hal- Joween pranks so long as they remain innocent. The Germun paper ark, Jest, has become a tragedy. once a SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHNSON Indian Summer. Indian summer—dreaming days When the hours just go their ways, Leaving present care behind, To the land of Nevermind. Just & pause, to dvift and wait For the summer glow too late Yet too early for the blast Winter time will bring at last Faded flowers—failing leave while she gr For the beauteous days of vore Seems more radiant than before. Indian summer—memories sweet Soothe foreboding that they meet, When the world from blossom glow ‘Turns to silence and the sncw. Courtesy. “What do you understand by sena- torial courtesy?” “It's like any other courtesy,” an- swered Senator Sorghum; “an intuitive feeling that makes & person want to avoid @ row by saying eut aloud some- thing tbat most everybody is think- Jud Tunkips says be never yet saw a dancer as graceful as his facial ex- pression shows he imagines he is. Easy Money. If paper marks were any good In a commercial neighborhood, A fortune I'd enjoy, I guess, | If 1 could buy a printing press. ! “Iow many times has Algernon pro- | posed to you?” “F-baven't kept count,” replied Miss Cayepne. “He i8 not a very gifted conversationalist, and proposing is only his way of trying to say some- thing pleasant.” Expanding Responsibilities. “Some day you farmers will get to- gother and run the country.” “When we do,” answered' Faimer Corntossel, “1 hope we'll be jugkier with the job than & good many of us bhave been runnin’ ferms.” “De hardest bousin’ problem in our settlement,” said Uncle Eben, “is git- tin’ de people dat sho' puff belongs dar, in jail.” 3 2 e Hails New Farm Era. Prom the Topeks Capital. : The trouble with the world, ac- cording to Secretary Hoover, is that it is produeing too much grain and too little dairy products and animal food. This hard time for agriculture ‘will probably he looked back upon as ushering in & new agricultural era and & mew prosperity for farm: ers. . ¥ “Willie” is probably bet- | ter off where he is. WASHINGTON BY FREDERIC “Who's Who in America,” classic compendium- of the great and near- great, will celebrate its twenty-fifth asanlversary by a nation-wide inquiry into “the influence of the occupation end environment of parents on their children.” To that end the ques- tionnaires now being circulated for the 1924 edition request from ad- dresses the following Snformation: 1. Chief occupation of father at time of your birth—whether a farmer, skilled or unakilled laborer, business man and what business, clergyman {8nd what denomination, or profes. sional man ‘other than clergyman. 2. Type of birthplace—whether farm, ieguutry village, small town, large city or suburb of large city., The editors of “Who's Who" will use the data thus supplied “for an intelligent ' of environment's effect upon icareers, | | % & % % Robert W. Bonynge, United States agent on the American-German mixed claims commiseion, who called on j | Germany, it is reported fronr Doorn, ! President Coolidge the other day, campaigned with the then candidate | ifor Vice President in New England | in 1920. Coolidge and Bouynge were ! billed to appear at the same meeting. The latter, who was formerly a | member of Congress from Colorado, ,suggested that he'd like to speak !firet, because if the governer should lea. off, Bonynge was afraid the ierowd would leave the hall as soon ias Coolidge was finished. “Yes,” drgwled Coolld with a twinkle in his eve, “that’s usunaliv the effect of my speeches.” Geu. Pershing is so determined to preserve his incognito in France that he went abroad without an aide-de- jcamp. The general's chief adjutant in urope, throughout the world war, waa Maj. John G. Quekemeyer, a Mis. sissippian, who is now at the General Service School at Fort Leavenworth. “Quek” who is a dashing cavalry- man_and polo_player, had a_distin- guithed career in Furope for five vears. The outbreak of the war found him a junior milltary attache iin London. Later, he was at British { headquarters in France as an Amer- ican llaison officer. When we took the field, he became Pershing's alde {and served in that capacity until a few months ago. T { | There's been a queer omission i connection with the portraits | Woadrow Wilson's three Secretar: State—Bryan, Lansing and Colby— ! which are hung in the diplomatic | reception room at the State Depart- nt. The walls are adorned with i pictures of nearly all*Secretaries of | State since the foundation of the re- in of jo OBSERVATIONS WILLIAM WILE. public. In every case—except that of Woodrow Wiison—thero i» append- ed to the statesman's name that of the administration under which he served. Under the names of Brym Lansing and Colby appear only the years in which they held office, “Woodrow Wilson's administration” is missing. * k¥ % When Theodore Roosevelt was President, he took fencing lessons from a French master-swordsman named Francis Darieulat, who is still a resident of Washington. The other day, at a certain establishment where Darieulat occasionally gives instruc- tion, an attendant attempted to deny him entrance at the front door. Da- rleulat was told to use the tradesmen's |entrance. He expostulated, with | Gallic fire, that 2 man who was good enough to be shown through the front door of the White House for more {than five years ought to be eligible [to use the gentleman's evtrance of any house. Whereupon the argument ended in the gallant master-at-arms’ favor. Darfeulat was the tralner of the American foils team which won | great honors at the last Olympic | games. * ok ok No man In Uncle Sam's federal | service. with’the possible exception of | Secretary Davis, has had a more ro- | mantic carcer than T. V. O'Connor, vice chairman of the Shipping Board. | 0'Connor came to Ametica a poor boy from Ireland. For many ¥ { worked st his trade—"dock P —finally as " union, ot - the of forty years ago | chief command of the de-luxe ger fleet of the American ant marine, O'Connor hav cently been delegated to administer e United Sta lines unde Ship- | ping Board operation. Hig fame in the labor world is a conciliator. Tt iwas due to him that the dockers barred strikes during the war and . made possi our vast movement of men and munitions overseas with- out a hitch. At one tme he was in the running for the secretaryship of 1 labor. national most i tions in the immigrant * % % There is one tell-tale siga that President Coolidge is now deeply im- mersed in his job after ninety days of it. He began operations with an uncommo clear desk He emed 0 be & master of the art of transact- inz business without cluttering up his work-table. Today he is sur- rounded. 1ik a mountain umulation ments, files apers. Th recently introduced at ary Slemp’s behest, whereby the Presi- dent’s afternoons are not interrupted by caliers, is conserving Mr. Cool- idge's time and energy. ! keep piling up on his desk. (Coprright. 1823 ) 'Editors See Coolidge Letter Complicatin Yy, in a reminder of the sorrows [ creed or religion. It recently moved its now surrounding the beauty-loving | The erisis in the dispute between {Gov. Gen. Leonard Wood, the Phillp. {pime legistature and the advocates of { umedlate “scif-government” in the islands has been brought to a head fthrough the messuge sent to Wood by { President Coolidge through the Sec- {retary of War ! pledges anew the hearty and uncon- {ditional support of the government to Wood and finde that he has not xceeded or nisused his powers as governor genersl” How the island- ,ers will take this statement is thus {made one of the vers serious prob- ‘lems of the day. Once &gain the en- tire question independence ha ‘been precipitated as a topic of nation- fwide debate. “No higher tribute could be paid - unselfish diligence and disti with which Leonard Wood to | tion i spending and belng spent in that far-; off ccuntry,” says the Boston Trans- {seript (independent republican), but, agreeing to the importance of the i message, the New York Evening Post ! (ihdependent) argues the Weeks let- ter is “a pro forma aocument which :will not greatly shake the nation- The Pow is impelled 1o ques- gome of the Wesks {because “at bottom the quarrel does jnot concern mere law, but the whole pirit of government” and it ex- i the hope that Washington anies its public approbation of Wood with an earnes. word ot ate ad The Duluth Herald (independent republican) feels “Gen. { Wood, great colonial administrator i that he 1s, clearly is not calming the nrest over there. Rather hig atti- {tude seems @) be adding to it jwould be excecdingly unpleasant to {have the world observe the anom- {1ous spectacle of the land of the free { killing brown brothers because they {seek the freedom which we preach jand profess to exemplify. Especially there is no possible ‘doubt that if question of cutting Joose from i ilippines under alnost any con- {ee e set of circumstances were subuitted to the American people they would vote majoritys * ¥ ¥ % The ion is st unfortu- nate” the Brooklyn Eagle (inde- pendent democratic) insists, and “is not likely to be bettered by mes- sages from Washington summarily dismissing Filipino complaints as un- worthy of consideration” while the Des Moines Register (independent) | polnts out “the United States would lutop a long white betore it tried to 1 subject Mexico to military rule, and Mexico Is our nearest neighbor. What will it cost to subject the Philippines o military rule?’ The Allentown 11 (republican), however, feels the fucts have becn misrepresented, and situa that “highly organized Filipino poli- | ticiuns are lambasting Gen. Wood as x ‘foreign’ invader to get the sym- pathy of the {gnorant and preju- diced.” In a way, this Is also the opinion -of the New Haven Journal- Courler (independent), which feels governing tie islands “is the deii- cate task of managing an ambitiou: child. The islands left to themselves would soon be in turmoil.” The Philippines are in position to be made “America’s Ireland,” the Omaha World-Herald (democratic) sug- gests, and “we in America have Watched with great interest and no little distress the unfolding of the problem of Great Britain there. We have seen the bloody conseguences of the blufidering policy of English statesmen and ~we should have Jearned a lesson.* The Chicago Trib- une (independent republican) would “let the little ?‘l’w':: bmlh?r ln.,‘; rather than “pacify them again w! a Krag” To which the ?prln.‘fltld republican (independent) rather sharply replies, “The irresponsible talk of & posaible insurrection in the Philip- pines is not to be taken serjously.” The native leaders of the independ- ent movement Tor years past have de- sired insular independence with an American gdarantee against exter- nal aggression, but they can hardly be so simple-minded as to think that y such protectorate involving pos- sible burdens of & military character for the American taxpayers in cmer- geneles could be made attractive o the American people after being co- erced to quit the islands by a nativ uprising against American authority. ok Ok OE Because the - “enterprise of 'the Quezonites approaches a threav,” the | } srguments, | e ‘yes' by an overwhelming g Manila Crisis| Saginaw News-Courier (independent) teels its “only effect iz to alienate mpatby in this country. By all ac- counts, the Philippines are doing ex- ceedingly well, industrially, agricul- turally und educationally: but jure Ly no means vet able to take care of themselves. And were they to be The administration | granted the ‘immediate independence’ | that Quezon and his party are de- manding they would unquestionab) soon find themselves in trouble. This Is also the viewpoint of the ‘l?hr\'-lh.ml Plain Dealer { which holas™ “it would be sxtreme | unfortunate if the Filipinok, because Pof Gen. Wood's lack of tauct, were to i sacrifice the store of good will which {they have built up in the United States in the coursc of recent years.'™ ew York Herald (independent), part. in Fthe peace | prevails in the now is the nax n.: maintained by gar lar troops and by patrol 1 commanded by | the present | s But e of affairs can hardly continue the Atlanta Journal (demo- is convinced, und ‘“unless an carly harmonizing there | is lkely to be early crashing.” | The Newark News (indcpendent) sees lities in this unfortunate !nau‘ of affalrs. The reports sent to the United States that there is a rev- J olution in prospect are | if mot entirely untrue. ggerated, ‘There are hot- heads on both sides that would wel- come a conflict, but they are in the minority.” Granting this fs true, the Roanbke World-News (democratic) regrets “not many Amerjcans are i paying attention to t tempest now {brewing in the Philippine The | islands are a iong way off and even {the most sensational news story about Gen. Wood's troubles ra gets first e in our sometimes too provincial American papers. ut if the republican administration wise it will make very definite moves to i posty long, eratic) | there ence in accordance wkich we have tim nounced to the world Rural Routes in D. C. with the policy and again an. gress Heights Resident. 'To the Editor of The Star: In reference to vour article of Sun- day, October 28, 19 stating that J. | F. Aliller is serving the last of the rural routes within the District and that the Anacostia routes serve no mail within the District line, I beg to differ on this subject. 1 am Jiving at the end of the car line at Congress Heights, three miles within the District, other residents in’ the same sub- aivision, we still have to maintain oar old-fashioned country mail boxes on the north side of Nichols avenue for the benefit of the rural mall car- rier, who deposits all mail in it he cannot find an owner for. Tt takes us a day longer to get a letter than it does in the city, where- @8 the regular mail carrier comes right past where our boxes are and delivers mail. 1 have tried to find out why we do not have city delivery, as It would not take the carrier five minutes longer to walk through our subdivieton and deliver mail. But I presume there must be some good reason. I am just stating these facts because I hate to see my paper make any misstatements. E. J. READ. Would Free President From Handshaking “To the Editor of.The Star: Are we going to kill another Presi- dent? Fhere were 377 in our delegation who shook the President's hand. He looked tired, I thought he would just say a few words to us, or I would not heve gone. An attendant told me President Harding was even more liberal in the number of people received. “I reckon.” he added, “that was one of the things that Killed him.” I realize that with this custom es- tablished, and with the constant p sure for its continuance, the Pre dent hesitates to stop it. But it s nothing short of a crime 80 to waste the time and the strength of the most overburdened man in the world. Another convention refused to ro- S e se Fipe. ta stop this thi e_time rl Q stoj 8 3 ' LEEVARE KING." Vice President Granite Trust Co. i ! but things | they | (independent), | that | assure the Filipinos early independ- { More Than One Exists, Says Con- and, with ten ! Politics at Large BY N. 0, MESSENGER Whether' Senator Hiram Jehnson is ‘preparing to jump the reservation and take to the warpath for the presiden- tial nomination is a subject keenly in- teresting the politicians at this time. Speculati is aroused by the activi- ties of some of his supporters and ominous rumblings in Johnson circles. The revival of the Hughes plan for participation of the United States in the reparations commission is said to have irritated the Johnson people, and the selection of Frank B. Kellogg to be ambassador to Great Britain is said to have been displeasing to them on account of Mr. Kellogg’s record of friendliness to a reserved form of league of nations. “They are pushing us too hard,” the Johnson irrggoncilables are saying of the administration’s policy on foreign affairs. Politicians have thought that Senator Johnson is jtching to get into the presidential contest and that he is biding his time for an auspicious op- portunity and a good excuse. * % ¥ ¥ The administration, it is believed, would not be dismayed should the senator enter the lists for the nomina- tion on & platform of opposition to its policy. as to German reparations, be- cause there is no doubt in the minds of the President’s closest friends and ad- visers that the preponderant sentiment of the country supports the adminis- .lrn(lon‘u course up to this time. The ! party leaders who have hitherto been opposed to anything looking llke par- ticipation by~ the United States in Kuropean affairs, even to the extent of Joining the worid court. % {” “There could be no objection,” one tof “these hard-boiled party leaders {says, “to a carefully’ guarded usso- iation with any seemingly effective plan of settling the reparations !question. 1 believe the people of this country would be in our dolng something to avoid the |erisis in Europe which every observer who comes from abroud says is por- tending.” * % % If Senator Johnson does come out as a contestant for the nomination it is expected that others will follow. Gov. Pinchot is quite likely, in the belief of the politicians, to announce himself on his platform of prohibi- {tion enforcement, although he is re- | garded as having recently gotten aj {bit the worse of it in his controversy | over enforcement in Pennsylvania, He | first tackled President Coolidge, try- |ing to put the Chief Executive in the 1light of being able to do mmore than any one else to enforce the law, and got his answer indirectly in the | Pre ent's address to the governor's { conference. Then he went up against a buzz- saw jn charging that Secretary of { the Treasury dellon was not enfore- ing to the full the law in Pennsy vayis, Secretary Mellon came back sharply and pointed out the author ity vested in the governor by Penn- sylvania statutes for enforcement which he did not seem to be using to } the full. The politicians are watching inter- estedly the scrap between Gov, Pin- chot and Secretary Mellon, on aceount of its possible effect on the struggle for the control of the Pennsvlvania delegation to the republican national convention, Secretary Mellon secking an uninstructed delegation and Gov. Pinchot ufter delegates instructed for him as a “favorite son.” * % * % Senater Underwood. in his candi dacy for the demoeratic nominatjor ihas run afoul of the Ku Kiux Klan {in his first essay into the feld, Texas. They are against him in that state, where they are very powerful {in politics, and will make the seri- |ator's search for delegates in the Lone Star state an up-hill task, From some of the southern states {come rumblings of dissent from Sen {ator Underwaod's platform of nom- {inating a candidate from the south, | because of sectio reasons. Some of the southern newspapers are pro- testing that it has been the alm of { the gouth to wipe out sectional lines, {whereupen Senator Underwood's sup- porters s=ay that is just what he Is ng to do—wipe out the objections ! raised to him because he is from the Isouth. i i | I | { i { * Berrvman's caitoon the other day depicting the vets” dolefully la- menting that Gov. Al Smith is their last hope among potential candidates for the democratic nomination aid by the politicians to have hit the nail on the head. MecAdoo, Under- wood. Bryan and all the rest of them are high and dry on the water wagon and Gov. Smith is the white hope of the wets—believed to not have a Chi- naman’s chance for the nomination. R A 2 The democratic national committee is getting peeved because Presid Coolidge won't say something wh they can take hold of and are assert- ing that his silence is irritating the republicans. The way the committee puts it, in the statement issued today, ]1s this: { “President Coolidge's ‘silence’ re- arding governmental problems which jare the subject of discussion and {worry all over the country is begin- |ning to irk certain republican poli- ticlans and not a few republican newspapers. They are becoming per- suaded that this reticence is being interpreted by the people as due to Mr. Coolidge's want of initiative at a time when imagination and aggres- siveness are especially requisite.” ‘Then the statement goes on to de- pict the republicans as enveloped in gloom over the President’s taciturn- ity and almost in a panic over his nomination. The republican manage- ment, however, hows no sign of be- ing thus shrouded in apprehensfon, and declares that the President wili “gpeak out in meetin’ " when he talke to Congress. ¥ k % % Commenting upon the situation in the Philippines. the repuyblican na- tiopal committee in a statement charges that “the unsettled condi- tions in the Phillppines are another legacy of the democratic administra- tion of cight years ago under Wood- row Wilson. When the democratic party took charge in 1913, political and commercial conditions in the Philippines were better than they had been at any time since the United States assumed charge. Under the guldance of successive republican ad- ministrations the people of those islands had taken long steps to- ward thelr goal of self-government, although they were not yet ready for self-government. “Upon the democratic party assum- ing control the fantastic ideas which were a part of the demoeratic plat- form jn Bryan’s 1900 campaign were dragged out and put into practice. The American government in the Philippines practically abdicated and turne ver everything to the natives. Gov. Gen. Wood, however, set about to clear up the situation, bring po- litical order out of chaos and sol- vency out of bankruptcy. * ¥ k¥ Then the republican national com- mittee makes this flat charge: “His efforts in this respect were seconded by the better class of JFilipinos. They were opposed by the faction which svas in control, by the emissaries of foreign powers in the Philippines and by the democratic politicians in the United States who formed & working coalition with the dominant faction in Philippine politics to oppose Gen. Wood and embarrass the Harding administration in Its efforts to clear up the Philippine situation.” same feeling is shared by some of the ! inj Q. How much gasoline is derived from natural gas and how much from oil?—J. W. McD. A. The bureau of mines says that :’pnxlmldy 10 per cent of all gaso- ne mads is taken from natural gas and 90 per cent from petroleum. Q. What is the fastest whippet in the United States?—Y. N. D. A. The winner of the American ‘Whippet Derby this year was Gilligan's Tommy, owned by Mr. James Gilligan of Lawrence, Mass. ‘There is another very fast dog by the name of Shep, owned by Mr., Eddington of Boston, that won the open race October 13 at Westbury, Long Island. These two dogs have never met in a race, but no | doubt the championship of the country lles between them. Q. In duplicate auction, on the re- play, when all hands pass, what is the proper procedure?—L. M. M. A. The haud is checked as played with no score, and compared with the |original score’ for the hand. It may have been plaved and a score madn or {the players may heve been set. The first =core will be a net gain or loss ac- cordingly. Q. From what animal fur obtained?—E. B, B. { A Kolinsky is the name given to the skin of several Astatic minks, cspe- j clally Putorius sibirious. The animal is {about fifteen inches long and has a { bushy tall. The fur is generally buff or tawny and is dyed for commercial use. is kolingky | Mirine Band>—B. T. M. { A. During the first years of ¢t i rine Band it had no regular leader. dif- { ferent members alternating as condu tors until July 14, 1524 At that time {John Lewis Clubk, a youth of twent one. born and reared in the District of Columbia, who enlisted February 14, 1820, was appointed fife major. He served as such until February 11, 183 wien, at his own request, he was charged. Q. “'oolong” ?7—M. M. A. These words are corruptions of local Chinese terms. “Pekoe” comes from “pak-ho,” and refers to the down on the young leaves. “Oolong” comes from loug.” meaning black dragon. and r fere to the black leaves mixed with those of greenish yellow. Q. Where is t numerous as tha antumnal leav i Valambroso™ found?—J. c A. This is In line 303 of the first book of “Paradise Lost.” Valambroso is & valley about eighteen miles east of Florence, Ita Q v rmed el of as the piural of Chinese ever adding “s"7—D. W i A. In the =eventeenth century iform “Chineses” was used. Q. How did the use of the word rog” signifying liquor origiate?— | o i the R. A An old sea admiral in the ecighteenth century ordered that the men under his command should no ‘xoncer be allowed to drink undilute rum. By his direction the spirit mixed with water before being served. His saflors resenfed th. lder and christened the mixture 'in ridicule of the admiral known as Nd Grog” from his cu: tom of w = ogram breeches Choice of Lord As Gov Lord Athlone's appointment to the governor generalship of the ! tonomous South African Union can eniy be described as felicitous. Kor while as the youngest und favorite brother of Queen M he is suf- {flefently mear the throne to compel Lim to remain aloof from all politi- | cal partisanship. both in the United | Kingdom and in its oversea do- { minions, and to maintain the sam {degree of impartiality in this spect as his only sister, et he is, no sense of the werd. roval. not an English royal prince, even a foreign one. He does not Lave to be addressed as or-as | “highne: He is a British peer. |and a very gallant soldier, who was {born in England. educated at Eton, |received his military training Sandhurst, and_has served as an officer in_ the 7th Hussars and in the Roval Horse Guards, seeing a | Bood_deal of campaigning against {the Mataheles in 1895, { distinguished service Kitchener in the a quarter of a century ago, taking part in the relief of Kimberly and of Maafking, and in nearly all the im- portant act s in that South African campalgn, wkile in the last great international conflagration he wa {the front in Belgium and in France throughout the entlre four years of fighting, during a porticn” of the time as chief of the British mission at_Belgian headquarters. He is a tall, soldierly man, who has Inherited, in an_exceptional the good looks of his fathe of his mother, the universal Princesa in at by was one_of handsome: princesses of Rurope. He Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge the youngest s <i 111 Duke of Teck, fought against the Prussians, and in 1866 won distinc- tion as a colonel of Austrian cavalry at the battle of Sadova, wus the son of the Royal Prince Alexander of ‘Wurttemberg and of the Countess Rhedey, whose ancestors at one time reigned over Transylvania. In 1917 Lord Athlone relinquished the Wurttemberg title of Prince of Teck, which he had {inherited from his as well as the style of “hig s P tronymic of Cambridge and to b come a peer of the British realm a Earl of Athlone and Viscount Trema ton, the latter title being new borne by his only son, now a boy of sixte & ¥ % X Incidentally, it may be mentioned that the earldom of Athlone, created by King William III—"Dutch Wil- Mam”—in favor of his trusted re- | tainer, Frederick Reinhardt van Reed- or, became extinct with the death, without issue, of the last earl in 1544, Lord Athlene Is married to Princess Alice, only daughter of Queen Victoria’s youngest son, the late Duke of Albany, and she is generally regarded as the comeliest of all the members of the reigning house of England. She is ex- | tremely sunny tempered, bubbling over with “jole de vivre,” and is bent on smusement—in fact, she is extremely fond of gayety. In spite of her reten- tion of her rank as & royal princess, yet she has always dispensed with the state maintained by the other members of the reiguing house. She has no ladies or gentlemen in waiting, no chamber- lains or equerries, and’ this freedom which she has enjoyed of the perpetual attendance and escort of members of the court has given her an independ- ence of character and a simplicity of manner that are very captivating and that will go far to win friends for her in South Africe. In one respect the new governor gen- eral and his wife will differ from their predecessors in South Africa. Prince j Arthur of Connaught s wel] off, while his wife, the Duchess of Fife, is very rich indeed, having imherited not only the fortune of her benker father, the late Duke of Fife, but also the bulk of the property of his most intimate friend i Q. Who was the first leader of the | Ma- | Why are teas called “pelkoe” and | meaning white hair, | as | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | &u- | ng the | Q. In the oft quoted saying of Lincoln, “All T am, I owe to my moth- er was Lincoln referring to his mather or his stepmother?—C. R. A. A. It is customary to interpret the famillar saying of Abraham Lineoln 28 applying to his own mother rath than to his stepmother. The latter was, of course, an unusual woman, {to whom Lincoln owed a great deal, but his own mother lived long ent,-lxgrx.o leave the all-important im- on her son. 1 | press | o | . Q When was Bartiett’ - | tions first published?—AL S.! s.Queu [+A: The first edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations was a small ;:m‘-: oc(a.\‘bo‘.‘ c‘onslntlnt of 295 pages. ‘as published in Camb Eng- land, In 1855, AmBeicEe. Enk Q. te i of the three EH‘,‘H‘E‘]hd o A. Arizona is sometimes known as the state of the three C'a—Copper, Cot - ton and Cattle. A fourth C is fre- quently added for Climate, Q. What is in ¥ 2 = dustrial eMiciency A. Efficiency may be defined ss the industrial relation between whai is and what ought to be, between the actual and the standard. Another definition is that efficiency ix to do the ds(?lnd:.rd performance in the andard time, at the sta. a ce, for the standard cost. ooard place. What s Q. When @ buzzard sails against SUlE wind. what propels it7—w. A, A. Tie biological survey sa the answer © is pot definite known. Part of the force of tie win i used by the feathers in turning which enables the bird ty use a f of cossting. It Is supposed that 1 force of gravity pulling the bird the ground also assists the bird Q. What is the difference in weight bu%_w 4n eca water and fresh water? A. Ses water wiid weigh about one and a half pounds ore per cubic foot than fresh water at the same temperature, { Q. Please give recipe fér chocolate cream frosting for cake—A. D. A. Add five tablespoonfuls of milk to one cup granulated sugar. Place ¢n fire and stir until it boils. Boil five minutes—remove and add flavor. ing. Beat untl thick and {spread on cake and cover with thin jcoating of melted chocolate. 1 Q. Of what people who i h | at Oberammergau?—. | A The Bavarian villagers igive this celebrated P'assion Roman Catholics Play who lay are Q. What is the origin of the wors boycott?—V. L. A. Capt. Boxcott was the English agent_ of Lerd Erne in Ireland in $51. He incarred the il will of the tenants. As a result the population for miles refused to deal with him in any way. (Let The Star Information Burea: answer your question. State you query plainly and briefly and send it to The Star Injormation Bureau. Frederic J. Haskin, déirector, 1220 North Capitol street. Incioss = cents stamps for return postage Athlone ernor Felicitous and business partner, the ¢ Farquhar, who died some ago. Lord Athlone, on the other band. and his royal wife are far from This is more espectally the case .sin the great war. For when Allce’s only brother, the then Duke o Albany, was taken,’ sorely against his will, from school at’ Eton to assume the German throne of the formerly sover- cign duchies of Saxe-Coburg and Gotna which the Duke of Connaught aud hie son Prince Arthur had declined (thev came to Queen Victoriz's descendants ough her husband, who was a prince : 3 rg Gotha), she became rn- ed to a handsome income burg - Gotha crown property vas, naturally, stepped on the out- ak of the great war, and when th ve of revolution in 1318 swept all of |the German and central European thrones, save that of the sovereign | Prince of Lichtenstein, out of existence | the crown property of the Saxe-Coburg | dynasty was comfiscated by the people | Frincess Alice is, therefore, dependent | upon a legacy which she received from {hér grandmother, Queen Victoria, and {upon her share in the relatively sm. | fortune left by her father, the late Duk- jof Albanv, while her husband. Lord | Athlone. has little bevond his militer, ay and an allowance from his sist Queen Mary, of whom he is & partic | favorite, o months ¥k ko As governor general of outis | African Union Lord Athlone will re { ceive a salary of $50.000 a year and | also some ‘wery liberal aliowances | amounting tonalf as much more. a- | well as official ‘and fully furnishcd and. handsomely maintained r: dences at Cape Town.and at Pre toria, and may be relied upon holding the office for the customary adm istrative term of five years, at the end | of which time Lord Athlone may br invited to become the governor gen eral either of the Dominion of Canadu or the commonwealth of Australia. It has generally beem understood that tho satrapy of the British Sou African Union would be offered to and accepted by the Duke and Duch- of York. ~But what with the Prince of Wales' frequent absences— he is booked for a prolonged visit to British_South Africa next year—the task of assisting King George and Queen Mary in the social and orna- mental portion of thair dutles is fall- ing with.increasing welght upon the shoulders of the Duke and Duchess of York, who cannot be gpared at a rate until the Prince of Wales sett down, marries and is ready to under- take to relieve his father of at least a portion of his dutles. The main thing about Lord and Lady Athlone is that thev enjoy the nrogpect of representing the crown in a_self-governing oversea dominion and of doing something useful for the nation. Prince Arthur of Connaught on the other hgnd, undertook tho mis- sion entirely from a sense of duty while it {s no secret that his wife, who is Duchess of Fife in her own right, was neither well nor happy in outh Africa, and regarded her lif: there as a species of exile. She, too. i3 @ handsome woman. But she con- veys the {mpression of discontent, of aloofness and of difficuity to reco! hefself to surroundings that have not been altogether congenlal; im fact that her stay in South Africa has been a sacrifice of her tastes and in- clinations. Whereas her cousin, Prin- cess Alice, radfates happiness snd pleasure, among the rich apd poor alike, irTespective of rank, and has elready completely won the South African premier, Jan Smuts. and those other statesmen at the cape and at Pretoria who have had occasion to visit England since the war. She has a very pretty daughter. who is just coming oitt, and who bears the title of Tady May Cambridge, and is now about (0 enter her elghtéenth year. Princess Alice bids fair to win { g00d will of the Africandery: that 1o say, of the old Dutch, formerly hos= tile, ‘element in South Afrl For her mother, the late Duchess of Al- bany. was the sister of the queen mother of the Netherlands, and much of her own girthood was epent at The Hague. Indeed, there 1§ ne_member of the reigning house of Great Brit- ain who enjoys to the same degreo the intimacy snd the affection of Queen Wilhelmina as Princess Alice, Coun- tess of Athlone.