Evening Star Newspaper, November 1, 1923, Page 6

“THE EVENING STAR |prostiations of Congress-tor the whote ‘With Sunday Merning Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. ‘-‘:mnsnay.'. . .November 1, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor #The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office. 11th 8t. aud Pennsyivania Ave. New York Office: 110 ant 42nd. St. 3 Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. . . Buropean Oflice: 10 Hegent St., London, England, s The Evening Star, with the Runday morning ¢ efition, is delivered by carriers wituin the city &t 80 cents per mouth: daily only. 45 cents per moath: Sunday oni: centd’ per . Orders may be sent by mail or tele- Phone Main 5000. “Collection is made by car- at the end of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0¢ Daily only. cess $6.00; 1 mo., 50c Sunday only. % Xt All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1ly ‘Dally only... Sunday oniy. Member of the Associated Press. .o The Assoclated Press fs exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- pnm;:?n credited to it or not otherwise credited A s hed 1 mo., 20¢ paper and also the lgeAl news pub. herein. AN rights of " publication of patches herein are also reserved. [ The Twelve-Mile Agreement. Agreement between the United States and Great Britain upon terms of a treaty which will settle the ques- tion of the twelve-mile limit for the enforcement of the prohibition law of this country is announced in Lendon. They comprise three points: First, the United States will have the right 10 search any British ship within the twelve-mile limit suspeoted of bringing in llquor for smuggling purposes; sec-, affirm by treaty the principle of the three-mile limit for territorial waters; third, British ships will have the right to carry liquor under seal into the territorial waters of the United States, | presumably for copsumption on the homeward voyage: Obviously, the second and third fea- tures of this agreement are in the nature of compensation for the grant of the twelve-mile-limit right of search demanded by the United States. The Supreme Court has ruled that incom- ng ships cannot bring liquors within the territorial limits. It is now pro- posed to make such provision by treaty, which requires. ratification by two-thirds of the Senate. eccompanied by legislative provision to the same end. Already opposition to the proposed treaty has been expressed, first from the Amerlcan shipping interests and next from some of the dry interests. It is contended by the former that such & treaty would give British ships an advantage, in that they could make their vovages. both to and from the United States, stocked With liquors, while American ships could not do so. It is urged by some of the defenders of the dry law that the bringing in of sealed liquors under the treaty would be in contravention of the law &nd, furthermore, that there would be rothing to prevent smuggling beyond the twelve-mile limit; that British ships could transship contraband at sea to the rum-runners, If either of these factors can muster & single vote more than one-third of the Senate in opposition to the pro- posed treaty it will fail of ratification. It is, however, within the range of possibility, in such event, that a legislative enactment. to the same ef fect could be put through both houses. Sattlement of the twelve-milelimit controversy with England is to be greeted with gratification. It is to be regarded as evidence that the govern- ment at London is desirous.of meeting the wishes of this country. However hrewdly the concession may have been granted, in terms of equivalents, it has, nevertheless, come as @ definite departure from the traditional British contention for the fullest possible neu- trality of the sea. There remains the question of the good faith of the Brit- ish government in co-operating with this government to the end of pre- venting smuggling of contraband. It 1s notorious that British liquor inter- ests are active in the promotion of this illicit trade.. Recently advertise- ments have been published calling for investments in such enterprises. If the British government ‘grants the Tight of -twelve-mile search-it should take effective steps to prevent smug- gling from beyond the twelve-mile limit by prohibiting the shipment of Jiquors on British ships destined plain- 1y for “illicit trade with the United States. . 2 ———— Officers requesting perzilssion to leave off their spurs when they dence are perfectly right. Many a dancer has all he can do to make his feet be- have without undertaking the man- sgement of incidental cutlery. Poincare discusses e proposed con- Cerence with the confidence of a states- ‘man whose experience enables him to make @ fair guess about everything that is going to be said. ————— If the seismograph registered -ail tremors pertainiig to possible political earthquakes no machine could be built to-stand the wear and tear. New York’s Big Budget. . New York is experiencing the high cost of being great—that is, great in population.. The. board of estimate Nids just adopted the budget for -the greater city for 1024, totaling $37 468,000, an increase of §22,117,025 over the outlay of the current year. There ‘were some reductions by the board.of estimates amounting to a little over 2 million and a‘half. This is a rather awkward time for the adoption of th¥ budget because a local political cam- paign is-on.. No- city offices are at issue -outside of the judiclary. - Stil, Tammany is in_the fight and the city management is inevitably before the people. So when it is pointed out that since 1918, the last year of Mayor ‘Mitchel, Mayor Hylan’s predecessor, the hudget has increased from $238,- 128,759, or -$187,344,241 advance, This increase in six years is in itself greater than the whole budget for 1914, the last year of Gaynor's administration, when the expenses of running the city were $123,645,222, less than one-third of the 1924 figure. At the present rate of increuse, over twenty-two ‘millions a year: in less than six years, New York will cost its; taxpayers half e billiondollars” an- pually, or as much .as the total ap- ¥ A} ists, tell: ‘hat he thinks Congress ond, the United States will formally| 0715\ tells what ne R It may be | United States government for a year about & quarter of a century ago. Naturally the new. budget will be attacked by opponents of the munici- pal administration. But. it is sus- ceptible of defense. New York; like practically every other municipality, eeds more facilities, more policernen, ‘more firemen, more sewers, more hos- pitals and more schools—more every- thing, in short. Its equipment has not kept pace with its requirements, lavish as has been the expenditure. Of course, there is some ‘“watered stock” 'in its capitalization. There are probably many superfluous offices and there are some very-high salaries. Contracts undeubtedly cost more than they would in case of a private cor- | poration. Every little while an in- vestigation is had and some of the { water is squeezed out of the big i maunicipal sponge. Then the vigilance jrelaxes and the soaking-up process| begins again, But it is a singular fact that the average New. Yorker is mot greatly ‘concerned over the question of budget i totals or tax rates. He thinks he has got a good government—unless he i nappens to be of the minority oppo- | sition faith—and whether he thinks | {0 or not he is inordinately proud of | being part of the biggest and’ most | | expensive community in the world. i ! ! Congress and the Farmers, | Senator Capper of Kansas, regarded | | gress for the farmers, in a sizned statement in his weekly joutnal pub- lished in the interest of the agricul-| { ought to do, can do and probably will {do to relieve the farmers. In the outset he recognizes that “All the { farmer’s ills cannot be remedicd at | Washington.” He says the farmer must help himself and is helping him- | self. . | The senator insists, however, that a ‘{Mrer relationship between the prices | the farmer receives and the prices he pays for "everything he buys is im- perative. His dollar, the senator s “must be brought up to the general | level in buying power and made as Zood as any one else’s dollar,” To omplish these things he demands reduced frelght rates, especially on farm products; that every encourage- | | ment be given to co-operative markat. { {ing; further revise the tariif down- d on necessities the farmer must buy; assist in developing a wider sropean market, adopt a stabilizing program for grain crop: the Dbonus bill, make further reductions in appropriations. He is against all proposed rail mergers and the ship subsidy: he favors a constitutional amendment to prohibit further issues of tax- ‘free bonds. He does not pre- tend to speak for the farm bloc on these measures, he says, but he de- clares that theé “country will be in as great need of the farm bloc next ses- sion as it has been since the need of the times created it.” | He is sure the farm bloc will con- tinue to-‘fight for an enlightened and progressive program “and for a square deel” His forecast is inter- esting to the public in indicating what the farmers want and. are likely to demand in the coming session. ass | Berlin Is Willing. Willie Hohenzollern, who wants to ! £0 home from Holland, has’been told | informally that, the German govern- ment 18 not unwilling to permit him to return, subje¢t to the strict condi- tion that he lives quietly on his estate in “Silesia. No formal request ‘haw been made to Berlin and doubtiess | this assurance is only in response to a feeler put out from Doorn or ‘Weirengen. 1t is rathér dificult to imagine Frederick Wilhelm living quietly any- where. * If there fs to be a monarchical movement in his -nterest he would be in a scarcsl$ moré strategic posi- tion ‘in Stlesia than in Holland. At Weirengen he has been easily acces- sible to the partisans of restoration. There has been ro barrler to the visits of the latter. Maybe the Berlin government thinks that Frederick Wilhelm back in Si- lesia would soon cease to be an object of interest, would settle down to' a commonplace personage incapable of arousing any marked partisan senti- ments. ‘But Willle Is a restless spirit, much like his father, and it would be extremely difficylt’ for him to “live quietly I Silesia or elsewhere. —_———————— The discovery that a ship is lightér going east, owing to centrifugal influ- ence in the earth's rotation, is one of those interesting revelations that have no practical value. It will not make the slightest difference in freight rates. ———————— It might be a relief to several party leaders if the question of prohibition enforcement could resolve itself,: at least temporarily, info a " Mellon- Pinchot controversy. ——a—— Whenever a pdlitician threatens to form a third. party there is dlways a fear that if this one does not happen to suit him he may decide to form a fourth. : i The destgnation of L street as a oile- way thoroughfare is another reminder that Washington is a large city and still growing. EA The Ruhr populace find that there 1s no such thing as passive resistance to hunger., 0 Sewer Construction Needed. A" committes of the Washington Board of Trade has made a ‘strong presentation of sewer needs of the District. Growth of Washington has gone on, faster than séwers heve heen bullt and sewer construction is stead- ily falling behind home building. It is "estimated that’ thefe. are 3,000 homes without sewer connection’ afd it is probable that this estimate is too low. " h There are sections of the District where villages came, to bé years:ago, and these being at that time far beyond the city, limits sewer construc- tion was not to be considered. These villages have grown until they are closely built and peopled and the city has spread out to them. Yet they are without sewers and public Wwater 'sup- ply, _The people depend on. wells and { can almost THE EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. springs, many of which havs bean” por- luted and none .of which is above susplcisn. Smajl natural ‘streams ‘in those sections are polluted and public ‘health, of course, is endangered. New sections of the eity have been built and are bullding without proper sewer facilities and the expansion o6f home Telghborhoods at a time of housing Bhortage is impeded. b Storm sewers in certain-sections of the District have * been found * too small to carry off heavy rains and loss of life and destruction of private and public property have resulfed. Work that was begun years ago on the construction of interceptor sewers for the prevention of pollution of riv- ers and creeks, and other reasons, has not been ‘completed. There are Jong hajts in the work on these sewers because of lack of funds, and.it has been computed that'at the rate of progress made since tie beginning of construction they would not he fin- ished within @ quarter of a century. Not only is the work of sewer building falling behind the growth of the city, but it ‘is pointed out that there is already great need for the reconstruc- tion of old and decayed drains and storm sewers. The Chrysanthemum. This is the season of tWe “mum.” and the show which the Department of Agriculture sets before the people is drawing erowds. The department's chrysanthemum show. is one of the | as one of the chief spokesmen in Con. | SPéctacles which Washington enjoys | cropics. every year. It is possible that many. chrysan- themums standing in the prett dens of the subtrbs are saying, in the lagguage of flowers, that they are quite, as large, handsome and gay as the: government “mums,” and that there is no just reason why the Presi dent and his cabinet should pay ro honors to them than to thelr kind. It mag he that the unoffi- cial “mums” are right. It is only fair, however, to set down the fact that the official “mums” are robust and healthy. that they conform to most approved stylé in autumn flowers, and that they deserve the applause they got. The “mum” has made noteworthy progress. It has advanced in the world. A few generations ago it was a humble flower. It was small, not delightful to the sense of smell, and boasted only two colors, white and yellow. It held an inconspicuous place in the garden. not to think of putting on curly petals six inches long, mor of making its head as big as a cabbage nor of hold- ing public exhibitions which the folk of the land would attend. Violet, Mignonette and others of lovely companions would have laughed at the thought. Zinnia and Dahlia would have mocked the “‘mura” cherishing an ambition so unlikely of attalnment. Yet it hus become an im- portant flower. Cabinet ministebs pa; calls upon the mums, and bun mums go to the White House and take their place on the dinner table. Ong fancy hearing Mrs. Hollyhock exclaim, “Who'd ha’ thought 1 Dr. Banting, who discovered msulin, the cure for diabetes, does npt c: for money. Thia fact is an asgurance that he will not be tempted litfeal or soctal games that will divert nis attention from further® Yaluable research. v —————————— Engl United States territorial watesrs only under seal, It is hoped thht this slight restriction will not catise the average British tar to-be any more homesick than usual. —_————————— Halloween activities are losifg their zest, owing, perhaps, to fears that they may-be mistaken ‘for K Kiux demonstrations. There i3 still enough government in Germany to meke cabinet officcs-worth fighting for. -~ gL = SHOOTING STA.BS.' BY PHILANDER JOHNSON , Newo.. . ! When Nero played the viofin He also sang a song, Regardless of the fearful &in Raised by the fireman’s song. Said he, “This is an awfu Promoting general griet All undeserved—but anyho It brings me some relief: ow, "’ “And so to warble notes of glce I'm thoroughly resoived. - Let others suffer! As for m, The fuel problem’s sotved.? Irreconcilable. ' - “Are you an frreconcilable?" “In a certaln sense,” replied Senator Sorghum.” “The reason I shift ‘my opinions slightly from time to time is that I can't reconcile myself to the idea of retifément to private lifu. Jud Tunkins says a.man whd tells you everything happens for the best is geherally somebody who has been pretty lucky one way or another. Handing Out Transfers. Both fen and nations loudly grieve. "We find complaints anew ! Because of something folks believe: Somebody else should do. N Life’s Fuller Meaning. ¢ “A' boy enjoys the first,snowstozm, but ‘s man- shivers at the thought A%boy,”. commented Mr., Growchzr, “hasn’t any wife or daughters to re- mind_ him- that some new fur coais will be required.” “I_admires- de .truth,” Uneclz Eben, “but de man dat tells it "bout every little thing is_lfable to be purty hameless: : Wi 4 Flight Is Feasible, But Risky. From the New York World, A French dirigible has ‘made. 4,500 miles In non-stop -fiight.; This i tance. iy the mail rout mileage Xork to Ham- burg, Antwerp or Liverpool, something to spare. It would ai- most_cover the distance to Berlin] g;‘lb‘;l.nn&l’l le‘"y ithin th: erica lle w n at radi from. New York: | The transatigntie flight- is' feasible—not without risk; i Ak Mussolini. From the.Dallas News. ‘Of cours4, it.is none of our but-what does th: KIP" of large éities of the rest of | It seemed then | o po- | h ships will bring liqgor into | IN- TODAY’S ‘SPOTLIGHT - BY PAUL V. COLLINS “‘Instinct!’ There {s no such thing, and -the ‘man . who ‘uses :the word ought to be put in jall. He 'shows that he does not know what te is talking about,” exclaimed Dr. W. W. Garner, In charge of plant physiology of the Department of Ag- riculture. “Why do birds migrate from the Ardtic region clear to the Antarctic?” he added. “Why do they’ leave the north while berries and seeds, are still abundant and the temperature 1s still warm and balmy? It I8 not the present temperature which puts {them a-wing. It is because they find that the hours of the day's sunlight {are shortening, and they know that as the days shorten they are ap- | prosching the season when there will (he no more the conditions under which they thrive. Ages have taught |them that those birds which avoid the shorter days survive and the others do not. In a single day, some fly from Canada to far below the equator. They do not stop in Flor- ida, although it is warm there, but continue their flight to south of the cquator where the days are growing longer. The little penguin files an- | nually from the north pole to the south pole, for at each pole, In fts respective summertime, the bird finds {the longest hours of sunlight. (This {15 not thw great penguin, which can- {not fly.) No migrating bird stops short of the equator, simply lured by finding sufficient warmth in the north The birds seek the region Iwhere the hours of sunlight suft { them best.” * k X ¥ The ist explained the experi- |ments which he and Dr. H. A. Allard ©f the same bureau had carried on, by lsubtracting from or adding to the |ilght hours of plants by means of dark houses and by electrie light. In lne with the rovelations of Drs. Gar- ner and Allud, as announced th years ago, certaln experiments re- ported within the last fortnight have been astonishing the students of hor- | ticulture at €olumbia College. Ref- [erence to the 1920 annual reports of | the Smithsonian Institution” and of i the Department of Agricalture shows |that Drs. Garner and Allard therein | described the pro | the way to this new line of Investiga- tion of the hidden laws of nature, never before demonstrated * X k% ce Bach flower— |ever specics —has its normal total {hours of sunlight between germina- ltion of the seed and the blossomin of its flower or the ripening of its {fruit. If we can add to the length of |the day’'s netural hours of sunshine {by lighting the plant with electricity \l hours each night, the light ccumulate, and thus hasten 7 germination and fruiting. There ght to mie length of proper length of sun- a plant grow; there is sunlight per day. uses it bloom and not ke the violet, which puts | out ue blossom in earl June, then, later, grows leaves ahundantly, !lnu still later om under the leay | be made to wive its bi | early M it {lewves ail summe blooms—all by | er”sun T | hour - shn che plant | normally does certain things. oIt b ce€N Nuied hue au.. —iri; ample—which normally | blaon will not be induced to bloom arc simply by ept 1 o perature. But If each day during {the winter a strong ejectric light ex- | ten th hours of light, so that the {normally lapsing hours betwben ger- | mination and blossoming accumulate {in fewcr d an nal, the plant {Wwill put forth its buds in March 1 . s It m: blossoms In kept growing ut its second ng the length tiic normal with djus plants i Plunts normally flower |1ate fall will not biossom in midsum- | mer. even if cool days arrive, because | they require short hours of light, such y&8 come in October and pot in July {or August. By putting them in a \International R | i whic in With Papyrus returned to England, the Jockey Club announcing a “mea- | ger" profit of $22,206 on the interna- | the game walting to see whether the { victorious champlon Zev Wwill conde- scend to match hoofs with:Mx Own at Latonta, editors are decidedly un- cenvinced whether horse Taces of the kind recently staged at Park can prove a success,- One thihg of Zev proved nothing. Papyrus was badly handicapped by his ocean trip, but at that there are many Who be. lleve he would have g jand. all, it it hed not been for ghe rain which turned the oval Because Trainer Jarvis feagred the. Brittsh Derby winner might “gr&b™ himself it calks were used,ihe &an’ {him in smooth plate, and he Slipped: and floundered 8o badly in”the, fisst) mile he had nothing left with which to make a race on through the'ia four furlongs. : This is the opini Sun, which also feels “regardless“of What he might or might not have done,” .with_track conditions versed, his ‘“victory demands as ® logical conclusion a match between Zev and My Own.” Such a contest Would “attract a large attendance and settle 4 disputed point,” the Dan- ville Register is convinced, ~while the Durham Sun recalls “Ben Irish loses with & smile, a gentleman and a proper sportsman. He arouses thoughts of Sir Thomas Lipton, too British to know when he is beaten, oo much a sportsman to dwell upon dofeats. It is a pleasure to meet them, win or lose. | * * X ¥ “An international horse race” the Milwaukee Journal holds, “may be a little leaven working in the loat ot better relations, as say some of its friends who belleve it b better to let nations blow off steam in sports than in war, but it is a costly bit of leav- ening. As an averter of War we be- lleve the price is excessive.” This, in @& measure, too, because, as the Syra- cuse Herald points out, “the only compensation left to our English friends is to be found in the claim that their favorite equine runner was bandicapped by the muddy and heavy track. Against this, however, the it was almost a sick, and certainly a convalescent, horse that outstripped Papyrus on the Long Island cours: In this latter connection the Louis- ville Times Insists “Zev is a fast and game racer, but he had an advantage that practically made, the race no cone test. He had calks on his shogs an could run with confidence. * Inci dentally the gossip and the rumors about Zev's lack of fitnes for the race played into the hands of professional gamblers. Also, incidentally, the race rought out a British trait in the de- cision of the trainer to run Papyrus in smooth shoes. Papyrus never wore ealked plates, said the trainer. There- fore he would not wear them. The fact that the race was on the kind of & track on which Papyrus had never ed made no difference. The Brit- sher stands by his tradition: The interest shown in the outcome For the race lmpels the Springfield “Unlon\ to ask “‘who says that the auto- has driven out the horse? So ses which blazed | :h plant of whatso- | develops another kind | being | se in a June tem- | {tional match race, and followers of | Belmont | apparently on which there is at least | ‘j& near agreement is that the wictory on, dirt course | .{ committee ion of the Baltimore | re- | dark house about 4 o'clock each day Wwe slmulate the shorter hours of a later month and hasten the fruition, Wwhich normally would h > layed until that mnn}.hf'ePgla:n & can be made to bloom in July, its normal time is Christmas, by cutting down the hours of its sun- light to November and December length. The ordinary ers In the fall, cooler temperat: it that it is tim cessive plantings of cosmos are mi mde i:r.n:;wnhlwu during the'laté win- carly spring, wi temperature’ tioLRE: With a ‘unifor: Ings made afi fail to blosso: cosmos regularly flow~} but not because.the ure of autumn tells m! throughout, . the- plant~ m the next fall, but will goptinue to grow till:the following all and then flower at the usual sea- This cannot-be attributed to temperature, noe “Instinct,” but is explained by the length of hours of :l:;:uhlnln ln":ho blooming season. No er length of A will bring the Mo wueaitie © Co8mos requires short hours ef ulgm for blooming, Two cosmos hiants may germinate on the same lay, and if one be given supplemen- tary hours of electric light and the Other Elven only the natural hours Of the sun. the latter will bloom in 5 patural socason, while the plant paving the extra hours of light will 15( {» on grow'ng, without bloom, un- it Honm® Bours of Hght per day he A0_the norm: 4 not theé stre; Contraty, “tTenEI. of tho- light ‘which * ¥ % x A sunbeam has the power of 10,000 foot-candles. -That means that it is @8 Strong a light as 10,000 candles one foot distant from the objective. If the distance be made two feet the {lz)ll would be - one-fourth, 500 candlepower. 1f it be four feet distant, the light would be only 625 candlepower, cven' with the same electric current as gave 10,000 e 10,000 at a distance of one foot. But an elec- ric light js 97 per cent heat and & per cent light, so that to reproduce the illumination of a sunbeam there would be a heat which would in- stantly burn up any plant or any other ‘substance. The heat is some. Wwhat modified in practice in light experiments_ vy fowing a shest of water between the source and the objective, but with electric luminosity caual ‘1o that of & sunbeam, the Wwater would be turned to steam in an instant. Perhaps the molsture of uur‘.umuuph!r" #0 modifies the heat of the sunbeam that its 10,000 candle- power is screened out, and the com- paratively heatiess light when it reaches our vegetation Is harmless. 5o it will be seen that to substi- tute electric light for sunligit is an impos But somchow. when sleetric even though compara- tively extremely weak, extends the !M-'hlvd hours of the day, the plant kiceps on using th £y stored up from the cun, during the day, much as a fut animal may starve, vet not {die. 80 long as it has not used up | ¥ accumulation. |\ % ox % Garner sayvs, In his year book for 1920 of ent of Agriculture (page 400): limits of tempera- jtuxe and other important factors in plant growth, there would seem to be no remson why almost any plant may not be made to flower and fruft Rt any season of the vear, and in any region shortening the datly Jight period through the of dark chambers or Tengthening it by means yof artificial light, reproductive activ- [itics may be induced almost at will.” 1 * % ok % | { part an essential factor of fruition. John H. Schafiner of the Ohio State {L'nnursfl). taking up the Garner- Allard light experiments, finds that {without the normal hours of light |the sexes of cecd are reversed. or become mixed and weakened from the pure scxes—which opens up another vista in scientific research for the comtrol of plant-sex ® ¥ k¥ Solomo was talking with- out gefentific knowledge when he de- clared, that ~he -had _searched all thipgs and had concluded: i§ no new thing undeér th Oopyright, 1925, Ux Panl V. Collins.) acés Fail Dr. Sprely To Attract Wide Appeal long as Zevs and Papyruses can be bred the horse will never become ob- | solcte. For one afternoon the eyes of | two continents -were focussed upon Belmont Park. World troubles and | world problems were forgotten.” De- | feat in this contest vet may interfere | with the future of Papyrus is the sug- | gestion of the Boston Tranacript, which féels He “will have to face a certain disapproval of English breed- rs that he. should have been sent to this country at all, with the odds £0 against him.” but as an offset to this the Peorla Transcript suggests let us be sporting about this cham- plonship and give England a chance | next year to get it back, by staging a renewal on an English track.”” The New York Evening World iikewise feels a race of this character ought to be staged annually, but hopes “the electing the English en- itry_will not have the same difficulty Aff -decidifig. on the contender that Jirred ‘the hours before this year's BCe. I “Tje “cotiierclalism” which marked the race; especiplly the efforts of the tavored mavie condern to bar rivals through the.usé of smolkte screens and mirrors, !is - “amusing.” - the. Reading Tribufie points out, inagmuch as “the contest of the miovie men. in this (wue was almost as ntuch of a-sport- !ing event as the horse Tace itself. Most of us who are not.financlally !interested cannot help feeling sympa- thetic toward the successtul poach- ers.” Although agreeing “the race did not {prove a_great. deal, after all” the {Cleveland Plain Dealer suggests it e to blossom.~ It suc- | 1N the statement. | eration would probably go a-begging. ter a certain date will|admisston, In plant life sex of the plant ismanner of Mauve or Maris; if a genre, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER “Why 18 it,” &’ venturesome layman asked a friendly artlst recently, “that none of you can paint like Rembrandt today, when, according“to Prof. Van ttia | DYke, there were a_dozen or more hile | who coqnld equal him at the time he Imply | wag producing: ‘The artist shook his head' and then, with the flash of extenuating afterthought, exclaimed: ‘But if.we could nobody would want them.” And there was much truth t A modern Rem- brandt in the present day and gen- To §omé this may seem a ‘shocking but 1t need not be lament- ed. - Happlly we are. not repeating the art of the past, but, to the contrary, are bullding an art of qur own—an art which reflects the life and. spirit of our ‘own time, and, despite- the calamity criers, is virile and beauti- tul _Rembrandt .was the product ofi a different land and time, and the very fact that his era and his ert have passed makes his works the mofe valuable. We can learn from the past, we can cherish, and do cherish, ©ld traditions, but we cannot repeat nor reproduce that which is far be- hind us. : ¢ * ok ok There has been much dfsdussion of the merite and demerits. of madern art. The “moderniats,” so called, have pérpetrated many crimes . against rea- =on and beauty. ~ They have been much “held up to. ridicule, but it is not unlikely that they have per- formed a helpful .service—such, for Instance, as Winston Churchill in his ‘World 'Crisis” claims Lord Fisher aid for the, British navy prior to the great war. “It was Fisher,” he says, ‘Who holsted the storm signals and beat all hands to quarters. He shook them and beat them and cajoled them .oul 0!_ slumber into intense activity.” ‘But,” he udds, “the navy was not a pleasant place while this was going | on.” The same may be said of art in | these later days. It has not been pretty—it has not been pleasant— but the artists probably did need to be shaken and beaten and cajoled out of their peaceful slumbers in or- der that they might get a new angle of vision—that they might worthily carry on the torch. * ¥ ¥ x If uny one doubts that whatever | the cause the effect has been benefi- cial and that over the face of art to- day has come a change—a change for the better—let him or her straight- way visit the Washington Water Color Club's annual exhibition now on | ylew n the Corcoran Gallery of Art. ‘This exhibition i mostly made up of the works of local artists, vet it is conspicuously notable for merit. The pictures which are set forth are crisp and sparkling, definite, to the point, colorful, strong. There is no nig gling, 1o groping around for some- thing undiscovered; each holds its own by reason of technical compe- tence as well as subjective interest. They are all, or almost all, courage- ously outspoken. But what they say 1s worth repeating—the message they deliver is that of beauty. It fs the splrit of the new art which here finds | expression. So it is that all great art is born. No one conceives it, but out of the durkness it comes forth, many con- tributing consciously or unconscious- 1y. A Dutch painter said to the writer some years ago, “We are producing nothing new that is worth while; we are holden by the vision of the great men who € been among us—if we paint 1 landscape, it must be in the it will be a little Israels or a Neuhuys | —we see with their eves.” The French impressionists opened the windows and let in the light and the air—the modernists seem to have taught us to understand form and to have opencd our eves to the glory of pure color. Certainly art today has a virility and brillian~y unknown in the past. And we are just stepping over the thresh- old of accomplishment. Whither we shall be led we stlll are unaware. But that there is progress and pPomise lends confidence and interest. P haps after all ours may be known as an age of art. * % * In a delightful article in the Field of Art, Scribner's Magazine for No- vember, Mrs. Van Rensselaer, refer- ring to American art and the public, ventures the suggestion that even in appreciation we are not so far behind in this country or generation as is often supposed. She cites the com- plaints made by the artists of the past—certain great painters of the Renaissance in Italy. Whistler among moderns, and others—that the public cares naught for art, and says, “It is well to think also of Plutarch’s story of Phidias when we chafe at the heavy hand with which our legisla- tors sometimes touch matters of art.’ Mrs. Van Rensselaer, moreover, doe not consider that we have been 'timid, have not known our own minds, nor if we had been, she rightly declares, Innes, Winslow Homer and Homer Martin _would not have come into their own. That our cities are not full of statues and other works in sculpture by SBaint Gaudens is not, she points out, the lack of appreciation or will on the part of the public, but the inability of one pair of hands and an artist with a conscience to pro- duce. The orders were not wanting. | Where our shortcomings seem most noteworthy to this admirable and revered critic is in the line of the decorative arts and in the depart- ment of art and criticism. “We should have,” she says quite truly, “more critics of the quallty, let us say, of Mr. Mather and Mr. Cortissoz. And it is essential that our artists should concern themselves intimately with the crafts.’” * * ¥ % In support of the contention that Americans are not indifferent to art, one recalls the number of art museums that have been established in differ- ent parts of the country in, the last five years and the records of attend- ance at such institutions.within the last year. Over 1,000,000 geisons visited the Art Institute of Chicago and the Metropolitan Museum, New { state universities and by various state { faculties, schools and private special {in the old Croatian capltal of Aeran, | Zev fans will pit the argument that York, between Januai 1922, and January, 1923. The attendance at the Boston Museum of Art was over 300,000. The attendance at the Freer imight be well to continue such- con- tests, because “the fleld of sport offers one, ' safe and satisfactory und upon which the pride ana rivairy of nations may test themsalves In ac- |Gallery in this city since its opening |ton. " The winner may celebrate as|last epring has averaged approxi- Toundly as after a great battle, and |mately 400 & day. And agalnst these | the Joser is none the worse off for his [numbers may be set the attendance i dofeat. The more of these contests|at great museums abroad. According lthe better. They promote a broader | to fizn;lnu‘u recently t;ecexved dn—am ¢ and understanding, and help | authoritative sources the attendance B rorid's mind off darker anq [t the National Gullery, London, for more bitter forms of international|the year was a little over 600,000; the ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]J. HASKIN Q. Is there not on record a state- ment by Georga Washington in which he objected to a statue of himself in classic robes?—J. L. A. You refer to the statement made at the time when Houdon was working on'his famous statue of Washington, a few years after the American revolution. Gen. Washing- | ton permitted the sculptor to make a mask of his face, head and chest for the statue. When the question of dress arose Jefferson wrote to Wash- ington asking in what costume the statue should be made. The general answered in the formal letter style of the time that he was satisfied with whatever might be judged proper, but that “perhaps a servile adherence to the garb of antiguity might not be altogether so expedient as some little in favor of the modern costumes.” After ‘this .correspond- ence Washington -was representéd by Houdon in the Continehtal: uniform which he _ wore s -commander-in- chief. 2 . Vg Q. Do wild’ animala’ live jonger In_their wild state than in.captivity? —G. M. - A. Some wild animals are 8o fret- ful in captivity that their lives are shortened materlaily. This is. true of foxes and wmonkeys. Elephants and snakes. do ‘not seem to suffer much from captlvity, but are strongly inclined to long lives in any environ-| ment. The mortality among animals in zoological parks is very high. Q. What matertal Is used to polish precious stones?—L.C. . A. The geological surfey says that a low grade diamond dust is often used for polishing hard pre- clous stones, aithough emery carbo- rundum or carberundum will polish softer stones, such as moss agate. Q. What is the meaning of the word “equinox”?-=P. F. S. A. The term means lterally “equal night.” There are two equinoxes, the vernal and the autumnal, in ‘each year. When they occur the sun passes north or south, over the equator, and the length of night and day is equal over the entire world. The eguinoxes occur about the 21st of March and the 21st of Sep- tember. Q. Please publish some informa- tion about the French school system? —E. 8. A. In France the public system of education begins with the kindergar- ten, which admits children from the ages of two to six. After this are the primary schools, attendance at which’ is compulsory for children be- tween the ages of six and thirteen not recelving instruction elsewhere, or until they have completed a cer- tain course. The secondary schools include state classical colleges, sup- yorted by the state, and com- munal coeges for boys, support- ed by the communes, though ald- ed by the state, and schools of sim- tlar rank for girle. The secondary schools award the Bachelor's degree. The course of public secondary in- struction covers five vears. Higher education can be obtained in fifteen schools. Besides the universities, special schools, both government and private, cover almost every phase of cience and art. The highest eduga- tional officer. is the minister of edu- cation, who holds a position in the cabinet. Q. Who presided when Aaron Bubr) was tried for treason?—M. G. ( A. John Marshall presided. The | trial ended abruptly because the Chief Justice declared that an overt act of treason must be first proved and theh Burr must be connected with it. The jgovernment was not able even to con- vict Burr of a misdemeanor. Him as Man of BY THE MARQUISE DE. FONTE Prince Paul of Serbia,Tellow und NOX er- i Magdalen College, Oxford, and, fike him, 2 gailant veteran of the”gréat war, is to take up his residence wWifh his bride, Princess Olga. of Grgece, whom he married, the other dey<in | Belgrade, not in the latter city, but| | and is to held court. there in behalt of his cousin, King Alexander. In fact, Prince Paul is to become a sort | of viceroy, or ban, of Croatia, a pre- lude to the restoration of the former | autonomy and home rule government | to that nation. ] Much of the unrest in the Balkans, until now, has been due to the failure of the authorities at Belgrade to ful- fill the pledges of self-government, | on the strength of which the Croa- | tians agreed tothrow in_their lot! with their fellow Slavs in Serbia and to form one federated siate of Jugo- slavia, or Greater Serbla. In fact, the bitterness against Beigrade has been very pronounced throughout | Croatia and has led to a number of sanguinary risings. % Now, however, Radizc, the moving | spirit ‘of all this insurgent element in Croatia, has sought refuge in Eng- land, and if the projected reatorstion | of autonomy materializes, as uppears imminent from:-the anhouncement that Prince Paul .and his very: at- tractive bride are to 1live ‘and hold | court in the Croatian capital of | Agran, all further source of firrita- | tion against the Serblan government will vanish and the very real peril of ‘clvil war and_internecine strife | will be averted. -Jt is belfeved that England has had a share in inducing Radize to abandon his tation against King Alexander in Croatla, and in thig connection it is worthy to note that the Duke of York traveled all the way to Belgrade with his duchess In order to serve as best man to Princg Paul at the latters wed- ding. * % ok Lord Curzon is generally regarded 28 a very pompous and stately person- age, terribly imbued with a sense of his own dignity,and uttsrly devold of humor. Yet that he. possesses a very pronounced sense of the latter and that his often stiff demeanor and his seriousness are the results of occasional acute suffering and physical pain is no secret to those who know him well. In the book which he has just published in Lon- the Louvre was ap- competition attendonce at the Louy Tt is the view of the Grand Rapids | Proximately , ‘and at the Lux- Herald that "Papyrus, beaten by Zev, | embourg only E’i’::‘ 0,000, Whon it is still a great Norse, but his great- {18 Tememberec, that, these os gal- est service has beeén the introduction [lerles are vISUSE By aimost every to the world of Ben Irish, sportsman. | t0Urlst who €o%3 10 SEone, b woul Too many of the big men of profes- '“T fl“m'l’m i o e e ':"1' slonal sports are really small men In [ 260t BOPRIATAR SES PIOROTOORAtely the measure of sportsmanship. Men Tiike Trish and Sir Thomas Lipton hold | S¢ums. The fact is, quite a number of the museums abroad are now an :’;";.‘&;".:‘;:::,{efl’_‘?f ["1‘;201‘?:3‘:1!:«::21} nouncing educatlional programs simi O e Tat_on Is part ‘was not much |JAL to those conducted By ihs Amert- impressed by any ot 'the features of SRE-IINRENMN L % A is.event, feeling “the English horse b :fildx.:“ have a c‘hmee" and “results{ Further evidence of an increased mdlea:ea the upfomfll:;u ot this (0 | interest & art is a little announce- mate] Teal race horse agal of 2 oS comparison: wis lIttls bet-|ment 1ately received from a itourist ter than a third-rater. However, some | bureau to, the effect that an eminent of the alibis of these promoters make | American etcher would instajl a com- interesting reading.” This Is far from | ete etching plant aboard a great the view, however, of the Toronto|ocean steamship op. her circumnavi- Star, which suggests “it was in thegoting” cruise. o sy mme finest spirit of sportsmanship that this | ginouncement says, “during the four- { English horse was brought across the | months cruise, the etcher will devote ‘Atlantic to make this race with the|goveral hours teaching qualified best three-year-old | America could | pupils how to etch” demonstrating produce. Nobody can' be unaware of [ methods by thus interpreting “the ithe handicap assumed by Papyrus In |finest examples of architecture viewed ‘making this journey to & changed-cli- {en route” For this service no extra mate and racing on a dirt'track. A[fee is charged. Certainly this is a return match in England, with the]unique inducement to travel and situation reversed, would, If it were]would suggest & 'wing apprecia. possible, excite even a greater inter- | tion of things artistic and cultural est than the first race.” on the part of the American tourist. don, he takes the public, for the first time,~into his confidence about some of his experiences of travel which betray & certain impishness of character and a readiness to partici- hoaxes. The. book is en- “Pales of Travel” and, al- though they bear the title of Marquis Curzon of Kedleston as the author, yet they deal with the wanderings of plain “George Nathaniel Curzon,” before he became a minister of the crown. % Thus he relates how, when in: Tunis, some thirty years ago, he was very anxious to witness the rites of the self-slicing, self-mutilating der- vishes of the saored:tity of Kairwan, which In those days, "at any Tate, were - barred to -all unbelleving forelgners, But hé found that:the name of Boulanger was on the lips of all natives as one with which to conjure, as that of the great French chieftain who was to restore to them their independence and to re-establish the monarchy in France. So he coolly declared himself to be the favorite son of the “Brav' General” and was _consequently treated by the Moslem clergy and au- thorities at Kairwan with (he gre t honor and dMtinction. There was so much that was grotesque, vulgar and bombastic in the career of this posturing, _ prancing, ay-acting general, who. when overwhel 'the: pegp | 371888, graduate of the Prince of. Wales af | hai shat i {m; as Q. Why do Paisley shawls have orl- ental patterns?—M. J. A. A. Paisley shawls are copies of Per- slan or Indlan shawls. The oriental shawls are made, however, of Aslatic wool”or camel’s halr, while the Pal ley shawls are made of the fine native Wwool of Scotland. Q. What is the derivation of the word “yeoman”?—D. T. A. “Yeoman” is a later form of the middle English “yoman,” which Was used to designate an attendant, espe- clally one of & royal or noble house- hold. Q. Why is a compass incorporated in the design of the coat of arma of Amalfi?—R. §. A. The claim is made by the Amai- flans that one of their traders intro- duced the compass into Europe from China in 1300. Q. When were envelopes first used” A. Envelopes began to be used in England and in the United States'in the decade from 1840 tp 1850. Q. How did the custom_ of having & best man originate?—C. L. R. A. Tradition relates that a best man was employed in the stone age. The bridegroom swooped down upon th home of the bride and stole her awa: while the best man diverted the tention of the bride’'s father. Q. What §s the difference between & toreador and a matador?—J. D. A. These are both terms used n bulifighting. Toreador is a geners! term for a bullfighter, used especiul~ 1y of one who fights on horseback. The matador is the one Who on foot engages the bull in combat and gives the fatal thrust . Q. What is the most important light on the Atlantic coast?—C. E. T. A. The lighthouse service says thit it depends upon what is meant by im- portant. One of the most dangerous points on the coast is at Cape Hat- teras, N.-C.. and the light ship guard- ing Diamond shoals s a most impor- tant light. Q. Who sald “you can fool some. of the people all pf the time, and all er le spme of the time. but you caniiot’. fool all of the people all of the: time?"—J.2H. C. Al This has' been attributed to Abraham Lincoln and to P. T. Bar- num. In “The Wisdom of Lincoln, published in 1908, it is stated that the quotation is an extract from a speech at his made at Clinton, Iil, September Q. In playing golf have I a right to_bend the grass when I find my ball in the rough—M. W A. You may bend or part the grags only if it is necessary for you to do 50 in order to identity your ball, and then only sufficiently to enable you to make the identification Q. What percentage of the immi- gration to Canada is from the United States?—G. K. N. A. Since the first of the vear United States has furnished about kalf of the newcomers in Canada. The total is made up of 4,528 British 8,019 Americans and 4,227 from other countries. Q. How Carthage’—I. N. R A. Carthage is said to have had abouy, 700,000 inhabitants in 143 B. C (Readers of The Evaning Star should send their questions to The Star Information Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, 1220 North Capitol street. The only charge for this serv- ice is 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) large a city was ancient Curzon’s New Book Reveals Fun and Humor With- ruin and contempt through his gowardice befouled tne memory of ghe woman of Lirth and rank who d-befriended him, by blowing Risabrains on her grave in Brussels, dea of Lord Curzon postur- “Boulanger, jr.,” appeals keenly £0 ones sense of ridicule 1 * % % x On another occasion he happenetl to be #n Rome when the funeral of King_Victor Emanuel II was about to take place in the Pantheon. He was with Oscar Browning, who diegl at Rome the other day. Neither of them possessed any official creden- tlals entitling them to participatfon in the ceremonies. So they trusted to luck, donned, in the early morn- ing, their evening dress clothes,.in token of respect, and, finding & nurt- ber of judges and provincial city mayors _similarly attired, they insin- uated themselves into the midst of the groups and walked, with admirable com- posure, In the solemn procession through the streets behind the hearse to the foot of the catafalque, in the Pantheon. In 1894 he embarked on a singu- |1arly perilous trip to Kabul, with the intention of calling upon ‘the mas- terful ruler of Afghanistan, Ameor Abdur Rahman Khan. He folt that it was desirable that his appearafce should suggest the esteem In wh he was held in his own countrs But it was his misfortune that he possessed at the time neither uni- form nor any of those orders of knighthood and decorations with which. he is now so richly -adorned. So, in default of anything better. be- fore leaving London he called upon Nathan, the theatrical costumer - of Covent' Garden, who fitted him up'in a fancy uniform of the most gor- geous kind and completed with the most magnificent and blggest pair ot gold epaulets ever seen outside an _opera bouffe. These epaulets did the trick. They caught the eye of the ameér, who admired them so greatly that he then and there sum- moned his court tailor to examine them with a view to their reproduc- tion for his own uniform. . * ok x x But it was not only the uniform and the epaulettes which won the des- pot of Afghanistan, who was a sourco of 8o much trouble to the British au- thorities in Indla. It was also tha lettgr which Curzon handed to him, and in_which he expresses, in the most high-flown langusge, his ad- miration for the oriental ruler. It begins as follows: “Khorassen I have seen and visited: I have been in Bokhara and Samar- kand! I have ridden the Chaman and I have sojourned at Peshawar! But the dominlons of your highness, which are situated in the middie of all these territories, like unto a rich stone set in the middle of a ring, have never yet been permitted to visit, and the person of your hi ness, which is, in your dominion, lik the sparkle in the heart of the dia- mond. 1 have never been fortunate enough to-gaze upon until now.” No wofiller that the ameer not only treated him with the utmost distine- tion. end_hospltality, but accorded to ntp such’faghities to visit various portions ~of fls dominions as hud never “ken “b¥fore conceded to amy foreign visitor. When Lord Curzon prints a copy of this marvelous let- ter, today, in cold blood. one is tempt- ed to regret that he did mot pubilah these reminiscences a little bit ear- ler. For it would have enabled us understand how he managed to extrl- cate Great Britaln from the morass of trouble in the near east in which she had become involved prior to the con gress of Lausanne, with increased prestige to himseif and to his native land, with the good will of the Turks and with pre-eminence once more for rgland at Stamb e e . ek