Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1923, Page 6

39 s W THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER s, IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT THE EVENING STAR With Sundsy Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY....Noveniber 3, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. ... Editor T'he Evealug Star Newspaper Company Businees Office, 11¢h Kt. and Pennsyivania Ave. New Serk Oficer 110 Eent d2ud St Meago Office: Tower Bullding. European Ofice: T@Tegent Bt.. Loudon, Engiand. The Evening Star, with the Sunday moraing «edition, is delivered by carrlers within the ity at 60 ceats per month: daily only, 48 cehts per month; Sunday only, 20 cents ger pionth. Orders may be eent by mail o tele- phove Maln 5000. Collection 1s made B car- riers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Taily end Sunday..1 yr.. $8.4¢; 1 mo., 70¢ Dafly only. 1yr., $6.40: 1 mo., 50s Sunday only 1yr., $2.40; 1 mo,, 20c All Other States. ! Daily and Sunday.l yr., $10.00; 1 mo., 83¢ | Dally only 1¥r. $7.00; 1mo., 80c Sunday oul . $3.00; 1 mo., 3¢ Member of the Associated Press. ue Assceisted Press fs exclusively entitled tu the ‘ume for republication of all news dis- patches credited to 1t or 5ot otherwlse credited thls paper and also the loral news pub. lished berein. All rights of publication of special dispatelies hereln are also reserved, France and the New Proposal. Some confusion appears to prevail with regard to the relation between he Yrench offictal expressions relative | 0 a new reparations inquiry by an | nternational body of experts, and the earlier expressions from Paris privuate- iy conveyed to the Stute Department this subject. Tt is being urged now i : tand milk producers of Maryland and land" of that particular tract. The city has extended In several directions to the District boundary aend has grown beyond the line. In a few years the area of the District will be taken up by Washington and populous quar- ters of the city will le In Maryland. | Those parts of the e¢ity will not con- | form to the plun to which Washington owes much of its splendor. Many years ugo the problem of co- ordinating District suburbs to the city ‘Plan was presentéd, and there was de- lay in beginning the work. Sectlons of 'the city developed with narrow, crooked and very short streets. It re- qufred years to secure enactment of the highway-extension' plan. Many changes have been made at great cost, but the result is not what could Ve wished. Much werk remains to be done. —tem Milk and Its Price. It has been sald before that there is 2 great deal about the milk business which milk consumers do not know, and the same may be sald about coal, bread, shoes, hats and other things. When the milk dealers of the District Virginia were at daggers drawn over the matter of the milk producers’ as- soclatlon, it was given out that no raige in the price of milk was con- templated. A few days later this trifling matter was thought of and the price was ralged. When announce- ment was made of the decision to lift the price no reason for the advance was given out for publication. Sev. that Premler Poincare’s speech at Nevers on Thursday Interposes. con- | ditlons that were not set forth in the fivst French response to the “fecler” | of this government on the subfect. It will be recalled that fnmediately upon the publication of Secretary | {lughes' letter to Lord Curzon, stating | the willingness of this government to | participate in an economic inquiry ! inte the veparations matter, which | was accompanied by the text of Lord ; urzon's letter to Mr. Hughes, o news | Qispatch came from Par! ing that Irance had already expressed ap- sroval of the plan. It was stated, how- wver, that the experts must be named | Ly the reparations commission, and that the inquiry must be regarded as part of the commission’s work. It would be greatly in the interest| of clearer understunding if the text of the first note, dispatch cr “intima- tion” from Paris were made public. n‘ would then be seen just what consti- utes the advance, if any has been made, in conditions fmposed by France pon the scope and function of the expert commission. Indications appear that this govern- | ment docs not regurd the prospect of an effective settlement yielding in- \uiry into the reparations question as Lright, in view of the attitude of 'rance, espressed in the Nevers speech of the premier, which ineists upon restricting the Inquiry into Ger- inany’s “present” ability to pay with- out regard to the future. There ls something a bit dublous about this limitation as thus expressed. France is, of course, interested and concerned in Germany's present ability to pay, for she depends upon present pay- wents for financing her reconstruction work. But she is also concerned in the future ability to pay, for the pay- ments will necessarily continue for a long period, and it is greatly to the interest of France to take into ac- count the prospect of a reviving Ger- man economic health and a future re- sourcefulness for debt-paying pur- poses. There would seem to be no in- superable difficulty in the way of an international expert commission func- tioning helpfully. Certainly the pres- ent procedure is not tending to stabil- ize conditions in Kurope. However powerful the reparations commission may be in theory, it is not getting re- sults. Tt is certainly possible to add to information regarding Germany’s abil- ity to pay in a manner to leave that country with no conceivable excuse or justification for faflure to carry out the requirements of the treaty of peace, especially if the international commission working with the repara- tions commisston, or as part of it, pro- poses @ system of stabilized finance for Germany. ! ' ———t———e A display of all the latest models in @efial bombs at Aberdeen promotes a certain ense of security, in spite of the earnest hope that they will never be actually needed. | —_—————————— A great deal of the interest in na- tional affairs consists in waiting for Congress to convene and then waiting for it to adjourn. —_—— In discussing_ international policies Poincare never for a moment permits himself to forget that he has a con- stituency of his own to consider. Suburbs and the City Plan. It Is recommended by the commit- | tee on municipal ert of the Board of Trade that a commission of repre- sentatives of the, District, Maryland and Virginia be created to further the development of extra-District suburbs n agreement with the general plan of | ton neighborhood than cn thome who | eral days later it was said that the advance was made necessary by the increase in the price of hay and “‘con- centrated feeds™” and in wages of farm ond dairy employes. It wus sald that at the higher price no more was being pald for milk in Washington than in Baltimore and Richmond, where the tuberculin test is not required. Now comes news that the price of milk has been reduced 1 cent & quart in Baltimore. It seems thut milk dis- tributors &nd producers In disagree- ment there called in an arbitrator who decided In favor of reducing the price of milk, saying, “1 am convinced that favorable weuather conditions have helped develop milk production In the Baltimore territory to the point that an ample wupply is assured.” He says nothing about the increase in price of “concentrated feeds,” hay and dalry wages. It seems that Paltlmore fs In a better milk climate than Washing- ton and that the concentrated feed dezlers and hay dealers beur harder oun the milk farmers in the Washing- ship milk to Baltimore. It may be true that the cost of milk, though higher than last winter, is not out of line with the cost of other food. Washington is fortunate in its milk supply. It is abundant. For cleanli- ness and richness no other city pre-{ scribes higher standards and there ls | probably no other city where heaith | authorities enforce the maintenance of | milk standards s rigorousys as here. No milk s sold in the District unless it comes from cows, cow-barns and milkers under supervision of our health department. Dealers or dis- tributors of milk are also under pub- | !11e superviston. i e | Mr, McAdoo Here. { . { The' presence in Washington on a | week's visit of William G. McAdoo | will naturally revive interest in poten- | tial candidates for the democratic presidential nomination. It is Intimated in political efreles that Mr. McAdoo | may have an important statement to | make before he leaves town. Specula- | tion naturally suggests that it may | be the formal announcement of his| candidacy for the nomination. ! That would be merely a matter of form, however, since for many months | Mr. McAdoo has been regarded in; democratic quarters as already an as- plrant for the nomination of his party, and the politictans cannot vision him pushing the crown away from him.| Many of the higher-ups in the party leadership are sald to regard him as possessing at this time more tangible political assets than probably any other democrat who is mentioned in connection with the nomination. Only one declared candidate is in! the fleld, Senator Underwood, and his first appearance brought forth the! opposition of Willlam J. Bryan, to which, it is reported In press dis-] patches, has been added the dlnh\‘ori of the Ku Kiux Klan, which Is taking | active Interest in politics in many | states. 1 Gov. Alfred BE. 8mith of New York has been placed In nomination by his friends, though he has sald nothing on the subject. Senator Ralston of Indiana is supposed te be the alterna- tive favorite of Indiana and Tammany Hall after Boss Murphy casts a few complimentary votes for Gov, Smith. Whom Mr. Bryen favors is not known to the rank and file, although the impression prevails that he is not opposed to Mr. McAdoo. He may indi- cate his cholce when the candldates run up against that fateful rule of the two-thirds majority necessary to nom-! inate. | ——————— ‘Washington. The committee in a pre- vious report said: “As we are well aware this ety has already reached another stage of development, bufld- ing commmunities have reached the boundary lMnhes of the District, and across the border towns have sprung up which are essentlally a part of the city of Washington. The towns just outside our border are those to which attentlon is invited. They are destined to become in point of effect, if not law- fully, @ part of Washington. It is therefore important that they should be @eveloped so as to become an In- It i3 belng demonstrated by Lloyd George that the fact that 2 man is an | ex-official does not necessarily prevent his views on current affalrs from carrylng e great deal of weight. e e H The divorce proceedings of Mr. Stokes are impressive chiefly in calling attention to the singuler idea a man sometimes haw of a good thmne. P s —— It is hoped by its friends that pro- hibition enforcement will not be per- mitted to become as enduring a polit!- tegral part of the city system, or it is important that they should bear a proper relation to each other as well as to the city as a whole.” This thought has long been held by many_persons in the District and the suburbs. It {s not clear *hat all could e accomplished that ought to be, and a beginning in this matter might bet- \ ter have been made twenty or thirty | vears ago, but it is belleved that some ! good can be effected. There is. little land close upon the District, except a few large estates held as country homes or summer homes, which has vot been subdivided. Bome of these subdivisions conform: to the plan of 4n edjacent village, but miost of them tiave been subdivided with no other ‘consideration than the “lay of the cal issue 2s the tariff. . l A Broken Shoe String. ¥rench detectives are noted for their acumen in the employment of psy- chology in the utmost pursuit of clués. Readers of Gaborfau's storles will re- call the famous figures of deductive justice who ‘traced elusive criminals and shrewd schemers against the law. Edgar Allen Poe has also celebrated in two of his tales this quality of the French detective of fiction. But the detective in fact is no degree be- hind the fictional prototype. A case just developed in Paris which shows that the processes of the Frénch official mind are as keen as ever. | Recently two priceless Gobelin tapestries were stolen from the palace of Versallles. The only direct clue was | ® plece of broken shoe lace found on the floor at the scene of the theft. Certain people were suspected and ‘watched after the robbery. One of thém had been at one time employed in the malace. Bystematically the homes of all the suspects were visited and searched. In the rooms of the former employe was found a pair of shoes with one new lace corresponding to the broken bit diecovered in the pal- ace. Samplae of his thumbprints were obtained and found to correspond with those marking the window pane of the chateau through which the thieves had entered. Further pursuit of ‘he trall led to 2 shanty in a mean stréet of Versallles, where the two tapestries were discovered, one Intact and the other cut into twelve pleces. The oc- cupant of the shack, who was belleved to have been an accomplice, had fled. It 1s known, however, that he and the former palace employe are commu- nists, and the theory is that the theft ‘Was @n act of mere vandalism. Recollections of Bherlock Holmes' findings of cigarette ashes and stuiaps and bits of fluff disclosing on micro- scoplc examination positive clues to identity are revived by this case. But | t 1s doubtful whether a Lroken shoe lace ever before flgured in the analyals of & crime and the pursuit of the criminal. It simply goes to show that in the examination of the premises the trained, cxpert criminologist overlooks nothing, that everything s of possible | value, that the lcast trifle may prove | to be the most illuminating factor. ‘The perfect criminal is probably yet to be evolved, the supreme master of detall, the 100 per cent planner ugd performer who in every operatidn leaves nothing in the way of a cla. The wearing of gloves has, it is trus, to a great extent checked the finger- print method of identification. Bt somehow, somewhere, If not In oue crime in another, breaker leaves a trace. Tt is the work- Ing of the luw of natural justice. ——————— Many things in Germany have been changed by the war, but the soclaliuts Indignantly protest that the rich are #till getting richer and the poor poorer, There are certaln bas'c economic tendencies that war cannot change, however violent. ———— According to Senator Hiram Jobn- | son we are now a part of the diplo- matic game of Europe. Anyhow, Uncle SBam enjoys the preliminary satisfac- fon of sitting in with the biggest stack of blue chips. B It {2 said that Wilheim Hohenzol- lern compares himself to Napoleon. ‘This state of mind would bring up the interesting question of whether he regards his present residence as his Elba or his St. Helena. ———— A lack of co-ordination is always | likely to prove embarrassing. A large amount of confusion is arising from , the fact that so many different locall- | tles have different kinds of Ku Klux. ———————— When Lenin once declared that & nation could go ahead without real! money he never thought Germany would take the idea 8o seriously. —_——— There are fears that Gov. Pinchot does not care how much trouble he uncorks for the political leaders of the day. —_—————— [© LU 18 ot so much of a raise In the price of milk unless it happens too often. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON So Glory Passes. The Emperor of China, since of funds he finds a lack, Must hurry to the auction room and sell his bric-a-brac. He never meant the slightest harm. IHe's only just & boy. 1t seems a shame that he should have to lose each pretty toy! Again we see the satire of an auto- cratic pian. How mighty sounds the title and how feebly speaks the man! How radiant seemed his majesty, &n oriental dreem, v Tet how he fades when chance d stroys his decorative scheme. Remember, when ‘neath Fortune smile you go upon parade How much that’s artificlal in course of time must fade, And how what seems resplendert djgnity ere long may lack— The Emperor of China has to sell Fls | brica-brac. Simple Explamtion. “To what do you attribute your suc- cesd ae a statesman?” “To the wisdom of the plain peo- pl answered Senator Sorghum. “They saw & good man for the job and proceeded to vote for him."” Jud Tunkins says in the average { gathering when the chalrman says, i *The meeting will come to order,” it's merely the signal for the disorder to commence. Expression and Repression. You'll observe, if you note politictans today And the lofty positions they've got to, Much depends on a man's knowing Just what to say, And much more on his knowing what not to. Prefers to Laugh. “Why do you laugh whenever any~ body mentions your flivver?” “Because,” answered Mr. Chuggins, “I'm trying to be a philosopher. When enybody talks about your filvver you've got to do one of two things, laugh or get mad.” The Wary Rodent. Animals refuse to taste alcohol.” “Which is a misfortune,” mused Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Some of this bootleg stuff would make wonderful rat poison.” “De difference between what a man thifiks he knows an’ what he knows,” mald Uncle Eben, “is de differencs be- tween de start an’ de finish of a-hoss rece the habitual las-| BY PAUL V. COLLINS Tilinols seems to have discovered that there 1s a Latin America worth while for Uncle Bam to court. Representative Fred A. Britten and Senator Medill Mc- Cormick exprees thelr views simul- taneously that while the administration 1s eerfously concerned over Buropean affairs there is too little attentlon pald to our western hemisphere, wherein lics our true future profitable development. Mr. Britten is Interested in reciprocal exchange of #tudents between this country and all the principal countries of Central and South America, for the purpose of educating future generations into mutual friendly sympathy. Sena- tor McCormick and also Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover are more concerned In developing trade relations through encouragement of American investment of capital and American colonization in South and Central Americu, hoping thereby to creats mar- cts for more of our machinery and manufuctures. The two phases of the proposed d velopment have the same end—to effe closer tles between North, Central and South . Amerlea, In what might be termed hemispheric consciousness which will tend to segregate this half of the world, socially, industrially and com- merelally, Independent of old world wars and tutmolls. In order to comprehend the possibilities It s necessary to Doints of these prop! 11, 1922, Scnor Jose minister of pub! visited Argentin, A j On Octobe . { conceles, . where he h great distinction. At cabinet ofiiclal, Senor Jose In- genferos made a notable speech in | ¥hich he pald spectal attention to the | mlleged menace of the glant country of dungerous Imperfulistic purposes— the country of the Monroe doctrine, He pletured this doctrine as having | been a means to guaruntee South and Central Amerfea political safety, vet. &s 2een In the few years of the present century, It wus only thut they be pro- i tected inst Kuropean interventions that the United States might reserve to {herself the right of Intervention. That voraclous country, he =uid. has {been pressing its polic of converting |Ih¢ government into Instruments of financlal trusts—which would capture the fountalns of wealth und speculate in human labor—into which knows no moruls. Toduy we #ee this Monroe doctrine, Interpr-tation, expressin ’“’(lfl'\'»nllnll by the |againet the principles Latin American countries. Facts prove it Did the United ike efftcient llr\‘e Monroe doct! declared the speaker, when Englend occupied t‘ln.l inas Island, belonging to Argen- a2 i Did they, in 1838, when squadron bombarded th Tlua? Did they interfere Le Blanc blockaded the |l(l"(>r Plate? Or, In 1361, reconquered Santo Dumingo {1884, when Nupoleon s l!he throne of Mexico? untry iny South 4 in t States Or. {n 1986, when 8puin blockaded the ports of the Pactfic? This migerable doctrine, as charac- terized by which never succeeded In Imposing ' itself agalnst European interventlons. has been the {means of imposing North American in- the speaker, BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY, Charles Winn, married to the Hon. | Olive Paget, duughter of Lord Queen- borough, and of his first wife Pauline, \eister of Harry Payne Whitney, spends so much of his time over here, where his wife, as one of the heir- esses of the late Col. Oltver . Payne, {the Standard Ofl magnate, has very large Interests, that it may be Inter- | esting to call attention to the fact | that his younger brother Zeginald, {during the war an officer of the Grenadier Guards, 1s following his ex- ample in marrying an American wife, | | | namely, Miss Allce Perkins of New ! York, who I8 @ nlece of Mrs. Charles | Dana Gibson and of Lady Astor, with | whom she spent the greater part of She hae Inherited much of | the year. | the comeliness of the Langhorne women, and I8 a tall, dark, beautiful girl. Reginald Winn is a vounger |son of the late Lord St. Oswald, and |1a a brother, therefore, of the pres- {ent peer, whose wife, formerly Evie Carew of Daly's Theater, in London, was one of the most popular actress In the very successful run of “Letty She married her husband secretly in he was o badly wounded in France that his life was despaired of that his father was made aware that che was his wife. She has now presented him with two boys to succeed to his honors and estates. Miss Alice Perkins' flance is very well off. For his family is one of great wealth, its possessions Including the celebrated Winn colllerfes. Like his elder brothers and his father and grandfather before him, he has a re- markable taste for engineering. In- deed, many of the most ingenious mechanical devices in use in the Winn collleries are due to the in- vention of members of this gifted and popular farnily, who are descended trom Sir Roland Winn, a London merchant who flourished ‘in the reign of Charles I, and from his son, who | was created . baronet by Charles IT jon his restoration, Reginald Winn's mother was a daughter of Lady Forbes of Newe, sister of Georglana Countess of Dudley, and who had {nherited, through her mother, much of the beauty for which the women of the Moncrieff family were so justly famous. 1t is the grandfather of Charles Winn, namely, the first Lord St. Os- | wald, who was the perpetrator of the most celebrated theft in the dnnals [ ot Eton. While a schoolboy there, the famous block at which students have knelt to recelve their birchings through countless generations and many centuries, indeed, ever since the relgn of King Edward VI, mys- terfously disappeared. Although for 4 long time no trace could be dis- covered of its whereabouts or a clue to the bold robber who had been able to carty it off from the head ater's library and from under the ery nose of that august dignitary, it subsequently transpired that the Culprit was no other than the boy Who subsequently became Lord St. Oswald. * % % Gen. Sir Hubert Gougl's appoint- i ment to the post of Governor Gen- jeral of Taganylka, with = salary of $25,000 & year plus generous allow- ances and perquisites, as well as stately official residences at Dar-Es- Salaam and also on the highlands, constitutes a tardy act of reparation for a gross plecs of injustice of which he was the vietim in the spring of 1818. When, "in February and March of that year, the disgraceful peace concluded by sovist Russie with Germany enabled that power to arly & million soldiers from :h'l“?u:(:ovno border to the French front, Gen. Ludendotff took advan- tage of these welcome reinforces ments to attempt to break through the allied lines at their very weakest int by sheer force of numbers. “ll weakest point wss around Amiens, where Gen. 8ir Hubert Gough, one of the finest cavalry com- manders of the British army, was suddenly called upon to resist, with education | @ reception given fn honor of the Mexi- | London in 1915, and it was only when | terventions, It l‘wunfl to be & key of past interventions, and hes turned out to be the skeleton key of -our future conquest. For 100 years the clever locksmith pretended to take care of us; he did the best he could—not for ourselves, but for himbelf. After the war with Spain, the United States took jon of 'Porto Rico and im) d on the independence of Cuba the wnnoylng conditions of the Platt amendment. It did not wait long to amputate from Colombia the Isth- mus of Panama, which permitted it to unite, through Panama, Its Paclfic and Atlantic coasts. It made an at- tempt against the soverelgnty of Mex- ico, through the unfortunate adventure against Vera Cruz. It took military possession of Haitl, under a puerile pro. text. Later, It made shameful occu- runn of Santo Domingo, under the abltual pretext of pucifying the coun- try and regulating its finances. Yestet- day—no, today it is throwing obstacles i the hope of dissolving the Centrai American Federstion. They deny the recognition of Mexico, unless Mexico | I first wign treaties which will give | forelgn investors rights against the in- | terests of the mation. Senor Ingenteros sald thut danger does not always begin with annexation, as with Porto Rico: nor with Interven- tion, as with Cuba: nor with milltary occupation, as with Mexico; nor with tutelage, ae with Nicaruguai nor with territorial secession, as with Colombia; nor with armed cccupation, as with Haitl; nor with purchase, us with Guayanas. The danger begins in pro- gresalve mortzaging of natlonal inde- pendence, through loans to be renewed and increased without lmit: cach time with Increasing mortgage on natlonal independence. Did not Prasident Wilson say during the world war that e would respect the rights of small nations and that all would be free to govern themsslves as they saw fit? usked the senor. Where are those principles? he queried. How has his country applied them? Tn Cuba, with intervention fu its politics. In Mexlco, by falling to recognize the gov- ernment its people belleved the best. In Santo Domingo. by substituting its own government by military occupa- tion, with an offer to retire on conditlens most Indecorous. L In summing up the Latin situation as the epeaker saw it, he advocated that which has been urged by certain parties {in every South and Central American | country for twenty years—an organiza- stion of a Latin American Union, as | opposed to the Pan-American Unlon. The Pan-American Unlon is denounced ! by these leaders us being dominated by 1the Unlted States, since it i« presided [over by the Secretarv of State of the United States, and it wlways sits in Washington. The Latin Aneri have for 1ts slogan: “Latin America for » Latin Americans. It is proposed to astablish a high tribuna! to resol Po- litleal troubles between the countriecs also a supreme economic council to regulate co-operation. production and exchange; to establish collectiva re- an Unlon would sistance to ell powers which hinply the | right of intervention by forelgn coun- tries; and to gradually extinguish na- tionk] loans from foreign powers. It proposes to form local organizations in all_cities of all natlons, which would spread propaganda and work with the International Latin American Unlon. * Kk % Surely Representative Britten's nlan of educational reciprocity has an ample fleld. (Copsright. 1928, by Pavl V. Collins.) British Peer’s Brother to Wed Alice Perkins, U. S. Heiress an entirely inadequate force of wome 30,000 completely exhausted men, the onslaught of Ludendorf's well rested regiments of over 100,000. Realizing the heavy odds. he begged in vain for support, but failed to recelve it un- til the Itne which he commanded was bent inward, though never broken. It was bent to an extent that brought | the Germans once more almost to the very gates of Amiens, until succor tardily arrfved and the Germans were hurled back and started on the road to_ultimate defeat. army were compeiled to bend back their line in order to avold its break- { ing at any point, it was because there were mo reserves avallable at first and that the near thirty miles lon line of his front was too thinly held, K!\e British fighting strength In France baving been allowed by the | Downing street and Whitehall au- I thoritics to run altogether too low Yet, at the very time, 200,000 troop: were being held In England throug! a discreditable and purely political Intriguc. Had these reserves been in France, as demanded by Field Marshal Lord Halg, Sir Hubert Gough's line would have never been compelied to bend. {1t had bent created such a panic In a scapegoat in order to satisfy public clamor. And so Gen. Sir Hubert | Gough was relieved of his command sponsible for the bend in his line, being denfed n court-martial or even a court of inquiry. Fortunately for Sir Hubert, while he was held up to obloquy by the politiclans, he was warmly pralsed by his commander-in-chief, Marshal Lord Halg, and by the prin- IcIr.I generals and military experts, who dld not hesitate to proclaim that it he had not held his line, even if bent, and If he had allowed it to break, disaster to the allled cause would have Inevitably followed and Amiens and the channel ports would have fallen into the hands of the enemy. * * * That King George shured thie opin- fon of his principal military advisers and leading generals to the effect that Gough was entitled to the high- condemnation is shown by the fact that as soon as the war was over he bestowed upon Sir Hubert the grand cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and now another government has made still further reparation for the cruel Injustice to which he was subjected by parlia- ment In March, 1918, by appolnting him governor general of all the for- mer German colony of East Africa ithat was one of the frults of the allied victory, a colony of great wealth and a population of 8,000,000 and an acreage of 400,000 square miles. Sir Hubert, who is only just turnea fitty, and I8 a son of that splendid old Victorfa Cross hero. the late Gen. Sir Charles Qough, belongs family which, hailing from %m:l‘:ir:.’ | has Leen settled in Ireland since the |relgn of Queen Elizabeth, and which as played a notable role in the military history of Great Britain and in her conquest of Indla. Its present chief. the fourth Viscount Gough. & Galway man. is just turned thirty and Tost his left arm as major of the Irlsh Guards In the great war. He is now stationed at Bagdad in com- mand of native levies. Hls father, the late lord, ent many years at Washington as secretary of the Brit- ish_embassy, ‘The first Viscount Gough, besides conquering the Punjab for the Brit- ish empire, took part in the entire eninsular campalgn, under the great uleer of Wellington, and also as com- manddr-in-chief of the war In China in the early years of the relgn of Queen Victoria, capturing the great Chinese city of Canton, He was a great character in his way, and the Irlshmen in_his armies nicknamed him “Oul Faugh-a-Ballagh” (pro- nounced “Fawydbollo”), which may be translated “Clear the way.” The field marshal was so pleased with the characteristic sobriquet that he se- cured the permission of the crown to iadd it to his family mottoes and to his armorial bearings. 1f Sir Hubert Gouzh and his ffeh | But the fact that | | England that it was necessary to find | and sent home to England as re- | Field | est praise In lleu of any censure of | 1923, The Library Table ‘BY THE BOOKLOVER Often when wearled to the point of disgust with the egotism, materialism and psychopathic decadence of many present-day writers, the Booklover hunts up eome old-fashioned book belonging to a time bofore Freud dis- covered complexes and the world war made nearly every one cynical. Such @ book he has recently found and read in “The Gurneys of Earlham,” by Augustus Hare. The author says in his preface: “The Gurneys of Earlham were & Quaker tamily, who—through thelr personal qualities and their self- devotlon—played a more copspicuous part’ than any other set of brothers and sisters in the religlous and phi- lanthrople life of England during the first half of the nineteenth century.” * ok ok % The delightful old country placa of Earlham, in Norfolk, not far from Norwich Cathedral, was rented for over & hundred years from 1786 by the Gurney family, the leading Quak- ers of England. The book of Augustus Hare s chlefly concerned with John Gurney, born in 1749; his wife, Cath- erine Bell, and thelr fwelve children, all but ono of whom lived to adult years. The early death of Catherine Bell Gurney left this large family to the care of the eldest daughter, Catherine, who through a long un- married life devoted herself to her brothers and sisters, moet of whom she outlived. * %ok % Al the Gurney family had busy lives, occupied with personal educa tion, the rearing of large familles and devotion to religlon and good works; but seversl of them became especlally famous in their own time. Joseph John Gurney was a much lov Quaker preacher, and, with his sle- tor, Mrs, Elizubeth Gurney Fry, made many tours of the continent, visit- ing and helping Quuker colones Sumuel Gurney was a er in the firm . of Richardson, Overend, Gurney & Co., which for forty years was the greatest discounting house in the world, and one which during the panic of 1825 lent mone many other houses that it be, Banker's Bank. his wealth for the benefit of his many relatives, and all good causes. Richmond, who painted many portraits, used to say that Samuel Gurney’s’ fuce was an extraordinary mixture of shrewdness and benevo- lence. The raost fumous member of the Gurney family was Eligabeth Fry, who, In addition to bringing up & family of fifteen children, was a Quaker preacher of tireless ctivity, and one of the earllest prison reform. . Her name will alwaye be re- membered for the improvements she brought about In the treatment of the woman prisoners at Newgate ‘Ex x N Some of the Gurner brothers und sisters became members of the Church of England: others remained | Quakers; but for all the religious life {was the deepest and most real part of existence. Thelr religlon was for| ithe most part wholesome and free from undue Introspection and rigidity, | though it was always a great grief to | Mrs. Fry that her husband enjoyed | and indulged in secular mus! me of the most striking facts in the story | of these Gurneys is that for none of | {them had death any terrors. As the years passed and death éntered thelr families, often taking three or four {loved children in one epidemic, and &s | |the brothers and sisters themselves, | {one by one, left their pleasant earthly life, therd never was, any bitter !lamenting on the part of those re- {maining nor griecf and terror in the dying one. The words of Rachael Gurney just before her death, “God makes me happy and will take me to | His own kingdom.” are typical of the Gurney attitude toward death. * %k % % Buried treasure, fn life or fiction, arouses in almost every one the spirit | |of adventure. G. A. Birmingham | | (Canon Haunay) has written another lof his delightfully thrilling and at the same time humorous stories of burfed treasure — “Found Money. i The money in question has been burfed at Knockeroghery, or Hang- {man's Hill, in County = Roscommon, | | Treland—not on a tropical island. |and the story brings into action not |only some original characters, but |also the Irish Free State army and | | the army of the Irish republic. ; & o | are perhaps many people in | {the world who would be glad to be} jofticially dead—tliat is, obliterated as | |far as their families and thelr other soctal relatlons are concerned—in order to regain their personal free- dom. After every war there are stories of men who remain “missing” from choice, though they continue to {1ead flesh and blood existences far | from the homes they left. Such a situation as this is treated in the whimsical novel, “The Late Mattia | Pascal,” by the Itallan novelist and dramatist, Luigi Pirandello. Mattia !Pascal has a shrewish wife and a quarrelsome, meddling mother-in-law, %0 that life for him is anything but a peaceful affair. While on a short holiday he has two astounding pieces of good luck. First, he wins—and keeps—a pile of money at Monte Carlo, and, second, he reads in a newspaper that the body of a drowned man has been recovered from a mill stream near his home and has been jdentified as his (Mattia Pascal's). He iis omiclally dead and buried In the little cemetery of his town. He realises that he is free. He has his beard and hair altered by the barber, buys new clothes, takes a new name and begins & new life. And here the story really begins, for Mattia Pascal does not find it so easy as he thought to break entirely with his past and to Le entirely free. x * % There Illlss M | plain this allusion: “A touch of the|The &ta ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Please state any available facts regarding the statue on top of the Capltol.—V, T. A. The office of the supervising ar- chitect of the Capltol buflding says that the correct name of the figure which surmounts the dome Is “Free- dom.” It was designed by Thomas Crawford, an American scuiptor, who executed his work in Rome. In the rotunda of the Old National Museum you will find the original model, Which fn 1868 was used by Clark Mills for casting the statue in bronze. An interesting story is connected Wwith the design of the headdress. It is sald that the figure originally bore a head decoratlon which resembled the liberty cap worn in France dur- ing the perfod of the revolution. The protest was ralsed that the signifi- cance might be attached to this de- tall which would suggest that once we had been slaves, but were now free. A change was then made in the design and another substituted. Q. 1Is there & law regarding the reading of the Bible in the public schools of the United States?—A. L. A. According to a survey made by the bureau of education, six states require that a portion of the Bible be read daily in their schools. Six other states specifically permit by law the reading of the Bible in public Schools. In nineteen states and the District of Columbfa the law is silent on the subject, and Bible reading is construed as ' permissible. In five states. whose laws otherwise contain no epecific provision on the subject, the courts have rendcred oplnions fa- vorable to Bible reading. In ten states it {s not permissible to read the Bible at stated times in the pub- lic schools, whils in Michigan and Callfornia the matter is at present somewhat in doubt. Q. What substance on the moon clouds the surface and forms what we generally tenn the man in the moon? -D, 8 A, Nuval Observatory says the | daricer and lighter markings seen on the moon are due to irregularities of ite surface, such as mountains, val- leys, platns, etc. The darker portions | are of lower elevation than the lght. er and may formerly have been se bottows. Temporary changes of shad- ing are caused by variation of the angle at which the sun is shining on the surface, 4, manservant called a | A. This term. which fs somatimes | used to designate such servants as| footmen, is from the Frnch flanquer, | meaning to run at the side of. | Q. Why i flunky *—G. Q. Do many girls stiil ride a sido | saddle, and what are the advantages | as compared with the cross saddle’— K. W. H A. The side saddle is still widely | used by woman riders at horse shows | and for hunting. Many people con- | sider that a woman looks more graca- | ful on a stde saddle. and it i3 agreed | that it shows off both horee and rider to advantage. The cross saddle is | generally regarded as more praeti- for hard riding and as safer in | Jumping. It Is beitcr for the horse, as the weight of th- rider is distrib- | uted evenly, and s the saddle is lighter than the side saddlc. . What is the meaning of iine, “I helped upon Haldora's sh in the poem, “The Red Cross Spiri Speaks”?—A. P, A. The following guotation from | el Boardman's book will ex- the e el ted fteelf ars ago. Red Cross splrit manii after & battle & thousand The conference of state executives at West Baden, which ended with a hurry- up trip to Washington, where, after listening to addresses by President Coolidge and three departmental heads, resolutions were adopted pledging en- forcement of all law—especially the pro- hibition enactment—after all accom- plighed very little, in the oplnlon ef the | majority of editors. All agree that the | varfous addressgs and retolutions made excellent reading. But behind the en- | tire camouflage was the matter of who must shoulder responsibllity for rigid enforcement of the Volstead act, and | many critice, friendly and unfriendly, gee a general “passing of the buck back and forth. “Enforce all laws Is a catchy phrase,” the Brooklyn Eagle admits, “but so far as the White House conference is con- rned it is an empty one’ while the Philadelphia Bulletin, agreeing “there is full agreement in principle between the President and the governors,” asks “‘but what more was there to be sald? Jt| is not probable that absoluté, drought | can be enforced throughout the| country by means of the prohibition law. But no one doubts that by reason- able concert of effort between state and federal anthorities flagrant deflance of the law can be banished and nucm7 e traffic driven to cover.” Anyhow, tl jovernors' conference, as a_gathering esigned to aid the states, has failed, | in the opinion of the Chicago Daily | News, which belleves “the governo: instend of delivering inspirational | speeches at thelr annual conferences, or | passing vague resolutions, should study | carefully the vital matters that admit | of, or actually demand, Joint action and bring to their meetings definite plans and constructive suggestions.” * k% % 1 To get results along prohibition | lines the Kansas City Journal in-| slsts there must be complete co- operation, because ‘“the states are morally and legally obligated to Though the twentieth cenutury will probably never rival the nineteenth as o poetic age, its first quarter has by no means been lacking in the pro- Quction of real poetry, and at pres- ent the poetic output in England and ithe United States Is not meager. Some recently published volumes of poetry are the following: by Wilfred Scawen Blu ems, by Alice Meynell; “Poems,” by George Santayana; "Roast Leviathan by Louls Untermeye! “The Hour of Magie,” by W. H. Davies: “The Hun- dred and One Harlequins,” by Sachev- erell Sitwell; “The Box of God." by Lew Sarett; “Golden Bird.” by James Oppenheim; “A Few Figs From Thistles,” by Edna St Vincent Mil- lay: “Songs of Unrest” by Bernl Lesbia Kenyon; “The Jar of Dreams. by Lilla Cabot Perry: “Narratives in Yers by Ruth Comfort Mitchel “Finders,” by John V. A, Weaver; "Rock Flower” by Jeanns Robert Foster; “The Last Lutanist,” by Dean B Lyman, Jr. ‘and *The Pocts of the Future: A College Anthology for 1921- 1922,” edited by Henry T. Schnittkind. * k ok % No keener observer of Kuropean affairs or saner gulde through the tangled skein of European politics is known to the booklover than Her- bert Adams Gibbons, author of “The New Map of Burope” and other rized books. The announcement that E. is to publish In the mn a new book, “Europe since is, there- fore, a welcome one, since it promises an authoritative statement of the tremendous and tragic reconstruction period of Europe up to date. L L The memory of the author of “The Red Badge of Courage’ has not o completely faded tkat there will not bé a thrill at the announcement that ext fall will see the publication of 1ife of Stephen Crane. is to be Thomas Beer, and there will be a preface by Joseph Conrad. work in harmony and with all vigor' to fulfil the dual obligation, as sov- erelgn states and as members of the Unfon, The same obligation rests upon the mnational government. Neither can or should seek to evade that obligation.” It however, the | bellef of the Pittsburgh Gazette that | if it should be “emphasized that no public official has any optlon with | respect to prohibition enforcement | the subject will naturally fade out of the political horizon save as an attempt will be made by further | constitutional amendments to change the law banning traffic in Intoxicat- ing beverages.” This {3 in n_measure the opinlon of the Springfleld Re- publican, but the latter insists “sur- fender to an organized and persuasive | effort to make a law Ineffective would be a weakness menacing to all law and would promote the instability of the government itself. The prohibi- tion Issue Is rapidly taking this form. The attack on the law is not only organized, it is bold, open and de- flant. s it possible to surrender to it without Inviting evils far worse than those charged againat probibi- tion by its enemies? No surrender to lawlessness when it is most ag- gressive and brazen—Iiet that be the will of the people and no one need fear for the republic.” The New York Evening World argues on_ that line that “a majority of the people of New York do not belleve tha Volstead act fairly carries out the Intent of the prohibition amendment. Is it sounder national policy to trample on_the wishes of the people of New York and millions like them 'in other states than to admit that the Volstead act | may, and should be, modified?" | “The merits of prohibition, even of the Volstead act, one-half of 1 per cent and all, did not enter into t conference scheme,” the Newark Eve fning News is convinced. “The sole thought appears to have been a stiff- ening of prohibition ‘as is’ as if tie form In which it {s cast under the act were of itself sacrosanct and bind- ing for all time. It lgnores entiraly the fact that millions of ericans | er these fihat when Haldora of Iceland called to the women of her household, ‘Let us go @nd dress the wounds of the warriors Dbe they friends or foes. " Q. Is any attempt being made to restore or rebuild Kolomon's Temple at Jerusalem?—H. F. P. A. The site of Solomon's Templ« Is at present covered by the Mosquc 0f Omar, which s in the hands of th Mohammedens. The mosque area i closely guarded by the Mohammedans and no excavation is permitted. Q. Pleaso give the colors of the boat crews of Oxford, Cambrldge Yale, Harvard and Princeton.—T. J A. The colors are as follows: Ox- ford, dark blue; Cambridge, ght blue; Yale, blue; Harvard, crimsor Princeton, orange and black. Q. How is meat glazed?—D. L A. Beef stock is used for this pur pose. The stock is first reduced b: rapid boillng, and when it is as thick as molasges it {s used to paint the surface of a roast to make it shine. Q. Were lotterles ever used for :vnygp;bllc purpose in thig country = A. In the elghteenth century lot terles were extremely popular in America. Legislatures authorized them for every specles of public im provement, for ' the building of churches and colleges, for the repafr of losses to individuals by fire_and otherwise; for example, Faneuil Hall after the fire of 1761, was rebullt by Iottery. The Continental Congress frled to rafse money by lottery in Q. Was Andrew Carnegie wounded in the civil war?—N. F. A. Carnegie had charge of the eastern milltary rallroads and te! graphs at the outbreak of the w: and was the third man wounded the Unfon slde, while removing ob. structions from the Washingtor 3 ssive hunger. Persor suffering from it are never satisfled Q. How many Inches does a won an’s hair grow in u year?—J. C. B. A. The length of life of tho h varles with age, sex, characte hair and individual peculiarities. Hac: hair has its determined length of life and this is not the same for ever: hair of the same sort. The rate of growth, especlally in young women, i from 2'to 5 mm., or about 1-8 to 1-¢ inch, during each of the first ten days of growth, or about §-5 to 3-4 inch month. When it reaches a length of ten to fourteen iuches its rate of growth is reduced one-half and later toward the end of Its normal lie its increase is hardly perccptible. Q. Which was the first profes sional base ball team?—J. R, L. A. Cincinnati had the first ealarie team. It was organized in 1868. Q. Does the male gorilla sleep on the ground?—H. H. He generally sieeps at the foot of tree to guard his family agalnst the leopard. This beatt is practicall: the only foe the gorilla fears. (The Star Information Bureaw ! vour question. This offer applic victly to information, The burea cannol give advice on legal, medical anc financial matter: It _does not attemp! to settie domestic troubles, nor to unde take exhaustive research on any sub ject. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage amd send your query t Injormation Bureau, Frederic J. Haskin, director, 1220 North Copito! | Street.) Editors See Much Empty Talk On Dry Law at Governor Session regard the law as unwarranted in terference with customs they did not look upon as wrong. Therein lay the weakness of the conference, which did not allow anything for differences of opinion or lvok upon prohibition en forcement in some of its phases ms by no meuns a closed question.” Ther. has been much “passing of the buck. as the Nashville Banner sees it, and 1t holds that “to say that the sol. responsibility for enforcement lles ar the door of the White House is t disclaim the interest or the re sibility of the state” Agreeing this coutention, the Indianapolis Ne holds “there are some things wh! the national government alone car do and others that the states ce: do better than the nation can. Th President puts the case clearly and well. He refused—and very prop erly—to assume the sole responsibil as Gov. Pinchot would have had him do. He pledged himself t exert to the full the power of th: federal government on the side o law enforcement; he has a right to expect that the states will throw their powers fully on the same side.” * % 1f the President expects completr co-operatlon, however, the Knoxvills Sentinel thinks, “he will at least have to stir himself to see that govern ment's law-enforcing agents are wha they purport to be and net in col lusionsvith the criminals themselves And he will have to overthrow th Ppolitical practice of appointing fed eral agents in the states in obedfenco to the recommendation of the sena tors from the states concerned wheth x senators be ‘wet’ or ‘dry For it Is no more in reason to hope to find an enforcer of the law in an enemy of it than it would be to ex pect to gather grapes from a thistl. or figs from a _thorn tree.” Thn Rochester Times-Union suggests it is refreshing to see the President or the United States tear to shreds the tissue of evasion and excuses whicl has been woven in the attempt to prove that state officers have no re. sponsibility for enforeing federal laws.” And, while the governors ara to b commended for their pledges of co-operation in enforcement, the Detroft Free Press feels they ‘“wero grossly inconsistent when they per. mitted themselves to say that the in- dividual states are powerless to con- trol the manufacturs of intoxicants or to prohibit the importation of wines and spirituous liquore, Every- body knows that they have ample au thority in the premises. Restricted Sale of 3 Tokens Is Protested To the Bditor of The Star: I was agreeably surprised to read in your columns that the- Publio Util- Itles Commission had ordered the strect rallway companies to sell three tokens for 20 cents, and at the same time prohibited sale on street cars. It strikes me that such prohibition defeats the end sought. The na‘:g:. given, viz, delay of traffic, for sail e‘l,ohlhltlon is not logical or sound ‘hat chance have the people lving in the suburbs, or any other place fo; that matter, far l’romhn bank or busi ness house, to purchase t . small lots, 1t desired? BReusi We have contended for the sale o three tokens for 20 cents for the bene fit of the people, and why tiot place the sale of same at thelr convenien: disposal? The street car companie: take the time to change & one or tw dollar bill to exact an eight-cent casi. fare; and it seems just es ressonablo tuey should yse the same of re in selling their tokens. etter hav “k'o to the bank and ge: change before boarding a street ca: Give the public & chance, Secretarsy BenaingGlendete Day ecre endale. Citizen ation, TeRlana Bennl Assol