Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1923, Page 6

! 3 THE _EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER. 6, 1923 WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. November 6, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor ng Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Otfice: 110 East 2nd St Chicago Oftice: Tower Building, European Otfice: 10 Regent St., London, England, morning hin the v, 45 e Sunda wit 1y The Evoning edition, i cents’ per month; Sunday oni wmonth._ Order< may be sont by o- phone Maiui 5000, Coliection is made by car- Tiers at the end of onths. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, .03 1 mo, All Other State: Daily and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 Dyaily only. . ¥ Sunday only. republication @ 10 it o 5 pub- % of publication of The German Puzzle. n in the throes of bread riots looting: troops taking along the “frontic of possible dis turbance; ds by Bav al- ready in the hands of a dictator, that the reich be placed in such hands; the Rhineland separati: evacuating the points seized in th first rush for the establishment of a distinct autenomot ch is the situation in Ge a situa- tion of Moreover there is a inct threat of a mon- archical upy putsch” in favor ty to power. cently been given to secretly formed bodies of mo: troops to on Wednesda, morrow. I Berlin have gone for troop mov to 1l maneuves mflict ing rather ludicrous frankness with which the i ave proclaimed their in- + they needed publicity their MO zhten the re- it the nuinely and positions also Ate-—s ‘many tod: serious dal bil nients . Tomor- row 1 The in the monarc tentions. Ha to i up they been bluffing, to public intended to ¢ it was mos word to appear that supporting it were to assemble tion on a fixed date. The light demor tions. bread W day has been government contains no such finance The G contradic the Germany Dot be forctold. fluences at work, seem, to bring aubout Justment. Many factors are involved. There the monarchists, who wish one of the royal houses established, the Wittlesbachs in Bavaria Hohenzollerns in. Prussia or all Ger- many. There are the industri who want somethiy t quite clear, but evidently that will at their control for the exploitation of the indu of th country, and incidentally the working people, for private profit. Ther the sociali , who are honestly seek- ing to evolve a state condition that brings Germany closer to the ideal of general welfare, There are the munists, who want to see Germany -d. There is Russia, that wants the communists to succeed. There that wants to see ‘many put on a paying basis, vet kept in condition of military helplessness, to lessen the menace to French security. There is E nd, that wants to German industry revived, to give stimulus to English trade and indus- try. Out of all these elements may come @ new Germany, perhaps monarchical —despite the prohibition of the allied countries; perhaps republican in the present form; perhaps communis after the Russian pattern; perhaps split into separated units. This may be the hour of decision. Or, again, this may be merely another of the “crises” that have not procceded to an There is much that is mysterious this turmoil, and without a key to the mystery, which is perhaps poss by no one outside of German impossible to foretell the result. rou for have n leaders? issue, to allow the the armed for ac- terlin bring to the bread riots tn fact which lization of the economic condi- Ye ¥ the pr loat of vas 140 billions of marks to late dispate reduced, by to 80 billions cord of frenzied a shows utter . according w will be powertul in- etly, it would ome sort of ad- or a Germany be are com- is —_——— Trotsky tried to introduce a modern literature into Rus strations, but the mus dancers overwhelmed him. —_——— ‘While the argument about whose duty it is to enforce prohibition goes on the bootlegger says nothing and keeps bus: —_———— The Phone Call to Duty. Detroit is having a municipal clec- tion today and all day long 150 tele- phone operators have been calling up the 70,000 subscribers of the phone company and asking them if they have voted vet. This Is an effort to get every Detroit citizen who can be reached by phone to go to the polls. 1t is a non-partisan movement. There is a reflection upon the citi- zenship of the people of Detroit in the adoption of this expedient. Every adult citizen should vote, whether the office at stake is only a mayoralty or « presidency. But it is notorious that little ian demon- and a large percentage of the people doj not vote. This is not peculiar to De- troit. It is characteristic of all cities, of all parts of the country, urban and | rural. People have in many cases to be prodded to the polls. They have to’ be reminded of their duty, per- suaded of their duty. Some of them are obstinate and refuse to go, say they take no interest; some say that they regard politics as a dirty game and want to keep out of it. They do not realize that if politics is dirty it s because they and others like them— good, clean citizens, ‘'with an hondst view of public responsibility—do not s to the polls at primaries or' on felection day. The women of this country fought ;;ur wany years for the vote and now ! regard it highly. But some of them'| do not vate today. Some of them, in- deed, have never cared for the vote. But those who wanted it and many | who have been converted to the vot- ing spivit since it was granted faith- fully discharge their duty on all elec- tion days, local or state or national. | If the vote were taken away from | citizens for not exercising it they | would be outraged. They would hold lindignation mectings, would demand the restoration of their vights under penalty of demonstration and possibly {revolt. Nothing is cherished so much {as that which is denied. | Those telephone calls in Detroit, summons to duty, ought to make the {reople of that city ashamed. It would be a good thing to have this practice followed in all other cities, if only to get out larger votes at election time. Perhaps. the people would then get Ithe habit of voting regularly. And that would be for the country's good. Gov. Pinchot's Drive. In line with President Coolidge's suggestion at his conference with the governors, that the states must bear their share of prohibition law enforce- ment, Gov. Pinchot, in co-operation vesterday with federal authorities, set out in earnest to close up liquor-dis- pensing saloons in {enns,\ vania. Fed- eral Judge Thomplon issued a pre- liminary order against a saloonkeeper in Pottsville restraining him from further alleged violations of the Vol- stead act. Tt was only a partial victory for en- forcement, however, as the judge re- “‘padlocking" - saloon. which would have sealed the property. At the close of the hear- ing the United States district attorney had warrants issued for the arrest of six Philadelphia saloonkeepers on a criminal charge of maintaining a nee, and filed bills in equity for the padloc of their premises. In the latter cases the owners of the premises were aiso made defendants, the first time the government bas sought to penalize the owner of a saloon property in Philadelphia. This will pres a new feature to enforce- ment undertakings in the City of Brotherly Love, and is calculated to pet additional “teeth” in the law. saloonkeepers’ flagrant the luw and scorn of Gov. Pinchot's attempts to enforce it have notorious, making the law and utive a by-word. With the siate and federal authori- ties co-operating whole-heartedly the country will follow with deep interest the outcome of the legal proceedings, which will furnish a test whether the constitutional mandate that Congress and the states shall concurrently en- force thé cighteenth amendment can be, in fact, carried out. nuis defiance o The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army, or a part of it, hes along the Avenue and is re- ceived at the White House by Presi- dent Coolidge. The congress of this Christian hest at Washington and the celebration of the thirty-cighth anni- versary of its organization are events of moment to a large number of per- sons and of interest to a very great number. It is said that “the birthday of the organization is also coupled in the local celebration with the thirtieth anriversary of the army’s work i the Capital.” It really seems farther back in time than that when we first heard the big bass drum and the tambourines of these humble and devout laborers in the Christian field. The thought comes that when a small group of these earncst men and zathered near the Cogswell ain at 7th and the Avenue, or at nklin statue at the Avenue and not very many persons women fou! the F 10th the army would grow to the size it is today, and that it would impress it- self upon the world. The good work of the army has become familiar to everybody, and it is believed that it exercises wonderful power in attract- { ing to the cross men and women who cannot well be reached except by Sal- ation Army ways. The work of the Salvation Army has been commended by men and women who are great in the world's affairs, and its growth has proved that it has met and is meeting one of the world's needs. ———— Sea captains complain that every time they take a good-looking young sailor to the California coast he de- rts and becomes a movie actor. of the movie actors do occa- sionally look as if they expected any moment to be called from a scene representing a fashionable drawing room and told to go and swab the deck. —_———— Europe admits that her affairs need straightening out by a nation whose position is that of a critical observer rather than an emotionalistic sym- pathizer. The most eminent doctors, when members of their own families are in danger, call in outside phy- sicians. —_————— When Germany says she has no money with which to pay reparations France asserts the right to be skepti- cal, in view of a novel and increasing tendency to make the old adage read, “All's fair in war and debt.” 1 Location of the Capital. Gaillard Hunt is giving a series of lectures to a Washington club on the history of Washington. It is an inter- esting matter, one on which all our people should be informed, and Mr. Hunt is qualified to instruct them. It is likely that he will deal more with how the seat of government came to be on the Potomac river rather than with the whole history of Washington, because he has gone into that subject before. A paper on this by Mr, Hunt ‘was published in the annual report of the American Historical Association for 1895, and was reprinted in 1900 in the volume commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the estab- lishment of the seat of government here. In 1899 the Columbia Historical Society named a committee to “cop- sider and report on” this matter, and that report is in print. A number of our local historians have dealt with this matter, and among were Hugh T. Taggart, Wilheimus B. Bryan, Dr. Samuel C. Buiey, Ain: worth R. Spofford and Gaillhrd Hunt. There were many olers. i is powsi- ion or believed that | ble that no stone has been left un. turned and mo record undiscoversd which throws light on how Congress, sitting, at Philadelphia, passed the Capital-removal bill in tHe spring of 1790. ©Ome of the measures before the First Congress which caused serious dis- cussion was the “assumption bill," government would assume the revolu- tionary debts of the states. Virginia's debt had been reduced, was funded at 6 per cent, and the interest was being regularly paid. Some states had not been successful in caring for the revo- lutionary obligations, and Virginia responsibility, for debts of less pros- perous or provident states. Repie- sentatives Richard Bland Lee and Alexander White of Virginia were vigorous in opposing the assumption bill, which was a pet measure of Alex- ander Hamilton, and it was defeated in the House April 12, 1790, by two votes. ¥ Another measure of earnest debale was that providing for the establish- ment of & permanent seat of govern- ment. As the Capital-location bill firit passed the House it fixed the seat Hf government on the Susquehanna river. The bill went to the Senate, and the Capital site was changed to Germa:- town, Pa. The House accepted tke change, but made @ minor amendmegt which sent the bill back to the Sena Richard Bland Lee had offered ja resolution that the Capital be estsh- lshed on the Potomac river. Whfe these questions were in agitatisn there was a dinner party at the houde of Thomas Jefferson, Washingtor's Seeretary of State. It is thought that there an agreement was reached that Hamilton would support Lee's Capital- location resolution and that Lee wolid support the assumption bill. That W1l was got before the House again, afd Representatives Richard Bland and Alexander White of Virginia and Daniel Carroll of Maryland reversd themselves and voted for it, and it was passed. The House passed the bill #s- tablishing the seat of government $n the Potomac between the mouth jof the Eastern branch and that of Coyo- gocheague creek July 9, 1790, by’a vote of 32 to 29. It went through the Senate in that form, and was signsd by President Washington July 36, 1790. It was amended March 3, 1791, | that the federal territory might be lge- low the mouth of the Eastern bran§h 30 as to include the town of Alexan- dria, but before that amendment was enacted President Washington direst- ed the Commissioners to lay out the new territory as it is today, mi that part which Virginia ceded ahd which was retroceded. ———— Whenever a nation falls into dis- tress it Immediately makes efforts to secure a republican form of gov ment. The fact is a reminder tha a republican form of government ofce established in reliable working order is well worth taking exceedingly ghod care of. —_———— When Hiram Johnson finds it essary to state that he will be a can date for presidential nomination he will surprise a number of people who were confidently assuming that he had been such for some time. —_——— In rebuilding Tokio, the Japarese, embrace the opportunity to star! the beginning in equipping a great city with an adequate parking The arrest of W speeding is not so extraordinary as it might seem. Anybody interested in the pursuit of bootleggers is likeiy to fall into the habit of working fast. ———— Political forecasters are assuming that every time Mr. McAdoo looks Washington, D. C., over he finds the under the terms of which the general | protested against assuming a share of | ife | however conservative, should at laast | President Coalidge's participation | can participation in the economic de- {in the George Washington Masonic {ceremonial at Alexandria, Va., caused this observer to make inquirles at the White House about Mr. Coolldge's |fraternal afliliations, He hasn't any. {He has never been a “foiner.” Ex- cept for his membership in the Am- herst chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, the President belongs to no frater- |nity or fraternal order of any Kind. That is another respect in which he {is fundamentally and temperamen- tally different from President Hard- Ing. The Phi Gamma Deltas are lnruud of the coincidence that three lcotemporary Vice Presidents of the United States—Charles W. Falrbanks, Thomas R. Marshall and Calyin Cool- idge—were fraternity brothers of theirs. Mr. Coolidge is the first Phi Gamma ever to “make” the White House. Newton D. Baker is another of the fraternity's famed members. * x x x Jules Jusserand enters upon the final quarter of his twenty-first suc- cessive year at Washington in troub- {lous times. It will be exactly a score of years and one on February 7, 1 was officially accredited to the United States. No foreign diplomat ever stationed here achieved such a rec- ord and few diplomats at any cap- ital have equaled it. M. Jusserand is approaching the end of his sixty- ninth year Diplomac has not en- grossed all of his busy life. He has a volume produced amid the cupations of war time—"With Amer- icans of Past and Present Da tIn 1921 M. Jusserand was presiden »f the American Historical As. tion. ~ Chicago, Columbla. Harva Princeton and Yale universitics havi given him honorary degrees. * x ok ok The first “Persia Socicty of Ameri- ca” come preoc- t 4., of by Mirza Hussein Khan Alai, the ac- complished Persian minister v States are not generall Persia’s economic hous in order b Teheran. The head of the mission is Dr. A. C. Millspaugh, who the title of admimstrator general of the financ aware that is being put was Department of State. October meeting of the and Steel Institute, Alai stated: he time is propitious for Ameri- the petroleum specialist of the Addressing the American Iron BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Guinnesses—namel Of all the offices of the British |en's Green government, outside the cabinet, the most important is undoubtedly that of the financial secretary parliament and the chief adviser of the premier in office and of patronage. He is, in fact, by virtue of his office, the de facto head of the government party machine and, whenever he can be spared, he is promoted to the rank of cabinet minister. while, in the event of the downfall of the adminis- tration, he is usually rewarded for {his services with a peerage. the prefer the leisure of-the chamber to the more a of the house of commons. why the advancement of Lieut. the Hon. Walter Guinness from the undersecretaryship of state to this particular office has attracted a considerable amount of attention in the English political world. ¥ & xx Col. Walter Guinness is the young- est of the three sons of the septu- agenarian Earl of Iveagh and after winning distinction at Eton as cap- tain of the boats. and as stroke for three successive years In the Eton “eight,” took part in the Boer war at the beginning of the century. when he was still fresh from school, re- ceiving a couple of bad wounds and iplenty of medals and mentions in dispatches, while he won not only i That_is the distribution of | i i written a number of books, Including - {original church { s of Persia. Until his dispatch 'the bar. Thenceforward his rise to Teheran last year, Dr. Millspaugh |public life was steady. The firm Minister Hussein { man velopment of Persia and the near east. Coupled with their appreciation of America’s finanelal strength is a faith shared universally among Pe sians, Turks and Afghans in her litical disinterestedness and her eco- nomic efMciency.” * Kk * X During the hectic political times impending, many a statesman is pre- paring to be heckled ruthlessly by constituents on the prohibition ques- tion. John Sharp Williams, Missis- sippl’s ecloquent son, disposed of an interrupter brilliantly during his Jast campaign for the United States Sen- ate. “May I ask the semator & ques- ftion?" an inquisitive auditor rose to remark. In his blandest and grand- est manner, Williams rejoined: _“Cer- tainly, sir. Any constituent of mine can ask me a question any time. Then the heckler said: “Senator, do vou drink?’ Quick as a fiash, Wil- liams retorted: “Is that an inquiry or an invitation?" That ended the argument. * k %X ¥ Silence that even Calvin Coolidge might envy marks the conduct of James M. Cox, a potentlality for the democratic presidential nomination, : since the French ambassador |whnose possibilities are not under- estimated by shrewd leaders. Cox's only answer when asked about his candidacy is that he is interested in seeing the party adopt a platform that “keeps the faith." Which is supposed to mean a leagus of natlons platform. The former Governor of Ohio is golng in strong for practical farm- ing. ~ Also he is glving evidence of abiding interest in the rural commun- ity where he has his bucolle habitat by rebullding the local church as a Eift to the village. Cox's grandfather burned the brick from which the was built. In that ancient establishment the democratic leader once attended Sunday school. LR Frank B. Kellogg is the first Amer- is shortly to be formed. the out-iican ever sent to the Court of St suggestion made at the!James who never had the advantage dinner recently given In New York ,of a college education. His parents, New York state people, went to Min- to the pesota after the civil war as ploneer nited States. People in the United |farmers, and their son, after an ordi- nary public school training, studled an American mission at law at Rochester, Minn. His readings in a country lawyer's office enabled him, in 1878, to secure admission to in of Davis, Kellogg & Severance, at Paul, sent two of its members to the nitéd States Senate—the late Cush- K. Davis in 1887, and Frank B. {ellog in 1917, Ry (Copyright. 1923.) Financial Secretary of Treasury One of Britain’s Important Officers . to the St. Steph- Park, the magnificent | schools, educational and philanthrople they have bullt institutions which of St. and endowed: the Cathedral of the pytrick’s. which they have restored treasury, who is always a member of | at an enormous expense: the hospitals !which they have set up and main- | | ; | | in, and then their colossal brew- erics of “Dublin stout.” which give profitable employment to so many thousands of Dublin citizens—genera- tions of citizens—fnally exclaimed. as he threw up his hands. “This is really wonderful. The innesses | seem to run education, salvation and damnation here, all in one holy show.” * ¥ ¥ ¥ Lord Ardilaun likewise purchased <hould | Muckross Abbey .in order to prevent | Vigorous atte: upper | its getting into wrong hands when uous work i the Herberts of Muckross were Cot 1 obliged, by financial reverses, to sell it, and also to please his wife, now for war | his widow, whose mother, the Count- ess of Bentry, was Miss Jane Herbert, {daughter of Charles John Herbert of Muckross. As he left no children, his peerage became extinct. His bar- enctcy, however ,which he inherited from his father, went to the eldest of his nephews, second brother, the late Capt. Benja- min Lee-Guinness of the Royal Horse Guards. This son, now Sir Algernon Guinness, distinguished himself as a commander of the Royal Naval Re- serves during the great war and is still unmarried. According to Lord Iveagh, who has published a pamphlet on the subject, old town just as attractive a place of | the distinguished service order at the the Guinnesses of today are descended front in France, in 1917, but also a | from the ancient and eminent house residence as ever. ————— Russia regards Germany's despera- tion as such that even a commuhistic pretense of government will be pre- ferred to no pretense at all. —_— | With so many varieties of tfouble jon hand Berlin views a cabinet ‘crisis merely as a passing episode. Much of the fighting in Chira ap- over the looting privilege. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Expertness. An expert's lot means toil profound. I would not live that way. : I'd rather gather experts ’rousid And tell 'em what to say Of precious time you save gre When protest is but small You'll find a really expert boss Is most expert of all. : t loss “Does that eager politicish ever make any sacrifices for the serving his country?” perfectly good friend.” Jud Tunkins says the man who wants to talk all the time is g2nerally a safety-first performer who ia afraid of being contradicted. = Non-Enforeement. By difficulties we're surprised As precepts we forget. - The Golden Rule, well advertised, Is not enforced as yet. ‘Uncomprehended. “He says his wife doesn’ stand him.” “I don't blame her,” commented “He isn't sufficiently “Who owns the new hotdl and the garage opposite?”’ inquiréd the stranger in Crimson Gulch. “Don’t know for sure,” aniwered Cactus Joe. “The poker gamé ain't over yit.* “An important branch of ‘educs- tion,” said Uncle Eben, “consists in learnin’ how to forgit whut ain't no use.” bar thereto in the final fighting, the | of Magennis, in which was formerly vested the viscounty of Magennis of bar meaning that he had deserved Jveagh. According to this pamphlet, the order twice over. to the Lady Evelyn Erskine, daughger of the fourteenth Earl of Buchan, who was one of the prettiest debu- tantes of twenty years ago. He isa universal favorite, and, therefore, ideally qualified for the post to which he has just been appointed. He pre- | when Edmund Mortimer arrived He is married | the territory of Iveagh, in Dalravie, was _in early times the appanage of the family of Magennis, and in nx‘o. n Ireland as Earl of March and of Ulster and various chleftains waited upon him, there were included among them Art Magennis, Lord of Iveagh. The pamphlet even carried the ancestry of the Magennises back to Saraam. sents a striking contrast to his eldest | who flourished in Ulster In thé third bears the brother, Rupert, who now Elveden. courtesy title of Viscount 5 century of the Christian era. The viscounty of Magennis of Iveagh, cre- The latter is very stout, fair haired ated by James I at the very begin- pears to be in the nature of a contest | and sunny tempered and, as captain ning of the seventeenth century, is of the Royal Naval R much good work during tion of the war in Thames down to the Nore, the men under his command, who had their chief station at Blackfriars, being opularly known as the “Black- iars buccane: He won the dia- mond sculls twice at Henley and, just serves, did | on official a por- | oxtinct in 1693. There were, however, patrolling the | plenty of other members of the Ma- { | { | record as having become gennis family, a number of whom sur- vive to this day. In 1783 an account appeared in the Gentleman's Maga- zine of London of the trial at Old Bailey of a Dr. Daniel Magennis for killing a hosier in a fit of passion. before the great war, won the King's|{The record of the trial added that cup at_the Cowes regatta with his yacht Leander, beating, with others, the ex-Kalser's Meteor. Walter Guin- ness, on the other hand, is as thin, “the son of the unhappy Dr. Magen- nis' elder brother taked the ancient title of Viscount Magennis, which is not, however, acknowledged by the pale and eager as Lord Elvedon is|house of lords.” Indeed, they are so dif- ferent from one another, alike in character and in appearance, that they have long been endowed by their fellow members of the house of com- mons_with the sobriquets of “Stout” and “Pale Ales,” while chance, they a < commented on as “’Alf and "Alf. x ok K K the reverse. it by any tury, together, they are|duced to humble circumstances, the * ok ok * Lord Iveagh, it would appear, be- longs to another branch of the family, which, early in the eighteenth cen- fell into evil days and was re- name of his line having, meanwhile, been transformed from Magennis into Needless to add that Walter Guin- Guinness. For on the 3d of August, ness is a native of Dublin, of which |1753, the courts of Dublin accorded city his father, the old Earl of iprobate to the will of the Most Rev. Iveagh, who pronounces his name as | Arthur Bryce, Protestant Archbishop if it were written “Iver,” is one ut!of Cashel, which contained, with the chief benefactors. Indeed. the|other bequests, the following clause: Irish metropolis owes so much to the | «p bequeath to my servant, Richard munificent liberality of Lord Iveagh Guinness, £100, and to my servant, and to his elder brother, the late Lord { srthur Guinness, his son, also £100, Arailaun, that their fellow townsmen ' o/ she understanding that they shall Ppald Lord Ardilaun the unusual COM- | 4411} be in my service at the time of pliment of erecting a statue of him, | my decease.” during his lifetime, on St. Stephen’s ‘b:l'lh‘l)lr lilu}nnlels, Green, which he and Lord Iveagh con- | these benefclarics verted at a cost of a quarter of al dollars into an ornamental :‘;‘:}:D:or :h. people. Another service rendered to Dublin by Lord Iveagh and his late brother has been the purifying of the waters of the River Liffey. Indeed, Dublin’s water sup- the younger of of the old arch- will, turned his own legacy t of his father's, which he inherited in due course, to good ac- count and by thrift and careful in- vestment was able to purchase some fifteen years after the prelate's death the then small St. James Gata rewery in Dul s brewery of ply was formerly ineredibly dlr% -l:d 'nnu: and porter prospered exceed- productive of no end of typhold, to[ingly, and, thanks to it, he became which, by the way, King G:"":'l'"'.olo of the leading merchants of Dub- clder brother, the late Duke of Clar- jlin. His son. Benjamin. still further S Sl bl e o SR ity o S visit to the Irish capital. ~No at-}recelved a baronetcy in 1867 in recog- tompt, however, was made to remedy | nition of his many philanthropies. the matter until Lord Iveagh an-|yord Iveagh is his only aurviving nounced that the great Irish rewtvni son, and was created a baronet on firm of Guinness, with which his fam- | his’ own account in 1886, and was fiy have 8o long been identifled would | (hen°raised to the peerage in 1351, be compelled to transfer thell Im- on which occasion he chose for his mense breweries elsewhere, 0 flnl: O | title that of the old Magennis family, the water having become Unfit for{pnsmely Lord of Iveagh. He was an brewing purposes. intimate personal friend of Edward *x % VII, who during the last twenty years " of his life neyer failed to spend a week Tt is said that an American tourlst{ s ‘piyeden Hall in Suffolkshire, an from the western states, on visiting estate famed for its unrivaled game Dublin for the first time, just before | preserve. King George has contin- the war, and on having his atten- wed his father's practice and never tion called to the numerous manifes- fails to put in a week each autumn as Lerd lveagh's guest at ™' .dem, sutions v he pavlic sirls ol Hhe AUe UL SARE vl WAL BuU NEW BOOKS AT. RANDOM SIR JOHN DERING, Jeffery Farnol. Little, Brown & Co. Come on. Let's get away—away from our suppressed desires, brought so disconcertingly into the open; away from our secret passions, marched quite raked through the market place; away from our multiple littlenesses, become big. by the mere fact of making them public; away from the common brotherhood, established through demonstrations of common meannesses—away from the everlasting effort of the modern nov- elist to condemn us to the unrelieved and deadly boredom of reading all about ourselves at our most uninepir- Ing ebb. Let's get away from the Bab- bits and the Main Streets about whose “significant realism” and “deep symbolic content’ we have, under fear of the modern mandarins of literary criticism, lied long and pa- tlently. We are tired of having the author In realism dump some crying and protesting infant into the cradle, requiring us thereafter to follow sedulously the various performances, secret or open, of this commonplace human specimen till it drops off many, many years later into the grave, still crying and protesting. We are tired of trailing the hero of modern fictlon about, standing by as he bathes and shaves and growls over his breakfast, going along as he breaks out, more or less nefari- ously, into the world, returning with him at night to stand by again while he undresses and falls into bed, re- leased only when his noisy breath an- nounces that for a few hours the wicked have ceased from troubling. Then up and at it again the next morning and all the other mornings of a dull career. Were tired. But what to do? Where to go for sur- cease of these poignant sorrows? With whom to set out? there a novelist who dares, nowadays, to_be frankly romantic, to let himsélf run ahead under the lead of a glorious and lifting Imagination, to lie, roy- ally if need be, for the beauty and glamour of romance? Just _talking to ourselves, we were, in a despairing set-out of a protest agalnst the dull road of realism which most of the current fiction lays down for our traveling. * kK ¥ Right then, swinging along the broad highway came a gallant and hopeful figure. “You come along with me,” was what he was saying. I know what you want. I can lead you to it.” And he waved an inviting hand our way, and a big and sweeping onc all the other ways, as if to demolish the causes of our 56 manifest distress. * K x X Maglcally were we cleared of the worrying mess in which we had been brought nigh to suffocation itself. For before us was Sir John himself. A slender fellow. topped In a glossy periwig, garbed in flowered waistcoat and embroidered coat, frills of lace at wrist and neck, cascades of lace foaming down the snowy shirt front, fine as gauze. Silken hose and satin smallclothes rounding ehapely legs and__thighs. Shoes aglitter with buckles of gold and jewels. An ex- quisite of another day he seemed— engaged at the moment in the mighty business of turning a rhyme. “Soul” he complained, “a damnable word, so many_rhymes to't and none of 'em apt! Roll, ¢ pole, foal . a devilish word! Mole, shoal, hole— , a favorite pose of Sir John Dering, we found. One behind whose languors and affectations many an active plan was in the making. and out from whose ambush there leaped many a dramatic and effective sur- prise. Indeed, we came to learn that when Sir John began the diligent search for some rhyme of amorous sollcitation things quite other than love were calling for his prompt and ntion. * % % % Our eager choice of Sir John for ad- venture sent us back at once to the England of something like 200 years ago, when the first of the Georges, in the interest of the royal revenue, be- Zan to make occasional inroads upon the principle of free trade—the very ark of the covenant itself to the peo- ple of England. The answer of the people to the King in this matter was speedy and straight—smuggling to an the first-born of hisextent that made the officers of the crown more effective as whetsiones for the sharpening of the wits of the smugglers than as agents of punish- ment for opposing the will of the king. Such the atmosphere of this romantic tale. A prodigious busy-ness along the Sussex coast, always in the dark o' the night. The offshore craft, the watchers on the hills. the guarded signale, the secret landings, the all- night hidings of the store—ancient ruins, abandoned buildings, lonely flelds, ghosts and every other uneasy nocturnal sight and sound contribut- ing to the safety of the lawless en- terprise. Surprise, attack. strange deliverances and escapes—these, plain as day to the sympathetic country- side, meant only mystery and defeat to the king's men. L But Sir John Dering himself had vastly more on his hands than giv- ing aid and comfort to the people against their king and his. He had a shrew to tame. He had a lady to woo. He had a beautiful adven- ture in friendship to share with Gen. Sir Hector Lauchlan MacLean, his father’'s friend and his own. He had to weave a passionate love of the soil of England into the feelings of a poet and the behaviors of a grand gentleman. He had to be a_wise protector of the retalners of his father's noble house. Quite a con- siderable number of things Sir John had to be and do. And for much too long Sir John had been an idler, an exquisite and—so they said—many other things, more scandalous, be- sides. * ok kX A modernly efficlent man, this lord- ling of two centuries ago. For by combining a couple of enterprises he expended no more brain stuff than one alone would have exacted. Since the lady In both cases was the same, he could, with one hand, so to speak, tame the shrew and woo the lady. A most masterful young woman, Lady Herminia Barrasdaile, swearing vengeance against Sir John, who had with his wizardry at sword play duelled off into another world her lover—perhaps only her friend. Enough in either case for punish- ment dire. Fight a lady? Not Sir John Dering, the most exasperating adversary that a violent woman ever came up against—so kind, so soft of voice, @0 easy and reasonable. What could the woman do? What she dld do was to play that she was not the great lady, but the great lady’s maid instead. And in the twinkling of an eye Sir John Dering became plain John Derwent. Then a lovely little farce takes place—obvious as the make-believe of children and quite Sir John lover to terness for envy. * ok k% A joyous romance throughout. A little_touch of real history for set- ting. And this far enough In the back distance to have gathered the purple bloom. The outlook and cus- toms quite faithfully those of the period. And within this setting, partly history and partly that of the English soll itself, runs a line of action, swift, substantlal and al- ‘ways on the upgrade of a mounting interest. And the people have gayety in their llves. Their thoughts run etumwk not always, but some- R e s oss and. Subiity. and: o 3 often, real heroism. A good adven- ture, A blessed change. Thank you, Jeffrey Farnol. The author of “The Broad Highway” and of “Sir John Dering” is openly and above board a romanticist. Glory! Oh, yes, much better than we have been in a long Uae. LG M ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. Will you give me the meaning of the word “Potomac”?—M. V. R. A. There are at least three expla- nations of the origin of the word “Potomac": (1) That it Is derived from “Pethamook.” which means they are coming by water.” (2) It is a derivative of “Potowanmeac,” which means “to make a fire in a place where fires are usually made.” (3) The word is supposed to mean “a river of swans." Q. Is it Injurious to the arch of the foot to walk with the toes turned out?—N. A, F. A. The weight of the foot is prop- erly distributed when a balance is preserved between the points of the triangle made by the foot. The heel is one of the points and the others are at the base of the first and fifth toes. When the toes are turned out, the foot has a tendency to bend in- ward, so that the weight of the body is on the inside of the foot. The pres- sure causes the arches to sink in and become painful. Ballet dancers, who turn the toes out, exert a strong pull on the outer muscles of the leg, so as to arch the foot and offset the tendency to sinking in. When the toes are pointed straight ahead, the arch is more readily held in place and it is not necessary to exert the pull on the leg muscles. Q. What is the authority by which the Prince of Wales holds his titles? —K. G. T, A. The earldoms and baronetages held by the Prince of Wales are he- redi possessions to the heir of the British throne. Q. How are shot made round shape?—J. D. A. Shot are made by running molten lead combined with a little arsenic through a sieve or by pouring it from a ladle with a serrated edge in from a high tower into water at the bottom. The stream of metal breaks into strips which become spherical. Q. Did Cervantes have a particular purpose in writing “Don Quixote"?— Lo M. A. In writing this book Cervantes aimed to ridicule the romantic stories of knighthood which were at the time extremely popular. Q. A writer referred recently to “the only American who signed the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the treaty of peace with England and the Constitutien.” Who was this man?— ST ¢ A. This reference was to Benjamin Franklin. Q. Can vou give me a simple meth- od_for putting my name on steel tools? —T. 8. A. Cover the metal with a coating of beeswax. With a pointed tool write your name in the wax. Fill the writing with a solution composed of four ounces of nitryc acid and one- half ounce of muriatic acid. Be sure to fill each letter. Let the mixture remain five minutes, after which wash Off acid and beeswax with hot water. Q. Where did goldfish originate?— A P. A. Goldfish are a variety of the carp and owe their existence to the Chinese and Japanese people, who, since the sixteenth century, have kept them in a domesticated state, and by selective breeding have eliminated the somber colors of the ancestral stock and produced the beautiful colors we now see. During their first year gold- fish are brown, after which they as- sume a silvery tint, and as they grow older they change to gold. Q. Ts it permissiblo to wear peacock feathers on a hat’—E, L. A. The blological survey says that eacocks are common fowis and there s no law to prohibit the wearing of peacock feathers, Q. How did the name Zev originate” F. D. W. A. The name of the American horse that won the race with Papyrus Is th abbreviation of the name of a friend of Harry Sinclair, owner of Zev. Q. Does autumn comprise certain definite months?—S. G. A. Astronomically, autumn begins in the northern temperate zone at the au- tumnal equinox, about September 22, and ends at the winter solstice, Decem- ber 21; but in popular language it com- prises in America September, October and November; in England, August, September and’ October. Autumn in the southern hemisphere is at the same time as epring in the northern hemi sphere. Q. Would it be injurfous to a canary bird to cut it claws which have grown 00 long?—L. V. 8. A. If the claws of a canary turn up or are too long, cut them with SOrs, but be sure not to cut them too short If its feet are hard or crusty, rub them with vaseline. Q. Is there a term applied ta animals who sleep during the summer, & “hibernation” is appiled to winter’— N. S. A. “Estivation" is the term applied to those animals which pass the sum- mer in the state of dormant vitality. Q. Did the inheritance with the Germans?—W. A. Inheritance tax is one of the old- est forms of taxation. Such a tax was imposed in Rome 2,000 vears ago. tax originate ho won the Parker fellowshin ic at the American Academy of Rome?—R. V. S. A. The Horatio Parker fellowship in c has been bestowed upon Wintter Watts of Brooklyn, N. Y. This entitles him to three vears of study, with an annual stipend of $2,000, together with free residence at the academy and the chance to visit fmportant musical cen- ters of Europe. Mr. Watts is the fourth to hold this fellowship. Competitions will be held every vear in the future, it is announced. Q. TIs Theodore Roosevelt's grave on Sagamore Hill?—L. S A. His_grave is not on Sagamore Hill top. It is located a short distance above the cove road on the ridge of a knoll commanding the inner bay about two miles from Sagamore Hill Q. DIa Pocahontas have another In- dian name?—C. W. F. A. ‘The real name of Pocahontas was Matoaka. Pocahontas is a verbal ad- jective. meaning he or playful. s nickname was used by P ntast Powhatan, in speaking with the Virginia colonists. Q. What was the area of the Louis- iana purchase?—D. R. A. The area of the Louisiana terri- tory purchased in 1803 was a little more than 1,000,000 square miles. Q. What will clean aluminum with- out defacing the surface?—D. B. A. A solution of 30 grams of borax in one liter of water containing a few drops of aqua ammonia is a good clean- ing fluid for aluminum, (Do you have a_question.you want answered? Send it to The Star In- formation Bureau, Frederic J. H: Xin, director, 1220 North Capitol street. Inclose 2 cents in stamps for return postage.) German Break-Up Viewed By Press as World Crisis While the “big five" continue the discussion of the renewal of the Brit- ish-American suggestion of an ex- | pert fixing of Germany’s capacity to| pay, the question of whether the | present German republic will survive the developments in Saxony, the| Rhineland and Bavaria present a sub- | fect of intense interest to the United | States. The fact that both France and Belglum backed up the separation | movement naturally has resulted in some criticism, especially in view of the declaration by Earl Curzon that | Britain would not consent to dis- memberment of the German nation. It was, of course, to be “expected” that France would announce a policy of neutrality, the Baltimore Sun says. | but this wiil continue only “just as long as no active effort is made by Germans to sweep away this jerry- built political structure. It is the story of Napoleon's {ll-fated King- dom of Westphalia all over again.” | It must, however, be remembered that | the Rhineland people “have felt that | their rights, their welfare and their| safety were regarded with little con- | sequence by the government in Ber- | lin.* the Richmond News-Leader | points out, but “it is premature as Vet to say what the future holds there” In any event, as the New York Times points out, the Rhineland | separatists, should they so desire, can | Vset up & government within the | reich,” and this may solve the problem. * % ok x The Newark Evening News agrees that a dismembered Germany “can- not pay roparations,” and “France| owes now more than she can pay, be- cause the interest on her debts is in- creasing more rapidly than her pos-| sible 1evenue. This is a cold, cruel | fact, but it is the truth and she| knows it. She cannot pay her part| of the war and pay for the recon- truction of the devastations Ger- Many caused.” To which the Indian- apolis News replies that, “looking on with history as a background, Ger- many's economic illness will be seen %o be superficial, as far as the nation as & whole [s concernod It is not nically impaired.” to ps however, as the Lincoln State Journal sees it, rests on a united na- tion, and “if Polncare fostered the Rhine republic it means that repara- itions are a secondary consideration jwith the French,” while the Savan- {nah Press points out that “the con- idition of Germany is bad enough, but it was brought on by some of her own people. Until " the con- spiracy of these people is overtaken and remedied the recommendations of & so-called reparations commission Wwould amount to nothing: Even if revolution is checked to- day “it will be siccessful tomorrow, the Utica Observer-Dispatch points out. “There are many reasons why the republic should fail. It has been a most inefficient government from the start—a fallure financially and morally. Nothing like it has ever been known In the history of the world. Rather than pay a war debt for which they alone were respon- sible, and which all the wealth of the world could never really satisfy. Germany has been run upon the rocks and wrecked beyond repair. ams are ripping in the matchles rment pleced together under the e Another of leadership of Bismarck. thoso great national upheavals 18 passing _befors our vision.” This opinion, however, is contested by the Brooklyn Eagle, which feelg “both in the Rhineland and Palatine the population is German to the core opposed to separation. “If the agitators succeed it will be only because of the constant help they are recelving from the French army.” But all “the manifestations of disunion have been produced by the Germans themselves,” the Philadel- phia North American insists, and “if the German n?ublle really should break up it will be because the in- habitants lacked the courage honestly to meet their obligations and the ability tc maintain a free, united | reparations payments ts capacity | and | de mocratic government.” 8o far also, as the position of France and Belgium is concerned, the Canton News recalls “they may well afford to forego the attempted collection of reparations in return for concesslons that would eventually prove more valuable than the payment of a few million dollars.” So complex is the situation that the Asbury Park Press | insists “anything is likely to happen and the German people know perhaps less what is transpiring than those on the outside looking in."” * x X % The Saginaw News-Courier is con- vinced “France holds firmly to main consideration, the exaction o in full” yet “powerful as is the present-d French military machine, it is scarcely to be believed that France would at- tempt the sending of armies of occu- pation into the several parts of divided Germany." Dissolution, in ad- ditlon, “would involve new European problems,” the Topeka Capital points out, and “France is supreme at the moment, but no status is permanent in Eurcpe, a continent haunted by deep-seated traditional hatreds and rival ambitions for power.” The United States has very deep responsi- bilities in the matter, the Muekegon Chronicle holds, bec: “to betray our friends is bad enough. But to be- tray the confidence of our foes is even less honorable.” It is difficult. how- ever, to tell what can be done, and the Kaneas City Journal. pointing out the significance of the Rhineland move- ment, says “the situation confrontingz Germany is _gravely complicated by this latest development. But it fs clear that it cannot continue indef- initely along existing lines, though the Rhineland proclamation is a pre- carlous foundation upon which to bulld predictions.” It is the v w of the Wheeling Regieter that “France had best give up her militarism and turn her at- tention to righting her chaotic finan- cial standing and the pursuit of domestic_happiness and tranquillity. The world is_not back of French bayonets in the Ruhr and the Poin- care policy of German destruction The peace sought in Europe was to be a peace without victory or conquests.” While, of course, thie all may be true, however, the Chattanooga News feels “the German people are in & desperate condition and, unfortunately, that which more than anything else leads to civil war, the hungry stomach, is now the normal condition of the in- habltants of that country.”” And as the Grand Raplds Press sees it, “if Germany is again separated into the { extremely individual states which *blood and iron' welded into the Ger- man empire it is entirely possible the change will mean a material loss to the seceders. Prussian eficiency oper- ating through a Prussian bureaucracy kept all Germany on her foes.” Opposes Home Name. %o the Editor of The Sta Laying of the corner stone of the new ‘Home for Incurables” arouses again a wave of interest in a new name for the new bullding. There is mo doubt that the word “incurables” is too strongly sugges- tive of “abandon hope, all ye who enter here,” and as suggestion plays Zor works—such an important part in our well-being, it is surely worth consideration. One of the lecturers who recently visited Washington told a friend she would_give $1,000 to the Home for Incurables if they would change the name. “Sheltering Arms” has been sug- gested, but it is too much like a chii- dren's asylum “Salem House” (House of Peace), is a beautiful name offered by another interested friend; also ‘“House of Friendship.” My own contribution to the list is “House by the Side of the Road” (as easy as Home for Incur- ables), and a reminder of the poem by Sam Walter Floss: Let me live in a house by the slde of the road !AM beafriend toman, oo