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6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY.......November 9, 1923 Business Offie, 11t Chicag European Otfice: The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning carriers within the iy ouly, 45 20 cents’ per ¥ be sent by matl or tele- S0M. Collection is made by car- eud of exch month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, and Bunday..{ yr. $540; 0¢ All Other States. and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 1yr. "37.00: 1 mo., 6 S1yr. $3.00 Member of the Associated Pres: o the s patches credited d also the local its of publieation of Germany in Revolt. Germagy's kaleldoscope, which has been tu rapidly recently, with the of @ perplexing presentation of refractions to a puzzled world beyond, has taken another sud- den shift, and a new combi optical effects is offered. No distinct patt 1s however. A veritable cubist effect appears. In Bavaria a coup d'etat has been s and n discernible, suddenly sprung, troops under von Hit- | tler overthrowing th Premter von Knilling a Kahr. Ge Ludendorff commander of the foree of the imperial relch has been raised. The “criminal government at Berlin™ bas been denounced, and declaration made that henceforth Munich will be the seat of the “imperial government.” That is the picture offered from Ba- varia. Yet it is not quite a clear pie- re after all one of von Kahr's appointment as g ern other tells that he Gen, forn and of ti whose displacement was ordered by the revalt, ered. An. other seeming contradietion occurs in the fuct that the name of former Crown Prir Rupprecht has not been and it is reported that the people of Munich ily murmur- apparent ignoring of for the government of i Dictator von s heen named . The old flag dispatch tells . and a Lo forces, [ and their arrest & and von sow com rlin, oppose been « mentioned ing against thei stored Anoth candidate re rman throne. Von Luden dortt here he heading ¥ king stands he? it may be asked. Evidently these facto are noted in Berlin as well as in this country, for dispateh indicate a state of confusion of unde standing as to the real w Bavarian revolt. It is wdictio and revolt. ¢ contr: is confusing s from that ci sked there: Is against the Ge Bav: P r mer von Knilling official Berlin n just is- sued sugges gurds the movement to the republic, for it is denounced as treasonable. Troop movements are evidently in progress, toward Berlin on the part of the Ludendorff forces of Bavaria and toward Munich on the part of the Ber- the loyalty of ! depend the fate of the It it is the pur- Bavarian revolutionists to to re throughout be nati against the rian overnment? 14l obably knows stile lin reichswehr Berlin gove pose of the sweep away the republic establish the n narchy Germany the conflict may wide. Meantie and jealc could put quickly. Of this 00 now the Ruhr, in Rhineland and an additional 50,000 are ‘! within easy reach of the frontier. ! It is indicated at Parls that events | will not e peritted (o “march” in | Germany to the point of the collapse 1 of government and repudiation of the | treaty of Ver 11 Gen. Foch quoted as giving warning to the allies’ that a movement toward zation is in Upon ter ma is nment. and i Fr sly. 200,000 nee It is st troops hing close- | d that she fn motion number H the in 5,000 are governm strong nations is Progress | in Germany, tending to the restoration of the dargerous military power of that country. Just what the allies can { monarchical { Testo Wittels- bach or the Hohenzollern banners, re- inains to be seen —_————— or will do in case of a under either 5 whose times it he :omma instead of a period initial, strengthens a suspi pretty well is Zangwill, sound v rks some- were using a fter the ion already ablished that a pleasant t great as novelist necessarily a statesman. Future w0 describe the I - ocean as a large body of water entirely surrounded by | earthquakes raphers may decid ————————————— { A number of German statesmen de- seribe their present government as a democracy for want of a more precise term. Extraordinary Washingtonians. The Star a few days ago told of a woman in the burcau of plant indus- try, Department of Agriculture, who does remarkable work in painting grasses, nuts and other things. These paintings are produced not primarily for art's sake, but for scientific pur- noses. Her work in painting grasses was said to be “of microscopic fine- ss.” In another atory of a man in the Smithsonian In- stitution who, “using a radiometer based on the same principle as the little black and silvel volve in an optician's window, has succeedéd in measuring the heat of the stars to the hundred-millionth of a degree.” In another column was a story telling that a group of scientists in geology, paleontology and archeol- ogy had gathered in California around bones which, it is claimed, may be those of the earth's carliest man. The discovery was made by a man from tion of | aning of the | 1y | | during the Christmas holida; column was the ! vanes which re- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1923. | government service here who does bet- ter work in some branch or knows more of some subject than anybody else. There are more extraordinary people stowed away behind desks in old and crowded buildings or hidden in corners and dim closets in the government service in Washington than in any other city in the world. They do not cut much of a figure in soclety. They come downtown on the street cars in the morning rush, join the lunch rush for a sandwich, make a part of the 4:30 and 5 o'clock home- bound rush and return to little houses or smaller flats. We sit next to these people at church and at the movies, say “How do you do,” “Beg pardon” that they are great. Such persons in our city, according to an old saying, re legion.” They do not make much money and they live in a plain and homely way. but their names are known far beyond Washington. Next Year's Campaign. Next Thursday Washington will hear the opening gun of the presiden- tial campaign, when a subcommittee of the republican national committee will meet here to give a hearing to representatives of the cities desiring to entertain the republican national convention. The full committee will assemble here the second week in De- cember to reccive the report of its | subcommittée and select the site and fix the convention date. The demo- cratic national committee will meet some time in January to name the | time and place £ the democratic convention. One month after the republican com- mittee issu its convention call the first presidential primaries will be held, Oklahoma le: off. So that the time is swiftly approaching when the aspirants for the presidential nom- ination will have to step forth into public view. candidates hang back bashfully ex- cept at the cost of ruling themselves out of the running. And who « the potential dates for the nomination? In the dn"‘\ inant (v the answer is Coolidge against the field+a weak field at that. Hiram .Jol regarded as too radi- al for the con rvatives; former Gov. Lowden, with the handicap of his d feat for the nomination in 1920; La Follette, more radical than Johnson; ord Pinchot, claiming copyright on Others may w candi- e son, ! prohibition enforcement. | come in later. | The democrats have avowed | candidate, Underwood of Alabama. He !is handicapped geographically. In {tact, who aniong the democratic poten- tialities is not handicapped in some way? The strongest among them, Me- Adoo, has the advocaey of govern- ment ownership of railroads around { his neck; Gov. Smith of New York, his near-wet policy; Gov. Ritchie of Mar! land, a policy wetter than even G Smith's; Senator Ralston of Indtana, une is | his age Some time ago it was the hope of the democratic higher-ups that time might develop some rising governor who would blaze out in the political firmament as a potential candidate, {but the two that have appeared thus far come under the withering eye of William J. Bryan and their light is diminished. Bryan, with his following | and the two-thirds rule, may break candidates it he may not make them. —_————— Applicants for Jobs. While only about 600 extra workers an be taken on by the city post office it is given out that “the post office is being overwhelmed with applications for work at Christmas.” More than 800 applications for positions have been filed, and scores are being received each day. It has been several years nce such a condition has been known at the post office. A few days ago the United States employment service is- sued a bulletin in which it was said: “There is at present a tendency to case off in calls for both skilled and unskilled labor in Washington. A sur- plus of clerical and stenographic workers exists, with practically no de- mand for any but the most skilled workers. While there is no cause for pessimism regarding local employ- ment at present, by winter there may be a large surplus of labor over the cemand.” It is believed that this may be only the usual seasonal slowing up in many activities. Bulilding operations are not as feverish as last spring and summer. The housing shortage has not been met, hut many persons hesitate,to move from smaller quarters into roomier homes because of the high cost of houses due to extraordinary wages and the unusual prices of build- ing materials, While the expansion of the city may not go on at the pace set during the past two or three years, it will go forward steadily. This is a | slack time in public works in the Dis- trict because of scantiness of funds provided in the current appropriation act, anfl the outlook for next year is not especially happy, though the indi- cation is that the District will have more money to spend on public works next fiscal vear than it has had for that purpose this year. General busi- ness is active, and there is no sign that great prosperity is not still with us. —_———————— 1f drinking scenes cah be prohibited from the films Gov. Pinchot will have the satisfaction of controlling the shadow, even though the substance re- mains obdurate. ———— There is a slight sentiment in Ber- lin to the effect that matters could not be made much worse even by putting the Hohenzollerns in charge, Forests and Rivers. It is gratitying to learn from the chief forester of the United States that our government has made much progress in forest protection and pro- duction and in the conservation of streams under terms of the Weeks law of 1911. Protection of the water- sheds of rivers and replanting of burned and cut-over forest areas have ‘Washington, and among the assembled ‘scientists were several from thia city. Their names are familiar in scientific socletles the world over, and yet are printed in small type in the Washing- ton City Directory. Frequently a story appears in Tip Star about a man or woman in tie been talked of for many years, and most persons not in touch with the subjects probably think that we have not passed from the stage of talk to that of action. It has been thought most commonly that the replanting of denuded forest areas and the protection of stream and all that, and Rave no suspicion | No longer will the coy | flow are western questions, but they are matters of {mmense concern to the east, north and south, The we has fared better than other sections the country. West of the Mississipp! river 150,000,000 acres of land have been set aside from the public domain: tor growing timber and protecting stream flow, but in the east and the other sections there has been progress. Several million acres of mountal 1and mear the sources of rivers in the east have been acquired by the gov= ernment. Five national forest arcas have been created in the mountains of Virginla and West Virginia, giving some degree of protection to Potomad and Shenandoah rivers, and at the fame time these areas are devoted to growing of timber. These and other national ferest areas are so treated that they will furnish their crops of timber year after year and stand | guard at the sources of the rivers. | The work is important in many 1ways. It will encourage Congress td greater liberality. It furnishes an ob> Ject lesson to private landowners thaf they may make their timber tractd permanently profitable, and it fur} {nishes an example in forest an | atream protection to states. 1f carried ifar enough this form of conservatior {will provide a permanent supply of . lumber and other forest products, and i will preserve the volume of the rivers and other streams for commerce ané }me development of electric power. | Willie to Stay at Wieringen. The confusion in Germany has ev | dently put an end for the present ut the chances of ex-Crown Prince Fred! erick Willlam for a return to that country. It has been announced from; Holland that the Netherlands govern; iment, in conformity with the under | taking it has given for the security of the allies, will prevent that young man from going back to his own coun: try. This, it would seem, is in re: ponse to a specific request by the al: lied council of ambassadors. The council makes a pointed suggestion tc the effect that Frederick William ix “on the list of persons charged wit | war crimes whose arrest Is sought by the allied governments.” The signifif { cance of this is probably not lost upor: [the royal scion at Wieringen. If he | stays In Hollund he is fmmune fromi prosecution. 1t he goes elsewhere he s subject to requisition for trial. that the allled governments want to try him. They would rather he would ain where he is in & poMtic: tuary than put him on trial. If he] | went back to Germany he would be ! | tricd by a German court, and, as the | Letpzig trials proved, such a procedure § would be little more than a farce. None of the allied governments wants ; to take on the job of his prosecution. Still 1t is not desirable that he should §0 back to Germany, whether tried or not. So the council of ambassadors has communicated its warning to Ber- lin. If the Berlin government is over- thrown, and a new government is set up either at Berlin or at Munich, and the Versallles treaty Is denounced, Frederfek William may go back if the | monarchical scales swing toward the Hohenzollern house. Meanwhile his father is holding “court” at Deorn, and conferring with military and politi- cal personages who daily arrive from Germany. Evidently the Hohenzollerns jare keeping In training. ——— A new play about Robert E. Lee has | used adverse agitation in- Rich- mond, Va. Its management at least | showed courage in facing the most exacting and accurately informed crit!- | clsm at the earliest possible moment. i —— Poineare his not yet gone so far as to suggest that he will be enthustasti- cally in favor of a conference if it can be made strictly a soclal occasion with no politics discussed. —_————— The District of Columbia citizen | would wield a constderable amount of political influence if he were as busy a voter as he 18 a taxpayer. ————————— Paper marks threaten to become so prevalent in Germany that the cost of removing them from the premises will be a serfous household ftem. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON, Charm of the Commonplace. We deplore the demonstrations So familiar to the nations. We remark, “Oh, kindly give us something new." And the effort to be novel Runs through palace, cot and hovel, Till somebody ups and throws a bhomb or two. Yet familiar sounds and places And the well known friendly faces Are the things that bring the com: fortable smile. 80 we'll possibly be willing To accept events less thrilling For the sake of iving peacefui af- ter while. Useless Discussion. “Whet is your opinion of the Dar- winian theory?” “I don’t know & thing about it,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. *“But I' can't see the use of trying to flatter the self-esteem of the simian, whose family hasn’t any votes and probably never will have. Jud Tunkins says he feels more use- ful than usual. Since he got the rheumatism the family has been using him as a barometer. Egoism in Applause. ‘When to assemblages I go ‘Where speakers persevere, I'd rather hear myself, and so, T lift my volce and cheer! Boosters. “‘Anything being done to boost Crim- son Guich?"” Nothing except In the way of threats,” answered Cactus Joe. “The fellers over to Snake Ridge say they're comin’ over next week an’ blow it off the map,” An Eye for the Dance. “Do you enjoy the classica?) ““Which kind?" inquired the student; ‘the kind you read or the kind you ook at?” / “It looks to me,” said Uncle Eben, “like de legislature ought to pass some kind of & law limitin’ de mimber of laws dat & legislature kin ” 1 ll Bonar Law Rests in Abbey; Typical of Stolid Briton| i such sturdy stuff as Bonar Law was WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Dr. ¥ridtjof Nansen, Norway's fa- mous son, who is in Washington this week, wus one of the founders of Norweglan independence. No one was more acttve in the movement which led to the separation of Norway from the unjon with Sweden in 1905. The new government at Christlania ap- pointed him the kingdom's first min- ister to the Court of St. James, where he was statifoned for three years. During the world war Nansen was at Washington for a while as head of a spectal Norweglan mission. When the land of the vikings joined the league of nations the explorer-states- man became its first representative in the league assembly. He took an active part in the recent delibera- tions at Geneva over the Italo- Greclan imbrogllo. Nansen Is sixty- two years 61d. He was in the early thirties when he penetrated “farthest north"—to the highest latitude at- talned until that time (86 degrees 14 minutes). P Folks have been wondering why John Calvin Coolidge, the father of the President, hasn't come to Wash- ington to visit his distinguished son and heir. The squire of the White House explained why the other day. ‘If there was a root cellar in the Executive Mansion,” sald the Presi- dent, “father might come down and look after the potatoes and the tur- nips. for the winter. But I guess he's pretty busy just now attending to them at Plymouth” It is of record that when father Coolldge was told that “Cal” now can't take a step without somebody rushing across the room to open the door for him, the former remarked: “Well, unless a fel- low’s carrying a pall of milk In each hand or a load of kindling woed, I don’t see why he can’t open his own doors, * ok ¥ Rear Admiarl John Crittenden Wat- son, U. 8. N. (retired), father of Capt. Edward H. Watson, now undergoing court-martial In cennection with the Californta destroyer disaster in Sep- tember, is one of the most dlstin- guished of living American naval of- ficers. He was Farragut's flag lieu- tenant at the battle of Mobile bay. During than action Lieut. Watson ad- vised Admiral Farragut not to re- main in the rigging, where the ad miral had taken up his position, say- ing that it he was injured he would| fall overboard. Farragut refused to come down, whereupon his flag leu- tenant ordered the ship’s quartermas- ter to lash the admiral to the rig- ging. Admiral Watson, a Kentuckian, aged eighty-one, relieved Dewey in command of the Asiatic squadron in 1899, represented the United Stntes at the coronation of King Edward VII| n 1902, and is the fourth oldest living With the ashes of Andrew Bonar Law, prime minister of Great Britain, sealed in Westminster Abbey, “finis" has been marked on the career of a man who did his duty as he saw It, fegardless of consequences. There Is £ very wide difference of opinion con- cerning his efforts to lead Britain, tpllowing the shelving of David Lloyd orge. But on all sides it Is conced- €1 that he was not mounted to power n the heads of those who befriended %m. “He pushed no one aside. and mounted on no self-created opportu- * insists the New York Tribune, #nd what came to him came to him through desert. He spoke his mind. Hf hated insinceritics and conceal- mints. And that trait impressed his erfemies and robbed their enmity of any bitterness.” He war also, in truth, “a great leader,” the Los An- geles Times belleves, and “loyalty the predominant trait in the acter of this hard-headed Scoteh- maf, loyalty to his country, to his comWictions and his assoclates. Lloyd Gearge, during his term as war pre- mier, had no more devoted supporter than Bonar Law, though politically their views were as far apart as the poles. In many of his views and pol- icles he exhibited a strong American strafn.” He: declined to “compromise for po- Mticad gain” as the Birmingham News. sees his career, and “it is of made that the world must look to Puilaj barriers against communism and agarchy.” Yet, “hé may nevér be Tankel as one of England's mighty premigrs,” the Marion Star feels, al- theugt the tribute pald by Lioyd George. * ‘loyal, sagacious and help- ful'—ti-e true qualities of statesman- ship, was merited. Bonar Law will Pot soon be forgotten.” It is the im- pressior, of the Ithaca Journal-News that “h} stood, in England, broadly speakink, for what Mr. Harding stood In Ametica, tranquillity, greater at- tention ‘o domestic affairs and fewer foreign tommitments. Tt 1% lixely, therefore, that “history will prooably record his leadership of @ few months as a transitional period, breathing space” the Hunts fngton Afivertiser holds, because “his place bofh In his party and iIn the nation was that of an organizer. His polnts afways were argumentative never rhdtorical. His appeal was to t to emotions.’ T he Atianta Journal, in its turn, points oul he “was born a Canadlan and reared a Scotchman and advanced by & series of statesmanly services to e Susingss. 1t war in edu or business. the coalition cabinet, however, that he rendered his welghtiest war serv- foe. Broken-hearted under the loss of| two splen ed vallantly on the mnm'n‘lou‘l“ Bt r Law @ officlal P ersanad attitude, to the United States were always most cordial. Here, as in‘every region of the earth where the common heritage of Eng- lish-speaking people is treasured, he was profoundly respected for 'his character and will be long remem- bered for his goodly contributions to or: B Ohadltion, the Fort Wayne Jour- nal-Gazette adds, “he is unique in that he dld not enter public life until he was forty-two years old and yet be- came prime minister. He is the one outstanding figure of the last genera- tion which hds not shome and scintil- lated with some brilliant quality. He has seemed to the outsider a some- what prosy figure, depending for his strength merely upon the integrity of his character, the soundness of common sens€ and a plodding enercy that never falled. But hie was some- thing much more than that. Yet, im- portant as he was, he will bardly live long in the memory of the average man, because, while his fins porsonal qualities and political capacity ap- pealed to the @ppreciation of the few, he possessed no qualities that appeal ed to the imagination of the multi- tu i I6is tenure bt _supreme leadership was “too short” the Detroit Free Press feels, to Gliow analysis of many of his accomplishments, but “what he did or helped to do for this coun- try in war tgme Is apparent today in the state of British finance. Not- withatanding the enormous debt with which his budgets burdened the coun- try, British currency is stable and little depreciated. e facts might have n different if Bonar Law had been a lesa wise and & less steadfast and masterfully In dutfes of state. Mr. lations, as well did sons in battle, he lzbor- | | To the Edftor of The Star: graduate of Annapolis. He lives In Washington. * ¥ ¥ ‘ American citizens seeking restitu- tion from the United States-Germany Mixed Claims Commission will not have to take their pay in depreciated German marks, even where claims concern money or property once owned in Germany. It has been de- cided that awards covering such claims shall be paid in dollars at the rate of 17.4 cents to the mark, That was the exchange rate prevaiiin March 6, 1917, thirty days before the United States became a belligerent, the rate having been fixed in accord- ance with that fact. L Probably for the first time on rec- ord the Department of State {s about to embark upon a “publicity” crusade. Its misslonary activities are directed at explanation of the Rogers bill providing for reorganization of our foreign service. J. Butler Wright, third assistant secretary of state, wili open the educational campalgn next week in a series of public addresses. On November 12 he will speak before the International Polity Club at Princeton and the next day before the Association of National Advertis- ers in New York city. k% x Aaron Sapiro, America’s foremost utherity on co-operative marketing, which may soon become a domimant political issue, was once a mewsboy on the streets of San Francisco. In- deed, it was during his “newsfe” ca- reer that Sapiro conceived and car- ried out his first practical experiment in co-operative marketing. He and his “gang,” who were little fellows, were ~regularly bullled by bigger “newsles,” so they decided, under Sa- piro’s leadership, to co-operate for orderly protection. Thercafter, when a bully came along, the “gang” jump- ed him co-operatively. Sapiro began his co-operative marketing career in 1915 as counsel for the California State Marketing Commission. The Pacific coast citrus frult growers’ co- operative, one of the most successful in the country, is his creation. Sapiro is still a_young man and the som of Russian Jewish immigrants. * % %% Senatorial socfety is smiling over a yarn of which a New England sena- tor's wife was recently the heroine- vietim. At an International function in the Pan-American palace not long #go, Mrs. evinced a desire to be included In the press photograph of the officlal participants, although she herself was present In a private capacity. When the young newspa- per woman in charge of procecdings courteously remonstrated, the sena- toriul hostess observed that she had ‘a pretty good right to be In the pic- ture, secing I was presented at the English court only a few wecks ago.” Whereupon, with delfcfous repartee, the newspaper woman rejolned: “Oh, in that case, Mrs. . you'd hardly fit in at all ause none of the other ladles enjoys such a distinction! (Copyright, 1923.) man.” This is also in part the view of the Springfield Unlon, which holds in all probabilities his great qual- { Ities would haye been more conspicu- ously displayed In the last year of his life ‘were it not for the filness that caused his brief tenure as prime min- Ister.” * % * 3 He wus, indeed, “a man of rare at- tainments,” the Reading Tribune is convinced, “a canny, thrifty Scotch- man, who demonstrated beyond ques- tlon the virtue of application. He showed that the man who applies business principles to government principles can be even more respect- ed than the politiclan.” Which hflrnu ht about the fact. the Cincinnat! Enquirer adds. “that possibly no man in England has occupled such re- sponsible positions in the govern- ments of that country in so short a political career, limited to thirteen vears.” He was “solld rather than howy.” In the analysis of the Syra- cuse Herald, and “a man not to be compared in’ intellect with the prime minixters who preceded him In our time” In addition “his tenure was brief, largely on account of his fail- ing health, and relatively uneventful except In its stormy. transitional vicissitudes. But it was enough to signal in an impressive manner the personal merits and exceptional suc- cess of his long career of dlstingulsh- ed service to his countrymen. “Possibly It was better for his fame,” the Savannah Press suggests, “that he should have been removed by disease and death than that he should have been allowed to fill out a long term in public office. He was a gentleman and & scholar, but possibly dld not possess the versatility and brilllance of his predecessor.” Be- cause of that very fact, the Cincinnatl Times-Star adds, “perhaps posterity will not give Bonar Law his due. He lacked the spectacular to such a de- gree that he hardly will make a historical portrait. Without the ora- tory of a Lloyd George, without the personal charm of a Baifour, without the forensic logic of an Asquith, this little, hard-headed Canadian Scot con- tributed almost as much as any cit- izen of the empire to the winning of the world war. Certain it s that when Great. Britain sought post-war ‘tranquillity,” as he expressed it, she turned to one whose Inclination’ was ever to be In the background and away from the spotlight that is so often eagerly sought by attitudinizing statesmen.” Inspired By Scene. Observer Describes Beauties Vis- ible From Bridge. It was said by one. who. understands the needs of human life that each day something of beauty should be sought, beheld and contemplated—that in this way refreshment would be found for the inner recesses of the soul. Standing _recently on _Connecticut Avenue bridge, the writer was made aware of the impelling need there is to sometimes go to Nature's shrine where thoughts may transcend and where lost illusions and grim necessities do not in- vade the clolstered realm. The beauty of nature below the bridge begs & poet's pen—my own is without avall—but the silence there seemed to say “Observe! Observe!” and the slumbering consciousness caught its subtle call. Soft tints of gold bordered the evening skies in_completion of the symphony below. Olive green leaves. flaming scarlet trees and a mystic golden glow, and beneath flowed the waters, winding on and on over the highways and byways of beautiful Rock Creek Park, where in its nearby en- virons and in ite far reaches it offers, in brief or long respites, rest and recrea- tion to those seeking continuing touch with the beautiful. It may be that it was In such scenes as these that Biiss Carman found the inspiration to write his immortal verse: Then suddenly, all unaware, Far off in the deep shadows, where ‘A solitery hermit thrush Bang through the holy twilight hush— 1 beard His voice upon the air. o e i LS At last with evening as I turned S e prats ‘yobe Sees Love of Freedom. ‘Writer Criticizes Charge That Filipinos Are Rebellious. “To the Editor of The Star: Today's Star carries a dispatch from Manila, sent by Waiter J. Robb, saying that “hundreds of petty Fil- 1pino leaders” are gathering in San Bornando, Pampangs, Philippine Is- lands, to organize a sinn fein-like avsociation, having - for Evorything for the Filipino: While the motto is not new, as it sounds like Mr. Taft's announcement when Governor of the Philippines that “the Philippines aro for the Fili- pinos,” the purpose of the organiza- tion i liable to be given much im- Pportance because of the present rath- er acute political conditions in the Philippines. Many American “reporters” thomselves been the authors of se numerous “uprisings’ and “revolu- tlonary socleties” that it fs, indeed, very strange that during these days of strained relations between Gover- ror General Wood and the Filipino lcaders the Philippines have not yet attained the prominence of Oklahoma or New York as regards lawlessness But If conditions in the islands are roally So bad, why not diagnose the case and proseribe a remedy? ,The unsettied conditions in the Phillppines arlsing from the differ- erces between Gen. Wood and the Filipino leaders should be viewed by the American people with absolute €quanimity. The fact that the Fill- pinos are asking for freedom and that at the present tl & becoming restle ot o o #s should not - sidered as an indication of aber:);.‘;‘» Hous attitude on the part of the islanders. Love of freedom {8 inher- (:nt In man. Tt {s written in the Golden Hook of the American people. The seed of liberty was planted by Washington; nurtured by Mekinl for the Filiptnos. It is now ripe, and no American can deny its fruit from us without straining the golden pages '(’)t Amerll'n‘n history and undermining he consclonce cratie rlx)h'(coun e of the democratic, Of one thing. however, th - feans must be sure. Xo phyaleat fores shall ever be used by the Filipinos to haston the redemption of America's pledge of honor. They love America, fecond only to thelr native land. Whatever is sald about Filipino ais- courtesy toward Amerlcans, if any, should " be credited to individuals alone. The Filipinos have shown in- concelvable patlence toward many of their slanderers. As a race the Filipinos have been mallciously 1ibels :I‘dhoy hndgr\‘\dl and misrepresented. are helpless; thev only They are help] ey only ask fair As the American people judge, the Filipinos are Justice and fdir pl, enemies, who are against us. have is their fure to get despite our at work SPINAS. “Wrangell” Is Correct. Spelling of Isle’s Name Interior Department. To the Editor of The Mar: Map-makers have ever been at va- riance over the spelling of the name of the island where the Alan Craw- ford party perished. There are two Islands of the same name—both nam- ed after Baron Ferdinand P. von Wrangell, Russian explorer und one time Governor of Alaska when that | territory was under Russian rule. .The Island concerned in the Harold Noice articles, published In The Star. Is north of Stberfa, about 500 miles west of Point Barrow, Alaska, and| was formerly known as “Wrangell Land." Until the Crawford expedition, no one had lived there. The light- houses and other works which Rus- sia clalms to have established there to support her claim of possession seem to exist only on paper. The other Wrangell Island is southeast Alaska and is comparativ 1y well populated, contalning a set- tiement known as Fort \Wrangell Wrangell Land was aiscovered by SI- | berlan natives early in the nineteenth century. Later, Baron Wrangell at- tempted to explore this remote island but failed. However, his W bestowed on It, as It also w Alaskan town and isiand ell, 150 miles southeast on the route of the steamships. Because m t by in of Wran- of Juneau, | Seattle-Aluskan p-makers hay these names “Wrangell,” “Wrangel” and even “Wrangle.” the Wrangell, Glenora and Lake Teslin Transporta- tion Company of Alaska some years ago asked the United States Depart ment of the Interior to decide on the proper spelling. That department's official ruling was: Wrangell was named for the Rus- sian admiral, Ferdinand P. von Wrangell. While different members of the family have spelled it differ- ently, this member. for whom the fs- land ‘and fort were named. and per- haps the most prominent member of the family. always wrote it with two I's. The Board of Geographic Names has adopted the spelling ‘Wrangell.” " (And so It appears In official govern- ment correspondence and the United States Postal Guide. GEORGE LLINGHAM. Defends Physical Work U. S. Employe Says Retirement Law Should Be Fair Toward It. | To the Editor of The Star: In answer to Mr. C. M. Potter's dis- criminations In the retirement law, in The Star of November 2, 1923: This law was not enacted for just the re- llef of old age, but to take in other phases of life that Mr. Potter has overlooked. All work of the govern- ment does not pertain to those that occupy seated positlons. Others are at different toils and wear out sooner than those that merely work their brains at a desk. There are positions that require a great deal of strain and work on one’s feet day after day, as well as mental duties. After thirty years' work of various kinds, upon reaching the age of fifty, many are worn out and are overcome by physical defects. Thelr efticlency grows less and they are no lenger young at the early age of fifty. The thirty-year man or woman often reaches the Age of sixty and quite frequently seventy, yet have not made thirty years of service which places them more or less in posi- tion for a disability than an outright retirement. The government would be very much stronger in clerks of younger age entering at the lower grades under the reclassification act and working their way up as_the thirty-year man has done. This would more than save the difference of those retiring. The number that would retire on optional retirement would be very few. Those that would go into busi- ness or get positions that would pay them better than the government would be small indeed. If there were 8o much business and such fine posi- tions waliting, there Wwould be very few under the government at the present time, and no one would wait for retirement if they could do so well. The service should be counted and not age, as the contributions are the same, and there is no reason one man should work thirty years and others forty-seven years for the same re- ault—retirement. I hope this will be understood and we will be able to get through Congress the thirty-year op- tional retirement for all government clerks, for we are all equal in our payments. J. ERWIN LATIMER. For Spider-Leg Car. From the Topeka Capital. Henry Ford is arranging to pe the price of gasoline at 16 cents, wit] his new coal reducing plant. Now about all he hasyleft to do is to make a car that will jump a loco- motive at s railroad crossing and Tand ¢afely on the other sids spelled ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is the title of Edith Wharton's novel, “The Glimpses of the Moon,"” & quotation?—K. R. A. A. The phrase, “the glimpses of the moon,” is taken from “De Profundis,” by Oscar Wilde. Q. What foods supply iron to the body?—N. E. A. Among the iron-glving foods are: Lean beef, eggs, oatmeal, whole wheat, dried lima beans, dried peas, navy beans, spinach, prunes, apple raisins, milk, corn meal, pearl barley, dandelion greens, dates and olives. Q. What becomes of bats in winter? A. Bats are absent from the coldgst parts of the world and are most numerous in the eastern tropies. They are characteristically tropical. In rather cold climates. such as that of Canada, some specles have ac- quired a habit of migration, going south to some extent in the autumn, as the northern winters are too long to be survived In a state of uninter- rupted hibernation. Q. How should I handle chrysanthe- mums to keep them forty-eight hours after cutting?—J. O. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the chrysanthemums should be picked before they have reached their full bloom and should be kept in ! a cool, damp place, in clear, fresh wa- ter. If you have facilities for keep- ing in a refrigerator, sce that the temperature s maintained at about 36 degrees F. Q. How many congressional medals were issued in the great war?—T. H. S. A. The adjutant general's office says that there have been ninety awards of the congressional medal of honor to of- flcers and enlisted men in the United States Army and the Marine Corps for services during the world war. One award was made to the unknown & dier of each of the following allied na- tions: Great RBritain, Belgium, Fran Ttaly and Rumania. Q. Why are light puft pattles called vol au vent?—C. P. D. A This term fs French and !s used because they should be so light that they are “flying at the mercy of the Q. Are olives grown in the Uni States 7R, N.© ted A. The reglon in which the olive may be wuccessfully grown for commercial production of fruit in the United States is not so great as for most frost-hardy fruits. Commercial olive growing has been confined to portions of Californ and Arizona, although the trees will live and bear some fruit in_portions of all of the southern states of this coun- try. Q. Are most of the famous Americans “self-mad. —D. R. A. Publishers of Who's Who America say that at least 50 per cent | of those whose names appear in Who's ‘Who have had at least part of a college education, and 79 per cent have had a high school education. . Q. What Is the meaning of the of the distinguished Chinese statesman, Li Hung-Chang?—E. F. D. A. Isanc Headland, n a book on China, says that Li is the family name. BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Since London is the seat of govern- ment of Great Britain, and of the sov- ereignty that extends over all of the autonomous and other dominions em- braced in the empire, the military command of the vast metropolis, with its huge population of more than T.- 000,000, exclustve of the several mil- lions more comprised in what is known as the London district com- mand, imposes a heavy burden of re- sponsibility upon the shoulders of the general to whom it Is intrusted. For the empire looks to him, more than to any ome man, for the safety of the reigning house, of the government | and of that colossal amount of tre ure and business which contributes to render London not only the adminis- trative but aiso the business and eco- nomic hub of that great wheel bracing the empire. Under the circumstances, the ap- pointment of Gen. Lord Ruthven to the military command of the metro- politan district calls for more than passing attention, especfally here America, for Lady Ruthven has strong strain of American blood her veins old Sir Curtls Lampson of New York. who, commencing as a Vermont farm hand, eventually managed to securc the good will of the original John Jacob Astor, became his resident agent in London. was thereupon as- soclated with Cyrus W. Fleld in la ing the first transatlantic cable, and. after abandoning his American citi- Zenship and securing a British natu- ralization, was created a baronet for the part which he played in the enterprise. em- a in able * ok kK Lord Ruthven (whose name must be pronounced as if written “Riven”) is a soldier by profession, won the dis- tinguished service order in the Boer campaign of 1899, as well as no les than ten clasps to his two medals, and then received the orders of the ! Bath and of St. Michael and St George, as well as the Legion of Honor and many other distinctions in the great war, in which he served as col- onel of the Scots Guards, as brigadier and as major gencral. His two broth- ers also are soldiers, namely, ander, who is in command of the Welsh Guards and who has both the Victorla cross and the distingulshed service order, and Christian, who is in command of the Black Watch —all three, therefore, true to the traditlons of their wondérfully ploturesque old father, the tenth Lord Ruthven, who passed awey three years ago at the age of elghty-three. He was a vet- eran of the Crimean war of 1855, of the Indlan mutiny of 1857 and of the Abyssinian campalgn of 1868, and When refused permission, by reason of his advanced age, to rejoin his old regiment, the Rifle Brigade, at the outbreak of the great war in 1914, se- cured an appointment as a volunteer king's messenger, and spent all his time in carrying dispatches from the War Department in Whitchall to the front in France, in Flanders, usually by afrplane. Indeed, he may claim to have been, as an octogenarian, the oldest fiying officer in the war; his one pleasure being in visiting the most advanced lines during the inter- vals of his aerial trips, when he was repeatedly under fire. Lord Ruthven has no sonsand, con- sequently, his old Scotch barony, Ruthven of Freeland, will go to his eldest daughter Bridget, now wife of the Earl of Carlisle, while his Eng- barony, by viriue of which he sits in the house of lords, will go to his brother, the Hon. Alexander Ruthven, V. C., commanding the Welsh Guard: The name and title of Lord Ruth- v to all students of | Jemae el For the third Lord | Scottish history. Ruthven was the principal actor in the murder of Rizzlo, dour favorite of Mary Queen of Scots, in the palace of Holyrood at Edinburgh. His successor, the fourth lord, was the hero of the historic rald of Ruthven which aimed at the kidnaping of her son, James VI of Scotland, and James ‘I of England, while thisy lord tn turn, wa killed in ¥he so-called Gowrle con- spiracy, which had for its object the aasassination of this self-same mon- in | She Is a granddaughter of | Alex- | the trouba- | 1t means “plum” and denotes its own- er's descent from the founder or haa- ism. Hung-Chang may mean ‘“illus- trious bird” or “learned treatis Q. Can you tell me what to use on white wool sweater to take out light scorch spots?—A. J. P. A. To remove a scorch stain from wool sweater, It is suggested that you mix common laundry starch and hydro- gen peroxide to a thick cream. Cover the scorched place and allow it to dr, then brush off and sponge with clear water. Q. In what states of the Union ha the governor the veto power?—G. T. A. All the states except North Carc. lina vest this power In the governor. Q. Kindly advise which has the righ of way, a United States mail wagon ¢ fire department? The fire department appar: has the right of way over all veh n answering a c A United States mail wagon is subjec traffic Ia Q—To how many uses wiil lanes lend themselves?—C. L —The Aeronaut 1 Chamber of |Commerce has prepared a list twenty-four uses for airplanes. | ttonal uses ational defense Navy and ine Corps), alr | forest patro astguard, customs and revenue , service, agricultural survey. coast nd geodetic survey, scientific observation, warning and relief in time of disaster. 1 ity planning. roxd and building construc: tion, rail and wat al pros- lems, fire and police park 1m- provement. Comr ervice, freight senger servic srial photog |Tection and | advertising 1 p1 atr- Dl » | f and publicity sport Q—How many bus have for hi eie; A—Upon his second expedition the western hemisphere Columbu had seventeen vessels, carrying 1. persons. vessels second did Colu Voyage Q—How many da; fast’—B. R. A—Terence McSwiney succum on the seventy-fourth day of fast, in Brixton prison, London, E land did M | Q—Is gas heat harmful?—D. bureau of mines harmless if th a flue to lead off prc nbustion. allowe room they uets 1 cape | Jisoning. Q.—How many of everyday use come fro A—Dean Wilbur of ington University sayvs th ent of the words used In norn versation are of Latin de (Let The Star Information Bure Frederic J. Haskin, director, 1: street, answer you Inclose 2 cents in st return postage.) North Capitol guestions. Jor Great Responsibility Rests Upon Gen. Lord Ruthven the family being thereupon de d forfeit of its honors. Fift ears later Thomas Ruthven, the Breat-grandson of the sccond lord, s created Lord Ruthven of Free- nd by Charles II. the date of the fon being given 1651, tha shortly after the execution X: % though 1651 is given as the date of the creation of this Charles IT | barony, the exact date of the pate is unknown. It was never registered as required by law, a copy made of it and, as there 1s no “docquet” or “sign manos” thereof, the contents and nature the patent are wholly unknown. But the fact remains that this Lord Ruthven of Freeland sat in the up- per house of Scotland’s parliament ut nburgh in 1661 after the restori- tion. We have the word of the pres- ent Ruthvens that the original pat- ent was in for more th 100 years, and that it was destroyed which took place at Freeland Of course, the question rally as to why it was that, while it was in existence | for ninety-nine years and in the pos- session of the family, no copy there- of should have heen made or any steps taken to reister it. This first Lord Ruthven of Freeland, of the pr une, it w son, David, who succeeded him in the barony and who was one of the lords of the treasur King William L. He was succeeded in his honors and estates by his unmarricd sister Jean, and after her death they went to his niec daug Ruthv She married Col, Greatiney, and ed for a sum mons to the coronation of George 11, g Ruthven in her own 3 mons she recelved, | bearing the sign manual and seal of George 11, and this may be considered as an acknowledgment Ly the crown of the validity of her claim to the Ruthven barony. She was succeeded in her honors and cstates by her son and grandson, and on the latter's death without issue, they went to his sister, Mary Ruthven, married to an |1rish ' territorial _magnate, Walter Hare of Harpers Town, County Wex- ford. She was the grandmother of the present Lord Ruthven * & % X nor w moreover, existence arlse srfarshire, Johnston of Of course there are some genealo- gists who deny the right of Lord Ruthven to the Ruthven barony of Freeland, because of the loss of the patent in the fire at Freeland in 1750, which renders it impossible to ascer- tain whether it contained any clauses providing for the descent of the peer- ago In the female line. But there is plenty of ccrroborative proof to this effect, for Instance, the retention of the title on the union roll of Scot- land, after the extinction of the di- rect male Issue of the first lord, on the death of his only son witheut issue. Moreover, all the lords of Ruthven, since then, that Is to say, those who have descended from tae daughter of the first lord of the Free- lana line, have been permitied to cast their votes at the periodical elections at Holyrood Palace by the peers of Scotland, for the sixteen representa- tives of their order in the house of lords at Westminster. Especially in the eighteenth century, every dublei vote was challenged and no question was ever raised there against the Lord of Ruthven's right to yote. Then, too, every holder of the barony of Ruth- ven has been summoned as such by the crown, to attend the coronation of the successive rulers of Great Britain. Finally, when the lords of sessions were directed by the crown to,carefully enumerate and report on | the various Scottish peerages about the validity of which it was thought possible that any gquestion could be raised, the barony of Ruthven was not included in the list. Finally, the inew commander-in-chief of the met- | ropolitan district of London, owes his title of Lord Ruthven not only to his uncontested inheritance of the Charles 11 Scotoh barony of Ruthven of Freeland, repeatedly acknowledged as valid by the crown, in the eight- eenth and nineteenth 'centuries, but alsa by virtue of the United Kingdom barony of Ruthven of Gowrle be- stowed upon his grandfather.