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' THE EVENING STAR Wih Sendsy Morniag Edjtion, WASHINGTON, D. C. TURSDAY.,..November 13, 1023 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Compuny Bustsees g ivania Ave. Tbo Sreaing Star. with the Sunday morning wdition, s doliversd by cmriers withln tis «city st 60 cents per mosth; dally esly, & conte per months SupdAy only, 20 Cents per month. Orders may be sent by mall of tele- vhese Mala 5006, Collect is made Tiews @t the ead of each wonth. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. 2 Maryland and Virginis, Dally and Sunday..] y'r., §8. Daliy only Sunday o Dally and Sund: 2 1 mo., £56 - Dally only $10.04 $7.00; 1 mo., 60¢ Buny onl; £3,00; 1 o, e Member of the Associated Press. o Associgted Presw ia esciusively eatitiod to the use fer republicatioa patehes credited 2o 1t of not In this paper and alen vhe Ifahed “herelo. " AR right special dispatches uereln ay.15r., 1 of pablication* s aino reseeved. Holland and the Ex-Kaiser. Willtam Hohenzollern, former Em- peror of Germany, has recetved pmss- ports for himself and suite from the rovernment at Rerlln permitting him o return from Holand. This Is the startling news that comes from over- s ,» nowy that will cause tworld- 1 as to the meaning. statement at Berlin denie: that the former kalser has been in- vited to retura. Put according to the news reports preparations are in prog- ress at Doorn for departure. When Willlam and his son fled from mrand headquarters on the cve of the armistice in 1918 they went Into Hol land a9 the ncarest place of refuge. Theve they tound sanetuary, as Hol- land was wtion, and 3t confidence was justifled by the punctili- ous care taken by the government at The Iagne to safeguard their rights « as political fugitiy 1520, about fifteen mcn: Lid fled. the allied powers made formal demand upon Hoiland for t. ion for trial, particular kaiser. Tiolland refused on the ground that the TIohe $ito ba violated. The allles protested this veply. but in March, 1 received a s=cond refusal to hand over the 1 tives for justice. The Netherlands gov- srnment, however, promized to take ary measures to minimize erty of the former kalaer and prevent him from endangering the vorld's peace. ¢ demand of the allies for the per- s of Hohenzollern and his son as war criminals was believed at the time to be not altogether s It was feit that they were probably not dis- tressed when Holland refused, for the trial of the kaiser would have been a difficult thing to handle and quite un- certain as to its outcome. The feellng was general that the allies were as well content to leave William in lol- land as to hale him to s rnational court for judgment. In refusing to extradite the lohen- zollerns Holland did not definitely as sume their custody in the sense of suaranteeing against their flight. Still the obligation has been presumed, and oun several occasions the government int at The ITague has imposed vestrictions | upon the freedom of these unwelcome muests. Of late, however, these restric- tlons have been relaxed, and as a climax the former crown prince was permitted the other day, evidently without any attempt at restraint, to sip over the border into Germany, al- i though the couneil of ambassadors at P'aris had made protesting representa- tions to The Hague in the light of obvious preparations for his flight. When he was reported to have left Holland the French ambassador at| The Hague gave expression to the sur prise and patn felt by the French gov ernment, and, according to the dis patches, his protest wus recetved with | ested- | distant expressions of . ness. If now the cx-kaiser is allowed to go disint, from Holland the question will arlse | 4s to that country’s lability. But ther i no likelihood of repr swill not “carry the war into Holland.” It is with Germany that their busincss will lie. . Re-cstablishment of the monarchy in Germany under the Hohenzol be- comes & possibility, £nd & new interna- : tional issue 18 created which will pro- : voke intense Aoes not thre —————— Drinking is reported to be very little i in evidence the zreat Buropean jocal news pub. ! sal. The alljes | tively to allevinte present evils Wash- ington must have a greatly increased enforcement squad; it must heve e traffic court, where viclators can be tried without wzste of time; it must have addftional equipment for the po- lice, new motor cycles, new sema- phores and & eniform system that will make policemnen vistble at night, and, slong with these urgent needs, it most have minor changes in the traffic code’ which will promote frictionless traffic with rigid entorcement. These things have been brought to the attention of the congressional com- mittee investigating traffic. They will probably be stressed by many wit nesses before the hearings are over. It the committes 13 anxicus to get to the botiom of conditions hese, and there is every reason to bellere that it is, it will have ample opportunity to hear the same thing over and over sgain, "Upon Congress rests the re- sponsibility to make neaded appropria- ticns to save human lives in the Dis- triet of Columbta.™ ——————— If Germany Is inviting the former kaiser to return with & view to his re- ! establishment on the throne it will e treating the treaty of Versallles, ms it did in August, 1914, that guaranteeing the neutrality of Belglum, as a scrap of paper. For one of the fundamentul stipulations of that treaty was the Hohenzollerns should not agaln be rulers of Germany. The treaty to which Germany was a. party, howaver unwillingly, contained a formal publlc arrafgnment of Willlam 1I of Hohen- [znfl»rn‘ former empercr, for “a su- preme offense against internatio morality and the sanetity of treaties It is inconceivable that German | should be permitted now to re-estab- lish the Tohenzollerns on the threne. To &0 8o would be to affront the world. At present the German government is | recognized by the powers, including jall those lately at war with Germany. | That recognition could not be con- tinued if the former emperor Were re- stored, In person or through his son. No power that was a party tb the treaty of Versailles, whether it was ratified or not, could receive an envoy from or malntaln relations with a gov- ernment so constituted In flagrant de- fiance of the world's verdict. Germany’s course from tha begin ning of so-called peace has been one of obstruction to ard repudiation ef the treaty of Versallles. She has faileq in her obligation formally and solemn- Iy imposed upon her by that treaty. She now, if the dispatches are to be balleved, actually invites back. pre- sumably for the purpose of restoration, the man whese rule brought her to ruin and whose crimes have been da- | nounced, and whose trial for those crimes has been prevented only by the 1 of sanctuary in @ neutral nation. German psychology has been rated as low from the beginning of the war. | The Berltn government and the Ger- {man people have guessed wrong at jevery turn, They hate made no con- {tact with the minds of others. They have been unable to ses the logical course, the course of reason and prob- zable success. This new step for a i monarchiecal restoration under the Hohenzollerns would secm to be an- {other of the false moves that have characterized Germany during the past decade. e ————————— Alr. Volstead is credited by an inter- {viewer with the remark that nobody cares what he says. The statement will not stand the test of history. Few men bave glven expression to their convic- tions in & way that bas caused more agitatien. ——————— The ultimate consumer is entitled to more credit for helping 0 settle the coal strike, He is meeting the actual | expense with uncomplaining fortitude. i ——————— Time heals all wounds, but France inslsts that more time is required un- der some circumstances than under others. ————r——e Japan is not inclined at present io { permit her navy constructors to take i her attentton from important Inter- { views with the architects. ! e ——————— | Even though parties to sensational { divorce cases cannot forgive, the pu | lic should be permitted to forget. | ——— i Bootleggers have an organization. | As usual the witimate consumer Las to -un his chances as an individual. The selection of Gormany by e | Hohenzollern as a place for quiet resi- { dence looks ke an errcr of judgment. The Bosses at French Lick. Is Restoration Contemplated? l capitals. Probably the number of peo- | ple who have the price fs becoming | more and more Hemited. . iing political conference is in progross ——— iat French Lick Springs, Ind., the . In political circles the sugaestion tq | habitat of that genial and effective reduce taxcs, lke the motion to ad- | Politician, “Tem” Tageart, acknowl - journ, is alway4 in order. ‘edged leader of the Indiana democracy. { Present are Jioss Murphy of Tam- jmany, Boss Prennan of Illinoie and What is likely to prove an interest- THE EVENING STAR, WASHIN Pennsylvania would be well nigh tatsl, uot only on account of the numerical strength of the bloc In the convention, but for the mfluence of these leaders in the delogate body. | We will sce what we will see after this meeting 1s over. It looks impor- fant enough to watch. ————— Radio Wires ¢ Peril. A man was killed yesterday by elec- tricity while hanging a radio aertal which became cressed with a high- power electric wire. The accident oc- curred in one of the outiying portions of the District, where the electric wires are not burled, but are carried for current distribution overhead. It is obvious that the danger is present in @ lerge area of the District, for the overhead conductor system prevalis for many square miles beyond the strictly urban section. Strict regulations prevail at present regarding the stringing of high-power wires. The radio Is a new element in jthe case. ¥lundreds of houses are “‘wired™” for receipt of the alr waves that transmit radio broadcasting. In #ome cases the antennae are carried on the roofs of houses. In some in- stances they are contrived within the walle. In others they are spread over & considerable epace. In many cases these outside radio wires are not stoutly supported. Some {are hung up on frail sticks, subject to Gisplacement by the wind. It Is un- safe to permit any proximity to the high-power, wires, as this deplevable aceident shows plainly. Radio i3 a source of pul cnter: tainment and fnstruction that will Goubtless grow in use. At present there are mo regulations on the subject of the installation. This tragic misf tune shows that such rules are requi- site. The matter should be promptly considered by the Commissioners, and such provisions made in the way of regulations that will lessen, if mot absolutely prevent, ropetitions. The danger is not only to those who run the wires, but to all pe: falling radio wire, crossing power conductor, becomes a d menace to everybod: who appr . | ons. —_———— An address by radio affords tnterest to millions simultaneou It is the most marvelous modern means of communication. Its only disdvantage is borne by the speaker, who cannot know immediately the extent to which his statements are being applanded. ———— The way to stop the drinking of liquor is to prevent iis manufacture. The way to stop the manufatture of llquor is to prevent drinking. Either method will be succeasful. —_—————— It was once rumored that Lenin had ut awwy large sums of money in Ger- many. It is now belleved that &« man of Lenin's astuteness conld not have shown euch lad financial judgme: ————— The Santa Barbara prehistoric man kas nearly perfect tecth. This may in dlcate that instead of belng & savaze he belonged to an ancient culture that knew the value of tooth powder. —_——————— i I | i Unless something new and startling develops in the theory of evolution Col. Bryan may bave to sidetrack it next summer and revert to the famillar party issues. ————— Almost every horse owner now thinks he had an animal that could hrave beaten Papyrus if he had had the chance. —————— One or two band wagons will be closely watched by G. O. P. authori- ties for reckless driving. E ———— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON { i e 1 'The Picture Book. tln the picture book's a village Where the flowers "round the tillage Hint of butterflies and bees. But the mortgage isn’t showing Through the tangle by the breok Where the violets are growing In the pretty picture book. { 1n the picture book's a snow scene 'Neath a twilight colored sky, ¢ Where the world i all aglow seen { As the day goes drifting by. 1 But thie artist has not painted { 'The neglected, hungry look, | Of some little ones, half fainted, In his pretty plcture book. In our own imagination ‘We are generous and kind. In the artful fabrication Beauty isn't hard to find. Earth might be far more contented If Dame Nature only took For het model what's prescnted In the pretty picture book. Deliberative Politics. “Do vou think the situation in Eu- With the sunlight through the irens, | * Traffic Problem Up to Congre Correction of the fundamentals of local traffic evils was placed squarely up to Congress iast night, when the Washington Board of Trade at its an- nual meeting unaniinovsly adopted the Teport of its committee on trafc con- ditions in the National Capital, “Faults with local traffic contro),” aeserts the report, “are fundamental, and the remedies arealso fundamental. ‘The responsibility for any change that is not & makeshift is solely up to Con- gross. Congress must provide the law «nd the money necessary to correct traffic conditions, or they cannot be "' corrected. { the hund may be filled by Eoss Guffey | rope ought to be made a political issue { o Pennsylvania sitting fa. in this country?" The diplomatic Mr. Taggart pooh.| “I have my doubts about it." an- [ poohs the idea of political significance | Wered Senator Sorghum. “Some of |of the meeting. His old friend, Mr, | OUTr political issues—the tariff, for in. Murphy, had just ccme out to take the | #lance—never have the luck to get waters, and the cthers meraly “dropped | permanently settled in" “That's all in your eye, Betty Martin,” is the answer of the poli- ticians, who scout the idea that the visitors are there to discuss the chemi- cal properties of the water or even to comparé their respective scores at gOIf. In the belicf of *“thé boys” they are there to talk politics, and talking poli- ties by this outfit means diecusston of Jud Tunking says a man who is most liberal and enthusfastic with ad- vice very seldom scems to have the capital to back his own judgment. i ! Fruits of Labor. ! Lives of wealthy men remind us ‘We may toil both day and night, Leaving an estate behind us | | “TUpon Congress alone can be placed | democratic aspirants for the presiden- it lice personnel, for that body only can | that they ere casting about to throw provide the necessary appropriation {2 monkey wrench into the supposedly _to secure an adequate niimber of po- | highly efficlent organization machinery licemen and adequate ralaries to at-{of Willlam G. McAdco. No doubt Mr. tract and hold mea of the intelligence | McAdoo's present activitiem and the “necessary successfully to carry on this | claims of progress his friends are “most important brench of the police | meking ocoasion alarm among the old- " work.” line leaders, who look askance at the In these words the largest citi-{radical support aseerted to be behind " rens' organization in Washington | Mr. McAdoo, and fear he will be unac- * takes its stand on the traffic question. | ceptable to the conservative east on It believes that any trafic inquiry, | election day, if nominated. swhether by Congress, the police or dis-| If it, indeed, be true that the old- interested citizens, will eventually | line chieftains have thumbs down for work itself around-to the same block- | Mr. McAdoo the fact would be im- . ade—it Congress does not appropriate | portant enough to cause him some un- " ¥ the money nothing can be done. easy days and nights of floor-walking. Study of traffic conditions shows in | The combination in opposition to him -“po uncertaln way that in order effec- jof New York, Iilinois, Indiana and the responsibility for inmdequate po-|tial nomination. One report has Which in court will start o fight. Different. “The French refuse to take off any- thing,” remarked the German who was discussing reparations. *'Yes,”, commented Misa Cayenne; “‘Paris politics ure different from Paris fashions." « Reminiscent Faney. “You still cultivate a mint patch.” “No,” replied Uncle Bill Bottletop, “a mint patch is like a taste for lickér. It naturally runs wild and don’t need no cultivation.” & “1 never bets on @ race hoss dat I dreams about,” maid Uncle Eben. “De dream ain't @ sign of nothin’ 'ceppin* dat yoh mind's too much on hoss ractp” | | | GTON, D. WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC Mr. McAdoo has decided not to launch his manifesto for the demo- ératic presidential nomination until President Coolidge has submitted his maiden message to Congress. Soon after that the McAdoo hat will be tossed into the ring with a resound- ing plump. The former Secretary of the Tressury believes that Mr. Cool- idge will strike a conservative note, not to say a standpat chord, ‘that | will automatically sound the key for & @emocratic progressive platform. That at least is the McAdoo high command's expectation and hope. ‘Woodrow Wilson's son-in-law will be guided accordingly In offering himself to his party and the country. * % 3 % When Jonkheer van Karnabeek, Duteh forelgn minister, was in Washington tivo years ago at the armament conference, this observer discussed with him the Netherland: treatment of the fugitive kaiser and crown prince. Van Karnabeek sald that the Dutch government had 2greed to treat the former MHohen- zollarn nubobs as “gentiemen” as long as thay conducted themselves accord- ingly. Whereupon the writer recalled to Jonkheer van Karnabeek a malden experfence in learning the German language at Berlin twenty yoars ago. IHis teacher was an Impoverished German noblewoman who spoke Eng- tsh fiuently. Sha once was asked o @erman idiom for “gentleman.” ‘he lamented that there was no such word In the German language. ok ko Nobody could be twithin close range of Woodrow Wilson at his doorstep on Armistice day without fecling that jthe man, broken though he be, is still filled with the fire of combat. Despite tears that were blinding his eyes, and the emotfon almost choking words down his throat, Wilson's challenge that his political foes are condemned to "“destruction and contempt” had the ring of battling defiance. On the whols, It was a pity-compelling scene, Immaculately groomed, as of yore, surprisingly clear of eye and counte- nance, Wilson yet was a frail, almost tottering figurc. To his rear and left, respectively, stood Mrs. Wilson and a negro attendant, &s {f ready to catch him if he fell. The former President creates the Impression thul a less in- domitably willed man would Lave succumbed to physical distress long age. Woodrow Wilkon scems to lve on and fight on with Spartan spirit. L Approach of the Sixty-eighth Congress and & presidential year is jfaithfully mirrored these days in Washington by the throngs of politicians of all hues flitting through the Capltal. Governors and former governors, national committeemen, state leaders, congressional lame ducks, vice presidentlal timber of Editors Fail to } i | The resuits were all right but— iey diin't mean anything.” That is about the way the majority of the independent newspapers sum up the result of the elections this fall. While the democrats carried the three states in which governors were elccted, the fesult is said to have had no bearing on national s~ sues, and it is difficult for editors to {see any particular lesson for elther party in the outcome. “In the natfon as a whole.” as- serts the *Rochester Times Union (independent), “political experts ugree no marked trend in favor of either party can be discerned. The repub- licahe won an additional eeat in the House, while the democrata fimi the victory In Kentucky most notable,” Agre=ing perfectly with this analysis, the Milwaukee Journsl (independent). suggests “in general the ‘Dutch have taken Holland' The republicans { gain a seat in Congress in a district { that is normally republican. And an joverturn in Kentuoky electa a demo- | Cratic governor. Vermont republi- {canism remalns tnshaken by the ac- aldental fact that the democratic candidate for sepator was a cousin !of President Coulidge. Perhaps the | most satisfactory result of all, to the good citizen, 18 that in Chicago the voters split the judiclal ticket between the republicans and demo- icm{-. For this showed a determina- tion to select judiges on the basis of {their qualifications, to keop the courts free from partisanship.”” The Boston Transeript (independent repub- livn) points out that “it is easy to ex- { aggerate the {mportance of elections of this character,” but the Transcript is | Comvinced that “the rosult is in Keep: {ing with the evident desire of the | people as expressed In other waya {To give President Coolidge support {ana encourngement in his efforts to {solve national problems.’ This is, in { part, the view entertained by ‘the | Providence Journal (republican), which, agreeing “there is no dountrywide | trend one wny or the other as com- [vared with 19227 thinks that “it is ievident that the democratio swing, {50 noticeable this year, has not been smphasized, and that ' New York utate there is substantial reason for republican hopefuiness.” ER 3 The Brooklyn Eagle (independent democratic) fs convinced *in municipal and local elections the part the Ku XKlux Klan played was conslderable. The new ‘know-nothingism' is cutting & wide ewath. It is bound to attract greater and not less attention as the presidential election approaches. It cannot henceforth be considered negligible in American politics.” The fact that “there were no iswues of general importance Involved" is amphasized by the Nashville Banner (independent ~derfocratic), but that newspaper #ces in the result in Ken- tucky “the ceemingly continued trend of the times agalnst republican control of affairs. This trend was belleved by jmany to have beem halted and it may, in_a moasure, have been; but it f; still strong enough to give to democrats the encouragement they need. All in all the elestion did not mean much to either of the great {parifes. Gaining a fow legislative iseats in New York fs not much for | republicans to_ grow boastful over. and the restoration of Kentucky to ithe democratic column was pretty {much, under the circumatances, an inevitable _election outcome.”, ~To which the Wilkes-Barre Record (inde- pendent republican) adds there is ‘no forecast for next year in the results." Taking direct issue with this claim, the Jacksonville Times-Unlon (demo- cratic), feels “the few elections held this year show that the democratic wave of two Years A has not sub- sided. If the voters next year are of the same mind they are now, a democrat will be elected President by an overwhelming majority. The fight between the p-“nfiu w.-‘not ubc'%\:r;'.: by the substitution of one vl'ews. Next year, it the fight is made i, as it g‘w-hrs :.n :ble.r‘oze the rty fel nto & han 0! - Sts who relt authorised to rewrite ita principles, the result will be scarcely doubtful.” So far as Vermont was cohcerned, however. the Burlington Free Press (republican) insists “its verdict is not only for sterling repub- licanism and : ublican principles in both branches of Congress, but also for the support of Calvin Coolidge and the enforcement of the.prohibi- tion laws.” And, dealing with Ken- tugky, the Lexington Leader (demo- cratic) suggests “both political par- WILLIAM WILE varying fiber, and would-be pfesi- dent-makers comprise _the motely company. The Wh! House i the mecca of all the republican faithful. Every day ‘Mr. Coolidge Is_making the acquaintance of G. O. P. some- bodies, come to pay respects to the new President and cast anchors to windward A month _from now Washington will be a seething caul- dron of politics, and the music in the air will be a symphony of plans and plota. * & Kk According to Vice Chairman O'Con- nor of the United States Shipping Board, bone-dry American passenger ships are holding their own with wetter rivals, if the malden year of the Leviathan is a criterion. That Queen of the seas, 'he says, has carried more passengers back and forth across the Atlantic during the ;past four months than any vessel in commission. The Leviathan's popu- larity proves that the absence of an alcoholic bar is not’ & commercial bandicap. The world's biggest ship was equipped before a presidential order mads the American merchant marine dry. 8o, aft the lnxurious “public hail” on the promenade deck, is a_butler's pantry with racks on which are hung row upon row of every size and shape of glass that once dld duty in convivial days. Tf Congress some day should decree light wines and beer, the Leviathan will be ready. X * % Ona of the newly enrolled members of the democrats’ 1924 “Victory Club™ rejolces in the name of Victor Record. !The man who enrolled next to him is Henry Necessary. As funds for a victor are necessary in politics, Maj. Ollver Newman, the gold digger of the democratic national committes, sees an ominous appropriateness in the names of his new recruits. * k& % The Atlantic deeper waterways iquestion is up again this week through the activity of J. Hampton Moore, who has just relinquished the mayoralty of Philadelphfa. Under his leadership, Norfolk, Va., over Novem- ber 13, 14, 15 and 16 is entertaining the most representative body of men and women ever come together to discuss the problem of better eastern waterways. Mr. Moore, while a member of congress, put over the final legislation for acquisition of the Chesapeake and Delaware canal. He has been a waterways enthusiast for sixteen years. Largely through his efforts an assoclation was formed which links up all communities along the Atlantic seaboard for an intra- coastal waterway from NeweEngland to Florida. Much of this has been taken over by the federal govarn- ment and made toll-free. The big lnnx remaining to be taken, crosses New Jersey, and Governor Silzer and |the other intervening governors in- {tend to put in a strong word for that |canal at the Norfolk convention. (Copyright, 1923.) 1 Discover Any Significance in Election jties in Kentucky are badly in need of {®00d housccleaning, and the state, generally speaking, will mark time until this task is accomplished. * ¥ ok % Because “there were %0 many an- gles to the balloting that practically ail factions find some consolation in the result” the Cincinnat! Bnquirer (independint) feeln “the electorats an a whole needs further education,” while the Utica Press (independent) Suggests the voteis “can be better trusted today than ever before, be- cause the means of spreading infor- mation about candidates and fssues are §0 much better than In the past. The voter today can ascertain all he needs to know and vote intelligently and consclentlously.” Taking a text from the local results the Albany Knlckerbocker Press (independent re- publican) wonders why “national is- sues should have any bearing on such contests, and “to meet the needs of this situation many cities have adopt- ed the commission form of govern- ment and others have adopted the city-manager plan. These have been used to mest the need for a scheme of Forernment that would function fo” one purpose only, that is, for the benefit of the city, ita tax- payers and people, and not work only in response to the will and purpoge of a party machine. The aim in the new movement has been to put brains and conscien¢e into governmental machinery. This is not to say that either the commission form or the city-manager plan have been success: ful in all trials. Neither {8 an fm- provement on the old methods po sible unless the people themselves so- lect men of especial training, high character und fitness for office. 1In the final analysis a city will have no better government than the aver of intelligence of a majority of eleatorate.” Holds Speeder Selfish. Correspondent Opposes Designat- ing Streets for Swift Driving. To the Editor of The Star: A short tima ago a letter appeared in The Evening Star suggesting that certain strests and avenues be set aslde for “speeding. It seema to me all thoughtful and sensible people must always remard poeding” as the sslfieh.act of & natic; for why shonld any sane per- #on desire to speed. enddngering thereby both life and property, uniess it be a doctor or a fireman, to save life, and for them a sate limit should e mot. It must be remembered that cvery gerson {8 a human unit of the com- | munity, and has no personal right to | Jeopardize life, and as. every unit is of more or less valua to the commu- nity, 80 it isthe duty of the commu- nity’ to protdet the welfars of ita unite, and whenever a unit shows it- self reckless and unrestrained Ly the laws of the community some proper fotters must be Eul upon its activi- ties, so that both it and its fellow units may have the fullest immunity Arom injury. i Tt is & grent mistake to think that “spesd” I8 necessary to the business of a community, where all rates of travel are brought to the same stand- | ard; all competition, then, bejng a! the s e rate of travel; for, remem: ber, that when il business was horse- drawn it went forward comfortably, sanely and profitably as now. reoly & day passes now that apers do not record deaths and injuries to many people, and usually all are the result of 3peed. Now, what {s needed to correct largely the evils of speeding is a dras- tic law for the regulation of speed within the District of Columbia. Theretore, as 11 e more valua- ble than speed, I suggest that all strest trafic be made to conform to some uniform rate of travel as a maximum, and every machine-driven vehicle be ;mu to this, rate, which 1 would limie to fifteen miles an hour, and sealed there; and if tampered penalty to be six months in fine of $500, and in default * six months, and give ¢ YIIIB & ehnr under the 1‘1'.' fluence of iquor the sam nalty. For second oftenses double eK: pun- ishment. \ Moreover, lst us have a penal colony for all convicts, with banishment for not less than twenty-five years and forteiture of citisenship. Drastic con- ditions need drastic laws. Clear the land of all “undesirables” and let us have peace. - CORNBLIUS B. HITE. LOVE'S PILGRIM. J. D. Beresford. The Bobbs-Merrill Company. They call it the *mew peychiology. Yet its foundations are infinitely older than those from which, within the past half century, the modern science of the mind has Jdeveloped. The “new psy- chology” clalms the unconsclous mind as its particular domain. The more commonly accepted view of this sclence deals with the conscious mind, its laws, procesees, fulfillments. For its origin and growth the unconscious mind goes back, fllimitably, to the primitive urge of the individual to preserve itself on the one hand, and. on the other hand o perpetuate itself by way of offspri 'nn&. double elemental urge gives ac- counting, if one but seek it, for all nutritional and sex hungers. For the greater security of these two’ essentinls of continued existence i third element became active in primitive man. This, the impulse to gather In groups—the herd instinet, common to all life, espe- clally marked in all animal life, includ- ing the man animal. This gathering into groups of neceasity imposed agree- ments, concessions, the Individual yleld- ing for the good of the group, accom- modations, adaptations. It is upon this third element of the unconscious mind that all eubsequent social units rest, that all civilizations rise and endure. * % E % Dr. Sigmund Freud maintains and teaches that the wnconscious is the real man. The consclous man is no more than a deceptive automaton made up of endless ages of conven- tions, rules, inhibitions, conformities, 2 full and circumventing Brood of “verbotens” behind which, as behind an {mpenetrable darkness, the actual man follows the primary and unes- capable urges o the unconscious mind. The excitement of this theory— and it is an exciting one—is that. to oven the average onlooker, it points the way of explaining many puzzling nd disconcerting facts. For Instance, to take a single example, there is the family, conceded to be a useful and noble #ocial bulwark. Now the fam- {ly has through the iong ages hecome so thoroughly institutionalized as to stand in the common mind as of divine origin. Tt s buttressed by moral and ctvil law. It is beautified by parental and filial claims of pure and unkelfish devotion. Yet everybody yhody who_sees at all—looks out upon far {ly hatreds and secret antagonisms that declare themselves in a thousand What is the far rresistible hatreds These antedate These unconscious way. sousce of these and antagonisma? the family, so Freud declares. disclose the unconsclous man acting through his primal instincts. Again. within the family, who has not seen the father renewing his youth in chivalrous and tender gallantries to- ward the daughter, the son a matter of slight concern? ' Who has not seen the passionate unwisdom of mother love toward the son, while toward the daughter there ecret dislike, envy, jealousy. all cloaked in pious phrases of untruth? What does it all mean? The unconscious mind revea ing the actual man here and there through the —eentury-long overlayings of convention. So Freud sa * % % % . James Robinson in his studies on “humanizing knowledge” would say that psychology, of all sciences, de- mands this humanizing agency. And Dr. Joseph Collins. agreeing, declares in “The Doctor Looks at Literature that the novelist is, of all others, the one to do this. It is the considerable novelist who translates psychology into life. He presents character and personality, and these reacting upon life, give customs, manners, beha- viors, ideals. And how certain novel- ists have jumped at the chance of- fered by the theory of the uncon- sclous mind as Sigmund Freud pro- jects and amplifics and emphasizes 1t. Many woman writers have “gone off on psychoanalysis” as my friend writés from London about May Sin- clair, “a littlo old-fashioned woman Who looks older than she need, nice t sign of her gen- —with no slgn at al ‘gone off” after the new gods set up by Slgmund Freud. And there 1s Dorothy Richardson, most seif-confessing of ladies, and Rebec- ca West, whose splendidiy ornamen ed and topheavy story, “The Judge depicts the exclusive and consuming love of mother and son. % x x % The men who are dealing with this theme are many. Among them is 1. B. Beresford with his mew story, “Love's Piigrim.” Thig is & good story, but not better than othe writtan by Mr. Beresford—say, not better than the one relating the ad- ventures of Jacob Stahl. Its special interest lles in the fact that by way of it Mr. Berexford. too, has ‘“gone off” on the psyehoanalytic trail. This, however, is not all of {t. Mr. Beregford has written a story that can be read, which 18 more than may be sald of many of the novels baged apon a theme which s not only prelific, but more than likely besides to got clear out of hand and to go galloping away into wecret places where no sano man dares to follow. In sum, it is the story of overlove etween mother and son. It is, how- ever, in contrast to all the other re- gent novels based upon this theme, keyed down to the level of common understanding and, therefore, down to the level of general acceptance. The average reader can look around almost anv day and see the story of Foster Innes working itsslf out in whole or in part without being forced to dig back inte primitive ancestral instinots through a wallow of dis- tressing revelations, If, on the other hand, one reads this'story in the light of Stgmund Freud's conclusions he is able to reach the objactive as con- vincingly as if it had been clothed in the reckless violence 6f—say, D. H. Lawrence. Foster Innes telis own story herc—that of a lame b #hut out from the rough-and-tumb! world of bovs, shut in, to a great e: tent, with hie mother and his dreams. To this mothar the boy constitutes oll the love life that she has ever known. The huaband is dead. Neglible when he was alive. A beautiful wom- the mother—intelligent, clever, D fng. The story grows with the hoy's growth, with the change of his dreams into plctures of his own fu- ture happiness wherein a lovely malden always has the leading part. In the oourse of time the maiden comes true, for this is s well born, attractive youth, one finds as he reads. So maidens do not stand aloof, a8, under the bodily blemish they might otherwise have done. In a subtlety that is altogether surpassing the author pictures the Ingenuity of that mother in circumventing any other love life for the boy than the one which she herself f{s anldln‘ for him. When, as {n Engliskr fam- 1lien, the question of Issue comies up the mother grows graciously com- liant toward the one desirable Eng- ieh girl who could undoubtedly pro- vide issue of standard specifications, but who could never in the world en- gage the whole love of her son. Li ily, this particular girl slips out of ituation. A cunning of devilish ingenuity animates the woman und an exterlor as suave and smilinj the dawn. The boy a mollycoddl Not at all. He loves his mother, he 18 proud of her. She has been the sole source of all his joys. Ho, the mai- dena come and go, under his superh program of dismissal. Finally, chance or fate, provide the boy, for the first time in his sheltered life, With some- thing to do for some one besides him- self. Slowly, another kind of love, than the absorbing ana jealous eme tior, that had anifmated both him and his mother moves in and brings the youth out—not in any miraculous and #pectacular fashlop—but reasonably, believably and satlsfyingly—just ai throughout, Mr. Beresford has pu sued a sensitive tl e with great de! lcacy sand skil o final tableau— the mother, cquncud but unbowed, the boy, the gitl, both.so quletly ab- #orbed {n each other—this is & story in itselt. x LG M that she had I ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. When were apartment houses first buflt in the United States?—J. G. M. A. Following the civil war, be- tween 1870 and 1875, the earliest bufldings of this type made their ap- pearance in New York city. Q. On_what tree grow?—>M. W. A. Apple, thorn, maple, poplar, lo- cust, linden and occasionaily oak, will furnish & home for the mistletoe’ par- asite. Q. What is the cost of burning city garbage?—J. F. A. The cost of incinerating gar- bage In the United States ranges from $250 to $1.000 per annum per 1,000 of ;mnumlnn. the average being about 600. Q. What is the greatest inland port in the world?—A. N. A. The last report shows thet the tonnage st the port of Duluth, Wis., 52,411,824, was the largest of any in- 1and port in the world. Q. ment C. H. A. White slave trafic was former- ly extensive in Iurope, America, sarts of Aslu, Africa and Australia. The suppression of the traffic was agreed upon by an international treaty signed May, 1904, by repre- sentatives of France, Germany, Great Britain, Ttaly, Russia, Sweden, Den- mark, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Por- tugal, Norway and Switzerland. The Unlted States significd its adnercnce to the treaty in 1908. Q. How long can a trolley wire be used?—A. B. D. A. The period of time that a trol- lex wire can be used before being r pliced depends entirely on amount of traffic. However, average, it would last ten years. Q. Has work been started on the Ford Motor Company’s plant _between Minneapolis and St. Paul?7—F. W. A. 3h{nr decisions covering the construction of the plant have been made. The plant is to ba on the Mississippi river ‘between the cities you named. The three most impor- tant bulldings are to be a steam plant, 2 manufacturing and assembly plant and a hydro-electric plant. Sp clal Interest is attached to the hydro- electric development, since it repre- sents the company's most extensive undertaking of this kind. Q. California?—R. A. The Vigilantes were a volun- téer committee of citizens who or- ganized in San Francisco in 1851 to combat undesirable conditions which existed in California_following the gold rush of 1848. They dealt out summary justice uatil conditions Le- came stable. docs mistletoe Is there an international agree- regarding white slavery?—F. Who were t Vigilantes of P. ¥ Q. Has n scale of odors corre sponding to the color spectrum ever been worked out?—W. T. L A. Experiments along this bave been made, but no complete scale has been establiched. the best known atiempts to arrans odors In related sequence is Hen- ning's color prism. Henning used a 8 IN TODAY’S its waste of manpower. With all its labor-saving machinery, America wasting more manpower than using. Mismanagement and misap- iplcu.n of effort are held to be re- is sponsible. Economists assert that mis- applied labor is the woret kind of waste, for not only equanders wages (or the equivalent), but ft lowers the morale of the workers. Mr. Ethelbert Stewart, TUnited cs, has prepared a statistical table (hitherto unpublished) whose facts constitute an arraignment of Amer- ican agriculture, The commissioner took the farmers of Illinois as repre- senting 100 per cent. for the purposc of comparting those of other states in productivit The per capita value of the crop produced in Illinois is §514. In Towa it averages § In all other states it falls below. Alabama averages only $207, Virginia, $357; West Virs ginia, $226; Pennsylvania, $436. We hear of “abandoned” farms in Maine, yet the farmers of that state average 3 —twice as much as the farmers of North Carolina (3218) and nearly twice as much ae the farmers of South Carolina ($269). Mr. Stewart's statistics suggest that. If the government could, some- how, require all farmers to work as effectually as the average farmer of Illinols works, and to produce as much as the average farmer of IMii- nois produces, it might recruit from the surplus farmers an army for needed industries as large as the en- tire army mobllized in our world war offorts, including both the A. B. F. and the army in training camps in this country. Working on the Niinois_standara, only 3,513,081 farmers would be need. ed to cultivate all the land that is now under cultivation, and the dif- ference betwcen that requirod force {and the 8,132,453 farmers who are line | One of | prismatic figure as a basls for the | it is| States commissioner-of labor statis- | relationship betweot odors. Ha « lected six distinct odorous qualitie fragrant, ethereal, putrid, spicy, res- inove and burned—and locatcd one of these qualitics at each of the sit angles of the prism. He then at- tempted to classity odors weoordiag to thelr relationship to the six qua'- ities. Most flowers, for Instance, ars fragrant. But there &rc exceptione, such as lavender and lemon verbani. which are ethereal rather than fra- grant. Because odors are complex, and_because the human senso of smell is not highly developed, tha rage person would not bo uble to make use of an odor scalo to clus sity odors €0 readily es he fis o classify colors by the color & trum. Q. How can a window screen painted so that persons in the housa can_see out, buf paeserseby cannot readily see In?—M. C. B. A. Paint the inside of the scres with thin white paint. Q. Why is calied?—F. K. A. Horse latitude is the name giv en to the belts of calms in the north Atlantic ocean between the region of westerly winds of the higher lati- tudes and the region of trade winds of the torrid zone. The origin of the name is not certainly knew Some authorfties believe that it wzas derived from the fact that vessels With cargoes of hor 98 were often so delayed because of the calms that the animals perished from lack of war Q. latitude so- What was the sum that Ed- ward 11T of England paid as a rs }som for Geoffrey Chaucer when t latter w taken prisomcr as a sol- dier in France?—R. F. A. The sum would amount in ou currency to about $1,200. Q. How should geraniums be ke through the winter?—N. B. T. The Department of Agricultur says that the method of hanging ¢ raniums up by the roots in the is & reasonably suceessful w keeping them through the win but it is not considered the best procedure. It is better to dig the plants up, put them into pots, cur off most of ihe tops of the piants, and keep in a light window in a cocl room. Another satisfaclory way 1: to put the plants in earth, water the: and let them alon: ! Q. What is the Devil's Tower?- V. W, { A. This is a huge tower of valeanic rock in the eastern part of Wyeming near Mooreraft. It rises 1.500 feot above the plain, and is visible for = hundred miles in that clondless re- glon. It was used as a gulding mark by the aborigines of the plains and mountains. Pathfinders of the Freneh colonies in Canada used it as a land- mark and later military expeditio in the Sioux and Crow Indian try during the Indian wars directad | their mareh by it. § { popular in hat the United Ktates go 1808, prouounced it 4 national ms ment, andplaced it undar the dir. tion of the national park scrvice I o kave a queetion you weo. anewered send it to The Jormation Burcom, Frederis kin, director, 1220 North street. The on ice is 2 cents postage.) SPOTLIGHT stamps for retur BY PAUL V. COLLINS in Ohlo (Ju Blue Gra 4. The average for the o tire country is 18.4 acres per capit of farm workers—which includes 1h women and children of the famil: for they all help. i * e w There was a faPmer in Washingto last wesk who has under eultivation |In Montana 110,000 acres, averagins | 2¢ bushels of wheat per acre. while { the average yield of wheat through- out the country is about hLaif that per acro. name is Thomas R. Camp- bell. Remember that name. for “the Campbells arc coming” in future American agriculture, Farmer Campbell golves (} lem of farming when b need for 1,000,000 skiliod gasoline gincers on’ the farms today. Wor can produce wheat =0 cheap. wit! modern ll}nchinxe:ry that we personall; ear European competitio; and ‘cheap labor. e Mr. Campbell employs neers, and pays them wages. Besides, ho gives the a share of the profits. All of hls er ployes will be rich before thev old, If they stay with Mr. Campbel’ Ho predicts that within cighte months the grain of the west wi be marketed co-operatively. L *xxx Each day, in plowing seaton, ther J& turned on the Campbell farm furrow, ten feet wide, as long a- from Washington to Chicago.” Thar is reel American farming! Mr Campbell hag invented a machine for seeding which, with two men ut the helm, seeds every hour a strip six feet Wide and three miles long. Onc hour's work! Two men! Is it incredible, then. that there are millions of farmers surplus tc farm production, dawdling over nine teen acres per man per yoar? Mr. Campbell sums up: “The big prob- lem is to lower costs, to produce more, to sell cheaper, to feed bettar. Farming 15 95 per cent @ mechanicai ‘problem and & per cent agriculture.” * % % % prob- There 50 engi- engineer - |now working the samo acreage would release for other useful work 4,619, ( The surplus farmers arc needcd in 872 men, the cities, Compare such waste of man ower which :,I ‘ochelpbm-ke i with tho cost of our participation n | Vhich the Campbells on the farms the world war and note that vear|need. and to help make the machines plier FOOr oihe 4819078 wurplus|which make the machinc. o e L asting thelr| Remember the International Ha time in misapplied energy. A common | yester Company's new self Binas laborer in the city expocts not less e than G0 cante an hHour. At this rate, | one Overy half second—and Ford's and on the basis of eight hours a day lost from useful induetry, the surplus farmers arve squandering in waste of labor §18,477,488 a day. This eoonomic waste causes a 10ss every four years equal to the cost of the world” war. Some patriots think we ought to let thig army of surplus farmers continue to “do rights and lefts” in misapplication of labor, while we invite the surplus labor of Europe to do our work. * % ok % Not only could the reduced number of farmers oultivate the acreage, but they could “deliver the goods,” if they only tame up to the average farmer of Iilinois. The incréased productivity of American farmers in the last cen- tury is one of the wondetr's of human devalopment, It far surpasses the world's increase sinoe the beglnning of the Christian era to 1800. In 1800, one farmer, Wit his sickle, could cut'an agre of Wheat from sun- rise to dark. It then required 95 per ceut of the men of America to raise enough food to feed themselves and the other G per cent. In 183l one man, with a cradle. could harvest two ‘and one-half acres of wheat. In 1840, with a MoCormlick reaper, one man could cut six acres a day, but five men followed the reaper to bind the sweaves. In 1880, with the self- binder, one mah could cut and bind twenty acres a day. (What became of the surplus five men who had fol- lowed the 0ld roaper?) Today, one machine will cut, bind, thrash and sack forty acres a day. (What has become of the fifty men displaced by that modern machine?) kR Why do farmers accomplish o lit- tle, even twith all the labor-saving machinery? In Florida one farmer can cultivate only 9.3 aocres; in Illi- nois, 45.3; in Georgla, 13.2; in Iowa, automobiie at the rate of ono every third of a second. Stop labor's put- tering on nineteen acres a year; get ll-xg with the quantity manufacturers and the Campbell farmers and there will be plenty of American labor, nkilled and unskilled. Quantity production {8 the kev to food production, as well as to farm machinery and ' shoes and automo- biles. In 1840 Cyrus McCormick boasted that ho eould manufucturc: fifty reapers a year. Blacksmith were hammering them out of mall. able iron by hand. and assembling them plecemeal. Today, the Inte nationzl Harvester Company turning out mors than double minute waat McCormick did In a year. 1Is there no pointer in that fo: the farmer? Has the Department of Agriouiture heard of it? The Increase of yield per acre resulting from all the teaching of rotation of crops, selooting of meed and “a' that” ix only two or three bushels per acre The production er man—not per acre—is the oue, Kdison was talking to young my and gave the formula of success: “All that a voung man needs Is brains—just a little brains.” (Copyright, 1923, by Paul V. Colling,) ‘What the Producer Knows. From the Obio State Jours A large producer -hu.{:, seems, as he takes the frain for Washington, to g0 on the theory that he weighe more than all the coneumers put together, and it will have to be ad- mitted that Congress has done a great doal to encourage him in this | idea. 15 { | Good Sportsmanship. | From the Byracuse Post-Standard, The Engilsh will spend £3§.000 dredging a_channel at Southanipton &0 that the Leviathan may dock there, which is, when you comé to think of it, mighty good- sportsmanship. o