Evening Star Newspaper, November 14, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning 'dition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . November 14, 1623 | - THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company” Busiaess Office, 11th St. and l‘elu{lnnll Ave. New York Office: 110 Exst 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bollding. Furopeas Ofice: 10 Regent 8t., London, and, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, {3 delivered by carrlers within the « at 60 ccots per month; dally ooly, 4 nts per mooth: Kunday oniy, 20 centa’ per uth, Orders ma: be sent Ly taall or fele. uone Maln 5000. ‘Collectlon Is meade by cse- ricrs At the end of each wonth. Rate by Mafl—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dafly and Sunday. .1 yr. $8.40: 1 Dally only... 15yr., $6.0 Sunday only -1yr., 82 All Other States. mo., 70¢ | mo., 600 mo, 20¢ ton) whereon to erect public offices und bulldings for a permanent house.” Kingston, N. Y., through its trustces, _THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. G, price reduction will be shown in their bills. One must expect that many of ihis nelghbors wiil say, 0 matter in the spring of 1783 asked Congress | what they charge for gas the bill is! to erect that place “into u separate district for the honorable Congress of the United Stater.” Annupolis offered to give its statehouse and 300 acres of ground to Congress as a Capital for the confederation. Virginia in June, 1783, offered to give Congress all the state bulldings in “'“li‘unsburz and 300 acres adjoining the town. Similar offers came from other source: When Congress, in 1790, passcd the t to estublish @ Federal city on the Potomac the main thought wus to secure @ central location, u fine situs- tion und safety from possible disturb- ance. Later the thought of u great clty came in the minds of some men, and the pian of L'Enfunt stimulated the Imagination of many Americans. Washington, without doubt, pictured a » Dally and Sunday.1.yT., $10.00: 1 mo., 850 raily only. 1¥r., $7.00; 1mo., 60c Sunday onl mo., 26c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press s exclusively entitled o the use for republcstion of all news dis- patches eredited to it or oot otherwise credited .8 this peper and also the local news pub- Vated berein. Al n§m- of publication of speclal dispatches herein sre mlso reserved. grand Capital, not of marble, but of #andstone, and a city of fine homes might spring up. From 1784 he was Intercsted In the Potomac Improve ment Company, which was part of a plan to give trade connection between | the Potomae valley, the Ohlo valley and the great lakes region. He thought a largs manufacturing city, or city of water mills, would rise at Great Falls. The trade of this region, The Doorn Mystery. Despite official denials at Berlin of any invitation to the former kaiser to veturn from Holland, feeling is ex- pressed in London that there ia some- ‘hing doing. Indeed, it would seem in- credible that such specific reports as hose that came from Holland of preparations at the castle of Doorn ur departure, and particularly that passports had been received, could iave been totally unfounded. For the ght of the former crown prince from land into Germany, with every vidence of acquiescence by the Ber- | in government and permission by the | Netherlands government, stands as a <lear evidence of a willingness in rmany for the Hohenzollerns to re- turn. Iad the flight of the crown rince not occurred the reports about he ex-kaiser might well have been seredited at the outset. of Germany's purposes is tural in view of the record of the LEvery move is properly question s to motive. i to be logically 1 for ulterior design. hstanding the fafiure of the Lapp putsch several years ago, and t failure of the mon- ! movement in Bavaria—which was due chictly to jealousy betw caders—it may be down as prob- le tha desire prevall® in Ger-| = he re-cstablishment of sorme | €108¢ about the 26th with, it Iu e 1,350 candidates in form of Kaisership. The Germun peo- | “0 e s 5 quiits naturally desive Sustineation | WSRE for the 616 seats In the house 5 the eves of the world. At present | 0f commons. The chief udilEhe the trageiies of th Irist tew years | Tt of protection versus free trade. attributed to thelr former form of | AY an opening gun in the fight overnment chicfly, not to uny funda- | 38Wnst the ministry comes the un- wrong. They have learned no | Pouncement of a reconciliation ey are not contrite. That e tWeen Anquith and Lioyd George, PR e B ) | ecting a coalition of the lberal f niber, 1918, there was « re. | tHAt Were Ludiy spilt at the lu the katser | toD collapss of the war 1 Ealy e : fled into Holind | BéVe been nearing a rapprochen s would have been subject. | 207 Some time. Thelr natural inte od to great Indignities at the hands of | 4raW them together. The announs :" e would probably | Ment of thelr reunion, colnciding us it grain and the import of manufactured goods, passed through Georgetown and Alexandria, with some exports of tobacco from Pladensburs. Washington may have dreamed thut the Federal city would become a greut industrial place. Outside of agricui- ture and some fron mining and smelt- ing In Prince Georges and Anne Arundel countics, Md., and Prince Willtam county, Va., and the keeping of stores and taverns there was little of what might be called industry in this reglon. Most persons thought that a new city between Georgetown and Alexandria would not much interfere with the trade of either. —_——— British Politics. The interest of the British people {turns now from international to domes- | tic politics. Parllament is to be dis- solved day after tomorrow after a very brief session, und a general election will be held on the 6th of December. British campaigns are brief but in- tenstve. For a little more than three cen | Woeks T H ubject to serutiniz some e e are rental 5 ling agains ders ut orty. these cen dethroned in person. But | d0es With the statement of the plan | { for am clection, shows that they hav. .| concluded that there is no politieal < doubtless won @ certain | health in further scparation, but on {n Germany, | the contrary there i3 & porsibility of u it Is known, | Feturn to power. In .this campaign rcoording | the Uberals will oppose the protection | poltey of the conservatives. led the wounds to a gre rmpathy intrigued shrewdly and, and parks with such business as! principally the export of tobacco and | igland, Scotland and Wales | | will be the scene of sharp campalsn- | { ing, first for neminations, which will | the field con- ! always the same, or more.”” But peo- ple bave being saying that and stmilar things for so many years that they have the habit. ———— Pinchot and Coal Prices. J Gov. Pinchut is 4 busy man these duys.. First be was busily engaged in a crusade for enforcement of the na- tional prohibition law in his own state, in which he achieved only partial suc- Then he was for placing the j mujor burden upon the federal govern- {ment, and was admonished by Presi: | dent , Coolidge that the states must | bear thetr share. Now he comes with a plan for na- | tlonal legislation to curb alieged prot- iteering {n coul prices, having failed in an effort to get the operators volun- tarily to “clean their own house.' He has called @ conference in Harrisburg November 25 to which he has invited the governors of twenty-nine states, states that ure users of anthr: cite. Gov. Pinchot declures that justice to the great body of anthracite con- sumers must be reached mainly b national action, He says he is ready to submit a suggestion for a single specific program to be presented to coss. | I | [to get behind it | united support 'in | Congress. The great mass of the people will welcome the submission of a “single speeltic program” it it seems at all }feasible. Nuturally, if national legisl ]tlun can check extortion in anthracite { prices {t n i de to apply to | bituminous erybody will push {it. Until th crnor makes pubiic { his plan there will be the keenest | presenting it to [terest in it. and speculation us to whother it will be handicapped by the | principle of governmental price-fixing, {which, of course, would endanger its | being tarried aut. ! ————— { Before making a serious effort to re ‘Alnro the Hohenzollerns the mon- larchists should go before the public | with an explicit statement as to what Kafser Wilbelm ever did for his coun- w i { B —— } There was a thme when no one be i leved the discussion between the Gov- | ernor of Oklahoma und the lature il and perfunct become Every new | eredits numerous im luss of their literac cernment in trying countr day's d- wise dis in ! flation is not are melancholy ref i 't that the treaty of Versallles is not what it used to be. ———— ad- which turned in @ conservitive @ | Poincare is so interested in repars tions that he might be feation of experts, SHOOTING STARS. PY IBILANDER JOHNSON. Watchfulness. MGoing bk to Germany. Kagser suid, I the Tormer BY PAUL About two years ago Secretary of Labor Davis reported that there were 4,500,000 idle men in the United States; today there is scarcely an unwilling fdler, but there are “proph- ets of evil” a3 to what conditions will ibe tomorrow. Industry was alarmed at the volume ! of unemployment in 1921. Many were the explanations of what had brought ,is about. War had not ravaged the { citles of the United States, destroying ;factories, as it had those of Belglum and France. War had ‘not swept like (@ blight over the farms of America, as it had along that desolated fron- tier from Switzerland to the English channel. Yet, everywhere, there was agricultural SDAY, IN. TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT V. COLLINS [#ix months and thereafter 20 and 16 shillings. This freo donatlon to the {unemployed ceased in 1921 after the government had paid out in support of 640,000 males and 453,000 females £66,000,000 (at par, $330,000,000). By puttng this premium on fdlcness it weskened the morale of the work instead of arousing agriculture to self-support and pro- duction, To the English statesmen thls donation to the unemployed aivillans seemed necessary, in the tace of unemployment insurance in #ome trades, under the insurance luw of 1811. The insurance I¥ wupported | partly by assesvments of 5 pence week divided equally between the em ployer and employe und 1 2-8 pence saded by the government. But the |and were insufficient to support the !heneficiury in idlencss. The on _national benefits were only 7 shillings & week crats offictal | unemplovment | Congress, and will ask the governors | and lend it their 5 persaaded to | iopen w school of his own for the edu- digtress and Industrial TePOTt [ Iipsurance, filed lust July, testifica to |the failure of the systein. Idlencss of leaders of labor and | there {8 ‘ncreasing and now the | United Kingdom in struggling with n o wd by Fresident Hurding, and after prolons- ' [loyd" Gonrke. o protection oy 5 ¥ consideration, it was found that tarlff. urged by Premfer | the stimulation of credits, during the | While Bngland is eunporting in ‘dlc jwar had overexpanded both agricul- | n it etk (Lo Gnid A et {ture and Industry. The natural re- |larkely supplied by Germuny and the ‘action had curtalled credits, and the |¢Pressed purchasing power of Ger- farmers faced rulned home markets | Gmeiiun ndustrs S fOTmer outlet of | for their products. That brought fur- | Eneilun industry. | Tn contrust with the British plan of ‘ther depression and bankruptey to |farmers. which, in turn, through the supporting the unemployed, the Amer- shrunken purchasing power of the fean plan has been to “open the mills farmers—u third of the population— instead of the mints.” During the last year, through the Labor Department, { smothered trade for industrial products. ! FFactortes closed and 4,600,000 unem- 140,000 men have been given employ ment, and it Is planned to make fed- | eral employment agencies in large ployed men Walked the streets, ready oo Permanent. 10 beg for food, while food pre cuw thefr crops rotting b could buy, collapse, : A conference | industrial enterprise was called by * % % The aythors of the book, v Emplr appeal to thelr ment to estabiish sclentilic instruec- ltion throughout the kingdom. The premier of Australia, Mr. Hughes, has already adopted that policy, and there is a national laboratory. und extension of sclence cducation with- in reach of every wvouth of ntinent, Chemistry is one of !the keys of future industry, and the Look cites the ‘act that, propor- tion to population of the respect countries, Switzerland has 300 chem- iets and Germany 256, contrasted | with France's 7, ‘and & for England (HMow many industrial chemists has the United States, on the same basie? ® % ¥ % Telips govern- The captains of industry and the leaders of luabor and furming reaffrm- ed that the interdependance of fac- tory and furm had been demonstruted axain, as it had in all previeus de- pressfons, * ok ok % American prosperity, including the | fortuns of the workingman, has been Gue to American hustle and alertness in using labor-saving methods und inereasing output—never in restrict- ing productfon. A otable book. pire, published in written jolntly by Gray ine “Eclipse or Em- London in 1415, Herbert Brunston and_ Saniuel Turner, 18 o warn- to Great Britain n by fts ish authors, thut other natlons pushing her aside in the indus- 1 race. It holds lessons also for too smug’ Americans, Americans may be preud to study the following ecomparison by the { British authors, showing the produc Ioper man (not wages) in g British and American Why §s Ameriea the perous country In the world? becuuse of strikes, not because of restricted output of labor, but be- labor “amplifiers achinery—and the 8 of modern sci- the average work not bt sutput auttiors nieriean produces u times the value of wha orkman turns out Yot how efficient gre we? | ruanufucturing concern employ 600 men making tires, wnd | outpat 000 tifes. New more e management | which diseharged ali but 5,000 men, se now produce 20,000 tires. Y ‘tory for making other parts of mobiles was half a mile long, and its practice was to admit the mber at one end of the works, then after rough-hewing It, haul other end. most pros- | cause - labor- methods Because produces o maximun | English man a Ac minimum ording to - the av Tingdom (pourds). fponnd<i. 38 a: ast thres a4 British 1 t rr aud tools. Clothing Thats Hostery nting and pubiishing be =uppl. £ industries ericans Ivity tendene 1e list ean 4 weore more ing in favor of Der_cent in produ; What is toduy” an industry? ¥ 2 00 to 500 ! ¢ In Amert- rmerly our bric! re laid 1,200 bricks a day; now ay 800, at greatly increused d shortened hours. Similar her lubor find reac- in a marked slump in buflding operations. Builders. not only in | Washington, but throughout the coun- try, are slowing down as to new {operations, and that affects not ouly, { the rkilled laborers but the unskilled, | stopping employment everywhere. | Thore 18 an uncasy feoling, a% mem- | ry turns to the 4,600,000 unemployed nly two years ago, in contrast with | ithe prosperous condition of tho last | 'L\\u-nu‘ montns. with as Jdi- = has been | t much & Mttle brains, mends, the rout! America has The words of Gladstone In 187§: “It {¢ America who at a given time | will wrest from us that commercial | supremacy. We have no title; I have no inclination to urmer at the pros- pect. If she acquires it, she will| ake the acquisition by the right of. he strongest; but in this instance i For th years after the war the ' the strongest means the best. She that | Not | e reports from Doorn, it i3 she ive In I uranees given by Holland that Wi 1 be allowed But thery is no sign | Villiam, wi » leust ditficult, st made sies understan nnot go on deing business talked f should prepare a to the tune of The Capital and Trade. A man spraking before « Washington club recently eald that | Washington wus destined to become o | commercial elty, according to the plans 1 its founders and the bellef of the | vatriots of the period in which the| vians for the Federal city were being | drawn. Whatever were the theugh of those patricts Washington hus be s commereul city, though with | mauny serious limitations, and wiil be- | ome greater n trade and commerce .8 time passcs. Opinions differ as to what the projectors of a permanent apltal thought about this matter. It vould seem reasonable that there were iifferent opinions among them. T'nder the Continental Congress, | 41778, and the Congress of the C federation, 1778-1789, Congress sat at) Philadelphia, Baltimore, Lancaster, vork, Princeton, Annapolis, Trenton and New York in buildings louned or rented. Afnsworth Spofford read Lefore the Columbia Historical Soclety n 1899 that “'Congress forsook Phila- | delphia for Princeton in 1783 malnly because of a rude disturbance of its proceedings by a mob of soldiers,” and that “this fncident contributed much | to the later hostility of that body to ! fixing the Capital In or near any large city.” That incident was an uprising of about 1,200 unpaid Pennevlvania sol- dlers whose grievance was against their state, but golng to the state- house, in which Congress and the su- preme council of Pennsylvania were in session, they set guards at the doors, cent a threatening ultimatum to the councll and blockaded Congress and interrupted its proceedings. That was| in June, 1783. Long before that time there had Leen talk of @ permanent apital where buildings and grounds wonld be outside the jurisdiction of any state and would be owned by the central government. Benjamin Rush, member of Congress, wrote to a friend at Princeton, N. J,, in 1779, that 'Some members of Congress are talk- ing of purchasing a few square miles tory near the village (Prince-y | | 19 desi Premior Baldwin has been criticis rply for interjecting the tariff qu s tion into British affairs. He did so as & means of alleviating the condition of the British workmen und reducing the mier of the unempioyed. His ox- planation of the decls] peuliament was that f@ was in fuls ment of the pledge glven by the late Andrew Bonar t of the present parliument th would be no change In fiscal policy. Therefore he appeals to the country to ohbtain its sanction for protection. It would seem that the reunited lib- erals will be led by Asquith rather “{ than by Lloyd George. The former is | the elder statesman of the two, prece- .dert as premier and the old titular | i head of the liberal party. That Lioyd | George is willing to accept the licu- tenancy in the lberal forees under As quith's captainey is indication thut he ous to return to active political lfe. His recent Amerlcan tour may be interpreted now as pert of his plan to re-establish his political prestige. ————— When his government is adverscly | eriticized President Ebert can come back with the retort that it is at least as good a democracy now as It was a | moensrehy in the old dayy. ———— Any artful persuader who could | duce a Hohenzollern to go back and | assume the throne could make more money selling him ofl‘stocks. —_——ee Democratic leaders, by retiring Mr. McAdoo from the list at this juncture may enable him to come back next summer as a dark horsé. Gas. The recent order of the Public Utli- ties Commlssion reducing the price of gas from $1.00 to 31 per thousand cubie feet Will apply to the December gas bills. 1t is a substantial reduction, und the order of the commission has been received with gratification by the cus consumers in Washington house- helds, The reduction of 5 cents per thousand feet is not etartling, and the saving that may be effected will not make the poor rich nor the rich much richer, but it isa step that gives many persons a sense of appreciation. A reduction in the price of anything, especially of « thing so widely used as gas, gives a feeling of relicf. That gas can be reduced in price and the gas companies still do busj- ness and pay dividends suggests to many persons that the price of other things might come down a trifle. Gas {9 made from coal end oil, and wages of workers in the gusmaking trade have no doubt advanced as that in other lines of work. Digging ditches for gas mains costs more money, the pipe itself costs more and the cost of repair and maintenance has advanced, yet the Public Utilitles Commission finds that the margin of profit is enough to allow a reduction in price to the “ultimate consumer.” It is believed that most persons will be just as economical in the use of sas us they have been, and that the on to dissoive | Where once T knew the { the stein. ! Where people were conte buisy Uves they led they joined and lifted cht am Rhetn."” Some influential parties are compeiling fret aising an unprecedented shout. coaus T showed the quickest way of getting into debt, ‘They think it's up to e tzel and «d with the As up the f I to help ‘em might go abroad and way raise a stake. 1 might revive my intercst In art. As souvenirs the poems and the ple- tures T could make Should serve in getting a fisuncial start. new responsibilitics they say I am in line. Should T in pelit Where once they used to sing about the watch upen the Rhine Theyll want to hold a stop watch on Pace i B \ Vietory Through Defeat, “What's your iden of wresti ory from the jaws of defeat?” “There ade alwuys good jobs In pri- I vate life,” rejoined Senator Sorghwn, $ t ruf- effectual as i { vie- Jud Tunkins miys he's not going to put in any mere time trying to com- prehend the Einstein theory til he can at least unierstand what difference it 'nmke:. A Relisble Friend. { There's cumfort in each passing situa- tion. When politics is threatening a storm IWe'll still retain a touch of consola- tion Thile the weather man kecps suy- ing, “Fair and warm. Nelfish Man. You are gld your wife vote?” “Yes,” replied Mr. Meekton. “It gives her 0 much to interest her aside from my own little shortcomings.” “1s she happier?” . But 1 think maybe I am. has the Turbulent Reform. “You think Crimson Guich has e great future?"” “Yep,"” answered Cactus Joe. “All the boys want to get rid of the unde- slrable element. It's takin' time, though, and some rough work, owin’ to the differences of opinion as to who he 1s.” “Whut 1 admires ‘bout o prize fighter,” said Uncle Eben, *is dat he ain' gineter lose his temper an’ hit nobody "thout both parties giitin’ paid | fur it." A Popular Game. From the Boston Trauseript. The interstate commerce _commi sloners have gone back to Washing- ton, but the game of redrawing the raifroad map continues to be as popu- lar as mub-jongg. S resume the race, | ](‘nh A Kingdom followed a policy of alding unemploved wsoldiers. giving ! them 29 shillings a week for men and 125 tor workers during the first year and 20 and 15 shillin i respectively, ufter the first year. Ci- | vilian workers received the same for Dry Law Pact Editoria! opinion seems somewhat fdivided on the merits of extension of the right of rearch for liquor to at least the twelve-mile limit at sea. This {s not because newspapers are | opposed to the demand that “rum {row” be abolished. But some, at least, |incline to question whether this can | be arranged without a violation of | the Constitution should an iment aleo be entered into permitting lalten craft to bring Intoxicants into {American ports even though such supplies are sealed and safeguarded from abuse. Then, again, the ques- n naturally is raised whether this {Jatter concession would not give for- eign vessels an advantage over “bone [dry” craft fiying the American flag. The Baltimore Sun belicves it would disadvantage to American liners ase of m vélers who would ct to “dry nd, “except in Yhe first monihs of a new crusade, the {prinelpal effcet will probubly be to se the prices of foreign liquors to { Ameri consumers, to {ncrease the otivity of land smugglers from {Canada and Mexleo and to stimulate moonshine production in this coun- o it the opinton of the Newark News “the whole businees leaves one with i the Impression that Mr. Coolidge, Mr. | Hughes and Mr. Harvey are idly toy ing with the fringes of questions filled with nothingness. A paper blockade twelve miles out will serve only to make the administration’s | policy more ridleufous than It s at Present unless they put some real action Into the Job of drylng up the largest leake at thelr sources. en, e e K" Yok Post fosls “what | is required to reduce rum running to {the vanishing poiut is more and | fuster government boats, not for | searching foreign vessels far beyond the three-mile limit, but for defeat- | ing fhe itempts of smugglers to land their cargoes in our own waters. This policy. demands two things—increas- ed expenditure for vessels and the selection of enforcement officlals upon the basis of fitness. Iu this lies the possibility of an enforcement of prohibition which we have not seen, Pat which is entirely ~within the power of the government to provide. * X ok ok ‘It would mean selling to one na tion, for a price, immunity ‘to a law which had been affirmed by the high- est court in this land,” asserts the san. Antonlo Light. “This 'would put jthe brand of Insincerity anew upon the govérnment's prohibition be neces: to Drolees of Cevads the faw: o elu amend {t. In either case the transac- tlon would be made for political nn%:‘ Springfield Republican, how- ever, argues that “Secretary Hughes' sganding as & coustitutional lawyer s %o high_that no one can assume that he would sign a treaty which he be- lleved to violate the federal Consti- tution, Such a treaty would be Worthiess.” The Columbia Record s inot inclined to debate the merits of the case, arguing that ‘“the Senate would knock such a treaty into a is= |cocked hat, for New Jersey, New York, trl‘ Missouri and several other liberal but temperate states are represented by men who are not rearing to tie exi pennants to the Volstead act. will probably become what we are now—head servant in the household of the world, the employer of all emploved, because her service will L the most and the ablest. We have no more title ugainst her, than Venice, or Genoa or Hollard has axainst us.’ (Copyright, 1023, by Paul V. Collins.) With British Divides Editorial Opinions| Citing the.dikcriminatalon agafnst our own ships and insisting other | nations will want similar privileges, | which will call for additional treaties, | the Springfield Tnion thinks “the pro- posed treaty leaves much to be ar- runged and quite as much to be con- jectured.” “The ~Cleveland Plain Dealer fecls “Britain offers at least 4 pasasive co-operation in carrying t the prohibition law." but “ft will up to the United States to prove i y to make ective use of | this new weapon against a serious | situation. Whether it Is successful |or not, the British concession wiil | stand “as” wnother proof of Anglo- Amerlcan friendship.” The Detroit Free Press claims, however, the rati- fication of a treaty “will deal rum | runners what ought to be a_ body blow. These gentry will find the difficulties of landing illicit cargoes | tmmensely increased, and the govern- t, i Congress will allow it suffi- 1t equipment. will_be in a posi- | tion to sturt a real vffensive against | whisky smugglers” The Boston Transcript also sees in the plan “an | entirely reasonable arrangement, for | the treaty simply wrms decent usage and principle and me eE No |right of ours. In recognizing thic | princtple notally help forward the enforcement of the Volstend luw by making it much more diffcult— with proper effort It muy be made | impossible—to smugsle foreign lavor into thiy eountry by water 1t would also uppear that “the effect of the treaty will be to make enforcement much easier, to uphold the principle of the three-mile limit and to re- move @ gource of irritation,” uffirms the Indianapolls News. “Tt is one of those treaties from which both parties to it gain and nefther loses.” * % “The proposed arrangement would be a substantial vietory for prohibl- tlon enforcement,” according to the Chicago Dafly News. “The reciprocal {concession proffered ¢o Great Britaln {18 not excesstve. The drys who are {amcnable to common-sense consid- erations should welcome the settle- ment of an effective ald to law en- { forcement where it is most necded." The Chicago Tribune ugrees “it seems to be w sensible picce of fair play all around, but some drys will not like iit because it is.fair play.” The Flint Journal further suggests “it will ap- peal to many Americans ax an agros. iment of falr play and that it will give the prohibitionists u splendid opportunity to reduce to & minimum ia rich source of liquor by establigh- ing an effective blockade of foreign alcohol.” The treaty when concluded “will constitute the greatest victory | tor enforcement that has been achiev- jed since the passage of the Volstead ac insists the Portland Express and Advertisér. “It was impossible that conditions as they have existed could longer endure if the rights of this country to make and enforce its laws were not to be ignored.” “The spirit of good will and co- operation shown by the British calls ! for some concession on our part” |argues the 'Ruffalo News. “It cannot be denled even by the most ardent drys that removel of the liquor smuggling ‘menace from the coasts would promise far more for prohibi- tion enforcement In America than does the restriction on the carrying | of liguor by foreign ships for con- sumption on the high seas.” The New York Sun concludes that “no single event o far has promised such im- portant results for the enforcement of prohibition.” | fica _NOVEMBER 14, 1 | The principal topic of political dis- cussion in democratic circles since former President Wilson's radlo ad- dress to the country last Saturday night has been the object of Mr. Wilson's speech and ity possible ef-| fect. The bellef {s gencral that Mr. s, | Wileon's purpose was to revive in- Industry und | terest in his league of natlons ‘project, with a view to influencing democratlc entiment the country’ OVer, to be later registered in the! democratic national convention when it comes to framing the platform for the coming presidential campalgn. The effect of the speech country Wwide on thought among the demo- has yet to show reaction. It is known, however, that ft has served to renew opposition on the part of I(hum democratic senators and others Who are opposed to stressing the jJeague of nations in the platform or in the campalgn after its presenta- | ton o the country. There is wide| division of opinton among democratic | leaders on the wisdom.of urging the | llvn(uv: @ a major policy of the pur!y’ {10 the next campaign, | * k¥ ¥ | That conference of bosses In four of the big states at i ¥French Lick, Ind., is being watched | | With anxicty, as well as deep inter- | | ©%t by democratic leaders fn Wash- | (ington, and doubtless by | elsewhere. French Lick js {of “Tom” Taggart, the | boes In the Hoosicr state, It ha been the custom of years for Boss| Murphy of Tammany Iall to repair to Col. Tukgart's resort after clec {tons to “take the waters"—and dis- cuss party politic Following the elections in New York state last | Tuesday, when Gov. Smith faflea toi C4ITy the asvembly, thereLy suffering ;xfifl! of political prestige, It is sald, {Mr. Murphy Journeyed to French {Ldck and wag there Joined by Demo- | :;‘rdllu Leader Brennan of Illinols, to e followed | Lea 3 y l,’“; fou in democratic politics Wwhich carries recognized weight and | {iufluence In democratic national poll- | {tics. Immediately the report came forth that th Wwere planning “tr ‘trategy and epoils itions presi of Willlam G. MeAdoo, * % ¥ While in Washington a few days |@go. Mr. MeAdoo sald to a friend, | Don't take any stock in these stories ' of a ‘combination’ agalnst me. There will be nothing to it.” , the re- ports recur thet there Is a “combi-| nation” against ) based upon the | possibility of utilization of the two- | thirds r o create a bloc to | trate’ nis “nomination. S Steass | saYS he s not scared, Lut some of his leutenants are sald to be anxious, | P i i { f the democratic leaders the home | smocratic al fortunes | | Judge Hull, chatrman o cratic national committe there {s no need for th. creation of a third party n 1924. He contends that while the republicans are mani- festly, in his opiniun, unfit to ruie the country any longer than next election duy, the democrats are amply qualified: “Just loa to George™ and all will be wel ‘After more then three half years of sprcial intere lican control of the government,” e sRys, “the fuct is plainly evident that the country and the world can ex- pect no sort of tangible aflirmative foreizn policies — political, economic or sociai—or comprehensive, found domestic policies from the present republican reginie, and the democratic party alone can be looked to as the| one “outstanding agency of efficient sovernment. “The conclusion, therefore, is that while there s ample justifieation for the existing widespread revolt against the present republican ad- mintatration, there is no sound justi-| for a third party nor €xpectation of i In view of the known ac of the democratic party and constructive program, whic ried out would»have obviated causes of the present revolt, the formation of a third party might enly result in delaying the needed rellef to the country which the success of the democratic party would make certain. | “The democratic party, proud of its lasting and un achicvements, and with no upologie: to its bllng or willful critics, off, the one available ageney for honest and eflicient governmental service }”{“" > business, agriculture and tof ab | the demo- . holds that and ona- st repud- the justly § = % ¥ caption, “Come on in, republican party, the water i8 fine,’ the women's branch of the democratic national committes has issued a call to republican wom. an voters to leave the Grand Od| Party and come with the democrats, | where, it 1s claimed, women are free | from the hateful despotism of con-| trol by the men. “It i3 perfectly natural, of course,” | the call, “that republican poli- | ~ of- certain stripe should fail nderstand the freedom of demo- cratie women within their party. It has all along been practically im- possible to get it through their heads that in the democratic party twou , both to for and to express the political ideils h they believe: that they are not expected to stand with finger in mouth and wait for orders and d rections from the men: that, on the contrary, as we patiently repeat, the democrafic party offers full oppor- tunity to its women to he articulate tn politics and to speak out and urge | upon the voters of the country the| ideals which they advocate.” * % % % The republican national committee, very much exercised over the claim of the opposition organization that the budget system is the child of the | cratic party in Congress, usn:‘ arsh terms in a statement refuting the claim. 1n point of fact, tle two tees are getting red-hot with ench other—all by way of adding to the gavety of politics for the non- partisan, as well as satist¥ing each party's adherents. Today the repub- lican committeo comes out with this, * Under the ladles of the i by way of foreward to a lively retort to the democratic assertions: “It was recently announced,” savs the republican blast, “that sclentists had ! dlacovered a drug which when taken, compels people to tell the truth.| There is increasing evidence that the democratic national committee should | lay in a supply of this newly discov-) ered drug, and should take it fre-| Quently.” Commenting upon the ro-i cent statement that the budget evs- tem is of democratic the | committee goes on to say, true as would be an assertion that the gold plank in the republican platform of 1396 or the plank for the pre ective tarlff in all renuhllcnnl a.forms is of democratic origin.” mThu republicans say that a repub- llcan Congress was elected in 1918, which enacted a_general budget law practically idential with the budget faw now on the books and in success- ful operation. “President Wilson vetoed It say the republicans. “There were 191 democrats in the houss at that time An even wo' voted to sustain the President’s veto, among them Champ Clark of Missouri, Qemocratic leader, and Cordell Hull, now chairman of the democratic na tional committee.” PR “Whoopes. Go to 1" cry the on lookers of this fray. “Next round. {erumbe ma { Me., i tle follow | teered 1. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Are the average welghts of| men and women also considered cor- rect welghts?—J. P. A. Average weights are usually complled from insurance figures, and are merely what the adjective implies. Ideal welghts differ somewhat. An authority on dietetics says that aver- age and ideal weights are nearest together when individuals are be- tween twenty and twenty-five years of age. As the years progress the average welght 1s higher than the tdeal welght. Q. T have been told that tre smithy in Longfellow’s poem of “The Village Blacksmith” {s in England. Is this true?—L. D. M. A. Ernest Longfe'low, the poet's fon, in “Random Memories." says:; “A ghort time ago I saw in an Fng- lish newspaper that the ‘village smithy’ was in a certain Englisk vil- lage that was named. As a matter of fact as everybody knows, it was oh Brattle street, Cambridge, Mass. Q. Do rings bear marks setting forth "the amount of platinum in them?—R. C, A. Usually there 15 no mark in a platinum ring corresponding to the carat mark in go'd rings. Plat'num 16 not ¥old by carat fineness. Eight- een carat gold is a product. for in- stance, which Is elghteen parts gold and six parts alloy. Q. Are animalewlae in water suffi- cfent food for goldfish>—Y. M. A. Trey are not sufficlent food. If commerclal fish food is not avaflable, be fed crushed vermi- ges, small worms. aquatic and green stuff in the_ form lettuce und watercress. Frr;xd‘ be uged, but they should not be allowed to stand in the water Q. How many American negroes fought in the world war?—D. G. Over 400 000 negro soldlers par- ticlpated. Near'y one-half of that number went overseas. There wera four entire negro regiments brigaded with the French troops who were awarded the croix de guerre, aside from mapy individual citations for valor. celli, ants® larvae Q. Should a dinner napkin be en- tirely unfolded when used?—D. H. A. One fold should be left fn thej napkin. : Q. For whom O'Brien named—K. W. A. It is named In memory of Capt Jeremiah O'Brien, U. S four brothers, The fiv brothers were residents of Mactias. when the battle of Lexington was fought, April, 1775. When the news reached Machias the patriotic citizens ¢ A liber: I Eritish sloop of war, the arrived in Machias Farbo command of Lieul. Moore, latter declared unless the cut down he would destroy the During the parley that followed lumber sloop left Machias and la drifted toward ea, as if about to near the warship.' The sloop, a ently badly handied, fouled tre - ship, and instantly scores of Yankees ! boarded the foreign craft, armed with pitchforks, axes and muskets. A bat- d in which the Americans were victorious after losing six men | and killing ten of the enemy, inciud- ing Jieut Moore. This was the first | naval engagement of the revolution Tre lumber sloop wes under the com mand of Capt. Jeremiah O'Brien, ane four of his brothers were in his crew Joseph O'Brien, the youngest brother was only sixteen years ol anu his request to join the party wis refumed. | is the destroyver under the ar pole He smuggled himself “aboard #loop, and during the fight pro to b very much of a man, Moore’s sword was glven O'Brien, the baby of the cre; Q. Tell me whether thero we any 1804 silver dellars minted>—J. L, A. According to the annual repos| of the director of -tke mint. thert were 321 eilver doliars minted bear. ing the date of 1804 Corfileting storfes are current respectiniz th celebrated dollar, One that the eny tire colnage was aboard a vessq which sunk in the Mediferrancar s and the cargo lost: another, u Al that any dollars were struck durlr th's year, the belief belng that doff lars ‘bearing this date were stri years after: hence those in existence #re “restrikes” Another disposeg of the question by stating *all are strikes or frauds.” It Is genera belleved that not more than u doz.: genuine “restrikes” are in cxisten The dles we-o destroyed in 15 The first oW specimen was s in Philadelphiu, 1907, for $3.600, u-& ve Lieuf to Joserih W, { % Q. Wrhat is fres verse?—r: . ¥ A. Verse which does not &epeng ¢ rhyme or meter is called free ve Tt docs, however, have rhythm. Q. How do the waterpower re sources of the United Statas compar: Wwith tre rest of the world’—M. E. R A The total waterpower resource: of the worid have been estimated o uhmx'( 700.000,000 horsepower, of which over one-seventh is allocated to the United States, . Q. Do birds cver use thelr wing in climbing”—T, M. A. Fledelings of the singular American bird. sera: b'e about the branche. the aid of their win hands. They have a emporary o on both the index and pollex. Q. How many verbs are ther: our language?—I1. G. R A._There are about 8,000 verbs the Englist lanzuage. Of these a; proximately 2000 are classed as regular, although some of them hus regular forms. Q. What woods are the name of mahogany?—W. M. A. The forest service says the over sixty d'fferent species of timbe have been put on the market as ma ¥. The woods now commonly under the name are true ma from tropical America, “Af mahogany” and “Philippin. mahor: Birch ard red gum are usually acknowledred as {mitation: of the wood, although they are some times us furniture sold as gern #old unde old hogany rican tro origin of th s, in token of England, T. or liverted not though from was be W. F. of an Amer! re that the.. ontam:nated g pedigr: to clghtee many sad be a thoroughbred?—( A. The requirement can troroughb edigree conta crosses, but traces through twenty-five sixte havi question you ssant it to The Etar In- «. Frederic J. Has- 1220 North Capt The only charge for 'hia 8 2 e 1 stamps for retu (Have wou a answered? Send formation Bure kin, Director. stréet. ice is postage s Grand Duchess Marie’s Suit For Divorce Fails to Surprise BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Grand Duchess Marie Pavlona's t for divorce in the French courts nst her second husband, Prince s Poutlatine, surprises no one. it has been a subject of amazement that the union, which was contracted fmmediately after the solution of her former marrfage in 1914, on the eve of the great war, should have lasted o lons. In this Instance few are inclined to blame the grand duchess, who has been one of the most fascin Leautiful members of tie former sov- | ereign house of Russia. She in rited | her remarkably good looks from her mother, Princess Alexandra of Gree sister of the late King Constant and who died when Mar! was vear old, and a few days after giving | birth to a son, yvoung Grand Duke Dmitri Paulovitch, wh ned one of t party in the y l'rh)u Youssopof! at P« trog *n the in- famous monk. Rasputin, in many re- spects the evil ger s of Russia, was | put to death €. For bis share in this execution of Rasputin Grand banishe cusus to Eg of the I one permission ish government, he volun- - service under Field Mar- shal Lord Allenby, taking part, with him, in the conquest of Palestine, and in the redemption of Jerusalem from Turkieh oppression_and misrule. He made many warm friends among his tellow _ officers of British _army and is @ general favorite in Par and espectally in England, where spendsy most of his time. Both Grand Duke Dmitri and his elder sister Marle, were brought up entirely by their aunt, the late Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Moscow. whers her husband, Grand Duke Ser afterward blown to pleces by u bomb, vas governor rand Duahess Elizabeth was the e er sister of the late Czarina, after the assassination of her hu band and the marriage of her niece, | general. 1= { Marie, to Prince Willlam of Sweden. <he became the head of a religious sisterhood, devoted to charity and to the care of the sick and sufferin taking the Yows of a nun and becon fng invested with the dignity of the lady abbess of the great convent which she had founded and main- tained at Moscow. It may be recalled that, despite her boundless charity nd ‘devotion to every sort of philan- Lroplc_endeavor, she was captured by the bolsheviki In 1918, and thrown alive, down a deep and_abandoned mine, not very far from Ekaterinen- berg, where her sister, the late cm- press, was put to death, with her chil- dren. The grand eventually recovere tom of the mine, by t miral Koltchak. She was, to all intents of Marie and of Grand d lav upon o of them, Grand Duchess Elizabeth saw to that. For she knew that thelr real mother's life, at any rate in its closing vear, had been terribly un huppy and that if Grand Duchess P Taa died, n few daye after ziving birth to Dmitri, it ¥ becauxe, only 4 ve viously, s ¢ L Nt ot the victoria In which ry. Indeed, as not | o e T e Gand | Duke Dmitri Wwould be born alive. * ok kX When Maric became old enough to make her debut at court and in so- ciety, at Petrograd, she promptly had her head completely turned by the| adulation which she received, not!| alone on account of her loveliness and | fascination, but also because of the great wealth to which she scemed destined. For her father, Grand Duke Paul, was one of the very wealthiest of the princes of the house of Ro- nuanoff and then, too, Maric was generally regarded as destined to be- come the helress of her aunt and fos- ter motheér, Grand Duchess Elizabeth, duchess's body was Sored from the bot- he troops of Ad- the mother uke Dmitri, very sort of she was drl Dittle and of th by the latte hu reiue Simpl: broueht up untli then by her aunt ar Moscow, the atmosphere of Petrogra:’ 1 its gaveties transformed h long, inw a spoiled beauty, in 1 discipline, a souree of anxioty to the Jate czarina onsequently, when Pr of Sweden. on hiis return from his v Tnited States presented him in the winter of 1908, as a sultor or hier hand. and managed to win thy young grand duchess by his undeni able good s, the mateh material- ized and the wedding took place wit! much pomp and ceremony. But the grand duchess found Stoek holm terribly dreary after the some what hect Xist o t Petrograd the court of presida: by a hypochondriac and terrib: pious o+ Queen. in-olerably v : 0. after giving birth to a littls bo who is now fourtecn years old, who is being bro at Sto ho'm, with the children the erowr prince of Sweden, under the name of the Duke of Smaland. she induced hr - hushn 1o undertake a big gam. hunting expedition in India. Coch ina. and the Dutch Indies. Th French royal Duke of Montpensii-~ be their companfon most of th time, nd having them as gu board his fine vacht, Mekon This trip, with ail it efter nt, rendered the more: disinclined than down to domestic life at Stockholn she was to be found. for the mos: part, at Paris e did not conmce: her distaste for everything Swedls and the consequence was that, bacom wpopular there, the authoritis inclined to at ce Willla. 1k 2 attendant rand duck ever pie were devotion shown to Ler n envoy at Stockholm, An inskv, to his endeavor tu extort from her secrct information concerning the policies of the Swed fsh government and of fts militars defenses and preparations. For, until the war of 1914, the dread of a Rus sian invasion of Sweden and of Mus- covite seizure of Alland Islands off the coast of Sweden, was a positiv. nightmare to the people of Stockholm * % * Finally, the situation became in tolerable, from every point of view. ' The grand duchess left Sweden in a 4 vowing never to return, and abandoning both her husband and her boy, while, not long arterward, Savinsky was. at the request Swedlsh courf, transferred to another post he denfed tha. he had gravely compromised the pop- ularity of nd duchess by his ention: ch the people of Sweden the most sinist designs, After a great de attribute 1 of persuasion ox the part of her aunt, Grand Duches« Elizabeth, w remained tender! devoted to her, the czar was induced to give his consent to & dissolution of the marriage with Prince William Sweden, to whom the custody of th little boy was awarded, and not lons afterward Grand Duchess Marie mar- Tied, with the consent of the empero:. Prince Sergius Poutiatine. She man aged to escape with th utmost difti cuty from Russia after -the bolsin viki_ had_obtained control, finall reaching Paris by way of Sweden an« Norway. When her father, Grand Duke Pau was murdered §n 1918 it was fo that he had bequeathed every vestix of his fortune to his second wife, tho Princess Palel, the divorced wife o’ his aide-de-camp, Gen. Pistolkori, an i to her children. The grand duches: found herself, ~therefore, with rel: tively straitenéd resources. But such as they were she devoted them to the relief of those of her countryme: and countrywomen who were dest! tute in Paris and founded o mort useful organization for the procurin of employment and for the assistanc: of the numerous poverty-stricken nobles and former dignitaries of the Russfan empire, selling many of he» magnificent jewels and furs in order to carry on the work. In the gourse of these sales she was vietimized (i the most shameful way by adventur- ers, and quite rcently several of thent have been arrested in London und Parls for swindling her in_connection ) With the sale of her jewels. She is wow Im the south of France