Evening Star Newspaper, November 15, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENIN With Sunday M STA G THURSDAY . .. November 15, 1923 ] THEODORE W, NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company nuey The Eyentng Star, with the Sundsy morning. edition, is delt by ciceiers Within the c 00 centa per monili: Gally only. 45 c20ts per maath; Sundas cen(s’ ver wonth. - Orders iy be kent V¥ A v teies puone Main G000, Collection in made by car- clors At tha end of dnch wonth: Rate by Mail—Pyable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, £10.00: 1 wmo., Soe $7.00; 1 mo., 60 90; 1 mo.. Member of thie Associated Press. The Associated Press s oxciusively oat! *o tlie “usg for repubi€ation of il newa din. ,-ur)}:}\ credited H} I!an tot otherwise credited this paper and sl tne h hgrm. 1 o, ! dispatenes ber tie Child Welfare Legislation. The announcement by the Board of Children’s Guatdians of the program toward which it proposes to direct its cnergles serves a purpose of dual use fulness. It scotches any possible idea that the board as today constituted Tas any desire save to work In har mony with all other forward movi child-caring agenc nleng lines established as most prac- tleal and effective in the cave of chil ren. - And, contemplating as it does certain legislative changes essential to carrying out {ts work along those lines, it emphasizes the necessity for & determined and whole-hearted effort on the part of all who are interested ! iirst to reach agreement among th £ to what welfare legislati they desire to asi of Congress coming gess] and. second, ves to main- /| 8 in Washington | selection of the convention city, that . duty devolving upon the full commit- tee, ‘which will meet here early in December. The function of the sub- j committee today is to appraise the representations put forward . by the brival oities and examine tho aimets lsupporting their claims, In the past ‘it has been the custom for the full committeo to act on the same day |the claim was presented. The con- tenders were wont to mauke lavish promises of what they would do for the convention and efter receiving the ! prize did not always live up to them {in fulfillment. In 1820 there was a | great outery against Chicago over ex- | gesstve hotel rates, though assurance {had been given that they would be reasonabls. The subcommittee today, it is said, will call for @ “showdown™” by the {cities as to hotel rates and will de- { mand specific terms, The committee lis quite right in that determination. !The attendants upon and visitors to next convention should be pro- { tected agninat possible extortion, Recorder of Deeds Office. 'luns have heen made for a five- {yroof additlon to the courthouse “'for !the use of the office of the recorder of | decds and such other activities of the | movernment of the Distriet of Colum- liia as the Commisstoners may desig- nate.” They will be put hetore Con- | gress at the beginning of the session nd the belef is thet the necessary ppropriation will he made for the construetion of the huilding. The recorder of deads office has had a sud time and its present condition {must be remedied. That office had | poor enough quarters in the old court- uce hefore the work of remodeling was begun. and when it was foreed to o that building several vears ago { four flours in a ate building were rented at $6,000 a year, It was the i derstanding that on remodeling the court bujlding sultable quarters would be given to the recorder’s office. When { I leav that work was done the recorder’s fon determined to be ne ofly, the board he Tndustrial & too remot serve any u and contemplates of su for the e: located temp for children, the colored ti Piains and t tage te white boys and of the oid Gror aposes the Home School and too cxpen ful modern purpose. using the pro homes enlargement of the 1 sehool upen the s girls #i Arnapo reeommc: cammitn 1t may e rourt by it commit " ! sides "|with the volumea of geous. if united hacking all ehild welfare in the Dis Happi ewakent eimast ¢ 2 systemat termine .pr Tezislation ts Capital, ty drs 10 to the need for fu that legisiation and impress Cangress with the vital The pregram ren's Guardians ceded to bring eider out of the «haos und for the lias overlong bein ) wvigion for thers’ p direct supervision of private child adequate school much;necded homes for &nd fechble-niinded children of the trict, stand in tie front rank of Wa ington’s le: tive needs. Experience - and point & most usefui lminary steps incident to the pro Iem of how to get t tion the city wants. beon made in Teeded—cons which have, however, ended In fallure because of the omission of certain pr liminaries essential to success, ‘Those responsible f hild welfare work in Washington must get together. Together they muse thrash out such differences of opinion as may teday exist upon what constitute the best prineiples for modern chiid care end what is the Lest ap tion of those principles to the requirements of this community. Together they must ar- rapge the drafting of the legislation deemed by them desirable, And togeth- er, shoulder to shoulder, they rmust undertake the persuasion of Congress to meet their recommendations, The stage is set for the inittation of this proc re. Let the Commis- sioners call forward the actors. Wash- ington as a whole will be behind the offort to give the hundieds and thou- sands of her destitute and unfortu- nate children the best - that human study and effort and love can devise. ndieapped. for UL the and 1810 an i for h- ientious —————————— “The Hohenzollerns® are probably aware of the fact that the prospects of & coup d'etat are.not !mproved by | unlimited advertising in advance. —— e National Convention CilimnntsA The presence in Washington today of, representatives of flve cities de- sirous. of éntertaining the republican national convention of 1924 should @erve to stimulate interest in the project of erecting an auditerium in the National Capital adequate to the accommodation -of large audiences. Chicago, Cleveland, San Franeisco, Denver ‘and Dés Moines are contesting for the privilege of housing the na- tional’ conventldii of noxt year. Wash- ington in recent years.has grownm in . favor es a convention city with ore ganizations of various sorts, present- Ing as it does -0 many attractions of paramount interest to visitors. The Capital should put itself in ‘position to enter the ligts for the great quadren- nial political assemblies. Today's meeting of the subcommit- ted of the republican national commit- toe will not say the final.word on-the - | appropriat: for an | Numerous effortg have : he jast to get fwhat i l} carnest efforts, " me ffice wus told that there was no room or it. The owners of the private building demanded higher rent, and jus this could not be paid out of the n for the office suit was {brought by the owners for possession c. This was held up by ngreement t the District author- ies wwould present the mutter to Con- gress and seek relief there. In the current appropriation bill for the Dis- | trict authorization was given for the maling of plans for a new bullding. nd these plans have heen made by ¢ the architect of the Capitol in consul- ion with Commis- n. the Engineer another public office in the Dis- trict in in S0 0Ty o state as the office the record™of deeds. 1Its business faster than any one be- nd those who must consult the nd records are hard put at times 1o find chafrs and tables. The small rooms, designed for private offices, have in some ses no other con- ctfon with cne anothor than by of the narrow hall run- through the building. The of theso rooms are stacked land records and the space mnot taken by the books i3 used by employes of the Business is done under diffi 1 Trow and the office is Comfidembl}'{ {behind in it work, with no chance of .1 catching up with it untfl working con- 3 are improved. Yet this office is self-supporting and turns into the Treasury an wing excess of recelpts over ox- itures. The office already has to its credit a surplus which would pay for the construction of o bullding large to its use. The proposed building would aiso ) contain provision for the Municipal | Court, which is now in crowded and' otherwise uncomfortable quarters, for { which the annual rental of $3,800 is ! When Congress is acquainted with i the situation and many members al- ready understand the case it s b sense ! lleved that no trouble will be met in | 1g an appropriation for the im- } provement. | City Managers. | ministration, which a few years ago {was a theory which many practical espeet: those with local po- {litical ambitions, scorned, has come into much wide adoption that city managers are now holding a conven- | i i i ivmunn and a list of *city-manager citiee” shows that 330 cities have | managers appointed by their legisla- tive bodies. By records of the City Managers’ Association it i8 shown that the first town to adopt this plan of city administration was Sumter, 8. C. That was in 1913 and Sumter adheres to the city-manager way. The city- manager plan has made progress near ‘Washington, While no “city-manager city” is recorded in Maryland, thers are twenty-thres in Virginie, they {being Alexandria, Bedford, Blaskstone, | Bristol, Chariottesville, Chase City, Farmville, Frankiin, Fredericksburg, Galax, Hampton, Lynchburg, Newport News, Norfolk, Patersburg, Ports- ! mouth, Radford, Roanoke, Salem, Staunton, Suffolk, Warrenton and Winchester. —_——— A soprano quits the Chicago Opera Company. because she wanted to sing “Dinorah,” while the management in- sisted on her appearing in “Lakme. And the great public goes merrily on whistling “We Have No Bananas.” —————————— e There is no accounting for municipal tion at Washington. More than 100 consternation in the streets of New York city, while thousands-of “blind tigers” flourish unnoted. —_—————— The Hidden Threat. Sinister, yet unspoken, is the threat Iying behind the reportéd dedision of the Stresemann government in-Berlin that hereafter the peoples of the Rhineland and the Ruhr shall be left to their own devices, in so far as the aid from the Berlin regiine is con- cerned, and in making their own agreements with the occupying forces of Belgium and France. First .of all may be seen abandon- ment:of these territories, always de-| enough and otherwise suitalle ! The city-manager plan of city ad-| city managers are attending the con- | zoology. A few runaway steers create | clared the very heart of the industrial system of ‘Germany. But such aban- donment would not be permanent.! The political, soclal and economic lite of the nation sooner or later unques- tionably would be solidified in at- tempt to reclaim the lost areas, just BY FREDERIC This week witnesses the publication O, THURSDAY, 'NOVEMBER 15, 1923, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS _ WLIAM WILE I he was a servant’in local clubs, The The North Window BY l:ll.‘ MECHLIN Among the great sights of Europe o8 France, after the Franco-Prussian{of the Srst “lite” of Calvin Coolidge.| Pullman News for November records |8re the stained glass windows in the war, inade the redemption of Alsace-|Its birthplace appropriately is Massa- Lorraine the foundation stone of its|chusetts, and ita compiler a Bosto- Furopean foréign- policy. nian, Edward Elwell Whiting, ocele- * % ok % Admiral Sir Montague who is visiting Washington this week, }1s one of the most distinguished of living British naval officers. fessional sallor since 1876, he has meen cervice under the white ensign In every sea. For two vears during the world war Admiral Browning's flag, as commander-in-chief, flew over the British squadrons “patrolling the north and south Atlantic waters oft { the coasts of the United States and the West Indies. When the war end- ed Browning was made chief of the allled armistice commission, whose husinesy {t was to disarm German ser. The United States President Coolidge recently carried out another “Harding policy” by ap- Pointing as a messenger at the White House & young colored man named Harry Walter Lucas. Lucas, who was in the servics of the Pullman com- pany, was asslgned to the Hardine presidentt: special last rummer as la wa Mr. Harding offered him a | White fiouse messengership, but be- for: the appointment could be made the i'residesd passed away. Mre i Harding, knowing her husband’s in- p f 1 tentic asked President Coolidge to T! s taly @ppre- {give Lucus the promised position. The henslve becavse of a rival crganization [ latter i3 a native of Washington, and {in Imitation of the Ku Klux Kian. The | PFLOT 10 cntering the Puliman euiploy spirit of Latin gavety must deplore { this modern disposition to take all the ;mn out of a masquerade, | e Communlication has been restored in | the Jupanese arca devastated by earth- | {quake. A greater and more beautiful {Tokio may be confidently looked forwurd to within ext few years, | { ——————— { b ontiran ot governors is pro = posed by Gov. Pinchot to consider coal | srates who pay officlal visits to prices. Pennsylvania is a proud old;;h,, French capital are requested to state, but is perfectly willing to con- | sign their names when they are wel- sider outside advice. comad, with much pomp and cere- —_————— mony, at the Hotel de Ville, -or city That the German peoples never|brated columalst. Mr. Whiting has would consont to permanent separa. | P€eR & student of the President's po- tion from thefr beloved Rhineland ter. | 11tical career from its inception. Ad- ritortes, bound as they are by senti.| “@RCO eXcerpts indfcate that the bi- 1mental ties, 13 indicated by the uprear | S5 *PRY Will B0t be exclusively a suc- caused throughout the nation as a re-| oo oneot HONPYEd Words, Mr. Whit- sult of the announcement that the |cebynoeth, the View. that Calvin Coolidge’s Flrosemann government was even | pationst resann ool GUAltY as a . S Vel | national leader still lies before him. considering such a move, But Strese- * x % % munn undoubtedly is looking far into| Three American lawyors well known the future—possibly to “Der Ta s |in Washington—A. Mitchell Palmer, the kalser and his satellites looked to.| former Attorney General; Fred K. ward the same end previous to 1914. | Nielsen, former solicitor of the State But In this move he creates an lsse [ DoDartment, and Willlam C. Dennis, tending to Lind thé discontented ele- | 9B¢-time legal adviser to the Chinese ments of his nation together and | proceedings hetore sha Ar o qing firmly, too, ugainst the inroads of | can arbitration tribunal in London. { those meditious factions who are striv- | MF. Faliner, who went abroad for | ing to destroy the rewei ropronents Britlon interente I Itiae 3 X ire rests 1n 1tiga- Should the government in B.-rlln'g"?,lflvvlvlr‘\{ the Rio Grande irrigation carry. out announced policlus thers | oppose ihe former. ok Spennls would be expectation of quick reaction 3:71 mnrvuh o{' ‘IVu!?h:» U8 representa- Rhineland and Ruhr adventures. The | from a controvarsy (hat originatad ie leaders of Germany undoubtedy have | the late nineties, are under discus- witnessed the decline of the frane in | *9% . | every case of extended French influ- lenco in the Ruhr. New burdens have meant new drains upon the Franch ex- {chequer. Should the Germans leave the Rhineland and the Rubr to French devices, naturally the cost of thetr op- eration and maintenance will fall upon occupying nations. The state of finances fn Bolglum and France is not designed to create ontlmism. As a consequence, i with increased burdens, it may be be. !Hc\'t‘d in Berlin that the franc will full to new low levels. This naturally would bring increased burdens upen | | the people of France as a whole, ow- ing to great disorganization of values. — e Visttors to America express as much surprise because liquor laws are dis | regurded as if there were no laws belug occaslonally violated in their own countries. There may be an ag- gravated Impression Lecause of the fact that at present the liquor laws { happen to have all the epotlig: i i BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Frequent reference i3 mads to the {Golden Book of the City of Paris in which the chlefs of ien i SHOOTING STARS. RS PUILANDEL JOHNSON, i The Spoken Word. i When vou think before speaking, as H proverbs advise, Maving completed his historic visit | by the prefect of the metro- to America, Mr. Lloyd George turns |Politan department of the Beine and to affairs in England, wh. he has | by the president of the entire mumic | some important politics of his own to | PALLY of the capital. hew furme lnt(end to { with the freedom of the efty. —_— | Strictly speaking, this gold book Aoes not exist. For. on the occasjon One great conshler vercigm visits to the Hotel Sinstein' ory i that it i cely {d8 Ville, it 1s not a Look, gold or Einsteln's theory s that it is not Mkely | o8, 415, “which” s submitted to_the { to cause as much disturbance a3 some | (justrious visitor for his signature, i of Karl Marx's theories. ihux o ificently engroesed and H | Glumivated sheet of parckment. | e e {which is subsequently { A number of Germans evidently be. | silk and carefully i prregerved “‘l“;‘ e Do exhaises 1x SR other parchments of the same kind, Yeve the ex-kaiser is as good a man | StRET P4 skt as anvbody to take the Llame for what jsewm in = the Carnavalet Palae is going to kappen. Among this collection of loose parch- i jment leaves there is only one bear- | ing an American name, namely, that One of the problemis of every great |of Iresident Woodrow Witson. and A o s o curlous fact that the first o d growing city is to make its police J thege leaves—that is to say, the force keep pace with its development. | initial slgnaturs of the lot—was that <ruger, president of the now @ Transvanal republic, swhen he Paris during his v before the South Afri auarter of @ century ago, which transformed the two Boer te- publics in that part of the { into British self-governing colonies ’ * ok % 3 s ; When a sufficient number of these You'll find seit-esteem better cher- |y narures have been obtained trom Ve e visitors of soverelgn rank, the parch- | Since thoughts you considered both { yant jeaves will be bound by taster i witty and ‘wise hands, much ‘in the same wey 4 W1 tter ; . jthe n al Ivangels; that is 4o - When uttered may falter and perisb. | (10 riChed with masterpieces of The Mighty Idea which You have|the goldsmith's art and richly studded evalved. with precious stones, and it is not H 14 y until then that ft will ho possible | "o bluze a8 a Jamp for your Broth- |ty describe it as “The Golden Book ! ore, of Parfs. 5 . ¥ i leaves the " . are, however, two fpecies of | Topsifan. deaves theii gucation’ sul booke of Iarts alréudy in ex tackled unsolved, The one contains a record of th Along with o whole lot of others. |varlous state functions and fetes o | ganized by the munlcipal authorities in the name of the City of Paris at i A Great Inspiration so toilsomely won When told in importance is shrink- ing. 8o think befare speakingk; and when that is done, You'll, maybe, decide to keep think. ing. result you attain when you've studied or dreamed ‘ Proves mo alight that none love it or dread it, i 3 L For nothing you say it seemed Before you got busy and said it, I Jud Tunkins says a large vocabu- I lary may be the sign of g smert man } or only 4 lazy one. Joy Ride. The “joy ride” finds a sudden stop That grieves the merrymaker. You're lucky if you meet the cop And not the undertaker. : Trace of Boredom. | “Are you fond of dancing?” } “Not exactly fond of it,” answered ilflun Cayenne. “But it is better than » sitting still and listening to the phono- ! the Hotel do Ville. The other s de- voted to the signatures of visitors and guosts of distination of the city whom it wishes to honor by keeping a record of thelr names, but who-do not happen to ba of sovereign rank. Tt s In thi book that are recorded the names of tho late Theodore Roosevelt, when he came to Paris on the completion of his president, term; of Gen. Pershing, of Myron T. Herrick, now ambassador to France, of several Russian grand dukes prior to the great war, of several lord mayors of London who have Daid state visits to Paris, of Georges Clemenceau, etc. They are. very bandsomely bound in a particularly rars kind of morocco. * ok K K Lord Stalbridge, who has just taken over the mastership of the celebrated Fernie Hunt, which has its headquarters at Market Harborough, probably one of the best known hunting regloms in England, is a member of the House of Grosvenor, the second peer in his Une. His father, who, throughout the greater part of his life, was known a¢ Lord Richard Grosvenor, was a younger brother of the first Duke of Westminster, a_favorite member of the household of Queen Victoria, and a great raflroall magnate, as presi- dent of the London and Northwestern Trunk railroad. Lord Stalbridge . is now a man of about forty-three, served with his regiment, the.lith Hussars, in South Africa in 1899, and won_the Miljtary Cross at the front ip_France during the great wa ‘He takes his title from the ancient Manor of Stalbridge, in the delight- ful Blackmore vale country, on the borders of Dorset and Somerset. It figures in_Doomsday Book, compiled in the relgn of Willlam the Con- queror, and bears & pame that should be familiar in this country, since it was from Stalbridge that John Elliot, the famoys missionary, was first sent to preach _the gospel among the American Indians, as the result of a meeting of the Boclety for the Prop. agation of the Gospel, held at Stal bridge House in 1663, under the presl- dency of the then lord of the monor, the Hon. Robert Boyle, the scientlst, chemist and’ philosopher, cotemporary and friend of Sir Isaac - Newto and the fourteenth child of the Ear of Cork. Previously, the Manor of Stalbridgs had belongéd to the Bish- ops _of Saltsbury and to the Abbotts of Sherburne. Then it was granted by Kdward VI to his unele and guardian, the first Duke of Somerset, the Lord Protector of England. Af- tevard §t came to Jobn Touchet, | The unds as big as Zest of Existing. “Do you look forward to a stete of universal happiness and content?" “Candidly,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “I dom't. Life wouldn't be worth living If you couldn’t enjoy the hope of seeing the opposition defeated | at the polls.” Slowly Disappearing. “Do you have many bootleggers in this settlement? ¢ “Not @ many as we used to,” an- swered Uncle Bill Bottletop. “Most of them have got rich enough to retire from business.” “It takes a powerful wise man," maid Uncle Eben, “to haye.strictly his own way without wishin' some day dat he hado't, ' Browning, | A pro-| Wilson Only American to Sign Paris “Golden Book” for Rulers re {s supposed to invest them | wrapped up in | Turopean | n world | that Lucas’.record ‘as a.porter was ‘100 per cent efficlent.” . * ok ok ok Washington newspaper men mourn the passing, in Piris a tew days 2go, of M. Phillppe’ Milfef; one of the dis- tinguished Prench journalists who “covered” the armament conference two years ago for hia paper, ‘Petit {Ar(!lun, Although only forty-three Years old, M, Miliet was the yictim of @ paralytic stroke, to which he al- most {mmedintely succumbed. Millet Was a combination of the best tradi- tions of old world journallsm and the requirements of modern news-gath ering. His father was ance a French | ambassador. and resident-géneral of Tunis. Millct gave up Jjournalism Wwhen the world war came, jolned a zouave regiment, and was on active service untll serlously wounded at the battle of Charlerol. - Latterly he had edited L'Europe Nouveile, a prom Inent French: polftical -review. = Mil let, who spoke English with cul- tured fluency, made many friends at the Washington conferencs. : Lt Officinl advices have reached Wash- ington that the British Broadcasting Company, which appears fo be a eom- bine of all ‘the radio-transmitting | concerns in the United Kingdom, has arranged an experimental trapsatlan- tic transmission solely for the benefit of Amerlcap emateur radio operators, At 2 am. on November 28—roughly, 10 p.m. of November 25, Sunday—all of the eight stations of the British company will be linked by an auto- matic relaying system. The program from the London station will then b sent out gimultaneously from all of them. After a short interval each station will transmit a program on (its own wave length. If cable mes- | sages indicate success, the experi- { ment Will' be Tepeated ol the night of November 27-28. * % ¥ & One of the heaviert jolts recently anded the anti-prohibitlon party was delfvered Ly Judge Willlam Dever, the new mavor of Chicago. Dever was elected by the democrats {last spring on w platform that prom- ised something resembling o wide- open town for the city by the lake | That prospect was strengthened by | the knowledge that Judge Dever fs! “personally wet.” The mayor is cele- | jbrating his first winter in office, to the consternation of Chicago wets, by a drastic anti-saloon campaign. | | Hie has ordered his police force of | {$.000 men to crusade ruthlessly { against the so-called soft-drink es- tablishmenta which dot the Chicago landscape in all directions. Within | the past few weeks Mavor Daver ha padl ed 1,400 sgioons found guilty of ref i | 1 Lord Audley, and from him to Ri ard Boyle, Earl of Cork, and { during his ownership that {found” refuge and a night' {there after his defeat 1of Oliver Cromwell at th. | Newbury. ~ Subsequently albridge ed to the Earls of Shaftesbury and then to the Lords of Angiese *xox % It was in their days that a tragedy ocomired at Stalbridge Manor which Jed to its becoming haunted to such B when it w destroyed v & hundred years ago, 1 1ever rebullt, the residence of the family and of the owners of the Stalbridge Manor estates belng traneferred to Motcomb House, nenr s It seems that ne o the first Lords of Anglescy became {n fatuated by the beauty of a game-| | kewper's daughter, of which his wid |owed mother, a very mastagful wom- | @n. endeavored in vain to cure him. ! After turning him out of the house |on account of the girl—hs was still | & minor at the time—his mother &p- | jpears to have become thoroughly | | reconcilad (o the match and allowed | theguarriage to take place. All went | well «t first and then, one night, | vhen Lord ‘Anglesey urned home | for the day’s hunting, ho was met by news that his voung wife had acctdentally burned to death during hix ubsence, his mother huving been alo shockingly injured, so it | was #uld, In_her endeavors to ex- i tinkutsh the flames., o The Dowager. Lads: for eve before succumbing to her in sed to her son daughter-in-law having en- | er room just when she had | completed dressing for dinner, she, in a moment of asperation and ushed the young woman t b fireplace, her daugnters in-law being, a moment later, ene | veloped in o 'sheet of flame. But in pushing her daughter-in-law Into the fire the dowager had likewise set her own draperies alight. < From that time forth, on each an- niversary of the tragedy, there used to be an apparition in the form of an elderly woman enveloped in flames | and shricklng In an « “I have done it! I have dome ftt s always se at the top of tha! balustered with representing the twelve disciples, the apparition tak- ing its place beside the topmost figure, which happened to be that of Judas Iscariot. In fact, until the destruction of Stalbridge House by) fire, any guests who happened to be staying there were consigned to thelr room with locked doors, else locked out of doors during the twilight hours of the anniversary of the murder. Jrom the Angleseys the manor and all the property in connection there- with, Including the towns of Shaftes bury and Stalbridge, were sold to the first Lord Stalbridge. ok % % On the restoration of peace. name- ly, 4n 1518, the present Lord Stal- ‘bridge informed his tenants on the estates that, owing to the enormously heavy succession dutles to which he had ‘been eubjected on his fathers death, and to the well nigh intoler- able taxation of landed property ren- dered necessary to meet the vast ex- penditures of the great war, he was compelled to sell the bulk of his es- tates, including the ancient towns of Stalbridge and of Shaftesbury, the iatter founded by Alfred the Great in A.D. 850. They were purchased by a Rochdale real estate speculator and promoter of the name of James White, who first achieved eminence and great wealth by his assoclation with~ the flotation of the Dunlop Tire Company, and who, during the great wer, was mainly responsible for the weekly boxing entertainment for American soldlers at the National Sporting Club in London. Lord Stalbridge has occasionally been over here and has traveled ex- tensively in the west, where the fact that he was a nephew of the first Duke of Westminaster led the peopie to confuse him with the late duke himself, and finally to set him-down as the late duke’'s only son and heir to_that colossa] weaith which, ac- cording to the’calculations. ofthes: western American papers, meant-an income of 50 mamy dollérs Tor-every breath that he drew in the twenty- four hours. At one town where Lord Stalbridge happened to stay he tipped the hackman who had driven him to the station with a dollar over and above the regular fare. The man i i | [ | gazed at the money for a moment in | responsibility and to buy according |t a kind of awed silence, and then, his features suddenly illuminated by a happy thought, he held his hand with the money close up to Lord Stalbridge’s mouth, exclaiming, with friendly emphasls, “Say, Mister, just breathe a couple of doliars into that there, please;”” “Neadless to say, he got his extra two -dotlafs, though-not in’ the manner which he had indicated, 3} | radiant ithe arts, eraftsmanship, the need of the artists { | made cathedrals, the best of which date back many centuries. Beadfiful as 1s the architecture of these cathedrals, much of the loveliness, even sanctity, of their finterfors would be lost if their light came through clear glass instead of being, as it were, strained through the glorious, many-colored Flass of thhe medieval days and of the early Renaissance. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC.J, HASKIN. . Q. How many baoks based en the world war have been produced?— V. F. A. The Publishers' Weekly gives the following figures: United States, 8,000 books on the war; France, mor than 15,000; Germeny, 25,000. Q. Was Harry Lauder miner?—F. J. W. A. As a lad Harry Lauder was employed in a flax-spinning mill and jater worked in the coal mines, but ever a Q. Was Fra Diavolo a.brigand or a monk?—E. T. 2 A. Fra Diavelo was a monk, but was expelled on account of miscon dugt. He then became lcader. of trobp of Neapolitan highwaymen, a Q; Is there such a thing as a 'do- mestic insect?—N. T. A. The honey bee is classified 48 a domdstic insect, and is the only one 80 known. Q. How long a period does Amer- “The origin of the making of glass | he had & natural talent as an enter- | fcan history cover?—M. A. is 50 remote,” says Joseph G. Rey- nolds, jr., himselt = designer and maker of stained glass windows, that it is lost in the mist of leg- endary days, but the painting and tie making of stalned glass. windows is comparatively a new art, belonging to the Christlan era. -It developed along with, and is a part of, Gothic architecture, until, under the patron- age of the early church in the middle ages, the art steadlly reached a high state of perfection.” Undoubtedly part.of the purpose of the early windows was that of the pieture book, the purpose of teuching the people who did not read, of handing down to the masses the précious traditions of the Gospel—the Bible stories; but with what con- summate artistry the literary motive found expression! * Mr. Reynolds defines a stained glass window as e “mosalc of picces of colored glass, firmly held together in their correct poritions Ly strips of grooved metal called leads.” This applies to the medleval European work, but not, alas, in many In- stances, to American windows of col- ored glass produced between 1880 and 1910! The mosaic s made up of little pleces of colored glass requir. Ing leads to hold them fn plac Many of our American windows have little leading and are made much, of colored glass, but painted the result being transparencies, rather than mosaics. And_ here the difficulty comes of lack of co-ordina- tion between the architecture of the building and the character of the windows. The finest windows of the old world told their stories to those who were attentive and sought them out. The painted windows of our new world have blazoned their meaning at & glance, and have 80 stressed the literary rather than the artistic. ok % % But in recent years a change has come over this craft in America. Bet- ter glass is heing made here tnan ever before, glass which in some {n- stances is comparable with the best in the world, and designers . have come forward with a conception of the Gothic motive and an ability to t it to the spirit of modern instead of painted windows, we are getting In our finest churches &nd ‘our cethedrals Leuutiful Ameri- can-made windows, conforming Mr. Revnolds’ definition and vying with the best of tho old And what an art it is! “Who thas has had the privilege will ever for- gt the first impression of Eainte Chapelle as it bursts upon one's mes. | to | tuiner that led him to stage a8 a profession. Q. What is the diffcrence between instinct and {ntuition?—L. L. A, Instinct Is the term applied to an . inherited tendency to perform a specific action in a particular way whenever a sltuation arises. TIntui- tion, on the other hand, implies the faculty of knowing eomething before- hand, whether it be mystical, tntel- lectual or moral. Q Is a member of Congress a member from the date of his olection or from the day he is sworn in—w. N. 8. A. A member of Congress is to every intent a member from the day of his election, except that he caunnot | vl'#e untll he has taken the oath of otfice. choose the Q. 1s maple sugar made any place | outside the United States™—F. Z. J. A. The production of maple sugar and maple syrup is purely an Ameri- can indust nada befng the only country other than' the Unlted es ! where they arc made. 1 { Q. In speaking of strength of ma- | terials, what is meant by stress and strain?—H, E. O. A. There is much confusion among writers as to the definitions of these terins. An external force applled to 4 body, =0 as to pull it apart, is re- sisted by an internal force or re- sistance, and the action of these forces causes a displacement of the | molccules or deformation. By some the external forca 4s called stress and | the internal force, strain. By others| the fiames are reversed. This con- fusion of terms is pot important, as | the words are commonly used synon- ! ymously. i Q. Was the game of cheas invented by @ man or woman?—E. W. E. A. There is no actual information on the origin of chess. It Is belleved to have originated in India, and its primitive form was called “Chatu- | ranga It is mentioned in Hindu | literature at least 3,000 years before | Christ. It epread through Burma to Tibet, m, China, Malacoa, Java and Borneo, and was tzken from China to ; Japan. Tt came westward through ) Constantinople probably in the sixth tury. The Arabs passed it to Syria Ting the seventh century. It was carriod to Scandinavia and the north and gradually epread through Europe | by way of the Bosporus and the Danube. Q. How can tarn be removed from silver metal cloth slippers?— L. K. S. i A, Silver and gold slippers may be | eanwd by brushing with alcohol or soline. There are commersial prep; rations on the market for this pu pose which seem quite satisfactory. What materials are used to terate ground coffee?—C. D, 1 t { visfon, coming up the little narrow winding stair and stepping through a dark hole in the corner into the glory of that interior flooded with heavenly beauty by light through its many-coiored windows of glass? And the windows of Chartres—how glorious they are! And he windows of Rheims, which once re and ere no more. With what skill and knowledgs' and patfence dieval craftsmen wrought and what*a heritage of jay they have :d down to succesng Eenera- ok * & - In & delightful entitled “The n of Revolt.” recently published, r Matthews, deallng with ail sty s the importance of s of today—poets, painters, shall say, poster makers, designers stained glass and the like—of nizing and understanding the of art. {n order that t compiete freedom from the toil techuical bondag . He points out very aptly that the great masters in lit- erature, music, sculpturc s ing, who have lod the revolts which have profited the world, have all passed through a severe apprentice- Ahip and thoroughly famlillarized themselves with the method: he venturing w firms_the Herhert Adams some time since in an article on modern- ism, that the masterly achie Prof. Matthews tel Story. of a man who declared that the academy, either in New York or in Rome, had nothing fo teach h that what he wanted was to develon his own persomality unhampered by too much knewledge of the best. Tt is not remarkable. perhaps, that that ‘man’s name is still unknown to fame, ® ok % we of an amusing A visitor to Washington during the past week, an artist from the middle west, seeking information of a porter | at the Union station as to the sculptor of the Columbus fountain, was informed that it was by a “Mr. Taft,” .and that he did It while he was” in the White House. When doubt was expressed as to the ac- curacy of this statement the in- former ‘admitted that he might be wrong, but that certainly the Chief or | Justice showed a. great f{nterest in | fl&sco. the monument whenover he came into that neighborhood. Lorado Taft, whose work this is, has his studio in Chicago and is a writer and lecturer, as well as a producer of monumental works of art. There 18 none more publi spirited than he, and few who have done as much to advance knowledge and appreciation of art among tha people generally. Among his most notable works are the “Fountain of the Lakes,” & beautiful group which, through the Ferguson Fund, has been erected adjacent to the Art Institute, and the sumptuous “Fountain of Time,” which has more lately been put up on the old Midway in Chicago —a work essentlally modern and al- legorically significant. ¥For a num- ber of years Mr. Taft has gathered around him in his studio a group of young ambitious sculptors serving as his assistants, learning the technique of their art by practical experience, and in_many instances acquiring re- markable ¢fficlency and producing, individually, notable works. * % Ok % One of the most dificult quastions that are asked those connected with art museums or art assoclations re- fers to the marketing of works of art. How can a private Individual dispose of & painting except through the instrumentality of the dealer? Except In rare instances it cannot be done, and, for this reason, that buyers prefer to put the responsibility of _authentiolty on some one else— the. dealer, in most Instances. | Even when a painting has a pretty clearly defined pedigree the . inclination - of the collector 18 to have business deal- ings with a business man or with & business firm. ! Perhaps this fuay be thought to indicate_an inclination on the part of purchasing committecs to shirk to name .rather than because. of artistic_merit, and’ such a suspicion is not_without foundation, but, on the other hand, names and prices go hand in hand. The {ndividual who thinks he or she o masterplece is not willing to nel;dn 22 = €ood, plcture, is not satisfied with “the Drice. that, a mercly. u,:»d ploture would bring. The puthenticating of works of art out | statement | short eut to} The following eubstitutes for coffee have been identifled: Roast. | peas, beans, wheat, rve, oats, chicory, {brown bread, pilot bread, red slat {bark, dried pellets. The latter con- | isist of ground peas, pea hulls and | cereals held together with molasses. } {5 Tt was tnevitable that the German monarchist uprising should fall of its own welght, editors agree. They in- sist that there never was any chance to overthrow the German republic under existing conditions. Every- whera editors seem to feel that the | nations of the world must ineist on a republican form of government con- | tinuing throughout what formerly was the imperial German empire. “After all,” the Newark News points | out, “when it comes to a defintte howdown, the stable forces of the world are obliged to stand by the treaty of Versallles. And they do stand by it The peopie of Germany | realized the futility of any effort to | restore the Hohenzollerns, in the view of the Boston Post, and “at the very outset there seemed to be no vitality to this ‘revolution.! The term ‘fascist’ did not fit it. There was too much | gold lace and antique olanking of spurs in front of it. and too little real and powerful public opinion behind It. What Ludendorft and his crowd of sword rattlers hoped to gain in & practical ¢ by their feeble ‘coup may be left to conjecture. The most reasonable assumption was that they thought the time ripe, in view of Germany's manifold troubles, to make 4 monarchist ‘gesture’ and see what the reactlon of the country would be. They have found out” A side issue to the Bavarian comedy, The Wash- ington Star observes, may be found in the return of the crown prince. Te was virtually fnvited back “to split the monarchial party in Germany by setting up a Hohenzollern in Silesia to counterbalance a Wittelsbach in Bavaria, Then_came the beer hall The Bavarian _monarchial movement flivvered. Wittelsbach stock s down. Ludendorff is to go into extle. Hittler has been captured and is likely to be tried for treason, fon Kahr is a sadly discredited dic- tator and Berlin finds that the mo- narchial movement was, after all, not much more than a pumpkin head on a stick.” i “It ig rather surprising that a lead- | ing | This { spond to | ing as th A. According to the Dictionary of American Dates, -history of 'this country, goes back 450 A. D. In this vear, a Bhuddish missionary i said to have visited Fu Saug, sup- posed to have been America. Q. Do more people die of caprer than tuberculosis” —A. C. G. A. According to the 1920 “cemsus 12,831 reons died from _cance:, while 99,916 died from tuberculosts These statistics are only taken for the death Teglstration area. Q. How many years ago was fha Colorado river at the rim of the Grand Canyon?—E, T. A. The geological survey seys-that in geological terms the period wifich has clapsed gince the Colorado river began to cut the Grand Canyon, 13 not determined vary close! and any ar- tempt to put {1 in years is speculatly It might e ag much as ten or Ofte million yearss Q. What prisons go in for farming on an extensivl scale” . F A. While masty prisons probably the largest develupment the farm colony fdea for prisopers - the United States {s in congestlo with the federal penitentiary at Lea enworth, Kan. - Q. How long is & par & ~D. Y. . A. According te the & the United States Golt A hole 451 to 600 yards in culated to take a agive, two two putts. Q. Why can't the adjective uniqae be modified by very or most? A. Unique means the only ona of its kind. It is, therefore, incompar able. The word Is frequently migused for 0dd, rare or unusual. o fe Q. What was the origin of the 3a!- tese cross?—A. A A. This emblem was adopted by the Knights of Malta. They devised a eross made up of four barbed arrow- heads meeting eir points. Q. What color should kitchen wa be painted?—D. W. P. A. Varlous shades and tones color are important factors in reflect- light. A kitchen shouid be bright clean looking roon The walls finished in fvory tint w 3 72 per cent reflection. If forest green is used the reflective value is only 21 per cent Q. What is the —F. E. C. A. The Pope d but has a c set aside from the rev church for his use, and tributions from various fund is known as Pence” and is largely devo Pope to works of charity (Readers of The FEvening should send their questio: Star Information Burecw Haskin, director, 1220 No strect. The only charge for this ser ice is 2 cents in stamps for retu postage.) Fall of Monarchist Uprising Inevitable, View of Editors flasco as ester “the greater part of Germany is indifferent or hostile to 2 mona The powerful labor uninns wo new monarct - responded to the Kapp three years ago. They na general strike for the fon of the republic. The 4 order which now prevails in Germany may be precisely what is needed to force the selfish capitalistio chieftatns ‘to co-operate | able policy far the salvati many. It was because the army he o relfed on falled him that the L: dor{f flasco resulted, the Boston Christian Sclénce Monltor belleves, as, {f the Bavarian reichsweh: mostly of experfenced obeyed him, the end of the Berlin gov ernment would have been e But the incident serves, in the o fon of the Waterbury Republi “once more, and with stunning : ness, to enable the German peopl: demonstrate to the world that. they are not disposed to permit the restora- tion of monarchy.” This is also the opinion of the Loulsville Courier- Journal, which argues “the prompt suppression of the coup d'etat s an- other proof of the solid substance of the German people, which, despite the chaotic conditions distressing the country since the war, and the va ous efforts to overturn the establisk order, has enabled the republic to sur- vive now for flvi ars.” * % % ¥ The Cincinnati Enquirer recalls that in 1915 “Der Tag was hurled at Britain and France. Hittler's bome bastic proclamation was against the @erman republic. This revolution has collapsed 2s did the ‘Der Tag’ ven- ture.” The German government des serves credit for its strong hand be- cause, as the Utica Press points out, “had it failed to defeat the putsch France would have been in to have taken a hand in frustrating it® It was a “brewhouse revolution® after all, the Providence Journal sugs gests, and “the beer halls of Munic! must have boomed with excited rsation.” complete failure “is a matter tor heartfelt gratification, not only in ‘putsch’ ne would go of Gere er of the brain power of Ludendorfl shonld lend himself to a conspiracy that was such a flash in the pan,” the Bangor Commercial holds, but “per- hape he incorrectly estimated the power of his name. Reading the sit- uation as it stands, it would appear that the German people are tired of war and do not Incline to & return of a monarch: It th! #0, then the Portamonth Star feels, it s as much the duty of the alltea to preserve civ- Ilization today Bs when they went to war with Germany” while the St Joseph News Press suggests “this may be Germany's darkest hour, but there is yet hope that the forces o reason will prevail over those of rev- olution and passion.” For the unrest end disturbance in Germany today “the allles must accept responsibility the Lincoln Star {s convinced, and “the world {s called upon to pay heax. {ly again because it is etill unw ing to banish suspicion and hatreds. Charaeterizing the Ludendorff-Hittler g0 a matter which perplexes the | v::a‘e layman, but it s a subject aboht which controversy always gathers. ' As witness the presont ar- gumentaconcerning whether or, ot Gertain paintings long ascribed to Rembrandt are by the great.master or by his puplls. Very few, certalnly of the best informed will venture offhand to declare any work of art fo be by a partleular master, al- hough it may resemble his style. The question of who produced any particular work ~ef art do not affect the work itsel, nor its enjoy- ment. It is merely in the matter of valuation that this question fig- ures. and expertizing in any field s ticklish work, which only the best equipped, through years of study, sbould be bold enough to undertake. LBILA MECHLIN, Germary, but In other countries,” the Springfleid Republican holds. “Tha magnitude of the peril i mot to bs gauged by the ease with which it was suppressed. A slightly different turn of events at Munich at the criti- cal moment would have released in- calculable forces. Specially gratify ing is the fact that Gen. Ludendor! one of the most dangerous enemies of the German republie, was publicly ind volved in tha conspiracy and s likely| to los prestige by its ignominious: failure. It may be hoped that Luden- dorff as a ringleader of the kalsor- ists 18 no 'kaput'.” The collapse of the _revolution indicates as wall, the Boston Transcript feels, that “the best hope for peace 0oth in Germany and in Furope continues to lie with Chancellor Stresemann and the Gers man republic. If the monarchists and militarists be curbed once and for ail and .7 the German people rally loyally to the support of the republic and the reconstruction program of vernment Germany may yet be Can Make Faces. i Prom the Roston Trausetipt. “Altogether the greatest encourages ent for world peace at the present time is the fact thi the natlons can make 80 many faces at one unothef without actually fighting. Y A As Europe Sees It. From the Birmingham News. Poor old Europe doubtless thinks at times that America’s national airs are not things to sing but to put on. The Real Thing. the Providence Journal. . ‘When mercury geis lclow. she Tost line thie high price of coal is nd longer an academic jssue, F