Evening Star Newspaper, November 16, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morniiig Editien. WASHINGTON, D. C. FRIDAY......November 16, THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th £t. and Pennaylvania Ave, New York Office: 110 Bast 42nd St. Chicago Office: Tower Bullding. Karopean Oftice: 16 Regent 8t., London, England, The Evcning Star, with the Sunday ‘morning edition, is delivered by carriers within —the city ai 6 ceats per monih: dafly eoly, 45 cents per month: Suoday omiy, 20 cents per month._ Orders may he went by mall or tele- phone Maln 5000, Collection Ix made Ly car- tlers at the end of each moath. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia. Daily and Sunday..1yT., $5.40; 1 mo., 700 Daily only ‘ $6.00% 1 mo., 50¢ sunday oniy. 2 All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1 yr., $19.00; 1 mo., 850 Dally only. .1 ¥yr, $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only 1yr, $3.00;1mo., 25c Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press fa exclusively entitied to the use for republication of all mews dis- patches credited to It oc not otherwise credited in this puper and wlw the local news pub- lished “hereln. Al rights of publication of special dispatchies hereln are also Natives of the District. Another state society comes into Leing in Washington. This is the So- city of Virginians, “composed of na- tives of the Old Dominion residents of the District of Columbla and adjacent sections of Virginia and Maryland." It was recently organized and its objects are “To bring In close personal and social intercourse all Virginians in this section; to per- vetuate the memories and traditions of the commonwealth, its ideals, his- tory, patriotism, hospitalities, and the promotion of #ll the clvic, edu- «ational und other interests looking 10 the advancement of the people of the state.’ In general th of the various socicties “Vashington. The list of such socfe- ties is long und their influence for sood is manifest. The “home folk™ come together on meeting nights and nleasant memories ure kept fresh. Two or threc years ago a soclety of nutives of Maryland living in Wash- mgton was organized, and there is w150 a Society of Natives of the Dis ict. Our own native soclety is targe and flourishing, but if all Dis. trict natives should join it there vould be only one place in the Dis- trict large enough for their meetings. That wouid be Potomac Park. The many state socleties in Wash- Ington call to mind that some persons bave sald that it is hard to meet native Washingtonian. The ratio of bersons born in Washington to the whole population is probably greater than in most American cities and is certainly much greater than in those conspicuous for large and rapid pop- ulation increase. Cities do not grow fast because of the birth-rate in them. They grow fast because they draw to themselves people born elsewhere, and generally a city makes its strongest population pull on the state in which it is and on nearby states. Some cities make much of their pop- ulation gains by attracting foreign immigrants. Washington is not in that class and its ratio of foreign- born to native-born is small. Wash- ington has drawn a large part of its population from the adjoining states <t Maryland and Virginia. Some very Interesting conclusions are reached in this connection if one #nalyzes the census statistics of 1920 | und compares the figures with those of carlier censuses. In 1920 the population of the District was 437,571, compared with 278,716 in 1900. In 1920 the white population was 326,560, while it was 191,532 in 1900. The negro Jopulation in 1920 was 109,966 and in 1900 it was 86,702, In' 1920 the colored population was 25.1 per cent of the'l whole, while in.1900 it was 31.1 per cent. Of the 3. 0 whites in the Dis- trict in 1920 298,312 were native Amer- icans and 289,488 were born of native Anerican parents. The District has drawn the larger art of its population from the south Atlantic division of states—Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgla and Florida. This is the geo- graphic division which includes the District. District residents born in thiose states numbered 134,684 in 1920, while the number born in the mid- dle Atlantic division—New York, New Jersey und Pennsylvania—numbered 43,389. Listrict residents born in New Yingland—Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut—numbered 12,908, Of the whole population of Wash- ington 160,109 were born in the Dis- trict. That is a high percentage of natiyes to be found in a fast-growing city. The number of our citizens born in Virginia was 63,006, and the num- ber born in Maryland 48,936. The next state in line was Pennsylvania with 20,319 and New ,York with 18,719.1 North Carolina gave us 8,025, West Virginfa 4,331, South Carolina /4,258 and Georgia 3,984, Ot the 160,109 Washington natives @ very large number were born of parents born in Maryland and Vir- ginia, ——— Not understanding Ameérican cus- toms, many people in distressed areas of Europe, when “Thanksgiving” is mentioned, are inclined to ask what it is all about. —_—— The admission by Mr. McAdoo that he is @ candidate shows that he reads the papers and does not undertake to defy public opinion. —_———— Hiram Johnson, Candidate. Of deepget interest, and it may be fraught with portent, to the republican party is the announcement: today by Senator Hiram Johnson of California that he is a candidate for the repub- lican presidential nomination. It was rot unexpected, as there have been rumblings for a fortnight or more of its approach But even its forecasting does not lessen the seriousness to the party of the fact that he has thrown down the gage of baltle to President ‘Coolidge. Senator Johnson himself makes the cnalienge In unmistakable terms. “Re- actlon :and progress must fight it out again in the republican party in ‘the coming “presidential - primeries,” he says. “T question mot men now, but A thelr philosophy of government. That ‘which prevalls, at Washington does not fit present-day noeds. Ultracon- ubout time of departure and arrival,; servatism there rules; progressivism 1923 | challenges it. And the .ehsuing con- test will determine whether the repub- fcan party shgll be the permanent in- strument of reaction or whether it shall respond to present-day condi- tions and aspirations.” These are strong words of indict- ment against the party of which he claims to be a member, and are di- rected polntedly at the administration and the dominant element of the party in Congress. The charge of ultra- conservatism is a blanket one and not attended by specifications. He is go- {ing betore the country in the primarics land reiterate the charge fromn every forum. Republicans looking forward to the | consequences will see that everything i he miys will be water over the wheel i of the democrats in the campaign, af- will be entitled to call attention to the spectacle of a republican candidate- for the nomination having asserted the reactionisma of the party of which they accuse it, and they will call upon the voters to rally to what they con- stantly claim to be the only progres- sive party, the democratic. This will be emphasized should President Coolidge be nominated. They will ask the voters who support- ed Senator Johnson to come to them. ‘Wil the history of 1912 d 1918, in which Senator Johnson figured so con- spicuously, be repeated in 19242 Municipal League Convention. The National Municipal League now in convention in Washington is deal- ing with matters of direct concern to milllons of people living under munici- pal government. The league proposes { that citles shall be run on good busi- | nicss principles In the interest of tax- | payers, who should bear the relation to their community which stockholders do to the private corporation of which they are share-owners. The convention has before it for discussion a number of questions' important to all persons { interested in municipal government, {and it is believed that positive results will follow the discussion. One of tlie subjects which the con- | vention has under consideration is that of the making of a municipal budget. It has lately come to be thought the {right thing in municipal government to make a budget with the idea that expenditures shall not get out of line or too far out of line with revenue, or that expenditures belng forecast the revenue may be brought in line to meet them. There is an understanding among member of the le many delegates to the convention that | the budget system has not fulfilled its | does not work as well would scem to warrant. jder wu gonstructive budget-making, and the convention is expected to suggest plans by which the budget system shall be made as good in practice as it is in theo Arother of the important subfects | under consideration in the convention lis the strect raliway transportation | problem. It is a problem that {s per- plexing to patrons of the cars as well las to companies operating cars. | title under which the discussion is held is “The Way Out for Our Street Rail- ways.” There is recognition that many i street railway companies need to find a way out. as its theory There is un- criticism of Pittsburgh. They geem to do some things, or at least one thing, better in Pittsburgh than in Washington. Of course Pitts burgh is a bigger and a richer city than Washington, but it ought not to top the Capital of the United States in this particular respect. the treatment of its schools that we imust yield the palm to Pittsburgh. Our former superintendent of school i Dr, William M. Davidson, who for ten years has been superintendent of schools in Pittsburgh, has been visit- ing Washington. The Star quoted him as saying: “Pittsburgh makes an annual appropriation of $10,000,000 for new school buildings besldes an equal sum — $10,000,000! — for operation of the system. It was only hinted this year that probably $10,000,000 would not be enough to maintain a seat for every child, when the council imme. diately appropriated $3,000,000 more.” Three million dollars on a hint! Ten million dollars @ year for school con- struction and $10,000,000 a -year for operation and $3,000,000 thrown in for good measure on @ hint! And this by @ town ‘councill They seem to have some big men in the town coun- cil of Pittsburgh. May we not well say to Congress, our town council, “Go thou and dd likewise"”? ——————— by Like other capital cities of democ- racles, Berlin is all in a flutter over the possible arrival of a crown prince. This fact does not necessarily imply { that he will be taken with permanent | sertousness. it Secretary Mellon has not yet evolved {any income tax revision for wage | earners to apply to the chap who does not. earn any but draws them nevertheless. ——————— / Union Station for Busses. A union station in Washington for Maryland and Virginia bys lines is proposed and owners of intercity and. suburbin bus lines entering Wash- fngton will have a conference in the offices of the Merchants and Manufac- turers’ Association this week. It iea propofal that is to be commended. It would no doubt be a great convenience to patrons ‘of the lines, and it seems that it ought to bring about an in- crease in bus traffic. - It is sometimes perplexing to find the starting point of the bus one wants to use. There are so many starting points for busses running out of Washington that it is hard to keep them in mind. The bus for this point starts from the corner of 18t and X streets and the bus for that polnt sterts from the intersection of 2d and’Z streets, and only the ini person knows the time of . ‘In many ‘cases there is no shelter for waiting passengers. Intercity ana saburban bus traffc has developed to the point where a union station, if not seriously needed, would surely be a great convenience. ‘At suth a_ station 'there would be v - ter the nominations are made. They | gue and| { early promise, and that in practice it | The | THE !waiting rroms and one could get schedule cards and other information | nlaces reached by busses out of Wash- |ington and about the bus lines they connect with. Bus lines now connect ‘Washington with a large part of southern Maryland; they run into the nofthern section of the state, glving connection between Washington and the Olney and Sandy Spring neighbor- hoods and the upper Patuxent coun- try west of the rallroads. Golng west there are busses to Frederick and a great many intermediate places, and | connection is made with busses that will carry one to hundreds of places in northwestern Montgomery county and the counties of Carroll, Frederic and Washington. Bus lines connect Washington city with many places in Arlington and Falrfax counties, Va., and generally at the end of the Washington line are busses to carry passengers to points beyond. A cen- tral station in Washington for all the bus lines would probably prove to be & good thing. —————— Automobile Convention. S0 many national conventions meet at Washington that one tinds it hard to keep, track of thew, and this fall we have not had one gonvention after another, but batches of them iu ses- slon at the same moment. It Is not casy to overlook so lurge and interest- ing a convention as that of the Na- tional Motorists’ Assoclation now in session. It is set forth that there 874 automobile clubs in the United States with a membership of 500,000, and this convention Is of represen tives of these organized motorists, an in o way the delegates speak for the i owners and operators of 15,000,000 mo- tor vehicles in the United States. Washington welcomes this convention. Washington is an automobile city of some size and pretension. With about 450,000 inhabitants more than 100,000 motor vehicle e owned and oper- ated here under District licenses, und the police do not know how many ma- chines are owned and operated here under state tags. Everybody in Wash- ington is interested in automobiles in one way or another. Many of our peo- ple are interested in driving them, and wany others of our people are inter- ested in keeping from being struck by them. The convention is discussing road building and moaintenance, city {traffic problems, automobile stealing {and scores of other questions of in- | terest to motorist { Local Industrial Conditions. The Department of Labor, in latest bulletin summarizing employ- ment conditions in the District, at the situation is satisfactory con- #idering that winter is near. Normally | there 18 a decrease of activity in man lines of trade at this season. The de partment points out that building con- structfon is heing carried on to an un- usual extent, and that labor in the tuilding trades is fu employed. Tt says that there is a shortage in clerfl cal positions, which is usual at this period of the year. In the adjoining states the industrial situation is excel- lent, and with few exceptions “Indus- tries in Maryland are operating on fuil time with normal employment,” and {road construction is making its de- {mand on skilled and unskilled labor. Little unemployment is ev section of Virginia Times are goed. —_——— Now that Mr. McAdoo's hat is in ! the ring friends of Mr. James Cox may | be satisfied to limit their discussion { to nis prospects for a vice presidential { nomination. And then again, they may not. —_———— There is popular resentment for 1t is in | What is interpreted as a movement to | the have the Berlin government secede from the Rubr and the Rhineland. —_——— Washington is a big city. now, and needs all the big men possible on the District committees in Congress. 1 There may be “another war,” but its promoters will experience difficulty in finding financlal backing. - ——— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOTINSON. 01d Story. “We must not have another war,” The nations all agreed. “A fight must be forbidden, o It's very bad, indced." Then here and there a voice heard— “Unless you piay my way And leave my projects undisturbed, I'm going to start a fray.” The Dove of Peace then drooped its head And sighed, “T see we are, In spite of what's been done and said, Not getting very far!™ Political Situation. “What do you think of the political situation in Europe “It's different from any political sit- uation I ever had any experience with,” aenswered Senator Sorghum sadly. “There ought to be some way of abolishing it. There is no salary attached and nobody really wants it.” Jud Tunkins says he sometimes gets brain fag and would rather be ob- stinate than do the work necessary to change his mind. Hohenzollern Habit. ‘When a-man has had his troubles and they're over It's agreed. Does he simply settle down and live in clover? No, indeed. He will quickly seek his bad associa- tions, As before, And instead of shunning troublous demonstrations, Hunt for more. No Idle Gossip. “Do you listen to idle gossip?” “Never;” replied Miss Cayenne. “All the gossip I ever encountered was ‘most industrious.” 3 “I hope,” said Uncle Eben, “dat a way will be discovered yet foh ,one part-of de human race to form another part without @llus startin’ wome kind of a fight” E ite ) notes | ent in any EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO: BY FREDERIC Attempts to induce Congress to ap- prove financlal- rellef for Germany will encounter bitter opposition It the Johenzollern monarchigt movement skould still be in progress. That view jwas expressed to this observer by _Senator Willlam H. King of Utah, re- jcently returned from an investigu- ,tory trip to Germany and Russla. |Senator King declares that German |granaries are crampied with food- {stuffs, hoarded for speculative pur- iDoses by the junkers, who face with equanimity the distress prevalling among the middle clusses as long us the prospect of fat profits for them- solves continue. “Congress will want tohave the entire German situation— economic and monarchical — fully cleared up,” says Semator King, “be- fore It will vote an American dollur for ‘starvation’ relief over ther 1 L N | Senator Samuel M. Rulston of in- | Qtana, demoeratic dark horse of the |iirst magnitude, not only iy @ presi- dential possibility, but has the dis- tinction of belng told he looks like two one-time Presidents of the United States. Ralston long sined became ac USLo] 1 to hearing that De rese bLles Grover Cleveland. t e W taken off Lis guard tie lust time he was In Washington by having a man address him ax “Mr. President” and then explaining: “Why, 1 thousht Ay, Taft” Senator Ral B s 1ri A% are anxious to have |people understand he's o long way from being a septuagenarian. On De- cember 1, 1923, the former G of Indiana will be only sixty-six years would be on the verge of en Af © elected President in the midst of his ® yewr when Inaugurated in * ok ox % In President Coolidge's brief Armis- tice day statement th was & pas- |kage Into which anti-bonus politi- s are reading o significance not generally given it at the time. “Our country will remember With @rati- tude,” the President said, “those who served it with such distinctlon, and renew its resolve to eontinue to mect its obligations to those Who suffercd njury from their servi bonus eclement polns ‘oolidge maintal us to any to service men wh injur; It is convineed “suffer the Presi- DE FONTENOY. imigue, in its way, is the crogutive of the Archbishop \terbury. the primate of all \d, to bestow degrees of the ! University of Oxford upon those dis. | tinguished men, nected with his alma mater, whom ho wishes to speclally hemor. It is a | prerogative which dates back to the | anti-reformation era. when the pri- {mate of all England usually co | bined in his own person the dignity {of Archbishop of Canterbury with ithat of pmpal legate and plenipo {tentiary of the pontiff. As legate the | primate enjoved the power of bestow- ing. of “his own free wi degrees of the university from which he had graduated. of England has, since the sixteenth century, cut itseif adrift from Rome, t the Archbishop of Canterbury Ktlll retains_from the two princlpal Innd oldest English universities the {powers which his predecessors de- {rived from the fact that they were | pontifical legates. Thus, the present | Archbishop of Canterbury was edu- {cated at Trinity College, Oxford. { Conscquently thel degrees that he lconfers are those of Oxford, and this i i3 done quite independently of the au- {thoritles of his alma mater, which, {save in his case, are alone in_its {right to grant its degrees, elther us result of examinations by | vote of the heads of the university. {1f the primate had taken his orlg- inal degree at Cambridge he would { be entitled to bestow Cambridge Unl- I this, it is versity degre: 1f 1 call attention to | because these degrees conferred by {the Archbishop of Canterbury are {sometimes known as Lambert de- {grees, owing to the fact that their H investiture invariably tukes place in; his wonderful old medieval palace, almost opposite to the houses of par- | liament on the Surrey side of the Thames. Thus he has just bestowed jthe degree ot doctor of divinity of {Oxford upon the new Bishop of Sterra l.on® whom he had conse- crated to that see a few days pre- {Viously, the Rt. Rev. G. W. Wright. ! At the same lh’n:. d“et“e“lofwed n‘n Oxford degree of doctor of music | upan the widely- known €. H. Moody, who, for nearly thirty years, has en- oved something more than national Jegrity as the chief organist of the ! cathedral of Ripon, where so many { great_oratorios and masterpleces of sacred music have been produced. So far as 1 am aware. the Rt Rev William T. Manning. Protestant Epis. copal Bishop of New York, is the only American prelate to have re- jceived this somewhat rare and un- | usual honor from the head of the state church of England in token of the sympathy and communion of anglicanism with the entirely inde- pendent American denomination of which Dr. Manning is an acknowl- edged leader. i * kK X | Two English names that are partic- | ularly amiliar on this side, are those | of Phillimore and Bryce, and, there- fore, it will Interest quite a number of people here to learn of the fm- ending marriage betgeen Capt. the Fion, " Godfrey Phillimore and the widowed Mre. Bryce. The former is the eldest son and heir of Lord Philli- more, and lost his first wife in a very tragio fashion during the great war, on the very day when he was s0 badly wounded fh battle in France that he was unable to attend her fu- neral. A_daughter of Col. Arthur Halgh of Bemersyde in Berwickshire, one of the equerries of Edward VII, she had a place at Sonning on the Thames, where, duringe the summer, she used to swim ever§ day. On the occasion of the fatality her boy of olght got Into difficulties while in the water and was in danger of drown- ing. His mother swam to his rescue, brought him safely to the bank, but was S0 exhausted that she succumbed then and there to heart failure. Capt. Phillimore has inherited his father’s curious gift of ambldexterity. Indeed, Lord Phillimore, before he re- tired from the bench, which he occu- pled for so muny years, frequently Wwas watched taking coplous short- hand notes, first with his right hand and then with his left hand. He never, however, got quite so far as one of his colleagues, who was able to take notes about one subject with his right hand and about another with his left hand—a _feat which recalls that per- formed by Justice Frederick Crane of the supreme court of New York, in February, 1911, when ho tried two cases at the same time. At ome end of the hall of justice wis gathered the entire court of a_ divorce sult, while at the other end was assem- bled a court engaged in a suit for the recovery of money. Judge Crane left the bench and spent the entire morn- ing In striding from one end of the room to the of , exclaiming, “I will allow that,” in m upon a dis- puted point in the property suit and then, a minute later, exclaiming, the other end,of the room, “You open WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS' vernor | English Primate Possessqs Right to Present Degrees not otherwise con- though the state churcl | A ,_FRIDAY NOVEMBER 16, 1923 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN‘ WILLIAM WILE dent, 1ike Becretary Mellon, \Is op- posed to the bonus, oWk K The greatest naval cruise under- taken by any flest since President Roosevelt ment the American battle- ship mquadron around the world is abdut to be made by the British navy. Two battle crulsers, including the fa- mous Tood, and five Mght cruisers will embark upon & tour of the Brit- ish empire, starting November 27 and lusting until the middle of 1924. The globe will be girdled In the mean- time. North American ports of call will* include ~Mugdalenn bay, San Francluco, Vancouver, Halifux, Quo- bee, Newfoundland and Nova Bcola. The Panama Canal Zone will be tra ersed in July. After tarrying at Hono- lulu for a# week in June and touching at San Francisco, the squadrons will soparate, returning to Great Britain by dificrent routes.’ | * kK & | What politicians eall the “low [ down"—f.e., the gospel truth—about "uxrlcul(uml uditions in Europe 18 to be reported to the annual conv tion of the Amerfean Farm Bureau | Federation at Chicago December 10- 1f. By that time there will be back | trom Fur the delegation ded Ly Gray or, legislative ug tl federation, aund including ¥ Cornwell. president of the Ve fedepation; M. D. Lincoln, secr of the OLio federation, and George A. Starring, secrotury of the South Da- | kota federation. T have toured Great Britain, France, Germany, land, Russla, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Conditions from the dirt farmers' standpoint have been minutely studied. W. H. Walker, vice president of the American Farm Burcau Federation, is with the part too, looking especially into nitra |He I the nitrates expert of the D | partment of Commerce and accomas | nied the federation party as its repe | resentutive, i * % ; Representative Louis ¢, Cramton of Michigan, the leader of the drys in | the Incoming Congress, says th Te |going to insist on prohibltiontst | American embussies < and legations | abroad. These premises being “Amer- {ican soil” in the identlcal sense tha\{ ships of the United States merchant | ne are, Mr. Cramton’s supporters agitats for the same kind of | presidential order that closed up the bars on Shiipping Board liners. (Copyright, 1928.) { i the door for the admission i conversation in your direc tlon,” {n determining a o mtested tertimony in se. It be added tha Judge | e s quite as successfully | llehed s the display of ami- | of Lord Phillimore and of | ¢ colleague of the English bench | above mentioned. i * *x of that xamina- stion of | the divoree | ma; e 1 remarkab! nglish judges was the late Sir |Eawin Landse. the celgbrated |puinter and Royal Academician, who | also sculptured the lions that keep | {®uard over the Nelson monument in | 11ondon’s Trafalgar Square. For, ac- rding to Queen Victoria's own tes- | timony, recorded in her printed “jour- jnal ir Edwip, on one @occa i {drew, in her presence and in th more than these ! on, | pres- | ice of her husband, one sketch with | s right hand angd a totally different one with his left hand at one and the | same time. Her roval consort was so much struck by this remarkable gift | ! of ambidexterity possessed by Land- | {secer, who was'a frequent visitor at Balmoral, at Osborne and at Wind- | €or, that he insisted upon all his chil- | dren being brought up to use their | {left hands with the same degree of | cess Louise, widowed Duchess of Ar. | gyll, who is as gifted in pictortal as in plastic art, can paint and model | {just as cleverly with her left hand as Wwith her right. Lord Phillimore is very rich and de- rives a large income from extensive ireal estate holdings in London. He inherited a baronetcy from his father. | | His_grandfather, Joseph Phillimore. | {Al. P was chancellor of the dioceses | | of Oxford, Worcester and of Brittain, as well as the reglus professor of clyil law at the University of Oxford, | all offices in which he was succeede | by his won; the late Sir Robert Philli- | ! more, the lifelong friend of Gladstone, jullge of the Tourt of arches and last judge of the historic court of the lord | high admiral of the realm. Lord | Phillimore is his son, and is married | to a daughter of the great legal house | of Lushington, a niece of that old Sir | Stafford Northcote of Devonshire, who died as the Earl of Iddesleigh. *x % % Lord Phillimore is the greatest liv- ing authority on British judicial mil- | linery and on one memorable pcca- slon, when presiding at the presenta- { | tion of prizes at a great girls’ school | at York, took occasion to deliver an address on the subject of the sump- | tuary adornments of his office. He | pointed out that the robes of English | judges were originally priests’ gar- { ments, the clergy belng, in olden times, the only men of sufficlent learning to act as judges to problems | too intricate and difficult for the great | barons of the realm. The scarlet| gown, he declared, was nothing more nor less than a_cassock, and the er- mine a cape. The black girdle, or sash, which he wore, and the stole were originally the priest’s cincture and the deacon’s stole. The wig, he added, was a relic of the reign of Charles 11, when grave men, such as prelates und judges, wore gray Pow- dered wigs {n contradistinction to the dark or blond flowing curls of the courtiers, and, lastly, the black cap, such as’ Sir Thomas, More, when he went to the stake, wore, and which the judges of the high court 6nly don to meet the lord mayor of London or when pronouncing the sentence of death, had been worn by the clergy | prior to the reformation and also sub- sequent thereto. Lord Phillimore wound up his lecture by explalning to his female audience that the judges’ Trobes were “not donned for the pur- poso of gratifying their vanity, or merely for the sake of dressing up, but in order to impress both the Wwearer and others with the awe and majesty of the law, Lord Phillimore, as may be. gath- ered from this address to school- glrls and from the satisfaction which o always found in matters of judl- clal attire, never suggested that sturdy virflity which characterizes the majority of the wearers of the ermine "in_Great Britain and which tends to humanize their pronounce- ments from the bench® Many of the {udges, such as tho lato Lord Chiet ustice Alverstone. and Lord Jus- tice Chitty, were famous throughout the greater part of thelr lives as athletes. Lord Phillimore {s less ro- bust in his appearance and speech, and on one occasion, when he was Presiding at the admiralty court and & rough, breesy pilot was called upon to testify as to the.reproaches which he had addreesed to the man at the Wwheel for misconstruing orders—re~ proaches that were couched in true sailorlike and, consequent highly colored language—Lord hillimore looked quite pained and shocked, and, turning to the witness, remarked: “My good man! Why ‘de you use such horrible and ling language? Could you not have said to him, ‘You You goose! ' You 8ol ::: you_see that you m%ln. a X e, pilot ata Ifome 1 tee 2o then and there col j tion of that moust esse: !lifelong efforts have met with such | !limit _of retirement and make !retirement bill, Library Abuses Scored. Privileges at Congressional Held Great Public Benefit. To the Editor of The Star: For a number of months I have had the great privilege of being a participant in the courtesies of the Library of Congress. The great read- Ing room, with its quietude, its indi- vidual desks, jts electric light at arm's reach to each desk reader, its card catalogue and its book alcoves free to users, its restrooms and— above all—ity staff. The benefits are 80 many and only the one in doing re- search work there realizes in full the extent of these benefits, which are made a hundred-fold more worthwhile by the Invariable and unfailing cour- Lesy of the corps of desk staff, junior messengers und all who serve the in- vestigator. . e kuowledge one wants some one of the taff knows where to find. The remembrance that one wants & cer- lain.hook is carried over In a staff< man’s mind and days after that hith- erto much wanted and misplaced book s held Jvhen it turns up, for the per- was v 20 e ‘\Thnlll’l[ it a week or L ch service that makes these brary of Congress people scem like real friends, warmly interested in Just what each secker is dolog, and to the gecker there in that gorgeous domed, vast room, they become warme- 1y held in esteem, Books disuppear. That is Just short of & erime, ‘Oncr thefe was precaution against thievery of these Looks intrusted to the care of the Library of Congress by requir- EHK each Lorrower of & book to have @ permit to tuke it from the bullding a pernit the borrowe show tc the door watchman. That was a mos proper and a most necessary precau tiun, due people whose lt- erary wor in the dbrary precaution was their hopest duc | use it fu their books thefr brain thelr® work that m o the hody <f hooks that u; the Library. & congressman objceted, didu’'t want te be bound by Library rules. Rules are only for the common people ruled, not for the per- | sonages making those rules. And that congressman caused the revoca- 4 ntial Library of Congress rule. It Is & further monstrous thing that people write all over the pages of valuable books! Old books of weneal- ©kY, invaluable of the kind, are hid- cously annotated, interlined, revised scratched out, commented upon, in lead pencllings that smudge and sof the opposite lea or iy ink that smears and blots, with femarks ot some smug self-appointed reviser shamefully abusing the graclous el priviltge of comulting Library Congress buoks unhampered by supervision or overs i I consider it an i every time @ hook thus defaced and soiled comeg to my attentic I've found their with ~ paragraphs calated. An entire * book defa and literally | ruined. N § Then there i< the” reader who “checks off” facts us she finds them I've seen pages marked up with iicken-tracks of an impudent peneil, | checking off and tallying up items | found, like a laundry list. No book, with its rare heraldic pic- turings. is 0o pricelcss for these lead- pencil vandals to deface. The book-lover swears mentally at the havoe found. If I were in authori repository of all-Ame; of-all-earth’s brains I'd lettered sign fast at desk in any room where readers are privileged—Do not mark any book in any manner whatever. All pen and pencil marks punishabla by law.” Any person has just as to go Into a man's house his books at will as he has to come into the people’s book Louse and de- face their books. BERRY LOUDUN. there in that ‘s and much- put a large front of each Sees an Injustice ! In the Pension Bureau | To the Editor of The Star: H Have times changed? Will faithful | service Tor the government be reck- | oned as naught Just as it often Is in the business world? There i about to be perpetrated upon a number of | faithful workers for the government | the most flagrant case of Injustice | which has come to my attention in a | number of years. On December. 1 Dout seventy-five clerks in the pen- slon office will be given an indefinite | dexterity as their right hands. Prin- | furlough, which means only final dis- | competitor: missal. The mafority of these clerks | are those who have given the best | part of thelr lives to serving the | government. One case in partic is that of a woman who has devote thirty-five years to faithfully carr: ing out the performance of her du- ties. Her record is bgyond reproach, | both for efficien hd attendance. Doubtless there are many other such cases. . Are these faithful workers to be thrown out into the wofld to begin life anew, so to speak? The majority of them are bevond the years which would permit them to make anoth: start in a new line of busines What will become of a great many of them? A number no doubt will die of a broken heart to feel that their reward. | 1 understand there is a bill before Congress which will reduce the age the | tenuré of office thirty years. Why | in the name of all that is just can these clerks who have served so lon be allowed to stay on a year or s more and receive the benefits of the which will at least give them something to live on in their declining years. Action to avert mich o catastrophe is what is needed needed immediately! and C. H. TINSDALE. ' Government Worker Would Retire at 65 To the EAitor of The Star: | I notfced in your paper an article on the subject of the new bill for re- | tiring government employes which interested me very much. It seems to me that any clerk who 80 desires should be eligible for re- tirement at sixty-five upon the maxi- mum pension. That is the age at which Army and Navy officers reach their retirement, and there are a few years left them in which to look about them and enjoy life. Office life is very arduous to every one, whether the employment be of an executive nature or the drudgery 50 well known to the many. The very monotony of it is what tells or most of us, and it is a common sav at office life, especially In the ent, makes a machine of the ing th governm k. cl;: is to be hoped that Congress will pass a bill this winter which will icompensate much more liberally those | {g g0 gmall, that th faithful clerks who were the ‘fl";:: to be retired, after reaching very advanced years, far above Sev- enty in many cases. ‘With so much oney at hand there can be no ex cuse for not raising the pension all round, and persons ought to be re- tired, If they Wluh“l(l. at ulxl:‘;‘l::e f e, on a living wage - yl.o.n‘:! s A. T. JENKINS. ——————— No “Coolidge Blue”! From the New Orleans Times-Picayune. & “Coolidge brown” is described in a fashion letter as the very latest of new fall shades. It derives its name, we infer, from the report that Pres: ident Coolidge is enguged in a deep brown study of farming problems. e ettt Futility of Talk. From the Pittsburgh Gasette-Times. Because he presided over the Sen- ate for two years and recognizes the futility of talk may be the reason President Coolidge is so silent. ———e Something to Think About. From the Birmingham News. It exercise will prevent surplus flesh, why do so many women have double chins? at onee | the fumed oak finish? {from jin { The gailant are Q. How many roonis are In the Sen- ate and House office butldings?—C. L. A. There are 410 rooms in the House ofiice bullding, which s south of the Capitol, and 99 rooms in the Senate office building, which is north of the Capitol. Q. Is the congestion of families in New York city tenements being re lieved by new building operations’— K r A. The bureau of buildings say that for nine months ending Septem ber 30, plans were filed for 2,504 tenc ment bulidings. In the precedin, twelve months only 2205 tencmen plans were filed. While the increas may not be adequate for relief in th situation| the trend s for the bette; Q. How much of the Lincoln high way I8 in shape of a concrete road?— F. . D. A. According to the latest cluss! fications of types of road on th. ranscontinental route (Lincoln high way) from New York to San Francis co, February 1, 1922, there was . .nileage of 52170 miles of concret highway. Q. Who won in the last fight be tween Jim Jeffries and Jack Johunson —A. M A. The last fight between J and Johnson was held July 4, 1% Feno, Nev., when Johnson knoc vut Jeffries in fifteen rounds. 3! . What will remove the musty ud?r from a barrel which has con ained beer?—E. D. 8. A. The Department of Agricultur S that if you will steam the inte of the heer barrel and .cald 1 roughly with het Wai \ 5 whould rewove ihe Q. How many wives did Bri Young have’—J. E. McL A. Brigham Young had ninctcer wives and fifty-seveon children Q. Please give recipe for the Cl nese dish, foo yung.—H. W. A. Beat four egzs well; have read Falf a minced onion and four ticks o celery, chopped fine. Put in the fry ng pan four ounces of pork, choppec iine, and fry until brown. Now adc he herbs with a dessertspoonful o u, and finally the beaten eggs. Leu ok’ for five minutes, without touch g, but be careful to keep from. burniug. Fold one-half over other and slip on the platter with rice. Q: do sound. L. H. A This sound is the vocal cords into vibration me vres and regulated the respira- don, and this vibration is strong ingugh to make the whole larynx \remble so that it may be felt or seen irom the outside. Purring is highly characteristic of the cat tribe, though Jrobably not confined to it. How A. a purring la by throw Q. How is osk treated to produce L. T. . is wood that has by the fumes from The ammonia does A. Fumed oak darkened uid ammoniz. ot touch the oak, but the comes from it ac upon the tannic acid in the wood that it is browned so deeply that a shav- ing or two may Be taken off without removing the ol nuasty ian | gas thad | in such a manner | Q. Where should I apply to obtair a passport to Russia?—I1. J. A. As no Russian passports auu vises are issued, an American citiz: 18 unable to travel in Russia. Q. What is the difference betweer, ralsins and grapes?—L. C.. A. The word raisin is generall used to refer to the dried grape. T principal and most valuable class o raisin_grape is the muscatel . Th- seedless raisins of commerce wre iargely Cultana grapes. Q. What country xeeps the vital statistics?—C. P. T. A. France has the most perfect system of registering births, mar- ges and deaths. The United § s no national system, but re tion requiremeénts are through state laws in many states. Q. Who determines the size, sb ind color of postage stamps?—>. L. A. Postage stamps are designed 1 the bureau of engraving and prir g, subject to the approval of ti *ostmaster Genera Q. What can be combined with n salad to give it more bulk and ‘etain the fish characteristics?—] A. Using one part fish, one part :elery and one part apple fills this re- uirement. Q. Wha | sa vesT de- t is the size of the original ting “Mona Lisa?"—F. 8. 8, This canvas s 2 feet 6 inches ¢ 1 foot 9 inches, Q. What was Tom Hood's iamous oun about the undertaker?—F. N, A. Hood, most inveterate and happy of a lively coterle of English punst s credited with having said of a cer | .ain undertaker that he appeared a1y ous to “win a lively Hood.” What is a Yarmouth blosta: A bloater is 2 herring wuneh Lus seen salted, smoked for a short ¢ | and half dried. Yarmouth is tha pri: :ipal seat of the English ner:. dshery, and the Yarmouth bioter ' nighly esteemed. Q. Who were tue “quids” i ane: {can politirs?—M P. L A. The quids was a faction of th epublican party led by John Rar { dolph from 1805 to 1811. 'The nan was derived from tertium quid, sig aifying thelr separation from both parties. Q. MW A. Pyramid s o name given to two | mountain peaks in Calorado and two in California. { Q can :,,1,.‘1:. >—H. C A, If solld] not be detonated except with grea difficulty and uncertainty, but if 100, and pulverulent it may be detonat (hough the efficlency is much dimin- 1 _1s Pyramid Peak in Colorado?-- fro namite be éx us t which the verses of succ tions are arrang. order, are known psalms. (Readers of The Eveni should send their questsons to Ntar Information Bureaw J. Haskin, director, 1220 itol street. service is 2 conts in stamps for re- tirn postage.) | Thr Prederic orth Cap- The only charge for this Navy Ban on Speed Ilying Wins Approval of Editors Action by Admiral Moffett, chief of the bureau of naval seronautic calling’ off further efforts “for s among his remarkable young flyers bas been very generally approved by the editorial thought of the count The lives of these men are too valu; ble to their count editors h that o 266 to 274.2 miles per hour is a good enough mark for all forelgn to shoot at ut. Willlams Brow are first-class aviators,” says the nto. “and their loss through death would constitute a se blow to the aviation service. Why flirt with fate when it is not necessary? Why snould aviators of their own accord risk their life and limb in an attempt that posse: more of the sporting element than the sclercific?” Yet such speed, the Detroit Free Pregs points out, would make possible, “if maintained, a flyer going around the earth at the equator ss than four days. An aeroplane which travels at this rate is more like a projectila than a means of tiavel. Only, unlike a cannon ball, it carries 1ts own source of power. likewise agr “Both L and Lieut. ews ver not land, he falls.” Rea < actually is, insists aviator doe izing just what the Tis the ~Saginaw News-Courfer “Admiral Moffett is. of cou oung men he comman altogether too valuable to thrown away in achieving speed rec 8. ord > Agrecing to this argument, the New, York Tribune also points out that “if airmen had ever tender thought for their own safety aviation would be at 2 standstill instead of sweeping on at a pace beside which a tornado crawls, The intervention of cool- headed chiefs when experiments grow too perilous is a necessary check- rein.” The work of these two par- ticular experts, however, 3 s the Ner York World sees it, “was all done in :olmrl' of play, with no prizes. One will wait long before finding two such sportsmen and another such con- test—especlally since Rear Admiral Moffett has forbiaden the future. When the profe turns amateur there {s no occasion to mourn the decline of sport; it is only & matter of picking the contest. While there can be little doubt that “the means of attaining high speed is doubtless calculated to fur- nish much information about the de- sign of high speed planes and en- ines, and the American navy is to De congratulated that It has the equipment and the men to stand t great stresses of such experiments. the Baltimore Sun insists “the dan- gers attending are so abl\-lo-u:c.‘dnex;‘zz of minimizing an e o contests for eed supremacy should be held as [htraquently as is consistent with the needs of the service.” In this latter connection the Brooklyn Eagle points out “like all speed records these give no indication of normal flying speed. They do emphasize the transition state of airplane development. The next few years will see great changes and America cannot afford to lag behind in their study and applica- tion. Commercial fiving has pr gressed much more rapidly Eu- rope than with us and is teaching more valuable lessons than our speed contests.” The records just made, however, impress the Albany Newa as again demonstrating “that nothing is impossible. The world has even ceased to_marvel at these achieve ments. Everything is possible Even so, “speed of this sort s ge ting beyond human c.‘mnprehenllonwl erts the Wichita Beacon, &n here is no comparison "exg:ptpzl;e s and bullei - bt e day mam wil incase him- f in a cannon’s projectile, as done In Jules Verne's novel. Not until then will his mad desire for speed be satisfled.” * K K K Lest the facts behind these con- tests be forgotten, the Boston Trav- eler recalls that “American flyers now in| ed limit of | sses | But | {its fuel soon burns out, and, if the hold thirty-three of the forts recognized records in aviatiop., They hold these records in spite of a de- termined emulation on the part of | French pilots, goaded by special | prizes, for taking the laurels from Americans. So while America, in the umber of its planes, can claim n aerfal supremacy, either for peace or war, its young lators have shown themselves individually the supreme { champions among birdmen the world over! To which the Davenport De ocrat adds: “These aviators are sort of fellows that, however | We may be of materlal for our Navy | and Army air services, give us con- | fidence that in personmel we ure ahead of the world. All this country now needs is the support of Its air servic, by the public and by Congress that will equip it to meet 1V natifonal cmergency, and we may then Indulge a feeling of national security whi now it would be folly to harbo: ! The Peoria Transcript, however, feeis impelled to sound a warning that “breaking air rocords as we do it feeds our pride but does not serve our pocketbooks, ~ It Is In commercial aviation . that we are falling short. | As we shatter air records among our ghting fiyers we ignore the possibil- ities for commercial development of the air. We smash records, but we make little practical peace-time use of the knowledge gained by these record = shings, and additlon we neglect the obvious use of the air to acilitate the nation's business.” Commending the orders to stop speed efforts, the Utica Observer Dis- pateh insists criminal to ask or require men sk their iives in & useless contest that sctties nothing and accomplishes nothing beyond set- tling the question of speed,” but the Ann Arbor Times Wws points out “‘the present age demands the fastest, the most exciting, the biggest thrili possible, And so iong as the demand continueés men will be found who can and will break all existing marks.” Maintaining a position something along similar lines the Pittsburgh Sun suggests “that speed of Brow and Williame is not of interest chiefly in iand of itself, but because it holds out promise of something—in the not too ' distant future—that may save half ‘hour a day for many millions.” And 1 the order to 76 present is all the mor the 2 will proba- i bly mean preserving the lives of thes | two modern wonders of *he air.” ,Stricter Traffic Rules Urged for D. C. Safety To the Editor of Tha Star: It is quite probable that traffic con- gestion soon will be increased on account of the lowering in price of gasoline and automobiles of popular make. While there are many careful drivers, there are also many reckless ones, whose motto Is safety last for themselves and others. Reckless drivers are a menace to themselves and others when they try to pass a moving street car (as théy often do) £0 as to avold being held up at the car. stop statlons. These stations bave outlived their usefulness. The street cars should stop at every cor- ner except possibly when the block is very short. Auto traffic should be " kept away from the street railroad lines as much s possible. The casiest way to accomplish this result would be to make a regulation forbidding motorits -to pass any street gar (standing or moving). Such a rule could be enforced much more easily than the rule against or- dinary speeding, which requires u motor eycle officer as a witness. When a driver passes a street car ,there are hundreds of witneeses and he would not darc disobey. Parking should be allowed in every section of the city, but not so as to take u more than 50 per cent of the enrg space on any block. There should be very few one-way streets, and those only in the most congested areas. Detalls of soldiers and marines as traffic officers would be very useful, but legislation would be required to authorize such details. THOS. W. GILMBR.