Evening Star Newspaper, November 17, 1923, Page 6

| TH] EVENING-A-STAR, WASHINGTON, °D. H'SPOTLIGHT THE EVEI\D G _STAR With Sunday Morning Fdition. WASHINGTON, D. C. . BATUBDAY.. .November 17, 1623 - THEODORE W. NOYES. . ..Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Chicaxo Office: ’Eunr Bul uropean Office: ull..nnt Lo o Bvening Star, with the Suadey moring cllnw. e aRiivered by | carcier within b € %0 conts per mouth; dally only. 43 £ month 20 cents’ per Seot by mafl or tele- Dhame Matn. 3300 “otiection 1a made by ear- wers at the end of cach month. Rate by Mail—Payable In Advaunce, Maryland and Virginia, o Dei) 1 40;1 mo., 700 b it X' Rnfi]lflnfll}' 1;:: mn. & , Bunday onl All Other States. " Datly and Sundey.1y Daily only: Gunday only Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press la exclusively entitied 1 vews dis- 71 mo., 850 mo., 80c 1 wo., 23¢ wpeclal dispatches herein are miso reserved, e e The British - Crisis. The - British parilament has been dissolved. The Stanley Baldwin gov- orament has turned to the peaple for sanetion of fts policles and perpetua- tion of the present regime. The Brit- < ish political maelatrom has gained in- - ereasing Impetus. Clinging to the raft + of dutiable trade the conservative gov- ernment ¢xpects abandonment of the decades-old policy of unrestricted com- iercial endeavor. Gladstone declared the tariff a death knell to British life “'and prosperity, predicating his stand | on the ground that only upon untram- meled estension of trade could Eng- lend, dependent as she is upon im- ports, weather exacting demands of natlonal expansion and growth. Confronted by the unemployment of millions, a situation that is not grow- ing better, but werse, and seelng com- | piete disorganization of England's eco- nomic connections upon the continent by virtue of the prolonged troubles fo - garding - veparations and Germany, Stanley Baldwin, a business man, adopts the theory that through tariff restrictions Britieh industry can ad- vance, and by so dotng materially can curtail the numbers of unemployed. He flics in the face of ingrained Brit- ish polley enunciated by _and draws the concentrated firo of " politital enemies. He asks dissolution of parltament that his policies may be sustained in- election, set for Decem- 60c | ganization In any Gladstone, { |hcna -on colliston, Jowever, with the avorite-son movement in Hlinots, “,nm former Gay. Lowden is expect- ed to afinounce his candidacy. Tilinols chooses delegates under the preferen- tial primary. plan, and the-outcome of the contost between these two will add interest to the great battle now' Im~ pending. ji Washington and the Red Cross. The membership campalgn. of the Ameyican Red Cross, which is today being conducted in. Washington by the local chapter, s based upon & sound ahd appealing principle which makes it essentlal that very general commu. Dity support be accorded unto it. 1t is-the theory of those charged with' the raising of funds for carrying forward the work of what is recog- nizéd throughout the world as the Ilmwt powerful dnd effective rellef or- land that those funds ghould be supplicd in small | amounts by the public at large, rather than by placing a heavy burden upon the few. And that theory, connoting as it does a firm belief.in popular ap- preciation of a gplendid work, has to date proved suecesstul in its general -application. It is, however, an unhappy fact that Washington “has not lent that ftull measure of support to the ‘indlcated theory which should be expected. The fact has naver been heavily empha- sized, yet the truth is that in last !)’ear' campalgn approximately two- | thirds of the total local members were lomn oyes of the various government Gepartments, and the remaining frac- | tion was an unhappy reflection upon | the other residents of - thie National l Capital. ! That yeflection should this vear be | wiped out. The works of relief and merey of the commarid thé proud indorsement of jevery American. Yet pride in the so- clety’s work is not, in itself, sufficient. To become an active partner in this laudable enterprise costs any man, woman or child one dollar, | to say that there are a hundred thou- nd Washingtonions who, if they woild back abstract approval by con- crete support, could find it possible to enroll as members. May they do so, to the end of their individual happi- nesg and the fulfillment of a high civie responsibility. - * ————e Congestion in Publie Ways. When Washington wasd surveyed the streets were laid out with a width belleved to be ample for all time, and for mearly @ century many men oon- American Red Cross | It is eafe | i THE it Applause Ir. theaters .is ~quite hearty - when the band hcxa one of the “Songs Without Words,” an an- clent operatic melody and a famous’ minuet. ‘Really there “{s afurement :: Sn’n if the jazzing is welt ‘Jazzed; at ‘is, if‘the saxophone, beil,” drum{ + 4 rl-kc snd’ whistle are held under some’ re- ln“ :::5;1\::.‘::"‘:: ;;:.u:"lutu straint and the conductor or menibeérs " of the orchestra go not mad. 'Jaziuis: | tion and the Yocktidnal tralning by try is in the alr, but there 18 danger | reau four years ago into the Veterans'iy that the jazzists, fidshed by suctess, | Bureau for-the care of the stricken MAY go to extremés and Jazz themes |veterans constitutes. the -&Teatest which ought not to be jazzed., single responsibility and enterprise At @ late convention of the Dancing | ever gttempted under ope control in Masters’ Assoclation it was sald that {this country. It: is doubiful if.8ny. people would soon be dancing-to the |other nation has equaled it in scope melodles ‘of “the old’ masters,” and |or magnitude of rellet; [ part of the prophecy has already ¢ome ! The Veterans' Bureau is nuvngruyxer true. Young persons .and youthless | £rty-six hospitalp of-its own, with persons are dancing, or at least jazz. {16 086 beds; the use of 522 beds in Ing, to' one of the famous weddingUnited States public Nealth setvico marches. As the Jazzers have jazzed | I0PPItaI 3,069 beds {n. Army, hossl- tals, 1,617 beds 1n Nayy. hospitals, 3,661 edding marches there: I8 no Téasan [y, g, in homes for disabled voluntéer why they will not jazz funeral {moldlers and 866 “beds in St Ellza- marches. and we may have the spec- | peth's Hospital for psyohiatric’ cases, tacle of feet twinkling, shoulders Wi (Heveral” ot ghe b ehrugging and bodles writhing to the | TGS hospitals have been Sompleted | the: Immortal ‘strains of the dead march within the last elght months, from “Saul” and the funeral marches | B On March 1, 1923, of Chopin and Gounod. S T iyt Then the nooturnes of Chopin, sonatas . of Beethoven, fantasles of Bchumann and songs of Schubert may INT ToflKY’s were In these hospitals 18,596 veter- ans, sick or wounded, 'and 7,379 Vetér- ans In civie ‘and state hospitals. the | 'BY PAUL V., public health service of hospitaliza- :“g, ank T. Hines took charge, -there | be done to jazz. And if the jazzer can turn Beethoven to his end perhaps he may take the sacred songs of Mozart, Haydn, Handel and Bach and fit them ‘to his purpose.: Here i3 the .thing iliat would give us pause. Songs that have set solemn echoes going In vast cathedral and in humble - church, songs that -have movéd the souls of millions of our race for ages, set to jauz! The very thought offends. —————————— National Guard Armory. A committee of many patriotic and civie bodtes will be formed to consider plans for a.National Guard armory for the District and to bring the mat- ter to the attention of Congress. More extensive.preparations are being made to press this matter to @ conclusion than have ever been made befare, and it is belleved that there is reasoniable prospect of securing adequate and government-owned _quarters for the guard. The organizations to be répre- eented on this committee fre Veterans of Foreign Wars,- Board of Trade. Chamber of Commerce, Merchants and | Manufacturers' Assoglation, American Leglon, Military Order of the World War, Qrand Army of the Republic, Reserve Officers’ Association, Disabled Emergency Officers of the World War, number has been reduced about 2,000{ since March 1, in’ spite of new admis- slons in the meanwhile of 34,793 pa- tients, for short -periods. 'The total ‘days of tren!nrnt amount to 4.309,000. | In addition, the hospitals have oper- ated.”dispenisaries’ and. .Jooked after ! out-patients to she number of 44.843 | and given 22,309 other examinations. | The peak of the number of patients is believed to Rave been reached: -There |y, are some 9,000 beds yacant, but that | does not mean that there is an ex- cessive eyrplus capacity, for there: ! must alwayfl ‘be vacent beds, siuce a b i yacant béd fn California is of no-avail 110 & sick man-in New York, and Yacant bed in ‘a tubetoulosts no-mm& does not ald a man requiring an .am- | putation of a leg or heuro-psychiatric treatment. ~ The vaterars fn oivis or stats -Bbs- Pltals, who are supported by the bu- Teau, are theve' becahse those hoqpi tals are near the homes of the pa- tlents- and are, . thersfore, riaturally preferred bythe lonesome or discour- eg€ed men, where they can keep. In contact with their = familles - and rr(m s. I sor 1 ¥k ox It has been recommended by, Gen. Hines, director of the bureau, that all patfents In other than bureau hospitals be gathered ‘in multable | bureay beds as rapfdly as practicable, except where the home ties bind them to naar-by hospitals.” He also rec- ommends, as a recognition of the ob- ligation of the nation to its soldiers, | that &ll bureau - -hospitais become | avallable for every former saldier, i Whether his disabllity was-of service origin or subsequent to the war. | *on stdered that there had been a great waste of land given over to streets, and that the paving of them or keeping them in repair would entall burdens | ‘ber 6. But {n golng to the country on the tariff issue he gives political enemles opportunity to assail his administra- United States Spanish War Veterans, | Kiwaniz Club, Rotary Club, New- comers' Club' and Liona- Cludb. The need for an armory designed to meet the requirement® of the guard end to . w ok % } The bureau states that it lins pald | or adjudicated, up ‘to September 1, 1923, a total of $24,732 claims for | tion from every angle. Not the least of these issues will be the British gov- ernment's apparent surrender of diplo- matic influence on the continent, a thing brought about by the agzgreseive policies of Poincare and epparent flouting of every British desire in re- gard to settlements with Germany. During the past year Britain has wit- nessed extension of French influence to practically every country in Fu- rope—a dominating influence. British prestige has sunk in proportionate de- gree. The situation is intolerable, ac: cording: do such leaders as Lloyd George, former Premier Asquith, Win- ston Churchill and Sir Alfred Mond, the “big four” of the united liberals. The campaign has begun with a "gusto. Statesmen of the conservative, liberal and labor parties have hastened to the hustings. Citles, towns_ and countrysides already have besn placarded, and when the biggest political guns have unlimbered -Brit- aln expeets to £ee the most strenuous campaign ini her history. That it will exceed in intensity of effort those of the past s belleved. certain, inasmuch e Britain thinks, rightly or wrongly, that her future destiny, be it progress or retrogression, s bound up in final declsions of the pending lesues. ———— 1t is stated by Mr. McAdoo that he will support any man the democrate nominate. Several republican leaders will be tempted to send marked copies of the interview to Hiram Johnson by too heavy for taxpayers. Yet o great has been the increase {n traffic since the coming of the automobile that there s congestion on Pennsylvania avenue, and in some streets there are trafic jams every day. Some streets have beén widened by sacrificing trees and parking, and it is proposed that *hé roadways of other streets shall be made wider. This process cannot be carried far without extraordinary cost, because the sidewalks are none too wide for pedestrians. This brings before us one of the | great changes in the city. It was only @ few years ago that the sidewalks of the Avenue, of F' and G streets and of the north and south streets in the cen- tral part of the city were quiet ways. They were rough-paved with red brick stdewalks and shaded by trees. Pedes- trians were few. In front of the stores and hotels on the Avenue men would bring out chairs and benches on sum- mer afternoons and settle all the ques- | tions of tiie day. They knew nearly every man and woman who passed. That was not o long ago. The lawns and flower gardens in front of and to disappear in the '70s, and in the ‘80s and '90s small shops began to open on G street, H was a very qulet residence street, and quite fashionable along part of its course. There were d family homes with shady, flowery gardens on 11th, 1Gth streets. on the side of homes-on F street began | ! 2th, 13th, 14th and { N6t only do men struggle with the | mattor of congestion in ‘the streets, ! wey of suggestion on Mnes of Party |y iy 1ng country the roads have be- | encourage enlistment in it has been recognized for many years. —_—eete—— Thousands of mnnumrlpts have been sent to Mr. Bok In response to his offer of a temptingly large prize for the best plan for enabling the TUnited States to co-operate In restor- ing peace to Europe. .The enterprise has attracted world interest. It pre- sents a hopeful possibility that it may go further than its original intention and introduce a new and effectiye method of settling a-largs number of difficult questions that constantly w! plex humanity. ——————— i The mayor of Atlantie City takes | the greund that if. the members of the Ku Klux Kian desire to parade on the Boardwalk they can wait il Easter and limit any eccentricities of costume to the latest spring styles. England does not hesitate to remind | Poincare that he is in danger of betng regarded neither as -a perspicaclons statesman nor as 2 good business man. et There arp political céonomists in Europe who figure that it makes no difference How much’a debt Increases 0. long as no real .money chan; hands. . —_—————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNS | ugainst her by Israel Zangwill, notefl‘ wounds or sickness and of the num-: | ber entered only 11,371 remained ‘un- settled at that date. . Since that date | all such adjustments are cleared, ex- | copt current business: Director Hifiea has almed . to-sim- plity the “red tape” and lessen the repeated medical examinations of the “femporary partial dfsabfiities and under the new rule, these rated “permanent. partla gives them standing for compensation for two, yesrs without furthep medi- cul examination—so_ costly to both the patient And the bureau. A sol-| dier my be re-examined in the mean. Zangwill’s Jibes Mmd Food, At least there are ings." Whether America deserved the more or less . severe criticlums,.directed | “no hard feel- | British author now visiting our| shores, fs not particularly a matter for, editorial’ controversy. Editosw | Eeen inclined to agree there Is at least “food for thought in what he has to eay. He Insists hs “doesn't mind being unpopular’ with Ameris cans and editors, In effect, at least, suggest “Americans don't mind’be- ing unpopular with our distinguished vigitor,” so that would seem to square 1t all around. .Meanwhlle there are & |- number of very serious-minded writ- | ers who feelithe Zangwill criticism -G, 'hfl. at llls nyalcal .m:’ndlrtnm sirdiof apoas ) £EATTORi” om bt t m,t o Ve 'mfiom: work hag! ‘been -done, Tehabilitation ot *vpterandi-unable prsiie” thelr former vocatfons, *Hut ‘oapebletof beinm ifea--for some- ‘thing. slse,. Up: to” sw!am»am. 1923, 865,897 bad applled: (trades.or nrnnulmfi'nr which they lcglly; capable.” Of these chfigf""’ ere, tound éllgible, 169,209 Arkining ‘ad 45,766 have 1'—' W\P}Gted nld are. now aell-suppon- ithese m ‘noi. ‘wera. ‘paper fig- M the fact that the l;)yl ll:ll elmblnrnlx;n! mervice, lyng only aids in securing. d r-xut:\matea ibut follows :I\,:m S | nevér- figures fhem as placed - \lfl fthey. have _held : thelr joi Y months, proving their capacity- September 1. of.33111 casen given to the: men lace qmy.mu werd, th n emno Yin e )ifl nwi ren;mun@lan. Y endy T fare! tho, end. of 1933, This education or: training of the: dimblafi no! giyen ‘at random for 1. fhedry of ‘an ordinary.| In the hope that d'&z ot learning o Tae ee to “Aif o’ Pxp:rm with the.view to speeific.em- ed! is studied by’ 1plo ymefit fitted" to the man's phy-leu fg‘ tal capacity., In soi tho wl:‘hkve ee0R0 rr‘nfeu onnlr—- 1a ctricla, w{ cauxr-:s 5,‘ M:'lr lnnfll Wuone ob-nved N0t to per- it men hcner aflapted ta mechani- eal pursults 10 waste time on nudles far' vehfeh ‘tirey - would never he cap- | ARl The men's prefersncesa are ¢on- Hszed but are not parmitted to mis<| * o° them. - Practical. “gainful oor cupation” is the one -aim. LR " This. \\Qfl! of rehlbunlflon lm! placing the men in positions of use- fulness has the cordial co-operation of both the employers and of labor | unions throughout the country. The Hines administration claims that the current fiscal year will show a record of 76,000 rehabliitated men placed In positions of self-support and of $20,- 000,000 saved In the running expens of the Veterans' Bureau. All this has been accomplished in spite .of the discharge of more than 2,000 ‘employes since last March 1. There stiil remain 25,182 on the pa: { roll of the bureau, not all in WII'Iy- ington, but in the varlous headquar- hoepitals and warehouses of the ystem. in reducing the force, as well as In taking on mew employes, preference is always given to ex-service men and women. ¥ * ok The statistics above quoted.are all | taken either from officlal manuseript for the annual report forthcoming, or from speecHes made recensly by Di- | rector Hincs. It is eapecially interest- ing and surprising to find ‘that out of a-total-number of ‘6,063,952 men in the Army,.Navy end marines during the war nearly 18 per cent o applica- tion for aid from the Veterans' Bu- reau on the ground of sickness or wounds, While only a part proved eligible for such ald, the volume of work involved in ] ing and ad- judicating the claima has been and s enormous. More than $1,000,000 a day is prid out jn “compensation.’” (Copyright, 1923,-by Paul V. Collf Provide Editors Admlt a young and boistarous country, we have had eur filng—sowed our wild oais? “Mr. Zangwill s no flatterer, and it |s utterly ihpossible to get mad at him. He does like us, and belleves In us & century hence. That is_quite enough” Not xo, however, argues the Providence Tribune, which finds hls_critictsm “carping. in its mature. The fault he finds with America is the fault that can be | found in’any country, in any cime. {and at-any time a statement with | which™ the Springfleld Union agrees, enpumerating the trivial and serlpus causes for criticiem found,. thén sug- gesting as an-answer “in any coun- try from Scotland to Sfam a traveler gn:hx discover defects of a like num- | er ‘and verlety." * x k% Going a trifle further. the Wichita Beacon remarks: “What we cannot understand is why, if European na- or “training {n'{’ 3 P e ;,- been .in process® of Best’and fufious mfi- te nine: years. First = four nm of. } Buldiorgcy ' orythe iAmerican men. of | cradye lll(bfid Zptevall.- Inad wrwar to end wal ot -leant w0 - - wae - el‘uwd- and’ it was guxe to bu Asllowed by a.world- h But the so- “of: the 'last five years}. or the world’been only “hatetul and ‘ devasting th m\u war. Thesd five years 6-"Bubject of an Interesting and . important new book, “Europe $fnce 118" by Dr. Herbert Adams (m»onn,' olserver and student ' of AN affairs for fifteen yedrs, lnu;.d ng & residence in Paris dur- the war and the peace confer- | | 2imtsrical, booke: among others rope,” *“The New Mu,P o Ho: Now Map of AL pretty. pessi- muuc vlow, af the - césent iworld git- dation ‘and: e 1a severely ritical’ of the statesmanship_ (hat hap thus far falled to pull the wbrld”out of ‘the morass. . First he:sdys’ tHat having taken “a new werld grdey” for our slogan we proceeded to uso our;ldeal- 18116 principlés 45 weapons to break n the morale of dwr edemfés and t sinca the defeat of:Gefmany, contined o Jugels Tan onr iasers B Fuehve "tFebtiza tfo “So_the ar” hes saye, forcod wvpon. the | Janaulshed . enemi6s: have - not. been | en’ serfousl 1t was n of ulh tion - fication “o m Hecl. leo clafmakthat intended that tite doctrines rrmlnxxmn, the ‘resisrec- act matlpns or the recti- zt;;nu should be_ put there -hgd been any idea it-wak Meutralized by the hu: vy 486 vietors fell out over the poils of War &nd by the “determi- hation ot “France and some of the aller nations to apply the law ,of etaligtion thelr tow defenseléss Oppressors” These®are the reasons why, in the author's opinion, Europe has "not yet found peace. In his Jjudgment “the league of nations is impotent, with or without the United States as & member, to rastorc Eu rops to peace until ‘the three furies —vyanity, greed and revenge—cease raging.” Dr. Glbbons is particularly severe in his criticism of the treaty of Versailles, which he says was worthleas unless permanent coercion the Germans was provided for— “lnet the .Germans would cbey the ! treaty only in 8o far as force was em- ploved.” YieThe spitit of the treaty e aays, “is not peace but war. The Germans were to be considered per- manently a8 enemles. - Thcy. were not to be allowed to become friends. Whea you have an enemy you do not bave peace.” * ¥ Dr. Gibhons has &6 successtully compressed Into & voiume of a little % | e et maan 8 many vuuma] Q. Are Englishmen tailer than the Scotch and Irish?—L A. T 4. ‘A gonipllation of helghtp:of men in the United Kingdom shows that feet &l/ inches; $ inches; of Englishmen, 5 feet 7% inches, and of Welshmen, § feét’ 63 inches. ~'Q.-What.is the oldest kind of in- surance?—K. F. 1. . Haripe fusurance long preceded Inwunco lnlnll fires and upon lives. Q W)n.l ll legal fiction?—I. W: T. A A fiction In Jaw !5 an assumption imadé for tlie' purpode of .justice, though the same fact could not be proved and nay“be Mferally untrue, ard it fs a rule that a-fiction of law shall work no wrong.: The flotitious oharacters of John-Doe and Richard Roe for the purposes.of various ac- tlons are well kbnvm Q. ‘What is me origtn-of the term “Bill 'of Fare"?—C. T A. It is sald that the Elector Henry of Braunshiwelg attrdcted geperal no- tice at a state dinner during a mest- 108:0f slestors'in Begvusturg i 1189 by refercing to a'long liet before a alan we ordered. In reply to &n in- Quiry, the elector spread the paper out und 16 was found to contain a list of dishes preparcd fortho occasion. The {idea &0 pleased ’the assembly that feach of them had-t Introduced into {his household. s xdmsh @, Does Jack Dempsey sitoke?— ‘Ha smokes clgars oécasionally, thiough ot while I tralning. Q. What ~will yrésem beading on glask?: H A, To prevent nandrn;m of wmer trom beading on-glass, wipe off glass with a piece of olpth’ wet with glycerine, The first few drops remain as drops’ spreading. pfid . showing-a tendency, to. run, but as the drops jn- credse fn numbcr they come-into con- tact with each other and coalesce, forming a smooth, transparent film of ater over. the efitire surface, ‘NMED 1g Do obstruction ‘to.vision. Q. How many nightingales are im- gorw}“lmo this country in a year'* A. The Department of Agcléulture says, as far as they know, there have never been any Importations of these birds to the United States. . Was the Continental currency {Tedeemed by the veorganized govern- | {ment?—J. K. T. ' A. The Treasury Department says that the various issues of Continntal currency were never redeemable by {the United States as reorganized-un- der the. Copstitution, By act of August 4, 1790, jt was receivable at to a the average height of Scotsmen 18 6 (nt *Irighmen, 5 feet! ratndrops | F. e | AN SWERS ‘TO QUESTION S — % - BY FREDERIC J, HASKIN. Q. Does a sun dial always registes noon at the snme time cach day in the year?—S. “A. A sun flh.l correctly sét 4t pri. clsely noon on any given date will not show exactly. poon every dey of the year,. This is because we reckon time by a mean sun, that {s, tha average of the total length of 4 d over the entire year. The dial show real or apparent sun and must he cor- rected for. = On some diais thg cor- ‘rection is made. Q. Where smallest NBD" found ?—" A. The Seneglmbh‘n giants Senegambla, Africa, are the larg pecple in the world, and the pigmies of Central Africa are the smallest people in the world. Q. How did family inate?—B. C. A. During the middle, ages a man had no name but hie Christian or baptismal name. In the course of ti there arose the necessity for so furtrer. distinction and & man Goacribed acCOrAIME (o his trade, his residence, his father's name, or somo personal peculiarity. A very largo number of names are derived from the Christfan paternat name, and in cach country particular affixes ars used. It was mot untll the tweifth century that surnames became hered- itary. e the Targest Mn the world. and o be of names orig- ! Q. How long will compressed veast Recpr—A. L A A. If placed where it is reasonably lcool, it can be kept for . week of {longer. Q. Should the be sounded in the HaMe oL the l\-nluckv city of Lou ville?—W. N A. While dlononmns and guzer- teers give two pronunciations for tha word, it 1s usually pronounced.Loo e¢-vil by the people who live thicre l Q. Whero are th falle in_the world?: A, ‘The Victoria falls on ihe Zam besl river in Rhodesia, South Afric are’ the Highest falls in the worl They:fall from a helght of over 40 feet. Livingstone, the great African explorer, was the fifst Tiuropean to seé these falls, which ho discover: in 1855 The Grand falls in Labra- dor_are probably the highest fal in North Amarica. They drop from height of about 325 feet. Q. red: pepper and 0:°7.°a; highest water What is the difference hetwe cayenne pepper?— A. Red pepper is the powderad ripn pod. both flesh and secds. of any variety of capsicum. the plant which | Zives 'us the edible fresh pepper, but { which bears no_relation to the trns pepper plant. Cavenne pepper is. Ly ruling of the hoard of food and drux inspection of 1906, d sished from red pepper us bein ained only from. small fruited varieties of cap- sicum. | -Q..can cotton s be used in the manufacture of paper?—F. A. Cotton stalks are not used for } the productlon of paper. Consider | able -experimentation -in regard the use of this materiz] has been ca the Treasury in subscriptio loan at the rate of 3100 In Conti- nental money for, §1_in -specie. By the act of March'3, 1797, it was de- fclared that sald money should be re- celvable as above until December 21, 1757, and no lo‘lw cess commer- more than 600 ‘pages the eventful | may awaken us to a realization of |tjons are so’superior to America, and =ome of our deficlencies in the con- { duct of popular goverament, as well aiseipline. —_— Laborers and farmers mey agree up to a certain point. But laborers will never be made to see why farm prod- ucts should be so dear, nor farmers why help should be so scarce around hervest time. L ————— Attention now turns to the presi- dential message to Congress. A man who does not talk much manages to create more than’ordinary interest in what he Is going to say next. - —— e The new congressman arrives in ‘Washington just in time for the holl- day season. Then comes the long, hard ‘winter. ‘The Presidential Primaries. By.a colnvidenca the states in which ‘flelegutes to the natlonal convention ‘mre chosen by preferential presidential “primarfes will send to the republican national convention just one-half of the entire delegate body, to wit, 518. ‘The total membership of the repub- lican convention in 1924 will be 1,036, and it will require 519 to nominate candidates for President and Vice President. + . This condition of affairs constitutes &n asset to candidates for the presi- “dency who are appealing to the popu- lar vote, or are in revolt against “the organization” * and the_-“machine.” They can go direct to the ‘people. At the same time it is an element of strength to “favorite son” candldates, supposed to have prestige and follo $ag in. their individual states greater, “possibly, than an outsider coming in. Ti1 the approgching presidential’cam- paign Sengtor Hiram Johnson, in his cgndldacy for the presidential nomina- tfon by the republican party, is credit- «d with the intention of making a sepatial drive in the states that hald presidential preferential - primaries. Ho has long advocated:country-wide preferential primaries. In the coming fight, it is sald, he hopes to gather in @ substantial bloc of delegates from ithe primary states @s a nucleus for “nis contest in the convention, where he will appeal to uninstructed dele- gates for support. ‘'« Befiator Johnson may come into @ come tob narrow; roads' era opened there was room on | the hightvays for all. It was not fore- seen that a time would come when the roads would be so crowded with vehicles ‘s to make travel uncom- fortable and dangerous. Yet we have come to the point of widening roads. This is being carried out on several old Maryland highways leading in and out of the city, and the District sur- wveyor in his current report says: “Con- dempation proceedings under. con- sideration, and which will be instituted this' year, include the widening of Broad Branch road from Rock creek to the District line; widening of Ben- ning road east of Benning and widen- ing of the Sherift and Canal roads.’* Most persons know that the Bladens: burg road is belng made wider, that some work on this line has been done on the Canal road in Georgetown, and they can call-up other instances where highways are being widened. We have outgrown bridges and. roads, and we are outgrowing some of our streets at such 2 pace that many men are thinking that it is not far in the fu. ture when a number of downtown streets will have to crosy éach omer at differént levels. ———————— The Hohenzollerns may be misled by an impression that almost anybody ‘will be welcome {n Berlin who i will- ing to try his hand et bossing the situation. In the general German: confusion Bergdoll has managed to be lost sight of min Jnu. Jeaz cuts a wider swath than rag- time did when rag was in the floodtide of its glory. The jezzers, nat content with jazaing tunes of transient fame, are taking up those melodies and her- monies Which are called :“classics™ and turning them over to the moaning saxophone, clanging bell, shrieking whistle and the drum.. Jazz is & howl~ ing-and- uproarious success, and it ought to be admitted- that . thero is 8%z which sounds ltke music. A good many who protest & fond- ness for music applaud the jazz band, and there is & strong ‘public taste. for ‘When the good | 1 i i as other things. 3 Suggesting that the. Zangwiilsms are “sweeping. not to say- Tather reckle the Springfield Republican | He viewed the signs of care and strife | 108 “the really serious uote one of With consternation deep. sincere disappointment at what he When drinks were passed, the chatter | T°527d® 85 the failure of the United turned Btates to ‘carry through' its .great| To themes of “dry" or “‘wet.” “:‘d;:::::: .,:z”:'_‘f“!::"[’” s “3] g 5- one of | Said RIp Van Winkle, “I'll be durned! | international friendship and co-oper- It isn't settled' yet! ation, entitled 1o consideration ae the | X : thoughtful judgment of & shrewd 65~ server and sincere humanitariafi.” In his dlscussion of mmigration, probi; bition, the Klan and the honoring of et aotdlors while ‘Regiecting. the living, though maimed,.’the Albapy Rip Van Winkle. When Rip Van Winkle came to lits From twenty years of sleep, If he had taken encores, oft - On periods of repose, These acenes about him and aloft _Burprises would disclose: Knickerbocker Press sees “in each of But when their troubles ‘folks would | these commenits just onough of truth L0 tell 10 bring the bumptious and too proud Of taxes, rent and debt,’ back to somewhere mear a position “Well! “"Tis Autumn? ” g The falling ‘leaves' serve not to start This sorrew in. my -soul. - The careless driver of the cart from which to see clearly.” Now, 2s of yore,-ho'd -eav, the Akron. Beacon-Journal, in a veln Well! 3 somewhat u&rf"tl; tn[cldp "lher;[ -‘E y % % f truth in what Izzy says. Ty ween't setied yut B e et csimet perackaive ; = o BRI A Different Standard. - would, have s 2 European senge of justice - Vihat {a oot iiea R @ greet ptatch 1o e worked ot 1ts s -solution man?” in its own way, ‘lmi‘h 1t we h.v\to“x‘l)d o W “'who knaws enough about politics to | that our srandohildren ~will ‘0o peze express his ideals and cling to his prin. [ ing.” S by ‘without losing his Lid i i “When Sinclair anls tells us.in Jud Tunkins says no matter how|'Maln' Strect’ sad “Bubbitt. that wo miuch @ man loves his work there are{8re a race —of -mammon- -serving times when, he is gmg to feel like |morons, we smile and -biy 400,000 mting . ¢ coples of his book” .the Brooklyn B Fagle points out, byt "when Israel|s, Zangwill hints at the same thing in & public address we ‘get:an Let us be grateful to & trilh-speaking visitoF, .and -if our ybump _of self- e o [ SR e e 2 X 4 " _In_abou & il m"’ i ag Roanoke Timen suggesta “we cin got something out of his remarks if we c"""“lll Citles.” t As an_intelligent Englishman, m has trlvelel‘;xtensl ely ~and “Any bootleggers .{n’ this neighbor. thought oonsiderably, what ‘he-says hood?" asked the stranger.- & “.-1‘.‘??& u:’f be ?iw?nfdflz én&fl}n 'No,'”* enswered Farnier. Corntonsx. as the 8 a forelgner.dn “They've all o riéh aad openea: e i e boen Hers fices in to Shat thme th New Tork, whera: - cans-are as mcarce aw hep's te the Bostoh Transcript feels "he e & lot of wholesome ‘truths about the American people,! but, it counters with some of his ovn weapons i, ";S_ ' Hlmlh‘llfil. “ "Wmt a small pet dogl'’ ; “Wa 'e breeding ’em smalier and smaliee?” answered the dealer. “Asa matter f kindness to animals we want to get ¢ mwtlnymnm‘thrm for & tew.” and it 18 & great one. will isolation, and mot- un z:.nxwl y & % that van” i “Dos . brag,” said Uncle Eiben; “de | 85eamm, th u‘fikln‘" for_ “the tube hen dat lays an egg might git'a chance | of his song, 1 " the g g Haven Jwrn 1-Courier-srents to to hatén it If she didn’t uenleu P ars e i oltieats b poise which is so deeirzble until, as i tract sttention.” To which | yav. on Here 5 08t .0 if, Americans are so {gnorant, inef- ficlent, cranky and generally incom- petent, how dves it come that the Furopeans are continually looking to Amerfcans to save them from the everlasting bow-wows?’ Admitting an early feeling. of resentment over the criticisms.of our lack of dignjay, tbé St. Paul Dispatch ironically cons cludes “maturer consideration shows it ‘to be well founded, fucnishing as tllustration the liberal attendance on such lecturers and “mistaking these mdiaxs | for walhty,, philosophic ows. our self-respect o0 BROUIE cltner stay away - fro de-shows or, at least, not pull es at the antics. of the ans_who do o & good laugh from Mr. Zangwill's d.- llghllul appreciation of America; of ur real . incongruities of half-sdu- cated ideallspi” says the Schenectady Gazettes, “will certafnly. contribute gvidence. to his declaration that e av zense of humor.” Thé Man thaster Tnion: | & mattef of {sdividual decision. how seriously " the critic 1o %o be taken. BEven a layman can & good many St o ay l'*‘h Maintaining th: Edhon. bmas Jefferson, Horice Greelcy and ‘others “were ¢ranks in the sense that'they were.or are stub- born-idea persons,” Register belleves that, “so long as a fair percentage of the cranks agi- tate for fdess.that- eventually win thelr way, why, not take this Zang- will eriticism as'a compliment?! The Boston Traveler, however, is some- what indignant and not.Inclined to debate : “with = such a Jooke-Fawed critic, because that would be to ad- mit his sincerity and Ml ht to be taken serfo sly.” .And -the. Spokane bokesman. Revisw Inalots. “Americe B wiat America ls—the product. 0f the briefest period of history: in Thich - » - great, ‘netion. "ever.. was forged. LAke every other countty, it hap m: faults and Victues,-and one of its high virtu the exercise of fine restraint when visitors f; England sit-down gt the gijest-table and engage in_caustic fault-finding with the hoat, his.family and every. thing_that he has lc)lh'afl. has un- dertaker or Is mntemg ating.” Says Bmtal Pohcemn To the Bditor of The Star: . ; The_wction-‘of the: Whue House Photographs *A¥soclation: to_ prose- cute those, membere of the: Metropol- to the ‘courts ' Preferring cha against them ugh the vellce lrhl board is not nn“x"l"' the - Me mpaited by still nt. morale existing in cpolice is greatly, the fact .that there -are in tufh, RfMrms "ll"lsf Moines | ml-hTA‘wbfitl of the' " Btory of Europe since 1818, and has told it with such’ illumination, as to make his-volume glmost tndispensa- ble for the student of recent history. In his chapters on the peacé confer- enoce and treaty and the later confer- ences and treaties he makes full use of the literature, blographical, eriti- cal and Interpretive, that has grown up mround these events. He tells the nory of the Balkans, Turkey, Poland, fa, and all thé other nations, d old, ended, enlarged or trans- Tormed by the war.. Hin chapters on the “Unsheathed éwcga of ~Francc” and on ‘France and Relgium in the Ruhr' are pertfcularly interesting &t the present juncture. He says that “for her own sake, for the.suke of peate and fon thoe well.being of tha world, France ought to sheathe the sword.” But he @lso saye “the honor- able and.the practicable ‘way to get her to do this e to offer her our ow: n sword_in case another 1914 arrives.” Dr. Gibbons pronounces France's Rubr poltey: ay “Bismarckian,” and says that the present generation of Frenehmen seem: to approve {t. Upon 4 fair and just solution of the Franco- rman conflict over reparations, he says, “depends the question of.a dur- able peace or a new and " more horrl- ble war than the last one.” * x : The Isle of Man has been made both | & real and a romantic place for many who have never visited it by Xhe | novels of Hall Caine. Years ago the | Booklover was carried fo fhis English island by the:place vividness of *The Manxman” and “Thie Deemster.” Noy, after for v $hair Gnix vgeads St lierdey work: Manx nowel, “The Weman .of Killa- loe.” Kiljalos is the name of a farm in the lsle of Man, . *ok x Mrs. J..Borden-Harriman gives a delignttul account of her first’ White regime, in “Hither and Yon,".hef rem- iniscences now appearing in the Cen: tury. After the luncheon, when Prest- dent Roosevelt. was talking to Mrs. Harriman, Col.- Butt interrupted 'to tell him that the _waterproof suit he had selsed a cane, ran up and dawn :ahe hail shouting, pretending =ldes; ushers, and any old thing handy 2 an Imaginary lion 1 teeiatt 1 aay forgotten. nd Jike the people in “Ther Young Vi 1 ,0032d. out into Pennsylvanta ‘avenue.” * K ¥ % Whether ‘the prolonged: dream ,of a husband . in 'a “state_of - intoxication, the "hallucination’ of a madman 'or Just a modern: version of tha: medieval beast;fable is the. intent af the story #ler Into Fox," by-Dayid G: is ‘hard for &-'feader to g:;::“}‘djrl Richard Tebrick went for & walk over the hills one afternoofi“with his Fite, and gudd é small fox, of &"very bright red. It looked a ' ¥ory<beseechingly, ad- vancd toward him,a pace or. two, and he saw at once Rut his wife wag looking' at. hifi " ffom the, anjmal's eyes."™ This was n most unpleasant Lpredicament: for ‘Mr. Tebrick, b 2 accustomed himself AR u with _a- Syggestive 'm Jife. He he- u:m:hdw%ed ka’ fu Enx-;vm. in, spite of e any.* fami raft i q\lk&\fly develunncd in ‘{:r Jaar er disconcer: tp _have-her tear to ribboas the- :C'Il.\lmel in h'l@rh carefully:dresséd her, and wg& d af- unflnn! hl(l come & to: am. his domesgtic trageédy : wn:and? by ‘the untimely—or® timely_death ‘of the fox-lady in a gao-t appropriatée way ~by dn a f the hounds. Is Commilhi@y’lv_l,enape. old achoo) whor vure a) their .brawn only, weeded out'by’ -llbhct simple mental’ examination such as 1s zlv:n children of the grade school: Maj." Pullman's "plan to have ap- pointed ‘on the force voung men of sound: {ntellect as well as body waa a ppnlntel for b o to g out con¥istently .voulq_ re com- Ln-‘ m‘;\gnnon- “pro; ot protection e d and not pou;mnxn Is-just’as much, _co%{ s l..tgl}g tuncheon” during ‘the Roosavelt | It was rath- |5 , E'i"““’ Foc ‘ot the Holy Roman em | Q. Has the word material” “long | beens used to mean ‘jof & serious or substantial ‘import: or much conse- “important’ . P, e find i tmcea of this use of Francis. Bacon aleo empln gd n tb\u in 162 | ¥ Ex-Saxon t i BY-THE MARQUISE DE FONTENGOY. of Saxony and the members of his house are agrecing to the tpansac- tion " by ‘means of which treasure .of the Baxon -crown, and espectallly - the well-nigh priceless contents ‘of *'the celebrated green vaults of the royal palace at Dres- dén are pussing into.the formal po sesston of’ the ultra-radical and so- cialist government of Saxony. . What with the lawlessness that has pravalled througheut - Saxony ein¢o 1919 and the widespread desti- tution and the dearth of foéd and of ‘all the necessaries of life, it -is amazing that.‘the treasure in ques- tion should have Temained intact and - that the world-famed. green vaults should Dot long ago.have been storméd and plundered by the Dres- den mob, thit-1a to say by the pop- ulace of a ‘city’ which has always {been regarded as a hotbed of social- ism and -of ‘everything “that is anti- monarchical For_the green. vaults have -ju been described as the Aladdin's Ra and i 1t so miraculously escaped the seizurc of all its precious con fents by the troops of tho first Na poleon, who passed ~and repassed through Dresden, if.was because the then King of Saxony, Frederick At- gustus 1, was prudent enough to| ally himeelf to the Irengh emperor's nd ‘becarhe’ dhe.. of * lles and adherents in Ger- | Like Napoleon's other great the then King of 50, a: cipal al many. German {rlcn(. archs were . B8..traitors to el the cauap of. lfi \oneonh. co- alitlons * B 1805 King Frederick Kuwustus 11 of Saxony has -@greed to surrender the vfllmi\mr @t the tpowm-treasure at a prite.which, pnder the. circum- stances, Is purely nominal, it is be- an _fcause he' teels-tht:he is lucky to get anything at all. fOt it, and that in the event of fu;ln: his consent his former sul !octs might’ not’ only take b shim-without, aoy com- . satidn whetsopvar,: hut, ight even | eprive i ot the vm [ble- fanided | astates which he hap been allowed 1o Fetain and which. yfeld bjm @ hand- fsome’dRcome, ;- 4, 2% : fhat magnificent gnd glant-like Fred- arick Augustu#s ofSaony, who was,] Jikewlse, King of ' Poland. Ifideed, the treasures include not only the crown jewels and regaila of the rulers of ~svioy: incthe seventdenth and) e;e Aaccounted uropé; -but | also all the regalla and crown jewels ‘of the former kings of Poland. ~ In one room alone of the grekn | vaults,. the. jewels—huge. DOW‘! ot} o [ aree dinonas s Deusls un;zqa 5970 000,600 To An oth :%1.;&;: Py 1mum er-of the . - i TR ] 56 mou Tt d “of King:Charles III hain. Thare 46 all:ghe Eold an ata used.at ths .coronation ot ’t'mmue u’l&x od by seE of ey o ootgry o prlnclpu prince elector pire. s'0t the gold- ony_as The gold plate, mi 'smith's art of the eventeenth: qenmrje',\compnuon also 'some of- th. Most ‘exquisito’ master- Pleces of nuto _Collini. . Then there are nd goronktidn cos- rince elector yest bttons, -v rd hilt, nn very commendable one, -nd if carried fbard wel hing __ forty a‘eo "nura 1s the Dleces‘ ‘ill‘g e e'ompm; £ 149 wre‘rm: ‘a Xquis- - Tt is not willtnaly that tha ex-King | ‘the entire |13 his prin- | ts of mu mvemn of the Holy it ixteénth . Fand |t ried on, but ‘\u)\ou& suc jctally.” . (I7.yor hoye c guestion you wa answered seid it to The Star i formation Bureou, Fredewo.J. Hos- kin, director, 1289 North ' Capitol cet. - The only charge for this erri- Cents in stamps for reiur ’s Consent in Sale ‘Of Crown Jewels Is Reluctant ‘ner by Dinglinger. the fanicus golds of Dresdep i the aigitoenth contu the mést famous pr that, is 10 say,.s celebrated . fndividua Nose of Peter the Great. ceedingly conspicuous and monstrous- Iy large ‘proboscis enjoyed a ruby like ‘hue by reason‘of the frequency and the quantity of his potations. There is also an enormous green dia- mond which hag’ something so phos- {-phorescent and Satanic about it it is quite natural that it should ¥ been éndowed, first of &if in the orl- ent and then &t Warsaw and at Dres- with supernatural ‘powers and ptudded with wonderful : | furiish -regalia for all the twent more rulers, of soyereign states into which the ‘former German emplirc was divided. And when it is borne ‘fn mind that fhe erown treagure of Ba varia ‘and that of Wurttent and of Mecklenburg emain Iatact,” though they are not quite as fabulously rich as that of Saxony, ome cannot but svmpathize with the exasperation of the French, who are unable to get the money pledged to them by Germsny in the treaty of Versailles. under th head, not of war indemnlties. but of mere reparations, and on piea,that therd is' no money or treasuré®ieft in_Germany. . The Gérmans during thelr fhvasion l'of Belgium and’ Francc -during the last great war. did not hesitate o oarry off - pverything of -value "ard every vestige of treasurc. The French feel that &M - thistreasure of the green . vaults -at Dresden: has been Wwithin~théir rcach since German deteat” in 1918, that @il the ero treasure, of the other formerly reign. tug houses -of Germany 1& equally ngiblo, and that tho result of :all of " orbosrdnon fn that 1t will either be seized by the various revo. Iutionary; governments . in Germa by the Teuton mol y, the French, will ot banefit theref {Park on Virginia Side " Of Potomac Favored To the Editor of The Star: “Apropos of new. paris T am partiou- larly interested in seeing ths goy- ernment acquire the forests om tic Virginia side of the Potomac river | above” Key bridge for 2 national pash. iThe scenery of the Iavinaes and between Key “bridge are five largo ravines and. streams helgw Great Falls: Difficult ran, Buli- neck run, Scotts run, Dead Tun and Plmmitts run, which enters the Potoma: near Chain bridge. The Clisdapeake and Ohio canal ex- tends from, Georgetown. to -Cumber 1and, following” the opposite . bank of the Potomac. I am also particularly Interested in seelng the government acquire the bed of the old canal as @ :boulevard ‘connegting Georgeto and’ Cumberfand. — The enginecrinx feat’af/ making, the bed haw boew ac- complished- and flillag- in .80 onc could ges. the; scenery -woufd ‘be a compshuve ly “erhat] matter. flora this “purault wany original & cliffs and barks’ of tho Covered withi Racl(s tros, and planis. The towpatl. ,of canal offors a convenient ¥éad for observing the flowers and plants .ot his fhn. Bprlnl flowers are - kun uahv g6, found | mpist places, s the earliest of fhe spring flowers and thig.{s followed by tho hepatjca, lrlillng arbutus, blood 'ragf, sprin { adder's-tongye or trout” 7| @ robin, violet, Dutchmin. w-lms, blusbeils, wild gln‘nh Jack. -ig-the-pylplt, colum- ina: and many:gthersi==Th rodbma and dogwood wre among the atirac- tive trecs. o sec virgin:forests trom la cuy ‘bridger e’ unusuatand some ot 'DW ”"fi il&n -be: é«mn %ur# abundan i 2 4 i