Evening Star Newspaper, November 20, 1923, Page 6

= THE EVEN. With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY....November 20, 1023 college and few colléges were open to 4 daughter. Colleges have multiplied so that it is necessary to send a son or daughter only a few squares or a few miles from home. A college | THE EVENING NG ST AR ' parents could afford to send a son to| Versailles in both military and eco- nomic aspects. The note will protest the return of the crown prince, but does not demand his ouster from his fatherland. France walves the ques- tion of application of further sanc- tions, and in this-concedes to England. STAR, WASHINGTON, BY FREDERI(: WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS D. NOV | UESDAY, WILLIAM WILE . Editor | course has come to be considered nec- Representative Willlam R. Green of lists and will oppose the son-in-law THEODORE W. NOY! SETURORE W NOXE essary or desirable for tens of thou- The Evening Star Newspaper Company | sands of persons who never mean to But not until the reply of the Ger- man government is received by the allies can future courses be definitely | Town, to whom Secretary Mellon ad- dressed his now famous letter on of Mark Hanna In the 1924 pri- {marics. With Hiram Johnson com- NEW BOOKS AT RANDOM THE WHITE FLAG. Gene Stratton- Porter. Doubleday, Page & Co. 'EMBER 20, 19 Q. In what city do people live long- est?—O. R, “The proof of the pudding Is in the A. Lifo tables based upon the 1920 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN A. The Methodist Episcopal head ed the list at the last census with 406 churches, Bustaees Office, 11¢h §t. and Penusyivania Ave. | enter the old “learned professions,” Bty amue: l""";.;"“““‘“',a and magnificent endowments have Earopean OfSce: 16 Ragent St., London, England. | brought the college course within taxation reduction, achleves the his- eating"—so the cookery adage TUNS. |cengus show that in the fourteen cities A homely saying, concerned not at all | ot which statistics have been compiled with elther the laws of modern do-|\Washington, D. C., leads. The expec- Q. What ig the flag of the republic of Polund?—C. D. McC. ra A. The Polish flag is composed of bating Calvin Coolldge In the presi- determined. Should Germany resist|torlo chairmanship of “ways and) dentlal primaries, Illinois is in for the firm tones of the allled memoran- | means” after seven successive yearsone of the warmest political ruc- tions it has known since Lincoln- The Evening Star, with the Sundey morning edition, is dellvered by carriers within the «€ity at 69 cents per mouth: dally only, 45 ceuts per month: Sunday oniy, 20 cents' per month. Orders may be sent by mail or tele- plioae Main 5000. Collection is made by tiers at tho end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dally and Sunday..1yr., $5.40 Lally only... 6.00: 1 mo. Sunday only. 2.40; 1 mo., All Other States. Paily and Sunday.1 y: .Slo.flg ¥ 7. .. 700 500 200 Vally only. 0 mo., §0c Sunday only mo., 26¢ Member of the Associated Press. The Assaciated Preas fs exclusively entitled fo the use for republication of all mews dis- Patches credited to it or not otherwise eredited (his paper and almo the local news pub: erein e All rights of publication of chex lervin are also teserved. Constructive Co-Operation. Announcement that the District child welfare code commission has tiecidéd to make formal request to the Russell Sage Foundation for the sery- s of W. W. Hodgson, an expert of that organization who Is recognized s perhaps the foremost authority in child-welfare legislation, to assist in drafting & model child-welfare code for Washington, will be received with the general approval 6f the commu- nity. pert of the type of Mr. Hodgson is an cssential to the success of any project looking to the improvement of child- ‘welfare legislation in the District. His cxperience will be invaluable in indi- «ating the routes which have hitherto lad to success, and pointing out the dangersand impracticabilities of certain of the tenets of enthusiastic theorists. His counsel will be essential in the task of dmafting such bills as are held 10 be des.rable, first in tentative form end subsequent to debate and a har- monizing of conflicting opinicns in the final shape in which they must en- dure congressional scrutiny. But the best endeavors of Mr. Hodg- #on, lacking a whole-hearted deter- mination on the part of our local child. ing enthusiasts to assist the child welfare code commission in every way within their power, cannot wchieve success. Valuable as his con- tribution to the effort of obtaining ef- fective chlld-welfare legislation, it may well be frankly stated at the out- *t that an even more valuable con- tribution which must be obtained is the interest and co-operative zeal of the local child-caring agencies in furthering the project in hand. The community has & right to ex- pect and demand of these agencles, largely supported by local benevolence, that they play their part toward a much-to-be lesired end. 1t expects that full, fair and unprejudiced con- sideration shall be given to each mat- ter properly brought before the com- mission. It will not tolerate tactics purposed to obstruct legislation held by a majorlty opinion to be desirgble liecause of the selfish interests of any individual agency or group of agen- cles. It must be recognized that there cannot be unanimous agreement upon each of the several projects to be con- sidered in the construction of the pro- posed code. And because the unquali- fled support of the local agencles is cssential to the success of the code as & whole the opinion of the majority, given after a sincere effort to recon- clle conflicting viewpolnts, must be accorded the support of all concerned. Lacking this understanding at the outset, in view of the peculiar difficul- ties surrounding the quest for legisla- tion for the District, the decisions of the code commission might in the end be rendered futile by the hostile atti- tude of this or that minority group to any given phase of the code as decided upon. The people of Washington, in hearty accord with the effort which is about to be made, may be counted upon to demand that no such tacties be employed, but that the constructive co-operation of all concerned be main- tained till the much-needed code shall have been obtalned. In addition to the presidential cam- ign another battle between the Ac- t#rs’ Equity Agsociation and the Pro- ducing Managers' Assoclation is threatened next summer. Year by vear the Intellectual life of this nation 1s becoming intenser and intenser. ‘When a progressive in either party exceeds the speed limit he is liable to become known as a radical. Mr. McAdoo's hat is in the ring, but 80 is Tammany’s tomahawk. Education Week. This is American Education week, during which an effort “will be made to arouse enthusiasm in education.” Washington takes its part in observ- ance of the time, and exercises are helng held in schools and by parent- teacher and other civic organizations, To most persons it would seem un. necessary to make an effort to arouse enthusiasm in education, but no doubt the cbject is to awaken more in- terest in education. There are prob- ably few things, or none, in which is more Interested than There are different opin- ions as to what education is or should be, but no difference of opinion that cducation is desirable. It is certain that schooling is more nearly general than it was a decade or two ago and that schooling for children has become nearly universal. In some states it is compulsory, and it is clear that it will soon become ympulsory in all the states. Not only is a very much larger percentage of the child population at school, but « larger percentage of children “fin- ish” school, pass from the grades to the high schools and then on to col- lege. The new president of George Washington University, in his address ©n taking office, said that there are more men and women in colleges to- day than were in high schools a few 1\ years ago. ~ Twe generations ago relatively few mo,, 85¢ | i The advice and services of an ex- reach of practically every young per- gon who sincerely wishes to take it. Opportunities for education are alt around us. Take Washington as a conspicuous example. There are schools, public and private. where lot- ters are taught and young folk grounded in the fundamentals on which education should be bullt. In professional schools, colleges and uni- versities one may carry the educa- | tionul process as far as it can be car- |ried elsewhere in the world. With the basis on which education should and usually does rest, a man can edu- cate himself in almost any line. There are libraries and lectures. If inter- ested in law he can attend courts from the lowest to the Supreme Court. He can hear foremost lawyers from all parts. He may listen to arguments on the Constitution in the Supreme Court and Congress. The law libra- ries of the Capital have no rivals in the land. In the matter of medicine and surgery it is the same. There are | great schools and big hospltals. The Army Medical Museum and the med- ‘[icnl libraries are unexcelled and per- {haps unequaled. In science, after or lin conjunction with schools, are pri- jvate and public laboratories, and scientific bureaus with more men en- i gaged in astronomy, or bacteriology, or chemistry, or paleontology than sewhe There are probably more | lectures by men eminent in their lines of thought than elsewhere in Americ: If a man be interested in anthropology or biology he may attend lecture after lecture by men who are not simply eminent in the classroom, but emi- nent in the sciences they discuss. Lec- tures on history, government, music, art—on every subject—go on all the time. In the public museums and the galleries one may strengthen his edu- cation at any point. | 1t is believed that the opportunities in Washington are not utilized by as many persons as might be, and Edu- cation week may arouse some of them to the chances they are letting slip. | Supreme Court Majorities, John H. Clarke, former associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, in an article in the American Bar Assoclation Journal, makes a suggestion calculated to attract atten- tion on Capitol Hill in connectlon with the approaching debate over the pro- dum, should Germany again refuse to guarantee safety of the interallied commission or should in any wise in- dicate fixed determination to repudi- ate or quibble over the treaty of Ver- sallles in the matter «f reparations, then the allled gov-ruments again will be confronted with a new prob- lem of preserving unity, for the funda- mental policles of Paris and London, in so far as reparations are con- cerned, are not yet reconciled, nor can they be without the retreat of either Poincare or Baldwin. There is every reason for believing that the statesmen of the two govern- ments will go far in preserving the present status. But at all times their owr concessions will be governed by public reactions to the weakening and undermining of policies they them- selves have built for political advan- tage. Coal Strike Predicted. Prediction of the most serious strike in the bituminous section the country has witnessed s credited to L. A. Snead, who was assistant to the United States fuel adminlstrator dur- ing the world war. It is to come off, he says, in the spring, and will affect 75 per cent of the nation's coal pro- duction. He points out that there are three major problems on which neither the miners nor the operators will arbi- trate—the wage question, the “check- off" system and the contention over district versus national agreements, This is a bad outlook, a deadlock, because neither side will arbitrate, holding steadfast in their stubborn- ness while industry lags for lack of fuel to run the mills and the trains. The public cught to have some de- fense against such a situation. Power should be lodged somewhere to pre- vent a whole nation paying the pen- alty for group conflict. Both sides cannot be 100 per cent right in the contention, and each side must have some foundation of justice upon which to rest. It is unthinkable ) that they cannot find middle ground upon which to come together and compose their differences. Nationaliza- tion of the coal mines is the last thing the public wants, but it may have to come as @ last resort. That is what the miners want. —————— Presldent Coolldge Is credited with purposes in the way of tax reduction posed legisiation requiring more tnan | Which ought to be exceedingly satis. a bare majority vote of the Supreme | factory to the public at large. Every Court to declare an act of Congress | 1arge enterprise requires time, and it unconatitutional, favors the court | May require a considerable portion of voluntarily changing its rule “by de- | the next four vears to put these plans clining to, hold & statute unconstitu- | fully Into effect. tional whenever several of the justices e conclude it is valld by conceding that | The story of Germany might have two or more being of such opinion | been less sad if she had dispensed must necessarily raise a ‘rational | with the kaiser @t the beginning of doubt.’ " this century and put a plain sincere The learned jurist is against Con-{citizen like Ebert at the head of the gress undertaking to impose restric- | government. tions upon the court, but he expresses ————— himself as apprehensive that the tem-| o0 0 oy oo chargea Wk Of tie jpeovie Ia] ANl ONeE 19| S Gl Taenes) Bhnt i cabe GF 1 i : 2:"_'(;‘;"":‘““,’0’::!“‘:‘;1’ i‘l’::}(fl:::xew::; conviction he should be unanimously elected president of the “Help Your- restraint the Congress may go further self” Club. in the premises and make a drastic e hange. ———— The question ' naturally occurs,| Gov.Jack Walton of Oklahoma may would not the recognition of “rational | lecture. After his experience with the doubt” in this way, by preventing the | legislature he can take his chance | invalidation of an act of Congress save by a vote of 8 to 1, be virtually tantamount to rule by a minority of the court? If because two justices hold the act to be constitutional the other seven should abate their opinion and not invalidate it, what is the use of majority opinjon? It should be borne in mingd that the court does not itself take up a plece of congressional legislation with the view of determining its constitution- ality. The process under which its de- cision is arrived at is when a party having the right to bring suit, relying upon the Constitution for certain in- allenable rights, affirms in pracess of law that one or another of those rights has been denied by the enforce- ment of a statute enacted by Con- gress. Is it to be expected that such a party will rest easy under a rule which would permit two of the nine Jjustices of the Supreme Court to force an unfaverable decision upon him al- though the other seven agreed entire- ly in the contentlon that Congress, in defiance of the Constitution, was de- eriving him of some right inalienably nis? The “temper of the people” to which the former justice refers may be quite different from what he thinks. That ‘will be developed in the debate in Con- gress. There will be voices in both House and Senate to defend the Su- preme Court against attack. PSS Germany, instead of being a relent- less aggressor, 18 now assuming to be the gentle captive awaliting a chival- Tous rescue. —_———— One of the joys of Thanksgiving lies in the limited amount of political speechmaking the occasion calls for. —_————— with any audience, however rough. —_——e—————— Over 11,000 liquor prescriptions were filled in a year In twenty-seven states. It is feared that prohibition is creating a few hypochondriacs. —_————— Historians are discussing European possibilities in a manner implying doubt as to whether the great war was ever actually finished. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Used to go to Europe For the fashions and the fun. Used to hail the walter ‘Who took money on the run. Used to seek the pleasures ‘That were flaunting in their prime. Used to go to Europe Just to have a jolly time. Used to go to Europe To observe the works of art; Monuments of war or wisdom ‘That of history made a part. Used to look for knowledge Everywhere we'd chance to turn. Used to go to Europe Just to meditate and learn. Now we go to Europe, Not for dreamings of the past, But for grappling with the future "Neath a sky that's overcast. We're no longer merry students Shooting folly as it files. ‘When we depart for Europe It's & serious enterprise. In the Ring. “‘Our opulent friend says his hat is In the ring.” “More then that,” rejoined Senator Sorghum; “he’s prepared to throw his check book in with it. Truce of the Allies. Common sense or at least momen-| Jud Tunkins says if you must fan tary political and diplomatic expedi- | [P love the safest way is to select & ency, comes to the fore, and the war- | Pe8utiful film star you never met and time entente s eaved through conces. | W10 1ives several thousind miles slons on the part of France and the | ®Wa¥- disinclination of Great Britain to sever her alliance with France at the pres. ent critical juncture in Buropean af- fairs. Notwithstanding apparent Jjubfla- tion on the part of peoples of both France and England that their states. men have temporarily uavoided a| wy break, it nevertheless remains a hdnt booming."” that the real issuee are yet to be de-| A clded, and there prevalls some doubt | whors the b, Gactl® Joe: o but e good? Since the big de- In official circles that everything will 5 g operate smoothly in the future. velopment set in you're so busy dodg- The allies are united in a note to | 25,1 "7ers you never get & chance to Germany demanding that Germany e e permit the re-establishment of control{ *“Haste makes waste, by the interallied commission, all de- | Eben, “an’ if you fools signed to check firmly suspected|you’s also gineter find ‘Germanic evasions of the treaty of | makes haste.” Superseded. The lobbyist is out of date. His humble head he hides of late. If influence you now would win You call a propagandist in. Unnoted Progress, understand Crimson Gulch is said Uncle “fl time in the House. The man who will wear the mantle of Willlam McKin- ley, Nelson A. Dingley and Oscar W. Underwood at the head of that com- mittee is, like President Coolldge, o “down-east Yankee.' Mr. Green was born in Connecticut in 1856, but went west In early life and was graduated from Oberlin College. A lawyer by profession, he was an Jowa distriot ! judge for seventeen years before be- ing elected t: ngress in 1911. His home s at uncil Bluffs. Repre- sentative Green succeeds to the lead- | ership of the tariff committee through | the time-honored rule of senfority, having been the ranking republican member when Representative Ford- ney left the House. * ok ok ok At a Gridiron Club dinner in Wash- Ington In 1920, when the oulja board craze was raging, the spirit of Wil- llam G. McAdoo was conjured up from beyond the Styx and asked if he was “for or against” government ownership of raflroads. The spirit replied, “Yes"” In conversation be- fore he recently left Washington Mr. MeAdoo revealed less ambiguous views. Asked point-blank whether ho believed in government ownership, he safd: . “I do not. T never have believed in it. T think my opponents are trying to fasten that on me. Senator Jim Watson ones asked me a trick ques- | tion during some committee hearings When T was thinking intently about something else Watson suddenly sprang the Interrogatory, ‘Do you personally belleve in government ownegship of rallroads™ 1 answered that T did not, but that I favored stronger government regulation.” * ok ox ok Col. Frederlc A. Delano, a former governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is out with a suggostiv bonus scheme. A former officer of the American expeditionary forces in France, Col. Delano s against the bonus beceuse it s proposed to be- stow It as an Indlseriminate “char- ity He thinks complete Jjustice would be done service men who emerged from the war incapacitated or in any mic lose the government w to take census of all those who scrved. The purpose would be to determine, £3 the result of physical examination, men came out of the war Worse than when thev donned w form. To such Col. Delano would |have the Treasury minister in accord with thelr ascertained needs, and to such only * ok % % Senator Medill MeCormick of Ilf- nois 1s not to have easy sailing into the harbor of renomination. A doughty antagonist, former Gov. Charles Deneen, ha entered the Sees Usual Chase for Honors Featuring British Election BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Among the features of the general election which Is now about to take pla in Great Britain. is the in- evitable chase for honors. If the pres- ent conservative government is de feated at the polls there wlill be a distribution of honors by the crown at the instance of the outgoing pre- mier by way of reward to the principal supporters of his administration, and this would Inevitably be followed by & further distribution of honors through the mew prime minister, in order to reward those who have helped him to win the victory, and also to those prominent supporters of his for whom he has been unable [ to find any suitable office in his cabl- net. If, on the other hand, Stanle: Baldwin carries the day and emerges with victory from the appeal to the nation, he will be obliged to reor- ganlze his cabinet, according com- pensation to those whom.he has been obliged to shelve, and also consoling those trusted adherents who hav falled to secure re-election to parlia- ment at the polls. Thus It is that there are. present moment, hundreds, nay, thou- sands, of English and Scote and Welsh people whose one thought and one preoccupation in as to the place in whirh they will figure in the rain of honors incidental to all general elections to parliament, and it is only natural that they should be pulling every string within reach and bring- ing every avallable influence to bear upon the furtherance of their hopes {and ambitions in this connection. In the past, their labors in this direc- tion have been of the most barefaced and open character, and were facili- tated by more or less authorized agents of the various political or- ganizations, who held out assurances of hereditary honors and titles in re- turn for more less heavy subscrip- tions to the election campaign funds lof the party In question. But, In view {of the public airing In parliament and In the press last summer, and of the scandals brought to light in con- nection with these transactions, a great deal more discretion and diplo- macy is being observed in making these deals than in the past. It might be imagined that, with the relative frequency of general parlla- mentary elections and with the nu- merous changes of the administration, the roster of the peerage would be- 1 come so overloaded as to exceed the isenllnz accommodations of the house ! of lords. But the mortality among the peers has alwags been rather heavy, presumably i consequence of the fact that most of the peerages bestowed are upon men well advanced in years and who are nearing the end of their more or less useful and hon- orable careers. Few peerages are created for young men, and the re- sult is that the mortality in the upper chamber is heavy and far surpasses that of the house of commons. Many of these newly created peers are either unmarried or are without male issue, and thus it happens that, within the present century, no less than 120 peerages have become : ex- tinct through the defsult of male is sue, while within the last 200 years no less than 400 peerages have become extinet. Since last January Lords Seaforth, Weardale, Sanderson, Rowe and Breadalbane have passed away without leaving any heir to their honors, while, last year there were about & dozen more whose names and dignities thus disappeared from their place on the roster of the house of lords. * *x ¥ % Sir Edward ghtingale, whose marriage to Alice, daughter of the late Robert Mackay Sutherland of Solgirth, Kinrothshire, has just been announced, is the tenth holder of a baronetcy created by Charles I In the early part of the seventeenth century, Served With distinotion in the great war, and is only very remotely con- necfed with Florence Nightingale, who may be sald to have been the real founder and originator of the present system of woman army nurses. As the Lady of the Lamp of the military hospitals In the Near East, during the Crimean war of 185455, she is revered almost as a saint in England, where statues have Dbeen erected to her memory,.an name is honored A‘olk,u:?f men ! at_the | jDouglas days. McCormick's friends isay “that he has the state pretty iwell “sewed up,” particularly in an lorganization sense. He and Mrs. {McCormick play effectually at farm- ing-—Holstein cattle breeding is their Epeclalty—every summer, and their |fellow rurallsts are sald to be stronk for Medlll's re-election. All depends lon the tactics of the Thompson- Small-Lundin machine. Its one re- maining goal in life is to emash |McCormick or any other part of the Chicago Tribune, If it supports De- {neen the senator may be in danger. * ok ok % Observant followers of White House comings and goings have come ito belleve, polite denials to the con- trary notwithstanding, that Frank W. Stearns, after all, is the “Col. House” of the Coolidge administra- tlon. The Boston department store proprietor has developed unusual wanderlust during the past few weeks. His travels often take him far afield and Washington is usually his last stopping place before he re- |turns to the Back Bay district. From row on the unobtrusive merchant- prince, whose life ambition was to {put “Cal” in the White House, fs |likely to be regularly on scout duty ifor his distinguished protege. He may eventually n the sobriquet Col. Harvey wished upon Col. House —“the President’s U boat.” * Kk Kk ¥ Italy is planning the construction on mbass, Hill-—on the nerthern ights of 16th street—of a diplo- matic palace which shall be a rep- |licn of one of the historic houses that dot Rome's Corso—the “Ave Im- mortalis” of F. Marion Crawford's Itallan novels, Mussolini's ambassa- dor, Prince Caetani, is himself an {engineer and will personally super- | vise building operations arrangements are carried out, |new embassy will rise like a medi- eval pile In the midst of the ultra ™ embassies and legations h already beautify upper 16th t. If present | the * %k X % One of the duties of Miss Anita { Phipps, just appointed by Secretary w to be director of women's re- \lations at the War Depardment, is to keep a weather eye on the pacifist _activities of certain radical women's organizatlons. Several leading asso- ions of women, whose patriotism tis beyond question, h thy selves with the national pacll combination alongside wom gues” and “committees avowed communist leanings. Mis Phipp: as occasion offers, expects do her | bit In persuading her sex that “peace | by preparedness” is not “militarism.” | { Her principal function is to supervise {the now extensive system of hostess | houses and welfare work maintained | | by the Army at every post, camp and garrison in the country and abroad. (Copyright, 1928.) Florence Nightingale and her sister Parthenope, afterward: Lady Verney. | originally ‘bore t patronymic of | Shore. "Their father was a certain | Willlam Shore and it was only after | inheriting the estates of Lea Hurst. ! | 2 beautiful place in Derbyshire, from his maternal uncle, Peter Nightin- | gale, of tha family of which Sir Ed- Nightingale now s the chief, I that pe assumed, in accordance with | |the terms of his relative's will. and | | with the permission of the crown the name and the armorial bearing: of the Nightingale family. Flore; Nightingale and her sister owed their | Christian names to the fact that they | had been born, respectively, at Naples and at Florence. Parthenope Night- ingal married the late Sir Harr. Verney, at whose ancestral hom | Claydon House, in Buckinghamshire, Florence Nightingale spent much of | the eventide of her useful life. aydon House is preserved an ancient | |ring with a miniature of Charles I set in dlamonds. It is a historic plece {of Jewelry, which is used at the wed- ding_ceremony of every member of | the house of Verney. It belonged to Sir Edmund Verney, the standard- bearer of King Chartes T at the bat- tle of Edgehill. He fell in that battle and, strangely enouxh, his body was never recovered, despite the most diligent search. ' All that was found | was a severed hand still grasping a piece of the shaft of the standard, |and which way identified by the ring |on the third finger, which had been | presented to Sir Edmund by his king. The hand was reverently interred at Claydon House, where, according to family tradition, the specter of the old cavaller apppears on the night of October 23, which {s the anniversary of the battle of Edgehill, searching for his lost hand. * Kok % It is historical interest, rather than monarchist sympathies and influences. that has led the municipal authoriti of the city of Paris to renew, once more, on the first floor corner of the Hotel Crillon, in Paris, the almost completely effaced inscription of “Place Louis XVI"” just below the ugly dlue and white enameled placque which, as in the case of all the strects and squares in the French capital, indicates to the public that the name of that particular square is “Place de la Concorde.” Prior to the great revolution at the end of the eighteenth century, 1t was known as “Place Louls XV,”'for it was during his reign that It was laid out; then it became “Place de fa Concorde.” In 1814, after the abdication of Napoleon 1 and his banishment to Elba, the name of Louls XV was restored. In 1826 it was changed to “Place Louis XVL"” then, two or three vears later, back to “Place Louls XV, while fol. lowing the July revolution of 1830, which placed King Louis Philippe on the throne, the square, which had Dbeen the scene of the execution of Louis XVI and of Queen Marle An- toinette, became once more ‘“Place de la Concorde,” which it has remained ever since. Curlously enough, the al- most entirely obliterated inscription of “Place Louls XVL" which had been placed there just nimety-seven years ago—that is to say, in 1826—had com- pletely escaped the attention of the Paris municipal authorities and of the public until the late Lord Northecliffe, while staying at the Hotel Crillon, in Paris, happened to light upon it and to suggest that the inscription should not be lost. In a Few Words. Signor Mussolini is Itke Italian ine, very good in Italy but not very exportation. —BISHOP OF LINCOLN. I am a Philsting I do not lke modern things—art, music, books and what not. There Is nothing in them to like. —ISRAEL ZANGWILL. Poor men are the only ones who can afford to ride in automobiles in Russia. _The rich have either been killed off or driven out of the coun- ‘TREPBESIMATIVE BRITTEN. llisation. ,—DR. DOUGLAS WHITE. p 4 At l.ood for know are 1 1ife let out in an artless freedom by {alive | touch, iwomln whose spirit is wrecked by a mestic sclence or tho arts of epleu- rean refinement. In practical effect, however, conclusive, Whether sound or not, goes back interminably—back possibly to original sin and natural depravity. Such truth as the saying holds, spiced as it s with question and controversy, fits it to cover vastly more than the literal succulent prod- uct of the cook's art from which the familiar maxim sprang. Indeed, in substance, it lies close to the roots of popular government and near to many | another democratic: practice. Under catch phrases like “delivering the g004s™ and “getting results,” it makes boast of the usages of business and enterprise, plainly disdainful of fine- spun theorles expert in origin. In riting It is, the same. Here, too, “the proof of the pudding is in the eating” And at least three American writers, in proof of the quality of thelr literary puddings, are able to point to a blg and affectionate pub- He, to enormous sales, incre ing demand, to substantfal fortune Over these novelists the great critie may ehiver and the highbrows may shrug. Mr. Mencken may rave. But tation of life for white males in this city is 53.83 years and for white females 59.83 years. . Is it easy to distinguish between white gold and platinum?—R. C. A. The geological survey says that it is” difficult for any one except an ex- pert to distingulsh between them. Q. Which is the better pressure to use In the rear tires of an automobile, 45 pounds or 70 pounds?—A. M. W. A. Using 45 or 50 pounds pressure in for_the occupants of the car. a 70-pound inflation is better for the tice and the tire will last longer wi this pressure. Q. How much poetry did Chaucer write?—E, T. H. A. Chaucer left about 35,000 lines of verse. Q. Has Yellowstons Park more gey- sers than any other place has’— A. In this natlonal park there are more geysers than in all the rest of the world. It also contains bofling springs, mud volcanoes, petrified forests, a_can- yon remarkable for gorgeous colorings, large lakes, waterfalls, vast wilderness inhablted by deer, elk, bison, moose, the public goes on demanding and these prolific writers go on producing. * ok K K Gene Stratton-Forter is one of these three or more. Interesting as a per- son, interesting as a writer. A forth- right individual with nothing of sub- terfuge and almost as little of subt- tlety, her career stands out in three well efined periods. Born to the love of nature, reared in the beauty and generosity of its friendship, Gene Stratton's early writings were no more than the joyous records of days lived in the open, no more than the family secrets of bird life and plant this young nature lover. Sketches so and spontaneous came to read- ers like some fresh discovery. Pop- ular on Then came the 1 when a thread of story wound its way through the nature lore which stood. and still stands, as this writer's most precious posss fon. Half dozen and more of these “nature novels” belong to this second period. “Tell me is 4 magic phrase, potent with both young d old alike. So the story element here, slight though it vas_ at first, supplied the human produced the effect of human partaking. hitherto lacking, and gave a tremendous impulse to the popular- ity of Mrs. Porter's work. This period colncides also with the entrance of “nature study” into general education. ‘These storles, supplementing this movement, provided joyous refresh- ment to thousands after many a dry and dusty hour under denatured “n ture teachers.” Another factor in ti notable success of this writer. * K koK For the making of *“The White Flag" Gene Stratton-Porter turns her back squarely on the nature life that she has so much loved, that she has made others love so much. Turns her back squarely, goes into the house and shuts the door. This is to be a purely human story, engrossed ex- clusively with human behaviors. Set in an average town of the near west, the story follows four children through school days and wooing days and wedding days. Junlor, Jason, Mahala, Elizabeth — the rich man's son, the washerwoman's boy and the two girls. Mahala is the heroine of this tale. She is the object of Junlor's early desire and of Jason's secret de- votion. Mahala is a nice child, sur- ing by sheer miracle an upbring- ing calculated to make of her no more than a pert and pretentious little miss. It is not easy to trace the sequence set here by the author be- tween this pampered girl and the emests of deadly ingenuity and per- sistence. Nemesis is long on retribu- tion and she gets a running start in this game when Mahala proves cool to the advances of the ardent Junior. In the twinkling of an_eve she sets Junior's father, Martin Moreland, boss of the town, at Mahala's father, whom he ruins promptly by putting oney screws down tight upon ruined man, however, has urce, which he calls into peddy ¥ S malady of such high of iency as to take him off at once, leaving Mahala | to the unaccustomed business of looking after herself, And Mahala goes to work at al mikeshift of sewing, which leads her one day right into the Moreland household. Through the fine team- work of Junior and his father, money is stolen while the girl is in the house. So Mahala goes to Jail. In the meantime Junior had sought! to relfeve the tortures of uprequited love by marrying Elizabeth, It s on their wedding journey, or very soon | thereafter, that Elizabeth—leaning far over a balcony rail for a better view of Junior down the shadows in soft dalliance with a pretty serving girl—loses her balance, falls to the Eround, breaks her neck. That set- s Elizabeth. Without sufficient evidence to con- t her Mahala Is by this time out of jaill. She has betaken herself to the outskirts of the town, where lies a tiny estate, that remnant of fallen fortunes which provident ~authors commonly provide for beautiful hero- ines in distress. Heres with the ald of the faithful Jason she is quite Coming to life again. Then one day Jason gets married to a girl down the Yoad a piece and, in the course of tme, they have a baby. You see,| Jason thought he had secret evidence | that Mahala was really a thief. Now{ When he finds out that he was mis taken, completely forgetting that he a wife and baby of his own, he runs to Mahala to tell her that he has loved her all the time. His wife fees this meeting—by chance, as Wives do. When Jason gets back Nome she tells him to take the baby to Mahala, that it is her baby. Puz- Zled over that, but no more than a Tag by now, Jason does a8 he is told.: “You're Craz or words to that ef- fect, says Mahala. “You take that baby stralght back hom At the antelope, bear and’ mountain sheep. It is the greatest wild bird and animal preserve in the world. Q. In yachting what is meant by the expression “tacking” ?—C. F. S. A. Tacking means changing the eourse of the vacht by shifting the po sition of its sails; advancing toward the wind's eve. Q. How many clergymen are there in the United States?—C. S. A. There are about 170,000 active members of the profession at present. Q. provement on a patented article and patent that improvement’—J. H. G. A. The patent office says it Is im- possible for an inventor to make an im- provement on an article which has al- ready been patented and to take out a patent on his own i{dea without the consent of the original patentee or as- signee. Q. In case there should be such a political plit in a state o that two sets of presidential electors would reported by rival state administrations or officials, what would happen?—A. G A. In 1887 Congress enacted a providing that each state under laws should designate a tribunal termine the legality of its electoral votes, but should no such tribunal have been appointed in case of double re- turns the vote of the state {s lost unless the two houses of Congres which electoral votes from the state are the legal votes, Q. Does a lawyer have a right to re- fuse to take a case’—A. A, The thirty-first canon of ethi 3 lcan Bar Association says: N er is obl Bated to act either as adviser or advo. oute for every person who may wish to become his client . S, most _churches in the United States? E Editors’ Views With final rejection of the renewed Hughes plan to have the experts find out exactly what Germany can pay her creditors, editors once agaln are divided in thelir opinions of responsi- bility. There is a somewhat general disposition to blame the French policy. But there are also editors who argue that, after all, the United States must shoulder some of the blame, and others who recall that, after all, Germany brought her own troubles on herself, and that if situ- ations were reversed she would have lit: tle sympathy to waste on any one. The surprising development is the general absence of political bias from the discussions. “The pitiful outcome of our one great and most promising effort at diplomacy s the logical fruit of the cross-purposes at which this govern- ment has been playing with Europe { since it was taken over by Mr. Hard- ing in 1921, suggests the Knoxville | Sentinel (independent democratic), while the Atlanta Journal (dem cratic) suggests Polncare “is not al- together unwarranted in wondering whether the United States would do its part toward general readjust- mients, What would be gained if, after weeks or months of conference the Washington government should b bound by the isolationists to & polic of continued fnaction?” The Portland Express (republican), however, in- practically isolated. It is possible that she can permanently resist the pres- sure of other nations, but it is un- likel * ok ok % France seems impelled to “gamble with reparations,” s the contention of the Chicago Dally News (Independ- ent), which cites “her unbalanced budget” as proof. “Her financlal house s not in order, but objection to definite statements by experts of- fietally approved cannot prevent the inexorable economic laws from work- ing out in due time their dreary solu- tlons of impossible situations” This offer by Secretary Hughes “was a dls- interested one,” the Mobile Register (independent democratic) insists, and, now that it is rejected, “all the United States government can do is to awalt developments in the hope that an in- vestigation may yet be held with France participating.” This is also the view of the Fargo Forum (republican), which, regret- ting the French refusal, suggests America still must stand by “to throw its full welght when the proper time comes toward a program of peace and rehabilitation in Europe. But it must o it ig storming, something flerce U ind, thunder, Tightning, rain no ond. Just as they set out there comes a flash, a’ crash, a bang— scmething strus 1t is the wife, out after her baby. And that takes care of her. recognize, as the administration does recognize, that it cannot become in- volved in the political quarrels of Eu- rope. Inasmuch as France now seems alone, the Appleton Post-Cres- cent (Independent) contends “whether the rear tires would make easier driving | However, | Can an invenfor devise an im- | be | Q. Which denomination has the | clines to the belief that “France is | Nemesis has but just struck|she can hold out against the opposi- heeng‘h:e Her achievements are quite | tion and moral condemnation of the too many to touch more than a few |rest of the world Is doubtful.” of the top ones. First, the old| “Why shouldn’t other nations con- woman of beclouded mind, roaming|cerned in this matter proceed without the streets with a white flag under|the association of France?" asks the which she invites “the pura of heart” | Dayton News (democratic). “The re- to pass, has to be identified B8 thelport of this special commission was lawful wife of Moreland senlor, the|not intended to bind any one or all mother of Jason, Moreland's unrecog- | nations to any definite pledge. It was . " The washerwoman, call-{proposed solely to enable those coun- ’J}a":da.sfi:"u mother, has to be proved|iries which have been arguing about o repentant Magdalen who by day|the German economic situation to be had passed a8 a working Woman|established in their facts relative to who was by night a modern| ne matter. The survey should go on, in the secret. bedizenedgng it is a safe venture- to suggest ¢ this sultanio boss of & mid_{ 1,4t France, finding herself izolated, She proves herself g oy1q very soon discover & way to ters into a respectable| gork in on the proposition.” and remunerative partnership. The| ‘jncidentally, the Pittsburgh Gazetto- Jast we see of her the minister, lone | wirl o “(republican) feels “this latest bachelor, i8 looking her way. Junlor}g,yelopment will not weaken Ameri- has to shoot himself. which he does—| .on"conviction that France does not oharmingly. Old Moreland has oG ane help from this side in restoring urn o an imbeetle, which he does— | want help from, fuis 808 UG USRS roaming the roads under a whith fak | ;o wants cancellation of her debt to And there you are—nobody left but)y,®gna unrestricted power to Worl Hzhala‘ana Jason to iive happy ever| 8, 850 Ny P “on "the “continent. after. ipulations imposed by France Wit In the world do you suppose | T1® RN Ized " by - the ‘Omaha has happened to Ceme | Sem7 *7a| World-Herald “as an affront at once o R T SR {0 the Intelligence and conscience of this the stamp of the third porlode?| Christendom. ey serve to reveal, in o o that has Can she not s, the trut! -y chl.r{e.d.”:nd hozl{ harem of ‘western town. with ease. En two stripes, a white one over a red one. . Q. Can a phonograph record be made of cardboard?—E, T. A A. The Etude says that lac phonograph record has {vented by European che makes po; the use of leather { blotting 1 , cardboard or paper, linen or cotton cloth, as a bhase The new process Is claimed to enable the printing instead of moldin records 50 that on a rotary pre many as 50,000 a day hay be made Q a double house and & duplex’—: A. A double house Is alike on hoth sides of a p: the séparate use of occu plex house s one i floor i3 a complete duplicates it. much non-she been, gr Pl el What is the difference betweer ¥ one buil: How d1a Florlda fo . which o S exchange { United belonged to it to the, Unfted bruary - imption by the tates of claims of American , ABUINSt Spajn, amounting tu ! Q. wnat an iron bed?—E 10ve paint from H. much paint as kitchen knife. adheres to the bed brush spirits of or a strong 1al parts oxali At se wiped off with serubbed away. R ess if necessary. peat tids proc en & man ag es each call the other Y Ya There are' two forms of the word. Fiance is the masculine and fiances the feminine form. They are both pronounced fee-ahn-say. flance"” Q. Are tho rings of Saturn solid or fluld?—J. B. 8 A. The conclusion has been reach- triple, consisting and that it is 3 arge number of satellites. the ring were solid some temporary disturbance would suffice to disrupt it, nor is it 10re reasonable to presume that it is parts, of a ve How long have in use’—D. K. A. The modern elex evolution of the ma G. Otis exhibited i | tal Palace in New various kinds ha Q. clevators been 1l 3 vator where! stopping th cont ney hoisting cables (Have you a quest answered? Send it to formation Bureau. Frederic J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitol The only charge for this is 2 cents in stamps for re wou want he Star In- | Bias Generally Absent in U. S. of French Policy that It is not reparations that France is seeking, but destruction by starvation and anarchy of the help- less German nation. * % While the United States will not, of course, insist on any p nents on | France's war debt to this natlon as & enalty for rejection of the Hughes { {proposals, the Chattanooga News | (democratic) suggests “Great Britaln | 1s under no such handicap. The world | will walt and watch for Premfer | Balawin's next step.” The net re- sult of the exchanges, the Springfield | Republican (independent) is con- | vinced, “has been to emphasize the es- sentlal ldentity of British and Amer- fcan aims in seeking the economic rehabllitation of Europe and to re- ‘v al the policles of Premier Poincare as still the chief obstacle to any con- | structive undertakin, ! This is also, in art at least, the [ view of the Duluth Herald (independ- nt), which feels “the American of- fer to participate in a real effort to bring pea L5 solution must w; , through bit- jter experiences, s rned that it {cannot al defy fair play and { world opinion.” There cannot, how- ever, be any abandonment of hope, as the New York Times (independent democratic) sees the outlook, because “the impul. to international co-oper- ation has not been exhausted. The chief objects sought are still attain- able. Such a breathing of new hope came to the world with the promise of a pean conference in which the United States could take part | that diplomacy cannot be ready to con- Qf uch impotence as would be im- ! plied in a helpless drift of mankind back to despair of the future.” « The St. Paul Dispatch (independent) | situation s well as the present out- look, nd, after suggestion the ent painstakingly analyzes the entire French reparation policy will fall, and this country be called upon to make good the destruction worked in Germany by French policy, both of which it v s incidental, insist ‘a much more Important consequence of French policy, if persisted in, will be the withdr: al from France of that sympathy she possessed almost everywhere in the world a few years ago, and, eventually, her isolation in diplomac’ | Hope for Deaf Seen. Book, “Adventures in Silence.” Gets Praise of Reader. To the Bditor of The Star: Have vou read “Adventures in Si | lence,” by Herbert W, Collingwood” {1t should prove very interesting to Levery adult. 1If any of your readers are seeking “a mission” in life, let them read the book and then urge every hearing person they know to read it and thus to realize the possible fatc | that may be lurking not far away, (ith rare human touch the autho writes as he would talk with you writing_from the point of view of one whom fate led into the land of silence many years ago; a land that lies close about us, yet is an unknown country to many who are unconsciously journey- ing thitherward. In Mr. Collingwood's case deafness came on gradually, Thus his efforts to adapt himself’ to changed conditions were successful, because he intelli- gently faced the disheartening outcom and philosophically prepared for th worst. But there are others, some of whom have found loss of hearing & ter- rifying calamity. He refers to some whom “Fate did not give them even chance to prepare.’” There are many interesting ancedotes and much practical philosophy pervades every chapter, Statistics would be out of place in those chatty chapters. Plenty of statis- { tics elsewhere; one physiclan holds that 25 per cent of all the people are hard of hearing; another says 30 per cent: and one physiclan holds that 50 per cent of all the people in this country have defective hearing in one ear if not in both. But though Mr. Collingwood presents no statistics, the advocates of the for- mation of a conservation of hearing so- clety will find his arguments for pre- {paredutss of unusual value. e