Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morr‘ing Edition, WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY.November 28, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Ofy th 8t. and Pennsylvania Ave. New v % 110 East 42nd St Chaesz Tower Building. Puropean diiice: 16 itegent St., Lundon, England, The Evening Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carriers within the city at B0 cents per mouth: daily only, 45 cents per month: Sunday oniy, 20 cents’ per month. Orgders may be went by mail or tele- phone Main 5000, Collection is made by car- Tiers at the end of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dally and Sunday..1 yr., $8.40: 1 mo., 700 Daily only..........1¥r., §5.00; 1 mo., B0c Bunday oniy $2.40; 1 mo.; 20¢ Dafly and Sunday.1y Daily only Bunday only . $10.00: 1 mi 1yr, $7.00: 1mo, 1yr. §3.00;1mo., 26¢ Member of the Associated Press The Associnted Press is exclusively entitiea to the use for republcation of il news dis. patches credited 1o it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub. Iaked herein 1 rights of publication of special dispatches hercin are also reserved. The Slurring of Motives. “The committee of the Progressiv ition of the House™ Weidk assault r Meilon tax-reduction plan ting the motive fish pecuniary interest to Secre- e plan, and of the Post and Star executive umentative unworthy tary Mellon in proposing ta the publish n supy ris ed inuated as follows: (1) Mellon tax-reduction plan, adopted, would save the publisher of Th tar personally from $50,000 to $100,000 per year me tax. (2) Te ake this great publisher of The Star has caused The Star to support eagerly und agere 1y the Mellon plan, and (3) to the same base end of the pub- her's personal pecuniar: Star has been guilty of unwarranted eritielsm of the motives of opponents of the Mellon plan not a particle of truth in ¢ one of these accusatc ate- 1) Adoption of the Mellon plan would not save The Star publisher p 1y from $50,000 to $100,000 or any consideralle fraction of that a ilis total income is much less than £100,000. (2) If it were possible £ Star p U the Mellon plan to reduce his tax bill by the amount of hk total inc at fact would not determine The Star’s editorial polic in dealing with a great 1e affecting the national welfare. There is no re- tion whatever between the pecunia interest of any individual connected with The Star and The Star’s editorial policy. Imputation to the contrary slanderous. And (3) neither to se the pecuniary interest of The publisher nor for any other r. assailed the motives of pro- zressive opponents of the Mellon plan. The Star: challenges the showing of any such verbal assault by it. hus the committee imputes an imaginary unworthy motive for an alleged but non-existent act. The com- mittee in the same breath slurs the motives of The Star and complains of unwarranted critici: tives. Thus it is guilty of the very offe against The Star of which with- out reason it accuses The Star. song The § Republican Party Finances. One can imagine the satisfaction with which the republican leaders as- sembled in the regional meeting of na- tional and state committeemen and others at Trenton vesterday greeted Assistant Treasurer Huston's an- nouncement that the deficit of $1,600,- 000 in the republican national cam- paign fund of 1920 had been extin- uished. That big hole in the party’s war chest had been staring the na- tional committee in the face for three years, and the process of closing it was slow and painful. Paying for the “dead horse” is ob- Jjectionable to anybody, and especially to contributors to campaign funds. The democrats are reported as still soliciting for their dead horse, and soon will have to begin to ask for con- tributions for the next campaign fund. Assistant Treasurer Huston brought the gladsome tidings to his colleagues yesterday that ‘om now on every dollar “taken in" can be stored away against its use in the campaign of 1924. It is argued that republican col- lectors c: go with better grace among the contributors with this slate clean and no allocation of the new funds to the dexd hor: ‘The business of conducting a national campaign along entirely legitimate lines has grown tobe a great financial enterprise. Republicans, having been notified that the party is out of debt, may prepare themselves, the leaders say, for a visit at almost any time from the official “hat-pa: eking replenishment of the sinews of war. ———— There are Frenchmen who are anx- fous to see Germany make every ef- fort to get out of debt, but who would regard it as contrary to public policy if she were to succeed. ——— For several gentlemen in politics the success of Thanksgiving depends on the ability to forget minor incidents that have arisen through the year. ——— Safety Council Work. Decision of the Washington Safety Council to continue on a broader scale next year is gratifying to those who hope to see the Capital made free of dangers In the streets. The safety council has amply justified its exist- ence during the year of its organiza- tion, and it would be lamentable for it to discontinue. It has co-ordinated the efforts of various agencies and has kept vividly before the people the ne- cessity of care in the use of the streets &nd other activities. Primarily the safety problem in ‘Washington is one of traffic. Most of the accidents to persons occur out-of- doors. Pedestrians are struck by mo- tor cars and street cars, and motorists themselves are injured. As the city grows in population, and as the use of motor vehicles increases, the dan- ger naturally becomes greater. But it is not necessary that there should be danger In the streets if care is exer- cised. Menace to life and limb arises from carelessness, recklessness and inattention. It has been the function i | personal saving the | strenuously | profit The | ount. | . | income ;| joyed through sm of its own mo- | of the safety council to keep constant- 1y before the people the admonition to be careful. Public education is ‘he cure of the evil of street danger. This educational process must be carried on in the schools and homes and in bustness in- stitutions. It must be persistent. It| takes a long time to form a habit of care, though a short time to form a habit of carclessness. To teach 450,000 people to be habitually careful is a heavy task, and that is the task of the | satety council, which it has so ad- mirably performed during the past year, and which it now proposcs to continue for another year if the public will support it. This work entails some expense. It must be met by contributions. It is proposed, for example, to form a “safe s' group,” with a fee of §1 for a s membership. If every motorist in Washington would join as an evi dence of good faith at least the safety council would be financed amply, not only for this but for a long period. And it the Interest of every driver to make Washington's streets as safe as possible. Every tor car owner is exposed to the care- legsness of others: his property is menaced, his life is endangered by the indifferent, reckless person. The short of this is that street safet a matter of co-operation. Th safety council seeks to be the co-y aperative clearing house, and should | be abundantly supported both finan- | claily and in spirlt by all who use the ! streets. year is to mo- { { is | Tax-Relief of the Rich. | The opronents of Secretary Mellon's | -reduction plan, in those rare in-| stances where the plan has been at- | tacked upon its merits alone, base) | that attack upon the argument that it { | proposes to relieve the of their just share of the cost of government. | I£ it does, of course, it has not, and | should not have, the smallest chance to e enacted into law. If it does not, then some other fault must be pointed out, or it should and will, as far as its own merits are concerned, be hailed as good idea by evervbody. Some seven and a half million in- | of individuals or porations 1will be affected by the { reduction. | million are rich { | |a | | 1 7 proposed t Of these more than seven incomes ranging from on. nnually, with | the smaller mes in the srity. The single man of $2,000 who tax pay an incom today pays §40 in federal ince the Mellon plan, man with an income of instead of $160 $995 me unde The 5,000 would pay $§0. ncomes of $8,000 would pay $225, in- 1d of $420. And so on through the | eads of families with two chil- | dren we ly. 1 ear | list benefit proportion: cent reduction is giv asted with i investment 25 per s cont come in stocks, bonds, ete. | This is a brief indication of what the Mellon plan proposes to do direct- 1y for the man or woman of moderate income—the millions ardently desirous of a lightening of the tax burden which they bear. What does it pro- pose to do to the big incomes? It proposes to reduce the rates, but to increase the revenue paid in to the | Treasury, as Secretary Mellon, wise in the relationship of politics to national cconomics, has taken pains to point out. The current scale of taxation, which left a convenient loophole !l!u'nugh which the rich might evade } { paying big taxes through the simple expedient of investing in tax-exempt | bonds rather than industrial enter- {prise, has failed as a revenue-pro- | Qucer, as children are today aware. | Secretary Mellon, to meet this truth, recommends a reduction upon the tax on big incomes to a point where tax- exempt securities may not seem S0 much more attractive than Mdustr enterprise for capital investment. The plan contemplates getting capital back into industrial use and taxing it all it will stand before running to tax- exempt cover. | That is a fair statement, and one not difficult of comprehension. And the smallincome man, the man with a good job or a poor job or no job at all, once he appreciates where he benefits directly and indirectly by the reduction of taxes on big incomes is not likely to be stampeded by any flapdoodle proclaiming that this is a proposition to shift the load from the rich to the poor. The matter of holding a good job or improving @ poor one or finding a job at all is all wrapped up in the indus- trial prosperity of the nation, and the nation knows it.. The industrial pros- perity of th nation is in a great meas- ure dependent upon the ability of in- dustry to attract capital wherewith it may carry on and expand, and the nation knows it. The Mellon plan is purposed to enable industry to thrive so that men and women in America may get and hold good jobs, and so that when once they have obtained those jobs they may pay less to the federal Treasury of the money they earn. That is the truth. The ultimate fate of the Mellon plan will depend upon Lringing that truth home to the peo- ple, and then permitting them to de- cide whether or not they want the benefit entailed more than anything that may stand in the way of their obtaining it. —_——— No game laws have been devised that will fully protect the men who are carrying shotguns from one an- other. ———— The consumer is still expected to re- joice over the fact that there is coal available and not quarrel about the price. The flutter made by the average hat ‘when it goes into the ring is soon over. - The Ferris Plan. Senator Ferris of Michigan joins the ranks of those making radical at- tacks on fortunes. He announces his purpose to come to Washington to boost legislation that would absorb all legacles by taxation. Young men and women, he says, would be better off and make higher marks in the world if they started life with little. Perhaps in his address to the audi- ence at Blg Rapids, where he spoke, he gave some particulars about his | specifica {into the | ainner THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. plan that will answer certain ques tions that immediately arise. Until those particulars are disclosed, how- ever, the questions remain of interest. For example, what will Serator Ferris do about the widows? They are not starting in life. Tn most cases they are advancing toward the end of life. Are they to be stripped of the sub- stance their husbands have accumu- lated? Arve they to be forced to begin anew? Again, it may be asked whether there is any provision in this plan to prevent the anticipation of death and the distrfbution of property by will. One of the surest effects of confis tory taxatbon would be to cause per- sons of lange means who contemplate leaving their estates to their families to make disiributions before death, in at least technical manner. Will the Ferris plan prevent this by imposing penalties upon gifts to sons and daughters and wives during the life- time? At what age will such a penalty begin to apply? At what stage of for tune Obviously no scheme short of a radical amendment to the Constitu- tion can be provided to stop a man from giving a member of his family whatever he wishes to bestow, when- ever he wishes, and upon wha terms he deemns proper. In England the heavy death and inheritance taxes have caused the adoption of such ex- pedients by testat in anticipation of their death, throngh the creation of tr 1ips. ca- o Whether the inheritance of wealth | iy, is a bad thing for youth—or middle | | tion age—is a Mmoot point upon which there is no general agreement. Undoubtedly poverty is a stimulus to certain char- acters, but it is a discouragement to others. Just so wealth is a stimulus to certain types of people, as it is also a { discouragement. Humanity cannot be made indus- trious or enterprising or ambitious through legislation. Taxation will not check the distribution of wealth. Un- til Se: or Ferris comes forth with ions his project must be put category of “interesting, but not important.” —_———————— Nations that observe Golden Rule Sunday, December 2, should make ar- rangenrents to have all ambitious poli- ticians, diplomads and financiers at- Jombing attempts in Philadelphia have nothing to do with foreign politics, nor with local politics, beyond a reminder that the Volstead act has not been enforced to an s may extent makes bad liguor unavailable to peo- irresponsible, even or less v more when sot —_—————— gists find generous delight n pointing to old King Tut as at least one me rch who is not likely to cause or experience more or less trou ble at present. —_—————————— Egyptol vourself inexpe If yon cannot that turkey is comparativel convince that | sive, think of what the Thanksgiving | would if an effort made to serve eggs in proper abun dance. cost were ———— According to street car experts a profit cannot be earned by hauling people at a nickel apiece. The present object in coining n appears to be main chines going. ———————————— ha The Germans engaged in the publi- | cation of paper marks now realize that | take of getting out | they made the mis too many extras. —————————— Many people who are fond of melody are wondering whether it may not be possible to strike a happy medium b tween the absolute musical classi and “Yes, We Have No Bananas. —_————————— SHOOTING STARS. PHILANDER JOHNSON. Slippery Places. The wicked in slippery places must stand, But they really don't seem to care. When bootleg concoctions around them expand, They slide with a frivolous air. When the footing is moistened by bit- ters or gin And stuck is throng, The wicked are there with a satisfied grin And go merrily slipping al(:nm the hard-drinking The innocent bystander often gets hurt, Because he is not well informed Of dangers awaiting on people who flirt . With juices by aleohol warmed. But the bootlegger moves with a cau- tion complete And possibly that is just why The wicked seem able to keep on their feet And manage somehow to slip by. Prudence in Thanksgiving. ““What are you going to give thanks for?" “Many things,” answered Senator Sorghum. “But I'm not going to men- tion "em. 1f I give the impression ‘that |[ regard my country as entirely safe and serene some of my constituents may get the impression that my ef- forts to save it are unimportant.” Jud Tunkins says oratory is on the decline. In his settlement a good bass singer gets more respect than a good speechmaker. King Tut’s Mummy, Three thousand long years, so they tell us, have sped Above your career strangely check- ered. "Mongst funerals yours may be truth- fully said To be quite the longest on record. Mild Gossip. “‘People are talking a great deal about Mrs. and Mr., Flimgilt.” “Yes,” commented Miss Cayenne; “but what people say is nothing com- pared to what they'll say about each other.” “I kin tell you whut hoss ought to win a race,” said Uncle Eben. “But & hoss ain’t allus got sense enough to know his duty.” that of keeping the slot ma- | | | 1 r | tary of IN TODAY’S B Last Saturday evening there was intense Interest amongst a group of scientlsts gathered about a banquet table at the Cosmos Club while distinguished recipient of the Nobel prize for Dr. Niels Bohr, pro- fessor of theoreti physies of Copen- a | hagen, was telling something of what he had discovered about the structure of an atom. Later, when two of the leading phy ists of the United States bureau of standards were asked to tell what r. Bohr had talked about, each de- ferred to the other. Both agreed that they understood it perfectly, but that the most abstruse discourse \d ever heard. For a physicist 11 it to a lavman was as difficul if a Greek and a Norweglan wers to talk to each other, each in his own lunguage, yet hoping to be mutually Intelligible, * % ok ¥ An atom! In school day: taught that a molecule, the matier, was made up of . which were the smallest conceivable indf- visible units. A molecule of water (H0) consists of _two atoms of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Take away any one of those three atoms and the water ceases to be water. The same atoms are found in other kinds of matter, in combinations with oth- er_atoms, obody ever saw an atom. croscope can make it vis within the last eight or n scfentists hay atom with th it was unit of No mi- ble. Yet ne vears, begun to compare an solar system, with a nucleus infin 1y sma bout which speeding “planets, at distances from the nucleus, greater, in propor- to their size, than the distance from the sun to the earth—greater, even, than the distance from the sun to the farthe of planets, Neptune atom olar s m,"” is T than all the space in which rarth 1d the seven other solar planets revolve about the sun. The sun may be taken a ball nine feet in diam the earth, in proportion. would marble one in_diameter, three city away. The earth is about olar diameters away from the sun, but, according to Dr. Millikan, an atom's “planet’—called an_elec- tron 10,000 dlameters of its nucleus away from that nucleus— possibly 100.000 diameters—and it r olving about that nucleus at rd exceeding 10,000 miles a If an atom were magnified to three feet diameter its nucleus would be a mere pinpolnt, too small to be 1 two feet away. Stratton, former head of the burcau of standards, used to try to illustrate the size of an atom as follows ake a spray of oil and pick out mallest oil globule foating in the air. Magnify tha globule until it is as hig as the world: the atoms composing it woul hen be the size of little peas.” ow take on those little and think of it V' several “planets” (ele around orbits 10, ) at In_ proportion as orbit, and try to measure the orbit accurately and to weigh the electron t has been accomplished Robert A. Millikan, direct Bridge Laboratory of Physics. ), Calif, and chairman of administrative coun of the Institute of Technolog: has been awarded the »r physies for 19 He n" an electron, but 1 with his sclentific the tiny “plane hrough empty space 10,000 diameters trons) specd- times as plungin, ut its Selene can see more than fifty-six wide a range as eyes can Dr. Millikan, in an article recent issue of Scribner's ne, shows a five-and-one-half- 1¢ of the span of discernment, oh the range of eyesight is d one-eighth of an inch. Be- visual one-eighth inch on extend to the right ultr s occupying half an inch; bevond the Roentgen rays and X-rays measuring on that same scale, C. SPOTLIGHT Y PAUL V. COLLINS two inches. Dr. Millikan himself in 1920 added to “invisible vision” three times as wide a range as eyes can see. l * koK % But the opposite direction of ision. without optlcal visibility, seience has gone still further. Start- ing with the eighth of an inch, indi- cating our optic range, the late Prof. Langley of the Smithonfan In- stitution in 1881 extended our power to u infra-red” rays, the equiva- lent of three-eighths of an Inch on this le. Rubens and others extended the spread of infra-red ravs to a whole inch of the seale, and from 1895 to the present day’ “wireless waves" have added three fnches mora to the seale of our “scientific viston.” Only a phvsicist could explain by what method of applieation of this snread of “sclentific vision” Dr. Mil- lkan and others now look at the atomie ar systems” welgh their planete and measure the sneed there- of ahout their orbits. We of the masses have “eyes to see, but see not.” in £k kK How glorius it would be to “lsten in" to the musie of the spheres! The future holds even that privilege for mankind. Evesight cannot resnond at all to less than 1.250 waves per millimeter, nor to than 2500, while the acute ear can hear. when the waves range from 16 to 15 600 ner millimeter. waves more sclence nroduce as per millimeter. I electrieally shootine electrons with extremely hizh through a uum tehe, has enused them to penetrate different kinds of matter. T will nieree solid wtoel sixte thick, nassing rongh its as if thev | wire the caarsest mesh, And as the | fAving olectrons have sfruck o tars ch «lectron has soun nartienlar note of musie. elearly audi- We. Dr Millikan characterizes the Mogelv dlseovery the sreatest of this age. “Wo have learned to hear the notes which the denizens of the sub- atamle world. the electrons, send out into the ether &hen t are stim- uiated to emit thefr characteristic pitches” says Dr. Millfkan. * o x It a mighty meteor as groat as jour moon were to plunge throuch isppce nnd enter our colar evstem its gravity would completely demorallz { a1l orbits. The earth might be so Ithrown out of its econrse that it would be tens of millions of miles farther from the sun and its year {would be s lone as saveral of our I present yvears. Forever it would re- ,volve in fts new orhit. Not so with he orbit of an electron. Tt s cternally the same, =0 long as the lectron remaing in the same atom Why? Sclence has vet to discover {more of the wonders of creation = * ok % % ean as Of what Al use Is all this practi Neptune's ) knowledge? At the bureau of standards the ‘answer is glven that this knowledg: opens a vast realm of certainty lerto entered only emplrical ex- !periments. Instead of blind expert- nentation by trial and rejection ere is now exact h as to the charac other substances, making {t r why some will combine and rs will not. Also, how one metal may bhe tra ed into another. Seienti Al complishing \chemy some twenty metals. Radium changes into hellum and |finally Into lead. How soon will science reverse the process and make radium out of lead, gold out of baser metals? The multiplied applications of the knowledge cannot be named, but greatest of all its present fields is that of wireless telephony and the radio. Guesswork is t; exact science enters. The future s big with its miracles (Copsright, 1823, by Paul V. by t ,. and cle of metals with Culline.) Reference to Prehistoric Man Cost Candidate Vote of Irish - BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. “Couthy" is a relatively unknown word for which the English language indebted to the late Willlam E. Giladstone, the great prime minister of the latter half of Queen Victorla's reign. At any rate, so it would ap- pear from J. H. Spender's biography of Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, who died as premler in 1908, the correspondence published book it is made apparent that, for |some reason or other, Queen Victoria entertained a pronounced dislike for the late Hugh Childers, who had been first lord of the admiralty and who was anxious, on the formation of the ministry of 1886, to be named secre- wte for war. He had brought against her will, to permit beards to be worn in the navy. She was very old-fashioned and conservative and regarded the two armed services as her particular baillwick and objected to all changes, even when they took the shape of badly needed reforms. Her cousin, the old Duke of Cam bridge, then commander-in-chief, wrote to her from the war depart ment: “I am glad that you insisted on Mr. Campbell Bannerman coming here, in preference to Mr. Childers. The former is a very nice, calm and pleasant man.” * ¥ % % Campbell Bannerman was rather reluctant to take over the war de- partment, realizing that it was bound te bring him into more or less con- filet with the members of the reign- ing house. Gladstone reassured him with the words: “Oh, you'll get on all right with them. You will be calm and pleasant and canny and ‘couthy”.” iladstone wished to find some mea of expressing the contrary of un- couth, =0 he invented the word of “couthy,” which means the opposite of uncouth and something over. At the time when the old Duke of Cambridge wrote thus about Cump- bell Bannerman, he littie realized that the latter was the statesman destined to accomplish what an entire generation of cabinet ministers had failed to achieve, namely, his retire- ment from the war department, where, with his intense conservatism, he was a terrible obstacle to all re- form. Queen Victoria, herself, sug- gested to him, when he was eighty, that it would be well for him to take a rest, and that he ought to resign on the ground of advanced age and necessarily impaired vigor. Where- upon, he promptly wrote to her that he and she were almost of the same age; that he was every bit as well able to fulfill hiy duties as she was, and that when she got ready to abdi- cate and step down from her throne, he would walk out of the war de- partment. He was a blunt old fellow, ind the queen, who had heard several truths from her frank-spoken kins- man, did not attempt to return to the subject. - But, to the amazement of every- body, Campbell Bannerman succeed- ed where all had"failed and induced the duke to resign without hurting his feelings. Indeed, they remained the very best of friends until the death of the duke. But, then, Camp- bell Bannerman was ‘couthy,” Whereas the duke was rather the re- verse. b Now that the general elections are in progress in England, it may be timely to recall the failure of the attempt of Sir Harry Johnston, the well known explorer, to get into the house of common: Sir Harry is a most gifted man, who has been every- ‘where and done everything, He has the queen, sore From | in the | been minister plenipotentiary colonlal governor and consul general, and commander-in-chief of colonial forces in Africa, and novelist and playwright, and a painter of sufficient | talent to have his pictures accepted and exhibited at the Roval Academy in London and at the Paris Salon, doctor of medicine, member of the | Royal College of Surgeons, and heaven knows what more besides. But never vet a member of parlia- ment, where one would imagine that his multifarious experiences of every kind in all parts of the world would prove a welcome relief to the deadly dullness of the ordinary droning de- bates. On one occasion he was fnduced hy Lord Northelifte to stand for parlie. ment, namely, for Rochester. North- cliffe, who hud become very enthusi- |astic about him. guaranteed to get | him elected. Northcliffe did his share, | but Sir Harry Johnston spoiled it all | by interlarding his principal address |to the electors with what he consid- |ered to be a very interesting refer- ence to some skeietons then recently | discovered from a calvarium in Coun- |ty Sligo, and which he declared to | point to the origin of man and to. re- emble the so-called Neanderthal | type. An fev silence followed his ad- dress, in lieu of the applause which ho had expected, and then suddenly a_huge Irish navvy arose and gave expression to his dissent of Sir Har- ry's remarks as to the origin of man, exclaiming, “As for the lrish, they are God's own people and never knew an ape. The Irish vote was a very powerful one at Rochester and when the poll ing took place two days later Sir Harry found that he had lost it en- tirely by his reference to the Sligo calvarfum and the interpretation placed upon it by his Irish members of the constituency and that he had been defeated by 500 votes. He never tried again. Sir Harry seems to have been somewhat of a thorn in the side of the missionaries in Africa and to have entertained views concerning Christianity which were _decldedly unorthodox. For in one of his jour- nals he speaks of his arrival at Port Elizabeth “on Ascension day, a hy- Dpothetical festival of the church that I had almost entirely forgotten.” * ok ok % Lord Lathom, who is well known in America, which he has visited on several occasions with his widowed sister, Lady Barbara Seymour, In or- der to recuperate from the wWounds which he recelved first of all at tha front in France and afterwards on Gallipoli and in Palestine under Lord Alienby, has just sold for & sum of some $2,000,000 the estates In Lan- cashire 'from which he takes his title. The manor of Lathom is near the town of that name and figures in Doomeday Book. It belonged for years to the house of Stanle; headed by Lord Derby. o The crowning glory of Lathom House was that it withstood for four months a siege by the parliamentary army under Gen. Falrfax In 1644, be- ing defended for King Charles by the French wife of its then owner, James seventh Earl of Derby, K. G. She was Charlotte de la Tramoille of the great French ducal house of that name. Her husband, captured after the battle of Worcester, was sent to the scaffold by Oliver Cromwell in 1651, his wid- ow surviving to witness the restora- tion. A daughter and coheiress of the ninth Earl of Derby, namely, Har- riet (Lady Ashburnham), inherited|of the time when other managers|gjelegation Lathom, with its glorious old park, more than four miles in circumfer- ence, and, after passing through one or two hands, it was purchased by Sir nith- | knowledze within and | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1923. Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER Politiclans in Washington who were all on tiptoe of expectation of an announcement from Senator {Hiram W. Johnson In his Chicago speech last night which might in- te sharp lines of party cleavage upon which ho will push his contest {for the republican presidential nomi- {nation were rather let thoir high key upon reading the speech. There was very little in it differing from or supplementary to his formal announcement of his can- didacy, except treatment of tax re- duction, which he had been studying in the meantime and had found re- duced taxation entirely compatible with the soldler bonus, to his satis- taction. Senator Johnson took pains early in the course of his remarks to ex- plain that what he would say “was in no sense a political platform.” One suggestion was made that he is waiting for another occaslon to fur-, ther declare himself, after President Coolidge has delivered his address to Congress. It was recognized that there would be strategy in this, as| up to the present time no attack upon President Coolldge's policies has been possible because he has not declared them in detafl. Senator Johnson devoted much of | his speech to expatiating upon his implacable opposition to any F ropean entanglement for America, but | it was argued today Ly that he No assuranc ident Coolidge is for such a policy. It was commented upon in political cles that his speech last night w not nearly such an arraignment of | the government at Washington and ! his own party and administration as | {was contained in his speech de- claring his candidacy. * k¥ The democratic national committee Fives a squint from another angle on the Johnson presidential candi- dacy. In a statement issued today the committee says: “There s a strong belief among politicians that Senator Hiram John- son’s announcement of his candidacy has been encouraged 1 certain action of the republican -national committee opposed to the world court and to the influence of Secretary Hughes in the White House. It is believed by these political observers that this coterie &iven ald and | ort to Johnson, not with the pur- | se of ultimately supporting him in the convention, but with the object of using his candidacy as a means of forcing President Coolidge to al don whatever fdea he may have had of urging American co-operation in the reconstruction of Europe, and par- ticularly of advocating this country's adhesion to the world court. * K ok % Word comes from New York that Gov. Alfred E. Smith s under no il- lusions himself as to the possibility of his recelving the democratic presi- dential nomination. It is said he knows he will not get it and tMut, imoreover, he knows why. He appre- clates that he would carry handicaps | on account of his religious afiiation, from the fact that he is against the | Kian and that he is a wet. But “Al" has always “plaved the game” in | politics and fs playing it now. | He describes his candidacy, which, {1s kept intact, as being a “pretty good monkey wrench” for the democratic organization to throw into the ma- {chinery of some other candidate who may be regarded as objectionable {the New York democratic organiza- tion. He is entirely willing to be used as such a demolisher if It is “for tn, B0od of the party.” “*AL™ his friends point out, “always was a good sport. * ¥ %X x Gov. Pinchot certainly is having ard sledding these days with his reform and political profects. He has been getting just one bump after another and does not seem to be able to score a bull's-eye anywhere. First, {there wag his “run-in" with President {Coolidge over his demand that the United States enforce the national prohibition law. Then the confer- ence of the governors at the White {Houss over prohibition enforcement, ;whlch gave opportunity for clinch- {ing state enforcement on the com- imonwealths as well as the federal {government, Now he is suffering disappointment over the collapse of his plan for co- operation of the anthracite-coal-using states among themselves and with {the federal government to regulate ! coal-price profiteering and quality of coal. Two governors and representa- tives of nine other state executlves, | i | down from | north, i {circles today. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Is the tomb of Tutankhamen cut into solid rock?—P. D. A. This tomb, as well as those of other Egyptian royalties, is cut into a solld ledge of limestone. Tho pyr- amids and the Sphinx are also made of this stone. Q. 1Is there read when in —M. F. A. The following I s are ommended for dificrent occasic Doubt, twenty-third {'salr griet, jghty-elghth; danger, sevinty-first and forty-sixth: loneliness, forty- second; Impiticn “tevent penitence, thirty-eighth; discou ment, thirty-fourth fourt a lst of Psalms to be doubt, in danger, etc.? Q. Please publish a recipe for chestnut stuffing for turkev.—H, HL. R. A. Shell and blanch enough French chestnuts to make thre fuls, Boil them in salted water until soft. Dra nd mash with potato ricer. Add cup butter, one teaspoon salf, onc third teaspoon pepper, one-four cup cream. Melt one-fourth cup bu ter, mix with 1 cup bread or crack crumbs, add to other mixture. Q. 1s there a Trappist monastery in China?—M. R A. There is one located at Yang kiap'ing. It takes about two it from Peking, the distance overed partly by rail mule; it is toward on the way to Kalgs monastery was founded years ago and is, so far a her of its members goes, hing; there are about community. Of course th: Jurity of these are C| pardy by 101" in great ma- Q. How is automobile made?—M. B A. A mixture of equal pa boiled linsced oil and turpentin plied sparingly with a Soft brus rubbed until dry polish_for automo formulas Q. Are handkerchiefs of anclent origin?—L. P. A. Eoth In the fiftec end of the sixteenth c tury, they Were of extreme raren The Queen s XI had only three and Henry th and to the Has the record of walk miles in 1,000 hours made by Daniel O'Leary, ever been ed?—F. J. M. A. The walking record of I O'Leary was surpassed by Edy Payson Weston. He walked of 1,325 miles from Portlar to Chicugo, in twenty-six days also walked from N San Francisco, a dist niles, in 104 days turned walking 3,500 miles in lo ian Q. 1Is it possible of & clam?—J. R. The average clam rket is between fou years old. The ag a clam Is de termined by the heavy ridges on the shell. These ridges usy one-quarter of an inch apart ance Me., He to Q._ What {3 meant by the term clo- ¢?—M. P. C. Cloture and A osur: Just what a “southern” presidential candidate really is constitutes a some- what disputed subject in editorial This is due to the various recent addresses in Texas of Senator . Underwood, instst- ing that the democrats should name him as their presidential candidate because he is from the south, coupled with the contention that, after Underwood should not hold the of the stage. For instance the suggestion by certain editors t William G. McAdoo, who has been in New York and Washington “on busi- ness,” rather fills the Lill, while there are others who feel Senator “Joe" Robinson or “Pat” Harrison or Glass should be given at least a * arter Underwood on raising th tionalism once more has ¢ attention on whether anything of that sort really is good for the country. “Undcrwood says the south has not had a President in cighty vears,’ the Detroit News (i at n that Mr. Underwood doesn't e he can be elected before 1 Taylor, the last southe was elected in 18487 W t to_hear from William G McAdoo of California, who can up and say that, while the south hasn't had a President since the death of Pres Taylor, California has never had a President at all, And from Dearborn comes word that. since now responding to a call to, thirty-one, met in_ Harrisburg. Instead of accepting his plan they | started in to “jump” the state of; Pennsylvania for its alleged derelic- on and policy. Gov. Slizer of New Jersey scornfully said it would take | ! thirty-one states thirty-one years to {draw up a plan, and then it would have to be sanctioned by Congress, | Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island started in with Pennsylvanis on the principle of “treat 'em rough” —and_surely did. 1t was charged that Pennsylvania would better start at home and clean up house, point- ing out that the state miners’ license law, passed by the leglslature, added |70 fo 90 cents a ton to the price of coal at the mine, which all consumers had_to pay. Moreover, it was caus- tically observed, the state laws made no attempt to deal with poor quality of coal. After a few further passages of this kind, the conference concluded to “call it a day and knock off.” * ok x *x There is probably not much love lost between the Governor of New Jersey and the Governor of Pennsyl- vania, one being a pronounced wet and the other the extremest of ex- treme drys, and it may be possible that Gov. Silzer enjoyed “taking a fall” out of Gov. Pinchot. * ok ok K Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, woman suffrage leader, does not like the presidential goods the voters are be- ing shown. In a speech in Dallas, | Michigan has never had a President {1t is high time that the popular ligt ning strike in the vicinity of a « tain tractor plant. For that mattc Massachusetts has never had a I'resi dent whose name began with a ( why not re-elect President Coolidy | The thing for Senator Underwood t do is either to organize the rej cans of doubtful s publi- abama so as to make it ate or else move to Ohic * * K K 1t is not a question of section, bu of personality,” insists the Baltimore Sun (democratic), “and Mr. wood's candidacy must rest own merits and not on senti or historical considerations.” southerner, “why not asks the Roanoke World-News pendent democratic), which to point out, in detail, th gualifications of the s Virginia. The Lynchburg (democratic), Mr. Giass' paper, ever, analyzing the probiem tionalism, insists it “docs not believe that the situation hette center of the polit the banner of s peting sectional appeals and deflant- v proclaiming that a southerner must be preferred at the hands of the nation, by virtue of the fact that no southerner since the civil war has enjoyed that preferenc Such a policy would do far more to stimu- late_sectional animosities than tend to hasten the growth of patriotic Americanism throughout the nation, and, in last analysis, injure the inter- ests of no class of people as much as those living this side of the Potomac. tru Tex., the other day she sald that in her opinion neither the democratic nor the republican party had put forward a candidate “half big enough to fill the job.” Then she added that she ‘was more interested In the “what” of the coming national campaign than in the “who.” * Ok Kk It is held by republican politicians that “pep” has been put into the Hiram Johnson presidential campaign by the selection of Frank H. Hitch- cock as Senator Johnson's campalgn manager. He is what, in politics, is called “an old campaigner” for fair. He hi managed presidential cam- paigns, and for years has '’ been regarded as very “forehanded” in rounding up delegates far in advance were setting out on the task. There has been much speculation in the laat few months what Gen. Hitch- cock might be doing in his favorite Mr. Underwood is frank to the border of rudeness” suggests the Davenport Democrat (independent), “when he admits his candid: his platform. This is embarrassingly specified. What is any other candi- Qate going to do who would like to be nominated, but who is so accom- modating that he cannot tell in ad- vance what he may think of the cam- paign issues? There ought to be Some way of getting out an Injunc- tion against a candidate like Unde Wood . compelling him to limit Speeches during 1923 to a discussion oot ball and the boll weevil Tiis talk, the Watertown Standard (republican) agrees, “is straight and Shnid: but it will not get as many Selegates as one of Bryan's cloud plercing speeches.” The Manchester Union _ (independe! republican), however, feels the “convention will give the contention a Very respectful Renring” only if the entie southern o agrees stick for a Southern candidate. * kK K Senator Underwood's frank decla- Thomas Bootle, who bequeathed it to | outdoor sport, and he may have the| g¢ion that he stand for rigid enforce- his niece, the wife of Richard Wil- braham, an snecestor of the present Lord Lathom, i answer for the question when the candidates begin to count noses in the pre-convention primaries. ment of the prohibition law, etc, is commended g the Memphis News- same meaning o the method and mes glve ding d 1 Ative mh o tat in th | meas - |1s used in 1 fzrit |18 dos ,4 th up the villag T r br. Cr Episce Q ) does A ] 4 jourr oW on judged 17—A. er of their grow nd need ge au ire £00 J. Haskt ! street. The Underwood’s Sectional Plea Causes Diverse Commentaries Set although t be an is sue 1 However, the insistence of Mr.; itered | pendent). “Does | gt upon one carn od is not un himself the Amer- can) ht Star 1t publi ugh T Protest by University Head of News Article r of November 26 there nning on the front piritual X-Ray. This article is ful an article, beg World mi Your pers of one mar rter writes e § had been gran » student aver rduated fron yme anes nd was wh {a aipl 1 red that b a high | thetizing work in n g had dor L hospital & that same for the di ne was re ne year the according the office of the then holoxist in pital His application ceived in 1918 and the diploma wis Issu the papers on fil Orfental Univer Now, what are the fac ated in the documen D. Rajoo (the only one whos ete. wus shown to your when he applied to us, not doctor of medicine course the bachelor of medicine courses only (whi # Ereat | aifterence), “was alr gradu {of a hizh school, had alr, v tinish five ye: of study in th Madre Medical School, and was already ! censed to practice medicine, 1L to study, in addition, twelve of ¢ courses, and_his | re not vet finishe No degree whatever has ever been granted to him by our un versit Furthe diploma student pa as actually on file? M plication reporter) for the but for your reporter says mferred upon a foreig beurs the seals of the United States, cte The t is that not one out nty of diplomas granted 10 foreign students ever had such a seal. 1 never stated to any one that the understanding and use of the psychic X-ray (Holler's X-Psl rays), which are beyond the N rays of Blondlot and the V rays of Darget, would “ex- terminate medical science and the American Medical Assoclation with i H. I'. HOLLER.