Evening Star Newspaper, November 29, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. —— WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY. .. November 29, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St. und Pennsyivania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St. Chicago Off awer Bullding. uropean Office: 16 Kegent St., Londou, England, The Evening Star. with th L is delivered by cents prr month ver month; Sundus only, 20 ¢ per Orders tiay be sent by fuail or tele- Main 5000, “Collection ix made by car- At the end of ench moutl. Rate by Muil—Payuble in Advance. land and Virginia, + $8.40; 1 mo. $6.00: 1 $£2.40: 1 mo., undny morning < within th ats nonth yihon Tiv 700 Sunday only. ai 1 Daf Sunday Member « The to the 2 patchies credited 3 this paper and also the local news b Lished herein. AN vzhts of publication of spectal dispatelies hercln are also reserved —_— = S $10.00: 1 mo $7.00; 1 mo oniy entitied ews i 10 It o ot otherwise eredited Thanksgiving. Summoned by the President of the Tnited States to give thanks on this day for the bounties and bl Providence, the American p their thoughts to the of life and review the year has written, 1t remarkable immunity end of a material advance, ldom has « forth singularly parison with the the world famiiy. there is strife While elsewhere is deep di tress, here is While else where there is the dread specter of conflict, here prospect of tinued placidity In the physical matters, ebundance of harvests, in average of employ lence of a people are ex s of bt higher turn rings that record of disuster record is a from single nation W com- other members ¢ While there there plenty, clsewhers here is peac is a con in the 1h high . in the preva. the American ally blessed. They ve suffered no economic set-backs have been d - from of nature been menace £ ence Domestic questic yerplex statesmen the people to ar But they pared with that confront people of other lan The tions of the republic remain sta as ever and the issues are trif inr great structure the ganization. e hea puio: s have ave convul treed from industrial ai fons the turh. s b isen to to react upon them to thought Guestions are minor those com the founda super to th itional ol of n , in great men and we degree than ever wen are wish to ald the The helping ha 1 who are suff s less fortunate cnes. 1s outstretched fng. Alds to enligh 10 cation, to physical hetterment, social conditions are tended. True brotherhood pre spirit and in act everywhere. the result is a constant advancement. universal are the blessings of life land that they are not fully save at such times as thi in keeping with the tradition vance, attention of the turned toward the bountic been bestowed upon the nation. The man in good health does Dot think of his condition. Thus the sound and physically sturdy nation @oes not ordinarily think of its fortu- nate situation. There are ills in the land, deep di tresses in places, much crime, inju tice, dangers to physical and soc health. the system of governm normal 1ife of the peoy for ¢ nment, edu provement i ils And as ‘when, of people that have obse he al nt or to the They call 1stant endeavor to lessen them, re them, to eliminate them. That s part of the evolution of the and the fact that the need is ized and that the utmost is being done to correct these faults is one of the of advance- ment. surest signs ———— One or two leaders intimate that when it comes to a question of party docility Magnus Johnson may prove easler to domestic than Hiram. —— e Tammany, atc though a recognized yower in New York politics, often) manages to look like an innocent by- | stander in a national eleetion. —_——— The Political Prisoners. President pounced, has commission Coolidge referred the question so- called political prisoners of the United States, now confined at Leavenworth and Atlanta for war-time offenses, for whose releas petitions have fiooding the White House for months. This commission consists of former War Secretary Newton D. Baker, Bishop Charles 1. Brent of Buffalo and Maj. ames G. bord, former deputy chief of s the Army. Tt has been in being for @ fortnight, but its existence has Just been disclosed through a meeting, and now the purpose of its ecreatlon is formally stated to be to examine the cases and to report concerning propriety of pardons or parole. There are about thirty of these “po- ltical prisoners,” seven involved in the Chicago I. W. W. case who de- clined to accept conditional commuta- tions offered by President Harding: two involved In the Wichita I. W. W, case, who also refused such com- mutation; nineteen involved in the acramento I. W. A. case, to whom no commutation was offered; one in- volved in the same case, who de- elined commutation conditioned upon @eportation, and two now at Atlanta. Thus it appears that practically all of these people are or were members ef the I. W. W, an organization frankly opposed to the present form of government and industrial organ gation in the United States, whose activities have been bent upon its @estruction and replacement with a communistic system. In the war period this organization was hostile to all efforts of the government to place an army in the fleld. It resisted the draft, sought to discourage and prevent men from accepting service in the military ranks, endeavored to block, though happily without effect, the program of war-making which re- pulted go quickly in viotary and the now an- special e been many the | a But they are not incident to | ! that its owner had taken | rescue of Furope from a dire menncel that included this country in its ulti- mate cbjective. For these men there has been a persistent propaganda of petition and protest and demand, conducted in the | main by those who have, without di- rectly sympathizing with their general political purposes, sought to put them in the category of martyrs for their | beliefs. The people at large have had no patience with them. But the war is over, their mischievous endeavors | have been rendered futile and they | have been punished for their offenses. The three men who have been com- missioned by the President to con- sider the ¢ are highly qualified j for this task:s Mr. Baker was at the | head of the War Department at the time the pernicious activities of the radicals opposed to participation of the United States in the war. Gen, Harbord w: in a position to { understund the effect of their example in resisting the war-making work of the government. Bishop Brent rep- resents the sound non-partisan eiti- nship of the country, with a clear vision of the duties of Amerlcans and t the same time a broad sympathy for the frailties and ervors of judg- ment of the misguided. It will be well to have these « settled. That many of those who are still confined are not contrite is plain from the That they represent iy ¥ to the present « ation of the government on the o relatively small group easily deducille from the known facts of the f which | sumably they | ters of an H a of recor hostil ! lischicvous organization they il ren were onee and But s v are pre members, long 1 confined t that & ity of unw rewal of offe are cen ami n ps alive nischivvous o ) conditional commutation The v comm some sympathy. may he wisest course commenda noof inquiry of the present . the of will doubties: the govern course administration [ America and the Near East. | merica’s hravest 1 P waged 1 | physical redemption. ttles have heen humanity’s s and Her relief life t food-aden of Treland argosies sailed 1o the in They brought India | Plague-stricken China and Rus tly Italy’s voleanos | and » Japan | Her ists and engineers drove 1 fro vey An Livingston in farthest hed the qu Freedom, educ owed the Syel Cuba and malar Dy I citizens found | K’ i from S8 | excavators. | | } compl flag | in @ materiatistic L kn work Near ple of Amer In ¢ wars the ch thy land of Near Bast Re- ds of stories tive heroism as rewarded by rican nd men rttle today, with fighting ignorance and isolation. ching lief is & fair exarn errantry ity people has bed hal tlower man-mad tief {of pe { brilliant as | the D. S. M. | are showins jout milita tion, dise | They pr SUrviv dese in ation. h ple history has nal and ¢ any A bands, pir starva t to their supporters lividends their investment | than 1,000,000 saved, scores | thousands of children rescued from and di Fiff thousand orphans are now being edu- cated and trained in institutions un- | der American become the { teaders of the next generation. The workers have kept faith with the rican public. Their high cfficiency The; m of vice A has | been | heaa. 1 dollars i of their wol faithfully as ever. When they marched | troop ship at Hoboken }ago the bands played. | ov oing over, it’'s over, for Near East of 1418 and motto and low paralleled blood and They will wor ove: your the a. cou kers. aboard the some e and we wc ther Relief, American years going 't over | come back ti over | Sing again | with the spi | knight-errantry. ————— Now and then a hat goes into the which conveys the impression the pre | tion to put a phonograph insi . 1 —_—————————— lin does not care how much its cps the German publ long Keep i 1 i | Be government 0 can guessing as it creditors doing the same thing ————— Politics is warming up in a way that makes it look as if a great deal of galf may have to be neglected next summier. 1 I has surprised Europe in| , among them in taking prohibition in absolute seriousness. a America ceral way e i Persistence Rewarded. The story of the young woman who | got from President Coolidge a “signed | statement” for newspaper publication shows that she had the virtue of sistence ard the result goes to prove the justice of the old saw, “If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.” The signed statement was no more than that the people should “give ex- pression to their gratitude for benefits bestowed and seek the guidance of Almighty God” on Thanksgiving day, but it was enough. One moral to be drawn from the incident is that it is well to be persistent in a good cause. There is abundance of persistence in bad causes and whether persist- ence pays in that direction is open to debate. But to be persistent in a good cause is always good and proper. This young woman wanted what was in effect a hand-written and self- signed Thanksgiving proclamation from the President. The usual formal Thanksgiving proclamation had been issued days before and the job had been done as it has been done each year for many, many years and there was really no occasion for the President to do it egain. Yet there was no harm in it and the thirty-five-word hand-written and self- signed proclamation, appearing on the eve of Thanksgiving, was perhaps read by twenty times more people than the longer and formal proclama- tion and no doubt touched the readers much more intimately, especially when they understood the circum.| { thi stances under which the “little” proc- lamation wes issued. o =2 In responding the President showed that he Is not adamant. It called upon him to do something that Presi- dents have not been in habit of doing and it was something which might set a precedent which would entail more and unnecessary work on the President. But by doing it he pe haps spared himself other calls from a4 most persistent visitor, gave that visitor the reward she sought and very likely gave the President pleas- ure that he had made a human being happy. ————— Prohibition Enforcement. 'rom Attorney General Daugherty, the highest law officer of the land, comes official assurance of steadily advancing enforcement of the prohi- bition law, so far as the Department of Justice rned. With evidence of violation, manifest from time to tirse and the urging of those violations a fallacious argument for amendment of the law, it is « uraging to hear m th b ofticial source that the government is not asleep. he mills of the law may grind w, but they gprind ex- ceeding fine, from the report of the Attorney General. The Attorney result of the departiment has and apply against violator law is inere county officials th intelligent ¢ federal is cone m as h that & 1 eneral say: concerted os of the law He respect for the prajses staty Michigan for eration with marked went and i ncies. notes for recent confere Attorney and statistics that the law enforeed: tells “padlocking” the Wt distric sinee sident G ce Of governors Daugher 1 179 Geng cite fix on creasingly : crees for tained du 2 vember in the Ilinois, eriminal convictions hein with thirty;ni ing of brewe Jersey. Pennsy of thirty with sent The Attorney been growing dis pect of enforcement northern prosecutions g in e of them a had conneetign nd of n s ses in N that its fea grounded An Aust humanity will th ture that Mayhbe improved it los improvement mien will lose th taste 1sical that often be that the fails to arrive at anything definit 1 the stat B are profoundest statesmans vo positiv an exceedingly bad way —_—————— Simultaneous f and for tax v [United States clans subtraction. duction Treasury specialize —_————————— Instead of resenti of a dictator, ltaly it as ple lini, in f —_— ——————— If printed German macks had i made larger and they might at least for wallpaper. me ¥ The pre a state is vantage, but asset ency SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON Respite, Today's the day for giving thanks. I shall not think of crooks or cran} Of scandals in the haunts of w Of microbes menacing to health; Of prices that we pay for coal Of smugglers whom we can’t control; Of hats that rustle in the ring As fierce ambition has its fling Of staple foods that now begin To be as scarce as terrapin; Of all the European row That bids us help if we know how. Tomorrow soon will meet our gaze, Grim, like o many previous days, But now we'll banish all distress ‘This is the day for thankfulness A Perplexity. “Do you think we ought to jump into the vortex of Kuropean affairs?” “It's your duty to go to the rescue of a drowning man,” said Senator Sorghum. “But unless you know ex- actly what youre doing, you may make matters worse all round.” “There are rules which enable a good swimmer to accomplish a res- cue. “Yes. But if you have to learn to swim and study the rules you're going to lose a terrific amount of valuable time.’ Jud Tunkins says the real life of the party Is the person, usually silent, who buys and pays for the Thanks- giving turkey. Retort Courteous. Though times have unrest, We vow that all ‘is for the best, Yet sigh as on our way we jog, “There is o egg for this year's nog.” The gentle hen in accents fine Explains, “The fault's not whoily mine. That you respect the laws I bes. There is no nog for this yvear's egg.” Discrepancy Somewhere. “I can't afford to sell food for the prices I can get in town,” said Farmer Corntossel. “Why don’t you move to town?’ ““Then I couldn't afford to buy it.” Dollars and Sentiments. “Are you engaged to Algernon?” inquired Miss Cayenne. “Yes. 1 have promised to marry him as soon asehe makes a fortune.” “That isn't an engagement. That’s an option.” “A turkey,” said Uncle Eben, “is like some of us folks, struttin’ mighty proud when he cught to be scared.” S the | been enabled to enlist | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Calvin Coolidge is the first Pllgrim President to cclebrate Thanksgiving yday In the White House since John !Quincy Adams ate his last turkey | there in November, 1828, Neither the first nor the second Adams was a whit more true to Pilgrim form than nder now in office. In char ristic Calvin Coolidge arnates the type of man and mind nded upon Plymouth 303 |¥ go. He is thrifty, taciturn, stern on oceasion, deeply religlous jand a passionate believer in author- lity. o ige looks the Pilgrim, too. It would require but little “make-up” 1<t him ideally for of the n pageants periodi staged rock * x ok * adie Cordell Hull, chairm democratic national committee, strategie position to ob- erve the t events in Coneress at this witching hour. His old u the fourth district of Tennessee. returned Judge Hull to the House of Representatives in and he will resume seaton € ftol Hill with the Sixty-cighth Con- gress. As impending developments On' that front wiil have vast bearing on national polities in 1924, the demo- nmand occupies an levery tin |that desc ars to | Purit near t n of the = in uncommon! uous course o nst B ney, the arter, sani- afternoon of fr of m a ¥ Do by bed his History rter, wh neral reeial 1t that led very of the “Wo wit (boration with uis monumental a mifted yellow 225 $225 a month, conditional on a vear's lease. Whercupon he decided to con- tent himself with his present quar- ters. Mr. Robinson thinks the gov- ernment miht well take firm hand in the Washington renting situation. He cannot reconcile the costliness of housing with the fact that Washing- ton building operations for the first months of 1923, totaling $42,000,- re the seventh largest in the . outranking those of cities Itimore, Doston and San * ok Kk Frank H. Hitcheock, who has been employed to drum up enthusiasm and delegates for Hirnm Johnson's presi- dentlal ambitions, is the only truly professional politiclan whom our politles has developed. Politles 1s r. Hitcheork's business, just as oll s Mr. Rockféller's M Schwabia, s The srobi- ably Toida by back trade, steel M Unter Hitcheork ement Is Tiwe fiest impe tinvestmer enator Johnso pluto The s of th tmaster ike tho: experts, doubties ne hi Mr. Hitcheock’s appoin comment has been heard that an congruous fizure is cut in Mr. Joh anization by the man and law “ng: the in- son’s o Charles ws @ pr politic tion is both n itimate. the peaker I Ram tabor ¥ k- P the Eritlsh parlta- Hilett the whom has just s men cted for time cont w « lependsng pression behind ba duration.” Britons Fear Famed Ruins Will Be Removed to Americ Just twenty her star had that apposed G upen ine nis is one the motor )t Ross 15 degree inherited fortune of s of Ripon, ains Abbey; that wopderful ruins her the her as 18 1o most its foundation to omp abbey St. Bernard, th of that so widely T known hymn, “Jeru St. Bernard was born in the century at a place called in Burgundy. and after famous monastery of brought into existence no hundred other £, of which < name zundy, was owes author and ontaine £ the veaux han 5 1 less n me Abbey, ter irthi riving n Bu him. In course of time Fountains Abbey attuined world-wide fame as the most fenl 1 of thought in me- dieval dity, and its stately hurch owned as_one of th t fanes of Europe. Bt nothing remains thereof save the ruins, the st Juisitely uresque of any Burope, the great arches arising nongst | century-old tre from a4 with velvel-like of the church, with fits bay windows, dating the transept of the same choir and the lady chapel, the refectory, 100 feet long and 50 feet wide; the hall of pleas and | the chapter house. all ‘at cloisters, 300 ‘et wide, divided by a row of teen columns, and the graceful cade work have all been guarded and tended, until Fountains Abbey, open the air and .t like lacework against the soft green of the sward and the follage of the grand old tr that frame the glade, sugg san poem breathing the spirit of the great ays of the past. dd:\nln r off Is_the so-called Anne Boleyn's ¢ r. where the gay but ill- fated queen waited for her blue- beard husband, Henry VIIL while he was pacing up and dow the cloisters with Sir Richard iresham, upon whom, after his confiscation of the abbey and the expulsipn of the monk. he had bestowed Fountains in return for a consideration. At the time of the penultimate Marquis of Ripo conversion to the Church of Rome, it was believed that he. would set to work to rebuild Fountains Abbey and to re ore it to the Cistercian Order, to which it had belonged until the reformation. But he was po ssed of too Keen an artistic sense not to realize that any fAttempt to tamper with these ruin or even to reroof the roofless abhey and buildings, ~would be nothing Short of an act of vandalism. His Som, the late marquis. althouzh pos Sessed of a very remarkable taste and | knowledge of paintings and bric: brac, seems to have been totally un- impressed by the beauty and by the religions atmosphere "and sacred Gharacter of the Fountains Abbey Not only did he fail to make rovision for their preservation 2'%ill, but he even directed that should be sold to the highest bidder, and the proceeds therefrom be added to the rjesll.lue of h!: im- mense fortune, which at the time of his death was yielding him an in- oome of nearly $2,000.000 a year, and of which Mrs. Jarrott is to receive fwo-thirds. He also insisted that she was to have the free use and enjoy- ment. of the great Studley Royal mansion and _extensive propert: which comprises the Fountains A bey 5ulnu. until a purchaser could be und. "ofhei may take long, although Fumors are current to the effect that, nave Wenty-two om 1147 e, the nine - injs riddle of of n ¥ ruins will be stones and ¢ sphere longer be th irally. such an ¢ v sam n thera oute nwiand xnd when sho of , Inde the binson with the city magistrate « head of i identifled its chief tine el ment ventually known bble,” which was destined to ment to liquidate et coil o “enable and pa the oft the n f this extraordinary wholesale ruin wt from ofl ower state he o St here he spent the re days in considerable clusion, devoting himsell to his su- perb gardens and retaining sufliciont money to Lo able to purchase fiom the descendants o Henry VIIs friend, Sir Richard esham, the joining ~ Fountains Abbey estate, with its ruin That is how they came into the possession of the lote rd Ripon. Had it not been for ti South Bubble,” ancestor, John Alslabie of “South Sea Bubble” fame, would never-have been able 10 pu ther Studley Ro et the ins Abbey es To Mr: arrett’s two children Lord Rossivn, namely, Lady Rosa- velle Brand and to the wife and chil- dren of on, the bankrupt Loughboroush, Lord Ripon begueih- sums of money sufficient to pro- them with annuities of £3,000 .. To his stepdaughter, Lady ¥ Trevor, offspring of the ite Barl of Lonsdale, and widow of the enormously wealthy Sir Robin Duff of Vaynol Park, Bangor, Lord bon left @ legacy of about $200,000 and all the contents of her mother's orite suburban home of the Coomi while the remaining third of ddue of the estate goes to Mrs. ister, well known in the United States as the widow of the late Lord Alwyne Compton, aud to her two sons, the elder of whom, ward Compton of the Scots eys, is heir presumptive to the mar- quisate of Northampton, while her younger son, Licut. Clare Compton of the royal navy, in deference to the will of his mother's father, the la Robert Vyner, and in view of his eventual succession to the groat Vyner estates In Yorkshire and in Lincolnshire, has assumed the name and the armorial bearings of Vyner. Both Mrs. Jarrott and her sister, Lady Alwyne Compton, already b fited largely indeed by their father's will and_thereby became very rich women. Now they have ,between them succeeded to the bulk of the property of their first cousin, the late Lord Ripon, whose mother was a Miss Vy- ner, their father's sister. Under the circumstances, the Earl of Rosslyn must bitterly regret the day when he allowed Charles Jarrott, the motor racing champion, to win his still very charming wife away from him, Jarrott being now a very rich man in his own right, and a highly considered and respeoted busi- ness man, followed landed hir pri dley R ainder of amount of h h D unt vid | lmrdl { 1 The North Window BY LEILA MECPLIN The Natfonal Academy of Design, which is the second oldest art or- ganization in the country, having been founded in 1825, is holding its regular winter exhibition in the so- called Fine Arts Gallertes at 216 West 57th street. Academlcians are permitted to exhibit without submis- sion to the jury, but, as evidence of thelr hospitable spirit, more than half—in fact, practically two-thirds— of the exhibits shown are by non- members. There are 582 in all. Proverbially, “the academy” is tra- ditlonal—in fact, the word “academtc” has come to mean to the majority of persons unprogressive and - deadl looking back rather than forware that which is weakening rather than tending toward strength. Some hold that the conservatism of the acade mictans is essential to ba It the progressives excessi the & too far by of thelr enthusiism hibition would seem to dis- »f these suppositions. 1t itly sane, but it is essentially te; and the few ultra con- who have crept in must themselves quite out of place the merry company of the ithful adventirers who constitu vast majority. Distinetly th progress, and it is along healthy The painters are using color but in most instances with a fnse of restraint; only a few arish in expression. And_they turiing their eyes in many direc- ding Interest, vital interest, which is closé at hand. * Xk % ance, venting Upping y the Th 1y, that It 1 £ Been art but th no lon the Natio n is essentially A ractul tendence have come from {thrown their melting said repeatedly that hows no national char u can be said with winter exhibi of De rican, and yet of thos who other lands and gifts into the great f the nation portray now and then, “abeth Luther Cary, art critic of “w Yotk Times, called attention to this her review of the exhibi- tion, re ng particularly to two flgure paintings by Giovanni Trocoll, ¢ New England Woman,” n rather than to work with + Russlk; is, and y viinter V1S own £t t It i curi should percon- ought, his into his work: fact that this re to choose a it would rently to tainly to nd of the great Vanderbilt large upright canvas, tly as a mural panei, ally interprets “The Edward Sav- p holder in den in award gave the op- ting by forth tation of ture empha- % the arts of music—perhaps one arts of painting, poetry Hery hing is b srmer fellows 1t the Ame the jury nan p ican ize. At pal settir interpr iilip Hale from of g « * 1t news to m ago the York cor ¢ distinguished American t a scries of pictures to ient gallery of great se pictures were in color and pri- ¥ the Steinway Com- Ipany in a book, with text by the late | James Huneker, his last important work. In the foreword to this publication he says=: “It was an e the sympa- of certain Ameri- creation of pictures evole mustcal . visions, notwithstand- s to the ear. Wal- Pate cetly justified wh deseribed music as an art to which r aspire; vertheless, to besque with form Iways proved a haz- because it pre- the themo of spectator and pretation on the part minds the z liszt who Mition was to in the Louvre, where, under Da Vincl, Titian, Paoll 1 other similar would discourse his own It is an interesting it and one which might be fol- at length with profit. ® ok % % may couple « able idea to ist > co-oper sts in the a music 1s visionary. final ap, P was pe vest tonal color h ardons exp the part But to return to the pictures them- lves Two are hy C. Wyeth, ethioven and Nature,” showing e great master musician composing {his “Sixth Symphony” in the field by | the brook, where, to use his own lan- guage, “the quails, nightingales and cuckoos roundabout composed along fwith me.” Mr. Wyeth also did “Wag- ner and Liszt,” the former listening | with intent emotion to the latter’s ! playing. { John | Lisat s {man dr jof nis It H C. Johansen has portrayed sated at the piano as an old uming of his past triumphs, trials and sorrow Srnest Peixotto in an imaginative composi- tion interprets MacDowell's “Indian Buit Melody heard in the heavens | Eier ‘chose to illustrate the ‘dra- ic entr of George Sands and con in Chopin’s studio when the indrop Prelude” was composed. And so it goes. Story aund musl hiography and portraiture, each of the great composers is represented. Among the painters, in_addition to those menjoned, are Henry McCarter, jCarl Anderson, Harry _Townsend, Harvey Dunn and Luis Mora, illus- trators as well as painters in most instances ) * X kK X At the Metropolitan Museum at this time and through December is to be seen a magnificent collection of orfental rugs collected and presented to the museum by James F. Balalard of St. Louis. There are i29 in all aud they constitute a sumptuous showing, but, more than this, they evidence a rowing interest on the part of Kinericans In those arts which are most closely allied to industry and to ay life. 1t w customary not so very many vears ago to think of art chiefly in {erme of painting and sculpture. The art museums of the country were Targely filled with works in these two fields, hence the industries in America in which design a chief factor languished. All this is changed. The museums glve quite as much space Nowadays to the display of rugs, textiles, furniture, jewelry, the deco- rative arts, as to painting and sculp- ture, the arts called fine. All this is having a beneficial effect and Is re- flected in our homes as well as in our manufactures. The same clements of des'gn underly all art, and that which is beautiful. ‘whethef it be an iron rill, a plece of lace, & rug, & worl i sculpture or a magnificent paint- ing, helps to ennoble life, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Was Thanksgiving ever ceié- brated on December 7?—J. T. A. In 1865, Thanksgiving was cele- brated on that day. Previous to 1854, the time of Thanksgiving day b varied often. In 1864 President Lin- coln ordered a day of thanksgiving, the 6th of August, on account of the battle of * Gettysburg, and again or- dered a day of thanksglving on the 26th of November of the same year. In 1865, after the death of Lincoln, no proclamation was made until a special delegation from the First Con- gregational Church of Washington, D. C., walted upon President John- son io ask him to appoint a day of thanksgiving. He appointed Decem- ber 7, 1866. Since this time Thanks- ziving has been ob: ast Thursday in Nov Q. 1 had a 4l son about the word “chic publish the proper pronunciation.— Y. H. It is pronounced as if the ere spelled “sheek.” It isa rror in America to use the sa nunciation as that for the dimi of ehicken. L Q. What is the office of lord rector of a university?—J. B. A. The title corresponds to that of president of a university. It wa used in our colonlal universities and was abandoned by certain New I land colleges within comparative'y recent years. Rudyard Kipling has lately become lord rector of St. An- drew's, Scotland Q. Where is platinum found In thi country 7—O0. L. M A, The small amount of platinurm found in this country i obtained fro sertain sands along the Paclf Q How many cagals are Venice?—I. C. M. A. There are 177 canals in the city of Venice. They measure m There are five openings in a 20-foot masonry wall, which admit the tide The Grand Canal is two miles long and 77 yards wide. It was probably at one time the bed of a river flowing into the lagoon near Mestre. Anot canal divides the island of Guidecea from the rest of the city. It was once | the bed of the Brenta. The smaller canals serve s arteries to the Grand | Canal. Q. After observations eaenl matie With the sextant, i o determine a snip's posi mathematical leulation The hydrogra Just published a book of tables whi Tucllitate the determination of the po- sition without the usual caleulations and known as H. 0. No. 203. It is salc to effect @ mreat saving in tir 1zbor. it no. offic firewor} serpents the Q. How that are G.w. A. The consist of thicyana and =old Sh is formed which three hundred times as mu as the original pellet Q. Is it true that more books h been writen on Abraham Linco ¥ other publi A. The Pu that as far as J new publications re is cor doubt that T tin on Lincolr storical character tor to 1870 Napoleon held the record in this respe are small pelle 1 space Q. Were there any €ases among negroes?—Ww. Dr. White for th soldiers shellshock W of St Tnsane many ca suffercd from Q. How long did t for independence A. Th independ tinued u Did many thelr Hves in” the world Burke's the r members in b more than n direct] numl Focraga of the savs: direct Q Whe grown f Editors See Free Speech - Attacked The case of Controller Cha Craig of New York city has aroused the press of the because involves freedom of speech and w is termed a growing tendency of some judges to use the powerful they possess to disregard that fund mental liberty when they or the are subject to criticisms. Con s sentenced for criti- countr: | weapon conrts troller Craig w clzing court action in a receivership. He wrote a letter to the New York public service commissioner in Oc: ber, 1619, in which he erfticized Fed- eral Judge Mayer for refus name a co-recelver in the Brooklyn Rapid Transit cases and for refusing to order the books of certain rapid companies thrown open to city dined to symi- United | iat Judie touch Mr. ning World the courts urprised if minority ju- s so striki can surt held {ght to w York ¥ says: “The majorities of appeal need not be laymen, too, share the dicial view. The case an example of made of the g contempt that it should result in = guards against a repetition of proce " Looking at the the same viewpoint Republican maintains that beneath legal technicalities right and wrong of the ¢ lic cannot be much blamed cludes that there n 1 moral if not a legal miscarri Justice. y Whether Craig's criticism was dis- honest or not makes no difference as to the principle involved, in ion of the Baltimore Sun. he had the right of criticism s an offi- clal of the city ot w York c cerned in a public service corporatio of immense importance to the peo- ple” The Sun characterizes the tence as “an arbitrary and perverie exercise of power which has properly | aroused general ~resentment.” for Judge Mayer “fell back on a code of ancient tyranny and determined to teach a lesson to impertinent critic of the high gods of the judicia Olympus _with the result that suc overbearing gods will themselves be taught & memorable lesson.” * % ¥ & The Syracuse Herald cites Dickens’ Mr. Bumble, who affirmed that “the law is an ass,” and the declaration of Judge Gary in the famous Chicako anarchist trial that “the law is com- mon sense,” saying that “somewhere between these two extremes stands the Cralg case in its legal aspects.” because while “the development is not asinine it is far from reachi the other 1imit of common sens t is the tendency to make criticism of the judges’ acts “lese majeste” that breeds public uneasiness,” according to the Philadelphia Public Ledger. which feels “if an act of Congress is the way to define these powers, define contempt and end this confusion, it should be enacted,’ because there is danger that when criticism is smothered tyranny may begin and the weapon s too keen not to have its use safeguarded.” As the Brooklyn Jagle sees it the universal revolt against the Mayer decision arisc from the belief that personal preju- dice against the controller swaved the judge to institute contempt pro- ceedings, but Judge Mayer “has ir Jured himself and the high court he represents by arbitrary use of judicial power to resent & personal slight, and he should now do everything in his powar to undo the evil he has wrought” No one doubts the right | to uphold judicial dignity by use of | contempt of court proceedings, serts the Providence Tribune, but is the question if all criticism of their | acts is_in_itself ‘lese majeste’ that should be decided sufliciently to elear | up_the confusion.” If one public servant has not the right to criticize another public servant, and that is held to be law, the Cincin~ that Spring! ge of | the Hartford in Craig Case €0 much who wou The Pittsburgh serves that raised in the that _“tc a public for acti cording requisite insists that he - permitte be i for ¢ adding that the Craiz ¢ ely to ever the merit hamton Sun dential on could releasing Craig, wit soundness of the cour Fman it will iould not be f of the pe of Jurns punis rile, ac what furthe not but law their a fortunat t such 1o forthcon of the dispu conelt ut_affecting ti Tebuk, Hope for Spinste Till 50th Milestone In the annual report of the Califor- nfa bureaun of v tatistics are set forth figures from which it has been deduced that “spinsters need mot give up hope of being married untii they have passed fifty.” To some spinsters, doubtless, deduction will be encouraging; o it will entirely fail to interest. Under the conventions of crn soclety any man may ask woman tu marry him—and al every mun can find some woman willing to tiake a chance. With won it fs a ent. In theory, at lcast, they must it to he asked, and most of them For that reason it is Injurious: med that women Who are not ied h not been ask The California statistics are fuily incomplete not the number of spinst 0 have 1 offers of mu 1 re spinsters th s do. shame from ters who the stat n for the respon joys, so called, of mar would be extreme interesting if could be arrived ar by Intrepid statisti- cians.~Chicago Daily News, yins are o