Evening Star Newspaper, December 5, 1923, Page 6

‘—‘ THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. WEDNESDAY . . December 5, 1923 The Evening Star Newspaper Company Office, 11¢h 8¢ und Penssyivania Ave B Yok Oife, 110 Funt ih0d. . Chicago Oftice: Tower Bullding. 8 Office: 10 Regent 5t., Lundon, England, The Evenlng Star, with the Sunduy morzing efition, Is delivered by carrfers within the | city 8t 60 cents per month: daily only, 43 cents per mouth; Sunday only, 20 cents per menth. Orders may be sent by mall or tele- phone Main 3000. ‘Collection is made by 8 Fiare at the end of each month. Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dafly and Sunday..1yr, $5.40 Dally only. Sunday on o THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. 0, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1923 a5 ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS | BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Chain Bridge. Chain Bridge was doubly fixed as 1 place-name, and it is possiblo that when a truss-and- girder bridge was bullt some people called It Chain bridge, not so much in memory of the real Chain bridge, as because it was the bridge near the lit- tle settlement of Chain Bridge. It wus incopvenient to call the new bridge “the Chain Bridge bridge,” so people fell in the habit of calling it simply “Chain bridge." The present bridge is believed to be tuo old and feeble for the traffic using it or which would use it. The Com- missioners have limited the welght of any load going on it, and it is a very “vibratory” structure. The Moore bill calls for an investigation and re. port on its condition, and the con- struction of a new bridge if the report shows that the old one is out-of-date. It is believed that the report will by i that the bridge i3 not up to require- 0¢ | ments of the present. Stmilar reports The Awsoclated Press Is exclusively e to the ‘mse for republ cation of all news patches credited to 1t or not otherwlse credited In this paper aud ulso the local news pub. lished “Becein. ~ All rights of publication of Now for Legislation! Settlement of the republican fac- tlonal differences in the House of Rep- resentat ilng te the election ©f @ Speaker und the organization of the House for the tr ion of bus ness, has been effected with delay than was for a time indicated. This is a happy outcomo of Wl might have developed into a serious, party-splitting quarrel, especial Leppy {n that the heavily preponde ant majority of the republican mem- bership is permitted to proceed with its cholee of a Speaker, while the minerity faction, the *‘progressive” group, is granted its reasonable de- mand for a full opportunity to discuss proposed changes in the House rules. There was danger in this situation that the republican majority in the House, numerlcally slender, would be climinated by the refusal to co-operate of those who, of & republican design tion when elected, adhere to the more radical policies of legislation. an outcome woald lead to a prac- tical denial of service to the country by a complete blockade of legislation. Tt would menace a wide party split such as that in 1912, which proved disastrous to the republican party. A national campaign is soen open. Preliminary movements nomination are already Everything that happens in Congress will bear upon the campaign. “regular” and “'progressive” republi ans are equally interested in the pre sentation of a united front to the op- position in the campaizn. The settie- ment of differences just 1 less to for interest of party solidarity. The country, however, looks for legislative results. Tt expects legisla- tion along constructive kaes. It ho) for tax reduction. It hopes to sce the question of aid for the dis- abled or needy veterans settled gen- erously and wisely. It trusts to see the lamentable condition of the farmers impraved by whatever logical and effective measures can be devised. 1t hopes for constructive legislation, if any Is necessary, to promote or pe mit the consolidation of the railroad eystems to the end of assuring better and cheaper service. It expects ade- quate provision for the maintenance of the government, bringing the cost nearer to the pre- ‘war standard of federal expense. The party that, through its repre- sentation in Congress, effects such a ' program of legislation will have a strong call upon the suffrage, and will stand to win indorsement 4t the pells n the next election. Holiday Crime. A New York city judge, in instruet- ng three grand juries fo co-operate with the police and prosecutors by returning speedy indictments for erimes of violence, eaid that the crime wave “Is so startling as to threaten the stability of official mea ures to protect life and propert The principal crimes are !n the day, assaulting the inmates and making off with booty, New York authorities have mid that they ex- pect an increase in crimes of violence up to Christmas. It may be the same in other big cities Christmas crowds of shoppers, holiday excitement and the habit of carrying purses general- 1y containing shopping money tempt bold thieves to greater than ordinary activity. People should be careful of thelr goods and persons at all times, but should be especially cautlons at this season. ———— ‘The influence of esty is subtle and enduring. Even as u mummy King Tut has managed to discover a wonderful amount of valuable re- =earch and publicity talent. B e A tax reduction might easily be made available to the average citizen 12 all the smugglers and rum-runners could be made to pay up. D . New Chain Bridge. ©On the first day of the session Rep. resentative Moore of Virginia intro- | duced a bl for the replacement of “Chain bridge” with a modern bridge capable of safely carrying the traftic crossing the Potomac at that point. “Chain bridge” is not what its name tells. The present bridge is an fron truss-and-girder structure resting on 1all stone plers, but it takes its name from a short “suspension” bridge of which the “cables” were chains, which spanned the narrow bit of fast-running river between the rocky ‘“flats” and the Virgianla shore. The Chain bridge was such a remarkable plece of en- gineering in the early part of the nineteenth century, and became such a familiar object to our people and those of nearby parts of Virginia, that when a plerandtruss bridge was buflt across the canal above the rocky “flats” and across the narrow river, people continued to call it “Chalri bridge.” There ‘{8 also something else to bo sald {n Dbehalf of the name “Chain bridge.” Where the road from Georgetown descended from the Jend: above flood level and began to cross the rocks toward the District end of the Chaln bridge a little settle- Myt Gsvelaged which wms called, Such | in progress. | Both | effected i | thus a move of first importance in the | with economies | street hold- | ups, breaking into flats and houses on it have Veen made before. Motor Reciprocity. A sixty-day auto reciproeity truce with Maryland, until Congress can act on the proposed gas tax for the Dis- trict, now seems assured. Col. E. Austin Baughman, commissioner of motor vehicles of Maryland, and his istant, D. Marshall Shroeder, in their visit to Washington as repre- sentatives of Gov. Albert Ritchie, are reported to have sceured the ne that the gas upon promptl 3 Enac it of the for the District was one of the terms luid down by the state for reciprocity. Gov. Ritchie naturally was hesitant about accepting the truce proposed by the Commissioners until he could secure the views of those in Congress who will be in a position to push the gastax bill. If, after the truce, the bill, for any reason, had falled of passage, the governor would be placed in an embarrassing position, as he was empowered by the legislature to jenter into reciprocity only if the gas jtax became a law. He was merely | fortifying himself against possible | contingencies The Commissioners have shown that they were acting in good faith {in preparing the gas-tax bill, so that { reciprocity could be granted at an rly date. They were, of course, un- {able to give the gov surances that the bill would pas: s the very best course for "hie to send his representa- tives here to find out for themselves the sentiment in Congress There seems to be no oppost jall to the proposed tax. | experiment. { many assurances be acted L 90 on at It is not an 1t has been in effect in { states, and is conceded to be {the fairest method of auto taxation. The motorist pays as he rides, and in proportion to the distance. Even if the tax did not have these | {features, the fact that reciprocity ~ | with Maryland is possible if it isadopt ed makes it a most attractive propos tion for Washingtonians. There will {be no more buying of Maryland tags: District licenses will only cost $1 for |all passenger cars; whether a motor- { ist buys gasoline here or in Maryland {he will be painlessly taxed 2 cents { per gallon. Not only will reciprocity, which { eems now to be a certainty, do away | with the purchasing of Maryland tags, !and the unnatural condition existing | between the two jurisdictions, but the | bitter feeling between Maryland au- | thoritles and Maryland motorists and | the authorities and motorists of the | District will be eliminated. { Baltimore and Washington will be \linked in bonds of business harmony jand friendship, and the two great | cities will prosper accordingly. It is now time that all differences be ended, and it is admitted that reciprocity will do more to accomplish this than an: thing else. So let us have reciprocit. ———— A number of convicts have managed extensive financial transactions from {a prison. It is hoped that Dr. Cook | can be persuaded to make hig present iretirement from soclety a genuine | vacation. —— A political campaign in this country has its exciting moments., Compared {to a similar event in England, how- ever, election on the American plan | seoms comparatively quiet and con- | servative. ————t e No serious doubt is entertained as to factional disturbances at the Cap: tol being adjusted in time to permit all hands to wish one another merry Christmas. —_———— A certain amount of deadlock demonstration is expected from every Congress. It may as well begin early. ———— Improvement Items. There are many items in the report of the chief of engineers of the Army which concern the improvement of the Capital, and it is hoped that Con. gress will look approvingly on the recommendations. For buflding Co- lumbia Island, and at the same time dredging the Virginia channel, there is a balance of $70,000 from the last previous allotment, and this will in- sure continuance of the work, even though the small sum of $7,200 asked be not appropriated. In the opinion | of the chief of engineers that amount | could be well spent during the next fiscal year in addition to the sum on hand. The reclaimed area of the is. land is 172 acres, which will be a considerable addition to the river park system and will be much used when the Memorial bridge, which will cross { the island, is built. | For Meridian Hill Park $75,000 are asked. Conversion of Meridian hill into a park has lagged for years, and it has been said by the superintendent of public bulldings and grounds that at the rate of progress made {n trans- ) forming the tract since it was taken jover by the government fifty years jwou.d pass before the land between i16th and 16th streets, Euclid street and Florida evenue could be truly called a park. It is not that the cost of the work is large, but that allot- menits for it have been very emall and sometimes far between. Ten thousand dollars are asked for the Rock Creek-Potomac parkway, a link which will greatly increase the usefulness of the two largest parks in ‘Washington. ‘Twenty thoumnd dollars are eakedq for widening the Inlet bridge tn Poto: rnor definite as- | ‘mac Park.. Trafe has, so much out- wn thé little bridge' that *“jams” are frequent, and;;various measures have been taken to divert traffic. There Is an item of $65,000 for {m- proving Kast Potomac Park end widening {ts main drive. The work of ! fmproving East Potomac Park, or the reclalmed “fluts” below the bridges, has gone on slowly, and o large area of the park is still in crude state. An item of $100,000 is included for rosds and a sea wall at the Lincoln Memorial. Part of the river south- west of the Memoria! was filled and now is but a dump, and connection between the park drives and the Memorial is not adequate. Great im. provemonts are to be made there be- fore the setting of the Memorial is complete. 1 ———— ‘Western Political Sentiment. Yesterday's try-out of politieal senti. | ment in South Dakota's republican and democratic presidential prefer- ence conventions developed some sur- prises In both parties, and in the Ford camp as well. Possibly the most fm- portant feature of the voters' declara- tions was the demonstration in favor of President Coolidge. Bearing in mind that South Dakota was presumed to be a stronghold of progresslvism, the preferring by the republicans of President Coolidge over Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California by a vote of almost two to one must be taken as proof that President Coolidge is not classed by South Dakota republicans an unprogressive, No one ever had licenso so to class him, to be sure, tor there is nothing in Eis record to substaniiate such a sug- | gestion, But it must be exceedingly gratifying to the supporters of his proposed nominction to have such a clean bill of health given him by this progressive state. Henry Ford seems to have failed to materialize the strength which was lattributed to him by popular report, He never caught up with McAdoo's {dust in the race for the democratic support, and Senator La Follette al- most left him at the post for the farmer-labor vots. The boasted ground swell and undercurrent for Ford wus rardly a ripple. One feature pleasing to the repub- ans was the spirit of unanimity manifested after the Coolidge ma- fority was reglstered. If this means that there are no “hard feelings” be- | tween the Johnson and Caolidge forces the skies will brighten for the repub- lecans. ————— The climate has been extraordl- narily kind, and a hope begins to dawn that Gov. Pinchot's coal confer- ences may be able to do something be- fore winter arrives in earnest, | | —_——ee No cabinet official is more energetic {just now than Aitorney General ! Daugherty, who Is a shining example of how completely a resignation rumar can be lived down. — The G. 0. P. is a good old political machine whose operations are pen- dered @ triflo uncertain by the readl- ness of too many pecple to apply the brakes. ———— Regardless of the elaberate caleula- tions 48 to how much more it costs to ,live in America than it used to, Eurc- peans absolutely refuse to eympa- | thize. { ——e— It is one thing tu assign a man to the role of “dictator” and quite an- other for him to enact it with eon- vincing art. —_———— ‘With amplifiers and radio avallable to carry the news, the once wonderful telegraph seems a rather primitive affair. Poincare has masterful art in stat- ing his previous opinions in a way that makes them sound almost new. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unfinished Business. The wise ones of an ancient town Together met. Each wagged his head, And as they set their precepts down, They murmured, “Everything's bheen mid."” They told of taxes and the way That men should gain their daily bread. They put the statutes down to stay, Remarking, “Everything's been £aid.” Yet Congress number Sixty-cight " Familiar paths proceeds to tread, And brings old topics down to date, For nothing is completely said. The Moneyed Candidate. “What's your objection to me?” in. quired Mr. Dustin Stax. “There’s no personal objection,” enswered Senator Serghum. “But yon are drifting too far toward & political monopoly. You're trying to be the candidate and the financial backer both at once” Jud Tunkins says there's no such thing as a man's having his own way, ' Just when he gets things about as| he had planncd he begins to change | his mind. Uncontrollable Impulse, In politics, no matter how A candidate may tofl in vain, He never wearies of the row But elways wants to try again, Automatic Reform, “No more drinking around here, you say?" “Not to speak of,” answered Uncle Bill Bottletop. lquor. The bootleggera have got all the money," Different Attainments. “Wealth does not always bring domestic happiness.” “We must not expact too much,” rejoined Miss Cayenne. “The fact that @ man can make money does nat nec- essarily impiy that he can malke love with equal success.”, “A bad 'con-clence." sald Uncle Eben, “is a torrible thing, but in our sottlement 1t don't seem - terrible enough o epell de Saver of frivg “Nobody can- afford | Ge: IN TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS Tpon the opening of Congress, there are several {nternational treaties awalting settlement. The first in importancesis whether the United States will support the establishment of a’world court, such 48 was indorsed by President Hard- ing, to take the place, largely, of the rejected league of nations. The public mind is a bit husy as to the difference between the pro- posed world court and The Hague tribunal. Query 1{s often made as |to whether it would not suffice fust to enlarge the scope of the jurfedic- tion of The Hague tribunal, which plan, it is argued, would have the advantage of being entirely apart from the league of natlons. The so-called “isolationists” oppose all forms of International courts— probably ‘even golng so far as to denounce The Hague tribunal. They urge against the proposed new World Court of Justice that it will supply the missing tribunal whose lack was chiefly instrumental in preventing a quick trial of the kalser, at the time of the Versallles peace treaty, and that, In case the allles can find any reason now for bringing Wilhelm to trial before the World Court, which the United States would have helped |to establish, the trial would Invoive this natlon phatically could t with Europs .more em. than any other step we * ¥ ¥ % A treaty with Mexico has long he in process of working out its details, which have to do mostly with safe- Fuarding American investments and business interests in that country. The Mexican government has already been recognized, There are two treatics with Turkey which come over from last session. One deals with extradition, chiefly for the protection of . the Armeniuns who have taken out United States citizenship papers. and subsequently returned to Armenia—in the power of the Turks. The other has to do with our trade relations. i * k% * Another important matter of our international relations is what s known as the “twelve-mile treaty” with Great Britain, The exact terms of that treaty are kept a profound secret in the State Department, and cannot be learned until the treaty is forwarded to the Senate for con- Armation. It hug been denicd, in cables from London. that this treaty makes any mention of twelve miles as the out- side limit within which our coast guard prohibition vessels may over- haul a cuspected British ship and search for contraband liquor. 1t is sald that no limit is to be put in the treaty, but that our prohibition offi- cers are (o be careful not to disturb any vessel anywhere Off our coasts without clear evidence, In udvance, that the suspected vessel s really seeking to vielate our laws by smug- gling llquer, directly or indirectly. Another version 13 that In licu of particular limit of mileage, the {8 the distance the ship sus- any limit Lutheran Princ pected of smuggling designs may sall in"one hour from port. 1If that be the unit, the distance might be twelve miles for one vessel and twenty for another. The old limit of three miles was established by taking the dis- tance that a coast guard gun could shoot a _century ago. To take i gun's range now as the limit would put the line well toward 100 miles at sea. “It can't be done!” was the war- time motto in the Navy, when ‘taken with the concluding phrase, “but here it i That seems to be the status of the negotiations with Great Brit- aln over our right to search her ves- ,8els upon the high se " In constderation of British vessels will gain the right to bring their ships' lquors under !seal, into American ports. A treaty iiw of higher authority than even the Constitution, and ko supersedes: or modifies the Volstead law. as to its application to forelgn treaty-making powers. A ratificd treaty Is the su- preme law, that privilege, * ¥ ¥ ¥ Amongst the treaties, which are technically still alive but practically dead, are that of the French mili- !tary agreement by which the United States, Great Britaln and France ,agreed to come to arms together, in .cage either was attacked. This was ,agreed to at the time of the Ver- saflles treaty, but. rejected by the Senate, when, that body mada so many reservations to the Versailles treaty that It was retained in the White Jiouss by President Wilson. Any President could revive Its con- tsfderation by mer forwarding back to the Senate with his appro of ull the reservations. | x % k¥ Of similar status is the treaty en- tered into with Poland, (jointly with Great Britaln France, Italy and Japan) whereby Poland covenated to recognige #s nationals all Jews, Ger- mans, Austrians and Russlans, then permanently residing in Polish terr{- | tory, The Jews were to be given full | lberty to follow the customs and ! practices of their religion, and no electlons were to be held on Satur- { | days. This treajy never received the | Henate's approval, and still lies (n the archives of the White Housen. The law requires the President to forward to Congress In connection with his opening message, all papers coneerning our foreign reiations, and it Is possible that these may Include sume references to the Polish treaty. * % % x There I8 no treaty pending for the recognition of the soviet Russia. Ac- cording to the debt finding commis- sfon, there should be no effort to make one until Russia becomes ready to recognize her debt, especlally such debt as has been comtracted since the fall of the czar. The Kerensky republic, of which the soviet dicta- torship of Lenin, is direct heir, bor- rowed milions from the United Sta ostensibly to carry on the war, Th obligations must be accepted by any Russian government before it 1& r ognized on a treaty-making plane. (Copyright, 1923, by Paul V. Collins.) e Asks ~Pope For Divoree to Win Young Bride BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Annulments of marriages are grant- ed, from time to time, by the Roman Catholic Church, on canonical grounds, when, for instante, it can be shown, on tha most f{ncontro- vertible evidence, that the union has not been one of frce gopsent, that is to say, where one or other of the contracting parties has been forced Into it agalnst his or her will. Thus, the marriage of the parents of the now reigning soverelgn Prince of Monaco was annulied eleven years after it had taken place because his mother, Lady Mary Douglas-Hamil- ton, sister of the late Duke of Hamil- ton, was able to prove that she had been, at the age of elghteen, literally forced Into marrying the late Prince Albert of Monaco by her royal mother, Who was a princess of the relgning house of Baden, and by her cousin and guardian, Emperor Na- poleon IIL. The decres of annulment provided that the only offspring of the union, namely the present rulcr of Monaco, should be considered legitimate, despite the canonical in- validity of his parents’ marriage. It took Lady Mary Douglas-Hamilton the best part of nine years of inter- minable legal proceedings at the Vatican before she was, able to se- cure that decres of matrimonlal free- dom which enabled her to marry Prince Tassilo Festetics, one of the greatest nobles of Hungary. This serves to show how chary the Church of Rome is about {esulng de- crees of annulment of marriages be- tween members of its church, and it may be pointed out that, although Count Bonl de Castellane and hs family have spent very large sums of money to secure an ecclesiastical an- nulment of his marriage to the for- mer Anna Gould of New York, on the ground of evidenco that she had de- Ciared, on the eve of her wedding, that khe was marrylng him with the intention of divorcing him If he did not prove satisfactory, he has been unable to secure his matrimonial freedom, although his fermer wife in the meanwhile has contracted a civil marriage with his eousin, the Duke of Talleyrand and of Perigord. ® k¥ ¥ It 1s almost without precedent, however, for the papacy to receive a petition for ecelesiastical annulment of marriage on canonical grounds from a Protestant, and it is this that has sttracted so much attention to the appeal which has been lodged at the Vatican by the Lutheran and German P"llfl! of Pless, who desires the can- onical invalldation of the marriage ntracted In London in hile secretary of the German y_there, with Miss Mary Corn- wallls-West, sister of the now di- vorced Duchess of Westminster. His bride, In those days, was a beauty of altogether international celebrity, and what with her own loveliness, wit na brilifancy, and her husband's im- mense weaith, as one of the greatest mine owners of Germany, the couplie became the most conspicuous and popular figures at the courts of Bt. James and of Berlin, The princa will be remembered in America as having come to the United States and to have visited Washing- ton when sent over here by the kals- er, several years before .the war, to represent him, pernonally, at the open- 1 of the new building of the t chamber of wommerce of the o “‘ot w_York. The Prince and ncess of Pless hav three sons, the eldest of whom, who fought In the great war under the &l.', having had as godfa- a christen| leolh Edward VII an -Emperor Willlam. The mna and prmaNS ha I':o‘:.dtfin:cl: [ rpos Q‘I wflun llpl' of the war, when the princess, with the impulsive ways and kiessness of speech which she had inherited from her mother, the late Mrs. Cornwallis-West, and her Eng- 1{sh patriotism, aroused intense irfita- tion and hostility in the land of her adoption, and she was, practically, a soner throumhout the conflict, cut off from all communication with her British and Irish relatives, 8ince then she has been living partly In London has a house, and partly at I in, in 8iles! vision rtuslly 2 T b and to S beea rm; thera he maintenance, r both te he bopifiee gono on indefnitel for the fact that Prince Pless, who is now sixty-two years of age, has| fallen violently In love with th twenty-two-vear-old Countess Marle., | youngest daughter of the late Prince | Hugo Dictrichatein of Nicolsburg and | | of his Russian wife, who was Princess | {Olga Dolgorouka. ' Now the rat inumerous and influential relatives of | the young countess, who include her | uncle, Count Albert “Mensdorff, who,| spent 8o many years in London as| ,Austro-Hungarian ambassador, are ! willing to make the concession of | approving, with some reluetance, her | union €o a Protestant and al Luthéran. But they do object very |8trongly to her bLecoming the wife {of one whom not even a civil divorce, {1f glven by the German or English tribunals, would free in their eyes ,from his present matrimonial ties. l'l'hhl is to say, Prince Pless cannot | marry the young girl. with whom he | has “beconie infatuated, until | Roman Catholic Church, that say, the papacy, is willing to 4 |decree declaring his first ma inull and vold, as having been vitt | by obstacles which find their pla | the canon law of the Roman Cat Church. It is difficult to see how the Vatican can grant his petition. For he was | certainly not forced into his marriage | with Miss Mary Cornwallis-West, | ‘hlvlnw been he: over heels in love { with her. Indeed, it was generally : understood that he had been obliged to invoke the intercession of King Zdward, then Prince of Wales, to induce the fair lady to accept his offer of marriage. Moreover, it is a well acknowledged fact that, until the outbreak of the war, the couple lived in perfect understanding and unity with one another, the prince taking pride in the admiration excit- ed everywhere by his wife, whose sunny character and cheerfuiness, at any Tate until the great War, dls- armed even feminine Jealousy, L O It may be added that the young lady whom Prince Pless is so anxlous to marry is related to the reigning house of England. Indeed, her dead father and his brother, Count Albert i Mensderfr, were second cousins and particular favorites of the Queen Vic- toria, their grandfather, the well known Austrian field marshal, Count Albert Mensdorft-Pouilly, having marrted asprincess of the house of ; Saxe-Coburg Gotha, that ls to say, a sister of Queen Victoria's mother, the Duchess of Kent, and of King Leo- pold I of Belgium, The patronymic of the family is Poullly, seigneurs {and barons of Poullly in Lorraine tn {1396. Some 250 years ago one of the ‘Blrwl De Pouilly married the daugh- ter and sole heiress of:the Austrian Count Mensdorff and their son, on succeeding to her property, was transformed by the then German em- peror inta an’ Austrian Count Men: dorff-Poullly. Then, toward the mid- dle of the last centurv, Count Alex- ander Mensdorff-Pouilly married Alexandrino, Countess of Dietrich- stein, and, by reason of the vyast terriforial ' possessions of his wife, was elevated by Emperor Francis Joseph into a Prince of Dietrichstein u Nicolsburg. It was this first Prince Dietrichstein of the house of Mensdorff-Pouilly who was the son of hat fleld marshal, Count Albert of ensdorff-Poullly, 'who married the Princess of Saxe-Coburg above men- oned. Prince Alexander Dietrichatein be- pides_being the first cousin of the late Prince Consort of England was, likewise, his most intimate friend ind crony and this In itself was cal- :ulned to endear his sons, Hugo Prince Dietrichstein and Count Albert Mensdorff, to Queen Vlemruf who was_their sécond cousin. Indeed, whenever King Edward visited Au: ria, both prior and subeequent to is succession to the British throne, Emperor Francls Joseph was always wont to appoint Prince Hugo Die- trichtein to take charge of him and to_look after his welfare. The present head of the family, who bears the name of Alexander, i8 just twenty-four years of age, {8 fourth of the Princes of Dietrichstein of the present line, and the only brother of the young countess whom the >rince of Pless is so anxious to wed. The young prince fs - enormously wealthy, indeed one of the richest of the great nobles of central Burope, ind still unmarried. In event of his death without e his uncle, Count, Albert enad former to and, onors and estate: the | is to, ue 2 iage ated | ce in | holic | he next 5. Beir to his h it : { on | holding oft for President Coolidge's Politics at Large BY N. 0. MESSENGER “Coolldge and Capper—New Eng- land and the wheat belt.” So spoke the republicans of South Dakota in their proposal conventfon yesterday, expressing their preference of candi- {dates In the primaries to be held next the national convention, By a vote of nearly 2 to 1 President Coolidge led Benator Hiram W. Johnson in a state where progressive and radical senti- ment might be expected to hoid greater sway than in some other sec- tions. | Politiclans here were disposcd | dity to attach more than passing si inificance to th.s result, seeing in indication of a possible drift of sim- | illar sentiment in neighboring pro- | gressive states. %k Henry Ford's poor showing sur- prised the politicians. He was thought | to be very strong in South Dakota, as indeed throughout the northwest. But he didn't hold a candle to Sen- ator La Follette when it came to the expression of choice by the farmer- labor party, and fared still worse at the hands of the democrats when | they came to pronounce for Willlam G. McAdoo, Politicians were wondering 1 this heavy frost forebodes the setting in of a long cold spell for the Ford boom. ¥k k% One feature of the Coolidge- | proceedings which pleased th re was the making nt unani the tes joining th it in vell you might since Monday, * x ¥ This*1s not the first time the names of President Coolidge and tho some—<r, factivnalism, |gossip around town the suggestion has frequently been made that re- | publicans, deeming it advisable to {counteract the anti-New England {sentiment, would turn to a middle western man for second place and then Senator Capper's name invari- ably came up with others, * ¥ ¥ X At Trenton, J., yesterday, the republican state committee unani- mougely indorsed President Coolidg for the presidential nomination. This action was taken without discussion and with no suggestion of « cundidates The mmittee Teconi- mended that the party managers work for instructed delegates. * % * K The democratic national committee is bhaving some fun in {ts artless {democratic way over the alleged | deiegate-getting functions it ascribes |t Frank H. Hitcheock. campaign {manager for Candidate Hiram John- Ison, and C. Bascom Slemp, secretary {to Eyesident Commenting the selectic Hitcheocs, committee current state = shington's political it as the most para doxical appointment ever made in polities. Hitchcock, the political manager of Taft and Hughes; Hitch- cock, the most ortnodox of stand-pat machine politiclans, the manager of iram Johnson, the world's greatest nd most changeable progressive at lurge! How come? “Well, here it is as Washington sces | 7 says the committce; ~Covlidsc | has Slemp, alleged to be the mos i fluentiul republican bess and dele- | gate herder In he SOULN, (o @uack | Coolldge delegates in that section. That kind of work is ‘right up Hitch- sock’s alley,’ as the saying is. Bring- ing home the bacon in the form of southern delogates has been Hitch- cock’s wpecialty. His appointment by Johnson means that there is going to Ithe ment, observer T he keen rivalry for the delegates from | the southern states between the ad- niinistration and the Johnson chief | menipulators of southern republican | votes, i Siemp, as spokesman for the pres- ent administration, has the advantage in the fact that he will have as a nu- cleus the southern republican office holders, but, on the other hand, Slemp | - ‘lily white, and in many dis- triets in the south the negroes are in the. majority and they are either | against Slemp or turning against him. | Hitcheock, therefore, has the advan- tage in getting the negro delegates, Who make up a large part of the| south's representation in republican national conventions. Bes!des, Hitch- { Sock, in the opinion of many folks, in i political sleight of hand can take rab- mp's hat while Slemp bits_out of Sl holds the hat. i * ¥ ¥ ¥ The republican national committee | had no irons in the fire for the oppo- | sition this week. Apparently, it was | | gress and had let the | o down. It is said the republi- | Ao have 'a pretty good bellows, though, for next week * ¥ & % As Congress warms up to its leg- | islative work there is impending a ively test among woman voters; nerina proposed amendment to the Constitution United States | which is suggested by the National| Woman's_Party and which is opposed | by the National League of Woman | Voters, The amendment as framed reads: “No political, civil or legal dis- abilities or inequalities on account of fex ‘or on account of marrlage, un-| less applying alike to both sexes, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to thieir juris- dietion.” mendment s opposed by the Notmanal Teague of Woman Voters and the contest will be taken to Congress. Some of the questions raised by the league againgt the legislation "have | been put into form for presentation | 1o the lawmakers. If the amendment should be submitted by Congress and Tatfied by the, states, the league asks: “Will husbands need to con- tinue to support thelr wives? Can geserting husbands be brought back and compelled to support wife and child? Will it not be possible to co pel mothers to work for the main- tenance of thelr children 1f the her must do 80 = o Teague points out that “the | payment of civillan widowed moth- {ers' pensions is clearly an inequality {on account of sex and marriage, which does not apply allke to both sexes. : Shall widowers have pensions or shall {widowed mothers be deprived of theirs? Will any third choice be pos- sible under the amendment? * k¥ K nother question raised against th: amendment by the league is: Will | the amendment destroy the Shepherd- Towner bill? “That federal law, suggests the league, “creates an in equality by reason of gex in favor of women—maternity not applying alike to both sexes.” It is also objected epeech to Con | Kangas senator have been coupled. In | that many more come fr jand western Europe. ! as the Flint Journal Q. What was Rube Goldberg's oc- cupation before he became a cars| toonist?—A. W. A. He was graduated from college. that profession for about three months. e then went to:the San Francisco Chronicle. His first big hit as a cartoonist came after he had forsaken San Francisco for New York, and was the “Foollsh Ques- tions" series. there a prejudice against achers?—V. W. . The viewpoint of women who have adopted this profession may be gained from the fact that the Inter- na‘ional Association of Woman Preachers, meeting in Chicago, in September, demanded equal rights the pulplf. Delegates representing seventeen denominations voted to form an alllance with other women's organizations to aid the woman preacher in overcoming prejudice agalnst her presence in the pulpit. Q. How many Belgians are living In the District?—E. G, A. According to the 1920 census |report, there are seventy-six persons lin the District of Columbia .giving Belgium as their country of birth. Q. In collecting automobile aeai- dent Insurance, what cause 13 given most often?—W. 1. 1. A review of ti pany sho aking or first place. Then entering or leaving E serturning. The n ik pidd out to the Meidding with collisiuns second und third, | i Howed anking ! ring tie for| coilision ding, i claims Q e northern or southern A, Do more immigrants come from Burope T, The burean of immisration says n northern This {s due | only, in part, to the fact that their | quotas are larger. Southern and east- | ern Europe practically fill their | quotas annually, while Great Britain | in 1922 sent only 46 per cent of its quota, “but in the fiscal year of 1823 | sent 90 per cent, Q. the house of commons have to ente the house of lords when he inh a title? What salary does he re o: P, makes hi pber of the honse to resign his seat A member of the a salary of f4¢ is no salary to & veat in the house of fords Does forestry mean the of u tree for every tree cu sually ature reproduces forest when the old trees are removed and artificial planting is unneces On the national forests plantin confined almost entirely & so ! burned that natural reproduc- tion has been prevented. It is th forester's job so to manage the cu ting that nature does the work of re planting. The most important thing to keep fire out of cut-over land after necessary slash disposal is fi Q. Will limestone of different col- | be found in the same quarry?— E. In many of the Indiana lime- ‘With Congress back on the job edi- tors seem agreed that one of the pressing problems must be radical amendment to the existing immigra- tion lawe. They feel that, while tliere is little doubt the restriction of | the inflow of would-be citizens to ! this country is & wise move, action Is | needed which will end for ail time the disgracetul herding of the aliens at ports of entry and the heartrend- | ) ing scenes which invariably accom- pany exclusfons when national quotas are reached. The Nashville Banner would have action taken which would make it “impossible to embark more immi- | grants each month from foreign countries than ‘the monthly quotas for the respective countries calls for.” although this is only one phas it, and un | | i I | | latter newspaper feels tha tunately, our fmmigration system is one tangle of red tape, and one of the country's big problems that de- mand attention.” One example of the handicaps immigrants suffer un- der is the private bankers, the New York Post explains, because “r comers naturally depend on privat bankers who know their languag yet “only two states have any d nite control of ‘immigrant bankers. * %k x ¥ Immigrants can be properly cared for after they get in, explains the Detroit News, in Insisting that “‘sort- fing them at the source" is the real remedy, and referring to the success of the Canadian systeme “Canada’s provincial officers,” asserts the News, “are eager for immigrants, but only for such as Canada wants. Selective immigration has been tried here on a small seale; a considerable number of Itallan farmers were recruited and brought to the southern states soms | vears ago, and they made good easily. | There are plenty of Europeans for | whom there is room in America; but they ought to be sclected in Europe, | not taken in New York simply because | they come within a numerical quota, and were fortunate enough to getl ahead of people perhaps more desir- | able.” 1 It is pointed out by the Tacoma News-Tribune that “Mexicans, Cu-, bans and Africans are coming In as | unskilled 1abor In place of those from | central and southern Europe, whose | nationalities are barred by the quota | law,” and it warmly Indorses lhe‘ movement to “sort them ~at the source.” The pressure to get into the United States, in the view of the | Fresno Herald. affords an object les- | son “to think about when men are complaining of dull times, of unsatis- factory business conditions and of high prices. It is illustrative of the fact that the United States is sti'l re- garded as the more desirable country {n the world in which to live. The Grand Rapids Herald insists “no alien should be adamitted to this country, regardless of percentages, except s he proves a_clean bill of fealth, mentally, morally, physieally, Sooially and poiftically, af his port of he amendment might question statute books for the protection of women alone, notably the Mannm act The league goes on to say that “ithose who have struggled for years to secure beneficent laws to better the condition of wnn-urnln: woem- n view this amendment witl rnn alarm. They ar incerely convinced that it would wipe out ali regulatory legisiation of this character now in the statute books, the constitution- ality of which has been sustained by the United States Supreme Court after a decade of litigation. Why should these humane and progressive laws be subjected to this great haz- ard of complete nutlification? 'hatever view may be entertained on .this important point, it appears to.be certain that until the npew amendment has been finally construed by thie Supreme Court, and this would take years @f litigation, not a single Jaw for bettering the conditions of wage-earning women would be passed by any state. “The present law on this subject falls far short of sound Industrial standards, Would pot this amendment complete bar to any new laws needed to meet the chanw ingyindustrial condition« af our tim arkation. He should o be " permitted to sail for America_except as he has satisfac- torily demonstrated this complete eligibjlity, and, so far as possible, he muxé be headed for a self-support- fng job. Then once admitted, he should be required to start toward at Jeast the first citisenship papers Within five years or he should be sent back to the land from whence he oame. 'The existing law is unfair oth to the worthy alien and to the American people. PR The Mobile Reglster is another pa- per which believes tmmigrants should be kept track of after they land through some system “providing the means of checking up the alien popu- lataion and getting rid of those, who are permitted to enter but afterward prove unfit for citizenship and will overnment o discover Gountry.” Incidentally the New Or- leans Times-Picayune voices disap- proval of any official elasticity, be- bause ‘once the practice of admis- stons in excess of prescribed totals ls Well established pregsure will be ex- {gray, but v | his reading Seotr Does an Englishman seated in | x. t- 1y | Then Stone quarries severnl ‘shades anm textures of limestone e found Most _of ne j& buffior blu egated speolmens are no:, while several special varie th unusual " year for the selection of delegates to |85 & mining engineer and worked at|tes aro found, Q. Wha t Jo King George's full A His Errest Al Q. Wha de. Janeir, A. The name {s George Frederle! hert Windsor. t is the temperaturs of Rin” o in A Pan-American Union says that In the four months Tucemha’r. January, February and March tho temperature of Rio de Janciro avef ages about 70 degreas, Q. Where dia dward germ o n sugp t ig sald te d 10 Dr. Hale B of Napoleon.” if Napolecor one Britial have be It oceurred to him had been configed rship after another instead of be ing sent to t. Hel ¢ Fngland would have been spared much critf- clsm and the French would not have been able to turn St. Helena into 4 shrine. The local color which adds s much to the story was gained frol the records of the Navy and the pr ceedings in the trial of Aaron Burr. that on Q. Did the Indians underétand feg- tilizing of 1 —P. H. S;+ 1 A. They found from expe plncing sm greener. T the co caved the p that 2 wher proved that ushes phosphorus corn P mprove Q. Was Betsy Ross marricd mos than once?—A. F A. Mrs. Betsy Ross had three hus bands—Jokn Ross. Joseph Ashburr and John Clavpoole. was married s to the second the ter the Con- tinental Congress epted the flap she made, Q. Is N tions, “Wealth h, is reg portant book ever true by it written A Opiy so rated {istary ol He s & resu g neiples or > based. ¢ sidies fArat #d in the Ur A. The first act sed on July 4 i allowing a 10 1 f tariff duties on & in ships built and owned citizens. (Take advantage of the free infor mation bureas which this newspa maintains. If Hiere is a question you want answered. dow't hesitate to use this service. clics are sent 4 vect to the Address Th Star Informat. aa, Freder J. Haskin, d: i North Capi tol street. I ity i stamps for veturn postage ) inquiirer. Bu 12 Existing Immigration Law Held Problem for Congres admission of excess nationalities and may become 4 over is poten- the crétion of erted to force immigrants of all provisior The by Journai extra+ 40,0007 aw o after next / | to provide for gme countries. be limited in retary of Labar embarrassment his parole idea to pro- vok The Indianipo ws also whole-kearted dorses selection at the source, * will be no re- grets and no impressions of the United States”” The Canton News, after a _careful tigation of the views of the AngusEe nows- | papers of the 1 tes, finds they ' favor. G eément that the United govern the flow of imu 10 its shores: (2) strong support an to select immigrants in land befure they sail, and ( ter opposition tx the compulsory regisiration of aliens America June it should not fa selection of quotas iu it numbers will be re Good Mushroom Crop. Many Now Growing in D. C, Parks and Woods. To the Editor of The Star: The atmospheric conditions havé been exceptionally favorable this late fall to produce a bumper crep of edible mushrooms. Periodical raing followed by fair open weather brought out many species not &ither- to observed. To be sure, Washington is unusually blessed with extensive perks, well cared for and there I3 more than one reason why mush- fooms are finding a good suitable sofl in beautiful gs. Somé people are pro! teful thut these parks not onls as fleldy for sports but bring forth faod for which they have not to pay. Besldes the well known pink-gilled agarid there is now growing in great nums bers a snow-white lepiota and the purple-bladed stropharia, also called the double-gilled stropharia because the gills or blades also show as a. ring around the stem. These twa, species have otherwise the form of a adow agaric. There is one via v of inky coprinus now found in quantitles, in many places as many as a hundred in one cluster and look4 ing very much like a heap of stone » progeny-bearing corprini shape being double-wedze s and _d it nt_fri n foung . or old a ushro h -up, Com made by golf play t their ficldd e marred by bare spots of the sad which impy the course of the bally Just now greaf quantities of jiny mushrooms appear in Potomac Park) singly or in groups of three or mord and which often colonize in great numbers. It has been observed thaf , grass ceases to grow in such places. ' They are of grayish or blackish color, with a flat cap reaching when full grown the size of half a dollar. It 19 a species of tricholoma and gdib d may ' be used in a stew - with meats and vegetables. We are' re minded by this of the story of,th manna of the Bibla, a kind qf ‘food the Israelites had to gather: ev morning at sunrise for -their. su tenance. Now this food wae wery small, had to he collected,in_# sandy soil and the people had ‘very little watep to clean it. Yet they were very thankful and considered it a blessing, Here we' have a much’ larger sampls of food and plenty of water for pre- paring It for the table. Should we nof learn to apprec these free gifty from Heaven? In our meighboring woods and fo ests there is now a large crop grow ing of the golden, the silvery and the purple tricholoma, three excellen edible species which will last unti| Christmas time or New Year day. FRED J. BRAENDLE, . . Ly ood m an: b