Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1923, Page 6

THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning F.dm_o!. WABHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY....December 6, 1923 ;I'HEODOB.E W. NOYES. . ..Editor vening blpr_ I\ewnpp_nr Company nnwyivanin Ave Gt dnd Bt The Evenipg Star, with the Sunday morning edition, is delivered by carrlers within the city at B0 cénts per th «’l_!l_' only, 45 Rt il My A gt ol - phoge Mafa %000, “Collection {s madv by car- . flers ac the end of each month. “.. Rate by Mail—Payuble in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Dally and Sunda B Dafly only Sunday onfy 3 All Other States. 1yr., $10. 4 mo., T0¢ mo., e .Daity and ally only... Sunday only. mo., 8§50 1mao.. 60¢ mo, 25¢ Member of the Associated Press. ted Tross s exclusively entitied o the yse for republcation of ull news dis- w'patelios crediied to it or nat otherwlsé credited in this van ~lished berein. " Ail rights of bublication of special dispaiches hereln ‘are sise reserved. —_— e A Clear, Strong Message. © President Loolidge's first message to Congress, delivered In person 'to- akes seteral distinet impres- most is that it is brict: it covers a wide range in small com. Next is that it fs leaves no question of ‘the Agaln, it is simple: In its sentences it states the case of the nation so distinetly that no effort is requircd to grasp its full signiti- S in short, both as to the id the manner, an eminently ory messuge. In his statement of policies Mr. Coolidze does not depart from the line of public expectation.. He carrfes o with those of his predecessor in office, in full accordance with his pledge given when assumed. the presi- dency upon Mr. Harding's death. Tnterest centers upon foreign rela- tions, fiscal “questions and raflroad and agricultural ‘matters. Tn all- of these the :President puts: his views before Congress explicitly and platnly. The league of nations incident, so _far as American participation. jé. con- ‘erned, is “closed.” There is a grati- fyinz dcfiniteness about ‘this brief statement of the case. In respect to the World Coifft'of International Jus- tice, Mr. Coolidge favors it as *‘the only practical plan on which many nations have cver agreed, though it may not meet every desire,” and com- mends ‘it to the favorable considera- tion of the Senate, “with the proposed reservations clearly indieating - our refusal to adhere to the league of nation=.” Russia will not be recoghized, in its present state, as a means to the end of promoting trade, “The favor of America- is not for sale.” When a disposition appears there to compen- sate our despofled citizens, to recog- nize the debt contracted by the re- public, when the active spirit of en- mity to our Institutions s abated, when works mete for repentance ap- pear, we should be the first to go to the economic and moral rescue of Russia. Not till then. “A Vory great, service could be rendered through the immediats en- actment of legislation relieving the people of some of the burden of taxa: tion.” This is a paramount service Congress should render. “The coun- try wants this measure to have the right of way over all others.” The President leaves details out of his pres message, but espresses his “unqualificd approval of the plan of Secrctary Melion.” He wants taxes Teduced and. puts the matter up to €ongress. Railrcad: consoliation “appears to te only feasible method for the maintenance of an adequate system «©f transportation, with an opportunity w0 to adjust freight rates as to“meet such temporary eonditions d@s now prevail {in some agricultural sections.” The present law is not sufficiently. ef- fectivo to be expeditious. Newslaw 4 needed to permit voluntary con- solidations. . If the permissive. au- thority should prove ineffective after % limited périod the “authority of the vernment. will have to be directly oked.” s Proposals for, the relief of, thelvet- erans .of the great war, submitted by the American Legion, must be con- sidered in an. attitude of generosity. ome of those proposals the Presi- dent does ngt favar. With others he is In hearty accord. On one point he is sufficiently explicit. He closes this varagraph with the statement: “But I do not favor the granting of e bonus.” * 5 Farmers’ relief must come largely through organization by the agricul- turalists themselves, with diversifica- flon of crops, with regulation of ‘wicreage, With competent management ‘ot wystems of co-operative marketing. But therc are means that the govern- ment can apply, especially in the eéx- tension of louns. The farmer, too, must be relieved by a reduction of national and local taxation and by a weorganization. of -the frelghtrate structure. - No guarantep of wheat prices -would be helpful; it would, on the contrary, be hurtful, by the stim- ulation of lérger wheat acreage. “But government assistance to -exports is feasible -und this is urged. " Thesé are -the “high points'” in a “nessage that for clarity, simplicity of expression, directness .of view and frankness has never been surpassed in -the record of presidential ut- terances. It is.a message full of meat and,~while it will doubtless be dsgaticd for some of -its statements by those who disagree, it will be gen- erally applauded as e workable ‘plat- form of . performances. by . Congress in carrying out the policies.approved by the country in the election of 1920. 1t A Dbloc has 1o be managed with dis. gretion to prevent it from becoming & blockade. = Eastern Branch Reclamation. " Recommendations for continuing work on the Anacostia reclamation project and for creating Anacostia Park are contained in the current “peport of the chief of engineers of the Army, who urges that Congress appropriate at_ this scssion - $870,000 for reclamation werk during'the. next _ofiecal year ‘and eefs forth that for this. purpose there was on June 30 last @n unexpended Dbalance of £147.000. The amount on hand and the appropriation sought would carry the reclamation work well forward. Since the adoption, in 1918, of the | present project for reclalning the 'L‘Zflibern branch shoals and marshes the sum of $1,§77,000 has Leen spent and the estimate is made that com: pletion of the work still requires the expenditure of $1,999,000. The project 40 per cent complete. By “project’ i meant the whole plan for the reclamation of the shoals and marshes ©of the Bastern branch from the mouth of the river to.the. Distriot line. No | ok, other than surveys, has bien jdone Dbetween Benning bridge and the District line.. The report saysi “Operations to date have been cons «d to that scction of the Anacostia ! { valley Detween the mouth of the viver and Benning bridge and have con- sisted mainly of dredging in the chan- nels and lakes and constructing the sea wall." At the preceding session of Congress a resolution was passed asking for definite information on that part of the project between Beo- ning bridge and the District lne and u speclal report on this subject will g made to Congress at this session. In -the current report. of the chief of enginecrs is an item of $50.000 for further improving that section of the reclamation worle between the i Anacostta and Pennsylvania Avenue bridges and beginning the work of makir:g Anacostia Park. This part of the reclamation project i alrcady called “the recreation scction” und sometimes it Is called Anacostia Park, though the “park” §s not in evidence. Last summer dedicatory services were held for Anacostia Park and it was believed. that the work of transform- ing this section into park land would igo forward as soon as funds should be provided, The eppropriation sought would be expended in carrying out that work. . Revising the House Rules. .Under the “gentlemen’s agreement” °| shortening of the lin reached In the House of Representa- tlves yesterday the Touse is to be governed for the next thirty days by the rules of the preceding Congress, and during the truce ‘thus arranged a revision of those rules is to be under- itaken, with changes likely fo be made in important particulars. The agreement provides for full discussion and right to propose - emeéndments when the new codeis reported for action -upon it in the House. Representative Cooper of Wiscon- sin, leader of the “progressives” wio are joining with the democrats for amending the rules, says that il was 10 part of the purpose of those intent with him upon revision to coerce the Hoyse into accepting amend- ments, but that thelr efforts had been | directed to bringing about full and | free discussion and the right to offer smendments and be allowed to vote upon them. X Necessarily there .must be con- sistent teamwork between the demo- crats and the “progressive” bloc to effect results that both elements de- sire to attain. It will be interesting to observe how these two groups-com- pose postible differences of opinion. It is a mistake, however, to presup- pose that the’ entire républican ma- Jority, outside of the *'progressives are in favor of oppressive or undu restrictivé rules. The days of “Can- nonism™ are gone. The expedition of the public busi- ness and the protection of minorities should bc two major aims of the { rules makers. It has often been said that a majority in the House can do anything it chooses. The country will expect the framers of the new set of rules—that is to say, a majority of the House—to bear in mind these two dominating aims. —————— Out west many republicans, while admitting that Hiram Johnson is the greater orator, insist thut President Coolidge has had more practical ex- perience as a farmer. ——————— Maryland and the District of Co- lumbia will recognize each other's| motor” license tags, thus setting an example In_the lessening of ‘red tape so widely advocated. ———re———— Statesmen are so generally in favor of prohibition that even New York may eventually decide that the Tam. many tomahawk i8 not to be used as a bungstarter. —_————— Congress has so much to say that a few of the members were almost inclined to regard the President's message as an interruption. —————— One or two. candidates looked like stampede possibilities. But no stam- pedq can lust from early winter till the following midsummer. . ————— Sidewalk Snow Law. The sidewalk snow law comes again into. congideration. It is announced by -the corporation counsel. that two or-.three thousand residerits of the District are to be sued for failure to glear snow from in front of thejr property " last winter. Some suits have been filed and an assistant cor- poration counsel says that others will ®e filed -at the rate of thirty or.forty a day. . It will strike some persons as ruther late to bring suits against property holders for having. falled to cléar side- walks of snow last winter, The de- cision to bring the suits was reached Rfter attempts had.failed to find some snow delinduent who would make a test case. There is little doubt’that some defendant, or group of defend- ants, in event of conviction will carry the matter-to the. District’s highest court. 5 - Years ago there was a law that property holders shauld ‘clear snow erty. There was very general com- pliance with the law, but' it was’ con- tested and was held to be unconstitu- tional, on the ground that a.sidewalk is government property and that a private citizen .could not be made’ to clean it. How the present law. may stand in respect to the Constitution, it carried tbrough to the gourt of high- est jurisdiction, is conjectural. The fact that prosecutions are beirig made ‘under the law for failure to clear away snow last winter ought to have a stimilating effect on-property holders this winter and ‘it is’ likely] that ‘sidewalks wilj be tledred. ‘There i3 a general wishyon the part of citi- zens that tho sidewalk snow-cleaning matter should be 't“lflll-od by law and’ that enowlclearing from side: walks should beymude compulsory by owners - of abuiting property. Re- moval of fnow ‘from sidewalks has | been generally dpne by citizens with- out u law to_compel it, but & small minority of property owners and ten- ants let snow cumber the walks in front of, their property to the ‘incon- venience of the public. 1t has generally ¥een a point with good citizens to cl snow. and jce from “their' sidewalks, -law or ‘no law. 1If 'the presépt law should be held unconstitutionkl it will be dim. cult for tirc District to find @ way to compel - the, clearing of snow from sidewalks and we shall' have to rely on appeals to.the civig pride and good fcllowship- of property owners and tenants. That appead is effective in most cases, but some’ citizens are in- different to it. ' —_———— The New Phone Book. Thauks are due to the Chesapealc and Potomac Telephone Company for the new style of thé “phone book It is a great improvement over the ©old one. It is much more readable. The type is the same, but the spaces between the lines are greater, and thus it is possible to read a name and a number without eye!strain. There are four columns to th page, instead of three, and this chnrge involves a that the eye can with less dificuity follow across to the number which §s the objective of the search. Moreover, this shortening of the line entails occastonal doubling, in the case of an unusually long name or street designation, and this, in turn, increases the amount of white space, to the end of resting and alding the vision. The old “phone book” was a trial and a vexation to all who consulted it. Many a “wrong number” has been given because the uses of the system could not distinctly diécern the desig- nation of the “desired connection. Much time has been wasted and many tempers have been tried in conse- quence of these false calls. The hope is that the new-style book will elim- inate a large percentage of these “calls in error,and thus facilitate the service, for every wrong number called for or given tends to choke the switchboards. With the telephone company thus contributing to the publigs accom- modation by enlarging the dook, at & considerable expense, it is ,xp to the public to co-operate and to make sure of numbers in calling, and to give those numbers distinctly to ui‘r opera- ———— The business brought to the atten- tion of Congress is already so volum- inous that only the most sanguine Yegislator can hope that it all be clgared away before the summer cam- paign gets under w —_—————— No cangressional deadlock can last indefinitely. Every senator and rep- resentative has folks out home who are jnterested In legislative businesg of ene Kind or another that permits no unrezsonable delay. =0 ————— A duelist‘at Paris, as a token of reconciliativn, kiesed his antagonist. Perhaps the. reporters were misled and what they-saw was not a duel, cnly the settieihent of 4 freak clec- tion bet. J ; — e ———— His message would have been even more interesting to & number of people had his position permitted him | to make some dircct reférences tof results in South Dakota. ————— What is represented as a fierce factional fight frequently resolves itselt on closer inspection into a friendly dicker. i | i { i SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSOX. Motor Reciprocity. We're waiting now to interchange The greetings of good cheer ‘With all the motor cops who range The country far and near. We need not stand %o long in wait With license fees in hand. We're going to reciprocate With dear old Maryland. 1 We will not weap & string of tags That sound like .sleighbells clear, Nor carry cards worn 'most to rage In bunches thick and queer. Good will d4nd peace just now we rate As matters fine and grand. We're gothg to reciprocate With dear old Maryland. Practical Ressons, i ““Are you z wet or a dry candidate?” “I'm dry,” said -Senator Sorghum. “If we were to go back to the days when- a candidato was expected to treat the crowd, even the colossai for- tunes of thie modern ‘era could not supply®an adequate campaign fund.'- Jud Tunkins says . since Women have ‘gotten into politics that old idea that & bald head goes with wisdom has been entirely done away with. . Pardons. The wicked elf will go Hiis way In paths of flowery ease - It when he’s cgught he need but say Politely, “Pardon me." " No Favoritism. “Don't-you think we ought to be more respectful, toward King Tut?” “It hasn't been-a. good season for kings,” rejoined Miss Cayenne. *“I don’t see why we ought to select one for' spectal reveence mierely. Because he happens t¢ be a mummy.* Spelibound. work's gettin’ harder ‘an’ ments?” e “Them's one, of the, -difficulties. Everybody on:the-place hates to leave the _sittin’ room for fear of ‘missin’ something .big ‘on the radio.” . “Dar “aii’ ne aifestion” bout de world. gettin'.better an better,” said Unicle Eben, it all deshero takes is spent foh actual improvements.™ {&e WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Members of the House of Repre- sentatives believe the Sixty-elghth Congress is destined to restors that body to its old-time eminence. Steadily, In recent vears, the IHouse has been taking a back seat in con- gressional life, while the Senato ab- sorbed o -correspondingly greater share of the limelight. The .prom- inence with which - forclgn affairs have bulked ‘sinog 1914 Is malnly, but not, entirely, responsible for the partizi eclipse of the louse. A con- tributory Teason is glants in that body have been con- epicyous by thein absehce. It seems conpiderably more than-a generation since feadors of. the Mature-of Ran- dally Rewd, -Crisp. MeKinleyv, Clark, Dingley'. and thelr cotemporaries bestrode the floor of‘the House like the “colossuses they ~ were. Fre quently the primary system, with its encouragemont of ““gmmall potatoes,” is blamed for the rolative lack of big, men lu. Congress, Nevertheless, tho House this winter expects to re- cotver somw of its old-time prestige and events there may breed states- méi of the old callber. * L % Dlection of a Speaker wasn't the only’excitement on Capitol Hill this week. The biennial election of the statding committes - of correspond- ents agitated .the newspaper [rater- nity as mtch as the contest in the House. Westward ine star of jour- nalistic empire seems to be taking its course. —All five of the mnewspaper men's new governing body are rep- resentatives of western papers— Clevelang, Detrolt. ¢ enport being their James L. Wright, axsociate Wash- ington correspondent of the Clev laiid Plain Dealer. hecomes chatrman, virtne of having policd the high- est vote. Wright {s an Towan, who has pursued the nimble item in Washington since 1910. MHe entered jourmaliem through the composing Toom, as u journeyman printer. On News Year eve, 1918, he accomplish- ed an {mmortal scoop fof the Plain Dealér by meeting the transport Ryndfam outside of Norfolk, ahead of all' rivals, and telegraphing a graphic 5,000-word story on the heroic deeds of the returning Ohlo troops. under command of Brig. Gen, Charles X. Zimmerman. 2 % % 2 America’s champlon optimist lives in Washington. He walked into the offices of the Washington Loan and Trust Compuny one day this week, asked for President John B. Larmer, and announced that he sought advice about the prospective investment'uf $50,000. Thereupon the caller exe plained that he had written -* constituencies, winning proposal” for the Bok peace | prize—which is not to be awarded until after a national referendum some time in 1924. * % % % Harvey W. Wiley. ot germs and microbes. has been eam- that political | hicago and Dav- | plling some reminiscences of his forty-year fight 0T pure food. When he was booted out of the Department of Agriculture in 1912 at, the behest of Secretary Wilson, Df. Wiley wag overwhelmed with offers of privato employment at many times the fed- eral salary with which he had con- tented himself for thirty-nine vears. The biggest offer came from & cele- brated " whisky distillery. It _tend- cred Wiley a salary of $125,000 a year if he would. superintend the production at its plant of-an’ an bearing his magic" slgnature. - Wiley turned down the seductive -proposi tion and went on the chautauqua circuft. * ok xR Alva B. Adams, the new demo- cratlc senator from Colorado, hopes the Senate won't play him the tric the Colorado legiglature phayed hig father many ars ago.. Senator Adams now alphabetically displaces Senator ‘Ashurst of New Mexico at the head' of the Senate roll call. The lorado solon’s father, Alva Adams, former governor of the Centennial state, while sitting fn the legislature, headed the roll call. The result was that = large number of Mexican- American and Spanish-American Jegiclators followed, blindly in his lead and invariably‘voted aa Adan did. In consequence, the legislature voted to reverse the order of calling |the roll and began at the end in- steud of the front of the alphabet. * % % % : Although she has become & much photographed first lady of the land, Mrs. Coolidge can still appear pub- Mely in Washington without -being recognized. The President's wife has, jotned the brigade of eéarly Chrigt mas shoppers and s often seen.in the retail district, accompanisd only by her secret service attendant. Mra. Coolidgo was observed this week in F street, pursuing the tenor of her way as unnoticed as anybody in the thoroughfare, * % ¥ ¥ L One of Henry Ford’s men, who is not for Ford for President’ s In Washington, giving the opening of Congress a close-range view. He is Clyde L Herring of Towa, late candi- date for the United States Senate against Col. Brookhart. Mr. Herring is » democrat and is for McAdoo for President. He continues, neverthe- less, to be the chief Ford agent in Towi, out of which lucrative associa- tion during the past twelve or fife teen vears he has becomrs one-of t rich men of the middle west. He: ring -i= still_one of “Uncle Hepry's personal favorites. notwithatanding his non-identification with the fiivver presidential movement. (Coprright, 1923.) Crown Prince of Norway Plans Spring Visit to America Next BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. King Edward, with his marked pre- flection for Americans, was a great believer in a tour ~of the United States for the finishing touch of the education of rovalty, éspeclally where the heir to a throne was concerned. He made no secret of his beltef that no one was fitted to exercise the duties of sovereignty who had not spent at any rate soms weeks in Amerlca, in order to extend his ho- rizon aud to give breadth to his point of view. Queen Maud of Norway was his tavorite and voungest daughter and now that hier ouly boy has grown up nto manhood and will attain his ma- ority in next July, she wishes him {or e 2%tnp aeross the Atlantic during the course of the spring. muk- ing his way from New. York via Philadelphia. Washington,, Chicago. Louis, to the Pacific coast and back to the east coast by way of Canada, where he will epeni & few days with his cousin. Prince Eric, on the latter's blg ranch in the pro ince of Alberta. " The crown prince, who is & remark- ably’ good-looking 'young fellow. of athietic build, is passionately devoted to every form of sport, the two wiich appeal to him most being skiing and yachting. Nerway is the land of &kling. and the feats performed by Ihe wdepts are of a hair-raising char- seter. Among the past masters of the, sport is Crown Prince Olaf, who hes been at it since he could walk. and it has given him a sureness of eve. a decision of character and mus- cles of such steel as one rarely fini yOUDE a man. e Y oimmers. have heen mostin spent on the water, in boats ‘Eat have Yeen gradually being increased in size and tonnage, until there js hardly % fjord on the' picturesque cousiline of, Norway that he has not explored. One of the present: hich he is 10 receive on his twenty-first birthday is a large recing yacht the iift of his parents, and with which he pro- poses to take ‘part in the Cowes re- Fatta and in a number of ths yacht Yaces along the English, Scotch snd Irish coasts.- Possibly ke may be in- duced to- take part lm-somc of \;n; transatiantic yacht " races, provide they do not interfers with the fes- tivities planned for the month of July in connection With his twenty- frer birthaay. 3 4 at Sandrtigham, Domm I E""‘c’:, though in the line h prin of -"u?e‘.'"-'mfm the British throne,as son of Edward-VIL his father, ;5-‘:2‘0:-'“;- ot Denmari, although an officer in the Danish navy, w serving =t the time on board an En liah warship. When the boy was & Jittie over two vears old, his father was notified that he had been elected By the Norwegians as their king, soon after their secession from the sister kingdom of Sweden. and thercupon Prince Charlés of Denmark becam Haaken of Norway, and his lit- who had until that time been known as Alexafdes, had his Chris- tian.mame transformed into Olat. "Fhe. boy -had 'been very carefully trained, but received most of his edu- cation at_the public school and Uni- Versity of Christiania, béing known by his classmates and fellow atudents an Ofaf. without any.title or flour- {shes. The fact of the matter Is tha: the Norwegians have no liking for tles and are intemsely \democratic. Thex think 'nothing of addressing thelc sovereigns as “Mr. King” and Mrs. Queen,” they mingle froely with the people and thoroughly understand one another. o K EEE L .5 Prince Adolf Wrede, Who has just dfed at his.home. In the Neullly subs urb -of Parls, was: in Tis seventieth year and,leaves an estranged widow, Who was formerly the Wifo of the late Apollinario de.: Benites 6t Buenos Alres and the sister of President Al- vear, the chief magistrate of the Ar- gentine Republic. The name of Wrede iy folerably famillar in the United States,mot only ‘because’ one of the rinces ,of the family was attached, or a number of years, to the German embaasy (or-as it was then, legation) at Washington,, while it was also Bérhe by a weman of obscure Vien- nese birth who figured extensively on the yaudevills stage in this country. Prince Adolf Wrede's matrimonial adventures were of the most extraor- dinary description. . He was a cham- berlaim. of the King of Bavaria and a sereno highness, when,.in a moment of aberratjon, he married. in Paris. a Women.of the name of budmiilaMal- daner, daughter of 2 small shopkesper in the suburbs of the Austrian capi- tal. JHer first husband. wad a Dr. Jq- seph Dobrianki of Austrian Poland, a 3 . physician. Botlh were Roman Catho- lics; but. on migrating to Russia, the doctor became a convert to the Greek Chureh. his wife remaining a Romun Catholic. Subsequently they quarreled and the doctor obtained & divorce’ in the Russian eccleslastical court., On the strength of this the lady con- tractad, in Paris, i 1502, a matriage’ with Prince Adolf Wrede, who only lived witn her a short time and then abandoned her, on the ground that he had discovered that the ccelesinatjeal vourts at Petrograd bad. exceeded théir powers In granting o legal -dis- £olution of the marriage contrscted by two Roman Cathelics in .\u:‘frla. before being naturalized in Rusela. On this plea the prince’s marriage was not only declared null and void by the courts of Buvaria—that is to say, of his native land—but also by the hoiy svnod at Petrograd. The prince appealed th the French courts fo prevent the woman from continuing to stvle herself Princess Wregle, . but failed in his ef- forts, and she forthwith came to Amer- fea, where for a time she had a certain vogue as « vaudeville artiste and rpusic hafl divette, sceking and obtaining a considerable’ amount. of newspaper no- toriety. The prince, on the strength of the dissotution of his marriage by the Ba- varlan courts . thereupon married at Gerleva in 1595 a Spanish South Amer- ican, ,Carmen de Alvear.y Pacheco, widow. of Appollinario de Benetes. This second Princess Wrede has had a ca- reer of almost as peculiar & character @s that of her predecessor. She first attracted attention in Europe by being cited as co-respondent_in_ the unsuc- cessful lawsuit brought against S Willy Abdy by his eccentric first wife. Mme, de Benetes traveled all the way from Buenos Alres to London to testify in court to the fact that, not only was &he innocent of any wrongdoing with ir Willlam Abdy, who was a_helpless cripple, but that ehe had neverieven set cyes upon him orf upon his wife, both of whom were perfect strangers o her. She explained in court that the sole reason that had led her to take any notice of the affair was the pereecution to which she had been subjected for several years previously in South Amer- ica by Lady Abdy. who, aithougn-a stranger, had addressed letters to. her and to her friends containing the most slanderous charges. * k% ox Mme. de Benetes, on marrying Prince Adolf Wrede, settled down with him at Madrid. The attractidns palled after i time on the prince and princess, and accordingly they rented the: estate -of | Baseebow, in Mecklenburg-Schiwerlx, from Count Frederick Halm. There they remained until, in consequence of a denunciation furnished by a revenge- ful servant who bad been discharged, the German police made a dekcent upon the chateau, where they found an ¥ms mense quantity of ‘silver, bric-a-brac and linen, stolen from moet of the lead- ing hotels of Europe. From the Hotel D'Orsay, in Parle, alone thére were no lese than fifty-cjght eilver dishes and a dozen silver coffce pots, ‘while among othier hotels thus victimized: were: the Kalserhof in Berlin and tho Hotel ‘of the Four Seasons of Munich. s it is only fair to Prince Adolf \Wrede to explain that he Wwas com:) pletely cleared by the prosecution. from all complicity in thes¢ amazing: thefts, while the princess - Wk clared to be suffering from a remark- able form of kleptomania and to be mentally irresponsible. Sho was, therefore, consigned to a sanitarium, from whigh, eventually, she wae dis- charged ds cured. But-her libera- tion did not result in any revoncilia- tion, and ‘tho separation whieh.had ensued. when the “potice: ‘made. their selzurs bécame permanent. :tShe. took up her residence at Montreux on-the Lake of Geneva, and thenceforth de- voted all her energles to smbjecting the -prince o wvery- Cof “anfey- ance. his being arrested, by the.Swiss au. thorities in 1917 fof acting as-a Ger- man spy and for smuggling large quantities of goods into Germany, ag- cusations of which he found no diffi- culty i cloaring himself, though not until ho had spent several days: | Jall. A »The Wredes: xre a wvery ancient family; halling originally from West- phalia. byt baving been’ settled for contuties in Bavaria. They were tarons _of the’ old and now defunct Holy Roman 'Empire, were created French counts by Napoleon I, fn 1909, and Bavarlan princes In 1814, in recognition of the gallant attempt of the Bavarian field marshal, C (}mgs% m\Vredei tg :block u“ 'mu of Nuboleon ' to nco, at- au;. aftér-the battle of Leipsig. septic drink, to be sold under & label | Thus, her denunciations led to | ‘The North Window. . DY LEILA MECHLIY Royal Cortlssoz has chosen as a sub- ject for the first of his series of dis- cursive articles “The Field of Art,” Seribner's Magazine, “The Art of Art Criticism,” opening with a defenss ©of this art critic and a justification for the ‘profession. To an extent this was a little like preaching to the goo0d people who come to chgrch on the evils of non.attendance, for those who read art criticlsms are only those who have faith in tha critic; ‘but-it-is a subject close to all art Wwritera' hearts—sensitive groand. For Mr. Cortissoz is right when he 86Ys, “In-the eyes of a multitude of | aztists the critie is un enemy of man- kind."" T6 be sure, criticlsm is large- 1y assoclated with fault-finding, but there is a large company of profes- slonal artists who firmly belicve and hold that no one but a practising ar- tist has any business to have any ideas. or opinfons about art. Also, as Mr.. ‘Cortissoz points out, the art critic does. not deal with insensate things, but.with.the works of human betugs, and unless ho is always com- plimentary, {n which case he would be of no value as u critic, he 1s bound to hurt the sensibility of the artists whose works are adversely commented upon. He tells a good story to {llustrate the point, and, hough an old one, worth repeating: Ruskin wrote to a friend that he hoped. a devastating criticism he had published- on that individual's ple- ture would make no difference in their friendsyip. ‘Dear Ruskin,’ re- ‘Plied the artist, ‘next time I meet you 1 shall knock you down, but 1 hope ! it will make no difference .in our friendship” Between honesty and kindliness tha wcritic is often ‘twixt the devil and fhe deéep blue sea. "1t is perfectly understandable that those who do something, producing artists, should feel that none could [know =0 well what was good and Wwhat was poor-as themselves: that they are the best judges of works of art, and so-they are In certain re- Dects, but an artist of real worth Kas in almost every instance an ex- tremely individual viewpoint, and this is bound to influence his judg- ment of the works of othefs. As @l Kiow, the man with @ judicial mind who sees on ail sifes or: both sides of a question s rarely a force- ful personality—a leader. The critic also may labor under ‘this handicap, and many able critics, it must be confessed, make dull writers. But the {deal critic is he who through s own. knowledge of art and sensi- tive appreciftion leads the public into new paths of understanding_and opens up vistas of enjoyment. He is the voice cryving through the wilder- ness. the prophet who points thé §ay. the guide, the mentor and triend o through his own delight adds to he gelight of others. ¥ % % % Cecilla Beaux has lately said in a littls article on the work of the American Federation of Arts that one of fe mést important needs of the people of this country Is “a strength- ening of the power of criticism in matters of taste. “We shall -be proud,” she says. “and have reason 10" be proud of the people whem our cltizen is able to have an opinion, and a fust one, esthetically, on the im- proyements-proposed for the home town and a sound and individual olgion, on what he wants far the rg!-hlng of his own home.” icr ges that no effont be spared se the power of discrimination in what concerns the seeing eye.” ok ok % Now this not only applies accurate- 2y 20 the work of the American Fed- ‘eration of Arts, but to the function of an-art critic, a function which Mr. Royal Cortissoz himeelf has most ad- Intrabiy perfornicd through his writ- |ngs in.the New York Tribune and va- rious magazines, and through his pub. lished, baoks. He fs, indeed, a most enlightening and discriminating eri fe. For vears he has been in close association with artists, and he has taken pains to get thelr viewpoint, but he has always insisted upon thinking. for' himself,.and he is a born teacher. - Furthermore, his stylg, both in writing and lecturing, is os- sentiglly Tils own. It is conversa- tional, but what he has to say is afl carefully strung on one_string, and Bis theme naturally is developed as the ball is unwound. It Is an eacy, graceful style and one which makés for easy reading or listening. * * % x ,Another cxtremely capable Amer- fcan art critic is Frank Jewett Ma- ther, jr. of Princeton University, for many years art ‘critic of the New. York Evening Post. Mr. Mather has made a special study of Italian painting and is pre-eminently a scholar, an expert as distinguished from the art publicist or missionary. He is also a mpst patriotic citizen, end when war was declared in 1917 hastily put aside his pen and type: writer and joyousl assumed the duties of a boatswain's mate in the Navy. dlo has lately published a new book off Italian art. 3 * %k %k ¥ One of the most delightful writers, on ‘art that' we have had in thig countyy In recent ‘yoars has been Anna Seaton-Schmidt of this clty.s Miss Schmidt had-the rare gift of bemmg able to. interpret personality. ‘without ever being unduly personal She was able, as few have been, ito bring the artists themselves in a. friendly way before the public and to thug give thuse who only knew their art an Insight into their ideals and characters. She was for many. ears a friend of Rodin and her writ- ngs on his works. have notable qual- igy, To her criticlsm meant, not fault~ finding but the pointing out of that which was most meritorious. * % ¥ ¥ Duncan Phillips, also of this city, has & rare gift as writer and critic, a Keen.senso of values and excep- tiom] skill- for’ embroidering his theme in such Wwiss that it too be- comes a work of art. Elsabeth Luther Cary, the art critic of the. New_York Times, is like- ‘Wise to be numbered among the fore- wost of qurpresent day art writers. ‘Her- interest to.a great extent is in the ;!el:hnlcs‘li qho]utlon of hnrllpllc oblems, and sbe’ is one who does B tewpt (0 think for others. To the average layman the writ- 1ig, of these critics are like the in- [troduction of a, friend to that which 18 smedt Wworth avhile, and as Walter ‘Dantrosch in-hjs ‘explanatory- recitals L opens Yivé deors of:music to his hear- ers, g0 thess critics help those who are of an inquirtng turn of mind. to' not merely know what they like but why they like-it and what is both likable and good. - Brander Matthews once sald: “There are four indispensable qualifications for. & eritc, gualifications possessed by ‘il the critics whom the world esteems great—insight, equipment, diainterestedness d- - sympathy.” us He sumae idesl; o hich, however, attaln, up. :Ah lha.p(:w +{ demgstic foreign poliey, ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS - BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. What is the name of the Indian Wwhose picture appears on the five- dollar bill?—F. P. M. A. The head of the five-dollar bill is not a portrait of any particular chief, but fe called an idealized or composite head. He is commonly re- ferred to as “One-Papa.” Q. Who designed the memorial to Whistler at West Point?—D, H. A. [The tablet, in_the form of a Greek stele. was deslgned by Augus- tus Saint Gaudens. ~The Copley So- ciety of Boston is the donor. Q. Pleasc name some Jewish in- ventors.—A. B. S. A. Among the Hebrew inventor. nots may be mentioned Emile liner, who invented the gramophone Sir Albert Stern, who invented the tank; Chaim Welzmann, who invented TNT: Dr. Louis C. Lowenstein of the General-Electric Company; Fritz Lo- wenstein (deceased) formerly. of Brooklyn, important. radio inventor. Q. Will you please inform me how wide Pennsylvania avenue |s at vari- ous polnts?—R. B. -A. The width of Pennsvivania ave- The District Commlemn- savs that east of 15th Etreet it is 160 feet wide, while west of 17th street it is 130 feet wide. ;Q. Ts a woman eligible to the D. . If she marries a man whose an- Stry may be traced back to a Rev- olutionary soldier?—A. G. R. A. The D. A. R. says that the fact that one is married to"a descendant of a Revolutionary ancestor would not -entitle the wife to membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution, of Q. What is the derivation of star- beard?— A. Tt is probably derived from steer side of the ehip to the right of a per- s0n at the steer board and faeing the bow. The word larboard was used to designute the side to the left. This term has been euperseded b} the word port. in order to avoid the con- fuston caused by the similarity of names. Q. How many public there in Indianapolis?—A. A. This city now has four, and the mayor recommends that another one be laid out in a part of the city from which the ones now in existence are not casily reached. Q. Did President Cleveland take the oath of office on a Bible furnished especlally for the occasion R. A. The little pocket Bible which was uped when Cleveland was inaugurated was given_to him by his mother when Cleveland was 2 little boy. Q. golf links are T. At what age are girls old maids and men bachelors? M. A. A bachelor is “a man of any age whe: has. not married.”” The term “old maid" is one the use of which is not fo much regulated by the age of an un- married woman as by her manner and board. and became identified with the | tagtes. 1t would be a brave person who would arbitrarily say, “*An old maid is a woman —— years old.” Q. How have?—W. A. Tn avéport of the forest products laboratory fifty uses are given, rang- ing from. its use in circus rings to the dressing of wounds. The report states that its list of fifty uses is Incomplete. Jusnyjusts does sawdust I Q. . Was there ever a slave market I New York —A. N. G. A. One was established in Wall street near Bast river in 1711 n Q. Are ther York?—E. K. B A. New York city is known s 2 beggars' paradise and it is estimated that between 8,000 and 8,000 profes~ slonal mendicants make that city their home. About 10 per ceant are £aid to be women. many beggars in New Q. What day of the weele did Co- {::’:fli;f l“aall and ?rhat. day did he L A. The 3d of August, 1492, lumbus embarked upén _his first Yoyage to the western hamisphere, The 12th of Ocr when fell upon a Friday. tober, when lund was found, was alse Friday. Q. 1s Ch lated country? P. A. ‘While China has the largert pops ulation it also has the largest aren Its 428,000,000 people, if evenly din- iributed, would number 9985 to the square mile. Belgium, the most dense- 1y populated country, averages 656.2% inhabitants to the square mile ie most densely popu- Q. “What is the meaning of a cross, @ Reart and an anchor?—H. C. G A. The symbolic emblems for faith hope and charlty are. respectively, t: nx;chur. the cross and the Leart. Q. When were shoes first made in the United States?—C. F. S. _A. The manufacture of shoes In the United States was establighed in 1620 by Thomas Beurg. who came over with hides. both upper and bottom, in the Mayflower. Q. Would ft be possible to build a bridga across the Mississippl near New Orleans?—A L A The chief of Armv engineers ays that it would be possible to build such a bridge. but that the plan is not feasible. In the case of the new bridge across the Delaware, th tres mendous cxpense is justified by the fact that the hridge connects the city of Camden with Philadelphia Q. Is it true that the proportion of veight to height of men ehould be two pounds to the inch?—V. W. D. A The surgeon general's office gays that average statistics are based on 3.097 pounds to the inch. but that the Army used two pounds to the inch up to eixty-seven inches. Over that seven pounds to the fnch i3 added. Q. What i= the term for the prac- tice some people have when puzzled of opening the Bible at random, read- ing a verse and allowing it to deter- mine the person’s course of action?— 3 CEB A. Divination b Bible is called bibliomancy. poetic veraes, fixed on by chance, was common in Rome. Vergil was often used for thie purpose. As the Bible spread through Lurope, devout peo- ple naturally turned to it for dire tion. The custom still persists. though church dignitaries have frowned upon it. Q. Wil it kill a fish to scale {¢?— L. C. A. A fish cannét live after it has been ecaled. of the (The person who loses out is the one who guesses. The person who geta on is always the one whe acts upon relable information. This paper cmploys Frederio J. Haskin to con- duct an_information, bureau for the public. There is mo_charge ezcept 2 cents in atampe for return postage. Write to hun today for any facts pou desire. Your inquiry should be oddressed to The Star Information Bureaw, Frederic J. Haskin, dircctor, 1220 North Capitol atreet. Johnson’s Platform Is Found Inadeq Further enlightenment is asked by | editors who are discussing the tent tive platform recently suggested by United States Senator Hiram Johnson. They feel, inasmuch as he is the only open candidate opposing President Coolidge for the republican presiden- tial nemination next June, it.will be well should the issues be so clearly | gtatéd there can be no misunder- { standings. “Vague dnd feeble,” is the charac- terization of the Wilkes-Barre Record | (republican) of the entire policy pro- | gram of the Californian, although the Bristol Herald-Courler “(démocratic) | argues his “criticism of the admin- istration’s forefgn policy is w fair one.”" -He is, however, “io Roosevelt | on his keystone speech’s showing.’ the' Newark News (independent) in- &ists, because. “the demagoguery that | sticks out all over the Johnson speech | shows him to be just another of the | ‘bugted: progressive phenomena. ‘,\n the - Johnsons and all the Pinchots pasted together do not make & ROOSY Vélt. Mr. Johnson would carry water ‘on_both shoulder *Vrhis is somewhut the opini well of ‘the Milwaukee Journdl (Indce | pendént). which wenders “where i | the o1d fiery Johnson, lifting his voled and sward o every human wrong?| 'This latest effort sounds more HKE | an trying to keep the middle of | ‘Troud on domeéstic affairs and turn country with the old catchwords t4"a picture of disaster through fe forejgn policy. It sounds more 1ike the .Jofinson of the McClatchy letter, who had given ‘position and power to the very men I So often formerly de- nounced.’ " on as (inde- * % R K “i¢ ‘M. Johnson can seccure a bonus and i of taxes at the samse & rea‘f:::nmmgn Times (independ- Bemocratic) feels, “he is entitled fq ‘someéthing better than the prest- dency. of the United States. Just what that would be is something diffcult to determine, but it might start with a monkey gland operation. To {nis there could hardly be any tion raised, for by the :'e::n;“::;‘l‘achu achleved liis objec- tives he-will have made monkeys of &1l of the rest of uy and there will be glands in abundence, while thert s not row any doubt that monkey parts would fit Hiram perfectly. Taking direct issus with this Fldicule, the Springfield Republican (independent) feels Johnson “must command widespread _approval in putting the question of foreign affaire at the very forefront of the questions confronting the republic. The reason jt is_there may elude him, but the ‘fact fortunately hasn't escaped him. Mr. Johnson takes the isolation end of the argument and glories in fit. Here is the foundation of an Amer- fcan foreign-policy. The people have a cholce between alternative courses. They, may adhers to tbo old policy of which: Mr. Johnson lhas become the champion or they may determine to use their influence to the end that another -great .war -almost sure to Involve themselves shall not occur. If this second policy means adventure abroad, it 18 the right sort of ad- venture in’ the hinterland of elviliz: tion to opén up new roads to peace. To which the Syracuss Herald (in- dependent) adds, “His 1atést program fully establishes his claim as the foremost_ lip radical of tfle day. It mpragwes us that Johnsén {s o0 clever by half in his'attémpted grap- Pling ;with- the hostile questions of the soldiers’ bonus and tax reduction. Tn that adventure—an impossible.ons —he is already nearly over his head, #nd we shall await with deep inter- est his further efforts to reconcile the {rreconcilable.” % E The Roanoke World:News (demo- cratic) sees in the Johnson advocacy of the bonus “a vote-getting sop” and are; “the bonus.-has almost come to bé .5 test-of w politiclan’s courage.” Incidentally, the Lynchburg News uate by Many Editors (democratic) suggeets “whether John- son wins or loses 1s immaterial to democratic leaders so far as he 18 concernsad, but he is now, neverthe- léss, performing a service which In the end will most certainly reveal re- publican jgeompetency and falthless- ness and hence materially reduce re- publican chances for success in the 1924 campaign.” * ¥ % % The fact that his initial addre: followed by the announcement of t appolntment of Frank Hitchcock as campaign manager brings from the Duiuth Herald (independent) the ob- servation that the campaign “is to be vigorous.” Johnson “is hard to please,” the Knoxville Sentinel (dem- ocratic) insists in pointing out that his “foreign pelicy, generally known under “the isolation term, is known only to himself—if so much can be said—and is reserved for future per- conal uee only. He is tired of seeing others tinker with it and, as he imag- ines, profit from it. He knows who can ' best administer that policy to Hiram’s satisfaction, and he is bent on riding into the White House on this fearfully and wonderfully con- structed steed if he ca. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (inde- Jendent democratic) #s convinced that ohnson will “carry the war into the enemy’s territory. While openly at- tacking the traditiona} policies of the party—policies which circums- stances compel the President to defend, the California candidate is on friendly terms with a number of the middle- ofthe:road républican leaders whote lu&pon and Influence will effectivaly refute the contention that he is_m pouting malcontent and dangerous radical.” “The truth in Hiram's the Indianapolis Star (progressive repub- lican) sees it, “ig \that he wants more than anything else to be nominated. That is his paramount fssue and one point on which thefe can be no doubt as to where he stands.” Inasmuch ae he was “hopelessly outwitted in 1926 by that master strategist, Harry Daugherty of Ohio,” the Miami News Metropolis (democratie) suggests, “men are said to learn from expe- rience, if they are smart men. Hiram Johnson is such a type. Lut it re- mains to be seen whether he can outsmart the other men. The St. Paul Dispatch (independent) insists “Presidential Candidate John- son dodges the real question in tax reduction just as Senator Hiram Johnson always has dodged it. It is_ rank demagpgy to rant about taxing the large Incomes under our system of such taxation. Leyying o high rate in theory, in fact drives these incomes out of tho taxable field and loads their share upon the people generally.” » Churchill’s Gallipoli Campaign Is Defended To the Editor of The Star: The editorial in The Starof Novem- ber 30 headed “Gallipoliand the Brit- ish Election” refers to one of the most interesting and critical periods of the great war. The history of the world war, however, might have been writ ten in very different language if Mr. Winston Churchill's advice had been foHowed, when on August 14, 1914, Greece offered to go into the war un- conditionally upen the allied side. This offer was made by Mr. Veni- zelos, then prime minfster, with the consent und approval of King Con- stantine. and was rejectod by the al- lies because they did 1ot wish to create complications with Bulgaria. If the. Greek offer had béen accepted at that time the courée of history would have been changed.. It would require too large ‘space detal] the various negotiations whi took piace between tho allled powers and the various countries of the near eust. negotigtions which more thay anyihing else during the war sre & blot upen the allied powers. The failure of the Gallipoli expedt- tion was due rather to the bungling of old-fashioned European diplomacy thun to-Mr. Winston Churclyll of: th allied commandery 41 thi on the sea. B. as