Evening Star Newspaper, December 17, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY. .. ,.December 17, 1823 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Business Office, 11th St_and I New York Office: 110 Chicago Office: Toy Buropean Office: 16 Regent St., Loadon, England, ‘The Evenimg Star, with the Sunday meorning editios s delivered by riers within the City ‘at 80 cents per mont cents per momth; Sunday ouly. menth. _ Orders be seut by phone Main 5000. Collection is ters st the end of ea Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday..1yr., $5.40; 1 mo., 10c Daily only el S Bunday only § ~All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Dally only. 1yr. $7.00: 1mo., 60c Btnday oniy. 1yr., $3.00:1 m Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exelusively entitled ta the use for republ cation of all news dis- Jatabes credited 1ot or not otherwise credited o this paper and also the lowl uews pub. 1ished herefa. (Al rights of publication of fohes herein are Tax Reduction or Bonus? Becretary Mellon states his tax- réform proposals in speeific form in a letter sent to the House ways and means committee, which is about to begin work on a measure designed to reduce the tax burden imposed as a war measure. He puts the c his preceding letter to prospective Chgirman Green, in terms that can be se, as in | passage of the days. Bach day is sut: | have said that they would not “come | ficient unto itself. The progression of ' up.” Others have said that even the the seasons brings its changing condb,'emakm- wodld not eat them. Some tions. It is not until there is born a, have said that if a seed packet wan | WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS concept of time in terms of the de: velopment of the human existence that true advance is made. With the keeping of a record starts the thought f responsibility beyond the immediate present. In thesc discoveries in Yucatan there are evidences of scientific rea- ooming on the part of a supposedly | primitive people whose accomplish-' ments, however, now. appear to have been remarkable. They devised means of caloulation and of recording the results. That they had the mathemati- cal sense is indicated plainly. For a long time the rock carvings found in ruins have mystified researchers, and it is not until now that the key to them has been discovered. A volume labeled caulifiower the seeds, If thoy sprouted at all, produced turnips. But. constituents like to receive these lit- tle packets of seed from thelr repre- sentatives at Washington. It shows that Congressman Jim or Jack, even amid the splendors and temptations of Washington, is thinking of the folk back home. Even though it be a packet of sunflower or morning glory seed it is a gift, and people like to receive gifts, especially when there is no obligation to reciprocate with another gift. For Congressman Billy Doe, “our congressman,” to send a package of giant dahlla or monster sweet-william seed to Mrs. Molly and the Misses Claudia, Cynthia and Parthenla, wife BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE “Coolldge pelities” of ustutest hue !ta @twoorned In the selaction of Chi- ongo s Q. W, Q" for the President’s galleries of Congress for a quarter of Qquantity. campilgn for nomination. It serves two mujor purpowes. It counters the enemy's contention that the Coollds oampalgn In ensentinlly, It not exclu- ulvoly, an eastern or New Epgland af- fulr. Then It balms Chicago's wounds ! for lows of the republican national ! oonvention, For six months now the Windy olty will be the mecca of all | the Coolldge fulthful. ‘Toward that | whrine all bellovers in the Calviniatic ereed will turn their steps and pray- urs. No ot The grand ocentral headquarters. out “Jim" Preston. . The indefatiga- ble “Jim,” who has bossed the press @ century, has come to be indispen- ‘sable on every national or Intern ! tional octasion pivoting om Washing- ton. Presidents, prime ministers and world conferenees, not to mention routine affafrs like national conven- tions, turn first to Preston before embarking on any publicity arran ments, He was the first publicity man mentioned by Calvin Coolldge when the latter arrived in Washington to bscome President on August 4. Newspaper men quizzed Mr. Coolidge about his plans for the da: ‘ Seo Mr. Preston.” onse. ment conference. Clemenceau, Lord of history will doubtlegs now be un-{and daughters of Farmer Hiram at folded to vigw. Six Corners, has a psychological effect. Archeologists and ethnologists have | [y shows that the heart of “our con- found in the American continents &} grossman” is in the right place and rich store of materials for study. In:| peats for home. The custom is not an deed, Central and South America of-| ayif gne. Perhaps if the good it does for today perhaps the mest attractive | sould be weighed asainst jts cost it field of research. There are no bar-| woulq be found to Be an excellent riers save those of climate and poMtl- cusom. At any rate the matter is cal conditions. That is to say, the|ooming again before Congress, Free wage his fight for ' Robert Cecfl and Lloyd George de- the midst of the | pended upon him to see that only the rightly credentialed scribes gained their presence, Seating schemes at both national conventions, as far the press gallery s concerned, are virtually in “Jim's” hands, oncé the conventions are at work. He has a noble aide-de-camp. Lieut. “Bill" Donaldson, who looks after the House while Preston watches over the Sen- ate. | Presidont wiil | nomination grom | pivotal west. ook Former Representative “Jim™ Good's appointment as vice commander-in- ohfef at Chicago Is another canmy gesture toward the west by the Cool- idge leadership. Apart from his count- lews intimacies among members of Congress, past and present, Good has * ok X K Dr. Joseph Kossuth Dixon, head of frontiers of fact have not been reached. Successive explorations en- counter new strata of materials point- ing steadily to earller and still earlier civilization. The fact that more than 500 years ago there existed in this hemisphere & race competent to reckon time opens even further flelds of study for those who would trace readily understood. He notes in his| cemmunication that the reduction pro- ' gram “appears to have met with a most favorable public reception.” This statement is quite justified. The public reaction to the tax-reform plan | has been unmistakably favorable, and | even when it runs counter to the! bonus plan tax reduction has been emphatically indorsed. In its consideration of the tax-reduc- tion bill the House committee will perhaps be somewhat influenced by | the bonus consideration. There is un- questionably a conflict. As Secretary Mellon and President Coolidge have pointed out, it is impossible simul- taneously both to rveduce the taxes | materially and undertake the pay- ment of a large and probably increas- ing bonus to the veterans of the great war unless the bonus is paid out of the proceeds of a loan, in which case the interest on the loan and sinking fund reserves must be reckoned as an addition to the expenditures of the government and a drain upon the revenues. In this latest communication with Congress Secretary Mellon does not discuss the bonus. He has heretofores proposed tax roduction. He now points oit precisely what he gecommends to that end. It 13 for Congress to choose which coursé to pursue. A Radio Campaign? 1t is reported that the leaders who ere conducting President Coolidge’s campaign for the presidential nom- fnation are contemplating a new kind of “front-porch” campaign for him, essential in character with but differ- ing in method from the front-porch campaigns of M~Kinley and Harding. This is to be a radio campaign. where ,in the President from the precinc of his home in the White House w communicate through the air his com- ments upon various topics of govern- mental importance and possibly of political interest. This will be an interesting develop- ment in the gentle art of political campaigning. No shouting mobs of people to encounter, with certainty that his remarks will be inaudible to @ portion of them, but instead the clear, incistve words of the speaker registering upon toe hearing, eve sentence stands out likea cameo. The President has on several occasions lately demonstrated that he is a kood tafker, with a pleasing voice, though | ‘it, may lack the boomirg volume or | the sonorousness of the traditional | pditical spellbinder. i It will be a great treat to the mil- | ligns who are using the radio to he | able to sit snugly at home and listen t0 an address by the President of the | United States. As it is expected that | the President will spend in Washing- | ton the time between now and the meeting of the national convention, it would be fitting and appropriate that He should use the marvel of the radio to keep in touch with the people. ——— Every inducement should be extend- ed to Magnus Johnson to develop the vein he bas opened with his horse-and- | rabbit story. To encourage a sense of | humor among statesmen who" have | been inclined to take everything, in-| cluding themsselves, witlt unrelenting serlousness should as a matter of pa- trietic’ dntr be encouraged. —_——— The uearest shing to a Christmas | gard Germgnt expects this year is a | nest bit of st tionery marked “Plgase remut., - .o | In,copgidering indebtedness among ndtions, Frange is inclined to favor a ongyway trafile. systenr. | . The Maya Calendar. A scientific-expedition*sent to Yuca- tan by Haivard has, it is just an- nounced, detefmined that the first re- corded date in sbuthern American his tory, which, means the western hemi- sphere, is August 6, 6§13 BC,, or ap- | proximately 2,636 vears ago. It was not, however, uatil December 10, 580 “B.C., that the Mayas, whose marvel- ous civilization is now the subject of intensive spudy Dby ‘archeologists, be- g4n 'the formal day-by-day reckoning of time and the establishment of af ealendar. This discovery in itself does not par- tigularly thrill the unscientific world, but it Is of great importance to sefence, It means the reaching of an- otber of the Inner chambers of the past. Ineidentally, it proves the prev- alence among the Mayas of a turn for salence. It s even declared as a re- sult of these obsérvations and deduc- tions that ome &t least of that race must have Beewk a mest advanced 1ind, com; ble with the Efnsteja of taday~ Sx thw reckening of the; mfin- Aes. % 'Fhé countmg of time is regarded as . taward'civilishtion. The Individual' of i | y8: race {i { heavier-than: | had been solved. the beginnings of cultural life in what is broadly termed the new world. —————— Twenty Years of Aviation. A buzzing hum sounds in the air far overhead. People in the street glance casually toward the sound, and per- haps catch a glimpse of a plane sail- ing past. Then the eyes fall back to surface things, and the mind returns to the question of how to get through the traffic safely. Possibly the pedes- trian envies the man who is so free to take his own course 1,000, 2.000 or 3,000 feet up. But otherwise the sight a commonplace and creates no com- ment among the earthwalkers. It is only when many planes appear in squadron formation that interest is really aroused. Yet it was only twenty years ago today that Wilbur and Orville Wright made their t successful flight in a air machine on the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk on the coast of North Carolina. Only twenty years! These have been two wonderful decades of advance in aviatlon. Most of the progress, indeed, was made within five of those twenty years. It was not until some time later than 1903 that the heavier-than-air machine was proved practical beyond the skepticism of both the scientific and the lay mind. Langley had been un- fortunate in his demonstrations, though his principle was correct. When finally the Wrights came to Fort Myer and flew there in public it was acknowledged that the problem Many Washingto- nians well remember the great thrill they experienced when they saw the Wright brothers flying over the drill field across the river. That was in 1909. Even then the plane was rated as a scientific toy. Only a few people regarded it as a factor of commercial life. No man dreamed of #s possibill- tles in war. Had any spectator at the Wright flight at Fort Myer fourteen years ago ventured to predict that five years later -the air over France | would be darkened with flying ma- | chines carrying death to thousands he would have been rated as unbal- anced. Today at all the aviation stations in this country the .twentieth anmiver- | sary of the Kitty Hawk flight is being ceichrated. Squadron flights, and per- seeds, llke ome of the ghosts Shakespeare, will not down. in Compulsory School Attendance. The Capper-Focht compulsory school attendance bill for the District, which | was passed by the Senate and lost In the closing jam of the House in the Sixty-seventh Congress, will probably be introduced in this Congress, and there is prospect that it will become law. No opposition to the measure has developed. and it has the support of all persons who take a proper in- terest in schools and children. There is no particular delinguency on the part of parents and children in the District in regard to schooling. The fact is that nearly all children are eagor for their school work, and par- ents are generally so insistont that children shall have the benefit of in- struction in school that the public school plant is taxed to capacity or beyond it, and parochial and private schools are full. But there are defects in the school-attendanee law as it stands, and there is need for correc- tion of these defects. The superin- tendent+of schools and the board of education have pointed out that un- der present regulations children can be out of scheol three days out of four in the week before the schook au- thorities may intervene, and that no proper census and statistics of school- age chilren are required under exist- ing law. The desired adjustments are made by the Capper-Focht bill, and it also provides for a larger number of truant officers and better pay for them. Any measure of compulsory school attendance should be regarded as but one item in the program of | legislation and appropriation that will | turnish school facilities for all chil-| dren who may attend. e The discovery of a cuneiform in- scription in Mssopotamia takes popu- lar attention away back to the twen- ty-first century B. Researches of this character are in the nature of wholesome intellectual relaxation. So far as the practical questions of food, shelter and the 1924 candidate are concerned, they do not mean a thing. ————— The responsibilities placed on the coast guard by prohibjtion enforce- ment ought to draw attention to the limited compensation provided for a class of government employes whose services to their country and to hu- manity are alreadv most important. ———a A musical comedian has been sued for $150,000 by a lady claiming to be ! worta living in Oklahoma. | of several seasons in Washington, D. C. | the Canton customs collections. In one | way or another the tariff problem is | packets of seed bought by the, gov- his jilted sweetheart. He is alleged to i hLave had five wives before this adven- ture, and vet the lady expects him to have saved up $150,000. haps stunt flights, mark the day. Many hundreds of machines wifl be in the air. If the United States were farther advanced in aviation, as it shonld be, there would be thousands instead of hundreds. Confiscated bootleg liquor is re- e ——— ferred to as “Christmas cheer.” Why In view of the ieakages that occur | not call it the December 26 headache? | in connection with governmental com- munications a highly responsible of- ficial is justified in adopting as far as possible a policy of corversational reticence. —————— Aeccording to Miss Alice Robertson the Ku Kiux have made life scarcely Maybe it only seems that way after a sojourn SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNSON. The Real Santa. When you tell little folk Santa’s only a joke And a word to throng, It is evident, quite, { That you, maybe, are right; On the other hand, maybe you're ‘Wrong. make merry the ————— 9 It Germany desires to make her pic- ture of poverty and desolation con- vincing she should hasten to suppress the socletv news from Berlin —_——— Sun Yat Sen proposes te seize Of course, he can't be Mortal, like you and me. On that sclence could not insist. But that is no cause, | By strict logieal laws, For saying he doesn’t exist. Dr. bound to come up. | Great forces so queer Free Seeds. ! Now expand far and near, Our ofd friend Free Seeds is with | They g0 beyond even the grave. us again. As far back as memory | And Santa may be, goes congressmen, have sent fo voters | Just between you and me, and others of the old folks at home| Some kind of a big psychic wave. Masques Barred. “Do you have any masqued rioters in Crimson Guich?” crament from commercial seedmen. Many congressmen from city districts | who had little use to make of such 2 " gifts would turn over their seed al-, Ot On€." answered Cactus Joe. lotment to members from country dis- | . W Ien the boys in this young metrop tricts, and happy results sometimos | f¢'S unruly they ain't goin’ to wear followed. Thus an ~mmemern mw | nothin’ around their faces that might tom” was established, and such cus- | SPOil their aim.” toms are enduring. Jud Tunkine says he wishes there At ench session of Congress for} . .. o santa Claum, because 1 wold many years an image-breaking mem- * ber or a group of congressional fcono- | oo, P @ Telief to have a ool clasts, intent on making a gesture of | j economy, have introduced and sup- | ported measures which would do away with free seeds. Swuccessively such measures have been voted down. But| last year. the anti-free seeds advocates won. At the opening of thls present Con- gress Representative Langley of Ken- | tucky introduced his bill on which a tie vote was faken by the committee on agriculture last year to make the free- seed appropriation permament law. He will put up a strong argument for free seeds. He will say that $192,000," 000: in- food value was produced year age. from free Vegetable seedw, and i that thousansis of, home gardgms were made bright. and begutilul Bx free flower seeds, * There have been many jokes on. gov- ernment free sveds. Some farmers {arive up to the house and not try to sell him something. Holiday Disappointments. QGreat statesmen sometimes fret And make rather naughty faces, | Because they didn’t get Their desired committee places. The Real Enjoyment. “Did you enjoy the reception?” “Not much,” replied Miss Cayenne. ‘You are not supposed to enjoy a re- ception. The real enjoyment comes next day, when the papers note the fact that you had an invitation, there by making many friends quite envieus, ™ “Oaly good chillun ought to it Christmas presents,” said Uncle Eben; “but some of de bad chillun has par- mufitfln&floflh“t)’- il bean at the head of the speakers' bu- reau of the republican national com- mittee.. . O. P. leaders throughout the country are his friends. Since re- signing from Congress in 1921 Good has been practicing law In Chicago, 80 his new assignment does not re- quire 3 of base. He is fifty- LL. B. of the Uni- 2 gan, a Presbytertan and a’ thirty-second degree Mason. * K ok % Willlam M. Butler of Massachusetts, Beneralissimo of the Coolidge forces, and Fred W. Upham, republican na- tional treasurer, found in Washington the other day that they were born on the same y—January 1861 Which impels the observation that a oclebrated New York newspaper col- umnist took an ungracious swing at Upham during the national commit- tee meeting. He averred Upham is in “failing health” and deplored Chi- cago's failure to capture the conven- tion “because it is probably the last thing he will be able to do for his y." Upham. in fact, is in fine con- dition. His friends have not sesn him in better shape in several vears. The Chicago coal and ice king expects to pilot the G. O. P. to victory for an {ndefinite number of campaigns. * x % ® One often wonders how George Washington and the other founding {fathers managed to worry along with- | Many Editors, The question of “martyrdom,” so- called, enters very largely into the comment on President Coolidge’'s re- mission of the jail sentence imposed on the controller of New York, | Charles L. Cr~ig, for court contempt. As in their original comment, when ithe editors argued the apparent | merits of the entence, they seem to |hold the Daugherty opinion and the presidential matter of political expediency and |did not settle the real question at {issue. Editors insise the question of |importance concerns whether or not {the constitational guarantees of free {specch are invaded by the present | practice In contempt of court cases. “Lhe Attorney eral and the 18 ident had an opportunity to de- iclare themselves with vigor on the | undue extension of the judicial power | to ecommit for contempt, in the opin- |lon of the Rochester | (independent), and they also “had an { opportunity to write a great docu- | ment, and 1o make of the Cramug case a !landmark in our constitutional prac- | tice. But they have done nothing of | the kinu, they have contributed noth- {Ing to :hv settiement of the Ereat es involved.” The New York Eve- ng World (democratic), also feels it s no credit to the administration {that it dodges the large guestions and contents itself with foiling what It | pretends to believe are the personal | desirex of New York's controller.”. As the Reading Tribune (independent) es it, the Attorney Generals re- marks regarding the case emphasize {his desire to leave the real question iunanswered, and In effect is just 1 way of saying that the government 'had better let Mr. Craig go than make !a martyr of him,” but “that sort of {an uttitude will ot correct the.evil, which constitutes the regrettable part of the remission.” With much the same view the Boston Post (inde- endent) continues, t appears to be & move to forestall any getting of political capital out of the fact that Craig, a democrat, was sentenced to jJail for contempt by Mayer, a repub- ilean”; however, “with that sort of thing the thoughtful man, who sees i!n the harsh sentence the nearness to an assault on free speech, will have {little patience, yet that is the prime i motive for the remission of the sen- tence. i ni | “a * ok x x The Baltimore Sun, (democratie) in- terprets the argument presented by the Attorney General to the Pres- ident as “a cheap, time-serving political dodge,” and it goes om to t is bad enough that we should have judges on the federal bench who are totally oblivious of the spirit of American institutions. It is bad enough that a man of the standing of Mr. Cralg should be made the recipient of a grudging ex- ecutive clemency. But worse tha either of these things is the delib- erate attempt by a time-serving poli- tician in a high place to obscure the issue_ by calling better men_harsh names.” In this connection the Lynch- burg News (democratic) maintains “the administration s placed in the attitude of relieving an offender from a sentence which in its opinion was thoroughly deserved, to protect the dignity and honor and usefuiness 'of the courts—and of adopting the | amazing recourse because of What thoughtless, ignorant people might think upon the matter. Surely, if | Daugherty is right, then the remis- ision of Craig's penalty represents a complete and humiliuting surrender of duty and principle for reasons which plainly impeach the courage of & public official, and his bounden ob- Hgation.” To which the Milwau- 1Journal (independent) adds: ¥If Mr. Craig Is as gullty as Mr. Daugherty {fn his brief says he is, then no mat- ter what public office he may hold he ought to serve his sentence—as would any non-official person.” Th Journal moreover wonders “just wha is the real reason that causes the Attorney Genetal to fear a sojourn in jall by Craig.” Perhaps as good an explanation fs that he was too popular in the city of New York to be made a martyr, suggests the Grand Rapids Press (independent), which observes that “Daugherty's report upon which the President acted in remitting Craig's sentence is a clever document, avoiding the Issue as to whether Craig was telling the truth about the judge and the further issue as to whether it _would have been right for the judge to sentence him even if he was telling the truth, but it fs un- fortunate that ‘mmnk o nism Bus to. entar such vital ques- il As the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (democratic) explains, Daugherty has discovered that “‘the chastise- ment of jwstice is not clastisement unless the strokes are displeasing to the recipient”; however, “it was re- publican ' party aganst =Tamm Hall, and when politiclans begin pull- ing ‘opposite strings in the skein of action was entirely a | Times-Union | the Rodman Wanamaker North Amer- ican Indin Foundation, placed an- other “Harding policy” on the “door- 1 Step of the White House” last week. Using that idiom at Secretary Work's Indian conference, Dixon recalled Warren G. Harding's promise to an Indian_ delegation at Marion on August 18, 1926. "I think you_and I will agres about one basic principle,” Senator Harding said, "and that 1s that the American Indian is t as much entitfed to a square 1 as any one else in the repub- . If we should be called to respon- sibfiity, he will get it” Dixon says the Indian gets anything but a square deal. The tens of thousands of In- dians who are citizens are such, Dix- on contends, In name only, because they are stili subjected to reservation ‘superintendency” and other federal supervision. EEE Closing up “blind pigs” and nab- bing bootleggers, chasing speed- fiends and shadowing second-story men may give Smedley Butler plenty of fun in Philadelphia, but the ma- rines will remain his only true love. Butler watched the marines play the 3d Army to a standstill_and to de- feat In Washimgton on December 1. “Leave the Marines?” somebody asked him. “Hell, no," he repiied in the ofi- cial vocabulary of the corps. witer walching ‘em play foot bahl like that!" Copsright, 1923, Clemency for Craig Disappoints Journals Reveal justice, a lot of dropped stitches are iikely ‘to be noticed in the fabric.” The Pueblo Star-Journal (independ- eny), furthermore, claims “the case had ~ attracted so much attention throughout the country that it was certain to be a big Issue in Congress if not disposed of by keeping Craig out of jail.” and that ¥it would have injured” the administration greatly.” * ok ok K San Antonlo Light (demo- taking note of the “incon- sistent” statement of Daugherty, de- clates “If the government of the | United States, through the President, The cratie), jcan find ‘ample grounds' either for [exempting or for refusing to exempt |from the penalties of ‘the law' when one s adjudged guilty of contempt of court, then the government's insist- ence upon enforcement of the Vol- stead act or of any other statute which offends many people’s sense o {Justice would seem to be an expres- sion of fanatical partlsanship. On the other hand, the Portland Journal remission by President Coolidge as ‘“a i backhanded slap at Judge Maver,’ | insisting further that “there neve {will be a time In this country, unless {human stocks sink into impotency, {when you can stop criticism by ling the critics to jail.” The Clev land Plain Dealer (democratic) al<o believes the President’s actlon in re- mitting the sentence does not con- done Cralg's offense. It points out | that “those loudest in defense of iCraig care less for Craig than for | ®lng the courts,” and “the President { recognized this fact when he refused {to concur in the pro-Craig program !of whipping justice around the stump of the controiles's sixt?-day sentence,” while the New York Times (independ- lent ~democratic), concludes “the whole settlement commends Itself as reasonable, save for those who have lost what they thought was a fine chance to make a di-turbance. Defends Star Article. Special Writer Denies €harge of Inaccuracy. To the Bitor of The Star: Permit me to reply briefiy to the communication published in your columns today, signed by J. Austin Stone, charging “inaccuracies” in an article contributed by me to The Star of Friday, November 30, on the sub- ject of pacifist activitles in the United States. The article dld not say that the National Council for the Prevention of War s financed from abroad. It sald that “Anti-pacifist authorities allege that the pacifist crusade In the United States is financed malnly from abroad.” If Mr. Stone desires me to be more specific, I may state that this allegation has been made in public by a distinguished authority in Washington, who went even further than I did. He deolared that the pacifist crusade Is financed principally from soviet Russia, where the as- sociate secretary of the Natlonal Council for the Prevention of War, S. E. Nicholson, fs reported to have been this winter. Mr. Stone does not challenge the accuracy of the Nichol- son report. I did not charge that the National Council for Prevention of War spent $360,000.in the past year, but that the council's budget for the year ended September 1, 1923, called for such ex- penditure. Phe budget was published by me In the columns of The Star many montls ago and has not been challenged. pre-election | “Not | (independent democratic) upholds the | | their favorite pastime of bully-rag- | THE EVENING _STA& WASHINGTON, D. €, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1923. EAST IS EAST BY FRANK H. HEDGES Poltical, a8 well as business, ethice In Japan are mot yet a fixed They are in process of an evolution. toward a {nigher standard and one in con- formity with right and justice, It is _easy to look at the Japan of today, ,the nation's political, busness and i social institations, and consider them +atatio—regard them as fixed and un- changeable. The observer who does this Is certain to be woefully wrong in his conclusions, for many actfons that were considered honest by Japa- nese statesmen only a few years agc have now been discarded as evil. The , evolution, it Coolldge camp will ap- | Preston controlled the press of the | rams wrocess muy. be. scen in thic proximately rival in Importunce this! universe at the Washington arma- | tome Bro o althoygh to a lesser degree and espec.ally in realms other than political. Perhaps the steadily ox- ||lll|dln‘ eonception of the mutua lobligations between employer and {employe and between them jointly on ® [the one hand and the public on the other offers the most striking ex- |ampie of such a growth in the United |9tates. The increased emphasis on {scolal welfare work is further ovi- ! dence. i * K K K Charges of Insincerity have often been placed at the door of Japanes: politicians. Somet'mes such charges have been true, and again they have come. from the hasty generalizatior that all Japanese politicians act from !the same motives. But no Americar or other forelgn critic has ever in- dicted political corruption and In igincerity in Japan as extensively o as forcefully as have many Japanes: themselves. The most anti-Japanes American cannot compare with cer tain Japanese in their attitude ol anti-present oconditlons in Japan That is understandable and natural The American cannot have as great nterest in bettering Japdn as the Japanese, who himself seeks to cor rect what he concelves to be hi country's faults. 1 do not intend here to give my own opinions of the worst side of political ethice in Japan, but to per- mit an influential Japanese journa to present its indictment. The Gen- dal, or Contemporary Review, some- t'me - ago attacked “Japan's worst proverb.” “‘Lies are the treasures of Japar (Uso wa Nihon no takara)' is Japan's worst and_most shameful proverb said the Gendal "It s certainly a virange one, and not many people today really realize its significance It ‘s a pity it has not fallen int- obfivion, but it still survives in the memories of a few people” The (iondal then sayd it originated dur'ne the disturbed perio? of civil war when “the word ‘use’ now trans- lated a9 ‘a lie. was used in the mean- ing _of a ‘stratagem,’ a deco’t user to fool the enemy. Liko the en couragement of theft by the youth of Sparta, the use of ‘Uso’ was en- rouraged Wmong_the warrier class i~ pre - medieval Japan.” This con- tinued throughout the feudal period 7ays the journal. when “the clans ware all suspicious of one another and even In friendly intercourse their wor’s ware striotly formalized Frankness wad not encouraged in interclan re'atjons, and even priests thrived on the teliing of ‘uso.’ * % % x “Unfortunately the word ‘uso’ was used lightly and carelessly, without much regard to the serfousness of the intent to deseive. Even today this carelegsness about ‘use’ is shown by the light way the Japanese say ‘Uso desu yo'—that's a lfe. This expresion 1s used about nothing at all and fre- quently it §s little more tham an ex- pression of disbelief. ‘T don't belleve you' would often be a better transla- tion than ‘that's a lie’ “But the hold that ‘uso’ has on the country is astonishing. Dead men are promoted in rank and we are made to believe by a pleasing fiction that they have actually died after the promo- tion. Instead of before, as cvery ome knows. This is a lie, but it Is a usual custom in Japan which has official sanction. And this actually means that a Ife is looked upon as good and | permissible. Officials use ‘uso’ to pro- toct offictal secrets. Even things which need not be kept secret at all mysteriously denied by officials '\ _conceal the truth. pretending, jaS:mulating and_explaining. Often officials deny until the last moment | having any knowledge of matters which are later announced. Asked | about them, they say: ‘Really, I have heard nothing of this’ or told of something they know ail about, they reply: ‘Is that so? Would it not be | are v { { of this matter” or 'I have nothing to ! say.’ rather than use the silly ‘uso'? But the whole situation is proof that they see nothing wrong in ‘uso.’ * X * * ‘Recently the political scandals have given many opportunities to ofi- cials to show their skill in the use of | ‘uso.’ Men who have been summoned to testify have denfed the fact of their guilt up to the very doors of the procurator’s office. And then the testi mony appears in the papers three hours later to give them the le. Such people must certainly know that lies are bad. but they go on using them. “It is just the same in China, where the great heroes defraud others by ‘uso.’ Europe, too, has had its period of great liars and lles. But the new world of today realizes that all | lfes are bad and that ‘truth is the best policy.’ “The Japanese le to make money. Such action is absolutely useless, and lies in time of peace are silly. Only } inferior people use lies for personal | advancement. Japan the use of ‘uso’ is quite ordi- nary and the common thing. Is it any wonder, then, that. foreigners feel the Japanese people are dangerous? That they doubt our ambitions, because the Japanese conceal things about which they should be frank and lie about nothing at all? “‘Lies are the treasure of Japan' is a terrible proverb for any nation to have. It is about time it was wiped out of the traditions of this country.” | Details of Shipwreek 50 Years Ago Recalled To the Editor of The Star: The clipping In last Sunday's Star in The Star” was an interesting itemt in itself, noting the wreck of the Ville du Havre in midocean; but to some there was a ‘wider significance in it, recalling the well known hymn, “It Is Well With My Soul” This steamboat was carrying back to their homes in Europe & large number of delegates to a convention of the Hvan- i BY FREDERI Q. Give a comparison of the num- bers of veterans in Congress after world war and civil war—J. F. L. A. World war veterans of the Sixty-elghth Congress: House of Rep- resentatives, 40 of the 437 members; Senate, 5 of 96; civil war veterans of Fortieth Congress, House of Rep- resentatives, 58 of 228; Senate, 11 of 74, Q. Is there an altitude at which water will not boli’—K. L. A. The geological survey says that iccording to seience there is an al- itude at which water would not »0il; however, one has ever ‘eached that as It is about wenty miles above sea level. no C J. HASKIN solid furniture, because even fn solid furniture’ the members are Jjoined together by glue. Q. Where inate?—N. E. A. It is sald to have originated in the city of Oxford, England, whete this type of shoe was first worn, over 300 years ago. 3 1 the Oxford shoe orig- Q. What countries c name of the Levant? Am%.undar e _A. This general term includes Tur- key, Persia, Iraq or Mesopotamia, Palsstine, Syria and Arabis. Q. What is the avera iingss of persons ‘insured by com: Janies agalnst loss by sl — Janies Y slekness? A. One company says :at approxi- mately one person in five is disabled each ¥iar because of sickness, with he e,erage period of disability run- ning three weeks and four days, From these figures it is apparent that the average perfod of disabllity ba- cause of sickness per person ex- sosed for one year is five days. Q. Where F. R. A. Insulin, the new serum treat- ment for dlabetes, is obtained from substances of Loth fish and cattle. Q. What Bible was revised to make he “Authorized Verslon"—E. H. V. A. The English Bible which is now ecognized as the “Authorized Ver- ion' s a revision of the Bishops' sible. It was undertaken as a re- ult ‘of a conference betweoa the rgh church and the low_church sarties, convened by James L is insulin obtained?— Q. What was it that Garfield said jbout one log being @ college’— better stmply to say: ‘I cannot speak ; A. The phrase was: “Any log would e a college with a boy on one vl\g of it and Johns Hopkins on the sther.” Q. Who was the first woman to eceive a federal art commission? A. The first award was given to he young Washington _sculptor, innie Ream. Her statue of Lincoln, n the rotunda of the Unlted States ‘apitol, was executed under this ommission. Q. When was Thee” written?- A. Sarah Adams (nee Flower) ote “Nearer, My God, to Thee.” It s contributed to W. J. Fox' “Hymns nd Anthems” in 1841, We find in ae book called “Hymns and Hym 0logy” that the hymn has been ‘dited numerous times to meet the equirements of different persons he changes and adaptations oc- urred in the 1860's as a rule. earer, My God, to N. Who invented boomerangs?— I. B A. Boomerang-llke objects are Jaimed by some to have existed in Sgypt and Assyria, and it that certain bone objects belonged to prehistoric man ed in_ the same manner as ngs. This weapon was used )y _the Australian bushmen. It werages 2% feet in length by 21 nches in width. It is made of th ireen wood of the acacia, or some ‘ther hard-wood, treated with fire n India, boomerangs are made of vory or steel, are generally fckle-shaped Q. How long hus wood pulp been 1sed to make paper? What was used refore that?—J. M. T. A. It was in the late 60's that wood pulp came into prominence as a material for paper making. Its use increased rapidly. Previous to this, linen, and to a lesser extent cotton rags, were the principal raw materials used in making paper. Q. Does veneerca furniture last as |orl|’g as furniture made of solid wood? -F. K A. Veneered furniture, if properly cared for, will last as long as solid furniture. The glued joints when correctly made are as sirong as the wood under ordinary conditions. Long exposure to very damp air or direct contact with water, of course, will decrease the joint strength even when a very water-resistant glue is used. But such service conditions would be almost as detrimental to BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, New York in connection with “The Miracle,” play at the Century, and whose father, the Duke of Rutland, | has inherited from the first duke the most capacious silver punch now in as a bathtub of Falstaffian capacity, | indicative of ancestral hospitality at Belvior Castle, presents ® most | bow1 of the United Kingdom, as larse | However, this serum is usually ob- amlnd from the pascreati tissues of -attle. Q. Can one be instru while asleep?—D. G. J. A. Chief Radioman J. N. of the bureau of aeronautics an- nounces a system whereby students -eceive high-speed code messages while they are asleep. The system fs based on the subconscious mind's faculty of absorbing and retaining nformation during sleep. Q. Should such words as mother, father and sister be written with capitals?—A. V» A. Nouns denoting kinship when used as a part of proper names, as Sister Alice, should begin with cap- tals. ‘They should also begin with pital letters when used alone as proper nouns, as “I sent Mother & zift.” Nouns denoting_ kinship when used alone and preceded by a pos- sessive pronoun or article should rot begin with capital letters, as “I have not heard from my sister for three months. Q. What year did Godey's Ladles’ Book cease publication?—I. 8. H. A. Godey’ Ladie Book, as such, ceased to exist in 1537, when the title cas changed to Godey's Ladies’ Maga- zine. cted by radio Phinney Q. Why, in recording dates such 1s Washington's birth, was the year written 1731/2?—H. H. 8. A. One -authority explains double dating at that time as follows: “Dou. ble dating of the vear ® * ¢ was a old custom observed between January 1 and the 25th of March. For all other portions of the year a single date was used. Although January 1 had been generally accepted as the begin- ning of the historical vear in Chris- tian countries, vet March 25 was held by some as the beginning of or legal year. The Grego- ronology or new style had not at, the time been adopted.” Q. How long has the Florists’ Tale- graph Association been In existence? —W. V. A. It was organized in 1812 by fifty-seven florists. The association s now world-wide and has 3,000 mem- bers. (Have you a_question you want answered? Send it to The Ster In- formation Bureau. Prederic J_ Has- Fin, director, 1220 NortA Capitol street. The only chcrge for this service is 2 cents in stamps for re- turn postage.) Arrival of Lady Duff-Cooper Recalls Romantic Ghost Story | pitality for which the Vernons were so fa and in the great ballroom | hun s of feet were tripping and gliding to the music of the pavanne | and of the coronto. Among the love- llest of all the fair ladies there was Dorothy Vernon, who never looked 8o radiantly beautifal and happy | . The merriment wa when Dorothy. with stepped steaithily past | maze of dancers to the doorway on the north side of the room. A hasty make sure that she quick as | striking resemblance to Dorothy Yer- | the cor- It is our shame that in | under the heading “Fifty Years Ago | T did net state that the million- [Eelical Alllance, which had just closed dollar fund for which Mr. Libby, the leader of the counc, appealed at the Nansen meeting was for the Natlonal Council. Indeed, stated that the pacifist chieftain “did not detail the purpose of this fun I did not charge that the National Council for Prevention of War ad- vocates abolishing the Army and Navy., 1 asserted that picifists such ‘as_the “Women's Peace Unlon of the Western Hemisphere” advo- cate siich abolition. The Styr made that fact perfectly clear in the.head- lines placed wpon the article herein discussed, which specifically pointed out that the Womew's Peace Union does not appear to be connacted with the Nationsl Counoll for Prevention of War. FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. All Life Like That. | Brom the New York Tribune. The visiting Japanese educator who finds the Amerfcan system of co-edu- cation distracting fi the male stu- dent needs to that all lite is {its sessions in this country. On the | boat, also, was the wife of Horatio G. \Spafford, a lawyer of Chicago, and thelr four daughters. The four chil- dren were lost from the wreck, Mrs. Spafford alone of the family being rescucd. Upon reaching the contiment she cabled her husband that she was “saved alone.” He immediately crose- ed the ocean to bring her home. Mr. { Spafford was of a deeply religious na- tire and was interested in a noon Dprayer meeting held In Chicago. As R Tasult of the events following the disaster he wrote the hymn begin. ning ‘Whes Tike i ttendeth Wohen scrrovs, lke va billows. rolt 7" ‘Whatever my lot, Thou hast taught me to say, “It s well, it is well, with my soul Later Mr. Spafford and his wife went to Palestine, where they found- fed a socis! #nd religious community. ‘which later was known as the Amer- fcan Cojony, sifuated just outside the walls of the Holy city. Here he livec i1l his death and his wife continuec to be the head of the colon: J. L. {non, the herofne of the romance of | Haddon Hall, from whom, indeed, she | is descended. Indeed, the likeness of ! Lady Diana to the portraits still ex- | tant of the lovely Dorothy has often formed the subject of comment in| England, and it is to be regretted| | that the apparitions of Dorothy's { ghost which is safd to haunt Haddon | | Hall at ceftain times of the year lare of such a fleeting character that !no one has vet had an opportunity of establishing a real comparison be- | |tween Lady Diana in the flesh and | the specter of her beautiful ances- | tress. Heddon Hall has been the bourne of pilgrimage of so many American | , tourists, attracted thither by the story of Dorothy Vernon, that a few {words on the subject may be of| { timely interest. Situated on the| banks of the River Wye, in the fair-; !est portion of the county of Derby, and surrounded by terraces and! gardens that have been the inspira- tion of much more modern land- {scape adornment, Haddon Hall is irightly considered as one of the i finest examples of the Norman and jearly English architecture to be \found n the United Kingdom. Men- {tioned In Doomsday Book, compiled in the reign of Willlam the Con- | queror, it formed part of the many igifts made by that monarch to his llllegnlmate son, William Peverill of the Peak, from whose descendants it passed into the possession of the Vernons. It was to a Sir Henry Vernon of Haddon Hall that Lord Warwick, the “kingmaker.” wrofe in March, 1471, a letter which consti- tutes the only remaining specimen in existence of the handwriting of “the last of the barons.” Sir George Vernon, who by reason of his mag- nificent hospitality was popularly known as “the King of the Peak, was the last of the Vernons of Had- don Hall. He had an only child, the heiress to all his property and estates, Dorothy by name. * kX X She fell in love with John Man- Mers, the scapegrace younger Son of the first Earl of Rutland, who was {known throughout the countryside [for his wildness. Horrified at the prospect of his daughter becoming the wife of one whom he regarded as an {rredeemable ne'er-do-well, Sir George drove him from his house and sought by every means in his power to prevent any communication Whatsoever between the young lov- ers. Jack Manners, however, man- aged to find employment on the Had- don Hall estate in the disguise of a Wwoodman, which enabled him to con- tinue his courtship of the fair Dor- othy, their mutual affection being strongly enhanced and strengthened by this touch of romance. In vain Dorothy, known far and wide as the “Princess of the Peak," pleaded with her father to withdraw his opposi- tion to handsome Jack Manners. But all the impression she created upon her parent was to cause the closest watch to be kept on her movements. At length, despairing of ever win- ning Sir George's consent, Dorothy and Jack Mangers resolved to end their suspense by a dramatig coup. One evening In August Haddon Hall was the scene of festivity and revelry. From far and near in the county the guests I%Mhd to enjoy the hos- } | | s e night with wildly beating h and panting breath, until she reached the footbridge over the River Derwent and was clasped in the strong arms of her walting lover. Hors were at hond with ttendants, and, long before absence was noticed by the merrymakers at Haddon Hall, she and her lovem were ga'loving through the moonlight as swiftly as horses could take them. * X % ¥ Early on the next morning, while scores of miounted messengers were scouring the county round In search of the fugitives, Dorothy Vernon was standing with her young Lochinvar at a church just over the borders of Leicestershire, and they were duly marrfed. Old Sir George Vernon was too passionately fond of his daugh- ter not to eventually forgive her for her escapade and to become recon- ciled to Jack Manners, and when he died it was found that he had left | Haddon Hall and all his vast estates to her and to her husband, who had meanwhile become Sir John Manners, and who proved himself as loyal and loving a husband as he, had been an ardent and daring lover. Their grand- son eventually succeeded to the earl- dom of Rutland. and his son was created by Queen Anne the first of the present line of Dukes of Rutland, 1t is especlally on the night of the anniversary of her romantic elope- ment, near 400 vears ago, that Doro- thy's ghost makes Its apparition fn the corridors of Haddon Hall, and that the specter Is said to be seen gliding along the stately avenue of trees, many centurles old, now al- ways known as “Dorothy’s walk,® and also on the broad terrace bear- ing her name. The apparition usually disappears by that {vy-framed garden door, known as “Dorothy’'s door,” through which, on that fateful night, she emerged into the undying world of old romance. * ok k% True to the traditions established by her ancestress, Dorothy Vernon, Lady Diana Duff-Cooper (nsisted up- on marrying the soldier who won her heart and for whose sake she declined all the very brilliant offers of marriage with which she was over- whelmed by reason of her beauty and her birth. Alfred Duff-Cooper had [no fortune to lay at her feet. But 1he is remarkabiy good-looking, won | the distinguished service order and other military honors by conspicuous gallantry on’ the French battlenelds n the great war, and has royal cos- nections. For he is a nephew of ths princess royal and, through his moth- er, the late Lady Agnes Cooper, a great- great-grandson of King Willlam IV. For the latter's natural daughter Lady Elisabeth Fitz Clarence married the Earl of Fife, and thus became the mother of the late Duke of Fife, hus- band of the princess royal. 2 Captain Duff-Cooper's mother, Lady Agnes, whose first husband was the late Viseount Dupplin, and whose sec- ond husband was the late Herbert Flower, popularly known as “Squir- rel” and, one of the most ° men of his day, took, on his death, & third busband in_the person of the late Sir Alfred Cooper, one of the most successful of Engiish surgeons, twith an enormous practice. 1} i