Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR ‘With Sunday Morning Edition. WASBHINGTON, D. C WEDNESDAY.December 19, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES....Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busipess Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave New York Office: 110 East 42nd St WASHINGTON C., Wi LSDAY, IN TODAY'S SPOTLIGHT BY PAUL V. COLLINS DECEMBER ‘19, 1923, e Politics at Large BY N. | able social position. But he ran ints’ George, ‘Westmoreland, Northumber- misfortune in this wise: His sister |land, Charles and St. Marys countles. married a certain shereef, who then | The Washington committee of the : decided to take a second wife. The | Garden Club of America plans to save | sister, in protest, fled to her btm.herin-srby flowering dogwood from ex- and on the night of the shereef's sec- | tirpation. Perhaps this or another ond marriage Ralsuli.and his men en- | orgenization may take up the ques- tered the house of his brother-indaw | tion of holly. It is not an easy matter. and slew the bride and her mother.|The city is the market. It would be Thus he became a fugitive from jus- | hard to forbid a man to cut holly on Chicago Office: Tower Bulldiog. tice. He later won amnesty from the | his own land for sale. To forbid the Europesa Office: 16 Regent Bt., London, Esgland. |\ 1ion * pue his property had been | Sale of holly in a city would work The Evening Star, with the Sundey morning | Sequestered by the bereaved shereef, Some hardship on men and run edition, (s delivered by carriers within the [ ng ¢4 get it back Ralsuli went on the counfer to a Christmas custom. The LB ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS . MESSENGER BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN “How many presidents has Mexico by Pancha always to remain loval had stnoe Porfirlo Diaz was over-il0 Obregon and the constitutional thrown in 19107" was asked of an b offictal of the Mexican legation. The | 'The warnings which the democratic| Q. How are white Christmas trees | | Teaders have thrown at the repulicans | Prepared?—D, L. W. + | throughout their recent flush of con-| A. Various methods may be used.| The de la Huertas have been ac-)fidénce over political prospects for| Take branches of cvergreen of de-| Mexican was not certain, but thousht | cuseq of forging the mame of the 1924 appear to be taking form and|sired size and dip in thick starch to | Ulline wales be registered with there had been at least & dozen—DOS- | minigrar of foreign affairs in sending ' Substance. The democrats were wont | Which a small box of borax has been | [h€ collector of internal revenue of sibly more. It was impossible to name g cablegram to the ministef of Mex- | 10 #2¥ to the republicans: “Wait until |added and while trees are still damp | $12 $5UTICE in which they are located. all, for there had been 80 many revo- | oo at Stockhoim, recalling him. The | You Eet through the session of Con- 1 G R TS D Q- Is it necessary to obtain & per- mit to distill water?—A. M. P. A. The bureau of internal revenue Y8 it i® not necessary to obtain a permit, but all machines used for dis | government. sprinkle each with artificial snow. | supplied by him. ity &t 60 cents per month: daily ooly, eats per month: Runday ooy, 20 cents per warpath. In order to maintain his |band he became a professional kid- month, Orders may be sent by mail or tele- | phione Main 5000, Collection {s made by car- naper, taking prominent persons and Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. | holding them for ransom. - He was no When he captured Walter . first seller of holly gets a pititully + small price for it, but a little extra sil- ver at Christmas has a merry jingle. The transporter and the local seller try to make something. They are in- tiers at the end of each moath. Maryland and Virginia, | “piker.” Dally and Sunday..1 yr.. §8.40: 1 mo., 70c Dall;fl only. . .1yr., $6.00; 1 mo. 'iflc Sunday only. \1yr., $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. Dally and Sunday.1 yr., $10.00: 1 mo., 85¢ Dally only.. 1yr., $7.00; 1 mo., 60c Sunday only. 1yr., $3.00;1mo., 25¢c Member of the Associated Press. The Assoclated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dis- patches crediced 1o it or ot otherwise credited in this paper and also the lo-al news pub. lished herein. Al rights of publication of wpecial dispatches hereln are also reserved. George Washington’s Dream. When the Capltal of the young American republic was planted on the banks of the Potomac there was onc gremt man consplcuous among those who vistoned there a city of superla- tive grandeur and beauty. The genius of L'Enfant was inspired by the en- thusiasm of George Washington and of Thomas Jefferson, and the combina- tion produced @ city planned from its inception on a magnificent scale, a thing new in the history of city build- ing. George Washington saw in prophetic vision rising on the banks of the Potomac a Capital surpassed only by London. Among the conceptions of the fore- fathers for the Capital were a great national university and a great na- tional memorial church. George Wash- ington believed in and favored the es- tablishment >f @ national university at the Capval, selected a site for it terested in the present and not in the distant future. They have no thought of conservation of holly. { So it is with “mountain laurel.” So it is with those members of the club- moss tribe which are variously called crowsfoot, ground pine, running pine and Christmas green. Some wlld things are having a hard time. There has been developed, or enforced, a public consideration for birds and beasts, but interest in plants | is not extensive. One of the argu- ments for the extension of the Na- tional Botanic Garden and the crea- tion of a national arboretum is that all lant. types may find in them a home Harris, correspondent of the London Times, he demanded the sum of $200,- 000, and he got most of it, as well as a reward of the governorship of Tan- gler. There were some hints that part of the ransom went “higher up.” When he captured Perdicaris he de- manded $70,000. The sultan effected the American’s release without ran- som, but gave Raisulil the governor- ship of a province. Of late Raisula, who had reached the |age of sixty, has been seeking repose. |He has led a comparatively quiet life for some years, occasionally lending his service to the government to sup- press rebellious tribesmen. But some- | how he-has never been fully trusted. s = |Now he fs dead. Perhaps soon we| Legislation and Politics. | will get the story of his passing. Yet Factionalism in the republican ma- | so dark are the ways of that land that Jority in the House and the presence | the real facts may never be fully of an aggressive minority close upon | i lutions {n the thirteen years. Now there is another revolution— no, it is hardly accurate to call this de 12 Huerta affair a “revolution,” for it does not amount to that dignity. It 1s just an uprising. latest news from Mexico. The recog nition of the Obregon gov- ernment by the United States did not bring on the revolution—of course not—but it may have precipitated it. The Interest on the public debt fell due in September and de la Huerta, minister of flnance, came to New York, and the New York bankers loaned the money to pay the interest. De la Huerta did nothing very much in the matter—:ihe bankers did It ‘The total debt of the nation is only | $360,000,000, of which about $260,000,- 000 is held In the United States. Her ; debt per capita—320 or §25—amounts { to less than the per capita debt of the United States, as is true also of her assets, yes. Mexico has great unde- veloped resources. * ok ok ok There is a report that there had been a private political understanding known. ————————— | No Dealings With the Soviet. | Secretary Hughes, with the full in- i dorsement of the President, has re- plied to the Russian soviet govern-| { ment's overtures for negotiation in | terms that cannot be misunderstood. | Russia must first establish her good faith before she will be admitted even !to the outer chamber of relationship, { where she may ask for recognition | She must restore the confiscated prop- {erty of American citizens and repeal und ndded works to faith by contribut- | her decree repudiating her obligations | jthe heels of the republicans are re- | petween the three Sonoran friend | parded as militating against the pros- de la Huerta, Obregon and Calles— pect of the enactment of much legisla- | that each should in turn be president | tion, outside of the bonusand appropri- | of the country, following the over- ation bills, at this session. The repub- | throw of Carranza. lican leaders are reported to be plan- | "n., la ”“"‘"‘, w-’ to b«dnm revolu- P " | tionary provisional president—which ning to “clean up” the routine and let { he did. He was to be followed by the { Congress get away by June 1, so '.hnl;ulléml‘on olr Obregon, as the first con- | o stitutional president—which also hap- { O Sl "W“‘;';‘:‘ Wil stary o | pened. Obregon's term will expire in into the campaign which will start af- | 1924. Next to be president was Gen. ter the natlonal conventions are held. | :’zll:;f; nm'flr[dltnr tr; the str:rry f(')il]u! > v minister of war. he bre- What will be the effect upon the | gonistas deny that any such compact party in power, come November, if it | ever existed. It is denied by President goes before the country with practi- | Obregon himself, who {s openly op- cally a blank record In Congress is a | posed to there being any candldate | supported by the administration. ing stock for the endowment, whh‘h; afterward, however, unfortunately be- | calue wortne George Washington { emphasized the unifying, nationalizing | funetion of a national university at the Capital. Here, he said, the sus-, eceptible yvouth of the land, in the atmos- phere of the Natlon's city and view- | ing the workings of the general gov- question sald to be now agitating re- publican legislators and politicians. It would seem a dark prospect for the party it it should thus have to admit failure to carry out the constructive program outlined by President Cool- !idge in his first address to the Con- gress. The only recourse would appear to to this country and recognize those obligations. She must abandon the propaganda directed at the overthrow of the Institutions of this country. There can be no negotiations for recognition save on the basis of estab- lished good faith on the part of the soviet government. Tchitcherin, in his note to the President, indicates that ernment, Would be impressed with @ | there must be “mutuality” love of our national institutions, coun- j settlements and In the. question of teracting both forelgn and sectional | non-intervention in governmental af- sentiments. | fatrs. Secretary Hughes, in his briet The national university and the na- | rejoinder, declines to enter upon any tional memorial church of the fore- dealing on such a basis. Russla must fathers have never been born. But the | clean her hands before they can be thought and purpose underlying the | taken even in negotiation. conception of these institutions have| Unquestionably, back of Mr. Hughes' taken and are taking material form : brief reference to the matter of sov and give increasing promise of realiza- | propaganda in this country is evidence ton. that cannot be challenged. It has been It is a colncldence of more than !heretofore indicated that the State De- passing Interest that during the same . partment was fully informed on this week which witnessed the breaking of | subject. So it may be expected that in ground for the impressive new build- { good season, perhaps upon the request ing which is to house adequately of the Senate, where the subject is George Washington University’s 5,000 | likely to be debated at an early day, students, drawn from all parts of the | full information may be presented republic, and inspired by the unitying, | that will completely justify the Secre- nationalizing spirit of the Nation's: tery's refusal to consider Russia @s a city, there is being conducted a cam- | potential negotiator for recognition paign for the raising of the Capital's| until the “continued propaganda to quota of the cost of completing the | overthrow the institutions of this Washington Cathedral. ! country” is abandoned. The imposing structure which is to| There will be a general feeling of dominate the landscape from Mount | relief that the United States will not St. Alban is to be known officially u;mepx the soviet overtures for nego- the Cathedral of Saints Peter and ! tiation. Doubt of the good faith of the Paul, but common usage already has Moscow government is generally prev- given it the name of the Washingtan 'alent in this country. Mr. Hughes Cathedral, and as such it will take its gives expression to that doubt in place as one of four .among the terms that admit of no discussion. world’s most beautiful religious edi-| fices. In its broader sense it i8 to be 3 « national cathedral, a free church for | Drunken Drivers. all the American pedple, but this| Public sentiment against drunken broad mational conception cannot al. | Gutomobile drivers is strong and ris- ter the physical fact that it will be|ing. The chief of police has said that the Cathedral of Washington, an en- ' & drunken man with an automobile is during addition to the beauties of the more dangerous than a drunken man National Capital, a spiritual inspira. With & gun. There is no doubt as to Hon and @ mental stimulant to the that. If is obvious. A drunken auto residents of this city. There is no man nor woman nor child in Washington, now or in the, future, who may not deriv and personal benefit from the building of this cathedral. That is why the) uppeal for funds necessary to carry | on the work is made city-wide. As; there will be no sectarian barriers to | the enjoyment nd benefits to flow | U5 orgeq with driving cars while from the cathedral, 80 there ought not |, /s ynfuence of liquor, and there to be any sectarian barrlers to inter- 4 were fitty-nine of theso cases fere with glving. And it s an eio-| TO8, MR %0 0 g unicen quent sermon on the broad-minded- {driver is a potential murderer and ness of our citizenship that no such !ttt BB POl T dingly. This harrlers have appeared. From all re-| 50 LS 2e bt 1t g Justified. . liglous denominations, from Chris-: . iitizans worthy of the title will tigns and non-Christians, have come !y o' lin the judge. It is within the contributions, and there is every rea- ; gor of the police and the judges of son to belleve that when the local|ye courts to deal severely with of- campaign is over and the nation-wide ¢ongerg of this class, and the power appeal for funds 1s made, the National g 011q be so exercised that every per- Capital will have set the nation a fine . 1 convicted of driving a car while example of public pirlt and apprecia- | gounk shall be punished in & way pro- tion of what such an undertaking ', tional to the offense and be there- means. |after barred from driving a machine. ——— e With so much new business "“fyl Members of the coast guard are ex- to be taken up it is disappointing 0| o (eq to see to it that old Santa does find Congress obliged to devote itself | o pjge his whiskers under a slicker o so familiar an old demonstration as ;4 exchange his sleigh for a fishing a deadiock ' |-mack. —— A — e BT e France has a little money to lend! At all events, it is expected that the here and there around the map of (ongress will get its affairs in smooth Burope, and will possibly prove as rynning order without being obliged liberal a creditor as she expects other | 15 hire a business doctor. nations to be. than a drunken pistol-toter, and no clemency should be shown to either. {evenings ago before the Mid-City | Citizens' Association, advocated the confiscation of the automobile driven by a drunken man. He said that with- in the year more than 600 cases had Raisuli Dead. BraIER Nearly twenty years ago an Amer- ican citizen named Perdicaris was kid- naped in Morocco by & notorious ban- dit and held for ransom. This gov-| ernment at once took up the matter | g except such as may be given the with the Sultan of Morocco and after | hance to live in public parks and in @ bit of delay a peremptory demand oiygte grounds of & small number of was made in terms that rang around jangowners. Within memory of men the world: “We want Perdicaris I,llvei of middle age American holly trees or Ralsull dead.” Perdicaris was re-| with spiney-toothed leaves end scar- leased. Now Ralsuli is dead. Word | jet.crimson fruit were common in has just come that this veteran high-| potomac valley woods. Relatively few ‘wayman who has kept Morocco and | remain, and they are small, stunted other couutries in ferment for meny |and dejected. Holly is harvested for years has passed away. It is sus-|market and city motorists take their pected that u. was poisoned. If so, he | to11. 2 died as he iived, violently and by; When Washington was younger it crime, dressed itself for Christmas with holly ‘Raisuli was a peaceful citizen of | from beyond the Eastern branch and Morocco in the old days; that is, as | from the valleys of Rock creek, North- peacefus @8 & man can be in that|west branch, Sligo creek, Paint branch and Pimmit run. Now #t Dectie land. He clained descent from the prophet. He ocoupled an honor jcomes from afar—Stafford, King ie under way, and time will come when there will be no holly and no “laurel” to cut and no“crowsfoot” or club moss to tear up from the woodland /s L in claims | | driver is likely to do more damage | " Qirect | A Police Court judge, speaking a few | ‘The annual slaughter of evergreens | be to enter sincerely upon the legisla- | | tion, and where resisted to keep clear- 1 ly before the people the nature of the | obstructions raised and those who raise | them. Then, on the hustings in the | fall to invoke the election of more re- | publicans with & majority that can de | business. | A slender reed to lean upon, that jet | Would be, but it may turn out to be |jcan army comprised the only one available if conditions are as bad with the majority as re-| ported and the dark prophecies of ob- | struction and non-action are fulfilled. | —_———— Experience with rallroads and mo- tion pictures will make Mr. McAdoo ! a formidable candidate if both these ! great industries can be induced to| pledge their unqualified support, ——————————— According to Senator Smoot, vetoing the soldier bonus will be only a presi- ' dential formality, like shaking hand.l! on New Year day. For this year's international Christ 1 mas Germany will provide the toys and the U. 8. A. will do its best to| play Santa Claus. i ————— Mexico is again drifting rapidly into the position of a leading ultimate con- | sumer of ammunition. ‘ One trouble about & shop-early reso- | lution is that you cannot make it! #etroactive. i | SHOOTING STARS. EY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Unmeaning. !Could anything be sweeter than the ripple of the meter when a poet's gently caroling his lay? There's a dellcate profusion fraught with indistinct allusion that will | lend a charm to all he has to; =y. i words he sets to rhyming, and | causes them in memory to cling, last | Though on serious reflection, after | time for recollection—They real- 1y do not seem to mean a thing! i Yet the lightsome touch so fleeting | which from time to time we're | meeting is what's making life | substantially worth while. | For the birds that soar or flutter idle | songs will pause to utter, and | ‘we love the fruitless blossom for ; its smile. | The twilight skies of besuty do mnot | point & moral duty; no message does the silent landscape bring. | when stubborn fact will grieve us, | these are what can most relieve ' us—Although they do not seem | to mean a thing. Publicity. “What's the use of your putting your hat in the ring? You haven't a chance of being elected.” “I know that,” answered Senator Sorghum; “but a little publicity that | involves mention of high office isn't | going to hurt anybody. Jud Tunkins says young folks are! so advanced In their ideas that pretty soon some one will be telling Santa | Claus there aren't any children. Learning Militant. On wisdom he had been intent, And yet at peace he seemed to scoff. | He had to have an argument m;emmwwm | i Yet Critical Exaction. “What became of that radio set the | station agent had?" “We made him take it out,” en-| swered Cactus Joe. “Anybody that ‘wants to give Crimson Gulch the kind of a performance they handed out has got to come personally and face the | donsequences.” “Life i @ journey,” mid Uncle Eben. “If you try to make it nuffin® but a pleasure trip you won't git no- whera® R el it L * k% % Treasury! It Is claimed that the min- ister of finance, de la Huerta, is short 11,000,000 pesos in cash which ought to be In the treasury but s not. Pres- ident Obregon accused Minister de la Huerta of the shortage. The accused i became angry when arralgned before !the senate to answer the charge. The Obregon friends declare that that is what brought on the revolution. The next morning there appeared flaming posters, with latters inches high, placarding Mexico City walls announcing de la Huerta as can- didate for president in 1924. The next appearance of de la Huerta was in Vera Cruz in open rebellion. * X ¥ ¥ When the uprising began the Mex- 20,000 men, Three years previous it had been 48,000. Of the 30,000, 18,000 remained loyal to President Obregon; 12,000 ad- hered to de la Huerta. Presldent Obregon's policy has been to reduce the army, and use the money saved for expanding the means of cducation It is reported that the followers of the late brigand Pancho Villa have wworn that they would avenge his assassination against both Obregon and Calles. This is contradicted by the legation, where It is asserted a telegram has been received by Pres. ident Obregon declaring that the V listas will respect the pledge given |Meaning of South Dakota Primary The peculiar primary law of South Dakota has been very much in the limelight ever since the forces of President Coolldge “won a victory” over the cohorts of Semator Hiram Johnson. At first glance it was ac- cepted as meaning that the delegation from that state to the next republican national convention had been sewed up In the Coolidge bag. It developed all accomplishment was that the President had secured the leading position on the ballot when the voters actually record thelr cholce, and then it was agreed the result meant very little after all. One thing, however, which Coolidge partisans insist has happened, is that the President stands stronger than might have been ex- pected in a truly rural community. “Mr. Coolldge’s origin and rise, and homely good sense and judgment, | come before the Police Court of per-: Music murmurs in the chiming of the ' the New York Times (independent democratic), feels, “have made a strong impression upon many farm- ers.” The Paterson Call (republican) s convinced the “vote may be taken an indication of the lack of trength of the radical element to which Senator Johnson makes his nronsen} appeal,” which llkewise is the opinion of the Philadelphla Bul- letin (independent republican), be- cause the “verdict goes to strengthen the forecast that Johnson's progress- Ive appeal will be much less in 1924 than 18 1820. For the administration the fact that a great agricultural state has freely made the President its present choice as ‘'a farmer boy who has done everything in his power for the farmer,’ as his proposer Put it, is cheering omen for the pre- convention campalgn.” This line of argument, however, does not appeal to the Reading Tribune (independent), which insists “the South Dakota pri- maries serve just about as well to show how the wind is blowing as the Maine elections. They will-do nothing more than to provide gossip for the political savants who subsist on prediotions.” This also is the be- ef of the Norfolk Pilot (democratic), because “the only effect which the preliminary indorsement has on the fortunes of a gandldate is to send him into prim an acknowledged favorite.” LR It is the argument of the Boston Post (independent) that “the important thing is the plain outcropping of Coolidge sen- timent in a spot where it was hardly expected. And to this may be added the less spectacular but perhaps as sig- nificant action of the republican state committee of New Jersey in declaring for the President for 1924.”” The Columbus (Ohio) State Journal (independent re ublican) in its turn suggests “if Sena. r Johnson cannot win in the north- west, where there s much discontent, where can he win? The péople sense the essentlal difference In quality of the two men, and it is well for the republic that this'is so.” Agreeing that it is only as straws, indicating the direction of the political "m\k rol which the South Dakota result may be considered, the Omaha World-Herald (democratic) points out they show neither Johnson mor Ford appeals to the pro- gressive and radical sentiment of this western _ai ittral state. Ford's showing is so poor that it will go far put a quietus to his mushroom boom, certainly in the democratic party, prob- ably in the third party. Johnson's de- feat is an indication of his inherent veakness As 3 B he is & Then thers was the condition of the | six | eanny minister, however, cabled back |87¢ss and find where you stand with | to the government for confirmation of | ithe recall, thereby exposing the {forgery. All consuls in the United’ | Btates were notified by the rebels ! to report only to de la Huerta, but replaced. * ¥ X % Under the Diaz regime it was against the policy tp teach the peons. | The education budget then was 7,000,- 000 pesos and most of that was de- | votea to higher institutions for the benefit of speclal classes. Now the education budget amounts to 69,000,- 000 pesos and in addition to paid teachers there is a great mdvement for voluntary Instructors to teach the former peons how write. Teachers are sent out to laces wherever most needed, regard- exs of local demands, and they are paid by the federal government. In his three years of presidency Obregon has worked for the industrial in- dependence of the peons and the poor, and also for their education. * ok K % Conditlons have completely changed throughout Mexico since the consti- tutional government came. Formerly there vias the debt law, which held the peons in perpetual slavery. If @ man owed a hacendado he was forbldden to leave the estate with-| out settling his indebtedness. The hacendado credited the peon only fifteen to thirty centavos a day (15 cents), and from the haclenda store supplied him with provisions on open account. Thus it was easy to see that the peon never squared his account, and gained his freedom. Now tho same men earn from $1.50 to 32 a day, and are free to buy land from the government on easy terms. The government Is authorized by the constitution to confiscate the haclendos (plantations), paying a fair valuation to their owners, and then cut the land into small parcels and sell It on long time to the peons. The hacendados have refused to take government bonds for their land, hence the government has sold the bonds abroad and pald cash for the land. The old landowners denounce both Obregon and Calles as “reds” because they have fought the landed interests on behalf of the masses. The de la Huerta rebels have the support of the reactionaries, the hacendados, and the Obregonistas of | the masses. 1 * k¥ An American business man who has owned property in Mexico for more than twenty years and is & frequent visitor thers declares that American Investments are safe, and that he has traveled hundreds of miles alone over the country, even since the revolution broke, without being molested. Certainly the same assurance could not have been given even under the Diaz administration, when local office- holders, as well as wandering brig- hold’ them up for petty or major graft. Brigandage was held only partially in leash by armed rurales traveling on il trains and stationed lin all villages. Hacendados main- tained organized defense behind high adobe walls surrounding their domi- clle ):re!ldonl Diaz used to explain to tin; that Mexico was copying after the United States, but that grandfather's clothes did not quite fit the youngster, Under the new constitution” President Obregon has been recutting the gar- ment to a better fit. (Copyright, 1928, by Paul V. Puzzles Editors hand and frank and intelligent con- servatism on the other.” Asking, “What's & little thing like a primary’ law among friends?’ the Newark News (Independent) also re- marks, "“'lr‘ha D‘nlllhtzl conundrum of hen I8 a free primary not a Iinary? The answer: When the organization has {ts candfdate and is ready to put him over. In the twenty- | six states that do not have the presi- dential primary the outsiders have | even harder sledding.” Admitting that | "It would be a bit premature to ac- cept South Dakota’s proposal as at all conclusive, in respect to the trend of republican sentiment of the west.” the Lynchburg News (democratic) feels that “for the moment, at least, it may properly be regarded as inte: estingly symptomic. It reveals the presence of the republican state of mind in Johnson's own territory that appears tb bode most unhappily for his candidacy. The result also pro- (vides substantial reason for encour- agement in the Coolldge camp. Of course, South Dakota’s republican voters have vet to confirm the con- vention's action, but the chances are { that they will be influenced by the unanimous recommendation involved.” * ¥ ¥ ¥ The Charleston Mall feels the result indicates “the voters in both parties are inclined toward atability in politics and more or less progressive conservatism in the con- duct of public affairs. The disposi- tion to throw the monkey wrench ent” It is very easy, however, to at this time, the Brooklyn Eagle (in- dependent democratic) suggests, and “the real struggle is yet to come. The President's popularity has yet to undergo the aold test. If his states- manship has public approval Johnson and other rivals will have to reserve their ambitions for some other year than 1824 The “farmers of that far western state know the value of an honest friend in high station,” argues the Boston Transcript (independent re- publican), in commenting on the out- come, because “they belleve that the man In the White House is a friend and a leader in whom they can have faith, Hitherto South Dakota has been considered a Johnson state.” The Indlanapolis News (independent 8 in the result “the end of radlicalism,’ as does the Providence Journal (re publican), whioh also insists “there is no mistaking the handwriting on the South Dakota wall” Paris Staging Show "In Art of Cooking Paris is staging a unique expo sition in honor of what is now known as the ninth art, the transcendant art of cooking. Popular opinion thus | Places the cook stove on a level with { the easel and the kitchen in the same |class as the studlo. The chet at last imm an acknowledged seat In the exclusive circles of the fins arts. This may be but the beginning of & movement to culminate in a grand international culinary exhibition to be held some day. Every art is allied to some kindred science. And as of all these allle@ sciences chemistry in its limitless possibilities exceeds the rest, 80 cooking holds the highest { honors for the original thinker among the arts. 3 All the other arts had their golden t, but the twentieth “stands today ‘at a: | ands, used to annoy travelers and | delegations of Americans | ! | (republican) | into the machinery is not so appar- | the people. You are counting your chickens before they are hatched.” There “seems to be much to be sald on that point” judging from condi- It will all be all except two have remained loyal |t1OnS, present and prospective, of the settled by Christmas, according to the |to Obregon, and the two have been |republicans in the House and Senate. | In both bodies they are In the power of a minority faction of their own party and the solid democratic line- up as to all important legislation which the adminlistration has in mind. 1t is prophesied by the democrats and the progressive republicans that | the administration will not be able ,“; get a tax reduction bill through ft e House without its being amended and enlarged to such degre= that it to read and, will be unaccentable to the President. | | The Mellon bill as it stands, it is | claimed, will not have th- ghost of a show. * ¥ %k % All agree that the soldier bonus bill will become &' law, and probably at an early day. It {s to be passed over the President's veto, according to present prospects. * % ok & Some of the elder statesmen in the| House even go so far as to predict; that a tax reduction bill will be a lowed to languish and finally perish of inanition. William Jennings Bryan is keeping in the limelight of leadership in his party. He lends a helping hand at the oar of management of party af- falrs in the House and now is seeking to hold the tiller of the democratic national convention in the naming of a presidential candidate. He is quoted as saying that he has in mind & candidate for the nomina. tien who_ hails from the south, iz a “dry” and a progressive. That news will interest Charlas F. Murphy, bos: of Tammany, and Gov. Alfred E. Smith. Likewise, may cause a chill to run down the spine of Tom Tag- gart of Indiana, who has plans of his own. The politicians are wondering {f {of his former colleague in Tresiden Wilson's cabinet, Josephus Danlels of North Caroli Secretary Daniel ,the one -~‘ho “made the Na rxxx James W. Gerard of New York has smilingly accepted the bouquet whic! the democrats of South Dakota offer ed him—indorsement for the demo- cratic vice presidential nomination The presidential preferential prim; ries in that state promise to furnish an interesting exhibit of political sentiment. President Coolldge's friends have pledged his qualifying if nominated. Senator Hiram . {Josnson will file as the independen irepublican candidate. William G. | McAdoo has accepted the democratic platform framed by the democratic proposal_convention. South Dakota will be the first pres- idential preferentixl primary state to express a choice of candidates. * ¥ ¥ % ary. | . {new political phrase and clapped it {onto the republican party. Para- phrazing former President Wilson's expression “watchful waiting” hb ap. plies the term “wistful wishing” to the republfcans. In his telegram to State Chairman Howes of South Dakota saccepting the democratic platform, Mr. McAdoo wrote: “We shall get no relief from the {burdens now oppressing us nor shall {we progress in any direction through ' the republican policles of standstill- 1ism and wistful wishing for the prob- lems to solve themselves. The demo- cratie party stands for progress and popular rights and welcomes the op- portunity to do battle for them.” * * x % It is evident from the expressions of democratic leaders in Congress and party managers that the alleged drifting policy of the republicans on | forelgn affairs is to be made one of the principal weapons of attack on the republicans in the campaign of (1924, Of course, an effost will be made by supporters of the league of nations to get an expression from the national ' convention supporting former Presi- | |dent Wilson's plan, but, whether it is | successful or not, the party managers will hammer away at the republicans, |charging them with sticking to & i policy of aloofness in foreign affairs, * ok x % Nlinots {s to be the scene of the next developments in the Coolidge. Johnson contest for the republican presidential nomination. Fred W. | Upham, treasurer of the republican | national committee, declarss tha; ithere lcampaign in Illinois and that the President's name will be placed on tha ballot in the presidential preferential primaries. * %x Plans are progressing rapldly in Cleveland for the republican national iconventlon, to meet there June 1. i ttes will be located in the Holenden | Hotel, and headquarters of the Cool- Hotel Cleveland. The Coolidge campaign in Ohlo is to exaggerate the Importance of action |be managed by Hoke Doniphan, an!tory, -it attorney of Marion, former President {Harding's home. He is well known in republican politics in Ohfo and in a statement has identified Presiden Coolidge with the Harding policies. The McAdoo interests in Ohlo are to be managed by former Judge David L. Rockwell of Ravenna. He is already appealing to republican progressives to prepare to support the democratic party, claiming it to be the only real progressive party which can “deliver the goods.” * % x % The republican national committee, !in a current statement, utters a pro- | test against the “solld south.” It | complains that “the republican party | enters into every presidentlal cam- algn with a handicap of 114 votes before it can begin even with the democrats in a contest for the presi- dency. There are certaln states in the morth which are battlegrounds every presidential campaign. If the republicans, after an intensive fight, succeed in carrying New York, In- diana, New Jersey, Ohlo, Nebraska and West Virginia, they have suc- reeded merely in carrying enough tates to balance the 114 electoral Votes from the ‘solid south,’ and they must then go out and beat the demo- cratic party in the remaining states.” In a Few Words. | teny rtainly true that the world thu! Tt 18 oo Its present of the t standing still. ::m.n: of .ferment indicates a violent oBange of some 8Ort. It must there- fore be on the point of going back- ward or_forward. —DR. N. MURRAY BUTLER. The German government s respon- sible for the invasion of the Ruhr. It Jas a trifle to keep on with repara- tion deliverles. But the German gov- ernment, no matter who leads it, al- tupid things. ways does stupld L ¥G0 STINNES. It is so much easier to swallow & dogma than to model our lives on ttern. pivery Axauess P Fhay aNon. the Commoner has in mind the name | William G. MecAdoo has invented a | is to be a stirring Coolidge | |The headquarters of the national com- | mi idge boomers will probably be in the | The trees when dry may be placed in pots or baskets and the earth covered with moss. A larger tree may be made to glitter with ar- tificial snow by sprinkling it on while the branches are moistened with glue. Tufts of cotton and glass icicles may be used for trimming. Q Wil yellowjackets and ruin a fig crop?—R. L. C. A. The Department of Agriculture says that it has never heard of wasps and lowjackets altacking fruit {10 the extent of injuring the crop. | Theso insects would doubtless be in {Jurious to the fig, but apparently do not appear until an injury to the 1fruit has taken place in which event the juices and pulp attract the in- sects. The actual damage, however is comparatively that cracks or Is injufed mechanical- 1y is likely to ferment and spoil in a comparatively short time if it is not picked promptly Q. Can two radio sets operate on the same aeral with good results? A. The National wasps Radio Institute nect two radio sets to one aerial. Q. What i t als A. L. A. The initiais Automobile Leg flces of this in Boston, [ A. Her best record w jon July 30, 1885. This record stnod .unul October, 1891, when Sunol irot- ted @ mile in 2.08%. Q. What is the capital Invested in fish?—C. H. &, A. The buteau of fisheries says that pproximately 2,460,000,000 pounds of fish are placed in the ma ar; value, $75,560,000 yested, $164,000,00 %6; veseels, 6,2 sons, 181,000. s 2.08', made tal boats, er of per- are exactly alike?—J H A. The two chapters in the B authorized version which are alike re the nineteenth chapter of Kings and the thirty-seventh chapter of Isalah. Q. Are Chinese and Japan practically the same stock?—M. D. A. The Chinese and Japanese people lare both classed as of Mongolian | stock. The Japanese people, however, |are much more mixed than the Chi- | nese with Malaslan stock and the Hairy Alnus, who wera supposed to be the original inhabitants of t | Japanese archipelago. Ainus are posed by many to have belonged to | the Caucasian rac | Q. When were dice first used? | DKL A. No one can say positively when 1 dice were invented. Credit for the in- ' vention is usually given to Psalmedes lof Greece (1244 B.C.). Games played | with dice are the simplest and most |universal games of chance in the i world. Q. How long has Educational week | been observed in the United State: J. A, | _A. The bureau of education savs {that December §-11, 1920, was the first I'Educatipnal week 'to be nationally observed. Dr. Claxton was the founder | of the movement. Unique Conditi i | snr THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | Coincident with the reports of the ale by the Countess of Bathurst of {the London Morning Post, which she inherited from her father, the late Lord Glenesk, and of which she has been the active and energetic ad- | mintstrator since his death, comes the |announcement of the engagement of her eldest son, Lord Apsley, to the very wealthy Miss Viola Meeking. Lord Apsley, who has been associ- ated with his mother in the control of the Morning Post, has been a fre- quent visltor to the United States well known in New York and is | Washington, is conservative member ! |ot parliament from Southampton and {won both the distinguished service {order and the military cross, as well as the French Legion of Honor, by !gallantry at the front In France and afterward under Fleld Marshal i Lord Allenby in Egypt and in the con- | quest ‘of Palestine. %ok x The late Lord Glenesk, ! throughout the greater part of his life was known as Sir Borthwick, and who had Inherited the Morning Post from his father, |the close friend of Napoleon both prior and subsequent to his be- coming emperor, left the paper to inis only daughter with a testament- |{ary clause pronibiting its sale to any | purchasers unless approved of by the | iconservative and unionist party or- | ganization, it having been his inten- tion that, in keeping with its his- should always remaln the Forgan of the conservative party. It is said, at the time of writing, that {the purchaser thus approved is a yndicate headed by Maj. the Hon. Rupert Becket, who {s chairman of !the company owning the Yorkshire (Post, one of the oldest established and most influential organs of the pro- , vinclal press. | " Rupert Becket, who is a member of the old banking firm of Becket & | Co. of Leeds, is married to a daughter | of Lord Berkeley Paget, is a brother {of the late Lord Grimthorpe, and |therefore had & ~very o of that peers wife, who was Lucy lonly ohild of Willlam Tracy Lee of New ork. So that Rupert Becket is the uncle of the present half- ! American Lord Grimthorpe. * % K K With regard to Lord Apslev's flan- cee, Miss Viola Meeking, she is the daughter of the late Col. Charles Meeking, who had inherited a colossal fortune from his father, Charles Meeking, head of the great retafl clothing business bearing hi name in the Holborn region of Lon- don, founded just 200 years ago. Col. Meeking, on succeeding to the \ Holborn Clrcus emporium, sold it to Messrs. Thomas Wallis & Co., re- taining @ large interest in the new firm. Col. Meeking, who was an en- three sons, each of whom clent _ death, predeceasing and _an only _daughter, mar- D te Gen. the Hon. Sir Henry | ¥arde-Buller, son of the second Lord Churston. . In his sixty-second year Yoo Macking contracted a second imln'laga with a very pretty and | e Idl!d a Vi tharming Frenchwoman, Sybille De- s de Pierrefeu, .a_long time close of his life the colonel devel- oped, AT sudden ok Berke! Square, of & top of | slight, as the fruit | that it is not advisable to con- | kets each | : in- | Q. What two chapters in the Bible | 1! who | Algernon | 1l rming | American sister-in-law in the person | slastio yachtsman and a member Royal Yacht Squadron, was Orice married and by his first wife dons de Plerrefeu, sister of Count eptuagenarian, symptoms el whea hao Y heart failure, his Q. When hushand B A ch be used bride when calling after her r&:rfi from the honeymoon, when sending @ gift in which her hushand shares, ?nu’ in :4»:."!‘,(;;‘:1'-:. Dlances or regrets o invitations in which by = o oth particl. uld the joint card of d wife be used?— cards may Q. By what right can they throw man out of a pubiic mestingr—g B 1o A. Those who convene meeti, have under the Jaw the TiEnt (o sy 1 objectionable persons, = provid: they use only as much fo o me necessary for the purpose. ;. Q Are falcons long-lived birds?— _A. Falcons attain to a great age. One is said to have been found in France about 1790 with a collar of gold dated 1610. showing it to have belonged to Janies 1 of England. Q. In playing cassino, can T in- | crease a build of a six composed of deuce and four by adding an ace from the board and a deuce from my hand, calling it & nine.—H. K | . A Bung ¥ be ralsed with cards from the hand only; never with cards from the board, was the Be S, oceurred on A bridge coilap bula, Ohio, ving_ with 3t n were lost, great Ashtabula December ed near Ashta- railroad tratn 00 lives Q. Have there cver been any five- dollar yellowbacks?—M. H. A. The federal government has never issued any gold certificates below the | denomination of ten dou | ‘What is th world?—H., A. The | probablyeth | the East ri ihe widest eet. | bridge {n the entific American says anhattan bridge across at New York city is dge. Its wiath is 120 [ Q. What is graham flour made of?— A. Graham flour is defined as un- boited wheat flour. of Q. What js the oflicial flag of New York city?—H. 8. A A. The flag has three perpendicular | stripes, blue at the left, then white, then orange. These were the coiots |of the United Netherlands unaer wnich |New York was urst settled. In the center of the white stripe is the Eng- lish municipal seal commemorating the Engish authority which replaced the buich, Tais ot 1iag of tne ity of New York was adopted June 1915, Q. What dandy’ J. D. € A. It consists of a wooden frame- work which is covered with canvas |or American cloth. The crosspoles at each end are carried by four icoolies usuaily on their shoulders, bul sometimes on their heaus. It is used by travelers on the corkscrew | roads in the hill country of India kind of a vehicle is & (If you have a question you want answered send it to The Star Infor- mation Bureaw, Frederi director, 1220 Nort The only charge for this serv 3 cents in stamps for return post- age.) on Attached To Sale of the London Post wife and daughter Viola happened to be staying with the formers mother in Par ok o % When the will was opened it was found that he had bequeathed the bulk of his very large fortune to his French wife and to his daughter Viola, now engaged to marry Lord Apsley. This was resented by his | sisters and certain cther relatives. | who had hoped for a share in his {property, and as they had never | taken kindly to his second wife, to whom he had been passionately de- voted, their unfriendly remarks de- veloped into a widely circulated story to the effect that his death had been due to poison. The result of this was | that after the colonel had been en- tombed for over & year in the family vault at lver Churchyard, near Ux- bridge, the secretary of state for the home department issued an order for the exhumation of the remains |and their submission to sclentific ex- amination with a view to the éis- covery of poison or of any other un- natural causes of his death. The In- vestigation definitely established, to the satisfaction of the state, that the causes of his death had been par- fectly natural and that the widely circulated story to the effect that he had succumbed to poison was merely a plece of malevolent gossip directed against his young French widow, the affair merely serving to recall the rather numerous sensatfonal scandals and tragedies with which the name of Mecking had been associated. * ok ok % ‘With regard to Lord Apsley, he can show that his family came to Eng- land in the Saxon era, that is to say, long before the Norman conquest, from a place called Batters, in the German duchy of Luneburg. They settled near Battle, in Sussex, &t & place which they called Batters- Hurst, which was eventually con- tracted to Bathurst. A Sir Lawrence Bathurst figures in history as having been attainted by Edward IV, who confiscated to the crown the Bath- urst property in Sussex. Dr. Relph Bathurst was chaplain to Charles 1I, and one of the founders of the Ro: Soclety. Sir Benjamin Bathurst treasurer of the household of good Queen Anne, and his son was ele- vated to the peerage as the Earl of Bathurst. It was the third earl who was the minister of the crown re- | sponsible for the consignment of the first Napoleon to the island of St. Helena, after the battle of Waterloo, in 1815, and, by a strange coincidence, his grandson, the present Earl of Bathurret, married to the Hon. Lillias 1 Borthwick, only daughter and heiress |of Lord Glimesk, and owner of the London Morniig Post, was appointed as colonel of the Gloucestershire {Militfa Regiment, to the military |command of the great Boer prison camp on the isiand of St. Helena, during the South African war of a iqutrtnr of a oentury ago. * * x x Curlouely enough, Lady Bathurst has always been a very great ad- mirer of Napoleon, and during her two years' sojourn with her husband on tho island she made her heud- iquarlers in a large bungalow erected for tho accommodation of her hus- band and herself on the Longwood estate, within sight of the house where the first Napoleon died. Lady Bathurst was very anxious {o pur- chase Longwood, but found that Victoria, on the occasion of her first stay in’ Paris in_1855, had made a present of it to Napoleon III, whils visiting_with him the tomb of the first emperor, under the dome of the Palace of the Invalides. { {