Evening Star Newspaper, December 25, 1923, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY.....December 25, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. . The Evening Star Newspaper Company Busisess (fiice, 11th St. and Penneyiva: New York Offc 110 Hast 420d B : Ohicago Ofice: Tower Buliding. H Buropean Ofive: 16 Regent 8t., Loaden, England, 1 i The Eveniog Star, with the Sundey morning e@ition, is delivered by carriers within the Ciey mf 60 cente per imont cent per month; Sunds mmonth. Orders muy nhone Maie 5000, riers at the end of each mo: Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance, Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunda; $8. Dadly only. Sunday only All Other States. Daily and Sunday.lyr., $10.00: 1 me Dally onty. 1yr., $7.00:1m Sunday only. .1yr, $3.00;1mo., Member of the Associsted Press. The Aswociated Prass iy exclusisely entitled to the use for republ cation of ail news dis- ited 1o it or not otherwise credited i per and also the io &l oews pub. Highed berein rights of publication of ‘pectal dispatches hereln are alse resoive h. Copeland for Tax Reduction. Senator Cope d of New York has| regponded to several thousand urgent requests from tituents that h“] support the Me n plan of tax reduc n, saying that he ng Of taxes and, o the Secretary’'s teves it p detail of his plan wdds this remark reascnable bon dso heartily favor.) The order in which the 0 matters are put is interesting, tax rcduction first, Perhaps this is becau tax re- duction was the subject of the com- munications that have been addressed o Senator Copeland. Another thing is to be noted, that he believes it is pessible to carry out “every detail” of the Mellon plan It will be remember that Secre tary Mellon clearly stated in his fir Yetter to Chairman en of the House ways and means committee that @ould not be p ble to ¢ffeet the re- luction in taxes which he proposed «nd at the same ti rant diers’ bonus. Senator Copel s other wise. So do some who hav ipoken on the subject, b it weorthy that no one has yet come for- | ward with a specific plan for both a | sonus and tax reduction. They » reed on the theory tha! way will he found.” They are, in short, trust- ‘ng to luck to work out something that will be in the nature of tax re- iuction and bonus simultaneously. The Mellon plan is a definjte one. If adopted it would effect an estimated reduction of $323,000,000 in the first 7ear of its operation. This would ap- proximately absorb the Treas) alus. How any bonus of the kind pro- pesed, outside of s, con ors the lowe eful stuc It he O carry out eve: Then th nd asure, 2 o2 spossils senator pass w which I othe: is ny one of the mysteries of the day. There can be no doubt of the public demand for tax reduction. It comes “rom all classes of the people, mot | netably from the more affluent, but | from those In moderate circumstances | «s well. It comes, indeed, from many of the veterans of the great war who do mot believe in the principle of a bonus or who doubt its expediency. It § wemes from business men, from wage | carners, from salaried men, from pro- fesstonal men—and women also. It} comes from every part of the countr i every state. i This demand i3 being i felt in Con-{ aress. It is not an organized demand. 1t {8 @ spontaneous expression of pub- | lie opinion. Senator Copeland's dechs- ration is an evidence that it is being | noted. The President's Greeting. President Coolidge sends a Chri ' mnas message to the disabled veterans | of America, expressing his “‘warm eollcitation and cordial wishes.” He truly says that “tie heart of America™ s with those who made the great sac- | rifices in defense of our ideals.” i This message is more than a Christ- | mas greeting. It is & virtnal pledge | «f a continuance of discharge of the nation’s duty toward the maimed of war. In all the talk about the soldier| bonus there is no suggestion that! whatever may be the fate of that weasure the nation will in any de- gree remit its grateful care for those whom the war left crippled or weak- ened by disease, those whom it de- prived of equal opportunity for work ! in self-support. There have been, as| the President susgests in his message | of greeting and good wishes, “‘some ir- | ritatlons in the functioning of agen-! cies charged With the relfef of the dis- ebled veterans.” These “frritations” | are being systematically lesesned, and the agencies themselves are being| strengthened to the point of function- | ing effectively. To make them effi-| lent, to cause them to reach and! Ave the utmost aid to every man who | «uit the ranks of the American serv-) ica less qualified to discharge his duty | “o himself and to the community, ~he endeavor of the government, as it s its duty. —_————— In a most generous holiday ssason | 3t 18 still believed that the record for ( heerful giving was made when Henry | ord bestowed a few kind words. —_——— Monticello. ! The Jefferson Memorial Foundation ' reports progress, and belief is strong that Monticello, the home which Jet. | Yerson bulit, “will be preserved for the | veople of the United States for all| ime"” as & shrine with a status similar | 0 thet of Mount Vernon. The work | of taking Monticello from private | owmership, even though that owner- | ship has been generous and patriotic und cordial to visitors, has been under conslderation many years, and success Zor the memorial association is wished by most people of America. The home of Jefferson ought to be preserved as « national memorial and place of pil- grimage. ‘Thomas Jefferson wiil remain one of ‘he commanding figures of the revolu- Jomary and early republican periods 22 our country. Though Hamiiton “0lds & place that Is his own, and =hough his theories of government 1 | American have come to more general aceeptance than those of Jeffersion, it is reasona- ble to write that in the early years of the censtitutional republic Jefferson stood in the publz mipd second to Washington, Perhaps he may hold that position still. His influence in public affairs continued long after his retirement from public office, for his successors, Madlison and Monroe, were Jeffersonians and disciples, friends and neighbers of the mester. Jefferson might hawve been elected thrice as President, but he chose ollow Washington's example, though he legislatures of dive states urged him to enter the llsts. By all measures Jefferson was a great American. As Hamilton stood for one system in our government | Jefferson was the fbremost exponent of the contrary system, and Jefferson summed up the diffewence between the advocates of the two systems thus: “One fears most the ignorance of the people; the other selfishness of rulers { independent of them.” The two great parties, democratic and federalist, formed about these leader: and though Hamilton's doctrine of “implied powers” under the Constitution has become the rule of our government, Jefferson remmins as one of the great, impressive amd magnificent leaders of the nation in its youth. Many of his princip) in our national life to ——————— “Financed From Moscow. Those who are in charge of the de- nial department of the s ment at Moscow must have ov something when the oiler -y declared 50 vehememly that Russia is not now engaged in promoting rad- ical reactions in aher countries. Per- haps they forgot. Perhaps they wers not informed of the little affalr in Spain and Portugal that it now ap pears was scheduled for the 28th ef month, next Friday. According to an Associatal Press dispatch from Madrid, the nilitary directorate of Spain has issued an official note an- nouncing that *it was informed by the d reral of security that communist ciements financed frem Maose 1l prepared e revolutionary movemen - from Moscow!” What 15 phizise! Does this fall in the category of the offieial denials? Or is it covered by the camouflage already employed in respect to Ameri- can propaganda that the Moscow government” is innocent of all ac- tivities, whatever may be done by the communist organization? Siraultanecusly with this news publication of the full text of le in the Ezvestia of Novem- which sets forth the com- plete spiritual and material identity of the soviet government and the com- inist organization. A movement in and Portugal “financed from ow" must stand therefore as the ion rot the agency of the d internationale, the government, of the communist organization itself, which it now appears is the creator of that It wi £ of covernment. be noted that the military rate of Spain has been “im- formed by the director general of security.” Here is & parallel between Spanish and American cases The tate Department of the United States was informed by the Depart- ment of Justice that instructions had heen sent from Moscow for the or- | zanization in this country of revelu- tionary groups of ten, each group to contain three men of action, who were to be trained in shooting. Will Mos. cow now declare through Its Spanish representatives or supparters that the Madrid director general of securliy has deceived the military directorate? There is lack of teamwork, it would pecm, at Moscow. The soviet gov- arnment is the creature or agency of | the communist organization. It is either not well informed of parental intentions and activities, or it is sim- [} New Yorker clalma that it is only “! tween the rivers” tha' man really lives. Elsewhere there ia but mere existence. Is thers something in the air, generated by the hustle of which the Gothamites are so proud, that shortena the human span? This is a.| matter for serious consideration. Let' the life insurance aetuaries contribute to the discusston. They ought to know whether the New York “risk” is dif- ferent from that in other places. —— Christmas. Washington groeted Christmas last night with a Beautiful celebration at the White House. A great trec in the White Lot glowed with light. A choir BY FREDERIC Two men, nelther of them a poli- ticlan, are sald to have influenced Henry Ford to abandon presidential ambitions. They are Gaston Plantiff, Ford's chief eastern representative, | and Alfred Lucking of Detroit, the motor magnate’s persanal sttorney. In the judgment of these two. men Ford has always reposed implicit con- fidence, For a long time, this observer s informed, they have been dinning in Uncle Henry's ears that his forte Is business, not politics. Initlated WILEIAM WILE. the Bmiths, who are but two—Sena- | tor Smith ana Representative Smith tof Idiho. Even the Reeds outstrip i the Smiths, two of the former being | In the Senatc and four in th» House. Four Hulls and four Moores are on | the House roll-call, Colors are i equally distributed—there are two Blac| two Brownes and two Whites in Congress. % % ¥ * Juliue Rosenwald, multimillionaire Chicago merchant and philanthropist, ‘has launched a new project for farm, irellef. He announces the establish- sang carols on the lawn in front of | PPF80ns insist that Plantiff and Luck- iment of the “Sears-Roebuck Agr the Executive Mansion in the pres.|"S fnelly prevalled, with the result | cultural Research Foundaatio: ence of and jolned by the Prmldont.m“ Ford has now declared for the Through it facts about farm condi- and his wife. By radio went forth the | notes of the songs of praise to count- less people throughout the land. Christmas comes once again to find this country & land of peace. The lv- ing message that has resounded through the ages is heeded here. While there is not In all parts of the world that “peace on earth™ that the divine injunction evoked, ana while in many places there is lack of “good will toward men,” the American peo- ple are consclously and steadfastly striving for that idea Christmas is more than a cere- monial observance. It is a great influ- ence for good, the nfluence of Him: who was born more than nineteen | centuries ago in Judea, and whose briet life on earth and whose supreme sacrifice for mankind have made for the uplift and development of human- Kind through the ages, Recognition of this day takes many forms. In a sockl way it is marked by suspension of the ordinary activi- ties. In the families and between friends it I8 marked by exchange of &ifts, tokens of love and good wishes. In the churches it #s commemorated with beautiful and impressive serv- fces, with music and with helpful teachings of the truths that He de- clared. Year by vear the influence of Christ- mas grows In strength. It reaches more people. It works more potently for the betterment of mankind. And steadfastly that influence remains stronger onward through the yeur. Blessed, indeed, is the land that so reverently respects and chserves the birth of Christ. ———— Police Drivers. Police patrol drivers are stirred be- cause it ts said that a pian Is afoot to return them to the status of civilian employes at a selary lower than they now recelve. It is said that the police- men’s essociation wonld oppose such a change. Years ago this question was discussed. Patrol drivers were civilian employes, but intimately associated with the police and dotng necessary police work. They were noteriously | underpaid even in the days of dow | wages and low living costs, thelr daily 1 or nightly length of duty was long and their lot was a hard one. After long agitation they won place as po- Uce privates, but with a bar against rising to the highest grade and pay of private. They take the same physi- cal and mental examination es police | candidates, and when the change from civil to police status was made several | of the old drivers fell by the way. Those tat passed into the palice class, | and others that have since come In, | have grown to be veterans of the serv- | ice, and it would seem that the au- thorities, if they contemplate a change | In the status of these men with pay | reduction, will bave to put up a very strong argument. The police have | their argument. The drivers fill a necessary piace in the police depart- ment, and they have their friends. \ ; Since 1920 the Chicago packers | have been granted several cxtenstons —————————— ng to bluff out this matter of propaganda with denials. But denials are poor things in the i tace of facts. ————————— The presidential Christmas tree bad nothing in the way of glad surprises for some of the gentlemen who are on record with requests regarding com- mittee appointments. ——————— A certain amount of argument may be regarded as essential to relgion. Argument is the only way in which many people show their interest. ——— Should Trotsky resign he is likely to have enough money now to go; back to New York if he likes and have a publication of his own: » 3 In fighting the boll weevil the serv- ice of the airplane will be less brilliant than in war, but perhaps more useful to humanity. ————— New York and 0ld Age. Recently Theodore G. Northrup of New York, author and lecturer, con- celved the idea of a birthday party to celebrate his ninety-fifth anniversary. As he was born on the 25th of Decem- ber, 1828, his birthday party would be also a Christmas celebration. He thought it would be a good plan to have as his guests on that occasion other near-centenarians, ‘‘youngsters" of approximately his own age. So he issued invitations through the pews- papers. He particularly sought out his elders, men of 100 years. About ten nonogenarians were found, and today these men, all from the old peo- ple’s homes of the city, are sitting down to a birthday-Christmas table for what will be for them probably the most notable feast in their lives, cer- tainly for many years. But does it not seem strange that no man of 100 years could be found in all the metropolitan district? It ‘would seem that out of nearly 6,000, 000 people there would be at least one who had reached the century mark. This suggests the thought that pos- sibly New York is not conductive to real cld age. Other communities have their centenarians, some of them hale and hearty people with all their facul- ties. But here is the biggest city in the country with not one cven in the sheltered precinct, an institution de- voted to the care of the venerable. Doubtless this matter could be ex- plained satisfactorily. New York will not care to have the impression creat- ed that metropolitan life is shorter than life in other places, The average | make @ true statesman more restless | probably be drawing a letter carrier’s of time to comply with a court decree requiring them to get rid of enter- prises not related to the meat busi- nees. As Romeo remarked, “Parting is such sweet sorrow!™ ——————— 1 It is feared that the sovietists, hav-| ing attained something like @ govern: | ment for themselves, are desirous of seeing other people undergo some of their own former experiences. —————ceme ' ) ! Oklahoma City suspects that it kas! been chosen as the American capital | by the communists. In that case they ! may decide to change thelr name to| Klommunists i —_———— A few tmpetuous radicals will no Qoubt assert themselves with pro- posals to amend the Mellon pian so as to provide for no taxes at all. ———— SHOOTING STARS. DY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Merry Christmas. “Merry Christmas”—just @ phrase Handed from other days— Yet it somehow brings a thrill That transcends the poet’s skill. Measures graceful end refined Prove the beauty of the mind; Yet two words mean more thanart; “Merry Christmas” from the heart. No Rest. “Why don't you retire from politics and {ake a rest?” . “My friend,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “there Is nothing that could than feeling obliged to retire.” Jud Tunkins says if Santa Claus weren't o lucky as to be a myth he'd salary, . The Willing Warker. Now father makes a dozeful pause, A tired and slightly blue man. A merry myth is Santa Claus, But father’s only human. Early Shopper. “Did you shop early?” “T certainly did. I put off my pur- chases till I had to get up at 6 o'clock on the morning of December 24 so as to get a chance at what was left in the stores. “Santa Claus comes around once a year,” said Uncle Eben, “an' de land- lord comes aroun’ once & month. I wish dey'd ebange places™ I |M presidential candidate in whose keep- ing he thinks business interests will be “safe.” k%% Fred W. Upham, republican vational treasurer, who was prematurely con- demned to physical decline by a wide- ly read New York “columnist” was in consequence overwheimed with messages of sympathy and concern, He has lssued the following official communique: “I think some one gave — pretty bum steer. My court physiclan telis me I am in A-1 condition— everything normal and all cylindsrs hitting. It would .be a good de. worse to have it true and not said than to have it untrue and broadcast, as seems to have been done. 1 am sure if gave e the once- over he would polog iz * ok % Edward Elwell Whiting's porary estimate” of President Cool- idge recalls a forgotten remark by Judge McCamant of Oregon, who “sprang” the nemination of Coolidge for Vice P'resident upon the republi- can convention in 1920, McCamant said, in the course of his nominating spech: “Calvin Coolidge is big nough and _sound enough to be dent of the United States, should occasfon quire.” Whiting com- ments: “Which brings us back to a thought cxpresscd herembefore, that the nomination of Coolidge for Vico President d.flered from man nominations mado for that office the ract that those who nonunated him had throughout the convention . their minds a pleture of him as a potential President.” * X ¥ % Ellison D. Smith of South Carolina becomes chairman of the Senate commlittes on interstate commerce, the Smith family will re< gain some of the fame it long ago torteited to the Johnson tribe in Con- gress. With Senators Hiram and Magnus Johnson, and the Johnsons of Washington, b S ginia, Texas apd Soucth sons of John now numb on Caplto] Hill. They far outnumber Cabinet Officer Senator “coteme | ,tlons are to be gathered and turned (over to farmers and laymen. One of the most capable men in the fleld of j agriculture will head the foundation. 1t will have a staff of economists and statisticlans, besides a corps of fleld workers with headquarters In 0 and probably branch offices shington and other centers. ‘The B'Nal Brith News, official organ of the great Jewish fraternal society, comments that Rosenwald's interest in agriculture adds yet another name to the list of prominent American jJews concerning themselves with farming problems. Others include Aaron Sapiro, Bernard M. Eugene Meyer, jr. Henry thau, jr, and Nathan Straus. i * ok ok K | No American business man could : finer Christmas present Morgen- wish for a than a copy of “Commerce Yearbook, Grst of @ts class, just issued by t Department of Jommerce. The au- thor and compiler is Dr. Julius Klein, director of the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce under Secretary Hoover. The yearbook will be brought out annuaily hereafter. It has been eatablished, according to Dr. Klein, “in responte to the de- mands of American business men, bankers, economists, trade assoclation executives and the trade press for an authoritative review of the economic year throughout the world prepared from the point of view of American industry and commerce.” The 1923 yaarbook will be ready early In the spring of 1924, %% % Wken “Bilt" Brigham, newly elected president of the Gridiron Club and veteran Washington correspondent of . the Boston Transcript, appears in the streets be usually bas a rope con- ceuled somewhere about him. Nefther suicidal nor belligerent purposes cause him to carry it. Brigham is. lover of dogs and specializes in “picking up" strayed or forlorn specl- mens which look homesick, When- Bill” encounte a dog that s 1o be lost or lonesome he whips out his lcash, takes the four-footed lu yfarer in tow and sees it safe l anded at some station of a humane see y. The Boswnian says his catch jometimes numbers several a dey. (Oopyright, 1923.) to Encourage French Literary Development | BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. | prolonged for so; Francc's minister of education (pub- 11 instruction), who combines in his person the powers and duties of a minister of fine arts, is, from hence- forth, to have the new cablnet office of minister of literature added to his multifarious activitles. That 18 1o say, it is proposed to create a special | aivision of lterature in his state de- partment of education, and of fine arts, which, under the immediate di- rection of an undersecretary of state for literature, shall devote itself to literary affairs. It 1s contended that literaturs is one of the assets of the nation, ren- dering to the latter incalculable serv- ice on the one h.nd, while it is also gullty of abuses which are responsi- ble, on the other hand, for much harm and should not be allowed to proceed unchecked. Morcover, the new de- partment is to make a point of seeing that literature rcceives those mate- rial advantuges and rewards in the shape of pensions, order of knight- hood, small sinecire offices, cte, to which it is entiticd, and which are now, in a measure, beyond its reach eave through humiliating appeals to purely political influence. * % k¥ Ex-Premier Glolliti, now in bis sighty-fifth year, is coming to the fore once more as the most enthu- stastic and stanch supporter of Mus- solinl, carrying the entire Hberal party, with all its branches, in his train. Indeed, his attitude and that of hig followers aesure Mussolini's tenure of office &s virtual dictator of the natien, but henceforth with the approval and consent of an over- whelming parliamentary majority, Ifor a long time to come. It seems that Pius XI, on being asked the other day how long he thought that the Mussolin] government woulid last, an- awered “a long time. Not sixty years, s Mussolini himself predicted, but at least twenty years.” N “And who will come after?” ques- tioned the inguirer. o =) 24 Glolfill. ul“fiourle. r‘:g\xe‘g hoiy father, wi a twinks v everhaving in mind the perenmial youth and astounding mental activity of the Grand Old Man of Italy. Giolitti, by the bye, at the instance of Museolini, bas undertaken the chairmanship of the special parlia- mentary commission to tackle the thorny problem of legislative votes for women. It has been declded that the feminine suffrage in ltaly will be of a somewhat restricted charac- ter and accorded to women decorated for war service, also to mothers who have lost a son at the front, but not to war widows, as such, since they have, in many cases, contracted fllegal unions so as to avold the loss of their pension by remarriage. In no case will the suffrage be accorded to any woman under thirty, or who does not possess the necessary edu- cational qualifications, and then only if she makes a special demand for franchise. Indeed, both Mussolini and old Father Gilolittd have made up thelr minds that the female voters shall be limited to women who hav deserved of thelr country, and whe have shown that they have a real stake and a -patriotic interest in its e. futurs PR When Gen. Primo di Rivera ac- complished his coup detat in ‘the early part of last September, and, with the consent of King Alfons established a military dictatorate under his own presidency, he made it clear that the dictatorate was merely a temporary measure which he ex- ected to Iast about three months, Prorder to enable him to. extirpate the ecandalous abuses which every tan government, liberal as weil as conservative, had striven, with more or less honesty or purpose, to abolish, frustrated in their ¢fforts by the political Intrigues of the cortes. That was_the excuse of his coup detat of 13 September. The king, and for the matter of that, every one ise, had become convinced of the ut. ter hopelessness of suppressing the various abuses by means of legisla- tive action, and that it was only by means of a dictatorate that the ad- ministration of the country could ba radically purged from the intolerable ovils which were stifling the develop- ment and obstructing the progress of the natfon. Military pronunciamentoes usually fail. That of Primo di Rivera, llke that of Mussolini in Italy, has had the virtue of success. Now the three months mentioned by the general as the duration of the dictatorate is n{lfl' drawing to & close. and it is &uwun‘mm-um and to nation that It will have to be ¢ time longer, per- three months. Nor is 3 Rood of scrigus op position to the continuance existing order of things, at any until the spring. Fo- that, while the reforms _already brought about have been of the most useful and drastie order, the program i3 not yet complete, though much that appeared impoesible of achieve- ment has already been aceanaplished 1t the geperal is dete mined to do i8 to, first of all, complete his entire schedule of reform in the mattef of national and provincial adusinistra- tion, and then to invite the king to vraer a parilamentary election under aegis and pootection of the military authority. guarantecing perfect free !szs for annth rate Jcen non-existent, the elections hav- ing been dominated entirely by the civil provincial authorities, I The general expects that an elec- tion under these safeguards which he will devise and under auspices of the directorate, may render possible the sible free from old-time political Ti- valries and animosities; a national party which would include such men as the former Iliberal premier, Ceount Romanones, and the equally millionaire and fnanclally distnter- ested former conservative leader and minister of state. Don Juan de la Clerva. When the king can form a pational administration composed or such elements, united in their deter- mination to place the finances of the country on a sound basis—not 5o Qif- ficult of accomp.ishment since tke country is quite solvent—and when that administration can start on fta careet with an entirely ciean slate, free from all the old-time handicaps, abolished by the present dietatorate the crown and to the cortes the reins of government of the nation. necessary that he should remain at the helm indefinitely to prevent an, backsiiding in nis missien of reform the Marquis of Estella’s one though! s to relinquish Lis present supreme authority to the crown and to respon. sible siatesmen when his work i accomplished. That is why the re- ports of an offensive and defensive alliance between should be accepted with reserve. For .he permanency of any such alliance, especially if directed against France or Great Britaln or against any other power, would be dependent on ooth dictatorships becoming perma- nent, which is unlikely, since Musso- ini is now mecking, and obtalning, with the assistance of ex-Premier Giolitti, parliamentary approval of his policies, while Gen. Primo di Rivera is only awaiting for the ar- rival of the time when he can sur- repder his power as dlctator to a national government formed and run {on the iines of the constitution, which Vis now suspended. | The Shame of America. To the Editor of The Star: One night recently during the ex- hibitlon of Pole Negri's latest film jstory in which a Spanish court of justice condemned a youth to fifty ‘xuhe. and to have his ears shorn from Rhis head. a lady was heard to jexclaim, “How awful” whereupon ihor friend replied, “That's nothing to iwhat we do all over our southern states.” The Oklahoma hotel keep- er who suffered martyrdom in de- 'fense of his property, and his em- | ploye, deserves to be honored prob- (ably as much as Col. Ellsworth iof civil war fame or rdith cave With the same ease that these ho }e@ one hundred percenters limit the population of Okiahoma towns to in- I habitants of their choosing others ‘may decide to permit only Baptists or Catholics to live in a community. Our so-called democratic government {will ever be mere travesty .upen {democracy if we permit. crimes of this nature and plead the insufficien- cy of power vested {n local machinery of_justice. Surely the people of this country cannot continue to sit idly by and see gangs of local desperadoes and gunmen ~ operate umder _cover of robes of innocence and purity to kill and terrorize law-abiding cltizens. If the states, like Oxlahoma and Georgia, are powerless to protoct cit- {zens of the United States residing therein who toll and are taxed, then the federal government ought use it martial arm. The Dyer blil must piss if, government is to en- :nflnh a ‘decade without bloody civil ‘B, B. HENDERSON. 2 Baruch, | of the! it is realiged | dom of suffrage which has hitherto| formation of a uational party, if pos- | «hen the general wull relinquish to | Unltke Mussosdnl, who considers it Italy and Spain | MIDWEST PORTRAITS. H sen. Harcourt, Brace and C pany. Boston, it appears, bas given way to Chicago. Longfellow and Emer- 8¢n, Lowell and Whittier and Holmes are these days singing small—or so the impllcation runs, And, set off against this trickle of sound out of the east, the Windy city is one lusty cock crow of jubilation from its young men—its Sandburgs and An- dersons and Hechts—a challenge to the mongrel lterature of the eastern seaboard, whose vehicle, pure Eng- lish in build is quite incapable of conveying even so much as the body of American life, to say nothing of its soul and spirit. An extravagant clalm, to be sure, made perhaps more in play than In full earnest. Not much given to play, though, these savage youngsters, And clearly with no respect whatever for their elders, whom. they refuse point-blank to ac- cept as thelr betters, * k k% Harry Hansen agreed to give us a look in upon these nmew writing men of Chicago. And in his company we drifted into Schlogl's, where the tribe met in nightly pow-wow, sweeping the earch clean of hypocrisy and cant and a sniveling fear of life with the besom of their fury and contempt. An occasional word out of the gen- aral bodlam floated across on a cloud some one houses, walls, ele- windows, gao- tical putterns. No rea Americ Only s . Only heaps of ¢ Utillcarian mass No ideas, energy. Barbarism. Ben Hecht tulking. The big fellow over there saying nothing at all, only chuckling at the raving of Hecht? That s Sherwood Anderson, who thinks echt the greatest writer on earth—"save only himeelf,” Hecht puts In. * * “l have a contempt for the whole human race. 1 despise these American sycophants. I am the only one of the four major poets of America who——" Hansen touch- ed my arm. “Coms on. Th ts Bodenheim. Just a pose. All bosh” The tail man looking much like & badly groomed policeman Lurned out to be Carl Sandburg. “the roet of the streets and of the prairie.” “I'll take you to hear Carl preach some time. Oh, he preaches, all right.” * * x % And so he did In one of the uni- versity halls Carl Sandburg stood twanging his guitar and si g the gutter songs of America. Out of a Taucous, bellowing. sweering world” he brought them, the gernered folk songs of this country, “elbowing aside the stately verse of the an- clents” Ha trampled upon the pref- crences and pretenses of his refined audicnce. He won their hearis by the cadenced melody of iy tones even while denied him any claim to serious con- sideration. Cearse songy, these, ro.l- ing from the lips of roystabouts and panhandlers and cattle rustlers, gleaned from the earth itself and from the wide spaces of a rough and unkempt world, and yei the bulk of our great American world, neverthe- less.” And these gutter songs were the text of this preacher's sermon. the siogan of this propagandist's mpa.gn. These folk songs are America, 116 pative 5oil, the rootige of much of fts common life. And out of thesa he argued for & sincerer ap- proach to the heart and soul of the | country. repudiating meanwhile the { commonly accepted literary tradition as alien, cencealing, perverting. a barrier set up to shut us out from our only gource of revelation ard self-revelation, nnked life itself. And 4 turned owt that whether Carl Sandburg was chanting folk songs or intoning poems of the prairie or telling to his children the new kind of fairy tale embodied in “Rootabaga Stories” Lis sole preoccupation has never been a complete sincerity toward life as he sees Circum- stance and his own heari have lad hifn to see life chiefly in terms of broken men »nd burdened women, 30 it is of these ‘“twisted gargoyles” that he most frequentiy sings. Free ? Broken prase? Bo h. maybe. b , possibly. No matter. Al that does matter is a native form | adequate to deliver our native life. %z As with Carl Sanabure, so with the others. So with Sherwood Anderson, dreamer, philosopher, corn-fed mys- tie: so with Ben Hecht, “Pagliacci of the fire escape, singing his heart out over the streets arnd alleys of a city whose very stoues he loves but whose people fill him with sid and mourn- tul sollloquies”: so with Lew Sarett. wilderness gulde, then poet. who, when writing of the Thunderdrums n see the smoke rising from the wigwams of the Chippewas, who, when woolng the wind in the pines, treets, © the mist of the mesa or the timber- | line cedar, is close to the heart of {things in Shoshone or along | Absaroka range; so with Edgar Lee s ers and Floyd Dell and Wallace nith; so with a surprising list of others. We never guassed there were 50 many of them t11 they were gath- sred heére. All possessed of a Dos- 1slon of protest against pretense, all | “reoccupied with the living reality lof common human life, all working | 'n endless ingenuity of invention to { verfect a completely transparent me- !dium of projection. ost of them. Bad mannered. many | of them; overtalkative, insulting, ob- | oxious upon occasion. What mat- ar? The thing that they are doing I'ooks as if It m°y be so stupendous in_effect as to discount utterly anv { uperficial lapses along the way of their ultimate supreme achlevement. * ok k “I observed to Keith Preston,” { Harry Hansen says about the writ- ing of “Midwest Portraits, “that thirty or forty vears hence, when we were frail and toothless. we would stir the embers of a dying fire and try to rekindle the flame that once burned brightly In our hearts. These our cotemporaries would ne longer be subject to abuse or laudation; thelr stars would be fixed, and s vounger generation of artists would be waging war upon a materialistic world under banner not vet unfurled. Tnto what legendary stuff, thought 1, will the dawning years transform Sherwood Anderson’s bovishness, Ben Wecht's vivacioue eynicism. Carl Sandburg’s slow-spoken rhilosophy. Edgar Lee Masters’ unwilling aloof- ness? Why wait until these living men have passed to transmit the story of how they lived. of how thev “uilt. of how they thought and snoke? ~omance beckoned. To tell about *iving writers when their careers were still {n the making: when their importance wes, in the east at least. <1l a matter of debate; when one knew not whether thelr labors were the beg'nning of a new school or the acho of an old one. or a cry into the aight: when the future lav ahead ike a golden river. leading either to the marshes or to the sea. And so 1 sald to Kelth, ‘I think F'll write Aown the story of these men ' we know.’ and Keith responded simply, ‘Go to it. - «Midwest Portraits” is a *book of memories and friendship: Itis a horoughly dellghttul book, whose anthor understands that a friend must be honest and open. He is both. He is so keenly intelllgent as to be a joy of keen appraisal and unpretentious criticism. Common, this quallity? Go a hunmting for It and you wiH know better. The book as without any question rounded a situntion that proclaims Chicago the senter of something startling. dls- tingulshed, pre; oeztainly triumphant, bullding | thelr overtulored minds.| the | Open tebels, the | The adventure called, and | ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS Y FREDERIC ). HASKIN N T e e IR Q. How are the fancy, bright balls made that are used on Christmas trees?—C. H. A. They are blown by a glass boWer. After they have cooled they lare' covered with a coat of silver nitr:We, then dyed W hat Indians are inciuded in the Sio, W 1roquols and Algonquins?— C. C. A Alg ins Include Abnaki, Del awares, ¢ ¥8€s and Chippewas; Lro- quols inci.¥We Cherokees, Mchawks, A include the Dakota the (\nahas, Osages, Winne- Crows, Catawbas. Q. How do t:\?¥ score butter and what makes the .Ac0re?—G. G. B. A. Butter Is sco.\°d 28 follows: 100 per cent for perfec ion, 46 per cent for flavor and odor, 25 Der cent for body, 15 per cent fo¥ €olor, 10 per cent for galt and b per 4'€nt for pack- age. This score is placy'd on butter by men of training and' °xperience, Who carry In their min\3 What s considered a perfect buler: The flavor is determined by t\Ste, and score ¢ given accordingly. Q. How often do they paWt the large steamships’—M. K. A The International Mercawitile Marine lines say that stcamsh!p c panies paint their large steamsh about cvery six montha, Q. What are ! © the little dolls called whose dresses hi n Arv waeats er and viojet i waather 7—, A. 'They are ca.led hygroscopes Q. Pleare give date and Booker T. Washington's death.—A. A, He died November 14, 1915. Ti physicians altending him sald that his death was caused by complete physical breakdown, due to overwork and overstrain, we: i Q. What Is the legend conmected leh ;h\kwopll(vx) of the Danish Gag? A. The Danish minister says that n June 15, 1219, the Danish King Valdemar 11 defeated the Esthoni: ne in the battie of Reval, when what be. came our national fag. Danne- | brog, descended from heaven to the hard-pressed Danes and gave them victory."” Q. Who is called the automobile™—G. H. H. Gottlieb Daimler of Stuttgart, 2 has been given this title struction of the first guso- line engine automobile. “father of the QDo salmon spawn o a lifetime, and sportly afterward | die?—E. L. C. s ! l A There are ten easily recognized kinds of salmon, only one of which {is ®n spawning. common on t once in b is h c coast. Q. 1s steam visible?—A. H C. A. Actuzl steam is not visible, The visible white vipor which is fre- quently referred to as steam is in reality a collection of fine molsture particles which are formed by the condeasation of true steam, Q Does a graduate of a mcdical school In the United States b ve to stand an examination in order to practice medicine in Cuba?—2. S. A. The Cuban legation says that number of the leading medical col- | lcges in this country, and the gradu- {ates from these colleges are permit- {ted to practice without any special examinatiorn. Q. Which 1s heavier. a g milk or a quart of cream’—E. A. The Department of Agriculture says that a quart of milk is the heavier. This is explained by the fact that there is more fat in cream than In milk. and that fat Is lghter than ‘rau.a. Q. What was the strance” >—C. P, A. The Grand Remonstrance was a document of pratest agyinst mis- | “Grand Remon- The action of the republican national committee in refusing to reduce the ap- portionment of delegates to the na- tional convention from the southern states, coupled with the attack on the committee by Senator Hiram Johnson, alleging that the Coolidge forces plan- ned to nominate the President through the use of megro members of the con- vention continues to be a subject of sharp controversy. Editorial opinion is very mixed, with western and southern | and quite a few eastern papers unit- | ing In their condemnation of the new | apportionment. “It is not well for the republican party that those in charge have seen fit to| return to & system that bred scandal.” | argues the Boston Globe (independent republican). ““To carry the country the 1epubiican ‘party must do well in_the west as it learned to its cost in 19.6. Just now the national cormmittee seems to be dolng its best to alienate the | |west.” The action “may be a victory | !for tbe negroes of the north,” the Mii- | waukee Journal (independent) holds, “it certainly is a victory for party en- gineers. For southern delegates in a { republican convention are a perquisite of the administration. They are always voted as it wills. And it is hard to| |8ive up perquisites.” This is also the view of the Syracuse Herald (Independ ent), which feels “it is certain that ! President Coolidge will not suffer from ithe political effects of the liberalized convention rule.” * ok x The pressure from the south was too strong, the Columbus State Journal | i | \\\fter nightfall the Cuban govermment recognizes 4! government drawn of commons on Novemper 1%, e 4nd presented to Charles 1 o s presentation and adopt ve in effcct un Indictment of tha whele Kovernmental policy of the king, and its presentation and adoption’ was hastened by the outbreak of rebellior: iIn Ireland. King Charles ridiculed the Grand Remonstrance at frs and then answered it In an ex- tremely evasive manner. Later ho impeached In the house of lards the leaders in the commons who wers 0PPosed to him, &nd subsequenily he invaded the house with a company of @rmed mep in an effort ¢ of the membere. S Aresy ho Q. What s th |puting th, person?— A. Ask the person to think 3 age, multiply by 10, add 35 ey by 10, add the number of the month In which he was born (January, 1: February. 2)), subtract 250 The firs: [two numerals of the result will £ {the person's age, and the last two th {month in which he was born. e formula for com- ;age and birth-month of w Q. Where s the largest eiec SIEN In the world7o-M M. il A. A glant star, measuring mers than a quarter o m f a mile from poln: o ,;glmi 1'5 the largest sign in th | world. It is oberated at Croy: . | Btation, London. “This sten oe i the ground and covered Elasg, serves as nd | wish to 1 « Wh ripened off the varictfy 3 are usua, they ath ain o dla inches, Q. What s me: RG. M. A. Days are son t by salad days?- A youthful Inexperfe tima 50 designated. Q. What wy\s pedia?—J. A. S A. The first erd Velopedia written in sh and wity the articles alphe rea’ W Ualy nglish Dictionary of ences, by John clerg¥yman, publis e first encyclo - man war of 1§ | sad mal H Q. What dc djam letter m w which per o ow h decides w of Q. Is there a husband anc together and whi comes of it ir C AR A There are which erab] own real e tha case of a j vivor hecomes th. yroperty. at them dies’— WS in most etates nd and wife t joint ten Q. Why was Be 0. called —R. E. A, Tt recelved this name from th fact that ehe placed upon its hill was redupec state bouse ocags tion. (1 yoy have a question you answered scnd i &0 The Star Infs mation Bureou. Fraderie J. dtrector, 1224 Capito The andy gharge for ghis se 2 cents in 31anps for rexirn pos tage. | ls Quota of Southern Delegates Brings Criticism of Committee , §SSriDt (republican), insists “the com - mittee has taken a backward step. { It is the opinion of the Chicago News (Independent), however, U ‘it is the republican party's own ar ltalr. n the past it has had riences in abundance to teach it whe it ought to do about the southerr | delegations which have mo backin at home. The national committes 1 the party’'s official executive body. there i3 to be a revarsal of the actio: of the committea it must boeba i national convention.” mittees verdict “was determine Dartiy on sentimental grownds o, purtly for pra.tical political co eratiuns.” the Minneapolis Tribun (independent), believes it I ns facilitate the Work of the convention or have any improving effect on the quu_uly of its aation.” In the face o Pdst scandais the ihiladelphia Bul letin (independent repub.ican), in sists “the decision looks (ike a blup der.” whilo the New York Tribun (republican), ugrees. because, it | regrettable that petty politics tempt ed the national committee to try t. overturn & e overs AN established party pol ok ok % Characterization of the action tale~ by Chairman John Adams as “an ac L Justice to congressional districts where the democratic party refuse. a free ballot and an honest count republicans, both white and black, hed by the Lynchburg Advanee (indspendent), feels, “and the com- mittee did not have the courage to refuse what was demanded. The re- publican national convention in 1920 took steps to correct the situation and | it would have impressed the country more favorably if the national com- mittee had had the courage to resist | the pressure, and beld the ground ap- parently geined.” Ths action was not “because the White House was afraid of the n es in the cotton states,” the Brooklyn Eagle (independent democratic), asserts, “These uegroes were negligible politically. But with- !in a few years something like 700.000 {of their relatives, neighbors, friends, i have moved north and are very large- 1y voters in republican primaries. Also their votes on election day are cast and counted. To offend them needless- ly would be to risk both primary and elsction euccesa in & umber of states.” s (n part the op.nlo joi the Springfieild Republican (inde- pendent), although ‘“representat.on that falls to accord closely with party strength In the carrying of national elections gives undue Influence to the hopelessly minority states which help to nominate, but never help to elect presidents under our electoral sys- |tom." The New York Post (inde- | pendent), wonders “why northern ne- { groes should care to bolster up the Tepresentation in a national oonven- tion of states in which negroes hard- Iy dare vote,” because, “it is just this Tack of power at the polls which makes the southern negro eager for Political recognition in some quar- ter. His only opportunity is & Yeruh- lean convention. This is not ldeal democracy, but it is the kind we shall have unul we cease to think of our- | selves as in any maller category than that of Americ without re- gard to race, religlo: economic atus.” - P “Under the rule adopted the nom- ination will bear a taint which may bring defeat at the election,” insists the Chicago Tribune (progressive republican), and the Boston Trans- i (d‘»vmvcrm!r) to be “a slur at the sout! 18 accusation of dishonesty southern elections s both erude an, amusing. No greater political trick ery has been shown in this countrs than the manner to which republicas office-holders in the south are chosen And the selction of southern dele- 8Bates to the republican national con. vention is best described by Semato: Jobnson." Yet the action “was his- tory repeating itself,” as the Okia homa City Oklahoman (democratic) sees 1t, while the Watertown Time is convinced “the general opinion the north is that the committee mac. a mistake.” The Grand Rapla Herald (Independent) in turn feels “there is no advantage to the repub- lican party and no facilitation of re regenta\i\’e equality.” “Of all controversies a controverssy over the rotten southern boroughs s most untimely, just ahead of the na- tional campaign,” s the verdict of the Des Moines Register (inde, endent republ.can), while the New: News (independent) suggests “it Is beating the devil around the bush to add three delegates at large ta the re- ?ubh::m states of.1920 to offset th. ailure to cut In the south. The seems to be some querstion wheth the committeo has the power to over- ride the convention and fix the bas!. of representatton. Only the conven tion itself can drtermine that in th last analysis. It does not seem likely Lowever, that it would go to the length of affronting the colored vot by scaling down delegations accreq ited to it after they had presented themseives to the credentlais com mittee. Unfit for Matrimony. From the New York Tribuve. In a better organized society ¢..u the one we live in the youth who leaped into the Hudsen becauss' his sweetheart was late In ng ar appointment would be ruled wnsii gy matrimony. 2N | 7/ ’ 2 )