Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1923, Page 6

With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON. D. C. THURSDAY, ..December 27, 1923 THEODORE W. NOYES. ...Editor tered as imports. The art of burning bricks was in- troduced in Britain by Romans, but after the fall of Rome the industry there was neglected and then forgot- ten, It was revived in the fifteenth century and in 1626 an English ,much es they were in Gammer Gur- iton’s time. A dispute arose between ltwn ‘women over the ownership of a !darning needle. One sued the other ifor its possession. The lower court {had to pass up the case because under the law its jurisdiction did not involve articles worth more than 500,000,000 The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Statute standardized the size.of bricks. | marks. The present cost of a darning Dusiness Office, 11th St. and Pennsylvania Ave. New York Otfice: 110 42nd 8t Chicago Office: Tower Building. 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Just before the House recessed for the holidays Representative Britten introduced a bill calling for an ap- propriation of $600,000 for the pur- chase by the United States of the 1own of Quantico, Va. The purpsse ‘was to add the area to the Marine Corps establishment there. Now comes Gen, Lejeune, commandant of the corps, in his annual report, recommending this purchase and ex- plaining that conditions at Quantico «re “a menace to the morale of thou- £ands of young men stationed there. It would appear from Gen. Lejeune report that the town is insanitary and “an abode of bootleggers and other undesirable persons.” The ques- tion arises whether if Quantico were hought as a whole and the town elim- inated this would cure the evil of which Gen. Lejeune complains The yresent settlement would, of course, be wiped out of existence. But this would not necessarily mean a perm: vent relief from the undesirable con- citions of which complaint is made. Another settlement would be likely <0 develop on the outskirts of the reservation. With an pub- n of erved. blishment of several es at Quantico, even ent town were elim- inated, it is quite probable that shops would be set up on the confines of the reservation. It is natural for trade to develop in the immediate victnity of a large settlement or com- jaunity such as the marine establish- ment. Beyond the government res- ervation military jurisdiction would not extend, just as it does not extend st present into the town that already exists, This question will doubtless be thoroughly discussed in Congress as the proposal for the purchase of Quantico is pressed. Detailed dis- closure of the conditions of which complaint is made, and to cure which the appropriation is asked, will un- questionably be made. Perhaps, also, this matter of the possibility of a revival of the conditions by the de- velopment of a new community will be considered. I Meanwhile, whether an appropria- tion is made or not, it is most desira- ble that the evils at Quantico, which, 68 Gen, Lejeune says, are “a menace to the morale of thousands of youns | men,” should be fought by hoth the military and the state authorities. The latter can greatly help by co- operating with the federal officials to cure what is now described as a moral wore. Christmas and Grade Crossings. Storfes of death and injury at rail- road grade crossings come every day, hut collisions between trains and outomobiles are most frequent on Sundays and holidays. Trains may be fewer on those days, but more auto- moblles are on the road and the grade crossing takes a larger toll. The mewspapers usually print on Monday = batch of automobile accidents and 100 large a percentage of them are xrade crossing accidents. On the day vfter each general holiday the wires bring stories of automobile wrecks | «nd collisions between autos and | trains. The dispatches come from far and near. The list of Christmas srade-crossing accldents is not so long | and bloody as many summer Sunday lists, but it is too long. In the railroad grade crossing acci- dents the direct fault may rest with | the driver of the auto. Many drivers | are careless. If they were careful they would make sure that no train 1s close at.hand before crossing rail- Toad tracks. Drivers often approach vallroad tracks with such speed that | . they cannot stop on the near sgide. Rather than take time to make sure that the crossing can be made safely they take a chance, and many of them lose. It Is sad, but it is too big a job to make over human nature. It would be a less job to abolish grade crossings. Time is coming when no oteam railroad will cross a street or other public highway at grade, but it | is likely that many years will pass ‘before this reform will be made. But progress may be reported, for popular opposition to the grade crossing gains in strength. John Barleycorn threatens to assert himself as a reckless rival of Santa Ciaus himself in holiday mythology. The English Brick Legend. Houses in Maryland and Virginia "bullt of brick brought from England | s ballast” get a jolt from a Johnsl Hopkins professor, who says that the ! microscope shows that the bricks ' “were made of American clays. Vari-| ous men have said that not one of the ald houses in this part of the country @se built of English brick and that @enerally the bricks were made close | to the house site. They have pointed out traces of the clay pits. Among the early immigrants were English brickmakers, and it is assumed that they carried on their trade after ar- riving. Historians have said that the first brick house at Jamestown was built of brick made on Jamestown Island. There are no records of the | 1 45 cents per monih; Sundsy ouly, 20 cents per | The immigrant brickmakers made bricks according to the English stand- ard. It has been written that early rick bulldings on Manhattan Island were built of brick from Holland and the Encyclopedia Britannica says that the first American-burnt bricks were made at New Haven about 1650. In Thackeray's “Virginians” is writ- ten that the doting grandfather of Lydia Van Den Bosch, the Albany trader who moved to Virginia, built a house of brick brought from Hol- land near Castlewood, home of the Esmonds and Warringtons. But “The | Virginians™ 1s a romance. With the age and popularity of the belief that Maryland and Virginia mansions and churches were built of imported brick it would seem that there should be some foundation in fact. It may be that a few colonial houses were built of English brick and that that character came to be given to all houses and churches after they had grown old. Fire-Trap Hospitals. A year never seems to pass without fire in an asylum for the insane which causes most distressing loss of life. Sometimes reports of such trag- edies come close together. The latest disaster of this kind is reported from Chicago and tells of the burning of the Chicago State Hospital for the Insane, with the death of sixteen patients and one nurse, The fire broke out in and consumed a frame building used as a dormitory for tu- bercular patients. About 600 patients were in the building at the time of the fire and it is remarkable that the number of victims is not larger. Now will come the Investigation. It will be written in reports that the wooden building was old and unsuited to its use. It will probably be pointed out that in previous reports, to which no attention was paid, it was said that the fire danger was great There will be something like an overhauling in some other hospitals and the putting in of a few more fire extinguishers and fire escapes, and some wise and public-spirited persons will insist that flimsy hospital and asylum buildings should be replaced with safe struc- tures. Then will follow a period of calm and indifference until the next fire. In every state it seems that help- less, or nearly helpless, people are kept in buildings in which the fire danger is always present, We have dangerous buildings in the District. It has been proposed to replace the wooden buildings at Waiter Reed Hos- pital with proper and permanent structures, and if the hospital is to retain its present situation such buildings should be constructed with all possible speed. We are a very busy people and sometimes we are 80 busy that we are neglectful of many things. New York’s Housing Problem. As a result of exposure by the New York state commission on housing and regional planning of existence of shocking housing conditions in New York two plans are being discussed for relief. First, extension of the emergency rent laws for at least one year, and, second, e constitutional amendment to permit the state to extend its credit to municipalities or corporations which would build model tenements at a moderate rental. What the officials want is perma- nent relief, rather than a temporary measure such as the extension of the rent laws. In the opinion of Mrs. Henry Moscowitz, Gov. Smith’s con- fidential assistant in social welfare work and recognized as one of the ablest women engaged in that line of endeavor, a constitutional amendment such as proposed is the only perma- nent solution of the housing problem. But it could not become effective until approved by the voters in a referendum which would be had in the fall of 1925, if submitted by the legislature. In the meantime condi- tions in New York are said to be rapidly growing worse, In the tene- ment districts the morals of the citi- zens are threatened by the evils of overcrowding. There is no subject before the pub- lic of more importance than the hous- ing problem. It is of poignant inter- est in every large city and New York's treatment of it will be fol- lowed with interest everywhere. If New York can find a solution in the state-aided building proposition other cities would doubtless take it up. ——— Grown people assume to be making children happy at Christmas. Nor- mally, children are happy the year round. The holidays afford their elders a pretext for trying to share their frame of mind. e Money was spent lavishly in Europe during the Christmas season. Uncer- tainty of the value of money often accounts for a reckless inclination to get rid of it. A fight is sometimes incidental to an election, In Mexico the election is incidental to the fight. A German Gammer Gurton. The story of Gammer Gurton's reedle, told in what is believed to be at least the second oldest English play, proves not to be too strange for belief after all. That anclent tale is of the needle of a good wife which mysteriously disappeared and for ‘which a frantic search was made. For a needle then was rare and costly. Happy was the woman who possessed one. Gammer Gurton was made by @ mischief-making fellow to suspect her neighbor, and then ensued a series of ludicrous Incidents leading to the climax of the needle’s recovery, when Hodge, her man, found it pain- fully in the seat of his breeches, where it had been left in the course of a patching. This quaint old play, by the way, was very recently pro- duced in Washington, Now comes @ story from Kiel, Ger- needle in Germany is a billion marks. So that case has gone to a higher tribunal. Perhaps the trial of it will bring to light a story equal in in- iterest to that of Gammer Gurton. ‘Things have certainly gone back to archaic elements in that troubled land, ———ee————— Hijackers, Another interference rises in the way of the bootlegger, and another | word becomes prominent in the news- | papers. It may be an old word re- vived to do new work, but when it made its appearance in the news. papers not long ago it seemed to most readers to be a new word. It is “hi- jacker.” A hijacker preys on boot- leggers. He {s the booze bandit who halts the rum-runner on some quiet part of the road, takes liquor from him, or perhaps shoots him, throws him from the car and drives off with the load. The Assoclated Press sends a dispatch from an upper New York town that “the busy Canadian boot- leg market was thrown Into confusion today at news of renewed activities of hijackers waylaying, cargoes of Christmas liquor bound south and the evident tightening of the lines of pro- hibition agents near the border.” It is said in the dispatch, “If there is any one the average northern boot legger fears more than a state troope’ or federal agent it is the hijacker. Hijackers have been reported as oper- ating on roads near the Jersey coast and the coast of other eastern states, and the rum-runner who escapes the coast guard and prohibition agents stands a chance of falling in the way of a hijacker. The hijacker quickly turns from rum-bandit to rum-runner himself. Union Station for Busses. The proposal that there shall be at Washington a union station for sub- urban bus lines has progressed to the point where a survey has been made of eligible sites in the downtown dis- trict. Though no agreement has been reached that a central bus station will be established, it Is reported that the companies believe there is need for such a station and that agreement will be effeoted. The matter of cost is to be weighed agalnst the advantages of the plan. The question is to be ai cussed by managers and other repre- sentatives of the lines at a meeting. Suburban bus lines have grown In a way that was not foreseen a few years ago. There are now thirty bus lines running into the District, and it is reported that they are prospering, that they are increasing the number of their vehicles and extending their routes, and that new bus lines are in contemplation. A central station, with walting rooms and a general ticket office, would be a progressive step from the present curbstone terminals in meny parts of the cltv The Grecian politiclans, in inviting Venizelos to return, assume that a lite of excitement is a great induce- ment. The Russian language is difficult. of the sovietists never reach he ability to make it say precisely what they meant. Next summer’s conventions are now as strong in the attention of @ number of legislators as this winter's Con- gress. Frequent captures of bootleggers with pockets full of money prove that even if the farmer cannot derive a | profit from grain, somebody does. Operatic stars entertained at Sing Sing free of charge. A few convicts appear to have all the luck! John Barleycorn has done his ut- most to commercialize the term “Christmas cheer.” Mexico declined to feature peace on earth as this year's holiday sentiment. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Transmutation. We laughed at thought of change ‘when we were told That we would talk and travel through the air. ‘We laughed when warned that insti- tutions old Might fade away unless upheld with e. As on its way this busy planet hums, ‘We find, with hope still conguering dismay, The airy jest of yesteryear becomes The grave and urgent business of today. Consistency. ‘How will you spend New Year day?” ‘My time,” answered Senator Sor- ghum, “will be occupied at home as it 18 in Congress; with, bills and resolu- tiony Jud Tunkins says he can’t see how the sclentists who open ancient tombs are of much practical help. If they were to dig up an {mproved flivver or some good phonograph records it would be something to talk about. Christmas Cheer. Old Banta paused and shed a tear ‘Wher some one mentioned “Christ- mas cheer. He murmured, “Really, it's too bad I'.l.'onn me for a bootleg ad.” Scorn, “A feller in Bnake Ridge says he’s comin' over to the Gulch an’ shoot up the town.” ‘Yes,” rejoined Cactus Joe; “that ‘ud be just about a Snake Ridger’s idea of a New Year resolution.” “Dar am’ no true sincerity in wish in’ a man Happy New :Year,” salC old “ports of entry” to show that|many, which shows that needles are | Uncle Eben, “when de social occa ! .. bricks were dsuported, but whfilmmnmmmu sion 18 & sho' nuff serious ‘| the chief morive power, WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. Prohibition authorities in Wash- ington are eagerly awaliting the re- |newspaner | |sult of a nation-wide referendum to ybe taken among university students following the Christmas holldays. The referendum will be conducted by college newspapers. It represents the first attempt to secure a direct expression from undergraduates as to thelr attitude toward prohibition Answers to three questions will be sought: Do vou favor an amendment to the Constitution repealing the present puprohibition an actuality? Do you favor modification of the Volatead act, to permit the sale of lght wines and beer? & Do you favor more rigorous en- forcement of the prohibition amend- ment and the Volstead aet, to make prohibition an actuality? * k k% Georghi Vasilieviteh® Tchitcherin, Russ‘an foreirn minister, adversory of ‘Secretary Hughes In a diplomatic duel destined to be famous. spent the early vears of the world war in England. He lived in London where he established close relations with the British socialist partv, His activities were recarded en inimieal to the allied cause that Tchitehar'n was interned. In December 1917 the Beitish government rela-sed “im in rerurn for liherasion of Rritish con- cular officlale h~1A captive bv tha holshevists ‘n Russia. Tohitcherin 's a _pure Russian of zood familv 2nd has hern descrihed ns “one of those mysticallv santimental revolu- tionaries of whose sincerttv there een be mno dowbt Holdine the ‘wheen” or rank of a mnohleman T-hitcherin inherited from his rels tives a_considerahla actata, which ne A socialist he vo'nntar'ly Tenounced. Ma has heen in his relativ life of forty-five or fortv- an_exi'a in’ manv land. and e and wri‘es French. Gorman and ¥ne 'ish with groat fasility He fs small of stature. with droon'ng shonlders fong nose small red eves, s ndv-rol- ored beard and mustache and sandy- colored hair. * x % % The Tlinois Manufacturers’ Asso- clation, of which John M. Glenn fs golne to bring together in convention at Chi- cago, on January 14 and 15, a great gathering of farmers and manufac- turers. The idea is to hammer into the heads of both tillers of the sofl and industrialists that there’s no real conflict between “town and country” —that, indeed their Interests are in- dissolublv interlocked. Al of the ‘sore-thumb” {ssues that keep farm- ers awake at n'ght are to be dis- cussed by men of national prominence —taxation fre'ght rates, immigra- tlon. co-operative marksting and the ke, Dirt farmer: the bounding west are working hand in hand with captains of industry to make the convention a success. * * % % B. W. Fleisher, vrietor of the Japan Advertiser of Toklo, is coming to Washington in a day or two. The premises and prop- erty of the Advertiser, largest and from a'l over ! founder and pro- |ships and shipping j coast guord at the White House eloauently and | most influential foreign language rublished In the far east, were wiped out by the earthquake in Janan. = But, phoenix-live, . it has arisen from the ashes of devastation and will resuma publication on New Year day. While the roine of his ul‘,dln!l were still smoldering, Mr. Fie'sher ordered by cable from the Tnited States a complete and up-to- date ecuinment of presses. lino'voes ~nd other nrint-shon poravhernalia The Advertiser s American owned, and conducted so sucressfully on American 'inas that ft wenid do eradit fo an Ameriean city of Tokio's size, Sacretarv Hnehes Ambassador Hani- hara and the four Americans who have been ambaseadors to Taman dur- ine the past twente vegre—Thaman o ORrlen, Roland 8 Morrte (harles B Worren and Cvrus B Woods—bave mrisg frl‘:“‘n'!\'on«MVo the Advertiser on fta rehirth, r. Fleisher i Philadelphtan. he * ok ok ok Tt will ba a Avah =na drearv time for the attendants of the rennhllesn national convention at Cleveland If they he addloted to the hin habit The Ohio proh'hition laws maka it Tawful tn tranenart an alenholis A GVan, for nacsoRal Shmnese Tines un to 1400 are nosethla fo- ral nogeacainn g0 that “nrivate #0nTa" nen Nhaly ta E@an in amer. 1nwity Tha Ruslava atate meakihitinn thoriting nermicn t0 malen tha Tab- Feie matranolie enam Tiea 8 heneob ~f tha Sahara decart Anrine tha 70 P onowowow Tt le whisnerad et anartare that thosa arrangemante hava tha sgedial {'mA~=cement of the Coolidge high com- mand. * ok ox K Wriands of Sena‘or Georee H. Maoses ~horfginal occnnant of the € hend waenn. chided him mertiv, on the eva of his danarture for Chrigt- mas holidav in Now Hamnshira over olaga | nis tatiure to tndure the Presid-nt to eive him a coveted slice of vatropage rake. Moses. it appears. had a can- didate for*the commandancy of the He backed his favorite ferventlv. Ent somebedv else ot the ‘oh Moses is said to he lamenting good-natured'v that the immedia‘e and svstematic result of his promn- coming-out var‘y for Conlidgs is that he has almost been boycotted on is | patronage. * % ¥ % The port of New York emitted a plaintive Christm~s squeal over the fact that the natfon's greatest harbor is unrepresented on the United States Shipping Board. The Atlantic sea- board has Plummer of Maine and Benson of Georgla as its emissarics. other words.” observed a tearful edi- orial publisned on Manhattan Island, have = spokesmen on the Shipping Board, but, poor old New York is dis franchised” Plummer, who may be- :ome chairman of Pi ldge's reorganized board has been newspaper man, lawver and attorney fo the Atlantic Carriers’ Association in"his day. As a native of the rock- bound Maine coast, he has lived with folk throughout the sixty years of his life. During he Spanish-American war Plummer was n _assist nt paymaster in the United States Nay: (Copyr'ght. 1923 ) New Parliament Must Deal With Clergy Disabilities Bill BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY Great Britain's parliament, when it meets carly next month at Westmin- | ster. will be called upon to deal with w..at is known as the “clergy dis- abilities bilL” It is not generally known that, although ministers of the Methodist, Baptist, Free and United Presbyterian and other Protestant de- nominations, as well as Jewish rabbls, enjoy their parliamentary franchise and are allowed to sit in| the house of commons—indeed, there are quite a number of non-Anglican Protestant denominations represent- ed by their divines in the new par- llament—yet that the clergy of the Angiican State Church of England, of the Presoyterian State Church of Scotland and members of the Roman | Catholic priesthood, are epecifically ex- ciuded theierrom. Of course, the An- gucan Suate Church Is ex.ensively rep- resented in the upper house of the im- perial legislature by the leading members of the episcopacy, some twenty-six in number, each of them diocesans and situng as eo-calied spicicual loras of paruament. But it is Dot represented in any way in toa. house Of commons from wuence au tne most impuriant iegislation of tne realm may be said to emanate. * kK ¥ The disqualification of the Roman Cathollc priests from sitting in par- uament may be sad to have datell from the time of the reformation, when their refusal to regard tue goverelgn as supreme in spirituas things as well as temporal was ac- counced and punisocd s treason. ‘tnese d.sapiliies were parually aboushed in 15.9 by means of luc so-cailed Cathollc relief act, which removed most restrictions on Catn- oiles except that it teft them incapa- bie of fllung the office of regent v. the kinguom, and debarred their priests trom sitting in the house o1 commons. As for the exclusion of the clergy of the Church of kngland from tne house of commons, it dates back to wnte-retormation day part of the policy of Eward 1, in organizing parliament In its present form, to embrace the clergy in his scheme for the representation of all orders and cia.ses of his subjects. They were summoned to attend his pariiament in 1295 and in the suc- ceeding parliaments of his reign. But the clergy insisted on remaining aloof from the national and in restricting all their legisla- tive powers and participation in the government of the country to their own_Convocations of Canterbury and arliament . |be removed and | welcomed, | housé of is exclusion was based wholly on *he fact of hi: membership of the House of Convocation of Canterbury and not because he was in holy orders. * X X ¥ These disabilities are now about to there is no doubt that ensuing parliaments will be cnabled to profit by the exhortations of the prevent dean of St. Paul's nicknamed “the gloomy dean,” the Very Rev. Dr. Inge. That the Duke of Sutherland, now this country, should have been on his arrival in New York, by a salute of guns on passing Governors Island, and should have been recelved with milltary honors at the various military aviation sta tions which he has visited, is only natural, since he is in the Unitec States on an official mission as under secretary of state for the air min istry, and Its spokesman In the lords. He is also Lord Lieutenant of Sutherland, and the commanding general of the entire territoral forces of that huge county trom which he takes his title, and ic a soldier by profession, having seen active service with the’crack Scotch cavalry regiment of the British army namely, the Scots Greys. He i~ a very useful and wideawake neer. who has fillad a number of of- fices, including that of undersecre- tary of state for the colonies, and King George's high comm'ssioner at Edinburgh. Moreover, he has a keen practical knowledge 'and even gift for mechanics, like his grandfather. the third duke, and has Invested a ~onniderable- amount of money in in {agricultural property in Canada. hav- ng an immense ranch at Brooks, in the province of Alherta. Greatly to their sorrow, the duke and his very fascinating duchess have no children and, inasmuch as= the next he'r is certaln of his neer: azes. including the aneient Scottich ~arldom_ of Sv*heriand. mow over 700 ears old. da‘ing from A.D. 1230, is a little half-American girl, whila hic Aukedom will ®o to an English ~ousin. & few words on the sublect may be of timely interest. The little ~irl who is next jin the l'ne of anncession to tha earldem {s three. vear-old Elizabeth Millicant T.eveson. “awer. whose fathar, only brother of the duke. the late Lord Alostair Taeveson-Gower of the Roval Horee Gnarde. dted very suddsnlv and nn- exne~tadly in Somth Afri~a in 1921 lesving, alone with hic child, a widow. FEllzaheth Demorect. elder dsughfar of Warren G. Demorest of New York. and sister of the some- what wavward voung lady who jilted her Amarican flance in order to wed young Count Bela Zichy. P In the event of little Miss Eliza- Ibeth Millicent Leveson-Gower dving of York, spparently assuming thatiin her girlhood. or. after growing un they were forfeiting their legisla-|ang marryine. to share tive powers by consentinj K the popu: them with other classes lation. In fact, the right of clergy to be elected and sit in th house of commons Wwas, lost by disuse and was only very occasionally exercised, potably by Edward Rushworth, a clergyman the Church of England, the hou'.e of commons for Wight in 1784, and of Dr. Took, who, altFough a clergyman of the Church of England, represented Salisbury in parliament in 1801, un- til the latter. largely by reason of his political activities against the crown, enacted a law which rendered all clergymen of the State Church of England ineligible to sit in the house of commons. * * k% The Rev. Dr. John Horne Took was one of the stormy petrels of his time, | thg ~acond Anta, in perpetual bad odor with the gov- ernment, and, in 1777, Incurred a years imprisonment by order of ord Man fleld, presiding at the iing’s bench, advertisement signed by himself ' water. Son the re- | Retdeawatar laft hi soliciting subscriptions for of of the relatives of the Americans | tuna. ~ompri ‘murdered by the king’s troops at _exington and at Concord.” "It is snly since his time, that {s to say, ince the beginning of the ntury, that ymen _of “hurch of Engl uded_from the house of commions, ‘or if the election of Dr. Nowell, ean of St. Paul' in the sixtesnth in_reality, | ter, ) | for having_published ! fortune of the lest Tnie and 'have been ex-lond son. Lord Francls Ewerto Cathedral, waa in- | oentury, ' Barl of then dving without issue, the earldom of Sutherland and the | the entalled estates attachad therato ould =o tn the nresent duke's s! Tadv Rneoma now the wife of Viseount Fdnvm. the eldast son and heir of the Earl of Dudlev. So ofithat it Ia by no means {mnossible who sat In!that the ancient earldom of Suther the Isle of I1and wonld hecome assoclated with Horne i the earldom of Mndley. A« for the Dulve of Sutharland™ Fnelish honare. insluding the dnke. dom_of Sntherland. the marquisate of Stafford. and the ear'dom of Cower. they will.: on- the death of the nresent incimbent, nass *o hie wousin. Frederisk _Levesan-Gower. farmerlv membar of narliament of Qutherland, a confrmad hashelor of fi‘ty. and a memher of the har., son of the later Tord Alhert Teveson- Cower. who Wwas A vouneer son of Tn the evant of his nassine 0wt withant leans, the drire- Aam of Sutherland »nd the other Fnelleh honore go tn tha nresant and fonrth War of Flla hatr #nA owner of tha great and t_Rridre- and Tast Dnta of immean-e for. tha contro'line in- tarest In most of the canale which %o to mave np Great Rritain's ex. tensive inland navigation. to hie The thie last | nevhew. the firat Duke of Sutherland the | with a revaraien to the Intter's se~- wha by rea~om of his ereat noseessions b2 oy andow: Was cre Ellesmere, offictal | 3ath and Savannah. fin | sident Cool- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. O, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1923, THE EVENING STAR bricks os ballast might not be rosts The North Window BY LEILA MECHLIN In Emporia, Kans, an exhibition of paintings by Willlam P. Silva, formerly of Washington, now of California, was recently held In an improvised gallery at Teachers' Col- lege. The school children of Emporia visited this exhibition and those in charge noticed one day a fourth grade boy examining carefully the exhibits and his catalogue, apparent- 1y In search of some particular pic- ture. When approached, he sald that he was there because his teacher had sent him (he had lingered, however. because he had become interested), and what he wanted to know was what had become of picture No, The name was “Haszy Morning," and “I guess It isn't here” he said, “but where do you suppose thgt plcture i8?” Some one, S0 the story rums, suggested that perhaps the picture was the one that was sold In Wihita, where the exhibition had besn shown before going to Em- poria. “Do they sell 'em?" the boy asked, Incredulous'v. “Why, what do neople do with "em?” According to report, this boy came from a home where there were fine wrints, and the chronicler of the in- ~ident wisely commented that he wa not alone in his attitude toward gal- lery pictures, adding, “Too many peo- le think that originals are only for ealleries. forgetting that artists can- not live on exhih‘tions and must sell their productions.” * % ¥ ¥ There are some persons today who are of the opinion that exhibitions are detrimental to art, arguing that the great art of the past was produced in each instance for some particular place, not for any place, and that it was produced, as a rule, on order, no primarily for display. But certainly exhibi‘fons do glve great pleasure, and many who cannot afford to own naintings” by the leading cotempo- rary artists can in this way become acqualnted with them and make them, as it were, their own. Yet it is true that too few covet posse“sion to the degree of extravagance, that extravagance which, occasionally in- duleed in, glves keenest delight An exhibition of water colors by the leading American water colorists was shown some years ago in a southern city. A visitor lookine around at the exhibitr inquired if {they were the works of local artists Baing to'd no. she then made inquiry as to_ whether the exhibition wa- haine held a< a charity. for the bene- fit of some fund. and when again the | "en'y was in the negative. she ex- afmed. with evident imnatience “Well, then. what Is it for?” There are mome peonle that are biind tr heauty in paint'nes. fust a~ other are @eaf to musical harmonies, but aven with such. cultivation ~2n do 2 great deal; all are not incurable. * % % * Mention was made of the fact tha |*he fourth grade boy in the Silve | exhibition at Emporia came from a {home where there were fine prints Probably there are more good print: ‘n private homes in the state of | | Kansas than any other state in the | 17nion, excepting Mas-achusetts, New vork and Pennsylvana, which_in- lude_within thelr houndaries Boe on, New York and Philadeiphia. An? thene Kansas homes whish ear noast fine imnression: of Whistler Rembrandr. Had~n and other master atchers’ nlates are for the most par {*arm houses. Amazing as this mav ~eem, the reason is logical and not far to seek. A vonng man named Smalley whase father kent a feed store in 2 “irtle ~ity of Kansas, berame a lover Af nrints, ~ateh‘ng the co''e~tor’s en- +huatasm from an artist—Rir~a~ Sandzen. whe has heen teaching for ~anv yeare« in Rethany Collare. Mr am~sl'ay ac his means nermitted. ho- »an co'lestine atchines and nut them “n in his ofire fn his father's feed tore, Aa the farmers came In te ey faad for their rattls he talved te *vem 2bm nrinte—satehings—and eo inalove Af thia farm nf art snrand to hasama a nrint ~h his in- f thoea fin have fonnd the'r way inte Traneas farm hames. There an A1Q saving that “A W=l in +ha han? worth two in the hneh! This oht eastly he tranemn-ed to reAd faed hnoine: i two in the gal'arv.” * x k% A lntter recently received from an Amerfean artist in Parls refers tr +ha Salon des Automes and des Tn Aanmandents as “vast lahoratortas in which all sorts of terrihle %wultura~ re allowed to develon under favor- ne sirsumetances. nnhindared exeent SV the reactions and tavine resnitin~ ram thamealves ™ “Tinda= these con Attiona ” the writer eantin ean Sral madarnist dastrines kava com- Natad their cvele and ol that ra- maine of them fe #ha Tahala hy whish Thav wara anma desiomated. Onnosi- Hon has had an effect contrary to “na fnfantinn of the annnenre” Tames Parans, a Fransh weiter an wmodern art. fn anoted an Andino “he nat inenirne mamt of madarnfem SWAt which veatardav was art hut {- e hasaming eamathing clea® Tha aefist anrraenandent. who fa hime andarnist, declares thia to ha anite and s0 coneludes that “art s Aand Thes stataments and this dadne. o e inbaranting | from | ssvarel intaat wiaw. Aeat. hamanea thav A meam ta indleata that tha av. Teama Cmntamniate fhemealves awa Nmva thaf thav have etannad ante 27 tha honnAare AP art and Are naw 2 aRy to anrmandae the fald ta nthare im0 ae ehawine how fmnetiant we N ey W vaedv tn crv an and ~wan accomnlishment is not imme- Atate, L There are comnarativelv. faw praat works of art In the mracent exhihi- ion at the Carcoran Gallerv of Art— in fact, there mav be nona—hut there e much art—eood art. #00d naintine Masternieces are not produced everv Aay or eve~v year or every derade. We have had but one Shakesneare. 1t one Velasgnez. but one Resthaven. mnt far this reason we shou'd not Alacard the lewser noets. nainters. musieians. nar hold too cheanlv those of our own Aav who are carrvine o for from ftheir effor's mav sometima he hown the great genius whoee lizht will {lluminata not mere'v his own time. aut the azes yet to come. A_ereat portralt nainter ex~laimed n dnsnair the other day. when ex- aminine a work bv a master of th early Amerinan achool: ¥How d'a *hev do 1t?" he sald. *“There is not one among us the'r eanal tod: But is it mot nrohahla that whan thesa nistures were baing nainted there were those who lamented the death of art. and saw nothing in what was *hen heine nroduced. no promise for the futwra? iveams ranaate itself. Opportunities Today As Plentiful as Ever Solomon once remarked that “There s nothing new under the sun,” and then proceeded to contradict himself. | Barre Record, however, argues that. From that day to this there have been many with less wisdom who have be- lieved as Solomon p-eached. but. un- like Solomon, have mee'ly surrender- ad to_their: bellef. That man ls doomed to failure and mediocrity who helieves that everything that can be done has been done by those before him. and legion are the doomed. They are fow in number who h no ambition to gain either fame. fo: tune or power but innumerar'e a-e those who, though possessed of th; ambition, are persuaded that oppor- tunity Is dead. This rear & man recsived $1.000.000 in royaities on a simrle toy invented by him, another made millions on an ice cream confection, another gained immortality f'om his pen. Is there any better proof that opportunity is lflore alive than evert—Sandusky Reg- Aftar 2. whila Mr. Smallev ahandnned | BY FREDERI Q. What is the difference between delft and delftware?—M. R. A. The ware made in England is generally termed delftware to dis- tinguish it from the trus Duteh delft, Q. Didn’t Blaine re-elve more votes than Cleveland in 18847—G. M. A. In the election of 1834, the re- publican ticket, Blaine and Lozar received a plurality of little more than 20,000 fn the popular vote, but Cleveland had a mafority of thirty- seven in the electoral college. Q. Tn it mecessary to dry milk cans?—C. S. C. A. The Devartment of Acriculturs <ays that hacteria increase muc’ more rapidly on wet cans. The can should be steam sterilized and drie? Q. Why are deaf peovle not sub- fect to seasfchness?—L. 8. A. Inasmuch_as this condition i -aused by a reflex disturbance of the rervous _ svstem, particularly the -anals of the ears, peonle who have ‘mpaired hearing are not so apt t- he subject to this disturbance. ©O. Did the composer. Reginald dr aven, ever live in Washington?— F. R. A. De Koven lived in Wachinetor ‘rom 1972 to 1904 ae conductor of the Washington ©+~~hony Orchestr- Q. Tn what ha was the Amer tran flag firet used?—H. H. A. The American flam was firet un d on land in the fieht at Conr> 2-1Are. Del, on September 3. 1777 The anat i marked with a handsom- monument. O. What eavte “e Ortoher moo- o e at nearlv the eame time fr everal nights in enecacsion?—S, A. ™ A, Tha Naval Ohcarvatory save the ricing of the October moon at nas the game time for several nivhts is wlatnad n ot tavt ¥ 5¢ @5 anrintive actronomy. e, “The Farvest Moon. The nhe- momenan cemirs most steikinely at tha time of the fll monn nearest *n the antnmnal enuinox. Sentemher 22 At that time the moon’s ohit makes a yerv amall angle with the horizo @n that 115 daflv orbital motion dres not_much retard its time ‘of risng an successive njehee 1 Q. Where are junior republics lo- ~ated”—W., E B. A. There are funfor remublics lo- rated at the following places: Free- ville, Y.: Reddine*on, Pa - An. manolis Tunotlon, Titehfield. {~onn.> Chino, Calif.; Flemington, . J. Grove City, Pa., and Mores wn, N. J. Q. Who was cal'ed the “father of Mexican independence”?—V. R. S | _A. This title was given to Miguel | ¥idaleo Castilla. a Maxican bpriest, | who lived from 1752-1811. He star-cd {2 movement for indenendence which ~0st him his life. Some years later | he was extolled as a saint and the { new-born republic erected 2 magnifi- { cent statue to him. { Q. How many miles of navieable rivers are there in the United States? —H. McD. A. It is estimated that there are on he mainlerd ¢ the T'nited Srarer about 25.000 miles of navigated riv ars, 2,500 miles of canals. many thou- <ands of miles of regularly navigated waters in lakes and bays and more than 2,500 miles of sounds, bays and bayous. { Secretary Denby's announcement *f the Navy's proposed aero fash to *ho north, pole strikes a responsive ‘hord throughout the United States. *side from the sclentific value of the ‘xpedition, the probable mapping of ranspolar air routes between north. rn Europe and the Pacific, and the i rozen north which extends beyond ‘he ranks of the hardy adventurers who have penetrated its mysteries. As the Muncie Star puts it, “the prospects of carrying the American lag into reglons wh'ch have not xnown the white man is peculiarly { fascinatin; besides, “the people of his country have also felt a sense | »f ownership in the north pole itself iccause an Amer'can was the first to reach the top of the world." The At- lanta Journal s thrilled with that { thought of “the soaring flight over la brilliant map that changed daily. {almost hourly, from the vivid green ~f summer toward the dazzling white and green of the ‘ce floes and the parkling sea between, and through al! would run the spirit of the quest —the quest of the north pole—that has been the magnet of so many valiant expeditions. with only one aporoximating sucoess.” Anvway. “while the specialists are withhold- ‘'ng a verdict, we lavmen may allow ~ur faney a’flight or two. even If the Shenandoah or any other gisnt dirigible never in our fay essavs the g The Nashville Banner t is a daring conception. but one which seems to have at least roasonable prospects of sucress” At anv rate, “it is an interesting prop- nsition, with the elements of pure ad- venture attached to ‘t.and the men who actually go will have the best wishes of the country. however much it may +hink that they don’t know exactly where they are flying.” * ¥ *x X A few years ago such an announce- ment, according to the New London Day, “would have been greeted with jeers and not a few of our public- minded citizens would have raised a how! that such an attempt would mean nothing short of death for the explorers. hut this country has so ad- vanced that little attention Is being who do stop to consider it, probably, if asked, would unhesitatingly d clare that such a trip is feasible. The United States will derive littie material bonefit from flying across the pole, the Ann Arbor Times-News clalms, but “the observations taken by the voyagers will be valuable for jaclentific records; also the trip serve as a test of the dirigible’s durability, not to mention the honor accruing to the first nation that sends an_expedition over the top of the earth. The Flint Journal recalls that “it Is the bellef of Lieut. Commander Fitzhugh Green of the United States Navy that in the center of the polar area there may be an undiscovered and unexplored continent of a million square miles of habitable land. He announces his plan to locate it. There probably is considerable inhabitable not be a great surprise were a_new continent discovered there. True, Mr. Green speculates, but he does with reasonable cause.” The Wilkes- “In a practical sense It makes little difference whether there is land or water and fce—the land could not be There would be nothing ut sentiment in its possession, y: there Is interest in the proposed air- iship journey, mainly because it will be something new in adventure, ‘and hecause it will further demonstraf possibilities with that type of craft."” * Kk % The Manchester Union is confident that ¥the naval officers can be de- pended upon for thorough work in discovering the manner of region that exists about the pole”; however, “no amount of foresight can remove all handicups to polar exploration, or provide against all emergencles, but lh.o*h Do manner of dsubt under the hend- | pald to the proposed trip, and those | land in the Arctic circle. and it would , ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS C J. HASKIN Q. Was Robert G. In = publican or & democratioft L D¢ A. Robert G. Ingersoll was n0- crat and active in that p::‘;'adz'flxv tics until after the civil war, when he hecame a republican. flQ‘. ‘:fl'fin h'z!"? insane b rst established in this M C.8. s A. The first state hospital f exclusive care of Insane patients o established at Willlamsburg 1768, and its firet patients mitted in 1773 ftals ¥ Q. Where did the expression friend” originate?—H. B. S, A. The practice of nermitting tewally incomnetent persen to his next friend or'g 't was first authorized 1 0f Wastminster, passcd of Bdward L Q. Are twins held In high regard among Indians?—K. L. A Twing sre usualy canny and are regardad 2 rather feared o rowar, Amny ame Oregon and. other coast tribe ‘hev were once rerarded as abnor and one or both were killed, Q. When hour law effective?—E. C. A. The Adamsen eight-hour B TS Sy Sl P isiened by Precident tamber 2 1918 but it act untfl Januory 1 1917. Tn 1838, “onerese nassed a law fixing efeht hours #s a dav's work in all govern- ment employment. the national eight- law, warlers, was Tilcon on’ Sep- not take af- O. From what is the cross-line of sicht-line of a surveyor's instrument made?—C. A. G. A. A epiderweb Q. How does a lamnrey eel differ from other 187—H. W, A. Lamnrevs or lamperns are ~haracterized hv the nossession of & sirenlar mouth formed for sucking ir true Jaws. Thev attach s tn and other ob- ‘m\' |,:_; hyhr.v sucker manths, and \<p to fishes fram which fhev sscape *he flesh with their rasping teeth, Q. What is a xybele?—F. W. A. This is the name of an anclent machine of war, in the form of & catapult. 0 How e d it he nessihle *0 Add tn the scranee of the farms In *he United States’—K. A. Tt is nocethle to increaca the area of imnroved land abont 206000, 200 ncres. or &0 ner cont This would he aeromnlished by irrigation. drain- age, clearing ard A-v farming Q. Ts there a Japanese symbol for Adeiity'—B. E. 8. i “ A Tn Japanese art the hamhoo u;nr]i as a symbol of constancy and Adeli Q What is a coalition cabinet?— L3 C. A. A coalition cabinet which memhers of all represented. is one fn parties are (The person who 'oses out is the one who guesses. The person who gets on is alwaps the ome whn acts upon_reliable information. This pa- per employs Frederic J. Haskin to conduct an information bureau for the public. There s no charge ez- cept 2 cen’s in stamns for return postage Write to him ‘today for any facts you desive. Your inquiry show'd be addressed to The Star In- formation Bureau. Frederio J. Has- kin, director, 1220 North Capitol street ) 'Entire Nation Will Applaud Navy’s Search for North Pole { that the naval expedition of 1924 will undertake its tak with thorough preparation and the best of chances | of important results” In the opin- |lon of the New York Herald “the | objectives which make the enterprise | worth while are the surveying and possibly the mapping of a great |area of unexplored land. ice and | water; th® study of air ourrents, as a result, the determination o |across the pole”; furthermore, thers | is the possibility 'of British or French competition, which “should be wel- |comed by the United States naval | authorities, for a great deal of sport- ing interest will be attached to the | firt successful flight, by airplane or |airship, over the nole. | % ¥ “The situation surrounding the north pole has never been satisfac- torily cleared up,” declares the Chat- tanooga News, which says: “Follow- ing the Cook flasco the world settled down to an acceptance of the lato Admiral Peary's claims of discovery. But they were, even at face value, rather meager in the Information which they brought to light. Some of it has since been disputed. A flight, if successfully conducted, from Cape’Barrow, Alaska, would add con- siderably to 'the stock of Arctic in- formation. It would cover a_ route rot heretofore traveled,” while the Omaha World-Herald agrees vall suc- cess is hoped for this expedition, not only that Admiral Peary might stand vindicated in the eyes of the doubt- ers, but that the world might know the facts regarding a portion of the globe that has always been more or less of a puzzle.” Perhaps one of the interesting things in connection with the trip, continues the Waterloo Tribune, “will be the fnding of Peary's 'records and data’; besides, “when the Navy starts out on a trip like that there will be confidence In it, for the accounts of the excursion will be believed more readily than if made by private parties,” but “if the trip is not successful it will be worth the effort—worth the effort because it Wil be an experience that will result profitably, for the mis- takes of today will be noted and the remedy applied tomorrow.” To whick the Canton News adds, “The Navy at least shows the courage to point the way and heroically goes ahead with its plans to give substance to a dream that long vears ago was evoived In the mind of the real discoverer of the pole”: anyway, “the enterprise will partake of ~world-wide _signifi- ance, and the Marion Star concludes the United States Navy, In making ithe trip, will be writing a new chap- lter in world hi“tory—a chapter thai {Americans_will be keen to read,” will | while the Bay City Times-Tribune is !thrilled with the prospects that “a ! group of men carrying the Stars and Stripes and wearing_ the United States Navy may radio back that they are in reality ‘sittin’ on the ton of the earth.'” {*Hicks*> Not the Only Financial Easy Mark Had you thought that only “hicke” were awed by mahogany and plate |81ass, a glib tongue and an “up-and- iat-'em" business bustle? Then you 1 know better now. For accounts of the operations of Leo Koretz fugi- itive swindler, show shrewd mer: ichants, bankers and other businces ‘men, falling hardest. Mr. Koretz had the grand air. He had ‘em begging % |him to take their money for worth- less Bayano stock. “Yes, we have no Bayano” was the framed motto over bis desk. Clever, eh? Regular be- {man stufr! To be sure, Mr. Koretzs ou weis were away off in Panama, and that is where the cuckoo birds roost high. {Bnt when admiring friends threw a jdinner for their financial genius, who was the life of the party? Who, nesd we as, made those red-blooded speeches filled with Babhitt snap and jpunch that caused the diners to ham- mer on the table with knives and feasibility of standard air routes s N ro3sible exploration of an unknuwn“@fafl’fl'fl“fl’"‘ and weather conditions j\ “A wart of = in the home s worth | ‘ontinent, there i3 a lure about the| 3y the uniform of t forks? Yes, Mr. Koretz was what is® called a recular go-getter. He got ‘close to $10,000,000, and now ho's one—Milwa Jor N