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6 . THE EVENING STAR |sus may present even greater difficul- Who has playedi Chiistus thrice et the With Sundsy Morning Edition, ties than have yet been encountered, | tén-year period, wept at bidding fare- e——————— | Even when the sarcophagus is re-| Well to New Yorlk frishds and said, “A WASHINGTON, D. C. moved, for emplacement in the mu-|dream has come true. ‘A terrible con- FRIDAY........January 4, 1924 |%€um at Cairo, there will remain g [dition of things at home hes eaten . 0, FRIDAY, JANUARY $amg Gl ) i ; WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS || Tt8Sale Critcioed. ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS D. C. Sysom Dedared Neodlemly BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Hard for Motorists. THEODORE W. NOYES The Evening Star Newspaper Company 4 oz iy The Evening Star, with the Sunday edition, is delivered by ecarriers within the city 8% 60 cents por month; dally only. 45 cests per month; Sunday only, 20 cemts fagnth. Orders may be sent by mall or tele- phoae . “Collection 18 made by car- riers at the end of each month, Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia, Daily and Sunday. .1 yr., $8.40; 1 mo., T0c Daily only 1yr., $6.00; 1 mo., 50¢ Sunday onl .1¥r., §2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ = All Other States. ai d Sunday.1 yr., $10.00 DAY Sh Sonter 1T 0t e $3.00; 1 mo., Fiaine l Associated Press is exclusively entitied to the use for republication of ail news dis- atches credited ta it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub- ed berein. Al rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also-reserved. —_— e A New Ship Plan. As a first step in establishing a per- manent policy for the government- owned overseas merchant fleet, Presi- dent Coolidge has determined to place the operation of the ships under the | direct control of the president of the | Emergency Fleet Corporation. The Shipping Board is to become an ad- visory and regulatory body, function- ing with regard to shipping, both pri- vately owned and government owned, as the Interstate Commerce Commis- sion functions with regard to the rail- The President ik to be congratulated upon tackling the problem of the American overseas merchant marine with s0 much decision. In view of the failure of the proposed bill for govern- | ment aid to overseas merchant ship- ping, the ship subsidy plan, it has be- come apparent that for the time being, and perhaps for an extended period, the government must operate its own ships. The President Is therefore searching for the most efficient and economical method of carrying on the operation of the government fleet, which he insists must be maintained as a measure of national defense and also to aid American commerce. In the step now announced he has taken | cognizance of the recommendation: made to him by Senator Jones of | Washington, chairman of the Senate commerce committee, and other mem- bers of Congress, as well as of recom- mendations made to him by Edward P. Farley, retiring chairman of "the Shipping Board, and men engaged in large private business organizations. | The President, it is said, has be- | come convinced that the most efficient | and economical operation of the fleet | can be obtained through a unified con- | trol, with one directing mind at the head, as is the case of all successful business operations. He is seeking to bring this about under existing law, which contemplates the operation of the vessels of the government by the Emergency Fleet Corporation and not by the Shipping Board. Whether legis- iation will be required to make this method of operation entirely cffective and permanent remains to be seen. Of the greatest importance to Amer- ican overseas shipping is the estab- | lishment of a permanent policy to keep the American flag on theseas. The name of the Emergency Fleet Corporation should be changed, and without delay, so that the impression spread abroad that it is @ corporation enly for an emergency and temporary should be erased. ° In the selection of former Rear Ad- miral Leigh C. Palmer to head the Flest Corporation and handle the gov- | ernment vessels the President has! made & most happy choice. Admiral Palmer’s record in the Navy was bril- liant. He ‘s thoroughly conversant with shipping and shipping problems. He has represented the Shipping Board in South America, and recently has studied the situation in Europe at first hand. ——— It is evidently Senator Hiram John- son's determination to get as much as possible of- the hard work of his campaign over with before the hot weather sets in. —————— Reports of holiday festivities indi- cate that the great European capitals are still trying to give the tourist as g00d a time as he is able to pay for. —————— Tut-ankh-Amen’s Sarcophagus. Every few days news comes from Luzxor, Egypt, of progress in the open- ingof thetomb of King Tut-ankh-Amen, and with each step coms revelations of greater wonders than. were imag- ined at the first diecovery of the burial vlace. Slowly and with great dim- culty ingress is being effected into the nest of shrines that were found in the mortuary chamber beyond the third of the sealed doors through which the late Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter penetrated a year ago. . Editor wealth of treasure to be examined. | Out our hearts since we arrived here, The contents of the chamber leading | but We take renewed courage at the off from the sanctuary will yleld, it ia [ T&gnificent response mage by the expected, objects of artistic and his. [ Public here.” . | - . torical value surpassing those that|. The “Passion Play” of Oberam- have yet been brought to light, And |Mmersau has interested a great number there is another chamber et to be ex- | °f Christians, but there wes & wave plored. That lies on the farther side of [ f Interest in it in the United States the ante-chamber almost directly oppo- {7 the early '90s, and this was particu- site the entrance door. That has been [ 1371 true as to Washingtort. Many of left because it is known by inspection | OUF People attended the representation through a peep-hole made through the | °f the Dlay for that decade, and scores ‘masonry that the contents are in the | ©f 10cal lecturers told in church, hall { greatest confusion. and parlor the story of Oberammer- gau and generally illustrated .their. discourse with, “stereopticon views. Sometimes the_“stereopticon views" For this tomb was pillaged centuries ago. Tt is esti- mated that thieves entered it as quick- | 1y as ten or fifteen years after the | sanctuary chamber. death of the Pharaoh. The holes they C | made through the varigus doors, cach Jjust small enough to admit a crawling man, were probably soon afterward filled with rubble and plaster, the marks of the repairs being plainly visible when the present explorers entered. No /attempt, it seems, was made to restore order in the far cham- ber opposite the entrance, but a rough rearrangement of the comtents of the ante-chamber was effected. There was evidently little pillaging in the store- room that is reached through the So far there is no evidence of any looting in the mortuary chamber itself. were after gold, and fortunately they {left bulkier objects untouched and with little or no damage. ————— Politics Warming Up. In the canips of the republican and democratic aspirants for the presi- !dential nommation there are increas- ing evidences of activity as the new vear opens. Senator Underwood an- nounces that he will begin another |series of speeches, opening in Cleve- land and Akron, Ohio, on the 22d. Mr. McAdoo appoints Robert Woolley campaign manager for New York and {opens headquarters in that city. Sen- ator Johnson attacks the republican national committee for its action on southern delegate apportionment and inferentially the administration, and renews his opposition to the world court. Renewed rumors are heard of the :ontest for the nomination, which probably will cause former Gov. Low- den to “sit up and take notice.” Gov. Lowden’s one best bet will be in event of Gov. Pinchot securing enough dele- gates from the progressive strength of Pennsylvania and other states to deadlock the convention, in which event he would offer himself as a compromise candidate. But would it be considered “clubby” for G Pinchot to split the progres- sives and take a section of them from Senator Johnson? It might be that he would think perhaps he could hold some progressives who would not go to the California senator and later “deliver” them. Meantime Assistant Manager Goode of the Coolidge forces drops into ‘Washington from the Chicago head- quarters and reports the Coolidge prospects in the west to be “looking fine.” The Coolidge managers in a number of states in the central west {report that they are feceiving tele- grams and letters in numbers to indi- cate that the President is growing in public estimation. Soon the state conventions and pri- maries for selection of delegates will commence, there will come a “show down" on the strength of the ca:idi- dates and there will be politics and politics and yet more politics. —————————— “Onward, Christian Soldiers.” The passing from the earth of the author of “Onward, Christian Soldiers™ will touch millions of hearts, The man who wrote it, Rev. Sabine Bar- ing-Gould, has just died within a few days of the age of ninety years. It ie one of the hymns that have made & {deep impression on religious-minded people and on those whose thoughts are not much given to religion. It may surprise many persons that the hymn was written in 1864, No doubt those who use & hymnal know that it is an old song, but probably thou- sands of people think of it as modern. Of course, compared with many fa- mous hymns it is new. It was sung by hundreds of thousands of people during the years of the Moody and Sankey Tevivals, and after the passing of Bankey great audiences or congre- gations at the Moody meetings carried on this song. A song that was sung at’ those revivals' must be somewhat old, for Dwight Lymen Moody. under direction of the Christian commission, was preaching to soldiers during the civil war, and he and Ira D. Sankey, the singing evangelist, joined hands in 1870. But it was after the return of Moody and Bankey from their evangelizing tour of the British is- lands in the mid "70s that their names became household words in the United States. Mahy Washington people will At that time they found the chamber to be filled within two feet of the remember that when Moody held his monster meetings {n Convention Hall possible entry of Gov. Pinchot in the | were “colored,” and that gave much interest to them. In the middle ages “mystery plays” in holy week were a common form of devotional entertainment throughout Europe. When the reformation came they were suppressed in some coun- tries, and in Germany were enacted only in Bavaria, the Tyrol and the Salzburg Alps. King Maximilian Jo- seph I in the eighteenth century for- bade the representation of the * sion Play” or “mystery plays” in every part of his domain except in the village of Oberammergau, Bavaria. ‘There the play had been acted at regu- lar intervals since 1633. The story is valley in which it is, having escaped ‘one of those plagues that used to sweep over Europe, made the vow {that they would render the “Passion {Play" every ten years. Upward of 600 people take part in the representa- tion, and the character of Christ is always represented by a villager cele- brated for piety and good works. District Industries. Figures relating to commercial breadmaking in the District given out by the Department of Labor are en- lightening. Statisticians of that de- partment find that the average labor cost of bread in Washington is 1.17| cents per pound, while in Baltimore it is one-half cent a pound. Washing- ton men engaged in breadmaking get T4 cents an hour and in Baltimore 54 cents an hour. Bakery wages and the wage cost per pound of bread are higher in Washington than in New York and Philadelphia. According to the foutrteenth census, the manufacture of bread and other bakery products stood second among the non-government industries of the District as an. employer of labor, power laundries standing first with 1,655 wage earners and a total of 1,804 persons engaged in the industry. In bread and other bakery products the number of wage earners employed was 1,321. There were seventy-four bakery establishments, with a value of product of $10,626,000 and a value add- ed by manufacture of $4,393,000. ing industry in value of product and in value added by manufacture was printing and publishing of newspapers and periodicals, with 808 wige earn- ers and a value of product of §11,898,- 000, with value added by manufacturs of $9,099,000. If to this,be added the book and job printing end’publishing industry, with 1,024 wWage earners, value of product of $3,975,000 and add- ed by manufacture of $2,549,000, the printing and publishing industry in the District heads all private District industries reported on by the census in number of wage earners and value of product. But the figures for bread and bakery products show that it i= a “leading” industry ————— Gov. Pinchot may begin to suspect that the questions of coal prices and prohibition are entangled. A estate with so persistent and expensive a thirst as Pennsylvania is accused of must get high prices to meet its tastes. ——————— It has taken about this long to enadle some of the overenthusiastic New Year eve diners to get back to the enjoyment of a soft-boiled egg and & strong cup of coffee. ————— Being tax free already, owing to the peculiar circumstanges of his busi. ness, the bootlegger does not care 'whether there is any tax reduction or not. ————————— SHOOTING STARS. BY PRILANDER JOHKEON. Joyous Profusion. They tell us laughs are very fow And far between, It is & statement quite untrue, By glancing at the placards gay ‘When you are traveling on your way In any street car, any dav, - 'With mind serene. To name en articis they print BSome quip well done. Each package, too, reveals a hint Of subtle fun, I dare not read the merry joke 8s- | The District's non-government lead- | Meet David F, Houston, latest ad: istration is to avold New England ap- dition to the democratic stable's string | pointments. A deserving republican of dark horses. Houston is in the|from the President's neck of hands ot influential friends. ' They are quietly but effectively champion- ing his cause. Second-choice pledges are heing sought from the support- ers of more prominent candidates. The Houston movement is based on' the conviction that nelther McAdoo nor Underwood can take the two- thirds hurdle at the democratic eon- vention and that when the time comes to find & deadlock-breaker the dele- gates will turn to Houston as the most eligible compromise candidate in sight. The man who was both Secretary of Agriculture and Secre- tary of the Treasury in the Wilson cabinets is & North Carolinian by birth, but now a New Yorker by resi- dence. He has lived al every- where. Once he was a rintend- ent of achools In South Carol & college president in Texas; later a graduate student at Harvard; after- ward & university chancellb: souri, and now president of the Bell Telephone Securities Company. Some- times Houston is deacribed as Wood- Tow Wilson's candidate for 1924, * ok % % An American resident of London brings the latest Prince of Wales story to Washington. Viscount Las- celles, who married the prince's sis- ter, Princess Mary, has never been a The thieves | ¢ the people of that villaze and the | 18VOrite of the British heir apparent, {and Wales is sald to air his dislike jof his lowly born brother-in-law with gay abandon. In his club in Pall Mall not long ago the prince is said | to have observed to a group of cro- | nies that since he joined the royal family “Lascelles has become royaler land royaler.” Then the future King ot England soliloquized: “Wonder if 1 married & commoner {f I'd become commoner and commoner!™ * % X x Congress has reassembled amid a heavy fire of criticlsm for wasting three weeks of the country's time in December. It's not the first occasion | on which Congress has been lambast- jed for windjamming. Sixty years | ago Artemus Ward was giving voice to the same sort of popular discon- tent. These are some of his observa- tions: | the House. you've sot there an’ drawed your pay an’ made windy speeches long enuff. The country at large is disgusted with you, includin® the undersined. Why don't you show us a statesman, sumbody who can make a speech that will hit the pop- weskit? Why don't you show us a statesman who can rise up to the emergency an’' cave in the emergen- cy's head? “Congress, you won't do. Go home, you miserable devils, go home!” * % ok * One of the rock-bound pre-conven- tion policles of the Coolidge admin- BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. England's future king has lost one of his closest friends and mest use- ful mentors through the death on the last day of the old year of the cighth Earl of Jersey, who has been adviser-in-chief. about everything concerning the turf and sporting matters generally. Indeed, it is understood that a sort of racing {partnership had existed between them since the Prince of Wales re- turned from India last year, and that eeveral of the large strings of horses which the earl has had In training at Newmarket under Alfred Sadler and Raiph Moreton in reality belong to the heir apparent. Tall, fair, a stralght-up man, with the mont pleasant smile, Lord Jersey was at the helm of the racing world in the United Kingdom as senfor steward of the Jockey Club throughout the war, and as such he was compelled o use the utmost diplomacy mingled with firmness to prevent the gov- ernment from getting an arbitrary hand in the management of racing, thus depriving the national sport, which has also been known as the dependence, Lord Jersey is succeeded in his honors and estates by the elder of his two mons, heretofore known a: Viscount Grandison, a fourteen-year- old achoolboy, at Hton, and during the remaining seven years of his minority he will be under the guar- dlanship of ' his fatners ~vounger brother, Col. the Hon. Arthur Child- Villiers, who won_the dlstinguished service order in Prance during the great war, and who has since the restoration 'of peace been one of the partners of the t London interna- tional banking houss of Baring. He will presumably now be compelied to sever his conneotion therewith. ¥or_as guardian of t! will have to undertake the du chairmanship of the old established an¢ | hiatorio Chi s of years, II and his favorite, Nell him wirl, the ancestress of the Dukes of B5t. Albans, both kept their mocounts thers, as shown by the 's books still in ex- istence to this o LR The late Harl of Jerwey, who took his duties as & banker at No. 1 Fleet strest very seriously, was a great-grandson of the celebrated Sir Robert Peal, the most able prime minister of Queen Victoria's reign, and was entitled to quarter the - “Gentlemen of the Senit and of | sport of kings, of its necessary in- | r in Mis- I | Belgian ambassador, to accept the lar hart right under the great public | German ambassador as a dinner part- Prince of Wales Lost Friend When Earl of Jersey Died the woods has about as much chance fo! ‘White House preferment thesq days 23 a Bryan democrat. The Coolldge high command is aware of the un- popularity of the northeasternmost section of the United States in the pivotal west. It has therefore been decreed that nothing shall be done between now and June 10, 1924, to fan those prejudices. The whole civil * % x ¥ Somebody ought to stand up In Congress and demand an explanation of the American embassy housing scandal in London. Cable dispatches relate that Mr. and Mrs. Kellogg have started in just as their predecessors a; then | for fifty years have dope—by going house-hunting. It is nearly three years since the Plerpont Morgan man- n opposite Hyde Park was pre- sented to the nation as an embassy, home. Almost as long ago Congress accepted the gift and voted the money to fit the place with open-faced plumbing and other modern conven- o nobody seems to know. Uncle Sam seems incapable of sheltering his en- upon him. Scores of leading American editors will be afloat with the Navy at the forthcoming maneuvers of the United States fleet in the vicinity of the Panama canal and in the Caribbean. 'To the Edltor of The Star:' I think that your editorial, “Tardy Tag-Seekers,” wrongly criticizes & 1arge number of Washington citisens, degree the victims of & very inefi- clent system of {asuing automobile 1i- cense plates. You assume that if there bas been much loss of time on.the part of tag-seekers during the ex- treme congestion of the past few days it is entirely the fault-of the seekers themselves,” and that it could have been avoided if they had attempted to procure tags earlier. The situation lleviated greatly, it is true, but a simple calculation will show you that under the present sys- tem of issuing tags congestion cannot be entirely eliminated. There are some 100,000 sets of tags to issue this year. Thesé were put on sale December 3. The issuing office is open for but six hours—from 9 to 3 —five s a week, and for three hours on Saturday. 'From December 3 to 31 its scheduled office hours amounted to a total of 123 hours, or 73,800 minutes. To give out 100,000 tags within this period would require the {ssuing of one every 46 seconds. From personal observation Saturday morning, during one of the typical periods of crowding, it appeared that only about 100 persons were accom- modated In an hour. ‘While this rate would have taken care of all of Washington's motorists rovided they passed through in an ncessant stream from the time the sale of tag: ened, it is obvious that, with the necessary limits on the hours hat it is convenlent to go to the strict bullding, congestion {s un- avoldable &t certain times of the day. Tt must be remembered that the office is open during only certain hours, oc- cupying about the middle portion of BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. I saw an editorial reference to the world's largest wheat fleld. Kind- r | Who have already been to & paintul | ly state where it is—E. H. T. A. ‘The wheat fleld that you have reference to is owned by the Thomas D. Campbell Farming Corporation, Hardin, Mont. It comprises approxi- mately 200,000 -acres, which Mr. Campbell leases through the Interior Department st Washington.. This land s part of two Indian reserva- tions. In 1922 there was planted in wheat 40,500 acres, and over a million b 8 of Wheat were raised. Q. Why has the 1880 ten-dollar bill E donkey's head on its back?—L. W. A. The ten-dollar United States notes, series of 1880, had on the re- Yyerse side an eagle, which, when the bill was turned upside down, showed the outline of a donkey’s head. The Treasury Department has no knowl- edge as to whether this was done purposely by a disgruntled designer or whether it was simply an accident. However, it is largely a figure of imagination. Q. Who managed Roosevelt's cam- rnxxn for the presidential nomination n 19047—A. D. It should probably be said that Roosevelt directed or managed his o campdinn. However, his chief political lieutenant was George B. Cortelyou, who later became chair- man of the republigan national com- mittee. Q. Is it known positively that-Brit- ish ships occasionally flew - flags of neutral nations during the world war?—A. L the working day for a large number of people. Since the present manner of issuing tags requires the presence in person, or at least of a repre- sentative, of every motor car owner A. Winston Churchill eays, In his newest book, that this Is a fact. Q. Is the saying about r%bbln‘ Peter Secretary Denby’s invitatien states|in the oity, it is quite unreasonable to [ to pay Paul from the Bible?—FP. T. that “the United States Navy wants to report to its owners—the people of the country—through the press of the country.” The schedule for the ed! tors’ trip calls for embarkation on the Henderson Charleston, S. C.. on February 10; arrival at Culebra Is- land on February 16; transference to battleships on February 18; visits to Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands be- tween February 18 and 35; witnessing of maneuvers on February 26 and 27; cruise to New York in the fleet on February 23, and arrival in the Hud- son river on March 2. Editors who love adventure can g0 down in a sub- marine or up in a seaplane. * % % % One wonders what are the emotions of Elizabeth, Queen of the Belgians, anent the refusal of the Baroness de Cartler de Marchienne, wife of the ner at the White House. King Al- | bert's gracious consort, who visited ‘Washington with him in 1919, is a former German prine having been, prior to her marria a duchess of Bavaria. King Albert’s mother also was a German—the Princess Marla of Hohenzollern. (Copyright, 1924.) | day with Miss Sarah Childs in orth dox fashion, stchaise, to Gretna Green. He was hotly pursued by the banker, whose progress, however, was arrested by the earl's shooting one of his horses just as he was catching up with the fuglitive couple. Having in his rage sworn to disin- herit his errant daughter, Childs, who Wwas a great character, would not break the letter of his vow, but modified 1its spirit by bequeathing his bank and all his vast property | to his grandchild, th dest daughter of Lord and Lady Westmoreland, on the condition that she should be christened Sarah, and ehould _take the name of Childs. He was found dead, drowned in the lake at Oysters ley Park, but whether he committed sulcide In a state of despondency or fell in by accident remains a mys- tery to this day. * ko % ‘When young Lady Barah Childs grew up she married the fifth Earl of Jersey, and until her death, in 1857, ruled Child¢’ Bank in much the same way that the Lady Burdett- Coutts managed and controlled Coutts’ Bank, and with the same de- gree of autooracy as characterized her sway over London soclety for more than & century. She was an altogether {nternational figure and no crowned head, prince of the blood, or foreign statesman visited England without calling upon her once upon his arrival in London. The new Lord Jersey can claim de- scent from the Villiers, Seigneurs de I'Isle Adam, in Normandy. It is a house which has played a great role in the history of England and of France, and among its representa- tives in England have been the Dukes of Buckingham of the reigns of James I and of Charies I; Barbara Villfers, the favorite of Charles II, through whom she became the ances- | lution as an established scientific be- i of |tress of tho Dukes of Grafton and the expect them to come with the clock- ich s necessary to avold a tie-u Thr- system of issuing tags is a relic of the time when thers were not over ons-fourth the number of autos in the city there are now. The citi- zens of Pennsylvanis, for Instance, are not required to go in person to Harrisburg to procure their plates. Many states do not even require that all applications be taken or mailed to one point. There is no good reason why all of Washington's motoriats should be compelled to present them- selves at one office; nor why, if they are willing to pay the mailing_ costs, distribution of tags by mail be re- fused them. | Your editorlal rightly points out the | cure for the present situation, even | though you do not recognize that it arises because of defects in tha pres- ent system. The equipment needed for issuing tags is not extensive and |- can Wwell be duplicated at every po- lice precinct station. The tags are | not issued serially, so the multiplica- tion of distributing points is no dis- advantage. A system of distributing tags which ie capable of causing the wasting of | 3,000 hours a day of the time of Wash- ington’s citizens cannot be defended and should not be maintained. FREEMAN WEISS. Defends Evolution. Denies Leading Doubt Theory. To the Editor of The Star: Miss Francis A. Walker in her ar- ticle of December 24 past reiterates her contention that leading scientists do not belleve in evolution. As it Is this portion of her survey with which ‘Writer Scientists | I most strongly differ, I ehall content |. myself with refuting her above state- ment by showing that evolution is an accepted truth among all sclentists worthy of the name, and not a strug- 8ling hypothesis. 3 To further my contention I have selected seven men—all emiinent in the fleld of biological research—and asked them to give me their opinio The names which I have chosen are not localized ones, but Internation- ally famous; are also from different countries. Their opinions should be conclusive, De Vrles, Dutch botanist, certainly the most eminent biologist lving to- day, father of “Mutations,” said: ‘Certainly there must necessarily be many objections to some phases of Darwin's reasonings; but we must not lose sight of the faot that it was the genius of the great thinker that laid the foundations upon which all branches of modern science now rest. Evolution has progressed far beyond the theoretic stage. It is now an in- contestable truth and as such is as {mmutable as the passage of tim (De Vries' speech before Dutch logical convention, 1822). Dr. G. Stanley Hall, foremost of American biologists, In relation to child study said: “I do not belleye that there s a sclentist of {mpor- tance or a college that does not give full alleglance to the theory of de- scent. Any other contention is ah- surd and untrue.” Dr. Fairchild of the University of Rochester sald: “Evolution has long ago passed the theoretic stage. That a multitude of people do not yet ac- oept it does not affect its status.” r. Chamberlain of the University of Chicago said: “The faot that we object to portions of Darwinism makes the uninitiated believe that we doubt the basic truth. in rn could be farther from the “Evo- to- Columbia Universaity replied: llef is now beyond dispute. mutation enters into all phase human existence. Plerre Racelle of France, dean of continental blologists, said: *“I did not think re was & person of in- telligence today who for moment doubted the valldity of the theory. Such a view is interesting." Dr. Waddle of Stanford University expressed himself rather forcibly: “It would be merely a waste of time to attempt to defend evolution. Thers vast literature and we must as- sume some general knowl d". on the part of the reader. That it {® not accepted by sclentists {s not worth controverting.” ELLIOTT F. BMITH. of Blames Press Errors Nothing | A, and, when in the reign of Edward VI the lands of St. Peter at Westminster were appropriated to raise money for the repair of St. Paul's, in London. Q. Can & man be arrested for swearing?—A. G. A. variously declared punishable by the statutes. In this connection it is in- teresting to note an English law which has & sliding scale of penalties for this offense. For each profane oath or curse a laborer, soldier, or sallor may be fined other persons under the gentlemen, two shillings; man or any one above five shillings. rank of a gentle- that rank, Q. What is tha rule in checkers when your opponent overiooks a Jump? o N: A, According to the Huff rule, if a player has a chance to jump and does not see it, the other plaver has the right to remove hils man from Jumeg, . When and where was census ever taken?—A. H. C. A. The first census was the enu- meration of the Israelites by Moses, 490 B. C. . Q. When wers thumb rings worn? —W. McL. A. Thumb rings were worn in England from the fourteenth to the nce William ‘@ibbs MeAdco threw his hat, offclally. into the ring in December there has been a general tightening - up.,in the -campaigns of th§ othier opén aspirants for thie dem- ocratic. presidential nomination. The Underwood following, it is’ suggested by many editors, have displaved in- telligent tactics in suggesting thelr man as an ideal “second choice” in favorite son states. Anti-bonus edl tors likewise are making the for. mer Tennessean-New Yorker 'mnow Californian, the target for their cri cisms because he emphatically adv cated the bonus and with the demo- cratic national committee ready ‘meet in_Washington January 15 th democratic gituation seems ready t eclipse that now existing in the re- publican organization, so far as acrimonious discussion of qualifica- tions of candidates is concerned. Inci- dentally, so far as' the majority of purely democratic newspapers are concerned they .insist the candidate, no matter who he may be, must be “liberal” at least in his views. ® ok This sentiment finds utterance in the Richmond News Leader, (demo- cratic), ‘which asks: ‘“How can demo: {tion next year unless they oppose a |standpat republican with a liberal democrat, whether that democrat be McAdoo or another? -What imagin- able chance would a _conservative democrat have against & republican administration that upholds the tariff, |opposes the bonus and urges & cut in taxes?” To this suggestion, e he Chicago Tribune, (pro gressive republican), turns u deaf eer, Eraloting AMcAdoo in his platform urges the impossible through ‘de- N ctive" suggestions and @rguing f Mo, MoAdoo can get the nomina- ton through that program, heaven P Bita Jine of suggestion Is to reg- {ster with the Indlanapolis News (in- dependent), because it feels “the country knows what McAdoo stands for, what he proposes and will have abundant opportunity to pass upon Hin merits and his claims and on the soundness, or laok or it, of the prin. Ciples favored by him. That he is now the leading candldate i ld.mlt- ted by sll. Whether he can ‘stay the course’ is the question.” To which the Toledo Blade (independent-re- publican) adds, ‘dlagnosly of the case Today shows that Uncle Sam's pulse i& strong and regular; that his ar- terias of trade and commerce, which ¥howed symptome of atrophy and { hardening under a doss of democracy, In several states profanity fs| one shilling; | the board, or retract and make him | the first | to | crats hope to win the general elec~ seventeenth century. In the time of Queen Elizabeth the ring after be trothal was worn on the thumb. Q. Did President Lincoln’s body lie in .state in the state capitol at Co- lumbus, Ohlo?—A. B, H. A. Capt. Oldroyd, an authority on Lincolniana, says that the body of President Lincoln was removed to the capitol in Columbus and lay iu state there, Q. Which world?—A. A. Princess street, Edinburgh, Scot- land, and the Nevskl Prospekt, Petro- grad, have been regarded as the finest streets in the world. Probably this famous thoroughfare in Petro- grad Is not in perfect condition at the present time. is the fipest street in the C. M. Q. How long should a hold be in music?—N. A A. It should bs governed by the rhythm of the musio and left to the performer's discretion. Q. What is the chief prayer of ths Mohammedans?—G. P. A. The Namez, which is recited five times dally, is their chief prayer. Q. Are aluminum cooking utensils made of pure aluminum?—G. W. A. They are generally made from commerclally pure aluminum (95.4 per cent of al). One brand contains about 1.25 per cent manganese. Q. How much royalty does & person |&et on an invention?—J. G. A. Royalty on an invention is a |matter to be determined between the Ipatentee and the licensee. Thers can not be @ fixed rule. From 1 per cent {to 5 per cent of the selling price ap- {pears to be the usual rate of return {in royalty matters. Q. Novels dealing with Hindu lif- use the word dacoit. What does it mean?—F. P. A. A dacoit s one of s clase of murderous robbers in Indla who act in gangs. Q. Can paper be made to imitate | the ‘parchment used i lamp ehades =M. E. C. { A ‘Ordinary water color paper can | be parchmentlzed for the making of }1amp shades by applying equal parts of linseed oil and turpentine. A small pad should be used and the material thoroughly rubbed into the paper. Three coats may be given. Q. Did Washington ask that no salary be paid him while he was | President?—J. J. A. Historians state that while i office: Washington accepted expenses only that were necessary to the di charge of his official duties. Q. When did China become a i« publie M. T. A. February 7, 1912, the form of government was changed from tha of & monarchy to that of & repubiic. | . Q. What is the oldest city in Fin- land?—C. G. A. Abo, founded in 1157 and the | capital of Finland until 1819, is the oldest city in that country. (Have you a question you swont answered? Send it to the Star in- | formation bureau, J. Haskin, | ‘divector, 1220 North Capitol street. The only charge for tha service is 2 cents in stamps for return postage) Democratic Papers Insist Nominee Must Be Liberal ¢ :n able contender whose sword can- not be despised.” This is also the belief of the Greenville Piedmont (democratic), which sees in Mc- { Adoo “formidable political strength. While he is not looked upon with 1 favor by the busimess inter- | ests, he has the powerful support of |labor, of the Wilson democrats and |of the progressive wing of the party.’ * * ¥ ¥ It is the opinfon of the Roanoke Times (democratic) that “as matters stand today, the two leading cand! | dates when the conventlons meet are likely to be Coolidge and Johnson o ~ | the one hand and Underwood and M. | Adoo on the other.” The Bango ommercial (republican) is convinced it “is McAdoo against the field for the democratic nomination, and that |ne is recetving many accessions ae |the time goes on.” The Aberdesn | World (republican) Holds the McAdoo platform “bristles with attack end obvious efforts at phrase-making, |and it assails tha outlined tax policy as misleading. To which the Jersey City Journal (independent) adds “be- fore Coolidge took the helm of his | party @ possible McAdoo victory could quite easily be fi ed out Since oolidge has come b the front there has been a marked change in nation |al politics.” Insisting. that McAdoo 118 “playing’to the walleries,” the Bel- lingham Herald (republican) argues “the only thing a nst him as an office-seeker hi record as au office holder. His pious preachments today do not square with his public performance when he was a consld- |erable part of his father-in-law's |gRovernment. His own acts will con- | tinually rise up to plague him during |the campaign.” The C Dealer (independent | however, suggests Adoo has many elements of strength. lalso some weakness. The country |welecomes him as a candidate, | will proceed to measure his fitne: Hopes Horse Holiday Dinner Will Be Lesson To the Editor of The Star: ; From the number of "guests,” ‘be- tween seventy-five and eighty, whoe arrived during the progress of the Animal Rescue League free horse dinner December 29 from 11 a.m. to 4 pm, and the Interest manifested { by drivers, nowspaper men, photog- raphers, passersby, all sizes of boys, |and most of all the horses themselves, {it is ap! a parent that this will be looked ¢ | forware ith pl 5 That goes with what I eat or #moks, | royal arms of ¥ngland on his escutch- asures of the have been restored .to health and |forward to with pleasure as a reg: walls with a gorgeously decorated ‘wooden structure. Opening the doors of this for inspection, they found still another structure beyond, covered with a great pall hung upon a canopy. They. elected to leave this for later handling and then discovered a cham- ber leading off from' the mortuary room, with the door unblocked and containing a quantity of treasures, some of them more rich and impor- | tant than those in the great ante- chamber. Nothing could be done about their removal, for the passageway to The problem of exploring the sepul- chre chamber, with its nest of ‘struc- in tho early '90s the vast audiences that attended were set to singing “On- ward, Christian Boldiers. Many other great hymns were sung at those and later meetings, but “On- ward, Christian Soldiers” became “populer,” and was sung and played by hundreds of, thousands of peopls who did not hear it with the. great revivalists. ——— 1f there {s so much luck in the at- mosphere there is likely to be a move- ment among young financiers to go west and grow up with the Philip- pines. For fear I'l laugh until I choke, At some bright pun. The Occaslonal Deadlock, *“When you have important legisia- tion befors you, of course, you stop and think.” “Sometimes,'¥answered Senator Sor- sghum, “we stop and think, ~And |Brunswick sometimes we just stop,” Jua/Tunkins says a real man gets down to work and tries to help some of those happy New Year wishes he ‘Was 80 generous with coms true, ) Oh, Santa gay, sad is my lot. Then rode awsy and quite fergot ““Well,” answered Farmer Corntos- sel, “whenevar ‘whet I'm bringin’ in he meems 80 wor- ried about the price that ] feel as if I it of his descent frem G D A ket S Begy ‘sareen ?u. n s as Flower, Frances, wife of the fourth sey, played a leading roie at orge IV, both during his ::.":.,.... on'the- throne, Most influential egerias, and esponsible for the shipwreck s B nanpy marciage o Queen Carcline of r Sea onlons _figu e Toved a0 well s the perfum Jamei by :-:h-‘:n-nl 3-1 H §asp of diegust e e "and tandly this | wi | Bweden. ot the ol Lords of Bouthampton, while Lady Villiers, wife of Sir Bdward Villlers, ‘wae the duenna of the two daughters of James II, who succesded to the throne s Queen Mary and Queen Anne, respectively, It was Queen Anne who conferred the dignity of the earldom of the Island o'F‘.v.m, aldest son. orley Psrk‘ at Isleworth, {n Mid- , principal of the country seats of the Harls of Jersey, is a beautiful place in the outskirts of the metropolis, was once the home of Bir Thomas Gresham, lord mayor of London in the reign of Queen Hllsabeth, but was modernized {n the eslghteenth century by the Adamses, for Bir Francis Child, wm‘ the lat- tor was chief magistrate of London, Aman‘ the many tre place 1g the nJl'l silver toilet set and ‘:flm mirror used by Queen Elisabeth when entertained there b{ 8ir Thomas Gresham. Angelica Kauf- maan ln% her Italian husband orna- mented the oelll and one of the y hung uis XVI and of Queen Marie Antoinette to the throne. In a Few Words. If American idesls ware accepted by o statesmen of l?ep.—-au ideals of internatios understanding and o will, of interautionsi Fastice elp! ness—the luropean n: ‘no‘n: eouid disarm balance Thelr bud- s e their currency, go into & m um production an fito an e SRmdR L owan, whe greatest hreatens ' hruo s :rfi:l. §¢ the b ,m'."’fig y-“‘.{é‘.'oo'o‘ France have .-d to exiet race: held #am & norlod‘-‘:} 1,500 "yh:n- 1; 0 foreign conquerors have ever held the country in submission, ts have never been the eondust of the T For History’s “Bunk’’ Tw the Bditor of The Htar; When Henry ¥ord apoke af history being “bunk" he possibly had refer- ence to the careless handling of hi torieal evemts by certain newspaper wril In Bunday's Star w. Haskin makes the statement that in the alec- tion of 1918, electaral vot 4 against thre ow t] ilson received the states, Mr, Roosevel Mr, Taft two, California it ts vot 'wo for Wilson ln.x eleven for the onel, recently anothor of tl panis weitars (Mr, Colling, 1 think) fting of tha selection of Clevelan or_the blican conyention allude o 7aot that In 1864 & presiden nominating convention was held in ‘h Joh! TRNG WAk that ‘city,at which Jonn Cochra s ot -five stat e faoct {s Mr, votes of forty t five and Stars lean M‘;fl o Bert In o ventl oveland and nomiaa John - Jol e scoepted the honors afterward. withdrew although they e Einars tendored. them, when it became Spparent that a divided Unlon party ) Adoo' of L. meant_the stcoess atanys joe ticket headed by histories are con- By e e rovined. to. sult the o TGon: ke i :‘,‘lelnn racelved the . | vigor and that he has so far recov omol‘hm;‘ :t Father-in- | Wilson's toxio t! pu | il tims every day at the big job of | hewing down the national debt wnd| reducing the tax on {ncomes ‘pro- duced by the sweat of the brow and the toll of tha brain,'" Lok The TUtloa Press (Independent) agrees If & "two-thirds vote were not required for a cholas in the demo- cratic conventlon it might bo eald now that Mr, McAdoo has the nom!- nation clinched, But the yace s not always to the swift and the battle to the strong, Mr, McAdoo has taken his position in opposition te Presi- dent Covl! the Jeading republican candldal us the ue been joined an: them has d it may be Raid that these two men have predi- cated the cleavage that is likely t0 divide the two parties In the coming e '; to tent with this o some_ex sontimentt the ~ Milwaukeo Journal indep t), feels the McAdoo ha ‘into the ring with a certain broediness -and snap that may t;-l\_v'al been=picked up during his westert sojotirn. - Whatever: objections t may presently urge, even his oppon ents will agree that it Is Mr. Mc- i that the fow sen h Dakota offer t. Mr. Me- hesitatingly something He o crl":‘t ::: oar issue Wi e ‘administration. tennnmlln -tl;"ul‘l‘:\ ksm-.:mu SOmYEHInE ! al himseld un! it those "dh:t ‘would do ular holiday event by both man and st. P ihe managers 'of the feast wish to extend their thanks to all who made Dublic tho affair in their respective Ways, pointing out thereby that they Melped to circulate an important hu- mane message, that of gratitude each human being owes thess equine toil- ers in the traces, for, aithough the auto ls steadily taking their places in 0 MaNY WAYE, We are still depend- ‘ent on them for more tasks than we alixe, 7] am sure every one was espeolally {nterested in tho “guest of homor. the old, thin, big-boned, rough-coated black, With & White, star in his fore- head and a large calloused collar mark on his shoulder, bought at the auction in the morning us a “killer, but who certainly from ths moment ho reacHed the spread became a “feeder” and continued calmly such throughout his posings for film men and photographers up until long af- fer the feust was scheduled to be called offt. To add to the interest ot ccasion still fur! ] B . other worn-ous "tedly by means of the spec SIPeealy By ond of the Jeaxte end: had the first ofd fellow In en- Joying (h&l token of gratitude for Loy nd Talthtol service for man 7 i hoped that many who en- oved this pectacle and who were oY eressed with its motive will be lad (o Pake an ctive personal or finaneial Oterest in the league's -efforts through its horse rescue fund and in its co-operation with the Humane So- Slaty to better the condition of the S oo many horses of the Capitatl Ay Wnd 1tx suburbs still suffering trom qect ‘Ffl abuse, - o t