Evening Star Newspaper, January 5, 1924, Page 5

FRANCE TO ELECT | J/SENATE TOMORROW Premier Poincare Is Unoppoled. Arthur Ponsonby, Prospective Minister in Ldmrl Candidate in Department of the Meuse. PROGRESSIVES - SEE GAINS No Great Change Expected as Re- sult of Vote. BY WILLIAM E, NASH, By Radio to The Star and the Chicago Dally News. Copsright, ) Janu 5—E tions for 1 take place in France | PYésents o pleasing a contrast to|Wwomen of the markets—it may Premier Poincare, unop- to present himself for re- election in the department of the Meuse, A M. Malvy, former minister of the interfor who was banished during the war on the charge of high trea- son, is rumored to be presenting him- self in thg South. No gfeat change s expected as the ratUlL of the coming vote, because . ate electorate fis restricted, mposed mostly of officials un- Vernment patronage. But it is laimed that the present progressive may be slightly Increased. vosed, is nts of Difference. ctions the chamber % latter, which take | are expected to iberal gains. By internal poli- rily are rather un- rance, bid fair to nto the limelight. the nation has been gov- y a highly conservative ma- called “the ‘“national bloc, according to the opposition ' has grown out of sym- with the rest of the country. xternally, the majority bases on on the Ruhr, internally on new scheme of compromise with Catholic Church, Combine Against Bloc. In Loth senate and chamber ‘elec- s, it is reported, the liberals and will combine against the national. One factor that is cer- fluence the results is the franc and the subsequent the cost of living. This is fault of the Poincare cabinet t showing a greater spirit liation in foreign affairs, as tion, with the approval employes and minor who récently applied vithout s s for an increase In salary. R CAPTAIN WILL TAKE COURSE IN BUSINESS Davis Names Horkan to Learn Methods to Apply in Quarter- master Corps. Jority which, 'apt. eorge A. Horkan of the Quartermaster Corps has been desig- nated by Assistant Secretary of War Divight F. Davis to take a scholarship courss in business at the Babson In- stitute, Wellesley, Mass, The ap- pointment was made in connection with his plans for the establishime of an Army business school for the training of supply officers, At the same time announcement was made that Majs. N. W, Riley, Quartermaster Corps; Edgar C. Jones, Medical Corp: muel S, Ci n, ordnance departmen Weaver, air mund DeT. Quartermaster Lawrence L. Clayton, Signal and Lieut. Lowell A. Elliott, chemlcal warfare service, had been appointed to take the business course at the Harvard School of Business Administration, from which the serv- ice business school is to be developed. These officers upon their graduation will constitute the first faculty of the Army business school, which will be established later, probably in ‘Washington. e CHECKER CAB OFFICIALS HELD IN CONSPIRACY CASE Accused of Subornation of Perjury in Purchasing Repudiation of Affidavits. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 5.—\orris Markham of Chicago, president of the Checker Cab Mahnufacturing Corpora- tion of Delaware, and Emil R. Carlson, vice president, were held in 35,000 bail each yesterday after pleading not guilty to indictments for sub- ornation "of perjury. They wers indicted upon papers submitted b Supreme Court Justice Daniel F. Cohalan, who heard the suit which the .Yellow Cab Company of Chicago lost against the Checker Corporation when it tried to register the “checker taxi band” in New York state. Markham and Carlson were alleged to have induced Charles Kaplan and Bernard Goldstein, Chicago taxi drivers, to repudiate affi for the Yellow Cab Compan: testified later before Justice Cohalan t they were promised $5,000 and had received $6.000 of the amoun Both were granted immunit they turned state's evidence. TOWNER IS PRAISED. Commissioner Says Porto Ricans Have Confidence in Governor. The administration of governmental affairs of Porto Rico was highly in- dorsed by Resident Commissioner Davila of Porto Rico, Who was a caller_on President Coolidge yester- day. He told the Executive that Gov. Towner, since taking office, had won the hearts of the people there by his fairness and justice and his sym- pathetic understanding of their methods and wants. Commissioner Davila presented German rcke- Tioff, president of the munlelpal as- sembly of Vieques, who Is on a tour of_this country. Commissioner Davila informed the President that Gov. Towner will head a special commlssion of Porto Ricans who will 1and in New York January 9 to make an appeal to Congress to extend some of the more recent eco- nomic laws enacted In the United States, such as the Towner-Sheppard maternity law, to Porto Rico. Con- gress also will be urged to make & number of antendments to the present gunic act of the islands to meet uresent-day conditions. 'They also ant the power to elect their own axecutive and the members of the jbaieiary. —_— _WILL HONOR KITCHIN. Republican leaders of the Ho: haye decided to devote next Wednes. day’s session to a memorial service for the late Claude Kitchin of North Caroling, for years the minority floor leader. Republicans and democrats alike will eulogize the former rep- resentative. The House legi next week calls for a serfes of pre- pared speeches and on on a bill by Representative Little, republican, Kansas, to codify federal Monday, the report of -the I Department appropriation bill *Tues- , and the beginning of its consid- o very differ-| j every possible way, {enjoyed his friendship and his vits signed when l ’ Cabinet, Insists Envoys Should Have Physical Charm as Well as Intellect. * OUNLIFFE-OWEN, B E. UST at present, members of Great Britain's diplomatic serv- ice are devoting every minute that they can spare from their laborious - duties - to gazing at their reflections in the look- l BY FREDERICK <. ing glass, with a degree of Il ean- | cealed anxiety speaking well for that truly English modesty which { the self assurance and self suffi- ciency of the diplomats of most other lands. Their frequent glances at their mirrors, while. twisting their features into the expression which they consider most pleasing to the ©ye, and+In devoting unusual atten- tion to thefr grooming and to their attire, are not prompted by any con- siderations of vanity, but by fear. For they know that future weal or woe in their career may depend upon the extent to which they measure up to the standard of pulchritrude, al- ready proclalmed in print by the former diplomat who, according to the cable dispatches and to general belief, is slated for the secretaryship of state for foreign affulrs in the aew labor administratio; when it comes into power on the second week necessury e British attaches, secretaries, counsellors, charge d'af- ministers plenipotentiary, and mbassad implication of having even grain of conceit. They are the shyest men In the serv- ice of King George's crown. The man whose advent at Downing street, in the role of foreign minister, they so dread, is Arthur Ponsonby, who has- frequently proclaimed th necessity of a number of radical re forms in the English diplomatic serv- ice, many of them elaborated and gllc:lledhl;l a P!ml.;klxhln book which 3 'y out a few years ago in Londod: " entitled “Diptomacy ® and Democracy.” In Its pages he insisted that as much attention should be paid to the “physical fitness” of the candidates as to their mental ablility, and urged that the mere fact of their having succeeded In passing a com- petitive examination should not be regarded as a complete qualification for appolntment. He declared that lots of men now in the diplomatic service of England are “physically unfit for their jobs—defective in hearing, and in good sight, potential Invallds, unable to ride or to make long sea journeys without detriment to their insides and, above all, un- comely.” This attack on the pulchri- trude of the members of the dip- lomatic service by one of their fo mer colleagues was vigorously in- dorsed by Sir Harry Johnston, ex- plorer and former minister pleni- potentlary, in a rev printed of Arthur Ponsonby's book, based on the experience of many years in service abroad as consul general, special envoy, as high com- missioner and, as I have said above, minister plenipotentiary. * & % x Comeliness has not, until now, been considered, either by the British for- elgn office, nor yet by the State De- partment at Washington, as a neces- sary qualification on the part of can- didates for appointment to the diplo- matic and consular services. Yet its adoption as a sine qua non, as strong- ly recommended by the future minis- ter of foralgn affairs in the labor cab- inet, deserves careful consideration. For a g00d looking man. of well bred appearance. has obviously greater ad- vantages, not only in soclety, but also in political and official circles, than one whose appearance excites un- favorable comment, perhaps ridicule. A _homely man, of vulgar aspect, or afMicted with some physical defect, such as cross eyes, bandy legs, nervous twiching or other distressing peculiarities, is handicapped from the very outset' of his taking up resi- dence in any foreign capital. Such hysical defects prove of still greater disadvantage to the nation of the for- elgn diplomat concerned, if he hap- pens to.be accredited to a country where there is a monarchical form of government. - Court life, as such, rather dull and dreary, and anointed of the from ennul. the existence of the court jei , in olden days, and that, too, is Why anything there that lends itself to ridicule Is seized upon for merriment, though it might pass unnoticed elsewhere. * K % % Thus, I.recall the late Queen Vi toria- endeavored, when her deeply lamented husband dled, to favor, in those who had in- timacy. very learned scientist, a little bit of a man, with red hair and side whiskers, miore than a suspicion of a squint in his very earnest, protruding eyes, framed by unusually large spectacles. To an exceptionally long body were appended two short legs, of an ex- “centlonuly bandied character. These One of them wi a defects had been, to & great measure, concealed from. the queen bf frock coat which he had worn in {audience which she had 1ai iner husband, and Ww! fwe she shed, du o in discussing her conso: - {how, she appointed him one of the gentlemen ushers in walting, that is {10 fay, to one.of those posts which called for his presence on state ions. These did not.take place considerable time, by reason of itho depth and protracted character {0f her mourning: By the time his { presence was needed at a great court ceremony, - her - grief had become somewhat assuaged. Perhaps she had forgotten all about entist, when she suddenly caught sight of him, arrayed in his gold-embroidered tall coat, sword, white knee breeches and white silk stockings, the uniform meraly urflni to emphasize his odd rhysical disadvantage Indeed, presented #o peculiar an appearance that, possesed, as she was, of & Vvery keen sense of ridicule, despite the susterity of her sxpression, sho had o cult; o s y in repressing So much trouble did 5 preserving her seriousness and that of those immediately around her that she directed that the Ilttle man should not be called upon to' appear again before her in that guise. - But not long afterward she ca to.be given & much more and lucrative office in_ th ment service, which dia . ental siate” occslons: wd b cotioucd ns, and’ sl unt(] his desth to show Nin b ae m her ap- reciation of hi BN L e o e e unis 2 *x s . | . Ot course, there is the.problem. of { what constitutes good looks,.and. th pundits intrusted’ with the comp tive examination *for- intellectual a tainments might ‘ot ‘prove satistac- tory where questions of masculine I pulchritude were concerned. - We may expect ‘that when Arthur Ponsonby tive m‘-onun for | in Servants of the B HIE Seandards a5 being %o the interests of the &a 2 a¥tirur P 1 the members of his family, is Tjiu good looking and is, therefore, in Pnl fon to know the value of come- | ingss. Perhaps the mo of "all his ancestors wat Ponsonby who, in the terror, at Paris, In 179 life to_his exceptional pulchritude. Seized by the mob as an lrillocrlli somewher® in the neighborhood o La Bastllle, he was strung up to la lanterne—the lamp post being the most convenient outfit to turn into & gallows, He was actually hanging ! Iby his meck in midair when ‘the| e re- membered what a fiendish part they i played in the great revolution—as it ByVa” common' impulse, rushed for- ward, cut the rope and iet him fall to the ground, exclaiming that he was far too handsome a lad to be hanged, even though he were an aristocrat and_an_Englishman. Bearing him | away, they carefully tended him un- til he had recovered from his inju- rles and then capped the matter by he}n:nz him to reach London In afety. * ok kX Arthur Ponsonby, though today a | socialist and an ardent advocate of the abolition of the house of lords, on account of the alleged “moral and physical degeneration and even degra- dation of the aristoeracy.” was brought up at court In the household of the late Queen Victoria, For he is |a younger son of the late Gen. Sir Henry Ponsonby who, throughout well nigh forty years, was the late queen’s chief private secretary and the keeper of her privy purse, while his mother, Lady Ponsonby, after being a maid of honor of the queen, was appointed, on her marriage, to be a lady-in-waiting. Gen. Sir Henry and Lady Ponsonby were, therefore. al- ways with Queen Victoria in atte ance upon her at Windsor Castle, at Osborne and at Balmoral, the Pon- sonby children being brought up from their infancy under the very eye of the queen. Sir Frederick Ponsonby, the eldest one of the boys, now stands at court {n the same official relation to King George as his father did to the late queen. As for Arthur P sonby he was, in his boyhood, a page of honor to the queen, was educated at Eton and Balllol College, Oxford, and, after leaving the university, entered the diplomatic service, being stationed in turn at Constantinople and at Copenhagen, after which he put In three years of service at the { foreign ofiice. Then he was invited by { the late Sir Henry Campbell Banner- {man, when the latter was premier, to become his private secretary, and it was after Sir Henry's death that he entered parliament and seemed to de velop a revolutionary streak. In fac! the overthrow of the house of lord: became a positive obsession to this grandson of Earl Grey, the famous prime minister, to this scion of the great house of Ponsonby, of which the Earl of Bessborough s the chief. 1t was only last year that Arthur Ponsonby, as labor member of parlia- ment for ShefMeld, introduced a bill for the abolitlon of the grant of hereditary titles, and {n which he de- nounced the house of lords as a “ridiculous excrescence” and the peer. age as “something utterly grotesque.’ EIE The Ponsonbys hail originally from Cumberland, taking thelr name from the lordship of the Manor of Pon- sonby, in that county;" but they have been identified with Ireland ever since the relgn of Queen Elizabeth. They do not hesitate to declare that Arthur Ponsonby 18 a throwback to Sir John Ponsonby, who commanded the Round- head Cavalry there under Cromwell. For, with his exception, all the“re- mainder of the Ponsenbys have always been high in favor at court. The principal home of Lord Bessborough is Bessborough Hall, near Piltown, in County Kilkenny, the mansion built of Kilkenny marbie about 200 years ago, after the design of the once famous Binton, overlook- jIng a charming line of country right away to the Kumara mountains and standing in a well wooded park of several thousand acres. ‘The art treasures include some very fine an- cestral portraits by Sir Joshua Rey- nolds and Sir Thomas Lawrence, among them being that of Arthur Ponsonby’s grest grandfather, the fourth earl, who died with ' such tragic_suddenness at Dublin Castle, ‘while Viceroy of Ireland. His taking oft was a tragedy in more senses than one, for it blighted many Irish hopes based on the strength of his close and intimate friendship with the . great Daniel O'Connell. What Arthur Ponsonby's policles will be on becoming foreign minister in the labor cabinet may be gathered from the fact that, during the great war, he was associated with the Hon. Bertrand Russell and Charles R. Bux- ton in pacifist appeals in béhalf of Germany, one of their principal ar- guments in favor of the eelullonrzf the war being, “Do you want to starve Germany into submission? This may take years and may cost millfons of pounds and hundreds of thousands of lives. The only powers that can stop this war are Great Britain and Ger- many. The allies depend on us. .Our financtal strength gives us & pre- dominant position. Would it be a weakness on our part to take the lead and bring Europe back to peace?” ‘This " ap| wi issued in - 1 shortly be! the United States cam. into the war, and, widely printed {n this country, handicap the United States government in preparing to take its part in the world war in behalf of liberty, civilization and smancipation of the world from the military terrorism of the Hohenzol- terns. TOWNLEY SURRENDERS. FARGO, N. D.. January 5.—A.. C. Townley, former president of the Non- partisan League, came to and surrendered himseif to the Cass coun- ty.authorities on & warrant charging him with embeszslement. on shares maturing. in 45 or. 83 months. Tt .Pays 4 Pér Cent- .on- shares -withdrawn -be- fore- maturity. - - e s T Corner 11th and E Sis. KW. .THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY. JANUARY |Good-Looking Diplomatists Demanded - |[ ' ; E ‘or Foreign Service of Great Britain s 19247 | mnnfimarh&ilnthmfi . The Smartest -Things To Wear Southern Sun Undélj The —this season are extraordinarily simple, but if simple, extraordinarily smart—and their vivid, new colors offer striking yet harmonizing con- trasts. : ; The Middy Frock that Vionnet made famous That smart, simple frock, with its slip- over blouse and pleated skirt, is the smartest of all sports frocks to wear South. And though it may be made of silk, of flannel, or of some novelty im- ported fabric, it always keeps its straight lines and its simplicity. Illustrated: A White Kasha Blouse rehaussed in a rose design with green leaves— has a pleated skirt of bright green crepe, $115. Kasha is smart in this middy frock with striped blouse and plain skirt; in tan, brick-dust and white, $115, Eyelet-embroidered in black is the smart white linen blouse that is worn with a pleated skirt of white crepe de chine, $95. Other Middy Frocks are of wool or fiber- knitted—in gay colors—$59.50 to $1¥5. All These Middy Frocks From the Sportswear Section, Third floor. The Brimless Cloche : The Brimmed Cloche Rivals in this smart collection of new hats that will go south— and be worn.with the smartest clothes by the smartest dressed women. And one of each we sketch—so that you may choose which one might be most smartly becoming to your type. The brimless cloche is, first of all, fine milan, in a vivid brick- dust shade, banded in wheels of taffeta in a lighter, harmo- nizing shade, $18.50. While the brimmed cloche has quite a brim—and it is one of those new bright yellow taf- feta hats, with cut-out white taffeta appliqued in black. Other Cloche Hats, $15 to $35. Millinery Sectign, Third floor. The Three-Quarter Coat is the Coat to Wear South And no complete wardrobe would travel south without at least one of these smart three-quarter coats in it. Eyelet embroidered broadcloth in a’'plati- num gray shade is distinctive, with its { collar _and band of baby fox in deep . collar of a moss green. Juina coat that gray, $295. + both chic and practical, $75. Other Three-Quarter Coats, Sports Models, $75 Leopard fur has suddenly come into the forefront of smartness. Here it trims the Coat Bection, Third floor. P i @& A Brief Resume of New Tfiings Silk Alpaca, is smart in a new frock of canary yel- low, simply made, $59.50. Rodier’s fabric fashions a smart three-quarter coat with a full-length collar of natural- lynx—the lin- ing carrying out the color scheme of the design of the coat, §295. The Beltless Silhouette, is smartly shown in a new irock of golden sports silk—a coat model ywith flaring collar and cuffs of gold organdie, $49.50. The Ensemble Costume, of charmeen—is distinctive in that the lining of the three - quarter coat matches the trimming on the slim frock; $175. Black and White, is the chic color scheme of a black Juina coat with a collar of ermine—adapted from Patou, $195. The Cape-Frock, is most charming, when it is of coral pompon cloth, col- lared in fox and belted in leather, $16S. Moire, fashions a hand- some black coat with tiered front and flat back, Wom Black and White Again— in a black satin cape with a wide scarf collar banded in ermine — and white crepe for the lining, $195. From Paris, comes an all- over embroidered short coat—white wool on black crepe, trimmed in smart white rabbit, $115. Cape-Coats, proudly wear their broad stripes — in tans and browns—or two smart shades of gray. $95 and $115. All White—is ever fash- ionable — a new white knitted dress has a new mandarin collar and nar- row cuffs of white satin. $59.80. All white angora capes, are $19.50 to $39.50. White Flannel Sports Dresses, simple and smart, $39.50. Suede-cloth Applique, is the smartest, newest trim- ming on a white voile frock from Paris, $69.50. Kasha, is much worn, and is smart here in a tan suit with the new tassled scari collar, $195. Apparsl Sections,, Third Floor. The Fabrics That Make the Smartest Southern Clothes Gay-Printed Silky Crepes of gay colorings, rare color contrasts, and ingenious de signs. New silk and wool crepes lead in fashion for smart Southern clothes. Partjcularly interesting are the desigu: and the unique color combinations—tangerines and green or blu ay and red, orange $hsoyard, -and tan, black and rust Other Printed Stlk Crepes, $3.50 and $4.50 are in the more conservative prints—and there are many exceedingly smart black and white designs. Silk Section, Second floor. " Gay-Printed Voiles Prints again are Fashion’s favorite for lovely frocks, and the gay. colorful patterns of these new sheer voiles are entirely delightful. One may choose from dark or bright colorings. * Printed Silk and Cotton Crepes, $1.25 and $1.50. Block-Embroidered French Voiles, in colors, $2. Exquisite Plain-color English Volles, $1.25. Cotton Dress Goods Sectlon, Second floor. Cream Woolens for Smart Sports Skirts S4einch . Sd-inch Wool $430. Sdeinch Kroshoen, $4.50. S4-inch H n, $4. S4=inch W% $5 Plaid Homespun,. & $5. - ‘ i