Evening Star Newspaper, January 10, 1924, Page 6

THE ‘EVENING STAR 5. .o NVICh Sonfay Morsing Biliion . ‘WASHINGTON, D. C. "THURSDAY. .. .January 10, 1924 “THEODORE W. NOYES. .. .Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company « Business Office, 11th St. and Penpsylvania Ave, Neéw York Office: 110 Faat 420 St. © Chicago Office: Tower. Bullding. pesn Oftice: 16 Regent St., London, England, The Brening Star, with the Sunday morning dition, is delivercd by carriers withia the city ui 60 cents: per meouth: datly omly. 45 ceats per monih; Sunday oniy, 20 ceats’ per rders may be sent by mail or tele- one ‘Main 5000. Collection 15 made by car- the cnd of eachs month. "Rate by MallPayable in Advance Maryland and Virginia, - Daily and Sunday..1yr., $8:4 Daily only J1yr., §6.0¢ Sunday on 1o-1yr, $2.40; 1 mo., 20¢ All Other States. 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Dresking of the deadlock ever the Belaction of the chairman of the com- mittee on interstate commerce by the election” of Senator Smith of South Carolina, a democrat, with the aid of 2epublican vetes, invoives one signifi- cant’ feature—it warns the regular vepublican - membership of the fact that hereafter in important proposed legislation It-wili have to-reckon with un element in_the party which will not hesitate to' effect coalition with the demcerats to.accomplish & give: purpose, and that it is possible for them to dv.so successfully. - THe lesson’ which Senator La Fol- latte, after long hesltation, delivered sdmenished the leaders that the sena- tors who followed him into coaHtion arith the democrats constitute & power "In the Senate and that when they decide to tuke the bit in the teeth they will mot be restrained by con- siderations of strict party regularity. Yesterday's vote aiso demonstrated the existence in the so-called pro- gressiveradical bloc of two schools of political thdught: the conservative progressives and the radical progres sives. The first consists of the six republican senators who would not Jaccept Sepator. Cummins, recom- mended by the regular republican or- genization for chairman of the inter- state commerce committee, but, in- &tead, voted -consistently for Senator Couzens of Michigan. = They were Senators Capper of Kansas, (ooding of Idaho, Howell of Nebraska, Jones of Washington, Norbeck of North Da- kota and Norris of Nebraska. The senators who followed Senator La Fol- lette into coalition with the democrats ~were Brookhart of Iowa, Johnson of Minnesota, Frazier of North Dakota sand Shipstead of Minnesota. The change in the chairmanship of .the committes does not necessarily “control the railroad legislation to be bropght out, if indeed there be any “forthcoming, and, of course, will not tule the action of the Senate, which In the. last analysis -wiil frame .the bllls, In tho Senate {tself there are as many different. groups of opinion on railroad legisiation as there were _colors.in Joseph's coat. .. Any railroad bill the committee re- pocts, after it is man-handled in the .Senate, 18 hardly likeély to be recog- -migable by its co-authors. Complications_arc introduced into an important project by, the man who would like to have his own taxes re- which is the government-at Moscow and is likewize the Third Interna- tiongl, seeking by '$ecret propaganda’ in the United States to.undermine and overthrow this government? .. Should the United States, regardless.of such efforts, -regardiess of the pernicious doctrines and practices of the Soviets, recognize the estaMfished government at Moscow? The Becretary of State, whosé views are those’ of the Presi- dent, declines to consider the present Russlan government as_desepving of recognition, because of its failure to ©hbserve the prineiples of international righteousness and because it~ is, through its associated agencies, sce ing to subvert this country to ecom- munism. He links the two questions. The sufficiency of his reasons has been challenged. The Attorney Gen- eral declares that thore is abumidant evidence to support his pesition: The Senate, through- its committee, is about. to determine the matter. The country must svait for the.demonstr: tion' #nd meaviwhile there is firm con- fidence that the administration's re- fusal to’deal with Ru: is founded upon adequate ground: Pepper’s Plans for the Capital. Senator Pepper of Pennsylvania, as | | chairman of the committee on library, |5 taking d very keen and heiptul in- {!ereul in matters pertafning to the! development of the Nutional Capital. He, In co-operation with Senafor Fer- nald, chairman of the committee on public. buildihgs, Is seeking, for e ample, a solution of the Capitol-§ tion plaza problem. TIn pursuance of bis thought that much is:to be done and to ascertain what sheuld be done for the evolution of the Capital, he has begun a serfes of round-table dis- cussions with Teaders of local thought and activity. The first of these meet- ings was held last night and was at- tended by a number of .men and women who are actively concerned in the correction of unfavorable. condi- tions in the District and the promo- tion of plans for its growth. | thousands who ‘came to Washington THE__EVENING | palgns taxed the resgurces of most people in Washington. Thousands of persons who now have no office were then using the street cars twice a day. Thousands who came to Wash- ington .to_help the government, and also to help themselves, are gone, and Just to be here in e great period of history are not with us now. The automobile is doing work that many street cars’ did. - During war days when one saw a District license plate numbered 70,000 he thought “How the number of machines is climbing!” Now one sees the license number 100,000 and ahove oftener than “70,000" tiwo or three years ago. In the. height of war days 50,080 was a high number.. One ecannot: but re- mark - the host of persons. riding to office and shep in autos. In the morning, from north, south, eust and west, they croywd all streets leading to the central part of the city. Tn thé evening the tide of traffic flows the other way. Not only does an auto bring its owner to office and another memher of the family on a shopping errand, but it brings neighbors who are thinking of buylng cars or whose cars are out of running. If the ma- chine does not start from home with a full load it picks up passengers on the way und almost literally takes “fares” out of the boxes of the rail traction companies. The bus lines in competition with tlie ‘electric traction companles are also growing. 1t is remarkable that the daily num- ber of street car pay passengers is only 5,000 below the number for last year, — e National Radio Exhibit. Radio has come to such proportivns in Washington that there is not only a Washington Radio Dealers’ A lation, but this assoclation is making ready to hold a pational radio show at Convention Hall in March. Sixty thousand square feet of floor space have been aliotted to Washington dealers ‘There is much to Le done t6 make Washington the model city that it should be as the Capital of this coun- try. But it is up to Congress to do it. In both local and national projects Congress must give the word, must provide the means. Senator Pepper's interest, therefore, is the more encour- aging becnuse he represents the agency of action-and is in associdtion with colleagues of Senate and House who are in"a position to promote meas- ures of improvement, who are of the same mind. At last might's “round-table’ ference, or discussion. theré was much plain talking on the part of the members of the Senate,” who unhesi- tatingly placed the blame for certain present evil conditions squarely upon Congress. The District has been scored 50 often by congressmen for mumic- ipal derelictions and shortcomings that it is somewhat refreshing now to find the tide of criticism turned the | otlier way. But this is not a matter of placing blame. Tt.is a matter of getting action, The District has been ready and willing to do its part on equitable terms in financing the proj- ects of improvement that properly e long to its share. It has its own inti- mate needs to meet, such as schools | and other strictly municipal equip- ment, and has been impatient of the | restraint impoeed in the refusal of Congress to appropriate on the right- eous ratio of federal-District. contribu- | tion out of available funds for these purposes. It has expected and hoped to see the government go forward with | its own equipment in the matter of | buildings, sadiy in arrears, Washington in large measure, Ik con- duced, but would prefer to have the other fellow's as ‘large as posstble. Ot et Ludendorff will run_for the reichstag “#s 4. fascisti candidate. He is not the first man to start with a conquering hero prospectus and end as'a constant office .gecker. R et LS Never Drink Wood Alcohol! This would seem to be superfluous advice. “Yet the mortality etatistios prove that it is still needed. . The Russian Issue. « Pénding. the Tnquity by the Senate committee on _foreign -relations into the'question of Russian ‘recognition, Wwhich compasses the specific question of soviét propaganda in the United States. for the subversion: of this gov- erament, ‘effort, has beeh ‘made in certain quarters {o creaté the impres- -sfon that the Deépartment of Justice “}a¥/ in faet, no evidence of the activ- ity ot "the Moscow organization in the direction of harmful missionary work 15 'fhis’ couf A statement to that effect ‘was Made Trecently and as & direct rejoinder the Attorney_General has mads a formal announcement to “the effect that “the -Department of .Justice has-abundant evidence to sup- port “the? position of ‘the ‘Department “ot’ State with respect to communist propaganda, -directed from Moscow, in this country. ‘Doublless in due time, when the Senate mmittee beging work' on this matter, the evidence will be forthicoming. In the usual course of procedure the committee, through the Seaate, will call” upon ‘the Sécrefary of State to furnish it, “If not incom: patible with the interests of ths gov- ernment.” ‘There is no reason to ex- pect n declifation on- the part of-the Secretary of State to ‘supply the in- formatioh. . s s it ““Moscow, has. challenged the Secre- tary of State to prove that the soviet government ‘has’ engaged in:harmful :propaganda here, The friends of the Russian goverriment in this country ~have likowise challenged the, produc: “tlon of this proof. In recent speeches ‘the Senate the matter was debated ‘end - on . the .one "sidé. it was' shown _that there is the closest copnection in. personne] as well as in theory and % practice between the soviet govern- ~¥ent and thé ‘communist party in Russiaand- the ' Third *International, While on the other side this point was -evaded and ‘the assertion was wade that, whatever the character of per- g miclous activity in the past, the ques- tion of recognition was paramonnt and.should not rest upon objections to—the theories -of ‘government held by individuals in’ Ruesla. - “There aré two questions in this case. /the communist party of Rusaia, Topsy, has “just’ growed. Despite broad plans made at the beginning and at a later period in its existence, much of the dovelopment of the Capi-| tal has beeni haphazard, irregular, regulated und inharmonioys. Efforts 10 co-ordinate the factors of growth, provide consistent equipment and ad- equate setting for the pullic and municipal organizations - have been thwarted by economy spasms and’by ! jealousies and antagonisms. It would | seem now that a better understapding | prevails, understanding” of the needs both municipal and national of ‘the nation’s city, and of the duty of the government through Congress to sup- ply -them. Senator Pepper’s round- table discussion may prove to be the means of hastening this long-delayed result. 3 —————— The man:who “indirectly” offered Smedley Butler a ‘bribe of $100,000 showed 'great discretion in. not at- tempting & personal megotiation which would bring him within fight- ing reach. In consideri?g international- réla- fione many senators are averse to a prize peacd plan that involves a sug- gestlon of advite and consent fro outside sources... Possibly Will ' Hays will consider calling on the general public.to sub- mit tdeas for a -peace plafi for Holly- A ‘tax-reduction program might zo through. mare rapidly if many states- men felt a lm’mawnm interest. Deoline:in “Tram” Pagsenglers. The reeord shows a:gegrease in the number of steget car passengers, and the reasons are obvious.'.The number of employes in the government depart- ents has been reduced and. more people. are riding to and, from office in -Rutomobiles. Without consulting| statistics ‘a man might ‘know that fewer persons are traveling on street cars, but the Public Utilities Commis- slon gives out figures which ‘show the extent ,of the decline. .'In 1923 the average daily number of pay passengers was 5,000 less than in 1922 and 24,000 less than in 1920. _ Figures showing the reduction from the peak of war- time activity in’ Washington hie not During ‘war days nearly everybody ‘who wanted employment hed it. An army of persons who had never been “in office”” befare took places with the government because they ‘wanted to help - win -the war and. because ‘wages_ paid helped to keep the home fires burning the home table set and to manufacturers of radio appa- ratus and it is said that many of the features of the New York, Chicago and Philadelphia radio shows will be exhibited here. The development of radio and the growth of popular interest In it are remarkable and by the time the show opens theré will probably be many devices mot known now, but which will be on exhibition as proved and practicable improvements. Radio is a fastgrowing science and industr With the growth in the number of radio fans it is certain that a great many persons who show have the dim- mest understanding of radio and no striking interest in- it will erowd around exhibits talk in citement callent with terms of radio and with ex- and enthusiasm tell of ex- results - they have achieved their sots. Perhaps we shall come to the time when radio sets will be as numerous in homes as music machines and telephones are now. et On assuming the duty of director of public safety in Philadelphia, Smedley Butler found himself responsible for clearing out vice conditions in forty- cight hours. Even if he requires a few hours extra his services will be | so valuable that the big towns of the country will be campeting for them. | D ————— A few of the Filipino politiclans may be suspecting by this time that regard- | |1ess of their personal feelings toward i the governor general they would have done well to engage young Mr. Wood as their country’s financial adviser. —_———— Having had a slight operation on bis eve Secretary Slemp will now be able to sce republican victory ahead more clearly than ever. —— e If the manufacture of arms is {nterdicted by peace agreénients Mex- ico will be obliged to find new methods of holding an election. —_———— - SHOOTING STARS. 5Y PHILANDER JOHNSON x Peace. Life's energy in restless forms Forever must we view. The mighty ocean *has its storms ‘Which flercely break anew. The land. that blossoms in its pride Is humbled in a day o Ta face destruction far and wide “Beneath the earthquake's sway. Yet ‘calm véturns and rest is sweet And he alone is wise .Who learns with fortitude 16 meet New perils that arise.” 8o, each upon -his-pathway goes, ‘Though’ rough or smooth it seems. The peace We crave s not repose ““'That leaves 'us only dreams. N Betterment. ““Every man should db his share toward making the world better.’ 2 “That's how I'feel about it,” an- swered Senator Sorghum. “But it's hard to devise a plan-to regulate a few people wWha .think thiey ere en- titled to all the benefit of the im- provement.” i e - Jud Tunkins says the chief differ- ench between the boy and the man is that the boy played hooky to go fishing instead of to piay golf. We try to make Willle behave. ‘We fill him with precepts most grave, But Willie, quite haughty, - Goes on. being naughty ‘And stmply remarks, ““Let 'em rave!” What ‘has become 6f the sheriff you elected last year?? - -, “He resigred,”. answered Cactus Joe. “'He found his-official position compelled him -to put up-with @ lot of remarks that in his opinfon called for actfon. So-he retired from public to tend to privatg business.” xacily,” answered Miss Cay- enne. “I never heard of -anybody having. to pay alimony on dccount of a lottery ‘ticket.” > == . < A “If you_done broke yoh -New Year resolution,” said’ Unéle Eben,. “make it agam:- De date - de Teast im- 'portant part of L in ‘the coming show, | STAR, WASHINGT If somo of the President’s enthr: siastle friends can prevail, the owl will become the official emblem of the Coolidge campaign. The suggestion springs from the fact that once upon @ time there-hung over the Coolidge fireplace -in- Northampton this famed tribute to the shrewdest of birds exs lie spoke; The less he mpoke. the more he heurd. Why can't ave be like that wise-old bird? The’ republicans who oppose the. abandomment of the elephant as the G. O. P trade-mark say that his sure- footedness is just as emblematic of Calvin Coolidge as owlish sagacity. ) L “Crews House, in London, which Ambassador and Mrs. Kellogg have taken for a restdence, played a cele- brated role in the war. Jt was the headquarters of Lord Northcliffe's “enemy propaganda” organization. Beneath its historic roof were spun the stratagems for undermining the morale-of the German army and the German people during the last year of fighting. Northcliffe was the pre- siding genlus, but he had able adju- tants lfke H.' G. YWells, Wickham Steed (then editor of the Times), Sir Campbell Stuart, Dr. Seton-Watson and Sif Sidnsy Low. The United States. committee an public informa- tion aetively co-operated with the Northeliffe staff. Ludendorff and other Germans often proclaimed that the barrage of propaganda let down ceaselegsly from Crewe House did .as much to smash German resistance as the allied offens The mansion stands in Curzon street, Mayfair, London’s aristocratic residential dis- trict. Across the street is Sunderiand House, the home of the American Duchess of Marlborough, which was used by United States war missions In-I917 and 1918, * k% Joseph P, Tumulty, Woodrow Wil- son's Fldus Achates, used to divine important political intelligerice be- tween the lines of “soclety news” in the Washington papers. There has just been printed- in those eagerly- devoured ecolumns an item full of significance to those who. know how to read it. Senator Lynn J. Frazier, republican non-partisan of North Da- kota, with Mrs, Frazier, was a mem- |ber of President Coolidge's week end {Yachting party on the Mayflower the other day. Verbum sap, as they say. The Fraziers cruised with the Cool- idges about the sume time as Senator Ladd, the other republican tisan Leaguer from North % n- Dak BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY. Although- scarcely as pulatial as tho great stone mansion known ag ihorchyxh-r House in VPark Lane, where the late Whitelaw Reid was accustomed to dispense lavish hospi- tality &s American ambassador fin {London during the reign of King | Edward VII, Crewe House which has {been leased by Ambasssador Frank | | Kelloge, pending the completion of ithe extensive changes In the. double | | house of the late J. Plerpent Morgan {and which has been presented by his| m _and namesake 1o the United| { States for use as the permanent home | of the embassy in England, is ad- mirably arranged for entertaining on large scale. It is very roomy, pegutifully furnished and is crowded rom cellar to garret with art tréas- It is the most picturesque ple in London of the “Rus in| Pormerly known ab Wharhclitte! House and dating from the. reign of King George IL before Mayfair be- came the center of the fashionable {world, "it 2 -low-pitched, = wide frontad mansion - with tall jonic columns standing in the midst of spaclous grounds, the velvety lawns {of which are shaded by _majestic trees .and’_cut off from the busy trafic. of Curzon street by a brick { wall, fronted and aimost concealed by a thick green hedge. The Jatter in conjunction with the quaint’looking porter's lodge. all covered with flow- ers and creepers to the right of the ! great entrance-gates, gives the entire {place @ truly rural aspec {7 Although built. nearly go and retaining the racteristic rehitecture of the early.elghteenth century, it has been equipped by its ipresent’ owners, the Marquis” and{ Marchigness of Crewe, with every modern_comfort and: luxury, regar(- less of ‘cost: Lord Crewe, after ‘hav- ing bepn viceroy of Ireland and after having held various. cabinet officss, {s now British ambassador to France, while ‘hls attractive and gifted wife, the. former Lady “Peggy” Primrose, is one of the daughters of the Earl of Rosebery, and of his. multi-million- aire. wife, the late Hannah Roths- child, "Quits the richest of all the heiressks - of - that great financial L dynasty. . 1 200 years % Xk It is-x house of many odd passages 4nd winding cortidors, with much oak paneling-and subdued light, fil- tering .through stained glass win- dows. “ Stratght out n ‘front of ‘the primcipal * drawing reem.-is a very large -Getagonal conservatory, With eusy -~ chairs arranged haphazard ‘around the big fountain, and quaint elgctric. fitments dotted amaong the Tollage give this retreat the prettiest night effect that it is possible to cone ceive. -The great salon into whic one enters from. the conservatory has a very capfivating air of comfort and Testraint, and, like the majority of the mansions of -the peribd, Is rela- tively modest in the height of the rooms, Owing to the pride of the architect: in the ‘beauty of the won- derfully painted -ceilings. -Many of Romney's masterpieces adorn - the walls of this apartmenat, consplouous among them being his celebrated por- trafts of Lady - Mary ‘Wortley Mon- tagu, of her husband and son, all ar- rayed in-Turkish dress. . Lady Mary at‘one time made her home at Crewe House,.and drew all the . great world. of Lendom around Ner a5 the .most’ interesting Worman of her day. She had ent’ many years of her as British ambas- sadress -af Constantinople, amd had brought. baak, from Turkey. the prac- tice' of ‘tnoculation for smallpox, for the introduction of which preventive ints Bngland, and, indeed, iRto west- érm Europe and Ameri¢a, she was re- nsible. - - i 8 “Tahe was'® most remarkable: wom: an, and her favorite daughter Mary became the wife of that Barlof Bute, the all-powerful. minister of George 1T In” the early. years ‘of . hr% i and as such ;a;gg%r responsible for outbreak. of the’ :Ameriean -war PR ol el the hejress-of the. estates. of ler father, Stuart Wortley,, the former ambassador to Turkey, &nd ta the voluminous papers and dlari mother, Lady Mary, and, bequeathing them to her second son, hie was. even- tually created Lord Wharncliffe. It was at Wharnoliffte House, now to be the English home of Ambassador Kel- logg, that her grandson, thé second Lord Wharngliffe, édited the Spright- 1y letters and diarles dontaining a b ‘grapliie . portrayal-.of early eighteenth century life in Great Brit- ain and on the continent, books that remain to this day standard works of “thelr kind, SRR " Adjoining "the main drawing Toom feentricities. THURSDAY, JANUARY ‘10, 1924, ~ WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS ~~ “BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE - was dnnauncing that Coolidge i enough for the farmers of that belt. * oK kK Philadelphia is expecting. to hear from Secretary Mellon by personal word of mouth on January 19. On the evening of that day hé will at- tend the annual dinngr of the Manu- facturers’ Club, the great orgapiza- tion of Pennsylvania industrialists. Mr. Mellon, who leaves talk speeches to the politicians. is sometimes prevailed upon to ex- press himself impromptu on public ‘occasions, . Xven then he outdoes trevity f{tself.. The Manufacturers Club hopes to cajole him Into a bit of language anent taxation matters at its prandial board. * k% K Lodge and Borah -are the drawing cards of Congress. Announcement that' the sage of Nahant and the matador of Boise would clash in the Senate on Russia drew an audiente almost as big as the one that packed the chamber to hear President Cool- idge read his message. There could not be a greater contrast in, oratori- cal style- than Lodge and Borah present. Lodgo is scholarly, but ponderous, as nearly every man is when he mumms from a manuscript. Borah scorns notes, except when he quotes from data, and ‘thus is able Lo throw the whole force of his vi- brant soul into what he says. He has history at his tongue's tip and eites It effectively to make his points. Interrupters tackle him at their perll. In the Senate debate he dis- po: of John Spargo, his soclalist newspaper critic, with a neat- epl- #ram. Boraji-said that the only dif- ference betweem what Lenin prac- tices and what Spargo espouses is the difference between sudden, death and creeping paralysis. CE ok k% The democrats in the Senate con- tinue to monopolize the sartorial ec- Senator “Tom" Hefiin's gleaming .waistcoat of vanilla ice cream hwe is now matched by Senator “Tom" Kayard's Latin-quarter flow- ing bow nécktie of black slik. The ixta Bayard to represent Delaware in the United Siates Senate Is one of its tm- posing figutes. He towers into space well over six feet and is stralght as an Indlan, Wheat ®AK & Here's the latest Washington po- Utical quip: “They &ay that if Coolidge is elected President in November every bank in the United States will close its doors four months after he is in- augurated.” “Why “Itll be the Fourth of July. (Copyright, 1924.) Kellogg Picks London Home While Waiting Morgan House is the co-called crimson drawing room, a very large apartment, where the domelike ceiling, elaborately wiolded and decorated and adorned with the most beautiful paintings, &ives ose every concept of dignity The color scheme employ- is cerulean blue with gold, nly blue that really harmonizes with deep red figured silk damask, and age Las mellowed these colorings into the most harmonious blend. * ok ¥ % The great dining room suggests the FElizabethan era rather than the more dainty seventeenth and elghteenth cen- tury French periods. Thus the walls are almost entirely covered with rich, dark oak paneling of the vic- €In queen’s reign, with doors ef the same material, while the mantelpiece, reaching up to the cefling. is a mas- sive example of deeply carved oak work. The sideboards are heavy, too, 4nd well carved, boasting of two Corinthian columns on either side of the center, each column carrying three armed candelabra brackets. The great clock on the mantlepiece Is itself inclosed in a solid carved oak stand. There are many fine canvases hang- ing on these walls. History was made in that room, where the lead- Tng statesmen of the day met and de- termined the policies of the nation over_thelr port and madeira. Wharn- cliffs House was the rendezvous of everything that was brilliant in Lon- don " foclety, enjoying international celebrity, and it may safely be said that during the 200 years of its own- ership by “the family of the Lords Wharncliffe no continental monarch or foreign dignitary ever visited Great Britain without being enter- tained at what is now to be for some time to come the” English home of the American ambassador. Today Crewe House ls situated in the very heart of Mayfair. The lat- ter did not alwavs enfoy the pres- tige which it now obtains as the most fashionable and exclusive quar- ter of London. In the reign of Charles TI it was the scene of & great falr and popular festival held there in the honor of May, in that month each vear. It was unen- viably noted in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries for the brawls, the murders and for popular disturb- ances of which it became the scene each spring. These grew to be such @ source of trouble to the authori- ties that during the relgn of King George III the fair was abolished. The name of the district, however, remained. But the garden of Crewc House and _its magnificent many- centuries-old trees are all that are left of the days when the district was wholly and truly rural and rustic. 1t may be of interest to add, in conclusion, that few beople in this country possess a more intimate acquaintance with all the ins and outs, the nooks =and corners and crannies of this historic former home of the Lords of Wharncliffe than the Hon. Ralph Stuart Wortley of the Brook and Union clubs in_New York, also a member of the New. York Stock Txchange, and married to a daugh- ter of the late Admiral Winfield s, Schley of the United States- Navy; Ralph Stuart Wortley, formerly a rancher in Wyoming, is a brother of the present Earl of Wharncliffe and a mephew of the late lord and spent much of his childhood and early Youth at what was then Wharn- Jifte House and is now the Ameri- can embassy. = ———tee In a Few Words. best way to win a war s & lc;r.hpll. ufiancs ‘was acclaimed the victor in the :‘ut vlmri "!Jv to now eems to have los * Bhe eeT NORGES CLEMENCEAU. rebuilding Austria with a tfoww’ela‘;: one hand, but we have dropped the sword from the other. U —CHANCELLOR SEIPEL idemic of dictatorships that seams th have infected many Bure- pean democracles is due to a break- Up of political organizations and the United States has I'nn?onl’fe°l‘“x=\;:. b lon" o 8 sam slight Infoctloy RRERT HOOVER. Between themselvés, when speak- ing of the Ruhr, Germans do not use fiamboyant phrases about the sacred- ness of German soil. The a German ig intensely annoyed at the Franco-Belgian. seizure—but the an- noyance has its roots in_economics, not in politics. —PAUL BARR. If the presidency were handed to me on a silver platter 1 wouldn't want it. Even if T had the ability for it, it would be an awful bore and nuisance. —CYRUS H. K. CURTIS. - One way to restore the dollar to its e 16 404 taxes - - - BY LEILA MECHLIN In conmection with 'the Corcoran Gallery's current exhibition of cotem- porary American paintings a voting contest is taking place this week. Every visitor is invited to thus reg- ister his or her choice of the most meriterious picture in the collection— a popular referendum, similar, in a small way, to that organized in con- néction with the Bok peace plan. The purpose in both instances is practi- cally the same—to induce thé public to think. There {s a great tendency, particu- larly in this day and generation, on the part of the masses, to commit thought. to others-and to-aceept as final, judgment which finds expres- sion through-the medium of ‘type. Obviously there is a difference be- tween thoughtful consideration and oft-hand opinion, and it is the thought- ful consideration which Mr. Bok and the Corcoran Gallery at this time are inviting. Speaking on the subject of modern- Ism in art, Royal Cortissoz once said at a dinner of the American Federa- tion of Arts, that If one really liked pictures, of ' the modernist type, all right, no exception could be taken to their’ purchase; but if such pictures were bought because somchody <xid they were good.and somebody prophe- sled that they would some day be valuable, thén 1t was all wrong, the progréss of art was impeded rather than given impetus. Willlam Merritt Chase gave expres- sion to somewhat the same thought when he advised people to begin by buying chromos, If they liked chromos, and 80, as their taste improved and their knowledge fncreased, to discard what they had outgrown and acquire better. By following this method, he declared, collectors who were real pa- trons of art were naturally developed. * x ok % In art, as in other ficlds, names are often used to donjure with, and so po- tent is the spell exorted that many cannot see the work becauss of the name. Some one once, hearing a criti- cism of a Sargent painting, exclaimed with amazement: “But surely Sar- gent couldn’t have blundered!” Mr. Sargent himselt would lay no claim to such {mpeccability. __A little city In the far west, desir- ing the loan of an exhibition of paint- ings, wrote to an organization send- ing out such collections and requ. “only works by such well" kn. masters as Sargent, Cecilla Beau: George Inness, Titlan and Rubens These names were to them guarante os of merit. * % ¥ % To overcome the glamour of names and to insure unblased consideration of the art of the painters, a unique scheme has been hit upon and put into effect lately by an organization in one of the principal Italian cities. An exhibition was organized of pic- tures of moderate size at a fixed and moderate price, and no picture was signed or Initialed until purchased. It was announced that the coliection comprised works by the leading Ital- ian artists as well as by those wh reputations were yct to be mad therefore.’ to those who were not able to judge merely by style it was somewhat of a lottery, provided they were buying names and not works of art. The result was that among the works purchased were many by obscure artists, and §mong the works left om the walls unsold were not a fow by artists of large reputation. To be sure, art judges us, and it may be that such selection goes to prove an inferior taste on the part of the purchasers, but one of the best ways to learn Is by making mis- takes; and in art as in other things sincerity s of all importance. * % ¥ ¥ An” interesting little story is told of how the purchase of a very good picture by a cotemporary\ American artist completely revolutionized the rurchaser’s point of view toward things artistic. The picture, which was a figure painting, was bought | because of a supposed likeness to a member of the family. Being hung in the drawing room, it began grad- ually to shame its surroundings, not by its blatant coloring, but by its reticent grace. If was, above all things, a subtle painting, exquisitely artistic, low-toned: harmenious, finely rendered. An adjustment of the other plctures in the room became necessary. Then there were changes in the wall covering, next in the.floor covering, then in the furniture itself, and, as the one room was made har- monious, other rooms were found out of accord, and thus the whole en- vironment of a family was changed. This is a true story and one told b the purchaser of the picture, and it all happened within the last five years. * x % It is well understood that com- mercialism and art do not go hap- pily hand in hand, and there is no greater “stigma that can be placed on an artist than to claim that he or she Is commercial, vet it has some- times been a little difficult to decide and explain- where enterprise ended and commercialism began. The straight and narrow path, as Dr. Lyman Abbott once declared, lies not apart, but in the midst of the broad roadway leading to destruction, and to step off bn either side occasions peril. Under the heading, “Commercialism in Art,” Julla W, Wolfe, in the School Arts Magazine, gives a most excel- lent exposition of this much mooted question. She says: “An artist is not commercial because he happens to have what I8 called common sense and - knows not only the value of things, but their prices as well. An artistis not commercial when he gets the best price for his work. He is commercial when he shapes it for a market instead of fashioning it to express freely and without regard for the faste of thé moment or the de- mand of his cotemporarles, his own genius” And she adds: “The com- mercial element comes in at the cre- ation of a work of art, not at its dis- _ In support of this theary on to state that "It is true tHAt many of the noblest artists have worked - for money; they have seld their time and skiil, not their con- vietton-and genius. * 9 .The eurse of commercialism lles {n the fact that it a work of art-of its perfect sincerity and originality by . possess- ing the artist's mind {n that hour of birth when the work ought to pos- sess the soul”’ with that passion for perfection which has filled the world with visions of ravishing beauty.” * ok ok % A kind of commercialism in art which is essentlally uncommendable 1s the manufacture of spurious works by well‘’known masters. It Mtas been a common thing for years in connec- tion with the works by the great European masters, but of late, alas, the manufacture of imitation paint- ings by such well known American artists ‘ag Blakelock,'Inness, and even living men, has greatly flourished. So cleverly is this work done that tho: who are accreditéd experts now re- fuse to authenticate canvases the his- tory of which they have not known. RII a remarkable thing that those who have the cleverness to imitate another would be willing” to spend their talent In the perpetuation of fraud. It is well, however, for buvers, and particularly those who buy by names, to take warning lest through their ignorance and credulity they lend - “aid -and - comfert” to- the i | jlon "IN TODAY’S ‘SPOTLIGHT ——— BY PAUL V. COLLINS The recent disaster to the French airship Dixmude has fad no ter- rorizing effect upon the planners of the most hazardous voyage ever un- dertaken through the air—the Shen- [andoal’s proposed trip to explore the Arctic region. For centuries approach - to -the north pole bafled the world. At last Rear Admiral Peary, on April 6, 1909, reached the goal and there planted Ofd Glory, where no other flag has YBt Waved. The pole is again to be visited by Americans, not by weary 'tram:.flnx: over snow and ice at a speed of ten to t i but_us the bird nies: upon the winss of the wind, at from forty to six nautical miles an hour. Never since Columbus get ocean. and the wise men of Portugal and Spain predicted that he would plunge over the western edge of the world _into fathomless space, has therq been such a plungo into the utterly fmknown as is this now pro- posed” by the arctio voyage through the air, With but twe points of safe mooring,” 2,200 miles apart. 4 2 x ok x x Before ‘the great dirigible « arts two tender ships will be sent .nead, oach equipped with a spectal mooring mast. to which the xirship can tic up at rest.. One will be statloned at Point Barrow, Alaska; the other at Spitzbergen,” on the other side of the pole. Whether the.alrship will go on to Spltzbergen, or, taking & turn around the pole, will return to Point Barraw, will depend upon the weather condi- tions. Preferably, it will return di- rectly to Point Barrow, Alaska, sin it is desired to confine the expedition, s0 far as practicable, to United State territory, and also to make a double trip across the vast unexplored re- Iying Between Alaska and the pole--a million square miles, in which there may lie great {slands, to he annexed to our country right of discovery. kK ok % Soms time in March the great diri- { gible will start from Lakehurst, N. JI., and fly first to Fort 1,191 nautical miles course will go around the higher ranges of the Rockles in the north and will find, in Arizona and New Mexico, & mountain pass not requir- ing such an altitude as would be nec- essary in the north. Thé ship will be inflated with helium gas, which expands as the altitude n- reases, o that to cross the higher 1ges of 2,000 feet it would be neces- ary to ofCharge 25 to 40 per cent of the indispensable and costly gas, lest it burst its containers. The Shenandoah will follow the Pa- cific coast to Puget sound, thence to Nome, Alaska, and in June cross Alaska to Point Barrow, on the northern shore, within the Arctic circle. Some fine day, next June, when weather conditions ap- | pear mogt’ favorable, it will sail north— | north—north—as fast as an expres train if they start before noon the crew will breakfast above the north poie the t morning, after a flight of 1117 utical miles—about as far as fro ehurst, N. J., to Fort Worth, Tex. | There will be no way-station stops “weather permitting”—for a stop w out a mooring mast means catastrop % %% Weather permitting!” What can the TUnited States weather bureau do to ascertain what will be the weather in that vast, unexplored world? The bu- reau receives reports twice daily from twelve stations in Alaska, and from Spitzbergen and Iceland, on the other | side of the pole. But over all of Russia | and Siberia there is dead silence, for we | have no_dealings with Russia, and, even if we had, Russia is not advanced enough to. maintain eignal stations_for the weather. That means that one- half_of the circumference of the world, in ‘the Arctio region, gives weather report, “urthermore, while there are.report from and Spitzbergen on t Worth, Tex.— This southern { 1 { i out- mo ! Sharp condemnation of his two| sons, who seemingly have insisted on | trying to get rich in a hurry fs| coupled with a somewhat general ex- presston of sympathy for Gen. Leon- ard Wood on the part of editors who have discussed the Wall street trans- actions of Lieut. Osborne Cutler Wood and the ofl stock conmections of Leonard Wood, jr. In the former, Osborne Wood won a fortune. In the latter mary persons, including ex-service men, have lost much money it is_claimed that they could 1l afford. It seems plain, as most editors sce it, that the general hlm- self had nothing to do with either roposition. . R general's “greatest. troubles are with his own famil insists the Paterson Call, while the Huntington Advertlser suggests, so far as Os- borne's business 18 concermed. “Mf there were no dealings in Philippine securities there can be no fault found, ¢ as Gen. Wood in person is concerned, bowever, the Philadelphia Bulletin holds, and a score of other papers enterfain a similar view, overy American’s sense of justice and falr play requires that he bhe fudged by his own acts-and not held in any uegree accountable for the acts of his sons.” * x ¥ ¥ “There ars quite as many editors, however, swho are inclined to belleve that if the House ways and means committee presses its Investigation, under the Frear resolution, there can be no harm done. This sentiment finds expression in tire Des- Moines Register, which argues “it is evi- dent that General Wood's part, as Well as tho-part of his two sons it home, needs looking into. The earnings of . Lieut, Osborne tWood would seem to suggest, as the Miami News-Metropolls sees it, that “the distinction that now comes to tha’Army Wwould seem to demonstrate {hat it is not all hum-drum existence, as_has been palnpted.” - Yet if 2 “shavetail,” such as young Wood, can make all the money he admits he did, on the tip of a professional tipster, the Buffalo News feels “the affair may prove very embarrassing to- Gen. Wood, whose political opponents in the “Philippines and in _this country will seek to_turn it to his discredit. While the lieutenant's performances also “have lifted him into the hero class,” the Utica Observer-Dispatch fears, “the smile of Dame Fortune i8 exceedingly fickle and at the snap of a thumb and finger it may furn into a frown.” In additlon, the Rochester Times-Union adds, “young Wood was lucky, but it is most unfortunate that he should set such a bad example to the world™" ‘Because young Wood wants to en- ter the diplomatic service, the San Antonfo Light asks whether his finan- cial transactions “proved that he had the native ability for that service, d insists they would not, although e could not realize his ambition, Rowever competent to perform the actual dutles of a diplomatist he ail upon an uncharted | ot east, and Wbm Alaska on the west, thers lies between those two extremes an area large enough to centain two United States of America, from which there comes no report of weather c: anything else—undess an occasional dot @nd-dash message from Explorer Mac- Millap, Iying at about 78 degrees lati- tude, be s0 designated, It Is the unknown conditions of theze vas} regions which make weather fore casting for all the rest of the world imperfect. What storms are gathering there which will travel {nto the report- ed reglons tomorrow or a weck hence’ * k k% The_weather bureau issues general forecasts covering a whole weel which are supplemented and modified from day to day as conditions change. The forecaster concedes that these weekiy prophecies are more accurate for the first part of the week than for th latter part, since new condi tions are constantly appearing 1o modify or change the weather. In addition to the general forecast the spective groups of thers is also, at all weather fore casting ations, a local forecaster who comsiders local modifications— considers the visibla clonds and the direction of the winds. Such a local forecaster, un cxpert Navy offic will travel with the Shenandoah and be the authority on its weather con ditions affecting its safety. * % ¥ % The weather risk in the Arctic midsummer. {5 not so bad us it ses in the likht of the dearth of reports It ts seen by weather maps that during the months of June, July and {August mnearly all the storm tracks across this hemisphere are confined within a belt close to the boundary between Canada and the United States—between and 55 degrees north Jatitude, ¢ are hardly any |storins in the mure northern latitud { though such not imy Even {3t storms come, up there, Wil |not arrive zuddenly. The 0, | will ‘be able to foresec them a da |er two day ahead. so that the ai ship can steer to whichever mooring mast is nearest—Point Barrow | Spitzbergen. At no point on the vo, {age will the ship be more than twen ty hours from one of these masts. The whole trip will be mado within ! forty hours. The cruising radius of the'Shenar doah has been rated as 2,000 miltes This may now be increased, throug a discovery made by the bureau o standards,” since preparations were begun for the polar voyage. When starting on a long vovage the air- ship must be heavily laden with gaso- line to operate its propellers. As the line is burned the ship loses this t. By the new discovery water llast may be recovered from the uct of combustion of the gaso- the g e burns it liberates hydrogen, and the sclentists h found a means to combine that hy- drogen with the oxygen of the air, which makes H:*O—water. The welght of this manufactured water almost repiaces the lost weight of the con- sumed gasoline. * o %ok The airehip will be equipped many scientific instruments—a pow- erful broadeasting radio, with photo- graphic cameras to map the terrai {over which it f and with three | kind of compasses—magnetic, 'ro and radio. By the latter it will re e the angles of directions at ail ne from known ti fro [which information the calculate the ship’s location. regard- less of solar observations and inde- { pendent of magnetic variations * thes aer Man: d-time theorfes about wind and weather have been contradicted by sclence since 1875—the beginning scientific observations. Among s the jdea that warm air at spics is always rising and ling toward the north, at high altitudes, and being replaced by cool 2ir from the poles, at lower altitudes. is untrue. There are no such winds” to encourage airships by Paul Sympathy for Gen. Wood, But Two Sons Are Censured ‘quietly declares the Milwaukee Jour nal, but it was ‘“‘gambling. thie Roanoke Times sees it, and “the high- of fortune by means of gambling in stocks is strewed with wrecked lives, lost honor, perished happincss, rv. woe and dire poverty.” umming up its verdict, the Wichita Eagle declares “the Américan public is not susplcious. It a high re- gard for Gen. Wood. In order to maintain this high regard, however, the American public must see the gen- eral absolutely vindicated by an ex- haustive and relentless investigation of all the charges mad Two Become Wealthy; One Quits; Other Works A broker in New York, forty-two years old, has given his business to his employes, taken care of all his needy relatives, provided for his chii- dren and retired - with $2,000,000, which he considers ample to take care of him the rest'of his life. He is a good business man, and might go ahead accumulating ‘millions, but he prefers to play golf, travel, read and indulge various other activitles, pro- ductive and otherwise, that he has never had time for. “T have come to the conclusion that there will be no pockets in my shroud,” he says, “and that it is a rather senseless proceeding for me to stay down in Wall street and pils up dollar after dollar. What more would I have than I have now?" A grocer in Ravenna, Ohlo, sixt: five years old, who earns a modest 1iving and has suddenly fallen heir to $2,000,000, says he is going to keep right on working In his little store. “All my life T have worked,” ho ex- plains, “and I wouldn't feel right to stop now. The store is home to mo.” Every man has his taste! And there will be plenty of moralists to praise the elderly grocer for sticking to his groceries and condemn the Wall street man for quitting work in his prime. Yet doesn't the commonsensa judgment of the ordinary mortal pro- nounce the latter the wise and more fortunate of the two?—Winona Re- publican-Herald. Order of Crusaders Aftermath of the War The rise and development of brotherhoods with their own pecullar rituals seems to be one of the symptoms which mark the post-war world. The other day a new Order of Crusaders was . organized in West- rinster” Abbey, -With an_ array of curious symbols, dedicated to soctal service, and that is all that is known about it. This {3 one of the socleties that have risen since the war and it takes its inspiration from the comradeship of the Army. The unknown warrior, on whose tomb a wreath was solemn. Iy 1d1d, is the patron saint, or superfor ht have been, until he amassed a ;:‘l‘glulh‘.." and the Light is convinced this very fact shows why better sala- ries should be paid in the diplomatic corps. . Thasmuch as he did make & fortuns, the Saginaw News-Courier argdes, the details “are not -congressional business,” while the Fresno Herald, oing- a trifle furthery-insists all of the publicity concerning the oo family affairs is “part of a campaign’ against his father because he has op- posed Ph head of the order. It Is sald the meetings thers Is any empty orale fo gymbolize his presence. This new Order of Crusaders is said already <o have many thousands of memben We are told its aim is to create. g body of men prepared to perform public service of an undefined char. acter and to help all those in dif- ficulties. Its cardinal tenets are o honor God, to serve the country, tg exercise personal self-sacrifice and tg practice as well s to profess broginec hood wxm.u.umuo..o; rank or