Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1924, Page 6

THE 'EVENING - STAR "-With Sundsy Morning Editica, I WASHINGTON, D €. TUESDAY, January 15, 192 THEQDOEE W, NOYES.. .. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company * dean Dffice; h 8t dP!nlll{l\'llll Ave. B R R e T > G 0 Ofice: Tower I‘\IHMBI’E 3 7Zufopean Ofice: 16 Regent 8t., London, England, . The Eveuing Star, with the Sundsy morning 34ieion)- in delivared by careiers within the city -at 80 cents por mouth: daily. only, 45 sonts per montii; bondey only, 20 cents’ per ‘sen zonth, O may - by ‘mafl or tele- “phofis ‘Maln 5000. Collection 1v made Dy car- riers ut the end of each month. 3 — v - Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. , Maryland and Virginis, ~Datly and Sunday 2 Daily -only 4 e e AR Sunday o Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press is exclusively entitled] to_the ‘uka for republication ef all news yatches credited to it or not otherwise credited Jn_thid paper and Ilfo the local news pub- ,MHsked herein. Al rights of publication of + “apecial “dispatches herein 50 reserved. ——e - fen.: Dawes’ Salutatery. Gen. Charles G. Dawes, as chairman of the reparations: commission of ex- Derts, opened proceedings yesterday in Paris with'a speeth that struck the keynote of action. If in its .French transiation it is as forceful and sensi- @Me @g in its Boglish original it must, deeply impress those who know only {ithat language.. Gen. Dawes’ conclud- Mng paragraph, though metaphorical, “must serve to clear the view 6f those ‘Wwho are-now . seeking a solution of the sreat ecrbmic problem confronting the European countries: The first 8tep which we should take, it seems to-me, 1s'to devisa a.system $pof _stabilizing Gérmany's currency 6o 'that we can get some water to run through the budget mill. Let us build pihe mill after we find the stream to “turn the wheels. . In other words, according to Gen. “Dawes, the thing to do {8 to make it possible for Germany to pay, else there can be no reparations., This is Tot a political . question. The chair- man of the expert mission’ de- clares pointedly: egainst any political considerations. When the experts re- port to the reparations commissfon e plan for the stabilization of German , ‘ufreney and a balancing of the Ger- 1an-budget it will be for the commis- :sion, ot for the experts, to be con- “gerned with the political effects. . Obviously the thing to'do now is to deal with Germany as @ bankrupt. The expert commission is summoned o' it In judgment upon the value of the assets end to prescribe a means of putting the establishment once againt upon its economic feet. This body is not concerned with France's fears of future reprisals, or England's - anxiety. eoncerning trade, or Italy’s greaction regarding the 'balance of /PoweE 1t 18, as ite title indicates, an expert, economic agency of survey and redommendation. Ite Job 1s to find a means-of balancing Germany’s bud- get so that Germany can meet her obligation, ‘can discharge her debts, avhipathy-for.Germany. He was & 80l- . “in'the war'on the side of the al- lies in thé American ranks: In his; speech yesterday at Paris he -men- tioned the-fact and peid a high trib- ute to the 4llies, whose munitions and <hips _end "supplies and arms and planes tho Americans had to use in “Zordér’to bring thelr force o bear upon “fhe military situation. ‘He goes into this inquiry not as a soldier, but as a. banker and ‘economist. He and his American assoclates will work in this research’ toward the one purpose of. malkigg jt possible, as far as the com- missjon's _recommendations. go, for Germany to pay the fullest amount in reparations and on terms most just t6-the ailfes. -, From this beginning results should |- oW tothat end. ————————— Cel. Bryan has favored for the: presi- dency an, eminent Florida educator. It has not been made known whether his scientific views on evolution are Wwhat Col. Bryan would consider right nd reguiar. 3 ——p—— ‘There is not much expectation tha Gongress will decide-so many issues “1n the course: of legislation-as to leave no interesting. materfal ‘for the cam- paign platforma.” - b2 ———ae——— ‘- Improving the Capital. The - American Civic Assoclation, _ Waich has plans for increasing.the inv erest of Americans in thelr Capltal <y, 'has received reports rom. vari- ous:et its -committees recommending centain tmprovements at Washington. Some of these improvements haye long heen under consideration. The general “ plan’of the Commissioners for making over the Washington water front is commengded, but the committes of the clvic essociation would have Congress -:direct that a survey of the whole har- #}por -situation be made with a view:to - ‘harnionizing the parks, harbor and ““tfie business water front. The com- mitted réported that while the national ,government s developing the. park areqs fronting on the river “on a scale| Zommensurate with the dignity of the nation’s Capital, the harbor reserved = for"commercial ‘uses has been allowed 16 fall' into a state of decay and un- sightliness that is more or-less & dis- <gratce to'the city.” ¥ ‘That' our. business watér front is i#enerally deficient in esthetic features ¥ .is’admifted by all:citizens. Business) onThe Tivet’ i3 mot so gay an@ merry wasg. The Taliroad traln; the elec- “tric' trolley and :the - gasoline trick - hava. made - difficulties for Potamac $4iver steamboats and caused many of them ' to.:rétiré to" some sequestered #Zmudbani and: give thefr djscouraged “hulls 6vér to-thé weeds and eels. The ~:Commissioners-have a project for the ipprovement of Water street, and —Which would bring South Washington = Into-cfose connection -with-East Poto: mac Park. ‘The'plan is an excellent| == one,~end" might-'be- in execution :now | the but for the lack of those trivial things, “#ioney and -congressiohel “authority, Li.Wwhich. sometimes deldy improvements. #." The olvio associstion stands for the protection of the watershedsof’ the upper Eastern branch and the upper Patuxent -for -sateguarding the water) supply of Washington end-for creation of forest reserves. One of its committees would reserve the south | bank of the Potomat from Great Falls to. Alexandria @s " public . park and forest reserve.. That is a grand-scale plan and maey:come to pass, Many people looking to the futufe have urged that the rocky, forest region between Great and Little Falls bé re- served to public use, and many have urged that the “palisades” between the old, Aqueduct and Chain’ bridges be taken over. If the Potomac hydro- electric proposal is put through by the government much land will be taken on both sides of the rivar between Great and Little Falls, though the ‘Duilding: of a high daui at Little Falls Will déstroy niuch of what we call the. scenic beauties of the upper river. - Another Japanese Earthquake. Immediately after -the disaster of Séptember 1 last, which cost Japan several hundred thousund lives and an s | incaleulable sum in the destruction of property, it was'predicted by seismol- |ogists that further quakings of the earth:wonld almost surely follaw. The very violenice of the shock idicated to | themr“that.an unstable condition be- neath the surface remained, and that 'adjustments’ were inevitable." Early this morning castern Japan was visif- ed by another quake, thus verifying 'the forecast. Fortunately, as the dis- patches thus. far received indicate, it has not been a serfous disturbance. A few.lives have been lost, estimated at fifty, but there has' been: no wide- spread destruction so far as reported. Naturally a repetition of the trem- bling of the earth’s crust causes fear on the-part of the populatior, so ter- ribly shocked by the tragedy of Sep- tember. The sense of security is de- stroyed. Visions bf the chaos of & few. months ago instantly arise. Nor does the brevity of this second quake re- store confidence. This temblor s plain indication that the settlement following the violent disiocation of four and a half months ago, marked by several slight palpitations of the erust meanwhile, has not ended. Thus the fear is born that further and even greater disturbances may follow. As in the September disaster, fire accompanies the quake in Tokio, and in one of today's dispatches it is stated that a conflagration is raging in.one of ‘the suburbs of the capital. The prayer is that thie may be stayed quickly. In September the greater part of the loss of life and property was due to the spread of the flames through the wreckage. In one com- pound or open space in the capital 32,800 persons were burned to death. Indeed, in all the earthquakes in erowded centers fire is .the worst enemy. This renewed disaster in Japan comes in midwinter, when the suffer- ings “of thie people are certain to be increased in consequence. Tax Reduction and the Rules. Another demonstration of the possi- bility of combination bétween the old parties and insurgent factions of the other party {n Congress t0 accomplish @’ given end was made in the House yesterday when insurgent republicans Joined with the democrats to abolish the rule which restricted debate upon end ‘the -offering_of ‘amendments to revenue bills. This was a rufe gdopt- &d by the democrats when they want- ed to- facllitate the passage of ‘their tarift-bill.~ The same rule. is now de- sired by the republicans to: expedite action upon the Mellon tax reduction | bill when it is reported to the- House, and the democrats now oppose it, and ‘with the aid of insurgent republicans Qefeat it. ¥ Chairman Green of the’ways and means committee. predicts that if the tax bill goes hefore the House, con- trolled only by the rules as now amended, a situation will prevail un- der which it will be practically impos- sible ‘to pass it,_ even though a ma- Jority. of the House were in favor of it. | The tax-reduction bill ought to have safeguards to protect it from futile | proposals to amend, to be relleved from unnecessary debate and provided with - every - facility for expeditious passage. The voters will hoid to ac- dount any party or faction which fm- pedes its consideration and will surely destroy at the polls those who assisted in its poésible defeat. The country has never before been %o quickly and thoroughly aroused | in favor of a legislative proposal as it | is now upon tax reduction. —_———— One or two eminent democrats, in considering the cholce of a convention town, areincliried to eliminate New York. There are men who: might be acceptable: to the party at large-who ‘would not feel absolutely sure of & ‘hedrtfelt “welcome to our city” from |- Tammany Hell. e The Spanish governors and the legis- latgres are in a state of antagonism. The governors are expected to get rid 'of the ‘legisiatures. No doubt Okla- homa {s wondering whether its own history is being repeated abroad on an enlarged scale. ————————— When Is a Watchman? . For twenty-three years a firm of cleaners and dyers at New Rochelle, N.Y., ran its business without having & watchman end with no special pro- tection egainst robbery.. Lately, how- ever, there have been 80 many crimes against property in that region that the ‘brothers composing the firm de- ‘lded to hire a watchman. Monday morning when they went to open the place they discovered that it had been ‘entered during the night, and’gowns belonging to soclally prominent wom- en had been taken to the value of several thousand dollare. The watch- joup. they: found in a dazed comdition, but, according to present reports, he, speaking only e peculiar Czech dialect, has been: able to givé no intelligible explanation‘ef’ the-happenings, Now the propriétors are wondering whether ¥_do_not lock, their.doors at night. Liittle caré’is taken ‘against’ prowlers and thieves, and very little is ever| stolen. That pérhiaps is because thers 1s littde' worth'stealing: And in small towns.&also, 48 & rule, - thé unlocked | housie 15°gbout d4 safe as the locked ouse.” In- fact, Tocks are a slight pro- toction against bursiarm Fhey suly average housebreaker has tools that will overcome almost any fastening. This New Rochelle case may be; of course, more than a coincidence. Pos- sibly the watchman, though he speaks no English, has means of cotamuni- cating fo others. Watchmen -have been known to have friends in other lines of business. At any rate, his story, .when it is interpreted, will make interesting reading, ———— -A News-Reading Contest. The Star has announced ‘the condi- tions of a contest for the school puplils of “Washington and the immediate vicinity for brief essays upon the news which 1t prints. “Any Boy or girl be- tween the ages of fourteen'and twen- ty years attending a public, parochial of private school in the District, Mary- land or Virginia may compete. The purposs of ‘this 1s to encourage the younger people to read the ngws care- fully and thoroughly and critically, to. aid their development as prospective citizens, to give them a better under- standing of the events of the world. Indorsement of The Star's enter- prise by school authorities is in line with the present policles of publ education. For a number of years mewspapers have served as texts of Study in the’ schools. Live questions have been made the subject of debate and research. During the war the daily prints were veritable text books, Since peace was restored there has been in some degrec @ falling off in this use of the newspapers, but in the minds of teachers there remains a conviction’ that the better {informied children are on daily happenings the more alert they are in thelr studies in general. s In this competition the offer of re: wards for-the best letters regurding. ‘the news of the week will doubtless stimulate e very general response. But the hope is that these rewards will not alone serve to arouse and maintain an interest on the part of the students. They will find'in 2 dey-by- day study of the news columns a Wealth of Information. Thelr under- standing will be quickened, and doubt- less they will-find 2 much more whole- some ontertainment therein than through some of -the diversions in which they engage outside the school hours. The Star hopes that this. offer will be accepted by every.child within the ages specified, and that the judges of the competition will be kept supplied with an ebundance of material. ————— Fastidious fancy is difficult to fathom where values are conterned. A dino- saur's egg is old and useless, but is expected to bring thousands of dollars, ‘As a practical proposition a hen’s egg is far mere werthy of consideration. The kitchen is still fortunate in not being obliged to compete with the curio collection. ———— Robbers visited King Tut's tomb centuries ago, but they secured a very small share of ita treasure. -In addi- tion to its other wonders it reveale the fact that the anclent Egyptians knew how to render a safety deposit struc- ture burglar proof. - - e — Probably Germany would welcame a corps of expert accountants who would ‘take up thé financlal’ calculations which have affticted her own currency calculators with an epidemic of mathe- matical brain fag. ————— After being mentioned as a presiden- tial possibility long enough to enjoy ‘the compliment, Mr. Henry Ford de- cided not to let pleasure interfere with business. ———————— France continues to suspect that the-German industrigl machine is still intact, even though the old political machine has been scrapped. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Sweet Music. . ‘When I'a button press with care Sorhe music to release, There {s one soft, pervasive air That brings especial pesce.- ‘When tales of strife across the foam Are through, I must agree, ‘The simple streins of “Home, Sweet Home" Sound mighty good to me. To gallant deeds I long to turn. T'd like to JoIh the crew That eails the Arctic sea to learn Of scenes so stranga and new. But when my frame, from toes to dome, ‘The frost has nipped with glee, I must confess that “Home, Sweet Home"” N > Sounds mighty good to me. Just as I feel the impulse rash For a more rapid gait; .-, Iread about the sudden crash ‘Where railway crossings walt. The eky, the land, the ocean foam, The outdoors big ahd free! How grand! But simple “Home, Sweet { Home" Sounds mighty good to me. S Playing the Game. “Why are you afraid to take an in- terest, in old world diplomacy?” *I'm not afraid,” protested Senator Sorghum. “We can play anything that |} comes along, I.don't caré whether they use playing cerds or. visiting cards. But just the ssme we're en- titled to take as much time as we need in order to study our hand.” - Jud Tunkins says he, bets he-could make a fortune ralsing chickens if he could quit spending all his spare time on:the fascinating, poultry litersture. : ! ‘s Reform. The New Year resolution -strong. -In ardor must 1ot cease. They call for pray’r to conquer wrong; “Also -for more: police.. s - “You will nots,” Gbeerved Miss Cay- enne, that chly. the: fllustraited 'ed!- tions are it request. ‘We'ré golng to &ive & fancy dréess ball” . . “Long words,"-satd Unicle Eben, “is liable to tire my intelleck- in de fust three sentences.’ F'um then on dey joy sounds melodious gn’ soothin’y® ] WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS — ’IY_ FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE In' thoss circles in Washington Where inside political gossip is re- tailed, there are omifious murmur- Ings of Hiram Johnson's prospective abandonment'-of his presidential am- bitlons. A variety of causes is as- signed for his alleged down-hearted. ness. ; For 'one thing,. Cilifornia’ vibrent s6n is getting none of the ““breaks” of the. pre-convention se son.. South. Dakota e him the witten,s Alabama's primary regula- tions went agalnst him. High. priests of the rural proletariat, like Sena- tors Ladd and Frazler of North Da- kota, have come out for Coolidge. Anclent comrades-in-arms, like Bo- rah, Norris and Moses, are no longer. in his camp. Hiram's plutocratic triend, Willlam Wrigley, Jr., of chew- ing gym.millions; while denying de- sertfon of’ the Californian’s cause, only- aflirms he has “not yet” quit it. ‘Mtilionaire Strassburger of Penn- sylvania, who took a $200,000 fiyer. in Johngon stock in 1920, is this time for Coolldge. Nowhere has any re- publican of outstanding eminence de- clared “for Johuson. And, most: un- kindest cut of &1L a poll-of California newspapers shows an overwhelming | gl preponderance of sentiment for Coolldge as against Johnson. Hiram Is a’'man of sudden and violent im- pulses. Will he eontinue to face, undaunted, the slings and arrows of an apparently outrageous fortune? * ¥ k *x . Judge Cordell Hull, chairman of the democratic' national. committee, Whos$ cohorts dominate the polltical lanidscape of Washington this week, leads. his party’s fortunes at a psy- schological moment. He 1s one of the country’s foremost authorities on tazation. Hull s the author of the colmtry's {ncome tax and inheritance tax:laws, written when he was @ member of the ways and means com- mittes of the House in the first Wil- 8031 administrations While hobnob- with his democratic brethren, Hull heard more than one ng suggestion that he might be the Moses to lead a dead- locked natlonal convention out of the darkness in June. Hull bas been frequently mentioned in that con- nection. ‘Tennessee. forsook the dem- ocratie “solid south™” in 1920. A na- tive son who could- restore It to its |* ancient moorings has an appeal all his own. ok ow a Sir Auckland Geddes, who is pack- ing- up and clearing. up, preparatory to-retirement from the British am- bassadorship at Washington, has re- turned from England in good health, Bit he faces a severe physical test in the form of hospitalities bound to be thrust upon him from all sides. Having weathered four years of American luncheans -and dinners, Geddes confronts unflinchingly the prospéct of four weeks more. The departing ambassador will lack no ;F rtun ctivity In Britain. @ I8 far 400 young to content him- self with idleness, being only forty- five. Either the resumption of his interrupted careér in-the house of s fo Geddes’ Resigna commons or return to his first love— university ldmlnlltr‘:tlon—-ll the fleld in which his preferences probably lie. xx %% Panama canal affairs hr.ve & well Informed and enthuslastic exponent in. the House in Maurice H. Thatcher, representative of the fifth district of, Kentucky. Mr. Thatcher, who. is serving his first term in Congress, was a member of the Isthmian Canul Commission: and head of the depart- ment of civil administration on_the Zone between 1910 d 1913. Both he and Mrs. Thatcher acquired a flu- ent knowledge of Spanish while there. As the representative of the Lou! ville district, Mr. Thatcher's activi- ties at Washington are carefully fol- lowed in the Blue Grass country. He has-been a newspapeér man, lawyer and Kentucky state offictai in his day. % ok ok K To this broadcasting observer comes. picturesque evidence of how the radio bug is biting deep into the nation's life. A bank president who 1ives in the Ozark mountains has had a special postcard printed for regular dispatch to persons who have supplied him with entertainment “In thé air.” This 15 its wording, the dotted spaces peing filled in by the radio enthue ast: We listened tonight to.. From Station.... ‘Weather Conditjon: The transmission Remarks Dexter, M Broadcasting stations tomed to pay helr program talent, so they must find their solace in tes- timonlals of Iltstenerz-in- like the 'an” in the Ozarks. * % ok ¥ The supply of Coolidge storles, in- dlcative of the President’s conyersa- tional thrift, is apparently inexhaust- {ble. The latest yarn concerns his squelching of a fellow member of the Maasachusetts state senato. Tha la ter, & notorious spellbinder, had-Bored the senate with a speech which™con- cluded with & long-winded series of contentions, each beginning with the words, “Mr. President, it is," ete. -The loquacious senator raised his voice to an emphatic pitch every tfme he eald “It {s.” Finally he subeided. Coolidge aro speech was four ords long. “Mr. President” he said, “it 1 " THen he sat down. Ths as- sertive: member never recovered. from hat barrage of brevity. 3 * k% ‘When Nicholas Murray Butler ad- dressed the Washington Study- last week he gave some astounding fig- ures of the American people's apathy at election time. Of the thirty-two United States senators elected in. No- vember, 1822, Butler sald, only -four polled as much as 30 per cent of the qualified voting population of-their respective states. The majority poll- ed between 18 and 25 per cent, and some polled as low as 10 per cent. Dr. Butler added that only 49 per cent of the entire natlonal electorate voted at the presidentlal election of 1920, though women were privileged to balilot for President for the first time. The National Security League is using these figures to awaken' the nation to its clvic dutles in 1924. (Copyright, 1924.) tion Noted _- With Expressions of Regret . Thi Geddes- as - British - ambassador “to Washington i everywhere -received With ‘éxpression-6f regret because of the good work he -has accomplished since he assumed the dutles of that post. During his period of ambassadorial activities, the Salt Lake Tribune points out, “many questions growingz out of the great struggle overseas and connected with the purely Ameri- can policy have been thrashed out, and Sir Auckland retires from his post With the reflection “that with his as- sistance both the United States and Great Britain are at this time at one on virtually all questions of inter- national importance.” The Toronto Star also feels that “on. the whole Britain was well represented: by Sir Auckland, who made & contribution to the growing sympathy between our motherland and connection -the Migm! Néws-Metrop- olis recalls that “Sir Auckland dis- closed In every interchange of cour- tesy a fine perception of national as- glrulon and he weighed all matters rom the English and points,” moréover, “hi Wwith government official ington invariably were open and above board and agreeable.” In maintaining complete friendship and understanding between the two countries, the Rochester Times Union declares “he has nelther patronized the United States nor surrendered British dignity,” and it goes on to say “perhaps noone thing negotiated between the two countriee since the beginning of his ministry illustrates the Geddes way and the Geddes char- acter more clearly than his céurse in settling the question as to the pay- ment of the Britiah debt to the United States.” 1In one sense & still greater appeal, Dprobably a more perma- nent on e Kalamazoo Gasette sug- gests, “‘was made by the part he play- €d in the disarmament conference at Washington, for there, Sepecially, “his frankness, 80 easily understood by average Aifiericans, ‘made = pleasi; impression on press and public,” and “though he served in Washington less than thr and was practically an invalld as_the result of & gas at- fack, while werving on the western front in 1918, he has left his mark upen the relations Detween his coun- try and this.” * % % % “Without hesitating to express opin- fons when he felt it advisable, Sir Auckland filled his delicate.and .very important post in this country in a manner which made him - universally respecte Sun, which insists: “America man who, on matters in which he has a right to talk, speaks out his mind without fear or favor. That was 8ir Auckland Gedde: T his honesty, 'his courage and his abllity he won wideapread admiration during his too brief ‘stay with us Suggesting.that the personnel of the foreign diplo- matists appointed to.- the- United States is by no means as important as it once was the Richmond News- Leader ~claims *Sir -Auckland,- theres- fore, has not had the largest oppor- tunities for service in this country, but he has labored diligently and not unfruitfully for a better understand- 1in !rh- News-Leade: furthermore, calls attention to the many friends he made among American physicians and in the universities due to his pro- fession, and ~‘as Sir Auckland - nized w! ties America.” In this American view- is relationships in Wash- Ii an o, frate: ith those who had cut the ol Jfl;h— mm.“ and were losing . thy. Wi ce, s quite Sreaible that in this way Be perform. od a L r service than through' the s of the usual diplo- “To ~which the -Sioux - City XX, o o Washington on mmo'filn.l‘”:lp_hll knowledge of trade, and he ‘was refi business man than. 2R poth - % to the ices ~here ‘ha: o | popular im: a&flon £ the New York Evening World, yet, gptrhm never has a Dfiun:. ambage resignation of Sir Auckland| sador been confronted with more im- retirement of Sir P nt, {f not mors dalicats prob- lems,” and “his frank, unpretentiogs, practical methods have made friends and admirers.” * % % ¥ “If 1t is true that understanding based on reciprocal respect has sen- sibly increased between America and Great Britain,” the Louisville Courier- Journal believes, “the credit for so noteworthy an achievement may, in some degree, be ascribed to the prac- tlcal-minded Scotsman whom Ameri- cans persist In characterizing ‘a Can- adian," because “Sir Auckland did g00d work in a difficult post and un- der exceedingly perplexing conditions —good work for the natfon to which he was accredited as well as for the empire whose representative he was.” Though he modestly deprecates his achlevements, the Reading Tribune maintains “his share in the removal of controversial questions between England and America in the last three years is generally regarded one of the remarkable accomplis] ments in diplomatio history”; furt] him us x more, “he deserves the honor which his friends believe will shortly be be- stowed upon him—elevation to the peerag Regarding him as one of the ablest of the long line of British .ambassadors to represent his country at the American capital, the Utica Ob- server-Dispatch concludes, clal circles, and among tho who have watched the course of this noted statesman, the Auckland ‘Geddes gretted.” “In offi- will be deeply re- according to the Baltl- [ed COURAGE “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul” —fiENLEY. Rockefeller Had to Hunt Work. While a lad of sixtéen in high achool, John D. Rockefeller had to give up his studies there, banish all hope of attending college and prepare to go to work. From the. time of his birth in in- significant Richford, N. Y., a higher education for him' was an inspiring expectation of the family, but after his parents moved to Cleveland’s en- virons they could not afford it. A few months in business college and the boy had to walk the streets for days hunting a job. No one want- a boy and many were gruff about it. Finally, out at the end of the Cleveland docks, Hewitt & Tuttle made him a bookkeeper’s assistant, and he was so glad to work that he feared to ask the wage. It was $50 for three.months. The next year he received $300, out of which he sup- ported himaelf. At seven, raising turkeys, and after- ward he denied himself to save. At nineteen, with $700 accumulated, he borrowed more and became one of Clarke & Rockefeller, commission ‘merchants. - - . - When he entered the ofl business ‘many told him that he would be ruined, that the industry was risky, ithat the supply would cease, that the idemand would decline. He was a Imemhar of a refining firm when came the trublous times of 1865, and he (bought out his partners. Later wperiod of overproduction killed man; concerns, but Rockefeller persiste: and built a success. - - -He. formed the Standard Oil Com- pany in 1870 and made it a world- 'wide concern. The trust was dis- solved by panic year of 1893, just when he had to lo;;: his personal securities to pro- tect range ore mines. Rockefeller retired in 1911 and now | KnOWinE is oné of the world's est men, “the wealthiest. He has lover §500,000,000 in ben: e, 5 8 3 3 ,al- thchx’ ol thty-lonrl." the winner of many & game of gol the government in the | Mori! .=ld.0(|nt VMNTURING. _Tristam . Tupper. George H. Doran Company. A pity to withhold beauty from the multitudes that crave it. Yet—how to" deliver it Handling .defaces it The ordinary claptrap of criticiem hides it completely. Why not, as ex- try lfting it over .bodily for a glim, of its transfiguring power such ‘as Tristam Tupper so triumphantly: discloses here? His name was Jay Singleton of Singleton, down in the valley of the Shenandosh. He. owped a tannery and the town hall as well. Just a village, two or three hundred ‘men and women and so many children that no one tried to count them. wll? Jay Singleton was that no one could tell him fro lain-so folks. Never talked big—"This 18 my tannery. This is my town.” Nothing Iike that. Did not know how to make commanding gestures. But he made fairly good leather. “Right here in the slnn Ridy ‘we got the finest chestnut osk in the world Beats that bark from Normandy. Beats that stutt grom France. Nothing can touch 3 look at this plece of Look at the bloom! ed. The smo {annery. with & purple cloud above them, the creeping tramcars weaving in and out, the crude red bufldings— Pompel ed, sunken deep in the perennial green of the-Blue Ridge— seemed vaguely to suggest a crater of some Vesuvius. But night changed all this. Night floods the valley of the Shenandosh and, like a tide, rises until the peaks of the mountains be- came submerged iri darkness And it 'was then, with. the dusk, there spran, into being a different Singloton o Singleton. * % % % Only man in Christendom who, alone* at night, ever learned his Greek and Latin, slapping mosquitees when they nipped his bare chest. Thought it kind of fun to ponder bafling words, liked to look them up and make them into phrases, there beneath the lamp on sweltering sum- mer nights. A scholar was Single- ton of Singleton. And, oh, how .he could sing! Used to chant Greek and Latin to the Little Calfpasture creek as it hurried down to the Shenandosh. Used to intone strange meters when the stars were swimming through the dark sky. Night in the Shenan- doah! And the moan of the wind in the trees, and the murmur of the Little Calfpasture, and Jay Singleton alone on hignarrow_porch, twanging a guitar with the E string broken, and singing—sometimes in Greek, sometimes in Latin, and sometimes the songs that wers made in Amer- ica. Take a smarter man than Aris- totle to understund Jay's pronuncia- tion. Learned it himself—down in the valley of the Shenandoah. * % % % The Little Calfpasture was just as go0od &s any other creek—when the moon made it sparkle and the over- hanging trees made it shadowy and deep, and the night concealed the red-brown stains that came from the tannery. Chatty little creek, for it had a way of saying, “I'm going to the sea” It had this way of talk- ing, and it seemed to pause when Jay twanged the guitar, and It always joined in when he chanted songs from the old Greek song birds men who went adventuring. * X ¥ ¥ On such' a night Jay Singleton dis- covered the most beloved singer of all the ages. Not in Lesblan starlit dusk, nor yet in the goldgn-sandaled dawn, but beneath a smoky lamp in the valley of the Shenandoah. Found her in a book. And he liked the cut of her verses—thres pentameters followed by a dipody;-and he liked the cut of her clothes—sort of loose and careless before tte Christian era. “No use in falling in love,” sald Juy Singleton to himself. *She sang| her songs 600 years B. But he ored over another fragment, trane- ated another quatrain, looked up each word, strung them together, made a kind of rime. Iy a~word, Jay Singleton tried to improve a bit on the inimitable Sappho. And that night out on his porch where.no one coutd hear, not even at the "Post office quarter of a mile away, he struck the strings of his guitar and he sang this urprising Sappholc: ‘Man Is peer of gods in those moments after o Love has stlenced song and has ban- ished laughter; Then—to her who smiles at him softly through tears— He has no peers.” Sort of loose and careless before the Christian era. E He laid aside his guitar and Iit his Dipe, that made 2 pink glow mthe darkness. He tried to form in his mind an image of Sappho and of her Isle of Leabos; tried to wander back through the labyrinthine ages, ages misty with music, dusky with.gold, red with wars, and blushing with Toses—forgotten wars, faded roses, mingling to form the perfume of the centuries. He pulled on his pipe. “Where {s she now?” Easy enough to imagine Sappho, Wwith her ivory throat, her viclet eyes.and sandals of golden dawn, back In the golden dawn of poetry. He tried to imagine her beside the Little Calfpasture creek, sighing, Jaughing, singing her Iyrics. “No use falling in lover Sang your songs twenty-five hundred years ago! But the night itself had become Sapphoic. And lo! the banks of the little stream suddenly see~~ag to blaze with oleander and wild pomegranate; the oaks and the pines had become murmuring olive groves; the valley of the Shenandoah a tide- less sem,” wherein bathers laughed through the. dusk. sbos!” mur- mured Jay Singleton, “No use falling in love. No use not to. * KX ¥ This is how Jay Singleton's adven- turing began. “Hal, I got a little old tub of a boat, named Béatrice, down Norfolk way. Bought it outright. Going to row around = bit.” And the Little Calfpasture’ was saying, too, “I'm on my way to the Sea. Then, in a different key, but with no change of spirit, the adventure takes its way straight to Joe and the etor- nal adventure. A woman, Joe has the last word, a private word that no one hears but her pet turtle, “Soupy.” “You may live to be a thou but you'll néver know how I feel. I—I know what he meant when he sald twenty-five hundred years. That’s how I feel, that's how long I've loved Boupy, think of it! along the banks of the Little Calf- pasture creek, down the valley of the Shenandoah.” In between, the whole lovely story takes its way. An amazing union here of the plain Ppresent and the classic past. Read it all—but you will! - L G. M. Plea for Safeguarding Race Horses From Fire To the Editor of The Star: Once again I would like to take ad- the | vantage of your paper in making my plea for the safety of the racing horses of the country. $ s of January § give an narrow of two horses, namely, In Me- by Carl Wiedmann, ” gwned by :onn“f. it 3 racin elligence, .. fires of recent m'ful The | 77 thel) | ctifidr ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS' BY FREDERIC ]. HASKIN Q. Who wrote the limerick, “As = beauty I'm not quite & star,” which 1s sald to be former President Wil-| son’s fovorite?—D. M. A. A. It appears in & book of ltmer. icks by Anthony Euwer. Q. W bitter cl —V. C. hat is the difference between ‘hocolate and sweet chocolate? A The Grocer's Encyclopedia says that according to the United States standards, bitter chocolate is a mas: obtained by grinding cocoa nibs with~ out the removal of any constituent except the gum. When this ground Dbean, in cocoa form, {s sweetened and flavored it 1s known as sweet choco- late. Cocoa is the ground bean from which part of the ofl or fat has been extracted. Cocoa cannot be made into ocolat Q. What is meant by “unearned in- crement?—C. A. M. A. It {8 the term applied to the extent to which the value of real property increases independent of any expenditure of labor or capital upon it by its po Q. . What is the oldest church pub- lication in the United States?—P. T. A. The Churchman oldest religious journal. founded in 1805. . What would the value be in United States money of the thirty pieces of silver for which Judas be- trayed Christ>—R. M. A. In American money it would amount to $11.28. 1§ America’s It was Q. What is the greatest number of ‘mail sacks ever dispatched on a steamship leaving the United States for a forelgn country- V. A. The greatest number was dli: patched on the steamship Minne- kahda December 6, 1923, when 24,000 sacks left New York. More than 36,- 000,000 pounds of packages have been sent abrond' in a year, the peak of the'lodd golng at Christrhas tiie. Q. What color were the first uni- forms of the American Army?—E. B. A. At the beginning of the Amer} can revolution each regiment pro. vided its own uniforms. As these were discarded the soldiers wore any clothes that were avallable. Such uniforms as were worn were English in design, substituting blue for scar- let coats. At the close of the war uniforms were procured for the few troops retained In service. They re- sembled the French uniforms of the day, the infantry wearing blue faced with white, and the artillery blue faced with red. Later cavalry was sdded, the uniforms being green faced first with white, later with black. Q. When were umbrellas first used in the United States>—W. 0. H. A. They made their first appear- ance {n Baltimore in 1772. Q. How can bumblebees that do not sting be identified?—T. R. P. A. The Department of Agriculture says that the bumblebees that do not sting are drones. These are usually found in groups of six or eight around shade trees far from the nest. As a rule they have smaller bodies than the workers and are more or less elliptical. Q. Who are the greatest violia teachers at present?—A. H. A. While there may be some dif- ference of oplnion as to the greatest, Leopold Auer, Atakar Seveik and Cesar Thompson are three of the leading ones. All three are working in the United States at present. . Q. What was the mystery or story In connection with the famous que: tion a8 to' son?—A. B A. Various versiops have beer published of the Billy Patterson mys- tery. A.regent one locates Billy in England” and .makes him a victim of ta college. prank. Aecording to this story, there was a feud between Ox- ford students and the river boatmen, of whom Billy Patterson was the leader. One night Patferson was captured by the colleglans, given n mock trial and sentenced to death by the gulliotine. The prisoner was con- duced to the execution chamber, shown the beheading block and the headsman, armed with a huge battle axe, and’ then blindfolded, hand and fodt and forced to kneel with his head and neck in the block. At a given elgnal the victim was struck on the back of ths neck with a cord that had been wet in cold water. It was only a light blow, but it proved as fatal &5 if it had been de- livered ‘with the headsman's axs. Billy Patterson’s heart would not stand’-the shock. The frightened students removed the body to the river bank and left it, and “Who struck Billy -Patterson?" became a mystery that has never been solved Q. What does T. H. stand for after Honolulu?—H. H. T. A. The “T. H" after Howolulu stands for Territory of Hawall. Who struck Bllly Patter- Q. How tall is the statue of the Venus of Milo?—C. H. A. The Height of the Venus of M!lo 18 two meters thirty-eight millime- ters, or 'a’ trifle over six feet three inches. Q. What §s the correct version of the mountain and Mohammed proverb: A. In Bacon's essay on boldnsss it is given as “If the hill will n come to Mohammed, Mohammed w come to the hilL" Q. Which {s the largest bome in tHe body ?—N. P. A, The femur is the largest. long- gst and strongest bore In the humar ody. 'Q_‘Flow much is a milltara? A K. A. A milliard is a thousand mii llon—in American parlance, a bfi- Ion. Q. Who said there is no wrong without a remedy*—H. W. A. “No wrong without a remedy” is one of the rules and maxims of equity, and it is not definitely known who'first gave utterance to { . Is it warmer in summer and colder in winter six miles above the surface of the earth?—L. M. W. A. The weather bureau says that, according to the fullest records they have, the temperature of the at- mosphere at the elevation of six miles I8 & few degrees higher in summer than in winter. This appears to be due, in part at least, to the greater amount of radiation in summer than in wintér from the earth ‘and lower atmosphere. The average tempe: ture six miles above sea level at lati- tude 40 degrees is, roughly, 60 de- grees Fahrenheit. + Q. 'Is Mount Raimler 10,000 feet high or 14,408 feet high?—L. A. This mountain rises 10,000 feet above its immediate eurroundings, and its peak is 14,408 feet above sea leve:. (Taks advantage of the free ir- formation bureau which tha news- paper maintains. If there da o question you want anawered, don’t hesitete to use tiis service. AL re- plies are sent direct to the er. Address Frederic J. Haskin, direotor, (he Star Infermation Bureaw, 1220 North Capitol street. Ethics of Kissing to Get Votes Raises Question Among British BY THE MARQUISE DE FONTENOY: Embracery is a statutary crime which for the last six hundred years has consisted of attempting to infiu- ence a juryman, to give his verdict in favor of one side or the other in a trfal “by promises; persuasions, en- treaties, money, éntertainments and the 11k?, thé persori nizking the 4t- tempt and the juryman who consents being equally severely punishable by means of imprisonment and fine.” But the question is already. being- dise cussed in Great Britain as to whether the law on the subject should not be extended to bring within its provi- sloris, women, who, like Lady Terring- ton, one of the new female members of the hbuse of commons, maké a practice of winning votes from con- stituents by means of kisses. ‘The legal terms of embracery seems mere appropriate to Lady .Terring- ton's form of electoral corruption- in the case of parliamentary contests and more reprehensibls than the mere influencing of jurors. For, in the case of & jury trial, it is merely the fate of the prisoner or defendant which is stake, whereas the destiny and the Setets of the entire British empire may depend upon a single vote in the house of commonsmand, therefore, in- directly upon the votes by which' the member of parliament in question has obtatned her return to parliament through corrupt influences of an es- culatory character. | Lady Terrington's bestowal of kisses as a quid pro quo for votes at a parliamentary election has been compared_to-the analogous methods’ employed by the celebrated Jane, Duthess of Gordon, in the cighteenth century. But, as described by her great-grandson, Lord Ernest Hamil fon, In his reminiscences, “Old Day and New,” recently published by Doran's, the lovely and fascinating duchess, Jennie, did not employ these methods of embracery for the sake of any personal advantage, but from motives of patriotism in securing votes for the popular candidate for the- city of Edinburgh, just in the same way that her relative, the Duchess- of Devonshire, Georgihla, secured the so6lid vote of the Long Acré - thoroughfare in London for Charles Fox by offering her fair lips to ‘its beery denizens. Tho same Duchess .of ‘Gordon also raised the famous _ 92d giment of Gordon Highianders by placing golden guineas between her 1ips and chzHenging the young country lads who were reluc- tant to join to come and take the guinea, ‘which sealed their enlist- ment.with their.own lips from bers, Many accepted the challenge. But to fhelr honor be it recorded that in the majority of cases they threw tho ufnea to the crowd, saying that a Kiss from the Guchess was quite re- ward enough by itself for their join- ing the new regiment. 3 * ok x %k .- Incidentally, it may .bé mentioned that Lord Ernest Hamilton explains that the widespread story to the ef- fect that this great-grandmother of |b! his, Duchess “Jennie” of Gordon, had ridden down through the streets of Edinburgh on a pig for the edifica~ tion of the public; had taken place, t-as asserted after she had .ob- &anzd W: anhood and had married the greatest highlander in Scotland, but_when she was still a little girl, as Jennie Maxwell of Mon- reith, when ‘she raced ~ with her t sister, Eglantine, down the s far as Prince street before porcine mounts pitched both n_into the gufter. ‘errington_was not prompted by Aany such- patriotic motive-as-the Duchesses -of Devonshire and af°Gor- don”a huhdred or more years ago. She was out to securs her own elec- tion for vlrlllm:—wrm al- 08! e s ¥elna aa that which distipguished the duchesses. Hor malden name w Vera Bescher, and ghe was forme the wife of that Young scapegrace and ne'er-do:well, Guy Ivo Sebright, who married her in 1907 at the closa of a sensational divorce obtalned against him by his first wife. H» brought hig stormy and rather useless Iife t6 a close in 1912, and six vears later, as the widowed Mrs. Guy Se- bright, shé was led to the altar by the present and second Lord rington. - * ¥ % ¥ -Her fitst husband's death has lef his - father, tho present Sir Guyv Thamas Sebright, chief of an anclent family, «hich has oeen seated sface the eleventh century at Sebright Ha in_the county of Essex, without any other heir to his baronetcy, created by James 1, than his utterly disrepu- table "and universally ostraclsed brother, an ex-convict, who has erved a number of prison terms with hard labor for fraud and for forgery, and who Wwas subjected to the indig- nity of expulsion from the Bachelors and other London clubs and to die missal from the army for cheating at c Lord Terrington is a man of about forty-five, and, like his father, be- longs'to. that branch of the legal pro fession known as solicitors. His father, the first lord, was, as 8i~ James Woodhouse, president of the Order of Solicitors, also presldent of the Law Society of the United King- dam, mayor. and member of parlix ment for Hull, and rendered himae!f $o useful to the government during the great war as- chairman of th royal commission on losses under the defense of the realm act that after having been already knighted he w raised to the peerage {n January, 1915, as Lord Terrington. The present he! has a very- pretty place, known as Spinfield, near Marlow, in Bucking- hamshire, and a London house on Clarges street, off Piccadilly. Lady Terrington is very lively and Yery anxious to keep herself in the ‘limglight; in fact, to establish soclal am‘;nencebby ;n?dnnu of parliament, and may be relied upon to run Lady Astor & very close second in Sthr. tHng utterances and in other methods of attraeting public attention. Answers Clergyman. Christian Scientist Contradicts “No Thinking” Statement. To the Bditor of The Star: Will you permit me space in your pa- per to correct a statement made In @ report in your Monday's issuc of a ser- mon deljvered by a local minister in which he says “That Christian Science, epiritualism and peychic were all at- tempts’ to extricate people from the necessity of thinking.” 1-an quite sure the reverend ddctor did not intend to clussify Christian Sclence with epiritualism and psychic. Christian l;l;nce x; not -&x‘uk?r @ Tet ligion founded on human thinking, but Iug.n divine revelation based on the Bi- lo and . the teachings of Christ Jesus. 1t 1s essentlally @ religion of love, heal- ing both sin and disease by epiritual means. Furthermore, Christian Sclencs does ‘not_“altempt to extricate people from the necessity of thinking.” " It empha- sizes _the importanco of thinking and thinking rightly. In the “Preface of Soence and Health, with Key to the Scriptures,” by Mary Baker Eddy, read, “The timg for thinkers has com: and 'in another of her: works, “Miscel- laneous tings,'~pags 385, the follow- s t statement is’made: 1t Christian.Slence Jucked the proof of its odness and utllity, it would destroy t3elf; for 4t rests alone on demonstra- tion.” Its ‘genius is right thinking and t mcting, physical and moral har- ‘mony; and the gecret of its success lies in supplying the universal need of bet- ‘ ter health and better men. e 3 cstion for the District of Columbigy