Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 6

6 THE EVENING STAR With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY... .January 26, 1924 THEODORE W. NOYES. Editor The Evening Star Newspaper Company | Business Office, 11th St. Ave. New York O Chicago Off 0w Europeau Office: 16 Regent St., London, England, . with the Sunday moraing edition, is delivered by carrlers withiu the ir &L 80 cents per month: daily only. 45 nts per month; Sunday only, 20 cents per month,Orders may_be sent by mail or tele prone Maln 5000, Collection is made by car- Tiers at the ead of each month. Rate by Mail—Payable in Advance. and Virginia, 1y, $8.40; 1mo., 7 Sy $6.000 1 mo., dde 40} 1 mo. All Other States. Daily and Sunday.1 yr., §10.00: 1 mo., Daily only. Sunday oniy. The Evening & Member of the Associated Press. Tie Associated Pross ) asively entitlod to the use for republicat ¢ il matches crvdited to 4t or uot of lerwi his paper and alko the local rews pub lished herem. ANl rights of publication of ial_dispatches herein are alw reserved. The President’s Responsibility. While it is natural to feel bitterly distressed at the disclosures of moral delinquency in the matter of the leas- ing of the naval uil reserves. concern- ing which testimony has that leaves no question of a complete failure to e official rospensibily ties and limi on the part of the custodian of & great public trus, there i3 vea glad that the truth real ic nto be gl concerning this deplorable transaction 1S now coming forth. “Teapot Dome” has been e sizziing scandal for months Suspicion has been bred in the public mind. Concealments and evasions havi kept the lid down after a fashion, but have not availed to prevent the stead: wth of fecling that there was some. thing decidedly wrong in the affair. Now, a long time after authorization by the Senate, a committee I8 examin- ing into the matter and, balked at first by refusals to appear in person and by misleading v it is getting at the facts. Those facts shol to the nation. stated tching is prepared to act wheneve sufficient development of facts to war- ant. Thus far the no criminality, of actually corrupt deal- ings. Technically there has been ne pevjury, for ts made to the committee previou: and later futed were gi not under cath, but ex parte in form communicua- tions. 1t would be idl procedure wit ions that ¥ re N, c o ins the pi ry to convince a jury. The administra- tion would be unwarranted in going to such & point in the absence of such convicting evidence. Conspiracy and bribe It to establish. If there has been ption for the purpose of personal profit, either in the transfer of the naval oil reserves from one department to another, or in the granting of leases, if those leases were made without regard for the pul lic welfare, If they were knowingly srantsd to the detriment of the gov ernment’s interests, whether there was a corrupt private consideration or not, then all who participated and who are now in cffice should be removed in disgrace. Removal from oftice. er, can only be based upon positive assur- ance of impropriety of conduct. About two Years ago @ number of em- ployes of the Treasury Department were discharged in cfrcumstances that indicated charges of corrupt conduct. Now, in some cases too late 1o sav them living from the shame of t dismissal, they are exonerated. known that there was no foundation for the accusations against them, ac- cusations that were never formulated. This sad experience is warningagainst unfounded punitivi tion. While punishment b; may properiy be adminis the same deg: of positi proof that is requ criminal act| founded upon challenge. President Coulidge sponsibility. As Ch. accountable f the administrat annot Le held liable for past hat unques tionably in the public mind he is now responsible fur any continuation of the conditions that developed from im- proper behavior in the past. His known character does not warrant the belief that he temporize. 1le has cour- age. He stands ¥ public and te life. The fact that he is a candidate for ination and election to succeed himself President will not, it n ved, affect his course if he is convinced that the taint of moral delinauency extends now to any menber of his official family. Nor will that fact cause him to take ac- tion for political reasons not fully Justified in law or on principles of rightccusness, tute criminal Jof neces v are diffic howe ismissal ithout hnical red in the case of court, it must be that are faces a grave ve- £ Executive he is the zood of He actions, conduct on. ———— The death of Lenin leaves Trotsky with the responsibility of demonstrat- ing to the soviet public that he is a live statesmen. —_—————— The “Northern Neck.” A dispateh to The Star from Mar- tinsburg, W. Va., told of a man there who has a deed made in 1776 which | was “signed by Lord Fairfax, once sole owner of this section of the coun- try which two centuries ago was known as the Northern Neck of Vir- ginfa.” A deed of 1776 may be an old one in that part of West Virginia, but many settlers were there before that time. Some took the trouble to get deeds from Lord Fairfax or his agent, and many of them, perhaps most of the pioneers, considered the land “wild,” took a plece they liked, put up a cabin and went to work. Fairfax had come into the right of possession of the royal grant of 6,000,000 acres of Virginia land to Lord Culpeper, but mot many settlers in the western part of the colony recognized the right of a king to grant wild land to a subject that he might sell it to other subjects. A deed of the date of 1776 would not be an old one in the lower Potomac valley. There are people in the Dis- trict who hold the “original grant” or the first deed to the land they live on, and $bogo deeda-Tun-back 19 about f been given | ot | administretion ac- | beyond | 1650. Further down in Maryland and | Virginia there are older deeds. ! Another matter in the dispatch worth noting is that “This section of | the country (Berkeley county, W. Va.) was known two centuries ago as ‘the Northern Neck of Virginta.'" This may give a shock to some old Vir- | ginians. The “Northern Neck of Vir- jEinfa” is between the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers and generally the line across the top of the neck is drawn from Potomac creek, which crpties into the Potomac river about forty miles below Washington, to the Rappahannock at Fredericksburg, in- j cluding the counties of Stafford. King { George, Westmoreland, Northumber- land and Lancaster. Sometimes more | liheral geographers include the south- ern half of Fairfax and 21l of Prince William as part of the Northern Neck and some estremely lberal geogra- i phers give to the Northern Neck all | the counties between the Potomac and { Rappahannock as far west as the foot of the Blue Ridge or thereabouts, and include Rappahannoc Fauqui irfax and Loudoun. But to extend { the Northern Neck of Virginia across { the Blue Ridge and through Jefferson county, W. Va., into Berkeley county of that state will seem to most per- sons in this neighborhood as stretch- | ing the neck too much. —_———————— ' Nuisance Taxes. rement made that and means committec has on reductions of indirect and Annon is the House w: tentatively agreed items in the nuisance taxes, totaling $103,254,488.63. This is not to be confused with the income tax reductions recommended by Secretary Mellon and the Presi- dent, Mr. Mellon's proposal totaled a net reduction of f revenue of $323,000,000, about 000,000 more than the reduction now proposed by the House committee in the item of nuisance taxes alone. Doubtless the committee will soon formulate and announce the reductions on the score of the direct income tax schedule. These nulsance taxes are mostly on though sonie are on what necessities. In round s the réductions are estimated n telephone and telegraph $30,350.000: on beverages. £10,131,000; on admissions, $32.000,000; on theater seating taxes, 37,112,000 on andy, $11. 1 jewelry, $10.000 000 on produce sales. $3,507.000: bowling and billiards, $1,200.000. The remainder of the reductions are on hunting, bowie and dirk knives, on livery and livery boots, hunting garments, on vachts and motor boats, on carpets and rugs. on trunks and valises, on portable lighting fixture: on purses and pocketbooks and on fans, Of the total of $103,254.488.63an- proximately $37,330,000 reduction will be effected in the taxes on entertain- ment, candy, jewelry and sports. The $30,280,000 reduction on telephones and telegraph cannot be classed as a remission of luxury taxes, for these means of communication are rated now as essential. The tax which is chiefly felt dir by the people is that on admissions to places of entertainment. In addition to the steady increase in edmission rates for some years a tax of 10 per so-called jeral or become numbe on 0 note whether with the remission of this tax there will be any advance in the flat rates of admissions. There is no warrant whatever for such an ad- { vance. Any attempt to mulct the pub- { lic by retaining any part of the 10 per cent tax by covering it into the flat admission would be deeply resented by the patrons of places of entertainment. Now comes the “professor in poli- 1 the democratic party, calculated make old-line democrats arouse them- {selves. Prof. Marian Parris Smith of {Bryn Mawr College. addressing the | regional conference of democratic women of the middle Atlantic states, advanced a plea to make the demo- | cratic party a labor party similar to the Dritish labor party Labor parties appear be: the vogue since the British organization took over the reins of government in :ngland. But how comes it that Mr. Bryan did not seize upon the Bryn Mawr professor's idea first? Has his tight hand lost its cunning, and is his | tongue cleaving to the roof of his mouth that ke let such a chance slip by of presenting omething new and startling to his party? ! It will be interesting to hear the comments of the Jeffersonian demo- crats upon the plea of Prof. Smith. How will it take in the conservative where democracy is well-nigh a religion to the faithful? The most important consideration will probably be the question of whether the plan would be & vote-get! Examined in this light, its advocates would prob- ably say that it has proved to be such in England, and if there, why not { here? Anyhow, the suggestion will give the democrats something to talk about between times of speculating upon candidates, and echoes of it may be heard in the democratic national convention. —_—— It is inconsiderate of the weather bureau to hoist the cold wave flag over Washington every time invita- Florida. ——————— No senator has given serious thought to the idea of offering a prize for the best tax-reduction plan. —_————— ppeals by Poincare to French opin- ion are effective, but the franc ap- parently has no sentiment. ———— Key Bridge Tablet. A bill authorizing the National So- city, United Daughters of 1912, to put an appropriate tablet on the Francis Scott Key bridge has passed the House of Representatives, and there is no doubt that the new bridge will be so marked that all persons who wish to know something of its significance as a memorial may easily do so. The tablet is to be of bronze, inscribed with facts concerning Francis Scott Key and the origin of “The Star Spangled Banner,” and will also be inscribed with a verse of the national song. The tablet will tell that the hridge ia a-memoriab to Francis Scotg | on | cent is imposed. It will be Interesting | with a brand-new suggestion for to] tions to witnesses are sent out to THE EVENING STAR Key, author of the wordsiof “The Star Spangled Banner." These facts would prokably be for- gotten or would never be learned by large numbers of people if there were not a marker to keep them fresh in mind and give the information to new- comers to Washington and to its vis- itors. Already we are calling it sim- ply the “Key bridge,” and iAmericans would not know that I is the name of the man who | wrote our national song, and that he {lived for a long time near the north {end of the bridge and that the bridge {is a memorial to him. { The United Daughters of 1812 are doing praiseworthy deeds in marking places associated with the 18121815 period of American history and in 1 out and marking forgotten or | neglected graves of men who served their country well in its second war th England. The jmactical patriot- ism of this society as well as that of other ancestral patrietic societies is commendable for its sentiment and usefulness. eel “Scofflaw™ Will Not Serve. offtaw,” recently awarded 4 $200 prize as the best word to .1.\.&&,:“1.‘[ one violazes or condones viola tions of the eighteenth, amendment, is having a hard time of it. Adoption is coming slowly. At the Atlantic Union iConference of Seventh Duy Adventists’ convention az Springfield, Mass., it was definitely repudiated as having no standing. When certain were proposcd “scofflaw’ inated and “violator” was substituted. It Is not because the new coir not expressive, But sunehow it does eem strong enough. One may at the law without breaking without aiding in its violation. There are many peopde who scolf at laws that they would not think of breaking Those who are secking to break down the eighteenth amendment and the en- forcement act arc more than scoffers. They are in most cases actual viola- tors, whether they sell liquor o buy it. There are some who do not buy or sell and still he law, thus co-operating against They, strictly speaking, ave ti aws,” ation { Attempt who or resc was elim- ge it it, re scoffers i 1 to nul those en- the but as @ des ‘ gaged in the v many | ithe | {1 Great Britain has established an {uncommonly interesting precedent at | Washington by sending a Roman Catholic here as her ambassador. r Bsme Howard, who succceds Sir Auckland Geddes, will be the fi Briton of his falth to be diplo- imatically accredited to the United |States. With only one or two ex- ceptions all of the foreign ambas- sadors at Washington are adherents {of the Church of Rome. They Include M. Jusserand of France, the dean of the diplomatic corps, and the ambas- dors of Belgium, Italy, Spain, Ar- geuting, Brazil, Chile, Cuba and Peru. Mexico will add another Catholic to mbassadorial colony when the time comes. Great Britain perhaps discerns advantage in stationing at Washington a diplomat hound to be persona grata to the influential Irish element in America. ko % Albert Fall, on whom the na- tion's eyes are riveted in connection with Teapot Dome, was at one time serfously under consideration for the re ship of state. President Harding had a high opinion of Fall's skill as a constitutional lawyer. The ex-Secretury of the Interior had been an associate justice of the New Mexlco supreme court, twice attor- ney general of the territory and a ber of the state constitutional ntion before entering the United ates Sena In his final report as retary of the Interior, dated June . Fall said: I rigard myself trustee for the reclamation fun state in which the mineral is duced und the Treasury in re spect of receipts from leases of oil, | ws and deposits of the public domain.” th * x Sul Eloom sentative Central Park district of New city in the House, is the man who built the Midway Plaisance at the Chicago world fair in 1883. It was one of the “nerviest" enterprises in exposition history. Bloom was only twenty-cne years old when he evolved the idea and made Chicago's hard-headed business m that it wa sure-fire winner, With his world fair fortune, Bloom entered the music-publishing business, be- ming known throughout the coun- try ux “the music man” One of Rep- resentative Bloom's favorite pastimes is explaining that he's not w Chinn- of the York t wet case enforceme the amendment and t scottlaw” “Bootlegger” signifies the purveyor of illegal goods. There should, perhaps. be i word to designate t leg: | ger's patron, who is just as guilty of law violation as the purveyor himself. The search is still « uitable designation that w - all who are trying to hreak down the law of the land, written into the Constitution by two-thirds of Congress and three- fourths of the states, h statute books by more than two-thirds of the national legislature in enact ment over & presiden ol meet b e It became 1 ! police to apologize for lintrusion on the Ilungarian legation {when a liquor raid was in progress. { The position of a diplomat in Wash- | ington is dclicate, and the suggestion | that one would disregard the laws. {even though his status gave him im- { munlty in so doing, is one that calls | for warm resentment and every pos: | sible reparation. —_——————— Not much fe entertained by | campaign authors that the bonus and tax revision questions will be so thor oughly disposed of by Congress that they will not be available as platform topics. —————————— is Variety is the spice of life. When | the public tires of talking about Tea- ! pot Dome it ean resume consideration | of the undeveloped tesources of | Muscle Sheals, —_———— The average lea: is a matter of wn-! siderable red tape Ax the sums in-| volved grow larzer the tendency is| toward simpliti @ J=anee. ————————— The United & up in the oil bu strictly to —_—————— In order t¢ ‘lie proceedings { of the national « atic convention | New York city n:icht even provide a candidate or two. ¢ » has taken decground studies ness that do not pertain SHOOTING STARS. LY PHILANDER JOHNSON Birds of Freedom. Che hens keep laying just the same,” Said Hezekiah Bings, “No matter how we play the game With distant courts and kings. The snow still warms the field of wheat, The sunshine thrils the bud. The garden shows & furrow neat To propagate the spud. “To man is given arts of speech From which confusions rise. Our eloquences do not reach The work that most we prize. Although with turbulent acclaim We start all sorts of things, The hens keep laying just the same,” Said Hezekiah Bings. Impervious to Gold. | “Did you ever allow your speeches | to be influenced by wealth “No." declared Senator Sorghum. “All that money could do for me would be to give me an opportunity to retire from active life. As a true statesman, that is what 1 am most anxious to avoid.” Jud Tunkins says he doesn't believe half he hears, and some of the half he does believe maybe ain't so. “Efficiency.” Ability, however small, Must not be rated as a loss. He can't do any work at all. I guess we'll have to make him boss. Popularity by the Clock. “Who is the most popular man in Crimson Gulch?" “It depends on the time o' day,” an- swered Cactus Joe. “In the evenin' it's liable to be the bootlegger. In the morning it's liable to be the doctor.” “De benefit of readin’ de Bible,” said Uncle Eben, “depends on whether you's tryin’ to reform yoh ways or git inlo-an argumenty’t | the | eiate to {problem give reason to hope that even thoukh he wasx born in Hiinols. Mr. and Mrs. Bloom @ talented duughter, Vera, from whom her friends expect lite achlevements. In the Congressional ory. in which statesmen publish miplled biokraphical sketeh esentative Bloom reglste alth in Ve future 55 Rear Admiral former paymaster Navy, is back from wh he went an Hef mission. He's telling his fri how he inadvertently snubbed the re- cently deposed King of the Hellenes t Athens. Me( a4 to pay respects to Last” | on a wan wa ieorge the While “Hell-and-Maria fumes and frets becausa he make his fellow experts, who trying to determine Germany's capac- ity to pay. quit golf and formal| parties that they ecan hold thre sessions daily and one on Sunday, | can editors are lavish in their for the general's general atti- tude toward his task. When he an nounced, in initiating the conference that the time was gone by for prett phra and diplomatic tulk. und urged all concerned to “get down o business and restore tranquillity to world, Dawes enunciated, editors are agreed, the sane—and American attitude which must be followed it economic stability s to be brought about in all Europe. And editors ar. nvinced that Dawes and his assc Americans on the committes of experts eventually will find a solu- tion of the dificulties which have held Europe in chains ever since the armistic At the same time the Courier Journal regrets tha not £poken by an official spokesman of the United States. It was the language of a private citizen, of ‘Hell and Ma Dawes. who b up What he says with worl in the opinion of the Atla 1 Dawes cannot Louisvi “it was Yet, a Jourr | “the facts ascertained and presented by the commission will do much, n doult, to bring a sobering sense of realities to those who have been prone to see only what they desire and much to arouse the best thought of the world to tha need for action that is cconomically sound and inter- nationally just”” In the view, how- { ever. of the Lincoln Star, “it fs for- tunate that Gen. Dawes is enabled speak as a private citizen.” At any rate the main thing, according ! to the New York Times, “is that we have at last got vigorous American co-oporation in the endeavor to bring something like order into Buropean public finance and commercial ex- changes between nation: More- ver, the Chicago Dally News claims, any step, however small and mod- set, in the direction of genuine paci- | fication and_ co-operation in Europe | is to he welcomed, and it is not to| be denfed that the appointment of the international committee of experts was @ gratifying forward step— | though a very short one.” * % % ¥ The Tortland Express, however, skeptical about Gen. Dawes and his ssoclates being able to inject the quality which the American member ays will alone save Europe, into the chancelleries of the continent, be- cause it wonders whether they have not lost all capability of hearing, see- ing or thinking, but “unless the Furopean problem can be solved, there will come a cataclysm that will all but wreck civilization— to avert this impending disaster the world now waits upen this commis- sion.” But it is absolutely essential, in the opinlon of the Detroit Free Press, that “the committee cut loose from the whole Inane tradition of the last five years” and “Dawes’ speech had the merit, we think, of opening Europe's eyes to the gaping chasm of economic_ruin toward which the cabinet has been heading,” moreover, “we may hope for a reign of common sense, ‘crowned king’ by Dawes, and that the momentam he has imparted to his committee’s work will lead to sane, practicable and early measures. ‘Because, 28 the Springfield Republi- can sees it, “his vigorous personality and direct, blunt way of attacking a results will be forthcoming,” but “even though the committes for one reason or another should not succeed in the larger alms sought, it will be of real advantage to have a specific problem dealt with in a way ealcu- lated to yield fresh and authoritative, information.” H The Miami News regrets that “the| government has no backbone” in al- ¢ lowing these men to leave after whispered conferences, instead of | sending them commissioned and em- powered to speak with authority, as representatives of the greatest na- tion,” nevertheless, this conference | “will open the gates to a better understanding of a colossal Inter- national problem—namely, Germany's capability, in an economic manner tq WASHINGTON OBSERV BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE | crumbled | serted C, SATURDAY, JANUARY ATIONS and turned.up at the royal palace for the purpose. While he was walting in a reception room, a trim young officer In Greek naval uniform strode in. The Yankee admiral thought the officer was, like himself, only a caller, too. Later he turned out ta be the King. “But” says MeGowan, “I only did what America and Great Britain did. They didn’t recognize the King of Greece either. ve of the chilly clime of Ice- land—Leifer Magnusson by name— now represents in Washington the only offshoot of the league of ng tions that has taken root in Ameri- can soil. He is the newly appointe American director of the tional labor office, whose ters is at Geneva. The the Hok peace award been agitating the Ser the sympathetic United States to tional labor organt A nal headquar- winner which te, stres of inter ation and the humane and reconstructive of the league. Mr. Ma though n_ leelander Ly nd the descendant of vikings, “ and eitizen of W most his once was attuched 0 the Department of Labor. After the or- ganization of the league of nations he joined its labor office at Gensva. * One of the things former u of the cabinet find it hard to is how to play the role of an in Washington society. Whils fice et members Lave thei nite rank and statior all Kinds ven J erats come 1o like the preferential perequisites which position and their wives like them ey Mitchell Palmer, Attorn President Wi n's see stration, jokingly descri recently lost his way tiabl rgetting he had the hot-pollol. Robert L mer Secretary of 8 the right hand of h in_ Washi he's “outrunked” by tuche of a pocket-borough legation, . ¥ 3 s mbors tearn i noof en functions demo- confers, admini- s how he at Storisx of Smedley ventions! methods drift iuto Washington One of the 1 view he had in river wards with ler was driv with an officer Butler's 1 in Philadelphia headquarters at almost test deseribe 1con- maurine day one “Phillys" a thug Bu s through the distriet ho was pointing o pren the s against npanion toush- man; alwuys stopped his B r d the ou're a t w tough guy tor of [ Tellow gene unds back police B v, delphia you and 1. you'd b two-gun man hasp exhibited his say,” he 1 in Phila opyeight, 1924.) American Experts by Dawes Express Views of This Nation t the repara vietorlous allies.’ Under cuch circum good intentions on many, and a r that of Fran Dealer d reparation brighter t ations demands of the tances, and with the purt of Ger- wsonable attitade on the Cleveland Plain the outlook for adjustment is perhaps W ever before” The nes-Union. furtherm Gen. Dawes, in his Xpresses the view of proportion of our Cincinnati Enqy Zurope s wise nd et upon the < clear-headed 3 in she w 1 e American ar. heed < of th siness man.” COURAGE ~I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul. —HENLEY. h tio b o Born on modest farm, Clemenceau toiled and battled way to leadership in Lis then slander hurled i friends or funds, to the the ladder of renown. In his teens, a struggling in Paris, he eried, “Long live public” during an imperial sar: bratlon and w a Georges his coun without bottom of doctor t anniver- thrown into prison Free old, b again when practic Yorl twe exiled, to New to himself doctor failed, and he instructor in young ladies cminary two and one-half yvears, Back in France, with his American bride, he. as mayor of Montmartre during the Franco-Prussian war, carned a reputation for honesty and efficiency Hon -one years he went 3 support was a «d as a member wen eral assembly, next as president of the Paris municipal council and then as member of the chamber of depu- ties, leader of the radicals, a power in organizing the third republie, owner of the grea he at las | men. Then loyalt ama, charge, slander accused him of dis- id dighone in canal scandal. He met every the attack in the chamb. but his constituents de- him. Forced out, his new paper wrecked, he, at fifty- to _start again as a privafe citizen. Nine tranquil vears as a writer; then he fought for and had Dreyfus freed. Back triumphantly to the senate and he became premier. In an_argument with his old enemy, Delcasse, he lost his temper and the premiership. When the world entered the Viviani when seventy-six, he again was elected premier. Retiring in 1920, he ran for president and lost. His life has been a constant battle, but always he has been “the tiger.” For more than fifty years he was one of France’s most influentlal men. He overthrew eighteen ministries and made at least three presidents. Today, at elghty-four, he is beloved and recognized Dby hosts as the greatest statesman of his country. war began ministry. In 107, he Next—Carnegie Earned 20 Cents a Day. (Copyrighr, 1923.) In a Few Words. Either the growth of machinery means nothing or it means the op- portunity for an always increasing number “of men to think and feel humanely. —B. DE SELINCOURT. In no community will you find a less number of proud or surly or neglectful men than in America. The Americans are the happlest white people on earth. —HILAIRE BELLOC. I used to like a drink myself, but I gave it up for the general good. ~—PUSSYFOOT JOHNSON, - |ing are th cmenceau Had to Quit Under Fire. | the Pan- | vo, had | 26, 1924 The Library Table BY THE BOOKLOVER A popular pastime often practiced by literary critics and others who cannot write novels themselves is that of giving recipes or formulas for the novels of others. Even the works of the greatest fiction writ- ©rs can be thus disrespectfully handled. Dickens, Victor Hugo, Balzac, for example, all used methods and material easily listed and of ourse easily parodied. Thackeray nd George Eliot lend themselves less asily to such analytical treatment, also do some of our best present- writers, such Galsworthy, Hugh Walpole and Edith Wharton. A writer who has been producing novels rapidly of late, and has fall- on the habit of repeating ‘hiracters and situations to such an Xtent thiat one might almost write formuli for her next novel in is Maud Diver. Her last “Candies in the Wind,” seems like & composite of all her previous 1ovels. as into k£ k% Maud Diver follows: The recipe for might given Anglo-Indian half w who makes {# great deal of trouble for all the other characters; haif a dozen Brit- ish officers in the Anglo-Indian service, all noble, heroic and self- sacrificing, but one of them a little more poetic and interesting than the ‘f,(hl-r the hero of course; one mid- | n herolne, high-sou censi- ' to be the wife of @ soldier, ¥ery naive and o obtuse that kuows the hero is in love until he tells her so in| W one syllable: one large, | Kind ldle-aged woman, usually the wife of the commis ner or the colonel, of the mother-of-the-re ment type; one *long-limbed,” “boyi: fresh-colored, athletic maiden in her carly twentics—not the heroine, but a good and far more interesting. With these characters are mised the following situations: Two pro- phetic dreams or visions in which' the >ouls of the b nd hetolne com mune; 4 perilous journey of the hero over @ pass of the Minds Kush {Hresome and wmore or less da, |Journey of the heroine into ng which the ¥ turns atally, and of Urse makes indispensable several cases, {times an epldemic, of typhoid or the pi rescue of heroi from danger of cident, such as a fall from over n precipice, during hich the hero inadvertentl n novel be as One | | ut lshe ne with her ds second, sometimes Ve velopmint characters and situ, | thoroughly mixed with s pages of very g Himalayan scener R t ‘the ingred of Maud vels are by no inea The persiete 1d Diver et or oppor ¢ of emoti will represented refinement, ir and worldly et she is able to accent voted attentions. soul outpouri voluminous lettars and_ sligh wiled love making of the hero, r, withont suspecti he is more rides with s nts for for than nim with him, =e to him regul < accepts his e on a thres or four day journev—and then is erieved and injured because her I band, of coarser clay, voice objections and appears not to her. That sort of naivete may ssed _muster with readers of of Augusta Eva does so with T x % * ha { nard Collabor in writt common in France [try. Two collaborators of years' stand- brothiers Jean and ferome Tharaud, who some time ago won the | Goncourt prize. Their great narrative ¥ employed in » writing of impressionistic travel- iction, rich in atmosphere. One of { their best books of this type is “The Shadow of trans- power has been chic i it - Cro recentl jacting President —_ NSWERS TO QUESTIONS — BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN Q. Just where is the Teapot Dome ol fleld?—A. C. L. A. It is an extension of the Salt Creek oil fleld, about forty miles north of Casper, Wyo. Q. Where is the largest flag in the world?—H. F. J. A. Several claims have been made of a “largest flag.” but the largest one that we know of is the one own- ed by the city of Canton, Ohio. This one is 63% feet wide and 120 feet long. The stripes measure 4 feet 13z inches In width and the stars are 5 feet in diameter. The welght of the flag is 150 pounds. Q. How long will it take to carve the Confederate memorial on Stone mountain?—W. T. K. A. Tt is estimated that it will take ten years or longer 1o complete the work. . Is the alyl breed of dog?—J. 1) A. The American Kennel Club has advised us that the Sealvham terrier is @ distinctive breed. This dog s a small white terrier with a thick wirey coat of white, generally with markings on head and cars. It has short, heavily boned legs and is from | about eight to ten inches at the shoulder. m a distinct ¥ | Q. Whence does the plumber de- | rive hix name?—Y = A. The plumber was first of all worker in lead. The Latin word for lead was plumbun Il Q. s (s President A He is President of The Constitution provi ession in office Is_Calvin or the United des for | A. ates, this sue: Q. sely when : A. It is said that she usually im- provised the cadenzas she employed. Her coloratura work was exceptional- #00d,2nd the cadenzas in exquisite | Lste. the score 2 irles Froh- he knew that he would —D. W. R. his blogra- | nan savs that | *“the best ch he pro- it was lit cue for farewell as he stood wck of the Lusitania of the Q av man said when drown on the Lusitania ¢ Marcosson Charles F vs whi =h. on ki At the end ¢ g fish?—R h lives 75 of peciall 1s_found Q. How | sbove the oceun?—K According to the distances of objec elevations above sea lev Lord Parmoor a INOY. | BY THE MARQUISE DF Two of the remarkab - pointments in the new British cabinet | presided over by James Ramsax Mac- jonald, are those of Lord farmoor to the office of lord president cf the| priv cil and of Sir Sidney Oli- vier retaryship of state India. Parmoor was one of the most intimate personal friends Edward V1I, acting as h attorne; general throughout the greater pa son of most 1o the s T Lor of his reign and who by rea id intimate relations with the reigning house has for siderable time manifeste exceptional de- gree of independ in his dealings i us formerly. 11 Alfred Cripps. renowned as the BT pst expert lated into English is | Httle villeg the and vies of vivid pictures shows t vast tradition of Jewis in its conflict tile conditions of the boo t is an incompar ating picture [ Jewish sect.” | | 3 Zangwill not impe ¥ vivid g A little 1 [ i Thom | com i that i knowledge na ihim to write. “Washington | Romane: published, is de- fghtful, but It covers only the earlier ory, stopping in the Jefferson ad- | ministration. And the portion that is now. published, had lived, | would undoubfedly cn sub- jected to derable revision to | make it measure up to the authors usual literary etandards. Iven re glad to add this fragment to th growing shelf of interesting books {about the Capital ecity. It the story of how Washington to be selected as the seat of £o ment, the survey and planning of th { Capital, the operations of the la speculators, the erection of the fir publie buildings, the transfer of the | government from Philadeiphia and \\h.- early social life of Washington. ter of great t book Was ngton his long residence here, his of and love for i i mat regret “te on To the enterpri | Geographic Societs {for an exceeding! valuable book on Washington, enti- {tled “The Capital of Our Country.” t consists of five articles reprinted ifrom the National Geographic Maga- s follows: “The Story of Wash- | ington,” by Dr. Charles Moore; “The | Lineoln Memorial,” by Chief Jus | William H. Taft; “The (';dlll.ul, Won- ] der Building of 'the World,” by Dr. | Gilbert Grosvenor; “The ' National by the late Viscount Bryce, Sources of Washington's Charm,” by J. R. Hildebrand. The hook » of the National we are indebted interesting and has a profusion of fHustrations, includ- { ing sixtecn in colors * ok ok ok The publishing house of Gyldendal at Copenhagen has recently awarded to J. Anker Larsen a prize of 70.000 kroner (about $12,300) for the best novel offered by a Danish or a Nor- wegian author. The novel receiving the prize is entitled “The Philoso- pher's Stone,” and an American edi- tion is to bo published during the winter. The motive of the novel seems to be to show that the religious spirit or zspiration is as dominant in human beings as physical hunger. The longing for Teliglous knowledge and for the re- lating of self with the unseen world leads Jens Dahl, the dreamer, through devious paths of experience to a tragic end. ¢ * kK K Any one who has delighted in Shakespeare’s many poetic references to flowers, gardens and trees will be interested to see “The Flora and Folklore of Shakespeare by Fred- erick George Savage of Stratford-on- Avon. Mr. Savage Is a postman, with a twenty-five-mile daily route.” His chicf interests have always been Shakespeare and botany and he ha 2 large garden in which he grows as far ow possible all the plants men- tioned in Shakespeare. that | United arricd as lady his ul- impaired by med asort of he developed lately been he cause | ecelesiasti law of dom. But when he nd wife a Quaker haervatism beeam influence. cratic _taint to a4 pacifist nd has aking a prominent part in {of pacifism and in the movement to spend large sums of money in feed- ling Germany. He has pronounced iimself very stron in favor of the re-establis ent iendly poli 1 ind commereiul telations with and | Ru = views are largely m of his second Frederick the d the pe- His Moscovite idue to the connect pe Col. the Honorable worth Cripps, who won E order on 1i, with the con- British Reecham The latter has concluded a | cinite agrecment with the soviet nment fo the virtual recon- ruction of Moscow. That is to sa the trust. which is heavily financed iy Rritish capitalists and ¢ its esecutive head Cripps. enjoys extensive rixhts the leasing of property, for the pur- chase and sale of building lots in the | «d metropolis of as well 1§ it contracts for uring hous and public edifices com- pletion of unfinished building Cripps is no stranger to Rus- A man of thirty-seven, he spent st of his adult lifc in business thero, representing first a_great Brit- ish financlal meern @t Moscow and ultimately establishing uand presid- {inz over the Analo-Russian Bank of Moscow and Petrograd, of which Aus- ten Chamberlain, former chancellor of the British exchequer, was one of the principal directors.’ Col. Cripps | built up for himself a fortune of more | than a million dollars, every bit of which was lost through the bolshe- vist revolution and confiscatory legis- lation. | It speaks volumes for hix pluek | and enterprise U undeterred by | the treatment which he had received | at the hands of the soviet regime and | by the loss of all his wealth and property, he should turn to his spoii- | ators and come to an agreement with | them in the expectation of building | up a new fortune. Luckily, he is al complete master of the Russian lan- guage and thoroughly acquainted | with all Muscovite ways, characteris- tics and peculfaritles and can there fore be relied upon to know exactl what he is about and how to come | out of the difficulties that may be placed in his way. ¥ it is only natural under the eir- cumstan; that his father, Lor Parmoor, with whom he makes his | home when in kEngland at Parmoor. | near Henley on the Thames, and to| whom he is deeply attached, should take a deep interest in the manifold Russian undertakings of his favorite son, and that his votes as one of the | principal members of the new labor cabinet should be in favor of @ res- toration of commercial and {ndustrial relations between Russia and the Brit- ish emplre. known Tep: 1 ol | * ¥ ok % Lord Parmoor, in addition to hav- | ing been the attorney general of j King Edward while he was Prince of Wales and to having served King George in the same manner prior to his succession to the throne, acted in a similar_capacity to the present Prince of Wales until he became a member of the judicial committee of the privy council—that is to say, the highest tribunal of the empire.’ He still retains his connection with his future ruler as a member of the council of his duchy of Cornwall, and thus is frequently consulted about all sorts of |tain by the United States lighthouse sery- ice, an object fifty feet above sca level . Wwould be visible at a distance of 8.35 statute mi Q. Did the United States Suprems Court decide that the Kansaw Tndux al Court was uncons onal? trial G nconstitutional A. While it did not pass upon ths constitutionality of the Kanwas 1aws | the Supreme Court held that the Kan sus court of industrial relations dit hay 5 _the right to regulats tho id by a packing company. Q. What was the coldest weath ever known in the District of Colunf | bia? The weather bureau a minimum temperature of 15 degre-+ below zero was registered on Febri- 1899, This is the lowest record since government observation s began in 1871 Q. What kind of pie was made firs —W. P. 8. A. The word pie appears early in the fourteenth century, and was usel to indicate meat and fish p! Pori: pie and beef are probably among ! oldest. n ago did sculptors tai e sts of 1iving persons?—K. I Andrea Venocchio (Andrea « Cione, 1433-1488) was one of the firs artists to take a plaster cast living person. r Q. What is the largest mailing li-t in the country?—U. E. A. The Literary Digest claims the lergest one. It contai 000,000 names. It was made hy compiling « list of ephone subscribers a: .l all aut e owners in the United States the engollment \n ining camps 1z 24,453 - 1055 In there were the camps. 119, What per cent of the imated that people who attend York t e not T New York ci Last 000,000 progran: the theaters' patrons. about 4,000,000 iz a ate of the numb k visit per s the Ne idents ar over 1 of the of United electr State report wus 43,9335 lectric railways an ored to th ter being scorched (1f wa have a question you 1 send it to The Star Info P on Bureau Inclose postage. Striking Factor Of New British Labor Ministry legal and the est the United Kingdom and still retains the office of chancellor and vicar general of the archdiocese and met< ropolitan province of Canterburv. Recognized as one of the leading au+ thorities in En the subjecs of ¢ is collection there mos agre . W familiar figur tha where he spends much f ure, and having always beeiy vod-looking man, may be As un ornament not only ta house of lords, but alse to th Lcon wifty £ i nd with reignir Lord Parmoor is very jea prerogatives of par encroachment there sovere in the very ear King George, in conjunction w then premier, Herbert Asquith, an order through the pr directing both houses of 1o sit | Tet session to (fidential commun the cabinet, and the M colnsh Who, as zreat chamberlain, has charge Palace Westminster, closed tter to all strangers for the day. s formed the subject of very b eriticism on the part of Lord Firmoo: He contended that Lord Lincolnsh had no autho hatsoever to clos. e of parliamenn t the consent « admitting this hid obeyed in the m; commands of the sovercig:, sued through an order in couneld over the king's sign manusl, and by the gover: of the day, he in- sisted that the authority of the mon « arch and of the council did not ex tend over the houses of parliament too. in spit the fact tha houses of parliament rank as al paluce. He called attention to the fact that relations of the crown to parliament, and the question of the itrol of the Falace of Westminster had formed the subjeet of numerous t discussions by a 3 hoth and that the committee had nously decided that the wuthg the lord great chamberlain, n of the crown, over the 1dings of both houses of parlia- ment could only be regarded in force when these two chambers were not sitting, spite ions g house, of tha ament and of any ther the from Lin- locd o the the cession to the thre me Lord Parmoor showed that the house of lords and the house of commons had an obvious inherent and tradi- tional right to make whatever reguy lations they deem fit concerning that part_of the Royal Palace of West- minster which they occupied. lle iid not object to the recy of 1he session ordered by the monarch, but. he did make the very strongest ol ction to the action of the lord great hamberlain giving orders closing either house of parliament to gers. “We have standing orders, added, “under which strangers can be excluded from our house during our debates, standing orders which we can enforce and invoke But 1t is quite Improper that any s exclu- gion should be directed and ,con manded by an outside authority"—the authority being that of igores in privy council and of his govVers- ment. If I call attention to this it is 10 show that an entire generation of court. life in the immedite entourage of roy- alty has not in the slightest affected the independence of Lord Parmoor to- ward the crown. He 1S quite as keenly jealous of the rights of parliament, Tepresenting the will of the people, Any of the most ultra-radical members of the labor party, to the government of wihich he now belongs as its leader in the house of lords as lord president of the privy council. Nor did this public protest in parliament agains the action of the king fn counci., in encroaching upon the rights of the people as reoresented in their parlia- ment, ever affect in tho. slightest. de- gree the closeness. the intiniacy und tiic confidence of his relations with hi soverelga,